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I was made fun of; I laughed.
I felt the same chain of emotions for everyone.
Ignorance in the beginning,
resentment in between,
rage to answer back,
and giving up in despair.
I was broken; I cried.
It made me
close old doors,
erase some people,
tear past chapters every passing day,
hoping they never come ba... | ['Poetry', 'Past', 'Feelings', 'Memories', 'Nostalgia'] |
So to develop an Angular application obviously you need a good UI library for Angular which you can rely on and get a good productivity from it. UI Libraries are very important to create elegant UI of any web application and also it should provide out of the advance features which you can use it based on your project r... | ['Angular Ui Framework', 'Angular Ui Design', 'Angular Ui', 'Angular', 'Angular Ui Library'] |
Ever get the feeling you’re being watched? Well, you are. There are companies, agencies, advertisers and some more shady entities, peering in through your digital windows to observe your every move as you go about your life.
That is an analogy for the state of the personal data space today, coined by Shawn O’Neal, for... | ['Privacy', 'Brands', 'Ad Blocking', 'Internet Of Me', 'Personal Data'] |
Let’s start our adventure with an example for an Android permission process: When user wants to make a video call with an advertiser, s/he needs to give following permissions, Camera, Microphone & Phone. We have VideoCallActivity . It will extend PermissionActivity .
We will start calling checkPermissionsAreGranted(Bu... | ['Arabam', 'Android', 'Android Permissions'] |
An article appearing in the Washington Post quotes Rick Sanders, the chairman of the board of supervisors for Story County, Iowa.
“I believe that a rising tide lifts all boats,” said Sanders. “But we haven’t seen that impact on lower-skill and blue-collar workers yet. I’m hoping it’s just a matter of time.”
Mr. Sande... | ['Politics', 'Unicorns', 'Trickle Down', 'Reaganomics', 'Republican Party'] |
The worst part about driving a cab is that people always slam the door when they get out. It was one part of the job that I never got used to.
The date was August 1, 1982, and I still remember it clearly. It was my first day on the job as a cab driver in Orange County. I was fresh out of law school and I had failed th... | ['Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Friendship', 'Suspense', 'Horror'] |
There are many exchanges out there, but there are only a few exchanges that offer security even when they run on a centralized platform. The major complaints associated with Centralized exchanges are
Easy Hacks
Liquidity
Missing USP
Kineticex exchange uses the cryptocurrency conversion based on a single aggregated ... | ['ICO', 'Smart Tokens', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Exchange'] |
Blockchain has been promoted in virtually every area of our life these days, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. Although it is still primarily used for cryptocurrencies, there are other possible usages of this new technology. Generally, elections are conducted using the paper based system which comes... | ['Voting', 'Blockchain'] |
Cryptocurrency News Aggregator — Cryptonews by app.algory.io
Katowice, Poland, July 28, 2018 — Algory is delighted to announce the launch of the largest news system for investors and crypto-traders on the cryptocurrencies market — the Cryptonews aggregator. We are pleased to announce that one of our flagship products ... | ['Fintech', 'Crypto', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Trading', 'Bitcoin'] |
In recent days, two perennial controversies have flared up once again in France. Their Parliament is considering two bills aimed at solving the two issues: one, a security bill that aims to protect police officers, and the other, a wide-ranging bill that seeks to impose a series of regulations aiming to bring Muslims m... | ['Police Brutality', 'Islam', 'France', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Europe'] |
The Responsibility Virus
In Alan Watkins’ book 4D Leadership¹, he cites Roger Martin’s (2003) writings about ‘the responsibility virus’. The responsibility virus is a phenomenon where someone promoted into a leadership position, in an attempt to improve outcomes, becomes involved in work that should instead be delegat... | ['Management', 'Leadership', 'Career Advice', 'Engineering Mangement', 'Programming'] |
UPnP fails because of Double NAT
I’ve been dealing with Double NAT over the past few months. I’m well aware that my initial configuration will cause this issue since both the gateway and the router are acting as routers. Having it this way would cause problems for certain services that require an open port, or if you ... | ['Bridge Mode', 'Pldt', 'Double Nat', 'Networking', 'Router'] |
Rambo mows down wave after wave of Spetsnaz commandos. John McClane picks off a group of terrorists, one-by-one, walks on glass, and saves the day. James Bond keeps his cool as he foils one supervillain after the other — and fools around with the fetching Bond girl du jour.
