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If You Can’t Meditate, Bake Bread | If You Can’t Meditate, Bake Bread
The act of making something every day can be a powerful form of anxiety relief
Photo: Theme Photos/Unsplash
A recent comic by Luke McGarry shows a man in an apocalyptic hellscape, trying to get past a pair of armed and intimidating gatekeepers. “Please — grant me safe passage,” the ... | https://forge.medium.com/if-you-cant-meditate-bake-bread-b99dda9dc6da | ['Herbert Lui'] | 2020-04-03 16:02:29.565000+00:00 | ['Habits', 'Meaning', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Coronavirus'] |
20 Ways to Unlock Facebook Chatbots for Business in 2019 | Facebook opened the gates to build Facebook Messenger bots in 2016.
Today there are 400K Facebook chatbots in the world, helping businesses get more leads, close more sales, recruit team talent, and save money with automation.
A Facebook Messenger marketing chatbot has a wide range of functionality and at the end of ... | https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/20-ways-to-unlock-facebook-chatbots-for-business-in-2019-30d12d56fa97 | ['Larry Kim'] | 2019-09-14 09:56:01.518000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Marketing', 'Chatbots', 'Facebook', 'Bots'] |
What Climate Models Tell Us About Future Global Precipitation Patterns | What are climate models?
As described by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, climate models are mathematical representations of the major components of the climate system (the atmosphere, land surface, ocean, and sea ice) and their interactions. Each component of the climate models are described as such:
The a... | https://medium.com/predict/what-climate-models-tell-us-about-future-global-precipitation-patterns-e7b52d2447aa | ['Madison Hunter'] | 2020-11-28 00:54:09.170000+00:00 | ['Climate Change', 'Technology', 'Environment', 'Future', 'Science'] |
Finale — The IDFA conundrum. In my previous articles, I wrote about: | In my previous articles, I wrote about:
The ecosystem around the IDFA A deeper look into why the ad industry needs a reboot
With that, let me close the series with a few thoughts for developers to mitigate any perceived effects from Apple’s recent announcement:
Internal Data Audits
Start by getting a good sense of ... | https://medium.com/macoclock/finale-the-idfa-conundrum-3aebb7740cd6 | ['Abishek Ashok'] | 2020-12-08 07:17:48.464000+00:00 | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'iOS', 'Apple', 'Startup'] |
5 Things You Buy When You Read The Sober Lush | The book that reminded me to enjoy all the things, not just one.
I’m not a sober person. Just in case you’re not sober, I don’t want you to think you can’t read this book or this essay. In fact I think you should read both. The Sober Lush, by Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire is, in my opinion, required reading on ... | https://shanisilver.medium.com/5-things-you-buy-when-you-read-the-sober-lush-9d1570ee3af | ['Shani Silver'] | 2020-09-13 14:59:29.911000+00:00 | ['Alcohol', 'Nonfiction', 'Books', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
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If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#79d4 | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
Visualize multi-dimension datasets in a 2D graph using t-SNE (Airbnb bookings dataset as an example) | Visualize multi-dimension datasets in a 2D graph using t-SNE (Airbnb bookings dataset as an example) Paul Lo Follow Jan 15 · 6 min read
Using 31 numeric features in the user booking dataset which has 12 different travel destinations for prediction— and yeah, I know it’s really messy, at least we immediately know we ha... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/note-visualize-multi-dimension-datasets-in-a-2d-graph-using-t-sne-airbnb-bookings-dataset-as-824541cc5388 | ['Paul Lo'] | 2020-01-15 12:23:46.859000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Clustering', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Exploration'] |
Our FAQs | Writers
What happens when I submit my article to TDS?
Thank you so much for taking the time to submit your article to our team! We will review it as soon as we can.
If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#1204 | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
2020 Sucked, But We Also Made Some Astounding Scientific Progress | 2020 Sucked, But We Also Made Some Astounding Scientific Progress
In a year of lows, it’s important to remember the highs
Photo sources: enot-poloskun, Tang Ming Tung, Odd Andersen, Mlenny, and dowell via Getty Images
In a recent conversation about the year in science, a colleague made the inevitable joke: “There wa... | https://futurehuman.medium.com/2020-sucked-but-we-also-made-some-astounding-scientific-progress-bc247aa9fcfa | ['Yasmin Tayag'] | 2020-12-21 19:20:10.300000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Future', 'Climate Change', 'Space', 'Health'] |
Inspired Writer’s Christmas Challenge Winners Announced! | Inspired Writer’s Christmas Challenge Winners Announced!
The best of the best of our third writing contest
Image source: Massonstock on Freepik — Caption: Canva
We’re happy to announce that our third writing challenge was a success and that we have chosen our winners!
Thanks to all those who participated and went t... | https://medium.com/inspired-writer/inspired-writers-christmas-challenge-winners-announced-9058e3fdbd49 | ['Joe Donan'] | 2020-12-22 05:37:17.561000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Challenge', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
Startup Spotlight Q&A: Deepzen | Taylan Kamis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepZen, an artificial intelligence company focused on publishing and producing audiobooks.
He is an experienced tech leader and entrepreneur. He has consulted with private equity and venture capital-backed tech companies as their CFO and was part of the international online m... | https://medium.com/startup-grind/startup-spotlight-q-a-deepzen-1195603775a1 | ['The Startup Grind Team'] | 2020-06-01 22:24:11.594000+00:00 | ['Startup Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Startup Spotlight', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
How to Act Around a Person with Depression | Things You Should Not Say to a Depressed Person
There are specific phrases and statements you shouldn’t be saying to someone struggling with depression. This should be common sense, but depending on how educated you are on the topic, you may not be aware of the consequences these words carry. So, please sit down and t... | https://medium.com/the-ascent/how-to-act-around-a-person-with-depression-e89149b1e866 | ['Joanna Henderson'] | 2020-05-15 12:01:01.145000+00:00 | ['Mindfulness', 'Mental Illness', 'Psychology', 'Health', 'Mental Health'] |
Designed Intelligence: Enhancing the human experience | By Connor Upton, Group Design Director, Fjord at The Dock, and James O’Neill, Service and Systems Design Lead, Fjord at The Dock.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic .” — Arthur C. Clarke
We often hear about how AI can be used to automate mundane tasks and free us up to do other thin... | https://medium.com/design-voices/designed-intelligence-enhancing-the-human-experience-b9c60aeab0f3 | [] | 2020-09-11 10:50:09.377000+00:00 | ['Design', 'Fjord', 'Experience', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Starbucks’ Founding Story Teaches Us to Leave Our Egos at the Door | With each passing day, the heaviness on Howard’s shoulders kept accumulating. He saw a world of opportunity and couldn’t let his moment pass away. He decided to leave Starbucks and build his own chain of espresso bars.
