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The Borrowed Breathe Life after lockdown in Singapore आज बाहर के रंगो को देखकर एक अलग सी घुटन आज आज़ाद होकर भी एक अलग सी उलझन image from Author Now I am not worried that my hair has the texture of dried grass and my eyebrows have become bushy. Now I don’t miss the regular parlour appointment for a head massage or ...
['Personal Essay', 'Singapore', 'Hindi', 'This Happened To Me', 'Writing']
Data Visualization plays a very important role in Data mining. Various data scientist spent their time exploring data through visualization. To accelerate this process we need to have a well-documentation of all the plots. Even plenty of resources can’t be transformed into valuable goods without planning and architect...
['AI', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Analysis']
Alright, but what’s the point of creating a depthwise separable convolution? Let’s calculate the number of multiplications the computer has to do in the original convolution. There are 256 5x5x3 kernels that move 8x8 times. That’s 256x3x5x5x8x8=1,228,800 multiplications. What about the separable convolution? In the d...
['Mobilenet', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Convolutional Network']
Interpretable Machine Learning for Image Classification with LIME Increase confidence in your machine-learning model by understanding its predictions. The increasing trend in the use of machine learning for critical applications such as self-driving vehicles and medical diagnosis suggests an imperative need for metho...
['Machine Learning', 'Interpretable Ai', 'Image Processing', 'Deep Learning', 'Explainable Ai']
Time series transformations selection using EDAspy Example of optimisation in forecasting model In Machine Learning (ML) projects, when we work with time series (TS)in the project we usually look for the ideal time series transformations in order to improve the implemented model performance. This can be a tedious ta...
['Python', 'Time Series Forecasting', 'Python Packages', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Feature Engineering']
Time passes by really quickly, doesn’t it? In just a short 10 days, the year 2020 as we know it will come to an end. Whether 2021 will be better or worse, we can only speculate at the moment. I can only pray and hope that it gets better. Another thing that has passed by really quickly is the fact that I’ve now spent e...
['Review', 'Iphone Review', 'iPhone', 'Iphone 12 Mini', 'Apple']
These are answers to questions on what our project is all about. For in-depth reading, please head to the docs part of our site www.alfaenzo.io/docs. Ask more questions at www.t.me/alfaenzoio. What is the project about? We are building the world’s largest decentralized economy. What makes this project different? Th...
['Blockchain', 'ICO', 'Apple', 'Crowdsale', 'FAQ']
In conjunction with other global trends, Artificial Intelligence is rapidly tearing down the old barriers to building new world orders. As a result the next century will be dominated by countries that rapidly adapt to the new AI Economy. The assumptions that the next century will be the “Chinese Century” may be proved ...
['Artificial Intelligence', 'Robotics', 'World Economic Forum', 'Economics', 'China']
Visualize Your Kong API Gateway Clusters With KongMap yes!nteractive Follow Oct 21 · 5 min read Browser-based tool allows for visual mapping and declarative management of Kong Open Source and Enterprise API Gateway Clusters KongMap provides a view of your Kong Cluster configuration in a single pane A picture is wort...
['API', 'DevOps', 'Docker', 'Kong', 'Microservices']
No matter where you run a company, you’re probably making trade-offs. There are pros and cons to operating anywhere, for sure. But, I know that operating your company in a smaller city can feel really, really hard. You face a lot of challenges — anything from your commute time, to finding great talent, to landing big i...
['Investing', 'Startup', 'Cities', 'Founders']
Why Are Monitoring and Alerting Important? IT Teams already realize the necessity of monitoring their infrastructure. There is a long history and many products available for legacy infrastructure: tools like Nagios, Zabbix, and others are familiar players in this space. But, with the Kubernetes ecosystem, it brings m...
['Technology', 'DevOps', 'Software', 'Monitoring', 'Kubernetes']
METHODOLOGY EDA: We conducted EDA using Numpy, Pandas and Excel on Genome BC’s dataset which lists the academic papers funded by them. We explored the downstream documentations using web browser, collecting their citation methods such as by presenting PMID, PMCID, DOI or giving pdf files directly. Data Collection: ...
