Machine Learning Interview Questions (Part- 3)

The article discusses interview questions asked in many machine learning job roles Explain label encoding and one hot encoding, Explain how the dimensionality of a dataset is affected with these methods in machine learning Machine learning algorithms can understand only numbers. Often, the dataset consists of categorical and numerical features. We need to convert the …

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Summary of the book “The Five Elements of Effective Thinking”

In this blog post, I am going to summarize the key ideas from the book titled “The Five Elements of Effective Thinking” written by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird along with my thoughts on the topic. The preface starts with arguing that thinking is the skill which forms all other skills like decision making, creativity, …

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Machine Learning Interview Questions (Part- 2)

This article is one among the series of discussions on interview questions frequently asked in machine learning job roles Explain the concept confusion matrix in machine learning? Confusion matrix is a table displaying a summary of prediction results of a classification problem. Measuring accuracy of a model alone can be misleading in cases where the …

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Machine Learning Interview Questions (Part- 1)

This is one among a series of frequently asked interview questions in machine learning published in this website Explain the terms Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the domain of intelligent machines which can think rationally and act rationally. It uses algorithms to enable problem solving with robust …

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Writing Python Wrapper for Bioinformatics Tools

The use of computational tools for data preprocessing and analysis is daily activity for any bioinformatician. Having a interdisciplinary field, a plethora of tools exist in the domain, written by developers from various fields and languages. Many times there can be multiple candidate tools exists to accomplish any given task. Often it is the decision …

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Molecular Docking in Google Colab

This tutorial shows how to do molecular docking in colab. Molecular docking is an essential process in scientific drug discovery to predict the binding mode and affinity of a small molecule (ligand) to a target protein. This method can help to identify potential drug candidates by virtually screening large chemical libraries and selecting compounds that …

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