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Years and Years: Son Dönemin En İyi Mini Dizisi
By: Ozgur Aksoy
Tags: Türkçe, Gelecek, Dizi, Years And Years, Birleşik Krallık

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Cif Veri Kaparlar
By: Betul Colak
Tags: Şeffaflık, Veri Koruması, Veri

After studying the English language in the U.S., I started law school at Bahçeşehir University in 2016. I am interested in IT Law.

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Take a break before you have to — What I learned about depression, remote working and the seek of hyper-productivity
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Life Lessons, Mental Health, Depression, Remote Working, Productivity

Take a break before you have to — What I learned about depression, remote working and the seek of hyper-productivity Joseph Emmi Follow Mar 2, 2017 · 8 min read

Take a Break. Get Away. Do It Often (or before it’s too late).

That’s exactly what I did. I took a day off and I loved it, but most importantly, I just didn’t realise how much I needed it until I had it.

Time off should be an easy thing, right? Something that we all look forward to. The thing is the main thing is that I realised that I don’t tend to spend my free time like most of the people I know.

For me, free time is creation and education time. I don’t watch tv, I don’t own one, nor have a Netflix account. I start from the principle that it’s so much cool stuff to do out there, so many problems to fix, so many things to improve, and so much stuff that I want to do, that I have the firm believe that I rather be educated than entertained.

I don’t share the modern behaviours of ‘binge watching’ TV shows (I used to while in uni), just lay in bed doing nothing and drink all night, every night, every weekend. I read, write and run. Oh, and music, I listen to lots of music.

I’ll add a parenthesis here, because by no means I think I’m “perfectly” spending my time, that I’m better because of that, and that others are wasting theirs. I procrastinate, and I procrastinate a lot.

I spend hours online reading articles, that yes, might be interesting, but are not necessarily relevant to what I want to achieve or should be doing, and when they are, they immediately remind me that I should be working rather than reading, and so on, I’m a person. Some days are better than others, I’m always battling it and hoping that with time and practice I’ll get better at it.

We decide what to do with our time and life, and I’m a true believer that you do with it what you want to, and spend it as you like; just don’t complain about the outcomes, or don’t expect something different and then wonder “why?”.

So, why I’m starting with this and how are this relevant to time off and depression? I’ll tell you why.
Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps
By: Ryan Olson
Tags: Reverse Engineering, iOS, iOS App Development

I am eternally curious. A big motivation for writing the FLEX debugging tool was to explore other apps and discover how they tackle common problems. On Monday, armed with a jailbroken iPhone and an extended version of FLEX, I ran some analysis on the top 100 free apps in the US App Store.

I started by building up a database of the objective-c classes in each app. The median number of classes per app came in at 1,175. In total, the database contained over 181,000 classes. The app with the most classes had over 15 times the median. I bet you can guess which one that was ;). Each of the top 7 apps by number of classes was made by either Facebook or Google.

Next, I looked for common class names and tried to match them to open source projects and 3rd party libraries. I bucketed nearly 5,000 of the most common classes into over 100 projects.

The most used project by far was the Facebook iOS SDK which appeared in 67 of the 100 apps. Other category leaders included AFNetworking for networking (39) and Crashlytics for crash reporting (38). Several Apple sample code projects show up across many apps, with the most popular being Reachability (38). Finally, evidence of the dependency manager CocoaPods only appeared in 30 apps, indicating that many developers are still adding these projects the old fashioned way. The gist below gives the full list of projects and the number of apps each one appears in.

Exploring other apps is a great way to expand your iOS knowledge. If you’ve ever been curious about what’s in an app, I highly encourage you to dig in and find out for yourself!
HORIZEN — Concurso de Trading. ¡HORIZEN ha sido enlistado en AlteumX…
Tags: Trading, Blockhain, Latin America, Bitcoin, Ethereum

Bringing financial inclusion to Latin America by accelerating the digital adoption of blockchain technology.

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Discover Your Lipstick Personality
By: Rachael Ann Sand
Tags: Women, Self, Humor, Beauty Tips, Satire

Revolutionary Red

You are at least as bold as your lip color. You are your own boss and you answer to no one. Except your rottweiller-pitbull mix puppy. You post on social media as an advocate, march for social justice, and sidewalk chalk your heart out.

You never leave the house without your tube of lipstick, ready for reapplication before your next peaceful protest selfie. Other than making a statement with your lip color, your makeup routine is quick and easy. You have a planet to save and can’t be bothered with mascara clumps.

Bodacious Blue

You are the definition of punk. There are no pretty lip colors in your arsenal. Pretty isn’t in your vocabulary. You are a beautiful badass. You rock hard at outdoor music shows and photograph murals in your spare time. You’ve lost count of your tattoos.

For someone who fronts like she doesn’t care about her image, you spend a lot of time dying your hair pink, painting your fingernails black, and cleaning your nose ring. It takes time to present your punkiest self to the world everyday. But you don’t care what they think. You are different than those conformists, just like the other billion punks on the planet.

