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Opinion: To reduce the risk of future pandemics, we need to move from domination to partnership with nature
In the long run, the best way we can help health-care professionals fight crises like COVID-19 is by changing the way we live and the choices we make.
Illustration by Sean Quinn
By Teddie Potter for Ensia | @e... | ['Nature', 'Covid 19', 'Partnerships', 'Pandemic', 'Future'] |
How to determine a failure project right from the beginning
And the clients who are not your “match”.
Alvar Aalto’s workstation in his home in Helsinki
Recently, I revised my 2 years of freelance experience and realized I am really lucky with the clients and the projects we worked on together. Except for one recent ... | ['Feedback', 'Design', 'Freelancers', 'UI', 'Collaboration'] |
And how John Stuart Mill’s Principle of Utility could help.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
First of all: What is an Influencer?
Social media is a ubiquitous part of modern society, nowadays it seems that nearly everyone participates in some capacity.
Whether it’s your Grandmother, who has 20 Facebook friends, o... | ['Marketing', 'Ethics', 'Instagram', 'Social Media', 'Advertising'] |
“Figuring out what the next big trend is, tells us what we should focus on.” — Mark Zuckerberg
Web development, over the years, has proved itself as an indispensable element in the success of any organization/business. It is a window to your business, which helps you grow it globally.
Now, the Web development world i... | ['Web Design', 'Pwa', 'Web Development', 'AI', 'Web App Development'] |
CALL FOR TEAMS AND PROPOSALS: The GovLab, AFD, and Expertise France Launch New #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge The GovLab Follow Dec 15 · 2 min read
From now through February 5, 2021, l’Agence française de développement (AFD), together with Expertise France and The GovLab, is soliciting innovative proposals (re)using d... | ['Data', 'Development', 'Covid 19', 'Data Responsibility', 'Data Collaborative'] |
You’ve probably heard terms like CSS-in-JS, Styled Components, Radium, and Aphrodite, and you’re left there thinking, “Why is this relevant to me? I’m perfectly happy with CSS-in-CSS (CSS in .css).”
I’m here to shine some light on why this is relevant, and hopefully, we will at least understand the concept, and unders... | ['CSS', 'Programming', 'React', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript'] |
BIG Change at The POM — Please Read
We have new submissions guidelines and more news!
Author’s screenshot
This newsletter pertains to:
ANYONE who writes for The POM
ANYONE who WANTS to write for The POM
Samantha Lazar and I have been hard at work behind the scenes to make sure The POM runs smoothly. We are a grow... | ['Poetry', 'The Pom', 'Submission', 'Newsletter', 'Writing'] |
6. On the review tab, verify the instance details and then click on launch. Select “Create a new key pair”, enter your desired key pair name & click on “Download Key Pair” and then click on “Launch Instances”.
7. (Optional) AWS assigns an ip address to the created EC2 instances which can change if you stop & start you... | ['DevOps', 'WordPress', 'AWS', 'Web Development'] |
Make color and contrast a priority
Color and contrast are key elements of communication. Used well, they aid readability, strengthen recognition, and prompt quick recall. Simply put, color and contrast help us make sense of our surroundings.
As a digital product professional, it’s your job to understand how color and... | ['Design', 'WCAG', 'Accessibility', 'Inclusive Design', 'UX'] |
#Using Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) — Keras
Image from dreamstime
With the availability of massive amount of data and computation power, Deep Learning Algorithms are performing better and better.
Deep Learning Algorithms are able to achieve state-of-the-art performance in Computer Vision tasks outperforming hum... | ['Shecodeafrica', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Augmentation', 'Computer Vision'] |
Ceteris paribus
This is an expression from Latin, which means “other things being equal”.
All the examples based on the hypothesis test relies on conducting “a controlled experiment in which the variable of interest is the only thing that differs between the experimental group and the control group.” Once again, let’... | ['Books', 'Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Data Analysis', 'Recommendations'] |
Building a smart security system with Python, a Wyze cam, and some ingenuity.
