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It is an exciting time to be working in the wealth management industry. There is a seismic change underway with new technologies that make it easier and more affordable for firms to both offer services to clients who historically would not have been able to access their advice, and to look after their clients’ interest... | ['Enterprise Technology', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Wealth Management', 'Fintech'] |
Restore MongoDB Data
At this stage, you already have your dump-files directory in your new machine. Next, we can proceed to restore the MongoDB data.
Let’s assume I saved my dump directory at this path ~/Downloads/mongo-migration .
Now we can use the default root role we have in our MongoDB to restore the database. ... | ['Database', 'Mongodb', 'Software Engineering', 'Mongo', 'Programming'] |
An Interesting situation has begun to develop following concurrent articles from the New York Times and Washington Post about an FBI informant that allegedly met with Trump advisors.
The media response has been fractured with several different narratives being told.
With so many different accusations being thrown aro... | ['Mueller', 'Journalism', 'Misinformation', 'Trump'] |
Finding myself in a challenging situation.
It was a Monday, and we had to do a demo for the stakeholders on a product we have been working on by Wednesday. To give you some context, I was a Machine Learning Engineer who was mostly involved with researching, prototyping, and developing AI products.
We got terrific res... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Data Science', 'Learning'] |
How Reading Fiction Has Made Me a Better UX Designer
Applying lessons learned from literature to the design process
Photo: pchyburrs/RooM/Getty Images Plus
I used to be an avid reader. When I was a kid, I would go to the library and check out more books than I could carry home or ask my parents to drop me off at the... | ['Design', 'Craft', 'Reading', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
1. Structure the Skeleton UI
The step is, obviously, to make the empty skeleton components:
The skeleton should look the same as the content as much as possible
When you make the skeleton component, there’s one thing you should be careful about. The purpose of the skeleton UI is to reduce a boring wait for the data,... | ['React', 'Nodejs', 'Reactjs', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
The Myth of the T-Shaped Developer
Exploring Generalization and Specialization in Developer Careers
Recently a younger developer I respect expressed a somewhat common concern. In essence, their concern was that they were finding themselves doing a little bit of everything and not specializing enough. They were specif... | ['Bootcamp', 'Careers', 'Career Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Junior Developer'] |
Quick Intro
The fourth entry in this series of Masters of Many in their formative years lacks the mainstream popularity of our previous protagonists, especially relative to Da Vinci & Franklin; Thomas Young, however, nonetheless embodies the perfect portrait of a 20th-century polymath. Praised by the likes of Eisenste... | ['Life', 'Physics', 'Education', 'Science', 'History'] |
A conceptual and theoretical apology for the morality of a hell marker.
Combinatorics is essential to Kabbalah and also AGI. One of the fun things about the advent of AGI, and VR is being to actually access the functions of divine beings — the creation of environments and the entities that populate those environments.... | ['AGI', 'Christianity', 'Apologetics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Kabbalah'] |
How Wendy’s Revolutionized Corporate Social Media Accounts
From Twitter to Twitch
Source: author’s screenshot from Twitter
In 2017, one of the biggest memes on the internet was Wendy’s Twitter account. One of the most unexpected things for a fast food joint to do in order to get an edge on their competitors, Wendy’s... | ['Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Wendys', 'Twitter', 'Social Media'] |
The Best AI Trend Is Yet To Come
A complete overview of all AI trends (we know of) coming at you
Title Image by Author, License for background held through Envato Elements
AI has made incredible progress over the last decade, and better tools and models are being developed every day. From GPU-Acceleration to Natural... | ['Programming', 'AI', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
We brainstormed a few solutions to that hiccup. We basically wanted a checksum algorithm we could use to fingerprint files quickly, but that didn’t have one of the properties of most hashing algorithm: the fact that any small change in the input value results in a completely different output value.
