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The sentiments below were written by Jeanne Hrovat, a staff member from Special Olympics Wisconsin, after she helped transport athletes to a Special Olympics-Mission of Mercy event in Wausau, Wisconsin on June 24. Mission of Mercy is a nation-wide organization that provides free dental care to people in need, and is cu... | ['Wisconsin', 'Healthcare', 'Nonprofit', 'Health'] |
Understanding ML
Finding correlations in time series data
How to find a correlation between different length of time series vector and predicted result.
If you’ve ever worked with data analysis it’s highly likely that you know about the idea of data correlation. There are many ways of calculating correlation within ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
By Leland Richardson
Testing code is crucial for the maintainability of a complex code base, but it is just as important that tests are easy to write, maintain, and understand. Frontend code is no exception to this rule, and behaviors that live in your UI should be tested as well.
Almost three months ago, Airbnb open... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Open Source', 'Front End Development'] |
26 problems with being a product manager
And it’s not moaning, it’s just reality
There are too many ideas to keep track of, but you’re expected to keep them all safe for when you need them There aren’t enough good ideas to hit the goal you need to hit, only ideas for things that won’t affect the KPI you need to affec... | ['Startup', 'Software Development', 'Product Manager', 'Product Owner', 'Product Management'] |
Still wounded into this corner
surviving
by the sound of the throat
where I used to put the good pen
Paper fortresses burn so easily
but I can make them
fairly quickly
So you stand in your shade
the image you create
by babbling into the time
you were thinking to stay wordless
But the design
you are trying t... | ['Brokenness', 'Creativity', 'Mortality', 'Poetry', 'Frailty'] |
A colleague of mine recently idly brought up the lipstick index, wondering what impact masks would have on its usefulness as an economic marker. I hadn’t heard the term, but the more I read, the more fascinated I became — and the deeper I looked into the topic. After applying a statistical analysis on what’s available ... | ['Fashion', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business Science', 'Business'] |
Speculative design for UX
UX Design is said to be a discipline which works on improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction with a product or service.
We create this amazing user interaction with products and services by gathering the requirements of current and potential users, des... | ['UX Design', 'Future', 'Speculative Design', 'Future Technology', 'Technology And Design'] |
If you had asked me before I started running what the most expensive part of the hobby would be, I never would have guessed correctly. I might have thought that the cost of shoes would add up, or maybe that I would splurge on a fancy watch. I wouldn’t have even considered the thing that I’ve actually spent the most mon... | ['Running', 'Health', 'Exercise', 'Finance', 'Fitness'] |
This is why bots get a bad rap. The bot didn’t expect another input, didn’t know the intent, and didn’t replace almond milk with soy milk. Start over. Fail.
This is why Mikhail’s article is right, unless we think about it completely differently.
We need to detect that almond milk is a parameter for milk, and replace ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Chatbots', 'AI', 'Messaging', 'Bots'] |
With the innovation of technologies in the field of Data Engineering, the term Data visualization has significant importance as it is an one of the essential components of Industry 4.0 and 5.0.
Data visualization is about representing data or information in a graph, chart, or other visual format which helps to communi... | ['React', 'Graph', 'E Charts', 'Front End Development', 'Data Visualization'] |
Are Bubonic Remedies Right for You?
Try these plague and pestilence cures today
Drinking bleach has been ruled out as a remedy for our modern plague. But quack cures have been around forever. Could these once-touted Bubonic plague ‘cures’ have been ahead of their time? Maybe NOW is the time to re-try them. Are you ga... | ['Humor', 'Health', 'History', 'Medicine', 'Satire'] |
Word clouds are the easiest way to quickly summarize customer sentiment. In this tutorial, we will create a text summarizer using word cloud and deploy it on Streamlit with their awesome new one-click-deploy.
Let’s begin by creating a virtual environment and activating it.
python3 -m venv env
an then activate it
so... | ['AI', 'Apps', 'Datascience', 'Streamlit', 'Deployment'] |
C asked on twitter, “Hi hoomans who are happy with their profession/career path, did you always know what you wanted to do? How did you get here?”
