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My first acute pain crisis started
With it, my whole life changed.
I spent months in severe pain, taking painkillers, injections, hot baths, having sessions of acupuncture and cupping. I had to give up the job I loved, I couldn’t handle it.
Even being physically incapacitated, the doctors couldn’t figure out what wa... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Pain', 'Personal Development', 'Health'] |
The Replacements Matter…Still
If you don’t know them, you should.
Photo courtesy of Consequence of Sound
A few years ago I saw a glimmer of hope for future generations. I was perusing the stationary/book store, in the bowels of Rockefeller Plaza, on the prowl for unneeded reading material. I found nothing . . . came... | ['Rock', 'Alternative', 'Music', 'Classic Rock', 'Rock And Roll'] |
The small country bar wasn’t crowded, which was fine with me as I spent far too much time with people, and other things.
I rubbed my temples and stared into the mug of fresh coffee the waitress had just poured. A quick survey of the bar told me no one was looking, and deftly poured the contents of a small glass bottle... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Creative Writing', 'Creativity'] |
Objectives of email marketing
Email Newsletters are great not only for marketing to prospects but also for nurturing your existing customers. Some of the objectives of using email marketing are:
Send recipients to other marketing content such as landing pages with exclusive offers, blog posts or other valuable conten... | ['Strategy', 'Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Ditch the Rat-Race. We Were Losing, Anyway.
Free-time to care for ourselves and maintain healthy social relationships should be something we keep post-Pandemic.
The silver-lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that more people have finally had their eyes opened to the unjust, unsustainable way our society is structured.... | ['Labor', 'Covid 19', 'Unions', 'Leisure', 'Health'] |
Remnants of Black Secrets
She’s pregnant with swollen lies, serpent
In a stream of incredible
Habits — breaking right before
Their eyes, tombstone breaths press
At their shaky feet
Remnants of Black
Secrets fail
To sway
Them | ['Writing', 'Dusty Little Lies', 'Pretty Little Secrets', 'Horror', 'Nonet'] |
Life in the Time of the Coronavirus is a GEN series where we are interviewing people across the country who have had their lives upended or are experiencing the stress of the unknown.
Vanessa Santiago, 40, was released from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility on March 30 after serving 22 years in prison. She is curren... | ['Justice', 'Prison', 'Life In The Time', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
How to Check for NaN in JavaScript
Checking for NaN (“not a number”) is as simple as checking for self-equality in JavaScript.
Photo by Rattap on Unsplash
In JavaScript, the special value NaN (meaning “not a number”) is used to represent the result of a mathematical calculation that cannot be represented as a meanin... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
Data science is not the hype of recent years. It is a total rethinking of approaches and principles of working with data for the benefit of both individuals and companies and the whole of humanity. The analysis of huge data sets gives access to non-obvious insights that can be used for any purpose — from improving the ... | ['Swift', 'Scala', 'JavaScript', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
COVID-19 and the rise of rapid dissemination of research.
Photo by Leyre Labarga on Unsplash
Covid-19 has changed the dissemination of science, with scientists favouring speed when it comes to publishing their findings on public health research, to share findings and data quickly during the crisis to combat the virus... | ['Research', 'Science', 'Data', 'Academia', 'Covid 19'] |
The ‘Semigroup’ Type Class
First we look at what a Semigroup is in general and what it does. Please read the following Gist:
That was a lot! But no worries — we’ll talk about everything.
The first thing we do is define the Semigroup type class with a TypeScript interface. As you can see, for something to be an insta... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Functional Programming', 'Software Development', 'Typescript'] |
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On 2nd December 2020, Kubernetes published an article stating that Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime… And this was not a big deal I thought as I usually read articles from the Kubernetes Blog, thought this is just a release update blog. But then I saw Ian Coldwat... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes', 'Software Development'] |
The Seldom Taught History of the Coal Wars
A labor struggle that pitted miners against each other, the US Army, and private security forces
Coal miners circa 1915 (Library of Congress)
Coal was a dirty business, in terms of the physical aspects of the mining itself as well as the way it was handled following the Ame... | ['Energy', 'Society', 'Industry', 'Labor', 'History'] |
How to boost your marketing results by performing a PRO Instagram Audit
You’re doing Instagram marketing by the book. You’ve created a long-term strategy, you’re balancing the use of Instagram features, you’re engaging your followers without being too aggressive, you’re cool, yet approachable.
