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I call it a Du Bois Spiral. It’s aesthetically compelling in the way it encodes urban to rural demographics. It’s also yet another example of complex data visualization from back before we all got so conservative and regressive.
Du Bois knows you cannot precisely compare the lengths of those diagonals and spirals, and... | ['Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
If there’s one thing I wish more people understood about poverty, it’s that growing up poor is terribly expensive. It’s funny. When I first began making “good” money by writing online, it felt like most people didn’t understand that the money I was making wasn’t all just sitting in a bank growing exponentially.
Some o... | ['Health', 'Success', 'Life', 'Self', 'Money'] |
The Best Way to Get Rid of Bed Bugs
And prevent their return
Photo of an adult bedbug, by V. Jedklicka on bed-bugs-handbook.com
I’ve always loved insects.
Maybe I was an entomologist or insect in a past life. Ants, spiders, and bees, and more, fascinate me. I release spiders to their outdoor space or leave them alo... | ['Health', 'Insects', 'Ideas', 'Home Improvement', 'Nature'] |
Regression Testing — Edureka
Whenever new software is released, the need to test new functionality is obvious. However, it’s equally important to re-run old tests that the application previously passed. That way we can be sure that the new software does not re-introduce old defects or create new ones in the software. ... | ['Software Testing', 'Software Development', 'Regression', 'Software Engineering', 'Regression Testing'] |
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Hold your horses steady
Hold the cavalry still
Brace yourselves until ready
When you hear the trumpets shrill
Behold the gates are open
The battle lines are clear
Take this meagre token
Assuage your reckless fear
Where is all our strength
Lain over the barren fields
Do not ... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Verse'] |
Your organisation wants to dive head-first into data and AI but you don’t really know where to start? Data&AI is on the radar of most C-level leaders. It’s often seen as a differentiator from competition, as an enabler for more customer engagement, as a tool for cost reduction. And there is no lack of industry analysts... | ['Data Governance', 'Data Product Creation', 'Data Engineering'] |
Configuring AWS
First, we need to create an S3 Bucket. (If you already have one, you can go with it, but remember to do the configurations below.)
Log in to the console, navigate to S3, and click on the blue “Create bucket” button. We’ll name our bucket presigned-url-upload and keep everything as default except “Bloc... | ['Programming', 'AWS', 'DevOps', 'AWS Lambda', 'S3'] |
She answered a Drivers Wanted ad
They said she’d be haulin’ a big rig
She’d see all parts of the country
And it would be a cushy gig
So she signed up to get her CDL
And her Hazmat credentials too
She hasn’t told her parents yet
And it’s time I think they knew
She loves truckin’
Truckin’ across the USA
When sh... | ['Work', 'Sex', 'Poetry', 'Music', 'Lyrics'] |
This Looks Like a Depression, Not a Recession
Until we have a vaccine, we are barreling toward economic catastrophe
Photo: National Film Board of Canada/Getty Images
Just weeks after the stock market crashed in 1929, President Herbert Hoover assured the country that things were already “back to normal,” Liaquat Aham... | ['Society', 'Global', 'Depression', 'Pandemic', 'Economy'] |
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Brands are obsessed with being relevant and cool at the expense of delivering value to their customers. Their content calendars devolve into a cringeworthy June George-fest, complete with “Wine Wednesdays,” fuchsia soft pants, and emojis because they want to be relatable.
They don’t want to be a regular brand, they wa... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Customer Experience', 'Business', 'Startup Lessons'] |
Resources
23 Examples of Effective Headlines
Plus some quick tips and a note on coining terms
Illustration: Kawandeep Virdee
If you want to draw readers to a story, you need to make them want to choose it from a sea of other options. A strong headline is your best shot to do that. You want your headline to entice t... | ['Resources', 'Creativity', 'Headlines', 'Writing Tips'] |
“All of the live music from the movie was filmed here,” says Ashley Ryan, Marketing Director at First Avenue Productions. “[Prince] was known for saying, ‘I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.’” To Ryan, “The history of music in this town and in this club are completely intertwined. You don’t c... | ['Music'] |
Barnaby Jack was a world-famous hacker and security expert who is usually remembered for his ability to make ATM machines dispense cash. He also discovered flaws in insulin pumps and pacemakers that made it possible for criminals to kill a man or woman from nine metres away.
