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Six Golden Rules That Will Change Your Writing Life
Apply these rules and watch your writing pop
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Writing is a craft, which means it can be studied, understood, and learnt. It’s natural for you to feel inadequate after reading the works of some excellent writers. But here is the... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing Life', 'Writing', 'George Orwell', 'Writers On Writing'] |
Start your Data Science Journey in 4 Steps
An opinionated path guide for beginning your Data Science career
Until September of 2018 the term “Artificial Intelligence” had literally no meaning to me. I was posting letters for Royal Mail and curious as ever to learn a skill that didn’t require me to physically exert my... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Towards Data Science'] |
A better way to monitor the health of your data.
Image courtesy of Magnus Engo on Unsplash.
As companies increasingly depend on rich, unstructured data to inform decision making, it’s mission critical that this data is accurate and reliable. Unfortunately, the reality is that data can go be missing, be improperly add... | ['Data Observability', 'Data Engineering', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'DevOps'] |
How to Solve Your “Lack of Motivation” Problem
Hint: Understand that lack of motivation is a lie.
Photo by Taisiia Shestopal on Unsplash
I know what it feels like to have no motivation. I’m talking zero motivation.
Here’s a list of some of the laziest things I’ve done:
I used to watch Law and Order SVU marathons f... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
Overall Market Analysis:
Bitcoin is currently trading at 6322$ (as of 12 August 2018, 9.38 PM (IST)). Bitcoin fell sharply on Wednesday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delayed a decision on a proposed bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).
Bitcoin (BTC):
Bitcoin is currently trading at 6322$ (as... | ['Zilliqa', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Analysis', 'Bitcoin'] |
Piccolo here, klein there
Fiat created its model to deal with Italians’ need for affordable transportation. It was suffering the effects of the oil crisis, so any new car should be small, nimble enough for urban streets and fuel-efficient. Beauty wasn’t a priority here, which made it clear that this was a rational pur... | ['Cars', 'Design', 'History', 'Past', 'English'] |
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Among the stones and winds
Tree’s tress swam yawning free
And its roots unyielding to defeat.
Earth’s sap that would coalesce
The ambition to climb higher
But is consumed by the tree’s thirst.
A power beyond yet so drawing —
Is the thirst for earth’s blood and it’s tears
For when... | ['Poetry', 'Earth', 'Spiritual', 'Environment', 'Life'] |
If the program is executed without parameters, it will enter the interactive mode. Otherwise, it will get values from parameters. The entry point function is like the below.
Interactive mode will be handled with the following function by asking the user the required or optional parameters one by one. If the user press... | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Email Automation', 'Christmas', 'Programming'] |
How to deploy Python Dash app on App Engine, which interacts with Flask app on Cloud Run using Firebase authentication Takashi Nakamura, PhD Follow Nov 10 · 10 min read
In a business context, we are often interested in creating dashboards, which enable us to show images, graphs, tables, etc. There are many frameworks ... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Dash', 'App Engine'] |
Maps based off of Müller et al., (2008): Müller, R.D., M. Sdrolias, C. Gaina, and W.R. Roest 2008. Age, spreading rates and spreading symmetry of the world’s ocean crust, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q04006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001743.
Plate reconstructions modeled in Gplates, e.g: Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., ... | ['Geology', 'Claire Mckinley', 'Comics', 'Science', 'Oceans'] |
Leveling up your UX Maturity
and how a design agency can play a pivotal role in doing so.
A ways back I had the opportunity to give a talk at a meetup whose theme revolved around building and growing your team’s UX competencies. My co-presenters were there representing the companies of ASML and Brightcape. I was ther... | ['Design', 'Maturity', 'Digital Design', 'Designops', 'UX'] |
Why is this particular course useful to your career as a beginner? Because it starts with the basics of Artificial Intelligence. You can’t run before you walk, so that’s why Week 0 of CS50AI is dedicated to basics algorithms like Breadth-First Search, Greedy Best-First Search, and Minimax.
