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Polynomial Regression using TensorFlow JS, Typescript, and Angular Version 10
Introduction
AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) is a hot topic and it’s only natural for Angular developers to want to ‘get in on the action,’ if only to try something new and fun. While the general concepts behind neural netw... | ['Angular', 'Math', 'TensorFlow', 'Typescript', 'AI'] |
Display any kind of data using the same table component while enjoying the benefits of typescript features.
A very common use case is to be able to list multiple types of data using tables. This happens quite frequently in dashboards for instance.
For example, an e-commerce dashboard might want to display a table to ... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Why Does Silicon Valley Want to Reengineer Humans?
Human beings are not the problem. We are the solution.
Image: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images
To many developers and investors in Silicon Valley, humans are not to be emulated or celebrated, but transcended or, at the very least, reengineered. These technologists ar... | ['Society', 'Technology', 'Book Excerpt', 'Silicon Valley', 'AI'] |
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how creative people are inspired. And at the same time, how consciously I seek out inspiration in my own life. I may be a self-proclaimed SuperGeek, but I would actually describe myself more as a jack-of-all-trades. WordPress consulting is just one of these “trades.”
Where Does In... | ['Creative', 'Tips', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity', 'Motivation'] |
Relentlessly Improving Performance
NVIDIA DGX A100 640GB Systems & BlazingSQL Provide Big Value in a Small Space
NVIDIA Selene — an implementation of NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
Introduction
In the two years since its introduction, the RAPIDS team has been laser-focused on bringing the performance of GPUs to the Python dat... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Rapids Ai', 'Analytics', 'Big Data'] |
4 Opposing Traits That Define Creative Personalities
And how you can find inspiration from them
Photo by melissa mjoen on Unsplash
Various psychologists and scientists have tried to study the personality that defines the creative person.
Facing numerous and contradictory traits, they found that the talented artist,... | ['Inspiration', 'Artist', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Art'] |
Compare Amazon Textract with Tesseract OCR — OCR & NLP Use Case
Comparison of two known engines for optical character recognition (OCR) and Naturtal Language Processing
Image by Felix Wolf from Pixabay
What is OCR anyway and why the buzz? Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables entities with Human Intelligence (us) pro... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AWS'] |
Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash
In general, while doing code reviews, I have developed a strong notion of why the use of null (or nil , NULL , nullptr etc depending on your programming language) generally causes more problems than it solves.
The fundamental problem of null is that it is trying to represent the fact ... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
1) Python Basics
In order to become a data scientist, you need to understand the basics of Python first. Because Python is the favored language for data science.
By going through this course of edX “Introduction to Python for Data Science” you will have some basic understanding of python.
2) Statistics & Probability... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Data'] |
The talk that resonated with me most at D&CC came from Beth Dean, who spoke about Facebook’s efforts to imbue kindness into its interactions. Facebook’s problems are unique, complicated, and usually unintentional, in the same way Tay’s downfall was never intended. A grieving parent sees “memories” collected by Faceboo... | ['Bots', 'Cortana', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Microsoft'] |
Destructuring Objects
In the example above, all the magic happens in the following line:
const { title, rating, author: { name } } = article
Now it may seem a bit weird to have those brackets like that on the left side of the assignment, but that’s how we tell JavaScript that we are destructuring an object.
Destruc... | ['Nodejs', 'React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Building a Treemap with JavaScript
At Foxintelligence, while building our data visualization platform we wanted to challenge the pie chart. This is our journey of building a Treemap in JavaScript from scratch.
EDIT: an open source JavaScript package
I published an open source JavaScript package that calculates the T... | ['Data Visualization', 'Software Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs', 'Technology'] |
Go: AWS Lambda Project Structure Using Golang dm03514 Follow May 16 · 4 min read
AWS Lambda is a serverless solution which enables engineers to deploy single functions. AWS Lambda handles orchestrating, executing, scaling the function invocations. It’s important to structure go lambda projects so that the lambda is a ... | ['Software Engineering', 'AWS Lambda', 'Software Development', 'Golang', 'AWS'] |
There are 23 classic design patterns, which are described in the original book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software . These patterns provide solutions to particular problems, often repeated in the software development.
In this article, I am going to describe the how the Facade Pattern; and h... | ['Design Patterns', 'Software Development', 'Facade', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Trichomoniasis: A Common Sexually Transmitted Infection You May Have Never Heard About
A doctor’s guide to protecting yourself and others
Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash
“What the heck is trichomoniasis,” is the most common reaction to the diagnosis of this sexually transmitted infection. While not as common as H... | ['Health', 'Public Health', 'Relationships', 'Sexuality', 'Society'] |
Data Lake Change Data Capture (CDC) using Apache Hudi on Amazon EMR — Part 2—Process
Easily process data changes over time from your database to Data Lake using Apache Hudi on Amazon EMR
Image by Gino Crescoli from Pixabay
In a previous article below we had discussed how to seamlessly collect CDC data using Amazon D... | ['Data', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AWS'] |
Using Flask to optimize performance with Mask R-CNN segmentation
How to improve Mask R-CNN segmentation performance using a Flask web service.
In a recent project I was facing the challenge of creating a machine learning powered photo booth solution. The software allows its users to take pictures of themselves in a c... | ['Keras', 'Flask', 'AI', 'Python', 'TensorFlow'] |
After the fire comes the smoke.
It blew into Albuquerque last Tuesday on, oddly, a cold front. I’d seen the photos of orange skies raining ash and heat a thousand miles west of us, so I guess that’s what I expected: winds that burn. Instead they were frigid. They chilled us and pricked goosebumps from our skin.
Earli... | ['Wildfires', 'Health', 'Mental Health', 'Climate Change', 'Life'] |
Image Stitching
Panorama effect! Yes, that’s what we will uncover in this post.
Image mosaicing/stitching is the task of sticking one/more input images. We have information spread across these images which we would like to see at once. In a single image!
We all have used Panorama mode on mobile camera. In this mode,... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Image Processing', 'Panoramic Image Stitching', 'Panorama'] |
Peach. That was the color of the sunset the night they discovered Susie Taylor was missing.
The community Memorial Day barbeque was in full swing. Katie walked behind her parents a little apprehensive about showing up to a party and not knowing anyone there. Her family had only moved to Hidden Lake two weeks before, a... | ['Novel', 'Creativity', 'Fiction', 'Hidden Lake', 'Writing'] |
As I get older, I find myself singing more and more often. Part of this, I think, is the fact that I have been separated from my beloved piano. This beautiful instrument that I so love to play lives at my mother’s house now because it does not really fit into my little “cottage.”
I own a guitar and a banjo, yet I don’... | ['Creativity', 'Magic', 'Soul', 'Spirituality', 'Music'] |
The goal is to predict ConfirmedCases and Fatalities . This is a perfect example of real-world data. We’re given the country, the latitude and longitude of the country, and the date.
First, we must preprocess the date. A machine learning model cannot intake a date, so instead, I created a new column days_from_start th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Kaggle', 'Data'] |
Why I Wrote Under Another Profile
I guest blogged under McGraw-Hill
From kalhh on Pixabay
As a 9th-grade special education teacher, I write about work sometimes. I do it less than I did when I started my job, but often, I’ll write about the intersections between work and mental health. On one of these pieces, McGraw... | ['Freelancing', 'Marketing', 'Medium', 'Business', 'Writing'] |
This year will undoubtedly go down in history as one for the record books. Although there were a lot of important events that transpired in 2020, the onset and the continuation of the pandemic has affected the lives of the global population in more ways than one. The effects of COVID-19 have been so far-reaching that i... | ['Space', 'Bitcoin', 'Business', 'Health', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
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In part two of this three-part series, I discussed the vague, yet constant sense of otherness that often haunts bicultural people. For many of those living in the U.S., learning to function in a society that touts individualism while still respecting the collectivistic value... | ['Biculturalism', 'Personal Development', 'Self', 'Society', 'People'] |
This, that you see right here, is an artwork I produced using AI. First creating a person that doesn’t exist at all, with a GAN model (check https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ to get one yourself!). Then, creating the painting artwork by using a styling model.
An AI-generated person for the creation of the artwor... | ['Data Science', 'AI', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Art'] |
Various ways of handling environment variables in React and Node.js
Learn the way to secure your application data using environment variables
Photo by Fotis Fotopoulos on Unsplash
Using Environment variables is very important to keep your private information secure.
It may contain your API keys or database credenti... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Development', 'Nodejs'] |
Spiralbound
Comics for life, brought to life by Edith Zimmerman. | ['Innovation', 'Comics', 'Creativity', 'Design Thinking', 'Startup'] |
DNC Tech Choices: Why we chose Google BigQuery
Migrating to a new data warehouse
This blog post walks through how we chose and migrated to Phoenix, our data warehouse. Thanks to a number of hard-working colleagues, this work was underway when I joined the DNC in the summer of 2019. Thank you to Ben Matasar for his co... | ['Software Development', 'Big Data', 'Engineering', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Engineering Mangement'] |
How Data Visualization Helps Us See the Effects of Climate Change
Mapping techniques highlight how quickly the glacier margins in Glacier National Park are receding
The importance of maps
I’ve always considered maps to be powerful visuals because of how universal they are. They’re a pretty standardized encoding syst... | ['Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Data Science', 'Mapping', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA), despite Republican-led states’ continued efforts to challenge the constitutionality of the law.
During oral arguments in California v. Texas on Tuesday, at least five Supreme Court justices indicated that they would leave the ACA mostly intact.
... | ['Justice', 'Health', 'Equality', 'Politics', 'Society'] |
Step 4 — Relation Function
This is an extra function that I’ve added after testing the chatbot with my crazy questions. So, if you want to understand the difference, try the chatbot with and without this function. You will see why I decided to write this function. And one good part about writing the whole chatbot from... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Future', 'Programming'] |
About a quarter of the human brain’s mass is devoted to processing information from the five senses. Given that the brain plays such a central role in health, it’s not surprising that the five senses are closely tied to well-being.
But beyond merely proving those connections exist, researchers have recently started to... | ['Brain', 'Senses', 'Recovery', 'Illness', 'Health'] |
In this article, we will build a static website on AWS. we are going to use Simple Storage Service (s3) to host the static website.
static website hosting on AWS
Here is the step by step guide for creating a static website on AWS using S3.
There are some prerequisites for this project. you need to have
AWS account
... | ['Programming', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
Application of Athena and cufflinks to analyse PUBG data
For this article, I am going to start the analysis of the data extracted with the pipeline explained on this article. The goal of this article is too:
Get an introduction to AWS athena
Get insights on the data by using plotly
Better understand the consumption... | ['Pubg', 'Presto', 'AWS', 'Plotly', 'Data Visualization'] |
Anna Ridler’s Fall of the House of Usher unspools, rooms and bodies spreading half-seen across the frames of this 12-minute film like gossamer. A woman appears to walk down a hallway, then melts into a moonlit sky. A face appears in the dark, contorts into shapes. The animation is based on a 1929 film version of Edgar ... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Art', 'Machine Learning'] |
When a neural network is trained on a high-level task like classifying a place or generating a scene, individual neuron units in the network are often responsible for concepts that are interpreted to humans. For example, trees, windows or human faces. However, at the moment, the task of analyzing parts of the model rem... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Yu Yang | Pinterest engineer, Data Engineering
Pinterest runs one of the largest Kafka deployments in the cloud. We use Apache Kafka extensively as a message bus to transport data and to power real-time streaming services, ultimately helping more than 250 million Pinners around the world discover and do what they love... | ['AWS', 'Engineering', 'Kafka Streams', 'Apache Kafka', 'Open Source'] |
C-PTSD is a relatively new construct and doesn’t appear in the current version of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition), which is used by health care professionals to diagnose and treat mental disorders. PTSD is included in the DSM-5 under a new category called “Trauma- and Stress... | ['PTSD', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Trauma', 'Self Improvement'] |
Ashish Singh | Pinterest Engineer, Data Engineering
As a data-driven company, many critical business decisions are made at Pinterest based on insights from data. These insights are powered by the Big Data Platform team, which enables others within the company to process petabytes of data to find answers to their quest... | ['Presto', 'AWS', 'Data Engineering'] |
What’s the Deal With Pulse Oximeters?
