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There’s no greater truth found atop the peak of a mountain than in the darkness of a hallowed valley. Yet, there’s a moment of perspective that is sought and revealed in the two locations. In the valley, the wanderer is looking up, hoping to overcome fear while peering up at those impossible heights — and the treachero... | ['Creative', 'Existentialism', 'Nonfiction', 'Humanity', 'Nature'] |
Most of us data scientists go into the industry because we love data (whatever that means? No, I don’t know either!). The ability to create easily readable plots is often an afterthought. Most job descriptions will mention that being able to visualise data is important but I have never had a sensible conversation with ... | ['Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways
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Being in Your Own League Makes You Thrive in All Seasons Simona Rich Follow Oct 20 · 4 min read
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Today’s society is full of guilt so those with self-confidence are often seen as egotistic. There are of course egotistic people in the world, and many of them, yet self-confidence is diff... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Help', 'Self Confidence', 'Business Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Dear Contributor,
In this month’s Development Report, you will notice that we didn’t include the typical bulleted list describing what we will focus on in the upcoming month. Instead, we will detail what we’ve been working on in both November and December. As a result, in January, you will not receive a December updat... | ['Gaming', 'Dreamteam Development', 'Blockchain', 'Startup', 'Esport'] |
I got fooled once with my data. Not this time. Pawtocol Follow Jan 10 · 4 min read
Until recently, I never really thought about the value of data. Whenever I needed to let a new app get my info from Facebook, I agreed. It was just easier that way. I knew Amazon and Alexa were tracking every move I made when it came to... | ['Privacy', 'Technology', 'Pets', 'Tech', 'Startup'] |
These are my answers to questions about AI and its business practice, discussed among ~200 of my fellow classmates from IIT Bombay. They are modified slightly to protect privacy, to remove specific references and for better narration. This is the first part of a series of these posts. The second part discusses insights... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
The Everlasting Battle of Motivation vs. Resistance
Whenever you decide if you’re going to do something or not, there’s a tug-o-war inside your brain between two opposing forces — motivation and resistance.
Motivation is everything that pushes you towards action. Your bad conscience, the good feeling afterward, and t... | ['Work', 'Procrastination', 'Advice', 'Productivity', 'Self Improvement'] |
Hello Gail, My First Winter Storm.
I was a child again, for a day.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Snow day.
It started in a flurry — the storm I’ve been waiting for.
I stood by the window, working, one eye on the situation, watching fat flakes fall from the sky, powdering the ground in white.
My eyes delighte... | ['Happiness', 'Nonfiction', 'Joy', 'Life', 'Winter'] |
With university essay writing, the word count of the paper can often be deceptive. You might look at a 2,500 or 3,000-word paper and feel your heart sink at the thought of undertaking something of that size. But the most important qualifying factor, and the one which will really determine how much work is going to go i... | ['Essay', 'Essay Writing', 'Custom Essay Writing', 'Custom Essay', 'Writing'] |
One
this is the start of pages and pages
poems in poems
a story
sloppy sometimes
mostly
uncertain spaces
misguided underscores
I don’t know what I am doing
but I am doing
something. everything.
this is the middle and
a shifting vantage point and
my whole heart except
the parts I hide (most of them)
I am ... | ['Storytelling', 'Self', 'Emotions', 'Poetry', 'Poem'] |
My decision to become a journalist is, what I see as, the coalescence of my previous career choices, each inspiring and bolstering the next. Although I feel confident with my decision, it took me working many different jobs to reach it.
I attended Boston University for my undergrad, where I focused on film and televis... | ['Social Journalism', 'Cerebral Palsy', 'Spinal Muscular Atrophy', 'Socialj19', 'Journalism'] |
When journalists go missing — or worse, are murdered for investigating and reporting on government corruption or drug cartels — their investigative work and documents often disappear along with them. The work for which the journalist risked their life or freedom ends.
