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How do some people stay focused through hard times?
What is the link between focus on the one hand, and resilience on the other?
What Makes Some Brains More Focused Than Others? | Marvin Chun | TEDxKFAS
In this TEDx talk, neuroscience researcher Marvin Chun discusses the limits of the brain’s potential to multitask.... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Focus'] |
Title photo by Napoleon Dynamite.
Forbes published this article yesterday based on a survey of what CMO’s are saying about the future of their relationships with agencies. The crux of the article can be summarized by this particular quote:
“The majority of clients, 62%, polled by my marketing consultancy Avidan Strat... | ['Marketing', 'Agency', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Making Friends in the Middle Ages
Nights in. People coming and (mostly) going. This is life after 50.
“Golden” friendship: How lucky were Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy to find each other so late in life? (Photo: NBC)
When it comes to making me take long, hard, uncomfortable looks at myself, nobody does it better than m... | ['Nonfiction', 'Aging', 'Friends', 'Relationships', 'Friendship'] |
When we talk about a relationship, we often talk about the foundation and how important it is. I agree, without a good foundation, your relationship is going to fall over pretty soon. If we talk about the foundation of a relationship, we can make an analogy that it’s like building. So if a relationship is a building we... | ['Relationships', 'Long Distance', 'Relationships Love Dating', 'Love', 'Trust'] |
Utah County is the latest jurisdiction in the U.S. to implement blockchain-based mobile voting in their upcoming municipal primary election in August. Tusk Philanthropies, which aims to increase voter turnout and participation in U.S. elections, has partnered with the Utah County Elections Division, Voatz, and the Nati... | ['Mobile Apps', 'Utah', 'Blockchain', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Hackernoon Top Story'] |
Illustrating a more human brand (part 1)
The history of Dropbox brand illustration
For years before I joined the Dropbox illustration team, I assumed the Dropbox illustrators had it easy. I imagined talented people getting to make great work for an organization that believed deeply in the power of illustration. I mea... | ['Design', 'Illustration', 'Tech', 'Branding', 'UX'] |
When Machines Think 💭
“Forget artificial intelligence — in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” — Tom Chatfield
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution and machines, there were always humans operating them and making them work. But over last few years, we have se... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Economics', 'Inspiration'] |
A deeper looking into the marshmallow experiment revealed that it was not an experiment to find out the patient and matured ones, but the naturally greedy, clever, and those bound to blind obedience.
For those of you who are yet to hear about the experiment, here it is :
The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a stud... | ['Self Improvement', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Fake News', 'Satire'] |
In order to feel that I’m doing something to deflect the flop-sweat I’m currently moldering in, I’ve decided to turn one of my scripts into a novel. Because I just haven’t been rejected enough! Now, I’ll let the literary world shit on me, too!
I’m adept at handling rejection, after all. Expert, in fact. It’s toughened... | ['Humor', 'Mantra', 'Dreams', 'Prompt', 'Writing'] |
Writers. We don’t choose the calling, it chooses us. We process our world with words. We are people watchers. We find wonder in ordinary, every day things and turn them into stories. We create entire worlds with our minds.
But there are a lot of things that keep us from staying committed to the craft. These are the mo... | ['Creative Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing Life', 'Roadblocks', 'Writing'] |
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Broken promise
…
Two days of hard blown snow fall,
mountain roads are blocked now,
it’s two days since your long phone call,
but without the help of a snow plough,
I’m unable to keep my promise.
…
Today I walked down from the hills,
waded through drifts of deep snow,
to reach the chemists ... | ['Free Verse', 'Resilience', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Mental Health', 'Resistance Poetry'] |
Hey! My name is Nikhil and I spent this past summer as an iOS Software Engineering Intern at Strava.
I’ll be graduating from UC Berkeley this year with a major in Data Science and emphasis in human-computer interaction. I used Strava throughout my days as a runner in high school and reinstalled the app last year on a ... | ['Software Engineering', 'iOS', 'Strava', 'Internships'] |
How LinkedIn Uses Machine Learning in its Recruiter Recommendation Systems?
A sneak peak into some of the machine learning architectures powering mission critical systems at LinkedIn.
