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My daughter and I were at the clinic first thing in the morning, getting tested for COVID-19. I felt much better than the night before, when I was afraid I was going to die, when I couldn’t speak without gasping for breath.
“I know it’s hard, but you need to find ways to stay calm.” The doctor looked me straight in th... | ['Covid Diaries', 'Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'Anxiety', 'Coronavirus'] |
The Word You Need To Stop Using To Be More Productive and Happy
This word is common but unhelpful.
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I’ve always placed expectations upon myself, usually ones enforced by society. I feel a need to look a certain way, to act a certain way, to feel a certain way, and more. Instead of f... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Advice', 'Productivity'] |
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How we respond to stress, especially the life or death kind, (like coronavirus) can teach us everything we need to know about ourselves. When a crisis hits, when death seems imminent, we react in old, outdated survival strategies. These ancient coping strategies don’t come from the grown... | ['Stress', 'Coping', 'Coronavirus', 'Co Vid 19', 'Psychology'] |
Well, Maybe There’s Hope After All
What ultimately helped was a combination of two things. One was a technique (more like a program), and the other the single worst experience I’ve ever had. They meshed to help me get rid of my fear of people.
Will You Commit to This Program?
2017 was also the year I started therapy... | ['Self Improvement', 'Advice', 'Mental Health', 'This Happened To Me', 'Psychology'] |
It’s cool to see how Product People played a small part in people like Ryan Hoover and Hiten Shah meeting up.
When I started the podcast, that was my dream: that listeners would see the humans behind the product.
Personally, I’m interested in how products connect people. For years I’ve used Path to interact with my f... | ['Product Design', 'Startup', 'Podcast', 'Makers', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Useful Aliases
There is an unlimited number of possibilities for aliases. What’s important is that you define the ones that are valuable for your specific day-to-day workflow.
Below are a number of aliases that I have defined for my personal workflow. I find that they simplify my Git usage quite a bit. You may or may... | ['Tips', 'Development', 'Productivity', 'Programming', 'Git'] |
Consumerism and conservation are dependent on “out of sight, out of mind.”
American consumerism is rooted in the violent extraction of natural resources, culture, and human labor. The ways and means of extractive consumerism must remain as far from the consumer as possible, otherwise risking the upheaval of a populace... | ['Vision', 'Conservation', 'Sustainability', 'Community', 'Environment'] |
The Future is Location Powered: Interview with Aditi Sinha, Founder, Locale.ai
A deep-dive into the Locale.ai Journey straight from the horse’s mouth
Aditi Sinha
This is the first in a series of question-answer style articles, with innovators and industry leaders, meant to provide budding entrepreneurs with answers ... | ['Startup', 'GIS', 'Interview', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Founders'] |
Product/Market Fit is a common concept in the startup world. While widely applied in conversations around new high-growth companies, it doesn’t seem to have caught on in the rest of the business world yet.
It deserves to be more widely understood, because it’s a useful Mental Model for the interplay between a business... | ['Startup', 'Silicon Valley', 'Product Market Fit', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business Building'] |
I am, too.
Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash
Imagine you attended the first session of a psychological experiment on “cognitive training” several weeks ago. Today is the follow-up session. You’ve just arrived and are ushered into a small waiting room. In it, you find two people already seated. There is one empty cha... | ['Self-awareness', 'Politics', 'Mindfulness', 'Psychology', 'Morality'] |
Cleaner Data Analysis with Pandas Using Pipes
Practical guide on Pandas pipes
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Pandas is a widely-used data analysis and manipulation library for Python. It provides numerous functions and methods to provide robust and efficient data analysis process.
In a typical data analysis or cleanin... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Pandas'] |
The Structure and How it Works
We are a group of five writers, each with their own genre and style. We have one business writer, a fiction writer, a memoirist, a historical fiction writer and a poet. We meet weekly, and critique one member’s work each week over Zoom— with candour, tough love, and giggles. We also have... | ['Writing', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips', 'Freelancing'] |
Five Steps to Nail Your Pitch Deck — Part II
What you need to know to score a second meeting
DevOps Storytelling
3 minutes and 44 seconds. That’s the average amount of time a VC spends reading a 20-page early-stage pitch deck. 12 seconds a page — if the investors read it at all.
