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Basic Mathematics for Data Science
By: Kolla Kishan
Tags: Data Analysis, Mathematics, Beginner, Data Science, Analytics

Motivation

Like some of us, even I 😔suffered from a lack of guidance in my initial days of learning 📊data science. Although I had covered required mathematics in my Undergraduate degree, It became irrelevant during the four years working with a different business which took me away from the daily use of complex mathematics.

Soon after the first week of classes, I understood that I needed to brush up my mathematical concepts and so I did. But, let me tell you something “IT WAS HARD”, But Hey!, what’s success without the struggle right 🤗.

It took me a solid 2 weeks to get back in to track with the syllabus. While during the class, I realized many students faced the same problem. So, this following story is elaborate on the required mathematics for pursuing data science.

Probability

It is a measure of the likelihood of an event to occur. At a given point there can only be one outcome with a probability closer to ‘0’ or’1' (on a number line) depending upon the circumstances.

Probability is a really old concept, it is widely used in modern Engineering and Business to make intelligent systems that could think like a human. It majorly helps in making decisions for a given situation or perhaps helps in predicting the future.

The vast applications of probability in day to day life is very extensive but so settle that we some times don’t appreciate it. Life is all about choices and this is something that deals with emotions in humans. But, whereas in order for the modern machinery to make the right decision, it has to calculate the outcome of all different decisions and choose the best fit.

For example, let us imagine a tossed unbiased coin, probability of the outcome of this even is equal for both heads and tails. So the probability of such event is 1/2 where the numerator is desired outcomes and the denominator is the total number of outcomes.

Some popular resources to learn probability are:

Probability — The Science of Uncertainty and Data by MIT

Data Science: Probability by Harvard University

Probability For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Don’t Miss Any of My Erotic Stories!
By: 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆
Tags: Short Fiction, Sex, Fiction Series, Erotica, Short Stories

Short Stories

Newest stories are added to the bottom.

In 12 Hours of Freedom, Levi finds a magic lamp unlike any magic lamp you’ve ever heard of. Inside is the Babylon prostitute, Adriaa, and she has not had sex in a very long time!

Jake is crazy about Kayla. Kayla is starring in a soft-core porn scene as Jake watches from the shadows. Cindy is crazy about Jake and helps him find release as he watches. Check out In the Shadows.

Billionaire Club features two very beautiful women who are recruited to entertain rich men for money. They just don’t know that they’ve been recruited — yet!

Part 3 is coming soon!

In Tanner’s Homecoming, a young wife finds out that her husband missed her just as much as she missed him while he was away.

If you have a Daddy thing, you’ll love Ice Cream with Daddy — it gets very wet and sticky!

You wouldn’t think that a man would need to be convinced to have sex but this one does. Convinced takes seduction to a new level.

The Boss’s Wife has a little crush on her husband’s employee and she knows just how to make things happen.

This couple loves a chance to get away from everything with a trip to the cabin. Rebel in the Wild is the story of how they celebrate time together.

Getting over someone sucks. But this guy is lucky enough to have a special woman help her get over his loss in Getting Over Corri.

Aren’t first times wonderful? These two women find out that love between them is A More Intimate Touch.

Sometimes opposites attract, as this rich girl finds out when she meets a small town mechanic in Car Trouble.

Ever had sex while watching someone pretend to have sex?

Loosely based on my own first threesome, Between Friends is sweet but very hot!

The wives of this little neighborhood get left alone a lot while their men are off doing their own thing…so they’ve figured out how to take care of each other in Joining the Junior League.

When Tim follows his ex-girlfriend Darcy and her girlfriend, Eve into the woods, he gets more than he was even hoping for.

Sometimes, it’s hard to ask for what you want but when someone pins you down and pushes you a little, it can be really sexy!

Exciting things can happen after dark when you take a detour through the park — if you dare!

A couple decide to get out of the city for the weekend and the Ride to the Cabin proves to be interesting!

She knows he’s not a big fan of camping but she promises that if he comes with her she will make it worth his while.

When a young witch is short on money to pay for college she accepts an offer that proves to be very interesting.

Friends Share is the story of a couple who are intent on satisfying each other’s fantasies before they get married. Hers is to be shared with his friends!

Finding Our Fourth is a fantasy about adding a third man to my polycule. It was written for a Medium reader Alan Tegel, but the names of my partners have been changed.
When Will You Love Me?
By: Teyuna T. Darris
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Writer, Love, Poems On Medium

When the song stops playing

Then, the moon sighs

And the sun gives up its shining — -

Then, the man in the back corner

Puts on his coat, and wipes his chin:

Is that when you’ll love me?

