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How Do You Market a Product That Nobody Needs?
First, you need to present your product as the solution to a problem.
The problem here is rotten teeth. Who wants that? This is an easy sell in a dentist. The patient already has a need, their teeth ache or it’s a check-up and they’ve arrived at your business. It’s now a... | ['Ideas', 'Marketing', 'Medical', 'Opinion', 'Dentistry'] |
Taking Time to Prototype
The prototyping phase of product development is often sacrificed because design or product teams don’t think they have time in their schedules. But the reality is that you probably don’t have time not to prototype.
One thing that over twenty years in the software industry has taught me is tha... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Prototyping', 'UX'] |
An old friend scheduled a c-section after enduring a complicated, high risk pregnancy. The doctors were taking no chances. “It feels so strange to be scheduling a birth like a dentist appointment,” she told me. “Monday at 1p I’m going to walk into the hospital and have my baby.”
I am thinking of this now as I call the... | ['Spirituality', 'Loss', 'Dog Lover', 'Love', 'Psychology'] |
I ntroduction
Jupyter notebooks have become the preferred workspace for the majority of Python data scientists. Jupyter is an open-source project that supports interactive data science and scientific computing across programming languages. The very name Jupyter derived from the three core programming languages it supp... | ['Tips And Tricks', 'Jupyter', 'Data Science', 'Jupyter Notebook'] |
Imagine you already have an outstanding idea and a perfect plan ready to shape as a startup. But, you don’t have an outstanding team to turn your Idea into Reality. Thus, your outstanding idea will only remain a concept that could have had a massive impact.
Now, this is one of the major challenges startups face, where... | ['Startup', 'It Staff Augmentation', 'It Outsourcing', 'Tech Start Ups', 'Staff Augmentation'] |
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During the late 1990s, my partner and I grew salvia divinorum. A friend brought us a cutting, which we easily cloned. Saliva thrives in Seattle weather and soon our rear windows were lined with shelves of salvia plants. Later, we grew a big patch behind the house. Salvia was legal and purportedly psych... | ['An Idea', 'Nonfiction', 'Experience', 'Psychedelics', 'Journal'] |
Conventional displays are two dimensional. A picture or a video of the three dimensional world is encoded to be stored in two dimensions. Needless to say, we lose information corresponding to the third dimension which has depth information.
2D representation is good enough for most applications. However, there are app... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning'] |
How Do You Help a Friend Through the Loss of Her Husband?
Literally Literary and The Writing Cooperative prompt
He spoke of the death as if I already knew.
Earlier this week, Matt, my colleague, had told me about a friend of his who had delayed his retirement, working well into his late 60s.
“He finally retired in ... | ['Nonfiction', 'Prompt', 'Loss', 'Exulansis', 'Grief'] |
Waterjet cutters use a focused stream of liquid and abrasive particles to slice through metal, stone, or nearly any other material with precision. Wazer’s elegant desktop machine will be the first to open up the creative possibilities offered by this industrial technology to designers, artists, and makers.
A different... | ['Kickstarter', 'Technology', 'Design', 'Tech', 'Innovation'] |
Photo Credit: Markusspiske
NET 5 has been released and It comes with a lot of exciting features, new technologies and performance improvements. It unifies the .net environment and replaces .NET Core. In this blog, we’ll focus on building high performance services using gRPC and .NET 5.
Why gRPC?
gRPC is not another ... | ['Grpc', 'Microservices', 'Dotnet', 'Rest Api', 'Net5'] |
Here you will find all the works — poetry, prose poetry, fiction, articles, personal essays and creative non-fiction— for the month of June 2020.
Note: Any works that have been curated will also include the Friend’s Link so you can read them for free. | ['Poetry', 'Collection', 'Writing', 'Articles', 'Fiction'] |
Fat Protocols vs Fat Dapps vs Fat Wallets
Which crypto thesis would you pick?
The crypto space was a lot less complicated 18 months ago. Back then, risk was systemic. The macro outcomes were binary: the crypto industry either survived or it didn’t. The most likely outcome was that the industry would fall victim to a ... | ['Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
7 Routine Activities To Boost Your Self-Worth
Your daily micro shifts help you rise and shine
Photo by Taylor Smith on Unsplash
You may have heard this story.
