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What are *Args and **Kwargs in Python?
Boost your functions to the n-level.
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash
If you have been programming Python for a while now surely you’ll have had a doubt in how to use a function properly. You went to the paper and have met with *args and **kwargs inside the parameter of this functio... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Matplotlib'] |
Silicon Valley is predicting more and more how we are going to respond to an email, react on someone’s Instagram picture, determine which government services are we eligible for, and soon a forthcoming Google Assistant will be able to call our hairdresser for us in real-time.
We have invited algorithms practically eve... | ['Machine Learning', 'Privacy', 'Future', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Example Project
Let’s see what we are building here with Apache Beam and Java SDK. Here is the simple input.txt file, we take this as an input and transform it and output the word count.
input.txt
Pipeline for example project
As shown above, we split the text file based on the “:” and then extract and count words, ... | ['Programming', 'Java', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
How to Support Indie Writers
In the rapidly changing world of publishing, more and more writers are going indie — but we need your help in order to succeed
Photo by Min An from Pexels
Being an indie or non-traditional writer is a tough path. We are a tenacious group of people who are determined to get our work out t... | ['Writing', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Indie', 'Self Publishing'] |
How To Provision Infrastructure on AWS With Terraform
A Beginner’s Guide with an example project
Terraform is an infrastructure as a code tool that makes it easy to provision infrastructure on any cloud or on-premise. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Te... | ['Software Development', 'Terraform', 'Programming', 'Cloud Computing', 'AWS'] |
Introduction
RPA is on the critical agenda of CEOs to cut cost, increase profitability, and generate new business; and agenda of other CxO level executives for accuracy, compliance, and security.
As part of my business architecture and designer roles, I architected and designed several business solutions using Roboti... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Robotics', 'Writing'] |
So, you’re training a highly complex model that takes hours to adjust. You don’t know how many epochs are enough and, even worse: it’s impossible to know which variant will deliver the most reliable results!
You want to take a break, but the longer it takes to find the right set of parameters, the less you have to del... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'TensorFlow'] |
What is Exploratory Data Analysis?
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an approach to analyzing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods. EDA is for seeing what the data can tell us beyond the formal modelling or hypothesis testing task.
It is always a good idea to explore a data se... | ['Haberman', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Do you listen to music while you study? Some people swear by it, others can’t stand it. What does science say?
Over the years, several research groups have studied how music affects learning or whether music can help you concentrate. These studies are all different: they look at different types of music, different typ... | ['Learning', 'Education', 'Science', 'Students', 'Music'] |
Throughout history, pandemics have left varying, sometimes momentous impacts on the societies in which they have occurred. In the 16th and 17th centuries, smallpox, measles, and other diseases brought by the Spanish wiped out up to 90% of the South and Central American population, utterly transforming the historic orde... | ['Economy', 'Automation', 'Society', 'Business', 'Future'] |
I was once hanging out with a couple of my friends and we were having a discussion when somehow this question popped up:
“How important is it to be noble, anyways?”
There was a pause in the conversation as we considered the question. It was something that I’d wondered for a long time, too. Eventually one of my friend... | ['Self', 'Psychology', 'Creativity', 'Spirituality', 'Religion'] |
You want to learn how to become a writer, but all the writing courses you’ve seen are expensive. Is it really worth handing over thousands that you may never get back? What if you do a course and discover writing isn’t for you after all?
I know it’s not easy breaking into the writing world. After over a decade in this... | ['Freelance', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Our brains crave stimulants throughout the day — especially in people who struggle with ADHD and depression. The stimulants increase dopamine in the brain.
We need that little dose of stimulation in the morning to wake up the brain. It is addicting because the brain loves it.
“According to an article by Harvard Unive... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Social Media', 'Addiction', 'Media'] |
As part of our ongoing effort to be more open to the frontend community, we are announcing the launch of our first open source UI component: Brushable Histogram (click here for a demo).
The idea behind this component came up during the development of Genome, our new dynamic visualization engine. We needed a way to dis... | ['JavaScript', 'Data Visualization', 'React', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
5 Insanely Simple Writing Tips You Need to Know
Giving you the tools to elevate your writing to the next level
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If you’re reading this, you’re probably a writer who’s looking to improve their craft. You may write solely in your private journal, or you might have your own blog with 100,... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writer', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Advice'] |
Previously, React would block the entire thread as it calculated the tree. This process for reconciliation is now named “stack reconciliation”. While React is known to be very fast, blocking the main thread could still cause some applications to not feel fluid. Version 16 aims to fix this problem by not requiring the r... | ['Code', 'Tech', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Startup'] |
The Best Remedy for Insomnia Is the One You Haven’t Tried
Most people do exactly the wrong thing during a bout of sleepless nights
Stress and worry are major insomnia triggers, and so it’s hardly a surprise that the pandemic has set off a wave of lost sleep. Earlier this year, research in the journal Sleep Medicine f... | ['The Nuance', 'Sleep', 'Insomnia', 'Health', 'Brain'] |
When I was a kid, I was fantasized about a Japanese Anime —Future GPX Cyber Formula (新世紀GPXサイバーフォーミュラ). It is about racing in the future where race cars are equipped with AI systems called “Asurada.”
When Asurada, the cyber system, was near completion, the developer (Kazami) realized that Smith, a high-level executive... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'News', 'Future'] |
The Evolution of Big Data Compute Platforms — Past, Now and Later
A journey into the evolution of Big Data Compute Platforms like Hadoop and Spark. Sharing my perspective on where we were, where we are and where we are headed.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Over the past few years I have been part of a large num... | ['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'AWS', 'Data'] |
My first year as a researcher at Criteo MG Follow Oct 20 · 11 min read
Morgane Goibert is a 24 years old PhD Student with an interesting rare background in both Engineering and Business, graduating from the prestigious and highly selective ENSAE and ESSEC. We talked to her about her career path, her projects and her t... | ['Research', 'Computer Vision', 'AI', 'Life', 'Deep Learning'] |
II. Structuring Names from String:
Now that the importance of structuring names is understood, here’s how you would go about structuring a name from string format:
Note: Code is written in python3 .
Also, I’ll be using the nameparser library. | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Data Processing', 'Data Engineering', 'Pandas'] |
After reading this article, you will be able to
Explain the steps in data science Apply these steps to predict the EPL winner Explain the importance of data quality Define data collection methods
Data Science Life Cycle
Step 1: Define Problem Statement
Creating a well-defined problem statement is a first and critic... | ['Data Analysis', 'Epl', 'Premier League', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
After repeating these steps for all our images we landed on 3000+ images featuring 37 classes (some images containing over 15 classes).
Picking your guns.
When it comes to object detection there are many options to pick from, but for our case, we will be using Darknet an open-source neural network framework written i... | ['Technology', 'Design', 'Object Detection', 'AI', 'Museums'] |
Label Classification of WCE Images With High Accuracy Using a Small Amount of Labels@ICCVW2019
Effective proposals for collecting high-cost data sets
In this story, Using the triplet loss for domain adaptation in WCE, by the University of Barcelona, is presented. This is published as a technical paper of IEEE ICCV Wo... | ['Deep Learning', 'Biomedical', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Vision'] |
Communication is key to science and in many fields, communication means presenting data in a visual format. In some fields, such as neuroscience, it’s not uncommon to spend years editing the figures to go into a paper. This is in part due to the complexity of the data, but also in part due to the difficulty of quickly ... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization'] |
Different reactions to the risk of COVID-19 as represented by people toasting at a bar and someone staying home and wearing a mask. [Compilation by Nancy R. Gough, BioSerendipity, LLC]
What makes COVID-19 so scary for some and not others?
Fear of the unknown and comfort with risk
For some, the virus is just a part o... | ['Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Personality', 'Society', 'Covid 19'] |
The most successful Data Science starts with good hypothesis building. A well-thought hypothesis sets the direction and plan for a Data Science project. Accordingly, a hypothesis is the most important item for evaluating whether a Data Science project will be successful.
This skill is unfortunately often neglected or ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Hypothesis Formation', 'Data Science', 'Kaggle', 'AI'] |
20 Inspirational Front-End Challenges You Can Start Coding Today
Challenge yourself and bring your front-end skills to the next level
As a developer, the more projects and experience you have, the better you become. Coding is a muscle that, like any other, requires constant exercise.
Why not spend a couple of evenin... | ['Python', 'Startup', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
Complete Introduction to PySpark- Part 3
Performing SQL operations on Datasets using PySpark
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What is SQL (Structured Query Language)?
