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You guys might be wondering how Spotify did the 2020 wrapup for its every user. After reading this you will find it easy and anybody can do it with their Spotify account. I’ll be showing you details about my Spotify Streaming history and I’ll be comparing my music with one of my friend Sreelekshmy. Spotify lets you dow...
['Python', 'Spotify', 'Plotly', 'Data Visualization']
I decided to dive into Medium’s Partner Program three weeks ago. I’ve talked about my long-term plan to build a creative life. A crucial piece of that was to start earning a side income. I’m working on the transition away from my current day job, and I knew that I needed to start building the foundation. I’ve been inc...
['Authenticity', 'Writing', 'Lessons Learned', 'Creativity', 'Integrity']
Silhouette Method — Better than Elbow Method to find Optimal Clusters Deep dive analysis of Silhouette Method to find optimal clusters in k-Means clustering Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay Hyperparameters are model configurations properties that define the model and remain constants during the training of the mo...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Data Science', 'Clustering']
How Creative People Work I asked a bunch of writers, journalists, and other creatives how they manage their creative systems. Recently, I’ve been doing two things that have really helped my writing: 1. For the past year, I’ve been using a spreadsheet to track my writing, input, and a few other factors. I’ve found it...
['Creative Process', 'Writing Life', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity']
Ansible for AWS — Edureka Companies have invested a large amount of time and money developing and installing software to improve their operations. The introduction to cloud computing offered their business to access software on the internet as service which proved to be more efficient and safe. Integrating an IT autom...
['Amazon Web Services', 'Cloud Computing', 'DevOps', 'Ansible', 'AWS']
When Jeff Nobbs (my partner) and I returned to San Francisco last September after several months on the road, I fell into a deep panic because I didn’t know what the heck I was going to do next with my life. Naturally, the most frequently asked question of us at that time was: “So, what’s next for you guys?” This anxi...
['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Creativity']
Micronaut has great out-of-box support for GraalVM. I've tried a simple task to create a Micronaut function to be handled by Amazon API Gateway which connects to Amazon RDS PostgreSQL. The following command generates the skeleton of the function handling API Gateway Proxy using GraalVM: mn create-app graalvm-function ...
['Graalvm', 'Java', 'AWS', 'Micronaut', 'Tech']
At the Center of All Beauty “The secret to contentment is low overhead.” —Fenton Johnson Photo: Pedro Robredo — Personal files of Fenton Johnson Award-winning writer Fenton Johnson explains that this advice in his new book, At the Center of All Beauty, Solitude and the Creative Life, is a variation on Marianne Moore...
['Books And Authors', 'Nonfiction', 'Solitude', 'Writer', 'Creativity']
Then one day I realized I couldn’t hold a conversation without popping my ears and twitching my right eye; interesting, I thought. Where the hell is this coming from, and what is my body telling me? I then realized I had been unsatisfied, controlling, and continuously swinging between two different kinds of guilts (no...
['Money', 'Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Productivity']
Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash People around the world have been subjected to a number of changes in their lives over the last few months. If we’re lucky, we’re still healthy and employed. But that doesn’t make it easy — we’re stuck apart from our friends, subject to new anxieties about our health and our ...
['Self Improvement', 'Boredom', 'History', 'Society', 'Coronavirus']
I speak candidly from my own experience with PTSD and clinical depression, which were exacerbated by six years of late-stage neurological Lyme disease and the hormonal and emotional upheaval brought on during menopause. I was in a very dark place for years. I could barely muster the energy to get out of bed, and I was...
['Life Lessons', 'Mental Illness', 'Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Health']
How Much Does It Cost To Make An Mobile App Like UberEats and Deliveroo Sophia Martin Follow Aug 17 · 10 min read Have you been into the food industry and planning to take your venture to the next level with on-demand food delivery apps? If yes, then your very next question will be, how much does it cost to develop a ...
['Mobile App Development', 'Mobile Apps', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Business']
Data visualization using Pandas This article will help you to use in-built Pandas methods for visualizing data and drawing insights. How to import the packages? Numpy and Pandas package is imported. Along with this the magic function ‘%matplotlib inline’ is mentioned to make sure that the plots are displayed in the ...
