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I’ve written something every day of my life since I was about ten.
I actually have a strong memory of the day when I decided that I wanted to be a writer and that I was going to practice every day. I was in the sixth grade. (Because my birthday is in late October, near the cut off, I was ten in the sixth grade — one o... | ['Creativity', 'Productivity', 'Habits', 'Ninjabyob', 'Writing'] |
When our species first arose on this planet, it was in the midst of a rather cold and indifferent natural environment.
Mother Nature didn’t necessarily care about whether our particular primate offshoot would survive long enough to develop civilization.
The dinosaurs that had dominated the planet for millions of year... | ['Growth', 'Creativity', 'Technology', 'Self-awareness', 'Future'] |
Amazon. A buzz word that’s been floating around for quite some time now, which eventually drifted its way into the product marketing space. I know we are all aware of the rise of “commoditisation” — the increasing homogeneity across products and higher price sensitivity of consumers. But what we’re also seeing is that ... | ['Amazon', 'Amazon Echo', 'Startup', 'Alexa', 'AI'] |
You have a full time job, brilliant ideas to share with the world, a side hustle to manage, sleep to catch up on, exercise to power through, and about 100 other #adulting things to take care of.
24 hours in a day seems like we would have plenty of time to get all of our shit done — doesn’t Beyonce have those same 1,44... | ['Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
Two Surprising Ways Collecting Data on Myself Transformed My Life
For real growth, go deeper than an app on your smartphone
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash
If you haven’t tried collecting data on yourself, you need to start right now.
Until you do, you may have trouble understanding your own actions.
Since I s... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
In the development of large systems, it is common to develop various components and libraries that implement various functions, ranging from the implementation of business requirements to technical tasks, such as an XML parser, for example. Microservices architecture allows to avoid monolith application for large syste... | ['Microservices', 'Java', 'Oracle Cloud', 'Spring Boot', 'Cloud Computing'] |
The Formula
I will be brief, because I did not lie when I said this was a short guide.
1. Open with a Bang
Drawing your reader in is a difficult task, especially if you tend to have a dry and expositional voice. That’s why I find that opening with a beautiful sensory image helps to transition the reader into the ess... | ['Writing', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Inspiration'] |
The Race Is On to Find the Holy Grail of Covid-19 Antibodies
Lab-made antibodies could be our best hope against the pandemic — and future ones
A nurse handles Covid-19 blood samples. Photo: Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images
Carl Hansen was in the middle of running a pandemic simulation at AbCellera, the Vancouver biot... | ['Health', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Science', 'Antibodies'] |
Image: Steve Skiena
This article was originally part of Remix’s series on the software engineering problems they face. In this installment, Dan Hipschman walks through bus driver scheduling and a simplified approach to solving it using integer programming.
I studied NP-Hardness in school but never tackled any problem... | ['Scheduling', 'Python', 'Software Engineering', 'Product At Remix', 'Engineering'] |
6 Morning Habits to Help You Seize the Day, Every Day
Your morning routine is the single most constructive part of your day — invest in it.
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
There are days where I manage to check everything off my to-do list. And there are days where I don’t even come close. You’ve probably experie... | ['Work', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Creativity', 'Psychology'] |
In KNN, K stands for the number of nearest observations considered for predicting the class of new observation. e.g, There are two classes to predict i.e, 0 or 1. Now there are 5 neighbors near to the given observation and the class of those 5 neighbours is 1,1,1,0,0. It means new observation belong to the class 1. I h... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'AI'] |
Could Carbon Save The Planet?
A new miracle material could turn the tides on global warming.
The world faces a crisis, one propagated by a single element, carbon. Humanity is pumping out record levels of carbon dioxide, methane, plastics and pollutants, all of which use carbon chemistry at their core. These chemicals... | ['Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Science', 'Technology', 'Future'] |
Thanks to Ninja Writers, I interact with thousands of writers every week. It’s pretty damn cool. My job is to talk about writing with writers. Seriously.
There are two things I hear, probably more than anything else.
Where do you get your ideas? I want to be a writer, but I don’t know what to write about.
Those are ... | ['Ideas', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Fiction'] |
I wake up thinking about writing.
On a really good morning, I’ve dreamed about my novel the night before and the writing just flows super easy. I know exactly what I’m going to write.
On a less good morning, it’s painful to pick a few words out of my head and it’s even worse knowing that they suck so bad there’s no w... | ['Creativity', 'Productivity', 'Habits', 'Ninjabyob', 'Writing'] |
You’re tired upon tired: short on energy, low on motivation.
There’s always so much to do: work, relationship, family, chores, life admin — you’re on the hamster wheel and it never ends. Even a weekend away doesn’t refresh you.
Mid-life is a common time for the cracks to appear. That’s when people are often sandwiche... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Psychology'] |
COVID has set records for infection all over the country. It took only ten days for the nation’s total number of cases to go from 9 million to ten million.
Every time we break a record, news outlets compare the new total with the previous one. They highlight the challenge that awaits President-elect Joe Biden and Vice... | ['Science', 'Data Science', 'Health', 'Coronavirus'] |
How Apps Are Helping Us With Our Mental Health
COVID-19 unveiled a promising frontier in digital mental health solutions.
Living through a global pandemic may feel a bit surreal and otherworldly. You’re stuck at home, deprived of your everyday routine overnight.
So you’re sitting there, trying to navigate through th... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Mental Health', 'Apps'] |
The following is the answer from OR-Tools — Get Started with OR-Tools for Python
source: https://developers.google.com/optimization/introduction/python
The following sections will get you started with OR-Tools for Python:
What is an optimization problem?
The goal of optimization is to find the best solution to a pr... | ['Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Big Data', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science'] |
Over the years, GCP (Google Cloud Platform) has introduced plethora of new services, but the US-based cloud giant is still mainly known for two products: Kubernetes and AI. As you may know since 2003 Google has been an early adopter of containerized infrastructure for their own internal workloads. They developed a cont... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Google', 'Containers', 'Cloud Computing', 'Kubernetes'] |
1. Identify your quadrants on how you spend time
Stephen Covey famous quadrants of busyness illustrate the problem.
Most of us think we’re working on urgent and important stuff. The irony is that urgent often doesn’t equate to important at all. Urgent needs to be done, but important is where you can have impact. Not ... | ['Design Thinking', 'Startup', 'Design', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
You don’t need to understand every bias. What you need to understand is how they work in the flow of logic, according to Benson:
1. Information overload sucks, so we aggressively filter. Noise becomes signal. 2. Lack of meaning is confusing, so we fill in the gaps. Signal becomes a story. 3. Need to act fast lest we l... | ['Psychology', 'Startup', 'Branding', 'Marketing', 'Brand Strategy'] |
Apple
Known for its lineup of Mac computers, the iPhone and iTunes, Apple has been ranked the most valuable brand in the world.
The company is trying to compete with bitcoin through its mobile payments product called Apple Pay.
“Apple would not have as strong of an impact compared to Amazon or Google.”
— David Moon... | ['Amazon', 'Apple', 'Ripple Labs', 'Google'] |
In Search of Awe
Consumption is a progressive disease*
Photo by Benjamin Davies on Unsplash
One benefit of pregnancy which counters the joys of lightning crotch (Google it, I dare you) is the guilt-less freedom to say no.
At first, I felt like a wing-clipped bird but now it’s as though those secret fantasies of hav... | ['Life', 'Motivation', 'Self-awareness', 'Storytelling', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to Use a Journalistic Mindset to Write About Any Topic
To create stories about subjects you’re unfamiliar with, be inquisitive and do your research like a journalist would.
Photo by LUM3N on Unsplash
Being humble enough to admit what you don’t know is generally a great trait, but if you only stick to writing abo... | ['Journalism', 'Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Content Creation', 'Writing'] |
Music maybe the most powerful way in which we express our personalities.
But how much can we really learn about ourselves based on just our favorite music?