These are but a couple of examples. Popular ... | ['The Queens Gambit', 'Chess', 'Culture', 'Feminism', 'Netflix'] |
AVERAGE ART
Averaged faces from classical paintings
TLDR: I took a subset of 18.5K portraits from a dataset of the Kaggle competition, Painter by Numbers, and arranged them by style and gender. Then I used the Facer library from John W. Miller to build average faces based on these portrait groups, as well as a time-l... | ['Face', 'Painting', 'Neural Networks', 'Portraits', 'Art'] |
Since this was 1990’s suburbia, eating out was still a special occasion back then. And by special occasion, I don’t mean authentic (insert any culture other than ‘Merica here) cuisine. I mean my father exclaiming “I found this booklet of Applebee’s coupons in the neighbor’s trash. Free appetizers for everyone, on them!... | ['Family', 'Restaurant', 'Economy', 'Humor', 'Life'] |
The flowers that Millais includes are chosen for their symbolic meanings. The violets at Ophelia’s throat represent faithfulness, chastity, dying young and unrequited love. The pink rose at the hem of her skirts suggests the transient beauty of youth and fleeting exhilaration of first love. The white of the daisies rep... | ['Art History', 'Painting', 'History', 'Mythology', 'Art'] |
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Troubleshooting Stragglers in Your Spark Application
Stragglers in your Spark Application affect the overall application performance and waste premium resources.
Stragglers are detrimental to the overall performance of Spark applications and lead to resource wastages on the underlying cluster. There... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
by Thomas Gomersall
In just a few short years, the trafficking of pangolins and their scales for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has unexpectedly become one of the most well-known and frequently discussed conservation issues today, leading to an increase in moves to conserve them. In 2017, a global ban on pangolin ... | ['Hong Kong', 'Pangolin', 'Conservation', 'Endangered Species', 'Wildlife Trafficking'] |
Shift Crypto will be focusing the company efforts on the open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and its companion BitBoxApp. We have decided to go to our roots and put all our effort into delivering a best-in-class hardware wallet.
What does this mean?
Our main goal has been to empower and bring independence to users, ... | ['Harware', 'Wallet', 'Crypto', 'Apps', 'Bitcoin'] |
I have to say, I’m starting to feel like a bit of a celebrity and not in a good way. I’ve always been a friendly person, and some would even say ‘too trusting.’ So when I began receiving an increasing number of friend requests on Facebook from members of Medium, I felt obliged to accept.
Only I’m not even sure if they... | ['Friend Request', 'Creepy', 'Social Media', 'Unfriend', 'Block'] |
first of her name. writer of nonsense. queen of drinking wine. creator of thedirtygirlsguide.com
Follow | ['Humor', 'Sex', 'Dating Advice', 'Dating', 'Satire'] |
Although it always seemed like it was never going to happen, this past May, HBO announced they would release the fabled Snyder Cut exclusively on their new streaming service, HBO Max. And apparently, it’s not going to be cheap either. The Snyder Cut, set to debut sometimes in 2021, will reportedly cost HBO upwards of $... | ['Movies', 'Filmmaking', 'Features', 'Film', 'Culture'] |
By Alex Nicholls, Director of Design Technology, Workday
This article was previously published on designsystems.com. It is the first of a three part series that will take a deep dive through Workday’s experience developing, productizing, and eventually, open sourcing their design system.
Design is the life and blood ... | ['Enterprise Software', 'Design Systems', 'UX', 'UX Design', 'Feedback'] |
It was then August 2017 when I began to work out what I was interested in pursuing as a career. At this point, I knew I enjoyed working at Trade Me, I liked the people that I worked with, and I’d seen the company support people moving into other roles. So I thought, why can’t I do that too?!
