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At the end of the month, when you receive your serverless bill, you mainly see one number. If you want to compare this number with non-serverless app costs, you shouldn’t simply compare it to infrastructure costs, you should broaden your comparison and also include:
a chunk of Ops salaries
SaaS bills such as a monito... | ['Finops', 'Serverless', 'Infrastructure', 'AWS', 'Lambda'] |
Automerge for PRs
Most of the time, you need a review or two and some checks to pass before a pull request can be merged. This can take some time, so GitHub is adding the ability to click a button to enable automerging on a PR.
What this means is you’ll be able to finish up a pull request and enable automerging, and ... | ['JavaScript', 'Github', 'Startup', 'Github Universe', 'Programming'] |
Well, Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia and Penn are currently offering free online courses across multiple topics on Class Central.
Below are 67 business courses you can have a crack at from the comfort of your own couch.
Whether you find yourself needing some stimulation, or if you’ve ga... | ['Life Lessons', 'Learning', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Business Strategy'] |
What is intermittent fasting?
You’re already intermittently fasting at night when you sleep. The idea behind the new fasting fad is to extend that period of not-eating for a couple of hours or longer. Maybe you postpone breakfast or skip it altogether. Maybe you skip dinner instead.
Instead of being considered starva... | ['Health', 'Diet', 'Fasting', 'Weight Loss'] |
A recommender system, or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing ‘system’ with a synonym such as platform or engine), is a subclass of information filtering system that seeks to predict the “rating” or “preference” a user would give to an item.[1][2] They are primarily used in commercial applications.
Recommender... | ['Recommendation System', 'Keras', 'Cosine Similarity', 'Computer Vision', 'Recommender Systems'] |
I have worked for different companies which allowed me to experience different strategies when it comes to take an idea and release it to the public as a final product. Whether you are part of a small or big project, I believe any developer would benefit a lot from understanding the entire process of what it takes to d... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Architecture', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
On the back half of Z-Ro’s latest album, Rohammad Ali, listeners are met with a familiar, if a bit peculiar voice. Following features from rapper Juicy J and singer Brendalynn, Z-Ro enlists the talents of Shaquille O’Neal on “Stop the Rain.”
You might think that Shaq, whose most recent rap exploits have included beef ... | ['Hip Hop', 'Review', 'Music', 'Houston', 'Rap'] |
If you just got off a portrait session, shot an event, finished covering sports, or got back from days and days of vacation, you probably have anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand photos you have to look through. You can spend days and days editing and sorting through photos in Lightroom, and that’s why today ... | ['Work', 'Editing', 'Photography', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
iOS Integration Testing
A framework for integration testing iOS by simulating user interaction.
Written by Eric Firestone.
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
We love iOS for the... | ['Continuous Integration', 'Testing', 'Engineering'] |
Waymo, a division of Alphabet, has long been a leader in autonomous vehicle technology. Based on the limited data released on the company, its vehicles have driven the most miles in self-driving mode and have the lowest rate of disengagement (moments when humans have to take over).
Waymo CEO John Krafcik. Source: Waym... | ['Technology', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Cities', 'Future', 'Transportation'] |
3LetterzNuk
Atlanta-based rapper 3LetterzNuk dropped a new mixtape, I’m Back, not long ago via ZENtertainment/Sony Music.
3LetterzNuk first made an impact in 2015, when he signed with FloRida’s IMG imprint. Now with ZENtertainment/Sony Music, he’s definitely back and ready to go, which explains the mixtape’s title — ... | ['Hip Hop', '3letterznuk', 'Im Back', 'Interview', 'Music'] |
Kyle Meagher
Stylish pop-rock with emotional imminence.
Pop artist and actor Kyle Meagher launches the music video for “Know Better,” a song about the beguiling nostalgia of love, expectancy, and the pain of realization.
