I use Jekyll and GitHub Pages to host my website. Every now and then, I get the following message
Usually, you can do nothing about it and the website would still work. However, it is important to fix these dependency issues to make sure that it remains secure. In this post I will explain how I do it - hopefully it will be useful for you too.
2025-05 Update: in the past, this post provided instructions to use Anaconda. However, recently I fell out of love with it, moved to Miniforge and never looked back.
Miniforge is a fantastic open-source edition of Conda perfect for managing your environments and packages in your Data Science projects. It comes with its own package command prompt, which is very useful on its own. However, what is even better is incorporating it into your Windows Terminal. For example, this gives you more options regarding what you can customize, it even allows you to have different tabs for each open command prompt.
In this post, I will share the steps that I followed to incorporate Miniforge’s Prompt into it.
The federated learning landscape is evolving incredibly fast. This is in big part due to its fantastic community, which is pushing the boundaries of what decentralized analysis can do. Moreover, the intrinsic nature of this technology promotes collaborations across different parties. As one of these collaborations, I am thrilled to announce a partnership between vantage6 and DataSHIELD.
I absolutely love the 76057 set (Spider-Man: Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Battle). I think it is one of the best LEGO Marvel sets ever made. It has something for everyone: fantastic selection of minifigs, tons of play features, and a very solid, detailed bridge build. However, my least favorite part was the road of the bridge. The black plates made it look a bit too bland and artificial (even for a plastic toy).
On 2021, LEGO released a new type of road plates (set 60304), which are very easy to couple to other builds (in contrast to the previous versions). As soon as I saw them, I knew I had to try incorporating them into the original bridge. I must say I am very happy with the results!
For this year’s May the 4th, I wanted to create something special. This is what I came up with: an All Terrain Armored Transport using the MINDSTORMS 51515 set, or AT-AT MS5 in short. There was a motorized AT-AT build in the Dark Side Developer Kit (9754). However, since it was released on 2000, I feel it was in urgent need of an update. What better than using the MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor set 51515. The robot was programmed using Python.
Unfortunately, LEGO’s Avengers sets haven’t always been on par with their corresponding MCU counterparts. Particularly, I think it sucks that it was only until 2019 that we got a build of a Leviathan… from a movie that was released on 2012. Not only that, but I think that the build looks very small, almost like of a baby Leviathan.
Therefore, I decided to take matters on my own hand. Using pieces exclusively from two small Leviathans, I created a Super Leviathan.
One of the projects that I have enjoyed the most as part of my job at IKNL has been the application of explainable machine learning to survival predictions. Well, today I woke up with the happy news that our latest study in this field has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports!
The abstract is as follows:
I am very happy to share that we have officially released VANTAGE6 version 2.0! This time, we named it after a Japanese vantage point: Harukas.
In this project, I built an Armored Assault Tank using the MINDSTORMS 51515 set, or AAT MS5 in short. It is inspired by the Battle Droid on STAP of the Droid Developer Kit and the AAT of the Dark Side Developer Kit. Moreover, it is powered by the MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor set 51515 and programmed using Python.
I had a complete blast (re)building the Battle Droid on STAP from the Droid Developer Kit (9748). Thus, the next natural step was to give a model of the Dark Side Developer Kit (9754) the same treatment. The original set came with three different booklets (1, 2, 3) with instructions to build a Droid Starfighter, a Destroyer Droid (aka Droideka), and an AT-AT. However, in contrast to the Droid Developer Kit, this set didn’t have a CD. Instead, the booklets had pictures of the alternative builds. Among these, you could find the Armored Assault Tank (or AAT for short).
