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Convolutional Neural Networks using Numpy
Part 1: Using a single layer convolutional filter and a single dense layer on a two class Fashion MNIST image classification task
Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash
There are many powerful tools like Keras and Tensorflow out there to make convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Ho... | ['Machine Learning', 'Image Recognition', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Numpy'] |
1944–45 Holland -Berlin
Photo of Martha: Associated News
Martha Gellhorn first saw Major General James Gavin, the Commanding Officer of the 82nd Airborne Division, in September 1944, during the Market Garden operation in Holland, just outside the small town of Nijmegen. She was travelling with the British XXX Corps w... | ['World War Two', 'Culture', 'Martha Gellhorn', 'History', 'Writing'] |
Step 3. Push the Node App to AWS ECR
Now it is time we pushed our container to a container registry service — in this case, we will use AWS ECR:
Instead of using the AWS UI, we will use terraform to create our repository. In your directory create a file called main.tf . Populate your file with the following commented... | ['Containers', 'AWS', 'Programming', 'Docker', 'JavaScript'] |
Dr. Guillotin— The Enlightened Executioner
Head chopping machine named after man who hated corporal punishment
It was 25th April, 1792. A spring day. A crowd had gathered to marvel at the new executioner’s toy. A sharp blade that would swiftly descend in one motion severing a head from its owner’s torso.
Nicolas-Jac... | ['France', 'Death', 'Salsa', 'History', 'Writing'] |
Park & Recommendations: Ms. Flanders, thank you for your time in answering my questions. I am an AP World History teacher in my day job, so your book grabbed my attention and I have very much enjoyed reading it.
This book is the epitome of a micro-history, a genre I always enjoy because of how specific and even quirky... | ['History Of Technology', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Interview', 'History'] |
User-centred thinking and design is understood in many different ways. To some, it simply means putting yourself in the user’s shoes to make decisions, although this often inevitably means projecting your own opinions onto the idea of a ‘user’ and often ignoring data or research. To others more familiar with the proces... | ['Storytelling', 'User Experience', 'UI', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
When talking about the detrimental impacts of climate change, we typically think of increased temperatures, lack of access to food and water, broad changes to the energy sector, and so on. We don’t think of how a rapidly changing environment impacts sports. But the costs to the industry from disruption are enormous, as... | ['Sports', 'Climate Action', 'Business', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
Follow
A one-line poem prompt
He left a trail of crumbs,
Knowing I’d follow
And despite the prison
I knew awaited
I still followed, addicted
Your Turn
Please share your own one-line poem on the word “Follow”. Either as a response to this post, or if you prefer to write it as a stand alone piece, just make sure ... | ['Chalkboard', 'Follow', 'One Line Poetry Prompt', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
2: The pitiless crowbar of events
How will we remember the coronavirus? While we are ‘flattening the curve’, how can we think about the curves beyond?
Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets
This essay is a bookmark, a note pencilled in a margin, a knot in a handkerchief. A small quiet place to... | ['Strategic Design', 'Politics', 'Policy', 'Covid-19', 'Coronavirus'] |
You can’t beat a good story about transformations, and whether it’s because of a magic lightning bolt, or moving to a new country, change is a powerful motivator in life.
I’m a long-time comic book fan. My dad started me down that path when he bought me issues of ‘Justice League of America’ and ‘Green Lantern’ in the ... | ['Shazam', 'Finland', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Comics'] |
All I want is peace. Peace in my mind. It seems that my heart is filled with breaking pieces. Falling down, falling in, falling out of place. I don’t know how to explain it.
