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Why Programmers Should Write Tutorials
The best people teach
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Imagine this situation: You receive a task to implement a new feature in your company’s software. You think it will be easy because you did something similar a few months ago. Just copy, paste, and be happy. You even star... | ['Software Development', 'Startup', 'Tutorial', 'Programming', 'Writing'] |
The most fun way to learn new technologies is to actually implement them.
A little bit of a lecture here…
Alright, if you don’t want to read it, feel free to skip to the next section.
Yes, I will feel bad if you skip, but alright, I’ll hold no grudges :(
If I could put forward all my tech experience in one sentence... | ['Mobile App Development', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'React Native', 'Programming'] |
1. The thinking part of your brain needs a break
When you run your business every day, every week, every month, and every year, without taking a break, part of your brain responsible for logical thinking runs dry. Can you put more backpacks on a shoulder that’s already carrying a heavy backpack?
You can’t.
To carry ... | ['Business Strategy', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business Development', 'Psychology'] |
If You Want a Better Life, Tell Yourself Better Metaphors.
The Story You Tell Yourself Is the Story You Live By
You probably do not notice it but we use metaphors all the time.
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We use metaphors to sound more than just cool and philosophical. Metaphors enable us to bring structure to o... | ['Creativity', 'Books', 'Language', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading'] |
How to Create a Minimalist Work Environment
File it or bin it ?— A quick checklist for decluttering your desk
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Marie Kondo is all the rage. But even before tidying was in vogue, we all knew that getting rid of clutter is one of the best things we can do to create a more efficient w... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Freelancing'] |
Domain knowledge & technical expertise meeting for the first time
A Product Design workshop is a perfect and probably the most time-efficient way to clash your vision with the reality of building digital products. You are an expert in the field, with the domain knowledge of your business.
For the designers or develop... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Design', 'Agile', 'UX'] |
Your brain and the pancreas aren’t much different. Both are formed prenatally, both are bodily organs, and both interact with the rest of anatomy to give us complex physiological systems. But, unlike the pancreas, the brain also gives us sex.
Sexual differentiation in the brain is the product of a long journey through... | ['Neuroscience', 'Gender', 'LGBTQ', 'Science', 'Transgender'] |
The saying that “good design is obvious” is pretty damn old, and I am sure it took different shapes in the previous centuries. It referred to good food, music, architecture, clothes, philosophy and everything else.
We forget that the human mind changes slowly, and the knowledge you have about human behaviour will not ... | ['Design', 'UX', 'Design Thinking', 'Product Management', 'Creativity'] |
How a History Teacher Taught Me the Most Important Thing About Writing Jodi Compton Follow Dec 4 · 7 min read
Aka, ‘How I Wrote My First Novel, Part 1’
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“How I Wrote My First Novel” is a short series about, as you’d expect, the process of writing my first crime novel and getting it pub... | ['Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing Life', 'Writing'] |
1. Actually Build Something Using AWS
Just like any good student of computer science, I decided to purchase a handful of online courses to help me prepare for the exam. While the courses provided a structured learning experience and were effective at outlining the theory at a high level, I found myself struggling to l... | ['Programming', 'DevOps', 'AWS', 'Career Development', 'Startup'] |
VUE with TYPESCRIPT
Manage Vue i18n with Typescript
Internationalize your Vue project thanks to vue-i18n along with Typescript
Your Vue project is running well for now. Greeeeat! 💥💥💥
All text is in English and it’s a good bet since you target all English speakers (a large part of the population). But it could be... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'Vuejs', 'Programming'] |
The Story Behind Pearl Jam’s 1992 Censored Music Video
28 years later, the unedited version of the band’s video clip for the song “Jeremy” has resurfaced on their YouTube page for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
Photo by Wendy Wei from Pexels
In January 1991, Jeremy Delle, a 15-year-old sophomore from Richardso... | ['Arts And Entertainment', 'Gun Control', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Music'] |
The Wish app, although started in the United States, is global by design and is now utilized in 70+ countries! We know that different markets around the world have unique needs and aim to make our customer experience as customized as possible. That’s where our growth market managers come in.
