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Machine Learning with CatBoost
Recently, during a hackathon event with my colleagues Iakov Davydov and Rudolf Biczok, I learned CatBoost, an open-source library of gradient boosting on decision trees, which is particular friendly with categorical features. Users do not need to pre-process categorical features and can directly start inference, which the authors argue is both fast and accurate.
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edX Medicinal Chemistry - Chapter Six on Blood and Drug Transport
Module three consists of chapter six (blood and drug transport) and chapter seven (pharmacokinetics). This module deals with the absorption and distribution of small-molecule drugs. While the previous modules were more about biochemistry, physical chemistry seems to be more relevant for this module.
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Install R in Linux MINT 18
After a morning of waiting and trying to compile and install R from source code with only limited success, I found out I missed the correct link which allowed me to install the latest R-3.4.4 within seconds.
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Keras, a python deep learning library
Recently I discovered Keras, a python deep learning library. It provides high-level neural networks API, supports multiple backends (TensorFlow, CNTK, and Theano), and allows fast experimentation.
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edX Medicinal Chemistry - Chapter Five on Receptors
Chapter five discusses various aspects of receptors as drug targets, such as classification, ligands, and the occupancy theory.