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Want Success? Play the Long Game
By: Kley Feitosa
Tags: Education, Learning, Success, Purpose, Passion

Last week I came across this on Twitter:

Almost everyone today expects instant gratification… also, the gratification is in being recognized rather than in doing the work. When we look up to people we admire, we easily forget the many hours of hard work under no recognition that comes before success, like in the case of Leonardo da Vinci. To achieve success, you must love what you do. I would argue that passion — not recognition — for one’s occupation is the best measure of success. How much do you love what you do? When you love what you do, the reward is doing the thing you love.

If you haven’t seen this video you should. It’s short

Part two is also very interesting and complements part one

We can only engage in the “long game” if we find purpose and passion in what we do. Are we enabling students to find purpose and passion?

By the way, I also love this idea of the video essay and Adam does a great job at this.

Learning in focus — I need to find my passion and be rewarded in doing the work itself.
Four Old Guys Go To The Center Of The Earth
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Movies, Science, Humor, Four Old Guys, Adventure

Wally: Have you ever invented anything?

Jack: I invented the Jackburger.

Vern: Putting vanilla ice cream and strawberries on a hamburger bun is not an invention.

Floyd: Vern is right. It is a culinary creation. Like my Floydritto.

Wally: SPAM and ketchup wrapped in a tortilla is nasty, Floyd.

Jack: My Dad made me eat SPAM when I was a kid.

Vern: My Dad made me mow the lawn. All 5 acres. With a push mower.

Floyd: My Dad made me mow our lawn, plus our five neighbor’s yards, while eating a Floydritto.

Wally: Well, I actually invented something when I was a kid. The Reverse Pogo Stick.

Jack: Right. And I invented electric-powered solar panels.

Vern: I invented air.

Floyd: No, you invented gas. Super stinky gas.

Wally: Seriously. The Reverse Pogo Stick bounced down instead of up. And it dug a hole as it bounced.

Jack: Your story is digging a hole.

Vern: I fell in a huge hole once on the way to school. It was covered with leaves. And there was dog poop at the bottom.

Floyd: I know. Who do you think dug it? I was watching from up in the big oak tree. I still smile whenever I think about it.

Wally: Anyway, the first time I used my reverse pogo stick, I started digging deep down into the Earth. As I reached the lower levels of the Earth’s interior, I discovered glowing mushrooms. I knew then that my device would appeal to both scientist and explorers.

Jack: I think I saw this movie. The one with Pat Boone.

Vern: Did you ever hear that Pat Boone heavy metal album?

Floyd: Yeah. I play it whenever I need my cats to throw up.

Wally: Where do you think they got the idea for the movie from? Me. Although most scientists believe the Earth’s core is solid iron mixed with nickel.

Jack: Did you find any nickels? Or dimes?

Vern: I found a silver dollar in a hole once.

Floyd: Under the dog poop? It’s mine! Did you reach the center of the Earth, Wal?

Wally: Nope. I heard my Mom call out, “Dinner time.” So I flipped the switch on the pogo stick and bounced back out. After dinner, I went outside, and the pogo stick was gone.

Jack: I’ll bet it was that Billy Quickfingers. He was always stealing stuff.

Vern: Yeah, and then he just disappeared that summer.

Floyd: I wonder if he made it to the center of the Earth?

Wally: I don’t care what scientist think. They are always changing what the scientific facts are. Anyone who has watched movies knows that the center of the Earth is really a subterranean ocean. And there is a good possibility that there may be either dinosaurs or incredibly large chickens roaming around.

Jack: And giant lava-proof clamshells that people can use to ride up the vent of an erupting volcano and return to the surface.

Vern: We should go.

Floyd: I’ll call Pat Boone.
How Perfectionism Is Hurting Your Dreams
Tags: Artist, Perfectionism, Fulfillment, Goals, Writing

How Perfectionism Is Hurting Your Dreams

Fear uses a mask and the mask looks good.

A good friend of mine has been practicing his craft for many years. He has a special gift of writing and drawing that very few people have seen.

I’ve asked him several times why he’s not offering his work online and each time, I get the same answer: I want my work to be perfect enough before I do that.

Yesterday, he sent me his latest artwork and I asked him why he won’t set up a painting tutorial on Youtube. His response: I want everything to be perfect before I do that. Like the schedule, the place, I should have a nice background, etc.

To counter him, I sent my notes from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way:

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead.

A painting is never finished. A book is never finished but at a certain point you stop writing it and go on to the next thing. A film is never cut perfectly but at a certain point, you let it go and call it done. That is a normal part of creativity — letting go.

Living within these bounds, we may feel stifled, smothered, despairing and bored. But yes we feel safe. And safety is a very expensive illusion.

Usually when we say we can’t do something, what we mean is that we won’t do something unless we can guarantee that we’ll do it perfectly.

He sent no reply.

As someone who has known him and his work for many years now, it’s frustrating how his skills and talents are not being seen by the world. There are thousands of people who can appreciate what he creates, I’m sure of it.
Круглый стол Научно-исследовательского центра правовых решений в сфере применения технологий распределенного реестра
By: Bitbon System
Tags: Standards, Bitbon, Legaltech, Regulation, Blockchain Technology

The Bitbon System is a large-scale infrastructure project, which represents a decentralized platform for Contributing. https://www.bitbon.space/en/home

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Arkada Duranlar 2: Vladimir Bartol
By: Fırat Akkuş
Tags: Türkçe, Türkçe Yayın, Vladimir Bartol

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What About The Brand “YOU”?
By: Ali Mirza
Tags: Social Media, Marketing, Growth

To, all freelancers and consultants!

I know more clients = more money

And we love what we do but, we have to pay the bills. Right? So we signup as many clients as possible.

Then we spend most of our time on

Perfecting our client’s websites

Creating social media marketing campaigns

Implementing SEO

Creating Facebook Ads for our clients

Writing content for our client’s product launch page

This is all great but, we forget about our most important client i.e. “ourself”

When people ask us about our own brand or website, we typically laugh and say

Yes, we are working on it. :)

Why do we neglect our own brand?

I know what you are going to say. Ali, we are too busy and don’t have time to work on our website or write weekly blog articles.

It is hard but doable. Here are the steps I would recommend,

Start sharing your story Create content in the form of videos or blogs Share your opinion on current industry news and events If you suck at writing (like myself), just write anyways If you suck more than I do, create micro-content on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Look at this example from “eclipse42” guy. I don’t need a logo right now but, I just want to hire him anyways.

You have helped clients in the past. Right? Create short case studies on that. (Actually, I am working on this at my own blog iSocialYou)

Whatever you do to pay the bills, DO NOT neglect the brand “YOU”

YOU are your most important client.

Whatever you do for your clients, do that for your own business on the weekends (ali)

In the long run, it will help your own business. More people would take you seriously and hopefully want to work with you.

What do you think? Agree?

Even if you disagree, I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
Three Different Things: October 23, 2019
By: Sean O'Brien
Tags: Politics, Technology, YouTube, Facebook, Quantum Computing

Three Different Things: October 23, 2019

YouTube’s Radicalizing Algorithm, Facebook & the First Amendment, and Quantum Supremacy

From the paper below.

1. Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People

There is no easy solution here, but a necessary first step is to recognize the scope of the challenge. YouTube politics and alternative media are here to stay; no algorithmic tweak will put the rest of the YouTube’s powerful affordances back in the box. We urge scholars of political communication to use the descriptive information presented here as a jumping off point for more empirical and theoretical analysis of YouTube politics.

Read the paper, it’s a great read and describes a chicken-egg problem around ‘alternative’ content… that the supply is there because the demand is there and algorithms have little total effect on either. I think too little is made of the importance of scale in persuasion efficacy, however… if you think a viewpoint is popular with people like yourself, you’re simply more likely to adopt it.

2. Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know What the First Amendment Is For

“People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world,” Zuckerberg said in his address. “It’s a fifth estate, alongside the other power structures in our society.” Zuckerberg was appropriating a countercultural term: beginning in the nineteen-sixties, “the fifth estate” referred to alternative media in the United States. Now the head of a new-media monopoly was using the term to differentiate Facebook from the news media, presumably to bolster his argument that Facebook should not be held to the same standards of civic responsibility to which we hold the fourth estate.

Facebook isn’t the fifth estate — the Internet is. Facebook — with its ability to deliver micro targeted mass messaging — provides a unique power to those with money, and thus supports the same old estates we’re used to.



3. On “Quantum Supremacy”

A Quantum Supremacy pissing-match! The takeaway here is that “quantum supremacy” isn’t a universally agreed-upon term. I appreciate IBM’s take — that until quantum’s “supremacy” is demonstrated in practical terms, it’s not really achieved.
How to: Percentage of parent in atoti
By: Anastasia V Polyakova
Tags: Technology, Tableau, Data Science, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence

In the post “How to explain non-additive measures” we talked about how to use “parent” and “child” data relationships in atoti to navigate data and implement your on-the-fly allocation rules. Today let’s make use of these atoti functions to define the percentage of parent calculation.

Percentage of Parent

I’m building upon the example with a multi-level hierarchy from my previous post — an e-commerce product catalogue. The same technique can be applied to a hierarchy with just 1 level — to display a percentage of grand total.

