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I Can’t Sleep
A poetic rant
Photo by Gregory Pappas on Unsplash
Everything makes me angry
The hypocrisy
The misogyny
The racist bullshit
The lack of caring
The lack of thinking
The narcissistic
bullshit.
It makes me so angry
I can’t sleep
It’s so hot
I can’t sleep
I feel helpless
and I can’t sleep
I ha... | ['Society', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Insomnia', 'Anger', 'Poetry'] |
Gamification meets accounting
How we built an award-winning educational app with over 50,000 downloads
In the fall of 2012 we had just finished an 8 month project on an award-winning game that was really well received called Solar Energy Defenders — a tower defence game to teach kids about solar energy in the spirit ... | ['Gamification', 'Digital Marketing', 'Stories', 'Creativity', 'Apps'] |
I close my eyes
I want to scream
I bite my tongue
And dive into a dream
Of happy days
And garden games
But the pain goes on
On and on
On and on
And on and on
Now I feel the blood
The sheets are red
Told you, Mama
A monster’s in my bed | ['Horror', 'Children', 'Monsters', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
https://theodo-uk.github.io/sls-dev-tools/
This week, sls-dev-tools adds support for the EventBridge Schema Registry, with the aim to reduce the amount of time you spend in the AWS console downloading event schemas, and get you straight to injecting events.
Additionally, we had another community contribution from Ser... | ['Lambda', 'Open Source', 'AWS', 'NPM', 'Serverless'] |
The kids on The Sopranos can be hard to like. They’re often described as spoiled, whiny, self-centered, and hypocritical, and a lot of the time they are. On a show filled with murderers and thieves, somehow these two characters managed to provoke the most contempt from viewers.
While I admittedly lost patience with AJ... | ['Politics', 'Television', 'Society', 'Family', 'The Sopranos'] |
Find Documents 🔍
We’ll begin with finding documents since this operation come’s first before updating or deleting any specific data. We can find all documents from a database collection using the ‘collection.find()’ action. Specific documents can be found by defining a filter.
Document filter = new Document()
.appe... | ['Android App Development', 'Software Development', 'Android', 'Mongodb', 'Java'] |
This is another one of those “how to” blogs that can hopefully help people get up-and-running quickly because it took me a while to figure it out. Here is the full code if you want to try this yourself: https://github.com/datamindedbe/spark_on_azure_batch_demo. Obviously, this is all just demo code, with a lot of hardc... | ['Docker', 'Azure', 'Spark', 'Data Engineering'] |
Boomers Are the Next Generations’ Pandemic
We have burdened our children and their children with nearly intractable challenges
Image by Shutterstock
Acceptance of responsibility
To every new generation chronicling the graying landscape dotted by the slumping and shuffling old fogies that came before them, the senio... | ['Boomers', 'Politics', 'Millennials', 'Future', 'Economy'] |
By Jon Mingle
Imagine flipping a switch and lighting your home with hydropower from southern Brazil, solar power from the Sahara Desert, or wind power from the High Arctic. If Liu Zhenya’s plan comes to fruition, sourcing clean energy from the farthest reaches of the globe could become just that routine for billions o... | ['China', 'Electricity Distribution', 'Energy', 'Climate Change', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Latest briefing: “August, could be July, could be longer than that…”
Trump Is Now Calling COVID-19 “The Chinese Virus”. But If The Global Economy Melts Down, That’ll Very Much Be A U.S.-led Phenomenon
How can banks possibly figure out who to lend money to?
Quick answer: they can’t.
In order to know that they’d have... | ['Politics', 'Health', 'Donald Trump', 'Medicine', 'Economy'] |
3 Reasons We Should Be Turning Towards Bamboo for a Healthier Environment
How bamboo plantations might be helpful in our fight against climate change
Photo by Andrés Dallimonti on Unsplash
When we think about bamboo, most of us are reminded of cuddly pandas. After all, every panda eats an average of 12–34 kg of bamb... | ['Bamboo', 'Climate Change', 'Alternative', 'Environment', 'Resources'] |
Photo by Nicola Fioravanti on Unsplash
It’s called the silent killer — and for good reason. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can cause a host of serious health issues without you even knowing it.
“Studies over the past few decades show that untreated hypertension over time leads to an increased risk o... | ['Blood Pressure', 'Heart', 'Hypertension', 'Cardiovascular Disease', 'Health'] |
The Benadryl Challenge on Tik Tok OAO Follow Sep 29 · 3 min read
A dangerous trend all parents should be aware of
Photo by Kon Karampelas on Unsplash
Yet another new and dangerous trend is being touted on the social media application called Tik Tok. It is called the Benadryl Challenge, where people are encouraged to... | ['Parenting Advice', 'Parenting', 'Health', 'Benadryl', 'Tiktok App'] |
Sex
Sex: What You Need to Know About Its Link to Cancer
Are you among the seven percent of Americans who have human papillomavirus (HPV)? Let’s talk about sex.
Photo by Alex Iby on Unsplash
For the vast majority of the patients I see for cancer of the oropharynx (the region at the back of your mouth), an infection ... | ['Sex', 'Cancer', 'Health', 'Life', 'Lifestyle'] |
How to Choose the URL That Best Markets Your Business Online
Selecting the URL is a critical marketing element to your success — here’s what to plan for your website.
Robinson’s in Chicago made a strategic decision to select a URL based on its ribs offering. But businesses must be leery of selecting a URL that does n... | ['Marketing', 'SEO', 'Business', 'Website Design', 'Strategy'] |
Twitter is a hellscape. Publications as diverse as the New York Post and the tech website Motherboard have used that phrase to describe the social media platform. Twitter’s biggest competitor, Facebook, has earned equivalent ire, as evidenced by Wikipedia’s lengthy page entitled “Criticism of Facebook.” Yet, despite su... | ['Communication', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Twitter', 'Social Media'] |
Keith Haring, Explicit Icon: Interview with Art Historian Paul Kisner
An assessment of the artist and activist’s powerful legacy
Paul Kisner at Haring’s 1989 mural “Once Upon a Time…” in New York City [Image courtesy of Kisner]
Art is a universal language. So vigorously allergic to definition, so reluctant to be pla... | ['Gay', 'LGBTQ', 'New York', 'Art', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
This article on John Lennon’s (and Yoko Ono’s) time in exile (on the eve of the 40th anniversary of his murder) by Barbara Graustark is full of gems (as, presumably, is her 1980 book on the topic).¹ A few choice ones:
In early 1976, he and Yoko went into a self-imposed lockdown. His movements weren’t limited, and his ... | ['Life', 'John Lennon', 'The Beatles', 'Music'] |
A satirical website that claims to offer protesters-for-hire has ignited conspiracy theories among far-right Facebook groups suggesting the current protest actions in the United States are staged. The website, Protestjobs.com, has been shared over 30,000 times in Facebook posts since the start of the year, with the vas... | ['Technology', 'George Floyd', 'Protest', 'Fake News', 'Facebook'] |
It doesn’t look too bad, right? It’s going in the right direction: up.
But we were venture-funded, which was like playing a game of double-or-nothing. It’s euphoric when things are going your way — and suffocating when they’re not. And we weren’t doubling fast enough to raise the $15M+ Series B (the second major round... | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Venture Capital', 'San Francisco'] |
Chartify is a new plotting library that was recently open-sourced by Spotify Labs. You can read their announcement article here. Chartify is intended to make it easy for Python users to create standard chart types, including line, bar and area charts, and is built on top of Bokeh. As a Bokeh core contributor, I quickly... | ['Python', 'Open Source', 'Data Science', 'Bokeh', 'Data Visualization'] |
Why Isn’t Internet Fame More Valuable?
Thoughts on Value in News Media
photo Oleg Magni from pexels.com
The Covid crisis seems to be destroying what’s left of mainstream news media. So far Vice, Vox, Bustle, the Outline, Wired, Quartz, and many more outlets have had layoffs or are contemplating deep cuts. Of course,... | ['Internet', 'Media', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Venture Capital'] |
Truth = Utility
Definition and implications of a new kind of epistemology
Source: Todd Quackenbush at Unsplash
We have officially entered the post-truth era.
With the rise of deep-fakes, lying politicians, and Surkovian disinformation campaigns, it’s hard to get a handle on what truth even is.
