Reciprocity Decay

Our desire to give back wanes rapidly with time - Why if you want people to return a favor, you need to act fast

Graph neural networks: a review of methods and applications | the morning paper

How to Respond to Skepticism of Testing Small Groups of Users

“That’s just one person” and “Our real users aren’t like that” are common objections to findings from qualitative usability testing. Address these concerns proactively to ensure your research is effective.

Markets To Build In (2019)

Nine interesting markets to track in 2019.

The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time

From Black Panther to Clueless, Dazed and Confused to Purple Rain, the music that has defined modern filmmaking

Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History?

A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.

Guns, Germs and Steel | Documentary - The Big Picture

A PBS documentary concerning the disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still live primitively.

Learn Enough Docker to be Useful

Part 1: The Conceptual Landscape

First Listen: Tedeschi Trucks Band, 'Signs'

Veteran blues-rock powerhouses Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks return with an impassioned new album, informed by the deaths of several mentors and family members.

What Is Signaling, Really? - LessWrong 2.0

The most commonly used introduction to signaling, promoted both by Robin Hanson and in The Art of Strategy, starts with college degrees. Suppose, the…

The Jobs to be Done Data Model

A way to communicate, quantify, validate, and design for a Job to be Done

Best 106 Linux Commands with Example

4-Part Nonviolent Communication (NVC) - PuddleDancer Press

Express and receive communication empathically using the four-part Nonviolent Communication process developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.

ROC Curve Explained in One Picture - DataScienceCentral.com

With a ROC curve, you’re trying to find a good model that optimizes the trade off between the False Positive Rate (FPR) and True Positive Rate (TPR). What counts here is how much area is under the curve (Area under the Curve = AuC). The ideal curve in the left image fills in…

Arrow Electronics API | ProgrammableWeb

Mouser Electronics | Mouser Search API Access Request

Mouser has solutions to increase productivity, reduce manual data entry and optimize time generating POs with our Electronic Order Automation Services.

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API Solutions | DigiKey

DigiKey offers a complete set of APIs to share information and automate the ordering process.

How to Use ROC Curves and Precision-Recall Curves for Classification in Python - MachineLearningMastery.com

It can be more flexible to predict probabilities of an observation belonging to each class in a classification problem rather than predicting classes directly. This flexibility comes from the way that probabilities may be interpreted using different thresholds that allow the…

Understanding Database Sharding | DigitalOcean

Sharded databases have been receiving lots of attention in recent years, but many don’t have a clear understanding of what they are or the scenarios in which…

Using CSS Grid the right way

CSS Grid is fun to use but hard to learn. Here are three tips to help you understand and leverage the Grid spec.

Is it a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, it depends how the image is rotated. [OC]

27K votes, 533 comments. 21M subscribers in the dataisbeautiful community. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information…

A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions | MIT Sloan Management Review

A rigorous process for navigating strategic decisions can mitigate errors and improve judgment.

Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs

The Prized Pepper That Comes From a Single New Mexican Town

But can it be grown anywhere else?

SEO: Tell Google Which Pages Not to Crawl

The typical goal of search engine optimization is to have your site's pages show up on a Google results page in answer to a query. But there are pages that should not be included in search results. Removing them from Google's index might actually increase search engine traffic.

Why Dollar Tree has struggled to grow Family Dollar

Dollar Tree has struggled to grow Family Dollar because of its different business model.

The Female Chef Making Japan’s Most Elaborate Cuisine Her Own

From 2019: How Niki Nakayama’s kaiseki restaurant became a highly coveted reservation in L.A.

The Football Route Tree, Explained | STACK

A football route tree consists of a single straight line with other lines branching off it, depicting the various possible routes. Here is what a basic football route tree looks like.

The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain s

The long read: When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better

The Exile of Rick Pitino

In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond

Forecasting in Python with Prophet | Reports - Mode

A guided walkthrough of how to use the Prophet python library to solve a common forecasting problem.

Iterative Development: The Secret to Great Product Launches — MindK

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is winning the space race. His secret to success lay in the iterative development process, borrowed straight from the software industry.

Ideas are Easy, Sorting them is Hard

Why we should ask people to submit problems, not ideas

Download Coloring Pages From Over 100 Museums

We first shared this post in early 2019, long after the peak of the adult coloring fad . But desperate times call for desperate measures, and a globa

Back to the Stratosphere: How the Rarest Music in the World Comes Back

Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue. The internet made it all possible.

Meditations - Wikipedia

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.

The Best Beach Camping in California

The best beach camping in California

‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home (Published 2019)

A writer never knew her family’s house on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but discovering it, and her history, became an obsession.

6 Experimentation Secrets from Airbnb and Uber

Last week we hosted over 130 experimenters at Optimizely HQ in San Francisco for our first live event of the year. We were lucky enough to be joined by two...

Sharing secrets with polynomials

How to use polynomials to share secrets, and how to verify that the secret has been shared without unlocking it.

The Surprising Power of Simply Asking Coworkers How They’re Doing

A recent EY survey found that more than 40% of U.S. respondents reported feeling physically and emotionally isolated in the workplace. This group spanned generations, genders and ethnicities. People want more connection with those they work with. So how can companies connect…

The hard part in becoming a command line wizard

I've long been impressed by shell one-liners. They seem like magical incantations. Pipe a few terse commands together, et voilà! Out pops the solution to a problem that would seem to require pages of code. Are these one-liners real or mythology? To some extent, they're both…

Texas Monthly Recommends: Soaking Up the Sounds on Saturday Night with Joe

Plus, explosive photography from Austin, instrumentals from Billy Preston, and a podcast investigation of Anna Nicole Smith.

Culture Shock for French in Quebec: ‘We Smoke Cigarettes, They Smoke Pot’ (Published 2019)

Thousands of French people are coming to live in Quebec and discovering that a common language doesn’t necessarily mean a common culture.

Don’t Just Create an Event, Create an Ecosystem

Building a community is an essential step in establishing any company or brand as a leader in its respective industry. A brand community gives your

This Picture Has No Red Pixels—So Why Do the Strawberries Still Look Red? -

Color constancy continues to confound us.

The GIST Board — A New Way to Do Planning and Execution | HackerNoon

Done right, GIST keeps the team, management and stakeholders aligned on the why (goals), what (ideas) and how (steps and tasks), and every task we execute is connected to a business goal. A full quarterly plan creates a GIST tree per goal:

Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed? - Eater

As customers unsubscribe, companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh look for salvation at the grocery store

Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir

32K subscribers in the elixir community. Subreddit for the Elixir programming language, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable…