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Get daily and minute level historical stock data using Yahoo! Finance & Tiingo APIs, Pandas and plot them using Matplotlib
Stock market data APIs offer real-time or historical data on financial assets that are being traded on the stock exchanges. See The ultimate guide to (free) stock market APIs for 2020 for a list r... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Stock Market', 'API'] |
In the last week’s post I showed how over time genuine influencers can make a difference in creating a loyal set of audiences for any brand. However, there are always some brands that are after instantly becoming famous. What should such brands do?
Before we dive deeper into the question let’s understand that this sor... | ['Social Media', 'Social Media Campaign', 'Marketing', 'Viral Marketing'] |
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I gave my best words
and poems to the one who
came before. Sorry. | ['Poetry', 'Relationships', 'Haiku', 'Scrittura', 'Writing'] |
The birds were chirping, the sun was shining, and the breeze was blowing multi-colored dried leaves off the trees. Main Street was surprisingly filled with people. That was something that had become increasingly uncommon.
Linda and Johnny walked hand-in-hand down the sidewalk alternating their focus between the displa... | ['Humor', 'Innovation', 'Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Writing'] |
Kristin Chenoweth Ditches LGBTQ People
On Moral Complicity, Morality, and Evil
Tony and Emmy Award-winning Broadway star and self-described LGBTQ ally Kristin Chenoweth will perform in a paid engagement with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in December. She’s no LGBTQ ally.
I write frequently on the topic of moral compli... | ['Mormon', 'Suicide', 'Christmas', 'Youth', 'LGBTQ'] |
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Dear Poets
An open letter for the poets
Dear Poets,
I don’t judge you when I read your poems related to anxiety because it’s been a year since I have been doing the same. In your words I can see how you are coping with the sadness. In you art I can the colours which seep through t... | ['Open Letter', 'Pandemic', 'Poet', 'Blue Insights', 'Writing'] |
What you’ll (probably) see is that your guess on the left alternates from heads to tails often, with few streaks, but the result on the right has streaks. Your guess likely has close to 10 heads and 10 tails, but rarely does the actual result come up an even 10 and 10. These differences are attributable to our assumpti... | ['Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Design', 'Mockup', 'Data'] |
Elana Zeide, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska College of Law, on the benefits and risks of emerging technologies in public education.
Elana Zeide teaches and writes about the legal, privacy and ethical implications of emerging technologies as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska’s College of... | ['Technology', 'Internet', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Policy', 'Education'] |
They say that adulthood is an extension of our childhood experiences.
In this way, an early tragic episode can stay with us for years and continue to influence us much later in life.
Mine was the passing away of my mum when I was nine. And despite my denial over the years, I can see that I have only started making si... | ['Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
China Lander Reaches Moon, Will Return Samples This Month ExtremeTech Follow Dec 2 · 2 min read
by Ryan Whitwam
The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is still firing on all cylinders despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. China’s National Space Administration has announced the Chang’e-5 lander has successfully rea... | ['moon', 'Moon', 'Science', 'Space', 'China'] |
Whoa. There are a lot of metrics in paid platforms. And I mean A LOT. Impressions, clicks, reach, likes, views, conversions, impression share, ad rank, landing page views, quality score, etc. etc. etc. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and get lost in the never-ending sea of metrics when trying to evaluate and optimize you... | ['PPC', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'PPC Marketing', 'Digital Advertising'] |
Everybody uses integers, doubles, strings, and DateTimes. So, they’re a part of the dotnet framework. But every project has project-specific data-types too.
Imagine writing software for a powerplant. The calculations are in KwH, MWh, and GWh. And they are often represented as integers or doubles in the code. It would ... | ['Oop', 'Value Objects', 'Csharp'] |
Tweeting is Writing, Too
To use Twitter effectively, think more about your audience than yourself
This story is part of Forge’s How to Write Anything series, where we give you tips, tricks, and principles for writing all the things we write in our daily lives online, from tweets to articles to dating profiles.
Tweet... | ['Twitter', 'Social Media', 'Connect', 'Writing', 'How To Write Anything'] |
The truth is, in the United States and even globally, the majority of people who eat plant-based are nonwhite. But the white people have become gatekeepers of the vegan community, especially online with blogs and accounts run by white people dominating Google results and social media feeds.
