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Early Stopping: Why Did Your Machine Learning Model Stop Training?

Why most models are small and LLMs are large

15 min read5 days ago

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Early Stopping: Why Did Your Machine Learning Model Stop Training?

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Causal Machine Learning: What Can We Accomplish with a Single Theorem?

Exploring and exploiting the seemingly innocent theorem behind Double Machine Learning

27 min readMar 30, 2024

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Categorical Features: What’s Wrong With Label Encoding?

Why we can’t arbitrarily encode categorical features

10 min readNov 20, 2023

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Building PCA from the Ground Up

Supercharge your understanding of Principal Component Analysis with a step-by-step derivation

12 min readAug 7, 2023

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Building PCA from the Ground Up

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Aliasing: Your Time Series is Lying to You

An intuitive introduction to signal aliasing with Python

12 min readJul 12, 2023

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Aliasing: Your Time Series is Lying to You

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A Performant Way to Query Streaming Data

Improving a real-time streaming project with ksqlDB

13 min readMay 22, 2023

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A Performant Way to Query Streaming Data

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Learning Math Through Code: Derivatives

Gain a deeper understanding of derivatives with Python

5 min readMar 20, 2023

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Learning Math Through Code: Derivatives

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Another (Conformal) Way to Predict Probability Distributions

Conformal multi-quantile regression with Catboost

11 min readMar 8, 2023

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A New Way to Predict Probability Distributions

Exploring multi-quantile regression with Catboost

10 min readFeb 14, 2023

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Lineman Stationarity

A data-driven metric for offensive linemen

6 min readFeb 6, 2023

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Lineman Stationarity

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Harrison Hoffman

Harrison Hoffman

Believer, husband, dad, and data scientist interested in applied math, data science, software development, and machine learning.

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