The Pale Blue Dot “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, ...

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” “For a ...

And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need. “I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with ...

“There’s something so paradoxical about pi. On the one hand, it represents order, as embodied by the shape of a circle, long held to be a symbol of perfection and eternity. On the other hand, pi is unruly, disheveled in appearance, its digits obeying no obvious rule, or at ...

‘Cricket analytics with cricketr and cricpy – Analytics harmony with R and Python’ is now available on Amazon in both paperback ($21.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs 449) versions. The book includes analysis of cricketers using both my R package ‘cricketr’ and my python package ‘cricpy’ for all formats of the game namely Test, ODI ...

Note: I had written a post about 3 years back on World Bank Data Analysis using World Development Indicators (WDI) & gVisMotionCharts. But the motion charts stopped working  some time ago. I have always been wanting to fix this and I now got to actually doing it. The issue was 2 of the ...

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. – Jamie Zawinski Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use floating point arithmetic.” Now they have 1.999999999997 problems. – @tomscott Some people, when confronted with a problem, ...

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Jung   We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must ...

“Lights, camera and … action – Take 4+!” This post includes  a rework of all presentation of ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep  Learning Parts 1-8 ‘ since my earlier presentations had some missing parts, omissions and some occasional errors. So I have re-recorded all the presentations. This series of presentation will do a ...

This is the final set of presentations in my series ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning’. This set follows the earlier 2 sets of presentations namely 1. My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Part1,2,3 2. My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Parts 4,5 In this final … Continue ...

This is the next set of presentations on “Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning”.  In the 4th presentation I discuss and derive the generalized equations for a multi-unit, multi-layer Deep Learning network.  The 5th presentation derives the equations for a Deep Learning network when performing multi-class classification along with ...

I will be uploading a series of presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning’. In these video presentations I discuss the derivations of L -Layer Deep Learning Networks, starting from the basics. The corresponding implementations are available in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in my book ‘...

Are you wondering whether to get into the ‘R’ bus or ‘Python’ bus? My suggestion is to you is “Why not get into the ‘R and Python’ train?” The third edition of my book ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Machine Learning in stereo’ is now available in both ...

The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($14.99)  and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-)  versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width ...

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard Introduction It is finally here! cricpy, the python avatar , ...