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In this article we will explore how to use the Python map() functionPhoto by Annie Spratt on UnsplashTable of ContentsIntroductionMap a function over a list using map()Map a function over multiple lists using map()Map a lambda function over multiple lists using map()ConclusionIn Python, when we work with multiple iterables ( lists, tuples, or strings), we often need to apply a function to every element in an iterable.Python map() function is a built-in function that allows to “map” or apply a particular function on every…

An intuitive explanation of bubble sort with implementation in PythonAs software engineers and data scientists, we often take sorting functions for granted. These algorithms may not be the most glamorous or heavily discussed aspects of our work, but they play a vital role in the technologies we use every day. For example, imagine trying to organize the contact list on your phone without a way to sort alphabetically or sorting products on an eCommerce website by price and category. It’s easy to overlook the importance of…

Italians are notoriously – and understandably – protective of their cuisine, as regular arguments about the correct toppings for pizza or the appropriate pasta to use with a Bolognese ragu will attest.So it was hardly surprising that, when a Nobel Prize-winning Italian physicist weighed in with advice about how to cook pasta perfectly which seemed to upend everything the countries' cooks had been doing in the kitchen for centuries, it caused an almighty row.Professor Giorgio Parisi – who won the 2021 physics Nobel for…

A new version of Omicron XBB.1.5 has raised concerns in many countries including India where its cases have been reported, and it has the capability to infect even those who have been vaccinated, according to experts. This comes as on January 3, the SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) informed that India has a total of five detected cases of the XBB.1.5 variant. INSACOG also said that of the five cases, three were found in Gujarat and one each in Karnataka and Rajasthan.…

How modern language models capture meaningPhoto by Brian Suh on Unsplash. Originally posted in the NLP for Semantic Search ebook at Pinecone (where the author is employed).Transformers have wholly rebuilt the landscape of natural language processing (NLP). Before transformers, we had okay translation and language classification thanks to recurrent neural nets (RNNs) — their language comprehension was limited and led to many minor mistakes, and coherence over larger chunks of text was practically impossible.Since the…

With Python implementationhttps://unsplash.com/@wansan_99IntroductionIn this tutorial we are going to reproduce in Python and explain the RoIAlign function from torchvision.ops.roi_align. I couldn’t find online any code that would exactly reproduce torchvision library results, thus I had to go through and translate into Python the C++ implementation in torchvision that you can find here.BackgroundRegion of Interest (RoI) in computer vision can be defined as a region in a image where a potential object might be located in…

Now that Yellowstone has wrapped up the first half of its fifth season, fans will have plenty of time to contemplate all the implications of this mid-season finale. Yellowstone‘s latest episode, “A Knife and No Coin,” is the mid-season finale of the hit series and featured members of the Dutton family entering into open war with one another, leaving us wondering if Jamie could actually remove his father from office. Warning: This post contains spoilers for Yellowstone, season 5 episode 8.  Jamie moves against his…

NASA visualization of the Milky Way’s Fermi bubbles. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPACEvidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles.”A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has shown that large gamma-ray emitting bubbles around the center of our galaxy were produced by fast-blowing outward winds and the associated “reverse shock.” Numerical simulations successfully reproduced the temperature profile observed by an X-ray telescope. Such outflows have been observed in other galaxies; this finding…

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, and it’s been the standard connection type for computers and most tech devices since 1998, when Apple took the brave decision to use it on its revolutionary original iMac. Before USB, there were multiple connections types, from ADB to FireWire and SCSI, all with their own variations. As with most tech standards, USB has been getting faster ever since with new versions coming out every few years and leaping forward in speed and functionality. Despite being “Universal”,…

With certain films, you’re not at all surprised to see the characters break into a joyous dance at the end: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Bollywood musicals. Animated films like “Shrek” or “Despicable Me.” Even the odd raucous comedy like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.”Then there is Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise.”Adapted from Don DeLillo’s 1985 postmodern novel, “White Noise” — which arrives on Netflix on Friday following its theatrical run — is a darkly comic, often cerebral meditation on death. Set largely in the…