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How to Find the Energy to Bootstrap Your Side Hustle
After a long days work, the last thing most of us want to do is work more.
Thanks Annie Spratt for the fantastic photo from Unsplash
You work all day, come home, and all you want to do is crash. Or, as the saying goes, “grab some Netflix and chill.” The furthest t... | ['Side Hustle', 'Side Project', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneur', 'Bootstrap'] |
Beta Reader Basics
7 Ways to Choose and Use Beta Readers
The purpose of having beta readers on a finished manuscript is exactly the same as it is for having beta testers on a new mobile app or taste tasters on a new kind of Coca-Cola. You give members of your target audience a product that is whole and viable so that... | ['Books And Authors', 'Authors', 'Writing', 'Craft', 'Writing Tips'] |
One more week for Alpha stage before getting into the Beta !
The understanding of natural language is the key point between Daneel’s brain and the end user. That’s why we are using the Alpha stage to train Daneel by asking him as many questions as possible. The Alpha is currently available to our ambassadors, advisors... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Fintech'] |
There is a lot of self-help advice on the Internet that claims to give people the secrets to success. People are telling you to hustle harder; to fake it till you make it; to smile more; to state your intentions. And of course, all of these people are willing to tell you exactly how, as long as you pay them something f... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Networking', 'Hustle', 'Bootstrap', 'Success'] |
Estate agency has a long history of stereotyped presumptions. From the money-grabbing agents who will try and sell you any property that gives them a large chunk of commission, to the offices cluttered with paperwork, deafening phone calls and irate workers. We imagine an office-scene similar to that of Wolf of Wall St... | ['Real Estate', 'Best Practices', 'Marketing', 'Estate Agency', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
Understanding Sync, Async, Concurrency and Parallelism
Implementing in Python.
After releasing Python 3 we are hearing a lot about async and concurrency which can be achieved by asyncio module.But there are other ways to achieve asynchronous capability in python also, these are Threads and Processes .
Lets discuss b... | ['Asyncio', 'Programming', 'Threads', 'Process', 'Python'] |
Hot Module Replacement, or HMR, can be found in many different languages and frameworks in software engineering to keep this article short the scope will be limited to HMR in webpack and, briefly, how it works with nest. For more information check out nestjs.com documentation on hot reload and webpack’s documentation o... | ['Typescript', 'Webpack', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Expressjs'] |
Growth is hard.
Sometimes, it’s downright terrifying.
It requires us to take an honest look at ourselves, to abandon what we’ve known, and to suspend ourselves in uncertainty without knowing when we’ll ever find the next step.
It’s uncomfortable, but it’s also essential, because our brains and bodies are built to gi... | ['Growth Hacking', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology'] |
You invest in the future you want to live in. I want to invest my time in the future of rapid logistics.
Three years ago I set out on a journey to build a future where one-day delivery is available anywhere in the world by commercializing high precision, low-cost automated airdrops. In the beginning, the vision seemed... | ['Delivery', 'Logistics', 'Air Cargo', 'Startup', 'Robotics'] |
I Surrender
There is so little I can change in this moment — I can only keep trying
Photo by Leonard Okpor on Scopio
I surrender. I have half the energy I had pre-pandemic. Maybe less. I’m lucky if I wash the dishes and make the bed. I can’t keep all cylinders revving like I used to. I can’t create as fast and beaut... | ['Spirituality', 'Life Lessons', 'This Happened To Me', 'Mental Health', 'Pandemic'] |
Transformer technology, which has become an important force in the field of natural language processing (NLP), has recently begun to show its strength in the field of computer vision.However, the quadratic memory footprint of self-attention has hindered its applicability to long sequences or multidimensional inputs suc... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Transformers', 'Object Detection', 'Self Attention'] |
Collaborated Post by Chu Chu, Minyi Huang, Valerie Huang, Yinglai Wang
This blog is written and maintained by students in the Professional Master’s Program in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as part of their course credit. To learn more about this unique program, please visit {sfu.ca/computi... | ['Blog Post', 'Big Data', 'Machine Learning', 'Convolutional Network'] |
Software development is very challenging. Firstly you have to understand the problems you are solving. Then you need to think of the solution. Depending on the solution, you have to research proper technology. During the process, you need to have a clear perception of the system you are working on and to think longterm... | ['iOS', 'Mobile', 'Mobile App Development', 'Swift', 'iOS App Development'] |
Quatria
Upon issuing forth from the cave mouth through which he had escaped the Black Water and Stone Sea below, Benda became immediately drowsy.
The sun shone down on him, and he blinked dumbly to see its rays again. It took several moments for his eyes to adjust to natural light again, and his limbs felt incredibly... | ['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Writing', 'Science Fiction', 'Quatria'] |
“Naked girl, covered in Napalm. Five marines Raising the Flag, Mount Suribachi. V for Victory. They remember the pictures. Fifty years from now, they’ll have forgotten the war.“ Wag the Dog (1997)
A picture is worth a thousand words, and in politics there are a lot of words. From the early cave paintings in Bhimbetka ... | ['Design', 'Politics'] |
play SimCity BuildIt for iPad. I play it so often, in fact, that it might be the thing I do most these days. It is not nearly as immersive and complex as past SimCity titles, but I nonetheless feel wanted, sometimes eve needed, and loved by the Sims who inhabit my city called Monteblo. Monteblo didn’t begin with my rec... | ['Childhood', 'Ncb Catalogue', 'Storytelling'] |
The White Supremacist Fascist State Murdered Anthony Lamar Smith
The Facts and Rule of Law — Twisted by the Judiciary — Demonizing the Victim and Canonizing the Cop
The Court of Hate
Missouri Circuit Court Judge Timothy Wilson’s reprehensible ruling is deeply disturbing in its Trumpian Fascism. The alt-judge contort... | ['Politics', 'Trump', 'Nonfiction'] |
by James Finn
Prism & Pen is so packed with queer treasure this week, I barely know where to begin. Our editor’s choices can’t highlight our best writing, because P&P writers have submitted so many GREAT stories. Abbie Drake joins Emma Holiday with critical perspectives on coming out as trans later in life. theoaknote... | ['LGBTQ', 'Storytelling', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Poetry'] |
A few years ago, a college student posted the following question on Quora.
How can I become great like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, or Elon Musk? One of the people who answered the question was Justine Musk. She’s one of the few people that has had an inside look into what it’s like to be Elon Musk. This is a brief ex... | ['Entrepreneurship'] |
Building Complex Image Augmentation Pipelines with Tensorflow
Using the Tensorflow data module to build a complex image augmentation pipeline.
If you want to train your models with Tensorflow in the most efficient way you probably should use TFRecords and the Tensorflow data module to build your pipelines, but depend... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Image Augmentation', 'TensorFlow', 'Deep Learning'] |
What is it with men whipping their dicks out uninvited? We learned Monday that the New Yorker suspended Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating during a Zoom work meeting. A rift has since opened among media types, between those who rightly condemn Toobin’s actions, and those who defend him by claiming “everyone” masturbates a... | ['Journalism', 'Politics', 'Sexual Harrassment', 'Workplace'] |
In my practice, there were a lot of cases when people said they liked something but were reluctant to pay for it or utilize it later on. So, is there any method to make sure that a product or separate feature will be of high demand when implemented?
The interviewer asks a hypothetical question and opens the door to su... | ['Design', 'User Experience', 'UX', 'UX Research', 'Ts'] |
It’s Okay to Eat Taco Bell All This Month and Never Put the Tree Up
This year has sucked. It’s fine and fitting if your Christmas sucks, too.
Image by Eric Mclean on Unsplash
It’s December, and my former colleague Courtney has adopted Elf on the Shelf as a pandemic holiday project. Based on the 2005 book of the same... | ['Mental Health', 'Christmas', 'Holidays', 'Self', 'Pandemic'] |
I often get asked for poetry book recommendations, and since we are in the middle of Women’s History Month, and we just finished Black History Month, I thought it would be a good idea to share a list of recommended poetry books by black women. I chose a wide range of books. If you would like to suggest a book, please l... | ['Women', 'Black Women', 'Writing', 'Poetry', 'African American'] |
Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for the global commons. Support us to keep digging where others fear to tread
This week, the British press has been rather over-excited about the Tory government’s plans to fund a new fleet of destroyers.