When the rivers stop flowing

And the blue-birds sulk and refuse to fly,

When the trees bow their limbs

And all the leaves fall to the ground

And the chipperwood forgets to breathe:

then it just decays and dies

And all the dreams we gladly had

Reluctantly fade away — -

Is that when you’ll love me?

Keep living your life

Rainbows last for just a short moment — -

Refuse to die, and live free:

Vespers love won’t choose to fly

Please let me know when you’ll love me.

-Teyuna Trynea Darris
Time-Series Forecasting: Predicting Stock Prices Using Facebook’s Prophet Model
By: Serafeim Loukas
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Timeseries, Forecasting, Timeseries Forecasting

1. Introduction

1.1. Time-series & forecasting models

Traditionally most machine learning (ML) models use as input features some observations (samples / examples) but there is no time dimension in the data.

Time-series forecasting models are the models that are capable to predict future values based on previously observed values. Time-series forecasting is widely used for non-stationary data. Non-stationary data are called the data whose statistical properties e.g. the mean and standard deviation are not constant over time but instead, these metrics vary over time.

These non-stationary input data (used as input to these models) are usually called time-series. Some examples of time-series include the temperature values over time, stock price over time, price of a house over time etc. So, the input is a signal (time-series) that is defined by observations taken sequentially in time.

A time series is a sequence of observations taken sequentially in time.

An example of a time-series. Plot created by the author in Python.

Observation: Time-series data is recorded on a discrete time scale.

Disclaimer (before we move on): There have been attempts to predict stock prices using time series analysis algorithms, though they still cannot be used to place bets in the real market. This is just a tutorial article that does not intent in any way to “direct” people into buying stocks.

1.2 The forecasting model: Facebook’s Prophet

The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models. Briefly, the autoregressive model specifies that the output variable depends linearly on its own previous values and on a stochastic term (an imperfectly predictable term).

Recently, in an attempt to develop a model that could capture seasonality in time-series data, Facebook developed the famous Prophet model that is publicly available for everyone. In this article, we will use this state-of-the-art model: the Prophet model. Prophet is able to capture daily, weekly and yearly seasonality along with holiday effects, by implementing additive regression models.

The mathematical equation behind the Prophet model is defined as:

y(t) = g(t) + s(t) + h(t) + e(t)

with, g(t) representing the trend. Prophet uses a piecewise linear model for trend forecasting.

s(t) represents periodic changes (weekly, monthly, yearly).

h(t) represents the effects of holidays (recall: Holidays impact businesses).

e(t) is the error term.

The Prophet model fitting procedure is usually very fast (even for thousands of observations) and it does not require any data pre-processing. It deals also with missing data and outliers.

In this article, we are going to use the Prophet mode to predict Google’s stock price in the future.

Let’s get started !
Relationships At Their Best
By: Gurpreet Dhariwal
Tags: Be Truthful, Relationships Love Dating, Experience, Relationships, Couples

Relationships At Their Best

Be it your depression or dark days, I want the whole of you?

I started dating when I turned 18 years old. That guy was 4 years elder than me and a big-time asshole. After that, I came across many assholes but lost my way in life. The reason being I was always truthful to my soul.

Today I am mature enough to share my experiences with you all by writing my heart out what I think about relationships at a glance.

An idea of a relationship for me would be:

When I come back home and there is someone to welcome me as a part of their soul. That’s what I seek in humans. It could be anyone from a great roommate to the love of my life.

When I have had a bad day someone who makes me smile for what it is. There shouldn’t be any games. Just plain and proper truth.

Relationships can do wonders when we start treating ourselves the way we want to be treated by others. As soon as that person enters your life, you already know what you want the best in your life.

I would seek the truth, honesty, intimacy, and leg-pulling sessions for sure. I don’t come from that background where people betray others so I would never be in a position to ruin someone for fun. That will never be my agenda which is, unfortunately, a play for many of them out there. I would seek my truth in his eyes as much as he would seek his in mine.

I know such men exist too. How? I am already in touch with them for years. Some of them have seen me growing from just sixteen years old teenager to a young adult of 33 years old. Nothing has changed between us, and we all have become such great friends over time. I wish there are more men like them in this world for women to feel safe and loved.

I am not seeking an ideal relationship because that’s not my cup of tea. I am seeking a true relationship wherein a person shouldn’t fear anything while sharing his nakedness with me.

A message for him if at all he exists lol :)

Be it in soul or person I want the whole of you.

Be it your depression or dark days, I want the whole of you?

Be it whatever bothers your soul and you don’t get enough sleep; I want the whole of you.

That’s what I think of relationships and some days ago I wrote a quote which I am going to share it here with all of you.

