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In this article we provide a quick update on some of the main developments of Blockport in the past and coming weeks.
Testing Blockport 1.0 Beta
The last two weeks have been relatively quiet but very intensive for the Blockport development team. Since the Blockport application is decomposed into a collection of micro... | ['Ethereum', 'ICO', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Startup'] |
What’s the fastest we can load data into RocksDB? We were faced with this challenge because we wanted to enable our customers to quickly try out Rockset on their big datasets. Even though the bulk load of data in LSM trees is an important topic, not much has been written about it. In this post, we’ll describe the optim... | ['Database', 'Performance', 'Data Ingestion', 'Software Engineering', 'Rocksdb'] |
New Kind of Ice in Deep-Earth Diamonds
Latest discovery of ice in diamonds hints to water pockets in the mantle
To us, diamonds are renowned for their sparkle and colour, but to scientists, they’re the key to unlocking the mysteries of the Earth’s interior. (Source: Pixabay)
Inside the rigid structure of deep mantle... | ['Technology', 'Diamonds', 'Earth', 'Science', 'Water'] |
Real People Don’t Use UTM Codes
UTM codes are a great way to track the success of your online activities, but you shouldn’t use them. Avoid link shorteners too. Especially if your goal is to engage in authentic human-to-human conversations.
Caveat: If you are in a marketing organization driving marketing campaigns, y... | ['Social Media', 'Analytics', 'Developer Relations', 'Marketing', 'Bigquery'] |
Whenever a rendering task is too demanding to be done on a local machine, 3D artists can rely on so called render farms to do the job. Golem Project aims to decentralise these computing tasks by splitting them up and distributing them onto a network of nodes. The promise is to make the rendering task cheaper and faster... | ['Review', 'Blockchain', 'Cloud Computing', 'Ethereum', 'Decentralization'] |
It’s a common refrain nowadays that companies need to be customer-centric. This often manifests itself in routine activities such as user research, customer interviews, and surveys.
However, I believe product teams can go much deeper than this.
Being customer-centric isn’t just about talking to your users; that’s tab... | ['Product Management', 'Product Design', 'UX', 'Customer Experience', 'Startup'] |
In forward propagation, some random weights are assigned to neurons while training the neural network and at the end, we get an actual output which is represented as ŷ. Also, we know what the predicted output (represented by y) should be.
Now, the Loss function is calculated as (y — ŷ) ^2. Then, optimizers are used ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Adam Optimizer', 'Gradient Descent'] |
Too Much Too Fast: Black Girls Need Therapy to Process the Racial Trauma of Everyday Life
In predominantly white institutions, Black girls are often left out of the narrative when decisions are made on who receives resources and support.
In direct response to the global pandemic and schools transitioning to remote le... | ['Mental Health', 'Black Girls', 'Stress', 'Racism', 'Therapy'] |
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Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy. | ['Mental Health', 'Body Image', 'Comics', 'Addams Family', 'Humor'] |
N25: from Violence to Non-Violence
baby steps…
© Tim Gallo. It’s a wet, dark, and long tunnel into darkness.,,
I wonder if there is no way of cutting through a circle of violence…
my grandmother used to beat me and close me in a dark cupboard. (though it was in my memory vault till like early 30-s when I finally ma... | ['Artist', 'Self-awareness', 'Personal Growth', 'Self Healing', 'Nonviolence'] |
Dear all,
Thank you for your time. The discussions have moved forward each round helping me see different aspects and develop the idea further. I hope you also found answers to your questions and understand PSMTP better.
I remembered the question I asked my Molecular Biology professor:
“If mutations are harmful, how... | ['Psmtp', 'Spam', 'Antispam', 'Science', 'Smtp'] |
We checked out our last stack of Wimpy Kids and Timmy Failures a couple months ago. We’re fortunate in that, for us, missing libraries doesn’t have to mean missing new books — in fact, I just placed an order at my local bookstore. But what I miss about libraries isn’t really the books. It’s the sense of possibility. I ... | ['Family', 'Kids', 'Books', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting'] |
Python is a general purpose, high level programming language with increasing audience and most popular in the field of Data Science due to its packages available for Machine Learning and Deep Learning, however Python has some packages that are very useful in the field of web development. Flask is one such Python packag... | ['Flask', 'Python', 'HTML'] |
Apache Kafka
What is Apache Kafka?