I recently started a new newsletter focus on AI education. TheSequence is a no-BS( meaning no hype, no news etc) AI-focused newsletter... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Thesequence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
Creating a magic system is one of the most fun parts of worldbuilding in speculative fiction because you can really let your imagination run wild! However, it’s very easy to go off the rails and create a system that ultimately serves no purpose in your story.
So many worldbuilding resources simply interrogate the deta... | ['Writing', 'Fantasy', 'Writing Tips', 'Fiction Writing', 'Worldbuilding'] |
The high school boyfriend who broke up with me over the word, “No.” He went on to become politically active in the small town we grew up in. His wife is referred to as Mrs. Mayor.
There was the day I stood in that very same high school — recruiting paperwork in hand — just a signature away from joining the Air Force. ... | ['Family', 'Aging', 'Self-awareness', 'The Road Not Taken', 'Life Lessons'] |
Throughout my working life I have worked as a hotel duty manager, a car salesperson, a lawyer and a teacher. Quite a variety of occupations. And a common thread throughout my working life is I have always prioritised my core work first.
You see, no matter what work you do, there will always be emergencies — those litt... | ['Core Work', 'Work', 'Time Management', 'Productivity', 'Focus'] |
How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying
As a young writer, my naiveté about the publishing process nearly led me to financial ruin. Here’s how to avoid my mistakes.
The first thing I tell debut authors is this: Assume nothing.
If just one person had sat me down when I signed my first book cont... | ['Succeed', 'Mentorship', 'Writing', 'Writer', 'Publishing'] |
How to Make Your Course as Durable as Mario Kart: Future-Proofing Online Educational Content Patrick Yurick Follow May 22 · 7 min read
Design Inspiration
When I think of highly effective digital experiences that walk you through a progression of learning modules while balancing the need for accessibility of future au... | ['Design', 'Online Learning', 'UX Design', 'Mooc', 'UX'] |
Medium does not make publishing your articles in publications nearly as easy as it should be.
Luckily, there are a number of resources such as Smedian which help bridge the gap between new writers and editors of existing publications.
However, once you have been approved as a writer for a publication, many Medium use... | ['Draft', 'Publication', 'Writing', 'Format', 'Medium'] |
The story of Archimedes
Archimedes was the resident of the city-state of Syracuse on the east coast of Sicily, founded in 734 BCE. During his time the state was a powerhouse of art, science, and commerce even rivaling Athens.
Archimedes shared a close relationship with the king and was often called to suggest solutio... | ['World', 'Culture', 'Technology', 'Science', 'History'] |
Introduction
On a bright Monday morning, you’re here sipping your nice cup of java, or otherwise known as coffee, while you’re browsing the latest news on your phone and scrolling through Reddit. Right before you’re about to put your phone away and head to school or work, all the headlines and notifications flood you ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Learning', 'The Knowledge Society'] |
#BUILTBYGIRLS Program Manager Danielle Letayf and Marketing & Partnerships Manager Victoria Marlin
Everywhere we go, people be asking: where can I get one of those?! Well, we’ve kept it a secret — until now.
Head over to Bow & Drape to get your very own #BUILTBYGIRLS sweatshirt and join the sparkly swag crew. We know... | ['Swag And Flavor', 'Womenintech', 'Startup'] |
After 7 hours of pursuing the baked good which had earlier alighted from my oven, I thought to myself, “Why am I trying to catch this Gingerbread Man?”
Running is quite meditative, whether one is on a morning jog or galloping after an impossible doughy figure. So my mind cleared enough to ponder the question further. ... | ['Books', 'Humor', 'Self', 'Family', 'Food'] |
World Oceans Day 2019
A new partnership will build on political will and community support to ensure a more sustainable future for WIO seascapes.
A new partnership between the WCS and the Blue Action Fund will address threats to the marine environment of the Western Indian Ocean at a significant geographical scale. C... | ['Madagascar', 'Marine', 'Conservation', 'Environment', 'World Oceans Day'] |
How to use React for e-commerce — and why it’s a good idea
Bonus: Gatsby Shop tutorial!
Photo by Erwan Hesry on Unsplash
Developers should be able to use any stack, whether they’re building e-commerce or not.
☝️ That was the initial promise behind our developer-first shopping cart.
One we’ve kept for 5 years now.
