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An Apolitical Essay for a Political Time.
A Meditation on Quantum Knowledge, Information Castles, & Love
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Physicist Richard Feynman once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
It occurs to me during th... | ['Election 2020', 'Feynman', 'Philosophy', 'Tech', 'Neuroscience'] |
12 Easy Tricks To Massively Improve Your Sleep Quality
I tested these tricks for better sleep and productivity. It worked fabulously.
Photo by Rafal Jedrzejek on Unsplash
Personally, I think sleep is underrated. I’m definitely no sleep expert, but I can’t help but notice the positive effects of regularly getting a d... | ['Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Life', 'Sleep', 'Self Improvement'] |
Inspiring action with data and design.
Forging emotional connections to global data sets.
Our planet is in danger. Mass extinction is threatening the stability of our planet and our own personal futures. Humans are the cause of this mass extinction, but we also hold the power to stop it. What matters most is what we ... | ['GIS', 'Biodiversity', 'Design', 'Maps', 'Data Visualization'] |
Fast forward to Halloween day. I put on my pink bob wig, a leopard print bra, fishnet tights, a pair of skimpy underwear, and black thigh-high leather boots. Not quite Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman more Natalie Portman in Closer but you get the idea.
It was going to be a chilly night and the party was mostly going to ... | ['Society', 'This Happened To Me', 'Sexuality', 'Culture', 'Halloween'] |
Prevent 3 Nasty Habits by Wearing a Mask
Resist the urge to pick your nose.
Photo by Kobby Mendez on Unsplash
“Put your mask back on!” I tell my friend incessantly for the last few months. It’s not that he doesn’t understand the importance, and he’s not too proud to wear the mask, but it’s been giving him more acne ... | ['Humor', 'Creativity', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
A while ago, CR Mandler MAT, a lovely writer friend of mine, invited me to write a list.
I don’t think she knows how much I love lists. Usually, they are in a To-Do format, a document that details the endless aspirations, wishes, and tasks that I invent in the middle of the night.
I am frequently forced to triage my ... | ['Relationships', 'Vulnerability', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
Are our most valuable qualities being exploited at work? How our strengths get twisted into forming bad habits that — if we don’t change fast — just might kill us.
You didn’t mean to end up here. You didn’t even see it coming.
It all started with a chance to earn a living doing something you loved. Your dream job. Cr... | ['Happiness', 'Health', 'Work'] |
The people and politics aspects of design systems are hard. How do you get buy-in from your boss and team to spend time working on the design system project? How do you ensure people will use the design system? Without widespread adoption and use, design systems are meaningless. This is especially challenging at scale ... | ['UI', 'Business', 'Design Systems', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Okay, I’m putting you on. I don’t really mean “dirty,” as that would be untoward and we all know I don’t go there, right?
With that said, I couldn’t help but think, when I was letting my fractured brain do its own thing the other day, how much fun it would be to throw a virtual dance fest with our Medium buddies.
May... | ['Humor', 'New Year Party', 'Dance', 'Writers On Medium', 'Music'] |
JOEL EMBIID SWUNG his arm into the air, yelling in triumph towards the TD Garden crowd.
Moments earlier, he had hit a decisive three-pointer to put the Sixers up 100–92 with just over 4 minutes to play in the fourth quarter. After setting a screen for Tobias Harris, he stepped into his shot confidently, despite the au... | ['Sports', 'Basketball', 'Philadelphia 76ers', 'NBA', 'Future'] |
But first some backstory and context
There’s not a lot of information about the IZOSTAT. What I know comes from the definitive article, “Picturing Soviet Progress: Izostat 1931–4” written by Emma Minns from the Isotype archives at the University of Reading and explains much of the background. It is the story of a crea... | ['Data Visualization', 'Infographics', 'History', 'Books', 'Dvhistory'] |
When There’s Too Much of A Good Thing
You know this thing has more legs… just one more day, one more drink, one more bet, keep your foot on the gas…
It’s interesting. The old saying “too much of a good thing” is prominent in my mind at the moment. From the extra condition that sits around my waistline, to the over-en... | ['Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Success', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
With data science, marketing becomes more reliable and decisions can be made based on solid predictions.
