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In a recent post, I showed how we can generate hexmaps with matplotlib to visualise elections. While these maps are a great demonstration of how to convey geographic information, they are not without flaws. For example, it can be difficult to identify which constituency is which from the static image, because of the ma... | ['Politics', 'Python', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Don’t begin the activities of your day until you know exactly what you plan to accomplish. Don’t start your day until you have it planned. — Jim Rohn
Every morning, get one most important thing done immediately.
There is nothing more satisfying than feeling like you’re already in the flow.
And the easiest way to tri... | ['Productivity', 'Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Creativity', 'Work'] |
React: Theming with Material UI
An introduction to customising your React apps with Material UI themes
Material UI: The winning React UX library in 2020
Material UI is currently the most popular UI framework for React, with the library providing a range of ready-to-use components out of the box. The library consists... | ['Front End Development', 'Typescript', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Programming'] |
Oh blessed be this day, this faithful day, that we can all join in arms to celebrate the coming and passing of the day we adore, and dread, most: Presentations. Brothers, sisters, and all of those who care to lend an ear, please do so, as in this moment of solidarity we stand in utter awe.
In all seriousness, this blo... | ['AWS', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cybersecurity', 'Summer Internships', 'Identity Management'] |
Photo by Kyle Hanson on Unsplash
In IT, people quite often have to deal with overtimes:
a project has swelled out of proportion;
someone got their estimates wrong;
the client has an important deadline;
we have to test our MVP fast;
a competitor has this feature…
While it can be an opportunity for additional comp... | ['Work', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Initial Nerves
Here’s I hit you with my resumé off the bat. A couple of months ago, I started a daunting PhD in a burgeoning new field with no set career path. These last few weeks, as I’ve been starting out, I’ve taken on tasks and reading material focused on my emerging project. I’ve networked with many important co... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Ideas', 'Self Improvement', 'Education'] |
4 Ways to Turn Fear into Fuel
What if discomfort were an opportunity for creativity?
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
The more accomplished we get, the more the unknown seems to inspire reflexive fear in us.
Deep down, we still doubt ourselves.
We tend to minimize our achievements or the efforts it took to get to... | ['Mental Health', 'Humor', 'Self', 'Lifestyle', 'Creativity'] |
Database’s CI/CD
But Redshift SQL Scripts were just pushed to Gerrit (our VCS) without testing nor versioning and were manually applied by the analysts (most of the time skipping the Redshift instance in DEV, generating a discrepancy between both DEV and PROD environments).
ETL Projects’ Structure
Each ETL project c... | ['Postgres', 'Big Data', 'Redshift', 'Cicd', 'Data Engineering'] |
Don’t begin the activities of your day until you know exactly what you plan to accomplish. Don’t start your day until you have it planned. — Jim Rohn
Every morning, get one most important thing done immediately.
There is nothing more satisfying than feeling like you’re already in the flow.
And the easiest way to tri... | ['Work', 'Personal Growth', 'Personal Development', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
9 Ways to Stop Designing the Same Old Stuff
Last decade we reached peak homogeneity. Let’s mark the new one with an explosion of uniqueness.
Photo: Erlon Silva — TRI Digital/Getty Images
More than a year ago, in Boris Müller’s now-famous “Why Do All Websites Look the Same?”, he stated that today’s internet had becom... | ['Design', 'Craft', 'Web Development', 'Creativity', 'UX'] |
A few days back, I met this acquaintance of mine. An old acquaintance. She remarked it was pretty long that we had talked. I was really happy to see her after years! Then she dropped the bomb and my happiness oozed out much like a balloon getting deflated even before it was fully pumped up. She said it was nice to see ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Nonfiction', 'The Scene And Heard', 'Creativity', 'Social Media'] |
Rainwater
A short fiction piece about a writer’s journey to truth and revelation.
Photo by Filip Zrnzević on Unsplash
It was a morning she’d remember for the rest of her life. As the kettle whistled in her kitchen, the prose bleeding through the pages scattered across her writing desk, she longed for another story t... | ['Short Story', 'Writing', 'Short Fiction', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing'] |
In the early 1960’s, a comic book writer named Stan Lee was asked to create a new series of superheroes for a small publisher called Timely Comics. Stan was inspired by the writings of Sir Conan Arthur Doyle and Jules Verne and wanted to break the mold of the standard American superhero. Within his first five years, Le... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
I have seen the saucers.
