Note: best read on a sizeable computer screen

If you’ve watched any movies or documentaries about computers in the 1960s, you’ve probably seen computer rooms full of rows of cabinets, all containing front facing reel-to-reel tape storage devices (and flashing lights). They still look cool today.

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In this post we are going to build a deep learning Java Application using deeplearning4j for the purpose of generating art. Beside being an attractive and fascinating topic neural style transfer give great insight in what deep convolution layers are learning. Feel free to run the application and try with your own images.

Recently I came across the concept of CTF (Capture The Flag) which are security competitions and I really enjoy these kinds of the competitions. One of my favorites is OverTheWire. They provide different kinds of games and one of these is Natas, in which you need to attack a webserver. The concept is simple: the creator of the game designs a normal functioning webserver and intentionally puts in a bug. We need to find a password in order to get to the next level which can be found by exploiting the bug. That’s why it is called Capture The Flag. So lets get started!

In my previous MapD post, I loaded electricity data into MapD Community Edition, intentionally ignoring the what of the data to keep that post from being too overwhelming. Now let’s take a step back and explain the dataset, show how to format the data using Python that was loaded into MapD, then use the MapD Immerse UI to build a simple dashboard.

For a couple of months now, I’ve been getting spammy calendar notifications on my phone. Each of them is coming from Google Calendar itself, and they’re all coming from my own calendar. Just like everybody else on the planet, I hate spam. So I poked around a bit.

Introducing Flotilla

This post is about leveraging on demand capabilities of costly virtual instances on the Google Cloud Engine using startup scripts.

Locke Data’s great blog is Markdown-based. What this means is that all blog posts exist as Markdown files: you can see all of them here. They then get rendered to html by some sort of magic cough blogdown cough we don’t need to fully understand here. For marketing efforts, I needed a census of existing blog posts along with some precious information. Here is how I got it, in other words here is how I rectangled the website GitHub repo and live version to serve our needs.