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Why Iggy Azalea’s Privilege To Be “Black” Needs To Be Permanently Revoked | Why Iggy Azalea’s Privilege To Be “Black” Needs To Be Permanently Revoked
She’s too White
The last thing I want to do is take the time to once again express how much I resent the very notion of Iggy Azalea and all that she represents — but in this current climate of racial strife — it’s almost impossible to ignore th... | https://nilegirl.medium.com/why-iggy-azaleas-privilege-to-be-black-needs-to-be-permanently-revoked-79397ee606ba | ['Ezinne Ukoha'] | 2018-04-25 16:29:04.431000+00:00 | ['Music', 'Culture', 'Race', 'Black Women', 'White Privilege'] |
WE SAY ‘I LOVE YOU’ | And with that we are bound
To promises and hopes
Best intentions full of care.
Can it last?
Can we keep our hidden monsters
From creeping forth
Wreaking havoc on our soft words
And gentle touches.
Old habits die hard, they say.
I have never found that to be anything but true.
You look at me
And I am my best ... | https://medium.com/@weareamused/we-say-i-love-you-a0471ee280af | ['We Are Amused'] | 2020-12-23 07:23:00.526000+00:00 | ['Poetry Writing', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Poetry'] |
Eight Best Tips On How To Create A Complex Fantasy World (Part II) | In the first blog post on this topic, we looked at the first five of the eight best tips on how to create a complex fantasy world. There, we discussed that it is advisable for writers to:
1. Decide The Key Locations For The Plot;
2. Use Non-Visited Locations To Affect The Plot;
3. Determine How The Landscape and The... | https://medium.com/@paulsfantasywritings/eight-best-tips-on-how-to-create-a-complex-fantasy-world-part-ii-f81404f536b3 | ['Paul Gilbert'] | 2019-07-22 10:44:01.800000+00:00 | ['Game of Thrones', 'Worldbuilding', 'Maps', 'How To', 'Fantasy World'] |
Building a fully manual Polaroid studio camera | Building a fully manual Polaroid studio camera
It turns out that shooting Polaroids in the studio isn’t impossible — it just takes a little bit of engineering and ingenuity. Here’s how I turned a $200 toy into a studio camera.
Being able to use studio lights with the Polaroid camera was a ton of fun.
I’ve done a lot... | https://medium.com/photography-secrets/building-a-fully-manual-polaroid-studio-camera-38bc3a54153 | ['Haje Jan Kamps'] | 2020-12-16 00:24:37.128000+00:00 | ['DIY', 'Photography', 'Prototyping', 'Machine Shop'] |
11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism | This simple notion — that all your basic everyday needs, from education to commerce to healthcare to culture and so on, are located within 15 minutes walk or bike of your front door — requires a way of thinking, planning, designing, and acting that I was first introduced to in Sydney, almost 15 years ago, by Adrian Lah... | https://medium.com/slowdown-papers/11-post-traumatic-urbanism-and-radical-indigenism-c2a21dc7ba69 | ['Dan Hill'] | 2020-04-22 15:32:08.940000+00:00 | ['Cities', 'Design', 'Indigenous', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Image what story does this unlock for you. (#prompt) | Image what story does this unlock for you. (#prompt)
Did you hear all those music buzzing into your ears,
everyone was dancing like, no one care what is going around,
Do you know the feeling of standing alone in between 1000s of people,
where every face look so happy and enjoying that moment,
but why you find it s... | https://medium.com/@anoopsingh-27990/image-what-story-does-this-unlock-for-you-prompt-b3aa62488bca | ['Anoop Singh'] | 2020-12-18 14:29:08.179000+00:00 | ['Pain', 'Image', 'Prompt', 'Memories', 'Painting'] |
Paperchain 2020 Holidays Update | From all of us at Paperchain, we want to send our unconditional gratitude and appreciation for being part of our journey.
As a team, we’re now taking stock of a very difficult year, unimaginable by most modern years in its cruelty and uncertainty, while also offering glimpses of hope that progress is being made.
We’v... | https://medium.com/paperchain/paperchain-2020-holidays-update-a19fb18c207e | [] | 2020-12-24 04:11:52.525000+00:00 | ['Updates', 'New', 'Fintech', 'Music Technology'] |
All Hail Korean Skincare! | All Hail Korean Skincare!
Korean Skin Care
The cosmetic industry which essentially encompasses hair care, makeup, perfumes and toiletries — just to name a few, has grown exponentially in the last decade alone. In 2018, it grew an estimated 5.5% in comparison to 2017 and is projected to grow by 20.1 billion USD in the... | https://medium.com/@tracythermidor/all-hail-korean-skincare-4195aad97eb0 | ['Tracy Love'] | 2020-12-27 21:03:04.177000+00:00 | ['Skin Care Tips', 'Makeup', 'Korean Skincare', 'Beauty', 'Skincare'] |
Tracy Chapman was Ahead of Her Time | Somewhat accidentally I came across Tracy Chapman’s album released in the 1990’s. Her song lyrics were nothing but genius.
In her song ‘Talkin about a revolution’, Tracey reflects on the rising tide of socialism and the impacts of capitalism.
‘While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of th... | https://medium.com/change-your-mind/tracey-chapman-was-ahead-of-her-time-a8e94054bdaa | ['Sharaf Sheik-Ali'] | 2020-04-08 12:03:49.645000+00:00 | ['Awareness', 'Music', 'Politics', 'Revolution', 'Mindfulness'] |
Ion Thrusters — Paving the Way to Mars Using Electricity | The Past
First let’s discuss chemical rockets, the primary way of getting humans into space. Unfortunately they’re also one of the reasons we’re still stuck on Earth. While the history of jet propulsion can date back to c. 400 BCE, using chemical rockets became most popular in the 1900’s when they were used to launch ... | https://medium.com/@kpatel2k03/ion-thrusters-paving-the-way-to-mars-using-electricity-6be6c73b623a | ['Krupal Patel'] | 2020-12-10 14:44:34.288000+00:00 | ['Mars', 'Space Exploration', 'Innovation', 'Space Technology'] |
Tree | There was an empty field, wild with unkept weeds. In the midst of this boondocks stood an aged masterpiece thriving on its own.
It swayed and bent amidst the elements, moving with the raging winds that were thrusting with force. The hail followed, raining down like tiny weapons with a surprising hit.
We ran hard to t... | https://medium.com/@kjeffrey_19311/tree-fe5d1df2af7f | [] | 2020-12-20 19:23:59.822000+00:00 | ['Dart', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Psychology'] |
The Ultimate Guide to Becoming an Amazon Affiliate | Helium 10 | After closing out at an astounding annual net revenue of $280.52 billion dollars in 2019, it is no surprise to much of anyone anymore that Amazon is one of the world’s leading online retailers today.
