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Mindful Design: What the UX World Can Learn from Yoga | This article is reprinted from the September 2013 issue of UXPA Magazine.
“Yoga will change your life.” I will never forget these words that my husband, who has practiced a tradition of meditation for 25 years, said to me when I told him I was signing up for yoga teacher training. My intention was not to become a yoga... | https://medium.com/design-your-life/mindful-design-what-the-ux-world-can-learn-from-yoga-20146a763072 | ['Irene Au'] | 2016-08-17 16:53:02.364000+00:00 | ['Yoga', 'UX', 'Design', 'Creativity', 'Mindfulness'] |
How Coronavirus Re-Crowned Corona Beer as the World’s Leading Lager | CORONAVIRUS
How Coronavirus Re-Crowned Corona Beer as the World’s Leading Lager
Corona lager sales are up 40% — looks like I’m not the only one who thought of the joke
Photo by Jirka Matousek on Flickr / CC-2.0
In July 2020, the city where I live eased lockdown restrictions. For the first time in months, I went to ... | https://medium.com/2-minute-madness/how-coronavirus-re-crowned-corona-beer-as-the-worlds-leading-lager-f5cbe2d6669f | ['David Majister'] | 2020-12-26 14:27:13.139000+00:00 | ['Coronavirus', 'Marketing', 'Pandemic', 'Business', 'Linguistics'] |
Getting Organised to Quickly Prototype Boto3 Automation Tools in Jupyter Notebooks | A little bit of organisation goes a long way. I would like to share with you some organisational practices I have evolved that in my experience make it quicker to move from a python/boto3 prototype to a production automation tool.
To demonstrate them I am going to walk through the creation of a python class that uses ... | https://stuart-heginbotham.medium.com/getting-organised-to-more-quickly-prototype-boto3-automation-tools-in-jupyter-notebooks-8c1850e53047 | ['Stuart Heginbotham'] | 2020-12-11 14:38:21.493000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Boto3', 'AWS'] |
What is Production System in Artificial Intelligence? | A production system is based on a set of rules about behavior. These rules are a basic representation found helpful in expert systems, automated planning, and action selection. It also provides some form of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will talk about the production system in artificial intelligence in ... | https://medium.com/edureka/production-system-in-ai-7cc2b453aa47 | ['Sahiti Kappagantula'] | 2020-11-04 14:28:18.313000+00:00 | ['Production', 'Rules', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Quantifying hard retinal exudates using Growing Neural Gas algorithms | Just as in the previous posts, I’ll leave the rigorous maths for the companion notebook, and stick to explaining the general idea. Just like Self-Organising Feature Maps, GNGs are iterative algorithms. However, unlike SOFMs, they do not require any initial specification of the number of neurons — as the name suggests, ... | https://medium.com/starschema-blog/growing-neural-gas-models-theory-and-practice-b63e5bbe058d | ['Chris Von Csefalvay'] | 2019-01-30 19:31:16.403000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science'] |
Goku: Building a scalable and high performant time series database system | By Rui Zhang | Engineer, Storage & Caching
Co-authored by Jinghan Xu, Jian Wang & Tian-Ying Chang, Engineers
At Pinterest, developers rely on Statsboard to monitor their systems and discover issues. A reliable and efficient monitoring system is very important for development velocity. Historically, we’ve used OpenTSD... | https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/goku-building-a-scalable-and-high-performant-time-series-database-system-a8ff5758a181 | ['Pinterest Engineering'] | 2018-09-14 21:37:53.010000+00:00 | ['Big Data', 'Engineering'] |
Create Interactive Dashboards with Panel & Python | Do you want to create flexible and powerful dashboards with Pure Python?
In this tutorial, I will go through creating a simple and interactive dashboard with Panel . We will use Jupyter notebook to develop the dashboard and will serve it locally.
Panel is an open-source Python library that lets you create custom inte... | https://medium.com/spatial-data-science/create-interactive-dashboards-with-panel-python-9ac13c84b227 | [] | 2020-12-15 16:58:57.154000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Panel'] |
Stop Filling Up All the Empty Space in Your Life | “Grace fills empty spaces.” -Simone Weil
I’ve been on a road trip with my son and his girlfriend. It’s been amazing and I’m glad I have a relationship with a young adult son who wants to spend double-digit hours in a car with his mom. Like all good vacations, it’s been filled with car music and reminiscing conversatio... | https://medium.com/koinonia/stop-filling-up-all-the-empty-space-in-your-life-56c14a9be1b | ['Mary Gallagher'] | 2019-06-25 01:27:09.895000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Intentional Living', 'Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons'] |
Keeping the Heat On | When it comes to emissions and energy use, we have a tendency to point the finger at large companies and governments to make changes, often falling back on the argument that there is no point in us changing until they do.
The importance of individual actions is typically overlooked in the climate conversation but the ... | https://medium.com/swlh/keeping-the-heat-on-51d32d79bfdb | ['Marcus Arcanjo'] | 2020-04-05 18:33:30.375000+00:00 | ['Energy', 'World', 'Psychology', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
5 Great MLOps Tools to Launch Your Next Machine Learning Model | 5 Great Tools for MLOps
1. MLflow
Photo from MLflow.
With tools such as MLflow, data professionals can now automate sophisticated model tracking with ease. MLflow debuted at the 2018 Spark + AI Summit and is yet another Apache project. MLflow allows data scientists to automate model development. Through MLflow, the ... | https://medium.com/better-programming/5-great-mlops-tools-to-launch-your-next-machine-learning-model-3e403d0c97d3 | [] | 2020-10-14 16:09:05.304000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Big Data', 'DevOps', 'AI', 'Programming'] |
4 Lessons Running Taught Me About Myself | Photo by Andrea Leopardi on Unsplash
“Pick ‘em up, put ‘em down.”
That’s an oft-repeated line in the book “The Long Walk” by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.
For the unfamiliar, the book is set in a Hunger Games-esque society where all boys, from the age of 16, can enter into The Long Walk. There’s a genero... | https://medium.com/runners-life/4-lessons-running-taught-me-about-myself-1f8e71d3f07b | ['Richard White'] | 2020-12-14 19:22:24.475000+00:00 | ['Fitness', 'Running', 'Health', 'Inspiration', 'Motivation'] |
How Good Is Amazon Translate? | As part of my Medium article An Overview of Amazon Translate, one of the questions is how good is Amazon Translate? It isn’t possible without a lot of time to check all 55 supported languages, so I am focusing on
English to Spanish;
Spanish to English;
English to French; and,
French to English.
I used one of the p... | https://medium.com/swlh/how-good-is-amazon-translate-8e9f08b41789 | ['Chris Hare'] | 2020-10-23 14:03:13.976000+00:00 | ['Translation', 'Machine Learning', 'AWS', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
There Are Only Two Reasons Writers Struggle to Build an Audience | I used to write guest posts for a personal coach in Hawaii. We’d talk on the phone every week. “Touching base” is the buzzword, but those calls gave me great stories and anecdotes to add to the stuff I wrote for her.
