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Well, I don’t want to torture you here anymore, so here comes the solution:
When? The questioned painting was created 1 hour ago.
Where? Here is its whereabouts (not a museum, but a folder on my hard disk):
Who? And the Author of this painting is — I bet you know it already, as frequent reader of my blog — Deep Lear... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Art History', 'Ai And Creativity', 'Art'] |
About haiku
A haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. It’s made up of 3 unrhymed lines with 17 syllables, 5–7–5.
Haiku forces us to be creative and concise to convey the essence of a specific moment in only a few words. This efficiency with words can help us share messages more powerfully in other types of wr... | ['Creativity', 'Poetry', 'Haiku', 'Nature', 'Writing'] |
Industry Outlook
Technology enables publishers to measure the impact that a piece of content is having as soon as it becomes public. These days, reacting to this data is a vital part of promoting quality journalism in the sea of online articles competing for our attention. The real-time understanding of how a story is... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Analytics', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Visualization', 'Big Data'] |
Introduction
In this example, I will be talking about how you can improve your workflows when using StepFunctions by customising the results from AWS Lambda at each step.
AWS recently released, in August 2020, a way to do this using the ResultSelector; read more about this release on the AWS blog here. 🎉
There is a... | ['Serverless', 'AWS', 'Aws Step Functions', 'AWS Lambda', 'Cloud Computing'] |
How To Publish 5 Days A Week
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What I learned from my publishing schedule was the importance of a mixed bag of where you publish your posts. The key to making the most of this publishing schedule is to change up where you publish. It will need to be with big publications, small pubs,... | ['Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Social Media'] |
Learning Android Development
Jetpack Compose: The Future of Android UI
Android has come a long way and Jetpack Compose is there to grow
Photo by Tomasz Frankowski on Unsplash
Recently, I looked into how Android has progressed in how the code interacts with the UI (View) over the years. Much has been happening the l... | ['Android', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Google', 'Programming'] |
GOOD MARKETING
Maybe this section should be called, “Really, Really Good Digital Communications,” but that’s just not pithy enough for a title.
There’s no perfect method of digital marketing and there are no set templates to follow. Every brand makes mistakes and every brand will have strengths and weaknesses. But th... | ['Health', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'News', 'Food'] |
Data science bootcamp is a ton of fun, but they don’t have time to teach you everything.
The bootcamp experience is like showing up at a theme park. (Except some of the strangers there will become your best friends.) When the ride kicks in, it demands total concentration. Between bouts of intensity, you’ll have the ch... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
All the Wine
“I’m put together beautifully,” Matt Berninger sings on the first line of “All the Wine,” continuing with “big wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teeth.” These are bold, hubristic words by design, making the song feel like a bold anthem right from the beginning. And if you keep reading the lyric sh... | ['The National', 'Music', 'Songs', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
If 2018 was the year that artificial intelligence exploded, and 2019 the year that AI became accessible to everyone, 2020 is shaping up to be the year that we become more mindful about how we use it.
And at the forefront of this work is the discussion around the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and human behavior.
T... | ['Neuroscience', 'Mobility', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Behaviour', 'Data'] |
Have You Ever Faked Creativity (Be Honest)?
We all know great ideas are elusive at times.
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Have you ever faked creativity?
Go on, be honest. We all know creativity is elusive at times.
You can set the right mood with music, lighting and comfortable seating. Yet despite all the... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Creativity', 'Ideas', 'Design'] |
What is Machine Listening? (Part 1)
Listening is easy for humans, but still difficult for computers.
One of the human basic senses
When I get up in the morning during travel, the thing that usually wakes me up is sunlight coming into the bedroom. But actually, the very first moment I realise that I’m actually not at... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Listening', 'Music', 'Audio'] |
As a member of a research group involved in computer vision, I wanted to write this short article to briefly present what we call “Zero-shot learning” (ZSL), an interesting variant of transfer learning, and the current research related to it.
Today, many machine learning methods focus on classifying instances whose cl... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Technology', 'AI'] |
The Syncfusion Blazor AutoComplete is a text box component that provides a list of suggestions to select from as the user types. It has several out-of-the-box features such as data binding, filtering, grouping, UI customization, and accessibility.
In this blog post, we will learn how to create a multicolumn AutoComple... | ['Csharp', 'Productivity', 'Web Development', 'Blazor', 'Data'] |
Technology Trends
5 The Most Exciting AI & IoT Trends of 2021
… holographic meetings sound pretty cool
Photo by Maximalfocus on Unsplash
Every industrial revolution is a change and an upgrade of traditional/ industrial practices.
