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3 Subtle Signs Telling You to Give up Your Coding Job
By: Piero Borrelli
Tags: Programming, Technology, Motivation, Work, Web Development

3 Subtle Signs Telling You to Give up Your Coding Job

Your awful feelings may tell you something about your current position.

Photo by Christina Morillo from Pexels

My last coding job was terrible.

Months of increasing distress and emotional unrest preceded the end of it, and I couldn’t understand why.

After more than a year as passed from those days, I can tell you to be aware of your visceral bad feelings toward your job, because the signs that it’s time to quit are not always so evident.

The clues indicating that something is wrong can be, in fact, very subtle, and times of pain can pass before you recognize them and put a stop to the situation.

Let’s try to give a name to these subtle signs.

The Rapport between You and Your Colleagues Has Cracked

I’m confident that you can understand when this has happened. You should always trust your guts. If your colleagues are not inviting you to meetings, whether they are personal or related to work, that’s a pretty bad sign. If you feel like they have lost their trust in you based on some of your actions, they probably have.

A fractured rapport between you and your peers is a significant flag that it’s time for you to leave. You won't have the chance to live a peaceful environment anymore, because the crack will become more and more evident, causing you stress and maybe even some heated fights.

You won’t even have the chance of growing, because you will kind of be cut out from meetings and important parts of a project.

Unfortunately, whether the end to the relationship with your peers was your fault or not, these things can happen when human beings interact. Apart from that, my advice is that you take a deep look at yourself in the mirror and realize if you were responsible for this, even in part.

If the answer is yes: be careful. Because inner problems not solved always show up again in the future. 😉
Metrc, ensuring a secure supply chain by tracking and tracing cannabis products from seed to sale
By: Kevin Hart
Tags: Cannabis, Marijuana, Hemp, Startup

We talked with Jeff Wells, Metrc’s CEO.

How much funding have you raised in total?

Since we became involved in the cannabis and hemp industries, we have raised $50 million in funding, including investments from Tiger Global Management and Casa Verde Ventures.

How would you describe Metrc in a single tweet?

Metrc is the most trusted solution for cannabis governance. Our technology and software help ensure a secure supply chain by tracking and tracing cannabis products from seed to sale, enabling government and industry to promote transparency, public health, and a safe marketplace.

How did it all start and why?

We started back in 1993 as Franwell, Inc. and, at that time, focused on enterprise software for the agricultural industry. We gradually began developing RFID tags, using them to help with supply chain management, eventually expanding into the food and pharmaceutical industries. As we were looking at other use cases for the technology, we learned that Colorado was looking for a track-and-trace system for its new cannabis industry. We were extremely hesitant at first, but over time warmed to the idea, realizing it could be a perfect fit for our solution and a perfect opportunity to help the state develop a secure and safe market. Needless to say, it was a long and windy road.

What have you achieved so far?

Since launching the world’s first industry-wide track-and-trace system for cannabis, we’ve expanded to 11 other states and the District of Columbia; they represent the five largest state cannabis markets by tax revenue. And, in them, we work with over 15,000 cannabis businesses and support over 120,000 users. In our system, we’ve recorded over $11.5 billion in cannabis sales and over one billion supply chain events, like plantings, harvests, packages, transports, and tests. We truly believe that we have the best solution on the market and are proud of a 100% renewal rate in our contracts. But this market is continually changing, so we’re always trying to improve our solution and look for ways to better serve our clients.

How will you use your recent funding round?

Well, in addition to improving our solution, we’re continuing to focus on protecting our software and data, expanding our system functionality, and growing our team. In fact, the number of Metrc employees has grown by over 40% since our most recent funding round last year.

What do you plan to achieve in the next 2–3 years?

Become a world-class solution with sustainable growth. For the latter, we believe that medical and adult-use cannabis will continue to be legalized both throughout the United States and the world; we want to be the go-to partner for supply chain governance in each of those jurisdictions. For the former, we’re working hard to not only provide best-in-class software and technology, but to provide exceptional customer service, including regulatory advisory services, system training, and ongoing user support, at an affordable and transparent price.
How to Build Confidence and Prevent Bullying
By: Guy D. Mccardle
Tags: Schools, Psychology, Children, Confidence, Bullying

How to Build Confidence and Prevent Bullying

Work to keep it from happening in the first place

Image courtesy of health.clevelandclinic.org

It seemed like I was always the new kid in school. At age seven, I switched again to begin the second grade.

The morning was cool and a small group of us were waiting under a large maple tree at the bus stop. Two much larger kids that I didn’t recognize approached me with mean looks on their faces.

“What are you doing here?” the taller one asked.

“Just waiting for the bus,” I replied.

“It’s our bus,” the shorter, slightly stout kid chirped in. He was obviously the sidekick of the taller boy. “Why don’t your parents drive you? You’re rich.”

