(Image source: https://twitter.com/aurelien_gohier/status/1062248485154705408) We always tell ourselves that happiness will follow after we have worked hard and achieved great success. ”I will be very happy if I achieve the next milestone, be it a job promotion or buying a house or earning my first bucket of gold.” However often after we achieved those successes, happiness… Continue reading The happiness equation
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Midpoint review of M6 competition – results
As a quick follow-up to my last post on the midpoint review of M6 competition, I have looked into the actual performance statistics of my entries in the first half of the competition. The results are suprising in a few aspects : The results exhibit huge fluctuations from month to month. (Perhaps partially reflecting the… Continue reading Midpoint review of M6 competition – results
Midpoint review of M6 competition
With the ending of June, it is now the halfway point of M6 competition. It may be a good time to do a quick review of my progress and learnings from the M6 competition so far. (And also to get me into the habits of regularly writing blogs!) Progress in M6 competition For a brief… Continue reading Midpoint review of M6 competition
A beginner guide to the folder structure generated by cookiecutter-pypackage
cookiecutter-pypackage offers a very well equipped standard project template to create a Python package. However for many first time users, the automatically generated folder structure can be quite intimidating. The typical folder structure generated by cookiecutter-pypackage (https://github.com/cheeyeelim/cookiecutter-pypackage) (v1.1.2) looks like this : Note that all mentions of {{cookiecutter.project_slug}} and {{cookiecutter.pkg_name}} will be replaced by the… Continue reading A beginner guide to the folder structure generated by cookiecutter-pypackage
Trying to use cookiecutter-pypackage and ended up contributing to it
cookiecutter-pypackage provides an amazing framework to develop a Python package with. The original version (https://github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage) has been further extended by many contributors to include useful tools such as poetry and pre-commit. I decided to start using one of the newer versions of cookiecutter-pypackage (https://github.com/waynerv/cookiecutter-pypackage) (v1.1.1) before running into an error in one of the GitHub… Continue reading Trying to use cookiecutter-pypackage and ended up contributing to it
Loading child CSS style in WordPress
If you are a WordPress newbie and wanted to add your own CSS styles onto an existing WordPress theme using child template like me, you may also be following the instruction on WordPress. As I was working with the twenty-twenty-one theme, which uses get_template functions to load CSS styles, I added the following given code… Continue reading Loading child CSS style in WordPress
Comparing Exploratory Data Analysis Libraries
I have tested and reviewed a few Python packages for data processing and/or exploratory data analysis (EDA). Most of these packages attempt to automate parts of the data processing and/or EDA process, or provide a suite of functions to manipulate and visualize data. The main objective here is to review and explore Python packages that… Continue reading Comparing Exploratory Data Analysis Libraries
Comparing Time Series Machine Learning Libraries
I have tested and reviewed a few Python packages for time-series data analysis, mostly on forecasting. Most of these packages are one-stop shop machine learning packages, with some of them also containing autoML function. The main objective here is to review and explore Python packages that will shorten the time needed for time-series data analysis.… Continue reading Comparing Time Series Machine Learning Libraries