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During the past few years, the text-to-speech technology has covered a lot of ground. The robotic, monotonous audio of the past — often ridiculed in various cartoon sitcoms such as The Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy — is rapidly turning into nothing but a distant memory.
Just have a look at Play, the Chrome extens... | ['Speech Recognition', 'Podcast', 'Tech', 'Journalism', 'Algorithms'] |
Natasya Fila Rais for Le Citoyen
Sevdaliza, Iranian-born Netherlands-based singer songwriter. (BBC.com)
LE CITOYEN — Operating from another world, the Iranian-born Netherlands-based singer songwriter producer Sevda Alizadeh, known as Sevdaliza, has proven that she is not like other girls. The self-taught artist who b... | ['Ison', 'Sevdaliza', 'Women', 'Music', 'Feminism'] |
A Marauder Christmas
A Flash Fiction Story
Titan Moon was a frozen ball of ice and snow. The atmosphere was breathable, but the planet itself was a harsh place to live year-round. Max was glad she had packed her thermal suit along with her normal winter wardrobe.
She hung from a jury-rigged swing dangling behind the... | ['Science Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Creativity', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
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President-elect Joe Biden campaigned aspirationally on a vision of uniting a country many see as severely, if not hopelessly, divided. After all, while Biden amassed over 80 million votes, the most votes ever tallied by any candidate in a presidential election in U.S. history, Trump hauled in the second-mos... | ['Election 2020', 'Biden', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
We do NOT live in a virtual reality!
We love tricking ourselves with what we know.
The theory that we all live in an virtual simulation is booming. The evidence seems to grow day by day and youtube offers a host of video’s to spread the meme. But is it true? I think it’s not, for one huge, and, in my mind, compelling... | ['Scientific Method', 'Ecology', 'Virtual Reality', 'Science', 'The Matrix'] |
Date Uniformity
One other very common problem is date uniformity. Different countries have different standard DateTime formats and when you have data from multiple sources, you are going to have to deal with multiple date formats. In Python, there are 3 main DateTime formats you can work with:
25–12–2019 -> (%d-%m-%Y... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
We are a full-scale digital agency based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, specializing in software development, design, and digital marketing consulting.
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It Can’t Be a Source of Income
Open source software is free. Therefore, its maintainers and creators can’t make a living out of it.
Wrong.
At first glance, open source software is free for its users. But there is a lot more to understand before saying it can’t be a valid source of income.
Like with any digital prod... | ['Open Source', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
Introduction:
Last week, I had an opportunity to attend the conference hosted by the American Association of Bangladeshi Pharmaceutical Scientists (AABPS) in Bethesda, Maryland. At the conference, I talked to people from the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. During those conversations, I found that most of the peop... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Pharmaceutical', 'Data Science', 'Drug Discovery', 'Data Visualization'] |
Index Your WordPress Website In Search Engines Visualmodo Follow May 4 · 4 min read
When you finally create a new WordPress website, you might be expecting visitors to start coming eagerly. In reality, before people start visiting your site, search engines need to find, index, and rank it. In this article, I share som... | ['SEO', 'Index', 'WordPress', 'Guid', 'Google'] |
The Latest: BBC Studios invests in Pocket Casts
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THE NEWS
Last week, Australian podcasting platform Pocket Casts received a new investment from BBC Studios that will be used to cover operational costs. The po... | ['Journalism', 'Media', 'Podcast', 'Audio', 'The Latest'] |
We won’t need the ‘Unamed: 0’ column so we can delete it with the ‘del’ keyword:
del d['Unnamed: 0’]
Now, let’s print the first five rows of data using the ‘head()’ method:
print(df.head())
If we take a look at the Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and Disney Plus columns we see that they contain 1s and 0s. A one corresp... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Introduction to Oak
Oak is a middleware framework for Deno inspired by the popular Koa middleware framework. Before we begin working on the project, an understanding of a few concepts like middleware and routing is crucial.