Once upon a time, there were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important task to be done. Everybody was sure that some... | ['Self', 'Identity', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Personal Growth'] |
The Perils of “Follow Your Heart”
A review of Trevin Wax’s new book, *Rethink Your Self*
Think back to your high school graduation. What were the major messages there? “You can be anything you want to be!” “Stay true to yourself!” The *Oh, the Places You’ll Go!* message. If it was anything more substantial than that,... | ['Christianity', 'Religion And Spirituality', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading'] |
Formulating the questions
Interviewing users require a lot of effort and planning. Depending on how extensive the research is, you might spend several weeks preparing for the sessions, several days talking to your users and several hours capturing and organizing your notes. You want to make sure all that effort won’t ... | ['User Research', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'UX'] |
A primer on symbolic regression
“94.7% of all statistics are made up.” — Anonymous Data Scientist
We will spend no more than three minutes introducing the intuition beyond symbolic regression with a simple example (the reader familiar with it — or just not interested in the nerdy details — can safely skip to the next... | ['Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Automl'] |
Why You Should Write Like You’re Dying
What we can learn about life from those who are “writing while dying”
Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash
As a writing genre, memoirs from the dying are alive and well. These elegantly written last testaments are enjoying tremendous popularity in a rather equal opportunity playin... | ['Writing', 'Death', 'Writers On Writing', 'Writer', 'Writing Tips'] |
Introducing Modern Sex
We are looking forintriguing articles, unexplored narratives, personal essays, alternative advice, investigations into how you see sex and sexuality evolving in the modern-day.(We are aware of the NYT column “Modern Love” and chose this title anyway for one simple reason: “Contemporary Sex” soun... | ['Equality', 'Writing', 'Newsletter', 'LGBTQ', 'Sexuality'] |
The Biggest Lessons I Learned From Making a Major Career Change Steven Hopper Follow Nov 7 · 6 min read
I spent nearly a decade as a high school teacher and loved every minute of the job itself. What I struggled with was poor leadership, annoying politics, low pay and recognition, and the rigid day-to-day schedule.
N... | ['Motivation', 'Life Lessons', 'Work', 'Life', 'Inspiration'] |
Writing for Resistance Poetry
Submission Guidelines 2020.12.05
Resistance Poetry is dedicated to “Verse as Commentary.” We are interested in your poetic response — humorous, deep, whimsical, bold, etc. — to breaking news, social phenomenon, or whatever current thing you feel could use a little push-back.
Poetry can ... | ['Poetry', 'Explanation', 'Writing', 'Resistance Poetry', 'Resistance'] |
Warnings from doctors like Perencevich are what prompted my visit to Iowa City, a college town in eastern Iowa that serves as a sort of liberal sanctuary in a mostly red state. The city is home to the University of Iowa, and also to its public teaching hospital, which employs 7,000 people and has more adult ICU beds th... | ['Politics', 'Iowa', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19 Crisis'] |
When Chromebooks first came out, it would’ve been a pipe dream to believe they could replace Macs for designers. They were limited by power, software, and screen quality. Even today, few would think to trade out their Apple computer for a Chrome device.
I’m here to tell you it’s possible, and I’ll even share the tips ... | ['Pixelbook', 'Design', 'Chromebook', 'Editorial', 'Figma'] |
Movie Data by the US State it’s Set In
Web Scraping and Data Analysis via Python
I recently completed a project analyzing movie revenues against factors such as genre, release date, and viewer rating. A project for a beginner data scientist, and I enjoyed it. But as I was gathering the data, I grew more curious. This... | ['Movies', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
9 Quotes to Help You Unleash Your Creativity
By Heike Young
Some people feel innately creative; some don’t. Many view creativity as a you’ve-got-it-or-you-don’t trait.
As marketers, we’re often more comfortable labeling ourselves as effective, efficient, or data-driven, instead of creative.
At the same time, compan... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
A core data science task is classification: grouping data points into various groups based on certain shared qualities.
In a sense, it’s an exercise as old as life itself: as soon as the first protozoan developed sensory organs, it (accidentally) started to act differently based on various sensory stimulus.
