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I Was a Top Employee For an Escort Service
By: Evelyn Martinez
Tags: Relationships, Men, This Happened To Me, Evie M, Sexuality

Stereotypes

As if the world’s worst game of telephone, somewhere along the line, men got labeled as aloof, sex-minded.

It’s a very common misconception all men want is sex, or that they don’t want emotional intimacy in a relationship. (Here’s the research so you know I’m not talking out of my ass).

This is how I, and I’m sure many others, saw it anyway.

I made transactions between a stranger who wanted a little nookie and another with the power to give it — that was it.

I’m not a man, which means I can’t speak on the subject, so I’ll bust out the experts on this one.

BUT.

The truth is, sex is important to (a lot of) men.

There are many of professional sex therapists and marriage counselors in the world making some serious coin teaching people the very simple (but apparently hard to grasp), science-backed notion men and women love differently but are equally affectionate.

While there’s no guarantee who’s “Love Language” is what, a woman’s might center around words of affirmation, gifts, services (who doesn’t melt when a guy takes out the trash, amiright?)

A lot of men love quality time together, kind words, genuine conversation, and (shocker), sex, or even just touch. It’s not their fault, it’s biological.

(Did you know men are 250% more likely to associate sex with happiness than women? Or that the male brain has 2.5 times more space committed to sexual thoughts? That men produce 40 to 60 percent more testosterone than women, which causes a high libido?

I didn’t, but now that I do — Damn, that’s crazy.)

Experts also say while a woman might seek a more emotional connection (not every woman but enough), many times men need sex to feel safe and loved, which can give way to the emotional intimacy so many women look for.

But these statistics don’t mean sex is all men want and that they aren’t into love or relationships.

For example, men are more likely to fall in love at first sight — 48%vs. women’s measly 28%. And 64% of men compared to 52% of women remarry.

(Experts conclude it’s likely because most women don’t want to marry again. What can we say? we’re skeptical as hell, but give a point to the boys, they’re trying to find love.)

In fairness, 33% more men than women confessed they were bothered their partners weren’t more romantic. Not to mention the fact some men, like women, are driven to intimacy through adventure and communication.

Which all seemed impossible to little me.

Then Ryan called.
Here’s Where People Shell Out the Most and the Least for Internet
Tags: USA, Technology, Internet, Computing

The state that pays the most for internet access forks out more than ten times as much as the state with the lowest internet costs.

By Sherin Shibu

The price differences from state to state for internet access, a modern necessity, can be staggering. And internet access is especially needed in these pandemic times, with the rise of online school, remote work, video chatting, job searching, and gaming.

HighSpeedInternet.com released a report on how much the cost of internet varies across the US in 2020. The data analysts took information from 350,000 internet customers spanning the US, found the average monthly price for internet in each state, and then broke down those values to average price per Mbps (megabits per second). The price per Mbps better reflects the internet speed quality, according to the analysts.

The top ten most expensive states for internet access, according to the report, are Wyoming ($7.84), North Dakota ($7.57), Montana ($7.28), South Dakota ($7.17), Virginia ($6.74), Iowa ($6.34), New Mexico ($6.23), North Carolina ($5.87), Alabama ($5.82), and Nebraska ($5.43).

The least expensive states for internet access are Rhode Island ($0.63), D.C. ($0.84), Massachusetts ($1.13), Georgia ($1.65), New York ($1.72), California ($1.86), Maryland ($1.99), Kentucky ($2.00), Connecticut ($2.06), and Texas ($2.29).

Costs range widely; notice the considerable difference between Wyoming ($7.84) and Rhode Island ($0.63).

The national average cost per megabit for internet was $3.91, and the average cost of an internet plan per month in the US is $60. Since COVID-19 arrived, most states have seen an increase in average internet speed, and even some rural areas have impressive access.

States with rural areas generally tend to pay more for internet than states with more urban areas, say HighSpeedInternet.com researchers. The type of internet used can also affect costs: Fiber-optic internet and cable internet tend to have lower costs per Mbps, while DSL and satellite internet tend to cost more.
7 Thought-Provoking Excerpts from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
By: Aushaf Widisto
Tags: Philosophy, Marcus Aurelius, Advice, Stoicism, History

IV.

“To change your mind and defer to correction is not to sacrifice your independence; for such an act is your own, in pursuance of your own impulse, your own judgment, and your own thinking.” — Meditations 8:16

There’s a fine line between resolution and stubbornness.

Both involve a firm determination to do or not do something, but there’s a slight difference: Resolution is based on reason, and stubbornness is based on sheer will. Resolution is “determination after careful consideration,” and stubbornness is “determination just for the sake of it.”

