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Let Us In
A micro poem
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Let us in,
We shall not judge,
Your words and things you say.
And things you wont,
You are a poet,
In one unique artistic space.
***
© America Zed. Other Poetry by America Zed. | ['Poetry', 'Writing', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Blue Insights', 'Creativity'] |
5 Skills You Need To Perfect To Create Wealth
Financial success and wealth in general, is simply about developing and mastering a set of diverse skills.
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There are many more than 5, of course, but these are perhaps some of the most important ones especially in today’s younger genera... | ['Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
How to Live When Your Mind Is Governed by Fear
Psychiatrist and habit change specialist Dr. Jud Brewer explains how anxiety masquerades as helpful
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I was recently on the phone with my friend Kate, who had just returned from a summer road trip with her kids. She’s one of those ultra-respo... | ['Anxiety', 'Brain', 'Life', 'Fear', 'Psychology'] |
The Biggest Change in React 17 That No One Is Talking About
Even though React 17 has “no new features,” there was actually a pretty big change if you’re a fan of function components. And who isn’t? 😁
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I love function components and React Hooks. My first article on Medium used the u... | ['Software Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
Writing
Your Creative Process Evolves When You Do
Growth is a creative process — but don’t discount the wisdom of your younger self
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When I first began writing online over a decade ago, I wasn’t just building the foundations for my eventual career — I was awakening to the notion t... | ['Process', 'Writing', 'Creativity Tips', 'Creativity'] |
Do not confuse it with Dark Mode
The hype of “The Social Dilemma” made many viewers become aware of the power of technology and its influence on all of us. For UX Designers, the use of dishonest tricks in digital platforms is not a new topic. We call them dark patterns.
Evil design patterns, unfortunately, are very c... | ['Technology', 'Design', 'Creativity', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
Ten days later, I woke my 12-year-old autistic daughter up for school and her head felt like a furnace. She had a cough for a couple of days prior but nothing that seemed too concerning. Paige’s cough lingered and, before that morning, I figured Charly probably just caught a touch of whatever was going around.
A text ... | ['Wellness', 'Humanity', 'Current Events', 'Health', 'Narrative'] |
I’ve wanted to be a published author for as long as I’ve been able to conceive of what that meant. My dad used to read me stories before bed every night and imaginary worlds swirled through my head all day. As a kid, the idea of being able to tell stories that would allow other people to feel that way seemed like a dre... | ['Self Improvement', 'Practice', 'Novel Writing', 'Writing', 'Creativity'] |
Revising What Makes Covid-19 Special: It’s Not Blood Clots
Infections come with blood clots — be it SARS, MERS, or other pathogens. So, what really makes Covid-19 special?
We know that Covid-19 kills by pneumonia and coagulopathy. Pneumonia means lung infection, particularly in the air sacs, that obstruct gas exchang... | ['Technology', 'Health', 'Covid 19', 'Life', 'Science'] |
Our True Colors Always Show
No matter what words we use
What would happen if we shunned the constant urge to curate our lives and let it all hang out?
To some extent, this is a question the personal essay seeks to answer by documenting our own experience of being a human in the world.
Thanks to the internet, we all... | ['Communication', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Social Media'] |
Say you’ve got a bunch of points (or objects, suppose, with reasonable similarity among each) and now you want to arrange them into nice little buckets, but the problem is you don’t know how many different sets to partition them into. So you can’t use k means or any related ones (obviously because the value of k is not... | ['Machine Learning', 'Clustering', 'Hierarchical Clustering', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
My First Book After 10 Years of Blogging — Grokking Java Interviews javinpaul Follow Nov 28 · 2 min read
Hello All,
I am super excited to announce the release of my first book after 10 years of writing Java articles and Java interview questions which have been read by millions of developers.
While I have been bloggi... | ['Coding', 'Books', 'Java', 'Careers', 'Programming'] |
Content marketing and a catharsis
Yes, dear, fun is allowed at work
Creativity and joy make part of my life. I love to dance and I`ve been rediscovering myself in the digital marketing world. These are two ways I can express freely my creativity and, of course, they result in joy. Sometimes it is faced as a threat. I... | ['Content Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Creativity'] |
The question is has Trump been hacked?
