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Paige, AI in pathology and genomics | Paige, AI in pathology and genomics
Fundamentally transforming the diagnosis and treatment of cancer
Paige has raised $25M in total. We talked with Leo Grady, its CEO.
How would you describe Paige in a single tweet?
AI in pathology and genomics will fundamentally transform the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Ho... | https://medium.com/petacrunch/paige-ai-in-pathology-and-genomics-c669a9dfee36 | ['Kevin Hart'] | 2019-11-15 16:53:56.115000+00:00 | ['Genomics', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Cancer', 'AI'] |
Lessons Learned from Creating a Custom Graph Visualization in React | By Horst Werner and Simon Fishel
Graphs are probably the most powerful and versatile of all data structures. Graph structures are everywhere: in social media, genealogy, supply and distribution chains, financial networks, security, and business processes, to name just a few.
Visualizations of graphs, in the form of c... | https://medium.com/splunk-engineering/lessons-learned-from-creating-a-custom-graph-visualization-in-react-9a667ba799d1 | ['Horst Werner'] | 2019-06-10 17:33:56.473000+00:00 | ['React', 'Graph', 'Splunk', 'Visualizations', 'Engineering'] |
Hacking software sales by rethinking team structure | Introvert. Had zero friends. Was afraid of talking to strangers. Writing code since I was 11.
Then, I started building businesses and had to sell. I knew I was fucked.
But I soon learned. And I thought, the lessons I learned might help another introvert entrepreneur somewhere in the other corner of the world struggli... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/hacking-software-sales-by-rethinking-team-structure-3ef503d93609 | ['Mohit Mamoria'] | 2017-11-09 14:23:39.698000+00:00 | ['Inspiration', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Ideas', 'Startup'] |
Creating Waveforms Out of Spotify Tracks | One of the key features of my recent Future Islands project was pre-rendering waveforms so that we had a cool visual which would accompany audio playback. It’s a topic I haven’t thought about since I worked at SoundCloud many years ago. Since we didn’t stream the audio from Spotify on that project, I ended up extractin... | https://medium.com/swlh/creating-waveforms-out-of-spotify-tracks-b22030dd442b | ['Lee Martin'] | 2020-10-14 16:30:08.547000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Sound', 'SoundCloud', 'Programming', 'Music'] |
Build a Natural Language Classifier With Bert and Tensorflow | The dataset is full of these duplicates, or phrase segments. We can remove these by typing:
Tokenization
We have our text data in the text column, which we now need to tokenize. We will use the BERT tokenizer, as we will be using a BERT transformer later.
Here we are first importing the transformers library and init... | https://medium.com/better-programming/build-a-natural-language-classifier-with-bert-and-tensorflow-4770d4442d41 | ['James Briggs'] | 2020-12-23 15:26:40.891000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'AI'] |
The Most Successful Marketing Campaign Has Toyed With People’s Emotions Since 1948 | Playing to the Human Condition
The human condition has remained the same for centuries. A few things that humans have always competed for, in no particular order:
Status.
Money.
Love.
This marketing strategy played perfectly to the fundamentals of our inherent and learned values. We want all the above and more.
D... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/the-most-successful-marketing-campaign-has-toyed-with-peoples-emotions-since-1948-580cde995137 | ['Alice Vuong'] | 2020-09-22 14:59:10.157000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Life', 'Self', 'Advertising'] |
ART-ificial Intelligence in Gaming Part 3: Implications and Conclusion | This is part three of a miniseries, so please read parts one and two before continuing:
In the other parts of this miniseries, we talked about how GANs are used to generate new video game levels that adhere to all the rules and game physics. There are endless possibilities of how it can revolutionize modern gaming, in... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/art-ificial-intelligence-in-gaming-part-3-implications-and-conclusion-6282fa9240a5 | ['Danielle Trinh'] | 2020-12-21 12:27:51.758000+00:00 | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Gaming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Psychology of the Connected World | It’s true that the surrounding technologies are changing not our lives but also our behavior and attitudes. They or, rather, their creators learn not only to help us, but also to manipulate us in new ways. Our over-trust to technologies might be underneath the new notion of “post-truth” where nothing is ever provable.
... | https://medium.com/sciforce/psychology-of-the-connected-world-1c2190b0bf29 | [] | 2019-07-25 12:14:01.026000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Technology', 'Internet of Things', 'Psychology', 'Work Life Balance'] |
April Update: Product Releases Focused on Customers | As we move into the middle of the year, our focus at Quadrant continues to be on building the products our customers need to meet their business goals. Last month we released our AI Models layer, and this month we’ve continued to develop our platform so that it provides the best solutions in the industry. We are prepar... | https://medium.com/quadrantprotocol/april-update-product-releases-focused-on-customers-610cc3c6810a | ['Nikos', 'Quadrant Protocol'] | 2019-05-16 10:58:38.249000+00:00 | ['Big Data', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Startup Lessons', 'AI'] |
Apple Is Crushing Deep Links That Were Used As Ad-Tracking Devices | Apple Is Crushing Deep Links That Were Used As Ad-Tracking Devices
iOS 14’s new opt-in ad tracking feature is about to debilitate deep links and cut advertisement revenue streams
Photo by Denis Cherkashin on Unsplash
The fact that Apple has been cracking down on privacy in recent years is no mystery.
With iOS 13, t... | https://medium.com/big-tech/apple-is-crushing-deep-links-that-were-used-as-ad-tracking-devices-807d3b889061 | ['Anupam Chugh'] | 2020-11-26 08:45:47.894000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Privacy', 'Apple'] |
Will Autonomous Devices Become our Benevolent Overlords? | Can we manage autonomous devices for the benefit of humanity? For the answer to be yes, we need systems that ensure autonomous smart devices will only act to enhance human quality of life.
Threats to Humanity Posed by Autonomous Machines
The fields of artificial intelligence and robotics have grown explosively over t... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/will-autonomous-devices-become-our-benevolent-overlord-14963b901c83 | ['Mina Down'] | 2018-09-03 10:48:11.494000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Blockchain', 'Robotics', 'Bitcoin'] |
The Shape of a Song | “The diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition.”
The Shape of a Song visualisiert die Musik z.B. von... | https://medium.com/fifth-music/the-shape-of-a-song-724349b51426 | ['Matthias Hacksteiner'] | 2017-01-12 17:56:28.329000+00:00 | ['Music', 'Design'] |
Optimizing Health Equity through AI — Defying racial bias that plagues medical appointment scheduling. | Optimizing Health Equity through AI — Defying racial bias that plagues medical appointment scheduling. Dalton Chasser Follow Sep 23 · 5 min read
In almost every realm - from who gets to work from home to how families are coping with distance learning - the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the deep inequalities in our s... | https://medium.com/artificial-intelligence-ai-for-social-impact/optimizing-health-equity-through-ai-defying-racial-bias-that-plagues-medical-appointment-bd149069b22f | ['Dalton Chasser'] | 2020-09-23 00:35:53.275000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Health Equity', 'Scheduling', 'Healthcare'] |
What’s new in Java 15 | JDK 15 is the open-source reference implementation of version 15 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 390 in the Java Community Process.