To know the real me you don’t have to do anything just be real. I am not bothered about your money, status, skin color, caste, and creed. What I am worried about is what breaks your soul at night. Do you have insecurities just like me? Do you cry yourself to sleep? Have you ever thought about committing suicide? Who betrayed you? How did you overcome your fears? As you are standing in front of you about whom you are thinking? Was there a girl who set your soul on Fire? How was she? Tell me more about her. I am willing to listen, and I am willing to cherish your flaws. I am here to celebrate your victories and cry with you in your failures. Tell me everything about what has you been through and how do you see yourself as a person now?- Gurpreet Dhariwal

Read more from me:
Get more reviews. Monitor your online reputation.
By: Nextgen Reviews
Tags: Social Media, Online Reputation, Customer Service, SEO, Customer Experience

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Client Auto Share Reviews

Maximize the power of customer voices. With NextGenReview, your reviews are not only automatically showcased on your Facebook and Google+ pages, but it is also indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo for higher search ranking. One of the best marketing features is automatic, suggested shares to your clients Facebook. They will have the ability to share their review of you on their Social Media with your contact information creating trust with friends and maximizing future conversions with new clients.

Manage Negative Reviews

Don’t learn about negative reviews months later or lose a deal or client due to the fact of a potential misunderstanding. NextGenReview sends you alert notifications in real time so you can address issues before they escalate, turning frustrations into happy customer experiences.

Most companies would be surprised, but more than half the time you catch a bad review and have a chance to chat with the client that left it, you will have them write a positive review on how you helped. Prospective customers who are reading reviews about how a business made a wrong right resonates and will go a long way in shifting that prospect towards your product or service.

Rank High On Google

NextGenReview aims to help you build an SEO-optimized ranking increase by showcasing all your reviews from all locations, along with your current and updated business contact information.

This constant stream of fresh, organic content which will boost your search ranking even further. Customers will easily find your site when searching for reviews of your business or industry.

Know What Every Customer Says

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Simply keep your app notifications on and see the reviews as they come in so you can thank past clients for their feedback.

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Global Azure Bootcamp
By: Nico Meisenzahl
Tags: Global Azure Bootcamp, Azure, Containers, Kubernetes, Docker

Today I gave a talk about Container, Docker & Kubernetes Basics at the Global Azure Bootcamp Rosenheim.

My slides are available on Slideshare.

You will find all demo related files in the following Gitlab repo.

Thanks to whiteduck for hosting this event.
So well done, Terijo, and a wonderful choice for the inspirational spotlight.
By: Harper Thorpe
Tags: Inspiration Prompt, Poetry, Inspiration, Celebration, Chalkboard

So well done, Terijo, and a wonderful choice for the inspirational spotlight. If I may pile on … Meg

Our resistance queen

Thoughtful, not mean

Promotes unity

Inspires Community

Strikes serious tones

And our funny bones

Fine balance achieved

Every word believed
Leadership is Invisible.
By: C. C. Francis
Tags: Politics, Management, Personal Development, Business, Leadership

Good leaders blend in.

It may sound counterintuitive, but think about it. The best leaders are not always the center of attention. They know how to let their teams do the job.

Let’s look at President Obama.

If you didn’t know — if you were an alien from another planet looking down on Earth and seeing this photo — who would you imagine was President here?

Clinton? Biden? Or one of those tall fellows in the back? Certainly not the intense-looking guy glowering in the corner — the shot-caller who had just dispatched special forces over an international border into a nuclear power.

Someone like this relies on the team. He’s not calling attention to himself. He doesn’t have to.

What about public appearances? Famous speeches?

Obama accepts the presidency. (2008)

One of Obama’s most famous public events is the 2008 acceptance speech — delivered to a crowd of nearly a quarter-million.

Think over the words he’s using.

Everything President-Elect Obama is saying here was written and rewritten in advance — crafted and re-crafted by a team of brilliant people. Strategists, writers, politicians, policy wonks. Everyone had a hand in this. This was not cobbled together on Twitter in the middle of the night.

Of course it’s coming from the President-Elect, but it’s coming indirectly. They’re his words, but they’re filtered — honed — sharpened.

In this speech, President-Elect Obama makes a point of diligently acknowledging:

His opponent;

His VP-elect;

His wife;

His kids;

His dog;

His recently deceased grandma;

His siblings;

His campaign manager;

His chief strategist;

The rest of his team, and

“You” — the voters who supported him.

“You” — the voters who voted for the other guy.

He takes a great deal of time to do this at the beginning of the speech: about three minutes. It’s enough time to stand out. In another setting, it might have been boring.

Like many presidents before, Obama relied heavily on the teams he built. He created cohesive units, which did the same in turn, and he led them with efficiency. There was no apparent micromanagement. There was very little strife — no high-profile firings, no self-censorship in reporting up the ladder. No one worried about offending a superior or deflating an ego.

