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Main Types of Neural Networks and its Applications — Tutorial
A tutorial on the main types of neural networks and their applications to real-world challenges.
Author(s): Pratik Shukla, Roberto Iriondo
Last updated, August 11, 2020
Nowadays, there are many types of neural networks in deep learning which are used for... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Innovation', 'Science', 'Technology'] |
Photo by Jusdevoyage on Unsplash
Quick Start
It requires some proper setup to start a babylon.js project in TypeScript. The easy way is to clone a template from GitHub. I made one here:
After unzip and name it as you like, open the folder with VS Code. Run the following under Terminal.
npm install
npm run build
n... | ['Programming', 'Game Development', 'Visualization', 'Typescript', 'Babylonjs'] |
You Always Deserve a $6 Cup of Coffee
You hold the key to happiness in your hand.
Photo by Fahmi Fakhrudin on Unsplash
I took on an internship at a tech startup during my senior year of college.
I didn’t have any business working at a tech company, but I needed to log 120 internship hours to graduate. What a deal r... | ['Happiness', 'Food', 'Ideas', 'Psychology', 'Productivity'] |
Functional Programming From an Object-Oriented Perspective
Why I’m slowly abandoning my object-oriented past
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay.
The C programming language could be a functional programming language (that aspect was and may still be implementation-dependent). On most host systems, if you left the parent... | ['Java', 'Programming', 'Functional Programming', 'Object Oriented', 'Design Patterns'] |
When I was six years old, I got a vaccination shot during my annual check-up. It was terrifying and it hurt like hell.
During my visit, the doctor mentioned that I would get another booster shot when I turned 11. Given the pain and stress I had just gone through, I circled my 11th birthday in my mental calendar and be... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
The Single-Use Plastics You Never Thought About, and 13 Simple Swaps
How to end that plastic addiction by following the principles of conscious waste
Plastic cling-wrap: one of the many other single-use plastics that has found its way into our lives. Photos: Heidi Bischof
So you have a reusable water bottle and coff... | ['Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Zero Waste', 'Plastic'] |
She was driven, full of ambition. Writing new pieces overnight wasn’t adequate to describe her remarkable capabilities. She has her way to touch people. To reach lonesome souls like no one else can to tell them that everything will be okay.
Yet somehow, she didn’t want to be a writer for a living. To her, writing is t... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Self Love'] |
An Interview With Myself
Now that I’m officially a poet
Tara: Today on my radio programme, I am interviewing the newly proclaimed poet, Sylvia Wohlfarth. Hi, Sylvia, thank you for coming.
Sylvia: Hi, and thank you, Tara, for inviting me.
Tara: Now tell me, Sylvia, when did you realise for the first time that you we... | ['Self-awareness', 'Poetry Writing', 'Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Imposter Syndrome'] |
Dear writers, are you unsure where to publish your writing? Try using toppub.xyz! This website is a source where you can find the top publications. It provides you with information on what tags they use for their articles. It also provides a brief description of their philosophy, and their number of followers. For exam... | ['Ideas', 'Writing', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips'] |
On my running routes, there are a few folks — the regulars — I can always count on seeing. We don’t know each other, but we wave and say “hi.” I like to add, “Enjoy the run!” for good measure. “Thanks, I always do!” is a typical reply.
I was talking to a friend about exercise recently and how it can be so hard to get ... | ['Running', 'Motivation', 'Psychology'] |
2. “The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love” by Mel Schwartz
Picture from amazon.co.uk.
When I got to Chapter 7 in Switch On Your Brain — a chapter about Quantum Physics — I wanted to understand quantum physics better and found this book.
I was never interested in... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Books'] |
A popular saying that’s been around since the 1960s says that “a camel is a horse designed by a committee.”
It’s a saying that’s supposed to be critical of committees, suggesting that they are ineffective and lead to poor, conflicting eventual decisions. But despite the initial impression that a camel may lead on a pe... | ['Nature', 'Evolution', 'Animals', 'Environment', 'Science'] |
There also was the West Africa Leaks, investigating how Africa’s elite hide billions offshore.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) carries on doing incredible work across Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
In the US, ProPublica regularly publishes collaborative work thro... | ['Data Journalism Award', 'Data Journalism', 'Dataviz', 'Journalism', 'Machine Learning'] |
Before the rise in literacy and the invention of the printing press, people told stories. To family, to friends, around the table, around a campfire, at the pub. If you were good at it, not many people knew. Did it matter? Of course not. If you liked telling stories you told them. If other people liked listening to the... | ['Writing', 'Reading', 'Writer', 'Essay', 'Storytelling'] |
Predict House Prices with Machine Learning
Regression model trained on 1,883 homes
Image source: Greg Carter Barrister & Solicitor.
Property valuation is an imprecise science. Individual appraisers and valuers bring their own experience, metrics and skills to a job. Consistency is difficult, with UK and Australian-b... | ['Real Estate', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
My Unique Book Naming Strategy
Quarantined Income Workshop #6
Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash
Hello everyone and welcome to the sixth workshop in the Quarantined Income Workshop series.
Today’s workshop is somewhat unusual compared to the ones that came before, because instead of talking about a new platform on wh... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Money', 'Hustle', 'Success'] |
Your brain is working against you. Fact. There’s a perfect evolutionary storm and it’s killing your productivity. Do you want to achieve your goals? Fine. But understanding why your brain behaves the way it does is the first step on the road to self-empowerment.
First of all, you must accept this one simple thing
You... | ['Work', 'Evolution', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Productivity'] |
One year ago, on my 40th birthday, I fired up the Vermont Secretary of State website and filed a new business, Pictal Health. I bought a PO Box, got a business bank account, and started working on the brand and logo. From then until now, I’ve gone through periods of accomplishment and stagnation, emotional highs and lo... | ['Healthcare', 'Startup', 'Startup Life', 'Design', 'Healthcare Technology'] |
The Corruption of Power
Years later, Robert Penn Warren’s writing still speaks to the decay of political systems
Image courtesy of mrderofcrows.wordpress.com
It is Willie Stark, the populist politician in Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel All the King’s Men, who announces in the first chapter that “Man is conceived in... | ['Literature', 'Books', 'Politics', 'Writing', 'Essay'] |
Writing is excruciatingly hard to do.
Most adults of a certain generation have written a book report. You may have written an email love letter. Or at least a tweet. You can blunder through writing, or you can study and practice and develop the skill. Even if you never reach artistic heights, you’ve done something har... | ['Design', 'Writing', 'Ux Writing'] |
One more way to categorize Machine Learning systems is by how they generalize. Most Machine Learning tasks are about making predictions. This means given a number of training examples, the system needs to be able to generalize to examples it has never seen before. Having a good performance measure on the training data ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Datascience Training', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Today I was walking through Rotterdam and couldn’t help but see all the recent low-carbon transport developments. From electric scooters to electric car-sharing apps, mobility in the Netherlands is evolving and transitioning at unimaginable rates.
And I was so excited! And then I wasn't.
The green and the electric tr... | ['Renewable Energy', 'Sustainability', 'Greenwashing', 'Climate Action', 'Energy'] |
Let me begin by creating a dataset that I will edit in many different ways
df = [
['001', 101, 2000, 'red'],
['002', 99, 2080, 'blue'],
['003', 94, 1980, 'yellow'],
['004', 107, 2020, 'red'],
]
df import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(df)
df
Editing Column Headings
Unfortunately, the columns are simply store... | ['Big Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Pandas', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Get More With Less Effort By Applying The 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 Rule (a.k.a. Pareto Principle) will change your whole life if you apply it wisely.
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
It will surely not have escaped your attention that the majority of what you get or succeed in getting actually comes from a minority of... | ['Time Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life', 'Self', 'Productivity'] |
How to publish with the UX Collective?
Publishing your story with the largest design publication on Medium and speaking to an audience of more than 390,000 designers worldwide.
What is the UX Collective?
We are an independent design publication made by designers for designers. We believe designers are thinkers as mu... | ['UX', 'Product Design', 'User Experience', 'Startup', 'Design'] |
Books, Audiobooks, and writing
For the love of Fiction
A personal perspective
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels
Ever since I was a young girl I loved living in an imaginary world. Anything could happen if you let your mind open up and run free and I did. Much to my Mother’s annoyance.
I was born hard of heari... | ['Fiction', 'Audiobooks', 'Writing', 'Fiction Writing', 'Books'] |
I’m happy to announce that my debut work, The Woods Are Dark & Full Of Terrors (A Collection Of Short Horror Stories) is live on Amazon and available for purchase in eBook format through the Kindle store (just $2.99). Kindle Unlimited members can borrow and read free of charge.
If you don’t have a Kindle, fear not, yo... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Writing', 'Books'] |
Lesson Learned:
Take care of YOURself. Work for YOURself.
Life is too short for frustrations. Work on being proactive instead of reactive, it helps with stress.
Work life balance is very important.
Plug: Episode 3 of #IGOTASTORYTOTELL Podcast coming soon. This next individual is perfect, and will have you laughing ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
I was recently restructuring one of my early Go side projects. As I was changing the project layout, I was reminded there are many recommendations out there but no set standard for structuring Golang projects.
In other programming languages such as Java, there is a typical project layout that most programmers follow i... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Development', 'Golang'] |
How I Make Imposter Syndrome My Superpower
We all deal with imposter syndrome to some extent. Here’s how I leverage it
photo by @stereo.phototyp on unsplash.
A Twitch streamer I watch, cuppcaake, recently tweeted about constantly feeling like her success was due to people pitying her. Over the past four years, I hav... | ['Programming', 'Women In Tech', 'Startup', 'Mental Health', 'Work'] |
BECOME A BETTER PROGRAMMER
How to Become a Better Programmer by Discovering Your Strengths
You can be a better developer by knowing yourself and leaning into your strengths
My ex-boss was a so-called natural achiever. He had a constant need for accomplishments. By the end of every day, he had to have something tangi... | ['Personal Development', 'Startup', 'Books', 'Advice', 'Programming'] |
Humans are capable of incredible creations and remixes of those creations. We have a detailed track record that includes electricity founded by Thomas Edison and airplanes developed under The Wright Brothers, which have allowed for further design and development of new technologies such as Radium's discovery by Madame ... | ['Advice', 'Innovation', 'Design', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
Willpower Is Not a Limited Resource
And the belief that it is can be damaging
Photo: ULTRA F/DigitalVision/Getty Images
You come home after a long day of work and immediately curl up on the couch for a few episodes of the latest Netflix craze. As you watch, you’re simultaneously scrolling through Twitter on your pho... | ['Productivity', 'Growth Hacking', 'Psychology', 'Willpower', 'Self'] |
So you liked the last list? Awesome, I have a new list of MenuBar apps for MacOS users. I know how much you guys love Menubar apps, so why not right. Best thing is, all the apps in this list are either open source or free. So let’s get started 🏃🏻♂️
1. Itsycal 📆
🔗 Github Link: Itsycal
This app is my personal fav... | ['Mac', 'Lifehacks', 'Tech', 'Apple', 'Productivity'] |
Understanding consumer decisions and the design of experiences to contemplate if choices are good for business.
‘Looking for shoes?’ Try Amazon, they said — after an hour of scrolling up and down, next thing I know I have about a zillion shoes in my wishlist, but exit from the app with zero shoes heading my way. Has t... | ['UX Design', 'Psychology', 'Marketing', 'Customer Experience'] |
Gify
In a 2013 New York Times post, 2012 is the Big Data breakout year. The big data promise was appealing, digital web data too large for conventional data processing was collected, new software innovations were applied for mining, and infinite problems could be solved. Big data has a record of progress since 2012. S... | ['Technology', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
School Hates Failures, Life is About Failures:
You know the story of Walt Disney . Before he started the Disney business, he was fired by a newspaper editor because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”(source-Biography.com)
Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school for three times because of his poor g... | ['Thinking', 'Motivation', 'Success', 'Education', 'Productivity'] |
Drawing from an alternative reading of architectural history, a tangled dotted line from Charlotte Perriand to Google via Frank Duffy and Forensic Architecture, this brilliantly engaging book may actually be one of the first to describe and discuss what might be architecture’s true value at this pivotal point in our ow... | ['Architecture', 'Books', 'Design', 'Review'] |
1. Python for automating emails
Sending e-mails is a major part of any person’s daily activity. You read them, you write them, you spend way too much time on them.
So, Python to the rescue! Let’s take a look at how to send e-mails with Python so that you can automate at least some part of your daily e-mail tasks:
St... | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Learning', 'Learning To Code', 'Productivity'] |
The journey, analysis, and findings
As I mentioned before, in my early days on Medium, I was writing on multiple topics with a focus on Arabic culture, money, and finance. My stories were never curated.
In mid-July 2020, I submitted a story to a relatively small publication on Medium. My story was accepted, published... | ['Analytics', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Paul Ekman’s Pictures of Facial Affect (POFA) Stimulus
Facial recognition technology is about to get an upgrade that could change the way we measure the impact of advertising. And of course it’s coming from Facebook.
In May, the US patent office approved two new Facebook patents for technologies that analyze the faci... | ['Psychology', 'Advertising', 'Emotions', 'Measurement', 'Marketing'] |
This feature story is a personal retrospect of the extraordinary career and life of Dr. Christopher W. Clark, one of the world’s leading marine acoustics experts. He is the Chief Marine Scientist at Planet OS with 30 years of experience in the field.
In 1992, the first time I tried to listen to a singing blue whale in... | ['Big Data', 'Life', 'Oceans', 'Environment', 'Technology'] |
Other than these 3 main problems, we also have a lot of legacy code that has a lot of code smell and bad practices. We also have a HUGE boilerplate to create anything, be it new page routes or API routes on our integrated BFF. Having the BFF and the SSR engine on the same server also means that we have coupled them and... | ['Front End Development', 'Nextjs', 'Kubernetes', 'React'] |
Litany of the Grounded
Mental health poem.
Photo by Cristian Newman on Unsplash
Something’s Shifted
Something has changed
My mind’s broken
Addled…deranged
Where angel feathers
Once fell with grace
Is now just gray
Joy erased
Dust in the air
Churches quiet
As my mind summons
Endless riots
Broken chairs me... | ['Mental Health', 'Religion', 'Self', 'Poetry', 'Storytelling'] |
Photo by Caleb Minear on Unsplash
What are the Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Other Mental Illnesses?
From a clinical perspective, “negative” isn’t what you think
When we study schizophrenia, my students often confuse the negative and positive symptoms of the illness. That’s something that’s easy to do; we’r... | ['Mental Health', 'Negative Symptoms', 'Schizophrenia', 'Positive Symptoms', 'Psychology'] |
Were 21% of New York City residents really infected with the novel coronavirus?
It’s time to learn about bias the hard way!
Here’s the audio version of the article, read for you by the author.
The moment I saw yesterday’s Business Insider headline, I knew it would be a perfect case study for a lesson about statistic... | ['Statistics', 'Psychology', 'Data Science', 'Coronavirus', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Recently I wrote here about how I use writing to reveal, feel and heal. Well, now I am in the thick of doing exactly that. So, can I write about what’s up for me and at the same time, write about writing about what’s up for me?
Once a month I attend a workshop led by a dear friend I’ll call Cindy. I’ve been attending,... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Anger'] |
1. Be genuinely excited and let it radiate
Read that again, with the keyword being ‘genuinely.’ Everyone claims to be excited when they join a new job. But few genuinely are and continue to be. And it makes a huge difference.
As I joined the team, I started sharing the same dream and vision of the Startup. I was fasc... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Startup', 'Learning', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Life as a Writer with ADHD
If you are living with ADHD, it may be easy to dismiss the idea of writing.
Whether you have ADHD or not, I want to reiterate something: not all ADHD brains are the same — so my experience might not be the same as yours even if we share similar traits.
Managing ADHD is an ongoing process a... | ['Mental Health', 'Writing', 'Adhd', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
Equity crowdsale: what’s next?
Here’s a breakdown of next steps and what to expect.
In case you missed the big news from the weekend: the BABB equity crowdsale closed at 11:59pm on Saturday 18 August, with total investment coming in at just over £1,550,000 from 1,452 investors.
We’re delighted to have been successfu... | ['Blockchain', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Updates', 'Fintech'] |
Tell me about you. Give me the highlights reels of your career. Where you started and how you ended up to where you are now. (Note: I love how Krista used bullets, which is something I would totally do)
Krista Elvey: My brain works best in list-form, so here’s a point form breakdown of how I got here!
Earlier in my c... | ['Work', 'Branding', 'Freelancing', 'Design', 'Marketing'] |
Usually, PDF files created from scanning physical papers will require rotating, rearranging, and the removal of redundant pages. The Syncfusion WPF PDF Viewer is a single-stop shop for performing these operations in a PDF document quickly and easily.
The support for multiple-page selection and miniature previews (thum... | ['Wpf', 'Application Development', 'Csharp', 'Pdf', 'Productivity'] |
In late 2015, I had one thing on my mind.
I was a teacher’s assistant working under a burned out teacher who couldn’t stand me. The anxiety was so bad, I literally had hives. I hated my job and I desperately needed a way out of it.
I also needed the income, as terrible as it was. I couldn’t just quit. I had to find s... | ['Ninjabyob', 'Habits', 'Writing', 'Work', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
→ ML in production series
Come join Maxpool — A Data Science community to discuss real ML problems!
Sometimes as a data scientist we forget what are we paid for. We are primarily developers, then researchers and then maybe mathematicians. Our first responsibility is to quickly develop solutions which are bug-free.
J... | ['Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
1. RxJava
Reactive Extensions (ReactiveX) is a popular software development paradigm to deal with asynchronous and event-driven programming. RxJava is the Java VM implementations of the Reactive Extensions by using Observables. It extends the Observer Pattern to support event-driven programming by adding composable op... | ['Programming', 'Java', 'Tdd', 'JVM', 'Productivity'] |
Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash
Okay, but first, let me tell you: I like ALL kinds of books.
In fact, I have a book review blog — The Ardent Reader — which I have kept for nearly a decade, through marriage, divorce, kids, new beginnings, changing jobs, life, and love. I review fiction and nonfiction books on my b... | ['Libraries', 'Interests', 'Nonfiction', 'Reading', 'Books'] |
Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash
When I was younger and still in school my mom and I would take mental health days once every month or two. Instead of going to school or work, we would spend the day out together doing things we enjoyed and exploring new and inspiring places. I got my work as a student done, and no... | ['Corporate Culture', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity'] |
Does your product work?
Randomized controlled trials, imperfect compliance, and the counterfactual time machine
We build software to solve human problems. But human problems can be messy, and sometimes it’s not terribly clear whether or not we’ve actually solved them.
Snapchat might tell they’re successful if they s... | ['Product', 'Statistics', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Science'] |
Men’s Mental Health Challenges in the COVID-19 Era
“Will I get it? Will someone I love get it? Will one of us die? When will it end?”
Photo credit: Shutterstock
By Jed Diamond Ph.D
I’m guessing that few people in the world had ever heard about COVID-19 until a few months ago. Now everyone has heard and most of us a... | ['Mental Health', 'Men', 'Anxiety', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
Money Quote Tuesday Nov. 28 2017
Your Share of the US GDP Awaits
Forget Bitcoin. Sam Altman asks: Why not share the entire US economy equally with all citizens?
There is So. Much. To. Read! So here are some of the more noteworthy stories I’ve been reading these past two days:
Sam Altman explores an idea with histor... | ['Economics', 'Politics', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Tech'] |
A few of the most important features for consuming an API are:
Filtering — to narrow down the query results by specific parameters, eg. creation date, or country
Sorting — basically allows sorting the results ascending or descending by a chosen parameter or parameters, eg. by date
Paging — uses “size” to narrow down... | ['Java', 'Design', 'API', 'Rest', 'Spring'] |
You May Never Go Plastic-Free and That’s Okay
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing
Photo by Silvestri Matteo on Unsplash
I’m writing this at the top of an aqueduct in France, and while it may seem like a weird place to start writing a piece about plastic-free living, looking out over all of the tourists and the abso... | ['Environmental Issues', 'Sustainability', 'Plastic', 'Environment', 'Eco Friendly'] |
How To Instantly Add 30% To Your Freelance Writing Income
5 Ways Simple Things That Will Make You More Money
Photo by Joe Caione on Unsplash
What if you could make a lot more money — with the clients you already have, and with the content you’re already writing?
You can!
In this article, I’ll share 5 smart ways to... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Freelance Writing', 'Copywriting', 'Writing Tips'] |
How can I make my article better?
Tips to improve your article’s structure, formatting, takeaway — and increase the chances your message will resonate with your audience.
We have been editing and curating content for 13+years and we truly believe that knowledge sharing can make our design community stronger. If you d... | ['Product Design', 'User Experience', 'Startup', 'Design', 'Product Management'] |
The warp speed of adulthood
Eventually, I grew up to realize that all those 30-somethings weren’t so old after all. It wasn’t until my late twenties and early thirties that time started to really accelerate for me.
I don’t remember the exact moment. But, I do remember often thinking, wait, wasn’t it just Christmas la... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Productivity'] |
How Self-Reflection Can Start The Path To Healing
Healing the consequences of dealing with trauma starts with self-reflection
@simonrae unsplash.com
I’ve never been in the military. I’ve never seen an actual physical battle. I’ve never been to the ER. I’ve never seen blood, broken bones, and had the pressure on me t... | ['Mental Health', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Trauma', 'Healing'] |
Cloud service that I use to run my weekend project: haiku.pro.
Image by Bethany Drouin from Pixabay
I am not affiliated with Render. I am using it because it is exactly what I need in my weekend project.
Table of Contents
This article will not dive into the implementation details of the web application. However, we... | ['Product', 'Software Architecture', 'Software Engineering', 'Startup', 'Web Development'] |
About ten years ago, I was sitting on my lounge floor in Brighton, surrounded by post-it notes, index cards, scraps of paper — several years of brain emptied out in front of me. There were notes on improvisation and The Way of The Fool (introduced to me by Floris Koot). And money and identity (courtesy of Peter Koenig)... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Creative Process', 'Writing', 'Initiative', 'Identity'] |
I don’t want to be writing this today. I’m tired. I’m at an out-of-town event with friends. I don’t feel like taking the time, but I made a commitment and I know that I like the person I am when I keep my commitment to write every day.
To overcome this struggle I’m employing my #1 trick to make daily writing easier:
... | ['Morning Routines', 'Writing', 'Goals', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
New year, new page, right?
Time to put the old one firmly to bed — especially if it’s 2020 — and muscle up for a (sort of) fresh start.
After a tough year, plenty of us are amped about turning the page. Trouble is, Covid’s not done with us yet. Which means we’re poised for another year in the holding pen while it sor... | ['Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
Am I the only one who can’t eat and listen to music at the same time?
Am I the only one who counts the number of deodorant strokes to make sure each ‘pit gets exactly 8?
Do you hate-watch TV? Yeah, me neither.
What one word follows you around day and night? For me it is regret. With mediocrity a close second.
Is it... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Questions'] |
Early Diagnosis of Autism with Microbiome and Machine Learning
Building an autism diagnostic with gut microbiome data and machine learning
When I was around 8 years old, my cousin was diagnosed with autism.
I didn’t know much about autism at the time. To me, he was just a normal baby who wore diapers and cried.
How... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Have you ever read How to Win Friends and Influence People? It’s an incredible, timeless bestseller which I believe reveals the only secret you must know about to be the best communicator you can be.
Do you know what this secret is?
What if I told you that it’s something that can turn your personal and business relat... | ['Work', 'Communication', 'Office', 'Psychology', 'Productivity'] |
Flow — The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Productivity (and happiness) peaks with these 10 factors
In his book, “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identifies the following ten factors as accompanying an experience of flow:
Clear goals—expectations and rules are discernible and go... | ['Work', 'Design Thinking', 'Psychology', 'Thoughts', 'Productivity'] |
🐣 Mastering Difficult Conversations Step-By-Step
Consider this scenario — a colleague made a comment that made you or your teammates feel uncomfortable. The colleague thinks it is amusing, but the comment is simply inappropriate.
Naturally, you need to talk to them about what just happened. But how do you bring it u... | ['Work', 'Careers', 'Workplace', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity'] |
The purpose of this article is to share with fellow sales, marketing professionals and data scientists how to approach quantitative part of customer journey mapping, namely to answer questions:
How many buyer personas do we have? What are their unique characteristics? How can we adapt the marketing strategy concerning... | ['Data Science', 'Marketing', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Meet the Planetary team! We’re a team of multidisciplinary designers and developers spread out across 3 times zones and 4 countries. Despite having a dispersed team, we come together and build awesome products while having fun, and we want to share our insights!
Each week, the series Planetary Perspectives will featur... | ['Remote Working', 'Work Life Balance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management And Leadership', 'Startup'] |
What is ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR?
I created a new publication to address the current constraints on Medium.
This is an urgent workaround to address the capacity and scalability issues posed by Medium.
I shared our problem, implications and impact on not being able to add editors to ILLUMINATION in these challenging tim... | ['Freelancing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Blogging'] |
Hidden Layers
Why do we need hidden layers? Perceptrons recognize simple patterns, and maybe if we add more learning iteration, they might learn how to recognize more complex patterns? Actually, no. Hidden layers allow for additional transformation of the input values, which allows for solving more complex problems.
... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Once again…
As I’ve already discussed here, a pitch deck is a fundamental corporate document that helps you share your company’s story with the world. This story is specific to you, your company, and your circumstances.
No template or generic structure will ever be a perfect match for you. You’ll have to tweak and ad... | ['Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Pitch Deck'] |
The cost to develop a cross-platform mobile application can range between $37,000 to $171,450 and possible to climb up to $500,000 or higher with an average cost of $150 per hour for the developer. But Flutter based mobile apps can cost you much less than these figures as you can hire flutter app developers with the av... | ['Mobile Apps', 'Flutter', 'Startup', 'Mobile App Development', 'Technology'] |
Phase 1: Scope Creep
When I was thinking about the project, I’d get excited. Why only me, there must be lots of other people who’d want this, too! And, while I’m learning things, why not learn other things as well? I’ve been meaning to learn Lisp as well: let’s build the server in Lisp.
Warning to future me: The smal... | ['Programming', 'Startup', 'Mobile', 'Failure', 'Productivity'] |
This might sound a little cheesy, but the story was riveting coming from a 14-year-old girl who spoke in broken English, barely referring to her notes.
The content or message of Christie’s story was touching. The story was engaging and memorable — and although not extraordinary, in another sense, it was remarkable.
F... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Storytelling'] |
Is Your Business Using Local Seo Correctly?
Why is local SEO so important for your small business? Because local consumers are searching online for new products and services daily.
With how important local search has become it’s surprising how many small businesses have no local SEO optimized on their website. 97% of... | ['Search Engine Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Online Marketing', 'SEO'] |
Analytics are a great way of tracking the sucess of your website and marketing campaigns — but what is the best way to use this data?
This post has moved to https://wool.digital/blog/the-power-of-analytics | ['Analytics', 'Analysis', 'Marketing', 'Digital', 'Digital Marketing'] |
I have read several articles today composed by writers who seem to be wondering why people who have mental difficulties making them miserable don’t do something about it. It doesn’t come across as intentionally judgmental or critical, but seems more like genuine confusion as to why these individuals don’t appear to wan... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Mindset', 'Psychology'] |
Hello guys! This post talks about another commonly used UI pattern namely the “Navigation drawer”. With the navigation drawer one can navigate to many screens or functionalities of the app by clicking on the ‘hamburger’ icon. Swiping from the left is also a way to bring the drawer into view, a screen then slides in, sh... | ['Android', 'Material Design', 'Android App Development', 'Java', 'Mobile App Development'] |
Skaffold is an Open Source project for CI/CD providing a CLI tool for “easy and repeatable Kubernetes development.” Its first alpha version has been released by Google on March 5, 2018, however it has become quite mature already with its first GA release announced this month (November’19).
Skaffold allows developers t... | ['Development', 'Kubernetes', 'Continuous Delivery', 'Skaffold'] |
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Hello guys, if you want to learn Android in 2021 and looking for the best Android online courses then you have come to the right place. Earlier, I have shared free Android courses for beginners, and today, I am going to share the absolutely best courses to learn Android in 2021 from Ud... | ['Android', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development'] |
‘SealedSecret’ Scopes
From the end-user perspective, a SealedSecret is a write-only device.
No one apart from the running controller can decrypt the SealedSecret , not even the author of the Secret .
It’s a general best practice to disallow users to have direct access to read secrets. You can create RBAC rules to fo... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Technology'] |
Former Country Manager at Wayra Peru. Singularity University GSP14 Alumni. Blogger at Semana Económica. MIT Innovator Under 35. www.jaime.pe
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Pink Was Masculine Until…
The most popular conditioning applied to color psychology is pink versus blue. These two colors have drawn attention with their advertised line- pink is for girls, blue is for boys.
Old pictures reveal that children wore white or light-colored dresses.
But in 1914, The Sunday Sentinel, an A... | ['Gender Equality', 'Colors', 'Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Psychology'] |
How High-Performance Marketing Teams Work Together
There are threads of commonality woven through all high-performance teams. Here they are, with a focus on how marketing teams can use them.
These days, it can seem like the term “marketing teams” is somewhat of a misnomer. After all, most advice about marketing strat... | ['Management', 'Marketing', 'Leadership', 'Productivity'] |
1. Create Dictionaries With Keys Specified
When you write a Python script, you may need to define some global variables. However, when you update these variables in your functions somewhere later, you have to be explicit about these variables being global. A trivial example is shown below:
Global variables
I’m not a... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
Blending silken tofu up in order to create a creamy dessert is one of those things that sounds like only a vegan could love. Tofu, in my dessert? Yes, tofu in everyone’s dessert! It works perfectly, seamlessly every time.
I have long maintained that this is the absolute best, most fool-proof egg replacement in creamy ... | ['Food', 'Life', 'Vegan', 'Dessert', 'Books'] |
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From the Library celebrates books and writers. I publish articles and poems about writing, authors, books, and other literary topics. I am also inviting book reviews, reading lists, literary analysis, and medium author biographie... | ['Readinglist', 'Book Review', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Books'] |
The Primary School Writing Advice That Helped Me Become a Writer
Without knowing it, a schoolteacher decided my fate in one afternoon
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Back when I read my first Enid Blyton novel, I remember feeling a jolt of wonder and excitement, the thrill of experiencing something new. A... | ['Advice', 'This Happened To Me', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Books'] |
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Spark Streaming is a component of Apache Spark. It is used to stream data in real-time from different data sources. In this section, we will use Spark Streaming to extract popular hashtags from tweets. The complete code implementation in Scala can be found at my GitHub page here: htt... | ['Spark', 'Big Data', 'API', 'Python', 'Twitter'] |
Why is being mindful all the rage in the self-help world? I can tell you that there is more than one answer, and they are likely all right, and all wrong at the same time.
The concept of mindfulness and being mindful takes in a lot of different approaches. Meditation, psychiatry, self-help and philosophy all apply the... | ['Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness'] |
Circadian Rhythms, and Avoiding the Laziness Trap
Do you ever abruptly wake up, only to discover that the time was 2 minutes before your alarm was set for? That is your Circadian Rhythm in full swing.
In a nutshell, this is your internal body clock, and it follows your daily cycle because you have set it to act that ... | ['Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Covid 19'] |
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