Heres a few things Ive written. For my latest articles! Building a Static Website with Roots. The Myth of the Full-stack Developer. Promises in AngularJS, Explained as a Cartoon. Reasons not to serve responsive web apps within iframes. Unit and Integration Testing Best Practices in AngularJS. The Problem With Mobile Scroll Events. Parallax Tutorial using CSS and jQuery. Sizing Fluid Image Containers with a Little CSS Padding Hack.

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Choosing the right parameters for a machine learning model is almost more of an art than a science. Competitors spend considerable time on tuning their model in the hopes of winning competitions, and proper model selection plays a huge part in that. It is remarkable then, that the industry standard algorithm for selecting hyperparameters, is something as simple as random search. There is actually a whole field dedicated to this pro.

For 24 hours, 300 wonderful students from around the world will come together to learn, build, tinker, and push technology to its limits. What is a hackathon? A hackathon is a focused 24-hour event where you and a small team get to build something new and exciting, alongside a whole bunch of likeminded people.