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Migration impacts on both rural and urban settlements are instigated by a cultural, environmental, social, human, political/economic components and it’s consequences are multilayered, which has been exigent on our poor transport system characterised by dilapidated and eroding roads known for countless mishaps. With the... | ['Transportation', 'Climate Change', 'Renewable Energy', 'Nigeria', 'Ndc'] |
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Exclusive Experiments with GPT-3 in various areas: the meaning of life, new art forms, abstract and weird contents
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Paul Sexton
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The tone of Pete Townshend’s interviews of late is that everything in music has been done, and rock is dead. But it’s a thrill to be able to say that his own work contradicts him. Certainly, some of WHO, the band’s 12th studio album, released on 6 December 2019, is pleasingly familiar an... | ['Culture', 'Features', 'Rock', 'Pop Culture', 'Music'] |
Lose a Lot of Weight During the Pandemic (and Stop Making Excuses)
A lesson in Sci-Fi thinking for these strange times
Photo by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash
Can you lose weight in a Pandemic?
My friend Nina has always been a little on the heavier side, but her health has been declining steadily since the start of the P... | ['Fitness', 'Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Nutrition', 'Pop Culture'] |
If beauty will save the World, as once Fyodor Dostoevsky said, than poetry definitely will save our hearts.
Do you like my little poem? Does poetry live in your heart? Will be grateful for your feedback!
And below are my articles that I hope you may find interesting. One is about why we need relationships and another... | ['Self-awareness', 'Spirituality', 'Life', 'Poetry', 'Art'] |
Why Write 3–5 Stories a Week
If you want to be a top writer on Medium, you’ll need to put in the work, which includes contributing well-written stories high in both quality and quantity.
Think about it. It’s just like anything else where consistency and commitment pays off. The more quality stories you write, the mor... | ['Time Management', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing Tips'] |
I’m Watching My Neighborhood Grow Whiter Through the Window
I wonder how much longer my 13-year-old Black son can run freely through a neighborhood that is growing whiter
Photo: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Gentrification of the Black Beverly Hills did not start with Covid-19, but it feels like ... | ['Gentrification', 'Race', 'Family', 'Society', 'Neighborhoods'] |
The Australian design festival has gone to great lengths to accommodate online viewers so they can participate in a variety of activities, celebrating the vast forms of art and design created under the theme of Care.
Emma-Kate Wilson /MutualArt
Artist Installation — Civic Square. Photo credit: 5 Foot Photography
The... | ['Australia', 'Care', 'Design', 'Festivals', 'Art'] |
React-Redux Connect/useSelector
To get a better idea of this system, let’s dive into some of the innards of Redux and how React-Redux uses them.
What is Redux?
Redux is a state container for JavaScript applications. Although it was initially built for use with React, it’s not tied to React. Instead, we use a library... | ['Redux', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
Mess up
We are nobody and we always mess up. | ['獎學金', 'AI', 'Scholarship', '鴻海', 'Review'] |
In my last post I went over how we went about implementing a fitness program at Pandera, the need for a custom solution to handle a little friendly competition, and an architecture that would support that.
Designing a Fitness Leaderboard in GCP
In this post I want to focus on what a Data Vault model is and what it lo... | ['Data Warehouse', 'Google Cloud', 'Data Vault', 'Data Engineering', 'Bigquery'] |
I am a great believer that for you to learn, you need to create. And to create you need to have fun!
First I want to give you a background on why I am trying to build a wildlife camera with a Raspberry Pi.
I live in London and my garden gets visited often by local wildlife. It is so often, that as an avid gardener I ... | ['Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Raspberry Pi 4', 'Programming', 'Raspberry Pi'] |
Arabian leopards in Oman, as seen in Netflix’s Our Planet
As viewership of nature documentary series continues to soar, it’s clear that these types of shows are resonating with audiences and have the ability to change conversations around their subject matter. Take Our Planet, the new series from the BBC’s Natural His... | ['Nature', 'Netflix', 'Climate Change', 'Documentary', 'Environment'] |
X and X cannot not be X and Y.
Circular reasoning.
