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Wrapping Up My Gratitude This Year in Christmas Paper and Ribbons. As 2020 comes to a close, I glanced back over my first eight months writing on Medium. I’ve learned so much from so many and found a passion that had been lying dormant under a pile of self-doubt.
Please help me celebrate those who made a difference in... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Gratitude', 'Christmas', 'Ｍedium'] |
As developers, regardless of our specialty, whether it being data science, front end, or back end, we spend more than 75% of our time reading code written by others. That task can be such a demanding task.
That being said, the ability to read others’ code efficiently is one of the skills that could make one’s job in s... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Computer Science', 'Programming'] |
It starts off great. The recruiter you spent two months talking to over emails and voicemails takes you on a tour of your new office. They show you all the free snacks. You spy a Foosball table. Someone walks by holding a beer. You notice a DJ booth in the corner. You don’t know how you earned the right to work among t... | ['Advertising Agency', 'Branding', 'Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing'] |
In the case of images, we are dealing with a high-dimensional probability distribution.
How “high” a dimension are we talking about here?
Generally speaking, we use 32x32 images and each of them is colored, meaning three additional channels to capture the RGB component. So, our probability distribution has 32 * 32 * ... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Neural Networks', 'Gans'] |
First, a list:
Now let’s rewind a bit.
In March 2012, Robin Sloan introduced us to a “short but heartfelt manifesto about the difference between liking something on the internet and loving something on the internet.” He called it “Fish: A Tap Essay.” As with all of Sloan’s work, the writing was fun and thought-provok... | ['Publishing', 'Media', 'Storytelling'] |
The most typical dilemma that rises if you prefer to develop a mobile application is to make the appropriate decision between the varying approaches to get the app developed. This blog will help you grasp the difference and pick the most appropriate among Hybrid mobile app and Native mobile app.
NATIVE MOBILE APPLICAT... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Native', 'Hybrid App Development', 'Technology', 'Hybrid'] |
We’re dealing with the top 3 Fantasy League Applications success stories in this blog which have created a huge impact on the market with the help of Amazon Web Services Dynamo DB with just a startup team of maximum of 16 people.😲
Case Study by Rohit Ghumare
Hey, Today I’m here to just share the “Gyaan ka Pitaara” f... | ['Fantasy Sports', 'Amazon Web Services', 'Amazon', 'Cloud', 'Fantasy'] |
If you're anything like I was, you may have a small amount of fear related to investing your hard-earned dollars into the stock market.
Honestly, it’s a completely rational fear. We work hard for our money, and investing it into something as perceivably as volatile and unpredictable as the stock market can seem like m... | ['Personal Finance', 'Motivation', 'Investing', 'Inspiration', 'Finance'] |
Submission Guidelines (Updated)
How to get published in Thoughts and Ideas?
Dear Readers,
Everyone is hereby invited to submit their writings (articles, poems, short stories, etc) to “Thoughts and Ideas”. Its followers are increasing day by day due to our reader’s goodwill and by good work of many writers who are as... | ['Submission', 'Thoughts And Ideas', 'Writing', 'Medium'] |
Visual narrative, also referred to as visual storytelling, is telling a story through photography, illustration, or motion pictures. There are many uses of visual narratives, including storyboards. While storyboards have been used widely in the animation and film industry since the early 1900s, it’s only been around in... | ['Visual Storytelling', 'Storyboard', 'Storytelling', 'Visual Narrative', 'UX Design'] |
Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash
Any big traditional company dreams to be like Google, Facebook, or Amazon but there is one thing that separate the former that existed before the birth of the Internet, from the latter which started with the Internet: they were not born with data mining and machine learning in their D... | ['Big Data', 'Data Analytics', 'Data Strategy', 'Data Science', 'Digital Transformation'] |
In late 2017, a few small hardware teams quietly visited a handful of Xbox gamers’ homes in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. With several black foam boxes in tow, they asked gamers to unplug their current Xbox and put the new shape in its place.