You probably want to jump ri... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
#7. Photography
Me taking a portrait photo of my wife in Nepal
My definition: Learning to use a camera to take good photos.
Photography is a very broad skill, much like drawing. More and more people are interested in photography due to the rise of smartphones and DLSR technologies. It’s now easier than ever to learn... | ['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Inspiration'] |
Instagram is about to implement changes to its community guidelines. And depending on the type of content you create or like to consume, they could completely change the way you use the platform.
When I started writing about sex, I made a conscious decision to do it using explicit language.
I didn’t see any reason to... | ['Women', 'Social Media', 'Writing', 'Sexuality', 'Sex'] |
How to Give a Perfect Answer
(And Four Dangerous Mistakes to Avoid)
How do you give a perfect answer?
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
-Proverbs 10:20
How do you communicate wisely? Especially when writing online in a blog or on social media?
The perfect a... | ['Communication', 'Writing', 'Personal Growth', 'Strategy', 'Social Media'] |
You are not alone if you had a hard time understanding what exactly Regularization is and how it works. Regularization can be a very confusing term and I’m attempting to clear up some of that in this article.
In this article I’ll do three things: (a) define the problem that we want to tackle with regularization; then ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Regression', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Regularization', 'Data Science'] |
Typically, when I post a Top 3 article, I focus on three stories I enjoyed reading on that particular day. Today, however, I felt like doing something a little different and a bit broader. A few months ago, I posted an article listing three of my favourite writers on Medium. You can check out the original right here:
... | ['Writing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Medium', 'Writers On Medium', 'Sex'] |
We live in a time of unprecedented change, from shrinking supercomputers to programmable thermostats that somehow convince us to kill ourselves. As a consumer, you rely on technology vendors to match the demands of the market without compromising your safety, and that’s why for every item that leaves our stores, Best B... | ['Technology', 'Retail', 'Science', 'Satire', 'Black Mirror'] |
Open jobs at 株式会社プレイド - Wantedly
On Wantedly, 株式会社プレイド is now listing their recruitment information for Engineer / Programmer, Director / Manager… | ['Interview', '日本語', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Venture Capital'] |
Have you ever heard of OSGi? Do you know what’s its purpose?
If you haven’t, I’ll do my best to introduce you to this wonderful piece of software.
Origin
Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say:
The OSGi Alliance, formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative, is an open standards organization founded in March... | ['Modularity', 'Osgi', 'Java', 'Specification', 'Plugins'] |
This was the best part of his day. This is what he looked forward to each day, his hour lunch break. He would sit, enjoy his food and think about happier times.
He would think of home, think of his family, of his life when he was a boy. He would reminisce on how much simpler life was back before he moved to this count... | ['Humor', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Immigration', 'Short Story'] |
Support programmatic generation, sharing, and reuse. Like Vega, Vega-Lite can serve as a standalone file format for visualizations. In particular, Vega-Lite is designed to be a convenient format for automatic visualization generation by visual analysis tools. Examples of applications that use Vega-Lite are Voyager, a r... | ['Visualization', 'D3', 'Data Science'] |
Classifying Malignant and Benign Breast Cancer Tumours with a Neural Network Joshua Payne Follow Jan 5 · 5 min read
Code from this article was based off a tutorial found here. A/N: This article assumes a basic intuitive understanding of neural networks. For background, check this out.
Using this dataset, I created a ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Breast Cancer', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Expect positivity
When it comes to receiving in life what it is you deserve, it is important to maintain a standard of living which you expect from yourself, and all the things which make up the environment around you.
This means that each day, you hold yourself to a certain standard of being, doing, interacting, thi... | ['Motivation', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Life', 'Personal Growth'] |
Many times, when you are managing your mental health symptoms, engaging in a distraction can help you. When you have depression or anxiety, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by your emotions. When you focus on your negative emotions it can increase them or cause them to spiral out of control.
