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Our focus today will be on big tech companies. Let’s take, for example, Amazon, Apple, etc., Amazon Let’s say, for example, it is called as the gatekeeper of e-commerce. It reduces the competition and harms the consumers and people who are not putting their products on this particular platform. Let’s say, for example...
['Amazon', 'Business', 'Facebook', 'Google', 'Apple']
We’ve got an obsession with productivity. “Hacks” for life are everywhere, covering every aspect of human existence. We can hack relationships, jobs, household tasks, and more. So many of us are obsessed with efficiency in our own private sphere. Our never ending search for peak productivity becomes a whole distraction...
['Mental Health', 'Motivation', 'Psychology', 'Depression', 'Productivity']
“We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.” ― Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Are you like me? You get some of your very best ideas in the shower. You swear you will remember them — they’re that good. And then you get busy with life. ...
['Neuroscience', 'Productivity', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Creativity']
Guidelines How to get your article ready for publication! We aim to strike a balance between innovating, informing and philosophizing. We want to hear from you! But we do ask that if you are not a professional writer, you consider the following points when you prepare your article. We want to publish high quality, pr...
['Writers’ Guide', 'Join Us', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide']
Every time I think people can’t amaze me further with their stupidity, I’m sadly mistaken. Yes, stupidity. Or would you rather I say dangerous behavior? Either works. As of today, in the United States alone, there have been 13.7m cases of the novel coronavirus, with almost 270k deaths. What in those numbers gives you...
['Health', 'The Bad Influence', 'Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Coronavirus']
bjecrPhoto by Tamara Gak on Unsplash Google Objectron — A giant leap for the 3D object detection Google has just announced the launch of MediaPipe Objectron, its mobile technology for real-time detection of 3D objects, enabling the smartphone to recognize the size and orientation of objects. If there one thing that ...
['Object Detection', 'Google', 'AI', 'Computer Vision', 'Artificial Intelligence']
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that writing every day is a bad thing, what I’m saying is do what is sustainable, at whatever pace that works, for you. Whatever motivates you to write consistently and intentionally for weeks, months, years; instead of feeling success at your fingertips while burning yourself to the gr...
['Creativity', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Freelancing', 'Writing']
DeepMind’s AlphaFold. Three decades after CASP issued its challenge to the scientific community, a most promising solution has surfaced using AI to predict the shapes of protein structures with accuracy that has yet to be seen. DeepMind, a company devoted to developing artificial intelligence systems to solve intellig...
['Machine Learning', 'Biotechnology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Science']
Image by David Schwarzenberg from Pixabay How many unfinished creative writing projects do you have lurking in your cellar? Your first story? A notebook full of ideas from the writing residential you attended three years ago but fell out with one of your classmates, so you dare not look back there? If you’ve finished...
['Creativity', 'Storytelling', 'Productivity', 'Inspiration', 'Writing']
How to make a prediction with time-series data using machine learning By Will Stauffer-Norris in LSTM— 7 min
['Editors’ Pick', 'PyTorch', 'Product Management ', 'LSTM', 'The Daily Pick']
Sub-species The Electrophysiologist The recorder of single neurons, lowerer of electrodes. Notable tribes include the patch-clampers, whose cruel initiation rites require attaching a micrometer-scale piece of glass to the body of a neuron ten times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. Some among this tribe, po...
['Humor', 'Neuroscience', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Psychology', 'Science']
1. Time management is squeezing blood from a stone “There’s only 24 hours in a day,” people say. They think that means you should get as much as you can from each of those hours. What that actually means is there’s a limit to the time you can save. Time management is squeezing blood from a stone. 2. We’re entering t...
['Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Time Management', 'Writing', 'Psychology']
Headline Analyzer Tools that I Used In this article, I’ve used the 5 most known headline analyzer tools to investigate whether they’re beneficial for writers or not. One of the best ways to attract users' attention is being able to make the readers feel emotional while they are skimming through the plethora of headli...