['Data Science', 'NLP', 'Web Scraping', 'Healthcare', 'Big Data']
This is What Collapse Looks Like Facing the inevitable It’s time to normalize the word, “collapse,” to describe the ongoing conditions in the US. Some would counter it’s well past time — and I won’t argue with that — but I’d say we can no longer credibly claim that it’s too early to make this call. “Decline” has be...
['Environment', 'Politics', 'Collapse', 'Covid 19', 'Economics']
Hyperparameters Normally, we can just handpick one set of hyperparameters and do some experiments with them. In this example, we want to do a bit more by introducing some structuring. We’ll build a system to generate different hyperparameter combinations and use them to carry out training ‘runs’. Each ‘run’ uses one s...
['Machine Learning', 'Pytorch', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Deep Learning']
Photo by Erwan Hesry on Unsplash We are facing some social and economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I say that as I sit at home in my family bubble down in New Zealand staying at home to break the chain of transmission. We are blessed down here with strong leadership steering us through these turbulent wa...
['Kubernetes', 'Cost Savings', 'Vm', 'Cloud']
by Marius Hoggenmueller, Luke Hespanhol & Martin Tomitsch (Design Lab, School of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney) Governments, organisational institutions and tech companies around the world are not only collecting and analysing data, but increasingly turning to urban robots for automating proces...
['Smart Cities', 'Design', 'Robotics', 'Digital Placemaking', 'Qualitative Research']
Making The Big Bucks On Medium Can it be done — and how do you do it? Photo by Alexander Mils from Pexels Everybody's dying to know the secret formula that will enable us to make some real money on this platform. So hypnotized by that prospect are we that several big earners here have made a lot of their cash by sim...
['Freelancing', 'Advice', 'Medium', 'Opinion', 'Writing']
Inclusive Design Thinking at Microsoft How an inclusive process creates more accessible and ethical products How radical empathy defines our product ethos If design culture is the spirit of how we design at Microsoft, then design thinking is the manifestation of that culture. It’s the way we seek meaning in our work...
['Inclusive Design', 'Microsoft', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Design Thinking']
Photo by Jens Johnssonon Unsplash I was wondering what it would feel like to be this far. I’m so far now. Further than I ever thought I’d be. I wanted to live there, back there. But, violent silence and comfort pushed me here. To the brink. Fore the way back to you is finally dead. May it rest in pieces and ash...
['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Self Growth', 'Spirituality', 'Self Improvement']
There’s a Rumor — Marilyn writes Humor! Don’t take my word for it, see for yourself… Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash Taking a little break from our friends at Jesus the Lamb to catch up on some laughs. As you might guess, I’ve been burning the candle at both ends. The late-night end is the funny one — so enjoy! If...
['Humor', 'Writing Tips', 'Poetry', 'Writing', 'Satire']
2. Promise.any Promise.any accepts an array of promises and resolves as soon as any of the supplied promises become resolved. It sounds difficult, so here is an example: We make three requests simultaneously. When one of the requests resolves, Promise.any also resolves and logs the first resolved request in the cons...
['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Nodejs', 'Es2021']
Three Strategies That Make Remote Teams Successful (Avoid Pitfalls when Shifting to Remote Work) Over the past 30 years I’ve worked for global companies that adopted flexible remote working policies, and have traveled frequently and worked remotely as part of small startups and virtual teams. As a consultant, I know ...
['Remote Working', 'Leadership Development', 'Management And Leadership', 'Small Business', 'Motivation']
1. What is Military Aid to Civil Authorities (MACA)? Military Aid to Civil Authorities aka MACA is the help and support provided by the Armed Forces to authorities in the UK, like the Police, NHS or local authorities. The government can call on the military to assist at times of need, to share the burden on civil orga...
['Flooding', 'Military', 'UK', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19']
For some reason this week, my mind has gone to simplicity and complexity — the feeling of having nothing that I ​need​ to do and yet doing the things I want to, no matter how seemingly complex. In life and work we think that complexity is about our circumstances — how much stuff we have, how many people or projects we...
['Simplicity', 'Complexity', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons']
My dad being the superstar that he is, took on the motherly role as best he could. He wasn’t much for girl talk and pillow fights, but he definitely raised some strong-willed and resilient girls. I can’t remember a time that I wished my mother was there because he did a great job of making us feel whole. Being the old...
