OpenAI’s release of GPT-3 was a major event within the machine learning and data engineering space. At 175 billion parameters, this was by far the largest Transformer-based language model in the world (Microsoft’s Turing-NLG comes in second at 17 billion). At 1.6 …

Use Natural Language Processing to summarize text — In this guide we are going to create Blinknotes, a lightweight app that uses NLP to summarize anything from news articles, research papers, blog posts, or long comments. …

Simulate the actions of users in real-time — Use case Given a news tweet URL, I want to collect the following data points on every reply, reply of reply, reply of reply of reply, etc. base_url parent_url comment_url username body sentiment likes_count retweets_count replies_count published_datetime The data is sent to an arbitrary function post({…}) where it can be saved to…

It’s always nice to get discounts and freebies, but what if you could use them indefinitely? — Audible Premium has a 30-day free trial that includes 3 free audiobooks. I sign up with my regular email, paymon@gmail.com. After my trial expires, I create a new Audible account using the alias paymon+m@gmail.com. To Audible, this is a new email address and person, but everything sent to this alias…

No electronics, talking, eye-contact, or masturbation, with nothing but meditation from dusk to dawn. — What is Vipassana? Vipassana is an ancient form of meditation that dates back to India more than 2500 years ago. There is an increasing amount of scientific research showing its long-term ability to strengthen the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for attention, impulse inhibition, prospective memory, and cognitive flexibility. …

Online tutoring is an opportunity to explore a wide range of new languages, skills, and frameworks, and fill gaps in your knowledge, while getting paid. You can take on entire courses at the graduate level or basic assignments from beginner students. On Wyzant, I’m able to bill around $110/hour, which…

I recently participated in a 72-hour game development competition, where 17 teams competed to create an indie game using the theme Fly. We scored 13/17, which isn’t too bad considering I had no prior experience working with the framework Phaser 3. I went on to use Phaser for additional projects…