The pay was great, but you know what sucked?
The crickets.
Because once money becomes a non-issue, w... | https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/there-are-only-two-reasons-writers-struggle-to-build-an-audience-15868eea87c4 | ['Linda Caroll'] | 2020-12-04 18:47:05.261000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Writing'] |
Pattern Recognition With Machine Learning | Components of a Pattern Recognition System
A pattern recognition system needs some input from the real world that it perceives with sensors. Such a system can work with any type of data: images, videos, numbers, or texts.
Having received some information as the input, the algorithm performs preprocessing. That is seg... | https://medium.com/better-programming/pattern-recognition-with-machine-learning-49de621426b6 | [] | 2020-10-30 15:09:31.101000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Speech Recognition', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Programming'] |
5 Minute Writing Exercise Part 2 | Have you ever tried writing in the dark? I like it because it helps me to not edit while I am writing. Writing and editing work best when done separately.
When I was taking art classes in college, our professor had us start each class by doing two 5 minute drawing exercises.
The first was to spend five minutes contin... | https://medium.com/the-writers-bookcase/5-minute-writing-exercise-part-2-f29b7f9538c8 | ['Jonica Bradley'] | 2019-11-08 11:53:30.729000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Work', 'Editing', 'Self', 'Creativity'] |
Three Types of Business Opportunities with Machine Learning | In practice, of course, a given ML application may fit more than one of the above impact categories. An ML algorithm that can analyze documents, for instance, might be reasonably said to increase employee efficiency by helping them process documents faster. But it might also be viewed as a breakthrough since it allows ... | https://medium.com/machine-learning-in-practice/three-types-of-business-opportunities-with-machine-learning-2a73c92f9056 | ['Robbie Allen'] | 2019-11-25 14:12:38.854000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Technology'] |
Flutter vs React Native vs Native: Deep Performance Comparison | Flutter vs React Native vs Native: Deep Performance Comparison
Let’s compare FPS, CPU, Memory, and GPU performance of popular mobile development tools on everyday life tasks.
The story behind the research
inVerita and its mobile development team continuously dig into the performance of cross-platform mobile solution... | https://medium.com/swlh/flutter-vs-react-native-vs-native-deep-performance-comparison-990b90c11433 | [] | 2020-08-30 08:36:27.896000+00:00 | ['Flutter', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Mobile App Development'] |
Understanding Cosine Similarity And Its Application | Utilisation
Cosine similarity has its place in several applications and algorithms.
From the world of computer vision to data mining, there is lots of usefulness to comparing a similarity measurement between two vectors represented in a higher-dimensional space.
Let’s go through a couple of scenarios and application... | https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-cosine-similarity-and-its-application-fd42f585296a | ['Richmond Alake'] | 2020-09-15 03:16:51.844000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science'] |
5 Things To Know About The Future Of Jobs | Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash
The COVID-19 global economic recession is deepening existing inequalities across global labour markets and reversing the gains in employment made since the Global Financial Crisis of a decade ago. Emerging technologies continue to reshape labour markets, and those trends have only acce... | https://iamibrahim.medium.com/5-things-to-know-about-the-future-of-jobs-20430ea4c2d4 | [] | 2020-12-28 15:21:53.126000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Covid 19', 'Future', 'Startups', 'Jobs'] |
My Life Has Been Derailed by my Health. I Want to Get it Back. | My Life Has Been Derailed by my Health. I Want to Get it Back.
But everything feels so slow.
How I’ve spent the better part of three months, except less artfully. Photo by Yuris Alhumaydy on Unsplash
The headache started on a Friday night.
It was different from my usual headaches. More sudden, for one, and spread o... | https://medium.com/swlh/my-life-has-been-derailed-by-my-health-i-want-to-get-it-back-19b973aaec1a | ['Grace Moore'] | 2019-08-04 01:03:42.815000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Chronic Pain', 'Chronic Illness', 'Life'] |
How to build a Computer Vision Game in Python? | I grew up in the (19)90’s. Before the internet, smartphones, next generation game consoles. Hell, before augmented and virtual reality. I Know, I’m old… At least I got to experience the physical world. Snap! (No, we didn’t have Snapchat either…). We would just communicate an approximate location, time for re-entrance a... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/how-to-build-a-computer-vision-game-in-python-a6b064ce72be | ['Thomas Taieb'] | 2019-10-12 06:11:30.341000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Gaming', 'Deep Learning', 'Computer Vision'] |
Aphantasia: My Mind’s Eye is Blind, But I Dream in Ideas | My son Nicholas was thirteen when I read Temple Grandin’s autobiography Thinking in Pictures and learned two things that changed my life.
The first was that Nick was autistic. He didn’t have ADHD, which he’d been misdiagnosed with at age six. He didn’t have bipolar disorder, which he’d been misdiagnosed with at age ni... | https://shauntagrimes.medium.com/aphantasia-my-minds-eye-is-blind-84d98be6d249 | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2019-09-16 16:33:00.308000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Life Lessons'] |
You Wash Your Hands. Can Washing Your Nose Help Fight Covid-19? | You Wash Your Hands. Can Washing Your Nose Help Fight Covid-19?
Learn an easy technique that scientists are testing in the fight against coronavirus.
Executive summary: Soap is effective in killing the coronavirus. You wash your hands to stay safe. Maybe washing your nose, where the virus lives, is something we shoul... | https://medium.com/carre4/you-wash-your-hands-can-washing-your-nose-help-fight-covid-19-48398536e14c | ['Steven Denenberg'] | 2020-12-23 17:54:25.302000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Life', 'Covid 19', 'Self Improvement', 'Science'] |
I’ve Gone from Skinny, Sick and Nearly Dead to Vibrant and Energetic | I’ve Gone from Skinny, Sick and Nearly Dead to Vibrant and Energetic
Here are the 6 energy lessons I learned that you can implement.
Image supplied by author
In my mid-20s I was stuck in bed for six months straight. The doctors had no idea what was wrong with me.
When I finally recovered from whatever it was, I wen... | https://medium.com/the-ascent/ive-gone-from-skinny-sick-and-nearly-dead-to-vibrant-and-energetic-244d1c019920 | ['Tim Denning'] | 2020-11-29 00:12:55.632000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Fitness', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Food'] |
AWS Lambda Event Validation — from Zero to Hero | So, you’ve started your serverless journey. It’s new and exciting and there’s lots to learn. You begin with your first AWS Lambda function. Everything looks fine and it just works, your Lambda gets an input event and produces output.
However, problems tend to arise when unhandled exceptions and failures are encountere... | https://medium.com/cyberark-engineering/aws-lambda-event-validation-from-zero-to-hero-2ca950acd2ea | ['Ran Isenberg'] | 2020-08-09 06:10:26.992000+00:00 | ['AWS Lambda', 'Python', 'Validation', 'Software', 'AWS'] |
Using pyspark with Jupyter on a local computer | Installing Spark on Linux
This manual was tested on version 2.2.0 but should work on all versions. I’m assuming you already have Python and Java installed. In order to install Spark on your machine, follow the next steps:
Download the tar.gz file from Apache website (I’m assuming you are downloading to /opt):
wget h... | https://towardsdatascience.com/using-pyspark-with-jupyter-on-a-local-computer-edca6ae64bb6 | ['Nimrod Milo'] | 2017-12-21 16:19:53.188000+00:00 | ['Spark', 'Python', 'Data Engineering'] |
Dystopian ≠ Realistic | Pessimism’s easier to sell these days. Boomers are the last generation to have witnessed an extended period of growth in quality of life. Millennials have watched their world be overtaken by wave after wave of technology (some of it helpful), information (some of it accurate), and political warfare (some of it lethal),... | https://medium.com/technology-hits/dystopian-realistic-1ddb066bfc13 | ['Edward Robson'] | 2020-12-13 18:29:59.688000+00:00 | ['Society', 'Philosophy', 'Humanity', 'Science Fiction', 'Writing'] |
The Infection Connection: Vitamin D, Cold Exposure, and the Immune Response. | The Infection Connection: Vitamin D, Cold Exposure, and the Immune Response.
Why our flu is seasonal and what we can do about it
Why do we get sick in winter? Because our immune systems are compromised by Vitamin D deficiency.
by Thomas P Seager, PhD and A.J. Kay
Everyone knows that winter is “flu season,” and most... | https://medium.com/morozko-method/the-infection-connection-vitamin-d-cold-exposure-and-the-immune-response-51a0dc76a685 | ['Morozko Forge'] | 2020-05-03 13:24:30.179000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Infectious Disease', 'Cold Water Immersion', 'Cryotherapy', 'Wellness'] |
The Literal Pain Of Working From Home | PHOTOGRAPHED BY JESSICA GARCIA.
By: WHIZY KIM
Complaining about work is normal. In fact, it’s an utterly ordinary thing to do even if you generally enjoy your job. We might groan about a tough project on a tight deadline, an incompetent coworker or an unempathetic manager, low pay, and long hours. But there’s a kind ... | https://medium.com/refinery29/the-literal-pain-of-working-from-home-96cb2183cc8c | [] | 2020-12-16 23:30:26.499000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Working From Home', 'Jobs', 'Wellness', 'Covid 19'] |
How to Master the Art of Storytelling as a Data Scientist? | How to tell a story?
We do hear and see a lot of stories around us. More or less, stories have 3 things in common. You have characters, conflict, and conclusion in every story.
For a data scientist, there are 3 fundamental parts of a story:
Identifying the problem:
First of all, it’s necessary to identify the probl... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/how-to-master-the-art-of-storytelling-as-a-data-scientist-1a72eda10f54 | ['Saeed Ahmad'] | 2020-12-24 15:57:01.542000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Careers'] |
A Look at the Long-Lasting Java and Big Data Relationship (With a List of Resources Data Scientists Can Use for Java Learning) | Photo by ev on Unsplash
Data science is one of the hottest (if not the hottest) jobs of the XXI century. The number of CS students and business science majors who want to know how to analyze insights is growing at a wild rate.
Right now, “Intro to Data Science” is the fastest-growing class at Berkeley. When it comes ... | https://towardsdatascience.com/a-look-at-the-long-lasting-java-and-big-data-relationship-with-a-list-of-resources-data-123d41668836 | ['John Selawsky'] | 2020-12-28 17:56:02.496000+00:00 | ['Big Data', 'Java', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
A Weary Nightingale | My heart sings like a weary nightingale
with a rhythm I can never refine,
but I carry within a mournful tale
and yearning for dreams that were never mine.
By the mountains, in search of peace to grieve,
I seek respite from the years filled with scorn,
yet no one had a reason to believe
I could ever fulfill what ... | https://medium.com/song-of-the-lark/a-weary-nightingale-717ab2fae547 | ['Lark Morrigan'] | 2020-12-17 19:53:13.938000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Future', 'Poetry', 'Sonnet'] |
Evangelicalism Makes People “Stupid.” That’s Why They Won’t Care About Trump’s Taxes. | I don’t think that anyone can claim that evangelicals today have true political power. As The Atlantic said back in July, evangelicals don’t have much to show for their betrayal of Christ as they steadfastly hold onto Trump. They took a gamble and they lost, or to be fair, they won a cruel prize of chaos.
Regardless o... | https://medium.com/honestly-yours/evangelicalism-makes-people-stupid-thats-why-they-won-t-care-about-trump-s-taxes-e1c294a08009 | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2020-09-28 19:07:56.878000+00:00 | ['Education', 'Psychology', 'Christianity', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
A Doooodle A Day: 9 Months, 2 Sketchbooks and 40K Words Later… | It’s time to look back and appreciate all the effort I invested in this personal project and of course, my accomplishments so far.
Start — “Try it for a month”
After I transitioned from engineering to design, I always heard people (from the design world) talk about storytelling: tell compelling stories to pitch clien... | https://medium.com/the-100-day-project/a-doooodle-a-day-9-months-2-sketchbooks-and-40k-words-later-ea1f417085b2 | ['Yingying Zhang'] | 2016-04-13 16:22:59.582000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Storytelling', 'Art'] |
Can’t Sleep? This Tech Could Put You in Sync with the Sun | Can’t Sleep? This Tech Could Put You in Sync with the Sun
A new device claims to go beyond sleep tracking to reset your circadian rhythm.
I’m dreaming too much. That’s what Fares Siddiqui, cofounder of the company Circadia, tells me after its sleep tracker spends several nights perched at my bedside. When I first saw... | https://medium.com/neodotlife/cant-sleep-this-tech-could-put-you-in-sync-with-the-sun-d8125c4a0a3c | ['Elizabeth Preston'] | 2020-07-13 20:35:40.711000+00:00 | ['Wellness', 'Self Improvement', 'Technology', 'Sleep', 'Health'] |
The Seduction of Perfect Memory | Did you forget anything recently?
Your keys maybe. Or someone’s name.
You’re in good company. A typical person forgets about 4 things a day. Most are minor lapses but then there are the big ones: a third of us have forgotten a partner’s birthday, and 1 in 5 Dads has forgotten to pick up the kids from school.
A coupl... | https://medium.com/descripter/the-seduction-of-perfect-memory-4921159d2fa5 | ['Craig Brett'] | 2020-11-11 23:21:57.494000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Technology', 'Future', 'Self', 'Science'] |
Running and Blisters: Coping | Fitness
Running and Blisters: Coping
Most runners have had a painful foot blister. Today we look at risk reduction and management.
Photo by Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash
I walk a lot. And occasionally do some running (typically alternating with walking). Today, I have a small blister on the underside of my foot. Bei... | https://medium.com/beingwell/running-and-blisters-coping-7073f8320730 | ['Michael Hunter Md'] | 2020-12-26 17:18:40.958000+00:00 | ['Wellness', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Exercise'] |
Letter to My Body | To my chronically ill Body,
For too long, my love for you was only skin deep. I saw you purely as an aesthetic object — a poor one at that — and you were valued only as far as my self-criticism allowed.
