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The Beginning of Great Wordcraft | I was in the seventh grade.
Starting a new school in a new city, where I didn’t know anybody. I was repeating the seventh grade after a truly horrible year of taking online classes, classes that I didn’t show up for. Even though I didn’t have the terminology then that I do now, I can say pretty confidently that depres... | https://zachjpayne.medium.com/the-beginning-of-great-wordcraft-850ef32f7bf3 | ['Zach J. Payne'] | 2018-05-14 15:09:42.013000+00:00 | ['Craft', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Creativity', 'Life'] |
Merge Two Sorted Lists — LeetCode | In the past 6 months, this question has been asked by companies such as:
This one stumped me at first. I was not expecting a recursive solution. I had been trying to do it iteratively the entire time. You can do it iteratively, but it’s a lot more complicated than doing it recursively.
With the iterative solution, we... | https://medium.com/@roodsoren/merge-two-sorted-lists-leetcode-945a6368f4df | ['Soren Rood'] | 2020-12-05 03:46:21.610000+00:00 | ['Leetcode', 'Computer Science', 'Leetcode Easy', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
How To Build 9-Figure Brands Using Celebrities and World-Class VSLs | Through a miracle of luck, he actually said YES!!!
And we jumped on 2 phone calls an hour each. All completely free. He didn’t charge me a cent. And let me drill him with all the questions I wanted.
What a f*cking legend.
So today I’m going to share with you everything I learned from Jay Sung, on how to build 9-figu... | https://medium.com/@zippi101/how-to-build-9-figure-brands-using-celebrities-and-world-class-vsls-bc8969b28289 | ['Peter Kell'] | 2021-09-13 12:29:09.391000+00:00 | ['Ecommerce', 'Advertising', 'Facebook Ads', 'Brands', 'Direct Response'] |
Put a Body Camera on Every Cop in America | Police Body Cam footage capturing Derek Chauvin after the murder of George Floyd
The jury obviously got it right. Derek Chauvin is a murderer. Anyone who watched any of the videos from any angle, knows it. But at the end of this trial I’m left wondering what would have happened if there was no video recording of the m... | https://medium.com/@jarongilinsky/put-a-body-camera-on-every-cop-in-america-252b5cf50031 | ['Jaron Gilinsky'] | 2021-04-25 19:27:22.506000+00:00 | ['Crime', 'Videos', 'Technology', 'Police', 'Police Reform'] |
The Blob, the Monolith and the Units | Photo from Bob Lusk Outdoors
Jackson’s Gap, Ala. — Manoy Creek is six feet lower than the summer pool depth at Lake Martin right now, exposing structures and branches we don’t see in warmer months. Attached to many of them are transparent green-brown globs that look like brains. I wondered if these might be sacs of fi... | https://medium.com/@knightstivender/the-blob-the-monolith-and-the-units-af25367567ba | ['Knight Stivender'] | 2020-12-01 01:52:49.766000+00:00 | ['Nature', 'Art', 'Thanksgiving', 'Family', '2020'] |
How To Handle A Work History Gap | When modeling agents said the gap was the reason she wasn’t getting jobs, Hutton used mortician’s wax to conceal it.
Voilá she started getting jobs.
She was as unremarkable as can be without it, but pleasing and conventional enough to get modeling jobs.
But when she stopped hiding her gap, she becomes one in a milli... | https://medium.com/@courtneykirschbaum/how-to-handle-a-work-history-gap-a46867213c3f | ['Courtney Kirschbaum'] | 2020-04-28 13:10:07.218000+00:00 | ['Job Hunting', 'Career Change', 'Job Search', 'Job Interview', 'Career Advice'] |
10 social media tips that will instantly generate traffic to your blog. | 10 social media tips that will instantly generate traffic to your blog. Business ideas Jan 16·2 min read
Every bloggers dream is to get millions of people reading his/her article. To achieve this, you need to Work smarter rather than harder by focusing on these 10 social media tips that will instantly generate traffic... | https://medium.com/@buzinessideass/10-social-media-tips-that-will-instantly-generate-traffic-to-your-blog-72e29273e0b | ['Business Ideas'] | 2021-01-16 19:16:12.121000+00:00 | ['Website Traffic', 'Blogging Tips', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Blogging For Business', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
Cake v1.0.0-rc0002 released | Version 1.0.0-rc0002 of Cake has been released.
This is the second, and probably last, pre-release version of Cake 1.0. Focus in this release has been to bring Cake Frosting up to speed, align it with the Cake script runners and bug fixes.
Major new features
Frosting NuGet tool resolution
Align Cake Frosting CLI wi... | https://medium.com/@cakebuildnet/cake-v1-0-0-rc0002-released-853ba23195a1 | ['Cake Build'] | 2020-12-20 18:02:08.752000+00:00 | ['Dotnet', 'Continuous Integration', 'Csharp', 'Release Notes', 'DevOps'] |
Code Smell 18 — Static Functions. Yet another global access coupled with… | Code Smell 18 — Static Functions
Photo by Alex Azabache on Unsplash
Problems
Coupling
Testability
Protocol Overloading
Cohesion
Solutions
Class Single Responsibility Principle is to create instance. Honor it. Delegate method to instance. Create stateless objects. Don’t call them helpers.
Examples
Static class... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/code-smell-18-static-functions-68d35c15e76 | ['Maximiliano Contieri'] | 2020-11-28 19:13:17.894000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Object Oriented', 'Code Smells', 'Object Oriented Design', 'Software Development'] |
My Name is Sam | My Name is Sam
One-line poetry prompt: Skeleton
Photo courtesy of PXfuel: Google Advanced Image Search
One skeleton rattles,
It tolls a bell and taunts.
It rises from a chair,
A figure shrouded and gaunt
and says:
“My name is Sam, and I am an alcoholic.”
