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Join us at Asia’s largest tech conference and see ECOMI Collect’s augmented reality in action!
SINGAPORE, July 6, 2018 — ECOMI has announced its participation at RISE Conference 2018, taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) on 9–12 July.
ECOMI will exhibit in the Gaming, VR, and AR indu... | ['Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Conference', 'Altcoins', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
PROGRAMMING
Use Enums Effectively
How to properly use enums to model your data
Swift is an interesting language. It is very friendly for new developers: its syntax is concise and simple to grasp, as well as its main concepts.
However, it takes a lot of time to really master it. Every feature of the language has som... | ['Mobile', 'Swift Programming', 'Software Development', 'iOS', 'Apple'] |
…. these will make a good addition to the homecontrol center
Getting notifications when a 315MHz radio button is pressed:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTDYcQ4I8A&w=1280&h=720]
And using it to control a mains-connected nightlamp:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8haKhGthD_I&w=1280&h=720]
… Read... | ['Work', 'Development', 'Raspberry Pi'] |
Playmaker: The Reality of 10x Engineer
You become one by making 10 teammates 2x
“We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far” (Francesco Totti)
Sometimes I feel sorry for our recruitment team. They spent years looking for rockstar developers, only to realize that the developers... | ['Software Development', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Leadership', 'Programming'] |
“I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine.” — Marvin Gaye, I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The 61st Annual Grammy Awards, held on February 10th, had many outstanding moments. Former First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage with several celebrities to speak on the power and importance of mus... | ['Racism', 'History', 'Latinos', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Music'] |
Prerequisites
Overview
In this blog, we are going to deploy the simple linear regression model (a Machine Learning Model) that we have prepared in Machine Learning — Simple Linear Regression blog.
Following are the steps that we will be going to perform in the blog:
Exposing Model’s functionality using Flask APIs C... | ['Machine Learning', 'Docker Image', 'Ml Model Deployment', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science'] |
Key Issue: The Autoimmunity Crisis
Across the world a health crisis is quietly brewing. Diseases of autoimmunity are soaring across the globe and particularly so in the developed world. An autoimmune disease is when otherwise healthy cells provoke an immune response and are attacked and destroyed by the immune system.... | ['Health', 'Public Health', 'Gut Health', 'Autoimmune Disease', 'Genetics'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Humor', 'Psychology', 'Monday', 'Comics'] |
We’ve had it drilled into our heads for years: the importance of a more customer-centric business model. How embodying customer-centricity within an organization to help ensure business relevance (and resonance) in a commercial relationship most will agree is now firmly weighted in favor of the customer.
We’re constan... | ['Marketing', 'Self Improvement', 'Customer Centricity', 'Customer Experience', 'Strategy'] |
The evils of data science and AI
We’ve come a long way since the 70s, and computers today don’t rape or mutilate people wearing black face masks. (Although, with the virus, we’ve all become a little more Darth-Vader-like). Instead, they enable the transition to a cashless economy, from which the poorest in society wil... | ['Social Responsibility', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Ethics', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Business Tactics
Business tactics are short-term plans that don’t deviate from the overall strategy. These are the actions that influence the success or failure of a business strategy. Because they define an action, they’re often time-limited and can be quite fluid. Being fluid allows different tactics to be used depe... | ['Strategy', 'Leadership', 'Business', 'Business Strategy', 'Startup'] |
Asking: Describing your goals for better feedback
I’ll often see a viz posted on Twitter with a short plug/description and then the quick note: “feedback appreciated”. After several perspective pieces on the appropriate time and place for feedback, the community has more commonly adopted a mentality of signaling wheth... | ['Data Visualization', 'Design', 'Feedback', 'Critique'] |
In the last blog post I talked about how groups end up making faulty decisions. How many times have you been part of a group discussion and decision-making process and there is one person who is dominating the conversation and the decision. Just because decisions are made in a group setting doesn’t mean that the entire... | ['Research', 'Decision Making', 'Psychology', 'Psychology Research'] |
Before the start of Spoon’s summer tour, I got the chance to chat with Britt Daniel — the singer/songwriter/guitarist of that amazing group. Here’s what transpired:
Still working on the record?
Still working every day.
Is it officially NOT completed yet?
It’s very much not completed. But it’s gonna be good.
The ... | ['Zine', 'Interviews', 'Nashville', 'Music'] |
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Introduction
HBO’s Silicon Valley introduced cryptocurrencies to a mainstream audience by recently airing an episode titled ‘Initial Coin Offering’ (ICO). The storyline was emblematic of the current crypto market, where a fictional Valley startup called Pied Piper decides to ICO as ... | ['Technology', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Business', 'Blockchain', 'Startup'] |
László Moholy-Nagy, “Q 1 Suprematistic”, 1923
While precursors to Modernism were present in the 19th century, the concept of modernism wasn’t established until the other ‘-isms’ had crystallized around Europe in the first years of the 20th century. France saw Cubism born in 1907, Die Brücke in Germany in 1906, Italian... | ['Data Science', 'Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Dvhistory', 'African American'] |
Audible Sundays
Line of Sight
Photo by LB
In times of uncertainty, explore the refuge between breaths. A naturally hidden experience awaits your focus. If we sit with wonder, a sense of calm can be manifested. When the mind becomes secondary, bodily awareness becomes primary. An internal vista will emerge, stretchin... | ['Poetry', 'Meditation', 'Music', 'Photography', 'Audible Sundays'] |
9. Brutalism
This is a trend that I have the most problem with (maybe not so much as with neuomorphism, to be honest). It’s called brutalism and it looks quite as the name suggests — strong contrasts, often unpleasant typography and many problems with the accessibility and readability. But I get the overall vibe — the... | ['UI', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
What Is React Testing Library? And Why Is It Different?
Note: This is not a “Getting Started with RTL” piece. This article assumes you already have a pretty good understanding of how to use the testing framework. My aim is to show you some additional tricks to make writing (and debugging) tests easier.
With that said... | ['React', 'React Testing Library', 'Tdd', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
With ARK mostly attending US & EU conferences to date, it is time to change the scenery and visit one of the biggest blockchain summits in South Korea. We can’t wait to meet our supporters in the region and make new friends as we continue to spread the word about ARK across the globe. If you are attending, be sure to s... | ['Marketing', 'Crypto', 'Blockchain', 'Conference', 'Korea'] |
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... | ['Dashboard', 'Dash', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Code
All of the functionality above filters from a single script called notify.py .
We will use Outlook in our example code. However, translating this to other providers is incredibly easy, which we will also cover quickly at the end.
There are two Python libraries we need here, email and smtplib .
email — For ... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
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Find the highest moving (hidden) stocks of the day with Python
There are more stocks than just the SP500! In this article we will explore Python code that will unveil fast moving small gem stocks…
The stock market is a fast moving place, especially in these volatile times. While we often hear ab... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Stock Market', 'Coding', 'Stocks'] |
You know how it is. You see a headline for a blog post that promises to solve your marketing problems. You click the link and skim through the article. It’s all information that you’ve read before.
It follows the same format as every other marketing blog post with basically the same content. You close out of the artic... | ['Marketing', 'B2B', 'Business', 'Online Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
In my previous article, I wrote about how to build an API with Flask. This article is about how to deploy it to Heroku, or more specifically, what steps you need to take to prepare your app to be deployed. If you have built your app correctly, it will need some modifications before you can deploy it.
My preferred way ... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Flask', 'Heroku', 'Coding'] |
Nobody thinks that it is, but Congress ought to be taking Trump’s 20+ accusors more seriously
Photo by Johannes W on Unsplash
No, an accusation is not proof, and nobody thinks that it is. Stop saying that! This is nothing but a deflection from the real issues at hand — that someone, some man, has quite likely acted i... | ['Rape', 'Essay', 'Trump', 'Feminism', 'Society'] |
2. IntelliJ
Git conflict in IntelliJ
If you click on Resolve right after Merge Conflicts , you will get this window. You are presented with some options similar to ones in VS Code. Accepting yours means you keep the changes from your branch (in our case, their changes are from the master ).