In the weeks and months fol... | ['Recommended Reading', 'Race', 'Vegan', 'Equality', 'Link'] |
Let’s move with the scope of this article now.
1. Install Docker
Follow the instruction to install docker on your mac from this docker official link.
2. Install Virtual box
Before installing Kubernetes (Minikube), let’s install virtualBox first. Minikube by default uses hyperkit as the VM, which has some connectivi... | ['Containers', 'Spring Boot', 'Docker', 'Deployment', 'Kubernetes'] |
Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds is one of the best games released in the last year. It pairs peerless role-playing game design with audiovisual excellence. It draws on the studio’s experience as a legendary development team in the genre, and reinvents elements of classic games like Fallout, Mass Effect, and B... | ['Gaming', 'Game Design', 'Videogames', 'Audio', 'Music'] |
How To Store Your AWS Lambda Secrets
Do it right, so you don’t have to redo it when your application load increases
Don’t tell anyone your secrets. Do tell people how to store secrets. (Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash)
Most Lambda deployments use environment variables to pass configuration to the deployed functi... | ['Security', 'Lambda', 'Software Development', 'AWS', 'Scalability'] |
This Thanksgiving, We’re Eating A Pelican
The best alternative to turkey.
Photo by Wayne de Klerk
2020 has been one for the books, and I don’t mean the history books. I mean the recipe books. That’s right. Forget everything else, because this Thanksgiving, we’re not eating turkey. This Thanksgiving, we’re eating glo... | ['Humor', 'Satire', 'Lifestyle', 'Food', 'Writing'] |
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
You are not crazy, my friends.
Los Angeles, pollution-free. Photo: Gabriel Duarte
This is the first part of a series of essays. Read Part II here.
*Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as manipulation into doubting your own sanity; as in, Carl made Mary think she... | ['Crisis', 'Coronavirus', 'Economy', 'Economics', 'Politics'] |
I didn’t know that there was a psychological term for those experiences then. But I will always treasure and tap into the power of doing something “alone together.” We often do it in my family. My husband and children sit at our kitchen counter, each with a computer or a laptop, and play their games. Sometimes together... | ['Gaming', 'Community', 'Writing Life', 'Psychology', 'Ideas'] |
Over the last ten years, I developed a process that can turn a not-very-clear idea into a very clear idea in about two hours. I’ve used it more times than I can count, helping hundreds of entrepreneurs and artists and whoever get clear on what they’re doing. It’s different every time, but this is roughly how it goes.
... | ['Work', 'Very Clear Ideas', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Ideas'] |
In Today’s World — What Really Is a Brand?
Let’s start with “we’ve made a mess of brands.”
In the 1950’s, the discipline of brand management was created by CPG companies such as P&G, Unilever and Kraft. That discipline was based on the need to distinguish a product or service from others by creating an identity. Iden... | ['Branding', 'Branding Strategy', 'Marketing', 'Brand Strategy', 'Customer Experience'] |
For a film director, an audience is a group of people who go to the cinema or log into the internet to gain an experience.
Will the experience be good or bad, depends upon the storytelling style and the audience’s taste.
I’ve converted this blog into a short video if that’s your format of choice here
We’ve identifie... | ['Storytelling', 'Film', 'Hollywood', 'Movies', 'Filmmaking'] |
This article was inspired by a very close friend and is therefore dedicated to her and her healing heart — we’ll call her Athena. Others came to mind as I wrote this with love and an insatiable need to comfort them with my words; they’ll know who they are.
Life is full of tragedy, and I know you’ve suffered through yo... | ['Spirituality', 'This Happened To Me', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Philip Metres’ poem, “Future Anterior,” is structured as a series of questions (and returns) answered by multiple voices. Since this form felt close to the heart of Shrapnel Maps, I borrowed it for this essay.
Shrapnel Maps, by Philip Metres. Copper Canyon Press, 2020.
What is shrapnel?
Shrapnel as a noun refers to ... | ['Review', 'Books', 'Palestine', 'Literature', 'Poetry'] |
Come the time when typography has become the lifeblood of your brand image. The advanced web designing junkies swear by good typography because it creates a visual logic screaming the many messages the marketer wants to deliver.