As I’m learning about the story of what became synonymous with an American classic, our loved-to-hat... | https://medium.com/swlh/starbucks-original-name-teaches-us-to-leave-our-egos-at-the-door-bf04129d8cf7 | [] | 2020-09-03 22:21:23.792000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Life Lessons', 'Startup', 'Startup Lessons', 'Marketing'] |
Toxic solutioning, form vs function, blurred vision | The UX Collective is honored to have been recognized as the Best Design Publication of 2020 at the Brazil Design Awards. 💙
The results of the State of CSS survey are out, and the State of JS survey is now open.
The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over ... | https://uxdesign.cc/toxic-solutioning-form-vs-function-blurred-vision-cffd37d8f56f | ['Fabricio Teixeira'] | 2020-12-12 13:29:29.193000+00:00 | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'Startup', 'Productivity', 'UX'] |
3 Fantastic Tips for Writers from Arthur Conan Doyle | This month I’ve been watching Granada’s “Sherlock Holmes” television series from the 1980s starring Jeremy Brett.
While I’ve enjoyed numerous different screen adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery stories (including Cumberbatch’s modern spin on the detective), I love how this series seems to bring the stories to... | https://medium.com/copywriting-secrets/3-helpful-tips-for-writers-from-arthur-conan-doyle-dd8425c41dc8 | ['Nicole Bianchi'] | 2020-10-17 19:02:43.110000+00:00 | ['History', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
Theories on Theory: Why Some of it is Bull**** | The world of advertising theory and research is a mystical and enticing place. Nuggets of truth pulled from studies can have immense power; they can fuel a creative brief or help you win over a client. But, we can’t forget that theory isn’t fact and must be used cautiously. To avoid the advertising research rabbit-hole... | https://medium.com/comms-planning/theories-on-theory-why-some-of-it-is-bull-b8fbfb9c5e1a | ['Ali Goldsmith'] | 2017-07-24 08:47:15.564000+00:00 | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Science', 'Research', 'Creativity'] |
Why Antibodies Don't Tell the Whole Story of Immunity | There’s Good News About Your Immune System and the Coronavirus
When antibody levels go down, T cells have your back
T cell rendering. Image: Design Cells/Getty Images
More than any other facet of Covid-19, the question of immunity has been a stressful source of good news/bad news whiplash.
Good news: Scientists dis... | https://elemental.medium.com/theres-good-news-about-your-immune-system-and-the-coronavirus-7d2c1fc976c1 | ['Dana G Smith'] | 2020-07-22 17:43:13.602000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Body', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Health'] |
Meet Angela Friedman the invincible 102 year old from New York. | Image by Obi Onyeador on Unsplash
Meet Angela Friedman the invincible 102 year old from New York. She's beat Covid-19 twice, and she lived through the flu of 1918 as a baby.
Joanne Merola, Angela’s daughter, says her mother was first diagnosed with the corona virus back in March 2020 whilst in hospital for a minor pr... | https://medium.com/vital-world-online/meet-angela-friedman-the-invincible-102-year-old-from-new-york-d4f2ab769ea0 | ['Rejoice Denhere'] | 2020-12-19 09:03:08.553000+00:00 | ['Covid 19', 'Wellness Coaching', 'Wellness', 'Health', 'Coronavirus'] |
Permissionless Professors #5: Nat Eliason | We believe monetization is a hidden secret. Secrets hiding in plain sight. From the psychology of anchoring, the mathematics of power-law pricing tables, the application of demand elasticity, and the market positioning of your price — your path to better monetization awaits.
Follow | https://medium.com/monetization-manifesto/permissionless-professors-5-nat-eliason-b4a72f8edd2d | ['Gary Bailey - Monetization Manifesto'] | 2020-12-17 14:56:35.631000+00:00 | ['Growth', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Monetization'] |
new writing resource | Hi there,
Hope all of your writing projects are going well. I just wanted to let you know about the latest article published at Copywriting Secrets:
A Look Back at August: new projects, the best books I read, writing & creative inspiration, and more!
This is a different guide than usual. I’m sharing a recap of my Au... | https://medium.com/copywriting-secrets/new-writing-resource-febbddb7e8dc | ['Nicole Bianchi'] | 2019-09-12 22:18:57.370000+00:00 | ['Inspiration', 'Creativity', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
How I Sold More Membership Cards Than Any Other Store Clerk | How I Sold More Membership Cards Than Any Other Store Clerk
The exact scripts to use
Photo by Christiann Koepke on Unsplash
In 2007, when I was a 17-year-old sales assistant in a clothing store, I sold more store cards than entire store ‘clusters’ put together.
A cluster, in this example, was all of the staff in al... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/how-i-sold-more-membership-cards-than-any-other-store-clerk-3166376576a2 | ['Geraint Clarke'] | 2020-08-11 17:05:53.527000+00:00 | ['Sales', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Psychology'] |
A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming | In the United States, the rising severity of the current moment was obscured for several weeks by the downward drift of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths resulting from the spring outbreak in northeastern states. Even though deaths have been rising in the hardest-hit states of the Sun Belt surge, falling deaths in th... | https://medium.com/the-atlantic/a-second-coronavirus-death-surge-is-coming-10dba630f635 | ['The Atlantic'] | 2020-07-16 14:14:01.021000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
5 Tips on How to Use Your Unfinished Blog Posts to Help You Write New ones | 5 Tips on How to Use Your Unfinished Blog Posts to Help You Write New ones
What to do with all the blog posts that you started and never finished
Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash
My approach to writing is a little bit messier and chaotic than other writers.
