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Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways
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The Fairy Tale Guide to Licensing
Stephanie Hsieh, began her career as an IP attorney helping a wide range of clients to find and negotiate their ‘happily ever afters,’ and now does the same for her company, Meditope. In this article, she shares some tips on how to avoid getting eaten by a wolf or stuck with a frog.
... | ['Negotiation Tips', 'Strategy', 'Licensing', 'Women', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
The difficult art of being a single interaction designer for 150 people
If there is anyone else in this situation, I really want this person to know that he / she is not alone (come here, give me a hug).
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I worked for a company that develops software for the healthcare segment. It’s a great job. Helping... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'Careers', 'Interaction Design'] |
From now on Storiqa will be presented in Blockfolio Signal app!
How to follow Blockfolio signals:
1) Download the app from Google and App store
2) Add STQ token to your portfolio
You can check STQ price on several exchanges:
Coinbene
CoinFalcon
EtherDelta
Exmo
HitBTC
Hotbit
IDEX
Indodax
KuCoin
Sistemkoin
... | ['Storiqa', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Stq', 'Startup', 'Ecommerce'] |
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As pharmaceutical companies start obtaining emergency use authorizations and manufacturing coronavirus vaccine doses as quickly as they can, wealthy nations are hedging their bets by reserving far more of those vaccine doses than they need. In fact, many of the world’s richest coun... | ['Vaccines', 'News', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Culture'] |
What you don’t know about grief is that it’s a living thing. Or maybe you do know this. Maybe you’re shaking your head at my naiveté. Grief has an appetite. It’s insatiable. If I’m not careful, it might replace the person I used to be.
If I wake up one day and there is nothing left of me but the sorrow that sits like ... | ['Death', 'Parenting', 'Spirituality', 'Family', 'Mental Health'] |
Security Token Offerings Could Disrupt Venture-Backed Tech Startups Positively
A handful of methods exist for raising capital, from private offerings to semi-public to a full-blown IPO or ICO. Now STOs are on the rise which might just be what tech startups need to revitalize the market
According to data collected by ... | ['Fintech', 'Crowdfunding', 'Startup', 'Crypto'] |
Deploying Gluster Server and Heketi API
At this point, the hard part is over. All that remains is to configure and deploy the last two components — Gluster Server and Heketi API. Clearly, after all the grind you’ve done in the previous steps, you deserve some kind of uncomplicated, straightforward way to finish things... | ['Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Containers', 'Glusterfs', 'Programming'] |
YANA — Your Support System
Safe environment app for people with depression
In indonesia, Based on data from 2018, 28 million people out of 267 million people having mental health disorder. It means 1 out of 10 Indonesian suffer from mental health problem.
So, what is the main problem?
Stigma, Prejudice & Discrimina... | ['Support System', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Health App', 'Product Management', 'Project Management'] |
I quit Apple. Started a web startup, it failed. My heart wasn’t in it.
I wanted to learn machine learning. It got me excited. I was going to learn it all. I wouldn’t need to program all the rules, the machine would learn it for me. But I had no job.
Excitement doesn’t pay for things.
I started driving Uber on the we... | ['Machine Learning', 'Productivity', 'Data Science', 'Learning', 'Tds Narrated'] |
Google Home and Amazon Echo
Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism!
Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. We became accustomed to the idea of buttons to tap on screens and swipes that moved content right or left. We learned that content could be out of view but within reach. We graduated to a flatt... | ['Skeuomorphism', 'Conversational UI', 'UX', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
1. Dushka Zapata
I feel immensely grateful for the day I found an answer written by Dushka on Quora. I have been reading her posts perpetually since then. From Quora to Instragam now, I never fail to miss her beautiful outlook on life.
