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The Biggest Lie In Open Source
By: Fernando Doglio
Tags: Open Source, Software Development, Technology, Software Engineering, Programming

It Can’t Be a Source of Income

Open source software is free. Therefore, its maintainers and creators can’t make a living out of it.

Wrong.

At first glance, open source software is free for its users. But there is a lot more to understand before saying it can’t be a valid source of income.

Like with any digital product, making money is all about your business model and the marketing strategy behind it. If you’re interested in making money from open source projects, here are some ideas for you to consider.

Selling professional services

This is the most common one. As I’ve said before, people tend to assume that because you’ve built a project and published it to the world, you need to support it 24 hours a day. That’s not only untrue, but it’s definitely a whole different area of work. So why not charge for it?

In fact, why not charge for training as well and even provide support for companies trying to use your free product? Those are what we call professional services (services meant for companies using your product).

There are big examples of open source projects doing this exact thing. For example, RedHat, IBM, Hortonworks (around Apache Hadoop), and Percona (for their open-source database).

Selling related content

How many books have you seen (or even read) about React or PHP? The books weren’t free, were they?

If you managed to build an open source project that people like and use, then you can make money by giving those people products they can use to learn how to use it. This is very similar to the professional services model, yet that one implies you’re personally involved (thus allowing you to charge higher rates). However, with products, you can build cheap alternatives that are accessible to non-company users (i.e. developers trying to use your code).

Even if you’re not the project’s author, you can benefit from their success by doing this exact same thing. You’re building products around an open source project (just not your own).

We’re talking about writing books about it, creating video courses for platforms such as Udemy, or even writing sponsored blog posts about these OS projects. Why not? Sometimes, authors will be willing to pay you money to write about their projects.

Donations

You can make money from people donating to your cause. Don’t be afraid to ask for money. As long as it’s done tastefully, it’s definitely a valid income option.

And if you’ve built a project that a big community is using, you’ll be surprised at the results. Looking at projects such as Git, you’ll see that they do receive donations from anyone interested in their cause.

It’s all about the reach your project has and the community built behind it. If it’s big enough, then there is probably a way to make money out of it.

There are many other ways you can go about building income from your open source work. It’s just a matter of getting creative.
Exploring Hulu Data in Python
By: Sadrach Pierre
Tags: Python, Software Development, Technology, Data Science, Programming

We won’t need the ‘Unamed: 0’ column so we can delete it with the ‘del’ keyword:

del d['Unnamed: 0’]

Now, let’s print the first five rows of data using the ‘head()’ method:

print(df.head())

If we take a look at the Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and Disney Plus columns we see that they contain 1s and 0s. A one corresponds to that movie being available to stream on the respective platform and a zero corresponds to it not being available on said platform.

We want to explore Hulu data specifically, so let’s filter our data frame such that the value in the ‘Hulu’ column is equal to one:

df_hulu = df[df['Hulu'] == 1]

Let’s print the lengths of the original data frame and our filtered data frame:

print("Total Length: ", len(df))

print("Hulu Length: ", len(df_hulu)))

Let’s print the first five rows of our new data frame:

print(df_hulu.head())

Our data contains several categorical columns. Let’s define a function that takes as input a data frame, column name, and limit. When called, it prints a dictionary of categorical values and how frequently they appear:

def return_counter(data_frame, column_name, limit):

from collections import Counter print(dict(Counter(data_frame[column_name].values).most_common(limit)))

Let’s apply our function to the ‘Language’ column and limit our results to the five most common values:

return_counter(df_hulu, 'Language', 5)

As we can see, we have 607 English, 27 English/Spanish, 19 Japanese, 18 English/French and 15 missing language values in the Hulu data.

Let’s apply this method to the ‘Genres’ column:

return_counter(df_hulu, 'Genres', 5)

Now, let’s look at the movies from the most common Genre, ‘Documentary’:
Overview of Issuu
By: Casey Botticello
Tags: Technology, Freelancing, Social Media, Business, Entrepreneurship

How to use Issuu

To get started on Issuu, you will need to create an account and sign up for free or paid membership. The free option allows you to do the most important thing — upload your publications — but there are some restrictions. The paid versions offer more features (obviously) that can help you get more out of the platform and more marketing mileage out of your publications. We will talk more about the free and paid plans later.

Publishing content on Issuu is rather straightforward and simple. All you need to do is create a print-ready-PDF version of your document and upload it onto the Issuu platform. The website automatically arranges the content into a readable, page flipping format that can be viewed on both desktop and mobile devices. You also have the option of customizing the cover of your publication, and you can input audio as well.

Having published your document on Issuu, you have the option of sharing it elsewhere. For instance, you can embed the Issuu publication on your website. Issuu also optimizes your content for social media, allowing you to use your publication for Instagram stories, Facebook posts, and even Pinterest-ready animated media.

