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Linear layers explained in a simple way
A part of series about different types of layers in neural networks
Many people perceive Neural Networks as black magic. We all have sometimes the tendency to think that there is no rationale or logic behind the Neural Network architecture. We would like to believe that all we ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Backpropagation', 'Linear Regression'] |
Comics, often about movies || New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic || A House in the Jungle, Koyama Press || @gelgud || www.nathangelgud.com
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從 Marketing 到 Data，我在 17 的轉職之路
From Marketing to Data, My Career Roadmap in 17Media. | ['Data Analyst', 'Careers', 'Meetup', 'Business Intelligence'] |
Rana Foroohar’s new book, ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ paints an alarming portrait of Silicon Valley tech companies that need to be reined in before they start to affect our lives in even more insidious ways.
Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash
In 1998, in an academic paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Sea... | ['Technology', 'Books', 'Social Media', 'Tech', 'Government'] |
Are you using the “Scikit-learn wrapper” in your Keras Deep Learning model?
How to use the special wrapper classes from Keras for hyperparameter tuning?
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Introduction
Keras is one of the most popular go-to Python libraries/APIs for beginners and professionals in... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
Ionic Capacitor is an open source framework innovation to help you build Progressive Native Web, Mobile and Desktop apps. On the other side Apache Cordova formerly PhoneGap > Adobe PhoneGap does the same for accessing native features of the device from mobile WebView.
So, What really makes them succeed over the other,... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Ionic', 'Ionic Capacitor', 'Ionic Native', 'Ionic Framework'] |
This week, I catch up with Mike Blackmore and pick his brain on all things Beacons
There is a relatively underused, and underdeveloped tool that will soon become the norm in retail stores around the globe. We call them Beacons. These are devices that enhance customer experience, track and measure foot traffic, and cou... | ['Tech', 'Marketing', 'Beacons', 'Digital Marketing'] |
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Motor Planning
What it’s like when half your body doesn’t work properly
From Study.com:
Motor planning is the ability to assess a motor activity, plan and organize how to carry out that motor activity, and finally implement motor skills to achieve that motor activity.
I became aware of the term motor plan... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Mental Health', 'Disability', 'Stroke', 'Gratitude'] |
Driving down that road,
The lanes where farms ran across
Stars and moon looking from the sky
Gently caressing the sleepy crops
The cool soothing breeze rolls
Gently washing my face
Conveying the goodbye of the moon
To wake up my eyes and soul
The curls in my locks stretch
And all aquiver danced on my forehead
... | ['Poetry', 'Poems On Medium', 'Dawn', 'Nature', 'Writing'] |
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“Get your data from the right sources” — Grant Cardone
Advice is given out like candy on Halloween these days. Everyone has their own “two cents” to give regardless of whether or not they are qualified to give advice on a particular subject. What’s worse is that sometimes we don’t ev... | ['Books', 'Advice', 'Money', 'Life Lessons', 'Reading'] |
The Rise of Unstructured Data & Big Data Tools
IBM 305 RAMAC (Source: WikiCommons)
The story of data science is really the story of data storage. In the pre-digital age, data was stored in our heads, on clay tablets, or on paper, which made aggregating and analyzing data extremely time-consuming. In 1956, IBM introdu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Database', 'Tds Narrated', 'Big Data', 'Data Science'] |
Dictionary Unions
One of my favorite new features with a sleek syntax. If we have two dictionaries a and b that we need to merge, we now use the union operators.
We have the merge operator | :
a = {1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c'}
b = {4: 'd', 5: 'e'} c = a | b
print(c)
[Out]: {1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c', 4: 'd', 5: 'e'}
And... | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Code', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
#2: Test concepts that are too complex (or unclear)
In the early days when I was training people at Booking.com I used different sets of “innovation cards” (Mental Notes, Design with Intent Toolkit & Brains, Behavior & Design) to inspire new content ideas.
On each of these cards there is a summary of a psychological ... | ['Marketing', 'Ecommerce', 'Experimenting'] |
Good day everyone!
