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Create an Onboarding Coordinator
Note: This is just a suggestion on how to implement a decent solution to the problems mentioned above.
First, we need to create a singleton to manage your onboarding. You can call it a coordinator, router, manager, service — it doesn’t matter. The point is that this coordinator will b... | ['iOS', 'Onboarding', 'Development', 'Programming', 'Architecture'] |
What is Explainable AI?
Explainable AI (XAI) is one of the hot topics in AI-ML. It refers to the tools and techniques that can be used to make black-box machine learning be be understood by human experts.
Why Explainable AI is Important?
Let’s try to understand why explainable AI is important. Consider you are worki... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
The Case Against Setting Goals for Children
Strategies for success
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash
While working with parents of middle school children I realized that most parents wanted their children to be self-driven and goal-oriented. However, their parenting styles commonly fell into two extremes: some went... | ['Parenting', 'Self Improvement', 'Strategy', 'Psychology', 'Education'] |
EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS
Framing Data with DataFrames
Channeling open data into business frameworks
At the outset of any challenge, but especially for the complex and ambiguous ones that data scientists often face, structuring a thought process to approach the fundamental issue is one of the initial tasks. Many ind... | ['Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
Top apps made with flutter framework
Being a feature-rich and new SDK, Flutter helped build several modern apps like Google Ads, Xianyu by Alibaba and Hamilton. The benefits provided by Flutter can help boost the development of any app.
Developers who haven’t tried Flutter yet are surprised with what others have acco... | ['Mobile Apps', 'Flutter', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development'] |
As a hopeless romantic, I contemplate the idea of love within the context of my generation quite often. Throughout my twenty-two years of life, I have enjoyed attempting to understand the idea of love and how it affects the world on both an individual and holistic basis. I have kept a diary of all my crushes since I co... | ['Valentines Day', 'Online Dating', 'Scene And Heard', 'Nonfiction', 'Technology'] |
In this post we will be going over Algorand wallet security and wallet and account interaction. Specifically we will be looking at the steps and mechanisms involved in:
Generating a wallet
Generating accounts in the wallet
Generating accounts outside of the wallet and importing them into the wallet
Backing up a wal... | ['Python', 'Developer Tools', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Developer', 'Crypto'] |
Dr. Jen uses her own experiences, skiing, books, movies, and real people to help curb the pains of life
Follow | ['Outdoors', 'Mountains', 'Skiing', 'Mental Health'] |
Without certainty, we can only create designs that are perfect for a blue sky scenario. One in which the user fits exactly into the mold that we’ve used to create the product. This inevitably leaves holes in the experience for the people that don’t fit our typical user.
If we owned a restaurant, we wouldn’t force a cu... | ['Design', 'UX', 'Product Design', 'UI', 'Visual Design'] |
You’re twenty-years-old, and you want to take the year off of college, but people will go on without you. You feel left behind.
You’re twenty-one, and you see people moving into apartments, but you’re still at home. You feel like you’re not growing.
You’re twenty-two, and people are graduating from college, but you s... | ['Self-awareness', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self'] |
That’s one kind of exclusion.
At Microsoft, our CEO Satya Nadella has given us a very strong mission statement: Empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more. If we’re going to do that, we need to think hard about the “every” in that statement. Building for every person means we can’t just let o... | ['Microsoft', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Bias', 'Inclusive Design'] |
Kellyanne Conway Is Proving That Conflict Hurts Kids, Not Divorce
No one ever researches the damage that intact married couples such as George and Kellyanne Conway do to their family
In a surprise message Sunday, Kellyanne Conway — one of Trump’s longest-serving advisors — announced that she was leaving the White Hou... | ['Marriage', 'Kellyanne Conway', 'Divorce', 'Family', 'Conflict'] |
What is data-driven design?
The process of design is backed by the findings from the data we accumulated. It’s a process on which our design decisions are based on the reflection from the data and user behaviour. A well-crafted user experience designing process involves in measuring the experience itself. This valuabl... | ['Design', 'User Experience Design', 'User Experience', 'User Research', 'Designer'] |
Stocks are crashing, productivity is falling, people are stopping their consumption of goods and transportation, and the economy is generally going to go to shit. This is a pretty big deal. But there are some very interesting things to look out for on the horizon, positive things, that may come of the coronavirus epide... | ['Coronavirus', 'Co Vid 19', 'Economics', 'Forecasting', 'Random'] |
LGBTQIA/Relationships/Family
Gay Husband, Straight Wife: Can It Work?
Perhaps some people can contain their same-sex attractions, but at what cost?
Photo: Stetsic/25051445/DepositPhoto.com
Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people come out years after they have been married to an opposite-sex heterosexual ... | ['LGBTQ', 'Equality', 'Religion', 'Family', 'Psychology'] |
If Bats Perish, Where Does That Leave Us?
Scientists scramble as a fatal fungus finally reaches a major bat sanctuary
Credit: Purestock/Getty Images
Everyone is worried about the bats. There are so many species with so many characteristics, and yet one disease is killing so many of them. It’s called white-nose syndr... | ['Bats', 'Nature', 'Ecosystem', 'Science And Medicine', 'Environment'] |
Even after the development of more complex and powerful ML algorithms in recent times, linear regression is still hard to beat because of its versatility, robustness, and simplicity.
Linear regression was originally developed in the field of statistics and is studied as a model for understanding the relationship betwe... | ['Machine Learning', 'Linear Regression', 'Mathematics', 'Statistics', 'AI'] |
Make a change to your wardrobe.
“I couldn’t give a sh*t about fashion. Style is dressing the way that you feel confident and what is appropriate for you, your age, body type.” — Tan France
As much as I wish I had Tan France picking out styles for me and telling me how much more confident I look in them, I instead hav... | ['Queer Eye', 'Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'TV Shows', 'Self Improvement'] |
An Ode to the Fish Markets of the World
Fish markets are the noisy, colorful, exiting, authentic and lively centers of any coastal city, the place where mongers and customers, tourists and workers, auctioneers and bidders go to trade in the bounty of the sea. This week we celebrate the allure of such places of commerc... | ['Travel', 'Fisheries', 'Commerce', 'Oceans', 'Environment'] |
Working from home has some drawbacks but a lot of benefits for you… and your company!
A bit of context
In less than one year we grew from 30 to more than 60 people in R&D with 5 full-time remote workers and the rest of the R&D being able to work remotely as much as they want.
If you join our teams, you can be in one... | ['Culture Change', 'Remote Working', 'Software Engineering', 'Remote Work', 'Engineering Culture'] |
Can we talk about this UX writing thing?
Not all design teams are talking about it. Maybe we should be.
If you work in design, you have probably noticed the tide of ‘UX writing’ jobs in the last couple of years. Google, Dropbox, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and the list goes on.
Every tech giant on the planet is... | ['Careers', 'Design', 'Ux Writing', 'User Experience', 'UX'] |
Five Projects That Will Give You a Good Grasp on Computer Vision
Complete python tutorials that will help cement some of the most important CV concepts if you go through them
Photo by Matt Noble on Unsplash
Hello Internet! In this article, I’ve collated five computer vision online tutorials that anyone can easily fo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning'] |
Museum of Natural History Moves Forward on $325 Million Expansion
Landmarks commission approves hotly contested plan for construction.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved Tuesday a $325 million proposal for The American Museum of Natural History to remake its Columbus Avenue wing.
When plans for the Richa... | ['Architecture', 'Science', 'Breaking News', 'Museums', 'New York City'] |
After all, what about all the people that prefer reading the content of a text slowly and carefully while turning around and claiming that their comprehension is deeper? What about the auditory or kinesthetic learners, are they just chopped liver
As it turns out, there’s a body of reliable proof around this phenomenon... | ['Infographics', 'Marketing', 'Blogging', 'Learning', 'Education'] |
Early morning September 14, 2016 my 61-year-old brother drove his car to a spot he loved. Nobody knows precisely how he spent his final hours. But we do know that he parked his Kia near the bridge at Bowness Park in Calgary. Evidence suggests he laid back for a while in his reclined seat. Likely contemplating…and strug... | ['Suicide', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Happiness', 'Grief And Loss'] |
I've collected everything that surprised me over the year in the visual web design landscape, summarized it, and ambitiously listed as “Top 8 web design trends”. Some of the trends have been kicking all over the internet for quite a long time, some — just dipping it’s toe to the water, and some, I think, will preserve ... | ['UI', 'Design', 'Web', 'Trends', 'Graphic Design'] |
I started this year on a high. With some incredible plans ahead of me, I could only see a year full of possibilities and potential.
However, the pandemic hit India in March. Since then, all of us have been more or less shut inside our homes, with nothing to stare at all day long except the four walls.
In such a situa... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Ideas', 'Self Improvement', 'Self Care'] |
Let’s take a closer look at Brexit with its opportunities and challenges for the digital marketing industry.
As of December 31, 2020, the transition period will end. The government continues to work to ease the pain of the process. One of the areas that will be affected by this transition is the UK’s digital marketing... | ['Brexit', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'UK', 'Social Media'] |
Machine Learning Algorithms from Start to Finish in Python: Linear Regression
Learn, Understand and implement the most important and fundamental algorithm in all of Data Science and Machine Learning.
Photo by Julian Ebert on Unsplash
Probably one of the most common algorithms around, Linear Regression is a must know... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Algorithms'] |
Capturing Webcam Footage with Cloud Functions
With a maximum run time of only 540 seconds, cloud functions automatically spin up and down a resource in order to execute a script. Cloud functions are run almost exactly as they are triggered making them very useful when running in real time. For my solution I used 3 sep... | ['Machine Learning', 'TensorFlow', 'Computer Vision', 'Google Cloud', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
If you are a Data Scientist working in Computer Vision, you also probably realized that you need a fast and simple labeling tool for at least one of these two reasons:
to create your datasets for PoC or R&D experiments
for PoC or R&D experiments to ensure the quality of your data so that it won’t affect the performan... | ['Machine Learning', 'Annotation Tools', 'Computer Vision', 'Labelling', 'Data Visualization'] |
Jim Lehrer got to be the kind of journalist we all should want, and most of us say we want, and many of us really don’t want.
Jim Lehrer on the ‘NewsHour.’
Jim Lehrer died Thursday, age 85, after a career mostly defined by 36 years as host or cohost of the various incarnations of the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, which in 1... | ['Jim Lehrer', 'Pbs Newshour', 'Journalism', 'Pbs', 'Tv News'] |
Is Watch-First The New Mobile First?
The prospects of a Billion Dollar Watch App
After the iPhone was released in 2007, it took about 4 years for a billion dollar mobile first company to emerge. Although the initial reviews have downplayed the hype, the Apple Watch has the potential to unleash a new wave of business ... | ['Apple Watch', 'Startup', 'Product Design', 'Mobile First'] |
Why You Need to Build Great Systems, Not Goals
5 things to consider for long-term progress
Photo by Roman Bozhko on Unsplash
For you to reach your desires and dreams — your unique version of success — the typical advice you’d get is to set meaningful goals. Whether that’s improving your fitness, stepping up a level ... | ['Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Goals', 'Psychology'] |
Using Monte Carlo in Basketball
Gif by the author on Giphy
To provide you with a better perspective on what I’ve explained and to have some fun, I’m going to demonstrate how it works through a specific scenario that can happen at the end of a game of basketball.
Basketball is a complex sport (isn’t it just about put... | ['Monte Carlo', 'Monte Carlo Method', 'Python', 'Basketball'] |
I have been in this game for a looong time, and I have experienced first hand the emergence and maturation of the modern UX discipline as it applies to digital experiences.
We (the UX community) have fought hard to prove the value of UX — to product management, engineering and businesses executives. We have have convi... | ['UX', 'Design', 'UX Research', 'Design Process', 'Design Thinking'] |
I learned in this life
how to cling to the bottom rung
lift my feet before dragging
climbing up’s for better-fit
boots will catch you topside
best mind your place
if someone wants you to have
they will give it to you
my father’s legacy
dog-paddled frustration
set of unequal measures
a hand offered pulls back... | ['Mental Health', 'Poverty', 'Homelessness', 'Poetry', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
love.
entangled in his arms
&
lost to his soft lips.
wishes dreams and aspirations
no longer just for me.
desire, my new favourite drug.
if this isn’t love
tell me what is.
she brought me to life
&
gave me hers.
can mere words entail
the love i bear for the woman i call
Amma.
if this isn’t love
tell me ... | ['Love', 'Poetry', 'Aninjusticeprompt', 'Nonfiction', 'Hope'] |
SXSW 2019 Ultimate Guide to the Panels, Popups and Parties
Blow your mind with 400 of the most epic events including Mark Cuban, Priscilla Chan, Winklevii, Jon Hamm, Seth Rogen, Shia LaBeouf, Anna Kendrick, Mindy Kaling, Dakota Johnson, Elle Fanning, Jason Sudeikis, Jordan Peele, Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Moss, Max M... | ['Technology', 'SXSW', 'Business', 'Music', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Joe Biden confirmed 2020 public polling was all wrong (again) when he announced a last-minute, end-of-campaign trip to Minnesota.
It had been 48 years since a Republican presidential candidate won Minnesota, the home of Democrat stars Ilhan Omar, Amy Klobuchar, Walter Mondale, and Hubert Humphrey. Biden shouldn’t need... | ['Politics', 'Trump', 'Journalism', 'Life Lessons', '2020'] |
The Quiet Semi-Supervised Revolution
Time to dust off that unlabeled data?
One of the most familiar settings for a machine learning engineer is having access to a lot of data, but modest resources to annotate it. Everyone in that predicament eventually goes through the logical steps of asking themselves what to do wh... | ['Data Science', 'Semi Supervised Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Novels give you a lot of latitude. Think about it: you have time to develop characters, describe places, elaborate on plots and subplots, and explore philosophical questions. There’s a lot of luxury there: luxury of time, luxury of space.
Generally when you’re writing a novel, you’re not aware of the luxury you’re exp... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing'] |
It has been almost three years since I started documenting detections publicly, and I always wondered “How could I share detections in a more practical and interactive way so that anyone in the world can access, run and validate each analytic all from the same place?”
I did not just want to share a static document wit... | ['Threat Hunting', 'Cybersecurity', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Docker', 'Security Analytics'] |
Photo by Joseph Chan on Unsplash
For the most part you probably keep most of your AWS infrastructure under the ownership of a single account. However there are situations where you may need to grant a resource or a user, in a different account, access to one or more of your resources. This might be because an external... | ['Technology', 'AWS', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Infrastructure As Code'] |
Pocket Camp Is a UX Nightmare
My UX mindset doesn’t miss a chance to criticize and learn from my favorite apps.
Fig.1 — Animal Crossing official logo. Image from Nintendo
When I downloaded Animal Crossing Pocket Camp this Summer, I got almost immediately addicted. Since then, I’ve spent hours fishing, growing flower... | ['Animal Crossing', 'Design', 'Games', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
Here is a Step by Step guide to installing Scala and Apache Spark on MacOS.
Step 1: Get Homebrew
Homebrew makes your life a lot easier when it comes to installing applications and languages on a Mac OS. You can get Homebrew by following the instructions on it’s website.
Which basically just tells you to open your te... | ['Spark', 'Scala', 'Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
If you have been programming in Python for a bit it is probable you came across the code if __name__ == “__main__” and that you, like me and many others before, had no clue of what it means. Below a short explanation of how I understood it. Hope it helps!
The main function is essentially where any Python program start... | ['Python3', 'Coding', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
Parable: Story’s debt to Confusion
An origin story
Have you ever wondered where story came from? Draw close to my campfire, and I’ll tell you how. Once upon a time… in the Kingdom of the Mind, a magnificent ball was held to launch a Festival of Change.
Clarity
Clarity attended. When she entered the ballroom, she wa... | ['Change', 'Storytelling', 'Storyteller'] |
Pushing Catholics Out the Door
A note from the outset. This post has nothing to do with Catholic Church teaching. It has everything to do with the Catholics who believe it, though.
I once knew a priest who put a sign at all the exits of his church that said “Judas left the Mass early too.”
For those of you who don’t... | ['LGBTQ', 'Life', 'Faithfullylgbt', 'Reaching Out', 'Storytelling'] |
Have you heard of Generative Adversarial Networks, the hottest development in machine learning right now?
GANs are made up of two competing neural networks: a generator that tries to create an image, and a discriminator that tries to detect which images are real and which images are fakes created by the generator.
Bo... | ['Deep Learning', 'Nvidia', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Who wouldn’t want their brand featured court-side of an NBA Finals game or placed on the shoulder of a golfer who is about to win The Masters? Professional sports are driven by two things: advertisements and the fans who absorb said advertisements.
We often hear athletes utter the phrase “it’s a business” when talking... | ['Sports', 'Blockchain', 'Sponsorship', 'Marketing', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
If “possibility government” and “public entrepreneurship” are not to be the oxymorons skeptics make them out to be, we have to be effective in their practice. This requires public leaders to do at least three things: generate new ideas, try them, and ultimately scale these efforts up to make a large and lasting differe... | ['Covid 19', 'Leadership', 'Crisis Management', 'Cities', 'Coronavirus'] |
Everyone who works in tech has been stuck at one time or another in the dreaded Remote Meeting Death Spiral. That’s when the people in your meeting disengage and start answering email, doing other work, getting on social media, writing snarky Medium articles, etc. instead of focusing on what’s being said. Whether or no... | ['Remote Working', 'Management', 'Management And Leadership', 'Meetings', 'Productivity'] |
Well, the 2020 list has proven to be something of a hit (by my standards, anyway), so I figured I’d share my 2019 list with you as well. In case you didn’t read the 2020 list, the story behind it is that for nearly 23 years, I’ve been keeping a list of every book I read. I try to read at least one a week.
I started ke... | ['Books', 'Book Recommendations', 'Book Club'] |
10 sources of profitable orders
The rule of the moment of force
Usually, a copywriter doesn’t need to know physics. But I want you to know this useful rule: it will come in handy more than once in life. It’s very simple. The same effort can produce different results. The question is, what are you making these efforts... | ['Copywriting', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Writer', 'Writing Tips'] |
Why it’s time to unghost my mother Marcilaughlin Follow Dec 24 · 7 min read
Photo by Anna Hecker on Unsplash
Butterflies invaded my stomach the first time I learned the name of my biological mother: Cecilia. A name suddenly made her real. It somehow elevated her beyond a mere concept in my mind — “biological mother.”... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting', 'Adoption', 'Identity'] |
GoogleNet
In 2014, Google published its own network in the ImageNet competition and in homage to Yann LeCun and LeNet, Google named their network, GoogLeNet. It’s spelled like GoogleNet but it’s pronounced GoogLeNet. In the ImageNet competition, GoogLeNet performed even a little better than VGG: 6.7% compared to 7.3% ... | ['Self Driving Cars', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
About 1.15 to 2.41 million tons of plastic enter the ocean each year from rivers, according to research by Laurent Lebreton, an oceanographer for The Ocean Cleanup. The massive deposit of non-recycled plastic has led to the formation of a 1.6 million square kilometers plastic island, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GP... | ['Climate News', 'Plastic', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Opinion'] |
Before starting with Kubernetes installation, let’s do a quick recap about our raspberry pi cluster and hardware architecture.
This article can be applied to any computer cluster, bare-metal, on the cloud, or virtualized with the virtual box or docker in docker.
In my case I decided to create a bare-metal cluster bas... | ['Homelab', 'Raspberry Pi', 'Kubernetes', 'K3s', 'Cluster'] |
At its core, a network is a collection of people. However, is your network meaningful? Does it go beyond saying Hi and Have a nice day?
For Amit Panchal this is no small consideration. The independent digital marketing consultant has invested more than a dozen years of toil and sweat in social media marketing, search ... | ['Networking', 'Marketing', 'Twitter', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Once upon a time, a small boy sat alone in the back seat of a Hudson Hornet, squeezed between a caged rabbit on one side, caged doves on the other. Outside, a South Dakota blizzard raged. It was an early memory and he can’t exactly remember when, but it was likely the early 1950s, a half-century before Smartphones and ... | ['John Ivan Palmer Author', 'Master Of Deception Book', 'Jack Pyle Magician', 'Books'] |
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
In January 2019, I read the above quo... | ['Life Lessons', 'Sex', 'Culture', 'Feminism', 'Writing'] |
Response to Promposity May Challenge
Vow To Make Each Day Special
Decide that you will find at least one small thing that makes each day special that puts you at ease or gives you a sense of freedom even to restore a sense of wonder to your life.
Credit: May Day Central Park by Mauric Pendegrast on Wikimedia Commons... | ['Writing Prompts', 'Poem', 'Mindset', 'Psychology', 'Spring'] |
Thanks to the tremendous response for my previous article on #GoogleNow, I am now motivated to write more and finish off those drafts pending for a long time. Here goes one.
This weekend, I did some research on customer ratings on 3 popular ecommerce websites of India: Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal. I wanted to record... | ['Flipkart', 'Amazon', 'Snapdeal'] |
Testing Isn’t Optional
Want to hear my two cents on pushing untested code?
Don’t do it.
It physically aches me to approve a PR without tests. In my experience, I’ve seen developers with a decade of experience do it, too. Don’t lower your standards and allow bad practices to creep in.
Imagine you were asked to just ... | ['Software Development', 'Coding', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Programming'] |
Book Review: The Power Worshipers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
In her insightful book, Katherine Stewart explores the ways in which religious nationalists are hijacking America’s systems of government and education.
This book had been sitting on my shelf for a while. I’m not sure why I took so ... | ['Books', 'Politics', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Election 2020'] |
Enabling Data-Led Communications about Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices from 67 countries
Co-authored with Marla Shaivitz, Director, Digital Strategy, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Counting coronavirus cases and related statistics can tell us where inf... | ['Health', 'Public Health', 'Data Visualization', 'Tableau', 'Covid 19'] |
If you defy convention and shatter stereotypes, this publication is for you.
Are you a rebel? A rogue? Someone who refuses to follow the herd and marches to the beat of their own drummer, no matter what?
If so, you are cordially invited to submit your blood, sweat, and tears to our brand-new Medium publication, Rogue... | ['Writing', 'Medium Writers', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Rogue', 'New Publication'] |
Step 1 —Delete the un-necessary components
Which is to say pretty much everything :). On the top right of the window, you will see the objects within the ‘Collection’.
From this area, delete the ‘Camera’, the ‘Cube’, and the ‘Light’, as they will not be used, and do not need to be exported. To do this, either:
Right... | ['Blender', 'Libgdx', 'Game Development', 'Java'] |
In near silence
the frost grew
until each crystal wing
profusely became
the sound of joy
inside of belly’s laughter
translating their creative souls
into orbs of pristine profundity
‘til the morning blessed
each crystal infusion
with the rays of seven suns. | ['Self-awareness', 'Winter', 'Nature', 'Silence', 'Poetry'] |
The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week
What’s hot in UX this week.
If you like the links, don’t forget to 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
There’s something I’ve realized lately, that’s making my user interviews go smoother and getting deeper, more nuanced insights. The key is th... | ['Product Design', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Hot This Week', 'User Experience'] |
Internet of things are being embraced by more and more companies. Today we can see that it is growing at a fast pace. For developing IoT applications, availability of open source tools in the market is plenty. A Developer needs the right tools and well-connected infrastructures to use the technology. In this article, y... | ['IoT', 'Smart Home', 'Internet of Things', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development'] |
At Syncfusion, we are continuously reviewing the constructive questions and comments we receive from our customers, which include various feature requests. From these, we handpicked the most widely requested features and made them available in the Essential Studio 2020 Volume 3 release.
In this blog post, I’ll quickly... | ['Flutter', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Charts', 'iOS App Development'] |
Setting the stage: it has been three years (and counting) for Check, a startup that was doing OK with its Monolith but we adapted our mindset to new architectures when we became part of Intuit.
Unlike to what you might have imagined, many startups do have monoliths: despite the common belief that they are young, innov... | ['Startup', 'Ai And Data Science', 'Monolith'] |
Thank you to the health care workers putting their lives on the line, and the essential workers whose jobs bringing us food and other services puts them and their families at risk. | ['Healthcare', 'Humor', 'Gratitude', 'Comics', 'Coronavirus'] |
I didn’t know her very well. But she left an impression on me. Her stories told around a crackling fire. A lazy breeze toying with cottonwood leaves high above our heads. Inky water lapping against the dock. The way her body fully occupied the wooden log. Her enviable lips, slightly parted as she held our gaze across d... | ['Admiration', 'Communication', 'The Message', 'Death', 'Storytelling'] |
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s “What Happens Here Stays Here” advertising campaign is much more than a series of TV spots, it’s become a part of the American lexicon. Their longtime ad agency R&R Partners wanted to relaunch the brand on digital and social and partnered with my team at bpg to create a... | ['Las Vegas', 'Creative Direction', 'Marketing', 'Portfolio', 'Digital Marketing'] |
The movie Inside Out helped get me through 2020. Its themes spilled out into my journal and carried into my therapist’s (virtual) office. Two takeaways from that film that changed my life:
We win by embracing all our emotions. Ignoring emotions makes things worse. Blended emotions make life colorful and beautiful. It’... | ['Self', 'Mindfulness', 'Movies', 'Disney', 'Mental Health'] |
Crystallize Your Positioning
Simply, anyone should be able to detect what is the specie you are. It is quite far for mass adoption if we can’t speak a real understandable language with an average Joe. But first, give yourself an answer — what do you do and why? It is easy to hit someone with a question "Why do you nee... | ['Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Marketing', 'Crypto Marketing', 'Branding'] |
A handyman is a professional who is skilled to perform a wide array of home repair services, both interior, and exterior. Booking a handyman for small jobs is pretty tiring. A lot of times, they are quite negligent in their approach and don’t show up on the scheduled time or just don’t perform their jobs within the des... | ['Handyman', 'Handyman App Development', 'Handyman Services', 'Mobile', 'Mobile App Development'] |
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From January to October 2017 there were more than 200 ICO and startups who managed to attract about $3 billion in total. The reports and news on new ICO records continue to spread. However, despite these successful cases, highlighted in the media, there are many ICO failures, which are less talked abou... | ['Blockchain', 'ICO', 'Ethereum', 'Startup', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
The Hero Loses Everything
This is the day that we are 3/5 of the way through with the novel. You are doing a great job, wherever you are.
Today is also the day where the hero is really close to losing everything. This is the day when he must find his way through a place in the storm and he must be ready to go. The wi... | ['Novel', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing'] |
At the same time, George Gallup was able to predict the winner by carefully obtaining a sample of about 50,000 people.
What can we learn from this?
Even if the data that you have is very “big”, it might represent only a part of the population and may not be representative of the whole!
In Literary Digest’s case, the... | ['Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Politics', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
“Some believe in destiny and some believe in fate. I believe that happiness is something we create.” -Sugarland
I’m normally one of the most optimistic and positive people I know. Probably sickeningly so at times — not sorry! It took me a long time to get to where I am, and staying here isn’t always as easy as you mig... | ['Depression', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Ignorance', 'Stigma'] |
In 2016, a 48-year-old woman from Ethiopia wanted to try something new in her life. She had spent 20 years of her career defending clients as a defense lawyer at a law firm she worked. Lately, her heart had been calling out to her to try something new.
She decided to pursue a new career in cooking.
Nobody stood by he... | ['Inspiration', 'Life', 'Grit', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
Unfinished To-Do List Getting You Down? Try This.
The trick involves moving the goalposts
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash
Daily to-do list got you down?
You’re not alone.
People approach the day’s tasks in many different ways, but one of the most popular is the simple, laundry-list style to-do list of t... | ['Work', 'Advice', 'To Do List', 'Freelancing', 'Productivity'] |
To Be (On Time) or Not To Be
Don’t let the curtain rise without us! | ['New York', 'Humor', 'Theater', 'Cómic', 'Television'] |
What Can Blockchain Projects Learn from Open Source?
I’ve been involved with open source over a decade now. I’ve been part of small projects with innovative ideas which grew into large projects with solid communities. I’ve also witnessed how dysfunctional communities can suck the energy of projects for years. All that... | ['Blockchain', 'Open Source', 'Community', 'Development', 'Programming'] |
Artificial Intelligence
“Artificial Intelligence is a branch of science which offers with helping machines discover solutions to complex problems in a greater human-like-fashion” (Sridhar, 2020). In different words, Minsky defines AI as “the science of making machines do things that would require Genius if finished by... | ['Digit Recognition', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Convolutional Network'] |
Cross platform app development frameworks allow you to run the same code on different operating systems. In this article, we examine why you might choose developing cross platform mobile apps over native development, technologies for cross-platform development, and how these technologies compare to each other.
Namely,... | ['React Native', 'Flutter', 'Mobile', 'Mobile App Development', 'Xamarin'] |
Custom educational software for executive administrators to plan students’ learning environment.
Project Summary
The Future Ready Schools Interactive Planning Dashboard is a reporting & planning tool for our nation’s Superintendents and their teams.
Challenge
With about 30 days notice, hit a hard deadline to deploy... | ['Content Marketing', 'Development', 'Developer', 'Tech', 'Education'] |
The Nitty Gritty
How Lauren and Jason Pak, cofounders of Achieve Fitness, use their Instagram to educate and inspire their audience — and why they chose Instagram as Achieve Fitness’ main marketing platform
What their weekly social media schedule looks like and how they plan, create, and edit that content
How the fi... | ['Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Fitness', 'Small Business', 'Social Media'] |
Some Thoughts on the Power of Film in Normal and Troubled Times and What Can Be Done to Help the Movie Industry in the Future
Photo: Consequence of Sound
It’s no secret that life hasn’t been normal for quite some time. In general, this comes from the presence of the coronavirus and its frightening impact on businesse... | ['Philosophy', 'Movies', 'Coronavirus', 'Moviemaking', 'Film'] |
Currently, most internet marketing professionals worldwide can agree that organic traffic represents one of the most precious sources of new users, conversions, and sales for online businesses and websites of all types, including those focused on the cryptocurrency and blockchain markets.
To put things into perspectiv... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Traffic', 'SEO'] |
Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash
As a developer, chances are you have created, consumed (or both) APIs at some point in your career. If you are a mobile/web/UI developer, you have definitely interacted with APIs because the data to be displayed needs to come from somewhere and if you are a backend developer, you have de... | ['Api Design', 'Programming', 'Development', 'Rest Api', 'Technology'] |
As we drift towards the end of 2016, we’ve already seen a substantial change in digital marketing . To help you plan for 2017, we have put together a list of 5 digital marketing trend predictions that we feel will be commonplace in digital marketing throughout 2017.
Live video streaming will see rapid growth
It’s saf... | ['Marketing', '2017', 'Trends', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
These Board Games Make Personal Growth Fun
A great new way to set your goals and practise self-care.
Photo by the author
It’s no secret that millennials are shifting away from buying things to buying experiences. A study by Harris Group showed that 72 per cent of young people would rather spend money on an experienc... | ['Board Games', 'Personal Growth', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Self'] |
Experience Design Details
User Interface
Snapsible leverages the dual-screen smartphone displays which have the capability of folding into two equal halves. This interface allows users to interact with either one of their rear screens or the entire unfolded display. This device can be used in one hand much like how t... | ['UX Design', 'New York', 'Interaction Design', 'Foldable Phone', 'UX Research'] |
Each row has a unique ID, a collection of categorical variables(X0 — X8) and binary/identity variables(X10 — X378) as well as the output ‘y’.
Upon analysis, we came across some columns:
that showed non-variance (same values throughout the column) that were highly skewed (few values occurring most of the time (> 95%))... | ['Random Forest', 'Kaggle', 'Competition', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
January
The luxury I’m thinking of is to be sad without having to explain — to yourself or to others. To be sad without needing to justify the awareness of a feeling that is always just beneath the surface of other emotions.
Poet Richard Wilbur observed . . .
“When art is morose, we want to know why, but joy require... | ['Poetry', 'Self', 'Philosophy', 'Mental Health', 'Essay'] |
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