High pitched sound waves and outlaw data — –––––––––Press Play for a Few Seconds––––––– If you heard nothing, consider yourself lucky. If you did hear it, you feel my pain. When I was a boy, in the midwest of the United States, my mom would drag me clothes shopping. I hated the experience. One store was particularly torturous. There was a high-pitched sound…

How many words can be made from the letters on the Eye Chart? It sounds like a perfect task for Data Science and Python. — A look at the Test Card we’ll be using, invented by Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen in 1862: We’ll need a set of the Test Card letters 9 Okay, we’ve got 9 unique letters. Let’s get all the letters into a list. 61 There are only 9 unique letters…

Is there any science behind scratch-off tickets? — I was watching a YouTube video by a very nice statistics teacher, Prof. Essa, wherein she explored the odds behind those gas station scratch-offs. I thought it would make a good data science experiment. So I set off to buy some tickets. I devoted $300 to the exercise. If I…

Codingbat has a practice question: Logic-1, Python. It’s called near_10. You can find it here: https://codingbat.com/prob/p165321 The Question Given a non-negative number “num”, return True if num is within 2 of a multiple of 10. …

A simple trick that did it for me. — You may have noticed that when you train your Neural Network in Google Colab (after beating your head against the wall just to get to that point) that it seems to perform just as fast as when you were running it on your own machine. Sure, your computer doesn’t sound…

I love the English language. It is the means with which my family makes each other laugh. It is complicated, sometimes arbitrary in nature, I’ll give you that. But it a playground which spans an endless airfield full of hangers, with those huge fans that one practices skydiving over, or…

– A Machine that can Learn I train. I increase my mileage by 10% every week, do pull-ups and my hands blister, becoming calloused as they heal, only to be blistered again with the next weeks’ series of sets. Repetition has slowly become an ally, making me better in body…

– Linear progression — Yes the subtitle should make you angry. You’re reading this, which means, if I were a statistician, (which this past week I basically was) I’d put the odds of you being a science nerd at greater than that of a coin toss. The correct term is linear regression, which is…

My father was a plumber, and his father before him was a plumber. So naturally I thought I’d become a plumber. But I had to wake up, and realize, those were just pipe dreams. — I suppose it was an act of will, buying the internet course on python programming, even when a part of me said, “you’re being swindled.” I had by that time chosen resolutely to not follow in my father’s footsteps of becoming a well known plumbing, heating and cooling man. …