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8 Awesome Articles from Around the Web || Link Roundup Week 3

January 10, 2018 By lupe Leave a Comment

Web Development

CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns”

Software developer Adam Wathan walks us through several ways of approaching CSS, pushing for a more functional, “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) approach. This article will blow your mind and get you inspired to start cleaning up your CSS.

Top 10 Student Favorite Tech Podcasts

My personal favorite is the CodeNewbie podcast. What’s yours?

Why striving for perfection might be holding you back as a newbie web developer

“There are bigger and better things for you to be learning and working on than tweaking the padding on your (Free Code Camp) tribute page.” Um…can relate. This is a good reminder for anyone who’s experiencing portfolio-project-tunnel-vision.

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9 Awesome Articles from Around the Web || Week 2

August 28, 2017 By lupe Leave a Comment

The last month been amazing. I started a new part-time marketing and (donor) development position with a tech-related, local nonprofit.

Apart from leaving me more time to spend with my family and pursuing hobbies, I’m finally able to apply the many skills I’ve learned over the last year of selling on Amazon, doing marketing for friends and family, and just plain geeking out on content creation.

I’m excited to go to into the office once my short work week rolls around. There’s also a lot of creative freedom and autonomy — things I’m starting to view as non-negotiables in my winding path toward reinventing my relationship with work.

Now on to the links. Here are some articles that have really resonated with me recently. Enjoy!

Technology

Machines Taught By Photos Learn a Sexist View of Women

“The researchers devised a way to neutralize this amplification phenomenon—effectively forcing learning software to reflect its training data. But it requires a researcher to be looking for bias in the first place, and to specify what he or she wants to correct. And the corrected software still reflects the gender biases baked into the original data.”

Before Hurricane Harvey, wireless carriers lobbied against upgrades to a national emergency alert system

“For years, the Federal Communications Commission has endeavored to upgrade the sort of short text-based messages — often accompanied by a loud alarm — that authorities have used since 2012 to warn Americans about rising floods, abducted children and violent criminals at large. But efforts to bring those alerts into the digital age — requiring, for example, that they include multimedia and foreign-language support — have been met with skepticism or opposition from the likes of AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile, and even some device makers, too.”

How Machines Learn: A Practical Guide

Over 50 resources and tips on understanding machine learning.

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9 Awesome Articles from Around the Web: Week 1

July 19, 2017 By lupe Leave a Comment

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Technology

Why were Facebook, Google, and Amazon so quiet about net neutrality?

“It’s not too difficult a leap to make from wondering why your online access shouldn’t be free from walls erected by your cable company, to wondering equally why your online access shouldn’t also be free from limitations created by a social media platform, search engine, or e-commerce behemoth.”

My winding road from security guard to back-end developer

“One day, you’ll see someone solve a problem in minutes  —  a problem that took you an entire day to solve  —  and you will once again feel like an imposter. Then, another day, you will help a teammate solve a problem, and you will feel fine again. Finally, you will realize  —  or your boss will tell you  —  that you weren’t hired for the skills you already had. You were hired for the skills you had the potential to have.”

Number of Girls Taking AP Computer-Science Exam More Than Doubles

“Girls made up about 27 percent of the 111,262 students who took an AP computer-science exam in 2017. The number of minorities underrepresented in the tech industry — black, Latino, and Native American — who took the exam nearly tripled from last year, reaching 22,199 students this year.”

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