Learn how to properly setup and kickstart your python project. And all the nitty-gritty details of which tools to use and how to configure them together, through building a simple CLI. — As you start working on your python project, you’ll likely need to set it up in a consistent and collaboration-friendly way. In this article, I’ll describe a setup that works great for our projects at Turo, and also my personal ones. It includes many industry best practices (semantic versioning, pre-commit…

What’s cryptography? What does hashing and public-key encryption mean? And which tool can you use to start writing cryptography code? — You probably heard the name cryptography a lot recently, especially during the cryptocurrency bull market of 2021, or with the recent FTX saga. But what does it really mean? Is it useful? And how can you start using some cryptography yourself? As always, we’ll go through a little bit of…

A quick introduction to the topic of fairness with hands on coding. Evaluate your machine learning model fairness in just a few lines of code. — Are Machine Learning models “fair”? When increasingly more decisions are backed by ML algorithms, it becomes important to understand the biases they can create. But what does “fairness” mean? This is where it gets a little political (and mathematical)… To illustrate our thoughts, we’ll take the example of a machine…

Machine learning interpretability with hands on code with SHAP. — Machine Learning interpretability is becoming increasingly important, especially as ML algorithms are getting more complex. How good is your Machine Learning algorithm if it cant be explained? Less performant but explainable models (like linear regression) are sometimes preferred over more performant but black box models (like XGBoost or Neural Networks)…

A few tools that will get you on the right track for your Machine Learning projects using python. — A few years back, I first learnt how to write machine learning code as I took my first ML class while pursuing my graduate studies in Applied Mathematics. …

Improve your python code by using hydra for configuration. — In this tutorial, we’ll go through some available options that you might encounter for config handling, then explain why hydra is my favorite pick, and finally go through some code examples to highlight the key functionalities of Hydra. Context and available options As one works on a Python project, especially for machine learning, the…

Stop committing wrongly formatted code and start using pre-commit checks. — How many times have you seen a commit message like ‘test’ or ‘modif’ or ‘reran notebook’? Commit messages can be very useful and their format can help get the relevant information in a simple look. This is what conventional commits is trying to achieve: standardize the commit format to be…

Get started using your terminal and get one step closer to being an experienced developer. — All of the code for this tutorial can be found here. Developers use the command line to navigate through file and perform operations. Once you get used to it, it is definitely the most efficient way to access files and perform operations. Also, when you start virtual machines on the…

Hands on creating and managing conda environments and env variables for your python projects. — All of the code for this tutorial can be found here. Python code is great, but being able to reproduce the code is even better! …