Stubbornness, in particular, has a higher chance to cause logical errors. One example is the sunk-cost fallacy, where someone proceeds with a bad decision even when they know it’s wrong, simply because they’ve “already put too much” into that decision and refuse to change their mind.

But how could, and why would, someone be so stubborn?

Maybe it’s because we all want to be right. So much so that we’d be willing to lie to ourselves about it. Sometimes our preference becomes so skewed, it matters more to feel right than to actually be right.

Beneath that desire, lie notions of free-will and self-sovereignty. Perhaps, what we really want is not the “rightness” itself, but the ability to “think for ourselves” and to “not bow down to another’s words.” More than we want to be right, we want to be more right than others. We want to feel like we have the agency and independence to live in our own truth.

The thing is, that’s neither agency nor independence. That’s just us being enslaved by our primal impulses. In this case, “changing your mind” is not a submissive act. You’re not sacrificing your freedom. It is, in fact, the most rational and self-sovereign thing you can do.

A wise man is firm in his belief. A wiser man knows when to shift it.
Is this love? Nope, just sex…
By: Wistful Writer
Tags: Relationships, This Happened To Me, Sex, Sexuality, Satire

Is this love? Nope, just sex…

Post-sex feelings —they aren't real and you most probably aren't in love

Photo by Prateek Katyal from Pexels

His face is buried in my pussy from behind…Oh my god it feels good. Then he goes on to pound and grind me to dust…magical fairy dust. I am flying, golden sparkles are floating… I am like putty in his hands, he is fucking me like there is no tomorrow. When I sit on his face, he just doesn't let me go…even when am done, he loves being there. He cuddles and spoons after sex, he talks to me about everything in the world. OMG he is perfect. His hands are always on me.

Yeah, that (and much much more) happened…and now I am back in the real world. As I drive back home, images of us are flooding my mind. My thighs are still shaky and I am reveling in the aftershocks of magnificent, wild, sublime sex.

I am overwhelmed with emotions, can't stop thinking about him..and of our time together. Photographic memory doesn't help either. It makes me have flashbacks as clear as day…Feels like I am falling for him. Oh how perfect he is, I wish I could call him and tell him how I feel.

SCREEEEECH……brakes, please.

Hello ..this is your logic speaking — “Calm the fuck down. PUT THAT PHONE AWAY. He is your FWB…remember what that means, FRIEND WITH BENEFITS only, or even FUCKBUDDY. You shouldn’t do anything like telling him feelings. Just sit on your feelings for a while and I bet they will go away. Its the brain honey, it fucking plays games with us”.

I snap out of it. I bet this has happened to some of you too…but we all gotta snap the hell out of it.

Yes I know its pure science, orgasms not only create pleasure in your body they actually affect the brain too…

Here are some facts-
JK Rowling Complicates My Love for Harry Potter
By: James Woods
Tags: Jk Rowling, Race, Equality, BlackLivesMatter, Harry Potter

This past summer Rowling took it upon herself to enter the debate on transgender rights and penned a transphobic article on the matter. I won’t bother to summarize the piece because it makes me deeply uncomfortable, but one part of the piece that shows my disgust for it goes,

So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman — and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones — then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.

The blatant disregard and lack of compassion for trans women are made obvious when Rowling in one moment makes an attempt to say she cares for these women in one sentence but then follows up with calling them men in the next.

After reading the piece, I couldn’t help but take away from it that Rowling is transphobic and harmful to the LGBTQ movement.
Enhanced Digital Measurement Finally Lets Brand Advertisers Become Performance Marketers
Tags: Advertising, Press

Enhanced Digital Measurement Finally Lets Brand Advertisers Become Performance Marketers

Tapjoy’s Steve Wadsworth shares his thoughts on the evolution of digital measurement — and what that means for brand advertisers — with Forbes.

While performance marketers embraced the internet early on, brands were much slower to come to the table. For years, after the internet became a mass media, television remained the leading choice for brand advertisers. Even though consumers started to spend more time on digital devices than their TVs in 2013, it wasn’t until three years later that advertisers started allocating more ad spend to digital. But this year, ad spend on digital will outpace TV spend by 14%, and by 2020 that gap will widen to 45%.

The reason that brands have finally embraced digital advertising is that better tools, strategies and standards for campaign measurement now allow them to understand their campaign’s impact much more effectively.

Until recently, brands and agencies relied on Cost Per Thousand (CPM) impressions and Cost Per Click (CPC) metrics for buying and measurement. Unfortunately, many still do. Video campaigns in particular continue to be bought and sold on a CPM basis, which makes no sense because it doesn’t give the advertiser any clue of what they are actually buying.

