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Setting up your Rails API
To reiterate, the following steps are what I often do when I set up my Rails API. That being said, there may be some steps (i.e. gems) that you will not want/need for your project. Also, I often create my Rails API with Postgres as the database. Whatever database you choose to work with isn’t... | ['Guides And Tutorials', 'React', 'Code Newbie', 'Rails', 'Redux'] |
In 1941, a short story by an Argentine writer named Jorge Luis Borges was published in a book titled The Garden of Forking Paths. The story would mesmerize linguists, mathematicians, philosophers, and eventually computer scientists. The name of the story was The Library of Babel, and its thesis and mathematical depth m... | ['Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Articles', 'Technology'] |
Step 2: Creating a Lambda Function
Once your email is verified, it is now time to create a Lambda. If you have read this article, you already know how to create one, but let’s go through it quickly here too. Let’s head over to the “Lambda” service in the AWS dashboard. Once here, click on the orange “Create function” ... | ['Programming', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Serverless', 'AWS'] |
FAQs for Black, Queer, Female Software Engineers
And why you might think twice before you ask them
A recent National Center for Women & Information Technology “By the Numbers” report puts Black women in computing in 2018 at 3% — and this statistic does not make a distinction between technical and nontechnical women i... | ['Black', 'Software Engineering', 'Diversity In Tech', 'Industry', 'Queer'] |
This newsletter is about walking alone in nature. Mostly with an inclusive idea of what constitutes “nature”-the degraded urban wilderness of empty lots, traffic islands, and the trash-strewn floodplains of rivers that flow through big cities. But it’s not as inclusive as I like to think.
I go into the woods or onto t... | ['Christopher Brown', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'Nature Writing', 'Black Writers'] |
DATASET
The dataset I used for this python project is news.csv. This dataset contains News, Title, Text, and Label as the attributes. You can download it from here.
READING THE DATASET
#Reading the data
df=pd.read_csv('/home/femme_js/Hoaxify/news.csv') df.head(10)
This is how dataset looks like.
Before proceeding... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Fake News'] |
OAuth 2.0 is the industry standard protocol for authorization.
When I read the above sentence on the OAuth 2.0 homepage I felt like this is the kind of knowledge that I should have in order to call myself a software engineer, so I started digging. I remember that I felt a little bit scared that I will have to break th... | ['Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Oauth', 'Security', 'Token'] |
We’ve talked a lot about self-awareness in our podcast and explored the concept of how our own behavioral traits can affect our relationships.
Not everyone is perfect, we know that. There are always aspects of yourself that you can improve on, whether it be in your relationship, your friendships, or your work environm... | ['Self-awareness', 'Toxic Relationships', 'Relationships', 'Friendship', 'Self Improvement'] |
100 paths to journalism: how to become a podcast producer
Dávid Tvrdoň shares his insights and advice for aspiring journalists
Starting a career in the journalism industry can be a difficult task. How to choose between many different career paths? What are the first steps to make towards your dream job? To help aspir... | ['Careers', 'Podcast', 'Journalism', 'Media', 'Insights'] |
I’ve renewed ConsoleAppFramework, a framework for easily creating CLI applications and many batches in C#.
The concept of a CLI framework on top of Generic Host, the basic structure, remains unchanged.
The method definitions become command line arguments, and help is generated automatically, as well as settings of lo... | ['Csharp'] |
Porosity-Permeability Relationships Using Linear Regression in Python
A short guide on applying a linear regression in Python to semi-log data
Photo by Ekaterina Novitskaya on Unsplash
Core data analysis is a key component in the evaluation of a field or discovery, as it provides direct samples of the geological for... | ['Python', 'Petrophysics', 'Scatter Plots', 'Linear Regression', 'Pandas'] |
It’s no secret that there is a lot competing for your child’s attention these days. It used to be all we had to do was turn off the television and video games to get some reading time in, but now there is a computer attached to our hands and within easy reach and influence of your child, too.
I’ve never been one to be... | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Literacy', 'Parenting', 'Digital Health'] |
“There is just too much white space.”