You have to use circular reasoning if you want to get to the truth, and we do this all the time (X is X).
Complementarity is the basis for identity because duplicity is the basis for a unit.
X and X cannot not be X and Y (pi is the mediating observer) (for all obse... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Venture Capital', 'Virtual Reality', 'Data Science'] |
By Dmitry Kislyuk | Pinterest engineering manager, Visual Search
Our mission at Pinterest is to help you discover and do things you love. Under the hood, we’re powering a visual discovery engine with 100B ideas saved by 150M people around the world. Today we’re introducing three new visual discovery products–Lens, Ins... | ['Pinterest', 'Deep Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Enginering', 'Machine Learning'] |
Wait, What Did We Do So Far?
Before we move on, let’s make sure we have a fundamental understanding of SPAs and react-router. If you’ve worked with routers and SPAs before, you’re welcome to skip over this part!
Create-React-App is a fantastic project that handles a lot of the heavy work for creating a new React appl... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming', 'Web Development', 'Front End Development'] |
PHP have served me right, until now. I have felt that PHP has become something too restrictive for my own projects. I’ll get this straight right away: PHP is not a bad language, is a very useful one specially when paired with frameworks like Symfony and Laravel, but it still lingers behind in features when compared to ... | ['Rust', 'Software Development', 'Development', 'PHP', 'Programming'] |
5 MANTRAS TO START AN ANALYTICS REVOLUTION Alteryx Follow Mar 27 · 7 min read
You’re amazing and you get it.
You’ve solved challenges using every data source imaginable. You’ve unleashed the answers that helped your team take action, and you’re sharing outcomes to make everyone more successful and productive. Truly —... | ['Big Data', 'Alteryx', 'Analytics', 'Data', 'Data Science'] |
Machine Learning has become the most-talked-about topic these days, what is so different that Machine learning does when compared to traditional software applications?
In the traditional software applications, we developed systems and logic for existing rules and we kept updating the systems as rules changed. But, cha... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Techology', 'Computer Science', 'Data Science'] |
There are certain words survivors can’t ever seem to escape:
“He said, she said.” “There’s her side, his side, and the truth.” “She’s just in it for the fame and money. Nothing REALLY happened.” “She put herself in that situation. She should have known better.” *
How many times must we read these persistent, blame-fi... | ['Relationships', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Abuse', 'Life Lessons'] |
Investing in New Frontiers
Facebook was founded in 2004. Bitcoin in 2009. Old frontiers are often still very new. Knowing what they’ll do next is nearly impossible.
“Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind.” — Katha Up... | ['Facebook', 'Investing', 'Bitcoin', 'Social Media'] |
4. 360° is less than 180°
The more there is to see, the less the audience remembers.
In our third test, audiences with a 90° range of vision could recall nearly every event in the story, whether the information was physically in the room or relayed through the audio. However, audiences in the 360° view recalled fewer... | ['Storytelling', 'Audience Experience', 'Virtual Reality', 'Media', 'Insights'] |
Data Visualization at IBM
Our clients are from various industries as well as organizations of all sizes, from large institutions to lean start-ups. But regardless of size or industry, our users all have the same goal. They have data, they have questions, and they need an analytics tools that will help them make sense ... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'UX', 'UX Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
Eggs — The Perfect Weight Loss Food
Why it’s one of the best foods for permanent weight loss.
Photo by Hannah Tasker on Unsplash
I was overweight and obese for 25 years, failing at every diet you can imagine. Then, in 1985, I discovered how to succeed, lost 140 pounds, and I have kept it off for 35 years. One of my ... | ['Health', 'Diet', 'Weight Loss', 'Success', 'Self Improvement'] |
Tummy Rolls and Shapewear
Learning to love my post baby body
Photo by Sean Thomas on Unsplash
I have never been comfortable with my body. As a teen, I was teased for being too thin, yet despite this I was still concerned about sitting down to reveal the barely-there tummy roles which I thought were ugly. I didn’t li... | ['Health', 'Motherhood', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting'] |
Now, there is a big question — how do we display these beliefs as actual actions? We have to remember that, in the end, EB’s goal is to attract great people to join us. We gathered to think about how we actually understand these quotes and to come up with a way to implement the ideas they convey. We thought that the be... | ['People', 'Values', 'Recruiting', 'HR', 'Employer Branding'] |
The Uncanny Valley Is Our Best Defense
Our bodies recognize the dangers of simulation, and we should too
Photo: Coneyl Jay/Getty Images
While humans are drawn to and empowered by paradox, our market-driven technologies and entertainment appear to be fixed on creating perfectly seamless simulations.
