article_text stringlengths 10 100k | tags stringlengths 6 263 |
|---|---|
It’s “us” not “them”
My first lesson came quickly. Although many of these men had committed serious crimes, they were still human beings just like you and me.
They still felt emotions. They still suffered from fears. They still held tightly to their personal value systems.
They had strengths and flaws, brilliance, a... | ['Personal Development', 'Life', 'Education', 'Teaching', 'Life Lessons'] |
Introduction
BSN (Blockchain-based Service Network) is the blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service for decentralized applications (smart contracts) deployment and consumption. In my previous article I showed how to deploy a sample chaincode (from Hyperledger Fabric) on the BSN Testnet for Permissioned Services. We also... | ['Bsn', 'Algorand', 'Permissionless', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum'] |
A second innovation was integrating the print with a navigation instrument. The portable compass was to be placed on the square at the bottom of the diagram, and an accompanying text provided instructions on how to orient the map using the instrument.
[T]he compass should be placed on the edge of the map, or against t... | ['Roadmaps', 'Maps', 'Roman Empire', 'History', 'Data Visualization'] |
Bringing value to EV drivers
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash
We already know the concerns of potential customers and why they hesitate to switch to EV. The solution is simple: decrease the fear of running out of power and improve the charging experience.
We started a project to rethink the whole concept and fin... | ['Industry Insights', 'Mobility', 'Software Development', 'Product', 'Electric Car'] |
Recent Warnings in the Dreams of the Righteous
Now that we have established that dreams are able to convey messages about the future, and that in the end times, dreams of the pious would most likely be true, and other truthful characteristics, there are a number of frequent dreams many of the Slaves of Allah have been... | ['Islam', 'Divine', 'Insights', 'Dreams', 'Truth'] |
Pieces of me
all over the place,
hidden in plain sight.
Kept in secret,
even from me.
It took decades to put myself together,
to fix the puzzle of me.
Who am I?
Who do I cherish?
Who can I love?
Now I know,
now I understand.
How come I didn’t see it before?
I’m still the same.
The one difference?
I can r... | ['Poetry', 'Equality', 'Love', 'Passion', 'LGBTQ'] |
You know the importance of having a powerful and compelling brand, but is your brand actually that powerful and compelling? Even if it’s up to the job, are you living your brand — day in, day out? Or are you making one of these five mistakes?
1. A vague brand identity
Your brand isn’t just some snappy extra that has ... | ['Branding', 'Content Creation', 'Digital Marketing', 'Content Marketing'] |
Learning the Pandas Library from Scratch
Basic Guide Tutorial
Photo by Cassandra Norman on Unsplash
Pandas Introduction
Pandas is the library set or modules of Python language extensively used for Exploratory Data Analysis. It consists of various functions or methods which are useful to reduce the effort and time w... | ['Pandas Dataframe', 'Pandas Series', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Pandas'] |
As a senior university student, the need to balance a heavy school workload while preparing for job interviews at the same time in the middle of a pandemic can be stressful and overwhelming. Over the past few months, I’ve gone through the process of recruiting for full-time product design roles at companies such as Squ... | ['Recruiting', 'Tips', 'Job Interview', 'Product Design', 'Careers'] |
Our Pre-Sale has just begun, and to say thank-you to all of those contributing we’re offering a free FuzeX Card to all of our Pre-Sale participants.
The minimum purchase in the Pre Sale is 5ETH, and contributors as well as receiving their FXT Tokens (+25% Bonus) will also receive a FuzeX Card for every 5ETH contribute... | ['Blockchain'] |
As we close out 2020, we are sharing our top five most-read blogs of 2020. Whether you are looking for some reading material during the holiday season, or curious to learn more about our work, take a look at our most popular stories this year.
In first place:
Three steps to designing an effective phone survey that re... | ['Blog', 'Highlights', 'Data'] |
Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash
It was suggested to me to look into the Rust programming language after I expressed interest in learning more about systems concepts. Installing Rust was simple but there were a couple of snags along the way. That’s why I’ve decided to write a short blog about the process I had to ... | ['Vscode', 'Wsl', 'Cargo', 'Windows 10', 'Rustlang'] |
The Soldier Who Saved Humanity From Extinction
The faith of 7 billion people in the hand of one person
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov and B-59 submarine is kept under surveillance by a US Navy SH-34 helicopter. (Source: US National Archives)
I am surprised that most history teachers never tell us about what could arg... | ['Life Lessons', 'Cold War', 'History', 'Culture', 'Humanity'] |
This week in #Scala (March 25, 2019)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
This blog aims to keep you up to date with the latest news from the world of Scala and Reactive programming.
It has been a week since the previous #ThisWeekInScala so lets catch-up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…
New Con... | ['Distributed Systems', 'Spark', 'Functional Programming', 'Thisweekinscala', 'Scala'] |
Permission.io, the permission-based platform and creator of the cryptocurrency ASK, has officially launched its e-commerce marketplace. The Permission Marketplace is an e-commerce platform where merchants compensate consumers for their time and data. Instead of merchants paying internet giants to reach consumers, merch... | ['Ecommerce', 'Blockchain', 'Data Privacy', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Shopping'] |
When the door is knocked on weekend
I am guessing it right. My heart beats faster
I am healed when she comes towards me with her arms open
I am healed when he raises arms to hug me
All the stress is gone, and I am not part of the world when I have hugged
I am healed when I see her crying cutely when I don't let he... | ['Poetry', 'Meditation', 'Kids', 'Healing', 'Children'] |
If you have never had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful seaside city of San Clemente in Southern California —
If you don’t already have your own favorite shoreline paradise, and need some assistance imagining what I try to describe, here’s the poem again, with pictures.
These are all photos that I have taken on ... | ['California', 'Seaside', 'Poem', 'Beach', 'San Clemente'] |
How to Perform KYC in your Permission.io account Permission.io Follow Nov 14 · 5 min read
Welcome to the KYC journey!
As a returning user or as a new member, we are pleased to invite you to our KYC process.
Completion of KYC allows you to move your Pending ASK to your Permission Wallet and to use your coins. This is... | ['Kyc'] |
We are celebrating 2 years of the official relaunch of minerstat and our September was very busy preparing all regular updates, improvements, and also something very special - a new crypto mining merchandise collection!
We have now patched and prepared everything, so you also have a new option for Christmas gifts for ... | ['Cryptocurrency Mining', 'Crypto', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Mining', 'Minerstat'] |
An earlier version of this post included an error, in which the name and amount raised of a token project called Propy (PRO) appeared above a statement made by a project called Prosperiprop (PROPX). Propy was not meant to be included in this research; Prosperiprop was. Prosperiprop’s amount raised was $200K.
Cease and... | ['Investment', 'ICO', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
It’s been a helluva week or two in America (not that most of them aren’t, these days). Just as I was getting my wits together enough to write about Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, we learned about Breonna Taylor getting shot to death by police while sleeping in her own bed; the choking death of George Floyd by not one but four... | ['George Floyd', 'Personal Growth', 'Equality', 'Culture', 'Racism'] |
Holiday Parties
The kind you want to skip
Photo by Pixel Rich on Unsplash
Holiday parties. Mine is a different one. It’s a pity party. So if you want to skip this blog, feel free. If not, grab the kleenex.
I know that life isn’t fair. I know that suffering is not distributed evenly in life. But sometimes, that just... | ['Family', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Parenting'] |
15 Things That Cost More Than Trump Paid in Taxes in 2016
You can buy a lot of cool stuff for $750
The New York Times just reported that self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes the year he won the presidency, and another $750 the first year he was in office. There will be many, many well-reasoned ... | ['Humor', 'Politics', 'Trump', 'Money', 'Election 2020'] |
Is the Brokini the Future of Men’s Bathing Accessories?
All the beauty of a bikini, with none of its pesky practicality
All photos with permission: Brokinis
The inherent paradoxes of the brokini bathing suit for bros are just as appealing as its aesthetic, which is to say—not very, but in a “hard-to-look-away” sort ... | ['Humor', 'Photography', 'Fashion', 'Culture', 'History'] |
An Intuitive Approach to PCA
With the Iris Dataset
The Iris versicolor
The Iris dataset is one of those datasets that one frequently encounters in the pursuit of acquiring or honing data science techniques. It’s small, only 150 rows, with four features, petal length and width, and sepal length and width. The feature... | ['Beginner', 'Principal Component', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Linear Algebra'] |
GraphQL gives us a great framework to document an API contract (using schema and types) and gqlgen is a Go library that helps one generate a type-safe API server for that contract, relatively easily. You create your GraphQL schema, run gqlgen on it to auto-generate all the Go bindings and boilerplate you need, then imp... | ['Go', 'Gqlgen', 'GraphQL'] |
Cross-Platform app development: When to use to benefit the most Moqod Follow Nov 4 · 4 min read
IOS & Android cross-platform.
No matter how technical that may sound to you, we at Moqod treat the choice of the platform as a business question.
And here is why.
We as software developers are cross-platform ambassadors,... | ['Cross Platform', 'UI', 'Flutter', 'React Native', 'UX'] |
Introduction
In this article, I will highlight the various aspects of the Support vector machine that makes it different from the Naïve Bayes approach for text classification.
But first thing first!
What is Text Classification?
The classification of text into predefined categories using some automated techniques su... | ['Machine Learning', 'Naive Bayes Classifier', 'Svm', 'Data Science', 'Text Classification'] |
Written by
Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too. | ['Humor', 'Funny', 'Technology', 'Comics', 'Cartoon'] |
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
मौसम की लुकाछिपी देखो
हम कंबल ओढ़ के सर्दी का इंतजार ही करते रह गए।
ख़्वाहिशों की साज़िश देखो
हम मोहब्बत मे खुदको भुलाते ही रह गए।
Translation:
Look at the hide and seek this season plays
I kept waiting for winters wearing a blanket.
Look at the conspiracy this hope creates
I ... | ['Hindi', 'Heart', 'Poetry', 'Illumination'] |
When a goroutine can start other goroutines, and those goroutines start other goroutines, and so on, then the first goroutine should be able to send cancellation signals to all embedded goroutines.
The sole purpose of the context package is to perform cancellation signals between goroutines, regardless of how they wer... | ['Programming Languages', 'Programming', 'Golang Tutorial', 'Computer Science', 'Golang'] |
It all started when Pastor Tim jerked open the door to the basement men’s room and caught us.
“I knew it, Luke Thomas!” he spits at me as he hauls me up off my knees by the hair. I can feel a couple clumps pull right outta my scalp.
Luke Thomas is what everybody calls me when I’m in trouble. You can just keep calling... | ['Gay', 'Homeless', 'James Finn', 'Fiction', 'LGBTQ'] |
POETRY
Cranberry & Sage
A free-verse poem on ritual
Ash green & ruby blaze
the fire & aftermath
cranberry & sage
Flood crimson & dry sprig
of velvet blessings,
the smoky savour strip
ghosts of inertia
Astringent fruit crush
well met river red
decking the valley
bejeweled in thanks
The twin colours
arrest... | ['Ritual', 'Poetry', 'Nature', 'Celebration', 'Healing'] |
While there is no doubt that massive disruption is taking place in the financial industry, the crypto industry is yet to see widespread adoption — apart from as a means to speculate. With numerous blockchain platforms now in operation, and thousands more being developed, what is holding end users back?
Estimating the ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Open Banking', 'Blockchain', 'Fintech', 'Finance'] |
Hash functions explained in a simple way
Understanding how hash functions work
First, what is a hash function?
Simply speaking, a hash function is a mathematical function that takes any input size and convert it to a fixed output size. Consider this simple hash function H(X) = Last digit of (X)
H(1234) = 4.
H(1256... | ['Bitcoin', 'Hash', 'Mathematics', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto'] |
Swimming Down the Sidewalk: Losing Privilege through Transition
The Power of Privilege, and the Eye-Opening Effects of Losing it in One Fell Swoop
Fish On Sidewalk
Recently I participated in an activity as part of our leadership team at work called Privilege for Sale.* This activity was a part of a larger discussion... | ['Race', 'Transgender', 'Equity', 'Marginalization', 'Privilege'] |
A $100,000 moment thanks to the Pineapple Fund 🍍
The gift will make Empower Work’s free, immediate, anonymous text line available to more people facing tough work moments
This week, Empower Work received a game-changing $100,000 donation from the Pineapple Fund. The fund was started by an anonymous donor, “Pine,” wh... | ['Work', 'Philanthropy', 'Bitcoin', 'Nonprofit', 'Pineapple Fund'] |
Aimee and I use my home theater a lot and so when my DVD player started skipping on disks I got frustrated. I tried cleaning it but good hygiene is not the cure for every electronic woe. Normally I would just replace the DVD player. After all, DVD players are around $20 these days. This DVD player, however, is built in... | ['Htpc', 'Truehd', 'Dolby'] |
Snapchat is the darling of technology: for years, we’ve fawned over the company for being innovative, using daring interfaces and out of the ordinary tactics to get people to pay it.
