Are categorical variables getting lost in your random forests?
I’ve been one-hot encoding categorical variables for as long as I have been using sci-kit learn. It turns out that you can lose a lot of predictive power thi...
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(TIL) Stats: Better descriptive statistics
Instead of the mean, use the median and/or the mode. Instead of the standard deviation, use the mean absolute deviation, the median absolute deviation, ...
(TIL) Docker: Attach/Detach
To detach from a container, you hold Ctrl and press P, then Q. This only works if the container was started with both -t and -i.
(TIL) AWS CLI: Modify volume size
Here’s how to modify the size of the volume attached to an EC2 instance “my_ec2”:
(TIL) Travis: Skip unnecessary builds
Especially when you’re working with a large team with multiple Travis-enabled repositories, you’ll want to avoid running any unnecessary builds. The most ...