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Let’s Start the New Year With Some Small Wins
By: Mike Dang
Tags: 2014, Financial Goals, Resolutions

This year I will not pretend that I don’t have to make student loan payments. I will budget, and I will read @TheBillfold. — Sean A. Higgins (@luckycloud) January 5, 2014

Perhaps you made a money-related resolution this year, or if you don’t believe in making resolutions, perhaps you’re simply thinking about money and how you want it to work for you in 2014.

Save more money, pay off debt — it’s stuff we all want to do regardless of the time of year, but it can be daunting if the goal is to pay off tens of thousand dollars worth of student loans or credit card debt. As we’ve seen from our monthly check-in (we haven’t forgotten — we’re doing one at the end of the day!), it’s a gradual process, and that’s okay, because the point is that you’re making a concerted effort to pay down debt or save up money, and you’re doing it regularly.

In any case, one thing I like to do at the beginning of every year is set a small money-related goal to hit by February that’s small and attainable. This allows me to start the year off on a good note. So what’s one small money-related thing you’d like to accomplish by Feb. 1? Mine will be to set aside enough money to double the payment I usually make on the one private student loan I have. Feel free to hold yourself accountable in the comments, and we’ll check back here on Feb. 1!
What I Didn’t Learn About Writing From Grad School
By: Melissa Miles Mccarter
Tags: Writer, Writing, Writing Tips, Writers On Writing, Writing Life

What I didn’t learn from writing my dissertation.

I did learn a lot about writing when I was working on my dissertation, but that was a certain type of writing you don’t often do in the real world. It involved heavily researching and finding novel ways to connect information. What did I not learn from this experience?

Don’t keep your focus so narrow.

It is the nature of writing a dissertation to focus on a very narrow slice of a larger topic. You have to become an expert, and. realistically, you can’t become one if your topic is too large.

To be a successful writer, you have to be a generalist.

After I got my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to write for a company that provided blog articles for companies. I wrote blog posts about all sorts of things, from ethical business practices to herbal remedies. I had to quickly research information in order to make money. I was paid per article so I couldn’t spend hours becoming an expert on any one subject.

What this experience taught me is that everything I had learned to do in graduate school was contradictory to being an actual real-life writer.

Real-life writing means you need to know a little bit about a lot of things.

This is true whether you write non-fiction or fiction: memoirs, short stories, novels, magazine articles, or even text for websites. Academic writing, on the other hand, means you need to know a lot about what actually is very little in the grand scheme of things.
Beyond the Boundaries
By: Vlad Alex, Merzmensch
Tags: Ai And Creativity, Published Narrative, Artificial Intelligence, Japanfernweh, Videos

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There’s Still Time
By: Linda Latt
Tags: Change, Aging, Time, Poetry, Life

As my body ages

I feel inside of me, the spirit of a child

fighting to be set free.

There’s still time to let her loose

to come out and play

Listen to the voice

she has so much to say.

Pay attention

Use it as motivation

It is never too late,

be a new person.
What the Death of Two Friends Taught Me About Turning 27
By: Joshua Press
Tags: Life Lessons, Death, Self Improvement, Motivation, Life

What the Death of Two Friends Taught Me About Turning 27

Turning age anxiety into opportunity

Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash

This year I turned 27.

Something definitely feels different about this age.

I feel more mature, some things are getting clearer, but the demands of life can no longer be ignored with youthful naivety. Regrets of what should have or might have been have begun to creep in. I feel the potential in me that has yet to be expressed burning in my soul, forcing me to act. Procrastination has become more painful than the anxiety of taking action.

It’s daunting. It’s a battlefield of facing the things in life that you thought you could put off until ‘later’. I’ve found that the frustration that comes from a lack of clarity is replaced by the weight of the tasks you know you must do as you further unfold yourself.

The age of 27 is a rite of passage

The curse of 27 is not an unheard of phenomenon by any stretch. Most notably there is a clear pattern of celebrity deaths at age 27 from the intensity of this period, forever solidifying their membership of 27 club.

Furthermore, in this interview Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson discuss that 27 is often the transition period where one must grow out of the Puer Aeternus or Peter Pan Syndrome — the eternal child. According to astrology, around this age and above it is expected that people go through their Saturn return, which follows the same theme of transitioning into full adulthood.
簡易教學：Pysyft入門(1)
By: Yuan Ko
Tags: Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Privacy, AI, 联邦学习

OpenMined/PySyft

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Hola, SEAT Data Office!
By: Carlos Buenosvinos
Tags: Data Office, Data Science, Seat, Data Management

At SEAT and CUPRA, we foresee a world where our customers, partners, providers, employees, and even our society are connected to foster lifestyle, user experience, productivity, and creativity. We believe this connection can be created by picking data and converting it into useful information that can positively impact everyone's day-to-day.

We manage tons of data — trust me — more than you can imagine. It is not only because of manufacturing our great products, or our effective logistics processes or our new mobility services but also because our products equip the most advanced connectivity systems.