... | ['Ecommerce', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Tech', 'Gatsbyjs'] |
Aden’s main hospital surrounded by rubbish and floodwater. Photo via Twitter.
Ten Covid-19 cases have now been confirmed in war-torn Yemen where health services face an increasingly desperate situation. Aside from coronavirus, they are already struggling with at least two other plagues — dengue fever and chikungunya.
... | ['Covid 19', 'Yemen', 'Middle East', 'Dengue Fever', 'Coronavirus'] |
Founder Talks — Is a P2P rating system worth more than what resumes can tell us about a person? Abhishek Thakur Follow Sep 18, 2018 · 7 min read
Founder Talks is a new series where we talk to founders about their companies and the products they are building. This week we have Anamika Mahajan talking about TAP — Truth ... | ['Interview', 'Feedback', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Social Media'] |
The #BUIDLonFANTOM Developer Contest we launched in November of last year has produced some great additions to the Fantom ecosystem, with several of the submissions gaining daily users and becoming integral tools for the community.
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the development bounties today, and give an o... | ['Crypto', 'Consensus', 'Development', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Mark Jackson, Platio’s Chief Growth Officer
Mark is Platio’s Chief Growth Officer, who has 18 years’ experience in developing digital strategy, performance marketing and advertising as well as user growth for SaaS/consumer platforms. His proven capability to develop and execute new initiatives and formulate digital st... | ['Marketing', 'Crytocurrency', 'ICO', 'Finance', 'Banking'] |
Flipping channels in a hotel recently, I came across a show about avalanches. Naturally, I was reminded of intellectual accountability in the halls of public discourse.
For those needing a refresher (as I did), avalanches are not primarily the result of the weight or amount of accumulated snow, but the lack of frictio... | ['Snow', 'Panic', 'Psychology'] |
I was always a fan of the butterfly keyboard on the 2015 MacBook and all MacBooks that were equipped with it after. I never had the unreliability issues and know if I did I would have a different opinion, but the feeling when typing on those keyboard, to me, was very satisfying.
Recently, I used a 2014 MacBook Pro 13-... | ['Technology', 'Apple', 'MacBook', 'Review', 'Gadgets'] |
The art of intentional thinking
Photo by Paul Gilmore on Unsplash
Our world is in our minds.
And, we have the power to make it either a beautiful place or a miserable place.
When we are having a rough day, it’s important to remember that, some things are going to make us sad or upset, but how long we dwell on them ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Happiness', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
I Made a Blueprint for Breathing
Because our world is always on fire somewhere
Photo courtesy of shea or jane martin (depending on who you ask).
They said firefighters were coming on Friday. I spent the week in mirrors preparing the perfect smile for my fire truck photo. Head tilt to the left. Neck up just a bit. Gr... | ['Personal Development', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'This Is Us', 'Life'] |
Mastering exception-handling is of pivotal importance for producing clean and stable Python code. Chances are high you’re already aware of that, as most Python books geared towards newcomers to the language — and often to coding in general — make sure to spend a few paragraphs on the subject.
In essence, exception-han... | ['Scraping', 'Beautifulsoup', 'Python', 'Digital Methods', 'Web Scraping'] |
Your Progress Post Is Hurting Me
And it’s probably hurting you too
Photo by Steve Gale on Unsplash
Can you imagine living through a pandemic without the internet? Without endless amounts of digital content? Without instant ways to connect with family, friends, and even coworkers?
It would suck. It would suck far mo... | ['Eating Disorders', 'Weight Loss', 'Mental Health', 'Diet', 'Instagram'] |
How a Buddhist Monk Taught Me to Stop Overthinking
It all comes down to a simple two-word question
Photo by billow 926 on Unsplash
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been creating scenarios in my head, juggling between the past and the future. Trust me when I say it’s easy to lose yourself in a story for a good few... | ['Religion', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Mindfulness', 'Inspiration'] |
Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider
[Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/]
Sometimes a question seems so ridiculous that you feel compelled to reject its premise out-of-hand.
Let’s ... | ['Autonomous Vehicles', 'Driverless Cars', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Self Driving Cars'] |
Every now and then we come across List and Dict operations in our code. Python gives great syntactical sugar to work with List and Dicts.
Photo by Clément H on Unsplash
Whether it is initializing a new list or transforming an existing list, list comprehension is often very handy.
