It's been over a month since my last post. I've started going to the hands on machine learning book club hosted by the San Diego Machine Learning group. The book of the semester is Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & Tensorflow. I'm leading the discussion on Chapter 9. We broke the discussion up into two segments. Part I, clustering was provided on … [Read more...] about The Big O! (as in O notation)
The Anniversary
Yesterday marked the anniversary of my divorce. It's been eight years since the divorce. In five days, it will be the six year anniversary of the publication of Cake. I would like to share with the world, a subconscious battle that I've been having. November 7, 2021 My day began like every Sunday. I cleaned my apartment, got groceries, fed the rabbit, played video … [Read more...] about The Anniversary
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween, everyone! It's been a rough couple of weeks and I apologize for taking one off, but I needed some time to recuperate after having my first tooth pulled. There's been something that I've wanted to share for some time now and I think that Halloween has got to be the best time to spring it up on everyone. I doubt anyone will really go getting any ideas, but … [Read more...] about Happy Halloween
NPPES Exploration
I was introduced to the NPPES database last week and decided to carry the NPPES Exploration into the weekend. The dataset is quite large and it's definitely another box of woe. For those interested, the dataset can be found at the following web address: https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov. It is over 7 gigabytes and refused to open. Since I was having such difficulty … [Read more...] about NPPES Exploration
Was it a Bad Week?
Last week, in jest I wrote a lovely little tale of woe. The week went on and a bunch of stuff that happened that left me asking was it a bad week? As I describe this week, please, keep in mind that it's been so hard that I can honestly say that I don't know about this one. A Solitary Case of the Mondays My week started off with an amazing idea. Dreamily, I thought that I … [Read more...] about Was it a Bad Week?