Typography is a basic skill that has intense bearing on the brand image. To tell you, ther... | ['Typography', 'Design Process', 'Design', 'Tips'] |
Putting a Face on Coronavirus Introduction
This virus is not anonymous: it bears all our names
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
I am a social creature exploring my environment from in front of my computer screen. As I scroll through social media, I encounter all the hues of emotions: denial, anger, depression, re... | ['Faces Of Covid', 'Poetry', 'Introduction', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Image source: crypto-news.net
Bitcoin is the first thing that comes to mind regarding blockchain, and then the gold rush second. Get rich with a new tech which is in its infant days; who gets in now has a chance in the first wave as it was with the industrial revolution, IT revolution, gold rush and, as it stands with... | ['Development', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Economics', 'Bitcoin'] |
Visualisation of ranked choice voting in R
Tables with gt and animation with tweenr
I recently returned to the R package avr , which runs a range of alternative voting procedures, to add more functionality, and in the process, got to grips with two visualisation packages: gt and tweenr . Each provides a different sol... | ['Voting', 'Data Science', 'Editors Pick', 'Visualization', 'Politics'] |
First, let’s get this out of the way.
Tinnitus is the name of a symptom, not a specific disease. The word means that sounds are experienced, but have no identifiable source. It may be a symptom of a disease if they are not voluntary — i.e., you cannot choose to hear them sometimes and not hear them at other times. It’... | ['Meditation', 'Science', 'Sound', 'Mind', 'Tinnitus'] |
Eventually, the design is YOU
When first I started doing this kind of work (human-centered design) — having freshly graduated from IIT Institute of Design (ID) — it was almost a new century, and I felt a sense of reinvention. I had acquired a plethora of knowledge and a lot of new skills that promised to take me into ... | ['Design Leadership', 'Service Design', 'Innovation', 'Design', 'Design Thinking'] |
Writers Be Wary, We Love Misery and Happiness Doesn’t Sell
Why your happy ending or character might not sell your book
Photo by Guillaume de Germain on Unsplash
As writers, we need to be aware of this fact when we are creating fiction. I was reminded of it recently when submitting the third chapter of a novel to a g... | ['Character', 'Writing Tips', 'Plot', 'Lighterside', 'Writing'] |
Illustrated: 10 CNN Architectures
A compiled visualisation of the common convolutional neural networks
(TL;DR — jump to the illustrations here)
Changelog:
28 Nov 2020 — Updated “What’s novel” for every CNN.
17 Nov 2020 — Edited no. of layers in last dense layer of Inceptionv1 from 4096 to 1000.
24 Sep 2020 — Edit... | ['Machine Learning', 'Towards Data Science', 'Convolutional Network', 'Deep Learning', 'Visualization'] |
Poetry
Rage
The sweetness belies a hard, bitter, toxic core.
Photo by Alexander Mils on Unsplash
My heart is a ripe peach. Soft flesh, life’s blood
Flayed open to the bitter almond core -
A poisoned kernel you carelessly mistook
For a nut. Bite deep, and taste the juices.
In silence, as war, we call no truces.
... | ['Poem', 'Emotions', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
Three years ago, I was having the time of my life. Managing a social media care team at an ambitious tech startup meant 12-hour workdays, quite a bit of travel, and very little sleep. It was crazy, but I was loving it.
I’d just made the switch to marketing after 10 long years in sales and tech support, and it was my f... | ['Happiness', 'Work Life Balance', 'Life Lessons', 'Vacation', 'Startup'] |
Hey friend,
Since Halloween, Lauren and I have been hiding a giant bag of candy in our dresser to make sure that Golda wouldn’t find and eat it all. And because of that, I’ve been eating a piece of candy or two every day. I don’t want to. But I do.
Here I am, going back day after day for a Crunch or Almond Joy. That’... | ['Coaching', 'Self-awareness', 'Resistance', 'Self Sabotage'] |
In this post, I’d like to share some high-level takeaways for engineering managers and backend teams to help them successfully scale their operations while avoiding some of the most common pitfalls and short-sighted decisions.
This article follows up on a first post published by Jordan Pittier, lead backend engineer a... | ['Cloud Native', 'Cncf', 'Backend Development', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes'] |
Are you feeling anxious about the back-to-school season?
If so, you are not alone.