['Writing', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Productivity', 'Creativity']
How to Write a Dynamite Pitch For Your Guest Post Get your words in front of thousands at lightning speed Photo by Nainoa Shizuru on Unsplash Do you want to be famous? I’m not talking about being so famous you can’t go to the grocery store without a team of bodyguards. But if that’s what you want, more power to you...
['Marketing', 'Personal Development', 'Creativity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing']
Amazon, Google and Apple Recently Enabled Their Products To “Listen” for These 3 Reasons iPhone, Apple Watch and Pixel Buds- What you can do with their new sound detection features Humans are born to detect threats by staying alert to sounds. We get nervous when we hear footsteps walking behind us in a dark street. ...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Google', 'Apple', 'Amazon']
ew things affect our productivity as much as what we surround ourselves with. Yet most of us rarely take the time to step back and really analyze our working environment. Instead, we take a ‘set it and forget it’ approach to where we work. We go to the same office, the same coffee shop, the same co-working space and ...
['Remote Working', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Startup', 'Creativity']
So many of the questions that these writers have can be resolved with this simple two step process: Read a lot of things. Going off what you’ve read, write. How do you format a novel? Read a novel, and follow the formatting that they use. Do you use paragraph breaks whenever a new character starts speaking? Crack op...
['Creativity', 'Storytelling', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing']
When it comes to images, using them throughout your blog posts can improve their overall look and performance. Here are five major benefits why you should be adding images to your blog posts. 1. Posts with visuals are more appealing A picture is the best way to create a positive first impression of your post. When y...
['Writing', 'Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Productivity', 'Creativity']
Setting up a website is considered necessary for a variety of reasons. Every day, more than 547,000 new websites are created. Most of these are business and service-related, whether for rolling out a new startup, publishing a professional blog, setting up an online store, or even to introduce a non-profit organization....
['Design', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Social Media', 'Productivity', 'Creativity']
We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility. — Malcolm Gladwell First impressions matter, of course. That’s why you’ll find all kinds of advice about how to put your best foot forward as a writer. How to make your work look its best. H...
['Creativity', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Productivity', 'Marketing']
2. Formatting Medium has published a great guide on how to format your title. At The Innovation, the sequence of the three first element the reader sees when opening your article is this: (1) Title, (2) Subtitle, (3) Cover Image Please keep them in the right order. Here is an example of the right sequence of title,...
['Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Sustainability', 'Creativity', 'Design']
I biked across Canada in the summer of 2017. I had just finished my master’s degree, which was a very challenging experience — and not really in a good way. As I was finishing my thesis, I decided I needed to do something to recover. I wanted to do something difficult, but I didn’t want to think too hard. I didn’t wan...
['Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Startup']
By Ambud Sharma | Software Engineer, Logging team Takeaways Developing locality aware systems and balancing algorithms can help substantially reduce cost Making Kafka Producer and Consumer rack aware helps efficiently route traffic Data-driven engineering decision making is critical to continuously improve systems ...
['Engineering', 'Big Data', 'Cloud Computing', 'Kafka']
Being Well Pub Launches Medika to Expand Our Writers’ Reach Medical writers promote science to help improve the world We’re thrilled to announce that Medika Life is now officially live, and it’s not just another medical publication seeking to compete with other platforms. We are different, and we’d like to share how ...
['Health', 'Mental Health', 'Covid 19', 'Society', 'Nutrition']
You Know What to Do With Your Life, You’re Just Not Doing It. Just be honest with yourself. I’m pretty sure you at least kind of sort of know what you want to do with your life. Maybe it isn’t crystal clear to you, but the foundation is there. DNA is strange in that it just gives you your own unique set of character...
['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']
Dr. Chris Meinzen is a hospitalist at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. He earned his bachelor’s degree in creative writing and neuroscience at Tulane University in New Orleans, followed by working at the Red Cross, and eventually by medical school also at Tulane. How did you decide to go to medical sch...
