The Many Applications of Gradient Descent in TensorFlow
TensorFlow is one of the leading tools for training deep learning models. Outside that space, it may seem intimidating and unnecessary, but it has many creative uses—like producing highly effective adversarial input for black-box AI systems.
Alan Reiner
Modern Web Scraping With Python and Selenium
Web scraping has been around since the early days of the World Wide Web, but scraping modern sites that heavily rely on new technologies is anything but straightforward.
In this article, Toptal Software Developer Neal Barnett demonstrates how you can use Python and Selenium to scrape sites that employ a lot of JavaScript, iframes, and certificates.
Neal Barnett
Sound Logic and Monotonic AI Models
For those working with AI, the future is certainly exciting. At the same time, there is a general sense that AI suffers from one pesky flaw: AI in its current state can be unpredictably unreliable.
Emmanuel Tsukerman
Building Your First Telegram Bot: A Step by Step Guide
Chatbots are revolutionizing the way people interact with technology. In recent years, their simplicity and low cost have helped drive adoption across various fields and industries.
In this article, Toptal Natural Language Processing Developer Ali Abdel Aal demonstrates how you can create and deploy a Telegram chatbot in a matter of hours.
Ali Abdel Aal
Zero to Hero: Flask Production Recipes
Flask is a great way to get up and running quickly with a Python applications, but what if you wanted to make something a bit more robust?
In this article, Toptal Freelance Python Developer Ivan PoleschyuI shares some tips and useful recipes for building a complete production-ready Flask application.
Ivan Poleschyuk
Ensuring Clean Code: A Look at Python, Parameterized
We’ll explore the application of parameterization and how it relates to mainstream design patterns such as dependency injection, strategy, template method, and others. In Python, many of these are made unnecessary by the fact that parameters can be callable objects or classes.
Luke Plant
Option/Maybe, Either, and Future Monads in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, and Scala
If you’re searching for the holy grail of bug-free code in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, and/or Scala, look no further! This monad tutorial by Toptal Freelance Functional Programmer Alexey Karasev takes you from category theory to the practical implementations of the Option/Maybe, Either, and Future monads, plus a sample program—in all five languages.
Alexey Karasev
An Introductory Robot Programming Tutorial
Let’s face it, robots are cool. In this post, Toptal Engineer Nick McCrea provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow tutorial (with code samples) that walks you through the process of building a basic autonomous mobile robot.
Nick McCrea
Schooling Flappy Bird: A Reinforcement Learning Tutorial
Leveraging DeepMind’s breakthrough AI approaches takes some work, but the results are astounding. In this article, Toptal Freelance Deep Learning Engineer Neven Pičuljan guides us through the building blocks of reinforcement learning, training a neural network to play Flappy Bird using the PyTorch framework.
Neven Pičuljan
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