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CiviCRM Standalone: Newsletter Double Opt-in With Any Website

Introduction If you run a nonprofit or community organization, you probably want a newsletter signup on your website. And if you use CiviCRM as your C…

Retrieve GitHub Action Secrets via Webhook

If you need to extract secrets from GitHub Actions, there is no way you can do read them via the GitHub UI. Here is a quick way on how to get the secr…

ImageNet: How a UK TV Cook Ended Up as 'Slut' in an Influential Image Database

One reason for the recent advances in machine learning is the large amount of annotated data. The creation of ImageNet was important in the area of co…

Speech to Text With Google Cloud

Nobody should manually transcribe long interviews in the year 2021. Machine Learning solved this problem already. Google overs a simple API that works…

Python and PDF: A Review of Existing Tools

The Portable Document Format (PDF) was invented in the early 1990s and it’s still thriving. But PDFs are mainly for humans – not machines. So it’s oft…

Verify Integrity of Videos Files With FFmpeg

Using ffmeg to verify the integrity of video files. Parallelized by using GNU parallel, filesnames of problematic files are written to a text file. #!…

Crawl Websites With Wget2

There are many ways how to crawl and scrape websites. The most popular way is probably the Python package scrapy. But there are more barebone alternat…

ULMFIT for German

ULMFIT by Howard and Ruder holds several state-of-the-art on text classification. The technique comprises several steps of transfer learning with lang…

Collection of Machine Learning Resources

Here is a collection of online resources, especially questions on stack exchange, I find interesting. Gets updated. General Machine Learning When shou…

Useful Commands for the Terminal

Snippets of commands I use occasionally and tend to forget. Gets updated. Count files in a directory ls -1 . | wc -l Count files in a directory recurs…

Burn Subtitles on Video With FFmpeg

If you want to share a video on social media, it’s recommended to burn the subtitles directly onto the video. This way, people can understand wh…

Tips for Bash Scripts

Bash Shell Scripting is powerful way of automating shell commands. But its syntax is archaic so it’s hard to remember everything. In this blog p…

How to Set Up Docker for Deep Learning With Ubuntu 16.04 (With GPU)

In this tutorial, I will guide how you set up your computer as a work station to do some serious deep learning while managing different development en…

How to Import a Local React-Native NPM Package

I had to fix an unmaintained NPM package for my latest React-Native app. But I struggled to import it locally. npm install $relative-patch or npm link…

Sublime Text 3 Plugins for Frontend Web Development

Sublime is great and for many still the best text editor available. But out of the box, it lacks some features that modern competitors have already b…

How to Create Grouped Bar Charts With R and Ggplot2

In a recent university project, I had to collect and analyze data via Google Forms. It was a survey about how people perceive frequency and effectivel…

Scraping With Greasemonkey

In a recent project, I had to scrape Web pages that were only accessible after authorization. Due to a complicated authorization process (“Eston…

Backup With Rsync Over SSH

I needed a simple backup strategy for a folder on one of my servers. There is an abundance of articles how to do it with rsync, but I somehow could no…

Failed (111: Connection Refused) While Connecting to Upstream

After following a tutorial on how to get Flask running with NGINX by Digital Ocean, I experienced some problems. In the erorr.log, I just found failed…

Minimal Local Development Environment for Wordpress With Trellis

When you want to develop a theme or a plugin for Wordpress, it is preferred to do it locally. In order to set up a local development environment, you …

How to Export Data From Google Ngram Viewer

Google Ngram Viewers gives information about the frequency of words in Google Books. You can query for several words and the results is a graph. But t…