Let’s say you’re not happ... | ['Python', 'JavaScript', 'Git', 'Programming', 'Version Control'] |
Working on software systems is usually a complex process if not a complicated one. In this post, I am going to highlight the key differences between working for internal software and customer-facing applications with examples related to E-commerce. I have worked with both internal products and customer-facing applicati... | ['Ecommerce Web Development', 'Ecommerce', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
I have used Medium since 2012 when it started. I thought it was a great idea from Ev Williams because I could explain my idea more than 140 characters.
Sadly, there are numbers of things to show that Medium does not care its loyal users, included me. The new paid member only section just looks like a scam.
Here are s... | ['Brand Strategy', 'Business', 'Social Media', 'Medium', 'Writing'] |
Let’s do the simple math to justify the title of this article. We know the old saying where one thousand words are equivalently represented in one picture. But video? Thats a pretty big statement (and a pretty big number).
Looking up some basic facts about videos reveal the foundation of motion pictures. Each frame ex... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Video', 'Video Marketing', 'YouTube'] |
It is usually a good idea to avoid idioms in your creative writing. Most times, the terms have been over done, and idioms do very little to add value to creative endeavors. The exception to this is when the idiom is the topic or focus of the creative work.
For example, Nin Andrews uses the phrase, “Cleanliness is next... | ['Writing Prompts', 'Poem', 'Creative Writing', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
What Spelling Someone’s Name Wrong Online Says About You
Come on, it’s right in front of your eyes.
Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash
Thanks so much, Jordon!
Have a great day, Gordon!
It was so nice chatting with you, Jason!
If this happens at the end of a live conversation with somebody I just met, I get it. It’s ... | ['Humor', 'Creativity', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
For the past few weeks, I’m pretty sure I’ve been seeing another me. Wednesday afternoon I left my apartment to walk to the train and I saw her — me — crossing the intersection at the top of the hill, walking briskly. Then over the weekend I was washing dishes and staring out the window, just spacing out, and she was c... | ['Algorithms', 'Satisfying Videos', 'Fiction', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algowave'] |
When Helical Insight first announced a couple of years ago that they were releasing an Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) tool, it really caught my interest and I reached out to founder Nikhilesh Tiwari to find out more about what he was doing. I spent a little time with the product and really liked where it was go... | ['Data Analytics', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Visualization'] |
PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks
【一言まとめ】既に学習されたネットワークを他のタスクに再利用する試み
【著者】Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Charles Blundell, Yori Zwols, David Ha†, Andrei A. Rusu, Alexander Pritzel, Daan Wierstra
【所属機関】DeepMind
【URL】https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.08734.pdf
https://deepmind.com/re... | ['Deepmind', 'AI', 'Paper', 'Machine Learning'] |
Logging in Rust Applications
In the previous section, we’ve learned what to achieve by having an effective log. In this section, we’ll put logging that adheres to the best practices above in a Rust application. The application that we are going to modify is an authentication module that I built for my other article. W... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Rustlang', 'Rust'] |
Optimization
As you might have noticed, I have not yet talked about the inertia, cognitive and social coefficients. These coefficients control the levels of exploration and exploitation. Exploitation is the ability of particles to target the best solutions found so far. Exploration, on the other hand, is the ability o... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Editors Pick', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algorithms'] |
The left could hand Trump four more years
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When I first started writing about Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility in early June, I could find exactly one other writer who was willing to call out this “must-read” for the exquisite work of hucksterism it actually is.
That was Jonathan... | ['Books', 'Politics', 'Culture', 'Race', 'Philosophy'] |
This article highlights a selection of open source tools to improve the developer experience of building with Serverless.
Some of these tools are specific to AWS Serverless and the Serverless Framework.
