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So whisper monochrome, it’s like a prayer
you couldn’t bear to raise lest God insist
on stripping even more, your breath laid bare
without the heart or muscle to resist
the days still destined: manic moments pass,
a zoetrope of chemicals that burn
your neurons into ash and bones to glass,
a fate from which no sp... | ['Poetry', 'Sonnet', 'Life', 'Wellness', 'Self'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['WordPress', 'Marketing', 'Blogging', 'Bloguiland', 'Wpo'] |
When You Stop Expecting Others to be Perfect It Could Work Wonders
How giving the benefit of the doubt can help you have better relationships and achieve inner peace, according to science.
Photo by Fernando Brasil on Unsplash
Perfectionism is a double-edged sword. On one hand, striving to be perfect can help you bec... | ['Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Ideas', 'Happiness', 'Relationships'] |
Humans are social animals. We seek companionship and acceptance. The relationships we build are critical to our individual happiness and well-being. On the hierarchy of needs, Maslow puts “love and belonging” third, superseded only by basic physiological survival and general safety.
The way we fulfill this need is by ... | ['Relationships', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Technology', 'Tech'] |
Q&A with Emily Ryan, Director of Product at Harvard Business Review
This week, The Idea caught up with Emily to learn about her role, why HBR is experiencing the best subscription numbers it has ever seen, and how the publisher plans to build niche audiences. Subscribe to our newsletter on the business of media for mo... | ['Subscriber Spotlight', 'Journalism', 'Media', 'Product', 'Harvard Business Review'] |
Over the past month, I have interviewed with about 30 companies for UI, UX, Product, Interaction Designer roles. So, that’s a lot of different questions based on the company and the person who was interviewing me.
50 Questions
I know that’s a lot of questions but I was asked at least 5–8 of these questions in each ro... | ['UI', 'Design', 'Interview', 'Tech', 'UX'] |
Taking notes is key to remembering most things in our lives. How many times have you worked on a project, then three months later needed to get back in the code, and it took you hours to come back up to speed? If you had taken a few minutes to jot down some documentation, you could have cut to the chase.
Personally, I... | ['React', 'Gatsbyjs', 'Tutorial', 'Web Development', 'Tech'] |
How Does It Feel When You Don’t Speak Up Against Racism?
Speaking up against racism takes courage and sometimes as a black person, one doesn't. One just swallows the humiliation and hurt of racism to not cause a stir.
Photo by Wayne Lee-Sing on Unsplash
After close to 50 years on earth, you would think that I, a bla... | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'Racism', 'Interracial Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Equality'] |
Originally published at marcandrew.me
In this article I’ve compiled a handful of quick, and easy tips to help speed up your design workflow when working in Figma.
Most of these tips are perfect for when you’re working with design systems or large design files, but they’re also equally suited to just general day, to d... | ['UI', 'Figma', 'Design', 'Web Development', 'Prototyping'] |
Words of Poetry
Poetry
Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash
The sun rises,
as the moon sleeps
and stars hide behind an unassuming sky,
while a poet paints vigilant clouds paused
with strident syllables,
hoping for words to fall upon
deafened ears and opened hearts. | ['Readers', 'Writing', 'Poet', 'Poetry', 'Scribe'] |
Peer-Reviewed Politics
State Department Records Show Senate Republicans Knew About Russian Disinformation & Failed to Tell the Public — Again
US intelligence analysts picked up chatter last month that emails like those revealed yesterday by the NYPost would be leaked in October, having been stolen by the same GRU uni... | ['Leadership', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Govenrment', 'Psychology'] |
Extreme Learning Machines I
Part I: Introduction: Why do we need ELM?
Around 2005, A novel machine learning approach was introduced by Guang-Bin Huang and a team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
This new proposed learning algorithm tends to reach the smallest training error, obtain the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Research', 'Computer Science'] |
Evaluation
In this article, we will analyse different stats such as running time, performance, I/O rate, the throughput by running TestDFSIO and TeraSort Benchmark on Hadoop clusters.
The experimental cluster I used consists of 6 nodes. One of them is designed to serve as a master node and the other 5 nodes are desig... | ['Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'Mapreduce', 'Terasort', 'Backend'] |
Python Interface
Import
Add the following import declaration at the top of your Python file:
import timeit
timeit
We are going to replicate the same code snippet that we tested earlier using the timeit function. It accepts the following input parameters:
stmt — String containing the code snippets for your test ca... | ['Python3', 'Programming', 'Python', 'DevOps', 'Data Science'] |
We can reduce our node modules size by these actions:
find and remove all unused dependencies with depcheck.
deduplicate all the duplicated dependencies with yarn-deduplicate.
Step 1 — remove unused dependencies
first, we will install this tool:
npx depcheck
and then we will run it with this command(for advanced ... | ['React', 'Node Modules', 'Yarn'] |
Bitcoin is often referred as “digital gold”. Gold, like silver and any other precious metals or agricultural goods, is a commodity. Commodities along with currencies, stocks, bonds, and real estate are types of primary financial instruments. To increase the flexibility and efficiency of the trading markets, finance pro... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Startup', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
For the past few months, I’ve tried everything to get rid of an unusual red rash that has placed its self on the top of my lip. Numerous visits to the doctor and several prescribed creams later, the rash is still there and I’m still annoyed. The latest hypothesis from my doctor is that it might be ‘Perioral Dermatitis’... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Mirror', 'Self Help'] |
The Great Emoji Movie Challenge
What else are you gonna do during your weeks (months) of COVID-19 social distancing?
With all this self-imposed social distancing (which is important and necessary) we have to keep ourselves amused somehow. My colleague passed over an emoji game which has been spreading in the UK, whic... | ['Covid 19', 'Games', 'Emoji', 'Puzzle', 'Design'] |
#1: American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho is a first-person account of Patrick Bateman, an investment banker/ serial killer. Apparently, it is so disturbing that Australia refuses to sell it to minors. The plot alternates between Bateman obsessing over designer clothing brands and violently murdering his ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Reading', 'Book Recommendations', 'Books'] |
If time is our greatest commodity, trust is our most valuable currency. Time is something we cannot afford to waste, but trust is something we cannot afford to squander. When we have destroyed trust at work, the destruction may not stop there.
If our boss cannot trust us in the workplace, we have left them with limite... | ['Work', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Angular, Quarkus, Keycloak, Security
Small guide of combining the two most used frameworks on the web in a secure manner.
Intro
This will be a small guide on how to tie and use together all the mentioned technologies in one nice end to end web project.
First of all, Angular is now a mature framework that makes use ... | ['Java', 'Quarkus', 'Angular', 'Security', 'Keycloak'] |
How much do you struggle with anxiety? How often do you battle to stay sane in a world that steals the life from you? Do you ever lose days fighting to get your mind back from the brink?
Those of us who deal with anxiety know how hard it is to do “normal” things when we are suffering. Getting out of bed, showering, re... | ['Mental Health', 'Anxiety', 'Recovery', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Illness'] |
By Carolyn “CC” Song, High School Senior and Personal Robots Intern
A sample of the AI professionals that we interviewed for this series. Credit: Daniella DiPaola
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Whether the last time you thought about this question was a few days ago or a few decades ago, your answer has t... | ['STEM', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Career Advice', 'Education'] |
She was the mirror I never knew I needed,
The reflection of a stranger standing there in need,
A sign made of cardboard in her cold, brittle hands,
Saying, “Please, Anything Will Help”.
People walk by, drive by, pass by without a glance at the woman on the corner.
No one sees her, looks at her, cares to take the t... | ['Kindness', 'Writing', 'Thank You', 'Homelessness', 'Poetry'] |
Summary: Atlas Protocol (ATP) is a blockchain application layer protocol of interactive advertising & marketing. It officially announced to join the IAB Technology Lab and its Blockchain Working Group to promote the development of blockchain advertising technology standards.
Atlas Protocol (ATP) officially announced t... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Iab', 'Atlasprotocol', 'Blockchian'] |
Driving westward through Pennsylvania on a stretch of land dotted by trees, hills, and rest stops along Interstate 80, you’ll eventually hit the Ohio border. The first major metropolis you’ll come across is Youngstown, the state’s ninth-largest city. This year, The Vindicator, Youngstown’s only daily newspaper, celebra... | ['Journalism', 'Media', 'Jobs', 'Culture', 'Gen Longreads'] |
As Tokopedia grows fast from time to time, so does the number of sub-teams and modules in our android team codebase. Each sub-team usually owns a number of modules, depending on the size of each sub-team. We use CODEOWNERS file system from GitHub to make sure that every code changes to a specific module should be revie... | ['Android', 'Software Engineering', 'Engineering Productivity', 'Tokopedia'] |
Trauma of Mystical Experience
An Exploration of the Phenomenological Similarities Between Trauma and Mystical Experience
Written by Mackenzie Amara for the MIND Blog.
“Cosmic love is absolutely ruthless and highly indifferent. It teaches its lessons whether you like them or not.” ~ John C. Lilly
Perhaps at first bl... | ['Psychedelics', 'Mental Health', 'Trauma', 'Mysticism', 'Psychedelic Therapy'] |
This story is part of the Internet Time Machine, a collection about life online in the 2010s.
Connor is 27, with green eyes and a dorky grin. His favorite emoji is the shaka (🤙), which he uses to express a casual DTF energy. He’s tan and toned, athletic yet approachable, and his profile photos resemble ads for a mill... | ['Nonfiction', 'Love And Sex', 'Dating', 'Internet Time Machine', 'Social Media'] |
Image Source: Canva
When talking about Python’s popularity in both the programming and Data Science community, the first thing that arrives in mind is its integrity. One of the best specialties of Python is its inherent integrity and readability that makes it a beginner-friendly language.
As every language has its ow... | ['Python Programming', 'Python Libraries', 'Python Pandas', 'Python'] |
Are you an Early-Career Designer?
You think of yourself as “new to designing professionally.” Maybe you’re still in school, with an internship or two under your belt. Or, perhaps you graduated in the last 1–2 years and are in the midst of your first or second design job. Or, maybe you’ve decided recently to switch car... | ['Design', 'Learning', 'Career Advice', 'Product Management', 'Designer'] |
The big data ETL process is the key to engineering any data pipeline. In general, an end to end big data pipelining consists of four main blocks:
Data preparation and collection Data cleaning, transformation, and loading (ETL) Data analytics (statistics or data mining) Predictive analytics (Machine learning / Artifici... | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Data Analytics'] |
A License To Print Money
One of the members in my SMMA group makes well over $80,000 a month. That’s not a typo. He makes more in three months than most doctors make all year. He took a one-month course and then money started rolling in. Doctors dedicate half their lives to school and training to earn their salary. On... | ['Smma', 'Small Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Social Media', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Slaven Radic is User Camp’s co-founder and lead developer.
I’ve been fascinated with pen computing for 20 years. I wrestled my Apple Newton MessagePad in college, convinced that paper’s days were over. But it was my love for paper that convinced me that technology will eventually free paper of its physical constraints... | ['Microsoft', 'Apps', 'App Development', 'Windows 10', 'Development'] |
How Did He Possibly Get So Many Votes?
Because we have a lot of trauma. And a lot of healing to do.
If you just can’t get your head around it — look at this way: this election gave us a picture of how much unresolved trauma exists in our country. And let’s not be confused. This is not about politics. This is about tr... | ['Culture', 'White Supremacy', '2020 Presidential Race', 'Racism', 'Mental Health'] |
This Content Originally published at CodixLab.
On March 18, Apple officially declared iPhone new trackpad for iPad.These modifications in apple’s official trackpad are considerable developments in the technology era. It concluded the half-baked choices in Phone’s function Accessibility that we main saw on the iPad dis... | ['iPhone', 'Features', 'Tech', 'Technology', 'Apple'] |
Lean product environment
At Docplanner we work in a lean product environment. This environment lets us test our ideas and deliver user and business value very fast. Read more about how we test these business questions.
By adopting the mindset of our users (their needs, business goals and technology limitations), we c... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Lean Startup', 'UX'] |
How Climax is connected to other Story Elements
When you are writing a story, climax is the key element you are looking for. When you know the climax — you have a… | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Writing', 'Science Fiction'] |
About: Data-Driven Science (DDS) provides training for people building a career in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Follow us on Twitter.
Deep learning is a subset of Machine Learning in Artificial Intelligence (AI). When an AI imitates the human brain for processing data, creating patterns, and making decisions, it is D... | ['Deep Learning', 'Automation', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Money.
For many it’s a taboo subject, not to be brought up in polite company.
Here at Financial Strategy we have a completely different point of view. We strongly believe there’s nothing wrong with money, or with talking about it, as long as it’s in the context of achieving goals that are important to you.
If they a... | ['Investing', 'Financial Strategy', 'Writing', 'Money', 'Finance'] |
In this work we will look at how COVID-19 deaths compare with the expected number of deaths in a country, based on historical mortality data. We define the COVID-19 burden to be the number of COVID-19 deaths as a fraction of the expected number of deaths in a country over the same period of time; that is from the time ... | ['Covid 19', 'Data Science', 'Dataviz'] |
Learn how to generate ASCII art from the image using Python.
Generated in Python
Steps to convert image to ASCII character
Load an image
Resize Image
Convert image to GreyScale
Convert GreyScale data of each pixel into respective ASCII character
Loading an Image using PIL image Library
To load the image we will... | ['Python Programming', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Javascript Jeep', 'Ascii Art'] |
The Hebrew Bible & Rabbinic Tradition
To properly grasp the historical nature of the Jewish people, it is necessary to explore the ancient structures through which Judaism operated for thousands of years. The Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, is the collection of scrolls considered canon amongst the Jewish relig... | ['Books', 'History', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Feminism'] |
I have to say, one of my all time Favorite things about being a CopyWriter is that I get a chance to be a StoryTeller.
When I was a kid, I watched every movie I could.
I bought every movie I liked too!
In fact, when I moved to my new home…Vietnam🇻🇳
Vietnam = Beautiful Country
I left over 700 DVD’s sitting in my ... | ['Copywriting', 'Internet Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Sales Page Copy', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Greenlight eliminates a lot of struggles. What is it, and how does it work? It’s a debit card for kids. There is a small monthly fee. It’s less than a cup of good coffee per month, for up to five kids, and eliminates most of our pain points. Our bank account is tied to their accounts so that we can automate money trans... | ['Travel', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
It’s not very revolutionary to say that Real Estate has one of the most inefficient and expensive transactions processes that exist nowadays. Physical documents for proof of identity and to the lack of accessibility and transparency in the markets increase the time and cost spent by all parties involved in a transactio... | ['Blockchain', 'Real Estate', 'Proptech', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Finance'] |
Marketing and Sales Performance Metrics
What’s going on with my sales? Is my website effective enough? What’s been the efficiency of our content marketing efforts in the last few months? All of these questions can be answered by marketing and sales performance metrics and KPIs.
Conversion Rate (CR)
Conversion rate i... | ['Marketing', 'Metrics', 'Kpi', 'Digital Marketing'] |
It’s important to have a website for your business as this is a vital part of your digital marketing efforts. So, you decide to make one using WordPress since it’s the most popular website creation tool or Content Management System (CMS) right now. Plus, it’s free and easy to use. Next, you should aim to make your webs... | ['WordPress', 'Boost', 'Marketing', 'Digital', 'SEO'] |
I accept copies of books for review on an open basis. If you offer to send me a copy of a book to review online (here, Goodreads, Amazon, etc.), I am likely to accept. If I accept, I will guarantee a review of the book. The speed at which I will review will vary depending on the length of the book and my current readin... | ['Books', 'Book Review', 'Review', 'Arc', 'Publishing'] |
Zhihu is a Chinese question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by the community of its users. In Classical Chinese, “Zhihu” means “Do you know?”. Chinese-language internet users nowadays increasingly resort to Zhihu for expert knowledge and insights into various topics.
The ... | ['Design', 'Quora'] |
Daylighting Melbourne: how we can transform our cities, street by street
Let us Not-Plan. Instead, let’s break urban transformation into a series of small, progressive steps, enabling people, technology, place, and environment to be aligned a little more carefully, and unlocking better streets as we go
Cars have laid... | ['Design', 'Urbanism', 'Mobility', 'Cities', 'Urban Planning'] |
Earlier this year, I wrote about why remote working became my first step towards lifestyle innovation. And I talked about how, as a remote working newbie, different environments seemed to help drive inspiration and productivity, and how, as a result, working wherever WiFi and a seat were available quickly became my new... | ['Remote Working', 'Travel', 'Coffee Shop', 'Virtual Office', 'Productivity'] |
Flutter may be the best thing that happened to the mobile development scene in the recent past. It allows me to work faster, and more conveniently, and believe me, it might do the same for you.
So, are you an iOS Developer like me? Yes? Have you befriended a new kid on the block called Flutter? The 1.0 release of this... | ['App Development', 'Flutter', 'iOS', 'Mobile', 'Development'] |
CloudMosa’s mission is to empower the world’s phones through cloud computing and make them universally powerful and useful.
Follow | ['Chrome Extension', 'Web Isolation', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud Services', 'Cybersecurity'] |
It’s irritating how irrelevant consent becomes to people when it comes to art, especially art available (for free, if you know where to look) online. Many seem to think they have any right to decide on an artist’s priorities, or that they have any “right” on the art itself without going the way the artist wants them to... | ['Movies', 'Music', 'Consent', 'Media', 'Art'] |
Data Science has been described as one of the best jobs in the world consistently, and of course the sexiest job in the 21st century. Data Scientists have on average a masters’ degree and people invest more in gaining degrees in this field.
Currently, a Data Science degree cost more than most of the other courses and ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Data'] |
If you’ve had the pleasure of working alongside (or living with) a graphic designer, you’re aware that they can be picky creatures — especially when it comes to items they deem worthy of introducing into their carefully designed workspaces/living rooms/wardrobes.
Luckily, the members of Kick Point’s “Design Island” ar... | ['Design', 'Inspiration', 'Web Design', 'Gifts', 'Graphic Design'] |
What Works is an invitation to in-depth, non-obvious thinking about small business in the digital world.
Our goal is to bring you a candid look at what’s actually going on under the hoods of successful small businesses.
You’ll find articles from the host of the What Works podcast, Tara McMullin, show notes on our pod... | ['Small Business', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Async Cannot Be Used With .forEach
One of the first issues I ran into was using async with .forEach . Unfortunately, it took me a while to realize that they are not compatible. This is due to the fact that .forEach only invokes a function, which means it does not wait for the function to end before moving on with the ... | ['Angular', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Programming'] |
Introduction
The dynamical system in simple words is a system whose state changes over time. The example includes the mathematical model that describes population growth, swinging of a pendulum, or predator-prey model. There are two types of dynamical systems: iterated maps and differentials equations. The iterated ma... | ['Nonlinear Dynamics', 'Firefly', 'Python'] |
Drink is a feminist issue
When I was a kid, my dad was my hero. He knew everything there was to know about plants and trees, and if he found broken animals he would bring them home in a box for us to (try and) nurse back to health. I loved that soft side of him, and I wanted to be just like him. He worked hard and he ... | ['Equality', 'Women', 'Mental Health', 'Addiction', 'Culture'] |
Photo by Capturing the human heart, courtesy of Unsplash
Even after the U.S. electoral college made it official that Joe Biden is the President-elect, many Americans continue to believe that Democrats stole the election. According to an early December, 2020, Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters, 47% of Americans... | ['Politics', 'Politics And Elections', 'Psychology', 'Propaganda', 'Trump'] |
There are many links on the web about install Hadoop 3. Many of them are not working well or need improvements. This article is taken from the official documentation and other articles in addition of many answers from Stackoverflow.com
1. Prerequisites
Note: All prerequisites must be applied on name node and data nod... | ['Big Data', 'Hadoop', 'Ubuntu', 'Hadoop 3', 'Hadoop Cluster'] |
Building a Coalition and Setting Expectations
If you’re working to build a more diverse team, you have to get recruitment onboard as partners. While it may seem natural, it’s not. Recruiting (especially external recruiters) are incentivized to close roles as quickly as possible. Most recruiters I’ve worked with are de... | ['Diversity In Tech', 'Diversity And Inclusion', 'Diversity', 'Programming', 'Startup'] |
High Order Components
We have a component that prints out a simple UI:
For this article, the source code is verified in CodePen :
We want to make the text blue. This can be done by adding the style to line one or passing the style through line three. However, we want this style transformation logic to be reusable fo... | ['Reactjs', 'Programming', 'Nodejs', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
S.R. 95, Fort Mojave Indian Reservation, Arizona. Photograph by Ken Lund, 2010
Welcome to our weekly roundup of articles and resources for state, local, and tribal leaders creating policy to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic as well as steering the social and economic recovery for their communities. Postings below do ... | ['Covid 19', 'Tribal Government', 'Local Government', 'State Government', 'Coronavirus'] |
I Blocked My Husband On Medium
Better late than never
Photo by Jose Fontano on Unsplash
June 25, 2019
I haven’t done it yet.
But I am strongly considering it.
I don’t want to do it out of anger. Or, maybe I do. I’m just afraid.
I’m fearful of what my husband’s reaction will be. We aren’t in the healthiest place ... | ['Writing', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Relationships', 'Self Improvement'] |
Artificial Intelligence is helping to boost learning outcomes for deaf students.
Hard-of-hearing and deaf students are, unfortunately, often left at a disadvantage as they have an extra set of challenges to contend with on top of the difficulties that come with adjusting to a classroom environment.
This extra work — ... | ['Edtech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Accessibility', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
Kids are awesome. So we were happy when one of our clients reached us with the task to create the working prototype of an e-learning product for them.
What Humansee Labs development team build: a working prototype of a new web application designed to help children aged 7–9 learn to code.
Scratch 3.0 (open-source, Jav... | ['React', 'Javascript Development', 'Web Development', 'Case Study', 'Redux'] |
AWS provide lots of products or services and for using those services multiple ways are available for us, we can use the GUI console of AWS (Web App) or we can write some automation codes to create our infrastructure. At starting, we always like and are comfortable with GUI as it easy to use but it will not provide us ... | ['Aws Cli', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cli', 'Aws Ec2'] |
Iteration in Dictionaries
Fig-7: Iterating through dictionaries (img source:real Python)
Iterating through dictionaries are quiet different from another data structures because, in dictionaries we have (key-value) pairs whereas, in lists or tuples we only have one single element at each index and also list on its own... | ['Programming', 'Python Programming', 'Data Science', 'Data Structures', 'Python'] |
Elliott Saslow
We will be building a flask server that we can use to post the work that we create in this class. Check out more about flask here
Lets build a website!!
Goals:
Website with home page and about page Flask server to handle calls AWS EC2 set up so that you can access the website remotely Smart Contract?... | ['Flask', 'Web Development', 'Python', 'Developer', 'Servers'] |
The majority of the people face the same problem when they start their journey in story writing and making it publish. As for a beginner, it is a bit hard to get noticed without getting a helping hand for their valuable work to get seen. Here, In the article, I will be discussing the top 5 points that you should keep i... | ['Tips', 'Marketing', 'Data Science', 'Audience', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
Do you ever angrily stare at the screen after finding errors in your recently published piece? I do. Why didn’t I see that before? The truth is, only a few people are going to see that error. Well, at least in my case.
In this age of social media, young adults just like me look around at some of their peers and feel l... | ['LGBTQ', 'Life Lessons', 'This Happened To Me', 'Growth', 'Writing'] |
Data Science is such a broad field that includes several subdivisions like data preparation and exploration; data representation and transformation; data visualization and presentation; predictive analytics; machine learning, etc. For beginners, it’s only natural to raise the following question: What skills do I need t... | ['Professional Development', 'Python', 'Data Science Education', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Familiarity Works Against Us
If you’re anything like me, you can’t stand photos of yourself in a certain light. The wrong angle, the wrong lighting, or the wrong hair day. All are enough to ruin the photo.
We assume we look abnormal, or different to how we usually do; because the photo we are looking at doesn’t match... | ['Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
Personal style service Stitch Fix made waves in November as the first tech IPO led by a woman in 2017. Since then, its market cap has nearly doubled. The company won the hearts of consumers with an elegant app and website experience that makes receiving (and in some cases returning) a monthly box of clothing fun instea... | ['UI', 'Case Studies', 'Design', 'Technology', 'UX'] |
Photo by Noah Buscher on Unsplash
Have you watched the Social Dilemma on Netflix yet?
If so, what was your reaction? A mere shrug, and yeah we all know or did you throw your devices out of the house?
I was one of those that threw the phone to the other end of the room. Watching the show I had light bulb moments as t... | ['Netflix', 'Psychology', 'Humanity', 'Social Media'] |
This is a supplementary guide for the simple blockchain from scratch Java tutorial series.
What is GSON.
Gson is Java library created by google that enables you to get a JSON representation of a Java Object. Read more about it here.
Downloading GSON.
You will need to download Gson Jar ( “gson-2.6.2.jar” ) from the ... | ['User Library', 'Eclipse Ide', 'Tutorial', 'Java', 'Gson'] |
Image from Pixabay
Spellbound hellion
Nuisance of the hen house
Hellhound yelling on
Good news since the Zen drought
What is it boy? What do you want?
Sniffing at traces, your face looking gaunt
What is it girl? What do you see?
I’m shushing the bushes,
you’re showing your teeth
I should take note
from the f... | ['Poetry On Medium', 'Writing', 'Abstract', 'Poetry', 'Creative Writing'] |
3. A Good Reputation Can Help You With Marketing
Of course, when you are a startup, you want to make money and promote your product. Helping others in areas in which you are very well versed and perhaps one of the best in the world will clearly push you forward. Becoming an expert on different platforms, helping other... | ['Programming', 'Startup', 'Learning', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
It’s the new year, and time for another list of design trends! Tbh, design trends hardly see a drastic change with the onset of a new calendar year. It’s more like a smooth gradient; trends change gradually over the years. Drop a few years in the timeline, and then take a look at design styles. It is now that you will ... | ['UI', 'Design', 'Trends', '2020', 'UX'] |
The service reactor is this work-in-progress model to demonstrate how a virtuous user research cycle and a commitment to discovery-validated delivery will generate enough proven insights to power a small city.
That’s a lot of made-up vocabulary designed to just consolidate this shit to a single sentence, so let’s brea... | ['Design', 'Service Design', 'User Experience', 'Podcast', 'UX'] |
In the beginning, there was void *
A tale of evolving code and unintended consequences
In honor of the imminent release of ‘Software Engineering at Google’, which I highly recommend, I thought I’d relate a tale of how software evolution and feature creep can go wrong in ways which, while feeling great at every step o... | ['API', 'Machine Learning', 'Software Engineering', 'Coding', 'Software Development'] |
Edie’s Three
Top 3 for Sunday, October 27th
(Photo by Author)
Write What You Think, Not What Others Want
By: Sergey Faldin
Before coming to Medium, I never used to write non-fiction. I’ve since discovered that although it isn’t my first love, I’ve got a pretty good knack for it; but I have been struggling with con... | ['Body Image', 'Self Love', 'Bees', 'Writing', 'Top 3'] |
Obviously, one of the appeals of platforms like Medium is the chance, however small, to make money writing. Yet many must, like me, quickly realize that isn’t the real value here for us. What I have found here are people to read what I write, and, once in a while, encourage me to keep going. I don’t anticipate that som... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Humor', 'Rant', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
Writing Character Driven Stories
Turning the wheel over to your characters to drive where your novel will go
Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash
When you’re writing your story, do you prefer to focus on the characters or on the plot?
Well, it’s not entirely one or the other. Plot drives the story. It gives us te... | ['Writing', 'Character', 'Character Development', 'Writers On Writing', 'Writer'] |
How to begin thinking about Chaos Engineering
“Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system
in order to build confidence in the system’s capability
to withstand turbulent conditions in production.” — https://principlesofchaos.org/
How do you turn a chaotic mess into a manageable system? Photo by... | ['Microservices', 'Programming', 'Chaos Engineering', 'Resilience', 'Testing'] |
About Me — Paul Gimsay
Veteran, peacekeeper and writer. It is never late to start
Visit to the Orphanage by Author
Take what life gives you and run the formula.
This has been my mantra while growing up. Everything happened to me by fate, or rather providence. It is not only my story; it is the same story for millio... | ['Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Giving Back', 'Writing'] |
can be a long road from a lead’s initial interest to the close of a deal, and taking a deal all the way to the closing meeting only to watch it fall apart can be excruciating.
Fortunately, as a salesperson, you can avoid a tragic ending if you get stakeholder buy-in early. Whether you’re working directly with the deci... | ['Design', 'Sales', 'Business Development'] |
Photo by Zoë Reeve on Unsplash
React is a popular library for creating web apps and mobile apps.
In this article, we’ll look at how to clean up our React code.
Multi-Properties
If we have lots of attributes or props, we should put them in their own line.
For instance, we can write:
<Content
foo="bar"
anotherPro... | ['Software Development', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
Visualizing ranking based on a metric for a given dimension over a time period is possible in QlikView chart object. Slope or Bump chart helps visualizing data for a top n analysis and change in ranking over the time period.
The visualization below shows ranking of Product Segment over a time period of six year. The c... | ['Qlikview', 'Bump', 'Visualization', 'Visual Design', 'Ránking'] |
More than 16,000 visitors, 700 journalists, 760 start-ups from 120 countries attended the most powerful tech conference RISE, bringing together some of the most brilliant minds in tech from around the globe. Storiqa COO Andrian Galkin gave a presentation on Growth Summit stage, which is dedicated to the companies of th... | ['Event', 'Startup', 'Storiqa', 'Stqbusiness', 'Crypto'] |
Two Sides of The Same Distribution: Permutations
Recently, I’ve been spending more time getting to know the statistical side of the python programming language primarily in relation to visualizing certain characteristics and ideas. I thought I would share a quick tutorial on how one might go about determining whether ... | ['Data Science', 'Tutorial', 'Statistics', 'Python'] |
No, “The Crown” Doesn’t Need a Disclaimer That It’s Fiction
Who would believe it anyway?
Image available from IMDB.com
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen;
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us . . .
And please, God, please, make her look good on ... | ['Television', 'TV Series', 'Britain', 'Hollywood', 'Writing'] |
A really quick tutorial
Prerequisites: Knowledge of React.js will be required for this tutorial.
Let’s say you want to pull data from the frontend of a website because there’s no API available. You inspect the page and see that the data is available in the HTML, so how do you gather that information to be used in you... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Frontend', 'Data', 'Web Scraping'] |
Zeno, the founder of Stoicism in ancient Greece, is said to have begun his studies in philosophy by tutoring under Crates, a cynic. One of the first things that Zeno learned, as a result, was to practice not being ashamed of things that were not shameful.
To reinforce this lesson, Crates apparently had Zeno walk aroun... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Stoicism', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development'] |
Keras is a useful API for deep learning that also includes various pretrained models that you can used for transfer learning.
UPDATE! Now works with tf.keras!
The Keras API
Keras is a high level API (Application Programming Interface) for deep learning. That is it does not itself implement deep learning functionalit... | ['Keras', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks', 'Develpment'] |
Handling imbalanced data:
Predicting customers canceling phone service
In this project I am trying to predict customers that are cancelling phone service in order to do something to retain those customers.
The data-set I am using for this came from openml.org, and you can click here for the direct link to this data-... | ['Data Science', 'Imbalanced Data', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
Germany Diary: Leaving Berlin, New Year’s Day 2020
Train ride into the unexpected
Image courtesy of the author
Here I am again, sat at the same table in the same carriage of this Flixtrain, just over a day later. Sadly I haven’t been able to strike up conversation with anybody — though I have moved tables to be clos... | ['Berlin', 'Journey', '2020', 'Storytelling', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
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