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Handling of Missing Data I talk in detail about handling of missing data in the following post. Well the first idea is to remove the lines in the observations where there is some missing data. But that can be quite dangerous because imagine this data set contains crucial information. It would be quite dangerous to re...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Mining', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming']
AFTER ALL THE YEARS of getting packages delivered by Amazon or watching Amazon Prime movies or going to the Amazon website I just noticed something. The yellow squiggly thing under the Amazon word is most definitely shaped like an upward sloping penis! Isn’t it? I thought it was just a smile until my boyfriend Bob p...
['Design', 'Fun', 'Advertising', 'Humor', 'Comedy']
Happy Mother’s Day Fellow Mommiors You are the original badass Image by Annalise Batista from Pixabay If it weren’t for a post I saw on Facebook, I would not have known today was Mother’s Day. And yet, when I realized it was this weekend, I was not amused. One. More. Thing. To. Do. I don’t have the energy to get th...
['Lifestyle', 'Motherhood', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Parenting']
AI, Sensor-Based Analytics, and a Generational Shift: Three Trends to be Aware of in 2017 by Daniel Kimmel Opex’s Mike Watson recently appeared on the Supply Chain Television Channel to discuss three defining trends that he has watched develop in the world of Supply Chain Analytics so far in 2017. Dan Gilmore, editor...
['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Supply Chain', 'Logistics', 'Analytics']
Bullying In The Workplace — Management’s Obligations and Responsibilities Photo by Sandra Seitamaa on Unsplash Summary: Bullying at work is becoming a more recognized problem, and some jurisdictions, (e.g. Quebec, Canada) have introduced anti-bullying legislation. Read more about workplace bullying and the role of ma...
['Human Resources', 'Bullying', 'Conflict', 'Management And Leadership', 'Management']
Null Safety in Kotlin The definitive guide to handling null references in Kotlin Overview In this article, we’ll look into the null safety in Kotlin. Any programming language which has the concept of null reference throws a NullPointerException. It has been referred to as a billion-dollar mistake. (Wiki) Nullable ...
['Kotlin', 'Software Engineering', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming', 'Null Safety']
I’ve written a lot about my mother’s mental illness over the past year. Lately, I write about it less because I don’t know what else to say. This is the woman who raised me. A woman whom I love and appreciate. Yet she is also a woman who has abused and wounded me, sometimes it seems her damage has gone too far beyond ...
['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Family', 'Life']
Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash I’m not sure how many of you may have noticed this, but it’s very simple to be a badass when you have nothing to lose. Think about it. When you don’t love anyone, when you have no home or no sense of security, when you have no assets to fret about, when you are at the bottom looking up...
['Life', 'Self-awareness', 'Courage', 'Living In The Present', 'Life Lessons']
The Global AI Ethics Consortium (GAIEC) on Ethics and the Use of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against COVID-19 and other Pandemics is officially launched The GovLab Follow Apr 15 · 3 min read “The time for analysing how AI is deployed -whom it affects, how it affects them, what are its broader social ...
['AI', 'Data', 'Covid 19']
The Fibonacci Point System We employ the following point system in our sprints to size feature complexity and estimate velocity. Each point builds upon the previous point’s complexity requirements. 1 — Small one line fixes, copy changes, or design tweaks. 2 — Small logic changes with potential regressions. 3 — Stan...
['Scrum', 'Software Engineering', 'Agile', 'Leadership', 'Programming']
Photo by frankie cordoba on Unsplash I’m sure you know This point in time You don’t have to carry them That weight Those crimes Draped over your shoulders Like jet black hair The fist of your father His soulless stare What happened that night After that cloudy day Was not your fault Or so they would say H...
['Poem', 'Poetry', 'Mental Health']
Written by Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
['Humor', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Comics', 'Psychology']
Ontology as a Taxonomy Photo by NASA on Unsplash The first interpretation we’re going to discuss is an ontological interpretation. It could be rephrased to: ‘Why do you call this a table?’ or ‘What makes you think this is a table?’ This, I think, is the most literal interpretation of the question. Ontology studies h...