I set about having a big t... | ['Career Development', 'Careers', 'Testing', 'Learning And Development', 'Software Development'] |
5 Tips Before Starting Your First Deep Learning Image Classification Project with Keras John Lawless Follow Dec 7 · 5 min read
An illustration of a typical CNN used in image classification
Deep learning applications in image classification have shown very impressive results in recent years, with advances rapidly happ... | ['Image Classification', 'Convolutional Network', 'Keras'] |
Extracting Relevant Series
In this series of articles, the Close prices of the S&P 500 market index are analyzed. Here, we extract the series we’re interested in:
Extracting the required series from the collection provided by yfinance
Since the data is stock market data, we will not observe any value for the weekend... | ['Machine Learning', 'Statistical Analysis', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Web Scraping', 'Time Series Forecasting'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Monday', 'Social Media', 'Art', 'Graphics'] |
Continuous Delivery (CD) is often considered a stakeholder’s dream. No waiting for long QA and UAT cycles, think of it: get it built: ship it. And you know what? Continuous Delivery is really pretty cool. But it’s not a free-for-all, as some people may purport. What it really requires is far, far more responsibility an... | ['DevOps', 'QA', 'Continuous Delivery', 'Software Development'] |
Blockchain Report Generation and Resilience Assessment
A look at potential methods of security appraisal.
As Team Mufasa nears the end of the third week working on our current project, there is a palpable sense of excitement (albeit tinged with anxiousness) surrounding our efforts. Since our last post, we’ve added a ... | ['Security Services', 'Blockchain Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
A Journey to Self-Discovery
Beneath the Layers
Who are you when the masks come off?
How many personalities do you have? And don’t say just one, because if you can’t be honest with yourself…
We’ve all got them. Whether we want to admit it or not, we become different versions of ourselves in different situations, and... | ['Self Discovery', 'Masks', 'Self', 'Self Love', 'Authenticity'] |
Dear Ricardo,
How are you? I hope all is well with you and your loved ones.
I wanted to write you this letter because the other day I thought of an amazing topic and I was curious about your take on it.
Have you ever noticed how different our world must feel from the raw, untouched world the first humans encountered... | ['Nature', 'Letters', 'Religion', 'Philosophy'] |
Namaste Tribe! You — our community and early WRX adopters — have always been at the forefront of every new feature decision we make. In fact, thanks to your support, we have grown WazirX and taken WRX to millions!
Patience and hard work pay off! WRX token release is our way to reward you for trusting us. On Day Zero o... | ['Cryptocurrency News', 'Blockchain', 'Announcements', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Dynamic Programming', 'Algorithms', '백준', 'Dp'] |
It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity.
But until when will that trend continue? When will Python eventually be replaced by other languages, and why?
Putting an exa... | ['Programming Languages', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Software'] |
Advertising is dead and we killed it. We are the Four Horsemen of the Adpocalypse® and that thunderous noise you hear is the sound of our stallions trampling on the status quo. In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, we’ve come up with the next big thing, and guess what? It just got retro. The script flipp... | ['Humor', 'Comedy', 'Advertising', 'Funny', 'Satire'] |
COIN TALK is produced in partnership with Medium and hosted by Aaron Lammer and Jay Caspian Kang. Press “Listen to the story” above to play the episode. (You can also subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, download the MP3, or email us at hi@cointalk.show)
Show Notes
The College Admissions scandal
Would a Bitcoin... | ['College Admissions', 'College Admission Scandal', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bribery', 'Bitcoin'] |
Photo by Christian Salas on Unsplash
How to Enhance Battery Life on Your Laptop
Make it through the day easily
Our working lives become more mobile every day. Many of us have already switched to a laptop as their main means of computing. Regardless of what the manufacturers like to tell us, the battery of our machin... | ['Gardgets', 'Tips', 'Tech', 'Life', 'Technology'] |
What We Did
To start, we held a feedback session with some Sr. org leaders to work out what could be done. To start, we defined what it was that we were trying to accomplish:
“Reimagine the way the org and Design communicate by disseminating information about Design activities, offering inclusion in the design proces... | ['Design Communication', 'Videos', 'UX Design', 'Design Process', 'Zoom Fatigue'] |
Sounds interesting, but what is SEPA?
SEPA is the Single European Payments Area system, which is a type of agreement made between several countries to simplify payment processing and bank transfers.
This makes it possible to create incredibly fast bank transfers, which theoretically can take as little as a few second... | ['Blockchain', 'Payments', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Report', 'Bitcoin'] |
Being a Jew is Complicated
The weird experience of being a 21st century Jew
Content warning: I will, with reluctance, be touching upon the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. If this is an upsetting topic for you (as it is for me) you may wish to skip this story.
Photo by Matthew Angus on Unsplash
Es ist shver tsu zayn a... | ['Jewish', 'Judaism', 'Religion', 'Ethnicity', 'Jews'] |
I was winding down after my work day, sitting at the computer and trying to decide whether playing solitaire was more desirable than looking over sports scores. Delicious scents were wafting from the general direction of the kitchen. I then heard a gentle but insistent summons for my presence. From the kitchen.
Now, m... | ['Humor', 'Cooking', 'Mathematics'] |
Evidently, the above section highlights our previous updates on the market with a solid track record. But what’s ahead for Bitcoin? Is the chart running out of steam, or are bulls just now waking up?
Technicals
The Short Squeeze we’ve been publishing about is underway and is in the early stages. We’re currently eyein... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Investment'] |
Most other cryptocurrencies, including our predecessor blockchains (Bitcoin, Dash, and Pivx) have higher fees, based on the size of the transaction, usually measured in something like “Satoshis per Kilobyte”. Divi’s formula is different, based primarily on the transaction amount, with the size as a second multiplier. T... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Masternodes', 'Diviproject'] |
Please note: Due to changes in the ICN exchange process, the information below is subject to change. The last change occurred on November 23, 2018. Please also consider finding updated information regarding eICN in our Help Center and recent blog posts:
As announced in September (with more details available here), ICO... | ['Iconomi', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Announcements'] |
Slavery is a tool. It is used by those who have a burning need to control others.
It takes root in fertile ground of those who are segregated from the basic struggles the working class experience, whether they are distanced by financial circumstances, birthright, or mental illness.
The workers earn profits for the fi... | ['Greed', 'Slave Wages', 'Politics', 'Capitalism', 'Truth'] |
What Were the Chances of Survival as a Roman Gladiator?
Most gladiators would not see their 30s
Venatio, Gladiator, and Lion in the Colosseum (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Roman gladiators are represented throughout history as being the most feared warriors, they always fought for their lives and nothing else. Gladiat... | ['Roman', 'Life', 'History', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle'] |
Social Network Uses Civic’s Technology to Verify User Identities
San Francisco, California, June 25, 2018 — Cryptocurrency based social platform Hilo.io today announced a strategic partnership with Civic Technologies Inc., the company revolutionizing digital identity with its Blockchain-based technology. The partnersh... | ['Press Release', 'Partnerships', 'Blockchain', 'Social Media', 'Bitcoin'] |
First Helmet Detector using YOLOv5
CycleAI: Empowering cyclists in fighting for their own safety
CycleAI: Empowering cyclists in fighting for their own safety [Image by Author].
Mobility is a priority theme for the European Union in the context of urban development. At the same time, hundreds of people, including cy... | ['Helmet', 'Deep Learning', 'Yolov5', 'Cycleai', 'Detector'] |
Image provided by the author
The “short cut or the game of the encounter” is a vertical path which compresses time and carries us quickly to the most real thing in us: the dream.
The ‘game of encounters’ will allow you to compress time… You’ll learn more about yourself in the game than in ten lifetimes …
For you the... | ['Life Lessons', 'Business', 'Self Improvement', 'Entrepreneur', 'Meetings'] |
Mixin was coming out in late 2017, there were several words make people feel confused, such as Mixin, Mixin Network, Mixin Messenger, and XIN. People always misunderstand them, if you agree to it, please continue to read this article, you’ll find the answer.
Mixin is the name of the project and the name of the blockch... | ['Blockchain'] |
Gland Larceny
Testicle theft a real problem in 1922 Chicago
Joseph Wozniak, America’s first victim of live organ harvesting.
