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Background
The Journey
If you were to map (sorry, pun intended) my journey, in the field we call UX, SpatialKey would certainly be one of my bigger stops. I was the first and only UX person at the time.
SpatialKey was a startup under Universal Mind. We had a very small team of people for many years as we built up th... | ['Web Apps', 'Case Study', 'Data Visualization', 'UX', 'Design'] |
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In early 2019, I started a Codecademy online course to learn the basics of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Every evening after work I would go through each lesson. Let me tell you — it was painful. I didn’t understand any of it. Why did things have ... | ['Development', 'Design', 'Tech', 'UX', 'Coding'] |
Cleaning up after you is a dirty business. There’s the reading, the blocking, the deleting, the don’t-let-this-get-to-you pep rally, complete with pom-poms and a megaphone. Honestly, I shouldn’t be doing this work — I’m not your parent; my job isn’t to teach you how to be a decent person. By now, you should’ve been sch... | ['Women', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Culture', 'Social Media'] |
What John Green Can Teach You About Writing
#1 bestselling author and 2006 Printz Award winner…
John Green is one of the most successful authors of this decade, winning multiple awards and writing books that have spent weeks on bestseller lists, and most of which have been adapted to movies. So what can one of the mo... | ['Creative Process', 'Writing', 'Creative', 'Creativity', 'Creative Writing'] |
Code Easily Becomes Verbose
As mentioned in the comments, I’m viewing this mainly from a React + Redux perspective. Your experience will highly depend on the libraries you use!
In general, the irony of using TypeScript and Flow is that manual typing is something we want to avoid as much as we can! It can make code mo... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Web Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
For me, everything is about that first line and where it takes you. Some writers are driven by plot, the delicate arrangement of chess pieces, while others are drawn in by a character and the ability to go on a journey with a new fictional friend. And some writers live for the music words make — they hold the beauty of... | ['Writing', 'Education', 'How To Write', 'Creativity', 'Fiction'] |
A few weeks ago, I attended a training about dealing with difficult people, during which the instructor spoke about people being in control of their own emotions. He said we should not let other people’s feelings affect us “too much,” but this fails to recognize that some of us don’t have a choice, or that there is no ... | ['Self', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Pandemic', 'Empathy'] |
Basic Example of Neural Style Transfer
Basic Example of Neural Style Transfer using Tensorflow and Pre-Trained Models
This post is a practical example of Neural Style Transfer based on the paper A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style (Gatys et al.). For this example, we will use the pre-trained Arbitrary Image Stylizat... | ['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'TensorFlow', 'Tensorflow Hub', 'Neural Style Transfer'] |
How to Write a Feminist Story
8 tips to validate characters in your story
Photo by Isi Parente on Unsplash
Writers around me often ask these questions:
how to write in solidarity with feminism,
how to make my writing resonate with feminists, and
the strangest of all — how to target the feminist audience.
It was ... | ['Feminism', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Bechdel Test', 'Essay'] |
Reaching Out is made of raw and honest lives like yours. We are strengthened by hearing your story, wherever it leads.
A little about us:
We are a Medium publication & community dedicated to LGBTQ people of all backgrounds and religions.
We are not afraid of stories of faith lost, deconstructed, or renewed in unexpe... | ['Storytelling', 'Christianity', 'Writing', 'LGBTQ', 'Muslim'] |
I’ve written a couple of times about the mental struggles that I’ve gone through in my life. From being in the darkest moments of my life more than 15 years ago to having smaller attacks of worries and anxieties since then, I’ve shared my experiences with my readers openly.
What I’ve not really done though, is shared ... | ['Health', 'Mental Health', 'Support', 'Mental Illness', 'Mental Health Awareness'] |
Fix Bugs in Your Swift Code
Squash those critters
Photo by David Clode on Unsplash
We use the squash, splat and crush analogy from insects when talking about bugs. This is with good reason: Thomas Edison wrote about bugs during his hardware engineering travails and this means the term is probably here to stay.
Get ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Swift Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Swift', 'Programming'] |
How to Teach Students to Love Writing
Motivating students to write is important.
