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Teasing apart luck from skill in our decisions is difficult.
While most outcomes involve a combination of both, our improvement requires identifying what we should have done differently and what was out of our control.
Trouble is, when we try to identify what we did right or wrong, and what was good or bad luck, we t... | ['Skills', 'Bias', 'Luck', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology'] |
Rest APIs are beautiful pieces of software that enable applications to communicate with a database or with other software very effectively.
The kind of operations which you can perform are as follows are GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, etc. The GET method is generally used for fetching some information from the backend... | ['Fastapi', 'Python', 'Api Development', 'Rest Api'] |
What Compels Us to Write
Answering The Call
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I have always been drawn to the written word. Like most writers, I am a voracious consumer of books.
I read for information on most days because my day job demands it. My most content state is whenever I have a book in my hand. The pl... | ['Innovation', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Whenever found an interface that looks nice, clean and elegant, I save it. Now I have a collection of more than 100 UI interfaces. After learning, making use of or simply viewing it again and again, I finally realized something in common. It is always the color that steals my heart at the very first look. So here, I’d ... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'UI', 'Colors', 'User Experience'] |
AI & Critical Thinking — The Future of Jobs 2020 (WEF)
Skill shortages are more acute in emerging professions. The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change. — World Economic Forum
Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash
The primary source of this article is The Future of ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Jobs', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Careers', 'Critical Thinking'] |
“Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement.” — Steve Silberman, The New York Times
Think twice before you call the cops to carry out ... | ['Special Needs', 'Politics', 'Mental Health', 'Welfare Checks', 'Police'] |
I felt that way until last night, when I watched the season finale of “The Plot Against America”, a show created by David Simon and Ed Burns about a dystopian American history if Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist anti-Semite, won the 1940 presidential election against Franklin D. Roosevelt. An adaptation of the 2004 P... | ['Television', 'Equality', 'Self', 'Race', 'Coronavirus'] |
First we compare our question to each and every document in the used dataset and determine the 20 most likely documents to contain the answer.
Secondly we put all the paragraphs of these 20 documents together and, again, comparing those with the question and determine 20 paragraphs to likely contain the answer.
Lastl... | ['Machine Learning', 'Question Answering', 'Python', 'NLP', 'Squad'] |
A Silent Storm
Conflicted, or torn?
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The fight is constant;
Inside my mind, I scream.
I rage.
Stop talking!
It’s always the same;
You expect me to agree.
You desperately try to sway me.
I cannot.
I will not.
You hate;
You criticize and demonize.
What has this world... | ['Poetry', 'Confusion', 'Anger', 'Conflict', 'Desperation'] |
IBM Watson Studio Cloud empowers data science teams to cleanse data, build and deploy AI models on the fully managed IBM Cloud. Cognos Analytics is IBM’s premier business intelligence solution for sharing actionable insights across your organization.
It’s our pleasure to announce the release of the Cognos Analytics an... | ['Machine Learning', 'Watson Studio', 'Announcements', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways
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Some part of me did regret for not investing in cryptocurrencies. But then I realised trading is not my thing. I want to do things where I have an advantage. I had invested in learning blockchain for the past few months. Now, I see opportunities that are no so obvious but rewarding. Since the field is emerging, only a ... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Money won’t last forever — that is guaranteed
It didn’t exist when exchange evolved to become a feature of humanities first economic system, nor will it persist when there is no advantage to using it. That time is approaching far quicker than traditionalists care to admit.
The reality is that our evolution to a large... | ['Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Life', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
It is somewhat traditional to end off the year with a summary of emerging trends and predictions for the new year, but we understand that as a small business owner you probably want to spend the last few weeks of each year focusing on marketing, sales and customer service over the holiday season, not reading about what... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'SEO', 'Small Business Marketing', 'Small Business'] |
Method 2: Defer The Request
By postponing the event and holding the other person accountable for follow up, you can test how serious they are about it
I feel that there is nothing wrong with a direct “No”, but sometimes deferring the request can prove to be more clever and advantageous,
By putting off the request by... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Time Management', 'Efficiency', 'Productivity'] |
5 Tips to Get Her Back If She’s Slipping Away
Before you lose your relationship, try these.