Efforts are underway to ensure that an investigati... | ['Journalism', 'Death', 'Security', 'Tech', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Detect Your Face Parts on Your Browser dannadori Follow Nov 3 · 6 min read
Introduction
I’d like to enable all the machine learning models/ AI models in the world work in a browser! So for a little while now, I’ve been working diligently on creating an npm package that works with tensorflowjs + webworker [Here]. In t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'TensorFlow', 'JavaScript', 'Tensorflowjs'] |
Let me tell you a story…
Let me paint you a whole new world to immerse yourself in for just a little while. A world where justice prevails and conflict is resolved. A world where people live happily ever after.
We know these stories aren’t real, but they allow us to immerse ourselves in dreams of the world we wish we... | ['Life Lessons', 'Reading', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
Tips for Parents Who Worry Too Much
Since I know other parents must also worry about how their anxieties affect their kids, I wanted to share how I approach parenting.
1. Pay Attention to the Messages You Give Out
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America: “Children of anxious parents are more a... | ['Mental Health', 'Family', 'Relationships', 'Parenting', 'Anxiety'] |
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My primary goal with this article is to highlight a practical application as a result of building a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. In general, CNN models have a wide variety of applications; in this case, it’s building a model that can accurately detect pneumon... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
So, you’ve done it. You’ve built a company from the ground up, proved product-market fit, and are preparing to grow. Regardless of what led you to this moment, one thing always remains the same: scaling up a business marks the end of an era.
Despite the feeling of success, for you, or your business partners, it’s easy... | ['Vision', 'Growth Mindset', 'Startup', 'Company Culture', 'Scaleup'] |
Yes, it’s true: Artificial Intelligence is coming and it’s going to change the world around us. Actually, AI and ML (machine learning) are already here, and we’re failing to appropriately grapple with the ramifications, especially ethical concerns. I don’t feel compelled to explain or support the above statements. Open... | ['Machine Learning', 'Government Innovation', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Government', 'Digital Transformation'] |
50+ Java Collections Interview Questions for Beginners and Experienced Programmers javinpaul Follow Jun 26 · 9 min read
image_credit — Java collections Fundamentals by Pluralsight
Java Collection and Generic are a very important topic for Java Interviews. They also present some of the hardest questions to a programme... | ['Algorithms', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
How to configure Gmail to work for you, not against you
Email should be a tool, not a nuisance. Here’s how it works.
Photo by Webaroo.com.au on Unsplash
“You have read all messages in your inbox.”
To many of us, this is porn. The infamous Inbox Zero has been reached. All email has been taken care of. Nothing to see... | ['Lifehacks', 'Productivity', 'Gmail', 'Inbox Zero', 'Email'] |
How to Scale Content Marketing: 5 Tips for Creating Better Content While Conserving Your Resources
Content marketing can generate three times as many leads as outbound marketing at only 1/3 of the price (according to the Content Marketing Institute).
Creating great content day in and day out, however, can be a challe... | ['Content', 'Digital Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Content Marketing'] |
We found this here.
Disclaimer: This piece was written in April 2017. Since publishing, further information has come out about Cambridge Analytica and the company’s involvement in elections.
Recently, the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica has been the centre of tons of debate around the use of profiling and micro-... | ['Surveillance', 'Big Data', 'Privacy', 'Cambridge Analytica', 'Elections'] |
Me from 9am to 4pm today
It is so fun to get to work on a project that I am excited about! Part of the reason today was so fun was because I was actually able to make some decent progress on my canvas Avalanche game.
