Recently I had to make a choice of which new car to get so that I can replace my old Diesel car. Given the industry shift to electric vehicles, it is definitely an unfortunate time to buy. I mean it is an unfortunate time in the sense that EV is an emerging technology market, and we see new cars launched every year and …

Handling missing data is a crucial step in the data preprocessing pipeline for any machine learning project. Imputation, the process of replacing missing data with substituted values, is essential for building robust and reliable models. This article explores various imputation techniques, provides code examples, and …

Data leakage is a critical issue in machine learning that can lead to overly optimistic performance metrics and poor generalization to new data. This article explains what data leakage is, why it is problematic, and how to avoid it during data pre-processing. What is Data Leakage? Data leakage occurs when information …

I just came back from my vacation in Paris. Just thought of writing down my experience and what I did with my family while in Paris. How to Reach Paris We decided that we will drive to Paris. From where we are located, it just takes us a 6 to 7-Hour drive by car. On the way, there are plenty of rest places with …

I occasionally get physically active and do some training. I was figuring out what kind of physical activity that I could do when I'm sitting. This is when I thought about doing some exercises for the forearm. As I'm someone who loves to DIY, I wanted to figure out which actions I want my forearm to do, and I remember …

Let us debunk this major, but simple functional abstraction called the Functor Intuition behind Functors The idea stems from category theory and can be readily applied to elegantly look inside a container that contains a certain category and apply a function to the contents, thereby producing another category wrapped …

Aren't you at your limits dealing with XML? If so why still bother using a build tool that still uses an outdated format like the XML? Why use Maven when you can be friends with sbt? Here is a small script that helps you to convert your pom.xml to a build.sbt. The generated build.sbt is rusty, and you need to adapt it …

Climbing the Pentatonic scales Recently, I can say that I made very good progress playing across the neck of my guitar. I memorized few pentatonic shapes, but I was stuck the whole while on those specific boxes. The whole thing did not make any sense to me. Just wandering within those boxes is not pleasant music. …

Disclaimer: I'm not paid to write about this post, this is purely my ownership experience using these boots! A blog on a pair of shoes? A bit unusual for my blog that I'm writing about a pair of shoes. It is still just a shoe, but it is a Red Wing Chukka, the 3140 in the Oro-Iginal leather. There is a reason why I'm …