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Enter Coletiv. They are a new tech company that approached us and we both saw an opportunity to create something special without compromising our identity.
Coletiv’s vision aligns perfectly with ours: to deliver quality driven products.
The first project we took together ran perfectly fine. Their developers are not o... | ['Strategy', 'Technology', 'Business', 'Design'] |
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Installing and Running Tensorflow-GPU using Anaconda on Windows
How to install Tensorflow-GPU on Windows 10
Requirements; Anaconda, A PC with Windows 10 OS, Internet connection and at least 1GB of data.
1. Run Anaconda
If you do not have Anaconda installed, you can download it from here and install then search for ... | ['Anaconda', 'Python', 'Windows 10', 'Deep Learning', 'TensorFlow'] |
A common problem while developing a machine-learning model is overfitting. Besides, generalizing a model is a practical requirement. Otherwise, what’s the use of developing a machine-learning model if you cannot use it to make a successful prediction beyond the data a model was trained on. Generalization and overfittin... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Tensorflow2', 'Data Science'] |
Dash is an ideal Python based front-end for your Databricks Spark Backend plotly Follow Jun 23 · 6 min read
📌 Learn how to deliver AI for Big Data using Dash & Databricks this recorded webinar with Peter Kim of Plotly and Prasad Kona of Databricks.
We’re delighted to announce that Plotly and Databricks are partnerin... | ['Databricks', 'Dash', 'Spark', 'AI', 'Machine Learning'] |
Introduction
Time series is a stretch of values on the same scale indexed by a time that occurs naturally in many application areas such as environmental, economics and finance, and medicine. The aim of time series analysis is to formulate time series data in order to gain insight into past and likely future events.
... | ['Forecasting', 'Hamoye Features', 'Hamoye Latest', 'Weather', 'Lstm'] |
Martin Chilton
Photo: Simon Fowler © Mercury Songs Ltd
Long before he started his solo work with theand albums, Freddie Mercury understood the power of music videos. His work with Queen included two of rock’s most groundbreaking promos: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and ‘I Want To Break Free’, and the best Freddie Mercury vide... | ['Pop Culture', 'Culture', 'Lists', 'Videos', 'Music'] |
Why Mac Miller’s last album, Swimming, is the most underrated of 2018
“What I’m always trying to do is make something that you start from the beginning and wanna listen all the way through”. How many artists could say they have this aim in mind on every album they make?
(Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italian... | ['2018', 'Swimming', 'Music Discovery', 'Mac Miller', 'Music'] |
Written by
Matthew Donnellon is a writer, artist, and sit down comedian. He is the author of The Curious Case of Emma Lee and Other Stories. | ['Poetry On Medium', 'Creative Writing', 'Creativity', 'Poetry', 'Life'] |
From $80,000 to $800 To $8,000 Per Annum
My Work Story — The Fall and The Rise of My Income Graph
In Picture: Author, Captured By: Author
It is easy to go from making $80K per year to $800 per year. Leave your high-paying job, hunt for something more satisfying, struggle to make ends meet, and you’ve got yourself a ... | ['Work', 'Life Lessons', 'Freelancing', 'Money', 'Creativity'] |
Binyamin Applebaum’s new book questions the wisdom of unfettered free market capitalism.
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
In his new book, The Economist’s Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, New York Times editorial writer, Binyamin Applebaum, tells the story of the rise of unfettered f... | ['Politics', 'Business', 'Books', 'Economics', 'Government'] |
In the past month I’ve visited two cities — Barcelona and Beijing — pursuing drastically different directions to the smart, technology-enabled city of the future. I know which of the urban visions I prefer; and I know which one I think will prevail.
