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Write Your Blog Using AI

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Kevin Jacobs Leave a comment

If you like to write for us (and if you like to try out Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help you with the writing), then please visit Meta-Blogger!

This platform can help you to come up with new ideas for a blog post. For example, say you are interested in writing a blog post about Artificial Intelligence. You can then type in the first few words of the post and let the AI help you:

The first few words of the new blog post

Then, press the “Add AI-generated text” button and it will automatically complete your text!

What would you like to write about? We would like to improve your writing experience and help you with writing and maintaining your blog posts. So don’t hesitate and start writing your first blog post today on Meta-Blogger!

Using PDF Security to Protect Your Documents from Theft

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 Lucy Leave a comment

Online publishing has grown tremendously over the years. The professional formatting style of PDFs has contributed to this process significantly. For example, it allows you to print and publish books digitally with minimum cost and without compromising on style.
Yet, even though digital publishing is great for both the publishers and the readers, it has a few pitfalls. One of the biggest issues facing online publishing houses is how to secure their products’ Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) against unauthorized sharing, copying, printing, and editing.

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How to Generate Tweets using GPT-2

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 Kevin Jacobs Leave a comment

Nowadays, the quality of the generated texts is becoming better and better. In this blog post, you will learn how you can use a pre-trained language model for generating Tweets. This tutorial is not only applicable to Tweets, but to any desired output task. In fact, the title of this blog post is generated by a model based on GPT-2!

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Proof that 1/7 is a repeated decimal

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Kevin Jacobs Leave a comment

This blog post serves as an exercise and solution to the following question:

$latex \frac{1}{7}=0.\overline{142857}$

In plain English: is the fraction $latex \frac{1}{7}$ a repeated decimal (0.142857142857142857…)?

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Scale out your Pandas DataFrame operations using Dask

August 5, 2018August 5, 2018 Kevin Jacobs Leave a comment

In Pandas, one can easily apply operations on all the data using the apply method. However, this method is quite slow and is not useful when scaling up your methods. Is there a way to speed up these operations? And if so, how? Yes, there is! This blog post will explain how you can use Dask to maximize the power of parallelization and to scale out your DataFrame operations.

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