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Deploying a sample model with TensorFlow.js
As we said, TensorFlow.js is a powerful library, and we can work on a lot of different things like image classification, video manipulation, and speech recognition among others. For today I decided to work on a basic speech recognition example.
Our code will be able to list... | ['JavaScript', 'TensorFlow', 'Data Science', 'AI', 'Nodejs'] |
Android O introduces a new format for app icons called adaptive icons. To better understand the motivation and potential of this feature it’s useful to take a look at what it’s replacing.
While Android’s icon guidelines have evolved over time, they have always promoted using unique shapes. I was a huge fan of this! I ... | ['Android', 'Iconography', 'Design'] |
Who are you? What do you want? What can you do?
To successfully integrate into a startup, we must all be able to articulate what we are seeking and what we can offer. Therefore, our group began by developing answers to these critical questions. Two days of reflection in group discussion, written reflection, and a vari... | ['Professional Development', 'Events', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Shortcut Lab'] |
“The only thing that is constant is change” — Heraclitus
Today in the business world, we talk about change. The advent of AI is transforming our entire society. Tech companies heavily invest in R&D to stay on top of the game while older industries are trying to catch up on their digital transformation.
There’s a wide... | ['Data Science', 'Design Process', 'Organizational Culture', 'Data Art', 'Dataviz'] |
Stereotyping the Guys
A view from underneath
Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels
While mainstream society certainly has its well-known stereotypical attitude toward sex workers, few in the square world even consider the preconceptions upon which “providers” labor when dealing with customers who pay them for thei... | ['Nonfiction', 'Prostitution', 'Culture', 'Sex Work', 'Education'] |
The Nonconformist: What prompted you to become a publisher?
Tayve Neese: Books. I love writing them, reading them, and making them. It’s such an intimate experience to be part of the creative process of bringing a book out into the world. I think most writers experience that Zen-spot of being completely in the moment ... | ['Indie Publishing', 'Interview', 'Small Press', 'Writing', 'Interview Questions'] |
This past week, I shared my space with my doggy niece, Nala. March was a hard month. We lost her brother, Reese after 13 years. With her, Jernee, and Reese, I used to call them the Triple Threat, now they’re just Double Trouble. They were tons of energy running about, playing with each other, always content enough to e... | ['Dogs', 'Is Always Needed', 'Feel Good Music', 'Peace', 'Writing'] |
The Graphene lattice. Image from: https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/05/beyond-graphene-the-promise-of-2d-materials/
It is a poorly kept secret that graphene is a material with the potential to revolutionise the world of electronics. Alongside its optical transparency, its flexibility and its unparalleled physical str... | ['Electronics', 'Technology', 'Physics', 'Graphene', 'Science'] |
Code
We firstly import all the necessary libraries in our jupyter-notebook. This is mine.
Follow along.
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd from pyAudioAnalysis import audioBasicIO #A
from pyAudioAnalysis import audioFeatureExtraction #B
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import os #C
#A... | ['Machine Learning', 'Clustering', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'TensorFlow', 'Coding'] |
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All my life I’ve farmed real mammals. I’m an expert in the snuffling, snouty, somewhat hairless kind. For 72 years tofu didn’t enter the district let alone the house. Then, in 2022, I woke up.
I woke up a tired man. I guess I was getting old, or something, but mostly I think... | ['Comedy', 'Humor', 'Vegan', 'Animals', 'Humour'] |
Anxiety Doesn’t Have to Be Your New Normal
Tips for staying positive during the coronavirus.
