ML

Getting Started So I’ll confess, I’m pretty late to the party here. ChatGPT and other generative AI models have taken the popular conciousness by storm while I’ve been sitting around trying to ignore the hype. I’ve seen previous advancements in generative audio and imagery models and shrugged at the relative lack of societally beneficial applications that surfaced. I’ve even been uncomfortable using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ to refer to any system – you’ll notice it doesn’t appear in any of my content – but that may be starting to change....

Getting Started I am a big fan of Python and its powerful data analysis library, pandas. Today, I’d like to share a trick that’s save me tons of time when trying to one hot encode continuous numerical data in pandas. One hot encoding is a technique used to convert categorical variables into 1s and 0s in order to prepare data for machine learning algorithms. Normally, this is done using the get_dummies() function in pandas....