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Centuries old Zhi-Khro mandala, a part of the Bardo Thodol’s collection, a text known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which comprises part of a group of bardo teachings held in the Nyingma (Tibetan tradition) originated with guru Padmasambhava in the 8th Century. Borrowed from Wikipedia.
“In the Tibetan B... | ['Mormon', 'Tibetan Book Of The Dead', 'Book Of Mormon', 'Buddhism', 'Afterlife'] |
All decisions here, in either direction, could kill you.
As the sensemaking crisis goes into overload on COVID-19, many people are shutting down, many people are hyperventilating, and many people don’t know what’s real and what’s not. The signal to noise ratio on this is very badly weighted towards noise, with our mai... | ['Politics', 'Guns', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Random'] |
The New Submission Guidelines For Making of a Millionaire
What we are looking for in 2021
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
We all have a “money story.” Money impacts our lives every day in both positive and negative ways. Whether it be the anxiety caused by lack of money, the thrill of making money, the fear of los... | ['Money', 'Publication', 'Personal Finance', 'Writing', 'Writer'] |
Overview
When it comes to finding out who your best customers are, the old RFM matrix principle is the best. RFM stands for Recency, Frequency and Monetary. It is a customer segmentation technique that uses past purchase behavior to divide customers into groups.
RFM Score Calculations
RECENCY (R): Days since last pu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Customer Success', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Call-to-action buttons on websites are often neglected. Designers sometimes don’t understand exactly what makes a good call to action button beyond being attractive and fitting into the overall design. But the call to action buttons is too important to be designed without some kind of understanding of what makes them e... | ['Marketing', 'Call To Action', 'Buttons', 'Inspiration', 'Cta'] |
Thinking Outside the Books
A library without librarians, a bookshelf without books, and other wonders of the modern word.
It’s late in the night, when most people are getting ready for bed — if they aren’t asleep already. Daytime shops have closed long ago; they wait with their shutters down until the next morning. B... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Libraries', 'Culture', 'Books On The Delhi Metro'] |
You’ve no doubt heard about neural networks — the mysterious and sci-fi-like technology that makes for a great buzzword. But being someone who isn’t technical, you’ve written them off as an enigma left only for computer science nerds (like myself). That changes today with this primer on how they work, designed for peop... | ['Machine Learning', 'Education', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
The response to this year’s GNI Fellowship call for applications was exciting and a great sign that many young people are looking to land their dream job in journalism. More than 1,400 students and graduates looking to kickstart their journalism careers applied for a summer placement. Leading European news organisation... | ['Journalism', 'Fellowship', 'Innovation', 'Media', 'Updates'] |
I was once asked to protect an archbishop from gay Catholic protestors during a church service.
It is a rather unusual thing to admit, especially considering I am gay myself, but life is nothing if not ironic.
I was in seminary at the time, training to be a Catholic priest. One day the rector in charge of the seminar... | ['Reaching Out', 'Christianity', 'Life', 'Storytelling', 'LGBTQ'] |
React Native is gaining popularity these days and many people try to create React Native components out of their existing React ones. This process is not always straightforward so we have created some quick tips to make the migration smooth and error-free.
1. Replace HTML elements with React Native components
The fir... | ['React Native', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'React', 'Styled Components'] |
About Me — Aria Dailee
Professional geographer, budding developer, and writer
Picture of me voting this year using an at-home voting booth (haha)!
Hello, everyone! I started writing on Medium in October 2020. Funny enough, I thought about starting in 2018 but decided against it. At the time, I didn’t think people wo... | ['Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Introduction', 'About Me', 'Writers On Medium'] |
The Ice Giant Planet that Put Jupiter and Saturn in their Place James Maynard Follow Oct 29 · 4 min read
How did Jupiter and Saturn get where they are today? A massive ice giant planet which once orbited between Saturn and Uranus may have played a role in shaping our Solar System.
A massive planet may have once orbit... | ['Astrophysics', 'Space', 'Solar System', 'Physics', 'Science'] |
When people think of UX Design documentation, the first image that comes to mind is dense, long, and heavily annotated wireframes, full of boxes and arrows that indicate how a system is going to function and behave.