There is no doubt that digital tech, in the form of big data, interne... | ['Smart Cities', 'Technology', 'Citizen Engagement', 'Future', 'Surveillance'] |
1. Install Google Tag Manager to your website
In order to start creating tags and collect some data, we need to install the Google Tag Manager (GTM) tag into our site’s source code. In the menu bar of your GTM container, you will find your container ID. When you click it, a pop-up should appear, like the following ima... | ['Digital Analytics', 'Google', 'Digital', 'Digital Marketing', 'Google Tag Manager'] |
In the modern world, it is impossible to push forward the progress on your own. Leading researchers and research labs join dedicated communities to share their knowledge and best practices and to find answers to long-standing problems. In healthcare, one of such communities of researchers is OHDSI — and in this blog po... | ['Health', 'Data Science', 'Healthcare', 'Pharmaceutical', 'Medicine'] |
Scrum
As I mentioned earlier, the most common frameworks in the most common frameworks are Scrum and Kanban. If you are interested more in Kanban, I recommend reading about it from the Atlassian website: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban.
Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. Scrum... | ['Scrum', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'Software Engineering', 'Tutorial'] |
John Egan | Pinterest engineer, Growth
This past summer we launched News, a digest of recent activity of the people you follow. News was built by the Growth team in just two months, and delivered a significant impact in engagement as it helped people discover new content. Here, I outline our strategy, our metrics-driv... | ['Growth', 'Pinterest', 'Engineering'] |
Why Your Sporty Teenager’s Knee May Be Hurting
If they participate in sports, it could be Osgood-Schlatters disease
A father of one of your children's basketball friends gives you a call out of the blue. Their fourteen-year-old has suddenly developed a bump on their left knee. It’s painful and is restricting their ch... | ['Sports', 'Injury', 'Teens', 'Health', 'Athletes'] |
Coding at Night
Coding at night has been very effective for me
Image source: chenspec on Pixabay
As a programmer, I generally prefer to start coding after dinner and into the wee hours of the morning before heading to sleep at almost all weekends. While working in the salon, which made me so tired during the day, I ... | ['Programming', 'Women In Tech', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Learning To Code'] |
New Age Spirituality Practitioners Should Stop the Propaganda
If not wearing a mask makes you “woke,” you’re in dire need of a nap
Photo by Elisabeth Wales on Unsplash
I’m a spiritual person. I pray, talk to my ancestors, perform New Moon rituals, and believe in scripting. But, it irks me how some spiritual influenc... | ['Covid 19', 'Spirituality', 'Culture', 'Health', 'Pandemic'] |
What Not to Do When Preparing for Technical Interviews
Mistakes I’ve made preparing for technical interviews
Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
Technical interviews can be super challenging. Very few people enjoy getting in front of a whiteboard to solve a tough coding question. That said, many companies u... | ['Life Lessons', 'Software Engineering', 'Business', 'Data Science', 'Technology'] |
João Gilberto
When João Gilberto passed away in July 2019, we lost someone who was responsible for creating an entire style of music-making.
Bossa Nova, which literally means new trend or new wave came from two sources — samba and jazz. Samba, a national symbol of Brazil, is a musical genre and dance style that has i... | ['Las Vegas Philharmonic', 'California Symphony', 'Donato Cabrera', 'João Gilberto', 'Music'] |
The democratization of data access and usage in the enterprise is underway. Establishing data governance and organization-wide information management becomes a must.
Metadata management allows the end-to-end traceability, from data sourcing to data consumption. This traceability is required for personal data by regula... | ['Analytics', 'Big Data', 'Traceability', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Fast plotting with Pandas
Quickly visualize your data with these simple built-in functions
One of Pandas’ best features is the built-in plot function available on its Series and DataFrame objects.
But the official tutorial for plotting with Pandas assumes you’re already familiar with Matplotlib, and is relatively un... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pandas'] |
Del Bao, Software engineer, Ads Infrastructure
Guodong Han and Jian Fang, Software engineers, Serving System
The Pinterest ads team’s mission is to provide the best experience for both Pinners and advertisers. Our ads system is a real-time bidding system that delivers targeted ads based on a variety of attributes. On... | ['Adtech', 'Ads', 'Rocksdb', 'Infrastructure', 'Engineering'] |
This article is co-authored by John Carpenter, artist and spatial interaction designer at Oblong Industries.