Middleware
Oak middleware are functions that execute during the lifecycle of a request to the... | ['Deno', 'JavaScript', 'Docker', 'Programming', 'Containers'] |
How to use Issuu
To get started on Issuu, you will need to create an account and sign up for free or paid membership. The free option allows you to do the most important thing — upload your publications — but there are some restrictions. The paid versions offer more features (obviously) that can help you get more out ... | ['Technology', 'Freelancing', 'Social Media', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
How To Provision Infrastructure on Azure With Terraform
A Beginner's Guide with an example project
Terraform is an infrastructure as a code tool that makes it easy to provision infrastructure on any cloud or on-premise. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. ... | ['Terraform', 'DevOps', 'Software Development', 'Azure', 'Cloud Computing'] |
According to Wikipedia, exploratory data analysis(EDA) is an approach to analyzing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods.
So, EDA is the process of understanding the underlying data, distribution of variables and their correlations. This makes EDA the very first step in any data ... | ['Statistics', 'Data Analytics', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
How a Hockey Player Started Canada’s Favorite Franchise
The story of Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Coffee and Timbits (Photo by Conor Samuel on Unsplash)
If you’ve been to Canada, you might have seen a Tim Hortons in every street corner or every neighborhood. As of 2020, there are 3,802 Tim Hortons locations in Canada, me... | ['Canada', 'History', 'Tim Hortons', 'Marketing', 'Business'] |
Guide for Mastering Modern JavaScript skills
Become an expert in Modern JavaScript and better at React, Angular, Vue
Photo by Artem Sapegin on Unsplash
In today’s constantly changing world, a lot of new content and updates are coming to JavaScript which are very useful for improving your code quality.
Knowing these... | ['Angular', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Vue', 'Programming'] |
A Look at BI Tools
Following these requirements, let us focus on tools that are worth a closer look. The following is a shortlist that I have developed from my experience, including tools that are both popular and also some secret gems.
Tableau Desktop screenshot from https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop
Tableau... | ['Strategic Planning', 'Tools', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Make your Amazon EC2 instance up and running.
In this part, we will be creating an Amazon account, EC2 instance and connect to that instance via SSH.
We will be using Linux OS throughout this tutorial. Windows users, don’t get annoyed. We will be working only on Amazon website with some terminal commands so System or... | ['Ssh', 'Ec2', 'AWS', 'Ubuntu'] |
Kuanyin
(Wu Tao-tzi, 8th Cen. AD)
She becomes the rain,
And a breeze, soft, over the trees.
And the silence of snowy fields.
And her gown is water,
Silk, rice paper
And the sunlight dances on it.
(For Robert Bly)
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This poem is a ‘translation’ of ancient Chinese art;... | ['Poetry', 'Art', 'Chinese Culture', 'Antiquity', 'Writing'] |
As a well-known Wu-Tang Clan disciple, I was nothing short of overjoyed recently with the number of articles and retrospectives of the group and its impact on the twentieth anniversary of its debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Some, like Paul Cantor’s piece for Noisey and the staff of Grantland each choosing... | ['Hip Hop', 'Classic', 'Music', 'Rap', 'Wu Tang'] |
I recently discovered an AWS Managed Policy that potentially allowed granting admin access to self or any other IAM role. This blog-post describes my findings and my interactions with AWS Security team on the same.
For a particular project, we were using SSO for AWS Account login using Okta. In this, the permissions t... | ['Transcoding', 'Iam', 'AWS', 'Security', 'Backend'] |
Our ability to create through extreme experiences
Image by Agsandrew
Last week, I didn’t leave my apartment at all for four straight days. Not to go grocery shopping, not to the convenience store, not to go for a walk. Nothing. For someone like me who gets claustrophobic at the thought of being confined in any manner... | ['Social', 'Research', 'Creative Writing', 'Creativity', 'Anxiety'] |
How can you be pissed off that I’m taking a damn vacation? Don’t I deserve one? Don’t we all deserve one?
No problem at all with you taking a vacation but can’t you keep your ass here? We live in Florida — go to the beach. You don’t have to fly hours in a plane across the country to find relaxation. Jesus, we’re in th... | ['Health', 'Pandemic', 'Travel', 'This Happened To Me', 'Covid 19'] |
How artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the universe, validate, and operate using, a singular identity.
Integrating personae. Virtual identity.
