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Science Might Have Identified the Optimal Human Diet
A combination of several popular approaches could yield the best long-term health benefits
Americans are notoriously unhealthy eaters. The so-called Western diet—one that adores meat, abhors fat, and can’t get enough of processed food — has dominated menus and meal... | ['Nutrition', 'Diet', 'Health', 'The Nuance', 'Science'] |
For quite sometime now you have been reading about Machine Learning articles and concepts here on X8 and hopefully all over the internet. You read about introduction to various algorithms from Linear regression to Neural Networks to Decision Trees and Random Forests. We saw how Neural Networks specifically CNNs work an... | ['Keras', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
Starting in systems engineering and excited by the potential of GPUs, I moved from Microsoft Visual Studio team to become an early engineer in the CUDA team at NVIDIA, and played a key role in compiler optimizations to get high performance on GPUs. It’s a delight to see how far CUDA as come in powering deep learning an... | ['Spark', 'Data Engineering', 'Etl', 'Apache Spark', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Adults often have a love hate relationship with creativity. Many grownups don’t feel especially “good” at being creative. As if it’s natural to lose our creativity as we age.
Even those of us in creative fields like writing, music, or design frequently find ourselves hitting our heads against the wall as if creativity... | ['Coaching Corner', 'Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Work'] |
The Journey to 30-Minute Shipping
Amazon went from selling books in 1995 to selling almost everything. Jeff Bezos believes its success can be boiled down to an extreme focus on the customer.
A big part of focusing on customer experience is in the area of delivery. Packages often arrive well before they are supposed t... | ['Technology', 'Amazon', 'Drones', 'Future', 'Tech'] |
Strategy Design Pattern: is a type of behavioral design pattern that encapsulates a “family” of algorithms and selects one from the pool for use during runtime. The algorithms are interchangeable, meaning that they are substitutable for each other.
Check out the source code of the app to make it easier for you to foll... | ['Android', 'Java', 'Design Patterns', 'Coding', 'Android App Development'] |
Authors decide to check will adversarial trained network performed better on transfer learning tasks despite on worst accuracy on the trained dataset (ImageNet of course). And it is true.
They tested this idea on a frozen pre-trained feature extractor and trained only linear classifier that outperformed classic counte... | ['Deep Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
In 2014, Stephenie Landry was finishing up her one-year stint as technical adviser to Jeff Wilke, who oversees Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, which is a mentor program that allows high potential executives to shadow a senior leader and learn firsthand. Her next assignment would define her career.
At most compan... | ['Company Culture', 'Leadership', 'Amazon', 'Writing', 'Business'] |
It’s possible to decide to be distributed for all the right reasons, but to screw it up royally with the wrong tactics and tools. The more a team is distributed, the more potential for people to move fast and get many things done, but for those things to not necessarily be the right things.
Why does this happen? Becau... | ['Startup', 'Teamwork', 'Engineering'] |
Getting Started
Before we dive into the various augmentation techniques, there’s one issue that we must consider beforehand.
Where do we augment data in our ML pipeline?
The answer may seem quite obvious; we do augmentation before we feed the data to the model right? Yes, but you have two options here. One option is... | ['Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks', 'Machine Learning'] |
Questions 1–10:
1. Check if a list contains an element
The in operator will return True if a specific element is in a list.
li = [1,2,3,'a','b','c'] 'a' in li
#=> True
2. How to iterate over 2+ lists at the same time
You can zip() lists and then iterate over the zip object. A zip object is an iterator of tuples.
... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Structures'] |
What I’m Listening To Today, Episode #15
Ladder Of Success, Skeeter Davis
Two ladders lean up against my neighbour’s house, a sure sign of his industry that throws an unwelcome spotlight on my sloth. One ladder, okay, but two? I gaze up resentfully and think: what ambition!
I have not had a single moment of enthusia... | ['Humor', 'Ladders', 'Success', 'Music', 'Productivity'] |
Outside earlier today, on the street, I sensed dollops of panic, flavored with a sprinkling of resistance. Many people live in fear for themselves and their loved ones. Or they want to pretend the threat to health isn’t real and continue as if all is well.
