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6 most useful Homescreen Widgets for iOS 14
These are useful and my favorite iOS14 home screen widgets for iPhone and iPad. I am sure you all will also like them. So let’s start:
1. Documents by Readdle
Documents by Readdle is a very famous app. Many people use this app for years to manage their documents on their i... | ['iPhone', 'Technology', 'iOS', 'Apple', 'Ios 14'] |
In this post, we will look at Autoscaling in Oracle Cloud. From the horse’s mouth:
Autoscaling enables you to automatically adjust the number of Compute instances in an instance pool based on performance metrics such as CPU utilization. This helps you provide consistent performance for your end users during periods of... | ['Jmeter', 'Oracle Cloud', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Autoscaling'] |
Modified from source
Policy Gradient methods (PG) are popular in reinforcement learning (RL). The basic principle uses gradient ascent to follow policies with the steepest increase in rewards. However, the first-order optimizer is not very accurate for curved areas. We can get overconfidence and make bad moves that ru... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Patience Comes Through Practice
Patience is not a gift but a skill; skills require practice.
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Patience is important, but like any skill it must be learned, so impatience is common (and can have serious consequences).
Impatience differs from impulsiveness. In impulsive behavior, the i... | ['Patience', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Change', 'Learning'] |
As a corporate man by day, and an entrepreneur by night, I’ve attended my fair share of meetings over the last decade or so.
Meetings can be an odd experience. Before you know it the meeting can get out of control. Leaders with pinstripe suits or hair that is turning grey quicker by the day can lose the plot. They fle... | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Meetings', 'Life'] |
Greek mythology is laden with symbolic significance for humanity; in this particular story, you can see that the myth of Medusa is closely related to the development of a traumatic event.
Medusa seduced by the God of the sea Poseidon and impregnated in the temple of Athena. The Virgin Goddess Athena’s rage came down u... | ['Literature', 'Self Improvement', 'Trauma', 'Mental Health', 'Mythology'] |
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The failure of progressives to tell the story of the world we want is largely to blame for the dismal state of the world we’ve got. And we’re running out of time to fix it.
This sorry tale begins on an up-note with Gouverneur Morris, a sadly obscure founder of our nation. The wealthy... | ['Social Justice', 'Storytelling', 'Content Marketing', 'Politics', 'Communication'] |
The history of pop music is rich in details, anecdotes, folk lore. And controversy. There is no shortage of debate over questions about the origin and influence of particular bands and musical styles.
But despite the keen interest in the evolution of pop music, there is little to back up most claims in the form of har... | ['Culture', 'Music', 'Data Visualization'] |
Machine learning is a unique field that is rapidly evolving as the years progress; once optimal algorithms are often replaced within ten to twenty years to make way for more efficient methods. The Histogram of Oriented Gradients detection method (HOG for short) is one of these antique algorithms, being almost a decade ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Image Classification'] |
Sprint therapy
You may be thinking now that this was just half-baked agile — and you would be right, but it wasn’t the only problem. One solution might have been to double down on resource and recruit more designers, so that there were at least 2 per squad. That option wasn’t available to us. With fewer than 8 designe... | ['Agile Design', 'Design', 'Design Operations', 'Design Process'] |
Background
Community Hubs is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim to help migrant and refugee families, especially mothers with young children to connect, learn and receive health, education and settlement support. The primary unit of impact are hubs — schools where the CHA sessions are run.
The goal of my anal... | ['Python', 'Feature Engineering', 'Modeling', 'Data Science', 'GIS'] |
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... | ['Fantasy Sports', 'Premier League', 'Data Science', 'Soccer', 'Fantasy Football'] |
How Do You Manage Up Effectively?
Photo by the author.
The thought of managing up could be intimidating. How do you manage your own manager?
How about rephrasing it as “choosing to communicate effectively upwards”? Notice the word “choosing,” which makes us feel powerful through autonomy and a sense of control. So, ... | ['Personal Development', 'Management', 'Startup', 'Self Improvement', 'Programming'] |
Want to stand out from the crowd? Deliver value? Want people to actually read what you have to say? Try addressing some of the points below.
