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Plotly has a new member of the Plotly.js chart family: The Sankey diagram. Allow us to introduce you:
A Sankey diagram showing changing voter views. The Python code to make this chart is in this Jupyter notebook: https://plot.ly/~alishobeiri/1591/plotly-sankey-diagrams/
Sankey diagrams were invented to chart energy f... | ['Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Physics', 'Website Traffic', 'D3js'] |
Went to a party / I danced all night / I drank sixteen beers / And I started up a fight
~Dead Kennedys, “Too Drunk To Fuck”
Close your eyes / And forget your name / Step outside yourself / And let your thoughts drain / As you go insane, insane ~Slayer, “Seasons in the Abyss”
You know I’m born to lose, and gambling’s... | ['Rock', 'Heavy Metal', 'Featured Rock', 'Music', 'Photography'] |
Did you find this article interesting?
If you liked it and if you feel like it, leave some claps to help whoever wrote it to pay his Lamborghini Urus.
Thank you! | ['Comics', 'Cartoon', 'Illustration', 'Music', 'Drawing'] |
Summer in the Bronx
And love, unspeakable love.
Photo by Kaique Rocha via Pexels
For what seemed like countless summers of my upbringing, I’d be shipped off to my family in New York, specifically, the Bronx, in order to find some semblance of relief from boredom and the murderous heat of Savannah, Georgia. I’d count... | ['Creative Non Fiction', 'Bisexual', 'Childhood', 'LGBTQ', 'Music'] |
Recently I was reading some articles, in order to stay ahead of the latest trends within the ecosystem of my favorite framework Ruby on Rails, and I came across an article that read: “There is absolutely no technical needs for RoR devs to use ReactJS “. Clearly it was something that caught my attention, and I had a que... | ['React', 'Software Development', 'Components', 'Programming'] |
There are a number of good thoughts here and a lot of confusion. Sander Huijsen, you have a good point but your technical history is a bit weak. That is not unusual and is not critical to what you are saying, I think, but it does open up the door for people to throw things at you. In an effort to be helpful I’ve found ... | ['Blockchain', 'Internet', 'Culture', 'Future', 'Social Media'] |
How to Stop an Attacker From Hurting You
Use the human body to buy you time to run
Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash
The city of Dallas, like many other major cities worldwide, has had a high incidence of deadly home invasions over the last several years and this continues to be a problem for the Dallas residents ... | ['About', 'Better Living', 'Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life'] |
‘Wind tunnels’ provide a testing ground for faster feedback loops
Developing ML products shares some surprising parallels with developing a Formula 1 car. The costs of delivering a race car to the track and a web-scale ML product to production are both high. To manage costs, Formula 1 teams don’t have every race car p... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'User Experience', 'Technology', 'Product Development'] |
Facebook Loosens its Ban on Cryptocurrency Ads
As reported by CoinTelegraph, Facebook is allowing some cryptocurrency ads to be promoted as long as they go through an application to be approved. The ads were originally banned in January 2018. Facebook stated that the ads were “associated with misleading or deceptive p... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto Minute', 'Blockchain', 'Facebook', 'Bitcoin'] |
The mysterious arrival of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during the winter of 2020 was an unexpected plot twist that impacted millions of individuals and businesses around the world. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, global economies started to crash as retail shops shut their doors, massive waves of employees... | ['Fundraising', 'Money', 'Software Development', 'Charity', 'Coronavirus'] |
By now you’ve probably heard of Persado. It’s the software that writes your copy for you, and (it says) can do it better — claiming to outperform human-crafted messages 100% of the time. For the (roughly) five thousand years that humans have been writing, we like to think we’ve gotten pretty good at it. So can a comput... | ['Future', 'Persado', 'Copywriting', 'Advertising'] |
Mobile apps have taken center stage at Foxintelligence. After implementing CI/CD workflows for Dockerized Microservices, Serverless Functions and Machine Learning models, we needed to automate the release process of our mobile application — Cleanfox — to deliver features we are working on continuously and ensure high q... | ['Android', 'AWS', 'Technology', 'DevOps', 'iOS'] |
“Mr. Jones used to live there.”