+12M parts per day are tracked and monitored by the Supply Chain Control Tower

By leveraging data, the SEAT Data Office contributes directly to the success of SEAT and CUPRA. However, for us, that is not enough 😉.

We can help build better infrastructures by knowing which roads are darker, which roads are bumpier, or analyzing air pollution as few examples. We can leverage our data to contribute to everyone’s safety. We can also help other companies increase their productivity by improving their logistics tracking, tuning their quality process, and predicting customer demand. The SEAT Data Office is willing to help others.

SEAT Data Office’s short-term mission is to contribute to SEAT and CUPRA’s success by optimizing processes and finding new business opportunities around Data. The Data Office’s long-term mission is to leverage all such knowledge to contribute to a better society and a more productive Spanish industrial ecosystem.

SEAT:CODE Mobility Plaftorm tracking the SEAT Mótosharing fleet in Barcelona

Considering all the great talent within SEAT IT combined with our Center of Software Development, SEAT:CODE, the success is guaranteed. If you or your company share our same vision and want to work together to find opportunities, send us an email to connecting-the-dots@code.seat.

I want to thank all the people that worked hard to make the SEAT Data Office a reality. I’ll do everything possible and impossible to lead this Data Office how it’s deserved. Let’s build a better future together.
Momentum 2021: An Invitation to a Free Event — Hosted by Coach Tony
By: Quy Ma
Tags: Coaching, Self Improvement, Motivation, Momentum, Life

Momentum 2021: An Invitation to a Free Event — Hosted by Coach Tony

Kick-off the new year more inspired, more motivated, and more confident in yourself

What is it?

Momentum 2021 is a free event, created and hosted by Coach Tony. He is the founder of the Medium publications, Better Humans and Better Marketing, and coach.me. As a life coach, Coach Tony is passionate about helping others be the best versions of themselves.

It’ll take place on Saturday, January 2, 2021. Different sessions will be running all day from 8 AM to 4 PM Eastern Standard Time. Online recordings will be available a week or two afterward.

The event is all online and remote so you can watch and listen from the comfort of your own home. And best of all — it’s free! Easily sign up for the event here! It only takes a few seconds.

Once you’ve registered, feel free to sign up for as few or as many sessions as you want!

More information about the event from Coach Tony’s Medium article in Better Humans.
The Bell Has Been Rung
By: Heath ዟ
Tags: Relationships, Hurt, Love, Poetry, Broken

The silent hours are deafening.

Static thoughts leave me blind.

Self-loathing seals my lips.

My mind is an apocalypse scene,

rivers turning red,

skies burning,

earth shattering,

and a voice that never stops —

you did this you did this you did this you did this you did this you did this…

I think the voice is mine.

I find peace

in over-medicated sleep

and headphones,

volume so loud it hurts.

It’s the only way I can do my job

when my heart is screaming at me to fix this,

but the bell has been rung.

My heart is an idiot, raving,

while my mind wisely wishes for a coma.
Falling For You
By: Muthia Huda
Tags: Poetry, Love, Falling In Love, Crush

Photo by Athena from Pexels

you’re the star

I like to watch

at night,

you spark

without knowing

you spark.

you’re the star

I like to watch

at night,

silently wishing

you were here

near me,

you shine

without knowing

you shine.

you’re the star

I like to watch

at night,

always praying

you’ll be

here for me

I fall,

and I know it,

for you.
Have you Backed Up Your 12-word Seed Phrase?
By: Bitpie Wallet
Tags: Bitcoin Wallet, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitpie, Blockchain

Bitpie reminds you to backup 12 words. Did you do that? What will happen if you don’t backup the seed phrase?

In the cases that the seed phrase is lost, the seed phrase is backed up inappropriately or the phone installed Bitpie is lost, the cryptocurrencies will not be restored, simply speaking, the cryptocurrencies are lost!

If the seed phrase is disclosed or acquired by others, it is very possible the cryptocurrencies get transferred. Bitcoin is irreversible and anonymous. Once bitcoins are transferred, the probability to recover the coin is basically zero.

…

What’s your Bitpie account seed phrase? While creating your account, it is required to back up 12 words, which are your seed phrase. It’s equivalent to your private key. Who has these 12 words, who owns your cryptocurrencies in your account.These 12 words is taken care by yourself. Once you lose them, you cannot recover them.

How could we take care of the 12-word seed phrase?

1.It’s better to write down the seed phrase. Make sure the writing is correct and clear. And store it in an extremely safe place in your home. See phrase cannot be stored through media such as photograph, software, email, cloud storages, etc.

2.Verifying seed: all users regardless of newbie or the experienced should verify the correctness of your seed phrase in the Setting-Verify Seed. Only ensure the correctness of your seed phrase can you continue the use of Bitpie.

3.For the account which has been installed in the Bitpie, please do not clear the data, recover the default setting, uninstall the Bitpie APP arbitrarily or format the cell phone. If you have cryptocurrencies in your Bitpie account, you should be more cautious.

