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has:link - searches messages that have a ... | ['Slack', 'Communication', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Productivity', 'Keyboard Shortcuts'] |
Nothing spoiled, except me.
It isn’t cute anymore. Two weeks ago I followed my instincts and Netflix algorithms and watched Russian Doll, the streaming service’s latest darling and quite honestly the best show I’ve seen in a year. For context, it distracted me from both the fact that we don’t have so much as a release... | ['Humor', 'Television', 'Life', 'TV Series', 'Writing'] |
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” (Frank Lloyd Wright) Non-fiction pieces, personal essays, occasional poems and short fiction that explore how we feel about how we age and offer tips for getting the most out of life.
Follow | ['Longevity', 'Aging', 'Health And Wellness', 'Wellness', 'Retirement'] |
I don’t need to heal because I was never broken.
I didn’t believe this a year ago, a month ago, a week ago, yesterday. I didn’t believe this a minute ago or the second that just passed.
It’s easy to forget a truth that wasn’t such for many years.
I spent the last ten years searching for answers for my anxiety, my la... | ['Personal Development', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Your Entire Life Is on Gmail. It’s Time to Clean That Up.
Don’t suffer like I’ve suffered
Photo: Jay Wennington/Unsplash
Wednesday, 2 p.m. Eastern Time: I am on hour 9,000 of deleting emails from my overloaded Gmail account. My eyeballs are leaking out of my head and pooling in a sticky puddle on my laptop’s mouse p... | ['Technology', 'Gmail', 'Productivity', 'Digital Life', 'Email'] |
Sub title: Especially if you’re coming out of a boot camp
I took a very traditional route into Software Engineering. I got interested in computers and programming in high school, then got my B.S. C.S. in 2012 and my M.S. C.S. in 2018. I’ve been in the work force for over 8 years now.
With the rise of different progra... | ['Bootcamp', 'Software Engineering', 'Advice and Opinion', 'Developer', 'Programming'] |
In this post, you will discover the logistic regression algorithm for machine learning.
Contents…
• Overview • Real-World Examples • The Logistic Equation • Assumptions • Logistic Regression (Python Implementation)
data
input-variable
Predict Variable (desired target)
Data Exploration
Observations
Visualization... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Logistic Regression'] |
There’s no reason to feel jealous when you’re fulfilled in your life and secure in yourself.
I really, really like being me.
And I know a lot of women who feel the exact same way.
We do not want to be someone else, including Rachel Hollis. We don’t want to have her life, or be the mother of her four kids.
We don’t ... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Feminism', 'Women', 'Writing'] |
It’s always an enormous treat to go to Los Angeles and draw the Academy Awards red carpet and show. This year was no different; my fifth time in attendance drawing. I never take my luck for granted.
I arrived two days in advance of the Sunday broadcast so that I could draw behind the scenes and walk around the neighbo... | ['Movies', 'Academy Awards', 'Storytelling', 'Oscars', 'Film'] |
Building + deploying a Neural Style Transfer app with pre-trained models
With Flask, Python3, OpenCV, Heroku (and a bunch of other stuff)
Styled image and the uploaded image
Hello internet friends!
I feel like one of the issues I’ve faced with regards to learning software development is that many tutorials are ofte... | ['Python', 'Web Development', 'Neural Style Transfer', 'Heroku', 'Flask'] |
Measuring Performance
After we have trained our first model, there is something very important to discuss. We have a training set, as well as a validation set, and a test set. What is that all about? Don’t skip that part. It has to do with measuring how well we’re doing without accidentally shooting ourself in the foo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
I did write today, and a lot, yet if I’m not publishing I feel like I’m braking my chain anyways, because I guess I defined it around publishing instead of of only writing.
In a sense I guess it good as it keeps me on my toes and looking for moments for me to squeeze my writing no matter what, to avoid excuses but als... | ['Commitment', 'Goals', 'Journal', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing'] |
Liz’s Bio and Featured Stories
If you like true stories with a twist and a life lesson takeaway, read on!