I responded, “not happy but not sad either. no i did not. got here by LOT of luck, some hustle, some grind and LOT of help.”
She asked me to elaborate. I thought 140 chars... | ['Life Lessons', 'Work', 'Purpose', 'People'] |
Sorry, But I Don’t Care About Trump Voters’ Feelings
Until they show some sign of contrition or acceptance, Biden supporters have no reason or imperative to reach out to them.
I distinctly remember the day after Election Day in 2016. I had to teach that day, and while I desperately wanted to cancel class, I went thro... | ['Election 2020', 'Biden', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Society'] |
Contributing to open source software is a gratifying experience and an excellent opportunity to distinguish yourself. It’s a rewarding way to keep your skills sharp, an avenue to gain and share experiences in all aspects of software development, and a source of inspiration and support from like-minded people worldwide.... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Hacktoberfest', 'Open Source', 'Beginners Guide'] |
The Libra Association rolls out Libra Bug Bounty Program, offering up to $10,000 for uncovering critical blockchain security issues underlying the unreleased cryptocurrency.
By Rob Marvin
As Facebook’s ambitious plans for Libra face intense regulatory scrutiny both in the US and around the globe, the nonprofit Libra ... | ['Technology', 'Facebook', 'Bug Bounty', 'Security', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Day 1
100 Days to Amazon
Unique Triplets
Hey Guys, From today. I am challenging myself to solve 1 problem each day for 100 days. Used up your free stories Here is my Friend Link.
I am naming this series as 100 Days to Amazon.
All these problems are taken from the following e-book. 🎓
This is completely free 🆓 if... | ['Technology', 'Coding', 'Java', 'Careers', 'Programming'] |
Back in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States of America was forced to resign over a comment she made while speaking at the United Nations conference on AIDS.
She was asked if it would be appropriate to promote masturbation as a way to keep young people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity. And s... | ['Self', 'Health', 'Sex', 'Ideas', 'Sexuality'] |
Highest Paid Careers
Choose your career wisely.
If you want to make a lot of money in your career, then you have to be passionate about your career. You will have to give 100% to it. Evaluate different careers to determine which profession is best for you. In this article, I share 5 different highest paid careers,
1... | ['Careers', 'Business', 'Career Development', 'Career Advice', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Since half a year now or so I’m using Taptalk. This Dutch/German app grew out of DingDong app and is unleashing a bunch of new apps that are a kind of retake more or less literally. Instagram introduced an app named Bolt just yesterday and earlier this week Mirage was launched, made by the people behind Yo. Both had do... | ['Facebook', 'Snapchat', 'Instagram'] |
To understand what we are looking at, the higher the number, the higher a country scores in terms of freedom. As you can see there is a score in each category which combined lead to the overall score . Thus, there is no need to get into the details of each category and so we will just use the overall score in this tuto... | ['Python', 'Education', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Interactive Maps'] |
If you thought that Blockchain corresponds to one of the previous ideas, do not worry. You will soon understand why you were wrong.
2. THE BLOCKCHAIN: WHAT IS IT?
Blockchain is the name of a whole new technology. As the name states, it is a sequence of blocks or groups of transactions that are chained together and di... | ['Technology', 'Learning', 'Innovation', 'Blockchain', 'Future'] |
Photo by Metis Designer on Unsplash
As a data analyst, a significant chunk of my time is used to visualize data sets for different stakeholders. Data visualizations can take many forms. They can be a simple Google Sheets charts, some visualizations on a Python notebook, or a complex Tableau dashboard. Here are three q... | ['Data Analyst', 'Design Thinking', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Criminal Case Against Donald Trump
His recklessness in handling the COVID pandemic can be seen as tantamount to second-degree, if not first-degree, murder
Today is November 14th, 2020, and since the beginning of the year, more than 250,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. In face of such calamity, we must remem... | ['Trump', 'Politics', 'Covid 19', 'Law', 'Society'] |
Medical writer who prefers to read and write fiction and some nonfiction, though the latter may appear at times as the former. patrickmohana.wordpress.com
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The sky is falling. Or at least it appears that way to a 13-year-old.
