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Hurricane Ida Offshoot Rips Across NYC, Floods Student Dorms
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Torrential rain broke out in New York City Wednesday evening as the remnants of Hurricane Ida tore through the Northeast. Heavy downpour resulted in flash flooding, filling some areas of the city with chest-high water.
Many on-campus loc... | ['Hurricane Ida', 'NYC', 'On Campus News', 'Floods', 'NYU'] |
One person’s recollection of something she has spent two decades trying to leave in the past.
The morning was clear and sunny, and from the moment I stepped through the door at the top of the brownstone’s stoop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn I decided that I would walk through the park near my apartment to hop on the L train... | ['New York', 'NYC', 'September 11', 'Life', 'Remembering'] |
Our family lived in Battery Park City, a few blocks from the World Trade Center, on 9/11, and my wife and I worked in the neighborhood. These emails recount our experience on the day of the attacks, and in the months that followed.
Report From NYC, Chapter 1, Sept 22, 2001
Folks,
Most of us who were near the World T... | ['New York', 'NYC', 'Terrorism', 'Wsj', '9 11 Attacks'] |
September 11, 2021
I am in New York today. This is not a surprise, I have been here 100’s of times in the last 20 years. I’ve structured my career around being here because I love it here. All of it.
Thank comes with stories and I have a special one that thousands of people have. Thousands of fortunate people who sur... | ['New York', 'NYC', 'Sensemaking', '911', 'September 11'] |
Now the aim of the game is not to just pass the certification exam but to actually build up your skill in Oracle Cloud.
Below are the list of Courses provided by the Oracle university for free:
Just create an account and you will be able to access the video training for free.
But do remember the training videos are ... | ['Oracle Cloud', 'Oci Certifications', 'Oracle Cloud Training', 'Oracle Certification', 'Oracle'] |
The latest annual release of the world’s most popular database, Oracle Database 20c, is available for preview on Oracle Cloud (Database Cloud Service Virtual Machine).
Oracle Database 20c introduces key new features and enhancements that further extend Oracle’s multi-model converged architecture with the introduction ... | ['Databasemangement', 'Oracle20c', 'Dba', 'Oracle Database', 'Oracle'] |
Most oracle developers don’t use object types…and there’s good reasons for that — it’s a somewhat half-baked OO implementation that is unlikely to impress OO fans, and it doesn’t give you a whole lot more than just working with tables for the database minded. But there are some novel things that you can do with them wh... | ['Xml', 'Sql', 'Plsql', 'Oracle', 'Database Development'] |
Everything within this article is a collection of my own thoughts, research, and findings. It does not reflect any official stance taken by the Chainlink team. If you find any factual errors in this article, please let me know.
A Little Background
2019 was quite a monumental year for Chainlink, to say the least. Thro... | ['Ethereum', 'Blockchain', 'Chainlink', 'Oracles', 'Dlt'] |
We are excited to announce that the Chicago Trading Company, a leading provider of liquidity and pricing on derivatives exchanges around the world, is joining Pyth network to deliver institutional grade market data to accelerate the growth of DeFi!
Who is the Chicago Trading Company?
Chicago Trading Company is a lead... | ['Oracle', 'Blockchain', 'Solana Blockchain'] |
8 Free Oracle Database and SQL Courses for Beginners in 2021
My favorite courses to learn Oracle Database and PL/SQL for beginners from Udemy, Coursera, Educative, and other online portals. javinpaul Follow Jul 6 · 9 min read
Hello guys, if you want to learn Oracle Database and SQL in 2021 and looking for free online... | ['Programming', 'Sql', 'Coding', 'Oracle', 'Database'] |
BEA started out with the Tuxedo software product, but currently the products they are best known for in the computer industry are the WebLogic product family, which consists of WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration and JRockit. In 2005, BEA launched a new product family called AquaLo... | ['Bea', 'Weblogic', 'Monitoring', 'Oracle', 'Application'] |
The San Jose Convention Center
The O’Reilly Velocity Conference is focused on enabling organizations with the information they need to adopt cloud native practices and technology for their business. This year, Velocity took place June 10–13 in sunny, perhaps too sunny (the thermometer outside read 103°F at one point),... | ['Oracle', 'Kubernetes', 'Cloud Native', 'Oracle Cloud'] |
Couchbase is a distributed NoSQL database. It’s a document store in the same class of databases as MongoDB. It differs in some really interesting ways. For instance, Couchbase offers a query language called N1QL that allows a user to write ANSI SQL (including joins!) against the document store. These N1QL queries retur... | ['NoSQL', 'Oracle Cloud', 'Couchbase', 'Terraform', 'Oracle'] |
Snowflake is currently one of the best Cloud Data Warehouses on the market. But it’s good to know that Snowflake is ‘just’ a Data Warehouse. Therefore you will need an additional front-end tool to visualize the Data. In this post we will have a look at connecting Oracle Data Visualization to Snowflake.