Now that you have an idea of what Issuu is and how to use it, it’s time to talk about the pros and cons of using the platform.
How To Provision Infrastructure on Azure With Terraform
By: Bhargav Bachina
Tags: Terraform, DevOps, Software Development, Azure, Cloud Computing

How To Provision Infrastructure on Azure With Terraform

A Beginner's Guide with an example project

Terraform is an infrastructure as a code tool that makes it easy to provision infrastructure on any cloud or on-premise. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

Configuration files describe to Terraform the components needed to run a single application or your entire datacenter. Terraform generates an execution plan describing what it will do to reach the desired state, and then executes it to build the described infrastructure.

In this post, we will see how to provision infrastructure on Azure.

Get Started With Terraform

Prerequisites

Example Project

What is Backend

Configuring Backend

Provisioning Infrastructure

Inputs and Outputs

Destroying Infrastructure

Summary

Conclusion

Get Started With Terraform

The first thing we need to do is to get familiar with Terraform. If you are new to Terraform, Check the below article on how to get started. It has all the details on how t install, Terraform Workflow, Example Projects, etc.
Automate Exploratory Data Analysis with Pandas Profiling
By: Pranav Kaushik
Tags: Statistics, Data Analytics, Python, Data Science, Data Visualization

According to Wikipedia, exploratory data analysis(EDA) is an approach to analyzing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods.

So, EDA is the process of understanding the underlying data, distribution of variables and their correlations. This makes EDA the very first step in any data science process before building any statistical model.

If you’re nor aware of how EDA is performed, here are a few examples you can refer to.

https://towardsdatascience.com/exploratory-data-analysis-eda-a-practical-guide-and-template-for-structured-data-abfbf3ee3bd9

https://www.kaggle.com/ekami66/detailed-exploratory-data-analysis-with-python

But EDA is often a very time-consuming task which requires you to build multiple visuals to check distributions and interaction between variables.

There are a few functions like info() and describe() which does help to an extent, but still, you’ll have to perform a lot of manual steps even after using these functions.

This is where a really cool library called Pandas Profiling comes handy. This library automatically generates detailed reports explaining the data in just one line of code!

Here’s a quick look at how the reports look like.

Variables overview:
Kuanyin
By: Terry Trueman
Tags: Poetry, Art, Chinese Culture, Antiquity, Writing

Kuanyin

(Wu Tao-tzi, 8th Cen. AD)

She becomes the rain,

And a breeze, soft, over the trees.

And the silence of snowy fields.

And her gown is water,

Silk, rice paper

And the sunlight dances on it.

(For Robert Bly)

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This poem is a ‘translation’ of ancient Chinese art; the title of the poem is the name of the painting. I wrote a series of these poems, in 1968. They were among my first published works. please see: The Unending Connectedness of the Books We Write and Love | by Terry Trueman | Write and Review | Dec, 2020 | Medium

Wikipedia & Encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Trueman
The Analogy
Tags: Health, Pandemic, Travel, This Happened To Me, Covid 19

How can you be pissed off that I’m taking a damn vacation? Don’t I deserve one? Don’t we all deserve one?

No problem at all with you taking a vacation but can’t you keep your ass here? We live in Florida — go to the beach. You don’t have to fly hours in a plane across the country to find relaxation. Jesus, we’re in the middle of a pandemic!

Aren’t you being selfish?

Me? Really? Because I think your vacation isn’t worth the risk of someone catching the virus and getting sick or dying? Just so you can go on vacation? Who is the selfish one here?

I’m going to a state that has some of the lowest virus numbers in the country!

True enough, but you’re boarding a plane in Florida which has some of the highest virus numbers in the country. Who do you think will be on the flights with you? Floridians — going and coming.

There’s not much risk. I’ll be careful. I’ll wear a mask. And, the middle seats are empty on my flights.

You think that’s good enough? Empty middle seats don’t equal six feet. Standing in the aisle of a plane to get on or off is not social distancing. Breathing recycled air wasn’t healthy before the pandemic and certainly isn’t now. And, how about the terminals? Standing in line? Using escalators, people-movers, public transportation, bathrooms?

You’re just making a big deal out of nothing. The risk of me catching the virus and bringing it to you or anyone in the office is low.

Got some statistics on that? No, I didn’t think so. And, even if it is low — what does that mean? 10 percent, 20 percent? To me, a 5 percent chance is high. I am over sixty-five — thirty years older than you — and you think you have the right to tell me how much risk I should accept so you can go on a vacation across the country?

I just can’t believe you think you have the right to tell me where I can go on vacation!

I am amazed I have to! I am shocked that you and two others in this office made plans to travel by air just to go on vacation — during a pandemic! Did you even consider what you might bring back to the rest of us?

