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After Getting Sober, I Still Thought I “Deserved” a Drink
I struggled to stop thinking of alcohol as a reward.
Before getting sober, I thought of alcohol as a reward. When I got through a rough day at work or finished a hard project, I told myself that I “deserved” a drink.
It didn’t matter if I was in a good mood o... | ['Addiction', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Sobriety', 'Alcoholism'] |
The Curse of Dimensionality — a catchy term is termed by mathematician Richard Bellman in his book “Dynamic Programming” in 1957 which refers to the fact that problems can get a lot harder to solve on high-dimensional instances.
Let us start with a question. What is a Dimension?
Dimension in very simple terms means t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Curse Of Dimensionality', 'Feature Engineering', 'Dimensions'] |
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Carl Wheatley is a Product Design Recruiter at Facebook with several years of experience in the design and recruiting industries. Having completed Bloc and Designlab bootcamps before becoming a recruiter, he’s an expert at help... | ['Product Design', 'UX Design', 'Dribbble', 'Design', 'UI Design'] |
New Teaching Stories I
Fairy Tales to Expose Our Current Madness.
Sometimes stories can make essences clear, that factual treatises can’t. Here are two stories of my hand, one old, one new, about our civilization, or perhaps rather, lack of it.
The Other Lion King
Rise
Deep in Africa once a lion was endowed, or ra... | ['Teaching Stories', 'Social Change', 'Storytelling', 'Wisdom', 'Fairy Tale'] |
DAY 3
Today we focus on the touch of the air as it goes in and out of the nostrils and eventually, any sensation felt in the nose or below the nose on the upper lip. My concentration is getting much better. My head is quiet and my mind feels sharp. When I’m outside, I am aware of an entire world I’ve never noticed bef... | ['Vipassana', 'Narrative', 'Honesty', 'Wellness', 'Meditation'] |
Additionally, cuML added an experimental release of LARS (Least-Angle Regression), a feature inspired by user requests. Similarly, we added the long-requested GPU acceleration for multi-node multi-GPU logistic regression in dask-glm. Please continue filing feature requests if there are more models you’d like to see!
W... | ['Machine Learning', 'Analytics', 'Rapids Ai', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
Deploying Android Emulators on AWS EC2 [2/3] | Bare Metal instances and Hardware acceleration| Solutions for an organization Uddeshya Singh Follow Nov 29 · 5 min read
“You can invest more into android emulator hosting hardware (i.e. get bare metal instances) and reap the benefits later” will be the tagline I would sta... | ['Android', 'Coding', 'Emulator', 'AWS', 'Cloud'] |
In this blog, I am going to walk you through deploying a default Blazor server application created in Visual Studio 2019 in Azure App Service. We will see three different ways we can deploy a Blazor application:
Use an import profile (Web App service profile) in Visual Studio 2019.
Use the Azure Portal login in Visua... | ['Web Development', 'Azure', 'Production', 'Blazor', 'Productivity'] |
“You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is Yourself.”
What it means:
We so often seek rewards and satisfaction in the outside world and its distractions. Whether it be chasing fame, fortune or possessions, we seem to be frantically running on our hedonic treadmill.
Yet, this is no source of ... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration'] |
Mink-Coronavirus “Cluster-5”: Why Experts Want to Quickly Eradicate It
Explaining why coronavirus evolution in minks poses a threat, leading to the decision to cull 17 million minks in Denmark.
Source: Otwarte Klatki (CC BY 2.0)
Denmark has decided to slaughter all farmed minks — 17 million of them — due to a mutate... | ['Pandemic', 'Life', 'Ideas', 'Covid 19', 'Science'] |
After navigating the murky waters of an exchange, and trying to figure out the differences between truth and hype, you’ve managed to buy your first Bitcoin. Congratulations! Now what the hell do you do with it? Well, first and foremost, you have to learn very quickly how to protect your investment.
To Trade or Not to ... | ['Startup', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin Wallet', 'Bitcoin'] |
Woo-Hoo! We Did It!
We accomplished everything we set out to do.
Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash
In the middle of a year of chaos, conflict, and Coronavirus, Middle-Pause has reached and surpassed all her goals. I mean all of them!
