Tag: Part

No One Tells You the Hardest Part About Being a Parent

On a rainy Friday afternoon, my boss entered the lab and told everyone to go to the lower floor because of a tornado warning. I looked outside and saw heavy rain. I worried about my son at daycare, but I couldn’t leave. So, I was stuck there with six other coworkers, waiting for the tornado...

Street Art From Jamaica Part III

Art speaks in all languages no matter the race, religion, culture, creed, geography, mindset, etc. Art’s language is the most bbbeeeaaauuutttiiifffuuull unspoken language. One that touches the soul and goes as deep as music as they both heal, soothe, motivate, uplift, and send only positive me...

WHAT IS THE METAVERSE? Part Four

So, what do we think? Are we stuck gazing at ourselves in the digital mirror forever? Or will we break through? Our computers get faster, our networks smarter, and our media more realistic. What is this new phase we are entering? What happens after postmodernism? Are we becoming postmaterial...

Understanding Activity Lifecycle and the Stack — Part 3

In this tutorial, we will be discussing a small topic related to the activity lifecycle. This topic is a continuation of the previous tutorial, so let’s dive in. In Android, the concept of activity and its lifecycle is based on a structure known as a stack. A stack follows the last in, firs...

SwiftData by Example: iOS 17 & SwiftUI 5 — Part 13

We are leveraging power of predicate based filtering to drive the search experience in the app. It would make sense to offer sorting option as well. We have already seen Query driven sort for book genre. Offering sorting options in apps yields numerous benefits. It enhances the user experience by...

Was I Too Part of HKU?

I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook one day when one post caught my eye. It was written by my friend — “The greatest tragedy of the university [the University of Hong Kong] was that its admission officers were simply very good at their job promoting the university.” ...

Part and Parcel

I had two needles stuck in me this month! The first was in a gymnasium, which I think was a first from me, though I have repressed most gymnasium-related childhood memories, so I can’t say for certain. My first vaccine shot was in a typical part of the hospital, was not very organized, and too...

The Problem with Substack Part 2 of 2

I follow 57 different Substack newsletters. If we assume they would all charge the minimum $5/month for a premium subscription, following them all would total $285/month. Even if I had the kind of money that I could afford to spend that amount just on following content creators on Substack, I wouldn...

Ultimate Guide: Statistics for Data Science(Beginners to Advanced)

STATISTICS is The Most Essential Part of Data Science, Machine Learning, MLOps and data engineering discipilines. In this Age of AI and Generative AI, data is being generated and used at an unprecedented rate to make the world more exciting to live. Someone needs to process that data, extract ...

Is it possible to know who we are without knowledge of the past?

Knowing who we are is a vital part of the human experience, however it isn’t always as easy as it seems, because it can be correlated with many different things. Who we are refers to our identity, beliefs, values, physical and mental heath, relationships, cultures, communities, and families. H...