Safe in my friendly abode, though, the atmosphere is one of ca... | ['Writing Prompts', 'Writing', 'Creative Humans', 'Creativity', 'Healing'] |
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
Health and technology are inseparable; technology enables easy accessibility to health, while significant breakthroughs in science and health are considered the core reason why technology is improved upon every now and then. Today, when the world is struggling with the novel COVID-19 (c... | ['Covid 19', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Coronavirus', 'Data Visualization'] |
Photo credit: Milos Luzanin / maskins.com
The Gigantic Intergalactic Idea Alarm Clock
Are you hitting the snooze-button on brilliant ideas?
For every Garbage Pail Kids there are twenty Trash Can Tykes.
For every Pet Rock there are fifty Boulder Buddies.
For every Candy Crush there are one hundred Sweets Smashers.
... | ['Ideas', 'Money', 'Action', 'Motivation', 'Creativity'] |
Danielle Bettmann is an Enthusiastic Coach, Mother & Leader
Source: Wholeheartedly
“Parenting is a journey.” It’s a phrase you’ll hear from Danielle Bettmann often, if you meet her. A graduate in early childhood education, Danielle Bettmann started out working at young child learning institutions, to conducting home ... | ['Children', 'Mental Health', 'Society', 'Family', 'Parenting'] |
Difference Between AWS and Azure
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an Amazon cloud services platform that offers services in a variety of areas, including computing, storage, broadcast, and other features that help businesses grow and grow. You can use this domain in the form of services, which you can use to create and de... | ['Cloud Computing', 'AWS', 'Training', 'Azure'] |
In 2003, I interviewed Damon Dash for Glamour magazine.
At the time, he was Jay Z’s manager and business partner, running a successful music label, Roc-A-Fella, and one of the first big streetwear brands, Rocawear.
He’d arrived in London to launch launched a high-profile collaboration with Victoria Beckham — her firs... | ['Business Strategy', 'Focus', 'Creativity', 'Money', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Prior Common Cold: A Protective Factor Against Covid-19?
When T-cells learn from other coronaviruses and outsmart the novel SARS-CoV-2 — cross-immunity.
One reason why Covid-19 is so lethal is some is that the immune system has never encountered it before. So, the immune system mounts all sorts of reactions, some of ... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Health', 'Covid 19', 'Science'] |
Teaching robots to understand where they are and how they can interact with their environment is the key to unlocking the next generation of automated service systems.
Dr Niko Sünderhauf has been awarded a competitive and prestigious Amazon Research Award for 2019, receiving $120,000 in funding to investigate robotic ... | ['Robotics', 'Science', 'AI', 'Technology'] |
Vape pens filled with DMT. Those are money makers. Writing? Ha. This is a hobby. My first month on Medium I wrote a few stories while waiting for clients in Safeway parking lots.
Thirty years ago maybe you could have made a few bucks on writing. Nobody wants to pay attention for longer than three minutes anymore.
Her... | ['Humor', 'Writing', 'Music', 'Gag', 'Satire'] |
There’s an old saying in AI that computers find things easy that humans find hard (like doing complex math) and computers find things hard that humans find easy (like catching a ball or recognizing objects in an image).
Let’s take recognizing images as an example.
Check out the following collection of images:
This i... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
In the Before Times, I wrote a column called Optimize Me, about the most bizarre things people did to their bodies in the name of health. Occasionally, these “wellness hacks” were scientifically backed, but more often they were misguided and even concerning at times. Some of them were efficiency tricks to get more time... | ['Health', 'Happiness', 'Body', 'Life', 'Science'] |
It’s a sweetened countdown
Our first example! A simple mapping
Say, we want to prettify each value on a timer stream. So we’ll write such an expression:
Explanation: computed takes a function that uses some streams and re-evaluates it when those streams update. It returns an observable that you can manipulate furthe... | ['Typescript', 'Angular', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Rxjs'] |
I decided to purchase the new Apple M1 MacBook Pro (2020) for development purposes. My current macs work great but I was sold on the long battery life and the power of the claimed M1 chip. Here is why I love it and I am hopeful.
