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For those who don’t want to read the new ‘Robert Galbraith’ serial killer tale
Why are people complaining about J. K. Rowling’s new book?
J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has recently made a series of anti-transgender statements. I won’t repeat them here, but you can look them up if you like. The... | ['Reading', 'Books', 'LGBTQ', 'Robert Galbraith', 'Jk Rowling'] |
UX … it’s more than just graphic design
Every specialist involved in designing UX is a UX designer.
A content strategist sits at a table with a stack of user personas, drawing bubbles on a page, mapping the information a web user is going to need, how they’re going to use it, and in what order.
A graphic designer st... | ['UX', 'Design', 'UI Design', 'UX Design', 'Ui Ux Design'] |
When evaluating “non-intent” user responses in Watson Assistant (WA), try to use entities instead of evaluating the contents of “input.text”. Entities are both reusable and not case sensitive, meaning you will get cleaner code.
Using “input.text” in WA is a great way to capture and save the input into a context variab... | ['Watson Assistant', 'Tutorial', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots'] |
Introduction
Every day Hootsuite makes hundreds of thousands of API calls, and processes millions of events that happened in various social networks. Our microservice architecture, and a handful of asynchronous servers with efficient error handling, make this possible. Let’s take a look at how the Scala servers deal w... | ['Microservices', 'Programming', 'Error Handling', 'Co Op', 'Scala'] |
Easy Text Annotation in a Jupyter Notebook
How to use tortus annotation tool
Image by author
At the heart of any sentiment analysis project is a good set of labeled data. Pre-labeled datasets can be found on various sites all over the internet. But…
What if you have come up with a custom dataset that has no labels ... | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Annotation Tools', 'NLP', 'Data Science'] |
Investigate and solve Compute Engine cold starts like a detective🕵🏽♀️
Season of Scale
Season of Scale
“Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for ... | ['Software Development', 'Google', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Computer Science', 'Cloud'] |
Sprint
In 2016 the tech world seemed abuzz about a “Design Sprint” process detailed in the book Sprint by Jake Knapp and other Google Ventures employees. The premise was that a new area of opportunity for product could be tackled by a dedicated small team in just five working days, at least conceptually. The authors h... | ['Product Design', 'Design Sprint', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Product Management'] |
Since the beginning of my career as a Software Dev in early 2018, I constantly sought growth and challenge in my day-to-day.
I have attended a multitude of tech conferences, networked with dozens of world-class engineers, and consumed hundreds of hours of tech-related content in my spare time.
On top of that, I have ... | ['Advice', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Engineering', 'Junior'] |
Definition :
A Sine wave or sinusoidal wave is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation. A Sine wave is a continuous wave, it goes from 0 to 360 degrees.
Table Representing Sine Values
Generation of Sine Wave
Sinusoidal function is given by,
Sine Function Formula
The period of the sine cu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Mathematics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Thank You for Resisting the Cheeto-in-Chief
How Americans cheered one rogue government tweeter
by DAVID AXE
In the days following Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration as the 45th president of the United States, his administration moved quickly to remove all mentions of climate change from U.S. government websit... | ['National Parks', 'Defiant Science', 'Environment'] |
The Knowledge Triangle — a graph technologies metaphor where raw data is converted into information about people, places and things and connected into a query-ready graph.
Although we use the term “knowledge” broadly in normal conversation, it has a specific meaning in the AI and graph database community. Even within ... | ['Dikw', 'Knowledge Triangle', 'Information Architecture', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Graph Databases'] |
How do you currently see Life?
After you wake each morning and push through the grogginess and grumpiness, how do you honestly feel about Life? Don’t pay much attention to the people and situations influencing you, focus rather on how you feel inside. Don’t try to impress me or some other person with your answer. Ask ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Mastery'] |
On the comparison between Flask and Streamlit: a reader noted that Flask has capabilities in excess of Streamlit. I appreciate this point and would encourage users to look at their use cases and use the right technology. For the users who require a tool to deploy models for your team or clients, Streamlit is very effic... | ['Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'UX', 'Machine Learning'] |
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Introduction
In this blog, I am going to cover the basic aspects of setting up your company architecture on Google Cloud. It is essential that the infrastructure you develop has high cohesion and low coupling, setting up such an architecture helps you to scale your target services a... | ['Permission', 'Startup', 'Infrastructure', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud'] |
Three Writers to Revisit (or Discover) as Black History Month Ends
Only one is famous, but all three broke new ground
Three very different writers . . .
Poet, playwright, activist, and educator Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) was famously controversial, under more than one name. Teacher, mentor, poet, and novelist Margaret... | ['Writing', 'Literature', 'History', 'Women', 'Essay'] |
In the previous post, we introduced NLP. To find out word meanings with the Python programming language, we used the NLTK package and worked our way into word embeddings using the gensim package and Word2vec.
Since we only touched the Word2Vec technique from a 10,000-feet overview, we are now going to dive deeper into... | ['Programming', 'NLP', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Journal about apps development for business and eCommerce from GITS Indonesia, a Google Certified Agency and Google Cloud Partner. | Website: gits.id
Follow | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development', 'Storyboard', 'iOS', 'Xcode'] |
The Quality of Information You Consume Can Determine the Quality of Your Life
6 websites that can make you a smarter person.
The internet is teeming with websites. The majority of them are not worth your time. Think of websites like Buzzfeed, Bored Panda or any other site that is chock full of clickbait and low-quali... | ['Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Education', 'Learning', 'Productivity'] |
If you’re in the middle of a job hunt, you’re probably weighing up the usual considerations.
Money, travel, responsibility. The usual.
But there’s one thing we often overlook. Something that shouldn’t just affect our job choices, but shape our entire career.
I’m talking about our personality type.
According to the ... | ['Careers', 'Teaching', 'Writer', 'Psychology', 'HR'] |
Book Review: “Twilight of Democracy” (by Anne Applebaum)
Anne Applebaum’s new book is a haunting reminder of just how fragile democracies are and how easily they can be dismantled from within.
I’ve been meaning to read this book for a while, ever since I saw that Anne Applebaum was going to expand the essay that she ... | ['Politics', 'Democracy', 'History', 'Authoritarianism', 'Books'] |
Let’s explore from a historical standpoint. This will allow us to better understand how what was once seen as “well designed” now looks “overly detailed”, and how the teachings of ‘why data looks better naked’ came about.
The knowledge behind why data looks better naked comes from the teachings of Edward Tufte, an art... | ['Simplicity', 'Minimalism', 'Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Data'] |
Cross-platform development is making a lot of noise in today’s dev world and there is a reason why. A shared codebase can save a lot of time if you want to target multiple platforms. There are several approaches for creating cross-platform applications. But which one is better? This time you will see the comparison of ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Programming', 'Technology', 'Apps', 'Framework'] |
We are pleased to announce that IBM Watson Text to Speech, a cloud service that enables users to converts text into natural-sounding audio, has introduced five new neural voices (four US English voices and a German voice). These new voices are now generally available in our public cloud offering.
Take A Listen!
Click... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Speech Recognition', 'Machine Learning', 'Announcements', 'Watson Text To Speech'] |
A bit dramatic, I know, but it’s a pretty big deal if you are an overbought/oversold kind-of-trader. Most traders use technical analysis to and their favorite indicators to make smart decisions in the market. This could range from moving averages or exponential moving average, depending on the trader. Some may prefer M... | ['Web Scraping', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Data Science'] |
This week in East Asia — when the moon is its roundest and brightest on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar — we celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditionally, the festival gives thanks for the harvest, but it is also a time to appreciate harmonious unions and families coming together.
A timely coin... | ['Rj Verity', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writer', 'Words On Writing'] |
I always hated school, just like a lot of you I suppose.
So I quit two years ago, and I’m now attending a professional course. Something very far from the traditional school system.
But why?
Why is that a good idea that you should consider?
Well… there are a couple of reasons. Some of them are more related to the s... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Change'] |
assimilated agony
how often have we
turned a blind eye
while others
begged
for us
to see? | ['Micropoetry', 'Love', 'Writing', 'Compassion', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
One of my core journalistic beliefs is that, for a community to thrive, all of its members must have access to high quality local news. And that often isn’t the case — as a 2018 report by Fiona Morgan and James Hamilton determined, “Poor people get poor information, because income inequality generates information inequ... | ['Journalism', 'Sidewalk', 'Advertising'] |
Finally, let’s build the ANN
ANN
So here we have:
Input node with some inputs (Real numbers; x1, x2, xn) with their weights (Real numbers; w1, w2, wn) and bias (Real number).
And this parameters (weights and bias) connects with our hidden nodes, where we compute weighted sum (sigma or z) for all inputs and theirs w... | ['Programming', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Okay, now that we combined these features into one dataframe, let’s visualize it! (code link)
This is nothing but a huge mess of customer pile which begs the question:
How are we going to segment them?
Most data scientists try to answer this question by implementing K-Means clustering, which is basically a machine l... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Segmentation', 'Analytics', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
Setup
First, we need to install Docker. We will use a Docker compose file, a SQL dump file containing bootstrap data, and macOS in this setup. You can download these two files separately. Just make sure to put both docker-compose.yml and infile in the same folder. Alternatively, you can get the repository from here. N... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Postgresql', 'Data Science', 'Docker'] |
4 Useful JavaScript Books for Aspiring Developers
Amazing books for JavaScript knowledge.
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
Introduction
Not all of us prefer learning online or with video tutorials, there are people that prefer books. Reading these books can benefit both your physical and mental health, and thos... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Coding', 'Books', 'Programming'] |
What is Webpack and why is it used?
Webpack is a module bundler; as the name implies, it bundles every module that a project needs into one or more bundles that can be referenced in the primary html file.
For example, when building a JavaScript application that has JavaScript code separated into multiple files, each ... | ['React', 'ES6', 'Webpack', 'Jsx', 'Babel'] |
Please, Can Science and Faith Live in Unison?
Gaining Power by Uniting the World
Photo by David Vázquez on Unsplash
I called to ask
How are you?
Instead your words
Accused
No, not me
Directly
My beliefs
My lifestyle
Everything that makes me
Me
Maybe
Maybe
I am wrong
You are right
COVID is a hoax
Then ... | ['Faith and Life', 'Poetry', 'Faith', 'Science Fiction', 'Coronavirus'] |
Jeff Chang | Pinterest engineer, Growth
A popular topic within growth hacking circles is improving conversion rates on landing pages. Everyone has seen those “10 tips to triple your conversion rate” articles that are littered with general tips (e.g. increase CTA size) and promise gains, which are usually small at best... | ['SEO', 'Growth', 'Klp', 'Engineering', 'Data'] |
I’ve wasted a lot of time waiting until I was thin to go after the things I wanted. I didn’t have the self-confidence to put myself out there because I was fat. Was it an excuse? In some ways, yes, but I did experience roadblocks because of my weight.
I’m getting older, and I no longer have the luxury to wait until I’... | ['Self Acceptance', 'Fat Acceptance', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Feminism'] |
The Curation of Our Little Library is Abysmal and I’d Like to Complain to a Manager
Three copies of The DaVinci Code? This is ridiculous.
Imagine my excitement when a little library appeared just blocks away from my house. Painted green with a glass door that swung open and shut, at last something Pinterest-worthy wa... | ['Satire', 'Humor', 'Reading', 'Funny', 'Books'] |
So you are a pro in Javascript OR a real good Angular, Vue developer and now want to explore building native apps on mobile. However, you are getting a migraine seeing the number of options! React Native, Dart, Kotlin which one should I choose? Well, take a sip of your favourite coffee and sit back. We got you, NativeS... | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development', 'Nativescript', 'Cross Compile', 'Android App Development'] |
Skiing During the Pandemic
What’s changed, what’s working, and what needs improvement
Opening day at Big Sky Ski Resort, Big Sky, Montana. Photo by Tom Johnson.
As the holidays approach and the coronavirus pandemic enters a dangerous new phase, many skiers wonder whether it’s safe to return to the slopes.
Last week... | ['Sports', 'Health', 'Business', 'Skiing', 'Covid 19'] |
During my senior year of my undergraduate degree I really started to notice how much school and work had taken over my life. I was living life by reacting to every fire that appeared, instead of conquering my goals. Realizing that I was headed down the wrong path mentally forced me to re-examine what I wanted out of li... | ['Life Lessons', 'Procrastination', 'Goals', 'Writing', 'Personal Development'] |
iPad Air 4 vs. iPad Pro (2020)
…Did Apple create its own iPad Pro killer?
iPad Pro (2020) vs. iPad Air
Apple’s “Time Flies”event just wrapped up and though there wasn’t an abundance of hardware showcased, leaving many disappointed, there is something big to take notice of. Out of all the products we got a look at th... | ['iPad', 'Apple', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Gadgets'] |
Funnel, Model, Growth & Retention
Whatever your business is, you have to master those four sets of metrics.
Funnel of conversion
The destination does not matter if you fail at taking the right path towards it. The funnel of conversion is the path from business origination toward closing and post-closing. If you run ... | ['Metrics', 'Startup', 'Analytics'] |
Voice of an Angel
A novel
Image courtesy of Conny Manero
Synopsis
Talent agent, Jack Garrett, hears the voice of an angel drifting down from a balcony in Greenwich Village. Frustrated, he spends nights walking the streets trying to find his angel. Jessie Green is in a dead-end job until she loses it, and quickly gr... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Novel', 'Book Recommendations', 'Novel Excerpt'] |
“The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates said as he declared the essence of a good life. “The only good is knowledge”. With knowledge, a person could shape their own destiny and find true happiness.
During a time when the world was looking to the cosmos for understanding, Socrates looked inward to the human ... | ['Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing Tips', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development'] |
Dan Feng | Pinterest engineer, Discovery
We pride ourselves on being a company focused first and foremost on the user experience. In order to deliver a great experience, including showing related content in the home feed, we’re building a service that’s fast and highly available. From a Pinner’s point of view, availab... | ['Engineering', 'Pinterest', 'Hbase', 'Data', 'Qps'] |
One of the most common questions I get asked about and one of my strengths when it comes to creating an Influencer Marketing Strategy is choosing the right influencer. Here’s how to choose the right influencers for your brand in 6 simple steps!
Set an objective
One of the most common problems I see when executing cam... | ['Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Digital', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Meaning Eventually Finds Its Place In FKA Twigs’ Grandiose Artistic Vision
Her latest LP “MAGDALENE” is an interstellar voyage through the dust of the broken heart to the planet of self
During her long-lasting hiatus, the avant-garde pop princess FKA Twigs got crushed by the brutal hands of her troubled relationships... | ['Review', 'Music', 'Art', 'Pop', 'Culture'] |
How to Set the Mood for Maximum Productivity
Get more done in less time by implementing these little rituals
Many of us struggle with being consistently productive. We plan so much for the day and then we end up procrastinating instead. And often, even when we do start working, it’s doesn’t go the way we expected. We... | ['Advice', 'Work From Home', 'Life Hacking', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
THE OCEAN
Beautiful and unexplored
71% of the earth’s surface consists of water. Large bodies of water are called oceans. Ocean provides so many things for us, An article from ecology.com about “10 Things to Know About the Ocean”. Those things start from oxygen that we need for breath until the job we need to survive... | ['Environment', 'Sea', 'Beautiful', 'Life', 'Oceans'] |
Auto-Encoder: What Is It? And What Is It Used For? (Part 1)
A Gentle Introduction to Auto-Encoder and Some Of Its Common Use Cases With Python Code
Background:
Autoencoder is an unsupervised artificial neural network that learns how to efficiently compress and encode data then learns how to reconstruct the data back... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
#DecemberSelfCare
A Warm Fuzzy Hug
Adorable fuzzy PJs, this poem’s for you
Photo by Anastasia Zhenina on Unsplash
as the temperature dips
into the icy stages
the phase where the air
feels spicy against your skin
i celebrate the winter
indoors
by breaking out
the festive fuzzy PJs
the ones that make you feel... | ['Poetry Prompt', 'Mental Health', 'Self Care', 'Poetry'] |
Data: Formulating the Concepts
Definitions
The word data is the plural form of the word datum, which has the meaning of a “single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code” [5]. Another definition is “something given or admitted especially as a basis for reasoning or inference” [6]
In simple terms, data ca... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Scientist', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education'] |
Deep learning and neural networks can get really complicated. When it comes to data science interviews, however, there are only so many concepts that interviewers test. After going through hundreds and hundreds of data science interview questions, I compiled 10 deep learning concepts that came up the most often.
In th... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Work'] |
Python is an amazing language that is used in a wide variety of applications. Did you know that Python is used in applications involving automation, data science and web apps? For example, Facebook uses Python to process images. Before we get started, let us first break down the concepts that we need to learn in order ... | ['Programming', 'Computer Science', 'Python'] |
A few years ago, data scientism was a fresh shiny hot air balloon that took off due to the aristocratic arrogance of prestigious, predictive analytic vendors who simply milked their cows and watched with glass eyes as the era of big data and cloud computation began.
The burner in the balloon’s basket was fueled by the... | ['Machine Learning', 'Predictive Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'CRM'] |
In the era of the digital world, the monetary system is constantly changing, and things that has been popular are recently being replaced by improved technologies.
The payment industry is particularly affected by this digital era of cryptocurrencies given the public acceptance it has received by many countries and pay... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Android', 'Android App Development', 'Bitcoin'] |
When you tend to use one library for a certain period of time, you get used to it. But, you need to evolve and learn something new every day. If you are still stuck up with Matplotlib(Which is amazing), Seaborn(This is amazing too), Pandas(Basic, yet easy Visualization) and Bokeh, You need to move on and try something ... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization', 'Hackernoon Top Story'] |
Illustration. Energy efficient memory. Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands have achieved material magnetization switching on the shortest timescales, at a minimal energy cost. They have thus develop... | ['Science', 'Computers', 'Computer Memories', 'Efficiency'] |
SELF
When you look back, what propelled you there will be obvious…
Photo by Razvan Chisu on Unsplash
Many of us live life day to day without recognizing how each day is bringing us closer to that which we want to achieve. I have been using triggering and reflective questions at the end of each day for years now. I f... | ['Productivity', 'Inspiration', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Last of her Name by Mimi Lok. Kaya Press, 2019. 200 pp, prose.
Cheyenne Heckermann: Can you tell me about the journey toward publishing Last of Her Name?
Mimi Lok: It was long! I’d written earlier drafts of the stories over roughly a ten-year span, and spent about three years working on the collection in earnest — re... | ['Publishing', 'Fiction', 'Interview', 'Featured', 'Books'] |
For a child growing up in a middle class family of Bangladesh, one of the first financial lesson he or she learns is how to save. We were taught how much important saving is, and how one should save. Considering the age, our parents often thought it was not the proper time to introduce saving in banking organizations. ... | ['Money', 'Stories', 'Saving', 'Memories', 'Storytelling'] |
Results
We can get some great results with very little code. Here are a few examples that should give you a better understanding of the impact of each argument in the .generate method.
outputs = model.generate(
inputs, max_length=200, do_sample=True
)
tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True) [Out]: "... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
How to Create an Animated Bar Chart With React and d3 Michael Tong Follow Sep 22 · 3 min read
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
Have you ever looked at data visualizations and be wowed by all the effects and animations?
Have you ever wondered how to integrate visualizations with react?
In this article, we will ta... | ['D3js', 'Web Development', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Data Visualization'] |
Morning raven.
Day 2 of NaNoWriMo began when my alarm sang a merry tune at 5:30am. I hit snooze. Inside my imagination, my characters glared at me, rolled over and went back to bed.
When I rose, two snooze cycles later and sat in front of my open laptop, I expected my characters to flow through a scene just following... | ['NaNoWriMo', 'Writing'] |
Most Common Types of Big O
O(n)
If n = some integer, the number of operations within the algorithm (the way of solving a given problem) increases roughly in proportion with n. This type of algorithm is not ideal! An example of an algorithm with an O(n) could be a function which takes an integer, ’n’, as an argument, ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Coding', 'Software Development', 'Big O Notation', 'Programming'] |
I’m writing this in response to Rebecca Stevens A. ‘S article about how there is no such thing as Black Privilege.
Rebecca is right. From India, as a person who watches America through the movies, I’m going to talk about a few movies. I am not a movie buff, but I do have a subscription to an English Movie Pack and I w... | ['Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Movies', 'Diversity', 'Perspective'] |
Stacking
Arrays can be stacked horizontally, depth-wise, or vertically. We can use, for that purpose, the vstack , dstack , hstack , column_stack , row_stack , and concatenate functions.
Time for action — stacking arrays
First, let’s set up some arrays:
In: a = arange(9).reshape(3,3)
In: a
Out:
array([[0, 1, 2],... | ['Numpy', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
When people think about marketplaces, they usually assume it’s all about matching the demand and supply side. The reality is that it involves so much more than that, particularly when it comes to B2B.
In the following post, which we’ve written (in collaboration with our friends at Hokodo) off the back of working with ... | ['Startup', 'B2B', 'Marketplace', 'VC'] |
This book is relevant to my experiences as a woman.
When I first held Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks in my hands, I did what I always do.
I cracked open the copy and smelled it. I love the scent of crisp pages.
Then, I sat down and began reading. Frankly, I couldn’t wait to start consuming the ... | ['Personal Growth', 'Women', 'Feminism', 'Self', 'Books'] |
5 Odd Jobs People Were Once Paid to Do
#4 Dog Whipping
Unemployed men in line at the soup kitchen (1931), from the US National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Technology and artificial intelligence have been rendering more and more jobs obsolete. A volatile mix of automation ... | ['History', 'Work', 'Nonfiction', 'Labor', 'Jobs'] |
For many universities, the landscape is changing. Gone are the days when the throughput of students was the major measure of success. Now universities are evaluated on the outcomes for their students, and the extent to which those students have the right skills to join the workforce.
Perhaps the most challenging shift... | ['Higher Education', 'Human Centred Design', 'University', 'Design', 'Student Experience'] |
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”
On April 24, 2019, Luminary Media officially launched its subscription podcasting platform to the public, and was quickly dismissed and even attacked by some in the media and on Twitter. Luminary, which raised nearly $100 million from investors prior to launch, offe... | ['Business', 'Podcast', 'Media', 'Future', 'Culture'] |
by Anonymous
The door sprung open and our three little ones joyfully leaped onto the bed, waking my wife and I from peaceful dreams of slumbering sugarplum fairies. Oh Gosh, it was 6:03am, but who could blame them. The kids wait for Christmas day all year.
I sat up as giggles thrashed with reckless excitement on the ... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Dataops', 'Analytics', 'DevOps'] |
How to run open-source Tensorflow models on Kubernetes and reviewing how effective the COVID-19 spread model was in measuring the effect of interventions.
Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash
Earlier this month, the United Kingdom became the first European country to approve and administer the first doses of Pfizer/Bio... | ['Data Science', 'Kubernetes', 'Machine Learning', 'Programming'] |
Unlock honest feedback from your employees with this one word
Consider using this one word in your next one on one meeting…
A few years ago, a CEO told me how she was struggling to get honest feedback from her board.
No one seemed willing to be critical or give her pointers on things she could improve. After every b... | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Employee Engagement', 'Employee Feedback', 'Management'] |
The challenge
Most POS setups include a cash register, controlled by store staff, a payment terminal, where the shopper enters their card, and a serial connection between the two. A library is embedded on the cash register facilitating communication between the cash register and the payment terminal. These libraries a... | ['Java', 'Retail Technology', 'Cloud', 'Payments', 'Point Of Sale Software'] |
Last week we talked about creating basic applications with Django. Today let’s try to design a RESTful API with Django.
Prerequisites
Before we start let’s install additional libraries which will help us design API:
pip install djangorestframework pip install markdown pip install django-filter
Project Setup
Now le... | ['Python', 'Django', 'Rest Api', 'Rest', 'Framework'] |
Lessons from the most sustainably managed company in the world
Photo by Alexander Abero on Unsplash
While some business owners are still hanging onto a feast or famine mindset, others, as if tipped off by a prophet, have embraced a marathon running attitude. Gone are the old days where Darwinism reigned in business —... | ['Finance', 'Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Venture Capital', 'Economics'] |
by Thomas Gomersall
Insects may not be what many would consider endangered species, but according to a devastating 2019 study in Biological Conservation, 41 per cent are in decline. An additional third are threatened and without immediate, radical action, most could be extinct within decades in what many have dubbed t... | ['Biodiversity', 'Nature', 'Extinction', 'Insects', 'Environment'] |
BYTE/SIZE
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than Disney — What’s Their Next Move?
Four 3D chess moves that could make Netflix top dog
Created by Murto Hilali
My friends, who are 17–18-year-old males, have devoted their eyeballs to Netflix’s latest reality show: Too Hot To Handle, where attractive singles spend a month on a... | ['Finance', 'Technology', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Data'] |
Image by Omni Matryx from Pixabay
A Binary Tree is a hierarchical Data Structure. Depending on how you store the nodes in a tree, the Terminology differs.
Out of Free Stories. Here is my Friend Link
Hey guys, I have been sharing a lot about Tech Interview Questions asked in FAANG, I am currently working on the Tech ... | ['Coding', 'Java', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Programming'] |
Hello, dear friends!
Foreign Investors Allowed
Finally, a citizen of any country can pass the KYC on our platform and become an accredited investor.
We’ve connected popular KYC and AML provider — The Sumsub company. They provide a standard KYC procedure: one just need to add a passport photo/ID/drivers license photo... | ['Investing', 'P2p', 'Global', 'Development', 'Banking'] |
The 4 Steps You Need To Take
In essence, the Feynman technique consists of four steps: identify the subject, explain the content, identify your knowledge gaps, simplify your explanation. Here’s how it works for any book you read:
#1 Choose the book you want to remember
After you’ve finished a book worth remembering,... | ['Reading', 'Books', 'Education', 'Learning', 'Personal Development'] |
Don’t Use Quarantine as an Excuse To Stop Having Boundaries
You need to protect your mental health now more than ever
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There’s nothing like a global crisis to give people in your lives the excuse they have been looking for to touch base. We are scared, anxious, and nervous and because we are emotion... | ['Mindfulness', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Advice', 'Self'] |
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When you start to collect books at home, your friends and guesses will begin to envy you. Then every time you have visitors, you will live in dread of the moment that when they want to borrow one of your books. Besides, you will find yourself in an uncomfortable conversation.
Let... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Friendship', 'Relationships', 'Education'] |
I published my first post on Medium on October 25, 2019. and my 400th on October 24, 2020.
In that one year, I earned a total of $359.94, just shy of 90 cents per story.
While that is more than I’ve ever earned from my writing, it is less than what I expected to earn per month by the year’s end.
When things don’t go... | ['Writing', 'Purpose', 'Passion', 'Options', 'Life Lessons'] |
Large Scale Satellite Data Processing
With more amounts of spatial data coming in than ever, we look to increase satellite data processing methods and efficiency.
Source: Techspot
Spatial Data — What is it?
Spatial data, or geospatial data, can be thought of as any data containing location information on the Earth’... | ['Satellite', 'Satellite Technology', 'Spatial Analysis', 'Big Data', 'Remote Sensing'] |
In Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, she recalls the response to the launch of Google Glass in 2012. Zuboff describes public horror, as well as loud protestations from privacy advocates who were deeply concerned that the product’s undetectable recording of people and places threatened to e... | ['Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Technology', 'Surveillance', 'Government'] |
Since he was diagnosed with COVID-19, the president’s poll numbers definitely haven’t shifted for the better. According to recent polls, Trump is down double-digits and in every single battleground state except Georgia. Because there will likely be no other debates and the debacle that was the first one, it raises the ... | ['Politics', 'Trump', 'Election 2020', 'Biden', 'Coronavirus'] |
It turns out facing things is not as hard, not nearly as hard, as resisting them. But to face things, especially forces that oppose us, we must go against every instinct we have to continue to believe and do what we believed and did before.
