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Angular — Understanding pipes and Different ways to use them Exploring Angular pipes with examples Sometimes we want to change data from API or some other source by editing it before we put that in the template. It’s okay to edit in the component if the data is private to one component. what if we have to do this in ...
['JavaScript', 'Angular Pipe', 'Typescript', 'Angular Tutorial', 'Angular For Beginners']
There are a lot of reasons to hate Facebook. They collect data on you, and sell it. They even do it when you’re not logged in to Facebook. They do it even if you don’t have a Facebook account. They manipulate their users with political bias. Their advertising algorithms promote virtual redlining, which is about the cl...
['Politics', 'Facebook', 'Culture War', 'Social Media', 'Culture']
3. AWS Fargate and AWS CDK Now it's time to start thinking about the cloud infrastructure where our app will be deployed. Wouldn't be nice if we could invest our main focus on developing the app itself and not the infrastructure aspects like scaling, security, and provisioning? Fear not: AWS Fargate is here to help. ...
['Swift', 'Vapor', 'Programming', 'Xcode', 'AWS']
I write this with a broken heart. “Broken” because I saw a man, a black man get murdered on camera, by a Minneapolis police officer. Right now, I am profoundly ashamed of being white. That is not empty rhetoric, I promise you, as I am struggling to understand how we’ve come to this point where a man dies in front of o...
['Police Brutality', 'Current Events', 'Music', 'Trump', 'Racism']
Being Anti-Vaccine Doesn’t Make You a Rebel And Bill Gates is probably not a real life Bond villain Image by Wikilmages via Pixabay It was the December of 1999 and most of my friends were convinced the world was going to come to an end when fireworks ignited the sky as the clock struck 12:00 am to ring in the year 2...
['Health', 'Conspiracy Theories', 'Bill Gates', 'Vaccines', 'Coronavırus']
Sometimes Change is Bad: Immutable Infrastructure Season of Scale Introduction “Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for creating apps that are res...
['DevOps', 'Cloud Computing', 'Software Development', 'Docker', 'Google Cloud Platform']
Unions make us strong — except that not all unions do (at least, in the programming world). In this article, we will explore union types in C language. We will start with a brief introduction to union types and we will move on to such important concepts, as discriminated and free unions (as well as the disadvantages o...
['Programming', 'C Programming', 'Technology', 'Data', 'Big Data']
Instant response temperature checks, a PPE budget, and alternating daily schedules are just a few of the issues facing schools today. It is dizzying to try and keep up with all the different K-12 education plans in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this real-life game of Frogger, school officials have to be remarkabl...
['Policy', 'Covid 19', 'Society', 'Education', 'Teaching']
The year is 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic has changed every aspect of modern life. We have become an isolated society, more dependent on technology now than ever before. Video chatting with our family and friends is the new normal. Now Imagine relocating to a new city during this time or starting a new job or perhap...
['Design', 'UX Design', 'Case Study', 'Covid 19', 'Social Network']
Have you tried intermittent fasting? Or does the mere idea of fasting turn you off? It seems, that lately, a lot of people talk about intermittent fasting, and some of them promise incredible results. Well… Those might be an exaggeration. Here’s how I got involved, and some of my key learning lessons. I have diabetes...
['Life', 'Intermittent Fasting', 'Health', 'Weight Loss', 'Fasting']
8 Projects You Can Build to Learn Python in 2021 Project ideas for Python beginners with links to free courses/articles to build those projects Hello guys, today, I am going to share some of the project-based free courses which you can use to not only build projects using Python but also learn Python better. These ar...
['Python', 'Programming', 'Python3', 'Coding', 'Projects']
But the most extreme Anglo-Celtic bubble I ever encountered was the Australian Broadcasting Corp, which I took to jokingly calling the ‘Anglo Broadcasting Corp’ to friends. Working as a researcher for the Science Unit at the ABC’s old Gore Hill headquarters in Sydney in 1997, the only people I saw like me were either w...
