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Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own, and represent no one but myself…. They come from the experience of participating in the development of fully operational sample connectors, available at: github.
The Challenge
Entering the big data world is no easy task, the amount of data can quickly get out of hand. Lo... | ['Database', 'Big Data', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Apache Hive', 'Data'] |
The Exhibit of American Negroes
Exposition des Nègres d’Amerique, Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
“The Exhibit of American Negroes” at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris was create... | ['Design', 'Dvhistory', 'African American History', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Data visualization for Product Designers
Designers work with different types of data on a daily basis. It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the work. This article will explain the most common mistakes we make and provide tips about improving our perceptions.
It is sometimes problematic to choose the proper chart t... | ['Accessibility', 'UI', 'UI Design', 'Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
Who is a Polymath?
Are you one? Can you claim to be one?
@sebaspenalambarri unsplash.com
I have a problem with the word Polymath. According to Wikipedia, this is a Greek term that means an individual whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects, who are drawn to complex bodies of knowledge to solve complex... | ['Polymath', 'Self', 'Learning', 'Creativity', 'Education'] |
How to Support Your Dying Loved One
I watched my husband go through different stages. Here’s what to expect.
Our display at my husband’s memorial service.
They told us my husband’s cancer was terminal: He had months to live. Maybe as long as a year. From that moment in the doctor’s office, we waited for death.
One ... | ['Cancer', 'Death', 'Health', 'This Is Us', 'Family'] |
Social networks are powerful, meaningful tools I have had the opportunity to leverage we ll for personal and professional benefit. Just last week I was trying to find good camping locations and received several good recommendations.
I have also gone overboard at times with my virtual social life by, for example, faceb... | ['Facebook', 'Follow Policy', 'Follow'] |
There are cases when you have multiple components that display the same data from the same source. If every component that requests the data need to fetch it from the source, you would end up with too many fetch request; thus consuming many of the user network resources.
Typically, this can be solved by requesting the... | ['Typescript', 'Frontend', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development'] |
Hello folks. I was building a website using ReactJs and I came across a requirement to record an audio file on the web. Like, everyone, I started Googling it.
After googling some time, I came across an npm package that records mp3 files called mic-recorder-to-mp3 . You can find it in the below link.
https://www.npmjs... | ['React', 'ES6', 'MP3', 'JavaScript', 'Audio Recording'] |
Statistics and Probability
I had my statistics and probability courses in university, but if you’re looking for an online course, I believe that the MIT course Introduction to Probability and Statistics is an excellent choice.
This course provides an introduction to basic probability definitions and theorems, and it ... | ['Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Programming'] |
Model Training
In the first part of the article, we have covered the overall architecture of the Encoder-Decoder model for image captioning.
Now let’s discuss the training process in detail. You can find the training notebook via the GitHub link.
Hyperparameters
Note the smaller batch_size results in a stronger reg... | ['Deep Learning', 'Image Captioning', 'Computer Vision', 'Pytorch'] |
Authored by David Cohen
Rockset and I began collaborating in 2016 due to my interest in their RocksDB-Cloud open-source key-value store. This post is primarily about the RocksDB-Cloud software, which Rockset open-sourced in 2016, rather than Rockset’s newly launched cloud service. In it, I will explore how RocksDB-Clo... | ['Database', 'Rocksdb', 'Cloud Storage', 'Data', 'Cloud Computing'] |
In what follows, we are going to assume a reasonable familiarity with Dash and will not expose all of the nitty-gritty details, but rather discuss the most important concepts.
Let us start by importing the relevant libraries and load the data:
Note that the size of the data file does not matter. Vaex will memory-map ... | ['Dash', 'Vaex', 'Dashboards', 'Machine Learning', 'AI'] |
The Social Network Is the Computer
What does the explosion of social media and the Hype Machine mean for society and our world?
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger
“Human beings have always been a social species,” writes MIT professor Sinan Aral in the opening paragraph of The Hype Machine, his recently published book. “We’v... | ['Information Technology', 'Social Network', 'Social Media', 'AI', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Gesture Navigation has come to Android Q and it has large impacts on Android app layouts.
What is it?
Google has decided to include Gesture Navigation as an alternative to the usual 3 button mode that Android users have become accustomed to. Gestures are often used by Android power users. Gesture Navigation was intro... | ['Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Gestures', 'Android App Development', 'Google'] |
An American architect
Even if you are not a student of architecture, chances are you have heard of Wright. He began his career in Chicago, but his most famous works are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
His Prairie style of residential architecture, featuring simple decor,... | ['True Crime', 'Relationships', 'Society', 'Architecture', 'History'] |
How to Create a Hub-and-Spoke Plot with Plotly
Plot lat/long data on the map with lines connecting the locations
A while ago, I needed to plot the lines connecting the latitude (lat) and longitude (long) coordinates of some locations on the map. What I needed to draw is known as the “hub-and-spoke” plot. Knowing that... | ['Data Science', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization', 'Python'] |
Dear lovely people of KTHT and beyond,
Thank you for all the submissions, engagement and constant efforts to make this community a welcoming, warm, uplifting, safe place for us to open our hearts and share things we wouldn’t otherwise share. I am humbled, grateful and excited to be on this journey with you.
Looking a... | ['Short Story', 'Inspiration', 'Highlights', 'Energy', 'Creativity'] |
As our online held fall semester ends with a first-time launched elective at ISDI Parsons -ISU-Mumbai — (AIML |A Whole New World )
Communication Designers, Shrishti Sahani and Siddhi Mandora ‘ design a brave new world where AI plays a predominant role in our life as well as our death.
In a New World — Consumer Impact... | ['Senior Care', 'AI', 'Technology', 'Pandemic', 'Healthcare'] |
I remember once being annoyed by pop music. Oh, for sure, a broad swath of pop music is still terrible, as is a broad swath of music or any other media form. But in the realm of contemporary pop music, Ariana Grande looms large for me. Effecting (or being subjected to) a transformation from young, family friendly Nicke... | ['Music'] |
AI, Technology, Philosophy, Self.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
A Starting Point for Exploring the technology and Social Implications of AI.
Not AI. Photo by Rudi Endresen on Unsplash
Seriously, What Do We Think When Some Say “AI”?
Are we just mystified by AI or perhaps we just ignore it? Maybe some have vision... | ['Philosophy', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning', 'Technology', 'AI'] |
Abstract: The Shotput packing algorithm is used at present for determining the best box size for an order we receive into our system. Through a series of testing the accuracy of the Shotput box packing algorithm against the pyShipping packing algorithm, it was determined Shotput packs significantly and consistently mor... | ['Algorithms', 'Software', 'Logistics', 'Startup', 'Data Science'] |
Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of today knows little to nothing about it.
That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more a... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Towards Data Science', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming'] |
My Top 7 Tips for Saving Money at Whole Foods
By: Kate Doubler
If you saw the title of this post and thought, “Whole Foods? No way can I shop there,” let me promise you that there are great ways to save big bucks at Whole Foods. How do I know? Because I do it all the time! I’m going to give you my best-kept secrets f... | ['Republished', 'Food', 'Health', 'Paleo', 'Budget'] |
Details for Selected Steps
Step 2. Create Node project and install Express framework
mkdir node-push-up-tracker // Change directory to the created project folder
cd node-push-up-tracker // Create Node Project
npm init -y // Install Express Framework
npm install express
Step 3. Write the business logic and create ... | ['JavaScript', 'Serverless', 'Software Engineering', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Programming'] |
Introduction
Bitesize recently celebrated a 20th year anniversary last September, complete with new branding and personalisation features allowing students to customise their Bitesize experience via the My Bitesize page.
Bitesize has great content that students enjoy, one of those bits of content that it provides is ... | ['AWS', 'Bitesize', 'Learning', 'BBC', 'Education'] |
Sign up for The 'Gale
By Nightingale
Keep up with the latest from Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society Take a look | ['Typography', 'Process', 'Storytelling', 'Communication', 'Data Visualization'] |
Elements of Good Project Ideas
I have project ideas all the time. But the good project ideas are the ones that I end up pursuing for months on end. This is the framework I go by when picking good project ideas. The way I see it, every good project idea has the chance of turning into something more.