The 1st industrial revolution has brought us mechanization, steam and water power. Th... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'IoT', 'Internet of Things', 'Technology Trends'] |
Discuss the need for adopting frameworks like Privacy By Design very early in your data management life cycle
Image by Author
Every byte of data has a story to tell. The question is whether the story is being narrated accurately and securely. Usually, we focus sharply on the trends around data with a goal of revenue ... | ['Privacy', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AWS'] |
Accepting the term ‘artist’ feels like a huge step in the life of anyone who aims to be creative. Whatever labels we attach to ourselves, this one feels particularly loaded. Who gets to call themselves an ‘artist’? What does this really mean?
These are big questions, and ones it takes time to answer. But when we do ac... | ['Communication', 'Relationships', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Introduction
The story around TypeScript’s interoperability with GraphQL is far from picture-perfect. Between libraries, language services and bundler plugins, we have options––options such as the Guild’s tools, Nexus, TypeGraphQL, QuickType, and more. However, while they let us avoid defining types twice for both typ... | ['Future', 'Typescript', 'GraphQL', 'JavaScript', 'Parser'] |
mertalabas - Overview
Sign up for your own profile on GitHub, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40… | ['Python', 'Histograms', 'Matplotlib', 'Veri Görselleştirme', 'Data Visualization'] |
The design story behind making Google Translate’s camera feature and real-time conversation mode more discoverable
Humans have been fascinated with magical creatures or devices that break language barriers for as long as languages have existed. At Google Translate, we have the opportunity to work on a product that hel... | ['Case Study', 'Google', 'Translation', 'Design', 'UX'] |
With headlines like the ones below appearing in respectable publications, one could not be faulted for being misled into believing that China might be ahead of the US in artificial intelligence (AI) already.
But is it really? Let’s take a closer look beneath the headlines and the hype…
Quantity does not equal quality... | ['China', 'Technology', 'USA', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Clean Code — A must-read Coding Book for Programmers
Want to learn the art of converting a bad code to good code? This book can help
image_credit — Clean Code book
Even though the Clean Code book was released many years ago and there are lots of good reviews already available, I couldn’t resist writing my own experi... | ['Programming', 'Coding', 'Java', 'Software Development', 'Books'] |
Businesses everywhere are experimenting with ways to tackle the obstacles imposed by the pandemic. For most, this is a process of trial and error. They either apply existing solutions that they are personally familiar with or copy as best they can what others around them are doing. But in some instances, like ETEN’s re... | ['Innovation', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Creativity', 'Experimentation'] |
Everybody Is Welcome(d) To Thinking UP!
A new Medium Publication that promotes intellectual creativity
Today we live in a world where drastic changes are the norm.
Every day new technological, economic, social and political innovations impact the way we interact with our environment, our relationships and our subjec... | ['Intelligence', 'Thinking', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
It’s great to be your own boss, but don’t need to rush the process
“If you can’t buy the building, at least stock the shelf (word)
Then keep on stacking ’til you stocking for yourself, uh” — Jay-Z, “Entrepreneur”
Talk to me, maaaan! We back at it with another installment of your soon-to-be-favorite Medium column, “W... | ['Life Lessons', 'Business', 'Music', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
Time for playing or exploring is not wasted time. We need to provide ourselves more opportunities for pure-play, exploration, and adventure. This means sometimes we will be wasting time and that is OK; as long as we keep learning and exploring.
Even if we have no idea on how to solve a problem, we can still figure out... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
As of 2020, we have come a long way with respects to applying novel learning algorithms through deep learning to vision tasks — otherwise a characteristic feature of most living beings that move.
In “narrow” tasks like object detection and classification, different labs have reported “better than human” level performa... | ['AI', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Machine Intelligence'] |
Humanity-Centered Design
How ethics will change the conversation about AI
“Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means it changes everything and is, therefore, too important to be left entirely in the hands of [technologists].”
— Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change by Neil ... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Design Thinking', 'Ethics'] |
Well, according to my calculations…
It depends on the number of people.
Information cascades occur when people make decisions sequentially, even if it goes against their own private information, based on the observed decisions of other people.
