Nothing conjures the thrill of adventure like sunken treasure. This is a tale during when Pirates attacked Spanish ships sailing from the New World to Europe. Pirates stole minted silver and gold coins destined for the coffers of the Spanish King. The time was 1497, a few years after Columbus sailed to the New World. The Spanish Empire had minted the silver Spanish Dollar which became known as a the ‘piece of eight.’ They called it that because it was worth 8 Realas, another unit of currency from the mid 14th century. Note, the Peseta replaced the Realas in 1868. ...

This is my ongoing list of Python Tutorials. I’m currently merging my various Python Tutorials into one cohesive list below as a way to reduce the amount of posts all over my site. Thank you for your patience and please feel free to drop me a Tweet if you have any comments or questions. Learning Python Programming the Easy Way I picked up python programming when I needed to do something but couldn't figure out how to connect the dots. Luckily there were some great books out there that I picked up and helped accelerate my learning process. ...

I’m going to start this post with a big helping of gratitude. I’m so grateful to the 1000’s of readers that helped me get into the field of Data Science and Machine Learning. I was a part-time blogger that turned my passion into a full-time gig in the AI Startup world. This post is my way of paying it forward to you. Read below if you want to learn how to make money blogging. ...

We are living in crazy times. The (Stock) Market is reaching all time highs when the rest of Main Street is falling apart. Amazon is trading in the $5,000 range and people think the market doesn’t represent the majority of us. I agree. The Market is NOT for Main Street and it will never be. It’s for a small group of the population that’s seeking to reallocate your funds to their account. The market is rigged and it will forever be that way. ...

It would appear that making a rolling list of all my old and newer RapidMiner Tutorials would be helpful for readers. It should be noted that these tutorials and videos were made for differnet versions of RapidMiner (version 5 to 7) and may look a bit old and dated BUT they are still relevant to this day. The functionality of RapidMiner is still the same but the internal organization and look will be different. Most of the operators are the same name but things like the the Time Series plugin have been fully incorporated into RapidMiner Studio now. ...

I’m no stranger to trying different CMS’s to see which one works best in terms of functionality, speed, and ease of SEO use. Over time - and many mistakes later - I’ve found that Hugo is the best for all three of those criteria. It’s very functional, fast to build, and easy to tweak for SEO. When you couple that together with the AWS backbone, you get a fast loading website where all the static builds happen automatically as soon as you update your Github repository. I’m writing this post on how I migrated away from WordPress to Hugo and used AWS Amplify to host my blog & website. ...

Streamlit has to be one of my favorite new libraries out there and I experiment with it when I have time. For fun I wanted to see how easy it would be to build a simple UI with Streamlit and wrap H2O-3’s AutoML into it, to build your own AutoML tool. In about 100 lines of code I was able to make a simple website that lets users upload a training data set and a scoring data set. ...

I was on Twitter one day and I came across an announcement that HackerNoon had joined the micropayment world and gotten an infusion of cash from Coil.com. That’s a cool $1 million to implement a new method of web monetization. Breaking: We Raised $1M From @Coil, Will Stream Micropayments from Readers to Writers via the Browserhttps://t.co/iquXY9j2Pm pic.twitter.com/bHRfhaenna — HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology (@hackernoon) June 10, 2020 I think the current web monetizaztion model is broken and power is concentrated into too many corporate silos. Granted Coil.com is one of those corporate silos too but they’re building their model on a proposed webmonetization W3C standard, which is a great first start to ’leveling’ the playing field for content creators. ...

I made the switch over to Hugo a short while and love the fast builds. You can read all about me ‘crushing’ on it in my [What I Learned using Hugo](/hugo-static-cms/ post. There’s one main thing I want highlight in this post and it’s how to optimize Hugo for SEO. Hugo, just like any other CMS, is pretty good out of the box but you need to optimize it. Here are my Hugo SEO tips for optimization. ...

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been a user of Dreamhost.com for over 15 years. It’s where I hosted my old blogs and registered my domains. I started with a basic hosting in the early days and switched over to a virtual private server (VPS) a few years ago because I need to run Cron jobs. **Disclosure:** Some of the links below are affiliate links and at no additional cost to you, I’ll earn a commission. When you purchase a product or service using one of my affiliate links, the company compensates me, which helps me run this blog and keep my content free of charge to you. Dreamhost has been good to me. They have great customer support and nice one-click installs for things like Wordpress and MySQL databases. You can run Python or Ruby on a VPS as well as a whole bunch of other technologies. ...