Speaking to the song’s genesis, Kyle shares, “I sent a message to an old girlfriend to see if sh... | ['Music Video', 'Anne With An E', 'Kyle Meagher', 'Music', 'Pop Rock'] |
This is close to what we encounter at work as an analyst — we use different techniques that we’ve learnt to extract information from the same database. The following is the entity-relationship diagram of the SQLZoo question ‘Help Desk’. Given this, you’re asked to show the manager and number of calls received for each ... | ['Sql', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'R'] |
We are excited to announce that Shahul Hameed, our first engineer in Asia, has joined the Origin Protocol family!
Shahul is based in India, near Chennai, and has already contributed to every aspect of our platform, from the front-end and back-end to our smart contracts. He is currently working on improving the user ex... | ['Team', 'Ethereum', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Engineering'] |
Here’s the Real Reason Why You Should Vote Democrat in 2020
It’s deeper than just Trump
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash
The 2020 election is sure to be one of the closest and most critical elections in history.
For one, our country is more divided than ever before. The two-party system has brought us more unr... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Elections', 'Trump', 'Government'] |
The Unwritten Rules Of Software Development
To misquote Churchill: why so many bugs have been created in so many applications by so few
Image credit: Christina at wokintechchat.com on Unsplash
I have a shameful confession: in one way or another I’ve spent the last 30+ years of my life being involved with software de... | ['Humor', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Life Lessons'] |
About two months ago I saw a paid writing gig on one of those websites people like me frequent. The ones where some random small business offers to pay you the “generous” sum of $20 for 2000 words. Yet if one is willing to be patient, or forced to because of the sudden unemployment caused by a Pandemic, there are good ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Business', 'Jobs', 'Self', 'Writing'] |
2. The Japanese public recognizes them through their tattoos
While tattoos are widespread across the globe, they are frowned upon in Japan due to their associations with the Yakuza. This is to the extent that public facilities such as gyms, pools and, onsens (bathhouses) have banned anyone with tattoos to keep them ou... | ['Tokyo', 'Japan', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Yakuza'] |
I bought my first digital camera in preparation for a cross-country road trip some friends and I took one summer in college. It was about 4 years before smartphones existed so having a dedicated camera was the only way to dabble in photography. I immediately fell in love with it. I loved the photos and the ability to c... | ['Life Lessons', 'Memories', 'Family', 'Creativity', 'Photography'] |
We were saved by legitimate doubt and cold reason; by people doing what was right, and not what was ordered of them.
Since Trinity, decades of research have done nothing but increase the destructive power of atomic weapons. While our capacity to inflict damages increased exponentially, our dread of nuclear doom has re... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Nuclear Weapons', 'Trump', 'USA'] |
Last few days, I was busy clearing much of the boxes that I had brought back from my office. It was walking down the memory lane going over various folders, documents and depositing them to recycle.
One thing I noticed was how long 3P — People, Product Process has been part of my work. I found meeting agenda starting ... | ['Development', 'Organization Development', 'Personal', 'Software Development'] |
Climate change is also a problem of racial justice
Tackling the climate crisis means tackling racial injustice- why every climate activist should be backing Black Lives Matter
Photo credit: Unsplash.
On the surface, climate change and racism may seem like significant, but very separate, issues. But you don’t have to... | ['Social Justice', 'Environment', 'Environmental Issues', 'Climate Change', 'Racism'] |
How to automate run your python script in your Raspberry Pi Sasiwut Chaiyadecha Follow Jul 7 · 4 min read
Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about the automation tasks. Many of yous might own the python script that help you to do somethings. I have one. My python script is a daily COVID-19 bot. It is simply to... | ['Crontab', 'Linux', 'Raspberry Pi', 'Python', 'Task Scheduler'] |
Neural networks have always fascinated me. Star Trek TNG’s Data had a positronic neural net which allowed Data to progress towards his goal of becoming more human over time. The Terminator’s neural net processor was capable of reacting and learning from the environment to better serve and/or terminate Sarah & John Conn... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Neural Network'] |
1. Identify Your Goal
What do you want to do? It’s very important to identify your goal before you start anything. (I talk all about this in another article]) This will help you hyper-focus, save time, and give you a clear filter to help you evaluate your efforts.
Here are a few examples of goals:
Take great portrai... | ['Art', 'Design', 'Content Creation', 'Design Process', 'YouTube'] |
6 Tricks to Take Better iPhone Photos
They say the best camera is the one you have with you
As the adage goes, the best camera is the one you have with you. While you may not be convinced that the iPhone is capable of greatness, allow me to change your mind.
Note: While this post is targeted to iPhone users, many of... | ['Photography', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'How To', 'Instagram'] |
1. Cleaning up a useEffect Hook
Cleaning up a useEffect hook is the same functionality as calling componentWillUnmount in a class-based component. This function will be called before a component is removed from the DOM. Some examples of when we may use this are removing event listeners, invalidating timers, canceling ... | ['React', 'Hooks', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Programming'] |
Age doesn’t prevent you from being physically fit
Recent research shows elderly and very elderly individuals can successfully build muscle with proper exercise
Photo by Mladen Zivkovic on Canva
Building muscle is for more than preparing for beach season or making a medium size t-shirt look like a smedium. Building m... | ['Health', 'Exercise', 'Fitness', 'Personal Development', 'Personal Growth'] |
Quick Intro
Within this already highly-selective echelon of polymaths, there exists an even more exclusive community: those that momentarily embody the soul of their country. Cemented & celebrated through erected statues, printed currencies & building eponyms, they’re defining personas typically thrust into a changing... | ['Life Lessons', 'Russia', 'History', 'Science', 'Art'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['IBM', 'Addiction', 'Linux', 'Creativity', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Almost 10 years has passed from the big crash of 2008, the worst economic disaster after the great depression.
After several bailouts and significant measures to stimulate growth, it seems that the economy recovered in many ways and we are back into new times of prosperity.
Is That the Case or Is It Only One Part of ... | ['Investing', 'Society', 'Financial Crisis', 'Debt Crisis', 'Economics'] |
2. Using * and ** for Function Argument Unpacking
Some functions require a long list of arguments. Although this should be avoided altogether (e.g. by using data classes), it’s not always up to you. In such cases, the second-best option is to create a dictionary with all the named arguments and pass that to the functi... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python3', 'Python', 'Software Development'] |
Why Would This Situation Occur?
First, why would you have this situation? This is fairly niche, but the particular case I’m solving is an API that is composed of an API Gateway endpoint directly injecting the data into DynamoDB — no lambdas. That said, this can apply to any API Gateway endpoint where you want authenti... | ['Cognito', 'Api Gateway', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Authentication'] |
dataviz.cafe
Find the right tool to visualize your data
This article was co-authored by Andrea B. and George S.
Dataviz.cafe is a public resource curated by IQT Labs for anyone interested in open-source software for data visualization. With over 700 software packages — summarized and tagged by data type, programming... | ['Open Source', 'Data Visualization', 'Open Data', 'Creative Coding', 'Design'] |
The Most Popular Classification Algorithms
Image source: Author
Scikit-learn is one of the top ML libraries for Python. So if you want to build your model, check it out. It provides access to widely-used classifiers.
Logistic regression
Logistic regression is used for binary classification.
This algorithm employs ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
The closing out of a decade always prompts “best of” and “worst of” listicles- as well as plenty of crystal gazing about what’s to come. And while predictions can be fun, I’ve learned to be careful about the ones I take in. Because when the mind accepts an idea to focus on, it unleash... | ['Predictions', '2020', 'Optimism', 'Future', 'Humanity'] |
If you are as excited about data science as me, you probably know that the Spark+AI latest summit started yesterday (April 24th 2019). And there are great things to talk about. But I will do it with a spin-off.
If you’ve been following me you now that I co-created a framework called Optimus. If you want to see more ab... | ['Technology', 'Data Science', 'Business', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash
June 2017:
“Courage: noun- the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.” Per Dictionary.com.
But they’re wrong.
