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How to Get in the Perfect Mood for Coding
Improve your productivity with these emotional tips
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Sitting in front of a computer and “just code” is not always that easy. We are humans too, with worry days and tired mornings. Programming is such an emotional game to win. You have to con... | ['Mental Health', 'Work', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
9 Writing Lessons I Learned From Drafting My First Fiction Novel
Tips to consider if you’re interested in crafting a new story
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The idea first started over the summer.
I had just finished reading a book by a musician named Andrew Peterson where he talked about the creative process ... | ['Fiction Writing', 'Storytelling', 'Fiction', 'Advice', 'Writing'] |
Gender detransition refers to reversing a gender transition, and reidentifying as the gender assigned at birth. I recently came across a detransitioner, Peter, to talk about something that I struggled to understand. Detransition has been used interchangeably with ‘sex change regret’, which is not the same thing. As a t... | ['LGBTQ', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Transgender', 'Detransition'] |
Let’s talk about inherent worthiness for a sec.
“You are inherently worthy.”
What does that statement make you feel? Like, really feel?
For years, this statement made me feel…kind of good? (I guess). But there was always a question quick on the heels:
Then why don’t I feel like it?
The answer: Because I didn’t act... | ['Self', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Advice'] |
Prototypes are created to save time, communicate better and focus on how the product will actually work.
Prototypes are often created early on and used for user testing or done through code to understand the feasibility of a technology. Both are extremely important parts of the product development process. They help w... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Mobile Apps', 'Prototyping', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Introduction
In this article, I will explain why pandas’ itertuples() function is faster than iterrows() . More importantly, I will share the tools and techniques I used to uncover the source of the bottleneck in iterrows() . By the end of this article, you will be equipped with the basic tools to profile and optimize... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Pandas', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Create an API With Deno
What better way to start playing with Deno than by creating our first REST API.
With this little tutorial, I am going to create a very simple array of movies and the five methods to list, search, create, update, and delete elements.
The first step is to create an index file, in this case app.... | ['API', 'Typescript', 'Deno'] |
But not literally
Recently I’ve had the problem of securing a custom ETL tool for a client project built using a combination of AppEngine and Kubernetes applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I need to control access to these apps from external networks, and ideally integrate with an existing IAM policy. Enter I... | ['Identity Aware Proxy', 'Kubernetes', 'Microservices', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Authentication'] |
Background
I am a technologist for almost four decades.
Over the years, I developed a large readers group based in various academic, industry, and public platforms. My readers want to follow my technology-related content from a single and curated source.
These loyal followers requested me to curate compelling, insig... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Entertainment', 'Writing'] |
24 Most Controversial Books of All Time
Readers.com infographic details most challenged/banned books of all time
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Salman Rushdie, among many others, finds a book of his on this list of the 24 most controversial books of all time. There... | ['Writing', 'Free Speech', 'Infographic', 'Books'] |
For the last few months I’ve been working on a new company to help patients organize and visualize their health stories — Pictal Health. I come from a human-centered design background, and in my past work I have often used design principles to provide creative constraints and help my team make good decisions over the c... | ['Healthcare', 'Startup', 'Design Process', 'Design'] |
Why Should You Trust Me?
So far, I’ve said nothing unique. Every writing guru claims they have the secret sauce and every other guru doesn’t. What makes me different?
Here’s your first clue. I’m not going to promise any of this will work exactly the way I say it will. Good advice is nothing more than a suggestion. No... | ['Creative Writing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Writing Tips'] |
2. You need to understand the origin of your anxiety
One of the biggest misconceptions about anxiety is that it’s necessary to understand its origins in your life in order to deal with it effectively.
For example, I had a client once who came to see me because she was having panic attacks anytime she drove on the fre... | ['Self', 'Psychology', 'Anxiety', 'Life', 'Mental Health'] |
You did it again, didn’t you?
You let yourself run out of ideas of things to write about. Every time this happens, you promise you won’t let it happen again. You put Idea Generation on your to-do list. You write it in big red letters and draw circles and arrows around it. You make it a Really Big Deal.
But when it co... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Ideas', 'Self-awareness'] |
I’m using the awesome Rainbow CSV plugin for Visual Studio Code which is highlighting my CSV data file with these nice colors.
There are a lot of columns with interesting information in this data file, but I will only be focusing on the following:
Column 0: The data provider vendor ID
Column 3: Number of passengers
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Csharp', 'Data Science'] |
This week marked my 5th anniversary (or Vaynerversary, as we call it) at a company I love: VaynerMedia. It’s a feat only a handful (no pun intended) of others have achieved to date, and one in which I happen to be quite proud. It reminds me of so much, and all the experiences, lessons and amazing friendships that have ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Life'] |
You can also checkout the explainer video where I walk through these concepts in detail
Explainer video on the topic — “What is Google Kubernetes Engine?”
Next steps
If you like this #GCPSketchnote then subscribe to my YouTube channel 👇 where I post a sketchnote on one topic every week!
Follow my website for downl... | ['Kubernetes', 'Containers', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud'] |
Artificial Intelligence Is Pioneering Advances in Ecology CloudOps Follow Oct 16 · 6 min read
This blog post was originally published here on CloudOps’ blog.
The GitHub repo for this project can be found at: https://github.com/TristansCloud/YellowstonesVegitiation
“Remote sensing is the acquisition of information ab... | ['Kubernetes', 'Data Pipeline', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ecology'] |
Blackcoffer artificial intelligence solutions are easy to use out-of-the-box and are custom tailored to each individual client’s needs. Our end-to-end AI enabled platforms speed time to delivery, save costs, reduce risk, and deliver optimized results to give you an immediate competitive advantage and bolster your botto... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
A Vacation to Mars: The Biggest Scam in Modern History
Project Mars One
A depiction of what the Mars One habitable home on Mars could look like (Source: Mars One)
Colonization has been in the blood of humans for thousands of years, and with Earth’s population reaching its highest peak as well as its ecosystem leanin... | ['Money', 'Space', 'History', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Happiness is when you slip between fresh, air-dried sheets after bathing in scented oils. It’s the yellow flame of a candle on a winter’s night while the wind whistles outside your door and you snuggle inside.
“The east wind breaks over the branch that twists, an ocean of waves among the thicket. And as the last bird ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Philosophy', 'Lifestyle', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health'] |
Building scalable and efficient ML Pipelines
Using Kubernetes to build ML pipelines that scale
Kubernetes is the gold standard for managing tons of containerized applications, whether they are in the cloud or on your own hardware. Whether it is pipeline building, model building or ML application building Kubernetes e... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Kubernetes', 'Interview', 'Data Science'] |
Just like how people are excited about updating their mobile apps and OS, developers should also be excited to update their frameworks. The new version of the different frameworks come with new features and tricks out of the box.
Below are some of the good features you should consider when migrating your existing app ... | ['React', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Tech', 'Programming'] |
The donor was ready to sell stock to give a $200,000 gift because he knew the education institute needed the money. But it was March 2020, and markets were collapsing. Why would he be so generous at such an uncertain time?
“I’ve found when I fear the Lord, nothing else in the world frightens me,’’ he answered. “But wh... | ['Marketing', 'Education', 'Work', 'Fundraising', 'Writing'] |
3. Make It Simple
It’s totally normal, at the beginning of a habit, to find yourself looking ahead to where you might end up where you to succeed at sustaining a habit. It’s the same thing when you first walk into a gym.
The first time you catch yourself in the mirror at your gym, mid-repetition through your favorite... | ['Education', 'Learning', 'Habits', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is essentially the first step in the machine learning pipeline. There are many techniques used for EDA, such as:
Checking all columns: name, type, segments
Setting expectation of what the variable might mean and how it may affect the target — and testing the hypothesis
Analyzing the t... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Kaggle', 'Analytics', 'Data Science'] |
We’re thrilled to be part of the Expedition Hackathon NYC happening on November 12–13! This is your chance to map the future of sustainability with NGA, Mapbox, IBM Bluemix, Planet OS and others. The hackathon’s focus areas are Oceans, Forests, Conservation and Indigenous People.
To add some motivation to the hours of... | ['Hackathon', 'NYC', 'Sustainability', 'Big Data', 'Nga'] |
Raunak: For people who do not know what SEO is, could you give us a quick summary?
Naguib: If you do not know what SEO is, or you have a vague understanding, don’t worry, because it lies in one of the grey areas of the Marketing World. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. The main objective of SEO is to attract ... | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Digital', 'Digital Marketing', 'SEO'] |
Are You the CEO of Your Writing Career?
Take control of your writing job by acting as if you are a CEO
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Are you the chief executive officer (CEO) of your writing career? To become better at writing, act as if you are the CEO of your writing business and look to grow it.
... | ['Mindset', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Careers', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Don’t Be Fooled. Looking for Inspiration Doesn’t Work Anymore.
6 proven tactics to get your best work done in no time
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I’m so done with it.
Every time I run out of ideas or my current ideas aren’t good enough, I switch on the Dora The Explorer-modus and I go surf the internet. Hop... | ['Inspiration', 'Freelancing', 'Writing Tips', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
Nowadays, Natural language processing is an up growing and booming field of research, . Sometimes, it might be very confusing for an NLP beginner, which areas to explore and how to find the exact dataset for the implementation and hands-on experience.
This blog is focused to provide an overview of different free onlin... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Note: This article contains Big Mouth Season 4 spoilers.
Like many other people I know, I spent a good chunk of this weekend binging the entire newly released season of Big Mouth, an animated Netflix comedy about … puberty?
Well, maybe that definition isn’t giving the show enough credit.
Although Big Mouth does revo... | ['Entertainment', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'TV Series', 'Gratitude'] |
Úll 2017, April 10–11, Killarney, Ireland
Last year, for the first time, we had an open call for submissions to perform at Úll. The response was fantastic and the result was a line-up rich with varied life experiences, performance styles and areas of expertise. It allowed us to bring you a collection of speakers that ... | ['Storytelling', 'Presentations', 'iOS', 'Apple', 'Conference'] |
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The Bad Writing Habits We Learned in School: And Advice to Forget Them
‘Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.’
Intro: Why Term Papers Need to Go
If you’re an undergraduate student right now, you are probably consuming and sharing more forms of communicatio... | ['Writing Tips', 'Education', 'Productivity', 'Learning', 'Writing'] |
Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms For Beginners with Code Examples in Python
Best machine learning algorithms for beginners with coding samples in Python. Launch the coding samples with Google Colab
Author(s): Pratik Shukla, Roberto Iriondo, Sherwin Chen
Last updated, June 23, 2020
Machine learning (ML) is rapidly c... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Science', 'Innovation'] |
Space Science with Python
Python is an amazing language for data science and machine learning and has a lot of great community driven Open Source libraries and projects. How can we use Python to explore and analyse the wonders and mysteries of Space?
Photo by Shot by Cerqueira on Unsplash
Near-Earth Objects, Meteors... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Science', 'Space', 'Programming'] |
The above heatmaps show our strength of association between each variable. While there is no rigid standard for “Highly Associated” or “Weakly Associated”, we will use a cut-off value of |0.1| between our independent variables and survival. We will likely drop features whose association is lower than |0.1|. This is an ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Begginer', 'Kaggle'] |
How to gain wisdom? Read some Aesop fables
Everyone wants to gain wisdom. Wisdom is one of the greatest qualities that human beings can possess. So, seek it, hold on to it, share it and treasure it. Why? Because it will help you navigate through choppy waters, it will lift you up from the depths of despair, it will he... | ['Storytelling', 'Self-awareness', 'Philosophy', 'Wisdom', 'Self Improvement'] |
Yes, Social Media Is Making You Depressed
The science is in and it’s not surprising
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The science is in regarding social media, and the findings are not very surprising. The University of Arkansas just released a new study which is the first large, national study to show a link betw... | ['Self-awareness', 'Social Media', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
Pro Tips to Help You Get Started With Your Side Project
Begin with solid foundations to keep the excitement kicking in
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Day 1 — You bought your <fancy-name>.io domain name and promised yourself you would finish this product for good, this time.
Day 56— <fancy-name>.io homepage is sti... | ['Side Project', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Productivity', 'Programming'] |
Instructions
Similar to step three, you should prioritize your new markets/ channels based on the following criteria:
Profit margins
Market size
Control
Input/output time ration
Scalability
Please make sure you look into ways to identify and prioritize new markets only when your startup gets to the “growth” stag... | ['Startup', 'Marketing', 'Growth'] |
How I Read 69 Books in 2019 without Changing My Routine
And how you can do it too.
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Even though we are (finally) reaching the end of the catastrophic year that is 2020, there is something I want to tell you about 2019.
Yes, 2019, or 1 b.C. (before Corona).
I have never read so m... | ['Books', 'Readinglist', 'Productivity', 'Audiobooks', 'Reading'] |
A Stark Look at Covid-19 and Racial Disparities
We knew this would happen
Image courtesy of author
Life expectancy in the United States will almost certainly drop in 2020 due to Covid-19 deaths, extending a decline that frustrates economic demographers like David Bishai, MD, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sc... | ['Coronavirus', 'Mental Health', 'Healthcare', 'Racism', 'Covid 19'] |
Increasing Accuracy by Converting to a Multivariate Dataset Tracyrenee Follow Dec 22 · 6 min read
Being a data science novice seeking to improve my skills, I continuously go through the competitions I have previously entered and seek to improve their accuracy. One such competition I have reviewed is Analytics Vidhya’s... | ['Time Series Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Facebook Prophet', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Want to save time?
Boost productivity?
Get organized?
Develop new, unicorn-level social-media strategies?
The workflow of a social-media marketer can be chaotic and overwhelming — but it doesn’t have to be.
Tools like MobileMonkey, Meet Edgar, and IFTTT, to name a few, help you get the job done and stay sane.
Eve... | ['Marketing', 'Life Hacking', 'Tools', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Social Media'] |
Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining (Written by Allen Sherman-Sung by Mel Brooks)
Writing is terrifying, especially if you’re afraid of everything, which I am. I do a bang-up job of acting fierce but come behind the curt... | ['Fear', 'Writing Tips', 'Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Writing'] |
The Web Map Use Case
Loading a web map can sometimes take a while and should therefore be carried out in the background. ArcGIS Runtime supports the so-called loadable design pattern. Accessing web maps and operational data structured in layers requires the resources to initialize their state asynchronously. The loada... | ['Dotnet', 'Geospatial', 'Qt', 'Java', 'Software Engineering'] |
Keeping your story open and accessible for everyone to read
Common questions about Medium and its Partner Program.
The UX Collective is a platform that elevates unheard design voices all over the world. One of the channels we use for knowledge sharing is Medium, an online publishing platform that enables anyone to sh... | ['UX', 'UI', 'User Experience', 'Startup', 'Design'] |
I was thirteen the first time I was catcalled for having breasts. I developed early, much earlier than getting my first period. And from that moment on, despite my youthful face and obvious lack of sexual maturity, men felt obliged to comment on, stare at, and talk about my breasts.
“Straight men are just hardwired to... | ['Equality', 'Sexuality', 'Psychology', 'Culture', 'Science'] |
As a current international gap year student, a large part of my life of late has involved travelling. Going abroad and experiencing a different country, without a doubt, is extremely valuable when it comes to fostering understanding and respect towards different cultures. Sadly, however, the act of hopping on a plane a... | ['Travel', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Action', 'Culture', 'Environment'] |
“Most businesses actually get zero distribution channels to work. Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.” This Peter Thiel quote should be heeded by every startup founder reading this. Honestly, I’ve made this mistake myself, in my previous failed entrepreneurial experience.
And how many... | ['Growth Hacking', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup', 'Online Marketing', 'Marketing'] |
Since there were only a few things I could control entirely, one of them was to get fit.
In my entire 20s I have been slightly chubby, as I loved, and still do (whom am I kidding?) eating anything made from dough: pastries, bread, pasta, you name it. If it screamed carbohydrates, it was my go-to meal.
I have always h... | ['Fitness', 'Mental Health', 'Motivation', 'Feminism', 'Parenting'] |
You first studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, then transferred to Maryland Institute College of Art. What drove you to move to the states and study at MICA?
I felt limited at the Willem de Kooning Academy. It made me look for a challenge and I knew the bar at MICA was really high. I signed up, got a... | ['Design', 'Agency', 'Founder Stories', 'Interview', 'Startup'] |
Christopher Nolan’s more recent films have, in one way or another, been polarizing, to say the least. Whether it was the narratively messy The Dark Knight Rises, or the heavy-handed dialogue found in Interstellar, or the lack of character development in Dunkirk, there is no shortage of criticism that can be found being... | ['Storytelling', 'Cinema', 'Film', 'Writing', 'Movies'] |
April Fools’ 2019: Perception-driven data visualization
Exploring OKCupid data with the most powerful psychological technique for accelerating analytics
This article was a prank for April Fools’ Day 2019. Now that the festivities are over, scroll to the end of the article for the Real Lessons section for a minute of ... | ['Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Visualization', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Training multiple machine learning models and running data tasks in parallel via YARN + Spark + multithreading
Harness large scale computational resources to allow a single data scientist to perform dozens or hundreds of Big data tasks in parallel, stretching the limits of data science scaling and automation
image: F... | ['Machine Learning', 'Spark', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Python'] |
It can get lonely and confusing out here, for us boxless ones — those of us who don’t feel like we really fit in with a specific category. It’s even hard to describe the category of “boxless”.
Here are some signs that you’re boxless like me:
You’ve felt lonely because nobody else seems to think and experience life th... | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Inspiration'] |
(This story was originally written on October 25th, 2018. It was a good snapshot of my life at the time, so I thought I would republish it. During these psychotic episodes, I have very little control of my mind, and I tried my best to capture the chaos that went on that day.)
I’ve been having a rough time lately. I’m ... | ['Digital Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Mindfulness', 'Writing'] |
1. Emotional Marketing
There are two types of strategies that affect consumers’ buying habits:
Rational marketing that promotes the quality and usefulness of the product, emphasizes the benefits and appeals to the rational or logical consumer.
Emotional marketing that approaches consumer on a personal level and focu... | ['Marketing', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Growth Hacking', 'Psychology', 'Digital Marketing'] |
If you’re building a startup, you have a LOT of decisions to make early on. Most of them will be wrong and that’s OK. You learn from them and move on.
But when it comes to attracting markets beyond your country’s borders, you have to make the right decisions from Day One.
This is especially true if your home market i... | ['Localization', 'SaaS', 'International Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
9 Traits You Should Slowly Remove From Your Day-to-Day Life
#1 Overthinking the little things
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We’re all human.
I know, so profound.
This isn’t the most enlightening piece of knowledge I’ve offered, but hear me out. In the hustle and bustle of our lives, it’s easy to lose perspecti... | ['Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Ideas'] |
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So you have been working as a Software Engineer for many years, you know different frameworks/languages/libraries, you do know the best practices and use them.
I will try ensure you understand what Deep Learning is and things you should know about it from Developer’s point of view
Bu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Software Engineering', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
What a year. Some got rich. Some discovered what ignorance can do. Some learned harsh lessons and retreated to the golf course to lick their wounds and find their ego again.
2020 was a tough year. I’ve never worked in a business environment quite like it, where nobody wants to spend any money.
It wasn’t all bad. 2020... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Money', 'Writing'] |
I wear this smile like a mask
Poetry in free verse
No, I am not lying,
I am only showing you
what you want to see,
because it’s easier to pretend
than to explain
why I am not alright.
I am afraid
that if I try,
you will argue,
tell me how
I have everything I need
that there is something wrong with me
if I... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Poetry', 'Resistance Poetry'] |
Why You Should Trade Split Decisions for “Flip Decisions”
Use Flipism to make in-the-moment choices.
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In their book The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, and Happier, Friederike Fabritis and Hans Hagemannthat describe flipping a coin as a powerful way to make de... | ['Leadership', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Inspiration'] |
This is part 6 of my “self-defense essay”. If you missed the prior installments, start here with The #EpicNovelFail
The #LinkerFail
(a.k.a. The “You find it”)
“Can’t I just send you my pitch deck? It’s all in there.”
I get that question from time to time and it’s a fair question. The entrepreneur has put a lot of t... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
The Truth Is…
Truth is bland. It lacks the glitter that catches our attention. It does not take any sides, so no one wants it. From the streams of information that floods our minds every day, the stream of truth is the least appealing. It’s like a ruin in the middle of a bustling city. It’s there, but no one really ca... | ['Marketing', 'News', 'New York Times', 'Journalism', 'Advertising'] |
Azure — Deploying React 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 a... | ['DevOps', 'Cloud Computing', 'Web Development', 'Kubernetes', 'Programming'] |
There are so many examples of successful design writing on Medium. Here are just a few that exemplify how you can use the platform.
I. Share your knowledge
You have a wealth of expertise and experience that readers would find of interest. Facebook product design director Julie Zhuo regularly writes on topics like des... | ['Medium', 'Writing', 'Design'] |
Is immunity against corona virus available in the market or is it available at home?
Find out! This is the most common question of today .
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Is immunity produced in a special kind of food or is it available in any capsule for?
There are uncertain questions to this topic, people are not able to unde... | ['Article', 'Coronavirus', 'Virus', 'Blog', 'Writing'] |
From CNN
Anthony Marx and Jamie Woodson write that American faith in democracy and the media has declined significantly in the last 40 years, but there are ways to increase trust in these institutions. They require every American to take an active role.
Full story here | ['Trust', 'Journalism', 'Media'] |
Do You Think Hard Work Equals Success — Think Again
Lessons from “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell
In NPR’s How I Built This podcast, the host, Guy Raz always asks his guest one question; “How much do you attribute your success to luck and how much do you attribute to hard work?” Episode after epis... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Advice', 'Reading'] |
Other Tools for Writing and Editing Your Medium Article
Customizing Your Article’s Properties Before and After Publication
Miscellaneous
Quick Answers to Questions About Medium Formatting
How can I center text on my Medium article?
You cannot center text utilizing the Medium editor or toolbar.
Can I automatically... | ['Format', 'Typography', 'Design', 'Medium', 'Writing'] |
Deconstructing digital devices
These dangers of new technologies can also come from the digital devices themselves. The tools that have become our daily lives, such as smartphones, compact computers and touch-sensitive tablets, have features designed to do everything.
As such, hardware designers, be it Apple, Sony or... | ['Minimalism', 'Product Design', 'Productivity', 'Consumer Behavior', 'Marketing'] |
Not Every Developer Wants to Become a Manager — And That’s Okay
Companies should create clear career paths for individual contributors
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I have only worked in startups with flat hierarchies. Even at companies where there are no clear titles, you usually find three kinds of engineers:... | ['Careers', 'Management', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Software Engineering'] |
BUSINESS LESSONS
How To Be A Successful Business Owner?
Surviving The Early Stage Of Business Ownership
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Many entrepreneurs answer the question of why they went into business with either their passion or the need for an income. The problem is, there is so much more to it.
We enter ... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Business Owner', 'Startup', 'Operations Management', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
4 Eye-Opening Mindfulness Lessons I Learned from a Depressed Buddhist Monk
How to make peace with your mind?
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After being a Buddhist monk for 12 years, Gelong Thubten became depressed. It was a shock for him. And for me, too, when he shared his story. I thought monks have it all figured... | ['Self', 'Mindfulness', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health'] |
4. Life will never be as good as it once was
Have you ever listened to an old song and thought to yourself: “Songs were so good back in the day”? Or maybe you had the same reaction when you stumbled upon your childhood pictures: “This was the best time of my life”.
It’s because we only look back at the winners, the v... | ['Psychology', 'Anxiety', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Mindfulness'] |
Five key reasons for this business model
Running a gig business with gig workers can be efficient and smooth when done right. Here are five key reasons why I choose this business model:
1. Pay for what you need when you need it
One of the most beneficial aspects of utilizing gig workers in a gig business is that you... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Small Business', 'Gig Economy', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup'] |
During the process of redeveloping Me Explica in the Tow-Knight Center program, I have experimented with different tools and strategies to create engagement around my content. In my last article, I explained how my new strategy is to focus on social media because that is where citizens are mostly getting their news fro... | ['Journalism', 'Storytelling', 'Social Media', 'Instagram', 'Innovation'] |
Have We Reached the Phase of Smart Financial Crime Detection?
Financial Technology
Why are financial crimes on the rise? Many people ask this question as crime-cases in the financial industry rise. Banks according to a McKinsey report¹ have lost millions of dollars in the last decade alone and this could worsen as cr... | ['Opinion', 'Analysis', 'News', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology'] |
How simple is Data Science?
Sometimes when you hear data scientists shoot a dozen of algorithms while discussing their experiments or go into details of Tensorflow usage you might think that there is no way a layman can master Data Science. Big Data looks like another mystery of the Universe that will be shut up in an... | ['Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business Intelligence'] |
Hey y’all,
In this issue, we’ve got articles about mindfulness and marketing, a bunch of 2021 predictions and trends, and an explanation of why you’re so obsessed with getting 10,000 steps in every day.
We launched the Better Marketing Slack Community last week, and it’s been fun to engage in conversations about news... | ['Meditation', 'Writing', 'Media', 'Newsletter', 'Marketing'] |
7 Common Dreams and What They Say About You
How to use your dreams to understand yourself better
Photo by Joshua Abner from Pexels
Not many people pay enough attention to their dreams, and here’s why that should change. Dreams are manifestations of unconscious desires and wishes. They are signals from the brain and ... | ['Psychology', 'Dreams', 'Mental Health', 'Philosophy', 'Self'] |
When Trade Went Global
A review of Valerie Hansen’s “The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World — and Globalization Began”
If I asked you when explorers connected the world for the first time, what would you say? A month ago, I would have said in 1492. Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a new exchange of food, id... | ['World', 'Nonfiction', 'Books', 'History', 'Book Review'] |
Bleary-eyed I stumble
From the bed to the floor
Feel the carpet squish
Beneath my toes.
Silent, I tiptoe
Down the dimly-lit hall
To the table
Where my journal waits.
Open it, step inside
My mind
Where will it take me today?
What makes a writer successful? Fame? Money? These days both are elusive. If these ar... | ['Productivity', 'Success', 'Writing Tips', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
If we held quiet, we could hear the bears, the crunch of leaves and branches underfoot. The soft sounds the cubs made. We watched them streak black through the trees. We didn’t expect to see them. My pop and I took a cabin in Vermont — ages ago, it seems — and the closest we’d ever come to a wild animal were the thorou... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Relationships', 'Writing'] |
FICTION
One for the Road
I drank myself senseless on Christmas Eve. I knew I shouldn’t have done that; I knew it was a bad idea; it was a terrible idea even, but I did it anyway.
The bearded man at the other end of the bar raised his shot glass; he raised it as ceremoniously as a priest during a Mass, then he froze ... | ['Storytelling', 'Books', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Flash Fiction'] |
My Top Ten Highest Earning Medium Stories for November 2020
Plus one honorable mention.
Photo by Viacheslav Bublyk on Unsplash
Last month was my best month yet for my earnings on this platform. I made over $15 — something I did not expect. In addition, I achieved one other milestone I didn’t expect. The story that h... | ['Medium', 'Analytics', 'Motivation', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
Almost all people suffering from social anxiety denies it until they start seeing it infecting other parts of their life. It degrades their health, destroys their relationships, and decimates their dreams; leaving nothing behind but an unfillable void.
No-one wants to live like this, and the majority of people don’t e... | ['Social Anxiety', 'Personal Development', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
Yes, Post-Vacation Burnout Is a Thing
If a holiday is supposed to leave you refreshed and restored, why are you often more tired than when you left?
Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash
Have you ever come back from vacation feeling like you badly needed, well, a vacation?
Complaining about how exhausted you are... | ['Vacation', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Live', 'Burnout'] |
Photo courtesy of the Houston Police Dept.
When a mother kills her children, it’s condemned as the most heinous crime a person can commit — a cold-blooded act of violence against the most vulnerable victims. But is it always so clear cut? In 2001, the case of Andrea Yates made the world ask that question — and to find... | ['True Crime', 'Crime', 'Mental Health', 'Postpartum Depression', 'Psychology'] |
#1 — Deon
An ethics checklist for responsible data science, Deon represents a starting point for teams to evaluate considerations related to advanced analytics and machine learning applications from data collection through deployment.
The nuanced discussions spurred by Deon can ensure that risks inherent to AI-empowe... | ['Finance', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python'] |
As options for learning online continue to expand, a growing number of entrepreneurs are using them to keep their staff on the cutting edge or even for themselves.
Using tools for online training, including videos, apps, and webinars, rather than sending employees to expensive training classes or bringing in pricey co... | ['Online Courses', 'Startup', 'Education', 'Entrepreneurship', 'SEO'] |
Roller Coaster Therapy
Strap in.
Photo by Marc Schaefer on Unsplash
Living with addiction and chronic mental illness and visions of blood-hungry demons gnawing at your heels can be like spending your life on a roller coaster. A one-way trip to nowhere. You get used to the thrills and chills, the highs and the lows. ... | ['Addiction', 'Mental Health', 'Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Horror'] |
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Global Big Data Conference’s vendor agnostic 3rd Annual Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference is held on January 23rd, January 24th, & January 25th 2019 on all industry verticals (Finance, Retail/E-Commerce/M-Commerce, Healthcare/Pharma/BioTech, Energy, Education, Ins... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Marketing', 'Deep Learning'] |
Microservices — Discovering Service Mesh
Service interactions in the microservices world deal with many non-functional concerns — service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, etc. Service Mesh provides the platform to manage these concerns in a more efficient and cleaner way. In this article, we will understand... | ['Istio', 'Service Mesh', 'Microservices', 'Spring Boot', 'Software Engineering'] |
Turning a Page
Accepting and adapting to changes
I now look out of my eight-floor window, each morning minus the anxiety I felt post-retirement. I feel no guilt about still being in bed, and not out at work as I know everyone else is also at home.
photo by John- Mark Smith on Unsplash
Whilst they are hurrying and s... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Life'] |
It’s a TSV file with only 2 columns of information:
Label: ‘spam’ for a spam message and ‘ham’ for a normal message.
Message: the full text of the SMS message.
I will build a binary classification network that reads in all messages and then makes a prediction for each message if it is spam or ham.
Let’s get started... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Csharp', 'Machine Learning'] |
I started with an article. And then another. And then another. My brain was on fire that weekend.
I didn’t wake up with the plan to just sit and write. All I knew is that I wasn’t going to go out for the day without writing something I could put on my blog. The irony is that I had been trying to focus on longer conten... | ['Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Writer'] |
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