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Make a Resolution and Read These 5 Books in 2021
5 Books to Read to Become a Pro-Reader Instantly
Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash
A year filled with unwanted circumstances, and fear has come to an end. Still, I find this year special for me because this year I have truly achieved what I could not in the past years.
... | ['Mindfulness', 'Books', 'Habits', 'Novel', 'Writing'] |
E-marketer recently reported that Amazon, is the number 3 Digital Ad platform in the US. Right after Google (37.1%) and Facebook (20.6%). With its 4.1% market share, Amazon has now passed mighty Oath, and Microsoft.
There are many reasons for this, one of which is an accounting change at Amazon. Nonetheless, here’s th... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Amazon'] |
We know that, in order to train a model that generalizes well to unseen data, that we cannot overfit the model to the data. Given a real-life data set, there is no way to tell how well a model will generalize, just because you never know what kind of real life data might be thrown at the model in the future. New data m... | ['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Bayesian Optimization'] |
Reflections on the 20th anniversary of a $100+ billion product
Twenty years ago this month, PayPal found product-market fit. I remember the moment vividly because it’s a dramatic example of a strategy that still works today. I call it “going Sharp.”
Whereas the average startup launches a bunch of features for a bunch... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing', 'Venture Capital', 'Startup'] |
We all hit walls along the path to productivity, and although it’s not easy to overcome them, we all have ways of at least trying to do so. One of my favourite ways is to hit the café.
Getting there becomes an obstacle on its own if I start thinking about the fact that I have to put on my jacket, my shoes, pack up my ... | ['Habit Building', 'Productivity', 'Motivation', 'Habits', 'Work'] |
Stone proves you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before.
To succeed, you must eat, sleep and breathe your work. You should put your blinders on, block out all distractions and keep your eyes on the prize.
For most of us, this is our mantra. I certainly believed it until I interviewed... | ['Life Lessons', 'Storytelling', 'Tech', 'Twitter', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Cartoonist for the New Yorker among other places. I love my mom and white wine. My graphic memoir MURDER BOOK out in 2021. Follow on Insta @CartoonsbyHilary!
Follow | ['Hilary Campbell', 'Nonfiction', 'Comics', 'Halloween', 'New York'] |
1. Bootstrapping
Bootstrapping is a method to create samples with replacement from the original sample. Since it is done with replacement each data point has an equal probability of being picked subsequently. We can bootstrap n times (say 1000), calculate and record the desired estimate (i.e. mean) for each of these n... | ['Data Science', 'Statistics', 'Python', 'Education', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
My journey to understand my own sexuality took a detour early in my life. I was abused when I was younger, between the ages of four to seven. My brain stored those memories so when my hormones kicked during puberty there was a possibility things might go awry.
What was natural and normal got tangled in a love affair w... | ['Life Lessons', 'Sexuality', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Sex'] |
Make Your Unconscious Conscious To Win Mission Follow Mar 17 · 3 min read
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate.” –Carl Jung
So now that we’re on a path to empathize and heal our intergenerational traumas, let’s take a look at the “Core Language Approach.”
This is an approach dev... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'News', 'Podcast', 'Science'] |
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A weekly, ad-free newsletter that helps designers stay in the know, be productive, and think more critically about their work. Take a look | ['Tweet', 'Prooductivity', 'Product Design', 'Design', 'Startup'] |
10 Programming Languages You Can Learn in 2021 to become a Software Developer
These are the best programming languages for software development, future, and get a job in Technology with relevant links to learn them online.
A couple of months ago, I was reading an interesting article on HackerNews, which argued that y... | ['Programming', 'Java', 'Python', 'Jobs', 'Careers'] |
1. You have a deep fear of abandonment
This fear can come in the form of being clingy, codependent, overly insecure, or even as depression and anxiety.
If you fear abandonment, you’re constantly afraid people in your life will leave, and it can be almost impossible to maintain healthy relationships.
