Programs Archives - Austin G. Walters

Parsing USPTO Patents to Create a Massive Free Labeled Dataset

Austin — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:07:27 +0000

Arguably one of my favorite (and best) labeled text datasets are patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Every patent is freely available with labeled images, abstract, claims, a long description, authors, dates, classification labels, etc. Data in the provided format can be used for a lot of natural language processing (NLP) […]

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Rails 6 on Elastic Beanstalk

Austin — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 06:20:52 +0000

This article is designed to cover & fix some of the issues when attempting to run a Ruby on Rails 6 on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The Quick Version (TLDR) Create directory .ebextensions in the top level of your application Create .config file which contains the commands to fix deployments (script here) Add commands for upgrading […]

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How to create a product demo video for your landing page

Austin — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 06:32:58 +0000

Making a product demo on your landing page can lead to significant conversions. Unfortunately, this can be challenging as the demo has to be quick to load (i.e. small) and robust to the various browsers. In this post I’ll cover some of what I did to create the landing page for InsiderOpinion.com (which, you guessed […]

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Active Record Subqueries using Rails and PostgreSQL

Austin — Tue, 14 May 2019 04:30:56 +0000

This article, briefly covers the idea of using the Active Record in Ruby on Rails with to create a subqueries to improve searches of a PostgreSQL database. An example where a subquery in SQL could be useful is: We have a table called comments which has three columns: author, comment_text, and created_at. The goal is […]

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Synchronizing lists across projects, keeping the most up-to-date edits

Austin — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 06:37:07 +0000

Anyone who has managed multiple code bases, such as websites, micro services, has had to deal with configuration files. One thing that is often irritating are shared configuration files, synchronized across projects. For me, this is a particularly difficult challenge, as in addition I work across four or five machines. Some of you may be […]

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ProtonMail CSS Theme

Austin — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 07:11:59 +0000

Recently, I switched to ProtonMail as my email provider (they enable encrypted emails) and one of the neat features of ProtonMail is that you access the CSS to setup your own theme. Obviously, I couldn’t help myself! So, I wrote a little CSS to improve my experience and provide this guide as an introduciton. I […]

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Hyperparameter Tuning for Sentence Classification

Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:56:23 +0000

This is the eighth and final article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). The goal being to query […]

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FastText for Sentence Classification

Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:50:58 +0000

This is the seventh article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks, applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex — where we needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). The goal being to query […]

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to Classify Sentences

Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:40:39 +0000

This is the sixth article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks, applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). The goal being to query the institutional […]

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Classify Sentences via a Recurrent Neural Network (LSTM)

Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:21:09 +0000

This is the fifth article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks to, applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). The goal being to query the […]

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