The reason this is so effective is simple. No one knows everything. Not even the one on top. He needs help. It’s the team gets things done — not the strongman.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t like President Obama. I don’t agree with a large number of his policies. But you’d have to be an absolute fool not to understand that he is a leader of the highest order. His rise was meteoric. He achieved extraordinary goals in a short time. His people were loyal and effective.

For a time, Democrats were the de facto majority party once again. They were unstoppable. President Obama’s definition of “progress,” as outlined in the 2008 acceptance speech, was to be America’s future.
Why storytelling is our best tool in disambiguating fact from fiction
By: Eve Weinberg
Tags: Data, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, AI, Ethics

PART 1: NUMBERS ARE MALLEABLE

On the first day, we discussed climate science at length. We (a very self aware room of liberal, number-crunching, data-visualization-making, coastal-living, self-ascribed nerds) attempted to break down the problems with human psychology. We looked at the facts, stats, charts, and graphs; then investigated the human power of denial, dissonance, disincentivization, and the hurdles of behavioral change. After 6 hours of discussion, ideation, and reflection, feeling a bit helpless, we ended with questions that I kept with me throughout the next 3 days of lectures:

Why don’t people believe statistics?

Are stories more powerful than numbers?

Why is denial more powerful than behavioral change?

Why do lies travel faster than truth?

…And what should we do about this?

The next day, Amanda Cox enlightened us with her talk These Lines Are The Same. She showed us that data, even in simple bar graphs, can be misread depending on the viewer’s own bias. She bravely revealed to us that in her department The Upshot at The New York Times they struggle with how to best represent datasets objectively. They experiment in meaningful and educational ways. In one example she showed data from the US unemployment report. The article allows readers to look at the chart with ‘Democratic Goggles’ and ‘Republican Goggles.’

The numbers are the same, but they can easily be bent to the will of anyone with an agenda.

Then she humorously showed us our flaws in clinging to round numbers. She drove the point home with a series of charts, one here showing the likelihood that someone in the ER gets checked for a heart attack, according to their age. As Amanda points out, “nothing radical changes from the age of 39-and-three-quarters and 40, yet here is the data:
A Life Hangs By A Thread
By: Anitha Sankaran
Tags: Horror, Fiction, Microfiction, Fear, Halloween

A Life Hangs By A Thread

Lit Up Halloween Spooks

Image by angela lazeta from Pixabay

I was sleeping like a log. Something forced me to wake up. I tried to open my eyes and took my mobile from the nightstand to check the time. The digital clock in the home screen switched the time from 2:59 to 3:00 A.M. Seeing the light from the mobile after a deep sleep had sent the wake-up signal to my brain, so I got up from my bed.

I went near to the window and looked outside from my high rise apartment. The first thing I noticed was the thick rope hanging in front of the window. I wondered why it was hanging there. I opened the window and peeped out. Then it struck for me that the window cleaner might have left it the previous day after cleaning it.

I closed the window and gazed at the deserted street outside. Suddenly, the rope oscillated. I assumed it was because of the heavy wind, but it began to swing at high speed.

Before I could figure out the reason for it, I saw a shoe descending. Slowly the leg of the person appeared. It was the window cleaner. He was hanging in front of my window with a cleaning mop.

I opened the window, greeted him, and asked him why he was up early. He didn’t answer me. I thought he was rude and was about to close the window. At that time, I noticed the blood dripping from his neck. I was too nervous to check what happened to him and decided to call emergency.

I turned back to take my mobile. Something pulled my hand, and the next second, I was hanging in the rope below the cleaner.

My face got painted with his blood, and I screamed at the top of my voice.

©Anisesh 2019
Promises Kept
By: Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
Tags: New Fiction, New Posts, Idiolect Latest News

The new quixotic literary publication, Florilegium, has launched to huge acclaim (slight exaggeration — it has nine followers and four writers to date). It isn’t the number of writers that counts, of course, but the content of the stories and the quality of the readers. On those counts, the publication is indeed a huge success!

As in real life, giving a home to an orphan — even one orphan — is an act of love. We love orphan stories and the people who write them (myself included — you have read all those Medium posts about the importance of self-love, right?). We hope you love them, too, and tell your friends (You might forward this to them).

What are our goals? To publish more and more great stories that are too quirky, too short, too long, too metaphoric, too arcane, or homeless. A more difficult but important goal is to encourage communication between the writers and the readers. Difficult because readers in general on Medium seem to be shy about leaving comments. I invite everyone to leave private comments, if you’d rather not share. Our kids (our stories) deserve more attention.

Cutting to the chase: Here is what we have so far:

God Complex, a 20-words acerbic, funny story by the mad master, John Tinney

Party Time, a long story within a story (11-minute read) that takes place during a storm in a colonial Old San Juan mansion. by yours truly.

Breakthrough — The Person, creative non-fiction by popular writer Dennett, that shines some inspirational positive light on our mix.

