Blockchain: What are nodes and masternodes?

Nodes and masternodes are an increasingly discussed subject in blockchain lately. And rightfully so, because nodes are a critical component of a blockchain’s infrastructure. Without nodes, a blockchain’s data would not be accessible. You could say that…

Detecting custom objects in images/video using YOLO with Darkflow

This is another story of an ongoing series…

Implementation of Gradient Descent in Python

Every machine learning engineer is always looking to improve their model’s performance. This is where optimization, one of the most important fields in machine learning, comes in. Optimization allows us to select the best parameters, associated with…

Bitcoin Lightning Network: run your node at home for fun and (no) profit ⚡🤑

Chubby: A lock service for distributed coordination

Introduction

Review: SRCNN (Super Resolution)

In this story, a very classical super resolution technique, Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN) [1–2], is reviewed. In deep learning or convolutional neural network (CNN), we usually use CNN for image classification. In SRCNN, it is used for single image…

Bitcoin Faucets: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

On Efficient Ethereum Addresses

When dealing with public blockchains, nothing comes for free. That’s why incremental gains in efficiency…

Understanding and building your own tiny blockchain in JavaScript

Using JS to visualize and demystify…

Review: SPPNet —1st Runner Up (Object Detection), 2nd Runner Up (Image Classification) in ILSVRC 2014