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Painful. Disappointing. Disillusioning.
For many women, Brett Kavanaugh’s belligerent testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was heart breaking. So was seeing senators defend him, and denigrate Christine Blasey Ford’s brave story of alleged sexual abuse.
As hard as it is to believe, Kavanaugh has done a grea... | ['Sexual Assault', '2016 Election', 'Politics', 'Kavanaugh', 'Feminism'] |
When we talk about contemporary photography, we need to understand that it refers to more than a particular period of time. Contemporary photography is a genre in and of itself — and like every other genre, certain photographers working within it have made deep contributions to it.
Contemporary photography is usually ... | ['Photography'] |
Facebook has noticed blockchain
Tencent, the Chinese internet giant behind QQ and WeChat, has partnered with Intel and detailed their plans for blockchain. They’re taking steps and now we can expect Facebook to push back.
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg published a Facebook post on January 4th outlining his ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Investing', 'Bitcoin', 'ICO', 'Blockchain'] |
Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash
I bury those untold stories beneath my skin and name them scars — I treat me like a burial ground for every emotion ever felt as your deep intoxication pulls me apart and tries to weigh me down and break my limbs — the agony dreads me and controls my sanity like a puppet and I cannot ... | ['A Cornered Gurl', 'Heart', 'Challenge', 'Pain', 'Haibun'] |
Do you like to access the Internet safely and securely from your smartphone or laptop when connected to an untrusted network such as the WiFi of a hotel, coffee shop or a Library? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows you to traverse untrusted networks privately and securely as if you were on a private network. The tr... | ['Data Science', 'Security'] |
The amount of Sat you own is the key to your money future
Most people have already ever heard that Bitcoin supply is hard-capped at 21 million units. The nodes of the Bitcoin network will guarantee that this maximum supply will never be exceeded by enforcing this rule whatever it happens.
No one has any interest in s... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Cryptocurrency Investment', 'Investing', 'Btc', 'Bitcoin'] |
Listings
Binance Supports VEN Mainnet Swap and Adds VEN/USDT Trading Pair
Binance would like to confirm that we will support the VEN Mainnet Token Swap. Binance will also open trading for the VEN/USDT trading pair at 2018/06/22 8:00 AM (UTC).
Max Supply: 873,378,637 VEN
Circulating Supply: 526,019,148 VEN
About VE... | ['News', 'Blockchain', 'Binance', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
In a London cemetery, an author discovered the resting place of Joseph Merrick
The skeleton of Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital ever since 1890, the year of his death. But author Jo Vigor-Mungovin said she’s made a discovery: Merrick’s final resting place is in... | ['True Crime', 'Crime', 'Disability', 'England', 'History'] |
Movies directed by women
Week of first features
Top score: gender (10)
A somewhat amateuristic script and direction, but a joyful atmosphere
Cast: Shiva Negar, Elise Bauman, Alli Chung
Director: Jackie English
Writer: Jackie English
Music by Bruce Fowler, Keegan Jessamy, Bryce Mitchell
Cinematography by Clement... | ['Movies', 'Female Directors', 'Dance', 'Strippers', 'Religion'] |
The first part of this series of blog posts will cover the basics of Fourier transform and Wavelets.
The Wavelet Transform is a very powerful time-series analysis tool that isn’t very popular among the Data Science community. We are already familiar with other signal processing tools like Fourier Transform which are v... | ['Machine Learning', 'Convolutional Network', 'Neural Networks', 'Computer Science', 'Programming'] |
We spend a lot of time speaking about planners craft of getting to a great strategy or brief. However, we seldom talk about the other side of a great planner: The ability to sell the shit out of work with conviction. Think of it like this: taking your skills away from the safety of Powerpoint and into a client’s text m... | ['Planning', 'Brand Strategy', 'Advertising'] |
Slow dancing to our favorite song
out of pace, swaying and forgetting
life’s ultimate wrongs
we don’t need the quarrels
we’re ignoring the problems from our barrels.
Numb from our endless caresses
our tortured bodies lie at rest
becoming alive at the melody’s best.
The world crumbles around
as we keep on movin... | ['Poetry', 'Love'] |
The Three Types of YouTube Content — and Why Help Content Is King
There’s a trio of labels most videos can fit into. Many tend to overfocus on one, and in some niches, under focus on another.
