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Run C# Machine Learning Code Directly In A Jupyter Notebook | Artist impression of a Jupyter notebook running C# ;)
Jupyter notebooks have become the standard tool for hosting advanced machine learning code online.
A Jupyter notebooks is a fully interactive document that allows mixing of content, live source code, and program output, all in a single document. Notebooks are livi... | https://medium.com/machinelearningadvantage/run-c-machine-learning-code-directly-in-a-jupyter-notebook-a32e13e40b9c | ['Mark Farragher'] | 2019-11-07 20:34:23.472000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Csharp', 'Programming'] |
Building a Team as a Model for Cooperative Work | I’ve known for about a year that I’d taken my business, Ninja Writers, about as far as it could go as a mostly one-person show. Since 2015 it’s just been me and Zach J. Payne, who has always been my right hand behind the scenes.
I was at capacity for how many students I could effectively teach and how many members the... | https://medium.com/the-write-brain/building-a-team-as-a-model-for-cooperative-work-1b167b9f638a | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2020-06-21 14:52:03.570000+00:00 | ['Creativity', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Productivity', 'Work'] |
How to Make Your Work Stand Out Online | The Internet is a crowded place. Every day someone writes a new blog post in your niche or publishes a new book on Amazon in your genre. In a sea of content, how can you get people to pay attention to your work?
I remember a shoe store my mom used to take me to when I was a little kid. It was called Merry-Go-Round Sho... | https://medium.com/copywriting-secrets/how-to-make-your-work-stand-out-online-7c61c3b223bc | ['Nicole Bianchi'] | 2019-10-23 05:48:36.367000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Creativity'] |
A Case for Writing on Your Phone | A Case for Writing on Your Phone
Turn your mobile distraction device into a productive writing resource
Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash
How often do you use that little rectangle in your pocket for distractions? Scrolling social media, staying up to date with friends, wasting time while you’re waiting in line… We n... | https://medium.com/swlh/a-case-for-writing-on-your-phone-5f7c597020cb | ['Laura Winter'] | 2020-10-28 23:04:25.470000+00:00 | ['Writers On Writing', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
5 Quotes for Mental Balance and Clarity | In our quest of trying to have the most productive day, things can quickly spiral out of control. We need to reply to emails, we’ve got deadlines to meet, our family needs our attention, on and on our day unfolds, packed full of responsibilities.
Before we know it, things become too complicated. We wish we could just ... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/5-quotes-for-mental-balance-and-clarity-2259bc66d5e5 | ['Destiny Femi'] | 2020-08-20 15:02:10.184000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Work Life Balance', 'Productivity'] |
How Boredom Can Be Beneficial to You, According to Science | What if I tell you that we have been thinking or taught about the feeling of boredom ALL WRONG!!!?
Well, there is no scientific definition of boredom. We experience that feeling very often but still, it’s difficult to define it. Think about it as if a person is least interested in its surroundings or as if he is indul... | https://medium.com/an-idea/how-boredom-can-be-beneficial-to-you-according-to-science-57168c67c1d7 | ['Areeba Merriam'] | 2020-10-12 22:59:38.767000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Boredom', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
Serverless at Comic Relief | We built APIs on top of various databases, simplified our contact service, built a step counter service for UK schools participating in our billion steps challenge for Sport Relief, run a UK schools lookup service, and are currently converting our main donation platform to a serverless application.
From microservices ... | https://medium.com/comic-relief/serverless-at-comic-relief-eaf3ff25cbfe | ['Peter Vanhee'] | 2019-04-03 11:06:20.895000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Serverless', 'Cloud Computing', 'AWS', 'Engineering'] |
Why Java Is Dying | Why Java Is Dying
What does the future hold for Java?
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash.
To better align with the tech stack at my new job, I’ve been reacquainting myself over the last two weeks with an old friend: Java. Not too long ago, it kickstarted my software career with unmatched zeal and vigor. This journ... | https://medium.com/better-programming/why-java-is-dying-b02b5fd44db9 | ['Komal Venkatesh Ganesan'] | 2020-12-18 01:54:03.802000+00:00 | ['Java', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Microservices'] |
Your Brain On Chaos: Debunking The Myth Of Tortured Artist | It’s no surprise that the words tortured and artist are forever connected. Many of history’s favorite artists are as well-known for their inner turmoil as they are for their work. Jackson Pollock’s paint-drip technique is forever attached to his alcoholism and rage. Sylvia Plath is remembered as the “tormented poet who... | https://medium.com/publishous/your-brain-on-chaos-debunking-the-myth-of-tortured-artist-c75502c014ce | ['Corey Mccomb'] | 2020-12-01 02:41:23.050000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Psychology', 'Self', 'Personal Development', 'Creativity'] |
Use the Decoy Effect to Sell More | How to Apply the Decoy Effect
You can apply the effect to your marketing — it could help you increase your profits and sales of some products. You would first determine what thing you want to sell more of. This is the “target” product. Then, you would create an option that is worse than that option, but not worse than... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/use-the-decoy-effect-to-sell-more-2d475559c7f1 | ['Ramsay Lewis'] | 2020-05-28 17:46:10.535000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Startups', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
How to build an MP3 Music Player with Python | Part I: Set the environment and import modules
The first step is to create a directory called environments where to store all your virtual Environments and install the python modules. In this way the program is available only within the set environment and not throughout my computer.
So, open your terminal and create... | https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-an-mp3-music-player-with-python-619e0c0dcee2 | ['Papa Moryba Kouate'] | 2020-12-26 19:22:34.600000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'Music', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Development'] |
Creating your own Chaos Monkey with AWS Systems Manager Automation | In a recent post, I explained how to use AWS SSM Run Command to inject failures on EC2 instances. SSM Run Command is well-suited to execute custom scripts on EC2 instances, especially to inject latency or blackouts on the network interface, do resource exhaustion of CPUs, memory, and IO.
However, we need more than tha... | https://medium.com/the-cloud-architect/creating-your-own-chaos-monkey-with-aws-systems-manager-automation-6ad2b06acf20 | ['Adrian Hornsby'] | 2020-06-15 09:59:45.584000+00:00 | ['Cloud Computing', 'Software Engineering', 'Fault Tolerance', 'Chaos Engineering', 'AWS'] |
Just a Gen X Girl in a Millennial World | Something occurred to me the other day that made my head spin.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve entered some kind of zone of invisibility.
No, wait, I’m serious. Stay with me here.
Okay, first of all, I was born in 1971.
That makes me solidly part of Generation X.
Everyone knows that Gen X is the forgotten generation. Th... | https://medium.com/the-write-brain/just-a-gen-x-girl-in-a-millennial-world-cc5dc34b196a | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2019-09-08 02:17:31.673000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Marketing'] |
When Tics, OCD, or Anorexia Develop Following Strep Infection | Infection | Brain
When Tics, OCD, or Anorexia Develop Following Strep Infection
It’s called PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections).