My gut is also in turmoil. Is it from the stress that my insides are screwed and tightened till they want to pop? Or is it a real physical reacti... | ['Self', 'Peace', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Women'] |
Stories from .dsgnrs. team, The place where designers become top designers www.dsgnrs.io
Follow | ['Design', 'UX', 'Product Design', 'Portfolio', 'Web Design'] |
A Little Phil Spector Trivia
Watch out for the Hell’s Angels
Pixabay — Pexels
For almost anybody familiar with popular music, Phil Spector is an iconic figure worthy of admiration. And any backstory or gossip about Phil is of interest. Well, because I played behind a couple of acts he discovered and popularized — an... | ['Phil Spector', 'Music Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Culture'] |
New family on the block: a novel group of glycosidic enzymes
Scientists discover a candidate for a potential new “family” of enzymes that break down carbohydrates
A group of researchers from Japan has recently discovered a novel enzyme from a soil fungus. In their study, they speculate that this enzyme plays importan... | ['Eukaryotic Dna', 'Carbohydrates', 'Science', 'Enzyme'] |
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) where computers independently learn to do something they were not programmed to do. They do this by learning from experience — leveraging algorithms and discovering patterns and insights from data. This means machines don’t need to be programmed to perform ta... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Rampco', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Industry'] |
As we all know, tastes differ and change over time. However, each epoch tried to define its own criteria for beauty and aesthetics. As science was developing, so was the urge to measure beauty quantitatively. Not surprisingly, the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence pushed forward the question of whether int... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Aesthetics', 'Data Science'] |
“The trouble with most of us, said Norman Vincent Peale, “is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” Yet while a certain percentage of the population is happy to reinforce the walls of their own echo chambers, Peale’s statement is a discredit to the vast majority of people.
While our initial... | ['Management', 'Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Work'] |
Who doesn’t want more visitors on their website? You have a number of options to get people there. One of them is Search engine optimization — SEO. Web design and SEO go hand by hand in today’s world. Google develops their SEO to preference, good design, and frequent updates. You will not get away with only keywords an... | ['SEO', 'Marketing', 'Web Development', 'Analytics'] |
When I made this, it was meant to be about ideal bodies. Now that I look at it, it’s about characters and how they should be. Bit and pieces of a whole lot of different people.
I swear to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth.
You might have noticed I left out the Whole Truth.
The whole truth is near impossible ... | ['Self Image', 'Character', 'Reflections', 'Blog', 'Writing'] |
I Love Silence
Enjoy your reading, and we’ll see you next Sunday for the October recap.
Photo by Bruno Martins on Unsplash
Dear reader,
I hope you are well and in good health. I am writing to you, listening to the rain, and I am surprised by the silence outside. Not a car, not a voice, only the silent night and the... | ['Scribe', 'The Story Box', 'Reading', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
Solutions
Adidas
Option #1 — Transition So Users Know they Can Pick a Size
I think that an excellent way to remedy the transition from queue to size selection would be a transition — a fade in, a fade out, anything to make it more apparent that you are transitioning from queue to size selection.
Option #2 — Break U... | ['Fashion', 'Sneakers', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'UX'] |
My Journey to Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster Status: A Look Into Feature Engineering (Titanic Dataset) Daniel Benson Follow Sep 30 · 5 min read
We are back at it again, this time seeing if we can get a closer look at some of the data and possibly engineer some features that will increase our accuracy score. For this ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'My Journey', 'Awesomeness', 'Kaggle'] |
Build a ML Web App for Stock Market Prediction From Daily News With Streamlit and Python Gakki Cheng Follow Dec 25 · 7 min read
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash
This project is originally for my Udacity Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree capstone project.
I found the dataset on Kaggle linked as:
Project Overvi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Finance', 'NLP', 'Towards Data Science', 'Startup'] |
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Jakarta Research is a research community based in Jakarta that focuses on Artificial Intelligence. Our aim is to improve people’s life through artificial intelligence. We see a lot of AI applications that solved real-world problem, and we want to be a part of it. We started with natural... | ['Data Science', 'Research', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Jakarta Research', 'Data Folks Indonesia'] |
2. Submissions Guidelines
The Apeiron Blog began because we recognized the value that Philosophy carries, but noticed most academic Philosophy is inaccessible to the everyday reader.
Because of that, all the articles we publish should have one main focus — to teach the value of Philosophy in a way the general public ... | ['Blog', 'Philosophy', 'Education', 'Psychology', 'Work'] |
How can a junior designer with limited work experience have the UX internship of their dreams? That was the biggest question on my mind before I started as a design intern at Workday. I figured out the answer over the course of the summer: Design your perfect UX internship using as many tools as you can put your hands ... | ['Ux Internship Advice', 'Design Internship', 'Ux Intern', 'Design', 'Career Advice'] |
1. Read what you enjoy, not what you think you should be reading.
Read anything that interests you.
