I’ve always been a pip + venv (yes, not even virtualenv) user. Conda never played nice with me. However, there have been some times when I just could not install a requirements .txt from a repository due to it always crashing with some dependency mismatches. Recently, I have heard more and more people mention how they use Poetry for their virtual environments and package management, so……
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Intro to Scene Text Recognition – Guide to Image-to-Text Conversion
Recognizing text in a photo – something we’re quite good at, but neural networks struggle quite a bit with it. While OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (OCR Wikipedia) is a fairly well-known concept, the very similar Scene Text Recognition (STR) problem is not talked about as much. It’s always easier to show than to explain, so……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 4 with Python
If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 3 with Python
If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 2 with Python
If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 1 with Python
We’re back! It’s once again time for the most festive time of the year and therefore Advent of Code! 🎉 But before we get right into the first day and my solution for this day’s puzzle: What even IS Advent of Code??!! Good question, my friend. Here is this year’s about page: https://adventofcode.com/2023/about and it……
Completing a Data Science Project in 14 days – Fraud Detection Challenge Announcement
I’m challenging myself to do a full data science project on a Kaggle data set in 14 days – including data understanding, preprocessing, modeling and evaluation. I’m sharing this to make sure I actually do it and to show a realistic portrayal of what is possible in 14 days if you’re not a Kaggle grandmaster.……
How to install Scala on Windows and use Scala kernel in Jupyter Notebooks
If you’re coming from Python or another language that often makes use of Jupyter notebooks, you might have become a bit addicted to them like me. Especially when learning a new language, like Scala now, or functionality I often want to check my intermediate results when coding and Jupyter notebooks provide a visual and comfortable……
How to solve Advent of Code 2022 – Day 15 with Python
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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 – Day 14 with Python
If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re here to see the solution of……