Expert Contributors Articles

Abdishakur Hassan

Updated on May 22, 2025

A command-line interface (CLI) allows you to navigate, run programs or configure your computer system by entering text commands. Here’s what makes a CLI distinct from a GUI.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on May 22, 2025

Nanorobotics is an interdisciplinary field that has the potential to revolutionize a wide range of industries. Here’s everything you need to know and where we might find nanorobots in the future.

Kamil Krzyk

Updated on May 22, 2025

A cost function in machine learning quantifies the error between a model’s predicted values and actual values, letting us measure how well a model's parameters fit given data. I’ll introduce you to two often-used regression cost functions: MAE and MSE.

Nikola Ilic

Updated on May 22, 2025

Dynamic filtering allows Power BI users to customize how data is displayed and interact with the data without using bookmarks or buttons. Follow these steps to create a dynamic filter in Power BI.

Akshay Kumar

Updated on May 22, 2025

Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents binary data in an ASCII string format. It allows data stored in binary to travel across text channels.

Debby Nirwan

Updated on May 22, 2025

A lambda in C++ is an expression used to simplify code when defining anonymous function objects (functors). Lambdas allow for functors to be defined directly where they are invoked or be passed as function arguments.

Philip Wilkinson

Updated on May 22, 2025

A Python linked list is an abstract data type that presents a linear collection of data organized as nodes that then link to another node. Build your own with this guide. 

Paras Varshney

Updated on May 22, 2025

Quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plots are used to check whether data follows a theoretical distribution by comparing the quantiles of the observed and theoretical data. Take a closer look at how Q-Q plots work and how to interpret them.

Max Reynolds

Updated on May 22, 2025

SQL functions are prewritten actions that can be called on a cell, record or database to flexibly manipulate and extract information for further analysis. Take a closer look at the main types of SQL functions and how to use each.

Akshay Kumar

Updated on May 22, 2025

Binary search is an efficient algorithm for searching a sorted list of data to find an item. Here’s an overview of how it works, how it compares to linear search, how to implement it in Python and its benefits and downsides.