The ship with our data science project is just arriving off the port! Get ready to unload the containers and fire up the environment. Wait… what? Wish it was that easy to go? Well, it basically is. Welcome to Docker!
In this article, we are going to learn
How to install Docker Desktop
How to dock... | ['Python', 'Docker', 'Containerization', 'Containers', 'Data Science'] |
Your Medium Basics Checklist:
1. Create a strong title
A good title is crucial. Without it, no-one will even read your story.
Take the time to study good titles, learn different successful formulas, and practice writing them. Many successful writers create 10 or more titles for each story before they settle on one.
... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing On Medium'] |
MongoDB is a kind of NoSQL database. NoSQL is a document-oriented database that is organized as a JSON. Some points about MongoDB:
Performance : It stores a majority of data in RAM, so the query performance is much better here than in a relational database. But it requires more RAM and precise indexes.
: It stores a ... | ['Transactions', 'Csharp', 'Mongodb', 'Dotnet Core', 'NoSQL'] |
Learn the basics of the Ethereum JSON API in 5 minutes Nicolas Schapeler Follow Apr 5 · 2 min read
Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash
The other day I got myself in a situation where I needed to communicate with the Ethereum network using python in an environment where getting web3.py to work seemed pretty much impo... | ['Python', 'API', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Programming'] |
GraphQL codegen office logo
GraphQL is cool, it exposes the exact contract between frontend and backend in details.
However, when you try to use it, there is still gaps between GraphQL and the host programming language. For example, mostly frontend project is using typescript, while GraphQL is strong typed contract b... | ['React', 'GraphQL', 'Apollo Client'] |
It is the season for giving, which is why I’m giving you (another) list of 10 funny writers you should read if you want to laugh or learn to write better humor. So in no particular order here it goes.
Gracie Beaver-Kairis creates this bit of satire using very specific knowledge about a genre. Anyone who’s watched any ... | ['Humor', 'Comedy', 'Satire', 'Humor Writing', 'Writing'] |
Get to know the company
When it comes to knowing the company, ignorance is not bliss.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve asked an interviewee, “So what do you know about our company? Have you had a chance to get on our Website and start a free trial of our tool?” …
…to which she confidently replies: “Hm. No. I d... | ['Recruiting', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Hiring', 'Interview'] |
Data Analysis is one of the most crucial steps of the model building process. In this article I will be performing Data Analysis on the NYC Taxi Trip Duration Dataset. This dataset and problem statement is taken from the Applied Machine Learning course by Analytics Vidhya which offers a number of such real life project... | ['Data Visualization', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Analytics Vidhya'] |
#3. Check the Memory Usage
The phone may be performing slow if the amount of free memory is low. If you’ve had the iPhone for over a year, take a lot of photos, or have a lot of apps installed, checking the memory usage periodically is good practice. Unused apps and photos that take up a lot of memory should be delete... | ['Technology', 'iOS', 'Productivity', 'iPhone', 'Phone'] |
As I took her by the hand to school this morning my 6-year old daughter Kiara looked up at Google’s giant Lego project in progress and excitedly reminded me of the latest 3 numbers marking the tops of their latest 3 towers .… “11th floor, ehh … 13, umm .. I can’t see that one Daddy!”. This time she didn’t ask me when I... | ['SaaS', 'B2B', 'Startup', 'Future Of Work', 'Remote Working'] |
Here’s a quick DreamTeam update. Since the release of our last digest, we’ve added a new game to the platform, DreamTeam has been named the “Best Blockchain Startup”, and has been mentioned in several crypto publications.
Check out the details below.
DreamTeam adds Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to the platform
We kno... | ['Apex Legends', 'Gaming', 'Esports', 'Startup', 'Game Development'] |
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In the churches I grew up in, hypocrisy surrounded me. The lessons we learned on Wednesday and Sunday had no correlation to how we lived outside of church. Inside those walls, we were Christians; outside of them, we were regular people.
I hated being part of a group that was so un... | ['Vegan', 'Farming', 'Agriculture', 'Meat', 'Animal Rights'] |
What helped, what didn’t, and what would have.
