Weissig Notes https://notes.weissig.me/ The blog of Yves Weissig Hugo -- gohugo.ioenyves@weissig.me (Yves Weissig) yves@weissig.me (Yves Weissig)Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:25:00 -0400 Building Dawn.Chat https://notes.weissig.me/2021/12/building-dawn-chat/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:25:00 -0400 Author https://notes.weissig.me/2021/12/building-dawn-chat/

Over at FORTYEIGHT we build the transparency as a service (TaaS) platform of the future. The pandemic and the new remote work life has not just impacted us but millions of people worldwide. So we decided to build a product leveraging our TaaS platform in order to help people connect more easily during these times, strengthen team communication and positively impact teams. Dawn.Chat gives users the ability to speak to each other during a friendly wakeup call

]]> Building a Simple Quiz Chatbot With Twilio Autopilot and Serverless https://notes.weissig.me/2021/07/building-a-simple-quiz-chatbot-with-twilio-autopilot-and-serverless/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0400 Author https://notes.weissig.me/2021/07/building-a-simple-quiz-chatbot-with-twilio-autopilot-and-serverless/

The first chatbot can be dated back to 1966 when ELIZA was created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Since then chatbots have developed significantly. Users interact via text or text-to-speech, and implementations range from detecting input using regular expressions and returning scripted responses to fully conversational AI featuring natural language processing, think Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.

]]> How To Set up Your Terraform Project for Multiple Environments https://notes.weissig.me/2021/04/how-to-set-up-your-terraform-project-for-multiple-environments/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0400 Author https://notes.weissig.me/2021/04/how-to-set-up-your-terraform-project-for-multiple-environments/

Even in small- to medium-sized projects you’ll want to have an infrastructure setup to run multiple instances, or environments of your software / system. This article describes two ways of realizing this using Terraform, the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches and offers sample code to get you started.

]]> How To Build Beautiful Maps With Folium and Leaflet https://notes.weissig.me/2021/03/how-to-build-beautiful-maps-with-folium-and-leaflet/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:22:00 -0400 Author https://notes.weissig.me/2021/03/how-to-build-beautiful-maps-with-folium-and-leaflet/

If you like working with data you’re probably very familiar with Python and you know about the power of visualizations to make the data accessible to your readers.

However Python is not the best tool for visualizations. Enter Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library which creates mobile-friendly maps, has a small footprint, comes with a lot of map layers out of the box and has several more amazing features.

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