Setting up Snow... | ['Data Visualization', 'Oracle', 'Snowflake'] |
Aiera Investor Event Recap — Week of June 14, 2021 Aiera Follow Jun 17 · 13 min read
The financials sector is preparing for Fed action on rates, Fed addresses inflation, supply chain pressures remain in focus, and online spending holds steady while stores recover.
Financials Preparing for Fed Action on Rates
I do th... | ['Earnings', 'Bitcoin', 'Labor', 'Economy', 'Oracle'] |
Oracle Cloud Database Service Specialist 2021 certification [1Z0–1093–21] Mohan Kumar ·Jun 17
[New Update] Oracle has announced (in April 2021) a new certification exam for the Oracle Cloud database services i.e. [1Z0–1093–21], its a Specialist certification.
If you want to proceed with your future in the Oracle clou... | ['Oracle', 'Oracle Database', 'Oracle Certification', 'Oracle Cloud'] |
On 16/06/2021, the Oraichain team held an AMA on Spectre GRP community with the attendance of our CEO, AI Lead and SamOrai Ambassador. We are glad that new communities are discovering aiRight and Oraichain. Now, we are pleased to recap the main content of the AMA.
1. Oraichain team attendees:
Dr. Chung Dao, CEO of Or... | ['Nft', 'Ama', 'AI', 'Airight', 'Oracle'] |
Wanchain and Kylin Network are proud to announce a long term strategic partnership aimed at shaping and safeguarding the future of interoperable DeFi. This partnership brings together Wanchain’s industry-leading blockchain interoperability solution with Kylin Network’s innovative cross-chain data services.
Li Ni, Wanc... | ['Kylin Network', 'Partnerships', 'Polkadot', 'Wanchain', 'Oracle'] |
Create a Helidon Project in Visual Studio Code
Many IDEs offer wizards to create a new project of one type or another. Our extension uses Maven for this and it supports all archetypes that are available for Helidon. So, to create a new project, we just have to go through a few simple steps :
1. Open Command Palette b... | ['Extension', 'Visualstudio', 'Vscode', 'Oracle', 'Helidon'] |
Berry Data & Bird Finance: More Possibilities
On June 7th, Berry Data and Bird Finance reached a partnership regarding marketing and technical aspects. Berry Data is a transparent oracle on BSC and Bird Finance is a cross-chain revenue aggregation protocol with extreme deflation, which helps users find safe, stable, a... | ['Binance', 'Partnerships', 'Berry Data', 'Bsc', 'Oracle'] |
BlockBank is innovating to bring opportunities in DeFi and more mainstream banking applications and we are excited to partner with Modefi to provide truly decentralized, secure, and precise oracle solutions allowing BlockBank to offer a more accurate and broader diversity of data.