In fact, their Amazon product sales jumped 37.4% during the third fiscal quarter of this year alone, bringing their Q3 ... | https://medium.com/@amazon-seller-tools/the-ultimate-guide-to-becoming-an-amazon-affiliate-helium-10-63382fa268ad | [] | 2020-12-22 20:05:26.625000+00:00 | ['Affiliate Marketing', 'Affiliate Marketing Tips', 'Amazon Affiliate Program', 'Ecommerce', 'Business'] |
Session 3: Chequa’s Report. Chequa drafts a report for the crime… | The following is an excerpt from a report drafted by Chequa Nomi, addressed to Phoenix:
…As for the group’s investigation of the Scurrybuck, they didn’t tell us much over the comlink. It seems that the ship was destroyed but still heavily guarded by droids. Kirsk Va’Rel is dead, but they were able to recover the Black... | https://medium.com/@johansolo/session-3-chequa-nomi-755034239417 | ['Johan Solo'] | 2020-12-21 21:05:40.619000+00:00 | ['Chequa Nomi', 'Star Wars', 'The Hunted Campaign', 'Session Intro', 'Sunrise On Ord Mantell'] |
The Restaurant Week Interviews: 7 questions for Chef Manuel Martinez of La Viga Seafood | Chef Manuel Martinez of La Viga Culinary Inc. (Photo by Rob Watkins)
For readers who might not be familiar, tell me a little bit about you and your restaurants.
I’ve been in the industry for the last 25 years, working as a cook, an assistant chef and then as a chef. After that, I began opening restaurants for other p... | https://thesixfifty.com/the-restaurant-week-interviews-7-questions-for-chef-manuel-martinez-of-la-viga-seafood-3bbe20452b25 | ['Sarah Klearman'] | 2021-05-03 17:40:02.119000+00:00 | ['Bay Area', 'Restaurant Business', 'San Francisco', 'Silicon Valley', 'Foodies'] |
Zen and the Art of Smart-Assery: Laugh like you mean it | Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Before we get started, there’s this
Dude, what the hell is going on?
You know, the last couple years have been a sinkhole. A sinkhole in a sewage line set on fire with thermite. It’s been about as much fun as dancing barefoot outside the public toilets at a free reggae concert. It... | https://medium.com/intelligence-challenged/zen-and-the-art-of-smart-assery-laugh-like-you-mean-it-bde969d1d019 | ['Christopher Laine'] | 2018-10-16 10:09:03.111000+00:00 | ['Fiction', 'Happiness', 'Humor', 'Philosophy', 'Opinion'] |
Remembering Kai, Meeting Addiction With Empathy | Remembering Kai, Meeting Addiction With Empathy
What comes to mind when you picture an addict? What thoughts fill your head when you hear about the opioid epidemic? How distant are those thoughts from your day-to-day existence?
Four years ago I lost my brother Kai, another casualty in the opioid epidemic. Before Kai’... | https://medium.com/@lars/remembering-kai-meeting-addiction-with-empathy-439a0d5177a7 | ['Lars Schmidt'] | 2019-10-15 19:13:16.493000+00:00 | ['Opioid Epidemic', 'Addiction', 'Empathy', 'Mental Health', 'Grief And Loss'] |
Hillary Clinton’s phoney feminism excludes migrant women of colour | Hillary Clinton’s phoney feminism excludes migrant women of colour
“Comment: More than anyone else, women of colour need secure immigration policies. Hillary Clinton has failed them, writes Monique Bouffé.”
Many of us watched Hillary Clinton’s concession speech on 9 November 2016 with teary eyes.
Take away politics ... | https://medium.com/thenewarab/hillary-clintons-phoney-feminism-excludes-migrant-women-of-colour-b1a1d159ea8a | ['Newarab Comment'] | 2018-11-28 00:13:26.500000+00:00 | ['Comment', 'Hillary Clinton', 'Monique Bouffé'] |
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Morpheus Labs onboards a renowned Blockchain — VeChain | Morpheus Labs is excited to announce that we have inked a technical collaboration with VeChain that constitutes a breakthrough within the Morpheus Labs ecosystem. This significant milestone came after many rounds of study and on-boarding trials with VeChain’s CTO, Mr Gu Jianliang.
Screenshot of the “Application Librar... | https://medium.com/morpheus-labs/morpheus-labs-onboards-a-renowned-blockchain-vechain-586eb4c7287a | ['Morpheus Labs Team'] | 2019-02-28 04:10:21.275000+00:00 | ['Dapps', 'Smart Contracts', 'Blockchain', 'Prototyping', 'Ethereum'] |
CrossNER: Evaluating Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition | Motivation of CrossNER
We Need Cross-Domain NER Models
Named entity recognition (NER) is a key component in text processing and information extraction. Contemporary NER systems rely on numerous training samples and a well-trained NER model could fail to generalize to a new domain due to the domain discrepancy. Howeve... | https://medium.com/@zihanliu1026/crossner-evaluating-cross-domain-named-entity-recognition-1a3ee2c1c42b | ['Zihan Liu'] | 2020-12-27 09:42:40.230000+00:00 | ['Dataset', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Cross Domain', 'Named Entity Recognition', 'Multi Domain'] |
Submit Your Article to the Polis | What is The Polis?
I’ve talked to a number of Medium writers who wish there were more politics-oriented publications. If this sounds like you, The Polis is always looking for new contributors!
A few answers to some frequently-asked questions:
What topics are you interested in?
Politics and Current Events. If you ha... | https://medium.com/the-polis/submit-your-article-to-the-polis-aea4a1d89ca4 | ['Mark Weiss'] | 2020-06-17 23:50:34.654000+00:00 | ['The Polis', 'Philosophy', 'Medium', 'Politics', 'Submissions'] |
Persistence Is Key | Persistence Is Key
As I sat in my kitchen eating my breakfast, I contemplated my next steps. I wasn’t sure what it was all I knew was that the past two months had be dark and blurry. I had no clarity , I prayed and wept silently. My once thriving business in a busy airport had come to a screeching halt in February of ... | https://medium.com/@cindytawiah/persistence-is-key-7676bfaf7317 | ['Cindy Tawiah'] | 2020-12-16 01:08:14.516000+00:00 | ['Black Enterprise', 'Perserverence', 'Diva Hair Care Vending', 'Persistence', 'Black Women'] |
What is workation? How to do it in Latin America. | What is workation? How to do it in Latin America.
Have you dreamed of working and traveling in time and without waiting for the holidays? Then meet the trend of workation, a way of working and traveling among digital nomads, freelancers and digital entrepreneurs.
With the rise of technology, having a normal 8-hour sc... | https://medium.com/@yuleidymurillo/what-is-workation-how-to-do-it-in-latin-america-3c28e5e88ade | ['Gm Coaching'] | 2021-01-16 01:35:05.669000+00:00 | ['Workation', 'Digital Nomads', 'Remote Working', 'Gm Consulting', 'Remote Work'] |
Biden picks North Carolina environmental chief to lead EPA | President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday offered the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency to Michael S. Regan, a North Carolina regulator who has made a name pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution.
Biden also plans to nominate New Mexic... | https://medium.com/@carrielmerritt/biden-picks-north-carolina-environmental-chief-to-lead-epa-87640719d371 | ['Carrie L. Merritt'] | 2020-12-22 09:43:47.891000+00:00 | ['Cantonese', 'Leadership', 'Environmental Protection', 'New York', 'New York New Video'] |
We need Synthetic Data | Sensitive data, without the sensitivities.
We need Synthetic Data
The benefits and methods of synthetic data generation
Synthetic data is an upcoming technology in the data industry. There are many reasons to explore synthetic data, which I will go into shortly.
