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Understanding Spark As If You Had Designed It
From a simple function to a resilient and distributed framework.
Why caring about Spark?
Among the current frameworks available on the data space, just a few have achieved the status that Spark has in terms of adoption and delivery. The frameworks has emerged as one of t... | ['Distributed Systems', 'Software Development', 'Spark', 'Software Architecture', 'Big Data'] |
The Cancer Routine.
On seeking normalcy.
Photo by Ani Kolleshi on Unsplash
There was dropping off the kids, then some cleaning, some work (now done remotely), and then chemo. She brought a wide-brimmed hat with her wherever she went…her skin was now sensitive to the sun…and usually went to Starbucks after her treatm... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Cancer', 'Health', 'Healing'] |
The full list of talks with the corresponding slides could be found on the following link.
Applied Data Science — guest talks
Rich Caruana presented in his talk “Friends don’t let friends deploy black-box models” the importance of intelligibility and interpretability of machine learning models. Many machine learning ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Kdd'] |
People Won’t Live up to Your Expectations
But you can choose not to get annoyed
Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay
People act strangely.
Yes, it is true. People do act strangely, and they don’t always live up to your expectations.
So you called your good friend John, he didn’t pick up the phone and didn’t return y... | ['Communication', 'People', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Behavior', 'Expectations'] |
Money won’t last forever — that is guaranteed
It didn’t exist when exchange evolved to become a feature of humanities first economic system, nor will it persist when there is no advantage to using it. That time is approaching far quicker than traditionalists care to admit.
The reality is that our evolution to a large... | ['Technology', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Future', 'Bitcoin'] |
Today at //MSBuild I hosted an Expert Q&A: Cloud AI and Machine Learning session on Microsoft Cloud AI and ML technologies. The following is a list of some of my answers to some of my favorite questions that I received.
If you have any other open questions or topics you want to learn more about in the AI/ML space be s... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Microsoft', 'Azure'] |
One hears the word ‘unprecedented’ a lot these days. It’s as if the language we use to explain our world is breaking down and superlatives just aren’t able to keep up with the new reality brought to us by the coronavirus pandemic. Living through the past month has brought an avalanche of hard to answer questions, as we... | ['Data Visualization', 'Covid 19', 'Data Journalism', 'Journalism', 'Interviews'] |
Dragon Quest XI: When Home No Longer Exists
What does it mean to lose your safe haven?
There is palpable tension as the hero crosses the grassy, sun-baked fields. A multitude of colourful flowers dot the landscape, and there is not a cloud to be seen overhead. Apart from escaping their dogged pursuers, it is a perfec... | ['Features', 'Gaming', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Art'] |
It doesn’t matter if you’re in a swing state, or a “safe” state — blue or red.
No state is safe from the ideas espoused by Donald Trump — ideas that are endorsed by the KKK — ideas that are rejected by real Republicans — ideas that are laced with cynicism, fear, bigotry, and hate.
Vote. Please. Proclaim that America ... | ['Society', 'Trump', 'Politics'] |
Anika Mukherji | API Intern
When I walked into Pinterest on the first day of my internship and learned I’d be focusing on profiling the API Gateway service — the core backend service of the Pinterest product — my only thought was “What is profiling?”. Profiling is often shoved aside as a side project or lower priority... | ['Engineering', 'Internships', 'API'] |
The routine
Morning — 5 minutes
Taking 5 minutes in the morning to plan your day is incredibly important. Bregman recommends sitting down with your to-do list and figuring out what you can do that will make today highly successful. What progress can you make towards your goals? Where can you schedule the things on yo... | ['Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Self Improvement', 'Advice', 'Habits'] |
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
WCAG — developed by a W3C initiative called The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) — provides developers with technical specifications and guidelines on how to increase web usability for people with disabilities. The latest WCAG version is 2.1 with 2.2 scheduled to be releas... | ['React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Accessibility', 'Testing'] |
Madhur Jaffrey on Indian Cooking and Staying Creative As You Age
The writer and actress explains how she stays inspired
There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well.