My family had owned a business for several years in our small town, and there was always the misconception that because of this, we had money. We didn’t.

“What’s in the bag?” They were asking about my small brown paper lunch bag.

“Just my lunch.”

“Oh, yeah, give it here. I bet you have some good stuff.”

“No way, get out of here,” I shot back. I loved my PB&J sandwiches and wasn’t about to give one up to anybody.

Out of nowhere, the larger kid with the shaggy hair and overalls pushed me hard to the ground, and the smaller kid swiped my lunch bag. They had done this before.

“Ours now, they laughed,” opening it up to see what was inside.

Something like this had never happened to me before. I was a mixture of stunned, hurt, and surprised. Even though I only lost a sandwich and an apple, it felt awful.

I didn’t know it at the time, but it made a big dent in my self-esteem. Up until then, I was relatively non-confrontational. I never wanted to feel frightened and insecure again. I felt I had no way to defend myself.

That day after school, I told my parents what had happened. To put it mildly, they were not pleased. I told my dad I would handle it, and I wanted to start wrestling lessons at the local YMCA. He agreed, and before the week was out, I was learning how to do takedowns and armbars.

My confidence grew. I want to say that no one ever tried to bully me again, but that’s not true. The difference was, those times, I stood my ground. I pushed back. No one ever stole my lunch again.
Leading Diverse and Dispersed Teams in Times of Crisis
By: Harvard Ash Center
Tags: Local Government, Covid 19, Leadership, Teams And Teamwork, Coronavirus

Leading Diverse and Dispersed Teams in Times of Crisis

The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative is collaborating with Bloomberg Philanthropies’ COVID-19 Local Response Initiative to support mayors as they manage the pandemic. A ninth virtual discussion session held on May 14, 2020, focused on leading diverse and dispersed teams in times of crisis.

In the ninth session of the COVID-19 Local Response Initiative, Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, and Jorrit de Jong, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and Harvard Kennedy School, discussed effective crisis leadership with a particular focus on creating conditions for diverse and dispersed teams to thrive.

Public Health Update

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Caitlin Rivers, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided critical public health updates and examined what organizations, businesses, and other settings need to do when they reopen.
How to Declutter Your Writing Closet and Become a Minimalist
By: Eve Arnold
Tags: Growth, Writing Tips, Self, Self Improvement, Writing

How to Declutter Your Writing Closet and Become a Minimalist

How to stop hoarding half baked articles and get clinical

Photo by piotr szulawski on Unsplash

Sometimes you buy things just because you can. You have no need for another pair of trainers. In fact, if anything, you have a need to reduce the number of trainers in your trainer collection, because yes, at this point it’s become a collection.

Somehow you’ve got to the point where you have different trainers for different occasions despite the fact you only go out once a month. Along the way that’s happened with the clothes you own and the coats you buy. You realise on one faithful Saturday afternoon that you simply have too much stuff. You have t-shirts that still have the tags on, trainers and shoes that look brand new, coats that haven’t seen the outdoors. Evidence of total excess.

So you decide to clear things out. Charity bags at one end of the room and bin bags at the other. You get rid of all your old, tatty clothes that you’ve had since you were 13 and you bag up all the clothes you know you’ll never wear into the charity bags ready for someone else to get their use out of them. After all, they are wasted if they are sat in a closet not giving anyone any joy.
Mixture of Variational Autoencoders — a Fusion Between MoE and VAE
By: Yoel Zeldes
Tags: Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a paragon for neural networks that try to learn the shape of the input space. Once trained, the model can be used to generate new samples from the input space.

If we have labels for our input data, it’s also possible to condition the generation process on the label. In the MNIST case, it means we can specify which digit we want to generate an image for.

Let’s take it one step further… Could we condition the generation process on the digit without using labels at all? Could we achieve the same results using an unsupervised approach?

If we wanted to rely on labels, we could do something embarrassingly simple. We could train 10 independent VAE models, each using images of a single digit.

That would obviously work, but you’re using the labels. That’s cheating!

OK, let’s not use them at all. Let’s train our 10 models, and just, well, have a look with our eyes on each image before passing it to the appropriate model.

Hey, you’re cheating again! While you don’t use the labels per se, you do look at the images in order to route them to the appropriate model.

Fine… If instead of doing the routing ourselves we let another model learn the routing, that wouldn’t be cheating at all, would it?

Right! :)

We can use an architecture of 11 modules as follows:

A manager module routing an input to the appropriate expert module

But how will the manager decide which expert to pass the image to? We could train it to predict the digit of the image, but again — we don’t want to use the labels!

