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1. A Superpowered Life Comes from Turning Anxiety into Courage
Shefali Tsabary PhD works primarily with parents and children in an effort to build emotional resilience. She helps parents alleviate their own anxiety when it comes to parenting and the associated challenges. In her new book Superpowered she urges kids to... | ['Life Lessons', 'Leadership', 'Inspiration', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health'] |
Office Hours: The Oasis Gateway
Improving the usability of DApps with a simple API.
This month we hosted an office hours featuring the new Oasis Gateway. Oasis engineer Stan Augé-Pujadas and Product Marketing Manager, Andrew Miller, discussed our motivation behind building the Oasis Gateway, and how it can help devel... | ['Dapps', 'Development', 'Blockchain', 'Privacy', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Waste Less Time on Smartphones with these Simple Tricks
Be the one who pushes the buttons, not the one whose buttons get pushed
Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash
Something weird happened when I got my first smartphone. I realised that I could basically throw my expensive laptop out the window and still be abl... | ['Self Improvement', 'Time Management', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Self-awareness'] |
We all as developers dream about writing codes that are hassle-free, loosely coupled and easily testable.
Initially, as beginners, we just try to put a code in place to accomplish the tasks and stay satisfied with it. But as we try to advance further, we may try to approach simpler things in a smart way by compelling ... | ['Apple', 'Dependency Injection', 'Design Patterns', 'Swift', 'iOS'] |
Looking Back, Looking Forward
… and fundraising when we’re ready to use it
There’s a rule of thumb about startup fundraising: “Raise when you can.”
But that’s not how we think about it. For our recent Series C financing, the idea wasn’t to “raise when we could” — in that case, we would have closed something much ear... | ['Microservices', 'Fundraising', 'Startup', 'Observability', 'Distributed Tracing'] |
What is User Experience Design?
User Experience Design is the process of enhancing a persons experience with a product or service and involves an understanding of their behaviour to create a successful design.
Example: A business has an app, they want the sign-up process to have a great User Experience (UX). You have... | ['UX', 'Design', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Here are 3 different lists of digital marketing courses that offer a ton of valuable information.
I like how these online learning platforms focus on courses related to skill-building. Whether you’re starting out in the field or already working.
Hope you find these sources useful. | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Design', 'SEO', 'Social Media'] |
10 Ways to View the Creator Economy
How journalists see the new landscape of independents
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
By Elise Czajkowski
2020 has been a big year for journalists launching their own newsletters, podcasts, YouTube channels and other products. It’s not an easy path, and many are looking around... | ['News', 'Creators', 'Journalism', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Newsletter'] |
8 Tips for UX designer on how to coexist with developers
The developer is your friend, try not to be his enemy
image from Spider-man 3
In this article, I’m going to speak about the relationships between engineers and UX designers. Mostly I will write from the designer’s point of view and give you 8 tips on how to fi... | ['UX', 'UI', 'Teamwork', 'Development', 'Design'] |
I was laying on the grass in my backyard looking up through the trees. Colorful, thick branches shook like puppets in the wind and patches of grass were warmed by the glow of sunlight that managed to seep through the cracks. I watched a red leaf as it danced its way down, landing within arms reach of me.
I rolled on m... | ['Psychology', 'Family', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Depression'] |
Understanding Innovation & Design
I’ve been mulling over the content of this article for quite some time now. There are so many interesting articles being published every day about Design principles (ones that tie with what Dieter Rams so eloquently wrote about), and how those principles have become part of the realit... | ['Design', 'Innovation', 'UX Design', 'Design Thinking', 'New York'] |
One unfortunate consequence of this transition is our contact with The Shortcut and each other becomes less frequent. Yet, the community continues to permeate our professional journeys. I, for instance, have had three distinct experiences in the past weeks that have reinforced the value of The Shortcut’s work in The Ca... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Events', 'Professional Development'] |
Once upon a time, depression, anger, and poetry collided on the page.
The salad spinner in my head decided to spit out exactly how I — the newly naturalized citizen — felt about the reality of Donald Trump as CEO of America Inc. but in verse rather than prose.