How much time do teachers spend trying to teach proper writing skills, such as grammar, spelling, genre, form, and structure? Probably a lot of time. After all, they are important skills for writing successfully. However, how much focus ... | ['Teaching English', 'Motivation', 'Education', 'Teaching', 'Writing'] |
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The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has brought the world to a standstill, as individuals, healthcare professionals, and businesses scramble to come to terms with the new normal.
With several countries imposing stringent lockdowns, businesses find themselves in a precarious po... | ['Marketing', 'Crisis Communications', 'Coronavirus', 'Brand Strategy', 'Communication'] |
As we’re getting close to ending what was one rollercoaster of a year, we’ve decided to pay an ode to our faithful companions. Companions who kept our spirits up during the endless days of lockdown restrictions and social distancing. Here’s a round-up of the most interesting books, movies, videos, documentaries, podcas... | ['UI Design', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'New York'] |
How has the company been able to reach these levels of success? With a direct, authentic 1:1 relationship with customers.
The value proposition Glossier brings to the table is the extra-special attention individuals receive in every interaction, perfectly serving what they hear about others’ requests.
For instance, G... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Design', 'UX', 'Tech'] |
The clash could have been avoided
After that initial realization, I was able to pinpoint one major mistake I made in my quest to becoming a better version of myself by moving thousands of kilometers away from my comfort zone: I neglected to work on my self-awareness first.
In an interview with Forbes, Andy Molinski, ... | ['Depression', 'Comfort Zone', 'Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Anxiety'] |
5. Conditional Abortion
Suppose that you start with an iterable, and for particular business needs, you need to iterate it and the iteration doesn’t stop until some condition is met. In this case, you should consider using a function called takewhile, which is also a higher-order function that is available in the iter... | ['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
News: Medium Has Lost Its Way
Prepping for a giant loaf of white bread in my future dashboard
Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash
Medium has always maintained a ‘no clickbait’ policy as long as I’ve been a member. But somehow they’ve lost their way in the basic human behavior department. The latest change in distributi... | ['Medium', 'Marketing', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Don’t let 2021 start without a solid publishing plan. Now is the time to gab a piece of paper and flesh-out your writing plan for next year. Don’t wait until January.
January becomes July, then November. Then your here. A year later. Wondering why your audience hasn’t grown.
Make a plan now, as the year winds-down. L... | ['Medium', 'Marketing', 'Money', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
3 to read: Pokemon Go & newsrooms | Who defines your startup’s success? | Why stats stink (w bad drawings)
By Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>This week:
This week: How Pokemon Go will help usher in an era of “augmented reality” stories for newsrooms; don’t let outside expectations define your news startup’s success; and hey... | ['Journalism', 'Startup', 'Media', 'Pokemon Go', 'Statistics'] |
“Turn your passion into a money-making opportunity.” How many times have you heard that? Bloggers, YouTubers, and life coaches love to tout this idea as a great solution to our financial woes. The “side-hustle” and the “gig economy” are all ways to do this, people say.
Most of the time, I just want to relax, and expre... | ['Productivity', 'Personal Growth', 'Passion', 'Writing'] |
This upgrade necessarily had me touching large parts of the application. I took this opportunity to do two things. One of those was to familiarize myself with the large swathes of the front-end that I know exist but have not had a chance to work with previously. This project definitely led to me having a far better und... | ['Apollo Client', 'Typescript', 'Upgrade', 'Apollo', 'React'] |
A Guide to Effective Sales and Communication
Quick tips on how to sell better and get things moving in your organisation.
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
The art of selling becomes more prevalent and essential as you progress further in your career or expand your business.
When I started as a developer, I only ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Presentations', 'Communication'] |
Learn how to apply as a contributor to www.indiependent.co.uk
If you’re interested in joining The Indiependent contributor team then all you have to do is send an email to contactus@indiependent.co.uk with a brief summary of the following:
A little bit about you — including your full (preferred) name, age and where y... | ['The Indiependent', 'Journalism', 'Media', 'Writing', 'Write For Us'] |
The present analysis is based in the article of Saiteja Kura : Whatsapp Group Chat Analysis using Python and Plotly
Lot of people is using whatsapp, and most of the whatsapp user is in a chat group (toxic or not). Some of us ask ourselves questions like “Why this dude is in the group if never send a message” or “I’m f... | ['Feature Engineering', 'Chart Analysis', 'Python', 'Plotly'] |
Dead SEO Strategies
Putting your website in directories and stuffing your post with links
This was a good idea in the past. Where the off-page SEO efforts were just as basic as putting your website links into directories and in forums.
While for on-page SEO, you just stuffed in backlinks from various sites and wait.... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing', 'Copywriting', 'SEO'] |
The first few years of our existence are characterized by a wide range of activities, beliefs and commitments that are either inherited or thrust upon us. Rarely challenged to forge a path of our own, who we are becomes more or less the agglomeration of our environment and genetics.
Until, of course, that fateful peri... | ['Self Improvement', 'Philosophy', 'College', 'Psychology', 'Development'] |
Why Integrate Diversity in the Energy Sector with AI and more?
Integration of technologies and diversity in data sources can act as catalysts towards the energy transition, but it’s easier said than done
Photo by Scott Umstattd on Unsplash
What does it mean to “Integrate Diversity”?
It starts with understanding and... | ['Towards Data Science', 'Renewable Energy', 'Data Science', 'Energy Storage', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
We learned to use Graphic User Interfaces because we had to, in order to give orders to the machine. We learned the machine’s language. What if we actually make the machine learn our language? I mean real language with sentences and intention, understanding, empathy even.
“The Fly” movie shows Seth Brundle having some... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Can a gadget addict go green?
Thoughts about kicking my conspicuous consumption habit
Falling iPhone sales may be bad for Apple, but keeping old iPhones going is good for Earth (photo©babulous)
A few days ago, I saw a news article that said iPhone users now wait four years to upgrade their devices. I can relate to t... | ['Recycling', 'Electronic Waste', 'Environment', 'Conspicuous Consumption', 'Apple'] |
My latest diary entry crowned me a Self-Deprecation Queen.
I titled it Confessions of a Terribly Absentminded Trans Girl: How would you save a clown version of Cinderella? I poked fun at myself and portrayed my situation as pathetic.
Using myself as a comedic punching bag is JOY. It lets me vent aggression at my inad... | ['Self Improvement', 'Comedy', 'Productivity', 'Writing', 'Diary'] |
PixieDust 1.0 is here!
Notebook data visualizations for everyone
Back in October of last year, I introduced the PixieDust open source project. PixieDust is a helper library for Python or Scala notebooks, which lets you generate sophisticated charts, maps, and other visualizations in a few clicks — no coding necessary... | ['Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Pixiedust', 'Data Science', 'Scala'] |
Are you someone who comes up with a new idea almost every day? Yesterday it was becoming an event planner — Today, it’s starting a YouTube channel. Tomorrow it may be writing that book you’ve always wanted to write. Oh, remember back in high school you wanted to become a filmmaker? Time to dust off that bad boy and get... | ['Ideas', 'Startup', 'Productivity', 'Thoughts', 'Work'] |
One Year Since Julian Assange Was Detained, He Faces Greatest Threat To His Survival Yet Kevin Gosztola Follow Apr 11 · 8 min read
Photo taken and owned by Kevin Gosztola
It has been one year since the United States government, with the support of the governments of Ecuador, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, dramatical... | ['Journalism', 'Wikileaks', 'Julian Assange', 'Human Rights', 'Coronavirus'] |
However, by combining creative problem-solving with an unapologetic focus and time management framework, we can successfully manage our conflicting duties and busy schedules and take back our lives, even during the pandemic.
Drawing from the intersection of positive psychology, design thinking, habits, and behavioral ... | ['Friendship', 'Mental Health', 'Wellness', 'Working From Home', 'Women'] |
spyrestudios
The question of searching for UX design jobs as a new UX designer gets asked a lot and I receive these kinds of questions a lot to the point where writing a blog post about it might help eager designers search for their first UX job. A question I received out of many pertaining to this topic is: “How can ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Design', 'UX', 'Life Lessons', 'Startup'] |
Don’t Let your Kids Crush Your Dreams
How to Juggle Kids, Career, and a Business One-Handed
Source: Tina Bo at Unsplash
If you’re a parent, you know what it’s like to have to do things one-handed. Newborn cradled in one arm like a football as you make yourself a coffee to fight the sleep deprivation brought on by wa... | ['Work Life Balance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Kids', 'Productivity'] |
A while back, I posted the following essay to a Facebook group of women writers that I’m in. In a nutshell, this essay is about me — while I was living in Hanoi — dating a much younger Vietnamese man for 10 months, who turned out to be a covert narcissist. He almost killed me.
You would think that the comments about m... | ['Nonfiction', 'Experience', 'Outrage', 'Viewpoints', 'Writing'] |
Multidimensional scaling for dissimilarity visualization
An implementation with Python
Multidimensional scaling is a powerful technique used to visualize in 2-dimensional space the (dis)similarity among objects. The idea is that we can derive to what extent two objects are similar, based on the geometric distance the... | ['Python', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Distance Matrix', 'Multidimensional Scaling', 'Dissimilarity'] |
Internet access and cost challenges are common and can cause frustration, anxiety, panic, and — worst of all — lack of trust in your products. Before exploring design options to alleviate these problems, it’s important to understand the different ways access and cost influence how users interact with apps and websites.... | ['Cost Transparency', 'Design', 'Next Billion Users', 'Trust', 'Transparency'] |
Currently, I study Artificial Intelligence at the JKU university and for some exercises, we need to use jupyter notebooks. Having worked a little bit with Python the package manager pipenv proofed to be valuable. Now, I encountered some problems using it with Jupyter notebooks and within VSCode. Therefore, a short guid... | ['Python', 'Vscode', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Pipenv', 'Pyenv'] |
8 Things to Know to Master Python Function Arguments
All you need to know to write readable Python functions
Photo by Marc Marchal on Unsplash.
We always use functions in our projects — no matter what our projects are about. When we call functions that are written by others, we need to understand the function signat... | ['Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Introduction
Google Colab is a project from Google Research, a free, Jupyter based environment that allows us to create Jupyter [programming] notebooks to write and execute Python [1](and other Python-based third-party tools and machine learning frameworks such as Pandas, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Monk, OpenCV, and ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Technology', 'Education', 'Science'] |
Humans are increasingly displaced and distance-enabled. Without a sense of connection, knowledge, and commitment to geographically-bound places over longer periods of time, we design out of context and relationship, abstracted from the direct experience and consequences of our actions.
Design for social innovation oft... | ['Environment', 'Design', 'Design Thinking'] |
Ask the Copy Editors: Q&A with Deirdre, Lelo, Brittany, Ayanna, and Vinh
Note: These answers apply to all publications within the “Better Publishing” network — Better Humans, Better Marketing, and Better Programming.
What are some common errors that you see in articles?
A very common one is unnecessary capitalizatio... | ['Editing', 'Ｍedium', 'Marketing', 'Writing', 'Grammar'] |
When writing about outer space, I often compare it to the vast and plentiful oceans here on Earth. Both are mysterious frontiers as yet largely unexplored and with magnificent potential — from sunken cities and trench inhabitants to strange planets tidally locked to their stars, creating a surface of duality where scor... | ['Environment', 'Technology', 'Science', 'Space', 'Universe'] |
Over the years, I must have walked this same route a thousand times, yet I’ve never tired of its charms. If one is attentive enough, every walk is an opportunity to see new sights and hear new sounds. On many occasions, I walked off the track and ended up in some unfamiliar landscape I never could have imagined. For th... | ['Psychology', 'Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration'] |
4. What is a Perceptron?
A perceptron is a neural network without any hidden layer. A perceptron only has an input layer and an output layer.
Figure 6: A perceptron
Where we can use perceptrons?
Perceptrons’ use lies in many case scenarios. While a perceptron is mostly used for simple decision making, these can als... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Technology', 'Education', 'Science'] |
An innovative project that lowers runway temperatures by using recycled water to grow commercial crops at airports will be shared with global aviation leaders in Abu Dhabi this week.
The world-first project is expected to generate strong interest from numerous airports in hot regions, especially those with busy long-h... | ['Airports', 'Global Warming', 'Physics', 'Sustainability', 'Science'] |
Bokeh 2.2 is out this week, with DataTable improvements, SVG export fixes, performance enhancements, a new DocumentReady event, and lots of other small fixes and features.
DataTables
The DataTable got a style update! The header row and overall theme have been lightened, resulting in a more modern look. #10363
New Da... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Web Development', 'Visualization'] |
What’s the problem?
Before you jump to create a swimmer guide, take a look at the description of the movement of each stroke. Just to make it visual, I organized everything into a spreadsheet and highlighted things that caught my attention.
The Freestyle and Backstroke both swim in a horizontal position, but Backstro... | ['Design Patterns', 'Object Oriented', 'Composition', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
As a clinician in private practice, one of the phrases that I hear myself repeating often is “Anxiety likes a blank canvas.” This emphasizes several aspects of anxiety:
Anxiety is about a possible future that has not happened yet.
Anxiety explores options, especially dangerous-feeling “what ifs”.
And when there is a... | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Anxiety', 'Therapy'] |
Dieting Addiction
A poem about poison
Photo by i yunmai on Unsplash
She is addicted.
She has been hooked since she was young.
Sold it as the solution for life.
She was told it’s health-giving, necessary.
That it will save her.
Yet, it’s taken away her life.
Stolen precious minutes of every hour.
Robbed her of... | ['Poetry', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology'] |
Work with private repositories and other updates of the FlyElephant platform
The FlyElephant team has prepared a number of upgrades that allow you to work with private repositories with an improved system security and good task functionality.
FlyElephant is a platform for scientists, providing a computing infrastruct... | ['Science', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
One of the biggest challenges that a new freelance writer faces is the “voice”. When you are writing for clients, your writing voice might not resonate with every single client. You need to speak their branding language. At the same time, you need to figure out the style of writing that your client wants to see. Before... | ['Audience', 'Freelancing', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Writing Tips'] |
It’s Time to Take a Serious Break, and You Can Do This
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the need for real downtime
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Sitting in my usual chair in front of my computer at a ridiculously early hour on a Friday morning, uninspired by every single story idea I was mulling after 11 months... | ['Wellbeing', 'Vacation', 'Motivation', 'Mental Health', 'Burnout'] |
To Read More Books, Practice “The Bill Gates Effect”
Implement these strategies if you want to read more frequently.
Photo via Flickr
I’ve reached a point in my life where I enjoy nothing more than sitting down and reading a good book for several hours. But I wasn’t always like this. More often than not, I struggled... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Education', 'Books', 'Reading'] |
Biotech founders, apply to Boost VC for your first $500k!
Boost VC is looking to invest in 2 biotech companies in the next 2 months for Tribe 14. Apply at www.boost.vc/apply
Over the last couple years we have backed biotech companies: InterVenn (AI driven mass spectrometry), NewCulture (lab grown cheese), Dynomics (r... | ['Venture Capital', 'Biotechnology', 'Startup'] |
Guidelines
Once we’ve added you as a writer, follow these guidelines to submit your story. We only have a few, so take a moment to read them. They do matter.
New Stories Only
We only accept unpublished drafts. This is so we can ensure proper scheduling and that each story spends ample time on our front page.
Follow... | ['Community', 'Collaboration', 'Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Submission Guidelines'] |
Become More Self-Aware in the Next 3 Minutes
Deciding to be alone is always the hardest part
Photo by Houcine Ncib on Unsplash
Everyone wants to be self-aware, but no one wants to be by themselves.
Unfortunately, if we never spend time alone, we’ll never know who we are.
Often, it’s not being alone that’s hard, it... | ['Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Body Image', 'Self-awareness'] |
I’m writing this from North Carolina where I’m hunkering down at home with my family.
Since I’ve worked from home for over ten years, my daily routine hasn’t been affected very much. Everything feels like normal until I read the news or hear my neighbor’s high school age son playing basketball in the driveway during s... | ['Productivity', 'Freelancing', 'Work', 'Writing', 'Remote Work'] |
Web Resources
🔦 ML Showcase — great for project inspiration, this repository of data science projects from Team Paperspace should certainly get your wheels turning.
🎓 Codecademy — time after time, I find myself recommending this powerful learning platform to folks breaking into coding or looking to pick up new lang... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Best Machine Learning Blogs to Follow in 2020
Keep up with the best and the latest machine learning (ML) research blogs through reliable sources
From researchers to students, industry experts, and machine learning (ML) enthusiasts — keeping up with the best and the latest machine learning research is a matter of find... | ['Machine Learning', 'Science', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning Blog', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Step 1
Add the following to packages.txt in your Airflow project root directory. These packages are to support the running of Jupyter within your docker image.
build-base
python3-dev
zeromq-dev
Step 2
Add the jupyter package to your requirements.txt which also resides in the airflow project root directory
jupyte... | ['Airflow', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Etl', 'Astronomer', 'Python'] |
What AI Can Teach Us About Failure
Please don’t buy into failure-ism. Train for strikes not gutter balls.
Photo by Jorik Kleen on Unsplash
If you’ve read anything on business in the last two decades, there’s a good chance you’ve heard that failure is significant, something to be proud of, a badge of entrepreneurial ... | ['Failure', 'Life Lessons', 'Success', 'Psychology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Can You Really Make Money on News Break?
The News Break difference that makes it a revelation
Photo: Roman Kraft on unsplash
Lately, a couple of my beloved friends/fellow writers have noticed that (once again) I’ve been strangely absent from Medium.
Taking lengthy breaks from the platform is always a good indicator... | ['Money', 'Success', 'Writing', 'Finance', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
It’s been over a year since I quit my full-time job to make my way in the world in the ship of ATRIUM Consultancy. I got smart with myself and my social circles and decided to leverage my skills to my broad network. Having been in the Hospitality and Tourism trade for 6 years enabled me to not break into new territory ... | ['Tips', 'Startup', 'Freelance', 'Consulting', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
THE SALSA DIARIES #2
Monday Marketing Meeting at the Chateaux de la Swine
There’s a time and place for cock
Salsa dyed cock. New from the Chateaux de la Swine. Photo by laura adai on Unsplash
At the Chateaux de la Swine it was time for our daily dose of marketing. A meeting that often descended into chaos as each f... | ['Satire', 'Humor', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Salsa'] |
Set Up a New Firebase Project and Credentials
First things first, we need to set up our Firebase credentials so we’re able to use their APIs. Their documentation is detailed and easy enough to follow. You can find it here.
Anyway, let’s still go through the setup process so everybody is on the same page. We’ll only d... | ['Data Science', 'Firebase', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering'] |
Unleash Your Full Potential With The Power of Mindfulness
10 wise quotes to inspire success in your life by Eckhart Tolle.
Photo by Lukas Rodriguez from Pexels
You feel stuck in your life? Do you wonder when the magical moment will come when you have the energy to do what is necessary to fulfill your wildest dreams?... | ['Success', 'Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
Stories about working conditions in Amazon’s warehouses — and efforts by Amazon’s warehouse workers to change those conditions — stretch back nearly a decade. But like other systemic crises, Amazon workers’ fight for dignity and safer jobs has been greatly amplified by the coronavirus pandemic. With a rising count of w... | ['Amazon', 'Labor', 'Protest', 'Workers Rights', 'Coronavirus'] |
In my previous article, we explored how to use RabbitMQ Extension for Azure Functions. We discussed how to create an Azure Function using RabbitMQ Extension. The function gets triggered when we send a message to a RabbitMQ Queue. We also discussed how to generate a Dockerfile so that we can use it in production environ... | ['Keda', 'Kubernetes', 'Azure Functions', 'Rabbitmq', 'Event Driven Architecture'] |
How Authors Can Test Their Writing Before Publishing
Building a following and getting eyes on your writing before you publish
Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash
As authorpreneurs, we understand the impact an audience has on our success. We want to make sure we are delivering content that people want to read.
Bu... | ['Publishing', 'Nonfiction', 'Fiction Writing', 'Authorpreneur', 'Writing'] |
Be Proactive & Strategic For Maximum Results…
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Sometimes we get caught up in our own daily lives which may lead to not accomplishing our goals because of lack of energy, focus and even motivation.
Looking for a quick fix in making us feel better can include things that are hurtful to our bo... | ['Life Lessons', 'Wellness', 'Success', 'Motivation', 'Energy'] |
It was very pretty and very green. Grass went all the way from the wall right up to the edges of the big, glass building in the middle. It must have been seventy stories high and it sat on top of an old red-brick building, a little bit like the ones near the market, but far bigger. The houses near the market were long ... | ['Writing', 'London', 'World', 'Fiction', 'Books'] |
Kubernetes supports multiple virtual clusters within the same physical cluster. These virtual clusters are called Namespaces. Namespaces are a way to divide cluster resources between multiple users. Many enterprises use Namespaces to divide the same physical Kubernetes cluster into different virtual software developmen... | ['Istio', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Kubernetes', 'Microservices', 'Cloud Native'] |
1. Be curious and ask interesting questions.
According to several studies published in the Greater Good Science Center, curious people have better relationships. The research suggests that people who are curious are “often viewed in social encounters as more interesting and engaging and they are more apt to reach out ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health'] |
This One Silly Notebook Will Unlock 50% More of Your Hidden Potential
I uncovered this gem by accident
Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash
I’m a content junkie. I read 100 books a year. I watch hundreds of hours of YouTube videos and thousands of hours of audio. Most of what goes in doesn’t stick. I do other things wh... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Life'] |
The first time I tried to learn machine learning a few years ago, I felt miserable. I had a hard time installing dependencies, let alone understanding any basic machine learning algorithms. Fast forward to 2020, with more time at home, I decided to give ML another try. This time, it was much easier to find friendly lea... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Typography', 'Fonts'] |
Install Debug Tools
We’ll write a new application to go through the setup steps. You can also clone the application from Github if you don’t want to set it up locally.
cargo init rustapp
cd rustapp
code .
For a linux backend(WSL2 in this case), install the CodeLLDB extension on Visual Studio Code. | ['Debugging', 'Vscode', 'Development', 'Productivity', 'Rustlang'] |
5 Lessons I’ve Learnt building ML models for enterprise
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1. Understand your ultimate goal and intermediate milestones
Mistake #1: I was obsessed with the conventional CRISP-DM process and focused too much on the general data mining tasks and deviated from the actual business goa... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Lessons Learned', 'Python', 'Motivation'] |
2. I Wish I Was More Willing to Forgive
“Lara, I can tell you countless examples of when this applied to my life. Professional, personal, you name it, I was known for holding an intense grudge. But nothing hurts me more than two scenarios in particular. One in which I was unable to forgive my mother. And one in which ... | ['Inspiration', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Life', 'Mental Health'] |
So you are interested in applied machine learning (ML) research? Oftentimes, a lot of young aspiring machine learning researchers jump straight into reading papers and either get discouraged with the amount of work published on a particular topic or get too caught up reading a lot of papers with very little progress on... | ['Machine Learning', 'Science', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
We all learn at a very young age it’s easy to justify almost any action with a well-crafted explanation. We’re punished more severely without one, and so it becomes natural as we grow up to develop this on a subconscious level.
Renowned social psychologist Bernard Weiner published a study in 1987 detailing the investi... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Self', 'Education', 'Psychology'] |
Let’s Get Right Into It!
Let’s start out by deconstructing the statement from left to right. We already know what an if statement is; however, the most important part of the statement are the two things being compared.
Let’s start with __name__ .This is used to denote the name of the file that is currently being run,... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Learning To Code', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
Overview
This article looks at the unique challenges introduced by Edge computing for AI/ML workloads, which can have a negative impact on results. It applies available machine learning models to real-world Edge datasets, to show how these challenges can be overcome, while preserving accuracy in the dynamic nature of ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Edge Computing', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
With Swift being open source and server side swift gaining more and more traction, command line apps built with swift can be extemely powerful for server side applications. There have been some libraries which helps to build useful command line apps and today we’ll explore few libraries and build a simple command line ... | ['Swift', 'Mobile App Development', 'Swift Programming', 'Command Line', 'Apple'] |
Cash In Reserve — At the early stage, especially seed, chances are you will keep pivoting till finding product-market fit. At Tau Ventures we advise entrepreneurs with four main principles:
i) to start fundraising at least 6 months before running out of cash
ii) to raise 10% more than what their plan calls for
iii) ... | ['Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Pivot', 'Entrepreneur', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Let’s face it. We are in a collective and personal crisis. It’s been going on for almost a year, and though there are reasons for optimism, their impact won’t be felt for quite a while. The Covid pandemic has conspired with the ugliest and sometimes frightening political and cultural issues of our history.
It’s like t... | ['Resilience', 'Mental Health', 'Stress', 'Coronavirus', 'New Year'] |
Get any UX job with a stellar portfolio presentation by reading this
Advice I received from people at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and more
This article was co-written with Angela Nguyen ❤
Link to talk (Youtube)
Link to follow up article with additional tips
Featured on Marvel, Fall 2018
You passed the initial phone... | ['Self Improvement', 'Design', 'Life Lessons', 'UX', 'Startup'] |
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Have you ever wondered how google image search works or How amazon can retrieve products similar to the image that we upload in the app/site?
To achieve this task we will be using one simple method.
We are going to pick a pre-trained deep learning model, remove the top layers, and extract... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Deep Learning', 'Resnet50', 'Image Processing'] |
Adding a User
Version 0.8.0 of k0s brings the user subcommand. It allows us to create a kubeconfig for an additional user/group. For instance, the following command creates the kubeconfig file of a new user named demo , which is inside an imaginary group named development .
Note: In Kubernetes, users and groups are m... | ['Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Containers', 'Programming', 'Startup'] |
after Laurie Halse Anderson
Her silence is a virtue, so they say
with hands that cover mouth and words and breath
awake and sleeping. Should she bite today
or is she best left bleeding? Little deaths
now crawl within and take over her skin
an hour or a month. She blinks her eyes,
pretends that there’s a person p... | ['Ninjabyob', 'Storytelling', 'Poetry', 'Life', 'Mental Health'] |
How You Can Be A More Successful Writer Than I Am
A few tips on how you can make more money than I do — and why I’m not raking in the bucks, like you can.
Photo: Steve Halama / Medium / Irrevocable, nonexclusive copyright to use and distribute for free.
I’ve been writing on Medium long enough to get a sense of what ... | ['Money', 'Success', 'Influencers', 'Writing', 'Marketing'] |
Some People Just Suck — and It’s Not Your Fault
Someone else’s baggage is not your baggage.
Photo by Velvet Morris on Unsplash
I like to agonize over things that I can’t change.
Okay, I wouldn’t say that I like it necessarily — but that doesn’t stop me from obsessing over things that are out of my control anyway.
... | ['Relationships', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
A is for Adoption
Measure how people are using (or not using) your design system
There are two groups who need to adopt your design system: designers who use UI kits and engineers who use a code library such as React. Design adoption is easy — just swap out the UI kit and voila. However, code that is even one day old... | ['Craft', 'React', 'Design Systems', 'Design', 'Design Operations'] |
As a child, when I learned about how plants produce the oxygen that we breathe, I imagined that I could see that oxygen in the air. In my mind’s eye, I saw vast waves of oxygen rising from a lush tropical rainforest.
The image makes sense — if plants produce oxygen, it stands to reason that bigger plants produce more,... | ['Environment', 'Science', 'Nature', 'Oceans', 'Plants'] |
Workplace design and building professionals have responded admirably to the Covid-19 pandemic, advancing a multitude of practical and science-backed ideas for safely re-opening offices where and when government officials allow. Unfortunately, by themselves these prescriptions could fall short in convincing large swaths... | ['Wellness', 'Architecture', 'Work', 'Psychology', 'Interior Design'] |
The shift of humanity is happening in our courtrooms. The Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess would have been so happy. His Deep Ecology vision is really changing the world now.
We are not only realizing that people are part of nature. We are one. But our law systems are now also acting upon the fact that nature has an i... | ['Rivers', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'Sustainability', 'Law'] |
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