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Ironic love affair part 5
Going on a safari in a small town in the United States is the most excellent time of your life.
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Chapter: V Getting ready for the hunt
I know when I was a child, I had heard about migrant type workers. They would work the fields in the summer and go into the... | ['Books', 'Social Media', 'Religion', 'Family', 'Lifestyle'] |
Designers from all over the world Tag there designs on @graphicdesignui and get featured on this account. A very good account to look at on a daily basis for UI inspiration.
Witty digital is a Digital Marketing Agency located in Israel. You will find very innovative design solution on their timeline.
Tubik is a desig... | ['UI', 'Design', 'Behance', 'UX', 'Instagram'] |
In the new gilded age of the twenty-first century artists are once again returning to rendering hyper-detailed, highly technical visions of the movers and shakers of our times. Image is everything. This time though, the stakes are a little different. Our digital lives have become the historical record that defines us, ... | ['Ideas', 'Identity', 'Data Visualization', 'Future'] |
This article is part 1 of the new “Catching the BlockChain train” series: “The Lightning Network Rookie Guide”.
Oh my, a new series! Tell me more!
After five episodes about IPFS, it’s time for another exciting technology in blockchain world: Lightning Networks. From here on just Lightning Network (singular, I'll expl... | ['Development', 'Lightning', 'Lightning Network', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Let's Look at the Mathematical Operations Supported by the Set Object
union()
update()
intersection()
intersection_update()
difference()
difference_update()
symmetric_difference()
symmetric_difference_update()
isdisjoint()
issubset()
issuperset()
Set operations can be done in two ways. By using the method o... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'DevOps', 'Programming', 'Python3'] |
1. Play Strengthens Survival Skills
The first reason why we play is that it strengthens our ability to survive. Karl Groos was a leading pioneer in applying evolutionary theory to the study of play and contended that “higher beings”, or mammals, needed to practice behaviors and excercise their bodies in order to becom... | ['Mindfulness', 'Humanity', 'Innovation', 'Wellness', 'Excercise'] |
We are a squad of five mismatched starfighters: a zippy A-Wing; a ponderous but powerful Y-Wing; and three X-Wings, the most ubiquitous ship in the Rebel fleet. We are the very definition of ragtag. We form up as we move to engage the Imperial TIEs even now screaming towards us.
I’m in an X-Wing (naturally). I double-... | ['Gaming', 'Film', 'Movies', 'Star Wars', 'Writing'] |
“If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the ******* window and find out which is true,” Jonathan Foster, a lecturer at Sheffield University, once said.
But that is not enough anymore, according to Jenni Sargent, managing director of... | ['Journalism', 'Misinformation', 'Insights', 'Fake News', 'Media'] |
Write Better JavaScript by Separating Side Effects From Logic
When the logic is pure, it’s easier to understand and test
Image credit: Author
The code in the software systems we write every day creates side effects.
Some of the side effects it creates are permanent, such as creating records in the databases and mod... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming'] |
These days everyone uses smartphones, which have become rather large computer screens. They come with a wide range of new and innovative apps. We have to try and find solutions that match these apps to large smartphone screens.
That sounds obvious. But. One thing seems stuck in an Older Age. The basic mobile UX princi... | ['Mobile', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'UX Research'] |
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them." -Andy Bernard, The Office
Through the Red Tape
The thing is, when we’re caught up in the moment, things are seen as subjective and skewed in our favor and towards a favorable outcome. Hindsight has a way of putting things i... | ['Self', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Psychology', 'Life'] |
Covid-19 Bullshit Exposed in 5 Simple Graphics
COMMENTARY: Words don’t seem to be eradicating these fallacies. Maybe images will help.
Image: Pixabay
Must choose my words carefully here in describing several, um, untenable untruths circulating from the top down in my beloved country amid a stomach-turning pandemic t... | ['Conspiracy Theories', 'Pandemic', 'Misinformation', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Flashback sequence to 20 years ago:
She was a model with long flowing hair and piercing eyes, so I agreed to whatever she suggested. We rented a movie and went to her place.
We picked a film that looked great to me and very date-worthy (a Pierce Brosnan non-James Bond movie called The Tailor of Panama). As soon as th... | ['Relationships', 'Television', 'Art', 'Life Lessons', 'Music'] |
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Keep up with the latest from Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society Take a look | ['Art', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Data Visualization', 'Authors'] |
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Introducing the new World of Widgets
Apple’s new iOS 14 update has given us many improvements: inline replies in Messages, headphone customization, mirrored selfies, and of course the App Library. But there’s one iOS 14 update you’re probably seeing all over your social, and that’s the newly available widgets. Everyon... | ['Wallpaper', 'iPhone', 'Design', 'Themes', 'Widget'] |
Photo by Brina Blum on Unsplash
Eyes wide open during closing hours. Something is different tonight.
My eyes find focus in a corner of the living room, fixated on my collection of plants. 16 to be exact.
My plants look so dead. Withering, neglected. And that’s so unlike me. I care deeply about my plant family. Stari... | ['Writing', 'Creative Writing', 'Poetry', 'Culture', 'Life'] |
A Picture of Boston: Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys
Lenny Lashley’s underappreciated country album is one of Boston’s most poignant artistic expressions
Lenny Lashley is one of Boston punks most beloved figures, even if a lot of his outings have flown under the radar in comparison to other artists from the area. He fir... | ['Art', 'Boston', 'Magazine', 'Review', 'Music'] |
A study by some smart guy called Andrew Przybylski found the condition was most common in those who had unsatisfied psychological needs such as wanting to be loved and respected. So, most of us.
In a society where we’re bombarded with advertising imagery to make sure we’re all super-insecure, it’s the perfect storm fo... | ['Fomo', 'Addiction', 'Psychology', 'Tech', 'Apps'] |
How to Build Desktop Applications the Right Way Using Electron
Kick off your next project with Electron
Photo from Electron.
If you are like me, you love JavaScript and its ecosystem and have been building amazing web applications using frameworks like React or performant web servers with Node.js. Now you want to de... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Electron', 'Typescript', 'Nodejs'] |
We finished testing our new wallet (and completely new blockchain protocol), and have a simple way for everyone to restore their balances on the new chain.
Remember — Never accept wallet advice or help via direct message — use public channels only, and accept help from verified team members who you messaged first and ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Bitgreen', 'Sustainability', 'Proof Of Stake'] |
The Rise of Star- Lord — The Conquest of Peter Quill
From ANNIHILATION to GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Detail, Cover, Annihilation: Conquest — Star-Lord #1. Art by Nic Klein. Credit: Marvel Comics.
Author’s note: This is another in a series of adapted excerpts from Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy: An Unofficial... | ['Marvel Cinematic Universe', 'Marvel', 'Books', 'Comics', 'Star Lord'] |
Kubernetes Operator for Beginners — What, Why, How
Explain the basic knowledge and means, build an Operator from scratch using Kubebuilder
In Infrastructure Development, we can never bypass Operators in modern Kubernetes solutions.
I have been writing different operators in the past one or two months, with the purpo... | ['Operators', 'Helm', 'Kudos', 'Kubernetes', 'Kubebuilder'] |
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“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” — Ecclesiastes 1:9
Over the past few years, we have seen the birth of countless startups. The products and services of these small startups have managed to gain the trust and pr... | ['Software Development', 'Coding', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Software'] |
Experiment 2: If the Experiment 1 Result is No, Find Other Scenarios on How Projection Improves Query Performance
Since my first hypothesis was wrong, then I tried to do some research and re-visit the performance course offered by MongoDB University. The course is free — check it out if you are interested in learning ... | ['Programming', 'Database', 'DevOps', 'Mongodb', 'Software Engineering'] |
So there I was. I entered the hotel and conference center in Houston for the 2016 Gay Christian Network Conference. This was foreign territory for me in that I’d never been to anything like this, and I had no idea how things worked here. At the registration table, I got a red lanyard for my conference ID, which meant t... | ['Christianity', 'Life', 'Storytelling', 'Faithfullylgbt', 'Gay Christian Network'] |
More and more transactions are done through an IVR | Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
In a previous post, I covered how a lot of customers currently use an IVR to deliver some basic information and process some basic transactions (press “1” for hours of operations, press “2”…, press “0” to speak to an agent).