I was able to draw all the icicles at the top of the canvas and draw our little stickman hero at the ... | ['Design', 'Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'Coding', 'Learning To Code'] |
Recently, I was attending a predicting house prices hackathon. That was the first time I was dealing with a dataset having geographic coordinates - latitude and longitude . While working on this hackathon I have understood about Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, and finding the distance between two coordinates. In this art... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Python'] |
When the material meets the immaterial
With incentives, things are not always what they seem
“Most of economics can be summarized in four words: ‘People respond to incentives.’ The rest is commentary,” Steven Landsburg writes on the very first page of The Armchair Economist (perhaps not without a hint of provocation)... | ['Recruiting', 'Economics', 'Psychology', 'Behavioral Economics'] |
James Gilliand was one of those kids who, on the first day of school in any random grade, appeared at a desk, having moved from some other school district far far away. He was a tall kid with close-cut and somewhat oily black hair. His complexion was a tint or two darker than most of ours, too, but even on that first d... | ['Weeds And Wildflowers', 'Schools', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Friendship'] |
Freshman year we were blowing out a team, so they put the scrubs — me — in the game. For some reason, the other team continued to intentionally foul. I just happened to have the ball every time they fouled, so I ended up taking twelve free throws in just a couple minutes. I made eight of them, and considering a few yea... | ['Storytelling', 'Humor', 'Sports'] |
A beautiful story is told about a disciple of Gautam Buddha. He was a young monk, very healthy, very beautiful, very cultured. He had come — just like Gautam Buddha — from a royal family, renouncing the kingdom.
In the West, just as Cleopatra is thought to be the most beautiful woman in the whole past of humanity, in ... | ['Education', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Osho'] |
When working with a large amount of data, we often spend time analyzing and preparing the data. The purpose of this article is to compare the performance of two technologies very present in the big data universe. I will use Spark and cuDF to understand which commands are faster on both technologies.
Apache Spark is ge... | ['Software Engineering', 'Cuda', 'Spark', 'Gpu', 'Hadoop'] |
Practical Machine Learning Tutorial: Part.3 (Model Evaluation-1)
Multi-class Classification Problem: Geoscience example (Facies)
In this part, we will elaborate on some model evaluation metrics specifically for multi-class classification problems. Accuracy, precision, recall, and confusion matrix are discussed below ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Multiclass Classification', 'Model Evaluation', 'Geoscience', 'Python'] |
Supporting sustainable and impactful journalistic coverage is essential to increase public awareness for, and interest in, the many challenges and solutions contained within global development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The European Development Journalism Grants programme supports journalistic media organis... | ['Journalism', 'Funding', 'Sdgs', 'Media', 'Updates'] |
Leads are the thing we all need to keep the sales pipeline filled. There is no denying that. As a business, you generally know how many leads it’ll take for you to close a certain amount of deals. (If you don’t, stop right now and figure it out before you run out of money.) You hustle to get those leads and concentrate... | ['Branding', 'Lead Generation', 'Marketing', 'Brand Strategy', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Medium has been one of those pleasant surprises in my life. And maintaining interest for a whole year was completely unexpected. I figured I would run out of material or interest after a few months. Yet here I am. Still enjoying it. Still writing.
The simple reason is, I have found an audience that responds. I don’t g... | ['Medium', 'Essay', 'Other Stories', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
In the previous episodes, we explained the processes behind component creation and design system management, but from a design perspective.
In this article, we will describe how we manage to push these components into production in a fast growing and changing environment.
Commute routine
Commuting, everyday, the sam... | ['Design Systems', 'Design', 'Process', 'Product', 'Everoad'] |
INTERFACES
Before learning anything about what interfaces are, lets take a look at an example to clearly get the idea regarding why we need interfaces and how it could save us a lot of trouble while coding with GO.
Create a new directory and inside it create a main.go file. Paste the following code inside it.
packag... | ['Interfaces', 'Development', 'Beginner', 'Golang', 'Tutorial'] |
How I Got Promoted in a Year from Junior to Mid Senior Developer
Effective Tips From Being Promoted at Twitter
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Everyone wants to get promoted. You get a title change. You get a compensation increase. You can work on larger-scope projects. But what does it take to get promoted? What are th... | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Computer Science', 'Work', 'Programming'] |
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Even for experienced SEO professionals, search optimization can be confusing. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different factors that can enter into how your site ranks, and those factors change frequently (and oftentimes, without warning).
If you’re adhering to best prac... | ['SEO', 'Online Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Search Engine Optimizati', 'Content Marketing'] |
Introduction
With the Digital Revolution well under way, we are interacting with algorithms on a daily basis. These algorithms make everyday decisions for us such as which posts we see as we scroll through social media and which websites we browse when searching for information online. They also help us make significa... | ['AI', 'Bias', 'Algorithms', 'Ethics', 'Automation'] |
If you lurk in the shadows of the data viz world, you’re no doubt familiar with this kind of exercise. Health and productivity apps offer more ways to track daily data than ever before. As people naturally obsessed with quantifying, many data visualization practitioners have used it as an exercise in reflection.
This ... | ['Design', 'JavaScript', 'Data', 'Data Visualization', 'Creative Coding'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Humor', 'Wednesday', 'Comics', 'Cartoon', 'Psychology'] |
By Gil Rosen
What is product market fit?
How do you know when you have it?
Why does it even matter?
I do not think it means what you think it means
I thought to write an article on Product-Market-Fit based on my own experience as an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and founder of headandheart.capital. A quick goog... | ['Venture Capital', 'Product Market Fit', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup Lessons'] |
Introduction
Let’s say you decided to practice and develop yourself in this field. Today we will see how software engineers can apply deep learning and Artificial Intelligence into their programming work.
The first thing that we must know is how it can be applicable, and here is a nice question to make a research on:... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education'] |
Have you been noticing how great advertisements have increasingly become more and more emotional. Some of my favourite ones in the recent past have been major tear-inducers. Give these a look to see what I mean:
Fortune’s attempt at making us cry (and buy their oil).
A grandmother (Daddi) insists on feeding her bed r... | ['Marketing', 'Trends', 'Emotions', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
The Basics of Threads
Python has two main modules that implement threads — thread and threading . The difference between them is that the latter one is an object-oriented implementation — and that is what we will be using in this article.
A Thread class is instantiated as follows (target is the function we want to ex... | ['Python', 'Threads', 'Programming', 'Python3', 'Concurrency'] |
21 Running Resolutions for 2021
It’s resolution time!
Photo by Yasemin K. on Unsplash
What are goals anymore? We set them last year, and look what happened.
Don’t let 2020 discourage you from aiming high. Not having a goal at all will guarantee stagnancy, and who wants to be stuck in this mess?
Here are 21 running... | ['Goals', 'Running', 'Productivity', 'Training', 'New Year'] |
While beginning to browse online as I do every year around this time looking for airing dates and times for my cherished television specials, I said “Oh, crap” aloud as I remembered something: Charlie Brown airs on the ‘ABC’ channel. The majority of other favored holiday specials also air on channels of the like: NBC, ... | ['Self', 'Family', 'Love', 'Wellness', 'Holidays'] |
Surprised That Big Tech Failed Us? Here Is How We Could Have Known.
While the recent headlines about Facebook, Google, and other tech giants seem to cause outrage, their ethical failings were predictable from their business models. Long time ago.
Show me your business model, and I tell you about your ethics. It is of... | ['Society', 'Economy', 'Business', 'Ethics', 'Technology'] |
With a desire to connect faces to this insidious disease, people where asked to participate in a project. Everyone who participated were asked the same questions and their responses developed into poems sharing their experiences.
Follow | ['Faces Of Covid', 'Reflection', 'Poetry', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Although there are packages such as sklearn and Pandas that manage trivial tasks like randomly selecting and splitting samples, there may be times when you need to perform these tasks without them.
In this article we will learn how to randomly select and manage data in NumPy arrays for machine learning without scikit-... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Numpy', 'Programming', 'Data Structures'] |
Everyday Color Theory
A poetic crash course on the history of color
A version of this essay was presented at SPAN 2019 during the “Hue & Glue: Hands-On Color Theory” workshop. Read to the end to find instructions for an exercise that explores the relationship between color and light.
Throughout the essay, the accomp... | ['Color Theory', 'Design'] |
We start every interview with the same question: “Can you tell me what you had for breakfast?” This gives us time to adjust sound levels, change the framing, and dim the lights. Today, almost everyone responds with, “Just coffee.”
