article_text stringlengths 10 100k | tags stringlengths 6 263 |
|---|---|
Marketing With a Limited Budget
1. If you can’t afford to sponsor events, create your own
Like many young startups, Red Bull didn’t have the resources to advertise on TV events, radio shows, or billboard ads. Instead, they decided to create their own event: The Red Bull Flugtag. Roughly translated as flight day, the ... | ['Red Bull', 'Advertising', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Strategy'] |
Software is a component. It should work together with and not against or not in place of the hardware. The practice of manufacturing good-enough low quality hardware then coupling it with a logic board and calling it a day literally jeopardizes lives. More of that here :
Killing off Tradecrafts
Tim Cook once stated t... | ['Product Design', 'Software', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Product Management'] |
Convolutional Neural Networks and Machine Learning/Deep Learning in general, has been implemented in a variety of fields. Medical imaging is one of the most intriguing ones, and so I decided to use AI to approach the problem of cell segmentation in microscopic images.
The What
Consider the image below — a microscope ... | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Segmentation', 'TensorFlow', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned many aspects of the business world upside down. In addition to business closures and staff shortages, the growth of productivity has slowed for economies all over the globe. While multiple past studies have shown remote working to be more productive, the assumptio... | ['Business Survival', 'Work', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Covid 19'] |
Matrix Operations in Java: Determinants
Computing the determinant recursively
In my never-ending effort to translate all of that linear algebra I toiled over in college into functioning Java code (make fun of it on github), I came across one operation that gave me a perfect opportunity to use recursion: computing the... | ['Object Oriented Design', 'Linear Algebra', 'Mathematics', 'Java'] |
Irregular Menstrual Bleeding? A Hysteroscopic Polypectomy May Be the Solution
Endometrial polyps are a common cause of abnormal uterine bleeding
Getting prepared for surgery can be scary. Learning about an upcoming procedure alleviates fear and anxiety. Let’s talk about endometrial polyps and how to fix them with a h... | ['Womens Health', 'Women', 'Health', 'Surgery', 'Menstruation'] |
Google Photos Just Made the Case for Breaking Up Big Tech
A new policy perfectly illustrates a core issue across the industry
Photo: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
After five years of Google Photos offering unlimited, free storage of “high-quality” compressed images, Google announced on Wed... | ['Tech', 'Google Photos', 'Big Tech', 'Google', 'Antitrust'] |
It is to inform you that Google Summer Internship 2020 is now open for applications. This is a global program and is available for all international students worldwide.
What is Google Summer Internship 2020?
If you are a university student and don’t want to waste your time this summer, the Google internship 2020 is t... | ['Technology', 'Google', 'Tech', 'Internships', 'Summer'] |
Apartment Listings
Apartments offer maximum flexibility to travellers who want to an experience as close to home as possible when they stay for work or pleasure in a big city, for extended periods usually. The option to cook one’s own meals is one of the biggest advantages in this regard. Houses offer a more space whe... | ['Python', 'Airbnb', 'Pandas', 'Data Visualization'] |
You Should Be Paying Me
Why are men pretending to be sex workers online?
Picture the scene: a dimly lit room taken up nearly entirely by a bed. I’m on my back, my legs spread, counting the ceiling tiles. I’m 22 years old, blonde, and often the subject of sexual harassment on the street. The man rubbing his stubble ag... | ['Sex', 'Work', 'Sexuality', 'Social Media', 'People'] |
Blast From The Musical Past
Will You Marry Me
-A Song By Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
Just girl to boy, I’d like to share this thought with you, Our love’s a joy, Two one’s have made inseparable two, Last night my heart spoke to me, And it said you’ve found that lover-friend, So, now I’ve finally got the courage just to... | ['Songs', 'Classic Music', 'Music', 'Blue Insights', 'Love'] |
Better Python Code
How reading other people’s code shaped my style
Code readability is a hot topic. We do not agree on what it looks like and we do not agree on how much of it is needed. It is rarely discussed on a new project and practically never on a project with only 1 developer.