Ears up! Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links — purchases and/or downloads will compensate me at no extra cos... | ['Strategy', 'Content', 'Help', 'Content Creation', 'YouTube'] |
Spiralbound
Comics for life, brought to life by Edith Zimmerman. | ['Race', 'Comics', 'Parenting'] |
3. A decentralized system, some Provinces, a federal architecture and a DAO
In order to ensure trust on the Blue Whale network and to through the provision of transparency on every activity occurring within the system, the Blockchain technology and smart contracts are used. Furthermore, making use of advanced cryptogr... | ['Blue Whale Foundation', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Gig Economy', 'Ico Review'] |
5 Surefire Ways To Hack Your First Job Out Of College Rachel Gideon Follow Aug 25 · 5 min read
Whether you’ve found the ideal gig right out of school, or you’re struggling to find meaning in your first 9–5, these steps will help you get the most out of any entry-level position.
Take Risks
When I started my first job... | ['Entry Level Jobs', 'Post Grad Life', 'Jobs', 'Career Advice', 'Money'] |
Scrum is claimed to do many things. Create awesome software in no time, immediately turn average teams into unstoppable juggernauts, cure cancer, etc.
In reality, Scrum doesn’t do anything. It’s simply a framework to help teams handle complex projects prone to change. I think of Scrum as simply shining a few different... | ['Agile', 'Scrum Master', 'Scrum'] |
With ‘Continuous Parenting,’ We Expect More of Parents Than Ever
Technology isn’t the only reason today’s parents feel pressure to be ‘always on’—here’s how we can better support them
As I paused to catch my breath a the top of the peak during a recent trail run, I pulled out my phone to take a picture of the incredi... | ['Parenting'] |
It's completely fine if you feel confused between the topics “Standardization” vs “Normalization”. A few months ago, I was one of you, therefore, I can completely understand this feeling of confusion & sometimes frustrated too, because there was no good & easy resource to explain the topic.
But, there is no need to wo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Feature Engineering', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Normalization'] |
How to Get an API With Angular 10 brendanMulhern Follow Dec 5 · 5 min read
Sometimes in life it is important to learn how to get an API with Angular. This is often times an important step in becoming a front-end developer. The following is a tutorial on how to get an API with Angular 10.
To start off with I will star... | ['Angular', 'Angular 10', 'API', 'Angular Cli', 'Http Client'] |
Felix Salmon is right in so many ways here, but his note about some user-generated content platforms being “too beautiful” as to become intimidating/a barrier to bringing quick thoughts to the web is particularly prescient.
There’s a need for a space between the Twitter’s 140 characters and Medium’s high-design enviro... | ['Blogging', 'Digital Publishing', 'Posthaven', 'Medium', 'Technology'] |
Accurately forecasting costs, sales, user growth, patient readmission, etc is an important step to providing directors actionable information. This can be difficult to model by hand or in Excel. In addition, using traditional methods like moving averages might not provide enough insight into the various trends and seas... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Predictive Analytics'] |
No matter what society dictates, never attempt to define your worth based on your physical appearance or your ability to attract the opposite sex. That creates conditional self-love and puts your precious self-esteem in the hands of others. This gift should remain in your possession since it’s much too valuable to shar... | ['Empowerment', 'Love', 'Daughters', 'Self Love', 'Black Women'] |
Photo by G. Crescoli on Unsplash
Introduction
If you are training a binary classifier, chances are you are using binary cross-entropy / log loss as your loss function.
Have you ever thought about what exactly does it mean to use this loss function? The thing is, given the ease of use of today’s libraries and framewo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Classification', 'Entropy', 'Loss Function', 'Towards Data Science'] |
She wasn’t putting on any panties
We were at the library
She was reading a thick book
There weren’t many people there at the time
Just 5 or 6 people I guess
She was having glasses on
She was into the book she was reading
I was curious to know
Cus she was so damn gorgeous
I don’t think anyone had noticed she di... | ['Short Story', 'Sex', 'Romance', 'Sexuality', 'Love'] |
The following is an account of a slave auction conducted March 22, 1852 at Hill’s Auction House, at 15th and Main Streets, in Richmond, Virginia. Transcribed from page 1 of The Anti-Slavery Bugle, vol. 7 no. 30, dated April 10, 1852. It is a portion of a much longer story, written by “W. F. C.”
