Taha Yassine
tahayassine.me
Taha Yassine
@tahayassine.me
Independent researcher working on NLP/LLMs · PhD in AI & Wireless Comms

tahayassine.me
This comes at the right time, especially with vscode retiring their data viewer
If you work with Python dataframes (pandas, @pola.rs) and are not using skrub.TableReport, you're missing out 😀

We keep improving it
December 22, 2024 at 10:42 AM
TIL an insane amount of r&d went into making Matplotlib's colormaps
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAol...
A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
YouTube video by Enthought
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM
The developer changing his mind while writing the docs and letting us know
December 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
It's so annoying that "graph" is both used to refer to plots in general and to a specific type of plots. Searching "interactive graph" on google brings up line plots when I'm really looking for graphs with nodes and edges...
December 1, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Classical Streisand effect. Now someone released a dataset of 298M posts!
huggingface.co/datasets/evb...
evborjnvioerjnvuowsetngboetgjbeigjaweuofjf/bluesky-298-million-Posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 29, 2024 at 2:39 PM
When I a run a job on the gpu sitting on my desk, I always whisper words of encouragement "it's ok, you've got this" just in case models are actually sentient. You never know.
November 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
TIL you can do print(f"{big_number:,}") to display a comma separated number. It's so much easier to read this way.
November 26, 2024 at 12:30 AM
My curse is wanting to spend a week trying to optimize my GPU utilization when the job could finish by the morning if I let it run
November 24, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Still waiting for that fruit fly brain they mapped to drop on @huggingface.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 11:37 PM
LLMs in the terminal are one killer use case, but I'm wary of how it atrophies my CLI warrior skills as I find myself abusing it for even the most basic commands
November 12, 2024 at 6:31 PM