A few years earlier, in 2007, the former US... | ['Health', 'Safety', 'Data Privacy', 'Medical Devices', 'Cybersecurity'] |
How to Become a Data Scientist in 2020: Introduction
Data science has been one of the trendiest topics in the last couple of years. But what does it take to become a data scientist in 2020?
In a nutshell, here are the latest research results that we have found:
The typical data scientist is a male, who speaks at lea... | ['Careers', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning'] |
CEO / Founder at Exploratory(https://exploratory.io/). Having fun analyzing interesting data and learning something new everyday.
Follow | ['Storytelling', 'Poverty', 'Data Visualization'] |
Once the script is available, you should outline things like shortest route to completion (as shown above), alternate paths and decision trees, account linking process etc.
The general architecture involves ASK (Alexa Skills kit) and various serverless components like Lambda and DynamoDB. Alexa Custom Skill is used to... | ['Api Gateway', 'AWS', 'Lambda', 'Serverless Architecture', 'Serverless'] |
Recoil: A New State Management Library Moving Beyond Redux and the Context API
A full introduction to Recoil, an experimental state management library for React applications
Recoil data-flow graph for state management — Photo by the author.
Available since May 2015, Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScr... | ['React', 'Programming', 'Reactjs', 'JavaScript', 'Recoil'] |
SQL Crash Course Ep 1: What Is SQL? How Can I Start Selecting Data?
Covering SQL best practices, SELECT, FROM, WHERE, AND/OR, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, and more…
Overview
We’re going to learn what SQL is, what we can use it for, and then we’re going to start writing some basic queries for selecting and filtering data from... | ['Sql', 'Database', 'Python', 'Data', 'Data Science'] |
How to biohack your intelligence — with everything from sex to modafinil to MDMA
Other deep-dive articles by Serge:
Update: Jan 2019
Author’s note: I have been thinking a lot since I wrote this article. I deliberately made it very aggressive because I wanted people to talk about it and to pay attention. But some of ... | ['Health', 'Personal Development', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
“Did you ever know that you’re my hero, and everything I would like to be? I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath my wings.” — Bette Midler, Wind Beneath My Wings
On Thursday, September 19, 2019, singer and actress Bette Midler posed a question on Twitter asking if Beyoncé’s followers, known as t... | ['Politics', 'Black Women', 'Race', 'Beyonce', 'Music'] |
1. Java is to Javascript like car is to carpet
I love this one because it summarizes the Java vs. JavaScript story perfectly. Most of you know that Java and Javascript are two entirely different things, despite their names, but many beginners get confused by it.
So why are they named this way?
From an interview with... | ['Programming', 'Humor', 'Software Development', 'Funny', 'Productivity'] |
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.” -Robert Mckee
In this article, using small stories, I will try to explain the concepts of ensemble machine learning.
In recent times, I haven’t found any Kaggle competition-winning solution which doesn’t have ensemble machine learning. So, it might ... | ['Data Analysis', 'Stories', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Should I really be reviewing this movie?
Most people don’t believe that the rapture will occur. What if there was evidence to prove that it will? — Before the Wrath
These are the words and the thought that this movie, Before the Wrath, begins with.
When I was presented with the opportunity to review this movie, I wo... | ['Prophecy', 'Christianity', 'Movies', 'Review', 'Creativity'] |
Think about the last time you looked to a visualization to determine what to believe about the world, or how to act. For those of us who have been watching COVID-19 data accumulate, the answer might be “twenty minutes ago.” Even in the absence of a global pandemic, it’s common to look to visualizations in science, gove... | ['Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Bayesian Statistics', 'Bayesian Inference'] |
Man, if “Coward” is indicative of what to expect of Brazil’s Aborn, then count me as someone who wants to hear more. The song is ferocious and you’re going to want to hear it again on the first listen.