Not only that, I’ve fought beside Hercules, fled from the Lonely One, braved the lightning when Mr. Electro came to town, worked as a comic book artist in New York City circa 1952, chased fireflies to the farthest reaches of the field when the summer was young, and eyed the moon on a soft July... | ['Ray Bradbury', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Science Fiction', 'Creativity'] |
Lately, I’ve been having a problem every day of deciding what to write.
Not because I have writer’s block, but because I feel like I have too many ideas and can’t decide which one to work on.
This is just with Medium, not counting how hard it is for me to decide which fiction project to work on when I make the time f... | ['Advice', 'Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
Paul Loggan had a lot of pride in what he did — both as a father, and the longtime athletic director at North Central High School in Indianapolis. “He was the most kind, caring individual,” his son Michael told us.
“My mom summed it up pretty well the other day,” he added. “We were lucky enough to call him dad 24-hour... | ['Obituary', 'Culture', 'Health', 'Family', 'Coronavirus'] |
The Future of Design Education Pt. 357
On Mosaic Rhythm
Designer differentiation
The mosaics in our life are of clear differentiation — a contrasting pattern that emerges from difference. We are but our best selves when we live a virtuousity bigger than that of our own being — through and by way of expressions of di... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'Future', 'Education', 'UX'] |
What to expect for the rest of 2020, or how will outsourcing save your business?
When the last office is empty …
In mid-May, Twitter employees received a letter from Jack Dorsey, CEO of the company, that from this day on they are allowed to work from home, even when the coronavirus pandemic ends. Since March, employe... | ['Business Strategy', 'Sustainability', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Outsource'] |
How I Write New Content So Quickly
From fiction novels to writing articles, plus managing my publishing business
Photo by James Tarbotton on Unsplash
You might have noticed above that I called my self-publishing journey a business. That’s because I view my writing work as a business — I proudly wear the authorpreneu... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Writer', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
The Mastermind Scientist Behind the COVID-19 Vaccine
Identity matters.
Photo from Unsplash @cdc
As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine heats up, the front runner appears to be the one developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.
It is already set to be used in the U.K. next week, after receiving governmental approval.
The coronaviru... | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Identity', 'Science', 'Education'] |
The quest for increased personal productivity — for making the best possible use of your limited time can be overwhelming.
And sometimes the better you get at managing time, the less of it you feel that you have.
Here is a a familiar story: You’re busy all day reacting to people’s request, working non-stop and agains... | ['Work', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
It’s time to recognise mental health as essential to physical health
The value of mental health and ways to improve mental health
Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash
The human brain is a wonder. Through folds of tissue and pulses of electricity, it lets us perceive, attempt to understand, and shape the world around u... | ['Covid 19', 'Advice', 'Mental Health', 'Humanity', 'Health'] |
No More Basic Plots Please
A Quick Guide to Upgrade Your Data Visualizations using Seaborn and Matplotlib
“If I see one more basic blue bar plot…”
After completing the first module in my studies at Flatiron School NYC, I started playing with plot customizations and design using Seaborn and Matplotlib. Much like dood... | ['Matplotlib', 'Programming', 'Data Visualisation', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
The front end of web has been overwhelmed by JavaScript Frameworks. Just as you’ve learned one, another pops up and we start to question how long this game of “whack-a-mole” can go on for. Or at least, this has been the case for the last few years.
There have been a few that have stood from the crowd — often backed by... | ['React', 'React Suspense', 'JavaScript', 'Asynchronous', 'Development'] |
Creating excellence with Google’s expanded text ads
T homas Ginisty, Senior Account Executive in our PPC team, looks at the implications of Google’s new ad format.
