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Games are microcosms of life. They involve struggle, camaraderie, disappointment, and ecstasy. As such, games offer the inquisitive spectator a chance to reflect on social behaviour from afar. As both an aficionado of poker — a deeply strategic game — and a soccer fanatic, I’ve noticed a way in which wisdom from the fo... | ['Motivation', 'Poker', 'World Cup', 'Economics', 'Soccer'] |
The MVC design pattern in Flutter
In late October, back in 2018, I offered the package, mvc_pattern, to supply an MVC design pattern approach to your next Flutter app. It was a hit.
Like with many things in life, it’s only gotten better with age. It’s been improved by further integrating into and even mirroring Flutt... | ['Programming', 'Flutter', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development'] |
As I’m sure many of you are aware, the global pandemic, COVID-19, known as the Coronavirus, has spread rapidly and many of you are probably at home in quarantine reading this now. Initially I chose not to prepare a response, given how this issue has taken over every media outlet, YouTube channel, and Facebook page. How... | ['Covid 19', 'Virus', 'Quarantine', 'Technology', 'Coronavirus'] |
Feature Importance
Feature Importance is the process of finding the most important feature to a target. Through PCA, the feature that contains the most information can be found, but feature importance concerns a feature’s impact on the target. A change in an ‘important’ feature will have a large effect on the y-variab... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Data Analysis', 'Statistics'] |
I have been thinking a lot about cryptocurrencies, ICO and blockchain these few weeks. It’s a bit hard not to when the prices of bitcoins, ether and the top few cryptocurrencies have taken the market on a really wild ride. It’s also a bit hard not to do so after I received 2 different requests for help to launch ICO fo... | ['ICO', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Startup', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Why Read? Some Reasons to Love it Again
5 lessons from a life-long passion for reading
Photo by Johnny McClung on Unsplash
Pick up a book. Read.
Such a simple act, reading. Since childhood, we were taught to turn the page, voice the words, scan the story, predict the end. In primary school, we delighted in tales to... | ['Love', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Education', 'Books'] |
10 Best Data Science Reads for Students
Top 10 ML and stats articles for learning data concepts
It’s time for some Best Of compilations! Here are my 10 best articles for students. If you find yourself having fun with the writing, try following the links in the articles — they’re almost always from the same blog. I tr... | ['Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science'] |
How To Make Your Apartment a Place You Actually Want To Be
For the times when, you know, you have to stay home
I used to hate being at home.
I lived in a really expensive one-bedroom apartment with barely enough room for myself, let alone my child, my belongings, and her belongings. I dreaded nights and weekends bec... | ['Culture', 'Life', 'Family', 'Cities', 'Productivity'] |
How Typography Impacts Your Business Outlook — A Primer
For any up and coming business, establishing a proper mode of communication with users is mission critical to their success.
Online Businesses
If the business is online, text would be considered as the most basic yet highly effective way to reach their target a... | ['Business Tips', 'Design', 'Web Design', 'Typography', 'UX'] |
Crypto token enthusiasts and investors are often unsure about where to invest.
They try to figure out the best tokens to invest in, considering the amount of money they have in hand for crypto investment.
Token selection for investment can be done manually by analyzing market trends for various crypto tokens in the m... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Technology'] |
Marketing has changed.
It’s an idea that initially seems too obvious to have much impact. You’re probably thinking, “Of course marketing has changed. Marketing is always changing. There are always new channels emerging, new tools to try, and new ways to share our message with an audience.”
Let me explain what I mean.... | ['Branding', 'Content Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Graphic Design'] |
The Wonder of Getting Lost in a Bookshop
And why we should fight to keep them
Do you love visiting bookshops as much as I do? I love it! But, I don’t do it enough. There’s something so alluring about the convenience of online shopping, right? You think about something one minute, search for and buy it the next and vo... | ['Retail', 'Local Business', 'Reading', 'Bookshops', 'Books'] |
Custom In-App Voice Assistants
Complexities in building a custom In-App Voice Assistants
Want to build a custom Voice Assistant for your app? Do NOT build one from scratch. It's harder than it looks
Voice as an interface is becoming more mainstream. Most likely the reader has experienced Voice interfaces when intera... | ['Voice Assistant', 'Alexa', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Google Assistant', 'Technology'] |
Now we will install the Grafana or Prometheus-Operator Helm Chart. This example will install the Prometheus-Operator Helm Chart, but the values.yml file for both the Grafana portions are the same.
Again the first step is to create a Kubernetes namespace for deploying the prometheus-operator Helm Chart:
kubectl create... | ['Ingress', 'Kubernetes', 'Lets Encrypt', 'Grafana', 'Helm'] |
is a cartoonist in Vermont. Her book is RX: A Graphic Memoir and her comic strip is Rachel Lives Here Now. www.rachellivesherenow.com
Follow | ['Graphic Memoir', 'Mental Health', 'Rachel Lindsay', 'Comics', 'Bipolar Disorder'] |
Robert Wultsch | Pinterest engineer, SRE
Pinterest Infrastructure engineers are the caretakers of more than 75 billion Pins–dynamic objects in an ever-growing database of people’s interests, ideas and intentions. A Pin is stored as a 1.2 KB JSON blob in sharded MySQL databases. A few years back, as we were growing qui... | ['Programming', 'Big Data', 'MySQL', 'Compression', 'Open Source'] |
Dear November Novelists,
It’s after 2pm and I’ve done everything but add to my novel’s word count. I did my morning pages, made a lavish breakfast, talked to friends, walked my dog, cleaned the kitchen, watched Netflix (I’m watching Episodes with Matt LeBlanc, you?), walked the dog again…all the while guilt accumulate... | ['Fiction', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Nonprofit', 'Writing'] |
MapReduce Tutorial - Edureka
In this MapReduce Tutorial blog, I am going to introduce you to MapReduce, which is one of the core building blocks of processing in the Hadoop framework. Before moving ahead, I would suggest you get familiar with HDFS concepts which I have covered in my previous HDFS tutorial blog. This w... | ['Big Data', 'Mapreduce', 'Hadoop', 'Hdfs', 'Hadoop Training'] |
“People readily swallow the untested claims of this, that, or the other. It’s drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it’s coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition. It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense and can’t see things as they are. Anything that any... | ['Atheism', 'Christianity', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Psychology'] |
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The Halt of a Breath
Inhale, exhale, lungs fill, lungs deplete, hold, release, live, die
“When holding your breath, you can learn to change your brain activity (frequency of electrical impulses) and go into a state of flow. In flow the notion of time disappears and you becom... | ['Self-awareness', 'Time', 'Life', 'Energy', 'Breathing'] |
Meetings are fun and productive — keep your ears and eyes open!
Meetings are perfect grounds for learning, if used well! When you start looking at meetings as learning opportunities, you can definitely notice the array of skills that meetings will help you hone.
Punctuality:
start and end meetings on time, stick to ... | ['Work', 'Management', 'Meetings', 'Productivity'] |
by Artemis Shishir
Happy holidays!
This year has been nightmarish, but with it almost over maybe we can all relax with some stories and a hot cup of tea or coffee. Unless you prefer something stronger! Whether you like fiction or non, we’ve got great gifts for you.
Liam Heitmann-Ryce offers both fiction and memoir a... | ['LGBTQ', 'Storytelling', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
I often google search my popular content to know if there are any plagiarized stories on the web. Until last month, there were none, but when an institution plagiarized one of my recently published Better Marketing posts, I was clueless. Previously in the Facebook group, I had heard writers talking about their content ... | ['Writing', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Blogging', 'This Happened To Me', 'Plagiarism'] |
The Indicator of Discomfort
As Medical News Today states, physical pain is an unpleasant sensation and emotional experience that links to tissue damage. It allows the body to react and prevent further damage.