The São Paulo band is made up of Isabela Moraes on drums, Tamy Leopoldo on bass, Taty Kanazawa on vocals and guitar a... | ['Brazil', 'Heavy Metal', 'Feminism', 'Death Metal', 'Music'] |
Beautiful and Easy Plotting in Python — Pandas + Bokeh
A single line of code to create an interactive plot from Pandas dataframe to Bokeh
Although Matplotlib can satisfy all our needs when we want to plot something in Python, it is sometimes time-consuming to create a beautiful chart using it. Well, sometimes we may ... | ['Python', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pandas'] |
The exit polls from the 2020 presidential election indicate that self-identified, White, evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump at a rate of about 7.6 out of every 10. This is actually a reduction from 2016 when they voted for him at a rate of about 8.1 out of every 10.
White evangelical support for Donald Trum... | ['Society', 'Christianity', 'Politics', 'Donald Trump', 'Evangelicals'] |
Inverting Dependencies: A Step Towards Hexagonal Architecture
How to take the first step towards hexagonal architecture from a traditional layered architecture
Photo by Glauco Zuccaccia on Unsplash
“You must understand that when you marry a framework to your application, you will be stuck with that framework for the... | ['Architecture', 'Dependency Inversion', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Startup'] |
In this article, I am discussing an educational project work in the fascinating field of Data Science while trying to learn the ropes of Data Science. This write-up intends to share the project journey with the larger world and the outcome.
Data science is a discipline that is both artistic and scientific simultaneous... | ['Data Imputation', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pandas', 'Data Exploration'] |
POETRY
Radian
A free-verse poem
GIF by Lucas Vieira on Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
Hearing in arcs
and with the convex
of my eye
there is a sound for shapes
In the kinetic opus
feelings join trajectories
where chest rises in angles,
where beats clash in taut air
under low frequency of bone
and hot vib... | ['Poetry', 'Connection', 'Retrofuturism', 'Emotions', 'Music'] |
5 Common Mistakes Everyone Makes in Social Media Marketing
Things to keep in mind to get the results you want.
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash
What comes to mind when you think of social media marketing?
This is what most beginners would say: Just make an attractive-looking creative or click a nice photo and post it... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Branding', 'Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
I am new to Typescript but I didn’t realise its importance until I actually used the array functions while trying to refactor the code of an application that I am developing.
Let us learn how we can code productively using these array methods.
Here I will explain three methods that I personally deemed the most useful... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Web Development', 'Arrays'] |
From TypeScript to WebAssembly in few steps
How to build your first Program in WebAssembly
Photo by Pixabay
In this article, I will show you how to compile a TypeScript program to WebAssemby that prints the factorial of a number.
I will write it using TypeScript and then compile it with AssemblyScript, which compil... | ['JavaScript', 'Webassembly', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'Wasm'] |
Build a Multi Digit Detector with Keras and OpenCV
Doing cool things with data!
Introduction
Numbers are everywhere around us. Be it an alarm clock or the fitness tracker or a barcode or even a well packed delivery package from Amazon, numbers are everywhere. With MNIST data set, machine learning was used to read si... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
https://youtu.be/TaAtSpbHBIA
I have a new elliptical machine on order. In the mean time, and since I had a little bit of extra time due to the elliptical being down, I tried to concentrate on working to fatigue, if not failure, on the Gorilla Bow. I did five second holds in each of the four exercises. The only one whe... | ['Seniors', 'Health', 'Life', 'Fitness', 'Strength'] |
Sorting Algorithms in Python
Implementations and Explanations
We are going to look at 4 different sorting algorithms and their implementation in Python:
Bubble Sort
Selection Sort
Insertion Sort
Quicksort
Photo by Edu Grande on Unsplash
1. Bubble Sort
Time complexity: O(n²)
Implementation
def bubble(lst):
n... | ['Algorithms', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Quicksort', 'Sorting Algorithms'] |
These are key questions asked by Shekinah Elmore, MD, who wrote an essay about helping her father through his prostate cancer diagnosis. Medical racism is a problem in this country, and because of it, doctors did not initially empathize or treat Elmore’s father in a correct, respectful manner. But when Elmore arrived, ... | ['Race', 'Cancer', 'Health'] |
Photo by Ferenc Almasi on Unsplash
Lately, I have been working on a logging API that logs different levels of events for my personal applications. Thinking about future plans for this API, the goal is to create CI/CD pipelines within Jenkins.