In the late 1900s, physicians reported that children started showing tics following a strep sore throat outbreak. The tics als... | https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/when-tics-ocd-or-anorexia-develop-following-strep-infection-6a35c47519b0 | ['Shin Jie Yong'] | 2020-04-06 05:50:28.525000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Technology', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Ideas'] |
Data Science, Alexander of the Times Ahead | Raise your hands if you ever heard about Data Science! It has been the buzz word in the recent past. This field can retain and stay in the marketplace for a long time and provide numerous opportunities to people who add value by utilizing data. I strongly believe Data science is the place to be going forward in the nex... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/data-science-alexander-of-the-times-ahead-1f9caa8f9c4d | ['Saiteja Kura'] | 2020-05-06 13:05:50.337000+00:00 | ['Big Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future', 'Data Science', 'Technology'] |
How to Find Inspiration for Your Business Even in Toughest Times | Getting your business up and running is a tall task. It means countless hours of your precious time and hundreds of sleepless nights invested in something unknown. Although it’s very fulfilling to work for yourself, this moon has its dark side — you’re left alone with the problems and have to go through the rough times... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-to-find-inspiration-for-your-business-even-in-toughest-times-da702a200eec | ['Valeriy Bykanov'] | 2018-12-17 09:22:06.320000+00:00 | ['Productivity', 'Inspiration', 'Motivation', 'Startup', 'Business'] |
The Evidence That Luke Skywalker Is Snoke In The Last Jedi Novelization | The Missing Third Lesson
In Chapter 11, Luke tells Rey he’ll train her. “Three lessons. I will teach you the ways of the Jedi — and why they need to end.”
Lesson One comes in Chapter 13 when Luke says, “And this is the lesson — that Force does not belong to the Jedi. It’s so much bigger. To say that if the Jedi die t... | https://medium.com/jung-skywalker/star-wars-symbology-the-evidence-in-the-last-jedi-novelization-that-luke-skywalker-is-snoke-ec94833bedd | ['Brian Deines'] | 2020-05-12 18:01:48.245000+00:00 | ['Star Wars', 'Self-awareness', 'Psychology', 'Film', 'Writing'] |
Think Ahead: Boost Your BI with AI | An analyst’s primary responsibility is to observe patterns and locate opportunities. Yet even experts can overlook trends or misinterpret results, particularly if they have to sift through a lot of information. Consequently, more businesses are enhancing their data analysis with ML. In addition to detecting anomalies, ... | https://medium.com/eyeful/think-ahead-boost-your-bi-with-ai-d8df8f64851f | ['Therese Moriarty'] | 2020-04-03 20:30:05.808000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Eyeful Trends', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business Intelligence'] |
Maddie Stone published a generous, thoughtful, and mind-expanding piece exploring the implications… | Maddie Stone published a generous, thoughtful, and mind-expanding essay exploring the implications of the near future extrapolated in my latest novel:
Geoengineering, or hacking the planet to cool it down, is either a maniacal plan dreamt up by foolhardy scientists or a useful tool for staving off climate catastrophe ... | https://eliotpeper.medium.com/maddie-stone-published-a-generous-thoughtful-and-mind-expanding-piece-exploring-the-implications-4456da8dfa42 | ['Eliot Peper'] | 2020-12-09 04:37:08.468000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Climate Change', 'Future', 'Science', 'Books'] |
5 minutes to understand data storytelling! | Data-visualization, or Dataviz… all of this overlaps with one and the same concept: the graphical exploitation of data. But what does this mean in practice?
The advent of digital also coincides with the explosion of Big Data. Through their digital activities, companies today aggregate hundreds of thousands of data… an... | https://medium.com/toucan-toco/5-minutes-pour-comprendre-le-data-storytelling-4a9e546b663 | ['Charles Miglietti'] | 2020-02-06 14:35:00.622000+00:00 | ['Dashboard', 'Dataviz', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Productivité'] |
In 2020, Human-Made Objects Tipped the Earth Out of Balance | In 2020, Human-Made Objects Tipped the Earth Out of Balance
A new study redefines our impact on the natural world
Siak River, Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Photo: Barcroft Media/Getty Images
There is considerably more plastic on our planet than there is living animal mass. Buildings and roads account for more mass than tree... | https://futurehuman.medium.com/in-2020-human-made-objects-tipped-the-earth-out-of-balance-1f0c4d7acf42 | ['Damon Beres'] | 2020-12-18 19:13:40.930000+00:00 | ['Society', 'Waste', 'Climate Change', 'Future', 'Environment'] |
How to Solve These 5 Underrated Writer’s Problems | We are talking about the usual problems all the time. I myself have typed imposter syndrome so many times that it comes up in my predictive text and autocorrect. If you google writer’s block you get over 23 million results in a split second. Not to mention the tons of ideas to come up with tons of ideas, the exercises ... | https://zitafontaine.medium.com/how-to-solve-these-5-underrated-writers-problems-f09309abffe5 | ['Zita Fontaine'] | 2019-09-01 09:29:17.006000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Advice', 'Writing'] |
How to Stop Getting Annoyed at Yourself and Actually Get Motivated this Winter | 1. Stay close to your ‘why’
It’s easy to crawl back into bed when it’s cold and dark. It’s even easier when you tell yourself there is no need to get up. But there is a reason that you told yourself you needed to get up early in the first place. There is something you want to do, something you want to achieve by getti... | https://medium.com/curious/how-to-stop-getting-annoyed-at-yourself-and-actually-get-motivated-this-winter-5983d1a16544 | ['Eve Arnold'] | 2020-12-09 17:12:48.936000+00:00 | ['Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Productivity'] |
Designed Intelligence: Achieving the full potential of human and artificial intelligence | By Connor Upton, Group Design Director, Fjord at The Dock, Accenture’s flagship R&D and global innovation center in Dublin, Ireland.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already firmly enmeshed in our lives and businesses the world over. It sits behind many of our apps and services, making our busy lives manageable through... | https://medium.com/design-voices/designed-intelligence-achieving-the-full-potential-of-human-and-artificial-intelligence-e84ca3920255 | [] | 2020-09-11 10:58:14.042000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Innovation', 'Design', 'Designed Intelligence'] |
Permissionless Professors #2: Sam Parr | We believe monetization is a hidden secret. Secrets hiding in plain sight. From the psychology of anchoring, the mathematics of power-law pricing tables, the application of demand elasticity, and the market positioning of your price — your path to better monetization awaits.
Follow | https://medium.com/monetization-manifesto/permissionless-professors-2-sam-parr-54a603be925b | ['Gary Bailey - Monetization Manifesto'] | 2020-12-17 14:47:49.428000+00:00 | ['Growth', 'Marketing', 'Monetization', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
AWS — Deploying React App With Java Backend On EKS | AWS — Deploying React App With Java Backend On EKS
A step by step guide with an example project
AWS provides more than 100 services and it’s very important to know which service you should select for your needs. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kube... | https://medium.com/bb-tutorials-and-thoughts/aws-deploying-react-app-with-java-backend-on-eks-2cc396888944 | ['Bhargav Bachina'] | 2020-11-15 06:02:54.844000+00:00 | ['AWS', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Kubernetes', 'Cloud Computing'] |
Understanding Facebook Reactions using Google Sentiment Analysis | Facebook Angry Reactions — Sentiment Analysis
We can see for the posts that generated a strong Angry Response, the majority of them are classified by google cloud as texts with a negative or neutral score.