Everyone has two personae. One private. The other public. Translated this means we have a personal identity, and, also, a professional identity. These are, as you k... | ['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Virtual Reality'] |
Photo by Andreas Dress
little flower wiser
a poem about how we be truthful to ourselves and a little wiser
.
this day birds sing and colors spring
little flower bedded below
leaning toward the dawn sun asks
“ O the mighty weeping willow
how can I make this swamp better?”
.
firstly question yourself not me
th... | ['Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Poetry', 'Life'] |
Tongbo Huang | Pinterest engineer, Ads
As the community of Pinners grows, so does the number of businesses on Pinterest. Earlier this week, we revamped our analytics tool to help businesses better understand their audiences and how their organic content is performing.
This second version of our analytics product offe... | ['Advertising', 'Measurement', 'Analytics', 'Pinterest', 'Engineering'] |
2020-21 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP TIERS
This is not necessarily how the regular season rankings will come out — we’ll get back to that. But at the end of the day, each team has different hopes and expectations. Here’s how I see each team’s playoffs and title hopes heading into the new season, and the tier title should fill in ... | ['Basketball', 'Sports', 'Future', 'NBA', 'Culture'] |
A big black cat was walking through the wall. He wore a black suit, black shirt, black tie and black shoes. He also had a black ribbon tie on his head. The black cat walked over to the table in the kitchen.
“Good morning Harry!” said the black cat.
“Good morning Mr. Black Cat,” said Harry in a happy voice.
“Did you ... | ['Merznlp', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Gpt 3', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Art'] |
Enjoy this excerpt from my new book!
From Convergence, How the World Will Be Painted With Data
By Sam Steinberger
When multidisciplinary design and consulting firm Arup was contracted to work on a new hospital, the team quickly got to work. With over 14,000 professionals around the globe who specialize in a diverse ... | ['Technology', 'Books', 'Charlie Fink', 'Virtual Reality', 'Augmented Reality'] |
Will Your Soccer Club Ever Meet Again? A Guide to Outdoor Sports This Summer.
The risk factors around tennis, swimming, basketball, running races, and more
Photo: Jeffrey F Lin/Unsplash
Social distancing and lockdowns have shattered racing plans and competition schedules for many athletes — pros and weekend warriors... | ['Test Gym', 'Sports', 'Health', 'Tennis', 'Basketball'] |
photo from https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/netflix
Are you struggling to perform EDA with R and Python?? Here is an easy way to do exploratory data analysis using Tableau.
Lets Dive in to know the process and look at the analysis !
Introduction
Netflix is the world’s leading internet entertainment service with 158 mi... | ['Netflix', 'Tableau', 'Data Visualization', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Alteryx'] |
What happens when you eat
Contrary to popular belief, eating is not like tanking gas. For long, we did not know better as to believe that you load your body with energy, and then you use that energy whenever you need it.
Science tells a whole different story. Eating is not merely about taking in energy — it’s much mo... | ['Health', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle', 'Food', 'Self Improvement'] |
Remembering Wii Fit
The pandemic has created a dearth of workout options. Perhaps the Wii Balance Board would be handy right now?
During the coronavirus pandemic, finding creative ways to get some exercise has been one of the most dynamic struggles. Gyms open and then they close back down. The weather allowed for out... | ['Gaming', 'Health', 'Features', 'Fitness', 'Videogames'] |
Love, science, courage, the universe, the sublime—these are key concepts that convey Interstellar’s vision of cosmic hope for the human species. It’s a vision of hope to complement the paradox of our great discovery and intellectual achievement—we have discovered a vast and majestic universe that also renders us insign... | ['Science Fiction', 'Atheism', 'Art', 'Space', 'Science'] |
The importance of social media for businesses has always been a controversial subject. Many think the ROI is too small and the effort is better spent somewhere else.
Of course, the matter isn’t black and white. It depends on what you’re selling, and how you approach it.
Nevertheless, it’s a valid point. Instagram and... | ['Marketing', 'Ecommerce', 'Sales', 'Business', 'Social Media'] |
When we talk about the processing of the container’s content, we mean two situations. The first one is an iterator with full access to read and change the elements of the container. The second one is the constant iterator which has no right to change the content. Though what if we need to change the value of an element... | ['Containers', 'Software Engineering', 'Cplusplus', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
Before I get started, I want to reiterate that I am a software engineer and not an epidemiologist.