Within those pipelines, it would be really nice to change the configuration... | ['Json', 'Programming', 'API', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
Photo by Vlada Karpovich from Pexels
“A language that doesn’t affect how you think about programming is not worth learning ” — Alan Perlis
Python is one of the most top Ranked programming languages in the Modern World. It is a High-Level Language. Syntax In the Python is similar to the English Language. Python has us... | ['Python3', 'Programming', 'Functional Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
Let’s check how “Gender” and “Geography” are related to customer churn. One way is to use the groupby function of pandas.
df[['Geography','Gender','Exited']].groupby(['Geography','Gender']).agg(['mean','count'])
Finding: In general, females are more likely to “exit” than males. The exit (churn) rate in Germany is hig... | ['Data Analysis', 'Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Debby was his niece, which makes sense, because it is a better name for a niece than a lover, if you’re writing a jazz arrangement.
Also, Bill Evans owned a racehorse named “Annie Hall,” and was a grade-A genius and also a tragic, tragic drug addict, like Miles Davis and Chet Baker and John Coltrane and Billie Holiday... | ['Bill Evans', 'Music', 'Jazz'] |
Too many categories
It’s commonly said that pie charts can’t display too many variables/categories. And that’s absolutely true.
Many recommend that a pie chart should have a maximum of 5~6 slices.
But it’s not as simple as that. The maximum amount of categories in a pie chart depends a lot on the values displayed an... | ['Data Visualization', 'Pie Charts', 'Design', 'Data Science', 'Charts'] |
Days passed. I was taking Ibuprofen 800 and extra strength Tylenol around the clock but it hardly puts a dent in the pain. I contacted the doctor asking for seven more Vicodin so I’m able to take one at bedtime for the next week.
I knew that if I could rest well at night I would have more tolerance for the pain during... | ['Health', 'Culture', 'Politics', 'History', 'Life'] |
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Rough and ready smoothed the age of the thing hidden
in plain sight for those who will never see the diamond
and for those who can
Beam through cold black night
the star of morning not just another any other
A bending force of nature lover, skipping through
caught like a gentle tug at the elbow
Come, walk this w... | ['Love', 'Prose', 'Future', 'Poetry', 'Dont You'] |
I could just list a bunch of resources, but, although there is certainly no shortage of excellent content on the topic, there’s a reason I’m not doing that.
Hear me out. I’ve had this conversation over and over — each time with the same disappointing result:
Person X and I talk about work. Person X expresses their de... | ['Machine Learning', 'K Means Clustering', 'Neural Networks', 'AI', 'Learning'] |
Content marketing is a powerful tool for building trust between your business and your potential customers. Many business owners and marketers worry about oversharing. What if you give all of your best stuff away, and people just take your content to solve their own problems?
Who is Your Ideal Customer?
When thinking... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Email Marketing', 'Business', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
The Nitty-Gritty:
How career coach Kerri Twigg is using LinkedIn to generate more than 30 requests for services per day
The process she uses to vet new connections and establish a relationship with the people she connects with
How she creates content that immediately communicates who she is and what makes her differ... | ['Social Media', 'Podcast', 'Business', 'Small Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Re-Thinking Our Relationship to Technology
Plain and simple, technology is NOT neutral. Many of us have seen ‘The Social Dilemma’ on Netflix — flawed, but accurate mostly — but to think that our new era of social media proliferation does not have a negative side is to deny reality. We CANNOT continue to allow this uni... | ['Future', 'Change', 'Progress', 'Technology', 'Essay'] |
How many musicians (or wannabe musicians) can honestly say that The Rolling Stones went to one of their concerts? Not many…but I’m one of them. Unfortunately, the story’s not exactly as glamorous as it sounds. In fact, it was a disastrous affair I’d rather have played for an audience of no people. Here’s how it happene... | ['Life Lessons', 'Culture', 'Life', 'Rolling Stones', 'Music'] |
Interactive Data Visualization
Creating interactive plots and widgets for Data Visualization using Python libraries such as: Plotly, Bokeh, nbinteract, etc…
Data Visualization
Data Visualization is a really important step to perform when analyzing a dataset. If performed accurately it can:
Help us to gain a deep un... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
What 10 Years of Green Smoothies Taught Me About the Art of Healthy Eating
Let’s take willpower out of the equation…
Image by NatureFriend from Pixabay.
