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The Importance of Struggle
Most of us naturally avoid struggle; or worse, attempt to vanquish it in search of peace, and ease. This is both self-destructive and un-human. Here’s why.
The face of a life lived. © Anthony Fieldman 2016
Without struggle, there is no gain, or transformation. Without struggle, our actions... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'Self Improvement', 'Life'] |
This time of the year is when people will start making their New Years Resolution and goals for 2019. I wanted to share how I achieved one of my goals last year and hopefully it will help you to achieve yours as well.
Although this article is mainly about reading books on a more consistent basis, you can apply this fr... | ['Books', 'Goals', 'How To', 'Reading', 'Readinglist'] |
“Instant gratification takes too long”
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
At the start of every new year, everyone is makes resolutions and plans and promises.
Most of us know at least one person that spent the holidays eating too much, drinking too much, and washing it all down with leftover Halloween candy b... | ['Happiness', 'Maturity', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Success'] |
Great writers are those who help us to view our world differently, challenge our ideas and our opinions. They enable us to appreciate things we never have before and to come up with novel ways of putting together old knowledge to form something completely new. Their description elicit images of what we haven’t seen bef... | ['Novel', 'Fiction', 'Fiction Writing', 'Writing', 'Reading'] |
Submission Guidelines
Last updated 13 August 2020
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Created on 14 June 2020
Last Edit 13 August 2020
So you want to be a writer and submit to ‘Share The Love’? That’s cool, we would love to have you on board. Before you do though, read through these guidelines to make sure that w... | ['Sharethelove', 'Submission', 'Writing', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Médium'] |
From BWA-MEM & Lumpy to Sniffles & NGMLR
Initially, the team had started out using BWA-MEM to map the PacBio reads with Lumpy for variant-calling, worked with those variant calls for a long time, then realized they were missing real structural variants. The problem was Lumpy would not split a read more than once, but ... | ['Biotechnology', 'Women In Tech', 'Cancer', 'Genetics', 'Bioinformatics'] |
Principles of visual design
These elements are inherently present in any good layout design
In my last article in the design series, I talked about seven principles of design in general, whether it be a hardware product, a service, an experience, or a software UI. In this one, I am going a step further to emphasize t... | ['Gestalt Principles', 'Design', 'UX', 'UI', 'Visual Design'] |
For my third project at the Flatiron School, I chose to analyze the dataset on customer churn for a telecommunications company, SyriaTel. The objective was to build a classifier to determine if a customer would ‘soon’ leave SyriaTel, and to determine if there were predictable patterns.
The data provided no time inform... | ['Data Science', 'Shap', 'Customer Churn', 'Python', 'Binary Classification'] |
By CHRISTOPHER NYE
Big challenges lie ahead — fixing the economy so that it more equitably serves everyone, not just those with the wealth and power; rebuilding democracy so that it is no longer hijacked by lobbyists and corporations; and redirecting cultural life away from decadent diversions and violence but toward ... | ['Schools', 'Sustainability', 'Teaching', 'Learning', 'Education'] |
This story is part of a series on the possible impacts of Apple and Google’s contact-tracing technology. You can read the others here.
Apple and Google announced a partnership last week to track the spread of the coronavirus using “contact tracing” software. The ambitious effort harnesses Bluetooth technology and smar... | ['Apple Google Collab', 'Contact Tracing', 'Equality', 'Coronavirus', 'Surveillance'] |
The Loudest Sound Ever Recorded
It was heard nearly 3,000 miles away and the shock wave circled the globe three times
Throughout the day on August 27th, 1883, people around the Pacific would look up to the sky and scratch their heads. Their eyes saw blue skies, fluffy white clouds and no signs of rain and yet they he... | ['History', 'Science', 'World', 'This Day In History', 'Nature'] |
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
After my last relationship, I suddenly realized how much time I had in my day. To minimize some of those feelings of loneliness that inevitably pop up after a relationship ends, I re-focused my energy on activities that would elevate me as a person.
