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About “Edward”
On one level, “Edward Scissorhands” is a fable about a boy, with scissors for hands, who cannot touch.
As to the plot, it’s basically a new take on “Frankenstein,” with several twists.
The film opens with a framing device: A kindly old woman (Winona Ryder) tells a bedtime story to her young granddaugh... | ['Fantasy', 'Johnny Depp', 'Movies', 'Writing', 'Tim Burton'] |
We are a mirror for our partners. Both our best and our worst are reflected within one another.
My partner and I met when we were about ten years old. Throughout our childhood, we trusted each other with the issues that we were facing at home. Despite sharing our secrets and traumas with each other, however, we hardly... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Illness', 'Relationships Love Dating', 'Mental Health'] |
“Quarantine Dreams and Jacob’s Ladder”: from the studio of Amie Oliver.
Painting her way through a pandemic.
April 14, 2020
I am more grateful than ever to have the time and space in which to escape the current situation. The Art Lab in Richmond, Virginia, is the best medicine for me. Everything is as I leave it the... | ['Quarantine', 'Artist', 'Memoir', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Developing an NLP based PR platform for the Canadian Elections
An article about our project for developing an interactive platform for Public Relations management
Abhishek Sunnak, Sri Gayatri Rachakonda, Oluwaseyi Talabi
Motivation
Elections are a vital part of democracy allowing people to vote for the candidate th... | ['Machine Learning', 'NLP', 'Elections', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
The last few days I have felt a very deep and profound sadness which I now recognize as grief.
In actual fact, I have been in a state of turmoil for 3 months or so, caused by some issues with my teenage daughter. Her story to tell, not mine, but needless to say it involves the very stressful stretching of what could b... | ['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Grief', 'Life'] |
How to Build Advanced SQL
Building more maintainable, readable and optimized data workflows
Photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash
SQL remains the language for data. Developed back in the 1970s, it’s one of the few technologies that has remained constant. Regardless of what drag and drop tools come around or what new q... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Sql', 'Technology', 'Big Data'] |
Overcoming Material Design.
Why I’ve developed a negative relationship with the design language, and why you soon will too — that is if it hasn’t happened to you yet.
Okay, I’m going to start this off with one statement; Material Design is great. It has helped unify user interfaces across platforms, and it provides d... | ['UI', 'Design', 'Graphic Design', 'UX', 'Material Design'] |
Things You Should Know Before Using Structural Equation Modeling.
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a series of statistical methods that allow complex relationships between one or more independent variables and one or more dependent variables. Though there are many ways to describe SEM, it is most commonly thought... | ['Predictive Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Predictive Modeling'] |
Applying Comms Planning to Healthcare
10 Lessons Learned From My Time in Pharma Advertising
I’ve heard it said that pharma advertising, strategically speaking, lags behind the trends and best practices of consumer advertising. To counter that, the teams that we work with touch both pharma and consumer accounts.
Afte... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Pharmaceutical', 'Healthcare', 'Healthcare Innovations'] |
Basic Tips for Re-engaging Your Twitter Followers
Still not sure how to use Twitter? Here are a few ideas to build an audience or re-engage your followers
Twitter has become a social media standard for being discovered online. Using all its features can help deepen relationships.
Despite the years since Twitter laun... | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Twitter', 'Business'] |
The last time I was a guest on a podcast, I was a first for that show in two different ways:
I was the first remote worker (guest)
And the first formally diagnosed Dyspraxic to come on the show and talk about their Dyspraxia.
The host also happened to have a disability themselves, something that doesn’t happen often... | ['Remote Working', 'Disability', 'Millennials', 'Mental Health'] |
DevOps Real-Time Scenarios — Edureka
Many of you might be aware of all the theories related to DevOps. But do you know how to implement DevOps principles in real life? In this article, I will discuss the DevOps Real Time scenarios that will help you get a brief understanding of how things work in real-time.