BlockBank leverages Artificial Intell... | ['Data', 'Oracle', 'Security', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
razor network oracles
Many blockchain applications depend on real-world data, which is not readily available inside the blockchain environment due to their configuration. Currently, this problem is being solved by something called an ‘Oracle’, which is an entity that reads real-world(external) data and feeds it to the... | ['Oracles Network', 'Razor Network', 'Oracle', 'Defi', 'Razor'] |
Big News: Oracle EBS Premier Support for 12.2 Now Available Until At Least 2032! Mia Urman Apr 25·2 min read
At AuraPlayer, we pride ourselves on making sure the EBS community is always up-to-date with the latest innovations, including updates and product announcements. Today, we are thrilled to let you know that supp... | ['Oracle Ebs', 'Oracle'] |
razor network
Most Oracles today are centralized systems, which suffer from the problem associated with having a single point of failure. Razor Network is a decentralized Defi oracle network with no centralized bottlenecks. The goal is to create a decentralized oracle that offers maximum game-theoretical security with... | ['Oracles Network', 'Oracles', 'Razor Network', 'Razor'] |
Hrishikesh Huilgolkar
Razor Network has developed exponentially in the blockchain community. With the vast growth of the network, the interest of the people is drawn to the CEO. Therefore, are interested in his profile. This is because the profile of the CEO will further enhance patronage of the network as people’s do... | ['Oracle', 'Razor Network', 'Razor'] |
Band Protocol is bringing a never seen before decentralized data economy to life with BandChain Phase 2. By creating an autonomous marketplace for institutional-grade data providers and the users, decentralized applications, Band Protocol is reducing the barrier to entry for enterprises and broadening the horizons of d... | ['Band Protocol V2', 'Blockchain', 'Community', 'Oracle', 'Defi'] |
With the launches of the Laozi Testnet #1–4 and stable network performance over the past months, we are ready to move on to the final step before the launch of BandChain Phase 2. We are excited to share that the core Band Protocol development team has submitted a new BandChain Improvement Proposal B (BCIP-3) to propose... | ['Band Protocol V2', 'Community', 'Oracle', 'Bandprotocol', 'Defi'] |
Source: blockgates.io
This is the first progress report for the Enterprise Development team — DAO Cycle #4.
For our avid API3 readers, Enterprise Development’s goal is to target large organizations in partnering or adopting API3 technologies while assisting enterprises in solving their use-case and proof of concepts ... | ['Api3', 'Data', 'Api Gateway', 'Enterprise Technology', 'Oracle'] |
Boba Network (Enya), previously known as OmisegoX, has partnered with Band Protocol to bring secure decentralized oracles to their layer-2 optimistic rollup platform to build a more trusted and scalable Ethereum ecosystem. Founded by Stanford faculty and alumni, Enya creates decentralized infrastructure solutions to se... | ['Partnerships', 'Blockchain', 'Oracle', 'Bandprotocol', 'Defi'] |
aelf Oracle Episode 1: What is an oracle? How does it work? ælf Follow Sep 13 · 5 min read
Oracle may not be a common concept to the general, however, it is something of great importance to those who are deeply engaged with DeFi — oracle helps retrieve live token prices for the protocols.
So how this happens? There w... | ['Oracle', 'Blockchain', 'Aelf'] |
Defining Escrow
The traditional escrow agreement is an arrangement between adverse parties where the timing mismatch of performance and payment is rectified by placing any combination of value, documents, assets, signatures, and other conditions or actions with a third party escrow agent. Generally, when all required ... | ['Escrow', 'Legaltech', 'Blockchain', 'Oracles', 'Smart Contracts'] |
Modefi On-Demand Oracle Demo
We are extremely excited to share the very first visual demo of the eagerly awaited On-Demand Oracle system. In the demo you will see how it can be utilized to bring data from a UFC event. Once the event is completed and the data is validated by the Modefi network it will be available for ... | ['Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Oracle', 'Defi'] |
Zap Protocol Beta 2.1 Development Update
Oracle Network
Price Feeds — The crypto/fiat currencies button and search bar have been refactored into a more aesthetic view. Users can effortlessly switch between crypto and forex price feeds and search token pairs. Additionally, some typos were found and corrected in our pr... | ['Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Nft Marketplace', 'Oracle', 'Defi'] |
Dear Band Community,
August has marked another month of significant progress for Band Protocol with rigorous migration tests in the lead-up to the BandChain Phase 2 Mainnet launch. During this time, we have also partnered with six major DeFi and blockchain platforms that are using Band Protocol oracles in production t... | ['Blockchain', 'Community', 'Oracle', 'Bandprotocol', 'Defi'] |
Graphs 101
Graphs are collections of nodes and connections. If we define some properties for these nodes and their connections, we can model a lot of real world problems. Graphs are especially useful for representing networks. Social networks, telephone lines, and road maps are a few examples of real world networks th... | ['Data Structures', 'Python', 'Algorithms', 'Code', 'Graph'] |
The Jupyter widgets ecosystem offers a broad variety of data visualization tools for exploratory analysis in the notebook. However, we lack a good story for exploratory graph visualization.
