article_text stringlengths 10 100k | tags stringlengths 6 263 |
|---|---|
The what, why, and how of Message Queues
If you have ever heard of message queues like Apache Kafka and been confused about the what, why, and how of messaging queues in modern applications, this one is for you.
If you have had any amount of interest in things like scalable architectures and microservices, there is a... | ['Backend Development', 'Software Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Microservices', 'DevOps'] |
British pop icon Morrissey reached the heights of music royalty when he fronted The Smiths, the band which catapulted him to fame in the late 80’s. After the band’s demise, the much-loved ringleader of the outcasts embarked on a solo music career, which has (so far) spanned an impressive four decades.
With classic tra... | ['Morrissey', 'Music', 'Reviews'] |
SiamHTML
The collection of articles for front-end developers | ['Highlight', 'News', 'Google'] |
Blast From The Musical Past
Let’s Hear It for the Boy
- A song by Deniece Williams
My baby he don’t talk sweet, He ain’t got much to say, But he loves me, loves me, loves me, I know that he loves me anyway…
And maybe he don’t dress fine, But I don’t really mind, Because every time he pulls me near, I just want to c... | ['Blue Insights', 'Culture', 'Songs', 'Artist', 'Music'] |
With Rhonda in my car, it was California Calling, California Dreamin’, and California Feelin’ with our California Girls. Without so much as a Mother May I we headed off on a Surfin’ Safari.
Surfers Rule and we were going Surfin’ U.S.A., me, my Surfer Girl and my friends. We were off to Catch a Wave. You know what they... | ['Musical Story Challenge', 'Music', 'Innovation', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
Air Frying
Ever wondered how to deep-fry without oil? This is almost, if not quite, the same.
Deep frying might be the only cooking technique that seems to make everything better, from the mundane, like french fries and chicken wings, to the outright strange, like the fried stick of butter at the Iowa State Fair, or ... | ['Nutrition', 'Food', 'Air Fryer', 'Health', 'Kitchen'] |
The maternity hotel’s services begin at the Los Angeles International Airport. Qu picks up his guests and delivers them to their reserved room. Every day, the maternity hotel’s two on-staff chefs provide three meals (four dishes and one soup) as well as seasonal fruit. Qu drives his clients to shop and dine out twice a... | ['Birth Tourism', 'Birth', 'Immigration', 'Health', 'Medical Tourism'] |
Can you teach me how to code? Why my answer always starts with no and end with yes
it’s not as glamorous as Hollywood makes it seem
Can you teach me how to code? Sit me down and flip open a book, going from beginning to end like a textbook? Can you teach me to code, so I can make games and maybe hack the Pentagon? Ca... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Ideas', 'Web Development', 'Technology'] |
Innovation
The Forgotten Champion of Polio Victims the World Over
How Australian bush nurse Elizabeth Kenny eased the suffering of infantile paralysis patients and invented physical therapy
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, circa 1917 (public domain)
When I was a child in the 1960s, it was not uncommon to see people with bra... | ['Innovation', 'Inspiration', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Health'] |
This is a follow-up on Ryan Abernathey’s blog post about supporting new Xarray contributors.
How Xarray is positioned within the Python’s Scientific Stack? (modified from Travis Oliphant, 2017 and originally based on Jake VanderPlas PyCon 2017).
Xarray has slowly but steadily gained in popularity since it was created... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Pangeo', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
I think my fascination for first-person storytelling started when I was about 8 years old. Around this age, I watched and thought along with games like Myst and Riven, which my father used to play on our CD-i player. We loved the first person point of view (POV). We could walk around in those worlds together for hours,... | ['Gaming', 'Filmmaking', 'VR', 'Virtual Reality', 'Storytelling'] |
This Kleiner Perkins presentation introducing their iFund makes good use of data charts to prove points.
Kleiner Perkins iFund Presentation at iPhoneDevCamp 3
View more documents from Raven Zachary.
Quiet layouts that focus on making one point only
Clever sequencing of charts: “you thought the iPod was big but wait... | ['PowerPoint', 'Presentation', 'Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Presentation Design'] |
The survivors walked across the desert, their heads hung in sorrow and their hearts drained of hope. Some wondered if those who died were actually the lucky ones.
