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Creating a Big Data cluster with SQL Server 2019

Creating a Big Data cluster with SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2019 came out in preview a while ago, and the new features announced are just wonderful! A one-to-go-tool for all your big data needs: Unstructured and Structured data that can be processed using just one tool! But the most wonderful feature of all in my opinion are the

Using secrets to hide passwords and other confidential information in Databricks

Using secrets to hide passwords and other confidential information in Databricks

A common something that you want to do in Databricks is hide your passwords and other confidential information in it, because else it will all be visible within your notebooks and logs. Installing Databricks CLI Luckily Databricks allows us just this. But before we can get started, we first have

Sending emails in Databricks by using Scala

Sending emails in Databricks by using Scala

This is going to be quite a short post, but is more intended as reference :) Something I found to be quite interesting is sending emails through Databricks to warn me when something happened in parts of my code. After searching a bit, I came up with this code that would

The Achievers Mindset

The Achievers Mindset

When I tell people that I had 5 startups (yes, see my projects), worked for 2, graduated 1.5 years ago as a Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and straight out of school got hired at one of the largest tech firm, then people are always coming up with the

Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform - A Deep Dive

Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform - A Deep Dive

Facebook decided to open-source the platform that they created to solve end-to-end Reinforcement Learning problems at the scale they are working on. So of course I just had to try this ;) Let's go through this together on how they installed it and what you should do to get

Reinforcement Learning - Terminology

Reinforcement Learning - Terminology

Tags: Machine LearningReinforcement LearningQ LearningArtificial IntelligenceMonte Carlo Reinforcement Learning - An Overview of Today Reinforcement Learning took big leaps recently, so big that they are being used more and more in production environments (just think about Facebook using RL for its notification push system, or even for optimizing the bandwith

Building a Minecraft Puppet Scanner with Event Hub, a NFC 522 Reader and a Raspberry PI

Building a Minecraft Puppet Scanner with Event Hub, a NFC 522 Reader and a Raspberry PI

In Belgium we every year celebrate the coming of "Sinterklaas" on the 6th of December, a celebration for children where this mythologic figure delivers presents for all the children that behaved well that year. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas for more information). To follow this tradition,