I believe in progress over perfection, forward momentum, ... | https://medium.com/swlh/5-tips-on-how-to-use-your-unfinished-blog-posts-to-help-you-write-new-ones-5fa50833de18 | ['Gregory D. Welch'] | 2020-02-28 05:35:03.477000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
The Studies of Heredity Started in Mental Asylums | The Studies of Heredity Started in Mental Asylums
The most important research to date
Patients from a mental asylum out for air in Victorian England. (Source: Painting by K H Merz 1843)
The science of heritage is quite a big scientific sector that actually focuses on many branches of human behavior and human evoluti... | https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-studies-of-heredity-started-in-mental-asylums-e073d73f1c49 | ['Andrei Tapalaga'] | 2020-11-30 21:02:11.964000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Mental Illness', 'History', 'Mental Health', 'Health'] |
What Survival Experts Say About Quarantine Baking | It’s not really about being able to build a fire or carry a heavy pack over long distances, it’s a general feeling of competence that imbues you with a sense of confidence. And that realization of “I can do this” can carry over into other parts of life. Having accomplished one hard task, you believe you can problem-sol... | https://elemental.medium.com/what-survival-experts-say-about-quarantine-baking-9b654a2d5fdf | ['Dana G Smith'] | 2020-04-22 16:00:56.620000+00:00 | ['Brain', 'Food', 'Baking', 'Psychology', 'Coronavirus'] |
Time Management: The Single Most Important Component to My Productivity | Time Management: The Single Most Important Component to My Productivity
The combined strategy of time management that applies to most artistic creators, especially with the COVID-19 Pandemic
Photo by Kari Shea on Unsplash
Stop and retrace your day today, what you’ve done thus far, or, if you’re reading this in the m... | https://joemduncan.medium.com/time-management-the-single-most-important-component-to-my-productivity-fb26c3b3787d | ['Joe Duncan'] | 2020-04-14 02:51:26.767000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Time Management', 'Business Strategy', 'Writing'] |
Writers: How to Accomplish More by Writing Less | The struggle is real
So, why did I think this was a good idea to struggle twice as much, or ten times more?
Our conscious mind can only process one project at a time, nothing more. There’s no such thing as multitasking — only dilution of our efforts. Writing multiple books at once might feel productive and faster, bu... | https://augustbirch.medium.com/writers-how-to-accomplish-more-by-writing-less-30afdf86024a | ['August Birch'] | 2019-04-15 17:55:50.087000+00:00 | ['Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
A Supercomputer's Covid-19 Analysis Yields a New Way to Understand the Virus | A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged
A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis
Photo: zhangshuang/Getty Images
Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples ... | https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63 | ['Thomas Smith'] | 2020-09-03 18:37:13.371000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Science', 'Bradykinin Hypothesis', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
How Long Coronavirus Survives on Hard and Soft Surfaces | This scanning electron microscope image shows the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in yellow and isolated from a U.S. patient, emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Credit: NIAID-RML
How Long Coronavirus Survives on Hard and Soft Surfaces
It just sits there for hours, even days, waiting for ... | https://robertroybritt.medium.com/how-long-coronavirus-survives-on-hard-and-soft-surfaces-dc32696539f9 | ['Robert Roy Britt'] | 2020-03-23 21:05:31.459000+00:00 | ['Home', 'Disease', 'Health', 'Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
Content Means Nothing Without Context | One of the first things I did as a writer was to put together a series of three articles showing people how to use Google to answer nearly any question. It was a massive guide.
I was proud of it, and I got some positive feedback from the few readers I had at the time. It must have gone to my head, because I instantly ... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/content-means-nothing-without-context-a032b06ed53f | ['Niklas Göke'] | 2020-05-27 20:15:15.036000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing'] |
Try These 20 CNN Headline Templates to Draw in Readers | Try These 20 CNN Headline Templates to Draw in Readers
I browsed their site for 1.5 hrs
Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos.
You know how it is. You’ve got that huge to-do list to get through when you get online outside of work: an article to write, the banking, canceling an appointment, finding a gift for your cousin... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/try-these-20-cnn-headline-templates-to-draw-in-readers-632e818b9a4a | ['Cynthia Marinakos'] | 2020-08-19 02:54:00.031000+00:00 | ['Headline Hacks', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Startup'] |
There are Many Uncanny Parallels Between Depression and Fascism | Both depression and fascism thrive on fear and terrorizing their host — be it your mind or your country — until you systematically question what your eyes, ears, and heart are reporting back to you; until you no longer trust your senses and either endorse the agenda of that which seeks to destroy you, or just give up.
... | https://kittyhannaheden.medium.com/there-are-many-uncanny-parallels-between-depression-and-fascism-f82b999afb95 | ['A Singular Story'] | 2020-12-10 15:12:40.377000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Self', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
Get Started with PySpark and Jupyter Notebook in 3 Minutes | Install pySpark
Before installing pySpark, you must have Python and Spark installed. I am using Python 3 in the following examples but you can easily adapt them to Python 2. Go to the Python official website to install it. I also encourage you to set up a virtualenv.
To install Spark, make sure you have Java 8 or hig... | https://medium.com/sicara/get-started-pyspark-jupyter-guide-tutorial-ae2fe84f594f | ['Charles Bochet'] | 2019-12-05 10:43:00.520000+00:00 | ['Data Engineering', 'Python', 'Big Data', 'Jupyter', 'Spark'] |
Our FAQs | Writers
What happens when I submit my article to TDS?
Thank you so much for taking the time to submit your article to our team! We will review it as soon as we can.
If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#bc29 | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
Facebook Newsfeed Algorithm: 5 Ways to Recover Organic Reach | Ladies and gentlemen. We come together today to once again mourn the loss of Facebook organic reach, to share the grief all of us marketers feel. And perhaps, in that sharing, we can find the strength to look toward the future with some hope.
Yes, organic reach on Facebook is abysmal and getting worse, thanks to the l... | https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/facebook-newsfeed-algorithm-5-ways-to-recover-organic-reach-5925adcc009 | ['Larry Kim'] | 2019-07-16 10:11:01.091000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Facebook', 'Social Media', 'Algorithms', 'Marketing'] |
‘Turning up the Heat’ A Story Device for Addressing Climate Change | ‘Turning up the Heat’ A Story Device for Addressing Climate Change
A Conventional Symbol Applied to a Novel Problem
Photo by Aay Kay on Unsplash
Hot weather — and the many ways we’ve learned to communicate it — has come to play many important roles in our stories. We often use Heat to build a juxtaposition of worlds... | https://medium.com/climate-conscious/turning-up-the-heat-a-story-device-for-addressing-climate-change-998522d0350e | ['Cameron Catanzano'] | 2020-11-22 17:51:11.928000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Climate Change', 'Psychology', 'Film', 'Environment'] |
Books to Keep the BoogeyDudes Away: The October 2020 Brilliant Reading List (#5 Can Be Music to Your Soul) | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Be not fooled by the saccharine title of this classic novel, which was subtitled “a classic” before it was even written, according to the “translator/abridger” of the “original story.”
And in case you haven’t figured it out by reading the book or from the sentence above, the “tra... | https://medium.com/be-a-brilliant-writer/books-to-keep-the-boogeydudes-away-the-october-2020-brilliant-reading-list-5-is-music-to-your-7539779c6dfe | ['Sarah Cy'] | 2020-10-29 18:57:32.899000+00:00 | ['Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Music'] |
Our FAQs | Writers
What happens when I submit my article to TDS?