All that and more. And ... | ['Startup', 'Branding', 'Business Tips', 'Instagram', 'Social Media'] |
Add Django Rest Framework
Install Django Rest Framework:
pip install djangorestframework
Add then add rest_framework in INSTALLED_APPS array:
INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'home', 'rest_framework' ]
Add Models
Run the following command to make the migrations:
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py makemigrations
... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Web Development', 'Technology'] |
When it comes to data preparation and getting acquainted with data, the one step we normally skip is the data visualization.
While a part of it could be attributed to the lack of good visualization tools for the platforms we use, most of us also get lazy at times.
For most of our plotting needs, I would read up blogs... | ['Education', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Musical Artists To Watch In 2020: 10 Newcomers You Need To Know uDiscover Music Follow Jan 8 · 5 min read
Tim Peacock
Photos: Paul Bellaart (Duncan Laurence), Johnathan Weiner (YUNGBLUD), Juliette Abitbol (Polo & Pan), Philip Harris (Jessie Reyez)
As fast-rising stars such as Billie Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Post Ma... | ['Music', 'Culture', 'Lists', 'Pop', 'Pop Culture'] |
Application process
There are a number of ways of getting an interview call. These are some of the common methods I have come across.
On-campus hiring
Google hires students for STEP from various Indian campuses towards the end of November. They shortlist students based on resume, transcripts, and relevant programmin... | ['Women In Tech', 'Internships', 'Technical Interview', 'Programming', 'Google'] |
Tim Peacock
Van Morrison never burned out or faded away, and it’s unlikely he’ll succumb to either option for the foreseeable future. At 74, he’s eschewed the lucrative nostalgia circuit and the lure of retirement and he’s on an almighty creative roll. Released on 25 October 2019, with an expanded edition following on... | ['Culture', 'Features', 'Rock', 'Pop Culture', 'Music'] |
A recent article written by one of our interesting clients here at Prospero Media:
The way $USD and $EUR break their currencies down into fractions called cents; a $BTC is broken down into Satoshi’s. The creator of Bitcoin and the protocol used in the blockchain, “Satoshi Nakamoto” created a Satoshi as .00000001 of a ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Business', 'Crypto', 'Marketing'] |
What Makes An Impossible Figure Impossible?
Perspective is the most critical aspect associated with every impossible shape.
Impossible shapes are the ones that form in an inconsistent way to create a spooky optical illusion. That deceives our brain on a very first impression by creating a false reality. A few of them... | ['Penrose', 'Math', 'History', 'Geometry', 'Science'] |
Sharing non-public data in Jupyter notebooks
Keeping data safe while collaborating with others
In our Watson Developer Advocacy team we’ve been collecting statistics to measure our reach for several years now. Traditionally we’ve used Business Intelligence software, such as Looker, or custom-built web applications to... | ['Database', 'Data Security', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Jupyter', 'Data Science'] |
Why Googling is the most important skill a developer *must* have.
1 out of 100 Tips to master Ruby on Rails
Most people don’t know how to google. Googling require a certain ingenuity and hack in order to find exactly what you are looking for. You don’t have to stop googling if the search engine is not finding your fi... | ['Web Development', 'Ruby', 'Google'] |
How to Have a Sex Life When You Have Kids
Becoming a parent doesn’t have to extinguish the flame
Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels
I was lucky enough never to have had the misfortune to walk in on my parents during sex. I do have one specific memory of a time when I was about 16 and realized that my parents had just... | ['Parenting', 'Sex', 'Love', 'Relationships', 'Health'] |
“I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.” -Jean-Jacq... | ['Society', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Authenticity', 'Culture'] |
Mastering the technique
Reveal dat header
I’ll explain how the whole animation technique works by going step by step through the process of revealing the header of our sample site. We’ll start by first identifying the three agents we want to independently animate:
We basically have 3 agents that we want to reveal at... | ['CSS', 'JavaScript', 'Animation And Design', 'Ui Ux Design', 'React'] |
As much as these folks meant well, and as generous as they were to have given me and my baby a temporary roof over our heads, too much of what they said and did was not kind at all. On more than one occasion, they chastised me for not asking them for more help. Supposedly, they wanted me to ask them to babysit.
Yet ev... | ['Society', 'Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting', 'Women'] |
And then, slowly, the troops I had to defeat began to decrease in quality, if not quantity. The well-trained armies supported by artillery I’d been facing at the beginning of my bid for power were replaced by unruly hordes of the same kind of spear militiamen I had abandoned long ago. And my own troops just got stronge... | ['Gaming', 'Games', 'Analysis', 'Strategy', 'Game Design'] |
The Escape From Torpor
Free your mind and body with Cold Exposure
One January 1, I will swim 1.25 miles from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore with Jon Connors as part of an effort to regenerate the planet, starting with ourselves.
The guards at Alcatraz used to tell the prisoners this was impossible —they said th... | ['Extreme Sports', 'Meditation', 'Fitness', 'Swimming', 'Health'] |
Patrick Bierut
Comeback Season, Drake’s second mixtape and his last before his breakout hit, ‘Best I Ever Had’, is an intimate look at a guy who’s become known for intimate looks. It’s been over a decade since first dropped, but though it’s been overshadowed by Drake’s breakout mixtape, , it was Comeback Season that p... | ['Hip Hop', 'Music', 'Culture', 'Pop Culture', 'Features'] |
SciForce is a Ukraine-based IT company specialized in development of software solutions based on science-driven information technologies.
We have wide-ranging expertise in many key AI technologies, including Data Mining, Digital Signal Processing, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Com... | ['Software Development', 'Healthcare', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
This is an explanatory article related to my talk at MUPy — Become a pdb power-user.
What’s pdb?
pdb is a module from Python’s standard library that allows us to do things like:
Stepping through source code
Setting conditional breakpoints
Inspecting stack trace
Viewing source code
Running Python code in a contex... | ['Debugging', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
Wealth inequality has gone too far
People are pissed off with the current state of this country — and for good reason. The pandemic revealed just how out-of-control inequality has become within this country. Like a runaway train, it just keeps on going with seemingly with no end in sight. For all of the talk of keepin... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Equality', 'Elections', 'Election 2020'] |
If there’s one social platform who’s greed knows no bounds, it would truly be Facebook. I have to admit, I couldn’t help but shrug after seeing a recent tweet from the head of Facebook’s Newsfeed Adam Mosseri, in which he stated quote, “Want to be clear, no plans to launch this test globally or to ask publishers to pay... | ['Media', 'Internet Censorship', 'Facebook', 'Social Media', 'Journalists'] |
This essay is the second of a two-part series on the music videos that came out of the Justin Timberlake/Britney Spears breakup. It’ll make the most sense if you’ve read “The Ballad(s) of Justin and Britney, Vol. 1: ‘Cry Me a River’” first. It was edited by Jasmine Mani.
“I’m embarrassed, can we stop for a sec?” asks ... | ['Music', 'Britney Spears', 'Justin Timberlake', 'Madonna', 'Music Video'] |
Beyond Excel: how data is leaving spreadsheets behind Sciant Follow Jan 7 · 3 min read
Since the 80s spreadsheet software like Excel has been used to crunch, analyse and present data. But now the sheer volume of data that most organisations handle means spreadsheets are becoming defunct. With 21% of businesses moving ... | ['Data Optimization', 'Efficency', 'Data Visualization', 'Digital Transformation', 'Big Data'] |
Preface: That blog is all about a basic introduction to OOPS, Design Patterns, and Principles. It is not meant for learning OOPS concepts in detail :)
Last evening I was spending my quality time after office hours with some of my colleagues including some junior team members.
