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Does Pit Stop Timing Predict Finishing Position in Formula 1?

Apr 26 · 19 min read · Introduction This notebook is a structured univariate strictly linear feature selection pass on an F1 race dataset (2020-2025), with won_race as the binary target. The point is to figure out which fea

rebuilding my tiling window manager....again

Apr 25 · 7 min read · I do this every few months. Something breaks, or I get bored, or I convince myself that this time I'll actually get it right — really sit down, think it through, write clean configs. You'd think I'd l

Integrating MLflow into Python Logging

Sep 18, 2024 · 5 min read · This article solves an arguably niche issue where we wish to log both to the mlflow tracking server as well as other sources, such as a live terminal or some cloud storage destination. To be concrete, the aim of this post is to detail the setup proce...

Optimizing Delta Tables

Jan 31, 2024 · 8 min read · Delta tables carry many unique, useful properties. This post deconstructs three core concepts used by Delta tables for query runtime and space optimization. Compaction This is the most basic form of space optimization. When large amounts of data is s...

Monkeypatching Spark I/O in Python

Aug 5, 2023 · 5 min read · This is something that I attempted to find a guide for online, but it appears that the niche nature of pyspark (and the lack of practice for testing data-centric operations) results in no clear one-stop location for figuring out how to do this (appar...