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Basic Concepts of DevOps Core and Pipeline Building
Development and operational tasks for better SDLC management
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DevOps is an application development practice that merges development tasks and operational tasks for a better software development lifecycle management, in the meanwhile al... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Programming'] |
So, at the end of the day, we have professionals that spend too much time planning and executing their strategies and yet struggle to make the most out of Social.
This set the tone for the developments we’re hereby presenting. Over the last couple months, and with the feedback gathered over the last quarters from cust... | ['Facebookpages', 'Facebook', 'Marketing Automation', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Attracting new customers is the biggest challenge entrepreneurs face. Today, dating has also become a little more complex thanks to the creation of the internet and all of its Tinder glory.
It seems to be that were having a similar problem on both ends and it appears to have a shared root cause. The truth of what attr... | ['Social Media Marketing', 'Facebook', 'Content Marketing', 'Ecommerce', 'Instagram'] |
To be honest, the patterns that will be shown in this story are not something new, but people tend to see testing as part of the code where copy-pasting is allowed. They see testing as something that is forced upon. Usual patterns that can be applied in the test code, that would otherwise be applied in the production c... | ['Test Automation', 'Software Development', 'Testing', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
By Guillermo Vidal | Sept. 8, 2020 | Government, Politics, Presidential Election, Leadership, Tyranny, Future of USA
Photo by Vince Fleming via Unsplash
It is ironic to listen to Republicans imply that the Democrats are socialists who will turn the USA into Cuba. That is already happening under the rule of Donald Tru... | ['Trump', 'Future', 'Government', 'Politics', 'Elections'] |
Essentially, it means that for every point that you are able to store, you have a timestamp associated with it.
The great difference between relational databases and time series databases
But.. couldn’t we use a relational database and simply have a column named ‘time’? Oracle for example includes a TIMESTAMP data ty... | ['Programming', 'Database', 'DevOps', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
Somewhat accidentally I came across Tracy Chapman’s album released in the 1990’s. Her song lyrics were nothing but genius.
In her song ‘Talkin about a revolution’, Tracey reflects on the rising tide of socialism and the impacts of capitalism.
‘While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of th... | ['Awareness', 'Music', 'Politics', 'Revolution', 'Mindfulness'] |
Photo illustration: Tony Ganzer
What used to be an exception in journalism seems to have become a norm: affording anonymity to sources offering some unattainable insight, intentionally-hidden fact, or, it seems, juicy gossip.
If-and-when to grant anonymity is one of the more controversial discussions in the journalis... | ['Journalism', 'Politics', 'News', 'Ethics', 'Media'] |
I had more sexual hang-ups in my teens, twenties and thirties than a good Catholic prostitute has Hail Mary’s. When it came to anything related to sex, I was intentionally witless, being from a good W.A.S.P family.
Of course, being as uncomfortable as I was with everything to do with sex — even talking about it — I wa... | ['Health', 'Sexuality', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons'] |
When I Look Up At The Sky
Prompted poetry: What do you feel when you look at the sky?
Photo by Jaime Dantas on Unsplash
When I look up at the sky I smile,
I begin to think, why the sky has different shades,
Somewhere it is grey and other places blue.
When I look up at the sky,
I remember the peaceful sunrise,
P... | ['Nature', 'Feelings Become Words', 'Gratitude', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
A few weeks ago, news emerged about Inditex launching its brand Pull & Bear in the US. The move underlined its ambitions of becoming the world’s first fully global apparel company. In the US it has already overtaken the local favorite Gap Inc. by revenue years ago to much fanfare.
What are we doing?
