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1. Machine Learning 101 - The Path of the Dog

   Introduction Do you often find yourself wondering what is the difference between euclidean distance and cosine distance? How many sleepless nights have you had trying to classify your books as either cat books or dog books? Do you have difficulty estimating a dogs age? Do you like vague quotes, badly phrased answers and reading python scripts? Well then my friend, if the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads .

2. My Guide to the AWS Security Specialty Exam

   I recently took the opportunity to sit the AWS Security Specialty exam, widely regarded as one of the more difficult AWS exams. To make it extra spicy on myself, I sat the exam online through Pearson Vue. So turn off the television, in fact, why don’t you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favorite chair? and we’ll talk about security here in the dim.

3. How to pass Security+ in a week

   Clickbait Did I pass it in a week? No. In hindsight, do I think it can be passed in a week? Yes… Well, it depends. Ok whats the story Security+ validates the baseline skills necessary to perform core security functions and pursue an IT security career. I stole that definition from somewhere, but basically this certification removes the training wheels from your security bike and allows you to cycle into your next interview without your Da holding the back of your bike, and not falling flat on your face.

4. There's more to life than regex

   Intro Thanks to the combination of a pandemic and the Irish weather, I have a little bit of time to tell you all a tale today. In 1966 Abraham Maslow proposed a theory in his work The Psychology of Science, the theory known as Maslow's hammer is popularly phrased as if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail and is one of the phrases I am constantly reminded of when I see people play with regular expressions (myself included).

5. Using Wordnet to Say Things Gooder

   Introduction Natural Language Generation (NLG), is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that aims to transform data into information. It can enrich your dataset through data reduction and summarisation, or through data growth and supplementation. Imagine never having to hire an intern again. NLG adoption is rapidly increasing, primarily in the field of financial reporting, but today I will be discussing how it could potentially be utilised by chatbot technology to enrich training data sets and increase a models intent detection capabilities.

6. Whats the story with NLP

   Once upon a time . . Back in the days when you could go into a shop with a pound and come out with a bag of monster munch, a can of coke, and still have a few pence left in your back pocket, most text mining applications relied on a technique known as bag-of-words. This technique basically took all the words in a given piece of text, disregarding their order, not caring about their context and used each words frequency to classify the entire document using predefined classes.