4.Do not disclose your seed phrase to others. Do not expose your seed phrase to the media connected to the internet. For the account which seed phrase has been disclosed, do not store your coins in it. Anyone who ask you for the seed phrase is a scammer!

5.For the users who: lost the seed phrase, cannot pass the seed verification, did not take good care of seed phrase, please proceed as follows: find another cell phone, download and install Bitpie, back up the new seed phrase of the account, enter the Setting-Verify Seed to verify it, and transfer all the cryptocurrencies from the old account to the new account. From now on, do not use the old account for storage. However, do not log out the old account for you can receive forked coins.

About Bitpie seed phrase: enter
Why are we Turning the Internet into a Battlefield of Greed?
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Culture, Politics, Psychology, Social Media, Self

Why are we Turning the Internet into a Battlefield of Greed?

On paycheck porn, money braggarts, and their impact of society

Look at the kind of copy popular online and you’ll soon realize America doesn’t believe the principle it was founded on.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

If that were the case and we all believed we were equals, would anyone still feel the need to boast about how much they earn and have to garner attention, praise, and plaudits? And — because this is the internet where every click pays — more money?

“Look at me,” they say, “this is how much I’m worth.”

In a country where capitalism, individualism, and greed run the show, peddling such copy is a surefire way to get paid. Because people flock when someone flashes their cash, why wouldn’t they?

With money for nothing and the clicks for free, why would anyone ever be in dire straits? Passing off being brazenly grabby as inspirational isn’t about equality but about how money confers extra worth upon a human.

Money, we’re being told, is what elevates humans to superior status.
How To Pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam
By: Bhargav Bachina
Tags: DevOps, Programming, Kubernetes, Certification, Web Development

How To Pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam

A Complete Guide for those who want to take this exam

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This is one of the technologies almost every company is implementing or trying to adopt nowadays. The Linux Foundation offers two certifications on this technology: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). I recently took the CKAD exam and this article is all about what is this exam about, tips to pass the exam, and a lot more.

Why should you take this exam

Any Prerequisites

About the exam

Where to register

How to train

Useful Tips and Tricks

Before the exam

During the exam

After the exam

Other Certifications To Consider

Conclusion

Why should you take this exam

Kubernetes is the future of infrastructure and almost every company is adopting nowadays. This is one of the most sought after skills that companies need right now. Almost every company is either converting their legacy applications into cloud-native apps or building new apps which are cloud-native. Kubernetes is the only container orchestration framework available in the market other than docker swarm when it comes to deployment of these apps. So, this is the right time for anyone to take this exam not only prove their expertise in this field but also strengthen your Kubernetes skills.
How to start buying crypto-currencies in 10 minutes?
By: Yacine Achiakh
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Knowledge, Ethereum

[EDIT 06/27] IOTA can now be traded on Bitfinex and you don’t need to go on Slack to buy it anymore.

As crypto-currencies are getting more and more traction — top 20 crypto-currencies have seen there value increase by 1980 % on average since the beginning of the year — it may be time to challenge your SAVINGS account that brought you 1$ over the past 10 years and start investing for real .

Crypto-currency it’s like penny stock except… you can’t lose. If Bitcoin paved the way, you can now choose across several hundreds of different crypto-currencies and here is the fastest way to get started.

In order to be able to trade in the largest diversity, you’ll need to get registered on the following platforms — Kraken, Poloniex, YDX.

Step 1: Open a Kraken account and get verified

Very few exchanges let you deposit fiduciaries money (USD, EUR, JPY etc…) and Kraken is one of them. Even better, if you’re based in Europe, you can deposit EUR for zero fees via SEPA transfer. If you want to transfer USD or GBP, you’ll have to pay a $10/£10 fee.

Additionally their fees on transaction are very low — 0.16/0.26% when you buy and sell — and they decrease if you trade high volumes of crypto-currencies. In comparison, Coinbase takes 1.25% when you buy and when you sell on their platform.

Eventually they do not require you to upload an ID to start trading with a 2000$ daily limit. Coinbase does.

Kraken trading interface

Step 2: Make your first deposit

If you’re making your deposit in EUR, select “SEPA” not to pay any fee.

If you’re making your deposit in USD, select “SWIFT” and Kraken will charge you $10 on top of whatever your bank fee is.

Step 3: Open a Poloniex account

Poloniex is also one of the largest crypto-currencies exchange and allow trading on a much higher number of different values, however you cannot deposit EUR, USD etc… on the platform so you’ll need to buy Bitcoin on Kraken then transfer these to you Poloniex account.

Poloniex trading interface:

Step 4 [OPTIONAL]: Open a Bitfinex account

If you want to start trading IOTA — a new crypto-currency with high potential as it aims at facilitating nano-transaction between IoT objects — you can do so using Bitfinex which replaced the informal way to trade them on the YDX slack.

Bitfinex trading interface:

Step 5: You’re all set! Now start trading.

You know a simpler to start trading on these crypto-currencies? Feel free to let me know in the comment section!