A distraction can be an effe... | ['Depression', 'Self Improvement', 'Anxiety', 'Self', 'Mental Health'] |
These days, it seems like every diet is always somehow inextricably linked to mental health — whether it be some foods groups claimed to trigger a slew of hormonal release, causing imbalance, or instead hold stance of the opposing argument, such as fish oil’s antidepressant effect. Research and studies have followed su... | ['Diet', 'Nutrition', 'Life', 'Food', 'Psychology'] |
Confucius is attributed with saying that “Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated”. Whether or not this is a Westernized version of the legendary Chinese philosopher’s work, the push for “simplicity” encapsulated by this quote is unmistakably echoed within contemporary Western life. Life, in fact, is not... | ['Depression', 'Sociology', 'Happiness', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
Explaining UX writing
How I learned that my writing skills are in high demand for digital content.
UX Writing is more than just card sorting
What is UX Writing?
If I had a dollar for every time someone said, “What?” when I told them I was taking a course in UX writing and they gave me that look, well, I’d have a go... | ['UX Design', 'Writing', 'Ux Writing', 'UX', 'Resources'] |
EFB (Exclusive Feature Bundling)
Datasets with a high number of features are likely to have sparse features (i.e. lots of zero values). These sparse features are usually mutually exclusive which means they do not have non-zero values simultaneously. Consider the case of one-hot encoded text data. In a particular row, ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Lightgbm', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Predictive Analytics'] |
As a little girl, I knew how important it was for me to be comfortable in my own skin. I was a spoilt child but a happy one, because I accepted my self the way I was. I never tried to change a thing about myself. Everything was about me being happy and carefree.
Now as a grownup, I deeply regret the moments when I was... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Self Love'] |
Serious Sam’s Baffling Stadia Exclusivity
Google keeps the iconic shooter franchise off consoles into 2021
Serious Sam Collection Stadia screenshot taken by the author.
We’re just a few weeks away from the release of Serious Sam 4, the latest installment in the long-running hardcore PC action shooter franchise. But ... | ['Gaming', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Business', 'Google'] |
Too much work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Creativity flourishes with a spirit of playfulness.
This is an excerpt from Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo.
There’s a moment that occurs in every writer’s life when your fingers begin to cramp into a claw-like formation as yo... | ['Creative Process', 'Writing', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Creative Writing', 'Inspiration'] |
Variables in Python
A variable is a named storage location where you can save some value when you execute your code. It takes some space in your RAM and its value persists till the time your code is executing.
E.g
# Without variables
# Add two numbers
print(10+20)
#With variables
a=20
b=20 print(a+b)
The benef... | ['Python Programming', 'Python Tutorial', 'Python', 'Pythonprogramminglanguage'] |
He was a young man, a boy, really, who was, like the girl, also from Michigan but he was from the southern side of the biggest city in the state of Michigan. They called it Detroit or sometimes Motor City but that did not make much sense to the boy because they did not build so many cars there any longer. He was a city... | ['Hemingway', 'Humor', 'Writing', 'Songwriting', 'Satire'] |
A number of changes have been made to the game since its initial release. It now offers guided meditations for those that need a helping hand, different ways to focus or practice breathing, and even a sandbox mode. A lot of care has been put into this game in order to make meditation more accessible and interesting to ... | ['Gaming', 'Review', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Features'] |
Years ago, if I had accidentally wandered into a Vipassana retreat, I would have assumed it was some sort of cult initiation.
Imagine: 80 participants forbidden from speaking, touching, or making eye contact for 10 days. Men and women kept separate. A 4:00am wake-up bell every morning. Meals prepared by invisible volu... | ['Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Mental Health', 'Vipassana', 'Meditation'] |
Write an Identity Manifesto
Understanding the concept of identity change, I decided to write my own identity manifesto. For instance, in my desire to be athletically fit, I formed the following identities —
I’m the kind of guy who does not use elevators. I like taking the stairs.