You know, this is ridiculous. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh, really? How about I give you an analogy — a little story? So, in this story, you aren’t feeling well and go to the doctor and have some tests. You return to the office and say:

Hey, everyone, I just came from the doctor. He told me I am highly allergic to an ingredient in the perfume called Magnificent. It’s the only perfume on the market with that ingredient and I’m hyper-sensitive to it. Someone here must wear that perfume because I always start feeling bad here in the office. I have to ask whoever wears that perfume to please stop. The doctor said that my allergy to it might get worse and I may go into anaphylactic shock someday.
little flower wiser
By: Haiku Love Bites
Tags: Health, Life Lessons, Love, Poetry, Life

Photo by Andreas Dress

little flower wiser

a poem about how we be truthful to ourselves and a little wiser

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this day birds sing and colors spring

little flower bedded below

leaning toward the dawn sun asks

“ O the mighty weeping willow

how can I make this swamp better?”

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firstly question yourself not me

the answers lie not in the old

nor the self labelled worldly wise

keep watch beside flowing river

guard the feelings that wash you by

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accumulation is heavy

like too many ripe fruit of trees

nectar of intoxication

seeping deeper into the roots

drunk extravagance left empty

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the mind is not a thought scrapbook

page after page of where one was

a trail needed to prove you live

instead stay true to sensations

wrap in kindness the seeds floated

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small pleasures spout from arid soils

as they do a wasteland drowning

I cannot be wiser than you

as we occupy the same space

the wisest reads deep their own face

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#NaNoWriMo: Mr. Black Cat and Harry write a Magic Book together
By: Vlad Alex, Merzmensch
Tags: Merznlp, Artificial Intelligence, Gpt 3, NaNoWriMo, Art

A big black cat was walking through the wall. He wore a black suit, black shirt, black tie and black shoes. He also had a black ribbon tie on his head. The black cat walked over to the table in the kitchen.

“Good morning Harry!” said the black cat.

“Good morning Mr. Black Cat,” said Harry in a happy voice.

“Did you sleep well?” said Mr. Black Cat.

“Yes,” replied Harry, “I had a very good sleep again. Thank you very much.”

“Your welcome Harry,” said Mr. Black Cat. “By the way, I have been thinking about something. Why don’t we write your book?”

“Yes,” agreed Harry. The cat and Harry went over to the table. Mr. Black Cat sat on the table. Harry sat in the chair.

“This is going to be so much fun. Especially when we fill it with magic spells,” said Harry.

“Yes,” agreed Mr. Black Cat. “What about we name it, The Harry Potter Magic Spell Book.”

“I like it,” said Harry. Hurry up and write it Mr. Black Cat. After a while they were done.

“Wow! We did a very good job,” said Mr. Black Cat.

“Thanks Mr. Black Cat,” said Harry.

“Thank you Harry, I had the most fun in a long time. We will meet each other tomorrow again,” said Mr. Black Cat.

“Good bye Mr. Black Cat,” said Harry in a happy voice.

“Goodbye Harry,” said Mr. Black Cat.

The black cat walked back through the wall. Harry went over to his bed and jumped on. Then he took a nap.
A Simple Way to Explore the Netflix Content Using Tableau
By: Sruthi Narapareddy
Tags: Netflix, Tableau, Data Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis, Alteryx

photo from https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/netflix

Are you struggling to perform EDA with R and Python?? Here is an easy way to do exploratory data analysis using Tableau.

Lets Dive in to know the process and look at the analysis !

Introduction

Netflix is the world’s leading internet entertainment service with 158 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. I was curious to analyze the content released in Netflix platform which led me to create these simple, interactive and exciting visualizations with Tableau.

Data Source

The dataset used in this EDA project is taken from Kaggle. Click here to download the data.

Data Description

Data has 12 columns which include show id, title, type, director, cast, country, release year, description, rating and genre of the movies/TV shows. Type column gives if each record is a movie or Tv show. Country column has all the countries a movie or show is released. Each movie or show belongs to one or more genres which is mentioned in the genre column separated by commas.

Data Transformation

In order to visualize top genres or country wise releases, the existing data has to be transformed. We don’t require any coding experience to do this. A simple understanding of Alteryx tool creates a pipeline to transform the data. Lets break down the transformation to 2 steps.

Step 1: Convert the text in country and genre columns to multiple columns.

Step 2: Transpose the columns to get a record for each genre or country.

See below, the screenshots of the workflow and data sample before and after transformation

Data Transformation workflow in Alteryx

Data before transformation

Transformed Data

EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

Movies vs TV shows

Netflix platform even has the content which was originally released in 1965. For a better visual I have only displayed the releases from 2000. We observe that initially the percentage of movies is higher than TV shows but from 2019 Netflix has started to focus more on TV shows.