The starting point... | ['Learn To Code', 'Software', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
Courtesy: The greatest salesman in the world, readingraphics
Movies such as “the wolf of wall street” have made us to believe that Sales is a dirty word. That, sales folks are persuasive and focus solely on making a fortune by selling us products through mesmerizing language. But I believe that sales is about rallying... | ['Growth', 'Sales', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Money'] |
Information Technology has become the backbone of almost every business in the last few decades, driving productivity and efficiency in every business function. Today, IT organizations have more data than ever before. Whether its service ticket management, asset tracking, budgeting, staffing, or infrastructure and plat... | ['Tableau', 'Data Visualization', 'Management', 'Itsm', 'Dataviz'] |
After briefly covering Animated , useNativeDriver and LayoutAnimation . Next on the menu is — interpolation.
One of the more interesting and useful features to know when talking about animation in React Native is Interpolation. Animated allows us to interpolate the animated value and provide some logic for how our tra... | ['Animation', 'JavaScript', 'React Native', 'Mobile App Development'] |
Darkness. Rain. Punishing winds. Gray skies. “Oh God, when will it end?” These are some of the words that come to mind when thinking of Dutch winters.
Photo credit: Dan Geddes
September, when the sun still occasionally shines in Holland, is a good moment to prepare yourself mentally, physically and spiritually for th... | ['Humor', 'Winter', 'Netherlands', 'Amsterdam', 'Weather'] |
I’m generally not on people’s speed dial for pep talks. And yet there she was, popping the question: “Things are going to get better, right?” My friend needed to hear some hope.
“Well,” I said. “I don’t really know.”
Her voice grew emphatic. “It has to. It just does. Last semester was so awful. I don’t know if I can ... | ['Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Mindfulness', 'Health', 'Humor'] |
OpenAI GPT-2: Understanding Language Generation through Visualization
How the super-sized language model is able to finish your thoughts.
In the eyes of most NLP researchers, 2018 was a year of great technological advancement, with new pre-trained NLP models shattering records on tasks ranging from sentiment analysis... | ['Machine Learning', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Visualization'] |
Mathematics is often believed to bring people to madness. We hear many stories like those about Gödel, Cantor, Nash, and Grothendieck, describing geniuses haunted by insanity that is developing along with their mathematics. And there is something to it. A certain psychologist said that
A paranoid person is irrationall... | ['Math', 'Philosophy', 'Ethics', 'Philosophy Of Mathematics', 'Science'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Poetry', 'Environment', 'City Living', 'Civilization', 'Art'] |
To wear a bikini?
Photo by Lauren Richmond on Unsplash
She. Is. Gorgeous.
Trendy cut-out bikini, tanned body, laughing with friends in the pool. Every man’s gaze is on her. Beautiful face, thick glossy hair, pert breasts and pretty much everything I want right now.
She’s twenty-ish and totally carefree. I’m forty-i... | ['Beauty', 'Body Image', 'Life Lessons', 'Women', 'Health'] |
2. Entrepreneurial Business Proposal (Option B)
In this project, you will imagine yourself as an entrepreneur establishing a business after graduation. You will prepare a focused and creative entrepreneurial business proposal for your enterprise. Think of this as an ‘elevator pitch’ where you present your business ide... | ['Personal Development', 'Art', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Self Improvement'] |
Believe me, there’s more to this picture, but I’ve got to keep this page PG-13.
Witchfinder General’s 1983 album Friends of Hell is for those who just couldn’t get enough of Black Sabbath’s sound from the early to mid 1970s.
Their flavor of doom metal, which really wasn’t thought of as a genre then, would satisfy the... | ['Doom Metal', 'Witch', 'Black Sabbath', 'England', 'Music'] |
The Mindset to Deal With Rejection From the Company You Admire
“Fall down seven times, get up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash
In the last few days, I was a bit restless because I wanted to know about the feedback from the company I was interviewed for. I really wanted to work there and th... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Startup', 'Work'] |
We have all had this experience of the cancer diagnosis on Google. We can laugh it off, but sometimes these doomsday experiences can make us less likely to believe something is wrong when there is an actual problem.