Photo by Pille-Riin Priske on Unsplash
My hometown (Melbourne) plunged back into lockdown this week in an effort to curb fast rising COVID-19 infections. As stage three restrictions loom, I ponder the dull reality of being s... | ['Mindfulness', 'Inspiration', 'Quarantine', 'Lockdown', 'Coronavirus'] |
I’ve heard many a Mormon say, “I don’t know how I’d live if I didn’t believe in an after-life” or about someone who has left Mormonism, “How can they keep going on day after day, knowing that this life is all there is?” It was definitely one of the hardest things about my original transition away from traditional relig... | ['Mormon', 'Death And Dying', 'Mormonism', 'Life', 'Death'] |
Introduction
This is my second post about the normalization techniques that are often used prior to machine learning (ML) model fitting. In my first post, I covered the Standardization technique using scikit-learn’s StandardScaler function. If you are not familiar with the standardization technique, you can learn the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Scikit Learn', 'Normalization', 'Feature Engineering'] |
“Design Systems is about how to approach your design process more systematically, and ensure your design system helps to achieve the purpose of your product and fits with the culture of your team. | ['Design Systems', 'Design', 'Gojek', 'Design Language System', 'Product Design'] |
Comms Planner
A comms planner provides strategic rigor to the implementation of the idea, ensuring integration of the work between creative and media. Their key outputs include messaging frameworks, comms tasks, tactical briefs, and ecosystems.
Previously (and less frequently) known as Engagement Planners, Channel Pl... | ['Marketing', 'Digital Strategy', 'Advertising Agency', 'Brand Strategy', 'Advertising'] |
Ryan Vanni is the CEO of Bukwild, an award-winning digital ad agency in Sacramento. He started his company at just 21 and didn’t have an understanding of the trends in business or what company culture really was. He’s quick to admit he had no idea what he was doing for most of the time.
Since launching in 2001, they’v... | ['Teamwork', 'Leadership', 'Business Strategy', 'Startup', 'Company Culture'] |
Photo taken at the Kapor Center in Oakland, CA
I was one of the first Black investors to be promoted to Partner at a venture capital firm. At the time (2015), I was also one of the youngest, having just turned 31 years old.
I have been in the venture industry since 2011, beginning as an intern in Kapor Capital’s inau... | ['Diversity In Tech', 'Investors', 'Tech', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital'] |
Since the healthcare topic is quite popular now, I decided to share with you our exciting experience in developing a web application for patients. It was a large and severe project which IntexSoft’s (the company I work in) team was working on for several years.
I have to omit all names and some details for certain rea... | ['Nginx', 'PHP', 'Healthcare', 'Web Development', 'React'] |
There are nearly 2.3 million professionals working as mobile app developers across the globe. The number is enormous and increasing every day, making it impossible for you to find the right kind. To save you the trouble and billion dollars we’ve found you the right strategies on how to employ the best resources and bri... | ['Mobile Apps', 'Mobile App Development', 'Technology', 'Top Mobile App Developers'] |
If Virtual Reality Is Reality, Virtual Abuse Is Just Abuse.
As more of us embrace virtual space, how should we deal with aggressive, abusive, or indecent acts that occur in a parallel world?
“If you’ve got something that is independent of your mind, which has causal powers, which you can perceive in all these ways, t... | ['Virtual Reality', 'Ethics', 'Technology', 'Abuse', 'Society'] |
The global number of mobile phone users, as per Statistica, by the end of 2017 is going to be 2.32 billion. The fact also denotes that one-third US population is likely to have smartphones of their own by the end of this year. The figures are persuasive enough to every mobile app development company to have an app for ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Technology', 'Apps'] |
Hi Santa.
I am a child living on the equator. I never had any Christmas wishes growing up. This year, I do. Would you hear me?
I am not asking for toys. They are irrelevant to me this year.
My parents have been retrenched and are staying at home. I used to complain that they never had time for me. Now, they have the... | ['Christmas', 'Self-awareness', 'Thinking', 'Short Story', 'Santa Claus'] |
De Blasio probably waited too long before running for the White House. At the moment he had decided to run, he was the 23rd candidate to put his hat in the ring. De Blasio has proven time and time that he is a great progressive, middle-class fighter democrat candidate that would have done well against Trump and during ... | ['Bill De Blasio', 'New York', '2020 Presidential Race', 'Democrats', 'Politics'] |
Arguably, story is in our souls.