There are angry posts that have a positive score, but the majority of posts that generated a angry response, hav... | https://medium.com/google-cloud/understanding-facebook-reactions-using-sentiment-analysis-f17b6e561ff3 | ['Florin Badita'] | 2019-02-13 07:31:05.407000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'Facebook', 'Data Visualization', 'Big Data', 'Journalism'] |
You Can Live Without Social Media | I used to be the woman who worked a room. If invited, I would’ve gone to the opening of an envelope. Social media didn’t exist in my twenties, so you had to occupy physical spaces. A breathing body was proof of life. Emails wouldn’t suffice since we were suspicious of the kind of communication that could disappear into... | https://medium.com/the-gathering-kind/you-can-live-without-social-media-59d4a5d8d6e5 | ['Felicia C. Sullivan'] | 2020-12-13 19:04:12.180000+00:00 | ['Social Media', 'Writing', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Creativity'] |
Hyperkops: Scaleable Hyperparameter Tuning of Machine Learning Models Using Bayesian optimisation in Kubernetes | TLDR:
Hyperkops is a technology which enables the use of Hyperopt (a Bayesian optimisation library in Python) in Kubernetes. This provides a scaleable platform in which Data Scientists and Engineers can share infrastructure to estimate the optimal set of hyperparameters for their machine learning models.
Introduction... | https://medium.com/hipages-engineering/hyperkops-scaleable-tuning-of-machine-learning-models-using-bayesian-optimisation-in-kubernetes-bd0ce480b02b | ['Chris Coulson'] | 2019-06-25 05:34:40.349000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Kubernetes', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
How To Quit Your Job and Start a Business That Lasts | How To Quit Your Job and Start a Business That Lasts
You’ll need to avoid some common mistakes to survive
If you’re going to ditch your day job and step out on your own, you’re going to want you to make sure that what you’re stepping into evolves into a sustainable, profitable, and growing company.
Look, I get it. I... | https://jproco.medium.com/how-to-quit-your-job-and-start-a-business-that-lasts-63d7645ac516 | ['Joe Procopio'] | 2019-12-15 15:09:36.073000+00:00 | ['Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Productivity'] |
Are You A Night Owl? We Are Closer to Knowing Why | Health
Are You A Night Owl? We Are Closer to Knowing Why
A surprisingly common mutation causes this sleep disorder by changing a vital component of the biological clock that maintains the body’s daily rhythms.
Photo by Mpho Mojapelo on Unsplash
Sleep shows up in several well-known films. In the 2010 Christopher Nol... | https://drmichaelhunter.medium.com/are-you-a-night-owl-we-are-closer-to-knowing-why-90d0a7a2ece1 | ['Michael Hunter Md'] | 2020-11-05 17:20:41.116000+00:00 | ['Sleep', 'Wellness', 'Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Science'] |
Taste 2.0 is Here | Taste 2.0 is Here
The discovery of a new taste cell deepens our understanding of this complex and adaptive sensory system.
By Jason Socrates Bardi
Years ago, my father took a huge slurping bite of what he thought was a fat navel orange and immediately gagged. Spitting it out, he later recalled, it was the most poiso... | https://medium.com/neodotlife/taste-2-0-is-here-68ca8a3911ef | [] | 2020-11-28 20:47:54.082000+00:00 | ['Food', 'Coronavirus', 'Science', 'Health', 'Research'] |
How To Create An Easy Blog Calendar and Stick To It | You want to blog regularly. You need to. Yet, you can’t get it together.
Why? Oh, several reasons:
I have so many topics running around in my mind. I can’t settle on one.
I can’t find the time.
I’m completely blocked. I’ve already written about everything.
I started blogging in 2008, so I’ve experienced all of the... | https://medium.com/ninja-writers/how-to-create-an-easy-blog-calendar-and-stick-to-it-22dd871239b3 | ['Rachel Thompson'] | 2020-10-17 16:45:47.311000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Blogging', 'Social Media', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
Feed Your Brain to Make it Stronger | You can improve growth and function at ANY age
Image by Chenspec from Pixabay
It is the repository of all we know and have ever experienced; it has the capability to solve problems and create them; it is the uninhibited fountain of dreams and ideas and the channel of disciplined action. It is also the largest sex org... | https://medium.com/crows-feet/feed-your-brain-to-make-it-stronger-61bcb87d31f6 | ['Max K. Erkiletian'] | 2020-11-18 16:57:59.864000+00:00 | ['Aging', 'Brain', 'Health', 'Seniors', 'Neuroscience'] |
3 Trends That Are Putting the Power of Business Intelligence in More Hands | 3 Trends That Are Putting the Power of Business Intelligence in More Hands
A Conversation with Nick Caldwell on the State of the Business Intelligence Landscape
Looks like the summer is heating up in the Business Intelligence (BI) industry! Two major acquisitions have been announced in June 2019 within a week of each... | https://medium.com/nightingale/3-trends-that-are-putting-the-power-of-business-intelligence-in-more-hands-955fa77f4463 | ['Allen Hillery'] | 2020-04-02 04:03:10.589000+00:00 | ['Data Visualization', 'Business', 'Google', 'Business Intelligence', 'Marketing'] |
How Blogging About My Children Helped Me Become a Professional Writer | Photo by Thom Milkovic on Unsplash
When my girls were little, my writing time was pared down to a few stolen minutes in the evening. I’d scribble away in a journal, writing stream-of-consciousness vignettes that I (infrequently) turned into poems. Sometimes I’d jot ideas down in these same journals, hoping to revisit ... | https://jacquelinedooley.medium.com/how-blogging-about-my-children-helped-me-become-a-professional-writer-79d8d0ee4012 | ['Jacqueline Dooley'] | 2020-11-08 15:16:54.655000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Nonfiction', 'Creativity', 'Parenting', 'Writing'] |
Committed to Success: Clara Tsang, Software Engineer at Procurify | Clara Tsang joined Commit in 2019 and quickly found a role as a front end developer with Procurify, a rapidly growing Vancouver-based startup in the spend-management software space. We sat down with Clara to hear about her journey with Commit and Procurify.
Could you tell us about your background and experience before... | https://medium.com/commit-engineering/committed-to-success-clara-tsang-software-engineer-at-procurify-fdc1e3998bab | ['Beier Cai'] | 2020-06-14 21:47:10.295000+00:00 | ['Engineering', 'Hiring For Startup', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Software Engineering'] |
The Secrets Behind How I Made $12,184.40 from One Medium Article | One cold, early morning in late January 2018, I woke at 5:30 to let my new puppy relieve himself.
