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Traveling salesman problem
The traveling salesman problem is one of those annoying interview questions you sometimes get hurled at you, accompanied by “How would you solve this”? I remember a time when I was a fresh hatchling straight out of college, finding myself in that exact situation. I’ll spare you the details, but I can tell you I didn’t get particularly far 😉 …
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A way of life
Everybody and their grandma probably tried their hand at an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life at some point, in one or the other language. It’s a straightforward and elegant little algorithm that can give you cool looking results, and a nice goal to work towards while learning a language. Drilling plain syntax or frameworks is incredibly boring. When learning any new language, having a concrete goal in mind besides “just learning it”, helps speed the process along and makes it more enjoyable by far. So, while learning Python, I took a swing at it. …
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Prime skills?
I was always charmed by the idea and the practice of algorithm-heavy programming. The heavy lifting, making seemingly complex and daunting tasks run like **** of a shovel. …
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How artificial intelligence is transforming software engineering
Automation of the automation process …
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Through the trees...
Some wise man - Jim Rohn, for the record - once said: “Celebrate your achievements” …
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Image classification: MLP vs CNN
In this article, I will make a short comparison between the use of a standard MLP (multi-layer perceptron, or feed forward network, or vanilla neural network, whatever term or nickname suits your fancy) and a CNN (convolutional neural network) for image recognition using supervised learning. …