['Sustainability', 'Health', 'Medicine', 'Future', 'Healthcare']
But then self-doubt crept in. I started thinking of all the potential readers who would disagree with my post and rage on me in the comments. First of all, I don’t have a degree in psychology. What if people jumped into the comments and told me I’m not qualified to write about the topic? I had seen it happen with othe...
['Writing', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Fear', 'Self-awareness']
1. Morning Journal This is a technique I’ve been using for over three years, and it’s freaking golden. Every morning, I write two things: Brain dump — all thoughts, feelings, and experiences I want to write down. The goal for today — one main goal that I have to achieve today, no matter what. I do it every morning ...
['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Programming']
If you are surrounded by tragedy or death — writing is an amazing sign of life. Three of my closest writer friends (all over 50 like me), told me today they are surrounded by sickness, tragedy and death in their lives. UGH. I also have many people — friends and family — seemingly going down around me. Sometimes it fe...
['Poetry', 'Writing Life', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Creativity']
The Four Types of Writing Each one serves its own purpose Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash There are four types of writing as an author. Expository, persuasive, narrative, and descriptive. Each piece of writing includes one or all of these. Expository Writing from an author to inform or teach the reader something...
['Creativity', 'Productivity', 'Advice', 'Inspiration', 'Writing']
#4. Content happens frequently and consistently. One of the toughest aspects of an effective content marketing strategy has nothing to do with the substance of what’s being communicated. It has to do with how much and how often you publish content. The goal is to master the art of volume and consistency. It’s tough t...
['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Creativity']
Amazon Web Service (AWS) AWS is owned by Amazon and it is the number one cloud provider, according to the Public Cloud Share. That is the percentage of companies, the money involved in AWS is around 32% right now. So it is the maximum and that’s why AWS is the leader in the cloud industry for the past 10 to 15 years. ...
['Microsoft', 'Amazon', 'Cloud Computing', 'Software Engineering', 'Cloud']
Why Word Placement Is Important in Headlines Readers are attracted to the first 3 words and the last 3 words Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos. What you do when you’re confronted with emails and social posts each day? How do you browse through news websites and Medium articles? Do you click on each one? Most like...
['Creativity', 'Business', 'Headline Hacks', 'Productivity', 'Writing']
8 Questions You Can Ask Yourself to Write Better Articles Uncover the blind spots that keep your articles from thriving There’s no exact method for writing articles that people want to read. You can write about a variety of topics successfully if you understand the patterns behind the type of articles people want to ...
['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing']
Despite the terrible SARS-CoV-2 pandemic currently ravaging much of the world, we must try not to forget how far we have come as people of Earth in recent years. We also need to maintain an optimistic outlook as much as possible even in the face of truly challenging “black swan” events. This past year has been a big o...
['Technology', 'Future', 'AI', 'Science', 'Space']
When I was in college, I used to write my papers in the music library. Not because I was studying music, but because the music library was literally under construction. The study rooms there were cubes of bare white cement — a jail cell, basically — with a desk in it. I liked (and like) working in complete isolation, b...
['Work', 'Music', 'Science', 'Productivity', 'Algorithms']
The Shining. All rights © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Good routines are portable. And good routines are pliable. By all means, sanctify your spaces. If you are able to craft a workspace that inspires you then enjoy that coveted place to begin the hard work. But let your ritual adorn your routine instead of dictati...
['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Creativity']
Source: Yuri_B at pixabay.com One of the pieces of feedback I received for my blog series Data Science for Startups was that Python would be a better choice for data scientists joining a startup. This makes a lot of sense if Python is already your go to language for performing data science tasks. In my case, I have mu...
['Startup', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science', 'AWS']
As of the time of this writing, a new and more contagious strain of the Coronavirus has been reported in the United Kingdom. Initial findings state that it spreads 70% faster than the original one that we are all too familiar with. It's horrible news going into the start of 2021 and only further underlines the need for...