I am ashamed to say that for most of my life, I haven’t been kind to you. I have not always given you the love you ... | https://medium.com/curious/letter-to-my-body-a780932b23c3 | ['Nisha Kumar Kulkarni'] | 2020-08-24 18:13:17.405000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Chronic Illness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Love', 'Body Image'] |
The Race To Find A Cure For Aging | The Race To Find A Cure For Aging
Learn about three pioneers working to turn back the clock
We want to look & feel young again, and every year we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on beauty serums, cosmetic surgery, and exotic supplements in the hopes of appearing more vibrant, healthy, and desirable.
All of tho... | https://medium.com/discourse/the-race-to-find-a-cure-for-aging-98676b0318dc | ['Tim Ventura'] | 2019-12-26 18:18:13.683000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Futurism', 'Aging', 'Science', 'Medicine'] |
What You Should Know About High Blood Pressure | What You Should Know About High Blood Pressure
Despite a new understanding of the largely preventable disease, deaths from the ‘silent killer’ are steadily climbing
Photo: annebaek/Getty Images
High blood pressure is often called the “silent killer” because its first symptoms are typically serious: a heart attack or... | https://elemental.medium.com/what-you-should-know-about-high-blood-pressure-bdb349f0807f | ['Robert Roy Britt'] | 2019-09-04 11:01:01.896000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Hypertension', 'Death', 'Blood Pressure', 'Science'] |
You’re more creative than you think | For most of my life I denounced my personality as analytical and logical, without a creative bone in my body.
I suppose I put this blind acceptance down to my inability to produce anything remotely lifelike in art lessons, but I guess I will never know.
What I do know, though, is that creativity is about more than ju... | https://medium.com/bulletproof-writers/youre-more-creative-than-you-think-335b0e126bba | ['Felicity Thompson'] | 2020-09-24 04:56:14.997000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Creative Writing', 'Mind', 'Thinking', 'Productivity'] |
Will human-centered design leave the human designers behind? | A.I. is sort of a peanut butter you can spread across [multiple industries]. With a precise idea of the conditions this thing I’m designing will see in real life, I can design it better. — Maurice Conti
DESIGN THINKING IN THE MACHINE AGE
Thanks to design thinking advocates, designers have emerged to be taking over al... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/will-human-centered-design-leave-the-human-designers-behind-1e8d778b52d9 | ['Olya Green'] | 2019-06-07 11:26:01.119000+00:00 | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Human Centered Design', 'AI', 'Human Design'] |
‘Healthy Eating’ Means So Much More Than It Used To | ‘Healthy Eating’ Means So Much More Than It Used To
Why staying at home has radically changed how we think about food
This story is part of How to Eat in the New Normal, a weeklong series about how the Covid-19 pandemic is changing the way we eat, with expert advice for making food choices that help you stay healthy ... | https://elemental.medium.com/healthy-eating-means-so-much-more-than-it-used-to-d19b9cb74c9b | ['Kelsey Miller'] | 2020-04-27 18:07:29.497000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Eat In The New Normal', 'Coronavirus', 'Food', 'Life'] |
Inspiration is absolutely everywhere. | Inspiration is absolutely everywhere.
But you have to train your brain to look for it everywhere. It’s a necessary skill for travel writing. You don’t fly across the globe to get one story. If you want to make a living, you scrutinize every detail of the trip, the destination, and the people you encounter, always look... | https://medium.com/everything-shortform/inspiration-is-absolutely-everywhere-ae71c9e23f42 | ['Melinda Crow'] | 2020-12-18 03:44:30.322000+00:00 | ['Ideas', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Football', 'Goals'] |
To Improve Your Writing Skills, Find Your Voice | A decade ago I was given my first major magazine assignment. The twist is that it wasn’t actually MY assignment. I had been hired to rewrite an article that had been done by someone else. Poorly, it appears. I don’t know who this inadequate writer was. Possibly William Faulkner. Regardless, the copy filed by the writer... | https://forge.medium.com/how-to-find-your-voice-as-a-writer-43b283b67a0c | ['Drew Magary'] | 2020-04-22 15:50:40.580000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Writing', 'Social Media', 'Inspiration', 'Create'] |
5 elements of high converting ecommerce product pages | A product page is where e-commerce customers spend most of the time and make the final decision about completing a purchase.
If you are running PPC campaigns, the products page might be as well the first impression a prospective customer has of your online business.
The importance of a good product page is immense — ... | https://medium.com/analytics-for-humans/5-elements-of-high-converting-ecommerce-product-pages-bdcebc4a6377 | ['Mike Wagaba'] | 2020-12-22 19:04:59.250000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Analytics', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business'] |
The Facebook Front | I joined Facebook in 2006 when a lifelong, trustworthy friend sent me a “friend request” over email. Simon wants to be your friend, the message conveyed. I was confused. “What? We’re already friends,” I thought. “What is this?”
Simon was a bit older than me, well-rounded, in that he was both extremely well-educated an... | https://medium.com/swlh/the-facebook-front-a47db708e156 | ['Martie Sirois'] | 2019-10-03 10:42:40.723000+00:00 | ['Society', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Self', 'Social Media'] |
You Probably Are a Terrible Writer, but Don’t Let That Stop You | What if You ARE a terrible writer?
Sometimes there is worth in assuming the worst. At least insofar as it can be clarifying. Apart from the question of being terrible, I had to consider what it would mean if I was correct in my suspected terribleness. This self-examination led me to conclude that ultimately, I did not... | https://medium.com/bulletproof-writers/you-probably-are-a-terrible-writer-but-dont-let-that-stop-you-76854ea98bbe | ['Adam Rains'] | 2020-11-30 21:04:17.199000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Creativity Tips', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing'] |
7 Things You Need To Do To Have Consistently Incredible Evenings | 1 || Put your phone to bed early in the evening
We’ve all heard of the psychological effects of using screens before bed, but they’re usually focused on eye strain and blue light — not about how damaging it can be to be followed around by a pestering technological device 24/7. While most studies point to the time spen... | https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/7-things-you-need-to-do-to-have-consistently-incredible-evenings-4774e8dedaab | ['Katie E. Lawrence'] | 2020-12-22 03:02:13.073000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Life', 'Technology', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Here’s How I Use Natural Language Processing In Stock Price Analysis | Here’s How I Use Natural Language Processing In Stock Price Analysis
Using NLP and Granger causality to analyze the relationship between the sentiment of a written article and a stock’s price
Image by Trist’n Joseph
Being able to accurately predict the stock market is like being able to see into the future. Stock ma... | https://medium.com/ai-in-plain-english/heres-how-i-use-natural-language-processing-in-stock-price-analysis-a58c4b160e8c | ["Trist'N Joseph"] | 2020-12-18 19:19:58.097000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Stock Market'] |
Notes from the field of visual health mapping | Helping doctors get to know patients and make them memorable
As I start to work directly with more doctors through this process — namely Sunjya Schweig of the California Center for Functional Medicine and some local VA doctors I’m currently collaborating with — I’m learning more about how this process helps them. Asid... | https://medium.com/pictal-health/notes-from-the-field-of-visual-health-mapping-d9995b91b842 | ['Katie Mccurdy'] | 2019-07-23 13:52:43.112000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Healthcare', 'Patient Experience', 'Healthcare Innovations', 'Design'] |
How to level up your UI design skills | There was a point when I had a breakdown over my UI design skills. I was working on multiple projects back then, mostly early-stage startups. I knew that my designs were technically fine and at a level that could be successfully used elsewhere. In this article, I will pinpoint a few ideas for how you can leverage your ... | https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-level-up-your-ui-design-skills-696f00e30ef9 | ['Jakub Wojnar-Płeszka'] | 2020-10-15 18:04:43.999000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'UI', 'UI Design', 'Productivity', 'Product Design'] |
Trump Administration Admits They Can’t Control the Pandemic | Trump Administration Admits They Can’t Control the Pandemic
The president needs a vaccine to bail out his incompetence.
