Articles - Samuel Taylor

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2021

I've taken a hiatus from writing in 2021 to focus on other hobbies.

2020

2020-11-07 How to Join a New Team and Learn a New Codebase
2020-10-01 Univariate k-Nearest Comparison (Trustworthy Models)
2020-09-06 new codebase, who dis? (How to Join a Team and Learn a Codebase)
2020-08-19 Lightweight testing for maintainable data science
2020-08-12 APChemSolutions review - do not buy
2020-07-16 Model-Agnostic Uncertainty Estimates through Bootstrapping
2020-06-14 Trustworthy Models in Practice: a Simple Linear Approach
2020-05-15 Building Trustworthy Models
2020-04-15 Your brain loves exercise, even if you don't (external)
2020-03-29 Effective Learning (a review of Ultralearning)
2020-03-12 How to train data scientists and engineers: a review of Peak

2019

2019-10-30 How to Handle Class Imbalance
2019-10-20 Thinking in Bets for Data Scientists
2019-10-13 Using Open Source Tools for Machine Learning
2019-08-29 Don't try to sound smart when giving a presentation
2019-08-22 A five minute meeting shouldn't ruin your productivity
2019-08-02 Recognize Class Imbalance with Baselines and Better Metrics (external)
2019-07-23 Model-agnostic feature importance through ablation

2018

2018-09-07 Linear interpolation in Postgres using generate_series
2018-04-10 Machine Learning Crash Course
2018-02-27 Work Queues in Software and Productivity
2018-02-11 Using DISTINCT ON in Postgres
2018-01-03 Work-Self Balance

2017

2017-12-10 Poetry for Software Engineers
2017-12-03 Monte Carlo Simulation with Categorical Values
2017-11-11 Use Machine Learning to Find your Next Job
2017-10-31 To become a great Python developer, quit reading Python books
2017-10-28 Build a "function with a memory" in Python
2017-10-23 How to Attend a Tech Conference
2017-06-21 How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio (external)
2017-05-07 Speed up your Python-based web scraping
2017-04-30 Income inequality in professional sports
2017-02-24 Similarities between cooking and coding (external)
2017-02-18 Host all your projects on one machine with Docker
2017-01-10 The Last 5 Books I Read (as of March 2017)

2016

2016-11-13 Wherever you are, be all there
2016-11-08 Experiments with Self-Tracking/Quantified Self
2016-10-29 Writing Better Code: Code as Communication
2016-10-27 k-Nearest Neighbors
2016-09-28 Python Puzzlers
2016-09-05 The Last 5 Books I Read (October 2016)
2016-08-29 Quotes/thoughts that I like
2016-07-09 Planning a trip to Europe like an engineer
2016-06-26 The Last 5 Books I Read (June 2016)
2016-06-26 Books I read in June 2015
2016-02-20 The Last 5 Books I Read (February 2016)
2016-02-14 Teaching Sign Language with Leap Motion + Machine Learning (external)

2015

2015-10-17 Useful Python language features for interviews
2015-10-11 Hackathon report: TAMUHack 2015
2015-10-07 Political implications of BitTorrent
2015-09-28 Hackathon report: HackTX 2015
2015-09-12 The 10 Best Ingredients for Cheap Cooking
2015-06-27 Thoughts on Effective Java
2015-06-27 Notes: Boston Python User Group, Lightning Talks, 22 June 2015
2015-06-27 Notes: Boston Django Meetup, Intro to Flask, 25 June 2015
2015-06-27 How to: remove Etsy search ads
2015-06-27 How to: get free WiFi at coffee shops
2015-06-27 Hackathon report: HackTX 2014
2015-06-27 Hackathon report: Hack@Teal 2015