On a high... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Computer Science', 'Data Science', 'Support Vector Machine'] |
Given the times we’re living through it’s difficult to comprehend why a songwriter would choose to effectively add to the divisiveness. Why wouldn’t they ask themselves the question I pose at the outset of this article? And if they did, how in the world did they decide it was still a good idea to release the music they... | ['Personal Finance', 'Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Money', 'Life Lessons'] |
With the explosion of data around us today, it can be difficult to pick out the important information from the noise. We often mistakenly deem information irrelevant, but upon further inspection, we find that the signal is clearly advising a course of action.
Signals are comprised of many components, and if a person i... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Analytics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Information Technology'] |
Sasin Tipchai for Pixabay
I get it. You have a character who is French but speaking in English. You have a character with a Scottish accent. You have a character from Russia. And you want to give the flavor of their accents to your reader, right?
Well… maybe.
Here’s the thing. Making your reader focus on a character... | ['Accents', 'Writing', 'Character Development', 'Fiction Writing', 'Writing Dialogue'] |
Suppose that you’re at a house party and you’re talking to some cute girl. As you listen, your ears are being bombarded by the sound coming from the conversations going on between different groups of people through out the house and from the music that’s playing rather loudly in the background. Yet, none of this preven... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Why You Need to Start Talking To Your Anxiety Now
It might just change your life forever
It’s exhausting, isn’t it? I know. I’ve been there. As if the constant stress and fear and helplessness weren’t enough to deal with. As if you don’t already want to curl up under a blanket and let the world disappear.
Isn’t it e... | ['Self Improvement', 'Anxiety', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
What makes a Microsoft product Microsoft? What is that product ethos, guiding our design ideals?
These are the types of existential questions I recently sat with, flying at 30,000 feet across 10 time zones. Destination: Tel Aviv, to take part in Microsoft Israel Development Center’s Design Day. An enlightening opportu... | ['Technology', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Inclusive Design', 'Microsoft'] |
How Hot is a Lightsaber?
And other lightsaber physics
Welp. Star Wars Episode IX came and went, bringing with it a stark and definitive closure to the paths of our newest heroes and heroines in the beloved saga. Though the acting, cinematography, and special effects are largely praised as some of the greatest to yet ... | ['Science Fiction', 'Star Wars', 'Physics', 'Space', 'Science'] |
Now let’s move to the ecosystem in our guts. Guts are fascinating human structures with incredible connections to the nervous system, and with relevant roles for the immune system. Unfortunately, we probably don’t have butterflies as the common knowledge suggests, but we have certainly “electrifying things”. Shewanella... | ['Technology', 'Energy', 'Biology', 'Electricity', 'Science'] |
A vector map of Budapest. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/black-white-vector-city-map-budapest-1035519106
Ever wondered how to draw a map of less common geographical areas? And color them based on some data? This pair of tutorials shows how to build this from scratch! First, you need to construct the border ... | ['Python', 'Folium', 'Geospatial', 'Data Science', 'Maps'] |
The Problem
Let’s say that we’re a new team who has been testing and building locally , using docker build , and pushing the images to our Docker registry. We want to put this into a CI/CD system, and so deploy Jenkins on a new Kubernetes cluster (using the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin).
We add a step to run our tests, ... | ['Jenkins', 'Co Op', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes'] |
Filtering best practices
Provide category-specific filters
Universal filters narrow down results by common characteristics such as price, colour, or popularity. However, we should also include filters that vary according to the category. This could mean ‘Fit’ or ‘Waist Height’ under ‘Pants’ when shopping for clothes,... | ['Usability', 'Design', 'UX', 'UX Design', 'Filters'] |
A League of His Own
Kameny did something incredible when he petitioned the Army Map Service and Civil Service Commission courts that dismissed him on the basis of alleged homosexual behavior. He did not deny his homosexuality. Instead, he criticized the federal government's program of sexual conformity and argued that... | ['Equality', 'Books', 'History', 'LGBTQ', 'Intersectionality'] |
Agile Design Project Framework
Why you should use Invision, JIRA, Slack, Sketch, and Zeplin.io to save you from 100 hour work weeks
Modern digital design work entails a multitude of steps that must occur in synchronous harmony. Yet at most design agencies this is not the case. Often workers are under constant pressur... | ['Agile', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Project Management'] |
I spent the better part of a decade orchestrating data in Wall Street during the Financial crisis and became skilled in the efficient movement of financial data. What I realized towards the end of my career in Wall Street was that back in the early 90s, big banks got together and agreed to speak in a common transaction... | ['Data Infrastructure', 'Smart Cities', 'Public Data', 'Govops', 'Astronomer'] |
Why You Should Perform Statistical Hypothesis Testing?