I was so rattled my words, which chronic depression smoth... | ['Politics', 'Poetry', 'Writing', 'Mental Health', 'Humor'] |
In comes the vacuum.
Where we used to think of people talking to themselves as the muttering weirdo in the corner, recent research not only shows that it’s not for the crazies, it’s truly beneficial. While it’s true that talking to yourself is an outward sign of some mental illnesses like schizophrenia, key researcher... | ['Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness'] |
Let’s Create the Game
First we should create our game logic so we can use it to train our AI and play with it. The game logic is quite simple. First take a look at its code:
We use 1 for the first player and -1 for the second player. the play function accepts x and y as arguments and places the current player move at... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
1. Snoozing
9 out of 10 people wake up using an alarm clock on their phone. Every morning when we hear that buzzing sound, we have two options:
Hit Snooze Hit Stop and get up
This first choice of our day had proven to be extremely important. The consequences of Snoozing can deafen our productivity for the next 16 ho... | ['Lifestyle', 'Productivity', 'Mental Health', 'Morning Routines', 'Time Management'] |
Predicting Breast Cancer Using Logistic Regression
Learn how to perform Exploratory Data Analysis, apply mean imputation, build a classification algorithm, and interpret the results.
Source: DataCamp
Background
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer and has the highest cancer death rate among women in the U... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Logistic Regression', 'Data Science'] |
The Best Format to Save Pandas Data
A small comparison of various ways to serialize a pandas data frame to the persistent storage
When working on data analytical projects, I usually use Jupyter notebooks and a great pandas library to process and move my data around. It is a very straightforward process for moderate-s... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Jupyter Notebook'] |
Caremongering, a name originally attributed to something intrinsically positive, is becoming more of a negative phenomenon, a way to boost sales, rather than to actually help others.
I’ll refer to negative caremongering as corporate caremongering.
If you knew the lengths some companies go to in order to make targeted... | ['Startup', 'Caremongering', 'Community', 'Marketing', 'Corporate Culture'] |
Every morning I’d walk up the hill of the busy city streets trying not to be late. Late, to my bad boss, was anything past 8:59 am. He’d sit at his desk with his beer gut, drinking coffee and tapping his metaphorical stick against the desk while simultaneously looking at his watch.
He wanted people to fear him and att... | ['Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
One of the main components of my blogging income is sponsored posts. I’m given a product, a set of parameters and then it’s up to me to come up with an engaging story consisting of about 500 words and 10 photographs.
At a quick count, I’ve completed roughly 120 sponsored posts. All on time and meeting (or exceeding) e... | ['Productivity', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Advice'] |
Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash
An entrepreneur training program should offer specialized education, followed by step-by-step guidance and inspiration to action. The kind of things that motivate you, the kind of guidance you vibe with best, inevitably vary compared to other people, because everyone is different. The ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneur', 'Marketing', 'Affiliate Marketing', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
Tips for the Slow and Steady
Photo by Miriam Miles on Unsplash
“Slow and steady wins the race” is the modern moral of Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. But, for those of us who work slowly and steadily it doesn’t feel like we are winning anymore.
In a world of tweeters tweeting nearly 6,000 times per second,... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Freelancing', 'Writing', 'Self'] |
1. You're Always Surrounded by People
Have you ever been at a party, literally surrounded by your friends, but you feel like you’re completely alone?
Loneliness is one of those things where even if you don’t know the cause, you feel the effects. You might not realize you’re deeply lonely, but you still are grasping f... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Social Media'] |
About a month ago, a co-worker asked me if I would be interested in writing for our company’s blog. At first, I was hesitant because I wasn’t sure what she wanted me to write about. I thought to myself, will she ask me to write a narrative about the inner workings of blockchain technology? If that was the case, I’m hon... | ['Motivation', 'Leadership', 'Workplace Culture', 'Startup', 'Culture'] |
A few decades ago it actually meant something to describe your company as an “internet business.” The web hadn’t proliferated beyond expensive, behemoth machines in research institutions, and the potential of vast, worldwide connectivity wasn’t yet understood.
Boy, have times changed.
Nowadays, businesses depend on t... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'Product Marketing', 'Marketing', 'UX'] |
Understanding New Consumer Vulnerabilities
Before you can come up with the messaging like the above Papa John’s example and make it specific to your business, you need to get into the mind of your consumers.
As consumers, we are all more vulnerable because of this virus. Economically, socially, and health-wise.
We’r... | ['Covid 19', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
Designers of all kinds tend to have a special relationship with books. We love the covers and the typesetting, of course, but also the conveyance of knowledge and the tactility of complex ideas you can hold in your hands.
This is true for the designers working on Adobe XD too, so in this way we’re not unique. But we d... | ['Books', 'Designer', 'Design', 'Creative Career', 'UX'] |
Write Better Commits With Semantic Commits
Writing clear, concise commit messages enable you to work well with any team and get your best work out there.
Good commits can make the difference between a well-maintained product, and a terrible product. Well-written commits following a standardized format will enable vie... | ['Productivity', 'Web Development', 'Git', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
How did Albert Einstein Spend His Leisure Time?
Practice these habits for maximum productivity of the brain
Albert Einstein (1875–1955) is considered as the most influential and recognizable scientist of the 20th century. He presented the theory of relativity which changed our prior concepts regarding space and time.... | ['Science', 'Genius', 'Productivity', 'Advice', 'Lessons Learned'] |
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing by Beverly Engel
“Begin to nurture yourself…Some grew up expecting their romantic partners to give them the nurturing they hungered for, only to be disappointed. But our partners are not our parents, no matter how much we try to mak... | ['Books', 'Productivity', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Self'] |
Did you know that Utah is home to some of the fastest population growth in the country? A few more fun facts: The state is expected to be the best place to live in 2032, houses the nation’s largest number of national parks, and is ranked fourth in the nation in overall well-being. It is also one of three states that ha... | ['Economic Development', 'Utah', 'Cities', 'Smart Cities', 'Big Data'] |
Most People Run Away From Becoming Billionaires
And there is a perfectly logical reason
Many people miss a lot of chances in life because they don't try. It is one thing to give up too soon, but sadly most people don't even try. They come up with a great logical reason for not giving an opportunity a shot.
The reaso... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Psychology', 'Inspiration', 'Wealth', 'Money'] |
The Kubeflow Product Management Working Group is excited to announce the release Kubeflow v0.5, which brings significant improvements to users’ model development experience!
New features in Kubeflow 0.5 include:
A Go binary, kfctl, to simplify configuring and deploying Kubeflow
An improved UI for managing notebooks ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Kubernetes', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Data Science', 'Kubeflow'] |
We see less extreme examples of this every day: Products and services with failure scenarios that simply haven’t been considered in their overall design, even when a breakdown can cause serious distress or worse. Typically, the failure is due to a variable that wasn’t seriously considered or even recognized early on in... | ['Ideas', 'Cloud Computing', 'Design', 'Tech', 'Accountability'] |
In the shadow of Kaylen’s attacks and threats by Martin of mob retaliation, Sherry had to get out of Redmond. Martin had poisoned nearly every part of her life, including her lifelong friendship with Samantha. During one of his drunken tirades, he convinced Sherry he and Samantha had slept together. Through it all, She... | ['Crime', 'Short Story', 'Nonfiction', 'Movies', 'Journalism'] |
Since my last post — Don’t Build That “Killer” App Just Yet — I have had the opportunity to spend time with several founders who believe their apps pass the “filters” described in that post.
Several of them are are working on fantastic ideas — disrupting college / 529b planning, “stick a video to a physical object” to... | ['Tech', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Your Brain is Like an Air-Traffic Control Centre
Harking back to contemporary psychological research, psychologists have identified that the brain is typically not optimized to do two heavy-duty things simultaneously.
As time stretches onward, we will get tired and we will get fatigued.
Even if you don’t feel the ef... | ['Multitasking', 'Psychology', 'Organizational Culture', 'Mental Health', 'Time Management'] |
I am part of these individuals who naturally feel indebted for the life they have inherited from the lottery game that we call life: I was born lucky to loving parents with a comfortable lifestyle, who have always manifested their strong willingness to provide as many resources as possible for their children to reach t... | ['Impact', 'Sustainability', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Changemaker', 'Syndrome'] |
What Did They Do?
They collected two survey data representative of China. The first one, involving 11,131 people, was conducted before the coronavirus outbreak was publically reported at the end of December. The second one has 3,000 people and was administered around mid-February.
The surveys measure emotional well-b... | ['Covid 19', 'Advice', 'Mental Health', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
As we have entered the digital age, where everything from purchases to sales can be done using mobile devices, there’s one solid conclusion we all can draw: e-commerce development is here to stay.
According to eMarketer, The US consumers were projected to spend $586.92 billion on e-commerce in 2019, showing an increas... | ['Ecommerce Development', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Ecommerce', 'Technology'] |
Installing Anaconda (on Mac OS)
There are two (2) ways to install Anaconda
Both of these links are installing Python 3.7 which you should be using as Python 2 is no longer receiving improvements (which includes security updates). I’ll go through the Graphical Installer.
Step 1: Go to anaconda.com/products/individual... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Anaconda', 'Python', 'R', 'Data Science'] |
How to Build a Multi-Tenant Application Using Spring Boot and Hibernate
Build an application where one instance serves multiple tenants or users
Photo by Helloquence on Unsplash
In this tutorial, we will learn how to build a multi-tenant application using Spring Boot and Hibernate. We will show how to build a multi-... | ['Programming', 'Spring Boot', 'Java', 'Startup', 'Spring'] |
As a product-obsessed entrepreneur and investor, I rarely focus on financing mechanics in the start-up world. It tends to be a binary outcome, and people should join a venture for the team and mission more than anything else. However, a string of recent conversations with really talented employees (and prospective empl... | ['Investing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Finance'] |
It sounds cliché, but having a great product is crucial. I said this many times, and we’ve been following this rule since the beginning of Creative Tim. For us, a Great Product = Great Design + Great Customer Support + Great User Experience.
If you want to learn more about how we started everything 5 years ago, from a... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Web Design', 'Web Development', 'Tech'] |
I’ve gotten very interested in the life cycle of programming language usage. What programming language is “the most popular”, “the most useful”, “best for teaching”, or just “best”?
And in particular, I would like to understand differences based on who or where we are talking about. For example, most popular language ... | ['Programming', 'Java', 'Python'] |
When I first joined Wish two and half years ago, things were going well. The Wish app had reached top positions on both iOS and Android app stores, and was selling over two million items a day.
Wish — reaching the Android top 10 (source)
Very few people believed that a large business could be built from selling low p... | ['Analytics', 'Big Data', 'Startup', 'Tech', 'Ecommerce'] |
In this article, we have mentioned some of the unique visualizations along with their applications and limitations. The article illustrates various visualizations along with its code. Some of the libraries we have used are Matplotlib, Plotly and Seaborn
Here are some interesting visualization along with the insights d... | ['Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Interesting', 'Big Data', 'Blog Post'] |
How one social media post launched my writing career
And what I’ve learned about writing online since
I was an angsty college freshman when I first started blogging, and my blog was exactly what you might expect from an angsty college freshman: posts about cute boys, posts about dumb boys, and random musings about co... | ['Freelancing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Social Media'] |
(Skin in the Game was embargoed (meaning no copy was sent to reviewers), as the book explains the agency problem of reviewers. Three UK journos got hold of it and hurriedly wrote revenge reviews, perhaps too hurriedly. This note exposing their errors of reading comprehension made them accountable, and led to no further... | ['Political Science', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Books'] |
Extracting Knowledge from Biomedical Literature
Key Tools and Research Outputs from the Computable Knowledge Project
In 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory (IESL) was awarded the Computable Knowledge grant. In partnership with CZI’s Meta team, this work adva... | ['Software Engineering', 'Computational Science', 'Science', 'Open Science'] |
3 Tips for Leading a Software Development Team
Congratulations! You lead a team now. So what’s next?
Image via Canva
Congratulations! You have been named as a technical lead/team lead/lead developer (or whatever term your company has chosen) in charge of leading a software development team. This next chapter of your... | ['Project Management', 'Leadership', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Startup'] |
Technology innovation is often driven by two things: agility and mobility. The technology that exists today will steadily surpass itself into a much-advanced form in the future. We all have started from the age of GPRS and are now advancing towards 6G. Similarly, the field of Container technology emerged with Unix, the... | ['Blog Post', 'Openshift', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Big Data', 'Containers'] |
Here we have many folders for various logical sections: Marketing, Design, etc. You can nest folders and link documents together. Nothing unusual.
However, this approach has one serious downside:
Wiki tends to become a mess with time.
In almost any company wiki has thousands of irrelevant pages and lots of abandoned... | ['No Code', 'Wiki', 'Startup', 'Document Management', 'Productivity'] |
Introduction to Boosting Machine Learning models
In this post, we will see a simple and intuitive explanation of Boosting algorithms: what they are, why they are so powerful, some of the different types, and how they are trained and used to make predictions.
We will avoid all the heavy maths and go for a clear, simpl... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Startup', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
QUANTUM LEAP NEWSLETTER
Hackers reportedly linked to the Russian government managed to hack into multiple U.S government agencies in what could perhaps be the largest hack of government systems ever. Malware inserted into third-party software may have given hackers access to various government systems for months. It w... | ['Tehcnology', 'Science', 'Innovation', 'Privacy', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
My Experience With a Black and White iPhone Display
I’ve tried to turn my phone black and white twice in my life. The first time didn’t stick, and it was back to color within a week.
The second time I tried was eight months later; I switched it to black and white and felt relief.
What it was like the first time
Two... | ['iPhone', 'Mindfulness', 'Technology', 'Apple', 'Productivity'] |
Using TypeScript to define Vue components may, at times, not feel as smooth as we’d like. This will very likely change with Vue3, which has been itself rewritten using this wonderful language, but for our projects still using Vue2, this post describes a way for you to get your components types right 100% of the times.
... | ['Web Development', 'Vuejs', 'Vue', 'Typescript', 'Vscode'] |
ProcessUsersDag
The first DAG will receive a list of user ids to collect money from. It will perform an API call and when the API returns an error with a list of user ids that are causing an error, it will also need to remove the user ids that are causing an error and try the API call again. As we will want to be able... | ['Workflow', 'Airflow', 'Startup', 'Python'] |
Social Media Keeps Reminding Me of How Good Things Used To Be
As well-intentioned as Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram think they are being, the constant reminders of how much I did around the holiday season is starting to impact my mental health.
Photo by camilo jimenez on Unsplash
At the beginning of 2019, I decid... | ['Mental Health', 'Wellness', 'Holidays', 'Quarantine', 'Social Media'] |
30 Things I’ve Learned From My First 30 Days on Medium
How many times can you refresh the stats page before it’s considered a problem?
Photo by Arnel Hasanovic on Unsplash
The government had just put my local area into complete lockdown, and before this life had felt almost normal; we could still hang out with frien... | ['Marketing', 'Ｍedium', 'Tips', 'Writing', 'Publishing'] |
“What’d you learn at school today, Grace?”
“I learned that the antibacterial soap we use doesn’t work anymore and we’re making superbugs that will kill us all.”
This is a scene from the first season of Nurse Jackie illustrating the growing anxiety of Jackie’s 10-year-old daughter, Grace. Grace becomes fixated on the ... | ['Education', 'Anxiety', 'Leadership', 'Self-awareness', 'Mental Health'] |
Evidence-Based Learning Strategies, Why They Work, And How You Can Apply Them
We’ve established a basic understanding of how our human memory works (acquisition, retention, retrieval). Next, we’ll look at the learning strategies that work best for our brains (elaboration, retrieval, spaced repetition, interleaving, se... | ['Books', 'Learning', 'Reading', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Continued from The Ayahuasca Interview, Part 1…
In Part 2 of this interview, we dive into some specific questions about what my friend experienced and learned during his ceremony.
Q: You mentioned earlier that drinking Ayahuasca enables people to learn about how the Universe works. Was this part of your experience an... | ['Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Psychedelics', 'Science', 'Personal Development'] |
Been Ghosted? 6 Smart Ways to Respond and Recover
Including the four different types of ghosts.
“Love did not work with that person. But it can work with another.” — Eva Longoria
You thought it was going so well.
You’d been dating a while, you’d talked about everything — you’d gone beyond the shallow stuff, you see... | ['Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Love'] |
An Exploration of Label Encoder
I have been experimenting with the Kaggle House Price Competition for several months now and I have seen several different methods that have been approached to predict on the house prices in the dataset provided for this competition. The website address to the competition and accompanyi... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Kaggle', 'Predictive Modeling'] |
So typically people think of our search for aliens in the physical space of the cosmos, the universe, or even here on Earth.
But have you ever considered, why do we only search for aliens with our eyes wide open? We have this conscious experience, why must we assume that this experience is purely a physical manifestat... | ['Education', 'Psychology', 'Psychedelics', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
Depression Doesn’t Look the Same for Everyone, But It’s Really Different than Your Normal
I started monitoring my depression with Fitbit and I had incredible insights!
Fitbit personal weekly stats 1st Sept 2019
Highly functioning depression
After a depression, last year that was finally diagnosed and I could really... | ['Awareness', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Awakening'] |
Even at the time, I knew that it didn’t make sense. And I didn’t understand myself why I needed to touch every item made of wood three times and roll over twice before I could settle. But this is what having OCD can be like. It often doesn’t make any logical sense.
There is no such thing as ‘being OCD’
I regularly he... | ['Disability', 'Ocd', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'This Happened To Me'] |
To Overcome Your Insecurities, Understand Where They Come From
A crash course in eliminating negative thoughts.
Photo by Charnee May on Unsplash
I used to feel insecure all the time. I was frequently worried that everyone would judge me for the insecurities I saw in myself. Honestly, I couldn’t even look at myself i... | ['Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Anxiety', 'Psychology'] |
Start with values, not your idea
“Values are timeless. They are the bedrock of a company and don’t change even when everything else does.”
I wish more startups realised this.
Too many are:
hiring the wrong people
building the wrong products
and looking for customers in the wrong places
“A company needn’t model i... | ['Popular', 'Community', 'Values', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
2. Host a multi-person storyboarding session
Everyone has ideas for how a product should work, and should be built. Each stakeholder has their own set of priorities to consider, goals to achieve, and OKR’s to hit. For a collaboration to be truly fruitful, objectivity should be present.
Part of practicing empathy is a... | ['Product Design', 'Marketing', 'Storytelling', 'User Experience', 'Ux Strategy'] |
Where we will be this Q1 — events in February and March, hosted by our own DVN Member funds: Blume Ventures, Manutara Ventures, Draper Cygnus, ACE, and Draper Venture Network.
February 28th: Blume Ventures’ Blume Day in Mumbai, India
Blume Ventures, DVN’s early-stage, India member fund, hosts its 8th annual Blume Day... | ['Startup', 'Innovation', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'International'] |
Evil is unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ~ W.H. Auden, Herman Melville
Randy made my life a living hell. She was a few years older than me and possessed the beauty of a pre-teen Snow White, with her alabaster skin and lustrous black hair. I, on the other hand, was a nerd, a ... | ['Women', 'Bullying', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health'] |
Decisions to Rapid Release a Serial
Why I’ve chosen to launch my new 10-book series over six months
Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash
I think most people in the writing community are somewhat familiar with the idea of serialized fiction — the release of a story in sequential installments. As you can see from this ... | ['Series', 'Fiction Writing', 'Books', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
Building a usable UI for the admin area of your site can be challenging. There are plenty of parts and elements that you want to make good-looking and way more usable. At times, you need to enhance the elements and functional solutions of your designs, thus making your projects pixel-perfect everywhere. This is when Re... | ['Reactjs', 'Website Templates', 'Website Design', 'React', 'Design'] |
Scientists want to use dirty nappies as a source of raw materials
Reusable menstrual pants are also helping reduce sanitary waste.
by Aisling Irwin
Thousands of soiled nappies that were destined to clog Italian landfill sites or incinerators are being redirected to a recycling plant that is turning them into streams... | ['Environment', 'Research', 'Sustainability', 'Oct18', 'Circulareconomy'] |
Photo by Kalea Jerielle on Unsplash
How My Small Start on Medium Turned into a Large Success…
And got turned back into a very small start again.
Three years ago this coming March, I started writing for Medium.
I wrote my butt off. I’m a prize-winning author and journalist. I learned the system, figured shit out, an... | ['Writing', 'Success', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Medium', 'Writing Tips'] |
As if waking from a night’s slumber, my youth passes like the hours gone by. I reach for memories, but they slip away like hazy dreams that cannot be rewound. With each day that I grow older, that which is inevitable looms uncomfortably closer.
The body which seemed emaciated in high school now struggles to keep weigh... | ['Psychology', 'Marriage', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Development', 'Philosophy'] |
Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithm From Scratch in Python
Demystifying the so-called Black Box of Neural Network
Neural Network From Scratch in Python
Introduction:
Do you really think that a neural network is a block box? I believe, a neuron inside the human brain may be very complex, but a neuron in a neur... | ['Neural Networks', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Sigmoid'] |
Earth Hacks Recap
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia and on Jan. 26–27, VCU Earth Hacks happened.
Experimental Civics was immediately on-board with being a sponsor, hosting a design thinking workshop during the event, and providing additional support a... | ['Environment', 'Sustainability', 'Technology', 'Hacking', 'Hackathons'] |
Creating an atmosphere of kindness in the workplace is a smart and modern business approach that has been becoming more and more popular in France over the last few years. Statistics show overall company performance is better when kindness is spread around.
The old excuse of telling colleagues who ask for help that it... | ['Company Culture', 'Happiness', 'Kindness', 'Creativity', 'Startup'] |
Today starts NaNoGenMo, the annual challenge for automatic text generation. To participate you have to write and publish a code that generates a literary text at least 50K words long. I have not yet decided whether I will participate this year, but last year I took part, and now I will tell you what came of it, just to... | ['Naturallanguageprocessing', 'AI', 'Neural Networks', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
Legend has it that computer science started off as a mathematics subject. Mechanical inventions and mathematical theories paved the way for computer concepts and systems.
The early history of computer science boasts of names such as Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and of course, Alan Turing. It might surprise you to le... | ['Computer Science', 'Software Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Interview', 'Software Engineering'] |
People for People, City for City
A “dugnad” for local businesses in Norwegian cities.
dugnad subst. m
voluntary (community) work, bee (am.), collective voluntary effort
Health professionals across the globe are saving humanity these days. Let’s save society as well.
These are strange times.
Norway, as we know it,... | ['Culture', 'Business', 'Design Thinking', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Design'] |
1. Set a Bedtime. Be Lenient But Be Persistent.
The first thing you have to do is decide when your bedtime is. It doesn’t have to be very early, as long as you keep the following points in mind:
You need at least seven hours of sleep (or more, depending on your genetics).
There’s no point going to bed at 9 PM on the... | ['Sleep', 'Self', 'Lifestyle', 'Mental Health', 'Health'] |
Developing a cross-platform application can be done a few different ways and each way comes with advantages and disadvantages.
The first way is to develop separate native applications: one for iOS, one for Android, one for Web, several for desktop, and others depending on which platforms will be supported. The second ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Cross Platform', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
Easily create and publish an npm module to npm repository
Introduction
In this tutorial, you will create your own npm package and publish it to the npm repository.
By doing this, you will understand:
How to create an npm package How to install it locally before publishing to test its functionality How to install an... | ['Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Development', 'Programming', 'React'] |
AWS — Deploying React App With Java On ECS
A step by step guide with an example project
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash
AWS provides more than 100 services and it’s very important to know which service you should select for your needs. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container m... | ['AWS', 'Java', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
There are more than 20 million developers around the world[1]. Developer experience and adoption plays a pivotal role in the success or failure of any software. Apple when it opened their platform for developers in 2008, it changed the entire mobile industry, now there are more than 2 million apps in the appstore[2].
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Google', 'TensorFlow', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Monica L. Wang, ScD, MS
Image collage created by Monica Wang, ScD
To my parents, who worked tirelessly and selflessly so I could have the best education they could provide, and to my Community Health Sciences family of faculty, staff, and students at the BU School of Public Health, who are social justice and health e... | ['Race', 'Covid 19', 'Society', 'Health'] |
The Utopic Contradiction
Even if this issue could be resolved, there is a fundamental contradiction in the concept itself. Since a utopia promises perfection and flawlessness, it also promises stability. The cost of a utopia addressed above assumed that stability was desirable, which would be a natural inclination.
I... | ['Society', 'Philosophy', 'Existentialism', 'Books', 'Life Lessons'] |
A transplant surgery is phenomenal and fascinating in the same way child-like wonder and curiosity can make things. It is, even for the doctor, an exploration. The organ removal, in our case, occurs laparoscopically — with a camera inside the body — and the doctor uses a tiny tool that both cuts and cauterizes — watchi... | ['Product Management', 'Work', 'Medicine', 'Health', 'Startup'] |
At Distributed we manage distributed teams that deliver work in hard-to-hire-for and expensive areas of digital marketing and tech on behalf of our clients. From content creation, through API design and analytics integrations and all the way up to the development of Artificial Intelligence.
We deliver this work at a h... | ['Remote Working', 'Health', 'Distributed Teams', 'Future Of Work', 'Future'] |
Startups and the Myth of 10X Developers
Especially in their early stages, startups work in a different way than mature organizations. Most startups not only build products by borrowing money, but they also take on technical debt. For them, delivering MVP quickly is essential, as early validation is absolutely required... | ['Leadership', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Startup'] |
Recycle, Reuse, and Don’t Forget to Keep on Buying More of Our Products— H&M’s Biggest Greenwash Yet Tabitha Whiting Follow Oct 16 · 5 min read
H&M, what are you playing at?
I’ve written previously on the truth behind H&M’s Conscious collection — a range of clothing from this fast fashion giant which claims to be ‘su... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Marketing', 'Fashion', 'Sustainable Fashion'] |
The movie touches in on the other aspects of writing: the misery, the rejection, the joy of writing of creating characters and losing yourself in them. The passion of taking this story, writing this thing that you urgently want to say, and putting it out there in the world.
You enjoy writing it. You love the process, ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'Life'] |
The Purpose of This Experiment
This experiment is not analogous to opening a shop and putting a sign “pay what you like.” This is because music is very different than other regular things you buy.
First, you pay for the products you use because you need to. Music is always available for free from third parties. You c... | ['Marketing', 'Art', 'Business', 'Money', 'Music'] |
Hey everyone, hope you might have enjoyed watching IPL(Indian Premier League). Are you interested in analyzing the same IPL data?! Then this article is for you!!
Prerequisites for this exercise:
Python
Pandas
Matplotlib
Downloaded data set
Downloading the data set:
Let us download the data set to begin the data ... | ['Ipl', 'Matplotlib', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Data Visualization'] |
Now we can use Matplotlib to create our Figure and axes.
I declared two variables, one to hold the Figure and the other to hold the Axes. Then I used .subplots to create one subplot with a figure size of 12x6.
Cool… Cool, cool, cool… But where’s the data?
Once we defined how we want our Figure to be, we can start pl... | ['Python', 'Bar Chart', 'Simple', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization'] |
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