In the last week, the federal government has demanded that schools resume in-person classes this fall. At the same time, cases of COVID-19 are soaring across the U.S.
You might worry that sending your child back to school is risky. Af... | ['Current', 'Coronavirus', 'Education', 'Parenting'] |
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Most people have at least somewhat caught on to the fact that time is a valuable resource and should be, well, valued.
Every now and again I hear something that indicates that someone has worked through the basic concept of how they value their time and are using it to make decision... | ['Investing', 'Personal Finance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to Automate Design Tokens in a Design System
Colors, spacing, font weights, and font sizes are all design tokens
Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash.
In a design system, there is traditionally a distinction between the design and the code. We have designers working on what the components will look like and deve... | ['Development', 'Design Systems', 'Programming', 'Front End Development', 'Web Development'] |
Abstract Base Classes in Python: Fundamentals for Data Scientists
Understand the basics with a concrete example!
Photo by Joshua Aragon on Unsplash
In Python, abstract base classes provide a blueprint for concrete classes. They don’t contain implementation. Instead, they provide an interface and make sure that deriv... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Oop', 'Abstract Base Classes', 'Programming'] |
You’re Thinking So Classically
Take Your First Step into the Quantum Realm
An Introduction to Quantum Gates and Quantum Circuits
By Author using Canva
Getting started with quantum computing may seem intimidating and just plain puzzling if you looked online where start, you were probably lead to the same results I d... | ['Information Technology', 'Technology', 'Computer Science', 'Science', 'Quantum Computing'] |
Have You Written Your Life User Manual Yet?
On the search for meaning in life
The floor is made of intercalating black and white tiles and the temptation to not step on the white ones is too big. Even as grown-ups we can make games out of daily components of our lives — or keep playing the ones we have since we were ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement'] |
Photo credits: Tom de Boor, Adobe, et al
They’ve all come to look for America. -Simon & Garfunkel O, let America be America again The land that never has been yet — – Langston Hughes
America is a land of being and becoming. A democratic republic that has been in existence for 244 years. And a nation still in search o... | ['Politics', 'Trust', 'Elections', 'Democracy', 'Biden'] |
where algorithms we can’t fully understand claim to foresee the future
Intro
A handful of sci-fi writers possess the remarkable ability to almost empirically predict the future, and more often than not, it’s their grim visions which come to haunt us in the present. In “Brave New World”, Huxley foresaw the dangers of ... | ['Technology', 'World', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Crime', 'Politics'] |
High Noon
Confrontation with the new moon
I
Is your sun in Leo?
Every time I hurt your pride,
you hide behind the clouds.
II
Your gazes are enough,
don’t touch me with your hands.
Your laughter is magic,
my shadow needs the royal seal of
your overflowing spring.
III
When your silence speaks,
my nerves emi... | ['Astrology', 'Creative Writing', 'Poetry', 'Lifestyle', 'Writing'] |
When doing so, unless you are a very coordinated person, you likely realized then when you caught whatever object you rotated, it not only rotated about the axis you turned it about but also did a small little turn along another axis. That abnormal behavior that breaks our intuition was described in the tennis racket t... | ['Mechanics', 'Physics', 'Science', 'Astrophysics', 'Earth'] |
This May Make SuperHeroes Of Us All
What We Have May Not Amount To A Hill of Beans
But this is Our Hill, and these are Our Beans!
The world is flat, the world is flat.
That’s what I’ve always been told
To suggest otherwise would be far too bold.
We listen and learn, and yearn to earn
Are we ever sure our ideas w... | ['Mindfulness', 'Love', 'Poetry', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
Media organisations can now apply for the last round of the European Development Journalism Grants programme. Eight grants worth €112,500 on average each will be awarded to media outlets in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom to report on global development topics during the course of one ye... | ['Sustainable Development', 'Journalism', 'Updates', 'Media', 'Funding'] |
Lots of people ask me how I “cured” my anxiety.
In fact, just the other day, a good friend of mine called me. He’s one of those guys that parties like a rockstar.
Work hard. Play hard.
That type of guy.