The group of around one hundred refugees stopped every few days to bury another one of their lot who succumbed to the harsh conditions. The desert offered l... | ['Life', 'Spirituality', 'Society', 'Fiction', 'History'] |
Photo by Austin Kehmeier on Unsplash
The rumble begins from beneath the sink, bubbling up a delightful stream of water that emerges from the faucet.
A trickle at first, then a great gush of beautiful H20, tiny droplets misting into the air. It reminds me of a sweet summer rain, the flow of a mighty waterfall, the gen... | ['Humor', 'Poetry', 'Self Care', 'Health'] |
This post contains high-level concepts on clustering load balancing and distributed systems. It mainly focuses on the aspects of what, why, advantages and disadvantages.
What is clustering?
When it comes to a model like a client and a server application model, the client sends requests to the server in order to execu... | ['Distributed Systems', 'Distribution', 'Cluster', 'Load Balancing', 'Clustering'] |
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO THE CHAKRA ENERGY SYSTEM
The Solar Plexus: Our Power is Taken Away When This Chakra is Blocked
How to strengthen and align your solar plexus chakra
Image by Peter Lomas from Pixabay
The entire universe is made up of energy and our bodies are no exception. The solar plexus (celiac plexus) is a comp... | ['Spirituality', 'Energy', 'Inspiration', 'Leadership', 'Creativity'] |
Relationships | Inspiration | Creativity
Your Relationships Have An Energy Vibration
So Does Everything You Create
fractal-2573303_1280 by dawnydawny on Pixabay
When you create something new, pay attention to your intentions.
Whether it’s a new business or product or a new relationship, your energy will affect how... | ['Relationships', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Mindfulness', 'Creativity'] |
Interactive Data Graphing in React
Create compelling visualizations with Cytoscape.js
Photo by NASA
Visualizing data has become one of the most powerful tools available to software engineers. Making large amounts of data interactive and user-friendly produces an attention-grabbing product, and can reveal essential c... | ['Data Visualization', 'Code', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
Has Turntable.fm taken over your days and nights? The site for people to gather in “rooms,” play music, and feel embarrassingly giddy when friends and strangers vote their approval is still in beta mode but already one of the most addicting internet developments in recent memory. By ingeniously combining good and bad m... | ['The Internet', 'Music'] |
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
Last year, we announced the release of Square Reader SDK for iOS and Android, along with plugins for React Native and Flutter. While Reader SDK m... | ['Payments', 'API', 'Ecommerce', 'Software Development', 'Mobile App Development'] |
Start experimenting — Finding the right data
Before training the production-grade level models we first have to find out how explanatory stock prices and financial news are when forecasting for stock returns.
In order to get a first impression of how well stock prices and news indicate future stock price changes we i... | ['Trading', 'Deep Learning', 'Finance', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
“Data collaboratives,” an emerging form of partnership in which participants exchange data for the public good, have huge potential to benefit society and improve artificial intelligence. But they must be designed responsibly and take data-privacy concerns into account.
(Reposted from Project Syndicate)
After Hurrica... | ['Data', 'Data Collaborative', 'Data Steward', 'AI', 'Public Good'] |
10 Simple Ways to Think Positively Every Day
Positive thinkers are more successful, less stressed, healthier, and live longer
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
When your state of mind is positive, you’re able to handle every day stress in a constructive way. Positive thinking builds your confidence, improves your mo... | ['Health', 'Personal Development', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Positive Thinking'] |
But why is this happening? Why do some ideas work while others don’t? CBInsights conducted a study and found out what are the most common causes of failure among startups. The three leaders included the lack of demand in the market, lack of money, and the wrong choice of a team.
The results of the study make it clear ... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Software Development', 'Tech Startups', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
Step 1: Basic exploration🐇
By basic exploration, you may recall that we are referring to any exploration that are common to most data. To streamline this step, we will prepare a template by leveraging automation tool as well as custom functions. Therefore, let’s split the basic exploration step into two parts:
Part ... | ['Data Analysis', 'Python', 'Getting Started', 'Visualisation', 'Data Sience'] |
The craft of crochet is a violent and indestructible obsession. — After George Sand
People will tell you that crochet is a lesser skill hardly worthy of your time, but rest assured they fear your craft and understand that in being able to create and give form to your innermost thoughts, you are asserting power over al... | ['Makers', 'Life Lessons', 'Crochet', 'DIY', 'Creativity'] |
Integration Testing Resque with Cucumber
Processing asynchronous jobs deterministically
Written by Zach Brock and Matthew O’Connor.
