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AWS Lambda For The Impatient Part 3

We completed Part 2 of our tutorial on AWS Lambda by calling our Lambda function through an authenticated HTTP endpoint, aided by Postman and leveraging IAM security. In this third and final part, we do the same, only this time programmatically, with the aid of Perl and the Paws module. Introducing Paws Paws is a namespace rather than a module, that encompasses a plethora of sub-modules, which aim to, and actually succeed, in achieving the unprecedented: to provide a unified programming interface to all accessible through APIs Amazon hosted services, be it Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service, EC2, DynamoDB or as in this case, AWS Lambda. We're going to consider Paws in action from two perspectives, assuming a user and assuming a role. full article on i-programmer

Find Your 2000-Year-Old Double With Face Recognition

Wouldn't you like to know if you look like Caesar or Venus? It's now possible thanks to advanced face recognition software. Discover how the Quebec Musée de la Civilisation is using the Betaface API to find lookalikes of its collection of classical sculptures. Most people are pleasantly surprised the moment they're told that they resemble a celebrity. Of course, nowadays when VIP's photos are everywhere on the media, comparing oneself to modern day celebrities is very easy. But what if with today's technology you could discover if you resemble a celebrity of the ancient times, hundreds or thousands of years back? Wouldn't you like to know if you look like Caesar, Augustus, Demosthenes or another historical figure, or are more like a mythical one such as Heracles or Aphrodite? full article on i-programmer

Bitesnap - Applying Deep Learning to Calorie Counting

Bitesnap is a recently launched mobile app that uses photo recognition to help you control your calorie intake. To learn more, we interviewed Keith Ito, one of the app's core developers to discuss Bitesnap's revolutionary vision for the food sector as well as the technological infrastructure behind it.  We all know that a healthy diet is very difficult to maintain, especially nowadays where work is mostly done while sitting and entertainment is a matter of staring at screens of all shapes and sizes. The problem is made worse by the plethora of tasty but unhealthy food in existence. Whereas dietary usually try to impose radical change, Bitesnap in contrast works with what you normally eat, trying to keep it or even turn it healthy, by closely monitoring food intake on a daily basis.Not sure how many calories the meal you are about to eat is? Take a picture of it and let Bitesnap reveal the calories and nutrients behind it, an action that allows you to make

Associate Android Developer Certification by Google

To meet the job market's ever growing demand for  certified Android developers, Google once more in partnership with Udacity, has started offering an "Associate Android Developer Certification",  obtainable through just a single exam. It's a move that might seem in contradiction to the certifications already offered by Udacity through its Android Developer Nanodegrees, again co-created by Google, but in contrast to a Nanodegree, getting hold of this certification doesn't require attending a lengthy or expensive course, in which you do projects and stick to class deadlines. The candidate has to only take a one-off exam for a fee of $149. It requires the downloading of a few Android Studio project files and working on them for a period of  48 hours of work before  handing them over for their grading. full article on i-programmer

Predix IoT for Developers

We have seen businesses transform into software houses to withstand competition. To continue surviving into the near future they'll also have to embrace IoT, as the industry responds to the ever-increasing presence of connected devices. In this quest of automating everything, smart and embedded devices will play an increasingly significant role in collecting data at its source, data that they then transmit to remote monitoring centers for further analysis and real-time automated decision making. A prime examples of this is monitoring the state of a wind turbine and automatically shutting it down to avoid overheating. Therefore in essence IoT provides an ecosystem that consists of the hardware and the software running on the device, as well as a remote management center, typically cloud based, that hosts the facilities necessary for deriving the crucial insights from the raw data received in order to use them as the basis of all further decision making. full ar

Pythonroom Brings Coding to the Classroom

Describing itself as a book, Pythonroom is available to all, whether in a classroom or not. Needing just a browser to run, and so suitable for a multitude of desktops and mobile devices, it provides an ideal jump start for kids to start learning coding. The availability of step-by-step lessons is one reason for choosing Pythonroom as a starting point in learning to code. The other reason for jumping on the Pythoonroom bandwagon is Python itself. The language's clean, readable and English-sounding syntax makes it easy for someone not familiar with coding to get started.That aside,Python is also a fully featured, general purpose programming language with which you can do just about anything: Mathematics, Data science, Statistics, Automation, Natural language processing, Artificial intelligence, you name it. The platform is built with a curriculum centered on the student, as such it makes it super easy to get started with tasks that require just one, or two lines of