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For those who don’t want to read the new ‘Robert Galbraith’ serial killer tale | For those who don’t want to read the new ‘Robert Galbraith’ serial killer tale
Why are people complaining about J. K. Rowling’s new book?
J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has recently made a series of anti-transgender statements. I won’t repeat them here, but you can look them up if you like. The... | https://medium.com/books-are-our-superpower/robert-galbraith-serial-killer-jk-rowling-transphobic-5b79031cae6e | ['Tucker Lieberman'] | 2020-09-16 18:43:01.762000+00:00 | ['Reading', 'Books', 'LGBTQ', 'Robert Galbraith', 'Jk Rowling'] |
UX … it’s more than just graphic design | UX … it’s more than just graphic design
Every specialist involved in designing UX is a UX designer.
A content strategist sits at a table with a stack of user personas, drawing bubbles on a page, mapping the information a web user is going to need, how they’re going to use it, and in what order.
A graphic designer st... | https://medium.com/madison-ave-collective/ux-its-more-than-just-graphic-design-45e894517fbc | ['Elisabeth Mccumber'] | 2018-02-20 20:52:43.573000+00:00 | ['UX', 'Design', 'UI Design', 'UX Design', 'Ui Ux Design'] |
Use Entities For Watson Assistant Node Conditions | When evaluating “non-intent” user responses in Watson Assistant (WA), try to use entities instead of evaluating the contents of “input.text”. Entities are both reusable and not case sensitive, meaning you will get cleaner code.
Using “input.text” in WA is a great way to capture and save the input into a context variab... | https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/use-entities-for-watson-assistant-node-conditions-4cc33b2f25ba | ['Leo Mazzoli'] | 2020-02-05 18:58:43.253000+00:00 | ['Watson Assistant', 'Tutorial', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots'] |
Handling asynchronous errors in Scala at Hootsuite | Introduction
Every day Hootsuite makes hundreds of thousands of API calls, and processes millions of events that happened in various social networks. Our microservice architecture, and a handful of asynchronous servers with efficient error handling, make this possible. Let’s take a look at how the Scala servers deal w... | https://medium.com/hootsuite-engineering/handling-asynchronous-errors-in-scala-at-hootsuite-935f3d0461af | ['Brian Pak'] | 2018-08-09 23:20:27.078000+00:00 | ['Microservices', 'Programming', 'Error Handling', 'Co Op', 'Scala'] |
Easy Text Annotation in a Jupyter Notebook | Easy Text Annotation in a Jupyter Notebook
How to use tortus annotation tool
Image by author
At the heart of any sentiment analysis project is a good set of labeled data. Pre-labeled datasets can be found on various sites all over the internet. But…
What if you have come up with a custom dataset that has no labels ... | https://towardsdatascience.com/tortus-e4002d95134b | ['Siphu Langeni'] | 2020-10-10 11:37:56.253000+00:00 | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Annotation Tools', 'NLP', 'Data Science'] |
Investigate and solve Compute Engine cold starts like a detective🕵🏽♀️ | Investigate and solve Compute Engine cold starts like a detective🕵🏽♀️
Season of Scale
Season of Scale
“Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for ... | https://medium.com/google-cloud/investigate-and-solve-compute-engine-cold-starts-like-a-detective-%EF%B8%8F-66a03736cb03 | ['Stephanie Wong'] | 2020-09-14 18:47:29.968000+00:00 | ['Software Development', 'Google', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Computer Science', 'Cloud'] |
Design interval training | Sprint
In 2016 the tech world seemed abuzz about a “Design Sprint” process detailed in the book Sprint by Jake Knapp and other Google Ventures employees. The premise was that a new area of opportunity for product could be tackled by a dedicated small team in just five working days, at least conceptually. The authors h... | https://medium.com/the-daily-standup/design-interval-training-50b09bf8bd25 | ['Mark Jones'] | 2017-10-06 02:57:07.589000+00:00 | ['Product Design', 'Design Sprint', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Product Management'] |
6 Tips For Junior Devs, After 10,000h Of Engineering Software | Since the beginning of my career as a Software Dev in early 2018, I constantly sought growth and challenge in my day-to-day.
I have attended a multitude of tech conferences, networked with dozens of world-class engineers, and consumed hundreds of hours of tech-related content in my spare time.
On top of that, I have ... | https://vyrwu.medium.com/5-tips-for-junior-devs-from-over-10-000h-of-software-engineering-9aad682f6468 | ['Aleksander', 'Vyrwu'] | 2020-12-21 00:54:22.572000+00:00 | ['Advice', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Engineering', 'Junior'] |
Ocean Waves (Sinusoidal) Regression | Definition :
A Sine wave or sinusoidal wave is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation. A Sine wave is a continuous wave, it goes from 0 to 360 degrees.
Table Representing Sine Values
Generation of Sine Wave
Sinusoidal function is given by,
Sine Function Formula
The period of the sine cu... | https://medium.com/nightingale/ocean-waves-sinusoidal-regression-5c46c8bd4e58 | ['Pratik Shukla'] | 2020-06-18 13:01:01.197000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Mathematics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Thank You for Resisting the Cheeto-in-Chief | Thank You for Resisting the Cheeto-in-Chief
How Americans cheered one rogue government tweeter
by DAVID AXE
In the days following Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration as the 45th president of the United States, his administration moved quickly to remove all mentions of climate change from U.S. government websit... | https://medium.com/defiant/thank-you-for-resisting-the-cheeto-in-chief-e43dfdb8a07 | ['David Axe'] | 2017-04-25 06:55:42.608000+00:00 | ['National Parks', 'Defiant Science', 'Environment'] |
The Knowledge Triangle | The Knowledge Triangle — a graph technologies metaphor where raw data is converted into information about people, places and things and connected into a query-ready graph.
Although we use the term “knowledge” broadly in normal conversation, it has a specific meaning in the AI and graph database community. Even within ... | https://dmccreary.medium.com/the-knowledge-triangle-c5124637d54c | ['Dan Mccreary'] | 2019-09-01 19:03:55.851000+00:00 | ['Dikw', 'Knowledge Triangle', 'Information Architecture', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Graph Databases'] |
Attitude Is Everything | How do you currently see Life?
After you wake each morning and push through the grogginess and grumpiness, how do you honestly feel about Life? Don’t pay much attention to the people and situations influencing you, focus rather on how you feel inside. Don’t try to impress me or some other person with your answer. Ask ... | https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/attitude-is-everything-5d46cc4046c5 | ['René Chunilall'] | 2020-12-25 17:03:12.792000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Self-awareness', 'Self Mastery'] |
Flask’s Latest Rival in Data Science | On the comparison between Flask and Streamlit: a reader noted that Flask has capabilities in excess of Streamlit. I appreciate this point and would encourage users to look at their use cases and use the right technology. For the users who require a tool to deploy models for your team or clients, Streamlit is very effic... | https://towardsdatascience.com/the-end-of-flask-in-data-science-738920090ed9 | ['Mohammad Ahmad'] | 2020-06-27 09:37:45.212000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'UX', 'Machine Learning'] |
Designing your Company Architecture on Google Cloud Platform | Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
Introduction
In this blog, I am going to cover the basic aspects of setting up your company architecture on Google Cloud. It is essential that the infrastructure you develop has high cohesion and low coupling, setting up such an architecture helps you to scale your target services a... | https://medium.com/swlh/designing-your-company-architecture-on-google-cloud-platform-be705de7eb64 | ['Arneesh Aima'] | 2020-05-19 14:48:17.482000+00:00 | ['Permission', 'Startup', 'Infrastructure', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud'] |
Three Writers to Revisit (or Discover) as Black History Month Ends | Three Writers to Revisit (or Discover) as Black History Month Ends
Only one is famous, but all three broke new ground
Three very different writers . . .