America, your long national nightmare isn’t quite over. Not yet. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s admission that the Trump administration is powerless to control the pandemic and merely wai... | https://thebrianabbey.medium.com/trump-administration-admits-they-cant-control-the-pandemic-656f1da010c7 | ['Brian Abbey'] | 2020-10-26 15:24:58.880000+00:00 | ['Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Culture'] |
Don’t Miss Out! A Biologist Explains Antibodies through Rap Music | Don’t Miss Out! A Biologist Explains Antibodies through Rap Music
A scientist shows us how to make science fun
Antibodies are all the rage these days. As Covid-19 vaccines come to market, many want to understand how immunity works. Scientists and health writers struggle to find ways to make these topics accessible an... | https://medium.com/beingwell/dont-miss-out-a-biologist-explains-antibodies-through-rap-music-9f60427586e1 | ['Dr Jeff Livingston'] | 2020-11-28 16:53:57.164000+00:00 | ['Science', 'STEM', 'Education', 'Health', 'Immune System'] |
Welcoming Dash 1.0.0 | It’s hard to believe that just two years ago, we released Dash. The last two years have been a whirlwind—we’ve made over 100 releases containing bug fixes and new features, we’ve introduced 10 brand new chart types, we’ve published 5 new first class component libraries, and I’ve personally spent over 130 hours helping ... | https://medium.com/plotly/welcoming-dash-1-0-0-f3af4b84bae | [] | 2019-06-27 17:22:10.223000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Plotly', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash'] |
What is the “Collective Prisoner’s Dilemma”? | What is the “Collective Prisoner’s Dilemma”?
New research looks at brain function during individual and group decision-making scenarios to better understand the role of personality, brain sync, and morality.
How we make decisions together when we are looking to maximize the benefit to all is an important area of rese... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/brain-activity-personality-and-group-decision-making-83c662b893b0 | ['Grant H Brenner'] | 2020-10-29 04:21:17.328000+00:00 | ['Neuroscience', 'Psychiatry', 'Psychology', 'Decision Making', 'Personality'] |
Retinal Inspired Neural Network Structure | If you’ve ever trained a GAN(Generative Adversarial Network) or an image classification neural network, you know just how data hungry it can be. Especially when you want to work with higher resolution images. The other day, I tried running a GAN on a couple hundred images. Just on a resolution of 256x256 and the comput... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/retinal-inspired-neural-network-structure-79a3fed50cc2 | ['Jeremiah Johnson'] | 2020-12-07 15:14:32.932000+00:00 | ['Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Image Classification', 'Generative Adversarial', 'AI'] |
After You Drop Your Balls | Is it finally happening? I can hear you asking after reading that headline. Is Zach finally going to join the league of excellent Medium writers who write about their sex lives?
No. I don’t have a sex life, and the title is a metaphor. Moving on.
Over the years, I’ve become a master of pushing through — being tired, ... | https://zachjpayne.medium.com/after-you-drop-your-balls-39829022f8ec | ['Zach J. Payne'] | 2019-04-05 01:09:54.416000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Self', 'Creativity'] |
Activating the Vagus Nerve Might Lower Your Covid-19 Risk | Activating the Vagus Nerve Might Lower Your Covid-19 Risk
While physical distancing and masks are crucial, social interaction could calm the immune system and turn down inflammation
Like other apes, humans are social animals. We evolved to live in codependent communities, and we do poorly if deprived of interpersonal... | https://elemental.medium.com/activating-the-vagus-nerve-might-lower-your-covid-19-risk-e08ed0ce7a04 | ['Markham Heid'] | 2020-11-25 06:31:59.389000+00:00 | ['Coronavirus', 'Health', 'The Nuance', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19'] |
This Was The Most Traumatic Experience of My Life | On Friday night, May 31st, 2013, I found myself in the middle of a tornado.
Ever since I was a child the weather experts always warned about being in a car on elevated roads when a tornado is bearing down on you.
That Friday night in 2013, I was highly weather-aware and was confident that the tornado that formed near... | https://medium.com/swlh/this-was-the-most-traumatic-experience-of-my-life-888b53182302 | ['Dirk Hooper'] | 2019-09-28 07:57:22.493000+00:00 | ['Weather', 'Life', 'Storytelling', 'Life Lessons', 'Tornado'] |
What It Means for Conversational AI to Be “Conversational” | HAL is a well-known fictional conversational AI that lacked in empathy for it’s users.
About the Author: Dr. Ender Ricart is a Principal UX Researcher at LivePerson, a company at the forefront of conversational AI applications for customer service. The content of this article is informed by insights from in-depth qual... | https://medium.com/swlh/what-it-really-means-for-conversational-ai-to-be-conversational-c796ff278656 | ['Dr. Ender Ricart'] | 2019-12-22 11:06:38.309000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Customer Service', 'AI', 'Conversational UI'] |
What I Wish People Knew About Reporting Suicidal Friends on Facebook | What I Wish People Knew About Reporting Suicidal Friends on Facebook
With no one to turn to, I turned to Facebook — and ended up with a cop on my doorstep
Photo: Jack Halford/EyeEm/Getty Images
In the winter of 2013, I found myself spending a month on a leaky air mattress. I was staying at the home of my ex-fiancé’s... | https://humanparts.medium.com/i-made-a-facebook-post-that-had-the-police-knocking-on-my-door-b5e3d11baf20 | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2020-01-15 17:30:33.282000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Facebook', 'Depression', 'Social Media', 'Mental Health'] |
The Ultimate Tool to Start the New Year the Right Way | The Ultimate Tool to Start the New Year the Right Way
How to get started with the Wheel of Life
I have never been the biggest fan of New Year resolutions, purely due to the short lifespan they seem to hold.
