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You Need These 3 Coaches to Succeed in Life
As Bill Gates said at the beginning of one of his Ted Talks, “everybody needs a coach”.
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Maturing made me realize that I will start now paying for things if I am expecting quality. For this reason, I pay a member account for different on... | ['Fitness', 'Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Coaching', 'Parenting'] |
We will be using Indian Liver Patient Dataset from the open ML to learn quick and efficient data visualisation techniques.
This data set contains a mix of categorical and numerical independent features and diagnosis result as the liver and non-liver condition.
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
import pandas ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Scikit Learn', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
A Word On Fascism, Free-Speech, and Cancel-Culture.
Let's get make things clear; oil and water don’t mix.
Getty Images/iStockphoto/wildpixel
In this globalized and connected world, everybody seems to have an opinion on every topic. Social networks like Twitter, for instance, are one of the leading means of people le... | ['Self-awareness', 'Opinion', 'Politics', 'Fascism', 'Twitter'] |
Are You Superstitious?
Superstitions are dumb, but superstitious people aren’t
Photo by Lachlan on Unsplash
I don’t believe in ghosts, witches, or fortune tellers of any kind. I don’t believe that sleeping with your pajamas on backward or a spoon under your pillow will make a snow day the following day more likely.
... | ['Contradictions', 'Humor', 'Parenting', 'Psychology', 'Disability'] |
“I usually arrive at the distribution site at 09:00. We have distributions nearly every day, whether it’s in-kind food assistance or cash transfers. First, I check in with the assessment teams from our cooperating partners and the observers from the authorities who selected the families for assistance. The selection is... | ['Humanitarian', 'Women', 'Afghanistan', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
The Side Hustles That Actually Worked For Me
A primer on money-making that doesn’t drive you mad
Photo by Joseph Frank on Unsplash
Everybody likes money — so much so that a lot of people spend hours upon hours just for a handful of cents answering surveys, doing menial work, and even solving captchas by hand.
This ... | ['Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Work'] |
“I would regret more for not trying than for failing”- Anna Juusela, Founder & CEO of We Encourage Michelle Tran Follow Sep 8 · 6 min read
Shifting from the retail industry to creating an impact start-up, Anna Juusela — Founder & CEO of We Encourage, had to deal with tons of fears and uncertainty in the beginning. Yet... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Impact Startup', 'Be Your Own Boss'] |
This blog is part 3 out of 4 and we will be discussing Boosting.
Gradient Boosting
Gradient Boosting is a machine learning technique for classification and regression used to turn weak learners to strong learners.
gb_clf = GradientBoostingClassifier() # Grid Search
param_gb = {"n_estimators":[100, 300, 500], "max_d... | ['Machine Learning', 'Boosting', 'Python', 'Gradient Boosting', 'Data Science'] |
In these recent times, I cannot stop thinking about “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. It’s an old story. Of a trapped woman.
The woman feels ill but has been told she is not ill. Her husband is a doctor. She must stay in the room with the yellow wallpaper. She must wait it out, this is what must be ... | ['Depression', 'Nonfiction', 'Women', 'Literally Literary', 'Feminism'] |
I’ve been writing more than ever this year and want to thank each of you for reading. As the year wraps up, I’ve gathered the ten most popular “Exploring Sobriety” posts of 2020 into the list below.
If you’re a new reader, this list is the perfect starting place. If you’ve been following me for a while, it’s a great w... | ['Addiction', 'Mental Health', 'Sobriety', 'Alcoholism', 'Self Improvement'] |
Note: I was inspired to write this after reading the findings of dark patterns by researchers at Princeton University and University of Chicago. Check it out!
At its core, UX design is about helping people to do what they want in the simplest way possible. The goal is to make peoples’ lives a little bit easier by remo... | ['Design', 'UI', 'User Experience', 'User Interface', 'UX'] |
Time to Code
Throughout the rest of this post I will discuss all the steps necessary to perform in order to complete the Traffic-Light example I described above.
We start by setting up the development environment and begin with the Model-Based testing tool: GraphWalker
GraphWalker is an open-source MBT, driven and d... | ['Model Based Testing', 'Test Automation', 'Test Driven Development', 'Formal Verification', 'Java'] |
In an ideal world, you world breeze through your todos and still have time to do everything you enjoy. Unfortunately, many of us come home from working feeling discouraged because we wish that we could have gotten more done. Instead of beating yourself up for not getting enough done, start using these 15 productivity h... | ['Work', 'Productivity', 'Pomodoro Technique', 'Time Management'] |
I walk my dogs down the ravine everyday
And I will see a magpie.
First of all I want to say that I’m not superstitious
That would be bad luck
Anyway…
The magpie will trigger a thought
‘It’s doom again for me!’
I’m not afraid, I’m just anxious
The past has crept up stealthily
Beyond me again and
Lies crouched ... | ['Poetry', 'Ocd', 'Mental Health', 'Faith', 'Superstition'] |
The new ColumnTransformer will change workflows from Pandas to Scikit-Learn
Scikit-Learn’s new integration with Pandas
Scikit-Learn will make one of its biggest upgrades in recent years with its mammoth version 0.20 release. For many data scientists, a typical workflow consists of using Pandas to do exploratory data ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Pandas', 'Scikit Learn', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
As a leader, it can be easy to miss the fact that your team is struggling to build trust with one another. There can be a lot going well: high quality work, goals met, etc. But you may start to notice that your team just doesn’t feel like a team.
This lack of trust can manifest in different ways like:
A lack of vulne... | ['Trust', 'Leadership', 'Teamwork'] |
The three transfer categories discussed in the previous section outline different settings where transfer learning can be applied, and studied in detail. To answer the question of what to transfer across these categories, some of the following approaches can be applied:
Instance transfer: Reusing knowledge from the so... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Towards Data Science'] |
DataBasic: A suite of data tools for the beginner
Easy-to-use web tools that help data newbies (and the more experienced) grasp & learn the basics
By Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>
I’m a data geek from way back at The Boston Globe. Naturally enough, I have a deep interest in data, data visualizations, and the tools used ... | ['Journalism', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
2. Cyano Wallet
Wait! Before we get into the details of smart contract development, you need to install Cyano Wallet.
Cyano Wallet is a web extension wallet which holds Ontology’s two tokens (ONT and ONG), as well as any tokens that you decide to create following Ontology’s OEP4 token protocol.
You can install Cyano... | ['Python', 'Smart Contracts', 'Blockchain', 'Ontology', 'Programming'] |
Why Your Friends Might Be Holding You Back From Living Your Best Life and What to Do About It Gaby Spadaro Follow Dec 29 · 4 min read
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
You hear you're the average of the five people you hang out with, and you're scared to death; maybe your friends do not help you get to where you wa... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Friendship', 'Love Yourself'] |
Simple tips to make everyday living a breeze and stain freer
While salt is a staple in your recipes and flavors your food, there are other ways to use salt that won’t affect your health and/or your recipes. Salt is a preservative in almost all foods, check out what else salt came do outside of the body. Salt can check... | ['Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Education', 'Life'] |
How About NASA Sending a Woman to the Moon by 2024?
A grand gesture that is way overdue
Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon in 1969 — Image by Pixabay
It’s been quite a few years since NASA and the United States space program has sent astronauts to the Moon. To be more specific, December 12, 1972, was the last time.
In... | ['Women', 'Women In Tech', 'Space', 'Government', 'Science'] |
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Internet access is not ubiquitous. Everyone experiences the frustration of being offline. When you design a mobile app which doesn’t work without internet, you’ve made a decision about when and where your app may be used.
But consider:
You’re on a flight, and you don’t want to pay for Wi-... | ['Offline', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Jack Parsons and the Real “Suicide Squad”
The Story of a Sorcerous Scientist
On October 2nd of 1914, a boy named Marvel Whiteside Parsons was born in Los Angeles, California. He later came to be known as John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons. Jack came from a very wealthy family. He grew up on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena... | ['Religion', 'Biography', 'History', 'NASA', 'Science'] |
What My Time as a Management Consultant Taught Me About Parenting
Somehow the “balls to the wall” culture made me a better mom.
