Foundations of Red Hat Cloud-Native DevelopmentRed Hat You know what? At this moment, my blog https://KZHU.ai is actually a containerized WordPress instance running in a cloud-native environment. At work, I have been participating in the development of cloud-native products for quite a few years, I can not help but just share with you that containerization…
Building Good Features for Machine Learning
Having a deep understanding of data is an essential prerequisite for doing EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis) as well as feature engineering. Very often, only certain types of feature engineering techniques are valid for certain types of data. Why do we need feature engineering? In order to visualize it better and to use it as features…
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Leading Teams: Building Effective Team CulturesUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I almost only focused on technical things at my early stage of career, but my working experience generally changes my mind. It has been years I believe that people and culture are more important than technology. Cultures matter. Uniting talent people and building a team…
Prepare Your Data for Machine Learning Success
Data never actually arrives in the exact perfect form you want it to, so you need data pipeline process to prepare data. There are 3 typical stages in data pipeline: data extraction, data transformation, and data loading, collectively known as ETL. What tools and processes you use in each of these stages and overall, is…
Building Effective Team Cultures
The definition of a team is basically a group of people working together toward a common goal. Teamwork is one of the top skills that employers are looking for. There is a task aspect and a relationship aspect in teamwork. Common elements of high-performance cultures are ones that foster collaboration, open-mindedness, creativity, transparency, diversity, and…
My #111 certificate from Coursera
Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid Connectivity and Network ManagementGoogle OK, as a cloud engineer, you know a lot about VPC and even feel a little boring, don’t you? This course introduces lots of interesting things other than VPC, which definitely will take your skills to the next level. To meet customers’ requirements, Google Cloud offers…
TensorFlow: Normalizing Flow Models
Generative models are a kind of statistical model that aims to learn the underlying data distribution itself. If a generative model is able to capture the underlying distribution of the data well, then it’s able to produce new instances that could plausibly have come from the same dataset. You could use for anomaly detection, telling you whether a given instance…
Google Cloud Network Hybrid Connectivity
Different applications and workloads require different network connectivity solutions. Google supports multiple ways to connect your infrastructure to GCP. Hybrid Connectivity Dedicated connection(direct to Google) ⟺ Shared connection(through a partner) Layer 3(uses public IP) Direct Peering10 Gbps / link Cloud VPN1.5-3 Gbps / tunnel Carrier PeeringSpeed depends on partner Layer 2(uses VLAN) Dedicated interconnect10 –…
My #110 certificate from Coursera
American Contract Law IYale University We all enter contracts every day, contracting is never something only happens between firms or merchants, it is all over the place. When you order food at a restaurant, when you click Accept button on a website, when you make a promise, … probably your next act or utterance will…
Contract Law: Counteroffers, Irrevocable Offers, and Indefinite Terms
What happens when an offeree attempts to accept an offer while modifying the terms? In the case Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Columbus Rolling-Mill, the court held that, “A proposal to accept, or an acceptance, upon terms varying from those offered, is a rejection of the offer, and puts an end to the negotiation,…
My #109 certificate from Coursera
Microsoft Azure Management Tools and Security SolutionsMicrosoft Microsoft Azure offers a wide array of management tools and services. You will be introduced to them in this course. The course is bases on different business scenarios, and you will be asked to help choose the best solution for each of the scenarios. Actually this course introduced…
Contract Law: Assent, Offer and Acceptance
Mutual Assent Mutual ascent describes an agreement between two parties that intend to form a contract. Parties often have extensive negotiations before signing the contract. These negotiations happen over time that are subject to the parties’ choice and are not predetermined by law or circumstance. Individuals don’t have to be bound by contractual promises unless…
My #108 certificate from Coursera
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning FundamentalsGoogle What comes to your mind when you see the words Google and machine learning? I guess many of you will answer TensorFlow, believing that TensorFlow is definitely the jewel in the crown. However this course will introduce you to many other refined gemstones offered by Google. 🙂…
Understanding Your Machine Learning Problems and Data
Recall in a previous course, we have introduced the Machine Learning Process Lifecycle (MLPL), simply put there are four stages: Business Understanding and Problem Discovery Data Acquisition and Understanding ML Modeling and Evaluation Delivery and Acceptance These phases are iterative, you can’t skip ahead. A good, clear problem definition is important. Business Understanding and Problem…
My #107 certificate from Coursera
Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud ServicesMicrosoft Cloud computing has been hot for years, and there are quite a lot players in the arena. All of them offer and tout their unique and discernible services. Microsoft Azure is one of them you shall not ignore. This course is an excellent choice if you want to have…