Over ... | ['Voice Gateway', 'Ivr Solution', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ibm Watson Assistant', 'Ibm Watson'] |
From “Thought-Forms” (1905) by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater
Why Positive Thinking Works
Toward a Theory of Mind Causation
Why should positive thinking, “manifestation,” or the “law of attraction” work at all? Before you cry “confirmation bias!” (materialism’s equivalent of “lock her up!”) take a deep breath.
In... | ['Science', 'Paranormal', 'Occult', 'Mysticism', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to measure success and what to do about them?
As difficult as it is, there are a couple of things you can monitor to measure success and collect feedback about your dashboards.
Usage Rate
Usage rate is the best indicator of the quality of a dashboard. If a dashboard is used by stakeholders regularly, it’s alread... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Product Design', 'Data Science'] |
First Occasion
It first started when I wanted to leave finance and try my hand at a career in digital marketing. It was a nine-month process that I told everybody at the start would take one month. Boy was I wrong about that too :)
I got down to the final three choices. One of those choices was the result of contacti... | ['Work', 'Careers', 'Startup', 'Hiring', 'Self Improvement'] |
Mentoring Program
We’re making some changes (Updated 13 August 2020)
Photo by Clark Young on Unsplash
At Inspired Writer we are making changes to how we offer mentoring so we can encourage a wider range of new writers.
We will no longer be accepting mentoring applications each month. However, writers who contribute... | ['Self', 'Self Development', 'Writing Tips', 'Freelance Writing', 'Writing'] |
Throughout the busyness of a day, thoughts fly in, unbidden, searching for a place to land. I push them aside. Not yet. Not yet. I reply. I will myself to wait until dusk when my mind is not standing at attention, ready to pounce if called to action.
I tend boo boos, urge progress, respond, reply, reach out, deliver, ... | ['Meditation', 'Haiku', 'Zen', 'Writers Block', 'Writing'] |
Essential Steps for Leaders to Lead Well That Are Often Overlooked
Communicate clearly, increase productivity.
Photo by Rebrand Cities from Pexels
A leader can make or break a business. Employees who have good leaders are more relaxed and have a natural incentive to work harder and be more creative in their work. Yo... | ['Work', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
The intention of this post is not to explain the different testing techniques out there that we can use. I’m not going to tell you what the differences are between unit, integration, feature, or end-to-end testing.
I’m going to tell you why we should consider testing as part of our daily development and how it’s direc... | ['Software Testing', 'Testing', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Design', 'Software'] |
RISE Asked & Answered — March
Hello RISE community,
Since coming onboard late last year, I have been working with the team to improve core areas of the RISE business. With this in mind, I believe it is important to address questions that have been raised by our great community in the past and present so we can plot a... | ['Technology', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Typescript'] |
Originally published at marcandrew.me on October 29th, 2020.
A good understanding of Typography (more than imagery, and colour in my opinion) is so important in the design of strong UIs.
Why?
Because the majority of what you see on the web is content-based, so having a better understanding of typography can enable y... | ['UI Design', 'UI', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'Product Design'] |
I was at a breakfast meeting not too long ago.
Four people around a small table on the outdoor deck of a nice hotel, right on the beach, one of the women brought two boxes of avocado toast from the café.
“For us to share,” she said.
My first thought was, “How are we going to share avocado toast in those boxes?”