For example, one night I suddenly became quite ill. I was in terrible pain and had a bunch of weird sym... | ['Self', 'Health', 'Medical', 'Internet', 'Self Help'] |
NIRAMAI has raised $7M in total. We talk with Dr. Geetha Manjunath, the cofounder, CEO and CTO of NIRAMAI health analytix. She holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Science and has over 25 years of expertise in the IT innovation at Hewlett Packard Labs and Xerox Research. She has proposed and led multiple research proje... | ['Health', 'India', 'Healthcare', 'Cancer', 'Breast Cancer'] |
What is Vistrates and why is it needed?
Current tools for data analysis are optimized for specific analytical tasks. Tableau is used for exploration of data and presentation of stories from the data. Adobe’s Data Illustrator is used for creating custom narrative visualizations. Microsoft’s ChartAccent is ideal for ann... | ['Analytics', 'Research', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Storytelling'] |
Let’s think about some things blockchain is good for:
Processes with numerous middlemen
Over-centralized industries
Tracking the flow of assets or digital items
Creating trust by removing the option of dishonesty
One of my favorite explanations of blockchain and its applications is this excerpt from TheConversatio... | ['Blockchain', 'Blockchain Music', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Music'] |
The Importance of Refactoring
Nobody likes it, Everyone should do it
After spending the past two days refactoring a major system in my game, I was reminded of the importance of refactoring code. A lot of programmers don’t like refactoring and I get it. You have a perfectly functional piece of code and you willingly b... | ['Programming Tips', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Refactoring'] |
Recently, at my University, I was listening to subject Design patterns where they forced us to use design patterns while making our homework and projects. I was using Singleton pattern as standard implementation where I defined types that I wanted to use, but then I saw an interesting implementation from one guy. As a ... | ['Android', 'Software Development', 'Design Patterns'] |
Build Intuition for the Fourier Transform
A Magical Algorithm for Convolution and Signal Processing
The Fourier Transform and its cousins (the Fourier Series, the Discrete Fourier Transform, and the Spherical Harmonics) are powerful tools that we use in computing and to understand the world around us. The Discrete Fo... | ['Computer Vision', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science', 'Chemistry', 'Machine Learning'] |
Americans Love to Suffer, and That’s Why Nothing Ever Changes
Requiem for the American Dream.
Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash
My uncle lives out in the woods, on a hundred acres my family stole generations ago. There’s a cemetery out there I’ve never been to, but it’s where most of my ancestors are buried.
He d... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Opinion', 'Culture', 'Economics'] |
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash
Patient Empowerment is a Dangerous Euphemism
How to end the patient-physician power struggle and become a world-class patient.
It gnaws at you like a rodent, the nagging suspicion that your physician has missed something. The physical exam was rushed and the interview was abruptly halte... | ['Health', 'Doctors', 'Healthcare', 'Patients', 'Medicine'] |
A method to select either a condensed data table or the complete data table.
One of the features that I wanted for the data table was the ability to show a “condensed” version of the table as well as the complete data table. Therefore, I included a radio button in the layouts.py file to select which version of the tab... | ['Dashboard', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash'] |
Do You Lose Hours?
And where do those hours go?
My studio! Photo by the author.
The best days for an artist are when we have uninterrupted time doing our art. If we are pulled away, there is a tendency to call it “lost hours.”
In the life of an artist, there are many hours or days, where roadblocks come along to ke... | ['Planning', 'Painting', 'Artist', 'Organization', 'Creativity'] |
In a world where we’ve quantified the value of people’s artistic endeavors with reviews, rankings, fan, and follower counts, modern-day artists have become excessively concerned with validation from strangers on the Internet, and metrics over master when it should really be the other way around. It seems counterintuiti... | ['Creativity'] |
Photo by CardMapr on Unsplash
12 (+Bonus) amazing Youtube Channels To Learn Python Programming for Free
Here you have a great list of Youtube channels if you want to dig into Python programming and learn from the best.
