Services for Running Machine Learning This section will focus on the different services AWS provides for creating, training, and running your own machine learning models. AWS also provides a number of services that make use of prebuilt models, which we’ll focus on later. SageMaker—AWS’s Machine Learning Suite SageMaker is AWS’s fully managed service for creating and training machine learning models. It’s designed to replace all the manual work involved with configuring servers for training and inference....

Tasks in Action As soon as you have finished installing the extension you are ready to start adding new tasks to your list. Enter your task into the “Text Area” and press “Enter” to add the task to the list. Note: Your tasks list will be retained (in the order you set) when you close and then reopen your browser. In just moments you can have your task list ready to go....

Startup Installation for “A Note” is quick and straightforward. Once you have finished the installation you will be presented with the following message window. You can choose to enable server synchronization for your notes if desired (click “Yes”)…for our example we chose to keep everything locally stored on our system (click “No”). After you have made your choice concerning server synchronization you will see your first blank note. Notice the minimal toolbar available at the moment…...

When you signup for a new Tumblr Blog, by default your blog’s address will be your_blog_name.tumblr.com. One of the best reasons to use your own domain name is that you could always move the domain to another blog service if you decide to switch and quit blogging at Tumblr. With your own domain, your blog’s identity is secure, and best of all, once you own a domain it’s free to add it to your Tumblr....

To get started, right-click on your desktop, and click Personalize to open the personalization settings dialog. Click Screen Saver under the themes to change your screensaver settings. Alternately, if you’d rather open the screensaver settings without grabbing your mouse, hit the Win key and enter Screen Saver in the search box, and select Change screen saver. This will open the Screen Saver settings dialog. Select the screensaver you want, then check the box to display the login screen when you exit the screen saver....

While it’s not possible to hide a particular friend from another friend on Facebook, you can hide your entire friend list from a specific user, giving you more control over your privacy. Here, we’ll show you how to hide your friend list on both desktop and mobile. When you hide your friend list from a specific person, when they try to check your list, they won’t see anyone on it....

In a perfect world, getting your computers with different Microsoft operating systems to network would be as easy as clicking a button. With the Windows 7 Homegroup feature, it’s almost that easy. However, getting all three of them to communicate with each other can be a bit of a challenge. Today we’ve put together a guide that will help you share files and printers in whatever scenario of the three versions you might encounter on your home network....

Portability – you can include additional tools in your EXE file that the batch file depends on. Protection – an EXE provides protection for your source script to ensure it is not inadvertently modified. Convenience – Executable files can be pinned to the Windows Start Menu and/or Windows 7 Task Bar. With the script below, you can easily build your own executable file from a batch file, complete with and required embedded tools....

Although it’s not mentioned online as much as newer blogging platforms such as WordPress.com and Tumblr, Blogger is still a very popular blogging platform since it’s free, easy to use, and integrated with Google apps. However, Blogger’s themes often looked rather dated, and and it was difficult or impossible to get a truly professional or even modern look in Blogger. Now, however, that has changed. Blogger has been recently revamped with a new Template Designer....

The short answer is that yes, you will get your money back from most providers. However, in our experience you may need to press the customer support representative a bit. It’s a little annoying and goes against the “no questions asked” part most VPNs advertise their refund policies with, but in most cases you can rest assured your VPN’s money-back guarantee will be honored. That said, in my many years of reviewing VPNs, a few times I didn’t get my money back....

For this demonstration we’re using Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) and Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit) Install Ubuntu Here we will set up a basic dual boot system with the Ubuntu 9.10 disc that will create GRUB as your boot loader. On the Window 7 machine pop in the Ubuntu disc and boot from it. If you experience a problem with the graphics with Ubuntu not displaying correctly, go back to the start screen, hit F4 and select Safe graphics mode....

Assign Drive Letters If you have extra drives like media card and optical disc drives, you might want to do a bit of renaming to keep them straight. Type Disk Management into the search box in the Start menu. Then right-click on the drive you want to change and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. In this example we’re renaming the DVD drive to (E:) this way we can keep our main 2 partitions as (C:) for Windows 7 and (D:) for Vista....

You’ll want to make sure that you’ve got the latest version of Google Maps—head into the Market and check under Downloads to make sure you’re running the latest release. Note: this article is based on a Droid phone running Android 2.2 Froyo. These features are probably not available for previous versions. Enable the Google Maps Labs Features Just open up Google Maps, hit the Menu button, then go to More –> Labs....

Note: Speccy is currently a public beta, so if you’d rather not use beta software, wait to use it until it’s fully released. Speccy is available both in an exe installer and a portable version. Choose the one that works best for your needs, and download. The portable version is especially useful for checking hardware on others’ computers, such as one your considering purchasing at a store. If you use the portable one, simply run it; otherwise, run the installer and set it up on your computer....

Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that automates the deployment and scaling of containerized workloads. Kubernetes has gained a reputation for being complex and unwieldy. Here’s how individual components combine to form a cluster. Defining the Cluster A single Kubernetes installation is termed a “cluster.” Within the cluster, there are one or more Nodes available to run your containers. A Node is a representation of a physical machine that has been joined to the cluster....

If you know you’re going to be using an EC2 instance for a long time, you can commit to a yearly contract to buy the instance at a huge discount when compared to the On-Demand price. Price Depends on Term Length and Upfront Payment Reserved Instances have two options—term length and how much you pay up front, with a longer term length and a larger upfront payment obviously costing less....

Usually you’ll need to navigate to Control Panel to access Administrative Tools. This can be time consuming and annoying for administrators and power users. Add Administrative Tools to Start Menu First right-click on the Start Menu and select Properties. In the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties screen click on Customize. Scroll down System administrative tools and select Display on the All Programs menu and the Start menu. Click Ok to accept the changes and close out of the remaining screens....

Why Is This Useful? For example, you could use this to host the static content and code for your website, then run all of your worker nodes on ECS to handle the actual serving of your content. This gets around the restriction of not storing data on disk, because the volume mount is bound to an external drive that persists across ECS deployments. While you can run Docker containers on ECS with local volumes, having a single, shared volume for the whole deployment can be a very useful tool for many deployments....

Note: We will show you examples in Word, but you can crop images in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. To insert a picture into your Office document, click the Picture button on the Insert tab. The Picture Tools format ribbon should now be active. If not, click on the image. New in Office 2010 is the ability to see the area of the photo that you are keeping in addition to what will be cropped out....

Note: this article is meant for programmers or people pretending to be programmers. The general idea is that we’ll remove the Windows Explorer context menu items from the registry with one script, and then add the registry entries back with another script. To make it a little simpler and prevent the annoying Regedit prompts, what you can do is create a shortcut to regedit.exe, pass in the location of the registry hack file we’ve provided, and make sure to use the /s switch for silent mode....