For a few months I w... | ['Science', 'Philosophy', 'Mathematics', 'Truth', 'Knowledge'] |
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A ninja closes in on
the victim’s aproned hips
sashaying in time to James
Brown, sheathing dual
swords precisely when
that high note hits
to steal a hug
from mom. | ['Childhood', 'One Line', 'Music', 'Moments', 'Parenting'] |
Americans Feel Exploited and Betrayed, Because We Have Been
At least we know now.
Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash
A chocolate bar.
That’s what I got for Christmas a few years ago. It’s what my boss thought 50 hours of extra work was worth. Nothing would’ve been better.
This year, he declined a pay bump on my behalf... | ['Equality', 'Politics', 'Government', 'Society', 'Economics'] |
Thank you so much for joining us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?
Stupidity. Plain and simple. Based on my personality, I knew that I was not cut out for the traditional ladder-climbing route most film school graduates commit themselves to. I was nobody’s intern. So I worke... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business'] |
Mapping My Literature Landscape
Using data to unlock—and understand—my reading history
Back when I was a kid, I used to read A LOT of books. Then, over the last couple of years, movies and TV series somehow stole the thunder, and with it, my attention. I did read a few odd books here and there, but not with the same ... | ['Data Humanism', 'Books', 'Readinglist', 'Reading', 'Data Visualization'] |
Taking the Q35 Bus to Queer Belonging
Going to a queer beach, witnessing a possible ‘sign from above’, and feeling as though I belong.
Photo by Manny Moreno on Unsplash
“I’m going to Riis tomorrow and you should come!”
I glanced over my friend’s texts, confused. What’s Riss?
“Riis is a queer beach in the Rockaways... | ['Self', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Gay', 'Society'] |
What’s the Difference Between Class-Based Components and Functional Components?
The most obvious differences are syntax and definition. A functional component is a function that returns another component. A class-based component is a class whose render function returns another component. But which one should you use a... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Interview', 'Programming', 'React Native'] |
“I don’t want to go to the hospital!” I sobbed to my girlfriend from the bathroom.
I’m naked, sitting on the toilet. I’ve been trying to remove my new menstrual cup for two hours. It’s not a pretty sight.
“Can you try pinching the base and pulling it?” my girlfriend asks, standing in the doorway. She’s folding her ar... | ['Life Lessons', 'Culture', 'Women', 'Society', 'This Happened To Me'] |
On its surface the free mixtape Set Them Free, a collaboration between Ottawa DJs Bellyfull Sound and little known reggae artist Provherbs makes little sense. Most DJ collectives trying to build a reputation would collaborate with a much bigger name— and pay for the right to do so. Instead, Bellyfull introduce themselv... | ['Music', 'Reggae', 'Cooking'] |
GraphGrail Ai heralds the merger of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Big Data into a singularity aimed at assisting businesses and developing the technical and innovative potential of millions of users. As the AI market grows and consumes more branches of various advance industries, the need for sorting, marking... | ['Machine Learning', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'AI'] |
Hiring In-House: How to Find a Perfect Match for Your Project
When looking for a software developer, designer, or QA engineer, what questions do you ask your candidates to figure out if they’re the right fit for your project?
Hiring in-house can be a pretty difficult task to accomplish for an entrepreneur, project ma... | ['Tech', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Recruitment'] |
BUSINESS
Major Layoffs
And what can we learn from them
Photo by Jiw Ingka on Shutterstock
Ok, the topic itself does not shout unicorns and rainbows. It’s not news that during the pandemic, companies are engaging in mass layouts to save their companies. Some are ugly and others are uglier. However, we can make the m... | ['Leadership', 'Technology', 'Business', 'Learning', 'Coronavirus'] |
Part 1 : Tensorflow Installation and Setup, Syntax, and Graphs
Installation and Setup:
Tensorflow supports the following 64-bit opertating systems.
Ubuntu 16.04 or later
Windows 7 or later
macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra) or later (no GPU support)
Raspbian 9.0 or later
The pip installation requires Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, o... | ['Deep Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
No one can argue that Wynton Marsalis is one of the music geniuses in the 21st century. He is an essential model for lots of musicians worldwide as an extraordinarily talented musician. Marsalis was the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1997 with Blood on the Fields, a vocal and orchestral rumi... | ['Subculture', 'Politics', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Hip Hop', 'Music'] |
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media
As someone who has been self-employed as a rideshare driver and a freelance writer, I’ve received a crash course in making sense of the quirks and complications of the American healthcare system.
You learn very quickly when you’re self-employed that you have to do everything yo... | ['Insurance', 'Healthcare', 'Obamacare', 'Health', 'Medicine'] |
My mother had a terrible habit of never wanting to see me spread my wings and fly. Up until I was in seventh grade, she frequently hijacked my school projects, going as far as doing 100% of whatever I set out to do. Her reasoning was always that she could do it better, and that I would (or should) be embarrassed with m... | ['Writing', 'Family', 'Life', 'Parenting', 'Abuse'] |
The impact of technology on reality
What is truth in 21st century?
Source: author
I used to be one of the conspiracy theorists, but that was back in the day when we would be discussing hidden truths about UFOs, Alien abductions, and JFK assassination, and similar. Then I grew up, intellectually, and accepted that ev... | ['Technology', 'Internet', 'Fake News', 'Truth', 'Future'] |
AI News Roundup — March 2020
The AI News Roundup provides you with our take on the coolest and most interesting Artificial Intelligence (AI) news and developments each month. Stay tuned and feel free to comment with any stories you think we missed!
_________________________________________________________________
Th... | ['Data Science', 'AI', 'Roundup', 'News', 'Analytics'] |
Disasters, by all accounts, can be chaotic and unpredictable. It is imperative for responding agencies and the public to have a two-way open line of communication. However, communications should not begin when an incident is occurring but rather long before a disaster occurs.
Communicating with the public before a dis... | ['Disaster', 'Communication', 'People', 'Emergency', 'Technology'] |
Ryan Dennis: Welcome back to the ICO Alert podcast, I’m here, joined by the one and only Adam Curry of Dench music. We’re so excited to actually get to know the project. We’ve seen a few different music-oriented projects, but I think you’re not going to see many that have this level of partnerships and influencers who ... | ['Music', 'Adam Curry', 'Podcast', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
In this post, I detail a form of k-means clustering in which weights are associated with individual observations.
k-means clustering has been a workhorse of machine learning for almost 60 years. It is simple, effective, and intuitive. One of the reasons that I love it, is that you can plot cluster assignments over tim... | ['Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'K Means'] |
Guests rely on Airbnb every day to assist them through all stages of a trip. From finding a place to stay, all the way to checking out, and returning home safely.
At the same time, users on Airbnb can have a wide variety of different issues, such as changing their payment methods, or finding their host’s phone number.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Chatbots', 'AI', 'Covid 19', 'Airbnb'] |
I was a Republican, until the 2016 convention when a petition gathered enough signatures to let delegates vote their conscience, and was promptly dismissed by a voice vote.
That was when I first became aware that the Republican party was afraid, intimidated and dominated by the Trump base. I felt the party took the tr... | ['America', 'Trumpism', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
The Release of Apollo Client 3
Discover what's new in this release
Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash
Apollo Client is a state management library for JavaScript that enables you to manage both local and remote data with GraphQL. It provides built-in integration with React and also other frameworks such as Angular, V... | ['Angular', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming', 'Vue'] |
‘’Money doesn’t bring happiness’’ is one of the most harmful phrases out there.
Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash
I’m sure you’re familiar with the phrase: ‘’Money doesn’t bring happiness.’’ It’s a thought-terminating cliche to shut down any kind of debate about money. I don’t know about you but this saying has never m... | ['Money', 'Jobs', 'Health', 'Covid 19', 'Life'] |
The finance department is not what it used to be. What’s expected from the finance team has changed drastically over the last decade with the move to data-driven business. Expectations extend far beyond basic financial controls. CFOs responsibilities now tie in directly with an organisation’s major business goals.
To ... | ['Business Intelligence', 'Qlik Sense Extension', 'Financial Reporting', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization'] |
Breaking Up with My Diet
It’s not you, it’s us
Image licensed from Depositphotos
Dear Diet,
By the time you read this I’ll be at the pizzeria. This isn’t how I wanted you to find out. I should have been honest from the beginning. However, I can’t pretend to be happy anymore. So I’m just going to say it. It’s over b... | ['Humor', 'Relationships', 'Health', 'Diet', 'Culture'] |
Understanding the code
Now the time has come to understand the code line by line.
