Ilia Ilmer

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Ilia Ilmer

Writing about algorithms, systems, implementation details, and the parts of software work worth keeping around.

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Projects, technical ideas, and implementation notes.

Installing Julia

Introduction

In this quick tutorial, I will share how to install Julia language on a Mac computer, setup symlinks to run it from command line and then will go through a couple of problems in probability and their Julia language simulations.

Installing Julia on macos

We are going to install …

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Parameter identifiability in Julia

In this post I will present a tutorial on a Julia package called StructuralIdentifiability.jl which I help maintain and contribute to. In the next post I will present a similar introduction to another package I help develop called SIAN.jl, but that's for another time.

This tutorial will be …

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Google Summer of Code. Final Results

GitHub release GitHub stars

Over the course of the summer, my work resulted in successfully ported code of StructuralIdentifiability.jl, a package that can help researchers who use ordinary differential equations in their work. The package allows answering queries about individual identifiability of parameters and their combinations.

The StructuralIdentifiability.jl package is ready to …

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First Month In GSoC

Project Updates

We slightly churned our project idea from the original algorithm implementation into an inclusion of a StructuralIdentifiability.jl package develop by my colleague Gleb Pogudin. The package is currently part of SciML with more updates to come!

Here is a list of things it can do:

  • check local …

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Structural Identifiability Toolbox

Introduction

In this repository, I will describe our recently-released Structural Identifiability Toolbox, a web-based application for assessing parameter identifiability of differential models.

Click here to checkout the application! Read on to learn more.

Why is it better?

The program is fast, free, and is available in any web-browser, including mobile …

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My Google Summer of Code Project

About The Project

Problem Formulation

The problem of parameter identifiability is one of the most crucial issues arising in systems biology. To take a look at a problem of identifiability, we must first describe a setting in which it arises. Systems biology deals with biological processes that are described by …

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Three Ways to Deal With Imbalance

In this post, I put together an interesting example of what to do with imbalanced datasets and why precision and recall matter.

Introduction

The following is part of a Machine learning assignment I had to do while at CUNY. This particular example illustrates quite well the importance of understanding various …

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Linear Regression as the Simplest Classifier

In this post I wanted to describe a simple application of a linear least squares method to a problem of data classification. It is a naive approach and is unlikely to beat more sophisticated techniques like Logistic Regression, for instance.

Imports

Some imports we are going to need for this …

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