['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'History', 'Covid 19', 'Science']
image: tw Brains are not just for eating Until 9/11 I thought that the days were over when people could be immolated for having the wrong ideas about the soul. People have long been controlled by a fear that their immortal essence could suffer for eternity if they did not obey certain spiritual authorities. “One of ...
['Philosophy', 'Brain', 'Consciousness', 'Psychology', 'Science']
We have been getting a lot of queries on how to customize a single QuickSight dashboard for user specific data. We can accomplish this by filtering the dashboard data with login username using AWS QuickSight’s Row-Level Security. To further explain this use-case, let’s consider the sales department in a company. Every ...
['Analytics', 'AWS', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Cloud Computing']
The Man Who Cut Off His Own Hand to Avoid Certain Death Aron Ralston A selfie taken by Aron Ralston when he was stuck with his hand between the canyon and boulder and a picture of the bolder after the incident (Source: The Guardian) Life can bring us major challenges that will test not only our character but our wil...
['Life Lessons', 'Health', 'History', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology']
FOMO: the Fear of Missing Out. Who has it? Come on. Raise your hand. I’m just going to assume y’all are raising the roof, because I know that you’ve felt it before. That feeling when it seems like everyone you know is doing a thing, and you aren’t. The energy is infectious, and you’ve been bitten by the bug, but what...
['Creativity', 'Byob', 'Blogging', 'Productivity', 'Writing']
We were engaged in a spirited debate about whether to order dishes or combo meals from our local Chinese Food restaurant when Alexa chimed in: “Maybe you should get one platter and then two orders of rice to split.” “Is that enough food for both of us?” I asked. “According to Lotus Flower’s menu choices, which indica...
['Amazon', 'Technology', 'Alexa', 'AI', 'Analysis']
As a teenager, I pored over the ‘before-and-after’ images of weight loss in my mother’s magazines. They’d be splashed across the cover of every kind of periodical that was aimed at women, enticing them to part with hard-come-by cash with the promise of revealing The Magic Secret of how they, too, could transform. Some ...
['Health', 'Society', 'Equality', 'Mental Health', 'Self']
3 Ways Over-Editing is Killing Your Writing How you can stop the madness right now Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash Are you writing as much as you want? Do you hesitate a bit — or even cringe — when it’s time to publish? There are a million reasons why we’re afraid to share our work with the world. I won’t ...
['Success', 'Creativity', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Writing']
by Mike Meyer She walked to the car and a sad wind answered before the question was asked. The car opened its door and welcomed her home. She sensed it wanted to dance. That was strange. No foolishness now, she told it, but a scenic route home would be nice. The car literally paused to take the hint and a drive that ...
['Storytelling', 'AI', 'Literature', 'Love', 'Future']
By Katy Harrington Illustrated By Naomi Blundell Meyer Dreams were once thought to be supernatural forewarnings from the gods. The ancient Egyptians even had sanctified ‘dream beds’ that vivid dreamers — who were considered blessed — would use to gain wisdom from higher powers as they slept. Fast-forward to the 20th...
['Health', 'Mental Health', 'Sleep', 'Psychology', 'Dreams']
Medicortex has raised $1.7M in total. We talk with Dr. Adrian Harel, its CEO. PetaCrunch: How would you describe Medicortex in a single tweet? Dr. Adrian Harel: Medicortex Finland is dedicated to improving the diagnostics and treatment of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and concussions. PC: How did it all start and w...
['Health', 'Treatment', 'Brain', 'Healthcare', 'Startup']
Photo by John Jennings on Unsplash Literature has a lot to offer. Entertainment, education, psychological and cultural enlightenment, even a hefty profit. But, now and then, a publication comes along that actually makes reality shift. It opens our eyes to truths we’re either oblivious of or avoiding. Most such books t...
['Literature', 'Society', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Books']
9 Powerful Headline Hacks for Dedicated Professionals Learning to write magnetic headlines is an awesome skill — not just for writers Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos. Writers aren’t the only people to benefit from learning how to write magnetic headlines. As a working professional, mastering headlines can help you...
['Headline Hacks', 'Writing', 'Work', 'Startup', 'Marketing']
Introduction Microservices are the hot thing, in the past few years microservices have seemed to gain momentum as a very common architecture. Innovative and successful companies like Netflix and Amazon have adopted it, and for a good reason. The main idea of microservices is to separate the application logic into loo...
['Microservices', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Software Architecture', 'Rabbitmq']
Photo by Alejandro Escamilla on Unsplash If You Can Give Up These 8 Things, You Can Become a Better Writer I get it. Really, I do. I sincerely believe you have the desire to become a better writer, grow your audience, make a living, whatever it is you want to do. But, it’s just tough sledding period. I’ve been doin...
['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writing']
The past two months, I’ve spent stuck in that fog. Personal reasons, mostly. I had to take care of my health. I think that’s an excellent reason to pause everything and focus on it. Without a healthy body and mind, most things are pointless. Not just to you, but the people around you as well. You can’t perform when yo...
['Creativity', 'Personal Growth', 'Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Writing']
How to Get Jupyter in the Cloud Using Docker with a vanilla cloud VM to host Jupyter cheaply Image by beate bachmann from Pixabay. I found this great article by Angelica Dietzel on using Jupyter to scrape data from sites and collect them into data sets using Jupyter along with Pandas and other open source software. ...
['Programming', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Python', 'Big Data', 'Docker']
“The Meaning of Mariah Carey”: Book Review For the past few years, Mariah has occasionally alluded to a plan to write a memoir in which she would share the story of her childhood, the truth behind the endless and outrageous tabloid rumors, and the inspiration for many of her most beloved songs. Earlier this year, she ...
['Books', 'Writing', 'Music', 'Racism', 'Culture']
By Glenn Fung, American Family Insurance data science research director When catastrophic storms strike, American Family Insurance deploys claims teams as quickly as possible to assess damage and help impacted customers begin to rebuild their lives. We’re constantly monitoring the weather to help us anticipate areas t...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Weather']
To leverage Big Data and build an effective Artificial Intelligence infrastructure, enterprises must embrace collaboration. In a digital economy, the rule of thumb tends to be that the smarter your use of data and technology, the more of a competitive edge your business has. A recent report by Teradata, based on over ...
['Fintech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Big Data']
Credit: krisanapong detraphiphat / Getty Images Men are nearly twice as likely to become severely sick and die from Covid-19 compared to women, research has shown. Now, a new study from Yale, published on Wednesday in Nature, gives new clues as to why men fare so much worse with the coronavirus. It’s the first study ...
['Health', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Science', 'Men']
These new intelligences could also bring with them some pretty terrible things, for us. First, though, there are likely some consequences that will arrive prior to the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). We’re already seeing some of these: automated weapons systems, increased s...
['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Humanity', 'Future', 'Goals']
2. Using Moving Average Mean and Standard Deviation as the Boundary Like in the first method, we need to get the boundary first and apply the boundary to the dataset. This time, a moving average mean and standard deviation (std) will be employed. To calculate the mean and std, a 21-day window is chosen, as that repres...
['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Programming']
Bringing Colab to a Jupyter Notebook near you… Google has built some nice features in Colab. Now you can benefit from some of these in Jupyter Notebook. It’s errors all the way down When programming in Python, it can be quite overwhelming when you hit an error deep down in a stack of nested function calls. One of th...
['Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Google Colab', 'Jupyter', 'Productivity']
Like all of us I suspect, I’m currently feeling a wild mix of emotions, from fear for the wellbeing of friends and loved ones, to anxiety about our work and the business we’ve built, to concern and indeed guilt when I think of the many people facing lockdown in situations far worse than mine; and alongside those immedi...
['Consumerism', 'Society', 'Future', 'Coronavirus', 'Agency']
1. Become an idea-machine Generating ideas is a common struggle amongst writers. The blank page is the enemy, and they don’t know how to make its blood spill. This holds them back from writing. How is it that even though ideas come from everywhere you’re not receiving them at all? There’s only one reason why: you don...
['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', '5 Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writing']
Tell me a love story as if I’ve never known another. Break my heart and make it whole again. Sew up the pieces of my heart with every word. Can you romance me with your words that breathe and move in real live action? Can you slow dance with me with every pause and when the tempo begins to beat faster… keep me ...
['Poetry', 'Books', 'Writing', 'Love', 'Creativity']
Context is everything Why is it when someone gives a great speech, even if everyone in the audience agrees, very few take action? Context is everything. When you read or listen to something, your context needs to be right for it to sink into your soul and take effect. Let’s break down a person’s context. Ability to...
['Writing', 'Learning', 'Creativity', 'Education', 'Self-awareness']
The Song Putting the strengths of the album aside, its title track easily the best song I’ve heard in 2018, and one of my favorites of all time. This is the kind of song that I have to force myself to stop listening to, lest I get sick of it; the kind of song that I want to put on every playlist; the kind of song that...
['Design', 'Writing', 'Songs', 'Music', 'Culture']
What Are The Benefits Of Cloud Data Warehousing? And Should You Switch Data warehousing was introduced in 1988 by IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy. Since then the concept has evolved and taken on a life of its own. Increasing challenges and complexities of business have forced data warehousing to become ...
['Data Science', 'AWS', 'Programming', 'Cloud Computing', 'Big Data']
My Nervous System Needs To Talk He Just Has To Get This Off My Chest Photo by camilo jimenez on Unsplash Hi, I’m Max’s nervous system. No this is not a Reader’s Digest parody. I just have to vent. Sometimes Max does not work the way he should and that drives me nuts. The other day, for example. You know he spends ...
['Humor', 'Neuroscience', 'Relationships', 'Brain', 'Psychology']
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator — Timothy Winegard A terrific subject and stirring information are tethered to a book that unfortunately loses credibility as you dig deeper Microhistory is taking over the nonfiction market, and the newest addition, Timothy Winegard’s The Mosquito: A Human Hist...
['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Books', 'History', 'Book Review']
Whenever one of his kids accomplished something, Mohammed Jafor broke out in a grin. “He would light up,” his son Mahtab Shihab said. “One thing that stood out to me was his pride in everything that me and my siblings did.” Jafor immigrated to New York City from Bangladesh in 1991. He lived in Jackson Heights, Queens,...
['Victims', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Coronavirus', 'Culture']
Every human being has a unique creativity, though at different levels. This creativity emerges under the right conditions. We think that one of the most important of these conditions is financial opportunities and a comfortable life. Yes, a person must have the time to allocate the things he has set up in his mind and...
['Health', 'Productivity', 'Life', 'Creativity', 'Work']
Thought Plagiarism and How It Threatens Creative Platforms When does copying end and the destruction of ideas begin? Photo by Vinicius Amano on Unsplash Every platform has its self-seekers — that is, those who try to game the system by milking the creativity of others and doing as little as possible on their end. Mo...
['Social Media', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Startup', 'Writing']
How I Deal With Negative Thoughts When I Have to Code How I stopped distractions from taking over and potentially ruining my career Photo by Jefferson Santos on Unsplash. “When there’s an elephant in the room, you can’t pretend it isn’t there and just discuss the ants.” — Ellen Wittlinger This is my first ever arti...
['Mental Health', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Psychology']
How to Scale Python on Every Major Cloud Provider Best practices for cloud computing with Python In the words of Pywren creator Eric Jonas, “The cloud is too damn hard!” Python in the cloud. Once you’ve developed a Python application on your laptop and want to scale it up in the cloud (perhaps with more data or mor...
['Python', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Azure', 'Cloud Computing', 'AWS']
Introduction: The Girl Who Did a Month’s Worth of Practice in Six Minutes Coyle begins by introducing talent hotbeds, places that regularly produce top performers, then talking about a girl named Clarissa, studied by Australian music psychologists Gary McPherson and James Renwick, who watched her make “a month’s worth...
['Creativity', 'Inspiration', 'Books', 'Learning', 'Writing']
0. Networking The definition of the actual ECS cluster does not have any networking requirements. resource "aws_ecs_cluster" "cluster" { name = "${var.environment}-cluster" tags = var.tags } This is because the networking features are defined at the service level as these are the elastic components that host the ...
['Terraform', 'Software Engineering', 'AWS', 'Software Development', 'Cloud Computing']
They thought we’d be there in 1978. Forty years later, we are there. Or there’s this vision. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) moves through a rose-tinted world in the movie Her. By day, he works for a company that writes letters for people who can’t emotionally muster it — himself an A.I. for people’s emotional worl...
['Cliches', 'AI', 'Design', 'Artificial Intelligence']
Microplastic Pollutes the Fruits and Vegetables We Eat For the first time, microplastic was detected in fruits and vegetables by the scientist Margherita Ferrante and her team from the University of Catania in Italy. The existence of microplastic is evident in lettuce, carrots, broccoli, potatoes, apples, and pears. ...
['Pollution', 'Health', 'Environment', 'Plastic', 'Science']
Facebook’s Q2 2016 earning sent the stock soaring to new heights. With the stock up 30% year over year, it’s clear that this mobile advertising juggernaut is transforming the ad industry. At BBDO, we have embraced the rise of Facebook by launching Project Thumb Breaker — an initiative that is fueling BBDO’s ambition to...
['Advertising', 'Facebook', 'Startup', 'Marketing']
Tuple When it comes to dealing with related data elements, one of the most commonly used data types is the tuple. As an immutable data type, tuples are sequences of data with a fixed size. They’re useful to group related data with different data types. Consider the following trivial example. >>> employee0 = ('John Sm...
['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Technology']
How do you approach aging? Do you greet each birthday with a smile? Are you afraid of becoming a senior citizen? Maybe you don’t think about it at all. Old age is a long way off. No matter how old you are, it’s never too early to start preparing for your future. In this article, we’ll review some simple ways to keep y...
['Health', 'Longevity', 'Aging', 'Mental Health', 'Science']
Make Money Tips Make Extra Money as a Programmer in 2021 If you’re a programming geek and not making any money online, you are missing out on BIG. Technology is only becoming more and more a part of everyday life. Making more money is all about maximizing your creativity. Creativity There are no limits to the thin...
['Development', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Make Money Online', 'Freelancing']
You must have heard start-up founders talking about first mover advantage, which is a real thing. If you enter a market which has the opportunity with a product/service which can cater to a need, the chances are you will build a business out of it. There are challenges, creating awareness, capturing customers, getting ...
['Product', 'Brand Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Marketing']
The Epithelial-Endothelial Crosstalk In a May research letter to Intensive Care Medicine, Amit Jain and D. John Doyle, professors of anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, proposed the “epithelial–endothelial crosstalk” hypothesis. And thorough autopsy findings later confirms it. Epithelial cells refer to the ...
['Innovation', 'Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Life', 'Science']
Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka How astronomers deploy real-time pipelines to distribute data from the millions of objects discovered each night by modern telescopes Let’s build a news feed from the Universe! You might think that data collection in astronomy consists of a lone astronomer pointing ...
['Big Data', 'Software Engineering', 'Astronomy', 'Startup', 'Data Science']
Pouria, talking to the participants of his workshop at the School of Startups. Pouria Kay, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Grib, has been a good friend of The Shortcut from its beginning. Pouria’s story is an inspiring act on how one should follow the goals, have a passion to learn and give back to the community. ...
['Design', 'Stories', 'Finland', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup']
It feels like you’ve been staring at the computer screen for hours as you struggle to rewrite several paragraphs. You’re trying to capture in words the images in your head, but the sentences on the page sound lifeless and dull. Maybe you’re writing a blog post about a recent trip you took, and you want your readers to...
