Tag: box

Life is like a box of chocolates

P.S: Started writing after a long time, today’s topic is both tasty and inspirational. Hope you like it. Gift from the gods Ah, the universal love affair with chocolates! the ultimate joy! A box of them feels like a slice of heaven, especially for me! It’s a sentiment that...

5 Meeting Agenda Templates for Creative Out of the Box Meetings

Meetings are an extremely important part of company culture and running fun, engaging meetings is a crucial and valuable skill. A meeting agenda template can provide built-in structure, inspire your team to add content in advance, and reduce the need to type out the same headings over a...

Time to Think Outside the Box

Ifyou popped into the Northern beaches of Sydney over the weekend you might be forgiven for thinking you were in the wrong city. It’s supposed to be the coldest time of year but people are already in their bikinis and swimming in the ocean like as they would in the middle of summer. The Gua...

Thursdays @ the Combine: Box-and-1

Adrian Griffin is the new head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. I don’t know if there’s much of a difference between scheming for or against Giannis Antetokounmpo (Fun Fact: a former twitter mutual follow of mine), when a player is the modern equivalent of Shaquille O’Neal. I do know ...

Ballot Box Musings

It’s 3:00 pm, and I have 5 more hours to vote. That I haven’t done so already, either when the ballots opened, or in the advance polls, speaks more to my doubts over the process than it does to my busy schedule. So I’ve decided to share my inner dialogue over my own decision of whe...

I Live In a Van and My Entire Home Gym Fits In a Tiny 10-Liter Camp Box

I’m convinced I may own the world’s tiniest home gym — and I feel fitter and healthier than I have in a long time. Backstory: I recently moved into a camper van full-time and, as badly as I wanted a set of adjustable dumbbells, I simply couldn’t make the necessary spa...

Why “Ballot Box Biology” is the greatest threat to hunting in Pennsylvania.

It’s already happened elsewhere and now it’s in Pennsylvania. The thing that can end hunting and conservation as we know it. It’s not the anti hunters. It’s not Chronic Wasting Disease. It’s not the housing developments. It’s not even the poachers. It’s call...

The Real “Black Box” Dilemma of Legacy Legal Research Tools

The good here is that this study put the six legacy services to the test. The goal of the article was, “in part, a call for more algorithmic accountability.” This search for great accountability was interesting, as it mirrored one of the greatest criticism folks have towards AI — t...

Solving the Box Selection Algorithm

When I joined Shotput in February, I knew I was going to get to dive deep into development. It’s a small team with some tough problems to solve, and I was really excited to flex my newly acquired programming skills and simultaneously continue to develop as a software engineer. What I...

More Than a Checked Box

The media narrative around the rapid growth in multiracial populations erases the lived experience of millions of people who have been here all along. “On forms I used to just check white for a while because sometimes there wouldn’t be an option for me… For a while I had a litt...

Opening Pandora’s Box: My story about Genetic Cancer Screening and the PALB-2 mutation

Last spring, I went to my yearly OBGYN appointment. It’s that ominous looming female requirement that is forgettable when it ends up being nothing, and an annoyance when something is found that requires follow up that ends up being nothing as well, and of course all levels of horrifying when s...

A Gentle Introduction to Box-Counting

Box-counting is an empirical technique we use to estimate the fractal dimension of an object, image, or set. It is based on a simple idea — we cover the object with increasingly smaller boxes and then count the number of boxes that are required to cover the object at each respective scale. The...