5 surprising ways I use Jupyter to improve my life: The Jupyter project offers interactive ways to write software with technology like JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook. This software is commonly used for data analysis, but what you might not know (and the Jupyter community didn’t expect) is how many things you can do with it. …
Marcus Rashford: finding purpose off-field can improve sporting performance: Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford is having quite a month. He was honoured with an MBE for his efforts to ensure free school meals for children, and his petition to end child food poverty has surpassed a million signatures. It has often been said …
Improve your database knowledge with this MariaDB and MySQL cheat sheet: When you’re writing an application or configuring one for a server, eventually, you will need to store persistent information. Sometimes, a configuration file, such as an INI or YAML file will do. Other times, a custom file format designed in XML or JSON or …
3 ways to improve your open hardware documentation: Open Hardware Month is organized by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) every October, and this year, we’re putting the spotlight on ways to tell the world that your project is open source. Help support the open hardware ecosystem by bolstering your documentation in these three ways …
Training can improve patient and health worker safety in sub-Saharan Africa: Health providers need to practise in error-proof environments as much as possible. GettyImages Medical technology has made great advances. Yet, patients are often harmed while receiving medical care. Globally four out of 10 patients are harmed in primary and outpatient care. Furthermore, 15% of …
Existing medicines could help improve immune function in vulnerable older adults: Our immune cells become less able to fight off infections as we get older. Viktoriia Hnatiuk/ Shutterstock As we age, every major organ system progressively declines – including the immune system. Ageing causes our immune cells to become less able to fight off infections. …
How smartphones could help improve child health in Malawi: Child mortality rates in the country are high. John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images Many low- and middle-income countries, such as Malawi, continue to experience high child mortality rates. Most of these deaths are caused by preventable and treatable diseases such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia. But …
Playing football can improve mental health — new research: Shutterstock/1000 Words Playing football is a good way to get physically fit. But our new study shows that a regular kick about can also lead to improved mental health, social confidence and a sense of purpose. As we explored the impact of the beautiful game on …
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Improve your time management with Jupyter: Python has incredibly scalable options for exploring data. With Pandas or Dask, you can scale Jupyter up to big data. But what about small data? Personal data? Private data? JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook provide a great environment to scrutinize my laptop-based life. read more: Opensource.com Moshe Zadka Supporting Open Source. Have …
How simple changes could improve secondary school choices: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels Each year, parents in England face the difficult decision of choosing which secondary school they would like their child to attend. They submit a list of schools to a website run by their local authority, and each school then decides (usually, using a computer) which …
Improve your focus and productivity with this Python tool: Limiting distractions helps you focus on your work so you can increase productivity. Prioritizing your tasks, especially when you have too much on your plate, is one way to help you focus on the most important or high-attention things on your list. read more: Opensource.com Sudeshna Sur Supporting …
How to read Lynis reports to improve Linux security: When I read Gaurav Kamathe’s article Scan your Linux security with Lynis, it reminded me of my time as a systems administrator for the US Department of Labor. One of my duties was to keep our Unix servers hardened. Each quarter, an independent verifier came in to review …
Body mass index may not be the best indicator of our health – how can we improve it?: BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by your height in metres squared. Christian Delbert/ Shutterstock Body mass index or BMI has long been the standard for measuring health. The simple formula is widely used …
Open source development works to improve contact tracing in Europe: The Corona-Warn-App is an awesome example of how governments and public administrations can use open source software development to help citizens while simultaneously advancing the technology ecosystem. The app helps trace infection chains of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in Germany. read more: Opensource.com jsmanrique …
How to improve our relationship with nature after coronavirus: In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, many of us have turned to nature to reduce stress levels, improve mental health and stay physically active. Yet, human interaction with nature and ecosystems contributed to the existence of the current pandemic in the first place. So what …
Better access to stories can improve adolescent lives in Africa: Members of South Africa's Zip Zap Circus. Washington Post/Getty Images Across cultures, the self-making powers of storytelling are widely recognised. Steve Biko, the South African Black Consciousness thinker, once said that we need to speak from where we stand. Seeing the impact of our environment …
COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system: COVID-19 mitigation could open new opportunities for agroecological innovation, here a multifunctional landscape in Ethiopia. Michael Hauser (ICRISAT), CC BY-SA The World Food Programme has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause one of the worst food crises since World War II. It predicts …