Category: TECH

Interaction Features: Features Created by Combining Variables to Capture Joint Effects
Predictive models often fail for a simple reason: they assume each variable influences the outcome independently. In real-world data, effects are frequently conditional. The impact of one variable depends on another variable’s value. Interaction features solve this gap by explicitly representing joint effects. Instead of treating variables as separate signals, interaction features allow a model … Read More

Unsupervised Density Estimation via Expectation-Maximisation: The Iterative Procedure for Finding Maximum Likelihood Parameters in Models with Latent Variables
Modern machine learning often begins with a simple question: what does the data look like underneath? When you do not have labels, answering that question becomes the goal itself. Unsupervised density estimation focuses on learning a probability distribution that could have generated the observed dataset. This is a foundational idea behind clustering, anomaly detection, and … Read More

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) Search Space Formalism and Bayesian Optimization
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has appeared as a practical solution to one of the most time-consuming challenges in machine learning: selecting the right model, preprocessing steps, and hyperparameters. Instead of relying on normal trial and error, AutoML systems formalise this process into a well-defined search problem. At the core of this approach lies the concept … Read More

Scaling Stateful Applications in Kubernetes: Advanced Techniques for Managing Persistent Storage
Imagine a city where every house remembers who lives inside it, even after a power outage. The water flows back to the taps, the lights return, and everyone resumes exactly where they left off. In Kubernetes, building such “memory” into an application—so that it retains its state across failures—is challenging. Stateless applications, such as vending … Read More