When I started out as a designer, as soon as I would hear this phrase, all time would come to a screeching halt. I would roll my eyes in disbelief. Yes, there would be some internal cursing and disbelief in what I had just heard. I would then begrudgingly appease the stakeholder b... | ['Visual Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'Design Thinking', 'Web Design'] |
Cheers to NaNoWriMo 2020
Now more than ever, our stories need to be told.
If anyone asks me my dream, I say it is to write the greatest novel the world has ever known. If anyone asks me how it’s going, I gaze sheepishly at the empty wine bottles in the recycling bin and the plane tickets littering my desk and say thi... | ['NaNoWriMo', 'Nonprofit', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
Everyone’s Calendar is One Meeting Too Full
Here are four things you can do about yours
Photo by Curtis MacNewton on Unsplash
If your friend, co-worker, or boss asked you today to add another meeting to your calendar, what is the first thing you’re going to feel?
For most of us: anxiety.
Or maybe this is a better ... | ['Meetings', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Self Improvement'] |
So you know the difference between hot and cold storage methods. And you know that to protect your investments you need to protect your private keys. Now it’s time to understand exactly how the Secure Wallet’s security features keep your assets safe, and exactly what sets it apart from other cold storage devices on the... | ['Startup', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin Wallet', 'Bitcoin'] |
For most people, we don’t give up on love. Humans are tribal. We have a deep sense of wanting to belong. As Belgian psychotherapist Esther Perel says, “we are hardwired for connection.”
We don’t give up on love, even when it does us wrong.
The need for connection appears to be innate — but the ability to form healthy... | ['Relationships', 'Relationships Love Dating', 'Love', 'Self-awareness', 'Pyschology'] |
If we look at the war of JavaScript frameworks and libraries the list is huge but the major 3 competitors are Angular, React and Vue.
Although angular is a complete framework which has its own package for network request, form validation and many more but the one one down side of angular apps is the app/bundle size.
... | ['JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Google', 'Software Development'] |
With keyboard shortcuts, you can whiz around Jupyter notebooks in JupyterLab. You can save time, reduce wrist fatigue from using your mouse, and impress your friends. 🙂
Below is the missing list of common JupyterLab keyboard shortcuts from a GitHub Gist I made. Enjoy! 🎉
If you want to make your own JupyterLab short... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Jupyter'] |
Calendar vs Fantastical
When it comes to my Calendar I will be completely honest and say that if Fantastical went away tomorrow, I probably wouldn’t be that upset. Not that Fantastical isn’t great and I do prefer it over the Calendar app overall.
When I got my iPhone 11 Pro last year I decided to setup it up as a new... | ['Gadgets', 'Apps', 'Review', 'Technology', 'Apple'] |
In addition to tournaments and quickplay matches that reward players with KNW Tokens, TriviaSpar players will now be able to partake in quickplay and tournaments that reward $USD.
Play cash mode trivia by pressing the GO PRO button at the top of the home screen menu in-app. Deposit $USD to participate in cash reward t... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Blockchain', 'Mobile Games', 'Ethereum Blockchain', 'Ethereum'] |
Deep Thinking: 10 Books That Will Help You Understand The World Differently
Paradigm shifting books for every curious mind
To live is to learn, and to read is to learn from the experience of others. Reading is my favourite way to learn new worldviews, principles, ideas, mindsets, perceptions and mental models.
A goo... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading', 'Learning'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Self-awareness', 'Haiku', 'Poetry', 'Solstice'] |
By Jessica Tran and John Porter
One benefit of joining the UX research community at Microsoft is the chance to participate in the company’s Hackathon, a yearly event that brings employees out of their daily roles to collaborate on new ideas. Our project showed us why partnering closely with people who may use our desi... | ['Accessibility', 'Research And Insight', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Microsoft'] |
Nowadays, SEO is blossoming like a magical world surrounded by thousands of SEO witches with tons and tons of SEO tools and strategies as wands. No one can say whether the magic works or not, but every SEO witch is working too hard to win the heart of search engines, the miracle maker. Let’s go for a quick flashback.
... | ['SEO', 'Online Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Seo Techniques', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Creating a Playground for the Curious
Happy birthday to our design research initiative, Octoscope!
When I first told our team about an opportunity to build a community around research, more than 15 people with various backgrounds volunteered. And now, as the design research community fellows of IBM iX Istanbul, we ar... | ['Research', 'Design Research', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Community'] |
CEO Mike Davie outlined potential of combining of AI, blockchain and data at presentation on day of Mainnet launch
Singapore Digital (SG:D) Industry Day hosted by the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA), our CEO Mike Davie shared his insights on how the combination of Artificial Intelligence, blockc... | ['Presentations', 'Events', 'Blockchain', 'Big Data', 'Mainnet'] |
The New Covid-19 Strain in Britain, Explained
A mutated strain of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in the South-East of the UK is worrying scientists and politicians alike. Here’s why.
Image by PIRO4D from Pixabay
December 14th, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock was on his feet in the House of Commons, delivering some sobering ... | ['Pandemic', 'UK', 'Coronavirus', 'Politics', 'Covid 19'] |
At Under Amour®, we’re committed to our mission: Under Armour makes you better — not just through our gear but also through our fitness apps. As software designers, it’s our job to craft digital solutions that give our users what they need to be better.
How do we know what people need? Asking users directly doesn’t al... | ['Automation', 'Customer Research', 'Chatbots', 'Design Research', 'Design'] |
New York mag editor Adam Moss finally goes on the record: he is not, contrary to the last ten years of reports, a micromanager. “I totally dispute it.” God bless! | ['Self-awareness', 'Adam Moss', 'Media'] |
I began writing for fun. I didn’t really show it off to anyone because it was just for me to read. Sometimes I’d tell my stories to a relative, because Caribbean families, much like many other families around the world, rely on storytelling for fun. We’d exchange ideas, see whose story was funnier, weirder or scarier a... | ['Careers', 'Advice', 'Freelance Writing', 'Career Development', 'Writing'] |
When I first became an on/off vegetarian back in 2001, I had no idea what to eat. I’d already dropped from a size 14 to a size 6/8 simply from taking a weight training class and walking up and down Jefferson City, Missouri hills. I had no interest in being a vegetarian, but I stopped buying meat once I started buying m... | ['Healthy Eating', 'Chicago Restaurant', 'Vegan', 'Chicago', 'Vegetarian'] |
Trying to Trust God When Trust is Difficult
Find comfort in overwhelming times.
Photo by Seven Shooter on Unsplash
This past Sunday, I turned on the live stream of the church I used to attend somewhere in one of the fly-over states. The pastor had started to preach, which meant I’d missed the singing. Fine by me.
G... | ['Relationships', 'Spirituality', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Religion'] |
Sending a Transactional Email
Time to see how can we send a transactional email in Kotlin. This can be easily achieved with the following lines of code:
Transactional parameters must be defined in a Map<String,String> object. A Map is a collection that holds pairs of <key,value> objects. In each pair, the key is the ... | ['Mobile', 'Marketing', 'Programming', 'Kotlin', 'Tutorial'] |
Mobile app optimisation is the process of using controlled experimentation to improve an app’s ability to drive business goals. Here I will outline various techniques I’ve used to build successful apps.
These techniques allow developers to define, measure and test features in an iterative and low cost way. They utilis... | ['Android App Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development'] |
Why We Should All Get Selfie-Sticks
Or at least reconsider asking someone to take our photo
After standing in line for 30 minutes at what felt like a ride to Disney World, the doors finally opened and my group was ushered into a cavernous room. Painted directly on the wall in front of me was the Da Vinci masterpiece,... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Philosophy', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
The list below is ordered by the “don’ts” first, followed by categories ascending.
Don’t
1. Don’t panic
Some people simply have their lower brains “stronger” than their higher brain, resulting in difficulty controlling their emotions when in fear. If you know someone who’s panicking, don’t judge them, help them.
Th... | ['Mental Health', 'Inspiration', 'Education', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
Say goodbye to misconfigurations on your server by writing your own TCP scanner in Go.
Photo by Thomas Jensen on Unsplash
In the toolbox of any pen tester, there is an app that allows them to detect open ports on a given server. Thanks to such an app, they can list all network entry points available on the system. Th... | ['Golang', 'DevOps', 'Software Engineering', 'Cybersecurity', 'Programming'] |
During regression analysis, we check many things before actually performing regression forehand. We check if the independent values are correlated, we check if the feature we are selecting is significant or not and also if there are any missing values and if yes then how to handle them.