Spinach, kale, celery, cucumber, apple, ginger, and turmeric.
This is the rather intimidating list of ingredients I’ve been ingesting in the form of a green smooth... | ['Nutrition', 'Food', 'Willpower', 'Health', 'Self'] |
Review: Cro-Mags’ “2020”
The soundtrack of this turbulent year is here and the Cro-Mags are leading the charge
Courtesy of Mission Two Entertainment
The year 2020 has been a harsh one on us all, it’s exposed the nightmarish realities that the government and the elite are willing to put us, the rightful citizens of t... | ['Review', 'Music', 'Magazine', 'Punk'] |
Create & Execute your First Hadoop MapReduce Project in Eclipse
A step-by-step guide for creating a Hadoop MapReduce Project in Java
This article will provide you the step-by-step guide for creating Hadoop MapReduce Project in Java with Eclipse. The article explains the complete steps, including project creation, jar... | ['Mapreduce', 'Eclipse', 'Java', 'Hadoop', 'Data'] |
Tourniquet’s 2003 album Where Moth and Rust Destroy is definitely a metal album.
I know a lot of people will groan out loud when they hear Tourniquet is a Christian metal group, if they didn’t know so already. That’s to be expected, Christian music on the most part doesn’t have a reputation for being very good.
Tourn... | ['Christianity', 'Christian Rock', 'Music Review', 'Thrash Metal', 'Music'] |
The Challenge
Create a function that converts a list to a two-dimensional “list of lists” where each nested structure is a specified equal length.
Here are some example inputs and expected outputs:
# INPUT LIST: [1,2,3,4,5,6]
# INPUT SIZE: 3
# OUTPUT: [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] # INPUT LIST: [1,2,3,4,5]
# INPUT SIZE: 2
#... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
10/14/94, New Orleans, LA, McAlister Auditorium, Tulane University
I haven’t written a Phish essay here in nearly a year. Don’t worry, I didn’t stop liking Phish — in fact, I somehow managed to see 7 shows in 5 different states in 2016, the last of which I was honored to review for Phish.net. But even as I kept up wit... | ['Phish', 'Music'] |
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own, and represent no one but myself…. They come from the experience of participating in the development of fully operational sample connectors, available on: github.
If you missed the latest post talking about how Apache Atlas and Data Catalog structure their metadata, please... | ['Big Data', 'Kafka', 'Compliance', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Aspirational Nesters: The Key Consumer Group You Need to Get to Know
Americans are spending more time in their homes and more home-focused on their spending than ever before. What does this mean for businesses going forward?
Photo by Alexander Dummer on Unsplash
OVERVIEW
Who doesn’t love a good buzzword? 2020 h... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Covid 19', 'Small Business', 'Economics'] |
Introduction
As someone who lives and works in a Spanish city 400km away from home, I have found that the most convenient way to travel back and forth is to resort to the train. As a frequent user I have grown baffled of the pricing pattern upon buying the tickets, moving sometimes along the same levels, while others ... | ['Python', 'Pricing', 'Renfe', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization'] |
Photo by Megan Nixon on Unsplash
Natural language question answering by AI systems has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years thanks to the emergence of powerful new language models trained using the enormous volume of text available on the internet. Their success comes with a catch, however; the web text they use ... | ['AI', 'NLP', 'Bias', 'Language Modeling', 'Stereotypes'] |
What It’s Like to Have an Anti-Vaxxer Mom
At 25, I’m getting vaccinated—and confronting my mom’s lies
Photo: baona/Getty Images
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines seem to be on everyone’s minds. For me, they have a complex history. My mother was an anti-vaxxer.
