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I Was Denied Birth Control
My healthcare provider prioritized a maybe-baby over my bodily autonomy.
Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels
Last summer, my medical practitioner refused to re-insert an IUD on the grounds that I might be pregnant soon. If that sentence didn’t make sense to you, you’re not alone. It didn’t m... | ['Womens Health', 'Women', 'Feminism', 'Health', 'Womens Rights'] |
Getting Started with DynamoDB in .NET Core — How to Build a Leaderboard Matthew Harper Follow Jan 21 · 6 min read
If you’ve spent years working with relational databases, getting started with Amazon’s DynamoDB may feel intimidating to you. Traditional relational databases were optimized for storage; DynamoDB is optimi... | ['Dynamodb', 'Programming', 'AWS', 'Technology', 'Dotnet'] |
Re-training a DNN like ResNet50 using a few million images requires a lot of computational resources. In our implementation, we used an AWS P2.8xlarge Instance with Nvidia 8-core K80 GPU, and sent a batch of 128 images to 8 GPUs per training step. We did parallel training with Tensorflow as the backend. We compiled the... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Airbnb'] |
Recent stats about newsfeed video has caused some jarring conversations to happen within the advertising industry — roughly 75% of viewers aren’t watching past the first three seconds, and about 85% are watching without sound. So how do you use this data to inform the future of newsfeed video?
Here at BBDO, we are inv... | ['Facebook', 'Content Marketing', 'Video', 'Social Media'] |
By Suman Karumuri, Pinterest engineer, Visibility
The Pinterest backend consists of hundreds of microservices deployed across tens of thousands of machines. A simple request to the Pinterest home feed can make hundreds of network calls to dozens of backend services. While we know how long a request takes to execute, p... | ['Opentracing', 'Open Source', 'Zipkin', 'Engineering', 'Distributed Tracing'] |
Yesterday it was a bad and also a great day for me. Bad day I would say because the meetup that I planned on Cashaa, a P2P marketplace to transfer cash, had to be cancelled. First was the lack of appropriate space for such a meetup and second was lack of participants. So finally when Mr Kumar came we had to cancel the ... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business'] |
Joker
Intense raw emotions
I just saw Joker. If I had to define the movie with only one word, the word would be intense. That’s how it made me feel. That’s what I found it deeply portrays. Intense raw emotions from start to finish.
There are so many layers to the movie and so many angles to which it can be (and prob... | ['Humanity', 'Emotions', 'Compassion', 'Society', 'Movies'] |
Finance & technology have been intertwined ever since the start of modern society. The earliest days of finance hundreds of years ago were in the context of keeping records for things like government finances, payment of taxes & agricultural production. The first physical financial technology developed was money in the... | ['Fintech', 'Economics', 'Finance', 'Future', 'Bitcoin'] |
Sex Robots Could Save Your Relationship
And more good news on the future of love
Illustration by Juliana Futter
Anyone who has watched even a fraction of Hollywood’s sci-fi offerings is primed for a mind-boggling future of interstellar travel, superpowers, and brain uploads. And yet, when it comes to sex, science fi... | ['Relationships', 'Sexuality', 'Gender', 'Future', 'Future Human'] |
A Response to Umair Haque’s “Six Myths About Capitalism Everyone Should Know”
Umair should be praised for coming forward with his beliefs on capitalism and the economy; Medium readers should also hear the other side of the debate.
Umair Haque, someone who I assume comes from a business background, has amassed quite a... | ['Economics', 'Politics', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Philosophy'] |
Building your aerobic base is crucial for you to run your best in your distance races. However, building your aerobic base and increasing your mileage could cause issues and pains, causing unfortunate setbacks.
Keeping these things in mind while running high-mileage can help your quality of running.
Nutrition
Nutrit... | ['Nutrition', 'Health', 'Running', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle'] |
Our entire civilization is built on the absurd notion that a person should only be able to eat if they can afford to buy food. In a couple hundred-thousand years all we’ve managed to do is regress. We’ve allowed capitalism to deprive us of the most basic human right. Of course capitalism is also killing us in a thousan... | ['Capitalism', 'Agriculture', 'Environment', 'Gardening', 'Climate Change'] |
Photo by Clark Street Mercantile on Unsplash
That’s right! Storage should be the first word that should come into your mind.
