It is a cooler summer Saturday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. My wife and I are planning to go out for lunch. As soon as she is ready we should leave.
In the recent posts “MongoDB Text Search” and “Find Damaged – Part II” for one reason or another I have been dealing with full text searches. The MongoDB post covers how to use text searches in the database. A software engineer was in the process of experimenting with MongoDB on the cloud (Atlas) and was interested in performing text searches. The need was associated with a work related request. Continue reading “Rabin-Karp Algorithm”
Yesterday was a warm and humid day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
It is a Saturday in August in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and it is going to be a warm and humid day. My wife is out shopping with a friend and I am in my home office having fun with Binary Search Trees (BSTs).
As I mentioned my previous post, my wife and I went to visit for the first time my son and family after his move from Indiana to Wisconsin. It used to be about 10 hours by car and about two hours by plane. The latter did not include the time from home to the airport, the wait at the airport, picking up luggage in the Indianapolis airport, and driving about an hour to his previous residence. Taking that into account if we fly to Madison, WI it would probably be a wash driving versus flying.
Last week I had the opportunity to chat with a principal researcher / architect who works for one of the top 10 in the list of the 
Last week read an article that covered the Azure Kinect DK camera. It seems that up to recently you could only get on a list and wait for the hardware and software to become available. It appears that has recently changed and Microsoft is starting to ship the camera.
combination with an AWS account allows you to experiment with Machine Learning. My free AWS account has expired and I am ready to start experimenting with Azure and Microsoft’s new camera. I will check later today if I can purchase the new camera and will start experimenting with it on the Azure cloud. 
It is 11:20 AM CDT and the garage door repair technicians have not shown up yet. They mentioned they were going to be here first thing in the morning. The problem is that the door is jammed and we are not able to drive our vehicles. This will definitely be the last time we use this company. I will post the name of the company in a future blog after the door is fixed. We are planning on calling someone else if the technicians do not show up in the next 40 minutes or so.
It seems that when it rains it pours. A couple days before the 4th of July the garage opener stopped working. We called the garage service company that installed the current unit. The technician showed up and determined that the issue was a cracked controller board. We paid in advanced for the board which had to be ordered. In the meantime the unit was detached so we could open and close the door by hand.
Lately I have been quite busy with work and have not had time to write posts for this blog. Today I woke up shortly after 04:00 AM. Typically I go back to sleep until my alarm goes off, but today I had the desire to get up and so some on-line reading. I found the article 
I have noticed that multiple times in a week I wake up and check my phone for the time and it is 04:47 AM. Given that I live in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, there is some day light at that time. I recall a few years ago when I would get up around 05:00 AM to walk the dogs.