Let us start with main.py -
First of all, line 1 to 4 says that
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.responses import RedirectResponse
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
import json
we have imported the re... | ['Coding', 'Python', 'Django', 'Github', 'Programming'] |
How to Write a Blog Post That Ranks for (almost) Any Keyword on Google
A case study of going from 0 to 3,000 organic monthly hits
Credit: Adobe Stock
Writing blog posts is difficult and seeing first results takes time. I started about 16 months ago intending to reach a bigger audience in container logistics. Looking... | ['Business', 'Content Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Blog', 'SEO'] |
Tuning options
Let me describe how to use ZGC and some interesting parameters to tune. From the JDK 11 until the JDK 15 release, you must unlock the experimental options if you want to use the ZGC algorithm:
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseZGC
From JDK 15 in advance, you can use it just by specifying:
-XX:... | ['Java', 'Zgc', 'Algorithms', 'Jdk 15', 'Garbage Collector'] |
It’s already pretty great, but here are a few simple ways to improve it even more!
1. Find a fun way to incorporate short bursts of physical activity
I recently decided to pick up a mini-trampoline (Thanks Amazon Warehouse deals) and throw it in my living room, directly outside of the tiny bedroom I use as my office ... | ['Work', 'Remote Working', 'Business', 'Working From Home', 'Productivity'] |
Automating with Webpack!
At one point, we did have to pass our code through tools like Ternary before releasing our app to the web. But since then, bundling tools like Rollup and Webpack have taken over the front end community. These bundling tools are usually straightforward to extend with plugins like Terser. In our... | ['Webpack', 'Ecmascript 6', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Performance'] |
Installing Git and GitHub CLI
First, you need to have Git and GitHub CLI installed on your system. You can download it from the links provided.
Cloning a Repo
You can clone a repo into your PC by using the git clone command followed by the URL of the repo.
git clone <url_of_your_repo>
Adding files to the staging i... | ['Coding', 'Development', 'Github', 'Web Development', 'Git'] |
The year was 1996. I was 15 and my boyfriend Danny was 18. I thought I’d won the lottery when he first found me hiding, conspicuously underage, at the back of a sticky-floored bar and bought me a violently fluorescent half-pint of snakebite and black.
He had red hair to his shoulders and wore Silverchair T-shirts day ... | ['Memories', 'Nostalgia', 'Self', '90s', 'Music'] |
Harassment Stories Break at CBS and FEMA
Why It’s Not Yet Time to “Move On”
Image by tooFab
It’s been a long year, and it hasn’t even been a full year yet, since the allegations against Harvey Weinstein unleashed a tsunami of other women (and some men) coming forward with tales of horrendous behavior that they too h... | ['Society', 'CBS', 'Women', 'Metoo', 'Sexual Harassment'] |
Author Vlad Rișcuția is joined for this article by co-authors Wayne Yim and Ayyappan Balasubramanian.
Why data quality?
Data quality is a critical aspect of ensuring high quality business decisions. An estimate of the yearly cost of poor data quality is $3.1 trillion per year for the United States alone, equating to ... | ['Data Quality', 'Data Science', 'Microsoft', 'Data Engineering', 'Azure'] |
Venus Hum — the electro-pop trio of Kip Kubin, Tony Miracle and Annette Strean — may very well be Nashville, Tennessee’s ambassadors of goodwill. At once, they defy expectations of what a “Nashville” band sounds like and represent all the great things about the city’s music scene. Though no Nashville-bred pop-electroni... | ['Music', 'Nashville', 'Interviews', 'Zine'] |
Mobile Data Visualization Design
Design considerations for mobile form factors and devices
Example reference application- click here to see an interactive version
Almost three quarters of internet users will be mobile-only by 2025 — World Advertising Research Center
In its January 2019 report, The World Advertising... | ['Data Science', 'Mobile Design', 'UX', 'Data Visualization', 'Visualization'] |
Above you can also see we are exporting ‘increaseCount’ as an action of storeSlice. This is the dispatch method that we will ultimately call within our App component. This now leaves one last export that we’re missing which deals with subscribing to state. Now that we are refactoring away from the ‘connect’ method and ... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'React Redux', 'Redux Toolkit', 'Redux'] |
Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash
You might be surprised to know that the order in which you consume foods can have an impact on your health and body weight goals.