Kafka is a Publish-Subscribe based messaging system that is exchanging data between processes, applications, and servers. Applications may connect to this system and transfer a message onto the Topic(we will see in a moment what topic is) and another application may connect to the s... | ['Kafka', 'Distributed Systems', 'Messaging Queue', 'DevOps', 'Big Data'] |
We get it. We have a great job here at Element. It’s exciting to deliver content marketing and marketing automation platforms for our clients, delivering results for them and, yes, “playing” online all day. It can be tempting to dive right in with us, helping to choose the many products and services that we use to deli... | ['Business Development', 'Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing Technology', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
My conversation with these three seers led me to create a list of seven ways that we might establish true safety and make it a way of life going forward.
1. Bring back our connection to our ancestors. One of the most common indigenous African philosophical constructs is the idea of ancestral veneration. A basic scient... | ['Safety', 'Wellness', 'Police', 'Community', 'Racism'] |
What would you think of a fictional female character who had four lovers in one year?
Take a second and think of the label you’d give her. Got it?
In the first manuscript I ever wrote, the female protagonist went on dates with 24 different men over the course of one year and had sex with four of them — but only after... | ['Life Lessons', 'Sexuality', 'Culture', 'Feminism', 'Books'] |
The canal has frozen, and I’ve been handed a sharp pair of skates.
Look, everyone is racing by, propelled by the swift chock-chock-swish of their lusty strides.
The tree trunk that you’ve set me down on is rigid with cold.
I can’t put the skates on until I find the warm center of the tree, pirouette in the biggest s... | ['Skating', 'Writing', 'Holland', 'Canal', 'Desire'] |
An Injustice Newsletter #6
Editor’s pick and Shoutouts!
Photo by Keila Hötzel on Unsplash
Hello everyone!
Really sorry for bringing this one to you a day late. Yesterday was crazy and I didn’t have the time. Unfortunately means there won’t be an editor’s letter this week, however thing’s will be back to normal come... | ['Millennials', 'An Injustice', 'Nonfiction', 'Culture', 'Publication'] |
There has been a lot of discussions on the environmental impact and sustainability of Bitcoin. A scientific article by the University of Qatar now comes to the conclusion that due to the high energy consumption government intervention is necessary in the future. Thus, corresponding taxes could reduce its demand. In add... | ['Bitcoin', 'Environment', 'Electricity', 'Ecology', 'Energy'] |
Why does it work?
It works because it forms a habit, and habits keep you going.
You are basically creating a habit of “if I do XYZ, then I will also start working”. Your brain will eventually connect an action that you were already doing every morning, to start working.
What’s easy about this method is that you’ve a... | ['Self Development', 'Focus', 'Habit Building', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
I’m so excited to share Aimée’s feedback on my analysis with you! Here’s what she wrote:
“As I’ve learned more about Human Design, more and more resonates with me. I’ve been nudged and called to lead throughout my life, but have been hesitant to do so until reaching my forties. As a young child and up to my forties, I... | ['Case Study', 'Writing', 'Human Design', 'Writer', 'Writers On Writing'] |
State of things
Last week, we came to the conclusion of using the FDR strategy — Focus on choosing players from teams with a higher chance of victory. With the higher chance of victory, we also gain valuable points in defense, our points should generally be higher across the field and we allow the possibility of signi... | ['Premier League', 'Fantasy Football', 'Fantasy Sports', 'Soccer', 'Data Science'] |
How Well You Define a Problem Determines How Well You Solve It
A productivity tip from Albert Einstein.
Here’s a great Albert Einstein quote:
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”
Einstein believed the quality of the solution... | ['Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Leadership', 'Problem Solving', 'Work'] |
What is Machine Learning?
Learn what is machine learning, how it works, and its importance in five minutes
Last updated on October 8, 2020
Who should read this article?
Anyone curious who wants a straightforward and accurate overview of what machine learning is, about how it works, and its importance. We go through... | ['Machine Learning Course', 'What Is Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'What Is Ml'] |
I Just Want Whatever Reopening Phase Lets Me Back in the Library
As a child, books helped me find myself; now, maybe they can help society find its way back to normalcy
I’m an unashamed and unequivocal book nerd. Give me a choice between a thousand dollar shopping spree and an evening curled up with a favorite author... | ['Memoir', 'Libraries', 'Covid-19', 'Books', 'Reading Life'] |
Each time a state or municipality bans or limits single-use plastic, Amy Perry Basseches has a “what took them so long?” moment.
She’s had many such moments of late.
In just the past three months, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and New York state have passed laws banning some forms of single-use plastic, ranging from pl... | ['Pollution', 'Single Use Plastic', 'Environment', 'Organizing', 'Plastic'] |
How to use Pinterest for Marketing your Business Aesthetic Follow Dec 27 · 9 min read
Pinterest is an extraordinarily powerful tool for consumers, but is still misunderstood by marketers. I worked at Pinterest for 2 years helping build their core content understanding technology, and learned a lot about what makes for... | ['Marketing', 'Pinterest', 'Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing', 'SEO'] |
Is Your Cat Acting Aloof? Do This, And You’ll Be Best Buds In No Time
Stop struggling to bribe, pet, and (cat) nip your way into the hearts of frigid felines once and for all.
Image by author via Canva.
Let’s face it; we all feel judged by cats.
You know how it is.
You start a new relationship, they have a cat, an... | ['Humor', 'Funny', 'Pets And Animals', 'Pets', 'Science'] |
When my parents enrolled me in my first soccer league at the tender age of seven, I never questioned the fact that my team was made up of only girls.
In high school playing on the Varsity soccer team with all women, I never questioned that either.
Then after moving to New York after college, I joined a recreational s... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Culture', 'Feminism', 'Psychology', 'Women'] |
As I whizzed past the chilly Chilas, I was thinking about what lies ahead of me. I had never gone past the lower Kashmir let alone the princely state of Hunza before.
The thought of a medieval princely state with Mirs still perched upon the throne with riveting folklore rampant among the fair-skinned denizens of these... | ['Hunza', 'Borith Lake', 'Pakistan', 'Travel', 'Trekking'] |
The Day Job
For anyone that works in a sales-based job, you’re probably all too familiar with call boards and call reports. I know I am, and I hate them. Ok, maybe hate is a bit strong, but I’m not the biggest fan.
I get the sentiment behind them; no one wants to be bottom, and everyone wants to be at the top. It’s a... | ['Management', 'Life Lessons', 'Leadership', 'Development', 'Life'] |
The plane bounced around, swaying back and forth in the air. The pilot came on the speaker to announce they were experiencing some turbulence. Glancing at her boyfriend who was sound asleep, she contemplated waking him up. A familiar voice sounded in front of her. The woman from the waiting area was sitting in the next... | ['Nonfiction', 'Short Story', 'This Happened To Me', 'Exulansis', 'Travel'] |
A PERFECT STORM
This pandemic has plunged your local economy and budget planning processes into a sea of uncertainty. Needs — and expenditures — are rising, revenues are plummeting, and a liquidity crisis looms. Budget shortfalls are a certainty, but their relative size and severity are unknown. The lack of coordinati... | ['Covid 19', 'Leadership', 'Cities', 'Coronavirus', 'Finance'] |
How Tech Bootcamps Are Supporting the Enterprise World
Tech schools may have the key success factor for the urgent need for updating the workforce with technology skills
Image by vectorjuice available in freepik
In 2020, tech bootcamps are not a new topic anymore. They have been around since at least 2012, offering ... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'JavaScript', 'Business', 'Software Engineering'] |
A New Year’s Eve Like No Other
A Rebel’s Prompt: A Grand Party.
Photo by Michel Oeler on Unsplash
“No, I don’t want to attend your f***ing zoom party!”
I erased the message, and just hit the “maybe” button instead, knowing full well I wasn’t going to be sitting at the computer, pretending to be happy, tonight, on t... | ['Storytelling', 'Fairy Tale', 'Fiction', 'New Year', 'The Rebel Poets Society'] |
Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash
Update: Added a tip for installing Python on your machine for the first time. It might seem very easy, but if someone is just starting to learn programming, this will be very useful.