In no particular order…
1. Serverless Framework Plugin: serverless-iam-roles-per-function
Ensuring least privileg... | ['Serverless Framework', 'Serverless', 'AWS', 'Open Source', 'Developer Tools'] |
Racial Bias in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning uses algorithms to receive inputs, organize data, and predict outputs within predetermined ranges and patterns. It may seem like algorithms are objective, mathematical processes, but this is far from true. In fact, racial bias seeps into algo... | ['Programming', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Racial Justice', 'Machine Learning'] |
“I want to be just like Mommy.”
The first time my daughter said that, it melted my heart and punched me in the gut. I am not the kind of mom who has all of her shit together. To be honest, I’m a single mama fighting back a mix of mental illness and more.
You see, I’m also fighting my body. To describe my body in a wa... | ['Health', 'Parenting', 'Life Lessons', 'Body', 'Lifestyle'] |
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Cardiff City, managed by lifelong referee critic and purveyor of inspirational half time talks, Neil Warnock, were relegated alongside Huddersfield Town and Fulham. In doing so the two former teams have taught us its important to find a healthy balance of foreign players or you m... | ['Soccer', 'Football', 'Premier League', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
So far most of my systems have been pretty simple so I thought I’d try something with a few more moving parts. I think this falls under my domain since I remember reading that we shouldn’t do anything about climate change because of the economy. Carbon emissions are an externality, a cost to be paid by all of the world... | ['Renewable Energy', 'Ocean Acidification', 'Systems Thinking', 'Climate', 'Climate Change'] |
OK Joe, but why the crying?
I don’t know where the sensitivity comes from, but it’s always been there. Hallmark movies are made for people like me. My wife makes fun, lovingly, when I cry watching sappy movies. I’m always the only one that cries by the way, and I live with three women. I guess there’s a stereotype abo... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Self Love', 'Hope'] |
Ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto gifted the world the Bitcoin paper, more has been realized beyond the liberalization of the concept of money as a means of exchange and storage of value. Vitalik Buterin later proposed a case on how to write applications on Bitcoin to extend its abilities beyond digital currency. He lat... | ['AI', 'Africa', 'Blockchain', 'Dlt'] |
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A recent study shows very elderly adults (>75 years old) can increase their muscle strength and size by participating in resistance training programs.
These effects were observed with resistance training interventions that generally included low weekly training volumes and frequencies. For stre... | ['Fitness', 'Healthcare', 'Health', 'Exercise', 'Research'] |
In Lockdown with Le Fil: Queer Identity and DIY Music Videos
Keeping creative during COVID is such a drag
“Immerse yourself in complete and utter fabulousness!” [Image courtesy of Le Fil]
Keeping your mind active in lockdown is rather like being in a closet: it’s very inconvenient and nobody ever asks to be put in o... | ['Creative Non Fiction', 'Identity', 'Queer', 'LGBTQ', 'Music'] |
Introduction
Easy way to build a video face detection app that detects and recognizes happiness in your computer’s camera using OpenCV in Python
Face detection algorithms are improving at a fast pace over the last few years. Companies and governments are using it in broad ways for all types of purposes. Here is a lis... | ['Data Science', 'Object Detection', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Face Detection App'] |
Nowadays, there is a huge list of powerful business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools to help you illustrate your ideas, visualize your data, make it talk, share your significant analytics with customers and the global community. In this article, we will compare the most commonly used platforms and analyze... | ['Data Analysis', 'Business Intelligence', 'Tableau', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
We are pleased to announce the release of Bokeh 1.1!
The major topic for this release was improving Bokeh’s layout capability. More than 50 layout related issues were closed! In addition to the layout overhaul, many other small bugfixes and features went into this release. Some highlights:
Hover tool fixes and featur... | ['Data Visualization', 'Bokeh', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Open Source'] |
I didn’t even know the word
When I first sat in meditation
It was on the school bus
I was hardly 10 years old girl
I still remember the humor
I and my friend sat in lotus posture
In the riot of chaos
Closed my eyes and I got lost
One naughty kid
kept my shoe in my lap
It startled me
forced me to open my eyes... | ['Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Life', 'Self-awareness', 'Meditation'] |
My Recommendations to Learn Mathematics for Machine Learning
Here is a compilation of books, videos, and papers to get you started.
