New Strength Gains From Bar Speed & Acceleration
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I’ll warn you right off the bat, this article gets pretty conceptual, but sometimes it helps to look at things from a new perspective. When we test our strength gains by maxing out in the gym what we are essentially… Continue Reading →
One commonly known tendency of humans is that we are often more afraid of loss than we are motivated by the possibility of gain. While this feature of humans often works in our favor, there are many times when it… Continue Reading →
Predicting Sunsets with Machine Learning
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This is the machine learning python program that I created to model sunsets and tweet a daily sunset prediction based on the current weather metrics. The following three functions are to collect location and contact info for first time users…. Continue Reading →
Scraping Google Trends With Python
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If you’ve ever done SEO research or tried to coming up with content ideas, you how useful Google Trends can be when it comes to determining what people are interested in your niche. I was making SEO trend reports at… Continue Reading →
Different Is Not Always Unique
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I remember back in University my Psych professor was explaining the categories of human needs, among which is the need for affiliation. He went on to mention that the counterpart of affiliation has become more prevalent over the past few… Continue Reading →
Altruism Is an Illusion and That’s Okay
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What is Altruism? A quick google search for altruism and you would find it defined as, “the unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others.” In other words, altruism is the idea that someone can do something for another… Continue Reading →
This is a program that I build to scrape post data from LinkedIn pages. It currently extracts the date, media type, text, like count, comment count, share count, and any media links. Let’s get into this.. Required Python Packages and… Continue Reading →
This is the code I wrote to scrape tweets from Twitter with python through the Twitter Search (Rest) API. I designed it to search twitter for various keywords tweeted by users and return the result in table. Introducing this program… Continue Reading →
The term “Damaged Metabolism” is thrown around quite often in the diet and fitness internet sphere. The idea behind it is that by dieting or restricting for a period of time, your metabolism slows down and no longer function the… Continue Reading →
Don’t Throw Tai Lopez Out With the Bathwater
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“Here in my Garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here…” You may recognize this line from the infamous Tai Lopez advertisement where he shows off his cars and books before instructing you to visit his website. Although the ad has… Continue Reading →
When we watch movies, there is usually one character that catches our attention. You may admire or even imagine yourself as him or her. Let me ask you: What are the common traits of these characters? Chances are these characters… Continue Reading →
My main strength goal in 2018 was to increase my deadlift by 100 pounds and finally obtain a 600-pound deadlift. I started my journey with a deadlifting PR of 500 pounds in January and hit many minor personal records along… Continue Reading →
Is Price Gouging Really That Bad?
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Anytime there is a storm or some other disaster I often hear the mention of price gouging. Whether discussed on the local news or Facebook comments, price gouging is almost always portrayed in a negative light. What is Price Gouging? Price gouging… Continue Reading →
Tagging is one of those small UX primitives that powers discovery, moderation and search on programming Q&A sites like Stack Overflow. The paper “DeepTagRec: A Content-cum-User based deep learning framework for tag recommendation” tackles this problem by combining what a… Continue Reading →
The paper “Complexity of packing common bases in matroids” by Kristóf Bérczi and Tamás Schwarcz settles an important complexity question about a deceptively simple combinatorial task: can you partition the ground set of two matroids into k disjoint sets that… Continue Reading →
I like experiments that sharpen questions instead of hiding them behind computational noise. MinAtar — short for miniature Atari — is a neat piece of engineering that does exactly that: it strips down the pixel-heavy parts of classic Atari benchmarks… Continue Reading →
CDIM — the Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper — is a proposed infrared spectro-imaging mission designed to survey the epoch when the first stars and galaxies lit up the Universe. The CDIM Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper final report lays out a… Continue Reading →
Large collections of paintings and drawings hide a surprising number of repeated motifs: a particular cherub, a decorative border, a replicated figure, or even a reused fragment of a composition. Detecting these near-duplicate patterns automatically is valuable for art historians,… Continue Reading →
Knowing how to tell if an invoice has been paid matters for cash flow, accurate bookkeeping, and avoiding duplicate billings. This article walks through practical, verifiable steps to confirm invoice payment online, check paid invoice in accounting software, and gather… Continue Reading →
What are the common signs of worms in puppies? — signs of worms in puppies and how to treat them Puppies are vulnerable to several intestinal parasites, and early detection matters. Common signs of worms in puppies include: Diarrhea or… Continue Reading →
Allergies are no longer a seasonal nuisance for some — they are a growing public-health problem. This article answers the central question: how have allergies been affected by climate change, and examines the impact of climate change on pollen seasons… Continue Reading →
Homeschooling a child with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) asks for careful planning, specialized instruction, and heightened safety around food-related behaviors. This guide offers practical, evidence-informed steps for parents and caregivers who ask: how to homeschool a child with Prader-Willi syndrome, what… Continue Reading →
Why does my pig have no testicles? Common pig with no balls causes Seeing a male pig without visible testicles is startling for many owners. Several reasons can explain why does my pig have no testicles, and the cause determines… Continue Reading →