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The Question All Writers Should Ask Themselves
How asking yourself a very important question will help you become a better artist that connects with others
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Niche down is the number one piece of advice amongst creators who are trying to make a brand out of their name and curate a social media pr... | ['Writing', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Personal Growth', 'Philosophy'] |
A general representation of training a Haar classifer. (Image Source)
You see facial recognition everywhere, from the security camera in the front porch of your house to your sensor on your iPhone X. But how exactly does facial recognition work to classify faces, considering the large number of features as input and t... | ['Image Classification', 'Haar Cascades', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Vision', 'Machine Learning'] |
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Long gone are the days of darning socks, siblings wearing the same hand-me-down clothes during childhood, and jeans that last a lifetime.
Over the past decade fashion has gone fast. Shopping is a hobby, with constant discounts and sales, plus new ‘seasons’ of clothing hitting the st... | ['Fashion', 'Sustainability', 'Clothes', 'Environment', 'Climate Change'] |
Single cover for the 20th anniversary version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Credit: Amazon.com
The One Good Thing About The Worst Christmas Song Ever
For all its problems, Band Aid’s 1984 hit “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” reminds me of a spirited internationalism I find missing amidst the global pandemic.
Havin... | ['Pop Culture', 'International', 'Christmas', 'Coronavirus', 'Music'] |
A Template for Writing Blog Posts That Earn Passive Income
Steal my formula to sell online courses, books, or services with your writing on autopilot.
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There’s a reason why some bloggers make multiple six-figure incomes and others struggle to earn pennies from their writing.
People w... | ['Business', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Blogging', 'Money'] |
Creating OAuth Client ID for Google Sign-In
After performing the SDK installation, you will need an OAuth client ID and an iOS URL scheme so that you can continue with the configuration in Xcode.
Head over to Google APIs Console and create a project for your sample app. If you have already created a project, you can ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'iOS App Development', 'Programming'] |
November Issue: The Current Corona-virology Research
A newsletter covering the most recent developments in Covid-19 research.
Another month has passed, and I hope life has been treating you well. As usual, here’s a brief description of the 10 articles (friend linked) Microbial Instincts or I covered in November in ch... | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Research', 'Science', 'Education'] |
PAKISTAN’S COVID-19 VISUALIZATION USING POWER BI
June 5, 2020 by Kinza Saeed
What is Covid-19?
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome. Common symptoms include fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, and loss of smell and taste. While the major... | ['Power Bi', 'Visualization', 'Pakistan', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
amid the pompous pain of pinpricks
the princesses made sleepless by peas
who know nothing of a steely gaze
the corroded heart punched down
by even the most simple dreams
who desire the depth of an ocean
as if it comes easy, as if
the waters remain subordinate
this armor of faith
has a heavy weight and a hefty ... | ['Storytelling', 'Poetry', 'Poet', 'Poem', 'Creativity'] |
Welcome December, welcome Christmas season, and welcome Apple M1 Chip. Yes, this is the perfect Christmas gift by far. Apple has finally transitioned Macs from Intel processors to ARM chips of their own design. The first generation called M1 comes in the new 13 “MacBook Pro. I have tested it for a week and I have been ... | ['Mac', 'Future', 'Tech', 'Apple', 'SEO'] |
What is a side project (in this context)?
When I talk about side projects in this context, I’m talking about the UX and UI projects you initiate and work on in your spare time. The type that doesn’t involve a company, a client, or a team. The type you do “for fun”, for practice, and for building your portfolio — espec... | ['Careers', 'Design', 'Portfolio', 'Creativity', 'UX'] |
How to Start Your Machine Learning Career Tommy Follow Dec 9 · 8 min read
Machine learning is a broad term in the current 4.0 industrial revolution era where factories are trying to automate every single menial task to reduce costs, improve product quality, boost productivity, minimise workplace accidents, and enhance... | ['AI', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
Throw back (or forward) to your high school math classes. Remember that one lesson in algebra about the graphs of functions? Well, try visualizing what a parabola looks like, perhaps the equation y = x². Now, I know what you’re thinking: How does this simple graph relate to this article’s title? To how machines learn? ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Mathematics', 'Math', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Science'] |
Somebody’s Eyes Watching
In an age where surveillance and monitoring are all too easily misused, the idea of a camera in odd places can seem a bit weird and even a little creepy.
Even when cameras are where they’re supposed to be, it can mean that you’re being watched by who knows who.
I definitely cover my webcam t... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Recycling', 'Surveillance', 'AI'] |
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Jupyter Notebook is the most widely used tool for putting code and text together in Data Science World. It’s a great tool for practicing data analysis and performing machine learning techniques in Python. This is a must for every Data Analyst and Data Scientist.
Apart from the data an... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Data Engineering', 'Apache Spark', 'Data Science', 'Scala'] |
There is a lot of confusion about the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Analytics, and it is particularly harmful for students and early-career people who are thinking about specializing in these areas. This article is to dispel that confusion.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is characterized ... | ['Analytics', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Business Analytics'] |
How to Use React Refs
How to utilise refs in React, with ref forwarding, callback refs and HOCs
React Refs are a useful feature that act as a means to reference a DOM element or a class component from within a parent component. This then give us a means to read and modify that element.
Perhaps the best way to descri... | ['Software Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
A common point of failure
One type of easy-to-spot SPOF for investors is revenue stream. This is especially true for early startups because they haven’t had an opportunity to build a robust variety of revenue streams.
For example, an early startup might have one customer or one partnership providing the bulk of its r... | ['Startup', 'Business', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Side Hustle'] |
I am seeing some tensions in onboarding new team members and a lot of it is about coding practices and common mindset that is not shared with people who come from other disciplines. I will add to this list as I come across cases and I hope this serves other people joining Datance and the broader community. Disclaimer: ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
We are a paradoxical species in many ways but perhaps one of the more perplexing is the ever present war within ourselves between the desire for quick, easy, and simple solutions to our problems and our compulsion for excessively complicating the problems facing us. The first is driven by the natural impulse towards co... | ['Life Lessons', 'Society', 'Politics', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
With my new diagnosis to guide me, I was motivated to implement positive changes in my life. I began to identify and more easily recognize my triggers, and enforce self-care methods whenever I started to spiral. I also was able to explore renewed openness with friends and my mother, as I learned my feelings of imminent... | ['TV Series', 'Borderline Personality', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Media'] |
We have all asked the question, “If there is a God, why is there suffering?” But how often have we asked, “If there is no God, why are there people who still believe in Him despite all of their sufferings and pain?”
After reading the book, A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain and God’s S... | ['Book Review', 'Books', 'Christianity', 'Health', 'Healing'] |
Vuejs has become one of the most successfully applied, loved and trusted frontend JavaScript frameworks among our community. The Vue3 comes with a whole lot of new features. In this article we will go through all the fundamentals of Vue2 and Vue3. Basically a Vue Cheat Sheet to make your life easier.
We will break it ... | ['Vue', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Vuejs', 'Productivity'] |
We’re so glad you’re here. Except for you, Karen.
Photo by Kari Shea on Unsplash
Welcome to the Facebook Group about Facebook Group Rules. This is a place to discuss all the different kinds of Facebook Group rules and absolutely nothing else. If you’d like to discuss something else, please do not request access to th... | ['Humor', 'Writing', 'Facebook', 'Culture', 'Social Media'] |
The Campaign
Domino’s Pizza launched a marketing campaign in Russia where people could get 100 free pizzas for 100 years if they tattooed themselves with the brand’s logo and posted those pictures on social media with the hashtag #DominosForver.
To their surprise, there was quickly an abundance of photos of people wi... | ['Business', 'Marketing', 'Psychology', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
Let’s define an SDE/SE using the following points, and this my understanding and learning so far.
GDTRS “A software engineer is the one, who can ‘G’ather requirements, ‘D’evelop, ‘T’est, ‘R’elease and ‘S’upport a software product.”
- Pranay Deep
Gather Requirement and design
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... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Amazon', 'Microsoft', 'Expectations'] |
What are the pros and cons of using Groovy? Jennifer Strater, former Engineer at Zenjob, and Ash Davies, Senior Software Engineer at ImmobilienScout24, talk to us about their experiences using the programming language, why Jenn spends less time “banging her head against the wall than with other languages” and why Ash t... | ['Software Engineering', 'Java', 'Groovy', 'Programming Languages', 'Programming'] |
The Next Financial Crash Will Hit Social Media Too
Life always comes full circle, so you should be prepared
Photo by Ehud Neuhaus on Unsplash
Growing up in the 1970s and ‘80s, I saw a massive disruption that most likely caused my incurable disease.
The transition happened when “mom and pop” grocery stores, sourcing... | ['Marketing', 'Relationships', 'Facebook', 'Instagram', 'Social Media'] |
Software Engineering Series (Part -2)
Design Phase … It’s all about how it works
If you are here for the first time i would highly recommend reading the first part here . Previously after going through the requirement phase let’s just get into the next step known as design.
So, what’s the role of design,well lets fi... | ['Market', 'Software Engineering', 'Design', 'Software Development', 'Computer Science'] |
There are four tools and options that India currently looks at,
1. Doppler Weather Radar, 2. Collaboration with other countries, 3. Satellites 4. Ocean Buoys
1. Doppler Weather Radar
These are the radars which help in identification of a cyclone in a particular region, let’s say, for example, we have the Conventiona... | ['Forecasting', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Hurricane', 'Science'] |
Researchers at Binghampton University and Intel Corporation have developed a model that recognizes deepfakes by predicting heartbeats. The classifier uses photoplethysmogram data to recognize fake videos. An important assumption in the model is that it learns to recognize deepfakes that have been generated using a set ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
How Human Breastmilk Can Block Coronavirus’s Replication
A new study further tells us why Covid-19 is not a good enough reason to not breastfeed.
Photo by NIKOLAY OSMACHKO from Pexels
Breastfeeding does many wonders for the baby and mother, ranging from emotional, immunological, and general health support.
For the ... | ['Innovation', 'Health', 'Advice', 'Covid 19', 'Science'] |
I watched them parade around the truck. Evan approached the back of the restaurant to get a better look.
“We’re never going to get close to it,” he said.
Lauren said, “How are we going to get back to Shadowood?”
Evan was silent. It was one of the few times he didn’t have any answer.
“I don’t think we can get back t... | ['Books', 'Relationships', 'Creativity', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
Tech stack is consequential because it’s what you use for creating software programs. Thus, don’t underestimate the essence of research and analysis to select the right set of tools.
A wrong choice of technologies can cause you the loss of money, time, and other valuable resources for your project. A sound business an... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
1. The Man Who Said Yes
A man went to a Buddhist monastery for a silent retreat. After he finished, he felt better, calmer, stronger, but something was missing. The teacher said he could talk to one of the monks before he left. The man thought for a while, then asked: “How do you find peace?” The monk said: “I say yes... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Creativity', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
As the programming ecosystem proliferates, a number of frameworks, libraries, and tools are being introduced to simplify the software development cycle. They are not just trimming the lines of code, but, are reducing the time from prototype to production.
While there are plethora of options available, the pace of chan... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Nodejs', 'React', 'Web Development', 'Angularjs'] |
7 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Pet Projects
Spoiler alert: Working late into the night is not one of them
Photo by Kyle Hanson on Unsplash.
I’ve started so many side projects. Little or not so little, most of them were focused on one thing: making myself learn something new.
Although I’ve taken on several pet ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Learning To Code'] |
Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook time: 20 minutes | Total time: 35 minutes
Servings: 4 | Course: Entree | Cuisine: Indian and Thai fusion, Vegan, Gluten-free
Ingredients:
2, 14-ounce cans light coconut milk (substitute full-fat for a creamier texture)
2 cups chopped broccoli florets
1 cup chopped potatoes
1 cup beans... | ['Vegan', 'Creativity', 'Poetry', 'Food', 'Recipe'] |
Socket Manager: Websocket + Context Provider
The <SocketManager /> component can be thought of as the engine of our Websocket and state management solution. We will talk through this solution here and provide the full Github Gist thereafter.
Within <SocketManager /> we want to define the following things:
The React ... | ['Software Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
As writers, we face more rejection than most people. It’s comes with the job and we need to learn to deal with it well. One way to do this is to understand why our stories are getting rejected in the first place.
I’ve been in the writing industry (mostly magazines) for over 12 years. I’ve faced my fair share of reject... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Freelance'] |
Readability Grade Levels
The app uses an algorithm to determine the lowest education level needed to understand your writing. For example, when you see a sixth-grade reading level, it doesn’t mean your content is meant for sixth graders. It does mean that the lowest education level to understand the writing is sixth g... | ['Editing', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'How To'] |
If you can learn how to make $10,000 as a freelance writer, nothing will be able to stop you from earning an incredible living from your talents.
That first $10,000 is going to be the hardest money you ever earn. But once you have overcome that hurdle, you will have made all the basic mistakes and will have learned ev... | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Make Money Online', 'Freelancing'] |
Why My Transition to Veganism Was Harder the Second Time
One doctor says cheese is addicting — and I agree.
Photo by Elisa Michelet on Unsplash
Do you know what’s harder than going vegan? Re-starting a vegan diet after years away from it.
My roommate and I are doing a vegan November. Or “Veganember” as I’ve been ca... | ['Animal Rights', 'Vegan', 'Health', 'Addiction', 'Food'] |
Step 1: How to make your passive income product
I mentioned in the introduction of this post that in order to create our passive income, we're going to need to create a passive income product.
That passive income product is going to be a digital product.
More specifically, that product is going to be a downloadable ... | ['Money', 'Digital Marketing', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Why do Doctors sometimes prescribe vitamins?
A recently published study confirms a commonly held belief by the medical profession. There is absolutely no substitute for a well-balanced diet, which is the ideal source of the vitamins and minerals we need.
In brief the study found the following.
Our bodies prefer natu... | ['Vitamins And Supplements', 'Vitamin C', 'Health', 'Covid-19', 'Coronavirus'] |
Last week UXPA Magazine published my article on “Mindful Design: What the UX World Can Learn from Yoga” (also reprinted in a previous post on Medium). The article describes how mindfulness practices like meditation and yoga can benefit designers throughout the lifecycle of design activities, from seeking inspiration to... | ['Yoga', 'Design', 'Mindfulness', 'Creativity', 'UX'] |
The data nodes send an activity update to the “Active” Name Node (every 5 seconds at minimum — configurable). This metadata is synced to the “Stand by” Name Node in real-time. Thus, when the “Active” fails, the “Stand by” has all the necessary metadata to switch over.
The Zookeeper, through its Fail-over Controller, m... | ['Hadoop', 'Hdfs', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
Hadoop’s MapReduce In General
Hadoop MapReduce is a framework to write applications that process enormous amounts of data (multi-terabyte) in-parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner.
A typical MapReduce job:
splits the input data-set into independent... | ['Mapreduce', 'Hadoop', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
Experienced Writers: Pass on Your Passion for Writing
Write for us and inspire new writers
Photo by Cliff Johnson on Unsplash
Have you been a published writer for a number of years, written for clients, worked as a ghostwriter, or published a book? We need experienced writers who want to pass on their passion for th... | ['Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Freelance', 'Submission Guidelines'] |
What to Buy (and What to Skip) to Prepare for Coronavirus
Advice from people in quarantine about what you actually need — and how to make life work
Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Follow Elemental’s ongoing coverage of the coronavirus outbreak here.
The World Health Organization has officially declared C... | ['Health', 'Pandemic', 'Coronavirus', 'Life', 'Food'] |
2. Don’t Spam Your Articles Inside Other Articles
Another fairly common practice when we make a post is to include links to other related articles in case readers want to continue reading.
The problem with this is that it can turn into spam. Believing that an excellent post should include at least three to four refer... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Advice', 'Ideas', 'Creativity'] |
Image classification:
The problem with image classification is this: Given a set of images that are all labeled with a single category, we are asked to predict these categories for a new set of test images and measure the accuracy of the predictions. There are many challenges to this task, including point of view vari... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
Learn and implement Haar cascade classifier in projects…
Viola Jones Algorithm
Working of Classifiers
The Viola-Jones object detection framework is a machine learning approach for object detection, proposed by Paul Viola and Micheal Jones in 2001. This framework can be trained to detect almost any object, but this p... | ['Machine Learning', 'Opencv', 'Python', 'Computer Vision', 'Haar Cascades'] |
Love ’em or hate ’em, Request for Proposals (RFPs) are standard practice for many non-profit, higher education, and government organizations, and this leaves project managers with few options when they’re purchasing tangible goods or professional services.
If this is your first project lead, make sure you know your or... | ['Design', 'Marketing', 'Business'] |
On Saturday morning, Megan Ranney was about to put on her scrubs when she heard that Joe Biden had won the presidential election. That day, she treated people with COVID-19 while street parties erupted around the country. She was still in the ER in the late evening when Biden and Vice President–elect Kamala Harris made... | ['Covid 19', 'Healthcare', 'Coronavirus', 'Healthcare Worker', 'Health'] |
Authors: Raj Bains, Maciej Szpakowski
Spark has become the default Data Engineering platform in the cloud. With Databricks, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Azure Databricks, Google Dataproc and Cloudera, one can rely on Spark being ubiquitously available.
As we work with Enterprises to move legacy ETL to Spark, we’ve been focusin... | ['Kubernetes', 'Spark', 'Data Engineering'] |
Every right decision in e-commerce is based on valid metrics.
The most successful businesses understand their online store’s performance and know which areas they need to improve in order to grow.
Email marketing is definitely one of the cheapest and most convenient ways to communicate with your prospect and loyal cu... | ['Content Marketing', 'Analytics', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
1. AWS is Quickly Becoming the Gold Standard of the Cloud
AWS is leading the pack in almost every aspect. According to Gartner, Amazon’s cloud is 10 times bigger than its next 14 competitors, combined! This is bad news for the folks at Azure and Google Cloud Platform but it is great news for you.
Whether you’re a web... | ['Career Change', 'Cloud Computing', 'AWS', 'Certification', 'Careers'] |
Deploy native Kubernetes cluster via AWS CDK Hallblazzar Follow Aug 30 · 7 min read
Preface
It has been a year after I assumed AWS Cloud Support Engineer. Looking back on the past 365 days, I feel none of them was unreasonably wasted. Peoples I met and cases/issues I worked on made me grow — just as Amazon’s philosop... | ['Aws Cdk', 'Kubernetes', 'Kubeadm', 'Programming', 'AWS'] |
Where’s the Evidence?
Psychological pricing has been studied for decades, and we’ve come to some very satisfying conclusions. In 1997, Kaushik Basu used game theory to explain how rational consumers use their time and effort when it comes to calculations. He gave an economic explanation for why this happens.
Photo by... | ['Economics', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Money', 'Marketing'] |
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As an entrepreneur, you are inclined to be a work-ethic. You have a planned day each day, where every portion of your time is carefully selected for any particular activity, and you try to wrestle with it to fulfill it.
Being an entrepreneur, I can understand why many CEOs and people in... | ['Sleep', 'Business', 'Insomnia', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Save money when using AWS Managed Kafka (MSK) pascal.brokmeier Follow Jun 28 · 4 min read
Let’s be blunt here for a second: MSK is not a mature managed service. The author of that post may have changed his mind in the meantime, but I have not. A simple kafka cluster on AWS runs you ~500 $. Do you want SSL with that? W... | ['DevOps', 'AWS', 'Streaming', 'Amazon', 'Kafka'] |
Netlify’s platform team is responsible for building and scaling the systems designed to keep Netlify, and the hundreds of thousands of sites that use it, up and running. We take that responsibility seriously, so we’re constantly looking for potential points of failure in our system and working to remove them. Most of o... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Distributed Systems', 'Rackspace', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing'] |
When did you join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
Kathy: I first started as a seasonal wildlife biologist technician in 1978. I worked off and on, and then became permanent in 1997.
Robb: Cumulatively, I have spent 13 years working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; first seasonal position was 2002, followed... | ['Oceans', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Birds', 'Science'] |
I’ve spent my entire career in technology, and now I am leaving.
I remember walking the halls of my university’s computer science department — hopeful in tech and woefully naive. The chair of the department approached me one afternoon and gave me an opportunity to work for GE. A few years later, I was working at the G... | ['Essay', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Community', 'Society'] |
I went to Powell’s City of Books in Portland with my daughter and my sister yesterday.
I thought I might buy a marketing book — something to give me some new ideas about bringing my business to the “next level.” You know, maybe something by Seth Godin or Gary Vaynerchuk or Ryan Holiday.
Powell’s didn’t disappoint. It... | ['Work', 'Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Hello Human! This is a new issue from my weekly newsletter, holding a tiny compilation made of interesting articles from last week, projects, tutorials and tools; all related to Data, Artificial Intelligence and adjacent topics. Bon appetit!
📝 Interesting articles this week
🔧 Tutorials
Continuous Delivery for Mach... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
In year 2020 it seems that major players in UI development are agreed in how we, developers, should design the UI (User Interface) of our apps or web apps. In this article I will show you the current UI development trends with different frameworks and environments available in 2020 and sum them up. Later I’ll take a lo... | ['JavaScript', 'UI', 'Java', 'Development', 'Swiftui'] |
New beta features of AutoAI in IBM Watson Studio automates feature engineering on multiple datasets Yin Chen Follow Aug 4 · 2 min read
Have you ever tried using automated machine learning tools, but found out they only accept one input file while you are dealing with multiple relational data tables like the following ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Automation', 'Data Science', 'Business Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Four months ago, I opened the doors to Creative Quo, a boutique marketing agency with a vision of making professional marketing services accessible to all. Within a week of announcing our launch, the projects started rolling in from referrals or leads acquired through my personal social media. This type of response we ... | ['Rebranding', 'Business', 'Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Life: You can’t forgive somebody, if you think you’re incapable of making mistakes!
Software: You introduce bugs, if you think your code not misbehave.
Life: Be open and acceptable around, and feel relaxed.
Software: Get rid of bugs, by adding appropriate tests.
Life: You will be submissive until you think others c... | ['Self-awareness', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Software Testing', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to Perform Edge Detection — The Math
Before talking about the code, let’s take a quick look at the math behind edge detection. We, as humans, are pretty good at identifying the “edges” of an image, but how do we teach a computer to do the same thing?
First, consider a rather boring image of a black square amidst ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Image Processing', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Visualization'] |
Dashboarding in MVC
Most UIs follow an MVC framework, by MVC, we mean Model-View-Controller. Each interconnected component is built to take on a specific task in the development process.
Model: The model is the heart of the dashboard. The model gets the data from the database, manipulates it and stores it in objects ... | ['Data Science', 'Tutorial', 'Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Python'] |
The Creative Benefits of Being Deeply Aware of Your Environment
5 stories that show the power of open-awareness
Photo by Roberto Nickson on Unsplash
When John Reed, Citibank’s head of checking account business, took a vacation in 1976, he didn’t expect to have such an epiphany.
Sitting in a beach chair and enjoying... | ['Awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Mindfulness'] |
Over the past year, I’ve taught dozens of writers blogging skills and creative nonfiction. We’d meet on Zoom (yes, before and during the pandemic) to discuss writing, where to make improvements, and how to raise visibility. While I was the instructor and moderator, I learned a heck of a lot from my students.
Here are ... | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Blogging', 'Writing'] |
Big Dreams of Personalized Health
Azizi Seixas uses sleep to study health inequalities — and make us all feel and snooze better.
By Elizabeth Preston
When people find out Azizi Seixas studies sleep, they sometimes ask him about their dreams. That’s not really his field — but he does have big dreams for his own resea... | ['Equality', 'Sleep', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Race'] |
9. Guest Posts on Related Blogs
While there are many ways to promote your content, there is one strategy that stands out as a consistent way to generate new organic traffic — writing a guest post on someone else’s blog.
Initially, some bloggers are hesitant to pursue this strategy, wondering:
Why would I give someon... | ['Social Media', 'Technology', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Every now and then, people ask about the advantages of using Netlify before a traditional cloud provider’s file storage service. Cloud providers can serve static files from your own domain name, so why use something else? In fact, Netlify uses those services to store files too. The difference is in the value added by N... | ['Infrastructure', 'Mapping', 'Wardley Maps', 'Computer Science', 'Engineering'] |
By Lily Silverton
PHOTOGRAPHED BY MOLLY CRANNA.
So this feature was nearly finished, with a completely different opening, when a woman I had just met at a party asked what I did for a living. I explained that I taught yoga and worked as a writer.
“Ah,” she said with a sage nod, looking me up and down, “so you have n... | ['Health', 'Yoga', 'Body Shaming', 'Wellness', 'Yoga Body'] |
Writers. We’re creative people. We’re our own bosses. No flimsy cubicle walls can hold our high-flying, freedom-loving spirits.
We set our own hours, follow our own passions, and write what we know. And while we generally agree that we should write every day, if for no other reason than to prime the pump, we’re not to... | ['Advice', 'Medium', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
I use Git every single day.
So do most software developers.
Honestly, Linus Torvalds’ little side project almost feels like a miracle.
However, the tool is so powerful and extensive that it’s easy to get lost in all the possible commands it has.
Hence, based on my own experience, here’s a compilation of answers to ... | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
How perfect does code need to be?
Image by Reimund Bertrams from Pixabay
In every project a programmer takes on, a tiny war is waged between time and perfection. Coding is a complex task that offers multiple ways to achieve the same end and is counter-intuitively both rigid in its function but subjective in its appra... | ['Development', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Design', 'Software Development'] |
The Biggest Hurdle for Young Entrepreneurs
And what it takes to finally make the jump.
Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash
To be both young and a successful entrepreneur is to be an anomaly; to defy human nature at its very core. Most of the hurdles that make entrepreneurship at a young age so difficult are known and ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
Here is Why Vitamin C is So Crucial to the Human Body
C for crucial & collagen
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Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is found in various foods. Water-soluble vitamins are not stored in the body and because of this, they must be consumed daily either t... | ['Health', 'Science', 'Healthcare', 'Fitness', 'Fitness Tips'] |
‘You’ve Done The Impossible!’ Declares Bitcoin.com Host to Richard Heart, Founder of HEX
Highly Informative, Stimulating: Bitcoin.com Podcast Host Dustin Plantholt Sits Down With Richard Heart, Founder of HEX
The following are excerpts in their original context. For the full interview please check out Bitcoin.com Pod... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
According to Your Body, There Are Only Two Seasons
New research suggests human biology only knows winter and spring
Image: Xuanyu Han/Getty Images
Autumn leaves changing color. The first winter snow. Daffodil blossoms signaling the start of spring. The long, hot days of summer. At temperate latitudes in Europe and t... | ['Biology', 'Health', 'Seasons', 'Science', 'Body'] |
3 Meaningful Ways to Begin Your Business While Working a Full-Time Job
#2 Create an unbreakable process that keeps you accountable
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, roughly 66% of businesses fail within 10 years. If this makes you wonder whether starting a business is ... | ['Inspiration', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Ideas', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
There are few things more unsettling for people-driven businesses like tech companies, professional service firms and asset managers than a spike in attrition. High attrition can easily become a downward spiral, as the exit of key people causes others to question the firm’s health and the opportunities they’ll have. Of... | ['People', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Startup', 'Human Resources'] |
In the past few decades, the topic of climate change became “popular”. There are protests around the world, powerful activists such as Greta Thunberg, international agreements and efforts in order to make the world more sustainable. A quick Google search for veganism shows an increase of 580 percent over the last five ... | ['Climate Change', 'Climate Action', 'Vegan', 'Sustainability', 'Food'] |
The Myth of the ‘Good Addict’ vs. the ‘Bad Addict’
We do people a disservice when we assume their hesitance at the 12 steps is hesitance at recovery
Photo: Linda D/Flickr
Chances are you know something about the 12 steps of recovery. We have seen it in movies or on TV. The church basement, strong coffee, a person st... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Addiction', 'Recovery', 'Addiction Recovery'] |
I can feel it
That edgy, vivid sensation accompanied by anticipation
Moving around inside my body
Leaving imperceptible traces of icy anxiety
Mixed with feverish excitement:
What is it going to be this time?
An incomprehensible event unfolding
Before my prominent hazel eyes?
Or perhaps an alarming situation
Th... | ['Creativity', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Energy', 'Writing'] |
Why Startups Need To Follow the Hard Product Path
Four steps to a stronger company and a higher valuation
When a startup attempts to build a product-based business out of an existing service model, there will always be the lure of leaning on the service to bring in revenue. But while that easy money may support you i... | ['Technology', 'Product Management', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
In one of my Vue project, I needed to generate word documents with different templates. I did a small R&D and came across several libraries and APIs to achieve this. All of them were not free and we have to buy a subscription which is very expensive for me. The available free libraries used an approach where we have to... | ['JavaScript', 'Front End Development', 'Vuejs', 'Web Development', 'Typescript'] |
Rafael Garrido Rivas | Managing Partner | everis USA
The thesis and final project for my Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering was about a speech recognition system (which actually only understood numbers) that I programmed in C++ using neural networks and Hidden Markov Models. As surprising as it may sound, i... | ['AI', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cognitive Bias'] |
Being a creative person sucks sometimes.
“Running a start-up is like chewing glass and staring into the abyss.” -Elon Musk
I know Elon was talking about running a start-up there, but I think the same principle can be applied to creatives in general.
I think a lot of us get lost in the tales of massive success from w... | ['Tech', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Life'] |
It’s a command-line tool, providing scaffolding, workflow automation and best practices for developing and deploying your serverless architecture. It’s also completely extensible via plugins.
The Serverless Framework consists of an open-source CLI and a hosted dashboard, also they provide you with full serverless appl... | ['Computer Science', 'Cloud Computing', 'Open Source', 'AWS', 'API'] |
It Will Take Years for People of Color to Recover From the Covid-19 Fallout
The pandemic lays bare structural inequities that need fixing across all aspect of American society
A healthcare worker gives a Covid-19 test to a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 202... | ['Health', 'Racism', 'Coronavirus', 'Race', 'Healthcare'] |
Hello dear readers!
Introduction
Each developer worked, working or will work with API for getting remote data. These data returns as some kind of models, entities or format. But We often have a lot of problems with data format and code case.
Problems
For example let’s make request to TMDB to get latest movie(https:... | ['API', 'Typescript', 'Axios', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs'] |
Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers is a skinny book that’s fat with great information for all writers — whether writing is your full-time job or a part of your professional responsibilities.
Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers is an addition to Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s earlier book, The Fr... | ['Self Improvement', 'Self Publishing', 'Writing', 'Grammar', 'Creativity'] |
React is a great framework and becomes more popular day by day. There are also other competitors such as Vue and Angular, and yeah both of them are great frameworks too because they have their own benefits compare to the React, but I have no experience to use either of them so we are going to focus on React only. I’m u... | ['Functional Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Reactjs', 'React', 'Typescript'] |
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