I came up with a strict publishin... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Development', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Self Love'] |
Knowing when not to talk is an art.
Tim Denning:
It’s all bullshit. The meeting is a waste of time. No resolution is reached.
But it’s not all bad. Meetings have taught me one valuable lesson: watch the quiet people. | ['Life', 'Meetings', 'Work', 'Productivity'] |
In 2016, went vegan. His first novel “La guérilla des animaux” (The Animal Guerrilla) was published in 2018. It’s a book that a reader will hardly put aside due to its breathtaking pace and its radical main character. The protagonist Isaac is a ferocious, radical vegan activist who undertakes an odyssey around the worl... | ['France', 'Authors', 'Portraits', 'Animals', 'Vegan'] |
Why Millennial Men Don’t Go to Therapy
The most depressed generation won’t get help despite having more access than ever before
About eight years ago, Eugene was in the midst of transferring colleges when he noticed how his mood sagged, seemingly at random times, triggered by the smallest things. He had spent the pre... | ['Mental Health', 'Pyschology', 'Therapy', 'Millennials', 'Depression'] |
My Timeline
Two weeks before quitting:
I started tapering down my caffeine use two weeks before quitting entirely. My first step was to eliminate all the soda from my diet, leaving just coffee. This step went remarkably smoothly.
Even though I had been drinking four or more sodas most days, I didn’t miss them anywhe... | ['Addiction', 'Mental Health', 'Diet', 'Lifestyle', 'Anxiety'] |
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A spatter a flowering
but not on cement
Just on breaking something with
gray matter
Grab the tweezers & rush up
to the bathroom
afterwards to lay the
sheet down on the floor
in case the idea blood goes too far
On the whimsy of the second
instance in which you called
me somet... | ['Image', 'Writing', 'Editing', 'Poetry', 'Violence'] |
Dear Reader,
I’m thrilled to end the week with more exciting news: The United States will likely have a second approved Covid-19 vaccine very soon. A panel of medical experts advising the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted in favor of approving Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use yesterday. The FDA is e... | ['Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
Magical Waters
An Unexpected Love Journey of the Mind
Photo by Jordan Heath on Unsplash
Submerged, my body warm and gently swaying with the rise and fall of the water, a cleansing ritual have left my mind, emotions and heart open. I am raw. A January illness and depression have diminished my frame and my bones strai... | ['Life Lessons', 'Meditation', 'Nonfiction', 'Self', 'Family'] |
March 10: The Tibetan National Uprising Day
How a story of a minority among minority is a global concern
I think I am speaking for the majority of Tibetans — or at least to me when I say that March 10 of every year, brings me a generational pain — a pain of my grandfather who starved to death in a prison for being a ... | ['Politics', 'Protest', 'Tibet', 'Environment', 'Uighurs'] |
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“How do I style :hover when using Styled Components?” and bonus: “How do I style a different object/multiple objects on hover?” 💅
So this was a question I wanted an answer to literally 2 minutes before it was our time to demo last week. Lucky me it was so easy to apply! 😅 You basically add it to your existing compon... | ['React', 'Redux Thunk', 'API', 'CSS', 'Redux'] |
Christian conversion therapy started hardcore
As LGBTQ acceptance became more and more ordinary in the latter part of the twentieth century, conservative Christian institutions responded by offering techniques to help LGBTQ people of faith reconcile spiritual dissonance by turning themselves straight. By the late 1980... | ['LGBTQ', 'Mental Health', 'Christianity', 'Equality', 'Religion'] |
Imagine walking into a coffee shop, bar or a restaurant. You vaguely remember your last visit, and you definitely don’t remember what you ordered last time.
