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One Last Note
We have 27,551 followers at Literally Literary. We have approximately 200 writers. Even with these tremendous numbers, most of the submitted works get less than 20 views. Why? Algorithms.
How do we combat this and support each other? Bookmark our homepage and once a day, come here and see what you misse... | ['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Ll Letters', 'Fiction', 'Essay'] |
FunctionTransformer
Let’s start simple with a great tool for on the fly transformations: FunctionTransformer. FunctionTransformer can be used for everything from applying a predefined function to a feature, to selecting specific columns in your feature set. The basic idea is that FunctionTransformer accepts a function... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Feature Engineering', 'Scikit Learn', 'Data Science'] |
A Contrarian Analysis and Exasperated Rant
What problem were we solving, again?
Facebook recently rolled out the first elaboration to their core social interaction in years, possibly ever: Reactions. Instead of just Liking something, you can now slap one of several emoji on it. And also there’s a heart, like Captain ... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'Social Media'] |
So I had this bright idea to consolidate all my side projects under a common sub-domain — lab. The only reason why I decided to do this is that my DNS records are getting a little messy, with each sub-domain adding a couple of lines. This is purely my OCD at work, I know.
The Problem
Now, my initial thought was to si... | ['Vuejs', 'Website Development', 'Debugging', 'Code', 'Vue'] |
Solstice Joy
Best wishes from a solar freak
Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash
I am always overcome with a wave of happiness on the Winter Solstice. This is because of the knowing that the days will now start getting longer again. I guess it is part of being a solar addict freak.
To me it is inspiring that I can exp... | ['Solstice', 'Nonfiction', 'Winter', 'Holidays', 'Life'] |
Medium Writing and Marketing Tips For You
What do you need help with?
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I joined Medium in September 2020, almost exactly three months ago at the time of writing this. In those 3 months, I’ve proudly achieved a number of personal accomplishments on the platform. They include the foll... | ['Writing', 'Blogging', 'Advice', 'Ｍedium', 'Writing Tips'] |
What is Human-Computer Interaction?
Before we get into my experiences, I want to give you a brief background on what HCI is and how it connects to User Experience (UX). Human-Computer Interaction is a multidisciplinary practice that focuses on both the interaction between the user and the computer as well as the desig... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'UX', 'Humancomputer Interaction'] |
10 Mobile List-Building Apps for CPG Advertising: Contextual, Simple and Consumer-Friendly
Consumers use hundreds of different mobile apps to plan and shop for groceries. While it’s great news for shoppers who want choices, the broadness of the landscape can make it a bit difficult for CPG and grocery advertisers to k... | ['Marketing', 'Technology', 'Advertising', 'Mobile', 'Food'] |
The goal of this write-up is to expand on the mathematical details of “FRI”, a low-degree testing protocol, a key component of ZK-STARK, a computational integrity proof system that has been gaining a lot of attention with the rise of blockchain technologies. Since our focus will be on the mathematical details rather th... | ['Cryptography', 'Development', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum'] |
Setting Boundaries and Standing Up for Yourself as an Act of Self-Love June Westerfield Follow Dec 19 · 6 min read
How I’m Learning to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Image by drromie from Pixabay
I consider myself to be a fairly tough chick. This hasn’t always been the case. Growing up with a strong-willed and often em... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Self Love', 'Body Positive'] |
From day one of kindergarten, we are all trained to write creatively whether it be about our puppy’s last adventure, or a tale of the garden fairy that made all the flowers grow.
Once writers step away from primary school, they often forget the foundational rules they were taught to always use when crafting their elab... | ['Creative Writing', 'Content Creation', 'Creative Process', 'Grammar', 'Writing'] |
Party Girl’s End
Poetry
PARTY GIRL by Ema Dumitru
I put myself together for you.
Woman who has drowned
herself in the flesh.
Woman who can clench
and unclench the soul like a fist.
Ready to drop on the world.
This silhouette bears your name
with the pride of the first drop
of blood on a fresh sword.