['World', 'Society', 'Australia', 'Diversity', 'Medium']
1. Create prediction model Dataset The approach is based on the paper Automated Hate Speech Detection and the Problem of Offensive Language by Davidson, Warmsley, Macy and Weber. Their results are based on more than 20 000 labelled tweets, which are available on the corresponding Github page. The .csv file is loaded...
['Deployment', 'Machine Learning', 'Docker', 'Python', 'Data Science']
SIR Model The classic three-compartment SIR model — created by Kermack and McKendrick in — has been the de facto standard basis model in epidemiology since the 1920's. Like the logistic model, we’ve got compartments for susceptible and infected people, in addition to a new compartment that represents recovery. These ...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Science', 'Programming', 'Mathematics']
Server-Side Optimizations 1. Configure compressions If you haven’t already, enable server-side compression. This can greatly reduce the size of HTTP responses and has the most impact. Compress as many file types as possible. The only exceptions from this rule are some static assets, such as images, fonts, or PDF file...
['Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Programming', 'React']
GoPro Hero 5 Black and Pix4D to make 3D models Kengo Kuma’s “Under One Roof” design for the ArtLab building definitely qualifies as #ArchitecturePorn. It just opened its doors in Switzerland at the EPFL campus, and while the finishing details were being put in place, we took a GoPro Hero 5 Black and walked around the ...
['Design', 'GoPro', 'Drones', 'Architecture', '3d Modeling']
Food Does Not Have Moral Value Can we stop pretending that it does? Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash Last December, back before life as we knew it changed forever, my office was having a potluck. Generally, I don’t participate in potlucks. I have celiac disease and therefore can't eat gluten. Unfortunately, I can’t ...
['Society', 'Eating', 'Eating Disorders', 'Culture', 'Food']
Photo courtesy of Thomas Picauly on Unsplash My Daily Routine For over a decade I drank almost every night, thinking to myself every time that the next day would be the start of my sobriety. In retrospect it sounds absurd, and I wouldn’t blame an outsider-looking-in for thinking I was crazy. I still have trouble unde...
['Addiction Recovery', 'Alcoholism', 'Addiction', 'Sobriety', 'Health']
About team organization: have you noticed any patterns in how design teams are structured in design-mature companies? Yes. They are all made of people. Not really. Design fills a void. In different organizations the void is different. In some places, they have the technology down, but they don’t ever think about who ...
['Design', 'User Experience', 'Interview', 'Careers', 'UX']
What does embracing the journey look like for me? I have a few people in my life who love and respect me. I am valued at my workplace. I may not be where I want to be as a writer, but at the very least, I am not grabby. I am not a disingenuous hack. I have a sense for what’s my best and what isn’t, but I also don’t wa...
['Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Mental Health']
What is a Blockchain ? A general overview of what is this technology and how it works. Introduction You may have heard the word blockchain popping up here and there over the last 12 months and it’s most probably because of digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Dash or Ripple. This blog post aims to give...
['Crypto', 'Blockchain', 'Future', 'Decentralization', 'Bitcoin']
For the following example, let’s obtain samples from a set of 10 products using probability sampling to determine the population mean of a particular measure of interest. Let’s take a look at the Python code: Products Data Frame Simple Random Sampling As its name suggests, the simple random sampling method selects r...
['Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Coding', 'Python', 'Probability']
To support the launch of the SlideMagic presentation design app I have started to remove the paywall for my book Pitch It!, you can read it here. I am making slow progress because it requires a rewriting and reformatting of the content. First there was the iBooks version written in iBooks Author, then the PDF version ...
['Powerpoint Alternatives', 'Design', 'Presentations', 'PowerPoint']
Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill Gates want to make online education permanent, even in a post COVID-19 world. I’m someone who has spent most of my life as a student, even while in the working world, and I have other ideas. The State of The State Before tearing online edu...
['Children', 'Learning', 'New York', 'Education', 'Government']
Devin Hohl’s story is one shared by Special Olympics athletes everywhere. She suffered from a chronic infection in her mouth, requiring a root canal and crown, but lost her dental insurance when she turned 21 and had been unable to find a dentist willing to work with people with disabilities. At the dental college at A...