Having worked as a VC for many years... | ['Storytelling', 'Fundraising', 'Startup', 'Pitch Deck', 'Venture Capital'] |
4. V A L U E
When you sign up for Blogging Guide as a paying subscriber, you gain access to my back catalogue of premium posts and to any future subscriber only posts I write. However, this is true for any Substack publication and is frankly a dubious value proposition for readers ( i.e.Sure, I’ve read Casey’s free po... | ['Technology', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Substack', 'Journalism'] |
This, by all means, is hugely impressive and *really* cool, if you ask me.
The ability of the GPT-3 to generate layouts, Python code, or creative content is shocking to most people. And it should be. It’s really strange to see a machine learning model that can comprehend and act upon requests in a reasonably correct f... | ['Machine Learning', 'Startup', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Deep Learning'] |
Looking Into the Future of AI, Big Data and IoT | Towards AI
Factories, refineries, utilities and all manner of industrial environments will benefit from AI, Big Data, and IoT, but what will it take to get there? UNSPLASH
What comes to mind when you think of a factory? A dark Victorian mill? A Charlie Chaplin skit? O... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Automation', 'IoT', 'Internet of Things', 'Big Data'] |
Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python — Tutorial
Tutorial on the basics of natural language processing (NLP) with sample coding implementations in Python
Author(s): Pratik Shukla, Roberto Iriondo
Last updated, July 26, 2020
In this article, we explore the basics of natural language processing (NLP) with cod... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Technology', 'Education', 'Science'] |
What I Learned About Customer Service From the Dollar Shave Club
These seem like such simple lessons but the simplest lessons are usually the most powerful.
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
A couple of months ago I joined the Dollar Shave Club, which offers inexpensive shaving products for men. I liked DSC’s funny... | ['Communication', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Small Business'] |
Joe Alterio
A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The scorpion climbs onto the frog’s back and the ... | ['Design', 'Design Process', 'Development', 'Designer', 'Interaction Design'] |
Sex is involved in every relationship. Bi-sexual, or not. Everybody’s bi-sexual.
Multi-sexual. (Photo by Raw Pixel)
There is a hidden sexuality in every relationship. Bi-sexual, or not.
This is because there is a male hidden in every female, and a female hidden in every male.
This explains male relationships. Femal... | ['Relationships', 'Sexuality', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Data Science'] |
Branding case studies often read as somewhere between obvious and grandiose. You’re either looking at established companies with a 20/20 hindsight, or reading a digital agency portfolio sales pitch.
Just as business strategy, real-world branding is in fact neither superfluous, nor inaccessible to mere mortals.
Below,... | ['Branding', 'Business Strategy', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Branding Strategy'] |
Why Scripted Is The Ultimate Platform for Skilled Freelancers
Working for content mills is usually not a good idea. Scripted is the exception confirming that rule.
Photo by Burst from Pexels
In the very beginning of my freelancing career, I did some writing for low-paying content mills.
It was a stepping stone, and... | ['Freelancing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Freelance Writing', 'Content Marketing'] |
Recently, I was searching for Jupytter Notebook to run my Andriod mobile. But there was no straight way to install it. So I thought let’s write about it.
We will divide it into two parts, the first will be application installation, and the second will be the Andriod Setup.
1. Installation
There are two things you ne... | ['Python', 'Andriod', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
As a society, we sometimes find ourselves lonely, anxious, and depressed. We are becoming separated from sustainable joy. Unfortunately, many aspects of the modern world can keep us locked into a state of disconnection syndrome.
What are the drivers of Disconnection Syndrome?
MINDLESS ACTIVITY — Constant social media... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Wellness', 'Mental Well Being', 'Brain Health'] |
No Fear. No Limits. No Regrets in 2020
If you want to view paradise simply look around you and view it.
Wall mural at Adelaide Central Market, Australia ©Lucy King
At Mindset Matters, we believe you can change your life depending on the type of stories you tell yourself.