Each and every article of hers has been delightful, comforting, and consoling. In ... | ['Books', 'Authors', 'Introversion', 'Introvert'] |
Part Dos: Scrape It All, Let Pandas Sort it Out
Here’s where we are so far: I can’t tell users apart by simply reading one tweet mentioning the hashtag. I am making the assumption that those who tweet the hashtag must be active political users and they therefore must have other political tweets that can provide us new... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Politics', 'Twitter', 'Data Science'] |
Type-I & Type-II Error Simplified— COVID Vaccine Example
Visualizing the confusion matrix without confusion
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I am a firm believer that visual interpretation of concepts has a long-lasting retention period than the conventional approach. I assure you when you finish up reading this ... | ['Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Mathematics', 'Data'] |
Other Questions and Answers About Medium Author Payments and Writer Success
How Do Writers Actually Get Paid Through Medium?
Medium Partner Program Earnings are updated every day. Medium uses UTC days, meaning they include all earnings from activity during midnight UTC to 11:59 PM UTC. Earnings are then updated withi... | ['Medium', 'Medium Partner Program', 'Writer', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
How to Tell if You Need a Coach or a Mentor Phil Hurst Follow Sep 3 · 5 min read
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You need to make sure you get value for money from a coach. They are really expensive, with some costing a small fortune. They can charge this because they know that when they do a good job they can tra... | ['Coaching', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Freelancing', 'Mentoring'] |
Wherever you are in the outbreak locally, the big-picture numbers look bleak at the moment. There is no such thing as a “safe county.” You may reasonably wonder if it is possible to extract a hopeful narrative from a pandemic still in exponential growth, but that is precisely the task before you. The basic elements you... | ['Coronavirus', 'Crisis Management', 'Covid 19', 'Local Government', 'Cities'] |
Yesterday, the world found out that Johnny Depp lost his defamation suit against The Sun. According to the UK courts, The Sun was — and is — at liberty to call Depp a wife beater.
Johnny’s battle isn’t over yet. He’s still got a libel suit to be tried in the US, and many people believe the actor will appeal the UK ver... | ['Women', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Culture', 'Mental Health'] |
Technical indicators are all around us. Many are famous like the Relative Strength Index and the MACD while others are less known such as the Relative Vigor Index and the Keltner Channel. These indicators have been developed to aid in trading and sometimes they can be useful during certain market states. For example, t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Writing', 'Finance', 'Trading'] |
K-Means Clustering and PCA to categorize music by similar audio features
An unsupervised machine learning project to organize my music
A year ago, life was much simpler. It was a bustling Tuesday morning in early October, and I was riding the metro to my Artificial Neural Network class in downtown Copenhagen. I was b... | ['Music', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'Spotify', 'Machine Learning', 'K Means Clustering'] |
Building a REST Client with Spring Cloud OpenFeign and Netflix Ribbon
Learn how to build a declarative and highly readable REST client without writing boilerplate code to invoke services over HTTP
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Making HTTP requests between services in Java is quite straightforward. With a number of ... | ['Spring Boot', 'API', 'Spring Cloud', 'Programming', 'Microservices'] |
5 Free Books To Take Your Data Science Skills to The Next Level
Books to Help Level Up Your Data Science Skills
As things stand, I am nowhere near where I aspire to reach as a Data Scientist. In my journey so far, I have met many helpful people and come across various useful resources.
Whilst I pondered on where I h... | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Living My Best Double Life
I Was 47 the First Time I Swallowed
And he tasted good
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He started thrusting back against my bobbing head; his breath growing ragged. He was close.
“I’m going to cum,” he grunted out, warning me to move.
And I had a problem.
We were in the backseat of m... | ['Sexuality', 'Cheating', 'Relationships', 'Dating Advice', 'Self-awareness'] |
Time series problem
Time series forecasting is an intriguing area of Machine Learning that requires attention and can be highly profitable if allied to other complex topics such as stock price prediction. Time series forecasting is the application of a model to predict future values based on previously observed values... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
If You Are An Editor, Please Be Reasonable When Asking for Changes
A good editor should be able to get the changes they want in one edit.