I read somewhere that “Girls want attenti... | ['Design Patterns', 'Design Principles', 'Object Oriented', 'Software Development'] |
As a developer, DevOps is critical to the survival of your business but deployment is a tricky situation. With so many options out there, it’s hard to know where to turn to. Considering the complexity of app development today, there’s pressure for code to be factored before implementation. There are multiple languages,... | ['Linux', 'Software Development', 'Development', 'DevOps', 'Docker'] |
When we talk about building and scaling a marketplace, the main topic of focus is usually how to crack the chicken and egg problem i.e. building initial liquidity (I wrote about this in my previous post WTF is marketplace liquidity?). What is less often discussed is how to go from initial liquidity to a high share of w... | ['VC', 'Startup', 'Marketplaces'] |
Ides
this is why I need to scatter your pieces
Julius Caesar knife holder, photo and art by debora Ewing
Today I want to break
vessels that don’t belong to me —
not for dominance,
nor revenge
but to know who’s real.
Vigilance makes me weary.
If I prick you, will you bleed
or keep your drops close
— are you t... | ['Poetry', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Revenge', 'Shakespeare', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
When tasks are identical, only differ from the data they operate on, and can be executed in any order, the problem is said to be embarrassingly parallel
Concurrency works best in algorithms that require the execution of a specific action n number of times. If this action is outside our computer scope (waiting for the ... | ['Concurrency', 'Python', 'Multithreading'] |
Object-Oriented Programming
“Java is the most distressing thing to happen to computing since MS-DOS.” - Alan Kay, the inventor of Object-Oriented Programming
Photo by Vanessa Bucceri on Unsplash
Object-Oriented Programming is a popular programming paradigm used for code organization. This section discusses the limit... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
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How To Be A Successful Investor: Simple Portfolio Analysis with Python
Reading this article is a worthy investment
It’s amazing what you can do with this
You know that place you go to where you dump exorbitant amounts of money and give up a whopping four years (or more) of your precious time, and in exchange you get... | ['Investing', 'Python', 'Analytics', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization'] |
A couple of things you should know about me; I love a good digression and I’m a sucker for an on-point metaphor. Oh, and my sense of humour is dirtier than the veins in Lindsay Lohan’s forearms. Which I may accidentally show glimpses of during this blog post. I used to try and keep it under wraps, but now I’ve accepted... | ['Coding', 'Codingbootcamp', 'Programming', 'Learning', 'Mental Health'] |
In many projects I carried out, companies, despite having fantastic AI business ideas, display a tendency to slowly become frustrated when they realize that they do not have enough data… However, solutions do exist! The purpose of this article is to briefly introduce you to some of them (the ones that are proven effect... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business'] |
Should the days of my singlehood linger,
and my cold nights in bed remain,
yes let them linger, yes may they remain,
if you fail to be the one.
My childhood fantasies are intact,
I have my world raised on your pedestal,
your light is the light by which I see,
I’m warm in the heat of your thoughts.
You capture t... | ['Romance', 'Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Love', 'Fantasy'] |
Learn the Different Ways of Logging to the Web Browser Console
Web console features to use for better debugging
Photo by Nubelson Fernandes on Unsplash
I must admit that when I was new to JavaScript, every time I wanted to log something to the web console, it would look like this:
console.log('log message ...!')
I... | ['Programming', 'Angular', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Software Engineering'] |
William James (1842–1910) was a leading philosopher and psychologist at the turn of the 19th Century. Together with Charles Sanders Peirce, James founded the philosophical school of pragmatism, which holds that the meaning of an idea is to be sought in its practical effects, that the function of thought is to guide act... | ['Religion', 'People', 'Philosophy'] |
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Reading from the title, you are probably thinking: why not use a 3rd party library to build the table and get the job done? Won’t it be more convenient to just use a library that has pagination and filter build in.
It depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
If your goal was ... | ['Html5', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'CSS'] |
July of this year was the first time that Bokeh has had a time-bound, focused fund drive, and we were impressed by the show of support: we exceeded our initial funding goal by 20%! While our code contributors have always been essential to maintaining and growing the scope and applications of the Bokeh project, the supp... | ['Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Open Source', 'Bokeh'] |
14 Lessons from 14 Days in Self-Isolation
#4. Physical separation helps create mental separation
Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash
There’s no doubt that coronavirus is a crazy time for everyone. For me, I dropped everything in the middle of college to fly from California to Taiwan.
Per Taiwan regulations, I had to ... | ['Quarantine', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Covid Diaries', 'Coronavirus'] |
I always thoughts that buying art was something you did when you’re older and have become financially stable. My perceptions quickly changed 5 years ago, when I bought my first original artwork from a fellow Canadian artist, Jason Mclean (pictured). The piece was huge, and way out of my budget, but as soon as I laid my... | ['Investing', 'Contemporary Art', 'Interior Design', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
As we can see that the homepage banner gets our attention first because of the Application of Contrast by using the primitive features of full width-size, bright-color primarily. Secondly, the section of ‘popular destinations’ below the homepage banner shows the Application of Similarity by again using the primitive fe... | ['Contrast', 'UI', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'UX'] |
If I didn’t know that the 1993 album Infierno De Dante (Dante’s Inferno) by Transmetal was produced by the legendary Scott Burns, I probably would never had bothered to listen.
After all, when I hear a name like “Transmetal” an image of a hairband trying to pass itself off as “progressive metal” comes to mind.
Well, ... | ['Death Metal', 'Music Review', 'Mexico', 'Heavy Metal', 'Music'] |
GitHub Repos That Should Be Starred by Every Web Developer
A list of GitHub repositories that will help you immensely with your knowledge and work-life as a programmer
Photo by Caleb White on Unsplash
I recently found out about a repo with useful content (which is my number 1) and decided to dig in and put out a lis... | ['Github', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Work', 'Programming'] |
Online Extremism in the Middle East
Law Enforcement, Government’s and the Platforms themselves are tackling this issue
This is an adapted extract from Social Media in the Middle East: 2019 in review is authored by Damian Radcliffe and Hadil Abuhmaid, at the University of Oregon.
The past year saw considerable energy... | ['Facebook', 'Middle East', 'Twitter', 'Social Media', 'Extremism'] |
The tired man felt exhausted. He worked long and difficult hours and the soles of his feet hurt. A vague sense of dissatisfaction ate away at him, as if his daily efforts were in vain. He thought often of the tale of Sisyphus, that poor soul doomed to roll the same damn rock up a hill for eternity. His story didn’t eve... | ['Flash Fiction', 'Work', 'Mental Health', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
Exploring China’s Energy Experience
Researcher Spotlight: Xinyu Chen, Research Associate, Harvard-China Project; Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy
During Xinyu CHEN’s Ph.D. studies at Tsinghua University, he spent a year working on projects with China’s National Development and Reform Commission, wh... | ['Transportation', 'Renewable Energy', 'Economy', 'Profile'] |
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Persevering with Patience: How COVID-19 has exacerbated food and financial insecurity for refugees IDinsight Follow Jun 26 · 9 min read
Refugees are suffering multiple shocks. Some may be getting support (e.g. through GiveDirectly) but many won’t be. We need to listen to their voices and, in the midst of so much uncer... | ['Cash Transfers', 'Development', 'Covid 19', 'Uganda', 'Refugees'] |
Where Can I Find The Words?
Sky Collection — Poem 10
Photo by Guilherme Stecanella on Unsplash
I figured out words would fall on me
like heavy blankets
thesaurus sounds extinct
but that was some endangered assumption
me, as writer
searching the low horizon clouds
for how to come home
I trusted language to lea... | ['Poetry', 'Sky Collection', 'Writing', 'Writers', 'Poets'] |
Go on. Tell me that climate change isn’t real. Come on, I dare you!