Thank you so much for taking the time to submit your article to our team! We will review it as soon as we can.
If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#1bcb | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
Addressing the Handover | I don’t like the word handover.
In design circles it implies the end of involvement for one group and the start for another. Designers will create a suite of assets, whether it’s a style guide or page designs, and then hand those over to a developer to be coded.
The designer dusts his hands and moves onto the next ta... | https://uxdesign.cc/addressing-the-handover-3f874e1e96d4 | ['Jonny Gibson'] | 2017-11-09 17:48:00.542000+00:00 | ['Development', 'Teamwork', 'Design', 'UX', 'Psychology'] |
Is geothermal energy everything that it is cracked up to be? | The principle of geothermal energy is very simple: hot water and steam from deep in the earth’s crust is used to drive turbines. It produces no harmful polluting gases and has the potential to become one of the main sources of renewable energy of the 21st century.
The natural heat energy produced from the earth is cal... | https://medium.com/e-tech/is-geothermal-energy-everything-that-it-is-cracked-up-to-be-b1876b2c4181 | [] | 2020-08-14 14:21:24.852000+00:00 | ['Environment', 'Renewable Energy', 'Safety', 'Geothermal Power', 'Sustainability'] |
Does code need to be perfect? | Last month I had a conversation with the CEO of one of our clients. Their CTO and Head of Engineering asked us to help rework a part of their codebase. It had become impossible to add new functionality without breaking anything else and no one really knew how everything worked. While running stable and fast, this highl... | https://medium.com/we-are-madewithlove/does-code-need-to-be-perfect-a53f36ad7163 | ['Andreas Creten'] | 2016-11-10 15:34:06.691000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Maintaining Your Streak is the Secret to Reaching Pretty Much Any Goal | My daughter, Ruby, hits up her three best friends in Reno every night on Snapchat before she goes to bed every night.
They’re all on Pacific time, three hours earlier than we are here in Pennsylvania. They’re still doing their homework or maybe watching TV when she’s falling asleep.
But she does…whatever fifteen year... | https://medium.com/the-write-brain/maintaining-your-streak-is-the-secret-to-reaching-pretty-much-any-goal-8368d165ad64 | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2020-02-20 04:19:52.325000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
IBM Watson Discovery wins a finalist spot in Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards | IBM Watson Discovery wins a finalist spot in Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards
This prestigious competition placed IBM Cloud & Data Platform alongside some of the most innovative design in our industry
Our designers take on ambitious projects in order to solve complex problems. I see up close the talent... | https://medium.com/design-ibm/ibm-watson-discovery-wins-a-finalist-spot-in-fast-companys-2020-innovation-by-design-awards-861e8a3408bf | ['Arin Bhowmick'] | 2020-10-16 19:07:30.299000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Design', 'UX'] |
13 Games I Play to Continuously Crush My Writing Goals With Ease | 13 Games I Play to Continuously Crush My Writing Goals With Ease
Writing is hard, playing isn’t
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash
Ugh. It happened again.
Just before you slept yesterday, you were excited to wake up, brew your favorite coffee, and start writing a new article today.
But today, you feel like sleeping.... | https://shajedulkarim.medium.com/13-games-i-play-to-continuously-crush-my-writing-goals-with-ease-bfd5528ba538 | ['Shajedul Karim'] | 2020-09-09 08:22:24.801000+00:00 | ['Writing Prompts', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
Take Your Creativity to the Next Level | Take Your Creativity to the Next Level
Learn the power of observation, imagination, and being present
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
What do you do when you feel like your creative well runs dry? Where do you turn to? Do you have the tools in place to help kick-start your creativity again?
Learning to carefully... | https://medium.com/swlh/take-your-creativity-to-the-next-level-71c5f02a51a3 | ['Gregory D. Welch'] | 2020-01-03 11:13:20.511000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
This Is How To Plan A Day. | I am going out of town with my family tomorrow.
I have a lot to get done before we step on the plane.
I woke up with my mind spinning on repeat: work, write, errands, kids, meals, cleaning, dog. All the things I want or need to do today. Over and over. I knew I was overwhelmed by this day.
So I planned it out.
And ... | https://medium.com/swlh/this-is-how-to-plan-a-day-94dc24135e1f | ['Deb Knobelman'] | 2018-08-03 19:16:09.019000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
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Thank you so much for taking the time to submit your article to our team! We will review it as soon as we can.
If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#2a0e | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
Depth-First Search vs. Breadth-First Search in Python | Let’s begin with tree traversal first.
What does it even mean to traverse a tree?
Since trees are a type of graph, tree traversal or tree search is a type of graph traversal. However, traversing through a tree is a little different from the more broad process of traversing through a graph.
Traversing a tree is usual... | https://medium.com/nothingaholic/depth-first-search-vs-breadth-first-search-in-python-81521caa8f44 | ['Xuankhanh Nguyen'] | 2020-08-06 15:58:44.993000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Algorithms', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python'] |
Noam Chomsky Has Weighed In On A.I. Where Do You stand? | Noam Chomsky on Artificial Intelligence| Towards AI
STRINGER Mexico / Reuters
There is a core A.I. question. Can we create cognition? Is there a path by which our machines can possess any true understanding? Our best A.I. efforts are still stored mannikins. They create a lifelike illusion but there is no life behind ... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/noam-chomsky-has-weighed-in-on-a-i-where-do-you-stand-f478d1b0e0ea | ['Dan Lovy'] | 2019-05-07 21:15:45.676000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Recognising Joy | Many years ago I watched a strange and beautiful Japanese movie ‘After Life’ in which the characters were asked to choose one moment from their lives, one memory, that they could choose to relive forever after their death. Their ‘afterlife’ would consist of just this one crystalline image, something that they could rec... | https://lawturley.medium.com/recognising-joy-ce048085a606 | ['Law Turley'] | 2020-08-11 09:03:36.794000+00:00 | ['Joy', 'Creativity', 'Happiness', 'Self-awareness', 'Memories'] |
How Neural Networks Work | How Neural Networks Work
Understand what’s happening inside a neural network
Image by the author
This article is part of a series that explains neural networks without the math. The first part is here. The next part is here. You can also get the whole series as a book.