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Castle Windsor Tips — specifying generic types in config file
By: Yan Cui
Tags: Dependency Injection, Tips, Programming

If you have an interface like this:

[code lang=”csharp”]

IDal

[/code]

with a concrete class like this, which you want to wire up with Castle:

[code lang=”csharp”]

Dal : IDal

[/code]

Then here’s the syntax to specify the component in your Castle Windsor configuration file

[code lang=”xml”]

service=”Namespace.IDal`1[[Namespace.IEntity, Assembly]], Assembly”

type=”Namespace.Dal, Assembly”/>

[/code]

Similarly, imagine if you have more than one generic type parameter:

[code lang=”csharp”]

IRetrievable

FooRetriever : IRetrievable

[/code]

[code lang=”xml”]

service=”Namespace.IRetrievable`2[[Namespace.Foo, Assembly],[System.String]], Assembly”

type=”Namespace.FooRetriever, Assembly”/>

[/code]

Remember, you need to use the back tick (`), NOT apostrophes (‘)!

References:

StackOverflow question on the syntax to declare generic types in castle config

StackOverflow question on declaring more than one parameter type in castle config
All About Safe Catch
Tags: Environment, Food, Paleo, Brand Interview, Sustainability

All About Safe Catch

Do you love tuna but are afraid to eat it and/or feed it to your family due to mercury concerns? Enter Safe Catch tuna.

Want to win $108 worth of Safe Catch tuna? Enter the Safe Catch tuna giveaway.

What follows is a 5 question interview with Sean, founder of Safe Catch.
👀Huobi x CoinMarketCal👀A Coin To Keep An Eye On!
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Defi, Synthetix, Buysnx, Blockchain, Snx

What is SNX?

Synthetix is a token for minting synthetic assets on the Synthetix Network, built on Ethereum.

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📈Analytics:

SNX continues to march upward, rewarding bulls with 154% returns during the last month alone. Now, the price may be getting ready to break out for the next leg.

High spikes of volume during last week’s climb support the bullish case. Currently, previous intra-range highs at 0.00058336 are providing support as the price probes August 15th’s all-time high.

Bulls could continue to build positions as each lower support is tested or opt to enter on the breakout and confirmation of August 15th’s high as new support.

Bears could enter on signs of weakness near the current level, targeting support at 0.00053123 near the current consolidation range’s EQ or down to support at the previous monthly high at 0.00044878.

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The Richest Man in the World
By: E.D. Martin
Tags: Literature, Microfiction, Short Story

Image by hjrivas from Pixabay

Nic’s whole life was compressed into one bag: clothes, documents, mementos of his past. And now that bag was gone, stolen by someone who’d end up dumping it when they realized it wasn’t worth any money.

Nic chuckled. Anything worth stealing, he’d learned, anything with true value, couldn’t be stolen.
The Three-Legged Elephant Who Can’t Live Without His Human Best Friend
By: Zinara Rathnayake
Tags: Animals, Elephants, Animal Rescue, Sri Lanka, Wildlife

When humans clear forests for their habitats, elephants lose theirs. In dry months when there’s a shortage of food and water, elephants feed on cultivated land which was originally their wild habitat. Farmers view them as pests who raid crops. According to the Department of Wildlife Conservation in Sri Lanka, about 250 elephants every year are killed as a result of the human-elephant conflict. Some other elephants are kept in captivity for human entertainment, tourism, and in temples. They are chained and their movement is restricted. Often tortured, they carry humans on their backs as businessmen and politicians profit.

At ETH, elephants roam around the premises freely under the watchful eyes of the caretakers and bathe in the blissful waters of the Udawalawe Reservoir. Located in the vicinity of the Udawalawe National Park, sometimes the Transit Home receives elephant visitors from the wild. ETH reintroduce these young elephants to the wild when they can take care of themselves. But for Namal, ETH is his permanent home.
Carros autônomos poderiam ser armas?
By: Joao Vitor Chaves Silva
Tags: Cybersecurity, Autonomous Cars, Blockchain

in Both Sides of the Table
Kossi and My Weird Craving
By: Uchechi Onuoha
Tags: Food, Yoghurt, Salon

Yesterday, I went to Surulere to braid my hair against the advice of a few that suggested I stay home and rest — seeing as I had been on admission at the hospital and was still recuperating. But because I want to be a fine girl, I told myself it won’t be a big deal since I’ll be “Ubering” about.

Getting to Surulere itself was work, no thanks to the trucks and trailers on the road. And then I got there and had to wait. And as if waiting wasn’t enough, I had to start repeating what I wanted even after I had called and chatted with a rep on WhatsApp. But a girl has to be pretty so no qualms.

Now, on my way to the salon, I passed by a Habib Yoghurt outlet. You see, I have this thing for Habib Yoghurt, thanks to Osaze. When I was doing my graduate internship (during my Masters programme), Osaze introduced me to the goodness that is Habib Youghurt. Sigh. I’ll take Habib Yoghurt with cereal and fruits and not get tired. Now that I think of it, you contributed to my weight gain, OSAZE!

