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This post is the first in a series on WealthTech written with Charge by me, Renee Li, a full-time MBA student at Columbia Business School. Prior to B-school, I was an Investment Associate at BlackRock. By building this investment thesis publicly, I want to create a resource for others like me who are trying to break in... | ['Investing', 'Startup', 'Wealth', 'Venture Capital', 'Finance'] |
Then my dad found my Medium and a hell-storm rained down. I received pages upon pages of accusations and attacks on my character. False assumption after false assumption. Narcissistic rage carefully crafted into polished emails and text messages. I received thinly veiled threats, with promises many members of my family... | ['Family', 'Self', 'PTSD', 'Relationships', 'Storytelling'] |
The Problem with Education as a Service Today
Today’s education as a service offerings primarily focus on up-skilling. They try to teach you the in-demand skills of the moment so that you move in the direction of the gold arrow below — from unemployed and inexperienced hermit to knowledgable and employable working fel... | ['Careers', 'Startup', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
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Overview
Core Data is one of frameworks that is provided for iOS to manage the mapping of your objects to a storage.
The first step in working with Core Data is to create a data model file. Here you define the structure of your application’s objects, including their object types, p... | ['Core Data', 'Xcode', 'iOS', 'Mobile App Development', 'Developer Stories'] |
Many writers on Medium tend to aim for viral success within Medium’s platform. They focus on how to get curators to select their articles, how to get published in major publications, and how to optimize their article key words. There is nothing wrong with this strategy, and I have even written about my experience with ... | ['Viral Marketing', 'Google Search', 'Writing', 'Content Marketing', 'SEO'] |
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Simplify Calculus for Machine Learning with SymPy
A quick look at calculus for Machine learning and how to add it to your code with SymPy
Machine learning requires some calculus. Many of the online Machine learning courses don’t always cover the basics of calculus assuming the user alre... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Calculus', 'Code', 'Machine Learning'] |
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JD, who is fifty, is our special needs volunteer. He arrives faithfully at the charity thrift store every day, dropped off by a van that ushers people like him from group homes to volunteer jobs or day care facilities. It’s his responsibility to greet donors and sign donation receipts.
He’s one of the mos... | ['Volunteering', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Running', 'Storytelling'] |
Three Useful Computer Keyboard Tricks You Can Use While Typing a Story
What happens when you touch this one?
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Maybe you know this already, but it was news to me.
Hitting various keys while typing a Medium story will magically produce useful options you can use to spice up your story... | ['Humor', 'Writing', 'Médium', 'Funny', 'Writing Tips'] |
My wife Buffy loved essential oils. They were a big part of her life before she passed on, and I never really understood how big until she was gone. I think that was my fault. But in parsing her things after she passed, I learned something about my wife I didn’t know, and my skepticism of the efficacy of essential oils... | ['Essential Oils', 'Medicine', 'Random', 'Science', 'Alternative Medicine'] |
In this podcast episode we talk with Johan Berndtsson about design and business in Sweden. Johan invites listeners to submit suggestions for speakers for his next “From Business To Buttons Conference” and also invites people to come do design work in Sweden.
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Throughout... | ['Design', 'In Use', 'Sweden'] |
Top 5 Content Marketing Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
Content marketing can offer a powerful way to connect with an audience. It can also empower brands to build authority and turn more readers into new clients.
So how do you do it for your brand?
How do you create “interesting” content that people will want to read ... | ['Content Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Content'] |
Python Example
Let’s look at how the three examples above (single-threaded synchronous, single-threaded asynchronous, and multi-threaded synchronous) would work in a Python example.