I have always emphasized on the importance of mathematics in machine learning. Here is a compilation of resources (books, videos, and papers) to get you going.
This is not an exhaustive... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Mathematics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology'] |
Simply knowing for certain that our relationship is toxic, beyond the point of repair, seems impossible. We have already covered how to know if you are in a toxic relationship.
Here we will explore the next step.
When you finally do accept that your relationship is indeed toxic and repair is of no avail, how do you l... | ['Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Relationships', 'Abuse'] |
Dare to think differently about thinking differently
© Rachel Audigé
I had coffee with a wonderful young artist-entrepreneur at Melbourne’s NGV this week who told me that his creativity is best “without constraints.” I looked at his art and stage design work and his three budding startups and had to agree that this s... | ['Limitations', 'Innovation', 'Creativity', 'Constraints', 'Inventive'] |
Here, again, we can really see what an impact the script had. Even on the older posts, which have been there, before the script started.
Getting called out as immoral
Right at the start of the fourth month, I posted the link to my GitHub repo on Reddit to spread the word a bit more and maybe get some developers helpi... | ['Instagram', 'JavaScript', 'Tech', 'Social Media', 'Python'] |
It is expected that the space of digital payments will change significantly in the very near future. Already, we can predict seven trends, aimed at transforming the payment system in developing countries over the next five years:
⠀1. Technologies will simplify digital payments: biometrics, tokenization, cloud computin... | ['Ecommerce', 'Development', 'Payments', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Generate a Contrasting Text
To generate a contrasting text, we are using the following formula defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure that foreground and background color combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black-and-white screen:
... | ['JavaScript', 'Accessibility', 'Web Development', 'Design', 'Programming'] |
I am a person who does. It’s in my DNA. I’m always doing things. And not small things, mind you. I’m moving. Shifting. Trying on a new adventure, working on multiple projects at the same time. Some people think that a full schedule isn’t healthy, but for some of us, it’s how we thrive.
We were built to do.
And I’ve b... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Self'] |
I wanted to put together a series to guide Python-ers through generating delightful figures. Delightful figures can help you effectively tell your story, add credibility to your data analysis, and give your papers/articles/blogs a pop of fun.
We are going to start with one of my personal favorites- the donut plot! (An... | ['Donut Chart', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Analytics'] |
Traditionally, configuration management was a manual task, undertaken by the Systems Administrator to carefully document the state of the system.
However, the industry has changed radically after the introduction of new automation tools, and developments in cloud computing and DevOps.
Managing the configuration of yo... | ['Configuration Management', 'Versioning', 'Development', 'DevOps', 'Best Practices'] |
I’m a long-time Muppet fan and a huge admirer of the late, very talented, Jim Henson who, through “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show”, educated and entertained in equal measure.
If you’ve ever been taught anything by anyone, you’ll know just how rare it is to find someone who can both educate and entertain at the sa... | ['Songs', 'Songwriting', 'Lyrics', 'Music'] |
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My first full-length novel, The Shadow Gods, was a story about a modern-day goddess of love who becomes a pawn in a high-stakes political game.
My second, The Chances, was about a cat-mouse-game between a pair of identical high school twins, one a detective and the other a thief.
My third, Nea... | ['Nonprofit', 'Writing Tips', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing'] |
A Crash Course on Software Testing But Interesting
Systematic testing, test-first programming, writing tests, and more.
All visuals by the author
As software engineers, we want to write code that not only works, but works in every possible situation a user could find themselves in. Under any circumstance, we want ou... | ['Software Development', 'Software Testing', 'Software Engineering', 'Computer Science', 'Programming'] |
Enzyme Implementation
Now let’s learn how we can use Enzyme with Jest, a test runner in React, to write tests.
Step 1: Install Enzyme
First, we install the package:
npm install enzyme enzyme-adapter-react-16
Step 2: setupTests.js
When you create a new React app, there should be a setupTests.js file initialized by... | ['Programming', 'Test Driven Development', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Testing'] |
Everyone knew an attack was imminent. But exactly when depended on the weather.