One solution we exp... | ['Security', 'Python', 'Conference'] |
Decision-making algorithms trained on large amounts of data regularly shape the world we live in, often unknowingly. From deciding which demographic a social media advertising campaign will target to granting parole to a prisoner, these algorithms are trusted daily to make important decisions in personal finance, healt... | ['AI', 'Ethics', 'Justice', 'Data Science', 'Racism'] |
In the early 1980s, Jean-Louis Dumas was the chief executive officer of Hermès. He was on a flight from Paris to London. On the flight, he was seated next to a popular English actress and singer named, Jane Birkin.
Apparently, Birkin put her bag in the overhead compartment when all of a sudden, her bag dropped and eve... | ['Fashion', 'History', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'Style'] |
We wanted to build a service which can store price data for multiple financial products (like BTC future quoted in USD) and can answer time based price aggregation queries within milliseconds.
Choosing InfluxDB
We evaluated a bunch of time series databases and decided to finally go ahead with InfluxDB.
Pros
SQL lik... | ['Big Data', 'Influxdb', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
The river below looked as drab and grey
as the still, forbidding sky above. The day
was a perfect underscore for my mood.
No. More than mood. The life
I’ve prepared to abandon for months.
The dreariness of living has laid a
road ahead far too bleak to consider.
I am through, as the cold wraps
itself around my t... | ['Depression', 'Poetry', 'Relationships', 'Self', 'Psychology'] |
The Meaning Of Wealth
A poem.
Photo by Budka Damdinsuren on Unsplash
When you think of wealth, what
are the thoughts and pictures that
come to mind?
Perhaps it’s a hot tub filled with
money and diamonds and pearls,
and a house so big you could
get lost within its rooms and halls.
And a private jet to take you... | ['Poetry', 'Self-awareness', 'Mindset', 'Personal Growth', 'Wealth'] |
When creating our registration application our UX designer came up with the following design (screenshot taken from our storybook):
It was relatively easy to implement using React, so we wrote it and forgot about it.
Several weeks later, we submitted the alpha version of the app to our accessibility testing consultan... | ['Accessibility', 'React'] |
One day at a time you fight
You step in and out of the light
Breathe in and hold it tight
What’s wrong can feel so right
When the day turns into night
When the frog becomes a knight
His kiss makes your heart take flight
Then he’s gone and out of sight
The fight is gone and replaced with numbness
The light disa... | ['Poetry', 'Lov', 'Self-awareness', 'Broken', 'Self Love'] |
Machine Learning Techno-Premium Babble
Machine Learning & Data Science — ambrosia for noobs.
The article was supposed to be short. But there is no way to talk about “machine learning” without knowledge of the slogans used in the discussion. We will start in the traditional way — we will go through a list of the most ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Driven Company', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
Human interaction:
Humans are social beings, we don’t cope well in isolation as we have seen with many mental health experts telling us that social distancing will cause great damage to our mental health. As a homebody, I’m coping with this new way of life of staying indoors to flatten the curve as we all should be fo... | ['Life', 'Nature', 'Humanity', 'Self-awareness'] |
~philosophical poetry
My dear
In the midst of strife, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was within me, an invincible calm.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there l... | ['Resistance Poetry', 'Poetry', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Community'] |
What’s hot in UX this week:
“Let’s not reinvent the wheel.”
If you’ve ever worked at a software company you’ve heard somebody say this during a design session.
As liberated and brash as we may seem these days, we are — more than ever — fighting a creative culture of fear. There are alternative views, of course, but ... | ['Design', 'UX', 'UX Design'] |
This article is a follow-up to one I wrote a year ago — Lessons from building AI to Stop Cyberattacks — in which I discussed the overall problem of detecting social engineering attacks using ML techniques and our general solution at Abnormal. This post aims to walk through the process we use at Abnormal to model variou... | ['Machine Learning', 'Email Security', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cybersecurity', 'Data Science'] |
Definition of Lambda
In Python, a lambda function refers to a small anonymous function. We call them “anonymous functions” because technically they have no name.
Unlike a normal function, we do not define it with the standard keyword def that we use in Python. Instead, Lambda functions are defined as a line that exec... | ['Python', 'Data Cleaning', 'Lambda Function', 'Python Programming'] |
Tamar Nachmany, “Mount Sinai”
All the electronics above my hospital bed are gossiping about when, exactly, I’m going to die. It sounds like a concert I heard in Berlin many years ago. We were told to close our eyes and listen. Static. Beeping. Rain. My monitor is the principal violin. I am not dying alone.