You are... | ['Poetry', 'Photography', 'Writing', 'Poem', 'Chance Encounters'] |
How To Do Hard Things Really Well.
Here’s why people are unhappy
“People are unhappy in large part because they are confused about what is valuable.” -William Irvine
When I was in high school, I barely made the cut for the freshman basketball team. My goal had changed from “be a basketball star” to “just don’t embar... | ['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Life Lessons', 'Anthony Moore', 'Productivity'] |
See how Python can beat Burp Suite in brute-forcing speed and boost your hacking efficiency.
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[Scenario]
Once, I was sharpening my skills on blind SQL injection by enumerating a vulnerable web application. I found the trivial username ‘administrator’ and his password length usi... | ['Python', 'Hacking', 'Sql', 'Infosec', 'Cybersecurity'] |
Getting the right photos of ninety-nine things isn’t easy. To get the feel we wanted, “any” photo of something from the streets simply wouldn’t do. We wanted a beat-down, black broken high heeled shoe—not a shiny, new red one. We knew we wanted to make sure the Brooklyn cab is a Prius and the yellow cab is a Crown Vic ... | ['iOS', 'Design', 'Design Process', 'Video', 'Stickers'] |
WABC-TV
Donald Trump loves Twitter. That’s not news. Donald Trump uses Twitter to attack his enemies, promote conspiracy theories, and shape narratives to his liking. Again — not breaking news, here. However, because he has been able to do this for the past six years with impunity, his behavior has a corrupting influe... | ['Leadership', 'Andrew Cuomo', 'Donald Trump', 'Politics', 'Coronavirus'] |
Why A Humanitarian Invented The Machine Gun
The Gatling gun turned individuals into replaceable parts
Gatling Gun — Via Pixabay / Picture By Jazella
“For the first time in history, death was automatic….doled out in sweeps and clusters, in reeling multiples, instead of one by one. Hence a world that had been moving s... | ['Technology', 'Engineering', 'Business', 'History', 'Culture'] |
Using the STL Forecasting Method with an ARIMA model, which is parameterized through the Box-Jenkins Method.
This post builds on our first blogpost which dealt with the initial data-transformation of the exogenous variables. Now we build a first model using only target variable itself. This is done by using the STL Fo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Kaggle', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Seasonality'] |
France’s Lost Computing Generation
Growing up as a computer enthusiast in 90’s France.
While the mid-80’s saw the BBS subculture flourish in the US, I accidentally fell into a parallel experiment in the future of computing that was quintessentially French. Back then the country had been blanketed in free Minitel term... | ['France', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Computer Science', 'Education Technology'] |
Integral Cities & Bioregional Regeneration
reGeneration Rising: Conversations about regenerative practice (Episode 3)
On January 6th of 2020, I spoke to Marilyn Hamilton, author of the Integral City trilogy and a internationally respected elder of the integral community. I had known of Marilyn’s work for many years a... | ['Cities', 'Sustainability', 'Regeneration', 'Integral Theory', 'Culture'] |
How many classics do you say you want to read but never get around to doing so? Make 2021 the year you read 12 great classics of literature with this helpful month by month plan.
Never again will you have to mumble ‘it’s about a whale isn’t it?’ when you’re asked if you’ve read Moby Dick. Instead, you’ll finally under... | ['2021', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Literature', 'Classics'] |
This week has SUCKED for me!
Nothing disastrous, but almost the exact opposite of Awesomeness.
As a matter of fact, I’ve been Lifting & Eating way better this week!
