Category: Science
Topics related to how science should be conducted and generally about the philosophy of sciences, some good and bad things in the academic world.
Seeking truth, rejecting dogmas
Let’s go straight to the definition – truth needs to be factual reality. And there is no multiple truths about a certain thing, there is one true description of it. However, we may not know all about the thing in question, and that is where our beliefs, biases and limited…
Making my first Internet of Things device (for measuring temperature, humidity, and motion)
I have created my first internet of things (IoT) device that mesures temperature. humidity and has a motion sensor and sends data to the web app that visualizes it
Questions asked on university lectureship interviews
A list of commonly asked interview question for university lectureship and fellowship positions
Might of the word embeddings
Three most important lessons about neural networks and word embeddings: 1. No free lunch, 2. Size matters, 3. Engineering matters
[New Paper] Information extraction from tables in literature
About two months ago, a paper that resulted from my Ph.D. work has been published in the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition. The paper is titled “A framework for information extraction from tables in biomedical literature”.
Ideas for the future
I would like to state a couple of ideas that I have been thinking in the past number of days regarding what I do, which generally is natural language processing and machine learning. They may be something I am already working on and some ideas for the future and future…
Starting Inspiratron talks podcast
For a while, I have been preparing for this step. This blog got it’s audio podcast show and it is called Inspiratron talks. First I will give some links and then talk about mission and vision of the podcast. Inspiratron talks is hosted at the moment on SoundCloud: At the…
Moment when my idea became a web standard
This is the story how one schema I worked on as a side project suddenly found its place in W3C recommendation. In November 2015, I went with my supervisor to Japan. In small cities of Mishima and Ito, about 1 hour train ride from Tokyo was held Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon…
SchumaNN: Recurrent neural networks composing music
With 2 friends of mine (Team was: Maksim Belousov, Mike Phuycharoen, Nikola Milosevic (myself)) on 12th and 13th November I participated at the GreatUniHack that was held in John Dalton building of Manchester Metropolitan University. We were implementing idea of machine learning-based music composer, for which we later came with…
Impressions about Quantopian
Usually I don’t write about services I use, but one came into my way that I like – Quantopian. For a while I am interested in financial side of computer science, quantitative analysis, machine learning applications to predicting a stock market, etc. However, I was not really able to get…
Letter to the Earth from distant space
Recent events shocked the World. However, I don’t really want to talk about high casualties in Nice or Turkey in recent two days, event thought this post was motivated by these events. We live in a world that is shaking unstable. There are terrorist attacks almost on monthly bases, many…
FinAnalizer – Tool for financial analysis of stocks
For a while I was playing with financial data and financial data mining. I have already written about it in a separate post. Now, I decided to try to make my research so far accessible a bit more, so people can use it. Basically, what I previously did is that…