I digress.

While I was getting my hair done, I kept thinking about Habib Yoghurt. That thought slowly grew into a craving and before I knew it, I was almost crying at the thought of the outlet closing before I finished at the salon. Immediately I finished, I walked briskly to get a keke napep to the love of my life, Habib Yoghurt. I got there and this guy had the guts to tell me “yoghurt don finish”. I stared at him wondering if he understood the gravity of his statement. Then he directed me to another outlet. I quickly got my phone out, booked an Uber to my destination and put Habib Yoghurt as a stop.

Immediately my Uber arrived, I greeted him with “please we need to go to Habib Yoghurt. I have medication to take and I haven’t eaten”. My Uber driver, Kossi, was so sweet. Not because he “agreed” to take me there but because we actually drove round Adeniran Ogunsanya looking for Habib Yoghurt. Nobody seemed to know where it was located. I gave up at a point but Kossi was determined. “You need to take your drugs”, he said.

When we finally found it, I squealed and ran out of the car. Once I got it, nothing could keep me away from my yoghurt — not even a stubborn seal. I used my hand and my teeth to open this thing. Heck, I broke my nail!
Like Moments of a Dream
By: Paul Mulliner
Tags: Mindfulness, Poetry, Yoga, Self-awareness, Life

Somewhere music plays

and every moment seems

like moments from a dream

or projections of a play

on a screen inside our mind,

while clouds slowly stream

across the sky

and fleeting moments of awareness

emerge, dissolve, and disappear

like reflections

in the surface of a mirror

we somehow lost long ago

and could never find again.

Dreams of celestial music

becoming visible as woven patterns of light,

cosmic energy spun into appearance

as biochemistry and the shape of leaves,

cosmic dream space

turning into living beings,

the conscious space that dreams

and waits, while we let go

our proud and selfish separation

and dissolve into its larger self,

forever dreaming in a cosmic sky

outside the boundaries

our thinking might create.

And in the end

we only have each other,

and the inspiration we can find

when we touch the conscious silence

inside ourselves,

and know all our experiences

are woven into the fabric

of a shared conscious awareness

inside all of us.
I Am My Illness
By: Rozemarijn Van Kampen
Tags: Neurodivergent, Autism, Mental Health, Psychology, Poetry

I am my illness

I am the overstimulated mind, wanting to escape from the world

I am the quivering body, trembling with unidentifiable emotions

I am the unstoppable panic attacks, where nothing seems to calm me down

I am my illness.

I am my illness, yet I am so much more.

I am the unwavering curiosity, looking to learn more every day

I am the boundless creativity, finding new ways to express myself

I am the unconditional empath, wanting to help in every way I can

I am my illness, and that’s okay
How to Make Stunning Geomaps in R: A Complete Guide with Leaflet
By: Dario Radečić
Tags: Leaflet, Data Science, Towards Data Science, Data Visualization, R

Create your first map

You’ll use the leaflet package for the job. Your first map will use japan_lat and japan_lon variables to set the geolocation and will draw marker points as large as the magnitude was.

There’s a lot you can do to make the map aesthetically pleasing. Setting the tiles is the first step, and I’ve found Esri.WorldStreetMap looks best at this location. You can refer to this website for all of the available options.

Below is a code snippet you can use to draw your first, basic map:

Here’s how it looks like:
July Edition: Hey Siri, What Do I Mean?
By: Tds Editors
Tags: Monthly Edition, Tds Features, Machine Learning, Towards Data Science, NLP

July Edition: Hey Siri, What Do I Mean?

Natural Language Processing and the Future of AI

Photo by Elina Krima from Pexels

By now, many of us have interacted with a device’s built-in assistant. Possibly on purpose or even by saying “Are you serious?” too close to an iPhone. Whether it’s Alexa, Siri, or whomever lives inside your preferred smart device; it’s using natural language processing (NLP) in conjunction with speech recognition to understand you, give you appropriate answers to your questions, and sometimes even learn. But what exactly is NLP? Quite simply, it’s a machine trying to parse, construct, and summarize text to speak or write like a human “naturally” would. NLP offers a practical use for artificial intelligence that many people utilize regularly.

So, how does it work? The key to NLP’s success lies within deep and recurrent neural networks. Deep neural networks (DNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are trained using tens of thousands of words and sentences to most accurately predict responses when tested on phrases that it has yet to see. You can read more about deep neural networks here. As with many machine learning algorithms, DNNs and RNNs have their flaws when used for predictions. For example, when you meant to type “I will have a bagel with cream cheese,” your phone may have suggested that you’d like your bagel with cream flies or something similar to the keystrokes for cheese. As NLP improves, so will those predictions.

Regardless of whether you’re using a smart assistant, an automated phone menu, or just trying to type a message, NLP is used in many of the things we do every day.

Want to learn more about natural language processing? Here are some of our most popular articles on the subject!