What Kinda Developer Am I?
I am a Software & Web Developer and I work in an R&D departmen... | ['Technology', 'Design', 'Apple', 'M1', 'Software Development'] |
The Amazon of Gene Therapy
How scientists used genetic engineering and ML to bring a virus back from the dead as a better deliver method for gene therapies
Molecular structure of the Anc80 virus. [Figure 2C, Zinn et al. 2015]
Gene therapy is a powerful tool to treat diseases from cancer to deafness, but it requires ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Biotechnology', 'Genetic Engineering', 'Venture Capital', 'Health'] |
Transparency and Reliability.
If the corona crisis has taught us one thing, it is the importance of transparency and data reliability. Transparency and reliability will play an increasingly important role.
You can see that Google is already working with E-A-T on verifying the expertise, authority, and trustworthiness... | ['Money', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Covid 19'] |
Do you know about the Law of Unintended Consequences?
It broadly comes down to this:
Any action that involves a complex system is certain to have unintended consequences.
This is especially relevant in the field of machine learning where we are working with highly complex software. Machine learning systems almost al... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Dear Writer,
Now is the time to launch an open publication dedicated to the future. In fact, it’s overdue. What is an open publication? It’s one where anyone can submit an article, regardless of credentials, popularity, and writing experience.
The future is not written merely by an elite class of salaried journalists... | ['Writing', 'Predict', 'Futurism', 'Future', 'About Predict'] |
Here’s one big lesson we’ve learned since launching collaborative design tool Figma: when it comes to SVG Export, less is more. For a long time, we stuck as much information as possible into our SVG files, hoping it would help other tools render and import designs accurately.
Fueled by feedback from our community, we’... | ['Programming', 'UI', 'SVG', 'Design', 'Engineering'] |
Do you write every day? Do you want to?
Let me ask you this. When do you write?
When you have time? When ‘more important’ things are done and out of the day? At night after everyone has gone to bed and the house is quiet?
How is that working out for you?
I know that’s a lot of questions, but we’re almost there. I o... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Time', 'Creativity'] |
Hello World, Welcome to my first medium article! I believe you’re here because you want to create an aesthetic dashboard but don’t know where to start or don’t know what skills you require. Don’t worry, I have got you covered. This article will walk you through the journey one step at a time and I will try to keep it a... | ['Analytics', 'Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash', 'Plotly'] |
“Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves, but rather force them to express themselves,” wrote French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in 1985. Over 30 years later, writer and artist Jenny Odell used the quote as a jumping-off point for a legendary lecture (and later, a book) about reclaiming our attention —... | ['Writing', 'Stories', 'Recommendations', 'Reading Roulette', 'Creativity'] |
Transfer File From FTP Server to AWS S3 Bucket Using Python
File transfer functionality with help from the paramiko and boto3 modules
Image from unspalsh. Credits @iammrcup
Hello everyone. In this article we will implement file transfer (from ftp server to amazon s3) functionality in python using the paramiko and bo... | ['S3', 'Ftp', 'Python', 'Boto3', 'AWS'] |
Building a new product or a service is a challenging endeavor. As an entrepreneur you will need to figure out why customers care about your product — it’s value proposition. You’ll also need to figure out who your customers are, how to reach them, how to price your product and so forth. You’ll also have to understand t... | ['Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
Photo Credit: Pixabay
We want to be able to enjoy life from start to finish. Keep your body flexible, fit, and fast to stay happy and healthy as you age.
Exercise may be the magical key that unlocks not only longevity but happiness. Science tells us that exercise improves mood, fights depression, enhances quality of ... | ['Fitness Tips', 'Longevity', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Fitness'] |
The technology before the skill
Before we begin, I’d like to offer a disclaimer. At points in this article, you may be tempted to curse and scream at your keyboard. Please don’t. As Jimmy Stamp points out in his article in the Smithsonian Magazine, the keyboard arrangement was designed before touch typing ever came in... | ['Technology', 'History', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
I am here when cities are gone.