At 12 years old, I watched as my classmat... | ['Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Vaccines', 'Family'] |
2. DIGITAL annotations on PHYSICAL books
You are reading a book — a physical one; it might be a novel, a technical, or textbook. You are at an important point/ paragraph where you need help or you need to comment on/ with a question or explanation.
image: pixabay
Imagine the following scenario:
You use your smartph... | ['Innovation', 'Software Development', 'Ideas', 'Startup', 'Tech'] |
A Multi-Millionaire Mentored Me for 13 Years: Here is What I Learned
Learning from him is one of the great privileges of my life
Photo by Étienne Beauregard-Riverin on Unsplash
Full disclaimer: I am not a millionaire. But I was mentored by one for 13 years. Here is what I learned.
The lessons were sometimes controv... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Self Improvement', 'Money', 'Life Lessons'] |
A step-by-step guide to Data Visualizations in Python
Create great-looking professional visualizations in Python using Matplotlib, Seaborn, and much more packages
Image by Pixabay on Pexels
Data Visualization
Data Visualization is the graphical representation of Data. It involves producing efficient visual elements... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Education', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization'] |
EC2 is one of the most popular AWS offering. It provides the capabilities of:
Renting Virtual Machines (EC2)
Storing data on the virtual drives (EBS)
Distributing load across machine (ELB)
Scaling a service using auto-scaling group (ASG)
ssh to the instance
Note: Ensure write permission to certificate file (chmod... | ['AWS'] |
This blog was originally published on Cosmic JS.
In this installment of the Cosmic JS Developer Spotlight Series, we sat down with Sumit Kharche, a Full Stack Software Developer residing in Pune, India. Sumit is an active member of the Cosmic JS Community, having recently built the new React Static Blog, which is avai... | ['React', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'API', 'Developer'] |
Dear Sia, You Might Be Autistic
Undiagnosed autistic people almost always share the widespread outdated and stereotypical views of autism. It takes a diagnosis for most of us to discover what “spectrum” really means.
Sia at The Parish club, Austin, Texas, 2006.
We have a lot to learn from the Sia autism film controv... | ['Entertainment', 'Music', 'Autism', 'Culture', 'Disability'] |
I saw Bruce Springsteen live for the first time on his “Chicken Scratch” tour. The date was April 30, 1976; the venue, Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama. Springsteen was between his Born to Run tour and the release in 1978 of his follow-up record, Darkness on the Edge of Town. He had reached national fame in 1... | ['The Riff', 'Bruce Springsteen', 'Concerts', 'Alabama', 'Music'] |
How to Improve AI Product Testing
To be successful, an AI pilot needs to go beyond the minimum viable product requirements of standard IT projects
By Thomas H. Davenport and Rudina Seseri
*Reposted from the MIT Sloan Management Review
One of the key attributes of the lean startup approach popularized by Steve Blank... | ['AI', 'Product Development', 'Product Design', 'Machine Learning'] |
Clients connect to Google, Amazon, Flipkart more often because it is fast. Headquartered in any part of the world, how come at any place, the webpage shows up without any delay? The contents of the web page, even the images and all the graphics show up in less than a second.
How it happens?
All of this is possible wi... | ['Terraform', 'Cloudfront', 'AWS', 'Aws Ec2', 'Terraform Cloud'] |
Guidance
Publication Conduct Guidelines
Rules of engagement and cross-pollination at three levels
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If you want to be a successful writer, you need to understand the rules of engagement for our publication and the overall platform.
The purpose of this post is to make our publicat... | ['Relationships', 'Business', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing'] |
Tim Peacock
Pioneering US horror punks Misfits’ lengthy career hasn’t yielded chart placings and industry awards, but their influence has spread like a virus. The band’s colourful backstory includes splits, squabbles and enough hair-raising antics to service a series of biopics, but they’ve been championed by Metallic... | ['Music', 'Metal', 'Features', 'Culture', 'Pop Culture'] |
The legacy of Jeffersonian Democracy is still radical today.