Hypothesis testing is a form of inferential statistics that allows us to draw conclusions about an entire population based on a representative sample. You gain tremendous benefits by working with a sample. In most cases, it is simply impossible to observe the enti... | ['Confusion Matrix', 'Statistics', 'Analysis', 'Hypothesis Testing'] |
When we first starting dating someone new, we all try to put our best foot forward and present the most attractive version of ourselves, while still staying authentic to who we are. It is natural to try to seem as smart, funny, and nice as possible early on in dating someone. As someone with depression, anxiety, and an... | ['Depression', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Dating', 'Anxiety'] |
Come to the pale blue river
that runs through her crevices
Come to the paper-thin skin
laced with spicules all over
She waits for you with a faint smile
her onyx heart wrapped in green gauze
Her trellises bear dead climbers —
from a time, she was just her eyes
from a time, he was just her mirage
“Come to Edith... | ['Storytelling', 'Poetry', 'Womanhood', 'Self', 'Life'] |
Email Refrigerator :: 05
“Then and Now” (Berlin 1938/2008) Photograph by Peter Perry
Hey friend,
Earlier this month, I took a trip to my childhood home outside Chicago. Sleeping in my childhood bedroom alongside my wife and daughter was a surreal experience. I laid in bed (ok, the pull-out couch now in that room) th... | ['Self-awareness', 'Evolution', 'Change Management', 'Change', 'Chaos Monkey'] |
Trust makes your job as a leader easier in just about every way possible. Your teams make decisions faster (and revisit them less often). People pro-actively admit to and learn from mistakes instead of scrambling to hide them.
It’s easy enough to know your own level of trust in the people you lead. But gauging how the... | ['Leadership', 'Company Culture', 'Work', 'Trust', 'Teamwork'] |
Learning Android Development
Android Data-Binding Made Simple
Assigning Data and get UI Updated Automatically
Photo by Tamanna Rumee on Unsplash
Data Binding in Android has been introduced since 2015. However, due to it’s boilerplate, it is not as commonly used as one desired. Nonetheless, still good to know how it... | ['Mobile App Development', 'App Development', 'Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Android App Development'] |
IntrinsicWidth and IntrinsicHeight
Want all the widgets inside Row or Column to be as tall/wide as the tallest/widest widget? Search no more!
In case you have this kind of layout:
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(title: Text('IntrinsicWidth')),
body: Center(
child: Column(
ch... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Android App Development', 'AndroidDev', 'Flutter', 'iOS App Development'] |
Nature,
it is said,
is red,
in canines and toughened nails,
in microbe and protein crowns,
in meteors and killer hails.
.
Nature,
it is said,
heals herself,
like a bedridden goddess
riddled with sores,
slowly turning
and swatting
the squatting
sapiens
upon her.
.
But she
(or he)
is dead,
(Nietzsche... | ['Poetry', 'Nature', 'Poem', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Coronavirus'] |
Speaking Up About Assault is Not a ‘Trend’ — It is a Chain Reaction
Each woman that tells her story gives strength to others.
When the #MeToo movement happened, I spent days glued to my computer, reading one heartwrenching post after another. I didn’t eat and barely slept. It felt like I was being carried away by a d... | ['Equality', 'Women', 'Writing', 'This Happened To Me', 'Feminism'] |
Opinion
Metadata is Useless — Unless You Have a Use Case
Here’s why context is key when it comes to unlocking the value of your metadata.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.
Last week, I participated in a panel at the Coalesce conference, led by the Fishtown Analytics team (creators of dbt), to discuss the role of meta... | ['Metadata', 'Data Engineering', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Data Governance'] |
Analyzing Employee Reviews: Google vs Amazon vs Apple vs Microsoft
Which company is it worth working for?