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
Square tak... | ['Nodejs', 'Programming', 'Engineering'] |
The story of technology today is complexity. Increasingly complicated software deployed in complex and unpredictable environments that seem to be slipping more and more out of our control. Daunting stuff, this complexity.
A Prediction: The code you’re writing today won’t be the same code running a year from now. The m... | ['Technology', 'Developer Tools', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Architecture'] |
Kuma老師的軟體工程教室
Welcome to the Kingdom of Software Engineering | ['Software Engineering', 'Unit Testing', 'Software Development', 'Refactoring', 'Testing'] |
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William Whyte Jr, 1980
In architecture school I wrote a dissertation arguing that urban design was no longer happening within the offices of architects, planners, and engineers, but within the lines of code written by small clusters of software engineers in California. My 21 year... | ['Architecture', 'Public Space', 'Civic Technology', 'Mark Zuckerberg', 'Facebook'] |
Let me tell you what you never forget. You never forget how it feels when you watch them pull the sheet over your mother’s face.
They strap her down and push the gurney out the door, down the hall slowly in measured steps. Towards the elevator. We trail behind, her ducklings, knowing it would be the last time we’d see... | ['Health', 'Relationships', 'Loss', 'Family', 'Love'] |
The Curse of Dimensionality… minus the curse of jargon
In a nutshell, it’s all about loneliness
The curse of dimensionality! What on earth is that? Besides being a prime example of shock-and-awe names in machine learning jargon (which often sound far fancier than they are), it’s a reference to the effect that adding ... | ['Data Science', 'Editors Pick', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics'] |
Hey There, My Name Is Delilah, And I’d Like To Make A Complaint
I’ve never even been to New York City.
Photo by Max Ilienerwise on Unsplash
Yeah, so, whenever I meet a guy and I introduce myself, the guy inevitably gets this bright look in his eyes and says, “Hey there, Delilah.”
And he’ll act like he’s the first p... | ['Pop Culture', 'Satire', 'Humor', 'Pop', 'Music'] |
Be A Data Maestro, Part III
I must be a Pointer Sister, because I’m So Excited to show you my project results
Photo credit: SoundCloud
We have now arrived at the final movement (or is it?) of my Be A Data Maestro series here on Medium discussing my fun data analysis on music preferences. In this installment, I prese... | ['The Beatles', 'Data Science', 'Music', 'Pizza', 'Coldplay'] |
So, dear Worried, you can see why your email stirred my darkest fears. I’m worried too. Probably more worried than you, because, I have to live with me all the time. And soon, I’ll have to live with this baby all the time. All while trying to not lose my art-self.
And, honestly, if this baby really winds up acting as ... | ['Pregnancy', 'Crowdfunding', 'Music'] |
Tolu A.
Pianist-songwriter Tolu A. recently unveiled the music video for “My Talents.” Directed by Tyler Scheerschmidt, the visuals depict Tolu A. playing the piano, along with a contemporary version of the Parable of the Talents.
Blending flavors of pop, gospel, R&B, and hints of jazz, Tolu A. delivers a soundscape ... | ['Tolu A', 'My Talents', 'Interview', 'Music', 'Gospel Of Matthew'] |
For example, let’s create a function that returns the result of a binary operation between two numbers, according to an operation string given to the function.
doAction(4, 5, "+") // returns 9
doAction(2, 3, "-") // returns -1
doAction(-1, 5, "*") // return -5
doAction(10, 2, "/") // return 5
doAction(3, 0, "/") /... | ['Objects', 'JavaScript', 'Switch', 'Functional Programming', 'Design Patterns'] |
5 Easy Ways of Customizing Pandas Plots and Charts
Pandas gives you a simple and attractive way of producing plots and charts from your data. But sometimes you want something a little different. Here are some suggestions
Perhaps you are a data journalist putting a new story together, or a data scientist preparing a p... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pandas'] |
By Caitlin Whalen, David Gao, Tian Xie, Zhanni Gao, Pam Wu, Nick Hespe, Sina Chehrazi, Mark Solomon, Lee Gutman and Juliana Sullam
Every day in the media we read about an imminent economic downturn in the U.S. Depending on the article and the related data it references, the next recession sounds as though it could be ... | ['Public Data', 'Recession', 'Hack Week', 'Hacking', 'Data Visualization'] |
Alright, now let’s get started, today’s agenda is to learn how to open your web-app (running at localhost), on your mobile.
