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shrynk - Using Machine Learning to learn how to Compress

30% less disk required compared to using the single best strategy

Posted on December 5, 2019

My server storing cryptocurrency data started to overflow as I was storing compressed CSV files. Trying to come up with a quick solution, I figured I should just switch to a more effective compression algorithm (it was stored using gzip). But how to quickly figure out... [Read More]

50x Speedup of contractions library (based on regex) using TextSearch

Embracing C wrappers

Posted on June 20, 2019

Contractions is a library that normalized language like "he's" to "he is", and "I'm" to "I am". It was basically a bunch of regex. The slowdown becomes unbearable once you use multiple regexes; since it will be making multiple passes over... [Read More]

textsearch - an NLP library for fast and configurable search

Posted on June 16, 2019

Speed and accuracy is everything in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Some decide to go a “pure” Deep Learning route, but even when going in that direction, there are many situations in which you need a fast text searcher. Sometimes you just are looking for, say, 10000 words in [bm]illions of... [Read More]

Van Kooten AI Solutions

Posted on May 31, 2019

I have decided to start freelancing as Van Kooten AI Solutions and will use my personal blog as a company (freelancer) website vks.ai. This will be my landing page, but I will still keep posting about projects that are interesting to me! You can still find and contact me... [Read More]

Predict where you are indoors

(WiFi + Machine Learning)

Posted on September 19, 2016

I just wanted to give a shoutout to a project I think is very awesome: https://github.com/schollz/find “High-precision indoor positioning framework for most wifi-enabled devices.” It used to be in Python, but moved to Go for I assume speed and ease of porting to other platforms. Also, I wanted to... [Read More]