In early June of 1944, Nazi meteorologists predicted the weather off the French coast would persistently bring gale force winds and rough seas — thwarting an Allied invasion of Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.” But the Allies, seeking to penetra... | ['Weather', 'Chaos Theory'] |
Geometrical Drawing
Most people use Canvas to draw geometrical items.
1. drawLine
Simply draw one line.
canvas.drawLine(startX, startY, endX, endY, paint)
2. drawLines
If we want to draw more than a line, instead of performing drawLine multiple times, we could use drawLines . We just need to provide a flat float ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Android', 'Programming', 'Android App Development', 'UX'] |
Deepfakes are 21st Century Photoshopping. The name comes from the AI used to create them, deep learning — a process that involves neural networks called autoencoders. Deepfakes can place a person’s head on someone else’s body or create entirely fictional photos from scratch. Voices can also be deepfaked through what is... | ['AI', 'Technology', 'Videos', 'YouTube', 'Deepfakes'] |
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A new side hustle article, as well as a tip are sent out to you weekly for free! Take a look | ['Comic', 'Friendship', 'People', 'Life', 'Cool'] |
1. Blockchain Standardisation System Becomes a Priority For China’s IT Ministry
We previously reported on the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (IT) calling for a blockchain standard system for the country to follow. The initiative has now become a priority on the “2018 agenda”. Four of the seven... | ['Google', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Banking'] |
“Hallelujah” to misogyny?
Leonard Cohen’s pseudo-hymn stars a punishing female
The world may never tire of delicate boys pretending to get earnest and “spiritual” as they perform Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” But I did—awhile back?
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And fr... | ['Jeff Buckley', 'Music', 'Lyrics', 'Leonard Cohen', 'Life'] |
For most people, the subway is the preferred (and unique) transportation method to getting around Lisbon. To many, it is also a daily source of frustration and sweaty delays.
The subway system is rather large for Portuguese standards: with a network length of 45 km it connects 56 stations, and in 2018 it served 169 mi... | ['Python', 'Transportation', 'Public Transit', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Gatsby.js is a powerful static site generator (with dynamic capabilities) which can be used to build super performant web-sites. It has a very rich plug-in functionality and is perfect for your next personal blog, product landing, portfolio page or small e-commerce app.
Sourcing content
It’s fairly evident that when ... | ['JavaScript', 'Tech', 'Gatsbyjs', 'React', 'Web Development'] |
Introduction
Graph visualizations are frustratingly democratic, and should be more hierarchical. When navigating graphs, we are often tempted to view an entire forest when we intend to study one tree (and how it’s related to its neighbors).
A demo of Enigma’s Company Graph
This article builds off of explorations fro... | ['React', 'Graph', 'Data Visualization', 'D3js'] |
Whenever I teach logic, one of my favorite fallacies to cover is bandwagon, mostly because I get to use a Saturday Night Live skit to demonstrate it. You know the bandwagon fallacy: if enough people believe something, it must be true? It’s a quick and simple example of crappy reasoning.
In this particular “Weekend Upd... | ['Education', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19', 'Health', 'Workers Rights'] |
In May 2020, the killing of George Floyd sparked global protests over the use of excessive force by police officers. As these protests continued throughout the year, conversations about systemic racism again entered mainstream discourse. Despite an ever-growing body of evidence, critics still contest whether or not sys... | ['Social Justice', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Systemic Racism', 'Science', 'Data'] |
So…What are the different phases of React component lifecycle?
Check out the interactive diagram here
We are born, grow, and then die. Almost everything follows this cycle in its life, and React components do as well. Components are created (mounted on the DOM), grow by updating, and then die (unmount on DOM). This i... | ['Coding', 'Coding Interviews', 'Codingbootcamp', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
PayPal bails on Facebook immediately after becoming first foreign payment company in China; betting on China’s digital coin over Libra?