Fiction, crime, young adult, comics, Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey.
I don’t care.
Read whatever captures your attention and curiosity.
Through social pressure, many people feel they need to read books on the top 10... | ['Self Development', 'Books', 'Habits', 'Reading', 'Self Improvement'] |
Cliffs Notes are the yellow and black study guide that helped us understand wondrous and complicated pieces of world literature. Want to know what the heck Shakespeare was talking about in Othello? Then Cliffs Notes was the thing you turned to if you wanted a chance at passing that test. But who or what is the “Cliff” ... | ['Classics', 'History', 'Education', 'Books', 'Literature'] |
Though I’ve always written, in one form another from the time I was twelve or so — I never had any plans on applying to write for a major publication.
It just wasn’t who I saw myself as, maybe I didn’t take myself seriously enough and for good reason probably. Sure I could write an essay deserving of an A but I prefer... | ['Writing', 'Creative Writing', 'Publishing', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
How to generate lat and long coordinates of city without using APIS in Python. Prabhat Pathak Follow May 17 · 3 min read
Easy codes to understand
Photo by João Silas on Unsplash
if anyone would like to plot map graphs using geographical coordinates (The latitude and longitude which define the position of a point on ... | ['Maps', 'Pandas', 'Google', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Have A Conversation
Machine Learning topics are highly technical and straight forward when discussed. What I mean is that when questions are asked, there tends to be little to no ambiguity to answers that could be given.
You either know what you are talking about or you don’t.
In some interview scenarios, there’s li... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Office Hours', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Advice'] |
Five Days Among Death And Misery
I know natural disasters leave marks but I did not know those marks will be so deep
Image by Dawn
If you were old enough in 2005 then you might remember that there was a horrible earthquake in Pakistan on 8th October 2005, that killed thousands of people.
The Pakistani government’s ... | ['Earthquake', 'Pakistan', 'Kashmir', 'Life', 'Death'] |
AirPods Are Apple’s Next Big Brand
The new AirPods Max are more than new headphones—they’re a coronation of a core brand
Apple’s AirPods Max. Photo: Apple
Never underestimate the value of a good brand. With the all-new AirPods Max, Apple has christened AirPods as a core brand on almost equal footing with its iconic ... | ['Branding', 'Gadgets', 'Technology', 'Airpods', 'Apple'] |
Round 1: Pulumi (https://www.pulumi.com/)
When we heard about it for the first time, we were very excited — in the end, it worked just like Terraform. We wanted to test it immediately. An undoubted advantage was the ability to use programming languages as we wanted. We could choose TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go... | ['DevOps', 'Helm', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes', 'Continous Deployment'] |
Over the past 6 years, I’ve done Data Science and Analytics projects at companies like Adobe, USAA Bank, Nu Skin, Purple Mattress, Franklin Sports, and others. I’ve also held 4 different jobs in analytics, one with a mid-size IT consulting firm, one with a major corporation, one with a startup, and one with an e-commer... | ['Data Science', 'Data Engineering', 'Business', 'Management'] |
When it comes to Football in Iran, two clubs have more fans than any other. The blues of Esteghlal — formerly named Taj — are one of them (Persepolis, covered in this series earlier, are the other). In addition to two Asian club championship trophies, Esteghlal have eight Iranian league championships and six cup wins t... | ['Iran', 'Design', 'Graphic Design', 'Esteghlal', 'Soccer'] |
I’m Starting A Writing Retreat for Worn-Out Women, The Likes of Which You’ve Never Seen Jennifer Barnett Follow Nov 18 · 3 min read
You are all invited.
Do you prefer turrets or gables?
I’m starting a writing retreat for worn-out women. There is no application process, and everyone is welcome. It will be modeled aft... | ['Witchcraft', 'Feminism', 'Fantasy', 'Essay', 'Writing'] |
Some Thought On Agile, Scrum, And Design
Saying Agile doesn’t work is like saying a pencil doesn’t work. Agile is a tool. And the goal of any tool is to enhance human capabilities. I have seen Agile fail. Failing to deliver. Failing to deliver quality. If the goal is to deliver the best possible product within the bes... | ['Design Leadership', 'Scrum', 'Agile Methodology', 'Design', 'Agile'] |
And like the forest
I see myself lined up
and waiting for nobody.