Stephen Au... | ['Contests', 'Writing', 'Microfiction', 'Fiction', 'Twitter'] |
Robert Wultsch | Pinterest engineer, SRE
In Part 1 we discussed our existing architecture for ingesting MySQL called Tracker, including its wins, challenges and an outline of the new architecture with a focus on the Hadoop side. Here we’ll focus on the implementation details on the MySQL side. The uploader of data to ... | ['Open Source', 'Big Data', 'Sre', 'MySQL', 'Data Science'] |
Photo by Author
Mass migration to the online space has led to the widespread use of portable devices, especially mobile ones. It becomes more difficult to imagine users’ lives without mobile applications and constant information updates.
Ensuring data protection is one of the critical aspects of application developme... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Mobile Apps', 'Data Security', 'Software', 'Testing'] |
Data science is a common term in the present time. This was not the case five years ago because only a few people know about it at that time. Before moving further, you need to understand what is it? It is nothing but is a multidisciplinary blend of data inference, algorithm development, and technology. The given chart... | ['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
I’ve been preparing for Data Science interviews for a while, and there is one thing that struck me the most is the lack of preparation for Numpy and Matrices questions.
Often, Data Scientists are asked to perform simple matrix operations in Python, which should be straightforward but, unfortunately, throw a lot of can... | ['Python', 'Interview', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Matrix'] |
Geeks on a Train starts today!
This afternoon I’m leaving Dalian, Liaoning, China for a 10-day journey across China’s tech ecosystem with a bunch of awesome startup founders. By train. Because planes and buses are so last year.
With stops scheduled in both Beijing and Shanghai and a number of events on the schedule i... | ['China', 'Startup'] |
Dataset
Download the dataset from: NYC Airbnb data
REMEMBER: The goal is to predict rental prices for given data.
Note: I have just explained some steps for EDA in NYC Airbnb to get the intuition of approaching EDA for any problem. To know more about this dataset, check on Github.
Try to understand the data.
For e... | ['Data Analysis', 'Kaggle', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning'] |
“Object-oriented programming makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts. Functional programming makes code understandable by minimizing moving parts.” : Michael Feathers
There are multiple programming languages in the world, and so are the categories in which they can be classified. A programming paradigm... | ['Python', 'Lists', 'Functional Programming', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Want To Build A Truly Amazing Team? Focus Less On Talent And More On Personality How To Build A Great Team
Here’s why you shouldn’t overlook the intangibles when building your team:
By Andrew Wolfe, CEO of Skiplist
If you want to build a truly great team, focus on the individual personalities your employees introduc... | ['Work', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
We chose quality education as this year’s brief topic because of Microsoft’s commitment to providing accessible STEM education to students around the world. We were interested in finding students with diverse backgrounds who wanted to come together to solve issues, break barriers, and provide more access. -Margaret Pri... | ['Design', 'Inclusive Design', 'UX Design', 'Ixd', 'Microsoft'] |
With the Morpheus Labs BPaaS commercial version slated to be released in a few months, our business development activities will start to ramp up in accordance to a go-to-market plan. This article is intended to provide more details on our business model.
1. Who are distributors?
Our go-to-market strategy is primarily... | ['Bpaas', 'Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Morpheus Labs', 'Bitcoin'] |
Tips for Retaining what you’ve Listened to
When it comes to audiobooks, retention is queen.
Enjoyment is king.
If you aren’t enjoying what you’re listening to, then maybe consider switching books. Remember, don’t just ditch the whole practice of audiobooks based on one bad menu item.