The basic structure of a simulated neuron
In ... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/how-neural-networks-work-c34298a292df | ['Moral Robots'] | 2020-10-11 02:30:44.185000+00:00 | ['Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Computer Science', 'Programming'] |
Visualizing your home temperature with MCU8266, MQTT and AWS | Let’s build an IoT, cloud-connected thermostat! We will go through a step-by-step process of building a thermostat and connecting it over MQTT to AWS cloud for processing and visualization. We will cover all aspects of this project — the circuit design, the application running on the board, the MQTT protocol, as well a... | https://medium.com/dan-on-coding/building-an-iot-thermostat-with-esp8266-python-and-aws-6b0555326dbe | ['Dan Siwiec'] | 2020-12-27 23:21:39.123000+00:00 | ['Terraform', 'Python', 'AWS', 'IoT', 'Arduino'] |
8 Ways To Hack Your Nutrition. Research-based hacks and insights to… | There is a lot of information on food out there — like A LOT a lot. I know this because I write some of it, and certainly consume just as much, whether it’s through nutrition courses, diet and lifestyle books, or my favourite foodie recipe blogs.
The tricky thing is that it can be impossibly hard to sift through the p... | https://medium.com/beingwell/8-foods-facts-to-help-you-get-better-nutrition-with-less-effort-fe705693ee33 | ['Alexandra Walker-Jones'] | 2020-12-28 23:20:43.123000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Food', 'Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Nutrition'] |
7 Business Lessons You Can Learn from Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos | 7 Business Lessons You Can Learn from Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos
Skill Development Expert Profile — Jeff Bezos
Los Angeles Air Force Base Space and Missile System Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is now the world’s richest person. According to the Forbes real-time billio... | https://medium.com/skilluped/7-business-lessons-you-can-learn-from-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-86bf3d79e082 | ['Erik Hamre'] | 2020-11-19 01:12:04.697000+00:00 | ['Amazon', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
Laser Waveguide Technology Could Divert Lightning Strikes | Lightning strikes start over 9,000 US wildfires and cause $5 billion in damages every single year — but a new laser system for creating artificial lightning channels hopes to change that. We’re joined by Dr. Jean-Claude Diels, Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, w... | https://medium.com/swlh/laser-waveguide-technology-could-divert-lightning-strikes-65d0238cff4c | ['Tim Ventura'] | 2020-10-05 10:20:37.277000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Technology', 'Physics', 'Weather', 'Lightning'] |
Allocate AWS Costs with Resource Tags | When you start having many projects — each with different environments — in your AWS account, it is very important to have an overview of the costs by project (and/or environment).
Under AWS Cost Management / Cost Explorer is possible to view reports and aggregate costs by Services and you can set up many different fi... | https://dvddpl.medium.com/allocate-aws-costs-with-resource-tags-277de240487f | ['Davide De Paolis'] | 2019-11-21 10:03:42.531000+00:00 | ['Serverless', 'Software Engineering', 'AWS', 'Infrastructure As Code'] |
Getting Started with Plot.ly | Getting Started with Plot.ly
A Guided Walkthrough for Powerful Visualizations in Python
Authors: Elyse Lee and Ishaan Dey
Matplotlib is alright, Seaborn is great, but Plot.ly? That’s on an entirely new level. Plot.ly offers more than your average graph by providing options for full interactivity and many editing too... | https://towardsdatascience.com/getting-started-with-plot-ly-3c73706a837c | ['Ishaan Dey'] | 2019-06-14 19:04:29.685000+00:00 | ['Data Visualization', 'Plotly', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
The Snowman | It was one of those magical days.
The kids had a snow day and I decided to blow off work.
So, we spent the day outside. There were snowball fights and sledding after I spent approximately four hours shoveling.
The showcase of course was the Snowman.
We spent the afternoon on him. Three nearly perfect spheres of sno... | https://medium.com/the-inkwell/the-snowman-4ef92500f4b1 | ['Matthew Donnellon'] | 2020-11-28 04:17:24.882000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Short Story', 'Life', 'Books', 'Fiction'] |
Before It Goes | a part-time writer’s frustration
is the state of brimming with
ideas threatening to disappear
you
searching for nooks and crannies
of time in the workday’s drudgery
everything is drudgery, after all,
compared to writing
to jot it down, the brilliance
that has possessed you. | https://medium.com/meri-shayari/before-it-goes-1cd271aa22f9 | ['Rebeca Ansar'] | 2019-10-30 15:01:01.640000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Creativity', 'Poetry', 'Ideas', 'Writer'] |
How the Kardashev Scale Will Determine Our Future | One of the most fascinating theories regarding space is that of the Kardashev scale. Meant to describe what alien civilizations would look like, it labels our own in comparison to what may be in the cosmos.
What is the Kardashev Scale?
Proposed originally by Russian astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev, this scale measu... | https://medium.com/predict/how-the-kardashev-scale-will-determine-our-future-723706cf33c1 | ['Trevor Mahoney'] | 2019-11-23 22:45:30.352000+00:00 | ['Astronomy', 'Space', 'Ideas', 'Science', 'Future'] |
I’m No Longer a Developer | I’m No Longer a Developer
A path to being a software engineer
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
People, organizations, companies, and even nations are all dependent on software. The process of developing, deploying, upgrading, and even the decommissioning of software all can include costly exercises that can hold r... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/im-no-longer-a-developer-35e2c5b8eb90 | ['Terrence Pugh'] | 2020-07-01 15:23:13.865000+00:00 | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Development', 'Careers', 'Programming'] |
AWS Encryption SDK in Baby Steps | How to protect customer data from physical and applicative data breaches is a challenge that every developer will face sooner than later.
When developing a cloud application based on AWS, the responsibility of protecting customer data is shared between the AWS infrastructure and the application developer. The AWS infr... | https://medium.com/cyberark-engineering/aws-encryption-sdk-in-baby-steps-a2a5a99cea24 | ['Albert Niderhofer'] | 2020-10-07 07:33:17.907000+00:00 | ['Aws Sdk', 'Python', 'Encryption', 'AWS'] |
4 Books to Help You Become a Seasoned Python Programmer | 4 Books to Help You Become a Seasoned Python Programmer
A review of some of the best Python books
Photo by Link Hoang on Unsplash.
I know, I know. The internet has been around for many years, so why on earth are there people who still want to read books? There are tons of free resources online. Who is “stupid” enoug... | https://medium.com/better-programming/4-books-to-help-you-become-a-seasoned-python-programmer-7dea2fade7ed | ['Yong Cui'] | 2020-10-14 15:05:30.663000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development', 'Programming'] |
Things to Consider When Choosing a Component Library | Things to Consider When Choosing a Component Library
A wrong choice can lead to bad, hacky code
Photo by Oliver Roos on Unsplash
Modern UIs are composed of multiple components. Popular component libraries include components like:
Buttons
Forms: input fields, select elements, checkboxes, radio buttons
Dialogs, mod... | https://medium.com/better-programming/things-to-consider-when-choosing-a-component-library-5c864de6d693 | ['Ali Kamalizade'] | 2020-07-21 20:43:15.946000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Angular', 'Software Engineering'] |
For The Love Of A Cam Girl | For The Love Of A Cam Girl
Grant Amato stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his family. They did everything possible to keep him out of jail and he thanked them with bullets.