Before we talk about that, I think a brief history of the Journey of Middle-Paus... | ['Life Lessons', 'Women', 'Self', 'Middle Pause', 'Writing'] |
Are you planning for mobile app development, the tools can help you in that because It takes big money to contract a development company, and there are literally thousands of them, so how do you choose? Fortunately, creating an app now does not require a huge investment, months of work, or coding experience! We’re talk... | ['Mobile Apps', 'Tools', 'Features', 'Mobile App Development', 'App Development'] |
I created a repository from which I extracted the following snippets. If you want to skip the explanation and jump into the code, you can use this link:
Time to code 👨💻
Let’s start!
So let’s start a clean project using create-react-app and create-react-native-app . After playing around a bit I realized that it’s ... | ['React', 'React Native', 'Tutorial', 'Icons', 'Software'] |
Want to write more robust, maintainable code? In this course, discover how this can be accomplished with functional programming, and learn about the functional concepts at the heart of many JavaScript frameworks and programs.
In this course, you will learn:
what is functional programming.
how functional programming ... | ['JavaScript', 'ES6', 'Web Development', 'Development', 'Coding'] |
Medium’s Partner Program touts the ability to earn from your writing endeavors by creating locked exclusive stories for the platform’s premium paying members (although regular users still get 3 exclusive stories a month). At first thought, it seems like it might possibly be a viable way for the creative minds of Medium... | ['Monetizing On Medium', 'Medium', 'Medium Partner Program', 'Journalism', 'Medium Greed'] |
Designing for a global audience can feel daunting. Do you localize your product? Or, do you internationalize your product? And what does that even entail?
Let’s demystify localization (L10n) and internationalization (I18n) to understand how designers might leverage both approaches to create truly global products.
Sim... | ['Localization', 'Design', 'Product', 'Internationalization', 'Globalization'] |
Dear Community!
We are glad to announce that models will start to stream on our platform on the second of January starting at 6 PM UTC time. That means that you will be able to see them live and have a chat with them really soon.
Thank you for staying with us and stay tuned for more updates! | ['Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
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For all of my life, there were two of me. How to explain this? I was ‘me’ inside my head and then there was the ‘other’. My body. The ‘me’ inside my head had a whole lot of awful things to say about the ‘other’.
She was too fat, too short, her butt was too big, her boobs were too small... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Love', 'Yoga', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
Different Approaches
You probably know that Python is what we call an interpreted language. CPython reads in source code line by line and executes it as it goes. Interpreted languages (JavaScript included) have a variety of advantages:
Interpreters are incredibly easy to write.
Powerful metaprogramming capabilities.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Python3'] |
Autoencoders for Dimensionality Reduction
A practical example of how you can reduce the dimensions with Auto-Encoders
In the previous post, we explained how we can reduce the dimensions by applying PCA and t-SNE and how we can apply Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for the same scope. In this post, we will provide a... | ['Autoencoder', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'TensorFlow'] |
Before sending your application
First of all, please note that I only publish original stories, i.e. stories that are not already published online outside the publication. I find it more interesting to offer readers stories that they haven’t been able to read elsewhere on the Internet.
Besides, I really want new writ... | ['Scribe', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Short Story', 'Publication', 'Writing'] |
First day at new office is always apprehensive and full of nervousness. Usually there are mixed feelings like the excitement to see new people and take up new work and at the same time feel anxious about the adjustments or the new learning. However, the most important aspect that concerns every new employee is the cult... | ['Work', 'Startup', 'Bangalore', 'Work Culture'] |
Spring Boot Microservices — Implementing Distributed Tracing
In this article, we will learn an important patten in Microservices Architecture — Distributed Tracing. We will create a sample implementation based on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin. This is the fourth part of our series — Spring Boot Microserv... | ['Spring Boot', 'Microservice Architecture', 'Programming', 'Distributed Tracing', 'Microservices'] |
Deploying to a Staging Environment
Now that local development is working nicely, we need to do a few new things in order to get the example app to install the package correctly once it’s been deployed.