Sometimes the most effective way to collect more data... | https://towardsdatascience.com/we-need-synthetic-data-e6f90a8532a4 | ['Joseph Allen'] | 2020-11-27 01:29:11.418000+00:00 | ['Towards Data Science', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Synthetic Data', 'Editors Pick'] |
Why Would a Mom Shake Her Baby | When I was a little girl, all I wanted to be when I grew up was a mom. There was something about it that just beckoned me. There was something special about giving my complete love to a tiny little person, doting on them and caring for their needs. I loved the idea of playing with them and teaching them all that they n... | https://medium.com/tanglebug/why-would-a-mom-shake-her-baby-d4be122da39b | [] | 2019-09-18 03:00:48.608000+00:00 | ['Sleep Deprivation', 'Postpartum', 'Motherhood', 'Struggle', 'Depression'] |
Different Types of Cookies in Google Analytics | Ga will process the user journey by using cookies.
_utma: this cookie usually expires after two years. However, if your visitors come back to your website, the cookie will be refreshed and the countdown will start over.
Default Expiration Time:2 years from set/update
Where we can find _utma cookies related data in G... | https://medium.com/@venugopalboya/different-types-of-cookies-in-google-analytics-c48159b4347b | ['Venu Gopal'] | 2021-06-08 09:37:11.408000+00:00 | ['Googleanalyticscookies', 'Ga Cookies', 'Google Analytics'] |
The Autonomous Vehicle Has Arrived | That is a quote from a recent Article on Waymo’s announcement of a Completely Driverless Service for the general public in Chandler, Tempe and Mesa Arizona. The quote addresses all the skepticism that has surrounded the move towards autonomous vehicles. Author Enrique Dans describes the emerging service and has a messa... | https://medium.com/@frankdiana/the-autonomous-vehicle-has-arrived-46bcfc33bf5f | ['Frank Diana'] | 2020-10-16 14:33:48.331000+00:00 | ['Autonomous Vehicles', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Self Driving Cars'] |
Parasite (2019) | “Dignity. Always dignity,” proclaims Gene Kelly’s Don Lockwood as Singing in the Rain opens. As I watched Bong Joon-Ho’s latest, Parasite, I imagined Song Kan-ho’s Kim ki-Taek as a subtler Lockwood. By nature, Kim is a dignified patriarch, but in reality, he drew the shorter lot. His palace is a semi-basement, his feas... | https://medium.com/@isauggetti/parasite-2019-67db82a2f679 | ['Isa Uggetti'] | 2019-11-15 08:20:57.866000+00:00 | ['Movies', 'Film Review', 'Film', 'Parasite'] |
How Can Tourism Help The Sustainable Development Goals? #16 Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions | Tourism: A global meeting point in an increasingly divided world
Our world is increasingly separated between the have and have nots, peace with prosperity and conflict with violence.
Without a peaceful and inclusive environment, development isn’t sustainable ‘Development that meets the needs of the present without co... | https://medium.com/@earthchangers/how-can-tourism-help-the-sustainable-development-goals-16-peace-justice-strong-institutions-8ab940b48855 | [] | 2019-05-09 14:45:55.936000+00:00 | ['Justice', 'Sdgs', 'Sustainable Development', 'Peace', 'Tourism'] |
My 8 Top Picks for Free Garden Catalogs | Last year, my 87-year-old friend and I were helping some young people plan our community garden. We’ve both gardened most of our lives, so we had great fun looking through garden and seed catalogs. I’d forgotten how much information about plants was in those FREE magazines.
I’m asked a lot of questions about growing f... | https://medium.com/welcome-to-my-not-so-fancy-garden/my-8-top-picks-for-free-garden-catalogs-138d6a0ef355 | ['Katie Michaelson'] | 2020-12-23 01:31:49.384000+00:00 | ['Seeds', 'Sustainability', 'Plants', 'Growing Food', 'Gardening'] |
Follow the Horse | Follow the Horse
December 19 — Waiting for the procession to leave Onate High School, destination, Young Park in Las Cruces.
Hot-mix Saturday at Young Park…
Old Testament, New Testament,
Jesus, Satanists,
treasonous Joe Biden,
patriot Donald Trump,
God and country, the flag,
say Amen somebody!
Faithful wretche... | https://medium.com/resistance-poetry/follow-the-horse-da186507e9d0 | ['Jeffrey Field'] | 2020-12-22 20:02:25.358000+00:00 | ['Apocalypse', 'Resistance Poetry', 'Covid 19', 'Donald Trump', 'God'] |
Using scooter data to make room for micromobility on our streets and in our cities | The rise of micromobility has offered us the chance to rethink how we use our streets — with access to better data
Since shared electric scooters and bikes hit the streets, urban planners have grappled with how best to manage and plan for these new services that have taken cities by storm. One of the exciting opportun... | https://medium.com/populus-ai/https-medium-com-reginaclewlow-harnessing-scooter-data-to-build-new-bike-lanes-13967c36a0fb | ['Regina Clewlow'] | 2019-07-10 20:02:31.438000+00:00 | ['Mobility', 'Bikes', 'Data', 'Cities', 'Transportation'] |
The two areas writers need to master in order to handle rejection. | Photo by Madison Lavern on Unsplash
Some weeks are full of good news and forward momentum, but other times it’s full of bad news and rejection. So goes the life of the screenwriter. How are you preparing for it?
Two areas that you’re going to have to figure out on your screenwriting journey that are in a constant bat... | https://medium.com/scriptblast/the-two-areas-writers-need-to-master-in-order-to-handle-rejection-5edc54115140 | ['Hudson Phillips'] | 2020-12-14 11:02:38.362000+00:00 | ['Screenplay', 'Scriptblast', 'Screenwriting', 'Filmmaking', 'Writing'] |
5 Techniques to Make Mobile Call to Action Buttons Intuitive | To tap or not to tap — that is the question on the user’s mind when they see a call to action button.
The more buttons there are, the longer it takes for users to decide. They have to examine each button to figure out which one best meets their goal. Any uncertainty could cause them to take no action or the wrong acti... | https://uxmovement.medium.com/5-techniques-to-make-mobile-call-to-action-buttons-intuitive-a4d0bb49b212 | ['Ux Movement'] | 2019-06-04 13:49:32.917000+00:00 | ['Visual Design', 'Mobile', 'Call To Action', 'UX', 'UI'] |
Why I Quit Teaching in 2020: Starting Over | Why I Quit Teaching in 2020: Starting Over
Photo by Dids from Pexels
You don’t quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals. — Daniel Cormier
One of the HARDEST things for a teacher to do is to quit.
We are taught not to quit by parents and, well teachers. It is i... | https://medium.com/@1melody/why-i-quit-teaching-in-2020-starting-over-4fd0955001c1 | ['Melody Johnson'] | 2020-12-20 15:08:53.868000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneur', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Teachers', 'Career Change', 'Education'] |
How to Tell When It’s Time to End a Relationship | How to Tell When It’s Time to End a Relationship
The 5 lines I’ve found that should never be crossed
Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash
My first marriage ended dramatically. I kissed my ex-husband goodbye in the morning and as soon as his car was out of sight, I started packing. I took my clothes out of the closet and... | https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/how-to-tell-when-its-time-to-end-a-relationship-da9e47cc9f17 | ['Alecia Kennedy'] | 2020-03-11 15:36:15.578000+00:00 | ['Women', 'Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Relationships'] |
Polar Vortex | Note: This is day one of a personal 28-day challenge I’m setting for myself. One sketch and a bit of writing every day in February. Giddyup.
