This tutorial will show you how many followers you should expect in the coming days and weeks using the Facebook Prophet (FBProphet) python package. This is a perfect example of what python can be used for. You can use it to forecast your medium followers or sales revenues. It can be any time series related problem, but first you must install FBProphet. Install FBProphet My code is simple, and the FB Prophet documentation is written very well. Read more...

September has come and gone. Autumn is in full swing now and everyone is prepping for the winter. September was a busy month for me, both personally and professionally. I started traveling more again and wrote up a storm on my Medium account. I finally hit a nerve over there and have been experiencing viral follower growth as well as decent earnings. These earnings aren’t big enough to replace my day job earnings, more like extra money for beer. Read more...

In this week’s Data Science and Machine Learning link round-up, we’ll share some links that caught our (my) eye during the past few weeks.

Here’s what I say, feel free to fork it. Feel free to build whatever “consortium” you want, but it’s going to be a futile effort. You won’t be able to use the original name in your forked product or service, so you won’t get brand recognition. You won’t have an in-depth understanding of the codebase or the years of experience that the developers, maintainers, and makers have

Massive tornadoes ripped through a big portion of the Heartland a few days ago. The fact that we’re having tornadoes in December is for another post altogether but the travesty in all this is the needless deaths of workers that weren’t allowed to protect themselves. Despite the advance notice by weather forecasters about the impending dangerous weather, many owners kept their employees working. Over 76 people are confirmed killed that night, an estimated 70 alone in Kentucky with a majority of the dead coming from a candle company owned by Mayfield Consumer Products. Read more...

I’m evaluating whether or not I should move this blog to another CMS platform so I can start building a community around it like it was before. Right now this blog runs on Hugo and AWS Amplify and it’s freaking awesome. I push new posts to GitHub, AWS pulls the changes and rebuilds the site, and then I can look at make sure it looks fine before I merge into master. Read more...

I shut Neural Market Trends down on the last day of August thinking it was going to be for good. Things have changed on my end and I’m thinking of restarting this site. I’m thinking of moving back to my roots and building a community. Why? Because of something I saw a few days ago. I was on a work call the other day and a prospect was sharing his screen. Read more...

I’m coming up on my 3rd anniversary at H2O.ai and we’ve embarked on an interesting pivot of sorts. Our new product is based on Kubernetes. At first I thought Kubernetes is just another buzz word and a way for the Cloud providers to extract more money from users, but I’ve come to realize that it’s not. Of course, there are pros and cons with Kuberentes, it’s new and isn’t widely adopted by organizations as of yet, but it’s neat from a container isolation and scalablity standpoint. Read more...

There was a big news sensation about Burger King workers quitting en masse in Lincoln, Nebraska. All 11 Burger King employees quit because: “We became essential,” Johnson said. “And then we weren’t treated essential by upper management.” From what was reported, they had to endure 8-hour shifts without breaks in very hot conditions. One employee was even hospitalized for dehydration, and then was called a ‘baby’ by management. WTF. The funny thing is that we hear the standard empty motivational tripe that you’re so essential, and you’re so valuable to us. Read more...

Work from home (WFH) is here to stay if you’re lucky and fight for it. I keep hearing from my customers that more and more companies are starting to reopen and call back employees to the office, except many are not coming back! That’s music to my ears! After dealing with the sudden pandemic shutdowns, juggling work-home duties, and dealing with the isolation, the majority of American workers powered through this hell. Read more...