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What is Personal Capital?
Personal Capital is an online tool, available from your desktop or phone, that will help you:
Monitor all of your financial accounts in real-time — whether checking account, certificate of deposit, or retirement account
Get objective investment advice designed to make you — not the advisor ... | ['Investing', 'Business', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Technology'] |
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. ~ Jesus
Alchemy pertains to the process of transmuting base metals to silver or gold. The search for the ‘gold’ in each person was a fundamental focus o... | ['Growth', 'Transformation', 'Self', 'Alchemy', 'Psychology'] |
The ATL Trap star’s second album sees the rapper establishing an individual identity for himself which doesn’t necessarily save the album
Image Courtesy of Hypebeast
5/10
Playboi Carti is back after a release-less two years, a lifetime in the world of trap music. His 2018 album Die Lit garnered significant praise fo... | ['Playboi Carti', 'Magazine', 'Review', 'Music', 'Hip Hop'] |
Forging a new partnership with design higher education
Fjord’s Immersion Program with Parsons School of Design is changing the future of design higher education
For the past two years, Fjord and Parsons School of Design have been collaborating on a new higher education learning model by including Design and Technolog... | ['Design', 'Internships', 'Collaboration', 'Education', 'Higher Education'] |
Visualization matters. Maybe not to you as a data analyst/scientist, you may feel confident looking at tabular data and drawing conclusions from there. But more often than not, you will need to present your work to your boss, and/or college professor (if you are still in college). Unlike you, they probably aren’t so ac... | ['Programming', 'Flask', 'Data Visualization', 'Bokeh', 'Python'] |
Machine Learning Spurs Change at Southern California Edison
The utility found that the whole organization has to adapt in order to maximize AI benefits
Moment Editorial/Getty Images
By Tom Davenport*
Analytics are typically viewed as an exercise in data, software and hardware. However, if the analytics are intended... | ['Machine Learning', 'Utilities', 'Analytics', 'AI', 'Organizational Change'] |
Many before me have tried to find the formula for the perfect pop song. From academics who analyze the acoustic complexity of popular music, to famed produces who’ve learned which heuristics work and which don’t.
My interest in the problem began when I saw this infographic:
https://infogram.com/anatomy-of-a-hit-song-... | ['Spotify', 'Music', 'Words', 'Culture', 'Women'] |
The Phones of 2077
Do CD Projekt Red’s gizmos embrace substance over style?
That hulking mass you see floating in mid-air? It’s the only smartphone available to Night City residents in Cyberpunk 2077’s dystopian vision of the future. Themes of power and glamour permeate through every facet of the game’s poignant loca... | ['Technology', 'Gaming', 'Gadgets', 'Future', 'Features'] |
Let’s add file core.js to the game folder. First, we import Vector and utils and declare sizes of different things in the game.
We give 1/3 of game height to paddle, which means, that blocks will be on the center of the top 2/3 of the game.
paddle area
Beside paddle area, other constants, like ball radius expressed ... | ['React', 'Functional Programming', 'Game Development', 'JavaScript'] |
We have had two webinars with our CEO Arne Blix and our Chief Architect Hogne Titlestad — two days in a row. Using our very own Friend Chat we set up a live video conference between Hong Kong and Stavanger and where able to stream this live (links to recordings of both days can be found at the bottom of this story :) )... | ['Ethereum', 'JavaScript', 'Blockchain', 'Apps', 'Cloud Computing'] |
New Ways to Manipulate Types!
Scala 3 gives us a much richer toolkit for describing data by letting us define types in a much more descriptive way. Let's have a look at some of the new types introduced.
Types can now be defined as a union of other types, and they don’t necessarily have to share a common base class. L... | ['Scala', 'Functional Programming', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering'] |
How to go from a Python newbie to a Google Certified TensorFlow Developer under two months
Struck with boredom during the pandemic, I decided to challenge myself to learn Python and get certified by Google as a TensorFlow Developer under two months. Here’s my story and my learning path.
Photo by author.
I still reme... | ['Machine Learning', 'TensorFlow', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Python and its ecosystem are filled with a plethora of libraries and packages that make up some of Stack Overflow’s most popular tools & technologies [1]. The ecosystem is thoroughly embedded and the ease of use and learning curve is beginner-friendly. This is Python’s main strength: someone who is curious about the la... | ['Extension', 'Rust', 'Python', 'Benchmark'] |
Most of us start off with an idealistic vision of what we want our business to look like and how we want it to run.
We want to train our employees and equip them with crucial skills, we want to treat them with respect and address them with honesty, we want to provide ONLY the best products and services, we want to off... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Ethics', 'Small Business'] |
Exploring Monotone Subsequences With Dynamic Programming in Python
When computer science and dynamic programming meets mathematics
Introduction
This is the code heavy addendum to the more mathsy article I wrote on the Erdos-Szekeres Theorem. However, this is also self-contained, and is focused on finding monotone se... | ['Data Science', 'Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Math', 'Mathematics'] |
You met me when I was manic. I didn’t think anyone would love me — could love me — when I wasn’t.
Mania
brings out the best
and worst of me
Saturation
turned on high
Hey! Look @ me!
Watch me fly!
watch me dip
watch me spin around n’flip
Watch me chew my lip.
Watch me trip
and stumble
on habits and booze
o... | ['Self', 'Mental Illness', 'Perspective', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
Now we’ve all been in that spot in kindergarten when it’s art time. You look around and you see all the other kids drawing nice little pictures that look like this:
But you're embarrassed because you can’t draw. So you end up trying to hide your picture well your drawing and long story short it looks like this:
Don’t... | ['Artificial Intelligence'] |
“This is the part in the movie where that guy says, “Zombies? What zombies?” just before they eat his brains. I don’t want to be that guy.”
― Holly Black, Kin
I work at a mega corporation suffering a very slow death.
It’s much like being in a zombie movie : death come from afar, moaning and stumbling along the way, ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Software Development'] |
Hey wow, author copies of my book just showed up yesterday. That’s pretty cool. My side of things has been finished for a few months now, but it’s nice to finally see it in print!
The book, Practical Rails Plugins (Apress 2008), is aimed at the beginning to intermediate Rails developer, featuring a number of recipes f... | ['Books', 'Publishing', 'Software Development', 'Ruby on Rails'] |
Marty Weiner | Pinterest engineering manager, BlackOps
Spammers used to love us, but not anymore.
Pinterest is a great platform to spam because of the large amount of traffic we drive to other sites. Spammers want to divert traffic to their sites so Pinners will fall for scams. To do this, they’ll disguise Pins as pr... | ['Security', 'Pinterest', 'Startup'] |
Tape Does Fix Everything.
Admit it. You’ve forgotten tape before. You swear there’s a partially melted, contorted roll in the back of your car and come to find out, somebody never put it back the last time someone was looking for the tape. Chances are you’ll need a quick set dressing fix or camera blocking marks durin... | ['Filmmaking', 'Videos', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Social Media'] |
Sampling Our Data
We now need to take a sample of these data for our testing or development process.
How do we know how big our sample should be to represent our population accurately?
This is where we can use Cochran’s formulae:
Using the formula, we can calculate the sample size required to fulfill our required m... | ['Technology', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Amazon are the undisputed kings of the developer plumbing revolution. EC2 and S3 are so ubiquitious to deploying web applications that sometimes it seems difficult to remember when we had to self-host so much of this stuff. But sometimes managing my access keys can be a pain. Or even worse: a security hazard.
On one h... | ['Ruby', 'AWS', 'Ruby on Rails'] |
ZORA: Can you tell me how you got started with the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation and how you were able to find other descendants?
Lillie Head: In 1997, there was an apology by then-President Clinton. In that apology, accommodations were made for the building of the National Center for Bioethics in Research ... | ['Tuskegee Syphilis Study', 'History', 'Health', 'Covid 19 Vaccine', 'Equality'] |
The History of Black Swan Records
A forgotten piece of history, the first Black only owned record label
Black Swan Records record sleeve, (https://78records.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/harry-pace-w-e-b-du-bois-and-black-swan-records-the-authoritative-history/)
In 1921, Harry Pace began a business venture the likes of w... | ['Black History', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Music', 'History'] |
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO THE ENERGY SYSTEMS
The Throat Chakra: We Struggle to Express Ourselves When This Chakra is blocked
How to unblock and strengthen the throat chakra
Blue is associated with purity and therefore connects with the concept of truth. (Photo: Peter Lomas on Pixabay)
What Is The Throat Chakra?
The throat... | ['Spirituality', 'Energy', 'Creativity', 'Ideas', 'Inspiration'] |
React is the world’s most popular JavaScript framework, but it’s not cool because it’s popular. It’s popular because it’s cool. Most React introductions jump right into showing you examples of how to use React, and skip the “why”.
That’s cool. If you want to jump in and start playing with React right away, the officia... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'React Hook', 'JavaScript', 'React'] |
Life goes on. You can watch it go by, or you can jump in and be a part of the journey.
We’re facing circumstances we’ve never thought we would. But they’re here now. Whether we like it or not, we need to deal with what is in front of us.
The Coronavirus situation (I refuse to use the C or the P-word because they are ... | ['Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Life', 'Life Lessons'] |
Creating a Lambda Container
Here, I have a basic Lambda function named lambda.js with the dependency file package.json :
lambda.js
package.json
The Lambda itself just has a simple console log outputting a string and the payload. But in the real world, you’d have more complicated code here and more dependencies in p... | ['AWS Lambda', 'AWS', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Docker'] |
How to Have Genuine Relationships in a Filtered World
Start with using discernment on social media
Photo by arvndvisual on Pixabay
“Is it live, or is it Memorex?”
The above quote is a tag line from a TV commercial in the 1980s. A long-haired rocker, shades on, is slouching in his lounge chair. He presses play on hi... | ['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Self', 'Friendship', 'Social Media'] |
Who you were yesterday does not define who you could be today
Too often, we look to our past as evidence of what we cannot accomplish in the future. We recognize our lack of competency, ambition, or fearlessness and reason that if we try again, we’ll face the same result.
That’s often true, but only because we convin... | ['Self Improvement', 'Leadership', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Inspiration'] |
How to Use Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing in JavaScript
Navigate nils in your code safely
Image by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash
Introduction
Optional chaining and nullish coalescing both are available to use in JavaScript with the launch of ES2020 aka ES11.
The optional chaining operator, ?. , permit... | ['React', 'Angular', 'Nodejs', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
1. Introduction
1.1. Time-series & forecasting models
Traditionally most machine learning (ML) models use as input features some observations (samples/examples), but there is no time dimension in the data.
Time-series forecasting models are the models that are capable of predicting future values based on previously ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Facebook', 'Data Science', 'Stock Market', 'Forecasting'] |
For a quick reference.
At the time of writing (Feb 2014), the top results from a Google search on ‘Dart functional programming’ or ‘Dart list comprehension’ don’t immediately yield clear examples. That’s crazy given that Dart is such a boss language. So here’s an example:
// double all values
List myList = [1, 2, 3,... | ['Filter', 'Tips', 'Google', 'Dart', 'Functional Programming'] |
I owe this post myself for about six years — all the presented here results that are dated around 2012. For some time I did not publish them, hoping to proceed with this project, then I passed it on to my friends, who, after completely redesigning the original ideas, eventually made a tourist mobile application (but th... | ['Data Science', 'Maps', 'Clustering', 'Urban', 'Data Visualization'] |
Are you interested in having your teams adopt Design Thinking but just don’t know how to start?
Have your teams attended training or workshops but you are still not seeing a change in behaviour?
I am responsible for design transformation within the security business at Cisco and I have focused on Design Thinking as a... | ['Product Design', 'Design Thinking', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Trusted Governmental Institutions
Happy nations in general have stable governments. This notion makes sense, with war-torn nations like Syria and Yemen coming in at the bottom of the happiness ranking. It’s hard to feel personal happiness when death and destruction surround you.