I grew up in Minnesota. I distinctly remember the cold snap that closed schools in the winter of (I think) 1996–97. It was awful, but sort of a badge of honor, as most awful weat... | https://medium.com/@NickLeeCreative/polar-vortex-bd2e3418fae8 | ['Nick Lee'] | 2019-02-01 21:48:49.480000+00:00 | ['Daily Challenge', 'Sketch', 'Memories', 'Winter'] |
Second Chances | Photo by Anja Junghans on Unsplash
Love and magic are pretty much the same thing
The gentle swells rocked the forty foot sail boat almost putting Koloni Swartz to sleep. She loved living on the Namaka and seldom ventured into town for supplies, most of her needs were met by the sea. She ate fish and crab, boiled up k... | https://medium.com/@lunax-89279/second-chances-ded654243dd7 | ['Pam Saraga'] | 2020-12-19 08:19:51.258000+00:00 | ['Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Sailing', 'Love', 'Magic'] |
Huluween at Home | Huluween at Home
This year, with Hulugans working remotely due to COVID-19, we had to conjure up our most creative ideas to keep the Huluween spirit alive from home. And although Huluween looked different this year, it was the first time in Hulu history that Hulugans across the country were able to come together as #O... | https://medium.com/life-at-hulu/huluween-at-home-432f28589da6 | ['Inside Hulu'] | 2020-12-08 16:47:50.295000+00:00 | ['Halloween', 'Hulu', 'Life At Hulu', 'Huluween', 'Company Culture'] |
Work, Homework, and the Disappearing Work-Life | Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life — so goes the hackneyed aphorism that rejects the importance of a discernible work-life. It’s true, though — our ability to distinguish between labor and leisure has deteriorated. But it’s not because we have all suddenly found jobs worthy of our love; most of u... | https://medium.com/@danielkassl/work-homework-and-the-disappearing-work-life-f4d7aeb45b30 | ['Daniel Kassl'] | 2021-09-02 23:03:39.248000+00:00 | ['Capitalism', 'Labor', 'Education'] |
RT/ Designing soft and sensitive robotic fingers | by Helena Kiilavuori, Veikko Sariola, Mikko J. Peltola, Jari K. Hietanen in Biological Psychology
According to a new study by Tampere University in Finland, making eye contact with a robot may have the same effect on people as eye contact with another person. The results predict that interaction between humans and hum... | https://medium.com/paradigm-fund/rt-designing-soft-and-sensitive-robotic-fingers-28fb748e12f | [] | 2020-12-17 15:37:53.589000+00:00 | ['Robots', 'Boston Dynamics', 'Robotics', 'Technology', 'Robotics Automation'] |
Gap Trading. An Introduction & Back-test in Python. | Gaps can occur due to fundamental and technical reasons, but we are mostly interested in identifying and trading them. In the currencies market, the visible gaps are the ones that occur during the weekend. Since it is traded all day long for 5 days a week, the presumed gaps would probably look like giant candles, but s... | https://kaabar-sofien.medium.com/gap-trading-an-introduction-back-test-in-python-7d59ea39962f | ['Sofien Kaabar'] | 2020-12-30 05:55:34.979000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Finance', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Trading'] |
When Your Church is a Hate Group | When Your Church is a Hate Group
Growing Up in a Southern Baptist Culture of Hate, Sexual Abuse, and Conversion Therapy
Faith Baptist Church, Glen Burnie, MD www.welcometofaith.com
I grew up in church. A lot of us, even in the LGBTQ+ community, grew up in church. But I feel like that is a gross oversimplification of... | https://medium.com/the-transition-transmission/when-your-church-is-a-hate-group-b4e73744bfe9 | ['Shana Carroll'] | 2020-07-22 03:42:48.653000+00:00 | ['Sexual Assault', 'LGBTQ', 'Maryland', 'Church Abuse', 'Church'] |
Newton, Einstein and Rubin’s Vase. | On Gravity, General Relativity, Unification and Seeing Two Faces.
Photo by Antoine Peltier on Unsplash
In the Big Whisper model, Newton and Einstein play vital roles. Newton, for declaring the Laws of Motion, viewed as classical mechanics. Einstein, for declaring the general theory of relativity, the description for ... | https://medium.com/@fred-rick/newton-einstein-and-rubins-vase-41a102d2e3ab | [] | 2020-12-22 01:20:57.475000+00:00 | ['Newton', 'Unification', 'Physics', 'Einstein', 'Science'] |
Delphy Monthly Airdrop — February 2019 | Time flies faster in the Crypto world. It’s almost end of February 2019, can you believe it? And it’s time for the Monthly Delphy Airdrop. If you have been holding DPY (Delphy token) at the moment of snapshot, you will benefit from our Monthly Delphy airdrop. Yes, you heard that right!
We value our community, in fact ... | https://medium.com/delphy/delphy-monthly-airdrop-february-2019-adec34c73c9 | ['Ada Gao'] | 2019-02-26 18:10:44.192000+00:00 | ['Prediction Markets', 'Blockchain', 'Airdrop', 'Ethereum'] |
JUST “SET & FORGET” | Builds Up To Four Passive Income Streams For Us Every Single Day… Anybody Can Do This!
Are You Frustrated?
Trust me… It is NOT FUN to “reinvent the wheel”
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The Free Traffic is Epic!
You already know that to get results, you absolutely GOTTA have traffic.
But that’s where too many online systems fall flat on t... | https://medium.com/@sumonl3bt/just-set-forget-24871c7ac36f | ['Md. Hasan'] | 2020-12-26 07:17:10.391000+00:00 | ['Affiliate Marketing', 'Traffic', 'Make Money Online', 'Passive Income', 'Free Traffic'] |
Web Animation and the Render Pipeline | Being a student of both design and development it sort of makes sense that I would find the art of web animation so fascinating. As a discipline right on the border between the two, the freedom in shaping an intentful motion has to be tempered with knowledge of the browsers’ abilities and limitations. The conflict can ... | https://medium.com/izettle-engineering/web-animation-and-the-render-pipeline-b3224e005798 | ['Daniel Ström'] | 2018-10-25 07:02:55.837000+00:00 | ['CSS', 'Web Development', 'Animation', 'Performance'] |
On Human Rights Day, the US government will execute Brandon Bernard, with reasonable doubt. | Tomorrow is Human Rights Day.
This is Brandon Bernard.
Brandon Bernard has been in custody on murder charges since 1999.
Tomorrow, Brandon Bernard will be put to death, the first person to be executed by the federal government during a president’s lame-duck session in 130 years.
Tomorrow, Brandon Bernard will also ... | https://medium.com/@neviebrooks/on-human-rights-day-the-us-government-will-execute-brandon-bernard-with-reasonable-doubt-450603cfaead | ['Nevie Brooks'] | 2020-12-09 23:46:37.521000+00:00 | ['Brandon Bernard', 'Criminal Justice', 'Death Penalty', 'Justice', 'Capital Punishment'] |
McDonald’s, Spherical Cows, and iTunes: A Defense on Behalf of Bootcamp Instructors & Thoughts on Modular Education | I sometimes participate in an alumni Discord server, where we recently had a bit of heated debate regarding the value of our bootcamp program and what we wish could have been different. Two major themes were:
The training on its own was not sufficient/rigorous enough to make us “job-ready” relative to the inflated exp... | https://medium.com/@jdarkdagger399/mcdonalds-spherical-cows-and-itunes-a-defense-on-behalf-of-bootcamp-instructors-thoughts-on-7e6e0c5bbe35 | [] | 2020-12-18 15:28:39.582000+00:00 | ['Career Change', 'Bootcamp', 'Technology', 'Careers'] |
Beyond Awesome Lists | Awesome lists are…. awesome. But could they be even more useful? What if instead of just a curated list you also got a view into a wider community?