Utilising the extended headlines of expanded text ads can improve CTRs by 20 percent, our initial tests have found. Optimisation of the ad path to ensure ... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Google', 'Digital Marketing', 'Adwords'] |
Day 1: I’m whole-heartedly into this. I’ve been trying to lose 20 lbs for the last 2 years and failed. No matter what I do (granted, what I do is half-hearted and short-lived), my weight doesn’t budge. I need something extreme. This diet is extreme: no sugar, no carbs, no alcohol, no dairy, no legumes, no corn, no pean... | ['Weight Loss', 'Whole 30', 'Food', 'Nonfiction', 'Health'] |
We use TypeScript because it helps develop our apps safer and faster.
TypeScript by default has many simplifications. They help JavaScript developers to start using it easier but they waste a lot of time in the long term.
We collected a set of rules for more strict TypeScript. You just get used to it once and save mu... | ['React', 'JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Typescript', 'Tips And Tricks'] |
A throwback to Elementary Math Classes 🤓
Example usage of the Rule of Three Operation. Calculates (10 * 0.8) / 0.4
I always had this idea of creating something like this in a language, since it is probably the most overused math operation in every application. I remember in my math class days, where we would draw th... | ['Software Development', 'iOS', 'Mobile App Development', 'Swift', 'Apple'] |
Should We Have a Contest to See Who Has Suffered the Most?
Playing the victim game doesn’t resolve problems
Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
Yes, there’s tons of shit going on — I get it.
But don’t forget the abundance of noble deeds too.
That’s how the world turns — light and dark, good and evil.
We discover we ... | ['Society', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Satire', 'Self'] |
It wasn’t unusual for my son to bring up the crazy things he heard or saw at school, in the locker room, or online. We basically made this scenario into a game without trying.
We call it “fact-checking your idiot friends.”
All three of our kids come to us often to “fact check” and we usually get a laugh out of the cr... | ['Advice', 'Society', 'Parenting', 'Sexuality', 'Psychology'] |
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Our final entry to the Ultimate Writer series is here!
I jotted down a list of the 13 attributes it takes for someone to be the ultimate writer on Medium (or anywhere else).
This final entry closes up the four-part series, with the final three key attributes — guts, versatility, and conn... | ['Advice', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing'] |
Continuation of my pet project story, which went viral before it was complete and ready. Involves a lot of sleepless nights, related stress, completely nerdy description and twists but leading to the great feeling of achievement and will to improve both — the bot and myself.
If you’ve missed the first article covering... | ['Website', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Development', 'Projects'] |
The ‘Man on The Moon’ Series
From 2008–10, Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi) attained chart success and subtly pioneered his way to prominence. Amid a culture shifting musically, in terms of style and lyrical content, Cudi paved way for mental health’s inclusion in rap culture.
On his first album, Man on the Moon: The End of ... | ['Suicide', 'Mental Health', 'Hip Hop', 'Depression', 'Music'] |
My Father-In-Law Isn’t My Father-In-Law Anymore
At least, he doesn’t realize he is
Image proprerty of author: my in-laws, just a few short years ago (2010)
Joke all you want to about the dreaded in-laws, but I adore mine. When I first started dating my husband over 32 years ago, I was a little nervous about meeting ... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Family', 'Alzheimers', 'Grief And Loss'] |
Turn it off.
The feed was the information infrastructure that empowered nearly every human activity and on which nearly every human activity relied. A talisman that lent mere mortals the power of demigods. Doctors used it for diagnosis. Brokers used it to place bets. Physicists used it to explore the mysteries of quan... | ['Fiction', 'Future', 'Technology', 'Social Media', 'Books'] |
The world is digital and changing towards a data economy. Everything we do leaves a digital footprint behind, a trace of our thoughts, interests and behaviours. This happens without us realising; the infrastructure of the internet is designed to communicate and exchange data as much about us as possible. Every time you... | ['Big Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ethics', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
How To Know You Have a Successful Product Before You Build It
Five ways to validate your product idea without resorting to a fake website
Let’s clear up a big misconception about visionaries and their killer product ideas.
Entrepreneurs and CEOs have vision, sure, but it’s not the kind of vision that sees into the f... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Product Management'] |
Hierarchical Clustering in Python using Dendrogram and Cophenetic Correlation
Organizing clusters as a hierarchical tree
Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash
Introduction
In this article, we will take a look at an alternative approach to K Means clustering, popularly known as the Hierarchical Clustering. The hierarchi... | ['Hierarchical Clustering', 'Python', 'Clustering', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
We’re excited to share Intelligent Snippets with you, our latest feature designed to make your completions experience even more seamless. Kite’s Intelligent Snippets allow you to complete complex, multi-token statements with ease by generating context-relevant code snippets as you type. Whereas typical snippets must be... | ['Programming', 'AI', 'Python', 'Developer Tools', 'Machine Learning'] |
How I Wrote My First Novel: Prologue
From early ambition to Bantam Dell, in a nutshell
Photo by Anete Lusina via Unsplash
“How I Wrote My First Novel” is a short series about, as you’d expect, the process of writing my first crime novel, The 37th Hour, and getting it published. It’s meant to help aspiring novelists ... | ['Success', 'Writing Life', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
Disconnected and Meaningless
Science would have us believe that things are random, dead, and meaningless. It wants us to think a virus will have the same effect on us all, our reaction to it is random and unpredictable, and there’s nothing in our control that we can do about it. It wants us to think that particles and... | ['Spirituality', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Philosophy', 'Science'] |
Harmful information gaps
When you feel unwell or are concerned about your health, there is a natural urge to get a doctor’s opinion immediately. The first step to eliminate health problems is to get a correct diagnosis. Next, modern medicine steps in, with a range of treatment options and drugs. Sometimes a single pil... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Health', 'Medicine', 'Chatbots', 'Digital Transformation'] |
It was four weeks into the summer before the names of the three girls found in the lake were released. Katie had almost forgotten about it when Laurel announced that they were going to the neighborhood church that Sunday because there was going to be a special service for the girls and Mrs. Taylor.
The first girl they... | ['Novel', 'Fiction', 'Writing', 'Hidden Lake', 'Creativity'] |
I’m a writer and a teacher. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that I get to spend my time doing these two things that I love so much.
I have this philosophy. Learning together — working together as we build our writing careers — is a powerful tool that can make the difference between failure and success.
Teaching small ... | ['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Blogging'] |
Written by Edd Gent, Writer, Singularity Hub
While solar and wind power are rapidly becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels in areas with lots of sun and wind, they still can’t provide the 24/7 power we’ve become used to. At present, that’s not big a problem because the grid still features plenty of fossil fuel pl... | ['Sustainability', 'Renewable Energy', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Fossil Fuels'] |
The fear of “not enough” is not something to be taken likely, as with all other fears, if we don't learn to manage this, and dig deep to understand what’s causing it, then our level of joy, fulfillment, and happiness in life are only as limited as the fear controlling us.
I suffered from this fear throughout my life, ... | ['Health', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Positive Psychology', 'Self'] |
The summer morning that I sat down with my laptop, I asked Nick to be with me and to help me let the words flow. It was difficult at first, but after a while, the words came easier. He became my muse.
At first, it was just journaling. Then it became more creative, coming up with ideas and stories, playing with new wor... | ['Child Loss', 'Grief', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Creativity'] |
Poetry
Don’t Hold Your Dream
Is everything according to plan?
Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash
What is that you love to do
Makes you the one and only you
In a life that it drives through
When you say no boo
To the animals in the zoo
No one says in your dreams
What that is that you need to beams
When you ar... | ['Poetry', 'Dreams', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Creativity'] |
Breast Cancer Nearly Took My Life. Instead, it Made Me a Better CEO.
Here’s How.
On September 5, 2015 I discovered a tumor in my left armpit. Two days later, I was diagnosed with Stage II HER2 Positive Breast Cancer. I was 41.
I was also the founder and CEO of a tech startup that was less than two years old.
The tu... | ['Health', 'Leadership', 'Cancer', 'Startup', 'Management'] |
PrivacyRaven: Comprehensive Privacy Testing for Deep Learning
Summary of talk from OpenMined PriCon 2020
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
This is a summary of Suha S. Hussain’s talk in OpenMined Privacy Conference 2020 on PrivacyRaven — a comprehensive testing framework for simulating privacy attacks.