Before all of you bombard me as to how redux relates to a store let me give you some context.
Photo by Halacious on Unsplash
Every time you go on a website, you are probably accustomed to see... | ['React', 'Redux Thunk', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Redux'] |
When President Obama announced the Cancer Moonshot, I knew that the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) had an important contribution to make to the effort. Oncology nurses are on the frontline of cancer care and advocate for patients and their families throughout the cancer journey. As Vice President Biden conducted his li... | ['White House', 'Cancer', 'Health', 'Cancer Moonshot'] |
EQUALITY PARENTING
I Raised My Black Son in America, and Fostered Another
Here’s what their White mother was required to teach them
Photo from Author’s collection. Senior prom.
Don’t run from the police. If they raid a party you’re attending, stay still and raise your hands. If they come up to you, stay still and r... | ['Justice', 'Equality', 'Society', 'Race', 'Police'] |
by: E.B. Johnson
“Never trust a man in a hat. They’re trying to hide their thoughts.” — Grandmother Dupra
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, then you’ve heard of Lydia Dupra, the viral phenomenon, sugar baby and adult film star who took the world by storm with her one-of-a-kind brand of ad... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Interview', 'Sex', 'Abuse'] |
The Nitty Gritty
How Kristen Runvik is scheduling her life, job, and business to make sure she’s spending her time the way she wants to
How she divides her time to find balance between her side hustle with her day job
What she does to get the most out of Instagram marketing without letting it consume her
How Kriste... | ['Marketing', 'Work Life Balance', 'Business', 'Podcast', 'Business Strategy'] |
Izza | Photo: Sam Rockman
Alt-pop singer-songwriter Izza introduces the second single, “Made Up My Mind,” from her debut EP.
According to Izza, “The song that was inspired by a past relationship turned into so much more for me, as it also reflects my experience in the music industry. ‘Made Up My Mind’ is about learni... | ['Made Up My Mind', 'Music', 'Izza', 'Alt Pop', 'Premiere'] |
Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in B Minor
Hummed by Glenn Gould Driving His Cadillac on a Summer Evening
photo by author
Nothing but wire and wood keeps you alive
for want of faith interspersed by doubt
under surveillance.
Young pianists under mauve stripes
her red smile
Lord Alfred’s smile
unrestrained, he sees a nos... | ['Sarcasm', 'Poetry', 'Winter', 'Music', 'Neurosis'] |
I was one of the first wave of people in the UK to have access to Facebook, way back in 2005, when I happened to be at one of the universities chosen for their pilot program. Those were innocent days, posting albums of photos from drunken nights out without fear that your mum would ever discover them, much less comment... | ['Limetown', 'TV', 'Facebook', 'Podcasts', 'Jessica Biel'] |
Sometimes it’s hard not to lose hope. When I look out at the world, I just see so much hate. Perfect strangers shower each other with rage and aggression every day. The anger has been simmering just below the surface for years, a lifetime in some cases, and current events and systemic dysfunction have offered the perfe... | ['Humanity', 'America', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Anger'] |
DejaVilla
Moments ago, DejaVilla released their latest single, “Gravy,” featuring Runkus, via Ultra Music.
The two halves of DejaVilla are David Marston and Sarah Couch. The twosome hail from Kingston, Jamaica, although David now lives in the U.K. After hooking up as DejaVilla in 2017, they dropped their debut single... | ['Music', 'Dejavilla', 'Interview', 'Gravy', 'New Music'] |
In Maven, it exposes some built-in property related to settings, underlayer Java, operating system…etc. Also, it can define custom properties on the pom. Over this article, let's discuss the built-in properties of maven and the importance of custom property definition.
Photo by Tierra Mallorca on Unsplash
In maven po... | ['Maven', 'Programming', 'Java', 'Web Development', 'Coding'] |
Data cleaning
We all know that the very first step is data cleaning. dabl tries to detect the types of data in the dataset and apply appropriate conversions. The aim of dabl is to get the data cleaned enough for data visualization and models. We can also perform custom cleaning if required.
dabl.clean (X, type_hints=... | ['Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Automation', 'Data Science'] |
Growing up Puerto Rican, I felt a compulsion to fit into the standards of masculinity upheld by my father and his fathers. You know, the (stereo)typical suburban-male dream — living to love sports, cars, drinking, having a wife and 2.5 kids, playing video games, ignoring your feelings, and never letting anyone know exa... | ['Machismo', 'Nonbinary', 'Queer', 'Gay', 'Music'] |
Waiting for his order to arrive, Julian texted his fam, “Do u think she’s dtf Coop?”