Sophie Mann, Editorial Associate
Game Day: Tales of a city girl
By: Imλbөпg Fλmiпц
Tags: Love And Relationships, Short, Love, Relationships Love Dating, Prose Poem

He was danger personified

A heartbreaker in true form

Player oozed from him

Any woman who fell for his charm

Knew she was doomed



Then he set his sights on me

The one girl that cared not

I knew he saw me as a conquest

A probable bet among friends

Around a card table, beer, and cigarettes



My alarm bells went off when he was near

A strong aura and sexual vibe emanated from him

Everyone could feel it

But his eyes were set on me



The guys sniggered and laughed

Watching the playout

The women gave evil stares and snide glances

As if exasperated that I wasn’t a’ playing

‘Get out of the way if you ain’t gaming’

Like spectators on a safari

Watching a hungry lion stalking its prey



They reminded me of spectators

In ancient Roman amphitheaters

Shouting with glee as lions tore people to shreds

Or gladiators fought to the death

With despicable weapons in ringed cages

To them, it was all a game



A game I was unwilling to play

With an opponent determined to win

I didn’t stand a chance and I knew it

In the death dance between lion and gazelle

The gazelle always falls

Better to exit the ring than be torn apart

Brave the jeers and accusations of cowardice and safety depart

© Imabong Faminu 2020
Cryptocurrency in Japan
By: John Saeyong Ra
Tags: Bitcoin, Medium, Japan, Korea, Regulation

Find out about more exciting events at the Bitcoin Center Korea — http://bitcoincenterkorea.org/events

We were delighted to have a special event with two special guests from Japan: Koji Higashi and Hiroyuki Mihara.

Among other things, we talked in depth about how regulations differ in Japan from Korea. Furthermore, we discussed a lot about how regulatory process works. Our impression and conclusion was that Japan takes more collaborative approach when it comes to new tech-regulations such as the ones involving cryptocurrency, where the government task force will invite and consult the industry insiders. Korea, on the other hand, seems to have a “my way or highway” approach, where the task force is simply a few insiders from government organizations. Very little collaboration with the government and the industry insiders happen in Korea, much less than how it is in Japan it seems.

Koji shared some of the links he referenced during his presentation, and his own write up about the visit to Korea. He has his own Medium page, so make sure to check it out!

Koji’s write up of visiting Korea (in Japanese):

http://coinandpeace.hatenablog.com/entry/visiting_korea

Koji’s medium post (in English):

https://medium.com/@coin_and_peace

The article Koji wrote before coming to Korea:

https://medium.com/@coin_and_peace/similarities-and-differences-between-korean-and-japanese-crypto-markets-and-what-to-expect-in-the-d4e1a08a4fbe

Observation about the altcoin bubble that Japan helped create this year:

https://medium.com/@coin_and_peace/new-wave-of-japanese-investors-are-fueling-the-great-altcoin-bubble-a504383172ff

Make sure to join our Slack to get more updates and interactive content:

http://bitcoincenterkorea.org/slack
Office with Slippers…
By: Samiksha Seth
Tags: Work, Work Humour

Ever wondered how does it feel when you reach office and you realize- Oh I m in my slippers!!!!

Yesterday , I faced the same situation and just to mind you my slippers are not at all fancy but as simple as a ‘LAKHANI ‘ slipper could be, with white base and blue steps.:-)



And I realized that I’m wearing slippers as soon as I put in my first foot inside the campus. It was like god waiting for the right moment and suddenly there was an “akashwani”- vats aaj aap “khadau” mein aayi hain :-).



I cursed myself as much as I could, for such a perfect combination of attire, a completely formal dress matched with a pair of “lakhani slippers”



Anyways… nothing could be done now, I reached my place and thought of not getting up whole day from my desk. But that was next to impossible as you need to get up many times ;-).



Finally, it was our tea time and all were pinging me to get up and reach canteen. Ahhhhh a tough task to execute. Finally I decided who cares… nobody even bothers to look at me, so don’t worry there is no one who would notice that you are wearing slippers….



But I was wrong, as soon as I started climbing stairs, and who all passed by were very keen to know what I have in my feet’s!!!! Some gave a strange look, some smiled and some were confused as there face appeared blank to me. And some reacted as if I have done the greatest crime in this world.



Finally I landed in canteen, and one of them shouted- oyeye tere pair ko kya hua?tu chappal mein??.

I didn’t had any answer, except to smile ….:-)





Keep Faith

Chakoli:-)
Day 78 — Product Array Except Self🏁
By: House Of Codes
Tags: Software Development, Coding, Programming, Interview, Java

Day 78 — Product Array Except Self

100 Days to Amazon

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100 Days to Amazon — Day 78 Product Array Except for Self

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Introduction🛹

Hey Guys, Today is day 78 of the challenge that I took. Wherein I will be solving every day for 100 days the programming questions that have been asked in previous interviews.

You have a bonus at the end if you keep reading. You can find out the companies that have asked these questions in real interviews.

All these problems are taken from the following e-book. 🎓

This is completely free 🆓 if you have an amazon kindle subscription.

