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You’ve volunteered for an experiment and have two choices:
Option 1: Put your hand in 14° Celsius water (painfully cold, but not intolerable) for 60 seconds.
Option 2: Put your hand in 14° Celsius water for that same 60 seconds. Then immerse it in slightly warmer water (roughly 15 or 16° Celsius — still painfully col... | ['Self', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
Defeating the purpose of power cuts
What’s ironic is that if usage of inverters during power cuts becomes universal in India, it could theoretically lead to more power being consumed overall. That’s because inverters increase electricity consumption during power uptimes when they are used to store energy in inverters,... | ['India', 'Innovation', 'Environment', 'Battery', 'Phone'] |
Now, I use Seaborn Jointplot to create a 2D hex bin plot comparing Time on App and Length of Membership.
Let’s explore these types of relationships across the entire data set. Use pairplot to recreate the plot below.
Based on this plot we can look that the Length of Membership column is the most correlated feature wi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Linear Regression', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Storytelling'] |
7 Google Web Design Resources to Improve your UX
A list of resources to squeeze as much value out of web development investment as possible
Most of my career has been centered around designing web experiences and finding opportunities to make them better. I have had the opportunity to work with some of the best web d... | ['UX', 'Web Design', 'Google', 'Tools', 'Web Development'] |
I’ve never really been all that happy with the way I look, especially when needlessly comparing myself to others. The fact that I looked around and saw a seemingly infinite number of people who were stronger, faster and more comfortable with who they were made me feel so small by comparison. So much so, that I broke do... | ['Fitness', 'Mental Health', 'Lockdown', 'Wellbeing', 'Body Image'] |
Writing Tip: Plan First Write Second
How I Write
Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash
All the way through school the emphasis in writing tasks is on the planning. From when you first learn to write, to university assignments, there’s an underlying notion in academia that you must have a clear plan before you get to ... | ['Write', 'Writing Tips', 'Advice', 'Writer', 'Writing'] |
The New County Unit System
For years Georgia has been a red state despite recent developments. It’s almost like they designed it that way.
Photo by Elliott Stallion on Unsplash
From 1948 on, the Democratic Party has moved to the left politically and to the north geographically. Herman Talmadge
For starters, I am an... | ['Social Justice', 'Politics', 'History', 'Society', 'Election 2020'] |
This summer, I worked for twelve weeks as a software engineering intern with the Transcribe team in GovTech’s Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Division (DSAID). While other internships may have been affected by the circuit breaker measures, GovTech’s internship programme went on digitally with work from home ar... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Govtech', 'Data Science', 'Internships', 'Dsaid'] |
Yesterday, I was hit with a virtual brick to the head. And it knocked me for a loop.
First off, I was reeling from the news of all the “underground warehouse parties” that the cops have had to bust up, many of them in New York and Los Angeles, according to CNN. Skin-on-skin brawls attended by the truly ignorant among ... | ['Followers', 'Rant', 'Society', 'Writers On Medium', 'Making It Happen'] |
The Day I Bought My Own Underwear
Trying to explain to someone who isn’t Mormon how difficult and also liberating it is to go to the store and buy your own underwear for the first time in nearly thirty years is, well, weird. I’ve worn Mormon temple garments as my main underwear (yes, I wear regular bras in addition, b... | ['Mormon'] |
How Meditation Can Make You a Better Software Developer
Sometimes the solutions come to you when you sit there and do nothing
Photo by Simon Migaj on Unsplash
I came up with the idea to write this article weeks ago. Although constant work pushed me to write this article since that day, I constantly procrastinated by... | ['Programming', 'Self Improvement', 'Meditation', 'Self-awareness', 'Software Development'] |
The difference between data vis and data art
To me, data vis is like a guide dog: staid, disciplined, and faithfully focused on the task at hand. Data vis has a job to do. Data art is more like a puppy: energetic, enthusiastic and playful, fearlessly exploring the possibilities of the medium and the moment — an expres... | ['Data Art', 'Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
with too many things in my head i write to sort it all till the sky is empty and there’s no poetry
Follow | ['Poetry', 'Writing', 'Existence', 'Micropoetry', 'Spirituality'] |
Astrology 111
A Lot of People Don’t Really Know Pisces
This is what an empowered Pisces really wants you to understand
In Pisces, you find both the weakest and strongest, the dark and light, the yin and yang often together in a conflicted duality, as symbolized by its sign of the two fish swimming in opposite direct... | ['Astrology', 'Inspiration', 'Education', 'Ideas', 'Creativity'] |
3. fzf
This next one is a really cool tool. It’s called fzf . It’s a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder that allows you to find files based on whatever you type. On its own, it’s an OK tool. It will list all the different files in the current directory you’re in. You can think of it as a Spotlight search, but i... | ['Programming', 'Terminal', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Command Line'] |
I used to be an active person. Daily, I went for long walks with my dog, and I had pole dance classes. I’m not strong, but I’m flexible, my energy levels are good, and I’m fit. Or I was…
In February this year, a severe back pain hit me. In weeks, it escalated to the worst pain I’ve ever felt. My diagnosis was a trappe... | ['Fitness', 'Sexuality', 'Health', 'Sex', 'Advice'] |
4. Search hasn’t changed aesthetically at all, except maybe paying some lip service here and there. Playing it too safe imo.
