Once a year I need to free up space on my work machine. Once a year I find myself searching for an efficient way to identify the largest files that I do not need any longer without installing third party software. Here is the solution I stumbled on this year and it couldn’t be simpler. […]
Author Archives: nmaynes1
A Simple Progress Bar in Python
Recently, I have been working with the Requests library in Python. I wrote a simple function to pull down a file that took more than a minute to download. While waiting for the download to complete I realized it would be nice to have some insight into the download’s progress. A quick search on StackOverflow […]
Logic for Artificial Intelligence
A cheat sheet for some of the basic symbols and definitions used in AI logic.
Qualia
The experience of seeing red is so familiar to those who have experienced it. And that type of experience, one which is difficult to communicate, does not change based on other experiences, is unique to the individual experiencing it, and immediately recognized, is qualia.
A Brief Introduction to Bayes’ Theorem
Bayes’ Theorem stated is, “the conditional probability of A given B is the conditional probability of B given A scaled by the relative probability of A compared to B”. I find it easier to understand through a practical explanation. Let’s say you are having a medical test performed at the recommendation of your doctor, who recommends […]