Just four days after PayPal announced it became the first foreign company to acquire a payments licence in China, it ditched the Facebook Libra consortium it was in. The Libra Associa... | ['China', 'Facebook Libra', 'Facebook', 'Digital Currency', 'PayPal'] |
Not Reading Enough Code
Have you ever seen a movie where a programmer stares at a screen for a couple of minutes and does nothing? Me either. Usually, they type something at a breakneck pace and the problem is solved. Unfortunately, our daily job is not so glamorous.
We need to read code — lots of it. And besides rea... | ['Programming', 'Education', 'Software Development', 'Development', 'Learning To Code'] |
Adding a New Microservice
Is it that simple? Oh wait, no!
Photo by revac film’s&photography from Pexels
Microservices are something that feels very natural when you have been working with monoliths in the past and are tired of the overheads and errors that arise in maintaining a monolith application.
My first micro... | ['Event Driven Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Microservices', 'DevOps', 'Programming'] |
Lyme in the Pines
Mother of infected son wishes to spread word of the dangers of this disease.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme Disease each year in the United States. However, Medford resident Libby Majewski has been trying to spread awareness of the ... | ['Lyme Disease Treatment', 'Lyme Disease', 'Health', 'Diagnosis', 'Awareness'] |
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Most of us grew up with the notion that the world is constantly moving forward. Developing. Progressing. Out of the dark ages into the age of englightenment. Progress is good. New developments are good. Good for business, good for our living standard. Right?
Software, too, is progressi... | ['Progress', 'Hype', 'Perfectionism', 'Marketing', 'Software Development'] |
Spring Boot Microservices — Developing Service Discovery
In this article, we will learn an important patten in Microservices Architecture — Service Discovery. We will create a sample implementation based on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Netflix Eureka Server, and Netflix Zuul. This is the third part of our Spring Boot Mi... | ['Microservices', 'Microservice Architecture', 'Spring Cloud', 'Service Discovery', 'Spring Boot'] |
Setup for the GridDB python client can be found in this video. Before we begin, we should have the following endpoints correctly defined.
We will use python 3.6 for this analysis. To install libraries we will use pip .
GridDB provides an excellent interface to access data. The GridDB python client blog goes into grea... | ['Time Series Analysis', 'Stock Market', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization'] |
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There’s no such thing as a mandate. Ask a kindergartener.
Presidents crow about their mandates. They think they know the will of the people. They’re wrong. Instead of mandates, elections are referendums on the regime in power. If Trump wins in November, it will mean that a slim majority... | ['Politics', 'Government', 'Society', 'Election 2020', 'Gun Control'] |
by Àlvar Pérez
In the last decade, everyone has heard about microservices and how amazing they are. But microservices, domain-driven design (DDD), and other techniques for building loosely-coupled software are not only buzzwords that allow us to be the coolest-looking company out there. We have statistical proof that ... | ['Domain Driven Design', 'Product Development', 'Software Development', 'Software Architecture', 'Software Engineering'] |
In this blog, we walk through how to build a real-time dashboard for operational monitoring and analytics on streaming event data from Kafka, which often requires complex SQL, including filtering, aggregations, and joins with other data sets.
Apache Kafka is a widely used distributed data log built to handle streams o... | ['Dashboard', 'Tableau', 'Sql', 'Kafka', 'Real Time Analytics'] |
Three Different Things: November 14, 2019
What Makes AI So Weird, AWS Data Exchange, and 2 & 20
1. What Makes AI So Weird, Good, and Evil
We sometimes find out that AI algorithms aren’t optimizing what we hoped they would. An AI algorithm might figure out that it can increase human levels of engagement on social med... | ['Venture Capital', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Where I live, we’re in the middle of HEAT. No rain, fierce sun, and daytime temps in the mid 30s. That’s 90s for my fellow Americans stuck in Fahrenheit land.
