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Songs Of The Sea
Image Source-Google Images
The sea sings me melodies,
While I sit and watch it churn,
Churning every thought and dream,
Of every dreamer on the shore!
It sang me a symphony of love,
While crashing waves against the rocks,
As love is like the waves which crash,
Not knowing if they’ll ever make ... | ['Love', 'Writing', 'Feelings', 'Poetry', 'Emotions'] |
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Button UX Design: Best Practices, Types and States
by Nick Babich
Buttons are an ordinary, every-day element of interaction design. Despite this, because buttons are a vital element in creating a smooth conversational flow in web and apps, it’s worth paying attention to these basic best pra... | ['UX', 'Design', 'User Experience'] |
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We all love lambdas, don’t we? Lambdas are powerful (passing methods around, getting rid of anonymous classes…you get the picture) and with great power comes great responsibility. When we switched to using Java 8 at work, I was excited about finally getting to use lambdas! But very quickly, I... | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Java', 'Coding'] |
The Introvert’s Struggle: Eating Lunch With Coworkers
No, I don’t want to talk about food while eating food
Photo by bantersnapson Unsplash
I have no doubt that I can go days, weeks, months without uttering a single word to another human and be better for it. Sound extreme? Then you’re probably an extravert. You mig... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Introvert', 'Psychology', 'Lunch'] |
True Love is not free.
We’ve all heard it said many times and in many ways, and have quite possibly repeated it on many occasions, that love is free, love doesn’t cost a thing or money can’t buy love. Although it is true that money cannot buy love, I strongly disagree with the sentiment that love for another human bei... | ['Self-awareness', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Self Improvement', 'Love And Sex'] |
Star Wars Symbology: The Actual Sacred Texts Of Star Wars
The Rise Of Skywalker Ends With A New Call To Adventure — For Us.
“We’ve passed on all we know, a thousand generations live in you now.” — Luke Skywalker
Whether you’re aware of it or not, the Jungian aspects of Star Wars are what you love most about Star War... | ['Philosophy', 'Star Wars', 'Symbolism', 'Psychology', 'Film'] |
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Reactive sub-forms implemented with independent, highly re-usable Angular Components
This article was inspired by a recent discussion with a manager regarding how to integrate someone with a math/Aerospace Engineering background (that would be me) into a group that worked on heavily... | ['Angular Forms', 'Typescript'] |
I’ve read, watched, learnt, practiced and preached productivity for a while. There’s always a steady stream of great strategies out there and I’m a huge fan.
I’ve picked these strategies up along the way and use them every single day. Mind you, I could write a 10 minute piece on each of these making my case as to why ... | ['Personal Growth', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Productivity'] |
Now that Design is on the move from the marketing & communication departments to the boardrooms, designers are faced with a huge dilemma. The Design world is changing and designers have to make a move. Consultancy agencies are moving into the new space that is opening up between business strategy, IT development and cr... | ['Synergy', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Beauty', 'Design Leadership'] |
Atlas Coughed
Donald Trump has steadily turned masks into symbols — not of government overreach, but of governmental impunity.
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
By Megan Garber
During Wednesday evening’s vice-presidential debate, as he refused to acknowledge that climate change is an existential threat and to agree ... | ['Donald Trump', 'Politics', 'Masks', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
Interface that is strongly typed by C#
By using a shared C# interface between a server and a client, both client-to-server and server-to-client method calling is strongly typed. For example, let’s say that the following interface and class will be shared.
By having both the server and the client share these, an error... | ['Unity3d', 'Csharp', 'Programming'] |
The Insider Perspective:
[Credit: This program is based on the ScaleUP USA’s Successful Corporate and Government Sales Acceleration Program]
In my 25+ years of technology career, I have worked in leadership positions in Federal, State, and local governments. During this time I have been “bombarded” with thousands of ... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Government', 'Sales'] |
For everyone who survived the election season, here’s a special treat. We had too many great stories about embracing life as we age to fit in our last newsletter, so you’re getting two batches of Crow’s Feet stories in one week.
This is 40. 42 to be exact by Jen Kleinknecht
The True Secret to Happiness. Ask an ancien... | ['Healthy Lifestyle', 'Aging', 'Seniors', 'Wellness'] |
Reading Level Is the Key
Have you ever checked what reading level your writing is suitable for?