['Pandas', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Exploratory Data Analysis']
Updates — Technology and enterprise pilots We are on track to have 4–5 enterprise pilots this year that will use APEX Network in production mode. Currently we cannot yet disclose the names of the enterprise pilot users but there are three piloting enterprises from two different industries that are well into the proces...
['Big Data', 'Technology', 'Blockchain', 'AI']
1. Define the MVP This is my most important rule when it comes to staying motivated on side projects: the MVP. MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. It is the minimum amount of features required to achieve functionality so that users can use it. Photo by Halacious on Unsplash. Why do you need to do this? This is e...
['Programming', 'Technology', 'Motivation', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering']
More content, more brand. I once hosted an Instagram Live morning show for my commercial real estate business. Each Friday, while the rest of the office enjoyed a jeans day, I showed up to work in a blue suit and tie, reserved a conference room, and recorded myself regurgitating real estate news. “Nationwide Insuranc...
['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Influencer Marketing']
Photo by Humphrey Muleba on Unsplash Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes, from a great diversity of backgrounds and with a great diversity of different philosophies and approaches. This is evident in the spread of company cultures and growth trajectories among startups. Being so, if you ask 10 different entrepr...
['Startup', 'Startup Lessons', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneur']
All of our seller reporting data is stored in a brand new “data warehouse” service. This service is populated with data through an event-driven system (specifically, SQS) from an upstream “source of truth” service we call “transactions”, as our sellers make sales through the iZettle Food & Drink POS (an iPad point of s...
['Reporting', 'Kotlin', 'Engineering', 'Software Engineering', 'Food And Drink']
This is The Story… of a woman who changed a nation… by running an illegal business out of her 258 square foot apartment. And now… onto The Story The knock on the door made her jump. She wasn’t expecting anyone, and her heart began to race. As she tiptoed over to the peephole, she peered through. It was the police....
['Storytelling', 'Business', 'History', 'Podcast', 'Entrepreneurship']
Configuring Web Server in Docker Inside a Cloud Instance How to configure a Web Server in a Docker Container, which is launched in a Cloud Instance. Hello Geeks, I Hope you are here to learn about Web-Server and Docker, so let's get started with the blog… We will explain how we can launch a container technology insi...
['Docker', 'Centos', 'Python', 'Apache Httpd', 'AWS']
image by Ulkar — purchased by the author Friend ships can be sailed Through rough seas and quiet storms Scarred — never broken First of all, you and Siri weren't stupid. You were a couple of kids doing what kids do — learning. I'm so glad you both escaped further harm, and that you built such a bond with one anothe...
['Poetry', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Creativity', 'Life']
Python RegEx Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript…
['Data Science', 'Web Scraping', 'Python', 'Analysis', 'Data']
Class-wise mean images of the 10 handwritten digits in the Kannada MNIST dataset TLDR: I am disseminating 2 datasets: Kannada-MNIST dataset: 28X 28 grayscale images: 60k Train | 10k Test Dig-MNIST: 28X 28 grayscale images: 10240 (1024x10) {See pic below} Putting the ‘Dig’ in Dig-MNIST The Kannada-MNIST dataset is...
['Computer Science', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision']
Internalized homophobia is something most LGBTQ+ people have found to be a battle at different points in their lives. It mostly stems from the homophobic, heterosexist, discriminatory culture that we have been taught by society as we grew up. Most of us were taught negative ideas about being homosexual. It was consider...
['Internalized Homophobia', 'Mental Health', 'Homophobia', 'LGBTQ', 'Health']
But, first a reminder of some of the basics of IT project estimating. Estimating AI project costs is an evolution and adaptation from that. The Fundamentals of Reliable IT Project Estimating IT work has an often-deserved reputation for massive over-runs and overspends, especially large, multi-year projects. However, ...
