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…
VVALUE and VVALUEX functions
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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…