Cytoscape is an open-source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute d... | ['Cytoscape', 'Ipycytoscape', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Graph'] |
Lets start with with the most obvious and egregious:
Mistake 1 — Vertical Scale Inconsistencies
Next to the two green bars I have added is the easiest to find “mistake” in this plot. Here, the bottom bar corresponds to a difference of 5 thousand cases, and the second just above it represents a difference of 15 thousa... | ['Coronavirus', 'Media', 'Covid 19', 'Lies', 'Graph'] |
Common Graph Theory Problems
A lot of problems we encounter every day could be paraphrased to a graph problem or a near similar subproblem. So it’s required to have some familiarity with different graph variations and their applications. If you want to brush up the basics of Graph Theory - once again, you should defin... | ['Graph Theory', 'Mathematical Modeling', 'Graph Theory Simplified', 'Machine Learning', 'Graph'] |
Step 3: Deploy our web page for HTTPS access
You might be wondering why you can’t just open this local page in your browser to start using the Facebook Login button immediately. If you try it, you’ll notice in the developer tools console of your browser that the SDK outputs an error: The Login Button plugin no longer ... | ['API', 'Facebook', 'Tutorial', 'Developer', 'Graph'] |
Newbies Guide to Python-igraph
Handling graph/network data has become much easier at present with the availability of different modules. For python, two of such modules are networkx and igraph. I have been playing around with the python-igraph module for some time and I have found it very useful in my research. I have... | ['Computer Science', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Graph'] |
Now for the real calculation,
For every girl i, X_i is the number of relationships she has been in. For every guy j, she has been with Y_j is his count. So, her perception for average girls a guy dates is
i.e average of Y over all the guys she knows about i.e. X_i .
To calculate this quantity as an expectation, we n... | ['Mathematics', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Applied Mathematics', 'Graph'] |
In the past couple of years, the field of data science has gained much traction. It has become an essential part of business and academic research. Combined with the increasing popularity of graphs and graph databases, folks at Neo4j decided to release the Graph Data Science (GDS) plugin. It is the successor of the Gra... | ['Neo4j', 'Spark', 'Data Science', 'Graph'] |
Using graphs, we can uncover interesting relationships for the SME to find similar patents and maybe uncover clusters or groups of patents that can define more niche categories or topics. Typically the process will include:
Read the patent and extract the chemical. Use the chemical to find matches from hundreds of oth... | ['Ichemist', 'Neo4j', 'Graph Database', 'Ireadrx', 'Graph'] |
Writing Task 1 (graph)
The chart below shows the amount spent on six consumer goods in four European countries.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. Vita Muflihah F Jul 6·1 min read
Cambridge 3 test 2
The graph compares the spending amount on the goods that bought by the ... | ['Ielts', 'Cambridge Ielts', 'Graph', 'Ielts Preparation', 'Ielts Writing'] |
According to scrum.org the product backlog is an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product. Solely responsible for the product backlog is the Product owner. Whose job it is to add items to the product backlog, assign business values, prioritize and explain the items to the “needed level”.
Co... | ['Agile', 'Lists', 'Graph', 'Product Backlog'] |
Some States See Recovery in Unemployment Rate
After the peak of COVID-19’s toll on America’s Unemployment Rate, some states see recovering numbers Sarita Cavazos Jun 8·2 min read
A comparison of unemployment rates between April of 2020 and April of 2021 shows the American unemployment levels have significantly lowere... | ['Jobs', 'Covid 19', 'Unemployment Rate', 'Unemployment', 'Graph'] |
I’ve encountered this problem in an Online Assessment(OA), the requirement was not exactly traversing diagonally, but I had to do something traversing diagonally.
Thinking about it during my OA hurt my brain, I had to think, after I put decent amount of thought into it, I was able to write a very messy code to do the ... | ['Arrays', 'Matrix', 'Depth First Search', 'Diagonal Traversal', 'Graph'] |
Let me start this by saying that this does not aim to be yet another blog post that shows how to create a Team in Microsoft Teams using tools and functionality available in Microsoft 365.
While it does do that, this post outlines how to overcome a very specific challenge: creating a Team in a multi-national tenant whe... | ['Azure', 'Exchange', 'Flow', 'Automation', 'Graph'] |
Have you ever struggled with determining which GO’s ORM library is best for you? the Go Ent Framework will be the best option for some use cases.
If your project is going to have large data models then this will be the best option for you.