There is plenty of fear involved in courage. Courage is facing... | ['Health', 'Life', 'Courage', 'Breast Cancer', 'Nursing'] |
On the surface, Thomas Cole’s painting The Oxbow shows a natural wonder: the winding course of a river across a low-lying valley. It has the dramatic addition of changing weather conditions, giving a sense of the artist having captured a fleeting, single moment. Yet there is more to this picture than first impressions.... | ['Painting', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Time', 'Art History'] |
People do astounding things for money; they subject themselves to heinous conditions, participate in the most degrading circumstances and waste their most precious resource, time, in the pursuit of it.
The adage that money makes the world go round is the saddest reality of life.
On a planet where the poor could be li... | ['Politics', 'Life Lessons', 'Future', 'Money', 'Economics'] |
Action
Take responsibility for your daily decisions and moments. They will define your past, present, and future.
You only can live in the moment. We can learn from our past.
Our future is in no small measure defined by what we decide to do and act on today.
Spend time reflecting on your life. What has it been? Wha... | ['Business', 'Self-awareness', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
How To Convert Your Google Sheets Spreadsheet Into A Web App
For Receiving Form Response with Just One Line Of Code
We are in the era of technology and advancements. every day we fill out many forms or receive responses from many forms. whether we are getting an order for any product or asking for a refund for a prod... | ['Google Sheets', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Software Development'] |
Why It’s Important That Women Like FKA twigs Speak on Abusive Relationships
Abuse doesn’t recognize status. Everyone’s experience matters.
Many of us know the statistic. Over 43 million women and 38 million men have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
You may have been one ... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Abuse', 'Mental Health', 'Healing'] |
Trump provides the answer
Not the one he thought
Trump stumbling on reality
By Mike Meyer
It appears that Trump and the, barely, eukariotic creature named McConnell (no spine or intestines, but you can’t have everything) have gone with Donald’s National Emergency for Wall and Fence Contractors. This is an excellent... | ['Politics', 'Future', 'America', 'Humor', 'Trump'] |
Fifty years after its debut, 2001 is more relevant than ever. Released at the height of the space age in 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was one of the cinematic and cultural blockbusters of the 1960s and early 1970s. Fifty years later, 2001 stands as the greatest and most thought-provoking science-fictio... | ['Space', 'Philosophy', 'Art', 'Atheism', 'Science'] |
Amazon Web Services provide two service options capable of performing ETL: Glue and Elastic MapReduce (EMR). If they both do a similar job, why would you choose one over the other? This article details some fundamental differences between the two.
AWS Glue is a pay as you go, server-less ETL tool with very little infr... | ['Emr', 'Etl', 'AWS', 'Glue'] |
I was browsing through Kaggle and came across a dataset which included locations in latitudes and longitudes. I haven’t worked with plotting on maps so I decided to take this dataset and explore various options available to work through them. This is a basic guide about what I did and the inferences I drew about those ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Data', 'Programming'] |
Image Credit: Apple
Diversification is something that should be applauded. We have all met that person that is incredibly one-dimensional. No one enjoys talking to a person that has a limited range of conversation. But we all know a few people like that, and their existence should make us appreciate the friends that w... | ['Apple', 'Technology', 'Headphones', 'Innovation', 'Audio'] |
Escape from Animal Crossing
Though Nintendo’s breezy island simulator has become increasingly politicized, the community around its soundtrack has formed a musical sanctuary.
Nintendo
For the last few months Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) has been a safe space. Released on March 20, it arrived just in time for... | ['Gaming', 'Music', 'Protest', 'Politics', 'Animal Crossing'] |
Onophrian Fountain, Dubrovnik | Tien (2018)
He rests the rebec on his knee. It is that moment — the moment when the crowd has thinned and the next group of tourists has not arrived yet. The brief window of break when his time belongs to him and his thoughts begin to wander.
He had a dream. Once.
It is difficult to b... | ['Life', 'Fiction', 'Dreams', 'A Cornered Gurl', 'Music'] |
Don’t be discouraged. If it were easy, everyone would be conversing in a wide range of languages on a daily basis.