Photo Courtesy of the Author
Dear Reader,
Welcome to my little corner of the world!
I don’t often lay on the lawn in a white dress laughing, but this day I did because of a stiff rum and coke before the photos... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Self Improvement', 'Bio', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
I’ve read a single Michael Ondaatje book.
And that’s a tribute to the dominance the Booker prize has had on my life as a reader, for without it I never might have bought The English Patient as an undergraduate. At the time I bought books recommended by a list of prize winners in a book intended for quiz lovers.
I rec... | ['Ayobami Adebayo', 'Books', 'Literary Criticism', 'The English Patient', 'Michael Ondaatje'] |
THE SALSA DIARIES #3
My Flatulent Empire Is Crumbling
The broken wind of a Monday morning
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
I first noticed the cracks on a Monday morning. My gimp was unable to get hard and I needed plugging. In a rage, I struck it several times. It grunted but the appendix refused to rise. What more ... | ['Humor', 'Diary', 'Satire', 'Salsa', 'Writing'] |
Facebook PyText is an Open Source Framework for Rapid NLP Experimentation
The new PyTorch-based framework enables the rapid creation and testing of NLP models.
I recently started a new newsletter focus on AI education. TheSequence is a no-BS( meaning no hype, no news etc) AI-focused newsletter that takes 5 minutes to... | ['Deep Learning', 'Thesequence', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
In the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the heart of the Congolese rainforest, sits the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. The reserve is more than one-and-a-half times the size of Yellowstone National Park and it harbors the single largest remaining population of okapis anywhere.
An okapi is a shy, solit... | ['Environment', 'Wildlife', 'Africa', 'Wildlife Conservation', 'Conservation'] |
React is a really great platform for writing applications. With the introduction of React Hooks and JavaScript improvements, writing more sophisticated React applications can be easier. I recently found a nice pattern for sharing state between React components and thought I’d share :)
Let’s start with a simple applica... | ['JavaScript', 'Reactjs', 'React', 'Web Development', 'Coding'] |
The World of Hadoop
Interconnecting Different Pieces of the Hadoop Ecosystem
When learning Hadoop, one of the biggest challenges I had was to put different components of the Hadoop ecosystem together and create a bigger picture. It’s a huge system which comprises of different components which can be contrasting as we... | ['Apache', 'Hadoop', 'Big Data', 'Mapreduce', 'Hdfs'] |
Awwwards Conference - An Event for UX / UI Designers and Web Developers.
Two exciting days with some of the most influential speakers of the industry, who inspire, teach, and guide us as we… | ['UI', 'Design', 'Design Thinking', 'Product Design', 'UX'] |
August is well underway, and much of the world is still quarantined. Our usual summer break has given us little time to rest or recharge — vacations were cancelled, beach days were put off, and stress about jobs and health is at an all-time high. But books have the ability to take us away, if only for a moment, and to ... | ['LGBTQ', 'Books', 'Ace', 'Review', 'Asexuality'] |
If God knows everything that I am going to do, then why is it my fault?
This is the most popular question among the intellectually religious. More so among those who want to run away from the burden of their choices. We prefer wasting time over building rhetoric rather than spending time on disposing of a narrative. W... | ['Self', 'Big Data', 'God', 'Faith', 'Religion'] |
Through this article, I have attempted to predict rental prices using the apartment rental dataset containing rental prices in Germany. The dataset consists of data scraped from one of Germany’s biggest real-estate platform. The main objective here is to study and understand the data and use the knowledge to construct ... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Germany', 'Machine Learning', 'Housing Prices', 'Data Science'] |
The factor() command is used to create and modify factors in R.
Factors have a privileged representation with respect to vectors. To create a factor in the R language, it is used as in the following example:
factor (c("..."))
So, how does factors work?
⏩ Factors are a special type of vector to represent categorical... | ['Development', 'Programming', 'Statistics', 'Data Science', 'R'] |
Photo By: Stephanie Love
Remember that time you were in love? It was so real until that love changed. Until love said, “This is no longer enough.”