In this day and age of short attention spans (did you just see that blue car drive by?!), it’s getting harder and harder for people to focus.
This extends to the complexity of reading levels as well — more and more, peopl... | ['Writing', 'Reading', 'Advice', 'Inspiration', 'Culture'] |
The Future of Data Science, Data Engineering, and Tech
6 experts’ views on tech in 2021
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash.
As 2020 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all the changes in technology as well as look to see where things are going.
Whether you are looking at startups and their IP... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Python3', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
The Stack That Helped Opendoor Buy and Sell Over $1B in Homes
Originally posted on StackShare
About Opendoor
Unless you’re in San Francisco or New York, selling your home is a giant headache that typically lasts three months. Opendoor removes the headache — go online, ask for an offer, answer a few questions and we’... | ['Startup', 'Techology', 'StackShare', 'Data Science', 'Real Estate'] |
Is artificial intelligence a ticket to Borges’ Babylon?
A thought experiment under construction
Versión en castellano (Spanish Version)
As I tried to imagine what a world completely governed by un-explainable AI would look like, I was reminded of Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Lottery in Babylon”. In this story Borges desc... | ['Machine Learning', 'Jorge Luis Borges', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Borges', 'Deep Learning'] |
The Nitty Gritty
How Sarah Bray, entrepreneur, author, and digital strategist, transitioned from working exclusively for herself to joining the smart and passionate team at &yet, a design and development consultancy
What it means to be an intrapreneur in the modern creative world — and what drew Sarah to the &yet tea... | ['Leadership', 'Work Life Balance', 'Community', 'Intrapreneurship', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
I’m getting back in the race
At an adequate pace
Where time is my only space.
Grounding, pounding in my face,
In my head.
It never lets up,
Hasten the coursework until I’m dead.
I dread the week,
I dread my pay,
I dread the weary light of day
Most of all
I hate how my heart is made up
of oddments of you | ['Depression', 'Poetry', 'Reflections', 'Anxiety', 'Mental Health'] |
Intro Huig da Nerd alias @hugo_koopmans : uber-nerd/data-scientist > interested in data mining, (text) analytics, data visualization and how to make money with that. Managing partner at DIKW.
Data science is hot. Everybody is talking about it. Data scientists are being worshiped, and rightfully so. You have been worki... | ['Nerd', 'Big Data', 'Data Science'] |
News Break Creator Program
The Accurate Information About News Break’s Creators Program and My Personal Experience
You can earn a lot of money, especially for the first three months if you get accepted as one of their creators.
Source: Metiza
I have seen several articles about News Break that include some inaccurat... | ['Writing', 'Professional Development', 'Success', 'Writing Tips', 'Income'] |
Oracle ADF BC by default is trying to reuse prepared SQL query from statement cache. It works this way when ADF BC runs with DB pooling off (jbo.doconnectionpooling=false). Normally we tune ADF application to run with DB pooling on (jbo.doconnectionpooling=true), this allows to release unused DB connection back to the ... | ['Oracle Adf', 'Jdbc', 'Jdeveloper', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
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Here is the thing: businesses are supposed to be based on products or services that do solve problems. These problems, usually, do not ‘magically’ disappear during an economic recession. In fact, their true nature of ‘necessity’ becomes apparent during such situations.
Forget about ‘... | ['Insurance', 'Startup', 'Recensioni', 'Banking', 'Bitcoin'] |
Content creation isn’t about coming up with one brilliant idea.
This is what very few people understand about winning the content creation game.
You’re a designer. You’re a photographer.
You’re a writer. You’re a columnist.
You’re a creative agency. You’re creating content for your clients.
Guess what — you’re all... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Content Writing', 'Content', 'Content Strategy'] |
#2. iCloud Analytics
Like iPhone Analytics, turning this off will improve your iPhone’s battery life and give you more privacy.
We just want to turn this off as we did for iPhone Analytics it’s just with iCloud on the same screen nice and easy.
#3. Significant Locations
Significant Locations tracks the places you v... | ['Apple', 'Tech', 'Gadgets', 'iPhone', 'Privacy'] |
I came across the following message on Facebook today:
I’m not complying with the govt no matter what. I don’t wear a mask, I wear a headscarf instead. If a clerk tells me I’m going the wrong way in an aisle, I ignore them and keep going. Those arrows are ludicrous and serve no purpose. I refuse to use hand sanitizer.... | ['Pandemic', 'Masks', 'Covid 19', 'Virus', 'Coronavirus'] |
How Long are Meetings?
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
Solve challenge here: https://www.bookcademy.com/home/show_daily_challenges/how-long-are-meetings
Early conversations are very fast. The chats grow longer as you move from the early broad questions (“Is this a real problem?”) toward more specific product and ind... | ['Bookcademy', 'Summary', 'Books', 'The Mom Test', 'Daily Challenges'] |
I Had a Choice to Make: Andrew or My Eating Disorder?
When the most important man in your life is the one telling you not to eat too much
Photo by Maylies Lang Photography courtesy of the author
For over a decade, the most important man in my life was the one in my head who told me not to eat too much. Many people w... | ['Relationships', 'Eating Disorders', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Life Lessons'] |
Revitalized
A Poem
Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash
After about twenty seconds
of solid rubbing, twisting
my hands are warm enough
to be brought to work again
But it’s hard to revitalize
the eyes, they want so much
in the way of the same
but with subtler alterations
Yeah, they’d like to be featured
but they do... | ['Poetry', 'Pain', 'Writing', 'Musing', 'Image'] |
Step 3: open the doors for everyone wanting to and volunteering to get a COVID-19 test.
Testing will be carried out in new and existing test sites, using home kits, in hospitals and care home settings, and schools, universities and workplaces. There is even a test site in Anfield Stadium, home to Liverpool Football Cl... | ['Liverpool', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Military', 'Photo Essay'] |
Our culture is obsessed with the power of empathy. Whenever a politician strips a marginalized group of their rights, the left decries the lack of empathy. When hate groups rise up and spout vitriol, their apparent lack of empathy is blamed as the root of their evil. Even critiques of capitalism somehow become conversa... | ['Personal Growth', 'Life', 'Autism', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Supply chain data are complex, multilayered, and sometimes hard to untangle. When it comes to using data to make decisions, design has a crucial role in ensuring data are efficiently understood. With the right presentation and interpretation, supply chain data can be transformed into actionable insights that lead to mo... | ['Design', 'Data', 'Supply Chain', 'Data Visualization', 'UX'] |
HashiCorp Vault — This product is currently running in many big enterprise companies. I have seen a lot of people complain about the complexity of it and the pain of setting it up. I think this product is great and would like to share my experience and knowledge to help you speed up the initial set up. You will find it... | ['Consul', 'Hashicorp', 'Hashicorp Vault', 'Secrets', 'Kubernetes'] |
Pictures of Uranus are tricky, but yes, it’s very true
My goal is to photograph the trails of satellites in the night sky, with known stars in the background, to enable analysis with Python scripts to calculate things like altitude, velocity, and other parameters. My passion is using Python for creative and fun real-w... | ['Astronomy', 'Cell Phones', 'Python', 'Astrophotography', 'Amateur Astronomy'] |
Components of Neural Networks
Every neural network consists of neurons, synapses, weights, biases, and functions.
Neurons
A neuron or a node of a neural network is a computing unit that receives information, performs simple calculations with it, and passes it further.
All neurons in a net are divided into three gro... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Programming'] |
Blind spots, big blind spots
Having a variety of mental models at our disposal is particularly important when facing complex problems, as it provides us with an ability to see the world through multiple lenses.
Unfortunately, however, society tends to look at reality through a single lens, dividing it into discrete t... | ['Leadership', 'Decision Making', 'Life', 'Thinking', 'Psychology'] |
Back when I was still in high school, I was a bass clarinetist in the Minnesota All-State Band. One year, we had a conductor from Texas who told a story about his college days in California.
You see, this conductor was heavily immersed in the school’s arts programs, and he told us about a classmate named Steve.
Steve... | ['Success', 'Comedy', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Excel and to_excel()
Sometimes it’s handy to export your data into an excel. It adds the benefit of easy manipulation, at a cost of the slowest reads and writes. It also ignores many datatypes. Timezones cannot be written into excel at all.