People have told stories since they first walked the Earth. We find stories painted on rock walls, woven into tapestries, and carved into buildings and monuments. Stories have been handed down from generation to generation, written, published, recorded as voice and music, acted out on ... | ['Narrative', 'Investigation', 'Politics', 'Storytelling', 'Fact'] |
When you are building a Watson Assistant chatbot that must handle a variety of knowledge domains, you may begin looking into a concept known as “multiple skills orchestration”. Natural language classifiers often perform best when the classifier is focused on a single domain. Some use cases will perform just fine when m... | ['Editorials And Comments', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Data Science', 'Watson Assistant'] |
My colleague Felipe Hoffa recently published a blog post titled Get started with BigQuery and dbt, the easy way. More specifically, he showed how to install dbt in Google Cloud Shell, configure it and manually run it to create a temporary dataset in BigQuery. This is great for testing dbt + BigQuery but how do you run ... | ['Data Science', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Software Engineering', 'Bigquery', 'Serverless'] |
Meet Modesta Tuturu and Joseph Makumbe. As part of the World Food Programme (WFP) Zimbabwe’s Supply Chain team they are no strangers to emergency response during a pandemic — such as the one pushing Zimbabwe to the brink. Modesta and Joseph were both on the frontlines in 2014. No strangers to quarantine or lockdown, th... | ['Humanitarian', 'Zimbabwe', 'Ebola', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Here is a list of our top 10 writers who managed to calm their subconscious today:
10. Why There Is No Right Way To Use Credit Cards
Shubham Pathania is a coder turned writer. Today he is trying to help us to seek financial freedom.
Many finance gurus already preach to avoid credit cards. You might have heard this b... | ['Writing Tips', 'Readinglist', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
Top 3 Best Medium Stories I Have Read
One of these is the best short fiction I have read anywhere, and the others are two of the 3 best Medium stories I have read.
Semper Opera House Image by S Scholz from Pixabay
What Is Top 3?
Top 3 is a publication where Medium writers support other Medium writers by promoting e... | ['Reading', 'Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Top 3', 'Writing'] |
Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash
What do you want to read?
We have been bombarded with thousands of pieces of information all the time, from the special diet to the crisis of existence of the film actor. Cake recipes, tutorials on how to care for plants or raise pets.
Internet, television, radio, books, magazines, e... | ['Philosophy', 'News', 'Friendship', 'Love', 'Psychology'] |
The dangers of predicting the future
Why has Microsoft’s founder, one of the wealthiest people on the planet and a huge benefactor of the global health industry suddenly achieved pariah status, almost overnight?
It all stems back to a Ted Talk Mr. Gates gave in 2015. He made a prediction, one that proved more than a ... | ['Conspiracy Theories', 'Bill Gates', 'Social Media', 'Fake News', 'Coronavirus'] |
Hey everyone,
I am Vikash and you’re reading my crypto tale. I have been into cryptocurrency trading for about 4 years now and I think I have built quite a stable portfolio that is able to withstand even the harshest of market crashes. And that has become possible due to the liquid nature of my trading strategy. Most ... | ['Storytelling', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Bitbns'] |
Plastic: The material we know is bad but continue to abuse
It’s the year 2018, and everyone knows that plastic is bad for the environment. The images we see on our screens of overfilling landfills, polluted ecosystems and strangled animals has made this much abundantly clear.
A universally recognised and pressing iss... | ['Environment', 'Responsibility', 'The Ascent', 'Life', 'Earth'] |
Problem:
In a nutshell, User mobile usage data is provided using which we have to predict the age and gender of the user. Please check the Kaggle site for the complete problem statement.
So, the Final Prediction should be the group which comprises of gender and age range.
eg: M32–38,F24–26 etc.
Data:
Let's focus o... | ['Machine Learning', 'Kaggle Competition', 'Python', 'Neural Networks', 'Solutions'] |
With Cyberpunk 2077 set to release in a few days, the busy cogs of discourse have already begun turning at full speed — between reports of crunch, the game’s controversial marketing, and the massive build-up of hype since its debut trailer seven years ago, the game’s launch is already shaping up to be a moment of no sa... | ['Journalism', 'Cyberpunk 2077', 'Gaming', 'Culture', 'GamerGate'] |
Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups
And My Ask Of Investors In These Companies
It’s frustrating if you’re a customer of an expense report SaaS startup and the company goes out of business, but it’s potentially devastating if your tele-therapist or addiction counselor suddenly disappear... | ['Technology', 'Tech', 'Addiction', 'Therapy', 'Startup'] |
Searching For The Centre
Skirting the edges, most of us blindly play the game never finding the truth of the matter, if indeed, there is one.
On the edge, just inside the edge, there is the mainstream media, culture, society, a glut of data. Fabricated, manipulated, molded, spun, practiced and polished. It’s where mo... | ['Work', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Reality', 'Life'] |
I have the day off work today and you’d think I’d be happy and content looking forward to my day.
I am not. I have an underlying sense of deep anxiety and trepidation.
I can feel it in my gut. It’s a buzzing in my body and some nausea. It’s a clenching in my throat. I’m all to familiar with these feelings. I recogniz... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Life Lessons', 'Women', 'Anxiety'] |
My anger is not your entertainment.
Photo by Joshua Newton
About a month ago, I went on a date with a man who tickled and touched me when I didn’t want him to. Rather than stopping, he demanded an explanation why he should. “I don’t like that” and “stop” were not sufficient reasons for him. This made me angry. My ang... | ['Life', 'Feminism', 'Culture', 'Anger', 'Writing'] |
For this project, we’ll be using pandas and numpy for data manipulation, matplotlib for visualizations, datetime for working with timestamps, unicodedata and regex for processing strings, and finally, nltk for natural language processing.
Let’s get started by firing up a Jupyter notebook!
Environment
We’re going to ... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'NLP', 'Towards Data Science', 'Exploring Trump'] |
When the Doors to the House are Locked
Accepting Christ’s Peace when We are Afraid
Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash
and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear…Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Th... | ['Essay', 'Quarantine', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Coronavirus'] |
I became aware of the cryptocurrency in 2017, but I never paid much attention to it. People everywhere said that it was a fraud, that it was some kind of trap, and so on and so forth. So I thought I’d stay away from it and I did — for sometime. But around the time of Diwali I came to know that BTC was cheap, so I thoug... | ['Storytelling', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain'] |
Celebrating the new year is a way to acknowledge the promise of our own potential — to shake off any lingering failure and disappointment from the current year and get a fresh start. Sure, it may be 95% psychological. January is just a month, after all. Change can happen any time. But there’s something about fireworks,... | ['Family', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Grief', 'Parenting'] |
On March 2 of this year, the 36 days of type project started, and I took that as a final nudge to get this going. I began, of course, with that uppercase A. From the outset, I wanted to explore the typeface in a couple of different realms — in one, I stayed close to the original outlines and trimmed the contours; in an... | ['Typography', 'Design Process', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'UX'] |
The right way to balance out security and convenience on the web
source: the Independent: the US to call for a worldwide tightening of airport security measures over fears of ‘new generation’ of Syrian terror attacks
JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely t... | ['Software Engineering', 'Security', 'Rest Api', 'Software Architecture', 'Json Web Token'] |
Breaking Out of Prison May Be Easier Than Breaking Into Publishing
7 tips to keep you chipping away
Photo by Rumman Amin on Unsplash
Five years ago, I put the finishing touches on my debut novel and set out to do what I’ve come to consider nearly impossible: finding a literary agent to represent my work and land me ... | ['Writing', 'Publishing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writers Life', 'Writer'] |
January Summary
By Adrià Navarro Martínez on The Capital
This weekend has concluded my first month of trading in TopStepTrader evaluation and here’s my story about it.
It has been a roller coaster.
Not only with monetary results, but with emotions, it all started with a drawdown as you could read in my posts, but i... | ['Development', 'Money', 'Trading', 'Investing', 'Freedom'] |
Ban the Sagging Pants-profiling veteran from Walmart
What Walmart can learn from their own employees’ patience
Photo credit: Fabio Bracht/Unsplash
“Iain’t a fighter, but don’t push me.” I live by this Tupac line (from “Hail Mary” but one word is edited). I’ve also worked at Walmart for a whopping eight months after ... | ['Walmart', 'Racial Profiling', 'Bullying', 'Coronavirus', 'White Privilege'] |
Master Shi Heng Yi is as interesting as his name suggests. He has an MBA, two university degrees, and a bunch of other diplomas and certificates. Yet, he has also 30 years of practice as a Shaolin monk. If I had to ask someone about how to overcome all the obstacles of our modern world, he’d be high up on the list.