Phew… I thought you’re gonna cheat…

So how can we train the manager without using the labels? It reminds me of a different type of model — Mixture of Experts (MoE). Let me take a small detour to explain how MoE works. We’ll need it, since it’s going to be a key component of our solution.
3 Traits of the Most Successful People You Must Have
By: Saeed Ahmad
Tags: Success, Personal Development, Life, Productivity, Life Lessons

Everyone follows Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and thousands of other successful people. People see all the aura around their personality but neglect the things that were key in their growth. We want to be icons like them and idolize their current position, status, and reverence.

But did you ever think that what are the three key things in their lives?

Persistence

If you read biographies or life accounts of the most successful people, you’ll find that one of their most important habits is persistence.

No one gets fame, success, and honor in a day. All that glitters is not gold. There are lots of pains, struggles, and hardships behind that.

Victory comes with patience, persistence, and constant hard work. What they achieved today is the fruit of untiring efforts they have been putting for a long time.

In the modern world, it’s easy to lose focus. There are so many things happening around us. Some distractions are attractive enough to pull us towards them. It’s easier to lose focus nowadays.

That’s why it makes sense that persistence is one of the essential qualities of successful people in modern times.

Punctuality

Being punctual is a quality trait that will help you to stand out from your peers. It shows you are responsible, serious, and disciplined.

You might have also noticed that during your studies, disciplined students often get chances to lead the societies. The same rule applies to professional life.

If you are punctual, you’ll get more chances to execute and showcase your leadership skills. That’s where you can shine and jump up to more exciting roles in life.

Personality

Before letting the world believe in you, you need to believe in yourself. If you don’t, no one is going to take you seriously.

I often see many young talented people who are in the early stages of their careers. They miss this trait. They don’t believe in themselves despite being so gifted.

Successful people believe in themselves. They pave the way to their success by not only their hard skills but also their soft skills. Communication, posture, behavior — everything matters and shapes your personality.

Takeaway

Being successful in anything is not easy. It’s the reason a few people in the world are genuinely successful.

If you want to be successful, you need to follow these basic traits alongside working on other stuff.
Insomnia: To hell and back.
By: Neeramitra Reddy
Tags: Experience, Mental Health, Sleep, Insomnia, Thankfulness

Insomnia: To hell and back.

A fortnight of torment that drove me to the brink of insanity.

Image Source: Google

I promptly shut my laptop’s lid, keep away my phone, set the room lighting to a warm orange hue, grab my Kindle and try to relax — just like what the “How to sleep well” articles I found on the Internet recommended.

After a while, as I feel slightly drowsy, I put away my Kindle, turn off the light, and close my eyes.

Just as I am slipping into sleep, the dreaded thought emerges— “What if I can’t fall asleep”, which startles me back to consciousness.

A pang of fear grips my heart and a feeling of dread settles in my stomach which strengthens my conviction that I won’t be able to fall asleep which in turns feeds my fear and anxiety — A vicious feedback loop that leaves my heart beating like a drum and all my senses turned up to the maximum.

I can’t help but notice every single sound — The rustle of the leaves, the whir of the ceiling fan, water dripping in the washroom, and the beating of my racing heart.

I fall victim to a debilitating cycle of — somehow calming down myself, then feeling drowsy, then thinking ” What if I can’t sleep?”, and a full-blown panic attack.

A fierce onslaught of thoughts — “I need to sleep”, “Sleep deprivation is harmful!”, “I feel like a zombie”, “Will I be able to sleep tomorrow?”, “What if I can’t?”, “This can’t go on!”, “Maybe sleep in the afternoon tomorrow?”, “But that might disrupt my sleep cycle”, “I need to calm myself”, “Will I be able to sleep ever again?” and so on.

2:00 AM, 2:30 AM, 3:00 AM, 3:30 AM, 4:00 A M — Time ticks away, the night gets shorter and shorter, and I am still wide awake with my hopes of falling asleep trickling away.

After what seems like an eternity, my mind shows mercy and finally lets me fall asleep — only to wake me up in an hour or two.

Tired and Frustrated, I trudge out of bed.

Caffeine pills get me through my day, my dread mounting, and the night inching closer with every passing hour.

I can’t go on like this — despising the days and dreading the nights.

I need to fall asleep tonight — I hope I do.
The State of UX in 2016
By: Fabricio Teixeira
Tags: Articles, UX, Design

#1 Our Fascination with Pixels is Almost Over

It might be that 2015 was the year you finally added the buzzword “UX” to your Linkedin profile — but were still spending most of your time pushing pixels on a screen. If that’s the case, your Photoshop days may be over soon. That’s not to say interfaces are going to die, but our role as UX Designers will be to less focused on interface design over time. And here are a couple reasons why designers all over the world are saying that.

Everything looks the same

We’re designing for a browsers and operating systems that have a well-established visual language and pretty solid interaction design patterns. Also, the increasingly popular Flat Design aesthetic is making everything look the same. Well, maybe that’s okay.

