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Why corporate venturing is more like hedging than institutional venturing
Corporate venture arms with strategic mandate should stop trying to be like institutional venture firms.
Photo by Karl Bewick
It is no secret that corporate venture capital, in the grand scheme of things, has not been blessed with success. Eve... | ['Partnerships', 'Innovation', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capital'] |
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Want to change your life, in both profound ways and small, day to day as well as over the big picture? A powerful way to live your life daily, even moment to moment, is to keep this line of thinking ever at the forefront of your thoughts.
Live your life with the end result in mind.... | ['Motivation', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
Metrics Deep-Dive for Product Managers
Measure & Track the Entire Path to Market for your Product
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This post appeared in my weekly newsletter on Product Management. Sign up here to get new posts straight to your inbox. ? Find me on twitter Want to Connect
Last week, I wrote a post about why hav... | ['Startup', 'Marketing', 'Product Management', 'Metrics'] |
It was only because of the love of my family that I felt the strength and intense obligation to keep my life. When I was introduced to the Gospel of Jesus, I was introduced to a hope I never knew. A Light that was true, genuine, and everlasting through every circumstance. I so desperately needed this Light, and I was u... | ['Storytelling', 'Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity'] |
Between the (book) covers: Design Beyond Devices
Four themes woven throughout my new book on multimodal and cross-device design
On December 1, 2020, my first book Design Beyond Devices will ship worldwide. As so many authors do, I wrote this book partially because I wish it had existed when I was tackling the big unk... | ['User Experience', 'Technology', 'Voice Assistant', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Design'] |
How NOT to Be Super Indecisive About Everything You Do
7 things I learned from taking forever to get a new iPhone
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You’re probably here because you struggle to be decisive. Because you agonize over basic choices you must make to move your life forward. You worry, you waste weeks, ... | ['Mental Health', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
I read Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future over the summer. It’s a fantastic read and a detailed account of the ups and downs of one of the biggest visionaries of our time.
It also gives you a sneak peek into Musk’s work ethic and productivity secrets he uses to run multiple companies.
Now,... | ['Work', 'Growth', 'Productivity', 'Elon Musk', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
I can just take it
Like all good stories, Unforgiven plays out over three acts, the first of which is set back when Dave was fourteen years old. Even though he was just getting started in comedy, he was, it will surprise nobody to learn, a natural. From the first moment he got up on stage, Dave displayed a level of po... | ['Comedy', 'Television', 'Dave Chappelle', 'Storytelling', 'Writing'] |
I think I’ve got a clue for the secret success of Fatim Hemraj on News Break
Some writers may have hidden power for influencing their readers. Let me elaborate on this remark.
For the goal is to highlight high achievers in our community.
Because writers need inspiration.
Fatim Hemraj has joined ILLUMINATION-Curated... | ['Marketing', 'Technology', 'Self Improvement', 'Freelancing', 'Writing'] |
The 128,000-square-foot building, with a base of five floors and a tower of 11 floors that structurally aligns with the adjacent brutalist Altschul Hall, is designed to encourage interaction between students and faculty in one dynamic complex. Organized as a fully interdisciplinary community, the complex transitions fr... | ['Barnard College', 'Architecture', 'Higher Ed', 'Design', 'New York'] |
French Biologist Louis Pasteur (Credit: Science History Institute/Gregory Tobias)
We live in a ‘post-truth world’. That phrase is rather Orwellian, a reality of alternative facts and fake news, where society questions everything, and is sceptical of everyone. But if there is one title that has lost any legitimacy in o... | ['Expert', 'Expertise', 'Science', '5g', 'Coronavirus'] |
4 Top AI/ML Github Repositories in November 2020
Some of these will blow your mind
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Data Scientists and Machine Learning researchers will both keep a nose around for what’s going on in the community.
There are various ways to do this: by checking out what’s going on in Kaggle or Produ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Github', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Long ago, I came to understand my dreams aren’t a simple mishmash of absurdities. They have a purpose. Untapped, however, they remain obscure.