It’s the final day of Design Week, a 3-day conference for the Workday design community. ... | ['Design Videos', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Video Series', 'Design Media'] |
You can’t navigate Youtube without some bumbling fuckwit tapping a microphone knowingly. Sometimes they brush the microphone with a pleasant but eerie smile. They often whisper non-sequiturs and stir yoghurt. It’s like society has fallen into a Monty Python sketch. But no. This is the world of ASMR creation and some pe... | ['Humor', 'Social Media', 'Psychology', 'YouTube', 'Asmr'] |
Meanwhile, two individuals, one in Russia and one in California (who happened to read my Medium article on Abhinav in January 2020) decided to donate one cow each to the gaushala. This time Abhinav selected two brown cows from the Sahiwal breed. They were named Asha and Kamala. The new cows made themselves comfortable ... | ['Environment', 'Nature', 'Agriculture', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle'] |
We really appreciate the work StevenJNPearce did on this.
🐱 Crypto Kitties, Unique Tokens or “Non-Fungibles”
We love our kitties and really dislike the acronym NFT (Non-Fungible Token). Crypto-assets are already confusing enough. When I first heard the term fungible I thought the topic of conversation had moved to m... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Startup', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
For at least 20 years — though I suspect much longer — I’ve been battling mental health issues. Initially, I was diagnosed with depression. That never seemed quite right, or all, and my next diagnosis was dysthymia.
Years passed with more problems and zero relief. I was then diagnosed with bipolar type two, and for a ... | ['Personal Development', 'Culture', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
Bradley Gerwig’s relationship with animals is complex. Over the course of his life, they’ve served as sources of income, nutrition, entertainment, and companionship. Some are nuisances; others are worthy prey. Asked if he considers himself an animal lover, he responds with an anecdote about how, as a high school studen... | ['Environment', 'Reasonable Doubt', 'Animals', 'Zoo', 'Animal Rights'] |
For decades now, Arab governments have been building a massive wall to obstruct the establishment of independent journalistic platforms. The State’s ownership of the major print houses helped consolidate its absolute control over the publishing industry in Egypt. Even privately-owned newspapers have had to be printed a... | ['News', 'Innovation', 'Journalism', 'Fake News', 'Politics'] |
Reflections
My Weekly Roundup
Photo by Matheus Bertelli from Pexels
I’m doing my weekly roundup again! All my posts for the previous week together for anyone who’s interested.
Here’s last week’s featuring poetry.
I appreciate all the kind feedback on these posts and I hope that if it’s your first time reading them... | ['Poems On Medium', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Writing'] |
Magnificent is the Quran
Breathtaking words have come from above;
Full of guidance and love.
Like a rain that makes barren land alive;
Rain that helps you survive.
Written by the master of the worlds;
Giving a hope to fallible slaves.
Teaching you to become slaves of the merciful;
Freeing you from the slavery o... | ['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Quran', 'Islam', 'Poem'] |
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Over the years, I’ve noticed that when colleagues have low productivity and low achievement, they also have high stress levels.
This tells me that although they want to get as much work done as possible, their efforts are actually reaping small rewards.
For example, I remember a colleague o... | ['Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Efficiency'] |
The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones. Saga/Simon & Schuster, July 2020.
The inimitable — and prolific Blackfeet master of horror is back with a killer of a book. The Only Good Indians (out with Saga/Simon & Schuster onJuly 14, 2020), will take you up to the Blackfeet reservation and down to Great Falls, and ... | ['Review', 'Books', 'Novel', 'Literature', 'Book Review'] |
1. Why Creativity is more important than the Design Tool 🛠
“From the Darkside, to the light… and relax. Just don’t mention The Last Jedi.”