I broke down 2 widely cited models, their critiques, and how they relate to various ways of reasoning and predicting outcomes we have never seen.
The goal here is to walk through the process of learning variables, makin... | ['Data', 'Data Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
Example of plugin in action
Inspiration: GPT-3
In June of 2020, OpenAI launched their new model GPT-3, which not only has futuristic NLP(Natural Language Processing) capabilities, but was also able to generate React code and simplify command-line commands.
Looking at these demos was a huge inspiration for us and we ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
From left: Bonita Stewart, Aaron Skonnard and Leah Johnson
Over the past months as we’ve settled into our new role as a publicly held company, we’ve benefited from counsel and insights from our board of directors to guide our success.
As we continue to grow, we recognize the importance of including new perspectives a... | ['Pluralsight', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business'] |
photo courtesy of google.com
On one of my random tours on twitter, I came across this topic on what misconceptions people have about Software engineers or Software developers (I don’t get the hullabaloo concerning the titles but that is a story for another day…)
I am a Software Engineer in Kenya and for the past two ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'Developer', 'Code'] |
Voice Search
Voice in Apps: Amazon Shopping
In-depth analysis of the voice search feature in Amazon India Shopping app.
Graphic showing the new mic icon in the Amazon Shopping App in India
Till date, most of the attempts to add voice search to e-commerce apps have been half-hearted and half-baked. Most of these com... | ['Technology', 'Voice Assistant', 'Android App Development', 'Business', 'Amazon'] |
How we optimized SunRoof’s Pipedrive setup to improve reporting and sales performance Aneta Szotek Follow Sep 15 · 10 min read
SunRoof creates beautiful, 2-in-1 smart solar roofs and innovative facades that produce power from the Sun. They operate in the Scandinavian countries, Poland, and Kenya. Their mission is to e... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'CRM', 'Customers', 'Sales'] |
In the case of BAM, only GAP was used to get the statistics of the feature map in spatial and channel dimensions. Whereas, CBAM also considered to use the MaxPooling with Average Pool. They proved that using Maxpooling accounts to generate the most salient features from the feature map and compensate the GAP output whi... | ['Research', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Convolutional Neural Net'] |
Most of us have taken a personality quiz at one point or another. Whether it was for a job, school or just for fun, you probably remember skimming over the results to find out more about yourself and how you compare to the rest of the population.
But have you ever wondered how these results are correlated to other dem... | ['Demographics', 'Psychometric Testing', 'Psychology', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
LOST PLACES — If you could see into the hearts of the lonely, abandoned, abused, betrayed, and mislead, wouldn’t the scene be the same? | ['Emotions', 'Healing', 'Microfiction', 'Awareness', 'Society'] |
Getting Started with React + TypeScript
The basic benefits of combining both
Source: the author
In this article, we will go through a few examples of how to use React & TypeScript. We look at props, interfaces, a few hooks, and form handling.
Of course, we have to build a setup first. The easiest way is to use npx.... | ['Typescript', 'JavaScript', 'Reactjs', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
Picture this. You’re in your 3rd job and your career has progressed a lot. In a software developer’s life, that would mean you’ve learned lots of different technologies and gained lots of experiences working with various platforms. This might also mean you’ve gained non-technical experiences like leading teams or clien... | ['Algorithms', 'Technical Interview Tips', 'Software Engineering', 'Technical Interview', 'Interview Questions'] |
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should be fascinated (or at least intrigued?) by VR. Check out some articles that gave me inspiration:
After some investigation, turns out it’s actually not that hard to make a VR app, even if you don’t have any 3D or coding experience. Just to give you an example, here is a... | ['Design Tools', 'Virtual Reality', 'Design'] |
One day, diagnosing serious diseases may be as easy as taking a temperature or checking blood pressure. But in the near term, millions of diabetics could keep their vision thanks to an AI algorithm helping doctors quickly spot diabetic retinopathy.
