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This year I tried something different. I wanted to craft an article each month on an interesting thought or lesson from my life as a product manager.
It’s been a long time since a year lived has taught me so much on living and working well.
In this article, I’ve summarised some of my most exciting ideas from the year... | ['Product Design', 'Psychology', 'Product Management', 'UX', 'Productivity'] |
Copywriting Swipe File
Copywriting that addresses your customer’s concerns head-on
RX bar: I love the RXbar package because it is copywriting at its simplest. It is addressing a challenge consumers face today: distrust in processed foods that have a paragraph list of ingredients. The call-out to “NO B.S.” and the sim... | ['Writing', 'Copywriting Tips', 'Content Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Copywriting'] |
In the previous article, we went through the difference between emotional and academic intelligence. But one question remains; why have we not looked at this before? Surely, our ancestors also faced emotional challenges, so why has the topic remained underdeveloped for so long? Well, in most societies, the influence of... | ['Emotional Intelligence', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology'] |
Inspiring personalities
Hemingway’s 3 Tips for Aspiring Writers Are Also Valid for Everybody Else
Here is why
Canva Pro Image
Every human being is born into this world without a manual.
Everything else comes with a solid manual. Just think about all this stuff that you have.
Television: A manual that describes ho... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Success', 'Writing Tips'] |
How AI Can Make Your College Application Essay Harvard-Ready
What AI says about what makes successful Harvard and Yale admissions essays work.
With deadlines looming for college applications, as many as two million college applicants nationwide will spend the holiday season putting their final touches on that most im... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'College Admissions', 'Technology', 'Writing'] |
If you want to learn how not to design APIs, you can just look at the AppsFlyer’s server-to-server events API. The purpose of this API is to enable developers to send additional events about user behavior after they installed your app.
Analyzing the API
Okay, let’s see what we are expected to do to send en event. Doc... | ['Design', 'API', 'Confusion', 'Development', 'Appsflyer'] |
One Last Note
We have 27,489 followers at Literally Literary. We have approximately 200 writers. Even with these tremendous numbers, most of the submitted works get less than 20 views. Why? Algorithms.
How do we combat this and support each other? Bookmark our homepage and once a day, come here and see what you misse... | ['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Ll Letters', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
When it comes to career selection and following its pursuit, one seldom makes head or tail of it. The following articles consists a brief discussion of several questions regarding data science and machine learning which are residing in minds of many who are about embark a new career in it or are just curious about it. ... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
My sweet husband Rob gave me a book for Christmas that he heard about on a podcast and thought I might like.
But giving a book to someone and asking them to spend time and attention and energy on it is an act of such intimacy and audacity. I’ve been married to Rob for almost 31 years and even I had a tiny internal eye... | ['Books And Authors', 'Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Book Recommendations', 'Books'] |
What I Learned from Martial Arts as a Software Engineer
Some striking similarities between Martial Arts and Software Engineering. No pun intended :)
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
As someone who sits in front of the computer as a profession, I take my health and fitness seriously. I started training Muay Thai an... | ['Life Lessons', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
From studying law like a hawk to studying owls for science — QUT research student Callan Alexander is working with BirdLife Australia to help track and monitor Australia’s threatened powerful owl.
As part of his masters research, Alexander will develop an automated species recogniser — a computer algorithm that detect... | ['Powerful Owl', 'Ecology', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Birds'] |
How to transform your saboteurs into allies
There are so many different avenues to transforming your saboteurs into allies, so I’ll just give you the framework that is working for me.
Also worth noting: These steps can happen in succession or all at the same time. Inner processes don’t usually follow a linear progres... | ['Advice', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
We Write
Most of us write to some degree at varying stages of our lives. From early childhood scribbles, throughout our academic journey before applying our evolving skills in our chosen profession or as a hobby.
Writing is a tool that humankind uses to communicate, educate, learn and create.
