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During the pandemic lockdown, there was a queue system put in place at the supermarket near us to avoid over-crowding and stockpiling. But I had been trying to do all my shopping online mostly to avoid the hassle and to stay as safe as possible.
There was one time, however, we just couldn’t avoid it. It was essential.... | ['Efficiency', 'Self Improvement', 'Success', 'Society', 'Time Management'] |
Let me start by saying that we appreciate how you’ve heightened the civic engagement within this country. Your involvement spurred unparalleled levels of voting in this year’s election. Not only that, but it brought to light a lot of harsh truths about this country. Clearly, we have a lot of work to do.
That being sai... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Donald Trump', 'Leadership', 'Election 2020'] |
This fascinating photo shows photos of missing children in the first column. The second column shows a computer composite of what the children might look like as time progressed. The final photo shows what the children looked like when they were finally found. | ['Creativity', 'Art', 'Family', 'Technology', 'Parenting'] |
Times have continued to rapidly change in the way video is consumed, and it’s important for marketers to stay up to date on new viewing trends in order to effectively reach customers wherever they are. In this case, I’m referring to Facebook video ads.
You have most likely noticed the increase in video content all ove... | ['Paid Media', 'Facebook', 'Paid Advertising', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
I wrote this article to share a few debugging and logging methods I tend to use on a daily basis. I hope that at least some of them aren’t as popular as console.log, at least among the ones that just begin their journey with JavaScript.
1. console.log()
I think the console.log method is pretty straight forward. Howev... | ['JavaScript', 'Logging', 'React', 'Debugging', 'Console Log'] |
Supporting the processes and execution of Customer Relationship Management, B2B CRM solutions are now days basking a prestigious treatment in businesses industry. Their ever increasing scope and advanced customizable features have earned these softwares a valuable space in entrepreneur’s budgets. According to a researc... | ['CRM', 'Tech', 'Salesforce', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Get up and running with the Restify.js REST API based Framework at scale in the Microservice way by building and deploying a User Microservice.
Today, microservices are taking the lead in many tech companies. However, some still build their application in a monolithic way. Their system seem to be well protected, but i... | ['Heroku', 'Nodejs', 'Restify', 'Microservices', 'Rest Api'] |
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man,” said the Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
If there is a constant in the Universe, it is the fact that everything changes.
And we are in the midst of massive changes, whether we like it or not. Even the prospect of small p... | ['Future', 'Pandemic', 'Self', 'Life', 'Wisdom'] |
Hey, Barracuda! Queer TV in Australia, with Composer Bryony Marks
The mind behind the music of “Please Like Me” and “Barracuda”
Image courtesy of Norman Parkhill, inSync Music
AUSTRALIA, BOTH AS COUNTRY AND CONCEPT, is something of a paradox. An enormous sunburnt landmass dumped at the bottom of the planet, a millio... | ['Television', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Interview', 'Music'] |
Boosting Algorithms Explained
Theory, Implementation, and Visualization
Unlike many ML models which focus on high quality prediction done by a single model, boosting algorithms seek to improve the prediction power by training a sequence of weak models, each compensating the weaknesses of its predecessors.
One is wea... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Visualization', 'Mathematics', 'Data'] |
Timber transport in the Amazon Tapajos River (photo by author, January 2018)
Over the past eight months, the novel coronavirus pandemic has infected some 20 million people and killed more than 700,000, sparing virtually no country. The economic and social consequences have been devastating. The virus SARS-CoV-2 that c... | ['Evaluation', 'Environment', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19', 'Climate Change'] |
Welcome to another part of the series C# From Scratch, a course dedicated to teaching you everything you need to know to be productive with the C# programming language.
In the previous part of the series, we learned what .NET does for our applications and why we need it to run applications we write in C#. That part of... | ['Software Development', 'Csharp', 'Dotnet', 'Learning To Code', 'Programming'] |
Hundreds of religious leaders around the world are taking a stand against LGBTQ+ conversion therapy.
More than 370 international faith leaders from 35 countries signed a declaration on Wednesday calling for a global ban on the harmful practice. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa, was amon... | ['LGBTQ', 'Equality', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Religion'] |
Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is an approach to analyzing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods. A statistical model can be used or not, but primarily EDA is for seeing what the data can tell us beyond the formal modeling or hypothesis testing task.
When I started my journey in... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Beginners Guide', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Scientist'] |
I have a love/hate relationship with writing. Love writing and hate that I don’t have time to do more of it. Wife, mom, grandma(!), accountant … and writer.
Follow | ['Contemporary Haiku', 'Dreams', 'Haiku', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
Since the birth of BERT followed by that of Transformers have dominated NLP in nearly every language-related tasks whether it is Question-Answering, Sentiment Analysis, Text classification or Text Generation. Transformers enjoys much better accuracy on all these tasks unlike RNN and LSTM the problem of vanishing gradie... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'AI', 'Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning'] |
Intro to @ngrx/component
A comprehensive guide to improving your NGRX projects (part 2)
Image provided by the author.
New features are coming into NGRX, one of which is ngrx/component. It brings plenty of opportunities to make our programming easier & faster. Apparently, it appears onto the scene to help us get rid ... | ['Angular', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Ngrx', 'Programming'] |
Security requires deep expertise and plentiful dedicated resources to achieve, mainly because it is a multidimensional issue comprising physical (data center) security, platform and network security, proactive threat detection, audits and compliance with industry-specific certifications such as HIPAA and PCI. But the f... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Security', 'Cybersecurity', 'Cloud', 'Data'] |
OK — Your Turn
THEME: But — that little 3-letter word that changes the direction in which the sentence seemed to be headed.
Now, share your own one-line poem on the theme as a response to this post or write a stand-alone piece if you prefer. Tag your piece “One Line” or “Chalkboard Espresso” if 15 words or less. If y... | ['Humor', 'Poetry', 'Words', 'One Line Poetry Prompt', 'Music'] |
JavaScript fatigue has become a common phrase in the world of today’s front-end developers. It can seem like there’s a new hyped framework, architecture, command line tool, or SaaS developer service every day. The constant churn of new things can end up leaving developers more jaded than excited.
To avoid this, it’s i... | ['JavaScript', 'Learning', 'Development', 'Programming', 'Jamstack'] |
Three Different Things: November 15, 2019
Speaker Verification To Speech Synthesis, Google Putting Medical Data at Risk, and Your Data
Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash
Click on the reference links and then compare to the generated speech. Pretty astonishing stuff from Google.
2. I’m the Google whistleblower. The... | ['AI', 'Policy', 'Healthcare', 'Data Science'] |
The Hook
The whole point of this hook is to load a notification only for Safari on iOS, so we’re going to create a new file called useIsIOS.js . In this code we’re going to do a few things:
Check if someone is viewing our app on an iOS device.
Are they using mobile Safari?
Have they not been prompted to install the... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'iOS', 'UX'] |
Many millions of trees sacrificed their lives providing paper for all the books and articles about diets, dieting and weight loss. Low fat. Low carb. High protein. Paleo. Atkins. Mediterranean. It’s never ending.
I don’t have any qualms about any of these. I’m sure they work for the people who do them…for as long as t... | ['Meditation', 'Self', 'Weight Loss', 'Health', 'Mindfulness'] |
I caught a TV documentary about classic Memphis record label Stax the other evening, which was, of course, a great excuse for the documentary makers to weave in a host of classic Stax tracks while they told their story.
In amongst the soundtrack of this documentary, jam-packed with some of the most memorable songs of ... | ['Music'] |
Try/Catch In TypeScript
Escape any error exception in Typescript 4.0 with unknown
Did they do it on purpose?
TypeScript covers many concepts from JavaScript. Also, the questionable ones. Some cases of error handling can be quite interesting, but this article will guide you through the jungle!
Microsoft describes Ty... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Typescript', 'Web Development'] |
As creatives, it’s undeniable that we propagate ourselves into our work. Our backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs help shape our decisions regarding the projects we take on and the messages we amplify. There’s no doubt that with the presence of an audience comes great responsibility — especially in leveraging mediums ... | ['Culture', 'UX', 'News', 'Design', 'Art'] |
If the kids must trick-or-treat, they can; just do it at home.
While trick-or-treating has a few different murky possibilities of its actual origin, the modern-day version is basically all of them melted together.
We get some of it from the old Gaelic tradition of Samhain, an end-of-harvest festival that would take p... | ['Self', 'Kids', 'Family', 'Creativity', 'Self Improvement'] |
Can we create AI models to predict macro-economic trends?
Not too long ago, the prediction of the weather was a hit or a miss. The joke was that the TV weatherman was always carrying an umbrella on what was predicted to be supposedly a nice day. Today, we can model the weather patterns very accurately for several days... | ['Machine Learning', 'Julialang', 'AI', 'Macroeconomics', 'Stock Market'] |
Sorting out the order of operations
Alright, so I made my character sprite into a game object and then into a prefab in my resources folder. I used the same technique that I used in my grid_manager to load my prefab and then give it a position on the screen using its transform.
But this is where I hit my first hurdle... | ['Game Development', 'Unity', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Development'] |
By Dr. Susan Pacheco
Most people might be surprised to learn that the leading cause of deaths from Hurricane Laura was not drowning, or fallen trees, but something much more preventable: carbon monoxide poisoning.
Tragically, eight people died from the unsafe operation of gas generators when the power went out, inclu... | ['Climate Change', 'Renewable Energy', 'Public Health', 'Hurricane', 'Power'] |
Python Project Ideas for Python Developers
If you have made up your mind about the platform you’re going to use, let’s jump straight into the projects. Mentioned below are some fun projects addressed towards developers of all skill levels that will play a crucial role in taking their skills and confidence with Python ... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Is Deno a Threat to Node?
Deno 1.0 was launched on May 13, 2020, by Ryan Dahl — the creator of Node
Image copyrights Deno team — deno.land
It’s been around for two years now. We’re hearing the term Deno, and the developer community, especially the JavaScript community, is quite excited since it’s coming from the aut... | ['JavaScript', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Nodejs', 'Programming'] |
Background
I am a self taught developer that started learning to code in March of 2019. I just recently graduated with my M.S. in Chemistry and while job hunting I came across programming and didn’t look back. I’ve tried many different methods to learning to program and I’m here to share some of the ways that I think ... | ['Python', 'Coding', 'Developer', 'Computer Science', 'Programming'] |
Going forward, your database is pretty set up to take in file uploads from users, but there’s one more step that you need to take and I’ll touch on that later. On your frontend you will find a few headaches here, there are many different ways that you can send files to the backend, and I’m only going to show the easies... | ['Files', 'Coding', 'React', 'Upload', 'Rails'] |
Dataset Generators
Scikit-learn has plenty of dataset generators, which can be used to create artificial datasets with varying complexities and shapes.
For example, the make_blobs function creates “blobs”, or clusters of data, with any amount of samples, centers/clusters, and features/dimensions.
The values of the X... | ['Machine Learning', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Data Analysis'] |
The fourth industrial revolution has started and while AI is at the forefront of that revolution, we must note that there are some fundamental blocks which are necessary for this revolution to thrive, sustain and drive the world economy and businesses.
We must look at these fundamental blocks closely to realise and co... | ['Open Source', 'Blockchain', 'Revolution', 'Crowdsourcing', 'AI'] |
A friend of mine recently posed a question that I’ve heard many times in varying forms and forums:
“Do you think IT and some lower-level programming jobs are going to go the way of the dodo? Seems a bit like a massive job bubble that’s gonna burst. It’s my opinion that one of the only things keeping tech and lower-lev... | ['Jobs', 'Web Development', 'Programming', 'AI', 'Silicon Valley'] |
The floods had immense cost, for years subsequently — I note the 35 lives lost at the time, and $30 billion-plus of damage in more detail in articles about the concreting over of Brisbane — but they can leave no trace of the act of forgetting, which was almost a shocking as the flood itself.
So, as with the floods, th... | ['Politics', 'Coronavirus', 'Australia', 'Climate Change', 'Covid-19'] |
Why We Need To Give Respect To Aretha Franklin And The Dying Craft Of Artistry
And to those who dare to be creators in this time of disrespect
When it was announced that the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin was dying, my initial reaction was sorrow at the imminent loss of a gem, who represented a time when being an a... | ['Death', 'Culture', 'Icons', 'Life Lessons', 'Music'] |
They All Hate Mr. Beltracchi Now
When a fake is sold for millions, should you envy the conman or pity the buyer?
Self-portrait of Gustav Klimt in Wolfgang Beltracchi’s interpretation. On the top right, Beltracchi as a saint watches over the scene. (Painting by Wolfgang Beltracchi, 2017)
The truth
When Don sat in hi... | ['Essay', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Art', 'Artist'] |
GraphQL is a query language made by Facebook for sending requests over the internet. It uses its own query but still sends data over HTTP. It uses one endpoint only for sending data.
The benefits of using GraphQL include being able to specify data types for the data fields you are sending and being able to specify the... | ['GraphQL', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Apollo', 'Vuejs'] |
One Big SEO Mystery Demystified
The Google Search Engine Ranking Algorithm is one of life’s great mysteries. Or is it?
They’ll never reveal exactly how the algo works but we can make an educated guess as to the most important ranking factors.
Legend has it there are 200+ data points that the Google algo takes into a... | ['Seo Agency', 'Google', 'SEO'] |
Artistic Representation of a Neural Network
Multi-dimensional optimization problems are at the core of many computer programs set to revolutionize several industries. One important use for this type of problem is with neural networks, a prominent type of AI. In this case, the current elevation of the explorer is how w... | ['AI', 'Optimization', 'Machine Learning', 'Generative Design', 'Gradient Descent'] |
Three Different Things: April 7, 2020
Social Media in Isolation, Tech Bubbles, and Digital-Only Business
(FTA)
Now — and I mean this in a careful way — I’m thinking synthetic opioids, narcotics, have relevance here. Opioids in a medical context are incredibly important for pain management after surgery. You would no... | ['Social Media', 'Advertising', 'Digital Transformation', 'Facebook'] |
What is your role at Synapse and what are some of your responsibilities?
Officially a Product Engineer. One of my main responsibilities is assisting our implementation and account management teams in onboarding platforms. I’m their direct SE while they’re in the process of using the sandbox to learn the products and s... | ['Engineer', 'Engineering'] |
SGD (Stochastic Gradient Descent)
Stochastic Gradient Descent, in contrast to batch gradient descent or vanilla gradient descent, updates the parameters for each training example x and y. SGD performs frequent updates with a high variance, causing the objective function to fluctuate heavily.
SGD fluctuation. Source
... | ['Optimizer', 'Neural Networks', 'AI', 'Gradient Descent'] |
They all got crowns
Debunking the dynamic of pitting pop divas against each other, with an exploratory data analysis on their strengths
If you, like me, are the kind of person that takes pop music seriously, chances are you have already been involved in heated discussions about pop divas. More often than not, argumen... | ['Music', 'Pop Culture', 'Data Science'] |
Color Formats
There are a lot of formats for colors. The most popular ones are Hex, RGB, HSB, and HSL. Let me explain the differences between them and which one you should use.
Hex and RGB
RGB and Hex are the most common formats for representing colors.
RGB gives us the intensity of red, green, and blue of one colo... | ['Software Development', 'Colors', 'Design', 'UX', 'Programming'] |
I can’t take credit for the title of this piece. In the height of my chiropractic practice many years ago, one of my patients said those words.
She was telling me about a birthday party at work. You know the type of party she was talking about: A conference room with stale coffee and a huge grocery store sheet cake.
... | ['Diet', 'Nutrition', 'Mindset', 'Weight Loss', 'Health'] |
We are excited to announce the new sharing experience on Graph Commons.
Graph Commons is a collaborative platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data networks. It empowers people and organizations to transform their data into interactive maps and untangle complex relations that impact them and their communities... | ['Social Media', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Social Network', 'Journalism'] |
3. Double tokens policy: HttpOnly Cookie + CSRF token
The HttpOnly tag for Cookie is one of solutions to defend XSS. The HttpOnly tag will restrict users to manipulate the Cookie by JavaScript.
It’s the reason people recommends us to save JWT in the HttpOnly Cookie instead of the localStorage.
Send response with JWT... | ['Single Page Applications', 'Python', 'Django', 'Software Development', 'Jwt'] |
Exit psychic abilities and enter research
Simply adding a washing machine won’t cut it, so it seems. You might have just opened pandora’s box of requests and complaints. More customer satisfaction they said, it will cost almost nothing they said.
An argument can be made here that some people would have been turned of... | ['Software', 'Project Management', 'Software Development', 'Software Architecture', 'Engineering'] |
Setup MERN (MongoDB, Express JS, React JS, and Node JS) environment and create your first MERN stack application. Manish Mandal Follow Dec 10 · 8 min read
So are you also confused like most of the MERN beginners on how to create your first MERN project? and also how to setup the environment for your project? Even I wa... | ['React', 'Mongodb', 'Expressjs', 'Reactjs', 'Nodejs'] |
So when I agreed to speak with Tim Enwall, Misty Robotics’ CEO, it really was as an advisor to what they were attempting to start. But as I learned of Misty’s products, mission, and team, the more I discovered overlapping interests and experiences that I could bring to bear to an exciting opportunity. In fact, it seeme... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Improvement'] |
You might think you know what glitzy features will serve your target customers best and make your website stand out from the pack, but have you even got the basics right?
Here are five of those basics that will account for the bulk of your website’s success or failure. You might want to talk them over with our web con... | ['Lead Conversion', 'Optimisation', 'Business', 'Design', 'SEO'] |
Redash is a powerful open source query and visualization tool that helps you make sense of your data. It connects to variety of data sources and also includes a native connector for Rockset. In this post we will demonstrate how to use Redash to build live dashboards on Rockset data sets.
Configure
If you’ve never use... | ['Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Sql', 'Data', 'Business Intelligence'] |
We live in a time of convergence where examples are littered show casing various technologies or products converging to enhance end user experience. One case in point digital media and home entertainment serving to improve everyday experience. Just pick one category of your liking and you will soon find someone is push... | ['Accounting Solutions', 'Software Development', 'Erp', 'Agile', 'Business Intelligence'] |
The Problems of State
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash
What is state? Simply put, state is any temporary data stored in memory. Think variables or fields/properties in OOP. Imperative programming (including OOP) describes computation in terms of the program state and changes to that state. Declarative (functional... | ['Object Oriented', 'Functional Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Design Patterns', 'Programming'] |
Java Tips — Creation of a new object
Different ways to declare and initialize a new object in Java
Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
To use an object in Java is essential to define and, when need to use, to execute the command of new provided by the syntax.
With the command of new is invoked the Java Virtual Machi... | ['Programming Tips', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Programming Languages'] |
Photo by Clint McKoy on Unsplash
After recently using Pandas and Matplotlib to produce the graphs / analysis for this article on China’s property bubble , and creating a random forrest regression model to find undervalued used cars (more on this soon). I decided to put together this practical guide, which should hopef... | ['Matplotlib', 'Programming', 'Pandas', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Trigger warning: rape, assault
Let’s play a word association game, shall we. If I say ‘model’, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Perhaps you think of a tall, leggy Victoria’s secret model. Maybe you think of transgender model Munroe Bergdorf and her racism row with L’Oreal . Or maybe your mind goes to Ca... | ['Literature', 'Culture', 'Fashion', 'Books', 'Art'] |
Part 1.
It was after Night 1 in Atlanta that the firework — bright vermillion burst of heat and light — skipped right by me, missing my ankle by inches. Fireworks were quickly becoming a theme for the year. Remember the fireworks over Soldier Field? And Magna? And Mexico, so I heard…or saw on Periscope.
The Lakewood ... | ['Autobiography', 'Music', 'Phish'] |
Managing Multiple Environments in Terraform
How to use Terraform workspaces to manage multiple states
Photo by John O'Nolan on Unsplash.
Terraform has revolutionised the way we look at infrastructure, and with Cloud, it is a stepping stone toward “everything as code.” That is a quantum leap in the history of computi... | ['Terraform', 'AWS', 'Technology', 'DevOps', 'Programming'] |
Visualizing the distribution of the dataset.
1. Univariate distribution
histogram
kdeplot
distplot
2. Bivariate distribution
joint plot
pairplot
Univariate distribution
1. Histogram
A histogram is used for visualizing the distribution of a single variable(univariate distribution). A histogram is a bar plot wh... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python3', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Let’s Get Started with the Fundamentals
Snippet
For VS Code users, here are some useful snippets:
Extension Name : ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets
rce -> Creates a Class based component
rfce -> Creates a Functional component
rconst -> Creates the constructor for the class
There are a lot other exte... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'App Development', 'React Hook'] |
36 Content Marketing Tools The Essential Toolbox Visualmodo Follow Dec 2 · 13 min read
The right content marketing tools turn any content marketing strategy into a highly successful plan. The problem? There are dozens of tools to choose from. How do you know which tools to use and which ones to leave behind? In this a... | ['Content', 'Creation', 'Content Strategy', 'Content Writing', 'Creativity'] |
Image adapted from https://www.dnaindia.com/personal-finance/report-india-s-personal-wealth-to-grow-13-by-2022-2673182
“Predicting” Future Stock Movements
Boy am I glad you made it here! This section covers what I find to be the most exciting part of the entire project! At this point, if you’ve read through parts 1–4... | ['Coding', 'Beginners Guide', 'Financial Analysis', 'Stocks', 'Python'] |
Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg is a software engineer and psychologist who has spent some serious time observing the behaviours of high performing software teams. Her blogs contain a wealth of information for any software professional looking to sharpen their skills.
As an engineer with no psychology background whatsoever, ... | ['Software Development', 'Psychology', 'Pair Programming', 'Tech', 'Programming'] |
Wikipedia Is Not a Source for Your Writing
Don’t label this publicly-edited directory as an authority
Photo by andreyphoto63 / Logo by Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 3.0
As modern writers struggle to follow through with evidence-based concepts, it’s easy to get lazy and rely on less than ideal sources. It’s the perf... | ['Writing', 'Facts', 'Research', 'Wikipedia', 'Data'] |
Photo by Fabian Grohs on Unsplash
I started learning Redux a few days back and it was an overwhelming concept for me at the start. After polishing my skills in ReactJS by making a personal book reading application, I headed towards Redux to learn more about it.
Today, I’m going to share a few core Redux concepts with... | ['React', 'Coding', 'Tech', 'Programming', 'Redux'] |
Oppressor versus Oppressed
Jesus Christ Superstar follows two main characters: Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot. Both characters are Jews living in Roman-occupied Palestine in what we now call the 1st Century AD. Depending on how you were raised, you may view the Roman Empire as a force of progress or a force of terror... | ['Politics', 'Spirituality', 'Film', 'Music', 'Religion'] |
Edited 2019 Mar 11 to include changes introduced in TensorFlow.js 1.0. Additional information about some of these TensorFlow.js 1.0 updates can be found here.
TensorFlow.js brings machine learning and its possibilities to JavaScript. It is an open source library built to create, train, and run machine learning models ... | ['Open Source', 'JavaScript', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
2. Data Validation
Data Validation is the process of ensuring that data is present, correct, and meaningful. Ensuring the quality of your data through automated validation checks is a critical step in building data pipelines at any organization.
The data validation step is required before model training to decide whe... | ['Data Science', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Pipeline', 'Machine Learning', 'Airflow'] |
Lesson #2: Highlight the impact of the artist(s) on numerous generations of musicians with a tribute album, but don’t overemphasize hot young artists at the expense of seasoned contemporaries.
The most ambitious part of the recent Elton tributes are definitely the two tribute albums that were released on April 6th. Ea... | ['Music', 'LGBTQ', 'Grammys', 'Pop Culture', 'Media'] |
Photo by Uwe Hensel on Unsplash
I recently taught a course on how to build software models for beginner to intermediate coders. As part of that I tried to distil the general ideas that underpin good modelling practice.
So beyond the basics of syntax and how to write a function, what is it that really matters when we’... | ['Software Engineering', 'Project Management', 'Coding Style', 'Software Development'] |
On a Highway to Scale: Machine Learning as a Platform — Ben Amir (Hebrew)
When you’re handling lots of data, you come across many issues and problems, including ones associated with model training. At Riskified, we also handle lots of data and face problems, which forced us to scale up our ML platform.
In this talk, ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Videos', 'Spark', 'Apache Spark', 'Engineering'] |
My Cousin Runs ICE. He’s Killing the Same American Dream Granted to His Own Parents.
The lie at the heart of the Pham family ‘pass to freedom’
In August, my mother forwarded me an email. “Trump administration taps Vietnam refugee as new ICE chief,” it said. I opened it, and learned that my cousin, Tony Pham, had just... | ['Gen Longreads', 'Immigration', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Ice'] |
Paul Bowler
Photo courtesy of Def Jam
Few artists have mined the vaults of musical history quite as deeply or as ingeniously as Kanye West. From his early work as a go-to producer for the likes of Jay Z, Ludacris and Alicia Keys, to his much-celebrated career as the most compelling artist in hip-hop, Kanye has redefi... | ['Hip Hop', 'Music', 'Culture', 'Lists', 'Pop Culture'] |
Jacques Roubaud on Math and the Art of Literary Invention
Adventurous heroines, abstract algebra, a poetics of grief, OULIPO, and the ongoing memoir of a grand project
Photo by Juliana Malta on Unsplash
If you’ve never heard the name “Jacques Roubaud,” just use any of these substitutions:
“Emeritus professor of mat... | ['Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Mathematics', 'Essay', 'Writing'] |
In his mother’s footsteps, the unlikely sheltered chosen
A disallowed controversial path forged, spuriously blessed
Tortured, perhaps, his crystal eyes haunted, subdued, saddened
Smoke and mirrors, a shattered facade of illusions
Fabricated realities altered, upheld in false truths, secrets
Publicly resigned, obed... | ['Poetry', 'Future', 'Warriors', 'Prince', 'Change'] |
Unleashing the real power of data: an interview with Máximo Gurméndez Arion Follow Sep 7 · 12 min read
Big Data, Machine Learning, Data Analytics. All of these are concepts that have been around for a while and, due to recent events, have captured more interest at all levels: from governments to the private sector and... | ['Machine Learning', 'Analytics', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
This post follows a previous one, Evolving MySQL Compression.
By William Tom | Pinterest engineer, SRE
Pinterest’s main data source–Pin data–is stored as medium-sized (~1.2kb) JSON blobs in our MySQL cluster. These blobs are very compressible, but the existing compression system in MySQL was less than optimal and onl... | ['Database', 'Compression', 'Engineering', 'Sre', 'MySQL'] |
An Approach to Application Modernization: Planning & Design Phase
Modernization is a team sport where end-user, line of business, and IT systems need to come together with a single goal in mind, “ease of use and improving user experience.”
By Ernese Norelus , Eduardo Patrocinio, Oliver Senti
This current installment... | ['Design Process', 'Architecture', 'Microservices', 'DevOps', 'Software Development'] |
“Canon” is something we made up
Whether we’re talking Star Wars or Twilight, Star Trek or Batman, there is no real difference between“canon” and “fan fiction”.
The entire argument has already been made in the headline and subheadline. The rest of this article will simply be a footnote on this point, which I believe t... | ['Art', 'Fiction', 'Ideas', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
Data-Driven Attribution and How it Differs across Google Products
Google offers several products with data-driven attribution, but what are the differences between them? How can you select the best service for your business? In this article, we review and compare the most popular products that offer Data-Driven Attrib... | ['Attribution', 'Data Driven', 'Technology', 'Google', 'Google Product'] |
How I automatically deployed Typescript to Elastic Beanstalk to speed up server-side development
Speed up your development process by auto-deploying Typescript code to EB!
A demo of Booktogether, an online publishing platform that I created the back-end for.
For my most recent team project Booktogether — an online p... | ['Typescript', 'Deployment', 'Elastic Beanstalk', 'Nodejs', 'Servers'] |
How to Prepare for an Abdominal Hysterectomy
An Obgyn explains this surgical procedure.
Our Preparing for series allows a patient to prepare themselves for a procedure properly. We answer questions about how long the procedure will last, what’s involved, what to expect, and even advice on packing your bag. While your... | ['Women', 'Womens Health', 'Hysterectomy', 'Surgery', 'Health'] |
If you’ve looked at React code before, there’s almost a 100% chance that you’ve seen destructuring. If you look at most import statements for class-based components, you’ve more than likely seen something like this:
import React, { Component } from 'react'; class ClassName extends Component { ... }
The { Component } ... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Reactjs', 'Programming'] |
Test-driven development (TDD) is a process where you write tests before you write the associated code. You first write a test that describes an expected behavior, and you run it, ensuring it fails. Then, you write the dumbest, most straightforward code you can to make the test pass. Finally, you refactor the code to ma... | ['JavaScript', 'API', 'Tdd', 'Vuejs', 'Tech'] |
Rookie CEO Leadership Styles Drive Company Culture
The “L” in the PPLC Framework
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
When you schedule a last-minute meeting with your team today, do they shake in their boots or are they enthusiastic? Consider asking your team 3 words that would describe you. Do it anonymously if they... | ['Leadership', 'Planning', 'Motivation', 'Strategy', 'Business'] |
The type of recommendation engine we are going to create is a collaborative filter. The data we are going to use to feed our model is the MovieLens Dataset, this is a public dataset that has information of viewers and movies. The code for this model is based on this tutorial from Keras. The code for this tutorial can b... | ['Keras', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Recommendation System', 'TensorFlow'] |
Mailboxes. Photo by @tinamosquito
I was a young, confused, naive 19 year old when I started Royal Mail as a Postman in 2004 (Mail Man to my American friends). I remember my dad dropping me off at my first day and saying to me ‘Kev, you’ve got to keep your head up, you keep looking down at the ground’. My brother, Mark... | ['LGBTQ', 'Society', 'Diversity', 'Coming Out', 'Workplace'] |
Image Credit: Markus Winkler via Unsplash
Have you ever thought about something that a company should make but they never do? I’m sure back in the 90s, someone thought to themselves “Why does Porsche only make sports cars? I bet they could engineer an awesome sedan”. This fictional person would have been validated whe... | ['Apple', 'Innovation', 'Technology', 'Search Engines', 'Business'] |
How to Build a Website With Next.js
1. Installation
You should have Node.js and Git installed on your computer. If you don’t have Node, downloading the installer is the easiest way.
2. Create a project
It’s as simple as running this command in your terminal:
npx create-next-app
First, it will ask you this questio... | ['JavaScript', 'Jamstack', 'Netlify', 'Programming', 'React'] |
Back in my days of cubicles and office work, a co-worker once complained to me that she was on her period, but her boyfriend was staying over for the weekend. She knew he'd be satisfied sexually by her own efforts, while she'd wind up feeling frustrated and have to take plenty of painkillers for her menstrual cramps.
... | ['Health', 'Relationships', 'Culture', 'Sex', 'Women'] |
By: Ben Zhang
Of the questions innovators ask themselves, there’s one that nags and frustrates: “How do I frame problems such that my solutions are creative, intelligent, and elegant?”
HBO’s Silicon Valley chronicles the (often futile) exploits a group of startup founders undertake as they try to adequately address t... | ['Software Development', 'Development', 'Silicon Valley', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
There may be some fake news on Facebook, but the power of the Facebook advertising platform to influence voters is very real. This is the story of how the Trump campaign used data to target African Americans and young women with $150 million dollars of Facebook and Instagram advertisements in the final weeks of the ele... | ['Facebook', 'Hillary Clinton', '2016 Election', 'Donald Trump', 'Law'] |
The modern world is one in which people are increasingly beginning to feel confused when it comes to what to do with their lives.
Traditional career paths are dying out, age-old religious beliefs are losing their cultural binding power, and despite the increasing prosperity of developed nations, depression and other f... | ['Life Lessons', 'Growth', 'Self Improvement', 'Creativity', 'Lifestyle'] |
Despite the fact that responsibility for the numbers provided in the estimate rests with your dev team or software development partner, both you and your vendor are in charge of its accuracy.
To get an estimation goes beyond just having an idea and money to support it. Project owners must be able to express the projec... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Product Management', 'Project Management', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
Coding
Despite what most people think, coding is not about communication with a computer. Coding is about communicating with humans and instructing computers. Eventually, code gets compiled and translated to zeroes and ones.
Code has to make sense for other developers that have work with it in the future. A new team ... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Tech', 'Technology'] |
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