In a recent article I read, they touched upon tools for Wireframing, Prototyping, and those tried and trusted UI Design tools that we eat, sleep and breathe (you know the ones). ... | ['UI', 'Design', 'Sketch', 'UX', 'Web Design'] |
Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
That weapon is a vast database, packed with millions of images of faces, irises, fingerprints, and DNA data — a biometric dragn... | ['Privacy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Military', 'Facial Recognition', 'Industry'] |
[Note from the author: See an update to the thinking presented in these articles here. I no longer work at Social Capital, if you want to reach me you can email me at jonathan@tribecap.co]
We’ve gotten a ton of great feedback on these posts and are really excited that it’s providing a useful and valuable set of tools ... | ['Startup', 'SaaS', 'Venture Capital'] |
Believe it or not, many self-identified Christians have their faith because they love God/the idea of God/creation itself/the data stream governing the functions and actions of the perceived and unseen Universe. Naturally, others have faith (or try to have it) out of a fear of hell or fear of not getting to heaven. In ... | ['Faith', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Religion', 'China'] |
How to Stay Awake For Date Night
Try this for 10 minutes, so you can Netflix and Chill.
Photo by SeventyFour
Sleeping beauty
There were a few fairly awkward points during my early 20’s where I found myself without anything to do on a Friday evening. On those occasions, I would sometimes tag along with my cousin Con... | ['Books', 'Advice', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Self Improvement'] |
In this introduction to Pycaret, you will learn how to automate your data science workflow with Pycaret, an automated machine learning library for your data science projects. Pycaret makes work easier by automating your exploratory data analysis (EDA) process and gives you results in a minute.
SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE MOR... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Pycaret'] |
Crown Development Update 21.07.20
NFT resync functionality coming along. Trezor testers wanted. Crown Bounty program launched. Website drafts evolving.
Keep calm and buidl
Ashot
has been working on the nftoken database resync functionality. The release candidate should be ready for public testing by the end of the ... | ['Development', 'Crw', 'Crownplatform', 'Nft', 'Bounty Program'] |
How Netflixonomics and Fashionomics are converging.
Most would agree that Netflix has changed the way we watch Television, but that would be only half the story. What Netflix has changed in monumental proportions is the economics of entertainment. Netflix represents a class of digitally native companies that have buil... | ['Retail', 'Personalization', 'Netflix', 'Amazon', 'Ecommerce'] |
Going global is a very attractive strategy for companies and a great challenge for product and engineering teams. Usually when we start building products for international markets, the first step is to work on translation. I would like to share with you how we made this process simple and scalable, making life easier f... | ['Software Engineering', 'Translation', 'Globalization'] |
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This past week, news about Dr. Timnit Gebru, the eminent and beloved AI Ethics scholar fired by Google roiled the industry and highlighted the unsavory reality of being Black and ethical in a space dominated by powerful white men. It revived traumatic memories for many women of color who... | ['Big Tech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Moral Responsibility', 'Ai Ethics', 'Ethics In Tech'] |
In The End
The voice inside our heads keeps us busy, distracted. But to what ultimate end?
As I carry on my daily work, my mind is focused. I’m immersed in the detail and the demand of the task.
But in the moments of reduced attention, in recent weeks particularly, it wanders to thoughts of my demise. I realise that... | ['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Reality', 'Life', 'Death'] |
Functional Programming illustrated in Python: Part 5
The IO Monad — laid bare
From the Functional Programming illustrated in Python series
But I don’t like Monads!
Monads, Monads, Monads… have you got anything without Monads?
Well, there’s Direct Function Application. That doesn’t have much Monad in it.
The probl... | ['Functional Programming', 'Python', 'Computer Science', 'Monads'] |
A Brief History of the Beer Game
by Larry Snyder
I’m getting pretty excited about the upcoming release of the Opex Analytics Beer Game — it’s scheduled to go live in about three weeks! While the Opex version is brand new and uses cutting-edge algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, the Beer Game itself has quite an e... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Logistics', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Videogames'] |
Physics Puzzles: A Pebble Thrown in the Air
Will It Take Longer to Go Up or Down?