['News', 'Health', 'Healthcare', 'Arizona', 'Dental']
For data to be truly powerful, everything has to work in concert. If one part of the value chain — whether that’s preparing data, storing it, or creating insights — is broken, then the gains made elsewhere are negated, or even nullified. Think of it like lights on a Christmas tree: if one bulb has blown, none of them l...
['Data', 'Startup', 'Innovation', 'Venture Capital', 'Software Development']
Symptoms To monitor the stability of the Datadog .NET tracer, we have a reliability environment where we continuously run mainstream applications such as Orchard. This story starts when, while preparing a release, we discovered that the latest version of our tracer was crashing the app with the message: Application: ...
['Dotnet', 'Debugging', 'Csharp', 'Software Development', 'Programming']
#10 — Learn from others. Learning from others is the single most important thing I have learned. And I have to admit, sometimes I still have to remind myself to shut up and listen. There is always someone in the room that knows more than you do. That person is just not necessarily broadcasting it. Be open and ready ...
['Technology', 'Community', 'AWS', 'Lessons Learned', 'Keynote']
NVIDIA GPUs are evolving through time and the main aspect of this evolution is their architecture. NVIDIA GPU architectures from the oldest to the newest are Tesla (released in 2006), Fermi (2010), Kepler (2012), Maxwell (2014), Pascal (2016), Volta (2017), Turing (2018), and Ampere (2020). Some of these architectures ...
['AI', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Gpu', 'Data Scientist']
The #1 club that I believe should be here at KSU is a club designed for students that are struggling with mental illness, especially those struggling with anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are some of the two most common mental illnesses that are diagnosed in teens and adults. You would not believe my shoc...
['Belonging', 'Mental Health']
This summer for me has been defined by the take-offs and landings I have experienced — both literally on planes and in my own mind and heart. I left a full life in Washington DC to return to England and ‘settle down’ with my wonderful family and friends there. In reality I see that I was actually just having a moment...
['Digital Marketing', 'Travel', 'Digital Nomads', 'Productivity', 'Work And Travel']
‘The Inevitable Life Cycle’ of Platforms Like Facebook and Pornhub ‘If you’re going to have users generating content, you’re going to have users generating harmful content’ Facebook profile images collected at the 2015 Big Bang Data exhibition in London. Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for Somerset House Last w...
['Social Media', 'Internet', 'Facebook', 'Tech', 'Content Moderation']
I’ve had a lot of success in my life. So you’d think I know what I’m doing when I turn up to work every day. Over a decade ago I started a company straight out of university with a mate, Scott. We had no prior business experience and no grand plan. Today we have thousands of awesome employees, and millions of people a...
['Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Impostor Syndrome', 'Personal Growth']
Difference between AR , VR and Mmixed Reality | Image Source Virtual Reality (VR) infers a total inundation experience that closes out the physical world. Utilizing VR gadgets, for example, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard. Users can be transported into a various genuine world and envisioned situations, for e...
['Interaction Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'Virtual Reality', 'Design Thinking']
3. Case Studies Of course, what good is the theory if we don’t have some great examples of disastrous failures in the form of companies and business executives who eschewed the idea of marketing myopia and did the opposite: product optimization. Exhibit A — Kodak One of Kodak’s historical cameras. The short version...
['Marketing', 'Education', 'Business', 'Innovation', 'SEO']
Amazon Top 50 books (2009–2019) Over the years e- commerce has taken over the world and big players such as Amazon, Flipkart, ebay, etc. have gained enormous amount of consumers. I have taken this dataset from kaggle to explore and provide various insights using CRISP- DM approach. Some of the questions that I’ll be...
['Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Recommendation System']
Delivering Multiple Features Is the Ultimate Goal Stakeholders pressure Product Owners to fulfill their wishes. If Product Owners don’t know how to handle this pressure, they will inevitably be incapable of defining a Sprint Goal. Unfortunately, the result is nothing less than chaos because: Developers have no chance...
['Agile', 'Leadership', 'Software Development', 'Product Management', 'Startup']
Next Steps: Automating Tests and Updates After publishing your npm package, it is a good idea to set up a pipeline to automate future tests and version updates. Buddy CI/CD is an intuitive tool that we can use to achieve this easily. Add a pipeline To get started, simply create a Buddy account and add your project b...