Consider the following code:
Now we... | ['Python3', 'Lists', 'Python', 'Comprehension', 'For'] |
It sometimes seems an equal amount of people are mindlessly jumping on the Design Thinking bandwagon as there are people writing obituaries on Design Thinking. Design Thinking is either The Holy Grail or The Latest Fad. A couple of years ago Harvard Business Review (HBR) put Design Thinking on the cover. Now it publish... | ['Design Leadership', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Leadership', 'Change Management'] |
When it comes to emotional design, there’s a lot of talk about happiness-evoking tech. However, if your goal is to shape your users’ behaviors, you’ll need to target a much broader emotional spectrum.
After 8-years of teaching people how to use psychology to build more engaging technology and digital campaigns, I rece... | ['Emotional Design', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'UX Research', 'Web Design'] |
The information has become an essential resource in the modern world. Whether you are a researcher, a government policymaker, a student, or an entrepreneur, you will likely use insights to make decisions. While businesses prepare to pay a premium to get quality information, the landscape of information availability has... | ['Open Data', 'Free Data', 'Kaggle', 'Public Dataset', 'Data Science'] |
New Book Examines How Humans Judge Machines
Can this relationship be saved? Professor César Hidalgo tackles the complex issues of human/machine ethics and trust in the world of AI
By Paula Klein
Do we trust humans more than we trust machines? If so, why, and who is responsible for artificial intelligence (AI) outcom... | ['Machine Learning', 'Robots', 'Ethics', 'AI', 'Human Machine Interaction'] |
I first learned how to program with Ruby and got very comfortable with object-oriented programming. I got so comfortable that when I started to learn JavaScript, the concept of functional programming seemed strange and a little scary. React hooks seemed incomprehensible.
I chose to avoid all of it at first, building m... | ['React Hook', 'React', 'Reactjs', 'Functional Programming'] |
Task: Improve the existing Java SDK to support all Mixin Network API .
Award: 5 XIN Token (about $700) for the best solution.
Process:
Contact me via email lilin@mixin.one, or via Mixin Messenger ID 31367
Create an open source repo on GitHub, write your code, let me know your repo address.
Timeline:
Submit your c... | ['Open Source', 'Blockchain', 'Bounty Program', 'Mixinnetwork', 'Java'] |
PRD文件參考｜App 端與 Web 端
Google Drive is a free way to keep your files backed up and easy to reach from any phone, tablet, or computer. Start… | ['Design', '產品經理', 'Product Management', 'Prd', '中文'] |
Short-term grants of €10,000 available for your cross-border investigations
IJ4EU’s Publication Support Scheme is now more accessible for investigative journalists who need support to publish their projects
At the beginning of May, the European Journalism Centre, together with the International Press Institute (IPI) ... | ['Journalism', 'Funding', 'Investigative Journalism', 'Media', 'Updates'] |
Sign up for The 'Gale
By Nightingale
Keep up with the latest from Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society Take a look | ['Data Visualisation', 'Conference', 'Visual Design', 'Dataviz', 'Outlierconference'] |
The internet is crowded. It seems as though anything and everything has been thought of. Don’t let this discourage you into thinking no one will ever take notice.
People like you and I take to the internet to find solutions to problems or answers to questions. Often times these problems are answered using content avai... | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'SEO', 'How To', 'Social Media'] |
We are thrilled to announce that RISE core version 1.1.1 is now available for download.
RISE 1.1.1 required 278 commits, 265 file changes, more than 23k lines added along with 11k removed. You can see the full changelog here.
The collection of all the improvements made since 1.0.0 results in a much higher transaction... | ['Blockchain', 'Postgres', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Digit Insurance has raised $45M in total. We talked with Kamesh Goyal, its founder.
How would you describe Digit Insurance in a single tweet?
Digit Insurance is ‘Making Insurance Simple’ by reimagining products & processes. 4.5 million policies, $300 m in premium in <2 years show we are on good track #GoDigit #DigitS... | ['India', 'Startup', 'Insurance', 'Startup Lessons', 'Insurtech'] |
Most people think being smart is about having more facts. Trivia-shows like Jeopardy! epitomize this view of knowledge. The smartest people are the people with the most names, dates and places stored away inside their mind.