Poet, playwright, activist, and educator Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) was famously controversial, under more than one name. Teacher, mentor, poet, and novelist Margaret... | https://medium.com/literally-literary/three-writers-to-revisit-or-discover-as-black-history-month-ends-33a77817fbfe | ['Cynthia Giles'] | 2020-02-27 02:26:51.676000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Literature', 'History', 'Women', 'Essay'] |
Learn NLP the Stanford Way — Lesson 2 | In the previous post, we introduced NLP. To find out word meanings with the Python programming language, we used the NLTK package and worked our way into word embeddings using the gensim package and Word2vec.
Since we only touched the Word2Vec technique from a 10,000-feet overview, we are now going to dive deeper into... | https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-nlp-the-stanford-way-lesson-2-7447f2c12b36 | ['Thiago Candido'] | 2020-12-07 17:25:43.244000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'NLP', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Bangun Aplikasi iOS Pertamamu menggunakan Xcode Storyboard. (Aplikasi COVID-19) | Journal about apps development for business and eCommerce from GITS Indonesia, a Google Certified Agency and Google Cloud Partner. | Website: gits.id
Follow | https://medium.com/gits-apps-insight/bangun-aplikasi-ios-pertamamu-menggunakan-xcode-storyboard-aplikasi-covid-19-866cbdd5ed14 | ['Muhammad Rahman'] | 2020-05-12 06:28:11.620000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development', 'Storyboard', 'iOS', 'Xcode'] |
The Quality of Information You Consume Can Determine the Quality of Your Life | The Quality of Information You Consume Can Determine the Quality of Your Life
6 websites that can make you a smarter person.
The internet is teeming with websites. The majority of them are not worth your time. Think of websites like Buzzfeed, Bored Panda or any other site that is chock full of clickbait and low-quali... | https://medium.com/mind-cafe/the-quality-of-information-you-consume-can-determine-the-quality-of-your-life-2845c0f2b44c | ['Tom Stevenson'] | 2020-12-25 14:27:54.084000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Education', 'Learning', 'Productivity'] |
Jobs for Your Personality: How to Own Your INFJ Career | If you’re in the middle of a job hunt, you’re probably weighing up the usual considerations.
Money, travel, responsibility. The usual.
But there’s one thing we often overlook. Something that shouldn’t just affect our job choices, but shape our entire career.
I’m talking about our personality type.
According to the ... | https://medium.com/heyadvance/jobs-for-your-personality-how-to-own-your-infj-career-2de478d0103c | [] | 2018-11-03 19:06:01.587000+00:00 | ['Careers', 'Teaching', 'Writer', 'Psychology', 'HR'] |
Book Review: “Twilight of Democracy” (by Anne Applebaum) | Book Review: “Twilight of Democracy” (by Anne Applebaum)
Anne Applebaum’s new book is a haunting reminder of just how fragile democracies are and how easily they can be dismantled from within.
I’ve been meaning to read this book for a while, ever since I saw that Anne Applebaum was going to expand the essay that she ... | https://medium.com/reluctant-moderation/book-review-twilight-of-democracy-by-anne-applebaum-878ed0bd3677 | ['Dr. Thomas J. West Iii'] | 2020-12-28 18:07:39.716000+00:00 | ['Politics', 'Democracy', 'History', 'Authoritarianism', 'Books'] |
Why “Data Looks Better Naked” | Let’s explore from a historical standpoint. This will allow us to better understand how what was once seen as “well designed” now looks “overly detailed”, and how the teachings of ‘why data looks better naked’ came about.
The knowledge behind why data looks better naked comes from the teachings of Edward Tufte, an art... | https://medium.com/comms-planning/why-data-looks-better-naked-ac2adb872378 | ['Naja Bomani'] | 2016-08-15 16:06:17.734000+00:00 | ['Simplicity', 'Minimalism', 'Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Data'] |
Ionic & Felgo: App Development Framework Comparison | Cross-platform development is making a lot of noise in today’s dev world and there is a reason why. A shared codebase can save a lot of time if you want to target multiple platforms. There are several approaches for creating cross-platform applications. But which one is better? This time you will see the comparison of ... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/ionic-felgo-app-development-framework-comparison-ba84de105a20 | ['Christian Feldbacher'] | 2020-07-08 10:16:51.360000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'Programming', 'Technology', 'Apps', 'Framework'] |
Watson Text to Speech Releases 5 New Neural Voices! | We are pleased to announce that IBM Watson Text to Speech, a cloud service that enables users to converts text into natural-sounding audio, has introduced five new neural voices (four US English voices and a German voice). These new voices are now generally available in our public cloud offering.
Take A Listen!
Click... | https://medium.com/ibm-watson/watson-text-to-speech-releases-5-new-neural-voices-2476863c5e23 | ['Vijay Ilankamban'] | 2020-03-14 14:01:00.991000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Speech Recognition', 'Machine Learning', 'Announcements', 'Watson Text To Speech'] |
How to Compare 200+ Cryptocurrencies with Open-Source CoinScraper Module | A bit dramatic, I know, but it’s a pretty big deal if you are an overbought/oversold kind-of-trader. Most traders use technical analysis to and their favorite indicators to make smart decisions in the market. This could range from moving averages or exponential moving average, depending on the trader. Some may prefer M... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/how-to-compare-200-cryptocurrencies-with-open-source-coinscraper-module-269d5d2e1f15 | ['Jacob Tadesse'] | 2020-08-24 18:18:34.263000+00:00 | ['Web Scraping', 'Python', 'Pandas', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Data Science'] |
The festival of families | This week in East Asia — when the moon is its roundest and brightest on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar — we celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditionally, the festival gives thanks for the harvest, but it is also a time to appreciate harmonious unions and families coming together.
A timely coin... | https://medium.com/words-on-writing/the-festival-of-families-be2cde72b317 | ['Rj Verity'] | 2018-05-01 00:37:05.471000+00:00 | ['Rj Verity', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Writer', 'Words On Writing'] |
Why Dropping Out of School Will Make Your Life Better | I always hated school, just like a lot of you I suppose.
So I quit two years ago, and I’m now attending a professional course. Something very far from the traditional school system.
But why?
Why is that a good idea that you should consider?