I am here before the cities come.
I nourished the lonely men on horses.
I will keep the laughing men who ride iron.
— Carl Sandburg [1]
We owe Anthropocene to Paul Crutzen, winner of the Nobel Prize.
He believes that —
“The stratigraphic scale had to be supplemented by a new age t... | ['Sustainability', 'Philosophy', 'Climate Change', 'Essay', 'Science'] |
[UPDATED Mar 2020] How I cleared All 12 AWS Certifications, in a good long time
There are no shortcuts to learn hard skills, it comes with a lot of practice, passion, and dedication.
Note: I sat for the Database Specialty Beta Exam in Jan 2020 and cleared it.
Yes, it took me a long time to “pass” all of them, never ... | ['Amazon Web Services', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing', 'Certification', 'Cloud Certification'] |
Writing software from scratch can be a satisfying journey full of planning, implementing, and revising. While in the development phase, decisions can be temporary and easily undone, allowing development to take new paths.
Coming into an existing live codebase is an entirely different task since decisions have already ... | ['Coding', 'Startup', 'Development', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
The Ultimate Shortcut to Entrepreneurial Success
How to be certain you won’t fail
Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash
You want to fix your car. There are two places you know where you can get it fixed. One is a new place owned and run by an ex-banker. The other is also a new place but the boss has been fixing car... | ['Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Success'] |
How To Launch Your Brand Like a Successful Instagram Influencer
A case study of three popular businesses
Photo by @Wearetala on Instagram
The world of influencer marketing and influencer business has changed massively in the last year or so.
Sponsored content is no longer the sole way influencers are monetising the... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Streamlit
Streamlit Demo — Source
Do you want to create dashboards quickly in Python?. — Streamlit is your best option.
Streamlit revolutionises creating web applications with easy to use API and constant feature development. It was only last year October when this open-source tool was launched and no doubt its popu... | ['Plotly', 'Dashboard', 'Streamlit', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
This article will summarize a talk given by Suresh Visvanathan & Mrunmayi Dhume of Verizon Media at KubeCon San Diego 2019. If the video recording of the presentation is posted, I will link it here directly in the article so you can follow along.
Yahoo! has more than 18 production grade Kubernetes clusters; Visvanatha... | ['Software Engineering', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'Kubernetes', 'Istio'] |
Lanzarote, Green Window in Sunshine, by Vlad Madejczyk
There are endless stories about why PHP is better than JavasScript or why only JavaScript — I mean JavaScript technologies like React, Angular etc, — should be used, and PHP should die, or will die next year. Few years ago I heard that PHP is dead (Node.js develop... | ['Php Vs Javascript', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Vuejs', 'PHP'] |
The Yogurt
Does 227g mean anything to you?
It’s a typical serving size of yogurt.
If you have a tub of yogurt in your fridge, pour yourself a serving in a bowl. Shower it with your favorite assortment of fruits or toppings.
If you don’t have any of the items above, add them to your shopping list. You’re just going ... | ['Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Productivity', 'Mindfulness', 'Meditation'] |
I’m still looking for the person who unequivocally loves Madea. Either people can’t stand the character or think it’s been overdone to the point that they can’t watch any Tyler Perry movie that she’s a part of.
As I say that, I bet the overwhelming majority of you know exactly who Madea is. You can picture her curly g... | ['Writing', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Pop Culture', 'Creativity', 'Culture'] |
How the Night I Struggled for Breath Changed My Life
A sudden deterioration in your health might be the best wake-up call out there.
Photo by Daniel Torobekov on Pexels
It was the first week of December and I hadn’t been feeling well all week.
