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Getting to know the users
The first thing I did was to get to know their customers better.
We are talking about people who want to go to a classical music concert, and this portal offers tickets worldwide, in 8 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Why so many and why th... | ['Design', 'Ux Por', 'Portfolio', 'Front End Development', 'UX'] |
It’s possible to use Medium earnings as a source of (side) income.
This is for those who are skeptical about earning money online. I’ve made significant money through this article that’s been read over 20,000 times. January was the month I earned the most.
I put all of my Medium earnings into my savings account and r... | ['Writers Life', 'Writing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Writer', 'Médium'] |
The Encyclopedia
This phrase didn’t make Denis Diderot famous. It would be his ground-breaking work on an Encyclopedia that would make him a household name. His revolutionary idea was to ask his peers to contribute entries for which he would edit. Unlike every other encyclopedia before his, all of which contained know... | ['Ideas', 'Writing', 'History', 'Salsa', 'Philosophy'] |
The rapid growth of technology has connected and empowered consumers more than ever before. As consumers, our behaviour has evolved — we have multiple devices to consume content and we want to know everything instantly, which makes us more knowledgeable, curious, demanding and impatient. Marketers are embracing this ev... | ['Machine Learning', 'Programmatic Advertising', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Stackadapt', 'Programmatic'] |
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5 real reasons your work husband might be mad at you.
Your polyamorous inferences are not helping.
Hannah Rothblatt gave us a pretty good list of reasons that a “work husband” might be angry about a relationship with a “work wife.”
Her article is helpful only in this sense: when a ... | ['Startup', 'Workplace', 'Sexism', 'Red Pill', 'Feminism'] |
…and is now becoming a high-profile Hollywood feature film.
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One measure of how widespread a book is being read is to note how many folks have rated it on Goodreads.com or have left reviews. By this measure, it’s quite apparent that J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy has been widely consumed s... | ['Book Review', 'Books', 'Appalachia', 'American Culture', 'Poverty'] |
The road ahead: beyond self-driving
Autonomous vehicles will trigger new services and changes that transform the way we work, travel and live
Many autonomous vehicle discussions don’t go far enough in describing the impact on behavior over time. We are concerned mostly with “hands on” or “hands off” the steering whee... | ['Design', 'Design Process', 'Transportation', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Self Driving Cars'] |
The Ultimate Guide to Linting
An essential guide to linting for making your code more readable and life easier
Background
Code quality has been a big topic of discussion in the last decade. More people are talking about it now as more people have to read more code on a daily basis. Reading other people’s code is har... | ['Programming', 'Code', 'Software Development', 'Style Guides', 'Data Engineering'] |
Thanks for reading! I’m Alfredo Barrón, Feel free to connect with me via Twitter. | ['Ubuntu Server', 'Ubuntu', 'AWS', 'Linux'] |
Do We Need Next-Gen Consoles?
All the trends suggest that dedicated home game consoles are on the way out
The game console is becoming obsolete. It’s a controversial statement, I know. But let’s step back from the truckload of hype surrounding the imminent launches of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Let’s explor... | ['Gaming', 'Apple', 'Sony', 'Features', 'Microsoft'] |
During the last few days — I stumbled on 2 interesting thread.
One from Frank Scavo — where he summed up Nick Carr’s presentation on Cloud computing and how it is changing the IT landscape. Not much new here from Cloud computing perspective — but I like how Nick uses historical analogy and compare it to the past trend... | ['Social Ideas', 'Innovation', 'Startups', 'Enterpreneurship', 'Cloud Computing'] |
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Let’s find out!
Primary reason LinkedIn users are active on the platform for job recruitment efforts. With more than 20 million companies listed on the site and 14 million open jobs, it’s no surprise to find out that 90% of recruiters regularly use LinkedIn.
In fact, a study found that ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'LinkedIn', 'Data Science'] |
Buying and selling a product or service is not as straight-forward as it seems. There are several emotional as well as psychological aspects that play a significant part in confirming the purchase, and that usually goes unnoticed. It’s vital that companies take stock of purchasing decisions that involve less perceived ... | ['Marketing', 'B2b Buying', 'Marketing Strategies', 'B2b Content Marketing'] |
Eventually I left home. Away from my mother’s cooking.
