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Familiarity with basic networking concepts, configurations, and Python is helpful, but no prior AI or advanced programming ...

Use the Python Netmiko module to automate switches, routers and firewalls from multiple vendors. I frequently find myself in the position of confronting "hostile" networks. By hostile, I mean that ...

Neural network dropout is a technique that can be used during training. It is designed to reduce the likelihood of model overfitting. You can think of a neural network as a complex math equation that ...

In the first article in this series focusing on the top 5 languages for systems admins, I wrote about not being too fond of programming. To recap, it’s not because I don’t see the value behind it, ...

If old Python networking and web libraries aren't fast enough for you, these new additions break speed limits and unleash new possibilities Faster, simpler, more “Pythonic” — those are the rallying ...

Microsoft Research data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey explains what neural network Glorot initialization is and why it's the default technique for weight initialization. In this article I explain what ...

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