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One of the biggest drivers of smartphone sales is their ability to take photographs. The most-used features is selfies and over and above that, smartphone photography per se has also become one of the most-desired hobbies of most users. Capturing countless memories has become a daily routine for many. That creates a problem of locating old photos. The challenge lies in efficiently navigating through the extensive photo archives on our devices. However, the solution is very much present at users' fingertips - Google…

Bard- Google’s AI chatbot and closest competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has received a new update that allows it to give image results. This means that Bard can now image results to support visual information. “Starting with English responses, Bard can now bring in images from Google Search, so you can get helpful responses with visuals. You can also ask Bard for images directly. Bard will show a source for each image,” Google wrote in the Bard updates page adding that image can help user communicate their ideas more…

Google Bard has added classic and more genuine citations to the answers it provides and also is able to provide better summarization. We do not yet see these improvements and enhancements live yet but Jack Krawczyk from Google shared some examples on Twitter. Citations improved. Google Bard now shows sources with numbers, like true citations, next to the responses. You can click on the numbers to see the source for that information. “Bard can now help you identify which parts of a response match a source. For the…

Photo by Jez Timms on UnsplashI am a big fan of unit-testing.Reading two books — The Pragmatic Programmer and Refactoring — completely changed the way I viewed unit-testing.“Testing is not about finding bugs.We believe that the major benefits of testing happen when you think about and write the tests, not when you run them.”— The Pragmatic Programmer, David Thomas and Andrew HuntInstead of seeing testing as a chore to complete after I have finished my data pipelines, I see it as a powerful tool to improve the design of my…

Bitcoin is believed to be the oldest crypto. However, the first efforts to create a cryptocurrency started a decade ago before Bitcoin was launched. So, what about having a closer look at how things were evolving?Everything Started Decades Before the Bitcoin LaunchThe idea of anonymous distributed electronic cash first came to the world in 1983 when American cryptographer David Chaum published his paper titled “Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments”.Source: 1e9.communityIn this paper, the cryptographer conceptualized…

Co-authored with Mahesh VashishthaPhoto by Prateek Katyal on Unsplashtl;dr: In this post, we compare Pandas vs. SQL on the first of three axes: conciseness. We discuss 10 operations that are much more straightforward in Pandas than in SQL, spanning data cleaning, machine learning, feature engineering, linear algebra, and spreadsheet functions.In our previous post we discussed how Pandas dataframes are much like a food court, while databases offering SQL are like Michelin-star restaurants, and how both dataframes and…

Daniel Craig is officially done as James Bond, and that means that at some point the world will need a new James Bond at the movies. In recent years there has been an increased call to diversify the character, by potentially casting a person of color as the next Bond, or possibly a woman. Many have supported that idea, but No Time to Die’s Ana de Armas does not.Speaking with the UK’s The Sun, Ana de Armas was asked about the call from some corners to cast a woman as the next James Bond. The No TIme to Die actress…

A concise, methodical guide, from research question definition to network structure estimation.Image 1. Text network plot via Textnets. Image by authorThis article explores the strategies for constructing network structures from text data. It is the second part of the series on text network analysis in Python. As a prior, please read my opening article that describes the main concepts of text network analysis (the article is here). We will follow the steps defined by (Borsoom et al., 2021) and briefly introduced in the…