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How To Create an Intelligent Chatbot in Python Using the spaCy NLP Library — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an Intelligent Chatbot in Python Using the spaCy NLP Library

In this tutorial, you will create a chatbot that not only helps users simplify their interactions with a software system, but is also intelligent enough to communicate with the user in natural language (American English in this tutorial). The chatbot will use the OpenWeather API to tell the user what the current weather is in any city of the world, but you can implement your chatbot to handle any use case where and API is available.

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How to Use and Understand Action Objects and the cloud provider API — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use and Understand Action Objects and the cloud provider API

In version two of the cloud provider API, each event that occurs creates [an “Action” object](https://www.progressiverobot.com/). These serve both as records of events that have occurred in the past and as a way to check the progress of an on-going event. From creating a new Droplet to transferring an image to a new region, an Action object will provide you with useful information about the event. This article will explain Action objects and show how they can be used in practice.

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Putting the 'A' in JAMStack With Headless CMS — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

Putting the ‘A’ in JAMStack With Headless CMS

Learn JAMStack (Javacscript, APIs, and Markup) best practices, and how to set up your API layer by running headless CMS on cloud servers. Get a brief overview of three the most popular free, open source CMS platforms – Wordpress, Ghost, and Strapi – and how to use them for your backend APIs.

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How To Use Cloud-Config For Your Initial Server Setup — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Cloud-Config For Your Initial Server Setup

A cloud-config file is a special script that is used to define configuration details for your server as it is being brought online for the first time. These are often used for completing common tasks that a user would normally have to log into the server to accomplish. In this guide, we will run through how to do some initial configuration of an Ubuntu 14.04 server using a cloud-config file with our metadata service.

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