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heise offer: Online intensive course: Deep learning with TensorFlow and Keras

In this online course, you will learn with many practical exercises to program machine learning models with deep neural networks. In addition to the basics of deep learning, special emphasis is placed on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for processing images and recurrent neural networks (RNN) for processing sequential data such as texts. The course focuses… Read more

Astian Translate: Open source translations in nine languages

With Translate, Astian publishes a new translation service that appears as free software. At the start the program can handle nine languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Chinese. The automatic recognition of the input is still experimental. Users can try the service on the Astian operated libretranslate.com, but the software also… Read more

This Raspberry Pi Etch-A-Sketch Draws Pictures For You

Home News (Image credit: BenB116) What’s better than an Etch-a-Sketch? A giant Etch-a-Sketch! What’s better than a giant Etch-a-Sketch? One controlled by a Raspberry Pi that does the work for you, like this awesome project created by a maker known as BenB116. BenB116 custom-designed the housing from scratch so it could support all the necessary… Read more

Webcam-compatible LiDAR depth image camera for makers

The LiDAR principle (English for “light detection and ranging”) is often used when robots or autonomous vehicles have to orientate themselves in the immediate vicinity. High-quality vacuum cleaner robots, for example, are a popular application – here, however, the environment is usually scanned with a rotating laser beam. Classic lidar scanners measure the time of… Read more

heise offer: Online workshop: Scalable big data and ML analyzes with Python and Spark

Apache Spark scales complex data analyzes and machine learning applications that overwhelm a single computer via a computing cluster. The software has established itself as a standard tool for analyzing large amounts of data. The Spark Engine can be addressed from Python programs via the PySpark API. In the two-day online course Big Data Analysis… Read more

How to Code Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock on Raspberry Pi

Home News Icons made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before computers, smartphones, and the internet, kids entertained themselves for hours playing Rock Paper Scissors. Adults have made big decisions such as, “Who goes first?” or “Who gets the last piece of cake?” based on a game of Rock Paper Scissors. The magic… Read more

heise offer: Minds Mastering Machines: Submit your presentation for the online conference now

heise offer by 17. January 2020 the organizers are looking for lectures and workshops on developer topics related to machine learning. Of Rainald quantity-solar day This year the Minds Mastering Machines takes place on 27. to 28. April as an online event. In addition to the two conference days, additional workshops are planned. With a… Read more

Valve wants to hire a psychologist: he will contribute to the development of new games

Not only programmers and designers, also psychologists can help when it comes to making a new video game. He is the figure Valve is looking for, not only in terms of creating its next titles, but also for improving Steam. by Pasquale Fusco published 08 January 2021 , at 08: 41 in the Videogames channel… Read more

RoboScan: Automated film scanning with Raspberry Pi

RoboScan automatically digitizes analog films with a DSLR camera. A Raspberry Pi is used for this, which uses machine learning and a stepper motor to move the film in a Lego frame. RoboScan is an open source project by Maker Benjamin Bezine that was created in lockdown and is active on GitHub as bezineb5. During… Read more

TIOBE names Python the language of the year 2020

The operators of the TIOBE Programming Community Index, which is updated monthly, have given the Python programming language the title of Language of the Year 2020. This is the fourth time Python has received this award – a new record. The programming language secured the top position only slightly ahead of C ++. With an… Read more

Let's Encrypt: Certificate solution for old Android versions presented

In mid-November 2020 the Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt warned of the expiry of the IdenTrust root certificate with which its own free X. 509 certificates are cross-signed. Instead of solving the problem with a new cross signature, the CA wants to rely entirely on its own root certificate ISRG Root X1 in the future… Read more

Smart Home: openHAB 3 brings a fresh structure for the control console

Every year the openHAB community releases a fresh release shortly before Christmas, and this year there is a new main version in the advent calendar. The 3.0 release brings some changes to the architecture including a uniform user interface and thus ends the balancing act between the purely code-based control of openHAB 1.x and the… Read more

Authentication software privacyIDEA 3.5 with smart cards and dual control tokens

The IT security provider Netknights has updated its free multi-factor authentication software and released privacyIDEA 3.5. With this version, users can for the first time also roll out PIV smart cards (Personal Identity Verification) and have them certified by privacyIDEA. Users can then use the smart cards to log in or for digital signatures. PIV… Read more

heise + | That's why Python has blossomed into the machine learning language

Python has established itself as the language of choice for machine learning, artificial intelligence and data science in recent years. There are good reasons for that. Of Marcus Hanhart Denis Stalz-John This is why Python has blossomed into the language for machine learning Easy to learn Expand the language Conclusion Read article in iX 1… Read more

The RPC framework gRPC Kotlin reaches version 1.0

In order to be able to better use the advantages of the Java alternative Kotlin such as expressiveness, security and support for writing asynchronous code with coroutines for its internal gRPC infrastructure especially for Android and cloud development, Google implemented the implementation gRPC Kotlin built – and released as open source in April 2020. Now… Read more