As everything in life programming comes with ups and downs. There are days when work is flowing and there are other days you are barely able to write a single line of code. Writing code professionally is an endeavor where celebration and frustration are never far apart. How can you best deal with this? What […]
Continue ReadingEvery time I write code I prefer it to be in Python, it’s my go-to language. So, naturally, when I write a web service my #1 tool of choice is Django. This was also true as my girlfriend asked me a while ago if I couldn’t create as simple meal planner for her. Nothing fancy, […]
Continue ReadingI recently found a quick productivity hack so that I spend more time reading than checking my social media profiles. Does the following sound familiar to you? You have a short break at work, waiting at the coffee machine or you’re sitting on the toilet. Chances are high that you have your smartphone on and […]
Continue ReadingA few ago weeks ago we developed a simulation tool at AdTriba. It required solving convex optimization problems; not the stuff we wanted to write ourselves, and so we needed a package for it. For any statistical analysis, the first thing coming to mind is R. R has packages for virtually everything. But we never […]
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This is the story of ABBY.io, an evaluation and documentation service for A/B testing. It was a side project I invested much time in effort in, but in the end, it never took off, and I pulled the plug. Let’s dive into ABBY’s history and the steps that lead to its eventual failure. The origins […]
Continue ReadingWhenever I read articles about data science I feel like there is some important aspect missing: evaluating the performance and quality of a machine learning model. There is always a neat problem at hand that gets solved and the process of data acquisition, handling, and model creation is discussed, but the evaluation aspect too often […]
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