I settled in a village in the heartland of Wales. About as far as I could possibly get from London. It was here that I discovered drugs. Proper Class A drugs. And rave music. Hardcore bass-thumping rave music.
I swapped my 4XL, Indie, long-sleeve and hide tee-shi... | ['Body Image', 'Body Dysmorphia', 'Mental Health', 'Drugs', 'Addiction'] |
Hello,
My name is Olivia XXXX and I’m an accounts manager at [demonic marketing site]. I found your site http://alexandrasamuel.com recently on the web and
was impressed by its layout and content I feel that it could be suitable
for my client.
We are interested in publishing an article (which I can supply) on
your... | ['Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Spam'] |
Every developer has pain for setup development environment to his/her machine with lots of the setups. Sometimes, the pain goes beyond while we need to test same application on multiple versions of SDKs or virtual machines.
If you are a Mac user, you have the best option called brew installer.
But if you are Linux us... | ['Java', 'Buildtools', 'Spark', 'Apache Spark', 'Scala'] |
Zippie wallet is now live in Africa with the first partners and with a refreshed user experience. Read below for more.
Live with first customers in Zambia
As mentioned in our previous update in June, we launched with first customers AfriDelivery, Tigmoo and Musanga in Zambia. The launch event attracted a full house a... | ['Marketing', 'Smartphones', 'Loyalty', 'Blockchain', 'Africa'] |
Dear Reader,
This essay (blog post) is borrowed from Advaita Academy, on which there will be an archive of my spiritual writings since 2011 (when they finish updating their site). This one is offered here on Medium because the idea of Advaita Vedanta Sadhana comes up in a series of current stories entitled, Going the ... | ['Spiritual Practice', 'Self-awareness', 'Guru', 'Nonduality', 'Spirituality'] |
The Google assures me that it was Robert Frost who dropped this pearl: “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader”.
Actually, the whole quote is “No tears for the writer, no tears for the reader; no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader”. I can recall only one story that I wrote with tears s... | ['Ideas', 'Metaphor', 'Writing Tips', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
Unfortunately, we have not got significant improvement, our model still overfits after 10–15 epochs — we can see that train loss is starting to decrease, while validation loss is starting to increase. Another problem is that since our validation loss is low from the start, we can assume that we simply got nice initial ... | ['Image Classification', 'Covid 19', 'Data Science', 'Coronavirus', 'Neural Networks'] |
Dr. Kate Devlin has as good an idea of what draws men to sexbots as anyone. Devlin, the author of the upcoming book Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots, says, “There’s the group that want that ‘Pygmalion Experience’ where they wish it was a real woman. Then there’s the people who have the robo fetish.” These two groups ... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future Human', 'Robotics', 'Feminism'] |
[Paper] Backprop: Visualising Image Classification Models and Saliency Maps (Weakly Supervised Object Localization)
Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) Using AlexNet
Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford
In this story, Deep Inside Convolutional Networks: Visualising Image Classification Models and Sal... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Object Localization', 'Convolutional Network', 'Deep Learning', 'Weakly Supervised'] |
The Case for Letting Go of Pandemic Shaming (Even Now)
I don’t agree with Farhad Manjoo’s conclusion. I can see how someone would reach it.
Photo by Mika Baumeister/Unsplash
Last week, I cried for the first time in… well, I guess about two years, since I saw that wrenching documentary about Mister Rogers’ Neighborho... | ['Shame', 'Risk', 'Covid 19', 'Pandemic', 'Coronavirus'] |
Digital marketing, the promotion of products or brands via one or more forms of electronic media, differs from traditional marketing in that it uses channels and methods that enable an organization to analyze marketing campaigns and understand what is working and what isn’t typically in real time.
“We don’t believe in... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'SEO', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing Automation'] |
This piece is expanded from a previous article that I wrote, which can be found here:
First Off — Who is Bill Nye, and What Are His Qualifications?
Bill Nye the “science” guy was a favorite of many school children growing up in the 1990’s. He had a hit TV series where he taught scientific concepts to millions of chil... | ['Ken Ham', 'Evolution', 'Bill Nye', 'Science', 'Creation'] |
This is part 4 of a multipart series which covers the programmability of the Kubernetes API using the official clients. This post covers the use of the Kubernetes Go client, or client-go, to implement a simple PVC watch tool which has been implemented in Java and Python in my previous posts.
The Kubernetes Go Client P... | ['Kubernetes', 'Programming', 'Golang'] |
Tracking Brands: Emotions will tell us more than sentiments ever could about how consumers perceive brands (case in point Volkswagen) Karan Verma Follow May 22, 2017 · 3 min read
If you were responsible for spearheading the communications mandate for Volkswagen after the dieselgate scandal then you’d be wondering some... | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'Volkswagen', 'Online Reputation', 'Big Data', 'Brand Track'] |
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As A Woman, I Am Tired Of Being Torn Down!
Let’s lift each other up, and not bash each other.
There are so many things people disagree on everyday. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Can’t we just be kind to each other? Why do people feel the need to shame others? It’s not l... | ['Self-awareness', 'Womanhood', 'Women', 'Self', 'Empowerment'] |
Years before moving abroad, I’d heard mythical tales about how lazy the French are:
They’re always on strike
They never work more than 35 hours in a week
They take coffee breaks every 15 minutes at work, for at least 30 minutes at a time
Then I moved to France and started an Executive MBA program where I was the on... | ['Work Life Balance', 'Self', 'Vacation', 'Travel', 'Productivity'] |
When a HTTP request is received, the load balancer will proxy (i.e forward) the request to the appropriate node to ensure that the load is equally divided among the cluster. Load balancers use different kind of techniques to decide which node to send to, but in our case, we will use an unweighted Round Robin configurat... | ['Dashboard', 'Software Development', 'DevOps', 'Data Visualization', 'Programming'] |
In April, OneZero’s Brian Merchant made the case that the pandemic put an end to the Amazon debate: Considering a long list of abuses at the company, he argues, shopping on its platform is unethical.
It’s a case worth keeping in mind during Amazon Prime Day, the company’s annual shopping holiday — actually two days lo... | ['Amazon', 'Business', 'Ethics', 'Tech', 'Prime Day'] |
Glassmorphism — The CSS Way
Glassmorphism is pretty easy to achieve for front-end developers. There is one main CSS property that we can use: backdrop-filter . This property allows you to apply multiple effects such as blur, sepia, and greyscale to the area behind your component. Since it applies to everything behind ... | ['Design', 'Glassmorphism', 'Programming', 'CSS', 'UX'] |
Although here we will implement asynchronous program that will execute 15 different instance parallelly rather than waiting for every instance to be completed.
Let’s jump to the implementation.
First, we will see how synchronous program reacts
Sync Program Output
Here we are calling a API 15 times one by one . One ... | ['Python3', 'Asynchronous', 'Python', 'Requests Library', 'Asyncio'] |
You Do Not Have to Choose a Niche to Be a Good Writer
Just write your mind.
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Why does it seem such a problem for some when one writer creates different types of content?
Ever since I was young, the idea of having preferences on music, literature, sports, etc., seemed more like an o... | ['Writing Life', 'Opinion', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Advice and Opinion'] |
Invest In Happiness
One way — 4 LINES
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Invest in the happiest mind
You have one way to adore yourself
Positive and loving thoughts
It can be your perfect antidote | ['Poetry', 'Motivation', 'Blue Insights', 'Happiness', 'Inspiration'] |
Any time we order a latte at the coffee shop, tap our phones to ride transit, or hail a car through a ride-sharing app, we are creating data. Isolated, these bits of information are useless. But the aggregation of millions of these tiny data points can paint an incredibly detailed picture of what people need and want, ... | ['Analytics', 'Blockchain', 'Singapore', 'Big Data', 'Location Data'] |
5 years of TicketSwap
Fighting fraud but especially: creating a community of fans
2012 As festival-goers, we weren’t so pleased with the current state of buying and selling tickets.
It all started when Hans Ober (aged 24 back then, and still a student) had a spare ticket for the Dutch festival, Lowlands. He scoured ... | ['Growth', 'News', 'Startup', 'Timeline'] |
Sign up for Taking Stock of COVID: New comics from The Nib
By The Nib
New comics from Matt Lubchansky, Keith Knight, and Niccolo Pizarro. Plus How Seniors Are Living With COVID-19. Take a look | ['Religion', 'Science'] |
Meaning of Regression
Regression attempts to predict one dependent variable (usually denoted by Y) and a series of other changing variables (known as independent variables, usually denoted by X).
Linear Regression
Linear Regression is a way of predicting a response Y on the basis of a single predictor variable X. It... | ['Python Programming', 'Machine Learning', 'Linear Regression', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Machine Learning Concept behind Linear Regression
Applying Simple ML model on CO2 Prediction
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Introduction
In the past recent years, there have been a lot of hypes on Artificial Intelligence (AI). You can find it almost anywhere from turning on the light with your voice to a full... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Gradient Descent', 'Predictions', 'Linear Regression'] |
Herd immunity is the only path, if we believe the math.
One common argument that crops up over and over in the COVID-19 discussion, when it comes to whether and how to come off of government mandated lockdown, is contact tracing. This argument states that we should stay on lockdown until our case numbers are low enoug... | ['Economics', 'Medicine', 'Random', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
I started meditating consistently in the summer of 2001. I had just finished developing the first Microsoft Xbox, and I literally sat with my feet on my desk. I should have felt proud and satisfied. I had a beautiful, big, brand-new house in Silicon Valley, and an Audi and a Porsche. I was a multi-millionaire and had m... | ['Happiness', 'Mindfulness', 'Vipassana', 'Productivity', 'Meditation'] |
New data fails to support the promotion of manualized psychotherapy as superior to non-manualized forms of psychotherapy.
By Zenobia Morrill
Photo Credit: Flickr
A recent systematic review comparing manualized psychotherapy to non-manualized psychotherapy has challenged the ongoing promotion of psychotherapy manuals... | ['Depression', 'Suicide', 'Medicine', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness'] |
I’m excited to share that Next Tech has released alpha support for Visual Studio Code!
VS Code is hands-down one of (if not) the best code editors out there. It’s trounced others (like Sublime and Atom) in popularity in recent years, thanks to the incredible features Microsoft has added and the vast library of extensi... | ['Developer Tools', 'Vscode', 'Visual Studio Code', 'Productivity', 'Microsoft'] |
Unconventional Ways to Motivate Your Team in 2021
Leadership when it’s not ‘business as usual.’
Photo credit: Mitchell Luo
Let’s face it: this year was tough. Next year might prove nearly as challenging. Times like these have fundamentally changed what it means to be a leader. It’s no longer just about driving short... | ['Startup', 'Culture', 'Teamwork', 'Collaboration', 'Leadership'] |
I’d like to share with you my experience leaving the church for several years, and my recent decision to return.
Your instinct might be to get excited. You might hope that I’m about to share the secret sauce that will bring loved ones back into the fold. I’d like to tell you right up front that this is not my intentio... | ['Mormon', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'God', 'Religion'] |
Have you ever seen a sea turtle?
Laboriously pull herself onto the beach from the ocean?
Have you ever seen a sea turtle scooch across the sand?
Each inch of progress is a battle of wills
Nature tells the turtle no you can’t
The turtle tells Nature, but I am | ['Poetry', 'Comics', 'Life Lessons', 'Work', 'Writing'] |
Spring vs Spring Boot: A Comparison of These Java Frameworks
Want to learn more about these two popular Java frameworks? Check out this Article how they each solve a different type of problem.
What is Spring Boot? And, what is a Spring Framework? What are their goals? How can we compare them? There must be a lot of q... | ['Spring Training', 'Java', 'Spring Boot', 'Spring', 'Framework'] |
What is a Data Scientist?
by Michael Watson
With the rise of big data and data in general (see here for a definition of big data), there is an increased need for people to analyze that data to turn it into information. Thomas Davenport and D.J. Patil recently wrote an article in Harvard Business Review about how “dat... | ['Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
I t’s not only about the roast: how your coffee shop nudges you into buying more specialty latte
Coffee is good and only an almost full stamp card is better. Is there a trick hiding behind your favourite coffee spot’s loyalty scheme?
The above picture was taken a couple weeks ago on a rarely sunny day amidst the rain... | ['Product Design', 'Loyalty', 'Behavioral Economics', 'Psychology', 'UX'] |
Freelance your way into Data Science now
How to start with Data Science if you want to be a freelancer?