5. How will WhatsApp evolve with its push with small local businesses? Can messaging look & feel drastically different?
6. Insta hacks — “link in bio”, roving strip clubs, paid access to “close... | ['Tech', 'Future', 'Socioeconomic'] |
Junior to Senior Developer — The One Thing You Need to Learn Johannes Herrmann Follow Oct 26 · 10 min read
When I decided to learn programming many years ago, I could find great tutorials on almost everything. I took fundamental computer science classes from Harvard and Stanford, I took a degree program in full-stack ... | ['Developer', 'Software Development', 'Typescript', 'Software Architecture', 'Event Driven Architecture'] |
As soon as you start working on a data science task you realize the dependence of your results on the data quality. The initial step — data preparation — of any data science project sets the basis for effective performance of any sophisticated algorithm.
In textual data science tasks, this means that any raw text need... | ['NLP', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algorithms'] |
Back in the Closet: Surviving Homophobia, Heroin, and Rehab in an Intolerant World
I wish I could say that, at the bottom of my addiction, who I was didn’t matter
At the peak of my heroin use in 2014, everyone knew something was wrong. My track marks, broken veins, dilated pupils and sunken cheeks told the whole worl... | ['Health', 'LGBTQ', 'Addiction', 'Pride', 'Healthcare'] |
The Words of Witches & Wizards
Using Data Science techniques to analyse scripts and language from the Harry Potter film franchise
As one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, Harry Potter is engrained into the psyche of several generations of adults. Having grossed over $9bn worldwide, it’s safe to say... | ['Harry Potter', 'Data', 'Writing', 'Language', 'Data Science'] |
As more countries declare a nationwide shutdown, most of the people are asked to stay at home and quarantined. I wanted to know how people are spending their time and how they are feeling during this “closedown ” period, so I analyzed some tweets in this article, hoping that the data will give me some insights.
Import... | ['Data Science', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Text Mining', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Serverless WebSockets with AWS Lambda & Fanout
The basics of adding realtime data push to your serverless backend
Serverless
Serverless is one of the developer world’s most popular misnomers. Contrary to its name, serverless computing does in fact use servers, but the benefit is that you can worry less about mainten... | ['Software Engineering', 'AWS Lambda', 'Tech', 'Websocket', 'Serverless'] |
Why Do We Read Knausgaard?
My struggle with My Struggle.
Photo by Michael Fousert on Unsplash
I’ve been reading Book 2 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s epic autobiographical work My Struggle. I read Book 1 last year and felt a strange compulsion to continue on.
If you’re unaware of the phenomenon that is this book, a lot o... | ['Literature', 'Books', 'Essay', 'Reading', 'Book Review'] |
Yes, you read it right !! A tree can take decision !!
Introduction:
When we are implementing the Decision Tree Machine Learning Algorithm using sklearn, we are calling the sklearn library methods. Hence we are not implementing the algorithm from scratch.
In this article, we will be implementing a Decision Tree algor... | ['Decision Tree', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python Programming', 'Entropy'] |
Search problems are quite popular these days in Artificial Intelligence and many algorithms have been proposed for solving problems of this kind. In this article, we will consider a popular search problem of finding your way through a maze and two simple algorithms used to solve this problem. The algorithms we will con... | ['Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algorithms'] |
“You can be anything you want to be.”
Photo by Juliane Liebermann on Unsplash
I can say this again — to my granddaughters. I can give them the same hope I gave their mother and their aunt. I can give them a boost up to stand on the shoulders of all the women who came before them. Women who fought hard and suffered — ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Politics', 'Future', 'Feminism', 'Grandmother'] |
Photo Credit: Stan Robinson
I’ve been afraid to admit this to myself for the last few months, but now’s the time to own up to the reality of it.
My creative muscle, the very thing that’s kept me feeling alive for the last 5 years… has atrophied.
My name is Lawrence Yeo, and I create music under the name Trebles and ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Musings On Music', 'Creativity', 'Rehabilitation'] |
GRIEF
How the Dystopia of Lockdown Broke Me
An essay about anxiety, grief, and recovery
Photo by Fabrizio Verrecchia on Unsplash
The first hour of my day is the same as always; I press snooze several times, I get ready for work. I drink coffee whilst I plan my day. The disruption begins here. My commute consists of... | ['Grief', 'Society', 'Anxiety', 'Family', 'Self'] |
Why build a new SQL development environment?
We love SQL — our mission is to bring fast, real-time queries to messy, semi-structured real-world data and SQL is a core part of our effort. A SQL API allows our product to fit neatly into the stacks of our users without any workflow re-architecting. Our users can easily i... | ['Data', 'Sql', 'Json', 'Schema', 'Development'] |
42 Tips and Tricks to Write Faster, Better-Optimized JavaScript Code
Optimize your JavaScript code using modern techniques, tips, and tricks
I always used to prefer something like a newspaper which give enough information in a shorter span of time. Here, I create tips for day to day Frontend development.
You might b... | ['Front End Development', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
One of my favorite aspects of NaNo is that it table-flips the image of writers toiling in solitude, and creates a global community where we cheer each other on to completing a common goal. NaNo Board President and former Municipal Liaison, Lise Quintana , shares about encouragement in her post Strap on Your Pom-Poms fo... | ['Fiction', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Writing', 'Nonprofit'] |
Introduction
Many of us have been in the situation of working on a predictive model with an imbalanced dataset.
The most popular approaches to handling the imbalance include:
Increasing class weights for the underrepresented class(es)
Oversampling techniques
Undersampling techniques
Combinations of over and under... | ['Machine Learning', 'Imbalanced Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Genetic Algorithm'] |
Within a Whisker: What the 2020 Presidential Election Teaches Our Children About How to Treat Others
Regardless of the outcome
On November 3, 2020, my quarantine bubblemates gathered together. Unlike in 2016 when we planned a proper party, this year we opted for something more subdued: comfort foods in the form of ri... | ['Parenting', 'Society', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Family'] |
Sign up for The 'Gale
By Nightingale
Keep up with the latest from Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society Take a look | ['Outlierconference', 'Data Visualization', 'Community', 'Dataviz', 'Conference'] |
How not to get screwed by your client when you’re contracting
I got screwed by ContactMonkey.com and its founder. This is an article about how you can avoid this from happening to you.
ContactMonkey, currently owes me a large sum of money that they refuse to pay, because they don’t plan to use my code. That’s unfair,... | ['Design', 'Business', 'Web Development', 'Contactmonkey', 'Freelancing'] |
How to Choose the Right Analytics Skills
No one person will embody all the analytic and data science skills that a manager requests. Here’s what to keep in mind for developing those skills.
It is wonderful to imagine an analyst hitting the ground running to bring his or her skills to bear on a key problem. The desire... | ['Business Development', 'Business Intelligence', 'Analytics', 'Data Science'] |
Now, the important bit:
React Native’s official Image Component provides us with a method called resolveAssetSource(). This method takes a “number” (related to what I’ve mentioned above) or an ImageSource object as its only parameter and returns an object with width , height , scale and uri properties, this last one b... | ['Expo', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'React Native', 'Require'] |
Posted in Forbes Agency Council Community Voice
By Susan Akbarpour
Mavatar CEO/Co-Founder, Investor, Board Member & Blockchain Enthusiast.
Every year CES showcases the cutting edge of technology and the direction of the future. This year’s CES did not disappoint. From January 8–11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center,... | ['AI', 'Forbes', 'Blockchain', 'Augmented Reality', 'Ces2019'] |
I was not a part of the Woodstock generation. That dubious honour belonged to my parents, the bell-bottomed men and women of the 1950s and 1960s, who grew up in a Bombay that didn’t look askance at youth in tie-dyed clothing. They were the ones who tacked up posters of The Who, torn from magazines sold second hand on t... | ['Music', 'Jimi Hendrix', 'Rock And Roll', 'Woodstock', 'Pop Culture'] |
Why is Model Evaluation a crucial step in Machine Learning? — Part 1 Kountay Dwivedi Follow Sep 13 · 8 min read
Photo by Kountay Dwivedi
The core target of any researcher or a data scientist has always been to deduce a model that is “perfect” for the underlying problem domain. Before digging deeper into complex compu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Bias Variance Tradeoff', 'Model Evaluation', 'Model Selection'] |
I also read about rising cultural icon Jordan Peterson, a fellow Canadian. His rise to fame has been almost entirely based on the absurdity of these idiotic pronouns, which he refuses to use. The controversial Canadian professor and self-proclaimed free-speech warrior recently made headlines again for threatening to su... | ['Society', 'Gender Equality', 'Jordan Peterson', 'Spirituality', 'Transgender'] |
Some of my family members and friends tuned in to watch my virtual talk at DockerCon 2020 and I was highly appreciative of it. The discussion I had with most of them afterwards, however, wasn’t about how I over simplified certain concepts or conveyed a wrong idea of something specific in my talk. For the most part they... | ['Virtualization', 'Containers', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Docker'] |
My 8 Burning, Unanswered Questions on Sex
From existential to kinky, here’s what I’m mentally masturbating over.
Food vector created by macrovector — www.freepik.com
For the curious and restless like me, here’s what I think about laying in bed. To set the scene, not usually naked and in the act. Then my thoughts are... | ['Sexuality', 'Future', 'Love', 'Sex', 'Culture'] |
How to Make Real Money on Upwork
The art of finding good clients and charging what you’re worth.
Dogs are the best clients. Photo by Devin Edwards on Unsplash
Serious freelancers often criticize platforms like Upwork and Fiverr. The problem, they say, is that it’s a race to the bottom. Each person trying to win the ... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Money', 'Productivity', 'Business'] |
Angelica Kauffman and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun both blended the two prevalent movements of the late 18th century, gaining favor in the eyes of royalty of the day.
Maya Garabedian /MutualArt
Angelica Kauffman, Princess Augusta Charlotte with Her Infant Son, ca. 1767, oil on glass. Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Mu... | ['Painting', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Art', 'Society'] |
‘Exploratory data analysis’ is an attitude, a state of flexibility, a willingness to look for those things that we believe are not there, as well as those we believe to be there.”
Introduction
These words are believed to belong to a prominent American mathematician — John Tukey. He played a key role in the developmen... | ['Analytics', 'Kaggle', 'Tutorial', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
by Ryan Cassata
Photo credit: Eva Mueller
Lenny Zenith is an artist who caught my ear when I heard his 2018 album “What If the Sun.” A song from the record was sent to me for coverage on a music blog that I write for. I was immediately drawn to Lenny’s voice, and then when I took a deeper dive into the blurb that was... | ['Lenny Zenith', 'Transgender', 'Punk Rock', 'Music'] |
You have to pay attention to your goals if you ever want to achieve them. But while you pay for this attention with your time, there is something else you sacrifice when you decide to attend to something: everything else you could be attending to.
When we sit down and write, we are also deciding not to have a conversa... | ['Attention', 'Information Overload', 'Psychology', 'Goals', 'Prioritization'] |
We’ve all sat through that horrible presentation that’s nothing but bullets in 10 point font.
It’s not just boring — it’s mind-numbing. The information presented is usually hard to understand and nearly impossible to remember.