“Idk. Hoping. She’s hot af,” came the reply.
Thierry jumped in, “Facts.”
“Total snacc. If u pull her bruh, Im unfriending u no cap,” Julian threatened.
“Same,” agreed Thierry.
Cooper, smirking, clicked in “Dead.”
Blaine stopped s... | ['Relationships', 'Society', 'Digital Life', 'Culture', 'Language'] |
I always thought it was strange that doctors were included in the list of people who could touch you anywhere. Even as I child, I didn’t agree with that. What made that okay? What made them above perversion and predatory impulses? Why didn’t they listen to me or care when I said I didn’t want to be touched? I never rec... | ['Womens Issues', 'Health', 'Womens Health', 'Consent', 'Sexual Assault'] |
Mono tracklist
Released at midnight Korean time on October 23rd, Mono is the second solo mixtape by BTS’ leader and main rapper, RM (real name Kim Namjoon). The seven song set, dubbed a “playlist” rather than a mixtape, contains collaborations with artists and friends RM has known for years including British duo Honne... | ['Bts', 'Hermann Hesse', 'Music', 'Kpop'] |
Local Nomad
Following on the heels of his recently released self-titled EP, as well as a standalone single, “Snakechild,” a song dripping with smoldering, risky energy, synth-pop artist Local Nomad drops “Karen,” a song alluding to the kitschy stereotypical, self-entitled middle-class white woman sporting a bob hairst... | ['Synth Pop', 'Music Video', 'Music', 'Karen', 'Local Nomad'] |
Salesforce’s announcement that it was acquiring Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock signaled a monumental shift in terms both of the future of enterprise software and, more broadly, the future of work.
Specifically, it signaled the end of the era that Salesforce itself created — that of full-stack packaged cloud... | ['Software', 'Salesforce', 'Slack', 'SaaS', 'Future'] |
Getting Started With Django
Ideally, you have already installed Python on your device. If you have not yet done this, then you can go to Python’s official website to download the latest version. To check if you are running the latest version of Python, you can run the following command in your terminal/command line:
... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Python3', 'Software Development', 'Django'] |
Passive distribution, useful information, and a little bit of personality
Photo by Mathyas Kurmann on Unsplash
Chances are that you’re subscribed to more email newsletters today than you were five years ago. Newsletters aren’t “new” technology, and they are in fact utilizing a relatively old internet distribution cha... | ['Technology', 'Writing', 'Newsletter', 'Business', 'Media'] |
10 Git Repositories to Help You Prepare for Your Next Technical Interview
A curated list of useful Git repos
Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash.
This week, I will share a list of GitHub repositories that will help you prepare for your next technical/coding interview. | ['Work', 'Coding Interview', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
Let’s architect a React application from the ground up, exploring the domain and its services, store, application services and the view.
The four layers of single page applications — by Alberto V
Every successful project needs a clear architecture, which is understood by all team members.
Imagine you’re new to the t... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Flowtype', 'App Store', 'Domain Driven Design'] |
It is often assumed with little evidence that Bernie Sanders is uniquely possessive of a base of devout, loud and angry support. Most commonly known as the “Bernie Bros”, this group of mostly-online Sanders supporters has long been deemed an irreconcilable part of the progressive movement — the theory goes, that this g... | ['Bernie Bros', 'Politics', '2020 Presidential Race', 'Society', 'Bernie Sanders'] |
Anggun is an Indonesian-French singer-songwriter and TV personality who has been performing music since the age of seven. Her first international album, “Snow on the Sahara” (1997), and her six studio albums to follow have throned her as the Asian artist with the highest album sales outside Asia, with gold and platinum... | ['Asian', 'Music', 'Anggun', 'Musician', 'Interview'] |
Building the Form
We’ll build a simple form to collect a user’s information. It is broken down into several components and each component can be as complex as needed. But for now, it is pretty simple:
The initial state of the form looks something like this:
Using Context
You might have noticed that we are not passi... | ['React', 'Programming', 'Reactjs', 'JavaScript', 'React Hook'] |
Merge Request Templates
Most software companies use Git in conjunction with platforms like GitHub or GitLab to provide version control for their code.
