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It’s Complicated
Visualizing complex health histories & symptoms for two patients with rare and mystery conditions
I recently worked with a smart, well-spoken patient, E., to put together a visual summary of her health.
Unlike many others I’ve worked with, she was not looking for answers or a new diagnosis; she was ... | ['Design', 'Healthcare', 'Patient Experience', 'Health', 'Data Visualization'] |
What is the Role of Journalists in Holding Artificial Intelligence Accountable?
The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with a new approach for reporting how smart algorithms work, beyond simply describing them.
Image Credit: Gabriel Gianordoli/ WSJ
Journalists, who routinely ask questions of their sources, should ... | ['Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Journalism', 'Best Practices', 'Ethics'] |
Scheduling tasks with AWS SQS and Lambda Engineering@ZenOfAI Follow Feb 16 · 4 min read
In this story, we will be learning a workaround for how to schedule or delay a message using AWS SQS despite its 15 minutes (900 seconds) upper limit.
First let us understand some SQS attributes briefly. Firstly lets look at Deliv... | ['Software Development', 'AWS Lambda', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Machine Learning Transforms in AWS Glue
AWS Glue provides machine learning capabilities to create custom transforms to do Machine Learning based fuzzy matching to deduplicate and cleanse your data. For this we are going to use a transform named FindMatches. The FindMatches transform enables you to identify duplicate o... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Machine Learning', 'Spark', 'AWS', 'Software Development'] |
Do These Things To Survive The Rest of The Pandemic
Upgrade your mask. Eat healthy. Sleep. Laugh.
You could say round one of the pandemic is over.
We didn’t do very well.
Plus, round two has already started. The good news is that science has a plan for us. I’m not a scientist, but I listen to science.
I got an A i... | ['Mindfulness', 'Humor', 'Health', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
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Introduction
In this part, we’ll perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on our data, which is a crucial part of most machine learning problems. Although we might not end up increasing our score, we will draw invaluable insights from our data, which is often one of the primary objec... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
OPINION
How Apple Can Make Money Through a Search Engine
How Apple can make up for losing $12 Billion
Created with Canva Design
Congress wants to break Google, claiming it has illegally thrashed the competition in the search engine market. Google dominates the market with an 86.86% market share as of July 2020.
Th... | ['Technology', 'Google', 'Apple', 'Innovation', 'Business'] |
Give some of the following methods a shot for 30 minutes each day to release your creativity:
Nostalgia to the rescue!
Harken back to your childhood. Did you have an active imagination? When I was in 3rd grade my teacher, Mrs. Bermudez gave myself and two friends all the extra worksheets she had left over from the ye... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Growth', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
I love when I can read someone else’s work and feel the energy of the piece. It’s like the words are lightning bolts that leap off the page and charge my mind.
That feeling happened a lot this week and our writers are to thank. They delivered moving monologues on love, fear, absence and guilt. Here’s what you missed:
... | ['Newsletter', 'Fear', 'Creativity', 'Love', 'Writing'] |
Kubernetes Distributions — What Are They?
Learn what they are and why it matters to you
Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash
One of the biggest announcements from the latest AWS re:Invent 2020 sessions were the release of EKS-D from Amazon. EKS-D is their open-source Kubernetes distribution that’s now available for ever... | ['Software Development', 'AWS', 'Kubernetes', 'Containers', 'Programming'] |
Before reading the article, I would like it if you take some time and think about the changes in your social and professional behavior since you have started using social media.
Have you got anything?
No!
Don’t worry. Take a long breath and start reading the article.
“THE TECHNOLOGY THAT CONNECTS US, ALSO CONTROLS ... | ['AI', 'Social Media', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Instagram', 'Facebook'] |
Donut Plot with Matplotlib (Python)
Let’s start by praising visualizations with a very famous English language adage. It’s cliche but dead on.
“A picture is worth a thousand words”
In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to create a donut plot using matplotlib with python. Donut plot is a very efficient way of comparing ... | ['Data Sceince', 'Matplotlib', 'Python', 'Data Visualization'] |
Design and user research go hand in hand when it comes to product development. Both are essential if you want to make a product that is useful, usable, and used. We’ve been working with the Resource Watch team at World Resources Institute (WRI) on a redesign that makes planetary data easier to use.