Let’s look at a few different ways to get stock data from the Alpha Vantage API, using the Python wrapper pip install alpha_vantage
Syn... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Concurrency', 'Asynchronous'] |
Why a Trauma Therapist Recommends Chessy Prout’s Story
A High School survivor teaches how to heal
Survivor, author, and advocate Chessy Prout with her book, I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope. Photo: The Japan Times | Kyodo
As a psychotherapist who works with trau... | ['Women', 'Recovery', 'Trauma', 'Sexual Assault', 'Books'] |
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There are countless discussions about getting started in a career in data science, and many young professionals and students are setting up their career path in this field. In fact the search term “Data Science Advice” gives about 1.2 billion results in Google! So this article, instea... | ['Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Skills', 'Career Paths', 'Data Science'] |
Development and Testing of AWS without AWS: Localstack
Localstack provides an AWS-like environment that can be used for development and testing without needing AWS available
AWS provides a lot of useful tools and services for developers: Serverless, Lambda functions, SNS queue, DynamoDB, S3 storage. When we start dev... | ['Software Development', 'Localstack', 'Testing', 'Programming', 'AWS'] |
Machine Learning (ML) vs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Crucial Differences
Unfortunately, some tech organizations are deceiving customers by proclaiming to use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) on their technologies while not being clear about their products’ limits
October 15, 2018, by Roberto... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Deep Learning'] |
Build File Upload/Download Functionality with Image Preview
And also learn how to add drag and drop feature to upload any type of file
File Upload
Introduction
In this article, we will create a file upload and download functionality with a preview of the image using the MERN stack.
By creating this App, you will l... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Programming'] |
In case you missed it, Maggie Lupin, Gillian Sisley, and I have started a new publication. We are thrilled to introduce everyone to Fearless She Wrote!
The three of us have been a source of support and inspiration for one another for some time now, and we were happy to lean on each other after each of us received cont... | ['Feminism', 'Equality', 'Women', 'Writing', 'Sexuality'] |
More from Pascal Barry Follow
Designer of digital products, brands, websites and type. Co-founder at akord.com, a tech startup based in Paris. Visit the source at www.blogofpascal.com | ['Design Process', 'Product Design', 'Design', 'Dieter Rams', 'UX'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Tanka', 'Comfort', 'Words', 'Writing', 'Poetry'] |
Appreciating the positives
“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” — Rhonda Byrne
Showing appreciation and gratitude for the things I have and love is one of the most powerful communication tools I have come across. When you show appreciation regularly, it will open ... | ['Blue Insights', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Coronavirus', 'Pandemic'] |
Recently I completed a book named You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. It is a self-enrichment book. During reading the book, I highlighted some important quotes. Here I am sharing the notes.
1. You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Book Review', 'Lifehacks', 'Self Improvement'] |
Two Powerful Reasons Racism Is Worse than Classism: Racial Essentialism and Segregation
Both the widespread belief that race is biological and hidden aspects of modern segregation guarantee that racism is harsher than classism
Rural poverty (L) by Christopher Windus (L). Urban poverty (R) by Gor Davtyan, both courtes... | ['Racism', 'Social Justice', 'Psychology', 'Race', 'Politics'] |
10 Minutes to Dataframe in Pandas
Learn and Become a Master of one of the most used Python tools for Data Analysis.
Introduction:-
Pandas is an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.
The Data Structures p... | ['Data Analysis', 'Pandas', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Hi, It’s Azmarie,
a Business/Computing Science student at Simon Fraser University. I just finished my incredible 4-month co-op with ACL as a Software Engineer in the team Titanium. I had a great time there learning and growing beyond my expectations. With all the interesting challenges, team collaboration, and career ... | ['Internships', 'Women In Tech', 'Software Engineering', 'Co Op', 'Tech'] |
It’s August 8th, 1964. Joe is twenty-five. I still have fairytale notions of finding a prince who’ll treat me like a princess.
If I had been a whole girl, one with boundaries, solid with self-esteem, I would have refused his ride. But I wasn’t, and I didn’t.
I’d romantically envisioned Joe showing up for our first da... | ['Reproductive Rights', 'Abortion', 'Storytelling', 'Roe V Wade'] |
Generative adversarial networks (abbreviated GAN) are neural networks that can generate images, music, speech, and texts similar to those that humans do. GANs have become an active research topic in recent years. Facebook AI Lab Director Yang Lekun called adversarial learning “the most exciting machine learning idea in... | ['Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
Q: What was your experience in the Advanced Training and Certification course? What did you find most satisfying? What did you find most challenging?