First, let’s understand what De... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Regression', 'Data Science', 'Statistics'] |
10 Human Skulls That Taught Us Something About Humanity
The Science of Interpreting Human Bodies From Centuries Past
Skulls…when we’re kids, they terrify us and fill us with horror; when we’re adults, they are the remnants of a person who once lived, a person like us, with a story to tell. Their historical use in art... | ['Biology', 'History', 'Humanity', 'Science', 'Evolution'] |
I’m the queen of abandoned projects. Learn from my mistakes.
Image by TeroVesalainen on Pixabay
I love a good project. I love taking on something new, getting all set up, diving in.
But eventually the newness wears off. The project isn’t fun anymore. And it’s ultimately abandoned.
I’m the queen of abandoned project... | ['Life', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons'] |
Hey Milton,
Listen, before you freak out, just listen. This is for the best. What happened to your manuscript over the past few weeks, it had to be this way. You get that, right?
I’m only putting this out there because first-time authors freak out when they open up the document I sent back to them, the one with all o... | ['Editor', 'Editing And Proofreading', 'Writers On Writing', 'Writing Life', 'Writing'] |
Introduction
In traditional SQL systems, a column's type is determined when the table is created, and never changes while executing a query. If you create a table with an integer-valued column, the values in that column will always be integers (or possibly NULL ).
Rockset, however, is dynamically typed, which means t... | ['Database', 'Protobuf', 'Sql', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
Coronavirus - When Should You Close Your Office?
How To Use Coronavirus Work From Home Model If you want to use this model, make a copy. I can't allow editing, as there… | ['الصحة العامة', '1st', 'فيروس كورونا', 'كوفيد 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
It seems like every other day someone is announcing a new streaming service. Soon-to-be launched HBO Max, Disney+, Apple+, and short-form contender Quibi are all due to join Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Making for one crowded space.
What’s most interesting is how with each new announcement there is a chorus of voices sc... | ['Netflix', 'Streaming', 'Disney', 'Apple', 'HBO'] |
How do you reshape a dataframe from wide to long form in R? How does the melt() function reshape dataframes in R? This tutorial will walk you through reshaping dataframes using the melt function in R.
If you’re reshaping dataframes or arrays in Python, check out my tutorials below.
Why melt but not other functions?
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
How to Create 2D and 3D Interactive Weather Maps in Python and R plotly Follow Mar 5, 2018 · 7 min read
Robert FitzRoy. Source: nzhistory.govt.nz.
It was the year 1860. Robert FitzRoy, of England and New Zealand, was using the new telegraph system to gather daily weather observations and produce the first synoptic we... | ['Climate Change', 'Data Science', 'Weather', 'Data Visualization'] |
I have never clapped to bring attention to great writing.
Before the change to read time rewards, I saw several writers write that they clapped to bring attention to great writing. This sounds like a worthy cause. Some say they will continue to do this. I applaud them (pun not intended.)
However, I am not convinced c... | ['Clapping', 'Medium', 'Money', 'Writing', 'Partner Program'] |
DATA ENGINEERING
The New Data Engineering Stack
Technologies for the Complete Data Engineer
Remember the time when the software development industry realized that a single person can take on multiple technologies glued tightly with each other and came up with the notion of a Full Stack Developer — someone who does d... | ['Towards Data Science', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Data Engineering', 'Data'] |
5 Must-Read Data Science Papers (and How to Use Them)
Foundational ideas to keep you on top of the machine learning game.
Photo by Rabie Madaci on Unsplash
Data science might be a young field, but that doesn’t mean you won’t face expectations about your awareness of certain topics. This article covers several of the... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Data Analytics'] |
By James M. Dorsey
A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel and Castbox.
Pakistan, long viewed as an incubator of religious militancy, is gearing up for a battle over the future of the country’s notorious madrassa... | ['Pakistan', 'Terrorism', 'Religion', 'Islam', 'China'] |
Swirling Thoughts
Free Verse poem.