What is an Awesome list?
An Awesome List is a community curated list of code projects within a specific domain, application, or use case. You can read more in the “Awesom... | https://medium.com/@justingosses/beyond-awesome-lists-3ccb074f7859 | ['Justin Gosses'] | 2021-05-31 22:10:23.365000+00:00 | ['Geoscience', 'Catalog', 'Awesome List', 'Open Source', 'D3js'] |
What makes Artificial intelligence & Machine learning such powerful tools in self-driving cars? | What makes Artificial intelligence & Machine learning such powerful tools in self-driving cars?
AI is anything that makes machines act more intelligently, and in this case is self-driving cars. Ismail Osman ·Nov 25, 2020
AI makes self-driving cars save than humans can drive.
We, humans, make mistakes when we drive a... | https://medium.com/@ish3/what-makes-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-such-a-powerful-tools-in-autonomous-vehicles-51e778e31e74 | ['Ismail Osman'] | 2020-11-27 14:37:42.881000+00:00 | ['Self Driving Cars', 'Intelligence', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
Christmas Contemplation | TODAY’S HOROSCOPE — DECEMBER 25th 2020
Beyond the nut roast, baubles, presents, laughter or peaceful solitude, the Sun and Mercury, are waiting for you. They sit within the Saturn ruled deacon of Capricorn because their degree position is less than 10. As they travel through this sign they are revisiting the ground of... | https://medium.com/@bybreensamuels/christmas-contemplation-6b6ce1a3f98e | ['Bybreen Samuels'] | 2020-12-25 11:10:13.838000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Spirituality', 'Zodiac', 'Astrology', 'Horoscopes'] |
A Letter To My Daughter — on giving and why it’s important for a good life | A Letter To My Daughter — on giving and why it’s important for a good life Rouzbeh Pirouz Aug 9·4 min read
As you grow older, you’ll find that humans suffer from strange contradictions within their character. We all do.
One of the most difficult contradictions to live with is that between the powerful urge to receive... | https://medium.com/@rouzbehpirouz/a-letter-to-my-daughter-on-giving-and-why-its-important-for-a-good-life-rouzbeh-pirouz-baee26bd7a87 | ['Rouzbeh Pirouz'] | 2021-08-09 15:53:19.101000+00:00 | ['Giving', 'A Letter To My Daughter', 'Life Lessons', 'Rouzbeh Pirouz', 'Life'] |
How to Write Joyful Headlines That Comfort Amidst Crisis | Classic Headline Techniques
Frontload and backload keywords
Word placement is important in headlines. The first three words and last three words have been shown to catch reader attention — I’ve bolded them in the headlines below:
Use short headlines
Buffer tells us that according to science, the ideal length of a h... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/how-to-write-joyful-headlines-that-comfort-amidst-crisis-64aaee108ede | ['Cynthia Marinakos'] | 2020-04-07 14:10:33.004000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'Headline Hacks', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Creativity'] |
6 Scientific Keys That Will Help You Never Give Up on Your Goals | Do you remember your goals for this year?
If you met them all, congratulations. But if you’re like most of the people I know, chances are you’re still as far from your goals as you were a year ago.
But don’t blame yourself.
Staying motivated to move forward with our plans is much more difficult than it sounds.
That... | https://medium.com/the-ascent/6-scientific-keys-that-will-help-you-never-give-up-on-your-goals-72b14107e193 | ['Desiree Peralta'] | 2020-12-29 19:32:45.893000+00:00 | ['Advice', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement'] |
Gaussian Process Regression | Now, if we plot the results in a 3D format:
The predicted call option prices and Heston call option prices are almost indistinguishable. The error term gets larger when the value of volatility approaches 0.0. It looks like it’s not an easy task to accurately predict the actual call option price under a low volatile ma... | https://medium.com/@jamiekeng/machine-learning-gaussian-process-regression-option-price-3-67cfbd6c9164 | ['Jamie Keng'] | 2020-11-01 23:31:45.500000+00:00 | ['Options', 'Regression', 'Finance', 'Gaussian Process', 'Machine Learning'] |
Close Your Eyes, I am Near.. The more I deny it, the more real it… | Close Your Eyes, I am Near.
As the cold days come, as the season change, I thought I am free now. But my mind longs for you, my feet want to run to you. Why does it hurt so bad yet feel so good? Salsa Wigati Feb 20·2 min read
I am left with this big abyss in my chest, a rope strangling my neck. But why do I love it s... | https://medium.com/@wsalsa/i-hope-he-wont-remind-me-of-you-f67443de15d9 | ['Salsa Wigati'] | 2021-02-20 15:55:14.781000+00:00 | ['Love Letters', 'Love', 'Life'] |
Emotional Intelligence and The Media | In Becoming Emotionally Intelligent and A School of Emotion, we explored how emotional intelligence is usually given the back seat when compared to more tangible achievements. We are subconsciously discouraged from picking at our emotional knots, on the premise that they are not worth bothering with and will sort thems... | https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/emotional-intelligence-and-the-media-ec7f2b1e694a | ['Daniel Caruana Smith'] | 2020-12-28 12:52:45.726000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
A Brief History of Guys Shooting Themselves in the Dick | A Brief History of Guys Shooting Themselves in the Dick
This sort of thing happens far too often
The self-inflicted dick gunshot wound is common enough that it almost seems as if it could be a kink. Basically, dudes shooting themselves in the penis is a shockingly frequent occurrence. Or at least frequent enough that... | https://medium.com/mel-magazine/a-brief-history-of-guys-shooting-themselves-in-the-dick-74284f0bc5be | ['Andrew Fiouzi'] | 2018-09-25 18:01:02.194000+00:00 | ['Men', 'Guns', 'Health', 'Penis', 'Injury'] |
Spring Boot with Embedded Tomcat Pros and Cons | Cons
1. Multiple Tomcats to manage and monitor
, This one can be addressed with utility scripts to start/stop/restart each service or all at once, and spring-boot-admin [3] to monitor the health and resources such as memory, threads and JVM in general. All visualized through a nice UI.