Tentative Tentacles, Trembling Testicles, by your aging editor, who definitely can’t hold his breath underwater for the six minutes it takes to read this. Did I say metaphorical and quirky? I think the title attracted many readers.

Washed in the Blood, another in my new vein of “sanguine” stories. It is rooted in Puerto Rican history or folklore — like many of my stories.

I’ll be back again when there are mores stories to share.

Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle, Editor

A Maguire David Wade Chambers John Tinney Tre L. Loadholt James Finn Keith Lockwood, Ph.D. David Kerchner Zishanul H. Hussain Yoli Knight Tracy Aston Lee Ameka D Abboh Karen L. Jones Whitney Rose James Knight Franco Amati R Tsambounieri Talarantas Tommy Paley Alexandro Chen Ron Flores Sandy Knight J. Brandon Lowry Charlotte Franklin Where Angels Fear Stephen M. Tomic Kathy Jacobs Zack Chapepa Dennett Jesse M. Gonzalez LB Chelsea London Attila Adam Daphne K Moore Andrew Jacono Moshe Forman Cal Whimsey’s Imaginarium Anna Breslin

Note: Thanks for reading. Let me know if you do not want to be tagged or if you have already signed up for this newletter. I’m not sure how this works!

Have a quirky story you want to share? You are welcome to be a writer for Florilegium — just leave a private note on any of my posts. The rules are the same for any of the good publications on Medium, and we are looking for your most unconventional work.
We’re More Alike Than We Are Different, at Least in Facial Expressions
By: Robert Roy Britt
Tags: Humanity, Emotions, Culture, Science, Body Language

You probably recognize the emotions expressed in many if not all of these images, no matter where in the world you’re from. Credit: Alan Cowen, UC Berkeley

We’re More Alike Than We Are Different, at Least in Facial Expressions

Emotions generate the same looks around the world—mostly

Humans around the globe use their 40-plus facial muscles to express common emotions with the same basic smiles, scowls and other familiar looks, according to new research published in the journal Nature. That doesn’t mean there are no differences, past studies indicate.

“This study reveals how remarkably similar people are in different corners of the world in how we express emotion in the face of the most meaningful contexts of our lives,” said study co-author Dacher Keltner, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

The researchers used machine-learning to analyze millions of facial expressions in videos from 144 countries across the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

“We found that rich nuances in facial behavior — including subtle expressions we associate with awe, pain, triumph, and 13 other feelings — are used in similar social situations around the world,” said study leader Alan Cowen, a researcher at UC Berkeley and Google. “This is the first worldwide analysis of how facial expressions are used in everyday life, and it shows us that universal human emotional expressions are a lot richer and more complex than many scientists previously assumed.”

Past research on the topic, which has flip-flopped over the decades, has also found global similarities in facial expressions, suggesting they are largely hard-wired. But there’s also evidence of culture-specific expressions generated by what people learn to mimic growing up, and which would be unfamiliar to outsiders.

Different cultures can also drive different perceptions of expressions. One small study found, for example, that Chinese people rely more on decoding the look in someone’s eyes, whereas Western Caucasians pay more attention to the eyebrows and mouth.

Another study found that an isolated, indigenous society in Papua New Guinea sees anger in a look that Westerners typically interpret as fear.

The science of facial expressions is, we could say, evolving. :)
Sometimes, admitting you’re second best is a good differentiation strategy.
By: Cole Schafer
Tags: Marketing, Startup, Life, Entrepreneurship, Business

Building out a differentiation strategy has always struck me as a bit ridiculous.

It never actually involves brands differentiating themselves from their competitors. But, instead, brands basically just saying they’re the “best”.

No, they might not always use the verbiage “best”.

But, that’s what they’re insinuating as they litter their marketing communication with words like…

“innovative”… “disruptive”… “cutting edge”… “high-quality”…

And, other business buzzwords and jargon that leave prospective customers smelling something fishy and calling bull-shit.

Having written copy over at Honey Copy for brands in industries ranging from beauty to fitness to tech, I’ve realized that the most effective differentiation strategy must begin and end with honesty.

And, sometimes, that requires a brand swallowing its pride and admitting it’s the second best or the third best or even the fourth best.

Don’t take my word for it, though.

Let’s take a hard look at a real-life example of where claiming second best paid off big as a differentiation strategy…
Recent Activities Update from NPER #36
Tags: Blockchain, Intellectual Property, Recent Activities, Nper, Artinblock

Recent Activities Update from NPER #36

🚀주간 이슈 업데이트 2018.11.10~11.16🚀

NPER team has decided to communicate more actively and share NPER’s vision with supporters and followers. This is what we’ve been up to during last week! (Some details may be repeated. We ask sincerely for your understanding.)

