From Deep Learning for Search by Tommaso Teofili
This article discusses how neural networks can help generate text that a human might write in order to provide more sensitive suggestions and enhance autocomplete functionality.
From Spark with Java by Jean Georges Perrin
In this article, you’ll learn what a dataframe is, how it’s organized, and about immutability.
By Vladimir Bok, author of GANs in Action
This article discusses the history and meaning of Generative Adversarial Networks, and their potential.
Six Questions for Craig Walls, author of Spring in Action, 5th Edition
By Frances Lefkowitz, Development Editor, Manning Publications
The author of Spring in Action and Spring Boot in Action, Craig Walls is a principal engineer with Pivotal and a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework. In addition to writing books and articles about Spring, he gives presentations about it at local user groups and larger conferences. When he’s not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, two birds and three dogs.
From Get Programming with Node.js by Jonathan Wexler
This article covers routing and how a few more Express.js methods allow you to send meaningful data to the user before building a view. We’ll also walk through collecting a request’s query string. The article ends touching on the MVC design pattern.
From Modern Fortran by Milan Curcic
Stock price analysis and prediction has been an increasingly popular topic since the early days of high-level programming, and Fortran has been used in the bowels of many financial trading and banking systems, mainly thanks to its robustness, reliability, and efficiency. In this article, we’ll work with a dataset that is freely available, small enough to be easily downloaded, and yet large enough to demonstrate the power of Fortran arrays.
From Spark with Java by Jean Georges Perrin
You’ve probably seen a simple use-case where Spark ingests data from a CSV file, then performs a simple operation, and then stores the result in the database. In this article, you’re going to see what happened behind the scenes.
From React Native in Action by Nader Dabit
This article goes deep into styling with React Native and Flexbox.
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Naomi Ceder, author of The Quick Python Book, Third Edition
By Frances Lefkowitz, Development Editor, Manning Publications
Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics, but, since 2001, has been learning, teaching, and using Python. An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi currently serves as chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general. By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.