['Machine Learning', 'Project Management', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science']
Photo: Matthew Tobiasz Marian Dörk is a Research Professor for information visualization at the Urban Futures Institute for Applied Research and the Urban Complexity Lab at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. This October, the UN will hold its biggest ever summit on the future of cities. Why have cities ...
['Cities', 'Design', 'Sustainability', 'United Nations', 'Data Visualization']
The Mysterious Person Who Earns $49,090/Month on Medium My detective “hypothesis” has never failed me Photo by timJ on Unsplash It’s funny how you clicked on this story because of the title. That’s proof that stories with dollar signs in titles and clickbait are actually manipulative. But this isn’t clickbait. My 23...
['Sarcasm', 'Writing', 'Humor', 'Creativity', 'Satire']
The Problem At Optimizely, we’re always looking for ways to eat our own dogfood. Once we added feature flags to Optimizely Full Stack, we started adopting flags to remotely configure our own application. In the last few months, we’ve found this has been especially helpful for our end-to-end testing. Being able to togg...
['Feature Flags', 'Optimizely', 'Experiment', 'AWS', 'Startup']
Copy List by Value There are many ways to copy a list, but using an assignment operator isn’t one of them. Let’s confirm this: >>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> b = a >>> id(a) 4345924656 >>> id(b) 4345924656 The assignment just creates a reference to the list a . This implies both of the lists now point to the same me...
['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming']
It’s easy to fall for the City of Love. Just don’t expect it to always smell like a fresh bouquet of roses. This is especially true in the summertime, on crowded metros when the smell of body odor mixed with cigarette smoke can knock you over faster than you can say “Mon Dieu, d’où vient cette odeur??” (translation: ...
['Travel', 'Wellness', 'France', 'Health', 'World']
Most of us don’t want to be an abusive or toxic person. We don’t want to hear someone we care about say that we hurt them. We don’t want to end up estranged from those we care about. No one wants to read an email, letter or blog post detailing how just being themselves has hurt and driven away someone they love. Bein...
['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Abuse']
Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Caffeine I’ve quit alcohol and tobacco, but can I kick caffeine too? Photo by Sebastián León Prado on Unsplash This year I’m aiming for a goal that I never expected to set: Going completely caffeine free. How Did I Get to This Point? I’ve been a proud caffeine drinker for most of my life....
['Addiction', 'Mental Health', 'Anxiety', 'Health', 'Lifestyle']
The Skeptics — “You’re not going to get sick and nobody you know is going to get sick.” Trump is one of many downplaying the size of the outbreak based on current infection number. People are pointing to the still-quite-low total numbers of cases of infection as a reason to write off the virus as non-newsworthy. How...
['Economics', 'Disease', 'Health', 'Basic Income', 'Coronavirus']
STRUCTURED vs UNSTRUCTURED DATA A structured data usually lives in an RDBMS or a database that you can easily search records, see the numbers and compare them. For example, a record can have names, id, date of birth, salary, address, etc. The data is arranged in a structured tabular like format and it’s simple to work...
['Big Data', 'Python', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning']
From Wikimedia Commons Some, like me, have a Quixotic love for rational solutions. A rational love for rational solutions is a love for rational solutions that work, but some love a rational solution that would work if only people were not so damn stubborn and set in their ways. Let’s call such people “Panzas.” Panza...
['Health', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Games', 'Language']
This is not going to be some deeply controversial rant about why one way of making a salary is better or worse than the other. This is not a verbose way to toot my own horn and make you spend your time and energy reading about how great I am. This is not an article filled with cat pictures (sorry). Because the quest...
['Life Lessons', 'Freelancing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Business']
Personal benefits Most professional associations require members to keep professional development (CPD) records and therefore offer plenty of training opportunities. The greatest benefit of belonging to an association is, no doubt, networking. Working for ourselves, we don’t usually get to meet colleagues during the ...
['Freelancing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Small Business']
A Microbial-Based Explanation for Cooling Human Body Temperatures Could changes to our gut microbial landscapes be responsible for cooling human body temperatures? The value of 98.6° F (37° C) for the standard human body temperature was first proposed by German physician Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich in 1851. This ...