Install python in your environment
conda install python=3.x (version you want)
If you don’t know what ... | ['Git', 'Environment', 'Conda', 'Cheatsheet'] |
COLUMN
Stop Keeping Score
How to quit measuring success by net worth, fancy titles, or TikTok views
Photo illustration; source: Stuart Walmsley/Getty Images
Every other week, Paul Ollinger investigates how redefining success can help us lead better lives.
A few years ago, when I was looking for a new workout routi... | ['Social Media', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Success', 'Self'] |
I’ve had this idea for a long, long time that I’ve never really put into action.
I think 2021 is the year. Because if there was ever a year that really needs to not suck, this is it.
Here’s the idea: I want to have a personal theme for each month. I’ve tried this before and gotten as far as creating the themes. But i... | ['Goals', 'Productivity', 'Lifestyle', 'Organization', 'Life'] |
How to Be a Quitter
What I learned from Jon Acuff about quitting and why it is good to be a quitter (when writing)
Photo by Romain V on Unsplash
I’m not a quitter. From my early childhood memories, I remember if my Mom or Dad asked me to do something, I would not quit until it was done. Being persistent, having grit... | ['Writing Tips', 'Quitting', 'Writing', 'Writing Habit', 'Jon Acuff'] |
About Publishous
How we’ll help you get published
We set out to create a place where we could publish delicious content, and came up with the name PubLishous, pronounced “Pub-LISH-ous” (rhymes with delicious) — this was the genesis of our “PL” logo, in case you were wondering. But the more we played around with the p... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Submission Guidelines', 'About', 'Life'] |
Dale is a full time artist, writer, and poet. Born and raised in Indiana he eventually moved to Chicago. While there he graduated from SAIC. From there he wandered over to Ohio where he had a leather crafting business. On a chance visit to Asheville he decided it was too good to pass up. He immediately moved to Western... | ['Cartoon', 'Mental Health', 'Online Dating', 'Graphic Novels', 'Depression'] |
Clean Up Your Home Office and You’ll Boost Your Productivity
Messy home, messy mind, messy results?
It’s Monday morning, you want to start into your new work week full of power. You sit down at your ‘office desk’, the kitchen table. You look up and the other half of the table is full of dirty dishes from your partner... | ['Work', 'Minimalism', 'Work Life Balance', 'Productivity', 'Remote Work'] |
Fast Access Blockchain’s scheduled hard fork will include the complete network capabilities outlined in our Whitepaper.
What is “The Force”?
“The Force” is a planned hard fork of the Foundation Chain of the Fast Access Blockchain. We are currently ahead of the development schedule. It will be introduced in two phases... | ['Articles', 'Blockchain', 'Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Updates'] |
Our first dLab/emurgo accelerator cohort starts in just a couple short months, and we couldn’t be more excited to get to work. If you haven’t seen our Call for Startups yet, please check it out! We’d love to hear from you if you’re building a blockchain or DLT startup.
But I don’t want to talk about startups today. I ... | ['Funding', 'Fellowship', 'Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Research'] |
Alaska’s Songbirds
Wandering Warblers
Tiny Migrant Songbirds with Arctic Aspirations
Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) is arguably the most striking warbler species that breeds in Alaska. 📷 Intermountain Bird Observatory/Zak Pohlen
Of fifty warbler species regularly found throughout the U.S. and Canada, 11 ... | ['Arctic', 'Migration', 'Birds', 'Science', 'Alaska'] |
How Code-Switching Causes More Harm Than Good
Let’s talk about how we feel impacted by switching it up
When you see a chameleon, you may notice it possesses a unique ability. It can use camouflage, concealing itself in plain sight. These reptiles adapt their appearance for self-protection. Similarly, people assimilat... | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'Mental Health', 'Equality', 'Race', 'Code Switching'] |
Ghost or stalker? Meet Phooey, Donald Duck’s fourth nephew
When an artist’s mistake becomes an urban legend
You don’t have to be a big Disney fan to know that Donald Duck has three twin nephews named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. They have been around for some time: artist Al Taliaferro introduced the trio in the comic str... | ['Funny', 'Comics', 'Disney', 'Pop Culture', 'Books'] |
Robert, let’s start out with the current state of fusion research. I think most people are aware that fusion research is a collection of big dollar research projects and government & academia, but I’m not sure how much anybody knows about the progress being made in this field. Can you describe for us the current state ... | ['Fusion', 'Futurism', 'Science', 'Nuclear Energy', 'Energy'] |
And after one of those journeys that involved the drawing of an imaginary line across the Earth, a flight that brought her to the gleaming nowhere of an airport in the early hours of the morning, the traveler caught another flight, around noon, and continued her journey. She spent six hours on this second plane, or it ... | ['Creative Writing', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Writing'] |
First Draft vs. Final Draft
What is the difference between the first draft and the final draft of a story or novel?
The first draft contains everything you wanted to say. The final draft contains everything you needed to say—those things that are essential to the story.
The first draft is likely to have more abstrac... | ['Drafts', 'Writers', 'Writing'] |
Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash
In the previous article we looked at system entities — a group of Watson pre-packaged entities available for commonly used concepts. We also saw that this useful feature allows us to quickly build a powerful assistant without having to spend time creating synonyms or Regular Expression p... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Wa Editorial', 'Editorial', 'Watson Assistant'] |
Here’s how I write every single day:
Remove the preciousness.
Let go of the idea that the thing you write has to be perfect, has to generate a lot of attention, and has to be both captivating and meaningful at the same time. Sometimes something can be captivating and not meaningful, and sometimes something can be mea... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Blogger', 'Creative Writing', 'Blogging'] |
Draft clear content so users know how to take action
Illustration by Alexa Ong, Next Billion Users illustrator
I wrote this story with assistance from Luke Easterwood, LeAnn Quasthoff, Jessica Caimi, and Erik Ninomiya, UX writers who have focused on the needs of the Next Billion Users.
John Steinbeck said that “Poet... | ['Next Billion Users', 'UX', 'Internationalization', 'Content Strategy', 'Writing'] |
Photo by Andrew Neel from Pexels
I’m a Graduate Student. Why Am I Still Waiting Until the Due Date to Start My Essays?
In everyday life, I am not a procrastinator.
A typical day for me includes a little bit of tidying up my apartment, getting to work early, and cooking dinner at the same time. I find time to write i... | ['Humor', 'Students', 'Writing', 'Procrastination'] |
In praise of praise
Acknowledging your employee’s efforts is powerful, motivational, and inexpensive.
Photo courtesy of Kelly Sikkema on Usplash
In the workplace, offering praise to employees is powerful, motivational, and inexpensive.
It’s also grossly underutilized.
Studies show that only around 25 percent of em... | ['Management', 'Employee Engagement', 'Productivity', 'Leadership', 'Work'] |
NLP — Zero to Hero with Python
A handbook for learning NLP with basics ideas
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash
Topics to be covered:
Section 1: NLP Introduction, Installation guide of Spacy and NLTK
Section 2: Basic ideas about a text, Regular expression
Section 3: Tokenization and Stemming
Section 4: Lemmati... | ['Programming', 'NLP', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
Difference Between Intuition And Fear
From my own experience, I have often mistaken my intuition for fear. It can be confusing and it’s important to know the difference. After all, I don’t want you to pass up your perfect opportunity out of fear because you’ve mistakenly felt there was an intuitive warning keeping you... | ['Awareness', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Intuition', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Michael Chabon Is A Nerdy Night Owl
A profile of the author in advance of his new novel, ‘Moonglow’
Any profile of Michael Chabon is also necessarily a portrait of his marriage to the writer Ayelet Waldman—the two are “wholly intertwined with each other,” writes Awl pal Doree Shafrir. Waldman does a fair bit of the l... | ['Writers', 'Writing', 'Ayelet Waldman', 'Michael Chabon', 'Profiles'] |
This is what happened this spring as I read my Passion Week meditations each evening at the dinner table for “family time.” In the middle of the devotion, I would catch a mistake, which would cause me to pause, grimace, and lose my place. Not the spiritually enriching experience for the family I had envisioned.
Then I... | ['Writing', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Grace', 'Christianity'] |
Unlike the C4 dataset, which was explicitly designed in such a way that any page whose probability is below 99% of being English would be discarded when detected by langdetect,mC4 uses cld3 to detect over 100 languages. ( すごい 🤩)
For anyone curious how this C4 and mC4 originally data is collected you can check out Com... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
As you may probably know, DeepMind has recently published a paper on AlphaZero [1], a system that learns by itself and is able to master games like chess or Shogi.
Before getting into details, let me introduce myself. I am a researcher in the broad field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specialized in Natural Language... | ['Chess', 'Alphago', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
(Sander van der Werf/shutterstock)
Stanford’s Dr. Srijan Kumar’s AI is being used to weed out fake reviews, but could also help predict and curb online harassment.
By S.C. Stuart
How do you keep online trolls in check? Ban them? Require real names?
Dr. Srijan Kumar, a post-doctoral research fellow in computer scien... | ['Technology', 'Solutions', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Online'] |
Image by Sumanley xulx from Pixabay
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing in a third wave across the U.S., so you know what that means: More lockdowns.
And when lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and mask mandates are issued, you know what that means: Contrarians will insist that they don’t have to wear a mask.
Known as “... | ['Covid 19', 'Pandemic', 'Politics', 'Coronavirus', 'America'] |
2. Les flux (The flow) — 5–15 pieces of content per day covering science, health, innovation and climate. Les flux also includes Geneva Solutions, an English section, which is a solutions journalism project. It focuses on the UN and humanitarian community and is published in English. Les flux is published on weekdays.
... | ['Journalism', 'Resilience', 'Case Study', 'Membership', 'Media'] |
A Favorite Pastime
Avid readers would no doubt agree that reading books is one of the time-honored, evergreen pastimes that never gets old, mainly because of all the endless possibilities to choose from and because reading is simply enjoyable.
A Pew Research study shows that reasons people love to read are many — lea... | ['Life Lessons', 'Book Recommendations', 'Advice', 'Reading', 'Books'] |
Developing mobile apps with Flutter is a good choice for most projects that start from the scratch. But what about companies that are already run native apps? Does it make sense to migrate them to Flutter? How much would the migration costs be and how much can you save afterwards? We would like to share some insights f... | ['Project Management', 'Software Migration', 'Flutter', 'Mobile App Development'] |
Welcome to a jam-packed, head-spinning, ultra-caffeinated Updates from the Dev Cave. We have so much dev goodness going on at XYO that we actually had to cut back on what to talk about this week.
Sidenote: For that crying XYO engineer in the corner who cracked the MIT Time-lock puzzle in less than 45 seconds — while d... | ['Ethereum', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Development'] |
Are You A Distant Dad?
Fear of failure hides our power. Practicing love shares our power.
Photo credit: iStock
By Robert Rannigan
Keeping distance from danger is a universal self-protective response. Fathers who hold themselves away from their children often experience their own children as dangerous — -emotionally... | ['Parenting', 'Advice', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Doubt', 'Fatherhood'] |
Here’s some candid advice from the horse’s mouth on how to handle internship jitters like a pro.
Induction day
This is that one day where department heads get to talk about themselves to people who have to listen. Like most interns, I doodled and daydreamed those sessions away, but I’d advise you to at least note dow... | ['Productivity', 'Corporate Culture', 'Internships', 'Career Advice', 'Careers'] |
The How
We’ll demonstrate the concepts I outlined above with real life data. This time we’ll be working front-to-back.
Training Data
In my previous post I have shown how I constructed ‘social’ links by identifying pairs of entities which appeared in the same news article, on the 26th of March. I repeated the same ex... | ['Link Prediction', 'Data Science', 'Imbalanced Class', 'Python', 'Graph Theory'] |
Disasters cause loyalists. People look to our leaders for help, and — whether they receive it or not — are easily swayed into looking optimistically towards the future. Political figures give heartwarming speeches about how we will get through this as a nation, as we “always do”, and, among the heroic doctors and samar... | ['Opinion', 'Coronavirus', 'Pandemic', 'Covid-19'] |
Monastery Wall, Lindisfarne. Author photograph.
Like many monastic foundations in England, the church and monastery fell into disrepair and ruin after the Reformation took hold in Britain. The king suppressed the monasteries and expelled the monks. In the 1800s, the church tower collapsed, and today an isolated stone ... | ['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Outdoors', 'Christianity', 'Travel'] |
Guilt runs through my veins and shame cuts the deepest. I can’t let go or re-wire my mind in a way that frees me from them.
Some days, I don’t see the point of continuing. I see flickers of light here and there and they have been sufficient enough to keep me going.
