Replacing Google Analytics with GoAccess
How I replaced Google tracking with simple log-based analytics on my personal website.
How privilege impacts empathy
Who are we excluding from “user-centered” design
Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
Coupons and other discounts should be easy to apply and shopping carts should clearly display how the total was affected by the promotion.
Principles for decision-making in a flat organization
Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader
Getting Over Your Fear of Cold Calling Customers
Research shows that 48% of B2B salespeople are afraid of making cold calls. There are typically two central fears: 1) fear of sounding like a sales person; and 2) fear of failure. Overcoming the fear of sounding like a salesperson is a simple matter of accepting that you…
The Subtle Art of User Onboarding & Adoption
The “traditional” user onboarding flows and walkthroughs are dead. Learn about the next era of user onboarding and how to adapt to the changes in your org.
Anna Shipman : JFDI
Strategic technology leader
How to Manage Product Strategy and Prioritize Like a Pro? Guide for Product Managers | HackerNoon
What will you do in product management if you can not deal with strategic planning? How will you succeed if you are not able to prioritize correctly?
The Art of Virtue Signaling: Why so Many Brands Get It Wrong
Many brands overshoot the subtleties of virtue signaling. They preach, posture, and alienate the people they’re trying to impress. We show how big companies can better bang their virtue drums. #brand #marketing #PR #business #SocialMedia #CX
CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation
AI Inference Memory System Tradeoffs
TOPS isn't all you need to know about an inference chip.
The High-Stakes World of High-End Yo Yos
The modern version of the toy is practically unrecognizable, an Object Lesson.
Synthetic data generation — a must-have skill for new data scientists
A brief rundown of packages and ideas to generate synthetic data for self-driven data science projects and deep diving into machine…
Kernel density estimation explainer
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.
Go Modules in 2019 - The Go Programming Language
What the Go team is planning for Go modules in 2019.
On Migrating from Google Analytics - Thomas Hunter II
A blog by Darren Burns
Comparison of the Text Distance Metrics | ActiveWizards: data science and engineering lab
This article discusses and compares different approaches of how to compare two text strings.
Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
Scaling Jupyter notebooks with Kubernetes and Tensorflow
In this article, you will explore how you can leverage Kubernetes, Tensorflow and Kubeflow to scale your models without having to worry about scaling the infrastructure.
A Practical Guide To SVG And Design Tools
To make the best of SVG, it’s useful not only to learn its syntax but also to understand how SVG is generated by graphic design software. Let’s take a closer look at the process of generating SVG with popular design apps and how we can use them to our own advantage. In this…
Good decisions don’t have to be slow ones
Executives often assume that speed comes at the cost of quality in good decision making. A survey challenges this belief and offers tips on getting the best of both worlds.
Three keys to faster, better decisions
Frustrated decision makers take heart. Three practices can help companies make better decisions more quickly.
Python at Netflix
By Pythonistas at Netflix, coordinated by Amjith Ramanujam and edited by Ellen Livengood
How to Respond to a Copyright Infringement Notice
Copyright infringement is a serious issue that could cost a business as much as $150,000 per instance. If your business receives an infringement notice, take it seriously. Aim to settle if, in fact, infringement occurred.
Computer Vision for Beginners: Part 4
Contour detection and having a little bit of fun
Advanced NLP with spaCy · A free online course
spaCy is a modern Python library for industrial-strength Natural Language Processing. In this free and interactive online course, you'll learn how to use spaCy to build advanced natural language understanding systems, using both rule-based and machine learning approaches.
https://dhruvonmath.com/2019/04/04/kernels
Making the Hook Model actionable
Learn exactly what persuasive techniques you need to use to build habit-forming products.
How to Negotiate the Price of a Pricey Premium Domain
Buying a domain at the asking price? That's like buying a used car at the asking price. Doing your homework pays off.
Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks
What we'd like to find out about GANs that we don't know yet.
Elixir Boilerplate — a batteries-included Elixir application setup with Phoenix, Ecto, Credo, Distillery, Dialyzer, Docker, Coveralls, etc.
90 votes, 11 comments. 32K subscribers in the elixir community. Subreddit for the Elixir programming language, a dynamic, functional language…
Why Open Secrets Exist in Organizations
Why do issues remain open secrets in organizations, where multiple employees know about a problem or a concern, but no one publicly brings it up? Researchers recently explored this in a set of studies. They found that as issues become more common knowledge among frontline…
How to Use t-SNE Effectively
Although extremely useful for visualizing high-dimensional data, t-SNE plots can sometimes be mysterious or misleading.
Is your E-commerce Store performing poorly? – Here are essential tips to tu
When setting up an e-commerce store, the majority of the entrepreneurs usually assume things will automatically work out, and they will start making good
4 Online Merchandising Hacks to Increase Profits
Retailers seek to avoid markdowns and sell out of the season at full margin, but it isn’t easy to predict how much inventory to acquire. In this post, I'll address four online merchandising tactics that balance consumer demand with inventory levels, to maximize profits.
YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
You only look once (YOLO) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system.
Debugging what you deploy in Go 1.12 - The Go Programming Language
Go 1.12 improves support for debugging optimized binaries.
Better Error Handling, in Go
How to avoid losses and prune projects proactively
It’s common for companies to hang on for too long to projects or parts of the business that are underperforming. Two effective techniques can help executives make project investment decisions on when to hold on to an asset and when to let it go.
Value Delivery Patterns Shape Your Pricing Choices
When you deliver value to your customer is as important as how you deliver value. The when becomes a critical input into designing your pricing model. Learn more here.
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Probabilistic language understanding
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.