It’s common for the production code to live on the master (or main) branch. When developers are writing new features or fixing bugs, they create a branch off of the ma... | ['Startup', 'Mindset', 'Software Development', 'Quality', 'Programming'] |
Martin Chilton
Photo: Peter Röshler © Queen Productions Ltd
Reinhold Mack, the celebrated German record producer who worked with Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, vividly remembers the first time he met Queen’s frontman, Freddie Mercury. They bonded over drinks in a Munich beer gar... | ['Rock', 'Features', 'Culture', 'Music', 'Interviews'] |
I grew up during the peak Muppet years, that period between the mid 70's and the late 80's, and they loom large in my memories of childhood. Naturally, we had the Muppets Christmas record and would play it endlessly. It was the first Christmas CD I bought for myself once I moved out and needed seasonal music of my own.... | ['Pop Culture', 'Movies', 'Christmas', 'Music', 'Television'] |
After being sold to Univison for $135 billion, while the rest of the network’s verticals will be folded into their online publication network, gawker.com will cease to update as of this coming Monday. A billionaire executed his own personal vendetta against a man and a website and won. I’d recommend looking on twitter ... | ['Bitcoin', 'Newsletters', 'Silk Road', 'Gawker', 'Journalism'] |
The Kidney Stone
Things I made that Justin did not care for
A few months into my inauspicious start, I made a kidney stone. Justin did not care. I suspect he was livid that the newbie had, through a steady diet of chocolate milk, engineered a stone with a view to shirking his work responsibilities (which is caring of... | ['Humor', 'Work', 'Health', 'Failure', 'Life'] |
What have I done?
I wrote another listicles — but I bet you’ll enjoy it.
Image: Merzmensch
Have you tried my 20 Creative Things to try out with GPT-3?
For example, to write a love letter by a toaster?
Indeed, AI gets more and more creative power — but I am more than sure, that AI won’t kill the author (who is dead... | ['Merzfiles', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Newsletter', 'Art'] |
The North Node in The Signs
Aries
With the North Node in Aries, the South Node is in Libra. A North Node in Aries may need to work on balancing their own self-care with caring for others. When they focus on the self and become more comfortable being independent, they will be following the north node path. North Node ... | ['Spirituality', 'Leadership', 'Astrology', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
The drama surrounding the Sea-Watch-3 captivated the world public for weeks. Carola Rackete rescued 53 people off the coast of Libya, following a two-week standoff with the Italian government. The authorities at the time had closed its ports and refused to authorize her docking in Lampedusa, a small island off the sout... | ['Sea Rescue', 'Society', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Podcast'] |
Throw back the covers.
He woke up this morning
On the right side of the bed
His head fell out the covers
And he discovered his sisters and brothers
Of every color
Felt the things that he felt
Saw the things that he saw
Hurt the way that he did
On a path together
Hanging by a thread
He said, “I want a new lif... | ['Poetry', 'Racism', 'Society', 'Mindfulness', 'Inspiration'] |
Remember 2007? The iPhone made its first appearance, the U.S. Housing bubble burst, six miners were trapped in a mine that collapsed in Utah and us Cali natives were in fear due to some of the deadliest fires in U.S. history tore through Southern California.
My personal life was progressing as well as I started dating... | ['Music Video', 'Inspiration', 'Culture', 'Nostalgia', 'Music'] |
In Nigeria, a woman will have 5.3 children in her lifetime according to the Nigerian demographic health survey (NDHS2018) and only 12% of married women use any modern contraceptive method. All environmental and economic problems become harder and possibly ultimately impossible to solve with ever more people.
The world... | ['Nigeria', 'Planets', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change', 'Population'] |
When Should We Speculate About Politicians’ Health?
Let’s worry more about politicians’ attitudes toward their health rather than about their particular health issues.
Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
On September 1st, President Trump posted the following Tweet:
Initially, no one connected the President’s diss ... | ['Leadership', 'Election 2020', 'Health', 'Politics', 'Government'] |
This tweet drowned out other coverage on the v1.20 release detailing nice improvements such as graceful shutdown of nodes and efficient reboot. Massive confusion ensued until two new blog posts came out to clarify the deprecation notice:
In short, support for dockershim, the bridge between the Docker API and the Kuber... | ['Coding', 'Kubernetes', 'Docker', 'Programming'] |
Not too long ago, I was the lead UX designer on a project that involved some robust reporting features. The system would aggregate data from multiple sources to show teachers how they were performing compared to their colleagues in their building and in their school district.
I designed one of the report screens that ... | ['Design', 'Data Visualization', 'UX'] |
Whether you are concerned with your health, your money, your time, or all of the above, eating out is simply not worth it.
I am personally concerned with all three for myself and that is why I’ve made this decision. Obviously, this doesn’t mean I’ll never eat outside of my house again, but I am taking a strong stance ... | ['Reflections', 'Adulting', 'Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Food'] |
It’s been a while since I’ve written up any livemusic which is just terrible. I keep thinking I’ll find time to get back on it, because I really want to, but haven’t been able to find the time. But having just experience the transcendence of Newport Folk once again (my 9th Folkfest of the last 12), I’d like to capture ... | ['Concerts', 'Live Music', 'Newport Folk Festival', 'Music'] |
Why We All Need to Stop Hating on “Busyness”
The Honest Weekly Digest, 28–3 December
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash
Hello, honest creatives!
This week we published three amazing articles. | ['Honest Creative', 'Content Creation', 'Weekly Report', 'Weekly Digest', 'Creativity'] |
Review: SqueezeNet (Image Classification)
AlexNet-Level Accuracy with 50× Fewer Parameters
In this story, SqueezeNet, by DeepScale, UC Berkeley and Stanford University, is reviewed. With equivalent accuracy, smaller CNN architectures offer at least three advantages
Smaller Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) requir... | ['Machine Learning', 'Image Classification', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data', 'Deep Learning'] |
“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” — Peter Steiner On the blockchain, nobody knows you’re a fridge.” — Richard Gendal Brown Blockchain technology has been called the greatest innovation since the internet. Governments and companies are rushing to implement blockchain technology in a range of areas that could... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Money', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Future'] |
React Native Animations Using the Animated API
Getting up and running with React Native Animations
Looking to learn React Native? Check out React Native Training.
The recommended way to animate in React Native for most cases is by using the Animated API.
The final github repo for this project is here.
There are th... | ['React', 'iOS App Development', 'Android App Development', 'React Native', 'JavaScript'] |
Because we think that we don’t deserve to achieve something great
It’s not your fault — it is just how we were program to think.
There were selfish people in the past who made sure that our parents, grandparents, our society will remain below them, and that is where our educational system was designed making sure tha... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Work', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
Today we are going to discuss about what is programming, what are different programming languages and how to get started.
So few months back a first year student from computer science stream called me and asked me about what language of programming he should learn because he was really confused about where to begin as... | ['Coding', 'Learning To Code', 'Learning And Development', 'Development', 'Programming'] |
It’s soul music, really. Direct from its maker’s soul to yours. So delicate, strong, hopeful. Like so many Beach Boys songs the feeling gets you before you can explain it. It’s one of the most beautiful things I know.
It’s a song by an almost childlike man about a very grown-up idea: that admitting pain is the first s... | ['Brian Wilson', 'Music', 'Lyrics', 'Beach Boys'] |
The point of this article is grumpy developers can still skip and dance down the happy path when it comes to writing and testing their code.
Code Complete 2 has an interesting paragraph.
Avoid Failure
Petroski argues that many spectacular bridge failures have occurred because of focusing on previous successes and no... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Testing'] |
Original article: https://aralroca.com/blog/how-to-draw-gears-in-webgl
In this article we continue what we started in “First steps in WebGL”, where we saw what it is and how it works internally: the shaders, the program, buffers, how to link data from CPU to GPU, and finally how to render a triangle. To understand all... | ['Tutorial', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Learning', 'Webgl'] |
A cold shower of reality
This is 2020. Few of us will be here in 2100, but this is not just because we don’t all expect to live for another 80 years.