But it doesn’t have to be like that.
Here are a few examples of UX deliverables that are well polished... | ['Interaction Design', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Personas', 'UX'] |
Junior designers, stop designing for the happy path
In design, the happy path is what happens when the user does everything exactly the way you expect them to. Although this can happen, it won’t always happen.
This is a happy path. Alice Donovan Rouse Unsplash
One of the most common mistakes I see in portfolios from... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'UI', 'Careers', 'UX'] |
Let’s remember 2020 as the year we learned how to do things better Enrique Dans Follow Dec 22 · 2 min read
Every year at this time, I borrow some of the greetings created by my employers, IE University, to celebrate the holidays with my readers, those of you who use the site regularly, those of you who find yourselves... | ['Personal', 'Greetings', '2020', 'Ie University', 'Coronavirus'] |
Many in Silicon Valley aspire to build products and companies that have the potential to create positive change on a large scale. Often, however, these companies can be difficult to find because they have smaller recruiting budgets, and their mission statements can get lost in the noise of startups claiming to be “chan... | ['Nonprofit', 'Tech For Good', 'Entrepreneurship', 'You Should Know', 'Startups'] |
Some time ago I posted a blog on what analytics and big data development looked like on Google Cloud Platform using Google BigQuery as my data store and Looker as the BI tool, with data sourced from social media, wearable and IoT data sources routed through a Fluentd server running on Google Compute Engine.
Read more ... | ['Oracle Cloud', 'Obiee', 'Analytics', 'Big Data', 'Apache Kafka'] |
Consume Great Fiction Before Bed.
This is a complete gamechanger.
I majored in Communications in college, and right before I dropped out I learned that there was an interesting phenomenon called “narrative transportation.” The Wikipedia definition of it is as follows: “Narrative transportation theory proposes that wh... | ['Self Improvement', 'Lifestyle', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Social Media'] |
Every time I join a new project, I try not to rely too much on external environments when building and running the software that I’m working on. Most of the time, a DEV or CI environment is overrated and unstable. My approach is to run all the components locally and remove the external dependencies.
I already wrote ab... | ['Docker Compose', 'Docker', 'Software Engineering', 'Azure Functions'] |
Did you know that in 2020 around 147 GB of data is generated per day? And, we have already stored around 40 trillion GB of data until now. All these stored data are not even the same. Data types like text or numbers have different formats. That explains why we have different types of data sources.
When you are working... | ['Python Programming', 'Parquet', 'Rdbms', 'Data Ingestion', 'Big Data'] |
Unleash the Power of Your Teams
Want to stop leaking value? Start gathering team data.
Do you know how your organization’s teams are getting work done? Do you know how much value they’re producing each day? What about the factors that are driving their success — or failure?
If you can’t answer these questions, and p... | ['Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'Teamwork'] |
If you have functions that do a lot of mathematical operations, use NumPy or rely heavily on loops, then there is a way to speed them up significantly with one line of code. Ok, two lines if you count the import.
Numba and the @jit decorator
Meet Numba and its @jit decorator. It changes how your code is compiled, oft... | ['Coding', 'Software Development', 'Performance', 'Programming', 'Python'] |
I Confess. I'm In Love With An Appliance | News Break
I resisted for a long time and now I wonder why. Once I made the decision, I couldn't believe it took me so long to… | ['Relationships', 'Philosophy', 'Technology', 'Self Improvement', 'Science'] |
Evening fell hard that night, its blackness descending almost in an instant while I struggled to balance my overdrawn checking account.
I didn’t write that sentence in one shot. I backed up and embellished it several times before it was done. First sentences are important. I hope it grabs you.
The night-chatter of fr... | ['Writing Prompts', 'Writing', 'Short Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
Why you should bring prototyping into your design process?
Learn the value of the prototype, make a compelling design and boosting your product development process.’
Photo by UX Store on Unsplash
I’ve been with UI/UX design for nearly 5 years so far, every time when I present my design solutions to the stakeholders,... | ['Marketing', 'Prototyping', 'UI', 'User Experience', 'UX Design'] |
Fifteen years ago, there were only a few skills a software developer would need to know well, and he or she would have a decent shot at 95% of the listed job positions. Those skills were:
Object-oriented programming.