One of the staff members walks up to you and welcomes you by your name, asks whether you would like the same drink as you ordered last time, and offers you your p... | ['Fear', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Intelligence', 'Unconcious Bias', 'Social Media'] |
How to Set the Default Configuration Properties for a Micronaut Library Vladimír Oraný Follow Feb 10 · 4 min read
Micronaut is a very extensible framework which allows you to easily create new libraries. Generally speaking, you can create a set of beans which will be injected into your application and ship them as a s... | ['Micronaut', 'Tech', 'Groovy', 'Java'] |
Artificial Intelligence. These two words spark a variety of emotions in today’s culture. For many, they flicker fear: fear of lost jobs, greater dependence on technology, and even fears spurred by science-fiction films imagining a future of robot overlords. Some members of the population view artificial intelligence wi... | ['Computer History', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'History', 'Machine Learning'] |
Arturo Alva-Moreno Was World Trade Center Victim #2,754. Or Was He?
His daughter is certain he died at the World Trade Center. But as far as the government is concerned, he never even existed
H er father said he worked at the top of the Tower, midway between the ground and the sky. So he must have been in there, some... | ['New York', 'Immigration', 'Mexico', 'September 11', 'Longform'] |
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Why I’ve Stopped Pursuing Happiness
Science and a survey reveal the pursuits that really matter
One year ago, on Jan. 1, 2019, I resolved to explore, understand and write about happiness: what it is, what it means, and what we can do about it. I went in with an open mind, hoping to figure out who has ... | ['Happiness', 'Life', 'Family', 'Wellbeing', 'Science'] |
I recently began developing on, and for Windows, and while I continue to develop my skills in Powershell and C#, I rely on my go-to language for most day-to-day automation, Python. I found that there were many marked differences between the experience of writing system programs for Unix-like systems, and for Windows, m... | ['Python Programming', 'System Administration', 'Programming', 'Windows', 'Python'] |
I would have never said this, not even to my mom.
Love is something unique, secretive, heartbreaking; yet, so moving. I had never fallen in love before. Deep in my mind, I thought I was destined to be that rich uncle that drinks martinis at family gatherings.
Well, I might as well argue for a missing olive. However, ... | ['Romance', 'Love', 'Self-awareness', 'Humor', 'Relationships'] |
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This follows on from my previous article Automating secret rotation in AWS. If you haven’t already, you can read that article here.
In software development, a Proof of Concept (PoC) is a great way to validate your idea, by building a small project based around a simple use-case. Howeve... | ['Infrastructure', 'DevOps', 'Automation', 'AWS', 'Software Development'] |
Advice (From Someone Who Hires) on Getting Your First Software Engineering Job
Dos and don’ts from my experience interviewing 100+ developers and hiring a few
Photo by ThisIsEngineering from Pexels
Getting your first development job is hard. But you can do it, regardless of your background.
I’ve personally hired fo... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Coding'] |
While I was enjoying a well appreciated family break in Charleston, I bumped into a weird object that made me think.
Here is the suspect:
Charleston parking spot meter
Ok so what’s the particularity here? Well, aside from the fact that they use an old device and updated it by removing the handle at the bottom (very ... | ['Design', 'UI', 'UX'] |
Here Are The Most Controversial AI Moments of 2020
List of Artificial Intelligence Controversies
Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword in 2020 and with the benefits of this technology evident around us; AI has had its own share of controversies. From algorithms¹ unfairly discriminating women in hiring and stu... | ['Technology', 'News', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Creative deployment of technology can help teachers make their resources go further in preparing students for new roles emerging in the digital economy.
Education is changing faster than ever, with new ideas, technologies and demands constantly emerging. As Artificial Intelligence continues to automate aspects and fun... | ['Tech', 'Edtech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Education'] |
Over the past year, I’ve picked up a sudden and intense interest with what is called “Circular Economy” (in a broad sense, that is including its link to Social and Solidarity Economy, as well as its connections to our well-being and health.)
