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The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, which is now $940 million, is 1 in more than 300 million. While very few will experience that kind of windfall in their lifetime, the lottery isn't the only chance to come into sudden wealth.Whether it's an inheritance, sale of a property, bonus or even a tax refund, there are other ways to receive an unexpected sum in a lifetime."It's common enough," said Daniel Scott Johnson, an investment advisor and founder of Windfall Advisors in Los Angeles.In every case, there are…

The Ultimate Guide To Handle Data Skew In Distributed ComputePhoto by Lizzi Sassman on Unsplash“Why my Spark job is running slow?” is an inevitable question while working with Apache Spark. One of the most common scenarios regarding Apache Spark performance tuning is data skew. In this article, we will cover how to identify whether your Spark job slowness is caused by data skew and deep dive into handling Apache Spark data skew with code to explain three ways to handle data skew, including the “salting” technique.How to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAvatar: The Way of Water is facing calls for a boycott over its alleged “appropriation” of indigenous cultures.The film, a sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 smash hit Avatar, focuses on the Na’vi, the blue-skinned inhabitants of an alien planet called Pandora.Both Avatar films have drawn criticism for amalgamating aspects of various Indigenous cultures, while casting several white and…

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The Noida International Airport, also known as the Jewar Airport, has partnered with Siemens Logistics India Private Limited to design, supply, install, commission, operate, and maintain the departure and arrival baggage handling system.The Siemens VarioTray system is a modular and expandable technology. It will provide fast and safe transportation of baggage with a high level of accuracy. This will be a fully automated system with a high level of precision, ensuring that each bag is tracked along its route with live…

import psycopg2  conn = Nonetry:        conn = psycopg2.connect(        host='localhost',        dbname='For_Practice',        user='postgres',        password='321654',        port=5432    )          cur = conn.cursor()    cur.execute(        "CREATE TABLE blob_datastore (s_no serial, file_name VARCHAR ( 50 ), blob_data bytea)")        insert_script =                               BLOB_1 = psycopg2.Binary(        open('files\Anima.mp4', 'rb').read())           BLOB_2 = psycopg2.Binary(        open('files\Octa.jpg',…

A group of Democratic senators have asked the FTC Elon Musk over his handling of users’ privacy and security in the wake of his takeover of Twitter. In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan, the senators cite Musk’s of Twitter Blue’s paid verifications, as well as the of Twitter’s top privacy and security executives. The letter, signed by seven senators, including Elizabeth Warren, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal, follows a widely-publicized from a lawyer at Twitter that Musk could be exposing the company to…

Cloud technologies are the modern-day saviors of data management platforms. With the large cache of benefits comes security and time-lapse issues which some services can hardly afford. There will always be tradeoffs among security, performance, and agility. What if you can bypass the cloud all while benefitting from the cloud network so as to make quick transactions? A programmable edge network facilitates all the novel features of cloud-enabling operations at the endpoints without the need to have all the cloud…

Soulja Boy is fed up with Elon Musk and his changes to Twitter.On Twitter, the “Crank That” rapper threatened to launch his own app because he was unhappy with all the changes to Twitter since Musk acquired the company for $44 billion and became the owner.Soulja Boy has made a name for himself by being the first rapper to embrace technology and be innovative. He was the first to use UStream, first to go “viral” on YouTube, first to have his own gaming console, and first to get verified on Instagram. People shouldn’t be…

How to ensure that missing data is dealt with correctlyPhoto by Ann H: https://www.pexels.com/photo/pink-jigsaw-puzzle-piece-3482441/Missing values are a dilemma in many datasets, but many users are eager to allocate less time to deal with them so that they can focus more on modeling.I write this after recently running into many portfolio projects that treat missing data as an afterthought. There is a lot of consideration put into the best algorithms and hyperparameters, whereas little justification is made for the…