Hi... | ['Decision Making', 'Buddhism', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Advice'] |
Under a Fig Tree and My Connection with Nature
A relationship otherwise unknown by many
Source: T. Miranda 2020
Why should I sit on a park bench if I have a tree?
Not a normal tree though. A type of tree that provides free park benches. The ones that once raised from the ground it resembles a curved stonewall, with... | ['Vision', 'Philosophy', 'Nature', 'Science', 'Awareness'] |
Discrimination/Gender Bias Against Women: The Girl Who Asked Why?
Story Written by Shon Mehta
© Sheetal Mehata.
Part One
This story happened really long time back, but it is still very relevant.
Girls were taught to cook, to take care of the family, and then married off. Studying was off-limits to girls.
In those... | ['Storytelling', 'Women Empowerment', 'Discrimination', 'Women', 'Gender Equality'] |
2018 has been a very fruitful year for Svandis team. We have completed a lot of work and achieved great results in developing the ecosystem that will be beneficial for all crypto-market participants. We would like to share what has been done so far with our community, and will keep you updated on our plans for the futu... | ['Data Mining', 'Development', 'Crypto', 'Blockchain'] |
How to Write a High-Quality Article in 1 Hour or Less
So that you can write more and make more money. Quality doesn’t lie in the effort
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash
I used to think the more effort you put in and for longer, the better the article or piece of content will be. Combine this belief with ever-lasti... | ['Writing Tips', 'Content Writing', 'Article Writing', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement'] |
by Autumn Carter
In September 2003, The Wall Street Journal published an article called “Want to Go to Harvard Law?” along with its rankings of the nation’s top 50 feeder schools to the top Business, Law, and Medical programs. A feeder university is a university whose undergraduate students often attend a given Profes... | ['Education', 'Startup'] |
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', 'Reflections', 'Poetry', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Written by
UX Designer / Information Architect from Taiwan, now living in Seattle. | ['學習', '設計', 'Design', '設計思考', '中文'] |
Don’t Let COVID-19 Doom Your Holidays
You just have to get a little creative.
This year has been challenging to say the least. From the way we work — to the way we socialize, we have all ultimately hit the ‘reset’ button. But perhaps there are still ways to keep the spirits up during this time.
As Christmas season a... | ['Christmas', 'Mental Health', 'Family', 'Relationships', 'Friendship'] |
Although it’s not the newest library Python has to offer, it’s hard to find a comprehensive tutorial on how to use Apache Kafka with Python. By means of approximately ten lines of code, I will explain the foundations of Kafka and it’s interaction with Kafka-Python.
Setting up the environment
First of all you want to ... | ['Python', 'Kafka Python', 'Consumer', 'Producer', 'Kafka'] |
Predicting the leaps of Schrödinger’s Cat
Researchers have deciphered one of the key mysteries of quantum mechanics — predicting sudden ‘leaps’ in a system’s state. Thus devising a method to finally rescue the most famous moggy in science history.
Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s ... | ['Physics', 'Quantum Physics', 'Science', 'Quantum Computing', 'Quantum Mechanics'] |
A new themed set published in ICES Journal of Marine Science explores the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in marine science. The following excerpt is from the introduction to the themed set:
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being applied to all kinds of data. Some applications o... | ['Oxford University Press', 'Marine Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Hello everyone. I hope you are doing great and have wonderful time these days. I know some of you have just graduated or just want to find some more good information what to do next or just a new idea… Anyway, you will find something for yourself. After graduation you can feel different emotions(good and bad), you can ... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
I don’t really like to talk about imposter syndrome. It’s not something I typically get into when I write about writing because, for me, it’s up there with writer’s block — everybody talks about it, everybody has an opinion about it, but neither of those things means my thoughts about it will make a difference.