I even did some super Cool & Fun things, here in my home-country of Vietnam :)
Ho Chi Minh City
But my “Creative Flow” & Motivation to write Copy has ... | ['Copywriting', 'Marketing', 'Digital', 'Coaching', 'Persuasive Writing'] |
A case for moving digital advertising up the funnel
Originally published at InsideHigherEd.com
By 2020, more than $117 billion will be spent on digital and mobile advertising in the U.S. And as marketing budgets continue to increase across our industry, the investment in digital advertising will likely continue to gr... | ['Marketing', 'Higher Ed', 'Advertising', 'Higher Education', 'Social Media'] |
There is an on-going debate on why Europe does not produce as many unicorns as the US, but in his view that misses the bigger picture in terms of research output, where Europe stands out and, as he points out:
“There is one misconception about Europe and that is, in terms of regulating technology, in terms of placing ... | ['Technology', 'Europe', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'UN', 'Cybersecurity'] |
Last night, I returned home from a couple of nights away in Atlanta. I gave myself a mini vacation at a 5-star hotel away from everyone and everything.
Well, mostly everyone. I initially planned to spend time with a poly man I've been dating casually for a couple of years but that didn't happen.
This was the first re... | ['Lifestyle', 'Writing', 'Work', 'Life', 'Parenting'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Environment', 'Social', 'Entertainment', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Inspiration'] |
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5 Sayings That Contribute To Collective Narrative
These may be keeping us stuck.
Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash
New neuroscience from Lisa Feldman Barrett suggests that our brains construct reality from three environments: Memory banks, internal sensations, and external stimulus.
Fascinating right?! In every ... | ['Growth', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Mindset', 'Self'] |
In this blog, we’ll introduce our design and implementation of a framework within RAPIDS cuDF that enables compiling Python user-defined functions (UDF) and inlining them into native CUDA kernels. Our framework uses the Numba Python compiler and Jitify CUDA just-in-time (JIT) compilation library to provide cuDF users t... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Dataframes', 'User Defined Functions', 'Cuda'] |
— Anything less than being identical subjects to interpretation.
We as a human have a complex system to interpret similarity. The concept of similarity, regardless of how it must be measured, varies across contexts and problems. If two objects are completely similar, there is no room for interpretation. However, anyth... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Data Science'] |
Concept for Techno Sink Thriller, exposing the dangers of scientific arrogance.
Techno Sink Sci Fi
SF in between Apocalypse and Tech Wonders
We need science fiction stories that expose the insanity of infinite growth and offer hope and help to find solutions.
Due to the current collapsing infrastructure of the USA,... | ['Social Change', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Science Fiction', 'Techno Sink', 'Plot'] |
Artificial thinking vs. natural thinking. The pyramid is the model for the Structure of Everything.
Photo by Nhia Moua on Unsplash
Human beings can take an artificial step in their thinking, and not recognize it as made up. After all, every word is artificial, right? Yet where the singular word person points to a cle... | ['Religion', 'Big Bang', 'Physics', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Business Strategy', 'Amazon', 'Digital Marketing'] |
The beginning of the actual divorce long predated the beginning of the legal one. You could say it started when his business sank into oblivion, and like a determined sea captain refusing to abandon ship, he submerged with it.
But really, the divorce began long before that.
Starting his own company meant starting aga... | ['Relationships', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life', 'Divorce', 'Narcissism'] |
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The explosion of prototyping tools in the past few years has given designers an opportunity to create detailed interactions. Designers are spending hours and days learning these tools. However, many designers get lost in the technical details of the prototyping tool of choice. Designers must take... | ['Design', 'UX', 'User Experience', 'Animation'] |
The day news theory became reality
A journalism student’s perspective on the AFP raids on the ABC.
AFP officers leave the ABC, eight hours after raiding the public broadcaster’s Sydney HQ. Photo: Alexandra Menzies.
As I stood out the front of the ABC’s Sydney headquarters on Wednesday morning (June 5), I couldn’t he... | ['Press Freedom', 'Australia', 'Journalism', 'Media'] |
Plotly Express is the built-in high-level data visualization interface for Plotly.py, a leading interactive data visualization library for Python. With today’s release of Plotly.py 4.8, Plotly Express now gracefully operates on wide-form and mixed-form data – not just “tidy” long-form data.
These new capabilities dram... | ['Python', 'Open Source', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
How UX Engineering can Fuel Product Development
A six-step process for incorporating User Experience Engineering to build and test new features and product ideas quickly
Start-ups are scrappy survivors: they must innovate constantly and adapt quickly if they want to have any chance at upending the proverbial status q... | ['User Experience', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'UX', 'Engineering'] |
Thank you, my friend, for being you!
