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Is “Small Data” The Next Big Thing In Data Science?

The next decade will revolve around Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence, predicts AI pioneer Andrew Ng. We may not need million of noisy…

9 min readAug 1, 2022

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Mass Layoffs in Tech — Is The AI Winter Coming?

Facing economic headwind, tech giants like Amazon, Meta and Twitter cut thousands of jobs. What does that mean for the future of AI?

8 min readNov 19, 2022

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Data Platforms — Liberate Data From Your Legacy Systems

The potential of data analytics is often held back by ancient and diverse legacy system scattered across the company. However, data and…

7 min readOct 10, 2021

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Unwrapping the Power of Python: A Quick Guide to Wrappers and Decorators

Extend or modify the behavior of your functions without altering source code

6 min readDec 25, 2023

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A Marriage of Machine Learning and Optimization Algorithms

How pattern detection and pattern exploitation might elevate each other to a new level

12 min readDec 2, 2023

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Entropy-Regularized Reinforcement Learning Explained

Learn more reliable, robust, and transferable policies by adding entropy bonuses to your algorithm

8 min readOct 26, 2023

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Ten Lessons In Time Management — A Final Lecture From A Dying Professor

After computer science professor Randy Pausch got diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer, he shared his wisdom on time management in a…

12 min readSep 21, 2023

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Five Ways To Handle Large Action Spaces in Reinforcement Learning

Action spaces, particularly in combinatorial optimization problems, may grow unwieldy in size. This article discusses five strategies to…

14 min readAug 18, 2023

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Nailing DataCamp’s Data Scientist Professional Certification

Prepare yourself for the exams DS101, DS201 and the practical exam

9 min readMay 8, 2023

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Deep Deterministic Policy Gradients Explained

A gradient-based reinforcement learning algorithm to learn deterministic policies for continuous action spaces

11 min readApr 5, 2023

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Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD

Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD

Assistant professor in Financial Engineering and Operations Research. Writing about reinforcement learning, optimization problems, and data science.

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