You were so in love, but somewhere along the way, things started to move too fast. Or maybe things didn’t move at all. Things became a little too complicated, and you outg... | ['Relationships', 'Life', 'Love', 'Development', 'Life Lessons'] |
The Uncertain Fate of Pandemic Relief Funds
The fight between fiscal and monetary policies continues, with the economy caught in the crossfire.
The Battle Over Pandemic Relief
Last month, Secretary of Treasury Mnuchin requested to return $455 billion of coronavirus emergency lending funds back to Congress. These key... | ['Politics', 'Federal Reserve', 'Coronavirus', 'Economics', 'Government'] |
With continuous increase in available data, there is a pressing need to organize it and modern classification problems often involve the prediction of multiple labels simultaneously associated with a single instance.
Known as Multi-Label Classification, it is one such task which is omnipresent in many real world probl... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Nltk', 'Scikit Learn', 'NLP'] |
BIM is just beginning, and it’s here to stay. You can be a part of its development as a UX designer.
You see, BIM is all about data, enormous amounts of it. All this data is populated as the building is designed in 3D and is available to stakeholders in the project: owner, architect, contractor, and user. However, dat... | ['Architecture', 'Bim', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'UX'] |
When you first open the app, TikTok is madness. What greets you is an unfiltered stream of videos that the system decides people like you, the user, are interested in — based on your location and other videos with which you’ve interacted.
There is no warning. You’re pulled into a bizarre stream — rakhi videos with a D... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Tiktok', 'Social Media', 'Data Science'] |
The deep learning tool performed better than trained clinicians. Photo by Luma Pimentel on Unsplash
“There is so much at stake for our patients with each IVF cycle. Embryologists make dozens of critical decisions that impact the success of a patient cycle. With assistance from our AI system, embryologists will be able... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Healthcare', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
Depiction of Entropy Increasing — Image by Pixabay
Does emergence violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Many people describe emergent behaviors as spontaneous activities toward a state of order. The second law of thermodynamics claims that systems will always move toward a state of disorder. But when we observe s... | ['Philosophy', 'Biology', 'Technology', 'Science', 'Nature'] |
I’ve always been intrigued with seasonal businesses. Summer beach restaurants, pumpkin patches, Christmas stores…they have a 3-month window to sell 90% of their inventory.
If they hit big, they hit big. If they have a slump, they have to wait until the next season.
In many ways, sports sponsorship is the same way. Ea... | ['Sponsorship', 'Sports Business', 'Sportsbiz', 'Marketing', 'Sponsorship Activation'] |
On November 17, we held our first Livestream with Crypterium’s IT Team to let our followers learn some tech details about the project from the first hands. If you missed the Livestream, feel free to replay it. If you prefer reading the news, here’s the short summary we’ve prepared for you.
How is the Crypterium App ar... | ['Tech', 'Technology', 'Mobile App Development', 'Fintech', 'Blockchain'] |
Controlling Your Story
How do you control your own story? Here are three steps to become the main character of your life story again:
Know what you are passionate about. Start saying “Yes” to things that scare you. Be willing to take risks.
Does that sound too simple? It might seem easy on paper, but it’s harder tha... | ['Humanity', 'Life', 'Development', 'Advice', 'Self Improvement'] |
Lida Li, June Liu, Rodrigo Menezes, Suli Xu, Harry Zhang, Roberto Rodriguez Alcala | Pinterest Software Engineers, Cloud Management Platform
Why Kubernetes?