This e-book contains 100 coding problems that have been asked in top tech interview questions. It also has a guide to solving all the problems in 200+ ways. These problems I assure you has been asked in previous interviews.

You have to decide whether you want to go unprepared for a tech interview or go ahead and quickly search for this guide to solve the 100 problems.

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Day 78 — Product Array Except Self🏁

AIM🏹

Given an array nums of n integers where n > 1, return an array output such that output[i] is equal to the product of all the elements of nums except nums[i] .

Example🕶

Input: [1,2,3,4]

Output: [24,12,8,6]

Code👇

Author: Akshay Ravindran

Algorithm👨‍🎓

Traverse through the array and multiply all the values to get the product of the entire array. Create a new 2d array that will store the result. For each element, Divide the total by the current element. Return the Result.🔚

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You Can Write a Poem!
By: Jenny Justice
Tags: Children, Writing, Poetry, Education, Poem

You can write a poem,

just close your eyes and think -

you can write a poem,

before you even have to blink!

You make up songs, you make up stories -

now turn those into tiny little poetic morning glories.

You like the pop music on the radio,

but poetry sings too, did you know?

Pick up your pencil, your marker, your pen -

you can write a poem, again and again!
Bigger Screens, Less Charm
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: The Coffee Pot, Poetry, Technology, Poem, Haiku

Fiction writer. Coffee enthusiast. Writer of romance, mystery, and humor. Discover more at Patreon.com/danleicht and DanLeicht.com

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Un-Bee-lievable! — Agriculture Lessons!
By: Code Club Australia
Tags: Coding, Bees, Agriculture

Bees are vital for the existence of the planet. They pollinate flowers which allow fruits and vegetables to grow, just like in our game!

1 in 3 mouthfuls of the food you eat relies on bees for pollination! There are half a million beehives registered in Australia and each hive has 50–60,000 bees! There are three types of bees in beehives the Queen, the Drones and the Worker bee.

The bees that do most of this pollination are European Bees, but we also have 1700 species of Australian Native Bees!

Unlike lots of other animals in Australia, our native bees rarely hurt you! Lots of them live by themselves and some don’t even have stings! But most of these bees don’t produce honey and if they do then they need it — so we don’t harvest it.

In our bee game, our bee collects some pollen and then distributes it to another flower that turns into fruit. After our game, the bee would do a little dance to communicate to other bees where the nectar and pollen are. Then they would all go out to find it!

Some farmers use a different type of bee that is used for pollination. It looks like this:

That’s right, it’s a robot! In the tomato greenhouse at Guyra this robot travels along tracks to help pollinate flowers. It uses AI to find the flowers that are ready for pollination and sends air pulses through the air to vibrate the flower in a way that mimics bees. (there’s a great video showing how it works here)

There’s so much opportunity for innovation and technology in pollination! Like this greenhouse that uses seawater to grow plants in South Australia, or the pollinating robot at Guyra in NSW.

If you’re looking for further educational resources on bees and pollination and other agriculture industries, as well as Science curriculum matching head to Primezone — https://www.primezone.edu.au/?s=bee

If you’d like to learn about technology and coding in other Agriculture industries, head to our blog for more info — https://medium.com/code-club-australia

And don’t miss the other coding lessons that are part of this module at https://codeclubau.org/projects/topics/agriculture/

All the lessons are free and matched the Digital Technologies curriculum.

Register your free Code Club and getting kids coding in your community — codeclubau.org

Here’s our reference list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_native_bees

https://www.primezone.edu.au/resource/where-would-we-bee-without-them/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-07-08/pollinating-robot-trial-starts-in-australian-tomato-greenhouse/12429244
What Medium and Poker Have in Common
By: Yeva Volkova
Tags: Weekly Report, Creativity, Digest, Publication, Writing

by Sergey Faldin

Some reflections on writing from the founder of Honest Creative.

“Writing for me – and I believe that’s how it should be for most creatives – is a vocation. And by vocation, I mean it’s the work you love unconditionally. I want to give it my all. And I will never ask anything in return. If I make money – that’s good. But if not – that’s OK too.”
Romerita
By: Querre Cuentos
Tags: Spanish, Español, Cuento, Podcast, Storytelling

in Both Sides of the Table
Anticipation
By: Emma Briggs
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Election 2020, Waiting, Poetry, Poem

Photo by Claudia Soraya on Unsplash

‘Like waiting for a biopsy.’

Indeed,

and I’m not even directly affected.

This last week

is not easy:

a daily escalation

of tension.

‘What if?’

Try not to slip

down the terror spiral.

Try not to trip out

on how it’s so wrong.

Focus on those

small signs of light

in this dismal tunnel.

Keep breathing,

stop reading

the comments.