We use atoti.parent_value to access subtotal for Sales above the current node. Having the subtotal at the parent level, we simply divide sales by the parent’s subtotal to obtain the percentage of parent:

New measure: Sales as % of Parent

As of atoti version 5.0, the parameters of the parent_value function include:

measure — subtotal for which measure to return,

on — rollup along which hierarchy(ies) and how many levels to go up that hierarchy,

apply_filters — should the parent_value respect or disregard filters in the current view when subtotal is calculated,

total_value — what to return at the very root of the hierarchy.

Now that the measure is available, let’s pick it and bring into the view:

The only issue I would like to refine is the formatting:

Setting a Formatter

As you can see, the sum of children’s percentages adds up exactly to one 1 for any node, as the measure shows contribution of subcategories into a category:

Percentage of Grand Total

Let’s create a “Sales as % of Grand Total” — this measure will visualize how much each category makes out of the total sales globally across all categories. To access the grand total, we’ll use atoti.total function:

New measure: Sales as % of Grand Total

The new measure will display the contribution of a category into the total sales across all categories, i.e. “Kitchenware” makes almost 19% of total sales, mainly thanks to the subcategory “Large appliances” which brings 12 % of total sales.

What’s the difference between the parent and the grand total

For a hierarchy with just 1 level, or in other words when an attribute is a list of values, the percentage of parent and percentage of grand total are essentially the same. However, when an attribute is a tree, then you can use the atoti.parent_value function to access desired subtotals, and atoti.total to access the very root, or the grand total.

Instead of the conclusion

Thank you for reading this tutorial, I hope it’s helpful. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Sky TV Effed-Up Captioning
By: Marla Bishop
Tags: Television, Poetry, BlackLivesMatter, Change, Activism

Is it deliberate

Do you think

that your captions really stink?

Say her name fills the screen

But her name is nowhere to seen

The life and death of…

Space found for ‘new, exclusive,

really, moving’

By leaving out her name

What are you proving?

That Black lives matter not to you?

The truth of the matter is fully on view

Say her name, you mock with derision

And anger is all that fills my vision

Her name is SANDRA BLAND

SANDRA BLAND SANDRA BLAND

Put it IN where it belongs

And stop adding more wrong on wrongs
Pay now, or pay later.
By: Ed Pike
Tags: Startup, Change, Emotional Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Bite sized leadship advice

We like immediate rewards, to mark things as done. We often take the short cuts that are presented to us. Why not?

When it comes to implementing change in an organisation we have two choices; pay now, or pay later.

Pay now is investing the time in getting the implementation strategy right, keeping the organisation just within the capacity that it has for change, being flexible and adjusting to what we know. What we call an irrational plan.

Pay later is when we use a standard process, fixed timelines with little adaptability. A rational plan. When the implementation fails to reach adoption, or is sustained it has to be re-worked, or simply abandoned. The pay later.

No surprises. The financial cost of paying later is typically higher than the cost of paying now. So why do most change implementations pay later?

Is it because

We committed to a Steering Committee that we would ‘go-live’ on a date, we have printed the t-shirts and we are too embarassed to say that we may have to change the date. Why do we need an implementation strategy? We did posters and a rational plan last time, so that must be how things are done, right? (few programmes measure adoption rates). We used up all the time on development and testing, which took longer than we thought, we don’t have much time left to do a implementation strategy.

Whatever the reason, stop the high failure rates of adoption within projects by investing the time (days not weeks) in a great implementation strategy.

Not sure if you need an implementation strategy, then ask yourself the Three Killer Questions to know the value you have at risk and the level of risk you are carrying.

Some practical advice

Know the value you have at risk and the level of risk Know your environment (History, culture, leadership commitment) Know the outcome that you are looking to deliver Build your irrational plan and the measures for success Give your sponsors and stakeholders an informed choice; pay now, or pay later

This is part of our Leadership Wizdom series, bite sized leadership advice for leaders who wish to improve their leadership, but don’t have much time. For more indepth articles check out The Change Wizard.

We coach leaders and help their organisations become more adaptable at www.thechangewizard.com
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By: Huobi Global
Tags: Coinmarketcal, Buytezos, Huobi, Tezos

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If the price breaks resistance near $2.2967, just below the monthly open, the equal highs near $2.5565 provide an appealing first target. Bullish continuation through the resistance beginning at $2.6211 would hint that the next target is the swing high near $2.9647.

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Five Lessons in Being Busy
By: Creative Awesomeness
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Love, Dreams

I postponed a client deployment / mtg today just to attend to planning and technical meetings. I am still shuffling my schedules here and there. Getting more and more busy. Do I love it? Hmm honestly there’s love and hate but overall love because it gets me going. I always couldn’t help but share this lifestyle. But what really are the lessons here?