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
When I finally graduated from my doctoral program, I was living the dream. Well, maybe not the dream you’re thinking of. I didn’t have much money. But I w... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Parenting'] |
The Common Sense of Science
Jacob Bronowski’s meditation on the history and philosophy of science
International travel has its benefits. Somewhere between Sydney, Toronto and back again, I found time to read Jacob Bronowski’s The Common Sense of Science. First published in 1951, it’s as profound and relevant today — ... | ['Science', 'History', 'Science Communication', 'Philosophy'] |
Most laymen have this idea that designers are just operating complicated software and pushing pixels on the screen to make pretty things.
Sometimes, you get feedback from teammates who are not designers telling you:
How can we make this look better? Currently, it is almost there, but I need it to be prettier and more... | ['UI Design', 'Design', 'Visual Design'] |
Dear Universe
I demand a refund for having a terrible year
Photo by NASA on Unsplash
Dear Universe
Please can you review my year as I’m sure it was mishandled by your staff. They have failed to maintain the level of good fortune and positive vibes that I’m accustomed to.
I have found myself constantly surrounded b... | ['Humor', 'Ideas', 'Satire', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
Let us consider that we are designing a machine learning model. A model is said to be a good machine learning model, if it generalizes any new input data from the problem domain in a proper way. This helps us to make predictions in the future data, that data model has never seen. Now, suppose we want to check how well ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Overfitting', 'Data Science', 'Underfitting', 'Dimensionality Reduction'] |
Do you know how to improve learning through VR?
Next year, the number of VR users will grow to 171 million. VR market expected to increase to a $15.9 billion industry by 2019. This technology may be helpful for different areas including learning. A 3D generator of environments can be used to make education more effici... | ['Technology', 'Software', 'Education', 'AI', 'Virtual Reality'] |
Image Creation for Non-Artists (OpenCV Project Walkthrough)
An attempt at exploring how computer vision and image processing techniques can allow non-artists to create Art
The end result
This project stemmed from my predilection of the visual arts — as a computing student, I’ve always envied art students in their st... | ['Python', 'Art', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Computer Science'] |
Spring Boot Microservices — Containerization
In this article, we will understand the advantages of containerizing Spring Boot Microservices. We will also do sample implementation, based on Docker and Spring Boot. This is the 7th part of our series — Spring Boot Microservices — Learning through examples
Photo by Sebas... | ['Virtualization', 'Software Engineering', 'Docker', 'Spring Boot', 'Containers'] |
Your regular dose of fintech news, views and insights
Can Robinhood Give Coinbase a Run for Its Money?
With the announcement and roll out of its commission-free cryptocurrency product Robinhood Crypto, Robinhood Markets Inc. is gaining ground on Coinbase.
Fintech Around The Web
1. Coinbase Has Made It Easy for Onli... | ['Fintech', 'Newsletter', 'Blockchain', 'Amazon', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
These are notes for a class called “Writing about Science, Medicine, and the Environment,” which I have taught for several years at Yale. I update them here from time to time. They are published under Creative Commons Licence (CC BY-NC-ND)
Structure
In this class, we are writing stories. Without structure, stories ar... | ['Writing'] |
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Given the current pandemic situation, there aren’t a lot of companies actively hiring. Alongside applying to career sites, I wanted to have a data-driven approach to my problem. Later in this series, I’ll use NLP and a Jobs API to find jobs that best match my profile. But for now, this... | ['API', 'Python', 'Crunchbase', 'Data Science', 'Job Hunting'] |
Another week has passed and it is time to share the results with our community.
During the last two weeks, a lot of work has been done concerning development and testing of essential Live Stars webcam platform features, such as streams and LIVE token processing. We have reworked model account dashboard and completed t... | ['Startup'] |
You Think You're Smarter Than You Actually Are
On April 19, 1995, one Mcarthur Wheeler robbed two banks in Pittsburgh. What makes his case unique is that seeing how lemon juice makes ink invisible, he smeared his own face with lemon juice, believing that this would make him invisible to surveillance cameras.
He then ... | ['Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons'] |
Original article written by Dr. Samar Habib at https://conscioused.org/wiki/i-hate-myself/
Everyone has a Parasite living inside their brain. And mine was running the show.