I’ve taught many students over the years and most of them ask; how can I learn English fast?
It has taken some time and careful consideration, however as each year rolled over, I feel that I have created... | ['Learning', 'Self Improvement', 'Education', 'Language', 'Creativity'] |
A little more than fifteen years ago, my ex-husband pulled the car to a stop on a pitch dark stretch of gravel road in the middle of a snowstorm. He proceeded to beat me as I sat in the front seat. When he stopped to catch his breath, I crawled to the back seat, unbuckling my infant daughter from her car seat, and step... | ['Wisdom', 'Wellness', 'Abuse', 'Cyber Bullying', 'Advice'] |
Analytics for Small and Medium Sized Firms
by Michael Watson
A lot of press around analytics is focused on large and exciting projects. But, analytics can be applied to firms of any size.
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management’s recent magazine published an article entitled “Think you’re too small for big data?... | ['Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Business'] |
I want to capture how I feel at this time in history. “This time in history” is a funny phrase. Every time is a time in history. Every thing is either experience or memory.
But I needed to get this out prior to next Tuesday’s election — the most important one in my lifetime. I think I’ve said that before. This time is... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Sociology', 'Trump', 'Election 2020'] |
A Bespoke Website and Data Platform for The Lancet Countdown
Our team developed and designed a new bespoke website for The Lancet Countdown with a flexible modular layout CMS, allowing administrators the ability to easily create new pages, amend content including all text, images, resources and video.
We also introdu... | ['Climate Change', 'The Lancet', 'UX Design', 'UI Design', 'Development'] |
“T he goal is to turn data into information and information into insight.” Carly Fiorina — Former chief executive officer, Hewlett Packard.
There are so many wonderful libraries being added to the Python ecosystem every single day but these are the ones I’ve found the most intuitive and useful (and unsurprisingly the ... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Libraries', 'Data Analysis', 'Scikit Learn'] |
The report — an accounting of casualties and global stockpiles, as well as on progress towards mine removal and victim assistance — is released annually by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. The coalition of NGOs spearheaded the anti-mine movement, leading to the 1997 treaty that banned the weapon’s use.
The... | ['Conflict', 'Data Visualization', 'World', 'Landmines', 'Myanmar'] |
Square’s Open Approach to Code
A quarter of a million lines of code later.
Written by Lindsay Wiese.
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
Nearly 3 years ago we open sourced our fi... | ['Engineering', 'Open Source'] |
What I Miss in the Office
Zoom calls, messaging, screen sharing, emails, phone calls, and texts are great. This technology offers us the ability to work through this quarantine in as normal a state as possible. But as a software developer and data scientist, this technology does not offer me all I need to do my job.
... | ['Work From Home', 'Software Development', 'Remote Working', 'Productivity', 'Data Science'] |
3 Reasons Why You Should Start 2021 With a Vision Board
A magazine contacted me, just days after I made a vision board
Photo by Polina Zimmerman from Pexels
You would not believe the number of amazing opportunities that came my way a mere few weeks after making my vision board. Whether you believe in the theories be... | ['Education', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Creativity', 'Inspiration'] |
It’s 1997. I’m 28 years old and living in the beautiful island state of Tasmania, the last bastion of Australian anti-gay sentimentality and dubbed by international media as “Bigots Island” due to some of the harshest anti-homosexual laws in the world.
In those days I was a Mormon, a seriously square peg trying to fit... | ['Equality', 'LGBT Rights', 'Society', 'Memoir', 'History'] |
Applying convolutional layers (aka “ConvNet”) on images and extracting key features of the image for analysis is the main premise of ConvNets. Each time “Conv-layers” is applied to an image and divides this image into small slices known as receptive fields, hence extracting important features from the image and neglect... | ['Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Deep Learning', 'Convolutional Network', 'Data Science'] |
In recent years, Facebook has come under fire for their handling of harmful content posted on their platform. The content in question includes fake news, credible threats of violence, terrorism, and even genocide. According to the New York Times, Facebook’s methods for dealing with the onslaught of harmful posts have b... | ['Free Speech', 'Technology', 'Facebook', 'Content Moderation'] |
Let’s Stop With the Fatphobic Talk
It’s not your place to speak about someone else’s body
In the before times, when swimming and water-exercise were encouraged in indoor swimming pools, I’d go to my local YMCA for water aerobics classes.