Overview
Whether it is for their ability to offer high salaries, extravagant perks, or their exciting mission statements, it is clear that top companies like Google and Microsoft have become talent magnets. To p... | ['Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization', 'Towards Data Science', 'Python'] |
Everyone wants to be someone’s Yoda. Right?
Everyone wants to be of value to other people. It feels amazing to solve someone’s problem. It fills your life with meaning.
So.. How can you become better at helping? How can you be the person people come to for advice?
Good question.
I can’t give you the answer… But I c... | ['Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Family', 'Personal Growth', 'Helping Others'] |
What the Chinese Received From Coronavirus
A question was posted on Zhihu, the Chinese Quora. The answers were heart-rending and unexpected; and even Trump surprised.
Wuhan citizens queuing to buy masks. Source: Wikimedia
Amidst the gloom and doom, a Chinese netizen asked the following question on Zhihu, the Chinese... | ['Humanity', 'China', 'Epidemic', 'Coronavirus', 'Doctors And Nurses'] |
My name is Rebecca Wu. And I’m Henry James, and we’re writers for Dark Sides of the Truth magazine.
Part I, Part II
By seven-thirty, we were camped out in a booth at Johnson’s enjoying one of the best artery cloggers in the city. Who knew we both liked our burgers with mustard and mayonnaise?
“Pass me the ketchup, w... | ['Storytelling', 'Henry And Rebecca', 'Stories', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
Written by: Annie Xu
Each year, students from around the world are eager to participate in hackathons and look forward to an exciting weekend filled with learning experiences, and a healthy dose of competition. Hackers can have very different impressions of each event- starting from the very first social media post.
... | ['Hackathons', 'Accessibility', 'Branding', 'Technology', 'Design'] |
How to Design Interruptions
What my ADHD taught me about living in a world of notifications and how to better design them
“The scarce resource of the 21st century will not be technology; it will be attention.” — Mark Weiser
Imagine you’re having a positive, fully immersive conversation with someone in a restaurant. ... | ['Interaction Design', 'Design', 'Inclusive Design', 'Microsoft', 'UX'] |
Design review and gamification: how to make a behavior change in your team Santi Martinez Follow Apr 27 · 3 min read
We all remember that when we were kids our parents only let us play after we had done our homework: studying and having fun were two different things.
As adults, we follow the same pattern. Unconscious... | ['Product Design', 'Design Review', 'Gamification', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Fiction Series
Poppies -Chapter 31-
A Novel
Photo owned by Author
Chapter -31 -
Pauline paced outside of the shed waiting to be invited inside by her sisters.
She twisted her light-brown hair streaked with gold around her finger. She put the ends into her mouth and sucked. She liked to suck on her hair even if me... | ['Novel', 'Writing', 'Fiction Series', 'Fiction', 'Fiction Writing'] |
Black Scholes Model
The Black Scholes model is considered to be one of the best ways of determining fair prices of options. It requires five variables: the strike price of an option, the current stock price, the time to expiration, the risk-free rate, and the volatility.
Black Scholes Formula
C = call option price
... | ['Math', 'Options', 'Black Scholes Model', 'Python', 'Stocks'] |
Everything is nicer when you can add points on a Flutter map
The complete Flutter code so far, is at the end of the article.
After been able to display points on a map, I will change my App and Web API to add new points from my Mobile App.
This article is a follow up on:
FloatingActionButton
To get started, I will... | ['Csharp', 'Flutter', 'Maps', 'Sql'] |
1. What Is Lazy Loading?
When an img or iframe tag is in the HTML and parsed by the browser, it will immediately load the sources. This blocks the whole page to finish loading.
This will cause a longer time to load the page, so it takes longer for the user to interact with the page. We want the user to interact with ... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Asynchronous', 'JavaScript'] |
By Kate Taylor
Every Saturday at 6:30 p.m., a worker at a Walmart distribution center starts his first of three nearly 12-hour shifts at what he calls “a COVID box” in Shelby, North Carolina.
Many coworkers fail to follow mask requirements, the worker said. Social distancing is difficult, especially as groups crowd t... | ['Shopping', 'Ecommerce', 'Covid 19', 'Amazon', 'Walmart'] |
The Amazon is on fire. As we mourn the loss of these unique habitats and attempt to understand the complicated legal and economic ramifications of this devastation, it’s important to acknowledge the importance of this ecosystem, both ecologically and culturally. The Amazon has inspired a wave of pop culture moments tha... | ['History', 'Culture', 'Amazon', 'Ecology', 'Pop Culture'] |
Two Commandments or One?
After quoting this scripture, you said that “our zeal to keep this second commandment must not cause us to forget the first, to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. We show that love by ‘keep[ing] [His] commandments.” This statement establishes the first false dichotomy in your talk.
... | ['LGBTQ', 'Queer', 'Lds', 'Mormon', 'Christianity'] |
When I started writing, I was constantly looking at the stats. I wanted to know how each post was doing — how many reads? How much views? How much has it earned? It became a stressful and constantly disappointing obsession. This anxiety bled all over my mental state. While I was regularly checking the stats, I realised... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing'] |
The Importance of the Beginner Mind
Be curious and never stop learning
Photo by Justin Peterson on Unsplash
Most people would probably think of writers and other industry experts as insufferable know-it-alls. You do see a lot of marketing gurus and social media experts flaunting their business success, giving tips a... | ['Education', 'Learning', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
6 Things You MUST Do to Make Writing Your Career
How to Make Your Writing More Than a Hobby
Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels
When someone decides to become a doctor, they undertake a grueling course of education and practice. When someone decides to be a hairdresser there are classes and certifications demanded. Wh... | ['Authors', 'Writing', 'Work', 'Careers', 'Writer'] |
Introduction
After you have performed data cleaning, data visualizations, and learned details about your data it is time to fit the first machine learning model into it. Today I want to share with you a few very simple lines of code that will divide any data set into variables that you can pass to any machine learning... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Importance of Zoning Out
What if thoughtfulness is the new mindfulness?
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
When I ask friends or family to repeat what they just said to me, the reply is almost always: “Did you zone out again?” I usually like to answer that being zoned out is my natural state; I just zone back in... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
Nearly a year ago, we decided to shut down Ansaro. In the immediate aftermath, I wrote a long list of contributing reasons. Then I put it in a drawer for a year; it was too painful to think about. I recently came back to that list, to draw out some lessons, which I hope will be useful for myself and others.
Let’s set ... | ['Failure', 'Data Science', 'Startup'] |
As the 20th century began, Russia was divided into three groups: the czars, who held a monopoly on political power, the intelligentsia, a group of highly educated citizens who were completely shut out of the government, and the peasants. This last group was almost completely rural, made up roughly 80% of the entire pop... | ['Ideas', 'Design', 'Media', 'Data Science', 'History'] |
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I Read “The Apology” So You Don’t Have To
Eve Ensler’s new book is horrific and profound
Finishing The Apology this morning felt a little like getting my last chemotherapy treatment years ago. Going through it was important to my survival, but I was tremendously relieved when it was done.
In this slim tome of 112 pa... | ['Sexual Abuse', 'Patriarchy', 'Books', 'Feminism', 'Culture'] |
The Single Philosophy Book That Changed My Life
Lasting inspiration from a 20th century classic
Photo by hannah grace on Unsplash
I believe there comes a point in all of our lives when we begin to wonder exactly what we’re supposed to be doing here.
I remember being about fifteen years old and walking around the su... | ['Authors', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Writer', 'Philosophy'] |
Why Quizlet chose Apache Airflow for executing data workflows
Part Two of a Four-part Series
In Part I of this series on Quizlet’s Hunt for the Best Workflow Management System Around, we described and motivated the need for workflow management systems (WMS) as a natural step beyond task scheduling frameworks like CRO... | ['Airflow', 'Infrastructure', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Analytics'] |
This article is part of the C# Advent Series check it out for more articles from others in the community
I love C#. I’ve been working with the language since 2001 and still view C# as my favorite and primary programming language, despite growing to love many other languages as well since then. However, this year has b... | ['Visual Studio', 'Csharp', 'Dotnet', 'Learn To Code', 'Programming'] |
Before Grace enters there is always a test. Mine took the form of breaking the compulsive pattern of forcing attachment by entering into five years of self-imposed celibacy. To my surprise, this was not as difficult as I feared. The volcanic hatred erupting from a lifetime of relational traumas encouraged solitude and ... | ['Growth', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Suffering'] |
Afternoon walk, Enskede 15 May 2020
Dear readers —
Many thanks for subscribing to the Slowdown Papers. A few days ago I published a third batch of Papers, numbers 19–41.