Borrowed with permission from Classical Sass herself
Always writing, always caring, always connecting
Love the passion and the caring of you, wonderful lady
Willing to put your heart on the line
Willing to share whether the words flow or not
Making me laugh, making me think
M... | ['Poetry', 'Celebration', 'Writing', 'Chalkboard', 'Inspiration'] |
Fake news, says Trump, keep buying stuff and don’t worry
The news of the first COVID-19 death in America has broken. A patient in Washington state — a middle-aged man with no link to travel from other affected lands — has died from the disease.
Washington governor Jay Inslee has announced a state of emergency, noting... | ['Nonfiction', 'Viral', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Coronaviru'] |
Making mistakes in your UI is easier than you think. There are quite a lot of pitfalls on your way of delivering smooth user experience, and I want to talk about some of them today. Without further ado, let’s get right to it.
Phone Number Form Fields
Phone number field is a beast. In my other article, I mentioned a p... | ['Design', 'User Experience', 'Web Design', 'Web Development', 'UX'] |
Both algorithms can be downloaded from GitHub, in the Datasets folder, there are files to test. At the end of the post is the Complete Paper (In Spanish).
Data mining consists of analyzing volumes of data from different tools or techniques that facilitate this process, such as, for example, the a priori algorithm, FP-... | ['Data Mining', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Apriori Algorithm', 'Rules'] |
It’s a new year, which means the world and your social media streams are full of advice on how to start off on the right foot. You might find that some of it is useful. You might also find that most of it is noise. Noise in the sense that they’re half thought out articles with generic advice for improving your life. A ... | ['Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Advice', 'Goals', 'Life'] |
How the Seventh-Day Amplification Factor can gauge the Existence of Corona Silent Carriers
If the value of A7=1.0, then the total confirmed cases of infection on Day 7 are equal to that of Day 0. This means that there have been no new infections.
A key challenge is confronting the Corona outbreak has been a relative ... | ['Covid 19', 'Data Analysis', 'Coronavirus', 'Data Science', 'Data'] |
Today we are happy to announce the launch of Service Credits on Quadrant. This is a path-breaking initiative that allows customers to purchase QUAD tokens — known as Service Credits — from Quadrant. Although a simple concept, this is a turning point in enterprise adoption of blockchain technology.
Since the creation o... | ['Big Data', 'Blockchain', 'News', 'Product Updates'] |
So what does this mean for the experience of trauma and loss?
Tornados are like those sudden difficult events that happen in our lives: the sudden death, the sexual assault, the job loss. We feel as if we did not see it coming. We often feel that we “should” have seen it coming. I say this to say that the sudden event... | ['Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Trauma', 'Hurricane', 'Therapy'] |
Not the word Ooops!! It’s O.O.P’s (i.e Object Oriented Programming)!!!
HEY ! So in this post I will be highlighting and describing the OOPs concepts in Java and where they get applied in a Java Program.
Before starting with OOPs concepts let us see the 2 programming paradigms namely :
Procedural Oriented (More focus... | ['Oops Interview Questions', 'Object Oriented', 'Oops Concepts', 'Java Oop', 'Java'] |
What Is Hoisting?
It's easier to understand what hoisting is with an example. Let's take a look at the code snippet below.
Here you can see that the printVariable function is called before it's defined, and the variable passed into the function is also used before it’s defined. But still, if you run the code, you'll ... | ['Angular', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'React Native'] |
Top 5 Deep Learning and Neural Network courses to learn in 2021 javinpaul Follow Sep 19 · 9 min read
Deep Learning on Coursera by Andrew Ng
Hello guys, if you want to learn Deep learning and neural networks and looking for the best online course then you have come to the right place. Earlier, I have shared the best d... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
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There’s a genre of books that relates to Holocaust stories. This book is not one of them.
There’s a genre of spiritual books and books related to life’s philosophies. This book is not one of those either.
Rather, this book teaches you to seek value and meaning in the worst situations you face in life... | ['Ideas', 'Book Recommendations', 'Self Improvement', 'Books', 'Reading'] |
Problem
Sometimes, somehow you can get into trouble with small files on hdfs. This could be a stream, or little big data(i.e. 100K rows 4MB).
If you plan to work on big data, small files will make your tasks slow. Why will they work slow? Why having small files on hdfs is not making your tasks easier. Here some usefu... | ['Spark', 'Hadoop', 'Big Data', 'Mapreduce'] |
WORK
How Should We Respond to Workplace Change?
We define ourselves in these moments.
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
In the workplace, changes come quickly and suddenly, often with little explanation. That Monday morning meeting is suddenly not so routine and employees peel out into the hallways to shake their h... | ['Self Improvement', 'Work', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Success'] |
I’ve given up trying to cram as much information in.
Photo by Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash
It’s that time of year for lists. Dammit. Here we go.
Spotify already started with a list of the songs I consumed during this year of terror and lockdown. Pretty soon, there will be lists of what people did to keep themselves san... | ['Books', 'Personal Development', 'Reading', 'Life', 'Lessons'] |
Reason #3 of “12 Reasons CAMELOT’S END makes a great Christmas gift”
It is both unfashionable and difficult to look backwards. Progress move forwards, into the future.
And there is little time in 2019 to catch one’s breath. The never-ending story (argument), always available on cable TV and Twitter and Facebook, is b... | ['Christmas Gifts', 'Books', 'Politics', 'History', '2016 Election'] |
Why Do You Read?
Plus: 10 of my favorite Medium writers right now
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
It would be a lie to say I read for a living, but it’s fair to say I make a living because I love to read and am good at it.
Why do you read? When you ask people this, a lot of them say they read to consume inform... | ['Writing', 'Reading', 'Blogging'] |
Truth in Memory
A Short Story
Photo by Mick De Paola on Unsplash
C. opened the back door, the noise seemingly unnatural. Few miseries are as intense as that disordered and ignored room. Like a no man’s land. On a broken chair was sitting a man, gazing at the mirror door. His dirty, nerdy appearance didn’t terrify he... | ['Musings', 'Writing', 'Dishonesty', 'Short Story', 'Consequences'] |
With packages being the core of everyday projects, it is important to bear in mind that not all python versions support every package. Additionally, transitioning from python 2 to 3 might be difficult due to dependencies. Matters could worsen if you have both versions installed in your root directory. This is where env... | ['Python Packages', 'Python', 'Pycharm', 'Package Management', 'Anaconda'] |
A couple of times before, I wrote about my various approaches to using iPXE to boot SmartOS:
I recently elected to move this (rather small) part of my operation to Kubernetes for a couple of reasons, but mostly because I wanted a fast way to refresh the served version of SmartOS archive, and I wanted it to be quickly ... | ['System Administration', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Smartos'] |
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Opinion
Why Machine Learning Practitioners Should Watch The Movie “Her”
Meet the Virtual assistant of the future
Introduction
Major bugs fixed, production application looks good, and I just pushed my last commit of 2020, the holiday season is in full effect. So, I prepare to unplug... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Entertainment', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Movies'] |
The Optimal Arousal of Bennie and Yvette, a Love Story
‘The middle ground is where life and love dance, where the music is played.’
Photo by Christiana Rivers on Unsplash
“But I LOVE Groynehilda!” Bennie shouted.
How he despaired. Would he ever recover from his bad case of RRE? It would kill his latest relationship... | ['Tango', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Psychotherapy', 'Writing'] |
The students that we select for the SDC are not only particularly good at their craft but also brave and articulate. This year, I am also impressed by their emotional intelligence and ability to iterate. — Ana Domb, SDC Co-Chair
What are you studying?
Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology
What inspired yo... | ['Design', 'Inclusive Design', 'UX Design', 'Ixd', 'Microsoft'] |
What is Systems Thinking?
ST is often misunderstood due to its vast collection of tools and methods. However, just like DT, it is a philosophy. The philosophy of ST can be traced back to the work of Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in 1968 and other contributors. ST is an approach that considers how elements within a system int... | ['Product Design', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Design Process', 'UX'] |
What’s new with TypeScript 4.0
What’s new and shiny with TypeScript 4.0 — Language features
We’ve just finished migrating to TS 3.9, and the 4.0 version is already here!
In this article, I’ll go over everything that’s just been released as part of TypeScript 4.0.
I’ll only cover the language features. I might write... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript', 'Web Development'] |
Why You Might Need a Day Job As a Writer
Being a full-time writer is not good for my sanity
Photo: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels
The last couple of months writing ever since the pandemic, I’ve been on a tear. I’ve written more and better than ever, and I wish I could pinpoint a magic formula for it, but the entire writin... | ['Money', 'Writing', 'Work', 'History', 'Freelancing'] |
Thanks to the amazing R libraries gganimate and ggplot2 which helped in creating the animated chart.
I will post the details of creating the charts in another post. Until then stay tuned. | ['Machine Learning', 'R', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Analytics'] |
BAILEY T. STEEN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
Amy Winehouse, the music icon who tragically passed away of alcohol poisoning almost a decade ago, is set to return for another tour. For those of you left with twitching eyes and utter confusion, Reuters reports that just seven years after her passing, it was her father, M... | ['Holograms', 'Amy Winehouse', 'Ethics', 'Technology', 'Music'] |
This piece was originally published in Research World Connect and featured by RBDR Online Report as Martina Olbertova’s 5 Myths for MR to Overcome.
5 myths holding us back from using the full potential of market research.
New research trends open up doors to breakthrough insights & brand direction, but market researc... | ['Market Research', 'Marketing', 'Strategy', 'Semiotics', 'Culture'] |
An npm package that implements the Java collection framework stack data structure into JavaScript.
Native JavaScript doesn’t provide a function for implementing the stack, which works on the principal last-in-first-out. This package offers more functionality than essential stack operation like push and pop, which prov... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
My Last Medium Story Went Viral. Now What?
On learning to write for the internet (and never reading the comments)
Photo by the author
It’s a strange feeling to have an essay you’ve written be seen by 13,000 people. Especially when the essay you wrote before that was only seen by 34. It’s exciting, yes. And also a li... | ['Essay', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Blogging'] |
If you can think it — script it
I love scripting. I have been scripting since I started to develop.
I have written scripts in different scripting languages starting from basic, batch, bash, VBScript, JavaScript, phyton, perl, and my personal favorite — PowerShell.
Many “scripting languages”, especially Python and Po... | ['Lambda', 'Python', 'Script', 'Production', 'DevOps'] |
This is How Mount Everest Got So Overcrowded
Spoiler: It’s because of money.
Before 1953, no one in recorded history had reached the summit of Mount Everest.