Well… there are a couple of reasons. Some of them are more related to the s... | https://medium.com/illumination/why-dropping-out-of-school-will-make-your-life-better-77558eef68b6 | ['Alyssa Di Grazia'] | 2020-12-28 10:42:12.372000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Change'] |
assimilated agony | assimilated agony
how often have we
turned a blind eye
while others
begged
for us
to see? | https://medium.com/a-cornered-gurl/assimilated-agony-774c6f254167 | ['Tre L. Loadholt'] | 2017-10-05 23:33:50.674000+00:00 | ['Micropoetry', 'Love', 'Writing', 'Compassion', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
Why Sidewalk News is bringing local news amongst the people | One of my core journalistic beliefs is that, for a community to thrive, all of its members must have access to high quality local news. And that often isn’t the case — as a 2018 report by Fiona Morgan and James Hamilton determined, “Poor people get poor information, because income inequality generates information inequ... | https://medium.com/journalism-innovation/why-sidewalk-news-is-bringing-local-news-amongst-the-people-29bd0277c6a9 | ['Elise Czajkowski'] | 2019-04-04 16:08:59.940000+00:00 | ['Journalism', 'Sidewalk', 'Advertising'] |
Artificial Neural Network From Scratch Using Python Numpy | Finally, let’s build the ANN
ANN
So here we have:
Input node with some inputs (Real numbers; x1, x2, xn) with their weights (Real numbers; w1, w2, wn) and bias (Real number).
And this parameters (weights and bias) connects with our hidden nodes, where we compute weighted sum (sigma or z) for all inputs and theirs w... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/artificial-neural-network-from-scratch-using-python-numpy-580e9bacd67c | ['Madhav Mishra'] | 2020-09-08 01:15:42.030000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Boost your marketing strategy with RFM | Okay, now that we combined these features into one dataframe, let’s visualize it! (code link)
This is nothing but a huge mess of customer pile which begs the question:
How are we going to segment them?
Most data scientists try to answer this question by implementing K-Means clustering, which is basically a machine l... | https://kerim-birgun.medium.com/boost-your-marketing-strategy-with-rfm-c737926fe621 | ['Kerim Birgun'] | 2020-11-05 22:51:04.981000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Segmentation', 'Analytics', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
How to Run PostgreSQL Using Docker | Setup
First, we need to install Docker. We will use a Docker compose file, a SQL dump file containing bootstrap data, and macOS in this setup. You can download these two files separately. Just make sure to put both docker-compose.yml and infile in the same folder. Alternatively, you can get the repository from here. N... | https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-run-postgresql-using-docker-15bf87b452d4 | ['Mahbub Zaman'] | 2020-12-30 13:21:45.957000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Postgresql', 'Data Science', 'Docker'] |
4 Useful JavaScript Books for Aspiring Developers | 4 Useful JavaScript Books for Aspiring Developers
Amazing books for JavaScript knowledge.
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
Introduction
Not all of us prefer learning online or with video tutorials, there are people that prefer books. Reading these books can benefit both your physical and mental health, and thos... | https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/4-useful-javascript-books-for-aspiring-developers-67d9de904ea9 | ['Mehdi Aoussiad'] | 2020-12-27 21:28:33.443000+00:00 | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Coding', 'Books', 'Programming'] |
Start a React Project Truly from Scratch Using Webpack and Babel | What is Webpack and why is it used?
Webpack is a module bundler; as the name implies, it bundles every module that a project needs into one or more bundles that can be referenced in the primary html file.
For example, when building a JavaScript application that has JavaScript code separated into multiple files, each ... | https://joshiaawaj.medium.com/start-a-react-project-truly-from-scratch-using-webpack-and-babel-dbaaeea3f8da | ['Aawaj Joshi'] | 2020-12-07 11:19:59.609000+00:00 | ['React', 'ES6', 'Webpack', 'Jsx', 'Babel'] |
Please, Can Science and Faith Live in Unison? | Please, Can Science and Faith Live in Unison?
Gaining Power by Uniting the World
Photo by David Vázquez on Unsplash
I called to ask
How are you?
Instead your words
Accused
No, not me
Directly
My beliefs
My lifestyle
Everything that makes me
Me
Maybe
Maybe
I am wrong
You are right
COVID is a hoax
Then ... | https://medium.com/the-pom/can-science-and-faith-live-in-unison-2ea682bb74aa | ['Brenda Mahler'] | 2020-12-14 17:33:07.559000+00:00 | ['Faith and Life', 'Poetry', 'Faith', 'Science Fiction', 'Coronavirus'] |
Lessons in growth engineering: How we doubled sign ups from Pin landing pages | Jeff Chang | Pinterest engineer, Growth
A popular topic within growth hacking circles is improving conversion rates on landing pages. Everyone has seen those “10 tips to triple your conversion rate” articles that are littered with general tips (e.g. increase CTA size) and promise gains, which are usually small at best... | https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/lessons-in-growth-engineering-how-we-doubled-sign-ups-from-pin-landing-pages-1c0bc400cdb9 | ['Pinterest Engineering'] | 2017-02-21 19:52:34.121000+00:00 | ['SEO', 'Growth', 'Klp', 'Engineering', 'Data'] |
Fat Acceptance Is Self-Acceptance | I’ve wasted a lot of time waiting until I was thin to go after the things I wanted. I didn’t have the self-confidence to put myself out there because I was fat. Was it an excuse? In some ways, yes, but I did experience roadblocks because of my weight.
I’m getting older, and I no longer have the luxury to wait until I’... | https://medium.com/fattitude/fat-acceptance-is-self-acceptance-b05f19edaaaf | ['Christine Schoenwald'] | 2020-12-04 08:38:01.287000+00:00 | ['Self Acceptance', 'Fat Acceptance', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Feminism'] |
The Curation of Our Little Library is Abysmal and I’d Like to Complain to a Manager | The Curation of Our Little Library is Abysmal and I’d Like to Complain to a Manager
Three copies of The DaVinci Code? This is ridiculous.
Imagine my excitement when a little library appeared just blocks away from my house. Painted green with a glass door that swung open and shut, at last something Pinterest-worthy wa... | https://sarah-lofgren.medium.com/the-curation-of-our-little-library-is-abysmal-and-id-like-to-complain-to-a-manager-c3c60ec5a468 | ['Sarah Lofgren'] | 2020-06-29 22:43:35.848000+00:00 | ['Satire', 'Humor', 'Reading', 'Funny', 'Books'] |
Get cracking with NativeScript | So you are a pro in Javascript OR a real good Angular, Vue developer and now want to explore building native apps on mobile. However, you are getting a migraine seeing the number of options! React Native, Dart, Kotlin which one should I choose? Well, take a sip of your favourite coffee and sit back. We got you, NativeS... | https://medium.com/globant/get-cracking-with-nativescript-421b45e0d1b3 | ['Shreyas Upadhye'] | 2020-08-13 10:54:46.769000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS App Development', 'Nativescript', 'Cross Compile', 'Android App Development'] |
Skiing During the Pandemic | Skiing During the Pandemic
What’s changed, what’s working, and what needs improvement
Opening day at Big Sky Ski Resort, Big Sky, Montana. Photo by Tom Johnson.