2. Country Wise Releases

United states has most total releases ( both movies and TV shows) followed by India and United Kingdom. The interactive dashboard is present here with dynamic parameters to see top N countries of highest releases.

Tree map showing the Top 10 countries w.r.t to no. of releases

3. Top Genres in Movies vs Tv shows

Movies and Tv shows are predominantly focused on international, dramas and comedies.

You can see below the top genres in each category. Click here for movies and here for Tv shows to interact with the chart and see the top N genres in each year or range of years.
Welcome to our board, Leah Johnson and Bonita Stewart
By: Aaron Skonnard
Tags: Pluralsight, Entrepreneurship, Business

From left: Bonita Stewart, Aaron Skonnard and Leah Johnson

Over the past months as we’ve settled into our new role as a publicly held company, we’ve benefited from counsel and insights from our board of directors to guide our success.

As we continue to grow, we recognize the importance of including new perspectives and expertise to drive our mission of democratizing technology skills across the world.

So it’s with great pleasure that I welcome Leah Johnson and Bonita Stewart to our board.

With the addition of Leah and Bonita to our already strong leadership team, we will benefit from the discerning guidance of two trailblazers who have made significant impact in their respective fields.

Leah is the founder and CEO of LCJ Solutions, a strategic communications consulting practice specializing in reputation risk management, messaging and change management for marquee clients. Before founding LCJ Solutions, Johnson was the senior vice president of corporate affairs at Citigroup, serving as the chief communications adviser to four CEOs, and vice president of corporate communications for Standard & Poor’s.

Leah brings deep expertise working on policy, mergers and acquisitions, and crisis management, as well as with investors and the SEC, proficiencies that will help us on our still-new journey as a public company.

Bonita currently serves as vice president of global partnerships at Google, responsible for its U.S. strategic partnerships team representing news and publishing, broadcast, media and entertainment, mobile apps, search, telecommunications and commerce. Prior to her 12 years at Google, Bonita served as director of interactive communications for DaimlerChrysler.

We look forward to Bonita’s wisdom from working with large global brands on behalf of one of the most respected technology giants in the world. In particular, Bonita’s understanding of digital transformation from the customer and buyer perspectives, as well as the technology seller viewpoint, will prove invaluable.

Combined, their experiences provide strategic perspectives we need as we continue expanding our global community of learners and technology leaders.

Welcome, Leah and Bonita. We’re proud to have you on our board.
Misconceptions about Software Engineers
By: Raycee Mwatela
Tags: Software Engineering, Technology, Software Development, Developer, Code

photo courtesy of google.com

On one of my random tours on twitter, I came across this topic on what misconceptions people have about Software engineers or Software developers (I don’t get the hullabaloo concerning the titles but that is a story for another day…)

I am a Software Engineer in Kenya and for the past two years, I have had to explain what I do to practically everybody. I do understand the confusion, especially from Generation X i.e my parents who only knew medicine, teaching and accounting as professions. They have had to learn it the hard way with the pace at which technology is moving. For Millenials though, It is sheer ignorance if you don’t know what a software engineer does. Spare a couple of minutes and “google” that, thank you! ☺️

For most of my career, the biggest misconceptions people have had is that I am the IT guy (or lady in this case). You are the first person people run to when their phones aren’t working, their flash disks are unreadable or they require a quotation for a new laptop. For some, this would probably be a business opportunity but NO! we are not the IT handyman/woman who you call when you can’t switch on your computer because you forgot to plug in the monitor cable. We are the people who design, develop, maintain the websites and applications you use. You know the Facebook app you use? there is a person who created that. That person is a software engineer.

I don’t mind fixing the phones and laptops but I do mind when my competence is placed on a scale for a job that is not mine. Please spare us when we don’t know what the issue is with your machine. We try our best but it doesn’t mean we got all the solutions to your computer problems.

The second misconception is that I am a hacker, lol!

This gets funnier each time I hear it. What is Hollywood and sci-fi movies doing to you guys!? I respect hackers especially ethical hackers whose aim is to raise awareness in cybersecurity but not all of us are hackers. Some of us barely know how to impersonate a user leave alone penetrate a system or create spyware. Our job involves trying to implement the best security policies for your application and not to steal people passwords for illegal practices.

The last misconception that I get to hear is that we are always coding.

gif courtesy of giphy.com

We indeed love our job and it’s our passion but we also have a life and other interests! If you get to know us, you will know we have a whole other life outside code. Our lives don’t revolve around code but it does occupy the majority of our time.

These are the three common misconceptions that I get to hear regarding my career. I am sure that there are many more that I haven’t mentioned but at the end of the day, regardless of what people think you do, find joy in doing your job.
Understanding CBAM and BAM in 5 minutes
By: Shreejal Trivedi
Tags: Research, Computer Vision, Data Science, Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Net

In the case of BAM, only GAP was used to get the statistics of the feature map in spatial and channel dimensions. Whereas, CBAM also considered to use the MaxPooling with Average Pool. They proved that using Maxpooling accounts to generate the most salient features from the feature map and compensate the GAP output which encodes the global statistics softly.

In the case of BAM, the convolutional operation was done using dilation value d=4 to increase the receptive field as we go deep in the network. Whereas, CBAM used the higher kernel size of 7x7 and normal convolutional layer with d=1 to incorporate the same.

In the case of BAM, parallel generation of spatial and channel attention maps were taken into consideration which was later added to get the final attention map. Whereas in the case of CBAM, a sequential approach was used. Firstly, the channel attention map was calculated and then the Spatial map was finally obtained from the generated intermediate feature map(Channel Map×Input Feature Map).

Order of the sequential arrangement in the case of CBAM is Channel Attention → Spatial Attention.
How Do Psychometric Test Results Vary Across Age, Race and Gender?
By: Nayomi Chibana
Tags: Demographics, Psychometric Testing, Psychology, Data Science, Data Visualization

Most of us have taken a personality quiz at one point or another. Whether it was for a job, school or just for fun, you probably remember skimming over the results to find out more about yourself and how you compare to the rest of the population.

But have you ever wondered how these results are correlated to other demographic factors such as race, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation?

I asked that myself recently and took a deep dive into the data to find out the answer to this question. After exploring all of the publicly available data sets published by the Open Source Psychometrics Project, I chose three in particular (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale; and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) with the results of more than 110,000 psychometric tests released with the consent of test takers.

Based on the answers recorded in these data sets, I found that:

1. There is a relationship between age and personality trait dimensions, as well as relationship attachment styles. 2. There is a relationship between religion and stress scores. 3. There is a relationship between race and measures of mental health, such as stress, depression and anxiety. 4. There is a relationship between gender and measures of emotional stability and agreeableness. 5. There is a relationship between sexual orientation and depression, anxiety and stress scales.

Although the data analysis yielded some interesting results, I must also stress that due to the nature of online personality tests and the inability to verify the accuracy of responses given, this analysis is meant to provide some food for thought and even motivation for further research on the topic rather than results that can be generalized to the larger population.

Having said that, here is a quality comparison of the data collected through the Open Source Psychometrics Project and data collected on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results indicate that the former “contains less than 25% the rate of invalid responding as AMT data.”

And for those interested in the process behind this analysis, the data and code can be accessed here.
Portrait of the Heart
By: Lynda Coker
Tags: Emotions, Healing, Microfiction, Awareness, Society

LOST PLACES — If you could see into the hearts of the lonely, abandoned, abused, betrayed, and mislead, wouldn’t the scene be the same?
COVID-19 Data Analysis with Python
By: Dhruvil Shah
Tags: Data Science, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Coronavirus, Covid 19

So, we can see that graph is increasing exponentially each day. Next, we are going to see how many total cases increased each week starting from the first day which is 22nd January 2020. To do that, we have to find every 7th-day data and create a table for that. “copy()” will create a copy of the dataset so it will not change to the original dataset.

Now, we will plot the graph to see how confirmed cases per week increased. We plot two graphs, a line graph, and a log line graph. The logarithmic scale is useful for plotting data that includes very small numbers and very large numbers. So we can see all the numbers easily, without the small numbers squeezed too closely.

Alongside this, we will see how many new confirmed cases each week. We can see from the data that it is reached at a peak or not. A corona virus’s peak is the day/week on which there is the highest number of cases.

We can see that week has the lowest cases but after that, it increased drastically. Now we will plot a bar graph for visualization,

We will do same for the death dataset. we create a table for total deaths each week and count of new deaths each week.

Let’s plot both line and log line graphs for new deaths each week.

Now, we will see the top 10 countries that have the highest number of confirmed cases. We will use ‘groupby’ functionality for this. A ‘groupby’ operation involves some combination of splitting the object, applying a function, and combining the results. We can see the US has the highest number of cases.

Total cases only give the latest confirmed cases but what if we want to know when cases started increasing in each top 10 countries. To find out, we will find each week new confirmed cases.

Let’s plot the graph to understand the pattern for each week. So after the 7th week, new cases increased every week for these countries. We can see that at the end of the 14th week, a major decrease in new cases for some countries.
How AI can be used to boost the impact of e-learning
By: Kiran Narayanan
Tags: AI, Saudi Arabia, E Learning Solutions, Digital Transformation, Roboticprocessautomation

In the wake of the recent social distancing guidelines and shutdowns, more and more individuals as well as educational institutions are adopting e-learning technologies. One such example is the recent rise in the use of tele-conferencing tools such as Zoom and Google Hangouts. Such tools connect students and teachers, and have helped avoid discontinuity in education because of pandemic-related lockdowns.