The obvious advantage of strivin... | ['Software Development', 'Refactoring', 'Python', 'Code Readability'] |
Bare-Minimum Moves for People With No Time to Exercise
If squeezing in a workout feels like a pipe dream, here’s a little something you can do instead
A notification just popped up on my phone’s lock screen from the app FitOn. “NEW Quarantine Workouts,” it said. “Gab Union and DWade will make you sweat, laugh all at ... | ['Workout', 'Health', 'Exercise', 'Body', 'Fitness'] |
The amount of sensitive information stored on your phone can be staggering. We have it with us everywhere we go. Our work, study, play, flirt and even we pay with it. And from pickpockets to malware, threats are plenty. By applying a few simple practices you can reduce chances of successful attacks.
1. Always install ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS', 'Software Development', 'Android', 'Security'] |
Hard to Live in Paradise.
They see beaches and we see struggle.
Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash
Let’s swim naked one more time.
Maybe it’s my fault. When other people drink, they want to fuck. When I drink, I want to commit arson and slap people. You’re the same way. We met in a nightmare inside a dream.
People see ... | ['Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Travel', 'Beach', 'Society'] |
2. Take Breaks
Wait, what? That sounds unproductive! Actually, quite the opposite.
We all (me at the front) set aggressive deadlines for finishing up a course module in one day just to check it off our plan and progress ahead.
What we end up doing is just cramming in a lot of information in a lot less time. This is ... | ['Software Development', 'Learning', 'Productivity', 'Programming', 'Inspiration'] |
Are Our Moral Beliefs Fully Determined by Evolution? a Response to Richard Joyce. Anthony DiMauro Follow Dec 20 · 13 min read
In the Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce examines the nature of our moral sense through a genealogical account and seeks to determine if we are justified in holding moral beliefs after learn... | ['Evolution', 'Metaethics', 'Ethics', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
Why Post-Structuralist? What’s Structure?
What is structuralism? Philosopher Simon Blackburn paints an anthropological view of structuralism as:
“…the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations. These relations constitute a structure, and behind local variations in th... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Ethics', 'Social Justice', 'Philosophy'] |
The Frontline Workers Are Our Pandemic Soldiers
Their battle is different, but they deserve respect.
Photo by CDC from Pexels
Today marked yet another day where Americans woke up to a morning of record-breaking COVID-19 cases. Again, I saw yet another article about nurses pleading with the U.S. public to believe in ... | ['Politics', 'Covid 19', 'Society', 'Pandemic', 'Perspective'] |
Configure your Linux server for automation
Now, this would be the fun part. Microsoft already did all the heavy lifting with the boring installation things. Now it is our turn to automate things.
1. Make a script to automate NGINX configurations
To add new NGINX configurations we will create a shell script, add this... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Azure', 'Microsoft', 'DevOps'] |
QML does sounds like it’s inspired by the HTML judging by pronunciation but it’s a fairly different type of technology where QML is used to develop (native) applications using QML, which is a new language in itself, that can be paired with JavaScript and extended by C++, while HTML, in essence, was created to make web ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Qml', 'Software Development', 'Web App Development', 'Qt'] |
Sicara's blog
We build tailor-made AI and Big Data solutions for amazing… | ['Meetup Paris', 'Meetup', 'Meetup Computer Vision', 'Computer Vision'] |
Photo by Owen Beard on Unsplash
Do you have an assistant? Perhaps you should.
In the world of bots and messengers and AI, something like scheduling and calendaring is actually something you should consider. What if 20–50 minutes a week were given back to you by a scheduling bot always helping you keep your calendar s... | ['Future Of Work', 'Calendar', 'AI', 'Scheduling', 'Bots'] |
Photo by The Nigmatic on Unsplash
React published a tutorial which creates “Tic-Tac-Toe” game for the purpose of learning by doing. I liked the way Dan Abramov explained basics of JavaScript in “Just JavaScript” series and React in “Tic-Tac-Toe” tutorial.