My breath stops short in the air
Drop of light at the edge of the knife
It goes nowhere.
The void has settled over
the impaled trees
Guides of the dead.
They speak through me
with one another.
I am at loss
But I’m reassured
In the end,
wild... | ['Forest', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Scuzzbucket', 'Writing'] |
As many data enthousiasts, I use Power BI on a daily basis to build dashboards and visualize my data. However, while building and improving a complex dashboard, I constantly add and delete widgets using different fields and corresponding tables. After numerous iterations the data structure starts to look like a real me... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Power Bi', 'Flask Framework', 'Data Analytics'] |
Getting Started
As you can understand from the title, we will need a video recording for this project. It can even be a recording of yourself speaking to the camera. Using a library called MoviePy, we will extract the audio from the video recording. And in the next step, we will convert that audio file into text using... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Speech Recognition', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
Beating to the rhythm of gamma-ray beats
Bound to a black hole 15,000 light years away,
Mass’ violence — its unfathomable yen —
Saps stars…we grasp gamma music.
Beating stars take lifetimes to die;
Their swan songs are vast funeral pyres.
Their verb reverberates violently,
Sometimes hunted by singularities.
Gas... | ['Astronomy', 'Black Holes', 'Science', 'Poetry', 'Stars'] |
What Constitutes a Perfect Data Team?
A guide to comprehend who are the members of a Data Team and what are the key roles for each of them!
Data science is the most promising field in near future, with the advancement of technology and statistical models in recent times, a new data wave is knocking at our doors for a... | ['Team Building', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
What can be good about a data-driven model?
A data-driven model like the one described can be useful when there is a lot of uncertainty about how the virus spreads. And with a new virus like COVID-19, there is definitely a lot of uncertainty in the air, especially early on.
Our simple data-driven model doesn’t have t... | ['Data Science', 'Modelling And Simulation', 'Virginia', 'Coronavirus', 'Data Driven Decisions'] |
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Gretta van Riel
15 Million+ Followers on Instagram & Counting, at the tender age of 25, she skyrocketted from zero dollars in revenue to $600,000 in under six months.
Gretta breaks down the different strategies to uncover your ecommerce brand — whether you choose to work with an ag... | ['Grettavanriel', 'Marketing', 'Busineß', 'Ecommerce', 'Instagram'] |
What makes life feel complicated right now?
My schedule is out of whack. I’ve been up when I normally sleep and sleeping when I am normally awake. Part of this is because of the depression, but another factor is that my spouse changed work schedules. He was on an 11–7 shift and now he is on a 3–11 shift. Nighttime has... | ['Mental Health', 'Essay', 'Spirituality', 'Prompt', 'Self Reflection'] |
When generating fixtures on an open source project (Community Event Manager), I encountered an error while generating random images with Faker.
Turns out, Faker uses Lorempixel as a backend to generate image, probably to be able to fetch nice images and avoid having GD or similar extensions to generate an image. In my... | ['Software Engineering', 'PHP', 'Faker', 'Symfony', 'Laravel'] |
My Recommendations to Learn Machine Learning in Production
Here is a compilation of books, courses, and repositories to get you started.
For the last couple of months, I have been doing some research on the topic of machine learning (ML) in production. I have shared a few resources about the topic on Twitter, ranging... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
Once I discovered my purpose, my life took off. However, finding my purpose took decades. But when I stepped on the path, I hit the ground running, not with my feet but with my fingers.
I haven’t looked back!
My purpose manifested in three ways: I became a Ninja Writer, creator and editor of Middle-Pause publication,... | ['Middle Pause', 'Careers', 'Podcast', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
I plucked my soul out of its secret place,
And held it to the mirror of my eye,
To see it like a star against the sky,
A twitching body quivering in space,
A spark of passion shining on my face.
And I explored it to determine why
This awful key to my infinity
Conspires to rob me of sweet joy and grace.
