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2016
Analyzing Housing Prices in Berkeley
How does Berkeley’s housing situation look, and how can we find a good deal amidst inflating rent prices?
2015
Mimicking Writing Style With Markov Chains
I’m not sure if you guys will remember this, but a year or so back, there was a Facebook application that went viral called “What Would I Say,” which claimed...
Implementing a Search Engine with Ranking in Python
It might just be me, but every time I use Quora, I end up seeing at least one question like this one: someone questioning how Google works, and how they can ...
Recommending Subreddits by Computing User Similarity: An Introduction to Machine Learning in Python
Someone famous once said that if you click on the first link on every Wikipedia page, you’ll end up at the Philosophy page. The idea is that Wikipedia articl...
Caching in Java with JOOQ and Redis
Database caching is, to the say the least, a difficult problem. Part of this is technical: making a finely-grained cache can take a lot of work, and requires...