Image by Hamed Mehrnik from Pixabay
Swirling thoughts
go round and round
I have no idea when
they will finally
stop torturing me.
Swirling thoughts
give me things
to constantly think about
to concern myself with
I must bear the burden.
Swirling thoughts
have been weighin... | ['Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Life'] |
A couple weeks ago we announced dLab/emurgo, a new blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) accelerator program operated by SOSV (“the Accelerator VC”) and our partners at EMURGO. The new program is designed to bring the resources of both organizations together under one roof with a mission to invest in, supp... | ['Investing', 'Venture Capital', 'Innovation', 'Startup', 'Blockchain'] |
Better user personas? Maybe less slides, more role-play?
As UX Designers, we would like to create ‘working’ user personas so we can use them as a proxy between the users we researched and our team. To achieve this, we have to make those personas acceptable. What are the factors that can turn a flat persona into an int... | ['Storytelling', 'Procedural Generation', 'User Research', 'UX', 'UX Research'] |
Classification in machine learning and statistics is a supervised learning approach in which the computer program learns from the data given to it and make new observations or classifications. In this article, we will learn about classification in machine learning in detail. The following topics are covered in this blo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Algorithms', 'Classification', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Next door to us lives a guy who is the embodiment of happy confidence. Whenever he walks past our windows, he’s singing out loud to his headphones. His voice is mostly out of tune, but that doesn’t matter; it’s his energy that catches my eye.
Unbeatable optimism is his signature vibe. He could be out there battling a ... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
What we know, and totally dig about legendary digital nomad Kat Von B.
She’s a coffee sipping, wine slurping, international travel blogging hotel snob that means what she says and says what she means. She’s the only one that tells her what to do… GOALS! She’s created a mean team of creatives that support her in her qu... | ['Technology', 'Digital Nomad', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Blockchain', 'Travel'] |
Following on from the introductory post on serialization with spark, this post gets right into the thick of it with a tricky example of serialization with Spark. I highly recommend attempting to get this working yourself first, you’ll learn a lot!
Each example steps through some ways you may try to debug the problems,... | ['Apache Spark', 'Spark', 'Big Data', 'Scala'] |
Teaching cheerfully until his painful death in 270 BC, Epicurus contributed enormously to the school of philosophy during his lifetime, his legacy surviving for thousands of years.
Epicurus lived in Athens with his closest friends and spent his days trying to solve the perennial puzzle that troubles us all: happiness.... | ['Philosophy', 'Happiness', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self Improvement'] |
How more people don’t already know Adam is beyond me. As a serial entrepreneur behind a number of cool initiatives, even having sold one of his startups to Entrepreneur Media itself, I’ve learned a lot from him. He and his brother, Matthew, are always up to something excellent together, usually juggling multiple startu... | ['Entrepreneur', 'Community', 'Lists', 'Phoenix', 'Startup'] |
The past couple of weeks have been super tough for LGBTQ people around the world. While we’ve made incredible progress towards full equality and acceptance in many regions of the globe, troubling signs are emerging.
The United States is awash in waves of fascism. Violent anti-LGBTQ atacks are on the rise, and Trump su... | ['LGBTQ', 'Love', 'Life', 'Storytelling'] |
The Dark Side of Perfectionism
That high achiever you wish you could emulate? Don’t.
Image by Lukas Bieri on Pixabay
I’m a perfectionist. And an over-achiever. And a person on the outside who looks at times like “Wonder Woman.”
But the reality is much darker.
I get up each morning at three a.m. to write because it... | ['Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Perfectionism', 'Self', 'Self Improvement'] |
We Have to Define What Edge Computing Is
Edge Computing promises millions of dollars of revenue. However, we do not yet have a definition of what it is.
Photo by Edurne Chopeitia on Unsplash
The first time I heard about edge computing was back in 2015. Since then, I have been working for startups to enable distribut... | ['Technology', 'Software Development', 'Data', 'Future', 'Programming'] |
Why all Writers Can’t Be Content Creators
Do you have what it takes to create effective online content? Not every writer does
Image/Monoar/Pixabay
Most writers, be they aspiring or long-established have a love for the written word and many develop very distinctive styles, suited to their chosen genre. Your ability t... | ['Content', 'Content Writing', 'Content Creation', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing'] |
The 2020 Summer Movie Season, or Lack Thereof
There has never been a summer movie season like this one. And hopefully there never will be again.