Research by Strava recently found that in 2020, Sunday 19th January is the day when most people will give up o... | https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/the-ultimate-tool-to-start-the-new-year-the-right-way-32661dd7810f | ['Fab Giovanetti'] | 2020-12-28 23:03:04.884000+00:00 | ['Habits', 'Goal Setting', 'Productivity', 'Self', 'Creativity'] |
Redesigning Chrome Desktop | As my involvement in the Chrome browser is ending with this Core UI project, I’m excited to see what the Chrome team has for the future of Chrome on desktop and mobile.
Lessons learned and initial release feedback
As a closing note, I’d like to share some of the lessons I learned during this project as well as some r... | https://medium.com/google-design/redesigning-chrome-desktop-769aeb5ab987 | ['Sebastien Gabriel'] | 2016-11-14 05:36:37.960000+00:00 | ['User Interface', 'Design', 'UX', 'Visual Design', 'Google'] |
We need 2 things to be great at what we do. | We need 2 things to be great at what we do.
From a writer’s perspective, we need to learn daily. Eating a slice of the humble pie goes a long way.
Next, we need working tools. We are not perfect. With working tools, we can get better.
Right? | https://medium.com/technology-hits/we-need-2-things-to-be-great-at-what-we-do-12cbe7f5918a | ['Aldric Chen'] | 2020-12-15 07:36:26.987000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Short Story', 'Technology'] |
SEM: Is There Value in the Google Guaranteed Program? | SOURCE: Google
Here’s a new wrinkle to Google search for local businesses. Advertisers on Google can now display a green checkmark, which Google will tag businesses with either “Google Screened” or “Google Guaranteed.”
It’s only available right now for certain categories of business, such as law, financial planning, ... | https://medium.com/digital-vault/sem-is-there-value-in-the-google-guaranteed-program-c0f350ae476a | ['Paul Dughi'] | 2020-09-18 15:15:15.363000+00:00 | ['SEM', 'Search Engine Marketing', 'Google', 'Advertising', 'Marketing'] |
Cut the Shit: Why advertisers need to sell more and bullshit less. | In the summer of 2015, Pepto-Bismol made one of the most epic ads in the history of indigestion medicine. You might want to get comfortable before starting this:
It took a strange 4 minutes to get there but eventually the point was made: if you were raised by goats, you would need Pepto-Bismol to deal with the trash y... | https://medium.com/comms-planning/cut-the-shit-1fc48e163ad2 | ['Brian Brydon'] | 2019-05-01 22:25:30.323000+00:00 | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Measurement', 'Creative', 'Creativity'] |
Integrate machine learning and big data into real-time business intelligence with Snowflake and Plotly’s Dash | Integrate machine learning and big data into real-time business intelligence with Snowflake and Plotly’s Dash plotly Follow Jun 5 · 7 min read
AI-enhanced BI powered by Dash and Snowflake — (Check out the app here)
Business intelligence (BI) is an indispensable tool for many, if not most, modern organizations. BI cov... | https://medium.com/plotly/integrate-machine-learning-and-big-data-into-real-time-business-intelligence-with-snowflake-and-c972b5ea274e | [] | 2020-06-05 14:50:16.516000+00:00 | ['Snowflake', 'Python', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Visualization'] |
From Fibonacci to N-bonacci | The Fibonacci sequence gives rise to the golden ratio found in many beauties of nature. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
The Fibonacci sequence was one of the first mathematical concepts that I analysed when I started coding. In particular, this sequen... | https://medium.com/python-in-plain-english/from-fibonacci-to-n-bonacci-d1bc874a54ba | ['Kelvin Tan'] | 2020-10-06 20:01:34.184000+00:00 | ['Recursion', 'Python', 'Algorithms', 'Software Engineering', 'Fibonacci'] |
Why you need to become conscious | Perhaps we all have this habit — switching habit.
The habit of switching from conscious to unconscious.
We are trained professionals in switching. Most of us had learned this very well from childhood — if nothing else :).
Perhaps it was an essential strategy for that little child, that we were once, to survive the h... | https://medium.com/spiritual-secrets/why-you-need-to-become-conscious-75b966cedb5b | ['Pretheesh Presannan'] | 2020-10-14 14:44:50.790000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Spiritual Secrets', 'Consciousness', 'Mental Health', 'Healing'] |
Why the warming oceans will get louder | Why the warming oceans will get louder Mashable Follow Feb 21 · 4 min read
“The ecological implications of this are wide open.”
BY MARK KAUFMAN
IMAGE: GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
Every 10 minutes, the relentlessly warming oceans absorb 50 megatons of energy, the amount of energy released when detonating the largest-ev... | https://medium.com/mashable/why-the-warming-oceans-will-get-louder-2277444e4b6d | [] | 2020-02-24 16:42:59.111000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Oceans', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
Automating a Machine Learning Workflow using Google BigQuery and Amazon Managed Apache Airflow | Automating a Machine Learning Workflow using Google BigQuery and Amazon Managed Apache Airflow
Using BigQuery, Airflow, and Amazon Personalize to Build a machine learning workflow
Amazon announced the availability of Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), a fully managed service that makes it easy to run... | https://medium.com/ai-in-plain-english/creating-a-machine-learning-workflow-using-google-bigquery-and-amazon-managed-apache-airflow-1596b1a0375e | ['Yi Ai'] | 2020-12-22 23:04:48.530000+00:00 | ['Big Data', 'Machine Learning', 'Airflow', 'AWS', 'Google Big Query'] |
I Hope That You Learn How To Gently Start Over | I hope that you learn how to gently start over.
I hope that you learn how to look at yourself and know that you aren’t quite the person you want to be, without condemning the person you currently are. I hope you learn how to see your evolution not as a linear ascent into perfection, but an unpacking of why you might w... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/i-hope-that-you-learn-how-to-gently-start-over-22f55c749257 | ['Brianna Wiest'] | 2020-12-01 19:01:11.424000+00:00 | ['Spirituality', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Motivation', 'Creativity'] |
Ever Wondered Why O’Reilly Books Have Animals on Their Covers? | History of the Design of O’Reilly Book Covers
In the article “A short history of the O’Reilly animals,” it’s mentioned that in the mid-1980s, O’Reilly used to sell short books on Unix topics via mail order. These were held together by staples and had plain brown covers. As time progressed, Tim O’Reilly (born 6 June 19... | https://medium.com/better-programming/ever-wondered-why-all-the-oreilly-books-have-animals-on-their-covers-b9440d41570 | ['Juhi Ramzai'] | 2020-09-08 14:54:15.079000+00:00 | ['Software Development', 'Technology', 'Design', 'Books', 'Programming'] |
When I Win, It’s Skill. When Someone Else Wins, It’s Luck | When I Win, It’s Skill. When Someone Else Wins, It’s Luck
Roll the dice more when the worst that can happen isn’t a big deal
From PIRO4D on Pixabay
The title is a joke in a fantasy football league of my friends from college. Whenever we win on a given week, we talk trash about our skill at starting just the right pl... | https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/when-i-win-its-skill-when-someone-else-wins-it-s-luck-477e3b551473 | ['Ryan Fan'] | 2020-12-20 17:38:47.421000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Ideas', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self'] |
How To Write For In Fitness And In Health On Medium | Welcome to In Fitness And In Health!