And if t... | ['Soul Searching', 'Soul', 'Sufism', 'Articles', 'Writing'] |
Binary Numbers and Use in Computers + How to make a base conversion program in python Arvin Seifipour Follow May 18 · 3 min read
Before the rise of microprocessors in the 1970’s, analog circuits were used to do complex computations. Analog signals have a continuously variable flow that makes their transmission accurat... | ['Python', 'Python Programming', 'Digital', 'Binary', 'Encoding'] |
Image Classification using Fastai v2 on Colab
Step by step guide to train and classify images in just a few lines of code
Photo by Ryan Carpenter on Unsplash
Introduction
Fastai is a library built on top of PyTorch for deep learning applications. Their mission is to make deep learning easier to use and getting more... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Sports', 'Data Science'] |
Having a majority of friends who are white, there’s always been someone I’ve known who’s raved about their vacations going to one of the Southern States, such as South Carolina or Georgia or West Virginia.
They’ve either taken a family trip or went to a bachelorette party or just took a long weekend there. And I’ve he... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Diversity', 'Culture', 'America'] |
Fig. A sample binary tree.
Trees are data structure which are of hierarchical order and every node, called a parent node, can have zero to many child node. A binary tree is a type of tree in which every parent node has at most two children.
Traversal of Binary Trees:
There are three ways to traverse a binary tree. W... | ['Python', 'Binary Tree Traversal', 'Python3', 'Binary Tree', 'Programming'] |
Why do I even need a site for my projects?
You don’t really need a personal site for your projects. You also don’t really need to make your resume look nice, or fill out your LinkedIn profile, but you do those things don’t you?
It’s common for employers to barely glance at a resume, and no way are they going to downl... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Tech', 'Web Development', 'Web Design'] |
Every profession experiences waves of evolution. Moments in time where processes emerge from changing socio-economic, technological, or environmental contexts. Within Design, we’ve ebbed and flowed between waterfall, Agile, iterative, and inclusive design thinking, among others.
As the leader of the Ethics & Society o... | ['User Experience', 'Microsoft', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Sketch Tutorials
Elevation and Material symbols in Sketch
Setting up a multipurpose building block for UI kit components
Last week we added a small but exciting symbol to the component list we would like to share with you. Material — is a primary building block for design libraries in sketch app, that can store and ... | ['Design Systems', 'UI', 'Design', 'Sketch', 'UX'] |
How do you discuss self quarantine with a person sharing a tiny shanty with 10 people in a slum? How do you advise social distancing to a manual scavenger? How do you tell an Adivasi, who struggles for one meal a day, to prioritise hand sanitisers? How do you educate tuberculosis survivors about cough etiquette?
The e... | ['Global Health', 'India', 'Public Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
This is a quiz for you (with Answer beneath).
I have the following codes for my Swipe-to-Refresh. But there’s one problem. Whenever I perform a network call that invoke showRefreshProgressBar(), the swipe-to-refresh icon didn’t show. Normal user swipe-to-refresh works.
Can you find out why? (Stackoverflow doesn’t hav... | ['Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Android Development'] |
Talking about Big Data, we cannot fathom the amount of data that is amassed and put to use every minute of every day. Now considering this large volume of data, there are two major challenges that float around.
And, these are the two most primal challenges that anyone can face while working with Big Data. The first be... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Apache Kafka', 'Big Data'] |
1. Accept that you can’t control everything
Not being in control is a scary thing. We love planning ahead and avoid surprises whenever possible. Because of that, we often try to control everything. The problem is, we can’t.
We set expectations of what might happen, but when the outcome differs from our expectations, ... | ['Mindfulness', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons'] |
How One Book Changed My Life
And How It Can Change Yours
Photo by Joe Ciciarelli on Unsplash
As a youngster, I read comics— Archie, Veronica and Jughead. In my teenage years when hormones were raging, Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls titillated me with sordid details of a steamier side of life.
I deboned a whol... | ['Mindfulness', 'Inspiration', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Kids & Disappointment: Can Disappointment Help Them?
“They said ‘no,’ huh? It didn’t work out. So what’s next?” I was looking forward to hearing those words from my father; words that I’ve definitely heard many times before as a kid. This was his answer any time I didn’t get what I wanted from a situation. This last c... | ['Kids', 'Education', 'Parenting', 'Psychology', 'Teens'] |
An accidental purveyor of cut-price UX
You know it’s a good day when a casual trip to your local charity store delivers more user experience than you’d bargained for.
There’s nothing better than a second-hand store. Whenever one of these joints lures me in (which is often), there’s usually a nice little gem or two tu... | ['User Experience Design', 'User Experience', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Black Box (2020) • Amazon [Welcome to the Blumhouse]
After losing his wife and memory in a car accident, a father undergoes an agonising treatment that causes him to question his identity...
With so many great horror films out there we need a trustworthy curator, and our real-world Cryptkeeper today is Jason Blum, wh... | ['Review', 'Film', 'Movies', 'Amazon', 'Horror'] |
Today we will see a simple tutorial on how to use react-router Link with bootstrap. This is a simple tutorial but still, it’s useful because if we replace the Nav.Link tag or Navbar.Brand of react-bootstrap with Link tag of react-router it will remove the CSS associated with that Nav.Link . So let us see how to use tha... | ['React', 'Reactjs', 'Bootstrap'] |
Photo by SAMANTA SANTY
I wonder if I am getting too happy.
I wonder if I am eating too much or too little.
I wonder what it would be like to just let these wonderings be.
Because sometimes I am too happy
And sometimes I am too sad
And too fearful
And too angry
Sometimes I eat too much
Sometimes I eat too littl... | ['Inspiration', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Poetry', 'Blue Insights'] |
Let’s Get Started!
The first thing you need is an Excel file with a .csv extension. If you don’t have one ready, feel free to use the one that I prepared for this tutorial with 10,000 rows.
The second thing you need is the shell script or file with an .sh extension that contains the logic used to split the Excel shee... | ['Startup', 'Work', 'Data Science', 'Bash', 'Programming'] |
Prepare your list of 3
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
Solve challenge here: https://www.bookcademy.com/home/show_daily_challenges/prepare-your-list-of-3
Pre-plan the 3 most important things you want to learn from any given type of person (e.g. customers, investors, industry experts, key hires, etc). Update the list... | ['The Mom Test', 'Challenge Of The Day', 'Bookcademy', 'Challenge Of The Week', 'Startup'] |
The Pampered Prince/Princess
I used to befriend a rich kid in my high school who couldn’t understand how people live on a budget. I don’t come from a wealthy family, but I live frugally; aware that I was spending my parents’ hard-earned money.
Our group hung out a lot at the rich kid’s insistence, but she liked to di... | ['Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Personality Types', 'Life'] |
I was in the middle of my kickboxing class when it happened.
One moment I was perfectly fine, albeit tired, and the next I was drowning in misery so deep I could not breathe without feeling claustrophobic. I had to get out of there, at once.
Fortunately or unfortunately, when I asked my teacher if I could go and buy ... | ['Mental Health', 'Weekly Prompts', 'Well Being', 'Depression', 'Taboo'] |
The last two years of my life have been remarkable. I started as a UI UX designer and have been in love with design ever since.
I got introduced to the avenue of UI and UX a few years back and, I finally came to terms with myself, realizing that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Something about desig... | ['Careers', 'UI Design', 'Startup', 'Ui Ux', 'Life Lessons'] |
A meditation on the pleasures of a playful mind
One not concerned with the where and the when
But seduced by the how and the why
A cat and mouse curiosity
Where fact begets finding
Where the rules and the points don’t matter
Your move, my move, your guess, my guess
A random thought with nothing to prove
A willf... | ['Play', 'Poetry', 'Youth', 'Art', 'Creativity'] |
Python for Financial Analysis
Stocks Risks Analysis with Python
Understanding Stocks Volatilities
Image by Nicholas Capello available at Unsplash
Stock Market and Investments
There is one main fundamental principle to make a profit out of investments in the stock market: sell stocks at a higher price than what you... | ['Python', 'Finance', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Stock Market'] |
1990–1995 | Singapore | C.H.I.J. Punggol
That stands for “Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus” — yes this little one went to an all-girls Catholic Convent during her primary school days… complete with a nun for a principal, the blue pinafore uniform with white Bata/canvas shoes, and prayer mornings every Friday.
I’m pre... | ['About Me', 'Writing', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Life'] |
ENVIRONMENT
Centering the Earth
Something remarkable is happening in 2020
Something remarkable is happening in the US in 2020 in terms of public awareness of race.