Fans knew this was for the next-generation Xbox consoles, but the... | ['Hardware', 'Design', 'Games', 'Industrial Design', 'Microsoft'] |
Charles Mackay, a 19th century journalist called it ‘ the Madness of Crowds’. In the 14th century dancing mania broke out across Europe (shown above). Groups of men, women, and children would dance uncontrollably for hours or even days at a time for no apparent reason, only finishing when they succumbed to exhaustion. ... | ['Product Management', 'UX', 'Ts', 'MVP', 'Startup'] |
POETRY | SPIRITUALITY
My Passion Sets Me Ablaze
A Poem
Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash
When the sunrays puncture the skies,
When the first light of the day disperses the darkness,
When the warmth of the day’s love touches me,
My dreams come alive.
My passion burns and cooks my life.
Every day, I wake up, I fe... | ['Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Life', 'Poem', 'Writing'] |
The origin and importance of one of the best screenwriting mantras… ever!
I know the source of this mantra. It was one of my online screenwriting students. During a weekly live-chat session. I was going on and on about the importance of writing tight, taut, lean scene description, make it easy on the eye, clean on the... | ['Creative Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Writing Tips', 'Screenwriting', 'Writing'] |
“A 5 step guide to optimize your attendance to any blockchain event!”
On March 15th, 2018 the BOOSTO team attended their first ever crypto conference together. Up until that point our amazingly charismatic CEO Heidi was touring blockchain events solo, speaking and spreading her energetic enthusiasm to wherever she cou... | ['Social Media', 'Storytelling', 'Blockchain', 'Crypto', 'Event'] |
— an anecdote of potpourris.
“Best Before”
Answer me this: am I sick?
Photo by Gantas Vaičiulėnas from Pexels
Best before: 2023.12.25
That’s an odd number. 25–12–23. Why that day? Why that specific number? That doesn’t even make any sense, what’s so special about it? Is it because it’s Christmas?
December 25, 202... | ['Nonfiction', 'A Cornered Gurl', 'Short Story', 'This Happened To Me', 'Life'] |
Living With Past Hurt
When you reach a point where happiness is the priority, what do you do with your past emotional trauma? My life has reached a high point where I’m living peacefully, and for the most part, I’m pretty comfortable. However, comfort and conflict are in direct opposition to one another. Like bickerin... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
I’ve been purging as I get ready to move again. This has put me in touch with sentimental boxes where I have stored precious memories: my high school prom corsage, little souvenirs from different trips, honor cords from graduating from college, a teddy bear from my childhood that I forgot about. It was fun to hold thes... | ['Love Letters', 'Writing', 'Love', 'Relationships', 'Vulnerability'] |
INTRODUCTION
Conditional formatting is a great way to highlight items for the spreadsheet user. But, setting the conditions up can be tricky.
It’s even more confusing when you introduce variables into the formatting (so that user can define what to format).
But, persevere and the payoff is significant!
Two of my fa... | ['Conditional Formatting', 'Excel', 'Reporting', 'Productivity'] |
With recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence, we at YML Innovation Labs were curious whether art introductions can be automated. In this article we explore how we went about creating such an art exhibition in NYC with Damjanski.
It’s not too long since OpenAI cautiously revealed the capabilities of its language... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'TensorFlow', 'Art', 'Deep Learning'] |
Devin Finzer, Jiacheng Hong and Kelsey Stemmler | Pinterest engineers, Discovery
A core part of Pinterest is giving people the ability to discover content related to their interests. Many times, a Pin can be discovered when people share it with one another, through features like Group Boards and messages.
To make the... | ['Engineering', 'Typeahead', 'Data', 'Search', 'Thrit'] |
Lights…Camera…Acton!
Social media changed a lot about society. We communicate, share, comment, support, motivate, laugh, and lots more with each other with just the click of a button using the power of social media. Social media has become our main source of information (sometimes disinformation). It’s our spell check... | ['Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Content'] |
The Sordid Life of Caravaggio
“Tenebrism was a trademark technique of Caravaggio’s, and perhaps creates a fitting analogy for the artist’s life. For, as replete with wrongdoing as it was, he also created numerous paintings of immense beauty.”
Benjamin Blake Evemy /MutualArt
The Seven Works of Mercy, 1606–1607, oil o... | ['Painting', 'History', 'Art', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
At Silo, we recently worked on an overhaul of our user management system. The overhaul primarily involved adding the ability to assign permissions over specific features in our marketplace application. As we went through the planning phases of our new user management architecture, we insisted on not reinventing the whe... | ['Backend', 'Software Engineering', 'Golang Tutorial', 'Runtime Permissions', 'Go'] |
Let’s read our top 10 writers who write in their signature style:
10. What If I’m Not Good Enough?
Neha Doshi is an English teacher and a fine writer. Do check her other work.
Since 2018, the Office of National Statistics has conducted surveys regarding the gender pay gap in the UK. What has been revealed is that ev... | ['Writing Tips', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Readinglist'] |
How to build an innovation engine…from within
Empower your team to be intrapreneurs, give them room to experiment, and celebrate failures
Amina Islam
In the race for relevance to future customers whose needs and desires still remain obscure, a company’s capacity to innovate is far more important than its capacity to... | ['Xcelerator', 'Leadership', 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Leadership Development'] |
Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash
There are different approaches to putting models into productions, with benefits that can vary dependent on the specific use case. Take for example the use case of churn prediction, there is value in having a static value already that can easily be looked up when someone calls a c... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Software', 'Data Engineering', 'Data'] |
Photo by Christopher Campbell on Unsplash
A while back, a friend was attempting to persuade me that awareness is real. He told me that all the saints and sages have talked about Awareness or Consciousness as being primary. Until recently, I believed that to be true as well. I think he might have quoted people like Ram... | ['Meditation', 'Psychology', 'Self', 'Philosophy', 'Life'] |
By Chloe Castleberry
There’s a unique sound behind Chicago-based band Zigtebra’s music. Self-described as lo-fi indie rock, you can’t help but move to it. But it’s not just the synthetic beats or spunky lyrics that make the music mesmerizing. After talking with Emily Rose, 28, and Joe Zeph, 34, the “dream pop duo” beh... | ['Electronic Music', 'Music', 'Art', 'Chicago', 'Culture'] |
As we begin to reinvent the way we live on our planet, there’s a simple process that can help us: becoming aware of awareness.
Often referred to as mindfulness, this everyday inward focusing of our attention helps us be more tuned in to our intuitive and creative self.
While the political changes needed to improve li... | ['Meditation', 'Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Personal Development', 'Life'] |
If you like some simple graphic drawing in Android Canvas, drawVertices is a pretty nice API to use. It could be used as the fundamental for drawing 3D images as shown below.
Anyway, before getting into that complexity, let’s learn the fundamental of the API.
I was searching for some tutorial explaining it and can’t ... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Graphic Design', 'Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Android App Development'] |
Regardless of their domain of activity, many companies use the power of data to support and guide their decisions. This is because data, once able to interpret it properly, is one of the most valuable insights. Customer insights are key to helping you make informed decisions that bring more value in the long-term and d... | ['Fintech', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Finance'] |
Are you having a hard time finding a UX job in 2020 or almost 2021!? I hope that this can help. It’s time to look back at the most useful things I’ve learned during the last four years of mentoring and coaching other designers.
I‘ve coached different designers both on a personal level and in groups. Whether you are lo... | ['Product Design', 'UX', 'Career', 'Design', 'Coaching'] |
10. I’ve Been a Vegetarian for 6 Years and This is What I Learned
Diana Bernardo is a former journalist who loves to write about travel, work, and life lessons. Her style is simple, direct, and engaging. Do check her other work as well.
We were approaching the end of 2014. Two of my best friends had recently become v... | ['Writing Tips', 'Readinglist', 'Self Improvement', 'Reading', 'Writing'] |
Fama (1970) introduced efficient market hypothesis (EMH), stating the prices of securities fully reflect available information. Therefore, investors buying securities in an efficient market should expect to obtain an equilibrium rate of return. Later he introduced three different form of market efficiency: weak, semi-s... | ['Python', 'Trading', 'Quantitative Finance', 'Data Science', 'Stock Market'] |
Dear Contributor,
Here’s a quick DreamTeam update. Since the last digest, our CEO has taken part in a crypto interview, DreamTeam has been nominated for the EuroAsian Startup Awards, we‘ve released our Q2’2019 report, and have been mentioned in several crypto publications.
Check out the details below.
DreamTeam CEO ... | ['Gaming', 'Blockchain', 'Esports', 'Games', 'Startup'] |
How Does News Coverage Differ Between Media Outlets?