The Anti-Slavery Bugle ... | ['Civil Rights', 'Racial Justice', 'Black Lives Matter', 'Cultural Archaeology', 'Slavery'] |
How Child Classes and Inheritance work in JavaScript
An introduction to JavaScript classes, extends, and super
Hi y’all, I am back today with the second part of my introduction to JavaScript Classes.
Today, I am going to cover child classes, inheritance, the extends, and the super keywords. So, without further ado, ... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Javascript Tips'] |
Q: How many people are actually involved in the overall project? Including websites, cloud-service, etc.? and How many people work for X9? and How many people make up the team and how many are developers?
A: In total there are circa 40 people who are involved with the project, which includes team members, 10 developer... | ['Lightning Network', 'Blockchain', 'Xsn Articles', 'Xsn', 'Xsn Community'] |
Photo by Laura Vinck on Unsplash
We have made some improvements to Scrittura.
https://medium.com/scrittura/submissions-babba7fcddaa?source=friends_link&sk=c1b637e61fc2926758f63943a62cde9a
You can read about them in the updated “Submissions” located on the main page. The added clarity and insight in these revised sub... | ['Submissions', 'Improvements', 'Editors', 'Scrittura', 'Updates'] |
Over the last 18 months the yield curve for US bonds has flattened to the point where the US 10-year bond is only 0.26% lower than the US 30 years bond. It’s possible we will soon see an inverted yield curve, which is usually taken as an indication of a looming recession.
So, what does a flattening of the yield curve ... | ['Silver', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Precious Metals', 'Finance'] |
They all seek the End Times
Three Doomsday Cult Leaders
By the nature of psychological delusion the one who is deluded cannot consciously see his own delusion. He may subconsciously have some notion of the affliction but it is only seen as the delusion of others who are not part of the delusion. Being subsumed into a... | ['Doomsday', 'Trump', 'Politics', 'Cults', 'End Times'] |
Three Easy Ways to Show Your Team You Care
When you stop having all the answers, you’ll find that you become the one who has all of the questions.
Previously published on Forbes
There is so much happening in our world right now. First, of course, is the pandemic. The numbers keep spiking and, along with them, a seco... | ['Diversity And Inclusion', 'Pandemic', 'Leadership Coaching', 'Team', 'Leadership Skills'] |
4 Reasons Why Data Scientists Should Version Data
How to start data versioning using DVC
While working in a software project it is very common and, in fact, a standard to start right away versioning code, and the benefits are already pretty obvious for the software community: it tracks every modification of the code ... | ['Version Control', 'Software Development', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
Finding My Voice, Literally
As a trans woman it’s taken work to change my voice, but becoming myself is worth it
Photo: LaylaBird/Getty Images
I’ve never liked my voice. As a child, when I heard myself in recordings, I’d think I sounded like I was trying to be someone I wasn’t (partly because I was). When my voice b... | ['Self', 'LGBTQ', 'Voices', 'Transgender', 'Identity'] |
Verifying Wasm Functions: Part 1
by Rikard Hjort and Stephen Skeirik
This blog post is the second in a series of posts written by Runtime Verification, Inc. and sponsored by dlab on web assembly (Wasm), and more specifically KWasm, a tool for doing formal verification of Wasm programs. If you missed the first post, f... | ['Programming'] |
I’ll level with you. Although I have no intention of ever being part of the big conservative evangelical church scene ever again, there are actually times when I miss it. Some of these feelings are purely nostalgic, and others a harkening back to when faith was simple, when everything made sense, and there was no quest... | ['Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Church', 'Religion'] |
Satire
What’s The Hold-Up, Science? With No Vaccine, My Career As A Hand-Shaking Coach Could Be Finished
My business empire is crumbling around me!
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
I, Gus Dench, am a patriot. I’m a tax-paying American. I own a Ford Bronco with a customized license plate. I’m a God-fearing Christi... | ['Advice', 'Satire', 'Humor', 'Business', 'Comedy'] |
ICO Alert Block Talk is a collection of street interviews where we test the knowledge of the public on subjects like Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs.
