Articles by Paul van der Laken

Curated Regular Expression Resources

April 7, 2020 | Paul van der Laken

Regular expression (also abbreviated to regex) really is a powertool any programmer should know. It was and is one of the things I most liked learning, as it provides you with immediate, godlike powers that can speed up your (data science) workflow tenfold. I’ve covered many regex related topics ...
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Building a realistic Reddit AI that get upvoted in Python

February 10, 2020 | Paul van der Laken

Sometimes I find these AI / programming hobby projects that I just wished I had thought of… Will Stedden combined OpenAI’s GPT-2 deep learning text generation model with another deep-learning language model by Google called BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and created an elaborate architecture that had one purpose: ...
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Learn Julia for Data Science

February 10, 2020 | Paul van der Laken

Most data scientists favor Python as a programming language these days. However, there’s also still a large group of data scientists coming from a statistics, econometrics, or social science and therefore favoring R, the programming language they learned in university. Now there’s a new kid on the block: ...
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