Photo by Ashton Bingham on Unsplash
Jeffersonian democracy is characterized by an agrarian economy made up of small property owners; a decentralized government that derives its strength from the community; and individual responsibility for the environment. ... | ['America', 'Society', 'American History', 'Politics', 'History'] |
Out of all the complaints one could possibly have about an album, “too short” is probably the most flattering one for an artist. boygenius, the first EP from the trio of the same name, is an insight into the deepest parts of three anxious young minds who are as often eerily similar than vastly different. One could expe... | ['Music', 'Music Review', 'Boygenius', 'Album Review', 'Album'] |
Machine Learning is the art of teaching machines to make decisions from the data. There are multiple algorithms that help computers to analyze data and get valuable insight, and thus assisting it to make the decision on new data sets that it hasn’t seen before. Most of these algorithms fall into one of these three cate... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Supervised Learning', 'Classification', 'Data Science'] |
Old Nick was sitting at his desk looking over a section of the list his secretary handed him.
The rumor was he checked it twice. In reality he checked it far more often, and he had the final call. The price of being the boss.
He sat there examining one of the names. The kid was on a bit of a bad streak lately but he ... | ['Creativity', 'Relationships', 'Short Story', 'Life', 'Fiction'] |
We need to talk about the messiness of Black History Month 2019, and how much we miss the gorgeousness that bedazzled last year’s celebration, when the vibrancy of the months leading to the highly-anticipated release of the cultural phenomenon that was and still is Black Panther, provided the primal unification of Blac... | ['Media', 'Nicki Minaj', 'Culture', 'Black Women', 'Music'] |
There Is No “Safe Amount” of Cigarette Smoking
New research indicates that even a few cigarettes a day can cause extensive damage
Photo by Sajjad Zabihi on Unsplash
There may be a perception among many in the general public that, while heavy smoking is recognized as a problem that causes lung disease, smoking “a lit... | ['Smoking', 'Vaping', 'Health', 'Medicine', 'Research'] |
Although the majority of Pichwais are associated with particular festivals, a large member of hangings have seasonal themes and are not assigned to special days. These capture the mood of the season and provide relief from the scoring heat or piercing cold. They may be hung at any time during the appropriate season.
W... | ['India', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'Art', 'Iskon'] |
Infographic is a visual representation of data intended to present information clearer and more engaging way.
Follow | ['Data Journalism', 'Infographics', 'Nobel Prize', 'Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Novel coronavirus caused a terrible epidemic to sweep the world. In the face of the epidemic situation, we can see that different countries have taken different anti-epidemic measures, and whether it is “external loosening internal tight”, “internal loosening and external tightening” or “Chinese style”, different effec... | ['Policy', 'China', 'Health'] |
Gustav Mahler, c. 1900
I’ve decided to honor the decision by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw to have an online version of the Mahler Festival by offering my favorite performances of the symphony that the festival is broadcasting each day.
Gustav Mahler ascended to the throne of the condu... | ['Mahler', 'Donato Cabrera', 'Las Vegas Philharmonic', 'California Symphony', 'Music'] |
As of today, pollution is already killing as many as nine million people annually. By 2050, it is estimated that sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America will generate more than 140 million climate refugees, as I touched on in my previous blog post. Other major cities will also be evacuated, including Miami, N... | ['Animals', 'Global Warming', 'Climate Change', 'Animal Rights', 'Science'] |
Relaxing Your Muscles Can Relax Your Mind
Progressive muscle relaxation therapy is one of the simplest science-backed treatments for anxiety
Credit: Delmaine Donson / Getty Images
During the early days of the novel coronavirus outbreak, doctors in China noticed that many people hospitalized with Covid-19 were develo... | ['The Nuance', 'Anxiety', 'Stress', 'Therapy', 'Health'] |
Hello friends, it’s me Adam. Welcome back to Small Batches. I introduced the 12 factor app in the previous episode along with areas where I think it may be improved. I’m calling these improvements the “12.1 factor app”. So new features and fixes, but no breaking changes; more like clarifications. I’m going to cover the... | ['DevOps', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Sre'] |
Is it a good illustration? Let’s read the Wikipedia problem definition and see if a picture of a lock would help us to understand what’s going on:
The problem which mutual exclusion addresses is a problem of resource sharing: how can a software system control multiple processes’ access to a shared resource, when each ... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Concurrency', 'Learning To Code', 'Mutex'] |
Silk and InfoTimes have partnered up to offer a series of free webinars and hands-on sessions to journalists who want to hack their data skills.