Yes, openness equals vulnerability. There are ways to handle this in systems. Depending on which of my things you have read, and this is getting to be a problem as I’m working this out as an open process. I see blockchain as the answer for many of these things but the security pa... | ['Blockchain', 'Economics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Security'] |
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Recently I did something I shouldn’t have had to do. I had the first of two MMR shots. For those who do not know or remember, MMR stands for measles, mumps and rubella. It’s a vaccination routinely given to all children after they reach 15 months age. I was getting this shot at 70 yea... | ['Vaccines', 'Politics', 'Health', 'Science', 'Culture'] |
About nine months before I wrote my first book, I told my former high school English teacher to stop asking when I was going to write a novel.
“I’m never going to be that kind of writer,” I explained. “I’m a critic. I write nonfiction.”
As a PhD student, what I said was true. I loved being an English nerd, and I was ... | ['Writing', 'Work', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Process'] |
Youth Lead Global Change
With the right attitude, passion and heart any young person can lead without even realizing it
Recent events have shown to all the world that the youth is ready to take the lead in solving large scale environmental problems which older generations paralyzed by conflict of interests were too c... | ['Youth', 'Nature', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” is a traditional African American spiritual, first published in 1927……
The song was first published in the paperbound hymnal Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New in 1927. In 1933, it was collected by Frank Warner from the singing of Sue Thomas in North Carolina. It was also record... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Poetry', 'Storytelling', 'Hope'] |
Write a lot
The next big thing you need to do is write a lot. Nobody turns pro in a day or two. All good writers start by writing trash and getting better with time. The key is to write consistently and not give up.
Even though I’m only 22 as I’m writing this, I’ve been writing for more than a decade (not exaggeratin... | ['Writing', 'Blogging', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Freelancing'] |
Dataset : http://opensource.adobe.com/Spry/data/donuts.xml
Code&Snippets : https://github.com/elifinspace/GlueETL/tree/article-2
0. Upload dataset to S3:
Download the file from the given link and go to S3 service on AWS console.
Create a bucket with “aws-glue-” prefix(I am leaving settings default for now)
Click o... | ['Xml', 'Spark', 'AWS', 'Big Data', 'Databricks'] |
Franziska Schrodt, Joseph J. Bailey, W. Daniel Kissling, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Arie C. Seijmonsbergen, Derk van Ree, Jan Hjort, Russell S. Lawley, Christopher N. Williams, Mark G. Anderson, Paul Beier, Pieter van Beukering, Doreen S. Boyd, José Brilha, Luis Carcavilla, Kyla M. Dahlin, Joel C. Gill, John E. Gordon, Murra... | ['Geodiversity', 'Sustainability', 'Climate', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
Of course the weight loss was dramatic and almost instantly noticeable. By the third day my face appeared — at least to me — thinner, smoother, and with more defined cheekbones compared to my usual rounder shape. It was encouraging to see the changes unfolding before me, almost like witnessing the creation of another p... | ['Weight Loss', 'Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Fitness', 'Science'] |
Waiting For Your Big Break is The Worst Way to Succeed
Waiting to be discovered or handpicked is holding you back
Most people are waiting for a big break — the day, week, month or year everything falls into place. They live with the stubborn illusion that one day they will make it big without embracing the real work.... | ['Work', 'Productivity', 'Self', 'Creativity'] |
How I Learned to Stop Worrying, Turn Off the News and Enjoy Isolation Alex Steullet Follow Aug 4 · 5 min read
Kenroku-en garden, Kanazawa, Japan
It’s been a rough few months for a lot of us. I could list off a bunch of reasons, but you all know what I’m talking about.