Madhur Jaffrey is one of the most prolifically creative peop... | ['Madhur Jaffrey', 'Food', 'Health', 'The Health Diaries', 'Lifestyle'] |
Here is video of an interview Wu-Tang Clan MC Ghostface Killah did last week on Angela Yee’s radio show on the Shade 45 satellite station. It is a good example of how a hugely talented artist can be engaging and enjoyable to watch, even as he espouses horribly repellent views on matters of ethics or politics.
Here is ... | ['Music', 'Rap', 'Ghostface Killah'] |
This article will discuss how the covariance matrix plot can be used for feature selection and dimensionality reduction.
Why are feature selection and dimensionality reduction important?
A machine learning algorithm (such as classification, clustering or regression) uses a training dataset to determine weight factors... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Feature Selection'] |
Na’eeman — نعيماً
Meaning: Congratulations on your cleanliness!
Literal Meaning: Doesn’t have a literal meaning in and of itself, but this word is derived from the word naa’em, which means, ‘something like paradise.’
Kind of like saying congratulations, you are reborn, or coming out of heaven. You’re fresh!
Usage: ... | ['Culture', 'Language', 'Travel', 'Society', 'Love'] |
Components of EDA
To me, there are main components of exploring data:
Understanding your variables Cleaning your dataset Analyzing relationships between variables
In this article, we’ll take a look at the first two components.
1. Understanding Your Variables
You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you don’t kno... | ['Analytics', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning'] |
Hierarchical Clustering Explained
Unsupervised Algorithms | Data Series | Episode 8.3
In the previous episode we have taken a look at the popular clustering technique called K-means clustering. In this episode we will take a look at another widely used clustering technique called Hierarchical clustering.
Please cons... | ['Machine Learning', 'Hierarchical Clustering', 'Clustering', 'Data Science', 'Statistics'] |
Hi everyone! After my last post on linear regression in Python, I thought it would only be natural to write a post about Train/Test Split and Cross Validation. As usual, I am going to give a short overview on the topic and then give an example on implementing it in Python. These are two rather important concepts in dat... | ['Data Analysis', 'Statistics', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Setting the right course and steering responsibly
This article is coauthored by Joy Rimchala and Shir Meir Lador.
Setting the right course
Rapid adoption of complex machine learning (ML) models in recent years has brought with it a new challenge for today’s companies: how to interpret, understand, and explain the re... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ai And Data Science', 'Data'] |
I was in the streets that night, trapped outside the police line surrounding BLMP. For hours, I was a refugee lurking in the streets of my hometown. Several of my personal friends were brutalized and beaten by Proud Boys. If my partner and I had not brought a non-black change of clothes, if we made any missteps, told t... | ['Society', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Fascism', 'Donald Trump'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['New York', 'Art', 'Drawing', 'Saturday'] |
We were serving +80M Lambda invocations per day across multiple AWS regions with an unpleasant surprise in the form of a significant bill.
Lambda Invocations in Frankfurt Region
It was very easy and cheap to build a Lambda based applications that we forgot to estimate and optimize the Lambda costs earlier during deve... | ['Serverless', 'AWS', 'Tech', 'Monitoring', 'Cloud'] |
Marketers everywhere are being asked to do more with less these days — fewer resources, greater traffic and engagement; less time, more content; the list goes on. So what are agency and in-house marketers to do when they’ve over-committed and they realize they’re not equipped to deliver? Many choose to do the right thi... | ['Marketing', 'Digital', 'Analytics', 'Digital Marketing', 'Data'] |
First published by IJNet, the International Journalists’ Network, and co-authored with Payton Bruni.
It’s now eight years since the Arab Spring rocked many parts of the Middle East. At the time, social media was identified as a major factor in the geo-political upheaval seen across much of the region.
With hindsight,... | ['Influencers', 'Middle East', 'Facebook', 'Saudi Arabia', 'Social Media'] |
Photo by Julien Pouplard on Unsplash
Over the past few years, there have been many updates to the JavaScript language. And these updates are very useful if you want to improve your coding skills.