A comparative analysis of news media over the last month using R and Python
In the past year, it seems like political news has become more divisive and more biased¹. As President Trump rails against tech companies for not promoting news sources equally², I wondered... | ['Media', 'Data Science', 'News', 'Data Journalism', 'Journalism'] |
first you were a stringy substance.
helpless from most angles, wielded
by the force of life surging through
when amenable- a twinkle in your eyes
mostly a cacophony of hard-wired urges-
for consciousness, the first education in Need
your skin still bore the scent of your maternal home
miniature fingers wrapped t... | ['Storytelling', 'Poet', 'Poem', 'Creative Writing', 'Poetry'] |
Quadrant available now on Uniswap
During the past few months and despite the ongoing pandemic, Quadrant has launched innovative initiatives which have led to notable growth of partners and ecosystem. This accelerated growth has accelerated demand from our partners and for the future of our utility token, “eQUAD”, whic... | ['Uniswap', 'Big Data', '1inch', 'Crypto', 'Defi'] |
Medium’s API
What could someone do with a key for the Mediums API? As always, the best information can be found in the API documentation, so let’s have a look at Medium’s API docs.
As we can see, the document is pretty short and only a few methods are provided. Every request goes to api.medium.com and contains the HT... | ['Python', 'Hacking', 'Technology', 'Cybersecurity', 'Programming'] |
It is a fact that some accidents, incidents and natural disasters precede many changes and gradually human life adopt these changes. But Covid-19 has rapidly changed the way of life. This virus has done a lot of damage to every industry but on other hand e-commerce business has grown faster than expected. An example of... | ['User Experience', 'New York', 'Design Process', 'User Research', 'Design Thinking'] |
He is Relevant
Remember Elon Musk memes? Of course you do. This is how you build relevance, especially with youth. He uses Twitter and tweets every day, one of the richest men in the world is literally reposting memes, how can’t you relate or like him?
Younger people’s attention is important to capture right now beca... | ['Branding', 'Personal Branding', 'Technology', 'Elon Musk', 'Marketing'] |
Primary Building Blocks
Selenium Client Libraries: Selenium Client Libraries or Selenium Language Bindings allow us to write automation scripts in the language of our choice like Python, Ruby, Java, etc.
Selenium Client Libraries or Selenium Language Bindings allow us to write automation scripts in the language of ou... | ['Python', 'Automation', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Selenium'] |
If you are a Tableau server admin or interact with your Tableau admin, then the chances of you desperately crying out for their help over some accidental action is a quiet common possibility. Currently, retrieving just one workbook or select few items from a Tableau backup is time costly and counter-productive work. Im... | ['Git', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Tableau Server'] |
15 Helpful Style Guides for Fiction Writers
How do you know what’s correct?
Image credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Writers and editors often rely on a shelf (or five) full of resources to make their work as consistent and accurate as possible. I have a page of helpful writing resources, in fact, right on my website... | ['Writing Tips', 'Style Guides', 'Language', 'Writing Resources', 'Writing'] |
Zach Diamond: So what is the problem that Humanlytics is trying to solve?
Patrick Han: Long story short, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have a ton of data and they don’t know what to do with it. The big players have joined the data revolution; they hire teams of analysts because they understand that data ana... | ['Analytics', 'Small Business', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup', 'Critical Thinking'] |
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
New Year’s resolutions got their start some 4000 years ago. But what ancient peoples used as a promise to their gods in hopes to gain favor for the new year, is a lot different these days.
Today, we celebrate the conclusion of a year. We honor our losses for the previous year and pla... | ['New Year Resolution', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Advice', 'Personal Development'] |
Each year, Microsoft hosts a company-wide hackathon called, OneWeek. Known as the largest private hackathon in the world, Microsoft employees are encouraged to step away from their day jobs and use the time to dream big, tackle problems, and pursue passions. For the Dynamics365 for Talent design team, that meant it was... | ['Case Studies', 'Design'] |
The Iteration Imperative
Why digital products should be created iteratively
Back when people first started building complex software, the natural approach was to do this in a planned methodical way that resembles physical engineering. You make a detailed plan, validate the plan in theory, build it, test it in practic... | ['Technology', 'Agile', 'Product Management', 'Leadership', 'Startup'] |
Apply and test your learning over 6 months
We’re working in partnership with CIH Cymru on a project that I’m, personally, really excited by.