I was 23 and couldn’t breathe freely anymore. Every breath hurt and my l... | ['Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Self-awareness', 'Health', 'Encouragement'] |
1| Consistency creates success
“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” — Dwayne Johnson
Consistency seems to be a quality that people innately question when it's towards something they can't wrap their heads around. “Why do you work o... | ['Motivation', 'Health', 'Mental Toughness', 'Self Development', 'Fitness'] |
I have been working as a Data Analyst for almost 5 years now but, in this time I have mostly used business intelligence software for all my data visualization tasks. So my experience with visualization has been limited to knowing when to plot a bar chart vs a line chart. To correct this, I have recently taken up to lea... | ['Choropleth Map', 'Plotly', 'Python', 'Data Visualization'] |
What if the rising generation of entrepreneurs were equipped with a personal compass that helped them translate individual purpose and professional skills into social impact, while also making a profit?
Ikigai For Entrepreneurs
Success is about more than money.
Move over rock stars, athletes, and A-list actors, we’v... | ['Success', 'Business', 'Ikigai', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
How I solved a class imbalance problem
Using distplot() and count functions
Imbalance classifications seems to be a common problem that needs to be addressed whenever endeavouring to solve a machine learning problem. If the classes are severely imbalance, and measures are not taken to correct this, a high overall acc... | ['Machine Learning', 'Class Imbalance', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'AI'] |
At this point in your writing journey, you’ve probably read hundreds of writing tips by famous authors.
If you’re like me, you might file away your favorites and look them over whenever you need a dose of inspiration and motivation. Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 essay “How to Write With Style” is a definite gem to add to your ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Fiction'] |
The Nitty Gritty
The breaking point in Lisa’s life that inspired her to turn to herbalism for answers — and why she decided to study herbalism deeper
How Lisa manages her job as a spaceship builder and her herbalism clients
What specific strategies Lisa uses to plan and optimize her daily and weekly tasks
Who, exac... | ['Health', 'Podcast', 'Time Management', 'Productivity', 'Small Business'] |
Why Aggregates?
We’ve looked in-depth at what Aggregates are, and explored ways to identify our Aggregates. Clearly, it takes some up-front effort to design our Aggregates. So, why should we care in the first place?
When defining the pattern in Domain-Driven Design, Evans focuses almost exclusively on the Aggregate a... | ['Microservices', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Design Patterns', 'Domain Driven Design'] |
Behavioral change is important, but it’s not enough. We also need innovation and policy changes to get us where we need to be.
The three legs of the Tripod of Environmental Progress
A tripod is a valuable piece of equipment and fits nicely as a metaphor. With three equal legs, no one leg is more important than the ot... | ['Sustainable Development', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Policy', 'Climate Change'] |
1. If You Want to Write Better, You Have to Write More
“The more you do, the more you can do.” — Annie Clark (Stage name: St. Vincent)
One of the best parts of being a writer is that if you want to see how much you’ve grown as an artist, all you have to do is look at your past work. Without realizing it, you improve ... | ['Quotes', '5 Tips', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity'] |
Unlike Huawei, who had nothing to do with influencing my consumer behavior, there are plenty of companies out there that learned to leverage the subconscious to alter our decision-making intentionally.
In 2001, Cellnet, a struggling communications network, rebranded as O2 and launched a campaign that got them from the... | ['Marketing', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Business', 'History', 'Psychology'] |
Every time my mind spirals into this world-ending fervor, I try to remind myself of a few things.
It’s not all your fault
While I have been conforming to a damaging system all my life, it’s statistically impossible for me, an average person, to have caused the burning of fossil fuels that have damaged the ozone.
Tho... | ['Zero Waste', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Global Warming'] |
Jennifer Sukis is a Design Director for AI Transformation at IBM, based in Austin, TX. The above article is personal and does not necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. | ['Adfclass', 'Big Ideas', 'Design', 'AI', 'Design Thinking'] |
How Korea Does Contact Tracing
It’s not an app
South Korea never had a lockdown and yet they beat COVID-19. How did they do it?
The short answer is that it’s a long answer, covered in depth here. For this article, I’ll cover just one part of the puzzle —contact tracing.