Interaction patterns are robust enough

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when designing a door handle; two or three types of handles may be enough to cover all the possible use cases. Innovation just for innovation’s sake, like trying to create a completely disruptive navigation system for your website or app, might bring you some usability problems in the long term. The question becomes: what exactly is the user need you’re trying to solve by introducing a new interaction pattern? Robust and comprehensive interaction design pattern libraries are gradually letting us focus our time on what really matters for the user: getting things done in an easy and familiar way.

The end of apps as we know them

Apps are not necessarily your user’s final destination anymore; they’re just an engine that translates raw data into actionable information. Some users might still occasionally open that beautifully-designed weather app to check the forecast, but the most useful thing the app can do is to send users a notification 15 minutes before it rains — reminding them to bring their umbrella as they leave. Yes, a notification. Mobile OS features such as the ability to take action right from the notification center on iOS or Google Now on Tap on Android are going to make people need to see an app’s UI less and less over time.

New interactions don’t always require new screens

Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more popular in 2016. Smart algorithms such as Facebook M are soon going to respond to your texts within the Facebook Messenger app UI, and third-party services and companies will be able to get things done for you without the need of a proprietary user interface. Needless to say, someone still needs to “design” the logic and script of those conversations, and to build the artificial intelligence behind the product.

The interface of the future might not always be made of pixels.
A River Called Mother
By: M. C. Rose
Tags: Life Lessons, Parenting, Mental Health, Feminism, Poetry

A River Called Mother

A poem

Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash

Daughter,

Your mother will always be your mother

even after the bough breaks.

Somewhere at the end of the road

you will find her heart,

hidden beneath the shadows

that have kissed her body too often.

Daughter,

Someday you will reach up

and touch your mother’s face.

only to find that the pristine surface

has meandered into millions of tiny roads

Each line

a river of experience,

pockmarked by a lifetime of love.

When she raises her hand to greet you,

you will soon understand the meaning

of sacrifice.

And how often her eyes sheltered you

from the hand of the storm

that threatened to break you apart.

Daughter,

someday you will wake

and realize that your life

is a collusion of the Gods.

A three-stringed symphony

plucked by an invisible hand.

and your mother’s words

have become the notes

to life’s questions.

Even after you’ve forgotten the lyrics

your mind will conjure

the shape of her mouth

As she sings the words.

Daughter,

There will be days,

when you will feel more alone

than you will ever be able to say.

Someday you will feel

a tiny hand reach up

to caress your face.

On that day,

you will see love for what it is,

A tangent of light

bursting through the final curtain call.

For the first time

your life will become

an expression of beauty.

~

© 2019, M. C. Rose All Rights Reserved
6 Most Useful Homescreen Widgets for iOS 14 — (December 2020)
By: Umar Usman
Tags: iPhone, Technology, iOS, Apple, Ios 14

6 most useful Homescreen Widgets for iOS 14

These are useful and my favorite iOS14 home screen widgets for iPhone and iPad. I am sure you all will also like them. So let’s start:

1. Documents by Readdle

Documents by Readdle is a very famous app. Many people use this app for years to manage their documents on their iPhones and iPad. This app recently updated for iOS 14 with very useful widgets. It allows full customization, you can display different information and perform different actions. You can quickly access your favorite actions such as Music, Video, or Browser. Or even recently opened files and folders. The widget comes in three different sizes (small, medium, and large).

If you already have the Document by Readdle app it means you can set the widget by going into the jiggle mode of your iOS 14 device. If you don’t have the app then you can download it from here.
Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible
By: Tim Denning
Tags: Leadership, Startup, Work, Meetings, Life

As a corporate man by day, and an entrepreneur by night, I’ve attended my fair share of meetings over the last decade or so.

Meetings can be an odd experience. Before you know it the meeting can get out of control. Leaders with pinstripe suits or hair that is turning grey quicker by the day can lose the plot. They flex their ego with words. In other words, they talk a lot. As the meeting wears on the duel continues. Leaders throw words around. Those looking for their next promotion do the same.

Looking smart is key. You use spreadsheets and insert phrases into customer’s mouths that they never said to ensure you’re seen as right or most in touch with the customer.

It’s all bullshit. The meeting is a waste of time. No resolution is reached.

But it’s not all bad. Meetings have taught me one valuable lesson: watch the quiet people.

There are these hidden people that attend meetings. They say nothing. You can attend ten meetings in a row and never hear them say a word. Their words are a privilege reserved for the royal family. You find yourself dying to know what they would say. They act like a fly on the wall. With every meeting, they get smarter, by saying nothing at all.

They observe the loud beasts, rather than become a beast.

I used to be loud in meetings. These quiet people changed my mind. Now I try to sit quietly in most meetings and not say a word. I’m a long way from mastering this skill but it has already taught me so much.
I’m Growing Weary of Growth
By: Kevin Alexander
Tags: Self Improvement, Writing, Growth Hacks, Relationships, Life

Want to stand out from the crowd? Deliver value? Want people to actually read what you have to say? Try addressing some of the points below.

No, it’s not your job to write something just for me. It’s your job to deliver something of value.

How do you grow? For something non-quantifiable, what benchmark(s) do you get to use? When we think of growth, does it always have to be positive? Maybe there are times when we grow in a bad way. After all, how many times this year have we heard, “things are growing worse?”

My kids are growing, and that’s good. But it also means they’re getting older, and that’s bad (for me, anyway).

People talk about “growth” in relationships, but isn’t that just a cute way of saying “I give a shit and put in the work?” That’s the default option, not something medal-worthy.

How does a guy on an assembly line “grow” his career? If he enjoys the work, isn’t that enough?

Do we even need to grow, or is that a construct that’s been forced on us by the self-help industrial complex? Do we need to “hack” everything?

What happens when we grow weary of growth?
How To Get People To Do Stuff: #2 — Break Through A Confirmation Bias
By: The Team W
Tags: Attention, Psychology, Influence, Presentations, Persuasion

A confirmation bias is a form of “cognitive illusion”. People tend to pay attention to what they already believe and filter out information that doesn’t fit with their opinions and beliefs. You can breakthrough these biases, however. Watch the video to find out how:

For more information check out:

Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast And Slow

and my new book (when it comes out in March 2013 — available for pre-order now at Amazon) How To Get People To Do Stuff

In order to get through a confirmation bias, start first with something you know the person or your audience already believes. That way they will let the information/communication in through their attention gate. Once you’ve made it past the confirmation filters you can then slip in a new idea.

What do you think? Have you tried this to break through a confirmation bias?
The Moon Land
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Poetry, Writers On Writing, Sadness, Anxiety, Writing

The Moon Land

A poem about being a poet

Photo by karolina gac on Unsplash

intrigue me,

write that story which is lost somewhere

or get me that book which is abandoned in the library.

help me dream, because I am lost.

take me to that moonland which is somewhere.

tell me it’s okay to be who I am

a loner, an artist, a thinker, a poet

it’s not easy to hold so many pieces.

tell me it’s okay to be sad in the new world.

I know you don’t read me

for a few minutes just be silent with me,

love me.
Contribute to No Mud No Lotus
By: Camille Cusumano
Tags: Book Review, Nonfiction, Essay Writing, Creative Writing, Travel

Contribute to No Mud No Lotus

Slow-cooked words for hungry minds

Photo by DAVIDCOHEN on Unsplash

We are interested in evocative, thought-provoking, mind-pleasing words: short to medium-length stories (about 500 to 2,000 words) on subjects of travel, writing, or inspiring essays. Submit well-crafted, fully edited and copyedited stories to us at ocarami2000@gmail.com.
This 6-Month-Old Baby Published her First Novel
By: Victoria A. Fraser
Tags: Satire, Writing, Humour, Comedy, Humor

Eugenia C. Gritts is the youngest person in history to be a published author. According to her family, she’s been a prolific writer since before she was even born. In fact, her early drafts were communicated through her mother’s stomach and written in Morse code.

The novel, More Milk Please, has just been released by a small publishing house in their small town of Dildo in Newfoundland. As such, Eugenia will be going on a small book tour across North America to promote the immense struggles newborns face on a daily basis.

She dives into the serious problems for newborns. Words, for one, are surprisingly difficult. Eugenia understands them, but her tongue muscles are too weak to make the correct sounds which she finds incredibly frustrating. She’s trying to say things like “please bestow the soother upon me.” Instead, people just hear “goo goo ga ga.”

In her novel, she also touches on other daily difficulties such as trying to find a nipple under a dark towel or wiggling as much as possible while her mother wipes all of the poop out from between her butt cheeks.

There are also plenty of light moments in the novel. Eugenia tells us about her fondest memories like giggling at strangers in the grocery store. Once, she even lost her nose when her grandpa was visiting.

Eugenia C. Gritts is already quite accomplished and working on a second novel about struggling to fart. It’s clear she’ll be rivaling Shakespeare with her prolific writing in no time.

If this 6-month-old baby can be published without any help from anyone (except her wealthy parents, well-connected agent, and expensive editor) then any of us can!
Mask Up!
By: Jen Kleinknecht
Tags: Poetry, Rhymes, Masks, Covid 19, Coronavirus

Mask Up!

It’s not that hard, people.

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

They say no one likes masks

But I think that’s a lie.

It’s a chic fashion statement

That says, “I don’t want to die.”

They say masks are a burden,

But it depends whom you ask.

I call it a hug for my face.

It’s like a Snuggie, my mask.

They say masks don’t protect you

Or the people you meet.

I guess some people think science

Has become obsolete.

They say masks are just silly.

What I think that they mean

Is their IQ matches the digits

Found in COVID-19.
Like Beef.
Tags: History, Food, Vegan, Chocolate, Time

Like Beef.