Early in the convo, he asked, “Hey, your brother said you’ve been through some shit — like anxiety and stuff. I’m... | ['Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Anxiety', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
“In human life alone, one can experience the Soul [i.e. our real Self]. There is no other life form, not even that of the celestial beings, wherefrom we can attain the experience of the Self [Self-Realization]”These are the words of Param Pujya Dadabhagwan, an enlightened being.
The purpose of our existence, therefore... | ['Self-awareness', 'Spirituality', 'Soul', 'Self Improvement'] |
The Cathartic Act of Writing
How writing can heal your soul
Yesterday I read a very moving piece written on Facebook by my nephew. He was eulogizing his father, my brother, who passed away a few days ago.
The piece was incredibly moving, a personal and intimate view of his relationship with his father and how death ... | ['Writing Life', 'Writing', 'Writers Life', 'Lighterside', 'Writers On Writing'] |
The developer-designer handoff is an imperfect thing. In theory, a designer finishes a UI and sends it to the engineer to code, like a whistling baseball pitch that’s then bashed into the outfield. In reality, the process looks more like a volleyball game. Back and forth the files fly through the Interwebs as both part... | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Design', 'Case Study', 'UX'] |
This Is a Turning Point Moment for Work Culture, but What Do We Do With the Social Isolation?
How the pandemic will lead us away from others and into ourselves, and (possibly) back again
Over the past 50+ years, our culture has prized the individual to an extreme degree. Coupled with dramatic advances in technology, ... | ['Personal Growth', 'Remote Working', 'Work Life Balance', 'Personal Development', 'Coronavirus'] |
In this day and age of moon juices and sun potions, paleo and keto diets, intermittent fasting and CrossFit regimes, wellness and health has catapulted to fame and we want in. For the longest time, the dream has been sex, drugs, and rock‘n’roll. Now, we want to live a great healthy lifestyle and party like a rockstar.
... | ['Detox', 'Mindfulness', 'Retreats', 'Party', 'Wellness'] |
1. Why do we need the Gamma function?
Because we want to generalize the factorial!
The factorial function is defined only for discrete points (for positive integers — black dots in the graph above), but we wanted to connect the black dots. We want to extend the factorial function to all complex numbers. The simple fo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Generative Model', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
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Healthcare is not known for well-designed technology. The industry is extraordinarily complicated, highly regulated, and dominated by entrenched legacy companies. Despite (or perhaps because of) these challenges, startups and major tech companies like Apple and Google are getting into... | ['Healthcare', 'UX', 'Healthtech', 'Startup', 'Product Design'] |
How Presenters Hook Crowds With Cialdini’s 6 Principles
Are you being sold the 10x dream? Find out by learning about the psychology of convincing large groups of people
Photo by Kaleb Nimz on Unsplash
I sat in the auditorium aghast at what I was hearing. Beside me, my friend was pumped. Not just pumped, he was super... | ['Persuasion', 'Sales', 'Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Ideas'] |
The cosmetics market is estimated to double in the next 10 years, according to the EY consulting firm. It should be ideal to join the bandwagon and start your own cosmetics brand… Or not? What are the main obstacles that beauty brands will have to face in 2019?
Pandora’s box of competition
With the boom of new cosmet... | ['Sales', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Case Study', 'Ecommerce'] |
At this time of year, there’s always a bit of garden dirt underneath my nails (and likely in my hair, on my jeans, maybe even on my face). That’s usually because I’m spending a lot of time doing this:
Not bad for an early May haul from the garden!
And doing that leaves me looking like this:
Me and my dirty fingernai... | ['Writing Tips', 'Editing', 'Gardening', 'Writing'] |
1. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
We’ve made our first assumptions on the data and now we are ready to perform some basic data exploration and come up with some inference. Hence, the goal for this section is to take a glimpse on the data as well as any irregularities so that we can correct on the next section, Data P... | ['Data Science', 'Education', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Projects'] |
The Greatest Thing Money Can Buy
Money can buy a lot of things. But one thing clearly stands above the rest…
Photo by Vitaly Taranov on Unsplash
Money can buy lots of things, but the greatest thing it can buy is freedom.
Most people today spend their lives in what can only be called financial slavery:
The bank own... | ['Startup', 'Investing', 'Personal Finance', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
This article is the part 2 of 3 series on How to manage your full nodes.
Today, we will be talking about — Part 2: Managing Containers with Kubernetes .