But right behind enjoyment is r... | ['Coaching Corner', 'Coaching', 'Leadership Development', 'Growth', 'Books'] |
Creative Focus: Reach the right people with the right message in any industry
By: The Civis Team
Today, we’re excited to announce General Availability of Civis Creative Focus, our online message testing tool. Now, users in any industry can build better messaging, create more focused advertisements, and generate posit... | ['Message Testing', 'Software', 'Analytics', 'Advertising', 'Marketing'] |
Stories are powerful. They teach lessons, provide distractions, and inspire audiences to expand the scope of their aspirations. The greatest stories relate to us on a personal level. We identify with the hopes, dreams, struggles, and triumphs of different characters, and that identification often begins with a characte... | ['Storytelling', 'Personal Development', 'Personal Branding', 'Diversity In Tech'] |
What Fills My Cup Up
A reflection from a Divine Feminine
Photo by Zac Harris on Unsplash
I was recently told to take a break and do what fills my cup up. I said “YES” without hesitant only to walk out of the conversation feeling blank.
I was taken aback because I thought I was filling my cup up! Isn’t that what I’v... | ['Self-awareness', 'Spiritual Secrets', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Lessons Learned'] |
Prequel: scaling up our empathy
When you put a bunch of humans together, they eventually find ways to assemble themselves into interesting structures. They form governments, start companies, and join organizations like the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society, which is a real thing that actually exists.
We can think of... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Philosophy', 'Consciousness'] |
Liever in het Nederlands lezen? Dat kan hier.
It was pretty painful. Especially in the beginning. When I learned to let go it wasn’t all that bad. It brought a feeling of relief knowing that this wouldn’t be the last time. I heard many stories about people’s first time, but how can you really prepare for such a things... | ['Impact', 'India', 'Socialentrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Plastic'] |
Logic behind Softmax regression
Ultimately, the algorithm is going to find a boundary line for each class. Something like the image below (but not actually the image below):
Image by author
Note: we as humans can easily eyeball the chart and categorize Sarah as waitlisted, but let’s let the machine figure it out via... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Algorithms', 'Engineering', 'Editors Pick'] |
One Resolution Each Year
The importance of having a game plan
Image created by Lorie Kleiner Eckert on Canva
My financial adviser is a smart guy. He believes that we need to set up rules for my investments and stick to them. The main rule is what percent of my assets is in the stock market and what percent is not. T... | ['Life', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
In the first article, we went through an overview of where entities fit in the Watson Assistant structure. We also touched upon the different types of entities and their benefits.
In this article, we will take a closer look at the different types of entities — synonyms and patterns. ... | ['Watson Assistant', 'Wa Editorial', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Editorial'] |
The Internet is growing up. So are you. And you’re ready to get out there and break it. You’re going to be an influencer, a digital brand expert, a social media marketing guru. The first brand you’re going to build, you’ve decided, is yours.
Welcome to the fray.
Sowing Your Oats
You’re diving into an $8B market, cho... | ['Marketing', 'Security', 'Privacy', 'Social Media', 'Personal Branding'] |
“A design system is like a pet. It’s easy to like the idea of having one but if you do go ahead and pull the trigger you are taking on a big responsibility,” says Apurv Ray, a design strategy lead. “When it’s a young design system it’s great to play with it, teach it new tricks by adding new components, and it doesn’t ... | ['Ux Designer', 'Design Career', 'Design', 'Design Systems', 'UX'] |
RAPIDS cuGRAPH
In release 0.16, cuGraph kicked off three major long-term themes. The first is to go big. We have shifted to a new 2D data model that removes the 2 billion vertex limitation and offers better performance and scaling into the 100TB+ graph range. The first multi-node multi-GPU (MNMG) algorithms updated to... | ['Big Data', 'Rapids Ai', 'Gpu', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Designing a website is hard. Until I built a website for my wedding, I’d never tried to do it before and I can honestly say that building the pages and content wasn’t as hard as initially thought, but making it look how I envisioned in my head… now that was a different story! Of course, designing a website for a weddin... | ['Design', 'Online Business', 'Ecommerce', 'Web Design', 'Small Business'] |
Sharded: A New Technique To Double The Size Of PyTorch Models
Sharded is a new technique that helps you save over 60% memory and train models twice as large.
Giving it scale (Photo by Peter Gonzalez on Unsplash)
Deep learning models have been shown to improve with more data and more parameters. Even with the latest ... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Editors Pick', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Millennials — currently between the ages of 23 to 37 years old — are estimated to to yield $200 billion in annual buying power. The caveat: only six percent of Millennials consider online advertising to be credible.