Josie ElBiry 2020
Thank you to Harper Thorpe and Kathy ... | https://medium.com/chalkboard/my-name-is-sam-cb191441c43e | ['Josie Elbiry'] | 2020-10-28 21:54:52.834000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Alcohol', 'One Line', 'Halloween', 'Alcoholism'] |
David Chang explains how Android engineering is changing how people across the world collaborate | David Chang explains how Android engineering is changing how people across the world collaborate Dropbox Follow Jan 30, 2020 · 4 min read
Mobile technology is one of the fastest-growing, most important sectors in the tech industry. At Dropbox in particular, team members like David Chang have been influential in changi... | https://medium.com/life-inside-dropbox/david-chang-explains-how-android-engineering-is-changing-how-people-across-the-world-collaborate-e7bab42d92a8 | [] | 2020-01-30 21:56:50.746000+00:00 | ['Engineering', 'Android', 'Dropbox', 'Perspective', 'AndroidDev'] |
日本同性婚姻合法化的路漫長 第一步只能先發給「伴侶宣示證明書」 | in Change Your Mind Change Your Life | https://medium.com/@joelhu/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E5%90%8C%E6%80%A7%E5%A9%9A%E5%A7%BB%E5%90%88%E6%B3%95%E5%8C%96%E7%9A%84%E8%B7%AF%E6%BC%AB%E9%95%B7-%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E6%AD%A5%E5%8F%AA%E8%83%BD%E5%85%88%E7%99%BC%E7%B5%A6-%E4%BC%B4%E4%BE%B6%E5%AE%A3%E7%A4%BA%E8%AD%89%E6%98%8E%E6%9B%B8-87b75dadd60a | ['Joel Fukuzawa'] | 2020-11-12 16:56:22.858000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Japan', 'LGBT', '中文', '日本'] |
Why Gradient descent isn’t enough: A comprehensive introduction to optimization algorithms in neural networks | The goal of neural networks is to minimize the loss, for producing better and accurate results. In order to minimize the loss, we need to update the internal learning parameters(especially weights and biases). These parameters are updated based on some update rule/function. Generally, we think about Gradient descent as... | https://towardsdatascience.com/why-gradient-descent-isnt-enough-a-comprehensive-introduction-to-optimization-algorithms-in-59670fd5c096 | ['Vikashraj Luhaniwal'] | 2020-10-24 10:27:05.453000+00:00 | ['Stochastic Gradient', 'Optimization Algorithms', 'Adagrad', 'Gradient Descent', 'Adam'] |
On Being a Health Care Worker Near the Front of the Line for the COVID Vaccine | I got the email on Monday, Dec 21, four days before Christmas. Our health system had gotten its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the first of two vaccines recently granted an Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration a few days before that. We had been told to watch our email for ... | https://medium.com/@kenhaller/on-being-a-health-care-worker-near-the-front-of-the-line-for-the-covid-vaccine-c24268406aa0 | ['Ken Haller'] | 2020-12-27 17:38:24.085000+00:00 | ['Masks', 'Vaccines', 'Covid 19', 'Public Health', 'Self Care'] |
In Favor with God and Man | I feel like my life and the sharing of my time and talents at times has been on a pendulum — swinging between trying to please God on one extreme — and trying to please man on the other extreme. I have had times where my commitment to be ‘perfectly obedient’ to God has resulted in no time left over for other activities... | https://medium.com/@scotthuish/in-favor-with-god-and-man-305e494b25fb | ['Scott A. Huish'] | 2020-02-23 02:55:15.195000+00:00 | ['Scotthuish', 'Proptech', 'Christian', 'Values'] |
Are the A’s a contending team in the American league-The ups and downs of the green and gold | The beginning of summer
Photo: San Francisco Chronicle
Going in to June, the A’s were in first place in the division with a 31–25 record with the Astros only 1 game behind them with a 29–24 record. June would a tough month for the A’s, where they would face both the yankees and giants on the road during a 9 game road... | https://medium.com/@jr100039/are-the-as-a-contending-team-in-the-american-league-the-ups-and-downs-of-the-green-and-gold-e4c8b275b7b7 | ['Jordan Renteria'] | 2021-07-07 03:47:32.288000+00:00 | ['Oakland Athletics', 'Baseball', 'Sports', 'MLB'] |
How to Take Dynamic Self-portraits at Home, Using an iPhone | I’m not saying that these pictures are great; I’ll let you decide this. I’m also not saying that I look great in these pictures; this is not the point. I am saying, though, that I think these pictures are good. And I think they’re good because I’ve adhered to principles that have enabled them to be so, as well as devel... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/how-to-take-dynamic-self-portraits-at-home-using-an-iphone-eee17f7eb39e | ['Mitchell Ferrin'] | 2020-12-01 19:29:48.040000+00:00 | ['Portraits', 'iPhone', 'Selfie', 'Self Portrait', 'Photography'] |
Am I an Idiot Because I Don’t Understand Shortform? | Am I an Idiot Because I Don’t Understand Shortform?
Probably, but I’m gonna mess with it anyway
I don’t really understand the purpose of shortform.
Once this appears in “print” perhaps a helpful Medium-ite can illuminate me about why I’ve gone and done this.
I think I’m supposed to link this story to something I’ve... | https://medium.com/everything-shortform/am-i-an-idiot-because-i-dont-understand-shortform-efa4bf1412c7 | ['Michael Burg'] | 2020-12-15 19:20:38.403000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Funny', 'Shortform Stories', 'Humor', 'Short Form'] |
Photoshop meets authenticity | I wrote a couple of Blog Posts on authenticity some ten years ago. A conclusion I had arrived at in those posts was if you can achieve your objectives, even if it includes showing off, by purchasing a non-authentic thing, a rational person would do so. The implication…. authenticity will become a thing of the past!
Mo... | https://medium.com/@aboghani/photoshop-meets-authenticity-ba1daafb7b9d | ['Ashok B. Boghani'] | 2021-05-16 15:39:17.590000+00:00 | ['Photography', 'Photoshop', 'Authenticity', 'Creative', 'Image Processing'] |
▷ Librerías de Desarrolladores: La Biblioteca Única para los Profesionales de la Programación | Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more
Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, a... | https://medium.com/mundo-framework/librer%C3%ADas-de-desarrolladores-la-biblioteca-%C3%BAnica-para-los-profesionales-de-la-programaci%C3%B3n-1b15b7f2d581 | ['Pablo Álvarez Corredera'] | 2020-12-02 11:57:40.249000+00:00 | ['Web Development', 'Programming', 'Backend Development', 'Backend', 'Front End Development'] |
Navigating the Agency World as a Woman in Tech | Huge Senior Tech Lead Katie Sexton talks about the evolution of the tech industry, the importance of meeting etiquette, and her biggest pet peeves.
Employees at Huge like to say that the only constant at the agency is change. As a nine-year Huge veteran, Senior Tech Lead Katie Sexton has witnessed some seismic shifts ... | https://magenta.as/navigating-the-agency-world-as-a-woman-in-tech-cacab01659b8 | ['Teresa Tulipano'] | 2019-11-15 16:45:30.072000+00:00 | ['Process', 'Creative Process', 'Inspiration', 'Agency', 'Tech'] |
How good UX will allow blockchain to reach its full potential | Blockchain technology certainly isn’t known for its user-friendly nature. If anything, the majority of people view its users as an elite club, namely made up of the lucky few that had the tech and financial know-how to invest in cryptocurrencies like BitCoin at their conception. So, whilst blockchain has the potential ... | https://medium.com/snapout/how-good-ux-will-allow-blockchain-to-reach-its-full-potential-4fe4faa263c1 | ['Bethany', 'Snap Out'] | 2019-04-15 11:35:40+00:00 | ['User Experience', 'Snap Out', 'UX Design', 'Blockchain', 'UX'] |
Trump Knew Exactly What He Was Doing. | Photo by Harun Tan from Pexels
As Americans are tuning in to the final chapters of the televised dumpster fire that has been the Trump Presidency. Congress is chugging along with 45’s second impeachment. More and more terrorists are being charged for their involvement in the attempted coup at the capitol, and we turn ... | https://medium.com/@gabrielkbrock/trump-knew-exactly-what-he-was-doing-a6a257370f32 | ['Gabriel Brock'] | 2021-01-18 02:11:33.155000+00:00 | ['Civil Rights', 'Racism', 'Trump Administration', 'Trump', 'Class'] |
What Does “Sacred Medicine” Actually Mean? Explaining This Phrase To Newbies | When it comes to “medicine”, it’s helpful to first unpack this word from a generalized Western perspective.