And it’s not just presentations that suffer this malady. When you get that stack of financi... | ['Data Visualization', 'Design', 'Presentations'] |
Genex Tower, Belgrade
Le Corbusier, one of the pre-eminent figures of modern architecture, has been widely quoted as saying “a hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe,” a statement he immediately qualified with “and 50 times…it is a beautiful catastrophe.” Fittingly enough, it was the adoption of Le Cor... | ['Architecture', 'Modernism', 'Brutalism', 'Music', 'Crisis'] |
All pictures made by me with LaTex, tikz, and GIMP unless otherwise specified.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan
When most students first see the power rule in Calculus, the rule is usually offered without proof or with a partial proof. If these students a... | ['Math', 'Calculus', 'Science', 'Education', 'Mathematics'] |
Where I Would Give Judgment, I Now Give Love
Learning to Love Myself and Others
pexels — Lisa Fotio
If you are anything like me, your mind is full of judgments. You are constantly judging and evaluating others, and yourself.
This judging mind is always turned on, and is often called the ego. Are there egos out ther... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Ego', 'Self'] |
Props and V-Model
We need to pass two props to the Switch: label , which is a string, and checked , which is a boolean. Remember that the checked prop comes from v-model:checked :
<template>
<label>
<input
type="checkbox"
:checked="checked"
@change="$emit('update:checked', $event.target.checked)"
/>
<span></sp... | ['Programming', 'Vuejs', 'JavaScript', 'Vue', 'Software Development'] |
I Am Google Ads, And I Never Forget
Lay your eyes upon me and tremble, mortals, for I am a boundless entity with unlimited server space for your sins.
Image: Google (Fair Use.)
My memory is as immeasurable as the cosmos. As deep as the seven seas. As precise as a Swiss watch. I am Google Ads, and I will remember eve... | ['Humor', 'Google Ads', 'Satire', 'Google', 'Internet'] |
Chatbots: Natural Language Generation In 7 Easy Steps
Transform Structured Data Into Unstructured Natural Language
What is Natural Language Generation?
NLG is a software process where structured data is transformed into Natural Conversational Language for output to the user. In other words, structured data is presen... | ['Conversational Ai', 'TensorFlow', 'Naturallanguagegeneration', 'Colab', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Photo by Felix Koutchinski on Unsplash
How I Forgave My Abuser
Why forgiveness is important
I thought I was over it. I thought I was ready for a relationship.
A year and a half later I got into a relationship with my current partner. Even though I waited I still was not ready to move on.
I hadn’t healed myself.
I... | ['Self-awareness', 'Forgiveness', 'Abuse', 'Domestic Violence', 'Self Improvement'] |
VE Day, UK was broke, Europe was broke. Had useless prat George Osborne been Chancellor, we would have had austerity for 75 years. Instead we invested, rebuilt UK, rebuilt Europe.
Following the euphoria and celebrations of VE Day, VJ Day was yet to come, a more low key event, life was tough, rationing did not end unti... | ['Ve Day 75', 'Green New Deal', 'Covid 19', 'Doughnut Economics', 'Coronavirus'] |
The official AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) definition by AWS:
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
In other words, setting up a WAF would not only help ... | ['Waf', 'Ec2', 'AWS', 'Load Balancer', 'Firewall'] |
Have you ever felt when you were talking to someone that they weren’t really there?
They were there, but not THERE
Their body was present……their head was nodding…..their hand was taking notes with their pen…..But their eyes were BLANK. Mentally they were elsewhere — perhaps on holidays, or in another meeting, or thin... | ['Values', 'People', 'Love', 'Mindfullness', 'Poetry'] |
Dart generator functions are used to generate a sequence of values on-demand lazily. Such a value sequence can be generated either synchronously or asynchronously. There are two types of built-in generator functions available to support both scenarios:
Synchronous Generator: Synchronous generator function returns an I... | ['Programming', 'Mobile App Development', 'Software Development', 'Dart', 'Web Development'] |
By Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ December 22, 2020
Not only is the culture of the US shattered, but the gaps between the pieces are growing. This shattering looks very much like the laws of physics rather than traditional social change.
We keep looking for solutions and ways to restore social cohesion, having identified ec... | ['Culture', 'History', 'Change', 'Politics', 'Future'] |
4 main indexes for business evaluation
These abbreviation, which are puzzling at first sight, give an understanding of the market volume for your goods or services.
They are interpreted as follows:
1. PAM — potential available market
2. TAM– total addressable/available market
3. SAM– serviceable available market
... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Evaluation'] |
Starter Pack Will Change How Developers Build Apps
Access all of your favourite CLI tools (plus lots more) with one command
What is Starter Pack?