# exporting a dataframe to excel
df.to_excel(excel_writer, sheet_name, many_... | ['Pandas', 'Python', 'Dataframes', 'Plotly Express', 'Code Performance'] |
FlightPredict II: The Sequel
Predict flight delays (now with PixieDust)
A couple months ago, David Taieb put together a tutorial on how to Predict Flight Delays with Apache Spark MLLib, FlightStats, and Weather Data. For the sequel, we sprinkle some PixieDust onto his original solution and the result is pure magic.
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Cognitive Computing', 'Python', 'Apache Spark', 'Pixiedust'] |
Use negative self-talk to your advantage
Memes and quotes that motivate you to greater achievement, that create the sort of behavior that will make you more successful in all that you attempt to do in life? You’re not going to use any of that.
In the art of demotivation, you’re going to do just the opposite.
Find or... | ['Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Self', 'Life Hacking', 'Inspiration'] |
The Oakland Startup Network, Apps Without Code, and Kapor Center for Social Impact have partnered to announce a unique program for entrepreneurs building the tools of tomorrow — Innovators Residence at Kapor Center Innovation lab (iLab). Our goal is to guide local founders from prototype to product and monetization via... | ['Entrepreneurship'] |
Georgia O’Keeffe on Daily Work, Happiness & Success
Certain people come our way that reinforce our inherent thoughts and ideas. Georgia O’Keeffe is one of those
I once believed that there was someone out there with the answers — somebody somewhere who knew what I didn’t. All I needed to do to find them and extract th... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Art', 'Happiness', 'Creativity'] |
We can do better than a "Scroll arrow"
Huge's research can tell us one thing or two about how some users can skip your content once you break the affordance of scrolling and about the solutions to that problem. Even though the scrorrow had a very successful result, is it really a solution to be tested? Compare the res... | ['UX Design', 'UX', 'Design'] |
The Problem With Maslow’s Pyramid
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs implies a linearity, with self-actualization crowning our enlightenment, once the rest of the pyramid’s ‘baser needs’ are met. While powerful, it is a misguided notion. In reality, we need to start “at the top”. Here’s why.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Ne... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy'] |
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I keep waiting for truffles to
tumble out; perfect decadence from a pen
to graze your mind
and instead: doubt
stale sequences squeeze their way
between the lines as your brain’s narrator
a slithering sine, an up-and-down elevator
of thoughts, signs of homeostasis
but I want fo... | ['Writing', 'Reading', 'Stuck', 'Resistance Poetry', 'Wordplay'] |
An example of this might be a town somewhere in the United States having a limited resource, say water for instance. A finite amount of “water tokens” would be issued and people would earn them for any activities conserving water. These tokens would be spendable elsewhere as tokens or traded for fiat currency. This inc... | ['Economics', 'Environment', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Introduction
Checkpointing is a necessary feature for production streaming data pipelines and one of the major milestones in bringing cuStreamz into reality. It saves a record of the application’s position in a data stream, so it can be restarted from where it left off in case of failure. cuStreamz is built on top of ... | ['Python', 'Data Streaming', 'Data Science', 'Gpu', 'Open Source Software'] |
Inukshuk, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, image courtesy of mapio.net
We each have a giant within us. Not a sleeping, scary giant as the idiom would have us believe, but a watchful giant. A giant of wisdom, patience, intelligence, knowingness, substance, grace, competence, and calm. Yet sometimes our big, beautiful giant insid... | ['Growth', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Growth Mindset', 'Self Love'] |
Regular Expressions Are Still Useful For Chatbots
Using Regular Expressions With LUIS & Bot Framework Composer
Introduction
The concept formed during the 1950’s by an American mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene. He formalized the description of a regular language.
Regex Entities in LUIS
A Regular expression (regex)... | ['Conversational UI', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Chatbots'] |
For some time I wanted to build and write how a (very) basic Hadoop cluster should be built but it was you, my dear reader/follower/friend/no-better-thing-to-do-person, that made me embark in this awesome odyssey. We will fight giants, kill huge dogs with three heads, defeat pseudo-gods and sing Somewhere Over the Rain... | ['Hadoop', 'Big Data', 'Hadoop Training'] |
Four weeks.
