Published in Inspired Ideas·May 11, 2021Representing Causal Knowledge and Making InterventionsIn this post we will go through one of my favorite techniques for building intelligent systems — causal thinking and modeling. Thinking in terms of cause and effect comes in very handy when trying to model the world and tease out answers from the model itself. …Causal Models9 min read
Sep 18, 2018Anomaly Detection with Auto-Encoders: How we used it for Cervical Cancer detectionBackground: Anomaly Detection also known as Novelty Detection or One Class Classification, is a technique applied when your dataset is extremely imbalanced or entirely made up of just one class. This is common when dealing with fraud detection, or any case where outliers rarely happen among the sample population. In our…Machine Learning5 min read
Apr 24, 2018PyTorch 101: Linear regression with PyTorchEven though Linear Regression is a problem that is probably better solved by other machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machines and the like, it is still a crucial piece to understand in order to build more complicated models over time. Linear regression can be defined as a way…Machine Learning6 min read
Apr 15, 2018Multi-language Text with React Native & React ContextState management in React has been a very turbulent landscape since the very beginning of the React era. With an overwhelming number of options, hopefully react context will change this in time. User satisfaction and comfortability is at the forefront of all the applications we build at Inspired Ideas, including…Java Script4 min read
Apr 9, 2018Experiences at Indaba𝕏 Kenya: Data Driven Patient Diagnosis with Dr. Elsa Poster PresentationOver the weekend of 7th April 2018, my team and I were invited to the IndabaX Kenya event, organized by the wonderful Women In Machine Learning (WIML) group, to present a poster and share on our AI powered Health and Telemedicine project and the experience was truly nothing short of…Machine Learning4 min read
Mar 29, 2018React Native Navigation: Sending app to backgroundIf you have used react-native for any significantly sized project, you will have realized by now that it is super easy to get something up and running, perhaps even (kind of) ready for beta release, and you will also by now know that navigation can be a <BadWord language=“en” />…React Native3 min read
Published in Inspired Ideas·Mar 18, 2018Learning a quadratic equation with PyTorch: Intro to PyTorchI tried out PyTorch after hearing all hype surrounding the framework and I have never looked back! Coming from a Tensorflow background, the simplicity of PyTorch was so very alien and surely it couldn’t be this easy. I assure you though, it is! In this post we will first introduce…Machine Learning8 min read