For a ... | ['Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Blogging', 'Success', 'Writing'] |
Our generation’s legacy.
Photo by Erda Estremera on Unsplash
In the event of my untimely death, untimely being any point during which the reaction is, “What? How!?” and before it evolves to, “Oh no, that’s so sad,” I hereby will to my loved ones all of the following incredibly well-branded subscription boxes. While I... | ['Humor', 'Life', 'Fiction', 'Culture', 'Writing'] |
CALCULUS DERIVATIVES
Significance of the derivative
The process of finding critical values
After derivative theory posts, we will start to see some of the applications that make this technique one of the most important in mathematics and therefore at machine learning.
Maximum and Minimum of a function
The theorem ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Calculus', 'Data Science'] |
Let’s take the humble number one.
Seemingly, it’s not worth much on its own.
Add a zero and its value goes up.
Add a few more zeroes, and its might increases even further.
Can we achieve the same effect by adding blank space to our days?
We’ve all heard about famous people whose success is partly attributed to sec... | ['Rest', 'Peace', 'Happiness', 'Relaxation', 'Productivity'] |
Perspective Piece
2 Reasons Why “They” is the Best Animal Pronoun
Every species of animal is astonishingly unique — including their sexes
Photo by Mylon Ollila on Unsplash
There’s a simple reason I don’t think of nonhumans animals as he’s and she’s.
The sexual dimorphism of a cat or a seahorse is unique. It’s diff... | ['Creative', 'LGBTQ', 'Animals', 'Psychology', 'Ideas'] |
Just like the decades before it, the nineties was an era that produced notable events that would shape the world for generations to come. From the fear of computers crashing with the impending Y2K, to Bill Clinton’s scandalous behavior in the oval office, there was no shortage of exciting news leading up to the new mil... | ['Tech Industry', 'Product Management', 'Apple', 'Hackernoon Top Story', 'Products'] |
I call you ‘baby Travis.” Photo by Alex Hockett on Unsplash
Persons and Names, Semantics and Pragmatics
Human beings have names, which they are called. Many languages with Indo-European origins make explicit use of this in their grammatical structures: me llamo Travis, je m’appelle Travis, ich heisse Travis, and so o... | ['Logic', 'Data', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Ethics'] |
In my previous post I discussed my latest small project of building an external music player for Bandcamp. What I realized is that many similar sites and services can easily be abused for pirating content, in particular copyrighted audio, music and video. In this post I will discuss several strategies for protecting su... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Security', 'Software Engineering', 'Nodejs'] |
A Times For Thanks And Blessings
A Thoughts And Ideas Newsletter
The pandemic seems to rage on here where I am from in New Jersey, USA. And this isn’t the only place where it’s happening. The election chaos has come and passed, however there is still plenty of drama going on in the political world.
Thankfully, I hav... | ['India', 'Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
Avoid Loops ♾
Pandas is designed for vector manipulations. Vectorization is the process of executing operations on entire arrays, Which makes loops inefficient.
Bad Option 😈
A rookie mistake in pandas will be to just loop over all the rows” by either using errors or regular loops.
In the following snippet, we are ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Performance', 'Data Science', 'Pandas'] |
By Karen Rundlet
If news and information are part of the fabric of democracy, then the fabric of U.S. democracy is in tatters. That’s the conclusion that leaps off the map in the 2018 The Expanding News Deserts report, which shows that 171 U.S. counties do not have a local newspaper, and nearly half all counties — 1,4... | ['Knight Local', 'News', 'Research', 'Journalism'] |
An application of k-means algorithm together with dimensionality reduction to credit card data
Photo by Mark OFlynn on Unsplash
This is a practice project I did to learn about clustering and dimensionality reduction. Cluster algorithms have a broad list of applications in terms of Data Science studies. One of the mai... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Kaggle', 'K Means'] |
When Fiction Might Become Reality
And we are not still reading enough
Photo by Darwin Vegher on Unsplash
The world is full of cultures. Cultures that sometimes are different or similar in several ways. Within these cultures, sub-cultures emerge as a result of different habits adapted overtime.