['JavaScript', 'NPM', 'React', 'Reactjs', 'Programming']
Photo by Andreas Klassen on Unsplash Picture a successful person. What do you see? Perhaps it’s a woman in a power suit, hustling around the city. Maybe you see a top level athlete throwing weights around the gym. Your favorite celebrity on a red carpet. Whoever you imagine, they’re probably actively busy. When som...
['Success', 'Business', 'Mindfulness', 'Organization', 'Productivity']
Late last year, Amazon announced v2 of AWS Ruby SDK. Among other features, Amazon added Resource and Client classes for each of their services. While being functionally equivalent, they present different paradigms. The Client class serves as a proxy to the API calls, with 1-to-1 method mapping and the more interesting...
['Ruby', 'AWS']
Many people still worry that if you build a websites using tools like React, Angular, or Ember, it will hurt your search engine ranking. The thinking goes something like this: the web crawlers that search engines use won’t be able crawl a page properly unless it’s completely rendered in the user’s browser. Instead, th...
['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'SEO', 'Tech', 'React']
The Trial and Execution of Socrates An Ancient Tragedy that Still Shapes Society More than 2,400 years ago, in the birthplace of democracy, there was no such thing as freedom of speech, but one man believed there should be. He even died standing up for his rights, including that of freedom of religion, which means bo...
['History', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Philosophy']
Why was Merle Haggard’s proposed “Tribute to the Troubadour” album shelved indefinitely? Featuring an exclusive interview, we dive into the late country maverick’s appreciation for Texas Troubadour Ernest Tubb. Here Haggard tips his hat to the crowd as he takes the Palomino Stage on the first night of the sold-out thre...
['Tribute', 'Country Music', 'Nashville', 'Merle Haggard', 'Music']
Photo by Joel Filipe on Unsplash Physical exercise had always been one of her daily “must-dos,” and Gina set out on her daily seven-mile walk with her walking buddy. Each day, they met for coffee, had a quick gab about what was new or exciting, and began the walk to the next town and back again. Exercising as she did...
['AI', 'Technology', 'Diagnosis', 'Cancer', 'Medicine']
Angular Accessibility Supporting Web A11y Standards in Angular Let’s talk about building accessible Angular applications. Why? Because Angular apps are awesome, but the amazing things Angular lets you do are a net negative unless you can build an app that everyone can use. Accessibility (sometimes abbreviated as “a1...
['Angular', 'Accessibility', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Programming']
iPhone Has One Of The Most Powerful Processors Used By Everyone Since the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007, there has been a significant increase in the number of phones per person, as well as the time spent on the internet. By 2004, there were 57 computers and 52 Internet users per 100 people in developing c...
['Technology', 'Apple', 'Tech', 'Product', 'iPhone']
Deploy Jenkins as server General variables are presented in this file, please pay attention to some properties which need to be replaced by your configure AWS CLI variables. See more information in AWS CLI Command Reference. There are several properties which are need setups: access_key and secret_key: Access keys t...
['Tutorial', 'Terraform', 'Jenkins', 'Pipeline', 'AWS']
Write For Us A quick guide to explain how to send stories to our publication Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash If you are here you probably want to share with us your last tutorial, idea or project and we are happy to spread it to everyone! Dev Genius loves new content from every programmer with all skills and cod...
['Development', 'Developer', 'Software', 'Programming', 'Software Development']
Data mapping can make or break your integration strategy. To effectively manage a plethora of applications or data sources, an organization needs a data conversion tool that can easily be used by all sorts of users ranging from core technical users to business analysts. Hence the need of the hour is to have a mapping ...
['Mapping', 'Integration', 'Data Science', 'Maps', 'Data Visualization']
Tutorial We’ll be building a simple contacts app as mentioned above, which would first render the names of all contacts on the sidebar, and as we click on one of the names, the details of that contact will be asynchronously fetched and rendered. Let’s cover a few basics before we move ahead. If doing it the React wa...
