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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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15 Books Every College Student Needs to Read before Graduating

August 1, 2018August 17, 2018 Kevin Jacobs Leave a comment

College life is considered a crucial phase of a person’s life. It is the transition period when a student slowly makes his/her way to the professional world. Whatever decisions you make during this period, shapes your future. So, when you are in college, you need to make smarter choices to ensure success. And what better way there can be to get smarter than reading books by some of the best authors of all time?

If you love reading books, you are already a few steps ahead of your friends who don’t practice the same. Earlier there used to be issues with the availability of the books. You needed to visit the library and find the book of your interest. Now you can just download an entire book on your tablet, iPad or Kindle device, and read it anytime you want.

If you are not a big fan of reading, push yourself to read every day. It can not only make you more thoughtful but also allow you to develop your personality. If you don’t know where to start from, here is the list of 15 amazing books that every college student should read.

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