How to manipulate date and time in JavaScript JavaScript Date object The Date object in JavaScript is the main element when it comes to handling date and time. It records a single point in time as the milliseconds’ number elapsed since the 1st January 1970 00:00:00 (UTC). This date-time combination is known as the epoch time. As far as JavaScript is concerned, it’s the beginning of time in the world....
In a previous lifetime I used to manage a personalized match making service. Having a natural interest in all things of the heart combined with my work I had become and still am somewhat of an agony aunt. I’ve come to learn that regardless of where I am, Silicon Valley or London the problems faced by singletons are the same. The current online dating industry is worth 3 billion world wide....
One of social media’s biggest obstacles is the amount of time required to do it properly. But it is an obstacle that can be overcome if you put some simple and effective processes in place. In this tutorial I’m going to walk you through a system that will help you stay on top of the bulk of your social media mentions. The best part? Once set up, you only need five minutes a day to make it work for you....
How to name your baby using machine learning The dataset Although I wanted to create a name generator, what I really ended up building was a name predictor. I figured I would find a bunch of descriptions of people (biographies), block out their names, and build a model that would predict what those (blocked out) names should be. Happily, I found just that kind of datasethere, in a Github repo calledwikipedia-biography-datasetby David Grangier....
At this year’s South by Southwest conference, Samsung erected a large screen hub to visualize social media activity at the event, allowing its attendees to view the tweets and check-ins in real time. Several weeks after the conference, the tech company used the data it had curated tocreate an infographicdetailing the volume of social media output that had emanated from the conference goers (a design company I work for helped Samsung create the graphic)....
