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Keep Stress From Getting The Best Of You With This Personality Test
Stress doesn’t have to bring out the worst in you.
Previously published on Forbes
With the pandemic raging and disrupted work becoming the new normal, people are feeling resigned, mad and stressed out. Life is not like it used to be in “the good old... | ['Enneagram', 'Personality Tests', 'Pandemic', 'Stress And Anxiety', 'Leadership Skills'] |
The most compelling and crucial issue for survival in today’s time is carbon reduction. Despite being of such a great importance to us, carbon credits have been dramatically undervalued and poorly managed. We are failing in our efforts to restore the Earth’s natural balance.
In such vital demanding times, we need imme... | ['Blockchain', 'Carbon Emissions', 'Carbon Footprint', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Climate Change'] |
Too many partners in the bedroom wasn’t for me, in my limited experience. To be fair, I’d seen my own parent’s marriage combust under the weight of their attempts to maintain an open marriage. So I had reason to be concerned. Yet there was also my own personality to consider. I prefer monogamy, 1 partner. Simple, or as... | ['Relationships', 'Sexuality', 'Love', 'Self', 'Life Lessons'] |
Modern Finance Chain is pleased to announce a partnership with Loopring. The partnership adds another powerful tool for the Modern Finance Chain payment solution by delivering access to various liquidity pools within the Loopring protocol. Additionally, MF Chain is able to provide retail processing integration for the ... | ['Ethereum', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'ICO'] |
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. — Charles Darwin
In our life time — we saw:
Computers came to life. And shrank in size as fast as they came while becoming extremely powerful
Computers morphing from gener... | ['Kaizen', 'Agile', 'Blogging', 'Enterpreneurship', 'Globalization'] |
PHOTO: Former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, left, appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press to defend HB2 before losing re-election over his support of the anti-transgender law
After the fight over HB2 — the disastrous and discriminatory 2016 law passed in North Carolina — lawmakers across the country are proving wary o... | ['South Dakota', 'Schools', 'LGBTQ', 'Transgender'] |
NewCo Shift Forum 2018
Presenting: The Shift Forum Ignite Series
Four remarkable and unique voices on the future we all share.
If you’ve never heard of Ignite talks, you’re in for a treat, as they’ve spread to hundreds of cities around the world and range across a heady set of topics. They’ve been called “TED talks ... | ['Work', 'Diversity', 'Culture', 'Business', 'Tech'] |
Photo by Hean Prinsloo on Unsplash
When this is over, treasure the little things.
Touch a flower, feel the sun, watch how the bird sings.
When this is over, say hello. To your friends and many more.
To the neighbor, to the stranger, to the kid who likes Avengers.
When this is over, smile often. You are so blessed ... | ['Empathy', 'Hope', 'Love', 'Kindness', 'Gratefulness'] |
The Literary History Of The Word ‘Sin’
“Harmartia arose from the Greek verb hamartanein, meaning “to miss the mark” or “to err.” Aristotle introduced the term in the Poetics to describe the error of judgment which ultimately brings about the tragic hero’s downfall. As you can imagine, the word is most often found in l... | ['Self Improvement', 'Philosophy', 'Ethics', 'Inspiration', 'Religion'] |
The Android team at Strava tries to maintain a healthy level of refactoring in conjunction with feature development throughout the year. However, earlier this month, all Android engineers had the opportunity to focus solely on platform health for an entire week (see our post about Guild Weeks for the history). After re... | ['Mobile', 'Android'] |
The Netherlandish Proverbs is an oil-on-oak painting that was created by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. This masterpiece encapsulates approximately 112 proverbs and idioms that are identified in the English language and some of them are still in popular use.
The Netherlanders were fond of proverbs and used them in ... | ['History', 'Painting', 'Literature', 'Art', 'Culture'] |
Let’s start with default URLRequest.CachePolicy.useProtocolCachePolicy
The official Apple’s documentation shows nice decision tree: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsurlrequest/cachepolicy/useprotocolcachepolicy
There are a couple of scenarios depending on how the server is set:
‘Cache-Control’ ... | ['Caching', 'App Development', 'Swift', 'iOS App Development', 'Programming'] |
The lack of seasonal variations lull many into thinking that Singapore’s weather is predictable and unchanging. Nothing is further from the truth, with climate change making the city state’s weather even more unpredictable.