SQL is a language that is used to perform different operations on data like storing, manipulating, and retrieving. It works on relational database... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Python', 'Sql', 'Data Analysis'] |
A Spoonful of Affection
Writing into the night
Photo by Lester Salmins on Unsplash
Some days I wake up feeling sensitive to everything; strong and weak at the same time. I’m not a fledgling, I’m a grown man with all a grown man’s faults. Having people connect with me through my words is a touching thing.
I’m not a ... | ['Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Prose', 'Affection', 'Writing'] |
Virtual Leadership Challenge
Why am I suggesting leading teams in different regions is even harder than leading teams within the same location?
Because we already have these six common leadership challenges with managing in-person teams:
Purpose : connecting the why of daily work for our teams so they are excited to... | ['Productivity', 'Leadership', 'Work', 'Startup', 'Business'] |
I never thought I could draw.
I apparently had a knack for music and writing. But as far as I was concerned, all of the visual art genes were given to my sister.
She was often coming up with new ideas and new creations. I would watch as she would create murals and sketches. Seemingly coming forth from her as fully re... | ['Art', 'Practice', 'Motivation', 'Creativity', 'Lifehacks'] |
Data Scientists have staying power in the marketplace and they make valuable contributions to their companies and societies at large.
Today, Data Scientists have become more important than ever. The reason being they can frame better business goals, make effective decisions and identify the opportunities better. The s... | ['Python', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
1. Commit the time
There’s no overnight success. Not even in freelancing. If you start out first, the only thing you need to get better is time.
You can always have an excuse for why it’s not the right time to focus on Upwork. But if you want to get going and finally start earning money there, you need to invest the ... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Freelancing'] |
ILLUSTRATION OF GOD CLASS
Let’s say you are building a customer management application. Here’s the following snippet depicting the same.
God Class example screenshot by the author
This is a bit short example but if we rethink, a customer may have many other fields. Isn’t it a bit obvious that the Customer class has ... | ['Coding', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
Data Visualization is a big part of a data scientist’s jobs. In the early stages of a project, you’ll often be doing an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to gain some insights into your data. Creating visualizations really helps make things clearer and easier to understand, especially with larger, high dimensional datase... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Visualization'] |
Before We Had Google, There Was Googie Architecture
Few things are more representative of the modern zeitgeist than Google. But there was a time when the same thing was said about Googie architecture.
Between the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Googie was the undisputed “look of tomorrow.”
While Kennedy spoke of Man go... | ['Architecture', 'Art', 'Google', 'Design', 'Tech'] |
I’m big on blocking. Life’s too short for slop in my feed. I excise rage aribeters that offer little recourse or solutions. I block those who are abusive, petty, and cruel. Hate-mongers and hate-readers. Complainers that don’t create. People who call me a cunt in the comments or try to tell me how to do the work I’ve b... | ['Freelancing', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
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Real Artificial Intelligence: Understanding Extrapolation vs Generalization
Stop confusing the two
Machine learning models don’t need to be intelligent — most of their applications entail performing tasks like recommending YouTube videos or predicting a customer’s next move. It is import... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Analysis'] |
Two common decisions that our guests are making are:
Should I book now for better availability or later for better flexibility? Which of the listings should I book?
As the service provider, we have broad views of the entire market and guest behaviors that individual guests do not necessarily have. This information us... | ['Data Engineering', 'AI', 'Data', 'Machine Learning'] |
Airport Departure
Advice from a weary traveller: Constantly check for changes in your flight status, and updates on flight paths being cancelled. Read on for why this is critical.
Oh it was meant to be a joyous occasion. I was finally on my way back to my significant other. Documents in hand. How I was wrong. Again. ... | ['Coronavirus', 'Travel', 'Health', 'Life', 'China'] |
Every time that you register for a new website for free you have to give out your name, email, and date of birth. Sometimes your address, if you’re shopping online. Other times your interests, if you’re hanging out on social media.
It might not seem like much to us, but to those websites and companies, your data is th... | ['Privacy', 'Data', 'Google', 'Facebook', 'Tech'] |
CICD is a development methodology which has become more important over time. In today’s software driven world, development teams are tasked with delivering applications quickly, consistently, and error-free: every single time.
While the challenges are plentiful, CI/CD is simple at its core.
For many organisations, ac... | ['Software Development', 'Coding', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Python'] |
This article is going to cover plotting basic equations in python! We are going to look at a few different examples, and then I will provide the code to do create the plots through Google Colab!