Standing in front of a mirror in my parents’ home, aged 30, single and shamefully broke, I slapped myself in the face as hard as I could. How cou... | ['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Psychology'] |
Date: May 14th, 2016 at 2:44:05 AM PST
From: Ed Pratt <ed@dumply.com>
To: everyone@dumply.com
Subject: Website Changes
Hey guys,
Just looking at the website. I know I said I loved it yesterday, but looking at it now, I hate it. It feels too cluttered. Too many words.
@Design team — pls mock up what it would look ... | ['Tech', 'Humor', 'Design'] |
I was always going to be a ballerina. Unlike every other 6-year-old girl in a pink tutu, I was actually going to make it. The fantasy would dance through my head while I listened to Swan Lake twirling around the lounge room.
Why not me? I was bursting with potential.
I was a unique snowflake, destined for the stage. ... | ['Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Parenting', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons'] |
2. Reduction adds resilience
In 2009, two pilots from Air France flight 447 were in serious trouble. After flying through some storms earlier during their journey, some sensors on the wing caught ice and stopped working. This by itself, was not a big deal. As with most aviation accidents, it was a series of small erro... | ['Product Management', 'Design Thinking', 'Startup', 'User Experience', 'UX'] |
There’s this joke that people who think traveling for work is fun, probably don’t travel for work enough. Getting to visit new places on the company’s expense account sounds great in theory, but tight schedules and constant jetlag tend to reduce the fun factor substantially.
I was recently reminded of how challenging ... | ['International Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Travel', 'Startup'] |
Learn the latest news in Digital Analytics world and join us on this week’s stories in the comments.
Last blog post for 2019 and we wanted to make it a little bit Christmassy.🎅🏼 May the new year brings us health, joy and exciting new updates from Google. So, grab your cocoa, sit next to your fireplace and enjoy the ... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Holiday Shopping', 'News', 'Google Analytics', 'Cloud Computing'] |
The dreaded SettingWithCopy warning when doing chained indexing
This is the fourth and final part of the series “Selecting Subsets of Data in Pandas”. Pandas offers a wide variety of options for subset selection, which necessitates multiple articles. This series is broken down into the following topics.
Become an Exp... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Python Pandas', 'Jupyter', 'Data Science'] |
In this thread, I’m going to apply the ARIMA forecasting model to the U.S. unemployment rate as time-series data. Also, I’ll bring the proper codes which I run the model using Python (IDE Jupyter Notebook). At the end of this thread, I put two YouTube videos for training purposes.
Step 1- Data preparation
First, we n... | ['Arima', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Unemployment', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Writer’s Blog
I joined Medium to make money
The ‘I made x amount in a month’ made me do it.
Medium was on my radar for a while before I actually started to write on it. A good friend and writing partner suggested that I start putting my articles up here. I had already started a blog and was trying to write articles,... | ['Money', 'Writing', 'Articles', 'Finance', 'Monetization'] |
Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity :- Andrew Ng
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning is now one of the most talked technology in the world right now. It is no longer a buzzword and puzzle. The organizations across the globe have started implementing these technologies to create innova... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Spotlight on Jeffrey Miller
Class of 1987
Jeffrey Miller, class of 1987
Jeffrey Miller is a 1987 Eureka College grad now living in Daejeon, South Korea. After completing his bachelor’s at Eureka, he enrolled in a master program in English at Western Illinois University. He took two of the graduate class that I taugh... | ['Writing', 'Short Story'] |
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Though moss is a simple plant, we shouldn’t underestimate its wisdom. It’s one of the oldest, wisest, and most experienced forms of life. Moss is an opportunist making the most of what’s available. It lies in wait, sometimes for years, for the right ... | ['Sustainable Development', 'Nature', 'Cities', 'Economy', 'Science'] |
In a nutshell
A mix of search-friendly articles and in-depth coverage — both written and audio — are helping this Polish investigative news outlet expand beyond its traditional audience.
What is OKO.press?
Founded in June 2016, OKO.press is one of Poland’s first non-profit investigative journalism site. Its goal is ... | ['Resilience', 'Case Study', 'Covid 19', 'Journalism', 'Journalists'] |
Mixin team has published a tutorial based on Java. The developer can receive and send bitcoin after reading the tutorial.
Create a bot in Mixin Messenger to receive user’s message
Receive & send Bitcoin
The Java developer can create a bot in Mixin Messenger after reading the tutorial. The bot can receive message and... | ['Java', 'Open Source', 'Programming', 'Mixinnetwork', 'Bitcoin'] |
Read This When You Feel Like You’re Not Enough
“There’s no point if other people are better than me.”
Growing up as an Asian Canadian, I was often compared to another kid. It was the norm. It’s the culture.
Who’s doing better in school? Who got fatter? Who is better at XYZ?
And when you grow up with this mentality ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Growth', 'Inspiration'] |
Learning Android Development
StaggeredVerticalGrid of Android Jetpack Compose
Using Jetpack Compose Layout to make StaggeredVerificatlGrid
Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash
In Jetpack Compose, even though we have LazyColumnFor to do what RecyclerView has, but there’s not readily available StagerredGridLayout p... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Jetpack Compose', 'Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Android App Development'] |
Yesterday, news broke that an incredibly famous celebrity had entered rehab for cocaine and alcohol addiction, following a recent relapse. Within hours, the internet had drowned under a flood of support for him.
Celebrities and non-celebrities alike tweeted out well-wishes. A thousand blog posts were written about des... | ['Sobriety', 'Celebrity', 'Mental Health', 'Addiction', 'Recovery'] |
GLOBAL ECONOMY
How does the global economic recovery look like in the next two years?
Visualizing the economic projection for the year 2020 with the expected rebounds in 2021 & 2022
It has been an unprecedented year in so many ways. Although the biggest concern was health-related, the resulting economic fallout has ... | ['Health', 'Investing', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Economics'] |
A passion for print media
At Sales Impact, a 100% subsidiary of Axel Springer, we are all about sales of print media. We provide regional sales activities and wholesale communication for the supervision of retail sales and the logistics involved for delivery domestic and overseas. Also we do the planning and execution... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Deep Learning'] |
What is happening in the world?
In our work we regularly deal with asks from clients like:
What is the best experience we can provide to the end-user with this new service?
What is the outcome we are trying to achieve in the online experience?
How might we design a tool that bridges customer expectation and company... | ['System Thinking', 'Design', 'Design Thinking', 'Mindset', 'Experience'] |
Diabetes is a serious problem which many people face nowadays and which can lead to other serious health diseases.During the period of Covid-19 we also came to know that the conditions of a diabetic patient is much more critical than a non-diabetic patient.So if we can take help of deep learning to predict the risk of ... | ['Tinyml', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'IoT', 'Deep Learning'] |
A good data pipeline is one that you don’t have to think about very often. Even the smallest failure in getting data to downstream consumers can be noticed immediately, so it’s important to build a system that is able to deliver events quickly and accurately.
Requirements
When building a data pipeline, we kept the fo... | ['Big Data', 'Data Science'] |
Why You Should Use Social Media
There are hundreds of millions of people that browse social media every single day and you can take advantage of that. On Instagram alone, there is over 25 million business that you could do some kind of freelance work for.
Another great thing about social media is that it is really ea... | ['Digital Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Freelancing', 'Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
Here’s how to do it:
(1) Automatically update all@ by nesting your Google Groups
A Group can be added to another Group a member, just like an email address.
For example:
Create your team groups, say team-a@ and team-b@
Chose “Team” access level: “Only managers can invite new members, but anyone in your domain can ... | ['Startup', 'People Operations', 'Google Calendar', 'Google Drive', 'Onboarding'] |
Provider
First, Provide must be unique in the application. It makes sure all the listeners have the same data.
To make it happen, I used a design pattern: Singleton. It creates a private instance, and provides a public method to make instance accessible from the outside. This prevents the instance to be created more ... | ['Typescript', 'Provider', 'State Management'] |
I grew up in Lebanon, less than a kilometre away from a Palestinian refugee camp — one of many that were set up across the country to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees who were forced into exile in 1948. These camps were supposed to be temporary.