Today I’m going to help you get started with this framework by creating a simp... | ['Entity Framework', 'Entity', 'Restful Api', 'Go', 'Graph'] |
My daughter has wanted a dog since she could say the word. She memorized an encyclopedia of dog breeds when she was five. First, she wanted a Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling retriever, then it was a sheltie, and finally she settled on wanting a Siberian Husky. My husband and I both had family dogs growing up and wanted to hav... | ['Husky', 'Jmp', 'Graph'] |
Our Experience at KDD2021
Our AI Team at RappiBank had the pleasure to both attend and present one of our papers at KDD 2021 (More on that to come!) Jaime D. Acevedo-Viloria Follow Sep 6 · 4 min read
KDD is one of the top AI conferences in the world, with the mission of providing a premier forum for advancement, educ... | ['Conference', 'Kdd', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Graph'] |
Use of Dynamic Graphs
Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash
As I mentioned before, the dynamic graphs are useful in capturing the complex behaviour of real-world entities (like human beings in a social network, or a gene coding protein in a PPI network). We also add the time dimension to the dataset which explains the ev... | ['Biomedical', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Social Network', 'Graph'] |
Here we are with the last part of this saga where we analyze which is the best data model/structure for our data application.
In this article, we will discover the Graph model (NoSQL plus a bit of Relational).
I strongly suggest reading previous articles about the Relational Model and NoSQL Databases to have a better... | ['Neo4j', 'Analitycs', 'Big Data Engineering', 'Database', 'Graph'] |
The problem of Simplification in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Photo by Lysander Yuen on Unsplash
There are so many extraordinary AI applications out there, but so few looking to solve our big challenges as humans. Think about education for example. What are we really doing to improve our learning systems? For th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Graph'] |
Graphs Everywhere! An Introduction to Graph ML RappiBank Follow Sep 1 · 7 min read
By Luisa F. Roa, Ana M. Quintero Ossa, Jaime D. Acevedo-Viloria
What is a Graph? — They are EVERYWHERE!
Graphs are structures made up of nodes and edges; the nodes represent entities, and the edges represent interactions/connections b... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Structures', 'Graph'] |
What is a Neobank
A Neobank is an application that sits on top of an existing bank infrastructure to provide a seamless banking experience for customers. Neobanks are purported to be very customer friendly. Currently, most banks are both offline with lots of branches, as well have a significant online presence through... | ['Neo Banking', 'Neobanks', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Dlt'] |
Ever since its first major roll-out, i.e. v1.0, back in 2017, Hyperledger Fabric (for all the right reasons) has been the talk of the town across the developers’ community. The proprietors of Hyperledger Fabric have left no stone unturned to make their product stand out from other similar tools in the industry.
And gu... | ['Blockchain Application', 'Blockchain Development', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Network Deployment', 'Hyperledger Fabric'] |
Hedera Hashgraph is a public ledger. Nodes on the network collectively establish and maintain a consensus state for a set of application data.
Clients interact with that state through API calls sent to the nodes of the network.
To write to state, clients send transactions to a chosen node for subsequent gossip to the... | ['Hashgraph', 'Hbar', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
OVERVIEW
Blockchain, tokenization, and the underlying Distributed Ledger technology (DLT) have transformational potential for any industry where transactions, data sharing across entities, trust, or regulatory compliance play a major role. As a result, over the last few years, many ideas, projects and players started ... | ['Insights', 'Blockchain', 'Blockchain Application', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
Disclaimer: This is my personal Medium profile and the opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer, Object Computing Inc. To learn more about our work, visit objectcomputing.com/
The COVID-19 Pandemic demands a revaluation of our practices as healthcare and businesses struggle to kee... | ['Coronavirus', 'Covid 19', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Machine Learning'] |
[This article was originally published on 7 September 2016]
During World War II numerous indigenous people of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, who previously had no contact with other civilizations, suddenly witnessed history’s most devastating and hitherto technologically advanced war being fought right on their doo... | ['Consulting', 'Bitcoin', 'Cargo Cult', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
Immediately after the March mayhem, I had a call with a friend who works in prime brokerage and custodian departments at a large bank:
X: These days I receive calls from our friends in other banks to check the background of our clients (asset managers).
Me: Why is that?
X: Markets are very volatile. These friends ar... | ['Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Digital Transformation', 'Capital Markets', 'Risk Management'] |
The distributed ledger technology of blockchain serves as an ideal solution for secure and trustworthy transactions. This automated platform streamlines the operations and enhances compliance procedures. Blockchain-enabled KYC solutions enable financial institutions, businesses, and individuals to address the inefficie... | ['Fintech', 'Kyc', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Blockchain Technology'] |
As the Bitcoin halvening draws near, the world waits and watches in eager anticipation of parabolic price action. Meanwhile, regardless of candle color, builders continue to build. And as we round out the second month of 2020, Zilliqa continues to stay ahead of the curve, in its march towards growth. The first public n... | ['Tokenization', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Defi'] |
The Hyperledger Fabric which was initiated by Digital Asset and IBM has came up with a new version 2.0 of its enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform in January 2020.The main features of Fabric 2.0 are faster transactions, updated smart contract technology and streamlined data sharing.
What is a Hyperl... | ['Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Smart Contracts', 'Hyperledger', 'Hyperledger Fabric'] |
July 6, 2021, Volume 2.
Blockchain — Crypto — Artificial Intelligence — Megaprojects
Notable developments this week
The ASCE — American Society of Civil Engineers scored America’s infrastructure a dismal C-
The ASCE — American Society of Civil Engineers scored America’s infrastructure a dismal C-
Infrastructure su... | ['Blockchain', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Megaprojects'] |
In recent years, companies like Airbnb, DoorDash, Lyft, and Uber have revolutionized business verticals which existed for the past many decades mostly because the incumbent solutions didn’t keep up with the pace of innovation. The dramatic performance improvements in Mobile Communications standards and easy accessibili... | ['Distributed Systems', 'Fintech', 'Payment Systems', 'Payment Processing', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
The Holy Grail
Few days ago I witnessed a heated discussion on one of my contacts’ LI page over the differences between distributed databases, distributed ledger and blockchain technology.
The discussion and the differing points of view weren’t, surprisingly, surprising at all! They, merely, reflect the bigger contro... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Digital Transformation', 'Database'] |
An Insight to Regulation…
Speaking of the FCA, whose Consultation Paper CP19/3* — “Guidance on Cryptoassets”, was released back in January 2019. Attendees were able to get an up-to-date insight of the work the FCA has been doing since January, and also the view the FCA currently holds towards regulatory matters.
“Ins... | ['Events', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Digital Asset'] |
This is the first part of a two-part series on how we built and deployed a test that pushed the entire transaction history of Bitcoin across the Radix ledger in less than 15 minutes.
Part 2: How we actually built the test (technical)
What is this test?
These tests replay the entire 10 years of Bitcoin’s transaction ... | ['Programming', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Test'] |
This is the second part of a two-part series on how we built and deployed a test that pushed the entire transaction history of Bitcoin across the Radix ledger in less than 15 minutes.
Part 1: A primer on the test and Radix (non-technical)
The Code
We decided to put the 1M TPS test code into a shared GitHub repositor... | ['Testing', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
ZEXE Design Strategy
ZEXE is a scheme for privacy-preserving, decentralized applications such as decentralized exchanges. It is designed to utilize a ledger-based system, and support multiple functionalites. These include user-defined fungible assets, cross-application communication, and public auditability. And of co... | ['Privacy', 'Blockchain', 'Zero Knowledge Proofs', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Blockchain Technology'] |
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
As the resident crypto geek amongst my friends and family, I’m often asked various questions about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. It’s usually the same questions asked in a different way. I also read various online comments criticizing cryptocurrency, some valid, that I wou... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Proof Of Work', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
The Machine Economy (and similarly, Industry 4.0 or Web3) may just sound like buzzwords to try and grab your attention. However, IOTA’s audacious vision and impact in this space will become unquestionably real, in the not too distant future.
IOTA has marketed itself as the backbone of IOT, though it may be more apt to... | ['Iota Foundation', 'Iota', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Machine Economy'] |
Understanding the Concept of Virtual Time Using the Time Warp Algorithm
What is virtual time and why do we need it?
As distributed systems have progressed and been adopted over the last decade, there have been numerous technologies in different segments like databases, caches, message queues, etc which are built on t... | ['Distributed Systems', 'Computing', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Time Warp', 'Virtual Time'] |
This post focuses on the new chain snipping feature released in Corda 4.7. The official Corda documentation for that feature can be found here. We will review what chain snipping is and how to go about utilizing the Reissuance CorDapp in your own CorDapps.
The Transaction Backchain
When you would like to update a sta... | ['R3', 'Cordapp', 'Corda', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
The recent news of Exodus Movement, Inc. receiving notice that the Securities and Exchange Commission has qualified its offering of common stock under Regulation A+, is a very important milestone on the road towards distributed ledgers becoming the backbone of our global financial system, and transforming the financial... | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Token', 'Security Token'] |
Introduction
The time of trading halls has long passed. Modern exchanges are large IT infrastructures that include a whole range of systems. Just note that cryptocurrency exchanges can differ significantly from exchanges that operate in the classical financial market. There are significant differences both in the IT i... | ['Payments', 'Tkey', 'Tkeynet', 'Payment Gateway', 'Distributed Ledgers'] |
Its Metadata, Folks
First thing is that the digital art doesn’t sit on the Blockchain. Nope it, exists in the other netherworld of either a centralized or decentralized server and is linked to the Blockchain minted token as ‘metadata’.
The metadata includes the digital image that is the subject of the purchase, which... | ['Nft', 'Digital Art Blockchain', 'Blockchain', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Fine Art'] |
A distributed ledger is a dynamic form of media, it enables us to secure and formalise new kinds of relationships in the digital world. There are several advantages to using DLTs, one being they have an immutable database, all information is stored and cannot be erased thanks to their use of blockchain technology. Read... | ['Baanx', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledger'] |
Vision: Decentralization of Wikipedia content and Tokenization of page contributions. Allowing for immutable, public information with fungible, liquid tokens allocated to the users who create and support the site. Providing site supporters digital asset representing their contributions toward the preservation and proli... | ['Vitalik Buterin', 'Ethereum', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Wikipedia', 'Random'] |
Constellation Network is the result of multi-disciplinary mathematical concepts all converging together to create a technology that has the power to change the world. It is truly unprecedented and unparalleled in its elegance and scope. Please join me as I attempt to distill the magnificence imbued in this elegant mast... | ['Directed Acyclic Graph', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Distributed Ledgers', 'Hypergraph', 'Constellation Network'] |
“Sharing is caring!” Snaps my mother in an ironic recess of my memory; my sister and I are feuding over some immaterial-material object — a projection of my past that resurfaces daily in one form or another; humanity’s selfish pursuits. “If only you two could just get along,” parents chime in an effort to promote kinsh... | ['Neoliberalism', 'Monopoly', 'Uber', 'Selfishness', 'Sharing Economy'] |
What one should know in order to develop an Uber-like app? Heneri Jul 6·4 min read
A long time ago, the Uber iOS application helped iPhone users connect with drivers to get to a destination. Then came UberBlack, which provided the passengers with the option of choosing their taxi. Then came Uber Moto, Uber X and Uber ... | ['Uber Clone Apps', 'Uber Clone', 'Uber Clone Script', 'Uber'] |
Items 4–7, the essentials
Pick-up: In the case of a human driver, the driver and passenger get an opportunity to confirm who’s who by looking at their profile picture and confirming their appearance. However, with regard to AVs, this might be done using biometric (speech, facial recognition) or mobile technologies.
E... | ['Self Driving Cars', 'Autonomous Cars', 'Uber', 'User Experience', 'Science Fiction'] |
People living in Alpha cities like New York, Dubai, London, or Mumbai have two biggest vows: busy traffic and lack of parking space.
They are less likely to buy cars and rather rely on ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. The advantages are many.
They don’t have to worry about car repairs, a permanent parking space,... | ['Buildanapplikeuber', 'Ride Hailing Apps', 'Uber', 'Uberliketaxiapp', 'Taxiappdevelopers'] |
Yango Ride Branded
About a few days ago I started seeing some ads in my feed on Facebook. The ad was asking me to download some app to hail ride as low as GHS 2.00. At first, I did not download it, I felt I had uber on my phone already so no need for another app. Considering the fact that they all serve the same purpo... | ['Accra', 'Transportation', 'Uber', 'Yango', 'Ridesharing'] |
Bird Cruiser via Bird
Bird recently announced a new form factor for micromobility, the Bird Cruiser. It’s a cross between an electric scooter, a bicycle and a moped.