Give or take a day or two.
That’s how long it took.
Takes.
For my crush to run its course.
But my crush didn’t just stop.
It didn’t run face first into a firmly closed door, bloody and smash its nose. I didn’t get a firm “thanks, but no thanks”. I didn’t confess my feelings only to have them stomped o... | ['Relationships Love Dating', 'Nonfiction', 'Love', 'Crush', 'Friendzone'] |
In this story, Blind Image Quality Assessment Using A Deep Bilinear Convolutional Neural Network (DB-CNN), by Wuhan University, New York University, and University of Waterloo, is presented. I read this because I recently study IQA/VQA. In this paper:
For synthetic distortions , a CNN is pre-trained to classify image ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Quality Assessment', 'Convolutional Network', 'Deep Learning', 'Iqa'] |
Masturbation May be The Solution to 80% of Our Problems
Here is the science to back it up.
Photo by Francesca Zama from Pexels
A friend once said 9 out of 10 people masturbate, and the tenth person is a liar. She was right, masturbation is one of the first things we learn to do in the womb. This curiosity continues ... | ['Growth', 'Women', 'Men', 'Science', 'Sexuality'] |
How to Automate Google Sheets with Python
How to use pygsheets python package to play around google sheets and to automate.
Google spreadsheets are easy to maintain, edit, and share with people with python package pygsheets. I have been using pygsheets for long time to automate my daily work in google spreadsheets.
... | ['Pygsheets', 'Pandas', 'Python', 'Google Spreadsheets', 'Data Science'] |
Make Your Python Code Fluent
With Function and Operator Overloading
Photo by Nolan Marketti on Unsplash
Overloading in Python allows us to define functions and operators that behave in different ways depending on parameters or operands used.
Operator Overloading
As an example, we can use “+” operator to do arithme... | ['Function Overloading', 'Operator Overloading', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Overloading'] |
How do you know if your plans will succeed?
Sometimes you don’t, but imagine if you do nothing. Assess where you currently are, like what resources do you have and what people do you have on your side? How much money do you have, or don’t have?
For those of us who rely only on ourselves for income, then laying out pl... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Entrepreneur', 'Fear'] |
U.S. Attorney General Barr asks Apple to unlock iPhones of Pensacola shooter (PLUS what is Apple’s defense)
This appeared in The Millennial Source
Following a deadly December shooting in Pensacola, Fla., United States Attorney General William Barr has pressed Apple Inc. to help unlock a pair of iPhones believed to be... | ['America', 'World', 'News', 'Apple', 'Government'] |
It’s a very simple CSV file with only two columns:
The date for the sales record
The number of shampoo bottles sold on that date
I will build a machine learning model that reads in each sales record, and then identifies every anomalous spike in the sales data.
Let’s get started. Here’s how to set up a new console p... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
School Java Project Chess (1)
Printing out an empty game board
Let’s create a simple chess app which can be used like a non-digital chess board, meaning that we can use mouse to move pieces around on board. It will look like the following when finished.
This is the first post of the series so we’ll kick off Java Hel... | ['Tutorial', 'Java', 'Chess', 'Kids Programming', 'One On One'] |
As 2019 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the state of UX research and what 2020 can hold for the discipline. I’ve worn many different hats, from leading a research team to editing this channel (which, you guessed it, involves a lot of reading). Looking at the field from these perspectives, here are a few trend... | ['Research And Insight', 'Design', 'Trends', 'UX', 'Microsoft'] |
Original Drawing by JusTee
The moments out of control frighten me
Seeming to increase with age
So much to wonder
And even to fear
Without explanation or purpose
And the consequences
Spread like dandelions in the lawn
Little tears needed for life
Or harmony through chaos
Impacting hidden branches of the mind
... | ['Time', 'Poetry', 'Life', 'Mental Health'] |
We Optimize Ourselves by Working Through the Wilderness
Leverage challenging circumstances for long-term growth.
One of the messages that we’ve heard lots of times — and legitimately so — is that we shouldn’t be looking to just go back to normalcy.
