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Why 2021 will rock: We all get to go back to work. (Yay?)
Why I’ll still be miserable: Don’t get me wrong, I’ll never diminish the magnitude of the yay that comes with going back to the office. Going back to the office deserves the yay-est of yays.
But what gets a boo in my book is the fact I’ll have to sit next to G... | ['Satire', 'Humor', 'Coronavirus', 'Culture', '2020'] |
Everton are close to selling Idrissa Gana Gueye to Paris Saint-Germain for £30m+. We take a look at who Everton could replace him with.
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2020 has been such an eventful year to say the least. We know you’re all excited to finish up the final month of December and get onward with 2021 as we hopefully approach a vaccine. But nonetheless, the New England entrepreneurial ecosystem has remained incredibly resilient. In the spirit of Thanksgiving (we hope you ... | ['Fundraising', 'Venture Capital', 'New England', 'Technology', 'Startup'] |
The World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information which is hard to imagine unstructured because a human brain wouldn’t be able to perceive any single thing. People got used to seeing content and functionality of the digital products as many of them are now: structured and easy to use. However, it doesn’t o... | ['Design', 'Web Design', 'User Experience', 'UX', 'UI'] |
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For those who do not have access to the GPT-3 API it is important to remember we can still experiment with and use GPT-2!
For everyone who is not familiar with what GPT-2 and GPT-3 are here is a short explanation from OpenAI, “We’ve trained a large-scale unsu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Innovation', 'Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
I always wondered while using floatingActionButton that I could be able to make this type of animations with that. Now BottomAppBar has solved this problem. You can animate your FAB with bottomAppBar.
Let me show you how to do it!
1) Adding BottomAppBar:
All you have to do is to make new project and add this depende... | ['Kotlin', 'Android', 'Java', 'Android App Development', 'AndroidDev'] |
Terraform 0.12 has recently been released and is a major update providing a significant number of improvement and features.
While you may want to rush and use the new features, I’ll walk you through some of the lessons we learnt while upgrading the terraform-oci-oke project.
This is by no means an exhaustive list. I’... | ['Terraform', 'Oracle Cloud', 'Infrastructure As Code', 'Kubernetes'] |
This Article Won’t Change Your Life.
But if you’ve ever found yourself lacking motivation, you should read on anyway.
I can’t stand clickbait titles. I have too much respect for you, the readers on this platform to try and grab your attention with the false premise of finding something life-changing within the words ... | ['Inspiration', 'Humour', 'Speech', 'Motivation', 'Advice'] |
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Dear Supporters,
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Where to start your data science?
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Author: Fabian Keller, Emmanuel Muller, and Klemens Bohm
Venue: 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE 2012)
Paper: URL
Abstract:
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Home in Kennebunkport (Didi Cooper)
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The tilt of the Earth’s axis
Bares the freckled landscape
Against the sun
And while
Wild purple skies
Wick away
Thunder
Leaving blue
And while
Grass grows lushly
Wild meadows
Trimmed lawns
Cow-cropped scrub
And while
Swifts swiftly dart
Magpies scheme
Wrens flit
Between thorns
The tilt of my axis
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Writer Bios
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“Big data is not easy.” We’ve all heard this time and time again yet organizations are racing for data driven solutions to help with cyber security, recommendation engines, customer 360, genome sequencing, IoT, and many other big data use cases. Yet when you engage with your IT support or data analyst team, you keep he... | ['Cloudera', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Demos', 'Bi Analytics'] |
How No Man’s Sky Helped Me Deal With Depression
Finding Peace in the Void.
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Directory Structure and Intuition Behind It
$project-name is the root directory of your project
is the root directory of your project $project-name/ml includes machine learning related stuff.
includes machine learning related stuff. $project-name/ml/pipelines includes the actual ML pipeline code
includes the actual... | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Tensorflow Extended', 'Cloud Native', 'Software Engineering'] |
Marvelapp has several advantages that we need in the process of creating user interfaces and also interactive prototype:
Can be used to quickly make high-fidelity user interface & interactive prototypes
Web-based, so it can be used on platforms such as Windows and Mac
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I remember back in high school and college I would make friends with a girl, get to know her, then a small percentage might end up becoming a “girlfriend”. We might do something simple like go to a movie, have a picnic, make out in the back of a car. You know pretty vanilla stuff.
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In a world filled with technology and artificial intelligence, it is becoming increasingly harder to distinguish between what is real and what is fake. Look at these two pictures below. Can you tell which one is a real-life photograph and which one is created by artificial intelligence?
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What Copywriters Can Learn From a Good Old-Fashioned Ghost Story
Basic human psychology is the foundation of every good advertisement and successful scary story
When Edgar Allan Poe was a child, his family once drove past a cabin with graves in the yard. Seeing the gravestones, young Poe called out, “They will run af... | ['Horror', 'Copywriter', 'Halloween', 'Marketing', 'Copywriting'] |
21+ Spring MVC + REST Interview Questions Answers for Beginners and Experienced Developers javinpaul Follow Nov 3 · 13 min read
Hello guys! if you are preparing for Java and Spring interviews or Spring certification and looking for some frequently asked Spring MVC and REST interview questions then you have come to the... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Java', 'Spring', 'Coding'] |
15 Rules For Writing Clean JavaScript
From the book “Maintainable JavaScript”
Photo by Sarah Dorweiler on Unsplash
So you are a React developer or Node.js developer. You can write code that works. But can you write code that is visually beautiful and understandable by others?
Today we will see some rules to make yo... | ['JavaScript', 'Programming', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Web Development'] |
“As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated “building blocks,” but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational p... | ['Science', 'Philosophy', 'Life Lessons', 'Lifestyle', 'Energy'] |
Events about creativity and technology
SXSW Interactive
More than a week of music, film and creativity in one single event • Keynotes, workshops and showcases about cutting-edges technologies and ideas • UXers: keep updated on trends for the year
✈ Location: Austin, TX, USA
99u
Two days of talks from creative visi... | ['Design', 'Product Management', 'Design Thinking', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
Environment to get helping hand as Set4Earth launches new platform
Blockchain startup Set4Earth has launched a new platform which encourages community environmental action and provides funds for social enterprises.
The new eco-friendly marketplace enables users to back eco-friendly ideas, projects and products throug... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Environment', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Token Sale'] |
Animals tutored me my initial lessons in tenderness. When human beings entrusted with guarding and guiding me failed their parts, always it was a creature whose language I didn’t speak nor did it understand mine who had the best comprehension of the cipher I was growing into.
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How I Keep Coming Back to Writing
Now I can truly say, writing makes me happy.
Photo by Ivan Samkov from Pexels
I know you must be thinking what an idiot. If writing really makes you happy, then why would you keep leaving it in the first place? The answer to that is pretty straightforward — how would I know if this ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Thoughts And Feelings', 'Mindset', 'Writing', 'Thoughts'] |
I have noticed a trend in illustration which may be obvious to others more ingrained in the industry, but from an outsider’s perspective, seems quite odd, the result of which is my interest to understand this particular style of illustration I call, “The Stretchy People.”
Who are are the stretchy people? Or, rather, w... | ['Design', 'Illustration', 'Graphic Design', 'Drawing', 'Trends'] |
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Yapjaw is Medium's #1 newsletter for all things humor, and we're sorry to say you'll only receive it a few times a month. Take a look | ['Self Improvement', 'Comics', 'Social Media', 'Psychology', 'Humor'] |
In the past few years I’ve made several changes to be more ecologically responsible—use less, reduce, reuse, recycle. These seemingly small changes, though relatively easy in a place like New York, took a lot of effort. I want to acknowledge others like myself, battling away silently in homes and offices, and hope to l... | ['Environment', 'Reduce', 'Eco Friendly', 'Recycle', 'Consumerism'] |
Detailed
1. Install GIT
Why do you need GIT? GIT allows you to create a local repository of your Flask App which you will use to push to the version hosted on your Heroku app.
I use Github Desktop, which makes it super easy to create a local repository. If you prefer the command line, you can find the installation a... | ['Flask', 'Heroku', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Deployment'] |
Here I am gonna tell you something about yourself that you are not gonna believe. Even though you will forget it the moment you go back to your normal life but still, there’s no downside to it, I am not gonna belittle or demean you anyway so you might as well hear it.
I am not gonna stop unless this seed of an idea ge... | ['Wisdom', 'Self', 'Spirituality', 'Self-awareness', 'Understanding'] |
Architectural Context Part 9: Physical Context
The Digital Turn
There were several influences that collectively contributed to the emergence of the digital paradigm in architecture. One of those influences was the form of response to the fragmentation and fracture of postmodern collage systems and a movement towards ... | ['Architecture', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Design Process', 'Reading'] |
Working Virtually is a Dance Between Humans and Technology
Will this information be obsolete by the time you finish reading it?
For years before this pandemic put all of us online for everything, my students of group facilitation were already trying to hold meetings on digital platforms.
Project managers, non-profit... | ['Productivity', 'Work', 'Digital Life', 'Technology', 'Remote Work'] |
All of this election anxiety has ruined my sense of time these days. I’m so ready for us to move on, heal wounds, and try to resolve the gulf that has split America.