Service Design in Practice is a new learning and development programme for people who have service design responsibilities. It goes beyond traditional training courses (in fact ... | ['Service Design', 'Social Housing', 'Culture Change', 'Wales', 'Development'] |
Introductory Guide on Link Building
SEO Professionals: Most Creative Link Acquisition Strategy
Top 8 ways of Creating Backlinks in 2019
Image by Great Learning
In the world of SEO, acquiring backlinks is one among the highly crucial components, which at times can be hectic and time-consuming. In general, Google use... | ['Technology', 'Organic', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'SEO'] |
There’s always a lot of ways to explain life as we know it. And I do not mean it in the metaphysical sense of the bigger why questions. Douglas Adams answered the biggest ‘why’ questions extremely succinctly when he asked back, ‘why not?’ I meant the banal, everyday hand of cards that we are all dealt. There’s fate, th... | ['Destiny', 'Fate', 'Writing', 'Translation', 'Poetry'] |
Or, what makes us fragile could also make us great.
By Alejandro Alvarez on Unsplash
It can’t be a coincidence that many of the greatest, brightest minds in history have also been the most tortured souls. The exceptionally creative, hyper-intelligent and uniquely gifted are known to fight fierce internal battles and ... | ['Depression', 'Celebrity', 'Achievement', 'Mental Health', 'Bipolar'] |
Failure as Your Path to Resilience
Lessons from positive psychology
This is not a feel-good story about how good failure is and how it sets you up for success. Or how successful entrepreneurs succeeded because they first failed many times.
That is simply not true; these are lies by people trying to arbitrarily ident... | ['Resilience', 'Success', 'Psychology', 'Positive Thinking', 'Positive Psychology'] |
Last Updated: December 2020
Setting up your remote work space can be daunting. You’ll be confronted with dozens of purchasing decisions, and you may feel like you need to do a lot of research. I build and advise remote development teams as part of my regular work, and have been doing so since 2014. I’ve looked at all ... | ['Remote Work', 'Covid 19', 'Gadgets', 'Technology', 'Coronavirus'] |
This is a weekly series where I share some awesome design work from the seven days. The work you see here wont just be the popular big designers but the small guys as well.
This list is curated by me, Alex Brown, a freelance developer and creator of Snackify and Photo Ipsum.
by Bart Ebbekink
by Aman Singh
by Lukas ... | ['App Design', 'UI', 'Web Design', 'Inspiration', 'Design'] |
Why Tables Matter
Data is becoming the raw material of the global economy. The pursuit of data drives the reinvention of antiquated industries. Energy, media, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, retail, finance, and even the government are undergoing a digital transformation.
However, data is meaningless without th... | ['UI', 'Data Science', 'Product Design', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Most product managers have been in this position at some point. Maybe we thought we understood the problem we were solving, but as time passes the issues just keep multiplying. It’s a mess, but I think it stems from something deeper. We have never really been taught how to understand the problems of the users we are tr... | ['Product Management', 'Management', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Work'] |
There was a time when I thought the only way to support my friends was to give them advice. Then Rahul Guttal blew my mind when he hosted a workshop on the subject. I’ll share what I learned there and a bonus that changed how I interact with myself and friends in need.
Types of support
Rahul introduced the five love ... | ['Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Support', 'Communication', 'Therapy'] |
Give and receive the gift of green this holiday season. Green — by its 21st-century definition- is good.
We Americans are going green. Some say we’ve reached the point of no return. Like the “ecology” movement of the 70’s and the technology boom of the 90’s, the “green” movement is forging ahead. There is no longer a ... | ['Web Content', 'Solar Energy', 'Ehow', 'Recycling', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Interdisciplinarity is the key. Start expanding your hard skills. The analysis* of job offers clearly indicated that majority of companies seek persons who possess knowledge in a few related fields. It’s great that you’re an UI designer, but it’s even better if you’re able to do flow and wireframes (UI/UX Designer) or ... | ['Product Owner', 'Product Design', 'Career', 'Design', 'UI Design'] |
If there’s been any resounding sentiment on the internet over the past few weeks, it’s this: Functioning at optimal levels of productivity simply isn’t a reasonable expectation right now.
