Starting today, you can add python dependencies to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs using wheel files, enabling you to take advantage of new capabilities of the wheel packaging format . Previously, you were only able to add python dependencies using egg files to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs.  

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in 12 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California). Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.

Brexit is the elephant in the room that Electronics Weekly doesn’t write about, simply because no facts are available. Almost no sensible guidance can be produced by anyone, as everything is guesswork. However, companies are trying to prepare, and the government/civil service is at least maintaining a pool of information on what paperwork will be …

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OpenAI has created an AI algorithm that can write proper flowing English that makes sense – most of the time. Update below The AI is known as GPT-2 and, while its output is fiction, it appears to this untrained human that it coincidentally can contain a lot of facts. Essentially, the user feeds in a …

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Slow cookers are nearly evil. This has got nothing to with their cooking capability, I have spooned the most gorgeous dhal** from one, for example. It is their awful power consumption. Starting from scratch, I would think: pot, heating element, thermostat, insulation. Then maybe timer. Sadly, the makers of such things, in every case I …

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Wanting to built a small Li-ion cell into something, I was seeking a safe and simple way to charge it, and came across a plethora of built pcbs that include a micro-USB socket, a charging chip, a couple of leds and pads to connect to a Li-ion or Li-po cell. There seem to be two …

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On the web there is a rather classy looking site that will design involute gears for you, and output DXF or SVG CAD files so that you can make them. And it looks like it came about through the generosity of someone called Abel Vincze. According to the site: “Why this tool was created? Just …

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A joke occurred to me  – sadly it just proves I am a poor joke writer – but I offer it below. Actually, it is my second, and the first was written-to-order after web supremo Williams, asked if anyone could expand the world’s largest collection of binary jokes (which he generously maintains) to more than three …

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A long time ago – several years – Lumileds generously sent me a couple of samples of its Rebel Lime. This is a phosphor-converted led with a lime green output and, as far as I know, was the first commercial led to be binned at over 200 lm/W. I might have has some prior knowledge …

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Having gone around and around the houses trying to print things to exact heights, I think I have cracked it – and discovered one reason why auto-bed-levelling is known to give such good first layers – see below. This took a lot of printing, reading G-code files in a text editor and (mostly unsuccessful) googling. …

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