So, how will you reach the other 94 percent?
With Millennials, you must cut to the chase and tell the ... | ['Marketing', 'Messaging', 'Millennials'] |
Review: Residual Attention Network — Attention-Aware Features (Image Classification)
In this story, Residual Attention Network, by SenseTime, Tsinghua University, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is reviewed. Multiple attention module is stacked to generat... | ['Image Classification', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Photo by Freddy Marschall
In quantum mechanics, the superposition of states collapses when measured. This behaves as if nature cares only when you are looking. This is odd and we may expect the math will be bizarre also. In reality, the math is amazingly simple and elegant. A wave function |ψ⟩ collapses when measured ... | ['Physics', 'Science'] |
Build your own machine learning model to predict the presence of heart disease
A detailed walk-through of an end-to-end machine learning project
Photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash
We all know that machine learning is currently used widely in various sectors like healthcare, automotive, financial services, retail, e... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Classification', 'Heart Disease', 'Data Visualization'] |
In order to understand whats is Big data and Hadoop, you need to understand what is data.
What is data?
In general, data is any set of characters that is gathered and translated for some purpose, usually analysis.
What is Big Data?
Big Data is also data but with a huge size. Big Data is a term used to describe a co... | ['Technology', 'Arth', 'Big Data', 'Hadoop'] |
How to Make Disney’s Vegan Dole Whip at Home
Disney released the cult-favorite recipe so you can transport yourself to the parks anytime
I grew up in a house that had rules — and they were reasonable ones. No sugary cereal, no staying up past 10:00 PM, no computer time until after homework was done.
But on vacation,... | ['Dupes', 'Food', 'Food Hacks', 'Vegan', 'Disney'] |
I stared at the numbers in disbelief. I refreshed the page repeatedly, hoping it was just some glitch, that the earning was just not calculated yet.
With a heavy heart, I had to accepted what was to be my new reality.
The rule changed and I suffered some losses as a result. Other than adding to complaints already mou... | ['Gratitude', 'Writing', 'Médium', 'Life', 'Writer'] |
API CALLING
When I began programming some years back, APIs, REST APIs and Endpoints were some of the programming concepts that I had the general idea of but didn’t fully understand.
I later took up some internships and came across the term “API” again. This time my colleagues made it seem like an out of this world co... | ['React', 'API', 'Axios', 'Mern', 'Full Stack'] |
What You Don’t Know About Your Competitors
How purchase data gives a broader view of your competition
When you’re sizing up your brand’s competition, where do you typically look?Sometimes, we look at the category through the lens of product features. For example, ice cream competitors can be divided into the differen... | ['Strategy', 'Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Research'] |
It’s okay to pause here
Here in between the promise and the things you know
It’s not that you want to go back to how things were
It’s just that familiar things are hard to discard
It’s just that the future seems so hard
And unknown
And scary
Welcome to the wilderness
It’s okay to pause here
And let the spirits... | ['Blue Insights', 'Spirituality', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Poetry'] |
2018 was a very productive year for RISE. Let me recap some of the achievements the team was able to deliver during 2018:
Along with all these updates, I started working in a private repository to create the new RISE v2.
Why v2
New v2 is built to have the following concepts in mind
Extensible Modular Simpler More f... | ['Blockchain', 'Typescript', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Creativity is giving yourself the freedom to share your truth. Not standing in your own way, not judging yourself on the idea still in your mind but allowing them flow through your fingers without judgement. That is what creativity is.
Creativity is freely sharing your truth with the world and yourself without judgeme... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Artist', 'Creativity', 'Art'] |
Your Path by Nicole Ivy
I know it’s only the first week for me on 100 Naked Words but sometimes I feel like giving up. The truth is, it’s hard to create something that I’m okay with posting everyday. And I don’t want to force it. I know that the situation I’m in right now won’t make it easy to keep up.