This is true. However, it ignores the fact that many of us lacked motivation before the pandemic — and our current reality has only... | ['Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
Installing Apache Hive 3.1.2 on Windows 10
A step-by-step guide to install Apache Hive 3.1.2 on Windows 10 operating system
While working on a project, we were asked to install Apache Hive on a Windows 10 operating system. Many guides were found online but unfortunately, they didn’t work. For this reason, I decided t... | ['Hadoop 3', 'Hadoop', 'Apache Hive', 'Big Data', 'Hive'] |
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Science has gone from pinholes to the Large Hadron Collider. What did not change is how our children learn science. They begin to learn science in the same way we did. But toddlers today skip Youtube adverts and navigate to the next desired video like pros. Do they have to wait until uni... | ['Books', 'Homeschooling', 'Children', 'Education', 'Family'] |
How To Be Happy When Your World Is Falling Apart
I feel so much compassion for us all, facing this global challenge that hits right at our most sensitive spots.
Photo credit: Shutterstock
By Stephanie Harrison
This pandemic has exposed a hard truth to us and delivered it in an incredibly harsh way. It has made it u... | ['Happiness', 'Mental Health', 'Covid 19', 'Self Care', 'Stress'] |
Why Are We Not A Blogger?
Inspiration to write blogs
Writing something is not easy but writing something is also not so difficult.
I have met many people who are very interested in sharing. Actually we all think of something and sometimes we take a pen and notebook and start writing. However, we don’t share it becau... | ['Thoughts', 'Writing', 'Tips', 'Blog', 'Words'] |
Another round of potential coronavirus relief was making its way through the United States government, fighting for a pre-election day passing. But with the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and Mitch McConnell choosing to adjourn the Senate until November 9th, Republicans again chose politics over... | ['Leadership', 'Election 2020', 'Government', 'Politics', 'Coronavirus'] |
What will be the Average Height of US Presidents?
Let’s find out using Python libraries Numpy, Pandas, and MatPlotLib
Photo by Brandon Mowinkel on Unsplash
As I contemplated the next topic for my blog, this struck me as an interesting and curious topic that would also be a useful Python exercise. Let me tell you why... | ['Data Science', 'Python Numpy', 'Python Pandas', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization'] |
3 Subtle Signs Telling You to Give up Your Coding Job
Your awful feelings may tell you something about your current position.
Photo by Christina Morillo from Pexels
My last coding job was terrible.
Months of increasing distress and emotional unrest preceded the end of it, and I couldn’t understand why.
After more ... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Motivation', 'Work', 'Web Development'] |
I think back to my younger self quite often. To that young girl with an old soul who was just trying to figure out her way through life with little guidance from the world around her. School and culture never really addressed questions like, “What does it really take for a human being to live a good life?”
In my day, ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Life'] |
In my last few blog posts I have talked about some of the ways you can use Vue.js to keep track of dynamic data on a webpage, and how Vue gives you something called directives to change the way that data appears on the page. But, as I mentioned last time, you need a way to use these things on a big scale to make a good... | ['Coding', 'JavaScript', 'Vuejs', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
We talked with Jeff Wells, Metrc’s CEO.
How much funding have you raised in total?
Since we became involved in the cannabis and hemp industries, we have raised $50 million in funding, including investments from Tiger Global Management and Casa Verde Ventures.
How would you describe Metrc in a single tweet?
Metrc is... | ['Cannabis', 'Marijuana', 'Hemp', 'Startup'] |
The Designer’s Growth Model
The growth of a designer, i.e. the maturity of design, goes through several phases. Different phases ask different things of a designer. In each phase the work and goal of a designer changes. In each phase, the maturity grows.
Borrowing from the Invision report The New Design Frontier and ... | ['Design Leadership', 'Design Maturity', 'Design', 'Leadership', 'Growth Model'] |
How to Build Confidence and Prevent Bullying
Work to keep it from happening in the first place
Image courtesy of health.clevelandclinic.org
It seemed like I was always the new kid in school. At age seven, I switched again to begin the second grade.
The morning was cool and a small group of us were waiting under a l... | ['Schools', 'Psychology', 'Children', 'Confidence', 'Bullying'] |
It doesn’t matter what anybody says about time healing old wounds--because it simply isn’t true. Time is no healer, and heartache knows no timeline.