This is all based on a report from the COVID ... | ['Coronavirus', 'Privacy', 'Korea', 'Health', 'Government'] |
Parametricism
In the world of parameters, both repetitive tasks and complex shapes could possibly be tackled, when rationalizable to simple sets of rules. The rules could be encoded in the program, to automate the time-consuming process of manually implementing them. This paradigm drove the advent of Parametricism. In... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Architecture', 'Harvard'] |
Set SMART goals.
You may have heard of SMART goals, which stands for goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
Being specific means outlining concrete actions or a concrete outcome. If your goal is to focus on self-care in the new year, ask yourself: what does self-care look like for ... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Goal Setting', 'New Year', 'New Year Resolution'] |
Five Reasons You Should Never Stop Asking: “Why?”
Forget about finding an answer, the power is in the question.
Photo by niklas_hamann on Unsplash
I was that annoying kid constantly asking: “But why?”
Now I’m an annoying adult still seeking reasons for everything that happens to me.
Whether it’s a failed relations... | ['Self', 'Relationships', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Life'] |
Plotly and NVIDIA Partner to Integrate Dash and RAPIDS plotly Follow May 19 · 4 min read
We’re pleased to announce that Plotly and NVIDIA are partnering to bring GPU-accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) to a vastly wider audience of business users. By integrating the Plotly Dash frontend wi... | ['Business Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Gpu'] |
Wrapping up my first year, however, a common sentiment among myself and my fellow teachers is that yes, SEL is incredibly important and a step in the right direction for the students in any school, but what about the teachers?
We struggle a lot, too, and with the expectations that arise day in and day out, from behavi... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Education', 'Leadership'] |
11 Visualization Examples to Practice Matplotlib
A comprehensive practical guide
Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash
Data visualization is very important in the field of data science. It is not only used for delivering results but also an essential part in exploratory data analysis.
Matplotlib is a widely-used Pytho... | ['Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
If you want to be a writer, you have to write.
Some advice to light a fire under your ass.
One of my freelance clients texted me to ask if a young woman he knows can “shadow” me. She is interested in being a writer when she gets older. My first thought: Why would anyone want to shadow a writer? Second: How do you sha... | ['Change', 'Publishing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
How to Avoid Tedious CSS and XPath Queries in End-to-End and Component Tests
Five tips to improve your front-end tests
Photo by Caleb Jones on Unsplash
Component tests and end-to-end tests have some things in common. Here’ a brief overview about the two types of tests we’re looking at:
Component tests (sometimes ju... | ['Software Engineering', 'Tdd', 'Programming', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
# Basic Data Exploration
In this step, we will perform the below operations to check what the data set comprises of. We will check the below things:
— head of the dataset
— the shape of the dataset
— info of the dataset
— summary of the dataset
The head function will tell you the top records in the data set. By d... | ['Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
1. What are generators?
Generators are a special type of function to temporarily store all codes that generate information in memory.
Generally functional; Instead of a huge area stored in memory, it is being able to use it in a more rational way. It does this by making it easier to create iterators. And as a result,... | ['Programming', 'Python Programming', 'Python', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
Configure Jitsi — Open source web conferencing solution on AWS with Terraform Prashant Bhatasana Follow Jul 23 · 5 min read
Terraform is so popular nowadays. Terraform enables you to create and manage infrastructure with code and codes can be stored in version control.
In this article, we are talking about How we can... | ['Jitsi', 'Terraform', 'Amazon', 'Automation Testing', 'AWS'] |
The problems of Normal today are embedded in history.
This is not unique.
It’s worth looking at how professional and scientific systems have had embedded problems that affect how they try to create positive change but are trapped by foundational myths that divert them into supporting negative norms.
I’ll talk of fou... | ['Neuroscience', 'Service Design', 'Govdesign', 'Design', 'Anthropology'] |
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” -Bill Gates
One of the best examples of how we both overestimate and underestimate changes in the future is the evolution of consumer behavior throughout this century.