When we say the word “medicine” it’s typically associated with some kind of prescription or pharmaceutical drug dispensed by a doctor which someone takes when they’re sick. And when we’re talking about sickness,... | https://medium.com/@ck.medicinepath/what-does-sacred-medicine-actually-mean-explaining-this-phrase-to-newbies-d758c31c9f5a | ['Caiyuda Kiora'] | 2019-03-02 02:02:59.446000+00:00 | ['Magic Mushrooms', 'Sacred Space', 'Ayahuasca', 'Psychedelics', 'Huachuma'] |
Adding Tokens to Metamask | Adding Tokens to Metamask
We have a PR in but it could take a while
Metamask is a really cool wallet built as a chrome extension.
Metamask “sent ether” tab
You will notice when you see your balance that there is also a tab for tokens.
MetaMask try to keep up with the incessant release of new tokens. They make it e... | https://medium.com/hellogold/adding-tokens-to-metamask-60b2fedd5bd9 | ['Dave Appleton'] | 2018-12-30 16:19:41.734000+00:00 | ['Metamask', 'Token', 'Ethereum', 'Erc20'] |
Deep-Learning based Object Detection in Crowded Scenes | Object detection in crowded scenes is challenging. When objects gather, they tend to overlap largely with each other, leading to occlusions. Occlusion caused by objects of the same class is called intra-class occlusion, also referred to as crowd occlusion. Object detectors need to determine the locations of different o... | https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-based-object-detection-in-crowded-scenes-1c9fddbd7bc4 | ['Patrick Langechuan Liu'] | 2021-01-03 08:55:52.342000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision', 'Autonomous Driving', 'Object Detection', 'Deep Learning'] |
Half-Way Mark Happiness — Doing What Drives You When No Longer a Youngster | Photo by Daniel Reche from Pexels
When I was younger, I was pretty much aimless and pursued everything I fancied with nary a thought about whether I would actually excel at it. Anything that looked or sounded fun, I was in. However, with that said, there were a few things that got my heart fluttering and body out of b... | https://medium.com/@marshamaung/half-way-mark-happiness-doing-what-drives-you-when-no-longer-a-youngster-ad7eb7e0089b | ['Marsha Maung'] | 2020-12-26 04:34:55.001000+00:00 | ['Goals', 'Dreams', 'Purpose', 'Life', 'Mid Life'] |
Twitter Analysis: Trump vs. Biden | Shannon Entropy Analysis:
What is the Shannon Entropy (Kumar)?
Shannon Entropy is a number between 0 and 1 that essentially represents the level of chaos or surprise in any statistical observation. A simple example would be to take a fair coin and perform a coin toss. Since the coin has an even chance of landing on b... | https://medium.com/@johnsont4/twitter-analysis-trump-vs-biden-8dafa77ac7d5 | ['Teagan Johnson'] | 2020-12-13 15:30:46.994000+00:00 | ['Predictions', 'Twitter', 'Machine Learning', 'Biden', 'Trump'] |
The Highway In My Tree | The Highway In My Tree
Photo by Alexis Antonio on Unsplash
Photo by Ansie Potgieter on Unsplash
I have an animal highway
in my tree.
Different species.
How can this be?
One are squirrels,
the other iguana.
You’d think they’re gonna fight
but they make light
of travel.
They are not going to unravel.
The squ... | https://medium.com/family-kids/the-highway-in-my-tree-724b46b5ea48 | ['Jo Ann Harris'] | 2020-12-21 21:45:23.336000+00:00 | ['Home', 'Squirrels', 'Life', 'Birds', 'Iguana'] |
Cultivating Spirit, Feeding Soul. (Mercury, the Galactic Center, and the… | (Mercury, the Galactic Center, and the Great Conjunction)
Art by Prankman93
We stand on a precipice. Some of us on an ærie, ready for flight, others on the edge, negotiating with dark thoughts. Seen through the eyes of Mercury who just had his cazmi moment with the Sun near the Galactic Center, ancient memories are b... | https://medium.com/@kosmognosis/cultivating-spirit-feeding-soul-849550dba542 | ['Adam Sommer'] | 2020-12-20 14:20:29.486000+00:00 | ['Ficino', 'Great Conjunction', 'Triangles', 'Mythology', 'Astrology'] |
Privacy Coins Under Fire From Japanese Government | Photo Courtesy of Monero.org
Many crypto investors have some stake in privacy coins, or at least find them appealing, because of the appeal to keep transactions anonymous in an age of technology when your personal information is out in the open everywhere online no matter how much you try to protect your data.
I can ... | https://medium.com/wespostdotcom/privacy-coins-under-fire-from-japanese-government-abb926ee2be7 | ['Ivy Riane'] | 2018-04-30 22:03:00.954000+00:00 | ['Monero', 'Investing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Finance', 'Sentiment'] |
Governance in distributed organizations, part 2 | In the previous part I’ve explored briefly why censorship resistance in organizations is important. Here I’ll walk through fundamental internal problems with centralized organizations and show how organizations learned to grow in highly uncertain environment.
What’s an organization?
Wikipedia defines organization as ... | https://medium.com/devnull-ai/governance-in-distributed-organizations-part-2-9e537fb8be95 | [] | 2018-10-01 15:29:14.705000+00:00 | ['Censorship Resistance', 'Blockchain', 'Lean Startup', 'Governance', 'Thedao'] |
Class 8: Preparing an AI Workshop | Class 8: Preparing an AI Workshop
The steps and tools for setting up an AI Design Camp or Workshop
Watch Class 8 >
Any time you’re asked to run an AI-focused design workshop or camp, the very first step is to make a duplicate of this folder and move it to your team’s project folder where you can start customizing it... | https://medium.com/ai-design-thinkers/class-8-6c67402053 | ['Jennifer Aue'] | 2020-01-27 23:41:16.394000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Adfclass'] |
Everything I Discovered About GraphQL and Apollo | First Things First…
GraphQL
As I said earlier, GraphQL is a new technology which modifies the relationships between back-end and front-end developers.
Previously, both teams had to define a contract interface to ensure correct implementations. Sometimes, latencies could occur due to misunderstanding on object comple... | https://medium.com/better-programming/everything-i-discovered-about-graphql-and-apollo-e774d1e11638 | ['Adrien Miquel'] | 2020-10-25 22:39:11.416000+00:00 | ['JavaScript', 'GraphQL', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Programming'] |
Software Architecture, the US, Outsourcing, and R&D | The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge is an interesting article. I’m not a business person (yet!) so I won’t comment on the core message of the article. But this argument resonated on me:
“In many cases, R&D and manufacturing are tightly intertwined. Unless you know how to manufacture a product, you often ... | https://medium.com/leos-tech-blog/software-architecture-the-us-outsourcing-and-r-d-46730cc3bc69 | ['Leo Soto'] | 2019-01-10 15:41:00.720000+00:00 | ['Software Development'] |
How Banks benefit from Qualitatively understanding customer behaviour | With almost all the banks joining the digital bandwagon, touch points via omni channels such as ATMs, Internet, Mobile Banking and Business Correspondents have become the main delivery channels for providing banking services. Currently, besides the 16,400-odd brick-and-mortar branches, India’s largest bank, State bank ... | https://medium.com/cadenz-ai/how-banks-benefit-from-qualitatively-understanding-customer-behaviour-93aed6e83f2c | [] | 2020-09-26 23:52:27.886000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Personalisation', 'Banking', 'Customer Experience', 'Data Science'] |
Fundamental challenges for crypto adoption | Over the past year, cryptocurrencies have undoubtedly been one of the most talked about technological developments, both in the mainstream and specialized media. Expectations have been flying high, with enormous price projections and emotional discussions about towards which direction should technology move to. Even th... | https://medium.com/cc-connecting-crypto-with-banking/fundamental-challenges-for-crypto-adoption-5191ab576ffe | ['Mindaugas Kelpša'] | 2018-06-11 15:58:02.812000+00:00 | ['Fintech', 'Crypto', 'Adoption', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
If you care about your reputation, make sure you Define Your Brand. | Puck Creations | Is your brand only about your customers?
There are lots of articles written by respected people and institutions that say your brand is all about your customer. They’ll tell you that the purpose of your brand is to make your business relevant and to make it stand out. They’re right. They’ll also tell you that your rep... | https://medium.com/@puckcreations/if-you-care-about-your-reputation-make-sure-you-define-your-brand-puck-creations-e714ddf84e33 | ['Stefano Capacchione'] | 2020-12-16 23:59:04.854000+00:00 | ['Brands', 'Reputation Management', 'Branding', 'Reputation', 'Brand Strategy'] |
Writing Testable Views in SwiftUI | Writing Testable Views in SwiftUI
Photo by Jungwoo Hong on Unsplash
In View Composition In SwiftUI, I discussed how SwiftUI encourages us to break our application down into small, easily digestible components and views.
But we can do more.
We can — at the same time and for very little extra work — create components... | https://betterprogramming.pub/writing-testable-views-in-swiftui-ba28baec6a32 | ['Michael Long'] | 2021-01-23 16:09:12.424000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Swift Programming', 'Swiftui', 'iOS', 'Swift'] |
New generation smartphones: Changing Device Interaction with Native NFC Capability | The guy just ahead of you waved his smartphone and paid for his coffee at Starbucks, and that’s not all! Remember the other day when that lady walked out with her groceries through Walmart’s Mobile Express lane without standing in the queue. As absurd as it may look to someone not using mobile wallets, this is pretty m... | https://medium.com/sealnetwork/new-generation-smartphones-changing-device-interaction-with-native-nfc-capability-48c38f827ac7 | ['Desley Mooij'] | 2018-02-16 17:24:25.390000+00:00 | ['Blockchain', 'Smartphones', 'Payments', 'Retail', 'Nfc'] |
It’s not just investors in Crypto who are fools. Lazy journalists can run them close. | It’s not just investors in Crypto who are fools. Lazy journalists can run them close. alickmighall Follow Jan 16, 2018 · 4 min read
Fools Gold, pyrite or iron pyrite. Picture by https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/ reproduced under https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
This editorial from The Guardian... | https://medium.com/cryptoenquirer/its-not-just-investors-in-crypto-who-are-fools-lazy-journalists-can-run-them-close-6241ce0fcf2e | [] | 2018-01-16 10:12:45.205000+00:00 | ['Investing', 'Guardian', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Altcoins', 'Bitcoin'] |
5 Action Steps for the EPA to Lead a National Mobilization to Defeat the Climate Crisis | Today, President-elect Biden selected a strong leader with on-the-ground climate experience to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Michael Regan has led the way in North Carolina to take strong climate action and clean up pollution, by working closely with community groups and addressing environmental racism.
... | https://medium.com/@evergreenaction/five-to-mobilize-the-environmental-protection-agency-3989acffe03b | ['Evergreen Action'] | 2020-12-18 20:31:30.928000+00:00 | ['Environment', 'Joe Biden', 'Climate Change', 'Climate', 'Epa'] |
Top 10 free developer community across the world | Know about Developer community and benefits + perks (this article is part of an open source initiative by HostelDevta)
Developers doing programming and discussion
Developers are the leading part of this fastest growing world and anyone can become a developer with continuous efforts and guidance. Open source Community... | https://medium.com/@luckyhero613/top-10-free-developer-community-across-the-world-420deec068e4 | ['Ankit Gupta'] | 2021-09-11 08:37:27.889000+00:00 | ['Free', 'Community', 'Developer', 'Google', 'Facebook'] |
FITNESS AND BODY BUILDING PROGRAM | AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO GRAB THE BODY BUILDING PROGRAM NOW
Do you like listening to fast music when you exercise? Do you like watching your favorite movies? What about reading magazines? What inspires you to work out and feel your best?
Get these things ready even before your treadmill arrives and you’ll be three-quar... | https://medium.com/@yazznan5/fitness-and-body-building-program-bed2334f8382 | [] | 2020-12-25 14:37:19.600000+00:00 | ['Fitness', 'Bodybuilding', 'Online', 'Exercise'] |
Celebrating Success | I constantly felt as a child and young adult the need to be told how great I am. When I was little, I asked my mother if she loved me every single day, multiple times a day.
I don’t know where this lack of confidence in myself came from at such a young age. There is no trauma that I know of that would lead me to need ... | https://medium.com/change-becomes-you/celebrating-success-ef614f07996 | ['Sylvia Emokpae'] | 2020-12-14 06:12:17.321000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Success', 'Self Love', 'Self Development', 'Advice'] |
Network Automation for ISPs | Network Automation is the new “Next Thing” in the industry. I’ve seen many “Next Things” come and go, although this time — we might have a serious contender for our attention. As with everything new — it has to be learned. Therefore I built a small LAB with Juniper vMX Series Routers where a Python script, executed fro... | https://medium.com/@tomasz-schwiertz/network-automation-for-isps-e87d4791b1c9 | ['Tomasz Schwiertz'] | 2020-12-16 16:37:10.081000+00:00 | ['Network Automation', 'Netconf', 'Isp', 'Python', 'Git'] |
Kotlin vs Swift: The Init Construction | Learning Kotlin and Swift
Kotlin vs Swift: The Init Construction
Explore Kotlin and Swift together and learn their differences
Photo by Mason Kimbarovsky on Unsplash
In Mobile development, the 2 major programming language to learn is Swift and Kotlin. They look very similar, but there are subtle differences.
Let’s... | https://medium.com/mobile-app-development-publication/kotlin-vs-swift-the-init-construction-f82224a24664 | [] | 2020-10-22 12:47:11.681000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'Android App Development', 'Kotlin', 'Swift', 'iOS App Development'] |
Fix it with Fake Lashes | For those who suffer from depression, you know that life can feel like you are going through the motions. We tell everyone we are doing fine when in fact we are the opposite of fine.
They say that the best way to get out of a depressive funk is to put yourself in a happy mood. Go out with your friends and be social. P... | https://medium.com/@saraheverts/fix-it-with-fake-lashes-8404991e4b3e | ['Sarah Everts'] | 2019-01-24 05:45:04.869000+00:00 | ['Depression', 'Sad', 'Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
Keras Model Sequential API VS Functional API | Sequential API
Sequential API allows you to create models layer-by-layer by stacking them. It is limited in that it does not allow you to create models that share layers or have multiple inputs or outputs.
Example Code:
Result
And now lets plot your model using keras utils.