Marni: There were times when I was working in an unfamiliar genre (fantasy!) where I found the exercises to be uncomfortable — hello world building! There were also time... | ['Coaching', 'Freelancing', 'Coaching Skills', 'Writing', 'Success Story'] |
My life is a very all-or-nothing proposition.
Either I do all the things or none of them.
So, I’m constantly on the search for some system or program that will work to keep me on top of staying organized. A magical planner or app or something.
I’ve bought an Erin Condren Life Planner every year for the last three ye... | ['Life Lessons', 'Planning', 'Organizational Culture', 'Life', 'Productivity'] |
Sometimes you start off on a photo-walk, and you end up sharing a peanut butter sandwich with a stranger.
In 2012 we used to go on a lot of photo-walks, organized by our friend and fellow camera enthusiast, John Carvalho. The group would meet at some designated Mississauga park or street and off we would go, sometimes... | ['Photography', 'Friendship', 'Sharing', 'Chance Encounters', 'Nonfiction'] |
Driving a web development company or running a standalone application, you would always need someone to get your projects done. In a world where there thrive multiple programming languages, choosing either of them is a tough task and tougher is hiring someone who can proficiently render solutions of web development.
T... | ['Web Development', 'Startup', 'PHP', 'Developer', 'Hiring'] |
The information below was given to us during an interview with drone operator Madison D. from Landpoint, a surveying company in Louisiana. Madison is researching the potential applications and benefits of unmanned technology in the surveying industry. Madison uses a Stratos Aerial fixed-wing UAV with DroneDeploy (and a... | ['GIS', 'Mapping', 'Drones', 'Surveying'] |
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash
I love my dad. One of my fondest childhood memories is of making the trip to Scotland to watch our favourite football team — Celtic FC. At my youngest, dad would prop me up on railings. Nowadays, we walk in to Celtic Park together as adults, and he couldn’t lift me if he tried... | ['Disability', 'Misophonia', 'Science'] |
Whenever I hear about new developments in the tech world, my initial reaction tends to be enthusiasm. And right now, many new developments in tech tend to be dominated by AI, machine learning and automation.
At its full potential, this technology has the power to assist, delight and improve experiences for people. Yet... | ['Design', 'Automation', 'User Experience', 'User Research', 'Machine Learning'] |
The 90/90/1 Rule
“A genius? They all have one trait in common: They were able to spend extended periods of time in isolation, focused monomaniacally on their most valuable project.” — Robin Sharma
According to Sharma, one factor that differentiates the top performers from the herd is how they spend the first 90 minut... | ['Advice', 'Self Improvement', 'Habits', 'Success', 'Productivity'] |
Logos Mars/ConAgra Foods/Pepsico
BLM Has Sent Brands Into a Reviewing Frenzy
But are they at risk of whitewashing history?
Many major brands are undertaking reviews of logos, packaging design, and marketing messages in the light of the Black Lives Matter protests and the broader debate over racial equality.
Big bra... | ['Branding', 'Business Strategy', 'Blm', 'Marketing', 'Racism'] |
All humans are sexual creatures.
If we weren’t, our species would have gone extinct long ago. And yet, many of us remain reluctant to accept sex as part of our shared humanness, a key component of our relationships and interactions.
Some of us have been conditioned to view sex as dirty and reprehensible, something we... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Sexuality', 'Self'] |
Online Courses
If you have been working in the field of data then you have valuable skills and knowledge that others can learn from. There are many online platforms which allow anyone with the appropriate skills and experience to create and market online courses and earn an income.
Datacamp has a network of 270 instr... | ['Covid 19', 'Money', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Coronavirus'] |
1. Do you actually need an email for this
Ask yourself if you can reach out to your client via another channel. The best way to reduce mails is not to send mails. So be part of the group that does not use email per default but establishes other channels against all odds.
2. Keep it short to make it fast
One of the b... | ['Slack', 'Communication', 'Productivity'] |
Fiat to crypto at the touch of a button — Crypterium to launch the easiest way to buy CRPT Crypterium Follow Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read
As you’ve probably heard, we want to open the cryptocurrency market up to everyone and not just the enthusiasts. Thus, the update that enables Crypterium users to buy crypto with fiat (... | ['Bitcoin', 'Mobile App Development', 'Digital Banking', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Token'] |
Storm and Fire
A poem about a dying earth
I see the fires raging,
the fumes blanketing the skies.
I hear a continent screaming,
as its perishing ecosystem sighs.
The powerless koalas are burning,
unable to outrun the flames.
The does and joeys are embracing
over a charred buck’s remains.
The mighty glaciers a... | ['Global Warming', 'Earth', 'Climate Change', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
Let it all unravel
When soldiering on doesn’t work anymore.
My grandfather was a fisherman. Never owned a car. Didn’t drink.
I think of him in winter sitting by the window watching the boats in the harbor. The open fire roaring, his pipe nearby ready to add aromatic smoke to the scene.
On his lap and all around his... | ['Grief And Loss', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Being Present', 'Progress'] |
EU-based fintech ORCA just signed a partnership with an e-money institution MisterTango making the first step into the world of payment processing. From now on ORCA, a platform bridging traditional banking and cryptocurrency services, will have the ability to develop solutions for SEPA payment account creation using te... | ['Token', 'Startup', 'Finance', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Banking'] |
How to Break Apple’s M1 Chip
My bad Dropbox organization habits brought Apple’s power-sipping MacBook Air to its knees in just a single day
Photo illustration: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
I’m not a video editor, but I’m pretty sure I brutally slayed the M1 MacBook Air I just bought (8 GB RAM a... | ['Apple', 'Tech', 'Macbook Air', 'Apple M1 Chip', 'Gadgets'] |
Why Reading Fredrik Backman’s Books Will Make You a Better Person
These are the books you won’t be able to stop yourself from hugging after you’ve finished reading.
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If I’d have to name one writer who had a great influence on me as a human being, it would be Fredrik Backman. I ... | ['Book Recommendations', 'Self Improvement', 'Books', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
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Apple released Lion this week and MG Siegler immediately made sweet, sweet love to it.
More useful than @parislemon’s 3,000 word opus: Greg Kumparak’s, “Nine Things you Should Do After Insta... | ['Nonprofit', 'Technology', 'Green Tech', 'Environment', 'Links'] |
Introduction
In most of my deep learning projects, I’ve used pre-trained models. I’ve also mentioned that it is generally a good idea to start with them instead of training from scratch. In this article, I’ll provide an elaborate explanation for the same, and in the process help you understand most of the code snippet... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
The Pandemic Won’t Kill My Love for Sports
But some things change when you age
Photo By gilaxia
Mistaken identity
My daughter said something to me the other day that surprised me.
“Daddy, do you play sports?”
“Well of course I do”, I replied.
“But I’ve never seen you play sports”, she said.
Since the start of t... | ['Fitness', 'Lifestyle', 'Sports', 'Psychology', 'Parenting'] |
Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash
Dynamic pages allow you to show users what they need without having any extra markup on the page diluting the user’s attention from what they are trying to do on your application.
Writing components that allow for that dynamic behavior can quickly get complicated if you are expecti... | ['Coding', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming'] |
Photo by Ignacio Campo on Unsplash
I’m happy she says as her world unravels
I’m happy she says as she eats the inedible
I’m content she says as she strokes the twins hair
I’m content she says when the voices whisper they care
I’m fulfilled she says as the blood runs down her throat
I’m fulfilled she says as the o... | ['The Bad Influence', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Mental Health', 'Parenthood'] |
Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard (Ep. 96)
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspect of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a better response, his ideas for reopening schools and Major Leagu... | ['Authors', 'Economics', 'Podcast', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
As a blockchain technology follower, I keep excited when seeing more and more use cases on blockchain. Among other aspects, trust is driving this boom. When people increasingly believe the promising future of blockchain, it’s time to ask: Where is the trust coming from? In what aspect are we trusting blockchain?
A Ver... | ['Trust', 'Smart Contract', 'Blockchain', 'Dapp'] |
On July 19th in 64 AD, a fire broke out in Rome. Within just six days, the world’s most prosperous city was almost completely destroyed. Ten out of Rome’s fourteen districts burned down to the ground, leaving dozens of buildings in ruins, hundreds of people dead, and thousands more homeless.
To this day, historians ar... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
Beginning Python Programming — Part 13
Diving into asynchronous code
Photo by amirali mirhashemian on Unsplash
In the previous article, we covered iterators and generators.
In this article, we are going to dive into asynchronous code, or code that can do multiple things at once. Just a word of warning, this lesson ... | ['Coroutine', 'Python', 'Async', 'Programming', 'Asyncio'] |
This story starts with a girl. Stacy’s long, black hair hung straight down — impossibly far — to her waist. It was the biggest thing about her. She’d smile and twist it over an ear when she answered the phone, or when she stood up to walk across the small waiting room.
I watched the way she walked, the way she kept he... | ['Adolescence', 'Mental Health', 'LGBTQ', 'Dysphoria', 'Transgender'] |
Can you share the funniest or most interesting story that happened to you since you started your company.
The funniest and most interesting thing is that our clients think of us as their internet and email help line. At least once a week we have a client that needs help figuring out how to work their email, the intern... | ['Women In Business', 'Life Lessons', 'Wisdom', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Public Relations'] |
The Lie (2018) • Amazon [Welcome to the Blumhouse]
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp, but when they stop to offer a friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
With their low-budget big-profit formula, Blumhouse Production has been a powerhouse over the last decade. A... | ['Movies', 'Amazon', 'Review', 'Film', 'Horror'] |
How often do you find yourself thinking long and hard about decisions? Most of the time, they are probably decisions that don’t hold any significant value or meaning regardless of if you make them or not.
I am a person who struggles with making decisions from time to time. Actually… a lot of the time.
In fact, it too... | ['Personal Growth', 'Decision Making', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life'] |
How I Learned Data Science And the 1 Course That Changed Everything
If you don’t know where to start
If you are reading this, you have probably just started on your data science journey and am wondering what course to take to catapult you to the next level.
I previously answered a question about this topic on Quora,... | ['Motivation', 'Education', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Towards Data Science'] |
My first story got 18 reads.
My 2nd story got 7.
My 3rd story got 2.
Which, I suppose, is better than none.
But, the downhill trend wasn’t looking good.
After that, I didn’t write here for 10 months.
When you’re new, and no one reads what you write, it can feel a little sad. If you were just writing for yourself,... | ['Writing', 'Hello World', 'Writing Tips', 'Medium', '100 Naked Words'] |
Work-life balance is an enormous struggle for me. To one extent, I have made peace with the fact that I never have been good at balancing anything and I don't expect to ever become some multitasking maven.
Yet, as a single mom who works from home by writing online, I can't exactly ignore the quest for balance either. ... | ['Motherhood', 'Lifestyle', 'Work', 'Parenting', 'Writing'] |
IMAGE: E. Dans
Anyone who follows developments in the energy sector will know that solar energy is no longer just the future but the present. According to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020, photovoltaic solar energy is already the cheapest source of electricity in history. We are not talking ... | ['Solar Energy', 'Sustainability', 'Solar', 'Energy', 'Energy Efficiency'] |
The IBM Automation Decision Services (ADS) design team is closing out 2020 on a strong note as Platinum level winner of the Spark Design Awards’ in the Digital category. As we plan to head into the winter holidays, I couldn’t be more excited to see our designers recognized for the hard work they put in this year.
The ... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'Automation', 'UI', 'UX'] |
How is De-aging Technology Works?
According to the film’s VFX supervisor, Pablo Helman, who stated that 1,750 shots were required for two and a half hours of shooting, the carefully placed on-set lighting captured the actor's facial performances from different angles, while at the same time shining infrared light on t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Film', 'Netflix'] |
Themeability is a largely overlooked feature when creating a design system. That’s an unfortunate fact as retroactively adding themeability is an arduous process. Themeability is a complex feature in that it requires forethought when architecting the design library, and the coded component library — but more-so — becau... | ['Design', 'Design Systems', 'Figma', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
Change an Application’s Theme Dynamically in Vuetify.js
Build and change themes to fit your app’s different purposes
Photo by Lukasz Szmigiel on Unsplash.
Vuetify is a Material Design component framework for Vue.js. It provides a lot of features, including the ability to problematically change theme colors in your a... | ['Vuejs', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'Vue', 'Software Development'] |
Some like it, others hate it and many are afraid of the lambda operator. We are confident that you will like it, when you have finished with this chapter of our tutorial. If not, you can learn all about “List Comprehensions”, Guido van Rossums preferred way to do it, because he doesn’t like Lambda, map, filter and redu... | ['Lambda Function', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
There has been a lot of talk in the recent years about the use of AI capabilities or machine-learned solutions to improve digital products or services and user experience. If we can cut through the hype and have the necessary building blocks in place as covered in Four Hurdles To Creating Value From Data, there is legi... | ['Product Management', 'Data Science', 'Product Team', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
10. The Death and Repudiation License: No use by living persons allowed.
Copyright (c) 2003 why the lucky stiff This software is subject to either of two licenses (BSD or D&R), which you can choose
from in your use of the code. The terms for each of these licenses is listed below: BSD License
=========== Permission ... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
Free for commercial use, DMCA
I’m waiting for this fever to break
God knows we’ve all had
As much as we can take
The circus clowns are drunk
And screaming obscenities
Everybody’s sick of
The incessant dread
If hope don’t break through this time
It’s all over
I’m waiting for this fever to break
People yanking... | ['Poetry', 'Elections', '2020', 'Coronavirus', 'Hope'] |
How to Handle Sensitive Information
As a company, we do not want personally identifiable data from our customers being shared with a third party.
These tools are a way for us to help debug and trace back through a user journey to improve our product, and users trust us not to share this information.
There are a few ... | ['Tutorial', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'React'] |
10 Signs Your Mother is a Narcissist
Is it you or her?
You’ve always wondered what’s wrong.
Is it me or her?
A narcissistic mother can cause you to doubt yourself. Her manipulation is often skilled and subtle. She doesn’t brook disappointment, or dissent.
Top Ten Signs That Your Mother is a Narcissist
She wants t... | ['Narcissism', 'Mental Health', 'Narcissistic Mother', 'Family', 'Trauma Recovery'] |
I have two childhood memories about the stars.
The first was a warm summer evening when my sister, brother and I talked our parents into letting us sleep outside. We spread our blankets and pillows on the balcony and lay down under a night sky filled with stars. In hushed voices we searched for meteors and counted sat... | ['Life Lessons', 'Space', 'Life', 'Science', 'Parenting'] |
These days we’ll be spending a lot of time online. Some of us are stuck home by choice and others because of the law. Whatever your situation might be, one thing is for certain, we have to try to make the best out of it.
Working from home for such a long period of time is a first for many people, and some are getting ... | ['Work From Home', 'Quarantine', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Covid 19'] |
Sarah Fuller, Owned the Football Kick
A poem on the first female kicker who broke the male phenomena
Photo by Dave Adamson on Unsplash
Photo by CNN
Sarah Fuller, the Vanderbilt kicker
awoke one morning as a football player
by the day, her kicking changed her life
became the first female, to score
a Power Five c... | ['Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Sports', 'Education'] |
Instant Gratification & Data Science
When we want it? NOW
A Change in Habit
We live in a world of instant gratification where old habits are slowly but certainly is fading away. In a world of Netflix, we abandoned the habit of going out and actually buying/renting a movie. Why all the hassle when we can start watchi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Analytics Tools', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Predictive Analytics'] |
Your Time and Talent. What’s It Worth?
I speak with consultant and coach Ted Leonhardt about smart marketing and negotiating strategies that will help you earn what you deserve
Illustrations by Ted Leonhardt
A true story: In my quest to find the right kind of clients — organizations with interesting projects and goo... | ['Money', 'Marketing', 'Negotiation', 'Job Hunting', 'Freelancing'] |
Introduction
Anyone can build a machine learning (ML) model with a few lines of code, but building a good machine learning model is a whole other story.
What do I mean by a GOOD machine learning model?
It depends, but generally, you’ll evaluate your machine learning model based on some predetermined metrics that you... | ['Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Save Users to Database
The user schema and model
As usual, you have to define a schema before creating documents and saving them to the database. First, create the models directory and there create a file called user.js such that it is models/user.js . First, let’s create a schema in user.js . Next, we’ll create a mo... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Startup', 'Nodejs', 'Cybersecurity'] |
Stats are funny animals. Don’t look at them, most people will tell you. And for sure, don’t obsess on them. You know why they say that, right?
Because the ones you’re looking don’t matter.
And the ones you aren’t looking at do.
For example, nevermind the green bars… they’re the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.
... | ['Statistics', 'Writing', 'Advice', 'Writing Tips', 'Medium'] |
Write for An Idea
Let your idea touch many hearts!
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece) is an online publication that doesn’t limit itself to a specific subject. It is interested in anything that is genuine, comes from the heart, and can benefit others, from writers all over the world.
We ... | ['Guidelines', 'Publishing', 'Ideas', 'Submission', 'Writing'] |
If you missed Part 1, you can check here for it so that you get a full grasp of the discussion going forward.
We had an awesome session during our first virtual meetup. Participants asked questions and got answers for all, and the facilitators made known some facts to the participants. This is a breakdown of the whole... | ['Analysis', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Analytics'] |
Have You Tried to Pass the Time Today?
What about yesterday? Here’s what that means.
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Imagine you’re watching a movie. Comfortably seated on your couch, perhaps with ice cream or a huge cup of iced tea. You press play and start to relax as the first images appear on the screen. Af... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Time', 'Life'] |
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You will recognize your path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Sara Teasdale
This quote is a remarkable testimony of faith and understanding of one’s destiny. Imagine the feeling of renewed energy at the dawning ... | ['Depresion', 'Sandi Sipe', 'Charity', 'Medium', 'Psychology'] |
What are ensemble methods?
Ensemble learning is a machine learning paradigm where multiple models (often called “weak learners”) are trained to solve the same problem and combined to get better results. The main hypothesis is that when weak models are correctly combined we can obtain more accurate and/or robust models... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Towards Data Science'] |
We build here upon a previous piece, where our emphasis revolved around the strict organization of floorplans and their generation, using Artificial intelligence, and more specifically Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs). As we refine our ability to generate floorplans, we raise the question of the bias intri... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks', 'Towards Data Science', 'Architecture'] |
A Simple Introduction to Read Simulators
Introduction to read simulation tools with examples and usage
Read simulators are widely being used within the research community to create synthetic and mock datasets for analysis. In this article, I will introduce some recently proposed, commonly used read simulators.
Scree... | ['Simulation', 'Software', 'Bioinformatics', 'Data Science', 'Science'] |
It’s hard to imagine what iPhone I would have been using in the year 2012, but it was that year that I began writing yearly resolutions in the Notes app of my phone. I kept it up for a good few years until, according to my digital record, I apparently just stopped setting goals altogether.
While I’m sure that isn’t en... | ['Reflections', 'Resolutions', 'Productivity', 'Intentions', 'Personal Growth'] |
Links in Keycloak emails that are sent using its admin API can have some funky URLs if the actor who triggers the sending is a neighboring service and our play takes place inside OpenShift or behind a reverse proxy. Here’s how to give our story a happy ending.
Consider the following ecosystem, in which we have Keycloa... | ['DevOps', 'Keycloak', 'Openshift', 'Programming', 'Kubernetes'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
Dec. 1, 2018: Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail. Originally published on 3toread.co
How to survive the next era of tech (slow down and be mindful): Farhad Manjoo at the NYT is one of the more thoughtful commentators on the worl... | ['Farhad Manjoo', 'Matt Carroll', 'Media Criticism', 'Media Literacy', 'Journalism'] |
“To get a good spot, the best way is to do location scouting. If you have enough time, go to the event location a day before the event takes place so that you can have a clear image of what the location will look like and what angles are best.” | ['Marketing', 'Tiktok', 'Video', 'Better Marketing Archive', 'YouTube'] |
What effect could the iOS notification system have?
iOS notification system respects the user’s behavior of ignoring a notification. It does so by pushing notifications to the lock screen once and if the user ignores it (by unlocking the phone without interacting with any notification), it resets the lock screen to it... | ['iOS', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Android', 'UX'] |
Conclusion
To recap, Leetcode is not inherently bad. I think that Leetcode is kind of like riding your bike with training wheels, and in an interview, you won’t have those training wheels for support.
It’s always great to practice in an environment that mirrors what the real setting will be like. More often than not,... | ['Software Engineering', 'Interview', 'Programming', 'Leetcode', 'Technical Interview'] |
2.33 Open the necessary ports
add SSH rule for port 22 with source ::/0 add custom TCP Rule for port 3333 and source 0.0.0.0/0 add custom TCP Rule for port 3333 and source ::/0
After you have added the rules, your security should look like this
Before anything more, navigate back to the running instances, and find y... | ['Flask', 'Amazon Web Services', 'Developer', 'Cloud Computing', 'Ec2'] |
Splitting a string column and getting unique values and frequency in Python
With two methods: For loop and Counter container
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What the problem and target are:
In order to simplify the problem, I take out two columns from my working file which is a Stackoverflow yearly Survey file, as b... | ['Data Wrangling', 'Python', 'Split Testing'] |
Dave Breske is a UX designer who is passionate about simple, empathetic software. Through his work at Galaxy Digital, he makes software that helps connect volunteers with the causes they care about.
How do you approach your work?
I like to start by solely focusing on the problem, because without a really good idea of... | ['UI', 'UI Design', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'UX'] |
Philip Guo is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at UCSD. His most recently taught classes are COGS 121: Human-Computer Interaction Portfolio Design Studio and COGS 127: Data-Driven UX/Product Design. In this podcast episode, Philip reflects on his teaching and research experiences in HCI and design thinking, ... | ['Design', 'Advice', 'Podcast', 'Interview', 'Data Science'] |
Is it not paradoxical that the thing I was trying to escape, the thing that I dreaded the most, is exactly the same thing that got me into the right place, where I wanted to be and by that, eventually taking me where I want to go next?
People say that you never know where life is going to take you. I can tell you that... | ['Motivation', 'Life Lessons', 'Goals', 'Life', 'Commitment'] |
by Dorothee Benz
In the beginning was the profile of the Nazi next door, an inexplicable decision by the New York Times ( 11/25/17) to profile a right-wing extremist in the most sympathetic light possible. It was the most outrageous example of an outrageous genre of MSM — and particularly NYT — reporting: the never-en... | ['Journalism', 'Media Criticism', 'Politics', 'Media'] |
I Need to Know — 40 Years of Narcissistic abuse have taken their Toll. Markus Scorelius Follow Dec 25 · 4 min read
I see other people. Their world is different than mine.
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I need to know that I’m not a loser.
I need to know that I’m on a burden on everyone I talk to.
I nee... | ['Npd', 'Narcissism', 'Mental Health', 'This Happened To Me', 'Gods Presence'] |
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