Why is priv... | ['Privacy', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Research'] |
25 Tips and Tricks to Write Faster, Better-Optimized TypeScript Code
Optimize your TypeScript 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... | ['Typescript', 'React', 'Angular', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript'] |
This tutorial will walk you through how to build and deploy a sample microservice application using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The scope of this service is to perform prediction of handwritten digit from 0 to 9 by accepting an image pixel array as a parameter. This sample application also provides an HTM... | ['Microservices', 'Kubernetes', 'Openshift', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
Did Nikola Tesla’s Mental Health Issues Help Him Succeed as an Inventor?
A man of few words but many great inventions
Nikola Tesla in the 19th century (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Contemporary inventors and geniuses have always been quite introverted, and in rare cases, ended up suffering some sort of mental health i... | ['Health', 'Ocd', 'Success', 'History', 'Mental Health'] |
Writing for Cantor’s Paradise
Want to write for Cantor’s Paradise?
We are always looking for talented writers
The What
We know what our readers want to read about. They care about very specific topics, and are willing to spend their time consuming, commenting and applauding essays that cover these topics. Currently... | ['Math', 'Publishing', 'Mathematics', 'Writing', 'Science'] |
FIP, best radio in the world according to co-founder and CEO of Twitter:
FIP is much more than a playlist, but sometimes you need one to listen and discover something different, or just know the name of what you just heard on FIP.
I’m pleased to present FIP 100, a Spotify live playlist, i.e. the last 100 tracks playe... | ['Serverless', 'Music', 'Python', 'Spotify', 'Twitter'] |
Hiding Places by Nicole Ivy
I’m sitting in a cafe over a thousand miles from home and I’m stunned to hear on the radio the voice of musical genius and all around badass, Tori Amos:
“Sometimes I hear my voice and it’s been here…silent all these years.”
A line I resonated with enough to make it my high school yearbook... | ['Language', 'Expression', 'Writing', 'Home', 'Creativity'] |
Today is a big day for us all at Samaipata: after months of hard work and deep introspection, we are very excited to introduce you our new brand and our new website.
Samaipata is a word in Quechua, “sama” means to rest and “pata” at the top/edge. Kind of the feeling you have when you build something amazing and get it... | ['Creativity', 'Startup', 'Branding', 'VC', 'Tech'] |
Why Tech’s Great Powers Are Warring
The feud between Apple and Facebook enters a new era
Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
An adage of international relations holds that great powers have no permanent friends or allies, only permanent interests. (The original quote, from a 19th-century English statesman ... | ['Pattern Matching', 'Facebook', 'Apple', 'Privacy'] |
When COVID-19 turned our world upside down in March, I had a gut feeling life would never be the same. We adjusted to pandemic-living so seamlessly. Almost effortlessly.
In a matter of weeks, we conditioned ourselves to recoil if someone got “too close” or moved in for a hug. We added “Hope you’re staying safe!” to ou... | ['Life Lessons', 'Society', 'Life', 'Culture', 'Coronavirus'] |
The “Clean Meat” Industry Has a Dirty Little Secret
Manufactured meat may be safer and better — but first, producers need to get rid of the icky ingredients.
For nearly twenty years, the idea of growing edible meat directly from animal cells has enticed animal-welfare advocates, health-conscious foodies, and people d... | ['Food', 'Animals', 'Health', 'Agriculture', 'Environment'] |
The image of entrepreneurship in modern media is flashy, slick, and smooth. However, reality cannot be further from the truth.
On the contrary to popular belief, it is not as easy as going to the office and running numbers in a fancy, glassed chamber with soothing air conditioning. That part comes way later in the gam... | ['Business', 'Reading', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Startup'] |
The project
To make it faster to implement the validation pipeline, I’m going to leverage this example on both of my previous articles, in which we implemented an endpoint to manage products and introduced both a logging and timeout pipelines:
The source code is available on GitHub.
The validations
To help us confi... | ['Csharp', 'Aspnetcore', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
I Wrote a Pipeline to Publish the Best of Reddit to Instagram
Here’s what I learned
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash.
If you’ve been on Instagram long enough, you’ll have seen profiles posting screenshots of interesting Reddit posts. That makes sense if you think about it: Reddit is heavily moderated. This ensur... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Automation', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
Photo by Paolo Chiabrando on Unsplash
June 2017:
Terminal. It sounds like a stop on a journey, not a destination. Not THE destination. But that is exactly how the word is used in the medical field. It’s not a train terminal or a bus terminal. It’s the end of the line.
So often a disease is described as ‘terminal’ wh... | ['Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Death And Dying', 'Illness'] |
Behind the Coronavirus Mortality Rate
A closer look at the mortality rate. What does it tell us?
Coronavirus Confirmed Case Map from Ding Xiang Yuan on Feb 21, 2020
In a previous article, I introduced a Python toolbox to gather and analyze the coronavirus epidemic data. In this article, I will use the Python toolbox... | ['Python', 'Plotly', 'Coronaviru', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Dieting at Christmas can be difficult. Either you stick to your diet but then you may regret missing out on all the delicious food, or you can forget the diet for a few days but afterward may regret the weight gained (or at least weight not lost). How do you choose?
A recent study titled ‘The ideal road not taken: The... | ['Health', 'Diet', 'Psychology', 'Christmas', 'Advice'] |
To casual fans of pop music, the name JERRY LEIBER might not mean a lot. But even if you’ve no interest in the genre, you simply have to know some of his songs. “Kansas City,” “Hound Dog,” “Stand By Me,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Charlie Brown,” Yakety Yak,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Poison Ivy,” “Love Potion # 9,” and “On Broadway?... | ['Music', 'Education', 'Psychology', 'Music Business', 'Culture'] |
Where do I stand?
I believe in loose research. I got this idea from Lee Child, who says we should do our research, but not directly related to the project we’re working on. He thinks book research done during the writing process is too fresh and will be forced into the work, because the author doesn’t want the researc... | ['Writing Life', 'Fiction', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity'] |
Whether it’s hard-drinking writers like Capote, Kerouac, and Cheever, over-caffeinated creatives like Bach, Beethoven, and Balzac, or drug-addled rockers like Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain, the figure of the intoxicated artist remains a powerful motif in the mythology of the creative class.
Now, we could... | ['Architecture', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Creativity', 'Finance'] |
Today, we’re excited to share news that marks a milestone for our company. We founded Enigma with a mission to empower people to interpret and improve the world around them. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve received $95 million in new funds from a diverse and influential set of investors to continue to work toward... | ['Machine Learning', 'Public Data', 'Data', 'Funding', 'Startup'] |
Can’t Code? You Can Still Run a Software Company
How do you manage a successful software company without a deep knowledge of coding? Danielle Weinblatt (SB2011) offers some lessons from her own experiences.
As a founder of a software company, I often get asked about my ability to code. The answer is simple: I can’t c... | ['Software', 'Women Entrepreneurs', 'Startup', 'Coding', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
The Model
Our model will have a very simple equation:
…where y is the forecasted number of cases and x is the number of days since the first confirmed case. a and b are the only two parameters that will allow changing.
a controls how steep the curve will be. A smaller a value represents a less steep curve, and a hig... | ['Covid 19', 'Statistics', 'AI', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
What no one told me before I started losing weight was that I was overweight. I would hear justifications about my size from other people: “you’re just thick”, “you’re not overweight, you just have a big frame” or “you’re just built that way”. So I never thought much about losing weight.
I still did everything I wante... | ['Weight Loss', 'Lifechanging', 'Health', 'Life', 'Motivation'] |
“Are you coming to help set up?”
“No,” Susie said and went back to watching Once Upon A Time.
“You’ve been sitting on that couch binge-watching TV since you got out of school. It’s going to be a beautiful day today. Come on,” Mallory said leaning over to tickle Susie who flinched once Mallory’s fingers met her skin.
... | ['Novel', 'Fiction', 'Writing', 'Hidden Lake', 'Creativity'] |
Have influencers finally laid bare the ultimate end state, the grand attractor, of current social network platforms?
Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash
An Attractive Proposition?
I tend to view pretty much everything in my life as a complex system — one that evolves from an initial state over time to some kin... | ['Social Network', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Society', 'Complex Systems', 'Marketing'] |
How I Transformed My Body in a Year
How I Lost 40 lbs and Stay at 10–12% Body Fat
Photo by Anna Pelzer on Unsplash
I’ve lost 40 lbs and am at 10–12% body fat. I’ve never been the athletic type, and I never considered my body as being strong.
I wanted to let you know that you can reach your fitness goals with a few ... | ['Health', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle', 'Productivity', 'Weight Loss'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Sem Categoria', 'Curiosidades', 'Facebook', 'Fotografia', 'Design'] |
The other book, Bliss To Be Alive, was one I edited. A collection of writing by my friend Gavin Hills, it came out in 2000, after he died. Originally published by Penguin, the copyright had long since reverted to his family. (Who kindly gave me permission to make the new edition available.)
Both books were selling for... | ['Money', 'Books', 'Publishing', 'Creativity', 'Freelancing'] |
Interrupt the Daily Death Data
What saves us
Simon Ortiz, photo promoting podcast — Poetry of Sacred Food Culture, The Native Seed Pod, Air date March 2,2020
What saves us in this dire time of dying —
In shock as more than died in World War II
Were seized so suddenly by COVID-19
That we do not know our national n... | ['People', 'Poetry', 'Animals', 'Coronavirus', 'Earth'] |
As a software development company, our team is always on the lookout for cool new technology and we can’t help but keep up with current mobile app trends (even if we didn’t want to keep up, there’s no escaping all the tech articles that our team members post in Slack!). We’re just a group of techie people who are passi... | ['AI', 'Technology', 'AR', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
What is Big Data ?
Big data is a field about collecting, storing, processing, extracting, and visualizing massive amounts of knowledge in order that companies can distill knowledge from it, derive valuable business insights from that knowledge.While managing such data analysis platforms different kinds of challenges s... | ['AWS', 'Hadoop', 'Emr', 'Big Data', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
The first time I heard Kendrick Lamar’s song “Sing About Me, Dying of Thirst” was in 2012, on a Saturday spent sick inside my college dorm room. Thanks to a stranger who had decided to kiss me, I had mono. Lamar’s now-classic album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City had just been released and since I wasn’t doing anything but feel... | ['Music', 'Writing', 'Essay', 'Hip Hop', 'Writing Tips'] |
PLANT-BASED EATING
Delicious, Plant-Based Spaghetti Sauce
A quick and easy recipe to throw together and it’s absolutely delicious.
Plant-based spaghetti sauce
Eating plant based can be hard at first, and it helps to have some easy go to recipes in your back pocket for one of those days where you are on the run. I l... | ['Wellness', 'Food', 'Recipe', 'Health', 'Plant Based'] |
The Poison Parasite Defense: How Neuroscience is Reshaping the Political Ad Game
And its potential to level the playing field.
Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos on Unsplash
The 2020 general election is fast approaching and, with it, the ad battles are heating up. Unfortunately, many candidates often lack the money needed f... | ['Cognitive Science', 'Politics', '2020 Presidential Race', 'Science', 'Neuroscience'] |
Imagine you would like to train a deep learning model where you have thousands of images, but your system does not have any GPU. It would be hard to train large training models without GPU, so you will generally use google collab to train your model using google’s GPU’s.
Consider your system memory is full, and you ha... | ['Future', 'Technology', 'Cloud Computing', 'Information Technology', 'Computer Science'] |
Leadership across the Department of Defense (DOD) is desperate to curb the ever-rising suicide rate among Active Duty, Guard, Reserve and veterans of the military. The Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and each of the five component chiefs have separately addressed the issue in symposiums, seminars, an... | ['Suicide', 'America', 'Society', 'Mental Health', 'Military'] |
A writer rises to meet the challenge of any story.
It’s 1986. About 12:30AM. At Charlie’s nightclub in Ventura, California where I’ve just finished performing my comedy act. As I’m packing up my gear, I get into a conversation with Steve, one of the club owners. He’s in his second year of the USC Peter Stark Producing... | ['Creative Writing', 'Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
How I landed a job in UX Design at Google
3 UX lessons that school doesn’t teach you
My Google Onsite Interview in the Sunnyvale Campus
Nowadays, a lot of people are making a fuss of the difficulty that individuals are facing in getting into UX Design and in finding an internship job.
