Month: February 2021
Understanding open source databases
An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and…
AmpliPi – A Raspberry Pi-based whole house audio amplifier (Crowdfunding)
Micro Nova has put together an open-source, whole-house audio amplifier called AmpliPi based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+. It…
Robots Aren’t Stealing Jobs — They’re Making Them Better
Not that long ago, the process for filling orders or assembling a product involved mind-numbing tasks done over and over…
Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes
Update 2/16/2021: See the discussion of this post on Hacker News. The standard wisdom is that Python strings are immutable. You…
Quantum systems learn joint computing
Today’s quantum computers contain up to several dozen memory and processing units, the so-called qubits. Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld, and…
Weight Initialization for Deep Learning Neural Networks
Weight initialization is an important design choice when developing deep learning neural network models. Historically, weight initialization involved using small random…
What Budget 2021 has in Store for Artificial Intelligence
Needless to say, budget presented every year draws attention from all corners of the country. This surely remains a hot…
The 12 Most Important and Stunning Quantum Experiments of 2019
The smallest scale events have giant consequences. And no field of science demonstrates that better than quantum physics, which explores…
Why Consumer Insights And Analytics Teams Should Merge
Consumer insights (CI) refers to the practice of looking for patterns in customer behaviour and using the findings to inform…
Feature Selection using Scikit-Learn in Python
Learn how to use Scikit-Learn library in Python to perform feature selection with SelectKBest, random forest algorithm and recursive feature…