“The Kaminski kids used to play on this corner. Joe Blum used to stay next door.”
Or maybe, it was someone in your family. Maybe it was your entire family.
A new problem–what to do for the children made orphans by the Spanish influenza epidemic–is facing Washington today. —The Washing... | ['Culture', 'Politics', 'Health', 'History', 'Pandemic'] |
Don’t Lose Hope for the Planet
Indigenous peoples haven’t, and neither should we
by AJAI RAJ
“Doom. Gloom. All I ever hear.”
— Case, Neuromancer by William Gibson
I’ll be the first to admit it: reading and writing about climate change can be a real drag. Not only does the news seem uniformly bad — a relentless mar... | ['Defiant Science', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
A method to select either a condensed data table or the complete data table.
One of the features that I wanted for the data table was the ability to show a “condensed” version of the table as well as the complete data table. Therefore, I included a radio button in the layouts.py file to select which version of the tab... | ['Dash', 'Dashboard', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science'] |
As an aspiring machine learning engineer, I always tell people that I like to make computers think like humans.
Image by DS3 Marketing Team
…Okay, I knew I couldn’t fool you. To tell you the truth, what we do isn’t anything fancy, and it’s certainly not magic. This isn’t to say that what ML can accomplish isn’t remar... | ['Supervised Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'Machine Learni', 'Data Science'] |
The previous project I was working on was dedicated to the construction of a data lake. Its purpose was to inject gigabytes of data from various sources into the system and make it available for multiple users within the organization. As it turned out, it was not always easy to certify if all the data was successfully ... | ['Python Logging', 'Elk', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Vizualisation', 'Code Quality'] |
Azure
No More Mess in my Head Around Phrases Related to Identity in Computing
What is Identity? Azure Active Directory is just Active Directory in Azure? Microsoft Graph is a Data Visualization Framework or What?
Credits of logos for Microsoft.
Identity
What is Identity in Cloud
Identity is a unique identificatio... | ['Azure', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Identity Management', 'Azure Active Directory'] |
Marty Weiner | Pinterest engineer, BlackOps
“Shard. Or do not shard. There is no try.”
— Yoda
This is a technical dive into how we split our data across many MySQL servers. We finished launching this sharding approach in early 2012, and it’s still the system we use today to store our core data.
Before we discuss ho... | ['MySQL', 'Sharding', 'Ec2', 'Zookeeper', 'Engineering'] |
Spark is a very popular framework for data processing. It has slowly taken over the use of Hadoop for data analytics. In memory processing can yield up to 100x speed compared to Hadoop and MapReduce. One of the main advantages of Spark is that no more need to write map reduce jobs. Moreover, the spark engine is compati... | ['Spark', 'Python', 'Data', 'Hadoop', 'Data Science'] |
Last month Michael Dubakov suggested using networks to prioritize features. Now let’s go further and try to turn the idea into a practical framework.
This article is meant as a standalone so reading Michael’s post is a suggestion, not a prerequisite.
What are the prioritization techniques missing?
As a diligent prod... | ['Product Design', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'User Research', 'Product Management'] |
First, let’s be clear about what Big O isn’t. Big O is not going to give you or your team an exact answer on how long a piece of code will take to run. Far from it. As I mentioned earlier, Big O allows us to discuss our code algebraically to get a sense of how quickly it might operate under the strain of large data set... | ['Software Engineering', 'Algorithms', 'Programming'] |
The Tangible Media Group within MIT’s Media Lab is focused on researching human interaction with the gadgets and gizmos around us, and how that technology affects social dynamics. Their research has led to a number of interesting developments that we’ve featured in the past here on Hackster, but this is one you’re eith... | ['MIT', 'Research', 'Social', 'Technology', 'Music'] |
We have refined this design in projects at large European retailers and airlines, and in our own Source AI platform. Today, these enhancements power machine learning and optimization models at scale, enabling our teams to iterate faster and deliver without fear of losing valuable insights.
Establishing Principles
Our... | ['Software Architecture', 'Programming', 'Data', 'Design Patterns', 'Data Science'] |
In recent years, much of the electric vehicle discussion has revolved around Tesla — a luxury EV company that is moving towards a more affordable future thanks to innovations in energy density and manufacturing.