The... | ['Schools', 'Careers', 'Education', 'Intelligence', 'Productivity'] |
If you are a Manchester student with an interest in mental health, you may have come across new student society Manchester Open Mind Network, who assembled in response to the University’s building mental health crisis. It seems obvious that the success of any organisation online lies in their ability to meet their own ... | ['Digital Marketing', 'Mental Health', 'Digisoc1'] |
How to Create a Writing Portfolio When You Have Zero Experience
The worry-free guide to starting from absolute scratch.
Photo by Andrej Lišakov on Unsplash
How do you gain experience when you have no experience? It is a question that has befuddled college graduates and career transitioners for years, and which is on... | ['Work', 'Experience', 'Freelance', 'Portfolio', 'Writing'] |
How to find and organize your data from the command-line
Introducing metaframe: a markdown-based documentation tool and data catalog for data scientists.
Repo: https://github.com/rsyi/metaframe
If you are a data scientist, it’s your job to extract value from data. But in your career, you’ll likely spend (and have sp... | ['Data Science', 'Data Catalog', 'Towards Data Science', 'Command Line', 'Productivity'] |
Are you willing to be happy?
The answer to this question would be quite obvious and simple! Who does not want to? So, being the startup founder or a programmer, you would be looking for the platform that was built for exactly that purpose!
The founder of Ruby on Rails, David H Hansson, has quoted it in the best way; ... | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Ruby On Rails Development', 'Startup'] |
I used to think it was some myth artists would spew…
“I’ll get a million positive comments and affirmations about my work. Then I’ll get one negative comment and it gnaws at me. You might as well erase all the compliments I’ve received. Because these few worthless, negative words are overstaying their welcome.”
And t... | ['Self-awareness', 'Insecurity', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
Dec. 8, 2018: Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail. Originally published on 3toread.co
Journalism has a focus problem: How to combat ‘Shiny Things Syndrome’: In an era when change is a constant, it’s easy for newsrooms to be distr... | ['Journalism', 'Media Criticism', 'Matt Carroll', 'Media', 'Spotlight Movie'] |
I’ve had the same job for nearly nineteen years. Though there has never been any opportunity for advancement or pay increase, I knew that when I took the position. It has been a good job.
Now, however, the job has changed and my position has changed, as well. It’s been downsized and, while this hasn’t come as a surpri... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Parenting', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
“Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
This is the story of the most exclusive and expensive party the world has ever seen. You already heard some of the lavish, extravagant parties in today’s century. However, many of you have not heard about Iran’s extrav... | ['Self-awareness', 'History', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure — Marquis de Sade
Ah spring is in the air, and the birds are doing it, the bees are doing it, my neutered house-cat would like to do it (adorable, elevator butt is a dead giveaway) and, thanks to Coronavirus social distancing, I’m…um…writing about doing it.
Well, I ... | ['BDSM', 'Relationships', 'Sex', 'Psychology', 'Kink'] |
Every designer who has completed a degree in product design can share stories about the volume of sketching he or she had to do to become capable of quickly visualizing something on paper so that others can understand the vision. For most people, this is not an easy skill to develop and requires considerable time* to p... | ['Industrial Design', 'Design Process', 'Design', 'Sketching', 'Product Design'] |
In every software development life cycle, the code review remains one of the key steps in delivering a successful and qualitative product.
In most of the cases, the code review is a ‘ Make It Or Break It ‘ moment.
Often neglected, regularly underestimated, the code review is sometimes skipped for deceptive reasons.
... | ['Teamwork', 'Programming', 'Productivity', 'Code Review', 'Soft Skills'] |
4 Uses Of Mind Maps To Improve Your Design Process Visualmodo Follow Dec 12 · 4 min read
From breaking down client briefs and doing research to developing concepts, making revisions, and presenting the final design. Every design process constitutes several steps and stakeholders. As a designer. If you find yourself sc... | ['Improv', 'Design', 'Mind Maps', 'Usage', 'Optimize'] |
Although Java is a new programming language in the technical space, surprisingly it’s not precisely newfangled. The year 2020 marks the 25 glorious years of this versatile programming language. Over the last years, Java has maintained the top position among the top three most popular programming languages across the gl... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Business', 'Development', 'Web Development'] |
When we need to decide how to store data and model behavior, there are two choices: Classes and Structs. In this article, I will explain which type should be preferred in different situations.