THE STORY EXPLODED NATIONWIDE over the Associated Press wire service on October 14 and 15, 1922. A married, 34-year-old “husky” World War I veteran and marginally employed Wisconsin beet farme... | ['Chicago', 'Organ Harvesting', 'American Grotesk', 'True Crime', 'Unsolved Mysteries'] |
Below you can check some of the key updates regarding the DreamTeam Token.
DreamTeam Token documents update
The updated DreamTeam Whitepaper is ready and can be found here: https://token.dreamteam.gg/documents/DreamTeam_Whitepaper_ENG.pdf
DreamTeam Tokenomics have been updated and can be found here: https://token.dr... | ['Esport', 'Gaming', 'Token Economy', 'Blockchain'] |
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a situation where you felt like a team you were a part of, or even an entire organization that you worked for, spent much of its time and attention on things that were unlikely to have significant business impact, or improve the lives of its customers. (If I were to say this to ju... | ['Lean Startup', 'Product Management', 'Business', 'Impact', 'Outcome Over Output'] |
Our mechanical mascot is back for the final round!
We at SRMMIC had conducted an intra-MIC hackathon from 5th September to 18th September as an effort to inculcate a sense of belonging among the new members. The motivation was to encourage everyone, old and new, to participate and interact with people and come up with... | ['Machine Learning', 'Hackathons', 'Deep Learning', 'Interview', 'Data Science'] |
The nature of our blockchain solution is different from public blockchain projects — we are a “for-profit” company that is generating revenues from clients and intends to bolster our token ecosystem with increased business activity.
Here’s our third Update Frequency of Morpheus Labs. Once again, we would like to assur... | ['Crypto', 'Blockchain', 'Technology'] |
Our Parents Are Spies Working for the Government
A true-story comic by a half-Deaf woman raised in a Deaf family | ['Family', 'Comics', 'Deaf', 'Spies', 'Sign Language'] |
Font is more important than we think. Font design has become one of the most crucial aspects of marketing for many mainstream consumer brands, as it represents their personality and tone. As people started to pay more and more attention to font design, especially for making logos, the market for fonts began to grow sig... | ['Fonts', 'Machine Learning', 'Variational Autoencoder', 'Deep Learning'] |
This is first article from the cycle about the Matador Fund: how it works, what are the main features and so on.
The theme of our first article will be about our trading strategy and how much can you could get if you have invested in our fund. Moreover we will tell you how we came up with our investing idea, the main ... | ['Investing', 'Crypto', 'Trading', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain'] |
I’ve heard stories that suggest our ancestors once lived in a world where they woke up and DIDN’T see tweets from Donald Trump hitting someone with a golf ball and/or calling something “SAD!” I have some bad news for those of you wistfully longing for these days…
I made this picture tiny. Like his hands.
It’s unlikel... | ['Donald Trump', 'Twitter', 'Digital Advertising', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
There’s a lot of confusion about what women want from a man.
There are some guys who just aren’t sure what a woman is looking for. Then there are the ones who are flat-out wrong about it.
I’ve seen tons of people commenting that women only want a guy who’s got a thick wallet, or a bad boy who’ll jerk them around, or ... | ['Relationships', 'Sexuality', 'Dating', 'Men', 'Women'] |
Every year, for the past 4 years, Silicon Valley goes on their penance tour of carefully selected media outlets to tell their diversity and inclusion stories. The reports are carefully crafted to avoid apples to apples comparison with EE-01s and other tech companies. And when pressed on this, their well-oiled PR depart... | ['Diversity And Inclusion', 'Inclusion', 'Equity', 'Diversity In Tech', 'Tech'] |
A reader who was also a fan of Patternjump sent in vim-columnmove, which is by the same author. This is a plugin that helps make vertical movement more convenient by providing vertical equivalents of motions like f and t .
For example, columnmove-f (mapped to <M-f> ) will move the cursor down along the current column ... | ['Plugins', 'Motions'] |
Manshu Agarwal, Ponder CEO
Ponder is looking to enter into 3 markets, each of which is a multi-billion dollar market. The current product targets the online dating market at $5bn in size, and the upcoming jobs product targets the job referrals market, which is more than double. However, the largest market by far is th... | ['Referrals', 'Recruiting', 'Dating', 'Business', 'Blockchain'] |
Authored by: Keerthi Ningegowda, Kenny Chakola, Varnnitha Venugopal, Ria Thomas & Vipin Das
This blog is written and maintained by students in the Professional Master’s Program in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as part of their course credit. To learn more about this unique program, please ... | ['Blog Post', 'Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Siamese Networks'] |
Fashion Industry is a very profitable field for Artificial Intelligence. There are a lot of areas where Data Scientists can develop interesting use cases and provide benefits. I have already demonstrated my interest for this sector here, where I developed a solution for recommendation and tagging dresses from Zalando o... | ['Machine Learning', 'Segmentation', 'Autoencoder', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science'] |
Dear friends!
We continue our work on Serenity Exchange with the goal of making it the most convenient and popular exchange for cryptocurrency trading.
Today, we’re glad to announce that starting from July 22nd, Serenity Exchange will aggregate liquidity from third-party exchanges.
This means that right now any user... | ['Forex Trading', 'Ethereum', 'Trading', 'Ethereum Blockchain'] |
The Knowledge Account has seen incredible growth of registered users since launching in 2018. The next major update to the Knowledge Ecosystem is full withdrawal & deposit functionality coming soon to the Knowledge Account.
The Knowledge team is proud of the growth of the Knowledge Ecosystem and is focused on deeper K... | ['Crypto', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain Startup', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Blockchain'] |
Like refractions
through a prism in our mind,
or echoes of church bells in a fog,
moments of remembered experience
vibrate, pulsate and resonate,
right through the conscious ocean
of our joined awareness.
And as palm fronds
swirl and roll in complex oscillations,
possibly unknown to physics,
and warm air drif... | ['Poetry', 'Relationships', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Life', 'Self'] |
“A JSON Web Token (JWT), pronounced ‘jot’, is an open standard (RFC 7519) which is used for securely transmitting information between entities as a JSON object.”
It is a compact and secure way of exchanging information over the network. JSON Web Token helps to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the information... | ['Json Web Token', 'Authentication', 'Security', 'Security Token', 'Cybersecurity'] |
Source: androidauthority.com
This week we are back at work with our research and the group consisting of, Vivian Nguyen, Huy Nguyen, Tien Tran, and Citlalin Galvan. In the first week we focused on malicious apk files and their behaviors inside android phones. This week we wanted to go broader and see the kind of data ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Dataset', 'Data Science'] |
Great article. Thanks.
I also think it’s worth noting that this price volatility arose during a period where risk management tools were nonexistent or inadequate in their market fit. Virtually every major asset class incorporates comensurate hedging tools in order to project oneself against price volatility. | ['Digital Asset', 'Blockchain'] |
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
I am an award winning entrepreneur, cannabis marketing expert, plant medicine advocate, and spiritual guide and co... | ['Business'] |
How To Edit Your Podcast
Each podcast is different, but here’s what you’ll want to consider when you’re thinking about editing.
Everybody who has a podcast has to deal with the task of editing. This may range from simply trimming the start and finish of a single audio clip through to performing a detailed edit on mul... | ['Audio Editing', 'Podcasting Tips', 'Podcasting', 'Podcast Editing', 'Podcasting 101'] |
How Angels Really Look Like, According to the Bible
Heaven might be more bizarre than blissful
By Matthaeus (Matthäus) Merian (1593–1650), Public Domain
When people think of Angels, they mostly picture a majestic human-like winged being. Cherubs, which are a type of angel also mentioned in the Bible, have been reima... | ['Bible', 'Culture', 'Religion', 'History', 'Angels'] |
In my previous article I explained why everyone should use ProGuard for their Android apps, how to enable it and what kind of errors you might encounter when doing so. There was a lot of theory involved, as I think it’s important to understand the underlying principles in order to be prepared to deal with any potential... | ['Apk Size', 'Android', 'Performance', 'Proguard'] |
“Using Bitcoin” can mean different things to different people. It’s a spectrum.
Some would say that simply having any exposure to Bitcoin is “using Bitcoin”. That could be with a Coinbase account, or “holding” GBTC in the Greyscale Bitcoin Trust.
But neither of these options provide the individual with “the point” of... | ['Server', 'Ubuntu', 'Full Node', 'Bitcoin'] |
This is a walk through guide on how you can configure Emacs (the almighty text editor or OS depending on who you ask) for development source code.
Installing Emacs
On Linux, this was a somewhat difficult task a while ago. Nowadays is as easy as it can get. You can use, for instance, flatpak (a package system availabl... | ['Emacs', 'Programming'] |
I was in my early twenties when I discovered I could get off to my boyfriend having sex with other women. Here’s how that came about.
Two years into my first long-term relationship, my sex drive was at an all-time low. My partner at the time was understandably confused. We hadn’t been married for decades. We didn’t ha... | ['Compersion', 'Relationships', 'Consensual Non Monogamy', 'Kink', 'Sex'] |
Channels in Go
What developers find appealing about Go is its ability to communicate concurrently, which it does through a system called channels. It’s important to draw upon an oft-cited distinction between concurrency and parallelism. Parallelism is the process by which a CPU executes multiple tasks at the same time... | ['Golang', 'Web Development', 'Redis', 'Heroku', 'Programming'] |
Let’s be honest, implementing a CRM system by yourself can be a challenging task. Especially for bigger companies where there are many people involved in the sales process.
Without an experienced expert, companies may struggle to create an optimal CRM setup that would help them with their daily work.
Blue Media provi... | ['SaaS', 'Sales', 'Customers', 'CRM', 'Pipedrive'] |
Goodbye, Target Actions. Hello, UIActions
iOS 14 introduces a new way to set actions on UIControls
Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash.
Up until now, iOS developers had to use the Target-Action pattern to set actions on UIKit controls. It wasn’t really a Swifty way of setting actions since selectors were born in O... | ['Mobile', 'Xcode', 'iOS', 'Swift', 'Programming'] |
Investigating Baseball Wins
Understanding what it takes to win baseball games using statistical techniques
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the oldest major professional sports leagues in North America. Since its founding in 1903, the game of baseball has changed significantly through various lenses. Not only has the a... | ['Sports Analytics', 'Baseball', 'Sports', 'Data Science', 'MLB'] |
Exploratory data analysis
Let’s start this part with defining our label — and creating the churn column. As it was suggested, the Cancellation Confirmation event is what we are after. It is very important to realize that each row represents only a session, user had in a certain time. Therefore once we create the “chur... | ['Spark', 'Churn Prediction', 'Pyspark', 'Udacity'] |
About the author: Amarins Laanstra-Corn ’23 is an FSI The Europe Center Global Policy Intern with the Lisbon Council. She is currently an International Relations major at Stanford University.
I began my internship at the Lisbon Council, a Brussels based social science and economic think tank, in the beginning of June.... | ['Stanford', 'Fsi Students', 'Internships', 'Tecfsi'] |
TrustNote and Winjit
TrustNote, a leader in DAG based distributed ledger technology and its development platform for the tokenised economy, announced today that it has entered global strategic partnership agreement with Winjit, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning (ML) software provider from India, ... | ['Blockchain', 'Internet of Things', 'Directed Acyclic Graph', 'Trustnote', 'Announcements'] |
VGG: The power of 3x3 convolutions
While all previous iterations of CNN models believed in the idea of bigger receptive fields (for example, AlexNet had 11*11 convolution kernels), VGG proposed the idea of breaking all of these down to just 3*3 convolutions. According to the VGG architecture, multiple 3*3 convolutions... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Convolutional Network', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Science'] |
5 Questions Smart People Ask Themselves Before They Speak
‘Am I adding to the panic or being a calming influence?’
“Think before you speak,” I told my 6-year-old son, Liam, earlier this week. I immediately regretted saying it as it’s often a generic phrase that parents give their kids when they say something rude, an... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Communication'] |
Grangé’s first idea was that he wanted a villain with a mirror in place of his face. This was his first epiphany, still he thought this would cost too much but the producers just loved the concept. The other thing he wanted to do was to begin the movie with Vidocq’s death, this proved much harder to swallow for the inv... | ['History', 'Movies', 'Culture', 'Horror', 'France'] |
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20 Not-So-Random Things I’m Grateful For
Inspired by Kris Gage’s story “20 Random But Real Things I’m Grateful For”
I’m not going to be funny here. Or at least I’m not going to try. I have been living life with an attitude of gratitude since I survived a severe stroke when I was 35 and expe... | ['Happiness', 'Gratitude', 'Stroke Recovery', 'Disability', 'Life'] |
Fortunately, I didn’t have to see Slash anymore once Micah got his prescription. He had severe pain in his hip and went to the emergency room where they told him he had necrosis. He needed surgery and a referral to a pain doctor.
