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My Second Act
After establishing a solid base working on my own, I wanted the extra depth that I could gain from a coding bootcamp. My goal is not only to write working code but also to know why it works so that I can craft more robust applications. I searched for a program that was online-only, had rigorous coursewor... | ['Software Development', 'Ballet', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Women In Tech'] |
Model Objective
Below we will preface the article with a simple introduction of the structure of the model optimization problem (The notation is not robust).
Suppose you have the following model:
Where f(.) is a function that takes features and parameters as input values. The function then returns an output. The par... | ['Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Algorithms', 'Optimization'] |
The economy, immigration, the Irish border.
These were a few of the key topics leading up to the EU referendum vote, and all three continue to be focal points in the ongoing Brexit negotiations between the UK and Brussels. What wasn’t talked about so much, however, was the direct impact that Brexit will have on the ‘d... | ['Brexit', 'Money', 'Energy', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change'] |
The Flavours of APIs 🍦
Exploring Different Types of APIs and When to Use Each
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In today’s tech landscape, APIs are a hot topic. The rise of microservice based architectures opposed to legacy monoliths has further driven the necessity of robust APIs. With microservices, powerful applications are b... | ['API', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'DevOps', 'Software Development'] |
Advertisers who are new to Facebook advertising must be very panicked, so they tend to do some seemingly effective things, but often these things are often people make mistakes.
Mistake #1-No sense of goal
In most cases, this is because you have no idea about the various terms of Facebook advertising optimization.
F... | ['Facebook', 'Social Media', 'Facebook Marketing', 'Facebook Ads', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Google’s own trillion-dollar search engine algorithm is susceptible to false and misleading information. When Devin Patrick Kelley gunned down 26 churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Google spread misinformation thanks to it’s ‘Popular on Twitter’ feature⁷. Google may have put too much trust in unverifiable sources when ... | ['Information Technology', 'Fake News', 'Facebook', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
There is something to be said for the immediacy of using Bash scripts, especially when dealing with relatively simple system operations; however, parsing command line arguments has always been rather cumbersome and usually done along the lines of several painful if [[ ${1} == '--build' ]]; then ... .
And, yes, I know ... | ['Python', 'Coding', 'Tech', 'Bash', 'Programming'] |
How Social Media Has Sabotaged Deep Communication
Writing a personal letter is like stuffing yourself into an envelope to pay a visit. A Facebook post is like waving at someone.
Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash
From the time I was a teen until my forties, the mailman’s visit was the highpoint of my day. Back then m... | ['Email', 'Snail Mail', 'Facebook', 'Friendship', 'Letters'] |
Oh No! We’ve Been Carving our Christmas Turkey Like Amateurs. The golden rule is to carve meat against the grain for max tenderness. But we pull our birds out of the oven every year and do the exact opposite.
Here’s a quick tip that will save you time, provide more tender morsels, and dress up your dinner plates! With... | ['Food', 'Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Cooking', 'Chefs'] |
Five Leading Causes of Plantar Fasciitis
Prepare to be surprised
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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read the disclaimer for more info.
I’ve noticed an incredible amount of confusion within the online plantar fasciitis (PF) community in addressing the pain points. My bigge... | ['Life Lessons', 'Shoes', 'Body', 'Health', 'Plantar Fasciitis'] |
Python programming has various frameworks and features to expand in web application development, graphical user interfaces, data analysis, data visualization, etc. Python programming language might not be an ideal choice for web application development, but is extensively used by many organizations for evaluating large... | ['Python', 'Web Development', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python Programming'] |
Similar to other programming languages we can assign the datatypes to the variables and return types for the functions which makes the system more reliable and easily maintainable.
Before delving into the TypeScript types let us understand the problem that the TypeScript is solving when dealing with enterprise applica... | ['Angular', 'Typescript', 'JavaScript'] |
I do a lot of Twitch related projects here and there, trying to see what the possibilities are. One of my latest projects involved creating a Twitch Emote Extension for Chrome where I showed how to get extra emote “slots” for free. That got me into browser extensions, so I figured let’s show how to make one from scratc... | ['Twitch', 'Chrome', 'Google', 'Extension', 'Programming'] |
The team has spend a lot of time on the AI platform integration in the last few weeks. We have a new project for Game development that has been draining our resources. Another firm has asked us to look at Coin integration in their platform. We have also placed some resources into mining and developing mining pools.
An... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'AI', 'Fintech'] |
Eastern European Nationalism to Find a Fertile Ground in COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 will overwhelm resource-poor eastern EU health systems. In the aftermath, ramped up nationalism and erosion of democracy are a strong possibility. To avert this, the public needs EU leadership and guidance.
Photo: Getty Images
By Ver... | ['Covid 19', 'European Union', 'Pandemic', 'Health'] |
Enterprise UX often deals with solving hard problems. At Juniper, we solve a lot of complex problems around networking everyday and a lot of them involve challenges around displaying large amounts of data.
When designing, working with real data is as crucial as sketching before you begin prototyping something. It surf... | ['Design', 'Data', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Invision', 'Sketch'] |
The visualizations above were created using Folium. Folium allows the user to create geographical visualizations, it can be installed using pip. The visualizations above were created using the following code. It should be noted that the data frame passed to the function contains the net influx or out flux associated to... | ['Python', 'Bikeshare', 'Linear Regression', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
i think you’re confusing me with 9/11
a coronavirus poem
Photo by Flavio Gasperini on Unsplash
you’re trying to
keep everything running, on schedule
denial laced with anger
knocking over
masks in stores — You deserve your
American life, unchanged
forward is the way through
i think you’re confusing me with 9/1... | ['Poetry', 'USA', 'Society', 'Covid Diaries', 'Poem'] |
Odometry
Now that we know one way to calculate the car’s new position, now let’s take a look at another technique to calculate the car’s new position which is called odometry based on motion sensor data. For mobile robots, the values for odometry comes from the sensors located on the wheel which measure how many times... | ['Machine Learning', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Quick Tips to Transform Your Tableau Dashboards
by Sari Nahmad
We’ve all been there. You have spent all week getting the optimal results and now you have a short time to put your results in a presentable form. You can spend hours getting the right answer, but if your delivery isn’t clear then that may overshadow all ... | ['Tableau', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Operations', 'Data Visualization'] |
Written by
Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy. | ['Humor', 'Dance', 'Weather', 'Summer', 'Comics'] |
The Calorie Myth
Calorie counting has become a religion in Western countries — but we’re getting it all wrong
Credit: Andrii Zastrozhnov/Getty Images
Here’s a recipe: Take one bad idea, coat it with a veneer of science, and chow down heartily. It may taste great but the long-term effects on your health include serio... | ['Food Science', 'Diet', 'Food', 'Health', 'Trends'] |
Exploring the changing nature of communication
An Argument for Verified Humans (Part II)
In Part I of this series (linked below), inspired by a quote from a guidebook called Deep Learning with PyTorch (further below), I embarked on a journey toward propositions for (1) verified humans on social media platforms and (2... | ['NLP', 'Communication', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Language'] |
The Need for Metadata Management
According to Gartner “By 2020, most data and analytics use cases will require connecting to distributed data sources, leading enterprises to double their investments in metadata management.”
After reading that statement, you are probably wondering: What does metadata really stand for?... | ['Big Data', 'Metadata', 'Data', 'Data Warehouse', 'Hive'] |
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Code reviews are an excellent tool for maintaining good quality in the codebase but only if done right. Although there is no magic formula to do a code review, in this article we will discuss some good practices you can consider while performing it to get the desired result.
What t... | ['Software Architecture', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Code'] |
Attack of the LinkedIn Inbox
“Can you look at my writing and provide some feedback?”
“Can I have some guidance on your content strategies?”
“Hey, would you review my draft?”
Welcome to my inbox. This is a good chunk of the messages.
There’s a noticeable brazenness with the writing profession, a willingness to hawk... | ['Humor', 'Life', 'Business', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Portfolio website
The first website you will probably ever create as a designer is your own portfolio website. A portfolio website is used to display and promote examples of someone’s past work. Mostly used by those who work within a creative field, a portfolio site is essentially a visual resume. It demonstrates your... | ['Freelancing', 'Design', 'Business', 'User Experience', 'Web Design'] |
No, political interests have not warped the vaccine approval process. Over at Elemental, journalist Tara Haelle spoke with medical experts about the coming Covid vaccine and why we should feel secure that a vaccine’s distribution is a reflection of its efficacy — not a politician’s deep pockets.
“Safeguards are in pla... | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Vaccines'] |
2020 has been widely recognized as the year of change, uncertainty and growth. With each of those, often comes the search for personal value, stability and career development.
Unfortunately in the United States, most Americans work 40+ hour weeks. So it shouldn’t come as a shock when talent is seeking new opportunitie... | ['Careers', 'Leadership', 'Jobs', 'Creativity', 'Education'] |
Hi and welcome back to part 2 of the React context API series. For part one, we talked about how to leverage React’s context API to pass state values to child components. Now, in part 2, we’re gonna look at how do we update the state through Consumers?
Photo by Émile Perron on Unsplash
The repo for this project can b... | ['JavaScript', 'Context Api', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Programming'] |
The disappearance of iron nails
Captain Wallis frequently went ashore with his cartographers to get proper documentation of the island, as was part of his exploratory orders.
He also mingled with the locals and communicated with Tahitian leaders. Outside of the initial fighting, the people were surprisingly kind and ... | ['Health', 'Travel', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'History'] |
The Importance of Nurturing Doubt in an Age of Righteousness
Fiction’s gift to us is the ability to live in the “land of ambiguity.”
Stories allow us to live the questions.
I often remark that we’re living in “the Age of Certainty,” although perhaps the better moniker is “the Age of Righteousness.” The two go hand i... | ['Creative Writing', 'Doubt', 'Reading', 'Creativity', 'Fiction'] |
Section 3 — Running Main Script
With the same dependencies installed and imported earlier, we can proceed to build a script to automate the tedious web scrapping process. I previously mentioned that there are various healthcare professional bodies on the MOH webpage, and they are actually represented with different ab... | ['Selenium', 'Healthcare', 'Python', 'Webscrapping', 'Data'] |
Gratitude
Reasons I’m Thankful this Holiday Season
And reasons why you should practice gratitude.
Photo by Guillaume de Germain on Unsplash
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I’ve been thinking more and more about the reasons I’m thankful this holiday season. It’s important to remember the things you’re thankful for eve... | ['Health', 'Relationships', 'Thankfulness', 'Self', 'Gratitude'] |
Rousseau wearing an Armenian costume (1766), painted by Allan Ramsay
Many intellectuals I have run into have had a rather pessimistic view of the famous Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). From a history professor who saw him as a hypocrite to Jordan Peterson’s damning dismissals, Rousseau seems to ... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Philosophy', 'Enlightenment', 'Criticism'] |
This article will help us to understand how to spin up instances in AWS using the Infrastructure as a Code tool Terraform. Firstly we’ve to know what is Terraform?
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-a-code software tool created by HashiCorp. It enables users to define and provision a data-center infrastruct... | ['AWS'] |
The Sacred Void in the Election
Where do we go once the dust settles down?
Photo by Jon Sailer on Unsplash
As I write this, the 2020 presidential election results are still trickling in. I walk through the living room and see my family watching intently as it unfolds.
“Why are you watching?” I inquire. “You can jus... | ['Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Election 2020', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
We first heard this searing ray of sunshine back in May (or in 1974, when she sang it with Porter Wagoner), and it now has a touchingly cheesy video, in which Dolly Parton — Glinda the Good Witch — unites the entire planet. Dolly Parton for General Queen. (Her Better Day album is out now.)
[Via] | ['Music', 'Dolly Parton', 'Music Videos'] |
He’s right. While the complex engineering that drives the grid in Australia (and every other country) may be impressive, it’s based on a concept that was already outdated — and being overtaken by technological changes — when Australia’s interconnected national grid was completed in 1998.
Disruption was coming from man... | ['Energy', 'Technology', 'Climate Change', 'Science', 'Climate'] |
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1. Plan and Prepare
The fitness champs ensure their balanced meals are pre-prepped to avoid getting hungry and reaching for an unhealthy meal. Do a big cook-up once or twice a week and carry healthy meals and snacks on your person to help avoid temptation.
2. Have Carbs Earlier in the Day
... | ['Health', 'Nutrition', 'Metabolism', 'Fitness Tips', 'Weight Loss'] |
Motives
A very deep neural network that is designed to solve hard problems might take a few seconds to run on modern computers with hardware accelerators for linear algebra operations. Similarly, smaller neural networks that do not take that much time to run, still do not meet realtime constraints. Hardware resources ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Convolutional Network', 'Efficiency', 'Computer Vision'] |
Much has been said recently of the NRA’s hyperbolic statement that doctors need to “stay in their lane.”
The freakoutery over this is thick, and palpable, and almost entirely misses the most important point on both sides, which is that we do in fact need doctors in the most important lane of gun deaths, those being su... | ['Health', 'NRA', 'Politics', 'Guns', 'Mens Health'] |
How I Made Myself a More Valuable Programmer in 6 Months (and How You Can Too)
Set goals, manage your time, learn quickly, and apply immediately
Photo by 30daysreplay Marketingberatung on Unsplash
I came into the Salesforce development industry knowing nothing, absolutely nothing, about Salesforce: how it was used i... | ['Success', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Learning To Code', 'Programming'] |
Currying is a functional programming technique for transformation a function with n parameters into a series of n functions each expecting one argument.
I am exploring for some time the options for enabling currying on functions in JavaScript and how to make it easier to read. Next, we will look at what I found and yo... | ['Development', 'Programming', 'Functional Programming', 'Front End Development', 'JavaScript'] |
What’s Next For Making of a Millionaire In 2021
What we have planned for readers next year
2020 has been an incredible year for this publication. We’ve gone from a small group of writers publishing occasional pieces to one of the largest publications in the personal finance space on Medium.
In the past 30 days Makin... | ['Personal Finance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Money', '2021'] |
By Shayda Rahgozar (Recruiter), Nishant Roy (Engineer) and Indy Prentice (Engineer)
Technical interviews are the key component to landing an engineering role. Everything from preparation to asking the right questions is important for a successful interview. In this post, Pinterest employees from Recruiting and Enginee... | ['Engineering', 'Recruiting', 'Technical Interview'] |
Jobs of the Future are Already Here
The multi-faceted, digitally equipped security guard is one example of change underway
By Tom Davenport and Steven Miller
One of the most frequently-used phrases at business events these days is “the future of work.” It’s increasingly clear that artificial intelligence (AI) and ot... | ['Automation', 'Jobs', 'AI', 'Future Of Work'] |
Johnathan Padilla, Thomas Kidd, and Hadrien Picq are fellows in the TechSoup and ParsonsTKO Summer 2020 Data Strategy Mentorship Program, a select group of upcoming data analysts and scientists to learn more about what the social impact and non-profit analytics sectors look like from industry professionals.
Regex is a... | ['Air Quality', 'Data Cleaning', 'Python', 'Data', 'Regex'] |
The Holiday Olympic Torch
Passing the burning torch of hope
When the world holds the Olympics thousands of people from around the globe carry the Olympic torch, handing it off, one by one, as a symbolic gesture of peace and solidarity. I see the holidays in the same way. I know for many it is a time of stress, for so... | ['Society', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'Humanity', 'Love', 'LGBTQ'] |
The explainer object itself is also a plot factory that you can use to directly make plots inline in your notebook:
Notebook Screenshot. Image Credit: explainerdashboard
Launching from within a notebook
When working inside Jupyter or Google Colab you can use ExplainerDashboard(mode='inline') , ExplainerDashboard(mod... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Explainable Ai', 'Machine Learning'] |
Theft is a common criminal activity that is prevailing over the years and is increasing day by day. To tackle this problem many surveillance systems have been introduced in the market. Some are simply based on video surveillance monitored by a human while some are AI-based capable of detecting suspicious activity and r... | ['Deep Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
What Makes Social Media, Social Media?