It looks remarkably similar to the Wheels “electric bike” cruisers. When Wheels launched their whole value proposition was based around their superior h... | ['Lyft', 'Uber', 'Startup', 'Network Effect', 'Venture Capital'] |
A2Z Taxi Service has been in the business long enough and offers cost-effective and 24 hours taxi services all through Somerset. You can look for instant and convenient booking on the phone, in person or online mode, avail pick and drop facility at any hour of the day, safety and comfort ensured along with the highly t... | ['Yeovil Taxis', 'Yeovil Taxi Service', 'Local Taxi Service', 'Uber'] |
Super-apps are all inclusive apps that integrates a volume of services together. One such example is Alipay, a mobile and online payment platform, established in China around 2004.
Alipay users can accomplish many tasks within the app without ever leaving the app. In China WeChat provides an all encompassing mobile ex... | ['PayPal', 'Fintech', 'Super Apps', 'Uber', 'Ridesharing'] |
Understand the price hike of hailing rides on Uber, Lyft etc.
Discover the shift in gig economy apps.
Make better pricing decisions.
“There’s an app for that.”
Apple coined this phrase over a decade ago, foreshadowing of things to come — the gig economy run by smartphone apps. Convenience drove the demand for these... | ['Lyft', 'Mobile Apps', 'Uber', 'Millennials', 'Gig Economy'] |
Products and imagery courtesy of gimmo and gimmo.com.au
This is the first of a series of articles where I explore on-demand delivery. I’ll look at the current landscape, emerging players and discuss the best strategies & opportunities for success.
Within days, weeks and months, Australia will be inundated with what m... | ['On Demand Delivery', 'Grocery Home Delivery', 'Australia', 'Uber', 'DoorDash'] |
Find your ideal route and stay away from the interstate. There are many routes out there and you’ll figure it out on your own; don’t trust the chatter from other blogs and/or advice from other drivers. Seriously, why would I give you my ideal route? Yes, DC is a small but profitable area. But where to go and at what ti... | ['Driving Uber In Dc', 'Uber Driver', 'Driving Uber', 'Uber', 'Uber In Dc'] |
Product Overview
Aider is an app that allows people to take charge of emergency situations and save lives by allowing them to order an ambulance, offer directions to hospitals nearby, talk to doctors and more. You will find out more; why and how aider does this as you stay with me.
The app is a personal project of mi... | ['UI Design', 'Uber', 'Healthtech', 'Emergency', 'Case Study'] |
User Scenarios
When I first enter the app I want to find a list of small business owners in the navigation system so I can easily sort through large corporations.
When I go through the list of recommended small business owners I want to be introduced to new local owners so I can support a diverse range of small busin... | ['Design', 'Technology', 'Uber', 'Interaction Design', 'User Experience'] |
Is Uber fare splitting fair?
Human behavior and game theory collide in the world of ride-sharing with friends. Ry Sullivan Apr 20·9 min read
Am I about to make ride-sharing less fun? Probably. Party on!
In my last blog post I combined two well known game theory exercises (the Unscrupulous Diner’s Dilemma and the Pir... | ['Shapley Values', 'Uber', 'Game Theory', 'Curiosity', 'Fairness'] |
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in AWS
The aim of this section is to create a Redshift cluster on AWS and keep it available for use by the airflow DAG. In addition to preparing the infrastructure, the file AWS-IAC-IAM-EC2-S3-Redshift.ipynb will help you to have an alternative staging zone in S3 as well. Below we list the... | ['AWS', 'Apache Airflow', 'Data Engineering', 'Programming', 'Uber'] |
Meghan Casserly, head of communications for Uber’s Delivery business, says that Stories were built around two insights: “First, that consumers find photos extremely helpful in deciding what to order, and second, that restaurants and other merchants were looking for ways to share more about what makes them unique — whet... | ['Social Media', 'Uber', 'From The Editors', 'Business', 'Stories'] |
What’s in a name? Introducing Content Design at Uber
Co-authored with Jaime Walke
In 2010, my job title was Content Strategist. At the time, I worked with information architects, interaction designers, graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, animators, and a slew of other talented folks to create digital expe... | ['Content Strategy', 'Content Design', 'Uber', 'UX Design'] |
In UK Food Delivery Battleground, Just Eat Takes #1 Spot with 45% Market Share
Uber Eats (27%) comes 2nd and Deliveroo (26%) 3rd, after both services grew slightly in the last year. Edison Follow Apr 1 · 3 min read
Key Takeaways:
UK food delivery service market share changed slightly before and after COVID-19: Uber ... | ['IPO', 'Food Delivery', 'Uber', 'UK', 'Deliveroo'] |
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