Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, when it comes to websites there is often a failure to plan properly or at all. This guide aims to change that. Always remember that a good website isn't a one-time event, but rather an extensible…
In making a time capsule of the late 20th century, one would be remiss if they did not include at least an issue or two of Heavy Metal magazine. Yes, it specialized in unapologetically turning women in metal bras into sex objects.
Dave’s Killer Bread has become a cult favorite across the nation, drawing in both health-conscious consumers and those who root for an unlikely success story. But you won’t find the full story on the bread packaging.
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
Three years ago we launched Chicisimo, our goal was to offer automated outfit advice. Today, with over 4 million women on the app, we want to share how our data and machine learning approach helped us grow. It’s been chaotic but it is now under control.
Hotels, shops, bars, restaurants — dogs are welcomed warmly just about everywhere. For Pip (a.k.a. Pierre), the prancing was never better.
China's tech titan Baidu just upgraded Deep Voice. The voice-cloning AI now works faster than ever and can swap a speaker's gender or change their accent.
Disruptive technology is embraced in sectors where customers are eager to tear up and replace old models for doing business. That's not so much the case
Livecoding event with Christopher Wolfram on the process he went through and the code generated in building the alien language for the movie Arrival.
All of the Linear Algebra Operations that You Need to Use in NumPy for Machine Learning. The Python numerical computation library called NumPy provides many linear algebra functions that may be useful as a machine learning practitioner. In this tutorial, you will discover the…
The home phone of FBI special agent Michael Rochford rang in the middle of the night on August 2, 1985. He grabbed it and heard the voice of his FBI supervisor. “There’s a plane coming in, a high-level defector.” The day before, a Soviet man had walked into the US consulate in…
Here’s a list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as governance; privacy and security; scaling; consensus and governance…
Retired Army general and special forces commander Stanley McChrystal shares his insights about adaptable teams and organizations.
t-SNE is a method for visualizing high dimensional space. It often produces more insightful charts than the alternatives like PCA.
This periodic table can serve as a guide to navigate the key players in the data science space. The resources in the table were chosen by looking at surveys taken from data science users, such as the 2016 Data Science Salary Survey by O'Reilly, the 201...
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This post presents an overview of the main existing recommendation system algorithms, in order for data scientists to choose the best one according a business’s limitations and requirements.
Using Self-Organizing Maps to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem The Traveling Salesman Problem is a well known challenge in Computer Science: it consists on finding the shortest route possible that traverses all cities in a given map only once. Although its simple…
What makes people happy? A huge database is making it possible to discern the answer at last.
Sure, a cup of California-grown coffee sells for about $18 a cup, but people are buying it. The niche industry is booming with no signs of slowing, and the state's farmers still can't meet demand.
We went to Nebraska to meet the farmers fighting John Deere's repair monopoly.
These foods show how human ingenuity can make use of even the most unlikely ingredients.
Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it -- in Trinidad.
Analgesic balm in a hexagonal jar, launched in Rangoon by the Aw brothers in 1924, was a staple of Chinese families’ medicine cabinets for a generation. Today, Tiger Balm products have fans around the world, including Lady Gaga
When the terrorist group attacked the Yazidis, a small group of American immigrants knew they could do something.
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While we commonly associate recommendation systems with e-commerce, their application extends to any decision-making problem which requires pairing two types of things together. To understand why recommenders don’t always work as well as we’d like them to, we set out to build…
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On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language are holding onto their culture as it slowly dies out.
Many Indian dishes can be traced back, indirectly, to a 16th-century, food-obsessed ruler named Babur.
How do I import files in Python? I want to import: a file (e.g. file.py) a folder a file dynamically at runtime, based on user input one specific part of a file (e.g. a single function)
Imperfect Silicon, Near-Perfect Security Physically unclonable functions (PUF) seem tailor-made for IoT security.
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An olive paint job and Victorian card table for a 1968 Airstream Overlander? That was the approach taken by San Miguel-based Mex-chic design house Casamidy.
The purpose of this post is to give the reader detailed understanding of Principal Component Analysis with the necessary mathematical…
Efficient topic modelling in Python
In this post, I'll explain the architecture of Faster R-CNN, starting with a high level overview, and then go over the details for each of the components. You'll be introduced to base networks, anchors as well as the region proposal network.
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Consumers are more likely to buy embarrassing products when their embarrassment is mitigated by more-anonymous packaging. Specifically, consumers found products packaged in boxes with cool colors, small lettering, and a picture of the product to be more anonymous (and appealing)…