Sometimes there really are no words. As I do research for other things, publications in a newspaper move me, and I had to create a publication just to keep them separate to the rest of my work.

Oh Really?

Baron Von Liebeg, a celebrated German chemist, states that there is much nutrition in one pound of pure chocolate as there is in a similar quantity of rare beef. Pure Chocolate is good, drink and beverage in one. GHIRADELLI’S- 1984

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The Hidden Price of Becoming A Successful Developer
By: Ann Adaya
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Software Engineering, Work, Programming

You will lose a lot of your “friends”

People always say — stay away from the mediocre, you are your circles, tell me who your friends are kinda thing.

But how do you actually know? To be honest, I didn’t know it back then, all I thought was that as long as you are happy then you are in good company, I didn’t know the cost behind every decision, the hidden cost, and the long term damages if we continue to live a mediocre life.

There is something wrong in this world, people tend to settle for whatever there is instead of gradually asking for more, no other reason other than we deserve to live a life that we want.

If you are serious about becoming a developer then you need to start prioritizing, by all means, giving up weekends, Friday nights, cocktails, vacation, happy hour, and endless conversations.

The journey will ask everything from you and will take everything you’ve got, with time, effort, and narrow focus to do great work.

Your current job if you still need to work while learning, the time you needed for the study, personal errands is already enough to cover your every day for the next 12 months.

Because you really can’t expect anything new if you keep doing the same thing if you keep choosing the same choices you have been doing all your life — and it will all start to change with one different decision after another.

Some of them won’t understand, and most of them will never even try to understand, but it’s okay — work on you, and choose you, it is time.

You’ll lose some, you’ll win some — but what matters is you will know yourself better, you will see who stays and holding the torch with you.

At the end of the tunnel, you will find yourself. Shining brighter than ever — so keep working on yourself because the people that deserves you will meet you at the top.
From 9–6 to 24–7–365.
By: Aldric Chen
Tags: Life Lessons, Work Life Balance, Technology, Productivity, Automation

From 9–6 to 24–7–365.

These are the numbers that represent our work-life mentality and technology’s capability.

Photo by Fauzan Ardhi on Unsplash

Technological platforms do not need a break. We do.

We need to strike a balance. We have to start thinking about ways to leverage technology, so our work continues to progress without our actual presence.

In short. Automate. Then take a break.
Integration in elementary terms
By: Adrià Serra
Tags: Data Science, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Calculus

CALCULUS FOR DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

Integration in elementary terms

Formulas to accelerate integration

In this post, we will summarise some of the most useful techniques to calculate integrals. This will allow you to avoid the limit notation, but there will always be some difficult integrals.

Primitive functions

A function F satisfying F’ = f is called a primitive of f. Of course, a continuous function f always has a primitive.

Primitive integral, self-generated.

But now we are searching for the elementary function of primitive, a function that can be written from familiar functions like logarithmic, trigonometric…

Integration methods

The basic methods of integration are theorems which will allow us to express primitives of functions in terms of primitives of other functions.

As we already introduced, when we calculate the derivation of a function we drop the constant values, when we integrate the resulting function, we can’t go back to the original function, we will always lose this constant, that’s why we write the result of an integral like with +C.

For example in the following image, we see that if we calculate the derivative and the integral of this one we are not obtaining the original function again, we lose the 4 value.

Example of why we use a constant C, self-generated.

In this sheet, you will have all the basic integrals.

Some advanced theorems on integration methods

Integration by parts

If f’ and g’ are continuous, then

Integration by parts, self-generated.

This technique is used when the function to integrate can be expressed as a product of functions f and g. There are some tricks to apply this theorem:

Consider the function g’ to be the factor 1, so we can always use integration by parts.

Use integration bt parts to funt the integral of terms of itself.

The substitution formula

If f and g’ are continuous then

The substitution formula, self-generated.

To apply this formula, we have to be able to separate the function to integrate into (f∘ g)g’. Then, using the following decomposition:

Let u=g(x) and du = g’(x)dx

and Find a primitive(as an expression involving u )

) Substitute g(x) back for u

Conclusion

In this post, we explained two ways to simplify integrals calculation, with this post we’re done with basic calculus. The next posts will be more practical, starting with machine learning regression models.
The A.I. Among Us
By: Angel Mariano
Tags: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

The A.I. Among Us

Understanding the Deepness of Deep Learning.

As an integral part of many industries, Artificial Intelligence is progressing rapidly and becoming a part of our daily lives. Just by using the internet, there could be a chance that you will be part for an algorithm used for the future of technology through data. But, how far are we from true artificial intelligence? Could A.I. be among us?

Photo from https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/?sh=5f48e1fe729a

Well, today, we have already developed an advance machine learning technology with extensive behavioral algorithms that has an ability to cater what we need to do and what we like to see. Through high computing power and massive amounts of data, these machines learn the patterns and algorithms to mimic how the human brains think.