This third set was written over the last few months, starting in the long Swedish summer holiday through July. I then took a couple of months of re... | ['Cities', 'Technology', 'Design', 'Covid-19', 'Policy'] |
Last November, as the world around me was starting to freeze, my wife and two children headed west to the sunny California coast. I hadn’t been out to visit my brother and his family for years and with American Thanksgiving coming up, we thought it was an ideal time to go. While there we also wanted to get out and witn... | ['Storytelling', 'Photography', 'Travel'] |
Upon his death in June 2011, much was made of the relationship between Bruce Springsteen and his late, great saxophone player, Clarence Clemons. Many media outlets from highbrow publications to run of the mill, to relatively obscure publications ran fawning stories highlighting the genuine, affectionate and loyal relat... | ['Interracial Relationships', 'Male Sexuality', 'Pop Culture', 'Men', 'Psychology'] |
RAPIDS cuGraph is happy to announce that NetworkX Graph and DiGraph objects are now valid input data types for graph algorithms. Furthermore, when a NetworkX Graph is passed in, the returned data type will match the corresponding NetworkX algorithm’s return type — with some exceptions that this blog will cover. Existin... | ['Graph Analytics', 'Networkx', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Open Source Software'] |
Our bedroom is nothing like any of the seven different rooms we’ve stayed in at the Sands Regency in Reno since 2011 but I woke up certain that that’s where I was this morning. It was confusing.
It’s been a very confusing year.
Although the Burning Man Organization officially canceled the 2020 event in April, somehow... | ['Life', 'Art', 'Relationships', 'Creativity', 'Travel'] |
A couple of days ago I started thinking if I had to start learning machine learning and data science all over again where would I start? The funny thing was that the path that I imagined was completely different from that one that I actually did when I was starting.
I’m aware that we all learn in different ways. Some ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Towards Data Science'] |
I’ve been there. After graduating high school I thought I needed a major that would guarantee I’d always have employment and I’d never had to struggle for money. This was all drilled into me by my family, teachers and the society I grew up in.
Being a doctor meant I’d follow a noble pursuit that would secure my social... | ['Mindfulness', 'Life', 'Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Self Improvement'] |
C A R T O O N
🦈 Surf’s Up
Yum yum yum
Cartoon by Rolli
Cartoonist’s Note №1
I’ve never surfed, and can say with confidence that I never will.
Cartoonist’s Note №2
This cartoon will earn no money (Medium recently all-but-demonetized poetry, cartoons, flash fiction and other short articles). Please consider buyin... | ['Humor', 'Covid 19', 'Comics', 'Cartoon', 'Coronavirus'] |
It was not to be but I dared for once;
Into the eyes of fear I stared for once.
I stole the stars from my neighbor's sky;
His nights are now dark and he's scared for once.
I dreamt of ironing the wrinkles on my forehead;
And woke to find my fate repaired for once.
I tasted my thoughts to note what they lacked;
G... | ['Poetry', 'Poem', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Thoughts'] |
If you are like me, you are sick and tired of rapists like Brock Turner getting away with their crimes. Perhaps you’ve imagined capturing a sexual deviant and putting him in a cage. I had the chance to do just that by tricking a child sex abuser into confessing on video.
How it Began
It all started on a cool summer m... | ['Justice', 'Sexual Assault', 'Mental Health', 'Family', 'Parenting'] |
It’s a question that has surfaced at the discussion tables of conferences and social chats everywhere-“Can machines turn on humans?”. It’s a question that often accompanies scenes and visuals from movies like the Terminator. But what we know and what we’ve seen from the use of AI in big data is that certain uncertainti... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Big Data Services India', 'Data Security', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
Judges Commentary
The judges scored each team on several criteria: if they accomplished the task, how they outlined their goals, the fidelity of their proposed solution, use of the inclusive design process, the extensibility of their solution to other areas, and their storytelling.