I use Heroku to host my example app since the setup is easy and you can enable automatic deploys from a GitHub branc... | ['Npm Package', 'Heroku', 'Deployment', 'NPM', 'React'] |
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Icons are simple yet powerful tools that relay information, a potential action or provide visual context as to what a user can or can’t do. They are used everywhere and they come in many shapes, sizes, design styles and colours. Popular websites such as thenounproject.com, flaticon.co... | ['User Experience', 'Icons', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Case Study'] |
During 2017, Netlify suffered a series of incidents that made us reconsider the way a key component in our infrastructure works. This post is about the journey we took to make our service more resilient. I’ll also share some thoughts that hopefully will help you approach risk and safety management from new points of vi... | ['Incident Management', 'Infrastructure', 'DevOps', 'Scalability', 'Kubernetes'] |
It happens fast and creates a huge sense of urgency, especially considering the announcements are posted ephemerally. The credibility of Venmo adds a sense of legitimacy to confused teens, which makes it dangerous for kids who might ordinarily think they’re aware of scams and how to avoid them.
The app is instantaneou... | ['Millennials', 'Social Media', 'Startup', 'Gen Z', 'Venmo'] |
Rebased Codebase to v.0.17
Q: When can we expect Ledger support and possibly Exodus support for Verge?
A: We’re definitely working to support both in the near future.
Q: What is the current status on the Verge Debit card?
A: We are waiting on TokenPay’s team to fully implement support of debit cards to facilitate t... | ['Development', 'Verge', 'Update', 'Architecture', 'Bitcoin'] |
If you’re reading this article you’re probably already familiar already with what npm is. For those that are not, npm is simply a package manager — a CLI tool that allows us to install and use various packages of code from the Node library. Npm can do much more than this but, for simplicity's sake, we can just think of... | ['JavaScript', 'Nodejs', 'React', 'Web Development'] |
Development Update
We started the custom token implementation, which will be tested and launched soon after the full nodes release with latest POS implementation. In parallel we’re working on selecting a proper matching engine and finishing the concept of trustless HFT-enabled exchange combining off-chain order with o... | ['Finance', 'Fintech', 'Blockchain', 'Startup', 'Bitcoin'] |
As is the usual London narrative, The Building of London covers the development of the city, then the largest in the world, from the Romans onwards. It notes that there was no doubt some London before Roman, but “we have not dug up many remains to tell us anything about it,” and as is also usual, it describes how the R... | ['History', 'Books', 'London', 'Urban Planning', 'Architecture'] |
Why Is It Necessary To Introspect?
Connecting your own mental and emotional state.
Photo by madison lavern on Unsplash
Learning to live life to its fullest is a self-reflection which many people acquire very late in their lives. I would like to mention the rest of the others. Yes, a few people who are truly committe... | ['Mindfulness', 'Life Hacking', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
Keep Balance
There should always be a middle ground in your productivity, as everywhere. It’s important to keep your eagerness to learn but still prevent yourself from burning out.
To do so, remember to have rest and balance between your work and life. A fresh mind always remembers better.
This habit was very import... | ['Efficiency', 'Boost Productivity', 'Productivity', 'Work Life Balance', 'Programming'] |
The man with a strategic plan
A veteran of both policy and emergencies, Yasuyuki Misawa is upbeat about WFP Iraq’s new five-year outlook
‘Yasu’ (right) with colleagues. Photo: WFP/Photo Library
Yasuyuki Misawa’s had a long and varied career with the World Food Programme (WFP). Growing up in Tokushima-ken on Shikoku ... | ['Development', 'Strategy', 'United Nations', 'Humanitarian', 'Emergency Response'] |
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Horny, Lonely, Crippled
Different Reasons For Having Casual Sex
Many believe sex is better with someone you know and/or love. Despite this, there are still lots of casual hooking up going on. People have various reasons for engaging in this behavior that can lead to hurt feelings, depres... | ['Relationships', 'Sex', 'This Happened To Me', 'Disability', 'Writing'] |
Reading Can Be Harmful
Yes, there’s a right way to read.
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash
I can’t imagine a world without books or at least something to read. If I were stranded on a desert island, I would want to take my books with me. I’m not even through reading 30% of the books I own. So it’s a good bet that they... | ['Self', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
The Wikipedia binary pipeline I am experimenting with works quite good on EC2 or ECS, but requires 9 CPUs to work smoothly (XML to JSON conversion). What if I distribute it and run each worker process on ECS?