No, it’s not your job to write something just for me. It’s your job to deliver something of value.
How do you grow? For something non-quantifiable, what benchmark(s) do you get ... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Growth Hacks', 'Relationships', 'Life'] |
Do you want to move your app to Google Kubernetes Engine? Then read on.
Treat this like a getting-started guide. It will not go into details/concepts but rather help you get you started on GKE quickly.
The general outline of the steps are as follows:
Prepare your Docker image. Guess what? You should be able to run t... | ['Stackdriver', 'Docker', 'Kubernetes', 'Load Balancing', 'Google App Engine'] |
A confirmation bias is a form of “cognitive illusion”. People tend to pay attention to what they already believe and filter out information that doesn’t fit with their opinions and beliefs. You can breakthrough these biases, however. Watch the video to find out how:
For more information check out:
Daniel Kahneman’s b... | ['Attention', 'Psychology', 'Influence', 'Presentations', 'Persuasion'] |
My career as a scientist has revolved around one goal. To stay in the workplace.
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Three decades ago, after doing well academically throughout high school, I expressed interest in choosing science as a major in college. My mother was not very supportive. I was surprised at her rel... | ['Women', 'Equality', 'Work Life Integration', 'Science', 'Careers'] |
Exciting attractions lie ahead; read below for the “movie review”. (Image source: http://www.redkid.net/generator/sign.php)
A decade ago, log management was commonly used to capture and retain events for compliance and security use cases. As adversaries and their TTP’s grew more sophisticated, simple logging evolved i... | ['Siem', 'Ciso', 'Data Lake', 'Data Science', 'Security'] |
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I had to smile when I learned from a friend that he believed me to be a peaceful, thoughtful man, and was surprised to hear I was taking part in a protest march at my age. You’re not even in your own country! Haven’t you been involved in enough shit for one lifetime?
So, I smiled, because yes,... | ['Grandchildren', 'Nonfiction', 'Love', 'Relationships', 'Life'] |
My childhood Books! (some of them)
I have lived without TV many times in my life. Either I didn’t have a television or I didn’t have cable, which never seemed worth the expense to me. When DVDs became available, I started a movie collection for times I wanted visual entertainment. Back in the days when you could still... | ['Reading', 'Books', 'Fiction', 'Parenting'] |
The Moon Land
A poem about being a poet
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intrigue me,
write that story which is lost somewhere
or get me that book which is abandoned in the library.
help me dream, because I am lost.
take me to that moonland which is somewhere.
tell me it’s okay to be who I am
a loner, an arti... | ['Poetry', 'Writers On Writing', 'Sadness', 'Anxiety', 'Writing'] |
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Data privacy & civil right
Is your data yours? Privacy in todays interconnected world.
Two faces of mass surveillance.
Since the beginning of the 21st century we witnessed an increasing trend in the strengthening of state surveillance. Due to some events beyond citizen control, fundamental... | ['Freedom', 'Surveillance', 'Politics', 'Data', 'Society'] |
It is not a surreptitious truth that anyone who pursues a professional life must dedicate part, if not all, of their lifespan to learning the required skills. Moreover, pronounced, valid to those seeking the medical profession. Long lore period, sleepless nights, and stressful days are very well known to every medical ... | ['Robots', 'Medical Practice', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Medicine'] |
Contribute to No Mud No Lotus
Slow-cooked words for hungry minds
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We are interested in evocative, thought-provoking, mind-pleasing words: short to medium-length stories (about 500 to 2,000 words) on subjects of travel, writing, or inspiring essays. Submit well-crafted, fully edited and... | ['Book Review', 'Nonfiction', 'Essay Writing', 'Creative Writing', 'Travel'] |
Hive Commands — Edureka
What is Hive?
Apache Hive is a Data warehouse system which is built to work on Hadoop. It is used to querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. Before becoming an open source project of Apache Hadoop, Hive was originated in Facebook. It provides a mechanism to projec... | ['Hql', 'Hive Commands', 'Big Data', 'Hive', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
Eugenia C. Gritts is the youngest person in history to be a published author. According to her family, she’s been a prolific writer since before she was even born. In fact, her early drafts were communicated through her mother’s stomach and written in Morse code.
The novel, More Milk Please, has just been released by ... | ['Satire', 'Writing', 'Humour', 'Comedy', 'Humor'] |
The idea of automated everything gave rise to the industrial revolution and, evolving along with the world, has reached the current stage of the post-industrial society with even more processes and services to be automated.
How can you automate your business processes in a modern company? What tools should you choose ... | ['Process', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Automation', 'Robotics'] |
Mask Up!
It’s not that hard, people.
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They say no one likes masks
But I think that’s a lie.
It’s a chic fashion statement
That says, “I don’t want to die.”
They say masks are a burden,
But it depends whom you ask.
I call it a hug for my face.
It’s like a Snuggie, my mask.
The... | ['Poetry', 'Rhymes', 'Masks', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus'] |
Like Beef.
Sometimes there really are no words. As I do research for other things, publications in a newspaper move me, and I had to create a publication just to keep them separate to the rest of my work.
Oh Really?
Baron Von Liebeg, a celebrated German chemist, states that there is much nutrition in one pound of pu... | ['History', 'Food', 'Vegan', 'Chocolate', 'Time'] |
You may have heard more and more about “Big Data” recently; the term has been growing steadily in popularity over the past couple of years. But what exactly is “Big Data”? And how can you use it to your advantage?
We’re creating data quicker today than ever before. 90% of all the data in the world has been created in ... | ['Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Customer Experience'] |
AutoML and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) are the new kings of the deep learning castle. They’re the quick and dirty way of getting great accuracy for your machine learning task without much work. Simple and effective; it’s what we want AI to be all about!
So how does it work? How do you use it? What options do you ... | ['Technology', 'Towards Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Evolution of Religion
Now that we have our evolutionary primer, we can apply this logic to the emergence & prosperity of religion. There’s something peculiar about human civilization: we’re just not built for the world we live in. Most of our evolutionary track occurred in a very different world than that which we cur... | ['Religion', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Complex Systems', 'Simulation'] |
You will lose a lot of your “friends”
People always say — stay away from the mediocre, you are your circles, tell me who your friends are kinda thing.
But how do you actually know? To be honest, I didn’t know it back then, all I thought was that as long as you are happy then you are in good company, I didn’t know the... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Work', 'Programming'] |
From 9–6 to 24–7–365.
These are the numbers that represent our work-life mentality and technology’s capability.
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Technological platforms do not need a break. We do.
We need to strike a balance. We have to start thinking about ways to leverage technology, so our work continues to pro... | ['Life Lessons', 'Work Life Balance', 'Technology', 'Productivity', 'Automation'] |
Exploratory analysis
Just from a cursory look at the data, we noticed that there were rows where the userId was missing. Upon further investigation, it looks like only the following pages have no userId:
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| Re... | ['Data Science', 'Udacity', 'Machine Learning', 'Big Data', 'Spark'] |
CALCULUS FOR DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING
Integration in elementary terms
Formulas to accelerate integration
In this post, we will summarise some of the most useful techniques to calculate integrals. This will allow you to avoid the limit notation, but there will always be some difficult integrals.
Primitive f... | ['Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Calculus'] |
The A.I. Among Us
Understanding the Deepness of Deep Learning.
As an integral part of many industries, Artificial Intelligence is progressing rapidly and becoming a part of our daily lives. Just by using the internet, there could be a chance that you will be part for an algorithm used for the future of technology thr... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
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my dog paces
panting frantically
she’s a golden retriever
and she has to pee
ann sits on the bed
reading a red book
hardcover
the cats lay on
opposite ends
of the floor
glaring at each other
the wind rustles the trees
outside the open window
where i can
hear the cars
ev... | ['Writing', 'Moments', 'Endings', 'Observation', 'Poetry'] |
Today, we’re going to explore an exciting programming language called Crystal — a compiled Ruby-syntax-like LLVM backend statically typed fully object-oriented language. The reason why I’m so excited about Crystal is the fact that it brings together the benefits of both compiled and dynamic languages.