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Your relationship started strong, but the honeymoon phase is long gone. You knew that that was coming, but it somehow seems worse than you ever thought possible.
Now, she’s slipping away from ... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” -John Muir
As soon as we approached Auburn on the I80 and saw the Sierra mountains in the distance, something happened.The stress that had been gripping my brain released its clamming hold. The loneliness ... | ['Lifestyle', 'Life Lessons', 'Coping', 'Mental Health', 'Outdoors'] |
This paean of pity is getting quite boring
with cliché of rowing-boats slipping their mooring
and candles extinguished with love as a shadow-
sabemos que la guerra cansa al soldado.
The pestilent pathos increasing the drama
increases the aspect of pain’s panorama,
assault on the psyche, disease of the soma,
the ... | ['Depression', 'Poetry', 'No Crime In Rhymin', 'Sonnet', 'Mental Health'] |
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Birth — Age 4
As soon as you’re old enough to hold a writing instrument, start scribbling on your bedroom walls. This is your early-stage stream of consciousness, so don’t let your parents tell you it’s “wrong” or a “mess.” Eat a crayon.
Age 5–9
Advance to writing on yourself — not the alphabet per se... | ['Sarcasm', 'Writing', 'Humor', 'Advice', 'Writing Tips'] |
From GPS navigation to network-layer link-state routing, Dijkstra’s Algorithm powers some of the most taken-for-granted modern services. Utilizing some basic data structures, let’s get an understanding of what it does, how it accomplishes its goal, and how to implement it in Python (first naively, and then with good as... | ['Algorithms', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science'] |
Making the Blockchain.
A blockchain is just a chain/list of blocks. Each block in the blockchain will have its own digital fingerprint, contain digital fingerprint of the previous block, and have some data ( this data could be transactions for example ).
I sure hope Nakamoto never sees this.
Hash = Digital Fingerpri... | ['Tutorial', 'Java', 'Blockchain', 'Developer', 'Programming'] |
Safari is finally adding PWA features.
For those of you who have no clue what a PWA is or are confused about how to begin developing a PWA or dont know about it’s importance please read this post on PWA before you proceed.
Safari/Webkit has finally started adding features that constitute a PWA. Before we proceed its ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Progressive Web App', 'Mobile', 'Web Development', 'Html5'] |
For a marketing agency, having customers on retainers (vs. say, a number of one-off projects) can be a game-changer.
A twelve-month commitment from a customer means you aren’t placing all of your efforts into prospecting and selling new projects each month. With longer client commitments, your revenue now becomes more... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Digital Marketing Agency', 'Freelancing', 'Inbound Marketing'] |
Learn how to “speak shark”
I am a huge fan of the reality TV show Shark Tank. For those not familiar, the basic premise is that entrepreneurs come out and pitch their business or product ideas to an audience of seasoned, successful businesspeople— the Sharks. Sharks grill the “guppies,” asking them detailed questions ... | ['Opinion', 'Design', 'UX', 'Career Advice'] |
3 Key Steps to Get to the Top of Your Game
Become a superior performer like this 7-time F1 world champion
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Lewis Hamilton now stands alongside Michael Schumacher at seven F1 world championships. He has surpassed him in race results and critical driver statistics. F1 has described him as its “... | ['Performance', 'Personal Development', 'F1', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
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Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy. | ['Humor', 'Depression', 'New Years Resolutions', 'Mental Health', 'Comics'] |
Cats Who Have Owned Me
Because, let’s be clear about these relationships
Me pinned in place by Blue, circa 1960. Photos provided by Remington Write.
His name was Blue and Mom said he was a Russian Blue; that’s all I remember.
