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Look, I know that the reason why the ocean has waves is because of the Moon. I learned that back in elementary school, and I’ll state it with full confidence.
But if you asked an innocent follow-up question, my confidence would unravel. I know that there’s some connection, that there’s some sort of link between the ph... | ['Environment', 'Astronomy', 'Nature', 'Science', 'Oceans'] |
6 Imposter Syndrome Triggers to Watch Out For
Know the signs so you can rise above them
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Imposter syndrome is described as the psychological pattern in which a person doubts their abilities despite evidence of their competence. It is probably one of the most commonly faced issues by women ... | ['Mental Health', 'Imposter Syndrome', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Women In Tech'] |
Hard work is the key
In his book, Outliers: The Story Of Success, Malcolm Gladwell digs deep to determine why some people succeed in this life while others don’t. The primary component that came out was — opportunity.
Opportunity in life is as significant as oxygen when it comes to success. It’s true. But my problem ... | ['The Masterpiece', 'Motivation', 'Success', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
How Identity—Not Ignorance—Leads to Science Denial
Changing the minds of Covid-19 deniers may require a lot more than sound reasoning
During the first months of the novel coronavirus outbreak, many rural parts of the U.S. did not experience the swell in caseloads or hospital admissions that threatened to overwhelm ci... | ['Identity', 'Life', 'The Nuance', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
The Mosaic
A poem about sadness and anxiety
Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash
we all have become a story
and learned to part away with memories
in a quiet way.
each poem is a layer that we shed quietly
we all have become a mirror that knows
how to shatter without making a noise.
each piece which shatters
... | ['Poetry', 'Mental Health', 'Sadness', 'Anxiety', 'Writing'] |
Be brave enough to see your mistakes
Knowing you have to start again can be a little scary.
You just barely got through the fear of starting one book, and now you have to go through it again to start another?
I could’ve chosen to ignore my gut feeling that I was doing something wrong. I could’ve continued forcing my... | ['Writing Tips', 'Motivation', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Writing'] |
Six months ago, ARK signed Author, Marketing Expert, and CEO of Never Stop Marketing, Jeremy Epstein, to a contract to serve as a Marketing Adviser to our Chief Marketing Officer, Travis Walker. Jeremy’s goal was to help inform our team and develop a marketing strategy that would fill the gaps in awareness we were seei... | ['Arkecosystem', 'Development', 'Marketing', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Airbnb just went public in a debut that’s been widely celebrated. We dug into the company’s prospectus and learned some interesting facts about their business and travel trends.
Cash flow is highly seasonal. ABNB makes all it’s money in Q3. As you can see, that’s pretty much the only quarter in which the company is co... | ['Airbnb', 'Founders', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capital'] |
When I realised that I was in a relationship with a narcissist, I started to read a lot about Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I devoured books and articles — to find some meaning in the chaos that I experienced, to find explanations where there were none and to confirm that I am not crazy.
But, just like medical st... | ['Mental Health', 'Communication', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Narcissism'] |
Bat Coronavirus Rc-o319 Found in Japan: New Relative of SARS-CoV-2
This study tells us there’re other undiscovered bat coronaviruses, even outside of China.
Background vector created by articular — www.freepik.com
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a study from Japan, titled “Detection... | ['Innovation', 'Life', 'Technology', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
All you ever gave me was a 1000 and 1 reasons to leave.
But I never did.
I stayed.
Against all odds or hope for a better day,
I stayed with you.
Because I knew — You needed me. | ['Storytelling', 'Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Poetry'] |
Sklearn Hello World!
The example we’ll run is pretty simple: learn to recognize digits. Given a dataset of digits, learn the shape of them and predict unseen digits.
This example is based on the Sklearn basic tutorial.
Verify your Python configuration
Before we move forward, just run a simple Python file to make su... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Software Engineering', 'Scikit Learn'] |
Today we release Bokeh 2.0.1: a collection of improvements in automation, documentation, and other minor fixes following the recent 2.0 release.