Believe it or not our musical taste say more about who we really are than the clothes we wear or the friends we choose to hang out with. We can’t deny the fact th... | ['Self-awareness', 'Music', 'Love', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Working alone (mostly in my house) as the solo founder of Pictal Health, it’s hard to get anything done. I find myself tossing a load in the laundry, wiping down counters, and getting into the weeds with home office organization. Before I know it, multiple hours have disappeared, my house is sparkling, and I am disappo... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Drawing', 'Productivity'] |
Kuma老師的軟體工程教室
Welcome to the Kingdom of Software Engineering | ['Design Patterns', 'Coding', 'Development', 'Code Smells', 'Software Engineering'] |
When I talk to people about whether or not they should be blogging one thing comes up over and over again.
What will I write about?
What if I run out of ideas?
I just don’t have that much to say.
I get it. I’ve been there. I’ve felt that panic when you’re staring at a blank page and you’re absolutely sure that ther... | ['Freelancing', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
Columns Semantics
The Primary Criteria to categorize Solutions is the SDLC Phase. Independent on which Software Development Methodology you use, size of your team or type of your Product, you need to go through these Phases. We took the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) Knowledge Areas and merged some of... | ['AI', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Landscape'] |
1. Have a peek at our guidelines:
What to avoid
Already-published stories: we accept unpublished drafts only.
we accept Stock photography: instead of using cheap stock images, try giving your story some love by picking a beautiful, free picture from websites like Unsplash, Pexels, Burst, The Stocks.
instead of usin... | ['Growth', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Tech'] |
The Best Way to Succeed as a Writer Is to Demand Less of Yourself Paul Kix Follow Nov 11 · 3 min read
The power that comes from meeting ridiculously modest goals
Photo by Jan Kahánek on Unsplash
I finished the first draft of a screenplay last week. It’s the fourth one I’ve written in three years, and I’ve written al... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Psychology', 'Creative Process', 'Creativity'] |
Dependency Injection
James Shore, the author of The Art of Agile Development, put it quite nicely:
“Dependency injection is a 25-dollar term for a 5-cent concept.”
The concept is actually really simple: Giving a component all the things it needs to do its job.
In general, it means decoupling components by providing... | ['Java', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Development'] |
I go to the same coffee shop every day, except on Tuesdays when I’m in a different part of town — then I go to a different coffee shop.
I take my laptop, order my usual coffee, and get to work quietly. The staff know my name, I know them, and I’m comfortable there.
But what happens when the routine has to change?
I’... | ['Mental Health', 'Routine', 'Productivity', 'Motivation', 'Coffee'] |
What a vaccine does contain
According to the World Health Organization,
Vaccines contain weakened or inactive parts of a particular organism (antigen) that triggers an immune response within the body. Newer vaccines contain the blueprint for producing antigens rather than the antigen itself. Regardless of whether the... | ['Covid 19', 'Healthcare', 'Health', 'Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
How to Make a Health App in 5 Steps
Development of a tool to organize medical records
Health data is essential for medicine in the work of saving lives. Medical records provide vital information about the patients’ physical situation.
We file these records disorganized, usually on a piece of paper. This information ... | ['Serverless', 'Apps', 'Health', 'Development', 'Design'] |
COVID-19 Cases Are Rising, So Why Are Deaths Flatlining?
The gap between soaring cases and falling deaths is being weaponized by the right to claim a hollow victory in the face of shameless failure. What’s really going on?
Image: The Atlantic
By Derek Thompson
For the past few weeks, I have been obsessed with a mys... | ['Science', 'Health', 'Coronavirus'] |
A photo I took of Louise in the hills of San Luis Obispo
The Girl Who Saved Me From Panic Disorder
And the tools I used to heal.
It began at my bank. The teller noticed something was wrong.
“Sir? Sir, are you okay?”
In retrospect, he probably thought I was choking. Choking or having a meltdown.
It was a meltdown.... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Mindfulness'] |
State design challenges
The pattern was developed to overcome two primary design challenges:
How can an object change its behavior when its internal state changes? How can state-specific behaviors be defined in a way that states can be added without altering the behaviors of existing states?
