All of our Components that we create in React have a Lifecycle which outlines their interaction with the DOM. By using Lifecycle methods, developers are given control to decide which React events cause actual changes (or prohibit changes) to the DOM. For example, we may want to retrieve a user’s data from an API just […]
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If you’ve spent any time in the software industry, you’ve probably run across the phrase “Big Data”. In this post, we’ll define this pervasive phrase and explain how to handle/analyze Big Data on a project. How big is Big Data anyway? In general, Big Data means that the data is too large to fit in
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The challenge: You have to get dressed in the morning before going to work. Unfortunately, you only accept a space separated list of numbers to indicate article of clothing to don. 1 = hat 2 = pants 3 = shirt 4 = shoes 5 = socks How many different number of ways can you successfully
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When you import a Python package for use in your code, it searches folders of your computer in a particular order to find the package you are asking it to run. This order is defined in your Python’s sys.path variable. Unless you manually changed it, the order is: 1. System packages: those that already come
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How does Gradient Descent actually work? At a lower level, what’s happening? I was brushing over the details of Gradient Descent without really understanding it/how it differed from Least Squares. If you are having similar thoughts, I suggest this awesome video. To summarize: Say our data points (a=weight, b=height) are: (0.5, 1.4) (2.3, 1.9) (2.9,
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Why would we need to use Python virtual environments? What’s the point? A virtual environment is really just a folder on your computer housing some programming project that you are working on, and some additional code that makes it a “virtual environment”. Inside this folder is your project’s code and the necessary dependencies (i.e. Python
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If you are new web development, it can be a steep learning curve to get started. Sometimes grabbing a codebase, preferably one abound with explanatory comments, is an efficient way to learn. In this post, I will outline the code that I use to get started on web development projects. With this code, you will