More than 70 years later, tents — which were once pitched ac... | ['War', 'Books', 'Politics', 'World', 'Palestine'] |
Ubersuggest has been a favorite of many online entrepreneurs and bloggers worldwide, and for a reason. It is a fast and free keyword research tool. While most keyword research tools assume you know the keywords to use even when you don’t, Ubersuggest gives you keyword ideas.
You only need to enter a simple generic ter... | ['SEO', 'Data', 'Google', 'Keyword Research Tools', 'Keyword Research'] |
De Nacthwacht by Rembrandt, 1642 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
A shorter version of the below appeared in The Harvard Business Review on May 15, 2020
Twenty years ago, Kevin Rivette and David Kline wrote a book about the hidden value contained within companies’ underutilized patents. These patents, Rivette and Kline argued... | ['Data4good', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'AI'] |
When you have a very famous father, like mine, everyone thinks they know him.
My dad, Larry Hagman, portrayed the storied, ruthless oilman J.R. on the TV series Dallas. He was the man everyone loved to hate, but he had a personal reputation for being a nice guy who fully subscribed to his motto: DON’T WORRY! BE HAPPY!... | ['Books', 'Celebrity', 'Television', 'Love', 'Family'] |
Originally published in TechCrunch on November 17, 2020.
In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Debates ensued over whether the construction industry’s seven million employees s... | ['Startup', 'Innovation', 'Insights', 'Construction Tech', 'Construction'] |
Angular — A Comprehensive guide to unit-testing with Angular and Best Practices
A step by step guide to a unit testing angular project with some examples
Unit Testing ecosystem
Unit testing is as important as developing a project nowadays and it becomes an integral part of development. It actually boosts the quality... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Indian fighter jets carried out strikes against targets inside undisputed Pakistani territory, but open-source evidence suggested that the strike was unsuccessful.
At around 3:30 a.m. local time on February 26, a flight of 12 Mirage 2000 multi-role fighters reportedly attacked facilities of the terrorist group Jaish-e... | ['India', 'Pakistan', 'Security', 'Military', 'Social Media'] |
Don’t Rely on New Year’s Resolutions
Your life is happening today.
Photo by Isaac Smith on Unsplash
I am not here to bash on New Year’s Resolutions. They’re great and they can be very useful. There is something extremely comforting and revitalising about them. Just like most people, I like starting fresh on the firs... | ['Self Improvement', 'Motivation', 'Self', 'Strategy', 'New Year Resolution'] |
I’m a gender-fluid addict — and there’s a lot more of me. I first noticed just how many of us there are when COVID hit. Suddenly there were more online support groups than ever before. More importantly, there were more groups specifically for trans and gender-nonconforming people — honestly, so many more than I ever co... | ['Addiction', 'Mental Health', 'Injustice', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender'] |
Why Too Much Self-Help Is Not Working Well for You
And how to stop productivity guilt from hurting your mindset.
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
If you try to follow all the self-help you’ve been reading, then you must:
Wake up at 5 am.
Take a cold shower.
Drink two gallons of water.
Journal for twenty minut... | ['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Mindfulness', 'Life'] |
Documentation and Comments
It’s worth mentioning that almost all code goes changes throughout its lifetime and there will be times when you or someone is trying to figure out what a complex block of code, a method, or a class is intended to do unless clearly described. The reality is almost always as follow
There are... | ['Documentation', 'Clean Code', 'Java', 'Coding Style', 'Coding Conventions'] |
Bad things happen and are a normal part of life.
Unfortunate events occur all the time and are waiting around every corner. Most of the time, the best decision we can make is to stop and deal with what we’re feeling right away. Because bottling it up will only make the situation worse down the line.
Whether it’s grie... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Stoicism'] |
“I made you something. I spent weeks on it. I’m still not happy with it but I’ve erased so many times the paper is about to tear.”
Drawing by Melancholicanna
“Oh wow!” I gushed. “That’s incredible! You really spent some time on this didn’t you, very impressive.
