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Hilma af Klint and Yayoi Kusama: Tapping spirituality and visions into art
The lives, work, and legacy of these creatives who dabbled in transcendental expression
Group IX/SUW №12 by Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint
Deemed the first modern artist of the Western World, Hilma af Klint was a Swedish creative who credited... | ['Design', 'Culture', 'Creativity', 'Visual Design', 'Art'] |
Every Time Something Happens, Normal Changes Forever
And we can never go back
Do you remember when a loved one was flying to your city for a visit? You would drive to the airport and wait at the gate when they stepped off the plane. If you spent much time in an airport, you saw those joyous reunions at almost every g... | ['Life Lessons', 'Covid 19', 'Society', 'Health', 'Life'] |
Lesson Two: Find a Golden Ticket
One of the biggest problems freelancers tend to have is increasing their rates. They secure a few clients, those clients become accustomed to paying x amount of money per article, and then the budding writer gets stuck. They don’t want to demand more money and lose a client, but they a... | ['Creativity', 'Business', 'Work', 'Freelancing', 'Writing'] |
Even legends are perplexed by rigid bodies
When we think of the hard topics in physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity spring to mind. Although those topics are incredibly complex and non-intuitive, I personally feel that the motion of an asymmetric top trumps both QM and DR in complexity, making it one of t... | ['Education', 'Physics', 'Science', 'Mathematics', 'Engineering'] |
What Every Developers & Programmers Need to Read in June 🔥🔥 Keyul Follow Jun 10 · 2 min read
Hello Readers,
Staying at home gives you extra time. You have to utilize this time in the right direction. During this time, spend maximum of your time in learning new programming, tech stack or tool, build various projects... | ['Programming', 'Development', 'Coding', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
1. Before you even start, make sure everyone in your life is perfectly satisfied.
In order to write, you’re going to need a lot of time to yourself.
Seriously, a LOT of time. And, God help you if anyone interrupts you, because you’ll never get back on track. You need great, big gobs of uninterrupted time.
If you’re ... | ['Humor', 'Learning', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Writing'] |
Glacier National Park, where many glaciers are melting and more have already disappeared
Recently I read this New York Times article that broke down global warming, and in particular how it is affected by aviation, into digestible information that alarmed me.
Did you know that one passenger on a 2,500-mile flight is ... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Millennials', 'Sustainability', 'Travel'] |
EDA with Lux: Supporting a Visual dataframe workflow
Image from the presentation with permission from the author
df
When we print out the data frame, we see the default pandas table display. We can toggle it to get a set of recommendations generated automatically by Lux.
Image by Author
The recommendations in lux ... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis', 'Lux'] |
Workplace studies in 2019 have reached a common conclusion — remote work is here to stay. Once people try working remotely, up to 99% want to continue, while 95% would recommend the practice to others.
But that’s not all.
A Zapier survey revealed that 74% of workers would quit their jobs for the ability to work from ... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Future'] |
2020 Was the Turning Point for CRISPR
Scientists took huge strides toward using the gene-editing tool for medical treatments
Photo: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images
Amid a raging global pandemic, the field of gene editing made major strides in 2020. For years, scientists have been breathlessly hopeful about the potential... | ['CRISPR', 'Technology', 'Science', 'Biotech', 'Future'] |
Now, pandemics don’t necessarily bring out our best instincts either. No matter how many mutual aid networks, school committees, food pantries, race protests, or fundraising efforts in which we participate, I feel as if many of those privileged enough to do so are still making a less public, internal calculation: How m... | ['Society', 'Privilege', 'Digital', 'Technology', 'Future'] |
Lessons learnt from building reactive microservices for Canva Live
Behind the scenes on our mission to drive the next era of presentation software.
Presentations are one of the most popular formats on Canva, with everyone from small businesses, to students and professionals creating stunning slide decks — averaging u... | ['Microservices', 'Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Nodejs'] |
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This is part 4 in a four part series where we will demonstrate building a web application using Go and Vue, and finally bundle it all together in a single binary for super-easy deployment/distribution. Part 1 can be found here, part 2 here, and part 3 here.
In part 1 we built the Go ... | ['Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Development', 'Vuejs', 'Golang'] |
Apple Is Killing A Billion-Dollar Ad Industry With One Popup
The new iOS 14 privacy feature spells trouble for advertisement agencies and promises to end an era of personalized ads
Photo by Tobias Moore on Unsplash
When Apple’s WWDC 2020 digital-only Keynote event kickstarted, all eyes were on the new mac OS Big Sur... | ['Technology', 'Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Apple', 'Business'] |
This story was originally published on blog.healthtap.com on February 14, 2018.
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful day to celebrate all of the love in your life, whether that love is with a partner, your friends, or your family. Valentine’s Day is also an amazing day to take the time to practice some self-care and to show... | ['Self Care', 'Health', 'Valentines Day', 'Love', 'Wellness'] |
Enter Tim Ferriss and the Mental Ward
So, if depleting my body of all animal products and saturated fat caused me to shake hands with God, Shiva, and the gang, then surely doing the exact opposite would work, right?
Wrong.
(Quick side note: I didn’t see Elvis there. Meaning, he’s either still alive or in the “other ... | ['Humor', 'Creativity', 'Health', 'Self', 'Tim Ferriss'] |
Spain is the number one country for tourism in the world. With sights like the Museo del Prado and Royal Palace of Madrid, it is hard to see how such spectacular beauty could ever be overlooked.
To assist in visualising the majesty of this European gem, Vizzuality and CartoDB are proud to announce our latest release: ... | ['Design', 'Big Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
Animations with Matplotlib
Using the matplotlib library to create some interesting animations.
Animations are an interesting way of demonstrating a phenomenon. We as humans are always enthralled by animated and interactive charts rather than the static ones. Animations make even more sense when depicting time-series ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Matplotlib', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Towards Data Science'] |
A statistical approach to explaining bad deadlines in engineering projects
Whether you are a junior, senior, project manager, or a top-level manager with 20 years of experience, software project time estimation never becomes easy. No one no matter how experienced or genius they are can claim to know for sure the exact... | ['Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Engineering', 'Time Management', 'Project Management'] |
Stephanie Rogers | Pinterest engineer, Discovery
What topics are Pinners interested in? When are they most engaged with these topics? How are they engaging with those topics? To answer these questions, we built an internal web service that visualizes unstructured data and helps us better understand timely trends we ca... | ['Elasticsearch', 'Analytics', 'Pinterest', 'Engineering', 'Big Data'] |
Collaborate to apply Artificial Intelligence Methods for developing Advantageous Conditions to increase Intensity and Efficiency of Software Engineering
Follow | ['Software Engineering', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development', 'Data', 'Data Science'] |
Get this newsletter By signing up, you will create a Medium account if you don’t already have one. Review our Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices.
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Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription. | ['Data Science', 'Computer Vision', 'Español', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Supervised learning is the most common subbranch of machine learning today. Typically, new machine learning practitioners will begin their journey with supervised learning algorithms. Therefore, the first of this three post series will be about supervised learning.
Supervised machine learning algorithms are designed t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Serious back door Vulnerabilities spotted in TikTok
The security flaws were identified by a cybersecurity firm Check Point, which the company claims to have fixed
TikTok has broken all barriers of popularity, achieving 1.5 billion global users in just over two & a half years. The immense growth can be gauged from the... | ['Privacy', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Cybersecurity'] |
Life as a developer
I started my career working in a startup as a developer. I had a really good manager. For 2 years, he taught me to write maintainable code, create a scalable architecture and write tests to ensure quality.
It would have been the best job in the world... If it wasn’t because of product managers.
P... | ['Software Engineering', 'Engineering', 'Business', 'Agile', 'Product Management'] |
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It is the 21st century, technology is on the rise, the internet has succeeded paper texts. We live in a world that is interconnected. In this fast-paced, growing world, data is being rapidly created every second. The use of algorithms and statistical measures allows us to graph each mo... | ['Privacy', 'Netflix', 'Software Development', 'Facebook', 'Big Data'] |
Making the bar graph horizontal is as easy as plt.barh( ). Let’s add one more attribute to our graphs in order to depict the amount of variance.
Within you code add the following code
varience = [2,4,3,2,4]
plt.barh( sectors , sector_values , xerr = varience , color = ‘blue’)
The xerr= allows us to indicate the amo... | ['Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Matplotlib'] |
What 4 Years Of Programming Taught Me About Writing Typed JavaScript
Untyped JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow, and PropTypes: Which one should you use?
Photo by Kevin Canlas on Unsplash
Types of types
Mostly, statically typed languages are criticized for restricting developers. On the other hand, they’re loved for brin... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'React'] |
4 Science-Backed Ways to Get You Feeling Energetic
These tactical approaches will improve concentration and alertness
Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash
Raise your hands if you struggle to get out of bed, even when you’ve technically gotten enough sleep, constantly begging your alarm to give you just 5 minute... | ['Health', 'Inspiration', 'Science', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
What is Data Visualization?
Data visualization is the process of presenting data. It is how we communicate findings from data in visually clear, concise, and often aesthetic ways. A data visualization typically focuses on a specific dataset, aiming to communicate a relationship, trend, distribution, etc. or lack there... | ['Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis'] |
Statistics show only an estimated 22% of Artificial Intelligence professionals globally are female and only 20% of all computer programmers are female. Find this revelation shocking? Well so do I.
Hi, my name is Malaika and I find the world of technology and computer science absolutely riveting. My fascination with te... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Women In Ai', 'Women In Tech'] |
The morning coffee that awakens the mind,
weakens the foundations of the shrine, that is the body.
That which is forceful against the wills of the mind,
the mind that remains powerless as the limbs keep pushing on,
as though chasing that sun until it reaches the horizon. | ['Struggle', 'Mental Health', 'Mindfulness', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
Inspiration, knowledge, and anything about data science by Make-AI
Follow | ['Data Science', 'Bar Chart', 'Data Visualization', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Visualization'] |
Radio #LatentVoices. 001 — A Glimpse of Another World.
AI-driven musical storytelling
Eerie and fantastic at the same time: Exploration of AI-driven creative tools is full of surprises and discoveries. It’s like entering an Unsupervised Machine Dream — everything is new, unique, unexpectable.
For me running JukeBox ... | ['Art', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Latentvoices', 'Music'] |
INSIGHTS GATHERED:
CHALLENGES:
The ability to recognise deep fake pictures by humans is very low, while the ability of an AI to detect them is fairly high. Facebook’s Deepfake Detection Challenge, in collaboration with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and the Partnership on AI, was run through Kaggle, a platform for c... | ['AI', 'Future', 'Deepfakes', 'Synthetic Data'] |
In this article, you’ll learn how to use Google Colab for training a CNN on the MNIST dataset using Google’s TPUs.
Hold up, what’s a CNN?
In a regular Neural Network, you recognize patterns from labelled data (“supervised learning”), with a structure made of inputs, outputs, and neurons in between. Some are these are... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Google', 'Data Science'] |
Writing some code
Well, let’s write some code. Create the main.py file and set the basic settings:
from celery import Celery
from kombu import Queue
app = Celery('Test app', broker='amqp://guest@localhost//')
# 1 queue for tasks and 1 queue for tokens
app.conf.task_queues = [
Queue('github'),
# I limited ... | ['Distributed Systems', 'Python', 'Software Development', 'Celery', 'Rabbitmq'] |
AWS Glue Studio—No Spark Skills-No Problem
Easily create Spark ETL jobs using AWS Glue Studio — no Spark experience required
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
AWS Glue Studio was launched recently. With AWS Glue Studio you can use a GUI to create, manage and monitor ETL jobs without the need of Spark programming sk... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AWS', 'Data'] |
Rivian Has Become a Top Dog in the Electric Vehicle Battle
Amazon will drive 10,000 Rivian vans in 2022, 100,000 in 2030
Photo by Amazon/Rivian
While Tesla holds a massive lead in consumer electric vehicle sales, another company has a firm grip on the delivery market: Rivian.
If you’ve never heard of Rivian, that’s... | ['Transportation', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Sustainability', 'Electric Vehicles'] |
Hai Hoang is a Commit engineer who joined Planworth, an early-stage wealth planning SaaS platform in 2019 as a technical lead. We sat down with him to hear about his journey.
Tell us a bit about your background before joining Commit?
I spent the first two-and-a-half years of my career at a large tech company, then di... | ['Technology', 'Careers', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
In 2015, I wanted to help with AI research, but taking the first steps felt daunting. I’d graduated from MIT then spent eight years building web startups. I’d put in my 10,000 hours, gotten funding from Y Combinator and grown a company to thirty people. Moving to research felt like starting over in my career. Was it re... | ['AI', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
20 (more) Technologies that will change your life by 2050
The future will be… weird ?
I recently shared an article called “The “Next Big Thing” in Technology : 20 Inventions That Will Change the World”, which got a few dozen thousand hits in the past couple of weeks. This calls for a sequel. The previous 20 technolog... | ['Next Big Thing', 'Predictions', 'Future', 'Technology', 'AI'] |
Build flexible, scalable, and reliable apps with AWS Amplify
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a full-stack serverless app using Vue and AWS Amplify. You will create a new project and add a full authorisation flow using the authenticator component. This includes:
Please let me know if you have any questio... | ['JavaScript', 'Aws Amplify', 'Vuejs', 'AWS'] |
Traditional Service
The easiest way to begin defining what a service is, is to define what it is not. A service is not a product. A service, in the context of business and economics, is a transaction in which no physical goods are exchanged — it is intangible. The consumer does not receive anything tangible or theirs ... | ['Economics', 'Technology', 'Cloud Computing', 'Business', 'Design'] |
Quickly
Read this quickly, faster, faster…
Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash
Read this quickly
Faster
Faster
Hurry up
Get in
Sit down
Don’t think
Just do
Early bird
Don’t break
Don’t stop
Keep going
Faster
Get it right
Make room
Wind it up
Never slow
Never stop
Outta time
Outta this
Outta ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Meditation', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
AWS recently introduced a new feature that allows you to automatically pull messages from a SQS queue and have them processed by a Lambda function. I recently started experimenting with this feature to do ETL (“Extract, Transform, Load”) on a S3 bucket. I was curious to see how fast, and at what cost I could process th... | ['Python', 'S3', 'AWS', 'AWS Lambda', 'Serverless'] |
Explore how we can deliver real-time data using data streams to Elasticsearch service using AWS Kinesis Firehose.
Elasticsearch is an open-source solution that is used by many companies around the world for analytics. By definition, Elasticsearch is an open-source, RESTful, distributed, indexed search, and analytics s... | ['Big Data', 'Kinesis', 'AWS', 'Elasticsearch', 'Data'] |
Once you know JavaScript, you can immediately cause changes in your browser by manipulating the DOM. You can use JavaScript or jQuery to add or remove elements or change values when things are clicked and create an interactive website. However, DOM manipulation requires some excessive steps. If you want to change a dis... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
How can you improve on the already excellent Pydantic validation?
Recently, I had the pleasure of contributing a new parser utility code to an amazing and relatively new project on Github: AWS Lambda Powertools.
This repo, which started as Python oriented (but now supports other languages such as Java and more to fol... | ['Validation', 'Python', 'AWS Lambda', 'Software Development', 'AWS'] |
Myelin is often referred to as an insulator because it drastically increases the speed of action potential propagation; an axon ensheathed in myelin can send signals up to 300x faster than its unmyelinated counterparts. This enhanced conduction speed allows rapid communication to occur between distal parts of a spread ... | ['Neuroscience', 'The Law Of The Instrument', 'Brain', 'Myelin', 'Biology'] |
Kubernetes — Learn Init Container Pattern
Understanding Init Container Pattern With an Example Project
Photo by Judson Moore on Unsplash
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. A pod is the basic building block of k... | ['Software Engineering', 'DevOps', 'Software Development', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes'] |
All it takes is 30 minutes and a pair of shoes.
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What’s the purpose of school?
No, really. I want you to think about that question for a few minutes before you read on.
Did you come up with an answer? I bet it has something to do with educating kids so that they can grow up into full... | ['Society', 'Schools', 'Culture', 'Health', 'Education'] |
1. Is Python a compiled or an interpreted language?
The answer is ‘Both’ . But this answer most probably won’t get anyone the job until we explain the difference between an interpreted & a compiled language.
Why we need a translator?
Humans understand and hence talk human language, something closer to English. Machi... | ['Python', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization', 'Database'] |
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The barbell deadlift is a compound exercise that works almost every major muscle group. While it is phenomenal for developing full body strength, it also has the potential to be dangerous if performed improperly.
For all of its benefits, it could be argued that the deadlift’s risk... | ['Health', 'Wellness', 'Fitness', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, Diffuse Mode
How to make use of your superior diffuse mode a.k.a. your subconsciousness
This is a follow-up of the chapter discussing the focused mode. I have a lot of ideas every day, but not enough time to write them all down, so I chos... | ['Neuroscience', 'Learning', 'Education', 'Students', 'Brain'] |
Story is the best form of communication we have. To the steely-eyed analyst, it may seem superfluous and manipulative — a way to persuade with emotion instead of facts. While it is true that some have used story to mislead and befuddle, to discard it altogether is like blaming shoes for an inability to dunk a basketbal... | ['Topicsindv', 'Design', 'Storytelling', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
We Need a Code of Ethics
We’ve been moving too fast for too long and it’s hurting everyone.
I keep wondering what we can do to ensure we’re building a better world with the products we make and if we need a code of ethics. So often I see people fall through the cracks because they’re “edge cases” or “not the target a... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Design', 'Ethics'] |
For more information on Instance Types see the EC2 documentation.
3- Storage
Amazon EC2 offers flexible, cost-effective, and easy-to-use data storage options to be used with instances each having a unique combination of performance and durability. Each option can be used independently or in combination. These storage... | ['Amazon Web Services', 'AWS', 'Cloud Services', 'Cloud Computing', 'Ec2'] |
Will the advent of A.I. allow us to embark upon a complete overhaul of traditional labor structures?
This is a question that comes up less frequently than others and one that has an answer that is wholly dependent on whether or not we’d like to take an optimistic or pessimistic view.
In another way to phrase it — A.I... | ['AI', 'Philosophy', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Elon Musk'] |
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a 2018 Congressional hearing on privacy (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | Source)
It has been a tragic saga, for people who are familiar with the ways that social media platforms and companies operate, to watch government regulatory sessions with Big Tech companies. For many y... | ['Technology', 'Regulation', 'Google', 'Surveillance Capitalism', 'Facebook'] |
Images and Docker Hub
How do I see the actual docker file on Docker Hub?
Amazingly this isn’t a simple thing.
Docker Hub really just hosts the images, not the actual Dockerfile used to make them (assuming they were made from a Dockerfile). You can get lucky by heading to the page for the desired image on Docker Hub,... | ['Coding', 'Development', 'Programming', 'Docker', 'AI'] |
Introduction
Data products have always been an instrumental part of Airbnb’s service. However, we have long recognized that it’s costly to make data products. For example, personalized search ranking enables guests to more easily discover homes, and smart pricing allows hosts to set more competitive prices according t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Tech Employees Disagree With Their Companies on BLM
Nearly 1/3 of Facebook staff members aren’t satisfied with the company’s response
Photo by AJ Colores on Unsplash
According to a new survey of tech professionals from data company Blind, a significant number of tech professionals at major companies disagree with th... | ['Google', 'Tech', 'Facebook', 'Diversity', 'Black Lives Matter'] |
New research shows why anyone with high blood pressure — nearly half of U.S. adults — should seek to lower it. High blood pressure, or hypertension, can accelerate the decline in brain function, including memory, concentration and verbal skills, scientists report today in the journal Hypertension.
The cognitive declin... | ['Blood Pressure', 'Hypertension', 'Health', 'Brain', 'High Blood Pressure'] |
Correct Code
Stephanie Weirich Designs Tools for a Safer World
Stephanie Weirich
By Jacob Williamson-Rea
New cars are packed with helpful technology. Downward-facing cameras help drivers stay within lanes, and adaptive cruise control can brake and accelerate a vehicle based on other drivers’ speeds. Likewise, banks... | ['Coding', 'Computer Science', 'Programming Languages', 'Engineering', 'Science'] |
Deploying Static Websites To AWS S3 + CloudFront + Route53 Using The TypeScript AWS CDK Dennis O'Keeffe Follow Nov 4 · 4 min read
In today’s post, we’re going to walk through a step-by-step deployment of a static website to an S3 bucket that has CloudFront setup as the global CDN.
The post is written using the AWS Ty... | ['S3', 'Nextjs', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'AWS'] |
Building a data lake on AWS using Redshift Spectrum Engineering@ZenOfAI Follow Mar 11 · 5 min read
In one of our earlier posts, we had talked about setting up a data lake using AWS LakeFormation. Once the data lake is setup, we can use Amazon Athena to query data. Athena is an interactive query service that makes it e... | ['Software Development', 'Redshift', 'AWS', 'Cloud Computing', 'Athena'] |
Complete Introduction to PySpark-Part 2
Exploratory Data Analysis using PySpark
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Exploratory Data Analysis
Exploratory Data Analysis is the most crucial part, to begin with whenever we are working with a dataset. It allows us to analyze the data and let us explore the initial findi... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Data Analysis', 'Pyspark', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Editor’s Note: Preparing data is a crucial and unavoidable part of any data scientist’s job. In this post writer Kate Shoup takes a closer look at the data bottleneck that affects so many projects, and how to address it.
Most people enter the field of data science because “they love the challenge of developing algorit... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Scientist'] |
Why We Spend Our Brief Lives Indoors, Alone, and Typing
Or, how I justify teaching my students the dying art of writing
I worry about what to tell Kate.
For most of my students, knowing how to write well will just be an unfair advantage in whatever career they choose — I tell them it’s like being rich, or pretty. Bu... | ['Education', 'Creativity', 'Media', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
An Update to Your Fitbit Could Detect a Covid-19 Symptom
You might have a full-featured pulse oximeter sitting on your wrist right now
Photo: Adam Birkett/Unsplash
One of the scariest things about Covid-19 is that if you get the virus, there’s not a whole lot you can do. Official guidelines say to treat it at home, ... | ['Health', 'Wearables', 'Fitbit', 'Tech', 'Coronavirus'] |
Bulletproof Writers, as of now, has remained a dormant project of mine, due to my previous inability to share with others and try and do it all on my own.
But now, I’ve realized my folly and am opening the publication to new writers.
The easiest way to apply is through this link at Smedian, scrolling down to this pub... | ['Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Blogging', 'Art', 'Writing'] |
One of the biggest rites of passage for any founder is the first time they pitch their idea / product / solution to an audience. You’ve worked hard to perfect your code and design, and your demo is debugged and polished. You’re the type of person who works wells under pressure, and you haven’t really thought about what... | ['Silicon Valley', 'Growth', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Startup'] |
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The Crystal Jelly Unveils Its Brightest Protein Yet
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On behalf of our design team at IBM Cloud, Data and AI, we’re excited to announce that we’ve won iF Design Awards in the Communications category for IBM AutoAI and IBM Watson Studio Desktop. We are thrilled to see these two products get recognized for their outstanding design work.
This year, the iF Design jury, compr... | ['Machine Learning', 'UX', 'Data Science', 'Design', 'AI'] |
Where to begin with color in 3D?
Getting started with color in Cinema4D Lite.
Color, shape, and fun in C4D (created by Sarah Healy)
I can vividly remember opening 3D Studio Max for the first time.
It felt like I had suddenly been thrust the controls of the starship enterprise, with zero experience of actually navig... | ['Cinema 4d', 'Colors', 'Education', 'Design', 'Creativity'] |
I know what a Data Scientist is… but what the heck is a Machine Learning Engineer?! Rodney Joyce Follow Sep 6 · 6 min read
“IT”
This reply has got me by for the past 20 years when asked by various relatives and friends exactly what it is that I do. It does mean I have to “fix” working computers, install virus scanner... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Engineering', 'Machine Learning Engineer', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
From a safe vantage point, far from
the walrus-death cliffs, the stars
hang smiling in the sky. The cosmos
between themselves and earth
is enough to swallow up their
years of smiling light. If I could
rise to that expanse could I forget
the plunging to rock? The blood
swept into the sea — the last heaving
brea... | ['Poetry', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Society', 'Short Story'] |
You’ve played around with machine learning, learned about the mysteries of neural networks, almost won a Kaggle competition and now you feel ready to bring all this to real world impact. It’s time to build some real AI-based applications.
But time and again you face setbacks and you’re not alone. It takes time and eff... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Kubernetes', 'Serverless'] |
10 Extraordinary GitHub Repos for All Developers
Interview resources, build your own X, a list of great public APIs, and more
Photo by Vishnu R Nair on Unsplash
GitHub is the number one platform for sharing all kinds of technologies, frameworks, libraries, and collections of all sorts. But with the sheer mass also c... | ['Creativity', 'JavaScript', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Programming'] |
Tracking in Computer Vision is the task of estimating an object’s trajectory throughout an image sequence. To track an individual object, we need to identify the object from one image to another and recognize it among distractors.
There are a number of techniques we can use to remove distractors, such as background su... | ['Privacy By Design', 'Engineering', 'Tracking', 'Computer Vision', 'Algorithms'] |
Color evokes emotion, sparks excitement, and grabs attention. Color can help draw your eye where you want it on anything from a poster or billboard to an email in your inbox.
Color can even influence your mood. Did you know the color psychology behind a red and yellow combination makes you hungry? It’s no wonder well-... | ['UI', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'Creativity', 'UX'] |
QUT researchers have used a complex maths model to develop an algorithm that enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to replicate a human pilot’s ability to visually detect aircraft at a range of more than 2km.
Professor Jason Ford, who was awarded the inaugural Australian Defence Industry Award of Academic of the Year... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Engineering', 'Business', 'AI'] |
Know Your Audience
Whether common sense or trite, I feel like I’m beating a dead horse whenever I bring this up. Which is why I sometimes glance over it.
But it must be said, because you’re not going to rack up sales with a tone-deaf offer. You must know who your offer is for.
You must know who your offer is for. (C... | ['Business', 'Creativity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Product', 'Freelancing'] |
5 Cities Where Man And Nature Collide
Bringing a little bit of wildness back into our most civilised spaces
New York City and last of the city’s green space, Central Park (by Jermaine Ee on Unsplash)
As cities continue to expand and our urban sprawl pushes further and further into what was once forests, fields and s... | ['Environment', 'Cities', 'Nature', 'Culture', 'Society'] |
Standard Cognition Uses Rockset to Deliver Data APIs and Real-Time Metrics for Vision AI Kevin Leong Follow Jan 31 · 5 min read
Walk into a store, grab the items you want, and walk out without having to interact with a cashier or even use a self-checkout system. That’s the no-hassle shopping experience of the future y... | ['Real Time Analytics', 'Computer Vision', 'AI', 'Data', 'API'] |
Let’s Go for a Walk
Why a daily walk is as important to me as brushing my teeth
Photo by Elijah Hail on Unsplash
I always wanted to be a runner. I grew up in Los Angeles, where there were a lot of runners in their tiny, 80s short-shorts and sweatbands. They looked so powerful and elegant.
One of the most exciting m... | ['Walking', 'Nature', 'Outdoors', 'Mental Health', 'Health'] |
Yearly Review: Most Read Stories of 2020
Focusing on business, productivity, and writing
As it’s natural, at this time of the year, to look back at some of the highlights that truly stand out, I thought I’d do the same for some of my top pieces on Medium.
I truly gave a lot of energy to this platform over the past y... | ['Headlines', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips'] |
What are we trying to do?
Before describing what this experiment is all about, I need to give you some context. My colleague Aouss Sbai (co-author of this article) and I were looking for a fun project to work on. So we asked our mentor Plamen Nedeltchev (Distinguished Engineer at Cisco) if he had anything in stock and... | ['Weather', 'Technology', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
The new equation for ultimate AI energy efficiency.
Part V of our series, “Real Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence” features Rick Calle, AI business development lead for M12, Microsoft’s venture fund.
How energy-intensive is the AI infrastructure today? And what does that mean for the future of discipline?
Rick... | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Computing'] |
We Can Get Away Without Going Away
“People try to get away from it all — to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own sou... | ['Health', 'Philosophy', 'Mindfulness', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
By Caroline Donahue — THE BOOK DOCTOR
After how long January feels, February seems to flash past, a quick five minutes. In the midst of this zooming month, I have begun revising my novel.
So far, the daunting steps of reading the first draft over several times and considering whether the structure is really working h... | ['Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
AngularJS
AngularJS is perhaps the first relevant JavaScript framework to appear.
It was released by Google in 2010 — at a time when the most prominent JavaScript library was jQuery.
Instead of just a library like jQuery, AngularJS, also known as Angular 1, is a whole framework that brought the MVVM concept to the w... | ['Web Framework', 'Software Development', 'Google', 'Web Development', 'Cloud Computing'] |
When You Feel like You Can’t Live up to Your Own Writing
Late night self-reflections of a writer on book deadline
A page from my journal that night.
I was rolling around in bed at 2 am. My mind was racing with outstanding tasks, unwritten paragraphs, and self-doubt.
Together with my co-author John Fitch I’m in the ... | ['Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Journaling', 'Writing'] |
Data Exploration and Analysis Using Python
Simple ways to make your data talk
Data exploration is a key aspect of data analysis and model building. Without spending significant time on understanding the data and its patterns one cannot expect to build efficient predictive models. Data exploration takes major chunk of... | ['Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Exploration'] |
The One Year Plan For Cracking Coding Interviews
About my hustle before cracking interviews.
It took me one year to go from a noob programmer to someone decent enough to crack coding interviews for getting internships and gaining experience. I still have a long way to go, but the first step to being a good programmer... | ['Competitive Programming', 'Google', 'Facebook', 'Coding', 'Technology'] |
“Machine learning will automate jobs that most people thought could only be done by people.” ~Dave Waters
Hello everyone , so today I will like to tell you how the most famous companies Facebook and Google uses Machine Learning at their best to ease their tasks and do cool stuffs that earlier was thought to be impossi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Speech Recognition', 'Facebook', 'Google', 'Facial Recognition'] |
Product Seven
The seven steps necessary to produce a successful product.
Seven steps are necessary to properly execute a product. This process does not guarantee success. Other variables such as team/personnel, financials, time, and so on are other variables which must also be considered.
The first step is the idea.... | ['Development', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Software Development', 'Product Design'] |
What’s new in iOS 14?
The main changes that have been made to the upcoming version of iOS are ‘quality of life’ improvements that help reduce clutter, and give more information at a glance.
1. Widgets
For Android users, widgets have been useful feature for years. If you want to look at your reminders quickly, you ca... | ['Design', 'Software Development', 'Business', 'iOS', 'Apple'] |
Why Small Data is a Big Deal
Here’s how small data can make a big impact.
Big Data in the News
When we hear about Artificial Intelligence in the news, it’s usually about some shiny new breakthrough built using big data — things like Tesla’s self-driving cars, OpenAI’s text generators, or Neuralink’s brain-computer i... | ['Data Analysis', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
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