Keras Plot Model
As you can see, Sequen... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/keras-model-sequential-api-vs-functional-api-fc1439a6fb10 | ['Rahmat Faisal'] | 2020-11-04 18:13:47.811000+00:00 | ['Neural Networks', 'TensorFlow', 'Keras', 'Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning'] |
Decentraland DAO Proposal for Avatar NAMES (Gold, Silver, Bronze Edition Proposal) | DCL Names GOLD, SILVER & BRONZE Edition Proposal
All Decentraland names minted from 02/20/20 to 02/20/21 to be visually recognisable differently in-word as well as on-chain. All of these names can display the “GOLD EDITION” Badge
Names minted from date 02/20/21 to 02/20/22 to be “SILVER EDITION”
Names minted from da... | https://medium.com/@jasonxmert/decentraland-dao-proposal-for-avatar-names-gold-silver-bronze-edition-proposal-12d1bdca7431 | [] | 2021-01-12 08:24:30.269000+00:00 | ['Voting', 'Names and Naming', 'Decentraland', 'Community', 'Proposal'] |
Friday 26th November Live Prayers | Today we will be broadcasting live via livestream at 12.30pm (GMT) as usual, to watch our live prayers and speech and be a part of the virtual mosque click on the link below.
If you miss the broadcast, then we will be putting the videos up in the next few days for people to watch at their leisure.
Live Prayers | https://medium.com/virtual-mosque/friday-26th-november-live-prayers-8fbeb9e9656f | ['Virtual Mosque'] | 2016-04-09 17:56:09.439000+00:00 | ['Khutba', 'Live', 'Prayers'] |
I Scream, You Scream: The Evolution of Women in Horror | I Scream, You Scream: The Evolution of Women in Horror
More often than not, female horror characters are much more likely to be victims at the hands of a monster as opposed to their male counterparts.
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the “scream queen” image? Is it Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee... | https://medium.com/fan-fare/i-scream-you-scream-the-evolution-of-women-in-horror-8486b0c319b7 | ['Cassie Carey'] | 2020-10-04 00:03:01.446000+00:00 | ['Opinion', 'Horror', 'Scream Queens', 'Film', 'Feminism'] |
Mutated Variants and what it Means | Mutated Variants and what it Means
DECEMBER 21, 2020 / 06:18 PM IST
New COVID Strain LIVE Updates | Explained: Why the UK’s mutated coronavirus strain may not be an immediate threat to vaccines
The new mutated variant of coronavirus that is rapidly spreading in the UK has set off alarm bells around the world. The UK... | https://medium.com/@hoplon/so-near-yet-so-far-be9255c6604b | [] | 2020-12-21 14:24:54.626000+00:00 | ['Coronavirus', 'Europe', 'UK', 'Covid 19', 'Holidays'] |
Operation TANGHAM explained: Stopping the spread of extremism in Somalia | Operation TANGHAM explained: Stopping the spread of extremism in Somalia
British Forces have been in Somalia since 2017, helping to reduce the waves of terrorism by training the security forces. Here are three things you need to know
Somalia’s vast stretches of coastline along the Horn of Africa are infamous for stor... | https://medium.com/voices-of-the-armed-forces/operation-tangham-explained-stopping-the-spread-of-extremism-in-somalia-a35635ef5b0a | ['Ministry Of Defence'] | 2020-12-21 12:34:38.084000+00:00 | ['Operations', 'Somalia', 'UK', 'Terrorism', 'Military'] |
Career Opportunities for Aspiring Content Writers | As we know that Content Writing is the art of expressing an opinion, idea or a message through words in a way that it reaches the maximum number of people and makes them aware!!
The next question that comes to our mind is how to build a successful career through content writing.
Does this question come to your mind a... | https://medium.com/@priyanjalihanda2000/career-opportunities-for-aspiring-content-writers-851a1d201962 | ['Priyanjali Handa'] | 2020-12-21 12:21:34.612000+00:00 | ['Content Writer', 'Content Writing Jobs', 'Content Writing', 'Content Writing Services', 'Job Opportunities'] |
Book Review of ‘The Silk Roads’ by Peter Frankopan. | “The age of the west is at crossroads, if not at the end”. ~Frankopan
A report published in 2010 by the Defense Ministry of England, entails a list of challenges, that Britain and the West, in general, has likely to face in the forthcoming future. ‘The Period up to 2040 will be a period of transition,’ the report stat... | https://medium.com/@azharzeeshan/book-review-of-the-silk-roads-by-peter-frankopan-c052c97c7ff0 | ['Azhar Zeeshan'] | 2020-12-09 21:33:22.520000+00:00 | ['International Relations', 'Books', 'Politics', 'Silk Road', 'History Of The World'] |
Money On Chain — a Stable Asset Platform | Max, the co-founder of Money On Chain, shared the story of building a stable asset platform using RSK.
Hello! What’s your background, and what are you working on?
My name is Max Carjuzaa, Co-founder of Money On Chain. I have been programming since I was twelve years old, and I graduated with a degree in software syst... | https://medium.com/moneyonchain/money-on-chain-a-stable-asset-platform-1e503e81a19 | [] | 2020-02-25 20:37:32.881000+00:00 | ['Volatility', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Stablecoin', 'Stable Asset'] |
Best wireless earphones under 3000 in India ( Neckbands) | NOTE : — if you want to buy best neckbands please check-out my honest review. Then buy your best online products. Thanks you….
1. Samsung original level U wireless neckbands
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. A noise cancelation features to answer calls without any disturba... | https://medium.com/@studykaro24/best-wireless-earphones-under-3000-in-india-neckbands-f1ae9c47a67e | ['Vicky Singh'] | 2020-12-13 10:56:36.176000+00:00 | ['Gadgets', 'Blogging', 'Headphones', 'Review', 'Earphones'] |
Untold stories of anti-colonialism | These accounts are not particularly well-known. A lot of it is not being discussed by mainstream media, or the media we are used to. What is once said can be dismissed by lack of popular approval. Isn’t the term “racism” provocative enough? The soundbyte of this piece is to provoke thought and self-awareness, not into ... | https://medium.com/@matilde-magro/untold-stories-of-anti-colonialism-20deaeb0a077 | ['Matilde Magro'] | 2020-12-24 08:10:40.163000+00:00 | ['Colonialism', 'Hijab', 'Love', 'Stories', 'Feminism'] |
The carbon clock is ticking: Why and how reach net-zero emissions? | The climate clock displays 7 years 40 days as of today. This is the time we have left to achieve net-zero emissions and take all man-made greenhouse gasses back from the atmosphere thereafter.
Only little time is left to prevent irreversible damages.
Let’s explore what net-zero emissions are, why they are important ... | https://medium.com/prjctoa/the-carbon-clock-is-ticking-why-reach-net-zero-emissions-33528af943d9 | ['Samuel Bühlmann'] | 2020-11-22 16:42:21.102000+00:00 | ['Net Zero Emission', 'Global Warming', 'Climate Action', 'Carbon Emissions', 'Carbon Budget'] |
Configure a container as apache web server using Ansible as a configuration management tool | Hello Guys !!!
Today , in this article we will learn how to configure a container as a apache web server using the ansible as a configuration management tool…
Before going for the above task ,let me give to a brief high level idea about the container , apache web server , and the ansible
What is container??
When ev... | https://medium.com/@tiglon/configure-a-container-as-apache-web-server-using-ansible-as-a-configuration-management-tool-7c0d12f59d60 | ['Prakhar Khandelwal'] | 2020-12-15 05:54:45.529000+00:00 | ['Vimal Daga', 'Ansible', 'Arthbylw', 'Automation', 'Righteducation'] |
Our Lives Don’t Matter. | Our Lives Don’t Matter.
