Support Vector Machines (SVM) have gained huge popularity in recent years. The reason is their robust classification performance – even in high-dimensional spaces: SVMs even work if there are more dimensions (features) than data items. This is unusual for classification algorithms because of the curse of dimensionality – with increasing dimensionality, data becomes extremely sparse … Read more
Decision Trees are powerful and intuitive tools in your machine learning toolbelt. Decision trees are human-readable – in contrast to most other machine learning techniques. You can easily train a decision tree and show it to your supervisors who do not need to know anything about machine learning in order to understand how your model … Read more
Neural Networks have gained massive popularity in the last years. This is not only a result of the improved algorithms and learning techniques in the field but also of the accelerated hardware performance and the rise of General Processing GPU (GPGPU) technology. In this article, you’ll learn about the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) which is one … Read more
The popular K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm is used for regression and classification in many applications such as recommender systems, image classification, and financial data forecasting. It is the basis of many advanced machine learning techniques (e.g., in information retrieval). There is no doubt that understanding KNN is an important building block of your proficient computer … Read more
If there is one clustering algorithm you need to know – whether you are a computer scientist, data scientist, or machine learning expert – it’s the K-Means algorithm. In this tutorial drawn from my book Python One-Liners, you’ll learn the general idea and when and how to use it in a single line of Python … Read more
Problem Formulation Given an integer number n. Get all divisors c of the number n so that c * i = n for another integer i. The desired output format is a list of integers (divisors). Here are a couple of examples: n = 10 # Output: [1, 2, 5, 10] n = 13 # … Read more
Bitcoin capital expenditure and energy overhead are often criticized to be unsustainably high. But are they worth it in relation to the value provided by the Bitcoin network? TLDR; Capex and energy costs are estimated using the USD value of the transaction fees paid by the Bitcoin traders. The value of the Bitcoin monetary system … Read more
Do you train for your upcoming coding interview? This question was asked by Google as reported in multiple occasions by programmers all around the world. Can you solve it optimally? Let’s dive into the problem first. Problem Formulation Given an integer array or Python list nums and an integer value k. Find and return the … Read more
A couple of years ago, I fell into the habit of creating cheat sheets when exploring certain areas in the programming space. Over time, hundreds of thousands of Finxters have downloaded and used them in their own learning journeys. However, the cheat sheets are largely scattered around many different locations on the Finxter ecosystem. And … Read more
In this tutorial you will learn how to implement a simple Python program to detect if a linked list consists of a cycle or not. If you need a brief refresher on linked lists, do check out this blog post. Definition of a Cycle in a Linked List A linked list can consist of a … Read more
? This tutorial will show you the most simple and straightforward way to implement linear regression in Python—by using scikit-learn’s linear regression functionality. I have written this tutorial as part of my book Python One-Liners where I present how expert coders accomplish a lot in a little bit of code. Feel free to bookmark and download … Read more
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How To Check if One String is a Subsequence of Another?