Brief history
C... | ['Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Mobile', 'Revolut'] |
Introduction
For all the previously introduced layers, the same output will be generated if we repeat the same input several times. For instance, if we have a linear layer with f(x)=2.x. Each time we ask to predict f(3) we will get 6. So if we ask 10 times in a row, predict us the output when the input is 3, the NN wi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Lstm', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Recurrent Neural Network', 'Backpropagation'] |
The Vulnerability Industrial Complex
On turning our insatiable need for hope and inspiration into profit
What does it say about America that it wants to build a giant wall to keep other humans out?
As with anything to do with the current administration, the subtext isn’t subtle: America doesn’t want to share. To thi... | ['Politics', 'Social Media', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Self'] |
🔌 Quality of life in the Post-Apocalyptic world got better.
Fellow Cryptolords!
In the post-apocalyptic world, High Quality of Life is a myth. Or not?
Today we’re getting down to the ground and talk about Life Quality. From the beginning of the Worldopo project Life Quality concept, let’s say, did not correspond wi... | ['Game Development', 'Games', 'Development', 'Cryptogames', 'Crypto'] |
By Brandie Nonnecke, Director, CITRIS Policy Lab & Camille Crittenden, Executive Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Investments in digital infrastructure in the public sector have lagged for years. The COVID-19 pandemic has torn back the curtain to reveal a dilapidated IT framework that undergirds many of the ... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Emerging Technology', 'Future Of Work', 'Public Sector', 'Covid 19'] |
This ingenious, large-scale, and unprecedented solution could not be replicated in an enclosed terminal, but it informed the principle of displacement ventilation and was assisted by the introduction of “air towers” at the ground level. Viewing early photographs of the Hajj Terminal in use, one’s eye goes to either the... | ['Architecture', 'Hajj', 'Transportation', 'Design', 'Airports'] |
This is the second chapter under the series “Structured Streaming” which center around covering all the essential details to set up a Structured Streaming query. Peruse the previous chapter here for getting introduced to Structured Streaming.
Sources
Sources in Structured Streaming refers to the streaming data source... | ['Structured Streaming', 'Hadoop', 'Big Data', 'Spark Streaming', 'Spark'] |
The Fix
The virtual DOM, on the other hand, is a lightweight representation of the DOM. Think of the virtual DOM as a current blueprint of your house on paper. You can see all aspects of your house through this blueprint, but drawing a new room on the blueprint alone won’t magically fix the real room. In the same way,... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'React', 'Computer Science', 'Programming'] |
Simple Regression Example
K-Fold Validation, Normalization, MAE
Overview
Basics:
Goal
Input & Output
Encoding & Decoding
Architecture
Regularization
Validation
Code:
Import
Model Definition
K-Fold Validation
Validation
Final Model
Goal
We will try to predict the median house price given 13 different pa... | ['Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Keras', 'Python', 'Machine Learning'] |
Good News About Black Holes!
You will still become infinitely long and infinitely thin, but the information that is you will (probably) be retained
Photo: Ute Kraus via Wikimedia
Like most sensible people who’ve got their priorities straight, I worry about black holes a lot! I worry about the fact that if I were to ... | ['Humor', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Science', 'Space'] |
The hunt for PHP developers in the virtual world always heeded high on the priority list. Although being one of the oldest languages, PHP still has the potential to provide a high-notch result in the IT sector. Almost every project seems to be dependent on PHP development. After all, this is some real business we are t... | ['Development', 'Php Developers', 'Php Development', 'PHP'] |
Story me short, summer 2k15. Here are six of the best new short story collections — silent mixtapes for those pockets of downtime between eating, beaching and sleeping.
1. What’s Important Is Feeling by Adam Wilson
No one knows who slept with her first. Besides, sleep isn’t the right word. What we did: pressed lips t... | ['Books', 'Short Story', 'Fiction'] |
A literary sketch of Sherwood seen through the eyes of John Mason Brown’s biography — The Worlds of Robert E. Sherwood
Like many another, Robert E. Sherwood came back from the First World War a changed man, as John Mason Brown writes in his 1965 biography:
“ He was a troubled and uprooted young man. He was not only c... | ['History', 'Screenwriter', 'Biography', 'Books', 'Playwrights'] |
Haiku is a deceptively simple art form. A single poem is just 17-syllables long. In the original Japanese, a haiku could be whispered in a single breath.
How hard could it be to write a great haiku?
Pretty damn hard.
The compact form forces you to be economical with your language. You cannot dilly-dally like you can... | ['Poetry', 'How To', 'Haiku', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve received and which I’ve carried with me throughout my entire career, is to hire the best people you can; hire people that are smarter than you. This has become a cornerstone of my team-building process: look for great people that are very talented, and never let yourself feel threa... | ['Leadership', 'The Future Of Design', 'Design Leadership', 'UX', 'Design'] |
What is AI ?
AI is the ability of a machine to perform cognitive tasks the human mind performs. Tasks such as reasoning, correlating and problem solving. AI algorithms consists predominantly of two types of algorithms; machine learning and deep learning.
Machine learning algorithms are used to detect patterns from la... | ['Inventory Management', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Digital Transformation', 'Digital', 'Supply Chain Management'] |
Most of the literature we find on machine learning talks about two types of learning techniques — supervised and unsupervised. Supervised learning is where we have a labeled dataset. This means we already have data from which to develop models using algorithms such as Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, and others.... | ['Reinforcement Learning', 'Alphago', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Super Mario Bros'] |
Anyone that knows me personally will be shocked to hear this: I used to have a lot of social anxiety. Although I have managed to overcome most of my anxiety around social situations, it has been a long journey filled with self-reflection, rejection from others, and numerous highs and lows.
To provide you with a bit of... | ['Life Lessons', 'Wellness', 'Self', 'Relationships', 'Social Anxiety'] |
A Conversation Between Jason And His Addiction
A One Act Play
Image by Лечение Наркомании from Pixabay
Jason: I need you to let me go.
Addiction: We’re past that. I’m inside you, I am you. I’m your secret self. I’m the shadow you, the one you try to keep hidden from the light but the one that guides all your behavi... | ['Addiction', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
CloudMosa’s mission is to empower the world’s phones through cloud computing and make them universally powerful and useful.
Follow | ['Web Isolation', 'Cloud Services', 'Cloud Computing', 'Cybersecurity', 'Remote'] |
Why cryptocurrencies fall …
In all the markets of the world, the low and rises in the assets is something very natural. There are many factors involved in this phenomenon, in the case of cryptocurrencies, this fluctuation is more volatile than normal, something that in turn is understandable, for a market that barely ... | ['Ethereum', 'Trading', 'Storytelling', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Firebase Authentication and React: Protecting Your Routes.
Using Firebase and react-router to create protected routes in a react app.
Photo by Thomas Jensen on Unsplash
One of the most common requirements in web apps is to prevent unauthorized access to certain routes. For example, you may need to allow only signed-... | ['React Hook', 'Reactjs', 'React', 'Firebase', 'Firebaseauthentication'] |
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When I started my journey to heal my anxiety some of the things I found helped my anxiety are the things all human beings have to do to take care of their bodies: lay off the sweets and increase movement. These types of changes are basic body care that helps everyone feel better.
But s... | ['Mental Health', 'Body', 'Anxiety', 'Christian', 'Anxiety Disorder'] |
The Worst Best Thing That Happened In 2020
The only good thing about grief is the wonder of it all
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It’s been almost nine months, yet every morning I lose her again.
I wake to a world without Katie, and that’s still my first cognizant thought. As soon as my e... | ['Grief', 'Parenting', 'Mental Health', 'Peace', 'Death'] |
18 months ago I wrote my three year roadmap to becoming a more strategic designer — so what’s happened halfway through? Well, I’m not John Maeda but I feel like I have moved in the right direction. In the past year I took a job at Amazon working on Amazon Music and recently was part of a team that launched a completely... | ['Design Strategy', 'Strategy', 'Design Thinking', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Starting with the premise that any e-Learning platform should make learning easy so the students can focus on the content (which is what matters the most to them) and the fact that the pace of our lives today influences when and how we learn — it’s easy to distill that the interface should act as a real learning facili... | ['Trends', 'Elearning', 'UI', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Long ago, before photography … a painter must’ve seemed like a wizard.
