Category: SAS

Which US states require an ID to vote?

The first time I voted (back in the 1980s), I was very surprised that I didn’t have to show any kind of identification. I assumed it was because I lived in a small North Carolina town of 300 people where “everybody knew everybody” … but they told me …

Which are the oldest .com domains?

Over the New Year’s weekend, I was listening to the re-broadcast of Dick Clark’s Top 100 music countdown from the 1980s … it was the music from my high school and college years, when synthesizers and fun-rap music popped onto the scene. Another thing…

What Wikipedia pages are the most popular?

When I was growing up, our family had a bookcase containing a set of encyclopedias – it was where I went to obtain information and facts about various things, to satisfy my curiosity and impress my friends. Now that we have the Internet, Wikipedia has …

Visualize activations functions using keras

In keras, we can visualize activation functions’ geometric properties using backend functions over layers of a model. We all know the exact function of popular activation functions such as ‘sigmoid’, ‘tanh’, ‘relu’, etc, and we can feed data to these f…

Counting fast-food calories over the holiday

Most of us put on a few pounds over the holidays. It’s difficult not to, with the holiday dinners, and then all the special desserts, snacks, and candies. But there might also be another source of extra calories that you hadn’t thought about – fast-foo…

What do they call Santa in other countries?

With the Christmas holiday approaching, I got to wondering what they call Santa in other countries. Of course, some countries don’t celebrate Christmas – but most countries at least have some sort of “winter holiday,” and most also have some tradition …

Test-Drive SAS’ new Support site search

“Alexa, how many ounces are in a 750-ml bottle of wine?” “Waze, how many miles between Cary and Kannapolis, NC?” “Google, which NFL teams are favored to win this weekend?” Every day many of us turn to some sort of search vehicle to help us solve a work issue or win […]

Test-Drive SAS’ new Support site search was published on SAS Users.