What is a Growth Market Ma... | ['Growth', 'Engineering', 'Growth Marketing', 'Design', 'App Store Optimization'] |
Building a Dash App
Any Dash app is divided into two main parts:
1. Layout — Considers the static appearance of the app in the UI.
2. Callback functions — Considers the interactivity of the app.
Having a Python class for each and every HTML class is just another example of how easy Dash has made it to build web-bas... | ['Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash', 'React', 'Programming'] |
But what next? Have I launched all my rockets? I didn’t want to keep re-writing the same story. I needed to find other related topics that I thought my growing audience would find interesting. These stories are also in that Q1 wheelhouse. I wanted something for those who were already engaged, but I hoped somewhat diffe... | ['Creativity', '52 Week Writing Challenge', 'Writing Tips', 'Writer', 'Writing'] |
How Apple’s AR Glasses Can Benefit the Blind
Current technologies can provide many benefits for the visually impaired if Apple develops it further
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Apple has yet to release or announce any sort of smart or augmented reality glasses, yet many rumors have been circling about its p... | ['Technology', 'Gadgets', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Innovation'] |
What Are You Waiting For?
All you need to do is take one step forward
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Last January, I set a goal for myself. I intended to publish my first book. I had two ideas, and I hoped to self-publish one and submit another to a publishing company. I set up a calendar, I set up a month... | ['Education', 'Writing', 'Pandemic', 'Society', 'Lifestyle'] |
Epipen® and Why Carrying One May Save Your Life
If you suffer from serious allergies, you need one.
Image courtesy of Epipen®
Epipen® is an intramuscular auto-injector that administers a single measured dose of Epinephrine (you probably know this as Adrenaline) in the event of an anaphylactic attack.
If you have a ... | ['Health', 'Anaphylaxis', 'Allergies', 'Wellness', 'Medication'] |
Converting a Picture into an Excel File
Python exercise for computer vision
A question popped up in my head. Images are basically raster files. As a raster file, naturally, an image consists of rows and columns filled by colour values. You can see this by opening a picture in Photoshop and zoom in. Or just open the p... | ['Python', 'Excel', 'Vba', 'Raster', 'Computer Vision'] |
6 Best AWS Developer Associate (DVA-C001) Certification Practice Test, Mock Exams and Dumps
1600+ practice questions and dumps to prepare for AWS Developer Associate certification in 2021.
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Hello guys, if you are aiming to crack AWS developer Associate certification in 2021 and looking for the be... | ['Certification', 'AWS', 'Amazon Web Services', 'Cloud Computing', 'Programming'] |
How Do Neural Networks Learn?
Understand AI… without the math!
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In the previous two posts, we saw what a neural network is and even how we can simulate one inside a spreadsheet. Feel free to go back to have a refresher, if you like! You can also get the whole series as a book!
L... | ['Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Artificial Neural Network', 'AI', 'Programming'] |
Google’s latest redesign sparked a debate over prioritizing aesthetics vs. usability.
In this project, I attempted to rethink how Google’s icons could leverage their old look while sporting a refreshing look consistent with Google’s latest design language.
The main challenge of this project was to keep Google’s new c... | ['Case Study', 'Google', 'Design', 'Icons', 'Illustration'] |
Combined Power of IoT, AI, Data, Cloud, Machine Learning
Digital Twin Solutions
An architectural overview and business value for industry
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In this article, I want to introduce Digital Twin concept as an emerging technology used in various industries. My aim is to give an overview and s... | ['Digital Twin', 'Technology', 'Future', 'Design', 'IoT'] |
7 Ways to Limit Scope in Your Code
Easy methods you can adopt to keep your code clean, concise, and testable
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As a general rule, developers should limit the scope of variables and references as much as possible. Limiting scope in every way possible, from the big things (never, ev... | ['Software Development', 'Startup', 'Mobile', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
How To Build Your Writing Space
Helpful tips to create a workplace which allows you to create
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We have all heard that you need to make your workspace a place where your mind can do its fabulous duty of writing. But what makes a workplace that way. Below you will find ideas that have... | ['Advice', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Hacks', 'Productivity'] |
What is Jupyter Notebook?
Jupyter Notebook is widely used for data analysis. I started to learn Data Science 2–3 months ago and I used this tool to explore some datasets (a collection of data). It’s awesome!
Let’s see the definition from the docs.
The notebooks documents are documents produced by the Jupyter Noteboo... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Productivity', 'Data Science', 'Shortcuts'] |
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12 Things You Can Do to Advance Your Startup While Maintaining Your Day Job
And answering the question “When is the right time to quit”?
The idea for my first business came to me in January of 2014. I was working with my 6th manufacturing client at McKinsey, and realized the fundame... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneur'] |
My uncle died a few weeks ago. He didn’t die from the virus, but his funeral was affected by the ongoing restrictions. Today those of us too distant or too numerous to attend got to watch the crematorium service live-streamed to our laptops or smartphones. It made what would always be a sombre experience surreal and gr... | ['Death', 'Nonfiction', 'Technology', 'Coronavirus', 'Funerals'] |
Our goal with this introduction to data science course is to become familiar with the data science process. We don’t want too in-depth coverage of specific aspects of the process, hence the “intro to” portion of the title.
For each aspect, the ideal course explains key concepts within the framework of the process, int... | ['Big Data', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Data Science', 'Tech'] |
LET’S GET REAL
No One Has Their Sh*t Together
And why I don’t plan on getting mine together anytime soon
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I’m sure everyone recognizes this feeling: your life looks like a mess. You’re behind on your work, you aren’t reaching your goals, the days seem to disappear before your eyes, ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Self', 'Productivity'] |
Consumer Emotions Are Highly Contextual
Many theories around emotion psychology have emphasized the universality and innate nature of emotions. They assume that we can detect facial patterns that express each time the same emotion, whether it is fear or joy.
However, when famous psychologists Schachter and Singer had... | ['Advertising', 'Feelings', 'Marketing', 'Consumer Behavior', 'Psychology'] |
Who here has ever waited for the Monday to arrive when everything would change? We anticipate the changes to come by indulging in sinful acts of gluttony and binge-watching because come Monday, we’re clearing the decks for the much-anticipated change that’s a’coming!
My hand is raised! I’ve always found that the excit... | ['Self', 'Wellness', 'Productivity', 'Life', 'Fitness'] |
We are thrilled to announce that Summa has partnered with Keep to form Cross-Chain Group; a working group focused on furthering blockchain interoperability.
Cross-Chain Group is an industry resource dedicated to promoting the research, design, and implementation of cross-chain technology through collaboration, develop... | ['Tech', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blockchain', 'Programming'] |
Rest (REpresentational State Transfer) API (Application Program Interface) a lot of abbrevations, but what is a REST API and how is it related to Web Applications?
It’s very unlikely that you have never met or interacted with a REST API before, when using different web applications/services. Take forexample Google Map... | ['Software Engineering', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Rest Api', 'Web Development'] |
This is the third in a series of articles on the subject of design leadership (here are the first and second instalments). In this article, I’m going to attempt to dig into your role as a leader to build trust and empower others; creating both a safe and challenging environment in which folks can grow and thrive.
Crea... | ['Leadership', 'Design', 'Empowerment', 'User Experience', 'Trust'] |
E Pluribus Unum
On John Dos Passos’s U.S.A.
John Dos Passos’s trilogy U.S.A. — comprising The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) — stands today like an unvisited historical monument in the annals of American literature, a Grant’s Tomb of the bookshelf. Despite its acceptance as a classic, and... | ['Writing', 'History', 'Politics', 'Books'] |
What Are RBMs, Deep Belief Networks and Why Are They Important to Deep Learning?
In this article, we are going to take a look at what are DBNs and where can we use them.
A Deep Belief Network(DBN) is a powerful generative model that uses a deep architecture and in this article we are going to learn all about it. Don’... | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Belief Network'] |
Fairytales have been around for a long time. Millennia-kind of a long time. They’ve accompanied us for a long, long time and some have become almost second-nature to us. Everybody has heard them as kids and recounted them as adults.
They have insinuated in our lives in so many forms, always changing, always themselves... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Fantasy', 'Fairy Tale'] |
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So you’re working from home now. Whether it is long-term or temporary, the truth is, it doesn’t really matter. You just know that you want to be as productive as possible. So on that note, here is a simple, practical guide to help you make the most of this opportunity.
1. Have A Ded... | ['Careers', 'Coronavirus', 'Work', 'Jobs', 'Health'] |
A good commitment to a “how” — to being a certain way, as distinct from advancing a mission out in the world — should be explicit and stated in impersonal terms, versus personalized in terms of the desires of founders or leaders.
A relatively small number of organizations are built in service of an idea that’s about t... | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Strategy', 'Management'] |
Two years ago on January 6th 2014, I quit my job.
It was just four weeks after I’d been offered my first six-figure salary. My manager handed me the letter that day and there it was, right in front of me and clear as day.
Your annual remuneration is now $103,000.
I should have been ecstatic … but I wasn’t.
As a cou... | ['Lifestyle Design', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Career Change', 'Startup'] |
There is a general consensus that when we talk about open data we are referring to any piece of data or content that is free to access, use, reuse, and redistribute. Due to the way most governments have rolled out their open data portals, however, it would be easy to assume that the data available on these sites is the... | ['Government Data', 'Open Data', 'Public Data', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
1. It’s extraordinarily fast-paced; even faster than you probably think it is
A small company with fewer people generally means there are fewer processes in place. Along with less people who need to have a say in something. It’s faster and easier to get things done. It’s liberating and I love the pace. It’s great for ... | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Careers'] |
Entrepreneurship can seem like the ultimate catch 22 — making progress requires funding, but progress begets funding in the first place.
The average seed stage startup is worth over $5M, and is bootstrapped by founders for about 2.5 years before the first venture capitalist (VC) invests money to help the business grow... | ['Tech', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Diversity'] |
Never Give Up Without A Fight
The day I stepped away from writing (this would be almost 7 years ago) it was with the deliberate intention of never putting another word on paper.
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I was fed up with the stops and starts, the mixed advice, the ‘almost were’ projects, the half-finished... | ['Keep Going', 'Perserverance', 'Trust', 'Writing Advice', 'Writing'] |
Lesson 1: Perfection Is the Dream-Killer
Ah, perfection. The quintessential idea of what we aim to achieve and in turn romanticize in our minds. It’s that overwhelming desire to achieve the exact outcome that we envision in our minds. We have high hopes that it’ll seize the attention of all those who interact with the... | ['Self Improvement', 'Software Engineering', 'Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Programming'] |
3. Comparing Corvids and Ape
Despite a long history of intelligence testing in apes, as well as in various corvids, there is no direct comparison between these two animals using a single comprehensive panel of tests. The PCTB in fact has been used to compare a wide range of non-primate animals like monkeys, parrots, a... | ['Philosophy', 'Animals', 'Intelligence', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
6 Greatest [Marketing] Insights from the School of Startups
I was lucky enough to be both a volunteer and a participant at the School of Startups, organised by The Shortcut. The School of Startups is series of creative business workshops, bringing the insights on different sides of business, from tech to design. This ... | ['Finland', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Hacks', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Imagine a creature or some kind of unusual animal without any emotional life. Could such a being survive in the everyday world?
The Harvard philosopher, Nelson Goodman, once remarked that we probably rely more on feelings in our everyday lives than arid and cold cognition. Indeed, much of everyday thought is bound up ... | ['New York', 'Science', 'Emotions'] |
The Pangeo Project has been exploring the analysis of climate data in the cloud. Our preferred format for storing data in the cloud is Zarr, due to its favorable interaction with object storage. Our first Zarr cloud datasets were static, but many real operational datasets need to be continuously updated, for example, e... | ['Open Source', 'Python', 'Pangeo', 'Data Science', 'Science'] |
For millennia, shamanistic and nature-based religions have made heavy use of the elements in their spiritual practices.