As the holidays approach and the coronavirus pandemic enters a dangerous new phase, many skiers wonder whether it’s safe to return to the slopes.
Last week... | https://medium.com/illumination/thinking-of-skiing-this-season-33a2fcb30ae | ['Tom Johnson'] | 2020-12-09 15:03:52.571000+00:00 | ['Sports', 'Health', 'Business', 'Skiing', 'Covid 19'] |
I always wanted to write but I never felt good enough. | During my senior year of my undergraduate degree I really started to notice how much school and work had taken over my life. I was living life by reacting to every fire that appeared, instead of conquering my goals. Realizing that I was headed down the wrong path mentally forced me to re-examine what I wanted out of li... | https://medium.com/the-ascent/how-i-upgraded-my-life-and-started-writing-again-bb5983ed229d | ['Michael Wentz'] | 2018-07-11 21:01:01.194000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Procrastination', 'Goals', 'Writing', 'Personal Development'] |
iPad Air 4 vs. iPad Pro (2020) | iPad Air 4 vs. iPad Pro (2020)
…Did Apple create its own iPad Pro killer?
iPad Pro (2020) vs. iPad Air
Apple’s “Time Flies”event just wrapped up and though there wasn’t an abundance of hardware showcased, leaving many disappointed, there is something big to take notice of. Out of all the products we got a look at th... | https://medium.com/swlh/ipad-air-4-vs-ipad-pro-2020-97a76d396e40 | ['Doctor Marvel'] | 2020-10-22 06:38:42.232000+00:00 | ['iPad', 'Apple', 'Technology', 'Tech', 'Gadgets'] |
by Jean de La Rochebrochard | Funnel, Model, Growth & Retention
Whatever your business is, you have to master those four sets of metrics.
Funnel of conversion
The destination does not matter if you fail at taking the right path towards it. The funnel of conversion is the path from business origination toward closing and post-closing. If you run ... | https://medium.com/kima-ventures/the-fantastic-4-funnel-model-growth-retention-dc47f1c761cd | ['Jean De La Rochebrochard'] | 2015-09-05 11:52:33.456000+00:00 | ['Metrics', 'Startup', 'Analytics'] |
Voice of an Angel | Voice of an Angel
A novel
Image courtesy of Conny Manero
Synopsis
Talent agent, Jack Garrett, hears the voice of an angel drifting down from a balcony in Greenwich Village. Frustrated, he spends nights walking the streets trying to find his angel. Jessie Green is in a dead-end job until she loses it, and quickly gr... | https://medium.com/illumination/voice-of-an-angel-2231073d84d3 | ['Conny Manero'] | 2020-06-15 01:10:36.964000+00:00 | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Novel', 'Book Recommendations', 'Novel Excerpt'] |
‘The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living’ | “The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates said as he declared the essence of a good life. “The only good is knowledge”. With knowledge, a person could shape their own destiny and find true happiness.
During a time when the world was looking to the cosmos for understanding, Socrates looked inward to the human ... | https://medium.com/the-brave-writer/the-unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living-e90573573e8f | ['Tania Miller'] | 2020-12-17 13:47:51.405000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing Tips', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development'] |
Building a scalable and available home feed | Dan Feng | Pinterest engineer, Discovery
We pride ourselves on being a company focused first and foremost on the user experience. In order to deliver a great experience, including showing related content in the home feed, we’re building a service that’s fast and highly available. From a Pinner’s point of view, availab... | https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/building-a-scalable-and-available-home-feed-6a343766bb6 | ['Pinterest Engineering'] | 2017-02-17 21:59:32.137000+00:00 | ['Engineering', 'Pinterest', 'Hbase', 'Data', 'Qps'] |
How to Choose the RIGHT Influencers for Your Brand! | One of the most common questions I get asked about and one of my strengths when it comes to creating an Influencer Marketing Strategy is choosing the right influencer. Here’s how to choose the right influencers for your brand in 6 simple steps!
Set an objective
One of the most common problems I see when executing cam... | https://medium.com/astrolabs/how-to-choose-the-right-influencers-for-your-brand-f610e9a22bf3 | ['Mike Alnaji'] | 2017-08-27 14:30:33.979000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Digital', 'Digital Marketing', 'Social Media'] |
Meaning Eventually Finds Its Place In FKA Twigs’ Grandiose Artistic Vision | Meaning Eventually Finds Its Place In FKA Twigs’ Grandiose Artistic Vision
Her latest LP “MAGDALENE” is an interstellar voyage through the dust of the broken heart to the planet of self
During her long-lasting hiatus, the avant-garde pop princess FKA Twigs got crushed by the brutal hands of her troubled relationships... | https://tonysolovjov.medium.com/meaning-eventually-finds-its-place-in-fka-twigs-grandiose-artistic-vision-bdfc8627fe53 | ['Tony Solovjov'] | 2020-01-30 09:32:44.502000+00:00 | ['Review', 'Music', 'Art', 'Pop', 'Culture'] |
How to Set the Mood for Maximum Productivity | How to Set the Mood for Maximum Productivity
Get more done in less time by implementing these little rituals
Many of us struggle with being consistently productive. We plan so much for the day and then we end up procrastinating instead. And often, even when we do start working, it’s doesn’t go the way we expected. We... | https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/how-to-set-the-mood-for-maximum-productivity-57d735fcc787 | ['Veronika Jel'] | 2020-06-16 13:01:01.324000+00:00 | ['Advice', 'Work From Home', 'Life Hacking', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
THE OCEAN | THE OCEAN
Beautiful and unexplored
71% of the earth’s surface consists of water. Large bodies of water are called oceans. Ocean provides so many things for us, An article from ecology.com about “10 Things to Know About the Ocean”. Those things start from oxygen that we need for breath until the job we need to survive... | https://medium.com/tfi-student-community/the-ocean-2cefca773ce9 | ['Laurent Angelica Santoso'] | 2019-11-29 08:01:02.085000+00:00 | ['Environment', 'Sea', 'Beautiful', 'Life', 'Oceans'] |
Auto-Encoder: What Is It? And What Is It Used For? (Part 1) | Auto-Encoder: What Is It? And What Is It Used For? (Part 1)
A Gentle Introduction to Auto-Encoder and Some Of Its Common Use Cases With Python Code
Background:
Autoencoder is an unsupervised artificial neural network that learns how to efficiently compress and encode data then learns how to reconstruct the data back... | https://towardsdatascience.com/auto-encoder-what-is-it-and-what-is-it-used-for-part-1-3e5c6f017726 | ['Will Badr'] | 2019-07-01 07:09:48.367000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
A Warm Fuzzy Hug | #DecemberSelfCare
A Warm Fuzzy Hug
Adorable fuzzy PJs, this poem’s for you
Photo by Anastasia Zhenina on Unsplash
as the temperature dips
into the icy stages
the phase where the air
feels spicy against your skin
i celebrate the winter
indoors
by breaking out
the festive fuzzy PJs
the ones that make you feel... | https://medium.com/the-brain-is-a-noodle/a-warm-fuzzy-hug-ad180ba399d1 | ['Lucy The Eggcademic', 'She Her'] | 2020-12-23 10:05:17.353000+00:00 | ['Poetry Prompt', 'Mental Health', 'Self Care', 'Poetry'] |
Data Science for Everyone: Getting To Know Your Data — Part 1 | Data: Formulating the Concepts
Definitions
The word data is the plural form of the word datum, which has the meaning of a “single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code” [5]. Another definition is “something given or admitted especially as a basis for reasoning or inference” [6]
In simple terms, data ca... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/data-science-for-everyone-getting-to-know-your-data-part-1-bb8b6d7782b1 | ['Sumudu Tennakoon'] | 2020-12-24 01:03:36.911000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Scientist', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education'] |
Ten Deep Learning Concepts You Should Know for Data Science Interviews | Deep learning and neural networks can get really complicated. When it comes to data science interviews, however, there are only so many concepts that interviewers test. After going through hundreds and hundreds of data science interview questions, I compiled 10 deep learning concepts that came up the most often.