This is probably the least important and useful part of learning though. Instead of facts, I’d ... | ['Professional', 'Learning', 'Productivity', 'Thinking', 'Career Advice'] |
As someone looking to create beautiful, responsive, web applications with react it can be a little daunting trying to decide what libraries to pick when you are planning out your project. There are so many & picking out the libraries that best fit your project idea can be pretty difficult. This is why I decided to crea... | ['React', 'Data Visualization', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development'] |
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
I worked for over 10 years in the e-commerce and fintech industry before I joined the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. I’ve always been interested in digital innovation, the trading ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Startup'] |
Everyone starts off in curation jail
It doesn’t matter how good your articles are the first month. If they’re not in the right topic they’re probably not even processed by the algorithm. Medium wants to humble you.
Image author.
Five months later I’m still toiling in relative obscurity. Medium is not the right place... | ['Curation', 'Writing', 'Data Science', 'Digital Life', 'Social Media'] |
For Nayeli, a 27-year-old with ADHD living in Pennsylvania, kink and BDSM is the only reason she has a functioning sex life.
Nayeli and her wife, a he/him non-binary lesbian, have a dom/sub dynamic. For her, this makes sex easier because it allows her to focus.
“My wife lets me use my cellphone during sex [because] I... | ['Adhd', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Sex'] |
It’s been 16 days since I left New York City. I cycled 15 days in 16.
For the first time today, I rode more than 100km. Thomas and I went from Winona to Toronto, Canada.
Before that, my best days were about 80km and still, it was tough.
Just 3 weeks ago, I had really never ridden a bike (at least not since I am 12 y... | ['Exploration', 'Cycling', 'Motivation', 'Daily Post'] |
By Clement Thibault
The seemingly endless flow of tech initial public offerings (IPOs) continues. Over the past few months we’ve been relatively skeptical about many of these offerings, including Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) and Uber (UBER).
Can Slack, a San Francisco-based messaging app, rise above other much-heralded IPOs to... | ['IPO', 'Stock Market', 'Startup', 'Slack', 'Stocks'] |
Nepali mountain climber Kami Rita is a Sherpa who holds the record for the most summits of Mt. Everest. On May 21st of last year, he scaled the mountain for the 24th time. This year, he turned fifty and hopes to ascend the peak one last time for his silver summit.
In an interview with Business Insider columnist Hilary... | ['Religion', 'Leadership', 'Christianity', 'Church', 'Coronavirus'] |
Usually I will stay away from books on religion. Everyone’s passions overtake their judgment, facts are few, fleeting and ignored, and no minds are changed in the reading. But the pop culture intersection of American politics and American evangelicalism proved tempting, and thankfully, most worthwhile. For a title like... | ['Religion', 'Books', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Evangelicals'] |
Framing your solutions in your buyers’ world is a very effective twist. No matter what you’re selling, it just works. Here’s what I mean:
Instead of writing “We have 70 fulfillment centers in 20 countries,” write “You’ll cut your warehousing costs in half when you take advantage of our supply chain’s infrastructure.”
... | ['Marketing', 'Business Development', 'Work', 'Business Strategy', 'Connection'] |
How to Write Microfiction and How It Improves Your Writing.
Including examples of my work
SamHArnold
What is microfiction?
Microfiction is the art of writing a story in as few words as possible. Most short stories are between 1000 and 2000 words. Microfiction tends to be a story with a much smaller word count. Some... | ['Writing', 'Microfiction', 'Writing Tips', 'Fiction', 'Inspiration'] |
There is no point arguing that the internet has changed the way we live our lives. From how we communicate with family, friends, and even strangers around the world, to the way we date and meet new people, it has left an unprecedented degree of change in its wake.
The internet has not only revolutionized our interpers... | ['Jobs', 'Work', 'Remote Working', 'Productivity', 'Careers'] |
Service Mesh
I was told that a Service Mesh such as Linkerd, Consul or Istio, adds a lot of overload in my cluster. Keeping this in mind, a Service Mesh is not suitable to a small deployment. Instead, you should consider a Service Mesh when you client is big enough to deserve it.