I am going to tell you two ways how you can get this job done. The first one is a very common way to do it (through IP address), while the second one is not so common, using ngrok.
But, why two ... | ['Deployment', 'JavaScript', 'Testing', 'Productivity', 'Web Development'] |
Few days ago i had a Python developer job interview and besides studying the syntax of the language i thought it was a pretty good idea to take a look again on the “3 pillars of the Object-oriented-programming”. That in other words just means what makes an OOP language an OOP language.
In online resources you might no... | ['Object Oriented', 'Oop Concepts', 'Python', 'Programming Languages'] |
Last week the internet went into a collective panic over the proposition that Facebook could remove non-sponsored page posts from the organic News Feed.
Whilst the story turned out to be much ado about nothing, it did lead to a lot of questions around the importance of News Feed as a channel.
It’s no secret that Face... | ['Social Media', 'Digital', 'Facebook Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Facebook'] |
Don Da Menace
Don Da Menace Drops Dope ‘Falling Toward Success, Vol. 1’
Slow, low, and banging.
New York City-based alternative hip-hop artist Don Da Menace releases a new collection of tracks, entitled Falling Toward Success, Vol. 1, reflecting his thoughts and feelings on the present COVID-19 crisis and the social... | ['Don Da Menace', 'Hip Hop', 'Music', 'Rap', 'Falling Toward Success'] |
It shouldn’t have taken that to persuade me. After all, trolls don’t even bother to call what they do hyperbole. Only government officials, apparently, do that.
Hyperbole is “extravagant exaggeration,” according to Merriam-Webster. Dictionary.com defines it as “obvious and intentional exaggeration.” Urban Dictionary d... | ['Justice', 'Election 2020', 'Society', 'This Happened To Me', 'Trolls'] |
Paul Cantor
The Old Man With The Saxophone
Thanks for the Inspiration, Rich.
You always hear people talk about the things they’d do if they just had more time. Read more books, watch more movies, visit their family more often, write more. Things like that.
Learning to play an instrument always seems to come up in t... | ['Music'] |
The Danger of Green
Are COVID-19 visualizations unintentionally putting readers at risk?
Should we stop using green for all COVID related visualizations?
As we collectively experience the COVID-19 pandemic, we are continuously inundated with more and more information. In response, millions of people have used visual... | ['Public Health', 'Design', 'Covid 19', 'Pandemic', 'Data Visualization'] |
In an organization looking to move toward data-driven decision making, data scientists must work in concert with other teams. Collaboration requires more than just understanding how to use the latest machine learning techniques to analyze data.
It requires a complete understanding of the business problem to be solved.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Science', 'Business'] |
Ionic 2 is part of the hybrid mobile development framework family. Ionic 2 is not only a rewrite of the previous Ionic framework, it embraces the structure and design of AngularJS 2, while also taking inspiration for their design language from Android, Material Design, and iOS. If you are from a background of AngularJS... | ['React Native', 'Mobile App Development', 'Hybrid App Development', 'Software Development', 'Ionic'] |
Step 2. Processing Payments
Now we have the account_id we can process payments and send funds directly to the connected accounts. In the context of a marketplace, this means if a customer were to purchase a product such as an iPhone case, we can handle the payment on our site, but the funds would be sent to the suppli... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Stripe', 'Finance', 'Programming'] |
TensorFlow 2 Object Detection API using Custom Dataset
Everything you should know about using TF2 Object Detection API on a Custom Dataset, including common issues faced and their solutions
Here you will go step by step to perform object detection on a custom dataset using TF2 Object Detection API and some of the iss... | ['Tensorboard', 'Python', 'Object Detection', 'Tensorflow2', 'Deep Learning'] |
Quantifying the return on investment (ROI) of a software engineer is a science this lifetime is likely insufficient to solve. The amount of factors that comes into play in measuring overall ROI remains elusive. A gaping hole is likely due to companies in their nascent years having little resource to invest in people an... | ['Employee Engagement', 'Leadership', 'Software Development', 'Human Resources', 'Startup'] |
Back in August, Facebook opened its video streaming platform, Watch, to all users in the US. The new feature is said to be Facebook’s response to Netflix and YouTube, and will stream both long and short-form content. The company tapped into YouTube creators, traditional television channels, and publications, committing... | ['Edelman', 'Facebook', 'Facebook Watch', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Face Mask Detection is a project based on Artificial Intelligence . In this we detect people with or without mask .