“Project keyHue tackled a challenge... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'Ixda', 'Inclusive Design', 'Microsoft'] |
How to Build a Matrix Module from Scratch
If you have been importing Numpy for matrix operations but don’t know how the module is built, this article will show you how to build your own matrix module
Motivation
Numpy is a useful library that enables you to create a matrix and perform matrix operations with ease. If ... | ['Numpy Array', 'Python', 'Modules', 'Data Science', 'Matrix'] |
Why are you not designing your day-to-day experience?
When designing everything around you becomes second nature.
The other day a coworker and I were chatting about our phone’s home screens and the way we organize our app icons. We spent a good amount of time describing to one another our implicit rules on how we pri... | ['Product Design', 'Ts', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'UX'] |
The bull and minotaur are dark and monstrous. The horse, often depicted as white, is almost always the victim of a bull attack. The light bearing child — always a girl — never seems in harm’s way despite being close to danger, they witness.
The combination of the mythological and photo-like black, white and grey colou... | ['Art', 'Culture', 'History', 'Creativity'] |
I have a friend. She’s brilliant at arts and crafts. Every time I enter her place, she’s tinkering. Decorating. Customizing a birthday gift. Preparing a surprise package. And it all looks amazing. Bar none.
But when she tells me the story of how her current project came together, I always die a little bit inside.
Las... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Happiness', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
After implementing your Big Data stack: “How was I?”
Big data and Analytics: terms that frequently pop up in newspapers, magazines, airports or even during pub chats to pimp a conversation. These days, everybody talks about it, nobody knows how to tackle it, everybody thinks the others are doing it and hence claims to... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Data Science'] |
On an absolute wild whim, I set up a call with a blogger I’ve been following when I realized I was going to be in her city last week. She’s a color analyst. I had my colors done.
I’ll write more about that later. Count on it. It was a lot of fun.
But there was something about the process that struck me and that’s wha... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Goals', 'Life'] |
Photo by Anton Darius on Unsplash
When you write mobile apps in Swift, you usually have a lot of background work. I’ve been working as a mobile developer for almost 10 years and I can hardly remember a single project without Internet requests. Each Internet request requires time to be processed. Usually an unknown amo... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Synchronicity', 'Asynchronous', 'Swift', 'iOS App Development'] |
It’s Okay to Have Questions About a Covid-19 Vaccine. Here’s What to Ask.
The approval process, interpreting clinical trial results, and how to be confident in your choice to get the vaccine
This story is part of “Six Months In,” a special weeklong Elemental series reflecting on where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, ... | ['Pandemic', 'Six Months In', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Vaccines'] |
In this article, we will go through one of the memory management techniques in Python called Reference Counting.
In Python, all objects and data structures are stored in the private heap and are managed by Python Memory Manager internally. The goal of the memory manager is to ensure that enough space is available in t... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
There is strong competition
Competition is everywhere. You compete with hundreds or even thousands of people who want to build their presence in your niche. It’s a fact, accept it or you won’t stand a chance.
People are trying different strategies. Some of them are common and some are unique. To be honest, it doesn’t... | ['Marketing', 'Self Improvement', 'Branding', 'Daily Manager', 'Social Media'] |
This post will guide you through all the steps for installing and configuring OpenCV-4.2.0 in Windows 10 (64-bit) for python use inside the Anaconda environment.
OpenCV with Anaconda, for Python 3.6.0+ development
I will focus here on OpenCV for python 3.6.0+, my previous post for VC++ integration can be found here.
... | ['Opencv', 'Python', 'Anaconda'] |
The Proofredder
We all have our gifts. Hers was not between the ears!
photo by author
No, there’s no typo in the title. It’s spelled that way for a reason! Allow me to explain.
Several years ago when I was a significant contributor at SCREW Magazine, the editor of the publication and I used to hustle sessions in ex... | ['Relationships', 'Culture', 'Escorts', 'Sex', 'Psychology'] |
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