I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t miss... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Psychology'] |
With so many books and so little time, it’s only realistic to understand that you may have missed a few good ones along the way. I realized, well into my life, that I had missed some children's books and young adult books that were worth reading even as an adult. Some I discovered on my own, some during my teaching car... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Childrens Books', 'Literature', 'Stories'] |
Do Something Nobody Will Hear About
You may find out how much of a badass you truly are
When was the last time you did something no one knew about? When was the last time you wrote a piece no one would ever read? Or finished a book worth of articles and your Facebook feed had no clue?
Sometimes, and a lot more so no... | ['Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Personal Development', 'Work', 'Validation'] |
A call for writers to end our incessant list-making in favor of well-crafted sentences.
Copyright: Roadbully / 123RF Stock Photo
Communication as we know it has been pruned, cropped, repackaged and resold. Letters and phone calls have been overthrown by texts, emails and social media commentary. Bullet points have mo... | ['Bullet Points', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Business Writing Skills', 'Creative Writing'] |
Our greatest challenge in machine learning is to clearly explain to an AI what we want to achieve.
For this, we use a reward function.
A reward function is a mathematical expression that tells an AI if it’s doing a good a job. The function measures the difference between an AI’s predictions and the expected results.
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Computer Games', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ February 3, 2020
Saving ourselves from the escalating climate disaster and concomitant political collapse requires us to overcome our problems with truth, knowledge, belief, and faith. We need to come to an agreed understanding on how to deal with these things to preserve ourselves, our plan... | ['Economics', 'Climate Change', 'Culture', 'Future', 'Politics'] |
As an Android Developer, it is important for us to know all the basic animator properties in place, as it is handy when we need them.
As a test, I made a simple Activity that contains and uses all the basic animator properties for a view. (note: I state basic, it’s because, with Animator API, we could animate almost a... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Cartoon', 'Animation', 'Android App Development', 'Apps'] |
A few weeks ago we unveiled the latest eight companies that are part of our URBAN-X smart cities accelerator in Brooklyn. This is the second time we’ve run this program, which differs a little from SOSV’s other ecosystem accelerators, in that the space isn’t constrained by the deep intricacies of a vertical (manufactur... | ['Self Driving Cars', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Startup', 'Smart Cities'] |
About Me — Tom Fenske
An engineer discovering the world of online writing
Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
Hi fellow writers,
I’m happy to be able to introduce myself to this community. My name is Tom, I’m 31 years old, and I am a full-time power plant engineer. I live together with my son and my fiance... | ['Writing', 'About Me', 'Bio', 'Life', 'Side Hustle'] |
August 2018
This month is the final stage of preparation for the first release of SIMDAQ platform. Recent Q and A session with SIMDAQ founder Eugene Dubovoi announced all the current aspects and we appreciate how impatiently you are waiting for the launch.
We would like to share with active community of crypto-enthus... | ['Crypto', 'Startup', 'Trading', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Data Visualization — Part 3
Identifying and Eliminating Design Clutter From Data Visualizations
Clutter, whether you’re walking into your grandma’s basement or looking at a computer screen with colors, numbers, and shapes, results in mental overload.
If you’ve never heard of Edward Tufte, a pioneer in the field of d... | ['Data Science', 'Business', 'Data Visualization', 'Marketing', 'Communication'] |
We all know the world we live in and its impact on our lives. By using our intellectual minds and reasoning prowess, we have solved many mysteries engulfing us. We have profound knowledge of almost everything ranging from the vast space to the tiniest microorganisms.
Yet, there are still many questions that need to be... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Healing', 'Spirituality', 'Life'] |
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts — Eleanor Roosevelt
We all may have faced this problem of identifying the related features from a set of data and removing the irrelevant or less important features with do not contribute much to our target variable in order to achieve better accuracy for our model.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Dark to light, it has universal appeal
In the first rays of the sun the joy we feel
Makes us forget darkness, it’s can’t reveal
From it, our awareness we must peel | ['Poetry', 'Self-awareness', 'Mind', 'Darkness', 'Thoughts'] |
An Airflow workflow is designed as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). when authoring a workflow, it is divided into tasks which can be executed independently. You can then merge these tasks into a logical whole by combining them into a graph. Each task in a workflow is idempotent
In your wandering thoughts you might be t... | ['Apache Airflow', 'Python', 'Data Pipeline', 'Workflow', 'Workflow Automation'] |
The Central Limit Theorem is one of the important theories in Statistics and Probability. In this article, you will understand what is Central Limit Theorem, why it is important, what it tells us, and how it used, etc.
Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
The Central Limit Theorem states that “given a dataset with unknown dis... | ['Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'Central Limit Theorem', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
We all know that there are many well-known popular projects are created in Python, such as desktop Dropbox, Quora, Reddit, Instagram, Paypal, Mozilla, NASA, Pinterest, Youtube (the whole codebase is written in Python almost). By Google, Mozilla, Facebook, Dropbox, Yandex, Red Hat, Intel, Microsoft, the Python language ... | ['Cost', 'Hire Python Developers', 'Python Development India', 'Python', 'Python Development'] |
Growth hacking to mass adoption
The blockchain industry has reached new heights in 2019 with increased awareness and legitimacy. Industry titans such as Facebook, Wal-Mart, and Salesforce have all publicized their intentions of utilizing blockchain technology in their day to day operations.
While critics could make t... | ['Decentralization', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
By Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ January 21, 2020
The chasm grows wider by the day. On one side, we have dinosaurs still unaware that they are dead and on the other, Greta Thunberg. The dinosaurs, in angry denial of reality, are being goaded into a lumbering run by the wit and intelligence of a young woman who will not leav... | ['Politics', 'Culture', 'Future', 'Climate Change', 'Change'] |
Photo by davisco on Unsplash
Brand loyalty: the tendency for customers to favor one brand, consistently, above its competitors for goods and services, even when new purchasing opportunities expose themselves. Brand loyalty and customer retention go hand-in-hand, and are profitable goals for businesses to target. After... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Branding Strategy', 'Content Strategy', 'Online Marketing'] |
Here’s the Life Lesson
Everyone faces difficult things, but a shift in perspective is the most effective way to get through challenges. It’s not that I like losing a tooth. And I certainly don’t like spending more money on my teeth this year.
However, I’ve been in a great deal of pain for more than a month. I am will... | ['Personal Development', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Shannon Ashley', 'Mental Health'] |
Video may have killed the radio star, however it has given rise to a veritable universe of other stars, from Charlie Chaplin to PewDiePie. It’s showing no sign of slowing, as it has seamlessly transferred into the digital world.
Currently if you tried to watch all the video content that is uploaded in just one second,... | ['Marketing', 'Video Marketing', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman, founded the day in 1999 to honor the death of another transgender woman, Rita Hester. Every year in the USA and abroad this day represents an opportunity for all individuals to come together and pay their respects to trans... | ['Authors', 'LGBT Rights', 'New York', 'Transgender', 'LGBT'] |
Holed Up In Tribeca
Living and working from home amidst the NYC Coronavirus outbreak.
Empty Tribeca streets.
This was my first week working from home amidst the Coronavirus outbreak. I am holed up here with my wife in Tribeca, a New York City neighborhood some might typically consider desirable. Yet there is little ... | ['Work Life Balance', 'Relationships', 'Work', 'New York City', 'Coronavirus'] |
Space Invasion
What’s one to do?
Image by Alexas-fotos on Pixabay
Tiny opened his eyes and blinked as he adjusted to the sunlight. The power nap had done him good. He looked around at his partners who were busy at work. Life was hard nowadays. Living space was short too as the population around them grew.
Stepping ... | ['Flash Fiction', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Fiction Writing', 'Short Story'] |
UX or UI, where to focus?
Few see them separately and few see them as one. Let’s clear the air!
There are humans around the world who call themselves as UI/UX Designers and not sure who has the major stake, UX, or UI. Let’s take a look at it.