So let’s look at some of the things added in JavaScript which you need to be familiar with to improve your skills and get ... | ['Angular', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Vue', 'Programming'] |
No dar papaya is an expression unique to Colombia (it makes no sense to other Spanish speakers, even in neighboring countries) that means show no vulnerabilities, don’t be an easy target, be careful.
For years I had a very boring working title, “De Colombia.” Then one day “No Dar Papaya” came to me and I knew it was p... | ['Travel', 'Books', 'Art', 'Photography'] |
MARKETING | MOVIE THEATERS
Are Movie Theaters Going the Way of the Abacus?
Netflix teed them up for the kill. Covid is swinging the bat.
Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash
I hate paying fifteen bucks for a tub of popcorn and a drink at the movies.
“But you get free refills.”
If I were to eat the entire (admittedly ... | ['Movies', 'Business', 'Netflix', 'Marketing', 'Disney'] |
Dream WiFi
What could WiFi look like in 10 years?
Photo by Fabian Horst / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Maybe it wouldn’t look like anything we’d see now. Instead, WiFi might actually be a repeater for 5G or other technologies that are on the market.
In such a scenario, ISPs might positi... | ['5g', 'Wifi', 'IoT', 'Ideas', 'Future'] |
Something is Awry
Family Archives
I’m with a married couple. They sit on the plaid couch in my office. I am their pastor.
“Would two weeks from Sunday work?”
The husband and wife are planning a party to celebrate their 40th anniversary. They want it at the church.
He says, “We’d like to make it during fellowship h... | ['Neuroscience', 'Religion', 'Family', 'God', 'Anger'] |
When I signed off on my taxes last month, it was the first time in 10 years that I didn’t owe any money to the IRS.
In fact, I got a refund.
Now, I’d love to tell you that’s because I was much more diligent with my financial planning. And, that is partially true.
But the main reason I’m getting a refund is that I pe... | ['Sales', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Small Business', 'Podcast'] |
Computer Vision
Have you ever wanted to build an app that add stickers to a face? Or maybe an app that can read text on boards for visually impaired users?
Apps with features such as those mentioned above use some form of computer vision algorithm; a piece of code that tries to make sense of what the iOS device is ab... | ['Computer Vision', 'Opencv', 'Swift', 'Ios Development', 'iOS'] |
The Access Fintech team
I remember the first time I visited a bank’s trading floor. It was both a huge relief and mild disappointment to discover that it is nothing like the Wolf of Wall Street-style high octane drama that Hollywood would have us believe.
The overwhelming sound is one of humming computers and screens... | ['Finance', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Fintech'] |
Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash
Writing software is often a team effort. It takes effort to make a team effective.
In this article, we’ll look at what makes a team effective.
No Broken Windows
The whole team has to focus on quality. If something’s broken, everyone has to be proactive in fixing issues.
Even if th... | ['Product Management', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Web Development'] |
Key attributes of Tensors
A tensor is defined by three key attributes:
Number of axes (rank) — For instance, a 3D tensor has three axes, and a matrix has two axes. This is also called the tensor’s ndim in Python libraries such as Numpy.
Shape — This is a tuple of integers that describes how many dimensions the tenso... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Python3', 'Data Science'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>
July 19, 2016: A trio of news media stories, videos, and data viz compiled weekly. Get notified via email? Email 3toread (at) gmail.com.
Get notified via email: Send note to 3toread (at) gmail.com
“3 to read” online
Matt Carroll runs the Future of News initiative at the MIT Media Lab. | ['Journalism', 'Stats', 'Media', 'Pokemon Go', 'Data'] |
Usage
Import the required packages. Please note that I have not included the usual suspects such as os, pandas, etc.