Retina image
Table of contents
Introduction Data Evaluation Metric E... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Deep Learning', 'Healthcare'] |
By Patrick Egwu (Lead Writer)
Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi during the flag-of of one of the immunisation exercise. Photo credit: Nigeria Health Watch
Veronica Asogwa is a petty trader in Abakpa Nike, one of the largest suburbs in Enugu State, southeast Nigeria. When the state announced the commencement of t... | ['Immunization', 'Routine Immunization', 'Health', 'Polio'] |
Watch this to see how we set-up and run dbt and BigQuery on the cloud shell
Get started with BigQuery and dbt, the easy way
Find here the quickest way to get started with dbt and BigQuery using only free offerings from Google Cloud.
I’m a big fan of dbt — an open source project that helps me build data pipelines aro... | ['Data Science', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Dbt', 'Data Engineering', 'Bigquery'] |
So, we can see that graph is increasing exponentially each day. Next, we are going to see how many total cases increased each week starting from the first day which is 22nd January 2020. To do that, we have to find every 7th-day data and create a table for that. “copy()” will create a copy of the dataset so it will not... | ['Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Analytics', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
This past Monday morning, as the world braced for the reopening of stock exchanges in the wake of Friday’s partial meltdown, the highly popular mobile investing startup Robinhood went offline.
The official statement from the company said that the outage was caused by “instability in a part of our infrastructure that a... | ['News', 'Business', 'Money', 'Economy', 'Startup'] |
Freelance Writing Ain’t Easy, Especially When You’re Not White
Our Voices Only Matter On Special Occasions
Image by Antonio Cansino from Pixabay
If you discuss how much freelance writers make, income will fluctuate signficantly. Usually though, the further away you are from being white, male and able-bodied, the les... | ['Society', 'Equality', 'Culture', 'Race', 'Film'] |
Top 10 Dangerous Things Women Have Done in the Name of Beauty
The pursuit of beauty throughout history
Photo by Gabriel Brandton Unsplash
Beauty standards have changed throughout human history, varying according to different cultures and traditions, but beauty standards and goals have always existed, putting a lot o... | ['Health', 'History', 'Life Lessons', 'Beauty', 'Lifestyle'] |
“The most international micro-agency:” How two London bootcamp graduates built a remote collaboration with software engineers in Gaza
An interview with Joe Friel and Simon Dupree, the first pair of participants in the Founders Programme, the Founders and Coders social impact graduate fellowship
When I first sat down ... | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Tech', 'Coding', 'Startup'] |
In the wake of the recent social distancing guidelines and shutdowns, more and more individuals as well as educational institutions are adopting e-learning technologies. One such example is the recent rise in the use of tele-conferencing tools such as Zoom and Google Hangouts. Such tools connect students and teachers, ... | ['AI', 'Saudi Arabia', 'E Learning Solutions', 'Digital Transformation', 'Roboticprocessautomation'] |
Impression management is a key important factor for improvement and success. It is also an effective instrument for handling criticism and negativity.
Photo by History in HD on Unsplash
Impression management refers, the demeanor of any individual that comprises the goal of governing the impression and epithet timbere... | ['Philosophy', 'Education', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Life'] |
I love my child; I just don’t resonate much with that role
Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash
I am the mother of a nearly 21 year old son named Hugh. He’s on the autism spectrum and lives at home with me and my husband James. At this point in our journey together as mother and child, mother is a verb. It’s what I do. ... | ['Patriarchy', 'Motherhood', 'Society', 'This Happened To Me', 'Autism'] |
Data science is a required practice for organizations accelerating their journeys to AI. Businesses are keen on hiring the right talent, acquiring the right tools and evolving the discipline. When it comes to data science projects there are two major problems:
1) There are not enough data scientists. 2) It takes too m... | ['Machine Learning', 'Watson Studio', 'AI', 'Editorials', 'Data Science'] |
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The Princess Club was ruthless. We named them that because the group of four uppity women who flaunted themselves in front of any wealthy bachelor in town, would step all over anyone who got in their way.
“Something needs to be done about them.”
I glanced over at my best friend, Tandy.... | ['Class', 'Revenge', 'Society', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.com
The political climate in our nation has become so toxic what can be done to reverse course?
