License plate detection is a common use case which has been solved (somewhat) several times, but felt that we could provide something better than the current options.

How long until a license plate reader data blackmail-style website appears?

Natural language processing (NLP) is an exciting field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

Flameshot is an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.

At the North America edition of the 2018
Linux Security Summit (LSS NA), which was held in late August in Vancouver,
Canada, Kees Cook gave a presentation on some of the dangers that come with
programs written in C. In particular, of course, the Linux kernel is
mostly written in C, which means that the security of our systems rests on
a somewhat dangerous foundation. But there are things that can be done to
help firm things up by "Making C Less Dangerous" as the title
of his talk suggested.

CLI: improved

The developers behind World of Warcraft tell the story of its history, from the original beta to today.

You are handed data and told to develop a forecast model. What do you do? This is a common situation; far more common than most people think. Perhaps you are sent a CSV file. Perhaps you are given access to a database. Perhaps you are starting a competition. The problem can be reasonably well defined: …

This is not a new sorting algorithm, but an idea when we need to avoid swapping of large objects or need to access elements of a large array in both original and sorted orders.

A common sorting task is to sort elements of an array using a sorting algorithm like Quick Sort, Bubble Sort.. etc, but there may be times when we need to keep the actual array in tact and use a “tagged” array to store the correct positioning of the array when it is sorted. When we want to access elements in sorted way, we can use this “tagged” array.

When you are presented with a new time series forecasting problem, there are many things to consider.

The choice that you make directly impacts each step of the project from the design of a test harness to evaluate forecast models to the fundamental difficulty of the forecast problem that you are working on.

It is possible to very quickly narrow down the options by working through a series of questions about your time series forecasting problem. By considering a few themes and questions within each theme, you narrow down the type of problem, test harness, and even choice of algorithms for your project.

In this post, you will discover a framework that you can use to quickly understand and frame your time series forecasting problem.

To deal with variable solar and wind power, the startup Energy Vault is coming out of stealth mode to offer alternatives to lithium-ion batteries.

JSON has taken over the world. Today, when any two applications communicate with each other across the internet, odds are they do so using JSON.

The article describes the history of JSON starting from the aim at having a common information exchange format from XML and beyond.

Screen is a command-line tool that lets you set up multiple terminal windows within it, detach them and reattach them later, all without any graphical interface. This program has existed since before I started using Linux, but first I clearly need to address the fact that I'm even using Screen at all prior to writing a tech tip about it.

So now that those arguments are out of the way, I thought those of you still using Screen might find it useful to learn how to do copy and paste within Screen itself.

“Don’t think of the overwhelming majority of the impossible.”
“Grew up your bliss and the world.”
“what we would end create, creates the ground and you are the one to warm it”
“look and give up in miracles”

All the quotes above have been generated by a computer, using a program that consists of less than 20 lines of python code.

Summary

1. Cheat – Linux Commands cheat sheet.
2. Cloudup – A tool to backup your GitHub repositories to bitbucket.
3. Crypt – Encrypt and decrypt files.
4. Cryptocurrency – Converts Cryptocurrency based on realtime exchange rates of the top 10 cryptos.
5. Currency – Currency converter.
6. Geo – Provides the details of wan, lan, router, dns, mac, and ip.
7. Lyrics – Grab lyrics for a given song quickly from the command line.
8. Meme – Command line meme creator.
9. Movies – Search and display a movie details.
10. Newton – Performs numerical calculations all the way up to symbolic math parsing.
11. Qrify – Turns the given string into a qr code.
12. Short – URL Shortner
13. Siteciphers – Check which ciphers are enabled / disabled for a given https site.
14. Stocks – Provides certain Stock details.
15. Taste – Recommendation engine that provides three similar items like the supplied item (The items can be books, music, artists, movies, and games etc).
16. Todo – Command line todo manager.
17. Transfer – Quickly transfer files from the command line.
18. Weather – Displays weather details of your place.
19. Youtube-Viewer – Watch YouTube from Terminal.

TimeShift is a system restore tool for Linux. It provides functionality that is quite similar to the System Restore feature in Windows or the Time Machine tool in MacOS. TimeShift protects your system by making incremental snapshots of the file system manually or at regular automated intervals.