And if you don’t, if everything’s just going swi... | ['Society', 'Happiness', 'News', 'Self', 'Coronavirus'] |
We’re all familiar with the sensation of mental fatigue. Your mind feels sluggish and bleary, like it’s gone soft around the edges. You also feel a little cranky and sleepy, and making decisions, even minor ones, is a struggle.
The longer you go without sleep and food, the more likely you are to experience this sort o... | ['The Nuance', 'Work', 'Health', 'Productivity', 'Multitasking'] |
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Lately, I have been interested in understanding more imaging modalities because I may enter this research area soon. There have been many advances in the medical imaging community — with collaborations in Kaggle being made and NIH releasing images to the public as some examples.
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Learning', 'Neuroscience', 'Healthcare'] |
The Persuasion Process
There are four factors important in facilitating the persuasion process.
First, the communicator’s credibility and reputation. Are you reliable and credible?
Next is the order of statements and there are two approaches here, primacy or recency. Whether you state your position right at the begi... | ['Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Sales'] |
But what’s the deal with the negative and positive errors? Aren’t all errors bad?
That’s a good question, grasshopper. You will find the answers you seek at the end of the journey.
Actually, I’m just going to tell them to you right now.
Because, that’s kinda the point of all this, the fact that you shouldn’t be wait... | ['Growth', 'Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience'] |
SOPHIA CREATED BY HANSON ROBOTICS
Hanson Robotics Limited is a Hong Kong-based engineering and robotics company founded in 2013 that is best known for their development of humanlike robots with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumer, entertainment, service, healthcare, and research applications.
The company develo... | ['AI', 'Sophia', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Hanson Robotics'] |
Business Productivity
5 Reasons Why Meetings Are Killing Your Productivity and 5 Actionable Tips to Prevent It
Meetings should be the last resort, not the first option.
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Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, and Jeff Bezos know it: Meetings are a waste of time and kill productivity.
In my ten y... | ['Business', 'Business Strategy', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Corporate Culture'] |
Writing Belongs to Everyone
So why let anyone deter you from bringing your ideas to life?
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How helpful are those listicles outlining why you don’t have what it takes to make it as a writer and why do you even read them?
Why hand over your hard-earned cash to those feeding our collectiv... | ['Communication', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Social Media'] |
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A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, by Nurse T with Timothy Sheard. New York: Hardball Press, 2020. 143 pp.
Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during this pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch... | ['Literature', 'Culture', 'Politics', 'Health', 'Books'] |
I was on the phone with a friend and former customer yesterday, who is now a leadership coach, and she asked me if I would connect the dots between our core practice, Visual Thinking, and NeuroLeadership.
“I’m sure there’s a connection because I’ve seen the process, there’s something there,” she said.
Yes, there is a... | ['Visualization', 'Leadership', 'Neuroscience'] |
First things first. Products and services centred around data promise a future of personalised, groundbreaking innovations — not tick box, opt-in privacy forms. And, as big data continues to promise these innovations in the form of sophisticated, contextually aware digital services, how we influence a users relationshi... | ['Design', 'Data Science', 'Creativity', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
Why Startups Fail to Generate Revenue Quickly — And What to Do Instead
The more revenue you have coming in, the better the chances you can raise (and not waste) investor funds
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At startups, the difference between survival and running out of runway always comes down to taking our eyes of... | ['Leadership', 'Investors', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
So, I drove down to the small club in New York. Finding a parking spot was hellll, but finally I squeezed myself in to a space, put the $2 in quarters in the parking meter and found my way to the small downstairs club. I grabbed my Streisand wig out of the wig case in the back seat. I wasn’t about to wear it running th... | ['Short Story', 'Memoir', 'This Happened To Me', 'Music', 'Books'] |
Howler.js is a popular audio manipulation library that gives developers the power of the Web Audio API with the simplicity of HTML5 Audio. It’s particularly useful for games and sound effects, but it’s great for any browser-based audio that involves multiple sources playing independently.
Getting Howler set up can be ... | ['Howler', 'React', 'Games', 'Web Development', 'Music'] |
Why You Should Avoid Argument Of Exclusion
When You Discuss The Existence of Human Race
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Racism has always been hot, saucy sensitive topics and debates of the twenty-first century. An issue such as racism is one of ‘human interests’ subjects’. It has been ongoing studies and research i... | ['Society', 'Writers On Writing', 'Writing', 'Racism', 'Human Rights'] |
Hello World!
Today we are going to build a web server and a DMZ with Terraform.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a DMZ, is the 38th parallel of the Korean Peninsula which divides North Korea and South Korea.
Lets first find out what is a DMZ?
In terms of network security the DMZ aka the Demilit... | ['Cloud Computing', 'AWS', 'Terraform', 'Apache', 'Web Development'] |
I feel I’m always writing
It seems that’s all I do now
Erasing, backspacing, underlining
Sometimes I wonder how
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Or ask why too many times
In taking notes, writing essays,
Either in clarity or pantomimes
The art of homework never pays
***
And when it does
I’ll write about it too
It will be the town’s buz... | ['Homework', 'Writing', 'Essay', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
It doesn’t signify if you serve at a tiny startup or a big company; outsourcing software development can be difficult. Following all, it signifies that someone is taking an escape from the software development process, and you’ve no power beyond it. However, encountered software development agencies are open about thei... | ['Software', 'Software Engineering', 'Automation', 'Software Development', 'Development'] |
Effects of too much TV on your body
Watching hours of TV at a time creates an astounding cocktail of bad side-effects. But there are ways to binge responsibly.
It is unrealistic to expect people to stop binge-watching, but you can make the effort to stop an hour before you go to bed, or only have a long session at th... | ['Sleep', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Binge Watching', 'Television'] |
Ten Ways Cognitive Biases Impact Data Design Work
These known biases are especially relevant in data visualization, and staying alert to them can help us avoid harmful designs
Our lives are plagued by uncertainty. We rely on design to navigate the twists and turns. When designs incorporate data, they can illuminate k... | ['Bias', 'Psychology', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Storytelling'] |
Society isn’t an abstract, we are it, together. Each of us is part of a greater organism, one with which we interact constantly and on which our every action has an impact. Anything we achieve, we never achieve alone; even inventors connect dots either borrowed from or handed to them by other people.
If there is no su... | ['Society', 'Culture', 'Philosophy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self'] |
But, unfortunately, deadlines are the only way anything gets done.
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/925/ | ['Humor', 'Deadlines', 'Writing', 'Comics', 'Creativity'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Humor', 'Journalism', 'Trap', 'Arlechino', 'Music'] |
An intro to Cloud Computing for Data Scientists and Data Engineers Nishant Shah Follow Nov 21 · 7 min read
There has been a lot of debate about what the cloud is. Many people think of the cloud as a collection of technologies. It’s true that there is a set of common technologies that typically make up a cloud environm... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Cloud Services', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Cloud'] |
Recently, I’ve been trying out the Ninject Dependency Injection framework. It’s amazing! In this post I would like to give you some pointers on how to use it. I will also briefly explain the purpose of Dependency Injection. For those aching to play with some code rather than reading a lengthy blog (for webforms or as a... | ['Csharp', 'Dependency Inversion', 'Dependency Injection', 'Software Development', 'Design Patterns'] |
That thing you’re most afraid of, that thing you seek to hide or minimise, is probably what you were meant to do.
How do I know? I’ve been hiding for most of my life, and not always in a metaphorical way.
As a child, I’d disappear under the table or behind my sister when new people came to the house, and even as late... | ['Writing Life', 'Writing', 'Living With Purpose', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
Thursday, October 31, 2019
The following remarks were delivered by Dr. Stan Meiburg, Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability on October 22, 2019, at the opening session of the Water Resource Economics Conference entitled “Southeast Waters: Wading Into Our Future” held at Troy University in Phenix City, Alabama.
