Principal component analysis: pictures, code and proofs

The code used to generate the plots for this post can be found here.

The 4 Stages of 0->1 Products

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass. Every week, I answer a reader’s question.

Text Analytics

Medallia's text analytics software tool provides actionable insights via customer and employee experience sentiment data analysis from reviews & comments.

Strawman Arguments: What They Are and How to Counter Them

The Strategic Advantage of Being a Small Fish – Effectiviology

The Value of Inconvenient Design

Technology makes seemingly inconvenient tasks easier — but at what cost?

The principle of design principles

Your team’s not dysfunctional – you just need shared principles.

Using Go Modules - The Go Programming Language

An introduction to the basic operations needed to get started with Go modules.

10 Most Influential College Radio Stations In The US

Many a legend tells of the big breakout that came as the result of an early pickup by a college radio station, and while radio may not have the grip. Continue reading

Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default

A new battle is brewing to be the default of every choice we make. As modern interfaces like voice remove options, augmented reality…

5 essential onboarding tactics for complex products

The ideal onboarding path is an easy and frictionless path to finding value. But some products include irreducible complexity – so here are 5 techniques that help to create the magic of a consumer onboarding flow in a complex product with considered actions.

Trusting the Process

I am a firm believer that success starts with the statement of work (SOW). An appropriate and attainable SOW determines whether my team of UX designers and researchers get the time and activities we require to fully understand a client’s needs and fashion a suitable solution…

The Ultimate Product Led Growth Resources Guide

OpenView's Kyle Poyar presents an inclusive guide featuring the best resources available to help you execute a successful product-led growth strategy.

How to Identify a Product Qualified Lead (PQL)

More companies are switching from marketing qualified leads to track product qualified leads. Find out what a PQL is and how to optimize for them here.

Advanced git tips

After using Git for more than 2 years and teaching it to people, there are few tip that I would like to share.

Best DevOps Software - 2018 Reviews of the Most Popular Tools and Services

Git, GitHub, Visual Studio Code, Docker, and npm are the most popular tools in the category "DevOps". "Distributed version control system" is the primary reason developers pick Git over its competitors, while "Open source friendly" is the reason why GitHub was chosen.

An Introduction to Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment | Digit

Developing and releasing software can be a complicated process, especially as applications, teams, and deployment infrastructure grow in complexity themselve…

A gentle explanation of Github Webhooks

In this context, *hooks are events you can subscribe to* in order to trigger some action. It is possible that you have been using them for a while without knowing.

Beginner’s Guide to Product Qualified Leads (PQLs)

A product qualified lead (PQL) is a lead who has experienced meaningful value using your product through a free trial or freemium model. Learn how to use them in your organization here.

Column One: 'Blink once if you can hear me’ — a brain-injured man's remarkable awakening

Omar Salgado defied the odds in Room 20. But his is not a story about a miracle — it’s a story about medicine’s inability to accurately diagnose consciousness.

My life with face blindness: I spent decades unable to recognize people. Then I learned why.

A journey toward seeing myself more clearly.

Drifting Through Puglia, Italy’s Heel

Arriving exhausted, the 52 Places Traveler found Puglia the perfect place to go with the flow.

The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

Alexander the Great’s death is an unsolved mystery. Was he a victim of natural causes, felled by some kind of fever, or did his marshals assas­sinate him, angered by his tyrannical ways? An autopsy…

A Lawyer, 40 Dead Americans, and a Billion Gallons of Coal Sludge

In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.

The Golden Bough | The New Yorker

Grant Hadwin got a chainsaw and did something terrible.

Queen of Darts

Inside the world of competitive darts.

RISC-V from scratch 2: Hardware layouts, linker scripts, and C runtimes

A post describing how C programs get to the main function. Devicetree layouts, linker scripts, minimal C runtimes, GDB and QEMU, basic RISC-V assembly, and other topics are reviewed along the way.

Python Data Science Handbook | Python Data Science Handbook

Free Football Playbooks - FootballXOs.com - NFL, College, High School

We have a lot of free football playbooks for you to view, download and enjoy. Use these files to enjoy and understand the game of football better.

Generative Adversarial Networks - The Story So Far

Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise - Das Bityard

(Alternate Title: How to Shut Up the Ubuntu MOTD, the Long Way) Sometimes, the simplest questions take you on exciting journies. This was, in...

A tour of awesome features of spaCy (part 1/2) – Eliiza-AI – Medium

A few weeks ago I started working on a text summarisation project and I needed a Natural Language Processing library with comprehensive…

Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car

Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market. The case he’s on now could set him up for life—if he’s not outsmarted by a skilled network of criminals and cheats.

Andrew Luck Book Club

I created the Andrew Luck Book Club to share books and build a team of readers by engaging through social media using #ALBookClub.

Deliberate Practice: A Mindful & Methodical Way to Master Any Skill

Each and every day we eat, we sleep, we read, we brush our teeth. So why haven't we all become world-class masters of eating, sleeping, reading, and teeth-brushing?

A 2019 Guide to Object Detection

Object detection has been applied widely in video surveillance, self-driving cars, and object/people tracking. In this piece, we’ll look at the basics of object detection and review some of the most commonly-used algorithms and a few brand new approaches, as well.

How to Write Email with Military Precision

A few tips on how to quickly and clearly relay information and avoid miscommunication.

Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers

Calculator apps for DIY home improvement remodeling construction and renovation with detailed scaled diagrams for all construction tasks + woodwork metal work and craft

How Graffiti Became Gentrified

Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences.

The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets eBook: Michael Blastlan

How to Use Learning Milestones – Itamar Gilad – Medium

In tech we have huge bias for Execution — building things and launching them fast and with the right quality. A million underwhelming…

Optimize Angular bundle size in 4 steps

Learning Synths

Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.

Hookpad Songwriting Software - Write The Song You Always Wished You Could.

Buy Low-Tops, Sell High-Tops: A Sneaker Exchange Is Worth $1 Billion

StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.

The Disappearing Physicist and His Elusive Particle - Issue 74: Networks -

He ushered symmetry into theoretical physics, then vanished without a trace.

28 Jupyter Notebook Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Data Science

Jupyter Notebook is a powerful tool for data analysis. Here are 28 tips, tricks and shortcuts to turn you into a Jupyter notebooks power user!

See Google's first guidelines for data visualization

Google's data viz team, formed just last year, has put out best practices for designing charts.

Computer Vision for Beginners: Part 1

Image processing is performing some operations on images to get an intended manipulation. Think about what we do when we start a new data analysis. We do some data preprocessing and feature engineering. It’s the same with image processing.

7 Harsh Truths That Will Improve Your Leadership Skills Overnight

This is taking your leadership to a whole new level, again.