As electric vehicles gain more momentum in the consumer markets, however, this is no longer Tesla racing ag... | ['Investing', 'Electric Vehicles', 'Sustainability', 'Business', 'Transportation'] |
Changing time zones isn’t easy.
Our body is an amazing thing. It can take a lot of stress in multiple situations, and come out the end even stronger. But when it comes to traveling, when we enter new time zones, our body sometimes has a very difficult time adjusting. We begin to have trouble staying awake or falling a... | ['Airports', 'Travel Tips', 'Health', 'Traveling', 'Travel'] |
With AI and Criminal Justice, the Devil is in the Data
In the criminal justice context, it’s easy for bias to creep into risk assessment tools. The devil is in the data.
Vincent Southerland — Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, NYU Law
APRIL 9, 2018 | 11:00 AM
If we have learned anything in... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Bias', 'Data', 'Ai And Civil Liberties', 'Criminal Justice'] |
I set out to try using the Python library BeautifulSoup to get data on the retailers that would be attending a market, as shown on this webpage: https://www.americasmart.com/browse/#/exhibitor?market=23.
What I found, however, was that the BeautifulSoup function (BeautifulSoup(url, ‘html.parser’)) only returned the he... | ['JavaScript', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Jquery', 'Data Science'] |
1) Allow Creators To Run The Inventions
What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers, but also make their ideas livable and concrete. I’ve been working on the Louis Vuitton Foundation for the past decad... | ['Leadership', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Sick employees are being forced to work
When we are sick, we are pressured to still come in and work because we are so behind.
If you have gone into a store, ordered takeout, or visited a gym or salon anytime in the past month, there’s a good chance you were served by someone sick with the coronavirus. I heard from m... | ['Covid 19', 'Work From Home', 'Work', 'Healthcare', 'Society'] |
Creatives communicate through clear visuals and storytelling; we’re typically identified as right-brained thinkers. Digital strategists research, analyze, and manipulate data, activities of the left brain. Just because these traits are associated with these departments, however, does not mean digital strategists aren’t... | ['Analytics', 'Business', 'Creative', 'Marketing', 'UX'] |
Get Excited for a New Era of Feminine Energy
The balance of male and female is tipping and the matriarchy is coming.
Photo by Jackie Parker on Unsplash
For as long as anyone alive can remember, we’ve lived in global patriarchy. Our world leaders are largely men. Women still have not achieved equality in the workplac... | ['Consciousness', 'Culture', 'Feminism', 'Self Improvement', 'Creativity'] |
The Power of the Gut, Outside of the Gut
“The gut is not like Las Vegas. What happens in the gut does not stay in the gut.”
- Dr. Alessio Fasano, Gastroenterologist
There was once a time in the nutritional realm that gut function was considered to solely impact upon digestive disorders, like bloating and constipatio... | ['Health', 'Microbiome', 'Gut Health'] |
CAN ACADEMIA, RESEARCHERS, DECISION MAKERS AND POLICY MAKERS MANAGE THE CHALLENGES OF BROADER COLLABORATION AND PRIVACY TO HARNESS VALUE FROM BIG DATA?
For academia, researchers and decision-makers, and for many other sectors like retail, healthcare, insurance, finance, capital markets, real estate, pharmaceutical, oi... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Information Technology', 'Data Visualization'] |
Why Isn’t Agile Working?
A couple drawings…
I was visiting a relative a couple years ago. My poor cousin (the CEO of an insurance company) had been sold the Agile Silver Bullet ™ and was pissed. He said something like:
It’s a sham! We changed the way we do everything. We brought in consultants. We hired these master... | ['Design', 'Software Development', 'Product Management', 'Agile'] |
Data storytelling - Black Lives Matter!
Introduction
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayron Martin’s murderer. Black lives matter foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK and Canada whose mission is to eradicate white and build local power to intervene in violence... | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'Data Science', 'Storytelling', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization'] |
Lesson to Learn
We get to control how we act and respond to the situation around us. It is our life, and despite how others act or events unfold, we do get to choose what we do.
It is not easy to be upbeat, joyful, and helpful to others when surrounded by pain, uncertainty, or sorrow.
We can choose to be a ray of su... | ['Leadership', 'Business', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons'] |
Evaluation Metrics for Regression Analysis
Methods for quantifying error and assessing predictive performance in regression modeling
Terms to know
These terms will come up, and it’s good to get familiar with them if you aren’t already:
Regression analysis — a set of statistical processes for estimating a continuous... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Statistics'] |
Working on an Open Source Project as a Team
Reflecting on our experience contributing to open source project Reactime
Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash.
Now that our team has launched Reactime version 7.0, we have some time to reflect on our experience contributing to an open source project. Our team was in... | ['JavaScript', 'Open Source', 'React', 'Programming', 'Women In Tech'] |
A method to select either a condensed data table or the complete data table.
One of the features that I wanted for the data table was the ability to show a “condensed” version of the table as well as the complete data table. Therefore, I included a radio button in the layouts.py file to select which version of the tab... | ['Data Science', 'Dash', 'Towards Data Science', 'Dashboard', 'Data Visualization'] |
Best Python IDEs and Code Editors in 2020
Choosing the right tools for a job is critical. Similarly, when starting a new project, as a programmer, you have a lot of options when it comes to selecting the perfect Code Editor or IDE. There are loads of IDEs and Code Editors out there for Python, and in this section, we’... | ['Pycharm', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
How to implement MICE algorithm using Iterative Imputer to handle missing values? Bhuvaneswari Gopalan Follow Nov 17 · 5 min read
Any machine learning model is only as good as the data, so having a complete dataset with proper data is a must to develop a good model. Missing data often plagues real-world datasets, and ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Missing Data', 'Data Engineering', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Preprocessing'] |
Recently I came across a statistic that caught me off gaurd. According to research performed by persuasion expert Daniel Pink in his book “To Sell Is Human,” 41 percent of the average person’s workday consists of influencing, persuading, and convincing the people around us.
This statistic may seem high, but it makes p... | ['Relationships', 'Business', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Photo by Aditya Chinchure courtesy of Unsplash.
“He pointed at me, and I know he wanted me to come up on stage,” said an attractive, drunk, 30ish-year-old woman at Nelly’s concert. As the event manager for the arena, it was my job to kick people out, especially if they tried to rush the stage. Even though I was escort... | ['Work Stories', 'Humor', 'Concerts', 'Backstage', 'Music'] |
Do you know what all the ads are doing on the top and right side of the search results?
At this point, almost everyone uses the internet, and most internet users use search engines to navigate the web, find information, and purchase goods. The goal of most search engines is to deliver the most relevant results for eac... | ['Career Advice', 'Google', 'Certification'] |
NLP on Edinburgh Fringe 2019 data
Web scraping and text analysis of the events taking place during the Edinburgh Fringe
In this post, we dive into the basics of scraping websites, cleaning text data, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). I’ve based the context of this project around the Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s... | ['NLP', 'Data Visualization', 'Edinburgh Fringe', 'Data Science', 'Analysis'] |
The 2020 Stack
This leaves us with open questions. Is there still a role for talented individuals with knowledge and skills that span multiple layers? How do we accommodate the diverse mixture of experience that full stack developers have traditionally brought to the project? How does management fulfill all these need... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', '2020 Stack', 'Startup', 'Full Stack'] |
In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics.” Einstein was undoubtedly a genius and his contributions to science were deserving of such a prestigious award. Being awarded a Nobel Prize is no easy feat. It involves making an outstanding contribution to the sci... | ['Patriarchy', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Gender Equality', 'Racism'] |
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什么是数据问答？
在面向企业用户的商业分析领域，数据是支撑用户决策的重要基础。而传统分析软件往往需要用户具备较强的基础数据知识与技术能力，一些复杂的分析方法与交互方式往往把一大群数据小白拒之门外。相比于复杂的软件交互，自然语言对话是一种门槛更低、效率更高的智能交互方式。随着AI技术的不断发展，大众用户已经在一些民用领域感受到了自然语言交互的便捷，比如个人助理Siri、智能客服机器人等。用户在和机器进行自然语言沟通的过程中无需关注技术细节，只需提出自己的意图或诉求，就可以得到他们所需要的答案。
数据问答是自然语言交互技术在数据分析领域的应用。基于数据问答系统，用户可以对数据集... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Questions Answers', 'Data Visualization'] |
My Own Experience
Back in the day, I worked for a few small firms selling various household products as well as running a promotional campaign for a streaming channel. It was not my choice to promote on Facebook, but I have been using Facebook for the past seven years and had a few courses done in social media marketi... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Research', 'Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
By Lauren Bravo
PHOTOGRAPHED BY ANNA JAY.
