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Vin Patel

Vin Patel

Vin Patel builds AI tools, writes books, and shares open-source software. He has 25 years in software. He made Manuscript and AEORank.

Vin Patel (Bhavin Patel) builds AI tools, writes books, and shares open-source software. He has worked in software for 25 years. He created AEORank and Manuscript. He wrote four books, including Drupal 6 Panels Cookbook (Packt) and The AI Advantage. He writes Techfastly by Vin Patel.

The British Library keeps his early technical writing, including a 2001 DNS tutorial. UKCERT has cited it. The article is on this site: Setting up DNS servers, 2001.

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10 min

Why the Online Ad Duopoly is Going to Get Worse?

Google and Facebook continue to dominate the online advertising space even with the self-inflicted security crisis abounding and the …

6 min

Interview with Jennifer Jaiswal on Course Design

Jennifer Jaiswal is an ***Instructional Designer and Technologist*** for the ***Center for Excellence in Learning at Stony Brook University.

8 min

CLASSIFICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS

Any Decision that we made as a buyer or as a business person it belongs to either classification problem or regression problem.

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8 min

Is Your Business on WhatsApp?

WhatsApp started back in 2009 as a simple iPhone app that supported free text messages along with status updates over the internet. The …

7 min

A Review of the Major Crowdfunding (Non-Equity)

Non-equity crowdfunding provides no equity or ownership to those who donate.

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6 min

What Makes JavaScript a Perfect Match for Your Web

Over the last two decades, it has grown to become one of the most popular coding languages that dominate web development. In the beginning, …

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10 min

Online Gaming Platforms

Online and console games are among the big businesses of the world, representing sales of over $130 billion annually, which is nearly equal …

9 min

PIPEDA Canada - Personal Information Protection

PIPEDA is a Canadian law on data privacy that was implemented in 2004 to govern how a private-sector company may collect or use or disclose …

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7 min

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence coming

The United States of America allocates a large part of its Federal budget to its healthcare system. Mandatory spending in 2019 included $1.2 …

7 min

An Executive Primer on MPESA

In the mid-2000s, the CEO of Safaricom, located in Kenya, wanted to create innovative products.

7 min

Everything you wanted to know about Canada's Anti-Spam

The Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) was enforced back in July 2014 to establish some rules and guidelines for sending out commercial …

6 min

Perimeter Defense: Off-line Cyber Threats

In recent years there has been a significant spin on the ways cyber security is weaponized to achieve narrow objectives of Advanced …

9 min

Global Data Protection Regulation

GDPR is triggered to benefit both citizens and businesses by streamlining the digital landscape.

10 min

An Executive Primer on Open Banking

Open banking is when financial information is shared electronically.

7 min

A brief overview of ICO's (Initial Coin Offering)

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a revolutionary crowdfunding tool to solicit investors and accumulate funds for a blockchain startup.

8 min

Everything you wanted to know about Controlling the Assault

Email Campaigns have always been a part of a lot of digital marketing campaigns and have also proven to be extremely effective.

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5 min

Ditch Your Rule-Based Chatbot Strategy for Conversational AI

Marketing Executives around the globe have a view to automating customer service using chatbots. 91% of CEOs think about automating customer …

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6 min

AI in Digital Marketing

It has impacted all the spheres of life, and digital marketing is no exception. Digital marketing has replaced a good part of traditional …

10 min

Hands-On Python for Natural Language Processing 101 ? Part 1

In our previous posts.

10 min

PCI 101?All you need to know about the Payment Card Industry

Payment Card Industry (PCI) is the financial sector that uses all forms of payment electronically.

3 min

Writing Etiquette

You are one of the most integral aspects of Techfastly, and we are happy to have you here.

6 min

DataOps: A Pathway To Accelerate Data Acquisition

Whether your company is dealing with the sudden onset of a market downturn (as we currently experience), or you are dealing with a …

4 min

Artificial Intelligence and Engineering

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have practically been adopted in every other industry, and engineering is no exception.

3 min

Agile for Executives

Agile is a promising alternative to command-and-control-style management.

4 min

Executive Guide to AI

In this day and age, it is crucial to link your company's business needs and data science.

4 min

How Digital Transformation Will Affect the Finance Industry

Technology has provided many benefits to the finance sector.

3 min

Domain-Driven Design and Agile

To begin, we need to go over Domain-Driven Design.

3 min

Driving Healthcare Outcomes Using Active Analytics

Healthcare professionals are in a difficult position where the data that flows through their systems can mean life or death for the people …

4 min

Big Data Analytics has significantly changed the face of business intelligence in the last decade.

3 min

The State of Things- Technology

A digital transformation is rarely a one-time adventure.