It’s been a whirlwind building up this publi... | ['Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Lifestyle', 'Storytelling'] |
Can a Planner Obsession Make You Less Productive?
I never thought I’d be a 30-something woman obsessing over stickers
As a young girl, I kept a diary to write my deepest, darkest secrets. Thirty years later and I’ve moved from diaries to planners.
If you think there isn’t a difference between diaries and planners th... | ['Productivity', 'Planner', 'Writing', 'Ideas', 'Bullet Journaling'] |
The Intimacy Paradox
During times like these, people still crave intimacy. We are social beings, and it’s natural to feel certain things, but it’s also a pretty bad time considering everything that’s happening here.
I ended up on one of my notorious Google rabbit-holes and stumbled upon the intimacy paradox. It’s a v... | ['Relationships', 'Intimacy', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
Let’s imagine you want to create an animated explainer. What steps are in the process?
1. Research and strategy
During this stage, it’s essential to get to know your audience better. What do they know about your offering? On what stage are you with your product or service, and what do you want to communicate? Are you... | ['Design', 'Process', 'Tips', 'Explainer Videos', 'Marketing'] |
One of the following statements by influential designers was made this month and the other was made five years ago. Can you guess which statement was made when?
“The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs.” “Design to... | ['Design', 'Storytelling', 'UX'] |
The @font-face attribute has changed the face of web design, allowing designers to move away from the system default fonts and into a new realm of diverse, rich, & interesting fonts. Here are 3 things to keep in mind when choosing a web font to ensure that your users are getting the design experience you intended.
Wat... | ['Design', 'Marketing', 'Web Design', 'Tech', 'Typography'] |
I started my entrepreneurial journey when an interesting blog post was enough to get you attention…
…a well-crafted tweet could start a long-term working relationship with a partner, and a podcast — well, people still didn’t quite know what to do with those.
Needless to say, social media, blogging, and podcasting hav... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Small Business', 'Growth Hacking', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Are You a Natural-Born Storyteller?
Please, be weird and tell us about it!
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A friend of mine always laughs at the fact, that talking to me is like watching a soap opera, in a good way. Something is always going on, something interesting always happens to me, people coming and going, tension,... | ['Writing', 'Personal Grow', 'Self', 'Drama', 'Storytelling'] |
Our new masthead was designed by artist Leila Register, with inspiration from and gratitude to regular contributor Peter Pruyn.
So much has happened since we sent out the last communication to Fourth Wave subscribers in mid-May, including Medium’s change in labeling for this type of communication from “letter” to “new... | ['Design', 'Feminism', 'Writing', 'Equality', 'BlackLivesMatter'] |
Humphrey Bogart and the Mandela Effect
Collage by author/Original photos: Wikipedia Commons
Sometimes it feels impossible to change a Trump supporter’s mind. It feels like facts don’t even matter to them. How can we possibly find common ground with them?
“The election was rigged! Hilary is a pedophile!”, they scream... | ['Politics', 'Political Science', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Culture'] |
In the age of AI and “Human Centered Machine Learning”, it’s essential that we understand the needs and behaviour of our users. This is doubly true as a UX designer. In order to create work that better serves the needs of our users, it’s important to understand some basic psychological principles. Which is why I want t... | ['Design', 'Gestalt', 'User Experience', 'Psychology', 'UX'] |
Photo by Şahin Yeşilyaprak on Unsplash
I crawl out of the dream
and shake the predator
off my consciousness.
I’m much too cold
to will myself out of bed,
but not so scared anymore.
I’m burning up under all
the layers, but I’m cold
all the time these days.
I’m fumbling through the
maze of all the places I
we... | ['Sleep', 'Mental Health', 'Fear', 'Psychology', 'Poetry'] |
Short-form stories are a great way to reach scrolling writers fast. If you keep this little posts within the guidelines, not only do you get a 100% read-rate, you also have a quick way to promote your latest story to readers who may not have noticed it otherwise.
With the new changes in distribution (see above), we wr... | ['Medium', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Money', 'Life Lessons'] |
When you invest in BABB, you’re funding the banking license and you’re also buying a chunk of the private company, meaning you become a direct shareholder. Being a shareholder comes with various perks.
We are selling 2.91% equity based on a valuation of £50 million. All equity sold will be in the form of ordinary (A) ... | ['Blockchain', 'Investing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Thoughts'] |
Step 1: Sketch
I started by designing a set of illustrations in Sketch, to set up each animation. Like many, I typically use Illustrator for graphic design, and Sketch for UI design. But because Sketch is so well-suited for flat, geometric vectors, I gave it a shot for these illustrations. I used Illustrator very spar... | ['Animation', 'Design', 'Tools', 'UX', 'Productivity'] |
Could the future of farming be vertical?
Vertical farming is greener and more efficient than traditional agriculture, writes Natalie Mouyal
Photo: BrightAgrotech, Pixabay
Vertical farming promises a more sustainable future for growing fruit and vegetables. Instead of planting a single layer of crops over a large lan... | ['Agriculture', 'Sustainability', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Environmental Issues'] |
Image: Harvard Business School. Source: Flikr
Israel has been under its second lockdown for three weeks now, so I took the opportunity to sort through my closet. Underneath all the clothes and memorabilia, I found a box with my application to Harvard Business School (back then we still printed things out). Brushing of... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Israeli Startups', 'Venture Capital', 'Coronavirus', 'Harvard Business School'] |
Practical Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
EDA, feature engineering and preprocessing, pipelines
Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash
Customer churn is an important issue for every business. While looking for ways to expand customer portfolio, businesses also focuses on keeping the existing customers. Thus, it is cr... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
This Just In: Choice In Video Games
Have video games lost their appeal?
Last week I watched High Score on Netflix. It’s a six-part docuseries on the history of video games. For most of the episodes, it was a walk straight down Memory Lane.
The first video game I remember playing is Duck Hunt on the original Nintendo... | ['Mental Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Life', 'Games', 'Entertainment'] |
“Email on the Move” by rawpixel on Unsplash
Clickbait is a pejorative term for a headline-writing technique that online publishers have been using for years to drive traffic to websites, more often than not featuring paper-thin content, in the hope of driving advertising impressions and revenues.
You only need to cli... | ['Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
10 Normality Tests in Python (Step-By-Step Guide 2020)
Normality test is used to check if a variable or sample has a normal distribution.
Image of Author
Before going to talk about Normality test lets first discuss normal distribution and why is it so important?
Normal distribution
The normal distribution also kno... | ['Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Being chronically-late affects everyone around us — more than we think
I broke my habit of chronic-lateness
Exactly 60 days ago I made a pledge to myself (and my son) to stop being chronically late. For most of my life I’ve been late to everything. It’s embarrassing, selfish, and depressing.
I was early for 60 days ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Habit Building', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
Trust Me?
Should I?
©Paula via Canva
“Do you trust me?” he asked, offering me his hand.
I could barely hear him over the whirl of the helicopter blades but I’m good at reading lips.
“Not at all.” I replied as I took his hand. “But hey, this night has been full of surprises.”
Duncan helped me up into the helicopte... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Escape', 'Writing', 'Trust'] |
Medium is a fantastic source for a writer’s multi-income streams. By using Medium as the beginning — the gateway — you can bring new readers inside your proverbial fence and into your world.
Medium isn’t the end, but the beginning.
You can use your Medium stories to earn your reader’s trust, showcase your expertise i... | ['Medium', 'Money', 'Writing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life Lessons'] |
Jad Meouchy, CTO and co-founder of BadVR! 😎
Like all companies, BadVR is comprised of a group of dedicated, passionate people, all working on solving the problem of how to view, analyze, and share data insights at scale. As modern datasets continue to increase exponentially in size and complexity, it’s become increas... | ['Big Data', 'Life Lessons', 'Analytics', 'Startup', 'VR'] |
In between putting on a face mask, removing it; constant washing of hands, or rubbing them with sanitisers; disinfecting clothes and shoes upon reaching home or the office, time has seemed to take on the speed of light.
We have stepped into September, we have passed even the height of summer.
