This might sound simple, but when I started the habit

9 min readDec 2, 2020

The left side of the card showed me that the Ross Ice Shelf (and the Ross Sea) comes up for Antarctica way more often than I would have guessed otherwise. “Ice shelf” ended up being one of my strongest quick associations for Antarctica going into the round, and it ended up being just enough information for me to get the answer right. The total value of these questions ($3600 from the last two, plus $2000 from an eventually doubled-up $1000 clue) ended up being $5600, which was just more than my final lead of $5300 going into Final Jeopardy. We all ended up getting the Final Jeopardy question right, so if I didn’t have that lead at the end, I wouldn’t have been able to walk a way with a win.

I don’t have a deep understanding — or any understanding — of my own white heritage, and I suspect that’s not rare. I vaguely know that some of my family might have been Scottish and others French Canadian. My personal story is rootless, a child of wanderlusting parents who picked up and moved us nearly every year. We never attended family reunions — I am not sure there were even any to attend. My own birth certificate reads one state, but by the time I was brought home from the hospital, my parents lived in another.

Everyone comes to Jeopardy with different backgrounds, abilities, and skill sets, all of which play a role in how they do on the show. I didn’t think I would be the best pure trivia person in the studio that day, but I knew I was pretty good at finding ways to extract value from data, and I was determined to turn that into a competitive advantage. I’ve done a lot of interesting data science applications and projects in the last couple years, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to top using that knowledge to win the show I’ve wanted to be on for as long as I can remember.Now, let’s come to Tensors- they are basically higher dimensional representations/generalisations of conventional matrices and vectors. It could even be a 1-D matrix, a 2-D matrix, a 4-D matrix, or an n-dimensional matrix! So we can have multi-dimensional arrays beyond a single list in a Tensor. That’s it- that is what a tensor really is in the most basic sense. Just like we can assign variables values in conventional programming, we could do the same in Tensorflow. Just that there is a specialised way to do it. Similar, just like you could perform multiple operations on conventional variables (or constants) in programming, we can do that with Tensors. We can slice tensors and select a portion of its elements, have various data types for tensors (integers, floating point, strings etc.) and much more.I want a story about who I am that I can tell. I think that’s what the woman with the sign wants too. We are not alone in that — it’s a very human thing. But as white Southerners, she and I both have a choice in what story we tell. We can claim labor strikes, or we can claim the Klan.

Tensorflow is a buzz word nowadays in this exciting world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially as Deep Learning continues to rapidly accelerate progress in AI. But for someone just starting with Tensorflow, the experience can be scary and daunting, as the terminologies and usage of the beautiful library can be confusing for complete beginners. When I first started learning Tensorflow, I faced similar challenges, and hope to simplify some of the intricacies through this article. This article requires a basic understanding of Python to get a clearer picture of Tensorflow.

Let’s import the tensorflow module using the golden keyword import! And yes, you could check what version of the library you’re using by simply printing its version attribute.

One way to measure the fear of those in power is by the severity and harshness of their response to community organizing. If we use this measurement, it is clear that organizing within class and across race is one of the biggest threats to those who wish to hoard wealth and power in the United States. I think often of Grundy County, Tennessee’s Highlander Center, a place founded on the idea that regular people — Black, white, and Brown — can be agents for change. The center has been repeatedly bombed over the last 87 years; the most recent attack was in 2019 when the headquarters was burnt all the way to the ground. A friend of mine works there and told me that through the debris and char, he could still see the swastikas the perpetrators had spray-painted on the wall.

These stories weren’t in my history book, and they weren’t taught to the woman holding the sign. These stories have been written out of history for clear political purposes, but we can find them and learn from them. We can’t choose who we come from, who our ancestors were, or what the color of our skin is, but we sure as hell can choose who and what we venerate.

Despite the backlash and the near-repealing of all the rights that the 14th Amendment was supposed to guarantee, multiracial power continued to be built across the South, especially in settings where class solidarity could be actualized. In Coal Creek, Tennessee, workers rose up in arms when the mine owners tried to replace free, mostly white, coal miners with convict labor leased by the state government. Most convicts were former slaves who had been arrested on various “Black Code” transgressions as a way to re-establish a cheap Southern labor pool for business owners. For over a year, the free miners repeatedly attacked and burned area prison stockades to free the convicts — notably not attacking the laborers as the competition but instead understanding the threat was the system itself.

The very first step is to install the beautiful library! pip is all you need here. Note that if you’re using Google Colab (which is very similar to Jupyter notebooks in Python), you don’t even need to install this library as it is already installed and available ready for use. Thank you, Google!
Many of us have Confederate soldiers in our past, but it’s hard to know which of those soldiers wanted to fight and which were conscripted. Probably somewhere in our lineage you can find a distant relative who put their body in harm’s way to protect children in Montgomery, one who packed their bags and slipped away with the kids from the cruelty to start a new life without the terror of patriarchy and white supremacy. Maybe in our family ancestry, we have a jailer who left the cage unlatched, a grocery store clerk who refused to deny service and lost his job for it, a sister who spoke up at the dinner table only to be turned away and shunned.
We are all familiar with data types in programming, right? 1, 2, 3 etc. are integers, numbers with decimal points (1.5,3.141,5.2555 etc.) are floating point values and another common one is strings (such as “Hello. How are you today?”). When we have a collection of multiple elements together, we generally term that as a list (e.g. [1,4,7]).

The basic (and simplest) way to describe Tensorflow is that it is a cool library in Python (and probably other programming languages as well) which allows us to create computational graphs to develop neural network models. The basic element which comprises Tensorflow objects is a Tensor, and all computations which are performed occur in these Tensors. So literally (in my words), these Tensors flow in an orderly manner when you develop any neural network model, and give rise to the final outputs when evaluated. So yes, learning what tensors really are and how we can use them is the first step to getting started with Tensorflow.Everyone comes to Jeopardy with different backgrounds, abilities, and skill sets, all of which play a role in how they do on the show. I didn’t think I would be the best pure trivia person in the studio that day, but I knew I was pretty good at finding ways to extract value from data, and I was determined to turn that into a competitive advantage. I’ve done a lot of interesting data science applications and projects in the last couple years, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to top using that knowledge to win the show I’ve wanted to be on for as long as I can remember.Similarly, in Louisiana’s lumberyards, Black and white workers together organized wildcat strikes in the early 1900s after the timber baron’s extended their workday and cut wages. The strikes were crushed, but their organizing led to the creation of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (BTW), which grew its multiracial membership to 25,000 members in just one year. Because of local segregationist law, the Black and white members of BTW had to meet separately, but soon they decided to ignore the law and create a multiracial delegation. The company responded by attacking a union meeting, killing three union members, injuring 40, and arresting 49. In another town, 1,300 Black, white, and indigenous workers went on strike together only to be attacked by vigilante mobs organized by the timber companies.

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