2018-01-14 · longform.org

The Encyclopedia of the Missing

She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.

2018-01-10 · quora.com

What are some things soldiers aren’t allowed to do?

James Palmer's answer: What are some things soldiers aren’t allowed to do? This question allows me to post one of my favorite things from the Army: 213 Things Skippy is not Allowed to do in the Army. As the story goes, a soldier, nicknamed “Skippy” recorded a list of things his…

2017-12-31 · hbr.org

To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

For most people, purpose at work is built not found. Working with a sense of purpose day-in and day-out is an act of will that takes thoughtfulness and practice. How do you consciously endow your work with purpose? First, connect work to service. Ask yourself, who do I serve?…

2017-12-28 · hypebot.com

Best Social Media Image Size Chart 2018

It's impossible to remember the required size of images uploaded to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. To end your confusion, we offer the Best Social Media Size Chart. Continue reading

2017-12-28 · benfrederickson.com

Approximate Nearest Neighbours for Recommender Systems

This post is about evaluating a couple of different approximate nearest neighbours libraries to speed up making recommendations made by matrix factorization models. In particular, the libraries I'm looking at are Annoy, NMSLib and Faiss.

2017-12-28 · multithreaded.stitchfix.com

Word Tensors

Counting and tensor decompositions are elegant and straightforward techniques. But these methods are grossly underepresented in business contexts. In this p...

2017-12-27 · opendatascience.com

Data Wrangling Cheatsheet

Stay up-to-date on the latest data science and AI news in the worlds of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, implementation, and more.

2017-12-27 · dev.to

The what and how of Web Push

Native apps have had the privilege of being able to send engaging and timely content to their users for a while. The web is closely following.

2017-12-27 · rviews.rstudio.com

What is the tidyverse? · R Views

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk to a group of Master’s level Statistics and Business Analytics students at Cal State East Bay about R and Data Science. Many in my audience were adult students coming back to school with job experience writing code in Java, Python and…

2017-12-27 · r-bloggers.com

Operations Research with R

Stefan Feuerriegel This blog entry concerns our course on “Operations Reserch with R” that we teach as part of our study program. We hope that the materials are of value to lectures and everyone else working in the field of numerical optimiatzion. Course outline The course…

2017-12-27 · benmccormick.org

Ten Things A Serious JavaScript Developer Should Learn

There’s been an interesting Reddit thread circling my corner of the internet for the last week or so. It started with a question: I’m inviting pure opinion here, but what’s your list of ten things that everyone looking for a good javascript role should know and understand…