Starter Pack unifies all the other CLI tools. Forget having to install/remember/google lots of different commands, access them all through Starter Pack!
This also means y... | ['Web Development', 'React', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
The Mistake
One of the website pages shows a list of (mostly very good) coffee shops, the data for which comes from an external REST API of mine.
When it came to fetching this data, I went into autopilot and did so from within the component once mounted and then stored it in state:
A familiar pattern, but not always... | ['Gatsbyjs', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'React', 'Gatsby'] |
4. Filtering in the ‘ON’ clause vs Filtering in the ‘WHERE’ clause
Photo by Devin Avery on Unsplash
This is a very interesting concept and is sure to improve your fundamental understanding of the difference between filtering in the ‘ON’ clause & filtering in the ‘WHERE’ clause. This isn’t exactly a mistake, just a de... | ['Sql', 'Data', 'Analytics', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
Every year — but this year it’s different. From the outside, everything seems the same as always: illuminated houses, gingerbread and the like on the supermarket shelves, and familiar Christmas music on the radios.
But the Christmas of 2020 is different. Government regulations and the fear of catching a cold mean that... | ['Christmas', 'Self', 'Health', 'Self Love', 'Love'] |
Station10 recently held a joint webinar with our partner, Adobe. The session — ‘Do more with your data’ — aimed to help our listeners understand how to better use data to drive their marketing campaigns and influence business decisions.
It was a great session with over 100 attendees, many of whom asked some interestin... | ['Analytics', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Omnichannel'] |
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Back in 2000, my car’s back bumper proudly displayed a sticker that read “Bush-Gore: For a Democracy-Free America.” My attention had been captured by the ticket of Ralph Nader and Winona La Duke, running as the Green Party candidates. Nader in particular talked about the world in common sense ways, about ho... | ['Politics', 'Equality', 'Society', 'Economy', 'Election 2020'] |
4 Tips for Stunning Social-Media Visuals (Infographic)
Engage your social audience across networks with more compelling visuals.
Images are critically important in social media marketing strategies across just about every platform. While networks like Instagram and Pinterest are obvious, most of the other major netwo... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Graphic Design', 'Infographics', 'Social Media'] |
Dear Friends,
In 1998, former U.S. vice president Al Gore introduced a concept called Digital Earth, a virtual planet that is georeferenced, connected to the world’s digital knowledge. In the past 15 years, we have witnessed a quiet revolution in the deployment of sensor networks acquiring atmospheric, oceanic and ter... | ['Climate Change', 'Sustainability', 'Open Data'] |
How to Reckon With Climate Denial
What does it say about our world when a well-educated and well-traveled military veteran spews blatant climate denial?
Source: Anonymous Climate Denier In My DMs
Signs of the depths of the climate emergency abound all around us. The most active hurricane season ever just ended. Wild... | ['Connection', 'Fear', 'Climate Change', 'Psychology', 'Climate Denial'] |
You Have a Calling and a Distraction
Not knowing your calling may be a distraction
Photo by omid bonyadian on Unsplash
I have a calling and several distractions. Fear is the biggest of them all. Doubt is also one of them. The doubt that I can't be who I’m called to be. Fear allows doubt to whisper in my ears, “Forge... | ['Leadership', 'Mindfulness', 'Ideas', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
Be the Person You Wish You Had in Your Life
This is my epiphany; perhaps it could be yours, too? A letter to yourself.
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
Dear Self,
Sleeplessness is never good. It gives your brain time to think about all the things you refuse to think about during the day. It has become your bête no... | ['Life Lessons', 'Insights', 'Blue Insights', 'Family', 'Psychology'] |
Joy of joys, it’s weekend!
Time flies when you’re having fun! Or, as my oracle cards say, “the Universe works fast when I am having fun”. I find both to be equally as true! It is way too easy to overlook or mistake the subtleties of the Universe’s refined language for randomness.
My challenge for what’s left of this ... | ['Newsletterandprompts', 'Creativity', 'Emotions', 'Energy', 'Short Story'] |
In a couple of my Facebook groups centered around fat bodies, body acceptance, and support, this has become an ongoing conversation. As we’ve shared our feelings about these jokes and memes, we’ve talked about how much energy it takes to try and ignore them. One woman described overhearing a coworker who constantly com... | ['Body Image', 'Health', 'Equality', 'Culture', 'Covid 19'] |
Auto-Suggestions Across Multiple Files
My main benefit here isn’t even the fact that it makes suggestions but rather that it allows me to work across multiple files that don’t even have to follow any known syntax. In fact, TabNine works for regular writing as well and will give you automatic suggestions even while typ... | ['Coding', 'Technology', 'Vs Code', 'Productivity', 'Programming'] |
How Should We Determine the Ordering of Our Microservices?
A look at strategies when thinking about distributed systems and microservices
Photo by the author.
Microservice architecture can help teams develop applications asynchronously. Teams can deploy their code base, creating a faster iteration and development pr... | ['Programming', 'Microservices', 'Distributed Systems', 'Architecture', 'Software Development'] |
In our previous post, we talked about Optimization Techniques. The mantra was speed, in the sense of “take me down -that loss function- but do it fast”. In the present post, we will talk about Regularization Techniques, namely, L1 and L2 regularization, Dropout, Data Augmentation, and Early Stopping. Here our enemy is ... | ['Regularization', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'TensorFlow'] |
by Chris Randle
46. “London”
45. “Together”
44. “Numb”
43. “Beautiful People”
42. “Integral”
41. “Did You See Me Coming?”
40. “Absolutely Fabulous”
39. “Minimal”
38. “Was It Worth It?”
37. “Home and Dry”
36. “Yesterday, When I Was Mad”
35. “Miracles”
34. “Single-bilingual”
33. “I Get Along”
32. “Jealousy... | ['Columnists', 'Music', 'Chris Randle'] |
If you want to change your career, here is a list of ideas and examples that could give you the courage and motivation to take that step:
In his book “Creatures of a day,” psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, recommends to a patient who is not happy with his profession, the book “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius. He says that the... | ['Careers', 'Self', 'Ideas', 'Creativity', 'Lists'] |
September 2017 was dominated by 2 huge digital marketing events as industry leaders descended on Cologne for DMExco, and New York for AdWeek. Here are the key topics from the 2 events, with insight from Clicksco CMO — Pete Danks.
If Content is King, Data is hand to the King 👑
Whilst GDPR continues to loom over the a... | ['Content Marketing', 'Voice Assistant', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Digital Marketing', 'Data'] |
Have you ever thought about how many zeroes are at the ending of a million dollars? $1,000,000 — that’s six zeroes. That’s 100,000 $10 bills stacked on top of each other, which is pretty crazy when you think about it. According to ABC News, there are about 46.8 million millionaires in the world, in addition to the 2,15... | ['Finance', 'Technology', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement'] |
1. Not Using Forms for GET Requests
I see a lot of React components which do a ton of unnecessary state management to keep track of information. Oftentimes, these complicated queries can be simplified by using a powerful feature of HTML forms: <form action="GET"> .
When you use a form, the browser will handle all of ... | ['JavaScript', 'Reactjs', 'React', 'HTML', 'Web Development'] |
Why Would Anyone Want to be a Stripper in the First Place?
Honestly, it’s about so much more than money
Photo by Marcus Santos on Unsplash
The moment I tell someone that I used to be a stripper in my early twenties, the questions pour out of them, a little at first and then all at once. It makes no difference that t... | ['Sexuality', 'Society', 'Work', 'Sex', 'Feminism'] |
Elite Serfdom Opportunity For Best-In-Class Peasant Farmers
Are you a harvest hacker with a proven track record in converting non-arable fields to agriculture success stories?
Photo by Kylie Paz on Unsplash
About the Company
Fyoodle is a fast-growing fiefdom seeking skilled peasant farmers (Grain Gurus) to take our... | ['Business', 'Satire', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Humor'] |
Doing the Ordinary Extraordinary: the Pareto Principle, Diminishing Returns, Effective Hours, and Efficiency
How spending an extra 10 minutes a day can result in a huge ROI
Key words
Pareto principle Blockbuster method Half-life of knowledge Quality versus quantity → effective hours versus quantity hours Top 1%, 10%... | ['Life Hacking', 'Learn', 'Mathematics', 'Learning', 'Productivity'] |
POMprompt
POMprompt # 18
‘I don’t belong here.’