2. It’s not possible to change... | https://medium.com/javarevisited/spring-boot-with-embedded-tomcat-pros-and-cons-84da418e7af1 | ['Vinicius Monteiro'] | 2021-02-08 09:55:59.665000+00:00 | ['Spring Boot', 'Microservices', 'Java', 'Tomcat'] |
Barbara Tyler and Alexandra Ahlfield, Incorporate Fine Art Into Everyday Life | Today’s developments in technology have revolutionized the way people approach business space and conduct entrepreneurial ventures. The move from traditional mediums to online channels, in particular, has provided a bridge between enterprises and their intended audience. Sisumoi joined this transition to meet the deman... | https://medium.com/@viviana-puello/barbara-tyler-and-alexandra-ahlfield-incorporate-fine-art-into-everyday-life-59cef4e1b124 | ['Viviana Puello'] | 2020-12-20 23:03:25.423000+00:00 | ['Holiday', 'Art', 'Presents', 'Sisumoi', 'Painting'] |
Top Luxury Real Estate Investment Safe Havens: Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong | According to Knight Frank’s freshly released 2012 Global Development Review Report, global economic instability since 2008 has resulted in starkly divergent responses from luxury developers around the world today. عيد الفطر
According to Knight Frank’s research on luxury residential development in 14 important areas ar... | https://medium.com/@deanwoodford565/top-luxury-real-estate-investment-safe-havens-singapore-sydney-and-hong-kong-a9c8b4f1a390 | ['Dean Woodford'] | 2021-06-08 23:13:55.972000+00:00 | ['Real Estate Investments'] |
Binary Search Tree | Implementing a Binary Search Tree:
Let’s get one thing clear, if you’re going to implement a BST, the underlying assumption is that you have the values that you are trying to sort in the order that you want them to be sorted in. If you call your binary search tree function within your previous function that is sorting... | https://medium.com/killingmeswiftly/binary-search-tree-18491204c281 | ['Sejan Miah'] | 2017-08-05 15:59:15.823000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Swift', 'Binary Search', 'Algorithms', 'iOS'] |
Don’t Give Up, Yet | Don’t Give Up, Yet
By Anthony N. White
I don’t make enough money writing words to support a family. I’ve always wanted to, and then buy a piece of land out in the country, put a little log cabin on it with a fireplace with a little placard that reads “The house that syntax built”. But it’s not likely.
Not likely at ... | https://medium.com/change-becomes-you/dont-give-up-yet-8441828cba3a | ['The Good Men Project'] | 2020-12-16 07:18:39.619000+00:00 | ['Failure', 'Advice', 'Fatherhood', 'Success', 'Life Lessons'] |
Bag Of Visual Words. Bag Of Visual Words(also known as Bag… | Bag Of Visual Words(also known as Bag Of Features) is a technique to compactly describe images and compute similarities between images.
It is used for image classification. The approach has its origin in text retrieval(information retrieval) and is an extension to the NLP algorithm Bag of Words. In Bag Of Words, we sc... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/bag-of-visual-words-bag-of-features-9a2f7aec7866 | ['Vinayak Mishra'] | 2020-11-11 16:09:15.388000+00:00 | ['Computer Vision', 'Deep Learning', 'Bag Of Visual Words', 'Bag Of Words', 'AI'] |
The Ketogenic Diet. A “typical” ketogenic diet consists of… | in The Road to Wellness | https://medium.com/@adamsmith1978/keto-diet-3d9ac717332 | ['Adam Smith'] | 2020-12-27 22:45:03.338000+00:00 | ['Weight Loss Tips', 'Weight Loss', 'Keto Diet Foods', 'Keto Diet', 'Keto Diet Plan'] |
How to Cut Cloud Costs | This blog post was originally published here on CloudOps’ blog.
People leverage the cloud for many reasons. More often than not, the need to cut costs ranks high among them. And while the cloud does offer significant benefits that include cost-efficiency, some organizations have found out the hard way that this isn’t ... | https://medium.com/faun/how-to-cut-cloud-costs-494a320c9d11 | [] | 2020-11-07 10:39:51.429000+00:00 | ['Cloud Computing', 'Cloud Cost Management', 'Data Management', 'Cloud Cost', 'Cloud Cost Optimization'] |
why? | why?
why do i feel this way?
why do i feel alone when people are around me ?
why do i feel like i have no one to talk to?
why do people think they know me?
why do i have to pretend like i’m happy?
why do people not take me seriously?
i cry all the time but all alone.
i have to deal with everything on my own.
i... | https://medium.com/@tahiroulam2005/why-d0011b4cae9b | ['That Sad Bitch'] | 2020-12-20 19:40:26.445000+00:00 | ['Feelings', 'Mentalhealth', 'Emotions', 'Why'] |
New! Zoomlaw’s 4th Report ‘Understanding the Taiwan trademark system’ now available on WTR! |
Dr. Kuo-Hua Fan
Author, World Trademark Review International Correspondence PhD, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) LLM-IP & Business, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Bachelor, Economics & Financial Law, National Taiwan University
Zoomlaw’s new report ‘Understanding the Taiwan t... | https://medium.com/@zoomlawbusinessip/new-zoomlaws-4th-report-introducing-understanding-the-taiwan-trademark-system-now-available-on-e90fa86795ac | ['眾律國際法律事務所 Zoomlaw Attorneys'] | 2021-03-08 14:26:38.753000+00:00 | ['Trademark', 'Kuohua Fan', 'Zoomlaw', 'Taiwan', 'Dr Fan'] |
Is Recent Slavic History A Replay of the Past? | Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, Pixabay
Russia has been the West’s great adversary during the last hundred years. First, as Soviet Union — before its collapse in 1991 — it battled Western capitalism throughout the world using the ideology of communism. Now its appeal is to nationalism and support of movements that wish to w... | https://subhashkak.medium.com/is-recent-slavic-history-a-replay-of-the-past-fe8abdb60447 | ['Subhash Kak'] | 2020-10-20 02:26:32.248000+00:00 | ['Christianity', 'Vedas', 'Religion', 'Eastern Europe', 'Russia'] |
An Overview Of The Chains Connecting to Cosmos Hub | An Overview Of The Chains Connecting to Cosmos Hub TicoJohnny Apr 10·24 min read
I hope I did each chain some justice with this post and tried to source and edit all the information I could into a readable format from the official websites of each chain to give a fair, albeit small, voice to each in the ecosystem. Eac... | https://medium.com/@ticojohnny/an-overview-of-the-chains-connecting-to-cosmos-hub-be5c7a0ab596 | [] | 2021-05-11 19:24:15.433000+00:00 | ['Cosmos Network', 'Cosmos', 'Cosmos Sdk', 'Interoperability', 'Defi'] |
5 Interesting PyTorch Functions for beginners | An short introduction about PyTorch and the chosen functions.
erfinv
linspace
transpose
quasirandom.SobolEngine
lgamma
What do you want to know about Pytorch?
PyTorch is an open source machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processi... | https://medium.com/@priyanshwarke2015-ndcs/5-interesting-pytorch-functions-for-beginners-b5dee47ab5c2 | ['Priyansh Warke'] | 2020-12-08 08:31:04.224000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Pytorch', 'Beginners Guide', 'Jovian'] |
Rediscovering skateboarding, and a part of my self | Treasure Island skatepark; Richmond, VA
There might not be a single piece of media that’s had more of an impact on me than Chris Cole’s part in Zero’s 2005 video, New Blood.
When it came out, I was 14 and skateboarding was how I got around, how I made friends, and what I wanted to spend every waking moment doing. For... | https://mikeplatania.medium.com/rediscovering-skateboarding-and-a-part-of-my-self-47290fd16ead | ['Mike Platania'] | 2020-11-19 03:50:50.003000+00:00 | ['Personal Development', 'Outdoors', 'Skateboarding', 'Nonfiction', 'Self-awareness'] |
We Are The Universe Contemplating Itself (Carl Sagan) | While reading this article you travel in the only home and true spacecraft that mankind possesses: The Planet Earth. The term “planet” gives us a certain but unreal sense of stability since it means “wandering” and nothing is more true.
That stability on which we all base everything, and upon which the whole recorded ... | https://medium.com/@pablobermdez/we-are-the-universe-contemplating-itself-carl-sagan-167429b8e056 | ['Pablo Bermudez'] | 2020-12-22 12:13:27.774000+00:00 | ['Universe', 'Laniakea', 'Solar System'] |
The Real Impact of Venues — T20. Drawing out the signal from the noise… | Note, that all of the following statements are for measures adjusted for competition. When I say, cluster A has a higher measure than cluster B, this is relative to the measure adjusted for competitions held at the venues in each cluster.