['Self-awareness', 'Family', 'Parenting', 'Relationships', 'Thoughts']
The Stoics taught that the difference between peace and suffering is learning to distinguish between what is and is not in your control — a state of mind called apatheia. Apatheia is like archery: you can control the type of bow and arrow you use, your form and stance, time and setting — but then you have to let the a...
['Mormon', 'Philosophy', 'Taoism', 'Stoicism', 'Religion']
Rape Fantasies Of course, the ultimate power fantasy is rape, which is an extremely common one among women. Around 62% of women report having one at some point in time. Just why women fantasize about an act that most of us would find extremely traumatic were it to take place has perplexed and fascinated researchers fo...
['BDSM', 'Sex', 'Psychology', 'Women', 'Sexual Fantasy']
With every industry or business focusing on integrating new technologies such as AI, ML, and data science, Python developers’ need increases exponentially. For the last one-decade, Python has become very popular amongst the Computer Science communities, and because of market demand, there is a surge in Python Developer...
['Python', 'Developer', 'Python Programming', 'Python Developers', 'Programming']
Let The Rain Fall Wishes of a pluviophile Image by chulmin park on Pixabay Wind baptized by heat rules the atmosphere roaming everywhere Yet it’s no longer an auspice of hope but something that tires exhausted bodies Torsos of trees let go of dry leaves surrendering to its will, hiding the remorse Provoked dust t...
['Mental Health', 'Nature', 'Love', 'Poetry', 'Life']
It was early 2009, and we were seated in a conference room at a Tel Aviv office tower. Leaders from Israel’s cellular carriers and top mobile startups were seated around the table. Bo Ilsoe, a corporate venture capitalist at the world’s #1 cellphone company was giving a strategic briefing (Nokia, if you’re that young)....
['Strategy', 'IPO', 'Airbnb', 'Travel', 'Apple']
Daily Weirdo Poems & Stories Sharing some of my recent work and the stories behind the poems I’m working on making a living from my fiction and poetry. That means I have to actually publish my work for people to read (or ignore). Every day I am post three poems or micro stories on my website and on various social med...
['Poetry', 'Science Fiction', 'Haiku', 'Fiction', 'Writing']
Techniques for Subtour Elimination in Traveling Salesman Problem: Theory and Implementation in Python Aayush Aggarwal Follow Dec 6 · 9 min read INTRODUCTION In this article, I will explain and implement the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem aka TSP with a special focus on subtour elimination methods. We will use ...
['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Optimization', 'Analytics', 'Travelling Salesman']
The value for Stratis, over all other platforms, is in using C# / .NET and being able to leverage the powerful ecosystem that already exists there: Using Visual Studio to develop, compile and debug the code Easily decompiling CIL to C# source code Strong testing frameworks that run natively inside Visual Studio C# ...
['Stratis', 'Smart Contracts', 'Csharp', 'Stratiscommunity', 'Bitcoin']
It Lends an Air of Mystery… In the autumn of 2019, as two teams of researchers each reported finding water vapor in the atmosphere of K2–12b. However, details of this alien atmosphere remained unknown, and conditions underneath this hydrogen-rich blanket were a mystery. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in E...
['Astronomy', 'Physics', 'Science', 'Space', 'Chemistry']
Hello and thank you for thinking of STORIUS! Please check out our About page to see if our magazine is the right fit for your materials. If it sounds like it is, let’s talk. What We Are Looking For We cover a broad range of storytelling subjects, and at this point are particularly interested in the following topics (...
['Storytelling', 'Submission', 'Submission Guidelines', 'Magazine', 'Publication']
As a writer, I know that hitting “send” can feel like throwing your work into a frightening void. Now, as a magazine editor, I’m the one behind the curtain. Over two years reviewing essay submissions, fielding pitches, assigning reported work, and editing accepted pieces, I’ve collected scraps of insider info that I wi...
['Publishing', 'Magazine', 'Newspapers', 'Editor', 'Writing']
WordPress methods like wp_insert_user don’t throw exceptions when they fail, but instead — and in some cases only if you tell the method to — return a WP_Error object. This class has all the hallmarks of error handling — messages and status codes, and so on — but, purely because exceptions aren’t thrown, I’m not sure I...
