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Infinite Builder 👷🏽‍♂️ I help people Learn in Public • Author, the Coding Career Handbook (https://www.learninpublic.org)

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Jul 22 '19

Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby)

Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify

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Jul 3 '19

Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

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Jun 21 '19

Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense

Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this article is more about effective design patterns for introducing authentication into React apps, and any reader should be able to write similar wrappers for their preferred provider.

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Apr 29 '19

Reinforcement Learning: Game Theory

RL with multiple actors

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Mar 21 '19

Unsupervised Learning: Feature Transformation

Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than Principal Components Analysis!

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Mar 21 '19

Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection

Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!

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Mar 21 '19

Unsupervised Learning: Clustering

Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility

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Feb 23 '19

Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap

A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need

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Feb 23 '19

Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization

Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!

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Feb 23 '19

Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization

Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!

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Feb 23 '19

Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference

Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules

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Feb 16 '19

Supervised Learning: Bayesian Learning

Lets update our priors! Oh wait we have none.

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