Read the full article on Forbes.
Destiny
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Self, Writing, Poetry, Experience, Life

as I walk toward the sunlight

new grass gives against brown feet

one by one mind’s demons bristle

restless on this uncharted terrain

they roar

as if enjoined to prohibit

the warmth that stretches

its fingertips toward my skin

as if hell-bent to inhibit

this long-awaited coalescing

of person and path

but I

will no longer water surrender

this is no time to withhold words

passion propels a timid body

destiny can no longer be delayed.
Ai Saturdays Tarragona
By: Marianna Polini
Tags: Tarragona, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Ai Saturdays

TARRAGONA TEAM!

Co Founder of AI Saturdays

Miguel Guerrero is the Co-founder of AI Saturdays in Spain and Tarragona Leader. Former Microsoft consultant, he currently works for a multinational company. Great passion for Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Social Projects. In the beautiful coastal city of Tarragona, he organized the first edition of AI Saturdays Summer 2018 with great success.

Co-Organizer

Marianna Polini, also Tarragona Leader / Co Organizer, met Miguel during the first AI Saturdays edition in Tarragona, she immediately loved the philosophy of “democratizing artificial intelligence” that joined the team. Strong economic background and great passion for new technologies, statistics and data analysis, is considered the Data Science of the group! Especially she loves apply AI to the business camp!

Co-Organizer

Santiago Frias, Co Organizer, is the most technological of the group (we say the most “nerd”), a big knowledge in the computer and electronics camp. He works in a multinational company, he is defined as the Great Expert in Artificial Intelligence! He participates in numerous projects of great social impact and collaborates with many institutions. If you have a problem, call Santi who will solve it!
Google SEO tools you did not know
Tags: SEO, Seo Tips

Improving your SEO is not always something easy to do. Google is offering several SEO tools to help you out in your daily tasks but not all of them are highly publicized or known. It can be beneficial for you to know all your options in order to be more competitive and efficient.

This list of 6 Google tools you did not know will certainly help you in some ways.

This tool is pretty useful to get extensive datas on your target keywords and on queries which follow the pattern of these keywords. In clear, you can easily see how and which datas correlate to the terms you are searching in terms of location and time.

For example here, we typed “red wine” in the United States and we can see that it has a spike in December and that it is highly related to cheese.

This tool connects with your Drive and organizes your notes, images, voice messages, etc in one single place. In fact, it synchronizes all your devices and works like a reminder. It can be useful if you manage tons of informations and SEO tasks every day and can increase your productivity.

This tool lets you to explore public databases around the world and through different topics and draws you graphs. It can be useful if you are treating public datas or if you own an international business which relies on public records. It can also be helpful to better understand your audience.

This tool is completely dedicated to mobile and allows you to calculate how much money you are gaining and spending through your mobile website by just adding your data or synchronizing your AdWords. It draws you a comparison of data which can be convenient for adjusting your settings.

That tools related to Google Book charts frequencies of any word or short sentence using yearly count of n-grams found in books printed between 1800 and 2012.

Used for businesses that tool can be helpful in order to search for keyword trends in books over the years. The purpose? Imagine you are a company which wants to relaunch a trend that was popular in the 20’s, then you can use that tool to dig into keyword trends. But remember, this app is only collecting keywords from books, not online, so it might be only useful for certain types of companies.

As Google does not index websites made in Flash, this tool has been created in order to replace Flash ads with HTML5. It is thus possible to create ads for mobile and desktop by using CSS3 animations. This tool is great because there is no need to be a crack in coding since it offers an easy interface
Apa yang Perlu Dipersiapkan Sebelum Punya Proyek dengan IT Consultant Digital Agency?
Tags: It Consultant, Project Management, Mobile App Development, Business, Digital Agency

Journal about apps development for business and eCommerce from GITS Indonesia, a Google Certified Agency and Google Cloud Partner. | Website: gits.id

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Introducing Bounty Ninja
Tags: Airdrop, Bounty Program, Token, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Today we’re excited to launch our free service Bounty Ninja at bounty.ninja

You can read the full introduction of Bounty Ninja at http://bit.ly/2yxGJyf

If you’re a big fan of some tokens, please feel free to share Bounty Ninja to your group admin and ask them to try it out. This service is 100% free.

Join Bounty Ninja’s community and keep updated with it!

Facebook: facebook.com/ninjabounty

Twitter: twitter.com/ninjabounty

Telegram: https://t.me/bountyninja
Should you Give Your Work Away for Free During a Crisis?
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Work, Culture, Freelancing, Self, Society

How do you get the words to the people they might help may be a presumptuous question. Then again, if writing is your livelihood then there has to be a reason you come back to the page day after day unless you’re selling something, be that your writing skills.

The problem with a journalism background is the impossibility of writing anything that doesn’t serve the public interest in some way. My jam is thinking out loud and attempting to make people feel a little less despondent. In short, keep calm and carry on, no matter how shit life gets. I’m a limpet.

As a result, I’m still writing on the internet even though it keeps me well below the poverty line but then again it was only ever meant as a temporary measure and investment. And right now, it’s also very practical when you’re stuck at home.

We’re discovering solidarity in real time as a species and it’s probably the coolest thing that has happened in our life time at global level. But it’s not happening everywhere at once, some social media platforms and formats are better at elevating it than others.

Since I’m still in the process of figuring out which ones do this best, it’s occurred to me now may be a good time to let words roam freely.
Vladimir Kotovski
By: Mihaela Miteva
Tags: Education

Vladimir says what worried him before starting AUBG was the competition at the university and the thought of other people being smarter. But during orientation week, he got a different impression: “The good thing about AUBG we learned in diversity training is that everybody starts from one and the same starting point.”

Although this 19-year-old freshman is interested in both computer science and information systems, when asked why he doesn’t major in both, he says: “Honestly, I don’t want to start hating computers at this point.”

Vladimir’s biggest hobbies are video games and everything that has to do with them. He even initially considered game development and concept art as possible careers. He also likes to do things connected to computer science and information systems outside of the curriculum and has a big library of electronic books that he got from a friend of his, whom he met in a game.

Vladimir was born and raised in the city of Blagoevgrad, where the campus of AUBG is located. He says that living off-campus doesn’t make it harder to get to know people, which was a concern of his at first. “It’s really a matter of getting past your comfort zone as soon as possible,” he says.

He attended the Foreign Language High School Academic Lyudmil Stoyanov, and it is also one of the main reasons he enrolled in this university. Even before being an AUBG student, he was an unofficial member of the club Toastmasters, which no longer exists. However, he is now a part of the newly-founded Fitness Club.

Vladimir says he found the transition from high school to university abrupt. However, what he thinks is very useful is the tutoring offered by AUBG, which helped him improve his grades for the current semester.

Vladimir says that in order to understand him better, people should know that even though he comes off as sociable, he feels as though he’s better off on his own. He classifies himself as an ambivert, a person who likes to socialize but also lives in his own world.

When asked what he thinks would be the same and what would have changed in his senior year as compared to now, Vladimir says: “Honestly, I hope what would stay the same is from starting to graduating, not losing anybody. And what would have changed is the whole mindset of looking at things.”

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Mihaela Miteva is a sophomore, majoring in Journalism and Mass Communication. She’s interested in interviewing people and hearing their stories.
After you left
By: Shaleen Rakesh
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Love

You were my lover

you lived here for years, and then

you set our past on fire

and left

But there’s so much of you

that remains here still

on empty shelves

your favourite poets, gather dust

Neruda. Guillevic.

a half torn greeting card

is taped to the wall

a romantic, just like me

you carried a tune

on your lips

now you’re gone

and your room will be cleaned

it will be

repainted and repurposed

but nothing

can erase your presence here

that continues to linger

like frost on windows.
5 Books That Will Make You Happier and More Productive
By: Christopher D. Connors
Tags: Reading, Books, Productivity, Self Improvement, Life

1. ‘Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill

I found this book by doing research several years ago on finance and investing books. Incredibly, despite the deceiving title, this book has very, very little to do with investing or making “riches” in the form of money. Quite the opposite. Instead, what Napoleon Hill talks about is the power to harness our faith, focus on desire, to plan appropriately and adopt a positive attitude.

He spent many years of his life interviewing some of the titans of the 20th Century, people like Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford. He developed a foundation of positive thinking, principles and values that lead to long-term goal planning and success.

He discusses the need to rise above our circumstances by harnessing the power of our minds with an idea. How faith, desire, imagination, persistence and the help of others serve as a critical foundation that will get us to where we want to be in life.

From there, initiative and action must take over. The book is partly a personal success story, partly a self-help guide and partly a philosophical account. It is no slight exaggeration to say that this book completely altered the course of my life. Look no further than this classic tome.
Merry, Merry
Tags: Holidays, Creative Writing, Creativity, Newsletter

Merry, Merry

Self-ish December Updates

Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash

Hello, hail and welcome to December! Whether it’s snowing where you are or burning hot(where I am), I hope you do manage to sneak in a bit of the Christmas spirit. It may not seem like there’ much to celebrate but we are alive and hopeful and happy to celebrate our little wins.

Things we’ve been up to Meet-Ups. Mags. Plenty

In our last newsletter, we announced that we are celebrating one year of the new Self-ish. So we created a beautiful visual compilation of all our favourites so far in a Magazine and we are making Ecopies available for free! Isn’t that great? Everything to love in one place. More on that later.