... | ['Sustainability', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Education', 'Conservation'] |
In-depth analysis and ranking of the top JavaScript frameworks for modern JavaScript front-end development
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Long, long ago, software engineers used server-side MVC Web frameworks like JSP/JSF, Ruby On Rails, PHP Laravel, Django to develop Web Application. The table was turned in 2010... | ['React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Vuejs'] |
Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac reporting for BuzzFeed News on internal tension at Facebook about the current war of words (war of marketing?) between that company and Apple:
“Why can’t we make opt-in so compelling that people agree to do so,” one worker said. “I can think of a dozen ideas that might make people join. Wh... | ['Apple', 'Tech', 'Facebook', 'Mobile', 'Busines'] |
The Link Between Flu Vaccines and Heart Diseases Explained
What the data from 1918 to 2020 tells us about influenza and heart diseases.
Image by Dimitris Christou from Pixabay
The data before 2000
A 1932 paper reported, for the first time, that influenza led to more excess deaths from heart diseases. Researchers no... | ['Technology', 'Vaccines', 'Health', 'Life', 'Science'] |
Why is it when scientific studies buck the current trends and paradigms, they are relegated to the backwaters and entitled Pseudoscience?
Long have I followed the studies and notices from the IONs website. For those who are unaware of this incredible establishment, IONs is the Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded for... | ['Neuroscience', 'Consciousness', 'Biology', 'Lifestyle', 'Science'] |
What Can a Scorpion Parable Teach us About Hate?
Observing vindictive behaviour
Photo by Danny Howe on Unsplash
There’s a famous parable called The Scorpion and the Frog. I’m sure we’ve all heard it, but I’ll very quickly summarize it to illustrate my point.
To cross the river a scorpion, unable to swim, asks a fro... | ['Society', 'Leadership', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Social Media'] |
Inflamed Bodies, Depressed Minds
The mysterious connection between the immune system and the brain
Images: Jutta Kuss/Getty
We all know depression. It touches every family on the planet. Yet we understand surprisingly little about it.
This dawned on me in an acutely embarrassing way one day in my first few years of... | ['Depression', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Immune System', 'Inflammation'] |
Type of Video
What do you want to achieve?
You need to know the purpose of your video and why you’re creating it before you start. This will help you determine what type of video to produce and what your messaging will be.
Here are some types of video to get your creativity flowing:
Tutorial
Demonstrating how your... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Business', 'Video', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
A free, open-source Python library for bioinformatics and drug development applications.
TLDR; To get started with Dash Bio, install with pip install dash_bio
Then head over to the Dash Bio documentation. If you’re new to Dash, you may want to begin with the Getting Started Guide.
Plotly’s open-source app building s... | ['Biotechnology', 'Python', 'Bioinformatics', 'Dash', 'Data Visualization'] |
Why does this matter? Because of how the news is displayed. Google’s algorithms decide which snippets to show you, and that determines which news providers will receive ad money from your view. When you click on a snippet via mobile, you also pass your data onto Google, rather than the news source.
What is ACCC trying... | ['Big Tech', 'Media', 'Google', 'Australia', 'Journalism'] |
7 Surprising Breathing Exercises to Instantly Reduce Stress
Conscious breathing, cellular breathing, and other easy techniques to feel calmer
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Air is vital to our survival. But when we find ourselves facing extraordinary levels of stress, as is today’s daily norm, it can be difficult to ... | ['Stress', 'Anxiety', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Breathing'] |
The pandemic has now lasted for over 9 months.
Nine months.
Mask-wearing. Social distancing. Quarantining. Fears of unknown and of known. Anxiety every time you cough or sneeze. Is it a cold? Allergies? Is my breath more labored than normal? Is it just anxiety about this deadly virus we know very little about? Or is ... | ['Depression', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Covid 19'] |
So, although I am signed up for the Medium Partner Plan, I’ve decided not to participate, for now.
