I have been doing #100daysofcode with Python. I use pybites and realpython.com for inspiration. I do one code puzzle off of pybites and I research language internals in the python documentation side by side with realpython.com. realpython.com has an AI code mentor which is pretty neat. It is in beta stage but it proves highly useful for the rudiments I struggle with at times. Recently I was confused on a use of lambda, or an anonymous function, in the key parameter of sorted(). There was a trick with sorting numbers and using .lower() in the key so you could sort words case-insensitive. The AI Code Mentor made short order of this with a great explanation. I've been considering training for the Cisco Certified CCNA in the Fall; I want to take an online course on Windows command line as well. I have been slacking off with studying Machine Learning in Python. The math is a little above my head and it is quite intimidating but I did find a resource called fastAI. It seems to be a wrapper program over PyTorch that simplifies implementing neural nets and I got a book on fastAI that is quite digestible. It is not as math heavy and intensive as another book I have been reading on scikit-learn. It seems sikit-learn is not the new hotness anymore and PyTorch is what is actually used by AI researchers currently. I am thinking of spending some time as well with fastAI and build an app with fastAPI another framerwork I have tried to dabble in the past couple months. fastAPI seems to be faster than flask because it supports async concurrency down to its bones. I have not been keeping up with the OSINT research though I read the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and NYTimes to keep abreast of current events. It seems the strait of hormuz from marinetraffic.com is clearly not flowing which is stating the obvious. They seem to allow some ships through but it could be wrong with AIS signals being spoofed and scrambled, it is hard to tell what is going on at sea. There are ships edging closer that fly the flag of Comoros which is an obscure east african island nation. There are also vessels that fly the flag of the Marshall Islands that are unassailed off of the coast of Iran. One ship is called BERN and is destined for the Suez Canal in Egypt,IMO# of 9276171. I guess Iran is going to wheel and deal allowing some ships to pass if they pay a fee and are not associated with American entities.

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