Sneak peek 😁 . pubhtml screenshot

We also had an intimate Meet n’ Chill in a cute bistro in Yaounde where some of our Cameroonian writers got to exchange with readers on stories, real-life and everything in between. It was much fun.

Enough of gossip though. Straight into our usuals:

Trending

Editor’s Pick

Creole — The Mask by Bate-Epey Ebai Tarkang is a worthy read about using language to forge new identities and camouflage pain.

November Prompt Entries

‘Something worth celebrating’ was our simple theme for November.

December’s Prompt

December is celebration, light, family, love. It is memories, nostalgic and bittersweet. All of these centred around one day. But what if…there was no Christmas???

Here’s the challenge:

A year without Christmas

Think of all what the holidays represent for you. Then smash it to pieces in a fictional piece. 750words is the limit. Bring it!
I Got Fired 30 Days Ago. Here are my results.
By: Matt Davis Motivation
Tags: Content Creation, Entrepreneurship, Self Help, Self Improvement, Writer

I Got Fired 30 Days Ago

Here are my results.

Today marks 30 days since getting fired. Making a note of such observation was interesting, and I wanted to write a little more about what I’ve been doing and how I’ve been spending my time as a newly found content creator/writer/entrepreneur. That’s a mouthful.

Being an entrepreneur can take place in many different ways. There are various routes you can take, a multitude of different avenues, platforms, and products.

Since getting fired, I’ve been on some mission to jump into content creation. This is being done for several reasons. The biggest of which was having what I’ll refer to as an intense spiritual experience where I felt called to begin doing to — specifically to motivate and inspire others.

I know some of you will think that’s silly. And I won’t pretend to know or understand the context of what it is that I’m necessarily supposed to do.

But I’ve been giving it my all.

Now what I’ve done or accomplished in the last 30 days isn’t a lot compared to others, but I am feeling happy with my progress and the journey that goes with it.

I must analyze my progress for personal development in the future and see where I currently sit to set reasonable goals for the next 30 days.

Let’s dive in.
What I Learnt Trying to Build Two Apps Using JavaScript
By: Emmanuel Unyime
Tags: JavaScript, Web Design, Process, Thoughts, Web Development

So What NEXT?

TAKE A BREATHER

Sometimes you need to take a breather, a lot of things could cause you to feel this way, mine was information overload without practice. It could be any other set of reasons, like your actual learning speed, or your approach to the concept(s) in question, and in a field where things are constantly changing, the urge and rush to keep up with trends was simply annoying.

I found that to take a break completely, for even a whole day can go a long way. I used a 7-day process, for the first four days I did other things like upping my workout routine or reading a book. Then the three days left, I did a cross-examination of my learning process and how it can be improved. Then came the next step:

2. TALK TO SOMEONE

If you are learning a course by virtue of being Self-taught (Tutorials, Online Courses, Personal Documentation) then it may interest you to know that, “You can’t teach yourself everything”, if you tried to, it will be a long arduous, and sometimes unnecessarily painful process. There are some mistakes that could be avoided by actually asking and/or talking to someone in that field with a better experience and you must be willing to LISTEN. Don’t drown yourself in online certificates and feel you can do it all by yourself. I will admit, this can be scary, for fear of ridicule amongst many things, so start slow. For me I started interacting with other developers on Twitter and sharing my little knowledge with others that needed it. Then later I met someone that recommended a course by Gordon Zhu that helped me achieve the title of this article.

3. CELEBRATE LITTLE WINS (BE GRATEFUL)

As a developer, I would advise you to follow Danny Thompson on Twitter, he’d teach you how to do this and do it well. Before getting in this JavaScript pothole, I had learned the CSS pre-processor SASS and understood responsive Layouts better thanks to Kevin Powell’s course and this made significant changes to my CSS game, and it was a pretty big deal but I was ignoring it. But later, they would prove very helpful in one of my freelance commissions. Take time to acknowledge what you’ve been able to achieve, this makes you grateful.

Alright, you’ve applied these concepts and you’re ready to learn a new concept or take on a project, what’s next?
🐻The Bear Under the Bed🐻
By: Rolli, Https, Ko-Fi.Com Rolliwrites
Tags: Children, Short Story, Kids, Fiction, Life

🐻The Bear Under the Bed🐻

A story for children

Photo: Annie Spratt / Unsplash

Hi, Friends.

Just letting you know that my children’s bedtime story, “The Bear Under the Bed,” is now available in the latest issue of Short Circuit — and in short story dispensers the world over. I hope you like it.

Cheers,

Note №1

If you enjoyed this post, please consider buying me a coffee. More coffee = more stories, poems, cartoons and songs for you to enjoy.