My motive is completely selfish. I want my humble words to be seen by as many people as possible, not just by a purchased audience. Even if they don’t like it, I still want to attempt to converse with all. If poetry isn’... | ['Poetry', 'Audience', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Medium'] |
On March 27, as the U.S. topped 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House press-briefing room and was asked what he’d say about the pandemic to a child. Amid a meandering answer, Trump remarked, “You can call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You ... | ['Coronavirus', 'Health'] |
Since January, the average amount of engagement brands and publishers are getting with Facebook posts has fallen 20% since the first of the year, according to Buzzsumo. After analyzing 880 million FB posts, Buzzsumo reports that image and link posts had the largest drop off.
Videos now get twice the level of engagemen... | ['Digital', 'Marketing', 'Engagement', 'Facebook', 'Social'] |
Potential New Weapon Against Covid-19: Rapid ‘Crappy’ Tests
The FDA is reluctant to approve $1 home-based tests that could drive the pandemic down, experts say
Tests that determine if people have Covid-19 are not helping tamp down the pandemic, experts say. There’s just too much of the coronavirus circulating, too ma... | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Testing', 'Coronavirus', 'Pandemic'] |
Stop Asking Me to Lower My Rates
5 reasons why lowering your rates doesn’t help you
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash.
Hourly rates are a horrible way to extract value. It’s just plain silly.
You buy software services to deliver value to your company. If you use automation software, your goal is to make operatio... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Engineering'] |
We all suffer from attentional bias — let’s see whether we can put mine to work for you. We have to pay attention to something, and the very fact of doing so elevates the importance of the object of our attention, often above what reason would dictate. Let’s look at the 4Q results and then stir the pot on the outlook f... | ['Blockchain', 'Media', 'Amazon', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Google'] |
A Brief Summary
The Bad-Asses Of The Scientific Revolution
Bacon, Descartes, and Locke’s Philosophies Rocked Europe
At the tail end of the Baroque period in Europe, scientists and philosophers developed new ideas which challenged the conventional religious teachings of their time.
As Fiero points out (112), “The Sc... | ['Religion', 'History', 'Society', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
Python’s str.format() technique of the string category permits you to try and do variable substitutions and data formatting. This enables you to concatenate parts of a string at desired intervals through point data format.
This article can guide you through a number of the common uses of formatters in Python, which ma... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
One of my most favorite things to do is to get a good night of uninterrupted sleep. Recently, however, I’ve been restless and waking up several times before the morning.
In fact, I’m not alone. In 2008, the Journal of Psychiatric Research reported that 35.5 percent of Americans experienced sleep disturbances at least ... | ['Health', 'Personal Development', 'Self', 'Lifestyle', 'Science'] |
Post-COVID 19: What the World Will Look Like Now That a Vaccine is Forthcoming
The year is about the close, and people around the world are wishing that the pandemic would end as the year ends. With the availability of vaccines for the virus, it is time to look at what the world will look like after the pandemic is cu... | ['Travel', 'Health', 'Tourism', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
The human body is amazing. I’ve watched all episodes of House at least twice and I’m always mesmerized by the things they do and talk about. Every now and then I have flashbacks from the show that often apply to my everyday life. And although many of the diseases and cases presented in the series are rare, they’re not ... | ['Body', 'Health', 'Biology', 'Life', 'Self-awareness'] |
The Case for Genre Hopping in Fiction
There are ways to succeed if you approach the switching effectively
Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash
I’m strongly against advice that tells anyone they can’t do something if they want to be successful. I believe it’s possible to do anything if you’re willing to roll up you... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Writing', 'Fiction Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
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Open-Source Software
Why/How Should You Treat Your Open-Source Project As a Business
Your open-source project is no different from a startup. Consider it as one & ensure its success. Here’s a trivial framework to build upon.
The early 2000s witnessed the rise of the software revol... | ['Business Strategy', 'Software Development', 'Open Source Software', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
I have lately done a lot of internet bragging.
Sometimes I feel okay about doing it. Sometimes I’m like, “Well yes, thank you, I do deserve all these accolades and successes, and the reason for my great deservedness has to do with how incredibly I failed at middle school.”
