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Have you ever wanted to use Redux, but you didn’t because it requires too much boilerplate code? Configuring a Redux store is complicated and you need several packages to get Redux to work with React. Now, there is a much easier and faster way to integrate Redux into your React project: Redux Toolkit. We will cover the first part of the story in this article. In part II, we will go deeper into using Redux Toolkit and its latest addition: RTK Query.

So, we talked about how we can use neural networks to build a face recognition system. Then we talked about word embeddings, a method for representing textual data. In this article, we are going to talk about all the steps in a typical machine learning project, from start to finish. Are you ready? “Yeah!”—you shout. Let’s go!

Just think of the number of objects that Google Maps has to store to support everything we do while using the application - all the buildings in the world, all the roads, rivers, terrain information, traffic… On the other hand, users will often expect instant or close to instant responsiveness of the application while moving on the map and zooming in and out. So, how do we accomplish that?

Imagine a scenario. You are working on a new complex feature. Your team releases to production every two weeks, but to complete the feature, you need more than that. You can always create a feature branch and postpone merging to the main branch until everything is done, but this brings some risks. There is another approach you can use: a technique called feature flags.

In this article, we will put together some of the basic spatial data types and operations while leveraging PostGIS to build something that resembles a real-world application that can be useful for our daily lives. The focus will be on the database layer of the application, as that’s where most of the GIS magic happens, but we will ultimately build a full-stack application featuring PostGIS database, Java Spring Boot back-end, and HTML/JavaScript front-end.

From adding numbers to translating sentences, it’s all just simple operations on binary data. “But how is it even possible to operate on textual data?” Good question! Let’s find out.