Boolean Flag Pattern can... | ['Coding', 'Csharp', 'Software Development', 'Development', 'Design Patterns'] |
The Tips
Don’t start writing anywhere and everywhere
Before you start writing, establish a few places where you can do serious writing without any distractions (your desk in the study, your bedroom, at the garden, etc.). Once you establish the place, make it sacred. Nothing else should be done out there.
Prepare a w... | ['Startup', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Writing'] |
So, Let’s start :)
At first, we need a dataset with the next classes:
- Person
- Animals
- Other
Let me describe what each class I mean:
In a first-class “person”, we should have any images of peoples but WITHOUT ANIMALS.
In the next class “animals”, we should have images with animals WITHOUT HUMAN.
In this cla... | ['Keras', 'Matplotlib', 'Computer Vision', 'Python', 'TensorFlow'] |
PART 1: A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST
“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
— Isaac Asimov
1 Earthrise
“Collectively and individually, we have more control now over how our future unfolds than ever before. But our ability to env... | ['Future', 'Technology', 'Humanity', 'Science', 'Environment'] |
Dear Grocery Girl
I see you caring (only) about yourself
Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash
Dear Grocery Girl,
Just to be clear, I am stalking you. I’ve had my eye on you since you grabbed the last mini-cart in the parking lot.
Your mask dangles over your ear like some forgotten bra on the clothesline, left out in th... | ['Covid 19', 'Opinion', 'Society', 'Coronavirus', 'Health'] |
Microservices
Python Microservices: Choices, Key Concepts, and Project setup
Distilled lessons from building microservices powering Slang Labs platform. Presented in a PyCon India 2019 tutorial.
At SlangLabs, we are building a platform for programmers to easily and quickly add multilingual, multimodal Voice Augmente... | ['Software Development', 'Programming', 'Microservices', 'Python', 'Software Engineering'] |
10 Insights That Can Be Applied to Headlines
1. Tell your reader how you’ll help them
These examples promise to help us do something. Although they don’t explicitly include the words ‘How to,’ you could add ‘How’ to the front of these taglines:
Trello: How to work more collaboratively and get more done
Asana: How t... | ['Headline Hacks', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
Brain by Gordon Johnson
Looking back at the eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
Hands-on collection and analysis of Twitter and Google Trends data with twint and Python
Among photos of the black hole, editing genes, quantum computers outperforming classical machines, and the ongoing debate on climate change… the pas... | ['Data Visualization', 'Explainable Ai', 'Google', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Today, organizations of all industries and sizes use data to tap into the wellness of their business. Anyone who can easily see trends and spot problems can make smarter decisions. Therefore, you have to visualize your data if you want to be competitive.
Data visualizations are images that show measurement and activit... | ['Eyeful How To', 'Business Intelligence', 'Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis'] |
Or should I say — the problem with people?
Photo by Lily Banse on Unsplash
Science has a problem. Or maybe it’s more like we have a problem with science. And since I’m a high school science teacher, this problem is one I’ve had to wrestle with. A lot.
My son is turning four next week. He loves trucks, monster trucks... | ['Education', 'Books', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Science'] |
Inspiration Is Never In Short Supply
There’s always something to write about
There was a point a few months ago when I thought I would have nothing left to write about. I had a few more ideas lined up, but beyond that, I was struggling to come up with any more.
I remember thinking to myself, “What am I going to do i... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Creativity'] |
A Look Into The Cell Graveyard
Or what happens to cells when they die.
Photo by Terry Vlisidis on Unsplash
The cells in our body all experience a finite lifespan. Even as they’re continuously dividing and multiplying, there will come a point in time where they are unable to carry out that function anymore.
And we s... | ['Healthcare', 'Health', 'Science', 'Biology', 'Coronavirus'] |
How to find outliers and anomalies using Isolation Forest Tracyrenee Follow Dec 11 · 4 min read
I made a previous video about finding outliers in the candidate votes of the US presidential elections from 1976 to 2020, the link being found here:- A Data-Driven Analysis Of Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Claims In The 2020 Presid... | ['Unsupervised Learning', 'Kaggle', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Isolation Forests'] |
Setting Up Traefik
Installing the Traefik Ingress controller is relatively simple.
Note: This is different than the “Kubernetes & Traefik 101” reference.
helm install stable/traefik --name <your-name-here> --set dashboard.enabled=true,serviceType=NodePort,dashboard.domain=dashboard.traefik,rbac.enabled=true,external... | ['Programming', 'Kubernetes', 'Microservices', 'Raspberry Pi', 'Engineering'] |
I’ve written before about the public — and professional — misconception of Autism as monolithic. Since it was first “discovered” by neurotypical professionals, Autism has been seen as a severe condition that appears in withdrawn, difficult boys who adore math, cars, or lining up their toy trains on the carpet. For deca... | ['Art', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Autism', 'Creativity'] |
Disclaimer: The content you’ll read below is based on extensive research on my part and my personal experiences with the band over the years. I am by no means a BTS expert, so do let me know if there is any errata in my claims. Thank you!
Just under a month ago, the South Korean boy band BTS attained the №1 spot on th... | ['Fashion', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Music'] |
A few weeks ago, I was catching up on my Instagram stories (I’m really bad about doing the Instagram stories, and checking them, but that’s a whole different adventure) and I came across the Kerrigan-Lowdermilk story that showed their new merch. And when I saw the “Holding On” shirt, my heart nearly stopped.
It may ju... | ['Music', 'Mental Health', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'Survival'] |
Saving nature without sacrificing modern life is the preeminent challenge of our time. It is a complicated problem that must be attacked simultaneously from multiple angles. Failure to act on one angle will invalidate efforts on other angles.
This problem must be addressed in two distinct phases. First, we must stop l... | ['Climate Change', 'Culture', 'Society', 'Future', 'Sustainability'] |
Becoming a full-time, work-for-yourself writer and online entrepreneur is a dream that thousands — if not millions — of individuals aspire to achieve.
Like many things worthwhile, in order to become one, it takes time and a lot of hard work.
For a lot of people (myself included), it all starts when you are currently ... | ['Motivation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Success', 'Digital Marketing', 'Writing'] |
Wearing A Mask Is About Respect and…Yes, Freedom
Respect for the healthcare system, respect for each other, and freedom from COVID-19
Photo by Anshu A on Unsplash
As we are learning more about this virus and its transmission, it is becoming clearer that wearing masks can make a big impact in reducing the person-to-p... | ['Society', 'Healthcare', 'Health', 'Medicine', 'Coronavirus'] |
Writers Express Gratitude During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Being Well writers continue to search for answers.
Thanksgiving 2020. It is more important than ever to find a way to be grateful for all that we have been given during challenging times. As the world struggles through the Covid-19 pandemic, the Being Well wr... | ['Health', 'Mental Health', 'Covid 19', 'Society', 'Fitness'] |
Launching an EC2 instance
Signing up For AWS
To launch an EC2 instance first you’ll need to set up an AWS account. Amazon provides new users with 1 year of free tire access which comes with free access to various AWS services within certain limits. To get more information about AWS free tier and creating an AWS accou... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Ec2', 'Iaas', 'Big Data', 'AWS'] |
Jason Isbell — Southeastern
I’ve written before about how talented Jason Isbell is, and his album that came out in 2017 — The Nashville Sound — was my favorite of last year. Out of all of his music, though, I still think this release is his best. It’s musically diverse, skillfully written, and contains some of the bes... | ['Writing', 'Music', 'Culture', '2018', 'Design'] |
As we get older, our professions become more involved and demanding. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
For those of us who aspire to be creatives, having a job that puts demands on some other part of the mind can be liberating.
Novelists who have made a career as copywriters may find it hard to come home to work o... | ['Books', 'Work', 'Creativity', 'Brandon Sanderson', 'Writing'] |
Matplotlib
There is no method for instantly creating funnel charts in Matplotlib, so let’s start with a simple horizontal bar chart and build from there.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt y = [5,4,3,2,1]
x = [80,73,58,42,23] plt.barh(y, x)
Horizontal Bar Chart — Image by the author
That’s actually quite close to wha... | ['Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Plotly', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization'] |
By Annie Mark-Westfall
My column is due in two days, and I am staring into a panicked abyss. To inspire myself, I take a brisk walk while my husband puts the kids to bed. As I set out, I narrate and write in my head, badly. I get stuck on whether the word “brisk” is meant to describe the pace or the biting cold, and r... | ['Women', 'Writing', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Motherhood'] |
Introducing his students to the study of the human brain Jeff Lichtman, a Harvard Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, once asked: “If understanding everything you need to know about the brain was a mile, how far have we walked?”. He received answers like ‘three-quarters of a mile’, ‘half a mile’, and ‘a quarte... | ['Neuroscience', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Brain', 'Ethics'] |
Let’s get the crappy part out of the way. When you’re first starting out as a freelance writer, you may feel a bit discouraged because nobody wants to pay you what you’re worth. You’ll see a ton of short writing jobs out there between $5 to $10, work that any professional might charge $100 or more for. The unfortunate ... | ['Freelancing', 'Blog', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
How to Create Captivating Animations in Python
Learn to generate animations using Matplotlib with examples
Animations are quite a captivating way to illustrate a process.
This post aims to emphasize on Matplotlib animations.
Matplotlib is a complete framework for the creation of fixed, animated and engaging represe... | ['Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Animation', 'Productivity', 'Data Visualization'] |
What Happens at Vagus
How Gut Microbes Talk to the Vagus Nerve
Decoding the interkingdom crosstalk between microbes and humans.
Image by Tomislav Jakupec from Pixabay
“Although the gut microbiota can communicate by endocrine and immune pathways, perhaps the fastest and most direct way for the microbiota to influenc... | ['Mental Health', 'Education', 'Advice', 'Science', 'Psychology'] |
The Psychiatric profession is the biggest culprit
Image/Medika Life/CC License
Magic, mystery, smoke, and mirrors. It's a sight you'd expect from a carnival sideshow, but you need to go no further than your local American university where psilocybin is handed out to “depressed cancer patients” in a ritual that is rem... | ['Prescription Drugs', 'Psychology', 'Health', 'Drugs', 'Mental Health'] |
We believe monetization is a hidden secret. Secrets hiding in plain sight. From the psychology of anchoring, the mathematics of power-law pricing tables, the application of demand elasticity, and the market positioning of your price — your path to better monetization awaits.
Follow | ['Growth', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Monetization'] |
How is it — or could it be — done? Here’s a rough guide. The raison d’etre of the neural data scientist is to ask scientific questions of data from systems neuroscience; to ask: how do all these neurons work together to do their thing?
There are roughly three ways we can answer that question. We can see these three wa... | ['Neuroscience', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Science'] |
The New UK Coronavirus Variant Is Troubling, But No Reason To Panic.
There’s no evidence it provokes more severe disease or impacts on vaccines.
Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Since early December, a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has been identified in the United Kingdom (UK). Baptized B.1.1.7, this new strain... | ['Science', 'Covid 19', 'Health', 'Coronavirus'] |
This is socializing in 2020
A little more than 4 months ago I began the process of deleting all my social media accounts. At the time, I felt that my compulsion to check social media was effecting my relationship with my wife, and infant daughter. I found myself messing with my phone during quiet times with the baby t... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Social Media', 'Mind', 'Society'] |
Did someone just flush the toilet?
There was nothing perfect about my grandmother, her life nor the restaurant she had created. But, it was in this imperfection where the beauty could be found.
While she was one of the most gifted cooks I’ve ever met, she didn’t measure a damn thing, she didn’t own a recipe book, she... | ['Creativity', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life', 'Writing'] |
How to Make Google Love You (Even if You Don’t Love Google)
Online experiences begin with search engines and Google is #1
Photo by Kai Wenzel on Unsplash
In today’s digitalized world, search engines are one of the most powerful marketing tools. Search has become an essential part of our daily lives. The search engin... | ['Writing', 'Google', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Search Engines'] |
Reading Fiction Will Make You a More Empathetic Person Who Makes Better Decisions
So why is it missing from so many self-help recipes?
Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
— Charles Dicken... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Self Improvement', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
The new landing page is to have no landing page at all
Quicker to value means quicker to pay.
by Mike Petrucci on Unsplash
I want you to take a hard look at your product and ask yourself if you really need that landing page, all that text, or even that intro video.
What if you got rid of it all and just shoved them... | ['Marketing', 'Design', 'Web Development', 'Startup', 'Growth Hacking'] |
In this post, I’d like to show how to quickly create a Tableau-like BI application on top of your data in a Jupyter Notebook using the atoti python module. It can give your users an easy way to:
explore the data produced by your model with an interactive UI, play around and see it in various projections without the ne... | ['Storytelling', 'Dataviz', 'Bi', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Coronavirus
The Pandemic’s Future: A Book Review on ‘From Killer to Common Cold’
This book describes the concept of herd protection, which is different from herd immunity, and how the remainder of the pandemic will unfold.
Globe vector created by freepik — www.freepik.com
The explosion of scientific literature on C... | ['Covid-19', 'Science', 'Healthcare', 'Coronavirus', 'Health'] |
Wouldn’t it be lovely to throw myself out of an open window? Sometimes, I think about open windows and extension cords — even on my better days. Even after I tongue my morning meds. I breathe and let it pass. Ignore the incoming tide and wreckage on the shore. I tell myself it’s going to get better, it has to get bette... | ['Society', 'Writing', 'America', 'Mental Health', 'Culture'] |
Sarah Bernhardt plays Hamlet, London 1899
“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?”
The close of Act II Scene ii, and Hamlet questions how the performers in a play about the siege of Troy are able to convey such emotion — feel such empathy — for the stranger queen of an ancient city.
The... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Creativity', 'Technology', 'Art', 'Future'] |
“El Niño is likely this winter,” the forecaster says. “El Niño typically brings above-normal winter cloudiness and rainfall across the southern U.S. and milder conditions to Canada…”
You may have heard something like this spoken on your TV, radio, or written on the Internet recently. Have you ever wondered how a meteo... | ['Mapping', 'Weather', 'Plotly', 'Climate Change', 'Data Visualization'] |
Writers
What happens when I submit my article to TDS?
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If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
If you asked my ten-year-old self what she wanted to be when she was older, she would’ve answered without hesitation: “I want to be an author.” Reader, let me tell you, my younger self would be proud because as of the 3 October 2020, I finished my 80,000-word manuscript.
This is hopefully the first of many novels I’ll... | ['Literature', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Books'] |
The Psychological Imperative of Characterization
How writers can use psychology and archetypes to create more engaging and honest characters. With thoughts on the role of narrative in human identity.
Our brains take in information about the world through the senses. The little experience simulator processes sensory i... | ['Work', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Writing'] |
В KnightLab полагают, что современная журналистика оказалась под контролем «технократов», которые ничего не смыслят в профессии:
What problem are we solving?
We care deeply about journalism. […] But in 2013, journalism is still struggling with its digitally-focused future. Technologists are winning at media technolog... | ['Storytelling', 'Visualization', 'Journalism'] |
Branding for Nonconformists
Developing an Author Brand When Your Passions are All Over the Map
Do I have to pick ONE thing to be known for?
Photo by Alice Achterhof on Unsplash
A decade ago, back when people were still reading personal blogs (remember those?), my sister remarked, “You’d attract a lot more readers i... | ['Marketing', 'Books', 'Branding', 'Writing', 'Publishing'] |
As the days etch on, I can’t help but think about the friendships I’ve had in my formative years, where we would invite our friends to our homes — with our parents’ permission obviously — and they would invite us back.
When we visited a new friend or acquaintance, their house had this innate but benign signature smell... | ['Smells', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Writing', 'Nose'] |
Why Covid Long-Haulers Should Be Careful About Vaccines
Understanding who might be at risk for post-vaccine autoimmunity, including mRNA-based vaccines.
Health vector created by pikisuperstar — www.freepik.com
In 2011, Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, a world-leading autoimmunity professor with over 1,700 peer-reviewed publica... | ['Science', 'Advice', 'Vaccines', 'Coronavirus', 'Health'] |
[Image by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash]
This is that time of the year when Kaggle shares data from its industry-wide survey on its platform and challenges the Data Scientists all over the world to analyze that data and present a truly comprehensive view on the current state of data science and machine learning. Ergo, as a... | ['Matplotlib', 'Kaggle', 'Data Analysis', 'Visualization', 'Data Science'] |
Why we make mistakes
Error occurs when our model of reality clashes with, well, actual reality. Our mistakes shock us so much partly because we forget that we interact with the real world only indirectly. Whether it’s through our senses, or constructed theories of how the world works, we navigate life using imperfect ... | ['Startup', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Learning'] |
Watching ASMR Videos
About a year ago, I randomly opened up my YouTube app to watch a music video. The first thing that popped up on my YouTube homepage was a video with the title “99.9% of you will sleep to this ASMR video”. The promise of sleep seemed too good to be true. I didn’t even know what ASMR was. However, o... | ['Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Self', 'Motivation', 'Health'] |
For around 3 years of my experience I was using matplotlib for visualization, around 2 months back following an advice of my colleague, I gave a try to plotly and dash. I was so impressed from the library that I have posted tutorials about these libraries on my YouTube channel “when math’s meets coding”. Today I am goi... | ['Dashboard', 'Data Visualization', 'Dash', 'Plotly', 'Python'] |
How the Brain Copes With Social Distancing
The psychology behind personal space
Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
Something isn’t right.
They no longer acknowledge the presence of one another.
Solitary or in couples, they scatter themselves in an oddly equidistant manner across the sand. They wander without purpose... | ['Coronavirus', 'Life', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
I’d like to preface this case study by stating that my intentions behind redesigning Apple Music were in no way driven by indignation or spite.
Earlier this year I applied and interviewed for a graphic design internship at Apple Music (an opportunity of a lifetime), and was turned down with a very kind letter stating ... | ['Apple', 'Music', 'UX Design', 'Tech', 'Design'] |
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
In the Western world, we’re obsessed with time. We schedule meetings to start at precise times, we rush to get things done as fast as possible, and we tend to view time as a kind of currency, which we desperately need to allocate effectively. Right or wrong, these are the expectation... | ['Entrepreneur', 'Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
I’m Reverting to My 9-Year-Old Self To Be More Productive
The perks of not caring what others think
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash
I’ve been feeling pretty down lately. I’m not sure if it’s the quarantine blues setting in or if I’m just stressed out with life in general. We are trying to play some major catch... | ['Childhood', 'Work', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
Over July, I participated in The Information’s News Summer School, which explored some of the biggest opportunities in journalism at this moment. If you are not familiar with The Information, it is a very high-quality digital publication with deeply reported articles about the industry that you probably won’t find else... | ['Creativity', 'Writing', 'Journalism', 'Podcast', 'News'] |
Building the simple code block:
We already discussed about the notification class. This class offers us the notify function. The information and syntax of the notify method is as discussed below.
Syntax:
notify (title='', message='', app_name='', app_icon='', timeout=10, ticker='', toast=False)
title (str) — Title ... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Productivity'] |
Tutorial on Data Visualization: Weather Data
Weather data analysis and visualization using Python’s Matplotlib
Data Visualization is more of an Art than Science. To produce a good visualization, you need to put several pieces of code together for an excellent end result. This tutorial demonstrates how a good data vis... | ['Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Weather', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Keach Hagey, Lukas Alpert, and Yaryna Serkez’s piece in The Wall Street Journal take a deep dive into the steep decline of local news coverage, as smaller papers fail to make the digital transition that larger players did. Now, local journalism is in danger of vanishing.
Local papers have suffered sharper declines in ... | ['Facebook', 'Google', 'Newspapers', 'Journalism', 'Digital Advertising'] |
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