• Python

    7 Python Machine Learning Modules To Get Acquainted With

    A lot of machine learning work has been done in python. Therefore, there are a few python modules that make the work of normalizing data, analyzing data, and training algorithms much easier. Let’s look at a few of these and if you have suggestions, please feel free to comment! Tensorflow Tensorflow is more of an ecosystem, but you can import it into a python project and build some pretty amazing stuff relatively quickly. You usually see it imported as just tf: While it helps to have a basis in linear algebra and vector calculus that’s not entirely necessary. A tensor is an object that is similar to a vector but…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Websites and Apache on macOS Server 5.4 on High Sierra

    Web Services in macOS Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to. Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a patchy” service. These patches are often mods, or modules. Configuring web services is as easy in macOS Server 5.4, running on High Sierra (10.13), as it has ever been. To set up the default web portal, simply open the Server app, click on the Websites service and click on the ON button. After a time, the service will start. Once running, click on the View Server Website link at the bottom of the pane. Provided…

  • Home Automation,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Xsan

    Lights Out Managing Mac Mini Servers with Vera

    There is no Lights Out Management for a Mac mini Server (btw, am I the only one that noticed that these are now called Mac mini with Lion Server, where mini isn’t capitalized). While the Mac mini Server doesn’t have the Lights Out Management (LOM)/IPMI chips in it, there are a few things that we can control anyway. Convention would say that we’d get a NetBotz card for that spiffy APC we’ve got, which can do minor automation and even a little environmental monitoring. And there are a few other systems out there that can do similar tasks. But I’m a home automation nerd these days. So I decided to…