Classes and Structs may look like the same person at first glance
Let’s talk about what they can offer in common.
They both ... | ['Objective C', 'Apple', 'iOS', 'Swift', 'Programming'] |
How To Use Microsoft LUIS With Bot Framework Composer
Here Is A Simple Tutorial To Get You Started With NLU
Introduction
How can we integrate Composer with LUIS…
Firstly, we are going to run Composer locally on my machine and connect to LUIS in the cloud. The NLU configurations we create on Composer will be deploye... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbot Development', 'Conversational UI', 'Machine Learning'] |
It’s a summer evening and you’re attending a benefit concert for a local nonprofit.
As your eyes sweep the crowd, you notice a 55-year-old woman subtly snapping pictures of the band that she’ll later post to Facebook or text to her kids. She has donated to the nonprofit for years, and the concert is just one more oppo... | ['Millennials', 'Marketing', 'Higher Education', 'Nonprofit', 'Messaging'] |
Opinion
Why is Data Science Losing Its Charm?
Data science was once the most loved career option but the trends are changing.
Earlier every Computer Science student wanted to pursue a career in the data science field. The field also attracted students from many other educational backgrounds. While the hype around da... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Jobs', 'Data Scientist'] |
A Review of the Modern Family Series Finale
The timing of the Modern Family series finale was somewhat cruel for two reasons. First, it came amidst the coronavirus pandemic. This is a time when we need comfort not more loss and sadness. Second, it aired exactly 24 hours after the series finale of Schitt’s Creek, anoth... | ['Television', 'LGBTQ', 'Media', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
Nov. 20, 2018: Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail. Originally published on 3toread.co
You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die:Fake news is about to get a lot faker. Improving technology means it is ... | ['Media Criticism', 'Journalism', 'Journalism Ethics', 'Spotlight Movie', 'Journalism Innovation'] |
When My Carer Needs Care
Marriage is supposed to be partners helping each other through their times of difficulty
By Farknot Architect / adobestock.com
My husband is the mainstay of my support system and, in large part, my caregiver. I cannot count the things he has done for me and does for me every day. We’ve been ... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Caregiving', 'Marriage', 'Bipolar'] |
Geogebra Plus Linear Programming
We’ll Create a Geogebra program to help us with our linear programming — #PySeries#Episode 02
First, we’ve got this problem that comes from the math to your course guide from the Pingree school.
It is the tape’s verse CDs example:
Suppose you want to buy some tapes and CDs. Does any... | ['Python', 'Geogebra', 'Linear Programming', 'Python3', 'Linear Regression Python'] |
For the Love of Food, People, and UX
A usability case study on food delivery app Eat24
Objective
My goals for this UX study were to:
Critically analyze problems in an existing app Back up my decisions and solutions with sound reasoning and data Communicate my thinking and design process Show, not just tell, my abil... | ['Design', 'Eat24', 'Case Study', 'Product Design', 'Yelp'] |
Multi-class data classification to predict the Phrases from the sentences of the movie review given user onthe sentiment scale of 0–4.
Introduction
With the growth of web text data such as: online review data posted by users for hotel booking, e-commerce website and movie reviews, can be of great help to understand t... | ['Python', 'Word2vec', 'Decision Tree', 'Linear Regression', 'Random Forest'] |
I’d probably assume that most of us started in UI design with the littlest knowledge or nothing at all. But even though the odds were against us at the start, we managed our way through numerous design books and articles to understand how colors, typography, layout etc works. I remember how it is established in us at M... | ['User Experience', 'Design', 'Graphic Design', 'Sketch', 'User Interface'] |
Looking back on the days of the past, we can clearly spot our failures. The glaring recollection of falling short is not invisible to us. Some people see it as areas in their lives to improve on. They consider the possibilities of a better outcome, take notes, and continue on with their journey.