['Philosophical Questions', 'Ontology', 'Science', 'Thinking', 'Philosophy']
Ahmed Ahsan Khan, Abeer Alsadoon, Shatha Habeeb Jafer, P.W.C. Prasad, Oday D. Jerew, Paul Manoranjan, “A Novel Hybrid Fall Detection Technique Using Body Part Tracking and Acceleration”, IEEE International Conference on Innovative Technologies in Intelligent Systems & Industrial Application (CITISIA), Sydney, 2020. Rec...
['Research', 'Machine Learning', 'Java', 'Ieee']
Today, cities of all shapes and sizes are using data to make decisions. They are hiring experts, purchasing new tools, and are now, more than ever, focused on understanding information — anchoring the decisions they make to people and places in their communities. While paths to insight discovery may vary, the desired o...
['Smart Cities', 'Community Development', 'Data 101', 'Urban Planning', 'Big Data']
Dispelling the Myths Around Automated Machine Learning Appier Follow Jun 26 · 5 min read Machine learning continues to make great strides in optimizing data collection and analysis tools for use across a wide range of industries, but now a new strand is emerging: automated machine learning, or AutoML for short. This ...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Thought Leadership']
🔬 Stop Comparing Yourself With Others Photo by Coffee Geek on Unsplash Whenever we compare ourselves with others, then two things can happen. The first one is, if you have less knowledge or opportunities, then we started feeling less worthy. The second one is if we have more opportunities than that person, then we l...
['Life', 'Startup', 'Love', 'Education', 'Life Lessons']
Amidst an entire host of reasons that could encapsulate flexible sleep schedule, butler services, the gym, the pool, the spa — There is so much more. 1. I need an Emotional Anchor. Staying with family can mean merging different routines, preferences and sometimes that means the biggest muscle usually wins. It doesn’t...
['Mental Health', 'Philosophy', 'Self Love', 'Me', 'Short Story']
Decentralized Infrastructure Friend consists of a network of servers and clients (most of the time running in a web browser). The server side of things provide you with storage space, computing power, redundancy and services — which is “consumed” by the clients. Whilst FriendUP gives you a virtual Cloud Computer, the ...
['Distributed Systems', 'Cloud Computing', 'Infrastructure', 'Blockchain']
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett When I was a kid, Buffett would’ve been proud of me. If I didn’t want something, I said no — a very clear, loud, and unmistakable no. My mum once tried to make me wear ...
['Communication', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Self Improvement']
I remember the first time I traveled internationally by myself for work. I was in my mid 20s, still paying off my school loans, and working for a small product design studio in San Francisco. The trip was off to a rocky start from the get-go. I started the journey by missing my flight entirely; misreading my flight tim...
['Logo Design', 'Brand', 'Surveymonkey', 'Design', 'Curiosity']
Is Hustle Culture a Cop-out? How the trope ignores privilege, and the rest of our lives. Photo by Milo Bauman on Unsplash If the goal of hustle culture is to exploit every hour of one’s day to be economically viable, where is the space for health, rest, and pleasure? Hustle culture strives to be the great equaliser...
['Work', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Hustle']
I Live With No Regrets—Here’s How It’s very simple. Photo by Caju Gomes on Unsplash Regret used to be my biggest fear. When I become a senior citizen, I do not want to think about what-ifs. Instead, I want to think about how I lived a life worth living. Therefore, I created a system to mentally process and document...
['Philosophy', 'Lifestyle', 'Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement']
3. Set up Django REST Framework Okay, time to start thinking about our heroes API. We need to serialize the data from our database via endpoints. To do that, we’ll need Django REST Framework, so let’s get that installed. $ pip install djangorestframework Now, tell Django that we installed the REST Framework in mysi...
['Python', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Django']
First lets define some terms for clarity The sample space Ω The sample space is the set of all possible outcomes of the experiment, usually denoted by Ω. For example, two successive coin tosses have a sample space of {hh, tt, ht, th}, where “h” denotes “heads” and “t” denotes “tails”. The event space A The event...
['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Probability', 'Python3', 'Data Science']
“They [lichen] simply exist… testifying to the moving fact that life even at its simplest level occurs, apparently, just for its own sake.” — David Attenborough As humans, we’re inclined to believe that we have some sort of all-encompassing purpose. That life, itself, must have some sort of point. We’re innately desig...
['Philosophy', 'Life', 'Science', 'Nature', 'Life Lessons']
Have A Consistent Learning Routine Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come — Dwayne Johnson One of the main lessons I learned in 2020 is that nothing beats consistency, not talent and not even luck. Writing over 150+ Medium articles in ...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Careers', 'Artificial Intelligence']
Overview of feature selection methods Common strategies for choosing the most relevant features in your data set The importance of feature selection Selecting the right set of features to be used for data modelling has been shown to improve the performance of supervised and unsupervised learning, to reduce computati...
['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Feature Selection']
Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19 (Ep. 90 — BONUS) Tyler and Russ Roberts joined forces for a special livestreamed conversation on COVID-19, including how both are adjusting to social isolation, private versus public responses to the pandemic, the challenge of reforming scrambled organization capital, the implication...
['Podcast', 'Coronavirus', 'Stock Market', 'Economics', 'Covid 19']
Inevitably when your application configuration is written directly into the code, every time you need to apply a change, the application must be recompiled or/and redeployed, for the client’s well-being or even for the folk that does that work, avoid it. Most engineers separate the configuration information from the or...
['Code', 'Spring Boot', 'Programming', 'Java', 'Spring']
Introduction The K-Means algorithm needs no introduction. It is simple and perhaps the most commonly used algorithm for clustering. The basic idea behind k-means consists of defining k clusters such that total within-cluster variation (or error) is minimum. I encourage you to check out the below articles for an in-d...
['Data Science', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Clustering', 'Analytics Vidhya']
How many times have you heard about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage problems in the last week? How many times have you seen the same headline over and over and over? With a body of text that just looks like it was copy and pasted widely? Writing about current events is an art. It’s something you have to do j...
['Current', 'Writing', 'Pop Culture', 'Education', 'News']
3 PRINCIPLES FOR CONTENT MARKETING SUCCESS Educate These are the principles I follow when creating a content marketing strategy for our clients. These principles are back by scientific research on human behavior. I learned about this when reading a book called “Why Things Catch On” by Jonah Berger. He provided resear...
['Content Marketing', 'Startup', 'Content', 'Content Strategy', 'Social Media Marketing']
How to Use Google Cloud and GPU Build Simple Deep Learning Environment Create a Deep learning VM instance in Google Cloud Platform, install and set up Jupyter Notebook, and the Nvidia CUDA toolkit. Photo by Infralist.com on Unsplash Google Cloud Platform provides us with a wealth of resources to support data science...
['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming']
Humans are prolific procrastinators. People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. It’s easy to make plans and throw dates on your calendar, and yet it’s practically inevitable that you’ll let some deadlines fly whilst you still have some tasks unfinished. Every one strives to do ...
['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Mindfulness', 'Life']
Interior to let industry kill baby owls, as long as it’s “accidental” The energy industry gets the ultimate “Get Out of Jail Free” card for killing millions of birds each year (photo by: Kat Lovasi; license: CC BY 2.0) Imagine you’re a wildlife ranger who’s uncovered a cold-blooded case of avian murder. The perp ha...
['Environment', 'Oil And Gas Industry', 'Owls', 'Birds', 'Interior Department']
How Lina Bo Bardi Shaped Brazilian Modernism gestalten Follow Dec 4 · 6 min read The story of an Italian rationalist that broke gender traditions and helped design a new Latin American style Legendary Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi rose to prominence in São Paulo, a place that she later called home and spent ma...
['Modernism', 'Design', 'Brazil', 'Lina Bo Bardi', 'Architecture']
I’m slightly obsessed with gaps. I always want to know exactly where I am so that I can judge where it is I want to be — and the distance between the two. I need two fixed points. So, I’m constantly evaluating myself. Or my life. Different aspects of my life. What’s my money situation right now? How’s my business? My...