['PHP', 'WordPress', 'Programming', 'Development']
BY TAMIKA DUNKLEY Throughout my scholastic career, I’m praised for being a “Wonderful straight-A student.” I’m the student body president and the leader in multiple choirs and bands. I spent six to seven days at church. I attend every bible study, worship service, and benefit. From a young age, I’m taught to walk with...
['Social Justice', 'Storytelling', 'Race', 'Motherhood', 'Black Stories Matter']
Lesson one: humanity isn’t terrible “Behind the red façade of war and politics, misfortune and poverty, adultery and divorce, murder and suicide, were millions of orderly homes, devoted marriages, men and women kindly affectionate, troubled and happy with children.” — The Lessons of History, Ariel and Will Durant By ...
['Inspiration', 'History', 'Books', 'Life Lessons', 'Culture']
India has attained global attraction because of the prevalence of Information Technology. India is contributing it’s engineering services to top-notch companies including Microsoft, Volvo, IBM, Cisco and many more. The IT sector contributes to a major percentage of the country’s gross national income. Hence, there is a...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Career Advice', 'Future Technology']
BY BETTY MACDONALD As an 18-year-old girl in the early fifties, I possess very little knowledge of my body or reproduction. It will be twenty years before The Supreme Court passes Roe v Wade into law, making abortion legal. Not only is abortion illegal, so is contraception in many states. Not until 1974 does contracep...
['Storytelling', 'Abortion Rights', 'Reproductive Justice', 'Abortion', 'Reproductive Rights']
I never believed racism had different levels of offensiveness. For me, either you’re racist or you’re not and any derogatory comment or action is equally problematic. A Klansman burning a cross on a Black person’s lawn carries the same weight as a co-worker telling a racist joke. This is one area of my life where I ha...
['Activism', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Equality', 'Racism', 'Writing']
Paying for something online with a credit card is simple, right? Yes and no. Yes, because we’ve been doing it since the early days of the Internet (e.g. Amazon), and no, because no two credit card forms are alike. Over the past 20 years, we’ve built a mental model of paying online: I pull out a credit card from my wal...
['Payments', 'UX', 'Design']
At SEEK, in preparation for our upcoming 8th Hackathon, we introduced Upskill sessions to teach fellow seekers new skills to help their hacking endeavours. We kicked off these sessions with a 2-part Design Thinking workshop to broadly share Design Thinking with the rest of SEEK and promote a customer-centric approach i...
['User Experience', 'Hackathon', 'Design', 'UX', 'Design Thinking']
Independent Project Managers? Individual Traffic Managers? We don’t need them anymore. Our multidisciplinary team of Designers and Developers does the job. After a few years spent on gaining experience in creative agencies and corporations, I could fairly say, that the IT industry is growing by leaps and bounds. New s...
['UI Design', 'UX Design', 'UI', 'Design', 'Product House']
It’s the color of choice for tuxedos, limos and chic little dresses. Black is luxurious, mysterious and it has gravitas — and in 2019 it’s been bringing all that badness to kitchens all over the world. This fascination with dark, moody kitchens is a natural reflex to the white kitchens that have been so dominant for t...
['Kitchen Interior Design', 'Design', 'Kitchen', 'Black Kitchen Ideas', 'Interior Design']
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. — Oscar Wilde Using AI to offer more personalized customer experiences at scale is one of the top priorities for companies (products, services) across the globe, and conversational AI plays a pivotal role in this space. Our interaction wi...
['Machine Learning', 'Chatbots', 'NLP', 'Conversational Ai', 'Artificial Intelligence']
Source : HPC Now, what is this dimensionality reduction? Seems a bit complicated. But with the increasing amount of data on a daily basis, it is getting quite complicated to keep track of it. A tremendous amount of data is being generated from different social networking sites, educational websites, and it is very dif...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Feature Engineering']
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash You’re not lost. Not yet. You’re just waiting for someone else to find you. You want them to recognize what you are, and relay the message. Music and movement open you up for seconds, minutes, maybe even hours… And then you return to your oyster. Safe. Closed. Clamped shut. ...
['Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Poetry', 'Life']
We have always been storing the programs and data that we need onto our computer’s hard disk and accessing it whenever required. This is computing. But now technology has taken over and the need to store everything on your physical hard disk is no longer there. Here, Cloud Computing comes into picture. Cloud Computing ...
['Cloud Native', 'Cloud Services', 'Cloud Storage', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cloud']
Jefferson Bethke’s new book puts a proper emphasis on the importance of Sabbath. Photo by Angelina Kichukova on Unsplash In his new book To Hell With Hustle, YouTube sensation and writer Jefferson Bethke, identifies an “ethos of hustle injected into us all at birth” and the noise, fame, work, and tribalism that have ...
['Books', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Culture']
1. A good title. A captivating title is what you need. Without it, no one is going to click on your work and then you won’t be receiving a read nor a view. Could you just use clickbait titles? These are very popular and I have been dragged into a fair few. The title looks promising, I begin to read and realise that a...
['Writing Tips', 'Writing Life', 'How To', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement']
The Take on Billion Dollar Whale From Hollywood to Manhattan night clubs, the book takes its readers on a thrill ride; one that will leave you gobsmacked at Low’s unabashedly bold displays of wealth. While he celebrated, he was robbing the Malaysian people in broad daylight. The book pulls back the curtain on the ugly...
['Finance', 'Malaysia', 'Fraud', 'Books', 'Jho Low']
NumPy Fundamentals For Beginners Getting started with NumPy, a scientific computing package in Python What is NumPy? NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing in Python. It is a Python library that provides a multidimensional array object, various derived objects (such as masked arrays and matrices),...
['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Numpy', 'Data Science', 'Pandas']
Market Analysis: Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading at 6674 USD (as of 24 September 2018, 11.04 IST) with fall of 0.49% in last 24 hours. As per our previous market trends bulletin — Insights 2.0 (Vol 7) daily technical analysis forecast BTC started downtrend till support level 1(6250 USD — 6300 USD). It was good oppo...
['Ethereum', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Analysis']
written by Bernardo do Amaral Teodosio, developer at Wavy; In mid-2016 we, as Android developers, were already eyeing the Kotlin language. At Movile Group, and at Wavy, we have innovation in our DNA, and as soon as the opportunity arose to start using the new language, we decided to do so. If you don’t know Kotlin ye...
['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Kotlin', 'Java']
Designers often underestimate the value of a full written script for usability testing. But there is no shame in always having one — in fact, an elaborate and well-thought-through script is the expert habit. Inspired by a classical template, which Steve Krug composed ten years ago, I created another one to reflect my ...
['User Experience', 'Product Management', 'Design', 'UX', 'UX Research']
Risk is now a big factor When you think about it, hiring someone is always a risk. Businesses are essentially taking strangers with certain credentials and paying them a chunk of money to handle specific tasks. Many steps can go wrong with that, which is why businesses tend to have a little leeway with their hiring b...
['Work', 'Recession', 'Productivity', 'Jobs', 'Job Hunting']
There are now over 2.2 billion active gamers around the world, and the market is expected to reach $143.5 billion by 2020. In such a massive market, it’s hard to stick out from the crowd. Here are a few of our favorite game designer apps to help make your great ideas just a little bit better. Unity — the Top Mobile Ga...
['Game Design', 'Mobile Apps', 'UI', 'Tools', 'Design']
In this article, I will try to give a fairly simple and understandable explanation of one really fascinating type of neural network. Introduced by Cho, et al. in 2014, GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) aims to solve the vanishing gradient problem which comes with a standard recurrent neural network. GRU can also be considered...
['Machine Learning', 'Recurrent Neural Network', 'Lstm', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks']
Drunken Aviator Lands in City Centre, 1956 Bulky sedans rumbled sedately along the right-angled streets, and haggard creatures of the night here and there passed under the patchy street lighting past rows of rectilinear brownstone tenements. It was the witching hour on St Nics Avenue in New York City’s heart. Of cours...
['Storytelling', 'History', 'Medical', 'Lists', 'Law']
Having never participated in NaNoWriMo before, I had no clue what writing 25,000 words felt like or if I could even do it. In my last post, I had proudly survived my first week, hit 10,000 words and quickly figured out this stuff is for real not easy. And thanks to my amazing writing buddy, Martina, who has kept my ass...
['NaNoWriMo', 'Authors', 'Writing']
4 Reasons to Use Kubernetes in the Serverless Era Is serverless a replacement for Kubernetes? Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash. Serverless is cool and has taken the tech world by the storm. It is evolving quite a bit and growing at a tremendous pace. The reasons for its success are its developer-friendliness, ease ...
['Technology', 'DevOps', 'Programming', 'Kubernetes', 'Serverless']
Photo by Pablo Merchán Montes About a year ago, I listened to an episode of Adam Roa’s Deep Dives Podcast where he had his ex-girlfriend of 10 years come back on the show and discuss what they’ve learned in the few months since their breakup. One of the questions they asked each other was, “What is the biggest thing...
['Advice', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Psychology']
When I’m out teaching, I frequently get asked “What’s better? To be a jack of all trades designer, or someone that specializes in one specific area of UX? Should I be a full-stack designer? A Unicorn? What do all of these terms even mean?” Ignore all of the dumb terms for a moment and let’s focus on the real question:...
['User Experience', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Design Thinking', 'Product Design']
Friday Nights at the Movies Photo by Marcus Herzberg from Pexels I will share with you one of the best parts of working in New York City that I miss, more than anything. Every Friday before leaving work, I would go on-line and order a movie ticket for the latest Bollywood release, showing at the AMC movie theater on...
['Self-awareness', 'Experience', 'Movies', 'New York City', 'Memoir']
Dear Julie, How do you stay positive? 2020 has derailed a lot of my year. I lost my job, my roommates moved out so I had to relocate to a studio and I gained 30 pounds. I’m in therapy but I feel like I’m whining all the time. My friends are drinking or telling me that I have it good so I shouldn’t stress. I know that ...
['Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Relationships', 'Sex', 'Dating Advice']
When you think about loyalty programs, the very first thing that comes to mind is probably the points. It may look like an expensive investment and, ultimately, an architecture for collecting points is only the beginning; you also need to support exchanging the points and integrate a loyalty system with the distributio...
['Sales', 'Marketing', 'Loyalty', 'Customer Experience', 'Ecommerce']
The Gift-Givers Guide to Overthinking Literally Everything Lessons from a pro. Photo by Angèle Kamp on Unsplash Are gift cards tacky and impersonal? I ask myself this question every holiday shopping season. Which is worse: Getting someone something that they hate and feel obliged to wear or use? Or handing them an ...
['Humor', 'Mental Health', 'Satire', 'Relationships', 'Self Improvement']
More than half of House Republicans — 106 of them — urged the Supreme Court to overthrow the election, effectively trying to disenfranchise millions of voters for the heinous crime of not voting Republican. Thankfully, the Supreme Court recognized the Texas lawsuit for the baseless trash that it was and the Electoral C...
['Politics', 'Management', 'Self', 'Leadership', 'Psychology']
A simple idea of how Music Producers can use Data to get valuable insights. As music producer, one common task when starting a new project is to frame the track genre, tempo and key, although by any means this always the first step, sometimes, defining this “ground rules” is the beginning. In this post, I would like ...
['Data Science', 'Music Business', 'Music', 'Data Visualization', 'Data']
Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash I’ve been working in design and IT for around 5 years, along the way, I have been a passenger in the fields of agile methodologies with teams using various levels of SCRUM for IT delivery, Kanban for design work and a fly on the wall for the development of DevOps. Emerging from ...
['Designops', 'Lean UX', 'Design', 'Agile']
As a treat on weekends when I’d accompany my mother running errands we would go to a hole-in-the-wall American-Italian restaurant in town called Franconi’s. There’s not much special about this place. From the drab color palette on the interior to the generic ‘Italian’ paintings that hung minimally on the wall, or even ...
['Mental Health', 'Grief', 'Loss', 'Emotions', 'Mental']
“I’m hopeful that by the school term of fall 2021, we will certainly have a vaccine we can administer to children over 12, and I think we have a good shot of having a vaccine for even younger children as well.”
