WTF - Wikipedia Traffic Forecasting

I participated in my first Kaggle competition, the Web Traffic Time Series Forecasting competition, where I attempted to predict daily visits to Wikipedia pages for the next 2 months. I'm currently at 74th out of 1095. It occupied more time and I got worse results than what I expected. Overall it was a fun way to learn quite a few new things.

Recommender Systems Talk

Back in April I gave a talk on Recommender Systems for the CERN Spring Campus 2017 in Glasgow.

Exchange Rate on the Shell

I've made a small python script to fetch some useful information about currency exchange rates and display it when opening a shell.

Genetic Algorithms in one night

Tonight I decided to implement a genetic algorithm to take care of the parameter optimization for my master thesis. I wanted to do it in one night, but ended up spending a couple of hours on the following day fixing some stuff.

Detecting Machine Translation

I and Ricardo Martins decided to participate on the JEEC/Unbabel Machine Translation Detection Challenge, we ended in 4th place. The Code and dataset are available on the project Github.

My first blog post