Ether mining – first attempt
This guide outlines my first (and failed) attempt at mining Ether on AWS. I will first show how I set up a GPU instance to mine Ether. Then I will conclude on the profitability of the whole endeavour in a…
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Python script for geocoding a text file
Assume that you have a file with some locations as text with one location per line. For example, here are some school names in Copenhagen, Denmark, stored in schools.csv: Hyltebjerg Skole Heibergskolen Ellebjerg Skole Katrinedals Skole Peder Lykke Skolen Amager…
How AI, robotics and advanced manufacturing could impact everybody’s life on Earth
What if everybody could live a wealthy, healthy, job-less and creative life in a post-scarcity Universe? Are we currently on a trajectory to this new reality and what are the obstacles we may face on the way? What are the…
Easy parallel HTTP requests with Python and asyncio
Python 3.x, and in particular Python 3.5, natively supports asynchronous programming. While asynchronous code can be harder to read than synchronous code, there are many use cases were the added complexity is worthwhile. One such examples is to execute a…
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Symbiosen mellem mennesker og AI vil kunne transformere mennesket til en rationel organisme (jvf. Daniel Kahneman som har påvist at mennesket for sig selv ikke er en rationel organisme). Hvordan det? Vores minutiøse adfærd bliver i stigende grad sporet i…
How to select top-k items from each group in SQL
Here is an analytical query that you (and I) will often need to do if you work in e-commerce, marketing or similar domain. It answers the question, within each group of items (e.g. partitioned by territory, age groups or something…
How to get structured Wikipedia data via DBPedia
Wikipedia contains a wealth of knowledge. While some of that knowledge consists of natural language descriptions, a rich share of information on Wikipedia is encoded in machine-readable format, such as infoboxes and other specially formatted parts. An infobox is rendered…
How to compute the pagerank of almost anything
Whenever two things have a directional relationship to each other, then you can compute the pagerank of those things. For example, you can observe a directional relationships between web pages that link to each other, scientists that cite each other,…
Quick introduction to RabbitMQ and Celery
I like to code in Python. I also like the concept of asynchronous workers to build loosely coupled applications. Luckily, RabbitMQ and Celery can help me do exactly that. This post is based on a very nice YouTube video by…
How to Become a Web Scraping Pro with Python pt. 1
Scrapy is an excellent Python library for web scraping. For example, you could create an API with data that is populated via web scraping. This article covers some basic scrapy features, such as the shell and selectors. Install scrapy in…