The amount of strife and conflict and negativity in the world right now is enough to make even the most oblivious hipster millennial pause and consider world events.
In the past few months, there have been rumors that WWIII is kicking off, a US Pre... | ['Climate Change', 'Teenagers', 'Hope', 'Family', 'Coronavirus'] |
My Body Will Never Look Like Hers
But it will always be mine.
Photo by Scott Webb via Pexels
She was a gymnast. You can tell. She’s compact with muscles built over years of training as an athlete. Her physique is amazing. Every time I see her training someone at the gym I always wonder why I can’t just look like tha... | ['Women', 'Body Image', 'Self', 'Health', 'Fitness'] |
Exploration of Google App Data
In this section, we are going to start writing Python script in the Databricks Notebooks to perform exploratory data analysis using PySpark. This section will be broken down into seven parts and some common PySpark methods will be introduced along the way.
An online version of the Noteb... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pyspark'] |
Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer, from Mark Batty Publisher.
I was really excited to get this in the mail, I’d seen a few blog posts and it looked great. I’m lucky enough to have a couple of issues of Source Magazine which first sparked an interest in these innovative approaches to music notation, so I new this wasn’t a ... | ['Music', 'Visualisation', 'Avant Garde', 'Book'] |
Why Is It So Hard to Get the 80s Right?
Blinded By the Light is the Latest Perpetrator
Like, gag me with a spoon — this photo is the epitome of faux 80s/Credit: Victoria Borodinova via pexels.com
As I watched the charming Blinded By the Light, a familiar annoyance seeped in.
The film is set in my favorite decade, t... | ['Humor', '80s', 'Music', 'Pop Culture', 'Film'] |
Configure Basic Authentication for CloudFront Using Lambda@Edge
For web servers, you must know the basic authentication settings for LAMP configuration. What if you are using AWS Cloudfront for hosting your frontend part? How will you add basic authentication for CloudFront? The answer is AWS Lambda function.
This ar... | ['Lamda', 'Cloudfront', 'AWS', 'Basic Authentication'] |
The event-driven paradigm is usually adopted with serverless architectures, dispatching asynchronous events to trigger wanted effects.
This behaviour comes natively with most AWS services:
if someone uploads a picture on your S3 bucket, you can make a Lambda listen and react to this event
if a Lambda adds a new obje... | ['AWS Lambda', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Websocket', 'Aws Appsync'] |
What is the Problem?
When training a deep neural network with gradient based learning and backpropagation, we find the partial derivatives by traversing the network from the the final layer (y_hat) to the initial layer. Using the chain rule, layers that are deeper into the network go through continuous matrix multipli... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
The Infrastructure Triumvirate: Continuous Service and Infrastructure Delivery with Argo, Kustomize, and Google Config Connector Shray Kumar Follow Oct 7 · 7 min read
ArgoCD, Config Connector and Kustomize! (image by Alexa Griffith)
Bluecore Engineering is growing at a frenetic pace — we are scaling our personalizati... | ['Software Development', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Bluecore', 'DevOps', 'Kubernetes'] |
The intransigent message from GPT-3, which falls in the category of narrow AI, is: “Don’t be afraid of me, I don’t want to eliminate humans, you should have confidence in computers…” — But should we envisage a clear and present danger that should frighten us? Will countless people across the globe ultimately lose their... | ['AI', 'Gpt 3'] |
I’m sick of hearing about Freedom
[JOURNAL] Let’s talk about authenticity and consent.
Photo by Aditya Saxena on Unsplash
^ Cue John Oliver saying, “Cool.”
Any movement, be it personal or political, that is founded on freedom will invariably miss the mark. It will fall short of its goals because it fixates on the w... | ['Authenticity', 'Consent', 'Freedom', 'Society', 'Philosophy'] |
Create API
For me, foldering is an important thing. With good folder management its help us to easy to maintain and scale up as well. Here is how i set the folders.
Folder Management for API Nodejs
Inside handler folder we create folder as their focus. In example for user folder, its mean that folder will manage eve... | ['Microservices', 'Nodejs', 'Backend', 'Rest Api', 'Expressjs'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Tribute', 'Music'] |
How I, a Millennial, Killed All the Industries
Time to set the record straight: it was me.