We can pinpoint ... | ['Uncanny Valley', 'Society', 'Book Excerpt', 'Culture', 'Technology'] |
Labels help us choose the right product off the supermarket shelf. Human beings also apply labels. This is okay in order to quickly and easily communicate, using socially and personally agreed-upon categories. We label ourselves, we label others, and others label us.
We can place identity markers on ourselves because ... | ['Relationships', 'Society', 'Identity', 'Mindfulness', 'Self'] |
I’ve recently received my first offer as a Software Engineer for a great company after 3 months of job searching. As I’ve finally reached my goal, I wanted to take some time to reflect on my journey leading up to this moment.
Teaching
I was a middle school math teacher for about 4 years. That period of my life was ce... | ['Algorithms', 'Career Change', 'Software Engineering', 'Career Advice', 'Programming'] |
A Better Authentication API
Using FastAPI to generate JSON Web Tokens
Photo by Philipp Katzenberger on Unsplash
Recently, I wrote a series of posts explaining how JSON Web Tokens could be utilized in an API that was written using Flask. However, a few weeks ago, I discovered how awesome FastAPI is and have been wond... | ['Python', 'Fastapi', 'Json', 'Json Web Token', 'Software Development'] |
Today I will be discussing how to set up redux in a react project.
Yes, you probably heard a lot of fuss around it about how hard it is to set up on a react project, all the boilerplates along with it, etc…
Yet redux is so popular today. Why?
Because it allows us to manage the global state within one application, wh... | ['Redux', 'Redux Thunk', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
Serverless is currently a trending topic which will definitely be a major hit within the next few years. In the future, you won’t have to worry about the infrastructure, as your complete software life cycle will depend on cloud service providers.
WHAT IS SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURE?
Initially, the definition of serverles... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Web Development', 'Serverless'] |
Facebook is shutting down Moments on Feb 25, here’s how you can save all your photos
Facebook Moments, the standalone mobile app designed which let users privately share their photos and videos, is shutting down next month on Feb 25. Talking about Facebook is shutting down Moments on Feb 25, here’s how you can save al... | ['Facebook', 'Social Media', 'iOS', 'Facebook Marketing', 'Moments'] |
Peace talks culminated in the Peace of Westphalia (1648). This laid the groundwork for modern international relations, the Age of Enlightenment, and ended the devastating Thirty Years’ War. This peace refers to a series of treaties between the major powers involved. Over 100 delegations met at different locations and d... | ['Society', 'Enlightenment', 'Culture', 'Politics', 'History'] |
Level Up Your Data Storytelling Game
What draws me to data storytelling? The opportunity to work in the space where analysis and intuition, qualitative and qualitative, logic and emotion, overlap. In my version, data and storytelling work in concert with each other. Both modes of thinking can be incorporated into ever... | ['Data Storytelling', 'Data Visualization', 'Design'] |
I Set a Timer for 11-Minutes to Prove that Fast Writing is Good Writing
Then I wrote a full article during that time.
Being tired after a long day at work is not an ideal writing condition.
However, I believe in fast writing. So I decided to see what happens when I set a timer and write for 11 minutes. This article ... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Art'] |
Better Marketing Weekend Reads
Clever analogies about rainforests and junk food, tips for how (if?) to Fleet a Tweet, Gen-Z marketing advice, and more.
Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash
Thanks to everyone who completed the audience survey in the last newsletter! We’re listening to your feedback, and we’ve got some... | ['Marketing', 'Newsletter', 'Business'] |
10/15/94, Pelham, AL, Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
I’m fascinated by the still-intact regionalism of the jamband scene. In a modern music industry where artists can globally distribute music instantaneously, radio stations are nationally homogenized, and major record labels seek maximal demographic crossover, the idea of... | ['Phish', 'Music'] |
How to use the two-way binding in Knout.js and ReactJS?
Components built by different frameworks must have the same action in one website. What we have to realize is how to… | ['Reliability', 'Google', 'Web Development', 'DevOps', 'Sre'] |
Blockchain technology has opened up a range of possibilities for secure, immutable transactions of all kinds. It promises a safer data transfer system, yet its promises and limitations have yet to be fully explored. Human errors, transaction costs, and security attacks must also be evaluated before when integrating blo... | ['Blockchain', 'Society', 'California', 'Policy', 'Technology'] |
The central idea of NLP is that the totality of the individual interacts in its components (“language”, “beliefs” and “physiology”) in creating percepts with certain qualitative and quantitative characteristics, the individual interpretation of this structure means the world. By modifying the meanings through a trans... | ['Nlp Certification', 'Neuroscience', 'Neurolinguistics', 'NLP'] |
Knowing the following set of functions helps you to describe the change in income, the growth of your company, the number of COVID-19 cases, …
Logarithmic Functions
Logarithmic functions are also monotonically increasing, but after a quick initial phase they are only increasing very slowly:
Image by Martin Thoma.
L... | ['Mathematics Education', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Mathematics', 'Complexity'] |
Do you feel adequately skilled in the market as a software developer? Do you get lost in conversations about tech outside of your work and wonder if you are staying relevant? If your answer to these questions are Yes, you are not alone!
The software development world has one constant, and that is change!
New programm... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Career Advice', 'Developer', 'Programming'] |
It’s been one of those weeks. We started our private sale.
We are working really hard behind the scenes and we are well ahead of schedule for the launch of the YDS Academy.
We have hit some big numbers on Twitter, 168,000 impressions from the last 9 days in August, 5,120 profile views from 15 tweets.
We have also be... | ['ICO', 'Startup', 'Twitter', 'Crypto', 'Data'] |
The humble pie chart.
So let’s say that you’ve been tasked with producing a (suppress yawn) pie chart. If you want to do that in Excel, no problem. Insert > Chart = Done. But if you want to animate it then things become a lot less… simple. If you‘re asked to update that chart at a later date, the following hours/days ... | ['Animation', 'Spreadsheets', 'Design', 'Motion Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
I was called fat, and I was called ugly. I can lose weight, get fit, wear nicer clothes, change my style, colour my hair, learn to do better make-up, hell I can go to plastic surgery and change me completely. Not to please him, but I have been getting fitter and dressing better, after I was allowed to. He didn’t like m... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Sex', 'Abuse'] |
How to Make Sure Your Website Doesn’t Suck After Google’s Core Vitals Update
Stop what you’re doing, open Chrome, and navigate to the Lighthouse tool — you’re going to need it
Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash.
Google announced back in May 2020 that “core vitals” would soon be a search ranking signal. This means tha... | ['Google', 'SEO', 'Web Development', 'Programming', 'Search'] |
What does a problem look like?
The sad truth is that once you develop a tolerance, you can consider yourself a pre-alcoholic — you’re in stage one of a spiral that could terribly derail your life.
That doesn’t sound that bad, we sometimes even get compliments for our ability to drink larger quantities of whatever alc... | ['Addiction', 'Prevention', 'Health', 'Thoughts', 'Alcohol'] |
Teenagers will always find creative ways to cut class, but the way they did it during quarantine deserves a long second look. When school closures forced students in China to complete assignments through a remote learning app, they flooded it with hundreds of one-star ratings to get it delisted from the App Store. No a... | ['Platform', 'Creativity', 'Social Media', 'Democracy', 'In The Know'] |
Staying Home
Let your fingers run wild over imagination’s spine in seclusion
Photo by Rowan Heuvel on Unsplash
I agree, tonight isn’t like our other weekend nights.
I, too, feel its frosty coldness.