In making of this project we have two phases .
Train model using Convolution or any pretrained model which detect face masks in images .
Then, Detect faces in video or images and get prediction from ou... | ['Neural Networks', 'Computer Vision', 'Face Mask', 'Convolution Neural Net', 'Machine Learning'] |
Overview
One of the most common spatial problems is to find the nearest point of interest (POI) from our current location. Let’s say someone will run out of gas soon and he/she needs to find the closest fuel station before it’s too late, what is the best solution for this problem? For sure the driver can check the map... | ['Python', 'Folium', 'Geospatial', 'Data Visualization', 'Voronoi'] |
In this week’s ‘Voice in Apps’, we are breaking down an app which we all are familiar with, YouTube. For the uninitiated, Slang Labs has started a new series called ‘Voice in Apps’. Every week we take an app which has integrated voice inside it and break it down. We are doing this because we think that it’s important t... | ['Voice Search', 'Voice In Apps', 'Google', 'YouTube', 'Next Billion Users'] |
Marketing
If bottled water tastes virtually the same as tap water across the U.S., what exactly are we buying?
That’s where the ingenuity of the marketers comes into place. We’re buying the beautiful story the water brands love to pitch about the location, purity, and history of each brand.
Two clear examples of wat... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Humor', 'Business', 'Water'] |
Which Movie Character Would Mitch McConnell Be?
A 1997 cult film perfectly captured the true essence of Mitch.
In over a century of film-making, which character has truly captured the essence of Mitch, his unique blend of detached cruelty, self-conscious vileness, and fully-acknowledged evil? There are a few suitable... | ['GOP', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Movies', 'Culture'] |
Image Cred: Sergio Bellotto
It’s been two years since I left one of the biggest professional services firms in the world to create something of my own.
I had a core concept of a consulting company that wholly invested in its staff’s development and ultimately helped them to leave by launching their own ventures. For ... | ['Autonomy', 'Careers', 'Culture', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
這邊單純地補充一下關於ResNeSt論文中的一些數據討論。
ResNeSt論文開頭給出了這個數據：比當代最快的EfficientNet [10]快，又刷新了其他題目的SOTA。看起來似乎很神，不過這個速度的計算上其實有些小秘密。
首先，回頭看一下EfficientNet論文中，ResNet與EfficientNet的FLOPs數：
對比ResNeSt論文中ResNeSt與ResNet的FLOPs數：
可以看到兩篇論文在ResNet-50的GFLOPs都約為4.14，而ResNeSt-50的GFLOPs為5.39，對比EffiecentNet-B2的1.0，然而在ResNeSt論文裡的latency卻是ResNeSt壓著Eff... | ['Research', 'Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
Part 2. How to Improve the Way We Interact With People
There are two very popular books that teach us very well about this area. I will be covering them in brief so that you don’t have to go and read the books, but you are always welcome to do so.
Book 1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
In Influence: The Psy... | ['Leadership', 'Programming', 'Teamwork', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
The BI analytics tool space is consolidating to compete against Microsoft’s ensemble of Business Analytics (BA) products, which promises to solve for the entire workflow — data generation, data capture, data storage, data access stratified by persona and data visualization. Why? Because Data is the new currency. The or... | ['Analytics', 'Salesforce', 'Google', 'Data Science', 'Business Analytics'] |
How to Shield Yourself from the Chaos of the World Right Now
Especially when more is coming
Photo by Kyndall Ramirez on Unsplash
2020 relentlessly serves up cause for cynicism. Between a pandemic, political unrest, and division, unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime, I’m having more WTF moments than ever. Conside... | ['Self Care', 'Personal Development', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Self Improvement'] |
Photo by Susan Yin on Unsplash
Analysis of QAnon by a game designer. Everyone should read!