I barely remember Gypsy, our black cat who got hit in the road. What I do remember about G... | ['Cats', 'Pets', 'Relationships', 'Death', 'New York'] |
Here is what you need to do to get more stuff done… Mo Follow Dec 21 · 3 min read
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We all sometimes struggle with staying focused on our tasks: work, studies, revision, and other things besides. This can mean not getting enough done during the day.
Here are a few things, from personal experience, ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Work', 'Focus', 'Life'] |
How to be a better Software Engineer
Building a career out of coding
The power of technology is constantly expanding, and the software industry is experiencing a boom. New applications and technologies are appearing on an almost daily basis. In addition, the number of programmers working on these applications is grow... | ['Work', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
A poetry publication brought to you by Assemblage to capture all of your disconnected thoughts and let them find their form.
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“If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings.” — Tom & David Kelley
Prototyping is a time-tested method for designing solutions and getting feedback early in the process. As a designer, we collectively, along with stakeholders, solve business problems by envisioning solutions and shaping the v... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'User Experience Design', 'Prototyping', 'UX'] |
Last week, Variety reported on the likelihood of a Mandalorian film in the future. In the article, showrunner Jon Favreau had this to say:
“The line is blurring now,” said Favreau. “Things that you would have only seen in the movie theater, you’re seeing on streaming, and I think it could go the other way as well.” Fa... | ['Writing', 'Star Wars', 'Television', 'Film', 'Movies'] |
Starting a Small Restaurant without Deep Pockets
How I started a successful eatery with no restaurant experience
Why Listen to an Amateur
I’m an engineer at a major defense company. 3 years ago I decided to start a restaurant with my brother-in-law who was also an engineer working at a telecommunications company. I ... | ['Food', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Restaurant', 'Small Business'] |
It’s Halloween! To distract myself from the actual most frightening events this year (*cough cough voter suppression at the midterm elections cough*) I’ve compiled a list of five spooky creatures and their haunting habits! Enjoy.
1. The Bobbit Worm
A mix between a Coachella choker and the spawn of Satan, the bobbit w... | ['Wildlife', 'Ecology', 'Animals', 'Science', 'Nature'] |
Downscaling of the video can be used rather than the above procedure for generating the training data, however, downscaling can definitely affect quality perception of image/video, e.g., small distortions can become imperceptible after being downscaled.
On the other hand, keeping the original video resolution when app... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Quality Assessment', 'Lstm', 'Vqa', 'Deep Learning'] |
Whether we’re overwhelmed by that never-ending to-do list or simply distracted (thanks, Facebook), sometimes it feels like we just can’t get enough out of the day. Until 30-hour days are invented, follow these easy, effective tips for getting more done in the 24 we have.
Productivity Hero — Your Action Plan
1. Get en... | ['Life Lessons', 'Work', 'Time Management', 'Productivity', 'Work Smarter'] |
Solving has been artifically slowed down for visualization.
Microsoft Excel has a great feature, “Goal Seek”, under the Data / What If… menu. Given a formula, it will calculate what the input needs to be in order for that formula to equal a specific result. It’s a very powerful but simple tool.
The standard “Goal See... | ['Pyxll', 'Excel', 'Ms Office', 'Scipy', 'Python'] |
7 Over Sampling techniques to handle Imbalanced Data
Deep dive analysis of various oversampling techniques
Image by LTD EHU from Pixabay
Modeling imbalanced data is the major challenge that we face when we train a model. For dealing with the classification problems the class balance of the target class label plays a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Imbalanced Data', 'Education', 'Data Science'] |
Anticipatory Anxiety in 2020
What it is and How to Effectively Cope With It.
Photo by Artem Kovalev on Unsplash
Human beings are wired to want to control their surroundings. Anxiety often arises in circumstances that we are not able to control or predict the future outcome…now add anticipation into the mix. 2020 has... | ['Depression', 'Self Improvement', 'Anxiety', 'Mindset', 'Mental Health'] |
This Is What Most People Get Wrong About Giving up the Ego
It’s not egoless, it’s egomore
Have you ever wondered what the “ego” is?
Chances are you have. We all use phrases like “He has a big ego” and “He has a huge ego problem.”
This means we do have an idea about what it means. Yet, when asked, we fail to explain... | ['Meditation', 'Ego', 'Spirituality', 'Mindfulness', 'Psychology'] |
Submission Guidelines for Current Writers
Please read the following for Fearless She Wrote publishing standards
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Last Updated: September 2020
Welcome to Fearless She Wrote!
We’re excited to have you as part of our writing team, and can’t wait to read and publish your work! To ensure ... | ['Writing Guidelines', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Fearless She Wrote', 'Submission Guidelines'] |
Flutter Europe is an initiative driven by European Flutter Communities to gather every passionate and learn how to create beautiful apps! The main goal is to share knowledge, improve skills and expand the community. This conference gave us the opportunity to meet the most recognizable Flutter developers from Europe and... | ['Design', 'Flutter', 'Android', 'Mobile', 'UX'] |
I recently dove head first into the world of data science. Without much prior experience in programming language, learning Python was a challenge in and of itself. In fact, my fear of learning Python is what actually delayed my exploration of data science. Even after starting my data science journey, it took me a while... | ['Excel', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Is Vibranium the strongest material in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Or is it just the most inconsistently depicted one?
With Black Panther: Civil War (not the title) recently released, everyone wants to know about Vibranium, the wonder material responsible for everything cool in the Black Panther universe. You may ... | ['Storytelling', 'Comics', 'Marvel'] |
Get in Touch
Audrey Malone is a freelance writer, professional resume writer, and editor, including editor for Medium publication, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.
She’s also the owner and founder of ExpertResumeWritingServices.com, and founder of Medium Publication, Acne Free Skin Care Magic.
Feel free to join her Acne Free ... | ['Poerty', 'Haiku', 'Writing', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Creative Writing'] |
Intersections and Roundabouts
Our understanding of the relationship between mind and matter has cascaded through history with such a dramatic thirst for answers that it has caused our effort to bifurcate into countless veins of study. Fragmenting our hopes of a cohesively unified and comprehensive perspective that, in... | ['Lifestyle', 'Consciousness', 'Life', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
Complex-PTSD is Caused by a War Zone of Toxicity
As I battled through complex-PTSD, why do some things trigger me into reactions I hate myself for?
Photo by Marcus Lenk on Unsplash
Over the years and over probably hundreds of counseling sessions, I was diagnosed with complex-PTSD. Many of you know what PTSD or Post ... | ['Mental Healing', 'Family', 'Mental Health', 'PTSD', 'Childhood Trauma'] |
Authenticity is the holy grail in connecting with the audience with least effort. You have already experienced what you are talking about in your work. You just have to make it come to life in such a way that you were reliving it when it happened the first time.
The nostalgia is worth it whenever I share my past exper... | ['Storytelling', 'Self Improvement', 'Family', 'Life', 'Empathy'] |
An Ancient Bible That Has No Moses
The weird tale of the Temple Scroll
One-sheet promo poster for “The Ten Commandments” (1956)
In 1955, one of the most remarkable manuscript discoveries in history had been made, or would be shortly. One of the key figures in its emergence, the Reverend Dr. Joe H. Uhrig, knew only t... | ['Bible', 'Christianity', 'Books', 'Religion', 'History'] |
Advantages of MobX
MobX has minimal boilerplate
Redux is notorious for it’s boilerplate. Here’s a simple api call recipe in redux, something every app has in one form or another:
That’s a lot of code to do something very simple, and that’s before we’ve added the minimal libraries to make redux usable in non-trivial ... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'Programming'] |
Even when making almost daily progress in many of these and gaining points for them, I somehow didn’t feel like I was having fun. Then I realized that I had the ambition to write the book, the excerpt from which you are reading now, first. I wanted to see it come together and become a completed product.
So that was th... | ['Ideas', 'Self-awareness', 'Gaming', 'Balanced Life', 'Ambition'] |
A Quick Recap: Evolution of Life on Earth in 4 Steps
About 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system, the sun and the Earth were formed.
Step 1
3.5 billion years ago, the first simple life forms, called “prokaryotes,” came into existence.These prokaryotes were super-simple, microscopic single-celled organisms, basical... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Evolution', 'Brain Computer Interface', 'Abundance', 'Singularity University'] |
Dockerizing Angular App With NodeJS Backend — Typescript Version
Learn How to Dockerize and make it a deployable image
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Docker is an enterprise-ready container platform that enables organizations to seamlessly build, share, and run any application, anywhere. Almost every company is... | ['Typescript', 'Angular', 'Docker', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
Since we are just a couple of days out from our pre-sale I wanted to detail all the information you will need to know about how it will work and how to purchase.
CryptoFights Pre-Sale will go LIVE on September 19th at 12pm EDT. When the timer strikes zero you will need to refresh the page and the buy buttons will be u... | ['Dapps', 'Gaming', 'Ethereum', 'Startup'] |
by Anne Szustek Talbot, VP of Content
Innovation: It’s a strategy that can both drive the strategy and be the backbone of your portfolio. Direct investment in startups is a trend that has gained ground among private investors as of late, and for good reason. In addition to the SEC’s new guidelines on what defines an “... | ['Investing', 'Startup', 'Asset Management', 'Finance', 'Family Office'] |
I have noticed that many great frameworks such as Spring Boot, Grails or Micronaut are using Maven bill-of-material (BOM) to manage versions of their dependencies aligned. Using BOM you can constraint the versions of transitive dependencies as well as it allows you to specify just the group and name of the module ane l... | ['Tech', 'Java', 'Gradle', 'Groovy', 'Github'] |
Sustainability is one of the foremost concern that humanity faces today. Stuart Hart in his book, Capitalism at Crossroads discusses about some of the frameworks that can be used to develop sustainable strategies.
Hart also discusses about how Worlds are in collision and how money economy is encroaching on nature’s ec... | ['My Thoughts', 'Business', 'Capitalism', 'Shared', 'Society'] |
Programming the MainActivity
MainActivity.java imports
These are the imports needed for the application. If you don’t want to add this imports now, Android Studio will prompt you to hit Alt + Enter when you use them.
The main activity will already have an onCreate() method. Just above this method add the following l... | ['Java', 'Beginner', 'Android', 'Notes', 'Android App Development'] |
“Ask Addi” is Join the Gender Revolution’s weekly advice column for questions about gender, transitioning or general LGBTQ+ issues. Click here if you’d like to Ask Addi a question, or find them on social media, #ASKADDI. Questions are answered anonymously so provide a pseudonym if you’d like.
Why are you encouraging p... | ['LGBT Rights', 'Mental Health', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender', 'Gender Equality'] |
These three moves singlehandedly allow me to have strong and toned arms, and I’m certain of this due to the mere fact that I don’t do much else when it comes to arm workouts.
Now I’m not guaranteeing similar results as to mine, but I’m confident that if you do these moves on a regular basis (read: daily or every other... | ['Motivation', 'Weight Loss', 'Workout', 'Exercise', 'Fitness'] |
After an intense look deep into the skies, you easily conclude the sky is blue. Straight to Google you searched “Is the sky blue?”.
That’s the beginning of confirmation bias.
You really want to validate what you already believed to be true (that the sky is blue).
People are ready to believe a lie because they want i... | ['Psychology'] |
What You Need to do to Succeed in 2021
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No need to write an introduction, the lessons say everything.
Read on…
Once again, this one is tried and true. When people show you who they are, believe it. I had to learn to stop making illusions out of what I wanted to see and simply believ... | ['2021', '2020', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Success'] |
Top Optimization Techniques in Machine Learning
Now let us talk about the techniques that you can use to optimize the hyperparameters of your model.
Exhaustive search
Exhaustive search, or brute-force search, is the process of looking for the most optimal hyperparameters by checking whether each candidate is a good ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Deep Learning'] |
By Gene Wilburn
Gestalt (ge STALT). A word meaning, roughly, when the brain perceives with clarity that the whole of a system is greater than the sum of its parts, and everything clicks into one awareness. One can have a gestalten moment. But can one achieve a gestaltenexistence?
When I was coming of age intellectual... | ['Life Lessons', 'Gestalt', 'Existentialism', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
The Latest: WSJ’s new initiative to reach audiences under 35
Subscribe to The Idea, a weekly newsletter on the business of media, for more news, analysis, and interviews.
THE NEWS
The Wall Street Journal launched a monthly digital magazine last week aimed at readers 35 and under. The magazine, called WSJ Noted, cont... | ['The Latest', 'Journalism', 'Media'] |
A new design approach
How to structure a workflow step for your Slack app
Illustration and design by Josh Holinaty.
Adding a workflow step (or two) to your app helps people automate their work, by connecting their Slack workflows to your service — now available in developer open beta.
The future of workflows
Workf... | ['Design', 'Slack Platform', 'App Development', 'Slack', 'Workflow'] |
DAO Token Reward Pool — Explained
Three years of work make sure that the DAO token launches with an active reward pool from day 1, creating a growth… | ['Fintech', 'Startup', 'Decentralization', 'Venture Capital', 'SaaS'] |
#2: LOVE
Is there anything that can top the love a mother feels for her child?
If there is, I would say it’s the love a mother feels for somebody else’s child to the point where they save the child from a dangerous environment and give that child the chance to a remake his life.
In this heartbreaking story of a moth... | ['Gratitude', 'Writing', 'Love', 'Hope', 'Medium'] |
If Netflix has taught us anything, it is the importance of responding to changing patterns of media consumption. They have carved out a dominant position by taking risks, and challenging convention, and their influence is re-shaping the entertainment industry. ‘Better Call Saul’ for example, doesn’t need a blockbuster ... | ['Customer Experience', 'Marketing', 'Content', 'Brand Experience'] |
Q&A with Maya Draisin, SVP, Progress Marketing, TIME
TIME has launched three new initiatives — TIME for Health, TIME for Learning, and most recently NextAdvisor — as well as expanded TIME for Kids under the umbrella of “improving people’s lives” over the past few months. We spoke to Maya about the strategy and executi... | ['Journalism', 'Subscriber Spotlight', 'Media'] |
1. Region Proposal Network (RPN)
In brief, R-CNN [4] and Fast R-CNN [3] first generate region proposals by selective search (SS) [5], then a CNN-based network is used to classify the object class and detect the bounding box. (The main difference is that R-CNN input the region proposals at pixel level into CNN for dete... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, V.E. Schwab. In the 18th century, a young woman bargains with the devil for her freedom, and is granted the curse of an eternal life in which no one will ever remember her. But in 20th-century New York, a young bookseller remembers her name. This might be one of the most hotly-anticip... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Literature', 'Fiction', 'Culture'] |
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I don’t know what are the names of these gentlemen, but I can assure you the second one is from India, not through the Kashmir reference but through the lack of thank you in his comment. You would know this too, if you are an Indian, that Indians in all their sweet oriental love... | ['Indian Culture', 'Articles', 'India', 'Writing'] |
Data is the foundation of everything at the moment. It is the basis of business, marketing, and sales as well as the groundwork for change. There are many buzzwords associated with data such as; big data, data science, data analytics, and data visualization. I hope to clear some of these phrases up today and give you s... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
How to Find Number of Distinct Islands?
Day 50— 100 Days to LinkedIn, Yahoo, Oracle
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100 Days to LinkedIn, Yahoo, Oracle
Introduction
Hey guys, Today is day 50 of the 100 Days to LinkedIn Challenge.
Free For Kindle Readers
If you are Pr... | ['Computer Science', 'Interview', 'Java', 'Software Development', 'Coding'] |
Let’s face it. We all could use a little therapy. Childhood trauma sounds like it should be devastating, but sometimes it can be disguised as what everyone thinks is a normal upbringing. A person doesn’t have to endure physical abuse to end up with mental scars from childhood that have an effect on our daily lives.
Th... | ['Religion', 'Healing', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Spirituality'] |
Massive collaboration
Inside the Psychological Science Accelerator.
Published in The Psychologist magazine, October 2020
At school, Neil Lewis Jr was always the ‘smart Black kid’. Aged nine, he and his family emigrated to Florida from his birthplace in Jamaica and he soon learned that his new classmates had low expe... | ['Open Science', 'Psychology', 'Collaboration'] |
With the rapid expansion of Machine Learning as a field of research, it’s not easy to keep up with everything that is being invented and discovered.
I have created a graph that will make the distinction of the types of machine learning systems easier to understand.
It is useful to keep in mind there’s more than one w... | ['Machine Learning', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ensemble Learning', 'Neural Networks'] |
Like our previous problem, we immediately know that we should use the bottom-up approach to solve this since we’re required to find all possible unique paths.
Base Case
In any bottom-up approach, we need to first establish some base cases. I think of base cases as cases that cannot be broken down any further — they’r... | ['Interview Questions', 'Python', 'Computer Science', 'Interview', 'Programming'] |
Step 5: Grow an Audience and Communicate With Your Followers
Congratulations on publishing your first post on Instagram using the best practices approach. It is now time for the final step in this Ultimate Guide To Instagram Growth in 2020, which is to build a loyal community of followers.
Building a Community
As wi... | ['Social Media Mar', 'Startup', 'Digital Marketing', 'Online Business', 'Instagram'] |
What I’ve learned about writing fiction and its “rules”
They are meant to be broken
Photo by Nicole Honeywill
“You must learn the rules in order to break them” is the advice a comic book legend gave the crowd at comic-con in 2017.
It was a panel led by comic book writers on what it takes to break into the industry,... | ['Writing', 'Advice', 'Writing Tips', 'Fiction', 'Creative Writing'] |
NEO.LIFE: How did you figure out you were ace?
Angela Chen: I came across the definition of asexuality in my teens. But I thought I was a straight woman, essentially because I wasn’t sex-repulsed. I hadn’t had sex yet but I expected that I would one day, and I would enjoy it “just like everyone else.” In my early 20s ... | ['Books', 'Relationships', 'Self', 'Sexuality', 'Sex'] |
In no particular order…
First up, I recommend just about anything by British writer George Orwell, but I’m particularly going to suggest that you check out Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, both eloquent, page-turning dystopian narratives written in the 1940s. These two books are not just two must-reads within mid... | ['Quarantine', 'Reading', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Classics'] |
Yesterday I gave my first online class using an application developed internally at IE University, WoW Home. The result was far superior to the methodology I had been using systematically since the beginning of the pandemic. The WoW Room, which was opened in 2016 and about which I wrote at the time, has a 45 square met... | ['Ie University', 'Education', 'Coronavirus', 'Online Education', 'Teaching'] |
People are known to shrink from bureaucratic procedures and get intimidated by the official hospital — or even GP office settings. In many cases, when they seek immediate relief, they go directly to local pharmacies where pharmacists face the need to offer prompt treatment based solely on described complaints. To reinf... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Healthcare', 'Pharmaceutical', 'Data Science'] |
What are Style Guides and Design Systems? The Style Guide establishes the root for visual presentations and a design system connects components, patterns, and visuals together to become one single source of truth for products and brands. Well, something like that and as there are many differences there are similarities... | ['Design Handoff', 'Design Systems', 'Design', 'Style Guides', 'Design Documentation'] |
How to Build Deep Focus Into Your Organizational Culture
Building deep focus into your organizational culture equips you to grow and adapt to changing market conditions. Here’s how to do it.
Let’s say you’ve developed the habit of flexing your focus muscle. Maybe you’ve adopted certain contemplative practices like mi... | ['Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Management'] |
how does a panic attack begin ?
nowhere like a wave deep out at sea
or like the wave which hides inside and
the smallest particles of matter or strings
which write the allegory of the cosmos
rain chant ring charm rain all day rain
when I close my eyes I wonder if I am imagining
it if I’m still asleep under the c... | ['Ideas', 'Poetry', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Dreams', 'Psychology'] |
There is a common theme that comes up, like clockwork, in the various parental grief support groups I belong to on Facebook.
It goes something like this: someone will describe an encounter they had with a dear friend or a trusted therapist or a family member (people who generally have the griever’s best interest at he... | ['Death', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Grief', 'Parenting'] |
Welcome to Revit 2021. If you have been using the software for a while you will likely find moments of excitement with some of the new features (yay slanted walls!) while disappointment for a lack of others (search a hashtag or two on Twitter for some good grumbles). There’s a lot of what one would call minor tweaks, a... | ['Revit', 'Design', 'Bim', 'Autodesk', 'Architecture'] |
1. Write down your vision
While setting goals and New-Years resolutions is not uncommon, going the extra mile to create a compelling VISION is very underrated!
The more precise you can be about what you want out of 2021 — the easier and more likely it becomes for you to achieve it.
Sit down for 10–15 minutes and ima... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration'] |
Upgrade your Image Classifier with Balanced data
How preprocessing & stratification can do wonders to image classifier performance
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This article walks you through the data munging techniques to refine the machine learning models for image classifiers, particularly facial emotion recognition. The R notebook contai... | ['Machine Learning', 'Visualization', 'Image Classification', 'Data Cleaning', 'Towards Data Science'] |
The Latest: Spotify signs a three-year exclusive licensing deal with Joe Rogan (May 26, 2020)
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THE NEWS
Spotify has signed an exclusive three-year licensing deal worth $100 million for The Joe Rogan Experienc... | ['Podcast', 'Media', 'The Latest', 'Streaming', 'Journalism'] |
Return Unused Pharmaceuticals to the Drug Store, Not on the Streets
I could have made $50,000 and chose not to.
Image By David Smart | Shutterstock
Before my uncle died, Donald amassed two extra-large garbage bags full of narcotics. He had clear vinyl bags of unused liquid morphine, boxes of Fentanyl patches, bottle... | ['Health', 'Drugs', 'Ethics', 'This Happened To Me', 'Medical'] |
Why are some people successful — and others in spite of brains, talent and a pleasant character seem to struggle with their careers?
This question has puzzled me for a while and I wanted to find answers. There have been many gurus and approaches who tried to explain the determining factor for success. Grit, passion, d... | ['Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Success', 'Careers', 'Psychology'] |
Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash
In my quest to find investment insights I decided to automate the boring stuff and simplify backtesting of financial strategies.
I started creating a textual interface for financial backtesting with a few priorities in mind. I wanted it to be simple to use but adaptable to the comp... | ['Python', 'Parsing', 'Language', 'Grammar', 'Software'] |
Working for an agency gives you experience with many brands and project types that can inspire you creatively at each project kickoff. An agency’s ladder is about the same height as an in-house ladder depending on the company’s size. The main difference between agency work and in-house work is the culture. Agencies occ... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
This article assumes a decent understanding of neural networks and backpropagation— for background, check this out.
In all neural networks, the core architecture consists of neurons within several layers; input, hidden, and output. As data is propagated throughout the network, weights adjust their values and help the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Activation Functions', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
I’m sure that by now, many of you have had your fill of articles that tell you how to navigate your business in the current Covid pandemic.
Most of these articles come from industry experts with several years of experience under their belt; they are adept professionals who have many valuable lessons regarding the dos ... | ['Marketing', 'Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Covid 19', 'Personal Growth'] |
As we left the house for our walk, and I skipped down the steps behind the kids, magnetic energy stopped me in my tracks. I turned my head back to look in the direction of the vibe — the pumpkin. It was pulling me closer until I was staring straight into it.
I saw an entire world — our world.
Through the pumpkin’s fi... | ['Poetry', 'Photography', 'Nonfiction', 'Short Story', 'Chance Encounters'] |
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