As part of our mission in Bpifrance Le Hub — where we focus on fostering the ... | ['Recycling', 'Environment', 'Circulareconomy', 'Bpifrance Le Hub'] |
Nagata Kabi is a very atypical manga artist. For one thing, she publishes her work on Pixiv and other social media platforms, outside of the world of demographic-oriented anthology magazines that spawn most of the manga which makes it over to the West. Nagata’s work is also unusual in that it’s autobiographical, a genr... | ['Comics', 'Manga', 'Mental Health', 'Autism'] |
These are just two examples of Trump’s Cabinet members and top officials who have abused their office for personal gain. Although Pruitt and Zinke are gone (replaced by other industry shills), Trump — who has set the tone for this self-dealing from the very top — has still not been held accountable.
Obstruction of jus... | ['Environment', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Impeachment', 'America'] |
Systems that rely upon artificial intelligence to make decisions are often black boxes that produce values which are interpreted to signify a certain meaning. There is often no explanation of how the system arrived at these values. This lack of explanation may not be an issue for problems such as predicting film revenu... | ['Future Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Explainable Ai', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
When using MongoDB with a strong OOP language like Java, it’s a no brainer to want to hack the MongoDB Java Driver to serialize data to different sub-classes of model classes given different shapes of data, because MongoDB doesn’t have a strict schema restriction for a collection, which makes it a perfect match to stor... | ['Inheritance', 'Java', 'Mongodb Tutorial', 'Mongodb', 'Polymorphism'] |
React is defined as a Javascript library for building user interfaces.React work with DOM. DOM is “Document Object Model”The DOM API can be used to change a document structure, style, and content.
If someone asked you to give one reason why React is worth learning, this outcomes-based UI language is it. I call this la... | ['Jsx', 'React', 'React Dom', 'Developernaim20'] |
By Dorothee Sarah Spehar
Scandinavian fashion and design have been going strong in fame and sales for several years now. Copenhagen based brands as Ganni, who recently opened a shop in SoHo Manhattan, are the fashion dream of every woman who wants to indulge in the carefree and romantic style of Danish girls on a bike... | ['Sustainability', 'Fashion', 'Blogger', 'Growth', 'Success'] |
A short tutorial on how to scrape data from https://www.basketball-reference.com/ (or any other sports-reference.com site) with python
Photo by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash
Sports-Reference.com is precisely where sports fandom and data science converge. It’s a massive, structured warehouse of clean sports data. Thus, i... | ['Web Scraping', 'Sports Statistics', 'Python', 'NBA', 'Data Science'] |
Apollo
Born as a political tactic during the Cold War to show the nation’s technological superiority, the Apollo program would become NASA’s greatest and most famous mission, achieving the impossible by putting a man on the Moon.
Named after the most loved of all the Greek gods, the Apollo program consisted of 17 mis... | ['Space', 'Astronomy', 'Science', 'NASA', 'Solar System'] |
Why You Should Buy Books Instead Of Video Games
The theory is simple.
Buy books instead of video games — especially if you’re young! Take all the money you would’ve spent on video games and, in the words of Patrick Star, PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
That somewhere else being your local book store, hopefully.
Really quic... | ['Finance', 'Money', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Education'] |
Naïve Implementation
Cosine Function
Before writing a naïve implementation I want to see how the series progresses as the no.of terms increase.
The value of the series is oscillating between positive and negative that’s because of (-1) that’s being multiplied at every iteration. The values in red are the 5ᵗʰ term ro... | ['Software Development', 'Programming Tips', 'Python', 'Towards Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['App Development', 'Español', 'Development', 'Backend Development', 'Docker'] |
COVID-19 Leads to a Drop in Average Food Prices
In addition to tracking the virus, data visualization can help us measure the impact COVID-19 has had on everyday life
The coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the global population on a daily basis. The response to the virus requires restricting movement, interacti... | ['Covid 19', 'Food Prices', 'Food', 'Food Data', 'Coronavirus'] |
You are in the market cashing out on the register. You are handling the stuff you bought but the cashier is not looking at you, smiling or saying anything. The feeling is quite unpleasant. How would you feel if you did not receive even a single feedback after the shopping? Would you ever go to the same register again? ... | ['Feedback', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'User Experience', 'UX'] |
‘Six of Crows’ Book Review
A story about a band of loveable crims and a heist that’ll go down in history
Photo by Tyler Quiring on Unsplash
It took me an age to get into Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo — my own fault, really, for having a baby whose needs come before the devouring of a good book (babies are selfish li... | ['Fiction', 'Book Review', 'Fantasy', 'Reading', 'Books'] |
Top 40 Questions for Spring Framework:
1. What are the benefits of Spring?
Lightweight: Spring is lightweight in resource use, with the basic Spring Framework only costing 2MB of storage.
Spring is lightweight in resource use, with the basic Spring Framework only costing 2MB of storage. Scalable: Spring’s transactio... | ['Coding Interview', 'Programming', 'Spring Boot', 'Java', 'Spring'] |
If you are someone who totally understands why we need to shift our practice, but you are stuck on how exactly we do this, this article is for you. I have outlined the following tips under categories ranked from most important to least. I have also offered some examples so you have a better idea of what it can look lik... | ['Social Justice', 'Design', 'UX', 'Data Visualization', 'Ethics'] |
Chart illustrating the 4 basic types of intelligence, from the article “Graphicacy” by W.G.V. Balchin in 1972 (link)
One evening on our #-topics-in-data-viz slack channel, we began discussing the term graphicacy in relation to data visualization literacy. I decided to roll up my sleeves to learn what it was all about.... | ['Dvhistory', 'Design', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
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1. Red Lights Are Optional
Prerequisites: Feigning Colorblindness and Yellow Means “Speed Up.”
Why should everyone else’s safety and traffic laws stop you from earning more? In this class, you will learn the concepts of ignoring the fundamentals of traffic lights and common decency with strategies on how to do so ... | ['New York', 'Humor', 'Comedy'] |
Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, I am not an expert.
At the beginning of the summer I had a major issue.
I just accepted a new job and between the work hours, the commute, meals, and a workout I was left with at most an hour of free time a day during the work week.
This was a major problem because I’m a le... | ['Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Life', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Productivity'] |
Learn How To Compile a C++ Program
A series of articles exploring issues I’ve encountered using C++
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
One of the hardest things I found when first learning C++, outside of learning about pointers and memory management, was how to successfully compile code using third-party libraries.... | ['Software Engineering', 'Game Development', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Coding'] |
For years sex has been an area of interest for me (isn’t it for everyone?!). More specifically, orgasms. I get the point of actual sex, practically speaking, for procreation of course. However, a woman does not need to have an orgasm to get pregnant, so why is it there. Pleasure? Sure, that sounds good. But surely, the... | ['Mental Health', 'Orgasm', 'Sex', 'Social Issues', 'Rwanda'] |
The next three weeks were filled with denial, paranoia, and anticipation. Sam sat at his cubicle, staring at his computer screen. His mind was always on the hooded ones, the shells, and what it all meant. He wanted desperately to search the internet for answers, although based on how Aaron advised him to not alert anyo... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'SciFi', 'Psychology'] |
This is part 8 of my “self-defense essay”. If you missed the prior installments, start here with The #EpicNovelFail
Accelerator Application Best Practices:
Read the entire application before starting to answer the questions
Copy the questions to Word and compose your answers offline.
Don’t make us look outside the ... | ['Startup', 'Accelerator'] |
I spend a considerable amount of time to curate good lit-y/arty links in a week, and I love doing it. But I want to do it right, which means I want to constantly keep improving the quality and variety of the links that I curate. For that I need your help. You could start helping me by two ways:
Fill up this 6 question... | ['Lol', 'Stories', 'Storytelling', 'Feedback'] |
It has been almost a decade since I became so enthralled with that group of women.