I jumped out, started this fire, and ran back while looking calm. Photo by Aaron Thomas on Unsplash
It has long been assumed that because of rapidly-changing technology and a recession, the business landscape of the United Sta... | ['Millennials', 'Economy', 'Humor', 'Parody', 'Society'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Idol', 'Aaron', 'Music', 'Kelly', 'American'] |
10. Ten // Pearl Jam, 1991
Pearl Jam seemed to be battling Nirvana as the champions of grunge, but Ten is an outpouring of the band’s own blend of grunge with an ageing style of rock, earning the tenth spot on this list. This Nirvana-Pearl Jam rivalry was motivated, mostly, due to both bands hailing from Seattle and t... | ['Entertainment', 'Album Review', 'Music', 'Rock And Roll', 'Rock'] |
Parenting classes are about more than raising children. They help build empathy, patience and community.
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash
When I talk about parenting I tend to lead with the assumption that everyone is trying their best with whatever information that is readily available to them. This tends to vary from... | ['Schools', 'Education', 'Society', 'Parenting', 'Culture'] |
11 Things Developers Love Hearing From Non-Developer Co-Workers
“The client needs this to work on IE 6.”
In the workplace, non-developers see developers as folks who make magic out of code. As a developer, you could be building complex API integrations all day or just clicking around playing West of Loathing on Steam... | ['Satire', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Tech'] |
I Intend To Pick The Path of Long-Term Survivability
There are some things that occur in life that are simply monumental. Discovering that I’m transgender was mine.
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
Let me start by saying I do not have all the transgender answers. I am constantly humbled by my ignorance, but I do r... | ['Humanity', 'LGBTQ', 'Life', 'Society', 'Transgender'] |
94% of B2B buyers conduct online research before they make a purchase decision (source).
Therefore, your website must make an excellent first impression if your goal is to generate more leads and increase sales.
Unfortunately, that’s a lot easier said than done.
Research shows you only have 15 seconds to capture a v... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Web Design', 'Web Development', 'B2B'] |
CAT TRAINING IN THE YEAR OF CORONAVIRUS
To comfort Mona Lisa, we place a plastic tray of sand inside the toilet bowl then invite her onboard with the promise of “treat…treat..treat.”
Just yesterday, New York Magazine published a very enlightening article. You can read the full text here: https://nymag.com/intelligenc... | ['Perspective', 'Cats', 'Spain', 'Society', 'Covid 19'] |
By Tony Yeung
The iPhone X price starts with $999, which makes it the most expensive iPhone ever made. People are still crazy about the phone, and it sold out in less than 3 days.
Consumers might wait for a long time to wait for this phone, and they have the budget to change their phone. But, how expensive is this iP... | ['Iphone X', 'Technology', 'Business', 'Apple'] |
Avoid These Mistakes If You Want to Use Influencer Marketing for Brand Growth
To say influencer marketing is hot right now would be the biggest understatement of the year. Everyone from the Kardashians to sports celebrities and video bloggers are promoting products and services to their audience. Influencer marketing ... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
What will it take to make a healthcare bot your new best friend? Digital Leaders Follow Mar 25 · 5 min read
Written by Antonella Bonanni, AVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Healthcare, Cognizant
Developers of smart speaker systems for healthcare consumers must address challenges like AI bias and human-centered applic... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'AI', 'Healthtech', 'Healthcare'] |
Thanks to Static Generation with data, we can now build out all of our blog post pages and routes at build time, which is great. What happens you write a new blog post? Everything was generated already at build time only, so you won’t see the new post if you refresh your browser. In this case, the best thing to do is r... | ['Nextjs', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Server Side Rendering', 'Web Development'] |
Of all of the exciting work taking place in the field of data science, the machine learning algorithm (MLA) is one of the technological advancements that has garnered the most attention — and, to many, it is the area of data science that holds the most promise for the future. However, as with all powerful technologies,... | ['Machine Learning', 'Berkeleyischool', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Predictive Policing', 'Ethics'] |
The Impacts of a 2°C Average Temperature Increase are Far More Significant than We Think
Recent decades have seen an increase in climate impacts, and scientists now know that most of this is from anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide. Anthony Horton explains why we humans need to pay attention NOW.