A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon
QAnon method is like the movie Inception on a mass scale. Planting seeds of misinformation so that its victims generate their understanding of alternative reality for themselves.
The author... | ['Future Of Ai', 'AI'] |
1. One of the first differences you’ll encounter when it comes to Go vs Python is their type
While Go is a static language, Python is a dynamic language. While both types have their own advantages and disadvantages, most people prefer static languages. Aside from early error detection or writing less code, there is a ... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Golang', 'Data Science'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Humor', 'Comics', 'Friday', 'Cartoon', 'Music'] |
I love creating videos on YouTube but recently I’ve begun to search for alternatives. Why? Because YouTube monetization is hard to achieve, and even once you’ve achieved it, there’s no guarantee that YouTube monetization will actually earn you much money at all.
There are benefits to creating videos on YouTube. For on... | ['Freelancing', 'Video', 'Personal Finance', 'Digital Marketing', 'Creativity'] |
We know that the application is working since it produces the default output, but what exactly is happening when we use the dotnet run command?
Behind the Scenes
When you use the dotnet run command, .NET automatically does several things to make your project ready to run. In this section, we’ll look at the steps .NET... | ['Dotnet', 'Csharp', 'Software Development', 'Learn To Code', 'Programming'] |
I have been working on a data analytics project for around 3 weeks, the project aims to visualize and allow querying a database of employees based on their skills, industry, and specialty. It is a very interesting and challenging project, it sounds fairly simple, yet it is taking a surprising amount of time; this is no... | ['Data Analysis', 'Ibm Cloud', 'Python', 'Insights', 'Data Science'] |
Photo by: Kay
The other day, I fell prey to the YouTube algorithm. I began watching videos about cars, then I ended up watching videos about roulette strategies to maximize profit. You win this round YouTube. Anyway, I don’t feel that there are any strategies, after all, the house always wins. However, I couldn’t sett... | ['Monte Carlo Simulation', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Analysis'] |
FedEx CEO Smith was taking a week off with his family in February when emails suddenly started flooding his inbox. “It wasn’t much of a vacation,” he recalls. “I was on the phone day and night.” The immediate crisis was that China and other Asian countries were grounding flights and quarantining pilots who landed there... | ['Fedex', 'Amazon', 'Business', 'Ecommerce', 'Pandemic'] |
In Google, we trust. A few days ago, though, Google did something that has to call into question whether the search and advertising behemoth is trustworthy. Trust Google? That’s getting harder.
Let me be clear that I’m talking about some very specific stuff here. I still think my decision to start using a Chromebook w... | ['E Mail', 'Google', 'Business Process', 'Anti Trust'] |
Since offline testing often has too many assumptions, e.g. in our case it was limited to re-ranking what users clicked and not the entire inventory, we conducted an online experiment, i.e. A/B test, as our next step. We compared the Stage 1 ML model to the rule-based random ranking in terms of number of bookings. The r... | ['Machine Learning', 'Travel', 'Search', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Your browser will automatically launch a window that look something like this.
Create a new notebook in the page that shows up in your browser, then we are ready to begin coding some Python!
Get familiar with Jupyter Notebook and Import Necessary Packages
Let’s begin by familiarizing ourselves with the interface of ... | ['API', 'Tutorial', 'Coding', 'Python', 'Google Analytics'] |
There’s Nothing Pro-Life about The Trump Administration, or Amy Coney Barrett
It’s all about power and control.
Here’s what someone with an agenda sounds like:
“I can’t say… I’m going in with some agenda. I don’t have any agenda. I have no agenda… I [only] have an agenda to stick to the rule of law.” That’s what Don... | ['Society', 'Politics', 'Women', 'Feminism', 'Equality'] |
3BG Supply has raised $4M in total. We talk with its team.
PetaCrunch: How would you describe 3BG Supply in a single tweet?
