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I’ve tried Jekyll, Hexo and Hugo and now my website uses Hugo. It is simple, boring, flexible, and fast. The main reason is that it is simple. There’s not much you have to learn to get started. Let’s cut to the chase. Assumptions You know how to open and run simple lines in the macOS or Windows terminal. You will use ~/Sites as the starting point for your site. (~/Sites is used for example purposes.

In this part one blog about categorical encoding, I will be introducing some common encoding methods that I have explored and pros and cons for each of them. TL; DR There is no ‘one size fits all’, and it usually depends on your data representations and requirements. If a variable has a lot of categories then a one-hot encoding scheme will produce many columns which can cause memory issues. In my experience relying on LightGBM/CatBoost is the best out-of-the-box method.

.container { max-width: 1200px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I think yesterday was a Friday because someone used #flashbackfriday but every day brings painful flashbacks. I miss the hustle and bustle of a crowded crossroad. I miss sitting on a seat and it’s still warm and then kind of feels wet and you’re not entirely sure but you’ve already committed to that seat and then finally when you get up you think yeah it was wet.

Sit tight and listen to music For the past weeks, I’ve taken breaks from staring blankly into the middle distance to dip deeper into my playlists than I have in years. I’ve been using Spotify only since last year since most of time I used apple music. I like the feature of adding songs to library on apple music. By innertion I’m still using the library to save songs that I like.

Self-quarantine gets me nerd-out on small things that I usually googled again and again. For example, very often I need to plot multiple plots sharing the same category, where it’s better to keep colors across categories consistent for all the plots. The easiest solution to make sure to have the same colors for the same categories in different plots would be to manually specify the colors at plot creation. Alternatively, we can use a list of colors or a dictionary to map colors onto categories.