In the industry, there are UX Designers and UI Designers, and both of them... | ['UI', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
My father and I would wake up in the middle of the cold western Nebraska winter night. Swaddle ourselves in sweatshirts and coveralls and work boots. Drive out to the snow-covered corn stalks, spotlighting the black Angus shapes, looking for a circling cow pawing at the ground to make a bed, a raised tail before the ca... | ['Agriculture', 'Books', 'Review', 'Ireland', 'Farming'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Empresas', 'Campanhas', 'Marketing Digital', 'Marketing'] |
DDIntel newsletter for the week of September 21
DDI Writer Highlights
To potentially be featured in DDI Intel and on Datadriveninvestor.com, please submit with this form.
By Amit Garg
Since covid hit the US six months ago VCs and entrepreneurs worldwide have had to adapt to the new reality of doing deals without me... | ['Crypto', 'Fintech', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Blockchain'] |
Senior Design Lead Lynnette Reed and her team of designers, Ani Akopyan and Vladimir Nogan, focus on incorporating Fluent Design in third-party partner app experiences. They recently redesigned PhotoLab, a UWP sample app created by the Windows 10 documentation team, to demonstrate how to apply Fluent Design principles ... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'Fluent Design System', 'Apps', 'Microsoft'] |
There are few writing tropes as controversial as the MacGuffin. Some think it’s a second-rate prop for bad writing. Others see it as a solid literary device that efficiently builds plot momentum. The truth is, both opinions are right. The difference lies in whether the MacGuffin used in the story is weak or strong.
It... | ['Writing', 'Screenwriting', 'Alfred Hitchcock', 'Writer', 'Writing Tips'] |
Learn The Interaction Between Different Files
Welcome Guys to the series of learning Python names as Python Basics. In this Blog of Tutorial, you will learn about Files and Different Operations Related to them.
Before Getting Started if haven’t read the previous blog about functions then go and read that first.
File... | ['Tutorial', 'Learning', 'Python', 'Education', 'Programming'] |
Each year, the business industry seems to come up with new and innovative ways to incorporate analytics and business intelligence into their success plans. The result is a collection of buzzwords describing different BI software techniques that anyone who uses analytics to grow their company should know. Here are the t... | ['Business Strategy', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Predictive Analytics', 'Digital Transformation'] |
We’ve decided to come forward because this lobster-mascot situation has spun out of control.
Dr. Peterson’s fans, most of whom identify as “men’s rights advocates” but whom we’ll refer to as Incels for the sake of brevity and also for the sake of accuracy, are snatching up “lobster merch” as though their delusional, w... | ['Women', 'Relationships', 'Humor', 'Mens Rights', 'Psychology'] |
Repeat the Lie Often Enough and it Becomes the Truth
Has social media led us down a path of sloppy thinking?
Marketers have led themselves down a repetitious path of untruths, creating the belief that hyper-targeted ads, brand purpose and influencers are key to brand growth.[1] Sloppy thinking, repeated-ad nauseam by... | ['Advertising', 'Higher Education', 'Social Media', 'Marketing'] |
How to Set Up VS Code Like a Pro in Just 5 Minutes
A beginner’s guide
When you’re a #CodeNewbie starting out on #100DaysOfCode, your Visual Studio Code setup probably leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s how to go from zero to professional web developer by installing and configuring some crucial extensions, themes, and... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'JavaScript', 'Programming'] |
This algorithm is one of the most important algorithms currently in usage. From financial time series, signal processing to neural networks, it is being used quite extensively. Basically, any data that is in a sequence.