So what better Prism & Pen writing prompt? Do you like it hot? What do you like hot? For me, Marilyn Monroe and blazing beaches come to mind. But so do fiery pr... | ['Creativity', 'Writing Challenge', 'Writing Prompts', 'Passion', 'LGBTQ'] |
HUMOR
Kerfuffle And Other Words That Might or Might Not Show Your Age
“Beware the jujub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch,” Lewis Caroll
Photo by Gary Butterfield on Unsplash
I got into my first real kerfuffle on Facebook recently. This is highly unusual for me. Rather than risk a kerfuffle or other drama, t... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Society', 'English Language', 'Culture', 'Humor'] |
We are all addicted to our phones, that’s a fact. To feel just how addicted I am, I took on the challenge of 7 days without my phone.
The first day felt weird. Usually, the first thing in the morning involves a check of my phone as I work with people worldwide and get messages and emails overnight. This usually happen... | ['Health', 'Addiction', 'Getting Things Done', 'Wealth', 'Phone'] |
Pastor Terry preached on thinking versus feeling
He explained that our feelings flow out of what we are thinking and he referenced the prophet Elijah in the Old Testament.
In 1 Kings 18:22–40 Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to see whose God was more powerful. They set up an altar with a bull on it and stated t... | ['Religion', 'Depression', 'Christianity', 'Encouragement', 'Mental Health'] |
4 Apps Must Install On Your Mac for Development in 2020
4 well-chosen apps for developers
Crew Demo-2 Mission by Offical SpaceX Photos
In the last post: How to make your Mac more effectively for developers? I introduced some basic Mac configuration for programmers. In this article, I will continue to introduce some ... | ['Mac', 'Productivity', 'Iterm2', 'Alfred', 'Apps'] |
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I started learning Python a year back and implemented some simple scripts to automate some manual tasks.
E.g:
Read CSV files and analyzing
Download YouTube videos by giving the link
Updating Webpages through Rest API
So, while implementing all theses I have gone through the ke... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Software', 'Basic Python'] |
10) Copying a dictionary
I will explain this point using a simple example. There are more subtleties involved in the copying mechanism of dictionaries, and, I would recommend the reader to refer to this Stack Overflow post for a detailed explanation.
Reference assignment
When you simply reassign an existing dictiona... | ['Machine Learning', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
I get this question asked all the time. How will making more content lead to more or better clients?
There is a huge misconception that making content will attract only the people who want to learn how to do your work. There is truth in that for sure, but there’s also an important part missing from the picture.
First... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Brand Strategy', 'Services', 'Clients'] |
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Decision-making processes
Life is the sum of all your choices — Albert Camus
There was an old man, sitting out the front of an electronics shop. I stood there debating the features of a sound system with the shop assistant, and the old man, who overheard our conversation offered... | ['Self', 'Success', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Decisions'] |
I am an economist and a lot of what drew me to the field early on is the Adam Smith story of the Invisible Hand.
Briefly, it is the idea that our self-interested nature is channeled, as if by an all-knowing Invisible Hand, to an allocation of our resources that is optimal, even better than what a planner could have co... | ['Economics', 'Business', 'Innovation', 'Politics', 'Sustainability'] |
When you visit a gallery or museum to see art in the flesh, pick only a few pieces to focus on. Some places have collections of thousands of works of art, and if you try to take in hundreds or even just dozens of them, you will quickly feel fatigued. Especially when there are multiple galleries in a museum, really conc... | ['Self', 'History', 'Psychology', 'Culture', 'Art'] |
Tim Peacock
Chronologically, Monterey, Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight got there first, but when it comes to music festivals, Glastonbury still casts the longest shadow. As such, the best Glastonbury performances aren’t just highlights in the festival’s own story, but landmark moments in the history of music — career-... | ['Lists', 'Festivals', 'Music', 'Pop Culture', 'Culture'] |
The Scottish Victory That Embarrassed King Charles I
When the Scots took Newcastle
Scots crossing the ford at the Battle of Newburn —James Grant, Public Domain
Three hundred eighty-one years ago, on August 28, 1640, Scottish Covenanters beat back the English at Newburn, a village just outside Newcastle. The Scottish... | ['World', 'History', 'Religion', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
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