Goals:
Learn to Create a vector array Manipulate vector to match an equation Create beautiful plots with a title, axis labe... | ['Math', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Developer', 'Science'] |
At this point, Anderson Cooper’s recent viral video has been seen more than 10 million times. In it, he talks about Trump’s absurd claims of election cheating by likening the president to… an obese turtle:
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this from a president of the United States. And, I think, like Jake ... | ['Social Media', 'Culture', 'Mental Health', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
What is differentiation?
Product differentiation is a marketing management strategy that aims to distinguish or differentiate a company’s products or services from the alternatives offered by competitors.
Businesses communicate their unique and distinctive benefit through the marketing strategy to make it more attrac... | ['Strategy', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
The entire process of ‘transferring’ belief, either through marketing techniques or through works of art, carries with it a lot of psychological weight.
This ‘weight’ then leads many creatives to being extremely insecure.
The Forgotten Religiosity of Creative Work
In ages past, creatives were extremely valuable memb... | ['Creativity', 'Comedy', 'Art', 'Psychology', 'Jordan Peterson'] |
2020 will go down in history books as the year that witnessed one of its kind global crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Of course, Covid-19 is not the first pandemic on a worldwide scale. There had been plenty of such outbreaks in the recorded history that affected different parts of the globe. But Covid-19 stands ap... | ['Deep Learning', 'Healthcare', 'AI', 'Computer Vision', 'China Startup'] |
Data pipelines are essential for companies looking to leverage their data to gather reliable business insights. Pipelines allow companies to consolidate, combine, and modify data originating from various sources and make it available for analysis and visualization. However, the numerous benefits that data pipelines pro... | ['Apache Airflow', 'Redshift', 'AWS', 'Big Data', 'Amazon Web Services'] |
1. We Need Original Contributions From You
Before you submit an article to us, we suggest that you ask yourself how original the content of your article is. Is it something that our readers will be hooked on to & appreciate?
If the answer is, YES, go ahead & submit it without a second thought.
But on hindsight quite... | ['Computer Vision', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Deep Learning', 'About Us', 'Join Us'] |
What does if __name__ == ”__main__” do?
When and how a main method is executed in Python
Photo by Blake Connally on unsplash.com
If you are new to Python, you might have noticed that it is possible to run a Python script with or without a main method. And the notation used in Python to define one (i.e. if __name__ =... | ['Python Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Coding', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
A Gift Guide for the Data Viz Practitioner
13 gift ideas for that data viz practitioners are sure to enjoy
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and it’s time to decide on the perfect gift for that special data viz practitioner in your life. Whether you’re reading this article for them, or for yourself, you’ve s... | ['Design', 'Holidays', 'Data Science', 'Creativity', 'Data Visualization'] |
It’s impossible to get stuck when you’re listening to yourself.
How many thoughts go through your head every day?
All of them are potential ideas. Most crap, some good, a handful great. You never know until you latch onto one and see where it goes. And anyone who claims they do is full of it.
I’ve noticed a trend, i... | ['Makers', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Life', 'Creativity'] |
Moths in Space
A poem
Which are the stars, and which are their paparazzi?
The stars hold my gaze.
They wink and sparkle
and burn ablaze.
My atoms: moths
knocking each other askew
in a whirlwind rocket
to the modest moon.
But it’s being afar
that makes bright beautiful.
The sun is a star
that will eat you w... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Poetry'] |
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How could Santa leverage Blockchain & AI?
Until now, Santa have faced a series of challenges that seemed insurmountable, such as knowing the children’s requests in detail and being able to cross-check them with their good behavior during the year, but in a safe, ... | ['Christmas', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Blockchain'] |
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How to Evaluate a Data Visualization
A good data visualization should have all essential components in place
I. Introduction
Data visualization is one of the most important branches in data science. It is one of the main tools use to analyze and study relationships between different variab... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Descriptive Analytics'] |
The Five Rules You Need to Know to Keep Yourself From Getting Stuck brett fox Follow Sep 3 · 4 min read
I’ve been doing a lot of research on Steve Jobs lately. Did you know that he used to practice his Macworld and product launch presentations around 200 times before the big event?
Picture: Depositphotos
Watch any J... | ['Leadership', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capital'] |
Writing and playing music have many parallels.
When you learn to play the guitar, what do you learn first?
Do you start composing your own songs and playing complex chord progressions right from the start? Unlikely.
Most people who learn to play the guitar start by playing other people’s songs. Then, when they’ve be... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Lurking behind underfunded education, peering through rows of income inequality and over-policing, is alcohol.
Photo by James Sutton on Unsplash
Before a community can have a high density of alcohol outlets, those seeking liquor licenses must be awarded them from their state or local municipality, most commonly some ... | ['Addiction', 'Equality', 'Society', 'Health', 'Lifestyle'] |
If you are curious about the Serverless framework, you can read this excellent article explaning how to deploy a rest api with Serverless in 15 minutes.
Deploy to the Cloud!
We use the amazing Serverless toolkit to deploy to AWS. We managed the different environments using environment variables as explained in the Se... | ['Serverless', 'AWS', 'Data Engineering', 'Git'] |
Leveraging the Domain Characteristics of Driving Data
When I began my journey at Nauto a year ago, I was commissioned to replace our existing object detector with a more efficient model. After some research and experimentation, I arrived at a new architecture that was able to achieve an accuracy improvement of over 40... | ['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Automotive', 'Computer Vision'] |
Greetings!
I bring to you some new updates regarding the submission guidelines for Know Thyself Heal Thyself. Please make sure to read them thoroughly in order to avoid any confusion in the future. Thank you!
Themes:
Spirituality Philosophy Holism Life Lessons Mindfulness Self Awareness/Improvement/Growth Love Other... | ['Writing', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Know Thyself Heal Thyself', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
What are *Args and **Kwargs in Python?
Boost your functions to the n-level.
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash
If you have been programming Python for a while now surely you’ll have had a doubt in how to use a function properly. You went to the paper and have met with *args and **kwargs inside the parameter of this functio... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Software Development', 'Programming'] |
In this article I cover a number of different concepts and technologies; Web Sockets, Python, Node, Vue JS, Docker, and bring them all together in a microservice architecture.
3 Microservices
Each component in this stack will be a microservice. I will take you through building each one, including running them in sepa... | ['JavaScript', 'Nodejs', 'Vuejs', 'Docker', 'Microservices'] |
The world is creeping deeper due to coronavirus. Coronavirus which is born in China and brought up in Europe and America has made disastrous damage to the American economy and health system. Many vaccines companies have developed a vaccine to eradicate coronavirus but they are rushing to make it available for the publi... | ['Health', 'Lockdown', 'Coronavirus', 'Vaccines', 'Covid 19'] |
Watson Natural Language Classifier (NLC) is a text classification (aka text categorization) service that enables developers to quickly train and integrate natural language processing (NLP) capabilities into their applications. Once you have the training data, you can set up a classification model (aka a classifier) in ... | ['Tutorial', 'Machine Learning', 'Classification', 'Development', 'AI'] |
How to create a confusion matrix with the test result in your training model using matplotlib Alex G. Follow Nov 9 · 3 min read
confusion matrix (Photo,GIF by Author) https://github.com/oleksandr-g-rock/How_to_create_confusion_matrix/blob/main/1_eg-HeEAMk8mtmblkHymRpQ.png
Short summary:
This article most the same as... | ['Machine Learning', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Don’t Fall for the Appeal to Tradition
The logical fallacy “appeal to tradition” is an issue than can frequently appear among software developers. The key phrase to know if you’re falling into this trap is “we’ve always done it this way!”
Especially as a new developer, it can be hard to suggest new ways of doing thin... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Startup'] |
I was driving home the other day, noticed all the above-ground telephone/power lines, and thought to myself: this is not the 21st century I thought I’d be living in.
When I was growing up, the 21st century was the distant future, the stuff of science fiction. We’d have flying cars, personal robots, interstellar travel... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Health', 'Future', 'Healthcare'] |
Step-by-Step Guide
Here is TekLoon’s Dev Rule No 1:
Always start with the easiest part.
The easy entry will allow you to complete the first task and gain the confidence to face the upcoming challenges.
Step 1: TimerService development
Let’s start by creating our TimerService:
Code for TimerService. View full code... | ['Microservices', 'Nodejs', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Rabbitmq'] |
A lot of people think it’s hard to write frequently.
That’s just a belief, of course. You know what they say; what you believe affects what you achieve.
Which is not to say believing means achieving, necessarily. I knew a guy that believed he’d be the Prime Minister some day. He’s got one foot pretty much in the grav... | ['Writing Tips', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Reading'] |
Let’s take a more in-depth look into this State Management powerhouse.
As a relatively new React developer, one thing that’s stood out to me is how top-heavy my React apps can sometimes feel. While each component always has it’s own bells and whistles, the “lowest shared parent” can sometimes feel overloaded by the am... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
AWS — Deploying React With NodeJS App On Elastic Beanstalk
A step by step guide with an example project
Photo by Moritz Kindler on Unsplash
AWS provides more than 100 services and it’s very important to know which service you should select for your needs. If you want to deploy an application quickly without any worr... | ['AWS', 'Programming', 'Nodejs', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many companies, however, 70% fail to meet expectations. Perhaps the most compelling reason is the lack of visibility to how business processes actually execute.
While 80% of the companies surveyed by McKinsey consider digital transformation a top corporate priority, nearly ... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Automation', 'Future'] |
Happy First Birthday, Better Programming!
A story about our first year, some fun numbers, and a look at what’s ahead
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Better Programming is officially one year old today!
Last year we launched with six articles and hoped that readers would show up and care. 2,373 of you did, and we... | ['Python', 'Medium', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Writing'] |
I came up with this crazy formula to help me write faster and better…
I used to write when the muse struck.Which wasn’t very often because turns out the muse tends to favor people who show up regularly. Which I wasn’t.
So I’ve been trying to build a daily writing habit. And I’ve done pretty well — only missed 2 days ... | ['Writing', 'Advice', 'This Happened To Me', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
I was recently selected for a research internship at one of the most promising and exciting AEC startups — Digital Blue Foam. I was given a chance to use their Augmented Intelligence enhanced software. Here’s an article that describes its features and advantages.
So this software is a web-based interactive generative ... | ['AI', 'Sustainable Development', 'Architecture', 'Generative Design', 'Analysis'] |
The modern typewriter had a problem. When Christopher Sholes developed the first model in 1868, it was an amazing development for its time. But if you tried to type too quickly on it, the type bars had a tendency to bang into one another and get stuck.
Sholes consulted an educator who helped him analyze the most commo... | ['Management', 'Leadership', 'Innovation', 'Creativity', 'Startup'] |
APPLIED DESIGN PATTERNS: STRATEGY
Part 2: Stop Using If-Else Statements
Let’s have yet another look at how you can replace if-else statements.
Okay, we both already agree using If-Else statements everywhere is an awful practice.
You’ve without a shred of doubt met If-Else statements that made your head ache six way... | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Csharp', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
2. Larger-Than-Life Results
This strategy involves showing the experience the user will go through, once they start using the company’s product.
The successful ads tend to exaggerate what you receive. The greater the exaggeration, the more comical and unusual the advertisement is, making it more indelible.
Author vi... | ['Research', 'Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Business', 'Creativity'] |
We’re excited to announce our public Live Embed Kit to keep teams in sync wherever they are. With this development, anyone can add Figma designs and prototypes that are always up to date to their website. It’s as simple as embedding an iframe. The Kit will also allow 3rd party developers to enable Figma Live Embeds in ... | ['Programming', 'Design', 'Software Development', 'Engineering', 'Tech'] |
According to Merriam-Websters dictionary, information technology is defined as, “technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data”. In simpler terms, information technology is technology which processes and distributes dat... | ['Future', 'Information Technology', 'AI', 'Blockchain', 'Internet of Things'] |
Good evening ladies and gents, it is going to be SOOO SUNNY tomorrow.
When you get to that tomorrow:
Guys, guys, guys, where the sun at…?
Problem
Weather news are based on probabilities and those probabilities seem to get accurate only on the day itself.
But who has the time and energy to manually check the weathe... | ['Lambda', 'AWS', 'Serverless', 'Home Improvement', 'Weather'] |
Since a few years, chatbots are here, and they will not go away any time soon. Facebook popularised the chatbot with Facebook Messenger Bots, but the first chatbot was already developed in the 1960s. MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed a chatbot called ELIZA. The chatbot was developed to demonstrate the superfici... | ['AI', 'Bots', 'Conversational Ai', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots'] |
Science saves, plain and simple. Science saves time, science saves energy, and above all, science saves lives. Scientific advancements have led to a vast array of efficiencies, improvements in energy production and usage, travel, as well as countless medical breakthroughs.
One reason for this has to do with clinical t... | ['Society', 'Politics', 'Health', 'Covid-19', 'Vaccines'] |
Tips & tricks
How to Write TypeScript Ambients Types Definition for a JavaScript library
Types definitions made easy for any JavaScript library. Create, extend, and contribute to any repository where types are missing.
It has been a complicated time during the early days of TypeScript. Originally designed to work wi... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Simple RestAPI
If you come from the NodeJS world, the first thing you usually do when creating a new app is to run an ‘npm init’ command and follow the process of creating a package.json file.
But with Deno, things are different. There is no package.json, no npm, and no node modules. Just open your favorite IDE (I am... | ['Nodejs', 'Deno', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
10 Insider VS Code Extensions for Web Developers in 2020
Git Graph, Auto Close Tag, Peacock, and more
Visual Studio Code (VS Code) from Microsoft will continue to be one of the best code editors/IDEs in 2020. Its great marketplace offers awesome extensions made by the community, helping web developers to become more ... | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'JavaScript'] |
Ever since the astounding triumph of Alphago over Lee Sedol at the Go contest in 2016, the world’s attention has been drawn to artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning. This victory signalled that machine learning was no longer simply about big data classification, but was making progress in the realm of true... | ['Algorithms', 'Edtech', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Reinforcement Learning'] |
Change Your Life by Changing Your Posture
Boost confidence and performance with this simple activity
Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash
If you’re reading this, you’re probably sitting down. And your shoulders are probably hunched. And your chin is probably tilted down toward your phone screen or your laptop.
... | ['Posture', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
What is data-driven design?
Simply put, data-driven design means making design decisions based on data you collect about how users interact with your product. According to InVision:
Data-driven design is about using information gleaned from both quantitative and qualitative sources to inform how you make decisions fo... | ['Craft', 'UX', 'Creativity', 'Data', 'Design'] |
I consider myself to be an efficient person. I always try to utilize my time wisely. When I have some time to kill, like waiting in line to run some errands, I always bring my laptop and get some work done. I exercise whilst listening to podcasts or audiobooks and other nerdy stuff. This week I just started training in... | ['Python', 'Concurrency', 'Engineering', 'Backend Development'] |
Row oriented databases
Row-stores are considered “traditional” because they have been around longer than columnar-stores. Most row oriented databases are commonly known for OLTP (online transactional processing). This means that row-stores are most commonly known to perform well for a single transaction like inserting... | ['Bluecore', 'Data Engineering', 'Programming', 'Data', 'Software Engineering'] |
If you’re currently managing and analyzing your data in a BI tool, it’s time to ask yourself: how happy are you? It’s okay, you can be honest. We promise we won’t tell. Truthfully, most people utilize tools like Excel because it’s comfortable. They know how to use it, how to navigate it, and feel confident with how it ... | ['Plotly', 'Data Analysis', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Shift That Will Change Marketing Forever
The marketing industry is at evolutionary crossroads. It’s a time of reckoning, an inflection point perhaps. Call it want you want, a shift is finally starting to occur.
Photo: Shutterstock
There are multiple definitions of marketing. Just Google it. You’ll spend the next... | ['Society', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Strategy', 'Digital Marketing'] |
I decided to look at the change in patterns related to terrorism from 1970 to 2017 using the Kaggle dataset. I know the data is sad but interesting to work with.
About the DataSet:
The Global Terrorism dataset is an open source database which provides data for terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2017.
Geography: Worldwid... | ['Dashboard', 'Rstudio', 'Shiny', 'Kaggle', 'Data Visualization'] |
This blog takes the broadest conception of sound design possible including visual effects because audio likes video. Over 90,000 views annually.
Follow | ['EDM', 'Flair', 'Design', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
3D Plots using Matplotlib
3D plots play an important role in visualizing complex data in three or more dimensions.
1. 3D Scatter Plot
3D scatter plots are used to plot data points on three axes in an attempt to show the relationship between three variables. Each row in the data table is represented by a marker whose... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Python', 'Technology'] |
Bitcoin and blockchain have been much talked about for several years now and the number of people interested in the technology is growing.
In simple terms, blockchain is a database, where information is secure, as it cannot be changed or removed.
In short, the block chain is a database you cannot deceive, amend, and ... | ['Technology', 'Blockchain', 'Apple', 'Bitcoin', 'Future'] |
Photo by Romain Baïsse
This is a series of posts that explain Ensemble method in machine learning in an easy-to-follow manner. In this post, we will discuss about Heterogenous Ensemble.
1/Heterogenous Ensemble
2/ Homogenous Ensemble — Bagging
3/ Homogenous Ensemble — Boosting
As a machine learning enthusiast and a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Big Data', 'Algorithms'] |
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