[NPER Development]

- What we’ve completed

Core

- Message Queue Development

- Message Queue Development Art in Block

- Service technical enhancement (Notice Function)

- Updates in Admin Page

- What’s in progress

Core

- Test Smart Contract based on WASM

- Fix Minor Bug

- Add RPC Test case

- Test Smart Contract based on WASM - Fix Minor Bug - Add RPC Test case Art in Block

- Service technical enhancement

- English version

- Ideation on the use of CP

[NPER Biz]

- Regarding additional listing on Korea Exchange

NPER is currently communicating with exchanges that deposits KRW regarding the listing and is scheduled to be listed on an exchange in November. NPER is aiming to be listed on 2~3 additional exchanges within end of the year.

- Art in Block Partner meeting

Art in Block had about 250 new creators and over 800 pieces of creations registered during the first month of its opening. NPER will continuously upgrade Art in Block service and demonstrate blockchain-based copyright certification issuance model. To make this project a success, NPER will be meeting with various contents-related partners. (Scheduled for December)

- Media Interview

NPER is currently being interviewed by various media regarding convergence of new technologies and contents.

- Written Consultation for The Korea Institute of IP

NPER has conducted written consultation on blockchain related part in the ongoing research on improving the IP system according to technology and environmental changes. We have given advice on pros/cons of the blockchain when applied to industrial property rights, such as patents, business confidential informations, trademarks etc. We also took this opportunity to share our thoughts and aim on our development.

[NPER Community]

- NPER subreddit on reddit

NPER subreddit on reddit is now open! Please subscribe and create posts! https://www.reddit.com/r/NPERproject/

- NPER Information

Find info on NPER market price and volume CoinMarketCap, CoinCodex, Bitgur and Coinlib!!

Go to>CMC , CoinCodex, Bitgur, Coinlib, Feixiaohao
GastroAdvisor (FORK) on BitRabbit
By: Gastroadvisor Official Ico
Tags: Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Restaurant

GastroAdvisor will create the world’s first blockchain-certified restaurant review feature. Check our website for info about the project! https://www.GastroAdvisor.com

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Our Global Goals book is ready!
By: Kirsten Thompson
Tags: Global Goals Book, Education, Global Goals, Sdgs, Sustainable Development

Our Global Goals book is ready!

A new SDG and STEAM-based curriculum

Developing our own curriculum

When we decided to launch Innovation Lab Schools in 4 continents we started to develop our own curriculum to be used in those lab schools. Jennifer Williams and Koen Timmers found 15 authors — some of the best teachers across the world — willing to participate. The curriculum involves 10 chapters focussing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, making connections with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths). Supplements allow students to get started with Lego WeDo and Minecraft.

Meet the team of authors

The curriculum includes a manual highlighting how teachers can guide their students as the Global Goals book aims students to explore, discuss, brainstorm, create, connect and share their findings.

The book is available for free and was translated to English by Jennifer Lovell, Arabic by Ahmed Al-Quadhi and Italian by Alessandra Pallavicini.

The translation into Arabic was covered by the Brazil-Arab News Agency: Book on sustainable goals released in Arabic.

Get your copy of the Global Goals Book

Download the book (Innovation Lab Schools website)
Who Am I?
By: Agnes Louis
Tags: Poetry, Life, Identity, Self, Self-awareness

Author’s note: I find it fascinating how we — as humans — constantly question who we are as a person.

How do we define ourselves?

How does the world perceive us?

How do others see us?

We are… FLUID.

We morph, we change, we transform.

Every minute, every second of the day.

Sometimes, it’s minuscule, a shift so slight, in a blink of an eye, we have missed it completely.

Sometimes, we wake up to a realization that we are now far away from the person we were yesterday.

“When did I turn into this person?” We would ask ourselves every now and then.

After my mother’s death though, my understanding changes.

Whoever I am,

whatever I am,

in the end,

I will be just another collection of memories.

And with that understanding, came another understanding,

it is completely up to me what kind of memories I want to be when I’m gone.

In the end,

we are all,

who we choose to be.

It was a liberation.
NeurIPS 2020. Comprehensive analysis of authors, organizations, and countries.
By: Sergei Ivanov
Tags: Data, Machine Learning, Neurips 2020, Neurips, Conference

Welcome!

This post analyzes what authors and organizations publish at NeurIPS 2020 this December, similar to the analysis I did for ICML 2020.

Papers are available here. The code is available here.

Disclaimer: As before, such analysis is prone to minor errors due to how people write their names and affiliations in CMT. So this analysis is good to get global insights rather than pinpoint exact numbers❕

Okay, let’s go.

General stats

There are in total 9454 submissions of which 1900 papers were accepted, making it 20% acceptance rate.

The number of submissions continues to grow exponentially with 40% YoY. With this rate in 2025, we may have 50K submissions (good luck to reviewers 😜).

Despite the growing number of submissions, the acceptance rate remains suspiciously constant.

Organizations

Similar to ICML 2020, Google, Stanford, and MIT maintain their status of most publishing organizations.

Interestingly, among the top-10 there are now three non-US organizations: the first time Tsinghua University from China (7️⃣th place), DeepMind (9️⃣th), and University of Oxford (🔟th).

In the figure above I increment a count for each organization by one if this organization participated in writing a paper. Another way to compute the number of papers C would be to account for the number of authors in the paper N and increment C by 1/N. This is what I call the normalized number of papers.

While normalized score is lower than the original (due to collaborations with other organizations), the relative ranking for top organizations remains almost the same.

Authors
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The Inseparable Elements of a Viral Headline
By: Prakash Joshi Pax
Tags: Creativity, Blogging, Headlines, Writing, Writing Tips

Have you ever wondered why some stories do extremely well-gathering tens and thousands of views but some just get buried under the soil despite the fact that they are curated? When I was curated for the first time writing here on medium after writing almost 30 stories, I thought if I had achieved it and all the views and fans will pour in automatically.

But that never happened. Out of the 5 articles that were distributed to a wider audience by medium creators, none of them have even reached near to 1000 views. So, I thought of digging dip into why they were not doing so well and why are some stories doing extremely well.

I analyzed over 50+ viral stories on the medium that had at least 10K claps and what were they doing things that I was not doing. And there I found one common pattern in all of those stories. They all had an extremely good headline that would hardly let me skip. And you all know how important a headline is to get views and more exposure to your story.

Headlines are the first part of your story that your audience will see. Therefore, you should make sure that it captures the attention of every potential reader. I studied how the headlines of viral stories were so compelling. I found a pattern in all of those viral headlines and all of them were using formula type thing. I narrowed down to 3 things that they were doing in their headlines. Here’s why the headlines were so compelling that made it hard for us(readers) to skip them.
What to Say Instead of “Sorry”
By: The Why Girl
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Personal Growth, Life Hacking, Psychology

I live in a country where over-apologising seems to be in people’s DNA. I’m also a woman which means that, statistically, I perceive more things as wrongdoings and, therefore, tend to say “sorry” more frequently than men. In short, I apologise more than need and would like to.

Being able to express remorse for our mistakes is an important life skill but I don’t want to throw my sorries left and right without consideration. This is why I’ve started to “un-sorry” myself and I avoid saying the words unless I have a strong and legitimate reason to. The trouble is, oftentimes you need to replace an apology with something — different words or behaviour — and these don’t come naturally if you are a serial apologiser. You need to learn them.

What should you say when another unjustified “sorry” is about to roll off your tongue? Here’s a list of things to try next time.

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By: Takuya Obata
Tags: Daico, Token Sale, Erc20, Japanese

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PT/DT will start trading on DragonEx
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum

(Reposted from: https://dragonex.im/news/article/1092?curIdx=0)

Dear Communities,

PT/DT trading pair will open from 15:00 to 17:00 on August 23rd, 2018,Singapore time (UTC+8). The trading between DT and PT is one-way, you can only exchange PT with DT.

During the Private Sale, the trading between DT and PT will be at the rate of 1DT to 203PT. Users who hold no less than 500 DT and trade 500DT AKA 101500PT or above in one single order will gain the opportunity to participate in the Private Sale.

Instructions:

1.Please manually refresh the page of trading PT/DT after PT/DT starts trading, otherwise the buy button may not show up.

2.The total volume of PT is up to 1 billion. 100 million is available for this special private sale. The trading between DT and PT is one-way, you can only exchange PT with DT.

3.The rate of PT/DT depends on the market value of DT (Based on the actual release price of PT on the day of Private Sale).

4. PT will start trading within one week after the end of the Private Sale. Please wait for following announcements for more details.

5.DragonEx promises the responsibility to buy back PT on Private Sale price before the Predict Product launched officially.

All DT bought back by DragonEx will be blocked permanently (based on the actual quantity of DT bought back after PT starts trading ) and not circulate in the market, the dividends from which will be all distributed to DT holders.

Predict Token Profile:

Predict is the first trending prediction platform based on the mining-driven mode. It initiates the deflation mode and provides the service of the price trending prediction of BTC, ETH, etc. More prediction scenarios will be supported in the future.

Predict Token (PT) is the platform Token issued by Predict. Its total volume is 1 billion, with 50% for community mining, 20% for PT Fund, 10% for team, 10% for private sale, 5% for strategic partners and 5 % for DragonEx Institute. For more information, please wait for the following announcement.