Despite the fact that the app was always what some would consider “hostile” to new users, full of design anti-patterns, it managed to ga... | ['Social Media', 'Instagram', 'Snapchat'] |
根據官方的文件說明：
express-validator is a set of express.js middlewares that wraps validator.js validator and sanitizer functions. | ['Nodejs', 'Notes', 'Express Validator', 'Express', 'Backend Development'] |
7 Most useful tools to scrape data from Amazon Octoparse Follow Nov 25 · 6 min read
This article gives you an idea of what web scraping tool you should use to scrape from Amazon. The list includes small-scale extension tools and multi-functional web scraping softwares and they are compared in three dimensions:
the de... | ['Data Analysis', 'Web Scraping'] |
Data is everywhere. Actionable data is not. That’s a bit harder to find. While our data heavy world loves beautiful visualizations, we often find ourselves staring blankly into a vast sky of sparkling bars and pies, wondering which of these glimmers is our North Star. Which of these shapes or red numbers should we even... | ['Product Design', 'Data Storytelling', 'Data Stories', 'Data Visualization', 'Product Management'] |
What is Sentiment Analysis?
Sentiment Analysis, also known as Opinion Mining, is one of the common research areas which performs Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks for the purpose to extract subjective information by analyzing text data written by users. In the case of sentiment analysis of review data, the main ... | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'NLP', 'Classification', 'Text Preprocessing', 'Machine Learning'] |
I heard the bells on Christmas day,
Their old familiar carols played
And wild and sweet, The words repeat
Of peace on Earth, good-will to men
If there’s one Christmas carol that sums up 2020 for me, it’s “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
The lyrics come from a poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in 1864. (Is... | ['Spirituality', 'Christmas', 'Christmas Songs', 'Religion', 'Hope'] |
9–5 jobs can have their own unique perks
At this time our sims might not need health insurance, but other than the obvious paycheck, careers do come with their own specific benefits. Whether it’s mood-boosting clutter to fill their homes with or the perfect easel for our talented artist.
All your needs other than sle... | ['Gaming', 'Personal Finance', 'Money', 'Life Lessons', 'Work'] |
Our local law enforcements, and the duties that they are assigned, have stretched way too far and covered far too much ground. They’ve been detailed far too much, and it has left many departments ineffective as a whole.
Police departments have been militarized in terms of force, but not in terms of discipline. We hono... | ['Media', 'Police Reform', 'Law', 'Government', 'Politics'] |
How Wonder Woman 1984 Should Have Ended
In my humble opinion — spoilers for the movie ahead.
Wonder Woman 1984 is the sequel to 2017’s big Wonder Woman hit. Both star Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, and were directed by Patty Jenkins. With how acclaimed the original movie was, the sequel was highly anticipated by many.
Th... | ['Wonder Woman', 'Movies', 'Wonder Woman 1984', 'Opinion', 'Film'] |
A Sad First
Anyone who has spent time awake over the last twenty years has at least known of Kobe Bryant’s celebrity. As a high-school phenom and an NBA All-Star, he made the wise, albeit obvious, decision to sign an endorsement deal with a shoe company. First Adidas, then Nike. From the time he signed a $48 million d... | ['Nike', 'Market', 'Sneakers', 'Kobe Bryant', 'Stock Market'] |
It’s already been a news story, a book transaction!!!
What is the book transaction?
It’s not like the coins were coming in and out of your wallet.
It’s only recorded in the books.
The Coins I bought are stored in my exchange wallet, not in my personal wallet.
I mean, the coins I bought are not in my wallet, but th... | ['Wallet', 'Bitcoin'] |
Rails 2009 vs. 2017
Yep, I’m comparing them again…
So, I had enough fun with comparing RailsConf to older RailsConfs last year that I thought I’d do it again.
Same rules. There are 20 talk titles listed here, 10 of them are from the 2009 RailsConf in Las Vegas, 10 of them are from the 2017 program in Phoenix next we... | ['Web Development', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Ruby', 'Software Development'] |
1. Coinbase Thinks That The US Regulatory System Is Hurting Innovation
Yesterday, March 14, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment discussed cryptocurrencies and ICOs at a hearing called “Examining Cryptocurrencies and ICO Markets”. The main topics debated were the benefits these technologies ... | ['ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Regulation', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Pardon Me
Sorry to bother you
She got up from her seat with dread. Why did this always happen to her? She had her popcorn, her drink and her M&Ms all ready to go. The movie was about to start.
Yet, like clockwork, she had a creeping, sickening feeling in the pit of her stomach. Movie snacks wouldn’t help right now. ... | ['Short Story', 'Movies', 'Fiction', 'Life', 'Flash Fiction'] |
Staff at Wikwemikong are finding creative ways to lift the spirits of elders during the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s been a tough year for most of the residents.
Cut off from family and friends, they’ve really missed the social contact. The staff were determined to create a new community within the home.
This First Na... | ['Self Improvement', 'Guns', 'Relationships', 'Life', 'Covid 19'] |
Photo by Andre Francois on Unsplash
One look at the crypto market since January 2017 and you’ll see that we have had one hell of a ride! We ran up to Bitcoin at $20,000 and then just as quickly ran back down to about $6,000 and we have bounced for months at the lower end.
Many veteran crypto investors and crypto expe... | ['Investing', 'SEC', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Finance'] |
“When I first learned that you pay anyone anonymously across the internet with no fees, I was searching the pants off of google for a working link.” — SWIM
Fig 1. Source
In 2005, this is what it looked like to set up a blockchain wallet.
So you want to crypto, eh? Well you must frist understand that your “wallet,” y... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'How To', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Emerging Technology'] |
Below are the classic binary tree recursive traversal methods embedded into our BinaryNode class. We use a companion object to minimize our space complexity, which is comparable to static methods in Java. You may wonder why we allow for a nullable BinaryNode to be passed into each of these methods. I settled at this op... | ['Depth First', 'Binary Tree', 'Kotlin', 'N Ary Tree', 'Preorder Traversal'] |
Strip clubs are getting a high tech overhaul, but will it be enough to save them? Mashable Follow Dec 17, 2019 · 12 min read
As their patrons age, club owners are relying on VR and other innovations to lure in a younger crowd.
BY MARK HAY
IMAGE: VICKY LETA/MASHABLE
While most of the erotic world has hurdled into th... | ['Culture', 'Sex', 'Business', 'VR', 'Virtual Reality'] |
Photo by lanah nel on Unsplash
Vuetify is a popular UI framework for Vue apps.
In this article, we’ll look at how to work with the Vuetify framework.
Weather Card
We can add a weather card with Vuetify.
For example, we can write:
<template>
<v-container>
<v-row>
<v-col col="12">
<v-card class="mx-auto" max-wi... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Web Development'] |
One historically problematic issue with development on Android is support for landscape orientation. Developers often loathe the extra work involved, or neglect it entirely. Now, that’s no longer a (lawful) option for some apps.
Android, at the platform level, was designed to put apps through what are called “configur... | ['Android App Development', 'Accessibility', 'UX', 'Software Development', 'UI Design'] |
Some time ago, I created the first tutorial about React.js where I showed you how to create an easy React.js application using an existing API and Bootstrap for styling. The positive response for this article brought me to the idea of creating a series of simple tutorials on how to build an application with the most po... | ['JavaScript', 'Angular', 'Front End Development', 'Coding', 'Tech'] |
Bitkub.com is a new generation digital asset and cryptocurrency exchange platform that offers advanced cryptocurrency exchange services
Follow | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Articles', 'Bitcoin', 'Thailand', 'Bitkub101'] |
(August 18th –August 24th, 2018)
OK blockchain capital is committed to exploring the cutting-edge technology of blockchain, setting benchmarks for high-quality analysis, guiding the sound development of the industry. Follow us to get more high-quality articles.