Grant Amato | Source: publicpolicerecord.com
The Amato family was an American success story. Chad and Margaret had three boys; Jason, C... | https://medium.com/crimebeat/for-the-love-of-a-cam-girl-9e8e83805ead | ['Aj Wiseman'] | 2020-12-13 18:14:58.377000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'True Crime', 'Psychology', 'Society', 'Addiction'] |
How to Configure AWS Route 53 | by Serguey Martinez, Staff Engineer
Photo by Procreator UX Design Studio
If your architecture is based on microservices it’s a really good idea to buy a domain in Route 53 and make the connections with API gateway so that you can enjoy URL’s like:
dev.mydomain.com/docs dev.mydomain.com/microservice-basePath dev.mydo... | https://medium.com/tribalscale/how-to-configure-aws-route-53-c8fa99ce66fb | ['Serguey Arellano Martínez'] | 2020-12-02 21:34:07.907000+00:00 | ['Aws Route53', 'AWS', 'How To', 'Microservices', 'Tutorial'] |
Building a Design System Package With Storybook, TypeScript, and React in 15 Minutes | Building a Design System Package With Storybook, TypeScript, and React in 15 Minutes
A design system will make you more productive and help you build new features and components faster
Background photo by Nils Johan Gabrielsen on Unsplash.
When building out a UI component library for my own work, I ran into a couple... | https://medium.com/better-programming/building-a-design-system-package-with-storybook-typescript-and-react-in-15-minutes-b5fd5711339e | ["Dennis O'Keeffe"] | 2020-12-07 18:17:52.020000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'React', 'Typescript', 'Design Systems', 'JavaScript'] |
Monitor your infrastructure with InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes | Grafana in action — Learn how to set it up in your AWS cloud
Monitoring your infrastructure and applications is a must-have if you play your game seriously. Overseeing your entire landscape, running servers, cloud spends, VMs, containers, and the applications inside are extremely valuable to avoid outages or to fix th... | https://medium.com/starschema-blog/monitor-your-infrastructure-with-influxdb-and-grafana-on-kubernetes-a299a0afe3d2 | ['Tamas Foldi'] | 2020-11-22 15:54:00.989000+00:00 | ['Kubernetes', 'Influxdb', 'Aws Eks', 'Data Engineering', 'Grafana'] |
Making Grids in Python | Making Grids in Python
Hip to be square
Photo by the author.
At some point, you might need to make a grid or grid-like visual structure for a project or coding interview question (mazes, search). A grid is also the foundation for placing objects on a canvas surface in an orderly manner and more complex cases like is... | https://medium.com/better-programming/making-grids-in-python-7cf62c95f413 | ['Keno Leon'] | 2020-11-16 16:55:25.220000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Coding', 'Data Science', 'Software Engineering'] |
Only God Is an Atheist | 1. The boy with horns
I’ve known about the two horns growing out of the top of my head since about middle school. The one on the right comes to a sharper point than the other. My pediatrician, as far as I could tell, didn’t seem too worried or repulsed. Just a misshapen skull. Nothing a good haircut can’t disguise. As... | https://humanparts.medium.com/onlygodisanatheist-70dbe5f2a6de | ['Shane Cashman'] | 2019-10-03 15:59:49.844000+00:00 | ['Music', 'Religion', 'Culture', 'Identity', 'Writing'] |
Was an Iranian Scientist Really Assassinated With an A.I. Weapon? | Was an Iranian Scientist Really Assassinated With an A.I. Weapon?
A.I.-assisted weapons are proliferating quickly
A funeral ceremony for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran, Iran, on November 30, 2020. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
OneZero’s General Intelligence is a roundup of the most important artificial intelligen... | https://onezero.medium.com/was-an-iranian-scientist-assassinated-with-an-a-i-weapon-50ec9d5b1206 | ['Dave Gershgorn'] | 2020-12-11 14:52:37.512000+00:00 | ['General Intelligence', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Military', 'Machine Leraning'] |
Manipulating File Paths with Python | Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash
Python is a convenient language that’s often used for scripting, data science, and web development.
In this article, we’ll look at how to read and write files with Python.
Files and File Paths
A file has a filename to reference the file. It also has a path to locate the file’s l... | https://medium.com/python-in-plain-english/manipulating-file-paths-with-python-72a76952b832 | ['John Au-Yeung'] | 2020-05-04 14:50:44.216000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Python', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
How to Set Up Your Own PaaS Within Hours | How to Set Up Your Own PaaS Within Hours
Five simple steps to quickly set up your very own private PaaS environment using available free open-source technologies
Photo by Fotis Fotopoulos on Unsplash
There are many useful and free open-source software on the Internet, we just need to know where to look.
The PaaS se... | https://medium.com/the-internal-startup/how-to-set-up-your-own-paas-within-hours-83356523413d | ['Jimmy Soh'] | 2020-06-24 00:58:38.258000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Software Engineering'] |
Interesting AI/ML Articles On Medium This Week (Dec 5) | Interesting AI/ML Articles On Medium This Week (Dec 5)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning articles that might have flown under your radar.
We are officially in the last month of 2020, and what a crazy ride it has been.
I have to say that amidst lockdown and a year of limited to no social activity, Medium h... | https://towardsdatascience.com/interesting-ai-ml-articles-on-medium-this-week-dec-5-a1ac1b8bad8c | ['Richmond Alake'] | 2020-12-05 04:55:37.605000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Handling Outliers in Clusters using Silhouette Analysis | Handling Outliers in Clusters using Silhouette Analysis
Identify and remove outliers in each cluster from K-Means clustering
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
The real-world data often has a lot of outlier values. The cause of outliers can be data corruption or failure to record data. The handling of outliers is ve... | https://towardsdatascience.com/handling-outliers-in-clusters-using-silhouette-analysis-5a7d51118dac | ['Satyam Kumar'] | 2020-10-21 02:23:47.081000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Education', 'Clustering'] |
Interactive Data Visualization became much easier with help of Plotly-express. | Difference between Plotly and Plotly-express (in terms of plotting).
Plotly
Please Note: Plotly has been updated recently. Plotly as well as any sources from plotly updates frequently (as they are new libraries when compared to other libraries in python).