Everything ends,

remember;

finally life

will cycle on

and around

as usual.
イタリアのアール・ヌーヴォー、フィレンツェのリバティ様式建築探訪
By: Kumiko Nakayama
Tags: デザイン, イタリア, 建築, 日本語

in Both Sides of the Table
Break the Surface
By: William J Spirdione
Tags: Surface, Feelings, Poetry, Strife, Sonnet

Break the Surface

A sonnet

photo by William J Spirdione

Some feelings come up from the deepest depth’s,

Beyond our reach, the memories come through.

Tears flow before the conscious mind accepts,

What or who, said what, about what or who.

There’s something between the worlds at their heart,

Seeming imperceptible, but still there,

Almost exactly the same, not apart,

In time or place, something else, self aware.

Knowing how much it sounds impossible,

Not even looking for a solution.

Simple hello can be remarkable,

No one’s looking for an absolution.

Nothing good comes from a persecution.

Break the surface, be the revolution.
Functional Programming Concepts
By: Mario Viapiano
Tags: Programming, Functional Programming, Software Development, Clojure, Software Engineering

What does it mean to program in a functional way? Well, code written that way is based on, yes you guessed it, functions…these functions are tiny chunks of code that do something specific with the data that was passed to them. And in comparison with the object-oriented programming paradigm, these functions can be passed as arguments to other functions, which will receive them, execute them, perform some other computations and then either return some value or may this function is passed as an argument to another one. Ideally, these functions should complain about what is known as pure functions, which bring extra benefits to how the data flow through the execution of the code.

Now, what is a pure function? A pure function is a function that:

provided a given argument, it always returns the same results.

returns the same results. performs its computation without any kind of side effects.

Photo by Di_An_h on Unsplash

Those two characteristics make a pure function powerful.

If a function returns always the same results given the same input, it means that it has no dependency on the “external world”, it is just a standalone function that does its job without any kind of footprint.

Following the same line of thought, these functions do not change anything on their “surroundings”. That means that there is no data mutation whatsoever. You can trust these guys.

With that comes the next concept, immutability. Immutability is key in the Functional Programming paradigm; data binding occurs of course, but once a value is bounded to, let’s say, a name, there is no way to modify it. That leads a functional code to be referentially transparent. In simple words, if we replace all the value identifiers by their values, the program behavior does not change. For example:

In an imperative language, we can write

amount = amount * 2 def not_transparent(x)

amount = 10

x + amount

end

in the first line of code, the value of the amount variable is modified. Each time we execute that line, amount will contain always a different value (unless of course, the starting value is 0). Besides that, the not_transparent method modifies that amount variable as well, which in the case makes the whole scenario even worse. All that tells us, we are unable to replace amount by its value and expect that the behavior of the code to be the same. It is not transparent at all…in fact, assignment statements are never referentially transparent.

Now, if we take a look at

amount = 20 def transparent(x)

x + 1

end

the transparent method does not change state, it does not even try to modify its input. We can say, without any kind of problem, that that code is referentially transparent and it does not have any side effects. Functional programs exclusively use this type of function and are therefore referentially transparent.
ML model deployment flask API
By: Bharat Choudhary
Tags: API, Machine Learning, Python, Data Science, Flask

In this article, we are going to discuss majorly machine learning model deployment using flask API but the code for model building and deployment using flask API will be available in my GitHub repository so that you can also try this in your own project.

I assume that you have some experience in machine learning or deep learning model building and wish to productionize model with flask API.
Reclaiming a native tongue to talk about death
By: Dayana Aqila
Tags: Books, Language, World, History, Book Review

Reclaiming a native tongue to talk about death

The oppression of Catalonia bleeds through the pages of Rodoreda’s novel.

Photo by Jonny James on Unsplash

The aftertaste of this scrumptious translated masterpiece is still dripping at the edge of my mind. Death in Spring, originally La morti la primavera in Catalan, is a darkly unsettling novel about growing up under dictatorship and finding hope in the desire for change and independence.

In the midst of social alienation, to be able to see the world so naively is both a gift and curse. In an oppressive society — or, as Bukowski would put it, when death is cheaper than living — Rodoreda grieves in her own language. Even when no one wants to hear it, when the language is despised and sneered at, when the imprisonment of the soul is the only punishment suited for those who use it.

Rodoreda evokes a sense of something beautifully painful or soaringly melancholic, and more hopeless phrases we use to describe pain we couldn’t understand. She writes as if carving a path through the mountains, all while dodging beasts in the dark; we can feel their eyes on us.

That was what I felt throughout the story. Bad things are happening, but I was half deaf. Do deaf people hear their own screams?

Philosophical arguments of life, death, desire and what makes a person a person are also a part of Rodoreda’s rendition that will stay with me. I’ve been thinking about death a lot, like someone in their twenties should. Yet when a little earthquake occurred, I would be the first one to flinch in fear of dying swallowed by earth.

Rodoreda has left me overflowing with thoughts, but I will leave you simply with this:

With unfocused eyes he said: accompanied by the wish to live, you have the wish to die; it’ll be like that til the end. Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda

If you are looking for something to keep you up at night, lost in words and thoughts and all that falls somewhere in between, read Rodoreda.