While he did his business, I brewed a pot of coffee then opened my laptop to start writing. About an hour later, I had written a draft of an article that would forever change my views on what was possible writing online.
... | https://medium.com/illumination/the-secrets-behind-how-i-made-12-184-40-from-one-medium-article-2bc99e6f8a8e | ['Jason Gutierrez'] | 2020-11-10 14:54:35.583000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Motivation', 'Success', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
20 of the Best Free Online Tools for Writers | Once upon a time, the typewriter was the only piece of technology a writer had to make his work easier. Now we not only have computers, but we can also access an endless array of useful writing tools on the Internet. Best of all, many of these web applications are absolutely free!
But it takes time to hunt down these ... | https://medium.com/copywriting-secrets/20-of-the-best-free-online-tools-for-writers-8a1ce9fb725b | ['Nicole Bianchi'] | 2019-09-07 14:52:38.481000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
Massive AI Breakthrough Could Mean a New COVID-19 Pre-Screening Method in the Cards | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has recently released information about a potential game-changer in screening for COVID-19 asymptomatic patients.
So far during this pandemic, scientists have identified that there are individuals who show symptoms, and those who are infected but show no symptoms at all.... | https://medium.com/swlh/massive-ai-breakthrough-could-mean-a-new-covid-19-pre-screening-method-in-the-cards-45b0db8f8c0c | ['Natalie Mclaren'] | 2020-11-19 09:32:49.666000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Science', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Image to pencil sketch with just 2 lines of code! | Advanced Features
You can change the scale of the image to darken the image. Note that on lighter scales, the greater texture is achieved. You can change the scale in the scale parameter of the normalsketch function. Note that the scale needs to be an integer value between 1 and 10.
To tweak the scale, simply add the... | https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/image-to-pencil-sketch-in-just-2-lines-of-code-292de57be483 | ['Rahul Prabhu'] | 2020-12-22 07:13:16.049000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Image Processing', 'Art', 'Computer Vision'] |
The Neighborhood of Empty Houses | Photos by Vincent Aliquo
I came to realize my neighbors were nothing but empty houses. Homes over an extended grassy lot piled high with a diverse collection of belongings — from furniture and books to anniversary gifts. It has been over three years since I found these homes, and only recently, in my quarantined state... | https://valiquo.medium.com/the-neighborhood-of-empty-houses-d7783095298c | ['Vincent Aliquo'] | 2020-11-04 18:56:18.424000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Exploration', 'Abandoned', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing'] |
Understanding and Using BLOBs in Your Application (Part I) | What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘blob’? Without any context, it sure sounds like an obscure, mystic object you are playing against in a game of Minecraft. I can almost bet we have all seen the horrifying manifestation of our definition of BLOB on the web somewhere. However, in the... | https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-and-using-blobs-in-your-application-part-i-3b8a81806437 | ['Shruti Chaturvedi'] | 2020-11-25 07:15:02.747000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'Nodejs', 'React', 'Data', 'Web Apps'] |
It’s Not My Fault You’re Angry | The just-world hypothesis states that if something bad happens to you, you must have deserved it. Conversely, that if you’re bad, you will one day get your comeuppance.
This leads to victim-blaming: “You were robbed? Well, what were you doing out late at night?”
“What did you do to upset him?”
In reality, the world ... | https://elliedaforge.medium.com/its-not-my-fault-you-re-angry-dfc3238ed193 | ['Ellie Daforge'] | 2018-11-18 15:07:51.266000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Wellness', 'Psychology', 'Work'] |
Debug Google Colab and Kaggle | Hopefully, I’ll save you from getting her headache. Photo by Aiony Haust on Unsplash.
Debug Google Colab and Kaggle
You’d imagine free public datasets would be painless
This wasn’t painless. But now that I’ve figured it out, I want to save you Google-ers out there some time.
What’s Google Colab?
Colab is a way to ... | https://medium.com/python-in-plain-english/debug-google-colab-and-kaggle-2691998f29b3 | ['James Fulford'] | 2020-07-15 02:49:37.973000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Colab', 'Kaggle'] |
Could AI Appreciate Art? | Could an AI understand or appreciate art? Is it possible for a computer to form a critical opinion? Or have an aesthetic response? What does it “see” when it looks at a work of art? To explore these and other questions, we enlisted an AI (or, more precisely, several AI models) to co-produce this curatorial project.
Fr... | https://medium.com/swlh/could-ai-appreciate-works-of-art-part-1-36075a5d926 | ['Steve Kemple'] | 2020-12-08 06:36:03.091000+00:00 | ['AI', 'NLP', 'Computer Vision', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Art'] |
Threading the Needle: How to Save Nature and Humanity without Sacrificing Either Part II | Saving nature without sacrificing modern life is the preeminent challenge of our time. It is a complicated problem that must be attacked simultaneously from multiple angles. Failure to act on one angle will invalidate efforts on other angles.
This problem must be addressed in two distinct phases. First, we must stop l... | https://medium.com/climate-conscious/threading-the-needle-how-to-save-nature-and-humanity-without-sacrificing-either-part-ii-5806053448c7 | ['Charles Whitaker'] | 2020-11-12 21:58:21.427000+00:00 | ['Sustainability', 'Climate Change', 'Society', 'Future', 'Culture'] |
Create a String Reversal Microservice on AWS Lambda Using Java | Server-side code
Now comes the part where we actually create our Lambda function using Java. Go the AWS Console and search for Lambda. Create a lambda function and name it whatever you want and use any Java runtime. I used Java 11 for this. Click into your newly created function and note down the ARN number on the top... | https://medium.com/swlh/create-a-string-reversal-microservice-on-aws-lambda-using-java-5104f61400b5 | ['Akshay Kumar'] | 2020-07-21 16:26:59.036000+00:00 | ['AWS', 'Programming', 'Java', 'AWS Lambda', 'Microservices'] |
This Is How The Brain Multiplies Problems! | PSYCHOLOGY
This Is How The Brain Multiplies Problems!
Oh, Brain Oh! How Complicated You Are!
Photo by Tim Doerfler on Unsplash
The brain multiplies the problems as a result of a cognitive bias that leads to installation and development patterns that are then generalized or over-applied for no real reason.
This is ... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/this-is-how-the-brain-multiplies-problems-838239434fd | ['Munawwar Goonoo'] | 2020-11-11 16:31:20.642000+00:00 | ['Psychology', 'Brain', 'Neuroscience', 'Problems'] |
The Case For Eating a 90% Plant-Based Diet | The Case For Eating a 90% Plant-Based Diet
Don’t let conflicting advice and binary labels get in the way of making healthy changes
Photo by Chantal Garnier on Unsplash
What are we really supposed to eat?