Others—well, they rema... | ['Inspiration', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Writing Advice For The Noobs, All of Us Started As One
To The Novice Writer From The Hobbyist Writer
A piece of advice learned after a few hundred failures, and many successes while writing online.
Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash
I know we have read a bit too many articles on how to get better at writing.
Heck, I... | ['Writing', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Just do what you can, okay?
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1053/ | ['Humor', 'Comics', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Characteristics and features of GoogLeNet configuration table (figure 1)
The input layer of the GoogLeNet architecture takes in an image of the dimension 224 x 224.
Type: This refers to the name of the current layer of the component within the architecture
This refers to the name of the current layer of the componen... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
We see news about Machine learning everywhere. Indeed, there is a lot of potential in Machine learning. According to Gartner’s predictions, “Through 2020, 80% of AI projects will remain alchemy, run by wizards whose talents will not scale in the organization” and Transform 2019 of VentureBeat predicted that 87% of AI p... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Strategy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'An End To End Ml Project'] |
Some of the questions we are hoping to answer:
How nostalgic are we really when it comes to music?
Do users and critics usually agree in their assessments?
What does the future of reviews look like?
Is the music industry gender biased?
In this part we will tackle the first of these and to start of, let’s ask a sim... | ['Music', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Music Review', 'Data'] |
Resilience…… When we heard the word resilience doesn’t matter when or where its use. Our mind thinks what exactly resilience it? Why it is so important to be resilient? How resilient can be built? When we study resilience furthermore we begin to think if resilience is such a good thing so either it has adverse effects ... | ['Content', 'Resilience', 'Blog', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
Surrender
to the
present
let go
of the
past
and have
faith
in the
future | ['Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry', 'Spiritual Secrets'] |
Thank Your Muse: Gratitude Enhances Creativity
If you don’t appreciate the beauty of the flame, you take away its oxygen.
If there’s one thing we writers specialize in, it’s self-loathing. We tend to beat ourselves up, whether we’re stuck in the muddy middle of a rough draft or slogging through a seemingly endless re... | ['Creative Process', 'Inspiration', 'Creative Writing', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Writing'] |
The evolution of creationism
Young-earth creationism is a relatively recent development. The earliest creationists had no particular dispute with deep time or mainstream geology; rather, religious objections to Darwin’s theories had to do with their implications for human identity. Some opposed the idea of common desc... | ['Education', 'Religion', 'Science', 'Evolution', 'Creationism'] |
Head of Decision Intelligence, Google. Hello (multilingual) world! This account is for translated versions of my English language articles. twitter.com/quaesita
Follow | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ciencia Y Datos'] |
Are you also annoyed by the change Adobe added in the latest version of Photoshop that you don’t have to hold down the shift key when you want to scale an item proportionally?
Don’t hold the shift key when scaling
The old way is so engraved in my brain that this new way of scaling just doesn’t work for me personally.... | ['Photoshop', 'Design'] |
Uber’s Manifold
Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash
For my project, I am creating an Ensemble. An Ensemble is a collection of machine learning algorithms that each individually train and predict on the same data. The advantage of an Ensemble is that it provides a range of different strategies for finding a solution and uti... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Programming', 'Deep Learning'] |
Trust is a critical part of marketing. It doesn’t matter how earth-shattering your claims of performance are, or how amazing your storytelling is, or whether you nail your persona and audience targeting across digital channels — if your prospects don’t believe what you’re saying, they’re not going to be any more likely... | ['Branding', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing', 'Brand Strategy', 'Customer Experience'] |
If you are thinking of building a static site with React and want it to perform as fast as a cheetah, you should consider using GatsbyJS. I decided to try it out and was amazed with how easy it was to setup, deploy, and how fast the site loads now. Gatsby uses the best parts of other front end tools to make the develop... | ['Web Hosting', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Tech', 'Gatsbyjs'] |
Publish Often
The key to treating the internet like a laboratory is to publish often so that we can experiment with a variety of different styles and techniques in a short period of time.
