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Recurrent Neural Networks

Recurrent Neural Networks

  • October 27, 2020

In this article, we will explore recurrent neural networks. For all the readers who are not versed with the concept of neural networks, I will recommend that you go through one of our previous articles and get a basic understanding of how a neural network works. Disclaimer – The concepts...

Beating JSON performance using Protocol Buffers

Beating JSON performance using Protocol Buffers

  • October 20, 2020

Protocol buffers or Protobuf, is a binary format that was created by Google to serialize structured data that is transferred among services. Before we get into what protocol buffers are, let us first look into JSON. JSON clearly has great advantages when it comes to being a data interchange format...

Common Data Distributions for Data Science

Common Data Distributions for Data Science

  • October 13, 2020

Data distributions lie at the heart of all the machine learning algorithms and data science techniques. A machine learning algorithm is only as good as the data it gets. Hence, it is important to fully understand the data and data distributions before we build our models. Consequently, explore and understand...

The new Logical Assignment Operators in JavaScript

The new Logical Assignment Operators in JavaScript

  • October 8, 2020

The latest version of ECMAScript introduced three new logical assignment operators: nullish, AND, and OR operators. These are supported from Firefox 79 onwards, Chrome 85 onwards, and naturally there is no IE support but since Edge is now chromium based, it is available there too. They are not available in...

How to groupby using reduce in JavaScript

How to groupby using reduce in JavaScript

  • October 1, 2020

The groupBy method is one of the reasons people use lodash in their project. In this blog post, we will write our own version of groupBy using reduce and vanilla JavaScript. What groupBy does? groupBy works on an array of items, and it groups these items together into an object...

Learning context API and the useContext React hook

Learning context API and the useContext React hook

  • September 15, 2020

In this react hooks series, we have already explored the react hooks useState, useEffect, and useReducer. The next react hook we will look into is the useContext hook. As we saw while building our sample application, we had to lift the state up to our root component in order to...

Understanding the useReducer hook in React

Understanding the useReducer hook in React

  • September 1, 2020

Building upon our React hooks introduction from our previous post on understanding React hooks (useState and useEffect), we will look at the useReducer hook in this post. useReducer hook can be an alternative to useState (in fact, useState uses useReducer internally). Before getting into how to use the useReducer hook,...