['Coronavirus', 'Vaccines', 'Covid 19']
Setting up numPy >> import numpy as np The sole reason that numpy is imported as np is convention. You are free to use another alias but it's not recommended as this is what you will find everywhere and it's better to stick to standards >> np.__version__ '1.18.1' nd-array The primary reason that numpy is fast is b...
['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Analytics', 'Numpy', 'Data Science']
What’s hot in UX this week: What exactly are design principles? What are they for? Are they useful? How? What makes a good design principle? In an attempt to answer those questions, I poured over the biggest collections of design principles on the internet, and came to the following conclusion: corporate design princ...
['Chatbots', 'Interaction Design', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Hot This Week']
Welcome to our weekly roundup of articles and resources for state, local, and tribal leaders creating policy to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic as well as steering the social and economic recovery for their communities. Postings below do not convey endorsement of any particular organization or opinion contained in li...
['Covid 19', 'Local Government', 'State Government', 'Coronavirus', 'Tribal Government']
Useful data transformations for practical analysis. Pandas DataFrame — simple transformations in Python Few simple codes often needed while preparing your data. While coding, it seems there are few data transformations I often needed and always trying to find the best possible solution. At the beginning of my Data s...
['Python', 'Transformation', 'Simple', 'Pandas']
Practicing The Subtle Art Of Detachment Why taking a step back is as necessary as moving forward From everything that I recall about my life so far, I can say one thing with absolute certainty. I have been an extremely passionate person. Passionate about everything. Be it life in general, work, friendships, relatio...
['Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement']
GSOM Algorithm 1. Initialization Phase In this particular phase algorithm initializes the weight vectors of the starting nodes with random numbers. Generally GSOM algorithm initiates with 4 nodes which provides the autonomy to grow in a direction which they wanted to since all four of them are boundary nodes. A nume...
['Machine Learning', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'Data Science', 'Clustering', 'Data Visualization']
How Pedigree Cleverly Used a Classic Pet’s Game to Tackle Depression A reminder that dogs can indeed be your best friends Screencapture from Brings It Back. 264 million. According to the World Health Organization, that’s the estimated number of people suffering from depression in the world. To put that into perspe...
['Marketing', 'Strategy', 'Culture', 'Social Media', 'Pets']
I started my diary last November, on what was almost a whim. I did it because I found a cute diary in T.K. Maxx and I liked its thick creamy pages and solid cover. I did it because I felt like all of my lived days were blending into each other and when I looked back at them, I could not separate their strands and I did...
['Memories', 'Development', 'Self', 'Personal Essay', 'Diary']
9. pix2pix, face2face, DeepFake and Ctrl+Shift+Face Deep Learning world is full of experimentation. People think out of the box and that’s the most inspiring thing about DL specifically and AI in general. Gene Cogan experimented with dynamic pix2pix: in this case, the source was not a sketch, but webcam (his face) and...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Art', 'Digital Life', 'Data Visualization']
Design is fun, hard work, and more than just toys A greater push for inclusion of evaluation data to make decisions and support innovation is not generating value if there is little usefulness of the evaluations in the first place. A design-driven approach to evaluation is the means to transform utilization into both ...
['Learning', 'Evaluation', 'Innovation', 'Design', 'applied creativity.']
Photo from Svelte. Svelte According to the documentation, Svelte is a component framework — like React or Vue — but with an important difference. The difference is Svelte runs at build time, converting your code to highly efficient JavaScript. So you can get the benefits of the component framework without the perform...
['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Programming']
Photo Credit: 3938030 via Pixabay Ask almost any of my friends and family if I was suicidal and they would probably give you a weird look. “Talin? Being suicidal? Nah. She’s a happy-go-lucky girl who is extremely tough. She’d never be that kind of person.” Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Tough? I’d like to think so. Happy? Fo...
['Suicide', 'Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Life Lessons', 'Life']
From Main Street Hub and ContentWriters In 2017, consumers are looking online now more than ever to find a small business just like yours. In order to be competitive in your industry, you have to be visible when a customer looks for you online, and content marketing is a cost-effective way to boost your business in se...
['Branding', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Blog', 'Content Marketing']
Q&A with Sara Hines, Director of Product, Parenting at The New York Times This week, The Idea caught up with Sara Hines to learn about how the NYT Parenting section was built, and its plans for 2020. Subscribe to our newsletter on the business of media for more interviews and weekly news and analysis. Can you give me...
