Today I would like to show an example of how to calculate the shape and number of parameters for a simple convolutional neural network, also include some other experience. It takes the dog classification project as an example. It is for the entry-level, not tech-savvy, but welcome your professional comments to help me understand the topic better.

Let’s start.

Question 1: Calculate the shape and number of parameters of the CNN model

It is assumed that you have knowledge of the architecture of CNN. …

One of the advantages of a decorator in Python is that it can make the usage of function be extended, but no need to modify the original functions.

Today let’s take an example to check it step by step.

Let’s say I have defined a lot of original functions as below:

The problem: After serval months, I want to print some words to all of the calculation functions (add, minus, and multiply) before and after the calculation to make the process more clear. What should I do?

Method1: Change the original functions: add the printed words to the original…

Today I would like to include the below parts:

1. FunkSVD: math, process, and code
2. Based on 1, make predictions, validation and will give emphasis on the different cases in order to help to understand the validation process

Let’s get started.

FunkSVD: briefly intro

1. FunkSVD is a kind of matrix factorization. The original algorithm proposed by Simon Funk in his blog post [3] factorized the user-item rating matrix as the product of two lower dimensional matrices[1].
2. The predicted ratings can be computed as R=HW, where R is the user-item rating matrix, H contains the user’s latent factors and W is the…

We know that there are cons with SVD to make a prediction in reality, for example, it can’t predict if there is even a NaN in the dataset, but as this is the starting point of collaborative filtering and I want to reproduce the procedure with SVD to see how it works, with some compromisation of the dataset.

This story will focus on code realization with SVD, have no offline testing (no splitting of train test dataset), and include some basic linear algebra-related terminologies.

Linear algebra basic

SVD is singular value decomposition. Detail explanation can be found in Wiki. Here…

Today I want to share a concise function that can transfer text to numbers. Let’s show the original and target data first to get the direct impression.

The original dataset is like below:

When I started to learn PyTorch, I found that there are various functions which seem vague to understand for me. Today I would like to summarize them with examples, which I think helpful greatly.

The functions are :

• squeeze(),
• unsqueeze() and a[None],
• max()
• argmax()
• view()

You can also check the explanations from the official website one by one, but summarizing them together helps me.

1. squeeze()

squeeze(i): it is kind of dimension reduction: if the original dimension is 1, then it can be reduced. Let’s check an example:

Today I would like to discuss two examples for content-based recommendation systems and some efficient array functions I learn from them. The two examples are

1: Based on item content recommendation

2: Based on weighted content recommendation

I use a simple movie set as an example and would like to focus on the main process and ignore other processes and special cases. Let’s get started.

Datasets preparing:

Use the below codes to generate two datasets: movie_df and review_df

The two tables as:

Flask is the tool that can be used to create API server. It is a micro-framework, which means that its core functionality is kept simple, but there are numerous extensions to allow developers to add other functionality (such as authentication and database support).

Heroku is a cloud platform where developers host applications, databases, and other services in several languages. Developers can use Heroku to deploy, manage, and scale applications. Heroku is also free, with paid specialized memberships, and most services such as a database offer a free tier.

Remark:

This story will focus on application deployment and database interactive without…