I’m a voluntee... | ['Writing', 'Life', '100 Naked Words', 'Challenge', 'Determination'] |
5 lessons from a young leader
A reflection on self-confidence and overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Photo by David Marcu on Unsplash
At 23, I became the manager of my company’s User Experience team.
A few years prior, I had started in design as a one-person show. We were a small company, with around 30 employees worldwi... | ['Leadership', 'Design', 'Learning', 'UX', 'Imposter Syndrome'] |
Three Constraints
From my experience in working on large legacy systems and also immature systems still in development, the following are three important constraints that I have identified for building resilient front-end architectures.
1. Source code dependencies must point inwards
A few ways of organising our depe... | ['Nodejs', 'React', 'Architecture', 'Programming', 'JavaScript'] |
Absolutely Electrifying
Like a shot of adrenaline to the heart
Image by FelixMittermeier from Pixabay
When the words strike you in just the right way at just the right time they can make you forget the world around you as your attention is consumed by whatever it is that your reading. It’s not easy to capture people... | ['Addiction', 'Spirituality', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Self'] |
Alarming news! In from the New Yorker,
That the health of poor Poesy has gotten worse!
There are many theories and we have from her doctor
That what’s bad for her heart is free verse.
“She was desperate,” said her husband, Time,
“She had strayed so far that she could not tell
If music was carried away in the crim... | ['Inspiration', 'Humor', 'Writing', 'Poetry', 'Writing Tips'] |
Building the Tree of Knowledge — Exploring the Use Case for Educational Chatbots aXcelerate Follow Apr 11, 2018 · 3 min read
With an increasing number of tech giants getting into the business of the smart home assistant, modern life is edging closer and closer to a sci-fi movie’s depiction of future home life.
“Hey S... | ['Edtech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
Key points by Ioanna Georgia Eskiadi
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all facets of society and economy. In this webinar, the ways in which the pandemic has impacted the journalism industry, journalists themselves, and media outlets was discussed. Across news and media outlets, workers are facing layoffs, positions ... | ['Covid 19', 'Webinar', 'Journalism', 'Dcn'] |
For better or worse, partisan journalism is here to stay.
Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
The arbiters of information, perpetual seekers of a scoop, the sometimes-affirming, sometimes-spurious mouthpieces of the body politic — call them media, call them press, these are the hats of a journalist.
These roles of ... | ['Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Journalism', 'News', 'Government'] |
Machine Learning In Healthcare: Detecting Melanoma
Using the patient's diagnosis report and skin lesion images to detect whether the lesion is cancerous or non-cancerous by applying several machine learning algorithms.
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. It o... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Health', 'Data Visualization'] |
There are certain things with all the tools you use that you won’t know even after using it for a long time. And once you know it you are like “I wish I knew this before” as you had already told your client that it can’t be done in any better way 🤦🤦. Airflow like other tool is no different, there are some hidden gems... | ['Apache Airflow', 'Python', 'Airflow'] |
Do You Want to Know Why Suffering Is so Seductive?
My very first story on Medium reached 1k views and ~750 reads in less than two weeks. This made me curious about the reasoning behind and I’ll share my insight with you right now.
Image by Jerzy Górecki from Pixabay
I don’t expect to make a living from writing on Me... | ['Husband Wife Dispute', 'Relationships', 'Empathy', 'Suffering', 'Writing'] |
The stories I write are erotic shorts, around 5,000–8,000 words in length, retailing for the tried and tested price point of $2.99. I create “chapters” of around 500–800 words that move the story along. Each chapter has a “cliff hanger” that usually ends with the sex almost happening, but not quite. The stories have on... | ['Publishing', 'Nonfiction', 'Sex', 'Self', 'Erotica'] |
CloudMosa’s mission is to empower the world’s phones through cloud computing and make them universally powerful and useful.
