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Lab Notes: Setting Up MediaPipe on Android for Gesture Recognition

Growth Acceleration Partners | July 19, 2022

Mobile App Development

Lab Notes: Setting Up MediaPipe on Android for Gesture Recognition

This series details how to set up a framework for live machine learning and computer vision on Windows and Linux devices via MediaPipe.

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What we’ve learned leading a fully remote internship

Growth Acceleration Partners | June 28, 2022

Modernize & Mobilize, Software & Data Engineering

What we’ve learned leading a fully remote internship

Key takeaways we've learned while migrating to a fully remote internship program as a small company, with a distributed team.

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Lab Notes: An Introduction to Android Jetpack Compose

Growth Acceleration Partners | June 14, 2022

Mobile App Development

Lab Notes: An Introduction to Android Jetpack Compose

Android Jetpack Compose is a game-changing fundamental rethink of UI development. Learn to write composable functions in Kotlin to generate UI components.

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The Health of Your Technology Partner

Joyce Durst | June 2, 2022

Modernize & Mobilize

The Health of Your Technology Partner

In this article:  Values and company culture translate into a healthy partnership  Economic well being is a signal for a healthy partner A people first approach is crucial  Our recent recognition as a bootstrapped company reminded me of the discipline that was indispensable to GAP’s founding. Building GAP from the ground up with no outside […]

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Writing Throwaway code, Part II: Moving to interactive notebooks in Ruby and Visual Studio Code

Growth Acceleration Partners | June 1, 2022

Software & Data Engineering

Writing Throwaway code, Part II: Moving to interactive notebooks in Ruby and Visual Studio Code

Interactive notebooks aren't just for data scientists or Python developers. It's easy to set up a Ruby backed sandbox using Visual Studio Code's Jupyter compatible notebook support.

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How to Evolve Beyond a One-Dimensional Strategy

Growth Acceleration Partners | May 18, 2022

Technology Architecture Assessment

How to Evolve Beyond a One-Dimensional Strategy

In this article we’ll review how companies can evolve beyond a one-dimensional strategy: The pitfalls of a one-dimensional strategy Strategies provide the framework for collaboration Decision-makers are crucial  Strategies create sustainable project flow One of the most common, yet avoidable mistakes I see when companies decide to embrace technological modernization is launching a project with […]

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Lab Notes: TensorFlow for Time Series Prediction, Part 3 – LSTMs & Multi-Step Forecasts

Growth Acceleration Partners | May 18, 2022

Machine Learning & AI

Lab Notes: TensorFlow for Time Series Prediction, Part 3 – LSTMs & Multi-Step Forecasts

In part 3 of our simple single-layer neural network TensorFlow series, we attempt to use Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) for learning and predicting sequences in a time series.

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Writing Throwaway Code, Part I: A file at a time using Ruby and Bundler inline

Growth Acceleration Partners | April 13, 2022

DevSecOps, Software & Data Engineering

Writing Throwaway Code, Part I: A file at a time using Ruby and Bundler inline

This article provides insights into how our backend developer sometimes leverages throwaway code. Maybe you’ll learn something to apply to your next learning venture.

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Lab Notes: Looking at NestJS framework for Web Apps – Overview, Performance, Thoughts

Growth Acceleration Partners | March 22, 2022

Software & Data Engineering, Software Development Engineering

Lab Notes: Looking at NestJS framework for Web Apps – Overview, Performance, Thoughts

NestJS is an open-source and scalable framework for building server-side web apps. We’ll discuss NestJS performance, overview, thoughts, and pitfalls.

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A Designer’s Introduction to Digital Accessibility – Part I

Growth Acceleration Partners | February 21, 2022

UI/UX Design & UI Development

A Designer’s Introduction to Digital Accessibility – Part I

Accessibility can be difficult to get into, but that's what we're here for. This article is packed with introductory knowledge on the subject and will steer you in the right direction for learning more.

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