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Millionaires are made at the top of the income distribution. For example, have a look at the following Pareto distribution exemplifying how only the top sports players make all the money: If you want to earn a million dollars quickly, you need to become one of the top people in the world at something the … Read more
Want to make your website more interactive? Embed a Python interpreter into your website! Why? Because an embedded Python interpreter not only increases the interactivity and usability of your website — and creates happy users for your web business. It also increases the average time spent on your website because people will try out things. … Read more
The OpenAI Python library is a mind-blowing 🤯 tool that lets you easily access the OpenAI API from your Python applications. It may easily be the single most powerful Python library. Period. One of the coolest things about it is that it comes with a pre-defined set of classes for API resources. These classes are … Read more
In this article, I’ll quickly guide you through the installation steps for Python’s package installer pip. But first things first: 👇 What Is Pip? ✅ pip is the package installer for Python used to install and manage software packages (also known as libraries or modules) written in Python. pip makes it easy to install, upgrade, … Read more
🐍 Question: How to find the index of the median element in a Python list? Something like argmedian()? In case you need a quick refresher, I have written this tutorial on finding the median itself (but not yet its index): 👉 Recommended: 6 Ways to Get the Median of a Python List Solution A multi-liner … Read more
To convert an integer i to a string with leading zeros so that it consists of 5 characters, use the format string f'{i:05d}’. The d flag in this expression defines that the result is a decimal value. The str(i).zfill(5) accomplishes the same string conversion of an integer with leading zeros. Challenge: Given an integer number. … Read more
“I am not interested in hearing ridiculous Utopian rants.” said one reader of yesterday’s Finxter newsletter on my note on declining cost curves and the implied disruptions. I’ll include a screenshot of the email here: 💡 Info: Declining cost curves refer to the trend of production costs decreasing over time as technology and production processes … Read more
This will blow your mind. 🤯🤯🤯 Imagine you could have a daily chat about your personal dreams, goals, and problems with your heroes such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jesus Christ. Would your life change? In today’s tutorial, you’ll learn how to use ChatGPT to create a mastermind group with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, … Read more
Scroll down to watch the guided meditation video! 👇 Meditation has numerous benefits for coders, including reduced stress, increased focus, and improved productivity. 🧘♀️ By taking a few minutes to quiet the mind and focus on the breath, coders can reduce anxiety and increase their ability to concentrate on complex programming tasks. Meditation can also … Read more
If you’re landing here, chances are you run a Sendy instance on Amazon EC2 hosting “Simple Email Service (SES)” for email marketing and experience the following problem: Here’s a screenshot on my Sendy instance — the lists don’t load! How to Fix? To fix these two errors, you simply need a bigger Amazon EC2 instance … Read more
If you are unfamiliar with git and/or GitHub, it can be overwhelming navigating all the different workflow models you can use to add code to a repository. I know this feeling well, as it took me a while to get used to new workflows after being used to the classic SVN (years ago in University). … Read more
Python is one of the most powerful and versatile programming languages available today. It is used in multiple fields, including web development, data science, artificial intelligence, and more. As a result, Python practitioners need to have a broad range of skills to be successful. Here, we will discuss the top 10 skills to learn as … Read more