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How It Happened:
On August 1, 2010, I watched my best friend die. We were 17 years old, had just graduated from high school, and were soon to be heading off to different colleges. We had our whole lives ahead of us — or so we thought.
... | ['Loss', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Grief', 'Self Improvement'] |
Hadoop Ecosystem - Edureka
In the previous blog on Hadoop Tutorial, we discussed Hadoop, its features and core components. Now, the next step forward is to understand Hadoop Ecosystem. It is an essential topic to understand before you start working with Hadoop. This Hadoop ecosystem blog will familiarize you with indu... | ['Big Data', 'Hdfs', 'Yarn', 'Spark', 'Hadoop'] |
Let us start with a simple sample DataFrame with four columns and three rows.
import pandas as pd df1 = pd.DataFrame(
[["Keras", "2015", "Python","Yes"],
["CNTK", "2016", "C++","Yes"],
["PlaidML", "2017", "Python, C++, OpenCL","No"]],
index=[1, 2, 3],
columns = ["Software", "Intial Release",
"Written In","CUDA S... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Pandas'] |
The Stock Market Is a Ponzi Scheme
The stock market is built on non-dividend paying companies and this is a real problem, according to financial expert Tan Lui.
Illustration by therealdeal.com / LexiPilgrim
I am a huge believer in buying stocks. I’ve always seen the stock market as my best friend. But as I look at m... | ['Society', 'Business', 'Life', 'Money', 'Economy'] |
Americans have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Senator Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the President of the United States. Even so, he strongly supports having the federal government provide health insurance for every American. He says healthcare is ri... | ['Technology', 'Business', 'Government', 'Politics', 'Health'] |
If you missed Part 3...
We strongly recommend that you read Using Riak as Events Storage - Part 3 of this blog series, to understand why MapReduce doesn't fit our needs. The previous parts explains how Booking.com collects and stores events from its backend into a central storage, and how we use it to do events analys... | ['Database', 'Mapreduce', 'Big Data', 'Riak', 'Programming'] |
As October slowly comes to an end, we can most certainly say that there is a lot more to “dignity” in mental health than what we once thought. Whether it’s through the way we physically respond to sufferers, or the way we differentiate between those in society, the most important thing that has been highlighted this mo... | ['Islam', 'Mental Health', 'Dignity'] |
So today let us see in this tutorial how to create a PDF viewer to view our internal and external .pdf files. At some point in time, we need to load some pdf files to be viewed by our visitors but we don’t know how to display all those pdf files in our React js application. So here comes a handy react module to make ou... | ['Reactjs', 'Pdf', 'React'] |
It seems yesterday that we launched Bitfolio 3 for iOS, with the ability to sync exchanges.
We kept adding exchanges over the year and we started working on Bitfolio 4 when we realised we needed something more.
After months of hard work, we are very please to introduce a new, redesigned, reimagined Bitfolio! 🎉
What... | ['Apple', 'iOS', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Apps', 'Bitcoin'] |
“I was a kid and used to tour almost all the 16 km-long bazars of the old city and never feared getting lost, people were so kind and caring,” says Bashir. “My father never closed his shop when he wanted to pray, he used to put a chair in the entrance and went to the mosque. Aleppo was the safest place.”
When the conf... | ['Humanitarian', 'Syrian Crisis', 'War', 'Conflict', 'Humanitarian Aid Worker'] |
NaNoWriMo participants around the world, congratulations on making it to the precipice of the halfway mark. By now, your protagonist(s) should have survived many painful obstacles you’ve thrown their way, your antagonist(s) has/have emerged, even if your protagonist(s) have no idea who their true enemies are yet. Notor... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing Life', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Authors', 'Writing'] |
Create a New React Application
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. To create a new React project, we will use create-react-app. You will need to have Node.js >= 8.10 installed on your local development machine. Once you have it installed, open your command prompt/terminal, go to the directory w... | ['WordPress', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
I love a bit of design history. Whilst in the Mission yesterday I picked up this gem from 1970 at Farnsworth Mercantile on Valencia. It’s part of an urban planning study that was carried out by the city in the late 60s and early 70s, eventually being adopted in 1972. There were 8 reports and this is Preliminary Report ... | ['1970s', 'Architecture', 'Design', 'Urban Planning', 'San Francisco'] |
I woke up feeling sad today.
