Hi Reader, Last week, I announced that a new course is coming soon and invited you to guess the topic. Hundreds of guesses were submitted, and four people who guessed correctly got the course for free! (I've already notified the winners.) I'll tell you about the course next week. In the meantime, I've got a new Tuesday Tip for you! π π Link of the week OpenAI just unleashed an alien of extraordinary ability (Understanding AI) If you're curious about what makes OpenAI's new "o1" models so...
23 days agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hi Reader, I'm really proud of this week's tip because it covers a topic (data leakage) that took me years to fully understand. π§ It's one of those times when I feel like I'm truly contributing to the collective wisdom by distilling complex ideas into an approachable format. π‘ You can read the tip below π or on my blog. π Link of the week Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind (Eugene Yan) In this short post, Eugene describes his experiences calling an LLM on the phone for coaching:...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 4 min read
Hi Reader, Last week, I recorded the FINAL 28 LESSONS π for my upcoming course, Master Machine Learning with scikit-learn. That's why you didn't hear from me last week! π
I edited one of those 28 videos and posted it on YouTube. That video is today's tip, which I'll tell you about below! π Tip #45: How to read the scikit-learn documentation In order to become truly proficient with scikit-learn, you need to be able to read the documentation. In this video lesson, Iβll walk you through the five...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hi Reader, happy Tuesday! My recent tips have been rather lengthy, so I'm going to mix it up with some shorter tips (like today's). Let me know what you think! π¬ π Link of the week A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers (The Economist) If you haven't heard about the recent "xz Utils backdoor", it's an absolutely fascinating/terrifying story! In short, a hacker (or team of hackers) spent years gaining the trust of an open-source project by making helpful...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hi Reader, Today's tip is drawn directly from my upcoming course, Master Machine Learning with scikit-learn. You can read the tip below or watch it as a video! If you're interested in receiving more free lessons from the course (which won't be included in Tuesday Tips), you can join the waitlist by clicking here: Yes, I want more free lessons! π Tip #43: Should you discretize continuous features for Machine Learning? Let's say that you're working on a supervised Machine Learning problem, and...
7 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hi Reader, I'm so excited to share this week's tip with you! It has been in my head for months, but I finally put it in writing βοΈ It's longer than usual, so if you prefer, you can read it as a blog post instead: Jupyter & IPython terminology explained π Link of the week Python Problem-Solving Bootcamp (April 1-21) Want to improve your Python skills quickly? There's no better way than solving problems, reviewing alternative solutions, and exchanging ideas with others. That's the idea behind...
7 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Hi Reader, I just published a new blog post, Get started with conda environments. If youβre new to virtual environments in Python, give it a read! Once you start using virtual environments, youβll wonder how you ever got along without them! π Link of the week Yann LeCun on the future of AI (Lex Fridman interview) Yann LeCun is one of the βgodfathers of Deep Learningβ, the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and (in my opinion) one of the clearest and most convincing thinkers on the future of AI. Itβs...
7 months agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hi Reader, In case you missed it, I launched a free, 7-hour pandas course! 800+ students have enrolled, and a few have already earned their certificate of completion π©π π Link of the week Data Internships Looking for an internship in Data Science or Analytics? This site curates the latest internship postings and emails them to you each week! π Tip #40: Build a DataFrame from multiple files Letβs say that your dataset is spread across multiple files, but you want to read the dataset into a...
8 months agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hi Reader, There's a gift for you somewhere in this email... just look for the π emoji! π Tip #39: Six quick Python tricks Here's what I'll cover below: Return the number of unique values Count values with Counter Better debugging with f-strings Return multiple values from a function Count while looping Create a dictionary with a comprehension Let's get started! π 1οΈβ£ Return the number of unique values Need to know the number of unique values in an iterable? Convert it to a set and check the...
8 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read