While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

"Just get some labelled data"

Neal Lathia

"This is just a small ode to the folks who spend countless hours on the toil that is 'just' getting some labelled data."

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Optimizing Slow SQL Queries

Miguel Grinberg

How to fix the most common database performance problems, which are caused by improper indexing, along with examples for Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.

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Word Embeddings Explainer

Peter Baumgartner

"Imagine if every word had an address you could look up in an address book. Now also imagine if words that shared meaning lived in the same neighborhood. This is a simplified metaphor for word embeddings.""

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