I loved going because I was good at them, and I could do things in the water th... | ['Health', 'Culture', 'Body Positive', 'Awareness', 'Women'] |
10 Project-Based Tutorials for Learning JavaScript
You don’t have to spend any money. You just have to be resourceful
Photo by Photoholgic on Unsplash
“I am still learning.” — Michelangelo
After taking these free courses, don’t forget to leave a thumbs-up and a token of gratitude for our teachers, instructors, and ... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Learning To Code', 'Programming'] |
Deploying applications to Kubernetes can be as simple as writing a few resource definitions in yaml or json and applying them with kubectl, but it can also be a whole lot more automated (and complicated).
A popular meme in application deployment is the combination of Continuous Deployment and GitOps: the automatic dep... | ['DevOps', 'Continuous Deployment', 'Software Development', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes'] |
Use an R model to generate forecasts from live data.
After training and tweaking any model, using it to score streaming data is a great way to extend its value. When you score a model on static data, you gain hindsight into past events. However, when you score a model on streaming data, you can detect and respond to p... | ['Big Data', 'Forecasting', 'Data', 'Tutorial', 'Streaming'] |
Recently, while working my way through this tutorial, I came across a React library called prop-types. I’ve never used this library before, so I made a quick research on why we need prop-types and how to use is.
JavaScript is a so-called “untyped” language. That means JavaScript will figure out what type of data you h... | ['Reactjs', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Libraries', 'Prop Types'] |
Driving Alignment Around Goals
by Isabelle Berner, Director of Product
I was recently a speaker on a Product Stack webinar on collaboration with my former colleague, Jay Badenhope. The organizer, Ronan Dunlop, sent around some questions to registrants ahead of time, one of which was “What is your biggest challenge vi... | ['Product', 'Product Management', 'Product Development', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
The Things That I Saw Senior Software Engineers Do
How I learned and progressed from them
I was fortunate enough to start working as a junior developer with a senior as my mentor. It means I had the opportunity to learn from someone who walked the path I’m going to walk and has more experience than me on this journey... | ['Software Development', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Work', 'Programming'] |
A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir
Learn how to unlock the power of Erlang within Elixir
Photo by Mathyas Kurmann on Unsplash.
One of the main advantages of Elixir is that it is awesome for server-side systems. Forget using a million different technologies for things like data persistence, background jobs, and service c... | ['Software Development', 'Elixir', 'Software Engineering', 'Erlang', 'Programming'] |
1. Outline Features
List of desired feature set (created using Trello).
When you have your app concept determined and are ready to start laying the groundwork, one very important first step is to decide what you actually want your app to do and how you want it to function. Writing out a list of features is a good way... | ['Programming', 'Best Practices', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'Startup'] |
You’re starting to dive into the realm of portrait photography, or maybe you just find yourself taking more pictures of your friends with your smartphone when you go out. Regardless, here are 10 tips for taking better portraits, whether you use your phone, a point and shoot, a mirrorless camera, or a DSLR.
#1. Optimiz... | ['Portraits', 'Tips', 'Photography', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Four steps to branding success:
Bear in mind the following four principles of successful branding:
Photo by Slidebean on Unsplash
1) Brand identity
This is your brand personality. How do you want to be perceived by (potential) clients and peers? It’s important to realize that you can create your brand around your p... | ['Branding', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Solopreneur', 'Freelancing'] |
Your leaders should be accessible to the public
In 2015, I wanted to build an app to provide a way for administrator of public networks (school, libraries, etc.) to provide a look-up and dial tool for members of congress and have it deployable on any target (comparatively low-power machines, or on a personal laptop, o... | ['Python', 'Twilio', 'Heroku', 'JavaScript'] |
Many of our users implement operational reporting and analytics on DynamoDB using Rockset as a SQL intelligence layer to serve live dashboards and applications. As an engineering team, we are constantly searching for opportunities to improve their SQL-on-DynamoDB experience.