“Although it is ... | ['Parenting', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Relationships'] |
Note from the author: This is an opinion piece, so it’s probably biased to a degree. Jobs in your country and with your skillset may vary. We don’t see the world through the same eyes. Please leave your thoughts and experiences in the comment section.
If you’re doing anything software related you’ve probably considere... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Python'] |
UX Read-A-Long #2
Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries
Heya Bookclubers — It is high time for another UX “read-a-long”.
Cover of “Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries”
This time we will be reading Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories by Steve Portigal. The book offers “personal account... | ['User Research', 'UX', 'Books', 'Design', 'Ethnography'] |
What happened when I predicted on the Titanic dataset with a made from scratch Logistic Regression function Tracyrenee Follow Dec 19 · 7 min read
Because there are so many libraries in Python, the programming language I am studying, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that these libraries are comprised of functions t... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Logistic Regression'] |
This period has led to some major technological innovations that will have long-lasting impacts on climate data science (and beyond), including:
Despite the diversity of these activities, an increasing amount of energy from Pangeo core contributors has recently been devoted to operating cloud-based Jupyter infrastruct... | ['Science', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Pangeo'] |
Keep it Simple: Make Bullet Journaling Work for You
Most people skip the basics, like rapid logging in your bullet journal.
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
I have ADD and memory issues. I’ve tried many tools over the years to help me remember my life. Bullet journaling was one of the first tools that really ‘click... | ['Writing', 'Productivity', 'Notebook', 'Journaling', 'Bullet Journaling'] |
Every time I see an older MacBook with the bright white lighted Apple logo…I get envious.
I imagine that was exactly the point of the logo light in the first place.
In an era where Apple has killed MagSafe, the Startup Sound, Skeuomorphic design, and the iPhone’s headphone jack, among other things…I realize that it’s... | ['Technology', 'Tech', 'Apple', 'Mac', 'Design'] |
9 Paid Technical Writing Programs for Developers
Get paid to write tutorials and blogs about frameworks and languages
Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash
As a developer, you’re working on some framework (if you are a JavaScript developer there is a good chance you are working on many!). You encounter a problem. The p... | ['Technical Writing', 'Programming', 'Writing', 'Developer', 'Development'] |
“Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”
― Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
I couldn’t tell you the l... | ['Productivity', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Work', 'Mindfulness'] |
If God Doesn’t Exist …
When Truth and Agnosticism Clash
Image Credit: Olly
*The following is a passage of writing therapy. The views expressed are an expression of my mood at the time of writing. As such, they don’t represent the entirety of my thought on the matter.
If God doesn’t exist, there can be no objective ... | ['Therapy', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Religion'] |
Introduction
Speech and emotion are building blocks of how we relate to each other. When a machine understands speech and emotion, its interaction with us becomes more human. For this very reason, speech recognition and sentiment analysis are two of my favorite machine learning capabilities.
Soon after joining IBM Wa... | ['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Tutorial', 'Sentiment Analysis', 'Ibm Watson'] |
According to Wikipedia Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness and worry. Anxiety is your body reacting to stress. Ordinary anxiety is completely normal because each of us copes to some degree.
The problem arises when ordinary anxiety begins to interfere with our daily life.
General anxiety symptoms includes
Thoughts you... | ['Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Habits'] |
7 Books That Can Help You Create an Extraordinary Life in 2021
Books that have changed my life and could do the same for you.
Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash
For many years, I was just a regular guy. I followed all the “rules.” I went to university. I chased instant gratification and was addicted to video games.
... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Inspiration', 'Books', 'Life'] |
Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch. Photo: Kent Dayton
What This Epidemiologist Wants Americans to Know About Covid-19 Right Now
A leading expert on the pandemic cuts through the mixed messages and confusion
One of the first scientists I reached out to in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak was Marc Lipsitch, PhD, ... | ['Epidemiology', 'Covid 19', 'Lipsitch', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
In our articles related to AI and Big Data in healthcare, we always talk about ETL as the core of the core process. We do not write a lot about ETL itself, though. In this post, we’ll give a short overview of this procedure and its applications in businesses.
ETL is the abbreviation for Extract, Transform, Load that a... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Healthcare', 'Big Data', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
How An Unstable Childhood Can Damage Your Love Life as an Adult
How to your break toxic relationship patterns.
I attracted emotionally unavailable people over and over again. I accepted crumbs and took what I could get because I thought it was normal.
I thought being caught in a push and pull dance meant love.
When... | ['Dating', 'Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'This Happened To Me', 'Relationships'] |
5 Simple Productivity Tools That Helped Me Produce Higher Quality Work
And helped me earn six-figures in the process with the extra time each tool gave me back.
Photo by Zac Wolff on Unsplash
Producing lots of work and increasing the quality of that work is difficult to accomplish when you are disorganized and can’t... | ['Life Lessons', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Work', 'Startup'] |
For the last few days, the crypto community has been discussing a new vulnerability in the Smart Contracts of tokens based on the ERC-20 standard. We have also studied this case with great interest.
This is not an ERC-20 vulnerability
This error is often called a vulnerability in the ERC-20 standard. This is not the ... | ['ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Development', 'Startup'] |
J.K. Rowling Has Become Professor Umbridge
And how her bigotry is skewing the magical world of Harry Potter.
Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash
J.K. Rowling has become to our world what Dolores Umbridge is to Hogwarts.
For those who may not have joined the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, Dolores Umbridge was argua... | ['Harry Potter', 'LGBT Rights', 'Gaming', 'Books', 'Writing'] |
Paralysis by Analysis
Why decision-making is tough
Image created by Lorie Kleiner Eckert on Pablo
I recently wrote a blog in which I said, “As a Jew, I often wonder if I would have been smart enough and brave enough to leave Europe before Hitler deemed it too late.”
In discussing the story with my friend, Kathy, sh... | ['Life', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lesson'] |
Was there an aha moment that made you realize humans are on the cusp of a “neobiological revolution”? What trends/examples were you seeing that inspired you to found NEO.LIFE?
The neobiological revolution has been taking shape for the past 15 years, starting with the sequencing of the human genome. But it was really o... | ['Genomics', 'Biotechnology', 'Biology', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
When it comes to writing, nothing sends me into a blind rage like reading articles entitled Why No One is Reading Your Writing, Why No One Cares About Your Writing, or How You Should Write, You Loser, The 5,606 Things You’re Doing Wrong with Your Writing. These articles — and I use that term generously — are merely a s... | ['Writing', 'Authors', 'Medium', 'Work', 'Books'] |
The weekend was once a time where I was able to let go of everything from the previous week and enjoy doing something other than work. There wasn’t a pervasive sense of guilt that I carried if I indulged in an all-day movie marathon or stayed up past 1am and didn’t get anything done.
That changed when I started my Mas... | ['Life', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Work Life Balance', 'Life Lessons'] |
By Daisy Woodward
Illustrated by Assa Ariyoshi
Stress is a word we all use, all of the time, to describe many different scenarios and our physical and mental response to them. “My work’s a bit stressful at the moment” is a phrase most of us say, week in, week out — when a big presentation is looming or that pile of u... | ['Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Self', 'Careers', 'Stress'] |
By Joel Gascoigne
Recently, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7-day work week routine.
The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7 days a week, go to the gym 7 days a week, reflect 7 days a week. This was less about working lots, much more about feeling fulfilled ev... | ['Work Life Balance', 'Productivity', 'Work', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Careers'] |
We talk with Rob Genieser, a partner at ETF Partners Capital.
PetaCrunch: What’s your investment strategy in a single tweet?
Rob Genieser: Sustainability through innovation — backing great entrepreneurs who want to achieve commercial success and make the world a better place.
PC: How did ETF Partners Capital start?
... | ['Innovation', 'Startup', 'VC', 'Vc Funding', 'Sustainability'] |
Uncertainty
In startups and life, there’s no such thing as a sure thing.
People can go back against their word
Deals fall through
Promises get broken
The only thing that’s guaranteed is that there are no guarantees.
If you’re coming from a more corporate lifestyle, this may not have been the case. But with startu... | ['Programming', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Founders', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital'] |
Lets get started with google maps in python! We are going to cover making a basic map, adding different layers to the maps, and then creating driving directions!
Before this article, I did a quick tutorial with basemap in python. In this tutorial, I will cover using the google maps api in jupyter notebook. The first s... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Mapping', 'Web Development'] |
How to Use Limitations to Boost Productivity
Sometimes it’s good to be cornered to be more productive
Image licensed from Canva
I saw a thread on Twitter where people detailed what they miss most from their pre-pandemic lives. Hanging out with friends, hugging parents, going out without a mask were common replies, b... | ['Productivity', 'Advice', 'Work', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Data lake components
Google Stackdriver
Stackdriver aggregates metrics, logs, and events from infrastructure, giving developers and operators a rich set of observable signals that speed root-cause analysis and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).
It provides native integration with cloud data tools like BigQuery, ... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing', 'Security Operation Center', 'Data Lake'] |
Dockerizing React App With NodeJS Backend — Typescript Version
Learn How to Dockerize and make it a deployable image
Photo by Dylan McLeod on Unsplash
Docker is an enterprise-ready container platform that enables organizations to seamlessly build, share, and run any application, anywhere. Almost every company is con... | ['Programming', 'Docker', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'React'] |
Are you a hotelier, restaurateur or a passionate cook who wants to share your best food recipes with the food lovers? Turn your well-thought recipes into a business by simply developing a food-recipe app like Tasty, Yummly, SideChef or BigOven.
Cooking is an art that comes from passion and allowing people to turn any ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Apps', 'Mobile Apps', 'Technology', 'Startup'] |
In the world of startups, female founders are underrepresented. Last year, less than 3% of all the venture capital in the US went to companies founded by women. It’s an equity problem that we need to help address.
With this in mind, I’ve designed a new Female Founder program for the 4thly Startup Accelerator, and we’r... | ['Women In Startups', 'Women', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
SFU’s professional master’s program in computer science trains computational specialists in big data and visual computing. All students complete a paid co-op work placement as part of their degree. In this feature, we examine the co-op experiences of some of our big data students.
Kanksha Masrani completed her bachelo... | ['Data Science', 'Co Op', 'Procter And Gamble', 'Business Intelligence', 'Marketing'] |
And robots aren’t just boosting productivity in rich countries like the US. They’re starting to affect countries like China, too.
Machines building machines
The robots in a Tesla factory move around so fast that they’re encased in glass to protect human workers from them.
Dongguan — a city near Hong Kong that’s basi... | ['Design', 'Life Lessons', 'Politics', 'Tech', 'Startup'] |
Bubble Definition/Background
Strava recently shipped the (previously web & Android only) Training Log to iOS devices, which represents the athlete’s previous activities using bubbles.
A “bubble”, in the context of this post, shows the accumulated volume of some activity dimension (distance, time, etc.) for a given da... | ['Visualization', 'iOS', 'Apple', 'Xcode', 'iOS App Development'] |
Request for Proposal (RFP) is a time-tested procurement process that’s consistently worked well for some organizations in purchasing commodities and goods. But in the digital era, using RFPs in the procurement of creative services is an antiquated process that can cost you valuable time and may not lead to the best res... | ['Procurement', 'Design', 'Marketing'] |
Let’s get to it! 🚀
The Need
Whether working locally or on a server in the cloud, you want a virtual environment to isolate your Python version and packages so that you can:
use different package versions for different projects experiment with bleeding edge package versions get the same Python and package versions a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology'] |
In its simplest form, branding is the practice of influencing and controlling a set of associations with a company to help the business’s performance. Done successfully, an organization’s identity will be tied to select attributes—promoting its image or popularity.
While absolute control over a brand is not possible, ... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Design', 'UX', 'Tech'] |
Plotly logo from Plotly.com
Regardless of what we are learning or doing, we start with the basics, the foundation, the core. Then we learn more tools and techniques, skills and shortcuts — we learn to do things better and make it more “advanced”.
Today, we will be looking at another tool to “advance” our data visuali... | ['Plotly', 'Visualization', 'Beginner'] |
It was a rainy day, the day that I met her.
I remember the raindrops making their way down the shop windows as I walked along the sidewalk. I clutched my collar, holding it close to keep the precipitation out, and to keep the last vestiges of warmth inside my jacket. The jacket was old and worn, and it was already doi... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Creative Writing'] |
Hate Social Media? Here Are Other Ways To Promote Your Writing
Hold off on that Instagram account just a little longer.
Photo by Erik Lucatero on Unsplash: a cellphone displaying an Instagram account
Social media isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. It’s time-consuming, challenging to navigate, and sometimes just downright ... | ['Marketing', 'Freelance', 'Writing Tips', 'Social Media', 'Writing'] |
[The following article is a collaboration between a fellow team-mate, Suraj Amin and I for a competition we participated.]
In times of the World Wide Web and omnipresent dotcoms, businesses across the globe have aggrandized their prominence with the internet bust. The world has so much information floating around tha... | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Hangin’ Up
Working suicide watch at MCC federal prison with Jeffrey Epstein
my certificate and photo
To nobody’s surprise, prison is a place and experience which often propels its inmates on a downward spiral to the depths of anxiety and depression. Well aware of this problem, prison administrators have designated p... | ['Jeffrey Epstein', 'Mental Health', 'Suicide', 'Psychology', 'Prison'] |
Being a part of Kaggle community for a year now, I am trying to bring out what has kaggle on offer for all young data scientists out like me. Most beginners believe a couple of MOOCs, some interview questions and taddaaaaaa!!!! We will land in Data Science. But as said, practical implementations & theoretical knowledge... | ['Data Science', 'Kaggle', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Beginner'] |
Python is the most popular language for scientific and numerical computing. Pandas is the most popular for cleaning code and exploratory data analysis.
Using pandas with Python allows you to handle much more data than you could with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
SQL databases are very popular for storing data, bu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
If you are reading this, you’ve had a bad day. And that’s not because you are a failure, or because you just can’t figure out how to “adult”. It’s because you are human, (unless you’re an alien, in which case, do you have bad days?) and all humans have bad days. Regardless of how successful you are, and how often you m... | ['Meditation', 'Productivity', 'Mental Health', 'Self Care', 'Focus'] |
4. Context Manager: __enter__ and __exit__
When we deal with file objects in Python, the most frequent syntax you may have come across is probably something like this:
with open('filename.txt') as file:
# Your file operations go here
The use of the with statement is known as the context manager technique. Specifica... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Perfect Circle
When falling tears rise
When blue ocean cries
When out is in
When Without is within
And within is without
And every One loud
Forms…the darkest cloud
When right is left
When left is right
When you have no food
And you take a bite
When it is dark
When dark is white
Cease or Exist
When far is... | ['Sex', 'Psychology', 'Yoga', 'Science', 'Poetry'] |
From hard to soft
While we can say Finnishness was in a sense designed along with Finland, it is also, at the same time, much older than Finland.
The Finnish language is signifcantly older. And of course the one thing non-Finns know about the Finnish language is that it is impenetrable, legendarily obscure, emblemati... | ['Finland', 'Culture', 'Architecture', 'Books', 'Design'] |
10 Life Skills They Don’t Teach In College And How You Can Do It Now FAQ
How to network with purpose?
No matter how great you start your conversation with, if your ultimate purpose is to networking, then it’s a bleak way of starting a friendship. As much as possible, reach out to people that you know and you know you... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Life Lessons', 'Marketing', 'Life'] |
Must read books for those aspiring to be UX designers
(and for those moving up the ladder)
Where do I start?
So you want to be a UX designer. And have decided that you are willing to invest energy in learning the skills and acquiring the knowledge required to become one. Where do you start? I’d say with books. In th... | ['Hows', 'UX', 'Books', 'Design', 'Aviram'] |
I attended AWP 2019 — a writer’s conference. It had an expo that was literally packed full of booths full of small presses seeking submissions for writers, writers programs, and workshops. I thought the best way to share the information I picked up might be to write a little information about each press and collect the... | ['Writing', 'Reading', 'Resources', 'Publication', 'Books'] |
As we see a rise in developer advocacy across the tech industry, the importance of developer experience rises with it. This has created a huge opportunity for design to make an impact. Eclipse Codewind met this challenge head on, and as a result won silver in the New York Design Awards 2020 developer platform/tool/fram... | ['UI', 'UX Design', 'UX', 'Development', 'Design'] |
Back when it was optional
Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash
July 2017
For the last thirty days or so, I wrote every day. Two days ago I hit the pause button and took a break just to check in with my internal guidance.
You see, I have OCD tendencies. I’m a list maker. The kind of person who will put something on a lis... | ['Balance', 'Mindfulness', 'Ocd', 'Self-awareness', 'Writing'] |
Sometimes, going viral is a good thing. Especially when all those views drop dollars in the bank like you just hit the jackpot. Because while writing is fun and soothes the savage beast, getting paid to write makes it even more fun.
The reality of writing is that writers often struggle…
We all know that content mills... | ['Writing', 'Advice', 'Inspiration', 'Marketing', 'Ideas'] |
Effects of separation of children from parents outlined in a special issue on zero-tolerance immigration policy.
By Gavin Crowell-Williamson
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) flagship journal, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACP), recently rele... | ['Mental Illness', 'Immigration', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Donald Trump'] |
Reading a String
Text preprocessing is an important part and crucial step in natural language processing. It transforms the raw text into a number where Machine learning algorithms can perform better.
In the below text example,
Code
text = """ The Republican president is being challenged by Democratic Party nominee... | ['NLP', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
There is no by-the-book best practice for your React app’s file structure. Ultimately, these decisions are based on what works best for you and your team. These two tips are what finally helped me make sense of the chaos that is managing React components and assets in my IDE.
Tip 1: Use This Versatile Folder Structure... | ['Files', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'Web Development', 'Development'] |
You’ll Feel Like You’re Better Than Other People
Woah.
This wasn’t supposed to be one of those self-help articles that speak from a pedestal, so why is this my first point?
Confidence matters. Building skills and habits that make you feel better about yourself makes your life better in general. On top of that, human... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Morning Routines', 'Psychology'] |
There once was a violent unstable cloud of dust that turned into a planet full of life
Some scientists suggest that what made our species special, and what caused it to explode and dominate the planet is our ability to understand and tell stories. I heard this while watching this lecture on artificial intelligence las... | ['Storytelling', 'Education Reform', 'Lifelong Learning', 'Science', 'Physics'] |
Our Mind Suffers from Cognitive Fatigue
Our mind works like a muscle. So we are training it with it all the cognitive processes associated with it, such as willpower, decision-making, and even just our way of thinking.
And as happens with the muscles of the body, when we use them over and over again without giving th... | ['Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Education', 'Science'] |
by: E.B. Johnson
We seem to live our lives in the pursuit of wealth, but so many of us seem to struggle to ever achieve this. Why? Years of hard work and belief in the system should lend itself to rewards, right? Wrong. If we truly want to build wealth that bolsters us, we have to learn to switch up our mindset. It’s ... | ['Nonfiction', 'Self', 'Motivation', 'Money', 'Finance'] |
Oracle Big Data Cloud, Event Hub and Analytics Cloud Data Lake Edition pt.3 : Spark-Powered Data Flows, Automated Machine Learning and Thoughts on Sparkline SNAP Mark Rittman Follow Jun 2, 2018 · 1 min read
In this series of three blogs on Oracle Analytics Cloud Data Lake Edition I’ve setup an object store data lake i... | ['Oracle', 'Oracle Cloud', 'Data Lake', 'Analytics', 'Big Data'] |
Your ego is the roundtable of children within you doing their very best to meet your needs.
You may have been taught you must destroy your ego, but there is no part of you that requires destruction. Yes, your ego makes terrible masters, but they do make fantastic servants.
The children that make up your ego are the p... | ['Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Self', 'Inspiration'] |
This article serves as a means to enumerate the mechanisms by which the Marketing industry leverages the IDFA token.
There are four ways by which developers leverage customer data:
Attribution: Share 1P data with 3P to measure user acquisition campaigns
Share 1P data with 3P to measure user acquisition campaigns Per... | ['Gaming', 'Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Idfa', 'Apple'] |
By default, the Gravitee API Manager rely on MongoDB for its configuration and Elasticsearch for log analytics, but deploying many components can by more tricky and more expensive than having a single distributed data store. To simplify the stack, the Gravitee repository for Elassandra can be used to store Gravitee con... | ['Elassandra', 'API', 'Elasticsearch', 'Microservices', 'Kubernetes'] |
Scaling Up or Scaling Out
The architecture’s deployment should consider the right tools and technology which can support to handle the unpredictable load on the application. It encompasses either Scale-up or Scale-out of the cloud resources.
Scale-up or Scale-down is upgrading or degrading the tier for existing cloud... | ['Architecture', 'Azure', 'AWS', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Understanding Sex Addiction
How self-isolation from coronavirus impacts sex addicts and their partners
Photo by Joe deSousa on Unsplash
Self-isolation is causing partners to spend a considerable amount of time together under the same roof. I’m curious how Sex Addicts (SA’s) and their significant others are coping?
... | ['Addiction', 'Interview', 'Mental Health', 'Sex', 'Coronavirus'] |
“Just sit still,” Dad would tell one of my brothers.
Everyone knows kids have trouble sitting still for anything, even hair cuts.
The electric shaver he used to cut hair would get too close to their scalps. They’d flinch and cry out, “Ow!”
“Stupid idiot! I told you to sit still,” Dad would say, slapping them.
Some ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Weekly Prompts', 'Growth', 'Self Improvement'] |
As Corona Virus demands change, a transforming culture grant us permission to be who we never thought we would be.
photo by Mackenzie Andersen of sculpture by Weston and Brenda Andersen for Andersen Design
I awoke in the morning in an instance that dreaming becomes consciousness, a transition as elusive to detect as ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Spirituality', 'Economic Development', 'Dreams', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
How to Attract Top Tech Talent
Four suggestions for recruiting talented technology individuals into your new digital startup team (Singapore context)
A few years ago, I joined my first company through a hackathon event that I participated in while studying (and struggling) in university. Hackathons and events are an ... | ['Recruiting', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Talent Acquisition', 'Startup', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Python is an object-oriented, interpreted, and high-level popular programing language with dynamic semantics. It is desirable for rapid application development, combined with dynamic binding and dynamic typing, its high-level built-in data structure, and connecting existing components together used for as a scripting o... | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Development', 'Developer', 'Python Programming'] |
Taru was destroyed in 1994.
“Our village was already dying by the time the planes came,” Haydar says. “A friend of mine — his parents ventured out one night with a flashlight to visit him on the other side of the village. You see how tiny it is here. It couldn’t have been more than five minutes away, but they were old... | ['Turkey', 'Conflict', 'Nonfiction'] |
What makes them a progressive company?
One of the elements that stands out about Oppo is that they take their ingredients seriously. That goes for both their product, which took 24 months to develop, but also the attention they give to creating the right formula for a happy and healthy work environment — free ice crea... | ['Startup', 'Job Hunting', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Originally published on JOTFORM.COM
Oliver Burkeman is preoccupied with the topic. Obsessed, even.
Recently, the author and Guardian journalist confessed that he’s “unreasonably fascinated by other people’s daily schedules.”
His mental library includes specific details, like how fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld sleep... | ['Life', 'Inspiration', 'Productivity', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
Luke Woodham and the Pearl High School Massacre
Filled with rage for most of his life, Luke exploded in 1997, killing three people — including his own mother — and wounding seven others.
Photo by William Isted on Unsplash
Luke Woodham was born on February 5, 1981. As a toddler, Luke was adorable; a blonde-haired, bl... | ['True Crime', 'School Shootings', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'History'] |
Diving into a company’s blog is one of the best ways I learn about an organization. It offers a glimpse into who I could be potentially working with, the projects I could take ownership of, and what the culture is like. In a sense, my first impression can be formed prior to meeting anyone from the teams.
With these th... | ['Technology', 'User Experience', 'Tech', 'Design', 'Writing'] |
In our previous episode of Stranger Things, we looked at how insight drives Netflix’s success. If you missed that post, you can read it here.
As we move through the DATA > INSIGHT > ACTION loop, this blog post deep-dives further into the ACTION aspect of Netflix’s data.
When we arrive at the Insights stage, 50% of th... | ['Data Science', 'Business Intelligence', 'Netflix', 'Marketing', 'Customer Analytics'] |
You’ve thought about your characters. You’ve defined them. You’ve written biographies and histories. They’re 3-dimensional, living beings in your head. All that’s left to do is introduce them to your reader by making them jump off the page. How do we do that?
First Impressions
Just like real life, when we meet someon... | ['Storytelling', 'Writers On Writing', 'Characters', 'Character Development', 'Writing'] |
Charts are wonderful — they generate information out of myriad little details, unlock insights out of a seemingly unrelated tonnage of data, and to a great extent help uncover the iceberg that’s hidden beneath the cresting water. In my view, data visualization is an interesting blend of art & science that generates eng... | ['Storytelling', 'Insight Data Science', 'Analytics', 'Insights', 'Visualization'] |
Bernard Goldbach https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/
In the 1860’s a prominent machinist named William Sellers set out on a mission to standardise the common screw. Importantly, this was a screw by his own design.
At that time, screws were made individually, by hand, on demand. Sellers saw the opportunity to devel... | ['Influencer Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Amazon', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
The Ultimate Guide To Growing Your Audience
The six elements of an effective audience growth strategy.
Congrats!
If you read this, you’ll already have done more than most people do to grow their audience.
What follows is a breakdown of the keys to audience growth and how to establish the necessary mindset to build ... | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Social Media', 'Digital Marketing', 'Entertainment'] |
Boundaries Are Not Walls
Bringing us together and to better mental well-being
The term ‘boundary’ can sometimes be misleading. We aren’t talking about building walls. We are building a fence — remember, ‘good fences make good neighbors’. Boundaries are necessary to establish better relationships with ourselves and ot... | ['Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health Awareness', 'Self Improvement'] |
Christmas is one big bundle of obligation at the best of times. Add 2020 into the mix and we have one magnificent ball of clusterfuckery.
We’re all trying to figure out how to make this holiday season as normal as possible when we know that normal doesn’t exist right now. Let’s not pretend that millions of people have... | ['Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Love', '2020', 'Wellness'] |
Photo by Daria Obymaha from Pexels
Reading. Chances are, for you to have clicked on this blog post, you’re into it (otherwise why are you here, seriously?), and you have some thoughts about some of the stuff you read. You’ve likely found that, to be considering writing a review, you’ve come across a book that was so b... | ['Review', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Readers', 'Writing'] |
How to Build Antifragile Organisations
Be like viruses and bacteria — embrace stressors and disruption.
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash
Whenever we try to eliminate viruses and bacteria, it comes back stronger the next time — requiring a stronger antidote to eliminate it.
That which does not kill us makes us st... | ['Business Strategy', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
The intelligence community doesn’t have to worry about such threats yet, however. Since quantum physicists began working in earnest to try and create a quantum computer in the late 1990s, they have yet to build anything approaching a working machine, never mind running anything as complex as Grover’s or Shor’s algorith... | ['Physics', 'Computer Science', 'Science', 'Quantum Computing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
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