Beyond financials... | ['Instagram', 'Fashion', 'Data Analysis', 'Marketing', 'Data Visualization'] |
Some startling action last week provoked contentious discussion regarding “privacy disclosure” and “data security” among public on China’s main social network platforms. These issues, which were not sensitive in Chinese society, finally got the attention it deserves after a face-swapping app sparked privacy concerns. T... | ['AI', 'Schools', 'Edtech', 'Education', 'China'] |
In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step to create a map displaying houses sales using Bokeh, with a colour mapping indicating sale price. I wanted the viewer to be able to distinguish at a glance which neighbourhoods are most expensive to live in . This is also a useful visualisation for price prediction modell... | ['Bokeh', 'Data Science', 'Tutorial', 'Data Visualization', 'Python'] |
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There are so many confusing messages about how to eat out there. Every week there is a new “healthy eating plan” that is “cleaner” than the rest. They sound like well-being breakthroughs, but many of them contradict each other. They are diets in disguise. Many of these wellness-focused ... | ['Parenting', 'Body Image', 'Food', 'Health', 'Eating Disorders'] |
At Rockset, our singular focus is to be the shortest (and most efficient) path from data to applications for our users. We recognize and truly believe that our success lies in the success of our users. We constantly think about improving our workflows, coming up with new ones and iterating on them in ways that takes th... | ['Analytics', 'UX', 'UI', 'Data', 'Design'] |
Interactive Convolutional Neural Network
How to customize your algorithm with Python Streamlit
Image recognition is one of the main topics Deep Learning is focusing on. Indeed, the family of algorithms entitled to deal with image recognition belongs to the class of Neural Networks, typical multi-layers algorithms emp... | ['Convolutional Network', 'Deep Learning', 'Python', 'Image Recognition', 'TensorFlow'] |
Running is a great budget exercise because it requires minimal equipment, but it’s still a far cry from free. Each year, I spend hundreds of dollars on running, despite approaching the hobby with a frugal attitude. Below, I share each of my expenses and the ways I’ve found to save money. If you’re a new runner, I hope ... | ['Fitness', 'Running', 'Health', 'Running Tips', 'Finance'] |
Getting Started
Since I am using the second method to install and set up Swiper, I will need to add Swiper to my main HTML file.
As you can see, I have my custom styles.css file along with my own JavaScript file. Currently, both styles.css and main.js files are empty.
Adding Swiper to HTML
To add Swiper to our HTML... | ['Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Programming', 'React'] |
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As we’re hearing about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning etc. kind of technologies. This article will explain when & where to use Machine Learning technology. So let’s start…
What is Machine Learning?
In simple words “Machine learning is typically used for proj... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science'] |
I work with a lot of designers, cinematographers, photographers, and illustrators everyday on high-end commercial projects. From interns all the way up to senior artists who are experts at their craft, I’ve found that the reoccurring skill in all of the most talented artists is their understanding of how to use contras... | ['Photography', 'UI', 'Design', 'Art', 'Composition'] |
A Brief History of Chanel
The iconic fashion house from a historian’s view- from an orphan to a designer to a potential Nazi agent
Image via PickPik
“The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together in the universe of fashion, now and forever.” — Karen Karbo
Today’... | ['Fashion', 'Art', 'History', 'Design', 'Inspiration'] |
Remember When The Biggest Scandal Was Obama’s Latte Salute?
We’re in a completely different world now.
It made the news on every network. Every newspaper and magazine published a story about it. Disembarking from Marine One, Barack Obama saluted an officer with a coffee cup in his hand.
Outrage followed.
For a week... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Culture', 'News', 'Election 2020'] |
Climate Change poses certain disaster risk like flooding which often leads to a mental health crisis. In 2012 and 2017, there was massive flooding in most states in Nigeria which led to the loss of loved ones and destruction of livelihood. Studies have shown that 75% of mental health conditions are experienced in lower... | ['Climate Change', 'Mental Health', 'Women'] |
Everything we express (either verbally or in written) carries huge amounts of information. The topic we choose, our tone, our selection of words, everything adds some type of information that can be interpreted, and value extracted from it. In theory, we can understand and even predict human behavior using that informa... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'NLP'] |
Why We Need To Call It Climate Crisis
Some neurobiology and how it can help avert global catastrophe
The original People’s Climate March, 2014, Christyl Rivers
Are you bored with ‘the sky is falling Chicken Littles?’
People are increasingly aware of climate havoc and its consequences. By now, many people are believ... | ['Climate Change', 'Crisis', 'Biology', 'Language', 'Science'] |
I’ve been using atomic design in my projects over the past 2 years now. And since then, I can’t help but talk about it to everyone around me ;)
Quick reminder : Atomic Design is a methodology, invented by Brad Frost and based on the idea that designing interface should always rely on the smallest part of the interface... | ['Design Systems', 'Component Libraries', 'UX', 'Creativity', 'Atomic Design'] |
“Phishing” Equilibrium
Equilibrium is supposed to be the result of efficient markets, but without regulation, we are constantly “phished for phools”.
George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, both Nobel Prize-winning economists, published a book called Phishing for Phools, which takes a deep dive into how markets often do n... | ['Economy', 'Society', 'Robert Schiller', 'Finance', 'George Akerlof'] |
It’s going to be a very long time before the government gets a day in court against the big tech firms, at least if you look at the Department of Justice complaint against Google as an indication.
The tentative trial date for court action is September of 2023. “If anybody thought we would be getting to trial quickly,”... | ['Google', 'Government', 'Antitrust', 'Digital', 'Law'] |
Was Rich Mullins gay?
An Evangelical star has to keep secrets
An early songwriter for Amy Grant, he helped make ‘contemporary Christian music’ a commercial force. In 1988 his solo song “Awesome God” was a mega-hit. Later albums were influential, and he keeps a cult of admirers. His vibe was a more loving faith. He di... | ['Christianity', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'History', 'Music'] |
By Sandeep Anantha
Organizations that embrace continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) reap enormous benefits when rolling out their products — if you’re new to the subject, you can read more about CI/CD here. The reason that CI/CD works is that code is built, tests are run and code is deployed as soon a... | ['Software Development', 'Continuous Integration', 'Sonarqube', 'Development', 'Net Core'] |
Nowadays, various industries collect data daily and have access to technological tools and technique to extract useful insights from it. To get the most from their gathered data, enterprises need to visualise it correctly. So, in this post, we’ve outlined the best big data visualisation techniques.
Over the years, man... | ['Data Analysis', 'Big Data', 'Data Visualization', 'Information'] |
Part 1: using this.app in each view
Quick Note: In coffeescript, saying @var and this.var results in the same code. I prefer the first way, but you don’t have to.
First, let’s go to the main HTML file that contains the <component is=“{{ currentView}}”>. We need to add the app as a prop to that. So, change that to <co... | ['Laravel', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs', 'Tutorial'] |
39. Slowdown landscapes: The defiant garden produces social justice as well as strawberries
Small green pieces of urban farms, repairing vacant lots in in Los Angeles and Brooklyn
Lest the remove to Jarman’s small pieces of isolated beach suggests a self-sufficiency too easily elided with individualisation, a form of... | ['Cities', 'Food', 'Gardening', 'Racism', 'Health'] |
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The financial APIs market grows so quickly that last year’s post or platform is not a good choice this year. So in this story, I will show you the best 5 stock market APIs that I use in 2019.
What is stock market data API?
Stock market data APIs offer real-time or historical data on fin... | ['Python', 'API', 'Data', 'Stock Market', 'Programming'] |
How to create dynamic routes in Next.js
As mentioned in the tutorial on static routing, Next.js defines routes based on the concept of pages .
What does that mean? Every Next.js project comes with a pages folder. The structure of the pages folder determines the structure of your routes and every file inside that fold... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Nextjs', 'Programming'] |
After having read the first article of this series, devoted to figure out a way to tackle a Machine Learning (ML) competition, we are now ready to go on with Feature Engineering, and, in particular Feature Importance.
The real deal is that nobody explicitly tells you what feature engineering is, in some way, you are e... | ['Machine Learning', 'Mljcunito', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Data Analysis'] |
Signal #1
Cracking sound in joints.
Do your knees make cracking sounds when you bend them? or do the joints of your arms crack often?
If the answer is yes to either of the questions, then it is a clear sign of Calcium deficiency in the body. Calcium is responsible for strong bones and teeth. Low calcium levels over ... | ['Diet', 'Food', 'Health', 'Nutrition', 'Lifestyle'] |
9 React Common Terms Explained In A Few Words
In case you have an interview tomorrow
The React universe can be daunting
Learning a programming language is quite similar to learning a “real” language. There are words to use, verbs, and rules. Words, in particular, are what we combine to create a dictionary of stuff w... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Web Development'] |
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Means for the Electoral Map
Which states are most likely to be affected by the Supreme Court vacancy?
Source: Wikimedia and Wikimedia
On Friday evening, it was announced that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died of pancreatic cancer. Given the stakes of a Supreme Court ... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg', 'Law', 'Election 2020'] |
JavaScript is a single-threaded language meaning that it executes code in order and must finish executing a piece of code before moving onto the next.
For HTTP requests, JavaScript provides us with XMLHttpRequest which is non-blocking.But if we have a CPU intensive code in the program, it will block the main thread un... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Webworker', 'Web Development'] |
AWS SQS plays a significant role in modern application architecture, especially in a serverless environment. When working with SQS, it is often to see messages failed to be consumed, it could be a bug in your code, a temporary resource restriction, eg API rate exceeded, or dependencies in the messages to be processed. ... | ['Lambda', 'AWS', 'Software Development', 'Slack'] |
What does success look like for you?: Setting the right goals for the right reasons
How asking this question helps me come up with goals and resolutions that stick, and why I’m measuring business success in beach trips.
Starlings murmuring over the burned remains of Brighton’s West Pier at sunset.
A few weeks ago, w... | ['Creativity', 'Personal Growth', 'Goals', 'Work Life Balance', 'Work'] |
One in three regions have higher covid deaths in second wave Clara Guibourg Follow Dec 14 · 5 min read
Over a third of European regions have had higher excess deaths this autumn than at any previous point during the pandemic, with a second outbreak that has spread beyond a few hard-hit regions.
As Europe’s second wav... | ['Coronavirus', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Traditional (Bad) Way to Access a Dictionary Value
The traditional way to access a value within a dictionary is to use square bracket notation. This syntax nests the name of the term within square brackets, as seen below.
author = {
"first_name": "Jonathan",
"last_name": "Hsu",
"username": "jhsu98"
} print(au... | ['Software Development', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology'] |
Social media has become the main source of new information and this fact is not going to change in the nearest future. This article is about numbers and figures, presenting trends in this interesting and not always predictable social media world.
Time on the scroll
Approximately 2 hours a day are spent on social netw... | ['Influencer Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Facebook', 'Twitter', 'Instagram'] |
Chris is a software engineer turned data scientist with a specialization in health, biotech, and science. He is interested in quality of life improvement both at the individual level through lifestyle design and at the macro level through urban planning and public policy. In addition to software and tech, he studies, h... | ['Health', 'Quality Of Life', 'Quantified Self'] |
Divergent Thinking. Radio Ren.
If there’s one key to success in today’s world, it’s creativity.
Society values creative individuals, and for good reason. Creativity lets us generate new solutions to old problems, and tackle new problems with confidence when they turn up.
And new problems always turn up.
Unfortunate... | ['Growth', 'Creativity', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Advice'] |
The Intuition Behind Integration
An introduction to integral calculus with a focus on the core concepts and the beautiful intuition that lies behind the algebra.
Integral calculus and differential calculus are two sides of the same coin. Integration, however, can seem more complicated than differentiation because it ... | ['Education', 'Science', 'Calculus', 'Mathematics'] |
Data Visualization with Python Matplotlib and GridDB | GridDB: Open Source Time Series Database for IoT Israel Imru Follow Nov 13 · 7 min read
Data in general is a large heap of numbers, to a non-expert these numbers may be more confusing than they are informative. With the advent of big data, even experts have a diff... | ['Data Visualization', 'IoT', 'Python', 'Time Serie', 'Databas'] |
By Tal Ridnik
Introduction
Training regimes, regularization schemes, and architecture enhancements are crucial for effective deep learning. We shall name them “Dark Magic Tricks”. In this article, we review useful dark magic tricks, accompanied by examples and use-cases. We also compile a generic “checklist” of trick... | ['Algorithms', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Does the Data Scientist Have a Theory of Mind?
Unlikely, But Easy to Check
Photo by Andre Mouton on Unsplash
David Premack and Guy Woodruff published a paper in 1978 asking whether the chimpanzee has a theory of mind, and by extension, others have asked the same question of humans? The abstract from the paper provid... | ['Teamwork', 'Project Management', 'Psychology', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
The world of data is moving and shaking again. Ever since Hadoop came around, people were offloading workloads from their data warehouses to the new and shiny data lakes. And it didn’t take long before Spark, which was open sourced in 2010, became the standard processing engine on data lakes.
Now we see a reverse tren... | ['Spark', 'Dbt', 'Data Engineering'] |
Awesome Data
Awesome Data is a GitHub repository with a seriously impressive list of datasets separated by category. It is updated regularly.
Data Is Plural
Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Is Plural weekly newsletter has great fresh data sources. I’m always impressed by the quality. The archive is available here.
Kaggle ... | ['Technology', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data'] |
We Are Looking Backward
We need to turn around to see the future
Photo by Sinitta Leunen on Unsplash
By Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ December 15, 2020
We are not polarized but shattered as gaps widen in our societies. We operate as bipolar creatures based on dyadic comparisons and contradictions. While we can, with effo... | ['Culture', 'Politics', 'History', 'Climate Change', 'Future'] |
Lock the Doors, Zip Up the State Lines, and Throw Away the Key
Not long after I made my move to Colorado, I began hearing people talk about not “Californicating Colorado.” While insulting to those from that gorgeous state, I know precisely what they meant. Because it’s happened. The I-25 is now one long conga line of ... | ['Politics', 'Life', 'Climate Change', 'World', 'Environment'] |
I build, write and talk a lot about Serverless applications. Using AWS Serverless services extensively with my clients and, for many applications, it’s the best technology choice. Serverless adoption continues to grow, but the biggest pain-point for companies adopting Serverless is no longer vendor lock-in or cold-star... | ['Best Practices', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Lambda', 'Ci'] |
Why You Don't Have to Run in the Morning
Sleep in if you want and remove “should” from your running vocabulary.
Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash
We’re approaching New Year’s resolution territory. Maybe you’re vowing to yourself that next year will finally be the year you become a morning runner.
There’s no shor... | ['Fitness', 'Health', 'Running Tips', 'Running', 'Resolutions'] |
Hungarian startup makes its COVID-19 drive-thru testing software available free of charge and open source Rollet Follow Jun 25 · 3 min read
The first official case of coronavirus in Hungary was reported in early March. A few weeks later, due to the rapid increase in the number of epidemic cases, the Hungarian governme... | ['Open Source', 'Software Development', 'Github', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
A week ago, I was sitting in my heated living room for several hours trying to find something that would inspire a project or another article. As much as I was reading or scrolling through the internet, nothing seemed to provoke my interest. Even though it was near freezing, I decided to sit outside for awhile and get ... | ['Work', 'Makers', 'Innovation', 'Productivity Hacks', 'Creativity'] |
This is just for you because you need cheering up.
Madness belong to an era when everyone danced like no one was watching because it would never have occurred to you that anyone would be watching and it wouldn’t have bothered you if they were. No one would be watching anyway because everyone would be too busy dancing.... | ['Review', 'Lyrics', 'Music', 'Madness', 'Ska'] |
In Delhi, (India), November to March we have beautiful flowers. There are lots of flower shows and competitions too. This year because of Covid-19 I have not heard of such shows. However, the gardens are blooming and the flowers are spreading their love. One morning, I was standing in the park and I saw the flowers wer... | ['Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Happiness', 'Love', 'Nature'] |
The 5 most used Gatsby.js plugins explained
Gatsby-image, Gatsby-source-filesystem, Gatsby-plugin-react-helmet, Gatsby-plugin-sharp & Gatsby-plugin-manifest explained
You are new are Gatsby plugins? And you may wonder, what’s a Gatsby plugin? So, it’s a reusable piece of code, and it's here to save you time!
Gatsby ... | ['Plugins', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Gatsbyjs', 'Web Development'] |
Everything is 50–50. No getting ‘around’ this…
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
What we’re going to end up with is two presidents: Biden and Trump.
Two Presidents
Where half of the country will listen to Biden and continue to publish hate articles and videos against Trump.
And the other half of the country will... | ['Circular Theory', 'Quantum Computing', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Virtual Reality'] |
The dashboard above which is hosted in Tableau Public focuses on tracks’ performance record on Tableau categorized in four Tabs:
Overview
This is the first tab and shows the journey of the selected track through weeks, marking their highest and lowest rank in between. We can get to know the popularity of a song with ... | ['Music', 'Tableau', 'Billboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Analytics'] |
Three years ago, I was paralyzed from the neck down for six weeks.
If you know me, you know this story. I’ve told you at a birthday party, or maybe a wedding, during a lull in the reception when everyone’s a little too drunk to really get it. Dessert’s been served and the DJ is getting ready to play “Uptown Funk,” so ... | ['Experiences', 'Paralysis', 'Health', 'Life', 'Self'] |
The balance of engaged and active care with culture that Infield suggests is important, for the final passage in all this cannot be a misunderstanding of what Slowdown might mean, an implication that it means giving up. You can occasionally catch that in the tone of Danny Dorling’s prose; perhaps in his reference to pl... | ['Covid 19', 'Policy', 'Design', 'Racism', 'Climate Change'] |
Holy Algorithm in Quanta
The machines giveth and taketh
Glory be to the machines
Optimize our choices
Show us what to buy,
Who we should friend,
And believe
Never
Let
Us
Wonder,
Make mistakes,
Or suffer doubts
Lead us to money
Without excess toil
Destroy our friends with envy
Bring us love without myste... | ['Machine Learning', 'Poetry', 'Flash Fiction', 'Fiction', 'AI'] |
Task 5. Add Actions
Next you should add a new action to the pipeline. Buddy facilitates several different approaches for deploying your project and lets you pick from hundreds of prespecified actions. I will add two actions in this scenario that will execute the following tasks:
Build the React app: download dependen... | ['Programming', 'React', 'S3', 'DevOps', 'JavaScript'] |
The Streets of the United States Are No Longer Paved With Gold
How the mighty have fallen
At age 15, I first noticed the allure of the United States. That summer, I traveled to Greece as an exchange student where I lived with a host family in Thessaloniki, in the north of Greece, who had a summer home in a beach town... | ['Travel', 'Society', 'Immigration', 'Politics', 'World'] |
Growing old the smart way
Helping the elderly to live independently longer
by Antoinette Price
Smart City technologies can help the disabled and elderly to remain independent for longer (photo: sabinevanerp, Pixabay)
The UN estimates that there are 962 million people in the world aged 60 or over, which is equivalen... | ['Health', 'Internet of Things', 'Smart Cities', 'Aging'] |
In the years since that New Year’s Eve, Y2K has become an enduring punchline. The whole incident is now remembered mostly as a non-issue whose overblown media hype was matched only by the massive amounts of money governments around the world deployed to solve it. That image of Y2K as a non-event persists in the cultura... | ['Algorithms', 'Culture', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
Subdue the Earth, Not Each Other
A review of Diane Langberg’s new *Redeeming Power: Understanding Abuse and Authority in the Church*
God created a one-flesh union and called that union of male and female to rule and subdue the earth, not each other.
A scorcher of a quote so near the beginning of Diane Langberg’s new... | ['Church', 'Books', 'Abuse', 'Religion', 'Reading'] |
She was my special little secret. I loved her. She was a brunette with blue eyes. We looked a like. It was kinky. I loved kissing her. I loved touching her. I loved lying beside her and letting my thoughts wander. Sometimes I just enjoyed dressing her and doing her hair.
There’s no need to ever tell my friends or fami... | ['Relationships', 'Society', 'Sexuality', 'Love', 'Sex'] |
I try to tell it
this isn’t how poetry is supposed to be
it questions my logic
even as I try to coerce it to some happier theme
Why, I whisper, why the dark material?
because it is truth written in midnight
why are you wanting me to be less?
don’t add water to my ink
Truth written in midnight rich ink
and witc... | ['Poem', 'Life', 'Self', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
It’s been almost 2 years since I got married, and not one family get-together/function has gone by where someone has not asked me, “When is the good news?”
