I am constantly scanning the AI space for new developments and newcomers in the arena. One of the most practical and stable tool I recently discovered is Pictory. It does video creation with a simple text script input, it generates videos even from a URL from any source (like a blog or article online) and […]
Category: Education
Early gambler’s prediction of Super Bowl winner for 2023 season
Here are the probabilities of each team winning the Super Bowl according to the betting odds from Caesars Sportsbook as of September 6, 2022: As you can see, the Buffalo Bills had the highest probability of winning the Super Bowl according to the betting odds, followed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers, who […]
A quick quiz
I have to plan bus trip between point A and point B.The time it takes to travel between A and B is 35 minutes.I want to enable passengers from A to B and from B to A board on bus every 5 minutes. Quiz: How many buses do I need? If you’ve figured that out, […]
Custom Useful, Fun AI Agents
I have created some custom AI agents for specific, contextual queries that hallucinate less and give you focused answers: for real-life uses or for entertainment. You can start using these tuned and customized agents without distractions. The following two agents are based on OpenAI platform. They’re free to use so far, so no need to […]
Animating Charts in Excel and beyond
Some time ago I demonstrated how to create Time-lapse animations in Excel in my post here. Part of that procedure utilized a short-lived but cool feature called ‘PowerView’. Unfortunately, as of late 2021, Microsoft has removed support for PowerView in Excel (that made this time-lapse animation possible) and instead is encouraging users to use PowerBI […]
Companion Code Handbook for Hello Arduino! Published
Greetings readers. I have just published (live on Feb 10th) the paperbook book: Companion Code Handbook: Hello Arduino! This companion book is a handy reference with complete source code with comments for all projects detailed in the book Hello Arduino! This is a printed version of all source code required for completing all projects (and […]
How is chatGPT useful?
Author’s note: Instead of me explaining the benefits of ChatGPT, I figured why not let ChatGPT write its own summary and toot its own horn, and best of all write it straight into my blog site, creating a real blog post (without having me to copy/paste) and go live?! So, there we have it…this post […]
Decision Tree and Prediction (Python)
This is an example of a Decision Tree model (very useful and popular method) to make prediction using the power of Machine Learning…using just a normal PC. Here we predict salary (depedendent variable) by giving various types of criteria (different forks in a decision tree). e.g. What’s the salary of a particular gender, of some […]
What is Sigmoid function and why?
In this blog, I touch on a core function that’s used in many machine learning scenarios whether explicitly or as a part solving a given problem. This is extremely useful for recoding values for classification (binary or multiclass) where we need to map some categorical values into a finite range of values (e.g. 0 or […]
Creating music and teaching coding
Have you heard of Earsketch? It’s an amazing, fun way to create music while learning, practicing, teaching coding! Yes, music and coding all in one with its online, free platform (for students)…you just need a browser. It supports Python and Javascript coding in their online editor and you can compile and run the code on […]