Goal
I want to reduce the total execution time from 47 minutes (ECS 4vCPUs) and 19 minutes (c5.2xlarge 8vCPUs... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Containers'] |
Make your Angular App Accessible: Skip to Main Content
Angular Accessibility Part 2
Accessibility plays a vital role in any Single Page Applications. As Angular growing by leaps and bounds, supporting the accessibility in Angular Application becomes quite complex until we know all accessibility concepts.
Here I am c... | ['Typescript', 'Web Development', 'Front End Development', 'Accessibility', 'Angular'] |
Can Your Marketing Create a Movement? Here’s How to Find Out
By Heike Young
Sometimes a message, campaign, or product takes on a life of its own and becomes a legitimate movement.
Think about Dove’s Real Beauty campaign (as shown in the image above), TOMS Shoes, or American Express with Small Business Saturday. Thes... | ['Marketing'] |
Hello World
Once this Extension Pack has been successfully installed, you will be brought to a screen that looks like this:
We are going to follow the directions and create a new file. Inside this file, we are going to put the following code:
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.p... | ['Android', 'Spring Boot', 'Programming', 'Vscode', 'Java'] |
The Night I Almost Ruined My Friends’ Lives
A story of corruption in the Caribbean.
Photo credit: Nicholas Gomez
This is an English translation of a story that took place in Cancun, Mexico in the summer of 2015. I was with four of my closest friends that night. All of their names and identifying details were changed... | ['Short Story', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Life', 'This Happened To Me'] |
W5 Initial Value Plays
Each week, the ISW identifies weekly value plays. These plays should not be misconstrued as official picks, plays, or wagers as we believe long-term wagering ROI is more a function of bankroll management and allocation than of win rates.
We define value as instances where the odds of covering a... | ['Sports', 'Sports Betting', 'Value Investing', 'Startup', 'Hedge Funds'] |
Companies like Facebook and Google already make billions because they know everything about us via our online habits. What if we could take a cut? What if we could own and sell our data directly?
Our personal data is an economic asset generated by a combination of our identity (demographics), our behaviour (psychograp... | ['Personal Data', 'Internet Of Me', 'Privacy', 'P D E', 'Big Data'] |
Eyes of gold
To me behold
Your decisive gaze
Upon me,
Your wayward glance
Like in a trance
Follows mine eye
Forward,
A sprig of hair
And whiskers there
Dance upon nose
In motion,
All shades of brown
Speckled ‘round
A face lit with
Emotion. | ['Perspective', 'Cats', 'Beauty', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
1. Replace all occurrences of substring
‘Using str.replace()’
Syntax: str.replace(old,new,count)
Example 1: Replace substring “two” by “one”
s1="one apple,two orange,two banana"
s2=s1.replace("two","one")
print (s2)
#Output:one apple,one orange,one banana
By default, str.replace() will replace all occurrences o... | ['DevOps', 'Python3', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
5 “Experimental” Books That Show What the Novel Can Do
Because nothing is more exciting than a book that breaks the rules
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash
Walter Benjamin once said, “All great works of literature either invent or dissolve a genre.” This is as true today as it was when he said it.
Too often book... | ['Experimental Literature', 'Books', 'Literature', 'Book Recommendations', 'Book Review'] |
A Quick Introduction On Granger Causality Testing For Time Series Analysis
Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test, Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin (KPSS) tests, Vector Autoregressions (VA), Durbin–Watson statistic, Cointegration test
The Granger causality test is a statistical hypothesis test for determining whether on... | ['Stationarity', 'Statistical Modeling', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Time Series Forecasting', 'Python'] |
A Strategic Approach To Becoming a Data Scientist
Overcoming the difficulties of Breaking Into Data Science
Photo by Jaanus Jagomägi on Unsplash
Throughout this year, I’ve written many posts on becoming a Data Scientist:
For anyone aiming to become a Data Scientist, you ought to first address the elephant in the ro... | ['Education', 'Innovation', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Advice', 'Technology'] |
3 Ideas For Writing To Focus On For 2021 in A FEW WORDS.
Ideas for writing comes from the trends we see. There are dying trends and rising trends. These are the rising trends I have spotted as a content contributor.
Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash
Interpreting trends as a content contributor is important. That is ... | ['Trends', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing On Writing', 'Thinking', 'Writing'] |
This article takes another dive into The Visual and Psychological Proof that Luke Skywalker is Snoke.
“Snoke influenced Ben Solo in the womb long before his eventual fall to the Dark Side, which was due to Snoke’s influence — not Luke’s.”
“[Han] had trouble believing what he was hearing. “So Snoke was watching our so... | ['Star Wars', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Film', 'Parenting'] |
Pizza Hut has a dumb-looking roof as its trademark image. The Papa John’s design barely exists — it’s just the name of a racist guy who doesn’t work there anymore. The Little Caesars mascot is okay… wait, no, he’s terrifying. California Pizza Kitchen? I’m sorry, but nothing about a palm tree says “we serve up a superio... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Logo Design', 'Food', 'Pizza'] |
Dimensions and degrees of freedom
Number of features vs number of dimensions
The dimension of a mathematical object is the number of independent variables needed to fully describe it. A point has 0 dimensions. A line has 1 dimension, a square has 2 dimensions and a cube has 3 dimensions. On a line we need one variabl... | ['Machine Learning', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Degrees Of Freedom', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Science'] |
She’s More Than a Framing Device
She’s my literary hero.
“Scheherazade” by Sophie Gengembre Anderson [Public domain]
I believe Scheherazade is the idol of my writing life. What an amazing testament to the power of an excellent story, well told!
So, who is Scheherazade?
It’s a rather long story, though her part see... | ['Books', 'Women', 'Fiction', 'Life', 'History'] |
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Clinton’s Health Care Failure
Proponents of single-payer health care haven’t learned from reformer’s past mistakes. Here’s why they should
The 2020 Election is shaping up to be a referendum on the future of health care in the United States. The Progressive wing of the Democratic pa... | ['Politics', 'Journalism', 'Election 2020', 'Healthcare', 'History'] |
I have a lot of feelings.
Should’ve hidden behind a curtain. [Photo by Ian Keefe on Unsplash]
I don’t regret what I write. That’s a good thing because it allows me to write whatever I want to, whether it’s pieces about silly things like eating crunchy food or dating Thanos or satirical pieces about politics or femini... | ['Personal', 'Life', 'Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Thoughts on Our Culture’s Second Arrow
I read an article last week about how secrets make us ill. Supposedly — statistically — people who out their secrets are healthier. Happier. While I’m not entirely convinced that there is a true correlation between health and happiness, I’m definitely skeptical of any research de... | ['Compassion', 'Healing From Abuse', 'Mental Health', 'Healing From Trauma', 'Buddhism'] |
In 1916, a German U-boat sank a merchant marine ship flying Allied colors off the coast of Antarctica, somewhere between Elephant Island and Deception Island in the South Shetland Archipelago. It was believed that all souls aboard the ship had been lost, along with its cargo of food and medical supplies bound for the W... | ['Books', 'World War I', 'Mystery', 'Antarctica', 'History'] |
Taking a Data Dive
Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
Solve challenge here: https://www.bookcademy.com/home/show_daily_challenges/taking-a-data-dive
There is more data available to growth team than ever before, but all this data is essentially useless without the ability to parse it for useful insights. Wha... | ['Bookcademy', 'Hacking Growth', 'Daily Challenge', 'Startup'] |
Forms are the gate to your world of digital marketing for schools. It’s a stepping stone to try and acquire contact info from people that want what you have to offer.
We’ve evolved from writing phone numbers on napkins, to handing out business cards, to dropping those business cards in fishbowls, to the online form. W... | ['Marketing', 'Education', 'Inbound Marketing', 'Schools', 'Digital Marketing'] |
In the newsroom, getting the go-ahead to pursue a story can be entirely up to how well a reporter can sum up a lot of information to a rushed editor. That challenge is enormous for data journalists, who might have to begin a pitch by explaining why a standard deviation figure is significant or summarizing an interestin... | ['Journalism', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
We all have heard of Angular, React, Vue, Node packages and many of you would be even using these on a regular basis.
But often we really don’t have a clear idea as to what these are why do we need in the first place.