Specifically, it is recommended to prioritize protein first, followed by fibrous vegetables, and save your carbs for last.
This method of eating has bee... | ['Food', 'Life Hacking', 'Health', 'Lifehacks', 'Lifestyle'] |
There are 2 ways in which you can integrate Slack with Airflow.
(1) Using Slack Legacy Tokens:
Legacy tokens are an old method of generating tokens for testing and development and Slack themselves don’t recommend to use this but it is the simplest method — hence you can still use it but bear in mind that it can get d... | ['Airflow', 'Apache Airflow', 'Slack', 'Data Engineering', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
(1) Definition of “Robust”
Let’s take a close look at the definitions of “robust / robustness” from a variety of sources:
1. Robust statistics are statistics with good performance for data drawn from a wide range of probability distributions, especially for distributions that are not normal. [2] 2. A robust concept w... | ['Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'Robust', 'AI', 'Robustness'] |
When I first started freelancing, I got lucky. I happen to fall into one of the highest paying freelance jobs without actually researching it. But, the freelance space is way different than the “normal” job market. So, it’s important to know what freelance jobs pay the best.
To break it down, the three highest paying ... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Career'] |
Mayor’s Column: Summer Twilight Series returns for 15th year
Mayor Mignogna discusses the upcoming series, which kicks off June 21.
Warm weather offers the opportunity to relax and enjoy the outdoors.
The Voorhees Township Committee is pleased to welcome the summer of 2018 and our 15th annual Summer Twilight Series ... | ['Concerts', 'New Jersey', 'Music', 'Summer'] |
REST pagination with Spring MVC and JPA keeping your Controllers Clean Marcos Abel Follow Nov 30 · 4 min read
There are plenty of solutions out there to implement pagination in REST APIs. This story is not about best practices or the solution I personally like the most. It is, instead, about how to implement one of th... | ['Java', 'Software Development', 'Rest', 'Programming', 'Spring'] |
I Tried the Keto Diet for 21 Days and This is What Happened
Is the keto diet worth trying?
Photo by Vika Aleksandrova on Unsplash
I have always had problems with my weight. Largely due to my unhealthy relationship with food. I do not eat for nourishment but rather for enjoyment so often times than not, I have a midn... | ['Weight Loss', 'Health', 'Advice', 'Diet', 'Keto'] |
Incomplete objects cause lots of issues.
Photo by Brett Jordan in Pexels
Problems
Mutability
Incomplete objects
Concurrency inconsistencies between creation and essence setting.
Setters
Solutions
Pass the object’s essence on creation
Examples
Some persistence frameworks in static typed languages require an em... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Code Smells', 'Clean Code'] |
As a founder or a manager, one is accountable for ensuring that the employees produce results that align with the needs of the organisation. The stepping stone to achieve the desired effect to set the goals — effective ones.
Defining goals is critical because these goals define the results, and ensure the employees sp... | ['Performance', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management And Leadership', 'Performance Management'] |
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Many recent studies have consistently shown the link between nitrates and enhanced physical performance. They can come in whole, plant-based or more synthetic, isolated forms. Today, they are considered an efficient performance-enhancing supplement from endurance training to weight li... | ['Nutrition', 'Supplements', 'Health', 'Fitness', 'Nitrate'] |
Your Clothes Are Not Probative Of Consent
The beauty and danger of the media is user anonymity
Sexual exploitation remains a systematic prevalence which myriads of women experience, emerging as a social priority to address the problem’s universality. The ubiquity of sexually exploited victims coming forward with thei... | ['Blue Insights', 'Indonesia', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Women'] |
Constructivist Machine Learning
A vision towards bringing machine learning closer to humans
Photo by The Roaming Platypus on Unsplash
Is there a way to re-interpret machine learning in a constructivist way? And more importantly, why should we do it?
The answers to both questions are quite straightforward. Yes, we c... | ['Artifical Intelligence', 'Modeling', 'AI', 'Constructivism', 'Machine Learning'] |
there is peace in this dialogue
no more making homes on fault lines
where the inevitable fissures
split our paths
no more a perennial visitor
I have found better words
there is solid ground here
where I dance without the fear
of this world opening its mouth
to swallow me whole. | ['Poetry', 'Poet', 'Poem', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing'] |
Setting up authentication in a Flutter application is easy with the help of AWS Cognito, now available through Amplify Flutter. If you haven’t check out Part 1 of this series, I suggest you do that first.