I have a habit of throwing into the air whatever I hold. I do it so often that some call it as my addiction, yeah, it is so common to me. Depending on initial conditions, on how it left my hand, I make bare predictions: how many rotatio... | ['Self', 'Education', 'Math', 'Physics', 'Science'] |
Building an Algorithmic Trading Strategy with Enigma Catalyst
Walking you through the Enigma project and using Catalyst to build an automated trading strategy.
Introduction to Enigma
Blockchains, in their current form, don’t handle privacy well. The data that is stored on a blockchain is available for everyone to in... | ['Python', 'Blockchain', 'Trading', 'Algorithmic Trading', 'Bitcoin'] |
An epic coming-of-age story that interweaves science, birds, politics and romance whilst confronting some of today’s most important environmental issues
by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Twitter
Accidentals (Torrey House, 2020: Amazon US / Amazon UK) is a lovely story narrated by Gabriel, the 23-year-old son of a natural... | ['Environmental Issues', 'Birding', 'Books', 'Book Review', 'Uruguay'] |
Finding balance in our lives. It certainly seems like an unattainable goal but I do believe employers can play an important role in promoting a healthy work-life balance.
So, what can management do to help their employees find balance in their lives? Here are a few ideas:
Encourage workday recovery breaks
Workday re... | ['Work', 'Human Resources', 'Work Life Balance', 'Startup', 'Company Culture'] |
All You Need to Know About the Lambda Functions in Python
Practical examples and real usage of lambda functions in Python
Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash
If you’ve heard of lambda functions in Python but not sure about how to use them, you’re in the right place.
This article will provide all you need to know a... | ['Python', 'Python3', 'Lambda', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
TransCoder is highly versatile
Currently, TransCoder can translate freely between C++, Java and Python, but the research team behind TransCoder says that it will be able to adapt to any programming language pair and fluently translate in between them.
Software with the sole purpose of translating between languages is... | ['Technology', 'Software Development', 'Business', 'AI', 'Programming'] |
An evolving list of my literary heroes
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"When a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground."
-- Alex Haley
griot (pron.: /ˈɡri.oʊ/; French pronunciation: [ɡʁi.o]), jali or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer... | ['Literary', 'Lists', 'Bazaar Of The Bizarre', 'Heroes', 'Writing'] |
Stop Cutting Corners
The hard path is always worthwhile.
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Try if you’d like, but you’ll find there are no cutting corners.
All the “hacks” and “quick tips” and “secrets” won’t save you from the inevitable need to see your goals through to completion.
When you look over your shoulder... | ['Inspiration', 'Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement'] |
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To understand what a set is, let’s understand what collections are.
A collection is a group of elements bundled into one instance. This can be a set, an arraylist, a linkedlist or a map. Each represents a different way to handle all these elements
A set is a collection that cannot cont... | ['Data Structures', 'Java8', 'Java'] |
Silence is all she wanted, anonymity she craved
Emerging from the ice-cold water, Jo lifts her face towards the sky, takes a gulp full of air and plunges back into the silence of the water.
Just above the surface the sounds pierce her ear drums, the noise of the seagulls squawking, and the pandemonium on the beach.
... | ['Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Daydreaming is part of the human experience. It helps us get through difficult days, giving us hope for the future. As kids, we daydream about fantastical scenarios of our adult life. We dream of living in Africa, running wild with our pet cheetah. Instead, we grow up to live in Brooklyn hunched over a laptop 12 hours ... | ['Management', 'Startup', 'Self', 'Leadership', 'Work'] |
Let us understand the eval() built-in-function in python.
This would be a short article about eval function in python, wherein I would be explaining to you about eval function, its syntax, and few questions that are often asked in interviews so that you clearly understand it and answer those questions in ease. To get ... | ['Python', 'Python3', 'Functional Programming', 'Programming', 'Python Programming'] |
Some silly palindromes
I have had a few technical interviews lately asking questions that are variations or actually include the palindrome question. This is why I thought it would be relevant to shed some light on how I learned to solve this interview question in the hopes that someone could benefit from how to solve... | ['Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Algorithms', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development'] |
Adyen, for all intents and purposes, is a fintech company. But in industry-label only.