Whatever you want the answer to be, you will find an expert advocating for it. Whether it’s Paleo, Keto, Vegan, ... | https://medium.com/the-road-to-wellness/the-case-for-eating-90-plant-based-924b2c8b31e5 | ['Julia Blum'] | 2020-08-11 00:39:20.613000+00:00 | ['Sustainability', 'Wellness', 'Food', 'Diet', 'Health'] |
Blocked | Sometimes it just grows.
Like a seedling, forcing its way up
through the crust of the earth.
Birthed from that great brown womb,
secret and strange.
Those mysterious inner depths.
Blooming, baptized by life’s storms.
I remember the pen dancing,
a living extension of my hand.
The words flowing like water,
a ta... | https://medium.com/ninja-writers/blocked-8c75bf6a959c | ['Sarah Lynn Terzo'] | 2020-10-18 18:38:18.377000+00:00 | ['Composing', 'Writing', 'Poetry', 'Creativity', 'Music'] |
Will AI Help Us Solve The Hard Problem of Consciousness? | The question about the emergence of consciousness is perhaps the most important question humanity should attempt to answer.
Consciousness and its contents are at the root of everything. Consciousness is what is responsible for all of the greatest artifacts of culture that humanity has created: art, music, science, phi... | https://tjajal.medium.com/will-ai-help-us-solve-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-7a9013f5e052 | ['Tannya D. Jajal'] | 2020-09-01 12:29:33.340000+00:00 | ['Neuroscience', 'Consciousness', 'Philosophy', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Future'] |
Managing AMIs using CloudFormation | One of the long-time missing pieces of CloudFormation is AMIs (Amazon Linux Images). Creating custom AMIs allows you to launch new EC2 instances pre-configured to your liking (operating system, installed packages, hardened security, etc).
Thankfully, here at Poka, we have developed a solution that allows you to easily... | https://medium.com/poka-techblog/managing-amis-using-cloudformation-a097f86a3622 | ['Simon-Pierre Gingras'] | 2018-05-31 20:38:50.443000+00:00 | ['Cloud Computing', 'Python', 'DevOps', 'Infrastructure', 'AWS'] |
AWS — Deploying Angular App With Java On Elastic Beanstalk | AWS — Deploying Angular App With Java On Elastic Beanstalk
A step by step guide with an example project
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash
AWS provides more than 100 services and it’s very important to know which service you should select for your needs. If you want to deploy an application quickly without any worry about ... | https://medium.com/bb-tutorials-and-thoughts/aws-deploying-angular-app-with-java-on-elastic-beanstalk-f3db3d6a7abe | ['Bhargav Bachina'] | 2020-05-06 14:29:34.988000+00:00 | ['Cloud Computing', 'Java', 'Angular', 'AWS', 'Programming'] |
The Next Wave of Startups Is Coming Out of Nature | As company founder Louis Rosenberg explains:
“Nature has spent millions of years trying to optimize how living things operate together, because they can solve very complicated problems together, and ultimately are able to survive by thinking as a system.”
In a swarm, survival depends on deciding where to go to find f... | https://medium.com/swlh/the-next-wave-of-startups-is-coming-out-of-nature-1d5061c68b24 | ['Sam Nattress'] | 2020-07-04 07:47:35.312000+00:00 | ['Innovation', 'AI', 'Startup', 'Biomimicry', 'Environment'] |
Platform for success: The Telegraph’s big data transformation | At The Telegraph, the Data Team is a cross-functional group of engineers that manages the core big data platform. It has the responsibility to orchestrate hundreds of batch and real-time data pipelines in order to ensure that the process of data ingestion and transformation is performed on time and is compliant with th... | https://medium.com/the-telegraph-engineering/platform-for-success-the-telegraphs-big-data-transformation-e09aa7608832 | ['Stefano Solimito'] | 2018-11-22 21:54:54.485000+00:00 | ['Etl', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Data Lake', 'Data Engineering', 'Big Data'] |
Music — Remedy. Music has the power to change the way… | Executive Producer Kanye West has had a slow decline over the past few years, in aspects other than his music. His battle with bipolar disorder is becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide from the public eye.
He has a new track feature on Playboi Carti’s album, Whole Lotta Red. I’m not a Kanye West fan by any m... | https://medium.com/illumination/music-remedy-3ffd3eeb2fab | ['Joseph M. Learned'] | 2020-12-26 21:00:23.292000+00:00 | ['Psychology', 'Anxiety', 'Depression', 'Music', 'Mental Health'] |
The Three-Act, Eight-Sequence Story Structure | There’s something I always find fascinating about story theory.
It seems like it’s going to be complicated.
I mean, come on.
Three-act, eight-sequence story structure?
It sure as hell sounds complicated.
That’s twelve balls to keep in the air, right?
And if some one just throws that at you and you’ve never heard ... | https://medium.com/the-1000-day-mfa/the-three-act-eight-sequence-story-structure-46126febe4f9 | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2019-08-07 14:30:21.602000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Movies', 'Fiction', 'Books', 'Creativity'] |
Lou Rhodes on Lamb, lockdown, and her new book for children | If you’re looking for an easy, affordable gift for a small child, the digital version of the charming picture book The Phlunk is beautiful, and works seamlessly on an iPad. With gorgeous illustrations by Tori Elliott and read by its author, Lou Rhodes, it’s about a cute, cat-like alien with huge ears that enable it to ... | https://medium.com/creative-living/lou-rhodes-on-lamb-lockdown-and-her-new-book-for-children-13701d1204cb | ['Sheryl Garratt'] | 2020-12-08 11:50:51.805000+00:00 | ['Self Publishing', 'Writing', 'Books', 'Crwativity', 'Music'] |
Our FAQs | Writers
What happens when I submit my article to TDS?
Thank you so much for taking the time to submit your article to our team! We will review it as soon as we can.
If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#9c5b | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
Want a Better Pitch? Play This Game. | Want a Better Pitch? Play This Game.
Teaching pitch structure to CEOs, founders, and Uber engineers.
In the last four weeks, I’ve led strategic messaging workshops for Uber’s engineering team (on how to use narrative structure to more effectively pitch ideas to internal colleagues), for the founders of an Andreessen ... | https://medium.com/firm-narrative/uber-pitch-game-engineers-ceos-de7ada730a89 | ['Andy Raskin'] | 2016-08-22 14:27:04.832000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Fundraising', 'Pitching'] |
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom | Nat got herself a cup of coffee and took her seat. This was her second meeting since getting the prism from Lyle; last week she’d been planning on announcing that she wasn’t going to be coming back, but she had wound up hardly saying anything at all. So she had had to attend at least one more and say that she was going... | https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freedom-b5ab45cae2a5 | ['Ted Chiang'] | 2020-08-13 17:24:07.890000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Science Fiction', 'Future', 'Science', 'Books'] |
Why Taoism’s Best Idea & Our Most Radical Environmental Restoration Plans Are Made For Each Other | Photo by Owain McGuire on Unsplash. Lion Sands Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa
The gentlest thing in the world
overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
performing without actions:
that... | https://craig-axford.medium.com/why-taoisms-best-idea-our-most-radical-environmental-restoration-plans-are-made-for-each-other-cbc988658a3 | ['Craig Axford'] | 2018-08-22 00:07:51.345000+00:00 | ['Sustainability', 'Politics', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Philosophy'] |
Make Your Working Day Work for You | Make Your Working Day Work for You
Dealing with task switching and interruptions, from a Neuroscience Graduate
Photo by Roman Koval from Pexels
When I was an employee, the worst jobs I had were the ones where my boss or line manager would give me new tasks one after the other, without considering that I was trying t... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/make-your-working-day-work-for-you-ed66e35d9d08 | ['Sarah K Brandis'] | 2020-11-19 17:49:44.103000+00:00 | ['Neuroscience', 'Psychology', 'Work', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Study'] |
The key to scaling your business (and maintaining your sanity, too) | I had no idea how to manage or motivate people.
When it was just our first employee and I in the office, we ate lunch together every day. We talked and shared ideas, and I discovered what made him feel productive and engaged.
Slowly, I learned how to collaborate, while also serving as “the boss.” It was on-the-job le... | https://medium.com/swlh/the-key-to-scaling-your-business-and-maintaining-your-sanity-too-2f2fff99e556 | ['Aytekin Tank'] | 2019-06-12 14:17:43.725000+00:00 | ['Culture', 'Psychology', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
3 Engineering Mistakes That Will Botch Scale | 1. Too Much Focus on What Was There Before
Legacy code haunts every engineer. We tell ourselves, “Don’t touch it, it works” as the systems grow outdated. New exploits loom darkly. Once-enthusiastic users get bored with the same old experiences. We convince ourselves to “respect” what was there because “It was the righ... | https://medium.com/better-programming/3-toxic-engineering-attitudes-that-botch-scale-709b0672747 | ['Jon Mclachlan'] | 2020-08-31 15:20:21.417000+00:00 | ['Software Development', 'Business', 'Engineering', 'Startup', 'Software Engineering'] |
How to Create Custom Video Controls in React Native | Requirements
You should be familiar with JavasScript and have some basic knowledge of React and React Native. I am going to be using Expo to initialize the app and I’ll be using their Video component. I am running this code on my iOS device using the Expo app. The same general principles should apply if you want to us... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/how-to-create-custom-video-controls-in-react-native-f8d28ce22052 | ['Freedom Evenden'] | 2020-12-23 10:20:09.077000+00:00 | ['Mobile App Development', 'JavaScript', 'React Native', 'Development', 'React'] |
How to Delete Your Carbon Footprint | You’ve got mail! It used to be so exciting and romantic to get an email. At least Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan made it seem that way. The somewhat prophetic plot of that movie was built around a corporate giant putting a boutique bookstore out of business. Since the founding of the first American e-commerce company in 1969 (... | https://medium.com/an-idea/how-to-delete-your-carbon-footprint-71cec5dcb596 | ['Carbon Radio'] | 2020-11-20 12:57:46.849000+00:00 | ['Sustainability', 'Design', 'Life', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] |
The Rule of Cool | And don’t even get me started on disintegrations. Credit: Lucasfilm
The Rule of Cool
We love mysterious characters. Why then do creators feel compelled to ruin the mystique
Admit it, Boba Fett was way cooler before.
Before we knew he was the original clone, brother to 200,000, with a million more on the way. Before... | https://medium.com/fan-fare/the-rule-of-cool-2b7f2ea82dd9 | ['Eric Pierce'] | 2019-05-19 11:43:50.265000+00:00 | ['Star Wars', 'Writing', 'Film', 'Books', 'Creativity'] |
Data Storytelling: Appealing to Logic and Perspective | Data Visualization — Part 7
Data Storytelling: Appealing to Logic and Perspective
Data Storytelling provides a presenter with the ability to appeal to logic and perspective at the same time.
Leveraging storytelling concepts helps to communicate effectively with data because data (numbers and non-emotional informatio... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/data-storytelling-appealing-to-logic-and-perspective-a6a6831ffe98 | ['Kristi Pelzel'] | 2020-12-10 20:24:47.775000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Marketing', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Storytelling'] |
How Coursera uses psychology to make education addictive | How Coursera uses psychology to make education addictive
The behavioral science principles behind their experience
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
Coursera, the online education platform, was founded by professors at Stanford University. During the height of the global lockdown in early 2020, Coursera added 10 mi... | https://medium.com/choice-hacking/how-coursera-uses-psychology-to-make-education-addictive-e0c6421379b0 | ['Jennifer Clinehens'] | 2020-09-29 08:54:24.692000+00:00 | ['UX', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Startup', 'Marketing'] |
Our FAQs | Writers
What happens when I submit my article to TDS?
Thank you so much for taking the time to submit your article to our team! We will review it as soon as we can.
If we believe that your article is excellent and ready to go, this is how you will be able to add your post to our publication. If “Towards Data Science... | https://medium.com/p/462571b65b35#a316 | ['Tds Editors'] | 2020-11-19 01:16:58.476000+00:00 | ['Writers’ Guide', 'Tds Team', 'Writers Guide'] |
A Meditation on Not Being a Dick to Yourself | A Meditation on Not Being a Dick to Yourself
It’s possible to hold yourself accountable with compassion
Photo: Kohei Hara/Getty Images
A few days ago, I was sitting at the piano. It had been a while. I used to play pretty regularly, but these days I’m not what you’d call a musician. I’ll jam with my husband every on... | https://humanparts.medium.com/a-meditation-on-not-being-a-dick-to-yourself-7c907c5500d2 | ['Mollie Birney'] | 2020-04-27 14:01:01.519000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Will A Robot Take Your Writing Job? | Will A Robot Take Your Writing Job?
The pandemic has accelerated automation in non-creative fields, but are creative jobs vulnerable, too?
Photo by Photos Hobby on Unsplash
Since the 1700s, when Luddites started smashing English looms, automation has been putting people out of work.
In the 20th century, automation ... | https://kaydems.medium.com/will-a-robot-take-your-writing-job-c03749a8c7ef | ['Kaye Dems'] | 2020-11-01 18:08:42.515000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Automation', 'Deep Learning', 'Writing'] |
Embracing the startup mindset | Canva Behind the Scenes
Embracing the startup mindset
Congratulations! You’ve taken the leap from your 9–5 job for a new job at a startup. Now what?
Written by Guy Kawasaki — Chief Evangelist at Canva
So you’ve taken the plunge and left your traditional 9 to 5 for a new job at a startup. After countless nerve-wrack... | https://medium.com/canva/embracing-the-startup-mindset-edd3638e9bc2 | ['Canva Team'] | 2020-05-13 03:00:05.377000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Work', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Careers'] |
AI & Big-Data can help tackle Covid-19’s spread | Adapting social distancing policies via the monitoring of crucial home and public behaviour data can help contain the Covid-19 offensive.
Let’s take a closer look in this, widely circulated, chart regarding the progression of the infections:
The Infection Trajectory as depicted by the reported cases vs. the days sinc... | https://medium.com/predict/how-big-data-can-help-us-tackle-covid-19s-spread-8bda64b3adde | ['Dimitris Vayenas'] | 2020-08-20 07:02:16.884000+00:00 | ['Covid 19', 'AI', 'Big Data', 'Health'] |
How Google Got Its Employees to Eat Their Vegetables | How Google Got Its Employees to Eat Their Vegetables
The tech giant is engineering a way to encourage its employees to eat healthier — and it might just help the rest of the country
Tina Williams eats greens for breakfast every day. She didn’t always. There was a time when the only vegetables she regularly ate were c... | https://onezero.medium.com/how-google-got-its-employees-to-eat-their-vegetables-a2206820d90d | ['Jane Black'] | 2020-02-10 02:38:42.315000+00:00 | ['Google', 'Vegetables', 'Engineering', 'Health', 'Industry'] |
Burnout Symptoms vs. Depression Symptoms | Every year, dozens of medical leaders and health care administrators travel to Half Moon Bay, California, a beach town 30 miles south of San Francisco, to learn how to help their doctors combat burnout. The Chief Wellness Officer course is part of Stanford’s WellMD Center, an initiative designed to keep stressed-out do... | https://elemental.medium.com/what-if-burnout-is-actually-depression-7c69125300e9 | ['Ashley Abramson'] | 2020-02-17 15:49:05.018000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Brain', 'Psychology', 'Burnout'] |
Peer Review is Not Scientific | Peer Review is Not Scientific
How a process designed to ensure scientific rigor is tainted by randomness, bias, and arbitrary delays.
A mess of papers. Image by Christa Dodoo, edited by author in Pixlr.
In my last essay, I discussed the ways in which the academic publishing process is unnecessarily slow, labor-inten... | https://devonprice.medium.com/peer-review-is-not-scientific-bf3283069ffd | ['Devon Price'] | 2018-06-18 21:05:51.613000+00:00 | ['Education', 'Publishing', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Writing'] |
How The Pandemic Affected My Creativity | In 2019, I was playing in two bands and filling in on a third. I was writing almost daily on Medium and working on a novel. I was burning the creative oil.
Then a one-two sucker punch hit me. The Medium Partner Program change and the Great Interruption (Covid-19 pandemic.)
And let’s not forget massive social upheaval... | https://medium.com/creative-humans/how-the-pandemic-affected-my-creativity-1d3b02f012ce | ['Mark Starlin'] | 2020-12-12 18:02:21.567000+00:00 | ['Writing', 'Music', 'Pandemic', 'Creativity', 'Life'] |
Are Trees the Silver Bullets to Solve Climate Change? | “The word “restore” is defined as the act of returning something back to its original state, but it’s also the act of returning it back to its original owners. The restoration of nature is for the local biodiversity and the communities that depend on it. And as that network grows, the collective action benefits everyon... | https://medium.com/discourse/are-trees-the-silver-bullets-to-solve-climate-change-f299f63f1c27 | ['Carbon Radio'] | 2020-10-21 16:15:18.388000+00:00 | ['Nature', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Future', 'Sustainability'] |
Why “Yield” Is an Excellent Python Keyword — Generators and Coroutines | Suspend and Resume Execution in Coroutines
Note: It’s important to know that Python is phasing out the use of generators as the basis for coroutines. Check the official documentation. However, the concept of coroutines can be easy to understand if we know that yield has the meaning of “giving way.”
In this usage, it’... | https://medium.com/better-programming/why-yield-is-an-excellent-python-keyword-generators-and-coroutines-d0d9d9403171 | ['Yong Cui'] | 2020-11-04 17:48:37.297000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
My Technology Collection | I am a technology leader, inventor, and entrepreneur in technology, cognitive science, and digital content development fields with four decades of experience. I have been practising and researching technology in academia and industry. My Enterprise Architecture experience was certified at the distinguished level and De... | https://medium.com/illumination-curated/my-technology-collection-68b25729b22e | ['Dr Mehmet Yildiz'] | 2020-12-11 10:02:50.251000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Design Thinking', 'Writing', 'Design'] |
How I Use Powerful Life Stories as Fuel for My Writing | Whether we write fiction or non, we need input for memorable output
Photo by Peter Kasprzyk on Unsplash
I had a life-changing moment in high school, but there was a two-year delay in the life-changing part of the experience. It was one of those typical assemblies where some guest speaker shares educational slides abo... | https://medium.com/the-book-mechanic/how-i-learned-to-use-powerful-life-stories-as-fuel-for-my-writing-9817ddc7706 | ['August Birch'] | 2019-04-10 13:41:52.818000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Self Improvement', 'Books', 'Writing', 'Life'] |
The 4 Most Important Things I Learned From Haruki Murakami’s Writing Philosophy | The 4 Most Important Things I Learned From Haruki Murakami’s Writing Philosophy Casimir Mura Follow Oct 4 · 7 min read
These are the gems I unearthed from his ‘memoir’.
Haruki Murakami | Source
Haruki Murakami is a novelist. And although he may not exactly look like it, he’s also a marathon writer. In his book What ... | https://medium.com/swlh/the-4-most-important-things-i-learned-from-haruki-murakamis-writing-philosophy-4623a84d3519 | ['Casimir Mura'] | 2020-10-06 01:29:55.537000+00:00 | ['Fiction', 'Writing', 'Japanese', 'Creativity', 'Books'] |
How Much Juice Is in the Story? | How Much Juice Is in the Story?
What I learned from messing around for 3 months — 2 proven tactics to write killer content
Photo by Lidya from Pexels
When life gives you lemons, you squeeze them. Nothing else.
Real tight, let’s see how much juice is coming out. Some lemons give you enough to make 3 liters of fresh ... | https://medium.com/the-brave-writer/how-much-juice-is-in-the-story-34778baad3bd | ['Jessie Van Breugel'] | 2020-12-24 13:02:36.891000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Inspiration', 'Writing'] |
Designing for AI: Trust | At IBM, we’re building software solutions that help our users make smarter decisions faster. In the world of data and artificial intelligence (AI), it all comes down to designing products our users can trust enough to help them make those important decisions.
This focus on trust goes beyond data security and validatio... | https://medium.com/design-ibm/designing-for-ai-trust-ae0342d2b270 | ['Arin Bhowmick'] | 2020-09-03 13:54:42.158000+00:00 | ['AI', 'Data Science', 'UX', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Design'] |
35 Actionable Tips to Grow Your Medium Blog | 1.
T I M I N G
Publish on a Saturday morning to increase your chances of standing out. You will quickly notice you will even be able to make it to the Medium Top 20 during some weekends with just a few recommendations.
2.
P U S H
Bring your first audience from outside. It is way easier for your story to get notice... | https://medium.com/swlh/35-actionable-tips-to-grow-your-medium-blog-4e4017b89905 | ['Ali Mese'] | 2020-05-12 19:53:54.564000+00:00 | ['Tech', 'Startup', 'Writing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blogger'] |
This Is My Problem Not Yours | This Is My Problem Not Yours
Losing It
I open my personalized home page
and feel madly overwhelmed
my whimsical escapism caged.
Underscoring my guilt-ridden conscience
I cannot cope with the suggestions presented
of poems and prose and stories from writers
I follow, appreciate and admire but have
increasingly ... | https://medium.com/blueinsight/this-is-my-problem-not-yours-ffd1bf51c23e | ['Sylvia Wohlfarth'] | 2020-12-12 04:06:55.734000+00:00 | ['Blue Insights', 'Mental Health', 'Motivation', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
Convert Commenters Into Leads with a Facebook Auto Responder for Page Posts | Convert Commenters Into Leads with a Facebook Auto Responder for Page Posts Larry Kim Follow Mar 18 · 10 min read
It can be really difficult to get views and engagement on Facebook page posts these days. Last year, Facebook post engagement dropped 50% YoY!
But in order to gather more leads, your business can’t be pub... | https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/convert-commenters-into-leads-with-a-facebook-auto-responder-for-page-posts-e37641ad7ec8 | ['Larry Kim'] | 2020-03-18 09:36:00.860000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Facebook Chatbot', 'Marketing', 'Chatbots', 'Facebook'] |
Stephen King Writes Non-Fiction Too | Stephen King Writes Non-Fiction Too
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft does a masterful job of describing the writing craft, while weaving in King’s personal story.
Many may know this fact by now, but Stephen King, the decorated novelist, once wrote a non-fiction book. Although I am fairly late to the game, considerin... | https://sebastian-stone.medium.com/stephen-king-writes-non-fiction-too-49181ca82f05 | ['Sebastian Stone'] | 2018-12-15 18:44:47.008000+00:00 | ['Books', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Stephen King', 'Writing'] |
25 Quotes by Toni Morrison That Will Inspire You to Write | Toni Morrison (1931–2019) born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, and named Chole Anthony Wolford at birth.
Morrison was a highly acclaimed American novelist, book editor, essayist and college professor. Her writing focused on her perception of the black experience within black communities, specifically the black ... | https://medium.com/the-brave-writer/25-quotes-by-toni-morrison-that-will-inspire-you-to-write-8c63b263f552 | ['Cheryl Brown'] | 2019-12-11 18:07:19.085000+00:00 | ['Writers On Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Motivation', 'Writing'] |
Risks and Benefits of Artificial Intelligence on Climate Change | Artificial intelligence — a potential solution?
To start off, let's listen to Jack Ma. We have a bright future with AI relieving some of the many burdens for humans. It seems as though the market is on the rise and that AI will be a part of our society more and more. According to this site, in 2020 the AI market is ex... | https://medium.com/predict/risks-and-benefits-of-artificial-intelligence-on-climate-change-e3d05a455e40 | ['Oliver Zatch'] | 2020-12-20 20:47:54.919000+00:00 | ['Sustainability', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Climate Change', 'Future'] |
You are Rediscovering Yourself. And the epiphanies of lockdown are many | Everything around you bears witness to life but you do not always see it that way. Once you begin to notice it, the ordinary turns every moment into a scavenger hunt for of joy replete with the promise of more. A rainbow appears in your kitchen, bright blue with a yellow handle bursting with multicolor packaging. What ... | https://asingularstory.medium.com/you-are-rediscovering-yourself-d5dd25c0af5 | ['A Singular Story'] | 2020-04-16 16:53:24.616000+00:00 | ['Society', 'Mental Health', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Social Media'] |
Productivity Spelled Backwards Is Self-Discovery | Productivity Spelled Backwards Is Self-Discovery
When you work on the right things, productivity takes care of itself
Public domain image via FreeVintageIllustrations
Earlier this morning, I was sipping a delicious cup of coffee and reading one of my favorite weekly newsletter from Austin Kleon.
He linked to a wond... | https://medium.com/curious/productivity-spelled-backwards-is-self-discovery-34d62f7c147 | ['Nick Wignall'] | 2020-09-12 22:10:34.727000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Inspiration', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Creativity'] |
This Foodie Startup Grew to $27 Million While Saving the World | Connecting the Right Parties and Scaling Up
There is something Uber, Airbnb, and Couchsurfing all have in common. Something that the team of Too Good To Go presumably observed and implemented. As a matter of fact, successfully implemented.
Uber connects people who own a car with individuals who would like to go somew... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/this-foodie-startup-grew-to-100-million-while-saving-the-world-a1cd40fb3bb0 | ['Esther Brhlik'] | 2020-07-27 16:00:07.401000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Innovation', 'Sustainability', 'Food', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Apache Spark-3.0 Sneek peak | Apache Spark has remained strong over the years and now is coming back with one of its major releases with its ongoing goal of Unified Analytics to blend both Batch and Streaming world into one. Let’s see some of the features of it.
Improved Optimizer and Catalog Delta Lake (Acid Transactions) + Linux Foundation Koala... | https://towardsdatascience.com/apache-spark-3-0-sneek-peak-284da5ad4166 | ['Jayvardhan Reddy'] | 2019-11-25 04:03:05.397000+00:00 | ['Big Data', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Apache Spark'] |
A Simple Framework For Writing Blog Posts | One of the most frequent conversations I have with people who want to be bloggers is that it takes them so long to write a blog post. Several hours, or even days, to come up with a thousand words they can hit publish on.
For a long time, I was at a loss. If you can write more than 10 words per minute, it really should... | https://medium.com/the-write-brain/a-simple-framework-for-writing-blog-posts-de5e64022f58 | ['Shaunta Grimes'] | 2020-07-12 22:37:01.920000+00:00 | ['Byob', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Creativity', 'Productivity'] |
Fix broken Docker Development on Apple Macbook M1 | Docker Is Not Supported on Apple M1 MacBooks/Mini
Docker is based on Golang and needs virtualization support. Getting Go to support the new architecture is not a problem and will be solved soon.
The big problem is virtualization support, which was always a problem for Docker on windows where Windows Home had no suppo... | https://medium.com/better-programming/macbook-m1-breaks-docker-development-14566ab6fa2e | ['Andreas Heissenberger'] | 2020-12-01 15:58:30.517000+00:00 | ['Docker', 'Startup', 'Apple', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
🍷 Everyone Was Drunk that Day | E S S A Y
🍷 Everyone Was Drunk that Day
Or an old lady
Illustration by Rolli
War and Peace was overdue again so I carried it back to the library with both hands.
It was October, but it was snowing.
Everyone was drunk that day or an old lady. Three drunks asked me for money, though I only had a pair of quarters o... | https://medium.com/pillowmint/everyone-was-drunk-that-day-8975c6ec49c1 | ['Rolli', 'Https', 'Ko-Fi.Com Rolliwrites'] | 2020-07-02 21:09:21.729000+00:00 | ['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Life', 'Books', 'Coronavirus'] |
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