In short — People and communication.
Photo by ROBIN WORRALL on Unsplash
Social media is 90% social, 10% media. These technology platforms allow for infinite power and reach. Our work can reach millions within a fraction of a second after hitting the “Post” button. More people c... | ['Communication', 'People', 'Personal Development', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
You don’t have to be a video game fan to appreciate this. No…seriously.
Halo is one of the biggest video game series in history. Master Chief, the main character, is up there with Mario, Pac Man, Solid Snake, and Zelda. Halo 4, the newest chapter in the saga is currently in development and is for sure a highly anticip... | ['Leadership', 'Perspective', 'Time', 'Goals', 'Creativity'] |
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... | ['Dashboard', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash'] |
The 2020 Tech Market
This has been a rather unique year. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we work and connect with each other, while markets around the world dwindle and uncertainties reign. Yet the top ten tech stocks (comprising goods and services in software, electronics, computers, AI, and IT) have given inve... | ['Investing', 'Technology', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Tech'] |
Investing is a crucial way to build wealth and secure financial future. There are numerous ways people may choose to approach investing: stocks, bonds, high-yield savings accounts, real estate and more. You would expect everyone who has disposable income to consider available investment opportunities. Unfortunately, th... | ['Society', 'Women', 'Equality', 'Money', 'Race'] |
Broken supply chains and rising food prices
All countries are currently facing with food price surges and shortages due to broken supply chains. In this turbulent context, it is often impossible to make sure that the remaining agricultural products available on our stalls are actually safe to eat, free from poisonous ... | ['Food', 'Health', 'Health Foods', 'Blockchain', 'Covid 19'] |
Set Up the New VM
Now we need to open a terminal window and connect to the new VM:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/amazon.pem ubuntu@3.135.240.32
The username ubuntu is the default username for VMs with an Ubuntu image. Yours may be different. When it prompts you about whether this is really the server you’re trying to connect to, sa... | ['Docker Compose', 'Docker', 'AWS', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Programming'] |
Time is a common dimension for visualising data and people have created temporal visualisations for a very long time. The ‘earliest known attempt to show changing values graphically’ is a planetary movements chart, shown below, with time running horizontally dating from the 10th or 11th century. The timeline — mapping ... | ['Museums', 'Design', 'Data Visualization', 'History'] |
Physics, Life, and Everything Nice
What a hot cup of coffee tells us about the history of life on Earth
What is life? Life, the empirical phenomenon, is (to use a simple definition) a collection of molecules that are capable of self-replication, with slight mutations. More interesting, however, is to ask: why is life... | ['History', 'Physics', 'Entropy', 'Thermodynamics', 'Science'] |
Joy amidst sorrow —
In 10 Things You Probably Don’t Know about Me, I wrote that people might be surprised to find out that I love traditional Christian hymns like Amazing Grace and It is Well with my Soul.
Have you ever heard It Is Well With My Soul by Phillip Bliss and Horatio Spafford?
The music is deeply sad in t... | ['Family', 'Joy', 'Grief', 'Christmas', 'Music'] |
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... | ['Dashboard', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash'] |
When it comes to the environmental movement, the lyrics to a 1980s hit from Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler keep rattling in my mind.
I need a hero; I’m holding out for a hero ’til the end of the night.
Now, real environmental heroes do exist. Greta Thunberg is a no-brainer. The 16-year-old humbly protested climate change ... | ['Social Change', 'Heroes', 'Greta Thunberg', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
A phenomena of halal celebrities is beginning to arise and is taking the Muslim fashion scene to new levels. Women that we had never heard of are now common names among Muslimahs. These women have mastered social media, display unique fashion sense and some of them even maintain a side business.