JDK 15 reached General Availability on 15 September 2020. Production-ready binaries under the GPL are available from Oracle; binaries from other vendors will follow shortly.
... | https://medium.com/javarevisited/whats-new-in-java-15-70335926cc42 | ['Dmytro Timchenko'] | 2020-11-21 06:19:25.188000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Java'] |
This Is How Medium Writers Get Paid | This Is How Medium Writers Get Paid
Or: yes, your claps matter.
Two Sundays ago, I posted a story about how the behavior of some Medium users makes me extremely confused sometimes. The story was very well-received, and it generated a good number of comments from Medium users who admit that they are still confused abo... | https://medium.com/sunday-morning-talks/this-is-how-medium-writers-get-paid-83d803fddee4 | ['Tesia Blake'] | 2019-08-11 13:46:22.870000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Self', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Medium'] |
I Learned Writing Through Love Letters | Image: Author
After many long years I re-read her first letter, and remembered, as if it were my first reading, its fine musical intervention into my life, carrying its own breath, long lines, short ones, setting lost images. It was the first of many beautiful letters I received from my wife during our marriage.
Ther... | https://medium.com/literally-literary/i-learned-writing-through-love-letters-e1f806e1b7f2 | ['Harry Hogg'] | 2019-08-14 03:15:56.548000+00:00 | ['Romance', 'Relationships', 'Creativity', 'Love', 'Writing'] |
Things We Don't Say When We Talk About Weight Loss | For the past few months, my body has been too heavy to measure. Well, too heavy to weigh on my home scale. It has a 400-pound weight limit.
When I first began my own writing career last spring, my weight was ranging anywhere from 340 to 375 pounds, but swinging upwards. At some point, I gave up completely and saw my w... | https://medium.com/awkwardly-honest/things-we-dont-say-when-we-talk-about-weight-loss-f119946d4ade | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2019-01-30 21:58:44.988000+00:00 | ['Weight Loss', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Health'] |
Back to basics — company law 101 for startups | Starting a business is a risky endeavor and requires courage. It is also an opportunity. Whether this opportunity will materialize depends on how well the aspiring entrepreneur is prepared and how adaptable the startup is. Equally important is the policy and legal framework that can mitigate the risk and increase chanc... | https://medium.com/world-of-opportunity/back-to-basics-company-law-101-for-startups-322aa4e048f8 | ['World Bank'] | 2018-12-04 17:28:08.993000+00:00 | ['Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Innovation'] |
Make Your Snapshots Into Lead Story Photos With This Quickstart Guide | Composition
One of the most important aspects when shooting photos is composition. Amateurs have a tendency to frame an object dead center and not care about the surroundings. We find it esthetically pleasing when we use the golden ratio.
I’m not saying you should never center a subject, but you have to do it because... | https://medium.com/curious/make-your-snapshots-into-lead-story-photos-with-this-quickstart-guide-884860d4bf31 | ['Martin Andersson Aaberge'] | 2020-10-27 15:36:18.364000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Photography'] |
Oh, The Places You’ll Go Once You Set Up Your Patient Portal! | Oh, The Places You’ll Go Once You Set Up Your Patient Portal!
A Seussian journey through the medical-industrial complex.
Image by brgfx on Freepik
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
Convenient access to personal health records
Is just a one-star app away.
You have brains in your head.
You have teeth in your mo... | https://medium.com/slackjaw/oh-the-places-youll-go-once-you-set-up-your-patient-portal-1470ce597a5c | ['Jenna Nobs'] | 2020-12-29 13:07:51.800000+00:00 | ['Humor', 'Dr Seuss', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Satire'] |
Can We Talk About Erectile Dysfunction? | ED, or erectile dysfunction, is medically defined as the inability to achieve or sustain an erection long enough for sexual intercourse. It is said that virtually all men experience some erection failures at certain points in their lives. The major culprits would be stress, depression, or other mental health issues in ... | https://zitafontaine.medium.com/can-we-talk-about-erectile-dysfunction-8d0f47e591c2 | ['Zita Fontaine'] | 2019-06-29 16:45:25.727000+00:00 | ['Relationships', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Sexuality', 'Sex'] |
Estimate Probabilities of Card Games | Estimate Probabilities of Card Games
A practical example of how you can calculate Card Probabilities with Monte Carlo Simulation and Numerically
Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash
We are going to show how we can estimate card probabilities by applying Monte Carlo Simulation and how we can solve them numerically in Py... | https://medium.com/swlh/estimate-probabilities-of-card-games-3ae50adb75c7 | ['George Pipis'] | 2020-10-05 08:34:16.072000+00:00 | ['Card Game', 'Probability', 'Python', 'Monte Carlo', 'AI'] |
Hooked On Mnemonics | What is the Mnemonic Maker app?
Ever use Quizlet? Now imagine those digital flashcards incorporating your favorite song lyrics to help make studying effective and fun. And not just any lyrics, but lyrics whose initials line up perfectly to those of the phrase or list you need to remember. Add these mnemonic devices to... | https://seantarzy.medium.com/hooked-on-mnemonics-63b22e40cb85 | [] | 2020-12-04 20:50:33.233000+00:00 | ['Mnemonics', 'Software Engineering', 'Tech', 'Music', 'Teaching'] |
We’re All About to Get a Lot More Lonely | We’re All About to Get a Lot More Lonely
How to deal with COVID-19-induced social distancing without getting too… socially distanced
Photo: MoMo Productions/Getty Images
“Social distancing” has abruptly become a buzzword. In an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, public officials are telling us to stay away fr... | https://forge.medium.com/were-all-about-to-get-a-lot-more-lonely-cd32385a89f6 | ['Alexandra Samuel'] | 2020-03-13 14:47:32.936000+00:00 | ['Connect', 'Relationships', 'Self', 'Health', 'Coronavirus'] |
How Ego Almost Killed My Company | Does a company really need to grow?
There this thinking that a company should always be growing. You have to make more money. You have to hire more people. You have to have a bigger office. Paul Jarvis, the author of the book Company of One, says that there’s a core assumption that growth is always good and is require... | https://medium.com/swlh/ego-almost-killed-my-company-301d425f178a | ['João Vítor De Souza'] | 2020-12-17 09:26:37.700000+00:00 | ['Startup', 'Work', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management'] |
You won’t believe what I’m going to tell you about clickbait! | You won’t believe what I’m going to tell you about clickbait!