My heart, just like yours,
isn’t pacing with excitement for impeding scenery ahead.
There is neither steering
nor... | ['Home', 'Life', 'Self', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Free Lemonade Stand
A story of hope and kindness during uncertain times
The weather was perfect in Nashville. Mid 70s. Not a cloud in the sky. My four-year-old and I setup a pretend restaurant inside, but soon after he suggested something much better on a day like this: a lemonade s... | ['Hope', 'Kindness', 'People', 'Joy', 'Children'] |
Why Facebook’s Diem Is Not a Threat to Bitcoin
But it is another way to conduct secure online transactions.
Announced with great fanfare in June 2019, Facebook’s Libra digital currency project quickly triggered the wrath of the world’s major economic powers. Facebook’s Libra was initially intended to be a stablecoin ... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Facebook', 'Tech'] |
Now let’s also look at the first five rows of data using the ‘.head()’ method:
print(df.head())
The attribute information is as follows
We will be predicting the class for mushrooms where the possible class values are ‘e’ for edible and ‘p’ for poisonous. The next thing we will do is convert each column into machine... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Do books with more reviews get better ratings?
How factors like number of ratings and number of reviews have an impact on book ratings.
Book-reading is an activity that a lot of people enjoy. It is one that places one’s mind in a different setting while providing one with an empathetic feeling. I, myself, love readin... | ['Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Life'] |
Women & Financial Independence
Produced by Jaunt VR, Women on the Move tells the story of Fatchima’s life in Niger, West Africa where the women of her village band together to form a savings group with CARE. Fatchima is confident her granddaughter Nana will have a better life because of the work the women have done an... | ['United Nations', 'Women', 'Student Series', 'Virtual Reality', 'Storytelling'] |
Facebook for diplomats
From Facebook Live to civic engagement, a digital diplomacy toolbox to create and nurture global communities.
In the hours after president Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate, newly-elected French president Emmanuel Macron went live on Face... | ['Technology', 'Digital Diplomacy', 'Facebook', 'Tech', 'Social Media'] |
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by a University of Cambridge researcher Martin Kleppmann is a great book for those who want to understand how different databases function and how to choose between them. But there is more to it than technical details explained in a systematic way. The book also paints a high-level... | ['Big Data', 'Database', 'Kafka', 'Software Development', 'NoSQL'] |
Over the last two years, the Natural Language Processing community has witnessed an acceleration in progress on a wide range of different tasks and applications. 🚀 This progress was enabled by a shift of paradigm in the way we classically build an NLP system: for a long time, we used pre-trained word embeddings such a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'NLP', 'Research', 'AI'] |
Apple Is Aiming To Release The Apple Car In 2024
Apple Is Aiming To Release Apple Car With Next Level Battery Technology
Apple has a car project by the name of Project Titan. According to different online sources, apple started this project in 2014 and still is working on it. Apple was aiming to release the car in 20... | ['Technology', 'Tech', 'Business', 'Apple', 'Apple Car'] |
First of all, we need to check if there is any element, if it’s not we just return null. Then we create variable node where we point to the head(first element).We create while loop to move till the last element. If the next element is null, we return the node.
getLast() method
We are using example that I was sharing ... | ['React', 'Data Structures', 'Linked Lists', 'JavaScript', 'Algorithms'] |
Freehand Drawing in Angular
I wanted to something fun for the holiday season, so I decided to port a variable-width stroke from the Flex Freehand Drawing Library I created back in the early 2010’s. This stroke actually has a venerable history, going back to about 1983, as an exercise I was assigned as a teaching assis... | ['Geometry', 'Angular', 'JavaScript', 'Math', 'Typescript'] |
The Nitty-Gritty:
How Project Army founder Viktor Nagornyy discovered his opportunity in the website support & hosting market
The reason he decided to do the opposite of industry standards when it comes to key customer policies
How he landed on competitive pricing without having to slash expenses or sacrifice custom... | ['Business', 'Podcast', 'Small Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Customer Experience'] |
Photo by Sven Mieke on Unsplash
I remember what it was like to be completely new in programming.
I wanted to learn everything. Everything. And to do things the right way.