It’s no longer acceptable to have a differing viewpoint from anyone anymore. Either you believe what they believe or you get shouted down and cancelled. Death threats and hate-filled rants... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
Kick a cube across the floor. Hard. In the few seconds it’s in motion for, you’re seeing four dimensions in play. The first three are hight, width, and depth. You can see these on the cube itself, you don’t even need to kick it to get a feel for them. The last one is time, and you see this one over the progression of i... | ['Mathematics', 'Quantum Mechanics', 'Space', 'Physics', 'Science'] |
Flexbox — The Animated Tutorial
In my previous tutorial I dumped all of the flex diagrams in one place to show you flex box bird’s eye view — but it’s not enough.
Here’s a list of my best web development tutorials.
Complete CSS flex tutorial on Hashnode.
Ultimate CSS grid tutorial on Hashnode.
Higher-order functio... | ['CSS', 'Design', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'Web Design'] |
Cancel the Magazine.
Who is watching your social media highlight reel?
Photo by Alexandra K on Unsplash
Hi. Hi you. Yes you.
You were always over the top. You really looked like a model in your IG photos. You had the angles, the sunglasses, the big hats, and the shiny…reflector…light…disc thing. You did it all.
Ok... | ['Humor', 'Social Media', 'Beauty', 'Society', 'Satire'] |
One of the characters in the story, Tsumigi Shirogane, the Ultimate Cosplayer, reveals to the surviving cast that everything they’ve seen and experienced is fictional. While the Danganronpa series has lightly brushed up against the fourth wall, this abrupt destruction of the barrier between fantasy and reality comes ha... | ['Gaming', 'Anime', 'Features', 'Creativity', 'Culture'] |
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera.” Dorothea Lange
Digital life has changed everything, including photography and how we take photos.
Everybody can take a photo, just pick up a plastic cased digi-machine and point and shoot. The results appear to be astounding, flabbergasting. F... | ['Visual Art', 'Creativity', 'Thinking', 'Portrait Photography', 'Photography'] |
Bonus Episode: Live from BETT 2019
What will it take to inspire the next Ada Lovelace?
Whilst we are busy working on season 3 we wanted to share this conversation recorded live at BETT 2019.
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, TuneIn, or RadioPublic.
Titled ‘If She Can See It, She Can Be... | ['Tech', 'Podcast', 'Education', 'AI', 'STEM'] |
21.05- 03.06
Strategy
May 25, GraphGrail Ai completed another important milestone — successful completion of TGE. Now, the next product period is about to begin. GraphGrail Ai have sent the newsletter describing company milestones for the last seven months and their plans for the future. This way the team shared some... | ['AI', 'Weekly Digest', 'Blockchain', 'ICO', 'Bitcoin'] |
Anomaly detection is a very broad term. Usually it means that you want to see if things are running as usual. This could go from your business metrics down to the lowest level of how your systems are running. Anomaly detection is an entire process. It’s not just a tool that you get out of the box that measures time ser... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Analytics'] |
4 reasons why Q4 2020 is perfect to start an e-Commerce business
1.) Demand for online shopping is high
With the Q4 period (Oct-Nov-Dec) coming up, it’s traditionally touted as the haven for all retailers — where major holidays are coming up and winter season is around the corner. Folks living in the Northern and Sou... | ['Retail', 'Business', 'Ecommerce', 'Online Shopping', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Do you remember your math classes in school? I definitely do, and on my mind was always:
“Why do I need this formula? Where will I use that theorem?”
You heard or even asked the same questions. After that, the teacher used to explain that we can use integral to find the area and derivative to get the acceleration fro... | ['Technology', 'Mathematics', 'Tech', 'Learning', 'Science'] |
It’s the same with emails and updating statuses on Twitter and any other social media; even sites like OnlyFans and ManyVids. Sure, I need to be discreet, and I’m good at that. It’s a must when you’re a sex worker.