And the fact is, whether we’re aware of it or not, many of us have also long engaged in such elemental practices — often ritualistically and religiously.
Think bathing in the sun for hours on end. D... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Mindfulness'] |
JupyterHubのトップページに以下のような2つのユースケースが紹介されています。
1. If you need a simple case for a small amount of users (0–100) and single server take a look at The Littlest JupyterHub distribution.
2. If you need to allow for even more users, a dynamic amount of servers can be used on a cloud, take a look at the Zero to JupyterHub wit... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Data Science', 'Kubernetes'] |
1 — Power Query (Advanced)
Are you spending a lot of time extracting and formatting the same data in Excel? There is a big chance you could automate all of this using Power Query. Power Query is an Excel ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool. You can pull data from multiple sources (CSV, TXT, SQL, Hadoop, SalesForce,... | ['Excel', 'Business Intelligence', 'Automation', 'Financial Modeling', 'Productivity'] |
Enhance Your Learning by Calculating The Learning Compression Score
A (futuristic) method of assessing a source’s learning efficiency
Learning compression score = Quality / Size reduction
Calculating Learning Compression Score
This method, which I will call “Learning compression score”, is a (futuristic) method tha... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading', 'Education', 'Productivity'] |
“A baby learns to crawl, walk and then run. We are in the crawling stage when it comes to applying machine learning.” ~Dave Waters
Let’s answer the fairly obvious question.
Machine Learning is a broad set of software capabilities that make your software smarter. The ability to learn without being explicitly programme... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
The turn around.
Once you identify your deep-seated relationship with money, what your negative programming looks like, you can do a positive affirmation on it.
Even though I did not know this consciously — I was unaware I held this negative belief — my machine was running on the sub-conscious thought that, “There’s ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Money', 'Psychology', 'Success'] |
Grace is when you wake up in your deepest darkness and realize someone put flowers around you while you were sleeping.
Grace is both what prompts and carries you through your evolution. Grace is your guide on the spiral path deeper into yourself.
This spiral path leads you so deep into yourself that you find oneness ... | ['Spirituality', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
How to use the properties, characteristics, and benefits of marketing and copywriting
An interesting trend. New copywriting sites and blogs are springing up like mushrooms after rain. On the one hand, this is good, because the direction is developing. However, the other side of the coin is the quality of most resource... | ['Writing', 'Blogging', 'Marketing', 'Blog', 'Copywriting'] |
Apache Spark is a distributed data processing framework that is suitable for any Big Data context thanks to its features. Despite being a relatively recent product (the first open-source BSD license was released in 2010, it was donated to the Apache Foundation) on June 18th the third major revision was released that in... | ['Big Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Apache Spark', 'Advanced Analytics', 'Machine Learning'] |
What I Learned From My Little Experiment With Short-Form Posts
The good, bad, and the face for radio
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Over the last couple weeks I’ve experimented with short-form Medium stories. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. To qualify (and get listed as) a short-form story, you need a f... | ['Medium', 'Marketing', 'Money', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
How I Deal With Dissociation as an Abuse Survivor
I can’t function when I’m not present
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I have a hard time feeling my feelings. I often don’t know they are there, until several of them gang up and perform an intervention on me — and then suddenly it’s all too much.
Abuse survivors a... | ['Mental Health', 'Abuse Survivors', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Women'] |
Stop isolating yourself and start living.
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It takes a special type of person to be fine living in the woods completely on their own. I wonder if they are truly happy.
Maybe, but I know that’s not me. Isolation is a punishment for most people.
Being social is good for you.
I do love... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Self'] |
Recidivism, Rehabilitation, and the Grand Tour
The US prison turnstile
Unsplash — Pablo Padilla
In theory, prisons should perform the dual function of rehabilitating and deterring its convicts from becoming repeat offenders. Inmates would be trained with a skill to make an honest living once they get out. And prison... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Prison', 'Culture', 'Psychology'] |
I was looking through some old posts today and I came across this one.
I’d forgotten about it. I had this big fat goal of building up to 100,000 email subscribers in a year. That was in spring 2017 — so exactly two years ago.
Yeah. That didn’t happen. Instead, right around that time I started an MFA program. And I so... | ['Marketing', 'Email Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Digital', 'Email'] |
There’s so much potential for success in the world. So, what’s holding you back?
A fairly common answer is age. This year, I turned 30. To some, that means I ought to be settled comfortably into a life that will carry me to the grave. I must have a stable career, a family, possibly own multiple properties, etc.
And a... | ['Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Life', 'Success', 'Science'] |
This tutorial consists of the following sections:
Setup and installation Preparing test images Usage and API call Fine-tuning Results Conclusion
1. Setup and installation
There are multiple ways to install tesserocr. The requirements and steps stated in this section will be based on installation via pip on Windows o... | ['Tesseract', 'Image Processing', 'Ocr', 'Python'] |
Medium Review | Blogging Guide
Medium is one of the better known free blogging platforms. The site features amateur writers alongside well known… | ['Medium', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Social Media', 'Medium Partner Program', 'Writing'] |
In improv there is no script. When starting and building a company and in life there is no script.
Don’t write the script ahead of time in an improv show, in building new products or a new company, or in life. If you write the script ahead of time going into an improv performance, well, it’s not going to work. Because... | ['Improv', 'Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Life'] |
Source: Circular Economy via Shutterstock
Since the industrial revolution began, the world has focused on the production and consumption of products. Little or no attention is paid to where the materials are sourced from, the conditions in which the products are manufactured, and how they are finally disposed of. Howe... | ['Blockchain', 'Supply Chain', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Esg'] |
Profiles of Passionates
We hear, from antiquity to the modern day, stories of people raising their kids to learn the family trade. By the time they reach adulthood, these children are skilled in the field, learning almost from birth how to navigate the field and build the necessary skills to succeed. Though the world ... | ['Mental Health', 'Education', 'Productivity', 'Life', 'Academia'] |
The Dunning-Kruger Effect on full display in Clueless (1995).
While doing research for my thesis, I came across an article entitled The Dunning-Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One’s Own Ignorance.
With a title like that, I felt compelled — not just out of boredom — to set aside the battered pages of my research a... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Dunning Kruger', 'Education', 'Psychology'] |
Want to Write More Words Each Day? Streamline Your Decision Making
The magic of planning ahead and helping your future self
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Before I was a full time writer, I had to scrape words out of tiny minutes throughout my day. I was lucky if I wrote one thousand words before I left for work or even... | ['Decision Making', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips', 'Organization'] |
First, install the following VS Code extensions:
Prettier — Code formatter. VS Code package to format your JavaScript / TypeScript / CSS using Prettier.
TSLint. Adds tslint to VS Code using the TypeScript TSLint language service plugin.
After you have installed this plugin you need to enable it in tsconfig.json:
{
... | ['Typescript', 'React', 'Vscode', 'Linter', 'Tslint'] |
Why Assemblage Had To Remove Its Submission Requirements
How To Get Better, Not Bigger
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Once upon a time, it made sense to have well thought out submission requirements that writers would read before making a decision on whether or not to apply to be a writer to a publication on... | ['Writing', 'Creativity', 'Standards', 'Integrity', 'Publication'] |
10 Best Coursera Certifications and Courses for AWS, GCP, and Azure in 2021
These are the best Coursera Courses for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Computing
Hello guys, if you are keen to learn Cloud Computing and essential Cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and looking f... | ['Azure', 'AWS', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud'] |
But what about men?
Are they smarter?
Pfttt.
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MEN’S Shampoos
Science has dictated that men and women simply care about different things in their shampoos and that’s okay. Men also have a process for choosing their hair care products and marketing companies are aware of that.
Wi... | ['Health', 'Marketing', 'Humor', 'Satire', 'Life Lessons'] |
The Multilevel Marketing Bible
I’ve been around lots of multilevel marketing companies over the years because of my commitment to open-mindedness. I want to be proven wrong. I want to find one MLM company that is honest. I haven’t found one yet, although I’ll keep being the human MLM guinea pig for you (I promise!).
... | ['Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Social Media', 'Life Lessons'] |
How to Tell If You Have the Flu, Coronavirus, or Something Else
This symptom chart will help you determine which virus ails you
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Editor’s Note: This article is no longer updated and much has been learned about Covid-19 symptoms. For the latest on the disease, visit Elemen... | ['Health', 'Cold', 'Body', 'Coronavirus', 'Flu'] |
Covid Casualties That Will Haunt Us Forever
Things big and small that will never be the same post-pandemic
Image: Pixabay
With a fierce winter storm bearing down on the Northeast, Connecticut doctor Craig Canapari, MD, was asked by his kids: Will tomorrow be a snow day? “Sadly they will be disappointed,” Canapari tw... | ['Society', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19', 'Culture', 'Coronavirus'] |
How Anxiety Can Be Your Secret Creative Superpower
It’s not always about worst-case scenarios
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I used to control my anxiety by reminding myself that my brain was making things out to be much worse than they were. That worked for several years.
But, this strategy gradually lost its effectivenes... | ['Creativity', 'Mental Health', 'Comics', 'Anxiety', 'Life Lessons'] |
You’ve just received an invitation to attend a tech screening interview at Revolut. This is your moment to shine! It might feel like a lot of pressure — after all, you only have between 30 and 60 minutes to show the interviewers what you can do. They want to see your real-time problem solving skills, and you’re wonderi... | ['Programming', 'Backend', 'Development', 'Engineering', 'Fintech'] |
The general law of entropy. Source:[7]
Let’s discuss entropy before diving into the usage of entropy in Reinforcement Learning(RL).
Entropy
Entropy is an old concept in physics. It can be defined as the measure of chaos or disorder in a system[1]. Higher entropy means lower chaos. It is slightly different in informa... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Robotics', 'Software Development', 'Science'] |
Building a Virtual Assistant that Your Customers Want to Talk to (Part 2) Adam Benvie Follow Nov 6 · 4 min read
Ensure your customers don’t hit frustrating dead ends with your virtual assistant
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Intro
Here’s Part II of the Watson Assistant blog series on Building a Virtual Assista... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Wa Announcement', 'AI', 'Watson Assistant'] |
MIT’s Free Online Course to Learn Julia — The Rising Star
And why you should take it.
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Background
Python is the unchallenged leader of AI programming languages, used by 87% of data scientists. That said, there’s no guarantee of Python’s future, as languages come and go all the time — ... | ['Python', 'Julia', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data'] |
Journalism hasn’t changed much throughout the years — until VR (Virtual Reality) stepped into the game. In traditional journalism, an event happens, you pick up your notebook, slam the doors of your media van, and rush to the place of the scene.
You talk to witnesses, conduct a few interviews, and check the surroundin... | ['Journalism', 'Virtual Reality', 'Storytelling', '360 Video', 'VR'] |
Understanding Recursion With Examples
Read it again, and again, and again, and again…
Photo by Josip I. on Unsplash.
What is recursion?
Open a browser and type “recursion” on Google. Did you notice the “Did you mean: recursion” message?
Photo by author. Screenshot of Google.
Click on that message. It will appear ... | ['Startup', 'Coding', 'Technology', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
For each story we consider and pursue a topic we believe may be of particular interest to explore, ranging from current affairs to historical or cultural issues. Sometimes choices are driven by a fascination we have, sometimes by a compelling dataset we find and we would start from, other times we choose to present eve... | ['Data Visualization', 'Design', 'Journalism'] |
Yu Yang | Software Engineer, Data Engineering
At Pinterest, we use data to guide product decisions and ultimately improve the Pinner experience. In an earlier post, we shared the design of Pinterest’s data ingestion framework. The first step of data ingestion and data-driven decision making is data collection.
At fir... | ['Big Data', 'Open Source', 'Data Engineering'] |
In Defense of Daydreaming
Leave science out of it
Author’s photo
I didn’t do well in grade school. I always thought I was dumb–and it’s possible I really was–but even after the teacher wrote on my third grade report card, “Ramona needs to work on her concentration. She daydreams too much in class”, I saw my lack of ... | ['Humor', 'Creativity', 'Life', 'Imagination', 'Writing'] |
We wish you a peaceful and happy new year! This graph image is generated from The Emoji Graph.
2015 year in review for Graph Commons
2015 was a year of great new beginnings for Graph Commons and for our mission to provide an open network mapping platform, so that everyone can collectively involve in the act of mappin... | ['Open Data', 'Big Data', 'Social Network', 'Productivity', 'Data Visualization'] |
The best educator I’ve ever had was my 10th grade English teacher. There are too many reasons to name here for why I felt this way about him nearly a decade ago, and still feel impacted by him all this time later. All you need to know is that he is a very gifted instructor, someone who thought outside of the box, if yo... | ['Creativity', 'Schools', 'Education', 'Teaching', 'Writing'] |
Gestalt principles or laws are rules that describe how the human eye perceives visual elements. These principles aim to show how complex scenes can be reduced to more simple shapes. They also aim to explain how the eyes perceive the shapes as a single, united form rather than the separate simpler elements involved.
“G... | ['Design', 'Psychology', 'Gestalt', 'Data Visualization', 'Infographics'] |
Vaccinating Against Anxiety and Depression
Microbes in the dirt might lead to an innovative approach to reduce the burden of mental health.
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I am fascinated by the intersection of mental health and neuroscience. It inspired me to pursue my graduate degree, studying the interactions between th... | ['Stress', 'Innovation', 'Mental Health', 'Medicine', 'Science'] |
The usage of functions in your program improves the simplicity of code and made the debugging simple. Python gives wonderful control over creating and utilizing functions in your programs. In the previous article, I have clearly explained the process of creating a function. In this, we will learn about some advanced fu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Try walking up to someone and ask them about academic intelligence. Although not guaranteed a smart answer, most will understand what you’re on about. Now try emotional intelligence. Chances are it will take them a minute to answer.
Emotional intelligence requires thought to discuss; perhaps because we’ve always thoug... | ['Emotional Intelligence', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
When Anxiety Is Inevitable
Taming the uncertainty, chaos and mental noise that fuels it
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Ever since I can remember, I’ve shared my life with a low-level hum in the background. Growing up, it was as amorphous and nameless as the strange electrical buzz that filled my head as I tried ... | ['Self Care', 'Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Autism'] |
When it comes to creating a profitable SMMA, sales is your most important asset.
Sure, that can be said about any business.
However, as I watch hundreds of people come and go in the SMMA industry, I’m noticing the biggest pattern for failed agencies: the lack of sales.
More specifically, the lack of going out and ge... | ['Marketing', 'Business Development', 'Startup', 'Smma', 'Sales'] |
‘Creating A Masterpiece’
How can I improve on my writing? Which is the best format, style and technique to use? Where can I get the ideas to write about?
These are just some of the questions I have asked myself as I embark upon my curious writing adventure.
I realize that perhaps I should have created this particula... | ['Ideas', 'Practice', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Productivity'] |
Q&A with Sherrell Dorsey, Founder of The PLUG
This week, The Idea caught up with Sherrell to learn more about The PLUG — a digital platform that covers the black tech sector. Read to learn about The PLUG’s data-driven journalism, how the outlet plans to close the gap between journalists and black innovation communitie... | ['Journalism', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Subscriber Spotlight', 'Media'] |
You know that feeling in your gut when you get a loong email with complicated sentences explaining what you should do and where you should find it. This is a kind of email you need to read three times to understand what the person wants from you.
Or that gut feeling when you’ve had a Zoom meeting with several of your ... | ['Tutorial', 'Marketing', 'Documentation', 'Startup', 'Communication'] |
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