Every single time that we publish an article, we’re providing ourselves with another chance to gather data about how it’s received... | ['Writing Tips', 'Blogging', 'Internet', 'Learning', 'Writing'] |
Image Credit: Gleb Kuznetsov
The sense of touch and pressure has been the common form of interaction in terms of Human-computer interaction for the past few decades but one thing which we forget is that there is another more natural and intuitive way of interaction which is our voice.
Voice UIs have gone standard and... | ['Interaction Design', 'Voice Assistant', 'New York', 'Conversational UI', 'UX'] |
This is part 3 of a 4 part series about ‘microsolidarity’: a plan for people supporting each other to do more meaningful work. The other parts are here: 1, 2, 4
Cartoon characters from “Captain Planet & The Planeteers”
Crews: when they’re good they’re really very good
Around ~5–8 people is a sweet spot of high impac... | ['Personal Development', 'Sharing Economy', 'Leadership', 'Trust', 'Microsolidarity'] |
The only way to truly find work supporting your lifestyle is by trying several different career paths and side hustles.
I would not be making strides towards achieving my financial goals and doing work; I genuinely enjoy it if I always played it safe. As kids, we were taught to be safe. We were taught not to color out... | ['Motivation', 'Finance', 'Money', 'Work', 'Inspiration'] |
Photo by Min An from Pexels, modified by author
Many have learned the value of habitually asking themselves, on seeing the behavior of others, “What does that tell me?” That is useful because actions speak louder (and, we feel, more truly) than words. Patterns of behavior are particularly telling.
Get some perspectiv... | ['Relationships', 'Lessons Learned', 'Journaling', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
Perhaps, like me, you are a fan of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While some find his poetry harsh, I often find it to be beautiful. He frequently turns to nature to display his views of life, the spiritual self, independence, and loss. One of my favorites, Threnody, written about the son he lost to Scarlet Fever wh... | ['Essay', 'Writing Prompts', 'Poetry', 'Promposity', 'Writing'] |
“So… How does it feel to work for yourself?” — this is something I get asked too often since I started to venture into my startup. So I thought to myself, let me do a roundup of all the feelings that catch me now and then.
After completing my MBA and working for a couple of years, the first few months were nothing les... | ['Work', 'Women In Business', 'Freelancing', 'Startup Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
With the renewed and heightened anxiety caused by a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, remote workers enter a new — and possibly worse — phase of working from home. Already facing burnout caused by isolation or the overwhelming responsibility of caring for kids and loved ones, the uncertainty of this next wave seems unfatho... | ['Design Leadership', 'Remote Work', 'Aquentinsideout', 'Design', 'Leadership'] |
Facebook ReAgent its a Reinforcement Learning Framework you Need to Know About
ReAgent is a new framework that streamlines the implementation of reasoning systems.
I recently started a new newsletter focus on AI education. TheSequence is a no-BS( meaning no hype, no news etc) AI-focused newsletter that takes 5 minute... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Thesequence'] |
This Is What Happened When I Reduced My Screen Time
The impact of the continual news cycle and social media on mental & emotional health
Photo by Rami Al-zayat on Unsplash
I saw the text come through and upon opening was met with a blaze of commentary about a political figure. The text was a screenshot followed by “... | ['Mental Health', 'Social Media', 'Emotions', 'Screentime', 'Anger'] |
As a writer of the Design Leadership Notebook, I was triggered by this article on FastCompany about how John Maeda critically dissects the idea of design leadership. The title of the article is “In reality, design is not that important.” In the article, the author reports on how John Maeda, a long time hero of mine, to... | ['Design Leadership', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Leadership', 'John Maeda'] |
Make Your Office into A DIY Studio
There are a number of factors that come with creating a successful video. Your environment is crucial for creating a high-quality video for social media.