Ours is a community dedicated to living happy, healthy lives and inspiring others to do the same. We share stories, anecdotes, tips, tricks, and suggestions on how to do so.
We believe in the power of storytelling. The content that performs best for us comes from firsthand experie... | https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/how-to-write-for-in-fitness-and-in-health-on-medium-f4c67f028073 | ['Scott Mayer'] | 2020-10-06 23:10:20.233000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Fitness', 'Nutrition', 'Mental Health', 'Running'] |
Scientists Prove that Yoga Can Help With Fighting Migraines | We’ve all had to deal with having a headache.
Some of us get it regularly in stressful times, others might experience headaches when the weather changes, when they don’t drink enough (or too much, right?) or when they have other issues to deal with, like back pain or musculoskeletal problems.
Around 12% of people wor... | https://medium.com/beingwell/scientists-prove-that-yoga-can-help-with-fighting-migraines-e00017d69283 | [] | 2020-06-29 07:20:09.123000+00:00 | ['Migraines', 'Yoga', 'Science', 'Health', 'Medicine'] |
11 Principles of Placemaking: How to Design People-Centered Places | If you want to design places catered for humans, placemaking is the concept you want to utilize.
It’s UX on an urban scale. We plan, design, and develop according to the user’s needs and preferences, to ensure that the output is actually useful and usable for them. In this case, the user is the community — the people.... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/11-principles-of-placemaking-how-to-design-people-centered-places-b84e7e705a1f | ['Aushaf Widisto'] | 2020-10-03 04:13:58.643000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Design', 'Urban Planning', 'Placemaking', 'Cities'] |
Ford is known as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. But was he such a great leader at all? How do you spot a weak leader?Was Henry Ford a Good Leader? | Ford is known as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. But was he such a great leader at all? How do you spot a weak leader?Was Henry Ford a Good Leader? Maximilian Perkmann Follow Dec 14 · 4 min read
There is an often-told story of what happened when some intellectuals denounced Henry Ford, claiming he didn’... | https://medium.com/illumination/was-henry-ford-a-good-leader-311fc36e7381 | ['Maximilian Perkmann'] | 2020-12-20 21:37:07.998000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Leadership', 'Management'] |
Exploring Wellness Newsletter | Exploring Wellness Newsletter
Check out the latest stories from making your own lattes to finding your running motivation.
Photo by Corinne Kutz on Unsplash
Welcome to the first-ever newsletter for Exploring Wellness! I had intended to write a regular newsletter when I began this publication, but life got in the way... | https://medium.com/exploring-wellness/exploring-wellness-newsletter-5c6fd3c0d329 | ['Jennifer Geer'] | 2020-10-04 19:43:31.395000+00:00 | ['Medium Publications', 'Health', 'Newsletter', 'Wellness', 'Lifestyle'] |
Make LinkedIn Part of Your Content Promotion Strategy to Increase Your Reach | 3. Distribute Your Content in LinkedIn Groups
LinkedIn has a plethora of interest groups that you can join and take part in.
Since these groups are tied to specific interests, industries, and demographics, they contain an already segmented audience to target.
This can help increase your influence within a specific a... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/make-linkedin-part-of-your-content-promotion-strategy-to-increase-your-reach-2632f16af48d | ['Esat Artug'] | 2020-12-08 21:52:01.861000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Social Media', 'Freelancing'] |
Build Quality Microservices and Apps | Build Quality Microservices and Apps
Ensure governance by including these five elements in your requirements document
Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash
Fragile apps and microservices are often the results of vague requirements, and developers left to their interpretation and devices.
A well written technical... | https://medium.com/the-internal-startup/build-quality-microservices-and-apps-79544948579a | ['Jimmy Soh'] | 2020-06-23 16:06:04.929000+00:00 | ['Software Development', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
Here What’s Trait Have Common In Highly Intelligent People | There is different character ascribes that set significantly shrewd people apart from others. Amazingly, these characteristics are not related with a person’s IQ level yet are connected with one’s outrageous slants, emotions, and social collaborations. The vast majority don’t comprehend their regular endowments hencefo... | https://medium.com/illumination-curated/here-whats-trait-have-common-in-highly-intelligent-people-d5e6fc703b6b | [] | 2020-12-23 11:07:05.313000+00:00 | ['Traits', 'Intelligence', 'People', 'Self Improvement', 'Science'] |
Python HOW: Farewell Anaconda! Take Full Control of Your Development Environment | Setting up python with pyenv, venv, pipx, and vsCode on Windows and macOS
Photo by Kevin Ku from Pexels
Anaconda and Miniconda are amazing python distributions that get you up and running out-of-the-box. Once you start deploying your projects into production, however, you will defiantly need more control. In this art... | https://medium.com/swlh/python-how-farewell-anaconda-take-full-control-of-your-development-environment-6c4f8103980f | ['Gabriel Harris Ph.D.'] | 2020-12-14 16:13:43.216000+00:00 | ['DevOps', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Data Engineering', 'Mlops'] |
A Founder’s Story: Chris Li, CEO of BioBox Analytics (1/3) | I’ve always loved computers and software.
I remember booting one up in my aunt’s office back in 95' and loading an 18Mb video game from a floppy disk. But I never thought I’d be building software one day as a career. My goal was medicine or life-science research. Fast forward to my 20’s and I’ve just received an oppor... | https://medium.com/bioboxanalytics/a-founders-story-chris-li-ceo-of-biobox-analytics-1-3-a2e5fd110521 | ['Christopher Li'] | 2020-12-10 13:49:44.249000+00:00 | ['Biotechnology', 'Genomics', 'Software Development', 'Founder Stories', 'Startup'] |
Globally Autoscaling Web Services with Health Checks | Globally Autoscaling Web Services with Health Checks
Season of Scale
Season of Scale
“Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for creating apps that a... | https://medium.com/google-cloud/globally-autoscaling-web-services-4b650cc6fc49 | ['Stephanie Wong'] | 2020-09-01 23:25:08.253000+00:00 | ['Software Development', 'Scalability', 'Software Engineering', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Bread Can Be Nutritious, But There Are Rules | Bread Can Be Nutritious, But There Are Rules
And modern bread breaks all of them.