The vast majority of us... | ['Writing Life', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing Tips'] |
Self-Motivation: Motivated to do or achieve something because of one’s own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others.
External pressure plays a significant role in helping us attain our goals. When we have a boss demanding results or a client asking us to turn in a project, producing results is a gi... | ['Motivation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Discipline', 'Self Employed'] |
I’ve been writing for Medium for 2 1/2 years, and I’ve loved every minute of it!
Even my worst days on Medium are fun. I love writing about writing, love engaging with other writers in this incredible community. I’m always thrilled by something every day, and every week and month is like a whole new adventure.
In Aug... | ['Writing', 'Medium', 'Success', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Love'] |
Ecommerce is the most widespread & most demanding business these days. The easiest way to buy and sell goods nowadays is mostly done online through an eCommerce platform. It is a never-ending viral loop of a quickly growing platform to provide the physical product available to an end-user or another business entity.
Y... | ['Design', 'Application', 'Website', 'Development', 'Ecommerce'] |
I started asking questions on Quora
You can earn by writing questions on Quora. Quora pays you not for writing but for asking questions.
Isn’t it sound weird!
It’s their business model. It’s always hard to discover what Silicon Valley leaders think. You can earn a good amount on Quora by asking questions. For that, ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Money', 'Finance'] |
Be bold and don’t just use ‘words’
Each language has an infinite richness in its way of manifesting itself. Don’t just stay on the surface. Go deep and look for expressions, slang, spontaneous and natural ways of foreign speech. Do not limit yourself to just one word, when you can use a much more expressive locution i... | ['Language', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips', 'Language Learning'] |
Hello everyone! With the recent release of create-react-app v3 and React hooks, I decided to write a tutorial on how to refactor a class component to a functional hooks component.
In this tutorial, I will share how I did it. I refer to this as the “easy way” since it doesn't require you to change your Redux code at al... | ['React', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Tech', 'Programming'] |
The Place Where Everything Feels Cold and Empty Is Not Far Away
No one reached it yet, as it’s moving whenever they moved
Photo by Guillaume Bleyer on Unsplash
There was a group of men,
whose hearts never new the best
and no matter how much they desired it
they didn’t know where is it.
Their hopes clutched to on... | ['Short Story', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Poetry', 'Storytelling'] |
The most difficult part of convincing someone when you are begging for food is figuring out what kind of face to make — appearing both in need and deserving somehow. Look too desperate and they will think you might make a grab for their purse or ask to move into the spare bedroom. Too responsible and they’ll wonder whe... | ['Life', 'Storytelling', 'Faithfullylgbt', 'LGBTQ', 'Writing'] |
The Global Support Ecosystem for Women Entrepreneurs and Investors
340+ VCs, accelerators, angel networks, conferences, platforms, and communities supporting women innovators and investors
Changelog: Last updated September 6, 2020 (+AIM-HI Accelerator Fund’s Women’s Venture Competition, Capital Access Lab by Kauffman... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Venture Capitalist', 'Venture Capital', 'Founders'] |
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In a remarkable study by the British Psychological Society which revealed a great deal about Western society (https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/10/12/what-are-we-like-10-psychology-findings-that-reveal-the-worst-of-human-nature)/, I read the following:
We would rather electrocute oursel... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Wellness', 'Meditation'] |
Are you afraid or experiencing financial hardship during the coronavirus spread like I am? I can honestly say it gives me more of a reason to make my resume perfect, and it gives me the time to get the certification I’ve been wanting to further my career with. I can assure you, this is the perfect time to start doing t... | ['Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Covid-19', 'Coronavirus', 'Philosophy'] |
Every heartbreak hurts. Every break up will shatter you in some way. But there’s nothing more heart-wrenching than surviving after a relationship with a narcissist. There exists a whole range of toxic people out there, ranging from energy vampires, average jerks, selfish and entitled individuals and, right at the other... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Psychology'] |
Why you should proceed or not proceed reading this article:
Even if the next general principles could be applied to any folder structure on any digital support you are using, I unfortunately still don’t know how to create all the automations and the amazing hacks that the built-in Apple native app iOS Shortcuts are gi... | ['Apple', 'Automation', 'Shortcuts', 'Productivity', 'Filmmaking'] |
Years ago, I was devastated when a project I had poured so much passion into was one day unceremoniously cancelled. It hurt. And what was worse was I had encouraged my team to also emotionally invest themselves. I learned many lessons from that experience. I vowed never to put myself or anyone else in such a vulnerable... | ['Product Management', 'User Experience', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Product Design'] |
How gradual change goes unnoticed until it’s far too late.