We are living amongst... | ['Philosophy', 'Education', 'Books', 'Learning', 'Reading'] |
Avoid Security Loopholes Using @JsonView in Spring Boot
Don’t expose more than you think needs exposing
Spring Boot logo
If a certain property on an object is internal to your business and not useful to a consumer, then don’t return it.
Let’s say we’re using the controller to query information and return it to the ... | ['Spring Boot', 'Web Development', 'API', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
Photo Credit — Me — St Paul’s Cathedral — London
Freedom's what unites us
You want to test this, come to my yard and fight us?
Telling you mate you best think twice cos
We hear London calling
Best believe that London it ain’t falling
We pick ourselves up, stand tall and
The man dem from Big Ben to Wren's St Paul... | ['Inspiration', 'Poetry', 'UK Politics', 'Photography', 'Writing'] |
2 — The Island of Knowledge
The concept of “the island of knowledge” is simple, and it’s stated by Ralph W. Sockman as “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder”. Our understanding of a subject is like the size of an island, and its shoreline represents how far we can think, ponder and qu... | ['Dataviz', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
Many of us have heard of the fashionable term “big data analysis”, and some of us have a day-to-day relationship with it. As a data scientist with many years of statistics training in a (relatively) smaller data world, I didn’t start to build my connection with big data until recently. Sometimes this new romance is a t... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Big Data'] |
”Milk’s leap into immortality” — Clifton Fadiman
The ancient Swiss Alps method of cheesemaking required 100 days of manual labor. The summer, so hot in the valley, was the perfect season to take the herds into the mountains. There was plentiful wildflowers, grasses, and herbs to forage. The cheesemaker could work wi... | ['Environment', 'Resilience', 'Cheese', 'Homesteading', 'Food'] |
Looking back in 2020 with the Miami Redhawks
It was March 2020. Director and head coach of the Miami Redhawks track and cross country team, Thomas Chorny checked in at the hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They were there for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. At the last minute, they were told they had to... | ['Sports', 'Education', 'Running', 'Fitness', 'Coronavirus'] |
Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash
One of the benefits of being in a heavily centralized church is its worship services are the same everywhere you go. That might be beneficial for the well-heeled traveller Latter-day Saint who wants the familiarity of American culture in a chapel in the middle of nowhere, but that i... | ['Mormon', 'Lds', 'Church Music', 'Lds Church', 'Sacrament'] |
Step by step explanation on how EDM is represented in linear algebra and how to code it as a function in Python in just one line.
Pitagora : Euclide = Triangle : Geometry (drawing by : Andrea Grianti)
Hi everybody, in this post I want to explain my experience in figuring out how, a rather intuitive concept like that ... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Euclidean Distance', 'Vector', 'Matrix'] |
God Is The Absolute Reality Underlying Everything
Up to now, this series has been marked by a pool of Masters of Many that rarely explored or embraced their spiritual side. Emanuel Swedenborg, the fourteenth entrant, breaks this mold by publicly devoting his life’s work to both the assumed-opposites of science & relig... | ['Biography', 'Sweden', 'Science', 'Religion', 'History'] |
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I make cartoons and t-shirts at www.dieselsweeties.com & @rstevens. Send me coffee beans. | ['Pedantry', 'Friendship', 'Psychology', 'Comics'] |
Nowadays Python is everywhere - academics, data science, machine learning, enterprise application, web application, scripting… you name it python is everywhere. Whatever you do, python is there either to help you or give you a headache.
Let’s say, you have learned python programming and ready to use to develop applica... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Virtual Environment', 'Python Development', 'Package Manager'] |
Respawn VMs like an RPG with Autohealing and Autoupdates
Season of Scale
Season of Scale
“Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for creating apps th... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'High Availability', 'Computer Science', 'Software', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Time Series Forecasting With ARIMA Model in Python for Temperature Prediction Nachiketa Hebbar Follow Sep 18 · 8 min read
Time Series forecasting is one of the most in-demand techniques of data science, be it in stock trading, predicting business sales or weather forecasting. It is clearly a very handy skill to have a... | ['Python', 'Time Series Forecasting', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Arima', 'Statsmodels'] |
I hear the goddesses speaking.
