What is phyllotaxis pattern?When we go back, in our botany classes and the plant world, phyllotaxis means the arrangement of flowers, leaves or seeds on a plant stem, similar to the one found in Fibonacci spiral. Based on Fibonacci sequence, the Fibonacci spiral is a set of numbers that follows a pattern similar on pascal’s triangle. The Fibonacci sequence numbers are something like - 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, etc. So the Fibonacci sequence number is the sum of its previous numbers.Fibonacci spiralsWe generally look for symmetry and patterns to understand the objects ... Read More

In this we are going to write python program which is going to analyse the images taken from the webcam and try to detect the movement and store the time-interval of the webcam video in a csv file.Required LibraryWe are going to use the OpenCV & pandas library for that. If it’s not already installed, you can install it using pip, with something like:$pip install opencv2, pandasExample Code#Import required libraries import cv2 import pandas as pd import time from datetime import datetime #Initialise variables stillImage = None motionImage = [ None, None ] time = [] # Initializing ... Read More

Git is the most popular version control system, where millions of developers manage their project or files (code). In this we will try to fetch top 10 most starred repositories within a month.As we are mainly scraping the GitHub repositories, we are going to use mainly the, Requests & BeautifulSoup library to fetch the repositories.We will store the result in a file & display it. It will show the result based on position (stars) with name & repos.Below is the code to implement it:import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup r = requests.get('https://github.com/trending/lua?since=monthly') bs = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml') lista_repo = bs.find_all('ol', class_='repo-list') ... Read More

A British mathematician in an around 1970 created his “Game of Life” – which are basically a set of rules depicting the chaotic yet patterned growth of a colony of biological organisms. The “Game of Life” is a two-dimensional grid consists of “living” and “dead” cells.Rules of Game of lifeOverpopulation: A cell dies(off) if its surrounded by more than three living cells.Static: A cell lives(on) if its surrounded by two or three living cells.Underpopulation: A cell dies(off) if its surrounded by fewer than two living cells.Reproduction: A cell becomes live(on) if a dead cell is surrounded by exactly three cells. Cell ... Read More

NodeJs and Python are two main preferred languages among developers and web designers. But there are couple of areas where NodeJs fall short of python are numerical and scientic computation (AI, Machine learning, deep learning etc.). Whereas python provides lots of libraries to work with scientific computing lot easier.Luckly, we can utilise the python libraries within our nodejs application by running python in the background and return back the result.For this we are going to use the child_process standard library of NodeJs to spawn a pyton process in the background, do computation and return back the result to our node ... Read More

In this we are going to use PyTorch to train a CNN to recognize handwritten digit classifier using the MNIST dataset.MNIST is a widely used dataset for hand-written classification task covering more than 70k labeled 28*28 pixel grayscale images of handwritten digits. The dataset contains almost 60k training images and 10k test images. Our job is to train a model using 60k training images and subsequently test its classification accuracy on 10k test images.InstallationFirst we need the MXNet latest version, for that just run the following on your terminal:$pip install mxnetAnd you will something like, Collecting mxnet Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/60/6f/071f9ef51467f9f6cd35d1ad87156a29314033bbf78ad862a338b9eaf2e6/mxnet-1.2.0-py2.py3-none-win32.whl (12.8MB) ... Read More

We can extract content in web pages from a variety of domains such as data mining, information retrieval etc. To extract information from the websites of newspapers and magazines we are going to use newspaper library.The main purpose of this library is to extract and curates the articles from the newspapers and similar websites.Installation:To Newspaper library installation, run in your terminal:$ pip install newspaper3kFor lxml dependencies, run below command in your terminal$pip install lxmlTo install PIL, run$pip install PillowThe NLP corpora will be downloaded:$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | pythonThe python newpaper library is used to collect information associated with articles. This ... Read More

There are multiple ways to wrap your existing C or C++ functionality in Python. In this section, we are going to see how we can wrap C/C++ functionality with SWIG. Below are other options to wrap c/c++ functionality in python.Manual wrappingUsing pyrex to wrap C code.CtypesSIPBoost PythonSWIG (Simple Wrapper Interface Generator) is capable of wrapping C code with numerous other languages including Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, C#, Common Lisp (CLISP, Allegro, CL, UFFI, CFFI), Java, Modula-3 and OCAML. Swig also supports multiple interpreted and compiled Scheme implementations (like Guile, MzScheme, Chicken) are supported.But we will discuss its implementation with ... Read More

The main idea behind Natural Language Processing is machine can do some form of analysis or processing without human intervention at least to some level like understanding some part of what the text means or trying to say.While trying to process the text, computers needs to filter out useless or less-important data(words) from the text. In NLTK, useless words(data) are referred to as stop words.Installing Required libraryFirst you need the nltk library, just run the below command in your terminal:$pip install nltkSo we are going to remove these stop words, so they don’t take space in our database or taking ... Read More

In this, we are going to see how differently we can display our text in a very unique way using python.So let suppose I want to display “Hello, Python” and out many ways I could display my text/string (“Hello, Python”) like:Input“Hello, Python”Output 1___ ___ .__ .__ / | \ ____ | | | | ____ / ~ \_/ __ \| | | | / _ \ \ Y /\ ___/| |_| |_( ) \___|_ / \___ >____/____/\____/ /\ \/ \/ )/ __________ __ .__ \______ \___.__._/ |_| |__ ____ ____ | ___< | |\ __\ | \ / _ ... Read More