In th... | https://towardsdatascience.com/ten-deep-learning-concepts-you-should-know-for-data-science-interviews-a77f10bb9662 | ['Terence Shin'] | 2020-12-10 04:04:50.070000+00:00 | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Work'] |
Getting Started with Python | Python is an amazing language that is used in a wide variety of applications. Did you know that Python is used in applications involving automation, data science and web apps? For example, Facebook uses Python to process images. Before we get started, let us first break down the concepts that we need to learn in order ... | https://medium.com/quick-code/getting-started-with-python-313eb74915c8 | ['Rafay Syed'] | 2019-08-28 01:21:52.907000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Computer Science', 'Python'] |
Spores on the cooling off corpse of data science | A few years ago, data scientism was a fresh shiny hot air balloon that took off due to the aristocratic arrogance of prestigious, predictive analytic vendors who simply milked their cows and watched with glass eyes as the era of big data and cloud computation began.
The burner in the balloon’s basket was fueled by the... | https://medium.com/data-science-without-marketing-mystery/spores-on-the-cooling-off-corpse-of-data-science-fb7aef0fd715 | [] | 2017-09-08 10:19:34.307000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Predictive Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'CRM'] |
Build An Android App To Monitor and Convert “bitcoin and etherum” in 20 Local Currencies | In the era of the digital world, the monetary system is constantly changing, and things that has been popular are recently being replaced by improved technologies.
The payment industry is particularly affected by this digital era of cryptocurrencies given the public acceptance it has received by many countries and pay... | https://medium.com/quick-code/build-an-android-app-to-monitor-and-convert-bitcoin-and-etherum-in-20-local-currencies-6628a9058a29 | ['Ekene Eze'] | 2018-02-01 17:05:03.845000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Android', 'Android App Development', 'Bitcoin'] |
Taking Data Visualization to Another Level | When you tend to use one library for a certain period of time, you get used to it. But, you need to evolve and learn something new every day. If you are still stuck up with Matplotlib(Which is amazing), Seaborn(This is amazing too), Pandas(Basic, yet easy Visualization) and Bokeh, You need to move on and try something ... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/taking-data-visualization-to-another-level-4d1c47bb01a2 | ['Kunal Dhariwal'] | 2019-05-10 13:31:07.864000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization', 'Hackernoon Top Story'] |
Physicists create prototype superefficient memory for future computers | Illustration. Energy efficient memory. Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands have achieved material magnetization switching on the shortest timescales, at a minimal energy cost. They have thus develop... | https://mipt.medium.com/physicists-create-prototype-superefficient-memory-for-future-computers-moscow-institute-of-489c6c4f181c | ['Moscow Institute Of Physics'] | 2019-05-17 08:57:42.032000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Computers', 'Computer Memories', 'Efficiency'] |
3 Ways To Know If You’re On Track To Success | SELF
When you look back, what propelled you there will be obvious…
Photo by Razvan Chisu on Unsplash
Many of us live life day to day without recognizing how each day is bringing us closer to that which we want to achieve. I have been using triggering and reflective questions at the end of each day for years now. I f... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/3-ways-to-know-if-youre-on-track-to-success-1469c2b68550 | ['Sandra Michelle'] | 2020-11-26 00:06:31.524000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Inspiration', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
The Story That’s Not Being Told: Mimi Lok & Last of Her Name | Last of her Name by Mimi Lok. Kaya Press, 2019. 200 pp, prose.
Cheyenne Heckermann: Can you tell me about the journey toward publishing Last of Her Name?
Mimi Lok: It was long! I’d written earlier drafts of the stories over roughly a ten-year span, and spent about three years working on the collection in earnest — re... | https://medium.com/anomalyblog/an-interview-with-mimi-lok-on-last-of-her-name-41fef835d9a2 | ['Cheyenne Heckermann'] | 2020-02-18 15:50:51.943000+00:00 | ['Publishing', 'Fiction', 'Interview', 'Featured', 'Books'] |
Coin-o-graphy | For a child growing up in a middle class family of Bangladesh, one of the first financial lesson he or she learns is how to save. We were taught how much important saving is, and how one should save. Considering the age, our parents often thought it was not the proper time to introduce saving in banking organizations. ... | https://medium.com/the-moonwreckers-diary/for-a-child-growing-up-in-a-middle-class-family-of-bangladesh-one-of-the-first-financial-lesson-he-195dbfc1e13e | ['Akm Nivrito'] | 2017-09-30 09:58:38.566000+00:00 | ['Money', 'Stories', 'Saving', 'Memories', 'Storytelling'] |
Text Generation With Python And GPT-2 | Results
We can get some great results with very little code. Here are a few examples that should give you a better understanding of the impact of each argument in the .generate method.
outputs = model.generate(
inputs, max_length=200, do_sample=True
)
tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True) [Out]: "... | https://towardsdatascience.com/text-generation-with-python-and-gpt-2-1fecbff1635b | ['James Briggs'] | 2020-12-28 14:47:13.167000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
How to Create an Animated Bar Chart With React and d3 | How to Create an Animated Bar Chart With React and d3 Michael Tong Follow Sep 22 · 3 min read
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
Have you ever looked at data visualizations and be wowed by all the effects and animations?
Have you ever wondered how to integrate visualizations with react?
In this article, we will ta... | https://medium.com/weekly-webtips/how-to-create-an-animated-barchart-with-react-and-d3-b4fd3662633f | ['Michael Tong'] | 2020-09-23 06:10:31.808000+00:00 | ['D3js', 'Web Development', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Data Visualization'] |
NaNoWriMo Week 1: Engaging My Inner Trickster | Morning raven.
Day 2 of NaNoWriMo began when my alarm sang a merry tune at 5:30am. I hit snooze. Inside my imagination, my characters glared at me, rolled over and went back to bed.