Looking at it this way, we see that differences in the clusters anchored on Duba... | https://medium.com/boundary-line/the-real-impact-of-venues-t20-ce95c2e8fb3f | ['Amol Desai'] | 2020-05-30 16:09:42.253000+00:00 | ['Data Sc', 'Cricket', 'Sports Analytics', 'Sports Data'] |
A Tribute to MF DOOM | A Tribute to MF DOOM
Remembering the greatest supervillain in music…
Daniel Dumile carried many aliases throughout his musical career. Madvillain, King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn etc. However the alias that he will forever be remembered by, the name that ripples throughout hip-hop and influenced some of the genre’s grea... | https://anthony-wright.medium.com/a-tribute-to-mf-doom-257b5a220e2 | ['Anthony Wright'] | 2021-01-01 12:17:12.424000+00:00 | ['Album', 'Music', 'Hip Hop', 'Rap'] |
Bank Of Baroda (BOB) Recruitment|Apply Online For Specialist Officers Posts 2021 | Bank Of Baroda (BOB) Recruitment|Apply Online For Specialist Officers Posts 2021
Bank Of Baroda (BOB) Recruitment 2021:Bank Of Baroda (BOB) Recruitment For 27 Specialist Officers And 5 Fire Officers Posts.BOB Vacancy 2021 All Details Like Total Posts, Education Qualifications,Age Limit,How To Apply,Salary And Importan... | https://medium.com/@pkthakor319/bank-of-baroda-bob-recruitment-apply-online-for-specialist-officers-posts-2021-7de6694b23e8 | [] | 2020-12-23 17:09:16.193000+00:00 | ['Jobs', 'Jobs In Canada', 'India', 'Banking', 'Trending'] |
The essentials of Git explained in five minutes | Git clone
Always clone new repositories you work on, which means downloading a copy of the repository files to your local computer. While there are many ways of cloning a repository, I will explain how to do it with the command line.
For example, if you want to clone the above repository, first copy the clone link ab... | https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-essentials-of-git-explained-in-five-minutes-d554019eded9 | ['James Okunlade'] | 2019-03-11 17:13:38.567000+00:00 | ['Git', 'Programming', 'Tech', 'Coding', 'Remote Work'] |
Doing the work of self worth | You cannot live in 2021 and not notice how much we talk about personal development, psychology, accomplishment, wellbeing and among others, self worth.
In fact, many of you might even feel a bit suffocated of the level of preoccupation and conversation on these topics.
Some of you might be fully immersed in these jou... | https://medium.com/@alexandraserediuc/doing-the-work-of-self-worth-2b4d5ff7bcd | ['Alexandra Serediuc - Founder Of Light Insight'] | 2021-06-08 11:07:27.402000+00:00 | ['Change', 'Change Your Life', 'Coaching', 'Self Worth', 'Taking Responsibility'] |
A Huge List of Useful Keyboard Shortcuts | The Why
When people use the phrase time investment these days, they often mean time suck, as in, “I’d always wanted to rewatch the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies but it’s such a time investment. Now that we’re quarantined though…”
Here and now, let’s reclaim the original meaning of the phrase: that is, time spent doing s... | https://betterprogramming.pub/a-definitive-guide-to-all-the-shortcuts-for-new-rubyists-a365a590d16e | ['Donny Landis'] | 2020-04-11 00:12:20.759000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Startup', 'Web Development'] |
Why You Shouldn’t Drive On Old Tyres | Tyres are a one of those few things about vehicle ownership that you almost never want to leave to chance but, we spend so much time talking about how much tread is left on a tyre while ignoring the other important things to keep in mind.
Much the same as ogres, tyres are like onions; they have a lot of layers. These ... | https://medium.com/@kashylachlan/why-you-shouldnt-drive-on-old-tyres-a84636e396d6 | ['Lachlan'] | 2021-08-10 22:24:31.216000+00:00 | ['Mechanic', 'Mobile Mechanic', 'DIY', 'Advice', 'Tyres'] |
From Manual to Automation Testing: Why Even Bother? | As Automation Testing is currently the emerging trend and one of the tactics that corporations use to lower the cost-barrier and secure minimum leakage percentile in quality assurance, the universal questions lie upon “Why” and “How” to do this.
Not as easy and simple as it appears to be, Automation Testing requires t... | https://medium.com/@lqa/from-manual-to-automation-testing-why-even-bother-342e68400fe6 | ['Lotus Quality Assurance'] | 2021-04-26 09:33:22.230000+00:00 | ['Automation Testing', 'Automated Testing', 'Quality Assurance', 'Automation Testing Tool', 'Manual Testing'] |
Kick-Start the Year With These Amazing Mosaic Designer Picks | Art makes the home! When you’re decorating interior spaces, perhaps with mosaics, don’t forget the one thing that really reflects your personality. Your choice of decorative art pieces is so important — it adds style, interest, and energy to any room.
Sharing your interests and special flair through mosaic art is a wo... | https://medium.com/@mozaico-art/kick-start-the-year-with-these-amazing-mosaic-designer-picks-1c130e475580 | [] | 2021-01-21 15:02:48.668000+00:00 | ['Mosaic', 'Home Decor', 'Interior Design'] |
A Place in the Heart | Photo by Tiffany Chan on Unsplash
It has been more than 50 years since the magic of my secret place held me within its kingdom. For kingdom it was to me — never mind that its realm was defined by the embrasure of two brick walls forming a corner, screened in by lovely and sumptuous hydrangea bushes, and the spread of ... | https://alecramzurc312.medium.com/a-place-in-the-heart-edc5f42fbbbd | ['Marcela Cruz-Gibbons'] | 2019-11-30 04:38:32.458000+00:00 | ['Short Story'] |
Jerome Powell on the Recovery 📈 | On Thursday, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell gave updates on the state of the economic recovery in the U.S.
The United States economy is seemingly on the road to recovery. The jobs report in March beat expectations, and other signs suggest that demand is recovering due to reopening’s and fresh stimulus checks. ... | https://medium.com/invstr/jerome-powell-on-the-recovery-d8832b2b030b | [] | 2021-04-09 09:00:10.732000+00:00 | ['Economy', 'Unemployment', 'Jerome Powell', 'Employment', 'Covid 19'] |
The Essential SEO Checklist For Your E-Commerce Site | Photo by Merakist on Unsplash
I recently had a frustrating experience searching for a particular product online. It was a product I couldn’t find in any local stores, so I took to the Internet to track it down. With the sheer number of e-commerce sites — not to mention products — available online, imagine my surprise ... | https://jaysondemers.medium.com/the-essential-seo-checklist-for-your-e-commerce-site-5f8dca60b30c | ['Jayson Demers'] | 2020-04-01 15:42:52.939000+00:00 | ['Search Engine Optimizati', 'Online Marketing', 'SEO', 'Content Marketing', 'Ecommerce'] |
Leveraging programming paradigms to reduce coding bugs for modern enterprise applications | Enterprise software tends to have a long life-cycle in the organisation, and usually, it is supported and maintained by groups of developers through change-requests; the developer adding new features to existing code or modifying the behaviour isn’t always the same developer that created the code in the first place. De... | https://medium.com/cloud-engagement-hub/leveraging-programming-paradigms-to-reduce-coding-bugs-when-refactoring-enterprise-applications-d334dc52042a | ['Francis Lee'] | 2020-12-21 18:21:00.882000+00:00 | ['Migration', 'Cloud Native', 'Refactoring', 'Functional Programming', 'Flow Based Programming'] |
Mary said “Yes!” to liberation. This Christmas season, we must too. | Mary said “Yes!” to liberation. This Christmas season, we must too.
Mary said, “Yes.”
In her Magnifcat filled with praise and promise, she said “yes” to all that God was birthing in her because she knew that her extravagant “yes” would unleash liberation upon the world.
With all my heart I glorify the Lord!
In the ... | https://medium.com/@samlundquist/mary-said-yes-to-liberation-this-christmas-season-we-must-too-539b7c3c61e6 | ['Sam Lundquist'] | 2020-12-21 21:17:12.399000+00:00 | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'Advent', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Social Justice'] |
This Film Reminds Me to Never Shrink Myself in Relationships | This Film Reminds Me to Never Shrink Myself in Relationships
Sanaa Lathan as Zora Banks in “Disappearing Acts.” Photo: HBO Films
I remember the first time my ex-boyfriend hit me. We were in the kitchen making dinner and arguing about whatever it is young couples in love argue about. I don’t recall the words exchanged... | https://zora.medium.com/this-film-reminds-me-to-never-shrink-myself-in-relationships-8339d85fa91 | ['Rebecca Theodore-Vachon'] | 2020-12-09 14:10:16.694000+00:00 | ['Relationships', 'Film', 'Culture', 'Black Love', 'Black Women'] |
The Story of Goldie: How SurveyMonkey’s Logo Became an Icon of Curiosity | I remember the first time I traveled internationally by myself for work. I was in my mid 20s, still paying off my school loans, and working for a small product design studio in San Francisco. The trip was off to a rocky start from the get-go. I started the journey by missing my flight entirely; misreading my flight tim... | https://medium.com/curiosity-by-design/story-of-goldie-f66e4af20181 | ['Rovana Lee'] | 2019-11-13 16:01:01.448000+00:00 | ['Logo Design', 'Brand', 'Surveymonkey', 'Design', 'Curiosity'] |
What could European NFL expansion look like? | Photo by Larry Bridges on Unsplash
By its very nature, having two conferences with 16 teams each and one with only four means the season schedule will look very different from the European teams compared to the American ones. Luckily for us, the NFL recently added a 17th game to the season, which will be extremely hel... | https://medium.com/@nibirs/what-could-european-nfl-expansion-look-like-7ece596ce883 | ['Nibir Sarma'] | 2020-12-27 03:39:48.475000+00:00 | ['Sports', 'Europe', 'Football', 'NFL'] |
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The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require ... | https://medium.com/@vkasamba2013/top-3-ways-to-boost-your-affiliate-commissions-overnight-3d8f1fb7a9f9 | [] | 2020-12-23 01:34:32.755000+00:00 | ['Online Money Making Ideas', 'Affiliate Marketing', 'Make Money Online', 'Marketing Strategy'] |
Reinforcement Learning | In machine learning, there have main three areas. Supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement leaning. Reinforcement learning gives solutions for various kind of planning and control problems. Policy, model of environment, reward signal and value function are major components of reinforcement leaning.
... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/reinforcement-learning-9f2b168d178a | ['Imalka Prasadini'] | 2020-11-06 17:04:48.669000+00:00 | ['Reinforcement Learning'] |
Learn Swift Programming Language And Boost Your Career | Learn iOS Swift Programming to Boost Your Career
In today’s date, Swift programming is considered as one of the fastest-growing programming languages in the world. Initially, it was introduced as an alternative to Objective-C language but in less than four years it was already there amongst the top 10 programming lang... | https://medium.com/@suman63chouhan/learn-swift-programming-language-and-boost-your-career-bb43026031e1 | ['Suman Chouhan'] | 2020-04-23 13:19:02.609000+00:00 | ['Ios Swift Programming', 'Learn Swift Programming', 'Ios Swift Training', 'Swift Programming'] |
How COVID-19 affected retail, people, and their spending habits? Part 1 | As we can see from the graphic above, credit/debit card spending decreased by 11% in March-September 2020 compared to the same period last year, time spent at retail and recreation locations (-17.6%), job posting (-19.8%), net revenue for small businesses (-26.7%), number of small businesses open (-27.2%), time spent i... | https://medium.com/@narrativebi/how-covid-19-affected-retail-people-and-their-spending-habits-part-1-554147c52363 | ['Narrative Bi'] | 2020-12-17 13:50:13.351000+00:00 | ['United States', 'Retail', 'Covid 19', 'Data', 'Analytics'] |
“Laddu Daddu” | The thing that stayed with me most in the first few weeks of working with the core team of Aagaaz in the park was that no one knew the names of things but everyone knew how to make them up. We were introduced to games that seemed to have bizarre names: something about a chicken, something about spotting, something abou... | https://medium.com/@aagaaz-theatre/laddu-daddu-401e888de97c | ['Aagaaz Theatre Trust'] | 2020-12-26 12:28:17.059000+00:00 | ['Performance', 'Learning', 'Theatre', 'Training', 'Community'] |
display | I saw you -
out of the corner
of my eye.
I came in red.
I know that drives you crazy.
I feel your gaze on me,
then, zoom. You’re here in front of me,
hovering
in full display,
daring me
to glance at you.
What a little bully you can be.
I twirl like a matador
to see what you will do.
You scold me,
but bef... | https://medium.com/dead-poets-society/display-2dbe7cf2e2e9 | ['Antoinette Nevitt'] | 2019-05-31 11:10:39.744000+00:00 | ['Poetry', 'Dead Poets Live', 'Relationships', 'Nature', 'Movement'] |
Out of time | Out of time
Photo by Bryce Barker on Unsplash
This pandemic taught us that the most precious resource we have is not wealth but time. All the wealth in the world is useless when faced with death. A healthy lifestyle can maybe prolong our existence, but in the end, we never know when our life will terminate. We all kn... | https://medium.com/@alexieidingli/out-of-time-8ff23a0b9e8d | ['Alexiei Dingli'] | 2020-12-25 09:55:59.495000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Time Management'] |
Darbi Speaks At The Click-In Virtual Women’s Empowerment Summit | How To Obtain Business Credit and Funding During A Global Pandemic
As we prepare ourselves for the new year, we seek to transition our thinking from pivot to launch. We are taking it a step further than the vision board, and we are developing a vision network. By joining forces with inspiring and innovative women from... | https://medium.com/@dovepr/darbi-speaks-at-the-click-in-virtual-womens-empowerment-group-6b194c4d2d3e | ['Dove Bennett'] | 2020-12-09 17:57:36.656000+00:00 | ['Empowerment', 'Empowering Women', 'Women Empowerment', 'Empowerment Of Women', 'Women In Business'] |
Taking My Boots Off: Love & Laughter in War | Marines horsing around, Ramadi Iraq 2005. Original photo by ryan.
An ongoing story about war, coming home, and healing from combat trauma
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was t... | https://medium.com/@arrowx/taking-my-boots-love-laughter-in-war-b830b31c7f02 | [] | 2019-09-22 20:57:08.464000+00:00 | ['War', 'Veterans', 'Mental Health', 'PTSD', 'Love'] |
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