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Fun Delivered: World’s Foremost Experts on Whoopee Cushions and Silly Putty Tell All

[caption id="attachment_82071" align="alignnone" width="600"] Stan and Mardi Timm show off Johnson Smith novelties they've collected. Stan wears X-Ray Spe...
How to Install and Configure MySQL in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Mysql 5.7.29 installation on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS - Stack Overflow
I'm re-installing MySQL (5.7.29) for Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS. I installed the package using apt & started the service without issue. I was not asked for a root password during the install and am...
10 Python built-in functions you should know

with usage examples
NumPy indexing explained

NumPy is the universal standard for working with Numerical data in Python. Multidimensional NumPy arrays are extensively used in Pandas…
PostgreSQL Python: Connect To PostgreSQL Database Server
In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect to the PostgreSQL database server from Python using the psycopg2 package.
SEO: Using Canonical Tags to Reduce Duplicate Content

Canonical tags are an essential tool to prevent duplicate content in organic search results. "Canonical" in search engine parlance means the one true page out of potentially many duplicates.
Everything on 'Naked and Afraid' Is Real—and I Lived It | Outside Online

When the Discovery Channel invited me to audition for its popular survival-challenge reality show, I knew it was going to be rough. What followed was one of the most intense experiences of my life.
TSMC Details 5 nm

TSMC details its 5-nanometer node for mobile and HPC applications. The process features the industry's highest density transistors with a high-mobility channel and highest-density SRAM cells.
The Hunt for Planet Nine - Longreads

What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
docker – Towards Data Science
"Pandas" - KDnuggets
Top 3 Numpy Functions You Don’t Know About (Probably)
The ones not covered in every How-to Guide
Panic Buying Coronavirus - Why We Buy Weird Things in Times of Crisis

With COVID-19 making its way around the United States, archaeology throws a light on panic buying and other odd consumer behavior.
A Mathematical Primer of Compression
How to reduce storage size without losing information.
Build a BERT Sci-kit Transformer

BERT can get you state-of-the-art results on many NLP tasks and it only takes a few lines of code.
Two Pandas functions you must know for easy data manipulation in Python

Master these pandas functions (and methods) to shorten your code, improve performance and avoid headaches.
Introduction to Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technology
Learn the basics of the ultra-wideband short-range wireless protocol, a technology that can be found in cutting-edge devices.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Averages: Perc50, Perc95 explained for Programmers

I got a customer ticket the other day that said they weren’t worried about response time because “New Relic is showing our average response time to be sub 20...
Improving performance with Presenter and Eager Load of a big Rails app
When I landed on this new job position at EBANX one of my very first tasks was to get the top 10 issues of a Ruby on Rails app used all…
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
ruby on rails - Postgres permission denied to create database on rake db:cr
I am trying to create postgres databases for development and tests. I'm using: OSX Yosemite Rails version: 4.2.0 git version: 2.2.2 psql version: 9.4.0 ruby version: 2.1.0p0 HomeBrew version: 0.9.5
A Few Background Patterns Sites
If I need a quick background pattern to spruce something up, I often think of the CSS3 Patterns Gallery. Some of those are pretty intense but remember they
Retail Analytics: A Novel and Intuitive way of finding Substitutes and Comp
Retail Analytics: Data Science for Retail
Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music

Apple may have discontinued click-wheel iPods, but a community of iPod modders resurrects them for their sound and nostalgia
Rockbox Manual Install
Using Snorkel For Multi-Label Annotation.

How to use snorkel’s multi-class implementation to create multi-labels
DEPSO Algorithm: Project Portal
[bibshow file=own_pub.bib] DEPSO [bibcite key=Zhang:2003p3816], or called DEPS, is an algorithm for (constrained) numerical optimization problem (NOP). DEPSO combines the advantages of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution (DE). It is incorporated into…
Well-structured Logic: A Golang OOP Tutorial

Learn why and how in this handy tutorial on object-oriented programming in Go.
Test Your Skills: 26 Data Science Interview Questions & Answers
Can you answer them all?
Researchers detail TrojAI, a framework for hardening AI models against adve

In a preprint paper, researchers at Johns Hopkins detail TrojAI, a framework for hardening AI models against adversarial attacks.
Why and How to Use Dask with Big Data
As a Data Scientist
How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine

Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people
A Complete Guide to calc() in CSS
CSS has a special calc() function for doing basic math. In this guide, let's cover just about everything there is to know about this very useful function.
You can get my DevOps books free the rest of this month
Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Review of Algorithms and Applications

Since deep neural networks were developed, they have made huge contributions to everyday lives. Machine learning provides more rational advice than humans are capable of in almost every aspect of...
How China's 'Bat Woman' Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus

Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
Active Storage on Heroku | Heroku Dev Center

Rails [5.2 introduced Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) as a way of managing attaching and saving files to Active Record models. This guide will cover how to use Active Storage on Heroku.
Decorators in Python
Learn how you can change the behavior of objce
Synaptic Package Manager | Linux

This article describes how you can install and manage software in Linux using Synaptic Package Manager.
Top 3 Python Functions You Don’t Know About (Probably)
Cleaner Code and Fewer Loops? Count me in.
The Power of Lampshading

How to turn Ignorance into Power
Signs You’re Following A Fake Twitter Account… – NixIntel

The challenge of dealing with fake accounts that spread disinformation is probably one of the greatest challenges facing the large social media companies. Most methods used to detect fake Twitter a…
Victorian Culinary Trading Cards Are a Feast for the Eyes
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But maybe not for your stomach.
Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms
A practical introduction on how to program Evolutionary Algorithms in Python to solve optimization tasks.
How exactly does PCA work?
Simplest guide to PCA, ever.
Why Japan is obsessed with paper

For a country often depicted as the pinnacle of high-tech living Japan has a surprising and enduring obsession with paper. That might finally be changing.
Getting started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano - PyImageSearch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with your NVIDIA Jetson Nano, including installing Keras + TensorFlow, accessing the camera, and performing image classification and object detection.
A One-Stop Shop for Principal Component Analysis - Towards Data Science

At the beginning of the textbook I used for my graduate stat theory class, the authors (George Casella and Roger Berger) explained in the…