To be able to record an image, record light, shadow, color! — on to bare canvas, or even a piece of wood? What a miraculous thing! There are modern-day artists living among us now doing the same thing. What’s different about these folk, what’s the ... | ['Van Gogh', 'Art', 'Digital', 'Future', 'clarkart.edu'] |
It started late last year…
No matter what topic I perused on Medium, I occasionally came across posts by questionable men selling a wide variety of illegal drugs. Fentanyl, Oxycontin, morphine, cocaine, heroin. You name it, people were selling it:
Initially, I simply flagged the ads — and forgot about them.
Over the... | ['Crime', 'Coronavirus', 'Medium'] |
Annotated RPN, ROI Pooling and ROI Align KP Follow Jul 4 · 3 min read
In this blog post we will implement and understand a few core components of two stage object detection. Two stage object detection was made popular by the R-CNN family of models — R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN and Mask R-CNN.
All two stage object... | ['Machine Learning', 'Object Detection', 'Computer Vision', 'Faster R Cnn'] |
Despite the Republican Party’s insistence that anyone who struggles to pay the bills must be lazy, Americans are a striving bunch. Not because of anything essential about us, but because of the way our society is organized. Capitalism forces those not lucky enough to be born wealthy to spend more time working for a liv... | ['Meditation', 'Productivity', 'Buddhism', 'Politics', 'Mindfulness'] |
How A Black Lesbian Poet Helped Me Find My Truth
Your words have more power than you know.
It was the spring semester of 1992, and I was a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis. I had enrolled in an Introduction to Women’s Studies course, and the professor assigned us an essay by Audre Lorde, self-described... | ['Self Love', 'Spirituality', 'Writing', 'Identity'] |
Terms in use:
GDP: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the overall monetary or consumer value of all finished goods and services produced within the boundaries of a nation over a given period. It acts as a large measure of overall domestic output, as a detailed scorecard of the economic health of the country. GDP is measu... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization'] |
Last night, TruStory experienced its first Sybil attack. In a Sybil attack, one person creates multiple accounts in order to exploit a network. In the case of TruStory, one person created multiple accounts and then had his accounts constantly agree with the arguments created across his other accounts, thus artificially... | ['Social Media', 'Technology', 'Debate', 'Startup Lessons', 'Startup'] |
Supercharging your Mobile Apps with GPU Accelerated Machine Learning using the Android NDK & Vulkan Kompute
A hands on tutorial that teaches you how to leverage your on-device phone GPU for accelerated data processing and machine learning. You will learn how to build a simple Android App using the Native Development K... | ['Android Ndk', 'Mobile App', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Vulkan'] |
My iPad Air 4 revelation
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been testing an iPad Air 4. I love it. Which is odd, because I’ve been using a 12.9" iPad Pro, fully decked-out and with the Magic Keyboard for the last year or so.
I’ll be offering more in-depth thoughts about this switch soon, but the thing I love the most abou... | ['Gadgets', 'Apple', 'Tech', 'iPad', 'Technology'] |
Talking to Latinos Today
Henry Gomez | Director of Strategic Planning, Zubi
GTB welcomed Henry Gomez of Zubi and other key panelists to share their thoughts and experiences on Hispanic culture, collectivism, and other key insights of this ever-growing segment.
As a global agency with offices in Spain, Latin America,... | ['Zubi', 'Henry Gomez', 'Startup', 'Gtb Talks'] |
Slapstick
“A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.” — Agnes Repplier
My dad first met Buster and Bella when my family came to visit that Thanksgiving. We’d just moved into our first house, a few miles away from the rental property whe... | ['Grief', 'Loss', 'Healing', 'Cats', 'Writing'] |
This little ditty is an extract from a wider piece on the state of the digital industry originally published on the Marvel Blog, now available here. Below is a slightly edited extract attempting to bring some definition to Digital Product and Digital Product Work? Why you ask? Well pretty much everyone is talking about... | ['Innovation', 'Product Design', 'Digital', 'Design'] |
Step 1: Loading and Cleaning the Data
The data can be loaded with the pandas library, using ISO-8859–1 encoding.