Illustration by Emans
Part 1: Taking Control
Over the past year my home has become increasingly intelligent. Smart bulbs illuminate as I enter rooms and darken as I leave. Door sensors gossip to WiFi outlets so my dogs can see at night. Ev... | ['Home Security', 'Wyze Cam', 'Object Detection', 'Python', 'Internet of Things'] |
The Tarot Cards Of Tech
We hope the Tarot Cards of Tech helped you gaze into the future of your product and consider the impact of what we… | ['Ila19', 'Interaction Latin America', 'Ixda', 'Design'] |
BEFORE and AFTER: What you will get from this blog post
I had a Grafana dashboard that monitored a group of microservices for their last updated time. If they’ve not updated in the last couple of minutes, that is bad — it probably meant that a service crashed or something like that. Therefore tracking the DateTime of ... | ['Sql', 'Microservices', 'Grafana'] |
Depending on your use-case, you can use localStorage to store data that you don’t really need in your database, like mongo. I chose to add the localStorage aspect in this app bc if I deploy this app, I don’t need to deploy this app w/ the mongo connection and have any risk of security issues. However, I added the mongo... | ['Mongodb', 'Expressjs', 'Nodejs', 'Redux', 'React'] |
Why are there more people wearing black in New York City than other cities? Why do many people walk around in circles when they are on the phone? Why are some people’s apartments full of useless things?…
Those small rituals, preferences, habits and gestures all coalesce to tell personal stories and reveal who we reall... | ['Storytelling', 'Design Research', 'Research'] |
Contemplating the Zen of Python
A brief analysis of the 19 guiding principles for Python design
The Zen of Python by Tim Peters
While reading an article last week about the PEP8 Style Guide for Python, I once again came across the Zen of Python. For those who haven’t seen it before, you can easily conjure it by cast... | ['Programming', 'Software', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Software Development'] |
Excited to see your business success sky-rocket in record time? (Of course you are.) Well, it all starts with excellent marketing…
If you’re the person in charge of marketing for your company, this means you are faced with a heavy load of responsibility as marketing initiatives play such an integral role in your compa... | ['SEO', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Digital Marketing', 'Web Development'] |
The port-a-potty situation is universally humbling. The brand is Honey Bucket, which is so gross and psychosexually radioactive a name that the excreta deposited and vacuumed out of them gains a strange and terrible power over our imaginations. Retching sounds and maniacal laughter alike drift from the banks of plastic... | ['Columnists', 'Miles Klee', 'Music'] |
It’s decision time, and you’re considering adopting a microservice architecture for your tech platform. Microservices are pretty cool. Under the right circumstances they can provide some great benefits in scalability, flexibility and productivity. Like all things in technology however, there are downsides too, and it’s... | ['Software Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Microservices'] |
How do I make money?
Before working for myself, every job I had, I’d exchange time for money. I’d get paid for the hours I was there. 9–5? That’s 7.5 hours. Come on, you didn’t think you’d get paid for lunch, did you? No sir.
The first benefit of this depends on the job; you’ve got an opportunity to learn skills that... | ['Remote Working', 'Business', 'Money', 'Small Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Core Layers
Dense
The Dense layer is a standard neural network layer that outputs —
— where ‘activation’ is the activation function passed in through the ‘activation argument’, ‘kernel’ is the weights matrix created by the layer, and ‘bias’ is a bias vector created by the layer. This can be adjusted with a parameter... | ['AI', 'Keras', 'Neural Networks', 'Image Recognition', 'Convolutional Neural Net'] |
The tools
Project configuration
Of course some configuration is needed to align all tools and in- or exclude some parameters. Every tool has its own set of configuration parameters and configuration formats, however there is a trend where tools are conforming to the pyproject.toml format (see PEP 518 for more informa... | ['Pytest', 'Tools', 'Code Quality', 'Python', 'Software Development'] |
The fastest path from idea → prototype → strategy deck.
Copy & paste to add Marvel prototypes directly to Paste slide.
The Rise of Rapid Prototyping
Marvel has been the simplest tool for anyone needing rapid design and prototyping for the last 5 years. They’ve proven that you don’t need professional design software ... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'Prototyping', 'Product', 'Strategy'] |
Zeals Frontend Engineering Team :)
(I’m the guy in the middle)
Introduction
Hi, I’m Aaron, a frontend engineer at Zeals.