This wrinkle in the Earth’s crust is the farthest from sea level you can get and still have two feet planted on the Earth. This was first determined in 1852 by... | ['Environment', 'Tourism', 'Mountains', 'Everest'] |
Building and Breaking Habits — An Essential Guide
“Depending on what they are, our habits will either make or break us. We become what we repeatedly do” — Sean Covey
Theirs a wide assortment of books and resources available on habits, yet, even then, the best information tends to be convoluted and full of fluff. How ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Life', 'Inspiration'] |
Announcing Playwright for Python: Reliable end-to-end testing for the web | Python
Automated end-to-end tests are a powerful tool for your team to ship faster and with more confidence. End-to-end tests… | ['Python3', 'Python', 'Selenium', 'Automation Testing', 'Playwright'] |
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“Hygge is a quality of coziness that makes a person feel content and comfortable.” — Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Hygge encompasses the Danish view of life. It doesn’t translate easily into one word but is more of an idea. Think cozy socks, warm blankets, reading a book under the covers while raindrops hit the roof, can... | ['Lifestyle', 'Winter', 'Outdoors', 'Wellness', 'Self Improvement'] |
I get it, I truly do. We’ve finally gotten sober and now this hits us. Slamming our fierce sobriety against a brick wall, nearly forcing mind-altering substances into our systems despite our please for a reprieve from the constant racing thoughts. Fear and anxiety take hold and it seems that reverting back to the old c... | ['Addiction', 'Covid 19', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Recovery'] |
Ever since we started talking, I feel some kind of a way,
I feel like I want to talk to you all the time,
You make an introvert feel like opening up without the fear of feeling naked,
I want to call you and ask about your fears,
Have deep conversations as I get to know you more,
Set up late dinner and take you to ... | ['Poetry', 'Crush', 'Writing', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Love'] |
Python
A new programmer in most fields, whether Dev-Ops, software-engineering, or even web-development might want to start learning how to program in the Python programming language. Not only is Python a diverse programming language with a lot of capabilities outside of Data Science, it is also likely one of the best ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'R', 'Programming'] |
A Programming Model: MapReduce
Of course, MapReduce is much more complicated than the two functions above, even though they share some of the same core ideas.
MapReduce is a programming model and framework for processing big data sets in distributed servers, running the various tasks in parallel.
It is a technology ... | ['Programming', 'Functional Programming', 'Software Development', 'Distributed Systems', 'Google'] |
According to Wikipedia, Data are the quantities, characters or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical or mechanical recording media.
So, data needs to be managed in such a way so that it can produce... | ['Algorithms', 'Data Structures', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python'] |
Abzu’s artificial intelligence is fighting false news
The artificial intelligence applied research startup identifies false news with its proprietary QLattice
In the latest Reuters Institute Digital News Report, less than four in ten people said that they trust most news most of the time (that’s 38% surveyed in Janua... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Journalism'] |
I Took Advantage of the Rent/Mortgage Moratorium
Within two weeks of the national recognition of the Coronavirus outbreak, negotiations for my latest book deal broke down. My assigned editor was let go, along with thirty percent of the publisher’s staff, and all new business halted. Soon, word of massive layoffs in hu... | ['Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
BY TWINKLE BURKE and EZRA HUBBARD
TWINKLE
I’m not a teacher or a nurse, but I often play one on TV. See — producers and writers like to cast women of color as nurturers — teachers and nurses being the most popular forms in the acting world. Like the Modern Day Aunt Jemima — they are there to instruct and care-take.
... | ['Race', 'Storytelling', 'Black Lives Matter'] |
As Turkey’s foreign trade statistics, We all know that import numbers are higher than export numbers and it is an important fact we are forced into closing this gap. Turkey is continuously in the foreign trade deficit and the current account deficit also triggers this vulnerability.
The total volume of imports of Turk... | ['Export', 'Patents', 'Entrepreneurship', 'English'] |
1. FractalNet Architecture
Fractal Architecture: A Simple Fractal Expansion (Left), Recursively Stacking of Fractal Expansion as One Block (Middle), 5 Blocks Cascaded as FractalNet (Right)
For the base case, f1(z) is the convolutional layer:
After that, the recursive fractals are:
where C is the number of columns a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Image Classification', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
The Bubbletone team is glad to announce that an updated version of the messenger was released on April 25 for Android and April 30 for iOS. The team fixed a number of nasty software bugs and implemented a number of noticeable improvements to make it possible for the app to run smoothly.
As the new version of the app i... | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS', 'Mobile Application', 'Messenger', 'Android'] |
The Right Way to Work With a Micromanager
You can either be a wishful thinker and wait for your manager to change, or you can employ your critical thinking skills and take charge of your experience at work.
Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker alway... | ['Personal Development', 'Management', 'Startup', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement'] |
I’m the Local Freak
And I’m Not Freaking Out About It. Nor Should You.
“I’ve been wanting to meet you for so long, Bethany! You are welcome here!”