['Health', 'Ideas', 'Microbiome', 'Science', 'Education']
Azure — Deploying Vue App With Java Backend on AKS A step by step guide with an example project AKS is Microsoft Azure’s managed Kubernetes solution that lets you run and manage containerized applications in the cloud. Since this is a managed Kubernetes service, Microsoft takes care of a lot of things for us such as ...
['Azure', 'Cloud Computing', 'JavaScript', 'Kubernetes', 'Web Development']
Help Along the Way This one is fairly obvious, but it’s also extremely understated. No matter how much you offer to the developer community, it will always give you more in return. (My favorite online community right now is IndieHackers.) When I first started to show interest in code, I met one of the developers at ...
['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Python', 'Community', 'Startup']
I am sure you’ve all been hearing about artificial intelligence. You see it on new devices, the cool Alexa that you can speak with, a phone support system that’s instantly capable of listening & responding to your voice, and of course the media and investment community has been crazy looking for the next big thing. Us ...
['Customer Service', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Digital Marketing']
Image by the author Google is not limited to the search engine, and the search engine is not limited to simple search. Many users do not take advantage of the full potential of Google applications, and for journalists, it is particularly important to know how to use them well. Search filters In a simple Google searc...
['Data Journalism', 'Journalism', 'Google', 'Data Science', 'Technology']
Why Productivity is Killing Us All And How Eastern Medicine & Philosophy Can Save Us How often do we rest? I mean TRULY rest. Without input, stimulation, without guilt that we should be doing this or that? No phone or computer in sight; no emails to be sent, appointments to schedule? In fact, how many of us are runni...
['Productivity', 'Corporate Wellness', 'Workplace', 'Personal Development', 'Health']
Creating a new Dropwizard application Now that, we have understood what Dropwizard is and few internal libraries, let us create a Dropwizard application to understand these concepts even further. Dropwizard dependencies are exposed as a maven dependency. In this section, we will develop a maven project and add the rel...
['Coding', 'Programming', 'Java', 'Software Engineering', 'Technology']
Artificial Intelligence has been re-shaping the world as we know it. Not in the way that we saw in the famous movie the Terminator (SkyNet is not going to take over your phone) but it has transformed our everyday lives by improving processes that we perform regularly. The same holds true for the shipping industry. AI h...
['Supply Chain Solutions', 'Supply Chain', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ai In Supplychain']
There are many metrics that are currently used to assess human health that aren’t based in sound science, and yet they persist. The body mass index (BMI) is one of them. Even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the BMI “can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health ...
['Nutrition', 'Body', 'Health', 'Life', 'Science']
Common errors David: When a word or phrase is written by a majority of online users the wrong way: Like “everyday.” Instead of “I drink a ton of coffee every day,” they write “I drink a ton of coffee everyday.” I hate that. Sam: A small error I see frequently is “that” instead of “who,” such as “we need a president t...
['Writing', 'Editing', 'Copywriting', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips']
Dancing in the Dark What happens if the Prefect Cloud API goes down? “What happens if your API goes down?” This is an understandably common question from Prefect’s enterprise customers, who depend on Prefect Cloud to automate mission-critical workflows. I always explain that because of Prefect’s unique Hybrid Model,...
['API', 'Site Reliability', 'Python', 'Data Engineering', 'Workflow']
My academic studies have taken me on a tour of addiction and mental health. Where I believe THC has beneficial properties, I also believe we must be mindful of the risks. The younger the user, the higher the risks. Here is a small exploration of teens and THC as adapted from my academic paper. Teens and THC From thei...
['Growth', 'Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Addiction']
Terry H. Schwadron Oct. 11, 2018 Even as President Trump was whipping up about 9,000 at an Iowa rally with cries that Democrats are an “angry mob,” intent on “policies of anger, division and destruction,” actual Democrats in Washington are thinking through what will happen if they actually do flip the currently Repub...
['Democrats', 'Health', 'Politics', 'Environment', 'Congress']
Donald Trump Is Smarter Than We Ever Gave Him Credit For Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been played. Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash It was all an act. Back in February, when everyone was trying to warn him about an impending pandemic, Donald Trump under-reacted. He didn’t seem to get it. He dismissed the experts...
['Books', 'Politics', 'Society', 'News', 'Culture']
Photographer: Michelle (Fisher) Bulla — Model: Allison Crady Tension in your head, soreness along your upper back, your body slowly curves inward, and your mind races with unkind thoughts. You feel out of control, uncomfortable, and disoriented. You have anxiety. I’m pretty sure I said something awkward, and I can’t ...
['Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Creativity', 'Compassion', 'Feminism']
Make Your Business Successful with Flutter Mobile App Why Flutter is the Future Trend in Mobile App Development? In this Blog, You can Get the Overview flutter and Why Flutter is More Efficient for Startups. In startups, there is confusion regarding which cross-platform mobile app development is more efficient in th...
['Mobile App Development', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Flutter']
Confidence intervals for permutation importance A new theoretical perspective on an old measure of feature importance Feature importance helps us find the features that matter. Introduction In this post, we explain how a new theoretical perspective on the popular permutation feature importance technique allows us t...
['Feature Importance', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Explainable Ai', 'Machine Learning']
Supernode Candidates, ongoing efforts & reimbursement continuation It should be noted that each and every Community Supernode Candidate will be expected to maintain a certain level of activity and ongoing support for the project, as their efforts up to this point forms a large part of the basis for why they have been ...
['AI', 'Technology', 'Blockchain', 'Big Data']
We live in a world of empty slogans and meaningless mantras. But, of all the empty phrases in our culture, none are as damaging as productivity. Productivity sounds nice. It sounds technical, efficient, and powerful. Most of us have bought into the idea that to be successful you have to be productive. You probably end...
['Life Lessons', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Freelancing', 'Writing']
Inside Out: Repository Pattern for Data Layer A perfect place to put your Domain logic for Data Models outside Enitity Definition Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. — Edward Hieatt and Rob Mee in Patterns of Enterprise Application Archit...
['Database', 'Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Design Patterns', 'Software Engineering']
Anyone developing applications and infrastructure in AWS will at some point make use of the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), either interactively at a shell command line, or by integrating the CLI into shell scripts. While it is a powerful avenue to access, create and manage AWS resources, it can get cumbersome to re...
['Aws Cli', 'Technology', 'Python', 'System Administration', 'AWS']
In Psychedelic Therapy, Don’t Forget the ‘Therapy’ A wide gulf lies between what we ‘see’ on psychedelics and what we do with what we saw Image: nutcat/Getty Images Twenty minutes late, Matt (whose name was changed for privacy) stumbles into my therapy office, dives onto my green couch, stretches out like a Freudian...
['Psychedelics', 'Mental Health', 'Brain', 'Therapy', 'Life']
This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to the Coronavirus And what it means for treatment Photo: Bertrand Blay/iStock/Getty Images Plus People infected with the novel coronavirus can have markedly different experiences. Some report having nothing more than symptoms of a mild cold; others are hospitalized and even die...
['Body', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Immune System', 'Health']
OpenGenius has raised £1.1M in total. We talk with Chris Griffiths, its CEO. PetaCrunch: How would you describe OpenGenius in a single tweet? Chris Griffiths: OpenGenius are global experts in creativity, productivity and innovation strategy — we believe every business and individual has the power to use innovation to...
['Startup', 'Innovation Management', 'Innovation', 'Progress', 'Creativity']
SigNet (Detecting Signature Similarity Using Machine Learning/Deep Learning): Is This the End of Human Forensic Analysis? SigNet (Detecting Signature Similarity using Machine Learning/Deep Learning): Is this the end of Human Forensic Analysis? My grandfather was an expert in handwriting analysis. He spent all his lif...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Data Science']
Android vs iOS What is the most popular operating system for mobile platforms? From small startups to big enterprises in Information technology. This is the paramount question and the litmus test that decides what mobile platform is to be developed first. Why not all at the same time you may ask? If you run a big dev...
['Mobile App Development', 'Java', 'Software Development', 'Kotlin', 'Android']
Alfred Leete’s 1914 poster Lord Kitchener Wants You (above), was a key promotional tool to encourage British men to volunteer for the army. It featured Great Britain’s Secretary for War Lord Kitchener, a man with a serious mustache, and a more serious stare. According to The Conversation, hundreds of thousands of Brit...
['Culture', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Marketing', 'Art']
It is not easy to dismiss the Fermi paradox. Either technological civilizations or even life are extremely unlikely or too short-lived, or some exotic theory is the case, of which there are many. For instance, aliens may have already conquered the galaxy and are among us, or they retreated in some digital simulated lif...
['Aliens', 'History', 'Cosmos', 'Science', 'Future']
TLDR Migrating a 130TB Cluster from Elasticsearch 2 to 5 in 20 Hours with 0 Downtime by Fred de Villamil Replicate it using built-in ES capabilities, then reindex delta from your main data source. Also — it’s so cool to have everything saved in ~kafka~ a log. 77 nodes cluster, with 200TB storage, 4.8TB RAM, 2.4TB bei...
['Tldr', 'Elasticsearch', 'DevOps', 'Engineering', 'Big Data']
The Motivation To Exercise Starts From Cues. Willpower is out. Cues are in. Photo by Ethan Elisara on Unsplash Very often, we rely too much on our willpower to get ourselves up for exercise. It could be a trip to the gym, to the pool, to the tennis court or even just lacing up for an evening jog. The power of our ...
['Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Health', 'Healthy Lifestyle', 'Short Story']
This course describes by example how to build cloud services via the use of object-oriented design techniques, Java Servlets, the Java Spring Framework, and cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services. In this course you will learn: Understand the details of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Be able to deve...
['Development', 'Spring Framework', 'Java', 'Coding', 'Application']
A brief guide to Model Evaluation Techniques: Machine Learning Machine Learning Classification Models Model Evaluation Techniques for Machine Learning Classification Models Image courtesy: Great Learning In machine learning, we often use the classification models to get a predicted result of population data. Classi...
['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Marketing', 'Business']
The Clathrate Gun has already been fired. The video below shows a lead researcher breaking down while reading out the results of her study which concludes that the Clathrate Gun has been already been fired. So what is the hypothesis specifically? The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis suggests that the release of methane from...
['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Climate', 'Education', 'Science']
MLOps In Action MLOps In Action: Training-serving skew Training-serving skew is one of the most common problems when deploying ML models. This post explains what it is and how to prevent it. A typical Machine Learning workflow When training a Machine Learning model, we always follow the same series of steps: Get d...
['Mlops', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'AI', 'Data Science']
On social platforms like Facebook, engagements — likes, comments, shares, and click-throughs long dominated conversation around the particular success of a post. Yet, as Facebook writes: “Online engagement metrics are a proxy for interest, but they are not a reliable indicator of the content’s persuasiveness. Persuasi...
['Advertising', 'Measurement', 'Marketing', 'Facebook', 'Social Media']
IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE I GET STARTED: This is my first list of my own, I consider myself as evid reader and technologist. I hate reading books on Kindle, Google rather than at bookstore or at my study table. I work with IT Consulting firm — Cloud Certitude and works typically in SMB Market and Mid Market. Hit Refresh —...
['CEO', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Microsoft', 'Mindfulness']
Inspired byhttp://blog.tylerbuchea.com/super-simple-react-redux-application-example/ In this article we explore the barest of solutions to get started with React Native + Redux. The only pre-requisite to the below is to have “create-react-native-app” installed (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-star...
['React', 'React Native', 'Reactjs', 'JavaScript', 'Development']
We all love a good apocalyptical story. When I was a teenager, I used to love the comic book Tank Girl. Set in a post-apocalyptical world where water was scarce, Tank girl fought together with mutant kangaroos against the Water & Power Corporation. In the "apocalyptic" genre, we have major pieces of work picturing the...
