Ahmed's ramblings

Ever wanted to learn how recommender systems work? Love cooking? This tutorial is for you! I used a dataset containing recipes from different cuisines to build an ingredient recommender system that will help you choose ingredients that work well with each-other. The interactive notebook is available on Kaggle, where you…

And oh, first blogpost in more than two years I guess. This might be the right time to remind any readers that this project is likely to end up with the dozens of projects that get 3-5 commits before being abandoned. But hey, let's be optimistic, and get yourself ready…

I participated to my first PyCon a couple weeks ago (12-13 May 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden) and it was great! To make things even better, I had the chance to give a quick introductory talk on Machine Learning and data processing with Python. This is heavily inspired by my previous…

I'm desperately trying to learn Swedish (mainly to be able to order all those delicious pastries with a perfect accent) and noticed some interesting and fun facts about the language while doing so. This post will probably be updated as I go and learn more things: min svenska är inte…

I hosted a small workshop at KTH (where I'm currently pursuing a master in Machine Learning), presenting Python's capabilities as a tool for data-processing (or "data science" if you prefere fancy terms!) and machine learning. You can view the slides on Speaker Deck (or embedded below), and I highly recommend…

It's been a pleasure working as part of the Automation and Tools team at Mozilla this summer (make sure you check Mozilla's great university program). I worked on a couple of projects, but the main one involved switching a legacy testing infrastructure to structured logs (instead of the previously used…