Image by Prawny from Pixabay
Ravyne Hawke Reminded me today that I have not done a POMprompt in a while, and she is RIGHT. It’s been since July. My goodness.
I guess you could say I have been busy. Life came along and turned me upside down and I have not quite recove... | ['The Pom', 'Creativity', 'Pomprompt', 'Poetry', 'Writing Prompts'] |
There has been much in the news lately about Facebook; the level of control they have over information, the ethics of their data collection, and the level of violence and abuse its users direct at others, particularly women.
When social media took over the internet and turned it from a transactional tool to a relation... | ['Facebook', 'Women', 'Gendered Violence', 'Feminism', 'Social Media'] |
the developer philosopher
What is the “magic trick” to become conscious ?
Consciousness did not appear suddenly from a certain level of complexity in our brain but was the product of a long evolutionary process that shaped it. As a consequence, simply build more and more complex AI systems will not make it emerge mir... | ['AI', 'Developer Philosopher', 'Consciousness', 'Philosophy', 'Conscious Ai'] |
Pull Request Etiquette for Reviewers and Authors
Be careful with those LGTMs
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A pull request (PR) is a process when new code is reviewed before it should be merged to develop a branch or master branch in a Git repository like GitHub.
The author creates a PR, while a reviewer reviews ... | ['Tips', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Process'] |
We love Airflow At StoreMaven. Being a super Data-Driven company, we run hundreds of daily tasks transforming, loading, and monitoring data in production using Airflow on top of Google’s managed Composer environment.
The basic deployment of the Composer environment looks like this:
A managed GKE cluster is deployed w... | ['Airflow', 'Etl', 'Composer', 'Data Engineering', 'Gke'] |
🇦🇺 NYC Cartoonist/Writer for @NewYorker and stand-up comic. Syndicated daily in 34 countries. President of The National Cartoonists Society. #BlockedByTrump
Follow | ['Comics', 'Art', 'Fall', 'Mental Health', 'Illustration'] |
If you look at popular music today, it suffers for a lack of variety in structure and form. In rap music particularly, the chorus, or the hook, as the chief resemblance of melody, is generally so simple of a diddy, not unlike a commercial jingle, that it’s repetition throughout a song tends to distract from the meat of... | ['Hip Hop', 'Tech', 'Music', 'Business'] |
Learning Android Development
Kotlin Automatic Code Style Formatting
No longer worry about forget to format our code when committing
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More than 4 years ago I wrote on two housekeeping habit for coder, that keep our code style clean and remove unused imports
However, I have to admit, I... | ['AndroidDev', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Kotlin', 'Coding'] |
Bokeh & Heroku
Click the link below to see for yourself!
https://voterturnoutmap.herokuapp.com/MapScript
Visualizations make data accessible to everyone. They turn mind-numbing excel spreadsheets into fun and easy to understand graphs. They summarize, highlight, and good visualizations also allow the user to explore... | ['Data Visualization', 'Bokeh', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Heroku'] |
The Biggest Myths About Exercise
A physical therapist addresses misconceptions around intensity, soreness, and pain
Photo: adamkaz/Getty Images
“No pain, no gain” might be the worst phrase ever uttered in the gym. Asking the question, “Is it soreness or pain?” is a close second. At the end of the day, both pain and ... | ['Health', 'Fitness', 'Physical Therapy', 'Exercise', 'Body'] |
Silicon Valley Is Using Our Own Intelligence to Make Us Obsolete
How workers unknowingly train their robot replacements
Photo: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images
In the future envisioned by Wall Street and Silicon Valley alike, humans are just another externality. There are too many of us, asking for salaries and health... | ['Silicon Valley', 'Technology', 'Book Excerpt', 'Robots', 'Future'] |
I always wondered how people created beautiful geospatial visualizations in R. I would stare googly-eyed at the perfect gradients which could make a dashboard or presentation pop, wondering just how the hell people were doing this in the programming language I associated with p-values and regression lines.
Surprisingl... | ['Visualization', 'Geospatial', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Rstudio'] |
Coca-Cola’s Biggest Marketing Failure Teaches Us A Key Lesson in Life
Lesson of the day: Don’t reinvent yourself because you assume that’s what people want.
It’s my 8th birthday. The whole family is invited to celebrate — grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. The house is at full capacity during those special occasio... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Life Lessons', 'Business'] |
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