I’m seriously fed-up with people downplaying the effects of climate change. Is it really that disturbing to accept what we’ve done to this planet; that we’re responsible? Does the truth hurt so much that you just can’t stomach it? Some people would ra... | ['Global Warming', 'Earth', 'Climate Change', 'Coral Reefs', 'Environment'] |
We make the assumption, there are surplus lives on Earth, and as such, we have no obligation to protect, enhance, guide or enhance lives outside of our immediate family groups.
No matter how culpable you may be in their suffering. In their decline. In their lack of resources. This is the part where math literacy and a... | ['Economics', 'Society', 'Humanity', 'A Better Humanity', 'Ethics'] |
Hello RISE Community,
In this newsletter, we will give a quick overview of the development achievements RISE has made in 2018. We thank the RISE community for supporting us throughout 2018 and wish you all a very Happy New Year for 2019!
Q1 — January, February, March 2018
RISE Core v1.0.0 entered the testing phase s... | ['Blockchain', '2018', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'RISE Core 1.2.0 '] |
Can I trust you?
Whichever the case, you need to build up trust that you know what you’re doing. If this seems daunting it’s because it is. For a couple of reasons: first, engineers have sometimes the feeling that they know everything, including design and user experience and while this might be true for some, it is, ... | ['Design', 'User Experience', 'Software Development'] |
Kids are interacting with smart speakers as if they’re imaginary friends or pets, and some experts advise caution.
BY SARAH LINDENFELD HALL
Image: Bob Al-Greene
Mary Beth Foster has three Google Home units throughout her Mint Hill, N.C., home, and her two-year-old often talks with them, walking up to them as if they... | ['Alexa', 'Google', 'Parenting', 'Amazon Echo', 'Smart Home'] |
Photo from Unsplash.
As we grow older, we tend to realize that we are drawn more to the villains than the protagonists. Joker, Loki, Darth Vader, etc, they are admired by a lot of fans. Darth Vader is a great example of this, the mascot of the Star Wars Universe. I am a fan of him, so what? It doesn’t make me a bad gu... | ['Life', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Education', 'Life Lessons'] |
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An unprecedented pandemic, racial and social upheaval, schools and businesses closed, unemployment at astonishing, terrifying rates — we’re witnessing it all, and here at Indelible Ink our writers are on it.
Indelible Ink started out as a creative writing publication with stories that a... | ['Politics', 'Covid 19', 'Writing', 'Newsletter', 'Activism'] |
All around the world, things are looking more and more the same. Coffee shops, Airbnb listings, and boutique hotels feature the same subway tiles, brass fixtures, and neo-Scandinavian minimalist furniture, regardless of what continent you’re on. A few years ago, Kyle Chayka in The Verge coined the term ‘AirSpace’ to de... | ['Design', 'Late Capitalism', 'Design Theory', 'Art'] |
Chaucer and Hank Williams Jr
The one love they have in common
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As my wife and I were driving through the lonely mountain back roads of Bath County, VA, heading toward my daughter’s house, David Allen Coe’s “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” rippled through our speakers, courtesy of “Willie... | ['Marriage', 'Friendship', 'Short Story', 'Music', 'Stories'] |
Source: [6]
Let’s go through a few concepts before DDPG.
Deterministic Policy Gradient(DPG)
Traditionally, policy gradient algorithms are bein used with stochastic policy function π(.|s). That means policy function π(.|s) is represented as a distribution over actions. For a given state, there will be probability dis... | ['Machine Learning', 'Science', 'Software Development', 'Robotics', 'Reinforcement Learning'] |
Formin, who fled Myanmar in 2017, sings on a rooftop in southern Bangladesh. Sasha Ingber (seated right) and Alex Ebsary ( left) recorded her in October with a small, local team. Credit: Pragna Chakma / Music in Exile
By Sasha Ingber of Music in Exile in cooperation with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
I have... | ['Burma', 'Genocide', 'Music', 'Myanmar'] |
Wait a Second. What Do We Mean by Compression?