Our ongoing exploration of the ways that IBM Watson® services can make sense of large datasets led us to a demonstration of exploring a live corpus of English language news stories from around the world. During... | ['Immersive Storytelling', 'Ibm Watson', 'Data Visualization', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Other than 3V’s!
Well, it is common and you all must be aware that Big Data is mainly defined by 3V’s i.e, variety, velocity, and volume.
VOLUME: The amount of data is huge.
VARIETY: Contains multiple forms of data.
VELOCITY: Huge amount of streaming data is continuously analyzed in near real-time.
But there is so... | ['Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Data Analysis'] |
What is a Less? and Why use?.💻
Less Introduction😉
Less History
LESS is a CSS pre-processor that enables customizable, manageable and reusable style sheet for the website. LESS is a dynamic style sheet language that extends the capability of CSS. LESS is also cross-browser friendly.
CSS Preprocessor is a scripting... | ['Web Development', 'UI', 'Coding', 'Design', 'Web Design'] |
1. Reduce Context Switch Before the Task Is Completed
This all makes sense and is reasonable until deadlines approach. Chances are, you always have managers to report to or customers to respond to. A missed deadline would be a sour blemish on your performance report. Whenever I see newly hired developers still trying ... | ['Leadership', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Learning To Code'] |
For companies not natively “born in the Cloud”, getting from a Product to a Service is a journey somewhat similar to a multi-day mountain trek. There are several trails leading to the peak — some are shorter and steeper but require more skill while others will take longer, but don’t require so much experience.
In the ... | ['DevOps', 'Cloud Services', 'SaaS', 'Engineering', 'Digital Transformation'] |
What It Means For A Nation To Fall
How historians understand the collapse of empires
“The history of empires is the history of human misery.”
― Edward Gibbon
On the 29th of May, 1453 CE, Ottoman forces led by Mehmed II entered the city of Constantinople and conquered it. Before the conquest of Constantinople, the R... | ['Society', 'Culture', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'World'] |
FORT COLLINS — Clashing xylophones, the bellows of kids screaming, combined with water trickling down the statue of eagles sets the stage for many casual pianists in Fort Collins. Pianos can be found downtown and other various locations in the city thanks to the Bohemian Foundation and other charitable organizations, b... | ['Downtown', 'Players', 'Instruments', 'Piano', 'Music'] |
Causal Inference in Data Science: A/B Testing and the need for Marginal Structural Modeling
Required Adjustment of A/B Tests via G-Methods in the Presence of Informative Censoring
Photo by Arnold Francisca on Unsplash
1: Background and Motivation
Causal Inference is of interest to a wide range of practitioners incl... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Editors Pick'] |
YOOHOO…Champ! You made it this far! You are absolutely amazing
Let’s use the stack class
The first thing we have to do is to instantiate the stack class we created.
//instantiating the stack
let stack = new Stack()
Next, we can add some items (we push 1 and 2, we can push any item to the stack)
//pushing a new it... | ['Angular', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Vue', 'Data Structures'] |
A constraint, by definition, is a limitation or restriction on something. A water restriction is a constraint on agricultural production, as is the limited number of hours in a day on productivity. The general energy when someone utters the word “constraint” immediately shifts to crisis mode, as something has to have g... | ['Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Design Thinking', 'Business'] |
Several weeks ago, a colleague of mine showed a lovely plot to display a value for certain group of data. I can’t show you the number because it’s work related, but here’s the snapshot of the plot.
Believe me guys, there’s supposed to be number beside each plot!
