It is Sunday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and it is starting to snow. The forecast calls for snow turning into rain. Later this morning my wife and I are going to the Mall of America (MOA) for a walk. It beats getting on exercise equipment at home and watching TV.
I selected the Funny String practice from HackerRank. Given a string one has to reverse the characters and place them in a second string. Then traverse both comparing the absolute differences among consecutive characters. If the differences match then the function should return the string “Funny”; otherwise it should return “Not Funny”. Continue reading “Funny String”
My wife is out with a friend shopping. She is expected back around 11:00 AM. At that time will start preparing lunch.
Good morning. It is a cold morning in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. When I got up around 04:00 AM the temperature was around -1F. I believe it will rise during the day.
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If you have watched Red with Bruce Willis you may recall the opening scene. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is a retired CIA operative and he is sleeping in his bed. On the night stand next to him there is a clock. The clock is ticking down to 06:00 AM. Just as the clock reaches 06:00 AM, without the need of an alarm, Frank Moses wakes up and calmly walks down to the kitchen to get breakfast. Obviously Frank Moses is a very disciplined and a morning person. 
Broadcasting is a feature of Python and Numpy. When one is performing array operations, in some cases the shapes of the arguments do not match. The good and bad thing is that Python assumes what you want to happen and does it. In most cases the results are fine, but on occasions Python might do something that you are not expecting. This post discusses to some degree what is broadcasting. The idea is that we will be using it in a future post when doing some regressions for image recognition. 
When learning and working with Python on machine learning it is important to make sure that Numpy arrays have the proper dimensions. Using improper dimensions may cause issues / bugs that are hard to track yet it is simple to prevent and we will see in this post. 
It is the last Sunday in January 2019 and is relatively cold in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The computerized mercury scale indicates -12F not taking into account wind. As usual, get up before 05:00 AM and get in my first 2 hour block of Deep Work. I am in the process of reviewing the last course I took on neural networks and deep learning. 
Earlier this morning I read a post “Binary Tree: The Diameter” by David Pynes. The post showed up on