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Python magic methods are also known as dunder methods or special methods. But why such dramatic names? They’re used to overwrite or emulate the behavior of built-in functions.

They’re also easy to recognize, as they follow a particular pattern: They have double underscores as prefixes and suffixes. Hence, the name dunder means Double Underscore. They’re referred to as special methods because they add “magic” to your python classes. Common examples are __init__(), __str__(), __call__(), etc. A magic method is generally used to override operations.

Continue reading “Introduction to Python Magic Methods in Python Classes”

This post is a part of a series about feature engineering techniques for machine learning with Python.

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Welcome back! In this post of our series on feature engineering, we’re going to focus on another common issue in most datasets—outliers. Here, we’ll examine what an outlier is and the different methods to handle them, alongside some code snippets. Let’s get started.

Continue reading Hands-on with Feature Engineering Techniques: Handling Outliers

Augmented reality is a term we’ve all heard of, but few developers are able to create immersive AR experiences — it often requires 3D design skills that are often missed in software development courses.

Thankfully, Apple’s Reality Composer makes it easy to build quick, immersive experiences without having experience with CAD and 3D modeling. While beginners can start with this tutorial, I strongly recommend checking out my previous tutorial for a more basic look at Reality Composer.

Continue reading Apple’s Reality Composer: Put the Moon in Orbit with Augmented Reality

Accessing a device’s calendar in a React Native app can be a bit tricky. Using open source modules like react-native-add-calendar-event is helpful when you’re looking to show a calendar inside a modal or manipulate calendar events (adding, editing, etc).

Continue reading How to add a custom calendar event in a native iOS app using React Native

It’s Friday. I’m checking my phone for the 30th time in the last hour. It’s 1:02 P.M. Something’s wrong. The UPS courier is late. They said it would arrive by 1 P.M — why is it not here? I was preparing one of my fresh daily emails, but I couldn’t focus. And suddenly… DING DONG! 🔔 He’s here! I suddenly felt super excited. It felt like Christmas. This morning, I received my OAK-D Camera…

Continue reading Edge AI: The Ultimate Guide to Vision Processing Units (VPUs)

The main aim of this article is to introduce you to language models, starting with neural machine translation (NMT) and working towards generative language models.

For the purposes of this tutorial, even with limited prior knowledge of NLP or recurrent neural networks (RNNs), you should be able to follow along and catch up with these state-of-the-art language modeling techniques.

Continue reading Exploring Language Models for Neural Machine Translation (Part One): From RNN to Transformers

As the spread of COVID 19 continues, communities are told to reduce close contact between individuals. This is called Social Distancing, as it is a necessary and effective way to slow down the spread of the virus. As a data science student, I came with a solution to identify whether people actually follow the social distancing protocol of staying at least 6 feet from each other.

Continue reading Social Distance Detector with Python, YOLOv4, Darknet, and OpenCV