This is a simple installation tutorial and guide to get Python on your machine.

You can’t fake passion or authenticity. Readers pick up on bullshit. Get inspired and write your heart out.

This short post is just a way to get my thoughts down on “paper” about using Hugo to hyper-scale niche websites. I’ve been researching niche websites and their ability to capture niche traffic to generate passive income. Yes, the name of the game is to build up a net monthly passive income of around $10,000. To get to that level of income I need to find a niche topic that will allow me to capture long-tail keyword traffic, then monetize each page, and optimize SEO. Out of the box, Hugo is very SEO friendly but you still need to work at it. On top of that, you’ll need to tweak a lot of its themes. The thing with Hugo is that it does include the batteries but you kind of need to know where to put them and in what order. ...

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. In fact, most of the code I share below has been cobbled together from the examples the documentation provides. ...

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. The subjects of my viral articles are climate change and the stock market. I’ve been pretty heavy on the climate change ones because gloom and doom (fear) seem to drive a lot of traffic. ...

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. Over 110 people were inside that building that night, working while Tornado Warnings were issued. ...

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. ...

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. I noticed he had a bookmark to the popular HackerNoon site. ...