But, how big a client must be to dese... | ['Service Mesh', 'Linkerd', 'K8s', 'Mesh', 'Kubernetes'] |
Street Photography During Lockdown
Berlin is now in its second “Hard-Lockdown”. This means that we can expect the streets to become less populated with residents bobbing around town, shopping — not going to happen. Drinking in public, not allowed. Bars and restaurants lockdown hard until an update is given in January.... | ['Photography', 'Art', 'Street Photography', 'Creativity', 'Culture'] |
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
Last week, I signed off on my 2018 income taxes— and for the first time in 10 years, I didn’t owe any money to the IRS.
In fact, I’m getting a refund.
I’d love to tell you that’s because I was much more diligent with my financial planning. And that is partially true.
But the m... | ['Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Leadership', 'Small Business', 'Life Lessons'] |
Choose partners based on values rather than reach to optimize for impact.
When considering who to partner with many teams focus on “the biggest brand that is willing to work with us”. Top-line growth is certainly an impact we intend to drive, but anchored by our brand strategy, our focus is “partners who share our val... | ['Brand Strategy', 'Startup', 'Partnerships'] |
According to McKinsey, a lack of understanding of and strategy for AI is still the greatest barrier to its adoption in most organizations. People still often think about AI as science fiction, not as a tool that they can use to drive growth. Other organizations fear that leveraging their data more effectively would req... | ['Business', 'Business Science', 'UX', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Taking Breaks Are Vital to Your Writing
How a week without writing changed the way I look at my life
Photo by Jared Rice on Unsplash
One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was the need to take breaks, to give your mind a rest. This past week I have taken a break from writing and I discovered I was not as ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Relationships', 'Advice', 'This Happened To Me'] |
Why do we take photos of our food? To feel fulfilled
The act of taking one’s meal photos is a display of emotions than just the contents of the plate
Photo by Pablo Merchán Montes on Unsplash
“You make these excellent meals and then post pictures of them on Instagram, but never bring them to the office,” my manager ... | ['Millennials', 'Life', 'Food', 'Psychology', 'Photography'] |
Cross Entropy
Binary Cross-Entropy is defined mathematically as —
— given a correct target t and a predicted value p.
Given values of p for a correct target 0, the binary cross entropy value can be graphed as —
Given values of p for a correct target 1, the binary cross entropy value can be graphed as —
Entropy is ... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Neural Networks', 'Loss Function', 'Keras'] |
How can we fit these three promising concepts in the economic system?
Photo by tabitha turner on Unsplash
The economic panorama after the Coronavirus outbreak doesn’t look very promising, and this is exactly why we should realize that it is time to change some social constructs related to economy, work and technology... | ['Passion Economy', 'Economics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Universal Basic Income', 'Covid 19 Crisis'] |
There are millions of use cases out there and that’s why there isn’t a one fits all solution. I would like to introduce you to two different options I use most. You will get all the details to decide which of them works best for you. Let us start with the basics first.
The common way
This is a common example Dockerfi... | ['Dotnet Core', 'Containers', 'DevOps', 'Dockerfile', 'Kubernetes'] |
You win when the kitten knocks the pieces over
How to Play Kitten Jenga
Stack Jenga pieces around the kitten When the kitten knocks over the blocks, it loses
The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet
You wake up and check your gmail on your iPad — that’s one app. Scan Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp over breakfast — ... | ['Storytelling', 'Notifications', 'Audience Engagement', 'Focus', 'Content Strategy'] |
Photo by Chris Benson on Unsplash
It is only natural for people to look to the bookshops or Amazon reading lists to get amongst all the books that are “must reads” for the aspiring trader. Are they worthwhile? Yes and No.
I’ve spent a fair bit of money buy up trading books, mostly I’ve found that the ones on the top ... | ['Books', 'Personal Development', 'Reading', 'Finance', 'Trading'] |
The lawsuits against Tim Draper and Bitcoin Suisse AG have been thrown out by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of Northern California.
The Tezos Foundation, Bitcoin Suisse AG, Tim Draper, and several other defendants have been at the center of a legal mess surrounding the $232 million Tezos ICO fundraiser completed... | ['Crypto', 'Startup', 'Lawsuit', 'Tezos', 'ICO'] |
I was born on the battlefield
Fighting delusions created by society(they).
Delusions harboring evil in the name of glory,
lurking in the nook and cranny.
