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https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-johann-sebastian-bach?hl=en “Bach’s music… …is a really good resource for machine learning to learn music”-Jacob Howcroft, Software Engineer, Google Doodle Team I came across the Bach Google Doodle last spring: It was created using a machine learning model which was trained on 306 of Bach’s chorale harmonizations. A chorale harmonization is a short piece written inContinue reading “Counterpoint: The Assembly Language of Modern Music”

“Good work!” — Abhishek, 12/13/2019 “It’s a bad model” — Abhishek, 12/16/2019 For last week’s project at the Flatiron School, my partner Dayana and I investigated the effect of bad weather on transportation patterns in Chicago. We used hourly weather data to create a dummy variable to represent “bad weather” on a given day, andContinue reading “When a Good P-Value Is Not Good Enough”

“Isn’t that the game that old ladies like to play?” Whenever I ask someone if they play Bridge, this seems to be the response. And it’s a reasonable one: according to News@Northeastern, the average age of a competitive bridge player in 2018 was 71, and the infamous Bridge Murder case, a rough proxy for theContinue reading “Two Great Card Games”

Welcome to my Blog! Let me briefly introduce myself. I was born in upstate New York, grew up in Okemos, Michigan, and have spent most of my time since high school in the Chicago area. I’ve worked as a church organist, ESL teacher, and financial analyst. I’ve always wanted to become more adept at usingContinue reading “Flatiron: Part I”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”