I almost forgot to publish all the stories on Crow’s Feet these past ten days and the stories have piled up. I always include every story in the newslett... | ['Healthy Living', 'Retirement', 'Wellness', 'Aging', 'Self Help'] |
Aerial photo of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion site taken several days after blast: April 22, 2013. (Photo: Shane.torgerson)
“This should not be anyone’s reality and unfortunately, it is for communities sitting at the fence-line of the petrochemical corridor along the Gulf Coast — an ever-growing corridor ... | ['Chemical Safety Rules', 'Port Neches', 'Environment'] |
Facial Recognition Companies See the Coronavirus as a Business Opportunity
Facial recognition companies are pitching the technology as a sanitary alternative to fingerprint scanners
Photo: Cai Zixin/China News Service/Getty Images
The Covid-19 crisis enveloping millions of people around the world is also presenting ... | ['Facial Recognition', 'Identification', 'Technology', 'Coronavirus', 'Biometrics'] |
there’s this white boy sitting next to me on the plane. his angsty hands keep flashing towards the window too quickly. jerky motions that jut out just near my face as he points towards the window i’m sitting next to. the boy sitting next to him is brown with short straight black hair. the two of them hit each other bac... | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'True Story', 'Storytelling', 'Fiction', 'Racism'] |
The Best Media Newsletters for Anyone Working in Journalism, Advertising, Communications, and Tech
As part of our own process of writing a weekly newsletter about the media industry, we at The Idea read a lot of other media newsletters ourselves. Below are some of our favorites.
For links to top news:
American Press... | ['Media', 'Journalism', 'Digital Media', 'Newsletter', 'The Atlantic'] |
Calculus You Forgot (Or Never Learned): Derivatives
Intuitive ideas about the derivative
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels
If you went to college, it is a fair bet that you took some sort of calculus class. If you went for engineering or science, you probably took a LOT of calculus classes. Unfortunately, a lot... | ['Programming', 'Derivatives', 'Mathematics', 'Calculus', 'Engineering'] |
Welcome to our publication!
We don’t have hard and fast rules. We just want you to express your love for your city. Our main focus is on the pictorial visit of your city with lovely brief description. Show us your love, memories, and affiliation with the city you were born, spent childhood, or you stayed in any city f... | ['Submission', 'About', 'Publication', 'Writing', 'Submission Guidelines'] |
Part 2 is available here: Deep Learning With Apache Spark — Part 2.
A primer on Apache Spark
If you work in the Data World, there’s a good chance that you know what Apache Spark is. If you don’t that’s ok! I’ll tell you what it is.
Apache Spark TM.
Spark, defined by its creators is a fast and general engine for lar... | ['Deep Learning', 'Apache Spark', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
Staying at Shinola is Like Sleeping in a Showroom
A new Downtown Detroit hotel comes up short.
The Shinola Hotel exterior. Source: shinolahotel.com.
I fell in love with Shinola when I stumbled across its Sunset Boulevard store on a visit to LA in 2015. Stationery, watches, bikes, wallets… there wasn’t a single thing... | ['Design', 'Luxury', 'Detroit', 'Hotel', 'Travel'] |
Racism
The Cost of White Ignorance
White ignorance is violent, dangerous, and deadly, and it must no longer be an option
Photo from the author
Throughout the years and throughout my journey to deconstruct my own racist beliefs, microaggressions, and white supremacy, I continue to see the same patterns in responses ... | ['Social Justice', 'Self-awareness', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Racism', 'Change'] |
At Hootsuite we are moving towards having the majority of our services on Kubernetes, and this includes our CI/CD pipelines. Our goal was to use Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Vault to create a CI/CD system that was secure, portable, and scalable.
Figuring out how Jenkins and Kubernetes work together
Going into this, we kn... | ['Kubernetes', 'Vault', 'Co Op', 'Jenkins', 'Docker'] |
We’ve all done it. We ask ourselves how an idiot can stupidly win so many pots. At some point in our poker careers, we’ve thought that “it’s my turn to win” or “that donks luck is bound to run out!” Unfortunately, that’s not how poker works. Each hand is an independent event. The hands before it have no effect on how t... | ['Psychology'] |
Irritability Can Be A Symptom Of Anxiety
I’m not just having a bout of PMS
Photo by Thomas Verbruggen on Unsplash
“Wow, are you about to start your period?”
For being a friendly, empathetic human, I cringe when my irritability shows up to the scene. Being asked this single question would send me into a personal cri... | ['Awareness', 'Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Self Help', 'Trauma'] |
Notoriously secretive, Tim Cook’s recent statements further reveal Apple’s path:
“AR will happen in a big way, and when it does, we will wonder how we ever lived without it. Like we wonder how we lived without our phone today.”
Cook’s comments lay out Apple’s intent to build an augmented future, and the tech embedded... | ['Design', 'Tech', 'Augmented Reality', 'Airpods', 'Conversational UI'] |
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