With the deadly arrival of COVID-19 in the United States earlier this year, the country was placed under lockdown. This involved closing virtually all places of social gathe... | ['Film', 'Movies', 'Streaming', 'Culture', 'Coronavirus'] |
Photo by Ethan Hoover on Unsplash
The road from story spark to finished manuscript is long and rocky. Often we stumble at the first pothole. The first gate. Or we get so far and the landslide of life kills the story idea before we manage to finish a first draft. Even a short story or a picture book needs a mountain of... | ['Writing Tips', 'Brainstorming', 'Fiction Writing', 'Stories', 'Writing'] |
The Facebook Neural Network that Mastered One of the Toughest AI Benchmarks
The Hanabi Challenge has been considered by many of the next frontiers in AI.
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 minutes to read.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Thesequence'] |
Attempted Writing
A Poem
Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash
The intention might have been there, the tools, the motive; absentee mind, colloidal atmospheres of fog, and other mists, atrophy, the retreat in the face of just another day.
The scars from other broken hooks, from pages that now only scatter in your equivoc... | ['Image', 'Musing', 'Poetry', 'Writing'] |
An Approach for a Hyper Local, Crowd Sourced, Data Driven Chat Bot for COVID Rajan Manickavasagam Follow Aug 11 · 5 min read
Overview
The COVID-19 pandemic has captured everyone’s attention and impacted our daily lives since the past few months. It is likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future too, as we le... | ['Coding', 'Data', 'Chatbots', 'Engineering', 'Technology'] |
My New Outlook on Life
Poetry
Photo by Lee Luis on Unsplash
A walk into fog
Wearing a thick layer of doubt
Changed me forever
It changed my outlook
I don’t fear the unknown
I don’t fear the fall
Fight your fears
Is the title of my new book
It is now my new attitude
Playing with fire
was my past
Swimming i... | ['Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Poetry', 'Life'] |
The following is an excerpt from The Certainty of Uncertainty: The Way of Inescapable Doubt and Its Virtue by Mark Schaefer.
By the time you finish reading this book, you could be dead.
It’s not that long a book, but even so, a car accident, a slip and fall, a random crime, a plane crash, a sudden and devastating dis... | ['Uncertainty', 'Certainty And Doubt', 'Doubt', 'Books', 'Certainty'] |
Python
First things first, you need to have at least Python 3.7 installed. You can check this guide if you don’t feel comfortable doing it all by yourself.
Using global dependencies over your python projects is not a good practice.
Imagine having several projects depending on the same files — in our case the depende... | ['Python', 'Mql5', 'Vscode', 'Web Scraping'] |
Hi everyone! My name is Ike Jin Park. I am a freshman at Harvard college, considering Environmental Science and Public Policy as a concentration. Before Harvard, I have never done anything remotely related to open data. I’ve always been an environmentalist, not a computer scientist. So Open Data Project has been a quit... | ['Data Science', 'Environment', 'Harvard', 'Open Data', 'Energy'] |
For my course in Data Science, I performed a linear regression model on the sales of houses in King County. Data for sales in 2014 and 2015 was provided, and Python was used to do the modeling. This is a rundown of my first linear regression modeling project. For the full code, see the Github repo: https://github.com/M... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Linear Regression'] |
The rise
went almost entirely unnoticed;
gradual as it was.
Moment by moment,
Hour by hour,
Day by day.
Bright things grew back
And dead things fell off
And while most things didn’t seem
to be growing at all;
They were.
The fall
Had planted many scars
But the pain of healing
Drew focus away from
The deli... | ['Self-awareness', 'Healing', 'A Cornered Gurl', 'Self Love', 'Poetry'] |
Once an idea has proven to be viable and a clickable prototype is ready, it’s time to start thinking about what users should see in the future app — a beautiful and functional UI/UX (user interface/user experience) design. While no crucial decisions are typically made at this stage, the design still can play a role in ... | ['UI Design', 'Design Matters', 'Mobile App Development', 'UX Design', 'Web Development'] |
Who can become a machine learning expert in 2020?
This guide is intended for anyone having zero or a small background in programming, mathematics, and/or machine learning. There is no specific order to follow, but a classic path would be from top to bottom, following the order given in this article. If you don’t like ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Online Learning', 'Tutorial'] |
For him to express his disdain for someone who has been in his wife’s life for longer than he has, one would think it would be for a decent reason.
Maybe we got in a fight about animal rights and I said some hurtful things? Or maybe I’m just one of those annoying, pushy vegans.
But I know that neither of those are th... | ['Relationships', 'Vegan', 'Life Lessons', 'Lifestyle', 'This Happened To Me'] |
Are you having trouble figuring out what to capitalize in your title?
Here’s a useful tool that I use to double-check my titles.
Capitalize My Title is an easy straight forward tool.
Simply paste or type your title in the provided space and then select from seven different options.
Screenshot by Author — https://ca... | ['Short Form', 'Writing Tips', 'Illumination', 'Grammar', 'Writing'] |
UX Writing 101- Part 2
Who does a UX writer work with and how can they help evaluate the design.
My journey continues. In my previous article, UX writing 101 — part 1, I looked at who UX writers are, what they do, and how they can craft copy that is clear, concise and useful.
Now let’s look at how UX writers can hel... | ['New York', 'UX Design', 'Content Writing', 'Content Creation', 'UX'] |
Python Django: The Simple Web Application Framework for Your Next Big Project StefanBStreet Follow Nov 22 · 10 min read
Django! Can the advantages of using this framework be exhausted? It’s seriously in doubt, as we will soon see.
Creating a good-looking, fast website is one of the most important tasks for a business... | ['Python', 'Api Development', 'Django Rest Framework', 'Django', 'Web App Development'] |
A bunch of excited (and confused!) folks have reached out for advice as they think through possibly joining government service. I’m juggling a few things at the moment, so wanted to share my high-level advice. If you need more advice, search some of these terms on twitter to find lots of folks working on these issues w... | ['Government', 'Technology', 'Design', 'Jobs'] |
Who Will Lead HHS and CDC Under Joe Biden?
A speculative but informed list
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Joe Biden will be president of the United States, inaugurating what could be a major shift in how Covid-19 is being tackled. As they say in Washington, personnel is policy. So who is going to be tapped for the top he... | ['Coronavirus', 'Covid 19', 'Politics'] |
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Your Medium story amuses me. I shall clap once.
You gave me “Four Habits I Must Adopt to Be More Productive.” That’s helpful. I clap once.
You explained, “How 3D Printed Houses Can Fight Climate Change.” Intriguing. I clap once.
You revealed, “The Six Things That Only Dogs Know Abou... | ['Humor', 'Clap', 'Medium', 'Writing', 'Satire'] |
It’s my humble opinion that all of the marketing strategies, tactics, and methodologies we marketers hear today — “Account Based Marketing”, “Inbound Marketing”, “Growth Hacking” — are simply a means to describe a what’s yet to come in the world of marketing. Each of the aforementioned marketing terms — with practice, ... | ['Data Science', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing', 'Creative Marketing', 'Data Science Marketer'] |
The Results of the Nazi IQ Tests
The Nuremberg psychological examinations of Nazi leaders were surprising, but certainly not shocking.
Source: pic via Wikimedia Commons
Retribution was expected in the wake of World War II. Too many horrors had been revealed. More than a hundred Nazis stood trial between 1945 and 194... | ['Philosophy', 'History', 'Science', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
In this excerpt from In Search of a Theory of Everything author Demetris Nicolaides discusses the importance of philosophy in physics.