Till Plotly 3, we have two modes in plotting with plotly (Onl... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/interactive-data-visualization-became-much-easier-with-help-of-plotly-express-64c56e781b53 | ['Chamanth Mvs'] | 2020-10-06 02:07:34.860000+00:00 | ['Plotly Express', 'Plotly', 'Data Visualization', 'Python'] |
IBM-Oxford Team Uses Supercomputers to Design New Drugs Against COVID-19 | By Katia Moskvitch
With the second wave of COVID-19 gaining strength, researchers are in a race against time to find a treatment or a vaccine.
One international team of scientists from IBM Research and Oxford University is trying to design molecules that would interfere with the molecular machinery of coronavirus, th... | https://ibm-research.medium.com/global-ibm-oxford-team-uses-supercomputers-to-design-new-drugs-against-covid-19-6293ced5720a | ['Inside Ibm Research'] | 2020-11-27 13:06:05.842000+00:00 | ['IBM', 'Technology', 'Covid 19', 'AI', 'Coronavirus'] |
A Next Level Webpack Dashboard | A Next Level Webpack Dashboard
Level up your webpack using webpack-dashboard
Beautiful webpack dashboard inside the terminal
Webpack-dashboard has over 13,000 stars on GitHub, yet I almost never encounter developer teams making use of the plugin.
Why not take advantage of this great plugin?
Note: Don’t forget you ... | https://medium.com/better-programming/webpack-dashboard-with-create-react-app-vue-cli-and-custom-configs-49166e1a69de | ['Indrek Lasn'] | 2020-11-11 22:21:40.947000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs', 'React', 'Webpack'] |
9 Healthy Foods You Should Eat Every Week | 9 Healthy Foods You Should Eat Every Week
And why they are so incredibly beneficial.
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash
I’m sure everyone has heard the saying:
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
While that rhyme might roll off the tongue with ease and get children more excited to eat their fruit, there isn’t a... | https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/9-healthy-foods-you-should-eat-every-week-467b32e61acc | ['Alyssa Atkinson'] | 2020-12-17 15:37:20.694000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Food', 'Fitness', 'Science', 'Lifestyle'] |
Cheap Renewable Energy Has Arrived | Cheap Renewable Energy Has Arrived
The cost of renewable energy is now on par with natural gas.
Photo by Science in HD on Unsplash
At a time when the only climate-related news that gets relayed paints a bleak picture of our future on this planet, it feels good to share a positive story about how far science has come... | https://medium.com/climate-conscious/cheap-renewable-energy-has-arrived-3ffbcc459566 | ['Madison Hunter'] | 2020-12-09 12:02:31.952000+00:00 | ['Energy', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
How to Improve Your Postpartum Anxiety with an App. Today. | Postpartum Anxiety
What I didn’t know at the time was there is a completely different set of screening questions - with completely different symptoms - for postpartum anxiety (PPA) vs. postpartum depression.
Symptoms like racing thoughts, irrational fear of harm coming to your child — with kitchen knives (I had that ... | https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/how-to-improve-your-postpartum-anxiety-with-an-app-today-84536b05d86c | ['Katie Grant'] | 2020-10-30 14:33:54.075000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Postpartum Anxiety', 'Parenting', 'Life'] |
Theories of Aging | Simple single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, such as bacteria are the earliest forms of life on earth, and still abundant today. Much later evolved the more complex, but still single celled organisms called eukaryotes. From those humble beginnings came the multi-cellular life forms called metazoans. All animal ce... | https://drjasonfung.medium.com/theories-of-aging-440cf9916755 | ['Dr. Jason Fung'] | 2019-02-20 20:01:05.491000+00:00 | ['Longevity', 'Wellness', 'Aging', 'Health', 'Nutrition'] |
Is Six Feet of Social Distancing Always Necessary? | 6 Feet Apart Is the Gold Standard, but Should It Be?
Exploring the origins, and difficulties, of the 6-foot rule
It may have been the most bizarre card game in history.
Groups of men — some sick with the common cold, some healthy — sat around card tables for 12 hours, playing poker. The healthy men wore specially de... | https://elemental.medium.com/six-feet-apart-is-the-gold-standard-but-should-it-be-3af48fe56ff0 | ['Markham Heid'] | 2020-07-31 14:14:44.265000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19', 'The Nuance', 'Coronavirus'] |
Grandma Wants Revenge on Reindeer Who Ran Her Over | Grandma Wants Revenge on Reindeer Who Ran Her Over
After a heated Twitter feud, Santa, the reindeer, and Grandma have agreed to duke it out in a WWE match
Photo made by author on Canva Pro
Twitter has exploded over the chaos of the legal battles of Grandma suing reindeer who ran her over, Dusty. #TeamSanta #TeamDust... | https://medium.com/jane-austens-wastebasket/grandma-wants-revenge-on-reindeer-who-ran-her-over-54efc63d17e7 | ['Ryan Fan'] | 2020-12-24 06:11:36.566000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'Satire', 'Humor', 'Books', 'Music'] |
Exploring the question of whether submarines can swim | Exploring the question of whether submarines can swim
An Argument for Verified Humans (Part I)
As I read, I often get lost in the text, my thoughts diverging from the author’s words toward something related yet different. This process seems almost like a conversation between the author and me, with a person’s words p... | https://medium.com/linguaphile/an-argument-for-verified-humans-part-i-2b4c987e462a | ['Danielle Boccelli'] | 2020-12-20 03:18:30.680000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Computer Science', 'NLP'] |
Predicting American ICU Saturation During COVID-19 | Like everybody else in the free world, I’m obsessed with coronavirus. You are too, that’s why you’re reading this. It conjures a lot of very interesting thoughts in my mind, like this one:
Everyone’s yelling at everyone else about what the correct policy is, but the yelling isn’t ever going to stop because of the curi... | https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/predicting-american-icu-saturation-during-covid-19-f45ec1672571 | ['Bj Campbell'] | 2020-04-14 14:08:34.169000+00:00 | ['Coronavirus', 'Covid 19', 'Health', 'Media Criticism', 'Random'] |
Purge your Followers, Bring an Instagram Account Back to Life | Purge your Followers, Bring an Instagram Account Back to Life
You don't have to start from 0, but reviving an old Instagram account will take time
Photo by Pagie Page on Unsplash
Recently, someone asked me what would be the best way to grow an old, inactive account.
As you already know, Instagram rewards consistenc... | https://medium.com/digital-diplomacy/purge-your-followers-bring-an-instagram-account-back-to-life-7d0732521438 | ['Charles Tumiotto Jackson'] | 2020-11-06 19:09:10.661000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Social Media', 'Instagram'] |
How Unsplash Went From a Tumblr Page To Fully-Fledged Platform | How Unsplash Went From a Tumblr Page To Fully-Fledged Platform
And how we can apply it to our projects.