Define general parameters and path locations for data, labels and pretrained models. (some good engineering practices)
Tokenizer
Create a tokenizer object. The is the BPE based WordPiece tokenizer an... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Bert'] |
What is the difference between Git and GitHub? pandaquests Follow Oct 4 · 2 min read
Often new programmers confuse Git and GitHub. Both are used by software developers on a daily basis. These two are complementary, but they are not the same. In this article I’ll explain the main difference between these two, so you’ll... | ['Version Control', 'Git', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Github'] |
Reinforcement learning has seen a lot of progress in recent years. From DeepMind success with teaching machines how to play Atari games, then AlphaGo beating world champions in Go to recent OpenAI’s progress on Dota 2, a multiplayer game where players divided into two teams compete with each other. The common thread is... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Reasoning', 'Reinforcement Learning'] |
I have been thinking about anal sex a lot lately — I mean, who hasn’t? After careful consideration based on my own personal experience, I’ve come to realize that a successful anal encounter requires three things: communication, lubrication, and consent. Subtract any one of those three factors from the equation and you ... | ['Health', 'Relationships', 'Sex', 'Sexuality', 'This Happened To Me'] |
Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash
What Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma” Got Wrong
Capitalists don’t care about the social effects of machines — and never have.
The Social Dilemma is one in a long line of shows Netflix has put out in 2020 that make me wonder, only half sarcastically, if AI is trying urgently to deliver ... | ['Politics', 'Netflix', 'Facebook', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
Bitcoin or Dream of all Pirates
Let’s listen to the experts: Valentin Katasonov, the economist and professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, believes that the emergence of Bitcoin is not by accident. It is a sort of test step that will be followed by bigger deals.
Now, he is comparing crypto... | ['Cryptocurrency News', 'Future', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin'] |
1 | Add Icons
Icons add a simple visual dimension to help convey meaning and understanding, and they leave an impression with your audience. They’re a subtle and underused detail.
Slides Carnival has a post that links to icons you can use in your presentation. There are a few different styles available. These icon se... | ['Presentations', 'Communication', 'Product Management', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
Introduction to Weight & Biases: Track and Visualize your Machine Learning Experiments in 3 Lines of Code
Seamlessly Compare Different Experiments and Reproduce your Machine Learning Experiments using Python
Photo by Solé Bicycles on Unsplash
Motivation
If you have applied machine learning or deep learning for your... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Machine Learning Tools', 'Python', 'Data Visualization'] |
2. Implementations
Static moderation is very simple to implement and requires mainly a proficiency with the various methods of the discord.py library. The commands that are implemented in this snippet are Mute, Unmute, Clear, Nuke, Ban, Softban, Kick, and Unban.
There are three categories of commands here: Ban, Mute,... | ['Programming', 'Discord Bot', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Discord'] |
Clocked In Magazine’s Worst Songs of 2020
Bad year? Well, these songs will certainly make it all worse
Image via Google
There’s no doubt that we’ve all had a pretty bad year. There’s been some great songs and albums put out this year albeit in a smaller amount. With the good comes the bad however, like a horse to wa... | ['Music', 'Magazine', 'Review', 'Articles', 'Funny'] |
Optimizing Customer Satisfaction With Machine Learning
Analyzing an airline satisfaction dataset.
Photo by Chris Brignola on Unsplash
Flying can be a hassle. Long lines, uncomfortable seats, bad food… the list goes on. Now, mandates on mask-wearing, physical distancing, PCR tests, temperature checks, health forms, a... | ['Data Analysis', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Customer Experience', 'Machine Learning'] |
How We Cut Carbon To Net Zero
And why waiting around for technology isn’t the answer.
I’ve written extensively about potential solutions to the climate crisis, both in articles and responses to various readers, but a stock-take of how to get to net zero is needed. Crucially, we must consider how we get there quickly,... | ['Nuclear', 'Energy', 'Climate Change', 'World', 'Environment'] |
Driver Trees — How and Why to use them to Improve your Business
Foster alignment, broaden understanding and find focus
I was introduced to the Driver Tree concept a few years ago at HelloFresh. It was introduced by our leadership to support our growth and focus the teams on how they could contribute to the success of... | ['Product Management', 'Business', 'Work', 'Startup', 'Organizational Culture'] |
One of the limitations of the libertarian philosophy is its distinctly (and arguably, solely) economic focus at the expense of loosely-grouped “societal concerns”. For the libertarian, such concentration is exacted on economic liberty because to dabble in “societal concerns” has immoral connotations attached to it. For... | ['Philosophy', 'History', 'Society', 'Economics', 'Politics'] |
Technology Radar — October 2020 review — Part 1
A review of the recent Technology Radar October 2020 update — I review at least three items from Techniques and Tools in this part
Yes! Vol. 23 is out now and this is my review. The Tech radar provides the Software Engineering community, a very good glimpse of what tech... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Software Development', 'Technology Radar', 'DevOps', 'Technology'] |
Landon, you mentioned in your article: “ETH is a Bitcoin offshoot with debatable credibility, due to its centralized organization structure.”
