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Teachable Machine

Link: Teachable Machine: "Train a computer to recognize your own images, sounds, & poses. A fast, easy way to create machine learning models for your sites, apps, and more – no expertise or coding required."

A web based tool, free to use, designed for education and teaching. Not heavy duty for professional use.

6.3. Configuring Host Names Using hostnamectl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal

Link: 6.3. Configuring Host Names Using hostnamectl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal: "Access Red Hat’s knowledge, guidance, and support through your subscription."

Filed under: everything is more complicated than you think. I used to think I knew how to change the hostname of my robot. Well not so fast. Apparently there are various tools and daemons who make it their business to "reverse" certain changes that for some reason they deem necessary. Or something.

Contribute

Link: Contribute: "The Wiki for Robot Builders."

Very comprehensive collection of notes useful robotics. But caveat - I haven't quality controlled it. It looks good though.

Creating PDFs with Python and ReportLab's Canvas (Part I)

Link: Creating PDFs with Python and ReportLab's Canvas (Part I): "ReportLab is a very powerful library. With a little effort, you can make pretty much any layout that you can think of. I have used it to replicate many complex page layouts over the years. In this tutorial, you will be learning how to use ReportLab’s"

Always useful to know how to generate pdfs! The thought in my head: I still like Ruby a little better as a language. But Python shares with Ruby that it has a. absolutely huge ecosystem of useful packages.

DuckDB as the New jq

Link: DuckDB as the New jq: "Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many other formats."

A useful tool if you work with large quantities of json. Just letting you know!

Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot: The first real AI developer

Link: Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot: The first real AI developer: "The first real AI developer. Contribute to Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot development by creating an account on GitHub."

Interesting. There are more and more of these coming out. For now I doubt they work very well, in practice. However the trend is clear and they will get better and better. Are our jobs at risk? Only if we don’t learn how to use these tools to up our game. A graphic designer or photographer that decided to resist learning Photoshop and opposed its use in their profession is probably out of work now.