In this episode, we were on site at the Pittsburgh Grand Prix auto show to find out which cryptocurrencies people sold to buy their sweet Lamborghinis! | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'News', 'Blockchain'] |
The crown is my prison,
Holding all the things the
True me desired locked
Forever in the Tower of London
My mother, Lady Greensleeves
Felt the deadly weight and
Only required a few moments, before
Being relieved of it
A French sword painted with
Her red blood told me
All I ever needed to know
About my future... | ['The Tudors', 'Poetry', 'Elizabethan England', 'Elizabeth I', 'Historical Fiction'] |
covered by your hands and feet
blowing off dead fruit flies from apples and mangoes
in your father’s kitchen
glasses standing in rows like transparent legionnaires
sharping bayonets
eating with your hands, sleeping with your heart
homeless dog, rail tracks, ruined house, needles
next to a field
overrun with wil... | ['Women', 'Flowers', 'Men', 'Poetry', 'Love'] |
Nigeria’s Buhari and Former US President, Barack Obama
Nigeria is a country that has been struck with never-ending bad luck that stems from a history of defiance that began to sprout from the roots of colonialism — which dealt a heavy blow to a nation that will never recover.
The reason why the movie of the year — Bl... | ['America', 'World', 'Nigeria', 'Politics', 'Africa'] |
Background
To understand the usefulness of this project you must first understand the circumstances that necessitated its creation.
My brother has a high-function form of autism called Aspergers. In many cases, including his, people with this disorder can have meltdowns. In recent months the frequency and intensity o... | ['Esp8266', 'Twilio', 'Software Development', 'Arduino', 'IoT'] |
How to Automate XCTests With GitHub Actions
Optimise your time with CI/CD automation and focus on what matters
Photo by Julie Laiymani on Unsplash.
Ever since GitHub introduced GitHub Actions in 2018, developers now have a powerful tool to create complex pipelines for CI/CD without the need to rely on third-party so... | ['Github', 'Ios Development', 'Github Actions', 'iOS', 'Programming'] |
‘Future Leaders’ is a series of blog posts by the Financial Times in which we interview our team members and ask them how they got into technology, what they are working on and what they want to do in the future. Everyone has a different perspective, story and experience to share. This series will feature colleagues wo... | ['Manila', 'Finance', 'Fintech', 'Leadership', 'Financial Times'] |
Screenshot from the author’s Wikipedia user page, featuring various “Fun Facts” about them and a headshot.
Ten years ago today, I made my first edit on Wikipedia. I still remember what it was without even having to look it up, as it was so random and fun: I added the (awesome) Led Zeppelin song “Four Sticks” to the pa... | ['Race', 'Wikipedia', 'Transgender', 'LGBTQ', 'Gender'] |
It was about all the cups he never filled, metaphorically, but also quite literally.
She could count on one hand the times he had filled her water glass without being prompted, during their decade of meals together.
Defyingly, she’d place her glass in front of him; next to his own, that he’d just topped up. Her eyes,... | ['Short Story', 'Sexual Alchemy', 'Sacred', 'Tantra', 'Sexual Transmutation'] |
A traveler of both time and space...to be where I want to be…find me another space in another time.
Follow | ['Oracle Cloud', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Charts And Graphs', 'Humor'] |
At the end of In Another Dimension with Michael, I wrote,
At peace, I moved scarcely an inch from him. In the moment before sleep took me, I thought how it had been with some others, mechanical and shallow. I wondered at the sadness in them. This, though, with him, was a warm mystery, a wondrous, warm mystery.
It was... | ['Sprituality', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Gay', 'Love'] |
I had the pleasure of interviewing Rebecca Samuels of Pythagus, LLC.
She is a Certified Public Accountant and an Enrolled Agent, an Army Reserve veteran, and a former teen mom who overcame a lot of odds to get to where she is today.
Thank you so much for doing this with us! What is your “backstory”?
LOL- that is a l... | ['Pythagus Llc', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'CEO', 'Taxes'] |
Trump’s sketchy views on COVID-19 make sense now
The link between Nazism, Trump’s administration and the Spanish flu
Photo credit: Elliott Stallion/Unsplash
I have been around enough politicians and participated in enough political events to think I have a pretty good idea of what the campaign plan is. But I could n... | ['Spanish Flu', 'Donald Trump', 'Election 2020', 'Covid 19', 'Nazis'] |
The first leg of the trail, rather predictably, runs up a long hill out of Wooler. As noted above, our guidebook had asserted that our altitude gain would be smaller than any other day on the trail. If this is true, it would appear that the trail planners were intent on packing the height into the earliest miles. Up we... | ['Travel', 'Hiking', 'Pilgrimage', 'Outdoors', 'History'] |
I Don’t Believe Tattoos Need to Have Meanings — I Have 14 of Them Evi Arthur Follow Sep 15 · 4 min read
Photo by Evi Arthur
I have 14 tattoos. I’ve stopped counting for my own sake, but for the record, and to establish a bit of expertise here, I thought I’d let you know.