Photo by Matthis Volquardsen from Pexels
A billionaire moving her online retail business to a small, impoverished nation with nine citizens, would instantaneously and exponentially increase the nation’s economic wealth. The business operations, production, purchases, and investments would indi... | https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/our-lives-dont-matter-d8e24be6e258 | ['Corinne Davis'] | 2020-12-14 16:50:25.312000+00:00 | ['Money', 'Politics', 'Poverty', 'Economics', 'Billionaires'] |
An Open Letter Regarding the Passive-Aggressive Statements Issued Against Me by the Weather App | HUMOR
An Open Letter Regarding the Passive-Aggressive Statements Issued Against Me by the Weather App
Four Seasons? More Like Fuck You Seasons.
Photo by Teresa Douglas
It has come to my attention that the Weather app Carrot believes I’m too “sensitive” for the current air quality. As these accusations have been lev... | https://medium.com/greener-pastures-magazine/an-open-letter-regarding-the-passive-aggressive-statements-issued-against-me-by-the-weather-app-f63887a3ff5a | ['Laura Berlinsky-Schine'] | 2020-11-03 15:07:33.912000+00:00 | ['Lifestyle', 'Apps', 'Weather', 'Satire', 'Humor'] |
The rebranding of the CIO | Back when I first joined the workforce, a computer was a box that sat on your desk, and IT was the number you called when you needed a technician to come move it from one desk to another. Today, we’re in the midst of a digital transformation, and it’s hard to imagine that anyone could have envisioned what we take for g... | https://medium.com/@kpodnar/the-rebranding-of-the-cio-dd0ab62e03 | ['Kristina Podnar'] | 2021-04-23 00:24:30.197000+00:00 | ['Change Management', 'Digital Transformation', 'Digital Operations', 'Chief Information Officer', 'Risk Management'] |
LOVE: The Fourth Tuesday of Advent | “Let the dawning day bring me the revelation of your tender, unfailing love. Give me a light for my path and teach me, for I trust in you.” — Psalm 143:8.
To focus on the love promised at Advent, we have to go back to Genesis 1. Out of nothing, God called forth light. He separated the land from the sea and created t... | https://medium.com/advent-journey/love-the-fourth-tuesday-of-advent-518b06ec809 | ['Jeremi Richardson'] | 2020-12-22 12:47:34.782000+00:00 | ['Christmas', 'Love', 'Tuesday', 'Advent'] |
A Series About Time: Reality or an Illusion? Part I: History and Culture | A History of Time, and Time From a Cultural Perspective.
Time maybe not what you think it is. It is called the fourth dimension, but we cannot move in this dimension as we do in the other three. How we view time seems straightforward, minutes make hours, hours make days, days make weeks, weeks make months, and months ... | https://medium.com/@jansiebenga/a-series-about-time-reality-or-an-illusion-b0a927d75651 | ['Jan Siebenga'] | 2021-03-16 20:49:40.920000+00:00 | ['Philosophy', 'Time', 'Physics', 'Culture', 'History'] |
Creating a basket of Privacy Coins | What is the need of creating a privacy coin?
The primary reason behind creating Bitcoin was to create a new peer-to-peer ecosystem to exchange and transfer money. This ecosystem needed a certain degree of privacy to run, while keeping things transparent and trustworthy. This was achieved by using a bitcoin public addr... | https://medium.com/palettes/creating-a-basket-of-privacy-coins-b13ee3ae8fd3 | [] | 2018-08-28 14:09:20.974000+00:00 | ['Bitcoin', 'Palettes', 'Crypto Investment', 'Blockchain'] |
New tools in FlyElephant and announcement of webinars | New tools in FlyElephant and announcement of webinars
FlyElephant team wishes a Happy New Year. We started this year with an expansion of tools’ list, webinars and the formation of a community around the platform.
FlyElephant is a platform that provides scientists with computing infrastructure for calculation and aut... | https://medium.com/flyelephant/new-tools-in-flyelephant-and-announcement-of-webinars-c553de4d0384 | ['Dmitry Spodarets'] | 2016-01-11 20:12:56.679000+00:00 | ['Cloud Computing', 'Science', 'Data Science'] |
Decoding the common FAQs About Hair Transplant Treatments | Decoding the common FAQs About Hair Transplant Treatments
While hair loss is a common concern and a problem faced by many, the right knowledge and information of the condition as well as the ideal treatment options is anything but common. A lot of people have their queries, concerns and myths regarding hair related pr... | https://medium.com/@mymaxhairglobal/decoding-the-common-faqs-about-hair-transplant-treatments-993e26844e9e | [] | 2021-10-20 08:20:12.736000+00:00 | ['Hair Loss', 'Hair Wigs', 'Hair'] |
A Complete Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization for Text Data | It worked!
Univariate visualization with Plotly
Single-variable or univariate visualization is the simplest type of visualization which consists of observations on only a single characteristic or attribute. Univariate visualization includes histogram, bar plots and line charts.
The distribution of review sentiment p... | https://towardsdatascience.com/a-complete-exploratory-data-analysis-and-visualization-for-text-data-29fb1b96fb6a | ['Susan Li'] | 2019-04-27 18:25:54.104000+00:00 | ['NLP', 'Data Science', 'Plotly', 'Visualization', 'Python'] |
Insights from our Synthetic Content and Deep Fake Technology Round Table | INSIGHTS GATHERED:
CHALLENGES:
The ability to recognise deep fake pictures by humans is very low, while the ability of an AI to detect them is fairly high. Facebook’s Deepfake Detection Challenge, in collaboration with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and the Partnership on AI, was run through Kaggle, a platform for c... | https://medium.com/dataseries/insights-from-our-synthetic-content-and-deep-fake-technology-round-table-609489ca26d9 | ['Mike Reiner'] | 2020-12-18 13:49:51.268000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Future', 'Deepfakes', 'Synthetic Data'] |
WTF is…Helium? | Brass Tacks
First, what’s an IoT device? These are all the ‘smart’ devices you’re using and seeing around the house. Light bulbs, fridges, sensors, watches, all the simple devices we’re seeing in our homes more and more each day.
These devices all need to communicate through the internet. Some of these are easy, you ... | https://medium.com/yunt-capital/wtf-is-helium-261acb7d93bf | ['Yunt Capital'] | 2021-09-09 17:17:06.977000+00:00 | ['IoT', 'Crypto', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Decentralized'] |
The MetaCert Protocol White Paper: Future Work | The MetaCert Protocol White Paper: Future Work
This section covers how the Protocol will integrate Nodes and mitigate potential risks.
Download a PDF version of the White Paper
Contents
Clicking on each heading will take you that section’s medium post.
1. Index
2. Introduction
3. The MetaCert Protocol
4. Token ... | https://medium.com/metacert/metacert-whitepaper-future-work-4f72cf79e66a | ['Paul Walsh'] | 2018-06-17 17:45:17.216000+00:00 | ['Cybersecurity', 'Security', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
The Dog I Took a Beating For | I’m outside a dog meat slaughterhouse in Yulin, China, surrounded by an angry mob of more than 100. They’re screaming and shoving me. The ones who have smart phones are shooting the scene. The ones that don’t are shooting with their mouths — profanities, insults, and an occasional wad of spit.