Kubernetes Setup Diagram
Learning Objectives
Create a single master kubernetes cluster. Basic understanding of Kubernetes Services and Deployments. Deploy our Bitc... | ['Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Kubernetes'] |
What Other Reasons Does Instagram Have to Hide Likes From Its Users?
If Instagram wouldn’t be hiding likes to protect their users, what would they be hiding likes for? In my opinion, these are the two most likely culprits.
1. Instagram is hiding likes to protect their reputation and business
Data shows that since ea... | ['Social Media', 'Mental Health', 'Instagram', 'Instagram Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
The exploration is adapted from the original USV thesis, which you can read here.
You know protocols.
SMTP for email transfer, HTTP for hyperlinks, TCP/IP for data transfer. Every application you use is built on top of those protocols. Facebook, Google, Amazon, would not be able to exist without these protocols. Sinc... | ['Guide', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Development', 'Bitcoin'] |
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash.
The best way to finally stop feeling insecure is to identify the habits that are maintaining that insecurity. And accepting the fact that you’re insecure.
It’s not a bad thing to be insecure but it hinders your growth and makes your daily activities, harder to deal with.
Here... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Self Help', 'Love', 'Self Love'] |
How To Limit Artificial Stupidity
A quick overview of Human-Learn Library
What Is Artificial Stupidity?
Artificial stupidity is a new term that is used as the antonym of artificial intelligence. However, it has two opposite meanings:
Machine learning algorithms make stupid mistakes while learning from the data. Art... | ['Siri', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning Ai', 'NLP', 'Data Science'] |
3 Most Asked Python Interview Questions for Data Scientists
Top python interview questions for data scientists
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Many blogs and websites have several questions and advice with regards to data science interviews. However, most data science interviews want to test candidates software engineeri... | ['Interview', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'FAQ'] |
Some people and organizations are already doing this.
They’re after school and summer programs. Programs in leadership, performing arts, technology, social justice, mentorship, and sports are instrumental in creating fulfilled and engaged young people.
Out-of-school programs allow young people to explore their intere... | ['Education', 'Startup', 'Edtech'] |
How Your Heart Can Hurt AND Be Happy When Thanksgiving Is Canceled
This year is different
Photo by Zera Li on Unsplash
A Story Four Centuries Old
You heard the Thanksgiving story from the time you were five-years-old sitting around the Kindergarten table coloring your construction paper headdresses and Pilgrim hats... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Thanksgiving', 'Covid 19', 'Family'] |
Xinding Sun | Pinterest engineer, Discovery
The massive volume of discovery data that powers Pinterest and enables people to save Pins, create boards and follow other users, is generated through daily Hadoop jobs. Managed by Pinball, these jobs are organized into indexing workflows that outputs dozens of terabytes of ... | ['Pinball', 'Pinterest', 'Engineering', 'Hadoop', 'Data'] |
Overview
Outlier detections is one fundamental step in data quality, data management and data analysis tasks. Many applications are related to it, such as Fraud detection and network intrusion, and data cleaning. Frequently, outliers are removed to improve accuracy of the estimators.
One popular technique in outlier... | ['Mapreduce', 'Hadoop', 'Java', 'Anomaly Detection'] |
How to Set Up a Deployment Pipeline on AWS
Continuous delivery with GitHub Actions
Photo by Samuel Sianipar on Unsplash.
CloudFormation is a service on Amazon Web Services. It allows you to describe Infrastructure as code. You can define necessary services and dependencies between them in template files in .yml or .... | ['Continous Deployment', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'DevOps', 'AWS'] |
Image by the author
Co-creation, collaboration, sharing, community. What do these words have in common? The essence. Each of these terms is rooted in cooperation, in mutual aid, in joining efforts for a common goal.
And depending on where these principles are applied, the result can be efficient and highly profitable... | ['Data Journalism', 'Technology', 'Open Source', 'Data Science', 'Journalism'] |
Authenticity is not a fixed point on a map. It’s fluid, much like your identity, and shifts over the course of your life.
It’s easier to trick yourself into believing the feel-good advice that your voice comes from a sudden revelation. You just have to wait for that moment. And once you’ve found it, the entire picture... | ['Identity', 'Creativity', 'Authenticity', 'Life Lessons', 'Art'] |
Feature Engineering in Machine Learning
Making data model-ready
To work on a machine learning problem, we can’t just grab data provided and apply the algorithm on it i.e, .fit(). We need to first build a dataset first.