This algorithm has been mostly used to reduce the noisy time-series data. It’s also called “smoothi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
How To Choose the Best Point of View For Your Story
A guide to understanding POV and what each one will do for your story and character
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash
One of the key questions a writer has to answer when beginning their story is which point of view to use. Even if you know whose story it is, yo... | ['Point Of View', 'Writing', 'Writing Tools', 'Fiction Writing', 'Character'] |
Recently I wanted to get feedback on one of several ideas for the design of the new BlogBridge web site. I had selected 6 product web sites that had a nice look and wanted to somehow visually compare them. Here are two free tools I used:
Papparazzi! is a free Mac utility that does one thing and does it well. It makes ... | ['Design', 'Website', 'Blogbridge'] |
Photo by Igor Shabalin
One of the most challenging tasks in chatbot development is to ‘teach’ the bot to recognize the context of a sentence being processed. Many good designed bots are supposed to understand what stands for pronoun in the current sentence, based on what was said in a discourse previously. Say, a smar... | ['Chatbots', 'Chatbot Development', 'Python', 'NLP'] |
Women using smartphones, @youxventures
Sentiment analysis has many industry use cases, especially for digital economy. It can be used to monitor trends, analyze products and market research etc. The technique used to analyze text is called natural language processing (NLP), which has many fascinating aspects.
This pr... | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'Visualization', 'Review', 'Ecommerce', 'NLP'] |
It was the summer of 2016.
I was living in England at the time because I was pursuing my passion for soccer professionally.
One morning, I received a phone call from my mother that would forever change the direction of my life.
She went on to explain that my father had his second heart attack and was in a coma.
I w... | ['Decision Making', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
Life is a river
Photo by Štefan Štefančík on Unsplash
July 2018:
I’ve imagined My Life on several occasions as a float trip down a river. I’m sprawled out on my inner tube — fingers in the water — just making my way downstream.
Life — The River — is never the same in any two places. The water is constantly flowing,... | ['Self-awareness', 'Retirement', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Life Lessons'] |
Trying to work out how to get your story into a big publication? They don’t make it easy, do they? I’ve got you covered — I hunted around Medium for hours to find these so that you don’t have to. Best of luck!
Finding the right Medium Publication
Medium Publications are like magazines, and just like magazines they ea... | ['Medium', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Self', 'Submission Guidelines'] |
Final Goal
To achieve our third goal, we had to make these new navigation patterns discoverable. This all depended on a single icon to show users that they could truncate that side menu.
Original Icon
This is the icon we had originally. The problem with this icon was that users thought it was going to bring them bac... | ['Usability', 'Design', 'UX Research', 'UI', 'UX'] |
Inspiration And Ideas How To Create Logos For Sites Visualmodo Follow Dec 4 · 3 min read
It is absolutely crucial for a website to have a logo that helps customers relate to their business. In this article, you’ll see inspiration and ideas to create logo for sites. However, you can’t simply put up a few letters and co... | ['Logo', 'Size', 'Design', 'Idea', 'Inspiration'] |
HomeBinder — An Operating System For Your Home
The centralized operating system for all aspects of owning a home
The Problem
There are massive inefficiencies for businesses and homeowners in the residential real estate market. Among these are the fact that businesses spend $30B on customer acquisition and in many ca... | ['Real Estate', 'Proptech', 'Venture Capital', 'Startup'] |
Why you must consider donating when cutting your hair next time?
The feeling is amazing!
image of the author
It is weird how much a simple haircut can change your confidence!
Especially after a long year, full of ups and downs.
It’s like all the doubt and scary thoughts left with my long curly hair!
My beloved fo... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Cancer', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
A Tiny Moment of “Jumping Rope.”
Photo by Chichi Onyekanne on Unsplash
The Moment
We all struggle to stay fit. It is considerably difficult even more so in pandemic times where movement can be restricted. I feel safer training in my garage and near the house away from people. I have a heavy bag and jump rope routine... | ['Motivation', 'Emotional Health', 'Tiny Life Moments', 'Goals', 'Hope'] |
Imagine 100 people who all want exactly what you want out of life.
They’re all just standing in line.
Now imagine that the person at the front of the line is a rockstar. He’s a stellar success. A household name. Like — the kind of success that everyone else in line aspires to. He’s the top 1 percent.