Haughty, scornful Isabeau derides and dismisses her.
“We go from a beautiful, Amazon princess warrior to this joke, a dysfunctional misfit who wants to be a hero and a librarian. A librarian!”
She considers her unworthy and takes the child’s death as a certainty. | ['Storytelling', 'Childhood', 'Fantasy', 'Poetry', 'Fate'] |
Using emotions to drive conversions
This blog post is based on Cugelman Emotion Map and draws heavily from his course on “Digital Psychology & Behavioral Design” at CXL Institute.
Photo by Tengyart on Unsplash
An emotion is a complex set of physiological changes in response to a perceived threat or opportunity. They... | ['Experiment', 'A B Testing', 'User Research', 'Conversion Optimization', 'Psychology'] |
My name is Henry James and I’m a writer for Dark Sides of the Truth Magazine.
Part I, Part II, Part III, Conclusion
Six weeks ago I woke up in a hospital with a massive headache and my left arm in a cast. I also met Baxter Huntley, a doctor who’d been dead for twenty five years.
Yeah, I know. In my line of work stra... | ['Storytelling', 'Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Fiction Series', 'Henry And Sunny'] |
So you’ve taken the mental leap and want to learn Python — that’s awesome! But where to start?
Let me guide you through tasks you already know how to do in Excel and how to do them in Python!
You’ll be using Pandas, the primary data analysis library in Python.
If you need to install Pandas, you can do this using pip... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Data'] |
Branding for nonprofits is not just a fundraising tactic. In fact, it’s not a tactic at all. Branding is a strategy that serves as the compass for your different initiatives.
A strong brand builds your trustworthiness and credibility. And the best way to grow trust and connect people to your nonprofit is through brand... | ['Storytelling', 'Nonprofit', 'Branding'] |
SQL is a useful skill to have for many roles. No matter the industry, there’s going to be data stored in databases and SQL is the best way to get to it. And Data Scientists, in particular, need to be experts for quick access to high quality data. While most of us in tech have a decent grasp on the basics, we may lack t... | ['Data Science', 'Sql', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Engineering', 'Data'] |
Apache Spark is an open-source distributed general-purpose cluster-computing framework. A spark application is a JVM process that’s running a user code using the spark as a 3rd party library.
As part of this blog, I will be showing the way Spark works on Yarn architecture with an example and the various underlying bac... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming', 'Spark'] |
Using Types With TypeScript
Basic types
TypeScript has a number of basic types that are predefined. Number, string, boolean, and array are a few examples of them.
You can find the complete list of basic types in the TypeScript documentation .
Here are a few examples:
Note how any type reverts TypeScript to behave ... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) deals with text data. The applied research in NLP is motivated to design the technology that understands the human language more effectively. The research in NLP is more demanding and challenging as it is difficult to understand how the human brain understands the sec... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Nltk'] |
Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress (Ep. 102)
What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we’ll adapt to remote work? What gives American companies an edge over their competitors on the international stage? What value do management consultants really provide? ... | ['Efficiency', 'Podcast', 'Progress', 'Productivity', 'Economics'] |
I am a fan of pictorial diagrams, but a pictorial diagram is not enough for me. I want some sort of statistical insight as well. You can do that by arranging pictures according to some order.
I did that with the cathedral spread at the end of the Info We Trust book. I was intentional about arranging these. Each one’s ... | ['Datavis', 'Topicsindv', 'Interview', 'Exhibit', 'Dataviz'] |
First of all, who never had to build and REST API in a few days or even hours? I bet you did, so I had this job, to create a geolocation API that works as a microservice.
I have been using python recently, so, the first idea was to use Flask for this job, but my boss was asking me to look for new approaches as I alrea... | ['Python', 'Geolocation', 'Heroku', 'Rest Api', 'Fastapi'] |
Getting Started
Huggingface is the most well-known library for implementing state-of-the-art transformers in Python. It offers clear documentation and tutorials on implementing dozens of different transformers for a wide variety of different tasks. We will be using Pytorch so make sure Pytorch is installed. After ensu... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
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