Photo credit: iStock
By An... | ['Humanity', 'Climate Action', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Carbon Emissions'] |
Data, indexes, and billing are all essentially the same in the consoles for both Firebase and Cloud. But the tab labeled “Rules” is special to Firebase. I’ll get to that in a bit. First, let’s talk about the client libraries that Firebase adds to Cloud Firestore.
SDKs for web and mobile apps
GCP provides SDKs for wor... | ['Firebase', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud'] |
CLIMATE CHANGE
Why Energy Efficiency Is A Big Deal
This less glamorous form of saving the planet is a low hanging fruit and is an activity where everyone can, and should, contribute.
There are multiple ways of reducing one's carbon footprint, but energy efficiency is not the one we normally talk about. Perhaps, it i... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Energy Efficiency', 'Climate Action', 'Carbon Emissions'] |
MAROW, Vanuatu
Mounds of heavy stones are all that protects Jeffrey Daniels’ home from the waves that wash onto tiny Emao, an island dotting the Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
But the makeshift dams can’t stop his village from flooding during fierce tropical cyclones, tidal surges, or simply a heavy downpour.
“When the ... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Activism', 'Humanitarian', 'Island'] |
A little over a year ago, we were challenged to present an idea on how to launch a health tech device in an already cluttered and rapidly growing marketplace. This opportunity forced us to get under the hood and think differently about one of the most complex problems in healthcare today: compliance and adherence to me... | ['Health', 'Healthcare', 'Healthtech', 'Connected Devices', 'Smart Devices'] |
We’ve all been here: “My resume is as polished as my grandma’s silverware”, “I apply to job posts online every single day”, “I even answer to calls by recruitment agencies” yet somehow, disappointment never fails to knock on the door. Fortunately, with a few simple changes to our resumes, and by using new “reverse job ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Job Search', 'Jobs', 'Job Hunting'] |
The Alternative
Remember the traffic sings I mentioned earlier? Now imagine a food label that gets the most important things across first: health hazards, risk contributors, things to take into consideration. Don’t speed. Park here. Stop.
A label one can glance over to get a basic idea of what they’re putting in thei... | ['Technology', 'Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Food', 'Culture'] |
I have always been apprehensive about trying to scrape my own data, and the fact that websites like Kaggle aggregate such high quality datasets has made learning this skill less of a need. However, the abundance of educational articles on data science on this platform have helped me make progress towards collecting my ... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Data Visualization', 'NFL'] |
Many of us are concerned about disagreements so prevalent in all aspects of society today. How can two rational people disagree given the same facts? Dealing this problem is difficult for everyone. Long ago I stopped trying to “help” everyone “see the light”. Seemed no matter what the facts, teaching something a person... | ['Society', 'Sanity', 'Mind'] |
When the Planet Becomes a Computer
A new study makes a surprising claim about the growth of data
Gerd Altman / Pixabay
Everyone knows the Internet is big, and getting bigger all the time.
It’s adding almost 200 million emails a minute, and 18 million text messages, and half a million Tweets, a quarter million Insta... | ['Humanity', 'Internet', 'Data', 'Future Technology', 'Science'] |
The Reality of Being a Woman is Terrifying
All I know is that wherever I am, I’m watching my back.
Photo by Maria Lysenko on Unsplash
It was the first cold day of the season. The sky was bright and clear but there was a crisp wind in the air that blew the freshly mowed grass around our street. It was late morning, a... | ['Equality', 'Women', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Feminism'] |
A$AP. Three 6 Mafia. Raider Klan. Wu-Tang. OFWGKTA. Some of these groups are defunct now, but the mark they left and influence they had is timeless and unforgettable. These groups have a specific identity, and when most fans know exactly who each member is, what they stand for and what their image is. Outside of the gr... | ['Names', 'Hip Hop', 'Music', 'Artist', 'Identity'] |
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Before diving into this blog, I recommend taking a look at my previous blog, where I introduce WebSocket APIs. From the article, you will find a high-level overview of how WebSockets APIs work and the main components of a WebSocket API. This blog will focus on the technologies and ste... | ['Socketio', 'Programming', 'Nodejs', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
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By Nightingale
Keep up with the latest from Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society Take a look | ['Dvsintl', 'Rédaction', 'Data Visualization', 'Dvsintro', 'Writing'] |
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked Democrats’ effort to quickly hold a vote on a stand-alone measure to increase stimulus payments from $600 to $2,000 on Tuesday. This move comes just one day after the House of Representatives passed the bill with bipartisan support.