Modern-day bread is the consequence of shortcuts made at every stage of its production. As a result, the human staple for millennia has now become junk food. It’s low in nutrients, high in energy, easy to eat, cheap to buy, and ubiquito... | https://medium.com/beingwell/bread-can-be-nutritious-but-there-are-rules-c4933e3a5dc5 | ['Tim Rees'] | 2020-12-28 20:18:16.745000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Diet', 'Lifestyle', 'Science', 'Food'] |
Creating a Near Real-Time Financial News Dataset With AWS Lambda | AWS Lambda’s logo
Stock prices fluctuate over time depending on market sentiment. Firms can gauge the current and historic market sentiment for individual stocks or entire markets by using financial news articles. With these articles, firms can use natural language processing techniques such as named entity recognitio... | https://medium.com/swlh/creating-a-near-real-time-financial-news-dataset-with-aws-lambda-509e2fe53261 | ["Daniel O'Keefe"] | 2020-10-17 20:17:52.119000+00:00 | ['Python', 'AWS Lambda', 'AWS', 'NLP', 'Finance'] |
How to Start a Business in an Afternoon Using Python and Dash | Creating index.py
Now it’s time for the fun part… The code! Start by loading dependencies for Dash and the component libraries:
import dash
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc
from dash.dependencies import Input, Output, State
from dash.e... | https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-start-a-business-in-an-afternoon-using-python-and-dash-48a8cb08f290 | ['Eric Kleppen'] | 2020-12-15 15:19:48.701000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Web Development', 'Marketing'] |
The Majority of Genre Fiction Follows This Format. Does Yours? | Framing your structure
Imagine a rectangle divided into four equal blocks.
Image provided by the author
Now label each section. The first block is the Preparation Phase, the second the Reactive Phase, the third the Proactive Phase, and the fourth the Conclusion Phase.
Image provided by the author
Easy, right? Next... | https://medium.com/the-brave-writer/the-majority-of-genre-fiction-follows-this-format-does-yours-722d58009428 | ['Jennifer Mittler-Lee'] | 2020-12-21 17:03:16.164000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Fiction Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing'] |
Importance and Value of Cross-Pollination in the Workplace | Importance and Value of Cross-Pollination in the Workplace
To build a high-performing team, we need to find creative ways to cross-pollinate in our business organizations. Cross-pollination can be an essential consideration for aspiring entrepreneurs in new ventures and business leaders for transformation.
In this ar... | https://medium.com/illumination-curated/importance-and-value-of-cross-pollination-in-the-workplace-c5b046001c00 | ['Dr Mehmet Yildiz'] | 2020-12-28 16:13:02.842000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle'] |
Cloud Native Architecture Fundamentals | Overview of Cloud Native
Cloud-Native became the buzzwords in a very short time and the biggest trends in the software industry but before we even talk about the Cloud-Native application, let’s first understand more about cloud computing fundamentals.
In simple terms, cloud computing is the delivery of computing serv... | https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/cloud-native-architecture-fundamentals-ac13f979916d | ['Rupesh Patel'] | 2020-12-01 05:35:02.891000+00:00 | ['Engineering', 'Cloud Native Application', 'Microservices', 'Architecture Design', 'The Twelve Factor App'] |
A Ship Wreck Of A Crime | A Ship Wreck Of A Crime
A ship filled with gold sank. 130 years later, it was found.
SS Central America Image from the public domain
The SS. Central America set sail for New York City on September 3, 1857. It carried 10 short tons of gold, as well as 101 crew members. Captained by William Lewis Herndon, the ship was... | https://medium.com/crimebeat/a-ship-wreck-of-a-crime-887f4d5809b0 | ['Edward Anderson'] | 2020-12-17 10:32:40.711000+00:00 | ['True Crime', 'Weather', 'Culture', 'Science', 'History'] |
7 Habits That Helped Me Lose 20 Pounds During The Pandemic | 1. I Used Jordan Syatt’s x12 Rule to Decide My Daily Calorie Limit
Even though I just called this a rule, I don’t mean to say you need to stick to this every single day. I try to live by the 80/20 rule. I went into this phase admitting I’m human. The only way to make lasting change is to understand this is not a diet,... | https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/7-habits-that-helped-me-lose-20-pounds-during-the-pandemic-6a516c4892cc | ['Monica Galvan'] | 2020-11-26 21:48:01.784000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Wellness', 'Lifestyle', 'Nutrition', 'Fitness'] |
Turing Test vs Chinese Room Argument | Albert Einstein once famously remarked that “ The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
Since the past two centuries, there has been a constant effort to define AI both in Medical and AI community. Two of the most famous attempt to tackle this are Turing Test and The Chinese room argument.
Turing test is... | https://medium.com/ai-in-plain-english/turing-test-vs-chinese-room-argument-4e7592c3277 | ['Parth Chokhra'] | 2020-10-22 16:27:57.540000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Philosophy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Best Ph.D. Programs in Machine Learning (ML) for 2021 | Source: Derivative from original on Pixabay, created with photoshop.
Best Ph.D. Programs in Machine Learning (ML) for 2021
These are the best universities to pursue a Ph.D. in machine learning, with research rankings in AI and machine learning research.
Last updated, December 19, 2020
Considering various factors su... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/best-universities-to-pursue-a-phd-in-machine-learning-ml-academic-program-8fa31eee3b6d | ['Towards Ai Team'] | 2020-12-19 22:13:28.087000+00:00 | ['News', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Future', 'Education'] |
Why I Became a Writer | Traveling the world was always a top priority for my wife and I. We wanted to eat sushi in Japan, baguettes in France, pizza in Italy. Neither of us had really traveled anywhere; we had been dreaming about traveling the world since we first started dating.
Here’s what happened that changed everything:
At work one day... | https://medium.com/publishous/why-i-became-a-writer-bc2effe0bff1 | ['Anthony Moore'] | 2020-05-11 22:39:48.140000+00:00 | ['Medium', 'Anthony Moore', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Writing'] |
Converting a React App to Typescript | Converting Our App to TypeScript
We can now begin using TypeScript by renaming our existing files to use the TypeScript file extension. Let’s start by renaming our entry point to index.ts from index.js . Also, remember to make sure to update your entry point in webpack.config.js .
After you make your update remember ... | https://medium.com/swlh/converting-a-react-app-to-typescript-f72b65d798bc | ['Jayson Alzate'] | 2020-12-17 20:36:51.665000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'React'] |
Will My Daughters Ever Drive a Car? | Me and Sofia — foto by the author
Will My Daughters Ever Drive a Car?
My daughters will grow as Autonomous Passengers in a new kind of mobility but will they need a driver's license?
I am the father of three amazing daughters: Stella, a beautiful and smart 13 years old teenager, Sofia, an incredibly smart 3 years ol... | https://medium.com/swlh/will-my-daughters-never-drive-a-car-6e579158717a | ['Jair Ribeiro'] | 2020-12-06 18:00:22.287000+00:00 | ['Mobility', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Autonomous Vehicles', 'Autonomous Cars'] |
Serverless Alternative: Executing Python Functions using AWS, Terraform, and Github Actions | Serverless Alternative: Executing Python Functions using AWS, Terraform, and Github Actions
Automate the deployment and execution of a Python function without worrying about package size, execution time, or portability
Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash
What’s better than Serverless? Serverless is all the buzz these d... | https://towardsdatascience.com/better-than-serverless-executing-python-functions-with-aws-terraform-and-github-actions-9967509b030f | ['Ary Sharifian'] | 2020-09-23 17:50:10.070000+00:00 | ['Terraform', 'Python', 'Github Actions', 'Serverless', 'AWS'] |
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