I love having new people come on our team. It always feel like an objective pair of fresh eyes that can help us pinpoint problems, not only from a coding perspective, but our overall processes as... | ['Meetings', 'Engineering Management', 'Engineering'] |
One of the more fascinating movies of the early 2000s was Steven Spielberg’s cyberpunk noir thriller, Minority Report. Starring Tom Cruise, Minority Report was loaded with breathtaking chase sequences, a twisty mystery, and a high-level science-fiction concept that still gets referenced to this day.
And in a way, Mino... | ['Storytelling', 'Science Fiction', 'Film', 'Movies', 'Cinema'] |
Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash
Turn your dataset into TensorFlow for the beginner step by step
It is so confusing when training your data using TensorFlow, seeing errors showing shapes or dtype is not right. This is my note trying to organize the tf dataset in an easy way for movie review classification.
In this arti... | ['TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Keras', 'Classification Models'] |
Photo by camilo jimenez on Unsplash
Last week, I went to the ER for the first time. Thankfully, my injury was nothing major (just required a couple of stitches), but it exposed me to the entire pipeline of emergency care from the moment 911 is called to treatment in the hospital. Based on what I observed, there are an... | ['Emergency', 'Startup', 'Medicine', 'Disruption', 'Healthcare'] |
Science seeks the true functioning in nature.
Science seeks the true nature in things, and is a process that finds the absolutes over time, which are the scientific laws. Only scientific laws are absolutely true, and these fit in the total absolute truths, that will make us understand the world we live in. Theories ar... | ['Psychiatry', 'Ombudscycle', 'Abnormal Behavior', 'Psychology', 'Dsm'] |
A quadcopter camera drone in flight. (Josh Sorensen)
Welcome to our weekly roundup of articles and resources for state, local, and tribal leaders creating policy to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic as well as steering the social and economic recovery for their communities. Postings below do not convey endorsement of ... | ['City Government', 'Covid 19', 'Local Government', 'Coronavirus', 'Government'] |
Let’s talk about balancing it all in our busy lives
Our families, for better or for worse, have a big impact on the people we become. We spend our most formative years with them, and as we grow up and fly from the nest, we take with us our desire to please them, our love for them, our worries about them — they are a b... | ['Weekly Prompts', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Wisdom', 'Family'] |
KNN falls in the supervised learning family of algorithms. K nearest neighbors is a simple algorithm that stores all available cases and classifies new cases based on a similarity measure. Classification is done by a majority vote to its neighbors. The data is assigned to the class which has the most nearest neighbors.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'K Nearest Neighbours'] |
In this guide I’m going to walk you through making a payment using Bitcoin’s Layer 2 Lightning Network using testnet to demonstrate. We will be using the command line as I’ve found this to be the most reliable way to use the network and doing so gives you a deeper understanding of how the network operates.
Prerequisit... | ['Blockchain Application', 'Development', 'Lightning Network', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Of Jupyter notebook.
Disclaimer:
In my article about gradient descent I described a theory of gradient descent. Here I will create an easy 3 cell Jupyter notebook implementation of algorithm.
Initial code I found in this beautiful repository and rework it slightly , rewrited in Python.
Why Jupyter Notebook?
For th... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Gradient Descent'] |
Susannah Stewart said, “I’m telling this story about Lord Sol because the winter solstice has come and gone, and with the days growing longer, we will see more and more of the sun. I’ve been reading a lot of sun mythology talking about how big and important and manly he thinks he is, so I’m telling a story with a diffe... | ['Poetry', 'Feminism', 'Fantasy', 'Storytelling', 'Fiction'] |
Bias in AI: Much more than a Data problem
While data bias is a very well-known cause for AI unfairness, it is definitely not the only one.
Obama upsampled to a white person by an AI, originally published as part of this tweet: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801?s=20
There has been a lot of dis... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Ethics'] |
Yet Another Lame Business Framework?
Usually, any business framework is better than no framework, so if this is your current state of affairs testing out any business framework is likely to provide you with some positive outcomes.
Frameworks are good because they give you a structure to solve a common problem (or set... | ['Business', 'Product Development', 'Business Strategy', 'Content Marketing', 'Marketing'] |
Storytelling: The One Skill You Can Use to Supercharge Your Career and Life
In a world that is starved for connection, telling stories is the best way to heal.
Storytelling is a powerful tool for connection. Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash
Everyone has a story to tell.
Some people tell them. Some people hold them... | ['Storytelling', 'Writers On Writing', 'Public Speaking', 'Life Change', 'Career Advice'] |
Photo by Luke Leung on Unsplash
Discover What You Never Lost
It is easy to feel like there is a thing or circumstance “out there” in the world that would make us feel complete if we could just find it. However, as we mature spiritually and become more self-aware we discover that the answer to our longing is not a thi... | ['Self-awareness', 'Journey', 'Happiness', 'Personal Growth', 'Growing Up'] |
No one ever dies on Facebook.
They can only be unfriended.
How can I touch that blue icon?
You are no less for your absence.
A digital cog rolled round, clicked,
Reminding me it’s your birthday,
Asking me to help you celebrate,
Though it made me feel the opposite.
Instead, through ether’s medium,
I will send y... | ['Social Media', 'Grief', 'Facebook', 'Loss', 'Poetry'] |
How Our Service Mesh Eased Migrating From Mesos To Kubernetes
Why Migrate? — The Non-Technical Parts
Earlier this year, our Product Operations and Delivery team decided to migrate services from our Mesos cluster to Kubernetes. George Gao wrote a post detailing the technical reasons for the move. On the non-technical ... | ['Code', 'Co Op', 'Microservices', 'DevOps'] |
Evolution of NLP — Part 4 — Transformers — BERT, XLNet, RoBERTa
Using SOTA Transformers models for Sentiment Classification
This is endgame! Transformers are one of the premier deep learning architectures used today, in combination with transfer learning to handle various NLP tasks. We continue our journey to find th... | ['NLP', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Machine Learning'] |
Martha Gellhorn — Portrait of a Writer
Novelist, Journalist, and War Correspondent
Martha. Image: theheroincollective.com
On August 25th 1944, Martha Gellhorn was sitting on a beach overlooking the Adriatic reading Lawrence’s Women In Love, drinking rum and watching a young Allied airman float down to Earth hanging ... | ['Writers Life', 'Books', 'Biography', 'History', 'Literature'] |
Natural Language Processing in Tensorflow
Tokenization and Sequencing
In this blog post, we shall seek to learn how to implement tokenization and sequencing, important text pre-processing steps, in Tensorflow.
Outline
Introduction to Tokenizer
Understanding Sequencing
Introduction to Tokenizer
Tokenization is th... | ['Programming', 'Text Preprocessing', 'TensorFlow', 'NLP', 'Python'] |
Using the Web Audio Api, here’s my process to leveraging the initial setup to create a React music player. Thank you to Mozilla and Web Audio Api for the wonderful documentation to help me complete this tutorial. This player gives you the ability to pause/play a track, add and remove gain and also pan the audio from le... | ['Javacript', 'Audio', 'React'] |
I’ve been a fan of C.W. Gortner’s historical novels for quite a while now. He has an uncanny knack for both finding the perfect subjects to write about and for identifying the key moments in their lives that make for the most compelling, and revealing, drama. While I’ve been particularly fond of his novels about royal ... | ['Book Review', 'Novel', 'Books', 'Biography', 'History'] |
Easy pivot() in BigQuery, in one step
Introducing the easiest way to get a pivot done in BigQuery. This has been one of the most recurrent BigQuery open questions. And now, thanks to dynamic SQL and stored procedures, we can finally make it easy for everyone.
Quick pivots
Before going any further, let me show you ho... | ['Bigquery', 'Sql', 'Data Science', 'Data Engineering'] |
The COVID-19 crisis has made the previously unthinkable part of our new daily reality, forcing a huge number of innovations and adaptations at every level of society. As city leaders, you are at the helm of many of these changes, and you understand the risks and the stakes at play in the choices you make. How can you a... | ['Cities', 'Leadership', 'Covid 19', 'Crisis Management', 'Coronavirus'] |
Being Gay Isn’t About Sex.
Teaching children about different forms of love doesn’t need to involve sex.
Rainobw Balloon. Photo by @robin_rednine
I was watching YouTube clips the other day when I was supposed to be working, and I came across one that discussed the idea of exposing children to a Pride march. A teacher... | ['Pride', 'Lifestyle', 'Society', 'Education', 'LGBTQ'] |
Two hundred thousand fans came to pay their respects to Sam Cooke at a memorial service in Chicago after his death, shot at the age of 33 by a frightened night manager in a cheap motel after an argument over a girl got out of hand. The entertainer’s death shocked the worlds of gospel, rhythm’n’blues and pop.
Soul sing... | ['Features', 'Gospel', 'Music', 'Religion', 'Soul'] |
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'] |
My oldest son is 21, my middle son is 17, and my daughter is 12. I love them more than anything on this Earth. When I was at my worst, as detailed in the book, I wasn’t able to spend much time with them, so I cherish every loving moment we have together. I wouldn’t hurt them for anything in the world.
There are a lot ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Relationships', 'Memoir', 'Family'] |
Python has many unique features that help make it what it is. Some of these features include:
Python is Interpreted — Python compiles at runtime.
Python’s REPL — Interactive Python terminal
Python is Multi-Paradigm — Multiple categories separated by features
Python uses PIP package manager to install and manage pac... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python Programming', 'Python', 'Data Analysis'] |
It is Holocaust memorial day today in Israel. Sometimes it has hard to graps/visualize big numbers. I tried below. Let’s not forget.
Remembering 6 million Holocaust victims
View more presentations from Jan Schultink. | ['Presentation', 'Data Visualization', 'Presentation Design', 'Design', 'PowerPoint'] |
A Harsh Awakening
I was in a comfortable twilight between sleep and wakefulness — imagining playing with my friends in Kindergarten — when a searing sting on my thighs woke me.
I screamed and opened my eyes to see the giant silhouette of my 6’2 300 lb daddy framed in the open bedroom door. He held a belt above his he... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Family', 'Life', 'Parenting'] |
The Real Avengers Of This Pandemic
The significance of the Avengers during this time of crisis.
Photo by: Erick Romansyah grabbed on Pixabay.com
2020 the year of battles and a war to be won. A year that we would tell our grandchildren. The time that we would always look back to. I know that this was and still is a d... | ['Avengers', 'December Contest', 'Pandemic', 'Coronavirus', 'Movies'] |
Even though 97% of climate scientists agree that we face devastating irreversible changes to civilization, half us don’t know this, and many Americans still believe anthropogenic global warming is open to debate. Rogue contrarian scientists and outspoken fossil fuel-loving politicians influence our minds with false pro... | ['Climate Denial', 'Politics', 'Climate Change', 'Global Warming', 'Environment'] |
Runner’s Life Newsletter
Highlights and stories from December 20-December 26, 2020
Photo by Capstone Events on Unsplash
Welcome to the Runner’s Life newsletter!
If you’ve missed previous newsletters, you can find the archive here.
On Sunday, December 20, Sara Hall came close to breaking Deena Kastor’s 14-year-old ... | ['Fitness', 'Health', 'Sports', 'Running', 'Newsletter'] |
This One Is For The Dogs
You were wonderful companions and I loved you all unconditionally
Photo by Matt Nelson on Unsplash
I am not, by nature and by unfortunate circumstance, a loving person. My family and friends are aware of this painful reality. I can be affectionate and caring and tell you that I love you, but... | ['Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Dogs', 'Love', 'Family'] |
Startup Pitch: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Approach an Investor
Or how to get to a ‘Yes’ when you keep getting a ‘No’
Photo by Daria Shevtsova on Unsplash
Some startup founders messaged me on LinkedIn to ask for help on their pitch after I wrote about my first pitch experience here:
They usually don’t un... | ['Business', 'Venture Capital', 'Investors', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup'] |
What Should You Clarify Before Accepting a Job Offer?
Asking the right questions before giving a yes
Photo by Andreas Dress on Unsplash
There are some essential points you should clarify before accepting a job offer. It’s easy to miss them at the moment and take a job offer straight away.