Very few of us will be here in 2100 simply because large parts of here will be going, going, gone — along with many of the houses, roads, businesses and fields we know ... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Policy', 'Government', 'Sea Level Rise'] |
Virtual reality — once wedded to photorealistic real-time rendering and advanced corporeal interfaces — has the potential to deliver experiences so transportative and immersive you will forget the compulsion to glance at your phone every thiry seconds (even stereoscopic, surround-sound, IMAX, D-Box cinema can’t seem to... | ['Procedural Generation', 'Video', 'VR', 'Virtual Reality', 'Storytelling'] |
Seeing as we’re heading into the cosy underworld that is Winter in the Northern Hemisphere I thought I’d share my favourite foods for supporting health and healing during this season (plus my ‘guilty pleasure’ as Dennett prompted us Weeds & Wildflowers followers).
My own journey with food has mirrored my life really —... | ['Winter', 'Inspiration', 'Guilty Pleasure', 'Food', 'Health'] |
Bug #2: You’re using the mouse and/or trackpad
Yes, you are! Photo by Silje Roseneng on Unsplash
Solution: Stop using the mouse and/or trackpad.
I’m an iOS developer. Some years ago I decided to try Android Studio. After about 3 seconds, I had to comment some code out.
Easy, Cmd+/ and we’re done. Uh, no, apparently... | ['Key Binding', 'Keyboard Shortcuts', 'Software Development', 'Typing', 'Productivity'] |
I don’t like going to a gym and working on the treadmill. It all gets so repetitive and boring after a while. Working out at a gym, after a day’s work at the office does not even add to my enthusiasm.
What I love is walking. It could be walking along the beach or the daily evening walk.
There are better ways to exerc... | ['Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Fitness', 'Mindfulness'] |
Game of Leadership (GOL)
Have you ever thought of winning such a tournament? Leadership is always tricky and not easy for the owner!
Years ago, I used to avoid “Leadership “ and everything related to it. In this regard, all I could do was walking away, absconding, and lying countless times, especially in my essays at... | ['Leadership', 'Games', 'Online', 'Creativity', 'Education'] |
A strategy is the plan a business uses to achieve their guiding vision. Every successful business has had a good business strategy, at least at some point.
But what once worked is no longer a valid foundation for your business’ strategy. The world is moving faster than ever. A company strategy needs to be cognizant of... | ['Innovation', 'Business Strategy', 'Agile', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
My footsteps were led by shadows.
I followed the trail of the wind.
I listened in the direction of the unknown
and watched you enveloped by the dark.
I’ve counted your passionate kisses
sealing them in the bottle of my heart.
I’ve polished your memories
and hung them in my fondest galleries.
Tell the world I’m ... | ['Romance', 'Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Couples', 'Love'] |
Googlers Rally in San Francisco Over Company’s ‘Attempt to Silence Workers’
‘How can we expect Google to be transparent with its users,’ said one employee, ‘when it’s not even transparent with its own workers?’
Photo: georgeclerk /iStock Unreleased /Getty Images
During a public rally held outside of Google’s San Fra... | ['Labor', 'Workers Rights', 'Google', 'Transparency', 'Industry'] |
Google Cloud’s bet on an open platform is starting to materialize with Anthos and BigQuery Omni.
Three years ago, I started (and sadly never finished) a series called Platform Wars (Part I, Part II), evaluating the tech giants and their strategies in the age of artificial intelligence. In my piece on Google, I explain... | ['Bigquery', 'Azure', 'Google Anthos', 'AWS', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
Introducing The Problem of Evil
Exploring theodicy
Photo by Jake Colling on Unsplash
The problem of evil is something we hear talked about a lot: if an omnibenevolent God exists, then why is there evil in the world? The proponent of the design argument claims that the existence of a certain feature proves that God e... | ['Life Lessons', 'Evil', 'Society', 'Life', 'Philosophy'] |
Do you remember me?
Fantastic Negrito: Refresh, who am I speaking with? Who is this?
This is Ahmed Kabil.
Oh, fuck yes! Egyptian brother. I had no idea who I was even speaking with. Man, I’ve had like, this is my sixth interview of the day!
It’s all good.
We hung out in Berkeley at your apartment. I remember dropp... | ['Interview', 'Blues', 'Music', 'Fantastic Negrito', 'Oakland'] |
A developer's perspective.
Image by Benjamin Hartwich from Pixabay
I don’t think I’m making too many assumptions when I say that we all, as Medium writers, would like to better understand how our pieces are read and how they earn. To that end, we have the Medium “Stats” dashboard; a simple, clean, often misleading, a... | ['Writing Life', 'Writing', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Analytics'] |
Is UK music education over?
Art Breaker - The State of Music Education in the UK
The issue of music teaching in the UK has a varied understanding amongst the British public. In arty circles, increasing funding cuts are widely known, but the position of the arts in general in education is understated and quietly swept... | ['Music', 'Education', 'UK', 'Music Education', 'Musical Instruments'] |
Too often people in the Green is Good movement curl up in a defensive crouch when discussing jobs and climate change with conservatives. Seems the conservative line whenever any kind of change is suggested, is that it will cost money and jobs and the poor workers and tax payers are the ones who will be adversely affect... | ['Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Democratic Socialism', 'Green New Deal', 'Jobs'] |
Umm...
So what is JSX?
JSX is JavaScript XML with which we can write HTML in React.
Source: Image by Marina Vorontsova
Format
I will go over the topic in the following format:
A short example to get to JSX ( It’s about you 😃)
What is JSX?
Before the JSX era 😉
Why use JSX?
How to use it (The fun part 😍)
HT... | ['Front End Development', 'React', 'Web Development', 'React Jsx', 'JavaScript'] |
Computer Vision
Have you wondered how apps such as Snapchat add props to faces on screen? Or how they change your face in funny ways? They do so by first detecting where each face is. Additionally they need to detect where each face feature is too.
In this post I will show you how to detect faces and its features usi... | ['iOS', 'Vision', 'Computer Vision', 'Swift', 'Mobile'] |
Firework shows across the country are wrapped up by now. Bottle rockets, jumping jacks, roman candles and the like will still be going off for quite awhile. Some of the firework shows were probably lame (like the one I saw in Cincinnati) and some were probably awesome (like Navy Pier most likely). Most all of them are ... | ['Holiday', 'Music', 'Culture', 'Springsteen', 'Perspective'] |
Humor | Politics
This Old(er) Radical Danced in the Streets For Biden/Harris
Okay, maybe not in the streets. But close enough.
I rolled up to the post-election rally in my new, bright red car, sunroof open, blaring Richie Havens’ “Freedom.”
President-elect Biden may not be the left-wing radical of my dreams, but as... | ['Election 2020', 'Humor', 'Society', 'Biden Harris', 'Culture'] |
For the people of Tbilisi, Georgia, June 20, 2019, will go down in history as “Gavrilov’s Night.”
Sergei Gavrilov, a member of the Russian Parliament closely associated with the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, paid a visit to the Georgian Parliament. While there, he addressed Georgian lawmakers from the speak... | ['Russia', 'Georgia', 'Facebook', 'Government', 'Social Media'] |
The Anti-Network Effect
As social media platforms grow stronger they grow weaker too. This will eventually open the way for a meaningful alternative to Facebook.
Despite waves of privacy concerns, Facebook has a powerful grip on us all. The ubiquity of the platform and the time invested in building connections deters... | ['Technology', 'Advertising', 'Facebook', 'Culture', 'Social Media'] |
Story time
I’ve been learning about TypeScript and progressive web applications(PWA) a lot the past year. As I was creating and PWA I was trying to use auto completion and realized there were no types for an open source project I’ve grown fond of. I saw an opportunity to add some new utility to an open source project ... | ['Typescript', 'JavaScript', 'Github', 'Programming', 'Git'] |
The world will look different after the COVID-19 pandemic passes, as methods of human interaction may be fundamentally and permanently altered. Decentralized workforces and an increasing reliance on the internet for facilitating exchanges will fan the flames of the developing digital world. Economic reconstruction will... | ['Technology', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Politics', 'Psychology'] |
In this article, we cover:
What is Design Thinking?
Traditional Approach vs. Design Thinking Approach
Design Thinking Success Story #1
Design Thinking Stages
Stage 1: Empathise
Stage 2: Define
Stage 3: Ideate
Design Thinking Success Story #2
Stage 4: Prototype
Stage 5: Test
Design Thinking Success Story #3
... | ['Design Thinking', 'Creativity', 'Innovation'] |
Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash
Today, I was browsing Google for some UI inspiration for my ongoing project.