For the past few weeks, we have been hard a... | ['Cost', 'Dynamodb', 'Real Time Analytics', 'Performance', 'AWS'] |
Life and Death, Gustav Klimt
Could artificial intelligence ever be an artist? Could a computer act as a curator?
These are questions that have been bubbling in my mind for months now. But the more I dissect, the more emerge — because, what is art? Who is an artist? When and are we able to classify ourselves as one? A... | ['Philosophy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Art', 'Technology', 'Lit'] |
EHTAERB
As in, “ … T’NAC I” — an acrostic
Senator Mitt Romney marched and tweeted his support for Black Lives Matter. Predictably, Donald Trump mocked his participation, while other GOP lawmakers cowardly avoided Trump’s shade. (Image Source)
Every recipe for solving problems
Has one necessary ingredient —
The pro... | ['Poetry', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'One Line', 'Racism', 'Music'] |
Regardless of where you are in your software career, or what role you fill, you’ve surely heard of the idea of Big-O notation and its relation to algorithmic performance. Many of the analytics behind Big-O can appear quite daunting, and the high-level idea which applies can be lost. Having a solid grasp on Big-O can be... | ['Algorithms', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Data Structures', 'Big O'] |
After another great keynote from Andy Jassy, I decided to recap and provide my opinions on the recent Redshift announcements in 2019, including the latest from the keynote this morning.
RA3 nodes with managed storage (link)
RA3 nodes are high performing compute nodes with relatively small local SSD storage used for l... | ['AWS', 'Data', 'Cloud', 'Data Warehouse', 'Redshift'] |
5. Covariance and correlation
Covariance is a quantitative measure that represents how much the variations of two variables match each other. To be more specific, covariance compares two variables in terms of the deviations from their mean (or expected) value.
The figure below shows some values of the random variable... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Analysis'] |
Low coupling
You’ve seen the examples of wrong monolith splitting. What is the problem that these examples share? It is tight coupling, exactly what I try to get rid of: if you need to modify one service, it’s likely that you’ll have to modify couple of more of them. Along with the low coupling usually comes the high ... | ['Service Design', 'Soa', 'Microservices', 'Software Development', 'Software Architecture'] |
1436 — Johannes Gutenberg began work on his printing press
1450s — Gutenberg prints the “Gutenberg Bible”
1480s — 110 cities across Europe had printers
1500 — over 20 million books published
1517 — Martin Luther posted the “95 Theses” to the door of All Saints Church, then printed and distributed throughout Germany... | ['Society', 'Revolution', 'Social Change', 'Culture', 'Communication'] |
Backpropagation algorithm is probably the most fundamental building block in a neural network. It was first introduced in 1960s and almost 30 years later (1989) popularized by Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams in a paper called “Learning representations by back-propagating errors”.
The algorithm is used to effectively tr... | ['Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science'] |
Approaching a crossroads of diverging paths, the weary boy ruminated on which path to embark on. Zealously uttering for a plead of serendipity, the universe graciously surfaced from the weary boy’s haven. The weary boy entranced with newfound thrill continued on his journey towards his treasure.
You ever wake up in a ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Happiness', 'Love', 'Creativity'] |
Odds Ratio Does What Risk Ratio Fails to Do — an Intuitive Example
Understand the concept from scratch
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Let’s begin by dropping the ultimate takeaway of this blog:
“The odds ratio is a consistent measure for both the Population & Sample statistics (Case Control studies with significa... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science', 'Data'] |
Hey Guys, Back to my blog with my second paper analysis. This time we are diving deep into the paper “ Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks ” by Facebook AI.
