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 […]
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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 […]
Football is ON! Interesting NFL stats (2023 season)
Are you a fan of NFL (American Football)? Do you want to know the odds of your favorite team making the playoffs this season? Well, you are in luck, because we have some amazing stats for you. Based on the historical data from the past 23 seasons, here is what we found: But what about […]
Microsoft + Gutenberg colab: Thousands of free audiobooks
Project Gutenberg and Microsoft recently worked together to create thousands of free and open audiobooks using a new neural text-to-speech technology and Project Gutenberg’s public domain collection of e-books. Microsoft development team: “Our system allows users to customize an audiobook’s speaking speed and style, emotional intonation, and can even match a desired voice using a […]
Impressive Voice->Text AI tool
I came across this newest entrant to voice to text AI generation tool called AudioNotes. It converts your ‘random’/unstructured voice notes and unstructured text notes into structured text summaries using AI. Essentially, it’s a note-taking app that analyzes the voice notes and can generate many variations depending on the need. I decided to give it […]
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, […]
Cats are helping
Call center cat…high performer.
Word definitions, synonyms, antonyms via RAPIDAPI
This program gets all definitions of a user-entered word from WORDS API service called RAPIDAPI. Once connected, the response is in JSON and we display the meanings neatly on screen as well as optionally write (append) the word and its meanings(s) and part-of-speech to a csv file. Demonstrates: 1) how to get word definition using […]
Extract sample subset with given criteria
How to load a subset of data from a full dataset with given percentages proportions by a column (“Group” in this example) plus how to import/export the Excel data file. Objective:We have n food items from 4 different groups: dairy, fruits, protein, vegetable in an XLSX sheet with a header and 3 columns: Name, Group, […]
Extended weather forecast via API
In this blog, I share my code on getting extended weather forecasts (multiple days and hours within each day) for any city around the world using openweathermap API. I used Python for this as usual. First, as a developer, I need to get a developer API key from http://api.openweathermap.org which is free for reasonable amount […]