Let’s assume we have a group of people (N) who can decide between adoptin... | ['Neuroscience', 'Business', 'Mathematics', 'Psychology', 'Economics'] |
It’s estimated that about 140 billion cubic meters of gas are flared annually across the oil-producing countries of the world (McGreevey & Whitaker, 2020). Gas flaring has been illegal in Nigeria since 1984, yet the country still ranks among the top 10 gas-flare countries with about 7.4 billion cubic meters of gas flar... | ['Health', 'Gas', 'Climate Change', 'Gas Flare', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Originally published at www.beaconsocialmedia.com on April 27, 2018.
Anna McCormack — Founder — Beacon Social Media
At the core of every society is people. At the core of every person is heart. We are flesh and bone….each of us, sensitive beings who feel much more than we care to admit. Many of us spend a lot of time... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Social Media'] |
The Rolling Suitcase Could Have Existed 100 Years Earlier. Here’s The Mindset That Delays Innovation
The urge to quickly get to a solution often takes precedence over deeply understanding a problem.
By Shireen Jaffer, Co-Founder and CEO of Edvo
If you’ve ever been through a high school math class, you probably remem... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Education', 'Problem Solving', 'Creativity'] |
Gradient descent in Tensorflow 2.0
Before we start, make sure you have Tensorflow 2.0 installed.
Please visit here to know more: https://www.tensorflow.org/install
Set up
The first function fu is with input x1 and x2 and return a value. Please note that x1 and x2 here refer to x and z in the previous part.
The sec... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Gradient Descent', 'TensorFlow'] |
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems-such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases-and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wid... | ['Software Development', 'Amazon', 'Chaos Engineering', 'Open Source', 'AWS'] |
Hey everyone!
I hope you had a good week. I’m Zack Shapiro, Editor of Better Programming, with the first installment of Better Programming’s Best of the Week Newsletter to help you get inspired and coding this weekend.
Without further ado, here are the 11 best-performing articles that we published this week! | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Startup', 'Python'] |
How Obsessing Over Productivity Is Making You Unhappy
And four tips for breaking this toxic cycle.
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels
Everywhere we look, we see people spouting trendy productivity hacks, informing us how to optimize every single minute of our lives. We read articles about how to read a book in... | ['Business', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons'] |
ELECTRA: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators rather than Generators
What is the difference between ELECTRA and BERT?
Photo by Edward Ma on Unsplash
BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) is the baseline of NLP tasks recently. There are a lot of new models released based on BERT architecture such as RoBERTA (Liu et al. ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Bert', 'AI'] |
As expected, the chart is hard to read. Let’s try the stacked bar chart and add a few adjustments.
First, we can sort the values before plotting, giving us a better sense of order and making it easier to compare the bars. We’ll do so with the ‘Global Sales’ column since it has the total.
## sort values
df_grouped = ... | ['Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Bar Chart', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Recently I read a New Yorker interview with Donald Glover. I noticed and appreciated Glover’s existentialist sentiment regarding life itself. Unintentionally tapping into the philosophy of absurdism, Glover and his brother endured a tough childhood and, through this, came to share an understanding that “life was a bad ... | ['Creativity', 'Philosophy', 'Art', 'Existentialism', 'Psychology'] |
P.S.
I also have a lot of bad codes.
I have found this in my project, but I don’t understand what the hell is — Set language function ))))) | ['Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Development', 'Developer', 'Programming'] |
Some things in life come along and make you forget about everything else. Forget the lows, the stress, the why-didn’t-they-call-me backs. And then there are other things. Things that come along and make everything worth remembering. Things that shoot electricity and meaning into the vein of everydayness. These things a... | ['Self', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Personal Development'] |
This video tutorial will show you how to combine RAPIDS and Amazon SageMaker to accelerate hyperparameter optimization (HPO) and find the best version of your model before serving it to the world. HPO can take an exceedingly long time on a non-accelerated platform. When we combine the power of GPU acceleration within a... | ['Hyperparameter Tuning', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'AWS', 'Sagemaker'] |
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting madness.” -Franz Kafka
It’s the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and Darren Aronofksy is on stage interviewing fellow filmmaker, Clint Eastwood. He tells him, “You make it seem so easy — and for me filmmaking is pain. I’m in pain the whole time. I’m in pain writing. I’m in pain sh... | ['Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
Containerizing Data Workflows
(And How to Have the Best of Both Worlds)
By Tian Xie
As a data technology company, Enigma moves around a lot of data, and one of our main differentiators is linking nodes of seemingly unrelated public data together into a cohesive graph. For example, we might link a corporate registrat... | ['Airflow', 'Docker', 'Data Engineering', 'Gitlab', 'Engineering'] |
I’m writing about artificial intelligence but that is too broad and needs to be further defined. We should start with what I mean by intelligence.
Intelligence: The ability to accomplish complex goals
I’ve come to use this definition put forth by Max Tegmark in his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial ... | ['Intelligence', 'Humanity', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Goals', 'AI'] |
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Write for Nightingale
Everything you need to get started
Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). We bring you high-quality articles covering many of the applications of data visualization — including education, entertainment, history, sports, best practices, new techniques, and any other a... | ['Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Dvsintro', 'Data', 'Writing'] |
‘Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy’ by Gwyneth Cravens
Why Environmentalists Need to Rethink Nuclear Energy
Photo by Thomas Millot on Unsplash
As you are probably well aware, climate change is an existential threat to the future of human civilization. Yet, we shoot ourselves in the foot every d... | ['Book Review', 'Climate Change', 'Sustainability', 'Science', 'Nuclear'] |
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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Some called it a modern Renaissance. Others called it a new Gilded Age. There had been no single war with 100 000 or more casualties in decades. Yet, there were more wars being fought than ever before—proxy wars, wars of ideologies,... | ['Technology', '2020', 'Psychology', 'Society', 'Philosophy'] |
The firing of researcher Timnit Gebru from Google teaches an unexpected lesson about women and power Polina Kroik Follow Dec 23 · 4 min read
Photo by TechCrunch. Timnit Gebru was dismissed from Google for voicing criticism of its practices and policies.
When I first heard that a Black woman researcher was fired by Go... | ['Women In Tech', 'Google', 'Technology', 'Culture', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
My Facebook feed these days seems evenly split between two types of people.
The people who are all like: I’m spending this quarantine leveling up my life.
And the people side-eye those people and have one word for them: Nope.
I’ve never gone through anything like what we’re all going through now. I started to say ‘l... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Life', 'Covid 19'] |
Hundreds of millions of data transactions are processed every day, every hour and every minute within our Mercado Libre ecosystem, which are consumed by thousands of analytical users in 18 Latin American countries. In turn, all this data generates a huge amount of information which needs to be translated into knowledge... | ['Mercadolibre', 'Brain', 'Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Hacking'] |
What is epigenetics?
When most people think of evolution, the first name that comes to mind is Charles Darwin, but a contemporary of Darwin’s named Jean Baptiste Lamarck had proposed a theory of “acquired characteristics” by which individuals evolved certain traits within their lifetimes. The most oft-cited example di... | ['Health', 'Education', 'Science', 'Ideas', 'Self Improvement'] |
Photo by Samuel Clara on Unsplash
Data can be complex, which often results in multiple data types: character, binary, numerical, and more to describe a set of facts. Familiarity of dealing with repositories is an association. However, having a small amount of data in a spreadsheet and checking semantics to gauge respo... | ['Probability', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Power Bi', 'Data Visualization'] |
Getting Started
useState
useState(), as defined above, hooks state into a component. It’s very easy to incorporate into functional components:
In the screenshot above, we can take note of a few things. useState() has two constants you should recognize during the invocation of a useState() hook:
The state data struc... | ['React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
Most people are at least vaguely aware of Vincent van Gogh as the wacky painter guy who cut off his own ear.
What they might not know is the full extent of the agony that was his waking life. So, let’s fix that! I now present to you six ways Vincent van Gogh’s life totally sucked that I’m glad I can’t relate to.
He d... | ['Art', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Creativity', 'Humor'] |
Fat and lazy–that’s what most people think about morbid obesity, right? The most widely held belief about a super fat person is that they must have gotten that way simply by being lazy and stuffing shit in their face all day long, 365 days a year.
That’s the ultimate message we get when experts call weight loss the su... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Weight Loss', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle'] |
Onsite Interview
Facebook AR/VR division office. There are two more Facebook offices in London.
Facebook’s interview process is pretty quick. I heard back from the recruiter within two days and flew to London for my onsite round. A total of four interviews were scheduled
Coding interviews (x 2)
Two questions are as... | ['Programming', 'Facebook', 'Women In Tech', 'Interview', 'Engineering'] |
Search ranking is at the heart of Airbnb. Data from search logs* indicate it is a feature used by more than 90% of guests to book a place to stay. In ranking, we want the search results (referred to as listings) to be sorted by guest preference, a task for which we train a deep neural network (DNN).
The general mechan... | ['Engineering', 'AI', 'Airbnb', 'Neural Networks', 'Search Engines'] |
The only footprints are mine, but grief is with me as I dive into the waves. Together we delight in the heat of the sunshine and the cool of the water. Grief is there not as an unwelcome visitor but as an invited companion. It has taken me two years and several weeks of forced isolation to reach out and hold her hand.
... | ['Creativity', 'Family', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Grief'] |
What is Image Registration?
Image registration is the process of transforming different images of one scene into the same coordinate system. These images can be taken at different times (multi-temporal registration), by different sensors (multi-modal registration), and/or from different viewpoints. The spatial relatio... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Computer Vision'] |
Microsoft just added 3 interesting new Features to Lobe
Microsoft just released a new version of its tool that lets you train AI models without writing a single line of code
Microsoft released a brand new version of Lobe that will open a new range of possibilities and projects that can be built using machine learning... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Microsoft', 'AI', 'Software'] |
Computer Vision
Introduction
The first step for most computer vision tasks such as classification, segmentation, or detection is to have custom data for your problem set. There are multiple ways of creating labeled data; one such method is annotations.
The annotation technique manually creates regions in an image an... | ['Object Detection', 'Programming', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
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Communication is complex. There is written, verbal, and non-verbal. With technology, communication is very important in written form. We type more often than speaking to our devices. Using algorithms for classification and natural language processing, it is possible to score text on a sca... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'AI', 'Sentiment Analysis'] |
The UHVI considers ages 65+ and serious medical conditions as “high risk” factors. The UHVI does not visualize occurrences of COVID-19. It does, however, include state-level data about overall testing and confirmed cases. It also includes hospital data to show geographic proximity, and it shows nursing home locations s... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Health', 'Vulnerability', 'Coronavirus'] |
Set an Easy-to-Define, Concrete Endpoint for Each Day
I would usually find myself slacking in the middle of the day. I would be writing many lines of code per minute only to find myself looking at motorcycle reviews a while later. One day, I had to fix a serious bug before the end of the day since it was affecting a l... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Coding', 'Startup'] |
Make your code as obvious as possible, but don’t exaggerate (Explicit is better than implicit)
One way that I like to do this (that aligns with the previous point) is to use the power of React Hooks that allows us to isolate functionality. One problem that always shows up is tracking some binary object, which can easi... | ['Python', 'Developer', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
Biology in Deep Space: the BioSentinel Mission
BioSentinel, a small satellite designed to test the effects of deep space cosmic radiation on living organisms, will be part of NASA’s Artemis I mission
(Wikimedia commons, NASA)
Unfriendly space
Space is not a friendly place.
No gravity, vacuum all around, radiation ... | ['Biology', 'Science', 'Space', 'Future', 'NASA'] |
When you try VR now, quite honestly, it may be hard to see how this medium is touted to be bigger than TV by 2025 (Goldman Sachs). It isolates you from the people right next to you, it’s expensive and it’s out there in relatively small numbers. However, this is all going to change. Not overnight, but gradually.
There’... | ['Augmented Reality', 'Future', 'Virtual Reality', 'Tech', 'Storytelling'] |
Anthill Inside and The Fifth Elephant are packed with talks, discussions and un-conference events so you can make most of the three days. For any reason, if you cannot attend the events, you can now catch up on the talks online.
HasGeek’s events have produced recorded videos of most talks and sessions where permitted.... | ['Live Streaming', 'Engineering', 'AI', 'Research', 'Data Science'] |
Let us discuss every step of the Machine Learning workflow and see some challenges that could be faced when dealing with these steps.
4.1 | Data cleansing and preparation
From S3, and using Jupyter Notebooks spawned and managed by Kubeflow, the raw data is loaded and being studied.
Data Cleansing Pattern, by the aut... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'AWS', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
At this juncture we ought to segue from the street revolutionary with their open mouths, posters, and weapons to the general population. There is something glaring in our midst: It is the share of the general population that shares in the revolutionary sentiment. They are perhaps less violent than their street counterp... | ['Philosophy', 'World', 'Psychology', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
Sometimes work is all about the money.
In lieu of pursuing my passions, I wound up choosing jobs that would pay the bills and keep me off government aid.
The funny thing is that some people believe my work is all about the money for me now that I’m earning a good income.
But in the past when I wasn’t writing, my wor... | ['Success', 'Creativity', 'Money', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Clustering is the grouping of objects together so that objects belonging in the same group (cluster) are more similar to each other than those in other groups (clusters). In this intro cluster analysis tutorial, we’ll check out a few algorithms in Python so you can get a basic understanding of the fundamentals of clust... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Clustering', 'Python', 'Algorithms'] |
With 2020 being a straight-up rubbish year, the need for respite never has been greater. Enter: Nathan Apodaca on TikTok.
One man, skateboarding with some Ocean Spray juice to the sound of Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams.
His video quickly went viral. And what was the effect?
A lot of people became interested in Ocean Spray ... | ['Data Engineering', 'AWS'] |
At one point, I think we all knew “dream jobs” didn’t exist.
You went to work, did the thing and then it was over. No giant expectations. Your identity didn’t hang on how successful you were from hour to hour or day to day.
Now, that concept has faded. Our expectations for a phenomenal work-life show up in our conver... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Culture', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Several times I have started reading a novel or story that featured a character with “non-standard” language. For example, a poor person in medieval times. Or a thick regional accent. Or a deep-south American dialect from a previous century. The author, in trying to accurately replicate the accent or language, used pho... | ['Language', 'Essay', 'Historical Fiction', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
Navigator Components
There are 3 main navigators that React Navigation comes bundled with, that are suitable for both iOS and Android based projects. These navigators and their respective packages are as follows.
Stack Navigator
@react-navigation/stack (official doc): The most vanilla navigator you’ll find, a Stack ... | ['React Native', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
This article is about hands-on Cluster Analysis (an Unsupervised Machine Learning) in R with the popular ‘Iris’ data set.
Let’s brush up some concepts from Wikipedia
Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience. It is seen as a subset of Artificial Intelligence. M... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'K Means Clustering', 'Clustering'] |
Group 4 — Standard Performance
This is the biggest group and consists of some of the most popular libraries. Also many of the corporate-backed ones from the likes of Facebook, Google, eBay, and Alibaba. These are the libraries that either has less of a focus on performance or highlight performance in one area but suff... | ['React', 'Vuejs', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development'] |
Everyone knows that the path of shortest distance in a paper (or in general a flat plane) is a straight line. What if the paper was curved? What if you want to find the shortest distance from one point on Earth to another? Finding the shortest distance in curved surfaces is not as simple as one might think. In this art... | ['Geometry', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Physics', 'Engineering'] |
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Ever since Apple took a high stand against advertising without consent from iOS 14, its stand against the current ad-giant Facebook is conspicuous.
However, the same cannot be said about Google.
To evaluate Apple’s chances in the Search arena, one must evaluate the motivations of ... | ['Apple', 'Search Engines', 'Privacy', 'Google', 'Technology'] |
I’ve always dreamed big dreams. No matter what I’ve tried pursuing, I’m always confident that I’m going to succeed. So far, I’ve never actually succeeded, but I keep believing it anyway because the alternative doesn’t make sense. Why would I attempt something that I was sure I was going to fail at, right?
Someone rece... | ['Advice', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Success', 'Writing'] |
One of a writer’s biggest fears is not being original. They don’t want to say what everyone else has already said. But the truth is, everything already has been said.
So, why write at all? Because no one’s heard the things that have already been said in your voice, in your point of view, with your personal stories.
T... | ['Self', 'Advice', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
I love working in Jupyter Notebook, and the same functionality of Kepler.gl is available in a Jupyter Notebook environment. In this tutorial, I highlight how you can incorporate kepler.gl for Jupyter visualisation tool inside your notebook.
The advantage of using Kepler Jupyter notebook is that you get both the flexib... | ['Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Geospatial', 'Data Visualization', 'Keplergl'] |
This is Part Two of the blog about my final year project. If you haven’t read Part One yet, you can find it here.
At the end of Part One, we were left with a CSV file containing respiratory signals along with their corresponding respiratory rates. Now, we need to use this data to classify any respiratory syndromes tha... | ['Python', 'Respiratory Disease', 'Deep Learning', 'Matlab', 'Engineering'] |
A Simple Technique to Boost Creativity
Open your mind to peripheral thinking
Photo by Zulmaury Saavedra on Unsplash
The idea of ‘peripheral’ thinking is this: instead of taking a torchlight to explore a darkened room, try taking a lamp.
When there’s so much advice encouraging us to be endlessly more productive and ... | ['Mindfulness', 'Art', 'Inspiration', 'Music', 'Creativity'] |
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Python is a convenient language that’s often used for scripting, data science, and web development.
In this article, we’ll look at how to use regex with Python to make finding text easier.
Finding Patterns of Text with Regular Expressions
Regular expressions, or regexes, are desc... | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
Before You Ask a Question
Before you ask for help, make sure you’ve done your part of the research as well. Some people are so lazy — they don’t even think of doing some googling on their end. They simply open up a forum, say Stack Overflow or a Facebook group, and post their question. It can even be simple questions,... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Startup'] |
Understanding Clustering
Introduction to unsupervised learning
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Outline - Introduction to Clustering
- Motivating Example
- Common Clustering Algorithms
- K-Means Clustering
- Hierarchical Clustering
- Density Based Clustering (DBSCAN)
- Understanding K-Means Clustering
- Choos... | ['Machine Learning', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'Women Who Code', 'Clustering', 'Python'] |
6 Ways Small Businesses Can Use Instagram Reels to Promote Their Products
The coolest new Instagram feature and the infinite creative marketing possibilities it offers
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On August 5, 2020, Instagram launched its newest feature — Reels: a fun way to create and discover short, entertaining v... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Social Media', 'Success'] |
Breakup With the Fantasy of “The Writer’s Life”
“When I arrived in Paris in 1948 I didn’t know a word of French. I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t want to know anyone. Later, when I’d encountered other Americans, I began to avoid them because they had more money than I did and I didn’t want to feel like a freeloader. ... | ['Art', 'Comedy', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity'] |
Why the blockchain revolution has no leader — on purpose
It’s ‘power to the people’ time all over again. But this time, we really mean it.
Roger McNamee, a billionaire tech investor, psychedelic rock star, and author of the forthcoming book, Zucked — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, gave me some very simple yet... | ['Facebook', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Google', 'Venture Capital'] |
The Motivation
Reduce is one of the coolest higher — order functions available to us in Swift.
What if we could look about how reduce works under the hood, and perhaps mangle the functionality to be…whatever we would want it to be.
The reduce function
The original
The classic, canonical use is to use reduce to per... | ['Software Engineering', 'Mobile App Development', 'Swift', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
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Hurricanes, wildfires, storms, floods, and images of streams, rivers, and the oceans filled with plastic flood my consciousness. My morning walks take me past sick and dying trees, over a muddy river covered with a strange white foam, no doubt caused by fertilizers and herbicides f... | ['Politics', 'Health', 'Climate Change', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
I keep telling myself the world is new every day. There are infinite, small opportunities to make history. Whether you realize it or not, you are making history with your life. Just your being here on the planet changes things. You get to design your life today; and it’s impossible to do it like anyone else before you ... | ['Life', 'Art', 'Health', 'Creativity', 'Personal Growth'] |
Jean-Francois Marmion: Let’s start with the basics. What, exactly, is an asshole?
Aaron James: An asshole is a man, or more rarely a woman, who accords himself special advantages in his social life and feels immune from reproach. He’s the guy who cuts in line at the post office, granting himself a privilege that’s nor... | ['Relationships', 'Assholes', 'Psychology', 'Society', 'Book Excerpts'] |
Gen X Will Not Go Quietly
We have always lived loud, and we’re not going to change that
Photo: Cavan Images/Getty Images
Gen X refuses to die with dignity. We will die in the spirit of Grace Jones and Poison, thank you, as we express ourselves in any way we see fit, whether that be in a regular suit and tie, or a fu... | ['Humor', 'Music', 'Gen X', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
Wanderlust
A short primer on your longest nerve
The word “vague” has a Latin root, which means “wandering”.
If we climb a little higher up the tree, we arrive in 16th century France, where the word is used to signify emptiness or vacancy. In English, we use this word to mean “uncertain” but the same word in French m... | ['Vagus Nerve', 'Health', 'Neuroscience', 'Physiology', 'Evolution'] |
Recently CB Insights has published its annual Report on the Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Startups redefining industries.
The full report can be downloaded here and contains a hand-picked selection out of nearly 5K startups, based on several factors including patent activity, business relations, investor profile, ne... | ['Data Science', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Startups', 'Investments'] |
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