Teachers however, are still spending more than 50 hrs per week¹ on an average, and only 49% of this time is spent on their core task, which is direct interactions with the students so as to instruct, engage, coach, advise and develop their behavioral, social and emotional skills. The remainder of more than 51% of their time is spent on routine tasks such as preparation, evaluations and feedback, and administration.

Automation of tasks using AI can save up to 30% of the time spent on routine tasks. This time could be spent towards interactions with students and increase impact.
Top Importance of Impression Management
By: Mohammad Hassan
Tags: Philosophy, Education, Business, Psychology, Life

Impression management is a key important factor for improvement and success. It is also an effective instrument for handling criticism and negativity.

Photo by History in HD on Unsplash

Impression management refers, the demeanor of any individual that comprises the goal of governing the impression and epithet timbered of that individual by others.

In diurnal life, we try to manage our impression to face the world. People manage their impressions for many reasons.

In his research, Identities, the Phenomenal Self, and Laboratory Research, David J. Schneider mentioned- There are two types of impression; The Calculated Impression & The Secondary Impression The calculated impression means the embodied sum of the presumption a person wants the target to attract from his self-presentation. The secondary impression refers to an undesired impression from target inferences that a person didn’t specifically intend.

‘The calculated impression’ can define more simply as the desired number of impressions from the target by a person from his or her self-presentation. While ‘the secondary impression’ is opposite in the matter of desire because ‘the secondary impression’ is not desirable by the anchor. ‘The secondary impression’ is a more voluntary approach by the target towards the anchor.

Life has two sides. One side is called a personal life, and another side is called a professional life. We all do some roleplay based on situations. The word roleplay is a substitute for impression management.

In our personal life, a roleplaying attitude is not necessary for anyone. But professional life is different from personal life.

In personal life, we all display our real nature. In our personal life, where we can maintain our privacy from the outside, we don’t need to play any artificial role. We can stay in our unique mood in our private life. We appear in our true nature when we stay, meet, and communicate with our family and friends.

Professional life has some guidelines that we all do-follow. The profession is a subject that has a relation with impression management. Profession change or affect individual impression. Nobody will attempt to parade a sullen or gray impression of them in their professional field. In professional life, we can not exhibit the unique nature that we got naturally. In professional life, people have to adapt the different characters to deal with the professional world. To deliver service or govern any specific post, we all act based on our profession. In the profession, an individual will be-restricted from showing his or her real behavior. From a conscious or unconscious mind, we all try to manage our impression based on our trade when we come out from personal life.
Taking Down the Princess Club — part 1
By: Stefani Vader
Tags: Class, Revenge, Society, Fiction, Short Story

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

The Princess Club was ruthless. We named them that because the group of four uppity women who flaunted themselves in front of any wealthy bachelor in town, would step all over anyone who got in their way.

“Something needs to be done about them.”

I glanced over at my best friend, Tandy. “I agree, but what?”

She crossed her arms and glared at the four women who were gathered around the local pediatrician. He was new in town and the ‘deer caught in the headlights’ look he was giving told me he wasn’t liking this attention.

“I wish I could do something, anything, to make them uncomfortable. Even if it’s just for a moment. Even if I can’t see it.”

An idea started to form. “Today is Tuesday, right?”

Tandy raised an eyebrow at me and nodded.

“They always head to the spa, followed by brunch at the Country Club afterwards. That gives us about four hours…”

“I’m starting to like the sound of this,” Tandy said, rubbing her hands together. “Go on.”

“We’re going for a drive. Come on.”

We arrived at the first woman’s house, Cynthia. A gardener was working out back, shaping her hedges. I giggled thinking how naughty that sounded. Living in a small upscale town had it’s advantages. For instance, I knew that during the day, no one kept their doors locked. Easy access for anyone who wanted in.

Acting as though we belonged there, we walked up the stone path, across the front veranda, and into the three story house.

“What are we going to do?”

I glanced around, looking for inspiration. “I don’t know. Let’s go to her room.”

Cynthia lived alone, the house an inheritance from her grandmother. We made our way up the spiral staircase to the top floor. Talk about a princess in her tower. The entire top floor was dedicated as the master bedroom.

We stopped and stood, our mouths agape. Everything was white, and fluffy. Even the silk curtains that billowed in the windows. Next to the king size, four-post bed, was a nightstand, and that’s where my inspiration lay.

“I need a knife.”

“What are you going to do?”

The plan was simple, but I wanted to keep it a surprise. “Just run down and get me a sharp paring knife.”

Tandy backed out of the room, and ran downstairs, returning red in the face. “No wonder Cynthia stays so thin. I couldn’t imagine having to come up two flights of stairs every time I needed to go to my bedroom. Here.” Tandy handed over the knife and bent over, trying to catch her breath.