I don’t know if it is the culmination of bad news I have heard this week or the grey skies left in the wake of a recent tropical storm.
But I am sad. Mopey sad. Sit in a room alone and listen to Billie Eilish kind of sad.
One of the cruelties of mental health issues is they tend to make ... | ['Depression', 'Friendship', 'Mental Health', 'Anxiety Disorder', 'Therapy'] |
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I. Introduction
Big data is trending. Smart devices, Internet and technologies allowed the unlimited generation and transmission of data, and from the data, new information is gained. The big data generated are in various form, it can be structured, semi-structured or unstructured dat... | ['Security', 'Hdfs', 'Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'Cybersecurity'] |
Silencing the Media:
Attacks on Journalists and Reporters Grow More Open, With Women as Particular Targets
by Barbara Crossette. Read more on PassBlue.
Clarice Gargard, a Dutch columnist for a large newspaper in the Netherlands, has described receiving online threats and attacks in comments related to her work. The ... | ['Womens Rights', 'Journalism', 'Media', 'Women'] |
Fraud detection is a major field of interest for data science. As fraud is a rare event, the main challenge is to find a way to bring to light abnormal behavior. That is why graph analysis is a useful approach to perform fraud detection. Many algorithms exist to extract information from graphs. In this article, we will... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Mining', 'Big Data'] |
The Rain Song
A poem about the noise which awakens me
Photo by Alex wong on Unsplash
Will you believe me, if I tell you that today I collected sound?
I trapped raindrops which were pattering on the roof.
My own words knocking against the nerves and the raindrops somehow rhymed together, I blended the noise and wro... | ['Poetry', 'Rain', 'Muse', 'Nature', 'Writing'] |
In this article, we will learn how to invert an image using NumPy. To get some gist of this, let’s we have two values 0 and 1. Here 0 represents Black and 1 represents White. When we apply inversion to these values, we get:
0 → inversion → 1
1 → inversion → 0
The above only works when we two values. 0 for low and 1 ... | ['Image Processing', 'Numpy', 'Programming'] |
“Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself, it does not bring happiness.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is well-known for his work on the experience of flow. He even published a book about the topic 30 years ago.
The whole premise of his research was that we need to ... | ['Quotes', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Habits', 'Inspiration'] |
Marketing Twitter is group therapy for social media/community managers and strategists. We cherish our jobs, projects, and clients, but face a lot of challenges as social media marketing is still perceived as new/easy/lowest on the food chain and easiest for other departments to demand things of.
I think the most impo... | ['Marketing', 'Agencylife', 'Social Media', 'Freelancing', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
In a very old post — Label Encoder vs. One Hot Encoder in Machine Learning — I had demonstrated how to use label encoding and one hot encoding to separate out categorical text data into numbers and different columns. But the SciKit library has come a long way since I wrote that post, and it has made life a lot more eas... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Scikit Learn', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
In order to test respondent’s aptitude on this topic against their levels of concern for data collection, only those who answered one of the most difficult questions (“Do you understand what using a private browser does?”) correctly were filtered out and tested for their levels of concern separately.
Visually, it appe... | ['Data', 'Facebook', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Collection', 'Cambridge Analytica'] |
[Week 1] 5 Articles to Keep You Updated on Blockchain
Weekly newsletter from Bangalore Blockchain Application Development
Word Cloud via Word Art
Nilesh Christopher via Economic Times
After banning the banks to transact with crypto operated businesses, Reserve Bank of India(RBI) is checking whether it is feasible t... | ['Venture Capital', 'Blockchain', 'Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Mental health among college students has become a national priority. Students of color in particular experience unique circumstances, such as racial/ethnic discrimination, disparities in mental health services, and marginalization. These experiences can contribute negatively to their mental health and well-being and im... | ['Resilience', 'Mental Health', 'Series', 'Toolkit', 'Students'] |
Reshape Pandas Data Frames
A walk-through example of how you can reshape pandas data frames
Image on Unsplash
We will provide some examples of how we can reshape Pandas data frames based on our needs. We want to provide a concrete and reproducible example and for that reason, we assume that we are dealing with the f... | ['Python', 'Data Transformation', 'Data Cleaning', 'Data Science', 'Pandas'] |
A New Way to Write Conditional Statements in Kotlin
Make your code more readable using “when” in Kotlin
Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash.