To sign up: register here. http://goo.gl/forms/LJnwvSqjyI
The webinars will teach journalists how to master the data publishing platform Silk. With Silk, data journalism is ... | ['Infotimes News', 'Journalism', 'Data Visualization'] |
“Bitcoin, Ethereum,altcoins, ICO’s, moon, tokens, miners, state regulation etc”
Too many buzz words.We got really entertained in the last 1 year but we still don’t understand how they matter to us in the long run and how they can transform the world.
Definitions:
Blockchain:(wiki)
Blockchain was invented by Satoshi... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Future'] |
Written with Jason Tashea for the Harvard Shorenstein Center and New America.
If the promise of artificial intelligence is to make systems smarter and more efficient, there may be no better candidate than the US criminal justice system. On any given day, close to half a million people — many whose charges will ultimat... | ['Law', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data', 'Criminal Justice Reform', 'Machine Learning'] |
America Returns to Its Violent Normal
Violence is only permissible here when it’s state-sanctioned
Police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 29, 2020. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
I find myself once again struggling with the American definition of violence. With who gets to define what violence is, and what it loo... | ['Politics', 'Justice', 'Society', 'Police', 'Race'] |
Feature flags allow you to slowly rollout a feature gradually rather than doing a risky big bang launch and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment.
At Optimizely, we commonly use feature flags to reduce the risk of complicated deploys like rebuilding UI dashboar... | ['Software Development', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'Continuous Integration', 'Feature Flags'] |
Following Through
We’ve all got half-finished projects in our Github, here’s how to make sure your next project doesn’t become one of them
Photo by Niyas Khan on Unsplash
In my last two posts (which you can access here and here) I talked about some of the steps I took to execute a project.
In the first, I discussed... | ['Data Science', 'Development', 'Technology', 'Computer Science', 'Software Development'] |
The project at hand was subjected to both cases above — the AWS platform was a big shift for the application and required rethinking its architecture. Rapid prototyping was necessary to make quick progress but experimenting with various architectures left a big mess behind. Also, the team was relatively new to infrastr... | ['AWS', 'Terraform', 'DevOps', 'Infrastructure As Code', 'Continuous Integration'] |
Blockchain Music Platforms: A New Paradigm
Facilitating the self-reliance of recording artists and incentivizing listeners using blockchain technology and smart contracts.
Until Infinity
Decentralized platforms give more power to the individual. A music ecosystem without intermediaries and authorities allows artists... | ['Hip Hop', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Podcast', 'Music'] |
What About Different Personalities, Cultures, and Backgrounds?
Surely, not everybody is suited to work with everybody, right?
When depicting a successful team, we usually assign roles to people. We might think that we need one leader and the others should follow. Then we need one smart person, one brave person… the t... | ['Team Management', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Teamwork', 'Programming'] |
Well, it seems this number keeps jumping higher and higher. There was a clearer method of listening this year, with more time at home to set a practice around all things, listening was no different. On Friday mornings, I would set aside a couple of hours for discovery — something I’d neglected to do consistently last y... | ['Albums Of The Year', 'Music'] |
VII. Access your Raspberry Pi using Terminal
Now that we have our Raspberry Pi IP address, we can access it.
Go to your terminal and paste the following script.
ssh pi@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx *your raspberry pi IP address*
Terminal will ask you for the password. The default password for Raspberry Pi is “raspberry”.
When yo... | ['Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Raspberry Pi', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
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