As a result, in this artic... | ['Programming', 'Job Hunting', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'Startup'] |
Hands up if this has happened to you. Say you’re reading a well-written article on one of countless topics, and you get to the line that goes something like this:
// DO NOT DO THIS IN A PRODUCTION APP
const API_KEY = '<api-key-displayed-in-plain-text>'
Ok, so how should you be doing this? Unfortunately, there isn’t ... | ['Tech', 'Docker', 'Bitbucket', 'Security', 'Kubernetes'] |
In general, websites handle fetching data with different various ways like by showing a Spinner (the case of Netflix for example), a progress bar or a customized animation, one these ways (like used by Medium and Facebook) is handling fetching data on the browser by using React Skeleton Screens, to make it more clearer... | ['Programming', 'UX', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
You need some other skills too
Photo by Arian Darvishi on Unsplash
I did it. I have learned enough about programming and technology to be considered an expert in some circles. Awesome! But as I look out from what I thought was “the” summit, I see other peaks around me that are just as important to my career. Let’s ex... | ['Careers', 'Startup', 'Programming'] |
Australia’s Energy Wars Leave Coal Still Standing and the Need for a Phase-Out Policy
A decade-long political battle over the future of Australia’s power sector needs to end if Australia is to meet its Paris Agreement target
The Australian political landscape has been the scene of a more than decade-long energy polic... | ['Politics', 'Australia', 'Policy', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
Matthew Fong | Pinterest engineer, Discovery
Nearly two years ago, we launched Guided Search, a way to search for questions with more than one right answer, and have been making improvements ever since. Pinterest Search was built on top of Lucene, utilizing basic functionalities, such as normal text fields and payload... | ['Elasticsearch', 'Search', 'Infrastructure', 'Query', 'Engineering'] |
Marketing Requirements for Engineering Companies in the Digital Era
At iConnectEngineers™, we use engaging content, creative design, and smart campaigns to bridge the worlds of business, marketing and social innovation with a primary focus on the engineering and technology industries.
Not too long ago, when it came t... | ['SEO', 'Iconnectengineers', 'Engineering', 'Social Media', 'Digital Marketing'] |
ClicData, cloud-based dashboard systems designed to improve business efficiency
ClicData has raised $4.6M in total. We talked with Telmo Silva and Hélène Clary, its co-founders.
How would you describe ClicData in a single tweet?
ClicData is the world’s first 100% cloud-based Business Intelligence and Data Warehousin... | ['Analytics', 'Business', 'Cloud', 'Big Data', 'Intelligence'] |
Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways
Follow | ['Heroku', 'JavaScript', 'Github', 'Vuejs', 'Pwa'] |
At FordLabs, we were working on an engagement with the customer experience division at Ford. The project itself was referred to as “Owner”, and the broadest description of our goal was “to improve the owner experience.” That ultimately manifested in the building of https://myfordvehicle.ford.com. It is a portal for get... | ['Agile', 'Continuous Deployment', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'User Stories'] |
The Mystery around the Correct Interpretation of This Poem by Cavafy Remains Unsolved
The ‘best’ interpretation for the poem “Young Men of Sidon” is yet to be found
Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy has been one of the most influential poets of the modern world and regardless of his Egyptian Greek national... | ['Poetry', 'Philosophy', 'Life', 'Books', 'History'] |
Are you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to say or do at all? Well stress no more! This life hack will have you treating women like people in no time.
From Harvey Weinstein to like all of Uber, it seems each day a wealthy and... | ['Society', 'Harvey Weinstein', 'Sexual Assault', 'New York Times', 'Humor'] |
Professor Thomas Davenport of Babson College, Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management delivered his keynote address on the history of data analytics at Open Data Science Conference East 2017 in Boston, titled Four Eras of Analytics and Data Science.