Follow | ['Cloud Computing', 'Cybersecurity', 'Remote', 'Web Development', 'Cloud'] |
The Three Pillars of Quantum Computing
The fundamentals of understanding how a quantum computer works
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Quantum computing is one of those topics that people find very interesting yet quite intimidating at the same time. When people hear — or read — that the core of quantum computing ... | ['Quantum Computing', 'Quantum Physics', 'Demystifying Technology', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
André Christ has built a company that could be best described as an underdog. Even though LeanIX isn’t very present in the news, the company is one of the youngest German success stories. In June, they closed a Series D funding and their client list is a potpourri of international top brands like Adidas, Atlassian, or ... | ['Enterprise Architecture', 'Startup', 'Podcast', 'Product Development', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Image from memes on me.me
Or rather, is it possible to sell spirituality?
So here’s the thing.
I’ve had miraculous healing of an autoimmune disease by taking ayahuasca and medicinal plants, along with living in the jungle and having a skilled curandero (healer) to guide me.
I initially thought that I wanted to own ... | ['Spirituality', 'Ayahuasca', 'Plants', 'Spiritual Growth', 'Marketing'] |
Circularity in General
The (Real) Theory of Everything
Photo by Shapelined on Unsplash
What is the circular theory?
Nature is balanced (and explained) by the circle between any X and Y…
Why is this relevant?
Two is the most basic number (not one) thus 50–50 explains everything (complementarity is the basis for id... | ['Relationships', 'Quantum Computing', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Reality'] |
Your endorphins are high, serotonin is running rampant, and oxytocin is overtaking your actions. You’re giving your vulnerabilities and opening up your heart to someone who was once a stranger.
You are in love.
Love is one of the best feelings you can ever experience. It’s a feeling or an experience that we continuou... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Marriage', 'Trust', 'Dating'] |
Launch First and Listen To Your Customer Often as You Scale
Danielle Bodinnar, a passionate entrepreneur with a desire to solve a problem realized that in order to do so, her company had to pivot. Here she shares how to do just that based on customer insight
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
The best strategy I lear... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Customer Engagement', 'Scalability', 'Entrepreneur', 'Women'] |
TRUE CRIME
Kill Your Parents, Watch Batman, and Live Like a Prince
Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents and almost got away with it.
Photo: Murderpedia
In the late 80s, Lyle and Erik Menendez were living a privileged, wealthy lifestyle thanks to their highly successful father. The boys weren’t particularly... | ['Murder', 'Family', 'Psychology', 'Crime', 'True Crime'] |
This post was originally published at TK’s Blog.
When you first learn to code, it’s common to learn arrays as the “main data structure.”
Eventually, you will learn about hash tables too. If you are pursuing a Computer Science degree, you have to take a class on data structure. You will also learn about linked lists ,... | ['Python', 'Algorithms', 'Coding', 'Technology', 'Programming'] |
Cloud resources are free… until they are not.
FinOps — Joel Marchand
Cloud computing is amazing. Resources of all sizes and shapes can be provisioned with a few commands. But at the risk of using a tired trope, with great power comes great responsibility, or at least great cost. My team saved Cloud costs by 40% while... | ['DevOps', 'Cloud Computing', 'Finops', 'T Mobile Tech'] |
Today wasn’t a great day. We did the best we could. It just went on and on. A lot of people just dying in front of us. Due to the nature of the crisis, there are so many sick patients overwhelming the staff. It’s very difficult to get everyone into the ICU in a timely manner. We’ve tried to deploy other physicians and ... | ['Healthcare', 'Coronavirus'] |
Until a while back, this all sounded like a distant dream, until I discovered this new AI-powered software called Krisp.
Krisp does one job and it does it really well; removing background noise automatically.
It does not matter for what purpose you are using your microphone for, as long as there is background noise, ... | ['Skype', 'Noise Cancelling', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Zoom'] |
Becoming a UX UI Designer is not that tough, but choosing which tool to use for designing is quite difficult. There are a lot of softwares which does pretty much the same thing like Adobe XD, Figma & Sketch which is turning your ideas into low to high fidelity prototypes.
Which one should you start with?