Photo by Rubén García on Unsplash
You’ve heard of Unsplash, no doubt. The thumbnail of this very article is integrated straight into this post from the service. I searched it within the text editor and picked one ... | https://sahkilic.medium.com/how-unsplash-went-from-a-tumblr-page-to-fully-fledged-platform-a65e13169e27 | ['Sah Kilic'] | 2020-11-01 08:58:10.791000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Advice'] |
Definitive Guide To Creating Profitable Online Courses | 1. Pick A Topic Worth Paying For
You don’t want a course that’s “nice to have.” If there’s a real demand for this knowledge or skill, people would be willing to pay good money for it.
Nowadays, there’s a course for almost everything; cooking, dancing, even playing popular video games. You can create a course about an... | https://dariusforoux.medium.com/definitive-guide-to-creating-profitable-online-courses-1a68786caaa3 | ['Darius Foroux'] | 2020-12-10 15:53:40.973000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Money', 'Marketing', 'Education', 'Startup'] |
This Mental Exercise Can Actually Make You Smarter | Examples — How to Think From First Principles
Imagine your problem is to make an omelette. Using first-principles, you can break down your problem to its basic facts.
Fact #1: I need eggs.
Fact #2: I need a pan.
Fact #3: I need oil.
Fact #4: I need a heat source
Just by listing the facts, you’re already halfway t... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/this-mental-exercise-can-actually-make-you-smarter-8997f2d7f5f1 | ['Younes Henni'] | 2020-12-29 20:32:40.080000+00:00 | ['Education', 'Learning', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Self Improvement'] |
Infrastructure as Code only works as Code… | The popular Serverless framework allows you to use YAML or JSON to describe and version your infrastructure configuration. The serverless.yml or serverless.json file stored at the project root is used by default to provision any project using this framework.
This is no revolution in the IaC frameworks world, where mos... | https://medium.com/serverless-transformation/infrastructure-as-code-only-works-as-code-a8f0072b29cf | ['Frédéric Barthelet'] | 2020-10-15 11:50:57.594000+00:00 | ['Infrastructure As Code', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Typescript', 'Serverless Architecture'] |
How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist | Estimated reading time: 15 minutes.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown.
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that ... | https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3 | ['Tristan Harris'] | 2019-10-16 01:30:35.132000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Time Well Spent', 'Psychology', 'Tech'] |
What is this Quantum Ledger Database That We Keep Hearing About? | Image Source: Aneesh Nair
Quantum Ledger Database(QLDB) is a No-SQL(Semi-SQL & Semi-NoSQL) Append-only database that provides an immutable, transparent, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log owned by a central authority. Since it is a No-SQL database, It has the ability to store a lot of semi-unstructured ... | https://medium.com/devopsinternationalbv/what-is-this-quantum-ledger-database-that-im-keep-hearing-about-a3c16c35c799 | ['Salman Dabbakuti'] | 2020-06-23 15:04:24.870000+00:00 | ['Cloud Computing', 'Blockchain', 'AWS', 'Programming', 'Database'] |
How ‘& Sons’ Became a Retail Trope — and the Cruelest Lie in Branding | How ‘& Sons’ Became a Retail Trope — and the Cruelest Lie in Branding
Family businesses are dying. Don’t let this trend fool you.
In 2015, the British government was forced to pay £8.8 million to Taylor & Sons when the Welsh engineering firm went into liquidation, and in so doing, laid off its 250-person team. On the... | https://medium.com/mel-magazine/how-sons-became-a-retail-trope-and-the-cruelest-lie-in-branding-aca2e5934611 | ['Hussein Kesvani'] | 2018-07-25 20:11:17.836000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Branding', 'Startup', 'Parenting'] |
Why Psychopaths Outperform Us | Why Psychopaths Outperform Us
Lessons from Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton
Too much psychopathy can lock you up behind bars, but a little bit can do wonders.
Author Kevin Dutton actually argues that “regulated psychopathy can have a positive impact on well-being and quality of life” — a life filled with accomp... | https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/why-psychopaths-outperform-us-24993120d9a8 | ['Project Hbe'] | 2020-11-03 22:27:44.616000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Culture', 'Business'] |
The Limits to a Facebook Ad Budget | How Ad Limits Will Work on Facebook
The ad limit consists of tiers based upon the spending from each page. The highest spend amount in a month within a rolling 12 month period is weighed against the tier limits. Facebook also considers the month with the highest spend within the period against the tier criteria.
Face... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/the-limits-to-a-facebook-ad-budget-c70ab1038579 | ['Pierre Debois'] | 2020-11-23 14:57:32.144000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Facebook', 'Social Media', 'Ads', 'Anaytics'] |
Managed Kubernetes Services Compared: GKE vs. EKS vs. AKS | Summary
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
By far the easiest-to-use and most feature-rich managed Kubernetes solution. If you have no particular allegiance to any cloud platform and you just want the best Kubernetes experience, look no further.
GKE workloads view in the Google Cloud Console.
The fact that GKE sets the... | https://medium.com/better-programming/managed-kubernetes-services-compared-gke-vs-eks-vs-aks-df1ecb22bba0 | ['Bharat Arimilli'] | 2020-12-11 03:59:59.589000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Kubernetes', 'Azure', 'AWS', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
The Scam Catching LinkedIn Users Off Guard — The Fast Path to 1 Million Followers Which Exploits Jobseekers | Here’s How the LinkedIn Scam Works
When a person is desperate to find a job they’re willing to try anything. How do I know? I was that guy last year. I thought it would be easy to find my next job. I wasn’t prepared for the overwhelming rejection and ghosting I faced.
After a while, your brain becomes a mashed potato... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/the-scam-catching-linkedin-users-off-guard-the-fast-path-to-1-million-followers-which-exploits-fa2ca34e3134 | ['Tim Denning'] | 2020-12-28 13:02:35.757000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'Writing', 'Business', 'LinkedIn', 'Marketing'] |
It’s Time to Stop Charging Children as Adults | It’s Time to Stop Charging Children as Adults
Every child, no matter the crime, should be eligible for redemption and grace
Photo by David Veksler on Unsplash
The other day, a former student of mine, only 14 years old, was charged with first degree murder and is set to be tried as an adult. The kid is only 14 — so o... | https://medium.com/an-injustice/its-time-to-stop-charging-children-as-adults-d98f06aa12dc | ['Ryan Fan'] | 2020-10-24 12:34:57.346000+00:00 | ['Justice', 'Society', 'Equality', 'Nonfiction', 'Race'] |
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