Offices are often crowded, noisy, and poorly lit — certainly not the ideal setting to have a video recorded. For this reason, we ... | ['Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Video Marketing', 'Video', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
Gaslighting, The Political Tactic of our Time
Not Just An Interpersonal Dynamic
Photo by Philippe Mignot on Unsplash
Gaslighting. Most of us know what it means. And many of us have been its victim. Gaslighting is most often associated with personal relationships, but its insidious nature is also evident in the socia... | ['Trump', 'Social Change', 'Culture', 'Psychology', 'Politics'] |
Redux is a state management tool and can be used with React application for managing states. Getting started with React can be overwhelming because we see a lot of state management tools are available on the internet today. Before getting started let’s understand what is state management.
State management & its need
... | ['Redux', 'React Hook', 'React', 'React Context', 'Flux'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Fssd The Natural Step', 'Sustainable Development', 'Leadership', 'Formación', 'Sustainability'] |
DIY: A Web Version of the Fluent Design System’s Acrylic Material
Using backdrop-filter on Microsoft Edge and other modern browsers
“It’s the dark arts.”
That’s what a colleague of mine said one day as we were walking to lunch talking about people with CSS expertise. He went on to compare it to the more traditional ... | ['Fluent Design System', 'Design', 'Web Development', 'Microsoft'] |
How to write an API with FastAPI?
One of the most common use cases for Data Science is how to create an API for getting a model’s prediction? Let us assume that we have a Titanic Survival model in place that predicts if a person will survive or not. And, it needs a person’s age and sex as input params to predict. We w... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Editors Pick', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
the interview: Stephanie Sher
December 2020
Stephanie started her tech career in software, as an early employee at NYC-based infrastructure monitoring company Datadog. She has been a product manager in robotics/manufacturing automation as well as led growth in the ML devtool space, and now serves as GM at a stealth s... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Technology', 'DevOps'] |
COVID-19 has had unforeseen and unpredictable impacts on many industries, including Venture Capital. VC, an industry predicated on personal relationships and accessibility, now needed to operate virtually. Did early stage companies shift their focus from their next funding round to staying afloat? Did late stage compan... | ['Data Science', 'Visualization', 'Covid 19', 'Venture Capital'] |
After several requests for an interview, with no response, we were elated to finally see a response from Bear (or from Bear’s ‘people’), in our inbox. Bear is an older gent and a hyper-local NJ celebrity, so it is a feat to score an interview. As well, Bear’s social calendar is always full. Two boys who live a block aw... | ['Storytelling', 'Mindfulness', 'New Jersey', 'Dog', 'Best Friend'] |
Manipulation
A Poem
By itself, the room turns grey, turns into a manipulative shadow; the walls leak their paint like tears, the windows blink shut and stay that way; eccentric motions work their way to the language of the floor, the hardwood cobbling a story (a lie?) out of missing footsteps and absent pressures
ea... | ['Image', 'Reading', 'Musing', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
1. Start with a good idea
It’s kind of impossible to tell if a startup idea will work. Lots of the really successful ideas out there seem crazy at first, and lots of sensible-sounding projects go nowhere.
I picked an idea that seemed like it had a good chance of product-market-founder fit, or an idea that:
I am uniq... | ['Product Design', 'User Experience', 'Careers', 'Startup', 'YouTube'] |
If you’re looking for how to loop animated metaballs in blender, you’ve come to the right place. Since this is a procedural animation, it will be easy to control the number and size of metaballs, amplitude, speed, etc. Here you can check video version and I also added a link to the blender file containing all the nodes... | ['Animation', 'Blender', 'Design'] |
Dialogue & Discourse seeks to provide readers with a means for developing informed opinions regarding issues of significance, aiding in the creation of a dialogue between opponents of thought at a time where our society suffers from intense tribalism and partisanship. We strive to curate empirically-centered pieces tha... | ['Publishing', 'Write', 'Editor', 'Publication', 'Writing'] |
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