The company is more than just a payment solution. There’s a certain culture behind Adyen — one without hierarchy, without ego. But with plenty of style and panache. This really is a band of rebels, or self-proclaimed misfits.
From ... | ['Fintech', 'Design'] |
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
To be called literate in the 2020s there is a good chance you must know how to code. It may seem an exaggeration, but I certainly believe it would be true for engineering roles. I still remember vividly when in 2014 President Obama participated in the ‘Hour of Code’ to encourage st... | ['Python', 'Hour Of Code', 'Petroleum Engineering', 'FAQ', 'Learning To Code'] |
1. Introduction
Discretisation is the process of transforming continuous variables into discrete variables by creating a set of contiguous intervals that span the range of variable values.
1.1 Discretisation helps handle outliers and highly skewed variables
Discretisation helps handle outliers by placing these value... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Model', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Feature Engineering'] |
How to Prevent Broken Data Pipelines with Data Observability
And other important lessons for data teams
Image courtesy of Amarnath Tade on Unsplash.
If you work in data, these questions are probably a common occurrence:
“What happened to my dashboard?” “Why is that table missing?” “Who in the world changed the file... | ['Data Analysis', 'Data Quality', 'Data', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science'] |
We can see from the graphs above that reported life satisfaction increases up to the beautiful day, but then declines in the proceeding years. The apparent novelty seems to wear off as the reality of life and all its challenges take hold. Kahneman suggests that perhaps we get married in the hope the future will be bett... | ['Self', 'Wellbeing', 'Happiness', 'Psychology', 'Focus'] |
With the meteoric rise of video, It is not difficult to understand why it is becoming a necessity for marketers in 2017. This comprehensive list of video statistics will help you understand why video is such a big deal.
One example would be, mobile video is expected increase 11x between 2016 and 2020. Another is, 67% ... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Video', 'Video Marketing'] |
Now over 80 million members strong, millennials have beat out baby boomers as the largest living generation in the U.S. And with their digital-savvy mindsets and devices constantly at their fingertips, they’re also the most distracted generation of all time. 95% of millennials are doing other things while shopping — wa... | ['Personalization', 'Millennials', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Ecommerce'] |
You can build a world with only four numbers. Simply put a date at the top of your story. This technique is especially useful for flash or micro-fiction. Or any time you have a word count limitation.
If I put:
-1776 -
at the top of a story, most American readers will envision the setting of the American Revolution: ... | ['Worldbuilding', 'Tips', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Other Stories', 'Writing'] |
Feminist epic success story J.K. Rowling is a former abuse victim who escaped and never let it happen again, and is now a not-so-fantastic beast to a small tranche of the trans community.
Rowling is the most visible face in the list of people attacked or cancel-bullied by extremist transgender activists — a case study... | ['Gender Dysphoria', 'Feminism', 'Misogyny', 'Science', 'Transgender'] |
The ML workspace is an all-in-one web-based integrated development environment dedicated for machine learning and data science.
It is simple to deploy and lets you productively build ML solutions on your own machines. This workspace is a universal solution for developers preloaded with a variety of popular data scienc... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Jupyterlab', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Extension'] |
Ask for feedback
“Do you mean that I should share my non-perfect work with others so that they can judge it and perhaps share their feedback with me?”
Yes. That’s exactly what I mean.
Writing online can feel lonely at times. I can call myself lucky living together with 2 friends that both work from home, but I can i... | ['Freelancing', 'Writing Tips', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Writing'] |
Docker Solution for Graphviz, Diagram, and Cluster
I have posted several articles on how to create development and test Docker images [see references 4, 5, and 6 below]. I assume you know of Docker and have read them.
Docker is used for encapsulating an individual image of your application.
Docker-Compose is used to... | ['Python', 'Architecture', 'Docker', 'Programming', 'Cloud'] |
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