['Self', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Goals', 'Life']
“Stay inside, please, Arthéme!” “But why, Maman? The battle is a long way away. Listen!” And there was no doubt about it. The sounds of battle were loud enough, but they were a distant loud. A thunderstorm on the horizon. The roar of waves crashing on a beach over the hill. “Yes, listen! You hear that?” Something l...
['D Day', 'War', 'Fiction', 'Normandy', 'Writing']
Practice establishing visual hierarchy by creating many variations of a design using different component styles, and use the black-and-white technique when you feel stuck. A few tips on components: Fonts — Larger and bolder fonts capture attention and should be used sparingly for headers. Larger and bolder fonts capt...
['UI', 'User Experience', 'Typography', 'Design', 'UX']
Feminist to a Fault How I used my feminism as an excuse to avoid personal change Image of me, Summer 2020 As a social worker, my feminism has helped me help people. But I have also let my feminism get in the way of helping myself. In feminism, the story we have about individual suffering is that it often relates to...
['Empowerment', 'Social Change', 'Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Self Improvement']
Two Nighttime Activities to 10X Your Productivity Tomorrow How a night routine can set you up for a better day Photo by Tamar Waskey on Unsplash I never thought that doing something at night could improve my tomorrow. I always thrived on a morning routine that got me out the door on time and still left some room for...
['Routine', 'Habits', 'Productivity', 'Lifestyle', 'Self Improvement']
Newsbreak: Transparent Feedback After 10 Days I’m losing faith in humanity, but my wallet is fine. Photo by Jonathan Francisca on Unsplash I’ve been experimenting on Newsbreak for exactly 10 days. It’s not much to give feedback, but some things deserve to be said. Everything seems to go at the speed of light on this...
['Work', 'Writing', 'Money', 'Writer', 'Newsbreak']
What would you do with a humanoid robot? Get it to go to work for you? Create the next trillion-dollar company? Or take over the world? (Un)Fortunately, our technology isn’t advanced enough to create those robots. But we can definitely make progress toward it! One start is the physical appearance of the robot — and wi...
['Artificial Intelligence', 'Gans', 'Programming', 'Neural Networks']
Pearl inside of an oyster shell In the movie “Juno” there is this great moment when the titular character’s stepmother, after finding out about her stepdaughter’s pregnancy, asks “is that the kind of girl you are?”. In response to that question, the usually (at least on the outside) cocksure Juno quietly and softly an...
['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Growth', 'Self Love', 'Self Improvement']
Call this a one-year performance review, if you like. I’m guessing it’s cool to put their logo here, given, you know, it’s also at the top of the page and all I never expected to make a dime on Medium, and I’m thankful for any dimes I can scrape together from it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be featured once, and I ...
['Guns', 'Random', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing', '“Top Writers in Politics” list']
What Happened When Versa Gave Employees Every Wednesday Off Profits doubled, revenue grew by 46%, and staff retention went from 77% to 88% Photo by Ethan Brooke from Pexels Since 2018, digital marketing agency Versa has locked its doors every Wednesday. The initiative was the idea of Versa’s chief executive and fou...
['Work', 'Remote Working', 'Workplace', 'Work Life Balance', 'Productivity']
Two of the four principles by which I best work, having come up as a designer and leading as a design director — one of two articles When I first started writing this article, I thought I would start with the idea that we all have a reptilian brain and get into how we make bad choices because we’re unduly motivated by...
['Principles', 'UI', 'Design', 'Product Design', 'Careers']
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['Español', 'Tecnología', 'Medios', 'Redes Sociales', 'Big Data']
A quick guide on presenting the outcome of a 1000 simulations A while ago, I was running some Monte Carlo simulations on portfolio allocations and trying to figure out how to make the graphs look better. Now, I’m not some graph expert of visualization master but I did figure out ways to make it look better and this wi...
['Matplotlib', 'Portfolio Management', 'Monte Carlo Simulation', 'Data Visualization', 'Graph']
In my childhood, one of the funniest interactions with a computer was to make it read a fairy tale. You could copy a text into a window and soon listen to a colorless metallic voice stumble through commas and stops weaving a weirdly accented story. At those times it was a miracle. Nowadays the goal of TTS — the Text-t...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Speech']
4 Reasons Why Now Is the Best Time to Start With Quantum Computing A field that’s very welcoming for newcomers Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash. Today's major companies (IBM, Google, Microsoft) are racing towards building a fully functioning quantum computer. Quantum technology has gained so much attention in ...
['Quantum Computers', 'Technology', 'Science', 'Computer Science', 'Programming']
by Jen Doll Six-time novelist Kate Christensen has written another beautiful book, and this one’s a memoir, out now from Random House. It’s called Blue Plate Special, after the home-cooked, simple but sustaining meals her mother used to make. As I read Kate’s “autobiography of appetites” — some food-based but others n...
['Books', 'Another Fucking Food Book', 'Autobiography']
Connectivity Email Refrigerator :: 16 Hi Friend! Yeesh. What is there to write about and talk about other than what’s going on in the world right now? How are you doing? (I actually want to know.) Coronavirus has spread so quickly because we are in constant contact with others. So we are all practicing some level...
['Humanity', 'Connection', 'Togetherness', 'Coronavirus', 'Connectivity']
Holding Beautiful Things Together — At GROUT, we assemble resources to develop action plans for social impact that might otherwise be rejected as impossible. Follow
['Science Fiction', 'Podcast', 'Sustainability', 'Cooperatives', 'Bitcoin']
I was at it again this morning — running — well trying too anyway. It’s only five kilometers I tell myself. By the time I finish, I’m a big sweaty mess. As I perspire, it runs into my eyes, blurring the door before me. With the key in hand, I try desperately to stop shaking, the deep rapid breaths making it mission f...
['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Meditation', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement']
Yazar: Adrian Holovaty Çeviren: Sadettin Demirel Asıl yazı: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/fundamental-change/ *Bu çeviri için yazının sahibi Adrian Holovaty’den izin alınmıştır Yazıyı referanslayan kaynaklar: Bounegru, L. (2012) ‘Data Journalism in Perspective’, in Gray, J., Bounegru, L., and Chambers, L. (eds) ...
['Veri Gazeteciliği', 'Journalism', 'Data Journalism', 'Gazetecilik', 'Haber']
Every six months at Bluecore, we host a hackathon so that Research & Development (R&D), Product, and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) can come together to work on creative ideas. This is an opportunity where our engineers can collaborate with colleagues outside of their respective teams and experiment with new technic...
['Bluecore', 'Hackathons', 'Software Development', 'WFH', 'Engineering']
About two weeks ago, I registered for my first Kaggle competition, the Mercedes-Benz Greener Manufacturing contest. My code can be found here, and a log of what I attempted can be found here. Here’s my first impression of Kaggle: The Learning Curve Entering the contest, my only knowledge in machine learning came from...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Kaggle']
1. Concept of RoR (Residual Networks of Residual Networks) Original ResNet (Left), RoR (Right) Original ResNet is shown at the left above, numerous Residual Blocks are cascaded together and form a very deep network. Within a Residual Block, there are two paths: Convolution path which perform convolution to extract ...
['Machine Learning', 'Image Classification', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning']
In particular, clients who are working with a creative agency should have open lines of communication with as much of their vendor’s team as possible. A kickoff meeting places the full team executing on the client’s creative project all in the same room (real or virtual) with the client to ideate, learn, and reach a sh...
['Design', 'Content Marketing', 'Project Management', 'Visual Communication', 'Agency']
Model 1 — Basic Model Result: ~74% Accuracy This is exactly similar to our previous classification model. There are some changes based on the nature of the problem though. Lets briefly discuss the same. Data Preprocessing You have images, but models work on matrices! Right! So, this a step that will be needed in al...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning']
I was digging through my library and found four issues of Baseline. I’d forgotten how good it was! The issues are from 1999, 2004 and 2 from 2005 (# 27, 44, 46, 48) and all have ‘poster’ cover wraps which make them feel oh-so-special. Looking back on them there’s so much to love (which I think I missed back then). The...
['Typography', 'Design', 'Paperposts']
Why I Write I write to know I’m alive Photo by Dustan Woodhouse on Unsplash I write to know I live. To affix certainty to that concept, by way of color, light, or detail. When I write, I’m forced to visit the blood and guts of a situation. The core, the meat. The uncomfortable bits. The annoying bits. The pain. Th...
['Publishous', 'Writing']
Photo by Pisit Heng on Unsplash A python dictionary is an unordered set of key:value pairs, in which the elements (values) are indexed by the keys — that have to be unique within a given dictionary. Accessing values of a Python dictionary when knowing the name of the matching keys is quite straightforward (example bel...
['Python', 'Technology', 'Optimization', 'Data Science', 'Programming']
2. Make your own grass greener Perhaps you’ve heard the saying that ‘the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.’ It basically means that you always think others have it better. Well, forget this saying; get it out of your head! It’s time to make things better for yourself. The new saying is: Make the...
['Social Media', 'Digital Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Content Marketing']
The day America murdered my faith in humanity. I was on a two-week high going into that Christmas. A few months prior I was laid off after six years. Early that December I got a new job. I was to start in the new year. I was hopeful and looking forward to the new beginning, the security, and to the challenge the work ...
['Christmas', 'Credit Score', 'Science', 'This Happened To Me', 'Covid 19']
To the little girl who ruined my ‘me time’ walk Social isolation is helping kids pick out the cool adults Photo credit: Create Her Stock I strutted down the street, mouthing the lyrics to the best I-understand-women-completely rap song that wasn’t created by Drake. (It’s “Foldin’ Clothes” by J. Cole, and he deserves...
['Extrovert', 'Storytelling', 'Funny Story', 'Antisocial', 'Children']
Written by Filipa Pajević and Dragana Panić Photo credit: iStock/Getty Images The benefits of coworking as a style of work are the subject of ongoing inquiry and debate. These benefits arguably include (and are not limited to) all the usual suspects: productivity, creativity, and innovation. Digital and digitally med...
['Coworking', 'Work', 'Workplace', 'Design', 'Culture']
Handwrite your notes So, there has been this long-lasting debate about what medium fosters effective note-taking. Should you go techy style or remain old fashioned pen and paper? Scientists, entrepreneurs, and professors have been evaluating various methods of note-taking. Therefore, the straight answer is old school...
['Education', 'Books', 'Learning', 'Reading', 'Personal Development']
In the diagram above, we can see that ‘yearly.sev1.incidents’ is only calculated from one parent, ‘monthly.sev1.incidents’. However, it is common for a node to influence many others in our DAG. A child node can act as a parent node as the number of levels grow: A small portion of the DAG from one of our applications ...
['React Redux', 'React', 'Graph Theory', 'Redux']
Config Eslint and Prettier in Visual Studio Code for React js development Manish Mandal Follow Nov 9 · 4 min read I have come with a tutorial that covers the configuration of Eslint and Prettier in visual studio code for React js development. Errors are a major problem in our usual react js development. This frustrate...
['Reactjs', 'Eslint', 'React', 'Prettier', 'Vscode']
The BitGreen community was created in 2017 with the intention of making good on the potential Blockchain has for global amelioration. With the launch of our V0.1 ecosystem, a closed beta for members of the community, we’re taking a proud step forward on this path of laying the foundations for BitGreen as a global impa...
['Social Good', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Sustainability', 'Impact']
I’ve been writing a lot of Facebook ads recently for my clients. And although I normally focus on email copy… it’s been really cool to be able to test out over 100 different ads with multiple clients who have each a five figure per day ad budget Anyway, one of the ads I wrote really hit a nerve in the marketplace. I...
['Marketing', 'Freelance', 'Facebook Ads', 'Copywriting', 'Advertising']
The 12 principles of animation In 1981 two Disney animators, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas proposed that all animation consists of twelve basic principles. These principles adhere to the laws of physics mentioned earlier and serve as guidelines to create realistic movement. These principles are not just applicable ...