The idea goes like this: If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put it in lukewarm water and gradually increase the temperature, it won’t notice and it will be cooked alive.
While this, of course, isn’t actually true, it paints a use... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy'] |
Overview
Airflow is simply a tool for us to programmatically schedule and monitor our workflows. When dealing with complicate pipelines, in which many parts depend on each other, using Airflow can help us to write a clean scheduler in Python along with WebUI to visualize pipelines, monitor progress and troubleshoot is... | ['Airflow', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Engineer', 'Big Data'] |
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What is a Good Listener?
A good listener is someone who doesn’t talk over the other person. They are patient and pause in between sentences to allow others to speak. They address people by their names and make eye contact with them.
In May, I wrote an article called Talk Less, Say Mo... | ['Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Steve Blank', 'Startup', 'Business Model Canvas', 'Customer Development', 'Science'] |
A paywall is a method of restricting access to content via a paid subscription. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites as a way to increase revenue after years of decline in paid print readership and advertising revenue. In academics, research papers are often subject to ... | ['Technology', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Privacy', 'Social Media'] |
Shoes and Shirt (and Pants) Required
When what we wear affects how we write
Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash
“Put your pants on, and come with me!” In good fun, this is what my father-in-law said he’d say if he ever caught me in bed with his daughter before we got married. Turns out, it’s great advice for writer... | ['Self Improvement', 'Nonfiction', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman cowrote this blog post following discussion with the Pangeo Steering Council.
The basic ingredients for a Pangeo deployment are a fast parallel storage system, scalable high-performance compute nodes, access to the internet, and software which makes all these elements work together for a... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Science', 'Data Science', 'Pangeo'] |
How to Overcome the Fear of Failure
Start by changing how you see failure. It’s not your enemy — it’s your greatest ally.
Photo by Elijah Hiett on Unsplash
The fear of failure is what leads to failure. We all suffer from it. There are no exceptions. But for each one of us, failure means an entirely different thing.
... | ['Life', 'Mental Health', 'Fear Of Failure', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement'] |
Python Jupyter Notebooks in Excel
Embed Jupyter into Microsoft Excel and write Python instead of VBA
Jupyter Notebooks in Microsoft Excel. Image by the author.
It used to be an “either/or” choice between Excel and Python Jupyter Notebooks. With the introduction of the PyXLL-Jupyter package now you can use both toget... | ['Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Excel', 'Microsoft Office', 'Programming'] |
Why Subnautica is one of the best games I’ve played this year
A unique setting, an engaging story, and intentional design make this game stand out
I can count on a few fingers the number of times that playing a video game has left me truly terrified. There are a few scenes in The Last of Us and its sequel that would ... | ['Gaming', 'Design', 'Culture', 'Writing', 'Videogames'] |
If your image has random noise, uneven illumination, holes in front objects, etc. There are few things that you can do before posting your image to a computer vision API. In this article, we go through few processing techniques to boost OCR results using OpenCV
TL;DR: full code
Install OpenCV
Install OpenCV using yo... | ['Optical Character Recogn', 'Python', 'Opencv', 'Image Processing', 'Programming'] |
Published with Simon Knight in The Conversation: July 24, 2017 6.09am AEST
Artificial intelligence (AI) enables Siri to recognise your question, Google to correct your spelling, and tools such as Kinect to track you as you move around the room.
Data big and small have come to education, from creating online platforms... | ['Big Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Learning Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Education'] |
# The Concept
Before I even start explaining how to create an API, you should first know what this thing called “API” is.
To begin with, API stands for Application Programming Interface, Wikipedia explains it as:
A computing interface that defines interactions between multiple software intermediaries. It defines the... | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Java', 'Spring Framework', 'Programming'] |
Is Medium’s New Logo A Sign Of Bigger Problems?
A quick look at what’s happened with Medium over the last week
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
Medium has implemented a lot of changes over the last week. New personal profile designs, writers on the front page now (finally) have their names listed and a new logo was la... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Medium', 'Writer', 'Writing'] |
Writers need email lists.
I can’t state that any more plainly.
If you are a writer, you need a way to connect with your readers. You need to start thinking about that now. Today.
I mean, it would be nice if you thought about it ten years ago.
But if you didn’t, then today is next best.
I wrote about why you need a... | ['Email', 'Work', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Success'] |
In the past few months, as a Growth Hacker at NUMA Bengaluru and Co-founder of The Young Thinker, I’ve been experimenting with cold emailing. I’m telling you, emailing is still one of the most effective way to reach out and leverage a community. I developed a 5-step process to go from cold to warm emails:
1) Get targe... | ['Email Marketing', 'Startup', 'Digital Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Growth Hacking'] |
Keep climbing: the view from the top is always worth the effort. Photo by Samantha Sophia on Unsplash
What to do about depression
As I write this, I’m aware that everyone’s circumstances and means are different. So while some people may be able to afford private therapy or even inpatient healthcare (and I’m one of th... | ['Depression', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Psychology'] |
We will now talk about virtualization and containers, which have become a very important topic in the software engineering field, primarily because there’s a lot of focus on it when it comes to cloud computing.
But when these ideas came from?
Initially, what used to happen is when you used to write code, you would ha... | ['Virtualization', 'Software Engineering', 'Storage', 'Containers', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Improve Your Future By Looking To The Past:
I could spout on and on about why reducing your carbon footprint will benefit you. But I’ll keep my reasoning simple:
Anytime you can apply an understanding of human evolution to your present-day life, you will be better off.
We evolved to live in harmony with nature. We e... | ['Evolution', 'Self', 'Environment', 'Carbon Footprint', 'Psychology'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Poetry', 'Haiku', 'Books', 'Writing', 'Publishing'] |
The void is the womb that births you into a truer version of yourself. It’s the hole in your heart where the infinite lives.
The void is where you let go of the illusions that no longer serve you. Even though it feels like dying, the void is not where you die, it is where the lies you tell about yourself die.
The voi... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology'] |
I’m Suffering From LOPS—Maybe You Are, Too
The emotions of the pandemic hit me late
I remember where I was the night my friend texted me to tell me that “this coronavirus thing” was serious. They said I should have two weeks’ worth of nonperishable groceries on hand. I was in Brooklyn, and I scheduled a food delivery... | ['Depression', 'Mental Health', 'This Is Us', 'Happiness', 'Coronavirus'] |
Last month I got the opportunity to pick the brain of some of the T500 nominees during The Next Web Conference 2018. In this article, I’ll share their views on a frequently recurring presentation topic at the event: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Not only did I ask them about the opportunities they saw, but also about t... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Study', 'Data Science'] |
1. Get out of your comfort zone
What forced us to grow adaptable in the first place was the lack of a comfort zone. Predators would hunt us in our favorite spots, food wouldn’t just wait for us in the refrigerator, and every wrong move was often deadly.
But nowadays, we have monotonous lives, a stable income, a secur... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Change'] |
The latest version of the Digital Prototyping Weekend took place at Holvi last Saturday and Sunday (13–14 October)
A team working on their prototype. Photo credit: Pedro Cunha
There were 8 amazing ideas, and if you missed what they were, here is a summary for you:
Teamify acknowledges the utter importance of having ... | ['Hackathons', 'Startup', 'Event', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Prototyping'] |
What’s Really in the Way of Healing Your Traumas
Unlearn these harmful mindsets that keep you stuck
Photo: Camila Lorca/EyeEm/Getty Images
Picture this: For years, you’re working on yourself, doing all sorts of therapy, healing ceremonies, meditations, and other obscure practices, only to find yourself triggered by ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lesson', 'Personal Growth', 'Psychology'] |
Like a whole bunch of people (and probably you, if you’re reading this!) I have always wanted to be a paid author, even since I was six and read my first work of fiction, The Magic Treehouse. But there was one small hiccup in my great plan: I thought I was bad at writing, and I didn’t know how to get better.
I was way... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Blogging', 'Freelancing', 'Copywriting', 'Writing'] |
When software engineers talk about Design Patterns, they usually talk about established and reusable constructs or architectures that address specific problems. For the most part, Design Patterns are defined independently of programming languages. If you are new to programming, you probably still don’t know, what I am ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Clean Code', 'Software Architecture', 'Programming', 'Design Patterns'] |
According to a New York literary agent, it only takes 5 pages to reject a book. Seems his taste is on point — his clients include Pulitzer Prize nominees, NYT best-selling authors and American Book Award winners.
Having spent 2 years reading manuscript submissions at an indie publisher, I can relate. So many people ha... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Advice', 'Inspiration'] |
7 Best Websites for Freelancers in 2020
Some of the best freelancer marketplaces to get you started or get some extra gigs.
Photo by Kristin Wilson on Unsplash
As its name suggests, a freelancer has complete freedom to choose what and when to work. But, it has some serious drawbacks if done wrong. If you are someone... | ['Startup', 'Productivity', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Freelancing'] |
UX Writing 101- Part 1
What are UX writers, and how do they fit with the design process.
The role of a content strategist/writer continues to evolve into its new form, which is a UX writer.
As content is a vital part of the design process and the user journey, the role of a UX writer has never been more critical. An... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'New York', 'Ux Writing', 'UX'] |
Lovers of The Sea has been in business for 8 months now. I’ve been working on it for a total of 11 months.
I have learned so much in the process of building it and growing it and I want to shed some honest light on what it really means to be a solo entrepreneur in your late twenties building a completely bootstrapped ... | ['Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Personal Growth', 'Inspiration'] |
Code
Here, we will go through the coding segment. The dataset used for this implementation is the iris dataset which can be imported from the sklearn library.
Importing Dataset and Relevant Libraries/Modules
Firstly, we will import the numpy and matplotlib for mathematical manipulation of data and plotting the graph... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Sklearn', 'Data Science'] |
You Can Beat Procrastination in 10 Minutes
Using time constraints to become more productive.
Procrastination is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest challenge for daily productivity. Everyone struggles with it to some degree or another, and if taken to an extreme, procrastination can completely paralyze your life.
... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Productivity'] |
You get ideas in and you get ideas out — it’s called thinking. When you read, you are being immersed in ideas, whether they are fictional or non-fictional. You are in a world of rhetorical thinking. You are using the language being written down to consider what is going on in the written world you are reading.
Reading... | ['Literacy', 'Reading Community', 'Mental Health', 'Books', 'Reading'] |
Programming
Gestures and MVVM
How to properly propagate gesture updates in an MVVM architecture
I have never worked with gestures in iOS. Seems weird, but it’s the truth. This week, I had to integrate a gesture in an app to test a couple of things that we are developing, but I struggled a bit to make it work properl... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Apple', 'iOS', 'UI', 'Swift'] |
I never understood what writers meant when they said stories take a life of their own.