In my opinion, this is brilliant. It is aesthetically p... | ['Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science'] |
The Exhibit of American Negroes
Exposition des Nègres d’Amerique, Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
“The Exhibit of American Negroes” at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris was create... | ['Design', 'Dvhistory', 'African American History', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Here’s a Code Recipe to check whether a variable or value is either an array or not. You can use the Array.isArray() method. For older browser, you can use the polyfill 👍
const variable = ['🍝', '🍜', '🍲']; // ✅ NEWER BROWSER
Array.isArray(variable); // 🕰 OLDER BROWSER
Object.prototype.toString.call(variable) ===... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Javascript Tips'] |
An art museum in the south of France recently made headlines when an art historian discovered that a whopping 60% of its collection is fake.
A museum dedicated to Étienne Terrus, one of the forerunners of the fauvist movement was established in his hometown Elne, near the French border with Spain. When an independent ... | ['Art', 'Law', 'Forgery', 'Psychology', 'Copyright'] |
“The punk music of England was informative,” guitarist Dr. Know said in the 2012 documentary Bad Brains: A Band In D.C., “but it was more like, you know, ‘Fuck this, fuck that.’ We wanted to try and give an alternative and unify the people: ‘Yes, we can make a change if we unify people,’ as opposed to just saying, you ... | ['Revolution', 'Punk Rock', 'Reggae', 'Black', 'Music'] |
All the Small Things: How mastering small things is the key to mastering big things Daniel Villa Follow Nov 13 · 5 min read
Photo by an_vision on Unsplash
Gravity operates equally on the apple as the heavenly bodies. The same little force that nonchalantly plucks the apple to the ground is responsible for tethering t... | ['Career Advice', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
in From the Desk of the Nerd Legion | ['People', 'Humor', 'Comics', 'Life', 'Podcast'] |
Decision Trees: As You Should Have Learned Them
A Step by Step Guide
Photo by Omar Ram on Unsplash
If you always wanted to learn decision trees, just by reading this, you’ve received a beautiful opportunity, a stroke of luck, I might say. But as entrepreneurs declare, “it’s not enough to be in the right place; you a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Turn the devils in the details into your minions
4 things that every development team need to mind
Learn to restrain the devils in the details and clear your path toward productivity and shared understanding
No one like a software development team knows that the devils are in the details. But it is not enough. they ... | ['Scrum', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'Team', 'Productivity'] |
I Google it and sure enough, dozens of headlines appear on the subject. Many people have already written about it from every possible angle. It’s already covered. Why should I bullshit about it, likely with a lot less authority than some of these people, when it’s already been done before?
Few things kill creativity f... | ['Creativity'] |
Photo by BRUNO CERVERA on Unsplash
Do you ever drink coffee and feel like it just didn’t work?
If so, you’re not alone. The way most people drink coffee, being right after waking up, is not optimal.
But we’ve got you covered. We’ve researched and experimented and found out the best times to drink coffee.
So without... | ['Nutrition', 'Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life'] |
A MESSAGE FOR EARLY ADOPTERS
Apple’s beta software is shiny and new, but is it worth the early access?
If you rely on your devices for anything important, wait for the public release
Remember that quote from The Lion King about the shadowy place? Mufasa was most certainly talking about beta software.
Every June, Ap... | ['Beta', 'Software Development', 'Apple', 'iOS', 'Mac'] |
Refactoring the frond-end
It is quite easy to break the whole server-side rendering process. Whenever a piece of JavaScript references anything browser related, an error is thrown, and you are left with only client-side rendering. We had to make considerable changes on our front-end code base, because the code was nev... | ['V8', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Universal Javascript', 'Server Side Rendering'] |
Executive Summary
By applying the intervention analysis technique on Punchh’s customer behavior data, we are able to quantify the economic value of the Punchh-powered loyalty program. For a particular business client, we have found that, by pausing the signup campaigns, they have failed to acquire 22% of new customers... | ['SaaS', 'Loyalty', 'Econometrics', 'Punchh', 'AI'] |
Now, let’s simulate different scenarios in Python to visualize the different outcomes if the player kept betting continuously.