The George Floyd uprising, two months in duration so far, has brought formerly fringe ideas into the mainstream, shifting the entire frame of discourse ... | ['Consciousness', 'Environment', 'BlackLivesMatter'] |
Why Facial Features Matter in Your Dating and Professional Life
Exploring the impact of featurism
Characteristics like your skin tone, hair texture, and facial features reflect unique qualities. Perhaps your wide nose looks like your fathers’, and your kinky, brown hair reminds family members of your mother. People i... | ['Equality', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Psychology', 'Race', 'Women'] |
Death Decisions: What’s the Responsible Thing to Do With Our Bodies?
With a growing population and limited space, it’s time to get serious about corpses.
I recently traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where as part of a guided walking tour of the city, I visited Recoleta Cemetery. Many of the country’s most notable ... | ['Environment', 'Death', 'Green Living', 'Climate Action', 'Funerals'] |
A day in my life: Erik Nugroho in WFP Indonesia
Another day, another rewarding call
By Erik Nugroho, Programme Associate, with Nadya S Pryana, Reports & Information Management Officer
Programme Associate Erik Nugroho at his desk in Jakarta. Photo: WFP/Yogasta Maharani
It’s the loveliest time of the week — Monday 8 ... | ['Disaster', 'Indonesia', 'Disaster Response', 'Training', 'Coronavirus'] |
I will start a simple python problem and will see how we can design it in Julia and Go. If you are a beginner programmer and Do not know Object Oriented Programming you might want to read about OOP in Python before you go further.
Let’s say we have a database of article where each row represent a article and it has fi... | ['Data Science', 'Julialang', 'Programming Languages', 'Golang', 'Data Engineering'] |
“Every decoding is another encoding” ~ David Lodge
As mentioned in the previous blog, the next few blogs will focus on feature engineering. A lot of work in a machine learning project comes down to it. Whether we like it or not we spend 95% of our time on generating that feature vector that will bring out the best in ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Pipeline', 'Spark', 'Big Data', 'Feature Engineering'] |
“I” am a hundred and fifty-odd pounds of warm brain, nerves and crimson blood and sensations running through every inch of me. I am a single pulsing system that is conscious of itself, and of the sunlight, and of the wind hushing and stirring my hair. My body has gut instincts; my emotions live in my lungs, my intestin... | ['Expression', 'Identity', 'Tattoo', 'Illustration', 'Writing'] |
Conducting the research
There are many ways to conduct quantitative research and qualitative research, it just depends on what the project is and what you need to find out. To understand how both methods complement each other and play important roles, take a look here.
One of the popular uses of quantitative research... | ['Design Process', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'UX Research'] |
The Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University recently announced that, after further review, they had rescinded a fellowship previously offered to Canadian psychologist and self-help author Jordan Peterson. Other faculty members expressed doubt that an official offer was ever made in the first place. “It’s not clear ... | ['History', 'Religion', 'Jordan Peterson', 'Psychology', 'Mythology'] |
This publication is small, but growing daily. I’m building a platform for writers and creators. I need your help (if you’re one of us).
If you’re a writer or creator and you’d like to help other writers or creators sell more stuff, write tighter, write faster, build a platform, grow a course, or share some inside info... | ['Writing'] |
Courthouse in Alexandria in the Eastern District Of Virginia, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged with violating the Espionage Act (Photo by Tim Evanson)
The superseding indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which included a staggering 17 charges of violating the Espionage Act, was met wi... | ['Press Freedom', 'Chelsea Manning', 'Journalism', 'Julian Assange', 'Politics'] |
In this blog post, I want to share my perspective on the UI/UX designing field. I feel there is a lack of awareness regarding the UI/UX field among normal people.
But change is coming, now I see a lot of Tech-Industries, colleges, Design Communities, are organizing design meetups, workshops, or say including design ta... | ['UI', 'Technology', 'Design', 'UX', 'Careers'] |
Photo by Tara Robinson on Unsplash
When I jog, I metabolize my grief. It comes out in staccato burps from my heavy chest. “It’s not comfortable, but you can do it.” That’s the eternal message from the cardio gods.