Over the years, 300 million Pinners have saved more than 200 billion Pins on Pinterest across more than 4 billion boards. To serve this vast user base and conten... | ['Docker', 'Kubernetes'] |
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(Following article is taken from mrb’s blog and republished with the permission of author Marc Bevand. Original posted here at 06 Feb 2018)
Marc reviewed the following two research reports published by analysts... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Investment', 'Morgan Stanley', 'Analysis'] |
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Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription. | ['Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Gradient Descent', 'Español'] |
Formal Logic Proofs are at the Core of Functional Programming
There is currently a significant paradigm shift happening in the field of software engineering. Many developers are starting to notice that functional programming (FP) is taking over in the software world. Polymorphism and object-oriented programing (OOP) w... | ['Web Development', 'Philosophy', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Software Engineering'] |
Housing prices are an important reflection of the economy, and housing price ranges are of great interest for both buyers and sellers. In this project, house prices will be predicted given explanatory variables that cover many aspects of residential houses. The goal of this project is to create a regression model that ... | ['Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Neural Networks'] |
On a recent sleepy Monday morning I started my day as I did every morning about a decade ago: by watching the launch trailer for Mass Effect 2. Arguably one of the best role playing games ever made, the trailer is narrated by Martin Sheen and set to Heart of Courage, a go-to track in Hollywood for evoking emotional bui... | ['Marketing', 'Politics', 'Communication', 'Media'] |
by Ajoy Majumdar, Zhen Li
Most large companies have numerous data sources with different data formats and large data volumes. These data stores are accessed and analyzed by many people throughout the enterprise. At Netflix, our data warehouse consists of a large number of data sets stored in Amazon S3 (via Hive), Drui... | ['Big Data', 'Hive Metastore', 'Metadata'] |
2. Feature Engineering
The key point of combining VSA with modern data science is through reading and interpreting the bars' own actions, one (hopefully algorithm) can construct a story of the market behaviours. The story might not be easily understood by a human, but works in a sophisticated way.
Volume in conjuncti... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Feature Engineering', 'Trading', 'Feature Selection'] |
We Are
We Are Not. We Will Never Be…
Courtesy of William Okpo
I watched as you burned sage,
cleansing your home of another
breakup,
burying a relationship you thought
would not live up to its
potential,
You were right.
In the brisk air of the hallway,
the smoke led itself down an
uneven path, waiting for
t... | ['Beauty', 'I Missed Yall', 'Writing'] |
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Did you think natural gas was clean? Don’t worry, you aren’t the only one. The American Petroleum Institute, including members BP, Shell, and ExxonMobil, want you to think that natural gas is clean. In fact, they say exactly that on their website. The API claims that natural gas pro... | ['Politics', 'Business', 'Global Warming', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
Trump’s Desperation Is Starting to Look Like a Viral Karen Meltdown
Videos of unhinged rants are now the news
Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan.. Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/Getty Images
Every universally shared colle... | ['Karen', 'Politics', 'Trump', 'Coronavirus', 'Rudy Giuliani'] |
Run the Dishwasher Twice
A lesson on throwing out the rule book and saving yourself
Photo: Leren Lu/Getty Images
When I was at one of my lowest points in life, I couldn’t get out of bed on some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.
Even therapy seemed like too much effort. I had been going ... | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Home', 'Life Lessons', 'Therapy'] |
Whenever someone asks me if they should become a writer I always ask them if they have considered becoming a prostitute instead.
Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash
I mean, your customers seek you out, your own skill set does not actually matter much beyond making a few monotonous sounds, the working hours/remuneration... | ['Humor', 'Writing Life', 'Essay', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Contradictory Dreams
Becoming nomadic helped me embrace inner conflict
Sometimes I think everything is beautiful. Then I come to a place like this, trees glowing orange over cobalt hills, a beauty so blinding I veil my eyes with clichés — and my worldview shatters.
I had a dream, once, of moving to a cottage in the ... | ['Travel', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology'] |
Digit classifier is apparently the new Hello World!
Yes, this is the most basic Convolutional Neural Network example. Therefore understanding this one is of prime importance. So, whenever we start something new, running our first hello world program might seem easy but has a lot of friction attached to it. Running it ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
A Designer’s Guide to File Organization
5 tips to help you design more efficiently
Illustration by Holly Gibbs
Objective: Learn how to set up your design art-boards, files, and folders so that you can spend more time designing, instead of searching and rearranging.
