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“These technologies have much more in common with power tools than sci-fi superhuman robots — in the hands of a skilled user, they act as a force multiplier in the speed, breadth and scale of content that can be produced.”
We opened the session at Columbia Journalism School with an overview of best practices when depl... | ['Journalism', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Media', 'University'] |
Validity & Soundness.
These are terms you might have heard before, but in Philosophy — they have a special type of meaning.
To discover the truth of the argument, there are two things you’ll need to establish.
a. Validity
First and foremost — you need to know whether an argument is valid. Validity refers to the log... | ['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Politics', 'Books', 'Self'] |
What Brands Can Learn From Stans
A Lesson in Customer Loyalty from Eminem
WTF is a stan?
According to not UrbanDictionary, but the actual Oxford dictionary, a ‘stan’ is “an overzealous or obsessive fan.”
A ‘stan’ is a fan who takes it to the next level.
The origin of ‘stan’ can be traced to late 2000 after the rel... | ['Branding', 'Advertising', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Java Development with Microsoft SQL Server
Calling Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedures from Java Applications Using JDBC
Introduction
Enterprise software solutions often combine multiple technology platforms. Accessing an Oracle database via a Microsoft .NET application and vice-versa, accessing Microsoft SQL Ser... | ['Microsoft Sql Server', 'Java', 'Development', 'Programming', 'Microsoft'] |
The people we admire often share similar traits. We tend to look up to them and try to mimic their behavior. We want to reach their social standing, live a life similar to theirs, and become more trustworthy and respected ourselves.
But every human trait has its shortcomings.
Imitating them seems like a sure-fire way... | ['Self-awareness', 'Happiness', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Personality'] |
Humans are not famously good decision-makers. Particularly when we are faced with too many options. The more choices we have, the more factors we try to consider, the ‘better informed’ we assume we are, to make the ‘right’ choice. Right?
Actually, we’re also less likely to make and follow through on a decision in this... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Decision Making'] |
I Wrote my Autobiography by Accident
Right here on Medium
Photo by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash
For anyone who has struggled to find a narrative thread or any hint of consistency in my Medium posts — join the club.
I started in October and have uploaded, or written from scratch, almost 100 articles. And to some extent I... | ['Short Story', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Autobiography'] |
After five years of research, writing, and experimentation, I’m proud to share my new book with you.
Indistractable is a guide to learning “the skill of the century,” the power to control your attention and choose your life.
Some of my readers have asked me about why I decided to research distraction after writing th... | ['Life Lessons', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Technology', 'Productivity'] |
Shhh. I’m gonna let you in on a secret. Ready?
Doctors don’t know everything.
I know, I know — they’re the experts! But it’s true.
They don’t know what it’s like when you’re lying awake at 3 am, staring at the ceiling and wishing you could sleep.
They don’t know that your new med is helping, but the whispers in the... | ['Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Depression'] |
It’s Okay to Cringe Bro
Why it might be time to embrace the cringe we feel inside of us.
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Watching cringe videos is a pastime that I never expected myself to have. But, it just feels good to watch someone else mess up. In fact, I’m going to go as far as to say that it’s therapeutic. ... | ['Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Social Media'] |
In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Noble Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman discusses the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion, which he, along with Amos Tversky, first identified back in 1979. At its core, loss aversion refers to the tendency of the human brain to react more strongly to losses than it does... | ['Design', 'Startup', 'Design Thinking', 'Tech', 'UX'] |
6 Things I Remind Myself to Prevent Anxiety-Driven Overthinking
#2. Don’t feel sorry for yourself.
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Introduction
If you’re an over-thinker or a perfectionist, it’s very easy to get lost in your own thoughts. I happen to be both. On top of that, I’m still trying to figure out who I ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy'] |
A trans (or, transgender) person is anyone whose gender identity does not align with the gender expectations that are placed upon their assigned sex; a cis (or, cisgender) person, by contrast, is anyone whose gender identity aligns with these expectations. For example, if someone has a penis, and identifies with mascul... | ['Transgender', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'History', 'Culture'] |
The Short Form Experiment
It actually works!