When I rose, two snooze cycles later and sat in front of my open laptop, I expected my characters to flow through a scene just following... | https://medium.com/nanowrimo/nanowrimo-week-1-engaging-my-inner-trickster-7b2f48d88081 | ['Julie Russell'] | 2018-11-02 16:50:15.578000+00:00 | ['NaNoWriMo', 'Writing'] |
Understanding Big O Space Complexity | Most Common Types of Big O
O(n)
If n = some integer, the number of operations within the algorithm (the way of solving a given problem) increases roughly in proportion with n. This type of algorithm is not ideal! An example of an algorithm with an O(n) could be a function which takes an integer, ’n’, as an argument, ... | https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/understanding-big-o-space-complexity-6826478e5a9f | ['Colton Kaiser'] | 2020-06-08 17:22:10.004000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Coding', 'Software Development', 'Big O Notation', 'Programming'] |
The Movies Are Getting Better | I’m writing this in response to Rebecca Stevens A. ‘S article about how there is no such thing as Black Privilege.
Rebecca is right. From India, as a person who watches America through the movies, I’m going to talk about a few movies. I am not a movie buff, but I do have a subscription to an English Movie Pack and I w... | https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-movies-are-getting-better-b969b92c7909 | ['Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh'] | 2020-12-15 19:06:43.221000+00:00 | ['Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Movies', 'Diversity', 'Perspective'] |
NumPy: Stacking, Splitting, Array attributes | Stacking
Arrays can be stacked horizontally, depth-wise, or vertically. We can use, for that purpose, the vstack , dstack , hstack , column_stack , row_stack , and concatenate functions.
Time for action — stacking arrays
First, let’s set up some arrays:
In: a = arange(9).reshape(3,3)
In: a
Out:
array([[0, 1, 2],... | https://medium.com/python-in-plain-english/numpy-stacking-splitting-array-attributes-b3ad04b47646 | ['Bhanu Soni'] | 2020-12-23 08:48:14.495000+00:00 | ['Numpy', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
The B2B Marketplace Stack | When people think about marketplaces, they usually assume it’s all about matching the demand and supply side. The reality is that it involves so much more than that, particularly when it comes to B2B.
In the following post, which we’ve written (in collaboration with our friends at Hokodo) off the back of working with ... | https://medium.com/point-nine-news/the-b2b-marketplace-stack-fa5b650f09b0 | ['Julia Morrongiello'] | 2020-12-08 13:29:54.074000+00:00 | ['Startup', 'B2B', 'Marketplace', 'VC'] |
This Book Made Me Feel Hopeful in a Way the Quran Never Did | This book is relevant to my experiences as a woman.
When I first held Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks in my hands, I did what I always do.
I cracked open the copy and smelled it. I love the scent of crisp pages.
Then, I sat down and began reading. Frankly, I couldn’t wait to start consuming the ... | https://medium.com/an-amygdala/this-book-made-me-feel-hopeful-in-a-way-the-quran-never-did-9af3ef1e668d | ['Rebeca Ansar'] | 2020-06-29 00:37:41.308000+00:00 | ['Personal Growth', 'Women', 'Feminism', 'Self', 'Books'] |
5 Odd Jobs People Were Once Paid to Do | 5 Odd Jobs People Were Once Paid to Do
#4 Dog Whipping
Unemployed men in line at the soup kitchen (1931), from the US National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Technology and artificial intelligence have been rendering more and more jobs obsolete. A volatile mix of automation ... | https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/5-odd-jobs-people-were-once-paid-to-do-aa47194194fe | ['Ben Kageyama'] | 2020-12-25 09:01:09.792000+00:00 | ['History', 'Work', 'Nonfiction', 'Labor', 'Jobs'] |
For many universities, the landscape is changing. | For many universities, the landscape is changing. Gone are the days when the throughput of students was the major measure of success. Now universities are evaluated on the outcomes for their students, and the extent to which those students have the right skills to join the workforce.
Perhaps the most challenging shift... | https://medium.com/swlh/how-human-centred-design-can-help-universities-better-serve-students-e1d561a9f89c | ['Kirsty Elderton'] | 2019-06-08 11:33:06.307000+00:00 | ['Higher Education', 'Human Centred Design', 'University', 'Design', 'Student Experience'] |
The Future of Podcasting is Subscription — Lessons from the History of Media | “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”
On April 24, 2019, Luminary Media officially launched its subscription podcasting platform to the public, and was quickly dismissed and even attacked by some in the media and on Twitter. Luminary, which raised nearly $100 million from investors prior to launch, offe... | https://medium.com/the-raabithole/the-future-of-podcasting-is-subscription-lessons-from-the-history-of-media-d486bd693141 | ['Mike Raab'] | 2019-06-08 04:57:45.250000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Podcast', 'Media', 'Future', 'Culture'] |
How the Data Stole Christmas | by Anonymous
The door sprung open and our three little ones joyfully leaped onto the bed, waking my wife and I from peaceful dreams of slumbering sugarplum fairies. Oh Gosh, it was 6:03am, but who could blame them. The kids wait for Christmas day all year.
I sat up as giggles thrashed with reckless excitement on the ... | https://medium.com/data-ops/how-the-data-stole-christmas-78454531d0a8 | [] | 2019-12-24 13:22:33.143000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Dataops', 'Analytics', 'DevOps'] |
Revisiting Imperial College’s COVID-19 Spread Models | How to run open-source Tensorflow models on Kubernetes and reviewing how effective the COVID-19 spread model was in measuring the effect of interventions.
Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash
Earlier this month, the United Kingdom became the first European country to approve and administer the first doses of Pfizer/Bio... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/revisiting-imperial-colleges-covid-19-spread-models-daa7ac1a7862 | ['Yitaek Hwang'] | 2020-12-24 16:27:29.356000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Kubernetes', 'Machine Learning', 'Programming'] |
Unlock honest feedback from your employees with this one word | Unlock honest feedback from your employees with this one word
Consider using this one word in your next one on one meeting…
A few years ago, a CEO told me how she was struggling to get honest feedback from her board.
No one seemed willing to be critical or give her pointers on things she could improve. After every b... | https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/unlock-honest-feedback-with-this-one-word-dcaf3839e7ee | ['Claire Lew'] | 2018-12-04 15:15:54.492000+00:00 | ['Leadership', 'Startup', 'Employee Engagement', 'Employee Feedback', 'Management'] |
How we initiate point of sale transactions globally | The challenge
Most POS setups include a cash register, controlled by store staff, a payment terminal, where the shopper enters their card, and a serial connection between the two. A library is embedded on the cash register facilitating communication between the cash register and the payment terminal. These libraries a... | https://medium.com/adyen/how-we-initiate-point-of-sale-transactions-globally-7fad4786db16 | [] | 2020-07-08 05:16:38.864000+00:00 | ['Java', 'Retail Technology', 'Cloud', 'Payments', 'Point Of Sale Software'] |
Django REST API | Last week we talked about creating basic applications with Django. Today let’s try to design a RESTful API with Django.
Prerequisites
Before we start let’s install additional libraries which will help us design API:
pip install djangorestframework pip install markdown pip install django-filter
Project Setup
Now le... | https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/django-rest-api-1ab821e40733 | ['Pavel Ilin'] | 2020-11-10 09:14:50.636000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Django', 'Rest Api', 'Rest', 'Framework'] |
6 Steps to Up the Sustainability Game for Your Business | Lessons from the most sustainably managed company in the world
Photo by Alexander Abero on Unsplash
While some business owners are still hanging onto a feast or famine mindset, others, as if tipped off by a prophet, have embraced a marathon running attitude. Gone are the old days where Darwinism reigned in business —... | https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/6-steps-to-up-the-sustainability-game-for-your-business-ddd41b8f596b | ['Eunice X.'] | 2020-12-28 15:49:42.209000+00:00 | ['Finance', 'Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Venture Capital', 'Economics'] |
Fixing our Bug Problem | by Thomas Gomersall
Insects may not be what many would consider endangered species, but according to a devastating 2019 study in Biological Conservation, 41 per cent are in decline. An additional third are threatened and without immediate, radical action, most could be extinct within decades in what many have dubbed t... | https://medium.com/wwfhk-e/fixing-our-bug-problem-4a8041c7ebe0 | ['Wwf Hk'] | 2019-07-15 02:43:11.484000+00:00 | ['Biodiversity', 'Nature', 'Extinction', 'Insects', 'Environment'] |
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than Disney — What’s Their Next Move? | BYTE/SIZE
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than Disney — What’s Their Next Move?
Four 3D chess moves that could make Netflix top dog
Created by Murto Hilali
My friends, who are 17–18-year-old males, have devoted their eyeballs to Netflix’s latest reality show: Too Hot To Handle, where attractive singles spend a month on a... | https://medium.com/swlh/netflix-next-move-9ea44b42150f | ['Murto Hilali'] | 2020-05-14 03:38:19.247000+00:00 | ['Finance', 'Technology', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Data'] |
15+ Binary Tree Coding Problems from FAANG Interview | Image by Omni Matryx from Pixabay
A Binary Tree is a hierarchical Data Structure. Depending on how you store the nodes in a tree, the Terminology differs.
Out of Free Stories. Here is my Friend Link
Hey guys, I have been sharing a lot about Tech Interview Questions asked in FAANG, I am currently working on the Tech ... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/15-binary-tree-coding-problems-from-faang-interview-2ba1ec67d077 | ['House Of Codes'] | 2020-06-22 12:54:02.762000+00:00 | ['Coding', 'Java', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Programming'] |
Karma Enters Global Market: KYC Now Available For The Foreign Citizens | Hello, dear friends!
Foreign Investors Allowed
Finally, a citizen of any country can pass the KYC on our platform and become an accredited investor.
We’ve connected popular KYC and AML provider — The Sumsub company. They provide a standard KYC procedure: one just need to add a passport photo/ID/drivers license photo... | https://medium.com/karmared/karma-enters-global-market-kyc-now-available-for-the-foreign-citizens-72373dcf2953 | ['Karma Project'] | 2019-04-09 07:13:51.356000+00:00 | ['Investing', 'P2p', 'Global', 'Development', 'Banking'] |
The Feynman Technique Can Help You Remember Everything You Read | The 4 Steps You Need To Take
In essence, the Feynman technique consists of four steps: identify the subject, explain the content, identify your knowledge gaps, simplify your explanation. Here’s how it works for any book you read:
#1 Choose the book you want to remember
After you’ve finished a book worth remembering,... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-feynman-technique-will-make-you-remember-what-you-read-f0bce8cc4c43 | ['Eva Keiffenheim'] | 2020-10-21 15:03:23.461000+00:00 | ['Reading', 'Books', 'Education', 'Learning', 'Personal Development'] |
Don’t Use Quarantine as an Excuse To Stop Having Boundaries | Don’t Use Quarantine as an Excuse To Stop Having Boundaries
You need to protect your mental health now more than ever
Adobe Stock Photo
There’s nothing like a global crisis to give people in your lives the excuse they have been looking for to touch base. We are scared, anxious, and nervous and because we are emotion... | https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/dont-use-quarantine-as-an-excuse-to-stop-having-boundaries-32176664d263 | ['Carrie Wynn'] | 2020-04-09 17:10:00.311000+00:00 | ['Mindfulness', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Advice', 'Self'] |
What Are the Rules for Lending Your Books to Friends | Photo by Євгенія Височина on Unsplash
When you start to collect books at home, your friends and guesses will begin to envy you. Then every time you have visitors, you will live in dread of the moment that when they want to borrow one of your books. Besides, you will find yourself in an uncomfortable conversation.
Let... | https://mathladyhazel.medium.com/what-are-the-rules-for-lending-your-books-to-friends-d77ea84433f6 | ['Hazel Clementine'] | 2020-01-18 08:26:57.300000+00:00 | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Friendship', 'Relationships', 'Education'] |
Why I Am Choosing to Stop Writing on Medium at This Point | I published my first post on Medium on October 25, 2019. and my 400th on October 24, 2020.
In that one year, I earned a total of $359.94, just shy of 90 cents per story.
While that is more than I’ve ever earned from my writing, it is less than what I expected to earn per month by the year’s end.
When things don’t go... | https://medium.com/narrative/why-i-am-choosing-to-stop-writing-on-medium-at-this-point-7f03398f3863 | ['Rasheed Hooda'] | 2020-11-08 13:45:55.755000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Purpose', 'Passion', 'Options', 'Life Lessons'] |
Large Scale Satellite Data Processing | Large Scale Satellite Data Processing
With more amounts of spatial data coming in than ever, we look to increase satellite data processing methods and efficiency.
Source: Techspot
Spatial Data — What is it?
Spatial data, or geospatial data, can be thought of as any data containing location information on the Earth’... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/large-scale-satellite-data-processing-e963692380b8 | [] | 2020-12-25 01:02:58.806000+00:00 | ['Satellite', 'Satellite Technology', 'Spatial Analysis', 'Big Data', 'Remote Sensing'] |
From Pandemic to Panopticon: Are We Habituating Aggressive Surveillance? | In Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, she recalls the response to the launch of Google Glass in 2012. Zuboff describes public horror, as well as loud protestations from privacy advocates who were deeply concerned that the product’s undetectable recording of people and places threatened to e... | https://medium.com/swlh/from-pandemic-to-panopticon-are-we-habituating-aggressive-surveillance-f880ef754bc0 | ['Fiona J Mcevoy'] | 2020-04-10 00:09:49.499000+00:00 | ['Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Technology', 'Surveillance', 'Government'] |
Why Donald Trump Could Win Even Though He’s Losing | Since he was diagnosed with COVID-19, the president’s poll numbers definitely haven’t shifted for the better. According to recent polls, Trump is down double-digits and in every single battleground state except Georgia. Because there will likely be no other debates and the debacle that was the first one, it raises the ... | https://medium.com/discourse/why-donald-trump-could-win-even-though-hes-losing-bb7f763251ab | ['Yash Rajpal'] | 2020-10-12 17:01:41.315000+00:00 | ['Politics', 'Trump', 'Election 2020', 'Biden', 'Coronavirus'] |
On The Art of Facing Things | It turns out facing things is not as hard, not nearly as hard, as resisting them. But to face things, especially forces that oppose us, we must go against every instinct we have to continue to believe and do what we believed and did before.