She asked a bunch of questions about the things I wrote... | ['Humor', 'Death', 'Health', 'Art', 'Fiction'] |
3D modeling for UI Designers
Part 1 — Creating 3D objects
Recently I've had the opportunity to work in an awesome project at HE:labs. It was an interactive isometric map where each building represented a project and on mouse over we displayed a short looping animation as a preview of what that project was about. I go... | ['3d', 'Design', 'UI', '3d Design', 'English'] |
3 Reasons Why You Don’t Get Things Done With Your To-Do List
And how to fix them.
Photo by Breakingpic on Pexels
To-do lists are one of the most popular productivity tools ever, and that is for a good reason. It’s crazy simple, you write your tasks and then you check them off after you finish them, but the question ... | ['To Do List', 'Productivity'] |
On my very first visit to New York City with my friends Les and Martha Jane, the city was as alive as I’d imagined it, but far more exotic, and I thought I could imagine exotic pretty clearly before entering this world. We had chosen this trip to further bond our relatively new grad school friendship. Les and I met in ... | ['Friendship', 'Deli', 'One Table One World', 'New York', 'Food'] |
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Learn to Calculate Your Portfolio’s Value at Risk
Step by Step Guide to Risk Managing Your Portfolio with Historical VaR and Expected Shortfall
In this article, we are going to learn about risk management and how we can apply it to our equity portfolios. We are going to do that by learning about two risk management m... | ['Risk', 'Fintech', 'Personal Finance', 'Python', 'Stocks'] |
Set Up AWS CLI on Your Mac in 2 Steps
Deploy from your command line, manage your AWS instances, and more
Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the market leaders in cloud computing. It has lots of services, ranging from infrastructure as a service (IAAS) to platform as a service (PAA... | ['Programming', 'Cli', 'Aws Cli', 'Software Development', 'AWS'] |
The State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948. Today, the country turns 71. As far as nations go, Israel is still a teenager. But the country’s economic parameters do not reflect that of one. In all measures, Israel is among the most world’s most developed nations.
GDP per capita (current US$). Data from the Wor... | ['Startup', 'Israel', 'Culture', 'History', 'Economics'] |
In a certain town a very beautiful young lady suddenly arrived out of the blue. Nobody knew from where she came; her whereabouts were completely unknown. But she was so beautiful, so enchantingly beautiful, that nobody even thought about where she had come from. People gathered together, the whole town gathered — and a... | ['Truth', 'Education', 'Spirituality', 'Fiction', 'Psychology'] |
The Code Of Ethics
The code of ethics breaks down into four major points.
Seeking the truth and reporting it
Meaning ethical journalism needs to be accurate and fair with as little-to-no bias as possible. It also requires journalists to be “honest and courageous in gathering, reporting, and interpreting information.... | ['Journalism', 'News', 'Trump', 'Election 2020', 'The Masterpiece'] |
Why does this happen to data scientists so often?
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Even after hearing horror stories from data scientists and analysts, I never believed it was too bad.
As a newcomer in the industry, I thought that a lot of what I was hearing was simply a gross exaggeration of events.
That is…until it ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Having lived in New York’s Greenwich Village for almost 50 years — and sold advertising to the Big Apple’s escorts of all genders and orientations for 20 of those years, I am certainly not a clueless heterosexual oblivious to today’s alternative sexualities and fluidities. Not only have some of my best friends been gay... | ['Life', 'Transgender', 'Psychology', 'Culture', 'Sex'] |
Because, it’s been pretty hard, right?
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2020 has been a pretty shitty year for a lot of us, I’d go as far as saying that everybody in some vein has been affected by the devastating effects of a global pandemic.
A lot of people have tried to see the good in adversity, which I can highl... | ['Reading', 'Books', '2020'] |
Sassy burgers and deodorant are in a war for your love
“Delete your account.”
“Turn your hat around. You aren’t Bart Simpson and this isn’t 1997.”
“No, but your opinion is (trash) though.”
“Oh look…another Twitch streamer we haven’t heard of.”
Anger can often seem like the tone of the internet. “Never read the com... | ['Marketing', 'Internet Culture', 'Bullying', 'Twitter', 'Social Media'] |
Churn is probably one of the most documented SaaS metrics. The aim of this article is not to define and speak about the general concept of churn (you can find plenty of outstanding resources about that) but to analyse 4 SaaS benchmarks and see what they say about real churn figures.