By which I mean: I am RELATIVELY SURE that o... | ['Publishing', 'Process', 'Writing', 'Failure', 'Creativity'] |
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE — a review Jenni Follow Apr 22 · 9 min read
A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like … It’s an amazing tale — Bill Gates
This is a review of Phil Knight’s book Shoe Dog, the story of how he built Nike. If you’re thinking of startin... | ['Book Review', 'Business', 'Running', 'Startup', 'Books'] |
JSX is javascript syntax extension which is used to create react elements.
React and JSX both are independent. You can create a react application without using JSX and similarly, you can use JSX even in non-react applications. Though it is recommended to use JSX while developing a react application :
JSX is a syntact... | ['React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Development', 'Jsx'] |
Let’s imagine that I’ve stolen your genome.
I’m a hacker — a black hat, someone who commits crimes using my skills on a computer. I earn my clandestine living by breaking into “secure” sites and stealing data. I try to get my hands on credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other bits of personally identifyi... | ['Health', 'Genetics', 'Biology', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
Don’t take rejection harshly.
One of the hardest things for new writers to understand is that rejection is just part of the game. It’s not personal at all.
Your work might be rejected because it’s not a good fit for the publication, the publication recently published a piece on the same topic, or your writing isn’t s... | ['Work', 'Writing', 'Goals', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
Recently I have done two visualization projects with Plotly, visualizing average rent per square foot in California and average data scientist salary across the United States. I used two different approaches to visualize data on the map — Scatter plot on Map and Chloropleth Map.
Why Plotly?
Plotly is one of the power... | ['Plotly', 'Maps', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
A Surprise Surge in Air Pollution May Be Causing More Coronavirus Complications
Lax federal enforcement of air quality standards linked to poorer health across America
Photo: James Jordan Photography/Getty Images
Spikes in pollution caused by a federal relaxation of air quality standards in March led to increases in... | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Air Pollution', 'Coronavirus', 'Pollution'] |
We’ve all heard the serenity prayer.
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr
Unfortunately, many of us put ourselves through agony before taking our problems to God and asking him for help.
Today, I wan... | ['Mental Health', 'Christianity', 'Serenity Prayer', 'Health', 'Decision Making'] |
Tech giants like Google and Microsoft have taken notice of exciting new AI research such as GPT-3, which can write articles, website markup, and even software code. But will their bottom lines stifle any real progress?
By Ben Dickson
A recent article in The Guardian stirred up a lot of excitement-and a little fear-on... | ['AI', 'Technology', 'Future Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Strict Paleo
By: Stefani Ruper
For a few years, I ate a very “strict paleo” diet.
It consisted of fish, eggs, meats, vegetables, and coconut oil.
I rarely ate fruits or starches. I never ate out at restaurants or at friends’ homes. I never touched a processed snack like a handful o... | ['Republished', 'Nutrition', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Paleo'] |
If you want to learn ARKit 3 from beginner to expert level then click here to get the course and also you will get 97% discount.
If you are passionate about learning mobile development for iOS and looking to take your iOS development skills to the next level, Core Data with CloudKit framework should be at the top of y... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development'] |
Diabetes
Following a series of blood tests and chest x-rays for a persistent cough I had had, the doctor told me I had diabetes. She also said my chest x-ray indicated pneumonia.
As I wrote earlier, I’ve had bouts of pneumonia before, and I had none of the symptoms. Yes, the persistent cough was the reason I’d come t... | ['Self-awareness', 'Body', 'Safety', 'Health', 'Empowerment'] |
The Thief
A Poetic Experiment with Imagery and Rhyme
Two eyes ponder about the town;
Two lips show a wicked frown.
An aroma reaches his nose from the east.
’Tis the smell of gold,” he says. “How sweet”.
He searched for his knife, not yet unbound,
And two more bodies sailed to the ground.
After taking their sigh... | ['Poetry', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Creativity', 'Poetry On Medium'] |
by Christian Tronhjem
A spectogram made from cats.
