Notebooks

Software Engineering For Data ScienceA step-by-step guide to going from a messy notebook to a pipeline running in KubernetesPhoto by Myriam Jessier on UnsplashNotebooks are great for rapid iterations and prototyping but quickly get messy. After working on a notebook, my code becomes difficult to manage and unsuitable for deployment. In production, code organization is essential for maintainability (it’s much easier to improve and debug organized code than a long, messy notebook).In this post, I’ll describe how you can use…

Whichever stage of education you’re at, owning a reliable laptop has arguably never been more important. Many school lessons, university lectures and even exams have been handled remotely during the pandemic, with at least some activities likely to stay online for the foreseeable future. But a laptop is also crucial for independent work, be it writing up an essay or revising for a test. However, the wealth of choice on offer makes it difficult to know which device to go for.  There’s no one-size-fits-all solution…

Part 1: Creating the frameworkThis article (split over two parts) describes the creation of a custom OpenAI Gym environment for Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems.Quite a few tutorials already exist that show how to create a custom Gym environment (see the References section for a few good links). In all of these examples, and indeed in the most common Gym environments, these produce either a text-based output (e.g. Frozenlake) or an image-based output that appears in a separate graphical window (e.g. Lunar…

India shipped a record 5.8 million personal computers, including desktops, notebooks, and tablets, in the first quarter of calendar 2022, according to market research firm Canalys’ latest report, published on Tuesday. The previous high of 5.3 million units was logged in the third quarter of 2021. India has surpassed the 5 million mark for a third consecutive quarter. The country now accounts for 5% of global PC shipments, up from 3% in Q1 2020. Analysts…

NEW DELHI: India shipped over 4.3 million PCs including desktops, laptops, and workstations in the first quarter of 2022, clocking a 37.7% year-on-year (YoY), according to IDC’s quarterly report published today. Notebooks accounted for 3.1 million of the total PC shipments. The IDC report said this was the third consecutive quarter of India shipping over four million units. The continuous growth has been attributed to strong demand for PCs from across segments to support remote…

Ludwig Wittgenstein joined the army the day after his native Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia in August 1914. He had been serving for almost three months when he received word that his brother Paul, a concert pianist, had lost his right arm in battle. “Again and again,” he wrote in his notebook, “I have to think of poor Paul, who has so suddenly been deprived of his vocation! How terrible! What philosophical outlook would it take to overcome such a thing? Can it even happen except through suicide!”Wittgenstein was…

A smart notebook is a hybrid product — part digital, part analog — designed for people who like to put pen to paper the old-fashioned way but seek to save their writings, jottings, scribblings, doodlings, and notes in a decidedly newfangled way to the cloud. There's something about writing notes that delivers ideas and concepts indelibly into the brain in a way that's even better than voice memos or typing. And for those people, smart notebooks are the perfect combination of old and new. The best smart notebooks…

You only need to watch a couple of mobile carrier commercials to know that 5G is the next big thing in wireless connectivity, offering speeds that rival broadband in places where Wi-Fi can't often reach. It's compatible with existing 4G LTE networks, and despite its increased speeds, 5G can theoretically consume less power and resources than previous wireless networks. (You can learn more in our guide: What is 5G? Your guide to the…