Scripting languages.
JavaScript, and…
SQL.
SQL was a go-to tool when you needed to get a quick-and... | ['Sql', 'Coding', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Video Tutorial
Here are the steps we will follow:
Download an APK file from Google Play Store (it could be any APK file)
Using some free tools, we will reverse engineer the APK file to see the code.
If the APK file is protected using any premium software, then we can not reverse the code actually, or if the code is... | ['Software Engineering', 'Android', 'Hacking', 'Security', 'Android App Development'] |
Emergency Fund
For news organisations
Amount : €5,000, €10,000 or €25,000
: €5,000, €10,000 or €25,000 Eligible : news organisations (that employ the equivalent of at least one full-time journalist)
: news organisations (that employ the equivalent of at least one full-time journalist) Focus: providing specific fina... | ['Journalism', 'Funding', 'Covid 19', 'Media', 'Updates'] |
What 2020 Taught Us About Ourselves
The year made us appreciate things we once hated.
Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash
This morning I went to YouTube’s recommended section, originally planning to watch the latest late night show episodes and get my update on what you guys across the big pond are doing to your cou... | ['Life', 'Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Re-thinking the Drake Equation; The Astrobiological Copernican Limit.
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal has shifted the paradigm on the question of alien existence.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nottingham, takes a fresh look at the Drake Equation. The researchers developed... | ['Science Fiction', 'Astronomy', 'Space', 'Physics', 'Science'] |
Was a ‘Secret’ Version of the Gospel of Mark Found in 1958?
Morton Smith made an announcement
Mar Saba monastery, Palestine (2011; Creative Commons license)
On December 29, 1960, at a meeting in New York of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, an assistant professor of history at Columbia University name... | ['Religion', 'Christianity', 'Books', 'Bible', 'History'] |
So I hope everyone has a mask on because that might encourage twitter to add on an edit button. That being said, here’s a case study(case essay? redesign?) that shows how I’d implement the infamous ‘edit’ button on twitter.
Target Use Case:
Giving a chance for users to fix their tweets while retaining accountability.... | ['User Interface', 'Case Study', 'Design', 'Twitter', 'UX'] |
Dr. Carmen Köhler is a true role model for men and women alike. As an “analogue astronaut” she explores Mars-like environments on earth and she is also a founder of the primary school competition Code4Space.
In this episode of REWRITE TECH, we talk to Dr. Carmen Köhler about Mars simulation missions, women in space, a... | ['Aviation', 'Podcast', 'Women In Tech', 'Space', 'Science'] |
Why I Don’t Follow My Passion
Motivations can’t bring food to your table
Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator on Unsplash
I’m a Digital Marketer by profession & a photographer by passion. You may wonder why I didn’t make my career in photography. I actually tried and learned a life-changing lesson that drove me to sepa... | ['Passion', 'Motivation', 'Jobs', 'Careers', 'Career Advice'] |
Disability access symbols; image credit (https://oae.stanford.edu/resources-faqs/disability-access-symbols)
How and why designers should think about accessibility.
Design for “Everyone”
Who do you design for? As designers, we aspire to create designs that have the potential to impact the world and people of all kind... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'Accessible Design', 'UX Design', 'Accessibility'] |
What I Learned by Hiring an Editor to Critique My Novel
It may have been less about my writing and more about me.
Photo by Chivalry Creative on Unsplash
I’ve been chasing my dream of becoming a published author for almost six years. Three manuscripts later — all of them collecting dust on a shelf — and I still feel ... | ['Writing Life', 'Novel Writing', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Publishing'] |
expertlead has raised €7M in total. We talk with Arne Hosemann, its CEO.
PetaCrunch: How would you describe expertlead in a single tweet?
Arne Hosemann: expertlead is a global community of highly qualified tech freelancers. We support our community in all stages of self-employment: from project acquisition, providing... | ['Freelance', 'Startup', 'Freelancers', 'Community', 'Freelancing'] |
Vizydrop plug-in is available in Atlassian Marketplace.
We have integrated Vizydrop into the Atlassian ecosystem and happy to announce the availability of our plugin. Go and get visual answers from your Jira data.