My view of them is no longer the same. The glitter quickly faded and when I saw what was really happening I couldn’t pretend like everything was okay
T hat group of women, including myself were all being abused by our significant other... | ['Relationships', 'This Happened To Me', 'Mental Health', 'Women', 'Self'] |
Here’s the Morning Routine That Has Brought Me the Most Success
5 key habits you can adopt as well.
Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash
For most of my life, my morning routine has been all over the place. In high school, I didn’t even have one. I rolled out of bed about 10 minutes before I had to leave for school... | ['Productivity', 'Work', 'Inspiration', 'Lifestyle', 'Life'] |
Accessible, well-presented, and full of lessons. A review of Ruth Kinna’s take on the anarchist canon.
Unlike with Marxism’s venerated namesake, the great Karl Marx himself, it has always been difficult to pin down a canon of anarchist thinkers. There are no schools of thought that venerate Kropotkin, Goldman or Malat... | ['Politics', 'Books', 'Anarchism', 'Review', 'Socialism'] |
SHORT STORY MONDAY
The Bet: A Masterful Bit of Story Telling by a Master Storyteller
“Don’t tell me the moon was shining; show me the glint of light on the broken glass.” ~Anton Chekhov
Painting by Nikolai E. Timkov. Oi on board. Photo by the author.
When I first became serious about writing as a calling I divided ... | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Death Penalty'] |
The following steps of subsequently enabling APIs, creating service keys and credentials are unfortunately quite elaborate but follow on
2b. Create a Service Account Key
Create Service Account Key — Input
On the completion of this step, a key file with a .json extension is created. Download this service account key.... | ['Speech Recognition', 'Text To Speech', 'Python', 'Gmail Api', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Features To The Internet Of Things (IOT) Amal_cp Follow Dec 28 · 4 min read
image by Amal_cp
The Internet of Things is getting smarter. Companies are incorporating artificial intelligence in particular, machine learning into their IoT applications. The key idea is finding insight... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'IoT', 'Ai And Iot', 'Internet of Things'] |
For a comprehensive deep-dive into the subject of Software Design Patterns, check out Software Design Patterns: Best Practices for Developers, created by C.H. Afzal, a veteran software engineer with multiple years of experience at Netflix, Microsoft, and Oracle. Much of the below is summarized from his course.
Why Des... | ['Object Oriented', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Design Patterns', 'Coding'] |
Chicago’s police department has announced a new partnership with Amazon Ring — should it add facial recognition to its surveillance suite?
Source: Scraped data from Amazon Ring-Police partnerships
The 2nd largest police force in the country has added a controversial new tool to its arsenal. The Chicago Police Force a... | ['Ring', 'Facial Recognition', 'Police', 'Amazon', 'Surveillance'] |
Image by Shahariar Lenin from Pixabay
It’s that time of year again. A couple of weeks ago everyone made a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions. Three weeks in and most of them have been discarded and everyone is feeling crappy about it. We are often very hard on ourselves. Instead of making resolutions, we should try, inst... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Self Love'] |
Before I met this car salesman, the word “vulnerable” conjured up two images — share your deeply personal experiences. And have the guts to absorb the whimsical reactions of the world. A car salesman widened my view.
Photo by Jake Blucker on Unsplash
My wife and I were strolling through the car lot of a dealership. H... | ['Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Stereotypes', 'Self', 'Trust'] |
Psychology plays a big part in a user’s experience with an application. By understanding how our designs are perceived, we can make adjustments so that the apps we create are more effective in achieving the goals of the user.
To help you understand the perception of the user, I will introduce some design principles wh... | ['UX', 'UI', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'User Interface'] |
Returning to Trees
A wander through the science and symbolism of majestic oaks, as we search for a way home to forests.
Along the country lane, a solitary row of oak trees arches towards the road as if to offer a safe passage to all who pass. The winter branches are bare and the rain-soaked wood is black against the ... | ['Ecology', 'Evolution', 'Trees', 'Plant Science', 'Science'] |
Photo by Robin Harwick, 2016
What will it take for you to see
it is more than just a tree
What will it take for you to know
the knowledge you gain depends on what you sow
What will it take for you to see
I’m sure you won’t listen to me
For who am I? I have no degree
what I learn doesn’t come from a university
... | ['Life Lessons', 'Sustainability', 'Equality', 'Poetry', 'Freedom'] |
There are only two steps to engage in a great conversation with anyone — ask questions and listen to the answers with full attention.
The only time you can break this rule is during a job interview, where you need to sell your skills and talents. For every other interaction, have the confidence to refrain from talking... | ['Communication', 'Listening', 'Relationships', 'Engagement', 'Storytelling'] |
By James M. Dorsey
Increasing strains between Pakistan and its traditional Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, is about more than Gulf states opportunistically targeting India’s far more lucrative market.
At the heart of the tensions, that potentially complicate Pakistan’s economic recovery, is a... | ['Biden', 'Pakistan', 'Middle East', 'Trump', 'Saudi Arabia'] |
Creating efficient and small images are very important in docker. In this article, we will look at the ways to create them and their use cases
What are Images
What is a copy-on-write strategy?
What are we building
Three ways of Building Images
Use cases
Conclusion
What are images
The whole operating system of L... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Web Development', 'DevOps', 'Docker'] |
The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here
But will the current bans last?
Photo: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
OneZero’s General Intelligence is a roundup of the most important artificial intelligence and facial recognition news of the week.
The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforc... | ['General Intelligence', 'Police', 'Facial Recognition', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Surveillance'] |
Of the many issues which face prison officials in the United States’ beleaguered penal system, the institutionalization of its detainees stands out as one of the most serious. The problem of inmates who have grown so comfortable with prison that they prefer life on the inside to the outside is one that needs to be addr... | ['Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Incarceration', 'Education'] |
I purposefully used the word “modes” rather than “levels” in order to avoid any assertion that these are some sort of ranking. There’s nothing wrong with operating in any of these modes so long as it works for you and aligns with the expectations of those who have expectations of you.
Personally, I’m most interested i... | ['Self-awareness', 'Personal Growth', 'Leadership', 'Mental Models', 'Mentorship'] |
Survivorship Bias: The Forgotten Failures
“Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates all dropped out of school and became billionaires! You don’t need school to succeed. Startup founders just need to stop wasting time in class, drop out, and get started.”
It’s entirely possible that Steve Jobs succeeded despite his... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Decision Making'] |
1. You’ve made or kept a character commitment.
Friends used to describe me as a great starter but a poor finisher. I tended to drift from ambition to ambition, embarking on new ventures with unbridled excitement, only to lose interest at the first roadblock. But five years ago, I changed my approach to life.
It began... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Relationships', 'Psychology'] |
Acquiring Customers
One of the most important responsibilities of any startup founder is acquiring customers. Without users and cash, the business dies. Network effects and “virality” are two of the most crucial strategies for organic growth.
And organic growth built the unicorns and tech behemoths of today. Few gian... | ['Growth Hacking', 'Network Effect Hacks', 'Network Effects', 'Startup', 'Marketplaces'] |
There were many doubts as to whether or not quantum computing could ever become a reality. The circuitry relies on tricky manipulation of ions and photons, or otherwise requires temperatures near absolute zero. It is, by all means and purposes, an immense test of mankind’s cleverness and aptitude for innovation. Yet ju... | ['Science', 'Technology', 'News', 'Politics', 'Tech'] |
What makes your career as a developer a great one.
Do you still ask yourself what you want to be when you grow up? Even if you’ve already grown into a full adult?
I do that daily. And as a junior developer, most of my answers are related to what type of programmer I aspire to be one day.
Every coder has different in... | ['Work', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Web Development', 'Technology'] |
The subscription ecommerce market is growing fast. In 2019, there were about 3,170 subscription box programs, and about 25% of all shoppers received a subscription box regularly. With a large part of the global population in lockdown, many of these companies have experienced a further steady (and in some cases increase... | ['Startup', 'Engagement', 'Ecommerce', 'Subscription Boxes'] |
In October 1884, forty one delegates representing twenty six nations converged on Washington DC with the goal of establishing an internationally recognized system of time zones and time tables in order to quell the growing discontent over the disparate local times.
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The patent suggests using body heat, fluids, or brainwaves to validate blockchain transactions and award users with digital currency such as Bitcoin.
By Adam Smith
A new patent application by Microsoft details a way to use bodily functions such as brain activity to mine cryptocurrency.
The application, entitled “Cry... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Microsoft', 'Future Technology', 'Biotechnology', 'Technology'] |
There’s a ton of advice out there on how to write “selling texts.” What we are offering you is not just another scheme or a set of guidelines. We will tell you what works in practice, and why it does. It’s very simple, but it can be revelatory for you — just as it was for us.
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What is User Experience Design?
User Experience is the value that you provide to your user when he is using your product.
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What is Python?
Python is a very powerful programming language and can be used to write any piece of software. But you can also use it to do data science. Model your sales data, text mining on your latest Twitter feeds, or build the next movie recommendation engine. It’s all possible with Python. Python is open source... | ['Python Tutorials', 'Python Programming', 'Python'] |
二分搜尋法（Binary Search）完整教學（三）
含有重複值的情境
在上一篇中我們留下了一個重大問題，是時候來討論了。
問題
如果 array 裡面有重複值，要尋找的 target 就可能有多個答案，那我們該回傳哪一個？可以看以下例子
跟以前一樣，解決問題的第一步，是給問題一個明確的定義。其實我們通常在意的，會是最前面一個，或是最後面一個，中間的通常不是那麼在意，或說，只要能找到最前與最後，中間也就不困難了。因此，我們定義出以下兩個新需求，並且要想辦法達成。
在 array 中，找到 >= target 的元素裡面，最小的那個的 index 在 array 中，找到 > target 的元素裡面，最小的那個的 in... | ['Python', 'Binary Search', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Algorithms'] |
How I used pandas and datetime to improve accuracy in a traffic time series problem Tracyrenee Follow Dec 23 · 5 min read
During the course of my studies in time series analysis, I have discovered that there are some time series datasets that perform better using the more traditional methods of machine learning becaus... | ['Time Series Analysis', 'Python', 'Artificial Analysis', 'Pandas', 'Datetime'] |
Is there a shortcut to becoming a 10x developer? Is there some magical secret that — if you only knew it — would unlock a whole new world of software development mastery and productivity for you?
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The Case for Using Covid-19 Exposure Notification Apps
It isn’t too late for them to make a difference
Photo by Pocky Lee on Unsplash
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Find Yourself, But Don’t Lose Others In The Process
Your own private journey could be leaving others behind
‘Interior with an Easel’ (1912) by Vilhelm Hammershøi. Source Wikimedia Commons
You know what you prefer, don’t you? You like to retreat into your private cocoon for the comfort it gives, where it is calm, whe... | ['Self-awareness', 'Authenticity', 'Love', 'Human Prompt', 'Self'] |
Q&A with Heidi Strom Moon, Product Manager, Slate
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First kiss, Christyl Rivers
Some of us, maybe all of us, have experienced an anguishing, unrequited love.
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Ten things I learned from resigning from my 11 year job (with no job to go to) JoJoBonetto Follow Nov 12, 2018 · 3 min read
It was 27 April 2017, and I took that train home from central London feeling overwhelmed but excited. The buck stopped with me now.
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When it comes to data analytics tools, we always have questions. What is the difference between so many data analysis tools? Which is better? Which one should I study?
Although this is a commonplace topic, it is really important, and I have been working hard to pursue the answer to this ultimate problem. If you go onl... | ['Data Science', 'Data Analytics Tools', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Analysis', 'Programming Languages'] |
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