Decline meetings, ignore Slack, block your calendar: How to find time to design again Block your calendar Here’s your first mistake: If your calendar for the next month looks something like this, what do you think those empty spaces communicate? It looks like you’re pretty open and I can book anytime I want – and before you know it, your calendar gets packed. To avoid this you can simply block slots of at least two to four hours where you want to design....

Historically, many media institutions were at the service of “the colonizing empire”, both in how they were modeled and used. They were meant toadvance the ideologyof colonizers in colonies. Today some print and electronic media remainat the service of coloniality and imperialism. They play out colonialism’s legacy, coloniality – the patterns of power that persist long after the end of formal colonialism. This process has a regressive effect. It betrays the progressive role that isgenerally associatedwith media institutions as spaces for sharing ideas and knowledge about modern societies....

If there’s one thing that makes Python incredibly successful, that would be its readability. Everything else hinges on that: if code is unreadable, it’s hard to maintain. It’s also not beginner-friendly then — a novice getting boggled by unreadable code won’t attempt writing its own one day. Python was already readable and beginner-friendly before decorators came around. But as the language started getting used for more and more things, Python developers felt the need for more and more features, without cluttering the landscape and making code unreadable....

Deep learning models DON’T need to be black boxes — here’s how Features and latent space in deep learning models Given enough quality training examples, a deep learning model with the right architecture should be able to discriminate between different types of input. For instance, in the case ofcomputer vision tasks, a trained neural network will be able to transform the pixel values of an image into their corresponding class. (Since concept whitening is meant for image recognition, we’ll stick to this subset ofmachine learningtasks....

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