March 24, 2024

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Creating Satellite Image Timelapses

You are downloading satellite images from the new ESA Sentinel Hub API and merging them into animated gifs using pure Python. Milan Janosov · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 4 hours ago — A while ago, I wrapped up the know-how of collecting and preparing satellite imagery data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites in my article titled Deep Dive into ESA’s Sentinel API. Since then, ESA rolled

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How to build an OpenAI-compatible API

Create a server to replicate OpenAI’s Chat Completions API, enabling any LLM to integrate with tools written for the OpenAI API Saar Berkovich · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 4 hours ago — Image generated by the author using OpenAI DALL-E It is early 2024, and the Gen AI market is being dominated by OpenAI. For good reasons, too — they have the first mover’s advantage, being the first

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Shrouded Horizons: My Passage to the Dark Web Marketplaces | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read The dark web is open to anyone with a Tor browser and a flashlight. Cybersecurity expert finds a marketplace called AlphaBay with more than 30,000 listings. There are also listings for malware and stolen data, like Social Security numbers and credit card details. The amount of information available to be viewed and sold was overwhelming.

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How to Test Multiple Variations of Generative AI Prompts | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read In nearly all of my recent explorations of Generative AI, I’ve come to realize how important prompts are. That hasn’t necessarily translated me into writing better prompts all the time, but being aware of the problem is at least one step towards correcting it, right? One of the things that I thought would help me personally would be to have a tool to quickly compare and contrast different prompts. Obviously, I

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System Design: Bloom Filter

Smartly transforming a hash table to a probabilistic data structure to trade accuracy for large memory gains Vyacheslav Efimov · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 11 hours ago — Introduction Hash table is one of the most widely known and used data structures. With a wise choice of hash function, a hash table can produce optimal performance for insertion, search and deletion queries in constant time. The main drawback

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5 Useful Visualizations to Enhance Your Analysis

Use Python’s statistical visualization library Seaborn to level up your analysis. Gustavo Santos · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 12 hours ago — Photo by ANIRUDH on Unsplash Introduction Seaborn has been around for a long time. I bet it is one of the most known and used libraries for data visualization because it is beginner friendly, enabling…

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Many Articles Tell You Python Tricks, But Few Tell You Why

Image by Annette from Pixabay Three common Python tricks make your program faster, I will explain the mechanisms Christopher Tao · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 12 hours ago — Just had a simple search and it is very easy to get many articles trying to tell us many Python tricks. They are either more “Pythonic” or make our program faster. There is nothing wrong with these articles because

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How to Build a $300 AI Computer for the GPU-Poor | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read For us GPU-poor, however, having our own AI computer seems to be a pricey dream. Macbook M3 Max? $3200, ouch! Nvidia 4090? $1850; that hurts even if you can get one. Microsoft Surface Laptop 6? Starting at $1200, still too much.  What if I tell you that you can get a useful AI computer for $300? Interested? You do need to supply your own monitor, keyboard, and mouse. And you need

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