['Recoiljs', 'JavaScript', 'Reactjs', 'Programming', 'React']
Two days, twelve cups of coffee, sixty-eight tweets, six phone charges, and seven pages of notes later, we’ve wrapped up our time at the Traction Conference in Vancouver. After hearing from over thirty amazing speakers, we learned the latest insights on how to scale a business, measure success, and increase conversions...
['Startup', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup Lessons', 'Growth Marketing']
Photo by Sidekix Media on Unsplash I recently completed a project involving a multivariate linear regression to predict housing prices, and guess what…people really don’t like waiting for the bathroom. That seems pretty obvious, but how much don’t they like to wait? It turns out that they may be willing to pay tens o...
['Statsmodels', 'Linear Regression', 'Python', 'Data Science']
Photo by Hailey Kean on Unsplash She was high on doomscrolling — All those other people who spoke of self-love and self-care…they were just selfish, ignorant. They didn’t want to know what was going on. They were not going to be prepared. She sat in bed. She ordered Seamless. She got caught up on the news. From diffe...
['Short Story', 'Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'Fiction', 'Anxiety']
Can I Send My EOS I Bought on an Exchange To My Ethereum Address Which is Registered To EOS? Stellabelle Follow Aug 13, 2017 · 3 min read EOS infographic Many people are asking this exact question and after searching the internet for several days, I couldn’t find the answer. So a trip into the EOS Telegram room, and ...
['Steemit', 'Eos', 'Future', 'Ethereum', 'Blockchain']
If you look at the process during a startup’s fundraising, there are 3 common steps : Contact : Startup reaches out to investors via introduction or cold request, or investor reaches out to founder. Assessment : The investor evaluates the startup. Deal : The investor is willing to invest and negotiates a deal with the...
['Venture Capital', 'Startup', 'Practical Guides']
When I was younger, I was angry all of the time. I refused to tolerate rules, wayward looks, and even the hint of a diss. Talking back to teachers, arguing with strangers in parking lots, and fighting on the floor with classmates were all totally normal occurrences for me. In college, I quickly learned to reel it in. ...
['Women', 'Mental Health', 'Careers', 'Race', 'Anger']
2. Why people with a medical background get stuck in tutorial hell Photo by JC Gellidon on Unsplash In most countries, it is not easy to get into medical school. You most likely need really good grades, good performance on standardized tests, impressive extracurricular activities and if you’re really unlucky, a combi...
['Data Science', 'Science', 'Programming', 'Coding', 'Medicine']
Introduction In this article, we will be going through the solution to a coding challenge that I’ve recently had the pleasure to solve taking one of the LeetCode contests. Other than the solution itself, I’ll be providing an easy visualization that hopefully will make everything really simple to grasp. The problem I...
['Leetcode', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Algorithms', 'Computer Science']
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Hiring Offshore Python Developers in Ukraine There is huge competition between Python developers from around the globe. Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash There is a huge competition between Python developers within the markets of Europe and North America as more companies are seeking to hire P...
['Ukraine', 'Outsourcing', 'Python', 'Software Development']
There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well. Robin Arzón is one of the most famous faces of Peloton, a New York-based startup that sells stationary bikes and treadmills, and streams live workouts onto their screens to users aro...
['Health', 'The Health Diaries', 'Peloton', 'Fitness', 'Life']
Speaking of frightening Trump devotees, have you heard Charlie Kirk’s latest descent into pro-Trump madness? It’s really something else. Yes, Turning Point USA’s president now claims that the one thing Americans have to fear is… Donald Trump’s arrest. Kirk goes so far as to say that if Trump is sent to prison, the Lef...
['Society', 'Politics', 'America', 'Culture', 'Trump']
The transition to Apple Silicon has been long coming and developers are finally able to start adapting their apps for ARM-based Macs. A new Mac running Apple Silicon launches in 2020, with the entire line expected to be transitioned within 2 years. Between virtualization software and live-app translation of Intel-based...
['Software Development', 'Technology', 'Apple', 'Tech Newletter', 'Technews']
Ryan Albrecht | Pinterest engineer, Growth At Pinterest we know performance is a feature. Countless experiments have shown that when Pinners have a smooth and responsive experience they find more creative ideas for their life. But there’s a problem: as our web app has grown in complexity, the size of JavaScript Pinner...
['Webpack 2', 'Open Source', 'ES6', 'JavaScript', 'React']
The POM is a Place for Poetry Read, Clap, Comment, Share, Repeat Author’s graphic For our readers, there’s been a bit of a shift in Medium regarding curation, therefore, I have removed the curated articles section from the front page until we can figure it all out. On a similar note, our editorial staff is working h...
['Newsletter', 'Reading', 'Creativity', 'Poetry', 'The Pom']
Researchers from music and engineering teams are working together to turn big data into sound. A collaboration between two professors — one of music and one of engineering — at Virginia Tech resulted in the creation of a new platform for data analysis that makes it possible to understand data better by turning it into...
['Data Science', 'Sound', 'Data Visualization', 'Big Data', 'Spatial Audio']
Ever since my daughter was born, I’ve worked as a freelance writer and editor. Pre-Covid, business was good. Then the virus struck and my work disappeared, or was offered at dramatically reduced rates. Each day, I scrolled through my LinkedIn contacts and sent pitches to drum up work. Nada. One day on LinkedIn, I scr...
['Technology', 'Viral', 'Passion', 'iPhone', 'Writing']
Sun safety & hydration. These two probably aren’t the first things you think about on a beautiful summer day in Hawaii, but they should be and at Special Olympics Hawaii’s 2017 State Soccer & Bocce Competition, they were brought to the forefront. A Special Olympics Hawaii soccer team celebrating after their match. Vo...
['Health', 'Performance', 'Healthcare', 'Nonprofit', 'Fitness']
Then it comes the fun part: Design what the skill should do if it’s a standalone service Find out how to implement it with Alexa In my design, the skill should be able to give an “outdoor score” in the range of 0–100 for a city within a time frame. The score should reflect how comfortable it was, so I came up with a ...
['Side Project', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Conversational Ai', 'Alexa', 'Programming']
Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Java is a popular programming language that is a choice of software developers around the world for building web, mobile and desktop applications, websites, applets, distributed modules, games, enterprise software, cloud applications, and much more. Programmers who learn Java find many...
['Programming', 'Coding', 'Learn To Code', 'Learning To Code', 'Java']
Part 3: Assigning subsets of data This is part three of a four-part series on how to select subsets of data from a pandas DataFrame or Series. Pandas offers a wide variety of options for subset selection which necessitates multiple articles. This series is broken down into the following topics. Become an Expert If y...
['Python', 'Python Pandas', 'Pydata', 'Jupyter', 'Data Science']
The project The source code for this article can be found on GitHub. Start by opening Visual Studio and creating an ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web Application with a name and at any location. Choose an empty project since this is just a demo. Install the Nuget Swashbuckle.AspNetCore so we can use Swagger to test the API: Op...
['Event Sourcing', 'Csharp', 'Cqrs', 'Aspnetcore', 'Mediator Pattern']
We are pleased to announce the release of Bokeh 0.12.7! This update includes the following highlights: Support for graph/tree/network plots. Filterable and groupable ColumnDataSource views. views. Explicit control over plot aspect ratios. New Expression models for client-side computations, e.g. Stack . models for...
['Bokeh', 'Data Visualization', 'Open Source', 'Data Science', 'Python']
Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash For people who pride themselves on being smart, scientists sure are being ignorant. I’m hard-pressed to come up with another explanation as to why non-binary and transgender people like me are consistently left out of visions for greater equality and equity in science. Science, as...
['Equality', 'LGBTQ', 'Nonbinary', 'Queer', 'Science']
The Answer To Hunger Florida Man broke into a Wendy’s to satisfy his craving. Wendy’s logo courtesy of Wendy’s Corporation Do you want fries with that? It's a sales pitch to increase the volume of food sold at fast-food chains around the world. The phrase has been used to comedic effect many times over the years. Ne...
['Food', 'Society', 'Culture', 'True Crime', 'Humor']
When competition in the app stores is tougher than ever, you might be looking for a nontrivial solution to draw the attention of users and get more downloads for your mobile app. Search no more. The solution is here: A/B testing your app store product page, which means experimenting with various options of your app’s ...
['Mobile App Development', 'A B Testing', 'App Store Optimization', 'App Store', 'Mobile Marketing']
Come to Me Now Poetry Neolithic wall painting from Tell Bouqras at the museum of Deir az-Zor. Public Domain The meat — Tender and sweet Falling off the bones The blood — Glistening nimbus Exiting the rind Come to me now Bare, scraped Thinly wrapped in life membrane Come to me now Bleak but warm Soft but d...
['Grief', 'Music', 'Poetry', 'Life', 'Death']
What is WSL 2 WSL 2 is the new version of the architecture in WSL. This version comes with several changes that dictate how Linux distributions interact with Windows. With this release, you get increased file system performance and a full system call compatibility. Of course, you can choose to run your Linux distribu...
['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Linux', 'Towards Data Science']
Just over a year ago I’d just finished breakfast in Brooklyn Diner, New York, when my editor called me to offer me a book contract. I had been in talks with Apress on writing a book about Oracle JET, and at that point I committed the next 8 months of my life to writing. This is partly why it has been so long since I ha...
['Programming', 'Books', 'Oracle', 'Enterprise Technology', 'JavaScript']
As we know while building any Machine Learning model the first step is to clean and transform the data which can then be recognized by machine learning algorithms and help in training the overall model. The most important library while working with NLP is Natural Language Toolkit wiz NLTK. It consists of numerously in...
['Machine Learning', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Interview']
10. “I live my life for the stars that shine / People say it’s just a waste of time” — ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’ When Noel Gallagher wrote this opening track to Oasis’ career-making debut album Definitely Maybe in 1994, the Gallaghers were not quite actual Rock ’n’ Roll stars yet. Like many of Oasis’ lyrics, this line high...
['Oasis', 'Rock', 'Lyrics', 'Music']
“The destructuring assignment syntax is a JavaScript expression that makes it possible to unpack values from arrays, or properties from objects, into distinct variables”. MDN Destructuring assignment helps to build your code fragments in clear and easier manner. It unpacks individual values from arrays or properties f...
['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Tutorial', 'Destructuring Assignment']
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash Steps of Development cycle: The development cycle is a cycle or repetitive process which is required for project quality assurance, which makes our project meet the current requirement of the user. This stage is the start of actual execution. During this stage, it is important for dev...
['Project Management', 'Projects', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering']
Naser Bardaghawi, from Irbid city— north of Jordan — has been working with the World Food Programme (WFP) for nine years. He joined in 2012, when the Syrian crisis began and refugees from Syria crossed into the northern Jordanian border. Naser was working on the ground as a field monitor, as part of WFP’s emergency re...
['Humanitarian', 'Jordan', 'World Refugee Day', 'Coronavirus', 'Refugees']
As a self-proclaimed workaholic who measures my value almost purely on productivity, I tend to be incredibly hard on myself if I’m not getting enough done, and on others who I feel aren’t catching up fast enough or are getting in the way of my own progress. That’s an awful tendency. Why would I think the only thing I...
['Life Lessons', 'Positive Thinking', 'Productivity', 'Empathy', 'Potential']
Why Do People in the West Hate Face Masks So Much? It’s a Cultural Issue, Not a Scientific One Photo by Paul Merki on Unsplash When Covid-19 began to spread to my home town, Hong Kong, people didn’t spend an extra second to think about getting face masks. In fact, most of us would’ve some leftover from SARS days, an...
['Health', 'Life', 'Covid 19', 'Culture', 'Self']
Announcing AI Localism: A new platform supporting the responsible use and design of AI at the local level The GovLab Follow Sep 30 · 2 min read Today, The GovLab is excited to launch a new platform which seeks to monitor, analyze and guide how AI is being governed in cities around the world: AI Localism. AI Localism ...
['Cities', 'Data Stewards', 'Governance', 'Covid 19', 'AI']
By Rasal Sesay Introduction Amongst our readers, both digital and print, visual journalism is viewed as a way to add value to an article, in a digestible and easy format which enhances their reading experience. We’ve invested in rich journalism through interactive graphics, editorial production, data and charts, how...
['UX', 'Graphics', 'Data', 'Journalism', 'Financial Times']
Are Sufis and Muslims the Same? An exploration of Islamic mysticism. Sufism is a mystical religious sect of Islam that emphasizes the divine connection within the self. Although Sufism has, in some form, existed since the early days of Islam, the Sufi ‘canon’ became more or less established in the medieval time perio...
['Poetry', 'Dance', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Music']
Building a PWA with Create React App We’re going to be building a realtime PWA with the help of create-react-app. It’s common for developers who are just getting into React to have a difficult time getting set up and configuring their apps. create-react-app eliminates all of that by allowing developers to build React...
['JavaScript', 'React', 'Pwa', 'Cryptocurrency']
A method to select either a condensed data table or the complete data table. One of the features that I wanted for the data table was the ability to show a “condensed” version of the table as well as the complete data table. Therefore, I included a radio button in the layouts.py file to select which version of the tab...
['Dash', 'Dashboard', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science']
Adapting our Color Palette When it came to our color palette, we determined that it was important that we remain consistent as possible with our standard color palette, and to only introduce new colors where absolutely necessary. This was done to both provide a consistent experience for our readers and to minimize the...
['iOS', 'Design', 'Dark Mode', 'Insights', 'Apps']
Standard Deviation in Practice Using Standard Deviation in Python Mean, Standard deviation, and Error bar in Python As this article mentioned, with Standard Deviation you can get a handle on whether your data are close to the average or they are spread out over a wide range. For example, if an employer wants to dete...
['Data Science', 'Standard Deviation', 'Python', 'Data Visualization']
In late 2017, an open letter signed by hundreds of members from the University of Toronto was sent to the senior administration of the institution, calling for the termination of a professor of psychology. I had just begun living in the city at the time, had no idea who this man was, why he had made so many people angr...
['Psychology', 'Politics', 'Jordan Peterson']
Pipenv is dead. It went all of 2019 without a single release, despite about 650 commits to master since the last release. Comments from developers on the project explain it “has been held back by several subdependencies and a complicated release process”. In the past, there were also comments that internal changes to p...
['Python', 'Pipenv', 'Pip', 'Continuous Integration', 'Software Development']
Sight and Sound The Purest Art, The Most Exquisite Music “person playing violin” by Madelon 🇫🇷 on Unsplash Circles and swirling spirals across skin, a never ending panoply of invisible pictures. Fingertips trailing shivers, lips painting kisses, bodies crafting passion, hearts creating ecstasy. John’s eyes drift ...
['Flash Fiction', 'Art', 'Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Music']
If you haven’t heard of the Universal Data Tool, it’s an open-source web or desktop program to collaborate, build and edit text, image, video, and audio datasets with labels and annotations. You can get started with the Universal Data Tool This is our fourth community update! We’re hoping by releasing these we can bet...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence']
JavaScript can do a lot of amazing things! From complex frameworks to handling API’s, there is just SO much to learn. But, it also enables you to do some awesome stuff using just one single line. Check out these 10 one-liners to step up your JavaScript game!
['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Technology']
Build Pipeline We need to do build pipelines as part of continuous integration first. The way this pipeline works is that the moment you check-in code into Github or Azure Repos, this pipeline builds the project, test it, make the built artifact ready for the deployment. Let’s follow all the steps to build this pipeli...
['Programming', 'Cloud Computing', 'Azure', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development']
How NEAT Might Be the Key to Your Weight Loss Goals Simple changes in your day can have a huge impact on your body composition. Photo by Ryan Moreno on Unsplash Trying to lose weight can be frustrating. The information we receive is confusing — we don’t know what to eat, what exercises to do, or what an ideal weight...
['Self Improvement', 'Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Weight Loss', 'Advice']
Let’s begin with you, are you a creative person? I think you are. Do you know why? because you’re a human who has knowledge and awareness of your daily needs and wants, and how you serve yourself; by thinking, finding solutions for your problems and requests. Creativity isn’t a gift from God is a Continuity of practic...
['UX', 'UX Design', 'Creativity', 'Habits', 'Branding']