Facing things requires we undo and unlearn the well-worn emotional habits that... | https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/on-the-art-of-facing-things-865ca66f1651 | ['Suzanne Lagrande'] | 2020-09-11 21:36:02.679000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Love', 'Life Lessons', 'Philosophy', 'Life'] |
Database “Magic”: Running Huge High Throughput-Low Latency KV Database with No Data In Memory | Database “Magic”: Running Huge High Throughput-Low Latency KV Database with No Data In Memory Zohar Elkayam Follow Dec 20 · 4 min read
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to one of my oldest database colleagues (and a very dear friend of mine). We were chatting about how key/value stores and databases are evolving, a... | https://medium.com/aerospike-developer-blog/database-magic-running-huge-high-throughput-low-latency-kv-database-with-no-data-in-memory-eb67ecdac851 | ['Zohar Elkayam'] | 2020-12-21 10:48:19.017000+00:00 | ['NoSQL', 'Redis', 'Database', 'Big Data', 'Aerospike'] |
Welcome to the Bazaar of the Bizarre | Here are some quick notes pertaining to the tabs of this publication. Since tabs are tag-loaded, it is important to properly tag posts, so that they fall under the correct tabs. For posts to be loaded in the Poetry From The Soul tab, make sure that your main tag is “Poetry.” For posts to fall under the Musings tab, mak... | https://medium.com/the-bazaar-of-the-bizarre/welcome-to-the-bazaar-of-the-bizarre-74d9aee0e1cf | [] | 2020-12-11 07:13:15.505000+00:00 | ['Musings', 'Writing', 'Bazaar Of The Bizarre', 'Mdshall', '21stenturygrio'] |
Engineer Q&A: Jessica Chong, Frontend Engineer | I’m taking part in this Q&A as part of an effort to introduce the world to the Engineering team at Optimizely. If you’re interested in joining, we’re hiring Frontend Engineers in San Francisco and Austin!
Tell us about yourself! What’s your name, what do you do at Optimizely, and how long have you been here? Tell us a... | https://medium.com/engineers-optimizely/engineer-q-a-jessica-chong-frontend-engineer-a62fa7994ecb | ['Jessica Chong'] | 2019-04-02 21:43:25.703000+00:00 | ['Interview', 'Front End Development', 'Women In Engineering', 'Software Engineering', 'Engineering Team'] |
Can You Keep Google Out of Your Gmail? | Gmail is a great service, but not everyone is comfortable giving Google access to their email. Security expert Max Eddy explains what steps will (and won’t) help keep your messages private.
By Max Eddy
This week, I’m following up on a message from a reader who previously wrote in about how not to get locked out of yo... | https://medium.com/pcmag-access/can-you-keep-google-out-of-your-gmail-3ec59d0d5e90 | [] | 2019-05-20 21:24:24.996000+00:00 | ['Privacy', 'Cybersecurity', 'Security', 'Google', 'Technology'] |
How to Embrace Middle Age. When I got my first letter from AARP… | Photo by Aron Visuals @ Unsplash.com
I stood at my mailbox with the grocery bags hanging on my arm as time seemed to slow. This surreal moment, I presume, was to give my mind a few extra seconds to process what was happening. At first, seeing the unmistakable logo didn’t really affect me until I realized the letter fr... | https://medium.com/crows-feet/embracing-middle-age-celebrating-and-enjoying-the-rest-of-my-life-554c020be1ec | ['Angelica Mordant'] | 2020-03-07 22:30:18.368000+00:00 | ['Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Positive Thinking', 'Psychology', 'Women'] |
Robert Service — The Poet of the Yukon | A Short Biography of the Preston born Balladeer, Poet and Novelist
Robert with Marlene Dietrich during the filming of The Spoiler, 1942. Image: wikipedia
Having written about Jack London recently, and the new film version of his novel, The Call of the Wild, I thought it was time to take another look at Robert Service... | https://stevenewmanwriter.medium.com/robert-service-the-poet-of-the-yukon-e48a44113251 | ['Steve Newman Writer'] | 2020-02-20 17:39:10.016000+00:00 | ['Poetry', 'Books', 'Biography', 'Literature', 'History'] |
In search of better agriculture and food sector outcomes in Punjab Province | * A five-year program seeks to empower small scale farmers and strengthen markets in Punjab province in Pakistan * The transformation process is essential to boost sustainable growth and tackle persistent malnutrition in a province where about 40 % are employed in agriculture and about 40% of children under age 5 are s... | https://medium.com/world-of-opportunity/in-search-of-better-agriculture-and-food-sector-outcomes-in-punjab-province-428ffeb261c3 | ['World Bank'] | 2019-09-06 15:02:45.177000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Poverty', 'Agriculture', 'Data', 'Food'] |
What’s on Mind ? | Whats on your mind?
They asked
Different worlds
Or happy thoughts.
There is a dark tunnel
Which leads to hell
And this is all
Left to imagine.
A slideshow flash before my eyes
Of people I love and hate
The happy thoughts of future
Are far behind
Fear takes it all away
Does it happen to you too?
The trembl... | https://medium.com/poets-unlimited/whats-on-mind-54aa222641eb | ['Nalini Gupta'] | 2017-09-21 21:17:04.661000+00:00 | ['Deep Thoughts', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Writing', 'Poetry On Medium'] |
Why I Stopped Forgiving People… and Maybe You Should, Too | Why I Stopped Forgiving People… and Maybe You Should, Too
Forgiveness was turning me into a chump
Image by Timisu
Forgive and forget, right? I used to think that. I don’t anymore.
Now look, I know I’m up against some real heavy hitters here when I say maybe you should stop forgiving people. After all, isn’t forgive... | https://medium.com/illumination-curated/why-i-stopped-forgiving-people-and-maybe-you-should-too-37fc61e00a22 | ['Paul Thomas Zenki'] | 2020-11-22 02:20:56.949000+00:00 | ['Psychology', 'Personal Growth', 'Zen', 'Buddhism', 'Forgiveness'] |
What if you could draw your thoughts in technical interviews? | A lot of people like drawing out their approach as they work through coding challenges, and that usually involves using a pen/paper or your iPad. Even some of the best tech interview related products like AlgoExpert (which I highly recommend using) end up showing you how to work through problems by drawing on a (digita... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-if-you-could-draw-your-thoughts-in-technical-interviews-47e1ff87bf33 | ['Sagar Desai'] | 2020-05-27 21:08:54.178000+00:00 | ['Technical Interview', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Interview', 'Coding'] |
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