Prof. Davenport’s speech covered the span of d... | ['Data', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology'] |
The CSS background-image property as an anti-pattern
Many of us have cut our teeth using the CSS background-image property to do a wide variety of things. To many, it's… | ['Programming', 'Developer', 'Engineering', 'Code', 'Web Development'] |
The eyes help navigate
Robotic Path Planning: RRT and RRT*
Exploring the optimized version of a orthodox path planning algorithm
The robotic path planning problem is a classic. A robot, with certain dimensions, is attempting to navigate between point A and point B while avoiding the set of all obstacles, Cobs . The ... | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Algorithms', 'Robotics', 'Computer Science'] |
Opinion
Top Three Wise Women
Our Matriarchs Deserve Our Attention
Photo by Shlomo Shalev on Unsplash
For thousands of years now, humans have been laboring under patriarchy.
Elizabeth Warren just dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race, despite the fact that pundits believe and have written that she had the most ... | ['Women', 'Opinion', 'Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Culture'] |
Dear Office Dead-Weight,
You disgust me…I think.
Photo by Spencer Russell on Unsplash
I had high hopes for you
being shiny and new; potential
to care, unlike this jaded crew.
We could collaborate! Open
an idea floodgate — I was certain
that would be our fate.
Who is this guy? I wondered
inside, his smile is b... | ['Life Lessons', 'Business', 'Self-awareness', 'Perspective', 'Poetry'] |
There are more ways than one to develop a web application to meet different needs. Sometimes, a separate instance of the application is installed for each customer, in a setup known as a single-tenancy. While in multi-tenanted applications, a single instance of the software and the supporting infrastructure serves mult... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Software Development', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Web Development', 'Startup Lessons'] |
Did you ever imagine how our future would look like if all the predictions about blockchain come true and the technology is implemented in almost every sphere? Today we would like to distract a little bit from our traditional topics and show you some cases from possible blockchain future. We are sure that the future li... | ['Storiqa', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Future', 'Stq'] |
7 Pandas Functions to Boost Your Productivity Moeedlodhi Follow Oct 11 · 5 min read
Basic Pandas Functions to help you in your data preprocessing
Photo by Sid Balachandran on Unsplash
If you’re working within Data Science, You must be familiar with Pandas.
Specifically designed to carry out Data preprocessing tasks... | ['Machine Learning', 'Pandas', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Cleaning', 'Data Science'] |
Flash Thoughts 3: Forever
Remember the time we saw windmills?
"I LOVE WINDMILLS" I had yelled.
You gently held my hand and said,
"Today, I love windmills too"
"From today, I’ll love everything that makes you this happy....forever"
Remember the time when forever was possible? | ['Storytelling', 'Windmills', 'Flash Fiction', 'Stories', 'Fiction'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Development', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
When you’re on military exercise, sleep is a luxury. Maybe you can only snatch a few hours each day. So there’s nothing so frustrating as lying in your sleeping bag with your eyes closed, waiting for something to happen.
You’re totally exhausted. You have to be up in three hours for picket. You’re distracted by the no... | ['Veterans', 'Health', 'Military', 'Sleep', 'War'] |
A Never-Ending Need For Attention
A Narcissistic spectrum
Photo by Chris Ainsworth on Unsplash
From the moment we are born, we humans feel a never-ending need for attention. We are social animals to the core. Our survival and happiness depend on the bonds we form with others. If people do not pay attention to us, we... | ['Personal Growth', 'Attention Seeking', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy'] |
The Rise of Robots Should Make Us Question Why We Need Jobs at All
Employment as we know it has only existed since the late Middle Ages
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Losing one’s job to a robot is no fun.
Without a new social compact through which to distribute the potential bounty of the digital age, competition... | ['Technology', 'Book Excerpt', 'Future', 'Work', 'Robotics'] |
The Problem
The worst thing you can do as a writer is fret over every single word or phrase, you’ll spend more time sitting staring at the screen than actually writing. My first drafts are always embarrassing, it looks like something twelve-year-old me would be embarrassed by, but you know what? That’s fine. I can hap... | ['Writing', 'Tips', 'Writing Tips'] |
Cooperation between Open MENA & InfoTimes finally launched to improve the data journalism awareness in the MENA InfoTimes Follow Feb 4, 2016 · 2 min read
Open MENA and InfoTimes have decided to join forces and work together. Our joint efforts will focus on raising awareness about data journalism within MENA newsrooms.... | ['Journalism', 'Infotimes News', 'Data Journalism'] |
Why do we care about Few-Shot Learning?