Despite requests from Senator Minority ... | ['Equality', 'Justice', 'Economy', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
“The man is obviously crazy. Are we just here to watch him die?”
That’s what his friends asked themselves. The man is Philippe Petit.
On August 7th, 1974, he and his crew raised a steel cable between the two towers of the World Trade Center and then…he walked on it. For 45 minutes, 1,300 feet in the air. It was extre... | ['Growth', 'Productivity', 'Passion', 'Art', 'Self Improvement'] |
Samantha Keith
Thank you Alexis Brown & Unsplash for capturing creativity with these writers @alexisrbrown
Have you heard of the NBC show called THIS IS US? It’s one of the few shows on television that I actually sit down and watch. I love the characters and complexity of their relationships, both with themselves and... | ['Lifestyle', 'Unplug', 'Wellbeing', 'Life Lessons', 'Health'] |
How to Identify and Navigate Chaos in your Product Strategy
Imagine if the above didn’t have to happen…
We’ve all been there: the feeling of dread when nothing you’re doing seems to work, clients are angry, sales is furious, and you are swimming in a sea of feedback while being pulled in a million different direction... | ['Product Management', 'Tech', 'Software Development', 'Product', 'Startup'] |
Usually, many financial institutions are conservative by nature. They are always cautious about the big changes. However, the rapid spread of the blockchain has caught the attention of those institutions in recent years. They understood the power of blockchain technology and many large banks started to test and impleme... | ['Payments', 'Cashaa', 'Bitcoin', 'Future'] |
How To Alienate Your Data Science Team
How Businesses Can Use Data Science Teams Effectively
Photo by Helloquence on Unsplash
It’s perhaps an aphorism at this point that data science doesn’t work in a vacuum. Behind all of the fancy models there are realities that the models elucidate — the models serve reality, and... | ['Data Science', 'Management', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Organizational Culture'] |
An undirected and unweighted graph is the simplest form of a graph (besides a single node). It consists of two types of elements only: nodes, which can be thought of as points, and edges, which connect these points together. There is no idea of distance/cost or direction, which is why it is undirected and unweighted.
... | ['Coding', 'Computer Science', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
The deadlift is the meat-and-potatoes of strength training. It’s easy to do, doesn’t require fancy equipment and builds strength — lots of strength.
It’s how Hugh Jackman transformed into the Wolverine.
The deadlift works everything. Every muscle in your body is employed, especially the glutes, legs and — the importa... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Health', 'Life', 'Fitness'] |
The developers of the Cryptocurrencies have been working to introduce the revolutionary & much-needed feature of Atomic swaps for quite some time now. A broad-based implementation is still a little further down the road but the experimentation with the micro-level projects has shown the great potential of this feature.... | ['Economics', 'Finance', 'Future', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Facebook’s Libra & Bitcoin Are Chalk & Cheese
To the uninitiated, Facebook’s push to launch its own cryptocurrency was seen as a boost for other cryptocurrencies — nothing could be further from the truth.
Standard and non-standard disclaimers apply. (Image by Simon Steinberger from Pixabay.)
On a hot summer’s evenin... | ['Finance', 'Facebook', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Causes of Migraine in Men
It’s important to understand that a migraine is not the same as a regular headache. The symptoms, which involve pulsating pain that begins on one side of the head, nausea, sensitivity to external stimuli, and may or may not have a preceding aura, are vastly different from a headache.