Credit: Fredrik Strömberg on Wikimedia Commons
I recently submitted an article to a publication. The editor wrote back, effusively expressing how much they loved the piece, praisi... | ['Relationships', 'Success', 'Editing', 'Writing', 'Communication'] |
How to Quickly Authenticate Users With Ruby on Rails
Using basic authentication
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You may have cases when you may need to do some authorizations for certain pages so they can’t be accessed by unauthorized clients. There are many authorization methods you can use in a Ruby on Rails appli... | ['Ruby on Rails', 'Cybersecurity', 'Development', 'Technology', 'Programming'] |
Rheostat Government: Replacing the On/Off Switch with a Dimmer
When the coronavirus pandemic begins to subside, communities should use a nuanced, calibrated approach to allowing businesses to reopen and residents to return to work and school, argues Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith.
Written by Stephen Golds... | ['Local Government', 'Leadership', 'Crisis Management', 'Coronavirus', 'Cities'] |
Experience the best!
Nobody can touch bitcoin, but anybody can have it!
At BuyUcoin, we foresee Bitcoin’s future as a ‘household commodity’, and ever since our inception in 2016, we have made consistent leaps & bounds in our efforts to nurture the domestic crypto & blockchain ecosystem.
We take pride in a culture th... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'News', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Startup'] |
1. Suffering is necessary.
A dark night of the soul challenges every aspect of your being. It destroys your reality to a point where you don’t even know if your healing journey is worth all the pain that’s coming up to the surface.
But guess what? That’s exactly what you need. We need to feel pain to transform oursel... | ['Spirituality', 'Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Life Lessons'] |
Content Warning: This article contains detailed descriptions of suicidal ideation. More, the information here is does not oppose antidepressants. Antidepressants have helped many people, including myself. Also, I am not a doctor nor am I a mental health professional.
I’m in an overwater bungalow in Moorea, French Poly... | ['Depression', 'Antidepressants', 'Mental Health', 'Suicide', 'Akathisia'] |
20 Essential ML Questions Answered
Must Know Questions for Data Science and ML Interviews
Computer scientist and ML expert Santiago Valdarrama (@svpino on Twitter) recently tweeted a list of 20 fundamental questions that you need to ace before getting a Machine Learning job. Claiming:
“Almost every company will ask ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Interview Questions', 'Interview', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Time Series Analysis
Back when I showed the first graph, I pointed out that it has a zigzag pattern, indicating that there are no two consecutive days with a similar number of steps. Honestly, I do believe this is the most exciting part of the dataset. For starters, it says something about me, and regarding how I led ... | ['Data Journalism', 'Wander Data', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
Connecting to people we don’t know and can’t recall on LinkedIn is wasting our time
Time you could be spending sewing face masks, baking sourdough, looting stores or waiting for Q’s next cryptic instruction
Let’s consider whether adding another connection to another stranger is actually going to help you achieve anyt... | ['Networking', 'Professional Development', 'Startup', 'Social Media'] |
content note: voluntary admission to a psych ward, medication, suicidal ideation, ableism, institutionalization, abusive treatments
The gown was too big and I had to hold it in place. Later I changed into thin scrubs, and skid-proof socks. I cried hysterically upon arriving on the ward. They handed me pills and a pape... | ['Mental Health'] |
What to Say on a Date (When You Have Nothing to Say)
A surprisingly simple FBI tactic to keep a conversation going
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The Koothrappali conundrum
“Two words: deaf chick. It doesn’t matter if I can’t talk ‘cause she can’t hear me.” — Raj Koothrappali explaining the type of girl that might ... | ['Relationships', 'Advice', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Love'] |
3. How Happiness Score is distributed
As we can see below, the Happiness Score has values above 2.85 and below 7.76. So there is no single country which has a Happiness Score above 8.
4. The relationship between different features with Happiness Score
We want to predict Happiness Score, so our dependent variable her... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Happiness', 'Data Virtualization', 'Data Science'] |
Most “Influencers” are Broadcasters — Not Influencers
Being interesting doesn’t equal being influential
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Just because someone has a lot of followers on Instagram doesn’t automatically mean they have any influence over their audience. It’s possible to be a fun person to follow, w... | ['Social Media', 'Instagram', 'Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing'] |
You can read her article here. I’ve quoted her word-for-word (italics). My responses are in between. Imagine if you will eavesdropping on this conversation in a deli somewhere.
