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In a Nutshell Serverless computing is the atomization of cloud computing into units of functions, which are usually endpoints. Then, instead of getting billed for the servers that host your application 24/7 (or when your servers are on), you get billed for the execution time of those functions. Migrating to a Stateless Architecture You can ‘cheat’ on the statelessness by linking to databases that hosts your state(s) - this can make sense if your state isn’t something that changes too frequently....

Months ago, I came across this video of a robot hand rotating a cube (in all 3D) to achieve specific configurations of that cube. This is extremely difficult - the robot has 20 degrees of freedom! This got me interested in the idea of reinforcement learning, a framework that allows the development of agents for a wide variety of problems. Luckily, this coincided with OpenAI releasing the fantastic Spinning Up in Deep RL guide, written by Josh Achiam, a Ph....

The Kalman Filter, named after Rudolf E. Kálmán - its principle mastermind, was developed around 1960. In short, it is an optimal algorithm used to estimate a state of a linear system by recursively processing data. To illustrate its importance, our professor constantly reminded us that two things got man to the moon: Fortran and the Kalman Filter. To help us understand the algorithm better, let’s take a practical example for the rest of this introduction....