It’s interesting that you mention this, because I think it helps to prove my point that a semi-centralized blockchain can work. Even though Ethereum is not as big as Bitcoin, it... | ['Facebook Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Facebook'] |
Problem 3: Individual Columns for All Unique Values
At this point, things are getting advanced. If you are happy with the results we got before, you can stop here. However, a deeper level of analysis might be required for your research goal. Maybe you want to correlate all list elements with each other to compute simi... | ['Data Analysis', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Data Science'] |
Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells — dubbed “super natural killer cells” — that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them. This breakthrough halts the onset of metastasis, according to a new Cornell study published Nov. 2 in the journal Biomaterials.... | ['Cancer', 'Research', 'Health'] |
Very often — almost always, in fact — mainstream forms of media remind us of who really IS hateful. Republicans are party of bigotry and racism. Conservatives are sexists and hateful. Right-wingers are so hateful and intolerant that we need the site Right Wing Watch to keep an eye on them…
It might seem obvious that o... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Antifa', 'Terrorism', 'Violence'] |
Lessons
You’ll never know everything about anything
Programming, algorithms, frameworks, libraries — they’re all too vast for any one person to understand the whole system. Swallow your ego and accept that you don’t know most of the things out there.
Learn how to use Git properly
The worst programmers are the ones ... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Habit Building', 'Habits', 'Programming'] |
Design has emerged from the original architecture and furniture studios, automobile factories and Silicon Valley’s computer labs, and is heading to a corporate boardroom near you. Its new form is not a designer chair, handbag or technology. It is human. This new type of designer is equally comfortable in a navy suit or... | ['Strategic Design', 'Design', 'Business Design', 'Business', 'Innovation Management'] |
The framework implements a new way of building native apps, thanks to which you’re able to save development hours.
React Native allows you to build native mobile apps using JavaScript and declarative UI components. The components correspond to the native UI components of iOS and Android.
One code
So, in development ... | ['React', 'React Native', 'Business Development', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
Okay, it might be inapt to compare cases like mine with a wild case of extremism. But to Kierkegaard, and to me, there isn’t much of a distinction. Not because he isn’t a consequentialist (he isn’t), but that he noticed that behind every moral decision lies an idea that moral philosophers often overlook: faith.
Faith ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Faith', 'Philosophy', 'Humour', 'Ethics'] |
Matrix decomposition is a ubiquitous technique in mathematics with a wide variety of practical and theoretical applications. Here a matrix is decomposed or factorized as the product of two or more matrices where the factors satisfy some desirable properties, depending on the nature of the original problem. So by matrix... | ['Data Science', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Matrix Factorization', 'Mathematics'] |
I went into my MONA journey knowing very little about it — I had few details about the city, the space, or the story. It’s unlike me, and probably not entirely recommended. But there I was, landing in Tasmania on a bright Thursday morning in October, still busily preparing for my 30-hour visit.
I wasn’t sure it was wo... | ['Australia', 'Tasmania', 'Design', 'Travel Writing', 'Art'] |
How To Become Self-Aware By Indulging In This Beloved Pastime
And without meditation, drugs, or therapy
Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash
It’s the purest form of self-discovery. It’s not meditation or journaling though those things help. Introverts are naturally better at it than extroverts, but this skill requires ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Mindfulness', 'Creativity'] |
1. Including too many stakeholders in the decision-making process
Gathering insights is a critical part of making an app that satisfies the needs of various types of users. But trying to leverage input from a dozen stakeholders, all with different opinions, makes your decisions unbelievably tough. You’re stuck taking ... | ['Startup', 'App Development', 'Business'] |
The Possible Truth
The story behind the monoliths has likely been solved, and here’s a possible explanation for these mysterious events. After weeks of popping up, then disappearing without a trace, somebody has finally claimed responsibility for the Monolith.