The task for converting raw data into a dataset is called Feature Engineering.
For example, let t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Data Science'] |
Why Most People Fail to Consistently Send Follow-up Emails
This probably isn’t the first time you’ve thought about sending follow-up emails. In fact, it probably isn’t even the first time you’ve tried to make this practice into a habit.
And the first couple days of your initial attempt probably went really well. But ... | ['Leadership', 'Communication', 'Productivity', 'Meetings', 'Email'] |
Every cloud has a silver lining. For me, it was grabbing as much outside time, adventure and fun as one can during a pandemic. Please enjoy my collage timeline of ‘Getting Outside for Your Mental Health’. | ['Horseback Riding', 'Mental Health', 'Outdoors', 'Camping', 'Hiking'] |
I don’t need to say again that 2020 was a shit year for the vast majority of people. It was a year that not only exacerbated the brokenness of the system but also exposed what has been previously wrong with it for decades.
But still, I hope you are encouraged to make a list of things that went right for you just to ke... | ['Life', 'Self', 'Mental Health', '2020'] |
How I created an Analytical tool for LinkedIn using Google Sheets Chaitanya Arora Follow May 11 · 4 min read
My Motivation!
So I started using LinkedIn a few days back and ever since I was fascinated by the knowledge-rich content people regularly post on this platform. Inspired by others, I started sharing my insight... | ['Marketing', 'LinkedIn', 'Growth Hacking', 'Analytics', 'Google Sheets'] |
Designed by Infogram
There are many ways to think about data-driven journalism. Some view it as a set of tools that enable journalists to collect, arrange, analyze, and design data.
Others view data-driven journalism as an equation: DDJ= C+C+D. Data-driven journalism equals content, plus context, plus design.
Let’s ... | ['Journalism', 'Data Journalism', 'Infotimes Blog'] |
Bill.com recently went public. Their software automates complex back-office financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). One of the charts in their prospectus shows the revenue growth and contribution margin of customers acquired in 2017; it’s a very nice illustration of the first three years of a SaaS... | ['Venture Capital', 'SaaS', 'Startup', 'Software'] |
I’m tired of writing about negative LGBTQ headlines. I don’t want to talk about how Dwight Howard tried to have a person killed and somehow transwomen are evil because of some screenshots and recordings. I don’t want to keep writing about how trans people are terrified of going to the bathroom in public. I don’t want t... | ['Equality', 'Writing', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender', 'Social Justice'] |
Amidst the AI hype, there’s also a sinister buzz about how AI will take away our jobs! However, truth remains that the role of manpower in AI-enabled world will become minimal but not destroyed. In fact, AI experts will always stay in demand!
It means that…
You don’t need to fear the AI job loss epidemic that has cre... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Information Technology', 'Programming'] |
Whitney Durmick may be way ahead of a future lifestyle trend, although she might not realize it. For the past two years, Whitney has been leading a self-styled nomadic life, moving from place to place, setting up shop in different locations across the nation to live, work and explore. Doing so has allowed her to scratc... | ['Work From Home', 'Work Life Balance', 'Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Corporate Culture'] |
Review of “Confessions” by Lev Tolstoy or, Why Religion Matters
This is the best purchase under $5 that I’ve ever made.
I watched plenty of Jordan Peterson’s videos in the last couple of weeks. I’m a big fan of his, and every time he says something, I listen.
And he talked a lot about Tolstoy.
I don’t remember what... | ['Religion', 'Book Review', 'Books', 'Personal Development', 'Meaning Of Life'] |
🚀 Explorer Board
Last week we announced our Explorer Board, the first IoT prototyping platform that’s tailor-made from the ground up to explore the possibilities of acoustic data transfer.
Built around the powerful Arm Cortex-M4 CPU with inbuilt DSP for optimised audio processing, it allows developers to quickly and... | ['Python', 'API', 'Kotlin', 'Embedded', 'Data Over Sound'] |
IMDB movie review polarity using Naive Bayes Classifier
Develop a naive Bayes algorithm-based machine learning model that predicts sentiment or polarity of an IMDB movie review.