Before digging into the algorithm and math, let’s get an intuition for the problem we are solving. What does it mean to compress a matrix? Or in this case, what does it mean to compress an image?
The key idea of approximation is to find a matrix/image that is “similar” t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Algorithms', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
How a Sixty Second TikTok Video Helped Me Realise I’d Been Gaslighting Myself
It’s so funny…it’s, wait…
Gaslighting: A form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often e... | ['Self Improvement', 'Shadowwork', 'Sociology', 'Friendship', 'Psychology'] |
Persistent Volumes
Managing the storage systems becomes a very crucial part in deploying any application. In Kubernetes, PersistentVolumes (PV) provides an interface for users and cluster administrators for managing storage by abstracting the details of how storage is provided and consumed in the cluster.
A Persisten... | ['Streamlit', 'Docker', 'Object Detection', 'Kubernetes', 'Deployment'] |
Part I I — Quantitative variables EDA
The sample statistics are accessed using the quantitative variables, which can be used to paint initial picture of population distribution. The distribution of population is characterised by the central tendency, dispersion, asymmetry, peakedness. In addition to that strength and ... | ['Data Analysis', 'Statistics', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
The learnings gave us a better understanding and an area to focus on. At Spotify, we follow the approach to build, test, and iterate — which helps us prioritize areas and help define an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). After a discovery workshop, the team agreed to three principles as a guiding rule throughout the project... | ['Product Design', 'Spotify', 'Design', 'iOS', 'iPad'] |
Setting the size of the side bar properly
So another feature of Flexbox is being able to set the size of a flex item by using the flex-basis property. The flex-basis property allows you to specify an initial size of a flex item, before any growing or shrinking takes place. We’ll understand more about this in an upcomi... | ['Web Design', 'User Experience', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'Development'] |
I was in early grade school when the NBC Nightly News splashed videos and images of the Vietnam War across the television screen. My parents were typically busy upstairs while I watched in our basement’s family room.
What intrigued me was how journalists could cover fights in the jungle and even American POWs being ma... | ['Authors', 'Writing', 'About Me', 'Introduction', 'Writer'] |
Sexuality
3 Vital Tips for Giving Us Great Creampies
An honest conversation about “creampies” and what they mean for the recipient
Photo by dusan jovic on Unsplash
Check my record and you’ll find that I’m on the record discussing my deepest, darkest secret — my most intimate kink. I love the beautiful moment when I... | ['Sexuality', 'Feminism', 'Women', 'Sexual Health', 'Health'] |
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Why Those Celebs Are Not One Of Us
“Eat The Rich” Applies To All The Wealthy
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Cardi B’s recent actions online highlight why, no matter how much we want to feel celebrities are no different from us, they are not nor will they ever be. Not only did Cardi, during a pandemic as her ... | ['Race', 'Equality', 'Celebrity', 'Culture', 'Music'] |
Web Scraping with Python, Selenium & Beautiful Soup
(Note: This section is indebted to this Udemy course I idly completed a few months back)
As a tribute to aforementioned friend on their birthday, I thought I’d mine some of their public internet activity & then… do stuff with it.
So first things first, I fired up t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Electronic Music', 'Python', 'NLP', 'Data Science'] |
Data processing
Let’s first have a look at the data type of the variables in our cancer data. To do this we can use the ‘dtypes’ function provided by the Pandas package in python.
Python Implementation:
Output:
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It looks like the ‘BareNuc’ column includes values that are not numerical. Using the ‘as... | ['Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Algorithms'] |
#1 Drown your Message in Self-Created Noise
Keep reminding your child of what you have already said to them N number of times. Let your meaningful message get lost in your self-created noise. Drown them in, “I told you so”(s). Repeat what you said so many times that your child hears nothing and thinks of your opinion ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Education', 'Parenting'] |
There’s a lot of data available in the world but challenge lies in understanding & interpreting the data in an easily accessible format. Data driven insights are worthless if they cannot be conveyed to the stakeholders in an easiest possible way so that they can make their business decisions accordingly.