Humanity isn’t ready for aliens. That was the thought expressed by a former Israeli space security chief, 87-year-old Haim Eshed. A man was qu... | ['UFO', 'Ufos And Aliens', 'Science', 'Space Exploration', 'Aliens'] |
I was using another library for graphics, but when Apple announced that UIWebView was deprecated I had to change that library. So, I started to search on Google for libraries that don’t use UIWebView, and that’s when I found Victory.
Victory is great! It has multiple charts and the best thing about it is that you can ... | ['Data Visualization', 'React', 'Mobile', 'React Native', 'Software Development'] |
Educating people and being transparent in their approach
To sell a product that is environmentally friendly and accounts for a positive natural impact.
As a business owner (or) a marketer, all you need to do is spread awareness as it’s benefits.
Sneakers being manufacture from a sheep’s wool. Allbirds had the advant... | ['Branding Strategy', 'Branding', 'Case Study', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing'] |
4 Things You Can Study in Real Life that School Can’t Teach You
A balanced view of real-life vs. school
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I’m not just going to rail against the education system and make some vague and empty statements about the education system being broken. I’m not going to devalue the idea of educatio... | ['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Life Lessons', 'Education', 'Psychology'] |
Thanks to the recent updates Acrotrend has helped us make to our organisation, we are now more competitively positioned to provide our customers with an enhanced service. DAVE ANKERS, TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY & PLATFORM DELIVERY DIRECTOR, NUFFIELD HEALTH
We have been working as a strategic partner to Nuffield Health — the... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Fitness Industry', 'Customer Experience', 'Customer Analytics'] |
You can design better presentation slides by getting rid of engrained habits that can go back decades.
Sometimes I work with teenagers to teach them about presentation design. To my surprise, they often are much better students than “grown ups” who are supposed to benefit from decades of business experience. Here is a... | ['PowerPoint', 'Design', 'Presentations'] |
Definition of Time series
There are different techniques for modeling a time series. One of them is the Autoregressive Process (AR). There, a time series problem can be expressed as a recursive regression problem where dependent variables are values of the target variable itself at different time instances. Let’s say ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Sarimax', 'Statistics', 'Time Series Forecasting'] |
I even attempted to bring the miso soup dumpling of my dreams to life, and produced a dozen or so bland, mushy goo-balls. I used too much agar, and the alarmingly firm-from-the-fridge miso cubes never fully melted in their steam bath. The “soup” oozed from the dumpling like a jelly donut, but even thicker and more visc... | ['Food', 'Cooking', 'Recipe', 'Vegetarian', 'Vegan'] |
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in becoming a contributor to Imperfect Words! I created this modest little publication originally for my own pieces that didn’t fit anywhere else, but now I’m feeling a little lonely in here all by myself, and would love for you to join me!
The guidelines are quite simple:
The... | ['Write For Us', 'Writing', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Misfits', 'Join The Club'] |
Improper Theft
It’s not robbery, it’s just how life flows through you…
I never said she stole my money. My parents are getting it wrong. I mean, she’s my best friend! Why would she steal it, of all people?
Suddenly, my door opens and Natasha walks in. She has a glum look on her face, as if the corpse of Hitler sudde... | ['Short Story', 'Life', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing', 'Art'] |
Just a few days ago I wrote about comedy clichés, well this is one of my favourite manoeuvres of all time. One so great that even when you obviously see it coming you can’t help but listen and wait for the punch line.
I’ve searched a bit and it seems it’s called The Triple. It consists on stating something that is tru... | ['Comedy', 'Poetry', 'Writing', 'Neil Patrick Harris', 'Beauty And The Beast'] |
In April 2012, I found the glimmer of what that answer might be. I read an article on the new JOBS Act, or Jumpstart Our Business Act. It was signed by Obama and for the first time in 80 years allowed companies to raise capital online from anyone through the sale of securities (stock, debt, etc). Suddenly, the door cre... | ['Business Development', 'Crowdfunding', 'Funding', 'Bitcoin', 'Startup'] |
This post was originally published at TK's Blog.
