Understanding rewards by teaching a robot to navigate a maze — One of the biggest barriers to traditional machine learning is that most supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms need huge amounts of data to be useful in real world use cases. Even then, the AI is unable to learn as it goes without human supervision and feedback. What if an…

A step-by-step for using the Slack Events API and Google Sheets to code your own Slack bot — I’m the vice president of technical development at a tech professional fraternity on my college campus. We host a lot of events, many of them targeted towards helping org members develop in both their professional and technical skills, and we expect to have a certain level of activity for our…

And how to build and (locally) test your own serverless Python functions — Google Cloud Platform offers all of the industry-standard tools for cloud processing, including storage and compute, and is my choice of cloud provider for data science tasks (namely because of ecosystem with other GCP tools such as BigQuery or Airflow that offer intuitive data engineering and MLOps tooling). …

A use case in gathering Amazon product data — Most useful data hasn’t been collected in a form that’s particularly convenient for computers or humans to use. Instead, it lives on the internet in various unusable forms. For our demonstration, we will walk through gathering product data from Amazon. Note that this isn’t a particularly strong solution, as I…

June 24, 2022 marked the fall of Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court case that reaffirmed patient privacy and the right to an abortion. Roe v. Wade made it illegal for a state to ban abortion, but even since 1973 (when the decision was made), many state legislatures have…