I spoke with Dani C... | ['Environment', 'User Research', 'Design', 'UX', 'Data'] |
COVID-19 / MEDICINE / HEALTH
How Accurate and Reliable is COVID-19 Testing?
PCR-based nasal swab testing and serological antibody testing both have certain limitations.
As more and more state health departments and private enterprises continue to ramp up testing capacity for COVID-19, several health experts warn tha... | ['Health', 'Education', 'Science', 'Ideas', 'Covid 19'] |
Twitter has acronyms and so does Instagram and Facebook, when people use fff-follow for follow or kfb-kindly follow back, and so on. Well, they’re lame but social media acronyms and slangs are never cool, still, they make things easier on social media.
How about we try the same thing on Medium?
I’ve seen lots of auth... | ['Short Form', 'Advice', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
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5G is coming.
5G is the fifth generation of wireless networks. It’s significantly faster than current 4G networks, but the reason that 5G is important is not just so we can all watch Tiger King over and over on our phone or scroll endlessly through Facebook. It’s going to be essential ... | ['Technology', 'Cities', 'Science', 'Internet of Things', 'Future'] |
Realworld
The first repository in this list is Realworld. Its creators call it nothing less than “The Mother of all Demo Apps.” A bold statement, for sure, but I don’t think it’s an exaggeration.
Realworld is an exemplary Medium.com clone (yes, the very platform you are probably surfing right now!). But not only that... | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'JavaScript'] |
Why Your Startup Isn’t Getting the Right Customers
And what it takes to actually sell your “dream customers”
Photo by krakenimages on Unsplash
“I was sure our product would be perfect for them,” the founder fumed as she dropped into the chair on the other side of my desk. She was building software to help automate h... | ['Work', 'Sales', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Slalom Charlotte has now been around for 1 year — traversing WeWork and our new home at the Railyard in Southend. We are about to have our launch party and I wanted to reflect on the last 6 months in Charlotte, post the last 7 years in San Francisco. It’s been a growth-fueled ride, with all the trappings you want to se... | ['Charlotte', 'Analytics', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Eric Kim | Pinterest engineer, Visual Search
In February we launched Lens to help Pinners find recipes, style inspiration and products using the camera in our app to search. Since then, our team has been working on new ways of integrating Lens into Pinterest to improve discovery in areas Pinners love most–particularly... | ['Visual Search', 'AI', 'Computer Vision', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
Writing and Publishing Tools I Use and Recommend
MockupShots: Create Your Own Professional Product Shots in Seconds
Launch your 2021 marketing efforts with brand new images of your book covers and other products
Image created by Jacquelyn Lynn using MockupShots
Creating attractive promotional images of your books a... | ['Self Publishing', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Photography'] |
What’s the secret to a successful email campaign?
Great design? Engaging subject lines and email copy? Your offer?
It’s actually none of these things — while each, in itself, is important, the most crucial aspect of a successful email campaign is a quality email list.
A quality email list is one you’ve built through... | ['Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup'] |
Make great work with your team no matter where you are in the world.
If you’re part of a large team or global company then you’re likely collaborating across time and geography every day. Maybe the developers on your team are in a different country, your design lead travels frequently or your client is in another ci... | ['Business', 'Collaboration', 'Remote Working', 'Productivity', 'Design'] |
Never Done Changing
Amidst Nashville’s ever-growing community, pop singer/producer Chris Jobe is consistently moving forward.
Chris Jobe, 3/30/18 @ The High Watt
While leaning against a wall to keep myself from giving into the urge to nap, I find myself in awe of Chris Jobe’s never ending energy. About an hour after... | ['Nashville', 'Music', 'Interview', 'Creativity', 'Indie'] |
Baltimore Orioles first baseman, Chris Davis, was once one of Major League Baseball’s most-feared juggernauts in the batter’s box. In both 2013 and 2015, he led the majors in home runs and held batting averages of .286 and .262, respectively.
But by the end of 2018 and extending into the 2019 season, Davis led the lea... | ['Inspiration', 'Creativity', 'Motivation', 'Create', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to collect data from your life?
A beginner’s guide to personal data
Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash
1. Decide what’s important to you in your life
Before start collecting data from your life you should decide why do you want to do it? Do you want to be more productive? Healthier? Happier? Pick one or a couple... | ['Health', 'Productivity', 'Growth Mindset', 'Personal Development', 'Data'] |
Sign up for American Haiku Steamship To Writing History
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Writing takes practice. American Haiku is a great way to put your words from your fingers to your piece of paper. Don't quit, you can do it. Take a look | ['Humor', 'Mental Health', 'Creativity', 'Poetry', 'Art'] |
1. CloudFormation
CloudFormation is a service that enables us to describe infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code is a well-known practice to set out and manage IT infrastructure through the configuration files. With CloudFormation, we can define all required components and dependencies between them.
There are... | ['AWS', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud'] |
APPLIED DESIGN PATTERNS: STATE
Stop Using If-Else Statements
Write clean, maintainable code without if-else.
You’ve watched countless tutorials using If-Else statements. You’ve probably also read programming books promoting the use of If-Else as the de facto branching technique.
It’s perhaps even your default mode ... | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Csharp', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
深入介紹及比較ROC曲線及PR曲線
在一個二分類模型中，我們的模型通常不會直接輸出0,1直接預測出分類，而是對每個分類輸出一個機率，例如加上softmax對各分類輸出機率，這樣讓我們能夠自己設定一個門檻(threshold)來決定機率大於多少時我們判定為正樣本，反之為負樣本。而 ROC Curves 和 PR Curves 可以幫助我們分析這樣的 probablistic forcast
ROC 曲線以 FPR 為 X 軸，TPR為 Y 軸，每一個點代表設定不同的門檻值所得到的不同的 FPR 及 TPR ，最後繪製成一條曲線。建議可以參考我另一篇文章所介紹的混淆矩陣，以下會再介紹如何計算出 FPR 及 TPR
FPR表示成 1... | ['Evaluation', 'AI', 'Python', 'Classification', 'Machine Learning'] |
Every month, with clockwork like precision a brown paper package arrives in the mail. The unwrapping is revealing. For almost 50 years the National Geographic has been enriching my imagination. The connectedness to ourselves, to our planet and cosmos is like a lattice of human context. It’s also an important source for... | ['Manuel Lima', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Big Data', 'Design'] |
Revolver changed my life
I was in either 7th or 8th grade, and I went to a record store to buy a Beatles album. It was also the very first time I would ever buy a record.
I didn’t know much about The Beatles other than any song I heard I liked. One summer I went to day camp at The Thomas School of Horsemanship. Whene... | ['Beatles', 'Creativity', 'Revolver', 'Music'] |
Is the only thing standing between you and Hadoop just trying to figure out how to install it on a Mac? A quick internet search will show you the lack of information about this fairly simple process. In this brief tutorial, I will show you how you can very easily install Hadoop 3.2.1 on a macOS Mojave (version 10.14.6)... | ['Data Science', 'Hadoop', 'Data Engineering', 'Big Data', 'Mac Os X'] |
To be clear, we are not suggesting that more mature solutions merit less support — rather, forestry, BECCS, and DAC simply require different types of support concomitant with their relative level of technological readiness. For instance, funding for communications is required to socialize the understanding that not all... | ['Climate Change', 'Philanthropy', 'Future', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
The niche issue would always leave people confused. The point of focusing on one theme for your content can be horrifying. How can you forget other topics or specialties and focus on one thing alone? Doesn’t it mean that you’re limiting yourself to fewer people? Doesn’t that mean less money?
These are the questions th... | ['Inspiration', 'Freelancing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
Last Updated: August 9th, 2019
The average price range we would expect a first time wedding photographer to charge for their services is between $0 — $1,000.
Some photographers looking for their absolute first wedding experience may be willing to shoot for free in exchange for “exposure” and the ability to build thei... | ['Freelancing', 'Business', 'Photography', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
As a result of these initial scores, Figure 7 and Figure 8 above have been created to analyze the residuals within our model for training and testing. Each figure tells us that our model was appropriately chosen as the residuals do not show any clear patterns and also decently reveal an even spread of points above and ... | ['Data', 'Machine Learning', 'Aviation', 'Engineering', 'Python'] |
Solution with SQS
Introduce an SQS queue to the setup. I’ll call this queue raw-data-object-creation-event-queue . A message event will be sent to this queue whenever a new object is created in the raw-data bucket.
To accomplish this, set up an event listener at raw-data bucket and listen for All object create events... | ['AWS', 'Programming', 'Data Sceince', 'Data Engineering'] |
Our approach to healthcare is changing rapidly, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), which continues to drive the demand for services offering more intelligent analytics. As machine learning advances, there is also a broadening applicability of AI.
In an increasingly digitized world of connected devices and intelli... | ['Health Data', 'Health', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Healthcare', 'Ethics'] |
Andrew Zhai | Pinterest tech lead, Visual Search
Recently, we announced Lens BETA, a new way to discover objects and ideas from the world around on you using your phone’s camera. Just tap the Lens icon in the Pinterest app, point it at anything and Lens will return visually similar objects, related ideas or the object... | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Visual Search', 'Computer Vision', 'Engineering'] |
Like most people I know, lunch is my favourite meal of the day. It’s usually our first big meal of the day, and one that we’re always looking forward to, especially after an energy-draining first half of the day. Naturally I gravitated towards heavy lunches.
The things in my lunch menu included creamy spaghetti, doubl... | ['Self Improvement', 'Business', 'Health', 'Productivity', 'Nutrition'] |
When the news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, the instant outpouring of grief on social media was immediately followed by an outpouring of condemnation. Of a single 12-month period of time.
It all amounted to: “2020 is the Worst. Year. Ever.”
This year has been a steady stream of devast... | ['Grief', '2020', 'Culture', 'Society', 'Future'] |
Regression analysis is one of the most important fields in statistics and
Fig 1 — Regression
machine learning. There are several regression methods available. Linear regression is one of them. Regression searches for relationships among variables. In statistical modeling and in Machine learning that relationship is u... | ['Machine Learning', 'Matplotlib', 'Python', 'Linear Regression', 'Numpy'] |
Database is the information you loose when your memory crashes — Dave Barry
Introduction
According to Wikipedia, a dataset or data set is collection of data. In the open data discipline , the dataset is the unit to measure the information released in a public open data repository. The most common format for datasets ... | ['Data Analysis', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
What Has Happened to the IP Allocation?
Interesting! An empty two-node cluster has used up 62 IP addresses. Let’s work out why!
Access config
Set up our EKS cluster kubeconfig so we can use kubectl to investigate. I already have the AWS CLI configured.
aws eks --region eu-west-2 update-kubeconfig --name test
What ... | ['Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'AWS', 'Software Development', 'Programming'] |
Google Searches Reveal Covid-19 Hot Spots Before Governments Do
What Google searches reveal that governments won’t
A healthcare worker talks to people in line at a United Memorial Medical Center Covid-19 testing site in Houston, Texas, June 25, 2020. Photo: Mark Felix/Getty Images
Anosmia — the inability to smell — ... | ['Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Google', 'Public Health', 'Data'] |
Possible Explanations for Mandela Effects
Alternate Realities
One theory about the basis for the Mandela effect originates from quantum physics and relates to the idea that rather than one timeline of events, it is possible that alternate realities or universes are taking place and mixing with our timeline. In theory... | ['Humor', 'History', 'Marketing', 'Psychology', 'Art'] |
The Best Software Engineering Books I Read in 2020
A software engineer’s reading list
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash.
As 2020 draws to a close, I am thrilled to share with you a selection of the best software engineering books that I have read during the past 12 months.
If you are a software engineer, data sc... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Books', 'Software Engineering'] |
Writing isn’t like eating croissants.
It isn’t like pancakes or waffles or whatever your decadent pleasure.
There’s no need to feel guilty about enjoying writing for the sake of writing. You don’t need to make a lot of money from your writing to be worthy of writing.
Earlier this year, my family and I visited Paris,... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Jobs from Better Programming Jobs Our job board is launching very soon for your company to hire through us but this week we have two exciting opportunities from the Better Programming Staff! Better Programming's Co-Founder and Publisher is looking for a Ruby or Rails Engineer: * First, Tony Stubblebine is looking for a... | ['Startup', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
Limitations of past models
Traditional approaches to the 3D reconstruction task rely on the intermediate representation of depth maps before predicting the full 3D model of the scene. The researchers hypothesized that direct 2D to 3D prediction without an intermediate step would yield more accurate results.
How the p... | ['Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI'] |
Here are some writers and authors who did great work and even preferred writing in bed:
1. Marcel Proust
Shanghai Noir Marcel Proust writing in bed
“It is pleasant, when one is distraught, to lie in the warmth of one’s bed, and there, with all effort and struggle at an end, even perhaps with one’s head under the bla... | ['Writing Life', 'History', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
“AI for Software Engineering Process Management” is another one filed of using Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering.
This time we prepared the interview with Aurélien Nicolas, CTO at Deckard AI, an expert in this Subject Matter, to share a bit about his technical background, personal motivation and profess... | ['Machine Learning', 'Project Management', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'People'] |
First step as always is to import all the required libraries.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from random import sample
%matplotlib inline
Lets generate some data for the plotting exercise and plot a simple line plot.
x = np.linspace(0,10,20)#Generate 20 points between 0 and 10
y = x**2 # Crea... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Visualization', 'Data Visualization'] |
Initial meeting
Despite the informality of working on the floor of my home office, I felt that I should kick off the meeting with some semi-professional expectation-setting; I let him know that my main goal was to put together visuals that would help him more effectively tell his story when seeing a new GI doctor. I a... | ['Health', 'Visualization', 'Data', 'Healthcare', 'UX'] |
We wanted to scale our teams further but maintain the principles of what helped us move fast: autonomy, work with minimal coordination, self-service infrastructure.
Kubernetes helps us achieve this in a few ways:
Application-focused abstractions
We operate and configure our clusters to minimise coordination
Applica... | ['Lean', 'Agile', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'AWS'] |
How SEO Works In 2017
The way SEO works has changed. Here’s what you need to know.
The way SEO works has changed. Here’s what you need to know.
Most purchasing decisions start with a Google search and as such, SEO should still be your #1 source of new traffic, new leads and new revenue.
If it’s not, then this is wh... | ['SEO', 'Google', 'Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Is Medium Worth It for Freelance Writers?
It depends on your goals and how much you’re willing to invest in the platform
Image by Jason McBride
Medium is one of the most exciting platforms for writers. It’s easy to publish your work. There are no gatekeepers or technical hurdles stopping you. It is also much easier ... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
A humble request from a dedicated reader
I know this is going to sound weird so please don’t hold it against me but I’m having an awful time accessing your articles. Every time I show up on your page, I notice the entire first page of stories are pinned stories that you’ve been writing over the past 6 months. These ar... | ['Language', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle'] |
After defining some of the main concepts in the API world in the previous article, I will talk about the different ways of deploying an API Gateway for the Machine Learning platform.
In this article, I will use the infrastructure and software layers designed in one of my previous articles. You may want to go through i... | ['Machine Learning', 'Api Gateway', 'AWS', 'Technology', 'Cloud Computing'] |
A Comprehensive Guide To Publishing Poetry On Medium
Best Practices, Tips & Tricks, and What Not To Do
Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash
This is for anyone who publishes poetry or plans to, on Medium.
Offline poetry is something different. The formatting options and creative iconography are endless. In our journ... | ['Guides And Tutorials', 'Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Poetry On Medium'] |
Angular vs. React vs. Vue: Spot the Difference
The comparison of these three frameworks (Angular versus React versus Vue) will help you to have a clear perspective regarding the perfect framework as per your project requirements.
When you have an important project with several bottlenecks, you require a comprehensive... | ['Angular', 'Programming', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs'] |
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This blog takes the broadest conception of sound design possible including visual effects because audio likes video. Over 90,000 views annually.
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Opinion
Here’s Why We Need Health Data Collection
Tech can enable valuable experiences with your health data
Image by Lukas on Unsplash
Our data is constantly collected, from YouTube history to calendar reminders to daily workouts, all possible due to rapid technological growth. According to the National Center for... | ['Data', 'Health', 'Technology', 'People', 'Education'] |
What to Do When Your Loved Ones Don’t Support Your Art
Don’t try to hire them for a job they don’t want.
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
The Pain is Real
One of the hardest things about being a writer or any kind of creative is when the people we care about don’t support us. When those who are closest to us sn... | ['Relationships', 'Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
Three UX Design Principles
1. Just KISS
I am sorry it is not what you are thinking ;)
KISS means “keep it simple, stupid”. Good user experience doesn’t mean stacking all the beautiful graphics together. It looks amazing, but your attention is dispersed everywhere on the screen, and to be honest, it is tiring. It is ... | ['Data', 'Data Analysis', 'UX', 'Design', 'Dashboard'] |
Actions Are the Heart of a Function
Actions are the verb part of your function name. They’re the most important part in describing what the function does.
- get
Accesses data immediately (i.e., shorthand getter of internal data).
function getFruitsCount() {
return this.fruits.length;
}
- set
Declaratively sets ... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'JavaScript'] |
Children’s literature is one of the most sacred types of writing in the entire medium. Kids are so impressionable and curious. They want to know the answers to the big questions, taking in all of the information available to them like a sponge.
It takes a truly special author to tap into their own childlike imaginatio... | ['Education', 'Books', 'Children', 'Creativity', 'Teaching'] |
In recent years, streaming libraries seem to have evolved significantly. To name a few, we’ve seen Akka Streams, KafkaStreams, Flink, Spark Streaming and others, becoming increasingly popular. There might be numerous reasons for that. A common motivation for using stream processing in your systems is to avoid heavy com... | ['Streaming', 'Engineering', 'Data Structures', 'Big Data', 'Scala'] |
Have you ever been in a situation when you were continually saving multiple documents with random names and got confused when you looked at them after a month or so?
Well, many of us have been there including me and we know how tough that is each time!
With the amount of information we’re being exposed to increasing ... | ['Technology', 'Software Development', 'Innovation', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
Python for FPL(!) Data Analytics
Using Python and Matplotlib to perform Fantasy Football Data Analysis and Visualisation
author’s graph
Introduction
There are two reasons for this piece: (1) I wanted to teach myself some Data Analysis and Visualisation techniques using Python; and (2) I need to arrest my Fantasy Fo... | ['Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Football'] |
What we can learn from Harry Potter
Think of how much we learn about love and friendship and perseverance through reading a book like Harry Potter. Let’s use a super relatable example of a narrative structure used well in this book and how it taught us about character motivations and reliability. (And okay, I’m going ... | ['Business', 'People', 'Stories', 'Books', 'Harry Potter'] |
It’s time to amp up and adjust our marketing strategies for the holidays!
If you want to get ahead of the marketing game and stand out from the crowd, check out these incredible unicorn tips from the top social media marketing experts.
We’ve got insights from Mari Smith, Neil Patel, Virginia Nussey, Dennis Yu, Lilach... | ['Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Social Media', 'Marketing Tips'] |
Bill Maher Is Wrong, We Shouldn’t Call COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus”
Chinese people have enough to deal with right now. Let’s not add our bigotry to their misery.
There’s a pretty big debate raging right now in the United States— and pretty much only in the United States— over whether or not COVID-19 should be dubbed ... | ['Culture', 'Society', 'Coronavirus', 'China', 'Politics'] |
Stop Thinking You Need to Dumb Down Your Articles for Medium
I analyzed the top 10 popular articles for the day, and this is what I discovered.
Photo by Christian Perello on Unsplash
If you read Medium articles on how to succeed at writing on Medium, you likely have seen the popular advice that you need to keep your... | ['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Ｍedium', 'Writing Advice', 'Writing'] |
Catch the replay of the Apsara Conference 2020 at this link!
By ELK Geek, with special guest, Xie Pengjun (Chengchen), Senior Algorithm Expert of Alibaba Cloud AI
Introduction: When building search engines, effect optimization issues will emerge, many of which are related to Natural Language Processing (NLP). This ar... | ['Algorithms', 'Big Data', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Dr Peter Smith, Principal Software Engineer, ACL.
I recently had the good fortune of presenting at the Vancouver Amazon Web Services User Group. This monthly event, organized by Onica, is a great opportunity to network with like-minded people in the community, and to discuss AWS-related topics.
In my presentation,... | ['Database', 'Software Development', 'Apache Spark', 'Big Data', 'AWS'] |
The above images are not real. They are not actual people, works of art, or cats. They are not photographs. There is no copyright or attribution required to use them because a computer made them up on the spot.
These images are computer generated on the fly by a form of artificial intelligence known as a Generative Ad... | ['AI', 'Pubprompt', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Writing Prompts', 'Prompt'] |
One of the most exciting application of Deep Learning is Neural Style Transfer. Through this article, we will understand Neural Style Transfer and implement our own Neural Style Transfer Algorithm using pre-trained Convnet Deep Learning Model.
Let’s get started and understand what neural style transfer is!!.
Neural s... | ['Convolutional Network', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Computer Vision', 'Neural Style Transfer'] |
But that fact is misleading — especially since the Democratic Party used to be the party of slavery. Andrew Jackson winning the popular vote in 1824 but losing the electoral vote in the House of Representatives was undoubtedly a progressive victory, as Jackson is a president with one of the worst track records on slave... | ['Politics', 'Race', 'Nonfiction', 'Society', 'Election 2020'] |
In my previous stories, I explored different techniques for exploiting Server-Side Request Forgeries (SSRF), which can lead to unauthorized access to various resources within the internal network of a Web server. In some circumstances, SSRFs can event lead to API keys or database credentials getting compromised. In thi... | ['Information Security', 'Hacking', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloudformation'] |
Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash
Using node modules in Deno
A bad practice but sometimes there is no alternative.
Last time we introduced about Deno and discussed how it compares to node, like node, Deno is a server side code-execution environment based on web technology.
Node uses JavaScript with commonjs module... | ['Deno', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Samsung Internet', 'Web Development'] |
IMAGE: Yuriy Davats — 123RF
Poker, as has previously happened to chess and Go, has joined the games that a set of algorithms is already capable of playing better than the human champions can manage. On January 31, after twenty days of Heads Up, No Limit Texas Hold ’em, four people considered among the best professiona... | ['AI', 'Poker', 'Algorithms', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
The Mixtape for Indie Rock Lovers Vol. 1
Rewind. Record. Repeat.
As a late 80’s kid, the joy of discovering new music through hand-crafted compilations were easily shared through mixtapes. And even though I missed a portion of that era, I still remember running to my cassette player to hit record only to find out lat... | ['Inspiration', 'Culture', 'Ideas', 'Creativity', 'Music'] |
Supposedly atheist intellectuals are now spending a lot of time arguing over the consequences of creating “God.” Often they refer to this supreme being as a “superintelligence,” an A.I. that, in their thought experiments, possesses magical traits far beyond just enhanced intelligence. Any belief system needs a positive... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Robots', 'Future'] |
Steve Jobs’ Dark Past
The time Steve Job’s cheated his way to success
Steve Wozniak Atari and Steve Jobs Image source: (Photo by Reuters) Steve Wozniak on Breakout, Atari and Steve Jobs
I believe that most people have a dark past, a past that they wish won’t come to light, but sooner or later you have to take that p... | ['History', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Complete guide to machine learning and deep learning in retail
The stores aren’t dead yet
Stores are changing. We see it happening before our eyes, even if we don’t always realize it. Little by little, they are becoming just one extra step in an increasingly complex customer journey. Thanks to digitalisation and reta... | ['Retail Technology', 'AI', 'Retail', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
Orchestrating change data capture to a data lake
Building change data capture(CDC) with Spark Streaming SQL
What is change data capture?
If you are a data engineer, CDC will not appear foreign to you. It is an approach to data integration that is based on the checking, capture and delivery of the change to the data ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Engineering', 'Spark'] |
Add Chat Feature to Demo of Amazon Chime SDK React Component Library dannadori Follow Nov 30 · 7 min read
Note:
This article is also available here.(Japanese)
https://cloud.flect.co.jp/entry/2020/11/30/125920
In our last article, we posted a brief introduction to the Amazon Chime SDK React Component Library. At the... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'AWS', 'Videoconference'] |
The 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria That Could Be the Answer to Eternal Life
Are we meant to live eternally?
Ancient bacteria from 3.5 million years ago also known as Bacillus F strain (Source: MIMS)
For centuries, humans have been in the look for a source of eternity or a potion that can bring you back to your youth.... | ['Health', 'History', 'Science', 'Life', 'Medicine'] |
Numerous scientific papers, historical documentaries/artifacts, recipes, books are stored as papers be it handwritten/typewritten. With time, the paper/notes tend to accumulate noise/dirt through fingerprints, weakening of paper fibers, dirt, coffee/tea stains, abrasions, wrinkling, etc. There are several surface clean... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'AWS'] |
I’ve long been a fan of the artist Grayson Perry.
In my opinion he speaks a lot of sense, and has a great ability to make art seem more accessible. But I’ve gained even more of an appreciation recently. Mainly because I finally got round to reading his book — ‘Playing to the Gallery’.
In it he debunks a lot of myths ... | ['Brand Strategy', 'Marketing', 'Strategy', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
Photo by Alessio Linon Unsplash
5 Better Things to Do Instead of Staring at a Blank Page
When you’re stuck, take a break.
Every writer feels stuck every once in a while.
The words don’t seem to come up, and the few that do simply do not fit together. Your thoughts are either muddled or non-existent. Yet, you persis... | ['Self', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
When Apple introduced its first iPhone — it was literally a shift in the paradigm of what we always viewed phones to be.
Since then, there have been several significant evolutions in technology, but nothing can compare to the biggest of them all — Artificial Intelligence.
Don’t agree?
AI is having a bearing on almos... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ai Development', 'Ai In Ecommerce', 'Ecommerce'] |
A poetry appreciation class is to poems, what applesauce
is to apples. We eat applesauce at room temperature,
no chewing required, and in a mouth that breeds sadness.
Similarly, we teach poetry appreciation in tame, extra-credit,
cage-like places where eyes dart for the clock, pleading
how much longer? Applesauce ... | ['Creativity', 'Writing', 'Poetry'] |
How I Built Grotesk, a React Component (and CSS Library) That Makes Web Type Simple
Typography styles, simplified
What’s Grotesk?
Grotesk is a CSS library and React component that aims to make web typography simple.
The reason I built it is because I’ve noticed I start almost every static website off with the same ... | ['CSS', 'Programming', 'Design', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
Focus on Having a Good Time to Beat Your Procrastination
Focusing on micro-managing our time, just creates more boring chores to procrastinate over!
Photo by Marcin Dampc from Pexels
Procrastination has been my archenemy for at least 2 decades, and it has led to problems in work, in my relationships, and in life in ... | ['Management', 'Life Lessons', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business'] |
Tackling the Small Object Problem in Object Detection
Note: we have also published Tackling the Small Object Problem on our blog. Detecting small objects is one of the most challenging and important problems in computer vision. In this post, we will discuss some of the strategies we have developed at Roboflow by itera... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Object Detection', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning'] |
Publishing CloudWatch Metrics
With the API set up, I want it to send metrics to CloudWatch so we can use it later. But first, I will quickly go through some basic CloudWatch concepts if you’ve never used them before. If you want to dive more into it, I found this post by Mathew Kenny Thomas which explains each concept... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Typescript', 'AWS', 'Programming'] |
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