Plus, normalcy is over-rated. What is normal anyway? Things are alwa... | ['Self Improvement', 'Christianity', 'Productivity', 'Covid 19', 'Spirituality'] |
Setting up web views for documents can be the source of a great many headaches for Python users. That’s why today’s solution will be as simple as calling a function, then using the HTML embed code that it provides. Our total setup time is going to be just a handful of minutes.
This level of simplicity is achieved thro... | ['Document Viewer', 'Python', 'Create', 'Web Based'] |
For the Months of June & July ECOMI is in the air to meet you! With new blockchain conferences appearing every month, we’re taking our project on the road so you can get familiar with ECOMI products and tech, and have the team answer any questions you have face-to-face.
Catch David Yu, CEO and Daniel Crothers, COO at ... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Startup', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Conference'] |
A critical post about the biggest cliche story of all time and suggestions for a new story lines towards a more united earth.
(I’ve tried a writing innovation. I call it the READER EDIT. If you only read the normal font, you get a shorter more straightforward version. You can also read the Italic, which will explain s... | ['Storytelling', 'Social Change', 'Scenario', 'Heroes', 'Mythology'] |
As a skincare lover, I know for sure that cleaning is the basic, most important thing in skincare. Not just skincare, nowadays since the pandemic happened, cleanliness plays a big part in staying healthy. Unsurprisingly, it does not only apply in skincare and health but in coding too.
Photo by Lee Campbell on Unsplash... | ['Development', 'Clean Code', 'Programming'] |
Ever wondered what are the different Qiraat of Quran? Curious about how the Quranic text was compiled? Who gathered the whole Quran in one mushaf for the first time?
Uloom al Quran by Mufti Taqi Uthmani of Karachi is a very good book for a beginner student of Quran which answers all of the above questions and many mor... | ['Quran', 'Books', 'Islam'] |
Have you seen the gorgeous animations on the Global Forest Watch Topics pages? We’d like to tell you how and why we made them. It was a process that united art, science and technology to create a captivating entry point for data exploration.
Opening up the path to knowledge.
Forest loss is a complex issue. Trying to ... | ['Design', 'Illustration', 'Json', 'SVG', 'Lottie'] |
As I was preparing to share a private piece with someone that is going to be its sole recipient, I took the time to navigate my old published pieces (I’ve been writing regularly on Medium since 2017 and not so regularly even before that). To my surprise, I enjoyed it, and the more I scrolled, the more I liked it. Sudde... | ['Wrtiting', 'Motivation', 'Life', 'Personal', 'Journal'] |
No idea who told her this title would be smart. Maybe its more of a clickbait. Natasha Jens point, design thinking is waisting a lot of time and limiting ourself to a less good design result is understandable. In my opinion its only understandable from a single perspective.
Classic design is a discipline you can execu... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design'] |
A metaphor, a simile and an analogy were sitting in a bar. They had been drinking heavily for hours.
“You three look so alike,” said the bartender.
“That’s racist!” Said the simile, pointing at the bartender.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend anyone,” said the bartender. “No one’s ever told me what a simile is. I can’... | ['Humor', 'Writing', 'Comedy', 'Short Story', 'Satire'] |
What is False-Consensus Effect?
When designing user experience keep in mind that: YOU ARE NOT YOUR USER.
Photo by NESA by Makers on Unsplash
As designers, we have tendency to assume that our users are similar to us. In fact, this is not just a problem that designers have — it is an example of a more general phenomen... | ['New York', 'User Experience Design', 'Design Thinking', 'User Experience', 'User Interface'] |
Picture this:
You’re sat in the quiet section of a train, and you have a TV show you really wanted to watch.
…but you forgot your headphones.
Annoying, right?
But then you remember, you can watch the TV show with subtitles! Suddenly, you have been enabled to continue normal usage of your device.
Well, that’s what ... | ['Design', 'Accessibility', 'Technology', 'Visual Design', 'UX'] |
Let’s get some more information on the data.
df.info()
#sum of missing values in each column
df.isna().sum()
We have whooping 5,77,703 rows to crunch and 15 columns. Also, quite a bit of missing values. Let’s deal with missing values first.
Handling missing values
Let’s first see the percentage of missing values ... | ['Seaborn', 'Python Matplotlib', 'Visualization', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Science'] |
Jena Apgar is an international speaker, digital agency CEO at Warfare Marketing, co-founder and trainer at Business Growth Network with the popular 90-Day Double My Business Challenge, and co-host of the popular videocast, DoubleFunnel.tv, which takes you through what it takes to build a 6–8 figure business, to double ... | ['Facebook Marketing', 'Realtor', 'Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
Update (Nov. 3, 2014): The map now contains 160 million activities and 375,000,000,000 points.
Recently we released a global heatmap of 77,688,848 rides and 19,660,163 runs from the Strava dataset. This was more of an engineering challenge to create a visualization of that size than anything else. But still, the map h... | ['Maps', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
The Beginner’s Guide to the Cloud Native Landscape
This blog post was written by Ayrat Khayretdinov and was originally published here on CloudOps’ blog.
The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant and expansiv... | ['Cncf', 'Kubernete', 'Cloud Native', 'Cloud Native Ecosystem', 'Cloud Computing'] |
I think I am an atheist,
But…
Every day I pray there is a God.
Not a He. Not a She.
God is all of us, together. I pray.
It’s probably not what you think.
That all people are made in God’s Image.
Not that.
But that stars are we, and sea-stars are We, and
God is the Creation, creating We.
Hydrogen and deuterium... | ['Purpose', 'Nature', 'Philosophy', 'Poetry', 'Science'] |
There are only gentle signs at first. The outer planets would careen off their usual orbits and on Earth we’d notice the night sky is threaded with the metallic glint of more and more comets as the days go on. The comets have been torn out of their silent beds in the Oort cloud, sent towards the belly of the Solar Syst... | ['Science', 'Space', 'Physics', 'Cosmos', 'Universe'] |
Mutable and Immutable Objects
For those who don’t know, I will try to explain the concept of mutable and immutable objects in very simple terms.
Mutable objects are those which can be changed after creation. In Python, dictionaries are examples of mutable objects.
In the code snippet above, we have created a list an... | ['Python Programming', 'Python3', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Devop'] |
It’s important to let readers know that when it comes to Rachel Hollis, her divorce, and the subsequent marketing of her new book, I’m a complete outsider.
I was never invested in this woman as an influencer. I never really subscribed to the idea of an “influencer” anyway. People might be famous content creators, moti... | ['Relationships', 'Culture', 'Women', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self'] |
What are ensembles?
Ensemble means Collection or group of things.
Ensemble learning is a machine learning technique that combines several base models in order to produce one optimal predictive model(powerful model).
Ensemble Methods allow us to take a sample of Decision Trees into account, calculate which features t... | ['Data Scientist', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Analyst', 'Machine Learning'] |
5 Post-Pandemic Trends in Data Science
How Data Scientists Have Adapted to Meet Urgent Business Needs in the Face of the Covid-19 Crisis
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash
At the beginning of this year, I was interviewed for an article about critical trends in data science I predicted for 2020. When I said that chang... | ['Business Science', 'Business', 'AI', 'Covid 19', 'Data Science'] |
Originally published in Smashing Magazine.
When you’re working on a product, what is more crucial than choosing the right features to develop? However, the exercise often turns into a spectacle of team voting. As a result, decisions change many times down the road. Let’s talk about the pitfalls of popular prioritizati... | ['Product Management', 'Startup', 'Product Design', 'UX', 'User Experience'] |
Why Kids Will Be Fine Wearing Masks At School
Parents are more worried about the masks then kids are.
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash
Parents have been sharing with me their worries that their kids will not be able to tolerate wearing a mask at school. As a pediatrician, I have some reassurance to offer. Children ... | ['Schools', 'Education', 'Parenting', 'Coronavirus', 'Masks'] |
In the previous post, we discussed various ways to evaluate and improve user engagement. Retention goes hand in hand with engagement. Engaged users are more likely to be retained. A well-retained user base amplifies the network effect and generates more engagement from individuals, which then leads to even better reten... | ['Analytics', 'Growth', 'Startup', 'Data Science', 'Retention'] |
The FAB Foundation provides technical updates related to the project every week.
The Force: Scheduled Fork
The moment we have all been waiting for is hear. FAB’s development team has worked long and hard and is now ready for phase 1 of “The Force”. (Read in depth details of “The Force” here.)
The FAB team began depl... | ['Decentralization', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Development', 'Smart Contracts', 'Updates'] |
That episode in my personal history repeated itself in March of this year. Clients didn’t need my advice all of a sudden. They just needed to stay afloat. Out of work once more, I started to fret. I couldn’t sleep. But there is now that familiarity with loss, a belief steeled by experience that anything can be survived... | ['Love', 'Food', 'Covid 19 Crisis', 'Vegan', 'Cooking'] |
1. Create a project
All analytical assets within Watson Studio are organized into ‘Projects’. Projects are workspaces which can include data assets, Notebooks, Flows and models (among other items). Projects can be personal or shared with a team of collaborators.
1. From the ‘Welcome’ page of Watson Studio click on ‘N... | ['Tutorial', 'Machine Learning', 'Watson Studio', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
Worried about a messy or inconsistent design? This is where design guidelines step in to save the day. Design guidelines help you have efficient and consistent design throughout your application. They help guide the overall style and flow so that you don’t repeatedly think about things like, what colour should this but... | ['Design Rule', 'Design Patterns', 'Design Guideline'] |
Census Cut Population By 570,000 People in 2017
And Other Interesting Stories From the New Population Estimates
The Census Bureau just released its new population estimates. They’ll be in the news. You’ll hear about the fastest and slowest growing places. That’s cool beans.
Let’s talk nerd. What revisions did Census... | ['Migration', 'Demographics', 'Census', 'New York', 'Culture'] |
Blockchain is often pitched as the next big thing. However, when it come to design, it’s a totally new realm of challenges. Blockchain acts as a thick layer of complexity on top of traditional products. If you’re a designer, blockchain is a space that needs your help! Here’s the basics to get you up to speed, and what ... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Leadership', 'Sustainability', 'Fssd The Natural Step', 'Formación', 'Sostenibilidad'] |
Marker Genes and Gene Prediction of Bacteria
What are marker genes, their usage and how to predict them?
When we think of the word marker, the first thing that comes to our minds is something that is used to indicate a place. For example, it can be your current location on Google Maps or it can be the place where you... | ['Genomics', 'Software', 'Bioinformatics', 'Biotech', 'Science'] |
Top 10 or So Notes on ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King
Secrets to Stephen King’s writing process were revealed in his book, ‘On Writing,’ released in 2000. This is my review of all the important aspects I took away after re-reading it almost twenty years later.
This article was original published at Brain Bank
1. Unders... | ['Stephen King', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Fiction', 'Creative Writing'] |
You made an app with Django. Great! , and you are excited to show it to everyone on the planet. For that, you need to put it somewhere online so that others can access it.
Okay, you did some research and selected Heroku. Great Choice!👍
Now you started to deploy your app and did your research online and now you have ... | ['Heroku', 'Hosting', 'Python', 'Django', 'Web'] |
Image Processing Program
In this lesson, we are going to write a Go program that takes a source image on the file system (using the path of the image) and crops the image in a square shape. It also tweaks the contrast and brightness. Then it finally saves the grayscale format of the image on disk. The results look lik... | ['Docker Image', 'Go', 'Docker', 'Image Processing', 'Dockerfiles'] |
The organisation relies solely on grant and project funding and has no membership or subscription programme for readers, nor does it host any advertising. In 2019, it partnered with Facebook to review and rate the accuracy of content on the platform as part of its third party International Fact-Checking Network. Faktog... | ['Journalism', 'Misinformation', 'Case Study', 'Croatia', 'Media'] |
Today, Attic Lab is going to tell you about Proxy Voting: overview, how to set somebody as your proxy and how to create your own proxy account. For all proxy actions, we will tell you by using cleos and eostookit.io.
What is proxy voting
Proxy accounts represent a person/community with a list of Block Producers to wh... | ['Blockchain', 'Eos', 'Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
One of my most recent projects entailed spending eight months as the lead designer at HPE Labs, a security and management company in Bristol, to bring the user interface (UI) of their management dashboard right up to date.
As a rich and varied role, it seems only fitting that I share some key aspects of the experience... | ['Research', 'UI', 'Design', 'Collaboration'] |
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