As a part of my Marketing Strategy Series, I’m talking with my fellow marketing pros at the top of their game to give entrepreneurs and marketers an inside look at proven strategies you might also be able to levera... | ['Marketers', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Data Science', 'SEO'] |
Rogue is our newly open-sourced, badass (read: type-safe) library for querying MongoDB from Scala. It is implemented as an internal DSL and leverages the type information in your Lift records and fields to keep your queries in line. Here’s a quick look:
Checkin where (_.venueid eqs id)
and (_.userid eqs mayor.id)
an... | ['Engineering'] |
In this tutorial we are going to build a fun project that answers any yes or no question with a gif. Here’s what the finished product looks like!
Getting started
With this tutorial we will be using webpack to build and run single file components. To get started make sure that you have vue-cli installed.
npm i -g vue... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Design', 'Front End Development', 'Web Development', 'Vuejs'] |
Set Up Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a modular, flexible editor — it’s not designed to work with only one programming language. Visual Studio Code users can install extensions to make it easier to work with specific languages in Visual Studio Code.
Open the Extensions window in Visual Studio Code and searc... | ['Software Development', 'Csharp', 'Dotnet', 'Learn To Code', 'Programming'] |
Trick question: What do social media, business, dance, marketing, design, photography, life, film, hollywood, branding, journalism, speaking, travel, leadership, pr, folk, advertising, instagram, fundraising, country music, pitching, employer branding, and marketing your skills for a job have in common?
Well, they are... | ['Storytelling', 'Data Visualization'] |
Here We Go Again. Americans Are Done With This Mess.
We’re post-outrage.
Photo by Brian Wertheim on Unsplash
“Here we go again,” I thought.
A few years ago, some of my coworkers raised a little money for me and my spouse. We were expecting a baby. They tried to give it to me at a meeting, in a little bag with some ... | ['Politics', 'Government', 'Society', 'News', 'Economics'] |
I spent much of my 20s confused about a suitable career choice. I graduated college with a degree in English and a minor in Psychology and hoped my subsequent stint in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa would clarify a career path.
Prior to that adventure, I’d lived abroad as an exchange student twice in high school... | ['Work', 'Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Self'] |
There’s something for everyone
The Variety of Ways You Can Meditate
There are many ways to tap into divine guidance and reach a heightened state of awareness without needing a mat
Allow yourself to become fully aware and present in any moment. (Photo: Krismas)
Dealing With Life
My daughter was wreaking havoc in th... | ['Creativity', 'Ideas', 'Mindfulness', 'Leadership', 'Inspiration'] |
A few weeks ago we were excited to announce one of our most-wished-for features from our developer community, native authentication for iOS, and today we’re happy to announce we’ve also shipped support for native auth on Android in our latest release of Foursquare on Google Play! In a nutshell, this means that your use... | ['Engineering', 'Foursquare'] |
Authored by Sebastian Zangaro
“A fast-moving technology field where new tools, technologies and platforms are introduced very frequently and where it is very hard to keep up with new trends.” I could be describing either the VR space or Data Engineering, but in fact this post is about the intersection of both.
Virtua... | ['Real Time Analytics', 'Data Streaming', 'Kafka', 'Data Pipeline', 'Data Engineering'] |
What’s Special About fish?
Fish Shell logo
Easy to understand and use
Unlike the other shells that need a lot of setting-up to work the way you want them to, fish works perfectly right out of the box.
It ships with the most widely used features already included, which are present when you start using it without nee... | ['Mac', 'Productivity', 'Linux', 'Bash', 'Programming'] |
Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash
Looking for an excuse to learn a bit more about web scraping and Google Data Studio, I decided to begin a project based on my wife’s commercial Instagram profile. The goal was to build an online updatable dashboard with some useful metrics, like top hashtags, frequently used words,... | ['Python', 'Google Sheets', 'Data Science', 'Web Scraping', 'Data Visualization'] |
Having Trouble Sticking to an Exercise Program?