I have created the exact same “Tic-Tac-Toe” using Vue 3. Vue 3... | ['JavaScript', 'Vue', 'Beginner', 'React'] |
We quickly realized that these projects could fulfill several goals. As we encouraged designers not to fear experimentation, and even make mistakes, they could push the boundaries of what is acceptable and orthodox in visualization. Fast Company captured this aspect of our collaboration by writing that we were turning ... | ['Data Humanism', 'News', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Journalism'] |
We are pleased to announce the release of Bokeh 0.13!
Highlights include:
Bokeh app components are embeddable in custom templates #4986 , #7978
, New RangeTool added for selecting ranges interactively #7795
Max websocket message size now configurable #7374
Significant performance improvement for property validatio... | ['Python', 'Open Source', 'Data Science', 'Bokeh', 'Data Visualization'] |
Photographs by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury
Bangladesh’s annual monsoon rainfalls submerge lowland areas for months on end. But in the rural southern district of Pirojpur the crops rise with the floodwaters.
Farmers here sow their harvests on floating rafts made from water hyacinth plants. This traditional method — known ... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Photojournalism', 'Bangladesh', 'Farming'] |
A question like “What happened to sales last year?” sometimes requires a complex answer. “Well, it is a bit complicated: volume went down, but then prices went up, but as a result sales were up”. A simplified mathematical equation can help you visualize this.
Sometime in the near future I will post here how to do a pr... | ['Design', 'Presentation', 'PowerPoint', 'Presentation Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
Otto Neurath was an educator, so he understood how vital education was essential to the character of its culture. “The Young Population ages 13–20” is a visual index of children in school and in the workforce. Each page is identically designed but the difference between them is stark.
Children in Britain go to work fa... | ['Design', 'Dvhistory', 'Icons', 'Data Visualization', 'Information Design'] |
How to set up winning Marketing Automation Workflows with HubSpot Atisha Follow May 15 · 9 min read
This post has been written by Shriya, a Certified HubSpot Expert at pickSaaS.
Marketing automation is a hot trend in marketing right now. And why not? Marketing automation aims to streamline, automate, and create effic... | ['Marketing', 'Automation', 'Sales', 'Business', 'Hubspot'] |
Starting off slow by propagating lettuce
Propagating lettuce has got to be one of the easiest vegetables to do. Grab the remnants of a romaine heart and simply add it to a cup with water. I began to notice that the water would get murky after 2 or 3 days so that's how frequently I changed it. Also, after some days, th... | ['Propagation', 'Hobby', 'Food', 'Health'] |
Not everybody needs to know
Why I choose to walk alone?
Why I won’t stick to the norm?
Where I go?
And where I’ve come from?
Some questions that you hammer throw
Their answers are only mine to know
Let it go
For you’re on a need to know basis
And that you don’t need to know. | ['Poetry', 'Life Lessons', 'Society', 'Life', 'Questions'] |
Why I Ditched the Corporate 9–5 Grind for Sex Work
Valuable life and business lessons I learned when I postponed my career for the strip club.
Photo by Shangyou Shi on Unsplash
I’ll never forget the first time I put in the long hair extensions, painted on the smoky eye and red lipstick, and stepped into the black-la... | ['Work', 'Society', 'Women', 'Sexuality', 'Money'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Почитать', 'AI', 'Rus'] |
image from ERE Media
A lot of businesses are focusing on the wrong things and yet they wonder why they’re not building the traction they need to survive in the long-term. The problem that businesses face stems right down to Sales vs Branding.
Are you in it for the short or long-term?
If your answer is long-term then... | ['Branding', 'Sales', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
The setting: A nondescript room in a faded-beauty house. She waits to be restored to her former glory, though this particular room (once the staff dining area) was most likely never terribly impressive.
The walls are white, smudged with perhaps a century’s worth of fingerprints, awaiting the day when the already-purch... | ['Writing Prompts', 'Anxiety', 'Self', 'Creative Humans', 'Creativity'] |
Don’t “80/20” Your Dream
For true happiness, optimize daily to-dos but not your greatest pursuit
Photo by Ethan on Unsplash
If you use the 80/20 rule on everything, you’ll live an unsatisfying life.