import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv('/kaggle/input/ecommerce-data/data.csv',encoding='ISO-8859-1')
data.head()
Calling len(data) yields 541909 , meaning that there are 541,909 rows in the data. Runni... | ['Data Analysis', 'Machine Learning', 'Statistics', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
Are you looking to increase your conversion rate? Call-to-Actions are an essential part of the conversion process, but what kinds of Call-to-Actions should you put on your website? CTAs should be simple yet effective, and should catch the attention of your visitors. The formula for a successful CTA page title consists ... | ['Inbound Marketing', 'Conversion Rate', 'Call To Action', 'Phrases', 'Marketing'] |
Since the beginning of the Internet, online marketplaces have created virtual town squares where buyers and sellers can meet, connect, and ultimately transact. Online marketplaces in the sharing economy have especially thrived in the past few years. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, Getaround, Fiverr, and many others have r... | ['Marketplaces', 'Product', 'Sharing Economy', 'Startup', 'Peer To Peer'] |
Q&A with Ashley Fern, Director of Digital Content and Strategy, Betches Media
This week, The Idea spoke with Ashley Fern to learn more about how Betches Media leverages audience feedback and maintains a unified brand image across different channels and satellite communities. Ashley recently launched the company’s newe... | ['Journalism', 'Travel', 'Digital Strategy', 'Subscriber Spotlight', 'Brand Identity'] |
When I first fell down the blockchain rabbit hole, I didn’t think I’d end up this deep.
Cryptocurrencies and other Blockchain projects offer a wealth of opportunities with extremely low barriers to entry.
If you want to get involved, and I mean involved beyond the fact that you just want to put some money in and magi... | ['Investing', 'Startup', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Nuhom — Dismantling The Traditional Homebuying Process
A seamless online home buying process that puts the buyer first and saves them an average $7,500 of the agent fee
The Problem
There are 75 million digitally native millennials that are about to start families and will begin buying homes. The real estate industry... | ['Venture Capital', 'Startup', 'Proptech', 'Real Estate', 'Home Buying'] |
7 Valuable Principles to Lower Pride That Causes Unhappiness
Everybody can have small doses of pride, causing an unfulfilled life
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We live in a gray world. You see evidence of high doses of pride with self-defiance at every turn in the news. Businesses, public servants, and individua... | ['Personal Growth', 'Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Advice'] |
So Easy, a Junior Dev Can Do It
GraphQL is an open-source technology used to make API calls to get exactly and only the data you want. Created by Facebook, GraphQL (GQL) works well with sites pulling large amounts of data by replacing inexact or frequent API calls with a single, precise query for the data you’re looki... | ['React', 'Apollo', 'GraphQL'] |
Atin Batra is the Founder & General Partner at Twenty Seven Ventures, a VC firm investing in early-stage EdTech and Future of Work startups across the world. 27V looks for entrepreneurs with an overwhelming drive to build a business that not only creates shareholder value but also leave a positive impact on our fragile... | ['Vc Corner', 'Edtech', 'Funding', 'VC', 'Startup'] |
Managing Flutter State using Provider
An introduction to Provider, one of a plethora of state management solutions for Flutter.
Who Should Read This
This post is intended for those new to state management in Flutter. The article assumes you are familiar with Stateless and Stateful widgets and can navigate between sc... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Android App Development', 'Android', 'Flutter', 'iOS App Development'] |
2 — If You Cannot Be The Best, Focus on Being Unique
Do you think you cannot be great because you failed at winning a gold medal? or because you lose a contest of the best painting? Did you come last at the annual competition of the entrepreneur of the year?
Another misconception that many of us have is to think that... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Education', 'Personal Development'] |
This post was co-written with More Than Our Crimes collaborator Pam Bailey.