So you managed to take a little time off drinking! Congrats! Strike up the band! Lie on the floor and let someone pour Malbec into your mouth through a funnel!
But then what? Once the first hangover has cleared, what’s going to be the legacy of your abstinence?
You may not ... | ['Health', 'Alcohol', 'Healthy Lifestyle', 'Life', 'Drinking'] |
Django is a open-source framework of Python which is unlike any standalone server solution like Spring, Rest API and ASP.Net to name a few.
Like any other MVC framework, Django too uses model-template-view architectural pattern.
As the charter states:
Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the has... | ['Programming Languages', 'Popularity', 'Python', 'Trends', 'Django'] |
There’s a few additions such as extra footswitches for the Boss GT-1, the Digitech Trio+, a mixer and a PolyTune 2 mini.
But mainly, there were a few issues with the previous setup that needed to be addressed while keeping everything battery powered.
Ground Noise
The first issue was that there was tons of resting no... | ['Guitar', 'Guitar Pedals', 'Music'] |
In the previous blog we talked about Simple Data Types in Python, if you want to read about the basic data types in python have a look at the blog: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/data-types-in-python-c23b8178f96d
Lets talk about some more data types in python:
LIST
List is basically a collection of elements of ... | ['Beginners Guide', 'Programming', 'Coding', 'Python'] |
Introduction and Motivation: Click and Upload is a trend these days. Many times we wish to remember and relive the moment spent in that picture. The very first thing that comes to our mind is Where it was clicked! Social Sites upload makes us search internet to come up with good captions. What if we get a caption and d... | ['Image Captioning', 'Machinelearning2020', 'Google', 'Image Recognition', 'Landmarkdataset'] |
A Chopping Conundrum
When any cruciferous vegetables is chopped, crushed, shredded, or chewed, it releases both myrosinase, as well as glucosinolate compounds, that then combine to make sulforaphane. This chemical reaction is exactly what produces the mild burning sensation that we associate with some foods of the mus... | ['Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Healthcare', 'Nutrition', 'Food'] |
From the outset, one of our goals with Flutter was to enable developers to create beautiful user experiences. And every day the worldwide community amazes us with countless apps and experiments that showcase Flutter’s creative potential. Today, we’re pleased to partner with CodePen on a fun series of new challenges to ... | ['Contests', 'Codepen', 'Google', 'Flutter App Development', 'Designer'] |
Where do I begin? How do I begin?
Yes, I was that guy. The “loud mouth” in the Walmart letting everyone know my thoughts on this Covid-thing; just a Chinese-Democrat hoax — like climate change.
I was that guy. Wearing my MAGA hat and going out of my way to shake hands and get in real close to everyone — to show how b... | ['Covid 19', 'Society', 'Perspective', 'Politics', 'Trump Administration'] |
Analyzing shopping trends is a pretty big deal in data science, and market-basket analysis is one way in which that’s done. Techniques in this sub-field seek to understand how buying certain items influences the purchase of other items. This allows retailers to increase revenue by up-selling or cross-selling their exis... | ['Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Education', 'Machine Learning'] |
Metaclasses
As you have just seen, Python’s implementation of abstract classes differs from what you see in other popular languages. This is because abstraction is not part of the language’s grammar. Instead, it is implemented as a library. The next logical question is “Can you do something similar yourself, purely in... | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Algorithms', 'Python3'] |
This guide is the part of An Ultimate Guide to Integrating Your CRM to Grow Sales and Automate Work.
If you don’t know what is Pipedrive, yet, you can test Pipedrive CRM for extended 30 days (normally it’s 14) using this link.
Once you have your Pipedrive set up with your data imported into the system (data import) a... | ['Sales', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Pipedrive', 'CRM'] |
Most European regions back to normal death rates — several regions in Sweden still above Clara Guibourg Follow Aug 24 · 5 min read
As summer nears its end, it’s becoming possible to evaluate the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on European regions over nearly six months.
We’ve analysed data from 776 subnational regions to... | ['Data Journalism', 'Coronavirus', 'Data Visualization'] |
1 | Loading Image Data and Basic Preprocessing
Images will (most of the time) be in a .png or .jpg format. They can be loaded using the cv2 library with image = cv2.imread(file_directory) .
The cv2 library has handy exporting from a cv2 image to a numpy array, done through img = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)... | ['Keras', 'Neural Networks', 'AI', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science'] |
A dusty gaze revealed one map that shows
my inner rivers with their muddy shores
so you can trace me back to my darkest self
you know the walls but I removed the doors
Having the last word comes with heavy trappings
forking out onto a path littered with old deceptions
it sets the stage for acted blessings
to fee... | ['Society', 'Life', 'Self', 'Poetry Sunday', 'Poetry'] |
One hundred and sixteen years before Louisville police fired the 32 rounds that killed Breonna Taylor, a hail of bullets was aimed at another African American woman just south of the city. Mary Dent Thompson, a sharecropper in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, was the target of an extrajudicial killing — like the one that took... | ['History', 'Western States Center', 'Music', 'Open Mic', 'Election 2020'] |
Weighing the Odds
A Reflection on 3 Mind-boggling, Near Impossible Events
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay
“If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.” Ric... | ['Christianity', 'Golf', 'Religion', 'Mindfulness', 'Creativity'] |
Couples Are Rethinking the Idea of Having Kids Because of Climate Change
The future of our children is extremely uncertain.
Photo by Robo Wunderkind on Unsplash
In 2020, we’ve experienced a pandemic, wildfires, and the busiest hurricane season in recorded history. Horrific natural disasters are becoming increasingly... | ['Environment', 'Life', 'Climate Change', 'Parenting', 'Children'] |
Ian McCann
There are examples of records that gave a name to a whole genre (like ʻRapper’s Delight’, which used the term “hip-hop” on wax for the first time), and even a sound system that gave birth to a record label and a style of music, such as Rockers. But there aren’t many records that gave a name and musical outl... | ['Pop Culture', 'Features', 'Culture', 'Soul', 'Music'] |
As the public waits to learn more about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccines, Facebook is working to prevent baseless conspiracy theories from mucking up the discourse. Can the company pull it off?
By Michael Kan
Facebook is preparing to remove misinformation about upcoming COVID-19 vaccines, including conspiracy theories ... | ['Conspiracy Theories', 'Disinformation', 'Facebook', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
With advances in computational power and resources as well as new developed algorithms, AI has stretched its prowess in various domains. Protein folding problem is a difficult challenge in structural biology but recent advances using AI is very promising and might yield the desirable results.
What exactly is the prote... | ['AI', 'Deep Learning', 'Protein Folding'] |
I am crying yellow tears. It has only just occurred to me that summer isn’t here anymore. That my three yellow flowers that went missing must be dead. I walk on the wet cement floor of London and think. Where was I yesterday? When did the fallen flakes of sun become curled up autumn leaves shaking in the anticipation o... | ['Prose', 'Summer', 'Self', 'Poetry', 'Weather'] |
Software Process
A software process (also knows as software methodology) is a set of related activities that leads to the production of the software. These activities may involve the development of the software from the scratch, or, modifying an existing system.
Any software process must include the following four ac... | ['Agile', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Software'] |
Photographers, Here’s How To Get Followers on Instagram
You may know about photography, but you need to learn more about Marketing
Photo by Benjamin Combs on Unsplash
If you’re a photographer, chances are you are active on Instagram.
You’ve listened to all the gurus on YouTube, and you’ve read all the content avail... | ['Instagram', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Photography', 'Social Media'] |
Most people in the modern world have been fed a constant diet of altruism. In a vague sense, we have all accepted it as a virtue. If humanity was more altruistic, the world would be a better place.
I want to argue a slightly different point…
If the world were truly altruistic, we would all be dead.
There was a time ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Ethics'] |
10 alternate ways to spend New Year's Eve stuck in tier 3.
With Thanos, wine, 24 hours parties, and a mini world tour.
Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash
2020 showed us how precious life is, so next year don’t let fear win. Book that flight. Apply for that opportunity, say I love you more. Read those books, start tha... | ['Society', 'Mindfulness', 'Life', 'Culture', 'Self'] |
Interviewing at Google: Key Things (and Languages) to Know
Yes, you could land a job at the search engine giant, if you have the skills.
Many technologists want to work at Google, and with good reason. In addition to handsome compensation and great perks, the search-engine giant offers the opportunity to work on some... | ['Job Interview', 'Technology', 'Google', 'Job Hunting', 'Programming'] |
It started with expensive safes, then began to include bodyguards, and today, “earlies” (our term for early adapters), as well as those rich whose wealth survived the “transition” live in isolated gated cities called Citadels, where most work is automated.
Most such Citadels are born out of the fortification used to p... | ['Satire', 'Future', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Economics'] |
In 2018, Scotland made period products free and accessible in every school, college, and university in the country. The new law will incorporate and solidify this measure. Period products will also be available in all public buildings and facilities.
The legislation is expected to cost around £8.7 million ($11.6 milli... | ['Equality', 'Health', 'Politics', 'LGBTQ', 'Feminism'] |
John Egan | Pinterest engineer, Growth
For many areas of growth, presenting your message with the right hook to pique a user’s interest and to get them to engage is critical. Copy is especially important in areas such as landing pages, email subject lines or blog post titles, where users make split second decisions on... | ['Growth', 'Experiment', 'Klp', 'Engineering', 'A B Testing'] |
A container monitoring system collects metrics to ensure applications running in containers are functioning correctly. Metrics are tracked and analyzed in real-time to determine if an application is meeting expected goals. Container monitoring solution uses metric capture, analytics, performance tracking and visualizat... | ['AWS', 'Telegraf', 'Grafana', 'Influxdb', 'Docker'] |
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DDIntel newsletter for the week of September 28
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By Rodrigo Marino
Times of crisis don’t make an extraordinary entrepreneur less capable, and a product doe... | ['Fintech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Blockchain', 'Technology'] |
DO Breakthrough Seminar. This is the question we ask the most: How do you? It is why we started the DO Lectures. We wanted to find out why some people achieve their potential and share the clues they leave along the way.
Follow | ['Finance', 'Money', 'Future', 'Do Breakthrough', 'Bitcoin'] |
11,000 Scientists Declare a Climate Emergency in One Voice
But an investment banker writing for ‘The National Review’ doesn’t believe them
Photo by Xavier Balderas Cejudo on Unsplash
Early this morning, The National Review Online published an analysis of the United Nations’ 2014 Intragovernmental Panel on Climate Ch... | ['Politics', 'World', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Science'] |
As the country is debating important technology initiatives, and is making technology mandatory in day-to-day governance, we are still unable to understand the shortcomings of the technology itself. An interesting trait which Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman RS Sharma brought into the debate — inci... | ['Technology', 'Books', 'Trai', 'Aadhaar', 'Ethics'] |
Profitability isn’t just about sales volume. Diversification of revenue streams, controlling expenses and maximizing resources also have a direct impact on the bottom line.
A myopic view of company resources could be costing your company money.
As an accountant, I’ve worked with many companies over the years. During ... | ['Work', 'Management', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Finance'] |
Giving up drinking is great
Photo by Nate Johnston on Unsplash
I decided at the beginning of this year to cut back dramatically on my drinking. The main goal, to not be hungover once this entire year. So far so good, and its been great.
I have never been a heavy drinker. Although like most young South Africans, drin... | ['Health', 'Drinking', 'Lifestyle', 'Social', 'Alcohol'] |
I started this publication around a month ago with the goal to create a community where everyone can support each other. Many publications expect that you have the top of the top content and even then some of the stories flop. Here is how we are going to change that:
Every day, depending on the number of stories we ha... | ['Growth', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Banking', 'Writing'] |
We see so many quotes, lists and writings on toxic relationships. And, across every social media brand and platform that I have worked on, toxic relationship content is always the most popular. Why? Because it’s really freaking hard, when you’re in a toxic relationship, to figure out if you’re in a toxic relationship. ... | ['Love', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Health'] |
Zero has special significance for many axis scales. If you are traveling at zero miles per hour then you are standing still. If you have zero dollars then you are broke. The zero line is often emphasized accordingly by making it thick. Willard Cope Brinton explains in 1939’s Graphic Presentation:
The horizontal axis, ... | ['Design', 'Dvhistory', 'Infographics', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Photo by Arek Adeoye / Unsplash
Why walking really is probably the single best thing you can do for your health
Three hours ago, I finally did it. After months of battling a variety of injuries, including fracturing a pinky toe which kept me in a therapy boot and off the trails for nearly three months, I hit the trai... | ['Exercise', 'Walking', 'Health', 'Aging', 'Fitness'] |
5 Must-Discover Hootsuite Apps for Social Media Marketers
5 Phenomenal Hootsuite Add-ons Every Social Media Junkie Should Be Using
Are you a hardcore Hootsuite junkie? Do you use Hootsuite to schedule your social media posts across multiple platforms? If you want to make your time on Hootsuite even better (yes, it’s ... | ['Hootsuite', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
An Unsupervised Mathematical Scoring Model
Unleashing the power of mathematical models
Picture by Geralt on Pixabay
A Mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical equations. The system is governed by a set of mathematical equations that can be linear, non-linear, static, or dynamic. The model c... | ['Analytics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
This article was originally published on blog.healthtap.com on December 14, 2017.
Nothing feels like the holidays more than curling up in front of the fire with a steaming cup of hot chocolate in hand. Hot chocolate is a staple of this time of year, so we’ve come up with a decadent, indulgent hot chocolate recipe that... | ['Chocolate', 'Health', 'Nutrition', 'Holidays', 'Recipe'] |
Taking a deeper dive into React Context API and how it differs from redux
This past week, I wanted to dive into newer technologies in React, study them and practice using them. After redux, I read about React Context API and how it helps with state management. Of course, when I first studied it, it seemed almost exact... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Developer', 'React Context Api', 'Redux'] |
Donald Trump Has Turned America Into a Failed State
He didn’t even have to try that hard.
I read the news today — oh, boy. There was a terrorist attack on Christmas morning. The media has decided to call it a “massive explosion believed to be intentional,” because many of us prefer to live in the shallow comfort of d... | ['Society', 'Politics', 'News', 'Government', 'Opinion'] |
1. DEV Community
It is a great website to stay updated on the trending technologies and what’s the next boom. You can follow topics that you are interested in. Your feed of articles and videos will be generated based on your preferences.
Just go to the website and search for the technology and concept you want to exp... | ['Developer', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Tips And Tricks'] |
How to set default properties in Figma to speed up your workflow
with some drawbacks
While browsing through the Figma support forums, I found a common disdain for the sad, dumpy, default gray that Figma assigns to new object layers created.
Sad dumpy gray
We’ve all seen it. We always go to change the color as soon ... | ['Figma', 'UI', 'Design', 'Software Development', 'UX'] |
Things I learned in one year working as a Software Engineer Gurdip Singh Follow Nov 12 · 4 min read
Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash
It has been over a year, I started working as a software engineer and, the whole year has been a rewarding and learning experience. When I look back, I can already see how much I ... | ['Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Learning To Code', 'Programming'] |
There is a popular quote that occasionally gets tossed around among software developers:
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
— Phil Karlton
When invoked with the intent to emphasize the latter of the two hard things–naming–it is often in response to frustration w... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Naming', 'Naming Conventions'] |
When you are just starting to learn Python, someone may explain to you that you can add your source folder to the PYTHONPATH environment variable, and then your code can be imported from other directories. Very often, the explainer forgets to say that, in most cases, this is a bad idea.
Some people find this on the In... | ['Python', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
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