One popular example for the application of A.I. is Natural Language Processing (NLP), where the machine learns to be proficient in understanding speech or text that were delivered in natural language. This is being used by virtual assistants and chat bots like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, etc. We can also relate, Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability that uses A.I. / Deep Neural Networks to perform semantic segmentation, object detection and monocular depth estimation that learns from diverse scenarios in the world. Interestingly, A.I. was also used to study the most strategic of games we have like Jeopardy, Chess and Go, wherein the machine successfully acquired the skill to beat even the world champions.

The documentary of Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo, shows us an aspect on how machines can be so much intelligent that it can overpower our geniuses like Lee Sedol in the world of the game “Go”, which is considered as the most complex board game ever devised by man. There are moments when AlphaGo made “weird” moves that people think unnecessary but in the end it turns out to be right move for victory. Lee Sedol managed to win one game out of five, he managed to somehow adapt on how AlphaGo plays the game. However on the last game, AlphaGo won again because the machine is designed to learn from past iterations and improve its algorithm to avoid losing the game.

Looking at the brighter side, these machines can help and teach us to be better thinkers. Cracking the code of the games mentioned does not aim to kill the essence of it but rather gives us the knowledge that Artificial Intelligence has a greater potential to be applied in any field. With this, we can have the capacity to build more machines that can solve more serious world problems like an A.I. that can detect cancers better than human doctors, and even our today’s enemy COVID-19; Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs. This shows why Big Data matters and why it is powerful.
Crawling Into Time
By: Austin Briggman
Tags: Writing, Moments, Endings, Observation, Poetry

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

my dog paces

panting frantically

she’s a golden retriever

and she has to pee

ann sits on the bed

reading a red book

hardcover

the cats lay on

opposite ends

of the floor

glaring at each other

the wind rustles the trees

outside the open window

where i can

hear the cars

every so often

in the dim lights

i look over

and see

on the nightstand

next to my side

of the bed a drawing of

ann’s lower back

hips

ass

and thighs

in tight lace

underwear

a birthday present

for me

from two years back

the dog stops pacing

climbing into bed

successfully acquiring ann’s

attention

meanwhile i sit here

tapping on this laptop

crawling into time

where i can feel

pieces of peace

waves sliding through

my body

at a snails pace

it is

quite nice

but enough of this

now

it’s late

i’m going to slip

into the bed

maybe read a book

maybe start writing a grocery list

maybe see what ann’s wearing

underneath the covers

maybe close my eyes

and think up a better

ending

to this one
The Vulnerability Industrial Complex
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Politics, Social Media, Mental Health, Culture, Self

The Vulnerability Industrial Complex

On turning our insatiable need for hope and inspiration into profit

What does it say about America that it wants to build a giant wall to keep other humans out?

As with anything to do with the current administration, the subtext isn’t subtle: America doesn’t want to share. To this end, Trump is planning to turn the US into a country-sized gated community where members abide by exclusionary rules.

This civil engineering endeavor reminds me of another guarded concrete barrier that separated humans in 1960s Germany, both physically and ideologically. The Berlin Wall severed family ties and shattered many lives in the name of some elusive common good.

A wall was an aberration then and it is an aberration now.

And yet, Trump’s wall strikes me as one of the most brutally honest metaphors about America today.

Ours is a country that fancies itself as an exclusive membership club, bound together by a monotheistic religion devoid of compassion, decency, or indeed any kind of supernatural force.

In the United States, there’s only one god.

We worship the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet adorned with two vertical strokes because it’s the only tangible deity there is.
📺 High tech — high life. 🔌 Quality of life in the…
Tags: Game Development, Games, Development, Cryptogames, Crypto

🔌 Quality of life in the Post-Apocalyptic world got better.

Fellow Cryptolords!

In the post-apocalyptic world, High Quality of Life is a myth. Or not?

Today we’re getting down to the ground and talk about Life Quality. From the beginning of the Worldopo project Life Quality concept, let’s say, did not correspond with the actual quality of life. We want to change that!

New Buildings to sustain your Settlement

In the new concept, we assume that hexagons represent land with people living on it. A real, living, and breathing people — like you or me. As each person, we all need food, apartments, and someplace to have a few shots of whisky when winter comes. Of course, being happier makes one work better and make funnier jokes!

Thus, three new Life Quality Buildings come in Grocery to purchase cereals or any other food; Apartment House to stay for a night, and Bar Buildings to have that whiskey!

Happiness level = Productivity level.

Because Wolrdopo is a Business-oriented simulator, we want to make the world much more immersive and interactive than before. The first reason behind touching Quality of Life is that it brings cash circulation inside the Settlement Economic system to sustain other activities.

The second reason is the Realistic Economy: happier people work much better in Settlement buildings, like Hyperfactory or Financial Dep. The more comfortable people are — the more money you will get. In other words, Life Quality buildings influence the efficiency of your New World Business Empire!

Only together, we can get rid of misery and poverty in the post-apocalyptic world!

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Explain Like I’m 5: The React Virtual DOM
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, React, Computer Science, Programming

The Fix

The virtual DOM, on the other hand, is a lightweight representation of the DOM. Think of the virtual DOM as a current blueprint of your house on paper. You can see all aspects of your house through this blueprint, but drawing a new room on the blueprint alone won’t magically fix the real room. In the same way, the virtual DOM is a great representation of the DOM, but it cannot directly change what you see on the screen. So how is this done?

The house analogy of what happens with the virtual DOM is like so:

You want to renovate a room in your house.

You have access to the blueprint of the house.

You then make a new copy of the blueprint and make revisions on this new version. The new blueprint now has the new room representation.

Now you compare the original blueprint and the new blueprint and see what sort of construction needs to be done.

You then go into the real house and carry out those changes relevant to that room alone without having to rebuild the entire house.

Since you no longer have any use for the old blueprint, you can throw that away. Now your most recent blueprint is your only blueprint, which represents the most updated version of your house after the fix.

In this example, the original blueprint of the house is the virtual DOM. You needing to make a fix in the house is akin to when an element needs updating (as triggered by a change in state). You making a revised blueprint based on the changes needed is akin to the virtual DOM updating completely. You comparing the original blueprint with the updated blueprint is akin to React comparing the pre-updated virtual DOM with the updated virtual DOM. In this process, React determines exactly what aspect of the virtual DOM has changed. This is referred to as diffing. Finally, you going into the house to make the exact changes needed is comparable to React updating only the objects that need changing on the actual DOM.
Good News About Black Holes!
By: Jack Shepherd
Tags: Humor, Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, Space

Good News About Black Holes!

You will still become infinitely long and infinitely thin, but the information that is you will (probably) be retained

Photo: Ute Kraus via Wikimedia

Like most sensible people who’ve got their priorities straight, I worry about black holes a lot! I worry about the fact that if I were to jump into one, I would be moving slower through time the faster I moved through space. This is not only crass, antisocial behavior, but it’s one of those things that will probably turn out to be bad for your health as well. I worry about the fact that someone watching me would never see me pass the event horizon. They would just see me slow all the way down to a complete stop and then disappear in a red glow, which would be immensely disconcerting for them. I worry, particularly, about “spaghettification,” which is exactly what it sounds like except not at all because what it sounds like is a nice bowl of noodles and what it is, it turns out, is the stretching of your body into infinitely thin strands. The astrophysicist Charles Liu describes this as being rather like “toothpaste being extruded out of a tube,” which is all very well and good if you’re toothpaste!

And the thing I really worry about, the thing that keeps me up at night, is the idea that if I fall into a black hole, no trace of me will ever come back out again, even when the black hole dies.

This is a silly thing to worry about, it turns out. Thanks to “entanglement entropy” and something called the Page curve, physicists are beginning to think that if I were to fall into a black hole, the information that is me would, in fact, be retained in the universe, just in a (somewhat worryingly) garbled state.

Part of this is down to wormholes, though the physicists who are anxiously trying to figure out where exactly I would go if I were to fall into a black hole are just as anxious to assure everybody that when they say wormholes, they don’t actually mean wormholes. That would be crazy! What’s really going on, they say, is something called nonlocality—or, to put it in a more existentially disturbing way (as this article on the new findings does), “a failure of the concept of ‘place.’”

This has of course put my mind at ease considerably w/r/t the question of where the information that is me would end up if I were to fall into a black hole. (Answer: Not nowhere! But also not “somewhere” in any way that makes sense if you’re naively accustomed to thinking of the universe as something that is at its core, geometric.)

But I’d be lying if I said that I am not, now, worried about some new things.
2 Applications of AI in E-commerce that are in Demand Today
By: Kiran Narayanan
Tags: Inventory Management, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Digital, Supply Chain Management

What is AI ?

AI is the ability of a machine to perform cognitive tasks the human mind performs. Tasks such as reasoning, correlating and problem solving. AI algorithms consists predominantly of two types of algorithms; machine learning and deep learning.

Machine learning algorithms are used to detect patterns from large quantities of data and are then used to make predictions and recommendations. Deep learning is a type of machine learning that can process a wide range of data sources compared to machine learning, requires less data processing by humans and can produce more accurate results.

For a fun, visual introduction to AI, by Jay Alammar video here:
Puffin 全雲端隔離才是真正安全的隔離
By: Cloudmosa
Tags: Web Isolation, Cloud Services, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Remote

CloudMosa’s mission is to empower the world’s phones through cloud computing and make them universally powerful and useful.

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