Take a minute ... | ['Business', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup', 'Critical Thinking'] |
Matthew Donnellon is a writer, artist, and sit down comedian. He is the author of The Curious Case of Emma Lee and Other Stories.
Follow | ['Ideas', 'Poetry', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing'] |
Star Wars + Han Solo + Artificial Intelligence!
Recently, I read on an article that someone used Artificial Intelligence to insert Harrison Ford into the movie: “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. It uses deep learning artificial intelligence, that analyzes a large collection of photos of a given person, in this case, Harrison... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Opencv'] |
Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century German jesuit scholar who produced many publications on machinery. One of them, Musurgia Universalis, was written in 1650 and described ways of creating automatic music. The machine shown above, a water organ, is from Book 9 of that work. Water and air are introduced at the right s... | ['Automaton', 'Engine', 'Music', 'Science'] |
Writer’s Blog
How to edit flash fiction
Make your short story the best it can be.
So I don’t feel right about teaching you flash fiction without providing a real example. The flash fiction used throughout this article is one that I wrote a little while ago. I want to walk you through the editing process with an actu... | ['Flash Fiction', 'Editing', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing'] |
Recently, we study the definition and concept of big data. Now, question is “How to identify Big Data?” To explore answer for this question refer following paragraphs.
The characteristics of Big Data are categorized in various types of V’s concepts. The main types of V’s are 3 V’s and 5 V’s which demonstrated the pill... | ['Technology', 'Data Science', 'Future', 'Big Data', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
Sometimes, what might be stopping you from starting your journey as a content creator is that you feel like you don’t know enough. It’s normal to feel that way, because what will you teach someone if you don’t know much yourself?
But the irony of it is, even with the little you know, there are still people who will fi... | ['Content Marketing', 'Startup', 'Education', 'Creativity', 'Teaching'] |
E-Sign is a leading provider of electronic signature solutions and document transaction services. We ensure safe transmission of a variety of important documents, from document creation, right through to payment, and signature capture.
E-Sign’s Founder and Managing Director, Thomas Taylor, has over 20 years of diverse... | ['Technology', 'Engineering', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Startup Spotlight'] |
4. Educate Towards Small PRs
Small PRs are like pizza: They make everyone happier. Reviewers have less work and can easily reason about the code, the proposed change, its quality, and can therefore give better feedback. The author, on the other hand, gets the feedback faster — and the feedback is usually better. Moreo... | ['Software Engineering', 'Startup', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Code Review'] |
It takes a lot of single-minded self-belief to make your way in the music industry, so it’s no shock that brittle egotism is a quality that’s over-represented among singers.
What is surprising is that this tendency hasn’t produced a stronger collection of songs about bitter break-ups.
The more common emotion is melan... | ['Writing', 'Music', 'Lyrics'] |
8 Simple Habits You Can Start To Build Energy and Get More Done Every Day
Actionable steps that will significantly increase your energy levels
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There was a time when I didn’t have enough energy to make it through my day. I would burn-out around 7:00 pm and spend the rest of my day in ... | ['Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Body', 'Fitness'] |
Two of the most affecting short films I’ve seen recently have been advertisements. I don’t know if that says anything about changes in the industry, or changes in society, or changes in me; or indeed if it says anything at all.
The first ad, for a Peppa Pig movie set in China, is a snapshot of the big changes happenin... | ['Capitalism', 'Facebook', 'Amazon', 'Techlash', 'Text Messaging'] |
Can We Clean Up Social Media?
Can we make social media a force for good instead of so much bad?
There’s an old story about the boiling frog, a parable that tells of a frog being placed into a pot with water, and the heat is slowly increased to cook the frog alive. I don’t know who on earth would be so cruel, but it’s... | ['Technology', 'Politics', 'Mental Health', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
How to Become Better at Writing Headlines
Ayodeji Awosika recommends writing ten headlines every day. (I write five.) As Jeff Olsen says in The Slight Edge: it’s easy to do and easy not to do.