3BG: 3BG is a technology-enabled distribution company for Industrial MRO Products and focused on creating centralized data solutions and technology to improve the customer purchasing experience.... | ['Database', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Startup Life', 'Data'] |
Using NextJS In A MonoRepo
Share your code with ease
Photo by Артемий Савинков on Unsplash
When you work with a monorepo, you keep all of your isolated components and utilities inside of one repository. Instead of having to keep multiple repositories in sync, we keep everything in one place. With a monorepo, you cou... | ['Nextjs', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Frontend', 'Programming'] |
It started out as a rehearsal space. They had been getting by using a room in Silver Lake owned by Nicky Beat, a Strip-scene drummer who’d spent about ten minutes in LA Guns. “Nicky wasn’t necessarily seedy,” Slash recalled. “But he had a lot of seedy friends…” Guns N’ Roses connected with various of those — the “under... | ['Rock', 'Drugs', 'Sex', 'Featured Rock', 'Music'] |
Brett can I call you Brett?
probably not,
Your calendar says Beach Week.
My calendar says Trauma Week.
This is the difference between us.
Black out drunken game nights
lost in your hippocampus. You could always say to the priest
“I did a few things in college.”
While I carry the fragile scar of what happened.... | ['Creativity', 'Sexual Assault', 'Feminism', 'Poetry', 'Politics'] |
London, United Kingdom — On 6 and 7 June Genaro Network’s Luke Sheehan (of the platform’s EU Business Development team) attended the Blockchain International Show at the ExCeL London exhibition center in the city’s docklands. He met with advisors, entrepreneurs, and others from the crypto scene in the U.K. and farther ... | ['Storage', 'Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Data', 'Bitcoin'] |
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', 'Dash', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
There’s Only One Way to Beat Donald Trump for Good
Treat him like he’s boring.
We still haven’t learned much when it comes to Donald Trump. We keep making all the same mistakes. He’s not going away unless we do the unthinkable: Treat him like he doesn’t matter.
That would be hard, because the truth is nobody really ... | ['Social Media', 'News', 'Donald Trump', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
Are Running Watches Worth It For Casual Runners?
I was on the fence about buying a running watch, but six months ago I took the plunge.
Photo by Bogdan Glisik on Unsplash
I was on the fence for quite a while about whether to buy a running watch: On one hand, I’m a casual runner, not going particularly quickly or ent... | ['Health', 'Running', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle', 'Technology'] |
The polar explorer using Grime to break the ice
It’s not often someone compares the voices of seals to the sounds of space set to a Grime beat. But when he’s not monitoring seals from space, PhD student Prem Gill is using ‘Seal Grime’ as one way to encourage people from a wide range of backgrounds to take up polar sci... | ['Polar', 'Antarctica', 'Climate Change', 'Science', 'Conservation'] |
Even though it’s the middle of summer, it’s not unusual for me to begin thinking about the first day of school and wondering what my year will be like. I question what lessons I will start with, what books we will read, and special projects we will take on.
This year is different. Yes, I am still wondering and questio... | ['Covid 19', 'Culture', 'Health', 'Family', 'Education'] |
Failure is inevitable: embrace it.
I used to avoid failure by any means. I despised everything about it. I despised what caused me a great deal of distress. But I have come to realize that change will always be uncomfortable. It is a law of life; change is a current that comes into one’s life to help him realize that ... | ['Mindfulness', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Creativity', 'Inspiration'] |
It’s hard to believe that 2020 is almost over.
Flashback to a year ago and we were reviewing plans for 2020,our activities and expectations for the year. In March this year, we were all sitting around in the office’s main meeting room, drinking mate and discussing the next steps to shape a very special project. 2 week... | ['Teamwork', 'Tips', 'Ideation', 'Creativity', 'Product Management'] |
What I Ate
As I lost weight, my tastes and desires for certain foods waned and increased dramatically. I’m a firm believer that no food is wholly “bad”, and no food is wholly “good”. Food just is.