Here’s what to know about devices that can measure blood oxygen saturation
Pulse oximeters measure the percentage of your red blood cells that are carrying oxygen by beaming different wavelengths of light into your finger after it’s clipped on. Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ... | ['Health', 'Quick Q And A', 'Pulse Oximeter', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Jessica Chan | Pinterest engineer, Core Experience
In 2015, we made the decision to migrate our legacy web experience to React to keep up with our fast growth and perform better with increased developer velocity. Ultimately, we found React rendered faster than our previous template engine, had fewer obstacles to itera... | ['JavaScript', 'Engineering', 'React', 'Node', 'Developers'] |
Reach a little higher
Stretch beyond a limit
Stride a bit longer
Breathe deeper
Exhale longer
Forgive one more time
Release another grudge
Surrender an attachment
Accept something new
Choose peace over strife
Pause an extra moment
Listen like the words are new
Act with intent
Hear the inner voice
Trust yo... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Inspiration', 'Spirituality', 'Mindset'] |
Classic Headline Techniques
Frontload and backload keywords
Word placement is important in headlines. The first three words and last three words have been shown to catch reader attention — I’ve bolded them in the headlines below:
Use short headlines
Buffer tells us that according to science, the ideal length of a h... | ['Social Media', 'Headline Hacks', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Creativity'] |
1. Collaborations
Making music with artists whose audiences overlap, thus gaining exposure to a captive audience of similar minded, potential fans.
Check out Spotify’s Today’s Top Hits where 20 of its 63 tracks are collaborations (as of April 2nd, 2019). The top artists/labels use this tried and true tactic to get a ... | ['Marketing', 'Music Marketing', 'Spotify', 'Labels', 'Music'] |
Bivariate Analysis:
As name suggest Bi means two so the analysis of exactly two variable is what we call a bivariate analysis. It is more interesting analysis compared to the univariate analysis because we can actually see if there is any impact of one variable on the other variable such as if there is any impact of p... | ['Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
Communication Skills More Important Than Coding Skills
When I just started my career, lack of social skills was not my main problem. But when I moved higher, to the middle, senior, and leadership position, my weak soft skills became my Achilles heel.
When you work on a product with a group of different people (engine... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'JavaScript'] |
We had the opportunity to attend dotJS Day 1 this year. Here is a sum up of the most remarkable takeaways and themes !
Accessibility Was the Most Recurrent Topic
Web accessibility is not something new, but it was a recurring topic this year and was mentioned by several speakers during the event as well as by develope... | ['JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Vuejs', 'Engineering', 'Front End Development'] |
The AI Citizen and Climate Change
In Search for Data Science’s best Levers for Climate Action
While I was in London, taking part in a conversation on how technology leaders can help meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a very interesting workshop was being held in Long Beach: ‘Climate Change: How Can AI Help?’ ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Citizenship', 'Sustainability', 'AI', 'Climate Change'] |
Contribute Your Work On Storymaker
Share your creative ideas, your artwork, writing, music, creative process and unique creations on Storymaker
My name is Larry G. Maguire, I am a writer and artist. I set up this publication here on Medium as a place where creative people like you and I can share our art, writing, mu... | ['Artist', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Writer', 'Creativity'] |
AI is not just a techy buzzword anymore. We regularly come across AI/ML technology in both personal and business use applications. Businesses are looking at AI for ways to increase revenue, improve operations, and to enhance productivity. If you are looking for readily available AI solutions that could accelerate your ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Technology', 'AI'] |
As a Southerner, if I introduced myself to someone new and told them my pronouns were they/them, they would probably look at me like I had said, “I just flew in from the Moon.”
Wild, considering the existence of the gender-neutral word “y’all,” we use so much down here. Still, the South tends to feel like a place wher... | ['Mental Health', 'LGBTQ', 'Equality', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
Why tech spec?
Imagine if you jump to coding right after receiving project requirements, you’ll either repeatedly changing the design during the implementation, delivering a buggy product, or even jump back to where you started because the result is “not what’s expected”. Even worse, if you give a promise based on you... | ['Software Development', 'Engineering', 'Process', 'Software Engineering', 'Agile'] |
Mental health is a trending 21st-century issue that affects a person’s emotional state and physical output. Mental health becomes negative when you begin to engage in toxic activities or unhealthy/abusive relationships which could lead to depression and some times suicide.
The World Health Organization estimates that ... | ['Health', 'Youth Development', 'Mental Health', 'Climate Change', 'Women'] |
The last artist I want to introduce here is computational design lecturer Tom White.
His project Perception Engines focuses, as the name suggests, on the role of perception in creativity. In his words,
“Human perception is an often under-appreciated component of the creative process, so it is an interesting exercise ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Work', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'Deep Learning'] |
For as long as I can remember, I’ve seen letters and numbers as colors. It’s a form of synesthesia called grapheme-color synesthesia, and for me, this translating from symbols to colors happens most often with names.
When I meet new people, I forget their name immediately. Don’t get me wrong, I hear the name, but my m... | ['Synesthesia Visualizer', 'Design', 'Brain', 'Synesthesia', 'Grapheme Color'] |
Count Vectorization (AKA One-Hot Encoding)
If you haven’t already, check out my previous blog post on word embeddings: Introduction to Word Embeddings
In that blog post, we talk about a lot of the different ways we can represent words to use in machine learning. It’s a high level overview that we will expand upon her... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'NLP', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Do you know this feeling: you wake up with a melody in your ears, a beautiful, unique song. And while you are trying to capture it (with a notation if you can scores, humming if you have a recording device near your pillow), this unearthly music vanishes, being overlayered by everyday sounds, thoughts, and needs.
It’s... | ['Music', 'Culture', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Art', 'Jukebox'] |
Idea of probabilistic PCA
Let’s start out with the graphical model:
Pretty simple! Assume the latent distribution has the form:
The visibles are sampled from the conditional distribution:
Here W,\mu,\sigma^2 are the parameters to be determined from the dataset.
So everything’s a Gaussian! With this in mind, probab... | ['Programming', 'Coding', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
Not everyone is a genius. True genius comes around infrequently and often unnoticed but every so often people come around with a gift and take the world by storm. No, not everyone is a genius, and upon further examination, it does not seem like many people would want to be geniuses in the first place.
Genius throughou... | ['Mind', 'Society', 'People', 'History', 'True Story'] |
Meditation to me means connecting to myself and carrying the feeling of connectedness during the day. I used to be more anxious and a little lost. Meditation brought clarity and self-reference into my life. With them I’m much more aware, present and creative. I chose a career in software because complex problem solving... | ['Engineering', 'Software Engineering', 'Consciousness', 'Software Development', 'Meditation'] |
Handling Spaces in Column Names During Kinesis Firehose JSON-Parquet Data Transformation Engineering@ZenOfAI Follow Jun 24 · 7 min read
Parquet is an open source file format for Hadoop. Parquet stores nested data structures in a flat columnar format. Compared to a traditional approach where data is stored in a row-ori... | ['AWS', 'Kinesis', 'Cloud Computing', 'Software Development'] |
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My friend Derek has a six year old grandson who came for a visit. They were exploring the basement together when the boy pointed to the door on the left and asked, “What’s in there grandpa?”
“Canned foods and supplies for the kitchen,” said Derek.
His grandson pointed to the doo... | ['Leadership', 'Philosophy', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Creativity'] |
New employee onboarding is one of the most critical processes in a company that genuinely cares about its culture and team members. At Packlink, this is not an exception; we take it very seriously.
The onboarding is an iterative and a critical cultural process. What do I mean by “cultural”? Every step in the onboardin... | ['Management', 'Tech Culture', 'Onboarding Process', 'Engineering', 'Startup'] |
The mysterious monolith — is it art?
A Weird Monolith is Found in Utah Desert: “It’s probably art” officials say. [And now it’s gone]
“Weird Monolith, probably art”
That is the headline of a November 24 New York Times story.
Update: now that the ‘mysterious monolith’ has been removed, its conventionality has been r... | ['Ts', 'Design', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'UX'] |
Technology has made our lives easier with several forms of implementation that are seen in different professional fields. As most individuals began to efficiently program computers, programming
languages with powerful tendencies and functionalities were born.
With several programming languages that are available to s... | ['Python', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Coding', 'Programming'] |
How to Evaluate a Writing Platform like News Break
When I look at a platform to write on, I look at it from many different angles. The brutal truth is many writers jump ship from a platform without mastering it or even understanding it. This is my evaluation criteria.
What sort of platform are they?
News Break is a ... | ['Social Media', 'Money', 'Creativity', 'News Break', 'Writing'] |
Material Design provides a set of tools and guidance to help you make informed decisions about the different UX design directions you could take when creating an app. But what happens when the guidelines don’t fit your product needs? And what happens at Google when a designer is working on a product that doesn’t quite ... | ['Google', 'Material Design', 'UI', 'Design', 'UX'] |
In a connected world, the relationship between powerful organizations and the societies in which they operate is being redrawn. We all understand that. But we’re still catching up to the full implications.
Here is one such implication. A transparent world means a radical change in the nature of brands. That’s a huge s... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Future'] |
For ease of demonstration, I’ll start out by fetching one of the datasets available via Sklearn, the California housing prices dataset. This happens to be a dataset that lends itself to a regression type problem, but the graphing functions I describe below work just as well for categoricals and classification-oriented ... | ['Python', 'Eda', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Industries AI Is Poised to Revolutionize in the Next 20 Years Devinder Sarai Follow Dec 15 · 12 min read
With artificial intelligence and its applications growing at an ever-increasing rate, let’s explore what this means for key industries as we approach 2040.
Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash
It’s 2016.
Experts say... | ['Future', 'Healthcare', 'Finance', 'Transportation', 'AI'] |
What happens when an artist treks the inscrutable space between life and death? Covid-19 survivor Guillermo del Valle coped the way he knows best: he drew.
The Chilean visual artist nearly died, having spent 18 days in a Barcelona hospital. Between oxygen doses, del Valle took whatever supplies he could find near his ... | ['Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Coronavirus', 'Art', 'Covid 19'] |
By virtue of pure logic, the argument for wearing masks while exercising makes complete reasonable sense. Up to this point, most public health experts agree that the holy grail of Covid-19 prevention consists of physical distancing, avoiding crowds, and wearing masks when you leave home. Since most modern exercise regi... | ['Sports', 'Coronavirus', 'Exercise', 'Health', 'Life'] |
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The Rise of Data Mesh
Data Mesh is a set of data engineering principles coined by Zhamak Dehghani from ThoughtWorks. I highly recommend reading How t... | ['Data Mesh', 'Data Lake', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Catalog'] |
By Pam Wu
When you first start out using Pandas, it’s often best to just get your feet wet and deal with problems as they come up. Then, the years pass, the amazing things you’ve been able to build with it start to accumulate, but you have a vague inkling that you keep making the same kinds of mistakes and that your c... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Engineering', 'Tutorial', 'Pandas'] |
That’s the trouble with metaphor. Many of my students were taught it equaled art. They were trained to come up with something that represented something else. Of course, sometimes, to get to the “thing itself,” we must enlist metaphor. Take writing. It’s filled with them. Used well, crafted well, metaphor can coax out ... | ['Nonfiction', 'Poet', 'Creativity', 'Metaphor', 'Art'] |
ON WRITING
When to Write, and When Not to Write
Simple ideas that will put this debate to bed once and for all
Photo by Mark Landman on Unsplash
Writing is self-expression on steroids. It is penning beautiful thoughts that destroy painful realities.
Writing is meaning multiplied. It is the miracle of taking six de... | ['Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Writer'] |
NCiR’ Pilin’ On
How To Get Away
It’s been a while since I gave thought
to gore and death that monster’s wrought.
Memories of being distraught
by doors ajar and clowns Mom bought.
The dark recesses in my room
hid monsters plotting this kid’s doom.
When I’m asleep, they’ll leave their tomb.
Their midnight snack’... | ['Music', 'Satire', 'Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Humor'] |
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
That’s a common refrain around the holidays, and here at Nightingale, we tend to agree. I mean, when else is there so much time to catch up on reading? And where else will you find articles about the resurgence of vinyl or maps of the Roman Empire’s road networks?
Happy Holid... | ['Programming', 'Data Visualization', 'History', 'Books', 'Music'] |
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Today we will not be solving any leetcode question. Instead, we will be looking at a sorting algorithm.
Quicksort
Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm and falls in the divide-and-conquer category of sorting algorithms. Quicksort is an unstable sorting algorithm, which means i... | ['Sorting Algorithms', 'Algorithms', 'Coding', 'Python', 'Software Engineering'] |
Using TensorFlow Lite Library For Object Detection
TensorFlow Lite is TensorFlow’s lightweight solution for mobile devices.
TensorFlow Lite is better as:
TensorFlow Lite enables on-device machine learning inference with low latency. Hence, it is fast.
TensorFlow Lite takes a small binary size. Hence, good for mobil... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Android', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'TensorFlow'] |
Let’s take a look…
Now let’s break it down…
Kite can complete up to multiple lines of code at a time, reducing the time you spend writing repetitive code.
Kite is able to provide completions when editors like VS Code cannot understand the code.
Kite shows completions in more situations, for example after a space.
... | ['AI', 'JavaScript', 'Deep Learning', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
One day during lunch, Boy came in, ready to chat. “Mrs. Hayyyyynes, oh my God. Ha! I gotta tell you something.” He pulled up a chair at my desk.
“Ok, so you know that girl I told you was my girlfriend?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, she’s not actually my girlfriend. We have just been acting like it to make her guy jealous.”
“Haha... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
Define a Small Daily Action for Your Biggest Goal in 3 Minutes
It’s stupid math, but it works
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If you want to achieve your biggest goal, all you have to do is transform it into a number and divide by 365.
If you want to write a book, make it 365 pages and write one per day. If you ... | ['Habits', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Goals', 'Self Improvement'] |
Let’s begin by considering the question again.
Lookout is aiming to increase the number of users on its platform. Should it advertise on TV?
Lookout wants to increase the number of users on its platform. It doesn’t seem that advertising on TV would hurt the number of acquired users. (Perhaps this is not the case, but... | ['Machine Learning', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Kate, Tony and My Mom
It’s time to look at suicide more clearly
My mom in better days
The news about Kate Spade saddened me, but Anthony Bourdain did me in. I felt more connected to Bourdain, an irresistible truth-teller with a sharp wit. Their deaths are a terrible loss, but it was their families I thought of almos... | ['Suicide', 'Anthony Bourdain', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Life'] |
[Updated 11/27/2017]
Read the original article on Sicara’s blog here.
Progressive web applications are the future. And more and more big companies are starting playing with them (such as Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/).
Imagine a Web Application that you can browse in the subway, that keeps engaging its user t... | ['JavaScript', 'Data Visualization', 'Vuejs', 'Development', 'Pwa'] |
It’s five in the morning; I live for this time of day. Outside it’s dark and cool, unsullied by the rays of the sun. I listen to the sound of the birds. They speak with the voice of the earth.
I listen and I write with no rigidity or hesitation.
The page of my notebook is a canvas, mercurial in its ability to adapt a... | ['Creativity', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Kelei Xu | Pinterest engineer, Product Engineering
Pinterest is a visual discovery engine with 100B ideas saved by 150M people around the world. We recently launched three new ways to discover more ideas on Pinterest and from the world around you with Lens BETA, Shop the Look and Instant Ideas. Today we’re bringing th... | ['Deep Learning', 'HTML', 'AI', 'Computer Vision', 'Visual Search'] |
The geography of a creative life is different than that of a normal one. It doesn’t follow predictable arcs, have clearly marked destinations or well-lit paths. It requires you in the words of my friend AJ Leon to “grab a machete and hack your own.” You don’t take the MCAT or pass the bar exam. No certification or dipl... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Customer experience has been one of the top focus areas for CIOs, and CMOs in recent years. A key requirement for improving customer experience is understanding the customer: their past and current interactions inside and outside the company, their preferences, demographic and behavioral information, etc…
The big data... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
Hey guys!
This is Laura. I started The Loners’ Hideout over a month ago as a 30-day challenge to write every single day in the most authentic place I could — from the heart.
Just some background about the Hideout. The intention behind it is to create the safe space for writers to write from the heart.
The hope is th... | ['Personal Essay', 'Creativity', 'Poetry', 'The Loners Hideout', 'Writing'] |
JavaScript is the most popular technology for full stack development. While I have been focusing mainly on Node.js, and somewhat Angular.js, I have realised that there are always some tricks and tips involved in every programming language irrespective of its nature of existence.
I have seen (so many times) that we pro... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'JavaScript', 'Software Engineering'] |
Big bets on long shots
Expenditures by the U.S government are closing in on $10 Billion to bring a viable vaccine to market. Some candidates who received funds including, Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca are all industry heavyweights, while one, Novavax, awarded $1.6 Billion in grants, has never in th... | ['Covid 19', 'Vaccines', 'Society', 'Health'] |
Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog
At Square, the Developers team exposes APIs that allow third-party developers to build custom business-processing solutions. On October 18, we an... | ['Engineering', 'Webhooks', 'AWS', 'Square', 'Developers'] |
AI companies are getting snapped up in record numbers by tech giants hungry for brains. But are they really worth such big bucks?
Magic Pony Founders Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang
Magic Pony is hardly a household name. Chances are you never heard of them, or at least not before they were bought for $150 million by Twitte... | ['Acquisitions', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
With all the progress being made in the world today, sexual health is still an uncomfortable topic to talk about. Doubts lead us to friends first and then to Google and then to a cycle of information that may or may not be true. Despite what Google says — the hymen doesn’t grow back if you don’t have sex for a long tim... | ['Health', 'Society', 'Sexual Health', 'Womens Health', 'Women'] |
As we’ve worked to make Chance Encounters stand out as a publication, LB and I have noticed that a few of our talented writers ran into some difficulties finding original images for their work. Rather than looking at this as a problem, we saw a solution.
Our initial thought of, “How cool would it be if writers paired ... | ['Storytelling', 'Community', 'Creativity', 'Photography', 'Collaboration'] |
As NaNoWriMo approaches, here are some misconceptions to shed
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Writing is an art form. Just like painting, sculpting, gourmet cooking, or photography. And yet, writing has always had the distinction of being the most democratic art form. You don’t need special supplies or a studio space... | ['Creativity', 'Art', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Novel', 'Writing'] |
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