And imagine tha... | ['Work', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Life', 'Busines'] |
I remember driving into Greenville, a city in South Carolina’s upstate, in the summer of 1987. Fresh out of grad school, I had accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Presbyterian College, a liberal arts school almost halfway between Greenville and Columbia. PC is in the former mill town of Clinton, populati... | ['Murder Etc', 'Nonfiction', 'The South', 'Home', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
Regardless of where you work, there is one thing in common. Monotonous and menial work will always be a part of the job. This job can range from reporting to authority, editing photos for your e-commerce products, searching longitude/latitude in google maps, data collection, and formatting. The annoying part of this jo... | ['Startup', 'Personal Development', 'Innovation', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
The open market will commoditize AI and make progress decentralized. Instead of “super-power”, literally “all knowing”, AI that is being developed by big tech players having access to all of our data, which will be regulated by the government to create more or less Orwellian-style society (like already happens in China... | ['Machine Learning', 'Transhumanism', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Decentralization', 'Blockchain Technology'] |
So what is SPC? We’re a self-organizing community of technologists, tinkerers, and domain experts based in San Francisco. We are building new (and sometimes unorthodox) ventures — ranging from enterprise startups and consumer apps, to open source ML and civic-tech projects. We come together, virtually and in the physic... | ['Technology', 'Startup', 'Community', 'Venture Capital'] |
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown
While looking around, we observe that most people are moving fast in their lives, trying to achieve genuine happiness and peace of mind but fail to get.
Why?
It might be because of a lack of self-love and self-care. Let’s discuss some essential sel... | ['Self Improvement', 'Lifestyle', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Philosophy'] |
Version 2 of Bitfolio is here, it’s amazing and it’s already available for download on the App Store. 🙌
It’s not long ago that version 1 was officially released (September) but the quick adoption and the awesome amount of feedback received, gave us only one option: increase the development rate.
So here we are, we p... | ['Apple', 'iOS', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Apps'] |
Again, at no point during this conversation (to the extent that is publicly available) does Abrams address the audio McPherson published on his YouTube channel, which gained more than two million views and resulted in #JusticeForJohnnyDepp trending worldwide. Instead the only thing that seemed to interest her was McPhe... | ['Hollywood', 'Entertainment', 'Actors', 'Movies', 'Journalism'] |
One of the common issues when using a persistent volume solution in Kubernetes, like GlusterFS, is to start running out of storage capacity in your cluster, and you have to find a smooth way to increase volume size without losing your data. In this short article I will show you two ways of doing it.
Before going deepe... | ['Heketi', 'Glusterfs', 'Kubernetes', 'Storage'] |
Working Journey: Business Intelligence
After working as a business intelligence for 10 months, here are some experiences I would like to share. If you are still an undergraduate, or just graduated, or still considering to switch your job career to business intelligence, I hope you will make use of this “past data” bef... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Rationally I fully understand all of them. Emotionally I am irritated and my frustration is getting out of hand.
I am fuming and it doesn’t help me or them. So what does?
It’s not just about dealing with a toddler in a closed space, it’s about a lot of things in life.
Accepting what is
It’s an impossible situation.... | ['Anxiety', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Family', 'Parenting'] |
Progressive Web Apps can grow your business and help you win
(PWA)Progressive web apps have come to stay in our world. Everybody uses social media and all our day to day applications from our gadgets. But do we know how all these come to be? Is there a benefit for business owners willing to take advantage of what deve... | ['Cross Platform', 'Mobile App Development', 'iOS', 'Android', 'Progressive Web App'] |
Modern enterprise applications in the digital economy will generate a variety of data, including operating system logs, network and security device logs, business access and transaction data, etc. These data are very large in volume and in different formats.
Big data analysis concept
Big data analysis refers to the a... | ['Technology', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Big Data', 'Data'] |
In The Pursuit of Happiness
An essay on the phenomenon of happiness & unhappiness and the dichotomous nature of the human condition.
The Sunday Letters subtitle reads; “…articles on life, work, & the pursuit of happiness”. I didn’t plan that subtitle, it kind of grew organically. But it’s no less accurate. It capture... | ['Work', 'Happiness', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy'] |
Work in Advertising @ R/GA (formerly). Challenging myself to come up with 365 new business ideas. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcclave
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