Blog entry #52
Xenodochial | Xeranthemum
Xenodochial
Synonymous to hospitable and another x-word xenial, this word's exact meaning is actually the opposite of xenophobia. A xenodochial gesture by someone, when they're being friendly to strangers, can either work in their favour, or end up against them. It's fun to learn words that are uncommon or unheard of, such as this one. Xylophone is too mainstream, and way too plain and commonplace to be classified as a favourite, isn't it?
Xeranthemum
This flower is not only of a colour that is one of my favourites, i.e. lavender, but is also a symbol of cheerfulness, immortality, eternity and everlasting love. When starting out to learn Machine Learning or ML, one of the most sought after skills of today, you start by practising on a platform known as Kaggle. Here, one of the very first datasets you are exposed to is the flowers dataset, where you are expected to classify different flowers based on their characteristics. Xeranthemum is one such flower to be classified.
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