Note №2

You might like my children’s novel Kabungo — or my collection of bedtime stories Dr. Franklin’s Staticy Cat.

Note №3

Do you like stories, poems, cartoons, music — plus book giveaways and much, much more? Then you’ll love my free monthly newsletter.
Git Basics y Git Flow
By: Kilian Medina
Tags: Gitflow, Git, Version Control, Workflow

Nowports Tech

This publication is going to be used by the Nowports Tech…
Weekly Development Update: January 6, 2017
Tags: Openbazaar, Bitcoin, Software Development

Summary:

Happy new year! We’re back in the grind and have new things we are working hard on in the OpenBazaar environment. Milestone 1 is imminent and will be released soon.

Milestone 1 means the application is ready for basic testing of some core features like the following:

Users can download and install the client and server from Github, and use it to fill in their profile, store info, and post listings

The network can host listings, stores, and user profiles

Users can follow and unfollow

2.0

Front End:

Final bug fixes and style updates on Milestone 1

Improvements were made to the image zooming in the listing modal

Connection Management UI work is mostly complete

Back End:

Chat code is complete

Current Version
Arbitrage on CoinDCX through KoinKnight
By: Bhavishya Garg
Tags: Coindcx, Crypto, Bitcoin, Arbitrage, Koinknight

We heard you like Arbitrage trading and have seen quite a few of you doing that on our exchange. So we thought of making it simpler with the help of our friends at KoinKnight. This platform will let all our users identify various arbitrage opportunities that arise in different coins.

To enable better arbitrage trading experience, we’ve optimized our platform in various ways like lower withdrawal fees, faster deposits and withdrawals and highest liquidity in all coin pairs. And now you can get a straightforward idea about potential arbitrage opportunities as well, that can help you increase your Satoshis🔥

What is Arbitrage?

“Simultaneous buying and selling of coins on different markets or exchanges in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same coin”

Simply, it’s the theoretically risk-less profits you can make because a coin is trading at a lower price on exchange A than the price on exchange B. All you need to do is buy from exchange A for lower price, transfer to exchange B and sell it there for a higher price!

What is KoinKnight?

Arbitrage opportunity on CoinDCX in DGD coin

KoinKnight is a “cryptocurrency arbitrage search engine” platform that helps to aggregate various arbitrage opportunities that arise on Indian and international exchanges.

You can watch this guide by Naimish Sanghvi, Coin Crunch India to know more about KoinKnight and how to use it:-
Mommy, Can We Meal Prep?
By: Ren D
Tags: Health, Lifestyle, Healthy Eating, Motherhood, Parenting

Mommy, Can We Meal Prep?

The question my 5 year old asks me every Sunday

Photo by Ella Olsson on Unsplash

Last December, I met two friends at Top Golf to catch up. We commiserated about our weight gain. We made a plan to sign up at a local gym together, wake up at 4:30 a.m. and meet at 5 a.m. before the children woke up and our daily madness began.

I needed to lose weight for a Jiu Jitsu tournament in April, my friends opted to for personal reasons. We were no strangers to exercising, and not with exercising together either, as we met at Cross Fit several years ago. A couple weeks into our work out regimen, we started ordering lunches from a meal service. Two weeks after that, we opted to make our own meals instead. We went full fledged. Each one of us cooked two meals every Sunday and exchanged them at the gym the following morning.

It took the guess work out of lunch and made life easier. I was excited to try what my friends made. Each Friday, I’d plan my meals before going to the grocery store. We evolved into tracking macros for meals as well. It was a fun learning process since we did it together.

On Sunday, I’d cook in the morning to get it out of the way. I’d watch meal prep videos on You Tube during the week to plan out what I was going to make. My daughter watched with me. She quickly became excited about watching the videos and preparing meals together.

My son has the same personality as me. My daughter, while she looks like me, has her father’s personality. I struggled to find something that tied us together aside from both being girls. Meal prep bonded us. Though I started prepping to lose weight, I continued because of how much my daughter enjoyed the process.
How To Improve Your Writing From Vincent van Gogh
By: Froyle Davies
Tags: History, Creativity, Writing Tips, Art, Life

On 15 May 1990, The Portrait of Doctor Gachet by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh was sold for $82.5 million (U.S.) to Ryoei Saito, (Japan’s second-largest paper manufacturer). This painting holds the record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. How can this work of art, that no one wanted during the artist’s lifetime, sell for such an incredible amount of money one hundred years after it was painted? Is it because of Van Gogh’s incredible talent or is it because of the story surrounding the artist’s life?