So, a library is basically a collection of programs or a bunch of handy code someone’s written for y... | ['Libraries', 'Angular', 'Framework', 'React'] |
How Modern Game Theory is Influencing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems Part II
Mean-Field Games, Evolutionary Games and Stochastic Games are having an impact in the new generation of reinforcement learning systems.
This is the second part of an article discussing new areas of game theory that are influencin... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Invector Labs', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
When to Declare the Type on a Variable in TypeScript
Let’s talk about type inference
Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash
I think this is one of the most frequently asked questions by beginners in TypeScript. I found myself asking it, as I went straight to the official TypeScript docs to learn.
There’s a feature in typ... | ['Programming', 'Typescript', 'JavaScript', 'Nodejs', 'Front End Development'] |
This makes controlling your platform even more important.
What happens to your business when your number one traffic and lead source stops?
If all your eggs are in that basket and you don’t reinvent yourself quickly, you’re done. If you were crushing SnapChat and all of a sudden Instagram is practically identical, wh... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Content', 'Social Media', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Want to Help New Families? Start by Supporting Mothers’ Mental Health
Statistics say one thing about postpartum mood disorders, but social media can say another
“Are you just loving being a mommy?” my friend asked me, cradling my newborn son in her arms.
The words lingered between us as I pursed my lips and tried to... | ['Postpartum Depression', 'Motherhood', 'Parenting', 'Mental Health'] |
I’m always fascinated by great conferences: the opportunity to learn from the best minds in the industry and your peers; both are of utmost value.
I also used to work for a media company with a conference production division. The SportBusiness team I worked with put on an annual global b2b conference bringing together... | ['Communication', 'Work', 'Presenting', 'Mental Health', 'Charity'] |
“Most people can’t keep showing up to anything. I think that your ability to show up and keep showing up and, and outwork, everybody else is everything. I also want to comment that I think for young people listening to this podcast in their 20s and they’re getting going, there’s this horrible pressure that I did not ha... | ['Mentorship', 'Life Lessons', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
The French artist Gustave Moreau’s “Christ in the Garden of Olives” (c. 1885–1889) reminds me a good deal of something I like about classical Chinese art: the latter was known for its nature shots, wherein, if humans feature at all, they are off in a corner or otherwise not at the center. One could compare that to a go... | ['Christianity', 'Philosophy', 'Mormon', 'Spirituality', 'Religion'] |
What You Can Do Instead of Wasting Your Life Away Scrolling Social Media Tim Denning Follow Nov 23 · 6 min read
Photo by Artyom Kim on Unsplash
You spend more time on social media than you realize.
I should know. I’ve fallen in love with three women at the same time: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter. The excuse I use wit... | ['Leadership', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Social Media', 'Relationships'] |
Our team members have one thing in common — they want to help local businesses thrive — but everyone has varied backgrounds, skills, and interests.
Several of our Hubsters joined our company after studying or working in journalism.
Whether they’re using their photography skills to take photos for local businesses or ... | ['Company Culture', 'Careers', 'Work', 'Career Advice', 'Journalism'] |
If You’re Out of Shape, You’re Lucky
A new way to look at exercise
Photo by lucas Favre on Unsplash
Exercise isn’t about the far-off goal of being a “fit” person. Exercise is about the very real goal of feeling better, today.
I’ve heard many people say it, from Matthew McConaughey to Joe Rogan:
“Break a sweat ever... | ['Progress', 'Lifestyle', 'Life', 'Exercise', 'Motivation'] |
Why Startup Ecosystems Need More Than Just VC Funding
Hi. I read your [Tweet, Medium Post, WSJ OpEd] about leaving the Bay Area for [Texas, Florida, Seasteading]. I totally understand. Even though I might be more progressive politically than you, I too am frustrated by San Francisco’s [tax policy, failure to pass hous... | ['Startup', 'Tech', 'Technology'] |
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One of the most time-consuming and difficult stages in a standard data science development pipeline is creating a dataset. In the case where you have already been provided with a dataset kudos for you! You have just saved yourself a good amount of time and effort. Still though, on many occasions that would not be the c... | ['Data Mining', 'Gitlab', 'DevOps', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
BACKGROUND
Recently I worked on a Capstone project that requires my team to build a model that could deal with a typical business problem: multi-channel attribution. Its definition is as follows:
Multi-channel attribution refers to the process of determining which marketing channels ultimately lead to a sale and givi... | ['Marketing', 'Machine Learning', 'Multi Channel Attribution', 'Attention Mechanism', 'Lstm'] |
So, You Got Fat: 8 Steps Towards Body Liberation
How to move forward and embrace your body just the way it is
It’s not easy to move from a life of embracing and buying in to diet culture to one where you appreciate your body for what it is. We live in a culture in which expectations are placed upon our bodies before ... | ['Weight Loss', 'Beauty', 'Diet', 'Body Image', 'Mental Health'] |
One of the things that pisses off bisexuals is when people suggest that bisexuality is nothing more than a state of transition between gay and straight. Let me be clear: Like me, a number of people go through a period of claiming to be bisexual before declaring they are gay, but for others, they see bisexuality as endu... | ['Sexuality', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'LGBTQ'] |
Methodology
Data Sources
NYU Spatial Data Repository: I am using the ‘2014 New York City Neighborhood Names’ dataset hosted by NYU’s Spatial Data Repository as the basis for the neighborhood names and associated location centroids [0]. The image below shows a sample of this information:
DataFrame created from NYU’s ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Being a More Successful Freelancer Required One Key Skill
Because marketing wasn't enough to get business
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I started freelancing about three years ago.
I didn’t know anything about entrepreneurship, and I didn’t know a lot more about business. I was fresh out of school, and I had a f... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Sales', 'Selling', 'Freelancing'] |
How To Prefix Your Commit Message With a Ticket Number Automatically
Practical use-case for the prepare-commit-msg git hook
Photo by Paulette Wooten on Unsplash
You don’t have to enter the ticket number manually for each commit!
Once the branch name contains that reference, you can set up the git hook to do it for ... | ['Git', 'Command Line', 'Programming', 'Git Hooks', 'Startup'] |
While I am an avid reader and anyone can check in my profile how often I clap the stories that I like, I would like to highlight the three articles that have resonated more in my mind:
# How I added 16,000 words to my too-short novel by Kelsey Down
Well, If there are two constants in my way of communication is that I... | ['Medium', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Recommendations', 'Reading'] |
Why is data preparation so important?
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
It is no secret that data preparation in the process of data analytics is ‘an essential but unsexy’ task and more than half of data scientists regard cleaning and organizing data as the least enjoyable part of their work.
Multiple surveys with ... | ['Data Management', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Data Quality'] |
I recently talked a family member into watching “Self Made.” My shoulders slumped when I heard the one thing I didn’t want to hear at the end of the film: “Black people just cannot work together. We fight too much.” I didn’t even understand why this was the takeaway from the film. It was an entire movie with two self-m... | ['Entrepeneurship', 'Race', 'Madam Cj Walker', 'Black Business', 'Marketing'] |
Functional Programming illustrated in Python: Part 3
Assignment as parameter binding
From the Functional Programming illustrated in Python series
Consider the following sequence of computations, using assignment to temporary variables:
v0 = 4
v1 = v0*v0
v2 = 2*v1
v3 = 1+v2
print(v3)
Can it be done in a purely ... | ['Functional Programming', 'Python', 'Computer Science'] |
Once You Are Established, You Constantly Improve
By being established, I mean that clients are starting to come to you. I have not gotten to that point yet. But, I’ve seen some writers who have. I see the amount of “competition” they get from other upcoming writers and I am genuinely scared when I get to that point.
... | ['Freelancing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing', 'Freelance', 'Writing Tips'] |
T.S. Eliot’s last masterpiece, the Four Quartets, conveys a sense that our experience of time is the fragmentation of a timeless unity at the heart of our changing world.
Much of the book was written during the chaos of the Second World War. The poet remained in London during the Blitz, where he served as a volunteer ... | ['Self', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
Photo by Artem Kniaz on Unsplash
It’s that time of year again — the time when memories of loved ones past make their way to the present. A special time we love and embrace those who are “near and dear” to us. It is also the time that most of us move at breakneck speed and invite stress into our already hectic lifestyl... | ['Death', 'Family', 'Life', 'Advice For Life', 'Mental Health'] |
“Fall in love with the problem not the solution, and the rest will follow.” That’s the advice from Uri Levine just before he sold his startup Waze to Google for $1.1 billion.
