Category: Miscellaneous
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How to Invest in US Real Estate, If You’re Not a Citizen
While just about everyone has considered real estate as an investment at some point in time, many people pass it over. The number 1 reason people don’t invest in real estate is the perceived risk of it. That could come from a number of factors, but often it’s because you don’t live geographically near the…
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Top 10 Best and Worst Passports in the World for 2018
Henley and Partners have released 2018 Henley Passport index rankings, again ranked Germany’s passport as the best passport in the world, followed by Singapore passport having the most visa free travel countries. The worst passports are Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia The Henley Passport Index is the original and most authoritative passport index, with historical…
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5 Tips for Finding the Right People for Your Small Business
For small businesses, the impact of hiring the right people is more significant in comparison to a larger corporation. Recruits chosen to work for the company can affect its ability to succeed. Scouting for talent is also slightly more challenging for small business entrepreneurs. More often than not, larger corporations either have a dedicated team…
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How to install HP Laserjet 1020 driver for Mac OSX?
HP Laserjet 1020 printer model is quite old and outdated and officially does not support Mac’s but there is a workaround if done correctly, you can use the printer with your Mac’s. This is what you need to do. Download HP driver bundle https://support.apple.com/kb/dl907?locale=en_US Turn on the HP laserjet 1020 printer and connect to your Mac…
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The Complete SCCM Certification Course Guide
Payscale sets the salary of a configuration manager in the U.S. at $82,000 on an annual basis. Indeed supports that figure, with a slighter higher average, at $82,239, a figure that meets the national average. A number of factors affect that figure—geography, being at the top of the list, followed by career length. If you…
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Dubai 96h transit visa only valid for 14 days
Dubai gives 96 hour transit is great for travellers who want to visit UAE for less than 4 days. You can apply for this visa at emirates website only before 14 days of your trip and pay USD 70.85. You must have confirmed air tickets to a 3rd destination through emirates or any other airline, hotel booking, and…
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50 Amazing countries Indians can travel without visa
Indian passport is ranked 76th in the World but still you can make the most out of it. Believe it or not, you can use just your indian passport (valid atleast for 6 months) to travel to these amazing countries without applying for a visa. Some countries require pre-registration for e-visa. Please be patient, as…
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Running Word2vec in Nvidia GPU
Word2vec is a amazing tool which automatically picks up the relationships with words or other way of saying is similarities. Unfortunately there is only CPU implementation available with Google for now. I was running GoogleNews-2012 (1GB) text corpus using the tool and it took about 12 hours to generate vectors. Running the same supporting Nvidia…
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Face detection of grayscale images in OpenCV
If you have grayscale images given to you in CSV format (from kaggle), it is very easy to dump the images into numpy and then directly pass the numpy array to openCV to detect faces, eye, mouth or whatever using the haar cascades. The tutorial in opencv website http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/doc/py_tutorials/py_objdetect/py_face_detection/py_face_detection.html only shows the example of color images…
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Disabling ipv6 fixes slow and unstable Internet in Ubuntu
I have installed ubuntu14 numerous times, i have seen that the internet is slow compared to windows or mac osx. I decided to take a deeper look into it. The speed is much better in command line terminal or through ethernet, but very slow in wifi and mobile broadband. The wifi is totally unstable with…