How to turn screenshots of a table to editable data using OpenCV and pytesseract — Let’s say you have a table in an article, pdf or image and want to transfer it into an excel sheet or dataframe to have the possibility to edit it. Especially in the field of preprocessing for Machine Learning this algorithm will be exceptionally helpful to convert many images and…

What’s behind the Spotify Algorithm? From NLP over content based filtering to collaborative filtering. — In 2008 Spotify started changing the world around music by introducing music streaming. Since then music on CDs and DVDs has left all our lives and the music industry changed a whole lot. Nowadays, Spotify is the biggest player (with 365 Mio. users and 165 Mio. subscribers [1] ) in…

What to do if you forgot your password for a Mac — This is a very useful, but somehow also dangerous trick. Useful because you can still access your Mac even if you forgot your password. Dangerous because anybody could steal a Mac and access it, even change the password. As always it depends on the person’s intention. There are good persons…

Revealing whats behind the state-of-the art algorithm HRNet — Outline of HRNet explained: What is HRNet? (short explanation, further down is full explanation) Areas of Application Lets Dive into Convolutional Neural Network How does the HRNet work? Conclusion If you know already the basics (CNN + Areas of Application), skip down to section 3 or section 4. What is HRNet? HRNet is…

I tested the Jasper AI writing assistant and here’s the result — Unfortunately, we only have five fingers on each hand. Writing articles and text can be a quite time-consuming task. For researching, writing, and formatting an article, I usually need a couple of days. …

Here are My Learnings on How to Achieve More Referrals — In September 2021 Medium introduced a new referral system with which you are able to earn a monthly share of every new member that subscribed to Medium via your recommendation. Next to the “normal” income stream with metered stories, this is now a second way how authors can earn money…

Google MUM explained: What’s behind the Multitask Unified Model of Google? — On 20th May 2021 Google held its developer conference I/O and announced a new algorithm for their search engine: MUM, a Multitask Unified Model [1]. For the last two years, BERT was the underlying model for their search engine. BERT was a breathtaking release and was state-of-the-art until now, until…

AI That Turns Drawings and Words into Photos / Photorealistic Images — NVidia showed once again why they are one of the top-notch companies in AI and Data Science with their GauGAN2 AI. Their deep learning model GauGAN renders words and paint-like drawings into photorealistic images [2]. …

Understanding the Margin Grid Bot and all of its Parameters — This bot is useful for users who want to short or long the market. As the name states this bot is also based on the grid bot. Let me quickly explain what it is about: In Grid trading on Pionex you can set a price corridor that consists of an…