The point... | ['Devops Examples', 'Continuous Integration', 'Software Engineering', 'DevOps', 'Continuous Delivery'] |
By Jessica Retis
Today we’re releasing Hispanic Media Today: Serving Bilingual and Bicultural Audiences in the Digital Age, a new report that explores the origins of Hispanic* media in the United States, its growth in recent decades, the complex nature of Latino media and its diverse audiences. The report is an explor... | ['Media', 'Hispanic Media', 'Journalism'] |
Because so much of the legal industry operates on referrals, the size of your network is often strongly correlated with the size of your business. As any good online marketer knows, starting a monthly newsletter is an excellent way to build your network, promote your services, and grow your brand. In this post, we prov... | ['Email', 'Law Firm Marketing', 'Networking', 'Marketing', 'Online Marketing'] |
March 12, 2020
Dear [Members]:
As you work to respond to the coronavirus threat on Capitol Hill, we urge you to consider the following:
Prioritize the health and safety of the public, staff, press, and lawmakers: We recognize that there are contradictory pressures to project calm while also modeling appropriate resp... | ['Congress', 'G21c Articles', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
This blog is a part of a series on GraphQL where we will dive deep into GraphQL and its ecosystem one piece at a time
Part 1: Diving Deep
Part 2: The Usecase & Architecture
Part 3: The Stack #1
Part 4: The Stack #2
Part 5: The Stack #3
Part 6: The Workflow
Now that we have discussed about GraphQL, and also about... | ['Computer Science', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Engineering', 'GraphQL'] |
I love solitude. I’m the guy who decided to spend New Year’s Eve alone, in a hut, in the middle of nowhere, for fun. Vipassana was too social for my liking. I regularly self-isolate, happily, by choice. But it’s not always been that way. I know what it’s like to choose self-isolation due to depression and social anxiet... | ['Meditation', 'Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Mental Health'] |
Slaveowner Madame LaLaurie Tortured and Killed her Slaves for Fun
The story behind one of America’s most cruel slaveowner
Painting of Madame LaLaurie (Source: Paranormal society)
Madame LaLaurie whipped her slaves, gauged their eyes out, and poked holes in their skulls, leaving maggots to infest the openings. This i... | ['History', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Psychology', 'Racism', 'True Crime'] |
Believing — accepting something as true — is under constant attack.
At least six different versions of “Miracle on 34th Street” (two in film, two made for TV as well as Broadway and radio versions) show how hard it is to believe in love, relationships — or anything bigger than yourself.
When the original film debuted... | ['Film', 'Faith', 'Culture', 'Relationships', 'Psychology'] |
No task should take > 30 minutes.
“Really?”
Yes, hold up a bit.
I felt the same way about this one the first day I read about it. Now I’m quite at home with the technique and the psychology behind it.
In the book, The Magic Of Thinking Big, David, Schwartz reiterated intentionally walking faster towards creating an... | ['Work', 'Life Lessons', 'Procrastination', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
How Was Your Childhood?
Real love is not something you need to earn, nor is it something you have to fight for. It‘s something you deserve just because you exist.
The problem is, many of us didn’t receive love in the very first stages of our life — and those stages teach us what we know about love and relationships.
... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Advice', 'Parenting', 'Psychology'] |
How to Evaluate the Performance of Your Machine Learning Model
A detailed discussion about which performance metrics to use in various situations in evaluating machine learning models
Table of contents:
Why evaluation is necessary?
Confusion Matrix
Accuracy
Precision & Recall
ROC-AUC
Log Loss
Coefficient of De... | ['Analytics', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
How to start the day off right without waking up at 5 AM
The power of being offline
Photo by Jake Givens on Unsplash
By now, you’ve heard the benefits of waking up at 5 AM a million different times but just can’t seem to drag yourself out of bed that early.
What if you could get similar benefits by doing something ... | ['Morning Routines', 'Sleep', 'Online', 'Technology', 'Productivity'] |
Data Scientist image. Source: www.quora.com
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, learning the fundamentals of ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Featured', 'Education', 'Machine Learning'] |
You don’t listen well, do you?
Well, as long as you’re here, listen up.
There are Five outstanding reasons to avoid taking the bait.
And one even better reason to set one.
Ready? Here we go.
#5 It’s obviously a clickbait.
You knew that, but you clicked anyway. Curiosity got the better of you, and that’s the point... | ['Advice', 'Inspiration', 'Humor', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
Read it in Arabic
By the end of last month, Egyptian social media folks were shaken by the news of banning more than 20 news websites, including prominent sites like Huffington Post, Mada Masr, Daily News Egypt and, of course, Al Jazeera.
Some critics went as far as expressing their fears of heading towards North Kor... | ['Journalism', 'Data Journalism', 'Internet', 'Freedom', 'Infotimes Stories'] |
The meeting began, first with an ice breaker, where we recorded mini snipets of stories or insights on what Design Thinking meant to us.
We watched one of the short video clips I had produced during the IDEOu Storytelling for influencers class as a inspiration for the stories we would then share.
We then proceeded to... | ['Branding', 'Community Development', 'Storytelling', 'Design Thinking', 'Brainstorming'] |
Although I have always considered myself a writer, I have also spent many years not writing. In fact, for most of high school, college, and my 20s, I didn’t write at all. Not one story, not one poem. During that period, I was mostly entangled in living the life of a depressed alcoholic, while trying to keep my shit som... | ['Writing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Inner Critic', 'Writers Life', 'Perfectionism'] |
5) Alien: Isolation
No movie is as frightening as playing Alien: Isolation with headphones on. You play as the daughter of superfemme Ellen Ripley, gone to the faraway Sevastapol space station to retrieve the flight recorder from the famed Nostromo. An interstellar mishap sends Ripley and her tiny crew onto the tradin... | ['Storytelling', 'Videogames', 'Gaming'] |
2016 was a year of impressive numbers for the European Journalism Centre.
Over €1,500,000 awarded in grants to innovative reporting. Over 5000 journalists trained. Close to 50 events and seminars organised, benefitting thousands of journalists globally. Millions visited our resource sites (like datadrivenjournalism.ne... | ['Data Journalism', 'Fake News', 'Journalism', 'Philanthropy', 'Updates'] |
Without gravity the night sky would look very empty. Stars, galaxies, moons, and planets — none of these could exist without gravity holding them together. Neither, for that matter, could the Sun or Earth. It is gravity that pulled together diffuse atoms and built the universe that we see around us today.
The glory of... | ['Astronomy', 'Physics', 'Space', 'History Of Technology', 'Science'] |
Convert Your Jupyter-notebook to Github pages with Github-action Vivek2509 Follow Oct 24 · 3 min read
Photo by Richy Great on Unsplash
As a data scientist and machine learning engineering, the Jupyter notebook is handy tools you can use.
How cool if you convert that notebook into a blog within less than 5 min?
And ... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Github Actions', 'Markdown', 'Data Science', 'Github Pages'] |
Why 46 B.C. Is the Longest Recorded Year in History — And the Vaguest!
“The last year of confusion” that led to the calendar we use to this date.
Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash
If by longest “year” we consider the yearly calendar of the time, the longest one would be the last year of the Roman Republic’s calen... | ['History', 'Life', 'Politics', 'Science', 'Culture'] |
“Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this Board of Directors meeting at MegaCorp LLC. As you know, the current crisis has left us in a bad position. Luckily, we still have plenty of space to manuever and resources to make change happen. We are, after all, a huge company! But, truth be told, we need new ideas and new persp... | ['Creativity', 'Ideas', 'Business', 'Culture', 'Experience Design'] |
Demo: Peleton Home Screen
In this post, we are going to create a backgroundVideo in React Native. If you have just started with React Native check out my article What you need to know to start building mobile apps with React Native.
Background video can add a nice effect to the UI of an app. They may be helpful also ... | ['React Native', 'Programming', 'iOS', 'Mobile App Development', 'Technology'] |
Love. Love. Love.
It’s the thing that we most desire. We want it. We want to feel loved. We want the people we love to love us back. Because we expect love to be reciprocal.
But is demonstration and reciprocity the recipe for love?
I have been thinking about love a lot lately. I recently talked about it with my sist... | ['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Intimacy', 'Life'] |
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
Why Chrissy Teigen’s Choice of Headline Was Perfect
“Hi” is such a simple, powerful word.
After losing a baby to a risk pregnancy, Chrissy Teigen published a story on Medium talking about the experience and expressing her feelings. The story is well-written and deeply moving, and it qu... | ['Self Improvement', 'Celebrity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Lucky Per is the New Greatest Story Ever Told
The novel is a soul-searcher’s guide to the Joyful Galaxy of One.
1890 photo of Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan, Wikimedia Commons
One is tempted to label Henrik Pontoppidan’s Lucky Per as a novel akin to Homer’s Odyssey, a modern-day hero’s journey. Certainly there is ... | ['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Danish', 'Writing', 'Bildungsroman'] |
Spring is here in spite of the virus. My bird feeders are active with goldfinches, cardinals, mourning doves, and blackbirds. The hyacinths and tulips in my small garden are in full bloom. The tiny magnolia tree that Ana gave me for Mother’s Day four or five years ago is already losing its flowers. Outside, the world l... | ['Parenting', 'Life', 'Family', 'Lessons Learned', 'Coronavirus'] |
There’s surprisingly little academic research to be found on the social function of the high school reunion. Commentary available in the public domain is decidedly skeptical of the tradition, which is often seen as obsolete in the social media age. After all, if we wanted a temporary insight into our former classmates’... | ['Culture', 'Social Psychology', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'High School'] |
How (fill in the blank) was an exploration of UX design
Everyone has practical job experience that informs their role as a designer, and it often comes from past non-design roles. This is my story.
Photo by Kaique Rocha from Pexels
As designers, we all have past experiences to draw from that inform our work now. Des... | ['Careers', 'UX Design', 'Experience', 'Small Business', 'Storytelling'] |
The Difference Between Theory and Theorem and What It Tells Us About Data ‘Science’
It Provides Yet Another Argument Against Data ‘Science’ as Science and Against Its’ Practitioners as Scientists
You might be asking yourself how I could possibly turn an article like this (the above linked) into yet another argument a... | ['Philosophy Of Science', 'Philosophy', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
How to build advanced marketing reports in Google Data Studio
No matter if it’s a small startup or a large international company, an analytical dashboard is necessary so that you understand how successful your marketing efforts are. Let’s find out how to build an excellent dashboard.
Why do you need automated reporti... | ['Owox Bi', 'Marketing', 'Google Data Studio', 'Reports And Dashboards'] |
Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent (Ep. 61 — Live)
Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circumstance. In fact, they tend to... | ['Startup', 'Ycombinator', 'Silicon Valley', 'Podcast', 'Tech'] |
What’s Going On With These New Co-Publishing and Administration Deals? ( Music Op-Ed)
With streaming and technology changing the music business inside and out, songwriters and producers are becoming more of a commodity to distribution, publishing, and administration companies but what value is being exchanged?
Photo ... | ['Entertainment', 'Business', 'Music', 'Songwriting', 'Culture'] |
Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For everyone who is luckier than I was so far and is using the well-known Microsoft 365-apps, native M1-support is now for real a... | ['Mac', 'Microsoft', 'Office', 'Apple', 'M1'] |
Photo by Yasin Yusuf on Unsplash
Expectations: The Robber of Joy
When others tell us who we should be
I just finished watching this is PARIS, a documentary of Paris Hilton.
To be honest, I saw it on my YouTube feed a while back, but never decided to click into it because I wasn’t really fond of her.
Growing up in ... | ['Expectations', 'Mental Health', 'Trauma', 'Self', 'Healing'] |
What?
Do you still remember your first day of college, where during induction you’re introduced to your faculties, your classroom layout, where the cafeteria is, etc.?
That same process of introducing someone to an unfamiliar environment for the first time is onboarding.
By Minh Pham
In more technical words, Onboar... | ['Cricplay', 'UI', 'Design', 'Onboarding', 'UX'] |
In October 2014 I was browsing through San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books and stumbled upon No Plot? No Problem! by NaNoWriMo founder Chris Baty. One month later I was bent over my computer, writing out a 50,000-word novel about a wounded Veteran on a healing trek through a fantastical landscape.
Image Source: Unsplash
... | ['NaNoWriMo', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
Life After Relapse
No one told me I would have to leave people behind.
I remember being told “when you move forward in your recovery you will leave people behind” and I am truly starting to understand what that means.
Certain relationships I have are built on me having low self-esteem and not questioning how one-sid... | ['Relationships', 'True Courage', 'This Happened To Me', 'Mental Health', 'Self'] |
Infrastructure is everything. Ideas don’t matter anymore; your capacity to outperform your competitors do. Today Big Data challenges require businesses to take appropriate measures on the health of their IT department.
It used to be that if you’re a large company enterprise, innovation will just come to you. But those... | ['Data Science', 'Cloud Computing', 'Enterprise Software'] |
Venture Funding
You may have noticed that Lightning is no longer in the “WilliamFalcon” Github repo. The scale at which Lightning is now being adopted and used across academia and industry means I can no longer treat this as a “side” project (which it hasn’t really been).
After releasing Lightning in March of 2019 an... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Announcements'] |
Are You Shrinking into Places You’ve Outgrown?
You may not even know you’re doing it
Photo by Alexandru Zdrobău on Unsplash
My title is pretty basic, but did you feel that tug on your heart when you thought it might apply to you?
I felt it before I fully understood the question.
What exactly does that mean — shrin... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Happiness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life'] |
Exploring places we naturally gather and why they’re essential for wellbeing
“…At night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference… He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. — “A clea... | ['Design', 'Self', 'Design Thinking', 'San Francisco', 'Urban Planning'] |
Shit Jobs: McDonald’s
The value of work is less than zero.
I was sixteen and my mom made me get a job. Again. Learn the value of work. She was right, it’s a lesson I retain decades later: the value of work is less than fucking zero, a negative eating away at your soul and your life. So, thanks.
I applied at the McDo... | ['Work', 'Food', 'Social Justice', 'Culture', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
CW: mentions of mental health, suicide, depression
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week but for many of us our awareness has been there for a while, lived in every day experiences, banging down our door and cemented by the loss of Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit last week. It’s difficult to speak about what happen... | ['Suicide', 'Mental Health', 'Scott Hutchison', 'Frightened Rabbit', 'Mental Health Awareness'] |
The Leftover Heart
A reflection about surviving the pandemic
illustration by author
we will heal from this sadness
but that leftover heart
that won’t be complete again.
This year has been about different kind of sadness, those cracks which we have learnt to carry will be there, we will heal with time but those me... | ['Illustration', 'Paper Poetry', 'Writing', 'Poetry', 'Pandemic'] |
The Four Paths To Happiness I Wish I Had Known In My 20's
Yes, a happy state is always possible, and doable
Photo by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash
We’re often dead wrong about what makes us happy, and that’s a good thing. Part of the joy you experience in life comes from the surprise discoveries of what makes you bask... | ['Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Mindfulness'] |
Why the ‘Everyone Is a Designer’ Debate Is Beside the Point
The ongoing battle for design ownership often ignores the real consequences of making design decisions
Photo: Jud Mackrill/Unsplash
There are a few ongoing debates in the world of digital design. Things like Should designers code?”, “What’s the value of des... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'Ideas', 'Tech', 'UX'] |
Building a Career around Beautiful Words and Transformative Thought
Audre Lorde was a queer woman of color. She grew up in America with immigrant parents. Through these circumstances, Audre learned early on in life what it was like to be an outsider. She experienced triple oppression, being a woman, a lesbian, and bla... | ['Poem', 'Writing', 'History', 'Poet', 'Poetry'] |
Photo by Kelsey Chance on Unsplash
When I first realized that I had a drinking problem, my solution was to try to cut back. I knew that I was drinking way too much and I even recognized that I had an addiction. Even so, the idea of going completely sober sounded like an extreme overreaction to the problem.
I figured ... | ['Recovery', 'Addiction', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Mental Health'] |
In “WhatsApp-Engineering Inside-1” we talked about the system and network architecture of WhatsApp, in this article we are going to deep dive into the messaging server and other components.
One thing which needs to be known is that the connection is always initiated by the client because the server does not know the a... | ['WhatsApp', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Architecture', 'System Architecture', 'Application Architecture'] |
Assistants are important members of any team. They are generalists that can support a wide range of projects and bring a much needed structure to the individuals and organizations who hire them.
The below 4 qualities are the ones always top of my list when evaluating a new assistant partner for our team.
1. Empathy
... | ['Startup', 'Virtual Assistant', 'Outsourcing', 'Personal Assistant', 'Hiring'] |
Water and Artificial Intelligence
Reflections on Technology and Nature in Crisis
Looking out on a very still lake in Switzerland made me think about writing on a specific topic. On average, the body of an adult human being is 60% water, most of which is contained in the cells, which need water to live. As such in a m... | ['Artificial Intelligence'] |
In the previous chapter we built a dataloader that picks up our images and performs some transformations and augmentations so that they can be fed in batches to a neural network like the U-Net. In this part, we focus on building a U-Net from scratch with the PyTorch library. You should be familiar with building a neura... | ['Unet', 'Python', 'Pytorch', 'Deep Learning', 'Semantic Segmentation'] |
Interning on Xandr’s Data Delivery team as a full stack developer this summer has exposed me to a myriad of new technical skills and tools. For the frontend component of my project I learned to build UI’s using React, and for the backend I learned how to manage applications using Kubernetes and expose my validation ser... | ['Java', 'Asynchronous Programming', 'Computer Science', 'Vertx', 'Concurrency'] |
A lot of user experience professionals who are active in our industry today have faced the question above when starting their career.
Let’s be honest: it’s a bit unfair.
“Portfolio” is a mandatory field in almost every job application form, regardless of the level you’re applying to.
But wait. I’m only able to be hi... | ['Careers', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Portfolio', 'UX'] |
DevOps in Various Domains — Edureka
DevOps has become the latest buzzword in the tech industry as of now. DevOps is the culture of collaboration between teams, as well as a set of DevOps tools and methods of continuous elimination of waste from business processes, leading to ever-improving delivery of value to end-use... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Devops In Various Domains', 'DevOps', 'Devopsdays'] |
Spicing up your Java — Introduction to Project Lombok
Project Lombok is a java library that automatically plugs into your editor and the build tools to assist with some of the boilerplate code, thus spicing up your Java
Overview
Java is no doubt one of the most dominating programming languages of all time. However, ... | ['Java'] |
Dear Julie: Submitting
How do I know when my work is as good as it can be?
Photo by Mark Fletcher-Brown on Unsplash
Dear Julie, I have completed four books. I know the earlier ones were good ideas but badly executed. Now I am going back to the fourth one in order to practise my editing skills. My question is: How wi... | ['Writing', 'Editing', 'Writing Advice', 'Writing Tips', 'Editing Tips'] |
Over the last last 9 years I’ve been involved in 20 different boards, mostly start-up boards. Sometimes my role was lead investor, others non-lead investor, chairman, or independent director and in 1 case (at La Nevera Roja) as founder & CEO. It’s been ~100 board meetings (BoD), that imply ~300 hours in meetings and a ... | ['Startup Boards', 'VC', 'Startup', 'Venture Capitalist', 'Venture Capital'] |
4 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging
I would’ve found success much faster if I had known these 4 things
Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash
Blogging can potentially make you more money than an average day job. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and make a Google search right now. Better still, go to YouTube, a... | ['Work', 'Freelancing', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Education'] |
We’ve all been there.
Scroll, scroll, scroll. Stop. Scroll, stroll. Stop. Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll…
Three hours later and you’re blurry-eyed and guilty. What was supposed to be a productive afternoon somehow turned into a time-warp of surfing the web, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and unnecessarily checking email... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Startup Spotlight', 'Startup', 'Founders', 'Startup Life'] |
International examples offer US a blueprint for aquaculture regulation in 2020
by Hallie Templeton, senior oceans campaigner
For many years, powerful corporations, assisted by the very U.S. agencies tasked with protecting and managing our ocean resources, have collectively been pushing for development of industrializ... | ['Oceans', 'Fishing', 'Conservation', 'Environment'] |
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF RUBY ON RAILS?
Ruby On Rails Dying: Is It A Myth Or Reality?
Read this article to find out that weather Ruby on Rails going anywhere soon or not!
It has been some time since rumors have been circling about this topic. Yes, there has been a little decrease in the popularity of Ruby on Rails. But... | ['Ror Development Company', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Ruby On Rails Development', 'Development', 'Hire Ruby On Rails'] |
3 Reasons My Start-Up Failed and I Deserved It AzerKaanDasdemir Follow May 26 · 7 min read
I was not broke, I did not have more money issues than the average folk. I just wanted my own thing. It was my expression somehow. I was reading a lot of MBA books, Harry Beckwith, Paco Underhill, HBR you name it. I did not read... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Business Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Failure'] |
Welcome to TestFlight
The playbook starts with TestFlight, an app that allows startups to soft-launch their own products before publicly hitting the App Store. Until recently, TestFlight was mainly employed as a place for a company’s inner circle to test an app, give feedback, and share bugs. Due to its “invite-only” ... | ['Startup', 'Consumer', 'Venture Capital', 'Launch Strategy', 'Tech'] |
Madonna’s astrologer predicted precisely when I’d meet my husband. Cheryl, a comedian and astrologer, was part of a gal-pal threesome; Madonna and Sandra Bernhard were the other two. When I met Cheryl in 1989, Madonna’s and Sandra’s careers were peaking. Cheryl still had to make a living as an astrologer and decorative... | ['Nonfiction', 'Contemporary Art', 'LGBTQ', 'Relationships', 'Sexuality'] |
Learn how to set yourself up for success in the long term by enabling cross-functional teams and executives on AI.
This article is part of a series that breaks down AI product management into 5 distinct phases. The introduction to these series starts here.
Introduction
This article will dive into the most important ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Product', 'Editorials'] |
Has Apple Won with Apple One?
Why I will be getting Apple One and if it makes sense for you.
All technology podcasts, magazines, blogs and websites have covered Apple One in great detail. They go over the things that could be better, like larger iCloud storage sizes for each option, and discuss Apple’s clear goal in ... | ['Events', 'Gadgets', 'Technology', 'Apple', 'Services'] |
Photo by Anton Malanin on Unsplash
Stay warm, we told you.
Here is a long skirt to cover your bare knees. And a dress too big — but don’t worry, you’ll grow into it.
And here. Another sweater — handknit with you in mind. Put it on before you offend someone.
Prayer shawls and sackcloth. Heavy drapes to hide your fig... | ['Self-awareness', 'Religion', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Poetry'] |
Kicking off a weekly (b)log of observations and useful learnings on this field
Since entering product marketing in 2013 I’ve developed a fascination with a field where no two jobs are alike. Where expectations vary wildly by situation. A career path whose #1 FAQ is what its purpose even is (just Google “What is produc... | ['Marketing', 'Product Marketing', 'Product Management'] |
Dong-Ping Wong (Family): Buildings, mostly.
Jasmina Grase: I design everyday objects with a moment of discovery. Sustainable improvements to our fast lifestyle. Right now I’m a co-founder of “MIITO” and the studio “Chudy & Grase.”
Tim O’Reilly: I make books, conferences, and big ideas that help organize communities o... | ['Industrial Design', 'Design', 'Technology', 'Graphic Design', 'Information Design'] |
Crude Monte Carlo method
The crude Monte Carlo method is the most basic application of the concept described above:
Random draws x_i are made over X following a uniform law.
We compute the sum of f(x_i), multiply it by (b-a) and divide by the number of samples N.
To illustrate the process, let’s take a concrete use... | ['Monte Carlo Method', 'Python', 'Numerical Integration', 'Data Science'] |
See, Memory: Divorce in the Time of Corona
To be able to accept love also meant to be able to be hurt. I didn’t want to hurt her but I didn’t know that I would be hurt by her self-protection.
Photo credit: Shutterstock
By Chris Wiewiora
I had a photo of L. that I took of her the day before she first said, “I love y... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Marriage', 'Divorce', 'Coronavirus'] |
Let’s Do This
1 — Create tabs, color-coded if it makes sense
Create list of tabs — color code them the way you want the tabs to appear.
Example creating 50 rows of monthly dates; each year is a different color.
New Workbook — Create a Tab List
Create worksheet tabs (I use the ASAP Utilities add-in for this — cover... | ['Microsoft', 'Excel', 'Automation', 'How To', 'Productivity'] |
The Older Woman
Then one day, an older woman came to her mother’s house. They were having a conversation about these topics. So the girl joined in and shared some of her experiences of love.
“I don’t know if anyone really loves me.” She said with a sad, fearful face like an abandoned puppy on a rainy day.
She told t... | ['Love', 'Wisdom', 'The Masterpiece', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
She’s always with those animals,
Cat, dog, horse,
Nearby, underfoot, in the way,
Companions, friends, guards.
She insists.
They love me
But I’m the boss. | ['Childhood', 'Animals', 'Life', 'Poetry', 'Storytelling'] |
Step 1: Do not break the chain
Day 1: You are so positive and filled with happiness and doing manifestation practices.
Day 2: Same as above
Day 10: Same as above
Day 11: A small thought of doubt is implanted in your subconscious mind
Day 12: That little thought of doubt/dis-belief grows faster
Day 13: You are try... | ['Law Of Attraction Works', 'Universe', 'Philosophy', 'Visualization', 'Self Improvement'] |
The above figure must look daunting but it is easy to understand. So just stay with me here.
Deep Learning is essentially nothing but a lot of matrix calculations and what we are essentially doing in this layer is a lot of matrix calculations intelligently. The self-attention layer initializes with 3 weight matrices —... | ['Deep Learning', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Men Need to Consent, Too
What’s good for the gander is good for the goose
image by Ulkar — purchased by the author
This is why feminism is important to all humans.
Consent isn’t a gender issue.
It’s an individual human issue.
Vulnerability = anti-masculine in our culture. Little boys are “sissies” if they cry.
B... | ['Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Life'] |
Bringing GIS technology and OpenStreetMap to Friend
Friend Software Corporation and Napkin have decided to form an active partnership with the aim of bringing next generation GIS technology to market via the new and powerful Friend Cloud and Sky Computing Platform.
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a framework f... | ['GIS', 'Web Development', 'Cloud Computing', 'Offshore', 'Shipping'] |
How Important Is It to Have Failed at Something in Life?
According to a psychologist, a boxing coach, a urologist, and a Mars simulation commander
Most of us spend our entire lives trying to avoid mucking up. But unless you’ve never had any dreams or goals or really any sort of ambitions at all, chances are you’ve fa... | ['Failure Stories', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Failure', 'Mental Toughness'] |
Image by Author
Visualization of migrated, post-stack seismic volumes is a very crucial component of interpretation workflows, be it to pick salt domes, interpret horizons, identify fault planes, or classify rock facies.
While there are already professional tools like OpendTect and Petrel available to experienced sei... | ['Data Science', 'Seismic Surveys', 'Interpretation', 'Visualization'] |
Data Science / Power BI Visualization
Create a Network Graph in Power BI
A quick start guide on building a network graph with a few simple clicks of the mouse.
Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash
In a previous article, I wrote a quick start guide to visualize a Pandas dataframe using networkx and matplotlib. While ... | ['Network Graph', 'Visualization', 'Power Bi', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Why Bill Gates Creates Content?
You are the third richest person in the world and you write blog articles and film YouTube videos. Why is that?
Bill Gates is now the third richest and maybe one of the busiest person in the world. Usually we see that the people who run ultra-rich and big organizations aren’t dealing w... | ['Covid 19', 'Bill Gates', 'Writing', 'Content Creation', 'Pandemic'] |
Photo by Arantxa Treva via Pexels
Sometimes I Feel Like I’m Losing My Voice
A writer’s lament
And I know it’s the overwhelming year that’s nearly behind me and feverishly thinking about the one ahead of me but as a writer, I cannot lose my voice. I am not talking about the physical sound from the use of my vocal cor... | ['Cry', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Essay', 'Creative Writing'] |
Poster illustration by Richard Amsel
Everyone has a few nostalgia laden favorite films from their past. As a child of the 80s, some of mine were The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and, of course, The Dark Crystal. Jim Henson’s fantasy epic from 1982 is coming into something of a revival sinc... | ['The Dark Crystal', 'Fantasy', 'Review', 'Psychology', 'Film'] |
Ireland. The island of saints and scholars…and honey.
The ancient Celts considered beekeeping so important to the livelihood of the people and the fertility of the land that a list of laws and extensive legal rights were devoted solely to bees and their keepers. Called the “Bech Breatha” in Irish- the Bee Judgements, ... | ['Bees', 'Ireland', 'Beekeeping', 'Outdoors', 'Environment'] |
Use Min-Width, Not Max-Width, in Your CSS
Your websites should be mobile-first, not mobile-last
I am unhealthily addicted to inspecting the websites I visit. Maybe it’s a sign that I’ve been a developer for too long, but I really do enjoy dissecting the websites I stumble upon as I surf the internet. Sometimes I’m st... | ['CSS', 'Technology', 'Development', 'Programming'] |
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