['Animation', 'UX', 'Design']
So, What’s the Use Case? Ok, we have an idea about the module now but what about the use case? Where might you be able to use this and potentially avoid using a blob of code and instead use glob’s built-in functions to achieve the same task in possibly a single line of code? Let’s take a look. Use Case: Finding files...
['Python', 'Python3', 'DevOps', 'Data Science', 'Programming']
For anyone interested in understanding the attitudes and habits of news audiences, the annual Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University is a must-read. This year’s study, of course, plays out against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, a development that the re...
['Trends', 'Journalism', 'Digital News Report', 'Digital Transformation', 'Media Criticism']
Introduction A challenge for Hadoop deployments is to scale storage in sync with the compute requirements because the storage and compute are co-located on the same hardware nodes. A more flexible and cost-effective solution is to scale storage independently of the compute by separating the storage nodes from the comp...
['S3', 'Hdfs', 'Prestodb', 'Hadoop', 'Big Data']
Designers like to make beautiful things. Whether it’s posters, logos, websites, or apps, designers want to make things they’re proud of. Beautiful design lets a designer brag to their peers, “Hey! I did that!” Also, consumers like to buy pretty products, so it’s great when things are pretty. But is there a time in whic...
['Pretty Products', 'Pretty Design', 'Case Studies', 'Design', 'Ugly Design']
In the run up to Clearleft’s Leading Design conference in London this October, the team caught up with Facebook’s Russ Maschmeyer to discuss his background, experience and thoughts on the subject of Design Leadership. How did you make the jump into leadership? I wish I could say it involved pulling some kind of magic...
['Design Leadership', 'Leadership Development', 'Leadership', 'Design', 'Interview']
Creating the Canvas First, we need to import the ImageFont , ImageDraw , and Image modules from PIL: from PIL import ImageFont, ImageDraw, Image Now, we have to create a blank image object. For this, we first need to create a three-dimensional (for the three color channels) numpy zeros array: import numpy as np im...
['Code', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Security', 'Cybersecurity']
Take your pick: 822,000 times the Eiffel Tower, 25,000 the Empire State Building, or 80 million Blue Whales. These examples provide an idea of the total amount of small plastic fragments floating at the surface of the Ocean. Plastic pollution is pervasive in world oceans and has gained large attention from the media, t...
['Mediterranean Sea', 'Environment', 'Plastic Pollution', 'Ocean Conservation', 'Marine Litter']
SUPERJUMP You used Kickstarter to help fund the game, where you were very specific in saying that the game would get made no matter how much money was raised through that campaign. Was that your way of addressing the perception that a lot of projects on that platform don’t ever get made or don’t deliver on their promi...
['Gaming', 'Product Management', 'Interview', 'Startup', 'Videogames']
Actions & Reducers (Redux) As we saw at the folder level earlier, with Redux we split up our reducers into separate files, then combined them in an index.js file under /reducers , and exported the result to be used by our store. Let’s take a closer look at how our reducer for counting is setup in Redux: count.js (Re...
['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'React', 'Programming']
“It’s getting dark” — A Short Story They didn’t know if they would get out of there. Photo by Simon Wijers on Unsplash She was cautiously looking outside the window. Something wasn’t right. They had arrived at the vacation house two days ago for a quick weekend getaway. But something had happened. By the sound of it...
['Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Flash Fiction', 'Horror', 'Writing']
‘Transitioning’ Out of The American Dream Taking the leap of faith as a middle age, middle class parent to embrace a transgender identity and life journey Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash … I sat on the edge of our bed, shivering in fear of what I was about to do. With a few short words, I was going to destroy a dr...
['Self-awareness', 'LGBTQ', 'Short Story', 'Transgender', 'This Happened To Me']
The dApp Builder team in Korea has presented the Platform at its meetup in Seoul on May 17 The has spoken on a topic “dApp Builder: Blockchain App Store and Smart Contracts Marketplace” at the meetup. They also explored how dApp Builder plans to establish a community reviewed smart contract marketplace and make it in ...