It might feel like a chore, but writing headlines give you ideas to write about, strengthens your titles, attracts more reade... | ['Creativity', 'Success', 'Advice', '5 Tips', 'Writing'] |
In a perfect world, the weather would always be agreeable, we wouldn’t get caught in the rain, snowed in or fear a heat stroke. While that is not the reality, there are some places in the states that offer near perfect weather all year round, and when the climate isn’t ideal, even these places don’t have drastic change... | ['Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Wisdom', 'Climate'] |
China’s Denial of Being the Birthplace of Covid-19
Having the world’s largest population, it stands at 72nd position in the list of countries worst hit by coronavirus.
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With the world advancing and accepting a 'new normal' brought by the coronavirus that will complete an exact one ... | ['Cities', 'World', 'Health', 'Politics', 'Coronavirus'] |
As the COVID-19 Crisis spread across the US, it left both runners and running race organizers scrambling to unriddle the mystery of how to keep the sport moving forward. Since the transition I’ve seen one stand-out virtual race up close; The Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee 1000K run organized by Barkley Marathons g... | ['Wellness', 'Health', 'Running', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle'] |
AI Will Teach Us to Be Human
Judgment Day Is Only the Beginning
In 2017, PwC published a paper that documented its prediction of the future of human jobs in the US and UK; specifically, it looked at job automation as a result of developments in robotics and AI. The paper puts PwC’s prediction side-by-side against oth... | ['AI', 'Philosophy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Basic Income', 'Robotics'] |
The most recent data explains why the forecasting models I released last month only worked for a few days before starting to underestimate new daily values. The key assumption in those models was that it would be more or less the same here as it would be everywhere else — a virus doesn’t discriminate, and nearly every ... | ['Statistics', 'Health', 'Covid 19', 'Data Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
By John Bassey
Around the globe, there is a drive to reduce plastic waste. The movement has picked up in many cities with hotels, restaurants and shops cutting down on the use of single-use items like plastic straws and bags.
Most of this waste are used in packaging and many, frankly are unnecessary. From packing avo... | ['Zero Waste', 'Plastic Pollution', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Climate Change'] |
Sha Sha Chu | Android Core Experience
It’s been nearly a year since Pinterest’s Android codebase became Kotlin-first, and about two years since we adopted ktlint for Kotlin linting and formatting. Today, we’re sharing that Pinterest has officially taken ownership over the project.
Initially, we chose ktlint because o... | ['Kotlin', 'Mobile App Development', 'Open Source', 'Engineering'] |
How To Properly Vet Vendors for a Two-Sided Marketplace Startup
The biggest vetting mistakes can be avoided
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Don’t let vendor incompetence sink your marketplace.
I’ve written a ton about digital marketplaces this year. And as a longtime creator of such marketplaces, I’m not surprised at where mos... | ['Technology', 'Product Management', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Implementing Airflow DAGs
Airflow Operator
While DAGs define how to run a workflow, Operators determine what actually gets done by a task. An Operator represents a single, idempotent task and they are usually (but not always) atomic. They can stand on their own and don’t need to share resources with any other operato... | ['Programming', 'Data Engineering', 'Python', 'Scheduling', 'Airflow'] |
Agile is great. Agile is wonderful. Agile is the savior of all things related to Software Engineering.
On paper.
In practice, classic Agile is difficult, confusing, frustrating, and just downright hard to implement. Because of knowing that many people would argue the preceding statement, we need some contextualizatio... | ['Engineering', 'Project Management', 'Development', 'Agile', 'Programming'] |
About twenty years ago I saw The Lady In The Van on stage in London. Maggie Smith starred in it. It was the play’s first time on stage. It was delightful. The script, written by the genius Alan Bennett, would later be adapted as a feature film.
It was 2000. I was in London to study screenwriting with the talented and ... | ['Writing', 'Screenwriting', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Alan Bennett'] |
Label Smarter Not More
An introduction to active learning.
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Introduction
Imagine back to your school days studying for an exam. Did you randomly read sections of your notes, or randomly do problems in the back of the book? No! Well, at least I hope you didn’t approach your schooling ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
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