A few days ago the unlock button of my car key broke. The outer part of the plastic housing above the button fell off. “I know!” I said. “I’ll just fix it myself, how hard can it be?”
Read more…Hi, I’m Alex
I’m a data scientist and engineer with a background in artificial intelligence from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. I’m interested in open source software, DIY, Dungeons and Dragons and games in general. I live in Leeuwarden with my wife and kids.
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This is a list of all lego sets the kids have, for future reference. Images on this page are from brickset.com. At the bottom of this page are some instructions on how to make a list like this yourself.
Read more…Over the years I have given many presentations about how to use machine learning to classify text documents. I wanted to create a notebook that would serve as a template for such presentations, allowing me to quickly demonstrate the process of text classification using machine learning techniques. The problem of text classification is a common task in natural language processing, where the goal is to assign predefined categories to text documents based on their content. This notebook demonstrates how to classify documents from the 20 Newsgroups dataset using a decision tree classifier. We will preprocess the text data, extract features using a bag-of-words model, train a classifier, and evaluate its performance.
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