The 4 benchmarks we’ll analyse are:... | ['Churn', 'Startup', 'SaaS', 'Practical Guides', 'Metrics'] |
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On being invisible: Have you felt this?
Several years ago, I was in a restaurant in Branson, Missouri with my beautiful, vibrant, and 25 years younger, friend. She is one of those women who attract men like butterflies to their favorite Black-Eyed Susan flowers.
This was a common ... | ['Personal Growth', 'Seniors', 'Being Invisible', 'Aging', 'Self-awareness'] |
Trigger
A trigger, both internal and external, leads to action which is undertaken regardless if the users are aware of such impulse or not. External triggers such as a notification, an app icon on a smart phone or an e-mail sent to the user can evoke certain repeated behaviours until a habit is formed. While, as Eyal... | ['Nir Eyal', 'Startup', 'UX Design', 'Lean Startup', 'MVP'] |
Real life insights into fulfillment and logistics for startups and subscription box companies
We’ll start with an overview of how fulfillment centers how, then delve into the steps of finding the right partner in future posts.
After a product has been manufactured, all companies face the same challenge: How to get th... | ['Tech', 'Startup', 'Fulfillment', 'Ecommerce', 'Subscription Boxes'] |
Pen Names Are More Than Just A Name
Recently, I have begun pondering the ethics of sexual entitlement. It’s a creative venture that has taken me to an unusual place in my writing life. It has also forced me to begin asking myself a simple question that's increasingly sounding like a Batman riddle.
“What is in a name?... | ['Equality', 'Women', 'Writing', 'Sexuality', 'Sex'] |
I’ve never really been a fan of Christmas. Unlike most people, I’ve always dreaded the holidays and I honestly find this season of the year quite depressing. The financial strain, the numerous obligations you wish you could get out of but mostly, for me, I’ve always disliked the holidays because I rarely got to spend i... | ['Holidays', 'Family', 'Miscarriage', 'Psychology', 'Infertility'] |
30 Lessons About Life You Should Learn Before Turning 30
Lessons I eventually learned, but wish I could have mastered a long time ago…
Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash
1. Life is a delicate balance between “ready, aim, fire” and “ready, fire, aim.”
Chances are you naturally lean toward one of these approaches... | ['Personal Growth', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Life'] |
The 5 Stages
Stage 1: The honeymoon
This stage is defined by high job satisfaction, energy, and creativity.
A few months ago, I took a new job in project management that I was extremely excited about. Everything was great — I was working on many different IT projects and learning a lot. I was also working with many ... | ['Mental Health', 'Work Life Balance', 'Burnout', 'Engineering Mangement', 'Programming'] |
I usually don’t mention my completion of a marathon unless someone asks me directly, but my husband, a runner himself, brags about it on my behalf.
You’ve done one! he says when I try to minimize mention of the race. It didn’t kill me (barely)! I retort.
But the benefits of running a marathon in just under seven hour... | ['Running', 'Motivation', 'Marathon', 'Walking', 'Inspiration'] |
Your marketing team can’t do it all.
You invest in traditional and digital advertising while dedicating long hours to tweaking your strategy in hopes of boosting your return on investment. You do all this while trying to keep up with the latest trends and watching your budget like a miserly Disney villain.
Wouldn’t i... | ['Branded Content', 'Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
Days blur into weeks and months into seasons. I can’t remember how I imagined 2015, but it looks different from the other side. I’ve made and lost friends and watched others slip away. I’ve seen familiar buildings torn down and grown used to the vacant spaces they’ve left behind. I’ve found comfort in recognizing the s... | ['San Francisco', 'Storytelling', 'Lyft'] |
Organizations speak of operational reporting and analytics as the next technical challenge in improving business processes and efficiency. In a world where everyone is becoming an analyst, live dashboards surface up-to-date insights and operationalize real-time data to provide in-time decision-making support across mul... | ['Dashboard', 'Tableau', 'Analytics', 'Sql', 'Dynamodb'] |
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