The year 2020 felt like it never really ended. Chaos and confusion just rolled into the next month, and then the next. And here we are, setting off on 2022. I do most of my reading while on flights, blissfully disconnected from the internet and away from a computer screen…

A quick primer on what NFTs are and why you should care — So you’ve been hearing about these new things, NFTs, and you’re confused. I get it. Honestly, it took a few months from when I first heard about them to feel like I understood them. And I’m a tech entrepreneur. So I get why they’re so mysterious to most people. Let’s…

How the cult of early rising is hurting us — For a long time now we’ve heard the refrain that the most successful people rise before dawn and achieve more in their first three hours than the rest of us do all day. Or something to that effect. Various self-help books will claim that fixing your morning will lead to…

7 steps (with examples) to approaching any data science problem — 1. Getting started From the outside, data science can appear to be a huge and nebulous discipline. Today’s data science experts did not attend university to get data science degrees (although many universities now offer these programs). The first generation of professional data scientists are drawn from the disciplines of mathematics, statistics, computer…

Keeping your data science workflow in the cloud — Amazon SageMaker is a powerful, cloud-hosted Jupyter Notebook service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s used to create, train, and deploy machine learning models, but it’s also great for doing exploratory data analysis and prototyping. While it may not be quite as beginner-friendly as some alternatives, such as Google…

Whether you’re starting on a fresh project, or running on a remote machine, you don’t want to waste time chasing down dependencies and installing software libraries. This tutorial will provide one of the fastest ways to get set up from a blank slate. I have tested this approach by completing…

Why becoming a multi-planet species is a logical necessity — The Fermi Paradox Launched aboard a ULA Delta II heavy lift rocket in 2009, the Kepler space telescope began its mission of searching for other planets within our Milky Way galaxy. Its telescope was trained on a small patch of sky where it continuously monitored the brightness of 156,000 stars. …