Using GPT-2 to generate quality song lyrics — Natural Language Generation (NLG) has made incredible strides in recent years. In early 2019, OpenAI released GPT-2, a huge pretrained model (1.5B parameters) capable of generating text of human-like quality. Generative Pretrained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) is, like the name says, based on the Transformer. It therefore uses the attention mechanism…

Solving MDPs using reinforcement learning — In this article, I will show you how to implement the value iteration algorithm to solve a Markov Decision Process (MDP). It is one of the first algorithm you should learn when getting into reinforcement learning and artifical intelligence. Reinforcement learning is an area of Machine Learning that focuses on…

Writing your very own personal Python package — When you have been working with data for a while, you quickly realize that big parts of your code could be reused from one project to the next. In the following article, I will show you a very easy and efficient way to create your personal python “package”, allow you…

Using ML to decide which house to purchase — In the following article, I will show you how you could very simply use Machine Learning to ensure that you purchase a home at the right price. This situation is particularly relevant at the moment, considering house prices have been increasing at an alarming rate in many regions of the…

Fine-tuning a model to summarize world news — According to The Atlantic, The New York Times publishes more than 150 articles a day and more than 250 on Sundays. The Wall Street Journal publishes about 240 stories every day. Other websites, like Buzzfeed, publish more than 6,000 stories every month. With the amount of information made available to…

Using Monte Carlo Simulation to Make Real Life Decisions — Recently, I was faced with a very difficult decision to make. I had to choose between various job offers that were all interesting, for different reasons. After a couple of sleepless nights, I realized one thing: why not use the tools at my disposal to help me make the decision? …

Showing you multiple ways to reach out to people using Python — In this tutorial, I will show you multiple ways of sending emails using Python. This can be useful in many projects or cases where you need to share any type of information to different people in a fast, easy and secure way. The traditional way: SMTPLIB The library is the most popular one when…

Using numbers to show that fans do make a difference — In most countries, people are no longer allowed into stadiums, at least not in their normal capacity. Any fan, of any sport, will tell you that watching games without fans is just not the same. There is a missing element. While the spectacle might not be the same, this unlikely…

Arsenal has been declining ever since it’s departure in 2018 — Form is temporary, class is permanent. That used to be the saying at Arsenal. The club just lost 7 of its last 9 games. They just lost their 4th home game in a row. They haven’t scored more than one goal in a game since October. Im not sure if…