['Essay', 'Science Fiction', 'Writing', 'Society', 'Fiction Writing']
How to Create Eye-Catching Maps With Python and Kepler.gl Use this intuitive tool to simplify mapping In this article, we’ll explore Kepler.gl, an open-source solution for geospatial data visualization and exploration. Kepler was developed by Uber to make it easier for users of all levels to design meaningful maps th...
['Mapping', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization']
Self-Driving Cars Aren’t Just About Safety Time, energy, human life quality- FSD would improve all of these. Photo by Bram Van Oost on Unsplash One thing that you hear a lot nowadays is how stressed out people are. There’s a good number of reasons for this. So good, in fact, that I probably don’t need to spell them ...
['Technology', 'Cars', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Robotics', 'AI']
Is Decluttering Good for Your Creativity? How cleaning up your act could be a boon to your brain, or lead to creative block. Organizing and decluttering is all the rage these days. For that, we can largely thank the present-day titan of tidiness, Marie Kondo, whose KonMari method has fueled several books, a Netflix s...
['Self Improvement', 'Konmari', 'Creativity', 'Interior Design', 'Psychology']
CREATOR INTERVIEW Creating Little Nightmares An exclusive interview with Dave Mervik of Tarsier Studios, creators of the creepy platformer/puzzler Little Nightmares Formed in 2004, Tarsier Studios in Sweden got its start working with Sony on the Little Big Planet series of games. That association with Media Molecule...
['Gaming', 'Startup', 'Interview', 'Creativity', 'Videogames']
With more than 100,000 new Android apps released in the Google Play Store every month and users are projected to spend 90% of their internet time on the mobile apps, it is no surprise that the mobile industry is thriving at the fast-paced. And this highlighted the fact that companies from all the industries can take th...
['Technology', 'Mobile Apps', 'Mobile App Development', 'Business', 'Startup']
Syncfusion is glad to roll out the last major release of this year, Essential Studio 2020 Volume 4. You can now enjoy the enhancements available in this release. Here is the brief description of the major features we have implemented. WinUI (preview) We have included the following seven new controls in WinUI: — Rib...
['Dotnet', 'Mobile App Development', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Web Development']
In a year where time has stretched itself beyond meaning and the bigness of loss has burned us all out, I’ve found that a lot of the writing on grief hasn’t always resonated. This year’s grief is universal in many ways, because we’re all experiencing it, but stories of an entire nation in mourning lose the specificity ...
['Writing', 'Wrap Up', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Creators']
The Great ‘One Million’ Sale Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash It was in the first quarter of 2020, MoonXCosmetics were not operating at full fledge. Due to lack of workforce and minimal operations at the manufacturing hub. MoonXCosmetics were dealing with orders which outran their production and shipping capab...
['Business Strategy', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Marketing Strategies']
Photo by Ricardo Rocha on Unsplash There are two myths that are often perpetuated about creative people. One — that they’re all “artsy”. Two — that they’re all unpredictable. We tend to associate creativity with the arts, and for good reason. Art is by definition born out of creation, be it in the form of a sculpture...
['Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Maice', 'Time Management']
Every few years, our talented team of 2D / 3D designers & animators work towards putting together a video that showcases our latest work (it also gives them the opportunity to show off their skills). With 2018 now just 2 months away from drawing to a close, we felt it would be a good time to unveil our showreel contain...
['Mobile App Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Web Development', 'Virtual Reality']
Perform The Big Movements Last I’ve spoken plenty about how your training should be centered around the big, compound lifts — press, squat, row, and deadlift variations are all staples in a sound strength training program. Traditionally, these movements are performed first in a workout, when we’re at our “freshest”, ...
['Health', 'Wellness', 'Fitness', 'Life', 'Self Improvement']
Over the past few years, the cloud computing industry has generated a lot of interest and investment. Cloud computing has become an integral part of the IT infrastructure for many companies worldwide. Industry analysts report that the cloud computing industry has grown swiftly over recent years. According to Wikibon, ...
['Cloud Certification', 'Certification', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud']
by Jackie Swift Inside almost every cell in our bodies live little powerhouses known as mitochondria. These tiny organelles, with their own genome, primarily produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the fuel on which your cells depend in order to function. If something goes wrong in the chain of mitochondrial electron tr...
['Health', 'Cornell University', 'Nutrition', 'Science', 'Medicine']
Introduction Berger starts with a story about a hostage negotiator who helped a SWAT team get a criminal to come out on his own without incident. (From the perspective of Greg Vecchio, an FBI agent) Crisis negotiation came after the 1972 Munich Olympics, when 11 Israeli athletes were killed. Before, it was about forc...
['Inspiration', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Writing']
Field outsiders see structural similarities better Shubin Dai, a specialist in bank data analysis is maybe one of the best model of the outsider. Passionate about his data financial work, he also spends his time responding to the various challenges posed by Kaggle, a community of data scientists. Quite surprisingly, ...
['Management', 'Innovation', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Jobs']
We all want to know the future. Imagine the power we’d possess if we knew what was going to happen in the future, we could alter it to get more suitable results, bet on it for financial gain, or even budget better. Although we can not outright determine what will happen in the future, we can build somewhat of an intuit...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Towards Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence']
How do you make it to Fund II, III, and beyond? It’s challenging enough to identify and make investments that will create extraordinary returns. On top of that, GPs have to juggle fundraising, manage current investors, and handle the fund as a business itself — including employees, payroll, and HR and capital manageme...
['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Fund Management', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital']
Let down by a system of experts that had promised competence. The novel Coronavirus has shown that our current system, that relies on experts at the top, lacks either the skill or the inclination to protect us — our jobs, our savings, our lives. Yet, we give this system approximately $4.9 trillion every year to do jus...
['Economics', 'Coronavirus', 'Risk', 'Health']
For more than two years, Prefect has been making steady progress on our mission to eliminate negative engineering. Today, we’re excited to announce that Prefect Cloud is available to the public — including its free Scheduler tier! Learn more here. We worked with hundreds of early Cloud previewers and tens of Lighthou...
['Data Science', 'Prefect', 'Python', 'Data Engineering', 'Workflow']
Five Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud in Quarantine (and Taught Me Amazing Lessons) #3 is one of the most unorthodox, original books I’ve ever read Image by Christopher Ross from Pixabay I have a special place in my heart for writers who can make me laugh when I’m alone, especially now. We’re in a pandemic, people!...
['Comedy', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Creativity', 'Self Improvement']
I spent the better part of an afternoon last week perusing a set of old flash drives I’d made years ago for my monthly notebook backups. One that especially caught my attention had a folder of R scripts, probably at least 15 years old — harking back to my earliest days with R. I could only smile at some of the ineffici...
['Data Science', 'R', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Mathematics']
What does Serverless have to do with this tutorial? The main reason serverless is being mentioned here is because FaunaDB is a NoSQL database that is made for serverless in mind. The pricing on this database is request based, precisely what serverless apps need. Using a service like FaunaDB can help cut costs so much...
['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Microservices', 'Serverless']
Practical Data Analysis with Pandas and Seaborn Exploratory data analysis on a bank customer dataset Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash Whether we are creating a dashboard, doing predicting analytics, or working on any other machine learning task, we first need to explore the data at hand. We should obtain a thoroug...
['Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Analysis', 'Pandas']
Background At the moment k8s 1.16, 1.17, 1.18 are officially supported; the support for 1.15 has ended. But in AWS EKS, the latest version is still 1.16, and at the writing of the twitter above, even 1.16 in EKS hasn’t been released yet. Do Not Upgrade To Latest Version ASAP Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash Th...
['Version Control', 'Software Engineering', 'Kubernetes', 'Software Development', 'Security']
NAIC Principles for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance Industry Raffaella Aghemo Follow Jul 21 · 3 min read The NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners operating in the United States: on June 30, it approved the guiding principles, ...
['Insurance', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'AI', 'Naic']