The heat of summer has b... | ['Writing', 'Resolutions', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy', 'Self'] |
by Jackie Swift
Bees are big news these days. The internet is full of stories about colony collapse, where hives of domesticated honey bees die off en masse. If the honey bee disappears, the current wisdom goes, crops won’t get pollinated. Is this really true? There are 20,000 bee species in the world — 4,000 of them ... | ['Nature', 'Cornell University', 'Agriculture', 'Environment', 'Science'] |
Are you a Panster or a Plotter
Pros and cons of both
Photo by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash
To plot or not to plot is the question. But the answer is not the same for everyone.
Plotter
A plotter writes down every detail of every chapter from beginning to end. They know how the story will start, what each character will ... | ['Novel', 'Advice', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Storytelling'] |
A patent gives its owner a legally-enforceable monopoly to their invention. The invention could be any new and inventive solution to a technical problem; whether it’s the humble paper clip to a new pharmaceutical to developments in AI or quantum computing.
Patents play an important role in incentivising and rewarding ... | ['Design', 'Law', 'Inventions', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
1. Troy Aikman (1989 — 2000):
The man of the hour. The best Quarterback to ever put on a Cowboy Uniform and one of the 10 best Quarterbacks of All-Time. Many criticize Aikman for not having gaudy numbers. Even for the 90’s. However, he played in a run first scheme that didn’t ask him to throw much. When he was asked t... | ['Sports', 'History', 'Writing', 'NFL', 'Productivity'] |
Jesus Don’t Like Ugly
There’s No Place for Hate in Religion
Photo by Raychan on Unsplash
It’s greatly perplexing to me that many card-carrying religious enthusiasts seem to have centered their fervor around hate rather than love. Because I live in the southern portion of the United States, I notice this often with C... | ['Religion', 'Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Humanity', 'Love'] |
Ten years ago, any quantitative PhD with a few statistics courses under their belt and an inkling of writing code could call themselves a data scientist — and not be entirely wrong. I should know — I was one of them. But as the field of data science has evolved, this is no longer the case. It’s not enough to be able to... | ['Software Engineering', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Product Development', 'Clean Code'] |
Deep Learning Explainability: Hints from Physics
Deep Neural Networks from a Physics Viewpoint
Nowadays, artificial intelligence is present in almost every part of our lives. Smartphones, social media feeds, recommendation engines, online ad networks, and navigation tools are some examples of AI-based applications th... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Inside Ai', 'Data Science', 'Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
It goes without saying that things have been a bit chaotic over the past few weeks. At dlab HQ in New York, our office is one of thousands that are closed amidst a city-wide shutdown the likes of which were difficult to imagine as little as two months ago. As the longer-term reality of the new normal settles in, we’ve ... | ['Blockchain', 'Startup', 'Accelerator', 'Investing', 'Coronavirus'] |
1. Establish a New Audience
I’ve been around the block in the blogging world for years now and I know for a fact that it’s hard to establish a following from scratch. A writer could have top-notch quality content but still fall short of readers.
But when I discovered Medium for the first time, I realized that there w... | ['Writing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Work', 'Life Lessons', 'Medium'] |
On a recent November morning, Giannis Bellonias was sipping tsipouro on the veranda of his cave house in Santorini, Greece. “Visibility is poor today. Hope Kolumbo won’t give scientists a hard time,” Bellonias said to his wife, looking out onto the Aegean sea. The alabaster paths leading down to Santorini’s famous sun-... | ['Tourism', 'Volcano', 'World', 'Environment', 'Science'] |
The Antilibrary — A Boundless Fountain of Curiosity
Understanding that read books are far less valuable than unread ones might appear very counter-intuitive and confusing to you.
That’s okay. Knowledge itself seems to have been put on a pedestal these days where people tend to form their identity around the number of... | ['Books', 'Philosophy', 'Life Lessons', 'Advice', 'Psychology'] |
Introduction to Kubernetes
I promise and I am not exaggerating that by the end of the article you will ask yourself “Why don’t we call it Supernetes?”.
Fig. 11. Supernetes
If you followed this article from the beginning we covered so much ground and so much knowledge. You might worry that this will be the hardest pa... | ['Java', 'Kubernetes', 'Web Development', 'DevOps', 'Docker'] |
In addition to the facts and statistics, it stresses that employers need to realize more than ever how their teams and employees need to be helped. It is apparent that teams working remotely and taking care of their lives will produce great results. Some horrible examples of organizations doing this wrong — for instanc... | ['Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
How Buying Social Proof Can Make You Invisible
“Buying Instagram followers” is a hot combination of keywords right now.
That’s surprising. I thought that trend was far gone. But after looking for trending topics in social media, I realized that buying followers was still one of the top searches on Google.
Here, let ... | ['Instagram', 'Growth', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
I believe my mind has become that box which has too many wires tangled inside, each day I untangle few but the next day a new nest is there which I need to dismantle.
It’s a love and hate kind of relationship with my mind and every time my mind wins, there is a poem waiting like a gift which I need to unbox. A good re... | ['Prose', 'Writers On Writing', 'Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Writers Life'] |
5 Psychological Habits That Can Prepare You For 2021
Plan small sparks of joy to look forward to
Living through this pandemic is tough. In 2020, many people felt scared, frustrated, trapped and unsure about the future.
However tough the past year has been, you can do something different in 2021 to reduce the psychol... | ['Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Self'] |
Numpy HandBook For Beginners
A handbook that will definitely come in handy
In this blog, we are going to discuss the Numpy library in python and later we are also going to prepare a notebook that can be used by us as a handbook later on in the future.
What is Numpy?
Numpy stands for Numerical Python and is a python... | ['Numpy', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Bite sized leadership advice
Leadership is only effective for two levels known as Boss Squared.
We are motivated to please our Boss, in return they keep us, and the tribe ‘safe’. A simple concept.
To please my boss I adopt their priorites, copy their behaviour and respond to what is important to them. Simple stuff.
... | ['Emotional Intelligence', 'Leadership', 'Change', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
“The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Constancy, dedication and commitment. It is not easy to do what we want, there are many obstacles everywhere, but the main thing is oneself.
As I write this I also try to solve many pr... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Entrepreneur', 'Ceo Skills', 'Startup', 'Design'] |
Why choose Go programming?
1. Compile to a single binary
Golang is a compiled language and the developers of Googe put a lot of effort into it. It uses static linking to actually combine all dependent library files and modules into a single binary based on the operating system type and environment, which also means t... | ['Programming', 'Golang', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Cloud Computing'] |
How To Tell Human Stories That Make Your Brand Look Good
Cut the buzzwords about connection and community
Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash
You’re sitting in meeting room three, the whiteboards are covered in marketing ideas, and everyone is trying to answer one question.
How do we create a compelling brand story?
Ev... | ['Social Media', 'Branding', 'Marketing', 'Storytelling', 'Freelancing'] |
If you have a moment like this, do something about it
Alex and Brett both remember the exact moment that they decided to go into business together. Not to be melodramatic, but it reminded me of asking someone about the moment they held their baby for the first time or met the love of their life. It was a moment etched... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Startup Life', 'Startup', 'New Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Asshole Astrology: Week of 7 December 2020
Horoscopes for horrible people
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Here is next week’s horoscope for your sign.
It doesn’t matter when you read it, or which sign you are, as horoscopes are all made up.
What does the universe have in store for you? Let’s find out.
Image by... | ['Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Writing', 'Relationships', 'Self'] |
Teaching Perspective and Resiliency to Students Will Help Them Succeed, Not Fail Ashley Broadwater Follow Jul 17 · 4 min read
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash
“My first year of college, I had a 1.7 GPA,” my professor told my class my sophomore year at UNC-Chapel Hill.
I sighed in relief.
My GPA was much higher than th... | ['Education', 'Leadership', 'Psychology', 'Parenting', 'Mental Health'] |
If you purge your soul onto paper and are doing it for the love of writing. Then this publication is for you. We love gritty, raw, emotional, thought-provoking, rebellious, sexual, spiritual, nature-related writings and comic strips.
Follow | ['Coffee', 'Productivity', 'Comics', 'Storytelling', 'Humor'] |
There’s certainly a desire in life sometimes to be negative.
I just felt it on the drive home from the gym yesterday, getting stuck behind somebody going 28 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, having to wait at three traffic signals in a row for what felt like forever. This drive did not fill me with joy and positivity.
You can fe... | ['Medium', 'Community', 'Positive Thinking', 'Writing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
#7— Apply a condition to multiple columns
Let’s say we want to identify which Bach-loving plants also need full sun, so we can arrange them together in the greenhouse.
First, we create a function by using the def keyword and giving it a name with underscores between words (e.g. sunny_shelf). Appropriately, this namin... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
At Tau Ventures we advise all entrepreneurs to look upon the diligence process during a fundraising round as a two-way street. We believe it is not only an opportunity but a duty of the CEO to develop conviction that the VC they are bringing on board will indeed be the right partner moving forward. A wrong choice is ak... | ['Entrepreneur', 'Board Of Directors', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
How to install Square’s beta SDKs
We recently released a big update to SDKs—here’s how to upgrade.
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
[Update: the beta has completed, download th... | ['API', 'PHP', 'Java', 'Ruby', 'Python'] |
Connecty.io aims to bring together in one place all the actors of the two worlds targeted by the project : innovators and creators of knowledge. The platform intends (see development roadmap) to quickly cover the entire universe of science with the goal of representing all the specialties provided by a great diversity ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Blockchain', 'ICO', 'Science', 'Bitcoin'] |
Docker 101: Fundamentals and Practice
Start using docker today after these 4 "Hello, World!" examples
If you're tired of hearing your coworkers praise Docker and its benefits at every chance they get, or you're tired of nodding your head and walking away every time you find yourself in one of these conversations, you... | ['Nginx', 'Python', 'Productivity', 'Docker', 'Tech'] |
Motivation
As a child, you might have dismantled a toy in a moment of frenetic curiosity. You were drawn perhaps towards the source of the sound it made. Or perhaps it was a tempting colorful light from a diode that called you forth, moved your hands into cracking the plastic open.
Sometimes you may have felt deceive... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
Dear Rozemarijn,
Today is November 19th, 2020. The transition from 2019 to 2020 was harder than you expected, and 2020 didn’t have a lot of good moments either. Let’s look at the past year.
September 2019, you weren’t able to get financial support for your study anymore, as you had quit. Thus, you needed to find anot... | ['Autism', 'Psychology', 'Neurodivergent', 'Mental Health', 'Depression'] |
How I improved a Class Imbalance problem using sklearn’s LinearSVC Tracyrenee Follow Dec 20 · 6 min read
Support vector machines (SVMs) are a set of supervised learning methods used for classification, regression and outliers detection.
The advantages of support vector machines are:
Effective in high dimensional spa... | ['Linearsvc', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Class Imbalance', 'Data Science'] |
Jupyter main features are:
inline code execution
easy idea structuring
nice displays of pictures and dataframe
This overall flexibility has made it a preferred tool compared to the more rustic iPython command line. However it should not be forgotten that this is not more than an REPL where you can navigate efficien... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Machine Learning', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Productivity'] |
Docker containers are great at running application micro-services. But can you run Docker itself inside a Docker container? And can you do so securely?
This article describes Docker-in-Docker, the use cases for it, pros & cons of existing solutions, and how Nestybox has developed a new solution that allows you to run ... | ['Microservices', 'Kubernetes', 'Containers', 'DevOps', 'Docker'] |
Tony day began early for me when I took the #1 train downtown to Rockefeller Center. I was sheduled to attend the dress rehesal at 10:00, but I wanted to get there early to draw outside. It was fun walking around midtown Manhattan early on a Sunday — the streets were relatively empty, street vendors were putting up the... | ['New York', 'Visual Journalism', 'Theater', 'Tony Awards', 'Storytelling'] |
Three years ago, sitting on the beach over empty champagne glasses and the smoldering remains of late-night firecrackers, I made a New Year’s resolution to start this blog and publish once a week. Write, I told myself, attempting to channel Nike: Just. Do. It.
Write about the lessons now so familiar they can be recite... | ['Design', 'Resolutions', 'Writing'] |
Today we are going to explore 5 ways you can improve your daily workflow as a software engineer.
⚠️ Warning, once you start using these tips, you may not be able to live without them.
1. Use Pre-Commit Git Hooks 🎣
Enabling pre-commit hooks is like buying insurance for your codebase.
You can utilize pre-commit hook... | ['Workflow', 'Software Testing', 'Software Engineering', 'Productivity Hacks', 'Productivity'] |
When I went from casually blogging to consistently writing online, the biggest hurdle in front of me was getting published.
One year later I have permanently conquered my fear of submitting, and now, my articles are published on a weekly basis. It feels awesome to have this confidence, but it was a long trek to get he... | ['Work', 'Publishing', 'Freelancing', 'Writing', 'Marketing'] |
“Entertainment has superseded the provision of information; human interest has supplanted the public interest; measured judgment has succumbed to sensationalism.” - Franklin, ‘B, Newszak and News Media’, (1997)
If you regularly read or watch the news, it’s easy to feel like there’s danger around every corner. Every ti... | ['Terrorism', 'Media', 'Journalism', 'News', 'Psychology'] |
“Would you mind telling me your stock option plan at Maxim?” Carlos, the VP HR at Micrel asked me. “I want to do some benchmarking.” I had just joined the company as General Manager of one of three divisions the company had, so I was glad to help.
I walked Carlos through the grants I received every year I was at Maxim... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Venture Capital'] |
Let’s take a simple example
Let’s try to apply these rules to a concrete simple example: a script to encrypt and decrypt messages using Caesar cipher.
Imagine that you have an already written encrypt function (implemented as below), and you want to create a simple script which allows to encrypt and decrypt messages. ... | ['Python', 'Command Line', 'Interfaces', 'Machine Learning', 'Productivity'] |
Step 1: Considerations Before Launching a Product
Use problem statements as a guiding star
Every successful product aims to solve a problem and each product will have a unique problem statement. The problem statement is a clear and concise description of the problem and fills in the blank between what should be happe... | ['Launch', 'Growth', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Product Management'] |
Ever since marketing has become a buzzword and a key to getting many customers, human psychology has been dissected and carefully laid out so as to understand how brands can hook onto its no-longer-complex behaviour. As such, certain things, like how visuals can attract people and get stamped into memories more than wh... | ['Design Led Marketing', 'Design', 'Brand Strategy', 'Content Marketing', 'Marketing'] |
Sit with Me by Agnes Louis
“Sit with me, love,”
Like a whisper of the wind,
so soft it made me wonder if I had dreamt it all.
A Love Letter To Numb Women by Jayne Stevenson (curated in Poetry)
“It hurts that we rarely see you anymore.
Whenever we do, you say —
Got to run, no time to talk.
Subtext: I can’t feel ... | ['Ll Letters', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Nonfiction'] |
You should be writing.
As far as memes go, it’s one that probably pops up the most in writers’ groups. “If you’re reading this, you should be writing,” “Stop scrolling Facebook and start writing,” and “If you’re not writing right now, you should be” are common variations on this same theme. These memes can be found ev... | ['Procrastination', 'Writing', 'Burnout', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
5 Types of Content for When You’re Uninspired
What if you lack time and energy to write a long blog post?
Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash
Content creation is hard. You have to be consistent, you have to deliver a ton of value, you have to publish content multiple times a day, you have to come up with new ideas all t... | ['Content Marketing', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Image courtesy of Night Sky Creative
… And now our watch has ended.
No matter how you feel about the final season of Game of Thrones, there’s no doubt that it’s produced some of the best television in the last decade.
It’s redefined the medium in terms of scale and visual spectacle.
As avid fans of GoT, and because... | ['Branding', 'Game of Thrones', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Marketing', 'Branding Strategy'] |
My middle school son was auditioning this week for roles in two shows at a local theatre company. He’s a talented young actor, but behind that talent, he was wrestling with a cluster of nerves and anxiety. A normal thirteen-year-old with aspirations to do great things, he was battling the kind of fear that likes to han... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Self', 'Success'] |
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