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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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