Being organized is often a secondary thought for d... | ['Design', 'Designer', 'Organization', 'Sketch', 'Files'] |
Today I tried to book a class in my fitness club where I pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to anything they have on the offer. To my surprise, I got the following message:
“You are not allowed to book another class until 10.06 because you have already canceled two classes this month. You may come and book the cla... | ['UX Design', 'Design', 'Enterpreneurship', 'Design Process', 'Customer Experience'] |
8 Great Ideas for Programming Projects That People Will Use
Make a big difference with a little software
Photo by Simon Abrams on Unsplash
Two trends are becoming increasingly apparent in the software development world.
It is becoming easier by the day to build a software product.
The number of people in search of... | ['Programming', 'Startup', 'Software Development', 'Inspiration', 'JavaScript'] |
How I Hacked My Way Into The Top 100 on Cindicator in Two Weeks Cryptoweek Follow Jun 27, 2018 · 9 min read
BY CRYSTAL STRANGER, CO-FOUNDER, PEACOUNTS ON 6/27/2018 AT 5:30AM
Cindicator Logo / Cindicator
I never thought I was good at judging short-term moves in the market. I typically can see clear as day what will h... | ['Marketing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Opinion', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain'] |
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You probably had to read The Great Gatsby in high school. And you might have also seen the relatively recent cinematic remake featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. To refresh your memory with a summary in a nutshell, it’s the story of a rich tycoon — Jay Gatsby — who is hopelessly in love with an old f... | ['Life', 'Society', 'Literature', 'Life Lessons', 'Art'] |
Lecturer of CSIS at the University of Tokyo / Social Geography / Participatory GIS / Neogeography / Volunteered Geographic Information / Qualitative GIS
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The Role of Metaphor in Design: Part 2
Tidepod or Bonbon?
As I have written about previously, metaphor is a powerful tool that designers use to help individuals understand how to interact with products. Unfortunately the use of metaphor for everyday household objects can also have dire consequences for health.
The T... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'Healthcare', 'UX'] |
This article was originally published on Sustaining Capabilities.
Poverty and development are intimately related, and COVID-19 provides an example of that connection as it continues to spread throughout the world. Combating poverty typically involves short-term, programmatic interventions, while promoting development ... | ['Foreign Aid', 'Coronavirus', 'Global Development', 'Covid 19', 'Poverty'] |
He smelled smoke. It must be the lingering cobwebs of dream. He shook his head, sat up, struggled to recall where he was. The room was dark.
He fumbled for his watch. The luminous dial showed four minutes after three.
He remembered, then. The tiny apartment was all he could afford in the new city since his last episo... | ['Fantasy', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tale', 'Writing'] |
America’s Boldfaced Serial Killers
We see them. We know they’re there. We can’t avoid them.
by daveynin is licensed under CC BY 2.0
A new breed of serial killer has emerged in America. They are the people who, through their actions and inactions, spread the Covid-19 virus.
They don’t wash their hands or sanitize ob... | ['Metaphor', 'Random Terrabytes', 'Analogy', 'Serial Killers', 'Coronavirus'] |
When I was 16 I fantasized about touching myself, of touching others, of being touched by others. Love will do you no good, all the songs said. I was the photo in the yearbook people forgot about, the girl who got high school reunion invites from my tormentors, all of whom misspelled my name. You should come to the Waf... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Fiction Friday', 'Relationships', 'Writing'] |
You may have heard, data has become a thing. The space has quickly grown, and its popularity, and interest has never been bigger.
However as in demand as data may be, you may be surprised how much excitement you will need to build for your Data and Analytics (DNA) practice, in order to effectively communicate its outc... | ['Dashboard', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
Google — Interaction Design Intern
Google has been ranked the Best Company to Work For for the sixth consecutive year by Fortune. The company has grown many times over the past year. Further, they have a history of hiring UX/Interaction Design interns for a vast variety of projects ranging from Daydream (VR platform) ... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'UX', 'UX Design', 'Interview'] |
Bulent Keles — Product Designer
How old are you?
40 years old
Where are you from?
Istanbul, Turkey
Where do you work?
Kolektif Labsin in Istanbul, Turkey.
What’s your background, and how’d you get into UX design?