Pursuing a dream requires a lot of effort and stress. Stress and efforts are merely psychology and right mindset. Growth entails inevitable hard work and resilience Courage is one of the key traits in pursuing growth. This is my choice. i am already living my dreams. i should love my choice.
4 Ways To Make Money With BITCOIN
By: Jennifer Jose
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Mining

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Where Are They Now?
By: U.S.Fish Wildlife Alaska
Tags: Birds, Nature, Wildlife, Migration, Environment

Buff-breasted Sandpiper: Then & Now

Once a wee chick bobbling around the tundra with his siblings, Buff invested in some property this past summer in Arctic Refuge in hopes of attracting a mate. “It’s my dance pad.” On finally adulting? “I lek it a lot” he said. Wait, that’s what she said. And then she took what she needed and raised the kids elsewhere.

Male buff-breasted sandpipers gather in small groups called “leks” to try and outdo each other in catching the attention of females. USFWS/Shiloh Schulte

Where is he now? The lek disbanded (for now) and all the Buffs have flown south. They’ll winter in South America.

Red Phalarope Then:

Red Phalarope chicks. USFWS/Lisa Hupp

Red Phalarope Now:
GraphQL Essentials You Need to Know as an iOS Developer
By: Natascha Fadeeva
Tags: Apollo, GraphQL, Swift, Programming, API

GraphQL Basic Concepts

Queries

In the example above, we already saw a GraphQL query in its short form. Queries are used to get data from a server, like with a GET request in REST. Let’s look at the basic parts of a query:

Basic parts of a GraphQL query.

We used the long form of a query here and gave it the name Order . In production apps, you will mostly use this long form to add more readability to your code.

To be able to reuse queries, GraphQL offers variables that you can pass in as arguments into the query. In our example, the id of an order is passed in as an argument. The exclamation point ! behind the argument indicates that it is required. Without it, the argument would be optional.

A field is a unit of data you are asking for that ends up as a field in your JSON response data. So for the query above, you would get a JSON response that looks like this:

JSON response for the GraphQL query.

Mutations

When working with APIs, you also want to mutate, delete, or create new data. As an equivalent to POST, PUT, and DELETE requests in REST, so-called mutations are used in GraphQL.

Mutations consist of the same parts as a query. A mutation for creating a new order could look like this:

Example of a GraphQL mutation.

Here, the order data that is needed to create one is passed in as an argument of type OrderInput . In the same way as with a query, you define fields that should be returned in the response. The mutation above will return the id of the freshly created order.

GraphQL schema and explorer

As a front-end developer, you need to know what kind of data you can ask for and what fields you can select. That’s where the schema comes in. Each GraphQL service defines a set of types that completely describe all the possible data you can query or mutate as a client. When you send a query to that service, it will be executed against that schema to check if it is valid.

And to explore that schema, GraphQL services often offer an in-browser explorer like GraphiQL. With GraphiQL, you can write and test your queries against the service. It offers documentation and supports debugging as you type, giving hints and pointing out errors. In the image below, you can see GitHub’s GraphiQL service for exploring their API in action:

Fragments

This is the last GraphQL concept I would like to introduce. Fragments are reusable units that can be used when building more complicated queries. For example, you could extract the supplier behind an ordered product into a separate fragment to reuse it in different queries.

Example of a GraphQL fragment.

When fetching an order, you can now use the defined fragment like this:
Here is my minimalist Linux setup that I will use forever
By: Shalitha Suranga
Tags: Technology, Productivity, Linux, Ubuntu, Minimalism

Desktop

I am having only 2 desktop icons(Home folder and the trash bin). I usually clone code repositories into $HOME/Projects/ .In fact, I am using an eye-friendly neutral wallpaper that will not distract day to day work.

Top bar

Top bar is always hidden in the view port and it can be toggled only by using the F11 key(In case of switching networks or checking time). Hide top bar GENOME extension was used to do this tweak.

Resource monitor GENOME extension was used to get the indicator of network usage. But I deactivated the visibility of icons(two different icons for WiFi is not the way to go with minimalism) and also enabled the WiFi network status only because I never use ethernet cable with my current laptop.

Dock

I re-positioned Ubuntu dock into the bottom of the screen also by changing icon size to 20x20 pixels. My favorites section consist of just Terminal, Chrome, Files, VScode, VLC, Skype, System monitor and Screenshot, For other applications I will quickly activate main search with the keyboard.

Software

I always prefer cloud first approach, In other words If I need to get some work done I always try to use a cloud application before hitting apt-get install ... . The reason is that your operating system eventually becomes an abandoned store of software if you install a separate software for each and every need unless you don’t clean unwanted software frequently which will never happen basically.

Some cloud apps I use frequently

Google Docs and Sheets

Aww whiteboard — For any sketching work

Google search for literary anything — calculations, unit conversion etc.

And following native/hybrid apps are frequently used too

VScode

Chrome

VLC media player

Terminal

Skype

System monitor

Screenshot

Terminal

The terminal is having a small amount of transparency and styled with Tango color scheme. Other than those simple adjustments it is basically having the default appearance.

Terminal window

Happy coding with Ubuntu 😎
It’s Okay to Grieve Your Pre-COVID-19 Life
By: Mason Sabre
Tags: Self Love, Life, Covid 19, Self Care, Grief

And in some ways, you must.

Photograph by natamc at Depositphotos.com

I woke up yesterday feeling tired, and not just a tired because I’d had a bad night’s sleep (I hadn’t) but a tired deep inside. I recognised it immediately. I know what it is like to feel depression knocking on the door of my internal hideout. Sometimes I let it in, and sometimes I choose to hide behind the sofa and hope it doesn’t look in, gets bored and goes home again.

But it gives me a look that certain people recognise, it puts an air around me that is tinged with dark. Suddenly, I find it too much bother to speak, to smile even to raise my eyes and make contact. Answering a message to a friend on social media seems as burdensome as going to run a marathon after a full day of work. And it isn’t just me.

I see it everywhere. I see it when my wife comes in from work; I see it in my son as he sits in his car. I see it in people standing in line to wait to get into supermarkets. I see it online, in words between the lines. We’re tried. We’re all so damn tired.

The world has changed in ways we can’t fathom. It feels different; it is different. Now the idea of going to the supermarket to get food fills me with more dread than I care to feel. No longer can we just hop into our cars, run into the shop to buy what we need, and go home again. Now, something as simple as buying the week’s groceries requires planning, preparation and focus.

I went to the supermarket last week. My wife wasn’t allowed to come with me. There’s a one person from each household rule. I waited my turn, standing outside with all the other lonesome people, making sure we’re all at least six feet away from any other person — only one hundred people allowed in the store at one time. Now, instead of idling in and browsing, I was reminded to keep to the directions, follow the arrows. No longer can we walk up and down as we please.
Surrounded
Tags: Politics, Life, Covid, Cartoon, Comics

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
The №1 Reason Most Writers on Medium Don’t Succeed
By: Joshua Idegbere
Tags: Creativity, Psychology, Productivity, Writing, Writing Tips

The №1 Reason Most Writers on Medium Don’t Succeed

A simple strategy to turn the table around and start writing your way to success.

Image by Peter Olexa from Pixabay

Every writer has a goal to be more successful. But… it is easy to feel like a failure and get discouraged if the parameter to achieving that goal is in terms of how much money Medium sends them every month, through the Medium Partner Program.

Why?

That thinking gets more than 89.9% of writers into the “failure zone” — the less than $100 earners.

Because according to Medium’s report, only about 5.7% of writers earn a monthly income of $100 and above.

That realization alone is paralyzing and unhealthy for especially the young writers on the platform. (Talking from experience).

If they wallow in that thinking long enough, discouragement will step into their mind and prevent them from showing up and doing the very work that will help them become successful and increase their earning potential.

So what’s the solution?

If you can’t win the game, change the rules and you will win.

It is that simple a strategy.

How?

Instead of how much you earn, focus on how many stories you publish every week. In other words, measure your success in terms of the number of stories you publish each week.

And the best part? Reward yourself every time you meet your expectations. And reward yourself handsomely each time you go beyond those expectations.

Let’s say you aim to publish (or submit) 5 articles every week.

As you hit that target, reward yourself. Buy yourself a coffee.

Then if you are so pumped to go beyond 5 and hit 6, or 7 and upwards, reward yourself handsomely. Buy yourself a coffee from Starbucks, popcorn, and go see a movie.

In psychology, it is called positive reinforcement.

And I bet you, you will be more eager to write a lot more stories in the following week.

And something more:

You will be far more successful as a writer. Also, your income will go up at the end of the month.

There is just one secret to success in writing — Consistency.

If you can be consistent, not even the devil can stop you from achieving your goals.
Rittman Analytics is now a UK Consulting Partner for dbt (“Data Build Tool”)
By: Mark Rittman
Tags: Bigquery, Analytics, Dbt, Looker, Snowflake

We’re very pleased to announce that Rittman Analytics is now an official Consulting Partner for dbt, working with our clients, the community and the wider dbt ecosystem to get the most out of this open-source analytics framework and accompanying commercial dbtCloud service.

You can read more about the role of Consulting Partners on the new Ecosystem page on the getdbt website and while you’re there, check-out comments from real-world users of dbt including one of ours, an excerpt from our recent blog post on How Rittman Analytics does Analytics.