Photo by Vlada Karpovich from Pexels
Too many Medium writers experience the same dilemma: We write something good only to have tumbleweed as our audience. And then months down the road when we manage to attract a few followers, that masterpiece has become ancient history.... | ['Short Form', 'Advice', 'Freelancing', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing'] |
Rare, hard to reproduce bugs are the hardest. We recently fixed a deadlock that had plagued our code for nearly a year, but only showed up about once a month. We would notice something was stuck, debug it for a bit, then finally restart the process and the problem would disappear. Eventually something changed and it st... | ['Debugging', 'Software Engineering', 'Python', 'Bluecore', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
A Simple 5-Step Process for Conquering Procrastination
It takes more than motivation to conquer what holds you back.
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You’re not lazy. You’re not unproductive. You’re just a part-time procrastinator like all of us. You’re not shortsighted. You’re not unmotivated. Like all of us, y... | ['Inspiration', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Productivity'] |
Probably you heard a lot about the recent News Break mission for creators.
It created a sensation among the writers and freelancers.
With an open mind, I joined the bandwagon because the offer was too good not to pursue.
In this story, I want to share my experience, observations, and insights gained from fellow writ... | ['Writing', 'Technology', 'Self Improvement', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Freelancing'] |
Giving Text an Inner Shadow with ImageMagick and Perl
Creating a CGI script that composites text with fancy effects onto an existing image is easier than you think
Image licensed from Bigstock
My memoir, The Accidental Terrorist, is about my youthful misadventures as a Mormon missionary. Missionaries always wear bla... | ['Design', 'Image Processing', 'Perl', 'Programming'] |
Creating a robust content marketing strategy begins with knowing your strengths. Do you have strong knowledge of your industry and audience? Is there anyone in the company that is a good speaker? Do you know someone that does graphic design? Do you know any good writers? Pool together all of your assets for creation an... | ['Content Marketing', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneur', 'Content Strategy'] |
5.1 Target Count
The target variable is 0 if the client will repay the loan and 1 if the client will default. It is clear looking at the graph that the data set is imbalanced.
Some features that were explored …
Amount credit (Credit amount of the loan): Amount Credit is the amount requested by the applicant.
5.2 Am... | ['Kaggle', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deployment', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
The more I grow up the more my life becomes an episode of SpongeBob.
No, not the ones where the main characters play in an imaginary box or spend the afternoon jellyfishing. My life is becoming one of the tragic episodes of Spongebob.
Thankfully, tragedy can be hilarious if it isn’t happening to you.
Don’t believe m... | ['New York', 'Spongebob', 'Self', 'Storytelling', 'Television'] |
Imagine sitting in a foreign café, hungry, checking out the menu for a tasty bite to eat. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the menu’s, say, in Portuguese and you only speak English. The good news is the menu has a photo of each dish. So, you look at the pictures, recognize the dishes offered, and place your order.
... | ['IBM', 'Amazon', 'API', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
How did I prepare for the exam?
I primarily used 2 resources.
I highly recommend you to stick with the same too. The mock tests and external paid courses are absolutely unnecessary. Trust me; it’s easier than you think.
The Plan
Day 1: Azure Training Webinar Day 1 [3hrs]
Day 2: Azure Training Webinar Day 2 [3hrs]
... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science'] |
I’ve wanted to hook up with my higher self ever since I can remember. Sometimes, I imagine I’m almost there. Wisdom streams, and I think “this is it! The smartest part of me is awake.”
Later, of course, I’m back at the start of my journey and just as unenlightened as ever. Still, I continue to study religion, philosop... | ['Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
How to Spot Master Manipulators and Avoid Being Played
Learn to recognize the textbook patterns of narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths to protect yourself and those you love from being abused
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Master manipulators act in patterned and predictable steps. Through their twisted lens... | ['Relationships', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
I Don’t Get Too Attached to The Success of Any One Piece
You can’t control your audience. So move onto the next one instead of fixating.
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
Other writers have a lot of preferences, and I might just be weird, but a rule I have for myself is to not get too attached to the success of a... | ['Sports', 'Freelancing', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Self'] |
I Sucked at Writing So I Spent a Month Writing for 4 Hours a Day
How a couple bad articles and a lucky break got my sub-par writing 13,000 views
I sucked at writing
I’m a great verbal communicator. Give me a podium and I can deliver an enthralling speech but give me a pen and I’m useless. Writing was always my weak ... | ['Writing', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Learning', 'Personal Development'] |
“He has an uncanny ability to teach you very difficult concepts with lucid visuals that help you understand everything from a first principles perspective.” — early student and friend of Byju Raveendran
By 2010, over 1,200 aspiring MBA applicants fought their way into his popular course. He sold out arenas so he could... | ['Innovation', 'India', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Education Technology', 'Startup'] |
Brand stories come to life, sometimes in a good or bad way.
In brand storytelling, I say it’s better to be safe than sorry and tell a fictional story. Yes if the brand tells a story and they don’t state if the story is real or not they can get some publicity. The whole bad publicity is better than no publicity can cau... | ['Brand Story', 'Marketing', 'Storytelling'] |
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One of the best things to happen to JavaScript would have to be Babel and process by which one could transpile from one version of JavaScript to another. Not only has this allowed the adoption of modern JavaScript to be accelerated, but it has also opened the doors for other i... | ['React', 'Software Engineering', 'Jsx', 'Babel', 'Learning To Code'] |
Eating a man’oushe during recess every day comprised nothing more than engaging in a monotonous routine that satiated his hunger. It also afforded him a good excuse not to talk while pretending to socialize with the rest of his classmates. Wissam’s daily ritual consisted of spending 1,500 Lebanese Pounds at the school ... | ['Fiction', 'Memories', 'Writing', 'Lebanon', 'Storytelling'] |
The language of thoughts (or: how to express complex concepts with simpler ones)
“The proposition is the expression of its truth-conditions.” — L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (4.431)
To understand formal semantics as a discipline (and how it differs from other approaches), we need to go back to a cra... | ['NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Computational Linguistics', 'Machine Learning'] |
Entrepreneurship Is More Than Being a Founder
It’s an approach to life
Photo by lucas clarysse on Unsplash
The word entrepreneurship is drastically misunderstood. It is often thought that entrepreneurs are superior or a higher breed of human being. They are not. Entrepreneurs are associated with starting companies a... | ['Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Life'] |
This reminds me of the time I was on the way home from a mini-vacation. We had dinner at a busy restaurant. I used to work at a kitchen in high school in college. My (then) wife served for a decade. Her mother has been a caterer and her father currently manages a restaurant.
In short, we’re very patient and understand... | ['Emotional Intelligence', 'Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology'] |
Kubernetes and Big Data: A Gentle Introduction KLau Follow Feb 4 · 11 min read
This blog is written and maintained by students in the Professional Master’s Program in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as part of their course credit. To learn more about this unique program, please visit {sfu.ca... | ['Blog Post', 'Kubernetes', 'Big Data', 'Docker', 'Machine Learning'] |
The Coronavirus is Mutating. It’s Unclear if That’s a Problem.
Here’s what you should know
The novel coronavirus has mutated, and the mutated form of the virus now accounts for most cases in the U.S. and across the globe. That’s the major finding of a recent study, published July 3 in the journal Cell, which also fou... | ['Coronavirus', 'Covid 19', 'Science', 'Pandemic', 'The Nuance'] |
Now let’s go to Vietnam where there is no infrastructure for plastic waste management.
How does a middle-income country with other priorities manages its waste? Easy. It burns it or let it go to the sea. Most plastic wastes are not recycled in the country. That’s why Vietnam is one of the champions of pouring plastic ... | ['Travel', 'Vietnam', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Photography'] |
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Artist is the man or woman who gets to know the structure of the mind rather than its content for then he can shape words into words thus his words will become of universal mind then the content of thought may it be the passing leaf or the flow of times finds absolute resonance in ev... | ['Spirituality', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Writer', 'Science'] |
Storytelling is en vogue, a phrase which here means ‘brands and agencies are all talking about it without taking due time to appreciate what it means’. Done right, brand storytelling is indispensable as a framework for telling authentic messages in a way that resonates with the consumer.
As it stands, it’s a nebulous ... | ['Branding', 'Movies', 'Marketing', 'Dan Harmon', 'Storytelling'] |
Are you an avid reader? And do you feel like if you could read all of your favorite books?
Yeah, we know for avid readers, there is no best feeling than getting to read as many [favorite] books as they can.
Sadly, there’s a time constraint too, people in today’s workaholic-life have a hard time managing the time to r... | ['Book Review', 'Productivity', 'Blinkist', 'Reading', 'Books'] |
Some call it procrastination, others call it overthinking.
You can call it what you want but the fact of the matter is you’re not taking action which means you’re not moving forward.
This morning as I went about my daily routines, getting everyone ready, dropping the kids off to school/day-care and then heading off t... | ['Inspiration', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Motivation'] |
One thing to remember is that “Big A” Agile doesn’t create great products alone. When I say to build a framework, I am certainly not suggesting that you simply adopt Scrum and be done with it. Agility, if anything, has led to a breakdown in how we approach problems. Somewhere along the way we stopped caring about the d... | ['Design', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Product Management', 'UX'] |
How I used Algebra to solve a Data Science problem about Insurance Incentives Tracyrenee Follow Dec 24 · 8 min read
Just yesterday I was watching a YouTube video created by Krish Naik, who is a YouTube influencer and also has a Kaggle account.He made a video on how it is important for people seeking to enter the field... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Linearsvc', 'Machine Learning'] |
Businesses around the world are advocating for connected customer experiences, which is one of the key objectives of Digital Transformation (DX). Integration plays a vital role in an enterprise’s digital transformation journey, by connecting various data sources, applications and devices. It is an integral part of an e... | ['Big Data', 'Cloud Computing', 'Trends', 'Ipaas', 'Integration'] |
How Codifying Can Help You To Communicate Effectively
Useful but straightforward techniques that can help you communicate effectively.
Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Ways of working and other unique factors significantly impact the way communication happens within an organizati... | ['Communication', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Startup', 'Productivity'] |
Data Science has become one of the most popular technologies of the 21st Century. With a high demand for Data Scientists in industries, there is a need for people who possess the required skills in order to become proficient in this field. Besides mathematical skills, there is a requirement for programming expertise. B... | ['Sql', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
“You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” – Bianca Sparacino
I’ve battled anxiety since I was a child. When I was young, regular life was enough to send me into a panic. Being late, forgetting a schoolbook, a teacher looking at me oddly. Anything and every... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Perspective', 'Anxiety', 'Grief'] |
Leaders who can’t make tough decisions cause teams to accumulate “organizational debt.” Steve Blank, who first coined the term, described how “all the compromises made to ‘just get it done’ in the early stages of a startup…can turn a growing company into a chaotic nightmare.” But a lot of these compromises are less abo... | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Project Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management'] |
Everyone loves a great story.
And behind every great story, there’s an even better storyteller.
Welcome to our ever-evolving community.
The Narrative is the groundbreaking, independent publication that is unique in its ability to create a platform for cutting-edge, influential writers. With a forward-thinking approa... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Community', 'Life', 'Inspiration'] |
Big data is part of our lives now and most companies collecting data have to deal with big data in order to gain meaningful insights from them. While we know complex neural networks work beautifully and accurately when we have a big data set, at times they are not the most ideal. In a situation where the complexity of ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Spark', 'Sparkml', 'Big Data'] |
I haven’t had tofu in 3 weeks. No tofu scram; no tofu teriyaki; no sandwiches filled with fried, nutritional-yeast-coated tofu slabs. My local grocery stores have plenty of toilet paper, but there’s not a tub of tofu in sight.
Aside from people dying, and the possible long-term effects of social isolation on our child... | ['Vegan', 'Lifestyle', 'Veganism', 'Coronavirus', 'Food'] |
Keeping Your Startup Team Motivated
Strategies for Startup Founders from the Dreamit Community
One of the most important roles for a founder is keeping employees engaged. Study after study shows that engaged workforces outperform their competition. But every company is different and there is no one-size-fits-all appr... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
I love this quote because it captures so much in such an aphoristic statement. To move a mountain may be a miracle, but it’s a miracle that comes through incredibly hard and persistent labor and (self) belief. It’s a lesson on habits. It’s a lesson in persistence.
What I also find so inspiring about this book is that ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Authors', 'Books', 'Psychology', 'Two Minute Takeaway'] |
I moved to Virginia Beach, a city where I don’t know a soul besides my boyfriend and his mother.
Under normal life circumstances, I would never pick this city as a destination I desired to call home. But it’s 2020, so hellooooo new normal.
A decade ago, I moved to Los Angeles for my career in the entertainment indust... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Goals', 'Change'] |
When you go out into the world, there’s no structure. … A job doesn’t give you a syllabus.” -Dale Stephens, Founder of UnCollege,
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2013 that of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only five typically require a bachelor’s... | ['College', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Education', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Therapists Face Different Challenges with Telehealth
”In a moment, saving a bird”
Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash
The pandemic has forced medical professionals including mental health professionals to rethink how they do their jobs.
I called my client promptly at 10 am for an appointment we had scheduled. No answ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Work From Home', 'Work Life Balance', 'Boundaries', 'Mental Health'] |
In the 1985 young adult novel “I’ll Take Manhattan,” 15-year-old Amanda gets burned when she shares an idea with a powerful person who profits off it without her permission. Amanda quickly learns that she was naive to share her ideas with someone in her industry.
But if you’re a freelancer pitching a story to a public... | ['Unions', 'Writing', 'Freelance', 'Journalism', 'Pitching'] |
By: Srinivasa Gummadidala
In the world of MicroServices, .NET core gained more popularity because of its powerful original .NET Framework and ability to run in any platform.
The purpose of writing this post is to illustrate how to use the Confluent .NET Core libraries to build streaming applications with Kafka.
As y... | ['Kafka', 'Net Core', 'Microservices', 'Development', 'Thought Leadership'] |
Is Authenticity Being Abused as a Marketing Ploy?
Genuine narratives don’t need empty buzzwords, do they?
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Why are humans becoming brands, complete with taglines?
As our interactions become increasingly monetized, everything gets commodified, including people. In a country where ... | ['Language', 'Internet', 'Writing', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
The Field Guide to Feelings
Nostalgia and Regret
Change is inevitable: Lessons from a whaling ship and relationships.
Image by jaypofromvox, Wikimedia
Near where I grew up in Connecticut, there’s an old whaling ship you can visit, the Charles W. Morgan, and learn what it was like to go to sea to hunt whales. I used... | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Regret', 'Psychology', 'Nostalgia'] |
Pre-requisite:
Data is already stored in HDFS and exposed using Hive tables to the end users. Note: We can also use MapReduce/Spark to generate the feed files, but it requires coding skills as it involves extensive coding, and also maintenance of the code is more than hive. As we already have data exposed as hive tabl... | ['Big Data', 'Hdfs', 'Data Lake', 'Data Generation', 'Hive'] |
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The Fire From Within
a poem about the passion, success and failure
.
dancing around a smoke sent free
lifted to rafters expanding
until eyes cannot see what nose
smells between walls unfolded
.
stairs snake up steps of potential
trying to outrun older flames
with a passion born from knowledge... | ['Poetry', 'Self-awareness', 'Motivation', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
The thing is, once that fear started to settle in, my writing collectively started to take a turn for the worse. I started to care less about making anything happen through writing. I started to put less effort into writing and I nearly lost interest in it completely.
I felt inadequate, unmotivated, and irrelevant. Pl... | ['Personal Development', 'Writing', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Productivity'] |
Why you should build a differentiated startup, not a disruptive unicorn
It’s a smart time to be a flamingo.
Turn the extra room in your home into a hotel to pay your rent. Use your car as a side gig. Get to know millions of people you’ve never met — all on a single platform.
The digital age has been a golden era of ... | ['Social Enterprise', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Zebrasunite'] |
Whether you’re laid off, unemployed, furloughed, or want to make some extra money on the side as a designer — this article will give you ten ways to start making money from your design chops today.
There is no magic to making money as a designer, but I’ve had personal experience or seen all of the following methods be... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'Graphic Design', 'Money'] |
It was supposed to be the perfect writing day.
I was on an isolated island in the Great Lakes.
Tourist season was over and it was mostly abandoned.
The fall weather was working its way through the region. I was immersed in the stark northern country which was the perfect backdrop to the stories I was working on.
To... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Relationships', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
How to Make Negativity Bias Work for You
Growth mindset
A considerable number of the negatives that one could be dwelling on would be about personal interactions. It’s a vast category indeed, but the list could include:
Criticisms or feedback received from someone else
An argument or disagreement with someone
An a... | ['Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Programming', 'Psychology', 'Management'] |
Crossing the Metaphors
It means nothing, yet everything came from it.
Photo by Paul Murphy on Unsplash
For a very long time, I struggled to write linearly on unruled pages. Consequently, my teachers and my parents convened their best efforts to keep me in line. They taught me to make lighter straight lines with a ru... | ['Storytelling', 'Motivation', 'It Happened To Me', 'Self', 'Life'] |
EDA — EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS
DEEP DIVE INTO EDA
Till now I’ve not explained what’s EDA and those who have come so far, CONGRATULATIONS!!!, we will now start the EDA process. Heads up before we dive.
• There are no thumb rules for EDA or not we would have a designated template
• It entirely depends on how your ... | ['Eda', 'Python', 'Dataset', 'Beer', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
I quit my job a year ago to get started on a journey of my own. What seemed initially like an exciting path soon exposed its own share of challenges.
One of the biggest challenges is accountability. Since our brains are hardwired to not let other people down, we end up working best when we are accountable to say our m... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Motivation', 'Lifestyle', 'Productivity'] |
I’m trying to bask in the chaos.
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” — Soren Kierkegaard
It was a Monday of my senior year in college. I was sitting in COMM 101 — Public Speech.
Apart from the whole public speaking thing, COMM 101 is a hilariously easy class. There were about 20 students. It’s a gen-ed composed o... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Meditation'] |
If you work in the data analysis world, chances are you do a lot of data wrangling. If you use pandas in your data workflow, you’ve probably noticed that you often write the same bits of code.
Although some complex datasets or data exploratory require going to Jupyter notebooks, on the other hand, some datasets requir... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Productivity'] |
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If you are like most people, you have dreams of things you want to do someday. The harsh reality for most of us is that work/life gets in the way of us turning those dreams into reality. Or perhaps it’s the slick Apple Remote design that pulls you into Netflix more often than ... | ['Productivity', 'Accountability', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Goals', 'Dreams'] |
Analysis paralysis in product design
Improve decision making in your product
As product designers, we encounter the wonders of the human brain through design. The human brain is incredible and a complex element, which makes humans act, and behaviours unique from one to another. The UX designer has to understand how e... | ['Design', 'User Experience', 'UX', 'Product', 'Psychology'] |
Things Are So Much Harder Than They Have To Be
Snapshot of a mixed-up mind
Photo by James Pond on Unsplash
As I begin this, it is 9:46 on Monday night. Normally, my highest creative and productivity potential happens in the early morning, before the muck of the day has soiled my mind. I have been trying to sleep for... | ['Anxiety', 'Adhd', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'This Happened To Me'] |
On April 26th, Tyson Foods published full-page advertisements in Sunday editions of The Post, the New York Times and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “Anxiety, doubt, and the fear of the unknown are now our constant companions,” the copy, apparently written by CEO John Tyson himself, claims. Tyson warned that the “food s... | ['Justice', 'Equality', 'Work', 'Vegan', 'Coronavirus'] |
Why should you learn Machine Learning? It’s no secret that machine learning and AI is one of the most popular buzzwords of this decade, but is the hype justified? Lets take a closer look at three areas in which Machine Learning has changed or will change our way of life:
E-health: With the use of Machine learning we h... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Supervised Learning', 'Programming'] |
Do You Want to Earn $1.00 a Word?
Eight Steps to a Powerful Writing Income
In 2017, I received $7,300 for a white paper I’d written. The article — a 7.3K word leviathan on establishing a workplace safety culture — paid a dollar per word. Although one of the larger single projects I’ve developed, it reflects my standa... | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Careers', 'Médium', 'Career Advice'] |
Main features of Divi
Divi comes with a number of standout features that set it apart from many other WordPress themes.
A comprehensive WordPress content editor/builder
One of Divi’s main selling point is its easy-to-use drag and drop content editor. This handy but powerful builder can be used to make changes to cho... | ['Journalism', 'Technology', 'Social Media', 'Freelancing', 'Writing'] |
It can be said that time management is one of the keys to success. In this sense, it is important to work efficiently in addition to working hard. That’s why I have listed websites that can increase your productivity in many areas. I use most of the websites on this list regularly and I hope you will find some websites... | ['Technology', 'Personal Development', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Productivity'] |
Design a Bias-Free Hiring Process
As you’re educating yourself and your leaders on what D&I means to your business, you’re likely going to be adding to your team. Before hiring, it’s critical to design and implement best practices to mitigate bias throughout the interview and selection process. Otherwise, your D&I eff... | ['Diversity And Inclusion', 'Equality', 'Startup', 'Diversity In Tech', 'Software Engineering'] |
3 Stories for All Immigrant (Indian American) Kids
They are a must-read for parents as well
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When my family and I arrived in the land of opportunity, the free public library system, not the Statue of Liberty, reaffirmed our decision to immigrate. As a “good-boy”, I read voraciously. Th... | ['Storytelling', 'Book Review', 'India', 'Books', 'Parenting'] |
Literature Doesn’t Have to Make Sense by Matthew Ward (Art)
“There’s something weird about the internet age that has caused us to lose touch with art — especially story-driven art forms like movies and literature. As soon as anything new comes out, there are hundreds of youtube videos, magazine articles, and twitter t... | ['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Ll Letters', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
The Syncfusion Flutter Radial Gauge widget is a multi-purpose data visualization widget. It can be used to visualize different types of data and display the progress of various processes in circular format.
We have already published blogs on different use cases, such as the creation of a speedometer and temperature mo... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Dart', 'Flutter', 'Productivity', 'Web Development'] |
Travel virtually during lockdown
How to escape right from your living room with this simple tip
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Being at home for so many weeks on end can become a real drag while the world is experiencing the COVID-19 crisis. You’re stuck inside seeing the same four walls each day, with little esca... | ['Travel', 'Escape', 'Mental Health', 'Covid-19', 'Coronavirus'] |
If you’ve been struggling, working on your book for more than a couple of years, then the odds are pretty darned high that from time-to-time you’ve lost perspective about how good your writing is, how interesting your characters are, how clear their motivations are, and whether readers will care about or connect to you... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writer', 'Fiction'] |
Academia 🤝 Industry
In line with my previous post I asked Arjan about his view on the differences between the two worlds: “Most companies are very far away from science. That is a bit of a shame, but experiments can close this gap. Once companies start adopting a data-driven mindset they come closer to the basic prin... | ['Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Data Science', 'University', 'Academia'] |
How to Start and Keep a Daily Journaling Habit
Writing down your thoughts every day can change your life.
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I’ve been journaling almost daily since I was a kid, long before everyone started touting its mental health benefits.
I’ve also known that I wanted to be a writer since I fir... | ['Writing', 'Productivity', 'Habits', 'Writing Tips', 'Journaling'] |
The triple-barrier method labels an observation according to the first barrier touched out of three barriers introduced in Chapter 3 of Advances in Financial Machine Learning by Marcos Prado¹. The conventional way to label the data is by using the next day (lagged) return with the fixed-time horizon method. This method... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Finance', 'Data Science'] |
Reading Purposefully
Speed-reading may help us to cover more ground, but sometimes it comes with a compromise. We might inadvertently sacrifice some depth in thought for a few extra pages. To me, I think the beauty of reading is to really get to understand what the author is trying to convey. Reading speed can be slow... | ['Writing Tips', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
I have a real issue. When people say nice things about me, I don’t believe them.
Whether it’s how I look, an accomplishment I’ve recently achieved, an idea I had, or even just on cookies I baked, when people compliment me, I think they’re lying or trying to manipulate me somehow, or that they mean well but don’t recog... | ['Relationships', 'Lifestyle', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
Should you use Shopify for your online marketplace selling?
Finding a one-stop shop for selling on Amazon, eBay, in stores and beyond
Photo credit: Create Her Stock
Online shopping has remained the MVP for Christmas shopping, but it came in handy for me long before then. One of my easiest hustles in college was sell... | ['Online Shopping', 'Amazon', 'Diversity', 'Marketing', 'Multiculturalism'] |
by Daniel Carmo, Agile Software Engineer
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Combine was announced by Apple in the 2019 WWDC. This new framework is used to implement Reactive Programming natively in Swift.
The Combine framework provides a declarative Swift API for processing values over time. These values can represent many kinds of... | ['Swift', 'Development', 'How To', 'Apple', 'Framework'] |
While he devoted most of his life to Christianity, John Ridley Stroop will be most remembered for his contribution to psychology.
Born the second youngest of six children in 1897, he spent his early years on his family farm in Tennessee. Health concerns meant he wasn’t able to help much with farm duties, and so Stroop... | ['Memory Improvement', 'Design', 'Perception', 'Colors', 'Psychology'] |
I reviewed a lot of take home coding challenges. Our challenge was designed for junior/beginning Java developers. In this article I want to compile list of recommendations on how to ace this challenge. These recommendations can be applied to all developers.
In my experience person doing the review will not spend huge ... | ['Interview', 'Development', 'Java'] |
In my desire to learn more about writing income streams, I’ve started writing short romance books and publishing them for Amazon Kindle. I use more than one pen name, and I’ve experimented with writing different types of stories.
I’ve only been doing this for a month or so. I’ve made a little bit of money — about $86 ... | ['Books', 'Love', 'Relationships', 'Writing', 'Life Lessons'] |
About six months after joining ClassPass, I found myself managing all of the mobile engineers in the department. This wasn’t by design, I just happened to take over all of the engineering squads that contained mobile engineers. It was an opportunity to examine and improve mobile engineering at ClassPass. One of the big... | ['Software Engineering', 'React Native', 'Engineering Mangement', 'Mobile App Development'] |
This morning, the love of my life convinced me to hop on our bikes and ride four miles to the beach/park in our town. She does it regularly, but I haven’t been on my bike for a while, so I won’t lie: it was rough going. I’m in fairly good shape these days, but it’s a hilly ride, and I couldn’t quite get the hang of the... | ['Worldview', 'Marketing', 'Storytelling', 'Clients', 'Seth Godin'] |
Note that you can filter entities in Tree Component to see only relevant entities:
Filter entities in Tree Component.
You can also double click on entity to see its details. And that is it so far :)
How is this useful right now?
Well, so far the only case is hierarchy visualization. For example, you may want to see... | ['Canvas', 'Productivity', 'Startup', 'Whiteboard', 'Fibery'] |
Today’s world is tumultuous, complex, and distracting. Each day from the moment we wake up there are often hundreds of things that demand our attention, like reading the most recent breaking news report, watching that TV show everyone’s raving about, or talking to friends on social media.
Photo by Colton Duke on Unspl... | ['Productivity', 'Focus', 'Self Improvement', 'Greatness', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
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