I worked in marketing and advertising for over 10 years, only to realize that tv commercials and bi... | ['Self Improvement', 'UX', 'UX Design', 'User Experience', 'Design'] |
We build here upon a previous piece, where our emphasis revolved around the strict organization of floorplans and their generation, using Artificial intelligence, and more specifically Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs). As we refine our ability to generate floorplans, we raise the question of the bias intri... | ['Architecture', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Every writer is a man with one deaf ear and one blind eye, who is possessed by a demon and unteachable by anybody but himself; a man who only half hears and half sees the world around him because for half his time he is absorbedly listening at the keyhole to his own Demon, examining with satisfaction his primordial sha... | ['Writing', 'Remembering', 'Human Interest', 'Seán Ó Faoláin', 'Religion'] |
CRO on-site optimisation is a key part to any successful business. It’s converting that valuable traffic on your website and making each user count. One thing that is often overlooked is getting the traffic onto your site, what about optimising this part of the funnel?
Leading the way and being a champion in your area... | ['Marketing', 'Optimization', 'Cro', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Data Science'] |
Why You Shouldn’t Settle for Shallow Entertainment
A case for reading difficult books.
Photo by Giammarco Boscaro on Unsplash
I was always the kid who preferred to stay home and read rather than go outside and play. Other people were confusing and the outside world always fell short to the adventures I could have wi... | ['Philosophy', 'Books', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading'] |
Python Implementation
Now, to the point of the article. To remain consistent with the commonly used packages, we will write two methods: .fit() and .predict(). Our data manipulation will be carried out using the numpy package. If you’re importing your data from another file, e.g. in a .csv format, you may use the pand... | ['Python', 'Regression', 'Numpy', 'Ols', 'Data Science'] |
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The sound of pacing bare feet on hardwood floors wakes me up out of a sound sleep. I check my phone- Its 2:13 am. The air is thick with pain.
Slowly I extricate myself from the blankets that envelope my body.
I blindly grope around the dark bedroom for my slippers and a sweatshi... | ['Family', 'Father And Daughter', 'Mental Health', 'PTSD', 'Mental Illness'] |
Article written with Doug Kim
In 1983, Alan Cooper gave life to the first design persona with a wave of his hands. A pioneering software developer, Cooper had just interviewed a group of potential customers. He realized that focusing on real customer motivations rather than his own needs could spark better solutions t... | ['Design Thinking', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Inclusive Design', 'Microsoft'] |
The Redux Store is modified by using the Actions flow
Keeping in mind what we have just sais, let’s see how we integrate the Redux pattern inside a React Application.
Redux in React
The first thing I want to point out, is that when we talk about Redux in React we basically talk about the React-Redux library.
It is ... | ['Reactjs', 'Redux Thunk', 'React', 'Redux'] |
Another week has passed and it is time to share the results with our community.
For the few last weeks we have been mostly focused on creation of Live Stars platform. We have stress-tested the MediaSoup server implementation. It works perfectly on Chrome-based browsers, and now we are making sure that Mozilla Firefox ... | ['Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Development', 'Bitcoin'] |
A month ago, the Brooklyn high school I teach at – in lock step with NYC – decided to close school and switch to remote learning, for an indefinite amount of time. It seemed logical at the time, but few of us thought of this as potentially being the end of in-person teaching and learning for the 2019-2020 school year.
... | ['Remote Working', 'Learning', 'Teaching', 'Productivity'] |
There’s a major shift occurring in the world of small business education, coaching, and training.
One group of bloggers, content marketers, and educators have gone on to start self-funded software companies. Another group has moved toward building agencies and practices that deliver precise execution and hands-on supp... | ['Online Courses', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Education', 'Small Business', 'Freelancing'] |
A happy thought and a sad one.
For him, she’s both.
He knows he’s screwed. | ['Poetry', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Storytelling', 'Heartbreak'] |
GoogleNet
In 2014, Google published its own network in the ImageNet competition and in homage to Yann LeCun and LeNet, Google named their network, GoogLeNet. It’s spelled like GoogleNet but it’s pronounced GoogLeNet. In the ImageNet competition, GoogLeNet performed even a little better than VGG: 6.7% compared to 7.3% ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
Your Customized Medium Sub-Domain Profile Has One Less Feature Now
I wish we can revert to the old design
Photo by Helena Hertz on Unsplash
Medium released a new profile layout on the 14th of October. That evening a sub-domain for writers was one of its change-highlight. Earlier, the sub-domain was available only to... | ['Social Media', 'Change', 'Writing'] |
3. How to Install Python Library in Colab
Colab has command line support, so simply add ! exclamation mark to run Linux commands in the cell. You can simply run !pip install <package-name> to perform pip install. So when you go to Pytorch official installation website, and choose the specifications of the pytorch vers... | ['Deep Learning', 'Colab', 'Jupyter Notebook'] |
The 2020 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak | Thoughts on Probability and Statistics
Bayes’ Rule, Unreliable Diagnostic Testing, And Containing COVID-19
How false-negatives in diagnostic testing are leading to the release of infected people, motivating extreme containment measures. The COVID-19 outbreak, explained with Bayes... | ['Health', 'Statistics', 'Medicine', 'Mathematics'] |
The crumbling of the Californian Ideology: Technology Disruptors’ limited OS
We don’t need rule-breaking tech founders anymore, and yet they don’t seem able or willing to change. Where do we go from here?
‘This new faith has emerged from a bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech i... | ['Politics', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'History'] |
Tom walked up towards the terrace; it is where his pull-up bar is. On his walk towards the terrace through the stairs, he saw them, the health-obsessed neighbors on the nearby terraces —the fitness freak youngsters, the elderlies following the doctor’s death threat, and mindful addicts who had managed to swap their add... | ['Spirituality', 'Spiritual Secrets', 'Short Story', 'Mental Health', 'Fiction'] |
The expression 水滴石穿 (Shui Di Shi Chuan) comes from this story. The characters mean, in order, “water”, “drop”, “rock”, and “penetrate”, therefore giving the meaning of “water drops penetrate a rock”.
With enough time, something as small as a drop of water can cut through hard rocks. This is what we now often call the ... | ['Education', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Learning'] |
I sat in bed rubbing my eyes, trying to wake up. The clock read 6:29 am. Europe was well into their day. After navigating a tricky conflict the day before, my energy tank was dangerously low. I longed to stay in bed but five urgent issues loomed in Slack. I lumbered out of bed, slipped into a pair of pants and a nice s... | ['Management', 'Startup', 'Leadership', 'Careers', 'Work'] |
Steve Jobs (left) told three stories in his 2005 Stanford University commencement address, each employing the Hero’s Journey story archetype. Dr. Martin Luther King told just one in his famous 1963 ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, employing the archetype The World the Way... | ['Martin Luther King', 'Storytelling', 'Steve Jobs', 'Heros Journey', 'Story Archetypes'] |
Part deux. We plan together. And commit.
Planning is probably the most challenging exercise that exists for a Product leader. It requires an outstanding synthesis capacity to translate hundreds of insights into a couple of projects. It implies strong leadership to challenge teams on their priorities then sell a plan o... | ['Product Management', 'Strategy', 'Startup', 'Planning', 'Product'] |
Tired of making text-based choose-your-own-adventure games in Python? Ready to take your Python programs to the next level by incorporating an HTML/CSS graphical user interface?
Flask is the perfect framework to build an HTML/CSS web app with a Python backend. In this tutorial, we’re going to build a The Office-themed... | ['Python', 'Glitch', 'Web Development', 'HTML', 'Flask'] |
One of the most bitter public feuds in the history of American letters raged between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal from the early 1970s all the way into the mid-eighties, when they finally reconciled. It was conducted in print and in person in various joint television appearances, most spectacularly on an episode of the... | ['Gore Vidal', 'America', 'Literature', 'Norman Mailer', 'Writing'] |
Originally published at marcandrew.me on September 24th, 2020.
There’s no denying that Figma is already a powerful, and versatile design tool out-of-the-box.
It continues to improve with each new release and has rightly claimed its place in the ‘Big 3 Design Tools Club’ (the others being Sketch & Adobe XD of course).... | ['Web Development', 'UI', 'Figma', 'Design', 'UX Design'] |
Google trends is a service provided by Google, which shows the trend of a specific term in the required period. This trend can be used to predict which stocks will be active in the stock market by analyzing the most searched companies share price on google trends. In the given post, I will be explaining how I wrote the... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Finance', 'Trends', 'Data Science'] |
In Conclusion
How we talk to the dead
Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, April 19, 2020. Photo courtesy of the author.
I went to the cemetery the other day, not for any particular reason other than we are still allowed to go to cemeteries, at least for now. Ordinary funeral gatherings are not permit... | ['Relationships', 'Death', 'Family', 'Coronavirus', 'History'] |
Fake-vlogging, Your Inner Critic, and Plunging into Your Courage Zone
The Innovation’s featured stories for the week of December 21, 2020
Photo by Azrul Aziz on Unsplash
Happy almost-new year, Innovation readers. First, we wanted to let you know that we were excited to hop into a new and exciting 2021 that we create... | ['Featured', 'Newsletter', 'Writers On Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Photo by Shashank Sahay on Unsplash
Being in the unknown is hard for me. Truth be told, it’s nearly impossible. I have immediate and persistent physical manifestations that remind me I am struggling. Like many people, my dis-ease appears in my breath. I can’t get a deep breath. Each time I try to inhale, it is like a ... | ['Unknown', 'Covid 19', 'Hurricane', 'Self-awareness', 'Anxiety'] |
Sometimes your audience on social media surprises you.
I was recently scrolling through my comments on my gadget-centered YouTube channel, and saw a negative comment about one of my videos. I usually delete comments that are negative and hostile, and keep comments that are merely negative and critical.
This one fell ... | ['Marketing', 'Short Form', 'Social Media', 'Moderation', 'YouTube'] |
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
This is a book that talks about all the weird and wonderful experiences booksellers have had with their customers. It will make you laugh to no end, and perhaps you will find some cool reads along the way! Or maybe even find out what not to read!
The Encyclopedi... | ['Adventure', 'Books', 'Books About Books', 'Reading', 'Stories'] |
We have created an extended version of Multisignature Wallet dApp. This wallet is applicable not only for Ether, but also for ERC20 tokens. Try it now in our Marketplace.
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If you need to use Ether and ERC20 tokens in your wallet — this solution is for you. If you need a wallet only f... | ['Token', 'Ethereum', 'Development', 'ICO', 'Blockchain'] |
5 More macOS Apps For Your Work Life
Apps for a Better Work Life
Photo by Josue Valencia on Unsplash
Apple’s macOS has always been one of the go-to Operating systems for many professionals in various industries. The main or simple reason can be is It just works. Apple always brags about it for its less complex, fast... | ['Technology', 'Apple', 'Mac', 'Debugger', 'Software'] |
Gender equality is a fundamental human right. In spite of this, women and girls suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world. Unconscious bias forms an invisible barrier to equal opportunity. It affects those we care for most in life, our families, friends and colleagues.
As a writer, you have a choic... | ['Diversity', 'Language', 'Gender Equality', 'Women', 'Writing'] |
When entertainment, politics and business collide
When companies attach themselves to a public figure, they cross their fingers and hope that their brands don’t somehow get ruined if the celeb decides to go off the rails. With that said, some consumers are pretty good at separating “the art” from the politics. Others ... | ['Marketing', 'Adiversity', 'Kaepernick', 'Controversy', 'Nike'] |
On an otherwise routine Monday in 1994, I witnessed a remarkable demonstration of persuasion.
I was a stockbroker trainee on Wall Street at the time. On a typical Monday, my boss’s nail technician would come to the office for his weekly manicure/pedicure. I sat at a desk across from his, and thankfully I faced a wall.... | ['Relationships', 'Leadership', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
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This journal began as a response to our fundamental concern with current materials available to students — and to others lo... | ['Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Publication', 'Storytelling', 'University'] |
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