Ironically, Vilfredo Pareto only discovered this seemingly universal principle — that 20% of the input usually accoun... | ['Work', 'Life Lessons', 'Happiness', 'Career Advice', 'Creativity'] |
Here are Fascinating Secrets from 3 Ancient Mystery Cults
Citizens whispered about their disturbing activities
Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy — Image by Public Domain
Unlike today, it was much easier to be secret and mysterious in ancient times.
Ancient societies had little or no media, and the news stories... | ['Cult', 'Society', 'Culture', 'History', 'Religion'] |
Why I’m Coding with Emojis in Jupyter Notebooks
Some of you may think this is a sacrilegious idea. I don’t plan to replace all my x, y, z with smiling faces. However, this can be a great feature to add an extra touch to your presentations
Image adapted from photo by bruce mars on Unsplash.
When I first realised that... | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Building and Visualizing Decision Tree in Python
Learn to build and visualize a Decision tree model with scikit-learn in Python
Decision Tree
Decision trees are the building blocks of some of the most powerful supervised learning methods that are used today.
‘A decision tree is basically a binary tree flowchart whe... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization'] |
A couple of weeks ago, we launched our new brand image along with our fresh new site which shows the work we have done with some of our clients. It was also an opportunity to update the tech stack that we were using for our landing pages.
There are three essential parts of our new site:
VueJS is our main tech to crea... | ['Lottie', 'Software Development', 'Frontend', 'Threejs', 'Vuejs'] |
To be the foremost driver that pioneers the latest technological breakthroughs to propel our society toward the perfect blend of science and art.
Follow | ['Work', 'What We Do', 'Data Visualization', 'Startup', 'Visually Lab'] |
House Price Prediction With Machine Learning in Python
Using Ridge, Bayesian, Lasso, Elastic Net, and OLS regression model for prediction
Image by Markus Spiske on Pexels
Introduction
Estimating the sale prices of houses is one of the basic projects to have on your Data Science CV. By finishing this article, you wi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Algorithms'] |
How to fix your Angular Material input field from being broken in Safari Tremaine Eto Follow Mar 17 · 3 min read
I just want the fix!
I’m a developer too, so I know sometimes I just want the fix I can plug in right away — if it doesn’t work, I’ll read more to see the nuances of the solution to see if I can then figur... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Angular', 'Front End Development'] |
Photo by Alesia Kazantceva on Unsplash
There are thousands of businesses like ours right now. In fact, we count ourselves amongst the lucky ones since we can see our way to definitely being here next year.
I was fascinated by Courtney Rubin’s piece of a few days ago…
… and thought it might be interesting or useful f... | ['Leadership', 'Office', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Marker'] |
Chatbots are the next big thing.
What is a chatbot? They come in two flavors:
Virtual assistants, which help you find information, remember stuff, or buy things. Think Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Assistant. These are powered by machine learning, meaning they rely on artificial inte... | ['Innovation', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Messaging', 'Tech'] |
The SaaS Learning Curve
(or, why SaaS = Service as a Software)
Originally published by Sean Sheppard on the GrowthX Blog.
The SaaS Learning Curve for most founders is longer than it needs to be. So long that it outpaces most early funding, leaving founders short of the traction milestones required for their next fun... | ['Software', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Learning', 'Technology'] |
If you’ve landed on this article, chances are that you’ve been wondering what Machine Learning is all about or perhaps how to get started off. Do not worry, let us get all of this covered in the next few minutes!
Image Source: Thermo Fisher Scientific — Machine Learning is a subset of AI
Lately, it seems that every t... | ['Data Mining', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
5 programming languages to look for in 2021
The TOP 5 programming languages that I think will trend in 2021
Overview
Today exists hundreds of programming languages. And the top (most used) can change along with the market demand because each year new trends and problems emerge. One language can be more suitable for ... | ['Programming Languages', 'Programming', 'Go', 'Typescript', 'PHP'] |
Kenny Gates: Daniel, where did you go to school?