A video tutorial I made to go along with this article
What are we making?
We will be making a simple registratio... | ['Authentication', 'Cognito', 'AWS', 'Flutter', 'Amplify'] |
Why You Should Care About Sustainable Flight Even if You Don’t Fly
Because flight shame is neither a good reason nor an actual solution
photo by Florian van Duyn on unsplash
BOARDING: ALL PASSENGERS OF EARTH
Who should care about the climate consequences of flight?
Instead of telling you that aviation is a primary... | ['Travel', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Action', 'Climate Change', 'Policy'] |
How to Find Happiness in the Darkest of Times
Three genuine ways that saved my life
Photo by Chris Curry on Unsplash
Darkness can sweep over you in an instant. You feel a tightness in your chest and you can’t breathe.
Everywhere you look, all you see is colorless gray, as if the darkness itself has shaded everythin... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Happiness', 'Life'] |
Whether you have an app with just a few users or millions of users per day like Agoda, you can always improve a user’s experience by making your application more snappy. In the case of very high traffic websites in the cloud, this could also mean the difference between having 10 app instances or 4; leading to some juic... | ['C Sharp Programming', 'Engineering', 'Throughput', 'Performance Tuning', 'Aspnetcore'] |
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A rare Friday edition, and likely the last edition of the year — but also, I think, one of the strongest. It’s also, perhaps, one of the most poignant — or even melancholy — as it contains articles about intimacy, death, the future, and life after death (not our own life, but that of others). I think it’s slightly sad ... | ['Truth', 'Death', 'Digital Archiving', 'Future', 'Technology'] |
Where’s my cane? I am NOT old enough to need a cane!! [Photo by The Lensemen on Unsplash]
The weird pain in my hip ramped up in 2008 after I’d spent several 12-hour days crawling around under and behind some ancient cedars in front of our house. My father and I had been building a dog run and cutting through the thick... | ['Middle Age', 'Climbing', 'Surgery', 'Health', 'Arthritis'] |
When I cheated on my husband, I also cheated on my family. I treated those blameless, beloved people extremely badly, either overtly or by negligent and selfish default. I have never hidden from that at all. The fact that I was given any chance at all to repair these relationships still seems miraculous to me and the w... | ['Women', 'Relationships', 'Society', 'Gender Equality', 'Feminism'] |
3. Update the conf.py File
The conf.py file inside the source folder describes the Sphinx configuration, which controls how Sphinx builds the documentation. If you wish to override the theme, version, or module directory, you’ll need to override these changes here. Below are some recommended overrides:
Update the the... | ['Documentation', 'Coding', 'Python', 'Sphinx', 'Programming'] |
“Sometimes you hear kids in a garage somewhere who can just barely play their instruments and are hitting it with a kind of ferocious, undeniable spirit that has a power and energy that no one else other than those kids playing on that day in that place will ever achieve in that particular way.” — Pat Metheny
“You mig... | ['Memoir', 'Life Lessons', 'Creative Process', 'Performance', 'Music'] |
Audio + Transcript
James Kotecki:
This is Machine Meets World. Infinia ML’s ongoing conversation about artificial intelligence. I’m James Kotecki and today’s interview is going to be different. Usually on this show, we talk AI with business leaders and tech journalists and members of Congress. But today we’re intervi... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algorithms', 'Ai Ethics', 'YouTube'] |
Seaborn
Let’s start by importing matplotlib . Note that I’ve used matplotlib version 3.0.3 and not the latest version as there is a bug which breaks the heatmap and renders it useless. Then, I imported seaborn . Lastly, to make sure the plots in Jupyter show inside the notebook, we use the command %matplotlib inline .... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
8 Things You May Have Missed in Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’
The visual album is robust with cross-cultural depictions of Black people, art, religion, and fashion
Beyoncé from “Black Is King.” Photo: Travis Matthews
Beyoncé gave us a new version of Nala in last year’s reboot of The Lion King, a reimagining of the origi... | ['Beyonce', 'Black Is King', 'Culture', 'Race', 'Music'] |
Building Rollup hierarchies in python with Treelib and atoti
A product catalogue example
In this atoti tutorial, I will walk you through how you can create a hierarchy — aka parent child data structure — to interactively aggregate and drill down using python libraries Treelib and atoti.