I can string words. Make coherent sentences. Occasionally, coherent paragraphs. But when it comes to writing an entire story, I tend to be a micro-manager. I am governed by details and my immediate perception of reality, most of the... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Love', 'Writer', 'Fiction'] |
How to Deal With Chronic Illness and Do Your Job
A crash course in employment with mental illness.
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
Having a mental or chronic illness and holding down a job can be a challenge. In addition to managing your illness, you manage the aspects of your job and coworkers. For many, this ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Work', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity'] |
Logistic Regression Explained
[ — Logistic Regression explained simply — ]
In this post, I will explain Logistic Regression in simple terms. It could be considered a Logistic Regression for dummies post, however, I’ve never really liked that expression.
Before we start, here you have some additional resources to sky... | ['Machine Learning', 'Startup', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
People view porn for a complex number of reasons.
· Loneliness — Some unattached men — temporarily or permanently — seek a temporary fantasied partner. Sexual desires fluctuate, and in married couples, those fluctuations aren’t synchronous. Spouses may experience physical or mental problems. If a man travels for work,... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Sexuality'] |
Will Write For Donuts
Medium’s new compensation system
[Update 4/25: This story, about the writers of The Grammar Games searching compensation for their efforts, has become the most popular story in the entire Grammar Games saga. Proving once again that while the pen is mightier than the sword, the donut is mightier ... | ['Humor', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'The Grammar Games'] |
How Venture Capital Firms Can Diversify — And Mean It BX3 Follow Jul 18 · 5 min read
by Anne Szustek Talbot, VP of Content, BX3
There’s an adage among journalists, writers, and generally any other creatives who tend to do things with words: write about what you know. While subject-area knowledge certainly helps when ... | ['Funding', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Diversity', 'Startup'] |
Is Earth really round? Maybe we’re actually living on a pancake-shaped planet? Or perhaps it resembles a triangular prism?
These questions form the basis of a debate that has raged on for centuries. Many ancient civilizations subscribed to the belief that Earth is flat. Then science came along and seemingly squashed a... | ['Debate', 'Social Media', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
5 Books That Grapple with the Thorny Issue of Genetics and Race
These scholars of color combine scientific inquiry and social justice.
By Georgia Frances King
Though scientists have been studying (and debating) the intersection of race and genetics for decades, the reignition of police brutality protests in the wake... | ['Books', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Race', 'Science', 'Book Review'] |
With 2019 forming the end as well as the beginning of a new decade, I have been reviewing the machine learning investments we at La Famiglia have made over the past years. As the turn of the year provides an opportunity for reflection, I have summarised general trends, new frontiers and limitations, as well as three me... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Automation', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Draw your problem
Your hand, a pen and some paper are your greatest problem-solving tools
When I get stuck on something, a problem I can’t figure out how to solve, I tend to do things like ruminate on the problem, write down some words about it, have a [talking] meeting about it, maybe go for a walk in nature. I expe... | ['Startup', 'Design', 'Problem Solving', 'Drawing', 'Visual Thinking'] |
Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Shiny vs. Voila vs. Flask vs. Jupyter
Comparing data dashboarding tools and frameworks
Source: Author
Over the last three years, Dash and Streamlit have surged in popularity as all-in-one dashboarding solutions. Source: Author
Data dashboards — Tooling and libraries
Nearly every company is s... | ['Machine Learning', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Big Data', 'Streamlit', 'Data Science'] |
Emily Hicks
President and Co-Founder, FREDsense
Emily Hicks is President of FREDsense, a Calgary, Canada based biotechnology startup focused on the measurement of water quality. Emily co-founded the company with CEO David Lloyd in 2013. FRED stands for Field Ready Electrochemical Detector, which is the product that E... | ['Biotechnology', 'Startup', 'Podcast', 'Interview', 'Water'] |
The 12 Ultimate Steps to Follow over the course of the year —
Beginners:
1. Learning Programming
Programming is the heart of Data Science. It is essential to have some knowledge of programming to succeed as a data scientist.
Coding and programming knowledge is almost a compulsory requirement to have an in-depth und... | ['Machine Learning', 'Success', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Productivity', 'Data Science'] |
Pajamas. Is there anything more comforting? Anything more embracing? Anything more hot cocoa and afghan and fireplace? When you’re wearing soft, cotton, unitard pajamas, you don’t think of dark alleys or horror movies. You think tucked in, childhood, and every little thing’s gonna be all right.
Something interesting h... | ['Self-awareness', 'Humor', 'Self', 'Self Help', 'Amazon'] |
Creating the Whole Machine Learning Pipeline with PyCaret
How to Create a Machine Learning Pipeline with PyCaret
This tutorial covers the entire ML process, from data ingestion, pre-processing, model training, hyper-parameter fitting, predicting and storing the model for later use.
We will complete all these steps i... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
When Constructive Criticism Gets Out of Hand
We are all often critical sometimes, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. We understand that our colleague, spouse, boss, or coach has our best interest at heart.
To criticize constructively means you’re thinking carefully. It is a skill that helps us navigate the world a... | ['Personal Development', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
These children are a subset of a subset of a subset of a subset of the actual Autistic population. And yet they made up the entire foundation on which all research and all diagnostic tools for Autistic people are based. From the 1940’s until about the mid-1990’s, nearly all Autism specialists based their treatment and ... | ['Equality', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Disability', 'Autism'] |
A friend recently asked me for some tips to help with her anxiety. She shared she was having a hard time preparing herself to go the store or to see friends in small gatherings. “It’s like I’ve forgotten how to act. I’m worried I’m going to do or say something stupid or awkward.”
My friend isn’t the first one to menti... | ['Personal Development', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
Why do I want to connect with Spiritual Secrets?
Spirituality is an inevitable knowledge for today’s mankind to overcome the herculean mammoth like problems arising in their day to day lives.
Spirituality can be used to conquer fear, putting down the burden of past relationships or events, achieve success, attain men... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Universe', 'Spirituality', 'Mindfulness'] |
Do This on the Days You Hate Your Writing
This sentiment is a good sign
One of the greatest writers ever, Franz Kafka, burned over 90 percent of his work. Some days I look at my writing and feel like pulling a Kafka. I want to throw it all out.
It all looks like complete garbage to me. Perhaps a lot of it is. Many w... | ['Motivation', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Persistence', 'Writing Tips'] |
There are five qualities that healthy relationships all have.
Respect
You both respect and trust each other. You have similar values and ethics and know that you can count on one another to be there when it is important. Betrayal is not an option. You know that would never occur.
Open communication
If there is a pr... | ['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Friendship', 'Life'] |
VK: If you were to write a book what would be the title of the book? What would be the main topics you would cover in the book? (Jalaj is the author of two books) — I will be doing a book review for the book on Acing AI so stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter to not miss it.
JT: Fortunately, I got the chance to ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Expert', 'Startup', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
Our team at IBM Cloud is excited to announce that we have won a 2020 BIG Business Innovation Award for IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor. It’s so exciting to see our experience design work recognized for such a technically complex domain, and forward-thinking product in the space of cloud technology.
The Business Intel... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'UI', 'Cloud Computing', 'UX'] |
Book Suggestion — A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry:
Short Hair — Swastika Jajoo
On My Last Day In Australia — Sierra DeMulder
Sierra DeMulder is an internationally touring performance poet and educator, a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, a four-time published author, and the co-founder of Button Poetry, the ... | ['Storytelling', 'Poetry', 'Books', 'Spoken Word', 'Lolissue'] |
Descent method — Steepest descent and conjugate gradient in Python
Python implementation
Let’s start with this equation and we want to solve for x:
The solution x the minimize the function below when A is symmetric positive definite (otherwise, x could be the maximum). It is because the gradient of f(x), ∇f(x) = Ax-... | ['Linear System', 'Visualization', 'Python', 'Gradient Descent', 'Data Science'] |
The application uses Typing DNA authentication services, a service that captures user typing pattern to authenticate the commands that a user wants to run and if verified then it let them execute them. The user gets a simple popup application where he/she can add/edit commands that needs to be verified for the specific... | ['Angular', 'Python', 'Development', 'Swift', 'Programming'] |
However, in reading this article I found that these same elements relate to communications planning — especially when itcomes to storytelling, data representation (infographics) and presentation decks. To create a truly powerful creative presentation that will capture the interest of the audience, it’s crucial to build... | ['Branding', 'Colors', 'Design', 'Psychology', 'Advertising'] |
OPEN Seattle
After the networking event, Azfar Moazzam for OPEN Seattle welcomed the attendees and gave an overview of the goals and vision of OPEN Seattle. He reminisced about the early 90s when there were not many Pakistanis living in Seattle and expressed his excitement about how the community has grown thus far. H... | ['Pakistan', 'Startup', 'Pakistani'] |
5 Habits of People With Very Low Emotional Intelligence
These are the behaviours you want to avoid to build better and meaningful relationships
In a very practical sense, we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. Highly emotionally intelligent (EI) people rank high on responsiveness, empathy, listening, ... | ['Relationships', 'Lifestyle', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
People are tough to read.
A few years back I went to visit my family at Christmas. I was supposed to get back in the city the next day. However, my family insisted me to stay. So I called my then-girlfriend. I asked her if it was okay with her for me to return after the new year. She understood that I hardly got to sp... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Reading'] |
Data Science Reading List for September 2020
Books, research papers, and blog posts I’m reading in September. 📚
Note: I am not affiliated with any of the writers in this article. These are simply books and essays that I’m excited to share with you. There are no referrals or a cent going in my pocket from the authors... | ['Technology', 'Startup', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Data Science'] |
How Many Times Have You Broken the Law? What You Need to Know About Copyright Lisa Walton Follow Oct 11 · 9 min read
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
Small business owners have a lot on their plates. Inventory and invoicing. Customers and employees. Revenue and taxes. Updating your website. One of the last things ... | ['Writing', 'Copyright', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Law', 'Small Business'] |
What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You
There’s a thin line between rage and fear — especially in times of uncertainty
Photo: Jennifer Walsh/Flickr
Everyone has their own way of loading the dishwasher. Some delicately arrange; others cram. Some lay large utensils perpendicular to the tray; others go parallel. Regardle... | ['Relationships', 'Life', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Coronavirus'] |
I’m often asked how I found the inspiration to create a card game that teaches people about bias. I say that I’ve always been open to looking inward for ways to improve, regardless of what I might find.
The last 12 months of looking inward have taught me to find and investigate my traumas. An idea I will continue to e... | ['Healing', 'Mental Health', 'Wellness', 'Trauma', 'Black Lives Mater'] |
And never the other way around
As I mentioned yesterday, life has lately felt like walking up Mt. Everest in cement boots. With cast iron cylinders on my head. In the rain. And yet, one thing has kept me consistent and calm despite the world seemingly seeming to fall apart around me — and that is my spiritual practice... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Faith', 'God', 'Meditation'] |
In rounding out the year, I realized that I now spend at least 40% of my time in different tools than last year. This is both due to COVID where my teams are remote, but also due to tools maturing.
1. Visual Studio Code
The new standard.
A year ago, I would have said Sublime Text was my only goto code editor. VSCode... | ['Productivity', 'Development', 'Programming', 'DevOps'] |
Top Headline # 1 — This Is the Best Way To Think About …
Analyser Score: 85 points.
This is one headline type that points to the highest utility of thinking. There are many ways to skin a cat. And this is the best way.
You help readers save their time by presenting the best way ahead. It could be a short-cut or a li... | ['Writing Tips', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Communication', 'Writing'] |
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