Is your startup building a solution looking for problem? How do you know that you’re solving the right problem?
An excellent primer on building... | ['Problemeter', 'Startup', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis'] |
The Mantle is a fantasy story set long after an apocalyptic event has rendered the modern world unrecognizable, told episodically.
That just tells you what aisle to find it in; it doesn’t tell you what The Mantle actually is. The title itself is a bit of a clue — it is a story of passing things on, of legacies and her... | ['Science Fiction', 'Themantle', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
Netflix’s “Bandersnatch” let’s your choose your own adventure.
Netflix’s new Black Mirror episode, titled “Bandersnatch” is amazing. The protagonist is led through a choose-your-own-adventure hellscape that the viewer controls. While youtube offered us the ability to create these kinds of choice-led narratives, this t... | ['Black Mirror', 'Simulation Hypothesis', 'Posthumanism', 'Transhumanism', 'Mental Health'] |
The concept of inclusivity and diversity can stop you in your tracks. We’ve all seen the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad. We know how quickly users and consumers can spot inauthenticity, and how quickly they’ll dismiss it. We know what not to do. We know we have to do better. But how?
As a creative, I know this feeling well. ... | ['Inclusion', 'Marketing', 'Branding'] |
but
I’ve sat
in the dark
and chanted a
mantra that rose
from the ground, wound
around my spine until I was
panting, writhing in a kaleidoscopic
dance of colors and I learned what no guru
could ever teach — advice is just one person’s
words knocking at the door and I stopped
accepting visitors after you left.... | ['Poetry On Medium', 'Intuition', 'Mantra', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
Using controlled fear to overcome your own.
Photo by Jose Francisco Morales on Unsplash
Do you have to be fucked up to like horror movies?
That was my original headline for this article. Not very catchy and a little abrasive, right? But it was a question I ask myself every time I meet someone who doesn’t like horror... | ['Mental Health', 'Horror', 'Movies', 'Life', 'Anxiety'] |
Day Twenty-Four: My Journey to Zen
I did it. I learned to roll with the waves.
Photo by Lavi Perchik on Unsplash
I had several plans for yesterday but suddenly there were surprise visitors. For once, I was able to just enjoy it. I was not fretting about a deadline or an undone task or some duty I felt that I just ha... | ['Mindfulness', 'Self-awareness', 'Habit Building', 'Self Improvement', 'To Do List'] |
Extracting deck archetypes using topic model and its application to game design Ryo Adachi Follow Jan 21 · 10 min read
Introduction
Hello everyone! I recently worked on a project in which I applied machine learning (ML) methods to user data from a mobile game app to improve user experience. In the gaming industry, th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'AI', 'Game Design'] |
A few weeks ago while moderating a tech panel someone posed the question of “Is the #yesPHX community really doing enough to be considered the MOST GENEROUS?” As I sat there in my “Generous” #yesPHX State 48 shirt and knowing that I have spent much of my recent career connecting tech and startups with nonprofits and co... | ['Education', 'Startup', 'Phoenix'] |
I Love a Good Story
And this escort actually had one!
photo by author — girl on the right is the storyteller
Everybody loves a good story. And everybody thinks they have one. But in reality, very few do — especially when the storytellers are escorts — and I’m their audience. Their not-so-entertaining anecdotes are a... | ['Sex Work', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Escorts', 'Culture'] |
Every machine learning engineer is always looking to improve their model’s performance. This is where optimization, one of the most important fields in machine learning, comes in. Optimization allows us to select the best parameters, associated with the machine learning algorithm or method we are using, for our problem... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Gradient Descent', 'Programming'] |
I Just Realized I’m an Old Programmer
And I’m not even 40…
Photo by Vlad Sargu on Unsplash.
Let’s be clear: I’m not old. At 38, I feel as young and capable as I ever have in my life — physically, mentally, or otherwise. Despite the fact that my kids call me old a dozen times before lunch each day, I still very much ... | ['Tech', 'Jobs', 'Development', 'Life', 'Programming'] |
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