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Die begrenzte Transfer-Intelligenz von AI
Kürzlich bin ich über ein altes Uniprojekt der kombinatorischen Optimierung gestolpert. Darin ging es um die Berechnung der “Peaceable army of N queens”: Gegeben einer Schachbrettgröße DxD, wieviele N Damen von beiden Farben kann man maximal aufstellen, sodass sich die Damen nicht gegenseitig schlagen können (peace). Dieses Problem haben wir damals für kleinere D mit…
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Setting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in Python
UPDATE: The developer access was widely withdrawn from many accounts since Elon Musk bought Twitter (now “X”). So did it happen to my Twitter-Bot, therefore the account is not posting anymore automatically. Python is a powerful programming language suitable for most tasks one can think of. Most platforms offer easily applicable APIs accessed through Python…
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How you increase the maximum upload filesize in WordPress within your Apache / PHP configuration
Recently, I set up a server backend where I ran into a common problem of WordPress installations: It was surprisingly complicated to change the maximum upload size for adding new media via the website’s frontend. The consequence is that you cannot upload files larger than the standard setting (2 MB), which is highly problematic for…
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How you easily scrape websites using Python
In my last blog post about Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to be suspended for the next away match, I scraped the website of the German Bundesliga to reach out for the necessary data. This post will describe how we can easily fetch any data from the web and apply it…