First of all, what is Python? According to its creator, Guido van Rossum, Python is a:
“high-level programming language, and its core design philosophy is all about code readability and a syntax which allows programmers to express concepts in a few lines of code.”
For... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Coding', 'Web Development', 'Software Development'] |
Ever wondered how to intercept ADF table column show/hide event from ADF Panel Collection component? Yes, you could use ADF MDS functionality to store user preference for table visible columns. But what if you would want to implement it yourself without using MDS? Actually, this is possible through custom persistence m... | ['Oracle Adf', 'Java'] |
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
When randomness works in our favour
Development towards incrementally faster and easier-to-train neural networks has been an active area of study during the last decade. While many methods and techniques have evolved from this — Batch norm, Adam and residual connections, just to name a f... | ['Machine Learning', 'Summary', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Functions do not necessarily have to return a value. Instead, we could nest the print statement to handle error logging for us like this:
Now we have taken print("Aww...") and encapsulated it into a function that we can call any time we need to. This is called decomposition. If composition is building how a section of... | ['Function', 'Python Programming', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Scope'] |
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by William Seavey
One thing I know about the state of human existence — it is that there is a dichotomy, and a constant tension between, beliefs and knowledge that has often led our species to the precipices of survival.
Only humans have beliefs because as the highest developed spec... | ['Belief', 'Intelligence', 'Books', 'Religion', 'Knowledge'] |
Will we ever replace paper?
Why physical experiences are fighting back against the future of screens
I have some sort of a feeling that paper could never be replaced. I mean, despite our best efforts paper has already been replaced across industries over the last decade in an effort to make everything electronic — fr... | ['Innovation', 'Technology', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'UX'] |
Forget fake news, a poisonous term. Real news is an even bigger problem.
This realization is what inspired me to found the Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent in 2013, promising to be “an antidote to the daily news grind” for its readers. So many people responded that we even set a world record in crowdfunding ... | ['Journalism'] |
Crown development meeting minutes 17/08/2020
Just the facts, ma’am
Present: ahmedbodi, ashot, crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly
Ashot
Ashot investigated the possibility of including the Dash deterministic MN code in the Bitcoin codebase update. He judged it too much work and too high risk. In view of this he th... | ['Bounty Program', 'Electrum', 'Development', 'Codebase Update'] |
Before understanding the virtual ice-breakers, let’s see some benefits of working remotely, like:
Setting your own working schedule.
The comfort of being at home.
Avoid commute time.
Less stress.
Spend time with your kids and family.
More satisfying.
But it has challenges as well: We can feel lonely and isolated... | ['Work Life Balance', 'Work', 'Remote Work', 'Remote Working', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
A member of Mutrack and Inthentic. I lead, learn, and build with vision, love and care. https://piyorot.com
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I’ve already shared why Motion Design Doesn’t Have to be Hard, but I wanted to make it even easier for designers to use the Material motion principles I know and love. After Effects is the primary tool our team uses to create motion examples for the Material guidelines. Having used it to animate my fair share of UIs, I... | ['Animation', 'Technology', 'Visual Design', 'Material Design', 'Design'] |
Pampering my fragile ego,
I lost many years, writing,
to please the readers.
I depended on their affirmations,
Craving for their attention and acceptance.
But everything went in vain.
When I realized my mistake.
It’s not how things work.
Choices and preferences change daily.
Trying to fit in is more than a sin... | ['Poetry', 'Happiness', 'Blue Insights', 'Writing', 'Life'] |
The three skills you need for fact-based marketing
And how good coffee can make all the difference for your organisation
Companies often talk about creating a data-driven culture. Some organizations want to implement evidence-based management, others are engaged in business experiments. For marketers I would say it’s... | ['Organizational Culture', 'Big Data', 'Data Science'] |
There are so many good packages that can be used for building predictive models. Some of the most common packages for predictive analytics include
Sci-kit learn package
Caret package
Tensorflow
It’s important that before using these packages, you master the fundamentals of predictive modeling, that way you are not ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Optimization', 'Python', 'Gradient Descent', 'Linear Regression'] |
The actual company values, as opposed to the nice-sounding values, are shown by who gets rewarded, promoted, or let go. — Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility
Every time I walk into a new company I’m advising, I invariably encounter a set of noble values prominently displayed on the walls. The first thing I’ve tr... | ['Tech', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Technology', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Over the past eight months, I have been routinely amazed by my kid. The coronavirus pandemic changed her life. Preschool shut down. We quit going shopping, quit dining out. Her Frozen II birthday party was canceled. We didn’t get to go to the pool this summer or hang out with friends.
