Author: Stephanie
Food Security = National Security
Food insecurity carries trans-border implications including migratory surges, economic disruption and societal instability.
Read More »Meet Marty – The Quality Control Robot! (videos at end of post)
Marty is a quality control robot rolling out at some 500 retail locations owned by Dutch retailing giant Ahold Delhaize.
Read More »AWS Lightsail – WordPress – Bitnami Update
Bitnami has corrected the offending mistake (.gz NOT .bz) I discovered in my original post. It now properly references a .gz extension. (Screenshot below) I fixed the SSL certificate problem by modifying the…
Read More »The Urban Bee Laboratory: Bees and Data
Stephanie is a data analytics practitioner at Boston’s Urban Bee Lab.
Read More »Apple, China & ‘Made In America’: Not So Easy – At The Moment
If ‘Made in America’ is to become more than a slogan for the production of highly technical engineered components, it will require substantial training, specialized robotics systems, an entirely new infrastructure and someone to sell it to the American people.
Read More »Four rules for fixing America in 2019
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that social media’s impact on American society is dubious at best. To offset its worst aspects, I set forth 4 rules of conduct I believe should be adopted at large.
Read More »A Picture Is Indeed Worth A Thousand Words: Hans Rosling
This short video is well worth your time: it features the inimitable Hans Rosling depicting the past 200 years of global progress as measured by wealth and increasing lifespans. Slick, slick production:
Read More »Priceless: David Ortiz & 2018 Boston Redsox ALCS
I have nothing to add: Big Papi reacting to that JBJ @RedSox grand slam is everything. pic.twitter.com/lZNUwLmpG8 — FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 17, 2018
Read More »Another day, another mishap: Python Kernel – Jupyter Notebook
I generally use an Anaconda environment to manage my scripting environments and package dependencies. I decided to give a dashboard-building application a try and wound up with a broken Python kernel when I invoked Jupyter Notebook (see below):…
Read More »I’m A Linux System Administrator – And Not By Design…
I possess an amazing capacity to get myself into trouble, computer trouble to be specific. This time, I found myself unable to run terminal app (macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6) or any of my other processes (VPN, Google…
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