Tabular Foundation Models

Intro I have been working with models for tabular data a bit professionally and as a hobby. I did notice attempts over time to use neural nets to somehow beat decision tree based models. However, they all pretty much at most were on par with decision tree based models, even in regimes with millions of samples. A recent post by Gaël Varoquaux caught my attention stating “Tabular foundation models have gone from a promising idea to a production-ready technology”. Notable, as he is one of the creators of scikit-learn - a tool I consider an essential work horse of data science. ...

9 October 2026 · 5 min · ericschmidt

"hypermedia systems"'s Contact.app with fasthtml

TL;DR fasthtml is new, still seems to have some quirks, but is a great tool to use if you want to keep all your frontend logic in python. Hello again In my previous blog post I wrote about htmx used with flask and jinja2 as done by the authors of the book “hypermedia systems”. Having done that one could wonder what that code would look like using fasthtml. This is what this blog post is about :), I know, you are probably shocked beyond belief, if you’ve seen my two previous posts. ...

4 May 2025 · 6 min · ericschmidt