A few days ago, I published an article with 21 of the best channels on Youtube where you can learn... | ['Python Programming', 'Programming Languages', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Learning To Code'] |
For a version of this post with interactive maps, check it out on GitHub.
Introduction
Oftentimes, when working with public data, there will be a geospatial component to the data — the locations of public libraries, for example, or which neighborhoods of a city are most bike-friendly. In this tutorial, we will walk t... | ['Govtech', 'Dataviz', 'Rstats', 'Civictech', 'Data Visualization'] |
Making climate science a human story
A chat with ClimateAdam: the YouTuber who uses gin & tonics to explain rising sea levels
Adam Levy is a climate scientist and a journalist who combines science and storytelling on YouTube. ClimateAdam, as he is known to his almost 3,000 followers, has been revealing nuggets of cli... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Climate Crisis', 'Insights', 'YouTube'] |
Why ethical reasoning should be an essential capability for Data Science teams
And two concrete actions to kickstart your team on ethical knowledge
Image source: mbolina via iStock
Wherever new technology is introduced, ethics and legislation will trail behind the applications. The field of data science cannot be ca... | ['Ethics', 'Data Science', 'Legislation', 'Philosophy', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Get Mathematica
Before you ask if it’s free — it is free-ish. Officially it’s proprietary and, of course, expensive — at the time of writing, a home desktop license runs $354. But there’s two large caveats here:
If you’re a student or affiliated with a university, your institution probably provides it for free — this... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
As we prepare to say goodbye to 2018, we reflect on the month of December and also the amazing year Quadrant has had. From our successful token sale to our Mainnet launch, we have come a long way in 12 short months. Here are some highlights from a good month and a great year:
2018: The Year that Was
Develop and Deliv... | ['Community Update', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Data', '2019'] |
North London’s Alexandra Palace, also known as “The People’s Palace,” the sister location to South London’s Crystal Palace, opened on Queen Victoria’s 54th birthday in May 1873. Just 16 days later on the morning of 9 June “Ally Pally,” as it is affectionately called, broke out in flames caused by what the Sydney Mornin... | ['Covid 19', 'Music Review', 'Nick Cave', 'Album Review', 'Music'] |
In December 2015, PHP 7 introduced scalar type declarations and with it the strict types flag.
To enable the strict mode, a single declare directive must be placed at the top of the file. This means that the strictness of typing for scalars is configured on a per-file basis. This directive not only affects the type de... | ['Software Engineering', 'PHP', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
Anyone who has learned Tableau online (via Udemy or any other similar platform) did the Hans Rosling chart as an exercise. So did I, and I felt it was time to do justice to that old visualization. Bear with my story on how I designed this dashboard, and you can see that early viz of mine at the end of the post.
Despit... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Social Change', 'Hans Rosling', 'Tableau'] |
Managing a Software Team in Sri Lanka with Dirk Jan — Conxillium
Winning practices for managing a successful software offshore team.
Dirk Jan van Kessel, Software Development Manager for Conxillium
Relocating across the world to build a team, develop software and travel. We spoke with Dirk Jan van Kessel, Software D... | ['Remote Working', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'Startup', 'Netherlands'] |
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger
“The next wave of digital innovation is coming. Countries can welcome it, prepare for it, and ride it to new heights of innovation and prosperity, or they can ignore the changing tide and miss the wave,” writes Robert Atkinson in The Task Ahead of Us. Atkinson is founder and president of the... | ['AI', 'Technology', 'Automation', 'Innovation', 'Digital Economy'] |
Feel-good Marketing
Create a Marketing Plan that Doesn’t Lead to Burnout
I’ve been working in marketing for years, and the more I think about it, the more I realize how much I don’t really like marketing.
Or, at least I don’t like the kind of marketing that I see everywhere, invading my social feeds and inbox on a d... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Social Media', 'Clients', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
Here’s a true story that happened to someone I know.
Ruth gets a windfall
Meet Ruth — we’ll call her that. Ruth is a widow with a daughter and a new grandson. She works a full-time job on a fixed salary. She recently inherited a nice lump sum — say $100,000 — and wants to invest it well. To go towards, retirement, bu... | ['Investing', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
So it’s Monday and you’re back at the office/Fortress of Solitude/evil science lair of evil preparing for the long push until next week when you get to kick back for Thanksgiving. Perhaps this will help. Disney just dropped 6 minutes of score samples from the upcoming TRON: Legacy, and I must say that I find them quite... | ['Daft Punk', 'Movies', 'News', 'Disney', 'Music'] |
Get Themes From Extension Marketplace
From the community, VS Code has a large number of themes. Users can get these themes from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace by using the browser. There are hundreds of themes for you to select from, and they vary from colours to popular TV series.
Each theme will have a rating a... | ['Vscode', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software'] |
by Lola Pellegrino
Nearly 40 years ago, abortion was legalized in the United States. To mark the occasion, Lola McClure, a registered nurse, interviewed Dr. Nancy Stanwood, an obstetrician/gynecologist, abortion provider, mother, and board member with the Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.
Hello Dr. Sta... | ['Abortion', 'Nancy Stanwood', 'Health'] |
We are delighted to announce and welcome Vincent Dsouza our technical adviser to the team.
Vincent is a Cloud Computing and Blockchain Specialist.
He is an accomplished IT professional with 16+ years of experience in the roles of lead solution architect, technical consultant, pre-sales/business development, service d... | ['Blockchain', 'Crypto', 'Data', 'Cloud Computing', 'Microsoft'] |
The status quo
Today’s major networks are mostly monetizing in the same way across the board: advertisements.
Ads alone are annoying and damaging enough. On the surface, people are impulsively buying useless gadgets because the advertisement was perfectly tailored to their instincts. But the problem runs deeper.
We ... | ['Law', 'Politics', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Stylistic Changes to a Component
What if our component contains a property that changes the color of the background?
The truthiness of the success prop determines the outcome of the background-color attribute. Therefore, more tests are needed to validate that specific behavior.
Notice that although the component has... | ['Programming', 'Unit Testing', 'Vuejs', 'JavaScript', 'Vue'] |
What It Means to Lose 25 Pounds When You Weigh 460
It may not sound like much, but go pick up 25 pounds at the gym, and imagine carrying that around all day
Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty
My family doesn’t have a lot of Christmas traditions. We open presents on whatever day everybody can get together. Mama has always h... | ['Weight Loss', 'Food', 'Health', 'Self', 'Book Excerpts'] |
Q: Tell us a little bit about life in Boston, what you’re doing there and how it came about?
A: I commenced an exchange at Harvard Medical School in February. It’s exciting to be at one of the world’s top research-oriented medical schools, in a city that is arguably the world’s most active robotics hub. The experience... | ['Technology', 'Research', 'Robotics', 'Engineering', 'Medicine'] |
Inside Pencil by FiftyThree stylus
An important decision when designing a Bluetooth® Low Energy, aka “Bluetooth® Smart,” device like our stylus Pencil is selecting a battery; too small and the device will need constant recharging, too large and the device becomes too big, heavy, or expensive.
Measuring battery charac... | ['Hardware', 'Battery', 'Stylus', 'Engineering', 'Company'] |
What It Is
Advent of Code is an annual series of daily coding challenges that happens during the year-end holiday season. While its name alludes to Christian traditions, it is a simple pun choice meant to convey the 25-day nature of the series (come one, come all!). Each day, between the 1st and 25th of December, a ne... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development', 'Software Design', 'Data Science'] |
A Survey of Attention Mechanism and Using Self-Attention Model for Computer Vision Swati Narkhede Follow Nov 1 · 7 min read
Original Survey Authors: Sneha Chaudhari , Gungor Polatkan , Rohan Ramanath , Varun Mithal
1. Introduction
The Attention Model was first established for Machine Translation gained massive popul... | ['Computer Vision', 'Attention Model', 'Attention Mechanism'] |
By Vanja Josifovski
Pinterest began as a small startup, and has grown to a company that serves +175B Pins to +250M people. While we have one of the largest datasets online, we have 600+ engineers, and so technology needs to be accessible for each person to play their part in efficiently building and scaling this visua... | ['DevOps', 'Engineering', 'Machine Learning'] |
A method to select either a condensed data table or the complete data table.
One of the features that I wanted for the data table was the ability to show a “condensed” version of the table as well as the complete data table. Therefore, I included a radio button in the layouts.py file to select which version of the tab... | ['Dash', 'Dashboard', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Using Dictionaries
Dictionary view objects
Some built-in dictionary methods return a view object, offering a window on your dictionary's key and values. Values in a view object change as the content of the dictionary changes. This is best illustrated with an example:
phone_numbers = { 'Jack': '070-02222748', 'Pete':... | ['Python3', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Hi there folks!
As you know I’m learning Rust as a 2020 goal and today I decided to learn more about the key feature of the language: Ownership.
Beginning
My career up until now was based solely under Java stacks, so I summed up some experience with Java, Javascript and their libraries. For a long time I heard of th... | ['Rust', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Technology'] |
How the Online Pursuit of Fame at all Cost is Destroying Intimacy
We are giving away too much, too soon. To everyone.
Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash
Without discernment, we shop our private lives piecemeal online in exchange for a click, a buck, the odd byline perhaps. Day in, day out, we crank out shockers inspi... | ['Relationships', 'Philosophy', 'Future', 'Self', 'Social Media'] |
As one of the biggest Indonesian technology companies, Tokopedia has hundred of million users who fulfill their daily needs through various services it offers. One of Tokopedia’s DNAs that embodies in our daily work as Nakama* is to Focus on Consumer, as each of them is special and cherished. However, with the magnitud... | ['Customer Segmentation', 'Tokopedia', 'Customer Data Platform', 'Data Engineering', 'Tokopedia Data'] |
- Can you share the funniest or most interesting story that occurred to you in the course of your acting/ directing/performing career?
Putting on a wig for “A Tale Of Two Corey’s” was one of my funnier and stranger experiences recently. I was completely a loss for words when I looked in the mirror lol but certainly ho... | ['Inspiration', 'Culture', 'Wonder', 'Celebrity', 'Music'] |
What hurricanes teach us about the consumers and the economy…
Deflation is the monster in the central banker’s closet
What if I told you Amazon.com was in the business of predicting hurricanes?
Seeing as they are getting into just about every business, it might not be a surprise. But that’s not the point here.
What... | ['Weather', 'Hurricane', 'Dorian', 'Central Banking', 'Federal Reserve'] |
The Linear Thinking Pitfall
Reality rarely draws straight lines, but your mind doesn’t know it (yet)
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” — Albert Einstein (Allegedly)
There is a Twitter screenshot going around that says if you saved $10,000... | ['Investing', 'Thinking', 'Mathematics', 'Psychology', 'Compound Interest'] |
2020 turned out to be radically different from what everyone had expected. COVID-19 has impacted our lives in many ways. As the pandemic spread, one question that baffled us was: what can we do with technology to combat the virus?.
A few days later, we got the answer.
In a phone conversation in March 2020, Olalekan E... | ['Product', 'Manufacturing', 'AWS', 'Serverless', 'Ecommerce'] |
#RealLifeTransAdult
Electronic engineer, Katie Montgomenrie
Katy Montgomerie is a British transwoman that works as an electronic engineer, designing computer chips that make the internet work! And she is great at it!
GR: Katy, what has been the most difficult situation as an electronic engineer?
KM: Probably the mo... | ['Engineering', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender', 'Women In Tech', 'Women'] |
#2. Differences in government spending across countries
Public spending enables governments to produce and purchase goods and services, in order to fulfill their objectives — such as the provision of public goods or the redistribution of resources like social protection, education, and healthcare.
Recent data on publ... | ['Remote Work', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Programming'] |
Albums, in theory, are themselves a singular concept, made of smaller cohesive components or layers (songs). The singles are only part of the story. Still, I had never really listened to a full album until Beyoncé dropped in 2013, and then again a few years later when I listened to Beyoncé’s full visual album, Lemonade... | ['Self', 'Mindfullness', 'Music', 'Digital', 'Lifestyle'] |
Photo on Unsplash by Alex Haney
Cracking the Facebook’s Machine Learning SWE Interview.
I recently passed Facebook’s Machine Learning Software Engineer (Ph.D.) internship interview. In this post, I share my interview experience and the resources I used to prepare for the interview.
To cover the complete interview pr... | ['Data Science', 'Interview', 'Facebook', 'Machine Learning', 'Interview Tips'] |
One of the benefits of Serverless architectures, and AWS Lambda specifically, is that there is #NoOps required to get your code live. You provide the code and deployment, patching and hardware are abstracted away from you.
The issue is, there is still a server. Hot lambda invocations (invoking the function while the c... | ['Lambda', 'Owasp', 'AWS', 'Serverless', 'Security'] |
To a lot of independent professionals, such as consultants and service providers, sales funnels may appear to be unnecessary and overly complicated. They may seem impersonal or cold. This may be true in some cases, but you can implement a simple online marketing sales funnel that allows your personality to shine throug... | ['Marketing', 'B2B', 'Business', 'Online Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Before we start….
ThreadLocal is your answer to:-
If you want the object to be thread-safe but at the same time it does not hamper the performance of your application.
If you don’t want to create a new object each time new thread task is being assigned.
If you want to share the same object between multiple method c... | ['Java', 'Multithreading', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Interview'] |
It’s interesting to trace the origin of trends in business and technology back to the intrinsic needs that we as humans develop in the changing environment. People influence technology, technology influences people, and the cynical adage that laziness drives all progress proves to be true time and again. In my earlier ... | ['Information Visualization', 'Insights', 'Big Data', 'Data Visualization', 'Learning'] |
It’s back.
Years after surviving a horrific episode of workplace bullying, I am experiencing a relapse in my recovery.
My sleeping is sporadic. Dreams are nightmares again. Paranoia has returned. I can’t calm down.
Every now and then, I have episodes of post-traumatic syndrome disorder from the level of abuse I suff... | ['Work', 'Bullying', 'Mental Health', 'Equality', 'Abuse'] |
Arbitrage is defined as the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset.
In our case, an arbitrage opportunity arrises on interest rates when you can borrow at a lower rate and lend... | ['Finance', 'Google', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Lending', 'Analytics'] |
By Elettra Wiedemann
A couple of years ago, I decided to do a Dry January. That means no booze at all, for any reason (yes, even at a birthday party / wedding / after a bad day / whatever) for the entire month. To some people, that might not sound like a big deal, but to me it sounded like a major commitment. Before I... | ['Alcohol', 'Dry January', 'Stop Drinking', 'How To Quit Drinking', 'Health'] |
These Anti-election Tactics Could Save Your Sales
3 practical ways to correctly leverage election uncertainty
Photo by visuals on Unsplash
There’s a simple rule for business. That is “don’t mention politics or religion if you don’t want to alienate half of your customer base”.
Those subjects are nuanced, subjective... | ['Work', 'Sales', 'Politics', 'Business', 'Marketing'] |
The CDC acknowledges gastrointestinal symptoms as part of Covid-19. The question is: Does the appearance of gastrointestinal symptoms means a bad disease outcome?
What Meta-analyses Say
Chinese researchers at the Department of Gastroenterology at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University systematically searched the PubMe... | ['Health', 'Ideas', 'Life', 'Covid 19', 'Advice'] |
Why Climate Action Is Crucial To Democracy
Trust in democracy is at its lowest in 25 years. There are many factors, but here’s why one of the most significant is climate inaction.
Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash
People simply do not trust democracy, their representatives, and their governments anymore. In America, ... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Democracy', 'Inequality', 'Politics'] |
Why data literacy is the key to future-proofing your career
Jobs come and go, but data is here to stay
Some years ago, I read a book that’s had a profound effect on how I look at careers and advise the people I mentor. That book is The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Scott and Gratton. In ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Careers'] |
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