The Most Famous Artist took to Instagram to seemingly cla... | ['Memes', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Brands', 'Social Media'] |
Sports Needs a World Sustainability Agency
The World Anti Doping Agency showed the world how it could look like
Photo by Jesse Collins on Unsplash
In Germany, my home country, the state is governed by three pillars: Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary. They build the foundation of the state and ensure democracy. B... | ['Sports', 'Sustainable Development', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Action', 'Climate Change'] |
How One DC Engineering Team Helped Hundreds of Businesses Access the PPP Loan Tim Winkler Follow Jun 4 · 7 min read
Engineers around the globe are utilizing their tech skills to solve new problems brought about by COVID-19. We spoke with a local engineer at Upside Business Travel to get a pulse on how their team has a... | ['Startup', 'Software Development', 'Programming'] |
Even Moderate Drinking Is Damaging Our Health, So Why Do We Do It? Refinery29 UK Follow Oct 14 · 8 min read
By Eleanor Morgan
PHOTOGRAPHED BY MEG O’DONNELL
During lockdown, Georgie Hodge* turned her front garden into a ‘pub’. Neighbours would come with their own glasses and sit in spaced out chairs in front of the h... | ['Health', 'Alcohol', 'Covid 19', 'Drinking', 'Alcoholism'] |
If you subscribe to a subscription music service such as Spotify or Apple Music you probably pay $10 a month. And if you are like most people, you probably do so believing your money goes to the artists you listen to. Unfortunately, you are wrong.
The reality is only some of your money is paid to the artists you liste... | ['Streaming', 'Music Biz', 'Music Business', 'Music'] |
The Real Tragedy in the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Why must the death of one 87-year-old woman throw the entire US political system into irreconcilable crisis?
Because of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last Friday, one of the nine seats on the United States Supreme Court is now vacant. To fill this vacanc... | ['Society', 'Ruth Bader Ginsberg', 'Politics', 'Current Events', 'Congress'] |
Tim Peacock
Guided by their single-minded frontman, Mark Hollis, Talk Talk recorded a trio of career-defining albums during the late 80s and early 90s. The band hit on a winning formula in 1986 with the sublime The Colour Of Spring, but they took a radical turn into leftfield with 1988’s Spirit Of Eden and travelled e... | ['Culture', 'Features', 'Alternative', 'Pop Culture', 'Music'] |
In this article, we are going to discuss the benefits, challenges and ethics of automation at scale.
Image credits to Forbes
Last December the world celebrated and we all were anxious to get started with 2020, as a new year comes with the promise of better fortune but little did we all know that we would be in this s... | ['Industry 4 0', 'Manufacturing', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Manufacturing Processes'] |
Four shades of greenhouse gaslighting
Identifying ways climate action opponents attack our psyches
Nowadays, gaslighting isn’t just a term for brightening street corners. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
From Casablanca to Notorious, the great actress Ingrid Bergman left her mark on cinematic history. But few, if any, wo... | ['Language', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Global Warming', 'Politics'] |
You come to school for the first day of the new year. You’re entering into the third grade, excited to spend time with your old friends and make some new ones, too. The teacher seems nice and welcoming enough, and he or she starts calling out the attendance of the class.
When they get to your name, there are a couple ... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Race', 'Racism', 'White Privilege'] |
Let’s take our dataset for a test drive by first looking at something very simple. In our database of ‘finished’ TV shows, which ones have the highest overall series rating?
Even if its ending did sour things, Game of Thrones still enjoys a healthy series rating of 9.4, surrounded by the kind of shows you’d expect to ... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Game of Thrones', 'Data Visualization', 'TV Series'] |
A national plan for implementing circular economy — easy, right?
In 2016, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra launched a circular economy roadmap outlining the actions, pilot projects and goals to be reached by 2025 to make Finland a globally competitive leader in circular economy.
