Tag: fun

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Eric Johnson. Developers tell us they want to know how to easily build and manage their serverless applications. In 2017 AWS announced AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) to help with just that. To help developers learn more about SAM, I created a weekly Twitch series called Sessions with SAM. Each session focuses on a specific serverless task or service. It demonstrates deploying and managing that task using infrastructure as code (IaC) with SAM templates. This post recaps each session of the first season to prepare you for Sessions with SAM season two, starting August 13 ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Corin Gainey. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by David Allen at NODES 2019.Presentation SummaryDavid Allen is a Partner Solution Architect at Neo4j. Today’s talk features monitoring clusters and single instances. Monitoring can be pretty dense and complicated. Neo4j exposes a couple of different options for how you are able to get data and monitor it from the outside. Halin is installed through a monitoring tool that uses open sources back in the Neo4j Desktop.Allen performs a Single Node and Cluster demonstration showcasing Halin’s essential features for a user’s Neo4j system health and performance ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Unknown. [This article was first published on Deeply Trivial, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.2020 has been a tough year, and I’ve been doing my best to keep busy (and distracted from all the insanity – both at the personal and worldwide levels). Earlier this year, I took a course in machine learning techniques and have been working on applying those techniques to work datasets, as well as fun ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lisa Allred. As I sit down to write this blog, I really wish I had "the answer."  Over the last 6 months I have spoken with hundreds of parents who are exhausted, unproductive, frustrated, and hopeless about how they will ever succeed at being a good parent and a good employee while trying to do both simultaneously from home.   At the same time they are treasuring the moments they would have missed before... first steps and long chats, watching the miracles that are our children as they figure things out each day.  For parents, we throw ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. There you are writing some SQL, having a great time. Uh oh, you need to iterate over each item in a result set and apply a function. You think, "Now I am going to have to write a stored procedure." Well today's post will give you an alternative by using lateral joins in Postgres.  Lateral... See what I did there? You are probably familiar with normal database joins, which are usually used to match up a column in one table with a column in another table to bring the data from both tables together. When the keyword ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. StackOverflow’s 2020 developer survey included a table showing the  “most loved, dreaded, and wanted languages.” Loved and wanted languages are, well, sort of boring. The programming languages we dread are a lot more interesting. As Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So what are these unhappy, unloved languages, and why do programmers dread using them? Given the chance it’s, well, hard to resist jumping in with some theories, and perhaps even saying something impolitic.  Or defending some languages that are disliked for the wrong reasons ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: hrbrmstr. [This article was first published on R – rud.is, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.(This is part 2 of n “quick hit” posts, each walking through some approaches to speeding up components of an iterative operation. Go here for part 1).Thanks to the aforementioned previous post, we now have a super fast way of reading individual text files containing HTTP headers from HEAD requests into a character vector:library(Rcpp) ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: hrbrmstr. [This article was first published on R – rud.is, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.(This is part 1 of n posts using this same data; n will likely be 2-3, and the posts are more around optimization than anything else.)I recently had to analyze HTTP response headers (generated by a HEAD request) from around 74,000 sites (each response stored in a text file). They look like this:HTTP/1.1 200 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. I recently came across this short fun post on R-bloggers that demonstrated how to use the image.ContourDetector package (available on CRAN) to extract contours from an image. The image of the contours looked really cool so I thought I would try it out for myself!As an example, I wanted to extract the contours from the image below:(Source: premierleague.com)Here is the code taken from the R-bloggers post (slightly modified):library(magick) library(image.ContourDetector) img_path And here is the result. Not bad for a little chunk of code!Not bad, but can we do better? In particular, we can’t really see any ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sameer Goel. By Sameer Goel, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Lakshmi Kannan, Advanced App Engineering Sr. Manager at AccentureEven in today’s era of advanced technology, the airport experience for travelers is not always fun. It can get quite daunting given the strict airport procedures from check-in to boarding the flight. Accenture’s telco offering, called 5G Edge Powered Connected Airport, has been developed by the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) with a goal of making the airport experience hassle-free while accelerating it to next-generation standards. The 5G Edge Powered Connected Airport solution is built ... Read More