The aur... | ['Gender Stereotypes', 'Health', 'Education', 'Gender Equality', 'Culture'] |
There’s a huge problem in business right now: the best prioritizers, decision makers, visionaries, and “shapers” use their abilities to disproportionately benefit themselves. Deciding “what’s next” is one of the most difficult parts of leadership, but there are very few resources on making good mid and long term decisi... | ['Leadership', 'Software Engineering', 'Software', 'Software Development', 'Engineering Mangement'] |
Poetry and the hustle of culture of entrepreneurship seem to be diametrically opposed. Startups, bootstrappers, and hustlers spend every spare moment doing. Poets and poetry readers spend hours in quiet contemplation, ostentatiously not doing.
But, what if the poets hold a secret that could make you a better entrepren... | ['Business', 'Problem Solving', 'Poetry', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
Recent research in road network extraction (1, 2, 3) has chipped away at the ever challenging task of identifying routable networks from overhead imagery. The recent SpaceNet 5 Challenge further pushed the envelope by extracting not only routable networks, but travel time estimates for each detected roadway. Unsurprisi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Computer Vision', 'Geospatial', 'Satellite Imagery'] |
Before continuing the analysis let me familiarise you with some keywords related to a dataset which I will be using from here on. Any dataset has the following characteristics-
Datapoint/Vector/Observation- Each row in the data frame is a data point or an observation. It is one of the instances that has been recorded.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
The Safe, Boring, and Extremely Cheap Drug That Could Cure Aging
Forget Silicon Valley biotech wonderdrugs. Leading gerontologists are making a historic bet on metformin.
Old age is, we know, a gauntlet of chronic illness that almost no one gets through without some deep unpleasantness. Most people who reach the uppe... | ['Health', 'Drug', 'Youth Now', 'Aging', 'Metformin'] |
Already, we’re preparing the ducking stool for Amber Heard
It’s difficult to extract the truth, but there’s a familiar pattern.
Opinion pieces denouncing Heard and portraying her as the abuser in her former relationship with Johnny Depp are springing up again, with the takeaway that finally “the truth” has been uncov... | ['Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Abuse', 'Domestic Violence', 'Celebrity'] |
Inviting The Changes at Scene & Heard
August 17th 2018
Dear Sentients,
Following up on my last letter without ado, I would like to deliver the news about the changes that have been made at Scene & Heard.
We want to provide the best possible media platforms for our readership and contributors. To achieve this object... | ['Letters', 'Writing', 'Thesceneandheard', 'Art', 'News'] |
MARKETING
Pricing as a Marketing Tool
“Pricing is branding.” — Richie Norton
Photo by Anne Preble on Unsplash
In his book The Archaeology of Knowledge, French philosopher Michel Foucault discusses the idea that everything has origins and begins at a certain point in time. It’s an intriguing thought because it promp... | ['Ideas', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Pricing', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
Code
Let’s now dive into the code!
Of course, we start from main.dart, declaring the main method and some theming rules.
Note that we will set the DeviceOrientation to Portrait Up, cause we don’t want to deal with the mess that happens if the device orientation changed.
Pretty simple.
Now let’s take a look at MyAp... | ['UI Design', 'Dart', 'Google', 'Flutter Ui', 'Flutter'] |
An under-appreciated concept in JavaScript is how objects and functions are references, and that directly impacts React performance. If you were to create two functions that are completely identical, they are still not equal. Try for yourself:
But check out the difference if you assign a variable to an already-existin... | ['Reactjs', 'Web Development', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Performance'] |
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Introduction
WhatsApp is a messaging app created by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009. Currently, it’s owned by Facebook, that acquired the app in 2014. In Brazil, WhatsApp is almost ubiquitous, installed on 99% of Brazilian smartphones.
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Whats... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Programming', 'WhatsApp'] |
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Get some perspective
“An attempt to understand the mind of another person, whether a stranger, your spouse, or your customer, is unlikely to benefit from imagining yourself in that person’s shoes and guessing what that person feels or wants. Accurately understanding other people requires ... | ['Experience Design', 'Engineering', 'Startup Life'] |
So, what do we do about eco-anxiety?