Daniel Miller: I went to King Alfred’s School in North London from 4 to 18 years old. At the time it was regarded as a progressive school. This was 1955 to 1969. There were a number of unusual things about it for the time: there were no school uniforms, it was mixed, it... | ['Rock', 'New Wave', 'Featured Rock', 'Music Business', 'Music'] |
Managing or prioritizing backlog and re-prioritizing work in progress are some of those activities that usually make a product owner very busy. This is not a breaking news, obviously. Product Owners have lots of things to consider as they:
1. keep some work in the backlog (as unsorted as a pile of chopped wood);
2. s... | ['Software Development', 'Agile', 'Startup', 'Product Management', 'Kanban'] |
Across many of Robert Greene’s books, there a reoccurring theme — to be effective in life, you have to learn to see the world as it is, not as you wish it to be.
Obviously this is easier said than done. It takes practice to develop and master this skill. We are naturally meaning attribution machines, we spin stories a... | ['Self Improvement', 'Reality', 'Creativity', 'Success'] |
It happens every day.
Image by Sergey Safronov
I know where I want to be.
I know who I want to be.
I know who I am.
I hear the word potential and cringe.
I look back and see everyone who has dropped off on my journey and cheer.
The closer I get, the harder it feels. The closer I get, the more I feel like it will... | ['Anxiety', 'Self Love', 'Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing'] |
On august, Taylor Swift sparkles in the coastal sun like broken glass. The space between the lines is just wide enough for you to feel the salinity of the air. Having been in the business for over a decade, Swift had perfected the art of recollecting a relationship. This time, however, she was neither the love-consumed... | ['Taylor Swift', 'Culture', 'Pop Music', 'Music Review', 'Music'] |
The only way to meet the President of France as a Nigerian is to be a high-ranking politician or be very rich or famous.
Please subscribe to my newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/2dd54326e9f8/oris-newsletter
Why are they grinning?
If none of these describes you, then you’d have had to make do with being one of a fe... | ['Fela', 'Macron', 'Culture', 'Africa', 'Music'] |
As an industry, we’ve gotten exceptionally good at building large, complex software systems. We’re now starting to see the rise of massive, complex systems built around data — where the primary business value of the system comes from the analysis of data, rather than the software directly. We’re seeing quick-moving imp... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash
Recently I’ve been working a lot on voice apps. One thing that really sticks out for me is how natural a conversational interface is. If the technology advances enough it will allow us to complete tasks more effortlessly since we can simply say what it is we want to do. However, no ma... | ['Data Science', 'Neuroscience'] |
Can the Chaco region survive
Paraguayan gaucho, northern Chaco ©Richard Bailey
I love Paraguay and I love its people, but it has a problem.
We tend to look at Brazil and the terrible decimation of the Amazon rainforest, especially under the current President Jair Bolsonaro, but its neighbour Paraguay can also lay cl... | ['Environmental Issues', 'Paraguay', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Photography'] |
Ford’s Marketing Disaster in India
Poor timing and cultural insensitivity landed the automative company in hot water
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash
Even large, successful companies can make marketing errors.
In 2013, as movements against sexual harassment were gaining traction and spreading around the globe, Ford f... | ['Advertising', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Money', 'Social Media'] |
When Students Leverage Social Media to Plan Events
April 4, 2017
The ISTE Standards for Students are goals that have been vetted through thousands of educators to set measurable outcomes that have been decided would best prepare today’s k-12 student for the use of technology in their future lives. There are 7 differe... | ['Snapchat', 'Instagram', 'Digital Citizenship', 'Facebook', 'Social Media'] |
A Call to the West
How an 800-Year-Old Islamic Gospel Music Made Its Way to the States.