['Marketing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity']
Creative Thinking Skills Creative thinking is an essential skill when it comes to programming and the software industry. You are required to think outside-the-box to tackle unsolved problems. Here are a few ways of how your pets increase your creative thinking skills. Keeps your mind active and sharp Pets give us a...
['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Lifestyle']
If you are a tech geek or a business owner with a website or mobile application, one of the terms that you come across most frequently would certainly be artificial intelligence or one of its multi-branched technologies like machine learning, data mining, etc. If you have wondered what all this hype is all about, think...
['Machine Learning', 'Mobile App Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Outsourcing Company India', 'AI']
How can atmospheric pollution result to excessive harm in the marine ecosystems? Ioannis Dedes Follow Dec 26 · 5 min read Photo by NOAA on Unsplash It is obvious that when one discusses how humans disturb and negatively affect the atmospheric system, the focus is based on the pollution and the effect of the excessive...
['Environment', 'Diversity', 'Future', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change']
10 Easy Fixes for Common Headline Mistakes Examples and tips to attract readers to your valuable content Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos. Headlines aren’t an exact science. What may get one reader clicking may be ignored by another. What may work in one industry may not work in another. However, there are simple, ...
['Creativity', 'Business', 'Headline Hacks', 'Productivity', 'Writing']
This neurological view of mismatch aversion has had profound repercussions for our understanding of several other types of body dysphorias. Among these is the feeling that a person’s gender identity differs from their body gender, which is gender dysphoria. Quite literally, the person is born with a mind, a soul, whose...
['Health', 'LGBTQ', 'Science', 'Culture', 'Neuroscience']
See? It’s writing stolen from Gillian. And aside from the author name at the top of the collection page, the rest of the credits are stripped out. If you click any of the articles, there’s no author credit. No link to Medium. Nothing to take you back to Gillian. They just stole her writing. Mine are there, too. Just n...
['Writing', 'Advice', 'Creativity', 'Plagiarism', 'Psychology']
Bellies full of beignets, my parents and I were exiting San Francisco’s Just for You Cafe when when a middle-aged man called my name. “Andy, it’s Christoph!” he shouted. “Do you have time for a quick question about messaging?” (Later, my mom asked, “People stalk you for messaging advice?”) It was fun having my paren...
['Sales', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Strategy']
Relationships | Culture I Hope This Pandemic Has Taught Us That Products Can’t Replace People We are social creatures Photo by Dương Nhân from Pexels Have you found yourself spending endless time on shopping apps over the course of the pandemic, either window shopping or actually buying stuff, just getting lost in ...
['Relationships', 'Society', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Culture']
Iteration, not emulation One of the easiest — and most common — ways to start a project is to say, “I really want to make X.” That phrase has been the impetus for many indie titles released over the last decade. Platformers, rogue likes, horror, RPGs, and more all began thanks to developers’ passion for a particular g...
['Gaming', 'Design', 'Startup', 'Game Design', 'Development']
Photo by Robson Hatsukami Morgan on Unsplash One of the things that I am most grateful for about being a software engineer in 2019, is the incredible breadth of SDKs, platforms, and tools that simplify the more complicated and often consistently repetitive tasks. Whether I am implementing a live commenting feature, ad...
['Firebase', 'Software Engineering', 'Productivity', 'Google', 'Programming']
Photo by Diego PH on Unsplash Malcolm Gladwell has built a career out of sifting through dry research, unearthing overlooked ideas and presenting them in appealing or novel ways for readers or customers. He is best-known for writing regarded nonfiction books like Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point, and Gladwell’s ...
['Work', 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Motivation', 'Books']
How to come up with a name for your new business More than 600,000 new businesses launch every year — how can you come up with a name that stands out from the crowd? Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash “Names have power.” ― Rick Riordan A name is the face of your business. It needs to capture your essence, values, and ...
['Branding', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Startup']