Review: November 2020
The fourth newsletter from this blog, covering featured posts as well as some of the most interesting machine learning and software engineering news, articles and papers from around the web.
Computer Science
Object-Oriented Programming: A Practical Introduction (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this mini-series, you saw how OOP concepts can be used to structure and manipulate code. In this part, you'll see how these ideas are formally defined, and look at a couple of more advanced concepts too.
How Good is Xanthus?
Xanthus is a Deep Learning (DL) library built on top of Tensorflow and uses the Keras API to implement various neural recommendation model architectures. This post benchmarks the models implemented in Xanthus against some popular 'classic' matrix factorisation models.
Introducing Xanthus
This post introduces Xanthus - a new open source Deep Learning package built on TensorFlow 2.0 for quickly and easily building state of the art recommendation models in Python.
What is Reservoir Computing?
What if there was a framework that could be used to exploit the properties of matter for computation? Originally posted on The Conversation.