I've previously discussed the Reduced Coloumb Energy Neural Net algorithm on this site. I wrote the algorithm in Matlab, which uses index based logic to select, filter, wrangle and process data. Today I will refactor the Matlab code to Tidyverse....

I augment traditional literary analysis with Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to compare Fyodor Dostoevsky's Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment) with Ayn Rand's Howard Roark (The Fountainhead). Tools include both the Google Cloud...

The domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides novel tools for Literary analysis. Analysts use NLP tools to record sentiment, emotional intensity, and word frequencies. Today I use NLP techniques to extract Raskolnikov's speaking (and...

In May 2023 Generative AI still disappoints in writing compelling literary analysis "from scratch." The output reads thin and lacks hard evidence. Today I instead measure Generative AI's effectiveness in assisting with literary analysis. I...

OpenDaylight allows network engineers to control switches with high level intelligence and abstracted services. Before Ravello, your engineers needed to deploy physical switches or use Mininet in order to integrate and test OpenDaylight. Neither...

In this blog post I present an actionable, focused checklist for the bare minimum, required SEO. Search engines provide links to useful pages based on user queries. You want search engines to return links to YOUR web page. To improve your chances...

In this blog post I write an entry for the (now defunct) Faux Faulkner Contest. I first write Humpty Dumpty in the voice of William Faulkner. I then command Generative AI to write an entry for the contest and compare the results. You can read my...

Hopkins refers to a “year” of “done darkness.” 1885 marks this year, the year Hopkins wrote “[Carrion Comfort].” For Hopkins, 1885 includes “encroaching derangement” that consumes him (Harris 12). Harris calls Hopkins’ situation “a recurrence of...

The City fuels Hopkins' sense of failure. The City provokes him to lose faith in himself and Humankind. Hopkins’ lack of faith in Humanity leads to feelings of inadequacy in his vocation. A Priest must focus on his fellow man’s spiritual...

Speaking of his “Terrible Sonnets,” Gerard Manley Hopkins suggests in a letter that “if ever anything is written in blood one of these is” (Bridges 219). The poems recount Hopkins' tumultuous examination of the pain and ambivalence that defines...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker Notebook Instances provide fully managed Jupyter Notebooks, tailored for Data Science and Machine Learning (ML) use cases. These notebooks allow Data Scientists and ML Engineers to explore, operationalize and...

I use the new Jasper Artificial Intelligence (AI) Art service to create the pictures in this blog post. Jasper AI Art (non-affiliate link), for example, creates the following picture of the World's Largest Turnip. Jasper generates a before and...

Relive the glory days of dumb terminals with your thousand dollar cellphone! Programmers used terminals, decades ago, to log into and execute commands on remote computer systems. The terminal provided a screen and keyboard to computer scientists...

Internet Service Providers (ISP), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Data Center Engineers and Academics use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to tailor and automate computer networks. Professionals and Academics use ODL to execute several use-cases:...

This month's blog post continues to discuss the evolution from hierarchical to Flat Internet Ptotocol (IP) Architectures for mobile networks. Be sure to read Part One if you have not already. This post briefly discusses the components of mobile...

I wrote this white paper a while back. This paper discusses the evolution from hierarchical to Flat IP Architectures for mobile networks. This information may be of interest to mobile network architects, especially in light of the emergence of...

I purchased the new 8BitDo M30 Bluetooth controller for my System76 (Ubuntu) Laptop. I connected the M30 to RetroPie and then noticed issues with button layout for certain Six (6) Button Sega Genesis games. In this blog post I will walk us...

Machine Learning (ML) Engineers at Jasper Artificial Intelligence (AI) (non-affiliate link) trained a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model on 10% of the written content on the Internet to create a service that writes text on command. A user...

Over the air communications, such as text messages, satellite radio, walkie talkies and WiFi need to deal with the unpredictable effects of noise in the channel. Coding theory attempts to make noisy channels more reliable by bringing the noise...

Engineers face the reality of imperfect and noisy channels when designing digital communication systems (DCS). The engineers must account for signal degradation to ensure that a receiver receives the message that the transmitter intended....

In part one of this two-part series, I developed a Reduced Columb Energy (RCE) classifier in Python. RCE calculates hit footprints around training data and uses the footprints to classify test data. RCE draws a circle around each labeled training...

The free and open Ethereum platform delivers the following benefits to developers and end-users: Impervious to censorship Native payment system Universal, plug and play Database Global, anonymous login 100% Uptime This blog post demonstrates how...

Darkblock provides a decentralized application that lets creators sell (and manage) digital content directly to consumers without the need for any intermediate, proprietary or bureaucratic services. Their splash page touts content access controls...

Brave Software developed a privacy-focused browser, that (unlike competitors) blocks all online advertisements and web trackers by default. Brave Rewards pays out content providers crypto based on views. In order to get paid, you must get Brave...

In Pattern Classification Using Neural Networks (IEEE Communications Magazine, Nov. 1989) Richard P. Lippman provides the following definition of Exemplar neural net classifiers: [Exemplar classifiers] perform classification based on the identity...