Intro

I tried to find an interesting material about algorithms in python, in Portuguese, just to see how there was doing.

Python course

The only main course I found was this one [1] which focus more on the language characteristics than in the algorithms itself. So some days ago I started to compile some materials and prepare some small courses for the general public. Basically a slice of the MPX project [2]

REFs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9uPNppGsGo

[2] MPX project that I’m lazy now to find. Search here on the blog.

Intro

After finding a list of 58 books to read here [1]. I started to read The Moral of Publius Syrus.  So if want to read a simple book about wisdom, that a good recommendation.

The evil you do to other, you may expect in return.

After reading many, this one got to me. It’s like Karma कर्म vs Darma, from the Hinduism.

Anyways, good reading.

REFs

[1] https://www.inc.com/quora/58-books-that-will-make-you-better-no-matter-who-you-are.html

[2] https://archive.org/details/moralsayingspub00lymagoog/page/n19

Intro

I remember when I was 9 years old and this song, Lady from Modjo, a French duo, started plying on MTV Brazil. Btw, MTV Brazil was trash on its final years, but that time it was amazing!

Modjo – Lady

Anyways, recently after coming to Montreal, I found that actually the clip was filmed in Quebec! And recently I found the clip locations from the blog of the director [1] and clip locations are [2].

The final part of the clip is actually filmed on Mont-Royal! And the bar scene, which is one of the best was filmed in Saint-Gabriel, QC!! haha

   My plan is to “re-film” the clip with my friends haha!

REFs

[1] https://francoisnemeta.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/modjo-lady-hear-me-tonight-the-story/

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1g9wR_Zo2l7lf6GkVEG8IxDYeKeg&ll=46.05883756184599%2C-73.47268258984377&z=10

Intro

I went on a trip all over Europe with my friend Gabriel. We took several photos and it was amazing. I highly recommend Euro Disney. Although a bit salty, aka costly, it was a good time. Je vraiment manque tout ca! Et parle francais avec les parisiens est tres bon aussi.

Anyways, months later and several emails from Gabriel demanding the photos!!! I was able to install and upload my images on Google Photos and share with him. Only 3 months later
Right after installing it, I saw that the app was classifying my photos and then I was curious to know how was it doing it. Well, it’s a CNN! (I like Quora btw u_u)

CNN

Convolutional neural networks can be called ConvNet or CNN and its composed of an input layer, one or two hidden layers, and one output layer. Each layer might have its own properties as parameters and hyperparameters.

More information can be found here [2] that also has a very interesting and educative demonstration of how the CNN works.

From what I could find until now [blame me flag], Google photo seems to rely on Inception-v4 [3].

REFs

[1] https://www.quora.com/Which-algorithm-is-used-in-Google-Photos-app-for-classification-labeling

[2] http://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07261

Intro

React

 1 import React, { Component } from 'react';
 2 import { AppRegistry, Text } from 'react-native';
 3 
 4 export default class HelloWorldApp extends Component {
 5   render() {
 6     return (
 7       <Text>Hello world!</Text>
 8     );
 9   }
10 }
11 
12 // Skip this line if using Create React Native App
13 AppRegistry.registerComponent('HelloWorld', () => HelloWorldApp);
14 
15 // The ReactJS code can also be imported into another component with the following code:
16 
17 import HelloWorldApp from './HelloWorldApp';

REFs

Intro

When I was 10 years old, the school showed me RPG. A silly and non-sense game about doing nothing sited in a table with dice. I was wrong later I started learning AD&D and then D&D. I learned so many concepts and stuff. I could mention many things. One of the moments of more happiness in my life my character became ::ArchiMage:: in 2006, in June, 12, if I’m not wrong. I still have the info of my character, D&D3.5. Level 17! Almost Epic. 

Well, for quite some time I thought I would open a start-up that trains people using RPG. Maybe one day, who knows.

RPG

Anyways.
The diagram below shows the abilities that are actually improved while playing RPG.

> Cognitive abilities: several

> Writing skills:  Fulfill your abilities

> Reading skills: The magician can choose 4 spells to prepare today. Which one to use

> Socialization: Schedule Sunday meetings with at least 4 people.

> Interpretation: Do really think an elf archer would Neutral would do this thing?

> Creativity: The meals are finished, what to do?

> Strategy: 4 players against 20 rob-goblins.

> Math: if you spend more than 20seconds after rolling the dice calculating your bonus. Lost your turn.

[Source1]

REFs

[Source1] I got this pic from Facebook, so I don’t know who did. The person deserves all the credit.