Number 5 will shock you…
No matter what your aims are with content marketing, writing a good, eye-catching headline is key to clicks and success. This has resulted in the method of clickbait progressively evolving over the last few years.
Clickbait headli... | https://medium.com/pnewton84/he-discovered-a-new-way-to-write-clickbait-and-his-colleagues-were-speechless-number-7-is-our-89ee81cfab03 | ['Paul Newton'] | 2017-09-19 19:26:41.376000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Facebook', 'Online Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Choosing the Best Level of Editing for Your Writing | Whether you have written a novel, are sending emails to potential clients, or are developing human resource manuals, having a second set of eyes on your written text can help ensure that your writing is the best it can be. By working with a professional editor, you can go beyond grammar checks to ensure that your writi... | https://medium.com/the-red-pen-perspective/levels-of-edits-ec654451ccfe | ['Nanette M. Day'] | 2020-01-22 04:49:50.752000+00:00 | ['Professional', 'Editing', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Publishing'] |
Boiling vs. Filtration: Which Choice Is Safer? | Microbes | Lifestyle
Boiling vs. Filtration: Which Choice Is Safer?
Filtration only reduces microbial load and can’t eliminate viruses. But boiling does the trick.
Image by infopaul70 from Pixabay
“Microorganisms with a small infectious dose — Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Shigella species; hepatitis A; enteric vir... | https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/boiling-vs-filtration-which-choice-is-safer-eeca0f132442 | ['Shin Jie Yong'] | 2020-03-27 12:29:23.934000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Advice', 'Education', 'Life', 'Science'] |
How to Start Writing a Novel | How to Start Writing a Novel
Tips on Jumping into the Narrative Waters
Photo by Arisa Chattasa on Unsplash
A couple of years ago, I reached out to aspiring writers to ask what challenges they faced in their writing. More than 2,000 writers have answered my survey, 5 Quick Questions About Your Writing Life. 66% of re... | https://medium.com/a-writers-life/how-to-start-writing-a-novel-911d5ec45d16 | ['Michelle Richmond'] | 2020-12-11 19:40:16.718000+00:00 | ['Novel Writing', 'Writing', 'How To Start Writing', 'How To Write A Book', 'Creativity'] |
If It Was Easy, Your Friends Would Be (Successfully) Doing It Too | Tell me if this one sounds familiar. You reconnect with an old friend and in the course of the conversation, you tell them you’re a blogger or that you simply write online for a living.
In response, they tell you they think it’s amazing that’s even a possibility these days, and that they’ve been thinking about doing i... | https://medium.com/curious/if-it-was-easy-your-friends-would-be-successfully-doing-it-too-8b02d77bc448 | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2020-12-09 04:23:36.407000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Ambiguity Defines the Human Experience | Ambiguity Defines the Human Experience
We would be mistaken to emulate the certainty of our computers
Photo: SEAN GLADWELL/Getty Images
You know that moment when a dog sees something he doesn’t quite understand? When he tilts his head a little bit to one side, as if viewing the perplexing phenomenon from another ang... | https://medium.com/team-human/ambiguity-defines-the-human-experience-36dad5667ac6 | ['Douglas Rushkoff'] | 2020-11-26 16:53:35.865000+00:00 | ['Humanity', 'Self', 'Society', 'Book Excerpt', 'Psychology'] |
Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence is one of the emerging technologies which tries to simulate human reasoning in AI systems. invented the term John McCarthy Artificial Intelligence in the year 1950.
Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be mad... | https://medium.com/edureka/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-ai-b01533ffbcb8 | ['Sahiti Kappagantula'] | 2020-12-30 05:34:08.127000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Advantages Of Ai', 'Deep Learning'] |
12 Colab Notebooks that matter | Get this newsletter By signing up, you will create a Medium account if you don’t already have one. Review our Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices.
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Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription. | https://medium.com/merzazine/12-colab-notebooks-that-matter-689f79b5a2e4 | ['Vlad Alex', 'Merzmensch'] | 2020-06-10 15:01:50.238000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Published Tds', 'Merznlp', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
A New Thought Regarding Agatha Christie’s Crime Fiction | A New Thought Regarding Agatha Christie’s Crime Fiction
Specializing in murders of quiet, domestic interest
Many years ago I had a friend who was going through an Agatha Christie binge. Actually, both he and his wife were thoroughly absorbed in reading her crime novels, ever trying to solve the crimes before Miss Mar... | https://medium.com/books-are-our-superpower/a-new-thought-regarding-agatha-christies-crime-fiction-93ea26633675 | ['Ed Newman'] | 2020-11-16 08:31:54.674000+00:00 | ['People', 'Books', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Observations'] |
What if everything was about reward prediction error? | What if everything was about reward prediction error?
A note on how our lives would look like if we could perceive joy only by our errors in predicting rewards.
WARNING: This article is not supposed to be scientifically precise. Rather, it is a playful discussion about an imaginary scenario inspired by scientific fin... | https://a-modirshanechi.medium.com/what-if-everything-was-about-reward-prediction-error-b423af871baf | ['Alireza Modirshanechi'] | 2020-12-30 07:35:06.727000+00:00 | ['Ideas', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Dopamine', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience'] |
A new breed of founders using data to help the planet (and their backers) | As a startup investor, I love learning about new spaces where problems can be solved through software.
Since these white spaces can be found in any industry, I deeply believe in a founder-first investment strategy; I think founders are much better than investors at identifying opportunities. All we can do is follow th... | https://pinver.medium.com/a-new-breed-of-founders-using-data-to-help-the-planet-and-their-backers-f59537304353 | ['Pietro Invernizzi'] | 2020-12-04 18:03:18.874000+00:00 | ['Startup', 'Software', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Climate Change'] |
3 Ways To Measure The Effectiveness of Your Leadership | The challenge of cultivating leadership skills goes far beyond simply presenting an inspiring speech. When leaders tactfully pave the way for creative direction, everyone involved experiences the beneficial effects.
Directing creative aspirations requires strong leadership skills. Motivating a team to achieve common o... | https://medium.com/couple-of-creatives/3-ways-to-measure-the-effectiveness-of-your-leadership-73e94546fffd | ['Alyssa Leverenz'] | 2017-05-12 01:15:35.930000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Leadership', 'Branding', 'Business', 'Productivity'] |
You Need Server-Side Rendering for Your Angular/React/Vue Application | But Why Do I Need to Learn Yet Another Framework?
