Posts by Lab651 Team
Using My Time More Efficiently | Ryan Inman | #30DaysOfLearning
There are 168 hours in a week and you feel as though you’re always busy. Try as you may, you can’t add any hours to a week unless it’s daylight savings and even then you have to pay that back later in the year. What are your options to redeem the time? Quit your job…
Read MoreAutomating Weld Inspection
Currently, CWI’s rely on manual measurements and hand calculations – which is both time consuming and error-prone.
Our customer travels the world as a commercial welder and saw an opportunity to improve the reliability and efficiency of welding inspection – by automating the process.
Read MoreReturning to React Native: “Loading dependency graph…” forever. | Jake Berendes | #30DaysOfLearning
If you are new to React Native or coming back to it after having been away for a while, this five or so minute read will likely save you a couple days of agony. The promises React Native offers are great but when the “Getting Started” didn’t actually get me anywhere I had to investigate. I hope to save you from that pain and keep you from giving up entirely on React Native.
Read MoreWhere Did All My Time Go? | Ryan Inman | #30DaysofLearning
When we were all ordered to shelter in place back in March, I thought that I would have plenty of extra time on my hands. My commute time was down to zero, social gatherings are canceled and I can work from the comfort of my home and set my own schedule. In theory, extended work from home sounds like an introvert’s dream, right? So why did I feel less productive, less motivated, and also have less free time?
Read MoreLeadership Tactics | Troy Pongratz | #30DaysofLearning
The Good Bits Book: Leadership Strategy and TacticsAuthor: Jocko Willink “You can never rest on what you have accomplished in the past, you always need to improve for today”. Jocko Willink Leadership has been more of interest to me as of late so I have read a number of books on the subject. Leadership is…
Read MoreRobert Waddell | The People
Featured Employee Robert Waddell is the Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Lab651 and will be celebrating his 3-year work anniversary this month. Robert brings ingenuity and creativity to all of his work, and we are lucky to have him. Get to know Robert 1 / What game or movie universe would you most like to live…
Read MoreAWS Certification | Todd Cochran | #30DaysofLearning
AWS Certification Amazon Web Services have become a ubiquitous part of today’s technology landscape. I’ve worked with bits and pieces of their platform on an ad hoc basis in the past, but I never studied it in depth or looked into certification. It’s been many years since I’ve worked in a DevOps role, but cloud…
Read MoreWorkplace Wellness – At Home
Office culture as we know it is quickly shifting. In recent news, large tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook have announced WFH options for employees through the end of the year as well as permanent options for some employees. As we adjust to this new way of working, there may be some inevitable struggles…
Read MoreGenerating Bad Movie Reviews with Tensorflow: Part 1 | Nathan Salazar | #30DaysofLearning
For my #30DaysofLearning initiative, I chose to take the 4-part specialization in Tensorflow offered through Coursera. It covers Dense Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, and their applications to processing images, natural language, and time-series data. As part of the segment on natural language processing, we go through an example of how to…
Read MoreThe Art Behind Bread Making | Breon Nagy | #30DaysofLearning
I enjoy the art and science of cooking. I’m a huge fan of Alton Brown, J. Kenji López-Alt, and Joshua Weissman. In addition to being known for high-quality recipes and content, they also explain what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. While I consider myself an avid home cook, baking is something that has…
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