The example I’ll be using is ... | ['Analytics', 'Atoti', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Starting in September, websites that aren’t secure will start being flagged in Google’s Chrome browser. If your website starts with HTTP that means visitors will see something like this when they go to your site:
SOURCE: Google
If you haven’t switched to a secure site (HTTPS), it’s time. Chrome is the dominant way pe... | ['Browsers', 'Internet', 'Chrome', 'Google', 'Digital'] |
Delighted by a Magician’s Mistake
2020 Yule frogs’ visit brings laughter and cheer
© December 22, 2020, Aikya Param. Original in colored pencil, pen and marker.
Hooray! It’s time for Yule Frogs
(Created by a magician’s mistake
In the magic word for yule logs).
Our favorite amphibians make us laugh
As they smooch... | ['Poetry', 'Humor', 'Creativity', 'Life', 'Inspiration'] |
Some of the Best So Far… They Still Make CDs?
Mike Luoma is a Vermont based writer and Music Director who helps curate the sound of Adult Alternative Streaming Station WBKM.org.
Really? We do this now?
After seeing first one, then another, then, suddenly, many more Best Albums Of 2019 (So Far) lists — and realizing ... | ['Best Of', 'Music', 'Album', '2019 So Far', '2019'] |
Making my peace with a local holiday
Photo by Sneha Cecil on Unsplash
Not long ago (or was it last year?), I was making a list of countries to visit, prioritising the ones I hoped to add in 2020. In the months since Covid-19, after being cooped up at home, working through weekdays and weekends, I needed a break; from... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Travel', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
As the runoff elections for Georgia’s regular Senate election and their special election come ever closer, it’s important to fully understand what’s at stake.
In addition to overall control of the Senate, pro-environmental legislation for both Georgia and the U.S. at large is dependent on the results of these election... | ['Environment', 'Politics', 'Policy', 'Climate Change', 'Elections'] |
PCA Explained with Dynamic Plotly Visualizations
A practical guide on PCA and Plotly.
PCA (Principal component analysis) is an unsupervised learning algorithm that finds the relations among features within a dataset. It is also widely used as a preprocessing step for supervised learning algorithms.
The aim of using ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization'] |
I have an eighteen-year-old son who has lost over seventy pounds in the last nine months. He’s become quite obsessive about nutrition and workouts and looking at him, I completely understand his compulsion. He’s like a different person, both on the inside and out. He has more confidence and his habits and disposition h... | ['Self Improvement', 'Weight Loss', 'Health', 'Weight', 'Nutrition'] |
Entertainment
1. A web scraper that posts top 10 blogs without human intervention
One of the issues we find with some project recommendation posts, is that they recommend projects that aren’t implemented in a way that excites the programmer to continue development. For instance, I see that a lot of people recommend b... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Putting machine learning to practical business use is hard. Here’s hoping that these tips help make your journey a little easier.
1) Define the Project
Create a charter for the project so everyone can get aligned from the outset. Lay out the goals, risks, and opportunities of the project as specifically as possible. ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Project Management', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business'] |
Quick start with React Hooks, Redux and MobX
If you want to learn how to build modern React applications using functional components and functional programming principles, this is the book for you.
React allows expressing the UI using functions. React Hooks enables stateful functional components.
Here are some of th... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming', 'Front End Development'] |
Working with PyTorch Tensors
Some useful tensor manipulation operations
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
As we know, PyTorch is a popular, open source ML framework and an optimized tensor library developed by researchers at Facebook AI, used widely in deep learning and AI Research. ✨ The torch package contains data... | ['Mathematics', 'Python', 'Pytorch', 'Programming', 'Deep Learning'] |
We’re launching this newsletter to share the best articles and content about Serverless as part of our wider effort to develop and share best practices in the Serverless development community.
In each issue we will select a small sample of the best content as we know there is only so much time you can spend reading co... | ['Cloud Native', 'Newsletter', 'Serverless', 'Cloud', 'AWS'] |
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