But the worst part is probably, I thought I had to.
But what’s the right way, really?
When I started my education to become a web developer, I d... | ['Software Architecture', 'Development', 'Learning To Code', 'Software Development'] |
Setting up our JavaScript file
Now that we understand how to create a bounce effect with Anime.js, let’s work on our script.js file. We will first create a reference to the container div we created in our index.html file and store this in a variable called container. We will also create a variable called ballCount whi... | ['JavaScript', 'Animation', 'Web Development', 'Programming', 'Design'] |
Welcome to the Uncanny Valley of ‘Reborn’ Baby Dolls
Thousands of people collect hyperrealistic vinyl babies — but how do they sleep at night?
I want to stroke Alma’s silky wisp of hair, put ointment on her peeling ankles, kiss the place where a drop of blood has dried on her teeny heel. I keep scrolling. Eloisa star... | ['Parenting', 'Psychology', 'Culture', 'Art', 'This Is Us'] |
I’ve made a full-time living as a writer for more than eight years. During my career, I’ve published more than 4 million words. Most of those words were for clients. But I have also published three books and countless articles.
Having written so many words about so many different subjects, you would think that the bla... | ['Business', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Freelancing', 'Writing'] |
Don't sweat the small stuff
Cycling — is the new thing that I am trying to win over these past few months, not for a race, and definitely not for some pro.
Don’t get me wrong, I know this is not some developer stuff that you wanted to hear, but still here me out — because like I always said, becoming a self-taught de... | ['Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Work', 'Programming'] |
E-book : AngularJS Notes for Professionals Book
Download AngularJS’s E-book free by GoalKicker.com
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The AngularJS Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text cont... | ['Books', 'Front End Development', 'eBooks', 'JavaScript', 'Angularjs'] |
Why Invest in Digital Anthropology?
A Q&A with Trigg Hutchinson, Data Acquisition Lead at One Concern
One Concern’s best-in-class hazard models incorporate static and dynamic data from an array of different sources: public data sets from the USGS, World Bank, and U.S. Census Bureau; live updates on social media; remo... | ['Careers', 'Startup', 'Data', 'Career Advice', 'Data Science'] |
Opening the ‘black box’ of artificial intelligence
Scientists are hoping to increase the transparency of how algorithms make decisions.
by Tom Cassauwers
Artificial intelligence is growing ever more powerful and entering people’s daily lives, yet often we don’t know what goes on inside these systems. Their non-trans... | ['AI', 'Algorithms', 'Black Box', 'Artificalintelligence'] |
Investing in cryptocurrency these days it’s not a new thing. A lot of people invest in different currencies for different reasons. Cryptocurrencies are based on blockchain, a decentralized distributed public technology. If blockchain proves to be efficient scalable and secure, it could seriously disrupt the legacy paym... | ['Mining', 'ICO', 'Cryptocurrency', 'AI', 'Bitcoin'] |
Recently, I decided to extend my skills to include creating software images using Docker containers. I struggled a bit to connect the different pieces of puzzles, but finally, Thanks for Stephen Grider’s Udemy course “ Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide” I got it to work. So, as usual, I am going to document wha... | ['JavaScript', 'Docker', 'React', 'Tech', 'Programming'] |
Modularity Maximization
Greedy Algorithm
Current article is based on these 4 hypotheses to define a community
Based on the hypothesis a random network does not have community structure, the local modularity concept was formulated [1]. It compares the partition of a given network with the analogous degree-preserved r... | ['Modularity', 'Greedy Algorithms', 'Community', 'Clustering', 'Maximization'] |
Meet The “Sinclair Broadcast Group” of Local Newspapers
Lee Enterprises is one of the largest owners of local newspapers in America. Their apparent indifference to the truth, ethics, and transparency, is terrifying.
Artwork by Author
Before I introduce you to Lee Enterprises: The Sinclair Broadcast Group of Local Ne... | ['Journalism', 'Politics', 'News', 'Ethics', 'Leadership'] |
The Apple iPhone and iPad have this wonderful Python development environment called Pythonista. If you can import a module using the Pythonista StaSh extension, then you can get working with boto3 in Pythonista.
However, boto3 requires your AWS credentials to be configured either in a shared credentials file, in envir... | ['Boto3', 'AWS', 'Pythonista', 'Python3'] |
The Top 10 Python Libraries for Data Science
Getting started in data science? Start here
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash.
Python has become the most widely used programming language today — especially in the world of data science because it is a high-performance language, easy to learn and debug, and has extensi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Visualization'] |
We love to criticize programming languages.
We also love to quote Bjarne Stroustrup:
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
So today I decided to flip things around and talk about pieces of syntax that I appreciate in some of the various programming language... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'JavaScript'] |
Good to hear:
Classes: create tight coupling or hierarchies/taxonomies.
Prototypes: mentions of concatenative inheritance, prototype delegation, functional inheritance, object composition.
Red Flags:
No preference for prototypal inheritance & composition over class inheritance.
Learn More:
4. What are the pros an... | ['Functional Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Development', 'Technology'] |
Before diving into this topic, lets first start with some definitions.
“Rescaling” a vector means to add or subtract a constant and then multiply or divide by a constant, as you would do to change the units of measurement of the data, for example, to convert a temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
“Normalizing” a v... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
By Clement Thibault
With the announcement in late February that Lyft, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing service, was planning to start its roadshow in early March — the run-up to an initial public offering — the 2019 IPO season is finally underway.
Lyft is one of a number of closely watched, privately-held, Unicor... | ['Stocks', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Lyft', 'Stock Market'] |
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BUILD ZEBRA COMPANIES?
In the last year we’ve spoken to countless founders, investors, foundations, and thought leaders who believe zebra companies are crucial to our society’s success. Yet zebras struggle for survival because they lack the environment to encourage their birth, let alone to suppor... | ['Women In Tech', 'Social Enterprise', 'Startup', 'Ethics', 'Venture Capital'] |
As discussed in one of my earlier articles, it is critical to understand the analytic development lifecycle. Your analytics will not last forever, and instead, become obsolete and need to be retired. As you collect more and newer data, you will need to continue maintaining your current analytics while creating new ones... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
Needless to say, civic data initiatives also differ from governmental institutions, which are reluctant to share any more that they are legally obligated to. Many governments in the world simply dump scanned hard copies of documents on official websites instead of releasing machine readable data, which prevents systema... | ['Journalism', 'Nonprofit', 'Open Data', 'Civictech', 'Data Visualization'] |
📌What is the environmental/climate situation where you live?.
📌What are the climate/environmental impacts on your community?
📌Is there anything you have done to help your community build resilience to the environmental/climate crisis facing you?.
You can watch below: | ['Agriculture', 'Earth', 'Wash', 'Climate Change', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Build a Sentence Parsing Adventure Game with JavaScript and Compromise
Building a Representational Sentence Graph in JavaScript
In this article I’ll show you how to use the Compromise JavaScript library to interpret user input and translate it to a hierarchical sentence graph.
I’ll be using Compromise to interpret p... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'Coding', 'Programming'] |
At Media Distillery we have been working on a solution we’ve dubbed Snackable Content™. Using technologies like speech recognition, face recognition, and topic recognition, we can automatically create short clips based on a consumer’s favourite person, topic, or interest from TV content. With this solution, TV operator... | ['Snackable Content', 'Query Expansion', 'AI', 'Machine Learning'] |
The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Regression in Python
Machine Learning is making the computer learn from studying data and statistics
Photo by Antoine Dautry on Unsplash
Machine Learning is a step into the direction of artificial intelligence (AI). Machine Learning is a program that analyses data and learns to predic... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
A family member of mine was visiting me once for the night. He was yawning, tired of the 5-hour drive, his eyes as heavy as a bag of potatoes with sleepiness. I suggested politely, “You can retire for the evening, you look tired, we can chat tomorrow”. “It’s only 11:00 pm” came the reply yawning.
So all this breaking ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Creativity'] |
4. Install Homebrew
Homebrew is handy when managing packages in Macs. As a software developer, I use Homebrew to install Ruby, Python, Git, and lots of different software.