The full list of changes can be seen in the milestone list on GitHub. Some of the highlights include:
Addressing a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) issue seen in Chrome ... | ['Python', 'Python3', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Bokeh'] |
“Once you realise you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
We all make bad choices but sometimes they only become apparent when life is pulled so far off course you don’t recognise who you are anymore.
For whatever reas... | ['Work', 'Self-awareness', 'Spirituality', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
19 Feb 2006 from On Kawara’s “Today” painting series
Like many kids who attended state-run American elementary schools in the 1980s, I have barely any recollection of anything that I learned in the actual confines of a classroom, being mostly dependent on family support and autodidactic ability to acquire and retain k... | ['Anonymity', 'Marketing', 'Alternative Music', 'Design', 'Content Creation'] |
At Starschema, we’re constantly looking for ways to speed up some of the computationally intensive tasks we’re dealing with. Since a good amount of our work involves image processing, this means that we’re in particular interested in anything that makes matrix computations — sometimes over fairly large tensors, e.g. hi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
Stay In Your Overlaps
Your competitive advantage as a maker and/or an investor is your clarity and discipline around the overlaps of your interests and beliefs.
Aspiring entrepreneurs wonder, “how do you decide which idea is worth committing 5–10 years of your life to build?” Similarly, investors ask, “among all the ... | ['Management', 'Design', 'Investing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capital'] |
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7 Running Quotes To Help You Hack Writer’s Block
“The moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow.” Henry David Thoreau
Let’s face it- writing can be tough. It can, on some days seem to be more of a marathon than a sprint. On other days the words flow from mind to keyboa... | ['Inspiration', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Running', 'Writing'] |
In short: The Holy Grail for marketing campaign authors. Are we happy? Keep on reading and likely you shouldn´t. Enter some concerns.
“Does it work?” And some Concerns.
I am not qualified to answer this question, because I am not a psychologist. The closer I have been to check this service is this test: I wrote some ... | ['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ibm Watson', 'Sdk', 'Big Data'] |
“There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days”:Eric Schmidt
If you are an R user, chances are that you have already been using the data.table package. Data.table is an extension of the data.frame package in R. It’s als... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Pandas', 'Big Data', 'H2oai'] |
Interview with Tony Xu
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at DoorDash
Hi Tony, for the audience who may not be familiar with you, tell us who you are!
I am the CEO and co-founder of DoorDash.
What is your day-to-day like as a CEO at DoorDash?
It changes day-to-day but I would say there are a few categories that ... | ['Leadership', 'Design', 'DoorDash', 'Product', 'Startup'] |
A
A/B Testing
A/B testing is where you are comparing to two different layouts, such as webpages or an application, with a single variable online to see which one performs the best.
Accessibility
This is where you are designing the layout of a webpage or mobile app and taking into account people with disabilities wh... | ['Technology', 'Education', 'Design', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement'] |
I used to believe that writing was a kind of romance. I would wake in the early hours of the morning, steaming hot cup of coffee in my hand, and light a candle. Just me and the dark and my muse. The scene was set. The wooing had begun. Now all I had to do was wait for her arrival.
So, I would sip my coffee and wait. A... | ['Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing', 'Writing Tips', 'Freelance Writing', 'Writing'] |
AI applications, Poetry.
Applying AI to Group Collaborations.
Applying AI to my research in group collaborations. Sharing some poetic thoughts.
Groups collaborate and drink coffee. Can you apply AI to help? Photo by Nikita Vantorin on Unsplash
I was thinking,
Always dangerous,
Could distract me,
From drinking co... | ['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Systems Thinking', 'Poetry'] |
How to Create a New Year’s Resolution That Sticks
Your first mistake is calling it a New Year’s resolution
Photo by Kylo on Unsplash
My New Year’s resolution is to remember everything about 2020 and to never take anything in my life for granted again.
Yep, I said it. I want to remember every detail of this past yea... | ['Inspiration', 'Productivity', 'Motivation', 'Ideas', 'Self Improvement'] |
Looking at my last MPP payout data, I tried to conjure the good feels and confidence of the comic that’s kept me moving ever-forward all these years, but I know too much now because I’m a member of two Facebook groups that support and encourage Medium writers.
What I’ve learned from this generous community is that sev... | ['Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'This Happened To Me', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
When I was 12 years old, I got sick and had to go to the hospital for a check-up. No need to worry, turned out I only had angina. But a couple of hours I spent in the hospital back then did, in some way, predetermine my whole life.
While I was waiting for the examination, someone gave me a book — just to cheer me up. ... | ['Python', 'Mobile App Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Programming', 'Blockchain'] |
Pros, Cons and a Curveball for bypassing Publications and self-publishing on Medium
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Considering the pros and cons of self-publishing on Medium just got much more exciting, thanks to the October 2020 desktop interface update. If you’re a writer of micro fiction or poetry you know what I mean…
... | ['Tips', 'Marketing', 'Ｍedium', 'Blogging', 'Writing'] |
Six Weeks
That’s the length of time unaccounted for. Forty-two days of life. Those are the completely dark days. Six weeks is the hole in my heart. The entire month of October and then some. I do not know where I was. I do not know who cared for me. I do not know what happened to me.
In his book, “The Body Keeps the ... | ['Trauma', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Adoption'] |
Learn how to code a (almost) one liner python function to calculate (manually) cosine similarity or correlation matrices used in many data science algorithms using the broadcasting feature of numpy library in Python.
Photo by mostafa rezaee on Unsplash
Do you think we can say that a professional MotoGP rider and the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Marketing', 'Analytics'] |
Remembering Steve Jobs
Eight years on, we take a look at the life of a man whose innovations changed the world
Known for charismatic presentations, perfectionism and his signature turtlenecks, Steve Jobs was a pioneer of the computing industry. From co-founding Apple Computers Inc. in 1976 through to his death in 201... | ['Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Culture', 'Technology', 'Apple'] |
After running the animation a couple of trends appear. Since the onset of 2017, there have been far more damaging fires across the state with coastal and forested areas hit hardest. Before 2018, fires were far more equally distributed in both size and frequency all over California. However, from 2018 onwards, there has... | ['Python', 'California', 'Plotly', 'Wildfires', 'Datares'] |
5 Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read in 2021
A reading list that will inspire you to think differently.
Photo via Flickr
I’ve recently noticed that I have an increasing amount of things in common with Bill Gates. Unfortunately, I’m not talking about having a billion dollars in my checking account. Instead, I’m ... | ['Education', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Productivity', 'Self Improvement'] |
The Psychology of Airport Design
How airports are designed using traveller behaviour
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash
As a case study in environmental design, airports are fascinated. At the core, their function seems fairly simple: a holding space for travellers who are waiting for a flight. Yet, they’re actually a... | ['Travel', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Psychology', 'Airports'] |
“The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.” ~Sigmund Freud
The old saying, “we are creatures of... | ['Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Psychology', 'Life'] |
This past week I had an almost non stop bombardment of family stresses. I won’t go into all of it but my man Bobs’ sister Carol has rapidly progressing M.S. (Muscular Sclerosis). She is going downhill fast. She is my age, 57. It’s very hard to watch.
Bobs mom, who has been her caretaker called yesterday sounding weary... | ['Mental Health', 'Healing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing Life', 'Writing'] |
The Subtle Art of Writing Copy
Good design is based on a good copy. That’s why UX writing should definitely be the next thing on your skill set.
Should designers…
If you work in the design industry, you might have read at least one article starting with the following words: should designers [name the skill here]? Th... | ['Ux Writing', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Productivity', 'UX'] |
Two main traits of the human brain work together when creating brand preference: Energy conservancy and emotions.
Where as the brains need to create preference stems from it’s need to conserve energy / survival instinct (read more…). Emotions help us create this preference.