['Development', 'Technology', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin']
Beautiful Soup is the best Library to scrap the data from a particular website or the Internet. And it is most comfortable to work on also. It parses and extracts structured data from HTML. Beautiful Soup automatically transforms incoming texts to Unicode and outgoing versions to UTF-8. You don’t have to remember about...
['Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Web Development', 'Data']
I know most would laugh scornfully at the thought of a house changing its structure or a dictionary as a devoted watchdog. But I’ve lived here for most of my life. This house and the objects within have strange and capricious natures. Bedrooms appear and disappear. Stairways go everywhere and nowhere. For the favored ...
['Poetry', 'Life', 'Fantasy', 'Childhood', 'Storytelling']
I outlined this post a few weeks ago but stopped without finishing it. My impostor syndrome crept in and reminded me of the superficiality of my views: what do I have to offer on this topic? But I do! I do! I do because I went from hardly reading any books other than school requirements to enjoying reading so much tha...
['Books', 'Habit Building', 'Reading']
Mathematics for Machine Learning An online book that provides foundational knowledge about the mathematics behind machine learning concepts. A new online resource appeared this week which gained much attention on Twitter. Just take a look at the engagement below: Not everyday a resource like this comes by, actually ...
['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning']
Welcome to Infosec Writeups. This publication has been created with the intention of being your go-to place to find a collection of awesome write-ups from best hackers in topics ranging from bug bounties and CTFs to vulnhub machines, hardware challenges and real life encounters which are published on Medium. It aims to...
['Guidelines', 'Information Security', 'Bug Bounty', 'Publication', 'Writing']
Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash If your enterprise has a virtual agent (chatbot) or is thinking about building one, you will want to understand how the solution can deliver business value. “Containment” is one of the top metrics a conversational solution will be measured against. This term refers to how often ...
['Virtual Assistant', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Editorials And Comments', 'Conversational UI', 'Natural Language Processi']
4 Simple Tips to Freelance Copywriting Success It doesn’t have to take years. Photo by Ashwin Vaswani on Unsplash Copywriting isn’t very glamorous, is it? Especially when you’re comparing it to fiction or poetry. I remember an aunt once asked me what I did for a living and I told her how I helped new businesses make...
['Copywriter', 'Tips', 'Advice', 'Copywriting', 'Writing']
They are popping up everywhere and in rich varieties: hot yoga, power yoga, hatha yoga, kundalini yoga, mindfulness. Practices from within the gut of the East are gaining the trust of Westerners who may be Christians, Pentecostals, skeptics, atheists, or hipsters. Just the other day, a particularly stressed friend told...
['Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Meditation', 'Spirituality', 'Yoga']
The picture is provided by Unsplash Recently, a growing interest to Machine Learning forced the companies to focus and invest on it. Machine Learning (ML) is the field of computational science, which focuses on analyzing and interpreting patterns and structures in data to enable learning, reasoning, and decision makin...
['Machine Learning', 'Android', 'Mobile App Development', 'Ml Kit', 'iOS']
Digital Marketing Career Opportunities Top career opportunities for a digital marketer Until the last decade, digital marketing was something that was almost unheard of. Almost all companies were satisfied with traditional marketing channels and did not see the reason to change. A fresh college grad would have never...
['SEO', 'Digital Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Careers']
Photo by Carli Jeen on Unsplash Hello guys, if you love to write about Java and other related technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Algorithms, Data Structure, Design pattern and about your Interview experience, we would be happy to publish your article here. Just drop a note on savingfunda@gmail.com to get you starte...
['Publication', 'Javarevisited', 'Contribute', 'Java', 'Programming']
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Breaking down the various buzz words in the field Image by Getty Images Artificial Intelligence(AI) is changing our world today and has entered every domain from healthcare to engineering and telecommunications. It has completely changed the way we live. Before starting with A...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Computer Science', 'Programming']
Scroll through your Facebook feed on any given day, and you’ll probably see him or her: That person who’s got strong personal feelings on just about every topic — who’ll jump into any discussion like a referee, ready to declare who’s in the right, who’s doing wrong, and who’s too ignorant or oblivious to know the diffe...
['Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Relationships']