Brook Martinez has never been to Pakistan or India. He doesn’t speak a word of Urdu or Farsi. And he’ll quickly admit that he’s no scholar of Islam. Yet, Martinez has a unique bond with South Asians that most people from suburban ... | ['Islam', 'Music', 'American Dream'] |
In the UK, there is an ongoing debate as to whether schools should teach lessons on LGBT rights. In Birmingham, this debate recently came to a head with Parkland Community School announcing that it has suspended its lessons on LGBT rights. This essay will examine the controversial lesson in order to figure out why ther... | ['Philosophy', 'Education', 'LGBTQ', 'UK Politics', 'Society'] |
Sign up for Taking Stock of COVID: New comics from The Nib
By The Nib
New comics from Matt Lubchansky, Keith Knight, and Niccolo Pizarro. Plus How Seniors Are Living With COVID-19. Take a look | ['Russian Hacking', 'Privacy', 'Cambridge Analytica', 'Donald Trump', 'Facebook'] |
Fast-forward two soul-draining corporate jobs, and Ezinne now lives in Los Angeles. She pours her opinions into her phone, laptop, or whatever device is within tapping distance. Ezinne notes, “I never wanted to be the race writer,” but she often found herself speaking up for her community. Writing about being a dark-sk... | ['Noteworthy', 'Activism', 'Writers', 'Medium', 'Creativity'] |
The Day of Reckoning For Google+ — Or is it?
Recently, Google has begun delivering notifications to users of the Google+ platform that the end is near for its classic user interface. While users were told long ago that that Google planned to force its user base to the new user interface, no one really knew when those ... | ['UX Design', 'Social Media', 'Google', 'Google Plus'] |
A Business approach to Analysis of Data
What do you need to master Business Analytics and Decision Science?
There is a new buzz word in town these days. It is called Business Analytics. But what is it, and why is it important? Although every company and organization has a different meaning to what a Business Analyst ... | ['Analytics', 'Business', 'Strategy', 'Data Science', 'Storytelling'] |
No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green
Episode 46
How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, M. David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. Dojos ... | ['Management', 'Leadership', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
Me? Peter Hince (aka Ratty), Fred’s and John’s roadie and head of Queen’s crew. I’m ignoring all this melodrama and ambling around the dressing room, being one of the few people allowed in during this pre-show period. Fred calms down a little as he ponders the tour manager’s words, passes the cigarette to somebody to e... | ['Rock', 'The Bookshelf', 'Music'] |
Salvador Dali — Atomicus
Rich listened to the man on the phone and then said, “Graven images? No sir. We are a photographic service, not a funeral home.” Rich wrote something on his pad. “Oh, I see. You are getting married but want no graven images? Got it. Well, here at Silva, we do photography.”
Rich gestured to Pe... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Customer Service', 'Creativity', 'Photography'] |
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'] |
Former Google CEO Wants to Create a Government-Funded University to Train A.I. Coders
The Digital Service Academy would compete with Stanford and MIT
Photos: Ungureanu Vadim/EyeEm/Boston Globe/Photofusion/Getty Images
The U.S. government’s approach of letting Silicon Valley drive the country’s technological boom has... | ['Education', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Government', 'AI'] |
To Whatever You Aspire to, Ego Is Your Enemy
You may have a really good GPA, or many of your family members and close friends may have called you a prodigy.
In these cases, your ego tends to make you feel that the world owes you the success you want. That you must get employed and climb up the corporate ladder in rec... | ['Life Lessons', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Education', 'Productivity'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Journalism', 'Data Journalism', 'Data Visualization'] |
by Maggie Tomasek
A letter from Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan denying a heart transplant due to patient’s lack of funds, and explicitly advising patient to raise $10,000 for surgery.
Hey, here’s a fun fact: last year alone, Americans raised $650 million dollars for health care expenses through GoFundMe.
... | ['Healthcare', 'Gofundme', 'Devos', 'Health'] |
Do you want this image above? You can have it — free. I don’t care. Hi-res, all rights, whatever you want. Why? Because it’s just beautiful.
Beauty began losing value years ago, as soon as the effort required to achieve it starting dropping. And it dropped fast — sampled music let us have quality drum tracks, piano an... | ['Beauty', 'Creativity', 'Photography'] |
What’s Your Personal Version of Success Look Like?
