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What an Amazon Wholesale Center Could Look Like

Had a random idea kicking around. Was wondering, what would the world look like if Amazon decided to create warehouses that had a front-facing store, which would be semi-open to the public. You can see what such a service’s landing page could look like here. By opening up warehouses to the public, consumers could save on delivery fees, avoid waiting for packages to be delivered to their door, buy products for lower…

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Using GroupMe’s API To Bulk Add People

I’m updating GroupMe-Multi-Add (originally written by Y.H.) to accommodate for changes within GroupMe’s public facing UI, as well as make it more intuitive to use for less tech-oriented people. Changes Made: GroupMe’s UI now makes it impossible to find the group_id of a chat without using the API. Consequently, I auto-grab the correct GroupMe group_id using the name of the group and calls to the API instead. Got rid of global variables…

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T.I.L.W. Cleaning Up My Github

Been reorganizing and cleaning up my Github page. I’m actually really learning a lot right now, so I want to take notes: How to use Github Pages: Github allows you to host static websites right from their site. Neato! There are two main methods of hosting: Project Pages site = github_username.github.io/github_repo_name Nice way to compile and showcase all your static pages projects from one base URL. In order to host it, simply…

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Setting up a Neural Net on Google Compute GPU Servers [Work in Progress]

This tutorial is aimed at mac users. TOC: Setting up work environment: Install Xcode Install Homebrew Install Python Install pip Stefan’s blog post —– For this project, we will be setting up and running a neural network on a Google Computing Cloud instance, taking advantage of the newly offered GPU resources from Google to speed up deep learning calculations. Install Xcode: Xcode is Apple’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Downloading Xcode is a…

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History Technology

QWERTY vs Dvorak vs Colemak, and Tangents

I remember trying to learn how to type using QWERTY. It was back in elementary school, and one of my classmate’s dad was volunteering to teach us kiddos how to type. He would wheel over a big cart of chunky Mac’s, and we were each assigned to a numbered computer. It was super exciting stuff; back then, getting access to a laptop in school was a pretty big deal. Obviously, the keyboard…

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T.I.L.W. Deploying to Heroku

First in a series of posts featuring: “Things I Learned While…” Often times I need to do research to figure out a technical problem. Finding the info isn’t the bad part. It’s re-finding it that always gets to me. I don’t want to waste time re-finding and re-learning things, so might as well get it right the first time round. Another thing; I often get sidetracked when I’m doing work… I’ll start…

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Power Up Sublime!

Attention: This article is a work in progress. So I’ve been using Sublime for quite a while, but I never really did bother trying to get the most of it. It was not until S.Z. helped me out and change my workflow did I start trying to get more into it. Here’s a couple things I found out you could do with it. The Master Command Remember it now, and don’t forget…

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Engineering Technology

Illuminote: Getting Started

Illuminote, start of a new adventure So I have an app idea, and I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I’m just writing to solidify my learning, but I welcome anyone who’s reading this and wants to learn alongside with me! Would love to learn with people during this journey. Anyways, hopefully by writing stuff down I learn things better, and remember them longer (plus I can always refer to what…

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