Flat out, people can easily ga... | ['Careers', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Google', 'User Experience'] |
I Love The Four Day Work Week
As an Amazon warehouse picker, the extra day off has been a game-changer
Photo: Marten Bjork/Unsplash
Working the first week at my summer job at Amazon has taught me many things, but more so on the technical side, like how to put in a missing item, unscannable item, or clock in from my ... | ['Work', 'Society', 'Self', 'Lifestyle', 'Productivity'] |
Antibiotic Resistance: A Medical Crisis
What you must know about antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria develop resistance towards the medicines that are designed to destroy them. The bacteria will not respond to medicine and continue to grow, leading to severe complications and even death. ... | ['Antibiotics', 'Health', 'Medicine', 'Science', 'Antibiotic Resistance'] |
What Would Make YOU Use a London Bike Share?
An overview of the London Bike Share usage from 2015 and 2017; the important factors and what it would mean for the future.
Introduction
London, with a population of over 9 million¹ people, it’s a city of its own. To a city of this magnitude, transportation is a vital com... | ['Data Analysis', 'Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Bike Sharing', 'Machine Learning'] |
June 6th, 2048 — after working out for ten minutes Noah stepped into the hot shower thinking about the upcoming encounter. He wanted to make a good impression and appear sexy to her. He buttoned-up his shirt under a military green fitted jacket and sprayed on some of his favorite woody-smoky cologne — hoping the smell ... | ['Love', 'Sex', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Technology'] |
How to Make Real Money on Red Bubble
Quarantined Income Workshop #4
Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash
Hello, and welcome to the fourth workshop in the Quarantined Income series!
I’ve been receiving a lot of positive feedback for the first three workshops, and I’m very grateful to everyone who’s been so encouraging of... | ['Design', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Money', 'Hustle', 'Art'] |
The Pitch
Taski, an online hourly shift marketplace for the hospitality industry, allows hourly workers to access flexible shift work through the platform while hospitality managers can access qualified workers on-demand.
Employer Dashboard
Tasker Platform
Traction
We expanded Taski into Calgary, Vancouver, Toront... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Tech'] |
We promised the most unconventional design-ERS, and we’re doing our best to deliver. Raise your hand if you’ve ever designer a yacht or a motorhome like the ones below. No? Well, this is opportunity to learn something more about it, and apply it to your creative environment.
Photo by Marcin Ciszewski on Unsplash
The ... | ['Innovation', 'Design', 'Luxury', 'Creativity', 'Life Stories'] |
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1897.
There are lots of things that everyone, informed and otherwise, is anxious to tell you about running your startup. Many, especially those furthest removed from the entrepreneurial lifestyle, are in awe. Their feelings are largely based on mainstream success stories. Those who know... | ['Literature', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Russia'] |
Batch Normalization
Photo by Kaspars Upmanis on Unsplash
The most widely used technique providing wonders to performance. What does it do? Well, Batch normalization is a normalization method that normalizes activations in a network across the mini-batch. It computes the mean and variance for each feature in a mini-ba... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning'] |
Everyone Deserves a Piece of the Profit
The blueprint for a simple, powerful profit-sharing program.
If there’s one thing owners, employees and contractors agree on, it’s that it is always nice to have some skin in the game, especially when business is thriving. A successful profit-sharing program inspires and motiva... | ['Tech', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
#1. Plain Old Anxiety
The first one is some form of previously undiagnosed anxiety, most probably social anxiety. Social anxiety feeds relationship anxiety because it is rooted in fearing the judgment of others or worrying about what people think about you. So it’s not hard for this anxiety to grow into relationship a... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Anxiety', 'Health', 'Couples'] |
This is an article where I describe from concept to deployment the “Hot’n’Pop Song Machine” project, a Machine Learning song popularity predictor I created that uses the Streamlit app framework and web hosting on Heroku. I hope it can be useful to other Data Science enthusiasts.
The Github repository of the full “Hot’... | ['Streamlit', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Music', 'Machine Learning'] |
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