I took the small knife from her and walked to the bed and sat down, sinking into the puffy duvet. On the nightstand was a romance novel with a bookmark in it. Cynthia had made it about three-quarters the way through.

I opened up the book, and taking my time, sliced off the last two chapters. Over in the doorway, Tandy giggled.

“Oh, that’s good. There’s nothing worse than getting into a story and not being able to find out what happens in the end.”

I couldn’t keep the grin off my face. “Precisely. We’re done here, on to the next one.”
Where do we go from here?
By: Eric Allen
Tags: Politics, Society, Culture

photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.com

The political climate in our nation has become so toxic what can be done to reverse course?

It’s no longer acceptable to have a differing viewpoint from anyone anymore. Either you believe what they believe or you get shouted down and cancelled. Death threats and hate-filled rants are directed at people on both sides of the political aisle. Does anyone truly believe that through the shutting down of thought and ideas that this nation will thrive and prosper? That it will be the beacon of light it has been for the whole world since its founding?

The United States has had many difficulties and dark times in the past to be sure. And we no doubt have much more to overcome. However, you can not look at where we’ve been to where we are now and honestly say that great strides and much progress have not been made along the way.

The constant bickering and nasty fighting back and forth are doing nothing but pulling us backwards. The constant need to make everything a political issue and argument is absolutely tiring. It has in my view alienated and silenced many in this country that just want to live a peaceful life and enjoy the many freedoms this country offers.
Bonus Episode: Live from BETT 2019
Tags: Tech, Podcast, Education, AI, STEM

Bonus Episode: Live from BETT 2019

What will it take to inspire the next Ada Lovelace?

Whilst we are busy working on season 3 we wanted to share this conversation recorded live at BETT 2019.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, TuneIn, or RadioPublic.

Titled ‘If She Can See It, She Can Be It’, host Anjali Ramachandran chats to Chiin-Rui Tan founder and CEO of Rho Zeta AI, and Elena Sinel Founder of Teens in AI, and asks what will it take to inspire the next Ada Lovelace or Rosalind Franklin? What do we need to do to transform fields like AI and help create a more fair future of work. And how can educators help to recognise, develop and promote the female innovators and leaders of tomorrow?

Anjali Ramachandran — Ada’s List

Elena Sinel — Teens in AI

Chiin-Rui Tan — Rho Zeta AI

We’ll be releasing more bonus episodes throughout March and April and season 3 will be landing this summer.
[PostTGE] Week 20 and 21: Marketing and the Nearest Strategies of GraphGrail Ai.
By: Graphgrailai Llc.
Tags: AI, Weekly Digest, Blockchain, ICO, Bitcoin

21.05- 03.06

Strategy

May 25, GraphGrail Ai completed another important milestone — successful completion of TGE. Now, the next product period is about to begin. GraphGrail Ai have sent the newsletter describing company milestones for the last seven months and their plans for the future. This way the team shared some details of future development:

We plan to complete development of main components of GraphGrail platform by December 2018 thus delivering the ready-to-use product. What do we have to do for this?

To complete four active projects and to place scalable solutions at MarketPlace.

2. To create a user-friendly interface of the application designer to make it possible to get AI solutions without having any expertise in programming.

3. To build the system of platform scalability with new AI solutions.

4. To create the model of attracting new users to the platform.

Currently, the team is actively working at their further investor relations strategy

Marketing

Before completing TGE, GraphGrail Ai made the token air drop. It means that these tokens were sent to about 2,000 most active addresses. This distribution of a small amount (1 token) to wallets was a part of advertisement of the completing Tokensale inviting for possible investments.

To attract customers online, the team launched context ads in Google Adwords. Now a search query, such as GAI token returns the needed information: gai.graphgrail.com, What is GAI Token (GraphGrail AI) publications, an official website of GraphGrail Ai, etherscan.io data etc.

The team has also met with the CEO of a large marketing agency to negotiate shaping the project promotion strategy in Russia and worldwide. Important aspects of the negotiations included: product positioning at post TGE stage, market segmentation and identifying key products, developing the communications strategy of interacting with the platform community and attracting users.

After all tokens and bonuses are paid, all tokens that were not sold will be burnt according to TGE terms and conditions. To recap, the first wave of burning tokens has already taken place. 715 million tokens have been burnt before the end of TGE.

Thanks to all participants of Tokensale! Softcap has been raised successfully! Access to the exchangeis expected any time soon! Always yours, GraphGrail Ai!
Is Q4 A Good Time To Start An e-Commerce Business?
By: Yan H.
Tags: Retail, Business, Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Entrepreneurship

4 reasons why Q4 2020 is perfect to start an e-Commerce business

1.) Demand for online shopping is high

With the Q4 period (Oct-Nov-Dec) coming up, it’s traditionally touted as the haven for all retailers — where major holidays are coming up and winter season is around the corner. Folks living in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere are all in the festive and giving mood to shop for gifts for their loved ones, friends, and for themselves. And with this coronavirus pandemic seeing no end in sight still, one can expect this behavior to surge higher and move online.