In the beginning, I used to just ignore them (family/relatives/friends) or tell them that I was not ready. But later on, it started to get really frustrating. I us... | ['Society', 'Motherhood', 'Women', 'Feminism', 'Life'] |
Do you need to learn D3?
“D3 was created to fill a pressing need for web-accessible, sophisticated at visualization.¹”
Before you start, you should know if it’s necessary for you to learn D3. It’s a tool that serves a need, do you actually have the need?
For most visualization needs, you don’t need to learn D3. Ther... | ['D3js', 'Visual Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Visualization'] |
5 Steps Towards Compelling Storytelling With Data
No, Great Analysis and Snappy Graphs Are Not The Whole Story
Muturi Njeri
Photo: Unsplash
Last month I listened to a Freakonomics Radio podcast — featuring David Coleman, the President of the College Board — which convinced me that our education system pulled off a ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Storytelling', 'Data Science', 'Analytics', 'Xcelerator'] |
The lives and rights of LGBTQ+ people have always been hotly debated and politicized. Every step toward equality and fairness has been met with vitriol and opposition. And while gay and queer acceptance has grown substantially within the past decade or so, transgender and nonbinary people are still regularly openly moc... | ['LGBTQ', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Politics', 'Equality'] |
MIT IDE: Does the upcoming book represent a new research direction for you?
Michael D. Schrage: It actually represents an unexpected convergence. I believe recommendation engines are the biggest and boldest way digital experiments, network effects, and personal identities will all converge. Recommendation engines ha... | ['Machine Learning', 'Analytics', 'Choices', 'Recommendation System', 'AI'] |
In this article, I will be showing you four simple steps you can use, to convert a state machine diagram into working code. These steps will make writing state machines so easy, that you will want to have all your stories described in state machine diagrams.
Photo by Yogesh Pedamkar on Unsplash
Before we get into the... | ['Functional Programming', 'Software Development', 'iOS', 'Development', 'iOS App Development'] |
Creating Clean Responsive Apps with React and Styled-System
A simple tutorial of building a responsive React app using Styled-System based on the Design System.
Styled System
Example Repo
You can view the final working example at:
Component design systems let a team collaborate and provide users a consistent visua... | ['Design Systems', 'Styled Components', 'React', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript'] |
It’s been a long, hard ride, and it doesn’t look like it’s about to end anytime soon. I started 2020 with high hopes — the “year of clear vision,” I was told. Oh, the delusions.
It hit us out seemingly of nowhere — some harder than others — like something out of a Stephen King novel, only much more terrifying because ... | ['World', 'Society', 'Humanity', 'Dystopia', 'Change'] |
NLP in Python- Vectorizing
Common vectorizing techniques employed in a typical NLP machine learning model pipeline using the real of fake news dataset from Kaggle.
Photo by Roman Kraft from Unsplash
In this article, we will learn about vectorizing and different vectorizing techniques employed in an NLP model. Then, ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'NLP', 'Data Science', 'Data'] |
Stemming
Stemming is the process of reducing a word to its root stem. For example, the word “develop” can also take the form of “developed” or “developing.” When tokenized, all three of those words result in different tokens. Users could potentially resolve that at query time with a trailing wildcard search, i.e. deve... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Search'] |
I spent Christmas Alone this Year. That Was the Biggest Gift.
You can’t manufacture joy, giddiness and seasonal silliness
Fake trees, originally priced at almost $450, are being ushered out the door at my local Home Goods for $35.
I looked. Walked on by. Nah.
Used to be, many moons ago, that my house was a veritabl... | ['Life Lessons', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Life', 'Christmas'] |
The Number of Reference Counting
So far so good — we’ve learned a lot. Now, how many variables are referencing the one object?
The wrong use
I see some people using sys.getrefcount(var) without knowing passing the var add one more reference to the object. Let’s look at the example below.
Check that out! Output 3 wh... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'DevOps', 'Data Science'] |
Colonial Australia’s Strange Convict Society
How felons built a successful community
The founding of Sydney, 26 January 1788 (Wikimedia Commons)
On a sultry summer day in January 1788, beside the languid waters of Sydney Harbour, Great Britain began a truly strange, unprecedented experiment. It would build a colony ... | ['Society', 'Australia', 'History', 'United Kingdom', 'Criminal Justice'] |
Hard Times Can Make You Stronger and More Successful
There are benefits to overcoming adversity.
Photo by Johnson Wang on Unsplash
We all go through difficult times in life. It can help us build up the strength to make it through anything.
Going through hard times is beneficial. It makes you tougher, stronger, and ... | ['Personal Development', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique in which we are trying to find groupings in the data set based on some known or unknown properties which might exist. Irrespective of which technique you may use these are the things we are trying to achieve:
Within a cluster the points should be similar to each other.
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Clustering', 'K Means', 'Statistics'] |
Step 1: Start with an established color palette
This step can be started from two distinct places: from an existing design system or from a product-specific color palette. The main difference is an existing design system will typically have a larger set of color options than a product palette.
Depending on your start... | ['Colors', 'Data Visualization', 'Design'] |
2. Associate the Image With a Newly-Created Post Record in the Database
On the back end, I used ActiveStorage to create associations between images and their owning objects. It’s the standard gem for file associations as of Rails 5.2 and is steadily replacing older solutions like CarrierWave and Paperclip.
To get sta... | ['React', 'Programming', 'Rails', 'JavaScript', 'Ruby on Rails'] |
This will be the first of probably many blog posts on this subject since, first and foremost, Schubert wrote over 600 secular songs, and every one of them could be individually discussed in great detail. Also, there have been many singers, each one deserving a retrospective, who have made it part of their life work to ... | ['John Wustman', 'Las Vegas Philharmonic', 'California Symphony', 'Donato Cabrera', 'Music'] |
Mr. President, At Least Tell Us How You’re Going To Protect People With Pre-existing Conditions
Actually, in a recent Executive Order he kind of does, and it’s not good.
Trump’s long-awaited health plan doesn’t seem likely before Election Day, but we could at least expect some clarity on that one pledge, right?
This... | ['Insurance', 'Healthcare', 'Politics', 'Health', 'Donald Trump'] |
Living with an Eating Disorder- Ever Wondered what It Feels like?
Letter from a twenty something me…
Living with an eating disorder sucks!
No one wants to deal with the constant fear, guilt, shame, and doubts. It’s an all-encompassing disorder, which slowly and steadily feeds off your energy, your relationship, and ... | ['Body Image', 'Eating Disorders', 'Womens Health', 'Health', 'Self Love'] |
Part 2 demonstrated most of the different ways that classes and methods can be used in Kotlin. Part 3 will demonstrate most of the cool things that Kotlin can do with variables. This is where things start to get interesting and fun.
In Kotlin, member variables(class-level variables) are called “properties”, while loca... | ['Kotlin', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Java'] |
Code, Archeology, and Line Breaks
Did you know \r and
are remnants of typewriters?
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash.
Have you ever wondered how a new line is stored on a computer? You know, what happens when you hit “enter” in a text editor?
On Windows, a new line is stored as the weird sequence \r
. For exam... | ['Programming', 'Computer History', 'AI', 'History', 'Machine Learning'] |
How to Optimize Your Current Shoes for Better Foot Function
What you can do before stepping into minimalist shoes
Photo by @felipepelaquim on Pexels
I talk a lot about what good foot function is and how our shoes affect our feet. I’m also a huge proponent of minimalist footwear, as I’ve replaced my entire previous s... | ['Shoes', 'Footwear', 'Health', 'Fitness', 'Foot Care'] |
According to Allied Market Research, the global mobile app market was estimated at $106.27 billion in 2018 and will reach $407.31 billion by 2026. Against the background of such activity on the market, creating a new application, you need to make an effort to make it competitive and interesting to users. The choice of ... | ['Tech Stack', 'Software Development', 'Mobile Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Outsourcing'] |
4. Model Check
Model prediction and residuals
The .predict method will provide model predictors:
y_hat_train = pipeline.predict(X_train) y_hat_test = pipeline.predict(X_test)
Residuals can be calculated by subtracting predictions from the original values, which are y_train and y_test .
Confusion matrix
To plot a ... | ['Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Classification', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
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