There’s a whole lot we quit doing... | ['Parenting', 'Life Lessons', 'Family', 'Life', 'Mental Health'] |
After losing five years to depression, I’m now a human in transit between a past that holds me back and a future calling out to me.
As I strive to imagine a life that I haven’t been part of for a long time and haven’t reintegrated yet, my present is pure longing. I’m chomping at the bit, itching to transcend my illnes... | ['Mental Health', 'Disability', 'Self', 'Work', 'Freelancing'] |
Does your Mac slow to a crawl thanks to apps that spring to life upon startup? Here’s how to disable and manage startup items so you can stop them in their tracks.
By Jason Cohen
Does your Mac take a long time to boot up? And when it does start, are you bombarded with a series of programs you didn’t open? Startup app... | ['Tips And Tricks', 'Mac', 'Technology', 'Apps', 'Apple'] |
Why It’s OK to Divorce Your Family
How to decide if it’s time to break ties with your family members.
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
We all have our own ideas of the “perfect family”. Maybe it’s the Cleavers or the Bradys or the Father Knows Best family (am I aging myself here?).
The reality of it i... | ['Self Care', 'Relationships', 'Family', 'Life', 'Mental Health'] |
Helpful Tools I Used to Optimize My Medium Stories as a Beginner
Tools to help you with headlines, grammar, and publication research
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When I first started writing on Medium three months ago, I needed a lot of help. Like many of you probably, my first full month was trying ... | ['Blogging', 'Writing', 'Medium', 'Advice', 'Writing Tips'] |
Controlling Data Transfer Process
Photo by Keszthelyi Timi on Unsplash
A popular method of improving performance is by managing the way we import and export data. Here are a few ways:
Batching
Batching means that related SQL statements can be grouped into a batch when you export data.
The JDBC interface exposes an... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Database', 'Sqoop'] |
Sainsbury's is trending on Twitter. This is unusual enough for me to investigate, and so I watch a heartwarming Christmas ad that makes me miss my family, want to eat a roast dinner, and imagine my boyfriend doing an embarrassing song and dance about his cooking skills for our future children.
Aw, Twitter is just exci... | ['Race', 'Equality', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Politics'] |
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When Can We Stop Wearing Masks?
Vaccines are promising, but don’t toss that face covering just yet
From a scientific perspective, there’s no longer any question that face masks help prevent the spread of Covid-19, protecting both the wearer and others. So with optimism rising over vaccines... | ['Vaccines', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Masks'] |
WeGroup has raised €1.5M in total. We talk with Arvid de Coster, its CEO.
PetaCrunch: How would you describe WeGroup in a single tweet?
Arvid de Coster: WeGroup helps insurance providers to better connect with their growing group of digital customers
PC: How did it all started and why?
AC: Insurance is a very conse... | ['Insurance', 'Insurtech', 'Startup', 'Customer Service'] |
On my previous blog/story I’ve enlightened your eagerness of learning web. There are also some interesting things and facts in this. Today let’s talk about those.
What is Web Development?
In simple words it’s basically a work that helps us to develop a website on the internet. You can either make a single static page... | ['Science', 'Web Development', 'Web Design', 'Technology', 'Computer Science'] |
Not so long ago, our systems were simple: we had one machine, with one process, probably no more than one external datastore, and the entire request lifecycle was processed and handled within this simple world.