Specifically, I was searching for a website whose name I had forgotten to bookmark.
I was trying different keywords based on its features that I remembered.
I ended up clicking every page of the Goo... | ['AI', 'Privacy', 'Captcha', 'Tech', 'Self Driving Cars'] |
And this wouldn’t just affect poor countries of the Global South, but would increasingly impact richer, industrialised nations. The Climatic Change study finds that “some parts of Europe, South-East Asia, USA and Russia” will be “seeing an increase in the population at risk of undernourishment.”
In other areas, the si... | ['Environment', 'Climate Change', 'News', 'World', 'Food'] |
And many other relevant rational features are explained in the notebook.
(4) Statistical Overview
Using some statistical aspects we find the relationship between different features and the target variable.
Correlation
Heatmap
Heatmap
Positive Correlation Features:
Fare and Survived: 0.26
Negative Correlation Fe... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Kaggle'] |
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Expectations are narratives grounded in presumptions and projected into a conditional future.
This oppressive intention constricts connection to universal creativity and the natural state of flow.
Imagine stepping into a rushing river. You grab at the water rushing downstream in a v... | ['Expectations', 'Flow State', 'Ego', 'Personal Growth', 'Creativity'] |
Tech: Avoid Array Mutation in JavaScript
Never have to worry about mutating arrays again with these awesome tips
If you are a JavaScript developer like me you won’t be surprised how often array data structure is being used in the code in order to store and manage lists of data. The problem with arrays in JS is that t... | ['Typescript', 'JavaScript', 'UI', 'Arrays', 'Immutability'] |
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Semantic segmentation is a computer vision problem where we try to assign a class to each pixel . Unlike the classic image classification task where only one class value is predicted(assuming single label classification), in this problem we look for class value for each pixel. The a... | ['Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Computer Vision'] |
Code Smell 34 — Too Many Attributes
A class defines objects with lots of attributes.
Photo by Andy Li on Unsplash
Problems
Low Cohesion
Coupling
Maintainability
Readability
Solutions
Find methods related to attributes. Cluster these methods. Break the object related to those clusters. Find real objects related... | ['Software Engineering', 'Clean Code', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Code Smells'] |
Some Kind of Love
Reality will always beat fiction
Photo by Free-Photos on Pixabay
Reality will always beat fiction because fiction can be perfect and reality cannot. I can stop here. I think that I’ve made my point. I’m sorry. I forgot the love part and it has to be addressed. It’s even in the title. Love? It would... | ['AI', 'Prose', 'Love', 'Big Bang', 'Reality'] |
Landlords Vs. Renters
Homeownership is an insanely expensive undertaking and has created a deep wealth gap for many households. Many people are becoming forever stuck in a cycle of renting. While renting isn’t inherently bad, it’s nowhere near as fruitful when owning your own home. In the short-term, renting isn’t so ... | ['Money', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Race', 'Culture'] |
“We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.” ~ Abraham Maslow | ['Maslow', 'Quote', 'Creativity'] |
Bernhardsson and ANN-Benchmarks to the Rescue:
For this project, we need a little help from the experts. Photo by Tra Nguyen on Unsplash
We have established that there are a range of ANN implementations available for use. However, we need a way of picking out the best of the best, the cream of the crop. This is where... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Science', 'Benchmarking', 'Algorithms'] |
If you haven’t read the previous part in this series, it’s available here: Modular iOS: Strangling the iOS Monolith. In the previous article I discuss the benefits of a modular architecture, which is hopefully evident from the visuals!
In this post, I’ll share how to go about splitting up your workspace.
Add your pro... | ['Engineer', 'Engineering', 'Swift', 'iOS', 'Xcode'] |
What technology should I work with, is a question we all sometimes struggle with while planning software development. Often, projects are bracketed into different segments like small, medium or enterprise size, depending on various factors like budget, timeframe, and complexity of the project. Another factor to conside... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Web Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Software Development'] |
LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP — Frank William Brennan
The Best Leaders Share this One Ability
But you’re not going to like doing it
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Remember the see-saw? At recess, you and your best friend would each take a side then burst into laughter as your counterbalance launched each of you off the ground.
But what abou... | ['Business', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Leadership', 'Self-awareness', 'Leadership Development'] |
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