“I guess I’m going to become an addict now,” Micah said with a straight face. I rolled my... | ['Addiction', 'Addiction Treatment', 'This Happened To Me', 'Addiction Recovery', 'Life Lessons'] |
Image by Detlef Klein from Pixabay
For many who know me socially, I am the one who devours a lot. At parties, I am the one picking giant steaks, double burgers, and repeats on desserts. I have never cared about any specific diet. I eat what I like when I feel like it, and as much as I please. A close family member, wh... | ['Diet', 'Animal Instinct', 'Healthy Eating Habits', 'Weight Loss', 'High Calories Food'] |
Why I Forgave My Wife for Cheating
“You’re letting her take you for a fool.”
“Cut her loose.”
“Your marriage is over.”
“You’re letting her take you for a fool.”
These are some of the comments I heard from buddies and relatives who found out about my wife Julianne’s affair. In their view, what she’d done was unforg... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Infidelity', 'Marriage', 'Men'] |
A better internet: Your experience
The decentralized web (d-web) is a better version of the internet, and is in development now. The following describes how it will look to any end user.
What’s the same?
Getting Started
To join the d-web, you simply sign up with an e-mail address, either in a browser or by installi... | ['Solid', 'Privacy', 'Web', 'Rights Managed', 'Internet'] |
Separated since March by COVID travel bans, international couples are now starting to break up, cancelling their entire future, in large part due to the incompetence, indifference and / or laziness of the people in power.
They say ‘Love knows no borders’. Yet 2020 reminded us that, unfortunately, it still very much do... | ['Loveisnottourism', 'Love', 'International Relations', 'France', 'Covid 19'] |
Kaylee Carmichael, a 28-year-old single food critic for a New York City newspaper, goes back to her tiny Wisconsin hometown for Christmas. Unbeknownst to Kaylee, her mother has already engaged in some holiday hijinks by arranging for Kaylee’s high school sweetheart to retrieve her from the train station and deliver her... | ['Humor', 'Relationships', 'Sex', 'Holidays', 'Satire'] |
This is a very long note. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and let’s get started.
A quick recap from my last note:
A review from last note
So we have our hypothesis function and we have a way of measuring how well it fits the data. We now need to estimate the parameters theta zero and theta one in the hypothesis function... | ['Algorithms', 'Deep Learning', 'Editors Pick', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
The Benefits of SEO
What is SEO and how it can help your business succeed in this online world
Today, consumers expect their favorite business and brands to connect with them digitally. Your prospective customers expect responsive 24/7 customer support, clear information on your website and exciting updates about you... | ['Website Design', 'Search', 'Search Engine Marketing', 'Freelancing', 'SEO'] |
Doesn’t it sound cool when you read a book or watch a movie about someone uploading a mind or a brain onto a computer? That stuff from science fiction is more real than you can imagine! This doesn’t necessarily have to be scary, I’m not talking about taking your brain or mine from its place, but rather developing somet... | ['Machine Learning', 'Insights', 'Tech', 'Data Science', 'Cloud'] |
Photo by The Honest Company on Unsplash
Week 4: feature engineering
A dataset to focus on data cleaning and feature prep!
Fourth week of Pyrentena! I came across with this great video of a lesson on feature prep and data cleaning. Short, straight forward and yet very well explained! Available on YouTube. Inspired by... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science'] |
Setting the table
A week ago, noted cryptocurrency analyst, Willy Woo, put out an article stating that he expected bitcoin to slide from its current level to between $5500 — $5700. The reason provided was that the NVT ratio was still too high and that an increase in blockchain transaction volume (in $USD) was needed t... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Cryptocurrency Investment', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin Bottom Fishing'] |
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