Ever since Kotlin was born, it has been one of the preferred languages to develop apps for Android devs around the globe. People love Kotlin for various reasons: extension functi... | ['AndroidDev', 'Kotlin', 'Android', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
People in Mangok Amuol in South Sudan used to struggle to get enough food to eat, surviving off wild foods such as water lilies and collecting firewood to sell. Akol Deng remembers how she lived hand-to-mouth, earning barely enough to feed her children much less ever send them to school.
But since a project to change ... | ['South Sudan', 'Innovation', 'Agriculture', 'Development', 'Africa'] |
Redundancies
A record high in redundancies has sent unemployment to 4.9% in the UK. With 35% of our total waking hours over a 50-year working life spent going to work, it is no surprise that losing the thing that we wake up for each morning creates cracks in our identity.
I was made redundant in early July and it has... | ['Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Learning to find God in all things can be tricky, but it can get even more daunting to find God in the darkness of rejection, discrimination and prejudice.
I didn’t have to grapple with my gay orientation for too long. I was accepting of who I was from the beginning, which was a blessing and a grace in many ways, thou... | ['Christianity', 'Life', 'Storytelling', 'LGBTQ', 'Catholicism'] |
How Bitcoin solves the Blockchain Trilemma
When, in 2017, the bitcoin community activated SegWit, thus enabling second-tier solutions such as the Lightning Network, the cryptocurrency world changed.
The protocol created on top of Bitcoin to solve the scalability problem has allowed the cryptocurrency to answer one of... | ['Lightning Network', 'Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Bitcoin'] |
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
We’ve all heard it nine ways from Sunday. Someone voices a half-baked or uneducated or hyperbolic opinion (often at a family gathering), which,... | ['Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Religion', 'Life Lessons'] |
Sustainable development needs partners that have proven themselves capable of innovating and changing with the world.
Let’s be honest: multinational corporations are not the first actors we think of when we think of powerful positive sustainability action. More often than not, the most sweeping improvements to curb en... | ['Partnerships', 'Innovation', 'Evil Corporations', 'Beyond Csr', 'Sustainability'] |
People all over the world are anxious about their health, the economy, the future. For the first time in the history of humankind we’re united with one purpose: defeating a microscopic enemy.
This unprecedented threat comes with an unprecedented opportunity.
We all have a part to play not only in staying at home and ... | ['Philosophy', 'Culture', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'History'] |
Implementation from scratch
Gradient descent is an optimization technique where we minimize the error by changing the values of coefficients repeatedly. To understand how logistic regression works, we will use gradient descent.
For this implementation, we are going to use the Breast cancer data set. By importing data... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Classification Algorithms', 'Data Science', 'Logistic Regression'] |
Excel is ubiquitous in nearly every workplace. From top tier investment firms and large scale engineering companies right down to individual sole traders, people get work done using Excel.
This article will look at some of the problems and advantages of using Excel, and how using Java embedded in Excel those problems ... | ['Excel', 'Vba', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Enterprise Technology'] |
Leashed
Sometimes it’s the same person at both ends of the leash.
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash
Anxiety holds a retractable leash.
Most times keeping the leash short, other times offering finite slack. It taunts by dangling freedom just out of reach.