Facing things requires we undo and unlearn the well-worn emotional habits that... | ['Self-awareness', 'Love', 'Life Lessons', 'Philosophy', 'Life'] |
Database “Magic”: Running Huge High Throughput-Low Latency KV Database with No Data In Memory Zohar Elkayam Follow Dec 20 · 4 min read
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to one of my oldest database colleagues (and a very dear friend of mine). We were chatting about how key/value stores and databases are evolving, a... | ['NoSQL', 'Redis', 'Database', 'Big Data', 'Aerospike'] |
Here are some quick notes pertaining to the tabs of this publication. Since tabs are tag-loaded, it is important to properly tag posts, so that they fall under the correct tabs. For posts to be loaded in the Poetry From The Soul tab, make sure that your main tag is “Poetry.” For posts to fall under the Musings tab, mak... | ['Musings', 'Writing', 'Bazaar Of The Bizarre', 'Mdshall', '21stenturygrio'] |
I’m taking part in this Q&A as part of an effort to introduce the world to the Engineering team at Optimizely. If you’re interested in joining, we’re hiring Frontend Engineers in San Francisco and Austin!
Tell us about yourself! What’s your name, what do you do at Optimizely, and how long have you been here? Tell us a... | ['Interview', 'Front End Development', 'Women In Engineering', 'Software Engineering', 'Engineering Team'] |
Gmail is a great service, but not everyone is comfortable giving Google access to their email. Security expert Max Eddy explains what steps will (and won’t) help keep your messages private.
By Max Eddy
This week, I’m following up on a message from a reader who previously wrote in about how not to get locked out of yo... | ['Privacy', 'Cybersecurity', 'Security', 'Google', 'Technology'] |
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I stood at my mailbox with the grocery bags hanging on my arm as time seemed to slow. This surreal moment, I presume, was to give my mind a few extra seconds to process what was happening. At first, seeing the unmistakable logo didn’t really affect me until I realized the letter fr... | ['Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Positive Thinking', 'Psychology', 'Women'] |
A Short Biography of the Preston born Balladeer, Poet and Novelist
Robert with Marlene Dietrich during the filming of The Spoiler, 1942. Image: wikipedia
Having written about Jack London recently, and the new film version of his novel, The Call of the Wild, I thought it was time to take another look at Robert Service... | ['Poetry', 'Books', 'Biography', 'Literature', 'History'] |
* A five-year program seeks to empower small scale farmers and strengthen markets in Punjab province in Pakistan * The transformation process is essential to boost sustainable growth and tackle persistent malnutrition in a province where about 40 % are employed in agriculture and about 40% of children under age 5 are s... | ['Health', 'Poverty', 'Agriculture', 'Data', 'Food'] |
Whats on your mind?
They asked
Different worlds
Or happy thoughts.
There is a dark tunnel
Which leads to hell
And this is all
Left to imagine.
A slideshow flash before my eyes
Of people I love and hate
The happy thoughts of future
Are far behind
Fear takes it all away
Does it happen to you too?
The trembl... | ['Deep Thoughts', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Writing', 'Poetry On Medium'] |
Why I Stopped Forgiving People… and Maybe You Should, Too
Forgiveness was turning me into a chump
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Forgive and forget, right? I used to think that. I don’t anymore.
Now look, I know I’m up against some real heavy hitters here when I say maybe you should stop forgiving people. After all, isn’t forgive... | ['Psychology', 'Personal Growth', 'Zen', 'Buddhism', 'Forgiveness'] |
A lot of people like drawing out their approach as they work through coding challenges, and that usually involves using a pen/paper or your iPad. Even some of the best tech interview related products like AlgoExpert (which I highly recommend using) end up showing you how to work through problems by drawing on a (digita... | ['Technical Interview', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Coding'] |
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