But beyond mere stability, the happies... | ['World', 'Lifestyle', 'Life Lessons', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
Yes, this is an ad, but it’s legitimately well done and funny. But also serves it purpose: to highlight what a good product Google Photos is. Hard to remember another product Google has launched in recent memory that was so universally loved (storage policy changes aside). Also, kudos to Nickelback for having a sense o... | ['Google Photos', 'Tech', 'Google', 'Advertising', 'Nickelback'] |
What is SEO? And what is it not?
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. So it is all about ranking your own website better on Google and co. If we enter something into a search engine, it will spit out heaps of results. But the order is not arbitrary; it is based on many factors that should be covered by a qualita... | ['SEO', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Online Marketing', 'Marketing'] |
DESIGNING BETTER SOFTWARE
Better Software Without If-Else
5 Ways to Replace If-Else. Beginner to advanced examples
Let me just say this right off the bat: If-Else is often a poor choice.
It leads to complicated designs, less readable code, and may be pain inducing to refactor.
Nevertheless, If-Else has become the ... | ['Best Practices', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
Unhappiness comes at us from two directions. We’re stalked by the fear of being ill or dying, and knawed at by the feeling we’re not getting the best that life has to offer.
It’s like we’re procrastinating from life itself, while our mortal deadline looms closer. Why aren’t I rich enough? We ask ourselves. Or popular ... | ['Self Improvement', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
No Servers Beyond this Point
What is serverless architecture and when should it be used?
Major League Baseball (MLB) has a branch dedicated to the league’s internet and interactive media — Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM). The MLBAM is improving the audience experience with a real-time player tracking sys... | ['Serverless', 'AWS', 'Customer', 'Applications Development', 'Serverless Architecture'] |
Why I Stayed on Parler
I realize I’m in the minority, on many different levels
Image collaboration with @mockup.store and the author
When most of my friends and colleagues hear I’m on Parler, I get that look. No matter their political beliefs, they wonder why I’d label myself as part of a “far-right platform,” espec... | ['Free Speech', 'Social Media', 'Facebook', 'Twitter', 'Politics'] |
This morning, an article about children’s books reminded me once again of how sometimes in our desire to pique interest we overreach and unintentionally do an injustice to our cause. The article is about a study done with toddlers to evaluate the effectiveness of learning through reading lift-the-flap children’s books ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Design', 'Dashboards'] |
I’ve been a volunteer and board member for a local-first non-profit for several years now. I’m kind of a hippie do-gooder like that, you know? Most recently I’ve been involved in our community capital / entrepreneurship programs, which is kind of a spiritual cousin to the work I was doing with Wefunder and the JOBS Act... | ['Fintech', 'Finance', 'Sustainability', 'Banking', 'Data'] |
One of my favorite parts of the coronavirus pandemic has been watching middle-aged, privileged people get embarrassed on the internet for their childish behavior in the face of a few small inconveniences.
Having an employee at a grocery store ask you kindly to put on a mask should not result in throwing a temper tantr... | ['Racism', 'Feminism', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Internet'] |
Evaluate Transformation techniques on CNN model 📄
Let’s discuss the effect of Transformation technique on CNN model. The dataset used in this experiment is Dog Breed Identification from Kaggle competition which provided a strictly canine subset of ImageNet in order to practice fine-grained image categorization. This ... | ['Pytorch', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Computer Vision'] |
With today’s release of Fear Inoculum, Tool ends a 13-year hiatus and resumes their exploration into what it means to be a human being.
For all the over-analysis of Lateralus, that album in particular contained a treasure trove of practical wisdom (which I explored in a previous real-time meditation). Given how much e... | ['Philosophy', 'Fear', 'Life', 'Music', 'Meditation'] |
It’s Friday night. Instead of going out to dinner, hanging with friends, or finally getting started on that book you’ve been meaning to read, you’re sitting on your couch. Watching Criminal Minds on repeat. You’re not really enjoying this, but it’s the easiest option because you’ve had a stressful week at work, and eve... | ['Health', 'Millennials', 'Skill Development', 'Quitting A Job', 'Burnout'] |
Feature Engineering and Modelling
We will start with random forest classification model for this data set. Its nonlinear nature makes it usually a great option for not only classification but also regression problems.
We will start with numerical features to create our machine learning model at the beginning.
X=trai... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Kaggle', 'Pandas', 'Data Visualization'] |
GCP — Deploying Vue App With Java Backend on GKE
A step by step guide with an example project
GKE is Google’s managed Kubernetes solution that lets you run and manage containerized applications in the cloud. Since this is a managed Kubernetes service, you can start quickly with single-click clusters, leverage a high-... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'Kubernetes'] |
On Pulitzer Prizes, And How “Hearing Kendrick” Is The New “Hearing Jimi”
The World Loves Trap, But (Still) Can’t Jump.
Context defines songs. If current era mega-producer Mike WILL Made It produced Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” the mastery of the Funk Brothers would not have been able to elevate the depth and scop... | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'Music', 'Culture', 'Kendrick Lamar', 'America'] |
Hello fellow developers and engineers. Many of you do software development as part of your daily job. You work on tickets/issues/tasks, create branches, merge requests, and patches. How many of you do code reviews or give your code for others to review as a religious practice? Do every single line of code developed is ... | ['Work', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Code'] |
The above code states that we have 1 hidden layer with 2 neurons. The no of neurons we used to specify as a unit and we used to pass as a parameter in the created layer in keras. Similarly for output layer we had specified unit as 1 that states that we have 1 neurons in the output layer. After creation of the hidden la... | ['Python', 'Keras', 'Optimizer', 'TensorFlow', 'Deep Learning'] |
Like so many developers, my first fully-functioning site was a blog. I built it as a custom WordPress theme, and I had grand plans for a homepage filled with high-quality images of the articles.
When a pushed the site live for the first time, I typed in the URL and… waited. It was a major anti-climax. Far too many sec... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'GraphQL', 'React', 'Gatsbyjs'] |
How to Strengthen The Heart Chakra
Past pain and trauma that aren’t healed throw our heart energies out of alignment and blocks it from receiving divine energy.
It isn’t easy for us to knock down the walls we built around ourselves when we didn’t feel safe. Strengthening the heart chakra is knowing that we are safe a... | ['Spirituality', 'Love', 'Inspiration', 'Energy', 'Creativity'] |
Cut Native App Development Time by Reusing Code and Skills
Native mobile apps perform better than hybrid or web apps. NativeScript makes it easy to write native apps quickly by reusing skills and code you already have.
As consumers spend more of their time on their mobile devices, mobile applications are increasingly... | ['Nativescript', 'Mobile App Development', 'Mobile Apps', 'Angular', 'Native App Development'] |
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
As the above quote states, we cannot survive without love and compassion. In the current situation we need these two concepts more than ever. Hoarding food and toilet paper leaves nothing for the most vulnerable within... | ['Health', 'Humanity', 'Empathy', 'Compassion', 'Love'] |
Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition
While the social media platform’s latest approach to facial recognition appears to respect user’s choices, the offer is so tainted we can’t truly agree to it
Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Co-authored by Woodrow Hartzog
Not long ago, Consumer Reports laun... | ['Privacy', 'Digital Life', 'Technology', 'Facebook', 'Industry'] |
Value Your Relationships With Others
No matter how hard you work, your relationships are extremely important.
No amount of money can buy the time you spend with your family or loved ones.
Sacrificing that time and instead simply trying to focus your whole life on software engineering will make you less happy, which ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
How My Cat Taught Me a Lesson About Great Customer Service
The unexpected perks of a fluffy little troublemaker
Thinking about great customer service… maybe
Some things you should know about me:
I work in marketing. I love my cats. I’m a sucker for great customer service.
Typically, these things exist independentl... | ['Branding', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Cats', 'Customer Service'] |
No Types
In CRUI we have a function to bind a Stream and a particular element property. In it’s simplest form, it looks like this:
function h$b(tag, bind)
Honestly, I would not know what to do with this function.
Silly me, the problem is clearly not having documentation! Let’s add it.
* Element with Bind.
* Cre... | ['Testing', 'Type Systems', 'Programming Tips', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Back End
For this tutorial, we will keep our back end very simple. We have a simple Node server with Express and Mongoose.
We are using Mongoose to connect to our MongoDB. And I have chosen the port 3000 for Express.
Note: We have used mongo-service as the hostname for database URL. That’s because Kubernetes provide... | ['DevOps', 'Docker', 'Programming', 'Containers', 'Kubernetes'] |
Most of us do stupid stuff as kids. My generation never imagined the Internet or eBay. If we had, we wouldn’t have stuck baseball cards in our bike spokes to hear them flap. I wouldn’t have given all my Hot Wheels cars to my cousin when I got too old for them. In fact, I would have kept everything I owned as a kid and ... | ['Kids', 'Guitar', 'Humorous Life Lessons', 'Other Stories', 'Music'] |
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration tackles Pixar and Disney from the view of technology, individuality, and artistry. All while creating a viable business. As a graphic designer, we balance creativity and responsibility. Like Pixar, we’re in the business of bottling... | ['Pop Culture', 'Book', 'Disney', 'Book Review', 'Creativity'] |
When building a containerized application, developers need a way to boot containers they’re working on to test their code. While there are several ways to do this, Docker Compose is one of the most popular options. It makes it easy to:
Specify what containers to boot during development
And setup a fast code-test-debu... | ['Microservices', 'DevOps', 'Docker Compose', 'Docker', 'Containers'] |
Make Yourself Hot Chocolate And Watch “Dash and Lily” Now
Perfect For A Warm And Fuzzy Holiday Feeling You Deserve
“Dash and Lily”, Image Courtesy of Netflix, Image Source
It has been an incredibly hard year for all of us. We have been going through a terrifying pandemic and one of the worst economic crises of the c... | ['Wellness', 'TV Series', 'Happiness', 'Art', 'Culture'] |
Let’s revisit the word.
re·pub·lic| rəˈpəblik | noun
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. ORIGIN
late 16th century: from French république, from Latin respublica, from res ‘entity, concern’ + pub... | ['Culture', 'Society', 'Civilization', 'Life'] |
All of us have goals. Whether they be far-reaching, short term, professional, personal, or as mundane as getting something to eat. No matter the importance of the pursuit, distinguishing means from ends at the outset is essential. When the ends are clear, and one does not fixate on the means — then immense creativity i... | ['Personal Development', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
In the last two articles, you learned to use ML-Agents and trained two agents. The first was able to jump over walls, and the second learned to destroy a pyramid to get the golden brick. It’s time to do something harder.
When I was thinking about creating a custom environment, I remembered the famous scene in Indiana ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Unity', 'Deep Learning'] |
Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash
Accessibility testing (A11Y) is a topic that is getting more and more discussed among the companies of different sizes preparing for either expanding to new markets or just making the application more accessible for everyone.
Before we talk further about accessibility testing we ne... | ['Software Development', 'Mobile Development', 'Accessibility', 'Engineering', 'Testing'] |
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
I’m at lunch with our agents in Beverly Hills. It’s February, 1987. The deal where Universal Pictures bought our spec script K-9 is finalized and my agents are setting up meet-and-greets for us all over town. Amidst the jovial banter befitting the successful consummation of a h... | ['Hollywood', 'Writing', 'Screenwriting', 'Movies', 'Business'] |
This year at THINK, IBM’s annual super-conference that showcases the technology and innovations across its entire portfolio, our team was excited to introduce the new IBM Immersive Data for iOS devices and its integration into one of the most powerful and interesting analytics tools, IBM Watson Studio. IBM Immersive Da... | ['IBM', 'Data Science', 'Augmented Reality', 'Data Visualization', 'Design'] |
Does Your Phone Know You Better Than your Therapist?
The Promise and Peril of Digital Phenotyping
Written by Professor Gerhard Gründer for the MIND Blog and the Mind and Brain Institute.
In 2017, Tom Insel, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) published a brief “viewpoint” article wi... | ['Technology', 'Digital Health', 'Psychiatry', 'Psychotherapy', 'Big Data'] |
Women are key players in the private sectors and micro, small and medium enterprises in Tanzania. The proportion of women-owned enterprises is reported to have increased from 35 per cent in early 1900s to 54.3 per cent in 2012.
This amounted to 1.716 million over 99 per cent of which are micro enterprises with fewer t... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Tanzania'] |
Remember the harmonic series?
More often than not, it serves as one’s first encounter with a series wherein individual terms diminish successively yet the series diverges to infinity. The below quote nicely sums the up notoriousness of the harmonic series:
Today I said to my calculus students, “I know, you’re looking... | ['Science', 'Math', 'Mathematics', 'History'] |
How Aristarchus Estimated the Distance to the Sun
How far are you, my Sunshine?
Here we come in our journey through the past across the first substantial error in science that I want to talk about. Aristarchus measured the distance to the Sun to be 20 times more than that from the Earth to the Moon, which was off by ... | ['Space', 'Physics', 'Education', 'Science', 'Mathematics'] |
Part One
The first step is to do pip install bokeh and pip install Flask to get the Bokeh library and Flask library installed to your Python instance. Create a file called app.py and start with the following code:
The variable source is used to represent data in a way that is standardized for Bokeh elements. We will ... | ['Python', 'Flask', 'Data Visualization', 'Bokeh', 'Database'] |
I’ve always had visual testing on my to do list, until a few weeks ago when I finally decided to mark it as done.
In this article, I’m going to share my experience working with this strategy of testing (which does not replace the others), and the integration with my current development tool: Storybook.
In case you do... | ['JavaScript', 'Storybook', 'React', 'Visual Testing', 'Programming'] |
8 Productivity Extensions for Designers and Developers You May Not Know About
Window resizing, color sampling, and more
Productivity at its finest (photo by the author).
From Chrome to the Apple App Store to extensions for your Mac, I’ll lay it all out. As a designer and developer, I find the tools below a must in m... | ['Software Development', 'Google Chrome', 'UX', 'Productivity', 'Programming'] |
So this is really a use case to unleash the power of Machine Learning. How to leverage it?
Here is a typical workflow for a trading system using supervised learning:
Data
Get the data in place. Good sources for financial time series are the API of the exchange you want to trade on, the APIs of AlphaVantage or Quandl... | ['Energy', 'Machine Learning', 'Finance', 'Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein
As social animals, we’re wired to trust those we know. Our immediate and extended social circles carry huge sway in the actions we chose to take. This is the power of networks.
When the web moved its focu... | ['User Experience', 'Data Privacy', 'Trust', 'UX Design', 'Product Design'] |
How Northwestern NUCS 349: Machine Learning used Campuswire to move instruction online
Two months before the Spring 2020 quarter began at Northwestern, Florian Schiffers was planning to TA and co-instruct 80 students in NUCS 349: Machine Learning. By the end of the first week of classes, registration had ballooned to ... | ['College', 'Startup', 'Edtech', 'Education', 'Higher Education'] |
Are we as human beings, free?
And the answer to this question is pretty obvious. In the bigger scheme of this question, we are not free. Behaviours and actions can be restricted by the authorities linked to society.
Discussing first off, the idea of culture. Human beings are social animals by nature. I am not going t... | ['Life', 'Society', 'Existentialism', 'Freedom', 'Philosophy'] |
The Top 3 Tech Salary Tools
Know what your position’s worth, then insist on it
Photo by the author.
Tech salaries are a hot topic. As an advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion, I believe that getting paid fairly is the first step. My goal with sharing these tools is to make tech salary information accessible s... | ['Programming', 'Salary', 'Women In Tech', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
Migrating from a conventional CMS to a decoupled technology stack!
How we migrated the main Comic Relief site over a 5 month period from Drupal 8 to a headless CMS and a more modern software stack (aka, JAM stack).
From “serverness” to serverless 🚀
Why move away from Drupal?👋
Initially, we thought we could iterat... | ['Gatsbyjs', 'Serverless', 'Jamstack', 'Contentful', 'Engineering'] |
I ended up realizing that I didn’t need to use context for this after all and used this pattern as an alternative.
Thoughts? Let me know in the comments!
Rachel | ['Redux Form', 'Software Development', 'Props', 'React'] |
7. Use Hot Reloading. Smartly.
One of the main things people complain about when transitioning from Web to React Native is its layout system — mostly the lack of a proper/helpful “Inspect” UI that’d allow you to visually inspect sizes, shapes, and borders of elements.
Hot reloading, apart from its contribution to a q... | ['Programming', 'Efficiency', 'JavaScript', 'React Native', 'React'] |
Database sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines to improve the scalability of an application. In Sharding, one’s data is broken into two or more smaller chunks, called logical shards. The logical shards are then distributed across separate database nodes, referred to as physical sha... | ['Database', 'Scalability', 'Software Development', 'Sharding', 'Software Engineering'] |
My website is now conversational. And it can recommend you UX reads.
Let my better half know if you’re a UX designer, and “I” will send you reading suggestions.
Please make sure you come back from time to time.
Hit recommend if you enjoyed this piece. 🤗 I also tweet about design and UX on twitter. | ['Conversational UI', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Photo by Simon Migaj on Unsplash
With recent changes in our entrepreneurial uplift across the globe where more and more people are working on or for a business company, people spend almost one-third of their lives at work. As a result, maintaining well-balanced health and wellness at the workplace has become extremely... | ['Business', 'Mindfulness', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Stress', 'Meditation'] |
Detailed explanation of the ten classic application fields of artificial intelligence and its technical principles Sajjad Hussain Follow Jun 8 · 17 min read
This post will use the term “algorithm” to describe a single algorithm, model, or software that uses multiple algorithms in a highly simplified manner. In each ca... | ['Technology', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning'] |
AR is long on promises, short on delivery.
The tech for AR Glasses is just not there yet
I think everyone would basically agree that we do not have the science or technology today to build the AR glasses that we want. We may in five years, or seven years, or something like that. But we’re not likely to be able to del... | ['Augmented Reality', 'Business', 'Boost', 'Technology', 'Startup'] |
a bike shop
a poem about some bicycles with higher ambitions
.
on unseen wire, tires hang
like fallen halos with no shine
a wish to return to rubber tree
far removed from roads of duty
.
below frames jockey for daylight
after months of hibernating
awakened by fruity bird songs
in vogue with the blossoms of s... | ['Poetry', 'Sports', 'Health', 'Cycling', 'Life'] |
Minecraft’s Music
The brilliance of being unaware
Whatever C418, (the creator of Minecraft’s music) strived for, 91 million players have listened to his music (according to Statista). It has, to varying degrees, has resonated with the majority of them.
I remember the music — actually not really. Minecraft music is p... | ['Nostalgia', 'Features', 'Minecraft', 'Music', 'Gaming'] |
Elon Musk’s Rule For Learning Anything Smarter And Faster
Musk never learns a piece of information at random — everything must connect back to the deeper, more solid base
I’m a huge fan of self-directed learning — there's so much you can know and apply that can improve the quality of your life and career.
The inform... | ['Self', 'Learning', 'Education', 'Careers', 'Productivity'] |
Why is it STILL so hard to build a useful chatbot?
HINT: We’ve got a solution
Creating a familiar, efficient, and personalized customer service experience takes a lot of hard work. But, as you know, great customer service is not optional. Your customers should be able to get their questions answered (on their channel... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Announcements', 'Wa Announcement', 'Watson Assistant'] |
Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways
Follow | ['Tailwind Css', 'Vuejs', 'Mongodb', 'Web Development', 'Expressjs'] |
Knot Theory
A poem about the connection of us and the biosphere
Photo by EDGAR TORRES on Unsplash
We’re all whittled from the same tree root
rings that mark our sorrows and love
branching dendritic harmony
sings its glorious battles
one daybreak at a time
Yet our forests are left hungry
Dried up canvas
And a ... | ['Connection', 'Future', 'Earth', 'Biosphere', 'Poetry'] |
Icon Do’s and Don’ts
What you need to know before incorporating icons in your next project
Icons often get overlooked. This is probably because their job is a thankless one: Enhance the content without being too distracting. After all, your audience wants to be able to get information as quickly as possible and an ov... | ['Icons', 'Iconography', 'Branding', 'Design'] |
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