In 1980, Kunihiko Fukushima developed the first convolutional neural networks. Since then, thanks to increasing computing capabilities and huge efforts from the machine learning community, deep learning algorithms have never ceased to improve their performances on tasks related ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning'] |
JCPenney has tapped into the ever-growing trend to combine mobile and retail to stay relevant amongst competing ecommerce and mcommerce channels. Consumers who visit JCPenney will notice an array of Cinderella-themed merchandise for promotion of the latest Disney movie. The retail chain has partnered with mobile app, S... | ['General Content', 'Mobile', 'Jcpenney', 'Disney', 'Health'] |
How RALLY is Helping to Build Storytelling Capacity among Public School Communications Directors RALLY Follow Oct 4, 2019 · 3 min read
By Victoria Thorp
Two non-profit education organizations — the Colorado League of Charter Schools and the Georgia Charter School Association — asked RALLY to improve the capacity of m... | ['Marketing', 'Children', 'Rallytakes', 'Education', 'Teachers'] |
In my view, there are two things that make Phish unique among the jam band scene. One, is simply their improvisational prowess. No other band takes as many risks, and reaches such blissful heights. Second, and the focus of this piece, is their commitment to instrumental composition in song writing (obviously mostly roo... | ['Phish', 'Music'] |
First, one needs to decide what text they want to analyze. This may seem obvious at first, but there are a number of finer technical considerations that need to be made. For some, the answers to these questions will be necessitated by their desired outcome. For example, when examining free-text survey input, it is obvi... | ['Programming', 'AI', 'NLP', 'Business', 'Data Science'] |
Jump ahead two years and two months, and you land in November 2020. We’re still in the midst of a global pandemic, and things aren’t looking cheery for the remaining weeks of the year. President-elect Joe Biden warned of a ‘very dark winter’ back on November 9, and in the few weeks that have passed since, I worry he ma... | ['2020', 'Society', 'Holidays', 'Ideas', 'Life'] |
My Problem with the M1
It feels familiar to deciding on a Mac verus iPad.
Update: If you do need Windows running on a Mac, this problem is still true. As explained in my review of the MacBook Air I found a solution to remote into my Windows machine at work without needing Windows at all, so my specific problem is no ... | ['Technology', 'Apple', 'Mac', 'Gadgets', 'Windows 10'] |
By T. Perry Bowers
I used to think life was a magical dream. When I was young I believed there was a guy (behind a desk, smoking a cigar) who would make life all better for me. All I had to do was find him. I had a morsel of talent and I thought magic cigar guy would take care of everything. He would wave his magic ci... | ['Recording', 'Drums', 'Music', 'Bass', 'Guitar'] |
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.
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This is the Post 1 in a series: Things I’ve Learnt From Running (TILFR)
When you’re starting out at as a runner, or any endurance athlete, you should have a very low aerobic fitness base to work from. That means your body is not effective at distributing and using oxygen so your muscles quickly become deprived of oxyg... | ['Self Improvement', 'Running', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
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For those who are familiar with pandas DataFrames, switching to PySpark can be quite confusing. The API is not the same, and when switching to a distributed nature, some things are being done quite differently because of the restrictions imposed by that nature.
I recently stumbled upon... | ['Pandas', 'Pyspark', 'Apache Spark', 'Big Data', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Solving the new HTTPS requirements in Flutter
The new beta includes some unexpected surprises
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Since this morning, after updating my Flutter beta install, it has been refusing to load any resources from HTTP with this error:
Unhandled error Bad
state: Insecure HTTP is not allowed... | ['Flutter', 'Software Development', 'Android', 'Https', 'Software Engineering'] |
Rust Binary Tree: A Refactor
Making Our Binary Tree Better
Photo by Matt Lamers on Unsplash
Rust is a beautiful and complex beast. Despite being a truly low-level language, it has amazing features and abstractions available for us as developers. I personally have a (functional) JavaScript and C# background, and am r... | ['Software Engineering', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Rust'] |
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