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Month: November 2018

Building a Simple Chatbot from Scratch in Python (using NLTK)

Building a Simple Chatbot from Scratch in Python (using NLTK)

Building a Simple Chatbot from Scratch in Python (using NLTK) SOURCE: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/building-a-simple-chatbot-in-python-using-nltk-7c8c8215ac6e Source: eWeek Gartner estimates that by 2020, chatbots will be handling 85 percent of customer-service interactions; they are already handling about 30 percent of transactions now. I am sure you’ve heard about Duolingo: a popular language-learning app, which gamifies practicing a new language. It is quite popular due to its innovative styles of teaching a foreign language.The concept is simple: five to ten minutes of interactive training a day…

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Why use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation

Why use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation

Why use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation (by Gruntwork) SOURCE: https://blog.gruntwork.io/why-we-use-terraform-and-not-chef-puppet-ansible-saltstack-or-cloudformation-7989dad2865c Update: we took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running! This is Part 1 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In the intro to the series, we discussed why every company should be using infrastructure-as-code (IAC). In this post, we’re going to discuss why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice. If…

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