Resisting thrashing pulls and mournful howls, always at the ... | ['Poetry', 'Mental Health', 'Poem', 'Anxiety', 'Scrittura'] |
Rustling leaves in shady trees
Sailing in the wind-
Gliding, diving down
To settled earth
From green to red their colors spread
Like butter on bread-
Shapes of puzzle pieces
Maneuver in the air
The art of flight, a friendly fight
To gracefully display,
Wings of paper
Thin as wafers
Branches clothed in shade... | ['Poetry', 'Flight', 'Leaves', 'Nature', 'Writing'] |
Dear Santa,
I know you’re a real busy guy this time of year, what with all that toy making, but I hope you would spare a moment to hear a little constructive feedback on how to improve the user experience of Christmas.
Every year I mail my Christmas list to you (still haven’t got that hot dog roller, by the way) and ... | ['Memories', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Angular is a full phased Frontend Development framework. We can acually don’t need to configure anything for start developing with this framework. It has its own routing, http, testing module, which has already well configured with it. so no need to extra configuration. The Most valuable feature is it has its own compe... | ['Angular', 'Rxjs', 'Typescript', 'Learning And Development', 'Material Design'] |
Level 1: Functions and classes.
Both functions and classes are natural aggregators: Functions typically deal with statements (think actions or verbs and sentences) and classes with objects (think well, classes of things, or nouns and adjectives), programmatically they are deep subjects on their own and the cornerstone... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Earlier this year I came across a viral Twitter thread by Randall Kanna about how to create one’s own computer science degree with free online content. It was not only excellent for people who don’t have prior knowledge in computer science, it’s also valuable for new software engineers who didn’t major in CS in college... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Full Stack', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning Engineer'] |
Is anytime a good time to execute your automation workflow? The answer is probably no, for different reasons.
If you want to avoid simultaneous changes to minimize the impact on critical business processes and reduce the risk of unintended service disruptions, then no one else should be attempting to make changes at t... | ['Automation', 'Ansible', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Change Management'] |
Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism (Ep. 91)
For Ross Douthat, decadence isn’t necessarily a moral judgement, but a technical label for a state that societies tend to enter — and one that is perhaps much more normal than the dynamism Americans have come to take for granted. In his new book, he outlines the cultural... | ['Books', 'Decadence', 'Podcast', 'Religion', 'Authors'] |
This article is authored by Damian Radcliffe, the Carolyn S. Chambers professor of journalism at the University of Oregon and Payton Bruni, a journalism student at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication, who is also minoring in Arabic Studies.
The Middle East is a large, diverse, region. The... | ['Journalism', 'Social Network', 'Social Media', 'Middle East', 'Arab World'] |
5 Ways to React When a Younger Person Leaves You In the Dust
It’s about respect, not jealousy.
Photo by Victoire Joncheray on Unsplash
“There goes Jeff Bezos,” a man said.
Comedian Kevin Hart was in a room with well-known and successful business owners and individuals.
Then, Jeff Bezos walked in.
Instantly, Kevin... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
There are cycles in almost everything in life. Nothing ever grows exponentially forever.
This can be seen in nature, our economy, and countless other places in our lives. No bull market lasts forever. No Bear market does either.
How you navigate those peaks and valleys comes down to how well you understand the factor... | ['Marketing', 'Sponsorship Activation', 'Sponsorship', 'Sportsbiz', 'Sports Business'] |
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On Sunday, I found out that the Archive of Our Own, affectionately known as AO3 to fans, had just been awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work. For the uninitiated, AO3 is an archive of fanwork like fanfiction and fanart that is owned and run by fans, hence the name. And the... | ['Coming Out', 'Hugo', 'LGBTQ', 'Fanfiction', 'Writing'] |
Socrates, Reductionism, and Proper Levels of Explanation
Science — formerly known as natural philosophy — is pretty much the only game in town when it comes to understanding and explaining the world
[image: Socrates about to drink the hemlock, Wikimedia Commons; this is essay #257 in my Patreon/Medium series]
Turns ... | ['Philosophy', 'Epistemology', 'Reductionism', 'Socrates', 'Writing'] |
Learning Kotlin and Swift
Kotlin vs Swift: The Init Construction
Explore Kotlin and Swift together and learn their differences
Photo by Mason Kimbarovsky on Unsplash
In Mobile development, the 2 major programming language to learn is Swift and Kotlin. They look very similar, but there are subtle differences.
