I've been very deeply involved in the AWS cloud landscape for almost two years now, and before that, I had casually used a couple of AWS cloud resources - EC2 and S3 since pretty much the very beginning of their existence. Although I have spent far, far less time with the …
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Open Source Virtual Assistants, Part One
Many, many years ago, I was reading a science fiction novel (I no longer remember which one,) and there was a scene I still remember. The protagonist walks into her home, sits down, and says to her house, "Any messages?" The house responds with something like "You have 12 new …
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I've been working through Genetic Algorithms with Python by Clinton Sheppard. I like it a lot. One of the things I like about it is that the author takes a lot of different examples, and step-by-step teaches you the elements of genetic algorithms, and also improves the algorithms over the …
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I used 5 different static site generators to generate this new blog. This is a review of those site generators. I decided to test out the top 5, in reverse order of their popularity on GitHub, as measured by the number of stars. The one I eventually chose is: Pelican …
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