In that blog post we talked about how Rittman Analytics used dbt as part of our modular “extract, transform and load” data loading approach when preparing data ready for use with Looker:

Since launching the company last year we’ve built-up a fair bit of experience implementing dbt and dbtCloud on several clients projects in areas such as

transforming event-based (Segment, mParticle), data pipeline (Stitch, Fivetran) and batch-loaded raw data sourced from SaaS, Telco, web application and other data sources

using Snowflake Data Warehouse, Postgres and Google BigQuery as sources/targets

integrating with GitHub, AWS CodeCommit for local/remote branch-based git development

creation of automated CI/CD dbt build test pipelines using dbtCloud and AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline

If you’re new to dbt or interested in how we use dbt and dbtCloud both internally and on client projects, check out our three recent blog posts on this topic:

and conversations we’ve had in the past with Tristan Handy, CEO and co-founder of Fishtown Analytics (primary sponsors of dbt) on our Drill to Detail Podcast:

Contact us now or email info@rittmananalytics.com if you’d like any help, or advice on your dbt implementation — we’re UK-based with clients in London, northern Europe the USA.
Hiring a Data Scientist — The Process
By: Joseph Allen
Tags: Editors Pick, Recruitment, Data Science, Towards Data Science, Hiring

The purpose of Job descriptions

To provide business context

To present expected skills

To present the desired skills

First, we need to define the problem we hope a Data Scientist can help us with.

Depending on the context of your businesses current problems I would want an applicant with the following skills:

Problem Solving

Communication

Software Engineering

Mathematics

Data Analysis

Data Engineering

Machine Learning

I was recently contracted to perform a Data Science health check and write a job description for a role for a local company. If this sounds interesting to you get in touch with me on LinkedIn. Below is what I came up with, context redacted.

I break the job description down into five parts:

Salary — being upfront about salary expectations save us from wasting time on candidates with unaligned expectations. The point here is not to put anything you wouldn’t be willing to pay. A small range shown as salary lets people place their expectations within yours.

Context — An honest description of the current state of Data Science at this company. How fundamental it is and what we gain by hiring a data scientist.

Responsibility — The responsibilities a candidate will have.

Foundations — These are skills that are essential for this role, you will need these in week one of the job.

Desired — These are extra skills that although not necessary will set you apart from the other applicants.

As a note, Machine Learning is the core product of this company, as such Machine Learning is important to this role. This is generally an exception.

Gender Decoder link — masculine coded words in a job spec can make a job seem more unappealing to women.

Job Description — Data Scientist

Salary

£30,000 to £45,000 based on experience.

Context

The ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ consists of engineers and scientists. We have developed ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ with Machine Learning at its heart.

The company requires staff to travel to attend global customer sites.

Responsibilities

Training & Testing accurate density models given our current hardware.

Design and automate experiments to verify the performance of algorithms and hardware.

Access and storage of data.

Analyzing, visualizing and communicating insights from our data.

Maintaining a process to collect quality training data.

Validation of Machine Learning Models.

Assist in troubleshooting model drift and diagnostics.

Explore and develop new technologies as part of the core R&D team

Foundations

Able to query data using SQL, Python, R, or equal.

Skill in Python or R preferred.

Knowledge of Deep Learning and use of Tensorflow preferred.

Strong problem-solving skillset.

Strong communication skills, and the ability to describe complex topics in simple terminology.

Confer and collaborate with engineers and customers to solve problems.

Desired
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Heartfelt Celebration of Life As A Child
By: Ruchi Thalwal
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Kids, Children, Blue Insights

Innocence dripping in the mundane activity

In awe of sparrows and pigeons flying,

The light of the moon mesmerize

The warmth of the sun soothes

Every day is a celebration

Each moment arises from love

The loud laughter as the belly shakes

The instant frown

when someone dumps their anger

Free in the very next moment again

Forgiven and forgotten

Enjoying in the lap of happiness

Spreading the ripples of giggles

The innocence from eyes shine

The amazing nature hypnotize

The wonder of life surprises

The naughtiness springs

The smile spreads like wildfire

Experimenting and busy playing

Charmed while looking at new things as toys

The spontaneous joy

Melting every heart

The openness and acceptance

No disgust for anything

No nuts and bolts to capture

the authentic self

Showing the world the way you are

No fakeness, no false sense

to protect

while being completely transparent

No sense of mine or the other

The love from heart accepts everyone

The marvel of the child’s pure heart

In the body of an adult aging to old

But the heart so pristine

Can’t say what is the age

Whether to count it through bodily birth

or from the heart’s flowering!
You Will Never Arrive In Life
By: Zaid K. Dahhaj
Tags: Goals, Mindfulness, Psychology, Self, Mental Health

A common misconception that the majority of people have is that there is a “finish line” or a “destination” when it comes to life.

Understand: You will never arrive in life because life is a constant and fluid process of self improvement. We are constantly being manipulated and told that contentment or happiness lies at the end of the road. But, the truth is that the road of life never ends. It keeps going until the day you die.

Why have we fallen into this trap?

Modern society has convinced us that if we get this new car or new house then will arrive at the end destination and just coast from then on. This is the idea that we can let loose once we have achieved what it is that we wanted and craved after.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Do you really believe that coasting in life is the path towards meaning and fulfillment? Counter-intuitively, the path towards meaning and fulfillment lies in constantly re-inventing yourself and improving upon those areas that are in a state of dysfunction within your life.

The idea that it’s all about the journey as opposed to the destination is not just a catchy cliché. It has a profound amount of wisdom and can change one’s life if taken seriously.

Going back to the quote that we began this post with, ““A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” (Lao Tzu)

A good traveler is not intent on arriving because he or she has a deep understanding the process of life is about the process — the journey rather than the “destination.” They don’t become attached to the idea that they will arrive one day and as a result, they don’t engage in the inherent suffering that this attachment brings with it.

A good traveler understands the following:

Life is about the journey as opposed to the destination

The destination does not bring meaning. Rather, the process brings meaning

Detachment is the chief quality and skill with which this understanding is achieved

The good traveler is a student of life and ebbs and flows with what life brings to him or her.
Limitation of Hive Data Validation
By: Patraporn Kuhavattana
Tags: Mapreduce, Hive

Hive Data Validation Mechanism Limitation

In hive when you create a table schema, you must specify each column name along with its data type. So simple like relational database which are widely used nowadays. You might think that afterward you can just import your data into a table’s hdfs location and use simple query as in the following:

SELECT * FROM [tablename].

But that’s not the case, in this scenario you won’t get an error message if your data isn’t in the same format as data type you’ve specified in a schema like those you saw in relational database. Instead, hive will convert a value that is not compatible with specified schema data type to NULL, which sometimes, undesirable.

Until now, there is no tool which designed to fix this issue. But there are some methods you could use as a workaround.
Daily Bit #125: Reverse ze ad ban
By: Daily Bit
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin, Fintech, Blockchain

Word On The Street

Mid-Week Roundup

Morning folks — welcome to the final Hump Day of June. No deep dive in today’s headliner. Instead, we’re swerving through moguls of notable press that we found were worth giving an extra prodding:

Robinhood is hiring

Specifically, they’re after a “Crypto Engineer”. From hereon we can only speculate, though the job description states that candidates are expected to “build out new functionality for our crypto product, such as adding new currencies or providing wallet functionality.”

What we can garner: Robinhood is developing new products — or at least plans to do so in the future. In other news, the sky is blue. Expect similar headlines from Coinbase, Gemini, Circle, Revolut, Square, Abra, and the slew of other crypto trading platforms as they grapple for market share.

The PBoC is pushing for a CBDC

Since last year, the Chinese government’s Digital Currency Research Lab has filed 41 patent applications concerning digital currencies. And according to Coindesk, each is dialed in on a specific branch of a digital currency system.

The big picture: Remember how the Power Rangers fuse together to form Megazord? That’s what the PBoC envisions — a digital currency devoid of the pain points that the technology could introduce to the financial sector. Our hunch is that other governments are taking related steps.

Blockchain has a ways to go

If that was still unclear after our past two issues, consider this a confirmation. Nasdaq shared adoption figures with WSJ that indicate most institutional-grade vendors are still taste testing the tech.

Comparing blockchain adoption to other popular systems:

Blockchain: 5%

Artificial intelligence: 35%

Cloud computing: 40%

Robotic process automation: 70%

What’s with the holdup: Rollouts take time. Installments are a case-by-case basis, and execs need to have assurance that blockchain will provide sufficient (1) speed, (2) scalability, and (3) security over existing systems. Otherwise — why shell out the dough?
基于朴素贝叶斯的情感分类方法
Tags: NLP

Explore, Think, Create

> words and ideas can change the world.
Webinar: What Is Thought Leadership? (Video and Podcast)
By: Daniel Rosehill
Tags: Webinar, Marketing, Content Marketing, Thought Leadership, Brand Awareness

I was pleased to recently present DSR Ghostwriting’s first webinar comparing thought leadership and content marketing and providing an introduction to how to get started with both.

The webinar is embedded below as a video and as a podcast.

The webinar covered:
Why Poetry Matters
By: Busayomi Oyewole
Tags: Poetry, Millennials, Millennialpoets, Poems, Writing

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses” - John F. Kennedy

I didn’t use to like poetry. I thought it was rather dense. People writing in Shakespearean English about something that I just couldn’t grasp. About gods and themes that I knew nothing of. It felt as though something was being hidden from me, but that thing wasn’t fascinating enough for me to explore. Not like stories.

Stories fueled my imagination. They made me go to bed at night with fear in my heart or with anxious anticipation of what comes next for the characters. Stories made me forget when I needed to and gave me hope when I needed one, and I just didn’t see poems doing that for me.

Not until recently. Not until I turned twenty and I began to consume poetry in bits and pieces did I begin to see beyond the hardened rhymes. It was like peeling an orange to finally find the juice. It was no longer academic or something I should supposedly like, it was now something that I could taste, smell, feel and touch.

But it also felt like someone else could now see me. Like they could feel the quiet trembling in my bones, taste of my sorrows, touch my insecurities and above all understood what I myself was still grasping at. It was strange, to have words capture my whole essence, to have me feel like I was less alone.

Why does Poetry matter? It matters because it says I matter. It matters because it makes the world a little less lonely, a little less painful, and shines glimpses of hope in its darkest corners. It matters because it makes me see a world beyond myself and exposes the world to me. It opens my eyes to the pain and joy that aren’t mine and makes it mine. Poetry matters because without it, the world is an orange unpeeled.
Delivery
By: Jenine Bsharah Baines
Tags: Creativity, Empathy, Poetry, Tanka, Writing

Delivery

I have carried you,

child of my soul, within me

for days upon days.

The contractions have begun –

pain impregnating Being.

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2020

This tanka began as I was zapping a cup of coffee in the microwave. “I’ve been carrying this poem in me for days,” I told my partner. “It’s time to birth it.”

I was referring to a poem I fully intend to ‘birth’ next. It seems perfect for Age of Empathy. Meanwhile…

So, too, does this ‘child’. (A tanka seemed perfect; small but ever-growing in meaning, into ‘adulthood’.) Anyone who has birthed any work of art can empathize, I am sure!
The Relationship-Simulator, ‘Fire Emblem’
By: Ryan Velasco
Tags: Parasocial Relationships, Game Design, Fire Emblem, Gamelink, Nintendo

Fire Emblem is a tactical RPG or sRPG, but it also acts as a relationship simulation game the makes characters and their stories the prime focus. It also gives players enough room to develop emotional connections with them or as psychologists would say develop ‘parasocial relationships’.

Intelligent Systems made sure players would develop emotional connections with characters throughout their normal gameplay. You first learn about the story while also introducing the characters, why they’re banding together and how are they’re affected. You then start learning about their goals and personality, listening to them as they converse with allies and enemies, learning more and more about them as a person; necessary ingredients needed to create connections. All of that gives you a basic understanding of why they’re all here, helping you understand them as a ‘human’ more and more.

Then we come to permadeath where once someone dies in battle, it’s over, they’re dead for good. Think back to the last time you knew someone who died and how that made you feel. They were a part of your life either intimately or otherwise. You’re emotional connections happened because you learned more and more about them as a ‘human’. As stated previously, this happens in game too. You spend a vast amount of time playing the game, typically 40+ hours and through all of that time, you get to know the characters. This huge amount of time spent developing your characters, learning about them through conversations and story, all contributed to the connections you’ve developing. Having them then die in battle and staying that way, gives you the same gut-wrenching feeling (though not to the same extreme) as if it were a real-life person.
Erin Recommends: “Santa Fe” by Samantha Crain
By: Erin L. Cork
Tags: Native Americans, Music, Women In Music, Songs, Americana

Erin Recommends: “Santa Fe” by Samantha Crain

The paradox of loving an artist, wanting to keep them to yourself like a polished stone in your pocket and posting a photograph on social media to share with the world is real. Samantha Crain is that rock for me.

I first saw her in 2009, Bend, Oregon at McMenamins Old St. Francis School with her band the Midnight Shivers. I hadn’t heard of her. I was on vacation and she was playing where I was staying. Why not? It was a free show.

The tiny Oklahoma, Choctaw native and winner of 2 NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) began her set. The hair on my arms waved liked wheat in the wind. I knew I was watching something special. Dumb luck is what I do well.

Spellbound, I had her sign a CD after the show bumbling inanely about how much I loved it and her cover of Beck’s “Lost Cause”. I was an instant fan girl. Since then she has continued to put out solo albums that are lyrically exquisite, layered in self-effacement and humor.

The song “Santa Fe” from her 2010 release You (Understood)is a gorgeous example of what she does. She collaborates with the Michigan band Frontier Ruckus to deliver longing and hard decisions, regret about the life we choose.

I’m struck by the lines: “… And I don’t live my time like I should But they’re killin’ off my childhood Taking all my heroes babe One by one….” Stops me mid-step every time.

She’s an amazing artist. While I want to hold her in my pocket as my secret, I am compelled to shout out to the world, “Look at what I found.”