February 2018

Big dataset providers are now fantastically popular and growing exponentially every day. We’re going to evaluate a variety of datasets and Big Data providers ideal for machine learning and data mining research projects in order to illustrate the astonishing diversity of data freely available online today. We will also demonstrate a technique of machine learning with a code sample in Python which shows how to use one of the most popular Big Data hosts. Amazon [...]

Windows Media Video is a type of audio and video format that is used to digitally store audio and video information in a file. WMV is basically a container format developed by Microsoft that is used to hold several audio-video codecs developed by Microsoft and to run on Microsoft - supported operating systems and machines. The Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE) initially standardized the WMV format. Currently, several physical file formats, such [...]

MP4 file format, also commonly known as MPEG-4 Part 14 or MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), is a multimedia file format used to digitally store audio and video files. MP4 file format is also used for video streaming over the Internet. MP4 file format is basically a container that holds audio and video files that are digitally encoded. MP4 file format has only one official file extension, i.e., .mp4. There are two unofficial file extensions, [...]

Popular technology writers inaccurately conflate machine learning and artificial intelligence. Machine learning code is certainly a crucial subset of artificial intelligence code but we cannot count machine learning alone as artificial intelligence. AI is a much broader field that involves expression beyond simply recognizing and mimicking human speech and identifying a person in a photo which really is the current state of ML. Deep learning projects are increasingly specialized techniques of ML which often combine [...]

Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK This new version 8.8.0.3015 appeared on January 22, 2018. Here are major performance improvements: The following was fixed: OCR preprocessing filters were not applied if input document is an image; PDF Multitool: image preprocessing filters were fixed in "Find Text" dialog; TableDetector now provides detected cells information for ColumnDetectionMode.BorderedTables (see FoundTableCells property); XMLExtractor: Added annotations extraction; XMLExtractor: Object coordinates in XML are fractional now for better precision (were integer); Improved support for encrypted [...]

This is the continuation of Blockchain Inside Out in Simple Words where basic ideas of blockchain technology - transaction pool, block chains, and mining, were explained. I’d recommend everyone not familiar with these terms read that post first. The following article is more complicated, with programming terminology and links to the first article. Ethereum is the second most popular blockchain project in the world and looks like the most interesting from technical point of view. Bitcoin, the [...]