Wherein I fail to make Python read medieval Chinese calligraphy correctly, but I learn a lot about Chinese calligraphy and optical character recognition. The Plan It seems sensible that if we can read Chinese in our Jupyter notebook, we should try to translate the writing that's actually on the National Palace Museum exhibits and not …
Gaussian Processes in Python
I'm guessing that most people are pretty comfortable with the concept of uncorrelated Gaussian noise. It's the most frequently assumed noise. Even if you don't realise it, you're probably assuming Gaussian noise. Quick check: Are you using a chi-squared test to fit your data? Yes? Well there you go. Co-variate Gaussian Noise Here I'm going …
Night at the Museum: Translation in Python
I love Taipei. I also love Open Data. So I was very happy to read that the National Palace Museum in Taipei had an open data project. According to the article, the museum has put images and meta-data for 70,000 items online. So what do you get if you download the information on a particular …
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Document Scraping with Python
Tired of reading all those documents everyone keeps sending you? Why not get your Jupyter Notebook to do it for you and condense the information? I'm joking of course... but if say you did want to read pdf documents directly in Python, how would you do it? Recently I had a go at doing just …
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