Here’s my suggestion on how to get started with skills training in Data Science.
Become a Data Science Freelancer
Learn Python from the Very Start
There are three reasons why a first-time data scientist must lea... | ['Work', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Freelancing', 'Freelance'] |
In this article , I am going to talk about how we can prepare the sound or, audio dataset so that we can able to classify them . It may be a little long but if you can hold patience and read it thoroughly once, it will be highly beneficial.
First we will load the audio file. From the directory having n number of sound... | ['Audio Classification', 'Python', 'Sound Classification', 'Pytorch', 'Deep Learning'] |
Nowadays that we are at home working, we can be very busy with a lot of tasks and no time to focus. Then we look for possible ways to solve this problem, task management here, task management there, and maybe some scheduling to help us with all meetings we have all day.
Photo by Robert Bye on Unsplash
So, for the las... | ['Time Blocking', 'Productivity', 'Time Block', 'Time Management'] |
My Favorite Murder is a successful comedy/true-crime hybrid podcast. It has been rated №1 in the iTunes Comedy podcast charts and №20 in overall podcasts. It has been running for almost a year and grew a highly-engaged fan base (“Murderinos”) largely through word-of-mouth tactics. True crime is a crowded category in po... | ['Edelman', 'Marketing', 'Podcasts', 'Digital Marketing'] |
In his 2009 obituary in The New York Times, Jack Temple Kirby was described as “a historian who decried stereotypes of the American South and traced the ways its people and landscapes have shaped one another.” Unfortunately, decrying stereotypes about the South can be a Sisyphean way to spend one’s life, but I’m glad h... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'History', 'The South', 'Working Class'] |
Put Up or Shut Up
If you’re starting a new job, workout program, diet, or relationship you need to realize that the key to success is always consistency. From a business perspective, the same is true for marketing.
Consistently promoting your business and it’s services/products is a way to drive growth quickly and ef... | ['Marketing', 'Practice', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Consistency', 'Social Media'] |
Why the Blackwater Pardons Are Far Worse Than Anyone Realizes
The world just watched the US disregard the value of human life, mock the rule of law, hand extremists recruiting material, and sabotage its foreign policy. It’s hard to appreciate the extent of the damage.
The Pardon of the Blackwater Contractors:
Nichol... | ['Leadership', 'Politics', 'Government', 'World', 'Science'] |
I thought that many developers could face the same situation that I have just gone through. The problem was that there is no article available on the internet related to Place Autocomplete API with MVVM and Retrofit.
If you are here and you got stuck while implementing Place Autocomplete API with Retrofit and MVVM, yo... | ['Java', 'Kotlin', 'Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Android App Development'] |
Chasing your dreams without ever chasing the actions required
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2021 is just around the corner. You tell your coworkers this is THE year you’ll finally stick to your New Year’s resolutions. Because this year is different, you explain. But you’re really just trying to convince yourself mor... | ['Motivation', 'Resolutions', 'Self Improvement', 'Habits', 'Life Lessons'] |
map
Stream#map(Function<T> mapper) is an intermediate stream operation that transforms each element. It applies its argument, a Function<T, R> , and returns a Stream<R> :
That’s the gist; map is pretty straightforward to use. But there are specialized map functions depending on the types.
flatMap
Stream#flatMap(Fun... | ['Software Development', 'Coding', 'Functional Programming', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
In March, COVID-19 reached pandemic status. Hospitals faced a sharp increase in patients and an equally sharp decrease in resources. Supply chains were significantly delayed, and hospitals overrun with COVID patients were creating bed capacity by any means necessary, from repurposing existing units to creating new ones... | ['Design', 'User Experience', 'Microsoft', 'Apps', 'Healthcare'] |
Stop Using Your Left Hand
Sometimes it can hold you back
Most people are really good at something. And if they are not, then they most likely could get really good at something, with some time, practice, and initiative.
Most of us have some type of strength. Not always physical strength, but something else.
Some of... | ['Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Teddy-bear’s picnic
On 8 July 1996, just four months after the Dunblane school massacre in Scotland, another attack took place.
Dunblane had witnessed sixteen children and their teacher murdered by a crazed gunman. This time, one brave, selfless nurse stood in the way of a machete wielding lunatic.
Nobody had seen t... | ['Schools', 'Salsa', 'Heroes', 'History', 'Writing'] |
13 Clever Money Lessons My Pain in the Ass Boss Taught Me
This guy was the devil’s uncle and he can teach you a lot.
Picture by OzgeCebeci
If the devil had an uncle then this guy would be it.
Despite the obvious leadership lessons he taught me about how not to lead humans, he taught me a lot about money. The moment... | ['Money', 'Leadership', 'Books', 'Life Lessons', 'Work'] |
The user experience (UX) of your website, web application or mobile app are absolutely vital. Good UX tells the user whether your company is trustworthy, whether you have their best interests in mind and how hard you’re going to work to cater to their needs.
When it comes to UX design, there is no room for cutting cor... | ['Design', 'Mobile App Design', 'UX Design', 'Mobile Design', 'Web Design'] |
The brown paper wrapping would be wrinkled and sueded by the time our parcel made it across the country to my eager hands, which immediately went to work solving the overzealous tape-job my oma would perform to secure packages from Northern Ontario to her grandkids out West.
There was always the same tissue paper with... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Christmas', 'Prose', 'Nostalgia'] |
Artificial Intelligence and Anomaly Detection
Time Series Anomaly Detection With LSTM Autoencoders- an Unsupervised ML Approach
How to set-up an anomaly detection model
Image by Author
Anomaly here to detect that, actual results differ from predicted results in price prediction. As we are aware that, real-life data... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Network Algorithm', 'Anomaly Detection', 'Stock Market'] |
There we were, two couples sitting around a table at 10 o’clock on a beautiful but sultry Monday morning playing cards. Our only objective was to win the game.
Nana Neva and I had taken an extended weekend break from our part-time grand-parenting duties to explore a less-familiar area of Virginia with another retired ... | ['Writing', 'Essay', 'Travel', 'Retirement'] |
Use buildx
Buildx comes with a default builder that you can observe by typing docker buildx ls into your terminal. However, we want to make and use a builder ourselves.
Make a builder
You will need a new builder, so make one with docker buildx create — name m1_builder . Now you should see the new builder when runnin... | ['Apple', 'Docker', 'Apple Silicon', 'Programming', 'Containers'] |
Last year I have given a talk at Nexus User Conference 2018 on how to build a CI/CD pipeline from scratch on AWS to deploy Dockerized Microservices and Serverless Functions. You can read my previous Medium post for step by step guide:
CI/CD Workflow on AWS with Swarm
In 2019 edition of Nexus User Conference, I have p... | ['Serverless', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Google Cloud Platform'] |
A Guide to Spirituality and the Pain of Longing
Creating a playbook for a life of love, kindness, compassion, empathy, and wisdom
Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash
There’s a key element in the lives of all serious spiritual seekers that I call the pain of longing. It is a gnawing feeling that says, there’s more to li... | ['Personal Development', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Spiritual Growth', 'Self Improvement'] |
Unittesting Apache Spark Applications
A PySpark case
Unittesting Spark applications is not that straight-forward. For most of the cases you’ll probably need an active spark session, which means that your test cases will take a long time to run and that perhaps we’re tiptoeing around the boundaries of what can be call... | ['Pyspark', 'Python', 'Apache Spark', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science'] |
Performing Exploratory Data analysis
There are 39 features in the dataset that we are using amongst which most of them are unique identification numbers used by different agencies and do not provide any information about fire. Therefore, we would remove those features right away after which feature analysis is perform... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'GIS', 'Data Science', 'Forest Fires'] |
Improve Your Debugging experience in Visual Studio Code
With this useful feature that you might not be aware of
Previously If we want to debug Nodejs applications, we have to create launch.json file to specify the debug configurations.
To make debugging easier, VS Code has added a new feature to easily debug Nodejs ... | ['Development', 'Debugging', 'Programming', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript'] |
Data cleaning and feature engineering in Python
Building better machine learning models for predicting San Francisco housing prices
Housing price data provides a great introduction to machine learning. Anybody who has bought a house or even rented an apartment can easily understand the features: more space, and more ... | ['Scikit Learn', 'Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Feature Engineering'] |
Teaching Philosophy
The most effective way to keep young students engaged is to use positive reinforcement and encouragement to help them feel like they are understanding the concepts.
To introduce middle schoolers to AI, it is imperative to start with extreme basics. This begins by eliminating the perception that AI... | ['Machine Learning', 'Tutorial', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Programming'] |
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The school year has ended and that can only mean one thing: library season is upon us. If you are of the persuasion that libraries are dying out in our digital age you might be surprised to know that the opposite is in fact true... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Libraries', 'Summer', 'Culture'] |
Control freaks and psychological saftey — We bring Eric Olive on the podcast as a guest to talk about the science of decisions and we ended up talking about control and safety. How do you create an environment of psychological safety? And how does that encourage creative collaboration?
Eric has also offered a list of ... | ['Trust', 'Eric Olive', 'Risk', 'Decisions'] |
First of all, the debugging/programming hardware. ST products are famously paired with the ST-Link series of debuggers; the most common ST-Link V2 comes for 20 € on Mouser, but a knock-off can be found on Aliexpress for prices as low as 1.50 $.
Cheap, but effective
For Microchip products, it’s a different story. Thei... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Comparison', 'Embedded Systems', 'Hidden Cost', 'Product Design'] |
This water tower was part of the Charlottenburg gas plant but is also known as Wasserturm Gaußstraße. By the 2000s, you could also notice huge — higher than the tower — ball-shaped gas tanks nearby. However, nowadays, the tower stands alone among commercial and logistics facilities.
The tower seems to be in good shape... | ['Design', 'History', 'Berlin', 'Architecture', 'Photography'] |
Hide your money
The number one mistake most people make is to leave all their money in one banking checking account. Instead, think about your checking account as a funnel. It’s a place where money from your job or business comes, but it doesn’t stop there.
Always keep about 1.5–2x of your monthly expense in this mai... | ['Finance', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Money', 'Economics'] |
The hidden advantages of NOT maximizing for income early
The paradox of chasing high pay early
I think it’s a decent default rule to take the lowest pay you can for the first decade or so of your career.
If you ignore pay and focus on other things, I’m willing to bet you’ll be happier and earn more pay a decade in t... | ['Money', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Careers', 'Learning'] |
The Cat (Felis Catus) is a friend of humans for at least 10,000 years. These small mammal carnivores are members of millions of homes.
The species is the only in the Felidae family domesticated. Cats have many similarities with wild felines: habits and appearances are close.
The small ones are part of the Felinae. Th... | ['Cats', 'Animals', 'Biology', 'Science', 'Taxonomy'] |
#1: Adhere to the Macro
Form matters. Writing in a pre-defined form eases reading, as readers have a sense of what’s next and can easily relate your work to others. Most papers stick to the following meta-structure, and you should do so as well:
Abstract: One paragraph synthesis of the entire document. Introduction: ... | ['Writing', 'Education', 'Data Science', 'Writing Tips', 'Academia'] |
In this tutorial, you are going to learn What is ReactJS and how you can use this JS framework to write maintainable web apps in Javascript.
The project we are going to build will be a clone of Coinmarketcap, a famous website that lists the latest price of Cryptocurrencies. CMC provides JSON APIs to access their data.... | ['Front End Development', 'React', 'Reactjs', 'Web Development'] |
How Rough Sex Can be Healing
When you’re a control freak, sometimes the best way to get off is to let go.
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I am the epitome of a control freak; I’m tightly wound, always stressed, constantly working, my house is immaculately clean, and my brain basically never shuts down. I am anxi... | ['Women', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Sexuality', 'Sex'] |
Is America’s Veneer of Civility About to Crumble Alongside Its Leadership?
Public Response to the Full-Blown COVID-19 Crisis Could Make Black Friday at Walmart Seem Like a Walk in the Park
Albert Einstein famously said, “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its w... | ['Leadership', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
Pig Tutorial - Edureka
As I mentioned in my Hadoop Ecosystem article, Apache Pig is an essential part of our Hadoop ecosystem. So, I would like to take you through this Apache Pig tutorial, which is a part of our Hadoop Tutorial Series. In this Apache Pig Tutorial article, I will talk about:
Apache Pig vs MapReduce
... | ['Mapreduce', 'Apache Pig', 'Big Data', 'Hdfs', 'Hadoop'] |
“As part of a promotional campaign for his The Darkside Vol. 1 album, which was released last year, the PR/Cuban rapper shot a series of webisodes called ‘Fat Joe’s Tales From the Darkside.’ For Part 3, he tells about the time he was visiting R&B; sensation R. Kelly in Chicago and how he didn’t believe Kellz when the c... | ['Storytelling', 'Boxing', 'Ego Trip'] |
centerSlice Property
centerSlice is the same as 9 patch png in Android Studio. Is a technique used to scale the image in such a way that the 4 corners remain unscaled, but the four edges are scaled in one axis and the middle is scaled in both axis.
The Value of the centerSlice property is the Rect Class. We need to c... | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development', 'Flutter', 'AndroidDev', 'Android App Development'] |
Some of us have no trouble expressing ourselves on current events. For others of us, we may need some prompting and encouragement. These writers have made space for us writers to find our voices and share our hearts.
Marla Bishop’s prompt is part of The Bad Influence pub’s prompt series called Ideastream. Typically, t... | ['Poetry', 'Writing Prompts', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Race', 'Writing'] |
Are you just about to submit your academic essay, but the deadline is still a few hours away? Don’t submit yet!
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Take a look at these five tips and see whether you can improve your essay within only a few hours.
I have been teaching philosophy at university for more than ten years... | ['Education', 'Self Improvement', 'Essay', 'College', 'Writing'] |
The city of Mumbai had been reeling under a massive spurt in crime. Police had lost all the will power to enforce law and order. There were regular cases of shootouts between rival gangs. One of the gangs stood out in ruthlessness and sophistication to commit crime. It was the black cobra gang.
Rarely any of the membe... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
In sponsorship, we are constantly competing for advertising dollars. Every day not only do we go head to head with other sponsorship advertising options, but we battle against other forms of advertising.
Digital ads are a big part of this competition. Brands ask themselves every time when looking at your package, “Why... | ['Sponsorship', 'Marketing', 'Sports Business', 'Sportsbiz', 'Sponsorship Marketing'] |
Mapping Classical Antiquity: Exploring the Ancient World through the maps created by ancient peoples Lewis D'Ambra Follow Jul 11 · 6 min read
Possible Invasions and Migrations during the Bronze Age Collapse
The aim of this publication is to explore, through maps, texts and historical accounts of expeditions, what the... | ['Maps', 'Mapping', 'History', 'Ancient History'] |
1. Freelancing
Freelancing is a great way of making some side income while still holding down your day job. Or perhaps, if conditions are right, it could potentially become a full-time job. Though freelancing sounds great on paper, it requires a lot of discipline and effort to find clients and projects. One thing you ... | ['Python', 'Freelancing', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript'] |
The One Where We Stay in Touch Agnes Follow Feb 15 · 2 min read
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There’s a version of us where we stay in touch.
There’s a version of us where your voice notes are my favorite podcasts: long, winding, whimsical, nonsensical recounts of your day, your take on Netflix series, Matcha smo... | ['Friends', 'Writing', 'Friendship', 'Relationships'] |
Weekly Writing Prompt: Resistance
All change faces Resistance, it’s part of the battle
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Resistance comes in many forms. These inner battles on occupied land take many shapes.
From Steven Pressfield’s artistic resistance, where we are our own worst enemies pushi... | ['Writing Prompts', 'Flash Fiction', 'Writing', 'Resistance', 'Microcosm'] |
Anxiety is a Smoldering Flame That Can Easily Ignite
How can we control the worries of the unknown and manage our anxiety?
Anxiety is no joke. It is the one emotional challenge that, probably everyone, has at one time or another, and at varying levels. Every individual who has anxiety disorders have their own unique ... | ['Stress', 'Anxiety', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
Are you still learning like you were taught in school?
Just over a year ago I got the idea to catalog some of my thoughts on self-development and learning via this blog. I had never written anything publicly before and the last time I wrote something longer than a thank-you note or email was during my high school Engl... | ['Productivity', 'Learning'] |
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