Our users were also accustomed to a certain SLA standard — a 2-second page load time could have been accepta... | ['Scale', 'Backend', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Cloud'] |
Change is terrifying. It’s the fear of encountering the unknown that is ultimately hindering our progress and locks us into the same old place. This fear is the reason why I revert to “Last Christmas” instead of listening to new Christmas hits of today’s talents — although the shuffle function helped me overcome this p... | ['Responsibility', 'Self', 'Philosophy', 'Change', 'Mental Health'] |
I am a Social Media Manager, Digital Marketing Consultant, Creator of You Are Not Alone and Former Founder of Moment Clothing from London. I’ve still currently/done PR, Social Media Management and Digital Marketing Consulting work for a range of clients, including Guzzi’s World (Vlogger), Goodwood Pictures (Filmmaker),... | ['Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Jobs', 'Digital Marketing', 'Freelancing'] |
Getting the data
The DFHG’s API relies on queries of authors: this makes sense because of the fragmentary nature of the corpus — we don’t have specific “works” to search through, like The Republic, so author is the most atomic we can get. We thus need to extract a list of all the authors included in the corpus. We can... | ['Classics', 'Python', 'Digital Humanities', 'Ancient History', 'NLP'] |
Another Data set
The third type of output from a model is an altered data set. Sometimes data sets require processing before use in regression or classification. This is especially true of “wide” datasets with many columns. This type of machine learning will reduce the number of columns until the data set is more mana... | ['AI', 'Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Machine Learning', 'Mathematics'] |
Lost in thought, I wandered through the meadow
Overwhelmed by guilt and wracked by remorse-
Time and distance blended into nothing
She pulled the trigger, but it was my gun
The sun burst free from its gray entombment
Its rays reflected off some strange object
The piercing light yanked me from my stupor
My feet s... | ['Poetry', 'Ghosts', 'Grief', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
Different Ways to Merge Dictionaries Before Python 3.9
1.dict.update()
d1.update(d2) Update the dictionary d1 with the key/value pairs from d2 , overwriting existing keys. Return None .
d1={'a':1,'b':2}
d2={'c':3,'b':9999}
d1.update(d2)
print (d1)
#Output:{'a': 1, 'b': 9999, 'c': 3}
Limitations
d1.update(d2) w... | ['Python', 'Python3', 'DevOps', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
Dec. 18, 2018: Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail. Originally published on 3toread.co
The WaPo’s ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’: A new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again: Love this. You have to give the WaPo credit fo... | ['Media Criticism', 'Journalism', 'Matt Carroll', 'Journalism Criticism', 'Media'] |
In the 21st century, mindfulness meditation, a practice that was for millennia reserved for members of a particular tradition and lone spiritual wanderers, has been standardized, digitized, and distributed to the masses.
That’s just super, isn’t it?
Yep.
Even more than that.
It could be one of the greatest things t... | ['Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement'] |
Tony Robbins’ 5 Most Inspirational Pieces of Advice
Skill Development Expert Profile — Tony Robbins
Randy Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Tony Robbins is a coach, author and motivational speaker that has inspired millions of people to take action and fulf... | ['Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Expert Profile', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
Direct The Sail
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” — Confucius
If you’ve ever been on a sailboat, you’ll understand the importance of the wind. Without wind the boat will not move, it will drift about wi... | ['Personal Growth', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration', 'Motivation'] |
Absolute and relative
To understand the world, we need to be able and willing to adopt both an absolute and a relative perspective
Did you see that video, a few weeks ago? It was widely shared on social media, and has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times (with other copies many more times) since it was posted. This w... | ['Psychology', 'Behavioral Economics'] |
Part 3. Coding Interview Question Guide
Practicing for coding questions takes a lot of time, effort, and focus. Let’s break down the top Google coding questions, as well as actionable advice to prepare.
Top 15 Google coding interview questions
Find the Kth largest element in a number stream.
Problem statement: Desi... | ['Interview', 'Interview Tips', 'Programming', 'Coding Interview', 'Startup'] |
Discover how application and threat intelligence work together to help security operations (SecOps) and development teams improve resiliency and minimize risk. Discover the types of information these teams gather, how it’s applied to different tools, and how it fortifies your security posture.