In the fall of 2018, a review of this... | ['Government', 'Circulareconomy', 'Business', 'Sustainability', 'Funding'] |
This weekly post with news items from the data preparation market is brought to you by The Data Value Factory, the company offering Data Preparer.
12 links in this week’s post:
6 articles (on building data teams, big data in HR, CDOs, feature engineering, and artificial intelligence, by HSBC, EQT Ventures, Engagedly,... | ['Analytics', 'AI', 'Data Transformation', 'HR', 'Data Science'] |
No-Hit Wonders: 20 Iconic Acts, Zero Top 40 Singles
Let us now show some respect for music’s most-surprising superstar shut-outs.
Photo: Caligvla at English Wikipedia
Drake, Taylor Swift, and Bruno Mars make it look so easy, but racking up number ones is hard work. The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, has never topp... | ['Morrissey', 'Bob Marley', 'Bjork', 'Velvet Underground', 'Music'] |
If you are using Cloud Firestore for your project’s database, you may have tried performing OR query but soon realized that there’s no function for that. I also encountered the same problem. As a matter of fact, many of us had encountered the same problem and here’s the proof. At the time of writing this article, Googl... | ['JavaScript', 'Java', 'Firebase', 'AndroidDev'] |
Sperduti & Starita, 1997: “Until now neural networks have been used for classifying unstructured patterns and sequences. However, standard neural networks and statistical methods are usually believed to be inadequate when dealing with complex structures because of their feature-based approach.”
From 1997, the body of ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Towards Data Science', 'Pytorch', 'Graph Neural Networks'] |
I’ve been reading a series of books. They were written in the 1990s and look like they were printed on someone’s home printer and hand bound on a wire spiral.
Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930’s is a five-book series, written by Rita Van Amber and edited by her daughter, Janet Van Amber Paske. Th... | ['Covid 19', 'Food', 'Health', 'Life', 'Family'] |
Engineering Management
Product Life Cycle and Software Engineering Management
How to staying on top of delivery, people management, and system ownership at each stage of the product life cycle
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
From a software engineering perspective the product life cycle can be split into six stag... | ['Leadership', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Engineering Mangement', 'Product Management'] |
Hayder Casey, Pinterest engineering manager, Growth
More than 200 million people use Pinterest every month to find ideas to try, from recipes to gifts to decor for the home. Family and friends are often a big part of these plans, and that’s why nearly 1M Pins are shared to Facebook Messenger each week. Today we’re mak... | ['Platform', 'Pinterest', 'Facebook', 'Developer', 'Bots'] |
a lot of people ask me at the conferences, what makes a unstoppable business? how do i keep businessing late into the night when my gums hurt and i’ve had enough business for the day??
as a leading thought leader, i have 5 secrets about business that will blow the lid off the whole damn thing
1. people
first off, wh... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement', 'Business'] |
Hi everyone, my name is Bismo, working as Backend Engineer in Zeals. At Zeals, I am mostly taking care about microservices. In this article, I want to share my experience having fun with an engine. What engine? Let’s jump into it!!
First of all, have you ever had experience moving text on your documents to editable te... | ['Tesseract', 'Google', 'Ocr', 'Software Engineer', 'Open Source'] |
A technical rundown of how your Google Home device works.