1.Import the required libraries
#Import libraries
import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
2.We need a dice simulator which throws a value from 1–100 with uniform probability distribu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Data'] |
Jason: Before we jump into your phone, I’d like to hear your story! You worked at Microsoft as an AI Product Manager; you worked at WeWork -you’re going to have to tell me what a Chief Evangelist is, by the way. Now you’re off to do your own thing with Guide. What gave you the entrepreneurial spark to start your own co... | ['Remote Working', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Startups'] |
Allopathic Environmentalism ~ Water
The water cycles
by Tommy Takacs from Pixabay
Part 1. — Fundamentalism, the lipid cycle, and how nutrition is essentially about communication.
Part 2. — The carbon cycles
PART 3. — THE WATER CYCLES
Part 4. — Conclusions and strategies ~ resilience
Now the sun, moving as it doe... | ['Trees', 'Water', 'Climate Change', 'Carbon', 'Environment'] |
Would you believe me if i said that the DOM is just a visual representation of our HTML ? This means we can change the document structure, style and content without impacting our hard coded HTML 🤯.
Mind blown
Well here you are, having stumbled upon my blog, maybe your’e a fellow Flatiron student beginning, in the mi... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Engineering', 'How To', 'Dom', 'Flatiron School'] |
Submission Guidelines For ‘R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 Concert At Madison Square Garden’ Magazine
Submissions must be unique and well organized, just like the band’s setlist on June 23, 1995 at Madison Square Garden.
Illustration by Louis Sobol
Here at ‘R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 Concert At Madison Square Gar... | ['Satire', 'Humor', 'Concerts', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Music'] |
My Never-Ending Migraine
Finding effective treatments for migraines is its own headache
Credit: smartboy10/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty
I was somewhere between my midtown Manhattan office and the subway station on Broadway when I first noticed the pain. The left side of my head felt like it was hit by a mallet — not ... | ['Health', 'Drugs', 'Pain', 'Migraines', 'Treatment'] |
Lecture in Progress is three; evolving from inspirational editorial platform to impactful careers engine
An update on how we’re helping emerging talent understand the creative industry, find opportunities and work in a healthy and fulfilling way.
Three years ago we launched Lecture in Progress. A free resource to emp... | ['Careers', 'Creative Industry', 'Creative Careers', 'Creativity', 'Education'] |
Photo credit: Columbia Records
It’s officially not summer anymore (AKA fall), which means I am immediately panicking and clutching my summer playlists and albums to my neck. What better way to pay tribute to a mostly wretched summer 2020 than by ranking the tracks on HAIM’s latest album, Women in Music Pt. III?
A rec... | ['Rock', 'Pop Music', 'Review', 'Pop Rock', 'Music'] |
Count Items in Python With the Help of Counter Objects
The easy way to count objects in a data container
Photo by Djim Loic on Unsplash
The Premise
When we deal with data containers, such as tuples and lists, in Python we often need to count particular elements. One common way to do this is to use the count() funct... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
My landlord was blind as a bat for 20 years.
He would ignore you on the street, squint at everything around him such that people thought that he was upset, and type with his face to the keyboard.
He had a problem.
However, somehow, through some stupid bullshit, he managed to own about 8 pairs of glasses which are st... | ['Health', 'Humor', 'Lifestyle', 'Short Story', 'Life'] |
by Christoph Nedopil [1] and Erik Solheim [2]
COVID-19: making a once-in-a-lifetime crisis into a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Europe
Europe’s prospects could not be better, but, its challenges have rarely been greater:
First, there is the economic and social stress, unemployment, feeling of lack of progress a... | ['Covid 19', 'Green', 'Recovery', 'Europe', 'Future'] |
Attempt 1: useRef()
If you have a functional component, you might reach for useRef() like you would in React… However, you might be surprised when your attempt doesn’t work.
import React, { useRef } from 'react';
const EditableField = () => { const myElement = useRef(); const onModalClose = () => {
myElement .cur... | ['React Native', 'Software Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Accessibility', 'Code'] |
The New QVirtualScroll Component
Showing lots of data, really fast!
QVirtualScroll with the list option.