Photo by Hitesh Choudhary on Unsplash
Introduction:
Naive Bayes is an algorithm that uses Baye’s theorem. Baye’s theorem is a formula that... | ['Machine Learning', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'NLP', 'Movie Review', 'Sentiment Analysis'] |
Before diving directly into similarity queries it is important to know what a similarity metric is.
Similarity Metric
Similarity metrics are mathematical constructs which is particularly useful in NLP — especially information retrieval. We can understand a metric as a function that defines the distance between each p... | ['Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Data Science'] |
Market trends bulletin — Insights 2.0 Vol 15
Market Analysis:
Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading at 6451 USDT (as of 12 November 2018, 11.11 IST) with the rise of 0.03 % in last 24 hours. From the sentiment’s analysis point of view, the global crypto community is neutral.
Now let’s take a look at the technical analy... | ['Finance', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Analysis', 'Bitcoin'] |
A short review of Joe Abercrombie’s ‘Best Served Cold’
A good, if slightly underwhelming, return to the world of ‘The First Law’
Joe Abercrombie is a prolific fantasy author (and a pretty interesting person to follow on Twitter, too). He’s best known for his First Law trilogy, but he has also written a few young-adul... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Book Review'] |
Introduction
Fractional differentiation (or Fractional derivative or Fractional calculus) is a great idea once you understood all the equations. But the first time when I was reading Chapter 5 of Advances in Financial Machine Learning by Marcos Prado. All the mathematical symbols and equations just push me away from i... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Finance', 'Fractional Calculus', 'Marco Prato'] |
Stop listening to the media and tune out negativity
The famous scholar of the Islamic Golden Age, Ibn Sina once conducted a medical experiment. He put two identical lambs in two separate cages, and he placed a wolf in one of the side cages. The wolf could only be seen by ONE of the lambs and the other was placed out o... | ['Depression', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Mental Health', 'Soul'] |
In the recent Oreo release, Android gained initial support for color management — which helps match color outputs across devices. With the update, Android devices can now display colors outside of the sRGB color gamut. If you’re not familiar with color profiles or what wide color gamuts are, then I highly recommend thi... | ['Android', 'Developer', 'Colors', 'Design', 'Color Management'] |
How to Emotionally Prepare for Election Day, No Matter the Result
Getting our emotional houses in order will serve us way more than refreshing polling data and doomscrolling social media.
Next week, the world will change. Or will it?
However the election goes won’t change that the three richest Americans — Jeff Bezo... | ['Politics', 'Mindfulness', 'Life', 'Trump', 'Psychology'] |
Preface: SpaceNet LLC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, artificial intelligence applied research for geospatial applications, specifically foundational mapping (i.e., building footprint & road network detection). SpaceNet is run in collaboration by co-founder and managing partner, Cosmi... | ['Geospatial', 'Computer Vision', 'Data', 'Open Source', 'Data Science'] |
Film Courage: We’ve heard screenwriters use the phrase ‘Cracking The Story,’ so what does this mean exactly?
Gary Goldstein: Cracking The Story is (just to continue from what we were talking about) you have the beginnings of a story but then you beat out the story, you create the whole story, you role out the carpet, ... | ['Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing Prompts', 'Screenwriting', 'Writer'] |
2. His interventions with trauma survivors and mentally ill people are based on victim-blaming
When I watched one of his $6,000 weekend retreats, I noticed that an alarming amount of the passionate attendees were survivors of trauma and/or people struggling with mental illness. These poor souls had endured inconceivab... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Women', 'Politics'] |
A CV Isn’t Enough To Land You A Data Science Job
How To Be a More Attractive Data Science Candidate Beyond Your Resume
Photo by Felicia Buitenwerf on Unsplash
Introduction
Off the back of my last post, Getting A Data Science Job is Harder Than Ever, I received lots of responses on my LinkedIn regarding how to be mo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
Loneliness
sits in the vacant spot,
cuddled close
in an empty church pew
to the weary faced man
who buried his wife last month.
Loneliness bumps shoulders
with the teen-aged girl
in her sparkly dress
as she stands
alone
while the music plays on.
Loneliness slides
through the screen door left ajar
as the o... | ['Self-awareness', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Loneliness', 'Relationships', 'Poetry'] |
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