Wake Word: “OK Google”
A wake word is a very small scale algorithm that activates a device when spoken. It can also be referred to as a “trigger word,” or “wake up word.” The wake word used to activate your Google assistant is “OK Google.” When the device hear... | ['Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks', 'Google Assistant', 'Machine Learning'] |
Willpower is Not Enough for Deep Work
The first changes that I made are the obvious ones. But sheer willpower will not keep you to stay focused for long. You also have to think about the environment. Where you work and what surrounds you makes a big difference. This might be more difficult for some than others, but it... | ['Programming', 'Deep Work', 'Software Development', 'Remote Working', 'Productivity'] |
Researchers came up with the concept of CNN or Convolutional Neural Network while working on image processing algorithms. Traditional fully connected networks were kind of a black box — that took in all of the inputs and passed through each value to a dense network that followed into a one hot output. That seemed to wo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning', 'Convolutional Network'] |
Interview Process
The interview process is pretty straightforward. It starts with a data challenge, followed by a technical phone interview. After you pass these two, there is a round of technical and culture fit interviews on-site. The interviews are short and targeted and provide you a good insight into the job and ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Interview', 'Data'] |
Scammers who want to steal your identity
It has become quite a common occurrence that scammers without the necessary skills impersonate reputable freelancers to obtain projects from unsuspecting clients. The scammers steal reputable freelancers’ résumés (from the freelancers’ websites or job portals where full résumés... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Advice', 'Freelancing'] |
17 Python Interview Questions and Answers
Get familiar with some common Python interview questions so they don’t catch your off guard in your next interview
Photo by KOBU Agency on Unsplash
The tech industry is growing like never before. Every now and then, we see new software products released in the market. So no ... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Coding Interview', 'Interview', 'Programming'] |
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals launched in 2016 is an agenda that requires all sectors of society to participate actively in bringing the target Goals to fruition, exploring the many challenges in Economic, Social and Environmental development while proffering integrated solutions to achieve the mand... | ['Sdgs', 'University', 'Climate Change', 'Economics', 'Environment'] |
As a man among men, I get the privilege to navigate my day without much trouble. I can wear whatever I want, do whatever I want, and be the man I want to be as long as it’s not illegal.
(Ignoring the fact that I’m black. That’s a topic for another day).
If I want to take off my shirt and reveal my body to the world, ... | ['Sexuality', 'Sex', 'Women', 'Equality', 'Society'] |
Setup of the Components in the Cloud
Now that we understand what the clients can do and what the server is called to do, we can start building the infrastructure in the cloud. As we said, we are going to use the Serverless framework to do this.
The configuration of the API Gateway and the Lambda function(s) is pretty... | ['Programming', 'AWS', 'API', 'Go', 'Serverless'] |
Our Choices Make the Internet S(i)uck
Bow before the ‘Order of Online Commentary’
The Order of Online Commentary
Why is it with the greatest information resource at the hands of Humans everywhere, the thing we share the most are pictures of our cats, our dogs, and ourselves doing things?
Meaningless things. Things ... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Rant', 'Social Media', 'Tech'] |
Louis Chilton
It’s never been easier to listen to music while working out. Wireless headphones and online streaming have given exercisers a world of musical possibilities at their fingertips. But what are the best workout songs for an intense gym session?
While everyone has their own personal preference for music tha... | ['Lists', 'Lifestyle', 'Exercise', 'Culture', 'Music'] |
10 Habits to Increase Your Productivity While Working Remotely
You should have a set time to work, a defined workspace, and a daily routine, even though you’re at home
Photo by Nelly Antoniadou on Unsplash
Ever since work from home began, my productivity has had its ups and lows until I found the right way to do it.... | ['Programming', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
Analyzing a Time Series Real Estate Dataset with GridDB and Java | GridDB: Open Source Time Series Database for IoT Israel Imru Follow Nov 24 · 6 min read
Dataset and Environment Setup
In this article we will discuss how to analyze and ingest a time series dataset with GridDB and Java. The data we will be analyzing i... | ['Java', 'Database', 'Data Analysis', 'Time Serie', 'Griddb'] |
How Teaching Kids CS Made Me a Better Programmer
If you can explain something to a 6-year-old, then you truly understand it
Photo by the author (made using Canva).
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.“ — William Arthur Ward
If you wan... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Computer Science', 'Education'] |
Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife is easily one of the singer’s most well known albums, and arguably one of her best. It was recorded live in Berlin’s Deutschlandhalle in February of 1960, while she and her jazz combo were on tour in Europe.
At this point in her career, Ella was on fire. She had been performing for nearl... | ['Singer', 'Jazz', 'Music', 'Ella Fitzgerald'] |
A better UX without too much heavy lifting
When dealing with long forms (think medical forms, profiles, etc), it’s a huge UX improvement to allow fields to auto save as a user fills them out.
Auto saving fields on blur sounds like a lot of extra work over a single submit button, eh?
Not to worry, we are going to bui... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Technology', 'Programming'] |
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