“Get out of here!” one m... | https://medium.com/direct-action-everywhere-dxe/the-dog-i-took-a-beating-for-e24fdbb3ed7f | ['Wayne Hsiung'] | 2020-10-12 06:05:01.349000+00:00 | ['Dogs', 'Vegan', 'Animal Rights', 'Animals', 'Social Justice'] |
EncryptoTel launches groundbreaking secure VoIP on Waves | The telecommunications project’s crowdfund is under way — one of several major initiatives to launch on Waves this quarter.
There have been a number of new projects to launch tokens on Waves in the last few weeks, with more to come. One of the more interesting is EncryptoTel, a secure VoIP and communications platform.... | https://medium.com/wavesprotocol/encryptotel-launches-groundbreaking-secure-voip-on-waves-82cf84b715c4 | ['Waves Tech'] | 2017-04-24 11:37:15.564000+00:00 | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
6 must-reads for new technical leaders | 3. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work — by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
It doesn’t have to be crazy at work is that one book among our suggested list that will go against everything you will read and learn from the other resources.
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founders of Basecamp, ar... | https://medium.com/better-programming/6-must-read-books-for-new-technical-leads-99e9737b8630 | ['Catalin Ionescu'] | 2020-12-17 10:29:16.231000+00:00 | ['Technical Leadership', 'Management', 'Technology', 'Books', 'Programming'] |
Using the Hook Model for user research | The Hook Model was first introduced in the book called “Hooked” by Nir Eyal, an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor. It is a thinking model to be used to build Habit-Forming Products. The book covers topics like how habits are formed using the hooked model and few examples of companies who successfully ... | https://uxdesign.cc/using-the-hook-model-for-user-research-cad3d17f81e7 | ['Biswajeet Das'] | 2020-12-29 12:59:30.658000+00:00 | ['User Research', 'Product Design', 'Hook Model', 'Human Centered Design', 'User Experience'] |
Creating Strong Passwords — 6 Things to Consider | In this digital age, everyone should have had at least one instance where they had to create a password unless they have some kind of a secret oath to stay away from technology completely. Passwords are the first line of defense to protect our internet identities. Hence, it is highly imperative that we make them as str... | https://medium.com/@mystobharath/creating-strong-passwords-6-things-to-consider-b8a3dc7fd1bc | [] | 2020-12-20 16:48:51.266000+00:00 | ['Privacy', 'Digital Life', 'Technology', 'Cybersecurity', 'Lifestyle'] |
Frankfurter Feud | During my mid-teens my mother and I had a long running feud about frankfurters. Food was always a delicate area in my family — I was (at that time!) the only one not prone to putting on weight. This meant that while I shovelled down mountains of bread and potatoes, my mum, dad and sister were all on strict rations.
We... | https://medium.com/8-davisville-road/frankfurter-feud-361326d20848 | ['Kieran Mcgovern'] | 2019-02-01 14:46:00.765000+00:00 | ['Childhood', 'London', 'Mental Health', 'Family', 'Mothers'] |
Go: How Does the Garbage Collector Watch Your Application? | Illustration created for “A Journey With Go”, made from the original Go Gopher, created by Renee French.
ℹ️ This article is based on Go 1.13.
The Go garbage collector helps developers by automatically freeing the memory of their programs when it is not needed anymore. However, keeping track of the memory and cleaning... | https://medium.com/a-journey-with-go/go-how-does-the-garbage-collector-watch-your-application-dbef99be2c35 | ['Vincent Blanchon'] | 2020-03-19 03:10:53.802000+00:00 | ['Go', 'Golang', 'Internals', 'Garbage Collector'] |
From Singapore to the Baltics | Jacob Puthenparambil started his public relations firm Redhill in Singapore seven years ago. It has since grown its presence to 14 countries and 19 cities worldwide, including having a subsidiary in Estonia, which Puthenparambil runs remotely thanks to his e-Residency digital ID.
Originally from India, Puthenparambil ... | https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/from-singapore-to-the-baltics-a42337c4eb07 | ['Justin Petrone'] | 2021-05-24 12:01:37.775000+00:00 | ['E Residency', 'Public Relations', 'Singapore', 'Estonia', 'Estonia E Residency'] |
Unconditional Love and Meditation | Carl Rogers was a pioneer in clinical psychology and counseling in the 20th century. He laid the groundwork for what is now commonly known as humanistic therapy. One of the pillars of humanistic therapy is unconditional positive regard, which is the basic attitude of acceptance and support of a person regardless of wha... | https://medium.com/@eternalape/unconditional-love-and-meditation-55a87a657a85 | ['Eternal Ape'] | 2020-12-08 06:58:35.652000+00:00 | ['Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Meditation', 'Psychedelics'] |
Dressing The Bump With Non-Maternity Clothes | Got a bun baking in the oven? Congratulations! Now go figure what you’re going to wear for the next nine months. While maternity wear seems like the only way to go, non-maternity clothes can actually fit like a glove too. It’s much more wiser to upsize regular clothing and invest in pieces that have longevity so that y... | https://thread.zalora.com.ph/dressing-the-bump-with-non-maternity-clothes-69c759538b45 | ['Yap Jin Wen'] | 2020-12-15 10:43:36.692000+00:00 | ['Maternity', 'Fashion', 'Pregnancy'] |
we need notecards for the web | Felix Salmon is right in so many ways here, but his note about some user-generated content platforms being “too beautiful” as to become intimidating/a barrier to bringing quick thoughts to the web is particularly prescient.
There’s a need for a space between the Twitter’s 140 characters and Medium’s high-design enviro... | https://medium.com/david-connell/we-need-notecards-for-the-web-c1398e46dd61 | ['David Connell'] | 2016-08-20 13:06:16.645000+00:00 | ['Blogging', 'Digital Publishing', 'Posthaven', 'Medium', 'Technology'] |
Rails設定權限套件-pundit | Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more
Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, a... | https://medium.com/tingyiiii/rails%E8%A8%AD%E5%AE%9A%E6%AC%8A%E9%99%90%E5%A5%97%E4%BB%B6-pundit-e41d93e5271c | [] | 2021-01-02 13:35:04.260000+00:00 | ['Ruby on Rails', 'Rails套件'] |
Putting The United Back Into The United States: Rev. Edwin D. Leahy of ‘St. Benedict’s Prep’ On The 5 Things That Each Of Us Can Do To Help Unite Our Polarized Society | Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into the main focus of our interview, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory?
I was raised twice. First, by a white family, with my parents and three siblings in a Catholic ... | https://medium.com/authority-magazine/putting-the-united-back-into-the-united-states-rev-edwin-d-leahy-of-st-benedicts-prep-on-the-be1ccef49bd3 | ['Tyler Gallagher'] | 2021-03-08 00:02:40.571000+00:00 | ['Social Impact'] |
7 Financial Goals for 2021 | Photo by Blogging Guide on Unsplash
Year after year in the past, I wrote out my lists of goals and resolutions for the New Year.