I see you, and it breaks my heart because I know you. I’ve been you. I’ve been the woman who can’t get over her ex no matter what anybody else says.
We drown in our reme... | ['Women', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Relationships'] |
Design Leadership Interview at DoorDash
Hello Kathryn, thanks for taking time to talk! Could you start by describing your role at DoorDash?
Sure! I lead the Design Infrastructure team here. At a high level, our job is to enable our partners in design, product, and engineering to build better products faster, and to m... | ['Design Leadership', 'DoorDash', 'Design', 'Design Inspiration', 'Design Infrastructure'] |
Leading Diverse and Dispersed Teams in Times of Crisis
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative is collaborating with Bloomberg Philanthropies’ COVID-19 Local Response Initiative to support mayors as they manage the pandemic. A ninth virtual discussion session held on May 14, 2020, focused on leading diverse a... | ['Local Government', 'Covid 19', 'Leadership', 'Teams And Teamwork', 'Coronavirus'] |
How to Declutter Your Writing Closet and Become a Minimalist
How to stop hoarding half baked articles and get clinical
Photo by piotr szulawski on Unsplash
Sometimes you buy things just because you can. You have no need for another pair of trainers. In fact, if anything, you have a need to reduce the number of train... | ['Growth', 'Writing Tips', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing'] |
Audio + Transcript
Greg Johnsen:
It’s all about using technology to free smart minds up to do the things that they’re really good at.
James Kotecki:
This is Machine Meets World. Infinia ML’s ongoing conversation about artificial intelligence. I am James Kotecki joined by the CEO of LifeLink, Greg Johnsen. Welcome G... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Technology', 'Healthcare'] |
Interview with Sam Lind
Design Leadership Interview at DoorDash
Hey Sam, How’s it going?
It’s going well. We’ve been busy working on a lot of exciting things lately.
Yeah, it’s definitely been exciting given current events. So what do you do at DoorDash?
I’m the design manager for the core consumer team. We design... | ['Design', 'UX Design', 'UX', 'DoorDash', 'Design Leadership'] |
Live: Now From Your Lock Screen
Users watched live video in an expanded notification for an average of three minutes.
The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab’s live video within an alert on January 20, 2016.
Even now, in an era that feels saturated by breaking news, live video has a startling power to transport the viewe... | ['Mobile', 'Live Streaming', 'Innovation', 'Web Notifications', 'Journalism'] |
We are thrilled to announce that we have expanded our marketing team in the last few weeks, hiring a new Director of Marketing and a Content Marketing Manager.
Strengthening the marketing team is not merely the next logical step in Quadrant’s growth story; we are also introducing structural changes. Historically, the ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Quadrant', 'Blockchain', 'Big Data', 'Equad'] |
The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a paragon for neural networks that try to learn the shape of the input space. Once trained, the model can be used to generate new samples from the input space.
If we have labels for our input data, it’s also possible to condition the generation process on the label. In the MNIST ca... | ['Neural Networks', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
We live in a time of abundance. Advances in technology have torn down barriers of acquisition and made it possible to receive most any good or piece of media with the simple click of a button. In terms of convenience, this returns an unprecedented amount of hours back to our everyday lives as we no longer are required ... | ['Netflix', 'Television', 'Marketing Strategy', 'Brand Strategy', 'Marketing'] |
Two Things Every Runner Needs
Which I discovered after my latest trail marathon
Photo by Massimo Sartirana on Unsplash
Earlier this year, I was running 40–50 miles a week whilst training for a trail marathon. Then for a couple of months, I had weeks when I logged zero miles, and averaged less than 10. The difference... | ['Self Improvement', 'Fitness', 'Running Tips', 'Motivation', 'Running'] |
The diagram above addressed the three components of the SMART principle:
Specific : Key activities, deliverables and targets
: Key activities, deliverables and targets Measurable : Key performance metrics
: Key performance metrics Timely: Key milestones and timeline
In the next section, I will address how to quanti... | ['Strategy', 'Innovation', 'Digital Transformation', 'Technology', 'Startup'] |
In my Flatiron school bootcamp we were assigned to do a pair project. Me and my partner decided to make a program that takes baseball data, inputs it into a local database, and returns relevant data to the user with a user input. This program would be written in Ruby, and it would use ActiveRecord, sqlite3, require_all... | ['Database', 'API', 'Activerecord', 'Software Engineering', 'Ruby'] |
The Mantle is a serialized fantasy story. More about it here Table of contents
The fallen star had gouged a channel into the earth miles long and so deep the sun couldn’t find the bottom. Even so buried, its carcass rose above the low hills like the ill-shaped crown of a god emerging from the black depths of the earth... | ['Science Fiction', 'Themantle', 'Writing', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction'] |
A Sketchbook for the City to Come: The Pop-up as R&D
At first glance, architecture, continuing its slow descent from its 20th century heyday to today’s rather marginal pursuit, has rarely appeared so denuded and impotent as when engaged in pop-up architecture. For a trade once predicated on mighty civic investment, to... | ['Cities', 'Design', 'Food', 'Urbanism', 'Architecture'] |
The First Electric Car Was Invented Almost 200 Years Ago
The unknown inventor Ányos Jedlik
A few electric taxis in New York, 1906 (Source: Rare Historical Photos)
We all see this new revolution in the automobile industry as the best innovation brought in this technological revolution of the 21st century without thin... | ['Marketing', 'Technology', 'Brands', 'Cars', 'History'] |
Everyone follows Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and thousands of other successful people. People see all the aura around their personality but neglect the things that were key in their growth. We want to be icons like them and idolize their current position, status, and reverence.
But did you ever think that what ... | ['Success', 'Personal Development', 'Life', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons'] |
I love agile. For the first few years of my career I worked in a chaotic waterfall environment. My first experience of switching to agile was a breath of fresh air.
Agile is a rational, considered, and sensible approach to apply in development, and I can imagine a lot of other settings too. There are drawbacks though,... | ['Agile', 'Product Management', 'Leadership', 'UX', 'Development'] |
Insomnia: To hell and back.
A fortnight of torment that drove me to the brink of insanity.
Image Source: Google
I promptly shut my laptop’s lid, keep away my phone, set the room lighting to a warm orange hue, grab my Kindle and try to relax — just like what the “How to sleep well” articles I found on the Internet re... | ['Experience', 'Mental Health', 'Sleep', 'Insomnia', 'Thankfulness'] |
And now for the weather…
Meet the UN meteorologist helping countries to adapt to climate change
Jesse has always held a strong passion for outdoor pursuits. Photo provided by Jesse Mason
Jesse Mason is not your everyday weatherman. He doesn’t pop up every night on television with a big map in the background and tomo... | ['Climate Change', 'Climate Crisis', 'Wfp', 'Un Climate Summit', 'Weather'] |
#1 Our Fascination with Pixels is Almost Over
It might be that 2015 was the year you finally added the buzzword “UX” to your Linkedin profile — but were still spending most of your time pushing pixels on a screen. If that’s the case, your Photoshop days may be over soon. That’s not to say interfaces are going to die, ... | ['Articles', 'UX', 'Design'] |
A River Called Mother
A poem
Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash
Daughter,
Your mother will always be your mother
even after the bough breaks.
Somewhere at the end of the road
you will find her heart,
hidden beneath the shadows
that have kissed her body too often.
Daughter,
Someday you will reach up
and touch... | ['Life Lessons', 'Parenting', 'Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Poetry'] |
Views expressed by the author are his own and done in his personal capacity. These are no way representative and/or reflective of the organization he is associated with.
Background
As part of the machine learning journey, we typically start with linear regression and gradually get onto the concept of the cost functio... | ['Machine Learning', 'Cost Function', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Optimization', 'Gradient Descent'] |
Processing the data
All records can be downloaded from the Property Price Register (PPR) site in CSV format. In this article, we’ll take a look at the last two years of data. It should be noted that the PPR page contains a disclaimer stating:
The PSRA does not in any way edit the data. It simply publishes, in a fully... | ['Python', 'Housing', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Let’s cut straight to the cringe – most people, including you, dislike the term “personal brand.” If you’re the exception, this post isn’t for you. Everyone else, stay with me.
I hear you: “the influencer movement is so fake,” “I don’t want to be one of those self-promoters,” — “a person isn’t a brand.”
Or how about ... | ['Professional Development', 'Personal Brand', 'Self', 'Marketing', 'Personal Development'] |
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