Installing Homebrew in Intel-based Macs is straightforward:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/in... | ['Programming', 'Apple', 'Software Development', 'Xcode', 'Macos'] |
A Task Doomed to Fail
As our starting point let’s define a DAG with a single task that runs a simple BashOperator.
Our eternally failing task.
We’ve made sure this operator always fails by simply calling exit 1 so we can test what we want to do off the back of the failure.
The Power of BaseOperator
All operators i... | ['Airflow', 'Open Source', 'DevOps', 'Opsgenie', 'Data Engineering'] |
Dearest darlings,
A song with three acts: an incredibly gorgeous opus to love, youth and beauty.
Strap yourselves in: we are going for a musical ride with Roxy Music and their track “If There Is Something” from their first eponymously-titled album “Roxy Music”. You know, the one with the girl on.
Okay, they all had ... | ['Roxy Music', 'Love Letters', 'Love', 'Music', 'Lyrics'] |
Valve vs The Gaming World
How CS:GO’s Approach to Digital Goods Trumps the Competition
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive revolutionized the video game industry when it came to creating microtransactions that wouldn’t affect gameplay but would still incentivize purchases. The CS:GO skin market is one of a kind, and whi... | ['Digital Goods', 'Gaming', 'Future', 'Counter Strike', 'Valve'] |
The Latest: Apple News+ joins the audio article trend (May 18, 2020)
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THE NEWS
Apple is asking publishers on Apple News+ for permission to create audio versions of some of their stories. According to Digiday,... | ['Journalism', 'Radio', 'Media', 'Audio', 'The Latest'] |
The code
To be honest, the code is pretty straight-forward, as the gTTS library does all the heavy lifting, so I’m going to give you blocks of code and a brief explanation.
First, create a file and import two Python libraries and set our options:
Reading from a string
Now, we create the first of our functions that ... | ['Python', 'Coding', 'Text To Speech', 'Tutorial', 'Programming'] |
A new way to develop applications is coming to Unity
But first, what is an Application?
A program or piece of software designed to fulfil a particular purpose.
In Unity there is usually the concept of a single application, but for me an application can become a portion of the screen that contains logic and can work ... | ['Micro Frontends', 'Unity', 'Software Development', 'Software Architecture', 'Software Engineering'] |
Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ is a series of proposals that seek to balance the online ad industry’s need to track user behavior while also preserving people’s right to privacy. Google’s solution is to enable some tracking, but in aggregate form.
By Michael Kan
How do you serve a targeted online ad without learning too ... | ['Technology', 'Google', 'Advertising', 'Digital Media', 'Privacy'] |
This is Avanish Chauhan, having 8+ years of experience in Backend technologies like Java, GoLang and RubyOnRails. For the last one and half years, I have been working with Luxoft as Senior Software developer cum Scrum Master. While working with Luxoft, I got an opportunity to work on different tools and technologies, w... | ['Luxoft', 'Software Development', 'Google', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud'] |
How Probes Partition the Debug Space dm03514 Follow Aug 30 · 4 min read
Probing is a technique to perform regular checks on a service using a short interval. Probes provide signals that can significantly cut down debug time. This post describe probes and how they can be used to drill down into errors and make debuggin... | ['Software', 'DevOps', 'Software Management Tools', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
Without Fear is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter, Dermot Kennedy, which was released in October of this year. The album was met with notable success; success which is very much deserved.
The opening track ‘An Evening I Will Not Forget’ sets the mood for this raw and emotional musical journey. Dermot’s rich a... | ['Review', 'Album', '2019', 'Dermot Kennedy', 'Music'] |
There’s something about monotonous Monday morning scheduling, emailing and planning that just screams “there must be a more efficient way to do this”.
Well, I’m happy to introduce you to TTT’s Coordination Lookup and Analysis Utility, CLAU! CLAU is a conversational AI chatbot for Slack made using the Rasa Open Source ... | ['AI', 'Rasa', 'Chatbots', 'Slackbot', 'Nginx'] |
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