Portrait of Doctor Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890, Auvers France (public domain)

Vincent van Gogh is undoubtedly one of the most famous modern artists. His expressive and emotive use of colour and distinct brushwork became hugely popular and influenced Expressionism, Fauvism, and early abstraction. However, during his decade-long career, Van Gogh sold only one painting and struggled all his life with alcohol abuse and mental health issues. He died in poverty, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Van Gogh had a difficult personality. He was obsessive and argumentative, and nobody liked him. The art dealers did not consider his paintings saleable and to survive, Vincent had to live off an allowance given to him from his brother Theo. What happened to change the value of Van Gogh’s art?

It became all about his story.
Resist, adapt, innovate — building a crisis-proof business
By: Dorian Derežić
Tags: Crisis Management, Company, Business Strategy, Management, Strategy

With the news around the coronavirus rising exponentially as its effects on global health and economy become more and more pronounced, many companies are switching into the crisis management mode, so let’s dig a little deeper and see what are some of the key components of building a crisis-proof business, as well as what you can do to strengthen your company!

Let’s get straight to the point — crises in general affect businesses in two concrete and very direct ways:

They affect their financial stability They affect the health of their people

Whatever the crisis, these two aspects are always connected and pronounced, and you as a business owner or a manager need to implement strategies that can handle both if you want to ensure your company’s business continuity, and build one that is truly crisis-proof and that can grow while others stagnate or break.

Now, you might be saying: ‘Hold on a minute Dorian, I get how coronavirus affects health — it’s a virus, that’s what it does. But what about the 2008 financial crisis, for example? That wasn’t a virus.’

True, 2008 financial crisis wasn’t a virus, but every crisis is a time of uncertainty. In 2008, people weren’t sure if they would have a job tomorrow or if their company would stay alive. Uncertainty can lead to panic and stress — which can affect the health of your employees, and ultimately lead to decreased efficiency and productivity of your company. That is why I’m saying that the health and business effects of crises are connected, and that you need strategies that handle both.

Learn how to minimize the crisis impact on employee health and on financial stability by clicking on this link.

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The Island of Knowledge
By: Farnam Street, Shane Parrish
Tags: Poetry, Knowledge, Philosophy, Leadership

We’ve always tried to understand the world we live in. And yet how much can we really know? What are the limitations of Science?

In his book, The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning, Physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces the progress of science and its limits.

While science is not the only way to see and describe the world we live in, it is a response to the questions on who we are, where we are, and how we got here. “Science speaks directly to our humanity, to our quest for light, ever more light.”

Science needs to fail in order to advance. This however means we must be wrong, which runs counter to our human desire for certainty. “We are surrounded by horizons, by incompleteness,” Gleiser writes.

Rather than give up, we struggle. What makes us human is this journey to understand more about the mysteries of the world and explain them with reason.
Greer County, 1888
By: Texas General Land Office
Tags: History, Maps, Texas, Oklahoma

This map of Greer County, located between the north and south forks of the Red River and encompassing over 1.6 million acres, was drafted two years after its organization in 1886. Unlike most other county maps in the GLO collection, this map does not show individual land grants. Instead, half of the county was appropriated for public school funding and the other half for payment of the state’s debt, as depicted by the alternating grid pattern.[1] Another notable feature of this map is that it depicts a Texas county that no longer exists, and, technically, never did. Here’s the abbreviated story of Greer County, Texas — now a part of Oklahoma.

Charles P. Scrivener, Greer County, Austin: Texas General Land Office, 1888, Map #4709, Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX.

Compiled by GLO draftsman Charles Scrivener in 1888, this was the last map of Greer County produced by the Land Office. The locations of several post offices are shown on the map, mostly along the county’s boundaries, and geographical features are noted. Straddling the western boundary between Greer and Childress counties, there is a notation for an “Initial monument as established by United States Engineers.” This marker was placed during the joint boundary commission surveys conducted between 1872–75.[2] At the time of the map’s completion, the county was home to an estimated five thousand residents and over sixty thousand head of cattle.[3] The value of this land to both Texas and the United States for settlement and agriculture resulted in a legal dispute that lasted for over fifty years and significantly involved the GLO and several land commissioners.
Box Of Chocolates
By: Pretheesh Presannan
Tags: Creative Writing, Poetry, Empathy, Love, Compassion

Box Of Chocolates

he did not know how to love

not that it wasn’t there in his heart

but the poor fellow had not received it

he met none with such courage

but only those who make up for inability with facades

he did not know it was possible

so he bought his child a box of chocolates

hoping it would remedy the situation
Globatalent: Introducing Our New Events Section
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Crypto, Investing, Blockchain, Crypto Syndicates

At Globatalent we have had an incredibly successful few weeks. With the increasing rise in our social media following and our network supporters growing at a phenomenal rate on Telegram, we have been inundated with requests, feedback and great discussions about the Globatalent project.

We have been listening.

One of the many requests and questions we receive is about the events that we have attended and are going to attend in the future. Questions about our attendance at such events have increased with the success in our private pre-sale and opening of our whitelist to ensure priority in our crowdsale.

The traction and attention that Globatalent has received worldwide has also caused a need for a more simple user-friendly way for people to arrange meetings with members of our team.

With the Globatalent team spending time in all continents, it is imperative that we can allow the whole world the opportunity to meet us and feel a part of our journey that we want you to be on.

From the USA to China, from Russia to Argentina, from the UK to South Korea, from the UAE to India — Globatalent’s presence all over the world is a truly unique flight path that we are all so proud to be a part of. Our platform is going to be available for all athletes, clubs and supporters worldwide so it is very important that nobody feels left out from the beginning.

As a result, after much discussion with the whole Globatalent team, we came up with the idea of introducing an events section to our website. This section will provide an easy opportunity for all to see Globatalents presence in major sporting, technology and blockchain events globally. We also have created an incredibly simple easy to use format to arrange a meeting with our team members at these events.

We will endeavour to keep this section up to date and we will cross out events that we have already been to. Bookmark it today to never miss out on the chance to follow Globatalents every move!

To access the Events Section click here

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How to Code When You Don’t Have a Clue
By: Jimmy M Andersson
Tags: Programming, Data Science, Problem Solving, Computer Science, Algorithms

How to Code When You Don’t Have a Clue

A guide to decomposing complex tasks and getting them right

Photo by Siavash Ghanbari on Unsplash

Sometimes you are assigned to program something that you know. It may be a piece of UI that you have created before, or it may be an algorithm that you know by heart and can work out in a matter of minutes.

Other times, you are faced with harder problems and need to write code to perform tasks you may not even understand. These are situations where you need to think before you act, or end up in a tangled mess. This article aims to provide a few approaches that will help you decompose the problem and find a correct and computationally feasible solution.

Understand the problem

It may seem obvious, but you won’t be able to solve a problem before you know how to formalize it. Start by breaking up the big problem into smaller sub-problems. Ask yourself:

What are the smaller steps that I need to take to get to my end goal?

What information do I need to make those calculations?

Can I make any assumptions about the data that I put in or get out of those computations?

Asking yourself these questions will pinpoint what parts of the problem you don’t yet understand and where you need to gain more knowledge. For instance, do you need to draw a polygon on the screen but have issues formulating how to place it correctly? Then you probably need to research how graphics engines translate, rotate, and scale different shapes before you can come up with a solution.
Different ways to tackle the data labelling bottleneck in machine learning
By: Nastasia Saby
Tags: Unsupervised Learning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Labelling, Active Learning

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Data are the food of machine learning training. There are more and more data everyday. But most of the time, these data are unlabelled. Labelling them manually is expensive and boring.

There are different ways to tackle this problem.

Active learning

Active learning optimises labelling. It extracts the data that must be labelled.

The system requests a manual labelling for identified cases. Those depend on the strategy you choose. I will cover only two of these strategies.

Uncertainty sampling

When using a model, you get more or less certain results. The idea is to identify and label manually the least certain ones.

Uncertainty sampling example — original drawing

Semi-supervised learning

This method looks for the most certain examples too. It uses them as labelled data.

Semi-supervised learning example — original drawing

Links to go further:

Reinforcement learning

In reinforcement learning, you learn from experiences.

You have a target. An agent tries to reach it by performing actions. Its successes and failures train your model in the right direction.

One day, someone told me:

Reinforcement learning is a supervised learning with data. It just gets these data over the time.

You can use reinforcement learning when interracting with an environment and limited data.

A tutorial to get started with reinforcement learning:

Data augmentation

From a same data, you can extract several others.

You can take a cat picture. You flip, crop, scale or rotate it. From one labelled picture, you now have four new labelled pictures.

From one image, we can generate three others — original photo

A reading about data augmentation:

A small library for image augmentation:

Unsupervised learning

Labelling is a supervised learning problem. To tackle it, you can use unsupervised learning instead. This possibility depends on the problem you have.

Suppose you want to extract anomalies from an ensemble. A supervised learning could label some examples. Then, it trains the model.

Instead, you could cluster similar things together. Groups very different from the others could be anomalies.

It is a simple example. However, it is possible to imagine more complex solutions.

Examples of clustering with K-Means and K-Medoids:

Conclusion

Labelling in machine learning is an issue. It is expensive and leads to boring tasks.

You can keep the costs of labelling down with automatic solutions. I wanted to highlight some methods to do that.