Attackers are tenacious,... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Security', 'Technology', 'Cybercrime', 'Cybersecurity'] |
“How are you feeling? Are you sleeping? Do you still have your sense of taste and smell?” Our children try sounding casual. They know their dad and I are social distancing. Nevertheless, I feel their worry.
I am 62 years old, healthy, and fit. I walk, bike, and swim. My doctor says I have the heart of a 20-year old. S... | ['Aging Parents', 'Coronavirus', 'Parenthood', 'Children', 'Motherhood'] |
I’m Being Productive By Telling Others They Don’t Have to Be Productive.
See? I’m helping.
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash
Everyone is trying to rush to finish their work for the holidays — so they can “enjoy” the rest of 2020, and by that I mean…flush it down the toilet.
But this is more late-stage capitalism ga... | ['Humor', 'Time Management', 'Satire', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
After two long two weeks of patiently waiting and biding my time, I was finally sent an e-mail confirming my eligibility for unemployment. As a rideshare driver, my earnings had been affected by the COVID-19 crisis for over a fortnight, but being a gig-worker I was not eligible to apply for benefits until the official ... | ['Economics', 'Uber', 'Unemployment', 'Coronavirus'] |
My favorite courses to learn Software Architecture in 2021 — Best of Lot
These are the best courses to learn Software architecture and become a solution architect in 2021
Every Programmer wants to grow in their career, but it’s not easy, and if you don’t pay attention to your job, you will likely stay in the same pos... | ['Java', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
5. Python is instrumental in Data Science and AI
Python comes with a lot of built-in libraries that provide a lot of the functionality a data scientist might need. In addition to that, there are also a great number of robust and popular libraries you can download for Python and use in your projects.
Now, give it a go... | ['Python', 'IoT', 'Language', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Why Richard Branson Is So Successful
By Richard Feloni
Richard Branson founded his first business, Student magazine, after dropping out of high school at age 15.
He soon cofounded the Virgin record store, which then grew into a record label. After 10 years of great success, Branson left his business partners dumbfou... | ['Wisdom', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Adventure', 'Work Smarter', 'Success'] |
“Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” — Paul Klee
Is the sky really blue? Is white color made up of all colors? It sure seems like it, but it only does so, because our brain makes up such properties.
You have probably learned in school, that light is an electromagnetic wave, and the wavelength o... | ['Philosophy', 'Colors', 'Philosophy Of Mind', 'Philosophy Of Science', 'Science'] |
What is dark energy? Why is it so important to the development of the Universe?
Find out in Dark Energy, the newest installment of Cosmic Funnies where Planet X tells the story! | ['Science', 'Space', 'Education', 'Astronomy', 'Comics'] |
Inside AI
X-AI, Black Boxes and Crystal Balls
On our road to trusted AI, I discussed in my previous blog the question of bias, how it travels from humans to machines, how it is amplified by AI applications, the impacts in the real world, for individuals and for businesses, and the importance to proactively tackle thi... | ['Inside Ai', 'Explainability', 'Transparency', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
How to Use the Concept of Parsimony to Make Your Life Better
Will living a simpler life make us happy?
Photo by Harry Grout on Unsplash
At its core, life’s pretty simple. We wake up, work, eat, sleep, and repeat. So why does it feel so darn complicated?
It’s probably because, as human beings, we naturally make thin... | ['Self', 'Philosophy', 'Life', 'Advice', 'Psychology'] |
22 Questions on data ethics (V1.1)
Big picture
0. If anything was possible, and there were no constraints, how would we act?
Design stage
What is our intention?
2. What are the components we need to bring our project into reality?
3. How will we learn about the potential consequences of our work?
4. How will we ... | ['Data Science', 'AI', 'Ethics'] |
Crown Platform to launch custom Proof of Stake solution in Q4 2018
Paddington Software Services, lead by Presstab, hired to perform the task
Crown Community supported the move with overwhelming 436 Yeas / 19 Nays and over 175.000 CRW in donations
The new solution will be fully developed by December 2018
It is offic... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Development', 'Proof Of Stake', 'Blockchain'] |
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