If you are a... | ['UX Design', 'Design', 'UI Design', 'Design Tools', 'UX'] |
Now available in ebook + paperback
“Funding & Exits is the definitive guide that I recommend every one of my portfolio companies’ management teams read and internalize” — Bruce Cleveland, Partner, Wildcat Venture Partners
Entrepreneurship is woven into the fabric of America. 30 million small businesses operate in the... | ['Funding', 'CEO', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Tech'] |
Friends On Medium
Thanks for your help and example
Photo by Simon Hattinga Verschure on Unsplash
Although I have not personally met anyone on Medium, there are some people on the platform that I can consider as friends. They have responded to me, and I have responded to them. They have been kind and encouraging. The... | ['Medium', 'Friends', 'Gratitude', 'Writing', 'Reading'] |
LI Weekly Editorial
Of writers and their writings
Literary Impulse mini-edition is live!
Artwork by Bettina Baldassari
As writers and poets, we scribble on, weaving a multitude of stories, every day, or once in a few days. Some of what we compose, we find it closer to our heart, than the others, and alternatively o... | ['Fiction', 'Literary Impulse', 'Writing', 'Poetry', 'Letters From Li'] |
Most of us say “no” a lot, and it’s important that we do.
It’s also important that we say “yes, and” — a foundational rule in improv — so we can build trust in key moments.
Yes, and. These two short words convey a lot.
Yes is an acknowledgement: yes I see you and hear you. Yes, I acknowledge and accept your offer an... | ['Culture Change', 'Leadership Development', 'Teamwork', 'Trust', 'Collaboration'] |
Implementation
The model is meant to be used to change the input spend (especially by the product and marketing teams) and see how that translates to the overall growth of the client base over time. This is used in the signup sub-model to map it to the number of signups. Besides that, certain improvements that are exp... | ['Growth Hacking', 'Machine Learning', 'Startup', 'Data Science', 'Fintech'] |
Organic Search vs Paid Search: The Epic Showdown
Organic Search vs Paid Search: Which is the Best in 2k20?
How can you incorporate both for maximum ROI in 2k20?
My Experience in this industry is more than 3.5+ years and here I want to elaborate to you what is good for your business: organic search or paid search? In... | ['Marketing', 'Organic Marketing', 'Paid Search', 'Organic Seo', 'PPC Marketing'] |
I’m writing this content to help you understand the best way to setup a new project with Python and using virtual environments properly.
An illustrative image for how Virtual Environments works
The fact is when I learned about Virtual Environments I didn’t realize how they could be used in a way that would help to sc... | ['Python Programming', 'Python3', 'Python', 'Virtual Environment', 'Basic Python'] |
Meaning
A Poem
Photo by Luisa Denu on Unsplash
leave me on the sand
in the rotation
of raging waves
and bluish caresses
this is where I try
to understand
the meaning of everything | ['Poetry', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Poem', 'Nature'] |
What motivates gamers? How do these motivations correlate to personality traits? What impact do age and gender have? At Quantic Foundry, we combine social science with data science to answer these questions. As you’ll discover, the findings aren’t what you’d expect.
Introducing the research model
Using factor analysi... | ['Gaming', 'Game Development', 'Game Motivations', 'Behavioral Science', 'Psychology'] |
6 Technologies That Will Make You a Wanted Front-end Developer in 2021
How to choose your next move in your career, and turn it for the better
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
Do you want to change your developer’s career for the better in 2021?
Maybe you want to move to a better-paying position. Or maybe you wan... | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Work', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
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and I’d be happy to add you as the editor of this medium pub after a brief chat 😃 | ['Storytelling', 'Chrome Extension', 'Lol', 'Lollistoflit', 'Chrome'] |
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Fitness carries different connotations depending upon whom you ask or talk to about it. We all know that it’s what is on the inside that counts, but that doesn’t mean that you should neglect your outsides. Take some time to improve your appearance and your health using the tips below.
1. Crunche... | ['Weight Loss', 'Helping Others', 'Fitness Tips', 'Fitness', 'Motivation'] |
As we continue with our exploration of Google Cloud Spanner, I found one concept to stand out, that of nodes.
Typically in cloud computing, an instance is synonymous with a singular virtual machine, and a node is the CPUs, memory, storage and networking underlying that VM. In Cloud Spanner, the relationship still hold... | ['Database', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud Spanner', 'Distributed Systems', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
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