But I relapse. Again and again. I don’t know if the ... | ['Self', 'Depression', 'Mental Health'] |
Update Notice II
Please consider using the Simple Transformers library as it is easy to use, feature-packed, and regularly updated. The article still stands as a reference to BERT models and is likely to be helpful with understanding how BERT works. However, Simple Transformers offers a lot more features, much more st... | ['NLP', 'Bert', 'Data Science', 'Pytorch', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Of course the call started late. All Zoom calls do, I’ve learned that since we became a completely remote workforce. I also learned Zoom is a video conferencing tool, not just a conference calling tool. Funny story actually.
It was the first call I ever had on Zoom, a one-on-one with my manager, who 7 minutes in polit... | ['Tech', 'Awkward', 'Comedy', 'Coronavirus', 'Humor'] |
What A Different Christmas This Year!
2020 was like no other
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
Most people had small family gatherings or none at all
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging across the world, Christmas 2020 was very different for most people. With travel restrictions and social distancing recommende... | ['Pandemic', 'Holidays', 'Coronavirus', 'Family', 'Christmas'] |
Photo by Matt Hardy on Unsplash
After one week of treatment (and on a dose of 2 gm. L-DOPA daily), Mrs B. started talking -quite audibly for the first time in many years, although her vocal force would decay after two or three short sentences, and her new-found voice was low-pitched, monotonous, and uninflected…With r... | ['Rejection', 'Philosophy', 'Knowledge', 'Science', 'Perseverance'] |
Any salesman will tell you: the key to making a sale is to make the customer happy. Well, when you are an attorney, potential new clients that are calling you need to feel a sense of either happiness or hopefulness that you will be able to help them. Here’s how you can make your potential clients like you before you ev... | ['Call Center', 'Leads', 'Design', 'Virtual Assistant', 'Freelancing'] |
Feature Selection and Modeling
This section will be split into our two major modeling tasks: asset price modeling and modeling of returns. For each, we will perform feature engineering, then compare the efficacy of imputation techniques, train machine learning algorithms, and then interpret our modeling results.
Mode... | ['Quantitative Finance', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Finance'] |
Sexuality, stigma & discrimination, why do people even care?
My personal experience and some top tips
Pride Month
In the early hours of June 28th 1969 in Greenwich Village, New York City police raided a gay club named the Stonewall Inn. This raid started a riot among bar patrons and neighbourhood residents as police... | ['LGBT', 'Mental Health', 'Discrimination', 'Pride'] |
GPT-3 101: a brief introduction
It has been almost impossible to avoid the GPT-3 hype in the last weeks. This article offers a quick introduction to its architecture, use cases already available, as well as some thoughts about its ethical and green IT implications.
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Intr... | ['OpenAI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Gpt 3'] |
Insane workflows with Slack dialogs and YellowAnt!
Make Slack your de-facto command-center
Slack’s recent release of Dialogs is a complete game-changer — it has opened up a whole new world of possibilities and marks a turning point in enterprise ChatOps. Here at YellowAnt, we built a bot that lets you manage all your... | ['Chatbots', 'AI', 'Slack', 'DevOps', 'Software Development'] |
5. They Don’t Sell Themselves Short
How often do you doubt yourself? How often do you think that you’re not equipped to handle a situation in a relationship, not qualified for a promotion at work, not competent at any given skill? How often do you second guess your every move, doubt every decision you make?
Unfortuna... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Inspiration'] |
Don’t Facebook your problems. Face them.
The power and influence of social media today are so great that they have penetrated under our skin and the development of new technologies has changed the world we live in — our habits, behavior, and communication. Special target, the prisoners of new ways of communication and... | ['Social Problems', 'Social Media', 'Mental Health', 'Digital Marketing', 'Communication'] |
This version of wishful thinking would help you find your career, let go of fear and live your dream life.
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Many life’s problems that affect us every day seem to defy answer. A common one many people grapple with is: what should be my career?
A lot has been written about finding your dream c... | ['Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Leadership', 'Problem Solving', 'Careers'] |
An earlier version of this announcement was first shared as an email to the Pangeo google group on Aug. 31, 2017.
Dear Friends and Colleagues
I am thrilled to share the news that NSF has decided to fund a proposal to support the Pangeo project!
Last December I reached out to you to enquire about interest in a collab... | ['Science', 'Data Science', 'Community', 'Funding'] |
Using Jackson annotations with Jackson-jr
(to rename and remove properties)
Something that I briefly covered earlier (in Jackson 2.11 features) is the new jackson-jr extension called jackson-jr-annotation-support . But as I have not gotten much feedback since that release, maybe it is time to re-review this additiona... | ['Json', 'Jackson', 'Java'] |
My name is Amet Umerov and I’m a DevOps Engineer at Preply.
Introduction to Kubernetes auth
We use Kubernetes for creating dynamic environments for devs and QA. So we want to provide them access to Kubernetes via Dashboard and CLI. Kubernetes vanilla doesn’t support authentication for kubectl out of the box, unlike O... | ['Dex', 'Github', 'Authentication', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps'] |
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“Card games, now that’s a good way to pass the time.”
An older woman observes my group of fifteen high school students huddled in circles playing games. We’ve just spent a week in the Dominican Republic and are enjoying a layover in the Miami airport before our final flight home.
Th... | ['Internet', 'Technology', 'Social Media', 'Apple', 'Life'] |
Java Tips — Managing arrays
An introduction for create, manipulate and use the arrays
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To store in memory more than a variable is possible to use the array; the arrays are a structure that may contain variables defined as primitive types or defined an object.
The syntax of an array d... | ['Java', 'Programming Languages', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
4 Lessons I Learned From Sending 100 Christmas Cards That Will Make You Happier James Ware Follow Dec 23 · 4 min read
“How do you address a Christmas card to the Queen?” Of all the things I’ve Googled in this most surreal of search years, this was perhaps the most unusual yet. Even the Queen will be lonely this Christ... | ['Happiness', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Christmas', 'Mindfulness'] |
Let’s go back to our “while loop” vs. “for loop” comparison. Does it matter if the element we are looking for is at the beginning or at the end of the list?
This time, we are looking for number 9702, which is at the very end of our list. Let’s measure the performance:
There is almost no difference. “While loop” is ar... | ['Best Practices', 'Python', 'Performance', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Writing Faster Python'] |
Node.js for eCommerce: Top 10 Advantages Node.js Provides to E-commerce Industry
Why is Node.js popular in the eCommerce industry?
Do you know the eCommerce business is booming nowadays? The rise of the eCommerce industry has seen drastic growth in the last 4–5 years. This massive growth rate is seen in countries lik... | ['Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Ecommerce', 'Node', 'Development'] |
Were the largest of the PPP loans granted fairly?
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The Paycheck Protection Program was initiated in April 2020. Administered by the Small Business Association (SBA), these forgivable loans were meant to relieve small businesses in America some of the potentially devastating strain im... | ['Small Business Loans', 'Python', 'Classification Models', 'Payroll Protection'] |
Depression²
How to fight a one-two punch right now
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On a good day, I struggle with depression. Maybe a little less; perhaps it’s more annoying those days and less utterly disruptive. But it’s there, all the same. Now, add in a global pandemic and orders restricting my ability to go ... | ['Wellness', 'Mental Illness', 'Covid 19', 'Self Care', 'Depression'] |
Having a Spiritual Practice Can Help You Deal with Coronavirus-Related Stress
How turning to spiritual practices can become an ally in this trying time.
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When I ask people what first words or phrases come to mind when someone mentions the word “spirituality,” most of them would answer G... | ['Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Covid 19', 'Self', 'Spiritual Growth'] |
I’m the King of Wishful Eating.
Somewhere around the beginning of the year I decided to stop eating pasta every day and give this low carb shit a try. I was committed to calling it out on its hooey and returning to the diet of my choice shortly thereafter. The issue: It’s actually lovely.
I feel like a normal person ... | ['Recipe', 'Writing', 'Food', 'Life Hacking', 'Humor'] |
How an under-the-radar series evolved from a typical network sitcom into one of the boldest and most nuanced depictions of addiction and recovery in television history.
The cast of “Mom” at PaleyFest 2018 (from left to right: Jamie Pressly, Anna Faris, Allison Janney, Mimi Kennedy, and Beth Hall)
Like all people, my ... | ['Mental Health', 'Recovery', 'Television', 'Addiction', 'Feminism'] |
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