Table of Contents for My Medium Posts

I’ve published 159 posts here on Medium(17 posts from 2019 to 2021, and 142 posts since Jan 2022). So I created this content page to better organize what I have written about. In other words, what I have learned.

Work:

1. Academic study (AI/Machine Learning)
2. Academic writing/presenting
3. Data Analyst
4. Web Development

Side Hustle:

1. AI tools exploring (MidJourney, ChatGPT, etc.)
2. Writing on Medium reflections
3. 3D printing
4. IoT
5. Others

Academic study (AI/Machine Learning)

• Basic Machine Learning:

1. Why do we see so many logarithms in machine learning (log)
2. Top 4 Common Normalization Techniques in Machine learning

• Reinforcement Learning:

1. Use Stable Baselines3 to Solve Mountain Car Continuous in Gym
2. Best Free Resources to Learn Reinforcement Learning in 2023
3. The Basic Idea of How Boltzmann Distribution is Used in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
4. Importance Sampling, From MaxEnt Inverse Reinforcement Learning to Guided Cost Learning
5. Policy Gradient in Extremely Plain Words
6. PPO in Plain Words — Proximal Policy Optimization

• Generative AI:

1. Introduction of Generative Adversarial Network(GAN)
2. InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning to Distangle Data Unsupervised

• Explainable/Interpretable AI:

1. Best Learning Resource for Explainable AI (XAI) in 2023
2. Sensitivity Analysis with SALib: A Powerful Data Analysis Tool
3. Sensitivity Analysis(Feature Importance) with SALib on the Boston Housing Price Project
4. Explainable AI with SHAP — Income Prediction Example
5. Calculating Feature Importance with Permutation to Explain the Model — Income Prediction Example
6. Google AutoML: Vertex Explainable AI — Automatically Obtained Model Providing Feature Importance Information
7. Shapley Values in Plain Words
8. Differences between Sobol and SHAP Sensitivity Analysis on Housing Prices Predictions
9. Understanding the Sensitivity Analysis Results in Detail (Morris&Sobol from SALib)

• Tools:

1. Drawing Cloud Architectures, Neural Network Diagrams and more with Draw.io
2. Google Colab mount Google Drive and connect with Weights and Biases to track model training progress(cool TensorBoard alternative)
3. How to Document Your Work as a Data Scientist
4. How to Tune Hyperparameters with Weights and Biases(W&B Sweeps)
5. Log Anything with Weights & Biases

• Coding:

1. Building Good Coding Habits — Install Python Packages with requirements.txt
2. Building Good Coding Habits — Write Pseudocode Before Implementation
3. Building Good Coding Habits — Using ArgParse to Parse the Command Line Arguments

• Data Engineering:

Academic writing/presenting

Including network structures, data visualization and academic writing

1. Tools to Create Graphs, Tables and Equations in Academic Writing — Latex, Draw.io, Asana and more
2. Latex for Academic Writing
3. Why I use Mendeley over EndNote and Zotero for Reference Management
4. Top 7 Tools for Thesis Writing
5. The Craft of Research — Writing Your Argument
6. Using Excel to Organise Your Literature Review
7. Learn How to Make Academic Presentations with Ted Talks
8. Academic Reading, Writing and Speaking Reflection
9. Thesis Writing Sprint — Writing in the Agile Way

• Plotly:

1. How to Create Heatmap with Plotly for Data Analysis
2. Multi-dimensional Data Visualization with Plotly (3D-7D)
3. How to Fit a Trendline in a Scatter Plot in Plotly

Data Analyst

1. Data Analyst Roadmap 2022
2. Common Data Analyst Certifications and New Power BI Certificate — PL-300
3. Creating your own cheat sheets to organise your data analysis workflow (Pandas cheat sheet)
4. Trying Data Analyst Before Jumping to Data Scientist
5. How AI Could Empower Any Business — A Speech by Andrew NG at TED
6. Documentation of My Data Analyst Journey(From 2020.8 — ?)
7. From Data Analyst to Data Scientist in 2023

• Price/rate:

1. Machine Learning in Price Sensitivity Analysis
2. Behind Uber Dynamic Pricing Model — Ideas and LSTM

• Sales:

1. Time Series Data Clustering — Unsupervised Sequential Data Separation with Tslean
2. Anomaly Detection with Python Library PyOD — Time Series Voltage Data Outlier Detection Example
3. Creating Customer (Digital) Journey Map for Better Business
4. Sales Forecast with LSTM

• Website traffic:

1. Website Traffic and SEO Analysis
2. Web Scraping with Selenium and BeautifulSoup (YouTube Videos)

• PowerBI/Visualization:

1. Colour Schemes/Palettes in BI Reports
2. Top 3 PowerBI Dashboard/Report Examples
3. Beautify the PowerBI Reports — Basics
4. Beautify the PowerBI Reports — Maps

• Having fun:

1. Data Project — Pokemon Battle Prediction (1): EDA Exploratory Data Analysis
2. Data Project — Pokemon Battle Prediction (2): Predict with Machine Learning

Web Development

1. Host a BI report using ReactJs+Firebase with Auth (4 parts)
2. CI/CD with Firebase Hosting and Github Actions
3. React Table Libraries: MUI Data Grid, Material-Table and React-Table
4. Store PDF on Firebase Storage and Load it on Your Website

AI tools exploring (MidJourney, ChatGPT, etc)

1. How to use DALL-E 2 to create images from text
2. How to use Stable-Diffusion to create images from text
3. Using DreamFusion to Generate 3D Models from Text
4. The New Impressive Text-to-Music Model by Google
5. Safe Ways to Use ChatGPT to Study Better (No Cheating)
6. Four Problems Bother Me When Using MidJourney+ChatGPT as a Beginner
7. Try Hugging Face’s Open Source Text-to-Video Model (modelscope-text-to-video-synthesis)
8. Adobe Firefly is All You Need
9. How to Use ChatGPT to Accelerate Literature Review
10. The Ultimate Midjourney Prompt Guide 2023
11. What is Prompt Engineering? Will it Last Long? Do We Need to Learn It?
12. ChatGPT in Healthcare
13. Creating Consistent Characters with Your Desired Reference Characters/Pictures in Midjourney
14. ChatGPT in healthcare: diagnosis of mental issues like stress, burnout, procrastination and depression
15. Using ChatGPT+MidJourney+Adobe Firefly to Create Posters
16. Adobe Generative Fill is Out! The Game Changer!

Writing on Medium reflections

1. How I Write on Medium to Fight Procrastination
2. My Income from Writing for Medium Increased 10 Times in 2022
3. I only Earned $258 with 101 Stories on Medium for a year. Is it Normal?
4. Top 65 Active Publications on Medium (updated on 6th April 2023)
5. I finally earned $100 last month on Medium($104.31) which took me 16 months
6. Creating a Writing System for Blogging and Learning — Medium, Blog Website, Academic Writing, etc.

3D printing and Etsy shop

1. What I need to 3D print my video game character
2. How I Setup My First 3D Printer — Creality Ender 3 V2
3. Best 3D Printed Nintendo Switch Accessories (Top 5)
4. 3D Printing Troubleshooting and Limitations — PLA Filament Prints
5. Top 3 Blender Tutorials for Learning 3D Modeling(Beginners)
6. How to Tweak 3D file in Blender for 3D Printing — BMO Nintendo Switch Stand
7. Adding Support Structures to Aid 3D Printing Overhanging/Bridge Area
8. Documentation of My 3D Printing Journey
9. Safety Preparation for 3D Resin Printing
10. My First Resin 3D Printer — ELEGOO MARS 2 PRO
11. 3D Printing Troubleshooting — Tuning Parameters
12. Improving the Surface Quality of 3D Prints

• Etsy:

1. Which Online Marketplace to Use: Amazon, eBay or Etsy?
2. Turning My 3D Printing Hobby into a Small Business
3. From Zero to Star Seller on Etsy in 4 Months
4. Productivity, Quality and Open Issues of My 3D Printing Side Hustle
5. Reducing Shipping Costs by Reusing Amazon’s Packages
6. Enriching My Product Catalog on Etsy
7. Sales of My Etsy Shop Dropped Greatly after Holiday Season

IoT

1. My First Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Others

1. Beautify Your Terminal: iTerm2+zsh+Powerline+neofetch+Jp2a
2. Why I choose Conda over Virtualenv and Pyenv to create a python virtual environment
3. Replacing MacBook Pro Battery by Yourself (13" Retina Early 2015)
4. How to Make Stickers from Home with a Basic Epson WF-2850
5. Top 10 Data Science Mentors on YouTube
6. Top Video Game Sheet Music Websites
7. Connecting Nintendo Switch to iMac/Laptop with Video Capture Cards
8. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — My Notes
9. Best Midi Piano Visualizers in 2023
10. Online Sheet Music/Digital Products Marketplaces
11. Play Any Song in Music Box Sound
12. I Made My First T-shirt at Home with an Electric Iron and Transfer Paper
13. How to Make a Gif with a Video or Live Photo in 3 Seconds