Friends succumbed, loved ones fallen,
Villages burning and communities grieving.
I didn’t know what I was revolting about.
caught off guard I wasn’t given a we... | ['Poetry', 'Women', 'Womens Rights', 'Mental Health', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
How to Recognize Misinformation and Stop Its Spread
A Call for Writers to Change the World
Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash
The Information Age is decaying.
With our current trajectory, we are transitioning into an Age of Misinformation.
People are exploiting and extrapolating fake news and “alternative facts... | ['Writing', 'Blogging', 'News', 'Writer', 'Misinformation'] |
CHIME for a Change
The CHIME network operates at lower frequencies than many other instruments — 400 Megahertz — compared to the 700 MHz (and above) at which the most-similar instruments operate. The antennae are also capable of viewing an area of sky 14 degrees across at one time — the size of 784 full moons laid out... | ['Technology', 'Canada', 'Astronomy', 'Space', 'Science'] |
The new paperback cover, out January 2020
Click on each title to read more. CAMELOT’S END is available here.
Remember books? You might have thought Ronald Reagan was the only thing worth knowing about 1980. Wow were you wrong. Politics got you down? Reading history can help. You can’t watch “Succession” and “The Mask... | ['Christmas', 'Christmas Gifts', 'Books'] |
Jay-Z is undoubtedly the greatest emcee of all-time. Argue with ya muva.
But, he is also a motivational speaker, at least to me, anyway. If tall, Trump-supportin’ Tony Robbins’ ass can have that title, then I think Shawn Corey Carter deserves the same acclaim. Who else could get Black men over 40 to STILL wear button-... | ['Relationships', 'Hip Hop', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Life'] |
Many users from the developer community as well as other proponents of Big Data are of the view that Big Data technology stack is congruent to the Hadoop technology stack (as Hadoop as per many is congruous to Big Data).
This may not be the case specifically for top companies as the Big Data technology stack encompass... | ['Big Data Training', 'Big Data Architecture', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
Let us capitalize on our learnings so far. In last two blogs, we learnt GUI Programming and managed move some widgets within our canvas. You can refer below blogs:
We will solve two tasks mentioned in the above blog and i will try to provide different ways of implementing them.
Task 1: More than 1 object in the canva... | ['Kids And Tech', 'Python Programming', 'Kids', 'Python', 'Parenting'] |
Is Discord a Good Solution for Group Video Conferencing?
Move on over Zoom, or…?
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Discovering new technologies
During the beginning of the 2020 global pandemic, I was recovering from a personal mental health crisis. In March of 2020, many things saved me; one of them was writing... | ['Technology', 'Writing', 'Innovation', 'Discord', 'Zoom'] |
Necessity is the mother of invention
In early 2010, when Netflix shifted from providing its services via physical servers to cloud computing, they had a couple of challenges on their way.
Cloud computing offers new challenges to software teams. Computers are linked via network connections and there is less control ov... | ['Software Engineering', 'System', 'Testing', 'Netflix', 'Developerscoffee'] |
Have you ever wondered, how well do you really know yourself? As Plato once said, “know thyself.”
But why?
Typically, when we contemplate whether we know ourselves, the thoughts that come into our minds are our desires, values, and beliefs about the universe. These characteristics we form around ourselves is our code... | ['Philosophy', 'Mindfulness', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
It isn’t Michael I’m standing here for, though. I am standing in the rain, breathing heavily and staring into a station wagon where my friend and his boyfriend are doing it, because I want my friend’s boyfriend. Michael is attractive, but I’ve been friends with him for a long time. He’s like a brother to me, and standi... | ['Addiction', 'Relationships', 'Nonfiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Race'] |
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
Why your brain is so SAD
Image: Fertnig/Getty
This is a modified excerpt from Inside Your Head 🧠, a weekly newsletter exploring why your brain makes you think, feel, and act the way you do, written by me, Elemental’s senior writer and a former brain scientist. Subscribe here so you won... | ['Psychology', 'Winter', 'Serotonin', 'Seasonal Depression'] |
Why Is Santa Claus Wearing Red?
Is history being commercialized?
Santa Claus (Source: Deposit Photos)
The color red has been associated with Santa Claus ever since he was invented. This fictional, yet festive, character was created to enhance the spirit of Christmas. Rumors have it that New Yorkers were the people w... | ['Marketing', 'Christianity', 'Culture', 'Christmas', 'History'] |
Here’s How Military Training Helps Veterans Who Work in Healthcare Face COVID-19.
The served in Iraq, and now they serve as first responders and nurses.
Does military training help healthcare workers face COVID-19? According to three Marines who served in Iraq, the answer is yes. These veterans are on the frontlines ... | ['Flexibility', 'Training', 'Coronavirus', 'Military', 'Life Lessons'] |
Being stuck in a certain place in your story is different than writer’s block. Writer’s block is a condition that paralyzes writers and prevents them from ever getting started in the first place, or derails them so completely they can never finish that first draft. But being stuck is more like running your car off the ... | ['Writing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Amwriting', 'Character Development', 'Writing Tips'] |
Perseverance got this marketer the best job of her life
Nicole Tan is the embodiment of the modern workforce. She’s been working “on the road” for the last few years in 20+ countries. If anyone has good advice on how to find a job abroad and excel at working with different cultures, it is her.
Nikki at the Hive co-wo... | ['Marketing', 'Work', 'Travel', 'Digital Nomads', 'Job Hunting'] |
Custom software development is the method of designing, creating, deploying, and maintaining software for a particular set of users, roles, or organizations. Indifference to commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), custom software development proposes an almost fixed set of demands. COTS targets a wide set of specific... | ['Business', 'Software Development', 'Development', 'Software', 'App Development'] |
His words and the assault only confirmed all the horrible things I thought about myself.
I was always self-conscious of my body, even before I met him. I grew up with skinny little legs and bony thighs. And after I grew up, filled out, and gained weight everywhere else, I still had what the girls called me at school —... | ['Lifestyle', 'Women', 'Mental Health', 'Beauty', 'Feminism'] |
An Integrated Approach: Geriatric Transgender Mental Healthcare
For older individuals struggling with gender identity, mental healthcare providers are often a primary entry point into the healthcare system. New research suggests hidden strengths: integration of family-centered and interdisciplinary care teams.
In 201... | ['Transgender', 'Aging', 'Mental Health', 'LGBTQ'] |
The server has a broad range of applications. In this blog, we discover all the interesting and fun ways of using server by any data professional. 💻 Be it a data analyst, data scientist, data engineer or DevOps for data pipelines this is a blog for you :)
The general idea is that the setup of a server is complicated ... | ['Shiny', 'Airflow', 'R', 'Python', 'Servers'] |
See the full post (and more examples) on reddit:
About “wants”, “cans”, “needs”, and “shoulds”
The original reddit post has now hundreds of examples of terrible volume UI, and it keeps growing — a fun exercise/joke, that can strengthen one’s creative muscles and ability to think outside of the box. People have been p... | ['Interaction Design', 'Usability', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'UX'] |
At Astronomer, we believe that every organization can benefit from having their data properly centralized, organized and cleaned. We’re building a company to do just that.
When a client comes to us, they might have weather data from OpenWeatherMap, viewership data from Streamspot, real-world presence data from Bliptra... | ['Dashboard', 'Open Source', 'Data Science'] |
It’s no secret that the best design evokes the most powerful emotions. Talented storytellers skillfully use design attributes like color, hue, form, line, type, shape, texture, size, balance, and contrast to conjure specific feelings.
Like a great joke, a tearjerker of a movie, or a terrific story, design inspires us ... | ['Product Design', 'Design', 'UI', 'User Experience', 'UX'] |
Of all the devices in the modern poet’s toolbox, rhyme seems to be one of the most controversial.
To some, it dates the poem. There’s a widespread belief that “old poetry rhymes, but new poetry doesn’t.” And while there’s a grain of truth in that free verse (that is, poetry without a set rhyme or metrical scheme) has ... | ['Rhyme', 'Learning', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
It's them, not you — most of the time
Chris Montgomery at Unsplash
We all get invited to masses of online networking events now. No disrespect, but so many of them are a waste of time. Don’t get me wrong — I am grateful for the invitations. Without them, I wouldn’t find the good ones. But virtual events have mushroom... | ['Marketing', 'Networking Tips', 'Referral Marketing', 'Online', 'Networking'] |
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