Admirers of these vari... | ['Modest Fashion', 'Hijab', 'Family', 'Muslim Fashion', 'Creativity'] |
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is Supporting Bokeh Bokeh Follow Nov 19 · 4 min read
We are excited to announce that Bokeh has been awarded a grant of $250,000 USD by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative! The funding will help improve Bokeh for academic use-cases. Besides general maintenance of the project, two new features will... | ['Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Bokeh', 'Open Source', 'Grant'] |
Today we want to share with you one problem we solved by using Apache Airflow. We have a project comprising more than 40 apps. Every day we have to load data from on-premise databases to the cloud—particularly, to AWS S3. The process is performed in batch and executed every day. Due to particular reasons, the data has ... | ['Data Science', 'Airflow', 'Data Engineering'] |
We live in a cynical little world where reality television stars are chewed up, spit out, and thrown up on by Tara Reid literally within fifteen minutes. So it was with some smart-assed how-crazy-will-this-be attitude that I approached the Nashville Star auditions at the Wildhorse Saloon last weekend.
With a line of 1... | ['Nashville', 'Music', 'Zine', 'Pop Culture', 'Reality TV'] |
Java boolean variables (the primitive ones) allow only two possible values: true or false, the last one as default.
We use booleans to represent values that only can represent a true or a false statement, such as:
isEmpty
hasSomething
isAlive
canContinue
isBlank
etc
Let’s say that you have a list of tasks to do... | ['Java', 'Object Oriented', 'Software Development', 'Software Design', 'Java8'] |
What is UI Design?
The “UI” in UI design stands for “user interface.” The user interface is the graphical layout of an application. It consists of the buttons users click on, the text they read, the images, sliders, text entry fields, and all the rest of the items the user interacts with. This includes screen layout, ... | ['UX', 'UI', 'Design', 'Art', 'Research'] |
Privacy Preserving Deep Learning in Medical Imaging
Summary of talk from OpenMined PriCon 2020
Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash
This blog post is inspired by Dr.Georgios Kaissis’s talk titled ‘End-to-end privacy preserving deep learning on multi-institutional medical imaging data’ at the OpenMined Privacy Confe... | ['Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Machine Learning', 'Research', 'Blogathon'] |
Reading between the lines of the major operatic event
OperaWire Editorial: Repertory Stagnation, Star Power & What We Can Learn About the Opera Industry From Rolex Ambassadors Gala
Sonya Yoncheva — Soprano
Juan Diego Flórez — Tenor
Jonas Kaufmann — Tenor
Yuja Wang — Pianist
Wiener Philharmoniker
Plácido Domingo ... | ['Opera', 'Culture', 'Essay', 'Music', 'Classical Music'] |
Gatsby offers out of the box support to write the content in markdown and create pages easily in your app and with the leverage of many Gatsby Plugins, we can do many things like format code snippets, lazy load images, generating an RSS feed, creating a Sitemap, making SEO easier and a lot more 🥳
Writing a blog post ... | ['CSS', 'Gatsbyjs', 'Web Development', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
My Journey From Open Source Noob to Google Summer of Code 2020
How to get started in open source
Photo by Alex Holyoake on Unsplash
What it means to contribute
If you’re a new open source contributor, the process can be intimidating. How do you find the right project? What if you don’t know how to code? What if som... | ['Open Source', 'Gsoc', 'Google', 'Mozilla', 'Programming'] |
Global Forest Watch allows anyone, including you, to take a closer look at what’s happening in places reserved for indigenous peoples. A fast, smooth zoom enables and encourages deeper exploration of what’s occurring. No one can hide from satellites in the sky and with weekly GLAD alerts, any change in forest cover can... | ['Forest', 'Environment', 'Data Visualization', 'Deforestation'] |
One of the things you can do with this new feature is generate and deploy a number of resources based in a parameter value or the resulting value of the describing the number of AZs in order to create a subnet for each AZ for example.
In this example I’m defining a dynamic number of IAM users (depending on the int I p... | ['Macros', 'AWS', 'Dynamic', 'Cloudformation'] |
Building an application comes with plenty of challenges. When it comes to revolutionary ideas one might appeal to the public that might cause them to download the application.
Following this comes to work that comes into developing into app.
It needs to be made sure that every feature is capable of doing what it is s... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Technology'] |
Three months dating an Artificial ‘almost’ Intelligence
How devices like Google Home will change the User Experience
Coincidence or not, three months ago when my partner left to Thailand for a university exchange I bought my Google Home. And for the past few months I’ve been experiencing a glimpse of how the future w... | ['AI', 'Voice Assistant', 'Qnenglish', 'Amazon Echo', 'Google Home'] |
“The recording is definitely a cross-pollination of different worlds,” says Charles Lloyd, reflecting on the unclassifiable but eminently accessible musical terrain of his fourth Blue Note album, Vanished Gardens, where jazz improv, blues, gospel and Americana are inextricably intertwined. “It’s not easy to give what w... | ['Pop Culture', 'Features', 'Culture', 'Jazz', 'Music'] |
Yaroslav Bulatov, Ben Mann, Darius Lam
TLDR; we made Transformer-XL train efficiently on 128 GPUs on Amazon cloud. The code is available at https://github.com/cybertronai/transformer-xl
Overview
One of the difficulties of researching language models is that you often don’t know if your ideas work until you try them ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Pytorch', 'AWS', 'Transformers'] |
Baby-Sitters Club Books as Classic Novels
The appropriate way to view Ann M. Martin’s contributions to literature
Now that a new generation is experiencing the wonder and majesty of the Baby-Sitters Club thanks to the glorious new Netflix show, it’s time we appreciated these iconic novels for what they are: Classics ... | ['Literature', 'Books', 'Humor', 'Art', 'Television'] |
This video came across my Instagram feed and it got me thinking.
What is really causing the cultural gap between Gen Z/Millenials and Gen X/Boomers?
Is the answer to that question simply the number of years passed between births? Or, is it a cumulation of a system that ignores less and less with each passing generati... | ['Society', 'Schools', 'Current', 'News', 'Age'] |
📚Local Binary Pattern Algorithm: The Math Behind It❗️
This post goes in-depth analysis and application of LBP (Local Binary Patterns) for image feature extraction.
LBP
👉 Introduction
The main idea behind LBP is to describe the neighborhood of image elements using binary codes. This method is usually used to study... | ['Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Mathematics', 'Python'] |
It has been a busy few weeks for sls-dev-tools. The tool is now in version 1.1.6, gaining a host of new features since last time, such as Lambda invocation, startup wizards, and displaying more information on all your Lambdas. Additionally, we launched on ProductHunt this week, and the toolkit has gained a new addition... | ['Tools', 'Open Source', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Lambda'] |
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... | ['Dashboard', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash'] |
I build, write and talk a lot about Serverless applications. Using AWS Serverless services extensively with my clients and, for many applications, it’s the best technology choice. Serverless adoption continues to grow, but the biggest pain-point for companies adopting Serverless is no longer vendor lock-in or cold-star... | ['Ci', 'Lambda', 'Open Source', 'AWS', 'Serverless'] |
From clarity of purpose to inspiring storytelling, key learnings from the self-proclaimed “bank of the future”.
At Fjord London, we’ve spent quite a bit of time discussing quality recently, and a few months ago set ourselves a challenge to define and illustrate what it means for each of our design crafts.
~We wanted ... | ['Design', 'Strategy', 'Business', 'Fintech'] |
Many early adopters of cryptocurrency were individuals at the forefront of this technology, but enterprises are now increasingly getting more involved. As using cryptocurrency for business transactions becomes more commonplace, Decore aims to make accounting as streamlined as possible for companies accepting and sendin... | ['Analytics', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Dynamodb', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
First a warning. I’m going to tag a shit load of writers at the end of this, but it’s not for the reason you’re probably thinking. I’m really not that interested in a multitude of folks reading this missive, but I do want to send this message to a few of my friends — yes, I said friends — on this platform and I really ... | ['Health', 'Human Behavior', 'Emotional', 'Ｍedium', 'Writing On Medium'] |
Customer Relations
I feel this is mostly ignored by developers: managing good customer relations. Please keep in mind that customers are driven more by emotion than logic. The question might appear stupid to you, but for your customer, it is like a complex problem. Your user is clueless.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Uns... | ['Product Management', 'Software Development', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Programming'] |
A Scalable Magento 2 Architecture
Utilizing AWS ECR, Fargate, EFS, and Aurora
I write this post with mixed feelings as a company in my portfolio has recently decided to no longer on-board new Magento development projects due to various reasons beyond the scope of this post. However, we are still here to help with com... | ['Ecommerce', 'AWS', 'Magento', 'Fargate', 'Cloud'] |
Tips on Designing a Million Dollar Dashboard
How to avoid the dashboard graveyard
Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash
In the past few weeks, we have watched Tableau be purchased by Salesforce for 15.7 billion dollars and Looker for 2.7 billion dollars by Google.
Why are these companies so valuable?
Why are so many... | ['Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'UX'] |
TorchServe and [TorchElastic for Kubernetes], new PyTorch libraries for serving and training models at scale PyTorch Follow Apr 21 · 4 min read
Authors: Joe Spisak (Facebook), Aditya Bindal (AWS), Kiuk Chung (Facebook), Mike Stefaniak (AWS)
As PyTorch is used more and more in production environments, we’ve continued ... | ['Model Serving', 'AWS', 'Announcements', 'Pytorch', 'Machine Learning'] |
From Dev to Prod - All you need to know to get your Flask application running on AWS
Getting the right configurations, making sure it is secured, ensuring resource access through endpoints and having a pretty rendering, … all of them made easy thanks to AWS!
As a machine-learning engineer, I never really faced the is... | ['Flask', 'AWS', 'Good Practices', 'Production', 'Cloud'] |
Configuring Sendy Auth
The options object includes a number of properties that can be used to configure the plugin.
driver (string)
The driver property sets the social authentication driver that will be used when performing social authentication. If a driver is not defined in the object then the app will default to ... | ['Front End Development', 'JavaScript', 'Plugins', 'Vuejs'] |
While some software teams have instituted expensive zero-tolerance policies, most teams try to balance the priority of each bug against a mountain of other worthwhile demands. Both absolutist and pragmatist policies can be perfectly appropriate depending upon the nature of the software–for instance, I’d like the softwa... | ['Quality Assurance', 'Customer Service', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Testing'] |
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... | ['Dashboard', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash'] |
Shocking Research Warned of a Pandemic Decades Ago
History repeats itself so why weren’t we prepared?
Red Cross volunteers fighting the influenza epidemic of 1918 (Photo Credit: Getty Images/American Red Cross)
Reality is made up of circles. The swirling tides of historical events eventually swift back to our presen... | ['Covid 19', 'Humanity', 'History', 'Future', 'Pandemic'] |
My Personal Thoughts, Opinions & Preferences on Programming in 2020
Personal technology preferences after building many projects in the past
This story is originally published here.
Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash
Over the past few months, I’ve been building many side projects in my free time for learning apar... | ['Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'DevOps', 'Programming'] |
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For a recent data science project, I collaborated with several other Lambda School students to search for food deserts in L.A. County. A general definition for what qualifies as a food desert is an area that does not have access, within one mile, to a grocery store/market providing fresh, hea... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pandas', 'Food'] |
I am an environmental engineer who studied air quality and atmospheric science. I know I have a lot to learn, but I thought I at least knew the very basics of air quality and its relationship with climate change.
I was wrong. I knew the basics of the science. Not the policy.
I have all of this knowledge about how car... | ['Climate Science', 'Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change', 'Policy', 'Environment'] |
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