One such Data... | ['Tableau', 'Data Science', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Ipl'] |
“Buy stocks” is the typical throwaway investing strategy given out online.
“Buy the index,” they say.
Working in finance for many years has forced me to loath these phrases. They’re throwaway lines, dished up in personal finance books, designed to upsell investing products.
If investing was as simple as “buy stocks,... | ['Economy', 'Society', 'Money', 'Education', 'Life'] |
5 Machine Learning Algorithms for Beginners Ashishsubedi Follow Jan 21 · 6 min read
Machine Learning! If you are updated with computer world you hear this term quite frequently nowadays. But what exactly is machine learning?
What is Machine Learning?
The term machine learning was popularized by Arthur Samuel.
In 19... | ['Data Visualization', 'Beginner', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Visual Studio Code is a fantastic editor for C# developers. VSCode + .NET Core has very quickly become my go to setup for many C# tasks. However, unlike ‘full’ Visual Studio, getting started with C# development in Code is a little bit more involved.
This post will assume that you are starting without even having Code ... | ['Programming', 'Coding', 'Visual Studio Code', 'Dotnet Core', 'Csharp'] |
Singing Man to Man
The musical poetry of Adam of Tenderfoot
Photo courtesy of Ryan Baker
Every once in a while a song will reach in, touch your heart and pull you in. That happened to me when I heard “Break Apart” by Adam Woods of Tenderfoot. Adam was so gracious to sit down and talk to me about his music, life and ... | ['Pain', 'Music', 'Relationships', 'Gay', 'Poetry'] |
If you are into the data world then the need of using pandas might occur very frequently. Well, we all are also aware of one thing that Pandas is amazing and is more like a boon to the data world. Most of us spend at least a few minutes or even hours using pandas for data manipulation and day to day analysis. Pandas do... | ['Programming', 'Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
My days are spent writing and caring for my nearly 5-year-old. It’s a little bit awkward lately because my mother has been living in our living room since the end of November.
Close quarters doesn’t really begin to describe it. It’s more than that.
My mother spends her days sitting in a folding chair, staring at her ... | ['Family', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting'] |
Freedom is our greatest desire and our biggest fear. I now realise I have struggled with this paradox for most of my life. Now is the time to learn how to recognise it, how to identify it in whatever guise it presents itself. When we are aware of the fear stalking us, we can choose to take a different path.
“Modern ma... | ['Self', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Freedom'] |
The blockchain technology is a big thing nowadays, catching attention of everyone related to the digital. The hype is so loud that it influences even those who don’t understand the point. Of course, when talking about the blockchain technology Bitcoin is the first thing to come to the mind. The cryptocurrency almost re... | ['Marketing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Blockchain Technology'] |
A suspended tab
How many tabs do you have open on your browser right now? It’s OK, I won’t judge. We all succumb to Infinite Tab Syndrome every now and then.
The only problem is that as the number of open tabs mounts, so too does the amount of memory the browser hogs, leading to a potentially slower experience. Enter... | ['Programming', 'Google Chrome', 'Browsers', 'JavaScript', 'Productivity'] |
I can still remember one particular afternoon early in my career when I was interrupted by an unexpected visit from a leader I supported.
“I want her gone today,” he said.
One of his managers had just had an unprofessional outburst directed at her team and her boss had had enough. He stood in the doorway to my office... | ['Self Improvement', 'Leadership', 'Business', 'Work', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Falcon 9 SpaceX launch
Hi, I am Sergey, the author of the Catalyst — PyTorch library for deep learning research and development. In our previous blog posts, we covered an introduction to the Catalyst and our advanced pipeline for NLP on BERT distillation. In this post, I would like to share with you our development pr... | ['Announcements', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Pytorch', 'Data Science'] |
How Autonomous Vehicles Can Help Fight Climate Change
It’s important that we pursue a car-free future. Autonomous vehicles can help to bridge the gap to that future in a sustainable way.
In 2019, transport was the sector with the highest levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK, with a 34% share of the UK’s total... | ['Economics', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Transportation', 'Autonomous Cars'] |
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