Unveiling the Tips of Storytelling in Everyday Communication — The inspiration to write this story came about after meeting someone who has been in the marketing game for over 20 years. His words were like magic spells, weaving spellbinding stories that I couldn’t get enough of. “You slept and grew inside Mommy’s tummy for nine months until you were…

Create a Diversified Portfolio — More notes and codes can be found on my GitHub. In my previous story, we discussed how to download stock market data with Python, calculate stock performance, and calculate portfolio performance. …

Download stock market data; Evaluate portfolio performance — More notes and codes can be found on my GitHub. The stock market is a complex and ever-changing system. It can be difficult to keep track of all the different factors that can affect stock prices. …

OpenCV python codes to recognise faces in images, webcam streams and video files — With reference to this tutorial by pyimagesearch.com, I have learnt how to perform facial recognition using OpenCV, Python, and deep learning. It started with a brief discussion of how deep learning-based facial recognition works, including the concept of “deep metric learning”. From there, I installed the libraries needed to perform…

Use OAuth to access age-restricted videos, and ffmpeg to get high resolution 2160p (4K) videos — Skip to sample code: https://github.com/JNYH/pytube/blob/master/pytube_sample_code.ipynb Please note that all videos on YouTube are copyrighted. Do not use them for commercial purposes. I keep some videos that I like in my personal storage, so that I can access them without the need for the internet. …

Efficient modelling of tabular dataset — This is a memo to share what I have learnt in Extreme Gradient Boosting with XGBoost, capturing the learning objectives as well as my personal notes. The course is taught by Sergey Fogelson from DataCamp. Gradient boosting is currently one of the most popular techniques for efficient modeling of tabular…

Summary on The Great Resignation — The Great Resignation (or the Big Quit) describes the higher-than-normal quit rate of workers. The phenomena has been observed from the second quarter of 2021, where a tidal wave of resignations occurred in US and Europe. In April 2021, as COVID-19 vaccination rates increased, evidence began emerging that the Great…

Let my bots work hard 24/7 while I focus on the finer things in life! — Dominos leverages chatbot technology to improve their brand awareness. They built a chatbot on Facebook Messenger to provide a convenient order process. With the bot, they are enabling customers to order pizza from anywhere using their mobile phone. Bots and automations are infiltrating everywhere in my life. They are widely…

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