Let’s... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Android App Development', 'Kotlin', 'Swift', 'iOS App Development'] |
I got so used to write this daily entries that I practically and unintentionally left aide my other publications and interests.
As I’ve been trying to get back to my technology publication I have to admit that it’s been hard, feeling blocked and not knowing how to start or finish a story, like it has been delated from... | ['Personal Growth', 'Challenge', 'Journal', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing'] |
Introduction
I recently moved out and bought my first apartment. Of course, I could not pay it entirely with my own savings, so I had to borrow money from the bank. I visited a couple of banks operating in my country and asked for a mortgage.
If you already bought your house or apartment in the past, you know how it ... | ['Investing', 'Technology', 'Finance', 'Education', 'Science'] |
As a frequent Medium writer and platform enthusiast, I receive a lot of questions about achieving success on Medium.
I have an entire publication on the topic. A widely read newsletter containing regular tips and tricks. My own Facebook group for Medium writers.
It’s safe to say I spend a lot of time thinking about M... | ['Medium', 'Blogging', 'Curation', 'Medium Partner Program', 'Writing'] |
Ted and his family lived up the hill from us in a medium-sized white house with a green awning and a slanted roof. The roof looms large in my memory, though I’m sure it will be anti-climatic for most of you. Ted’s father held the august title of Superintendent of the Bessemer city school system, which, as history notes... | ['Friendship', 'Nonfiction', 'Love', 'Weeds And Wildflowers', 'Children'] |
Today we will be pricing a vanilla call option using a monte carlo simulation in Python. Monte Carlo models are used by quantitative analysts to determine accurate and fair prices for securities. Typically, these models are implemented in a fast low level language such as C++. However, for the sake of ease, we’ll be us... | ['Python', 'Mathematical Modeling', 'Options', 'Quantitative Finance', 'Monte Carlo'] |
Map, Filter And Reduce In Pure Python
The concepts of map, filter and reduce are a game changer. The usage of these methods goes way beyond Python and are an essential skill for the future.
Map, Filter and Reduce (Image by Author)
The Basics
Map, filter and reduce are functions that help you handle all kinds of col... | ['Python', 'Mapreduce', 'Tutorial', 'Programming', 'Intro'] |
Hi everybody!
There are many ways to parsing json from request. In this post we are going to code how to parse json using http package in Flutter and Dart.
At first, we need to add http dependency in pubspec.yaml
http: ^0.12.2
We are going to make a request, it’s take a long time. That’s why, we need to use asynchr... | ['Flutter', 'Json', 'Google', 'Software Development', 'Dart'] |
By Thomas Davenport
Data scientists — people who can manage and analyze big, unstructured data — were once as scarce as vegetarian dogs. If your business wasn’t based in Silicon Valley or Boston, if you couldn’t offer massive stock options, and if you didn’t have a sexy business model, you were unlikely to be able to ... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'STEM'] |
Learn how to become more coachable. Use this checklist to find the areas you need to work on so you can have a successful relationship with your coach.
Communication Skills
Listen closely. Pay attention to what your coach has to say when he or she asks you deep-rooted questions you may not want to answer.
Look f... | ['Life', 'Coaching', 'Productivity', 'Communication', 'Soft Skills'] |
What’s the shortest novel ever written? What makes a work of fiction a novel and not a short story? And how do novellas fit in?
We’re examining ten extremely short novels from around the globe to find the world’s shortest novel and, while we’re at it, figure out what really makes a story a novel.
Today, we’re looking... | ['Writing Tips', 'Short Story', 'Novel Writing', 'Fiction Writing', 'Writing'] |
Practical Considerations
Quality of service
QoS 0
Fire and forget approach. The MQTT broker will not care if the message is actually received or not by all the subscribers.
Eg:
DHT (digital humidity temperature) sensors that transmit climate information every 10s
Presence sensors (PIR) that check presence every 5... | ['Software Development', 'Engineering', 'IoT', 'Home Automation', 'Home Assistant'] |
How Kazakhstan Turned the New Borat Film in its Favor
A great lesson for all marketing enthusiasts.
Source: BBC
One of the most outrageous moments of the 2006 film ‘Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’ was a made-up version of the Kazakh national anthem. It was just on... | ['Humor', 'Marketing', 'Movies', 'Culture', 'Technology'] |
Technical
Improved SmartSaver cycles
SmartSaver has benefited from backend enhancements to smoothen the transition from one cycle to the next. The modifications came to solve some glitches that happened when the first day of the cycle landed on a weekend or a bank holiday. It also changes the cancellation mechanism. ... | ['Fintech', 'Startup', 'Gold', 'Ethereum', 'Financial'] |
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herb... | ['Covid 19', 'Motivation', 'Self', 'Education', 'Self Improvement'] |
Interview with Mark Starlin
Q: Why do you write?
Mark: Writing is a creative outlet for me. I have learned that I need creative outlets in my life to feel fulfilled and happy. So I have several. Writing is actually my newest outlet. Before discovering Medium two and a half years ago, my writing history consisted main... | ['The Friday Fix', 'Authors', 'Author Spotlights', 'Newsletter', 'Writing'] |
It’s a little bit ironic, but my mother is the person who first introduced me to the 1944 film Gaslight. She and I never had a particularly close relationship, but for several years, we watched old movies from the local library.
It was the only thing we really did together. Growing up, we were very poor. My mother nev... | ['Family', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting'] |
Making the Case for Accessibility
How to convince your team to invest in more accessible design
You know accessibility is important. You want to dedicate the time to research and design a product that a wide variety of users can easily use. You want your products to make life easier for a person with a disability.
H... | ['Tools', 'Accessibility', 'UI Design', 'Design', 'UX'] |
It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, naked beneath a thin white smock bearing the number 8612, screaming his hea... | ['Prison Reform', 'Psychology', 'Prison', 'Trust Issues', 'Philip Zimbardo'] |
Sweetviz: Automated EDA in Python
Exploratory Data Analysis using the Sweetviz python library
Exploratory Data Analysis is a process where we tend to analyze the dataset and summarize the main characteristics of the dataset often using visual methods. EDA is really important because if you are not familiar with the d... | ['Eda', 'Data Analysis', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Quick reminder: install and use packages
The most common way is to install a package directly from CRAN using the following R command:
# this command installs tidyr package from CRAN
install.packages("tidyr")
Once the package is installed on your local machine, you don’t need to run this command again, unless you w... | ['Rstudio', 'Community', 'Productivity', 'Data Science', 'R'] |
When we see a stray, a cat or a dog, who has been living on the streets, fending violently for itself, just a creature against the world, we recognize that there are behaviors that they have acquired to adapt to harsh environments that have allowed for their survival. If we try to save this creature or better its circu... | ['Self Care', 'Healing', 'Mental Health', 'Love'] |
You Will Receive Criticism in the Comments — Here’s How to Handle it
Writing for discourse, not dictatorship
Photo by Victoria Heath
It was a political piece. Some would say that I was asking for it. But nothing I had written was new. The only difference was that I was telling it through my eyes, embellished with an... | ['Mindfulness', 'Education', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
We’ve all gotten spam, we’ve all felt its hideous, annoying burden, and we’ve all (but Lord I hope not) had to lovingly explain to a grandparent that “No, that strange digital letter isn’t actually from a foreign king in need.” A bit played out, I know, but a poignant example, and one that highlights a key to understan... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Spam', 'Data Science', 'Keras'] |
Node.js frameworks
As technology is changing at a rapid pace, developers are moving to use new technologies and adopting more convenient frameworks for their web development needs. Node.js is getting huge exposure from developers who love to use JavaScript for app development.
Being a developer, you can manage the sa... | ['Nodejs', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Technology', 'Productivity'] |
Microsoft Research Open Sourced TextWorld to Train Reinforcement Learning by Playing Text Games
Language games are fun. How can they be used to train reinforcement learning agents?
I recently started a new newsletter focus on AI education. TheSequence is a no-BS( meaning no hype, no news etc) AI-focused newsletter th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Thesequence'] |
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