The new QVirtualScroll component recently brought out in version 1.1.0 of Quasar was created due to the popular demand of the community. Many had been asking for a more performant way to display lots of data.
Im... | ['Quasarframework', 'Front End Development', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs', 'Frontend'] |
Evaluation of sentence embeddings in downstream and linguistic probing tasks
So I was reading this paper and it opened Pandora’s box for me. Ideally, we want an embedding model which gives us the smallest embedding vector and works great for the task. The smaller the embedding size, the lesser the compute required for... | ['Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Premature optimisation is the root of all evil
TL:DR
Fast software, means fast enough to solve the problem it was meant to solve, as a result:
Only optimise a piece of software to the point where it is fast enough for the business.
To reach that level of performance, apply the following:
Write your code in a way t... | ['Software Development', 'Technology', 'Optimization', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
This blog post shows how to start a very simple bokeh server application programmatically. For more complex examples, or for the more standard command line interface, see the Bokeh documentation.
Motivation
Many people know Bokeh as a tool for building web visualizations from languages like Python. However I find tha... | ['Python', 'Open Source', 'Data Science', 'Bokeh', 'Data Visualization'] |
How to use Harbor to increase security on your platform
Learn how you can include Harbor in your DevSecOps toolset to increase the security and management on your container-based platform
Photo by Youngje Park on Unsplash
With the transition to a more agile development process where the number of deployment has been... | ['Software Development', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Containers', 'DevOps'] |
How to Set Up Tailwind CSS V2.0 With Next.js 10
Use the new Tailwind CSS and Next.js in your React project
Photo by TJ K. on Unsplash.
In the last months of 2020, a couple of great framework updates have been released. First was the release of Next.js 10, which came with a lot of nice features, like the new image co... | ['Programming', 'Tailwind Css', 'Nextjs', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
Step out of this cybernetic society
Nowadays harsh control key
No commitment absentee
Brittle Wi-Fi connectivity
Detached sensitivity
Being lonely discontinuity
Dumped on survival with nobody
Present era would inspire tragedy
To any modern Shakespeare wannabe | ['Poetry', 'Feelings', 'Emotions', 'Society', 'Blue Insights'] |
How to Answer “Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?” In an Interview Sarah Seweryniak Follow Dec 16 · 4 min read
Why employers ask this question and how to ace it
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” is a question that requires you to outline your intentions for the future. Interviews can be intimidating. P... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Careers', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
These steps are for Mac OS X (I am running OS X 10.13 High Sierra), and for Python 3.6.
1. Start a new Conda environment
You can install Anaconda and if you already have it, start a new conda environment using conda create -n pyspark_env python=3 This will create a new conda environment with latest version of Python ... | ['Python', 'API', 'Spark', 'Data', 'Programming'] |
Fingerprints of Future Funk: Toshiki Kadomatsu and After 5 Clash
The Japanese guitarist’s fourth album, After 5 Clash marked his sonic evolution while laying the foundation for future funk.
For five weeks in 1983, pop singer Anri had the biggest song in Japan. “Cat’s Eye,” the lead track from her 1983 sixth studio al... | ['Internet Culture', 'Future Funk', 'Music', 'Japan', 'Disco'] |
It’s Time To Get Excited About Blue Ammonia
Pursuing a green future through blue fuel
Saudi Arabia is shipping tons of a new energy source to Japan. (Wiki Commons)
Hydrogen has long been speculated to be the future of clean energy for the world economy. Despite its massive potential, the creation of hydrogen fuel ce... | ['Science', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Green Energy', 'Climate Change'] |
(How do you get hair like that?) | ['Adele', 'Music', 'Music Videos'] |
In addition to the 68 facial feature points, we also need to select some points outside of the face to include the background into the morphing frames. To make sure the background is included, we need to select at least 4 points (4 corners), here we will use 8 points (4 corners + 4 center points from each edge) to make... | ['Computer Vision', 'Morph', 'Triangulation'] |
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
The lemurs are back! This time they’ve come for a special Christmas-themed adventure about how Christmas scales, using practical lessons in holid... | ['Christmas', 'Scalability', 'DevOps', 'AWS', 'Developer'] |
Erik Gomez | Pinterest engineer, IT Client Platform
Over the last year, Pinterest IT has been moving away from traditional device management frameworks to an almost completely open source model. Our team’s goal is to make minimal user roadblocks while also maintaining a secure and safe platform for employees. While we... | ['Platform', 'Chef', 'Open Source', 'Engineering', 'DevOps'] |
With the Functional Architecture with React and Redux book, you are going to experience the functional programming style by developing several applications with an incremental level of complexity. I encourage you to write all these applications yourself.
