Considerable gains are sometimes achieved by the simplest of methods — In the first of a series of short articles, I would like to outline a key insight regarding input data: breaking down our training features and extracting the more fundamental features that compose them allows us to substantially improve the predictive quality of our models. To illustrate our point, let’s…

A data-centric approach for drawing paintings — Intro Much of the research effort made by the machine learning community in the past few years is, in my opinion, too narrowly focused. Researchers take known sample datasets, spend years training models on these datasets, and publish their papers with marginal improvements to the state-of-the-art benchmarks made in every…

Story time - Not your usual “how to” article — It started as a side project when I was teaching this other neural network how to do some paintings. I just got a shiny new smart home sensor as a gift, with a promise it was supposed to turn on my home air conditioner when I was coming back from…

Learning how Gaussian distributions and the properties they have can help us perform anomaly detection on monitored data. — In the second article of this series, we learned a bit more about the Gaussian function, and we then built a working anomaly detection system using its properties. In this final part, we will be dealing with the multivariate case, as promised in part 1 of the series. …

Learning how Gaussian distributions and the properties they have can help us perform anomaly detection on monitored data. — In the first article of this series, we’ve discussed the properties of the Gaussian function and how they can be used to detect anomalies in monitored data. In this part, we will be putting that knowledge to practice and build our very own anomaly detection program. To recap, we finished…

Learning how Gaussian distributions and the properties they have can help us perform anomaly detection on monitored data. — Monitoring solutions have been around since the first computers came into being in the middle of the last century and have been trying to answer one simple question ever since: “What’s happening inside my computer?”. In the same way a teacher might ask a student to explain his thought process…