This blog is kinda long read and have references from more several so bear with me. Will go through it step by step. Have fun reading... | ['Machine Learning', 'NLP', 'Deep', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
There are so many opportunities for night running through the week. Photo by Zac Ong on Unsplash
Birds are hiding something from you. It’s the little drab ones that have the biggest surprise, too. You may think that tropical birds are the only ones with brilliant colours and striking patterns, but what you may not rea... | ['Fitness', 'Sports', 'Running', 'Health', 'Exercise'] |
Abstract
This paper explains the application of linear regression to analyze the relationship between goals scored, goals allowed, and goal difference with points in the final standings of the English Premier League. It shows that there is a strong linear relationship between goal difference and points, as well as a r... | ['Mathematics', 'Premier League', 'Soccer', 'Linear Regression', 'Data Science'] |
If Advent is a journey, Christmas Day seems to be one of arrival. After all, Mary gave birth to the Holy One in a long-ago stable, right?
Today is the big day with the birth of One, who many consider the — or at least their — Lord and Savior. That concept has come to mean some very specific, carefully — and no doubt —... | ['Spirituality', 'Creativity', 'Birth', 'Christmas', 'Pain'] |
Overview
You can find the courses here and here. The course full names are:
“Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python” “”Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science”
XSeries of the two courses
They belong to the “Computational Thinking using Python” program on EdX. It used to be one... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Education', 'Data Structures', 'Algorithms'] |
Decimation: the Cruelest Punishment in the Roman Army
Removal of a tenth
Roman legionaries (Image: historyanswers.co.uk)
The Roman army was an effective war machine that created one of the largest empires in history. Roman legionaries obeyed their commanders and kept formation during the battle. They were famous for... | ['World', 'Roman', 'People', 'War', 'History'] |
Impostor Syndrome Became Your Best Friend
Imposter syndrome is a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite the progress you have gained and the evident success.
Let’s break down this collection of feelings. Firstly, let me remind you of something you’ve probably experienced and felt more than once alo... | ['Careers', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Advice'] |
Testing Named Scopes
Test your named scopes with Rail code
Written by Zach Brock and Cameron Walters.
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
Last year Zach wrote a blog post about a... | ['Ruby on Rails', 'Ruby', 'Engineering'] |
Dear Businesses, Stop Treating Freelancers Like Crap
A word about freelancing today
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About a year ago, I got a phone call. A phone call that surprised me. One of my clients was calling me right after another team member said the business would be shutting down shop for a month or so for v... | ['Freelance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Entrepreneur', 'Freelancing'] |
What If Trump Tells You, 1 Month From Now, It’s Safe To Go To Vegas?
First of all, would you believe him?
Then, wouldn’t you want to know everyone you encounter there: at the hotel, at a restaurant, at the casino, at the pool, at a sports book, at a club, had either tested negative, or had recovered? How’s that going... | ['Donald Trump', 'Travel', 'Health', 'Vaccines', 'Government'] |
Plotnine is Python’s answer to ggplot2 in R. R users will feel right at home with this data visualization package with a highly similar syntax with minor syntactic differences.
R has been the ruler of data visualization and statistical modelling between the two while Python was the best for productionizing / monetizin... | ['Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'R', 'Technology'] |
Kelly is an illustrator, designer and comic artist living in Minneapolis. See more of her work here: kellyabeln.com
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Data Science productivity today vs. a 10x predicted growth in Knowledge Scientist productivity
I believe that within five years there will be a dramatic growth in a new field called Knowledge Science. Knowledge scientists will be ten times more productive than today’s data scientists because they will be able to make ... | ['Feature Engineering', 'Graph Databases', 'AI', 'Knowledge Graph', 'Data Science'] |
After launching .NET 5 and C# 9, I was utterly obsessed with the Top Level Program (a.k.a. TLP) feature. TLP delivers quick and fast prototyping for the .NET application and makes the most immediate entries for my work.
But TLP is just syntax sugar, not a complete solution. So there are little details you should know ... | ['Csharp', 'Dotnet', 'Programming', 'Coding'] |
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