Functional programming is a programming paradigm that promotes t... | ['Redux', 'Functional Programming', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
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The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has a new definition of pain.
“An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.”
The IASP also added 6 key Notes and the etymology of the word pa... | ['Pain', 'Research', 'Health', 'Healthcare', 'Thoughts'] |
Costly Mistakes: Why We Had to Abandon Firebase
And with it, 3 years of work.
Photo by Nick Jio on Unsplash
The year was 2018. We were about to graduate. We had a great idea which we thought would make us billionaires (spoiler: It didn’t).
But once a great mind said that a great idea itself doesn’t count. You need ... | ['NoSQL', 'Firebase', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
In this post we develop some extensions to further improve our customer segmentation model.
As analysts/data scientists/research or applied scientists we are always looking for ways to improve the performance of our models. It is important to always look at the context of the improvement that we need. In part 2 of thi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Clustering', 'Feature Engineering', 'Data Science'] |
Living a Life You Love, or Coping with Circumstances?
Be aware of which applies to you, and you can choose to change.
Reshot
Are you living a life you love?
Looking back over 65 years, I have had long periods when I have lived a life I love. Other times it has felt like I am merely coping with the circumstances tha... | ['Purpose', 'Love', 'Life', 'Creativity', 'Human Behavior'] |
It has been a busy year for Nicolás Jaar. The producer returned to his roots with a mid-tempo industrial noise album in February, before turning that on its head with Cenizas in March. This had always been a part of the plan, it seems. The gloomy latter piece was rendered a detox of negativity — one last hack to soak i... | ['Nicolas Jaar', 'Music', 'Album Review', 'Chile'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>
Oct. 18, 2016: Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail.
“How do we respond to threats after our Hillary endorsement? This is how”: With grace, dignity and steely resolve. The Arizona Republic publishes in a Republican stronghold — an... | ['Trump', 'Data', 'Media', 'Investigative Journalism', 'Journalism'] |
1. Coding
A software is a piece of code (along with documents). So, first, learn how to code. Just pick any language. I would suggest to go with Python or C++ (just basics no OOP). Also, spend some time learning HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript (again, just the basics). It won’t hurt.
Mastering OOP is essential for any... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Careers', 'Programming', 'Career Advice'] |
The statistical tests
Step 4: Now it’s time to do the statistical tests. We will use a two-sample t-test (since our group are independent) to test if the mean value of any of these 4 features (i.e. sepal length, sepal width, petal length, petal width) is statistically different between the 2 groups of flowers (setosa ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Visualization', 'Box Plot', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
How Culture Shapes Our Minds
The Fight Against Preconception
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
Do not get me wrong, I agree with multiculturalism in a society full of differences. Though what is undeniable is that culture has and does shape our minds, even without our consent. It is hard to believe how a simple th... | ['Vision', 'Philosophy Of Mind', 'Human History', 'Culture', 'Neuroscience'] |
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When your freelancer profile on Upwork is optimized, you’re bound to come up in more searches by clients looking for exactly what you offer. The more invites to jobs you get, the more discerning you can be about the work you take on and, of course, the more money you’ll earn. It’s always more lu... | ['Business', 'Remote Working', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Job Hunting', 'Freelancing'] |
Which research fields have emerged in the last years? A machine learning approach Antonio Campello Follow Jun 30 · 6 min read
With a science portfolio of over £3.5bn (as of March 2020), the Wellcome Trust has funded research responsible for at least tens of thousands of academic publications in the last 5 years alone.... | ['Research', 'Machine Learning', 'Clustering', 'Funding'] |
Delivering Great Customer Service
The Importance of Paying Attention To Your Clients
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It was Sunday, my day off. One of only 2 days to decompress and get all of my personal things done. The phone rang. It was an attorney from my firm calling because she couldn’t log on to our network ... | ['Work', 'Customer Service', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Client Relationship'] |
One of the country’s most iconic record labels was modeled off of the main moneymakers in its hometown of Detroit, Michigan: the auto industry. “I wanted to have a kid off the street walk in one door unknown… and come out another door a star, like an assembly line,” label founder Berry Gordy told the Telegraph in 2016.... | ['Motown', 'Marvin Gaye', 'Music', 'Soul Music', 'Rhythm And Blues'] |
Basic Syntax
As Markdown gained popularity, a variety of different flavors and specifications of it came into existence.