What’s shocking to most people, who don’t have any experience with sex work, is the fact that actual sex... | ['Work', 'Women', 'Sexuality', 'Society', 'This Happened To Me'] |
Obstacle 2: Authority alone
Second, those that practice using their title to achieve results needlessly add risk to their organizations. Authority alone is not enough to achieve the long-term results we crave. Authority alone . . . it doesn’t scale. It can however lead to increased suspicion among employees and even t... | ['Leadership', 'Team Building', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Before the second song of their set had ended, the lead singer of one of my favorite bands boldly stepped toward the edge of the Aragon Ballroom stage, where, in one motion, she spit-spewed her drink into the air and stomped on a device that blew forth a flurry of miniature pink Y’s that began slowly descending into, a... | ['Karen O', 'Concerts', 'Music', 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs', 'Culture'] |
Sharpe Ratio Revisited
Sharpe ratio is the ratio of average return divided by the standard deviation of returns annualized. We had an introduction to it in a previous story.
Let’s take a look at it again with a test price time series.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from pandas.tseries.offsets import BDay... | ['Portfolio Management', 'Quantitative Analysis', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
React Hooks are slowly taking over the frontend world. They have straightforward syntax and you can:
use them inside functional components
mix them with the old syntax inside class components
Until recently the new syntax wasn’t available for React Native developers. Luckily with React Native 0.59, we can use hooks ... | ['React Native', 'Mobile', 'React Hook', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
I left the US eighteen years ago this month.
I mark every June with a shout out to my former life, and a grateful pat on the back for past me who made the decision to go. It wasn’t an easy decision. Leaving behind our lives, careers, friends and family to start anew in New Zealand was damned risky and more than one pe... | ['Philosophy', 'Social Media', 'Debate', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
Jamie Atkins
Photo © Capitol Records Archives
So much more than just The Beach Boys’ drummer, Dennis Wilson (born 4 December 1944) contributed raw ballads and charged blasts of rock’n’roll that were highlights of the group’s albums from the late 60s until his untimely death, at just 39 years old, on 28 December 1983.... | ['Pop', 'Music', 'Lists', 'Culture', 'Pop Culture'] |
LIDAR is a core technology that powers self-driving cars.
It’s also what I’m naming my new cover band where we do 90’s themed remixes of Lionel Richie songs.
LIDAR systems are usually (not always) mounted on top of self-driving cars/other autonomous vehicles (AVs):
Besides being a very fashionable top hat for you ca... | ['Finance', 'Technology', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Lidar'] |
Mythology
For nearly 250 years, efforts have been made to add these key figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and even Benjamin Franklin, into an American Pantheon. These ‘gods’ have states and cities named after them, statues erected in their likeness, and have found their way into our textbooks as inf... | ['Religion', 'Music', 'History', 'Politics', 'Film'] |
So What’s the Secret?
If you create a repository with your own GitHub username, it automatically turns into a special repository:
Isn’t that cool?
Once you initialize this repo with a Readme.MD , whatever you write in the Readme file will turn into a Readme for your whole GitHub profile. Make sure you create a publi... | ['JavaScript', 'Python', 'Github', 'Programming', 'Git'] |
Renewed and Rejuvenated
It’s amazing what stabilized hormones and no period can do for a girl!
American anthropologist and author, Margaret Mead, defined it as “post-menopausal zest”, or PMZ. Studies have shown that many women experience new found energy and resolution. Dr. Mead described PMZ as “a physical and psych... | ['Health', 'Womens Health', 'Ninja Writers', 'Women', 'Menopause'] |
IBM’s AI super computer, Watson, is now being used to help doctors treat patients with lung cancer. IBM has partnered with Wellpoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to “teach” Watson how to understand and interpret complex clinical information. This includes “more than 600,000 pieces of medical evidence, two... | ['IBM', 'Healthcare', 'Watson', 'AI', 'Tech'] |
The World happiness is the global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.
The World Happiness Report is an annual publication of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It contains articles, and rankings of national happiness based on respondent r... | ['Machine Learning', 'Country', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
Adding Sequential Commits, & Nested Directories / Files
This just had one file, and no directories. Lets add more blobs & trees to give clearly understanding of how files & directories are stored in object database.
$ mkdir files
$ echo "aaa" >> files/aaa.txt
$ echo "bbb" >> files/bbb.txt
$ git add .
