Three Chrome Extensions I Use Daily For Machine Learning and Data Science
I can’t say enough about how free browser extensions save me hours on every ML project I take on. Here are a few of my must-haves:
CatalyzeX Code Implementation Finder
No more Google searching for code implementations of a paper or model. CatalyzeX's free browser extension finds and shows implementation code automatically for any machine learning, artificial intelligence, or deep learning research paper with code you come across while browsing Google, arXiv, Twitter, Scholar, Github, and other websites.
It’s near effortless to use, with the browser extension working in the background and displaying a CODE button automatically, and directly when an implementation of the page you’re on is found. Merely click the CODE button to jump to the code.
This extension also works on Microsoft Edge, Opera, Firefox, and UC Browser.
Click here to install the CatalyzeX Chrome extension
arXiv Vanity
arXiv is used by millions of scientists, engineers, students, and curious lay-people to find and read research papers. arXiv provides PDFs of pre-print and open source research on a multitude of topics. If you’ve ever used this site, you know the pain of reading a 40 page PDF in 12pt (or 10pt!) Times New Roman. It hurts, actually hurts your eyes to squint your way through that paper only to find out the panacea model you thought you found only worked once on a completely perfect, synthetic dataset.
While I can’t solve the latter problem, arXiv Vanity will solve the former. arXiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
Click here to install the arXiv Chrome Extension
Don’t use Chrome, or don’t want to install a browser extension? arXiv Vantiy has a web app that lets you paste in any arXiv URL to convert to an HTML webpage.
Click here to use the arXiv Vanity Web Version
Open in Colab
Open in Colab is a simple browser extension to quickly open GitHub-hosted Jupyter notebooks in Google Colab.
Personally, when I find a demo script or even a complex implementation I often want to play around with it without committing to setting up a full space on my machine. Open in Colab lets me do just that. It’s beyond simple to use. Just click the extension icon while you’re on the GitHub page with your chosen file. That’s it. The extension will open the file in a Colab env so you can play around with or extend the code immediately.
Click here to install the Open in Colab Chrome Extension
I hope you find these browser extensions as helpful as I have! Be sure to leave a comment with your favored time saving tool or browser extension below.
