Episode 555 of This American Life has a very cool story about a study on how a group of canvassers were able to influence people who were against gay marriage to change their mind:
Curious, but kinda logically, people appeared to change their mind once the canvasser, a member of »
Recently I had to connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way:
The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. »
Do you have a lot of Untitled / Without Artist / Without Album songs?
All music players allow you to sort and catalog the songs, as long as you know the »
In July 2016, a bomb disposal robot was used for the first time to remotely kill a suspect.
This sparked some debate about the use of machines to kill humans »
I have a lot of respect for Big Bucket, the mobile game company that set the bar on how to develop a high quality retro-inspired game. I wasted invested a »
When I got the 2016 MacBook I knew that I was condemning myself to the dongle life. However, instead of complaining or getting on with the program and buy 2 »
Over the last couple of months I’ve been getting my feet wet with linear programming and mathematical optimisation. I got a sense of how it all worked from this Discrete Optimisation course »
In a previous post, I put together a script for solving a linear optimisation problem using Google’s OR-tools. This python script is callable from the command line and you kinda need »
Over the course of two years, browsing solutions on our Pentaho 5.4 server became progressively slow. It came to a point in which you had to wait 2-3 minutes to see the list of solutions in the Pentaho User Console.
The catalina log didn’t say much and we didn’t have »
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with masternodes as alternatives/replacements to traditional crypto mining rigs. Like with many other crypto-related things, I was surprised »
Previously, we left our app working with our local python+gunicorn+nginx installation. In order to get there we had to do quite a bit of configuration and if we wanted »
One of the aspects I like the most about SAP HANA is the cloud app development environment that allows you to quickly put together a data-entry app using Fiori.
Recently, I wanted »
Recently I had to connect a Java application to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way:
The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. »
Using Angular Maps Components and a new service called ipapi, you will be able to quickly put together something that will allow you to get IP information from a client »
During an interview process, I was tasked with a little project to create a recommender system to find mentors inside an organization, using Natural Language Processing. That was the perfect »
You need to upload a file to S3 and cannot install new packages in the server, nor the s3 client tools. You only have bash, openssl and sed. Go.
I found and adapted a script by Viktor Szakats, that creates all the proper headers expected by the latest AWS API. I »
I spent a few days on and off trying to deploy a Flask REST service to AWS Lambda, just to experience what »
I followed a tutorial on Convolutional Neural Networks that left many questions unanswered. Soon I realized that the actual process of architecting a Neural Network and setting the parameters seemed to be much more experimental than I thought. It took a while to find explanations that a rookie like »
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