We all want success in life — here’s how you can not stop yourself from attaining it
Photo by Julian Jagtenberg from Pexels
Success is one of the most misunderstood things in our culture. Our brains usually associate success with the kinds of advertising images that... | ['Self', 'Philosophy', 'Growth', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
The Tragic Truth of K.K. Slider
A wild, insomnia-fueled theory about father and son
Do you remember the oddly creepy-yet-calm 4AM music from Animal Crossing: New Leaf? Because I do. Vividly.
It is, I think, the most fitting video game music ever composed — and I’m aware that this is a controversial opinion. After al... | ['Features', 'Gaming', 'Humor', 'Culture', 'Music'] |
Anal sex is something that nearly anyone can enjoy, and there are lot of reasons people like it. So if you want to try anal play, here’s some places to start.
Read next: 9 Ways to Pleasure an Anus | ['Sex', 'Sexuality', 'Health', 'Comics', 'Lifestyle'] |
How to refactor critical code with a heavy usage in production Mélanie Godard Follow Nov 30 · 6 min read
In this article, you’ll learn how we refactor critical code used daily by millions of users.
Every month, 10 millions of people are planning their day to day health appointments using Doctolib. In order to allow o... | ['Engineering', 'Monitoring', 'Legacy Code', 'Refactoring'] |
I sat down with Daniela from our team to find out a bit more about what she enjoys at, and away from, work.
Why B2B software VC?
There is so much variety and activity in the B2B software market alone — you could easily spend a lifetime and some on it! I have great respect for investors who can do B2B + B2C, but I fin... | ['Software Development', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'SaaS', 'Investment'] |
Musicians for the past couple of decades, have seen a huge decline in their net revenue from album sales, the most basic reason for the same have been the high constituting margins of record companies and production houses.
This disrupted the state of musicians throughout the world, leaving them with striking low inco... | ['Blockchain', 'Blockchain Music', 'Future Of Music', 'Musician', 'Music'] |
With the recent world catastrophe that is Covid-19 dominating people’s minds, it is timely to examine the central role China has played as the source of pandemics over time.
Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash
The Hard Facts
While it is sometimes hard to tell, particularly as we go back in time, the following pandemic... | ['Trade', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Pandemic', 'China'] |
The Basics
Before we dive into implementing our own server, let’s take some time and understand what an HTTP server actually is.
When we talk about client-server architecture, the server is an application that has access to a resource. The resource may be a file, a database, some compute logic, etc. The client wants ... | ['Programming', 'API', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Web Development'] |
Being a new business, I needed to get my business listed in some website directories. It is one of those SEO tasks that build links and helps potential customers find you. In the UK one of the most popular directories is the yellow pages or Yell.com as they are known these days.
After registering my details, I receive... | ['Leadership', 'Business Strategy', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Tech'] |
Welcome back to Part II!
Reminder : This story follows a young man living in a fully decentralized world through an hypothetical 24 hour-scenario using solely current projects based on blockchain technology.
For a better experience — read Part I first.
01:00 PM
This morning of decentralized hard work and Colombian ... | ['Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Future', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
zip() built-in function
Python has many hidden gems and zip() is one of them. It’s able to solve the same problem in a cleaner way. We all like clean code, don’t we?
From the official Python documentation, zip(*iterables) makes an iterator that aggregates elements from each of the iterators.
Recap on unpacking opera... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science'] |
The Delayer
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus — Picture By Schurl50 [Public domain] Via Wikipedia Creative Commons
It’s the year 217 BC and Rome has a major problem. The living version of the terminator has killed a Consul (president), crushing two Roman armies and is running loose on Italian soil. Hannibal Barca fro... | ['Life Lessons', 'Business', 'History', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
The Nitty-Gritty:
How Potentia Therapy founder Rebecca Ching learned from key mistakes she made bringing her vision to life
What she does differently today when she’s finding the right people for her team
Why learning to lead has made her less lonely as a business owner
The process of self-reflection that allowed h... | ['Small Business', 'Resilience', 'Podcast', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business'] |
Lives of the Poor in Archaic Greece
Civilization, built on the backs of nameless workers
Written by Andrew Thornebrooke
In the centuries occupying Greek history form the Late Bronze Age and so called Dark Ages until the Archaic Age of the Aegean, some large strides in innovation were made both in technology and comm... | ['Work', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Politics', 'History'] |
Bots are already a reality for some Procurement organizations. Indeed, bots are becoming mainstream for most large international companies especially when dealing with the customer.