That’s the greeting I received from a truly beautiful person to whose holiday gathering I was invited. Her motherly welcome was genuine, and the festivities, the meal, an... | ['Self-awareness', 'Transphobia', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender', 'Self Love'] |
A novel experience at a beauty contest
Photo by Jose Martinez on Unsplash
Announcement of a beauty contest
A beauty contest was going to be held in Hyderabad. Those selected from every city would then assemble in Mumbai and the final Miss India contest would be held.
I recall those days, I was young and smart. Peop... | ['Relationships', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Experience', 'Life'] |
Amazon DynamoDB is built to deliver single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is built to store Terabytes of data. It is built to support Amazon’s Cyber Monday traffic.
However, this scalability comes with an overhead. No matter what resource you look up, you will be constantly reminded that “You Must Know... | ['Dynamodb', 'Scalability', 'Startup', 'Agile', 'Serverless'] |
Here at Campuswire, we’re all recent students & TAs, so we all experienced some frustrations with the communication tools available to us in our classes — we knew that students (and professors) deserved something better. So we designed Campuswire to address many of the specific frustrations we experienced with platform... | ['College', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Edtech', 'Education'] |
For the past decade or more I have been observing a gradual transition in consumption of dairy milk towards various plant based alternatives. At the beginning I noticed these alternatives appearing only in some hipster cafés in Brighton, UK, where I used to live. Nowadays, more people seem to choose dairy alternatives,... | ['Dairy', 'Farming', 'Agriculture', 'Vegan'] |
There are plenty of iPhone reviews out there. This is not another. This post is just an observation as to why the iPhone is so different and inspires such goodwill from those who use it. It is simple really, but Apple has taken tasks that on most (all?) other phones are cumbersome, non-intuitive, and often just plain c... | ['The Web', 'Gadgets', 'Technology', 'Apple', 'Pop Culture'] |
This article is also available in Spanish.
In this article, I want to explain what a software developer, who uses JavaScript to write applications, should know about engines so that the written code executes properly.
You’ll see below a one-liner function that returns the property lastName of the passed argument. Jus... | ['Technology', 'Startup', 'Education', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
The design space is awash with countless design tools, plugins, websites, resources, and more promising to improve your workflow and make you a savvier designer. I’ve tried my hand at a lot of them over the years, but there are only a few that really stand out.
This list is the cream of the crop — the most obscure, cr... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'Graphic Design', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash
I’ve always loved nail polish, especially the stuff that comes in bright colours and sparkles. As a little girl, my parents would paint my nails for me to prevent the inevitable disaster that would result from a child having free access to a bottle of nail polish. Usually, it was ... | ['Self Care', 'Anxiety', 'Coping', 'Nails', 'Mental Health'] |
Review: Highway Networks — Gating Function To Highway (Image Classification)
Highway Networks, Inspired By LSTM, Using Gating Function, More Than 1000 Layers.
Gating Function to Highway
In this story, Highway Networks is briefly presented. This is a 2015 work. At that moment, it is found that there is difficulties o... | ['Machine Learning', 'Image Classification', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
Understand Personality to Redesign Team Relationships
Part 1: Interpersonal dynamics
There is an increasing trend at innovative companies towards hiring for behaviors, rather than for experience or acquired skills.
So why does your LinkedIn profile still labor over all your prior work experiences (that you don’t wan... | ['Hiring', 'Conflict', 'Crystal Knows', 'Personality', 'Teamwork'] |
Gamification refers to incorporating elements of games in the classroom. This can range from encouraging competition among the students, making them take part in activities that allow them to earn points, overcoming a challenge or receiving a badge. Game-based learning, refers to learning using an actual game for teach... | ['Teaching And Learning', 'Online Courses', 'Gamification', 'Education', 'Psychology'] |
For a week, it seemed, Berlin had been taken over by the left. Not just any left but something new and unrecognisable. In the place of the customary red and black flags of anti-capitalist groups, protestors were waving flags featuring an hourglass, in soft greens and light blues.
Blocking traffic, staging sit-ins arou... | ['Critical Times', 'Politics', 'Environment', 'Germany', 'Jewish'] |
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