$ git commit... | ['Development', 'Github', 'Git', 'Programming', 'Coding'] |
A Highly Biased Review of C# Changes from Version 1.0 to 9.0
We’ve lived with C# for two decades. How much has it changed?
When C# first appeared in the summer of 2000, it was immediately clear that something was different. At the time, Microsoft was a massively dominant software company, but it wasn’t known for craf... | ['Dotnet', 'Microsoft', 'Csharp', 'Programming', 'Programming Languages'] |
Excel to Python
Building front-end Excel workbooks for Python tools
During the Build 2016 conference, Microsoft announced that 1.2 billion people around the globe were using Excel [1]. That same year, the estimated population of Earth was 7.4 billion [2].
That is 16.2% of all people on Earth.
Python comparatively b... | ['Data Analysis', 'Excel', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is one of the biggest events in the game development industry and this year it’s taking place in San Francisco between March 18–22, 2019. At GDC, there are presentations and panels about the fun and challenging aspects of game development as well as how different game development te... | ['Machine Learning', 'Game Development', 'Game Design', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development'] |
.NET core startup hooks is a feature I really like, and I had a lot of fun with it in the past. Still, I had yet to find a legitimate use for them, and the opportunity finally came a few days ago.
What are startup hooks?
Let’s start by a quick catch-up, for those who don’t know what startup hooks are. The feature was... | ['Software Development', 'Garbage Collection', 'Csharp', 'Dotnet', 'Dotnet Core'] |
Imagine an algorithm that reviews thousands of financial transactions every second and flags the fraudulent ones. This is something that has become possible thanks to advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, and it is a very attractive value proposition for banks that are flooded with huge amounts of daily ... | ['Abn Amro', 'Innovation', 'AI', 'The Next Web', 'Future Of Finance'] |
To begin with, martial law isn’t described in the Constitution. Declaring it is a prerogative, on a Federal level, of the President and Congress, but there isn’t much more to go with. Its specifics aren’t outlined anywhere. Quoting a Syracuse Law professor, “If someone has declared martial law, they’re essentially sayi... | ['Election 2020', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Law', 'Society'] |
I didn’t fall to break,
rip your beating heart
with lies and excuses;
with selfish cravings
like beasts of the wild.
I fell to heal, to
taste of wholeness’ bliss
bound to you in happiness;
a primal connection
like finger and nail.
I fell too hard,
broke love’s fountain
of mesmerizing purity;
now to the pie... | ['Poetry', 'Healing', 'Music', 'Heartbreak', 'Love'] |
Nandhini Botta, Starsky Robotics’ Electrical Engineer, on building self-driving trucks, challenges of being a woman in the tech industry, and some best practices of how to constantly grow yourself.
Nandhini, you’re an electrical engineer working on autonomous trucks. Can you share a little bit about what it is that yo... | ['Engineering', 'Tech', 'Trucks', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Self Driving Cars'] |
Democracy and the Principle of Imminent Collapse
Avoiding The Nudge
field of dominoes
The Principle of Imminent Collapse states that, by circumstance or consequence, everything in our universe is on the verge of failure and all it takes is a nudge to bring it down. This principle extends upward and outward to the Un... | ['Dominoes', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Democracy'] |
Many applications that are commonly used need to update real time, and we can’t achieve this using the HTTP protocol alone.
Meet WebSockets, a computer communication protocol that allows real data time transfer between server and the client. Unlike, the HTTP protocol where a communication happens via a request and res... | ['Ruby on Rails', 'Websocket', 'Software Development', 'React', 'Webdev'] |
The Problem with Polarizing Content
Society always pays the price
Photo by Nihal Demirci on Unsplash
As a content creator, if you want to get thousands of eyeballs on your work, make sure you offend. Prime your audience for a fight by goading them into clicking and slap their outrage awake one cliché at a time.
On ... | ['Philosophy', 'Social Media', 'Tech', 'Future', 'Media'] |
When we all drank the Kool-Aid.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about my discovery that I was transgender when I turned 61 years of age. It still shocks me even though I have spent almost every minute of every day of the last four years, thinking about it since.
I have reached the point in my journey where I have... | ['Humanity', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender', 'Society', 'Life'] |
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