So over-excited that pundits ha... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'War', 'Military', 'Economy', 'Britain'] |
Apple and Google’s Coronavirus Feature Might Be an Offer You Can’t Refuse
The tech giants promise it will be opt-in. Will your employer, school, or church agree?
Photo: Jared Siskin/Getty Images
This story is part of a series on the possible impacts of Apple and Google’s contact tracing technology. You can read the ... | ['Apple Google Collab', 'Contact Tracing', 'Coronavirus', 'Privacy', 'Surveillance'] |
8 AutoML Libraries to Automate Machine Learning Pipeline
Overview of various AutoML frameworks
(Image by Author)
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) helps in automating some critical components of the machine learning pipeline. This machine learning pipeline consists of data understanding, data engineering, feature ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Education', 'Automl'] |
Your Second Date Is More Important Than You Think- It’s The One That Really Counts
First-date you is the performer, second-date you is the gatekeeper.
Photo by Cody Black on Unsplash
So you’ve met this person, and you like them. You made it through that dreaded first date and things went pretty well.
Now you’re rea... | ['Relationships', 'Relationships Love Dating', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
By Sara Talpos
One summer, after ten years of writing poetry and teaching composition classes, I enrolled in a microbiology class at our local community college. I felt hesitant and out of place in the lab.
Still, I relished our earliest assignment: Use a light microscope to bring Pseudomonas aeruginosa into focus in... | ['Emily Dickinson', 'Botany', 'Infection', 'Poetry', 'Science'] |
Why am I Writing about Islam
Someone needs to talk about Islam, why don’t I be that person
Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash
I recently decided to start writing about my religion — Islam. I became a Muslim in early childhood when my grandmother raised me, but full awareness came to me much later, but what my gra... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Writing', 'Religion', 'Self Improvement', 'Islam'] |
They’re all as new as me
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
I love poetry. I love the way it sounds, the way it moves, everything about it. I like to dabble in poetry, too.
However, my poetry is child’s play compared to the poetry I’ve seen from these poets on here. As with my last Top 3 article, all of them have ... | ['Top 3', 'Writing', 'Writers On Medium', 'New Year', 'Poetry'] |
Ignorance Of Finances
The vast majority of people are completely unaware of their financial situation. Even if they are, they swipe it under the rug and continue to struggle with this area of their lives.
The majority of people practice unhealthy financial practices such as:
Debt accumulation (Loans, Financing, etc.... | ['Investing', 'Self Improvement', 'Money', 'Psychology', 'Finance'] |
I was able to hide my excoriation disorder pretty well until my late twenties. I lived alone a lot, or with people who were frequently not home. As soon as they were gone, I’d run to the bathroom and start digging into my face. I’d keep lights low, or sit a certain way so no one could see where I’d been doing the most ... | ['Mental Illness', 'Ocd', 'Dermatillomania', 'Mental Health'] |
While working on a project two years ago, I wrote a step-by-step guide to install Hadoop 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 operating system. Since we are currently working on a new project where we need to install a Hadoop cluster on Windows 10, I decided to write a guide for this process.
1. Prerequisites
First, we need to make... | ['Hadoop', 'Big Data', 'Windows 10', 'Hadoop Cluster', 'Hadoop 3'] |
Using Machine Learning to Predict Dying Stars in our Galaxy… and Beyond!
In this article, I demonstrate how machine-learning models can be used to correctly classify dying stars or more specifically, Pulsars, as they seem to be the most potentially useful for space exploration.
This will be a journey into predicting ... | ['Pulsar', 'Xgboost', 'Astronomy', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Blockchain & the energy market
Blockchain will naturally create environmental benefits by ensuring the significant reduction of corruption in government and its collusion with the financial and energy industries
James Wallace, Co-Founder, Exponential University
I live in Spain, the country of sun. In Ibiza we have 3... | ['Blockchain', 'Economics', 'Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Solution Process
Included in the data sent by the POST request was the query of the vote URL. A typical URL looks like this:
By having the user click on a link with query parameters containing the server and channel id, I could have that data readily available when I received a vote event. My implementation looked si... | ['Webhooks', 'Programming', 'Discord Bot', 'Python', 'Heroku'] |
100 Funny Programmer Quotes
For when coffee isn’t enough to bring a smile to your face
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As I was looking for some useful coding quotes, I discovered many funny ones. Enjoy reading them — I thought these should be compiled together.
Most are from other sources (as per linked), with the ... | ['Humor', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
There are no experts,
Only poets are worth listening to.
There no moral authorities,
Poetry has always been the language of spirituality, of God.
There are no politicians, no leaders,
Poetry has always been the arbiter of truth, of law.
Poetry is how you know what love is,
Poetry is how you know what humanness i... | ['Spirituality', 'Expression', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Poetry'] |
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This article contains detailed descriptions of PTSD and C-PTSD, and briefly references interpersonal violence. Please be gentle with yourself, and mindful of your spoons, before you read on.
All of us experience some kind of trauma. While it’s important to avoid the oppression olympics — that... | ['Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'PTSD', 'Body', 'Self Care'] |
Hi everyone.
Today I would like to share Correlation diagram of those platform for developing mobile applications.
Cordova
Outsystems
ReatcNative
Flutter
Kotlin/Native
Correlation diagram
I summarized those applications as the following correlation diagram.
The first major category are Native UI or Non- Native... | ['Outsystems', 'Mobile App Developers', 'Flutter', 'Mobile App Development', 'Kotlin'] |
What is Apache Pig?
Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets. Pig’s language, Pig Latin, is a simple query algebra that lets you express data transformations such as merging data sets, filtering them, and applying functions to records or groups of records. Users can create their own functions to do speci... | ['Hadoop', 'Apache Pig', 'Big Data', 'Mapreduce', 'Data Science'] |
Learning how to study effectively can feel like some kind of an acquired skill. There’s nothing worse than sitting in front of your study notes, trying to figure out how this will possibly fit in your brain, and losing all motivation to even begin in the first place.
When it comes time for exam preparation, or for tha... | ['Study', 'Tips', 'Self', 'Learning', 'Productivity'] |
If you’re like me, you probably feel a bit guilty about having done “nothing” but watch election results all of last week, about not being “productive” during that time — never mind that the fate of your world hung in the balance. You might also be experiencing an emotional crash following the joyous high of Saturday m... | ['Life', 'Post Election', 'Mental Health', 'Not Okay', 'Pandemic'] |
Reinforce Algorithm
Please note, in the below analyses, the discount factor γ is assumed to be 1 for simplicity. But all the analyses can be easily extended to cases where γ is not 1.
The basic objective in all of Reinforcement Learning (RL) is to maximize the expected total utility Uθ, which is defined as follows [1... | ['Machine Learning', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Contributors: Madana Krishnan V K, Nguyen Cao, Sanjana Chauhan, Sumukha Balasubramanya
This blog is written and maintained by students in the Professional Master’s Program in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as part of their course credit. To learn more about this unique program, please visit... | ['Blog Post', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Docker', 'Airflow'] |
In the past three month alone, more than 200 universities have announced 560 such free online courses. I’ve compiled this list below and categorized the courses into the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Bu... | ['Programming', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
Goody Bagz 420 Check out what all talk is about in the smoking community. Goody Bagz 420 Clothing Co. represents everithing that is 420 and what is the herbal community. They would appreciate your support and love for the 420 community. “All Our Products Are 100% New without tags, All brand-new, unused, and unworn item... | ['Design', 'Marijuana', 'Clothing'] |
Lessons I Learned Dealing With Extreme Fear While in the Hospital Operating Theatre
In moments of panic, your life is reborn.
Picture by Jason Lloyd-Evans
“Come this way. We need to check your blood pressure.”
This is a sentence that has haunted me for the last 5 years. Before I enter the hospital operating theatre... | ['Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
Raised in Oklahoma City, Quincy never intended to be a programmer. Before learning to program, he worked in schools — first as a teacher, then as a principal. In a sort of proto-hack, Quincy automated teachers’ basic tasks (attendance and other headaches). Aha, he thought: tech + education = impact. A code camp was bor... | ['Medium', 'Creativity', 'Noteworthy', 'Coding', 'Writers'] |
Don’t hate the neurotic, hate the year.
Photo by Nadi Lindsay from Pexels
Look, you ride out this crazy straw year your way, I’ll ride it out mine. Can I help it if all of the ways I choose to cope during a time of extreme isolation are super fucking annoying to all of you? No. I also don’t have to alter a morsel of ... | ['Advice', 'Humor', 'Habits', '2020', 'Productivity'] |
The #1 Mistake I Made on Medium this Month
It may have lost me $92 in earnings
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If I plan a beach day and my plans get thwarted, I get pretty grumpy. The same thing happens when I Uber Eats (yes, I’m using that as a verb) Taco Bell and open my Nachos Bell Grande to discover that the... | ['Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Advice', 'Inspiration', 'Blogging'] |
Can indigenous knowledge stop Australia from burning? We always think we can leave nature alone and she will be healthy and flourishing. Well, in my environmental studies I gained other knowledge.
People need nature to supply oxygen, drinking water, and food. But nature also needs people. Mindful collaboration works b... | ['Nature', 'Australia', 'Indigenous', 'Environment', 'Fire'] |
Making GANs transparent with TL-GAN
Created by Shaobo as part of a Insight Data Science project, the transparent latent GAN (TL-GAN) introduces a simple, but perfectly executed idea: shine a light on the random noise used to generate realistic faces by learning an association between the input noise and facial feature... | ['Machine Learning', 'Pytorch', 'Gans', 'Python'] |
Title: What is the Gradient Descent Algorithm and its working.
Gradient descent is a type of machine learning algorithm that helps us in optimizing neural networks and many other algorithms. This article ventures into how this algorithm actually works, its types, and its significance in the real world.
A Brief Introd... | ['Machine Learning', 'Gradient Descent', 'Working', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks'] |
Did You Know That Only 26% of Computing-Related Jobs Are Held by Women?
It’s high time that companies start investing in making technology departments more gender diverse
According to research conducted by Accenture in the U.K., nearly half (48%) of girls and women believe that STEM subjects line up more with male ca... | ['Programming', 'Women In Tech', 'Technology', 'Diversity In Tech', 'Startup'] |
Across the globe, numerous businesses are facing rising pressure to compete and grow their operations to the next level. The way of doing business is evolving today with the transformation in the tech arena. Technology is now a competitive keystone of most companies.
But now many companies are asking, should I develop... | ['Inhouse Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Outsource Development', 'Offshore Developers'] |
It’s been a year since our family settled in the city and a lot of external aspects related to my life have changed. Having been a newbie to the business and a stranger to the city, I’m totally satisfied with the level my tutoring career has reached within a year. Tutoring sessions and college stuff keep me busy all th... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Life Lessons', 'Kindness', 'Nonfiction', 'Life'] |
Do you know what that context object is? You know what object I mean, the BuildContext object named, context, that’s passed to the build() function all the time. It’s a necessary parameter to a bunch of static functions as well:
build(BuildContext context)
Theme.of(context)
Scaffold.of(context)
MediaQuery.of(contex... | ['Programming', 'Flutter', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development'] |
Yu Pan was one of the six co-founders of PayPal and the first engineer at YouTube. He’s now working as an R&D Engineer at Origin Protocol. In this video, Yu Pan shares why he joined the Origin team and what he enjoys most about the culture.
If you’re interested in being part of the Origin team and getting to work alon... | ['Blockchain', 'YouTube', 'Startup', 'PayPal', 'Videos'] |
Why Bragging About Your Online Success Isn’t Helping Me
Or anyone else for that matter
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If you’ve spent any amount of time on the internet, then you know what it’s like to come across the humblebragger. At least, they think they’re being humble. If you’ve been on social media, then you’re al... | ['Psychology', 'Self', 'Success', 'Freelancing', 'Work'] |
The irony of the title of Jordan Ellenburg’s How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking is the emphasis he places on attempting to prove himself wrong daily. He writes, “Believe whatever you believe by day, but at night, argue against the propositions you hold most dear.” Ellenburg’s mindset can benefit ev... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Reading', 'Books', 'Thoughts'] |
The Big Bang and the Big Whisper
What these models are telling us about our scientists
There is no greater question than understanding the beginning of our material universe. The prevailing Big Bang theory has a single flaw: it is stuck in understanding the very beginning itself. There is an alternate view, very simi... | ['Beginning', 'Big Whisper', 'Universe', 'Physics', 'Science'] |
Well, here we go! Monday was the day when stats took on an even more addictive quality by showing writers our earnings daily. Like many of you, I’ve been hitting refresh constantly waiting for the new stats figures to take hold — I have taken appropriate breaks to sleep, eat, and go to the washroom. If I wasn’t before,... | ['Medium Writers', 'Stories', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Funny'] |
2020 has been a tough year for most people — private constraints and uncertainty are a grueling force when they continue without a clear end on the horizon. Coupled with store and restaurant lockdowns, productivity losses, and frozen project budgets, 2020 was a punch in the gut for millions of people.
But there is als... | ['Productivity', 'Remote Work', 'Work Life Balance', 'Work', 'Work From Home'] |
A wide range of industries are starting to lean into a data-driven culture, focusing on data, as one of their most important resources for decision-making.
Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash
It is a fact that every company, no matter the size, from start-ups to even more established companies, manage different ty... | ['Investing', 'Technology', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
If you’re one of the over 2.5 billion people who uses Facebook each month, you likely know it as a place to find news, keep up with friends, or even buy or sell some of your belongings. But did you know that you can also mark yourself as safe during a crisis, raise money for nonprofits you care about, sign-up to donate... | ['Product Design', 'Social Impact', 'Technology', 'Social Good', 'Design'] |
If you’re at all like me, you constantly obsess over your stats. It’s the last thing you do before bed and the first thing you do in the morning. My partner is constantly in my ear, “Seriously? You’re looking at your stats again?”
“Yeah, that’s right buddy. Ain’t no shame in my game.” I said as I shooed him away.
I’m... | ['Ｍedium', 'Writers On Medium', 'Holidays', 'Christmas', 'Writing'] |
Query your (big) data with the power of Python, Dask, and SQL
How to get the best of all worlds
This post will describe what an SQL Query Engine is and how you can use dask-sql to analyze your (big) data quickly and easily and also call complex algorithms, such as machine learning, from SQL.
Photo by Moritz Kindler ... | ['Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Sql', 'Data Science', 'Dask'] |
To become inspired it is mandatory that neurons within the mind fire in a pattern that is unrecognised by habit. Without such stimulus, the mind remains in a state of autopilot; where neural activity (and therefore brain function) remains baseline and creation-less.
With new ideas means new neuron wiring (read: new pa... | ['Motivation', 'Growth', 'Inspiration', 'Personal Growth', 'Personal Development'] |
Do you need a writer on your design team?
5 reasons why a UX writer makes designers more efficient and products more successful
Illustrations by: Jasmine Rosen
The role of a UX writer has grown and evolved in recent years as more and more tech companies integrate writers into the design process. UX writing — a skill... | ['Ux Writing', 'Content Strategy', 'Design', 'UX', 'Surveymonkey'] |
Long term relationships, whether they are friendships, love relationships, or family relationships are often fraught with ambiguities. Often, we are projecting our realities and feeling hurt when we don’t receive the desired responses. We tell ourselves narratives about one another that clouds our judgment and amplify ... | ['Family', 'Relationships', 'Trust', 'Self', 'Friendship'] |
Inspiring by Example
Community Works Journal has been published by Community Works Institute (CWI) since 1995, in support of teaching practices that build community. The Journal features educator written essays and reflections, along with program and curriculum overviews that highlight the importance and use of place,... | ['Education', 'Sustainability', 'Teaching', 'Social Justice', 'Service Learning'] |
Where we are Now
I’m not happy with the way that the internet has made me, or should I really say that I have just noticed how the internet has made me.
Photo by Anshu A on Unsplash
I was just browsing a health site because I’m interested in that and I was dealing with a WhatsApp message at the same time, so I was b... | ['Internet', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Learning', 'Technology'] |
Can I borrow your passionate soul one more time?
I promise if I feel your claws sinking into my wings
I will let us fly, if only you promise me in return-
Could you spare me one final moment of peace
Before we go back to pretending we never each other at all?
I’m not asking your cruel heart for forgiveness
And I ... | ['Friendship', 'Love', 'Trust'] |
Founder & Growth Hacker @SMARTERS Romania, my purpose is to show people that it can be done.
Follow | ['Romania', 'Marketing', 'Antreprenoriat', 'Strategie'] |
This article gives details about:
different ways of writing data frames to database using pandas and pyodbc How to speed up the inserts to sql database using python Time taken by every method to write to database Comparing the time taken to write to databases using different methods
Method 1:
The approach here:
eve... | ['Insert', 'Sqlalchemy', 'Python', 'Pyodbc', 'Data Science'] |
Theuth: “Here is an accomplishment . . . which will improve both the wisdom and the memory of the Egyptians.” Thamus: “The discoverer of an art is not the best judge of the good or harm which will accrue to those who practice it.” Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology — book by Neil Postman
With the explo... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
The economic theory that claims self-interest is what drives the world may no longer be valid
The Back Story
Medium just introduced a $5/month membership fee. It’s not much even in Indian money. Around the same as my 4G mobile bill for a month, or a quarter of my internet broadband bill. If this works out, the good t... | ['Economics', 'Medium', 'Writing', 'Altruism', 'Paywall'] |
READ CSV
I’ll keep this very short. Put scripts.csv to the same directory with your Python script or Jupyter notebook and then run the following commands:
give the path of CSV file to FILE_PATH variable
You can directly give scripts.csv to Pandas’s read_csv() but it is always more robust to use os or glob to give fi... | ['Spacy', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Regex', 'Tokenization'] |
Doing DevOps for Snowflake with dbt in Azure
How to Use CI/CD to Deploy Your Snowflake Database Scripts with dbt in Azure DevOps
by Venkatesh Sekar
I recently wrote about the need within our Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse client base to have a SQL-centric data transformation and DataOps solution. In my previous post... | ['Snowflake', 'Open Source', 'Cloud Computing', 'DevOps', 'Dbt'] |
People Transform, And You Should Too So You Can Surpass Them
3 ways to deal with change.
Photo by Arseny Togulev on Unsplash
I remember seeing one of my old friends at Panera a couple of years ago. I got so ecstatic at the sight of him because he used to support me a ton in high school. He’d defend me against a raci... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Evolve', 'Self', 'Change'] |
Written by
I’m an award-winning comic artist, writer and graphic recorder. All words + images © Sarah Firth. Contact me www.sarahthefirth if you want to use them. | ['Addiction', 'Trauma', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Aware'] |
A short high-level introduction (without all the complicated math) to Reinforcement Learning
What is the process of training a dog to sit like? Well, your dog may initially be completely untrained and have no idea what to do.
You might tell him to sit, and the dog might start barking. You scold him and tell him and t... | ['Reinforcement Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Ernest Hemingway has long been credited, perhaps apocryphally, with authoring the shortest story ever told: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
The other day, driving off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, I took in the Twilio billboard and realized that Hemingway’s record had fallen:
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What a brilliant illustrat... | ['Strategy', 'Messaging', 'Storytelling'] |
In his book How Democracy Ends, David Runciman also dwells on Japan. This is partly because the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama did so, in his hugely influential The End of History and the Last Man (You can also hear Runciman discuss Fukuyama, and why his perhaps flawed view in underestimating the East, i... | ['Politics', 'Geography', 'Sociology', 'Slow Down', 'Books'] |
Shawn Meghan Burn, Ph.D., author of Unhealthy Helping: A Psychological Guide for Overcoming Codependence, Enabling, and Other Dysfunctional Helping, defines codependence as “an imbalanced relationship pattern where one partner assumes a high-cost ‘giver-rescuer’ role and the other the ‘taker-victim’ role.”
By the time... | ['Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Happiness', 'Self'] |
I’m the ghost of a girl
Who has wandered the world
Chasing after what seemed to be right
I thought I’d found it one day
And got carried away
And since then I’ve been chasing the light
I’m the ghost of a girl
With my banner unfurled
Struggling to stand my ground and not fall
Once I fell in and drowned
In the l... | ['Thesceneandheard', 'Writing', 'Poem', 'Life', 'Poetry'] |
Ranging much of the Indo-European and Proto-Indo-European world, and more broadly approximately 4,000–25,000 years ago, one senses echoes of an image now almost entirely evaporated into the time before humanity’s earliest memories or histories. Though not at all clear today, with some trepidation and humility, one may ... | ['Literature', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Psychology'] |
The Mechanics of a Basic Neural Network
Again, I don’t want to get too deep into the mechanics, but it’s worthwhile to show you what the structure of a basic neural network looks like.
In a neural network, there’s an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer. The input layer consists of one or more ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
Heat and Eat Vegan Holiday Treats
Everything doesn’t have to be scratch-made for you to eat well this holiday season.
Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash
It seems like this last half of 2020 is zooming by at record speed, but not without more lessons. I don’t know about you but I’ve learned an awful lot about myself in... | ['Food', 'Vegan', 'Plant Based', 'Holidays', 'Cooking'] |
A tree you say ?
Most likely you are already using a tree or have used one, well at least a simple tree like this one:
We’ll get into the terminology in a minute, but the important thing here is the parent child relationship which might make more sense with a couple of examples:
Dad -> Son
Boss -> Employee
Favorit... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization', 'Coding'] |
To understand the concept shown in “The Magic,” you have to know the basic concept of how the universe actually works in terms of energies and vibrations.
Let me tell you a little back story before I get to “The Magic.”
I learned about the book “ The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne in 2013/14. I was in the early 20s, and aro... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Book Recommendations', 'Books'] |
When it comes to work, being organized and having good habits always helps. The more we know our working habits, the better we exploit our virtues and manage our weaknesses. Increasing productivity is not about working harder and harder, but about using every available resource to achieve better results — with no extra... | ['Productivity'] |
Dance to this song. It might be more viral than the virus.
I remember it was during the last week of January when my American family & friends were all at a dinner table discussing what was then a foreign, “China-contained” new disease called Coronavirus. The virus had infected about ~1000 people worldwide, 500 alone ... | ['Corona', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19', 'Vietnam', 'Hackernoon Top Story'] |
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Twitter @MEAIndia
The Saudi Crown Prince’s visit to New Delhi was historic, but perhaps only for the frankness with which Mohammed bin Salman never even pretended he was on the same page as India with respect to Pakistan.
MBS, as the Crown Prince is kno... | ['Terrorism', 'Nuclear', 'India', 'Pakistan', 'Saudi Arabia'] |
Mohammad Shahangian | Pinterest Head of Data Science
Big data plays a big role at Pinterest. With more than 30 billion Pins in the system, we’re building the most comprehensive collection of interests online. One of the challenges associated with building a personalized discovery engine is scaling our data infrastruct... | ['Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'Datascience', 'MySQL', 'Infrastructure'] |
Artificial intelligence has a critical role to play in fighting the global threat of COVID-19—the Allen Institute for AI has taken the lead in partnership with several prominent leaders and research groups to produce the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a unique resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, incl... | ['NLP', 'Data', 'Semantic Scholar', 'AI', 'Co Vid 19'] |
Katie Palencsar is an investor at Anthemis, a fintech-focused venture capital firm. Based in New York, she leads the Female Innovators Lab in partnership with Barclays and develop new, digital-era concepts and ventures with a focus on women entrepreneurs.
Previously, Kate served as an advisor and interim executive for... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Vc Corner', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'VC'] |
Python, an open-source high-level programming language. The fact that you don’t know is Python was named after the comedy television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It was not named after the Python, the snake species. A great programming toolbox for professionals of backend web development, data analysis, artificia... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis'] |
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