In ancient history, the concepts of chance and randomness were intertwined with that of fate. Many ancient people threw dice to determine fate, and this later evolved into games of chance. Today, we are still using randomness in our daily life explicitly or implicitly. It is however very crucial to understand the underlying concept of randomness and its importance. Firstly, we should understand what defines random value as random. Randomness has multiple applications in finance, game theory, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and many more. So, one of the challenging questions is how likely we can predict it? The answer can bring…
The data science team at SSENSE usually builds very complex tools and dashboards. On the other hand, their maintenance was a challenge for the team. It has been more than a year since the SSENSE data science team has been using Streamlit actively. Before employing Streamlit, we were using Dash, Flask, R Shiny, etc. to build our tools and make them available to stakeholders within the company. In October 2019, we started to evaluate the potential power of Streamlit for our projects by understanding its benefits and how to integrate it into our data science infrastructure. …
How we get notifications from applications, data pipelines, or running processes as conveniently as possible.
Data scientists, like developers, may run or schedule long-running processes which can take up to several days to finish. We may have experienced moments where we check a process the next day, and we realize that halfway through the process, it stopped working or did not perform as expected. The problem does not end here, we have to look further to figure out what the problem was in order to fix it.
There are various methods to consider and even implement in our process to correctly and easily track the process. For instance, we log (sometimes even “print”) messages during…
A few years ago, while driving in my father’s car, he started to ask me questions about my education, future, life, goals, etc. He asked me: “How big is the job market for your university major?” At the time, I was completing my degree in Artificial Intelligence. I replied: “It’s very big.” He nodded and continued: “What is this Artificial Intelligence exactly?” I started to explain it in a few easy-to-understand phrases, speaking to machine’s learning capabilities, decision making, etc. But he did not stop there, and continued: “Is it like robots?”, to which I replied: “Yes, exactly. A robot…
How do you feel about your passport? This is the common story of traveling with a weak/powerless passport.
Today, Singapore and Germany have the most powerful passports and Afghanistan has the weakest among 199 countries (listed by passportindex.org). But how is it like traveling when you hold a weak passport? Here is my experience of traveling with an Iranian passport, one of the top weakest passports in the world.
I am an Iranian citizen living abroad and used to travel the world as much as I can. My passport is among the top 15 weakest passports (individual rank of 186) in the world. This passport is among the 15 least credible passports in the world. Iran is famous…
Democracy is known to be the best political system in the world but as long as it can work.
Democracy is a system of processing issues in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes. “Rule of the majority” is sometimes referred to as democracy. In a democracy, citizens exercise power through free and fair elections in which every citizen has equal rights and shares by voting. This is exactly where the problem begins.
Almost all countries are claiming to be democratic, and people are willing to have democratic governments. Some western countries, on the other hand, are forcing non-democratic countries to move toward democracy. …
Here is what we learned from the AI’s failure to predict the results of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Russia.
The FIFA World Cup 2018 (Russia) ended today on Sunday July 15th, with France as the champion, followed by Croatia and Belgium. Just like the previous World Cup 2014, many researchers tried to predict the outcome of the tournaments in Russia in advance. This year, the FIFA World Cup 2018 was no exception, and researchers and scientists tried to exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) and statistics to predict the outcomes of all 64 matches in FIFA World Cup.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made a lot of noise recently, and it is known as the future technology. Nowadays, AI is becoming a…
Do you want to secure your dream jobs as I did? Read my story!
I started working as a software developer when I was in high school. I worked in different companies across various industries as a developer, DevOps, project manager, and CEO/CTO. Then in mid-20s, I decided to continue my higher education overseas, so I quit my job to pursue a new goal in my life.
Last year, I saw that most of my friends, who had more or less the same skills as mine, were struggling to find a decent job after graduation (Master and Ph.D.). I got afraid if the same thing is going to happen to me. Therefore, I decided…
EduStats parses your citation counts, h-Index, i10-Index, etc. from Google Scholar, Scopus, ResearcherID, Mendeley, …
Academic metrics are important measures in the scientists and scholars society. Each of these metrics shows the importance of each published paper (e.g. citation counts) and the reputation of the authors (e.g. h-Index). Published materials are the products of scholars and the metrics are like their revenues. Therefore, it is crucial for the scholars to monitor and track their own metrics in order to improve their research, focus, and performance over time.
There are many available metrics such as (but not limited to):
- Citation Counts: it accumulates the total number of citations that all published papers of a scholar have…
Where should you start learning?
Nowadays, there are so many programming languages available in the market, and if you are a beginner in computer programming, you may wonder which programming language is the best to choose and how to start learning it. These are the most frequent questions which I have been asked. Here in this article, I want to answer these questions on how to find the best programming language to start with, and where to start learning it.
Whenever I hear such question that which language is the best to learn, I reply: “Well, it depends.” Yes, there is no discrete answer to…