Examples include Common Mark, GitHub Flavored Markdown and Markdown Extra. But the basic elements that were outlined in John Gruber’s original design document are supported by all applications.
Ma... | ['Programming', 'Design', 'Software Development', 'Markdown', 'Web Development'] |
Swishahouse Records was founded as an independent label in 1997 that initially specialized in releasing mixtapes made by DJs who slowed down, scratched over, and remixed top-40 songs. From there, they released albums by artists including Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, and Slim Thug. Much like Beyoncé releasing ... | ['Music', 'Rap', 'Pop Culture', 'Houston', 'Feminism'] |
Early cryptocurrency exchanges sought ways to emulate the traditional exchanges, perhaps as a means to bring familiarity to a budding and mysterious asset class. However, this has often stifled innovation despite the virtually unlimited potential offered by the cryptocurrencies’ underlying technology. More recently wha... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Vue.js is a progressive framework created in 2014 by Evan You that allows you to build user interfaces. If you come from a React background, learning Vue will be easy, the concepts stay the same. But if you’re used to pure JavaScript or jQuery, well, things are going to be way different here!
Indeed, it’s a pain to ma... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Vuejs'] |
Ryan Cooke | Android Engineer, Core Experience
It’s a big decision to start using Kotlin in your app. Right now, Kotlin may be nearing the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” in the Hype Cycle. You can find endless quality blogs, podcasts and videos on the virtues of Kotlin. For this post let’s assume you understand the b... | ['Kotlin', 'Engineering', 'Pinterest', 'Android'] |
Dear President Obama,
I write to respectfully but urgently request your intervention in the very troubling situation unfolding at and around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. As you know, over the past day, scores of law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and supported by military style vehic... | ['Environment', 'Nodapl', 'Climate Change', 'Bernie Sanders', 'Dakota Access Pipeline'] |
Getting technical
When designing an app these days you follow a mobile and cloud first strategy. The front-end should be optimized for mobile displays and the app is using a backend which is hosted in a cloud based infrastructure.
In the 90’s the “Green Team” developed a virtual machine which was able to run byte-cod... | ['Architecture', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Geospatial', 'Qt'] |
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Flux is an architectural pattern for building data layer for JavaScript applications. Flux focuses on creating an explicit and understandable data flows i.e. unidirectional data flow which increases predictability of application code.
Flux comparison to MVC
MVC short for Model, View, Controller is a client-side archi... | ['Flux', 'JavaScript', 'Redux', 'Design Patterns'] |
Self-Care in the Age of Constant Connection: 10 Tips
Things that have helped me escape digital exhaustion that might work for you too
by Anonymust
Illustration by Frizz Kid
‘Healing is not linear.’
These words, written by Toronto-based artist Frizz Kid, encapsulate the journeys of survivors from emotional, sexual,... | ['Self Care', 'Healing', 'Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Feminism'] |
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