['Product', 'Journalism', 'New York Times', 'Subscriber Spotlight']
What Can the Tech Industry Do? How you can help encourage more diversity and bring change to the tech industry Photo by LOGAN WEAVER on Unsplash George Floyd — a black man who will be etched into modern-day history. A man that sparked change and discussion around race relations. A man that in 2020, was murdered in b...
['Diversity In Tech', 'Programming', 'Diversity And Inclusion', 'Startup', 'Black Tech']
TensorFlow Quantum is an Open Source Stack that Show Us how the Future of Quantum and Machine Learning Could Look Like TensorFlow Quantum allow data scientists to build machine learning models that work on quantum architectures. I recently started a new newsletter focus on AI education and already has over 50,000 sub...
['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Thesequence']
Even when it comes to my writing, I am so often not in the headspace I need to be to finish a story. And it’s not because I don’t like what I do, or because I try to write too much. And it’s not because I’m some blubbering baby who blames everything on the pandemic. I am struggling to get shit done because most of my ...
['Personal Development', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Life Lessons']
About a month or so ago, the grumpy old lady who lives in the not-so-deep recesses of my mind was stirred by social media posts like these: “Nature is healing! Humans are trash!” “The COVID crusade is saving the planet from humans doing bullshit.” “Mother Earth is now healing. Maybe that’s the plan after all.” “Mot...
['Environmental Issues', 'Pandemic', 'Conservation', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19']
Maximum review length and minimum review length. print('Maximum review length: {}'.format( len(max((X_train + X_test), key=len)))) Maximum review length: 2697 print('Minimum review length: {}'.format( len(min((X_test + X_test), key=len)))) Minimum review length: 14 Pad sequences In order to feed this data into ...
['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'NLP', 'Recurrent Neural Network', 'Deep Learning']
One Big Reason Why iOS8 Sucks The bigger the display is, the less easily-accessible zone is, the more necessary is the adaptation of design to improve the user experience. Before I dive into details I should take a moment to explain a couple of things. Let’s travel back in time of the iOS7 release. What has changed i...
['UI', 'Design', 'Mobile', 'iOS', 'UX']
Driving past the slaughterhouse in Moroni, Utah, where countless turkeys are killed each year, Zoe Rosenberg, 18-year-old founder of Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary in California, says all you can see surrounding it are farms. “When you’re standing at the slaughterhouse, you can just look over and see the hills, sheds every...
['Christmas', 'Turkey', 'Vegan', 'Animals', 'Sanctuary Stories']
Welcome to the fourth installment of the Python for Cybersecurity web series! In the last lesson, we discussed the importance of Machine Learning in cybersecurity and how Pandas can be used to perform data analysis in Python. In this lesson, we are going to see how we can analyze the network traffic. Before we jump i...
['Python', 'Network Analysis', 'Network Security', 'Python4cybersecurity']
Expectations In your first 100 hours of learning Productivity, you should be able to: ✅ Formulate your “why” in a single, clear sentence ✅ Journal for clarity ✅ Do your Ikigai and Map of Life ✅ Delegate the urgent but not important tasks ✅ Say no to the wrong things ✅ Get better at SMART goal-setting ✅ Plan you...
['Education', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Learning']
I’ve spent the last three and a bit years working on blockchain / distributed ledger technology in some way, shape or form. The article below is based on my experiences and observations; if you’ve come across anything that contradicts what I’ve written I’d love to hear about it. Things have come a long way in the ten ...
['Distributed Ledgers', 'User Experience', 'Smart Contracts', 'Trust', 'Blockchain']
My goal is to outline a lesson that any teacher can use in the classroom or any person interested in a very high level understanding of how AI works can walk through. This is not meant to be an exact representation of how AI truly works, but simply give intuition as to how it works. I have been a Math, SAT, ACT, ISEE t...
['Machine Learning', 'Education', 'Students', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Teaching']
Social Media Is Growing Up. What Does That Mean for Your Marketing? By Heike Young In the context of the omnichannel mix, social media is at the epicenter of innovation. Not only does it have incredible capabilities for listening and publishing, but it’s also the nucleus for modern direct-response advertising for dem...
['Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing']