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Lesson 3: Syntax and Semantics
By: Kerry Powell
Tags: Syntax, Beginner, Semantics, HTML, Web Development

Everyone seems to whine when these topics come up, indeed they are some of the most boring topics in the web world. They are, none the less, very important. Lets start this off right with some definitions.

Syntax:

— English definition: “the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language”

— What developers mean: The arrangement of characters in a way that both humans and computers can read your code.

Semantics:

— English definition: “the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning”

— What developers mean: Developing a webpage in a manner that all humans that consume the content can understand it, even those with disabilities.

Syntax

It is possible to put all of your HTML code on one line, just remove all the white-space. To a computer this will still make sense, but it is far less maintainable and hard to read for a human. Similarly if you forget a brace in your code it makes it impossible for the computer to read your code, this is called a syntax error. It is important to keep syntax in mind when developing. An experienced developer will write the code in a manner that future developers can understand it.

One way to improve syntax is to add comments to your code. An HTML comment looks like this:

<p>Pizza</p><!-- Pizza is my favorite food -->

The webpage will only show what is in the <p> tag, the comment after the <p> tag is purely for the benefit of those reading your code.

Semantics

This mainly pertains to page layout and using appropriate HTML tags for content. Much of HTML semantics comes from print layout, generally in a newspaper article you will have headers, authors, dates, sections, and asides. You will find all of these represented in HTML tags with the addition of nav and footer. Using these appropriately will heavily increase the readability of your webpage for ALL audiences.

Here is an example of what a semantic page layout would look like:

Your layout will be different for any given situation or design. It is important to know what tags are available and when you should use them. Use the MDN element reference to determine what tag is best for your content.

Conclusion

Both syntax and semantics are an objective subject and preferences will change between developers, businesses and even designers. It is important as a developer to know what to use in any given situation. Use the references listed at the top of lesson 1 to your advantage. Up next we’ll deep dive into CSS and basic styling.
CP PROCESSOR PROJECT — Goals and roadmap
By: Cp Processor Team
Tags: Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Token Sale

Our first goal is to eliminate the problem of “cryptocurrency as money” that derives from stability of cryptocurrencies. To be more precise, we want to introduce Stable Tokens in everyday use to the whole crypto community and further, because, as we previously concluded: What is imposed as a general conclusion is that current cryptocurrencies have no money role and are not generally accepted for settlement of liabilities. One of the reasons for this is that users see them as an investment opportunities that have absolutely no external stability, not even a floating exchange rate. By resolving this problem, there would be more use of cryptocurrencies as money for payment and settlement.

Our second goal is to resolve the problem of “decentralized universal currency” that would improve global economy and trade. To be more precise, we want to introduce the “world’s single coin” in everyday legal use all around the world, because, as we previously concluded: Obvious and general conclusion is that current global currencies generally have no stability, neither externally, nor internally. One of the reasons for this is that people manage them centrally and subjectively, and by removing that state, there is a possibility for the increase in stability.

Our third and final goal is to resolve the issue of “open international payments” that haven’t evolved enough. To be more precise, we want to introduce the “Global Open Payment Protocol” and create a new dimension of global payments, because, as we previously concluded: The obvious general conclusion is that currently the globalization phenomenon has not improved nor enhanced the system of international payments outside the borders of one country. One of the reasons for this is that too many different bureaucratic demands and intermediaries stand in the way of open international payments. By resolving this problem, there would be a simpler service for global payments and settlement of money transactions.

The CP Processor project roadmap is simple as this “don’t talk, just work” :

Q3.2014 — Creating the idea “Focus on payments”

Q3.2017 — Open consortium starts gathering

Q4.2017 — Project development starts

Q1.2018 — Public distribution of Price Indexes

Q2.2018 — First cPRO token distribution

Q3.2018 — Public distribution of Ethereum Stable Tokens and Supplements

Q3.2018 — Web extension CP Processor V1.0

Q3.2018 — Smartphone App CP Processor V1.0

Q4.2018 — Public distribution of Liberty coin

Q1.2019 — Implementation of fast payment processing Web extension V2.0

Q1.2019 — Implementation of fast payment processing smartphone App V2.0

Q1.2019 — Second cPRO token distribution

2019. — Project and processes maintenance

Dear readers, if you are excited as we are about this project, visit our website and read our whitepaper — https://coinpaymentprocessor.org/documents/Whitepaper.pdf

For more exciting news about Coin Payment Processor follow us on Telegram — @CP_Processor”>https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@CP_Processor
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By: Dota Observatory
Tags: Dac2018, Dota2 Match Review, Dota 2, Lgd Gaming, Mineski

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Empty Gaze
By: John Ross
Tags: Poetry, Challenge, Life, Life Lessons, Hope

Writing stories, working in the NBA, and learning each day how to better love my neighbor @thejorolife

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The ghost of procrastination never goes away
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Personal, Journal, Commitment, Procrastination, Life

Procrastination is a bitch. Plain and simple.

It’s like been hypnotised, and when waking up from the trance realising how much time you’ve lost doing nothing, to later give guilt and remorse.

For me it goes through weaves. There are moments in which is not an issue, there are moments in which I don’t even seems to know what’s going until it is already to late, until ‘wake up’.

The result of the cycle always the same, immediate regret about the thing I was meant, or that even planned to do but didn’t. The solution? Move pass the regret and do it anyways.

It is too late already? Well, fuck it, you have two (2) choices.

You rather do it either way and go to bed a little later (you’re probably late already anyway)

OR

You don’t do it and perpetuate the cycle.

Time is going to pass either way, so I rather aim towards the only thing I know I can do to try to avoid to get trap in the cycle, the one that understands that I have a problem that o need to deal with and that there things that I want to do, create and achieve. They’re naturally exclusive, so I prefer to lean towards the one I know is like to be closer to and that I know I’m chasing.

No one like procrastination nor is looking for it, but instead of keep focusing on how stuck you are and how you can’t find back, just get and do something, as little as it can be, because no matter what, anything it is always better than nothing.

You probably want to put 100 bricks at a time to build you’re empire, so you can reign fast and high, but when there are other internal battles to be won first, it’s wiser and easier to put just one brick at a time.

Every time you think, that it’s already to late, that the day is gone and it’s not worth to try, think that any brick is better than no brick at all, eventually it will become a wall.

No matter how little you think something can be, go for it.

Today, this is my brick.

Also, when I say you, it’s mostly me, but we’re all in this together 😉
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By: Futuro Exponencial
Tags: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Technology

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(141) Faded
By: Classical Sass
Tags: Care, Loss, Memory, Love, Poetry

Morning hit, again, like always, but this time the breeze from my window to my side-turned cheek didn’t sting my eyes to filmy retreat.

Morning hit and that breeze glanced the half of my neck that turned and lilted towards the light; casually intimate across my suddenly reaching skin.

Morning hit with a burst of sameness, of smells like rich coffee and mulch draped dogs and homemade laundry detergent in the fibers of my blanket under my chin.

Morning hit with all the intentions that so easily filled my head with loathing. It traipsed through my slow blinking life and left oblivion drenched footprints in the soil of my need, my heart, that had waited for such release since mornings started hitting.

Morning hit, and I found I cared less; I could trot or skulk through my sun robed moments, and my gait would still be mine on the other end of my experience.

Morning hit like that and then

It took it all away; the sun and the breeze and my walk.

It was gone and I was left in memory

My hands wrapped around the infinite roiling ache of a care

I used to have.
Digital Discovery 101: How to Technically Evaluate a Website
By: Brad Yale
Tags: Web Development, Heuristics, Website Evaluation, UX, Digital Marketing

Be it for a new or an existing client, proactively assessing the front and back end issues of a website will help to keep that website fresh, fast, and error free. To do this, you should be running a heuristic evaluation of the platform — UX, pathways, content, linking pathways etc. — and a technical evaluation of the platform — meta content, site structure, alt text, speed, coding issues, script load errors etc.

For the sake of this article, we are going to tackle five how to elements of technical website evaluations to learn what to look when under the hood.

1. Rip Apart the Infrastructure to Map the Bones

First things first, get yourself a copy of Screaming Frog. For those of you who do not know, Screaming Frog is an excellent web spider tool which has the definitive goal of analyzing the back end technical infrastructure of a website. Screaming Frog will allow you to evaluate:

Meta Content (Title Tags, Descriptions, Alt Text, H1 — H6)

Status Codes (200, 301, 404, 505 etc.)

Image Libraries (Source, Destination, Alt Text)

Internal and External Linking Structures

Site Depth and Width

Site Speed

Website Content Based on URL Page Source

Although the tool is older than Moz, SEMRush and the like, think of Screaming Frog as your ability to apply the Google indexation algorithm directly to a single website. It is your tool to index and make sense of infrastructural bones of a platform.
The Crocodile And The Ant
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Wildlife, Jude The Animal Expert, Animals, Fiction, Humor

It hardly seems likely that an ant and a crocodile would become friends. But many strange things happen in the wild that humans never see. Unless you are an animal expert and a master of camouflage like I am. This is one of those stories.

There was an ant who found himself alone and homeless. He wandered the Savana in search of other ants and a new home. He walked and walked and walked for hours. One hundred feet later, he still hadn’t found any other ants. But he found himself at the edge of a river.

As he pondered what to do, a snout and pair of eyes popped up from the river — a crocodile. The crocodile noticed the ant and swam over to him. The ant was not afraid. He was much too small for the crocodile to consider eating.

The crocodile asked the ant, “You appear to be in some sort of quandary. Is there anything I can do to help?”

This was unusual. Most crocodiles are anti-social when it comes to other species.

The ant answered, “I am alone and homeless. I am looking for another colony to join. I was wondering if there might be one on the other side of this river.”

“Only one way to find out. Climb on,” the crocodile said.

“That is very kind of you,” the ant said and climbed onto the crocodile’s back. Then the ant started walking toward the crocodile’s head.

“That tickles,” the crocodile said. “But I like it.”

As the crocodile swam across the river with the ant on his back, he asked the ant, “Are you hungry?”

“Indeed, I am.”

“Let’s stop at my place. I have some sugar cubes that I found in a human camp that suddenly emptied out when I showed up.”

“That sounds tasty.”

So the pair rested by the shore and ate some sugar cubes.

“I’m not an ant, and you are not a crocodile, but you are welcome to stay here with me as long as you like. I could use some different conversation. All the other crocodiles ever talk about is what they ate that day. How dull. I would be delighted to hear about an ant’s life. Plus, I enjoy the tickling sensation of you walking on my back.”

“As I have no other place to go at the moment, and would enjoy hearing about a crocodile’s life experiences, I will accept your offer. And I do enjoy a good sugar cube.”

So it was settled. The unlikely duo became fast friends.

Several weeks later, as they were swimming down the river, the ant hollered — he pretty much had to, ants voices are really quiet, “That’s him!”

“Who?” The crocodile asked.

“The aardvark who tore open my anthill and ate all my friends. I was the sole survivor of the attack.”

“Hold on,” the crocodile said.

The crocodile swam quickly toward shore, leaped out of the water, and in a single motion, opened his mouth and swallowed the aardvark.

After gulping the aardvark down, the crocodile said, “Not bad. A little dry.”

“Wow,” the ant said. “I wasn’t expecting that.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Revenge is sweet. But not as sweet as sugar cubes. There’s another human camp up ahead. Let’s go get some more cubes.”

“Good idea. I could go for some dessert.”

That’s the way of the wild.

— Jude The Animal Expert Dude
If You Wanna Be My Lover, You Gotta Get With These Unrealistic Expectations
By: Dani Mahrer
Tags: Dating, Satire, Love, Relationships, Humor

If You Wanna Be My Lover, You Gotta Get With These Unrealistic Expectations

“How am I still single?” you ask. Let me explain the ways.

Photo by Everton Vila on Unsplash

1. Must love kids, but not really want them.

I don’t trust people that don’t like kids and I don’t completely trust myself to have them. On the off chance we do have little baby alien humans, you must be a magnificent father because I will be a mediocre mother at best.

2. Must be over 5’8’’ even though I’m under 5’3’’.

It’s important that I feel like a little spoon at all times, which requires at least a five-inch height difference. This will allow me to gain a bit of weight (something I can do but you probably shouldn’t) and still feel small in comparison.

3. Can’t be religious but should be comfortable with my overwhelming Jewishness.

We don’t believe in God in this relationship, but we do believe in generational guilt, brisket, and saying “Did you know that he/she is Jewish?” every time a member of the tribe makes an appearance on our television screen.

4. Be into me, but not THAT into me.

On a scale of Rihanna’s “Only Girl (In the World)” to Rihanna’s “Work,” you better make me work, work, work, work, work for your love and attention. I don’t make the rules. My years of unexamined attachment issues do.

5. Attractive, but objectively less so than me.

We should be in the same bracket of hotness, but I’m above you (not height-wise — see expectation #2). Your friends should think “wow, how did you land such a beautiful girl?” while still recognizing that our attractiveness levels are fairly compatible. Make sense?

6. Athletic, but I should be able to beat you at sports.

You can be better than me at one sport as long as it’s not soccer, tennis, or skiing. Those are all sports that you should be good at, by the way.

7. Smart, but not in a way that makes me feel stupid.

I went to a mid-level UC school but maybe could have gotten into Berkeley if I had tried harder. I’ll need you to meet me at about that same level. I’d love it if you taught me things about the world but if you ever respond to my lack of knowledge with a condescending “You don’t know…/ haven’t heard of…” I’ll push you into the rising sea levels of the Pacific Ocean.

8. Outdoorsy, but not in an aggressive way.

I need someone who likes to hike but doesn’t insist on camping, who rock climbs but understands I’d rather not, and who wears Patagonia, but not exclusively.

9. Loves dogs, specifically the exact kind of dog that I want.

A medium-sized Australian Shepherd rescue named Riggins who will love me more than he loves you even though you will be doing most of the care-taking.

10. Great sense of humor, but not as funny as me.

If you could write a funnier version of this list then it’s just not going to work out.
Double Gratitude
By: Jon Bell
Tags: Expat, Immigrants, New Zealand

Double Gratitude

We loved it here, and then Covid happened

We had only been in New Zealand about nine months before returning to Seattle for the first time. Our friends were naturally curious. Was New Zealand as awesome as they heard? Were we happy we did it? Should they move too? They were eager to hear every detail, and we obliged.

But questions like that can lead to awkward answers. There’s a fine line between loving Wellington and implying that we don’t love Seattle. It’s easy to celebrate all the things we love, but hard not to slip into comparisons that might be hurtful. We loved Seattle, and still do, but Wellington fits us better.

So I found myself pointing out New Zealand’s flaws as a way to avoid mentioning America’s. I’d stress that there’s no Amazon and watch my friend’s jaw drop. But I’d be thinking “I am happier in a world where I can’t buy anything I want on Amazon at any time. And I have less crap in my house.” Or I’d point out how the build quality of the houses is really poor, and let my friends feel better about their decision to stay in the States. That was a much easier conversation to have.
TBX Investment Farming Launched!
Tags: Tokenbox, Cryptocurrency, Trading, Tbxnews, Portfolio Management

Hello, Tokenboxers!

It is always a pleasure to be rewarded for your actions! Whether it’s a cashback or a referral program.

We decided to take the best of both models!

Now each purchase of tokens of any Portfolio will be awarded a 5% reward in the form of TBX tokens. This can be described as a “Investment Farming” — you can benefit from the performance of the chosen Portfolio and at the same time enjoy a cashback in TBX tokens!

Simply buy tokens of any Portfolio from the https://app.tokenbox.io/marketplace and TBX will be instantly credited to your account! By the way, Portfolio managers can’t be awarded for investments into their own Portfolios.

Moreover, you can also earn from investments of your friends and community! We are glad to present you our new referral program that will start on November 10 !

All you need is to register on Tokenbox and go to the Refer-a-friend section. Get and share your referral link via social networks. Earn TBX tokens — you will receive TBX tokens for each investment to Portfolios that your friend will make. Right, 1% in form of TBX tokens for you and 5% for your friend! The only limit is that one participant can’t earn more than 20 000 TBX per month.

Save up your TBX tokens to get a discount on trading fees or use them to create a Portfolio to earn more as a Portfolio manager!
Will investing in cloud companies continue to be profitable?
By: Jonny Fry
Tags: Equity, Sme, Blockchain, Investing, Cloud

2 min video reviewing the performance of the FANNGS and the stocks dominating cloud computing that could out perform them.

Many people are familiar with the outstanding performance of the small group pf US equities called the FANNGs- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google indeed in 2020 the FANNGs are up 46% compared to the S&P which has risen by 13% Arguably these shares rode the wave of the internet and growth of people using mobile devices in their lives for business, shopping and social interactions.

Now asset managers beleive cloud computing is the next investment mega trend and its impact is especially relevant for SMEs who have been quick to adopt this technology As we know SMEs are a very important part of the global economy. For example: “98% of the construction chain in Europe is composed of SMEs and micro-enterprises. And this number doesn’t deviate significantly across regions.” According to Statista, in Spain there are 15,000 firms that employ 50 to 249 staff yet 2.6 million that employ up 10 people.

It is interesting to see that the band of firms that are being tipped to be the next place to invest and instead of FANNGs are the MTSASS — Microsoft, Twilio, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, and Shopify and they are all are engaged in using Blockchain technology with in their business. This alternative to the FANNGs have increased in value by over 100% in 2020 but some believe that they have much further to go.

Without a doubt globally we are becoming more digitised in terms of how we socialise, work and its increasingly reliance by corporations and governments. We are seeing greater a use of technology and digital assets fuelling not just payments but as a mechanism to change and reward people’s so there is likely to be an ongoing need for ever greater cloud computing power.

Contrarian investors may ignore tech and look at some of the energy of banking ETFs which have performed so badly this year such as Energy — 30% or European Financials -17%

Source Just ETF

This is designed to be thought provoking and not to offer investment advice seek independent professional advice before investing.

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GirlScript Summer Of Code: My 3 months long journey
By: Ajay Sharma
Tags: Github, Open Source, Gssoc, Software Development

First of all, before I get started with my experience, let me share a little bit about what GirlScript Summer Of Code is all about -

What is GirlScript Summer Of Code?

GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month long Open Source program during summers conducted by GirlScript Foundation, with an aim to help beginners get started with Open Source Development.

source:- Google

Is it only for girls?

No, don’t be sad at the name if you are a boy. This programme is open to participants of all genders.

So, let’s get started with my journey:-

How I came to know about GSSoC?

It was through LinkedIn when I saw the profile of one of my senior, Kunal Kushwaha. I asked my queries related to GSSoC from him and he encourages me to apply for it. Being in the first year, I was not sure about my selection. Two weeks had passed, and I didn’t get any mail regarding my selection. I was really upset. And it was the day when I was talking to Kunal Kushwaha bhaiya regarding not getting any mail for my selection, that I received a mail from GirlScript Organisation :-

😁My happiness knows no bound on that D-day. It was the day when I got a chance to interact with some creative minds of such a great community.

Community Bonding Period -

During this period, I learned about Git, Github, how an Open Source Organisation works and how we can contribute to such organisations.

GSSoC Begins-

Initially, I was a little bit confused about which projects to actually get started with. But then, I choose two projects to work upon throughout the GSSOC,

1.Algo DS Notes ( Collection of algorithms and data structures in various programming languages )

2.Cosmos ( Cosmos is an umbrella project at OpenGenus that deals with Algorithms and Data S.. )

Being a newbie in Open Source, It was a little bit difficult for me to create my first pull request but through the guidance of my project’s mentor, Aditya I. Chatterjee, I was able to successfully create and merge my pull request. Although It was a little contribution but It meant a lot for me. Then I tried to make some effective contribution to the organisation. I implemented some difficult algorithms like Fenwick tree, Longest common subsequence, Exponential search and the list goes on. I learnt a lot by reading and implementing these algorithms. I also tried to write a technical blog for the OpenGenus organisation.

At the end, I only want to say that this was a great learning experience for me. Throughout this wonderful journey, I learnt some new tech stacks, learnt how a community works, and how open source contributions are actually made. I get the guidance of some really great mentors, and fellow participants.

Thanks to GirlScript Organisation for giving me such a wonderful opportunity.

😅Wait Wait….

I forgot to mention that the results are still not announced. And the scheduled date for the results is 15 June. So, I am eagerly waiting for that also. As the top participants get some exciting goodies and opportunities.😍

Be safe and Be happy…
Let’s make a crypto heist movie: 3 To The Moon, 3 Rekt
By: Will O Leary
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Crypto, Bitcoin

Future crypto action movie star, Michael B. Jordan.

Things generally seem to be looking up. Spring has sprung. Bitcoin is over $9,000 as I write this. Amazon is doing crypto things, which is music to the ears of a half-man-half-crypto-half-cloud being like me.

To The Moon

I’m very cool with this — I think of Verge tying itself directly to another industry that is historically panned as vice to be similar to jumping into a lake head first instead of wading into the water. If you believe that the adult industry is a technology bellwether, which is historically accurate, then things are definitely looking up for crypto. I will say that the oh-so-timely rumor leaking around this announcement was a pretty clear pump-and-dump scheme from this perspective, and Verge’s price has fluctuated, lending credence to the idea that some selling pressure deflated any hope that hodlers had of a major spike. That’s dirty pool and really pissed off a handful of Verge-stans that I know personally. That said, however you feel about adult entertainment, PornHub is a major, lawful brand in its industry that just validated privacy tokens. Think about that the next time you doubt whether this stuff is here to stay.

Had this discussion with some friends recently — why hasn’t some major film studio leaked that it’s working on a bitcoin heist movie yet? This Iceland story seems like easy plot fodder. While we’re on the subject, here’s my cast, inspired by true events:

Cool mastermind crypto thief who toys with investigators: Oscar Isaac

Veteran lead detective with a chip on her shoulder who only works alone: Olivia Wilde

Millenial rookie detective who nips at lead detective’s heels but has tons of potential and knows crypto: Michael B. Jordan

Friend who snitches on crypto thief under police pressure: Michael Cera

Retired cop father of lead detective who doesn’t understand what all the crypto fuss is about but is proud of his daughter anyway: Clint Eastwood

Budget: 21,505 Bitcoin

Title: Doge Day Afternoon — Rated R

It’s the “in response to client interest” piece that I’m excited about. We know that all of the big banks who hated crypto months ago will become lovers before long, or risk disruption. This is the kind of thing that gives me confidence that a new wave of adopters with stronger convictions than what we experienced during the Moonshot of late 2017. No one is getting rich if everyone that enters is just looking for the fire escape. This would seem to be an underlying indicator of a stronger, more durable upturn than what we saw late last year.
Application of Gradient Boosting in Order Book Modeling
By: Sergey Malchevskiy
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Towards Data Science, Stock Market, Trading

What is an Order Book?

An order book is an electronic list of buy and sell orders for a specific security or financial instrument organized by price level. An order book lists the number of shares being bid or offered at each price point, or market depth. Market depth data helps traders determine where the price of a particular security could be heading. For example, a trader may use market depth data to understand the bid-ask spread for a security, along with the volume accumulating above both figures. Securities with strong market depth will usually have strong volume and be quite liquid, allowing traders to place large orders without significantly affecting market price. More information is here.

Pricing scheme

Market depth looks like this, visualization could be different and it depends on software

BTC market depth on GDAX

Another way to visualize order books is a list with bids and offers

Order book list

Mid-price is the price between the best price of the sellers of the stock or commodity offer price or ask price and the best price of the buyers of the stock or commodity bid price. It can simply be defined as the average of the current bid and ask prices being quoted.

Our goal is to create a model that forecasts the mid-price.
Friendship and Its Obstacles
By: Sofia Paz
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Friendship, Love, Memories

unforgettable

about friendship and its obstacles

We met in the schoolyard when times weren’t as hard. You’re a talker, I’m a listener so, it felt just right!

Illustration by Sofia Paz-D’África

Our conversations were endless, always filled with exciting things. Together, we weren’t afraid to laugh at ourselves. We didn’t fear the obstacles

in our way because we could always count on each other!

Illustration by Sofia Paz-D’África

However, as time went by, you met other people…I wasn’t mad about that, it’s only natural. But you slowly began to neglect our friendship.

Illustration by Sofia Paz-D’África

Regardless of the disappointment, I never stopped loving you! My very first friend, the one whose arms sheltered me when my world fell apart.

Life changed in several ways and so have we. Yet, the memories of our wonderful friendship will last forever!
Sabi
By: Alyssa Nicole Maaño
Tags: Animals, Poem, Cats, Pets, Poetry

Poetry

Sabi

A poem for a stray cat

Photo by Kazuky Akayashi on Unsplash

Uknown town, foreign paths

A foreign tongue and unfamiliar faces

Terribly alone, seeking sanctuary

In the cracks of my mind

Lonely walks at daytime

The sun-facing window is my friend

I see the neighborhood cats

Sunbathing on the crimson roof

But of all the felines I’ve seen

The darkest shade of black

Caught my attention

Possibly abandoned

She lives outside a grocery store

Purring at the customers

Along with two others

I called her ‘Sabi’

Took her in my arms

Without protest

Just green eyes staring back

Every day I would visit her

With leftovers and a big smile

Until one day she disappeared

Searched under cars

Still, there was no sign

Nothing left behind

Except for crumbs of old bread

And confusion

Three days went by

I comforted myself

At the thought of her

In a new home

Left for the city in grief

I called every black cat ‘Sabi’ ever since
Fatwa dan Fatwa
By: Gatot Priambodo
Tags: Budaya, Indonesia, Gusmus, Fatwa, Islam

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‘Hair Love’ Oscar Shows a Route to Better Representation in Hollywood
Tags: Kickstarter, Film, Oscars

‘Hair Love’ Oscar Shows a Route to Better Representation in Hollywood

The big win for the short film is an inspiring bridging of popular demand and critical acclaim.

Last night at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards, Hair Love took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short, becoming the third Kickstarter-funded film to win an Academy Award. Hair Love’s journey to the Oscars started with a Kickstarter campaign in 2017, with nearly 5,000 backers pledging $284,058 to help make director Matthew Cherry’s film about an African-American dad learning to do his daughter’s hair.

When the Hair Love team took the stage to claim their Oscar, thousands of fans around the world — including so many of their Kickstarter backers — took to Twitter to celebrate the moment. It also continued the conversation about the voices and stories that are too often overlooked by Hollywood. Matthew and many other creators come to Kickstarter because it’s a place where people — not studio executives — can have a say in what stories get told.

Here, we share some highlight commentary from fans celebrating the win:

What else can we make together? Check out upcoming Kickstarter films you can back today.
Free Your Spirit
By: Abigael Taiwo
Tags: Self, Poetry On Medium, Race, Poetry, Women

Photo by Leighann Blackwood on Unsplash

Let out your hair

Free every single curl

That waited like caged birds

Unsettled, never silent

Paint your face

With the tears of the men

You left behind

Drape yourself in the blood

Your body shed

Without consent

Dance in the storm

That carried away your dreams

Bask in the light

That you shone upon your fears

And wear the darkness

Like 90 denier tights

Ready to win yet

Another fight

Now spread

Your wings

Take the step

And watch yourself

Fly.

© 2020 Abigael Taiwo. All rights reserved.
Mengadopsi ide-ide besar yang paling potensial ke dalam sebuah storyboard
By: Rizki Mardita
Tags: Storyboard, UI, Prototype, Flow, UX

Come up with a game plan before creating something

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Deep Learning Memory Usage and Pytorch optimization tricks
By: Quentin Febvre
Tags: Memory Usage, Optimization, Pytorch, Deep Learning, Machine Learning

Backpropagation of the gradients and the chain rule

Now even some layer without any learnable parameters need to store some data! This is because we need to backpropagate the error back to the input and we do this thanks to the chain rule:

Chain rule:(a_i being the activations of the layer i)

The culprit in this equation is the derivative of the input w.r.t the output. Depending on the layer, it will

be dependent on the parameters of the layer (dense, convolution…)

be dependent on nothing (sigmoid activation)

be dependent on the values of the inputs: eg MaxPool, ReLU …

For example, if we take a ReLU activation layer, the minimum information we need is the sign of the input.

Different implementations can look like:
On Solid Rock, I Stand
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Poetry, Life, Aging, Love, LGBTQ

On Solid Rock, I Stand

An Experiment

“I’ve been a drifter before,” she starts.

She likes to remind us of her past — likes

to tell us of her hard times and just how

much growth has taken place since

the last blow to her heart or to her mind.

We stand around. We look at her.

In awe of an elder who has been around

the world many times, we sink into

the conversation.

“I’m hard. I’m soft. I’m everything

in between. And on solid rock, I stand —

waiting for my life’s journey to

complete. I’ve lived long enough.

I’ve loved long enough. I’ve had my

fill. I’m ready to step forward into

my new life — an afterlife away from

this now.”

We’re captivated by her. A sea of memories

floods her brain and one by one, she

spits them out toward us. I find

myself reaching out into thin air,

prepared to capture a thought — a gift.

She is steadfast. Unshakeable. Immovable.

Even in these golden years, she’s sharp —

her quick quips will outwit anyone

up against her.

Her lover, a woman of Asian descent, passed

on two years ago. She combs her hair — reaches

for the brush, then strokes her head gently.

She reminisces . . . there are stories of

their first date — laughter fills the room.

I can see how happy she is as she speaks of

Cara — that was her name.

Brief pauses accompany our exchange

the moon seeps in and dances —

attention-seeking.

She doesn’t miss a beat. Before I leave,

I know everything there is to know

about Cara and how loved she was by

this rock of a woman who will never,

could never, and would never

give up.

“I was your age once. I didn’t live

as well and as much as I should have.

Don’t be like me. Be bold enough to

shout at life when it angers you and

step into its grip even when you’re

afraid. Don’t be like me. Don’t. Be more.”

I made a promise.

I make a promise.

I am more.
Terrifying Halloween Costume Ideas For Asian-American Kids
Tags: Humor, Asian American, Parenting, Halloween, Illustration

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Release Dates — Community update #5
By: Crypto Bobermo
Tags: Wispr, Crypto, Messenger, Blockchain

Dear Wispr community,

Finally we can update you with firm dates for the coming period, in chronological order:

4 June 2018:

Wispr wallet v0.3 will become available for WSP owners. This update incorporates our long awaited Wispr Masternodes. A full features list:

* Added masternodes.

* Implemented the Zerocoin protocol.

* Implemented Dash's "Sporks" feature.

* Refactored and cleaned-up pretty much all code.

* Improved serveral build processes including Travis & Circle-CI integration.

* Refactored QT to be compatible with all new features.

* Added additional checkpoints.

* Added more hardcoded seednodes.

11 June 2018:

The launch of our new website, including translations for the following languages: Dutch, Portuguese and Korean. Other languages are planned and will include the ability for our community to earn WSP bounties by helping us translate. Details will follow.

Translations

18 June 2018:

Our new roadmap will be published. Since the start of this project we have learned a lot about time management and how delicate blockchain programming can be. Because of this we will adjust our roadmap to prevent further delays and disappointments in the future.

25 June 2018:

On this date we will publish the Wispr Whitepaper containing all the details, both fundamental and technical, about the Wispr project. Releasing our whitepaper will increase our visibility in the quickly changing cryptocurrency environment greatly! Subjects that will be covered include a detailed analysis of the messenger application market, secured messaging made possible by Wispr and a technical description by our developers.

2 July 2018:

A scheduled hard fork of the Wispr blockchain to activate Masternode’s and the new block rewards. In June we will post a dedicated blogpost regarding this subject including background information and how to’s to make sure you are ready for the fork.

9 July 2018:

Scheduled release date of our completely custom Electron wallet. Our developers have been working on this since Q1 and we promise you, the end result will be absolutely stunning, both in looks and features.

Wispr Electron Wallet

Other:

Besides all these dates we are very proud that Wispr was included in the “Startup Landscape of Blockchain in the Netherlands 2018” by Deloitte. You can find the tweet here.

We would like to conclude with a massive thank you towards our awesome community! As you can see a lot of good things are coming in the upcoming weeks, just bear with us a little bit longer!

Please follow us on Telegram, Twitter, Facebook and Discord and be sure to spread our story to everyone you know!

Greetings,

The Wispr team

www.wispr.tech
Caught off guard @ Domi
By: Ayanna Chukes
Tags: Data Visualization

With two weeks worth of experience working at Domi Station under my belt, I have learned to expect the unexpected. Although there were quite a few notifications about expecting future deadlines and preparations for future events, I never expected for my first ever project deadline to sneak up on me the way it did. Since the interviewing process, I already knew what would be a few of the projects I would have in store for me, and I was up to complete every task as efficiently as I could without having everything pile up on the back-burner. I knew I would have to update the community metrics, research possible data visualizations to replace their current platform, and work a few tasks that mostly involved organizing/formatting spreadsheets, web pages, and their data management platform.

It took me by surprise to find out that their records were behind so not only did I finish mapping out and reformatting the community metrics with what I thought was updated information, but I was working with the wrong month. This unforeseen issue made the problem that I worked so hard to avoid inevitably happen. I absolutely felt slightly anxious that I wouldn’t be able to have everything by the submission deadline as I tend to overreact when deadlines are involved. However, I ended up surprising myself and managed to not only finish both metrics on time, but I also found and formatted three new data visualization platforms, and was able to set up a meeting for a new database management platform.

I was also able to find out something new about myself when it comes to performing supervised versus unsupervised. Unsupervised my work is effortless, but when I am being watched I tend to overthink my actions and end up botching my delivery both verbally and physically(through many trial table tennis games and presentations) no matter how much I prepare beforehand. I finally put my foot down because I am so sick of letting my nerves control me, I have been trying to force myself to speak and start conversations that I normally would not do as well as going above and beyond in all my tasks as a beginning to becoming the confident leader I always imagined myself being.

My final surprise for the week was learning that the Big Bend Minority Chamber of Commerce took an interest in me from seeing posts on Facebook and contacted Antonio Montoya, the Director of Domi Station, about inviting me to participate in a summer camp for young entrepreneurs. In summation, this week has been an emotional rollercoaster.
Lost the battle. Winning the war?
By: Keith R. Higgons
Tags: 100 Naked Words, Short Story, Fiction, 100 Words, Very Short Story

April 2003

“I joined the Marines.”

“YOU DID WHAT?!” Katherine howled.

That was not quite the reaction I’d anticipated.

“Why, would you do that?”

“What else am I doing?”

“Well, Steve, you’re not FUCK-ING DYING.”

We had talked about marriage …but 9/11 changed everything.

Katie began shaking her head: “When do you leave?”

“Two weeks.”

“Jesus, Steve.”

I had to work and hand in my notice, and when I came home from my shift, our five-year relationship had been reduced to a one-page note on the table.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Internet of Things, Humor, Comic, Saturday

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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[DEX] People making Ionia DEX — Holder-
Tags: Exchange, Blockchain

This is IONIA :)

In Ionia DEX, there are several types of participants for trading, which is the original function of the exchange.

Maker

Taker

Holder

They form a deal at Ionia DEX.

The exchange will move.

You can see in previous posts about the role of makers and takers.

I’m going to talk about the holder today.

What role does Holder play in Ionia DEX?

Holder

: IONIA DEX does not deal in crypto currency, but a user who stores/manages cryptog currency in Multiwallet IONIA.

For example

Although it has various crypto asset by purchasing cryptocurrency through various exchanges, it is a user who uses multi-wallet Ionia to manage them as assets in one place in anticipation of future value.

They don’t sell at Ionia DEX, but they’re the ones who can participate in Ionia DEX at any future time.
How Do I Love You? Let Me, Ross Gillespie, Senior Marketing Analytics Specialist, Count the Ways
By: Jim Kuenzer
Tags: Dating, Satire, Analytics, Office Romance, Humor

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Am I gaining traction with you, Donna? For you are gaining traction with me.

I’ll never forget that first memo you sent. You remember the memo, in re optimizing acquisition channels vis a vis a newly implemented acquisition matrix? The narrative of that memo, it took me completely offline, Donna. Completely offline. Your prose sparkled like industry-leading goal conversion rates and read like content linked directly from the pages of Fast Company.

And then I saw you. Walking, no, transitioning to a meeting in Gavin’s office. So many moving parts!

Your hair flowed like a killer app: attractive, somehow necessary, and with plenty of value-adds to leverage.

Your eyes glowed like an engaging PowerPoint presentation: dynamic and colorful, but informative and could work as a stand-alone communications piece, preferably in PDF format, though Word would suffice.

Your smile radiated like an enterprise ascending within a vertical due to bleeding edge core competencies acting as the key differentiator: unstoppable and trending.

TL;DR: my needle has been moved.

These are not boilerplate thoughts and feelings, Donna. They are emerging best practices of a co-branding effort betwixt my mind and soul.

I have to be above board with you, though, Donna: my plate is full and I have too many balls in the air! I’m in changeover for a new project which will establish us a pacesetter in our category. I’m co-chair of the Quality Circles commission. I’m in left field for our division’s softball team.

But do not fear, for my heart will find the bandwidth for your skillset.

I do have my concerns. I see you have been attending Carol’s Thursday lunch-and-learn. Why have you integrated into this scrum, Donna? You have no need for their entry level conversating! Cast away these common cubicle vultures, Donna, and let me be the change agent of your narrative!

Behold this data point: you have totally impacted my core values. Core values like collaboration, connectivity, communication — commitment.

Donna, I must disambiguate my feelings. I insist on face time with you so we may synergize our forward moving trajectories.

Will you be the co-founder of the startup I call the rest of my life?

I’ll wait while you interface with my references and colleagues. But you’ll see. Do a deep dive on my intentions (a full list of which can be found on my LinkedIn page), cascade all relevant information, and you will find my gracious space has not yet reached critical mass.

Drill down, Donna. For the love of God, Donna. Just. Drill down.

Are my learnings on brand? Or have I utilized a pain point? Will there be pushback? Run this up the flagpole, Donna. Run this up the flagpole!

I think I just felt my paradigm shift. Circle back with me if you are in agreeance.

With that being said, Donna, do I have sign-off to ping you? Let me know ASAP so that we may quickly take this venture public.
What Features a Digital Currency Must Have?
Tags: Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Digital, Currency

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