Last Sunday, the governing center-right party “New Democracy” (ND) won the Greek National elections with an immense, and a bit unexpected, difference from the loyal opposition center-left party “SYRIZA”. Despite the fact that polls had correctly predicted the reelection of ND and almost everyone was expecting it, almost no one…

Introduction Generative AI models have undeniably sparked a revolution across numerous industries. Problems that were once considered challenging in the design and production process of various products now appear insignificant in light of the vast possibilities presented by these models. While exploring several applications of Generative AI models during the last…

Introduction and intuition During the last 4 months, I have moved to Eindhoven, a small city located in The Netherlands, to pursue a Master’s degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. But you know what seems very different in The Netherlands for a group of Mediterranean friends and fellow students ? The weather…

Introduction Python 3.7 introduced a new and really interesting decorator called dataclass. Despite this decorator offers no new functionality, which means that it does not offer a new possibility to python developers in terms of implementation, it makes it way easier to define classes oriented to store data. Think of it…

Introduction Card games were always fascinating for both players and mathematicians due to the factor of uncertainty or, in less formal words, luck. For many years, they were also the moving force of relatively modern areas of mathematics such as probability theory and statistics. What is a Monte Carlo simulation? In layman’s terms, Monte Carlo simulation is…

Introduction If you are into solving data science and / or machine learning problems using Python you have probably come across Pandas, one of the most common data analysis and manipulation packages for Python. Pandas stores data in a form called DataFrame, which is a 2 dimensional data structure (like a…

Introduction Being a professional software software engineer during the last 7 years (an an amateur for way longer than that) has taught me a few things. One of them is definitely how to acquire new tech related skills in a super-fast and easy way. So, I am more than sure that…

We are in the middle of 2022 and everybody is talking about the “next big thing” on the internet: Web 3. …

There are many good reason to avoid them… — Introduction Some years ago, in the very start of my career as a Software Engineer, I was a HUGE fan of REST API generators. There are many tools out there for almost any back-end stack (like LoopBack for node.JS) …