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Git Repository Managers Git is likely todays most important version control system. It is used for Linux, actively developed and stable. If hosted solutions are ok, I would likely use GitHub. I've used GitHub for personal projects since 2011 and only experienced one outage of about 1 hour or so. Besides that, it … Read More »

1D Data Visualization Once in a while I have to visualize simple 1D numerical data. So here is an example script: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 … Read More »

ML Review 6 This Review gives an overview of intersting stuff I stumbled over which are related to machine learning. News Hardware Inside Volta: The World’s Most Advanced Data Center GPU NVIDIA DGX SYSTEMS Core-Software CUDA 9 cuDNN 7 Scaling Keras Model Training to Multiple GPUs Applications: Facebook: Transitioning entirely to neural … Read More »

Scrum Scrum is a design process. In contrast to the waterfall model it is agile. Other agile design processes are Extreme programming (XP) and Kanban. Process Product owner writes a product backlog Sprint Decide which user stories to work on Assign points to user stories Work on them (build, test, review … Read More »

Triglav National Park The Triglav National Park is the only national park in Slovenia. It is located in the south west of Slovenia, close to the border with Austria and Italy. This post is my preparation for a 1-day hike (1 day to get there, 1 day of hiking, 1 day to get … Read More »

Backpacking Tours by Month Backpacking is hiking, but you take what you need with you. It's a couple of days in nature. This needs to be planned and most trails are only nice to walk in some months of the year. Some are only not very fun to do (e.g. due to rain … Read More »

Python Scheduling Suppose you wanted to build a tool which informs you whenever there is an update to a couple of websites you're interested in. And lets say the last-modified header was usable for this (it is not, but I want to focus on another problem). So you would need to save … Read More »

Scraping with Selenium Selenium is a framework for testing web applications. And it is relly good for scraping JavaScript heavy websites. The idea is that you get a real browser to execute everything. In contrast to BeautifulSoup where you only fetch the content of a website. Installation pip install selenium chromedriver_installer Basic example … Read More »

Ideen zur Verbesserung des KIT I've studied 3 years for the bachelors degree and for 2.5 years for the masters degree at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). I had a very good time and learned a lot. In this post I point out some ideas how KIT could be a better university for bachelors … Read More »

The JavaScript World This is likely to grow. Angular FrontendFramework MVC TypeScript-based front-end web application framework by Google Express.js BackendFramework A framework for Node.js designed for building web applications and APIs. Gulp.js Tool build system / task runner in front-end web development, used for automation of tasks like minification … Read More »