Official Website：https://predictit.io/

White Paper：https://predictit.io/files/PT_Whitepaper_CN_v1.0.pdf

DragonEx Website: https://dragonex.im/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dragonex_io

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Polymath Taps Crowd Machine to Power White Label Offering for Companies Launching Tokenized Securities
By: Crowd Machine
Tags: Token Sale, Crowd Machine, Decentralization, Distributed Ledgers, Blockchain

Polymath Taps Crowd Machine to Power White Label Offering for Companies Launching Tokenized Securities

PRESS RELEASE: Security Token Revolution Leader Leverages Crowd Machine to Help Companies Seamlessly Transform Financial Securities into Blockchain Tokens

Barbados & San Jose, CA United States — 22 March 2018

Barbados and San Jose, CA United States, 22 March 2018 — Crowd Machine, the distributed computer for building decentralized apps at speed and scale, today announced a strategic partnership with Polymath that will help companies looking to offer security tokens powered by Polymath to raise capital.

Polymath is a pioneer in distributed ledger technology, merging traditional financial securities with the blockchain to provide an avenue for companies seeking financial services and compliant investments amidst the modernization of fundraising methods, a tricky regulatory climate, and limited access to traditional capital markets. The partnership with Crowd Machine will enable companies and developers to build blockchain-agnostic applications and smart contracts without needing to know how to code so they can easily and safely interact with security tokens powered by Polymath. In doing so, Crowd Machine will dramatically reduce the technological barriers to creating security tokens on the blockchain.

“The partnership with Polymath is exciting for us because we recognize their leadership in the security tokens space and see our technology enabling more companies and projects to bring their ideas to market faster,” said Kurt Pfluger, CSO of Crowd Machine. “We look forward to helping Polymath’s growing network navigate the blockchain and smart contracts associated with the platform to achieve the desired speed and compliance of offerings.”

“Partnering with Crowd Machine gives us a competitive advantage, in that their offering will allow companies to execute more quickly and efficiently than they would otherwise,” said Trevor Koverko, CEO of Polymath. “Without a doubt, Crowd Machine will help our ecosystem grow and function more effectively to create an environment where innovative projects have what they need for successful token launches.”

This partnership comes at an important time for both companies: Crowd Machine’s public ICO is days away, launching on April 1. The synergy between the two will bring broader implementation of both platforms as they build infrastructure for the modern finance system.

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Be Careful of the Send Button: How to Control the Way We Connect
By: Dr. Ari Sytner, Lmsw, M.Ed
Tags: Communication, Unplug And Recharge, Relationships, Wellbeing, Health

Image courtesy of Unsplash.

The pen was once mightier than the sword. Today, there is something even more dangerous — the send button.

I am not afraid of the words I write, for they are easy to edit, undo and delete. The part that scares me is that little send button. It represents a tiny, but dangerous window between myself and the rest of the universe.

Who hasn’t experienced the embarrassment of watching a text message being sent, just as your brain registers the autocorrected version of your text? Instead of telling someone, “ I love you”, you might have just accidentally said, “I loathe you”. Slight difference, right?

What about those times where you sent the right text, but to the wrong person? As one of my clients explained, “My neighbor Jody was really annoying me, texting me day and night. I was so frustrated that I texted my sister to tell her how much I can’t stand Jody. The only problem was that instead of texting my sister, I accidentally sent it to Jody”.

Who hasn’t been copied on a group email from their manager, but inadvertently “replied-all” when responding to their colleagues regarding their ongoing frustrations about the boss?

I shudder to think about how many relationships have been derailed, how many jobs have been lost and how many people have been devastated by such impulsive and silly mistakes.

All of these could have been prevented if only a little more restraint was exercised before pressing send.

Abraham Lincoln was famous for composing scathing letters to his critics, where he would unleash his wrath against them. The only caveat was that he would seal the envelopes and place the letters in his desk, never to actually be delivered. He found this exercise to be cathartic, allowing him to say what he felt, but to take great care to not hurt the feelings of others. This form of restraint is a perfect example of how one should pause before pressing the send button.

I have implemented a practice of my own, which I call, “The Slow Send”.

Whenever I am sending a text, Tweet or email, I press my finger on the send button, but I do not let it go for a few seconds. Often enough, during that brief moment of reviewing my message, I will notice an error in what I have said, or to whom I am saying it. Without lifting my finger, I can then slide it over to the side, which resets the send button and prevents the message from being sent, allowing me to correct it before it gets away from me.

Image courtesy of Unsplash

While we are so blessed to have so many forms of awesome communication, we must be careful in how we use them. The fast pace and impulsive nature of life around us is aimed at tripping us up and, therefore, requires extra pause. I am glad to hear a lot of awareness regarding the dangers of texting and driving. Perhaps the conversation should start by realizing how dangerous texting could be just while standing still.

Consider using a “Slow Send” and please share below to comment and let me know if it works for you!