We are beginning to feel the impact of warmer days and more intense storms. At the ground-level... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Climate Change', 'Singapore', 'Data Journalism'] |
A little bit later than usual but don’t worry, the February update of you favourite crypto app is here! 😃
How many of you were too scared to open the app and check their balance in February? Well you are not alone!!
Quite a lot of people, me included, weren’t really happy to see their numbers going down.
Luckily, B... | ['Blockchain', 'iOS', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Apps', 'Bitcoin'] |
Many things at one point or another have been erroneously labelled as a ‘Game-changer’. Remember 3D TV? That was once going to be a ‘Game-changer’. Last time I checked the game of watching TV hasn’t changed much at all. It turns out that making viewers wear the sort of glasses that Elton John might have favoured in the... | ['Agile Ux', 'UX', 'Agile'] |
Photo by Silas Köhler on Unsplash
One of our customers gives us user-by-user access to their systems through a proprietary VPN that we cannot set up on our CI infrastructure.
When we need to deploy their Rails application we rely on mina scripts that connect to the deploy machines using SSH connections (over the VPN)... | ['Ssh', 'Docker Compose', 'Docker Secrets', 'Ssh Keys', 'Docker'] |
Keep Your API Keys Safe
Get those important strings out of your code and into PLIST files
Image is based on Security by Komkrit Noenpoempisut from the Noun Project
Many APIs require developers to provide an API key and/or API secret to be able to access the API.
This is both to identify the app that is accessing th... | ['Open Source', 'Xcode', 'iOS', 'Swift', 'Programming'] |
Artist, rockstar, recovering designer, and general all-around do-gooder; that’s me. Please add to this that I am intrepid, dogmatic, and fastidious.
Follow | ['Comics', 'Axis', 'Grammar', 'Gender'] |
Unless your HR department has been living in a cave for the last several years, they are working on ways to increase the diversity of the teacher workforce in your district. Having more teachers of color does a number of good things for students of color, white students, and the school and district, as a whole. Providi... | ['Social Justice', 'Diversity And Inclusion', 'New Teachers', 'Leadership', 'Anti Racism'] |
Supports Zcash Overwinder Version;
2. Supports the purchase of EOS CPU/NET/RAM by another account;
3. Supports Copay Wallet multisig accounts import.
Find us on
Telegram: t.me/BitpieInternational
Twitter: @BitpieWallet | ['Cryptocurrency Investment', 'Bitpie', 'Cryptocurrency News', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
4 Tips to Visualize Behavior With Python Matplotlib, Follow By Easy Tutorial
Tips to work with different action events, and events that happen multiple times
Why Visualizing Customer Behavior?
I’m currently working for Unbounce as a data analyst. Unbounce is a subscription-based tool that helps marketers build and o... | ['Programming', 'Data Science', 'Saas Marketing', 'Data Visualization', 'Customer Behavior'] |
Bitcoin’s much-anticipated third halving took place a month ago. While this reduction in mining rewards is mostly regarded as a potential catalyst for upwards price action, it also has strong implications in Bitcoin’s blockchain itself. Leveraging blockchain’s transparent nature, IntoTheBlock extracts key indicators th... | ['Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Data Science', 'Bitcoin'] |
There are many use cases for Machine Learning Models. Text analytics, a branch of Natural Language Processing provides ways of allowing Machine Learning algorithms to be applied to textual data for classification models. Patterns exist in data in ways we can not ordinarily detect all the time but using analytical tools... | ['NLP', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Text Analytics', 'Classification'] |
The world of crypto-assets has climbed out from the dark corners of the Internet and into mainstream investment portfolios. Rarely a day goes past where the topic isn’t discussed in the news or at the local pub, and whilst every second person claims to be an expert, there has already been more than $2b USD lost since t... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin Wallet', 'Cold Wallet', 'Bitcoin'] |
Links play an important factor to every webmaster as they control the web. With the beginning of Google, SEO start its growth to promote a band on this major search engine and for this backlinks becomes the main element of SEO.
Backlinks
Since generating backlinks is a very crucial process of any webmaster, because y... | ['SEO'] |
Cryptoindex AI Daily Predictions and News for 04/08/2020 CryptoIndex Follow Apr 7 · 4 min read
CryptoIndex is a tool for exposure to the crypto market and serves as a smart benchmark for all cryptocurrencies. The AI-based Cryptoindex algorithm is continuously analyzing more than 2000 coins applying over 200 factors, p... | ['Cix100', 'Covid 19', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Cryptoindex', 'Bitcoin'] |
(a ⊕ b) + (a ∧ b) = (a ∨ b). XOR has just enough light in its high-value quadrants (bot-right, top-left) to turn the dark AND pattern into a bright OR pattern. Alternatively, (a ⊕ b) = (a ∨ b) − (a ∧ b): a XOR b is everything that is in a or in b, minus everything that is in both a and b.
Bitwise addition
The observa... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Bitwise', 'Data Visualization'] |
Why cryptocurrency market is running a fever and whose fault is that? Part 2, unchartered territories LetKnowNews Follow Jun 25, 2018 · 7 min read
This article is a continuation of our investigation on possible crypto market manipulation.
Chapter 1: Crypto Pager
Pager — is a small radio device, activated from a cent... | ['ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin Wallet', 'Bitcoin'] |
Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash
The advancements and opportunities that Machine Learning has evoked are limitless in value. Before answering the question, ‘What is Machine Learning?’, I would highlight its importance from the perspective of ‘Why Machine Learning?’.
Suppose you work as a programmer in the Grammarly te... | ['Generalization', 'Machine Learning', 'Gradient Descent', 'Bias Variance Tradeoff'] |
Facing problem in scaling your ROR Application? No worries, Check this post out!
Top 5 Best Practices to Scale Ruby on Rails Application in 2020
You will find this post worth-reading and helpful to scale your ROR App in easy & better ways.
I came across to so many questions and answers being discussed by people What... | ['Ruby On Rails Developers', 'Ruby On Rails Development', 'Ruby on Rails'] |
“Oh wow. She looks like one of those Japanese dolls.”
That’s one of my first memories, gazing up at my mother’s friends who ooh-ed and ahhh-ed over my perfect, silky black hair. They were all white.
“Say thank you,” my mother instructed, and I immediately obliged, even though we were Taiwanese. I was only a kid, but ... | ['Beauty', 'Feminism', 'Asian American', 'Hair', 'Women'] |
While I was extracting text from PDf to a CSV file (Link), I was stuck at a point where I had to insert multiple rows to a data frame at different indexes. Though this seems to be easy I couldn’t find any solution to this online.
I have a data frame with the title of abstract in each row. Now I wanted to add author na... | ['Learn To Code', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Cleaning', 'R', 'Data Science'] |
(Not-So-)Far From Normal
Outlier detection in all its glory
Spoooooky.
At first glance, the problems of detecting credit card fraud, COVID in wastewater, trashed highway stops, meth “smurfs” buying sudafed (yes, that’s the actual term), concussed athletes returning to the field, and speech patterns associated with b... | ['Gaussian Mixture Model', 'Outlier Detection'] |
It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #21.
For anyone wanting to read my previous blogs, you can find them all here.
Disclaimer: Never take anything I say (or anyone else on the Internet says) to be investment advice. Consult with a professional, and extensively do your own research before ever inves... | ['Stratis', 'Blockchain', 'Stratisweekly', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
Papua New Guinea Mobile Network Coverage Maps — Oct 2019
Digicel and Bmobile
This is just a presentation of network coverage maps for the two existing mobile telecommunication companies in Papua New Guinea, Digicel and Bmobile.
Digicel Coverage in Papua New Guinea | ['Mobile Network', 'Digicel', 'Papua New Guinea'] |
Parsing is something that many programmers dread. Many prefer to cram all their use cases into existing formats, such as JSON or YAML, even when effectively building a DSL in those formats. If one must parse, many prefer to use parser generators such as ANTLR. But for those that are already familiar with functional pro... | ['Functional Programming', 'Programming', 'Scala'] |
How to Reduce Racial Stress
And Collectively Dismantle Systemic Racism
In the late 1990s, most likely as a way to make meaning out of the racial isolation I felt as the only black professor in our psychology department, I became interested in the ways race was considered a source of stress. My negative experiences ha... | ['Stress Management', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Racism'] |
How does living in Minnesota compare to Southern California?
When I first moved here it was like, really horrible because I wasn’t used to the cold. And it was freezing. People told me that it was a mild winter, and the lowest it got was zero degrees and apparently it usually gets like negative-thirty, so we got a goo... | ['Sex', 'Women', 'Interview', 'Work', 'Strippers'] |
Comparing Text, JSON, Parquet, and Elasticsearch
Observability and diagnosability require collecting logs from a huge variety of sources, e.g. firewalls, routers, servers, and applications, into a central location for analysis. These logs help in troubleshooting, optimization, and predictive maintenance; all of which ... | ['Log Analytics', 'Elasticsearch', 'Flashblade', 'Parquet'] |
It's not the one who is loved
Who's got everything,
It's not the one who is
Showered with gifts,
The one thought about,
The one whose life
Is cared for
And saved.
But the one who is happy
Is the one who cares,
The one who gives
The one who knows
What it means
To go out of oneself
And live
In the heart of... | ['Poetry', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Poem', 'Life Lessons'] |
Image from Unsplash.
It’s not my fault that I’m a human being…
It’s not my fault that I have flaws, emotions, vices.
It’s not my fault that, as the purest altruist, I always put myself first.
It’s not my fault that the world stretches only as far as I can see.
It’s not my fault that I always desire more and more… ... | ['Poetry', 'Piety', 'Human Nature', 'Only Human', 'Narcissism'] |
If One of These 7 Statements Applies to You, Don’t Date
The dating pool is full of undateable people — either they don’t care, or they just don’t know it yet.
Photo by LOGAN WEAVER on Unsplash
Are you wondering why modern dating is so painful and makes you want to punch everyone in the face? It’s because the dating ... | ['Relationships', 'Advice', 'Love', 'Self', 'Dating'] |
TailwindCSS and Symfony’s Webpack Encore
A quick guide to integrating TailwindCSS into Webpack encore
Photo by Tianyi Ma on Unsplash
I recently had the chance to choose and work with the TailwindCSS framework for a project at work.
After some initial hesitation about its utility-first CSS concept, I conducted a bit... | ['CSS', 'Tailwind Css', 'Webpack', 'Symfony', 'Programming'] |
Accessing the world of fine art is a dream for many — little wonder when considering some of the sales that have been made this year alone.
Many paintings are now being sold at auction for hundreds of millions. One of the latest is Modigliani’s Nu Couché (Sur le Côté Gauche), a 1917 oil painting that was sold at Sothe... | ['Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Investment', 'Technology', 'Art'] |
Concepts of SQL organized in a Q&A format
What is DBMS?
A Database Management System (DBMS) is a program that controls creation, maintenance and use of a database. DBMS can be termed as File Manager that manages data in a database rather than saving it in file systems.
2. What is RDBMS?
RDBMS stands for Relational ... | ['Sql', 'Database', 'Computer Science'] |
NLnet Labs continuously strives to push the performance of its products. Over the course of the past year we researched improvements to main-memory databases for our authorative nameserver, NSD. While this is still very much a work-in-progress, it has progressed enough to share our ideas.
Image by YONASTATO on RGBSTOC... | ['Nsd', 'DNS', 'Software Development', 'Performance', 'Research'] |
Are Fig Newton’s Better than Sex?
I don’t think so…
Wikipedia.org
It started at the grocery store.
I eyed the end display at checkout: Fig Newton’s, two for $6.
Ok. Hubby loves those, I thought. I should buy these wretched non-cookies for him.
I arrived home and walked into the mudroom, “Guess what, hon?”
“Shhh,... | ['Satire', 'Dead Bedroom', 'Love And Relationships', 'Love And Sex', 'Marriage'] |
About the author: Sarah Myers ’21 is an FSI The Europe Center intern at the Lisbon Council in Brussels, Belgium.
So far, the work I’ve done at the Lisbon Council has revolved around finding information. I’ve spent a lot of time researching particular policy areas, trying to find information about specific policies and... | ['Tecfsi', 'Brussels', 'European Union', 'Stanford', 'Fsi Students'] |
Social Media Popularity Trend Bewtween Youtube and Spotify over 10 years time. This chart showcases the difference in poularity between spotify and youtube overtime. It compares how much both sites are used throughout the course of 10 years. //datawrapper.dwcdn.net/O1sMx/1/
This is a pie chart of student test scores. ... | ['Data Visualization'] |
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Democratic nominee Joe Biden evaded questions as to whether or not he intended to pack the Supreme Court. He was pressed multiple times and failed to divulge his position to voters until “after the election”, to quote directly from the big guy himself. So what exactly does it mean... | ['Trump', 'Biden', 'SCOTUS', 'Justice', 'Politics'] |
Major Milestones
55,136,436,858 viewed images in 2019
195,038,108 downloaded images in 2019
In May, we reached 1 million images contributed to Unsplash, allowing more people to create, more problems to be solved, and more progress to be made. And we owed it all to our passionate, creative community.
It didn’t take ... | ['Best Of', 'Articles', 'Photography', 'Community'] |
I know
There are things to do
Important things
Tasks which are necessary for survival
Self-actualization
Happiness
But when you are close
So close
The amount of restraint required
To leave you to your appointed rounds
It physically hurts
There is an ache
It doesn’t start where you think it might
First
My ... | ['Romance', 'Love', 'Sex', 'Poetry', 'Erotica'] |
A new paper titled “Evaluating the scale, growth, and origins of right-wing echo chambers on YouTube” was published as a pre-print earlier this week by Hosseinmardi et al. This paper continues the new stream of studies which investigate the effects of YouTube and YouTube recommendation algorithm on political discourse.... | ['YouTube', 'Research', 'Politics', 'Algorithms'] |
Written by
Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy. | ['Motherhood', 'Comics', 'Humor', 'Shelter In Place', 'Tiktok App'] |
Fraud
Why Rachel Dolezal Isn’t Permitted To Live As a Black Woman
Even with the braids and the Black accessories
It appears that a lot of folks did submit to the task of watching Netflix’s latest offering — The Rachel Divide — that centers on the White woman who wants to be Black — at all costs — even if it means to... | ['Equality', 'Black Women', 'Race', 'Racism', 'White Privilege'] |
I poured over my notes from the past year to encapsulate 12 months into 1500 words or fewer. I’m not that good with words… yet.
I was quite happy to see 2019 end and exceedingly hopeful for 2020. This was going to be the year of clarity I waited so long for. The numbers fit perfectly, didn’t they?
If I were to tell a... | ['Spirituality', 'Vision', '2020', 'Life', 'Hope'] |
The future of retail will be built on insights derived from proprietary data, in particular, consumer data. Businesses must act now to reap the rewards of the consumer data by moving from simply collecting consumer data to using it to support and systematize better decision-making.
In recent years, there is a rising i... | ['Data Science', 'Retail Technology', 'Retail', 'Retail Analytics'] |
Analytics Get Buy-in from Supermarket Retailer
MIT graduate students apply data science to help grocery chain boost healthy food sales
By Paula Klein
Can data analytics help spur healthier eating habits? The answer is definitely yes, based on the work of the 2020 MIT Analytics Lab (A-Lab) winning team. The four grad... | ['Data Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Nutrition', 'Healthy Foods'] |
poetry
Day in the life and life in a day.
Early 90’s hood rat living the
Street Code, morals and ethics
of the ruthless street soldiers.
Roll of twenties in your pocket
ill gotten gains with the rock
residue and a Glock in your waist
band.
Claiming the blue, but the dank cap don’t
quit hide the fear in your e... | ['Street Life', 'Poets On Medium', 'Poetry', 'Poem', 'Life'] |
When I saw my Parents
Leaving this world
left me and my sister alone
I realized in my childhood
Time is everything.
I love her from bottom of my heart
She broke it By leaving me
Now I permanently live with her memories
I realized in my adolescent
Time is everything.
One day In my office
My Boss fired me
wit... | ['Poetry', 'Life', 'Culture', 'Self', 'Self Improvement'] |
Contempt For The People
Why the GOP can no longer be taken seriously.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com
Being conscious these days is simply exhausting.
We have a pandemic; and a president who insists upon being a super spreader.
If I am not digging out from under the avalanche of lies, I am busy picking up my ja... | ['Trump', 'Pandemic', 'Elections', 'Debate', 'Politics'] |
At Attic Lab we think that retail investor participation in funding start-ups is of paramount importance for the blockchain sector to realise its full disruptive potential. We are pleased to announce we’re partnering with SignalX to bring their Trusted Token Offering (TTO) service to market to restore investor confiden... | ['ICO', 'Tto', 'Blockchain', 'Atticlab'] |
No, I meant consumer adoption. But this is nice too.
Hit us up on Twitter @UncryptWill and @Uncrypt_Vlad to let us know what you think. Also make sure to check out our podcast, Sunset Crypto, now streaming on SoundCloud , iTunes, and Google Play.
I wake up. I check my e-mail and messenger apps. I check crypto twitter... | ['South Korea', 'Japan', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Russia', 'Bitcoin'] |
Cryptoindex AI Daily Predictions and News for 04/04/2020 CryptoIndex Follow Apr 4 · 4 min read
CryptoIndex is a tool for exposure to the crypto market and serves as a smart benchmark for all cryptocurrencies. The AI-based Cryptoindex algorithm is continuously analyzing more than 2000 coins applying over 200 factors, p... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Cix100', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptoindex'] |
The progressive nature of our society driven by the “acceptance” or dare I say “tolerance” of other’s views and freedom of expression has ushered a new ideology and self awareness of how we speak to each other and ironically how we express ourselves while balancing on that thinning line of freedom of speech. In this pi... | ['Politics', 'Viral', 'Political Correctness', 'Digital Marketing', 'ESPN'] |
How to Benchmark ANN Algorithms
An investigation into the performance of various approximate nearest-neighbor algorithms.
By Braden Riggs and George Williams (gwilliams@gsitechnology.com)
Approximate Nearest-Neighbors for new voter party affiliation. Credit: http://scott.fortmann-roe.com/docs/BiasVariance.html
Intr... | ['Data Science', 'Data Science Training', 'Nearest Neighbor Search', 'Benchmarking', 'K Nearest Neighbors'] |
#BackToBasics: All Your Questions About Blockchain Answered moneyguru Follow Dec 30 · 3 min read
We have written many articles related to Blockchain, however, sometimes it’s important to go back to the basics and understand in and out of a topic in the simplest language possible, and that is what this article is about... | ['Blockchain', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Blockchain Development', 'Data', 'Basics'] |
Marco Ricci woke up, as he often did, to find himself sprawled on the floor in an awkward angle, his bony neck teetering on the edge of a spasm. His heart thumped mildly in his chest, like a frozen engine trying to sputter to life. When he tried to get up, he unconsciously swallowed the thick, stannic fluid that was in... | ['Drugs', 'Death', 'Short Story', 'Fiction', 'A Cornered Gurl'] |
The first time I read Beowulf, I was hooked. Set against an ominous backdrop, the flawed hero immortalized for his pride just as much as his courage piqued my interest along with the complexity and foreignness of the archaic language in which the poem is told. It’s like that for a lot of us: One spark starts our journe... | ['Academia', 'English Literature', 'English History', 'Racism', 'History'] |
Their nuptials were warm, hot even, as the platform shifted beneath them. Erick, David, and their wedding party had to be lowered down by helicopter. The volcanologists told them they had maybe fifteen minutes to complete the ceremony as they handed them special shoes with soles that could withstand the heat. Most of t... | ['LGBTQ', 'Fiction'] |
WAX ON: What are the Top 6 Revenue Models and Where Does Blockchain Fit In? WAX io Follow Aug 5 · 3 min read
Video Transcript:
The 6 revenue models in technology.
What is a revenue model?
It’s the way a company extracts value from the consumption of a product or service
It’s how the business generates money.
And ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Revenue Mod'] |
Head of Decision Intelligence, Google. Hello (multilingual) world! This account is for translated versions of my English language articles. twitter.com/quaesita
Follow | ['Experiment', 'Correlation', 'Data Science', 'Ciencia Y Datos', 'Statistics'] |
Speaking about sorting algorithms, one should always remember: there is more than one approach. Last time we talked about Insertion Sort and worked with one unsorted array. This time we’re going to try a different approach and more complicated pattern — Merge Sort. Our starter pack is two sorted arrays, our task is to ... | ['Data Structures', 'Sorting Algorithms', 'Algorithms', 'JavaScript'] |
Five Great Questions to Start Changing Education Right Now.
Get decision makers to convince themselves change is needed.
In an SDG pivot project this question came up. What will make people actually start to change education toward the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN? There’s many great ideas around, but too ... | ['Education Reform', 'Questions', 'Social Change', 'Future Education', 'Education'] |
Peer to Peer (P2P) lending came into existence as a result of the sequential economic recessions. During the previous economic downturns, banks refused to loan money to individuals. As a result, P2P lending emerged to allow individuals obtain loans or pay off the interest on their credit card without depending on banks... | ['Gbx', 'Fintech', 'P2p Lending', 'Bitcoin', 'Thedealcoin'] |
Dear LGOers,
We would not be where we are today without your ongoing support.
Today, we’d like to express our gratitude and are proud to announce the upcoming launch of the LGO Community Platform.
What is it?
After researching and analyzing different blockchain/crypto community platforms (including the success on D... | ['Exchange', 'Community', 'Rewards', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain'] |
I love really long, drawn out foreplay. If I had my way, every fuck would start with lots of teasing that feels like it never has to end.
But that can be really difficult to achieve when you don’t get to spend much time with your partner.
I don’t get lazy Sunday mornings in bed with my husband anymore. At least one o... | ['Relationships', 'Review', 'Sex', 'Self', 'Women'] |
This morning I encountered an article about marketing campaign data analysis using “correlation funnel”, which is basically a plot(visualization) that lists important(highly-correlated) variables to understand/predict a target variable.
[source: xkcd]
To use correlation funnel, you have to go through some data wrangl... | ['Eda', '데이터분석', 'Heartcount', 'Data Science', 'Statistics'] |
5 Universal Truths of Modern Dating
That we forget too often.
Photo by Alex Perezon Unsplash
Modern dating sometimes feels like a minefield.
It feels like exploring new territory without a map, like trying to find our way in a dark, unfamiliar house just by sense of touch.
But despite how lost we feel, there are s... | ['Self', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Love', 'Self Improvement'] |
As you may remember last December I created a Steemit account called Flagship that runs as an upvote service. The primary goal of Flagship was to help get Crowdini more earnings on the results posts.
Initially I partnered with Bumper, another upvote bot. That partnership ended in March when Bumper decided to shut down... | ['Steemit', 'Questions', 'Steem', 'Games', 'Crowdini'] |
The Knowledge Cortex blockchain has been recording thousands of transactions monthly since it’s launch September, 2018. As of February 2019, Cortex has recorded over 600,000+ transactions which can be viewed live on the knowledge.io website.
Cortex is recording question responses within the TriviaSpar app as transacti... | ['Cryptocurrency News', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Blockchain Startup', 'Blockchain Development', 'Blockchain Application'] |
Release your iOS App with just One Line Slack Command
A journey from Slash Commands to Fastlane
In WELT we rely heavily on our Continuous Integration implementation. We use it not only to compile the code and run unit tests to ensure a valid app status at any time, but also deliver our product to TestFlight. Besides ... | ['Slack', 'Continuous Integration', 'App Development', 'Software Development', 'iOS'] |
Today we are proud to announce that we are close to finalizing the release of Cheerp 2.6.
Many improvements have been added to Cheerp in the last 8 months (compared to the previous release) by our team, and now it’s all packaged to be used on the C/C++ codebases you have at hand.
In this post, I will go through the n... | ['Compilers', 'Webassembly', 'JavaScript', 'Cpp', 'Cheerp'] |
Sorry We Missed You (2019) is one of Loach’s most powerful films. It’s somewhat depressing that Loach, now 84, has been telling the same story for over 50 years, and his films are just as relevant today as they were when he started in the 1960s. Still, it’s reassuring that he hasn’t turned his back on the people for wh... | ['Politics', 'Movies', 'Cinema', 'Film', 'Art'] |
Code Smell 44 — Magic Corrections
Compilers are smarter than us. On a Friday night production deploy they betray us.
Photo by Senor Sosa on Unsplash
Problems
Fail Fast
Declarativeness
Ambiguity
Solutions
Fail Fast Do not trust magic coercion. Be Explicit
Examples
Type Casting
Sample Code
Wrong
Right
Detec... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Code Smells', 'Software Design', 'Clean Code'] |
Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.
Follow | ['Poetry', 'Ripple', 'Scripture', 'Water', 'Haiku'] |
Pair with Demons by Imagine Dragons
Credit: OpenClipart_Vectors on Pixabay
“Order, order!” the head demon says. “My colleagues, we have an important agenda to get through so please settle down. House demon do you have an update?”
The house demon scrambles through a cardboard box of bits and bobs in front of him to f... | ['Fear', 'Collaboration', 'Flash Fiction', 'Demons', 'Meetings'] |
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That pretty much describes Democrats reaction to the 2020 election. Biden’s victory over Trump was an historic and overwhelming achievement, only the fourth time in over a century that a challenger had beaten an elected incumbent president. Biden’s popular vote margi... | ['Election 2020', 'Democracy', 'Democrats', 'Politics'] |
There were no direct witnesses to the moment of Christ’s Resurrection. Since there was no scriptural guidance, the church avoided the portrayal of the subject for many centuries. It was only in the 14th and 15th centuries that the representation became more widespread and in this growth, took on a more devotional rathe... | ['Art History', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Italy', 'Art'] |
Publius Aelius Hadrianus “Hadrian” Augustus Reigning (A.D. 117–138)
Statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian
At the death of Trajan, his adopted Spanish born son Hadrian was proclaimed Emporer by the praetorian guards. Hadrian protested. He did not regard this as a constitutional act, and he requested to be formally elected b... | ['Politics', 'Rome', 'Ancient History', 'History', 'Government'] |
FT achieves Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
by Rosie Crocker
After significant effort the FT Cyber Security team has successfully achieved its Cyber Essentials Plus certification — the highest level of cyber security accreditation available, from the Government backed Cyber Essentials scheme.
The Cyber Essential... | ['Cybersecurity', 'Data', 'Ft', 'Cyber', 'Security Services'] |
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. What the world needs is people who have come alive. " - Howard Thurman
Follow | ['Moon', 'Soul', 'Illumination', 'Poetry', 'Solstice'] |
Henry Tandey carrying a wounded soldier by Fortunino Matania
The period between 1914 to 1918 saw the deaths 37 of over million people spanning 15 countries. Seen as the bloodiest conflict up to that point, The First World War has gained the name of the Great War in many of these nations vocabularies. The French border... | ['Politcs', 'Germany', 'United Kingdom', 'History', 'World War II'] |
Fires have been busy sanding neighborhoods and forests. We don’t have fire seasons anymore, it’s a first come first serve scenario. Both the southern and northern hemisphere have suffered from the worst fires in modern history, every million-acre destroying event more terrifying than the last.
A pandemic is burning br... | ['Consciousness', 'Polític', 'Politics', 'Earth', 'Climate Change'] |
Pawn
a poem
Photo by Benjamin Faust on Unsplash
fought for his country
one nation under god
happy to pay
for the fight
in the aftermath
reduced to nothing
more than a sign
held by fatigues
on the corner | ['Social Justice', 'Homeless', 'Poetry', 'Veterans', 'Blue Insights'] |
Skylar Neese was a sixteen-year-old girl who lived in Star City, a sleepy town in West Virginia. Skylar was the only child of parents David and Mary, so was often described as ‘spoilt rotten.’ In terms of academia, Skylar was a high achiever, excelling in almost every subject, including those she disliked.
Since being... | ['True Crime', 'West Virginia', 'Crime', 'Murder'] |
Note: This is the second part of the linear regression tutorial and is followed by Introduction to linear regression and cost function. Check out the contents given below to follow along with the tutorial.
Contents: Introduction to linear regression and cost function, How the Gradient Descent Algorithm works, Mathemat... | ['Ml Gradient Descent', 'Gradient Descent', 'Gradient Descent Python'] |
Each day my email box fills up with reports of cyberattacks, privacy violations, stolen consumer and business information. It’s an everyday common thing now. Privacy advocates, cybersecurity researchers, consumer protection advocates, and counterintelligence consultants routinely issue press releases, write articles an... | ['Privacy', 'Tips', 'Pc Security', 'Internet', 'Smartphones'] |
Somedays I think to myself I am such a lucky guy. Being able to be with my wife who I consider extremely beautiful and sexy. I always dreamt of a hot Latina woman who loves sex as much as I do. And after a long and rough period we finally arrived at more calm waters which gives us the confidence and trust we needed to ... | ['Cuckold', 'Sexuality', 'Wife Sharing', 'Sex', 'Hotwife'] |
On 8 October 2020, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation dropped a bombshell when it announced that it had detained 13 homegrown terrorists belonging to the Wolverine Watchmen, an extreme right-wing private militia. These men planned to forcibly kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer through... | ['Politics', 'Military', 'America', 'Guns', 'Covid 19'] |
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