Episteme means “knowledge” in Greek. For Aristotle, we have episteme if we know the cause of something.1 Science is episteme in Latin. Hence, strictly speaking, science includes all fi... | ['Oxford University Press', 'Physics', 'Philosophy', 'Science'] |
By Kent R. Kroeger (April 9, 2020)
Key Takeaways: There is no systematic evidence that the overall quality of a country’s health care system has had an impact on the spread (morbidity rate) and lethality (mortality rate) of the coronavirus. Instead, a country’s per capita wealth and exposure to the international econo... | ['Statistical Analysis', 'Coronavirus Update', 'Coronavirus', 'Epidemiology', 'Covid 19'] |
It’s not the right choice for everyone but it is for me
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Talking about mental health can be tricky. Mental health issues, such as bipolar disorder, have always been stigmatized in our society. Because mental illness is not something that you can see, people don’t always believe that i... | ['Mental Illness', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Advocacy', 'Bipolar'] |
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As I move from engineering into data science, there are some key aspects of data science that I’m excited about:
Using my math/statistics training more. Continuing to be creative, but in a different way. Working in a field where technology is rapidly changing and expanding the l... | ['Data Science', 'Sustainability', 'Building Construction'] |
The guy I thought had died
This one is a ghosting case so incredible I think it deserves to be investigated by the team from the TV show Ghost Hunters. A lawyer in his 40s, decent looking, we went on three dates. I have to say I was making an effort to give him a chance because there were no significant red flags abou... | ['Dating', 'Love', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships'] |
Buddhism teaches that crises and hard times build our patience and resilience. That we learn to control our negative thoughts and words and cultivate compassion even for those whom we find unlovable.
I’m backsliding.
It also teaches every human being is born good, with an inherent ‘Buddha nature’, the purest and high... | ['Compassion', 'Buddhism', 'Covid 19', 'Psychology', 'Government'] |
You might disagree with what I’m about to say, but that doesn’t make it less real. Most relationships don’t end up in ruins for the reasons you think. The culprit is typically not bad spending habits, sexlessness, or cheating. The biggest threat to your relationship is you.
Before you scroll to the comment section to ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Couples'] |
The best design process is to not follow a design process
Why is it practically impossible to stick to a single standard design process?
Double diamond design process (Source- Pinterest)
We have all been fans of evergreen double diamond and humble iteration loops of design thinking. These are undoubtedly great frame... | ['Design Process', 'Design', 'Design Thinking', 'Design Methods', 'Double Diamond'] |
The world of Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies, in general, can be intimidating and confusing. As Bitcoin becomes more mainstream, it is essential that we be aware of potential dangers that may be lurking out there.
Since the beginning of commerce and bartering, there have always been bad actors looking to make a quick an... | ['Fraud', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Startup', 'Scam', 'Bitcoin'] |
What
I do believe that I’ve achieved my initial goal of improving my writing. But I have stopped my daily routine a couple of days back. While the enforcement of daily writing has pushed my creativity and grit, it’s starting to get way too disruptive to be beneficial now. That’s what it has become.
100 days. I think ... | ['Musings', 'Daily Blog', 'Thoughts', 'Writing', 'Daily Thoughts'] |
Introducing next-with-workbox
next-with-workbox is a Next.js plugin that aims to encapsulate such configuration and enable them to be reusable. It provides a fully customizable interface so you can implement whatever you need to through Workbox.
To use the library, let’s first install it to our Next.js app:
yarn add... | ['Nextjs', 'Programming', 'React', 'Progressive Web App', 'Pwa'] |
2. Word cloud ☁️
Firstly, let’s prepare a function that plots our word cloud:
# Import packages
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline # Define a function to plot word cloud
def plot_cloud(wordcloud):
# Set figure size
plt.figure(figsize=(40, 30))
# Display image
plt.imshow(wordcloud)
# No axis de... | ['Python', 'NLP', 'Visualisation', 'Word Cloud'] |
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An autoencoder is one of the many different special neural network designs, the main objective of an autoencoder is to learn how to return the same data used to train it. The basic structure of an autoencoder can be split into two different networks, an encoder, and a decoder. The ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'STEM', 'Python'] |
The subject of equal opportunities might be viewed by employers as a minefield, but prevention of a problem is always better than a cure. The Equality Act 2010 came into force on 1 October 2010. It replaces, and in some areas extends, existing legislation on discrimination and equality.
There are compelling reasons fo... | ['Equal Rights', 'Employee Engagement', 'Equality', 'Business Strategy', 'Startup'] |
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