Time to shift your thinking
Photo by John Arano on Unsplash
I’m sitting at my desk right now with a giant ice pack on my shin. Under the ice pack is a goose egg, with a bright-red, oozing cut going down the middle.
Just thirty minutes ago, I was riding downhill on my ... | ['Sports', 'Exercise', 'Health', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle'] |
Booking cancellations have a substantial impact on demand management decisions in the hospitality industry.
Every year, more than 140 million bookings were made on the internet and many hotel bookings were booked through top-visited travel websites like Booking.com, Expedia.com, Hotels.com, etc.
Hotel Booking Cancell... | ['Eda', 'Python', 'Hospitality', 'Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning'] |
There comes a time in every application where you want to delete something. So like every developer, you add a button, that when clicked on, deletes the resource.
Wether it’s a blog post, a shopping cart item, or disabling an account, you want to protect against unwanted button clicks.
Enter the Confirm Dialog.
Some... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Material Ui', 'Programming'] |
Aspiring creatives are often told to produce work purely for themselves — at least at the beginning of their journey.
The idea is that enjoying the process of creation is more important than worrying about the recognition our work receives.
I myself have repeated that advice on this blog, so my intention with this pi... | ['Self Improvement', 'Blogging', 'Creativity', 'Opinion', 'Growth'] |
Regardless of where you stand on the matter of Data Science sexiness, it’s simply impossible to ignore the continuing importance of data, and our ability to analyze, organize, and contextualize it. Drawing on their vast stores of employment data and employee feedback, Glassdoor ranked Data Scientist #1 in their 25 Best... | ['Analytics', 'Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science'] |
Martin Chilton
Photo: Queen Productions Ltd
Queen’s epic rock hit ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ began life sometime in the late 60s, when Freddie Mercury was a student at Ealing Art College, starting out as a few ideas for a song scribbled on scraps of paper.
Queen guitarist Brian May remembers the brilliant singer and songwr... | ['Rock', 'Features', 'Pop Culture', 'Culture', 'Music'] |
Hi, I hope everyone is still ok from this tedious 2020! I was gone for a few months, and I came back with some tips that I found life saving while preparing for my master’s degree paper. (can’t believe how time flies)
So, this post will not be consistent nor explanatory but it will be a list of problems that I faced w... | ['Numpy', 'Python', 'Classification', 'Confusion Matrix', 'Lstm'] |
Intro
When sharing blog content or articles on social media it’s important to stand out. In a sea of Twitter posts users might simply scroll by an article you’ve worked hard on if the blog preview isn’t eye catching enough!
In this post, we’ll teach you how to generate beautiful sharing cards for your Nuxt Content bl... | ['JavaScript', 'Nuxt', 'Web Development', 'Cloudinary', 'Vuejs'] |
Limitations of Still-image Object Detector
Before we dive deep into these papers, we need to first understand what limitations still-image object detectors have and how we can leverage our knowledge to extend current frameworks to videos.
First, simply applying image detectors to videos would introduce unaffordable c... | ['Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning', 'Video Object Detection'] |
New research has revealed which Christmas songs have been the most listened to over the past years — and for that matter, which songs have been given the most plays.
With Christmas time upon us once again— which means seasonal songs can be heard on every corner, of your shopping trips will be soundtracked by the likes... | ['Songs', 'Artist', 'Family', 'Christmas', 'Music'] |
The Genaro Network project was established in early 2016. The non-profit Genaro Ltd. foundation (the “Foundation”) was officially registered in Singapore in July 2017. Since its inception, the project has released a number of blockchain applications, such as the Genaro Eden storage network, Genaro Sharer storage sharin... | ['Storage', 'Innovation', 'Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Future'] |
Zack Argyle | Engineering manager, Core Experience
The idea of building a “Progressive Web App” (PWA) is not new, but its definition has changed with the emergence of key technologies like service workers. Now it’s finally possible to build great experiences in a mobile browser. Being an early adopter can be scary, so... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Progressive Web App', 'Mobile', 'Web'] |
Where we try to understand what’s behind past, current and future tech trends.
Photo by Michael Afonso on Unsplash
The tech industry may not sound quite as stylish as the fashion industry, but it is certainly also prone to fashion effects. For example, tech often makes big promises and thus raises hopes, leading to t... | ['Market', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Computer Science', 'Technology'] |
Hendrix was staying in the Wiley Lane apartment when he drove down Rock City Road one afternoon and heard an old New York acquaintance jamming on the village green. Juma Sultan had been commuting between Woodstock and the city since 1966, when he became involved with the Saugerties-based arts collective Group 212. He a... | ['Rock', 'The Bookshelf', 'Music'] |
By default, the 8base platform auto-generates an extremely powerful GraphQL API that gives you immediate API access to your data. Sometimes though, developers are using a 3rd party service or another tool that doesn’t easily support the authoring and execution of GraphQL queries. Instead, they require that a REST API (... | ['JavaScript', 'Serverless', 'App Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
Anger and Love
There is a choice
Photo by Azrul Aziz on Unsplash
If I could live inside the walls that have no divide, I would not have love and anger inside. There is a fine line that exists between love and anger. Some say it is passion others view it as human. To me, they are two words that stand side by side. Wh... | ['Poetry', 'Society', 'Love', 'Anger'] |
“They were angry. They are men and I am a girl.”[2]
A modern gothic, The Bass Rock is part ghost story, part mystery, part family drama. It touches on religion and the hypocrisy of the church, infidelity, mental illness, loss, and war. The main topic, however, is something prevalent to women. Even the somewhat margina... | ['Feminism', 'Books', 'Women', 'Abuse', 'Gender Equality'] |
I was invited by the United Nations to join other young people to foster collaboration and mutual understanding with young people, as key stakeholders in the development of this country.
We (young people) are the critical segment of the population that cannot be left behind in any effort towards nation-building. One o... | ['Environment', 'Youth Development', 'Climate Change', 'Women', 'Government'] |
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash
The concept of individuality or the self is a very fluid concept that we often don’t extend enough effort in exploring.
https://hmcbee.blogspot.com/2020/12/what-is-individual-and-how-do-we-find.html
All biological intelligence are forms of collective and cooperative intelligence... | ['AI'] |
Ever wondered what is deep learning and how its changing the way we do things. In this series of tutorials, I will dig into the terminology used in the space of deep learning. A complete look at the mathematics behind activation functions, loss, functions, optimizers and much more. Along the way, I will also share link... | ['Deep Learning', 'Backpropagation', 'Forward Propagation', 'AI', 'Activation Functions'] |
Create Handler Functions
In our handler.ts file, I’m going to create a function named respond that wraps the response that gets sent back to the client. This function takes two parameters:
The data we’re sending as a response. The HTTP response status code.
export const respond = (fulfillmentText: any, statusCode: n... | ['AWS', 'Programming', 'AWS Lambda', 'Dynamodb', 'Serverless'] |
There’s an old parable that tells the story of six blind men examining an elephant. As the tale goes, each of them feels a different part of the pachyderm and then comes to his own conclusion as to the properties of the massive animal. A man touching the tusk compares the beast to a spear, while another flaps the eleph... | ['Equality', 'Culture', 'Sports', 'Race', 'Music'] |
🌌 CARTOON: Parking
Is there life on Mars?
Cartoonist’s Note №1
I really don’t care if there’s life on Mars. I just want there to be parking.
Cartoonist’s Note №2
Like all of my cartoons, this one was “not distributed in topics.”
Cartoonist’s Note №3
Medium recently demonetized cartoons, poetry, flash fiction an... | ['Art', 'Comics', 'Cartoon', 'Science', 'Cities'] |
GET VERIFIED ON FACEBOOK WITH THIS HANDY GUIDE Kontentino Follow Feb 15 · 5 min read
Social media has thousands of fake accounts. Knowing this, it makes sense that companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat let some high-profile individuals and companies verify themselves to show that they’re real. This verificati... | ['Facebook Marketing', 'Verification', 'How To', 'Facebook', 'Social Media'] |
A month later, I still couldn’t get a clear definition for what qualified as a “recovered” case, even asking colleagues working at the CDC. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs) had started to contain early learning about the novel coronavirus and the growing case counts in the US. I felt alarmed when I sa... | ['Evaluation', 'Covid 19', 'Public Health', 'Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
By Bradley Bambarger <2005>
Ry Cooder is a master of musical reclamation, having dusted off everything from classic Tex-Mex and Hawaiian styles to folk-blues and, most famously, Cuban son. But the veteran guitarist/composer — and producer of Buena Vista Social Club — is also a man with a socio-political tale to tell.