In a nod to my age (fifty), I would typically write them down on note cards and then carry that card around in my wallet for the year. It was placed behind the plastic slip that held my pho... | https://themakingofamillionaire.com/7-financial-goals-for-2021-f7672fd11eb1 | ['M. Bernard Bloom'] | 2021-01-03 14:53:13.865000+00:00 | ['Financial Goals', 'Investing', 'Saving Money', '2021', 'Debt'] |
Covid-19 pandemic: International alarm grows over new variant | There is growing international alarm over a new variant of the coronavirus in the UK, with a host of countries imposing travel bans.
More than 40 countries have barred UK arrivals, as the EU held talks on forming a common policy.
Sweden banned foreign travellers from Denmark after cases of the variant were discovered... | https://medium.com/@longstorm100/covid-19-pandemic-international-alarm-grows-over-new-variant-d913c4a7a0af | [] | 2020-12-22 03:18:05.215000+00:00 | ['Coronavirus', 'Europe', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19', 'News'] |
Spark versus cuDF and dask | When working with a large amount of data, we often spend time analyzing and preparing the data. The purpose of this article is to compare the performance of two technologies very present in the big data universe. I will use Spark and cuDF to understand which commands are faster on both technologies.
Apache Spark is ge... | https://medium.com/datalab-log/spark-versus-cudf-and-dask-4be71a45c055 | ['Amilton Pimenta'] | 2019-12-19 17:20:59.543000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Cuda', 'Spark', 'Gpu', 'Hadoop'] |
Voters Make Progress On Parental Leave, Universal Preschool | Truly Mama | Although the election has left many Americans frustrated this week, there are some glimmers of hope: voters in Colorado and Oregon passed measures to establish paid parental leave and free preschool in some areas.
The United States has long lagged behind other developmental countries in the supports it offers new pare... | https://medium.com/@trulymama/voters-make-progress-on-parental-leave-universal-preschool-truly-mama-68ee92ab690e | ['Truly Mama'] | 2020-11-06 13:34:14.246000+00:00 | ['Maternity Leave', 'Parenting', 'Paid Family Leave', 'Family', 'Moms'] |
Exploring the Urban-Rural Divide through Politicians’ Social Media | Demographic and Social Media Differences in Urban and Rural districts
Beyond the map, to look for demographic patterns in the way elected officials use social media, we created a data pipeline to gather statistics from the US Census for each district. Here is a summary of the variables that we collected segmented by o... | https://medium.com/cicero-data/exploring-the-urban-rural-divide-through-politicians-social-media-574c9334e2a | ['Luke Mckinstry'] | 2019-07-26 17:10:52.421000+00:00 | ['Dataviz', 'Geospatial', 'Social Media'] |
Decision Trees: Essential Things to Know | Basic Terminologies
Entropy
A decision tree is built top-down from a root node and involves partitioning the data into subsets that contain instances with similar values (homogenous).
The algorithm uses entropy to calculate the homogeneity of a sample.
If the sample is completely homogeneous the entropy is zero and... | https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/decision-trees-essential-things-to-know-7fd5125e54ec | ['Praveen Pareek'] | 2021-09-01 15:18:51.643000+00:00 | ['Interview Preparation', 'Interview Questions', 'Decision Tree', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning'] |
The Man in the Blue Shirt: Why I’m on a Social Media Fast | The Man in the Blue Shirt: Why I’m on a Social Media Fast Aaron Anaya Jan 18·5 min read
Today, I noticed the man in the blue shirt that I would not have noticed before.
I was at a stop light and my formed habit would normally be to mindlessly make a couple swipes on my phone and end up checking Instagram first, then ... | https://medium.com/@aaronanaya-28924/the-man-in-the-blue-shirt-why-im-on-a-social-media-fast-645e7fe0963f | ['Aaron Anaya'] | 2021-01-18 03:35:36.577000+00:00 | ['Social Media Marketing', 'Social Media', 'Leadership', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living'] |
This is THE BAD INFLUENCE — “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safes, the creatures of the… | Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more
Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, a... | https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/this-is-the-bad-influence-be-daring-be-different-be-impractical-be-anything-that-will-assert-f5d8c514f60f | ['Reuben Salsa'] | 2020-12-16 05:34:12.181000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Salsa', 'The Bad Influence', 'Self', 'Short Form'] |
Housemanship: Week 14 | So, I started my Orthopedics surgery rotation this week. It’s a 1 month rotation. Just 3 days into the 1st week and I was 100% sure that I do not want to do orthopedics surgery.
Well, in all honesty, I want nothing to do with surgery at all, but I was trying to have an open mind regardless.
This week, I was extremely... | https://medium.com/@sharonstephen97/housemanship-week-14-5d2afcff3971 | ['Sharon Stephen'] | 2020-01-12 14:21:21.997000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Journaling'] |
Does Our Natural Scent Influence Other People? | Does Our Natural Scent Influence Other People?
In one episode of the X-Files, a murderous man lured victims so he could take over their bodies. He was able to get anyone he wanted because he was endowed with an unearthly amount of pheromones. (Season 1, episode 14)
But what exactly are pheromones? Do they really affe... | https://medium.com/illumination/does-our-natural-scent-influence-other-people-7c6cd6f2c307 | ['Liberty Ann'] | 2020-12-08 14:21:17.898000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Psychology', 'Biology', 'Science', 'History'] |
Recrooiter highlight: Nikola Stojic | Why do we celebrate our recruiters?
Because we are not successful without our team of recrooiters. They are the driving force behind our business, they are also part of the reason we started in the first place.
Our founding members came from high ranking positions in the recruiting world and realized it was time for ... | https://medium.com/recrooitblog/recrooiter-highlight-nikola-stojic-9f78dd256bbd | ['Maryann Superlano'] | 2020-12-07 16:20:38.045000+00:00 | ['Talent', 'Recruiting', 'HR', 'Jobs', 'Side Hustle'] |
The Modi government confronting agricultural reform | In September the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed three bills aimed at liberalising agriculture. The laws deregulate trade in agricultural produce and facilitate private investment. Experts have welcomed the reforms in the abysmally unproductive sector that employs over half of India’s workf... | https://medium.com/@gandhar/the-modi-government-confronting-agricultural-reform-402445fd172b | ['Gandhar Desai'] | 2020-12-25 19:49:48.638000+00:00 | ['Agriculture', 'Farmers Protest', 'India'] |
Hamlet & Royal Corruption: Going Viral | An analysis of Hamlet’s implications for incest, kinship, and tragedy
The progressive impurity of the royal bloodline can be traced via a single drop of “cursed hebenon.” In its most superficial function, this vial almost instantaneously murders King Hamlet of Denmark. However, it is the maturing properties of this po... | https://medium.com/@vaniii/hamlet-royal-corruption-going-viral-5593c1c757c0 | ['Vani S.'] | 2020-12-21 19:37:14.955000+00:00 | ['English Literature', 'Academia', 'Literature', 'Hamlet', 'Shakespeare'] |
Why Visual Content Marketing Builds Brand Loyalty | Visual Content Marketing
Visual content marketing is the current best bet for building trust in a brand and promoting brand loyalty. Content marketing has become one of the most important ways companies build relationships with current and potential customers, and visual content marketing is at the head of the pack wh... | https://medium.com/wordsmyth-creative-content-marketing/why-visual-content-marketing-builds-brand-loyalty-cacbbbfb842e | ['Danielle Smyth'] | 2020-12-16 17:23:08.132000+00:00 | ['SEO', 'Content Marketing', 'Visual Content Marketing', 'Brand Strategy'] |
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