From the moment you listen to music, you encounter an unwavering wave of emotion. Whether it’s a gut-wrenching movie or video game sequence, an annoyingly-memorable advertising jingle, or a blast from your childhood past, you felt (and probably still do feel) a certa... | ['Emotions', 'Music', 'Design', 'Sound'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Words', 'Writing', 'Future', 'Haiku', 'Poetry'] |
How to Take Control of Your Bathroom Routine and Set Your Shit Schedule
Can a basic butt bro like me master the fine art of crapping on command?
Shit, shower, shave: the three S’s of a successful grooming routine, but an elusive process to perfect. It takes a disciplined diet and schedule to become a same-time-every-... | ['Bathroom', 'Food', 'Health', 'Poop', 'Science'] |
Business Models
The Nitty Gritty
Why Sarah decided to offer her online course Bank Boost in a live setting using weekly emails and live Q and A sessions
The values and psychology behind her product pricing and how she markets the live courses in a low-key way without webinars
Why she goes offline for a couple days ... | ['Business Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Podcast'] |
I discipline myself to write while the children are at school. There’s a cozy chair I keep by my bedroom window (it used to be my nursing chair when I had newborns), and I use it as a clean, distraction-free setting.
It was a different story when my four children were little — nap time was writing time, or when my spo... | ['Interview', 'Parenting', 'Writing', 'Home', 'Creativity'] |
It feels so amazing when we are highlighted in peer writer’s stories! Today, I woke up to being highlighted by one of my favorite Medium writers, Elan Cassandra. While I follow some of the writers she highlights, I don’t know the majority of them. I’ll be reading through all the stories today.
I’ve found this type of ... | ['Ideas', 'Reading', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Creativity'] |
How have they achieved that?
This is done with a two-stage model’s architecture.
Image from https://research.cs.cornell.edu/crowdplenoptic/templates/comparison_i2i.html
At first, they use their new DeepMPI representation. They start by reprojecting every image to the reference viewpoint and averaging all these repro... | ['Image Processing', 'Image Synthesis', 'Photography', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning'] |
A.I. Engineers Must Open Their Designs To Democratic Control
When it comes to A.I., we need to keep humans in the loop.
Joi Ito — Director of MIT Media Lab
APRIL 2, 2018 | 11:00 AM
In many ways, the most pressing issues of society today — increasing income disparity, chronic health problems, and climate change — ar... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Ai And Civil Liberties', 'Productivity', 'Technology', 'Algorithms'] |
“We’ve made huge technological advancements since 2008,” said David González, Vizzuality’s founder and Chief Technology Officer. “We have more information than ever before from satellites, and crowdsourcing via projects like OpenStreetMap has allowed us to tap into our ‘collective intelligence’. Cloud computing and big... | ['Big Data', 'Sustainable Development', 'Maps', 'Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
MH: What made you make the jump to freelance?
FF: I was receiving freelancing offers not only from Italian agencies but also from other parts of the world and that can be rare in Italy. So that was the main reason: I was very curious to see how my career would have evolved as a freelancer.
MH: You’ve written about th... | ['Design', 'Interview', 'Journalism', 'Data Visualization', 'Information Design'] |
I used to do the same exact thing at the gym, every single week — for years.
The same exercises, for the same number of sets. I would simply try to beat the amount of weight I did the week prior, which I would recall by memory. I absolutely didn’t bother to write anything down.
Technically, this is a form of progress... | ['Wellness', 'Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Fitness'] |
In this article, we will cover how to set up a cloud computing instance to run Python with or without Jupyter Notebook. Then we show how to connect that instance to Github for a smooth cloud workflow.
We utilize cloud computing instances to get flexible Python and Jupyter environments while maintaining the reproducibi... | ['Python', 'Editors Pick', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Data Science', 'Software Development'] |
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming more advanced. One of the organisations working on AI is OpenAI; the not-for-profit artificial intelligence research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk. Last week, they produced a paper demonstrating the progress they have made on predictive text software.
The AI that they... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'OpenAI', 'Security', 'Machine Learning'] |
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