When I was a kid, I left my body during dance recitals and experienced my performance with the audience.... | ['PTSD', 'Mental Health', 'Nature', 'Poetry', 'Poem'] |
Hands
A short story
Photo by Matheus Viana from Pexels
1.
What struck her most about him were his hands. They were long and lanky, like his body. Even more remarkable than their shape was the way he used them. When they first met, he shook her hands boldly and directly, as if it were a perfectly normal thing to do ... | ['Relationships', 'Short Story', 'Love', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into the main focus of our interview, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory?
Thanks so much for having me. I had a happy childhood. I am very fortunate- not all do. My pare... | ['Wellness'] |
This means that user testing apps has become absolutely crucial for optimizing the UX and discoverability of digital products and services. Given the importance of mobile, you should include a mobile usability test in your research, which can provide you with invaluable data of how people actually use your app in the r... | ['Usability', 'User Testing', 'Mobile App Development', 'Design Best Practices', 'Usability Testing'] |
We spoke with Amanda Finnegan and Emilio Garcia-Ruiz from The Washington Post about By The Way, a new travel product the Post is launching on June 18. Finnegan is By The Way’s editor, and Garcia-Ruiz is the Post’s managing editor of digital.
Finnegan and Garcia-Ruiz told us how the Post developed By The Way with users... | ['Journalism', 'Washington Post', 'Travel', 'News', 'Media'] |
I decided to give Logitech Slim Folio a chance.
It was cheaper than the magic keyboard (about half the price) and it could fold the keyboard away when not in use. I did not take the trackpad version because the whole point of an iPad is the touch screen.
I wanted to love the slim folio but it was hard.
The issues wi... | ['Technology', 'Setup', 'iPad Pro', 'Apple', 'iPad'] |
Remote meetings have become an essential part of a workflow for many enterprises over the past decade. But for some large traditional ones, although they have started to support and leverage remote meetings, there is still a strong onsite contingent.
Over the next few weeks to months, we will all be thrust into remote... | ['Teamwork', 'Remote Working', 'Remote', 'New York', 'Team Collaboration'] |
F#*K Churn Models — get to the heart of why customers are leaving you Conor Curley Follow Sep 18 · 12 min read
Traditional churn analysis isn’t effective, data science teams need to embrace design thinking.
Customers are switching products and services faster than ever before. Why? Because they feel empowered to do s... | ['Data Science', 'Churn Rate', 'Marketing', 'Design Thinking', 'Customer Analytics'] |
You Need to Stop Making it Harder For People to Agree With You Sam Young Follow Dec 10 · 6 min read
Recently, I came across an article here on Medium talking about slang terms white people need to stop using. Normally, this sort of stuff wouldn’t bother me, but every time I look at my medium digest some article pops u... | ['Social Justice', 'Politics', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Racism', 'Writing'] |
Linear regression with TensorFlow
Using the Matrix Inverse Method
Linear regression may be one of the most important algorithms in statistics, machine learning, and science in general. It’s one of the most used algorithms and it is very important to understand how to implement it and its various flavours. One of the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Linear Regression'] |
Walking (foto: Anne Zorgdrager)
“Slowing down”; storytelling in set design for theatre — 5 questions for Theun Mosk
@Interactive Storytelling Meetup #7 –14 July 2016
Interview by Klasien van de Zandschulp
Presentation Theun Mosk at the Interactive Storytelling Meetup
Theun Mosk is an internationally acclaimed thea... | ['Storytelling', 'Theatre', 'Slowing Down', 'Storytelling Meetup'] |
How to Stay Motivated as a Developer
#1 Rule — Avoid burnout at all cost, it could mean chaos.
Photo by Anthony Da Cruz on Unsplash
“You’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day, relax, master the day, then keep doing it every day.”
I’m never gonna tired of saying this, programming is as hard as f***... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Work', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
Doomscrolling is not activism.
We seem to think that we need to voraciously consume bad news to be engaged. The opposite is true.
Some time in the early-1990s, I remember reading a bumper sticker out loud to my mother and asking her what it meant.
IF YOU’RE NOT MAD, YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION
The sticker was fairl... | ['Social Media', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement'] |
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