Pain on a psychological level can be a similar indicator of emotional anguish. If you are feeling consistentl... | ['Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Ideas', 'Inspiration'] |
Quorum Founder Jackie DeJesse on Using Empathy as a Product Manager & Entrepreneur Carlee Murray Follow Nov 9 · 6 min read
If you look at Jackie DeJesse’s CV, you’ll see someone at the top of her game. She’s held product roles at several successful tech companies and is currently serving as a product manager for Googl... | ['Women In Tech', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Empowerment', 'Female Founders', 'Product Management'] |
Big Data is generally considered to be very huge amount of data for storing and processing. Data in huge volume and different varieties can be considered as Big Data. Data is changing our world and the way we live at an unprecedented rate. Big data is the new science of analyzing and predicting human and machine behavi... | ['Hadoop Training', 'Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
We start by using marker=dict() which then takes all the parameters that we use to style our markers (data points). There is an additional dict within marker that corresponds to the style options for the marker border.
Note how we color the markers themselves using an RGB value, whereas we color the marker outline wit... | ['Python', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Programming'] |
I remember how excited I was as a little girl when I got to ride in a taxi with my grandparents instead of taking the subway. It always felt rewarding with a dash of thrill as if it were a holiday or special occasion.
I didn’t know then that my parents couldn’t afford to take a taxi. I just assumed it was something we... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Life', 'Family'] |
Scientists like Dr. Ning Li & Eugene Podkletnov have claimed to see anomalous gravitational effects for decades. Could High-Frequency Gravitational Waves provide an explanation? We join Dr. Robert Baker, Jr. to discuss international HFGW research and hypothesize about what might be causing these strange experimental ef... | ['Physics', 'Futurism', 'Science', 'Technology', 'Gravity'] |
What is Sentiment Analysis?
Sentiment Analysis, or Opinion Mining, is a sub-field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that tries to identify and extract opinions within a given text. The aim of sentiment analysis is to gauge the attitude, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes and emotions of a speaker/writer based on th... | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Different Date Entries Normalized
You need to manually enable the new system entities to take advantage of improvements that were made to the number-based system entities provided by IBM.
The list of supported languages can be found here.
The new system entities can recognize more nuanced mentions in user input. For... | ['NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Nlu', 'Machine Learning'] |
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Next time I brush my hair,
wrapping the strands around my fingers,
I will walk to the backyard apple tree
and drape among its battered branches
threads of silver, soft yet strong
much-sought for by robins and wrens;
a perfect carpet, safe and warm
for the bellies of naked nestlings... | ['Self-awareness', 'Nature', 'Life', 'Poetry', 'Mindfulness'] |
Having spent a large portion of my career helping, running or building small to medium sized businesses, I have often had to develop simplistic tools to problem solve or coach management teams on various topics. One among them that has surfaced most frequently is the topic of leadership. I was reminded of this yet agai... | ['Business', 'People', 'Finance', 'Leadership', 'Money'] |
Day Twenty-Nine: My Journey to Zen
Slowly, slowly…
Photo by Daria Tumanova on Unsplash
Haste makes waste is an ancient cliché. Some say that it goes back more than two thousand years. Big surprise. I am not go to digress to research its origin. I do remember reading a while back that it is that old and since I am wr... | ['Self-awareness', 'Change', 'Mindset', 'Mindfulness', 'Mindset Shift'] |
But you can find not just old buildings in Tegel — it also houses the oldest tree in Berlin, so-called Chubby Mary (Dicke Marie). This is a natural monument, although the tree didn’t look quite healthy at first glance.
Dicke Marie
It’s believed this English oak was born from a seed in 1107, which means it’s over 900 ... | ['Berlin', 'Architecture', 'Design', 'Travel', 'Photography'] |
Now Let’s discuss the Basic Differences
1. Intro & Release
•Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (now the property of Oracle) in 1995.
•It supports almost all types of machines, and OS X be it Android, Windows or Linux.
•Kotlin was introduced by JetBrains in 2011, open-sourced in 2012, officially supported in Goo... | ['Kotlin', 'Comparison', 'Java'] |
Christmas
Wish
Photo by loly galina on Unsplash
One of my fondest memories was when my mother would decorate for Christmas. She would buy a can of snow, and we would spray it on the window and make a shape of a mountain on half of the windowpane. Then we would take the Christmas stencils and fill them in with glass ... | ['Christmas', 'Nonfiction', 'Family', 'Spiritual Secrets', 'Weekly Prompts'] |
Featuring Usman Majeed
Listen Now
Show Notes
In today’s conversation with Usman Majeed we compare and contrast the dot com bubble of then and the valuations of cryptocurrencies.
He may have missed the boat with bitcoin, but he didn’t make that same mistake with ethereum and it’s landed him in great position, recent... | ['Startup'] |
In today’s professional landscape, 51% of workers are actively looking to leave their current jobsand 73% are open to hearing about new opportunities, which means it’s more important than ever to engage your workforce if you want to win the talent war — and that includes keeping the talent already within the walls of y... | ['Culture', 'Core Values', 'Startup', 'Employer Branding', 'Agencylife'] |
Drum Patterns from Latent Space
Percussion Beats And Where To Find Them
TL;DR: I collected a large dataset of drum patterns, then used a neural network approach to map them into a latent explorable space with some recognizable genre areas. Try the interactive exploration tool or download several thousand of unique ge... | ['Drums', 'Neural Networks', 'Visualization', 'Percussion', 'Machine Learning'] |
Setting Up Ingress With minikube
For this example, we are going to go through the process of setting up Ingress, using the Ingress Controller type. The implementation of the Ingress Controller is going to be nginx, but it is just as straightforward to use other ingress controllers, such as Traefik.
First of all, make... | ['Programming', 'Minikube', 'Kubernetes', 'Docker', 'Containers'] |
How name-calling alienates supporters
I wrote this story just before Covid-19 took our attention from climate change and other topics. It discusses how the use of language can alienate supporters of social movements and how avoiding such language makes for inclusive movements.
This is the story of how cliches and nam... | ['Social Movements', 'Language', 'Citizen Journalism', 'Citizen Journalist', 'Journalism'] |
Productivity is personal.
Who we are as human beings deeply influences productivity as both a process and an outcome. Our values and beliefs, the needs of our families, our personalities and preferences, how energized or deflated we feel when seeing our Calendars or To Dos — these are key facets of productivity.
And ... | ['Microsoft', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'UX', 'Future Of Work'] |
Caviar is a popular app that offers food delivery from local restaurants.
Disclaimer: I do not work for Caviar. This case study was purely used as a tool for learning and making me a better designer.
I conducted a 2-week case study to challenge myself to improve Caviar’s iOS ordering flow. Being an ardent food lover,... | ['Product Design', 'Usability', 'Design', 'Case Study', 'UX'] |
Every project starts simple, with few models and not so many records to take into consideration. But either by necessity or simply by adding more content through time, having a grasp of every piece of content created should be easy to access and in a fast way.
To reach this accessibility goal, DatoCMS has two importan... | ['Headless Cms', 'Features', 'Visualization', 'Organization', 'Web Development'] |
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all familiar with the old saying “actions speak louder than words” and I am certain we all know people that are consistent in saying one thing, and then doing another. Without a doubt we have all been guilty in doing this oursel... | ['Leadership', 'Inspiration', 'Self Leadership', 'Motivation', 'Quote Of The Day'] |
In this fast-paced world, we’re all busy bodies with our own work and study commitments, relationships to uphold, a controlling conscience, and many more. The accumulation of these tasks can be overwhelming and lead to stress, which when unaddressed, can lead to burnout.
Burnout essentially is the accumulation of prol... | ['Stress', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Wellbeing', 'Stress Management', 'Burnout'] |
Over the years, computers have become increasingly sophisticated in their ability to identify more and more complex patterns. The field of computational creativity, a multidisciplinary endeavour to build software that can assist humans in a variety of tasks in the arts, science and the humanities, has seen much progres... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Generative Art', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
I remember when I started my first company, I really didn’t understand how financings worked, and why they were the way they were. Over the last 7 years and 300 deals I have done, I have some concept of why venture works the way it does, and some concept of why. I’m not going to claim to understand everything. However,... | ['Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Fundraising'] |
By: Jared Augustine
Last Wednesday, we held the first event of our Influence Live series in partnership with The Drum. I had the pleasure of chatting about the world of influencer marketing with Kyle O’Brien of The Drum, Amy Tunick of Grey New York, Ian Schafer of Deep Focus, and Shan Lui of Superfly.
For insights of... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Background
Since iOS 7, Dynamic Type has allowed users to choose a prefered font size for their phone. At Airbnb, we try to build an app that our entire community can use — since Dynamic Type is a critical accessibility feature, we knew supporting it would make more people able to effectively use our app, some of them... | ['Dynamic Type', 'Design', 'Airbnb', 'iOS', 'Mobile'] |
When I first started helping companies deploy Jobs to be Done within their organizations, people were largely unfamiliar with the concept. Maybe a few people — likely the project sponsors — had read an article about Jobs or seen the famous milkshake video in which the late Harvard Business School professor Clayton Chri... | ['Innovation', 'Jobs To Be Done', 'Market Research', 'Marketing', 'Strategy'] |
What it does?
This takes a keyword as an input from the user and using it as a hashtag, retrieves public Instagram posts. It then sorts those posts based on the number of likes. The post with the most likes is then downloaded to be reposted later. It then pulls any hashtags from the caption, finds other hashtags being... | ['Instagram Marketing', 'Instagram', 'Automation', 'Python', 'Social Media'] |
Independence And Happiness. Independence Or Happiness — Choice Is Yours, Stakes Are High!
Real independence is more about peace of mind than happiness.
Image from Quotemaster
This comes from a writing prompt titled, ‘’Gather Your Strength’’ by Samantha Lazar. The theme is Susan. B. Anthony’s quote, ‘’Independence is... | ['Happiness', 'Nonfiction', 'Strength', 'Freedom', 'Peace Of Mind'] |
You don’t have to be a psychological expert in reading people’s behavior. We all have that inner power to discern that can tell us a lot about people’s personalities.
If not, we can always develop that skill.
As a child, I was always intrigued by people’s dual-faced behavior. Sometimes their actions and words did not... | ['Advice', 'Spirituality', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Integrity'] |
By RYAN PERSAUD,
Director of IT and Innovation at International School of Curitiba
I have had the privilege of walking into many many schools over my career, all over the world, and in a variety of capacities. If there is one constant that I know to be true is the end of the year burnout and the overwhelming feeling ... | ['Schools', 'Teaching', 'Wellness', 'Learning', 'Education'] |
Wounded Mother by Cassius Corbin (Poetry)
“Earth’s children going back
to be held by The Mother
then running back home
at the first sign of thunder”
All Passages by Water Lead Home by Jerry Windley-Daoust (Fiction)
“ It was as forlorn as a desert, except that the upside-down part of this watery desert harbored a ... | ['Fiction', 'Nonfiction', 'Ll Letters', 'Essay', 'Poetry'] |
I choose to keep my log in my journal because handwriting helps retain information, because I can create my own symbols and layouts, and because that’s where I keep almost everything else.
But if you prefer, you can also use digital apps such as Evernote, which allow you to move things around and organize thoughts by ... | ['Quantified Self', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Journaling'] |
Maybe not “easy”, but entirely possible.
I recently listened to an episode of The World Wanderers Podcast where the host discussed working at a cafe in a great city that a lot of people would love to live in. She mentioned how, had she not moved to this cool, exciting city, the job she had would have made her feel lik... | ['Travel', 'Education', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Potential
Email Refrigerator :: 25
Hey friend!
What Will Become of Us?
“Hello, Elmo” Golda says politely as she tosses her red plush friend on top of her doll, already-buckled into the tiny stroller. My daughter keeps adding her toys one by one. An oversized plastic butterfly sits on the table. She picks that up, t... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Advice', 'Expectations', 'Worldviews', 'Potential'] |
Hadoop Developer is the most aspired and highly-paid role in current IT Industry. This High-Caliber profile takes superior skillset to tackle with gigantic volumes of data with remarkable accuracy. In this article, we will understand the job description of a Hadoop Developer.
Who is a Hadoop Developer?
How to become ... | ['Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'Hadoop Developer', 'Big Data Analytics', 'Hadoop Training'] |
Once one has a good understanding of the data they have to work with, they next need to decide what they aim to answer with this information. Understanding the problem at hand is part of the Business Understanding step in the Data Science Process.
The Data Science Process
A business question with a data solution can ... | ['Parametric Tests', 'Hypothesis Testing', 'Statistical Test', 'Python'] |
Originally published in TechCrunch on November 4, 2020.
Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Almost overnight, these startups transformed into consequential platforms, earning billion-dollar valuations along the way. The B2B e-commerce industry has broad rea... | ['Monetization', 'Insights', 'B2B', 'Startup', 'Marketplaces'] |
Written by
Frontend Developer At Central JD FinTech Co., Ltd | ['Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'Developer', 'Web Development', 'Code'] |
1. Superman’s Island
In elementary school, a young Clark Kent first discovers he’s hypersensitive. He can hear faint noises miles away and see right through walls, doors, even people.
Since he doesn’t know how to control these powers yet, all the impressions overwhelm him and trigger a seizure. Clark runs away and hi... | ['Happiness', 'Stories', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Mindfulness'] |
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By Austin Hawk
Screaming, shrieking, and begging were not the sounds I expected to hear while reading a story to my class. I was teaching in San Antonio, in one of the poorest zip codes in Texas, and Lily, a third grader new to our school, was continually challenging my knowledge and... | ['Trauma Informed Teaching', 'Mental Health', 'K 12 Education', 'Teachers Leaning In', 'Texas'] |
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3 Simple Reasons Why I Didn’t Replace My Old AirPods With New Tim Schröder Follow Jun 11 · 4 min read
I remember when I first used AirPods. It was in the office at work. I was chatting with my colleague. And he was mentioning that he thinks about selling his pair of AirPods. He had bought ... | ['Airpods', 'Experience', 'Wearables', 'Tech', 'Apple'] |
The demand for Splunk Certified professionals has seen a tremendous rise, mainly due to the ever-increasing machine-generated log data from almost every advanced technology that is shaping our world today. If you want to implement Splunk in your infrastructure, then it is important that you know how Splunk works intern... | ['Big Data', 'Log Monitoring', 'Splunk Administration', 'Log Analysis', 'Splunk'] |
It has been said that where you stand often depends on where you sit. Such is the case with the term “old plantation.”
People who want to distort the cruel history of slavery in America use the term “old plantation” to conjure false and comforting (to some) memories of happy slaves and their benevolent owners. This hi... | ['Politics', 'Politics And Protest', 'Environment', 'Virginia', 'Natural Gas'] |
If you're new to Artificial Intelligence, chances are you’ve heard the term “Linear Regression” being thrown around. Jeez..could they have picked a more intimidating name? Anyway, I’m here to tell you that it is in no way as complex as the name makes it out to be. Simply put, it is the equation for the slope of a line…... | ['Linear Regression', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology'] |
I am happy to announce some great news for Intuit and our participation in the technology community at large. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the community behind Kubernetes and other related open source technologies, held an election for its Technical Oversight Committee, and I have been elected as the represen... | ['Cloud Native', 'Cloud Computing', 'Infrastructure', 'Cloud', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Many different strategies can stand behind an excellent advertising campaign. Today, I’m going to talk about one that I’ve found to be particularly effective in the online world.
Before I dive in, allow me to state two basic assumptions.
Assumption #1: Always on
Your advertising campaign is always-on. You are always... | ['Digital Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
Perhaps the first known depiction of the crucifixion — probably from around the year 200 — is a blasphemous graffito that was scratched on a wall in Rome. It shows Jesus of Nazareth on the cross with a donkey’s head, and a cartoonish figure praying beneath him. The inscription reads: “Alexamenos worships his god”. Alex... | ['Christianity', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
originally published in Writer’s Digest
We’ve all heard it said that readers have increasingly short attention spans. Spending time with a print medium isn’t as engaging as watching things move or interacting with content on a screen. Does this mean that we should write stories that can be eaten up in one sitting, or ... | ['Attention Span', 'Social Media', 'Writing'] |
One Last Note
Our most-read story was read only 150 times. We have 27,612 followers. What this tells us is that algorithms and user preferences play a huge role in what gets seen and that publications, in and of themselves, don’t carry a ton of weight.
Most people don’t read publications on Medium, they read writers.... | ['Ll Letters', 'Fiction', 'Nonfiction', 'Poetry', 'Newsletter'] |
Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash
Introduction
Hey all, this project will be a series. I don’t know how long the series will be as I’m still working on the project as I write these articles. I’ve wanted to build a chat app for quite some time. I came across an older tutorial (3 years ago) of Ben Awad (awesom... | ['Postgres', 'React', 'Programming', 'GraphQL', 'Technology'] |
Positionality and Identity
Becoming me!
I aim to reflect and reflexively explore factors within my personal and professional development which have influenced not only who I am, but furthermore my positionality and world view (Takacs, 2003). In doing this, I intend to draw forth suppositions and presumptions influenc... | ['Teachers', 'Growth', 'Development', 'Identity', 'Education'] |
Predicting House Prices Pith Machine Learning
If you’re going to sell a house, you need to know what price tag to put on it, for this purpose I wrote a regression algorithm to predict home prices
Introduction
The average sales price of new homes sold in the U.S. is US$388,000. The house price mainly dependent on Loc... | ['Analytics', 'Linear Regression', 'Python', 'Prédiction', 'House'] |
A torchier I made from unsold lamps by Robert Trakofler
antiques into other objects I repurpose furniture into more practical uses I have even made a 15 foot mobile out of antique meet hooks and broken mannequins I suspended from the old soda pop factory ceiling here in Pittsburgh that is my store called Zenith.
I do... | ['Poetry', 'Music', 'About Me', 'Art', 'Photography'] |
No Contact: The Brutal Way To End Heartbreak
Love addiction is rough.
Photo by Sage Friedman on Unsplash
I’m shocked when people comment on how they appreciate and follow my shitshow of a love life. Truthfully, I wish I could write about political foreign policy or editing tips in Google Docs. But we write about wha... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Mental Health', 'Sex', 'Self Improvement'] |
I want to delve into your corners,
to live inside your binds.
I long to feel the sensation of
your edges, trace along your spine.
To live a thousand lives with you,
and travel back through time.
Find the rhythm of each word
page by page
line by line | ['Literally Literary', 'Stories', 'Bibliophile', 'Poetry', 'Books'] |
Could Videos Make Writing a Thing of the Past
More people are watching YouTube videos than ever before
By Cmichel67
Videos grab attention quickly and keep people engaged.
Almost everybody from Gen Z can record, edit, and publish to YouTube. Their channels are monetized and most of them like to learn by watching a v... | ['Reading', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Part Three: Reader and philanthropically-funded Black-owned media (June 22, 2020)
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DIGITAL STARTUPS 2.0
Declining ad revenue has posed a challenge for the Black press, legacy and new publications alike. While... | ['The Latest', 'Media', 'Journalism', 'Philanthropy'] |
We’re looking for articles, insights, tutorials and case studies on Inspiration, User Experience, User Interface Design, Usability, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Product Design, and any other topic that relates to designing and building digital products.
How To Send Your Article
Send your draft or link to the publ... | ['UX', 'User Experience', 'Writing', 'Ux Writing', 'UX Design'] |
Hierarchy is a key element in design, creating a good user experience, and achieving the business goals of a website or app. It’s also one of the biggest mistakes new designers make. When there is no clear hierarchy on a website or an app, you risk frustrating the user and losing them as a potential customer. Let’s div... | ['UX', 'UI', 'Visual Design', 'Web Design', 'Design'] |
Science, in theory, is self-correcting. But, as a new study demonstrates, some scientific ideas appear immune to criticism. Striking them down only seems to make them more powerful.
The study, published in PLoS ONE by Kåre Letrud and Sigbjørn Hernes of the University of Applied Sciences in Lillehammer, Norway, looks a... | ['Science', 'Science Publishing', 'Hawthorne Effect'] |
“If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated — chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point! I believe in it, I answer f... | ['Life Lessons', 'Culture', 'Philosophy', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
Persephone Rises
A poem
Art by Moga Alexandru
I remember; The crispy grass under my soles,
The tall lavender kissing my sore knees and my hands
Dancing around trees; Dirt beneath my fingertips and
A feeling of urgency towards stillness.
The voices of the woods would call me and I would answer
In sober desperati... | ['Poetry', 'Nature', 'Love', 'Writing'] |
Over the past few years I’ve been involved with a number of music-related web projects, including Loudwerkz, DMOD (RIP), and Ink19. Although I make my living on the web and love what I do, I suppose I’ve always been secretly jealous of those snobby record store employees who hear the latest cuts first, troll naive cust... | ['Startup', 'Song Lyrics', 'Side Project'] |
We make numerical calculations when the analytical solutions are not available. For example, if we flip a fair coin a large number of times, then we know “analytically” that the outcome will be heads or tails roughly equal the number of times (50% each). For complex systems, a numerical solution might be needed. This a... | ['Monte Carlo Simulation', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Probability', 'Random Numbers'] |
Let’s be perfectly honest. I am the single mom to one happy five year old, and I am rather blissfully self-partnered these days. It’s a little bit funny because I used to be a very social butterfly. I’m the sort of INFP who can easily mask as an ENFP whenever she is truly comfortable, and in her “element.”
But motherh... | ['Inspiration', 'Women', 'Writing', 'Holidays', 'Life'] |
Dec. 1st to Dec. 14th prompt
Photo by Oskars Sylwan on Unsplash
In these dark times…we need a little light. I would like to hear a piece on what the writer can imagine a New Year's Eve Party for 2021 will be like …but with a positive spin-off to it. I want to uplift people and give them hope for the holidays, for Pag... | ['Partying', 'Contests', 'A Rebels Prompt', 'The Rebel Poets Society', 'Storytelling'] |
The headphones also have a digital crown and button straight from an Apple Watch. The crown allows you to change volume, control ANC, use Siri, etc.
Features
These headphones of course have their whole list of features and gimmicks for marketing. Let’s quickly go through them:
The headphones have an array of 6 diffe... | ['Technews', 'Technology', 'Technology News', 'Tech', 'Apple'] |
Last Friday we had a live discussion with Eugeny Ponomarenko and Peter Sharia about wipe and concept prospects!
Let’s check out together, what’s new!
Eugen, so the actual game will not be updated and you aim directly to a new concept?
That’s right. We had a difficult choice to continue to maintain existing game whic... | ['Discussion', 'Development', 'Games', 'Updates', 'Crypto'] |
Forced to Throw Out Their Old College Admissions Standards, Higher Ed Institutions Should Seize on the Crisis to Create Better Ones for the Future The 74 Apr 17 · 4 min read
Commentary by Conor Williams
American higher education has always been enamored with longevity. Student tour guides on campuses across the count... | ['College Admissions', 'Higher Education', 'Coronavirus', 'See more'] |
Becoming by Michelle Obama
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America — the first African American to serve in that role — she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White ... | ['Books And Authors', 'Book Review', 'Ftl Letter', 'Writers On Medium', 'Books'] |
For stateful applications on Kubernetes, Pure Service Orchestrator automates and productionizes those services with FlashBlade as shared storage. This repository presents three illustrative example applications: a simplistic shared scratch space as well as file-sharing services NextCloud and OwnCloud.
I assume the rea... | ['Kubernetes', 'Pure Storage'] |
From the beginning of my AI journey, I found several ideas and concepts promising unparalleled potential; Pieces of research and development that were absolutely mind-blowing; And breakthroughs that pushed this field forward, leaving their mark on its glorious history.
Also, in the last few years, the number of people... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Research', 'Technology'] |
How to Get Your Retro Gaming Backlog Under Control
It’s time to stop procrastinating and start gaming
Most gamers have a massive backlog. If you’re a retro gamer like me, you own — or want to own — multiple consoles, which only compounds the problem.
If your backlog is an overwhelming nightmare like mine once was, I... | ['Features', 'Gaming', 'Retro', 'Videogames', 'Productivity'] |
In an age of ever-increasing technological disruption, insurance companies need something much more human: a deep understanding of their customers.
The insurance industry is at a critical inflection point. Finding itself increasingly disconnected from mistrustful customers and unaware of their true needs, traditional ... | ['Insurance', 'Design', 'Research', 'Mindset', 'Customer Experience'] |
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