Naked Neutral

You are a people pleaser, content with blending into the background. Whether glossy or matte, your lip colors lack actual color. You have six volunteer shifts per week at No Cat Left Behind. Your natural beauty shines through as you attempt to tame stray cats.

You don’t spend a lot of time primping in the morning because your boss counts on you to pick up her double skim almond milk latte on the way to work. Your three rescue mutts are your best friends. They don’t care what your lips look like as long as they get to give you puppy kisses every night.

Delicate Rosé

You’re the kind of high maintenance woman who doesn’t know she’s high maintenance because your girlfriends take turns trying to outshine you. Literally. Whether it’s a sparklier diamond or whiter teeth, your gal pals have it all. You spend your husband’s money trying to look as fabulous as them. Because you deserve it, girl.

You start each day with a quick, three hour skin care and makeup routine. Your weekly appointments at the hair salon keep your roots platinum blond and your thirst for gossip quenched. You have a collection of false eyelashes in seven lengths, ranging from friendzone flirty to take-me-to-your-bedroom eyes.

Rachael Ann Sand writes about life’s lessons and experiences including educational, humorous, and personal pieces. Thought provoking, informative, and often entertaining, her writing style is infused with personality.
Charles Liu: Smart Contracts in DAG
By: Khun Sir
Tags: Vite, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Introduction

Compared to traditional Blockchain, implementing smart contracts based on a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) ledger is undoubtedly more challenging. So what exactly are these difficulties and where do they come from?

Cryptocurrency

First, let’s start with most basic scenario — cryptocurrency. The concept of a cryptocurrency is a distributed database that stores the balance information for each account. The computers running in a cryptocurrency network are referred to as Nodes. Each node stores a piece of data about the account balance, which is often referred to as State.

Unlike traditional centralized banking systems, the distributed ledger requires all nodes to reach consensus on the state. In other words, the balance for each account stored on each computer in the network is the same. Since state data may be large in certain systems, transmitting full states causes huge network overhead, therefore, in such systems only events that change states are transmitted, called Transactions. To extrapolate on this fact, your money will not increase or decrease without. The account balance will only change when you pay someone or you are paid. Therefore, as long as you have all the historical transaction records of an account, you can calculate the balance at ease.

In the cryptocurrency system, all transactions are recorded in a data structure called the ledger. The ledger is encrypted by cryptography so that each node can verify whether the data transmitted from other nodes have been tampered with. Blockchain is a classic book structure, and DAG is another.

Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrency

Here the question comes, if the ledger obtained by each node is exactly the same, are they able to calculate out the same states? First let’s look at the ledger structure of the blockchain. In this structure, all transactions are ordered. Changing the order of any two arbitrary transactions will crash the hash reference relationship of the blockchain, thus creating an invalid ledger. Therefore, starting from the same initial state no matter which node performs the calculation, the same result will always present after the same transaction sequence. Exactly perfect, isn’t it? No matter whether it is Bitcoin or Ethereum, there is no need to transfer and compare huge state data between nodes, instead, all that is necessary to do is to reach a consensus on the ledger data. The information contained in the ledger is adequate for a node to calculate the correct state.
Useless Personal Information in Graphs & Charts
By: Jason Mcbride
Tags: Life Lessons, Culture, Humor, Comics, Memoir

Fine. I’m becoming my parents. Are you happy now? But seriously, it’s not just that my eyes don’t work as well when the music is turned up — none of my cognitive functions seem to operate when the music is playing at all, and I’m trying to find a street address.

Image by Jason McBride

Who needs to sleep when there are so many things you can feel bad about that happened over two decades ago, that nobody else remembers anymore, and that probably weren’t even that big of a deal at the time? Besides, if you aren’t reliving your past in gory detail, you could always look at social media and see how awful the world is right now until your eyeballs bleed. Sleep is for suckers — and by suckers, I mean well-adjusted/medicated people.
An Astrolhabian Conjection
By: Van Sanders
Tags: Poetry, Nonsense

It came in an apple pantry. The back of the casket was brushed brown and worn. Jason had cramped up in the culvert. It was the rainiest crack we ever set foot in just to touch nubs. Wet nubs trapped by the flock we burped out that morning.

Paint dripped off my chin like tears onto a credit sweep. There are two kinds of nuptial — verificationist and sucking. Radio Brad just carved up his mother and farted into a syrup pack attack. Artisanal hair clubs become the best spots in a few years.

Deer naked appropriations fucking jacked my basket homie last week. Cream over these crumbs Jackie… I want to make it all the way into home cricket by Jamuary.

It’s the sooner wolf fills out Mark Jacket and rodeos drab gun story for the lady to bore. Dork is ashamed and warm.

Teething Sheeba doinks a Bowl-Grown BogBoy right the fuck in front of her gramparempts and haugty cracker smackers, just to point rays around around.

Zagagog shelving.
Litecoin Joins Bitcoin With Mainnet Lightning Network Purchases
Tags: Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Litecoin

On April 20, 2018, ecurrencyhodler bought 1 month’s worth of reddit gold and tipped Loshan1212 through Bitrefill with Litecoin on the Lightning Network.

However, this isn’t the first Litecoin transaction to occur on the LN. Bitrefill confirmed that an anonymous individual paid to refill their pre-paid phone earlier in the month of March. Nevertheless, these two purchases are significant in that it marks the second cryptocurrency to join Bitcoin on the LN via main net.

Often described to as Bitcoin’s “younger brother”, Litecoin is able to join the Lightning Network so quickly because of how closely its development has followed in the steps of Bitcoin. In fact, every LN node that runs either the lnd or c-lightning implementation automatically has Litecoin support built in.

By having both Bitcoin and Litecoin support readily available for these clients, it is fairly easy for businesses to accept Lightning Network payments from both currencies. For example Billfodl, a steel wallet company, is another business that manually processes both Bitcoin and Litecoin invoices on the Lightning Network with c-lightning.

Other advantages of Lightning Network clients supporting both currencies also include easily ported business logic tools for Litecoin. For example, joaodealmeida94 announced back in the end of march the release of a woocommerce plug-in payment gateway for the lnd client.

This hasn’t been the only time Litecoin has benefitted from maintaining such a close relationship to Bitcoin. As a matter of fact, this was one of the primary reasons Abra decided to choose Litecoin as its new underlying asset class for the exchange.
Take Me to Shanghai
By: Guac Magazine Editors
Tags: Photo Editing, Photography, Nostalgia, Shanghai, Moving On

To me, photo editing has some intriguing parallels to human memories. Upon encountering a person or traveling to a location, we do not inscribe exactly how they are in our mind. Consciously or unconsciously, we instead remember an impression of those people and places, shaped under the influences of subjective perceptions.

While some may argue that editing strips away the authenticity of photography, I believe its purpose extends beyond enhancing mere visual appeals. As soon as you touch the shutter button, you capture a moment from an angle that belongs to you, and only you. But when fine-tuning the photos, you reconstruct your unique perceptions so that the rest of the world gets to see it through your lens. The still images become alive with your memories, thoughts, and emotions, desiring to resonate with the audience.

For quite a while, these ideas remained at the back of my mind. It was not until I came across a shot of Shanghai, my hometown, that I truly grasped the tangible connections between perception, memory, and photography.

Photo by Eric Van Nynatten

At first sight, the picture was just an ordinary shot of a nameless street in the city. But an indescribable sense of familiarity hit me at a vulnerable spot, my nostalgia spilling all over the floor.

Maybe it was the backlit silhouettes of hasty passengers that reminded me of the crowded commute to my grandmother’s home that did it for me. Maybe it was the fragments of the rosy dusk, faintly glowing through the crevices between skyscrapers, exactly like the marshmallow sky I used to stare at while daydreaming about my life beyond junior high. Or perhaps it was the damp, shining surface of the macadam road. Gazing at those puddles of rain, I could almost smell the humidity of Shanghai’s drizzling June.

Although these elements also appear universally in other urban landscapes, the subtle ambiance of this picture engulfed them in a distinct air of Shanghai.

Clarity and sharpness is just right — neutral, enough to show the details but not too much Saturation — makes the light pop against the warm tones of city lights Saturated light balanced by the overall gentle, rosy tint and temperature

Almost six years after moving to the States, I thought my wistful sentiments for the city that I was born and raised in had faded long ago. Upon seeing this photo, however, I realized that every bit and piece of the city still breathes so much life in my headspace. I miss Shanghai as much as I did on the day I left.
OUTLANDER, 3.7 — ‘Crème de Menthe’
By: Frank Collins
Tags: Culture, Television, Review, Outlander, TV

However, Jamie knows Claire’s heart is in the right place, and after she apologies for causing so much trouble, he tells her “I’m grateful you’re here, no matter the cost.” His life seems to have purpose again since her return, even if he’s withholding information that’s bound to have a profound effect on their relationship. Meanwhile, Sir Percival and his one-eyed associate Harry Tompkins (Ian Reddington) have been thwarted in their search of Madame Jeanne’s (Cyrielle Debreuil) basement. Nothing there save a puddle of water.

Claire visits Margaret and Archibald Campbell. Though Claire considers Margaret’s suffering from mental illness, Campbell believes his sister’s a seer. As a way of earning money, he translates her babbling predictions for those who have a desire to listen. She warns him not to continue to treat her with laudanum as it is too strong and, when he announces they are due to sail to the West Indies, she recommends their diet include plenty of fresh fruit. Again, this is a brief scene but it introduces two characters we’ll be seeing more of…

Troubled by Jamie’s hand-to-mouth existence above the brothel, his dodgy smuggling, and seditious publishing, Claire has a pipe dream that they work to get their own home together. She can set up as a healer and contribute to their earnings even though most of Jamie’s are sent on to Lallybroch. They’re interrupted by the arrival of young Ian’s father (Steven Cree), desperately searching for his runaway son. It precipitates a tangled web of lies. Ian is shocked to see Claire alive and she offers the now ubiquitous white lie that she left for the Colonies, certain that Jamie was dead. Jamie lies to him, too, denying that he’s set eyes upon the young Ian, and it raises Claire’s suspicions about why he is lying to his own family. As Ian leaves, he asks Jamie privately how Claire took the news. What this news is is revealed at the end of the episode.

When Claire presses Jamie on the matter, a huge row ensues. It’s been due, of course, as there are still some sore points for Jamie to process about how Claire raised Brianna (he’s still going on about that bloody bikini), whether she was ever in love with Frank, and concerns about his own parenting skills. Jamie would be in a fine mess if he’d confessed to the elder Ian that his son was now embroiled in smuggling, but Claire reminds him he has a responsibility to Jenny and Ian as they are clearly worried about what their son’s up to. “You’re not Ian’s father,” she tells him and, in his crude defence, he retorts “no, I’m Brianna’s father and I didn’t get to raise her.” Ouch. However, before blunt objects can be hurled across the room, news reaches Jamie that the print shop is ablaze.
The power of holding cryptopia gems!
By: Alex Balingit
Tags: Trading, Crypto, Cryptopia, Bitcoin, Power

I’m on the computer every single day. I’m always scanning the markets, looking at charts, and managing my portfolio.

This gets confused by some people and I get placed into the category of a day trader. Big misunderstanding here!

My style of trading is called swing trading.

Swing trading is making a trade and holding it overnight, at the very least. I’m ‘swinging’ the position into the next day. That’s the definition at a minimum.

When I take a position, I have the intention of holding it for several days, weeks, or even months!

Cryptopia plays I will hold onto longer than any other exchange. I buy these coins with the intention of holding them for several months. I buy, I hold, and I forget about them!

Here we have Litecoin Ultra. The low cap coin I picked out on Cryptopia back in September & shared here in the Facebook group.

I only put .03 BTC into this play. It was Bitcoin I could afford to lose! This coin could have easily drained my investment and gone to 0. It’s a risk I was willing to take because I know the reward is FAR GREATER than the risk on these plays.

Small caps can be fun to hunt for!

I’ve narrowed down a list of what to look for when going Gem Hunting on Cryptopia…

1. Look for coins with a MINIMUM of 250k Market Cap

2. Lower the supply, the better. I look for UNDER 50M

3. The 24hr volume should be at LEAST 2% of the total marketcap

I won’t giveaway all my secrets, but this should help as a general guide!

I share all my tips, tricks, and secrets in the course & in the chatroom. Join us here: cryptotraderspro.com

Small caps can produce massive gains, just be aware of the risks. These generally have low liquidity, so don’t throw much into these plays.

What are some ultra small caps that you’ve profited big on in the past?

Share some coins & Post your PROFITS!
10 Movies To Get You Coding Again
Tags: Dev Movies, Movies For Developers, The Andela Way, Motivation, Movies

10 Movies To Get You Coding Again

If there is one thing most developers have in common, it has to be the fact that they sometimes lack motivation. And no wonder. The projects most developers have to engage in often times take a toll on them. So how can we deal with the pressure? How can we reignite our passion for coding? What if we could do that through something we all love to do, Watch Movies. Here is a list of 10 movies you could watch to get you coding again.

TL;DR — Watch any of these movies to get motivated to code again.

SILICON VALLEY

If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley — Bill Gates

If you are a programmer and you haven’t seen this movie then I urge you to take time and watch it.

Silicon Valley is an American comedy series about a small team of developers at an Internet startup called Pied Piper. You watch them struggle to figure out their strategy, build their product, raise money, and take on Hooli, the tech giant that bears an obvious but superficial resemblance to Google or Microsoft.

It is an amazing movie suited for developers aiming to build a tech-based company one day.

Silicon Valley
The Books We Read in High School
By: Mary, Pepper
Tags: Reading, Books, Literature, Writing, Education

The Books We Read in High School

And the books we should be reading instead

Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton on Unsplash

I never read The Catcher in the Rye when I was supposed to.

The progressive high school I went to didn’t assign it. We read Brave New World while the rest of the country’s tenth graders read To Kill a Mockingbird. My Honors English class unpacked Les Miserables (yes, really — all seven-hundred pages of it) when every other fifteen-year-old was getting through The Scarlet Letter. And before I got to the progressive school, I survived ninth grade on an Army base where we read Catch-22.

Surprise, surprise.

So I didn’t get to Of Mice and Men when other students did. I’d read Lord of the Flies in middle school, and when my teacher realized most of us had, we didn’t bother with the debate over nature versus nurture. We simply moved on to Othello quicker than we were supposed to.

And when I did finally read The Catcher in the Rye outside of a class’s curriculum?

I gotta say I was underwhelmed.

This may be an unpopular opinion amongst my community of fellow bookworms, but I cannot flipping stand The Catcher in the Rye. I appreciate that it captured New York City in the fifties so well. I appreciate that it is a difficult undertaking to poignantly encapsulate a teenage experience in a single work of fiction.

But good gracious, Salinger, who hurt you?

Oh, wait. It was a revolving door of women you thought you had feelings for. Got it.

I didn’t read it for a class, and I’m glad. I know a handful of students I would have gleefully dug into during classroom discussions about this book, and such spitfire conversations were (thankfully) avoided. Yet every chat I’ve had about the book since has begun with another person telling me, “Oh, yeah, I had to read that for school.”

I’m glad we were assigned to read The Color of Water instead.

It’s time for high schools everywhere to move on from the so-called “classics”. For goodness’ sake, find something that’s been published within the last fifty years. Center your syllabus around books that have characters who know what an iPhone is. No wonder today’s teenagers carve out space on the internet where they can cultivate stories of their own. No wonder so many of them find Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales tiresome. I can’t say I blame them.
Primitive Set Operations in Eclipse Collections
By: Sirisha Pratha
Tags: Eclipse Collections, Open Source, Java

Difference — What does this operation do?

Method signature: setA.difference(setB)

Difference takes elements that are unique to Set A only and not Set B .

Set A — 1, 2, 3, 4.

Set B — 3, 4, 5, 6.

Difference— 1, 2.

Difference — Design considerations

As you may have guessed, the size of these two sets doesn't matter, as our starting point will always be Set A . If Set A is empty, then the resulting set will be empty, and if Set B is empty, then the resulting set will be Set A .

Difference — Code implementation

🛈 Eclipse Collections has an existing API that allows us to reject which returns all elements that evaluate false for the Predicate. In other words, it is the opposite of select .

default MutableIntSet difference(IntSet set)

{

return this.reject(set::contains);

}

Unit tests for difference covering scenarios for equal-sized, unequal-sized, and empty sets.
When We Write Together
By: Annie Fahy
Tags: Creativity, Writing, Wellbeing, Poetry, Storytelling

When We Write Together

why i write

The Glass Train 2017 AWA Press

I am seen. What I know becomes known.

when we write the back door opens

come on in. Sit a while. Laugh

Cry unexpectedly.

Remember your grandmother.

Her favorite flower is Lilly of the valley that grow

in hundreds of straight stalked stems

under the evergreen.

When we write

I listen to the words that I choose

for their sound in my quiet mind and then out loud.

I picture how they will look on the page. (Typed)

FUCK or again in a whisper … fuuuuuuck.

there is also the story I never tell

but you know it anyway.

It’s the one where you knock

but I don’t answer,

where the windows in the house

demand that the shades stay tight against the sill

black shades turned purple by the sun that wants to flow in.

A halo of snow-blind light around the dark frame.

Underneath it I crouch

wait for the knocking to stop.

Longer than you think.

For you to go away.

The dog barks once — looks at me twice.

when I write

I make my bed every morning (Sobriety).

Pull up the shades. Answer the door.

Put on the kettle.

Apologize just a little for my mess.

(The dog settles down under the table)

With everything there is language ( Toni Morrison).

We share the words we love

and the ones that manifest our panic.

Kiosk, maneuver, savor, pleasure mistake arrive.

When we write we bask in the sound of our shared language.

Mean what we say and try on other lives.

Hold our secrets differently.

Decide who and what we tell.

And I never hide anymore

the jubilation of my messes.

I open the door

Alive awake all in.
Week 5— Detecting Musculoskeletal Conditions
By: Gokce Sengun
Tags: Machine Learning

After briefly discussing these methods, we will discuss Image Data Augmentation in this blog. We will see how this improvement can benefit our model for separate parts of the body in our data set.

1.Tune Parameters:

To improve CNN model performance, we can tune parameters like epochs, learning rates, etc. The number of epochs we have identified during the training phase of our model is important to improve performance. After choosing the right epoch, we can see that there is no reduction, loss of training and improvement in training accuracy.

2. Handle Overfitting and Underfitting problem:

It is very important to use the data correctly when training a model. If the data is not used correctly, problems such as overfitting and underfitting may occur.

In the overfitting, your model gives very nice accuracy on trained data but very little accuracy on test data. The meaning of this is overfitting model is having good memorization ability but less generalization ability. Our model doesn’t generalize well from our training data to unseen data.

Underfitting refers to a model that works well on the testing data. Which means we don’t know enough about our data. So we can’t analyze the data enough. As a solution, we need to get more data features.

3. Deeper Network Topology :

A wide neural network is possible to train with every possible input value. Hence, these networks are very good at memorization, but not so good at generalization. There are, however, a few difficulties with using an extremely wide, shallow network. These neural networks are very costly in practical applications.

We want our network to be as small as possible to produce good results. The wider network will take a longer time to train. Deep networks are very computationally expensive to train. Hence, make them wide and deep enough that they work well, but no wider and deeper.

4. Image Data Augmentation :

The performance of deep learning neural networks often improves with the amount of data available. If we have not enough data our model can’t predict accurately. If you are such as position like not have a huge amount of data solution is data augmentation.

Data Augmentation is a technique that creates new training data with your existing data. While doing that data augmentation use some operators like; shifts , zooms, rotates, flips, etc. The main purpose here is that expand our existing training data. In the test stage, may the image be taken from different angles or upside down in such cases data augmentation can handle.
ETC Summit 2019 — Photos from the venue
By: Bob Summerwill
Tags: Community, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Vancouver, Conference

Bob Summerwill, Lauren Laino, Elaine Cancelliere and Abby Weisman met with representatives of the Vancouver Convention Centre yesterday (Tuesday 1st October 2019) to tour the third floor of the West Building where ETC Summit will be held later this week.

We walked around the various areas and talked through how we would be setting everything up. The final setup, and dry-runs of the live stream and A/V will be happening this afternoon and evening (Wednesday 2nd October 2019).

The venue is simply fantastic. I cannot wait.
6 Quotes by Nelson Mandela That Will Make You a Better Leader
By: Inspired Kema
Tags: Philosophy, Productivity, Self, Leadership, Mindfulness

6 Quotes by Nelson Mandela That Will Make You a Better Leader

Words from one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century

Photo by John-Paul Henry on Unsplash

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela – regarded as the anti-apartheid revolutionary, was the first black president of South Africa. He served as President from 1994 to 1999.

He was imprisoned in 1964 for his attempt to overthrow the ruling minority government.

There, he spent 27 years.

But amid domestic and international pressure, he was released by President F. W. de Klerk in 1990.

While he was president, he focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalized racism and fostering racial reconciliation.

He was given a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 – an award he shared with former president F. W. De Klerk for his work on the removal of the apartheid government.

Mandela died On 5 December 2013 from a prolonged respiratory infection at the age of 95.

By the time of his death, Mandela was widely considered in South Africa as the father of the nation. Globally, he is often cited alongside Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King as one of the outstanding anti-racist and anti-colonial leaders of the 20th century.

No doubt, his words inspired many.

Here are six quotes from the extraordinary leader that will inspire you and make you a better leader.
Meta Medium: A Primer
By: Nitzan Hermon
Tags: Research, Hci, Creativity, Design, Open Access

Meta Medium: A Primer

Does technology make us more like ourselves or more like everyone else?

When we text a friend using a digital device, we can only show up in a limited number of ways.

When we go to an improv class, we gain more ways of showing up.

Or for when Shaun Leonardo brought together victims of gun violence, police officers, army veterans, and recreational gun users for a conversation no one was allowed to speak — they had to find new ways of showing up.

That is an example of a medium that forces you to be creative.

Automation will eat up those who can’t write new ways of showing up. In that future, we will all need to step away from our comfort zone, and the mediums we use have a profound yet invisible impact on our creativity.

So what is a medium?

McLuhan famously said that the medium is the message, another way of saying the same thing is that ‘we don’t know who discovered water, but it was not a fish’.

Is technology pulling you into the deep dark water, allowing you to swim close to the surface, or even better, lets you jump up for perspective and then come back down?

Mediums consist of:

Language: visual, verbal, or machine-based

Artifacts: manual, digital or spatial

Systems: cultural, societal or informal

Some mediums keep us in the water, pushing us deeper into confusing situations and take away our abilities to write new ways of showing up.

Some keep us closer to the surface of the water by giving us existing tools and methods to remix and add to the way we show up

But some let us jump out of the water and come back in, getting that all important inside out predictive.

These are meta tools because they let us look at ourselves and our context from the outside.

Some principles when thinking about what mediums to use:

Position vs condition

You are not where you are — the same way that travel is about how far you go, but the transformational effect it has on you, the work you do is only as good as the developmental value it holds for you

Mediation vs. mediation

Does technology mediate you away from meaning in your life or ask you to understand your context more deeply. Are you pulled into a narrower corridor, or are you able to gain a birds-eye view of your lived experience?

‘Who am I’ vs. ‘what am I’

Do mediums ask you to be a one monolithic, narrow persona, an average of yourself or they ask you to articulate yourself in new and exciting ways

Binary vs. spectral

And lastly, does technology only let you be a binary being, with polarizing views, or does it allow you to be a spectral thinker, capable of navigating liminal, and forming space. For what is creativity, if not making meaning from ambiguity. An exponential world is a world of exponential taxonomies of meaning.
Detecting Potentially Hazardous Asteroids using Deep Learning (Part 1)
By: Jatin Kataria
Tags: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Asteroids, Space, Neural Networks

Witness the power of deep learning on huge datasets!

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Although they orbit the Sun just like the planets, they are much smaller than them. Potentially Hazardous Asteroid(PHA) is a near-Earth object — either an asteroid or a comet — with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.

I will explain how to detect potentially hazardous asteroids initially using traditional machine learning classifiers and later using artificial neural network to draw a comparison between both. For this purpose I have split this article into 2 parts- Part 1- Hazardous asteroid detection by traditional classifiers Part 2- Hazardous asteroid detection by building a neural network (https://medium.com/@jatin.kataria94/detecting-potentially-hazardous-asteroids-using-deep-learning-part-2-b3bfd1e6774c)

Traditional ML Classification

For understanding how to do a traditional classification, hyperparameter tuning and visualization kindly refer to my previous article:

If you have understood from my article about how to carry out classification using traditional approach you can understand the following results:

For the source code please visit the following link:

For accessing dataset, visit the following link:

Data Description
Smiling Snow Face
By: Megan Nicole Morgan
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Art, Poem, Haiku

Flicker and Flight is a Poetry Publication that has married the art of Photography. This publication focuses on supporting Nature, Love/Unity, Spirituality, and Growth, through the beauty of Word-Play and Images.

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Creá highlights para Instagram con esta fabulosa app
Tags: Apps, Instagram, Stories, Highlights, Destacados

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Chicken Philosophy II
By: Tom Eckblad
Tags: Humor, Philosophy, Politics

We continue to search for the secrets of the universe as the chicken crosses yet another road.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.



If there’s any one man who exemplifies Either/Or thinking, it’s President W. In the film The Princess and the Warrior, the protagonist is an ex-soldier who is expertly skilled in fighting and adapting to life-threatening situations. Yet, in the midst of battle, he weeps and continues to fight. His tears do not display weakness; they show us his strength. In the Lord of the Rings films, Aragorn fights for his rightful place as king, yet he does so with a moving combination of conviction and humility.



Are there any leaders in real life who can call us to more while also acknowledging our humanness?



DONALD RUMSFELD: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. Now watch as the F-15…
Gen Z Views Traditional College Path as Old School
By: Ecmc Group
Tags: Higher Ed, Gen Z, CTE, Ecmc Group, Education

By Todd Steele

It’s a major time of disruption and evolution for education and our workforce. While each shifted to new delivery and employment models due to the current coronavirus pandemic environment, it is becoming more apparent that those changes may usher in transformations that are bound to alter the industries for the long term.

For educators, as well as the employers in the field, now is the time to rethink and reimagine how best to connect to current and future learners in the postsecondary education space.

With every new generation comes the potential for new trends. The same is true for Generation Z, who, like previous generations before them, want to blaze their own trails. What is different with this group is that they are interested in forging their own path as they look to their education beyond high school.

We recently partnered with VICE Media to conduct two national surveys of Gen Z teens age 14–18 and found that while a majority regard postsecondary education as important to their future, nearly three quarters would consider a path other than a four-year degree. This group also appreciates the opportunity for hands-on learning and sees the benefit of a skills-based education when searching for employment after earning their diploma or certificate.

In addition, this group is very concerned with the cost of college, with 74 percent saying their future education and career decisions will be impacted by the amount of debt they’d need to take on. In addition, 56 percent expect the government to provide additional money to help pay off loans, and 46 percent expect companies to provide formal education that upgrades work-relevant skills. This mindset illustrates that their decisions will be dictated by many factors, which educators, employers, policymakers and even parents need to consider.

In a world where the economy has been upended and learners are questioning the value of a four-year degree, other paths make sense. Options like career and technical education (CTE) are shorter in duration, less expensive and provide a pathway to a career in a multitude of fields with the potential for upskilling and advancement.

By supporting these educational paths, we have the opportunity to meaningfully impact student outcomes and, ultimately, our society as a whole. Shorter, skills-based education is not only good from a student perspective, but when done properly, can better address employer needs. To make this a reality, we must shift our mindset by placing value on skills versus focusing solely on degrees.

By aligning on what the next generation of workers wants in their future postsecondary education and careers as we evolve to accommodate the new normal, we will be better off in the long run. This connection will help bolster our economy as our nation recovers and will help our society develop a new attitude toward education for years to come.

Todd Steele is president of ECMC Education.
The Sadness
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Americanhaiku, Memories, Writing, Poetry, Sadness

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Writing takes practice. American Haiku is a great way to put your words from your fingers to your piece of paper. Don't quit, you can do it. Take a look
Crypterium to allow users to shop on eBay, refill PayPal and bank accounts with cryptocurrencies
Tags: Bitcoin, Mobile App Development, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Technology

Crypterium to allow users to shop on eBay, refill PayPal and bank accounts with cryptocurrencies Crypterium Follow Oct 22, 2018 · 3 min read

Crypterium has just released a feature that allows you to spend crypto on everyday expenses by transferring it directly to bank accounts. Paying your mortgage and loans, bills and taxes, and even your gym membership with crypto — all at once is now a reality. Users can also make bank transfers to personal accounts, which means they can not only refill their own balance, but easily send money to friends and family in other countries.

Everyday crypto

It is a given that with the simultaneous rise of digital payments and crypto wallets, their users need tools to be able to cash out their assets to fiat and back quickly and conveniently. Most of the services available today make crypto-fiat transactions a bit of a pain: they are complicated, time-consuming and expensive with up to 25% fees for each transaction. Crypterium changes that by introducing a new feature that allows its clients to send cryptocurrencies directly to traditional bank accounts with a few taps on the screen.

Customers can make bank transfers to any personal and business account that has an IBAN number. This means users can not only pay into their own account, send money to friends and family in other countries, or use crypto for an increasing range of activities such as paying bills and taxes.

“If you were to go to an exchange with your bitcoin or any other coin, it would probably take you 3 to 7 days to get that money paid out into your bank account,” — says Marc O’Brien, CEO of Crypterium. “What Crypterium offers is a very easy-to-use way of cashing out your crypto holdings as well as spending your crypto in everyday life. Pay your taxes or bills, send money to friends and family — it’s all very simple now”.

Big step towards crypto mass adoption

What is even more promising, is that with Crypterium it will soon become possible to transfer crypto simply by using the recipient’s card number, not by their account.

Once the feature is live, crypto transfers won’t be any different from the way we send fiat. In addition, Crypterium is seeking a partnership with Visa’s and Mastercard’s issuing banks to launch cryptocurrency-backed debit cards. The idea is to join a card to its user’s crypto account and link it to Apple Pay or Android Pay so the user can enjoy shopping with crypto in any store around the world. Given that the number of Bitcoin users is expected to reach 200 million within the next seven years, Crypterium expects to expand its customer base to at least a million by that time.
Beyond the pasture
By: Qudsia A Rana
Tags: Introspection, Imagination, Found Poetry, Poetry, Random Thoughts

Based on the concept of ‘Found Poetry’: where poets pick out words/phrases from various texts — traditional or otherwise — this publication is my effort to make flowing prose / poetry from abstract words that I come across everyday. A bit of beautiful order among the chaos.

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Spheres, Planes and Hyperbolic Geometry
By: Marguerite Siboni
Tags: Mathematics, Math, Science, Physics, Education

Spheres, Planes and Hyperbolic Geometry

Visualizing negative curvature, positive curvature and no curvature through crochet and masking tape

Background

When Dr. Daina Taimina was a student, she took a topology¹ course. During the course, she struggled to conceptualize what hyperbolic geometry looked like. At the time, she decided this subject wasn’t for her and just tried to pass the class and forget about it.

Years later, she found herself in a position where she would need to teach the same subject she struggled to make sense of. She was unwilling to leave her students as confused as she was and had the idea of turning to crochet to create the surface she needed. Through trial and error, she eventually found a pattern that created a hyperbolic surface.

If you crochet in a round exponentially increasing the number of stitches per row, a hyperbolic surface is created.

Building hyperbolic crochet with the number of stitches in each row dictated by 3*2^n where n is the number of rows

Since her discovery, hyperbolic crochet has increased in popularity due to the incredible sea urchin-esque shapes that can be made and the beauty of the shapes made.

Note: This blog post and the crocheted objects made for it were based on material I learned from Dr. Taimina’s Ted Talk and patterns shared by others inspired by her work. If you would like to read more, Dr. Taimina has also written a book on the topic.

A brief explanation of hyperbolic planes

The definitions of hyperbolic geometry are complex. To avoid going down a rabbit hole outside of my expertise, I will link to the Wikipedia page and say that it is a realm of geometry where planes are no longer the familiar flat surfaces of Euclidean geometry but the curvy ever growing geometry of the crocheted objects above.

A hyperbolic plane is a surface where the curvature at all points is negative. This can create saddle shapes or surfaces where the area grows as the radius increases. Here are some examples of hyperbolic planes in the real world:
Songs of Summer
By: Shaver'S Creek
Tags: Songs, Insects, Summer, Blog, Birds

As evening steps across the sky of early August, we hear the swell of a new chorus. As light grows long across the hills and forests, peeking between blades of grass and branches of trees, the song of insects begins to rise. It is no longer a collection of melodic songs of birds that call through the evening, but a great wave of percussion buzzing and ringing through dusk.

Orthoptera is an order of insects in which some species have the ability to produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or against their legs. The main insects from this order we hear on August evenings in Pennsylvania are crickets and katydids. In early summer, those silent percussionists were eating, maturing, and molting. By late July and early August they reach sexual maturity. The tireless buzzes and clicks that fill fields and forests both day and night can be accredited to males. Their songs’ primary purpose is to attract females, but they also can be a warning to other males to keep their distance.

As the sun sets and this song swells, the buzzing and clicks of countless individuals can seem like cacophony to the uninformed ear. But as the sun begins to set, take a moment to try to listen past the wall of sound. You may hear something incredible. You may hear the song of a single cricket or a katydid among the chorus. Once you hear one song, you cannot help but hear them all. There is something incredible in how the call of each individual melds together so seamlessly. Enjoy the songs of summer.
The Fall
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Life, Poetry, Experience, Poem, Haiku

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