Like me, you have a guidance system, friend, and creative sage at your disposal who delivers data as you sleep. Its offerings arise in a foreign language though. Not one unfami... | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Behavior Change', 'Psychology', 'Dreams'] |
A light-skinned woman sits in a half-full bathtub, her face and arms hunched over her knees in sadness. Photo courtesy of Tophee Marquez, Pexels.
There’s a very unique feeling that I’ve come to associate with our new normal now that we’re social distancing long-term and I don’t seem to be alone in this feeling.
It’s ... | ['Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Working with JSON and Python in your Data Projects
For many different kinds of projects you will get in touch with data in JSON format — Here is what you need to know to get started.
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Use cases can variate for example from big data integration projects, where you transfer data from an API to ... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Json', 'Bigquery'] |
A young woman told me in therapy she was a perpetual liar.
They weren’t big, harmful lies. They were little lies she told her parents, her colleagues — and herself — about the social life she wasn’t having.
The truth was, she was desperately lonely — and ashamed of it. She didn’t have a bestie or a group to hang out ... | ['Mental Health', 'Loneliness', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
This is the second article in a short-series bringing together all of my work from the past year.
Although there’s some cross-over between many of these categories, this installment looks specifically at my writing dedicated to journalistic practice.
Audio and Podcasting
Local Journalism
Published at the end of 201... | ['Storytelling', 'Careers', 'Journalists', 'Journalism', 'Reporting'] |
I’ve been writing a fair bit on Medium recently, sharing valuable design and development knowledge I gained from working on my first app, Crypto Price Tracker that I just launched today, on 28th Jan.
I wanted to share my story of working on this app from the day I started until today. I hope this post helps and inspir... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Programming', 'Design', 'iOS', 'Startup'] |
By Joyce Chou, Oscar Murillo, and Roger Ibars
Can artificial intelligence be racist? Well, it depends. Let’s say you’re an African-American student at a school that uses facial recognition software. The school uses it to access the building and online homework assignments. But the software’s got a problem. Its makers ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Inclusive Design', 'Microsoft', 'Bias', 'Design'] |
In this article I’m going to build a specialized neural network architecture called a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).
GANs are weird. Here’s what they look like:
The Generator is a convolutional neural network (CNN) laid out in reverse.
A normal CNN reads in an image and outputs a list of class probabilities w... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Csharp', 'Programming'] |
How to format the article
To format it properly so that the chances of curation is the maximum, please follow the Medium guidelines. You can always follow the below-mentioned article for more clear instructions.
You can also check for this article for tips and tricks for writing on Medium.
In short, submit unpublish... | ['Style Guides', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Psychology', 'Publication', 'Writing'] |
We’re beginning to see the peak of the Coronavirus crisis in hard-hit urban areas like New York City, thanks to social distancing measures and the bravery and dedication of healthcare workers. Yet despite the progress, you only have to look at Singapore to see that the epidemic can back flare up at any time.
Meanwhile... | ['Leadership', 'Coronavirus', 'Trust'] |
In this tutorial, we build a regression model using the cruise_ship_info.csv dataset for recommending the crew size for potential cruise ship buyers. This tutorial will highlight important data science and machine learning concepts such as:
a) data preprocessing and variable selection
b) basic regression model buildi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Featured', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
Streamlit is a new open source library that uses Python and integrates well with common data science libraries. It handles interactivity and visualizations very well.
To paraphrase co-founder Adrien Treuille, Streamlit apps are Python scripts that treat widgets as variables, can reuse data and computations, and can be... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Why Delayed Gratification Is Not a Suitable Strategy
For millennia, humans lived from moment to moment. We had to continually think about how to get food, avoid predators, and find shelter. While our world is very different from our ancestors’, experts showed that our brains didn’t change much compared to early humans... | ['Education', 'Productivity', 'Motivation', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to Write a Badass Beginning
Tips to start your novel off strong
Picture from movie-screencaps.com
Your book’s introduction is one of the most important parts you will write. It will determine whether or not a publisher wants to work with you and if a reader will continue reading. In it, the tone for the rest of ... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing Advice', 'Chapter 1', 'Writing'] |
NEWSLETTER
Gene Therapy in Dogs & Random Number Generator Made from DNA
This Week in Synthetic Biology (Issue #16)
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A Gene Therapy, Tested on Dogs, Has Issues
For CRISPR-based g... | ['Newsletter', 'News', 'Science', 'Tech', 'Biotechnology'] |
Use the Zeigarnik Effect to Improve Your Productivity
Why feeling guilty for things you don’t get done isn’t actually a bad thing
Image by David Iskander on Unsplash
If you can’t stop thinking about the cliffhanger of your favorite Netflix series or find it hard to concentrate because that unfinished work project ke... | ['Cognitive Bias', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Zeigarnik Effect'] |
2020s BLACK SWAN, THE PRE- AND POST-COVID-19 ERA
VCs, Startups and Covid-19
Opportunity or Genuine Economic Deterioration?
Powerpoint skills — Level Pro
The past years have been like a never ending romantic walk in the park for startups and VCs, love was in the air — no doubt.
VC funds have raised massive amounts ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capitalist', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Funding'] |
It was the English theatre critic, Kenneth Tynan, who brought Williams and Hemingway together…
Williams. Library of America
In April 1959, Tynan was travelling to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro, who’d recently chased Batista off the island, and called in to see Tennessee Williams — who was living in Key West at the t... | ['Cuba', 'Culture', 'Books', 'History', 'Writing'] |
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Start the year-off catching up on all the literary gems from 2018. These were my all-time favourite books of 2018. If you didn’t get a chance to read these I would highly recommend picking these up in 2019 :)
Any others that should be here? Feel free to comment below.
Best Litera... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Literature', 'Nonfiction', 'Fiction'] |
What is an entrepreneur? Who’s an entrepreneur? How to define it?
These are questions I’ve been asking myself more and more, for a couple of months now, while been involved on projects and with people that will fit into that category.
So, I’m planning to keep asking those questions (and few more) not only to myself, ... | ['Work', 'Hard Work', 'Side Project', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
PYTHON DEVELOPMENT | VISUAL STUDIO CODE
Have you tried Pylance for VS Code? If not, here’s why you should.
The latest language server for Python (from Microsoft) is a massive productivity enhancer.
If you work with Python and Visual Studio Code, go ahead and do yourself a favor: download the Pylance extension (previ... | ['Python', 'Development', 'Python Programming', 'Vscode Extension', 'Vscode'] |
Tiny things add up. Taken on their own, they might seem insignificant, but put them all together, and yeah. They can lead to big things.
Several years ago, when I’d just started Ninja Writers, I signed up for a year-long business coaching program. I knew I had a good idea and it was working, but I needed some guidance... | ['Books', 'Blogging', 'Ninjabyob', 'Habit', 'Writing'] |
As many of you know, .NET Standard 2.0 introduced support for DataSet and DataTable. With that, we got overwhelming demand for support to bind DataTable to the Xamarin.Forms DataGrid. We are happy to announce that this feature is available with our 2019 Volume 3 — Beta release.
In this blog, I am going to walk you thr... | ['Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Programming', 'Productivity', 'Xamarin'] |
At first, his polyamorous “confession” seemed heartfelt and a we’ve-been-together-for-a-long-time-people-change-YOLO sort of thing. I, of course, had empathy for how “transparent” he was with me. But there was something about his presentation that didn’t feel good in my heart of hearts.
Maybe it was the back and forth... | ['Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Sexuality', 'Writing'] |
Can you ever forget how to be a human in the world? When major depressive disorder imprisoned me in my head and threw away the key for five years, I lost myself almost entirely.
Such was the disconnect between my previous life and what I had become that I looked in the mirror one morning and had no idea who was starin... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology'] |
I recently traveled to the mountains in Colorado and hiked in nature almost every day with the intention to find this inner peace and clarity that everyone seems to boast about. I wanted to first-handedly experience the benefits that shinrin-yoku practice promises.
Self-reflecting and guidance from mentors have coerce... | ['Japanese', 'Mental Health', 'Nature', 'Personal Development', 'Wellness'] |
The Making of a Portfolio Site
I have been inspired by the portfolio sites of peers and mentors and often wished I had my own, so when the time came to choose a capstone project for Foundations at Holberton School I transformed that wish into a goal with a timeline. This website is the product.
Purpose and Product
W... | ['Front End Development', 'React', 'Holberton School', 'Nextjs', 'Software Engineering'] |
Why Fintech Companies Use Haskell
The benefits of functional programming for fintech products
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
Fintech is one of the biggest and fastest-growing IT markets today.
It is an emerging industry that uses technology to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial... | ['Fintech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Development', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming'] |
Everyone’s Got Their Carol Baskin
Not Everyone is Going to Be Nice to You…
As America watched a series that kept getting weirder and more bizarre by the moment, unable to take our fixated eyes off our screens, trapped in our homes during a global pandemic with little recourse for doing much else, we stared in wonder ... | ['Self', 'Philosophy', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Psychology'] |
Why Disney Should Do a Live-Action Remake of The Sword in the Stone. Brett Seegmiller Follow Jan 25 · 6 min read
Very rarely do the Disney live-action remakes improve upon their animated predecessors. Almost every creative decision that was added to remakes such as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Aladdin were... | ['Movies', 'Disney', 'Storytelling', 'Film', 'Writing'] |
If content is king, does its quality matter? The entire goal of content marketing is to try and nurture or even convert leads. So long as people are looking at your blog/e-book/infographic and you’re collecting the information you need, that’s what counts. Even if you’re not writing content for marketing purposes, isn’... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing Tips', 'Blogging', 'Writing'] |
I suck at photography.
I take a photo and, to me, it looks like puke. It looks dead. I wish I were better.
Chase Jarvis is a great photographer. He’s won all sorts of awards. I wanted to talk to him.
So I lied. He asked me if he could interview me for Chase Jarvis Live, his website where he’s interviewed 100s of peo... | ['Success', 'Marketing', 'Storytelling'] |
The Case Against To-Do Lists (and What to Use Instead)
To-do lists are supposed to keep us on task. It turns out they do the opposite.
Illustrations: Fru Pinter
Say you bought a new phone, but at the end of each day, without fail, the operating system crashed. Would you keep using it? Of course not. You’d take the p... | ['Behavior Change', 'Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Psychology', 'Growth Hacking'] |
You Might Feel The Urge To Run In The Beginning
Have you recently worked on shifting your attachment style? Maybe you’ve opened up the door to attachment and are learning about it now.
Well, you might find dating securely attached people different.
Dating them might feel boring.
Don’t run yet!
Your addiction hasn’... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Love', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Psychology'] |
We’re well into the digital age, but surprisingly (or not) the advertising industry has been struggling to catch up. While we realize that cross-platform campaigns are more effective and that consumers have more control over what ads they’re exposed to, many advertisers fail to effectively put two and two together.
As... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Design', 'Digital Marketing', 'UX'] |
Being Good Enough Every Day Is Just As Good as Being Great
If you show up every day, it all adds up.
@brucemars unsplash.com
When I started working from home, I thought of my work as a side gig. There’s no expectation of actually making a living. I thought my entrepreneurial activities will be an investment in my fu... | ['Self', 'Leadership', 'Freelancing', 'Motivation', 'Writing'] |
How to Get the Name of the Most Dominant Colors
The logic is to iterate over all image pixels and to get their labels. Then, based on the frequency, we will get the n most frequent color names.
Image by Fantasy Milos.
This is the function that converts an RGB pixel to a color name:
Now let’s write a function that t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
What is Passive Income?
Passive income is generally defined as a stream of income earned with little or no ongoing effort needed from the individual receiving the passive income in order to grow the stream of income. Passive income is income that is not proportional to the time you physically put into acquiring it. Ac... | ['Technology', 'Social Media', 'Productivity', 'Zazzle', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
A new battle is brewing to be the default of every choice we make. As modern interfaces like voice remove options, augmented reality overlays our physical world, and artificial intelligence gains our trust by transcending our own reasoning, DEFAULTS WILL RULE THE WORLD.
I’ve come to call them disruptive interfaces — d... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Product Management', 'Design', 'Product Design', 'Venture Capital'] |
A Window on the Warriors Dynasty
A review of Ethan Sherwood Strauss’s “The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty”
Do you miss basketball? In this unprecedented time of school closures and stay-at-home orders, I’m surprised by how much I miss basketball. But if you’re anything like me, I hav... | ['Nonfiction', 'Basketball', 'Books', 'Sports', 'Book Review'] |
The book I want to spend this post briefly reviewing, The Empire of Gold, is an excellent end to what was already a great Daevabad Trilogy. This trilogy is set in a fantasy version of the Middle East, a backdrop to conflict between a large cast of humanoid magical creatures. All three books flip between the protagonist... | ['Science Fiction', 'Review', 'Books', 'Fantasy', 'Writing'] |
As writers, the hustle to self-promote is more exhausting than the actual work of writing. As necessary as it is, we can get really bored really fast doing this thing day in and day out. It seems endless, right?
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Over and over. But there are a few other things you can do to mix things up a... | ['Work', 'Social Media', 'Productivity', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
In the TV show Silicon Valley there’s a famous scene where Jian-Yang demonstrates the SeeFood app that can identify any kind of food in an image.
Of course, this being Silicon Valley, there’s a catch: the app can only identify hotdogs and classifies everything else as ‘not hotdog’.
Watch the full clip below:
In this... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Csharp', 'Programming'] |
Two essential tools.
At any point in life, when you’re trying to change for the better, i.e. workout more, eat better, take better care of your health, learn something new, to stick with it long enough so that it makes a difference in your life, there need to be two things in your arsenal: Time and Practice. This is t... | ['Self', 'Motivation', 'Wellness', 'Fitness', 'Life'] |
Sports viewership is soaring, and revenue is growing faster than some countries’ GDP, making it a $700 billion-dollar global industry. What makes the sports industry so successful?
This is the result of sports business adapting to modern challenges, trends, and audiences — embracing digitalization, big data, technolog... | ['Coaching', 'Sports', 'Startup', 'Sports Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
My project has been around since 2013, but the mission of transforming it into an actual business brings me a great amount of fear. Thinking like an entrepreneur is a practical, down-to-earth mode of seeing the world. You have to build something that is both likable and profitable.
We are so used to hearing stories ab... | ['Media', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Journalism', 'Brazil'] |
1: Climate Change Prediction
The easiest way for machine learning and statistics to help climate change is by aiding prediction. Climate prediction reporting, weather models, and various other models are built using historical data and as many parts of our environment have been measured over a period of time, data exi... | ['Data Science', 'Environment', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Sustainability'] |
10 Best Big Data and Hadoop Tutorials, Books, and Courses to learn in 2021 javinpaul Follow Sep 15 · 7 min read
image_credit — Udemy
Hello guys, if you are looking to learn Big Data and Hadoop, and looking for some excellent books, courses, and tutorials to start with, then you have come to the right place.
In the p... | ['Big Data', 'Books', 'Hadoop', 'Tutorial', 'Data Science'] |
Python Machine Learning Projects
Of course, reading and studying alone will not bring you where you need to go. You need actual practice. As I said on my blog, learning the tools is pointless if you do not jump into the data. And so, I introduce you to a place where you can find Python Machine Learning Projects easily... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Do We Really Want to Stop Working?
To me, retirement conjures up images of cruising around in a Hawaiian shirt, shifting between knitting projects, poker tournaments with friends, and hours upon hours of daytime TV. That might be fun for a week — maybe two. But just farting around like that for fifteen to twenty years... | ['Life', 'Wellness', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Retirement'] |
We have talked a lot about data on the Streamroot tech blog, and for good reason. Powering millions of video sessions online every day, we have a lot of material to work with. Delivering video content — especially with hybrid CDN and peer-to-peer systems — is a highly complex undertaking that requires us to continuousl... | ['Flink', 'Distributed Systems', 'Influxdb', 'Java', 'Big Data'] |
You want a highly motivated team? Well, then you need to walk the walk, and talk the talk every single day.
It’s easy to motivated and enthusiastic when things are going well. The true test of a CEO is how the CEO reacts when things aren’t going well.
Picture: Depositphotos
For example, you just lost your largest cu... | ['Technology', 'Management', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capital'] |
These days, it’s very common to mix creative technologies like WebGL with traditional HTML/CSS when building websites. In this post, I will try to outline how we at 14islands approach this trend to ensure the content is still available to as many visitors as possible. All of these techniques were used on our new compan... | ['Development', 'React', 'HTML', 'Webgl', 'Threejs'] |
It seems that every June we see more and more brands joining in on Pride Month fun and jumping in to bed with the LGBTQ+ community by adorning their products and ads with rainbow flags. There’s something be said for the symbolic value of such openness especially to a community marginalized for so long. But can you blam... | ['Branding', 'Thinking', 'Marketing', 'Design', 'LGBTQ'] |
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There’s one variable self-improvement gurus fail to highlight when it comes to being successful. No matter how hard you work, how smart you are, or who you know, there’s one factor to your success that’s out of your control.
Luck.
Actually, luck puts too much context on what can ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
Do your old Medium articles slip off the paywall and into the realm of the unread?
No one wants dead articles — which is why people used to give them a new heading and image, and republish them (a no-no according to Medium guidelines). But there is an easy way to keep them breathing!
You may have noticed writers popp... | ['Self', 'Medium', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
Written July 2020
With the spread of COVID-19, global stock markets have declined significantly. U.S indices including the S&P 500, Dow Jones and NASDAQ have dropped close to 30%, bringing us to values which were previously observed in 2017.
GSPC, DJI, IXIC Index Values (Yahoo Finance, 2020/03/31)
From prior crashes... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Support Vector Regression', 'Coronavirus', 'Stock Market', 'Predictive Analytics'] |
One Sentence Is All You Need to Get Started
Expert running tips that will also improve your writing.
Photo by Kristian Egelund on Unsplash
As my profile states I walk or run 10,000 steps everyday.
That’s about 7.5 km.
And you know what?
I never feel like doing those 10,000 steps.
Whether you are a professional a... | ['Productivity', 'Running', 'Fitness', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash
I’ve always hated riding rollercoasters. I hate the exact moment when the cart pauses at the peak of the ride — I would cover my eyes and wait for the ride to be over. I don’t mind the height or speed, but I hate not knowing what turn or slope will come next. The anticipation ma... | ['Work', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
Use Your “Hurt Locker” as an Opportunity to Grow
The problem with dating a “hurt locker” is that it’s mind-fuckery. One thing can lead to another and, before you know it, you’re psychologically intoxicated by a heavy cocktail of brain chemicals.
All your past issues seem to snowball into one, coming at you at a dange... | ['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Psychology', 'Dating'] |
Anger highlights boundaries and betrayal, and it points you back to your own worth.
Anger is most powerful not when it is used to throw tantrums or burn others down, but when it is used to protect your worth and evolve your opinion of yourself.
The heat of your anger doesn’t have to burn others. Instead, channel it t... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Pandas has quite a few handy methods to clean up messy data, like dropna,drop_duplicates, etc.. However, finding and removing outliers is one of those functions that we would like to have and still not exist yet. Here I would like to share with you how to do it step by step in details:
The key to defining an outlier l... | ['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Cleaning', 'Data Science', 'Stock Market'] |
Announcing a new Video Series: “An Introduction to Digital Analytics”
A journey about making digital analytics videos extremely useful
Last week, we gave a presentation titled an “Introduction to Digital Analytics (And More)” to fellows at the Venture for America training camp.
As we were preparing for the presentat... | ['Marketing', 'Small Business', 'Digital Marketing', 'Google Analytics', 'Startup'] |
How ‘Breaking Up’ Apple and Amazon Might Actually Work
A banking law from 1956 offers a realistic model for regulating dominant internet platforms
Photo: Pool/Getty Images
Welcome back to Pattern Matching, OneZero’s weekly newsletter that puts the week’s most compelling tech stories in context.
“Break up Big Tech” ... | ['Pattern Matching', 'Apple', 'Amazon'] |
That Urge to Write- Hypergraphia
That Weekend Page
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash
He can see that the home is upside down, they both are working in the balcony garden, rearranging pots and potting new plants. I am not there with them I am sitting in my favourite place and writing this poem. Now that we have a ... | ['Prose', 'Writers On Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'This Happened To Me', 'Writing'] |
How To Be Vulnerable
It’s Time to Open Up
Photo by Genessa Panainte on Unsplash
I cry a lot.
Nobody knows. Because I don’t want anyone to know. I don’t want anyone to comfort me. I don’t want anyone to console me. I don’t want anyone to touch me when I am sad. I like to feel sad. It reminds that I am still here. Bu... | ['Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Vulnerability', 'Writing'] |
The ingenious design feature of the moving pointers is that it kills two birds with one stone. One use case automatically serves a second use case. The first use case for the live movements of the cursors is confirmation that your team members are in the Miro whiteboard space.
The second use case is feedback. When I c... | ['Technology', 'Design', 'Productivity', 'SaaS', 'UX'] |
On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion topics rotate every two weeks, and while subjects vary, each one challenges our members to think deeply and holistically about quest... | ['Business Intelligence', 'Topicsindv', 'UX Design', 'Analytics', 'Dashboard'] |
How to Create Your Own Personal Writing Style Guide
Making your life as a professional writer a little easier.
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
In my last article, I talked about why style guides were important and how to choose the best one for your needs. Today, however, I want to show you how you can make you... | ['Work', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Grammar', 'Writing'] |
How to Create an Impressive Headline
3 Types of eye-catching titles to use for your articles
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In the past, I always struggled with choosing good-looking titles for my articles. I tried to make them functional, and make them stick in the reader’s mind, to attract their curiosity ... | ['Writing', 'Headlines', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writer'] |
I like the direct way Hecht states each considerable and challenging idea in the above quote. All of this is easier said than done, but it is worth saying, and it is worth striving for — all of it. Don’t worry so much about what’s to come. Meantime, enjoy yourself more. You got this.
Doubt: A History by Jennifer Micha... | ['Two Minute Takeaway', 'Inspiration', 'Books', 'Psychology', 'Authors'] |
Moderna Vs. Pfizer mRNA Vaccines for Covid-19: The Key Points
Explaining the efficacy and safety profiles, handling protocols, and remaining questions about disease spread and long-term immunity and safety between the two vaccines.
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The fastest vaccine the FDA has approved was... | ['Technology', 'Science', 'Innovation', 'Coronavirus', 'Life'] |
Paid Media: We Pay People to Say We’re Innovative
In this model, trust comes at a price.
How much are we willing to pay to say we are the most innovative company selling whatever we sell?
Brands can plaster the message on billboards and digital ads, add it to their radio and Pandora scripts, but it’s all the same.
... | ['Paid Owned Earned', 'Marketing', 'Trust', 'Innovation', 'Customer'] |
It’s been just over a year at Propelor as a product designer. Propelor is a modern investment tool that makes portfolio management easy for everyone. I currently am the sole designer in the company and our goal is to make it easier to be a self-directed investor and to encourage more people to start investing for thems... | ['Learning', 'Startup', 'Product Design', 'Design'] |
A common obstacle for entrepreneurs and corporate professionals is learning tangible skillsets on the go or keeping up with the evolution of the skillset. This disadvantage coupled with the necessity to operate at the maximum capacity can create frequent opportunities for critical errors.
AstroLabs Academy was formed ... | ['Learning', 'Digital Marketing', 'Motivation', 'Insights', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
5 Hindrances Along the Way to Self-Discovery and Personal Growth
The society we are living in holds temptations and challenges at every corner. When we are entangled in our thoughts, we lose sight of ourselves and what matters.
If you are surrounded by fog how can you catch sight of the right path?
Created by the au... | ['Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology'] |
The 5 Components of $1,000 Articles
Insights from analyzing my best-performing and selling articles
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One thousand dollar articles are the ones that every professional writer aims to sell. This often means that you’re paid $1 or more per word. The norm of this type of pay comes from work... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing Tips', 'Viral', 'Writing'] |
We are excited to introduce some new features for the table views.
Groups for visual tables
Sometimes there is a need to group table rows by the desired criterion. For example, it is handy to group completed stories and bugs by project or feature. Our latest release brought the possibility to apply up to three groups... | ['Dashboard', 'Charts', 'Visualization'] |
Currently, Go is a de facto monopoly among programming languages that people choose to create Kubernetes operators. Their preferences stem from objective reasons such as:
There is a powerful framework for developing operators with Go — Operator SDK. Many Go-based applications, such as Docker and Kubernetes, have becom... | ['Kubernetes', 'Python', 'Kubernetes Operator', 'DevOps'] |
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You can’t predict what happens when you blog.
Expecting that blogging will generate more sales — or more money on Medium — right away would be to simplify the equation and disappoint you.
When you start blogging and start sharing your work on social media, you will learn that it leads t... | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Blogging', 'Writing', 'Social Selling'] |
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The blockchain. Automation. Artificial intelligence.
Which of these areas should you study today to guarantee a job tomorrow? And what should you do if technology isn’t your passion?
According to a recent Harvard Business Review article by John H... | ['Work', 'Work Life Balance', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
It will come as no shock to any reader that people’s mental health has suffered during the current pandemic. Eating disorder charity Beat has reported a 73% surge in demand for its various support services during the rise of COVID 19 in the U.K.
This statistic came as no surprise to me as during the early weeks of loc... | ['Mental Health', 'Books', 'Eating Disorders', 'Eating Disorder Recovery', 'Self Improvement'] |
Developing a fully Serverless Web app
Background
As many companies tend towards a service oriented architecture, developers will often wonder whether more and more parts of their service could be moved into the cloud. Databases, file storage, and even servers are slowly transitioning to the cloud, with servers being ... | ['Code', 'Co Op', 'Microservices', 'Design'] |
Givers Need Boundaries Because Takers Don’t Have Any
Setting limits when people demand too much.
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We’ve all encountered someone who has drained you of something (time, effort, money, etc.) without giving much in return. Often times people who are accustomed to someone dropping everyt... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Love', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
BIO FOR ILLUMINATION
Also the musician, storyteller, father, husband, cyclist and much else.
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I am many things. I identify as a creative person. I have “done” lots of things in my life. It has been quite a roller coaster ride so far, and I have no reason to suppose it is going to let up any... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Writer', 'Biography', 'Improvisation'] |
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Africa’s independence. There is the feeling, however, that the continent still remains in the shadows of the Berlin Conference. Although 60 years may seem like a long enough period for countries to find their way and emerge as regional leaders, today, Africa remains the poorest a... | ['Development', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Africa', 'Economics'] |
Testing your code for speed and efficiency is a crucial aspect of software development. When code takes too long or consumes too much of a resource like memory or CPU you can quickly run into a wide range of issues. The machines your code runs on can become unstable, your code can produce unintentional side effects and... | ['Code', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
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Last week, my husband had a COVID exposure at his workplace. He is still going to his office, alongside a small number of people in a healthcare setting where everyone is following the rules, and we have deemed it to be relatively low-risk in terms of exposure. In the rest of our lives... | ['Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Books', 'Authors', 'Books And Authors'] |
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