Method 1: Return a New Empty List Using Square Brackets You can return an empty new list from a Python function using the square bracket notation [] after the return keyword using the expression return []. Here’s an example: The example also shows that the two created empty lists using two function calls point to … Read more
Do you need to create a function that returns a Boolean (True or False) but you don’t know how? No worries, in sixty seconds, you’ll know! Go! 🔥🔥🔥 A Python function can return any object such as a Boolean value (True or False). To return a Boolean, you can have an arbitrary simple or complex … Read more
Do you need to create a function that returns a string but you don’t know how? No worries, in sixty seconds, you’ll know! Go! 🚀 A Python function can return any object such as a string. To return a string, create the string object within the function body, assign it to a variable my_string, and … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview If you print dictionary keys using print(dict.keys()), Python returns a dict_keys object, i.e., a view of the dictionary keys. The representation prints the keys enclosed in a weird dict_keys(…) wrapper text, e.g., dict_keys([1, 2, 3]). Here’s an example: There are multiple ways to change the string representation of the keys, … Read more
Although Neural Networks do a tremendous job learning rules in tabular, structured data, it leaves a great deal to be desired in terms of ‘unstructured’ data. And there we come to a new concept: Recurrent Neural Networks. Recurrent Neural Network A Recurrent Neural Network is to a Feedforward Neural Network as a single object is … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview This article will show you how to find the minimum and maximum values in a 1D NumPy array. To make it more interesting, these examples will generate an array of ten (10) random integers using the random.randint() function from the NumPy library and return the minimum and maximum values of … Read more
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💬 Question: If you’re visiting the great ultrasound.money website, you may have stumbled over the term “burn rate for non-stakers”. What does it mean exactly? In this article, you’ll learn all about it! Before I give you a concise definition, let’s recap some key terms for learning and ease of understanding. What Is Token Burning? … Read more
Do you want to learn Solidity and create your own dApps and smart contracts? This free online course gives you a comprehensive overview that is aimed to be more accessible than the Solidity documentation but still complete and descriptive. ▶️ Multimodal Learning: Each tutorial comes with a tutorial video that helps you grasp the concepts … Read more
By the end of this article, we’ll face a very powerful and mildly confusing concept of function types. We’ll need a bit of our legendary focus and imagination to get through it, but after that, we’ll have an incredibly powerful tool in our toolbox! It took your author three rounds of reading the original documentation … Read more
In this article, we’ll learn about user-defined types in Solidity. It’s a somewhat shorter and simple article, but it’ll provide us with insight into how we can utilize user-defined value types as means of simple abstractions. It’s part of our long-standing tradition to make this (and other) articles a faithful companion, or a supplement to … Read more
In this article, we’ll learn about string literals and types, Unicode literals, hexadecimal literals, and enums. They’re not complex types, and getting to know them will be simple, but also prove very useful in our future endeavors through the Solidity programming language. It’s part of our long-standing tradition to make this (and other) article a … Read more