The important thing here is that emotions i... | ['Perspective', 'Advertising', 'Psychology', 'Marketing'] |
SCIENCE
Plandemic : Debunked
Stop Sharing Propaganda and Misinformation
Altered still from Plandemic meme, 2020
Go on social media right now and you are destined to run in to someone sharing or promoting a video that has gone viral called PLANDEMIC. They will parrot the points from this video like good little puppe... | ['Propaganda', 'Plandemic', 'Science', 'Judy Mikovits', 'Coronavirus'] |
Binary the Color
We have the primary colors of red, green, and blue, and the secondary colors of magenta, cyan, and yellow. We could convert all colors to the binary colors, depending on the dominant color of the pixel.
To do that, we need to come up with a formula.
But before that, one important note:
If a calcula... | ['Android', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Programming', 'Design'] |
The digital age has been transformed into one surrounding social media and networking. With over a billion monthly active users on sites like Facebook alone, it is hard to argue against social networking being something ubiquitous. These social sites act as gatekeepers for the harboring of online connections between us... | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Tech', 'Internet', 'Psychology'] |
The file contains information on 17k housing blocks all over the state of California:
Column 1: The longitude of the housing block
Column 2: The latitude of the housing block
Column 3: The median age of all the houses in the block
Column 4: The total number of rooms in all houses in the block
Column 5: The total n... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Csharp', 'Deep Learning'] |
For those who try to write something meaningful, something which will resonate with the reader, take heart. Prepare yourself. It’s another day, possibly one of frustration and sadness, because you just looked at your stats and realize you have fewer reads than the day before.
Perhaps you’re sitting in front of your co... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Writers On Medium', 'Awareness', 'Writing'] |
For a short period of time I worked on a design system at WebNL, an agency specialised in web design, development and marketing based in the Netherlands. Our design system was aimed at improving the bridge between the design and development of the products we’re making.
In this blog I will explain how we did this, and... | ['Development', 'Design Systems', 'Design', 'Sketch', 'UX'] |
Self Esteem and Expectations
Balancing on your pedestal
Photo by Timothy Dykes on Unsplash
Growing one’s self-esteem is like sorting the wheat from the chaff. A sieving system where beliefs and actions and habits are brought to light to be examined and queried. Does this empower me or disempower me?
Do I want this ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Love', 'Motivation', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
As co-founder and CEO of Eversound, Jake Reisch ’15 leads a team that creates wireless headphones designed to improve quality of life for older adults and ease communication between residents of senior living communities and their caregivers. To date, the technology has been adopted by over 500 senior living communitie... | ['Cornell', 'Technology', 'Cornell University', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
__author__ = “Alex Varatharajah”
class SoftwareEngineer:
“””So you made it! Through all the applications, all the tests and all the interviews… Welcome to ONZO! I have been here just over a month now as a Software Engineer, and I’d like to do a short retrospective on what my first month has been like.“””
def __init_... | ['Python', 'Utilities', 'Energy', 'Software Engineering'] |
When we consider the gut microbiome, we usually think of two things: gut-related diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), or probiotic supplements.
(At least, this is what I think about, as a microbiome scientist. Most people that I speak with are not microbiome scientists, and they just give me weird looks w... | ['Biology', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Farming', 'Microbiome'] |
by: E.B. Johnson
Our relationships form a cornerstone of our happiness, but when they become corrupted, the waters get muddied. Life is complex, and it’s hard to stay centered and focused on one another at all times. We drift and our affections and our attentions drift too. Things go wrong and we start to wonder if th... | ['Self', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Dating'] |
As a clinician in an outpatient mental health practice, I have been searching for the right analogy to what this time has felt like for my patients … and for me. As with many traumas, there is that initial shock and denial. As Kübler-Ross wisely observed, next will often come anger and bargaining perhaps settling into ... | ['Spirituality', 'Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Religion'] |
Considerations When Measuring Chatbot Success
And What Principles You Should Implement…
Introduction
Performance measures are important to organizations wanting to track their investment in a conversational interface…
But standards & metrics differ by industry and obviously by companies in each industry. Due to the... | ['Chatbots', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Design', 'Conversational UI'] |
ReElivate — Creating Better Social Virtual Experiences
A marketplace connecting experience providers and companies to deliver unique, memorable, and virtual experiences
The Problem
The coronavirus pandemic has made companies pretty reliant on Zoom and virtual communication. While these virtual communication services... | ['Marketplaces', 'Venture Capital', 'Startup', 'Coronavirus', 'Social'] |
FIVE IDEAS…
Developer credential management
Enabling least-privilege for infrastructure developers
In certain development environments, a “least-privilege” framework is optimal. This means that the developers working on a project are given only the information necessary to carry out their task without providing acce... | ['Innovation', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup Ideas', 'Venture Capital'] |
Starting Conversations about Customer Privacy and AI
A guide for UX professionals
By Derek DeBellis, Penny Marsh Collisson, Angelo Liao, and Mar Gines Marin
I love when AI makes a recommendation that accounts for me, my goals, and my context. I love when AI automates part of my workflow by recognizing where I’m goin... | ['User Experience', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Microsoft', 'Research And Insight', 'Design'] |
From model inception to deployment
Machine Learning model training & scalable deployment with Flask, Nginx & Gunicorn wrapped in a Docker Container
We all have been in this position after we are done building a model :p
At some point, we all have struggled in deploying our trained Machine Learning model and a lot of... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Docker'] |
Startup Metrics
“In God we trust; all others must bring data”
This post lists my favourite articles on startup metrics.
Learn what to measure from rock stars such as David Skok, Andrew Chen and Dave McClure.
Happy reading!
METRICS OVERVIEW:
Key concepts explained
THE CONVERSION FUNNEL:
Describing users flows as... | ['Metrics', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Growth Hacking'] |
COVID-19: Impact on Housing Security Across the U.S. Jbochenek Follow Dec 10 · 14 min read
Housing is essential, but not guaranteed. This has never been more obvious than since the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns stranded Americans from their jobs, and thus their incomes. Without income, paying for routine and necessa... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Housing', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
I hate interrupting my analysis workflow by tabbing between different applications and interfaces. It’s irritating, decreases your productivity and just makes things harder to understand. Therefore, I could empathize when one of our marketing people came up to me and expressed their need for an online marketing dashboa... | ['Marketing', 'Tableau', 'Analytics', 'Dataviz', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
Reducing the number of users who unsubscribe?
Therefore decreasing lost revenue? Yes please.
——
Yesterday’s article was about traditional marketing lessons and how they should be mere guidelines.
For those who haven’t read it, here’s the main idea roughly speaking:
Traditional marketing rules tell us that the home... | ['Design', 'SaaS', 'UX', 'Startup', 'Web Design'] |
Preprocessing
The dataset contains some columns that are not important for this problem and they were dropped. This is how the data frame looks like.
We apply some preprocessing to facilitate the data modeling, thus contractions, punctuation, non-alphanumeric characters, and stop words are removed using regex.
impor... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
Reframing decisions.
At their core, the decisions we make every day, both at home and at work are nothing more than bets. As much as we like to think we make decisions based on all the available information, this is rarely the case. Without all of the information, we are essentially betting on the outcome of whatever ... | ['Work', 'Leadership', 'Startup Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Startup'] |
Digital Marketing
Embrace these Two Game Changing Social Media & Digital Marketing Trends to Take Your Customer Engagement to a Whole Different Level Madhur Dixit Follow Jun 8 · 5 min read
With around 5 billion people using the internet and the number of active social media users touching a 4 billion mark, it is need... | ['Storytelling', 'Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Content Marketing'] |
Beginner level coding with advanced techniques.
Table of Contents:
Pull Data with Yfinance Api
Set the Short and Long windows (SMA)
Generate trading signals
Plot Entry/Exit points
Backtest
Analyze Portfolio metrics
Serve Dashboard
Introduction
To begin, let’s first understand the goal of this article, which i... | ['Python', 'Dashboard', 'Stock Analysis', 'API', 'Finance'] |
Photo ©Copyright 2020 Jason Chatfield
R.I.P. Dangerfields: The oldest comedy club in the world. (1969–2020)
It may have been a bit of a shithole, but it was my shithole.
No Respect, I tell ya.
October 14, 2020
When I moved to New York 6 years ago, I had a notebook with 7 years worth of jokes in it that I’d been pe... | ['Comedy', 'Humor', 'New York', 'Dangerfields', 'Writing'] |
Photo by Jeswin Thomas from Pexels
“For my entire life, I have moved along a path that was set for me. It was as if I was being thought through rather than actually producing these thoughts. After many years of reflection and guilt, I have decided to explain it to you. For those listening to this speech, it will come ... | ['Short Story', 'Science', 'Mystery', 'Psychology'] |
Is it just me or does it seem like the quiet ones that you least expected to succeed in high school are the ones now living the lives we all dreamt of heading into adulthood?
I mean, I guess I heard the idea of people "peaking" early — I just didn't have any true understanding of what that meant when I was younger.
L... | ['Blogging', 'Motivation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
1. Start What You Can Finish
Before you pick up a book, use what I’d like to call it the “Three-Pronged Questionnaire”:
What do I want to learn or read? They can be categories such as fiction/non-fiction, self-help, politics, science, relationships, cooking, etc. Why am I reading this? What do I hope to get out of th... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Productivity', 'Productivity Hacks', 'Self Improvement'] |
This piece was originally published in Mediaview, Geology Today — a publication of the Geological Society of London and the Geologists’ Association.
Stygobites — Niphargus aquilex (Image: Chris Proctor).
Gazing into nature’s aquarium; a replica of the distant life in the ocean, rock pools show us a glimpse of the dis... | ['Creative Writing', 'Geology', 'Science', 'Wildlife', 'Writing'] |
Visualising COVID19
Analysis of coronavirus from an Epidemic to Pandemic
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Coronavirus was first identified in the Wuhan region of China by December 2019 and by March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) categorised the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. A lot has happened in ... | ['Data Science', 'Business Analysis', 'Coronavirus', 'Visualization', 'Covid 19'] |
...and here’s how to fix it
At kapitan.dev we believe the current way to manage Kubernetes configurations is broken. Actually, it probably goes even deeper than that, and you will see soon why.
I have a strange way to look at Kubernetes: for me Kubernetes is something that allows me to define, package and distribute ... | ['Kustomize', 'Helm', 'Microservices', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps'] |
Every year, with the appearance of autumn, retailers feel the gust of approaching Christmas fever. It’s the last call to schedule a winning strategy.
According to research data, people are willing to spend more than ever on Christmas gifts. Needless to say, it’s hard work for brands chasing consumers with special offe... | ['Christmas', 'Sales', 'Marketing', 'Ecommerce', 'Startup'] |
by Ryan Abernathey and Tom Augspurger
TLDR: this post describes a new python library called rechunker, which performs efficient on-disk rechunking of chunked array storage formats. Rechunker allows you to write code like this:
from rechunker import rechunk
target_chunks = (100, 10, 1)
max_mem = "2GB"
plan = rechun... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Distributed Systems', 'Geospatial', 'Big Data'] |
The stars above inspire thoughts of perfection. We look up to see constancy, harmony, eternity and above all serenity. Just remember that mud and stardust are ultimately the same thing.
From Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice:
“Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
T... | ['Self', 'Philosophy', 'Books', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
Tools to build a prototype web app in one month without writing code
Prototyping stack (for non-developers)
For non-technical people who have an idea for a digital product, I’ve noticed two reasons that keep them from pursuing: 1) anxiety towards sacrificing some aspect of their life to make the time, and 2) convinci... | ['Startup', 'Product Management', 'Design'] |
Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash
Have you ever heard the statistic that 90 percent of businesses fail within the first year? Maybe you heard that it was in the first 5 years, or that it’s actually 80 percent of businesses, but chances are you heard a number like this at some point in your life, without much direct eviden... | ['Entrepreneur', 'Startup Life', 'Startup', 'Failure', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
There was an almost overwhelming number of announcements at Cloud Next this year, so I want to focus on the technologies I care most about, Kubernetes and GKE!
GKE On-Prem
GKE On-Prem
This is an important evolution of GKE for people who want the flexibility and power of Kubernetes in their own datacentre, but don’t ... | ['Gke', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Serverless', 'Cloud Computing', 'Kubernetes'] |
Factory Design Pattern
What are your associations with the word factory? Someplace where workers manufacture goods. This is exactly this. The Factory Pattern is a creational pattern, whose purpose is to create objects. Just like a factory in the real world. In this pattern, the object creation happens in the factories... | ['Backend', 'Design Patterns', 'Factory Pattern', 'Polymorphism', 'Java'] |
I Knew Happiness Once
Sky Collection quote prompt №24
Photo by Denise Jones on Unsplash
Looking back to where I have been,
Trying to figure out what went wrong,
Where did you go, and why do you elude me?
I knew happiness once.
I need closure from our relationship,
But you refuse to go there,
Does growing apart... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Happiness', 'Relationships', 'Poetry'] |
Array
NumPy is a popular library for working with scientific and engineering data. Here, we highlight the array manipulation capabilities offered by NumPy.
A NumPy array is an N-dimensional grid of homogenous values. It can be used to store a single value (scalar), coordinates of a point in N-dimensional space (vecto... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Java'] |
A while ago I was searching the web because I wanted to learn how lane-keeping systems work. I knew that these systems use a camera to detect the lane boundaries and then some control algorithms to keep the vehicle centered within the lane. But I wanted to understand this in more detail, and ideally implement a simple ... | ['Python', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Education', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Deep Learning'] |
1. Control The Visibility and Distribution of Your Own Content
For new writers on Medium, there is a bit of a paradox when it comes to writing for publications. When you don’t have a large following and haven’t written for major Medium publications — it can be very difficult to become approved as a writer for any Medi... | ['Social Media', 'Medium', 'Journalism', 'Ideas', 'Writing'] |
Best Resources for Deep Learning
Deep Learning Educational Resources
Deep learning is a machine learning method that uses neural networks for prediction tasks. Deep learning methods can be used for a variety of tasks including object detection, synthetic data generation, user recommendation, and much more. In this po... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Deep Learning'] |
Step 1: Collect Data from the Open Data Platform
On the website of the Ministry of the Interior, we can download the transaction records of the real estate based on the region and timeframe.
Step 2: Observe What We Collected
What can we see from the dataset below?
The first row of data is actually English translati... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Housing', 'Kaggle'] |
When your data needs to get dressed up, Tableau is a fool-proof style service. It offers a sleek, drag-and-drop interface for data analytics with native integration to pull data from CSVs, JSON files, Google Sheets, SQL databases, and that back corner of the dryer where you’ve inevitably forgotten a sock.
Data is auto... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
Photo by Alex wong on Unsplash
Nearly two years ago I started wearing glasses. At some point since I developed the strong impression that I had forgotten to take my glasses off after going to bed at night or laying down for a nap. They had become a part of me to such an extent that, like a phantom limb, I sensed I was... | ['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Consciousness', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
A torrent of tragedy — that’s our dear year 2020 so far.
Assuming that we survive the perils of existence — those from nature and, even more so, those from our own misguided steps — and humanity’s distant offspring look back on the trials and tribulations of their bumbling ancestors, the narrative of 2020 would be rip... | ['Education', 'Productivity', 'Travel', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
I don’t know why I don’t do this more often.
Photo by Septian simon on Unsplash
Wow, this was a challenge. Is it really sad that this took a conscious effort to say nice things to myself? Apparently, I’m kind of mean on a regular basis. When I look in the mirror, I focus on the “flaws” that I see. If my pants are fit... | ['Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Self Love', 'Life Lessons'] |
Four Lessons I Learned From Reading Origin by Dan Brown
#3 is vital for Novelists
Screenshot by the Author
Over the weekend, I was feeling a bit drained on morale, so I decided that rather than lie in bed all weekend, I would read a book and have a genuine reason to lie in bed all weekend.
I decided to read a book ... | ['Writing', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Fiction', 'Books And Authors'] |
Using VMWare’s Velero to backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, as well as migrate Kubernetes resources.
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Although Kubernetes (and especially managed Kubernetes services such as GKE, EKS, and AKS) provide out-of-the-box reliability and resiliency with self-healing and horizon... | ['Backup', 'Software Engineering', 'Disaster Recovery', 'Programming', 'Kubernetes'] |
What happens when you only think
James’s experience reminded me of my time in France. I don’t know if you’re aware, but people who live in France speak French. I do not. Naturally, there was a bit of a communication gap.
I would walk into the office and hear a coworker say:
“Blah, blah, blah, blah, Todd?”
I would s... | ['Motivation', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Success', 'Inspiration'] |
First written for and published on naturalinteraction.com
Imagine you’ve spent months designing and building a shiny new website. It looks amazing and you’re sure it’s going to raise online profits and convert every visitor on first visit. You tested the design concept and even run click testing on the Information Arc... | ['Copywriting', 'Marketing', 'Startup', 'Content Strategy', 'Ux Writing'] |
Photo by Florian Pérennès on Unsplash
So it is almost 4 AM here in Florida, and per usual I am awake till the crack of dawn obsessing over anything and everything. Recently, I did a shoot for a small reality show which was based around a blind date and going through each other’s phones. For months I waited anxiously t... | ['Self Improvement', 'Body Image', 'Writing', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
AI Movies Recommendation System Based on K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Overview of Article
In this article, we’ll build an artificial intelligence movies recommendation system by using k-means algorithm which is a clustering algorithm. We’ll recommend movies to users which are more relevant to them based on their prev... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Recommendation System', 'Python', 'K Means Clustering'] |
Smile, You’re on Camera: The Future of Emotional Advertising
For those worried about “Big Brother,” you should probably stop reading now. There is a new technology on the market that takes behavioral tracking to a whole new level.
Born from MIT’s Media Lab, Affectiva allows advertisers to record and analyze human emo... | ['Marketing', 'Psychology', 'Emotions', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
The web contains lots of data. The ability to extract the information you need from it is, with no doubt, a useful one, even necessary. Of course, there are still lots of datasets already available for you to download, on places like Kaggle, but in many cases, you won’t find the exact data that you need for your partic... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Web Scraping'] |
Data pipelines on Spark and Kubernetes
Considerations for using Apache Spark and Kubernetes to process data
If you’re running data pipelines and workflows to get data from one location to the data lake, that usually means that the team will need to process huge amounts of data. To do this in a scalable way and to han... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Spark', 'Data Science', 'Kubernetes'] |
I reproduced a poem that I’d written An Ode To Cockroaches on an Instagram post where she’d written a photo poem Ode To Spiders
She messaged me and shared me this poem, saying that she went batshit crazy after she read this. This poem is so confrontational and intense, with the roaches reference, it will make you shud... | ['Storytelling', 'Poetry', 'Writing', 'Pornography', 'Lolissue'] |
How to Solve Conflict Productively at Work
Seven strategies to turn tensions into fuel for growth.
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” — M. Esther Harding
Tensions are a source of personal and organizational growth. Conflict is neither good or bad. If managed poorly, it can deteriorate the culture and coll... | ['Leadership', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Conflict', 'Teamwork'] |
Recipe for Success
Green Heat is helping Ugandan households fire their kitchens with environmentally friendly gas heat made from natural waste.
Mama Justice doesn’t let her age slow her down. At 70 years old, she runs a small pig farm in Buwambo, Wakiso District in Uganda. And until recently, she gathered firewood ev... | ['Storytelling', 'Archive', 'Sustainability', 'Innovation', 'Uganda'] |
The Relative Strength Index
We all know about the Relative Strength Index — RSI and how to use it. It is without a doubt the most famous momentum indicator out there, and this is to be expected as it has many strengths especially in ranging markets. It is also bounded between 0 and 100 which makes it easier to interpr... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Finance', 'Data Science'] |
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