A common problem with JavaScript applications built with such frameworks as React, Angular, or Vue is that they have trouble optimizing SEO and meta tags.
The reason for this is simple: When we use JavaScript to fetch our page data or meta tags, the page is actually e... | https://medium.com/better-programming/you-need-server-side-rendering-for-your-angular-react-vue-application-c99e55199aa5 | [] | 2020-11-11 16:15:49.613000+00:00 | ['SEO', 'Programming', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs'] |
How Failing in Building a Company Heightened my Intellect | For a founder, shutting down a company is like dumping your most beloved person in the entire world; even worse, finding them dead the next day.
Failure is a common term for any rising startup. This never ceases to be true even with the overwhelming success stories repeatedly saturating our Quora feed. If anything, th... | https://medium.com/the-parables/how-failing-in-building-a-company-heightened-my-intellect-e4afe6310d1a | ['Alamiin Si'] | 2020-12-05 18:20:16.434000+00:00 | ['Founder Stories', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneur'] |
Life Lessons from Improv | We are all playing status games with each other
‘Things said are not as important as the status played.’
The most eye-opening idea in Impro is about how we unknowingly play status games with each other. To understand this, think of the word status as a verb, i.e. something we do, rather than your position in a hierar... | https://dhawalsharma.medium.com/life-lessons-from-improv-a1d515e7f286 | ['Dhawal Sharma'] | 2018-11-29 01:44:21.086000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Fear Of Failure', 'Psychology', 'Creativity', 'Inspiration'] |
Your Really Bad Days Have Something to Teach You | “The mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid, and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?”
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
I had one of those days yesterday. A ‘Mean Reds’ day. The kind where... | https://medium.com/the-write-brain/your-really-bad-days-have-something-to-teach-you-7894783b60d3 | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2019-10-09 20:10:42.409000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
Self-Care vs Selfishness | Have you ever felt guilty for the times where you have put yourself first? Do you sometimes wonder if putting yourself first is being selfish? Well, today I want to talk about whether or not self-care is being selfish.
Self-care is defined as the action of preserving or improving one’s own health. On the flip side, be... | https://medium.com/sweaters-and-blankets/self-care-vs-selfishness-5a36e8dfe875 | ['Tiffany Hsu'] | 2020-12-14 17:35:30.629000+00:00 | ['Guilt', 'Self Care', 'Self Improvement', 'Health', 'Wellness'] |
Certainty | I want words to shape my life, from the morning when I wake up to the evening when I close my eyes. Is it too much to ask? What is this remote place in the heart of nature where I could live from reading and writing?
Here, I no longer hear the birds singing. I am no longer awakened by the swallows that used to nest in... | https://medium.com/scribe/certainty-b4017e2ea90a | ['Thomas Gaudex'] | 2020-02-03 18:36:37.849000+00:00 | ['Poetry', 'Nature', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Life'] |
AI Speeds Drug Discovery to fight COVID-19 | AI Speeds Drug Discovery to fight COVID-19
An inside look at AI’s role in the race for COVID-19 treatment and drug discovery, and TCS’ first-hand research and experimentation
The virus named “SARS-CoV-2” is the source of a global pandemic COVID-19, which has severely affected the health and economy of several countri... | https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-speeds-drug-discovery-to-fight-covid-19-b853a3f93e82 | ['Arijit Roy'] | 2020-04-29 18:08:51.910000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Covid 19', 'Data Science', 'Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
A good designer is a good businessperson | IBM’s president Thomas J. Jr. Watson’s “Good Design is Good Business” 1973 saying, is making much more sense in our tech business space now. Building and shipping digital -or even non-digital- products is getting easier every day, making design play an even more recognizable role than ever.
One of the by-products of t... | https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/good-designer-is-good-businessperson-f8bd681d28c6 | ['Rasam Rostami'] | 2020-11-25 00:16:24.183000+00:00 | ['Strategy', 'Design', 'Business', 'Design Thinking', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
EcoHelmet’s Isis Shiffer on: “How thinking wrong can be so right” | In my second year of graduate school I became fixated by the idea of designing a helmet for bike share. I was studying abroad and found riding in Tokyo to be alarming. The enormous public Mamachari bikes topped out at 8 miles per hour, but still I had plenty of white-knuckle encounters with the city’s slow but unyieldi... | https://medium.com/dyson-on/ecohelmets-isis-shiffer-on-how-thinking-wrong-can-be-so-right-e2116849df11 | ['Dyson On'] | 2019-05-29 15:00:25.916000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Design', 'Dyson', 'Engineering'] |
Stay Healthy. Stay Data-Informed. | This was first published on my mailing list The Year of the Looking Glass. Sign up to get essays like these in your inbox 1–2 times a month.
I have a confession to make.
As a designer, for years my primary goal was striving to improve my product intuition.
You see, I believed:
The most wonderful products are that w... | https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/stay-healthy-stay-data-informed-d62da66951d7 | ['Julie Zhuo'] | 2020-03-18 17:52:47.017000+00:00 | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
Artificial intelligence is here. Now what? | Claire Merchlinsky. www.nytimes.com. “How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.”
On February 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost his first game to Deep Blue. Kasparov hails from Baku; Deep Blue, from IBM. The face-off took three hours and went down in history as the first instance a computer ha... | https://medium.com/swlh/artificial-intelligence-is-here-now-what-ea63634e9303 | ['Margaret Cirino'] | 2020-03-03 06:52:05.698000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Science', 'Future', 'Culture'] |
Write for Inspired Writer | Update for Holiday Period: To lighten the load over the next month we will not be taking any new writers. If you entered the recent Christmas Writing Contest and would like to submit your story for publication that’s fine. Any other new writers please apply after Jan 4th 2021. Thank you!
If you’d like to write for Ins... | https://medium.com/inspired-writer/write-for-inspired-writer-dd74d44cfd5c | ['Kelly Eden'] | 2020-12-23 04:43:17.811000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Self', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Submission Guidelines'] |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Most Important Figure in the History of Philosophy | “The ancient republics of Greece, with that wisdom which was so conspicuous in most of their institutions, forbade their citizens to pursue all those inactive and sedentary occupations, which by enervating and corrupting the body diminish also the vigour of the mind. With what courage, in fact, can it be thought that h... | https://medium.com/digital-republic-of-letters/jean-jacques-rousseau-the-most-important-figure-in-the-history-of-philosophy-737fa9f45688 | ['Kevin Shau'] | 2020-10-03 22:47:50.960000+00:00 | ['Books', 'Society', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Culture'] |
Object-Oriented Analysis And Design — Introduction (Part 1) | The Concept Of Object-Orientation
Object-orientation is what’s referred to as a programming paradigm. It’s not a language itself but a set of concepts that is supported by many languages.