2.) Easier to test products and concept

With a higher demand for ready buyers, it also means it’s easier to test any products and marketing strategies that I may have. This helps me to learn buyer behaviors and get ready for 2021.

3.) There are no such things as a bad time

I learn that when it comes to online buying-and-selling, there is never a bad time. Because the e-Commerce market is 24 hours 7 days a week in operation, there will always be someone buying and someone selling. Even a global pandemic has not stopped online purchases. The only scenario I can think of that it’s a bad time to begin is when all the network servers in the world all crashed at the same time! Talking about a real virus!

4.) When the student is prepared, the teacher will appear

I have been preparing myself with drop-shipping by reading and watching hundreds of hours of the real stories behind many successful drop-shippers, in particular, a really successful drop-shipper on YouTube for the past five months (due to privacy reasons, I shall not disclose the person’s name).

And besides watching almost every single video and reading every article my brain can handle, I had also set my mind to get into the mentorship program they have to accelerate my learning curve.

My past experience with e-Commerce 13 years ago has taught me that the right mentors and the right marketing are the critical factors in the success of a drop-shipping business. These propelled me to apply for the mentorship the moment I got the chance.
What Is The Daily Life of a Sex Worker Really Like?
By: Demeter Delune
Tags: Work, Women, Sexuality, Society, This Happened To Me

It’s the same with emails and updating statuses on Twitter and any other social media; even sites like OnlyFans and ManyVids. Sure, I need to be discreet, and I’m good at that. It’s a must when you’re a sex worker.

What’s shocking to most people, who don’t have any experience with sex work, is the fact that actual sex isn’t always a part of what I do. This isn’t the case with everyone who identifies as a sex worker, of course. Everyone is different. And there was a time when sex was part of what I did, at least sometimes. But these days, physical intimacy is something that happens only with myself and my husband, though we’re actively engaging with a woman who we hope will become a part of our lives in that way soon.

My sex work today is more about providing intimate experiences for my clients. Conversations, photographs, videos, and education. It’s no less work than when I was a Professional Dominatrix, or when I was a booking agent for an escort service or a phone sex operator. I have to market myself and my products on social media, constantly hone my skills as a writer, practice customer service skills on a daily basis, interact with clients regularly and maintain relationships, flex my creative muscles regularly, all while being a wife and mom who takes care of her family.

Because don’t get it twisted and think I have the ability to hire a nanny or maid to take care of my home in the process of doing everything else. Maybe one day! My husband works full-time outside the home, and is a wonderful help when it comes to keeping our son occupied so I can create adult content when he’s home. He’s an exceptional partner and we share the household duties, but there’s a lot I do during the day while still working.

Being a sex worker isn’t always sexy. I don’t sit around in lingerie all day touching myself. Though I will admit, on the days my son is with his aunt or grandmother, I get a lot of masturbation done! Sometimes, I even record it for posterity.
3 Obstacles That Are Holding Back Your High-Performing Team
By: Eric Peterson
Tags: Leadership, Team Building, Business, Personal Development, Entrepreneurship

Obstacle 2: Authority alone

Second, those that practice using their title to achieve results needlessly add risk to their organizations. Authority alone is not enough to achieve the long-term results we crave. Authority alone . . . it doesn’t scale. It can however lead to increased suspicion among employees and even tempt us in using coercive practices.

Photo by Matt Benson on Unsplash

Increased Suspicion

Employees are suspicious of leaders today because they see us intervene at the slightest hint of a problem. Some even swoop in and take over in what I’ve been told is called a seagull attack.

This is where the leader flies in and back out, leaving the team in a worse condition. The saddest part of the story. They thought they were helping.

Coercion

Worse, some managers coerce others to get things done their way. Most of us have encountered this type. Make no mistake. Under the leader who is looking to grow their kingdom through the accumulation of power, we will pay; one way or another.

Over time their behavior infects the work environment. When the organization becomes too corrosive people leave, just as the author of The MECE Muse, Christie Lindor asserts.

In a recent interview published by Bently University, she says, “Most turnover is the direct result of a broader system, the organizational culture.”

Good News: The environment is changing

It is no surprise that those who choose to micro-manage in the face of the tidal wave of change have become increasingly ineffective. Those that have read Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal (McChrystal Group) understand that even the military has given up on this approach.

They are trading the strict authoritative approach to decentralize decision-making. In his book, Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet (L. David Marquet) provides a new framework for decision making called leading by intention to drive decisions to the lowest possible level. He writes,

“Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers.” ~ David Marquet

In my experience, I’ve seen when leaders begin to see their people differently, expecting people will follow, many are ready. They are just waiting for the right leader.