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An adorable figural planter like this would be an ideal Easter gift or a centerpiece for your holiday dinner table. Spring is in the air! Soon it will be time to plant all those beautiful colors that we welcome after a cold winter. There’s no better way to put those frosty gray days behind you than to create a bowl of sunshine in a bright and cheery vintage planter. There are so many choices and uses for these nostalgic artistic pieces. They come in every shape, size, and color you can imagine, from ornate and elegant to figural, rustic, and...

Don’t give up desk space real estate when the BackPack is available. BUY FROM AMAZON When I first started MacSources almost ten years ago I had a super small desk that I kept my iMac, two Western Digital external hard drives, and Drobo. It was a pretty full desktop for such a small piece of furniture. I look back at those times and think about how much space I could have had by storing one or both of the WD drives on the Twelve South BackPack. When Apple released the new M1 iMacs (May 2021), Twelve South modified the design...

Do you post about your child’s milestones on social media? If you do, well, you’re not alone. Their birth, baby’s first steps, funny or sweet moments, the first time they said mum or dad and the first day of school. The presence of social media has made it second nature for parents to post or tweet about their kids. In fact, this study by the University of Florida Levin College of Law found that many babies already have digital footprints even before they’re born. Experiencing these milestones are all so heartwarming and the intention is purely wanting to share that...

[ comments ] Neural Networks and Deep Learning What this book is about On the exercises and problems Using neural nets to recognize handwritten digits How the backpropagation algorithm works Improving the way neural networks learn A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function Why are deep neural networks hard to train? Deep learning Appendix: Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? Acknowledgements Frequently Asked Questions One of the most striking facts about neural networks is that they can compute any function at all. That is, suppose someone hands you some complicated, wiggly function, $f(x)$: No matter what...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SPY.com may receive an affiliate commission. Stocking your first kitchen as a grown-up is no small task, even if you really enjoy cooking. Once upon a time, a majority of young adults would get married shortly after coming of age, and as part of their wedding, they would receive all the Pyrex, cookware, serving tools and utensils necessary to host fancy dinner parties. Of course, now that many young people are delaying marriage — or skipping it entirely — the burden of collecting all the...