Market Overview
This week, the daily average global cry... | ['Exchange', 'Crypto', 'ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
New framework allows developers to quickly and easily deploy gateways to integrate new cryptocurrency coins within their ecosystem. With that, users can then begin trading on the Waves Decentralized Exchanged (DEX).
Digital payment gateways share a universal base structure that is common for all cryptocurrency coins. ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Trading', 'Bitcoin', 'Wavesplatform', 'Blockchain'] |
About CoinTiger:
CoinTiger is a global and innovative digital assets exchange platform which provides multi-cryptocurrency trading service including multi-language support for blockchain enthusiasts around the world.
Since the platform was launched, it has continuously iterated with a steady upgrade and now has an in... | ['Investment', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Report'] |
Why This Trans Woman Is No Longer Fully Comfortable With the “Trans Women are Women, Period” Trope
Gender identity is in your brain at birth, and it’s not hard-binary for everyone
Photo from the March 2019 St. Petersburg, FL. Trans Day of Visibility Festival. By www.stpetepride.com
A young Facebook friend of mine, w... | ['Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Nonbinary', 'Culture', 'Transgender'] |
The Day President Trump Went To The “Y”
Where else can you go when John Fogerty tells you to take a hike?
Courtesy of YouTube
“They’ve got everything for you men to enjoy…” The Village People (YMCA)
President Donald Trump doesn’t pay much attention to lyrics. His favourite song “Is That All There Is?” sung by Peggy... | ['Humor', 'Politics', 'Satire', 'Donald Trump', 'Election 2020'] |
In continuation of the first part of this blog, we’re sharing the final 13 things to consider before partnering with a web design company. Let’s take a look!
What Important Things Should My Business Consider When Hiring a Web Design Company?
Do they understand the buyer’s journey? By 2020, it is predicted that more t... | ['SEO', 'Inbound Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Web Development', 'Web Design'] |
A person who writes and draws and eats her feelings.
Follow | ['Family', 'Comics', 'Relationships', 'Sophie Lucido Johnson'] |
PORTLAND, OR, 07/19/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to reveal a jaw-dropping, limited THE WEATHERMAN #3 cover featuring eye-popping artwork by James Harren (RUMBLE), with colors by Nathan Fox.
In THE WEATHERMAN #3, Nathan and Cross are cut off, on the run, and hunted by The Marshal, as they try to stay alive long enoug... | ['Comics', 'Image Comics', 'Press Release', 'Comic Books'] |
A Kiss Before Morning
A kiss before morning
Waking at dawn
They’re wrapped in a bunch
Akin to a ball
Neither will move
Neither will budge
Except for a kiss,
Caress, or nudge
Linked at the soul
Joined at the heart
Common of mind,
They don’t want to part
But part they shall not
Together this day
They’ll ch... | ['Love', 'Cozy', 'Poetry', 'Romance', 'Kiss'] |
After Elizabeth Warren’s poor showing on Super Tuesday and suspending her campaign today, there is a lot of hang wringing about why she faired so poorly— analysis of her political strategy, her personality and authenticity, and her gender — all of which have validity. Some of those truths feel personal to me as a femal... | ['Leadership', 'Elizabeth Warren', 'Community'] |
Space and light
are woven into our awareness
of every moment.
And as we listen to the cafe music
and chat and daydream about the day,
moments of our transient experience
vibrate and resonate through
the single conscious space
inside everyone.
And though sometimes
the passing moment
seems surrendered
to ever... | ['Mindfulness', 'Philosophy', 'Meditation', 'Yoga', 'Poetry'] |
The idle time before entering death did not intimidate Walter. The impending transition into what waited on the other end did not ail him. If he were to speculate where he would go, it would be nowhere or Hell. The underworld was not frightening; he knew the comparable hell he was capable of in his former mobile state.... | ['Shadow Work', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'Werewolf', 'Horror'] |
CustomCursor for Flutter Web
How to customize the cursor in your web applications
A while back I've published an article that detailed a hack that enabled the use of the hand cursor in a Flutter for web project.
Now, I'm updating that widget (and hack) to work within the new web projects that can be built using the ... | ['Web Development', 'Flutter', 'Dart', 'Flutter Widget', 'Flutter Web'] |
People store their money using many methods, and we all know that setting some aside for rainy days is the way to keep ourselves safe. Similarly, crypto users can organize their money into wallets, AMMs, or vaults. Vaults can store cryptocurrency just like regular wallets. Moreover, they can prevent stored crypto from ... | ['Crypto', 'Defi', 'Hodl', 'Finance'] |
Yawning shadows fall deeply
Breaths
Laden sweeps of air
Whisper between shapes
Familiar and foreign
Fanning out like tangled strings
Ways
Cross and criss and curve
Inwards and outwards
Have I been here before?
Soundless leaves curling damply
Drops
Yesterday’s tears fall
From an unseen sky
Returning to the... | ['Stuck In A Rut', 'Poetry', 'Reflections Of Life', 'Realizations'] |
From my research, I discovered something that seems pretty essential to understanding all this: there are three phases of habit formation as outlined by Tom Bartow.
1. The first phase is known as ‘The Honeymoon.’ This is a relatively short period, 3 days to a week or so after you encounter the trigger which got you to... | ['Self Improvement', 'Personal Development', 'Intentional Living', 'Habit Building', 'Habits'] |
In 2020, COVID-19 touched our lives in nearly every way, everywhere, as countries went into lockdown and restricted movement to contain the spread of the virus. As doors closed and isolation began, reports of all forms of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, began to rise.
The pandemic of ... | ['Womens Rights', 'Gender', '16days', 'Violence Against Women', 'Orangetheworld'] |
With a ray of divinity,
you punctured my dream of material desires!
I feel I am alive.
I am awake from my deepest sleep,
My heart arose from the darkest night,
I awoke to feel a new refreshing reality,
And, discovered an unknown secret,
That, I am a soul in this perishable body.
I am eternal and this body retur... | ['Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Spiritual Secrets', 'Life', 'Self'] |
In the world of blockchain, cryptocurrencies get all the attention. But dapps are what blockchain is all about!
What are dapps?
‘Dapps’ = ‘decentralized applications.’ Told you it was cooler. Quick recap — blockchain is a distributed ledger that no single person controls. Dapps are built on a blockchain. Because of t... | ['Dapps', 'Crypto', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Duolingo Case Study
Why They Chose Scala?
One of the biggest language learning apps in the world, Duolingo is serving hundreds of millions of users every single day. Most of the app’s backend was written in Python, yet the tech team has decided to rewrite one of Duolingo’s core features in Scala.
With this article, ... | ['Scala Programming', 'Programming', 'Functional Programming', 'Software Development', 'Duolingo'] |
Running in Circles
Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently
Agile started off as a set of values. Values are subtle and abstract, so as agile spread, what spread wasn’t the values but the practice of working in cycles. Cycles are easy to explain and easy to copy.
People in our industry think they stopped d... | ['Product Management', 'Software Development', 'Agile'] |
Good ole Atlantic City, New Jersey. One city I will never forget. For many reasons but this one is by far the most memorable.
Just over two years ago I was living on the Jersey Shore after driving around the United States in my car. I needed a break, so I decided to stop in Jersey and Spend some time with some friends... | ['Humor', 'Personal', 'Sex', 'Sexuality', 'Dating'] |
Dashawn has his hands firmly on the steering wheel. His whole body is stiff and even though he is the only one in the car, he still feels the tension in his veins. He tries focusing on the road but his nervousness is making it difficult. He knows he has to do this but it doesn’t make it easier. Nobody likes confrontati... | ['Race', 'Fiction Writing', 'White Privilege'] |
In terms of exchanges, firstly, we have been awarded 4 out of 5 stars on the Cryptopia Exchange thanks to the latest round of deliverables we are finalising at the moment in the Android Mobile Wallet, and also Web Wallet.
Secondly, another bit of great news is that we have also been listed this week on DigitalPrice Ex... | ['Internet', 'Technology', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Computer Science'] |
The April Edition of Highlights Magazine for Kids. Photo taken on my dining room table.
Highlights magazine gets delivered to the house monthly because little man is six and learning how to read. Every single month the magazine shows up to the house like clockwork and he is so excited to get mail that’s just for him. ... | ['Investing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Finance', 'Bitcoin', 'Sentiment'] |
Investigating the Machine Reading Comprehension Problem with Deep Learning
Teaching machines how to do standardized test-like reading questions.
This project and article was jointly done by Yonah Mann, Rohan Menezes and myself.
When you think about it, reading comprehension is kind of a miracle of human thinking. Th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Data Science', 'Towards Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
In this series, I will attempt to learn something about reinforcement learning in a limited period of time, after work hours, with the intent to have a somewhat performant system built by the end of that period. A system that plays Atari games maybe, or a trading system — we will see.
There is no intended audience for... | ['Machine Learning', 'ML', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'TensorFlow'] |
Brief summaries of some long, tech related articles. To get the essence in 1 minute.
Follow | ['Tldr', 'Logging', 'Software Development', 'Metrics', 'DevOps'] |
Following illegal activities in the use of cryptocurrencies, the authorities of Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA), has planned to devise new software that can monitor cryptocurrency transactions record in the country, according to NHK on 30th August. However, this motive is prompted to combat the rate of cryptocurre... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto', 'Japan', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain'] |
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
Kindness in the Surgical Suite
Whoso Keepeth His Mouth and His Tongue Keepeth His Soul from Troubles. -Proverbs 21:23
When you’re cutting into a cadaver and you sever a choice artery or nerve, expletives will fly. Such was the case in my anatomy lab one day. My tank mat... | ['Charity', 'Kindness', 'Love', 'Medicine', 'Healthcare'] |
It has taken some time
I know.
It seems I take longer than
A lot of others.
But I love where I am now.
With you.
Thanks for waiting.
Your Turn
Theme: Bloom
Inspired by Cie Turvey’s poem and prompt, “Bloom”. Thanks also to our hosts, Kathy Jacobs and Harper Thorpe, and the rest of the talented Chalkboard team! | ['One Line', 'Poetry', 'Late Bloomer', 'Life'] |
Episode 7: Fingerprints
Comparing lists and detecting errors
Whenever our friends at The Blockchain Bar suspect a mistake, they have to compare all entries on the last page with all guests individually. That’s very cumbersome.
Bob is annoyed: “It takes too long to compare every item on the page. There must be a bett... | ['Distributed Ledgers', 'Cryptography', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain'] |
I am not the kind of person who likes conflict. I am the poster child for “can’t we all just get along?” I write about things that I see as important, but I stay away from controversial topics. I wrote the title and thought, “am I really going to do this?” Since I am four sentences in, it looks like I am committed.
To... | ['Community', 'Self Improvement', 'Tolerance', 'Humanity', 'Politics'] |
Netflix, Facebook, Google, iTunes… we’re all mining for something in the tech world.
If there is one disruption the last quarter of 2017 might be remembered for, it’s the unicorn rise of Bitcoin. Though most of us may still be struggling to understand how exactly blockchain and cryptocurrencies will change the world, ... | ['Emissions', 'Technology', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Bitcoin'] |
RootProject’s pilot city expansion will begin in Q4, beginning in Seoul, South Korea and New York City.
We’re happy to announce that our new Korean language site is now live. Heeding the advice of our local partners, we switched up the design of the Korean site during the ICO. Now, having brought on additional staff i... | ['Korea', 'Crypto', 'Ethereum', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Entropic Learning Model
A learning model based on the local, internal reduction of entropy a.k.a. your brain
I have tried to make a thinking or learning model based around the concept of reducing entropy locally, in this case our brains and possible extended phenotypic effects (like making tools). It is a combination... | ['2019', 'Autobiography', 'Learning', 'September', 'Entropy'] |
Delta is a famous cryptocurrency portfolio tracker app. Helps to keep track of all cryptocoins, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and most altcoins.
Download Delta app or PC extension and add Ubcoin to your portfolio or watchlist.
https://delta.app | ['Ubc News', 'Deltadirect', 'Ethereum'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['iPhone', 'Apps', 'Instagram', 'Data', 'Genel'] |
Overcooked (stylized as Overcooked!) is an acclaimed cooking simulation game by Ghost Town Games, released in 2016. It was deemed a chaotic couch co-op game for up to four players and winner of the Best British and Best Family Game at the 13th British Academy Game Awards.
Players control chefs in a restaurant of sorts... | ['Overcooked', 'Games', 'Game Design', 'Game Development', 'Multiplayer'] |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.