Blog posts

2024

Dunder Methods

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What are special methods?

They are ‘predefined’ methods that allow you to customize the behavior of classes. Can also be referred to as “dunder” (double-underscore) methods.

KNN-Graph

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Let’s say we have a dataset of 10 molecules (A through J), and we want to construct a 3-NN graph (k=3) where k indicates the number of neighbours.

TMAP

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The general process of TMAP looks like this: image

LSH Forest

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Locality-sensitive hashing or LSH, allows us to focus on pairs that are likely to be similar, instead of having to look at all pairs possible. It reduces therefore the amount of computational time required by a brute force approach.

MinHashing

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TL;DR: MinHashing is a way to reduce the dimensionality of fingerprints. Instead of comparing 512-bit vectors directly -these are the vectors that we obtain after the fingerprint is applied to a SMILES format molecule-, MinHash reduces these vectors to smaller hashes that preserve similarity between molecules.

More About me

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This website will primarily focus on my professional and academic development, so you likely won’t find posts on topics like politics, philosophy, religion, music, or personal anecdotes. However, to add a more personal touch, here are a few of my favorite books on topics I do enjoy—though, these days, finding time to read them is a luxury: