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Encode a String to UTF-8 in Java

When working with Strings in Java, we oftentimes need to encode them to a specific charset, such as UTF-8. UTF-8 represents a variable-width character encoding that uses between one and four eight-bit bytes to represent all valid Unicode code points. A code point can represent single characters, but also have...

Branko Ilic

May 05, 2021·10 min read

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One-Hot Encoding

In computer science and electronics, there are quite a few ways to represent data, often called encoding schemes. Each has its own purpose, advantages, and disadvantages. In this short article we'll take a look at one-hot encoding and see what it is, how it compares to other similar schemes, and...

Scott Robinson

Oct 10, 2019·3 min read