Make your own Super Pandas using Multiproc
This post is a part of my series on Python Shorts. Some tips on how to use python. This post is about using the computing power we have at hand and applying it to the data structure we use most.
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dgryski/go-perfbook: Thoughts on Go performance optimization
Thoughts on Go performance optimization.
Introducing templates for Jupyter widget layouts
Creating complex layouts of widgets (button, sliders, maps, graphs etc.) can be cumbersome. New layout templates make this task a breeze.
4 Design Patterns In Web Development
Right now, you're code is using some kind of design pattern. There are 23 official ones, but a few of them show up almost every day in web development. Here are 4 of the most commonly used design patterns in web development.
How to Use C Functions in Python
Did you know you can write functions in C and then call them directly from Python? Isn't that cool? L...
How to Customize Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) Bar
Non-standard Product Images Can Spur Sales
Quality product photos are crucial to selling online. Since they cannot physically touch an item, shoppers need to see all the core details. To maximize sales of a product, though, you need multiple types of images — beyond studio shots. Here are three types of non-standard…
Labeling, transforming, and structuring training data sets for machine lear
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Alex Ratner on how to build and manage training data with Snorkel.
amborle/featmap: The simple user story mapping tool
The simple and open source user story mapping tool. - amborle/featmap
Betting the Farm on the Drought
Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can't wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.
The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West
After nearly dying while filming “The Wizard of Oz,” Margaret Hamilton spent the rest of her career trying to escape her evil character’s long shadow.
An Introduction to Cython, the Secret Python Extension with Superpowers
Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth? - MIT Technology Re
Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.”
Dos and don'ts for tourists in Japan | Time Out Tokyo
From local manners to social etiquette and cultural sensitivity, this guide will help you become a model traveller in Tokyo and Japan
Word2vec: fish music = bass | graceavery
SEO Checklist for Website Redesigns and Replatforms
Major website redesigns and replatforms can kill organic search traffic. Use this checklist to minimize the impact.
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Understanding Nyquist Plots for Second-Order Filters - Technical Articles
This article continues a series on Nyquist diagrams by explaining Nyquist curves that represent the transfer function of a two-pole filter.
Product innovation is not enough to beat a competitor’s network effects
Bird recently announced a new form factor for micromobility, the Bird Cruiser. It’s a cross between an electric scooter, a bicycle and a…
To Be a Great Leader, You Have to Learn How to Delegate Well
One of the most difficult transitions for leaders to make is the shift from doing to leading . As a new manager you can get away with holding on to work. Peers and bosses may even admire your willingness to keep “rolling up your sleeves” to execute tactical assignments. But as…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Feature Extraction
Some Tricks and Code for Kaggle and Everyday work. This post is about useful feature engineering methods and tricks that I have learned and end up using often.
What is (Gaussian) curvature?
More than "Hello World" in Docker: Build Rails Sidekiq web apps in Docker
The first post on a series to get you ready to develop and deploy production-grade workloads in AWS.
Remote Ideation: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Asynchronous remote ideation allows people to contribute ideas whenever it’s convenient to do so, but synchronous sessions lead to faster results and more team building.
A tour of awesome features of spaCy (part 2/2) - Eliiza-AI - Medium
In the first part of this overview of spaCy we went over the features of the large English pretrained model that spaCy comes with. In this…
Custom Search Element Control API | Custom Search | Google Developers
Discover a basic model for adding Programmable Search Engine elements to your web page.
The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2
Toshiba has discovered a new way to enforce such planned obsolescence by cutting the repair market off from critical service information. But the cost to society is significant: The e-waste problem is growing; we’re losing thousands of domestic jobs as independent repair shops…
Mini Tutorial – A Guide to Font Combinations
Effective font combinations are a hallmark of good design. Designers who master this aspect of typography can make the most basic designs more effective.
How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure
People are quick to blame themselves for failure. But not doing something because you’re afraid to get started isn’t going to help you grow. Here are four strategies to help you get over the hump. Start by redefining what failure means to you. If you define failure as the…
quii/learn-go-with-tests: Learn Go with test-driven development
Learn Go with test-driven development.
Useful (and Useless) Mobile Ecommerce Metrics
In my experience, there are a few "cuts" of data that matter more for mobile than for desktop. Conversely, there are a handful of traditional metrics from desktops that are not as important on mobile or potentially difficult to optimize.
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my…
How SaaS Products Ascend the “Trust Pyramid”
SaaS products may be the future of how we work, but that future will only happen if we can learn how to build trust with your customers.
8-step SEO Crawl Audit for Ecommerce
Your site won’t rank if search engine bots can’t crawl it. And hidden doors that don’t impact human visitors can lock bots out. Use these eight steps to ensure search bots can access all of your ecommerce site.
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
WTF is authenticated consent?
Authenticated consent is a term that has started to crop up more and will likely gain more steam in the future. Here's what it means.
Why We Can’t Sit Quietly In A Room Alone
Pascal said we couldn't sit alone in a room, and that this inability makes us miserable. Is he right?
Veblen good - Wikipedia
A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make…
The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper
Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there.
Why is “courage” suddenly such a popular job requirement?
More and more companies are listing the quality as a requirement for entry-level, minimum-wage jobs.
In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music
More than 90 years ago, recordings in a hat warehouse in Bristol, Tenn., unleashed a quintessentially American musical form.
Taylor and Kanye: How two superstars and four words influenced a decade of pop culture
On the 10-year anniversary of ‘I’mma let you finish,’ a look back at a definitive moment.
Just putting it out there: I still buy MP3s
In this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One of my biggest sources of inner turmo
To date a dinosaur
Stegosaur expert Susie Maidment is laying crucial groundwork for assigning ages to fossils from North America’s most dinosaur-rich rocks. More precise timings promise to reveal plenty about how the beasts lived and evolved through time.
Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India
One man’s dream of bringing enlightenment back to its forgotten birthplace.
What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?
A human-rights icon’s fall from grace in Myanmar
What the Heck Is Crab Rangoon Anyway?
On the history and origin of the crab rangoon.
Sahara Desert Libraries Are Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts
These desert libraries have been around for centuries and they hold sacred texts from ancient times.
How Ranch Water Became the Unofficial Cocktail of West Texas | PUNCH
Anyone who’s spent time in West Texas between May and September has experienced the relentless desert sun, offset ever-so-briefly by a bone-dry, tumblewe