One of the more exciting new features coming soon to AutoTS is the automatic detection of holidays. That’s exactly what it sounds like: figuring out when holidays are occurring and being able to generate that calendar for the future. Firstly, why is this needed? A couple of reasons. The big reason is that holidays are […]
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Reading through documentation for a programming function to find what arguments it likes can be tedious, especially since many of the possible options either don’t work together or aren’t documented. Something I have been including on most of my newer classes is a static method called get_new_params(method=’random’) which does pretty much exactly as it says,
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For a model, metrics like MAE and RMSE and so on quantify how accurate a prediction is. However, the vast majority of metrics are symmetric, meaning they care equally about overestimates and underestimates. So far, I have found really one relatively common way for caring about direction: Mean Logarithmic Error (MLE). I also created the
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Sister breaks newish phone (Pixel 5A), but it’s still connect, just the screen is dead. Seems a shame to throw all that away, but usually repair shops are more expensive than just buying a new phone. Timely fact was this Verge article in the news feed announcing the availability of official Google parts on iFixit.
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