I recently read a first-person perspective in the New York Times Magazine by Reginald Dwayne Betts, who was incarcerated for nine years and then became a lawyer to win freedom for his friends still behind bars. Titled “Kamala Harris, Mass Inca... | ['Justice', 'Equality', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Psychology', 'Prison'] |
What I Failed to Understand for My Whole Career
I had two big and detrimental misconceptions about career progression:
You get promoted based on how long you’ve been working. You automatically get promoted when you’re good enough.
For my whole career, I sat around waiting for my turn to get recognised with a promoti... | ['Remote Work', 'Startup', 'Career Advice', 'Work', 'Women In Tech'] |
API: Node.js + Express.js + Multer
To provide you with a fully functional repo, I’ve included the API in the same project folder.
However, this is not ideal since having all your eggs in the same basket never is. So, keep in mind that in real life, you’ll either use a serverless function or have the upload API run wi... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Programming', 'Nodejs', 'Firebase'] |
The Basic Commands You Need to Know to Get Started with SQL Moeedlodhi Follow Sep 18 · 5 min read
Getting the fundamentals right is a MUST to mastering SQL.
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SQL is one of the most commonly used tools that you will encounter on your Data Science journey. Before actually worki... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Sql', 'Technology', 'Data Science'] |
Final Decisions
Before sealing the fate of the rest of the players, let’s take a look at the schedule opportunities we mentioned before and see when might be good idea to bring in which players.
I have decided to apply a combination of both the best teams to choose from and the schedule. Based on this strategy, we ne... | ['Premier League', 'Analytics', 'Soccer', 'Fantasy Football', 'R'] |
The Russian Beard Tax made complete sense
“Quirky facts” strip out the historical context and are often kinda condescending and racist
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I want to talk about Quirky Facts: brief, self-encapsulated bits of information that make you go “cool!” and hit share. These facts are stock-in-tr... | ['Life Lessons', 'History', 'Psychology', 'Culture', 'Politics'] |
New York’s Democracy Reform Bill Sends Positive Message
After decades in which all reforms were stymied, the new legislature enacted sweeping changes to voting laws on its second day in session
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and others applaud as Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins speaks to m... | ['New York', 'Voting Rights', 'Politics', 'Democracy', 'Elections'] |
Finding a significant other is truthfully not guaranteed for most gay men.
There are some gay men who do die alone, never having taken a partner. This is old news. Every gay who’s been around the block should have figured this all out for themselves by now. The question is, how do you cope with the alienating, lonely ... | ['LGBTQ', 'Identity', 'Gay', 'Self-awareness', 'Personal Growth'] |
How to Map Large Areas
A Workflow for the Commercial Drone Industry
By Eric Harkins, Founder and CEO, Back Forty Aerial Solutions
If I learned anything from my days working in the restaurant scene, it is this: you have to take time to save time. The commercial drone business is no different, especially when it comes... | ['Surveying', 'Mapping', 'How To', 'Drones'] |
Introduction —
We shall cover the following aspects in this article:
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to build our intuitions K-means Clustering in action What do marketers do with these clusters?
Let’s take a dataset and try to demystify concepts on the go.
Our data set is a collection of customer data at a shoppin... | ['Machine Learning', 'Marketing', 'Retail', 'Data Science', 'Marketing Automation'] |
How do we go about creating the algorithm for partitioning the string?
I think intuitively, you’ll think that you need to loop through each characters in the string, and that is a good idea.
At each character, say, the first character ‘s’, we’ll think to ourselves: is this the end of the first partition? In order to ... | ['Python', 'Leetcode', 'Programming', 'Art', 'Algorithms'] |
A wireframe is a simplified representation of your website or application. It consists of lines and text that can be hand-drawn or electronic. The focus of the wireframe should be structural elements that represent priority. In this stage, visual design and color are not presented. Like the picture shown below.
Low-fi... | ['Tech', 'Product Design', 'UX Design', 'UX Research', 'Design'] |
This is a very common question among newer React developers, and one question I had when I was starting out with React and Node.js. In this short example I will show you how to make create-react-app work with Node.js and Express Back-end.
create-react-app
Create a project using create-react-app .
npx create-react-ap... | ['Create React App', 'Expressjs', 'Nodejs', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
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