... | ['Ry Cooder', 'Los Angeles', 'Chavez Ravine', 'Latin Music', 'Music'] |
How I Overwhelmed the New MacBook Air With the Apple M1 Chip. Thomas Underwood Follow Dec 7 · 6 min read
Stressing out the new Macbook Air
I drove 3 hours round trip to get the new MacBook Air the day after I ordered it. It was either that or wait 3–4 weeks for delivery. I don’t know about you, but I was too excited ... | ['Front End Development', 'Technology', 'Nodejs', 'Programming', 'Apple'] |
ESLint Rules 😱
If you explore the content of .eslintrc.json — surely you will see a field rules , and in it some more fields. The inner fields are the rules — to be more specific, rule names e.g. no-unused-vars on the other side the rule options i.e. if that rule breaches what ESLint is suppose to do, e.g. "error" vi... | ['Beginners Guide', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Eslint Config'] |
It’s Not About Freedom. It’s About Power and Control.
Source: Amazon
Revised Nov. 11, 2020.
Widespread conspiracy theories. Disbelief in fact and scientific reasoning. Suspicion of experts. Targeted suppression of marginalized individuals and groups. Gaslighting on a mass scale.
These are the themes of our times. T... | ['Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'Politics', 'Climate Change', 'Self Care'] |
While watching the popular music video for Childish Gambino’s new track “This is America”, I was completely captivated by the immaculately crafted cinematography, choreography, composition, and other aesthetic aspects of director Hiro Murai’s production. The first three minutes are comprised of a continuous shot, which... | ['Politics', 'Race', 'Childish Gambino', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Music'] |
The verge and foliot escapement. The first mechanical clocks, building on the older principle of water flow for energy, employed a solid weight to yield the computation of time. If we just tied a weight and let it drop, we would not have to wait long, and we would be able to measure time only in seconds. So the trick f... | ['Engineering', 'Kinetic', 'Machine'] |
10 Java Articles You should Read in 2021
Best stories of Javarevisited publication
Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash
Hello guys, another month pass by and we are ready with another edition of the best of Javarevisited. The growth is good, with more readers and authors are joining Javarevisited every day. If you are ... | ['Articles', 'Coding', 'Javarevisited', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
Hello reader! If you are here, you’re probably a computer science student or a computer science enthusiastic (or not…). Either way, this article was made for you.
The study of sorting algorithms is one of the most fundamental areas of computer science. There are many sorting algorithms out there and they all perform i... | ['Algorithms', 'Computer Science', 'Sorting Algorithms', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
Japan orders Binance crypto exchange to close or face police action, bitcoin rally falters …
According to a report by financial news outlet Nikkei, Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has ordered the closure… | ['Google', 'Blockchain', 'Binance', 'Huawei', 'Bitcoin'] |
Step 1: Project Setup
Screensavers for Mac OS X are developed with Xcode. The first thing you’ll need to do is create a new Xcode project with the category “Screen Saver.”
I named my project Pong, but you can name yours anything you’d like. As of Xcode 10.2.1, Xcode will generate some files: PongView.h , PongView.m ,... | ['Software Development', 'Computer Science', 'Programming', 'Design'] |
The Perils of the Digital Paywalls
Welcome to the era of information inequality
Photo by Misha Voguel from Pexels
“It’s a big question for democracy: The business model of news is changing, That’s a big challenge for the world.” — BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti
The tremors from the meteoric rise of the internet giants ... | ['World', 'Society', 'News', 'Equality', 'Fake News'] |
某天收到一封來自 Google TW - Test Engineer, Android 的面試邀請，於是開始請HR幫忙安排後續一切事情，首先要先感謝 HR Jenny 很用心、很細心的跟我說明接下來面試的流程，也提供我許多面試相關的參考文件，真的是萬般感謝，讓我感到備受尊重。當然! 面試不外乎還是要刷刷題目~這我就不多說了!
Google TW 面試流程:
Recruiter Prescreen → Phone Interview → Onsite Interview ( 4–5 sessions ) → Hiring Committee Review → Offer Review → Offer Delivery (Yippe... | ['Work', 'Google', 'Test Engineer', 'Interview', '面試心得'] |
Becoming a Monopoly Was Always Facebook’s Goal
‘Copy, acquire, and kill’
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Image
Wednesday’s filing of a major government antitrust suit against Facebook is a landmark in the internet’s history. We knew the suit was coming; we didn’t know it would call for a full-on breakup that would spl... | ['Facebook', 'Antitrust', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
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'] |
Not all features are created equal Zhe Chen
Feature Selection
There would always be some features which are less important with respect to a specific problem. Those irrelevant features need to be removed. Feature selection addresses these problems by automatically selecting a subset that is most useful to the problem... | ['Data Analysis', 'Mljcunito', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Recently I came across the issue of using the auth module in Nuxt.js and invoking a $router.push in subsequent line of code in the same method. The conundrum began when the lines after the auth.loginWith method did not execute as intended since the page was redirected to the redirect URI.
It has been only a week in th... | ['JavaScript', 'Front End Development', 'Vuejs', 'Nuxtjs', 'Config'] |
The Next Level of Data Visualization in Python
How to make great-looking, fully-interactive plots with a single line of Python
The sunk-cost fallacy is one of many harmful cognitive biases to which humans fall prey. It refers to our tendency to continue to devote time and resources to a lost cause because we have alr... | ['Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Education', 'Towards Data Science'] |
From that day on, I developed an obsessive routine: I would come back from class, buy a Suntory beer, and spend the night in my dorm refreshing Aika’s YouTube post. I did that for three torturous days.
On the fourth day, she replied with “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye.
I blinked at my laptop. Did she mean… t... | ['Short Story', 'Love', 'Fiction', 'Fiction Friday', 'Music'] |
Are you interested in graph theory and NoSQL database design? Graph databases may offer you the tools that you need. Whether it comes to pattern matching, recommender systems, fraud detection, social media, or more, graph databases are a great option. Neo4j is the most popular open-source graph database management syst... | ['Neo4j', 'Python', 'Graph Database', 'Research', 'Data Visualization'] |
When I was first introduced to Observables in C#, they sounded pretty damn good. “They just model streams of data”, “It’s just data over time” and “It’s just the push equivalent of an IEnumerable”. After working with them for a little while, I don’t think they’re as good as I was told.
The statements above might be tr... | ['Observables', 'Dotnet', 'Csharp', 'Software Development', 'Reactive Programming'] |
Co-authored by a NLP dream team: Stella Liu (AI Product Manager), David Kearns (Product Manager in Data and AI), Nadine Handal (Data Scientist), Shubham Agarwal (AI Research Scientist), Michael Flores (AI Architect) and me (Machine Learning Developer)
Introduction
While AI has sometimes become synonymous with chatbot... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Technology', 'Naturallanguageprocessing'] |
Anime and the Familiarity of Future Funk
Future funk’s reliance on anime points to its undying love affair with escapism.
Urusei Yatsura’s Lum Invader has become the unofficial poster girl for future funk.
Sometimes future funk feels like a secret. The genre, an outgrowth of the early 2010s vaporwave movement, which... | ['Anime', 'Japan', 'Future Funk', 'Music', 'Internet Culture'] |
Taming long and nested if/else statements
Back to basics — Writing conditionals
Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay
Case 1. Simple if / else if / else blocks
if (mode === "A") {
return { isDisabled: true };
} else if (mode === "B") {
return { isDisabled: true };
} else {
return { isDisabled: false };
}
Thi... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Clean Code', 'Programming'] |
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
SQLDelight started as a project 4 years ago on the ContentValues and SQLiteOpenHelper APIs from Android with the goal of making writing SQL easy ... | ['Kotlin', 'Android', 'Engineering', 'Cash App'] |
My So-Called (Millennial) Entitlement
Did we really expect too much, or were we just gaslit?
I am at the San Francisco International Airport some barely recent morning, registering for a travel program called Clear when the automated kiosk assisting me makes a strange request: “Stand still while we scan your irises.”... | ['Trust Issues', 'Millennials', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Privacy'] |
3 Tips to Overcome the XY Problem
Stop trying to figure out solution Y, when you don’t understand problem X
Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash
You’ve had problems with files. Probably due to their file extensions. Let’s say you wanted the last three characters to determine the file type. You ask some people questi... | ['Software Development', 'Business', 'Business Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Soft Skills'] |
Where to Scale Your Workloads
Season of Scale
“Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential... | ['Software Development', 'Serverless', 'Scalability', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing'] |
More from Momentum Follow
Momentum is a blog that captures and reflects the moment we find ourselves in, one where rampant anti-Black racism is leading to violence, trauma, protest, reflection, sorrow, and more. Momentum doesn’t look away when the news cycle shifts. | ['Society', 'Kamala Harris', 'Quotes', 'Black Lives Matter', 'Racism'] |
Reversing Bits in C
A small performance investigation into innocent-looking code.
Written by Charles Nicholson.
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
Thanks to readers rjs, meteorf... | ['Programming', 'Cpp', 'Engineering'] |
Questions for BRCA1+ Trans-Feminine Youth
A new case study this week in the journal LGBT Health explores the story of a trans-feminine youth identified as BRCA1+ at the onset of hormone therapy. Little is known about best practices for BRCA1+ trans youth, even though many physical and hormonal considerations exist.
I... | ['Health', 'Cancer', 'LGBT', 'Transgender'] |
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Password can be define as ‘Secret word/words’ or may be a number. In simple words, it is a key to a lock. Google also suggests us randomly generated password. The purpose of this article is that know about how to generate password using Python language.
Requirements:
Nothing specia... | ['Coding', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Code'] |
To get the most out of this article, you will need a good understanding of creating Expressions with the .NET Framework. If you don’t already, then check out this article[^] before going any further.
During the development of our current ASP.NET Core web application, I had a particular set of forms where the client ne... | ['Design Patterns', 'Software Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Dotnet', 'Software'] |
How to organize a successful hackathon for your startup in 7 steps Nikolay Rodionov Follow Jun 16 · 10 min read
As a startup, Streamroot organized a hackathon for five consecutive years, and we were eager to keep this tradition alive following our acquisition by CenturyLink last September. After another successful edi... | ['Hackathons', 'Team Building', 'Teamwork', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
Overwrite Git Commit History
I have had to overwrite my remote branch commit history a few times in the past. The main reason I had to do this was because of unused or bad commits I accidentally or unknowingly had made, only to realise after that those commits weren’t needed.
This can also happen when the requirement... | ['Git', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Github', 'Software Engineering'] |
Pair Programming Interviews
An Intern’s Interview Experience
Written by Parth Upadhyay.
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About Me
My name is Parth Upadhyay and I’m a rising s... | ['Engineering', 'Interview', 'Pair Programming'] |
Power Trip’s “Executioners Tax (Live)”
Power Trip’s crushing live track nominated for Best Metal Performance Grammy
Photo Courtesy of Angela Owens
The first time I ever saw Power Trip was on March 17th, 2017 at Once Ballroom in Somerville(R.I.P.) it was the beginning of their nationwide tour on the heels of their mo... | ['Magazine', 'Metal', 'Music', 'Music Review', 'Grammys'] |
fatihhcan/noteApp
Note App with Flutter. Contribute to fatihhcan/noteApp development by creating an account on GitHub. | ['Mobile App Development', 'Software Development', 'Flutter', 'Flutter Türkiye', 'Flutter Widget'] |
Challenges
There were two main problems we wanted to solve with Pin stats.
Near-real-time insights: Businesses have told us they’d like to see how well their Pins are doing within the first few hours of publishing them. One of the biggest challenges in building Pin stats was processing tens of billions of events in a... | ['Infrastructure', 'Data', 'Engineering', 'Analytics', 'Apache Kafka'] |
Key code reviewers
Knowing the architecture and the specifics of the project is the responsibility of most involved and experienced engineers. And they are the key code reviewers. They can easily find low cohesion, violation of SOLID rules, layers nomenclature leaks, and other possible mistakes that may bite our tongu... | ['Software Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Code Review', 'Software Engineering', 'Software'] |
Poetry is written in lines, and sometimes involves rhyme, rhythm, and other musical devices. It focuses on the euphony, the sound of the words, as much as it focuses on the literal meaning of the words. Liberties can be taken with pretty much all of what we consider the rules of language and clear communication.
What ... | ['Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Learning', 'Art', 'Prose'] |
JSON Web Tokens With Python APIs
Part 1. Creating the Token
Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
When designing and building an Application Programming Interface (API), security is something that the developer must have in mind. Without security, a malicious user could potentially gain access to sensitive data. That’s w... | ['Jwt', 'API', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
My mother turned 102 on Sunday. She arrived at her party dressed in a powder blue wool jacket, her face animated by a smile she could not control. She didn’t even try.
She basked in the glory of the day, aware that she had made it to another milestone, unlike any family member before. With a small group of friends and... | ['Family', 'Aging', 'Health', 'Longevity', 'Positive Thinking'] |
The Sad Reason the Housing Market Is Booming During a Recession
The wealth gap is getting bigger
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During economic recessions, house prices tend to go down. The reason is quite simple; personal income is one of the most significant factors driving home prices. The more money people make, t... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Inequality', 'Money', 'Economics'] |
In computer science, the string data type is defined by a sequence of characters. Strings are typically comprised of characters, words, sentences, and/or numerical information. In python, string objects have access to several methods that enable operations such as text stripping, sanitation, searching and much more. Ha... | ['Software Development', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology'] |
Photo by Vincentas Liskauskas on Unsplash
The task is straightforward: given two actor names, find the connection between them through their movie casts. Such as Emma Watson knows Jennifer Lawrence through Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), who knows James McAvoy (Victor Frankenstein), who finally knows Jennifer Lawrenc... | ['Data Science', 'Database', 'Algorithms', 'AI'] |
1904: The Year St. Louis, Missouri Was the Most Important City in the World
Imagine the traffic situation if your city hosted the World’s Fair and the Summer Olympics concurrently
The Government Building at the 1904 World’s Fair, David R. Francis/ Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
There’s a great scene in the 1944... | ['History', 'Culture', 'Life', 'People', 'Ideas'] |
There are a couple ways to create a BigInt class — the most common being using a String or Integer Array. I will be using a String.
Setup
Here I am storing the value as a String and created some constructors, getters and setters. I give the option to set the value or create the object with an int or String.
I need a... | ['Bigint', 'Large Numbers', 'Java', 'Data Structures', 'Algorithms'] |
Recently, I completed a project creating an analytics dashboard for a client. I used Bokeh for the visualizations and wanted to share my experiences.
Overview
I’d like to describe the dashboard I created and then talk about some of the steps it took to create. You can see the finished product below:
In the top left ... | ['Python', 'Open Source', 'Data Science', 'Bokeh', 'Data Visualization'] |
Top 16 Types of Chart in Data Visualization
Look at the following dashboard, do you know how many types of chart are there?
From FineReport
In the era of information explosion, more and more data piles up. However, these dense data are unfocused and less readable. So we need data visualization to help data to be eas... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis', 'Design', 'Data Science', 'Charts'] |
The “AI for Social Good” conference that recently took place at the Qatar Computing Research Institute examined the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for good. It was widely agreed that the potential is real, and that AI could help jumpstart economic development and support humanitarian causes when used respons... | ['Data', 'Data Collaborative', 'Data Steward', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Let’s start exploring:
Overall conversion rate development:
Conversion rate development over time
It certainly seems like things went downhill in early 2017. After checking with the chief sales officer, it turns out that a competitor entered the market around that time. That’s good to know, but nothing we can do her... | ['Programming', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python'] |
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