If you aren’t familiar with the concepts of object-orientation, you may take a look at The Story of Object-Oriented Programming.
... | https://medium.com/omarelgabrys-blog/object-oriented-analysis-and-design-introduction-part-1-a93b0ca69d36 | ['Omar Elgabry'] | 2017-10-23 10:56:28.039000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Analysis', 'Object Oriented', 'Software Development'] |
Similarities Between COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS in Africa | Most governments in different parts of the world have recently forced a locked down in their nations to try and contain the deadly Coronavirus, which was first reported in China. This new pandemic has literally brought the world to a standstill as scientists work overtime to come up with a cure and vaccination. So far,... | https://medium.com/matthews-place/similarities-between-covid-19-and-hiv-aids-in-africa-6ac8f7559fdc | [] | 2020-03-27 18:20:35.185000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Africa', 'HIV'] |
Rhythm | I. Personal History Calendar
In 2011, I started a project I called the Personal History Calendar. I designed a calendar and listed events over the year aiming for 365 days of memorable personal events– firsts, and milestones, and memorable nights. The intention was to create a calendar with an anniversary of personal ... | https://medium.com/email-refrigerator/rhythm-58aa21d70e05 | ['Jake Kahana'] | 2020-12-28 00:44:57.616000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Lifestyle Design', 'Self', 'Music', 'Procrastination'] |
What is a Feature Store for ML? | Feature Stores have become the key piece of data infrastructure for machine learning platforms. They manage the whole lifecycle of features: from training different models to providing low-latency access to features by online-applications for model inference. This article introduces the Hopsworks Feature Store for Data... | https://medium.com/data-for-ai/what-is-a-feature-store-for-ml-29b62580af5d | ['Jim Dowling'] | 2020-05-19 07:38:37.895000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Engineering', 'Feature Store', 'Deep Learning'] |
Migrating Single-Page Applications from Heroku to AWS | Our deployment architecture can be divided into two main categories:
SPA hosting URL Routing
As mentioned earlier, this split comes from the desire to separate our hosting and routing layers. By splitting them up, we are better able to design for future changes.
SPA Hosting
“Hosting” simply refers to where the SPA ... | https://medium.com/extra-credit-by-guild/moving-our-guild-spas-from-heroku-to-aws-a0ae5973975b | ['Justin Menestrina'] | 2020-10-01 19:06:36.380000+00:00 | ['Single Page Applications', 'Software Engineering', 'Frontend Architecture', 'Software Architecture', 'AWS'] |
How to Think About Sustainability | Sustainability can be vague and conflicting.
That doesn’t stop people from mentioning it virtually everywhere nowadays. They use it when they talk about climate change and environmental pollution. It’s a good thing that pressing issues like these are finally getting some attention. But too often, the frames they use d... | https://medium.com/climate-conscious/how-to-think-about-sustainability-c5b50eb43d71 | ['Alex Van Domburg'] | 2020-10-16 15:03:07.666000+00:00 | ['Climate Change', 'Psychology', 'Sustainability', 'Systems Thinking', 'Life'] |
Understanding the Inference Mechanism of RCNs | RCN
Understanding the Inference Mechanism of RCNs
Adapting the generative model for classification to break CAPTCHA
If you take a look at Stanford’s AI Index report of 2019, you will notice that the performance of models on famous challenges is starting to saturate [1]. For that reason, I believe that we need to she... | https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-inference-mechanism-of-rcns-ba1f00416b63 | ['Ahmed Maher'] | 2020-02-03 14:57:21.631000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Rcn', 'Computer Vision', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
RAPIDS Anywhere with Tailscale. It’s never been easier to get started… | Today, NVIDIA launched a massive GPU, the GeForce RTX 3090, and the first 24+ GB GPU with a price/GB of less than $70. When NVIDIA launched the Titan RTX I thought $100/GB was a steal…but the 3090 is ridiculous. Normally, we focus RAPIDS blogs on the software, but I’d be remiss to not talk about the value of cheap big ... | https://medium.com/rapids-ai/rapids-anywhere-with-tailscale-my-mobile-device-has-an-rtx-3090-1ce0c7b443fe | ['Josh Patterson'] | 2020-09-24 18:59:22.544000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Gaming', 'Data Science', 'Gpu', 'Big Data'] |
Transcribe Your Zoom Meetings For Free with AWS! | Pretty good! The full text (not split by speaker) looks like:
Jack. I want to thank you for what he did. Not just for for pulling me back, but for your discretion. You're welcome. Look, I know what you must be thinking. Poor little rich girl. What does she know about misery? No, no, it's not what I was thinking. What ... | https://medium.com/whispering-data/transcribe-your-zoom-meetings-for-free-with-aws-963f39a2aa3f | ['Paul Singman'] | 2020-11-30 19:46:25.543000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Productivity', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'AWS'] |
“Give a shit!”; a story on activism — 5 questions for Teresa Borasino | “Give a shit!”; a story on activism — 5 questions for Teresa Borasino
@Interactive Storytelling Meetup #6 –9 June 2016
Interview by Femke Deckers and Klasien van de Zandschulp
Teresa Borasino @ Interactive Storytelling Meetup #6
Teresa Borasino (Lima, based in Amsterdam) is an artist and activist working on environ... | https://medium.com/interactive-innovative-storytelling/give-a-shit-activism-stories-5-questions-for-teresa-borasino-89442cbd26c8 | ['Interactive Storytelling'] | 2016-09-02 15:22:52.267000+00:00 | ['Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Storytelling'] |
Writing Isn’t A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme | Writing isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. Chances are you won’t publish a single piece of content and earn millions of dollars from it. I know many of us think if we publish the novel we’ve been working on or write that one fantastic blog post, which is sure to go viral, we’ll be set for life.
Thousands of followers, ton... | https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/writing-isnt-a-get-rich-quick-scheme-12984d251910 | ['Brian Kurian'] | 2019-11-19 02:20:00.770000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Short Story', 'Inspiration'] |
Deploy a Python API on AWS | Deploy a Python API on AWS
Flask + Lambda + API Gateway
The very first idea of creating my own app and deploying it on the cloud so that everyone could use it is super exciting to me, and this is what inspired me to write this post. If this idea also intrigues you, please follow through and from this post, you will l... | https://towardsdatascience.com/deploy-a-python-api-on-aws-c8227b3799f0 | ['Jeremy Zhang'] | 2020-09-19 17:20:55.170000+00:00 | ['Flask', 'Python', 'AWS', 'API'] |
Climate Change Might Be A Threat to Wind Power | To combat climate change, reduce air pollution, and establish greater energy independence, China has been pushing hard for a nation-wide transition to renewable energy, and is now home to the world’s largest market for wind-generated electricity. The installed capacity for wind generation in China accounts for over one... | https://medium.com/harvard-china-project/climate-change-might-be-a-threat-to-wind-power-f17233f4a616 | ['Harvard-China Project On Energy', 'Econ'] | 2019-01-13 17:20:59.875000+00:00 | ['China', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Wind Energy', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Display Rich Text In The Console Using Python | Are you using the terminal more than GUI-based operating systems? Or, do you usually develop command-line interface programs using Python? Recently, I found an amazing Python library called “Rich” on GitHub, which already has 15.2k stars by the time I’m writing this article.
It can not only display text in colour and ... | https://towardsdatascience.com/get-rich-using-python-af66176ece8f | ['Christopher Tao'] | 2020-11-30 16:09:28.681000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development', 'Programming'] |
Applying Deep Learning To Airbnb Search | Presumably all such challenges can be overcome by accumulating sufficient amounts of data. But the Airbnb inventory has an additional twist. Each listing can be booked only once for a night. As soon as the listing is booked, it becomes unavailable for any subsequent search for that night, so no further data accrues for... | https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/applying-deep-learning-to-airbnb-search-7ebd7230891f | ['Malay Haldar'] | 2018-11-06 18:05:29.037000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
A Guide to Logistic Regression in SAS | A Guide to Logistic Regression in SAS
Let’s explore a simple way to analyze a model by using SAS.
What is logistic regression?
Logistic regression is a supervised machine learning classification algorithm that is used to predict the probability of a categorical dependent variable. The dependent variable is a binary ... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/logistic-regression-using-sas-enterprise-guide-3ffb7774f765 | ['Dhilip Subramanian'] | 2019-05-17 05:10:20.730000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Python', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
How We Increased Revenue By $100k Every Month | How We Increased Revenue By $100k Every Month
Common Sense Business Practices That Aren’t So Common Anymore
by Shopify Partners from Burst
When my boss approached me to help him run his small business, he had two contracts with total revenue of $365k per year. I had run my own businesses in the past and knew a lot a... | https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-increased-revenue-by-100k-per-month-25caa5b597ca | ['Ryan M. Danks'] | 2020-12-01 18:27:09.689000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
What Being Bullied Was Really Like | What Being Bullied Was Really Like
I still shudder when I think about taking the school bus
Photo by David Preston on Unsplash
On my first day of kindergarten, a little boy who was just as nicely rounded as I was bullied me for being fat. At least, that was the reason he gave me for trapping between a row of bushes ... | https://medium.com/traceys-folly/what-being-bullied-is-really-like-eb1869ac4f17 | ['Tracey Folly'] | 2020-12-28 23:49:06.568000+00:00 | ['Nonfiction', 'Self', 'Society', 'Family', 'Culture'] |
Time management for creatives | It’s winter.
The nights are long in the UK, the days short, cold and dark. We’re in lockdown (again). And this month, one after the other, my coaching clients expressed disappointment that they’re got nothing done.
“I’ve just been lazy,” says a photographer.
“I’ve not moved forward on anything,” says a writer.
“I d... | https://medium.com/creative-living/time-management-for-creatives-13109ba59d55 | ['Sheryl Garratt'] | 2020-11-24 18:30:16.945000+00:00 | ['Focus', 'Freelancing', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Time Management'] |
The Better Art of Bringing Creative Possibilities into Unlikely Things | The Better Art of Bringing Creative Possibilities into Unlikely Things
Stop Escaping Behind the Canvas. Time to Step Out
Photo by Neven Krcmarek on Unsplash
This morning, your muse strikes and you get an idea for a film script. You open a page and start writing furiously. You start creating characters and conversati... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/the-better-art-of-bringing-creative-possibilities-into-unlikely-things-3c8f799fdc4f | ['Shiva Sankar'] | 2020-11-09 16:24:26.865000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Artist', 'Personal Development', 'Life Lessons', 'Creativity'] |
Learn How to Scale Your Kubernetes Deployments Dynamically | Setup
The first thing that we’re going to do is create a cluster with a single worker node to demonstrate the scalability behavior easily. And to do that, we’re going to use the command-line tool eksctl to manage an EKS cluster easily.
To be able to create the cluster, we’re going to do it with the following command:... | https://medium.com/better-programming/learn-how-to-scale-your-kubernetes-deployments-dynamically-d6c11344ec08 | ['Alex Vazquez'] | 2020-12-29 18:25:41.947000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'K8s', 'Kubernetes'] |
AI Summit | San Francisco and Wired to Wear | Here are early confirmed Keynote Speakers obtained from the website: Tad Smith, President & CEO, Sotheby’s; Alan Boehme, Global Chief Technology Officer, VP of IT Services, and Chief IT Innovation Officer, Proctor & Gamble; Srini Venkatraman, Chief Data Scientist, Boeing; Swatee Singh, Vice President and Distinguished ... | https://medium.com/aimarketingassociation/ai-summit-san-francisco-and-wired-to-wear-c459f8753b51 | ['Joanna Strom'] | 2019-08-01 18:10:43.373000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'IoT', 'Internet of Things', 'NASA'] |
Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals | Circuit Breaker
Distributed systems should be designed by taking failures into consideration. These days the world has adopted microservices, and these services are mostly dependent on other remote services. These remote services could fail to respond in time due to various reasons like network, application load, etc.... | https://medium.com/better-programming/modern-day-architecture-design-patterns-for-software-professionals-9056ee1ed977 | ['Tanmay Deshpande'] | 2020-10-29 05:23:10.286000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Software Architecture', 'Programming', 'Design Patterns'] |
AWS — Amazon EKS vs ECS — Comparison | EKS vs ECS — Key differences:
Networking
With ECS, ENIs can be allocated to a ‘Task’, and an EC2 instance can support up to 120 tasks. With EKS, ENIs can be allocated to and shared between Kubernetes pods, enabling the user to place up to 750 Kubernetes pods per EC2 instance (depends on instance type) which achieves ... | https://medium.com/awesome-cloud/aws-amazon-eks-vs-amazon-ecs-comparison-difference-between-eks-and-ecs-7451abd23859 | ['Ashish Patel'] | 2020-10-13 18:25:40.417000+00:00 | ['Eks', 'AWS', 'Ecs', 'K8s', 'Kubernetes'] |
Monday’s Review of Broken Things | Several unlikely gears managed to grind to a new position this past week increasing the stress on all of us. What were once smoothly running machines are struggling to break free from obstruction in many. Obstruction is a major thing now. The resulting pressures are stressing the entire planet but particularly the old ... | https://mike-meyer.medium.com/mondays-review-of-broken-things-f5fe5bc5f8ed | ['Mike Meyer'] | 2018-08-27 06:43:23.706000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Automation', 'Future', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Culture'] |
Python Pandas: A Complete Guide for Beginners | Pandas is a python library used in data manipulation ( create, delete, and update the data).
It is one of the most commonly used libraries for data analysis in python. Pandas offer data structures and operations for manipulating numerical and time-series data. Pandas is the go-to library when it comes to Python
[pand... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/python-pandas-a-complete-guide-for-beginners-a695a3aa3596 | ['Rahul Raj'] | 2020-10-16 13:09:35.899000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Pandas', 'Python', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Where Would We Be Without Music? | richard hewat for Unsplash
Where Would We Be Without Music?
Fortunately, it won’t be shut down
He who sings scares away his woes. — Cervantes , writer
Music events may have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but we may need music in our lives more than ever. Lucky for us, there isn’t a way to make ... | https://medium.com/narrative/where-would-we-be-without-music-f3fe19c41a6b | ['Victoria Ponte'] | 2020-05-20 21:40:20.978000+00:00 | ['Coping Strategies', 'Self', 'Music', 'Mental Health', 'Pandemic'] |
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Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription. | https://medium.com/merzazine/re-animated-history-4c2692e03aa6 | ['Vlad Alex', 'Merzmensch'] | 2020-09-07 15:34:03.213000+00:00 | ['Published Tds', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Ai And Creativity', 'Culture'] |
Why I Write, and How it Changed Me | Photo Credit: Green Chameleon
“Why would a hard-nosed businessman become a writer?”
I didn’t know what to say to the middle-aged woman who asked the question at a talk I gave a few weeks ago. I finally replied with something sufficiently vague that she just nodded and sat down.
That evening after the talk, I thought... | https://medium.com/emphasis/why-i-write-and-how-it-changed-me-6afb7ed00a16 | ['Mo Issa'] | 2017-11-23 14:04:41.669000+00:00 | ['Passion', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Lessons', 'Purpose'] |
Tissue Stiffness Regulates Immune Responses | Cells are remarkably sensitive to the mechanical properties of their environment, changing their behavior as a result of physical forces exerted by the surrounding tissues. Over the last 20 years, scientists have uncovered that this phenomenon, known as mechanosensing, dictates a plethora of cellular responses, from ce... | https://tlfern.medium.com/tissue-stiffness-regulates-immune-responses-140499597958 | ['Tara Fernandez'] | 2020-06-04 17:15:39.695000+00:00 | ['Medicine', 'Health', 'Cell Biology', 'Science', 'Immunology'] |
The Most Important Race in Tech | The difference between classical and quantum computers can be represented by Google’s claim to quantum supremacy in 2019. To achieve this claim of quantum supremacy, one of Google’s 53 qubit quantum computers (called ‘Sycamore’) was able to do a calculation in just over 3 minutes when it would have taken even the world... | https://medium.com/predict/the-most-important-race-in-tech-4c175a541266 | ['Ella Alderson'] | 2020-12-03 21:05:17.792000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Science', 'Tech', 'Politics', 'Future'] |
How I Actually Quit Smoking in 2020 | A brief history of quitting
Of course, I knew smoking was bad for me. I’d known for years. I remember taking the “Smoke Free Class of 2000” pledge in fifth grade. I remember cigarette smoke annoying my lungs as a child. There wasn’t one cigarette out of the roughly 10,000+ I smoked where I thought, “man, I’m so glad I... | https://humanparts.medium.com/i-actually-quit-smoking-in-2020-fd9fe6672cf1 | ['John Gorman'] | 2020-12-18 19:48:40.068000+00:00 | ['Health', '2020', 'Mental Health', 'This Is Us', 'Self Improvement'] |
I Tried Calorie Cycling for 30 Days | My calorie cycling experience
Now that you understand the basics of calorie cycling and how to do your own 30-day challenge if you decide to, here’s my experience from day 1 through day 30 and the results.
Week 1
On day 1 of the challenge kickoff, I happened to be in the process of moving into my first home so I dec... | https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/i-tried-calorie-cycling-for-30-days-1d19a2357c3a | ['Monica Galvan'] | 2020-11-26 16:23:07.498000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle', 'Nutrition', 'Wellness'] |
Predictions for AI Developments in 2018 | Entering the new year, we are wondering what to expect from the new AI technologies and which directions to look at.
In this brief review, we offer some predictions for AI developments in 2018.
Since all indicators show the likely increase in investment into the development of AI and, particularly, machine learning, ... | https://medium.com/sciforce/predictions-for-ai-developments-in-2018-d06193c905db | [] | 2018-01-17 09:06:28.257000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Health', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Robotics', 'Virtual Assistant'] |
Tracker: Ingesting MySQL data at scale — Part 1 | Henry Cai | Pinterest engineer, Infrastructure
At Pinterest we’re building the world’s most comprehensive discovery engine, and part of achieving a highly personalized, relevant and fast service is running thousands of jobs on our Hadoop/Spark cluster. To feed the data for computation, we need to ingest a large volume... | https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/tracker-ingesting-mysql-data-at-scale-part-1-424cf43fa7c3 | ['Pinterest Engineering'] | 2017-02-21 20:06:30.088000+00:00 | ['Engineering', 'Infrastructure', 'Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'MySQL'] |
From $0 to $100,000: The Business Side of Writing Is the Hardest to Learn and the Easiest to Implement | From $0 to $100,000: The Business Side of Writing Is the Hardest to Learn and the Easiest to Implement
If you can do it for free, you can do it for money. If you can’t, game over.
Photo by Martin Katler on Unsplash
Treating writing like a business is crucial. It’s not about the money.
When writing is a business, yo... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/from-0-to-100-000-the-business-side-of-writing-is-the-hardest-to-learn-and-the-easiest-to-e38000ea5ca6 | ['Tim Denning'] | 2020-12-21 17:13:03.456000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Social Media', 'Money', 'Business'] |
The Lost Skill Of Civilized Society We Desperately Need To Revive | Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash
I don’t remember the exact words, but I remember the feeling.
I was thirteen years old. My first ever girlfriend had written me a letter. It was a love letter of sorts. I bounced around my house for hours after reading it.
Before the internet, we wrote letters to each other. They... | https://barry-davret.medium.com/the-lost-skill-of-civilized-society-we-desperately-need-to-revive-711d7594b686 | ['Barry Davret'] | 2019-04-17 12:28:38.432000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Culture', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Investing in Data and AI — When and Why | In a previous 3-part series, we discussed the main hurdles limiting the value that businesses get from data. In particular, we highlighted the importance of the timing of investment into establishing data infrastructure, recruiting data professionals, etc. The reasons are clear. Any significant returns on investment th... | https://medium.com/swlh/ever-wonder-about-the-best-time-to-invest-in-data-and-ai-2b77ff0cfe2c | ['Wilson Wong'] | 2020-11-25 02:36:28.159000+00:00 | ['Product Management', 'Startup', 'Return On Investment', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Getting Entertained by the Creativity of Others Recharges Your Own | In the past, I used to be totally focused on my work. Hardly ever did I allow myself to get entertained.
Whenever I would relax into some leisure, be it watching a video or attending a gathering of friends, there was always this uneasiness in the background of my mind nagging me not to waste my time.
I was happy with... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/getting-entertained-by-the-creativity-of-others-recharges-your-own-24215d650da | ['Simona Rich'] | 2020-11-02 09:25:49.512000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Entertainment', 'Talent Development', 'Motivation', 'Inspiration'] |
Late Season Blooms | Each spring, I survive the long, gray Pacific Northwest winters by counting down the minutes until the cherries blossom. This annual occurrence, usually around mid-March, is when the drab gray skies of Seattle recede into the background at last, outshone by a riot of pink and white blossoms so prolific that they fall l... | https://medium.com/no-blank-pages/late-season-blooms-80a9036ee072 | ['Julie Artz'] | 2019-04-18 15:45:56.684000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Personal Development', 'Gardening', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
What it’s like to interview at Pinterest | Justin Mejorada-Pier | Software Engineer, Analytics Platform Tech Lead
Interviews have traditionally been thought of as an unpleasant but necessary experience. Candidates often find them stressful and many come in having had poor interview experiences in the past. However, interviews are the clearest opportunity for c... | https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/what-its-like-to-interview-at-pinterest-e40f05a018f9 | ['Pinterest Engineering'] | 2018-12-20 03:58:08.315000+00:00 | ['Recruiting', 'Engineering', 'Startup', 'Careers', 'Technical Interview'] |
To Truly Capitalise on Your Success, Optimize Your Performance | To Truly Capitalise on Your Success, Optimize Your Performance
The key to optimization to create regular and consistent daily patterns that work for you, not against you
Image from rawpixel.com
The one thing that all highly successful people do is to stay organized and do more of what works. They make time to measur... | https://medium.com/kaizen-habits/to-truly-capitalise-on-your-success-optimize-your-performance-906dbb2712ef | ['Thomas Oppong'] | 2019-12-13 13:24:52.884000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Personal Development', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Work'] |
Class 3: Becoming an AI design expert starts with becoming a data-driven designer | Discussion
What does data-driven design mean to you?
Netflix provides a great example of a data-driven customer-centric company. By introducing streaming video, their software “ate” the traditional DVD business. But Netflix soon realized their future wasn’t in the medium of delivery — it was in the wealth of data gen... | https://medium.com/ai-design-thinkers/class-3-why-becoming-an-ai-design-expert-starts-with-becoming-a-data-driven-designer-37928fd7ff9 | ['Jennifer Aue'] | 2020-01-23 16:46:11.704000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Data Science', 'Adfclass', 'Design'] |
Eat the Rich, Save the Planet | How we will get there.
Economic policies, legal frameworks, monetary incentives, and advances in infrastructure are all mechanisms required to instill a full lifestyle change in the richest 1%. While these are all substantial methodologies to force a change, they’re only a part of the puzzle. The choice an individual ... | https://medium.com/climate-conscious/eat-the-rich-save-the-planet-d782b35d9ce4 | ['Madison Hunter'] | 2020-12-14 14:02:34.084000+00:00 | ['Climate Change', 'Global Warming', 'Activism', 'Environment', 'Sustainability'] |
Two Weeks with a Teen Entrepreneur | Two Weeks with a Teen Entrepreneur
The Lessons
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3/30/20 — The Start
1:00 A.M. — Normally I publish my articles on Sunday but I ran a little late yesterday because I’d been working on my drop shipping website all week. I debated doing it the next day, but decided to publish it at ... | https://medium.com/never-fear/two-weeks-with-a-teen-entrepreneur-3ae5822c760 | ['Aryan Gandhi'] | 2020-05-19 19:00:48.421000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Life', 'Finance'] |
Batch normalization in Neural Networks | This article explains batch normalization in a simple way. I wrote this article after what I learned from Fast.ai and deeplearning.ai. I will start with why we need it, how it works, then how to include it in pre-trained networks such as VGG.
Why do we use batch normalization?
We normalize the input layer by adjustin... | https://towardsdatascience.com/batch-normalization-in-neural-networks-1ac91516821c | ['F D'] | 2017-10-25 09:56:08.190000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Engineering'] |
The Complete Guide on How to Code Review | The Complete Guide on How to Code Review
Best practices from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook
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What’s the end goal of the code review?
To make sure that changes work? To validate if code is following the style guide? To check if new changes won’t break anything? All of ... | https://medium.com/better-programming/the-complete-guide-on-how-to-code-review-df3d01404f6b | ['Nick Bull'] | 2020-10-23 17:05:51.468000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Code Review', 'Startup'] |
4 Simple Emails You Should Send Every Week | I used to despise email. That changed, however, when my wife asked me an interesting question: “How did you feel about it when you first started using it?”
In a flash, I was transported back to my freshman year of college. My buddies and I would huddle around one of the few computers in the library taking turns sendin... | https://medium.com/curious/4-simple-emails-you-should-send-every-week-bc3e085ed496 | ['Michael Thompson'] | 2020-10-15 05:43:49.295000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Relationships', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Inspiration'] |
Return Of The Caveman. How Technology is Regressing Us | Return Of The Caveman. How Technology is Regressing Us
Have you picked your tribe yet? The time is rapidly approaching where you will need one. It’s not safe to be alone out there
We started out on our long evolutionary journey from dimly lit caves occupied by small groups. Groups formed out of necessity. Even at our... | https://medium.com/lighterside/return-of-the-caveman-how-technology-is-regressing-us-bd23f879c628 | ['Robert Turner'] | 2019-12-16 10:46:13.875000+00:00 | ['Society', 'Culture', 'Technology', 'Lighterside', 'Psychology'] |
A Journey From React to Vue.js | A Journey From React to Vue.js
What it was like to switch to Vue after four years with React
I have been working with React for the last four years. Now I’ve just started working with Vue. What you can do in React can also be done in Vue. There are some important conceptual differences, though, some of which reflect ... | https://medium.com/better-programming/a-journey-from-react-to-vue-js-cec3ba44c377 | ['Muhammad Anser'] | 2020-12-15 15:17:58.469000+00:00 | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Reactive Programming', 'Vuejs', 'Programming'] |
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