However, developers have found that it can be really useful for Procurement specialists. With the advancement in AI, bots that were once ... | ['Supply Chain', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data', 'Procurement', 'Machine Learning'] |
Burlington County Health Department offers free lead testing
The first screening will be held Jan. 8 starting at 12:30 p.m.
To address the low rates of childhood lead screenings in Burlington County, the Burlington County Health Department and Virtua Community Nursing Services will be conducting lead screening for ch... | ['New Jersey', 'Children', 'Health'] |
The Politics of Intolerance
So, what was the Times covering in 2015? What was it covering then that it isn’t now, and what is it covering now that it wasn’t then?
We can look at this in a few ways. In this piece I’m going to look at the geography of coverage (at least, what I could find from some simple text mining),... | ['Python', 'News', 'Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'New York Times'] |
A Chinese Supplier of Dog Products Just Offered Me Face Masks
And that’s an incredibly positive sign
Photo by Michael Amadeus on Unsplash
Starting in 2016, I developed a popular pet product on Amazon. Called the Crusty Comb, it was a special flea comb designed to clean the faces of long-haired dogs like my Bichon Fr... | ['Supply Chain', 'Business', 'Coronavirus', 'Masks', 'China'] |
Trump’s Pardons Are Peak GOP
“The party of law and order” is a brutal myth
If there’s one thing we have learned the past four years, it’s that the modern Republican Party is often the exact opposite of what its leaders claim to be.
Lowering the deficit and national debt? Spend trillions on COVID-19 relief. Invest in... | ['Republican Party', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Government', '2020'] |
Spiralbound
Comics for life, brought to life by Edith Zimmerman. | ['Piano', 'Molly Cassity', 'Music', 'Comics'] |
On October 23, 2020, Facebook removed 130 assets linked to Alt-Info, a Georgian far-right group that used the platform to distribute partisan and anti-Western content. The DFRLab’s analysis of these assets showed that Alt-Info was using an inauthentic network of Facebook accounts, groups, and pages to disseminate its c... | ['Politics', 'Facebook', 'Government', 'Georgia', 'Social Media'] |
🌿 Series-A
💧 Expected dilution? 20–30%
⌚ How long to raise? 3–6 months.
🏃🏽 Runway? 18–36 months
💵 Who invests? VC funds, your previous investors, HNWIs
📆 When? Product-market fit has been found, 1M+ ARR (or on track to), growth phase.
📜 Paperwork? Contracts get more complicated, more warranties & represent... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Fundraising Advice', 'Fundraising', 'Venture Capital'] |
First, I have to address my conservative friends who may not understand why I have not called them, blocked them on Facebook, or otherwise ignored their sympathetic and (sometimes) sincere advances to tell me it’s going to be ok. I have not been willing to listen. I cannot stand their smugness. They think this election... | ['Personal', 'Politics', 'Trump', 'Society'] |
Originally written by Pratiti Jain.
Music! This last one year of musical experience has changed me for better. Now, music has become an inseparable part of my life. It is like an escape from reality, from this otherwise boring life, where you do what you love. Yes, it makes me happy. Well, I am still a newbie and ther... | ['Stories', 'Music', 'Hobbies', 'Singing', 'Storyofmylife'] |
For those shopping around for marketing services, you will probably start with some interviewing to get to know what your options are.
What is interesting and difficult at the same time about shopping for creative work is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
No matter who you hire, there will be slight varian... | ['User Experience', 'Marketing', 'Relationships', 'Business', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.