The day I began this essay, I went on a long walk at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, where all the photos in this essay were taken. I knew I wanted to address the topic of eco-anxiety, but wasn’t sure what I wanted to write or what advice I would share. So I looked to nature for inspira... | ['Self', 'Climate Change', 'Mental Health', 'Nature', 'Anxiety'] |
Facebook vows to block ads on election day; here’s why it won’t make a difference. Polina Kroik Follow Oct 14 · 5 min read
With the presidential elections less than a month away, concerns about Facebook’s influence on its outcome are again in the headlines. Following the President’s call for his supporters “to go into... | ['Elections', 'Technology', 'Advertising', 'Facebook', 'Social Media'] |
Leave No One Behind : Prikshit Kumar, SDE — III (Backend) on how the tech team demonstrates this unwritten code of conduct every day at Meesho Mangala Dilip Follow Jun 26 · 5 min read
When we interview our star Meeshoites every week, the one topic that always comes up is the amount of personal and professional growth ... | ['Backend', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Tech', 'Meesho'] |
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Running and smoking cigarettes — I’d be hard-pressed to find two more diametrically opposed habits if I tried.
And yet, for several years, I’ve done both.
I’ve been an on-and-off smoker for over a decade, and an on-and-off runner for the past few years. Normally these habits haven’t o... | ['Health', 'Smoking', 'Running', 'Fitness', 'Self Improvement'] |
In the new X men movie, Professor Xavier’s ability to read minds, and control people, is acknowledged as the most special ability.
This is not because his abilities are awesome or cool, which they are, but because those abilities allows the Professor to absorb other peoples pain, without suffering under it.
It allows... | ['Work', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
I first joined Doctors Without Borders in 2011, when my baby girl was just one year old. As a mother of three it was a difficult decision to leave my family for six weeks, but I knew my skills could go a long way in an area like southern Sudan.
It was easier for the little ones, they don’t really have a sense of time ... | ['Health', 'Pregnancy', 'South Sudan', 'Womens Health', 'Cooking'] |
Welcome to the AnalogFolk weekly social news roundup, a weekly collection of the best social news of the week, compiled by our Social media manager, Rachael Bennett.
More Instagram ‘likes’ tests
Following an initial test earlier this year, Instagram has expanded their ‘hidden likes’ test to six more countries. The re... | ['Social Media', 'Facebook', 'News', 'Instagram'] |
The Agony of Grief When Death Is Close to Home
No more limbo, no more not knowing
I’m still walking with you (Source: Tumisa on Pixabay)
This story unfolded here on Tuesday.
I wrote I could handle whatever happened, but I’m struggling with the reality.
My brother passed on at Noon SAST Friday 18 October 2019.
I w... | ['Healing', 'Health', 'Family', 'Life', 'Grief'] |
Hey there, since you’re here then i guess you would like to have your story published on Techtrument.
Techtrument simply showcases awesome stuff written by really cool people mostly in tech. From code tutorials to experiences, DIYs and other really useful and cool information.
To submit stories to be published, simpl... | ['Growth', 'Tech', 'Publication', 'JavaScript', 'Writing'] |
By Daniel Sullivan, Duke University Medical Center; Roderic Pettigrew, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; Richard Cavanagh, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Shadi Mamaghani, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Among the Cancer Moonshot initiative goa... | ['Health', 'Medical Imaging', 'Cancer Moonshot', 'Cancer', 'White House'] |
I watch myself upon the telescreen
and wonder on which story I am based —
a cause without its brother, traitor, queen,
a rebel only downward from the waist.
The rocket bombs paint grey my hometown sky,
the shrieking sirens scatter through the smoke,
the streets beneath me reek of death, and I
can only mourn the ... | ['Current Events', 'Awareness', 'Poetry', 'Self Reflection', 'Society'] |
We are currently in the seventh month of a global pandemic. I think I can safely say no one is enjoying it. The quicker this ends the better. One of the most important tools the medical field has when it comes to mitigating the spread of a virus is vaccination. However, vaccinations don’t work if no one gets vaccinated... | ['Machine Learning', 'Pandas', 'Python', 'Classification', 'Data Science'] |
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