In just about 20 lines of code! The KNN Classification algorithm is broadly divided into three methods: Calculating Euclidean distance between two rows (vectors) of the dataset Getting K nearest neighbors to the new piece of data Predicting the label of the new piece of data (Classify the new data…

A/B test experiment is basically an experiment with two groups A(control) & B (treatment) with typically a hypothesis that treatment is better than control. A/B tests are common in web designing and marketing for example publishers like NYT A/B test their web headlines to determine which produces more clicks. Switching…

Minimal investment, maximum taste! Lookout for Coffee hacks at the end.. I still remember the exact moment when I fell in LOVE with coffee, I mean I still do every day when I brew it every morning, It cost me around INR 20, but I was smitten by the bittersweet…

The past seven months spent sanitizing has strengthened germophobe culture. While this may not last very long, it has turned our associations with the viruses of all kinds, into negative. The aliens among us — an article in Weekly edition of The Economist for Aug 29th, 2020 (p. 9) provides…

The Furies, they called it, after the three Greek Goddesses with blood-red eyes and snakes for hair, who took vengeance on Orestes for having killed his mother by driving him crazy. But that movement they were building must be lesbian, the Furies announces. What they meant by lesbian was not…

Tone of your inner voice We all speak to ourselves at times. Sometimes to understand how we feel, or to justify why we did what we did, or to seek counsel while making a decision. I recently had to apply for an online position. While I was all excited about the role, I wasn’t sure…

I have recently read Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang. It talks about how developed countries followed a certain path during their growth boom but now, after achieving growth, they preach the opposite to poor and developing countries. …

Things I learnt from this book as a non- Algorithm writer: Technical concepts: I took this opportunity to revise probability with The Secretary Problem. Learnt the concept of Optimal stopping, i.e., the point where you decide to choose from given options instead of taking in new options. Eg. While hiring…

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Hands-Project-Based/dp/1593276036 Youtube: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz7nYlnXLfE Honestly, I had read so many blogs about learning to code in python, that I wasn’t sure if I will ever start learning. But then one day I went to meet a friend, and she had this crisp, yellow covered thick book on python lying…