They range from pieces that I put years of th... | ['Humor', 'Personal', 'Tattoo'] |
Dear Contributor,
By now you know the drill, we are continuing to work on a massive update that we cannot publicly discuss. With the progression of the new update, a larger and larger percentage of the work done at DreamTeam, is being done on that very update. As a result, it appears that month over month, we are repo... | ['Dreamteam Development', 'Games', 'Gaming', 'Game Development', 'Esport'] |
Photo by Jannet Serhan from Pexels
I frequently travel to Victoria for work. The vibrant Vancouver Island city is a twenty-minute seaplane ride from Vancouver, merely 93 km away across an expanse of water.
On a recent trip, I arrived at the tiny Vancouver harbor airport to discover that all morning flights were delay... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Self', 'Equality', 'Travel', 'Immigration'] |
Privacy Techniques: One Sentence Summaries
Federated Learning
In short: Federated learning means training your machine learning model on data that is stored on different devices or servers across the world, without having to centrally collect the data samples.
Instead of moving the data to the model, copies of the g... | ['Machine Learning', 'Privacy Preserving', 'Pytorch', 'Tutorial', 'Data Science'] |
What inspired your project?
Annie: During the ideation phase, I wanted to find an opportunity to apply data science to improve our local community’s access to information about transportation and infrastructure. As an avid biker and runner, I noted how many fantastic tools exist for navigating trails and cities. Then ... | ['Accessibility', 'Disability Accomodation', 'Ischoolprojects', 'Mobility', 'Data Science'] |
I’ve been informed that there’s a lack of parenthesis for the second use of symbol F is Leibniz’s law above. I’ve corrected it in the text itself.
Firstly we can say that logical identity is reflexive. In other words, everything (or every thing) is identical to itself. In symbols:
∀x (x = x)
To translate:
For every... | ['Law Of Identity', 'Leibnizs Law', 'The Logic Of Identity', 'Transitivity', 'Logic'] |
‘The Irishman’ Is A Perfect Thanksgiving Movie
Take a dose of tryptophan and watch Martin Scorcese’s gangster epic
After every Thanksgiving dinner, I turn into a sort of centaur, the mythological beast whose lower-body is a horse, only I’m half-man, half-couch. I am not one of those Americans who watch football while... | ['Culture', 'Thanksgiving', 'Politics', 'Film', 'Movies'] |
Implement Touch Events in SwiftUI
Why have two buttons when you can have one?
SwiftUI is a very new and rapidly evolving framework — which is great, but that also means it lacks lots of nice features, including touch events.
So what’s a touch event? If you’re coming from UIKit, you’re probably familiar with them. Re... | ['Mobile', 'Swift', 'Programming', 'Swiftui', 'Xcode'] |
By Doug Hattaway and Zach Lowe
Among the many inspirational stories shared this week at the Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan’s tribute to his son, Army Capt. Humayun Khan, stood out. The younger Khan, an American Muslim, gave his life in Iraq to save the lives of his fellow soldiers. He was posthumously awar... | ['Islam', 'Democratic Convention', 'Islamophobia', 'DNC'] |
Should emerging markets have a place in your investment portfolio? In today’s low yield, low growth environment, some investors are looking outside of the US to generate extra returns on their savings. For some individuals, emerging markets appear attractive on the surface, given their historically robust economic grow... | ['Personal Finance', 'Investing', 'Money', 'Saving Money'] |
What are some things you can do with your phone that have a real positive impact on helping others succeed? I am glad you asked.
You can log into social media and give a sincere positive review of a business or writer
You can share their work, product or service with others
If you are on Twitter, it is very easy to ... | ['Helping Others', 'Business'] |
What It Was Like to Win the Apple WWDC Scholarship in 2019
Documenting the process of creating the submission project
WWDC 2019
June 4, 2018
I remember going through the WWDC website to watch the keynote on my MacBook Air.
I wished I could watch it live someday. So, during the intro music, I started exploring the ... | ['Mobile', 'WWDC', 'iOS', 'Swift', 'Programming'] |
QR codes — popular abroad, funny looking barcodes here in the U.S. In reality, they hold the power to bring a stale medium to life.
Savvy marketers have been talking about the impact that QR codes are going to have on advertising for a long time, but I’m more intrigued by the impact they are going to have on the mediu... | ['Digital Marketing', 'Qr Codes'] |
ETHOS ($ETHOS, $BQX) Update with the TCL Fundy Team
$2.45/BQX or ETHOS listed #75 on coinmarketcap
ATH Jan. 2018 @ $10.86.
Market Cap $188,371,008 USD
ETHOS, originally known as Bitquence (hence the BQX ticker on Binance but the ETHOS elsewhere), proposes an easy-to-use universal wallet and fiat Ethos offers a rang... | ['Crypto', 'Fusion', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Digital Wallet', 'Bitcoin'] |
In the business world, we see all types of mergers happen across a variety of different levels and sectors. It can be smaller companies joining forces to simply remain afloat and competitive, or market giants coming together to dominate a particular part of an industry. When efforts are combined the results are often a... | ['Trading', 'Token', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
The Physics
He was there
Photo by Jarek Ceborski on Unsplash
She was sitting by the bedside drinking coffee, he came in
“You look muscular,” She said.
“Do I only look ____________
Haven’t you felt it ?”
He asked.
“I have ___________________ but SOMETIMES !” she said.
“Why not ALWAYS ?” He asked.
The
QUESTION... | ['Culture', 'Body', 'Poetry', 'Relationships'] |
With the growing popularity of voice and audio-enabled products, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, it seems reasonable for consumers to be concerned about exactly what audio data is being collected, stored and shared.
Furthermore, in light of the recent news stories regarding Silverpush and more recently Alphon... | ['Data Over Sound', 'Privacy', 'Mobile', 'Alexa', 'Voice Assistant'] |
What follows is my own translation of Rig Veda Mandala 1 Sūkta 89 (आ नो᳚ भ॒द्राः). The opening line of this verse is a well-known and well-loved one, quoted in the Baudhāyana Gṛhya Sūtra and many other later texts. The later verses include the famous lines भ॒द्रं कर्णे᳚भिः शृणुयाम देवा etc. which appear in rearranged ... | ['Religion And Spirituality', 'Hymns', 'Sanskrit', 'Religion', 'Rigveda'] |
Welcome to my first designed program. After years of reviewing other people’s programs, I’m here with something of my own. Suspension Training Push-Pull-Legs. If you’ve been following me, you may remember my reviews of Suspension Training in general and one of TRX’s programs for suspension training. After finding suspe... | ['Fitness', 'Weight Training', 'Weightlifting', 'Ppl', 'Suspension Trainer'] |
This post first appeared Thursday in our investor newsletter. Sign up for the email, here; or, go to tokenreport.com for our listing of all current and upcoming initial coin offerings (ICOs)
A problem with cryptocurrency emerged in the public eye in June 2016, when Ethereum hard-forked in order to reimburse investors ... | ['Initial Coin Offering', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
Air Quality Index prediction
Table of contents:
(i) Introduction
(ii) The Motivation for the project
(iii) Data Collection
(iv) Data Pre-processing
(v) Feature Importance
(vi) Model Building
(vii) Deployment with streamlit
(viii) Conclusion
(ix) References
(i) Introduction
Air is a mixture of many gases and... | ['Machine Learning', 'Datascience Lifecycle', 'Streamlit', 'Hyperparameter Tuning', 'Air Quality Index'] |
This piece was first published as part of the Young Foundation’s Beyond Meritocracy Anthology at the beginning of 2019, as the winning submission to an essay competition celebrating 60 years since the publication of Michael Young’s Rise of the Meritocracy. With Johnson and Cummings very clearly beholden to the false an... | ['Citizenship', 'Democracy', 'Participation', 'Activism'] |
Denny’s
By Julia Horwitz
– Artesia & Aviation st.
– pull in & slip by
– gas pump & park
– quickly
bone color cream
& sugar please & thank you
ecosystem of ring finger & ear
ring still stuck on napkin, knee & sleeve
of saltine crackers, vinyl squeak faded
denim thigh & elbow
orbit around sunny
side up
tabl... | ['Alt Lit', 'Literature', 'Poetry', 'Poems', 'Free Verse'] |
“We are not activists,” said Tamar Manasseh, founder of Mothers Against Senseless Killings, in a Facebook post.
In the days before Manasseh wrote these words, her friends, Andrea Stoudemire and Chantell Grant, were murdered on a Chicago corner.
Grant was a young mother, 26, who Manasseh says would bring her kids out ... | ['Politics', 'Black In The Midwest', 'Gun Violence', 'Chicago', 'Activism'] |
Actor Gary Cole as Bill Lumbergh in Office Space
It is Friday evening, and I just received 30 emails from my boss. Thirty. Three-zero. He spent the past six hours on a flight with no WIFI, drafting email after email. I am in a booth at Burger Lounge with my husband and children sharing a basket of fries. My ten-year o... | ['Wellbeing', 'Weekly Prompts', 'Balance', 'Boundaries', 'Time Management'] |
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Check your inbox
Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription. | ['Spanish Medium', 'Digital Entrepreneur', 'Spanish', 'Digital Nomad Lifestyle', 'Beekonnected'] |
One of the oldest coding practices is to keep line width 80, and many of us follow it blindly but have you ever thought why we have this practice in the first place?
I believe it was to make your code more readable in the age of small monitors so that whole content can fit in the screen, or it might have originated fr... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Programming'] |
If you’ve been following our news, you may have noticed: we at Crypterium just can’t stand still. Regular app updates, strategic partnerships — the pace of work in August has ramped up another notch and it’s incredibly exciting to see the project taking shape.
Here’re the highlights of the past month.
Roadmap updates... | ['Crypto', 'crypto', 'Bitcoin', 'Crypterium', 'blockchain'] |
a glass of bourbon, melted ice
coupled with late-night potato chips while crushing onto the teeth
sipped heat went down to the throat
a chilled feel, and gradual slower motions
fading the light away
one by one, suddenly dark
faded tunes from the YouTube
the street side musicals soothing my heart
the piano play ... | ['Whisky', 'Weekend', 'Poem', 'Bourbon', 'Poetry'] |
Dear friends!
Let us continue our series of revealing Foresting little secrets 😊
The blockchain is simple but at the same time great technology that makes unbelievable changes in almost every industry. Despite being new, day by day we hear the news that blockchain technology is used more and more, and it’s beyond be... | ['Platform', 'Payments', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Offline', 'Blockchain'] |
When U.S. unemployment broke record highs in May of this year, a direct result of the Covid-19 induced lockdowns, Congress — in a rare show of bipartisanship — swiftly stepped in to provide pandemic relief to the nation, stemming what would have been a deep(er) long(er) crisis. As the summer gave way to fall, the labor... | ['Labor Market', 'Jobs', 'Economy', 'Covid 19', 'Congress'] |
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Let’s start with the most important question, the why? Why use reduce at all? Simple, it allows transformations from one data type to another. What do I mean by this?
Here’s the standard example everyone uses for reduce all the time
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].reduce((acc, curr) => acc + curr) // result is 15
Let’s think about ... | ['JavaScript', 'Reduce', 'Programming'] |
How to Cheat
Adultery & Losing My Second Virginity
My first naked playdate.
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
My affair partner sensed my fear. I was worried about meeting and having sex on our first date. We’d been sexting madly for weeks, but that was different. Meeting then getting naked? I wasn’t so sure.
... | ['Romance', 'Relationships', 'Sexuality', 'Sex', 'Erotica'] |
As we find out more about the Islamic connection that the suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing had, Muslims across the nation are going through an array of emotions.
The news pundits keep bringing up Islam and how that might have been the motivating factor for the two brothers actions. The American Muslim community... | ['History', 'Community', 'Islam', 'Boston Bombings', 'Life'] |
Yet the genuinely new ideas in Hayden’s book were in the retrofit stories. She points to Hattie Hartman’s handbook of variations for suburban spatial reorganisation, reconfiguring the archetypal single family suburban houses that have been copy-pasted across the USA into almost endless variations of apartments, much in... | ['Cities', 'Architecture', 'Urban Planning', 'Suburbs', 'Covid 19'] |
A challenge — to one-line a theme as a form of community building and with words cloaked in venom, stinging to the touch, you answered like it was your calling.
You asked and I replied, but the answer was more than the sum of two parts.
Timers set, brevity brought forth from a mind eager to send others swirling, like... | ['Friendship', 'Life', 'Collaboration', 'One Line', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
Transcript (52 minutes)
Aaron Lammer: Hello Jay?
Jay Kang: Hey, how’s it going? How’s the West Coast?
Aaron Lammer: Berkeley is lovely. I’m taping in the out of doors overlooking the foggy San Francisco Bay.
Jay Kang: Wow, wow.
Aaron Lammer: If you hear some passing automobiles, some natural life, you know I’m liv... | ['Investing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Gambling'] |
Cultural Enlightenment
Courtesy of Planet Ho!
Athena by Pexels
Originally written for Screw Magazine, I offer an uncharacteristically upbeat take on my previous profession as an adult ad agency owner whose job it was to take care of my clients’ (who were escorts) advertising needs.
To clarify: If a working girl cho... | ['Culture', 'Life Lessons', 'Memoir', 'Prostitution', 'Enlightenment'] |
No business owner likes to receive a negative review — no matter how much we might regard business matters as being different to personal ones. The truth is that business is personal, and if you see criticism of your business online, it’ll probably always feel like a kick in the teeth.
Well, actually, that’s not neces... | ['Protect Your Business', 'Digital Marketing', 'Endorsements', 'Business'] |
Table partitioning in SQL, as the name suggests, is a process of dividing large data tables into small manageable parts, such that each part has its own name and characteristics.
Table partitioning helps in significantly improving database server performance as less number of rows have to be read, processed and return... | ['Table Partitioning', 'Drop Table', 'Alter Table', 'Sql', 'Postgresql'] |
RL Course by David Silver (Lectures 5 to 7)
This is day 45 of my 60-day reinforcement learning challenge, and we continue the series of lectures by Deepmind’s David Silver.
The lectures draw from and complement Sutton and Barto’s book, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, which is available for free on Rich Sutto... | ['Biffures', 'Machine Learning', 'Reinforcement Learning'] |
Photo by Maximillian Conacher on Unsplash
A Tomball, Texas, woman’s murder was caught on camera outside her home, but her murderer has not been brought to justice.
The Shooting
Elizabeth Barraza (29) and her husband, Sergio Barraza, were huge fans of the Star Wars franchise. In fact, they often dressed up in costume... | ['True Crime', 'Unsolved Murder', 'Unsolved Mysteries', 'Crime', 'Texas'] |
Overview
Azure Stream Analytics is a real-time analytics and complex event-processing engine designed to analyze and process high volumes of fast-streaming data from multiple sources simultaneously. It supports the notion of a Job , each of which consists of an input , query , and an output . Azure Stream Analytics ca... | ['Stream Processing', 'Azure', 'Azure Event Hub', 'Messaging', 'Cloud'] |
3 Simple Steps To Check If You’re Shadowbanned on Instagram — What Shadowbanning Is, What Causes It, And How To Fix The Problem. Eduardo Morales Follow Jan 27, 2019 · 9 min read
Has your Instagram reach and engagement significantly and suddently declined recently? Are you worried that you’ve been shadowbanned?
Before... | ['Am I Shadowbanned', 'Instagram Shadowbanned', 'Instagram Marketing', 'Shadowbanned', 'Instagram'] |
Kotlin is known for its conciseness and this, in practice, translates into higher productivity. Even more, 67% of professional Android developers who use Kotlin say it has increased their productivity. In this blog post, I’ll share a couple of ways Kotlin has increased the productivity of our partners’ engineers and lo... | ['Android', 'Android App Development', 'Kotlin', 'Buildbetterapps'] |
Cartoonist’s Note №1
After 25 coffees, I’m not sure if I just feel divine — or really am.
Cartoonist’s Note №2
Like this cartoon? You can now buy the print (or get it on a coffee mug, t-shirt, etc).
About the Artist
Rolli is the author of four books for adults and children, including The Sea-Wave and Kabungo. His ... | ['Humor', 'Life', 'Comics', 'Cartoon', 'Food'] |
School is the focus of childhood, but it’s supposed to be a temporary stop in the trajectory of a long, full life. Of course, that wasn’t the case for Ana. She attended school for thirteen of her fifteen years (if you count daycare which she started at the age of two) — fully 80% of her short life.
We’d pulled Ana out... | ['Family', 'Life', 'Grief', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting'] |
An analytical comparison between two waves of irrational exuberance.
In the era of bitcoin and blockchain, the late bandwagoners of the dot-com bubble believe they’ve been gifted a second chance at striking rich. As a result, cryptocurrencies have been subject to the same variety of rampant, “irrational exuberance” de... | ['Bitcoin', 'Internet', 'Data Analysis', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Data Science'] |
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