One thing I realized as I was on this journey is that every meal doesn’t have to be a life changing experience. Every for... | ['Weight Loss', 'Body Image', 'Lose Weight', 'Body', 'Health'] |
Semantic factors
This is how we interpret meaning from colour. The associations we have with colour depends on the cultural, environmental and personal contexts that we’ve been exposed to. These differences can be seen in “Colours in Culture” from Information is Beautiful (below). The colour green, for example, is ass... | ['Branding', 'Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
Import Packages
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import statsmodels.api as sm
import statsmodels.formula.api as smf
2. Fit the logistic model
model = smf.glm('y ~ x1 + x2 + x3', data=df, family=sm.families.Binomial()).fit()
model.summary()
maybe more info in the future … | ['Logistic Regression', 'Linear Regression', 'Mathematics', 'Python'] |
Here is a quick timeline of events:
Aug. 1: The Intercept reports that Google is working a new project, supposedly codenamed Dragonfly, that has been in development since last spring, citing internal documents leaked by a whistleblower. The secret project is said to involve an Android app that “will blacklist websites... | ['Censorship', 'Google', 'Tech', 'Human Rights', 'Surveillance'] |
Last time we looked at how data is at the heart of Netflix’s success in helping them to predict successful movies and TV shows. If you missed that post, you can read it here.
As we move through the DATA > INSIGHT > ACTION loop, this blog post deep-dives further into the INSIGHT aspect of Netflix’s data.
We have alrea... | ['Business Intelligence', 'Customer Insight', 'Data Science', 'Stranger Things', 'Data Visualization'] |
Audible Sundays
Story Cycle
Photo by LB
On the road we drove with the light
Immersed in the planet’s revolution
Merging with the cycles in the skies
As our story took form after the rain | ['Poetry', 'Music', 'Freeform', 'Audible Sundays', 'Photography'] |
~Distilled weight loss lessons near the end~
Part of my King Tut ornament collection
So I’m sitting down to a wonderful Christmas eve meal at our house last week, surrounded by family, and I know that when I wake up tomorrow, chances are very high I will be 2–3 pounds heavier. As much as my stomach allows these days ... | ['Weight Loss', 'Health', 'Exercise', 'Diet', 'Chronic Pain'] |
In my previous post Exploring AWS Secret Manager, we learned about some key benefits of using AWS Secret Manager. In this post, we will explore how to use it with a practical example.
How it Works
You can use Secret Manager to store, rotate, monitor, and control access to secrets such as database credentials, API key... | ['Amazon Web Services', 'AWS', 'Cloud Security', 'Security', 'Cloud'] |
She asked me to help her put on a sari. So what?
It’s the “so what?” that gets me. It has been part of the narrative of my experience growing up Brown in this country. Of a whole host of things people have asked me and continue to ask me, the list includes:
“Do you know Dr. Raj? He’s the dentist we go to and he is In... | ['Society', 'Culture', 'Identity Self Care', 'Race', 'Identity'] |
The ephemerality of Serverless architectural components, coupled with the pay-per-use pricing model, allows us to have rapidly deployable, cheap and disposable environments when working with Serverless-First architectures. No longer are we constricted to Dev, Staging, UAT and Prod environments.
Instead, we can have an... | ['Ci', 'AWS', 'Pipeline', 'Serverless', 'Github'] |
LGBTQIA+ Music
Clairo’s ‘Immunity’ is a Queer Coming of Age Film
A Pride Month gem for LGBTQIA+ youth
Sofia, know that you and I
shouldn’t feel like a crime.
Claire Cottrill- known in the music world as Clairo- is a Massachusetts-raised singer-songwriter and luminary of the indie pop genre. After her 2017 viral be... | ['Music', 'LGBTQ', 'Film', 'Indie', 'Pride'] |
With the growing use of data journalism in Arab newsrooms there is a necessity to tell the press the story in an interactive way to ensure that the reader microcontroller drawing context of the story and make it interacts more with the data, which requires the press to deal with Coded Albermjbh other than text, images ... | ['Infotimes Blog', 'Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
With the world moving towards high speed networks, a New York-Tokyo jam session should be easy right? It will never happen. Light-speed is not fast enough for making music in cyberspace.
in 2013, I started a school for traditional music in the Dominican Republic. We’ve been teaching kids to play bachata — which is the... | ['Music Education', 'Music Technology', 'Music App Development', 'Music Application', 'Music'] |
Paul and I chatted about his music and plans after idol. He even sang some of one of his new songs! | ['Mcdonald', 'American', 'Music', 'Paul', 'Idol'] |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.