Predefined templates popular among users will help you to get visual insights about your team progress.
... | ['Dashboard', 'Jira Plugins', 'Atlassian', 'Project Management', 'Jira Reports'] |
Satire/Humor
Trump Obsessive Syndrome Appears to be Widespread
Psychiatrists debate cutting edge therapies
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
When I woke up this morning, I expected my social media feed to be refreshingly free of Trump stories, memes, and one-liners.
I mean, the election is over, right?
So I was... | ['Elections', 'Humor', 'Writing', 'Politics', 'Satire'] |
How we built an easy-to-use image segmentation tool with transfer learning
Label images, predict new images, and visualize the neural network, all in a single Jupyter notebook (and share it all using Docker Hub!)
Authors: Jenny Huang, Ian Hunt-Isaak, William Palmer
GitHub Repo
Introduction
Training an image segmen... | ['Transfer Learning', 'Visualization', 'Image Segmentation', 'Unet', 'Editors Pick'] |
How to Be Productive Without Being a Jerk
Efficiency with people is ineffective.
Photo by Şahin Yeşilyaprak on Unsplash
Our 7-year-old daughter called her older sister a jerk the other day. It wasn’t the nicest thing to say, but the label was accurate at the time and the moment was actually kinda’ funny (I laughed o... | ['Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Life'] |
We all love it when the quant and qual align, but what about those other times, when they seem at odds? For example: the surveys are in, the clickstream data has been analyzed, and you’re feeling confident. Then as you compare notes with your teammates, you realize that the recommended next steps based on UX research a... | ['Research And Insight', 'Design', 'UX', 'Data Science', 'Microsoft'] |
Scrapy is a fast, open-source web crawling framework written in Python, used to extract the data from the web page with the help of selectors based on XPath.
In this article, We will be looking at how we can use Scrapy to scrape all the Amazon Product Reviews using just its URL and automatically store all the scraped ... | ['NLP', 'Scrapy', 'Data Science', 'Amazon', 'Web Scraping'] |
Fifteen years ago, I published my first news piece in a print magazine. After that, I went on a long journey discovering and working in diverse fields including blogging, citizen journalism, campaigning, translating, producing and managing. Some roads were bumpy while I found myself in others, and these became a launch... | ['Journalism', 'Innovation', 'Technology', 'Human Rights', 'Media'] |
Apache Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore, built to deliver scalable real time analytics with low latency.
Pinot supports super fast query processing through its indexes on non-BLOB like columns. Queries with exact match filters are run efficiently through a combination of dictionary encoding, inverted in... | ['Software Engineering', 'Apache Pinot', 'Open Source', 'Programming', 'Analytics'] |
Lessons Learned in Codevember
We all stand on the shoulders of code giants
I watched more code tutorials in one month than I have in three years. I browsed countless GitHub repositories of open source Javascript packages. I trawled through Twitter and Instagram, searching for other creative coders to draw inspiration... | ['Data Visualization', 'JavaScript', 'Development', 'Programming', 'Creative Coding'] |
The annotations @RequestParam, @QueryParam and @PathVariable, PathParam are used to read values from the request. But which one is used for what?
The arrangement in the collection is deliberately grouped, as these are annotations that have the same task but come from different frameworks that often occur in combinat... | ['Spring', 'Java'] |
I’ve written often about ‘Fear & Doubt’. Those two words came to me, when I was listening to an audible book during 2019, titled, ‘The Art of Happiness’ by The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. For me it’s in this place, the place of ‘Fear & Doubt’ where all suffering in our conditioned human minds starts. If we were on... | ['Storytelling', 'Shareyourstory', 'Blackboardthoughts', 'Stayingaliveuk', 'Whiteboardanimation'] |
Clustering is a Machine Learning technique that involves the grouping of data points. Given a set of data points, we can use a clustering algorithm to classify each data point into a specific group. In theory, data points that are in the same group should have similar properties and/or features, while data points in di... | ['Machine Learning', 'Clustering', 'Data Science', 'Algorithms', 'Towards Data Science'] |
The Secret to Building Performance Libraries
Two key reasons you need to understand delegate prototypes in JavaScript
Photo by Fabian Irsara @ Unsplash
I was reading a section in a book about JavaScript and I came across an issue (but also the power of the concept that the issue stems from) that I want to write abou... | ['Frontend Development', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
At times, tightly enclosed spaces can send shivers down the spine. Especially if one is claustrophobic, the situation can feel like a nightmare. Claustrophobia, the fear of confined spaces, is one of the most common phobias in the world.
One study indicated that approximately 5 to 10% of the global population suffer f... | ['Justice', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Psychology'] |
My Vagina Is Not Too Tight and Dry
Arousal after sex abuse.
Photo by Nine Köpfer on Unsplash
CW: the content warning is about child sex abuse, rape, and the aftermath and effects on the human body after.
Every time I have sex with someone new, I get asked a few questions. “Are you a virgin?” haha, I wish. Next, fol... | ['Relationships', 'Sexual Assault', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Sex'] |
Do you want me?
I’ve been avoiding the unavoidable task of looking for a job mainly because I’m already aware of what a complete waste of time it would be — sifting through lackluster job posts that provide just as much excitement as the obituary section of the local newspaper.
I’ve been out of work for about six mon... | ['Life Lessons', 'Work', 'Media', 'Careers', 'Journalism'] |
The quest is what are those key practices left unsaid while working in a fast and highly chaotic environment? Are the AI foundations and computer science degrees enough to make scalable models in real life? It’s not as easy as eating cotton candy.
Driven by intellectual progress, I decided to do a review of my past ex... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Startups', 'Data Science', 'Product Management'] |
Recently I was researching a post on Black Americans killed by police. Some of the individual stories that resonated with me, were the victims who suffered from mental health issues.
This is not a problem associated with just the American police, British police are no different. Five years ago I worked with a young la... | ['Ideas', 'Equality', 'Services', 'Mental Health', 'Diversity'] |
How to Become a Creative Writer
3 strategies for engaging a reader’s imagination with your writing
Photo by Clever Visuals on Unsplash
When we think of creative writing, it can get a bit confusing because it seems like a redundancy. Isn’t the very act of writing creative? So why is there writing and creative writing... | ['Poetry', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Creative Writing', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
Bobby Chiu
We limn the darkness as best we can,
trying to shine light into corners
where the scariest monsters await.
Such shining demands deft courage.
Shaky hands hold the illuminating torch.
Fear is a wise and constant companion.
The darkest corners are in the mind.
Some monsters despise the light.
Look har... | ['Poetry', 'Consciousness', 'Dreams', 'Fear', 'Psychology'] |
Diana Heinrichs’ mission is nothing less than to maintain the mobility and autonomy of elderly citizens. With her company Lindera, she founded an app that can analyze body movements and detect fall risks.
Lindera
In our REWRITE TECH podcast, we talked to Diana about her personal motivation to found Lindera and what c... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Podcast', 'Women In Tech', 'Healthcare', 'Female Founders'] |
Russell Shorto cherry-picks the most interesting characters and events from his research into the city’s history.
Russell Shorto’s Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City is such an enjoyable book in part because Shorto cherry-picks the most interesting characters and events from his research into the ci... | ['Books', 'Dutch', 'Netherlands', 'History', 'Amsterdam'] |
The Enchanting Lakes of Pakistan
Enchanting Lakes of Pakistan
Pakistan is a very beautiful country to visit. It has a lot to offer to tourists from all around the world. It has beautiful lakes, rivers, greenish meadows, beautiful valleys, and the world’s most beautiful peaks.
Today in my story I’ll take you on a tou... | ['Traveling', 'Travel', 'Pakistan', 'Beautiful Lakes', 'Asia'] |
It’s Not Easy to Parent When Your Soul Is Leaving Your Body
My recovery from postpartum depression was long and filled with brain zaps
Photo: Ade Santora/Getty Images
My sweet baby was almost two-and-a-half years old, and still I was fighting postpartum depression (PPD).
Fighting, yes. It wasn’t a quiet depression ... | ['Human Prompt', 'Mental Health', 'Mind', 'Soul', 'Parenting'] |
I never understood JavaScript closures
Until someone explained it to me like this …
As the title states, JavaScript closures have always been a bit of a mystery to me. I have read multiple articles, I have used closures in my work, sometimes I even used a closure without realizing I was using a closure.
Recently I w... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Closure', 'Programming'] |
The Android operating system (OS) is being used across multiple devices and platforms and is currently the most popular mobile operating system. At the moment, Android powers more than 2 billion devices and many of those devices operate on variations of the Android software development kit (SDK), such as Amazon’s FireT... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Technology', 'OTT', 'Fire Tv', 'Android'] |
By Shan Anwar and Balaji Arunachalam
The Case for Change at Intuit
When any company decides to migrate to the public cloud in order to better scale its product offerings, there will be challenges, including those involving manual testing. For Intuit, the proud maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint, this meant break... | ['AI', 'Open Source', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Ai And Data Science'] |
You own hand towels, too? I may faint.
Photo by Mark Solarski on Unsplash
About a week ago, a guy on Tinder asked me if his vegetarianism was a deal breaker. I laughed to myself. Bless your heart, how quaint. I am a single woman living in Brooklyn, New York in the year of our Beyoncé 2018 and you think I’m going to b... | ['Humor', 'Culture', 'Dating', 'Singles', 'New York'] |
Q&A with Emily Ingram, Director of Product @ Chartbeat
This week, The Idea spoke with Emily about recent Chartbeat initiatives on paywall optimization, Multi-Site View and image testing, tracking the supply and demand of climate change coverage, and why she thinks we should be paying more attention to mobile aggregato... | ['Product Management', 'Subscriber Spotlight', 'Journalism', 'Media'] |
Hi and welcome to an Illustrated Guide to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU). I’m Michael, and I’m a Machine Learning Engineer in the AI voice assistant space.
In this post, we’ll start with the intuition behind LSTM ’s and GRU’s. Then I’ll explain the internal mechanisms that allow LSTM’s a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Lstm', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
Collage by Vittoria Casanova.
By Vittoria Casanova
We usually don’t ask ourselves many questions about the objects surrounding our lives. Aside from the simple function and aesthetics, we don’t think about the object’s history or why products and services, which we use every day, have been designed in the way that we... | ['War', 'Technology', 'Design'] |
“On the back of solid advancements in Artificial Intelligence prediction and powered by blockchain technology, Traderium is transforming into the bank of the future, the bank that you own.” — CNN
Early this week, financial analysts released a statement which believes Traderium and blockchain technology will eventually... | ['Pakistan', 'South Africa', 'Kuwait', 'Bitcoin'] |
Ready, set, download!
It’s no secret that apps are changing the way we live. I have a friend that has over 100 on her phone. She swears she uses them all, but I doubt it. That’s the problem with apps. There are so many choices, it’s hard to find something new that you’ll want to use and keep.
Beyond Facebook
Everyon... | ['Android Apps', 'Lifestyle', 'Mobile Device', 'Productivity', 'Digital Marketing'] |
I say these encouraging things as someone who is highly empathetic and has worked closely with individuals and couples to make sense of their overarching problems, particularly as a crisis supporter and an active listener.
If you can get through this drama, then you have the capacity to keep going. If anything, wear t... | ['Self Improvement', 'Relationships', 'Long Distance', 'Mental Health', 'Dating'] |
Follow my journey into troubleshooting internet disruption issues after switching service providers.
Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash
Now that we are in an active-pandemic world, those lucky enough to continue remotely working rely on fast and reliable internet service. I’m a software developer by trade and run mul... | ['Debugging', 'Nonfiction', 'Technology', 'Wifi', 'Internet'] |
Tricky way from TOFU lead to MQL
Nowadays it takes fewer efforts for marketers to create a solid lead flow. Use-case or clients’ paint-point centric approach on search engines as well as social media can deliver as many leads as your business needs, with CPA less than $40. In addition to that, demand generation profes... | ['Marketing', 'Lead Nurturing', 'Abm', 'Marketing Startegies', 'Digital Marketing'] |
The Trading Algorithm
Let’s start by importing the libraries we will need:
A major difference with Quantopian’s IDE is how some functions are run. You are still able to call functions like normal but others need to be scheduled to run at specific times during the market.
Initialize Function
The Initialize function
... | ['Trading', 'Algorithms', 'Coding', 'Python', 'Stock Market'] |
In the previews article, I briefly introduced the Volume Spread Analysis(VSA). After we did feature-engineering and feature-selection, there were two things I noticed immediately, the first one was that there were outliers in the dataset and the second issue was the distribution were no way close to normal. By using th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Trading', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Pandas'] |
How to Impress With Your First Impression
Be “you-centric”
Photo by Hồ Ngọc Hải on Unsplash
“You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.” My soccer coach first presented this phrase to our team when we were 16-years old. He delivered an inspiring speech about how college coaches were going to start com... | ['Motivation', 'Communication', 'Life Lessons', 'Relationships', 'Inspiration'] |
Every business revolves around customers and interactions carried out with customers. It is said that a customer is the boss of a business and every interaction with him counts! An infallible way of dealing with this pressing subject is the use of Chatbots. Chatbots are used to conduct an online chat conversation via t... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Cosine Similarity', 'Customer Service', 'Count Vectorizer'] |
A Novel in Thirty Days: Drawing a Blueprint
Let the preparations begin
This July, I’m taking another stab at fast-drafting a novel by participating in the controlled chaos that is Camp NaNo. In this piece, I discussed the mostly tangible preparations I’ve made, as recommended in Chris Baty’s book No Plot? No Problem.... | ['Advice', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Inspiration', 'Writing', 'Creative Writing'] |
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white ... | ['Politics', 'Humanity', 'Self-awareness', 'Choices', 'Safety'] |
What I learned writing for 1 hour every day for 60+ days
Prioritizing process over inspiration
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash
On day number eight of sheltering-in-place, I was in a dark place. Over the previous week, I had lost all motivation to do just about anything but read articles about COVID-19. It... | ['Life Lessons', 'Media', 'Writing', 'Personal Development', 'Writing Tips'] |
Game Level Design with Reinforcement Learning
Overview of the paper “PCGRL: Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning” by A. Khalifa et al.
Procedural Content Generation (or PCG) is a method of using a computer algorithm to generate large amounts of content within a game like huge open-world environmen... | ['Game Futurology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Game Development', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Machine Learning'] |
Photo by Sandrachile . on Unsplash
I believe in kindness. My faith in kindness is unlike the way people generally debate atheism. Is there a supreme being or not? Kindness does not float on an invisible realm like in some Platonic world of forms. Kindness exists only insofar as people are kind to one another.
My beli... | ['Self', 'Education', 'Mental Health', 'Kindness'] |
4 Psychology Hacks Google Used on Employees to Change Bad Habits
And how you can apply these
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We all have bad habits that interfere with our goals.
Maybe we feel like we just can’t stop eating junk food but want a ‘summer bod’. Perhaps we procrastinate instead of putting in the wor... | ['Life Hacking', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Habits', 'Psychology'] |
What Is a Proper Mastermind?
It’s all in the title. A mastermind is a way to join multiple minds together to create something greater than any individual part.
I often tell people my writing is a collaboration and it’s true. Behind the scenes are other writers, entrepreneurs, publication owners, editors, superfans an... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Learning', 'Productivity'] |
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Data Scientist | DataEngineer | Software Developer | Electronic Engineer. I’m Jesus’s Follower | Don’t hesitate to AMA. Let’s take a coffee ☕ and enjoy life. | ['Gradiente', 'Backpropagation', 'Python', 'Learning Path', 'Machine Learning Ai'] |
An Algebraic Data Type (or ADT in short) is a composite type. It enables us to model structures in a comprehensive way that covers every possibility. This makes our systems less error-prone and removes the cognitive mental load that comes when dealing with impossible states.
Motivation
Programmers who work in statica... | ['Python', 'Adt', 'Quality Software', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming'] |
Our Implementation of a Neural Painter in Action.
The Code: Our implementation can be found at this Github repo: https://github.com/libreai/neural-painters-x
I am sure you know Bob Ross and his program The Joy of Painting where he taught thousands of viewers how to paint beautiful landscapes with a simple and fun way... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Art', 'Neural Paintings', 'Articles', 'Machine Learning'] |
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Write
You can’t always can’t on the muse to be there
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As a writer, staring at a blank screen kinda sucks.
You rack your brain trying to come up with ideas, but there’s nothing there. Somehow, you’ve forgotten everything you know.
And the more y... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Copywriting', 'Writing', 'Writer', 'Writing Tips'] |
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Often I find myself tasked with building web applications or APIs with web management portals. On the backend my language of choice is Go, while on the frontend my framework of choice is Vue. One of the big benefits of Go is it compiles into a single binary. When building an API in G... | ['Vue', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Go', 'Development'] |
Diffie-Hellman-Merkle key exchange
This method allows two parties to remotely establish a shared secret (a key in our case) over an assumed insecure channel. This key can then be used in subsequent communications along with a symmetric-key algorithm.
Colours are generally used instead of numbers when explaining this,... | ['Encryption', 'Software Engineering', 'Security', 'Cipher', 'End To End Encryption'] |
Let’s take feminism and strip it down to as basic a definition as we can get — Wikipedia.
Wikipedia says:
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. [emphasis mine... | ['Politics', 'Feminism', 'Equality', 'Psychology', 'Belief'] |
Mile 1
I got my flow the morning of the London Marathon and it was extremely painful. It would be my first marathon and I remember already feeling so nervous for it. I had spent a full year enthusiastically training hard, but I had never actually practiced running on my period.
I thought through my options. Running 2... | ['Storytelling', 'Marathon', 'Feminism'] |
The Science and Tech of Face Masks
I put my money (and my body) on the line to teach you everything about COVID-19 masks
Images courtesy the author
When the CDC starts publishing sewing tutorials, you know things have gotten weird. As COVID-19 has spread worldwide, though, that’s the strange new world we’re living i... | ['Covid 19', 'Explainer', 'Face Mask', 'N95', 'Science'] |
Pandas, Plotting, Pizzaz, Brazil?
A Brazillion Ways to Explore Data
To those newly initiated to the world of data science, the word pandas might still configure up images of cute, fuzzy, friendly animals, seemingly built for nothing but being cute on camera and wasting otherwise productive hours browsing google image... | ['Python', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Pandas'] |
Hiring Software Developers in a Competitive Market
Danté Nel at DisruptHR CPT 12.10.2017
There is a certain mentality one needs to have when hiring software developers in a competitive market. Most companies require technical skills, but supply has outstripped demand — software developers can afford to be picky when ... | ['Hiring', 'Disrupthrct', 'People', 'Talent', 'Software Development'] |
Nowadays sales processes are collecting instruments and tactics that were traditionally used by journalists and media-managers. It means that b2b sales representatives are moving from just good communicators to a digital trusted advisors. In this article you will find more about sales tools at the intersection of b2b b... | ['Marketing', 'Sales', 'Digital', 'Médiá', 'Digital Selling'] |
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You are not alone if you have been feeling caught in a cycle of constant negativity. A combination of social isolation, political chaos and social media messaging can make us feel overwhelmed and cause heightened anxiety and depressed mood. It is normal to feel that you’ve reache... | ['Personal Growth', 'Mental Health', 'Anxiety', 'Mindset', 'Mindfulness'] |
As a beginning data scientist, I’m learning that most of my time is spent preparing data for analysis. Much as writing is about clarifying and polishing ideas, before we can tell any compelling stories with data, it must be thoroughly cleaned and prepared for analysis.
This might not seem very interesting, but it is n... | ['Data Cleaning', 'Numpy', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Data Science'] |
Five Strategies to Boost Your NaNoWriMo Progress
Embrace imperfection and finish your novel
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Everyone has different life circumstances, are in different places in their writing journey, and have different skills. Some people stay up late while others get up early. There are writers who... | ['Novel', 'Novel Writing', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
A First Look at React’s New Server Components
Explaining the new approach to fetching data in React.js.
Yesterday, the React team announced a new feature: Server Components.
The feature is still experimental; there is no real documentation yet.
What it’s about is simply put: data & component fetching in React.js.
... | ['Reactjs', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Nodejs'] |
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