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Introducing: FakeAI companies
By: Uri Eliabayev
Tags: Machine Learning, Fake News, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

Introducing: FakeAI companies

In recent days the network has been going crazy around a new study that found that 40% of European companies that say they use AI do not really do so. Wow.

The study looked at about 2,830 companies who defined themselves as companies using artificial intelligence in some way, but when MMC’s research team went in, they discovered that there was really no evidence of using a Machine learning or anything resembling AI. Why those companies did it? Most simply said it helped them raise more money from investors.

What do we learn from that? A. Not every company which adds “AI” to its name actually doing some AI work behind the scenes.

B. There is a need to make a very significant distinction between companies that use AI by developing algorithms independently, and companies that use ready-made packages or ready-made shelf products.

Do not get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with the last option. On the contrary, I even encourage quite a few companies and organizations not to invent the wheel and use the variety of solutions we have today. Not everyone needs a monstrous algorithm like Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. We have made such tremendous progress that even “shelf products” can provide great value.

The last and perhaps most important lesson is that if we want or not, almost every company will become an AI company over the next decade — whether it wants to or not.

Not because to attract investors or to be sexy in the eyes of the public, but simply because it will become a standard to take the data you have and do something useful with it. The barriers for using a true AI will fell off and we will not make such a big deal of it.

Just as almost every company today is an “Internet company” — it is clear to us all that everything is running on the Internet, so we do not even mention it. This will be exactly the situation with AI in a not insignificant number of years and this is a natural passage of the technology world.
Laracon tickets are now on sale
By: Eric L. Barnes
Tags: Conferences, Laravel, Laracon

Laracon 2016 is scheduled to be back in Louisville KY, July 27th through 29th. The full schedule has yet to be announced but it will include typical sessions like last year with a special day for workshops. Ticket prices are $425.00 if you reserve early, otherwise general admission will cost $525.00.

Confirmed speakers include Taylor Otwell, Chris Fidao, Adam Wathan, Jack McDade, and Evan You.

If you’d like to purchase tickets or submit a talk visit the official Laracon site. If you’d like to see some of the highlights of last years event check out the Laracon 2015 Recap.
Would you go back and get that for me?
By: Ben Edwards
Tags: Time Travel, Congress

I have had a lot of time to think about stuff lately ; )

One of the things I have pondered has been time travel. If it were to become possible how long, do you think, would it take for humankind to destroy itself?

If, lets say you could travel in time as easily as taking a flight to another country, I contend that we would all be extinct in a matter of weeks at most.

The world we would be living in would be devoid of history as it would always be being rewritten. The whole matter of any one individuals existence in the current time would depend on an innumerable amount of conditions and occurrences in any number of pasts. Whether or not any one person is in existence could fluctuate from minute to minute.

Of course I haven’t had too much time to think and so this really could all be garbage-talk. If anyone wants to write me and tell me something intelligent about the topic of time travel just drop me a note.
Callback in C#- delegate, action, predicate, func
Tags: Developer, Programming, Callback, Csharp, Dotnet

Repeat the concept of callback

If you don’t have a clear concept of callback, you should read the article about Callback in javascript that I wrote.

2. Delegate in C#

Delegate in C#

Here, to pass the GiveGift function, we must use the Delegate data type (function pointer). We declare delegate according to the following syntax:

Delegate in C#

In C #, delegates are often used in conjunction with events. Winform developers are not strange with code that calls this event:

Delegate with event in C#

This article only focuses on delegates so you can learn more about delegates and events on other pages.

3. Action, Predicate, Func in C#

In this section, I would like to introduce Action, Predicate, Func (abbreviated as APF for fast) in C#. As you read in the cool C# series, Microsoft developers are very lazy. So they always add things in C# so our developers are as lazy as they are. APF is actually a lazy way for us to declare delegates.

Action: Action <T in1, T in2, …>. Action is equivalent to delegate with return type is void, with in1, in2 is the params received.

Predicate: Predicate <T in>. Predicate is equivalent to a delegate with bool return type, with print being the input param. A predicate can only accept a single param.

Func: Func <T in1, T in2, …, T result>. A function is equivalent to delegate with return type because we declare (result), in1, in2 are params received. Func is required to return value, cannot pay void.

For ease of understanding, please refer to the following table. Here is a table that compares declarations with a delegate, along with corresponding declarations by Action, Predicate, and Func:

Table that compares declarations

You will be surprised to know that AFP, combined with lambda expression and some other things …, has created the “charisma” of LINQ, which Java craves for red eyes without, must be added in Java SDK 8.

I will write about the “charisma” of LINQ in the next articles.

Remember to read.
Notes on Deep Learning — Data Loader
By: Venali Sonone
Tags: Machine Learning, Technology, Deep Learning, Data Science

Deep learning is a success because of big data.

When it comes to machine learning or deep learning 80% or more is spent wrangling with data.

The effort spent by a machine learning engineer or a data scientist to just get the data into format prepare and clean for abnormality is immense. The part of wrangling isn’t even trivial and most important part, so it can’t even be skipped. The wrangling, in fact, is given special attention as it affects the performance the most. This chapter is often revisited a couple of times to be revised.

The deep learning loves noise and learns better with noise but it cannot be yet denied that one has to prepare the data. The loading of data is one of the inevitable tasks. PyTorch helps us with load, preprocess our non-trivial datasets.

It also makes code looks nice^^ so why not do it better :)

Until this point in series, we skillfully iterated over our nice hand-written while loop. This was simple efficient but we could do a lot more than a simple iteration over our data. In particular, we could

Create batches

Shuffle the data

Load data in parallel enhancing multiprocessing

Access easy to use functions to iterate so we don’t have to worry

Use state-of-art standards and common standards across all the programs we develop

These all feature are accessible at ease if we use torch.utils.data.DataLoader

A dataset

A dataset is your data. In Pytorch it is an abstract representation of a class with functions:

len so that len(dataset) returns the size of the dataset.

so that len(dataset) returns the size of the dataset. getitem to support the indexing such that dataset[i] can be used to get ith sample

If we need to write our custom data loader we need to override the above methods
🐍Pattern coding challenge with one twist🐍
By: Keerti Prajapati
Tags: Coding Challenge, Python Programming, Competetive Programming, Python3, Tricks

I’ve been solving some coding challenges since last few days to improve my coding skill. I’ve came across with one question that seems very simple at first, but before I go ahead read the challenge below

It is very simple challange if you use little logic. I wrote code and got same output but test cases got failed. See the code and output below:

Did you find any difference between my output and expected output?

Output is same but why test cases got failed?

Let’s see the difference

Oh…did you see the difference? One extra spaces causes the test cases to fail.

Now the question is which line of code causes extra spaces. Answer is definitely print statement might have cause extra space. “ end = ‘ ‘ ” parameter of print causes that extra space.

Below is the solution I came up with to solve this problem:

I used list to solve this problem. I make a list of every line and print it using join function.

‘ ‘.join(lst) will print list as space separated value.

I hope you learned something new today.

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Modulus Magellan Release Notes
By: Daniel Wei
Tags: Release Notes, Tech, Launch, Edtech, Startup

The big focus: An Enterprise-Grade Education Platform

Here’s the thing — Modulus has almost always been a tool exclusively for tutors and independent teachers. But as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the world of education, increasingly, large nonprofits and organizations have been looking for affordable and simple ways to quickly transition their teachers and students online. With Magellan, Modulus finally gets enterprise-grade encryption and security, scalability, and reliability, so that the 20 nonprofit organizations that currently rely on us, and all those that join us in the future, know they’re getting a solution that’ll last.

A new look.

You’re sexy I’m sexy

Because we’re now an established company, with actual clients from across the US and an updated interface in all regards, we’ve also revamped our look. In conjunction with our parent company, Periapsis Software, we’ve redesigned the logo, typeface, and interface. Isn’t it beautiful?

New Features

Since our focus this cycle was on being enterprise ready, most of our work went into bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements. However, we still managed to fit in a few visible features for the end user

Visual improvements across the board

We improved the user interface by standardizing the look of drop shadows, fonts, and buttons everywhere. Additionally, we’ve checked our interface for accessibility guidelines. As an open platform for everyone, we want Modulus to work even for the visually impaired, and that means our interface is now high contrast, with large fonts, by default — while still adapting elegantly to your screen size and resolution.

Improved Module Editing

You asked for it and it’s arrived — in addition to adding new modules, you can now reorder existing ones! Just click on Reorder Modules, next to the Add Module button, and use the arrows to change the order in which the modules appear.

Course Cloning!

Another highly requested feature — course cloning! As a teacher, under the Other tab of your course, next to the Delete Course button, you can also now choose to Clone Course. This will let you make a new version of your course with a different name, but it’ll copy over all the contents of your course. It won’t however, copy over the teachers or students. It’s great for managing slightly different versions of the same course for classes with different student skill levels.
Cycling around Taiwan in 9 Days
By: Jacky Wang
Tags: Travel, Taiwan, Challenge, Cycling, Adventure

Documenting my experience from cycling around the island of Taiwan in 9 days. If you are also a noob biker like me that didn’t know much going in, included are my lessons and learnings acquired along the way.

Purpose

The purpose of this trip is to —

Try New Experiences — see Taiwan up close and in all the elements in a new and unfamiliar method.

Strengthen Relationships — the bond between us close friends (Ian & Joy) who did this together will become timeless memories.

Challenge myself physically and mentally — a long trip like this is always more mental than physical from my experience. It’s also a great time to get some headspace back from busy normal life to think or just be present and mindful while riding.

Planning

This was the rough plan we had before we started.

More detailed breakdown of each day along with difficulty rating form 1–6 stars. We combined day 8 and 9 to make it 9 days instead of 10.
A Friend of Mine,She Has The Shine.
By: Kira Dawn
Tags: Happiness, Friendship, Love, Soul, God

Preet Preet

When Souls Collide

My Heart Abides

Beautiful Woman

Never to Judge

Two different people

So much love

She is A Blessing

Answer to my prayers

You don’t know how beautiful you are

Your light shines

The brightest of the stars

As for me

I’m from Mars

Before I met you

Felt like I was locked behind bars

Was not content

Was not outspoken

You have helped me

I’m no longer broken

I needed one person to take time to believe in me

God wanted us to be

Preet you mean the world to me

Now the whole world can see

Kira Dawn a.k.a. Your Gorgeous Mess

Copyright October 12, 2020. All Rights Reserved.
Do we have any experience using these “anyone-can-spend” outputs?
By: Segwit Resources
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, FAQ

Yes! BIP16 that introduced P2SH transactions to the protocol was encoded in the very same manner and was, in fact, activated with only 55% of hashing power support over 1000 blocks.

The current multi-stage deployment using BIP9 provides much stronger security guarantees for users by requiring 95% of blocks during a 2,016-block retarget period signal support for segregated witness to activate.
웁살라시큐리티, 헥슬란트 ‘옥텟 월렛’서비스에 가상자산 AML 솔루션 통합, 특금법 규제 발맞춘다
By: Sentinel Protocol Team
Tags: Anti Money Laundering, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Wallet

Together we can overcome the disadvantages of decentralization by transforming them into an advantage for security.

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How to ensure reliable email sending from your WordPress website
By: Ben Zumdahl
Tags: Email, Web Development, Business Strategy, WordPress, Small Business

You may not have given it much thought, but your website can send emails just like you do. Well, not just like you do. But when actions occur on your website — when a form is submitted or a password reset is requested — an email notification can be sent.

WordPress is built to tap into the basic email setup of most web hosts so that sending emails works without too much tinkering. However, problems often arise that prevent emails from sending properly. And you may not notice when you don’t receive that first contact form submission. Or the second or third one…

Use a transactional email service

So how can you ensure that emails get where they are supposed to go? Instead of relying on your web host’s server to send your email, use a transactional email provider. For years now, we’ve partnered with one such provider — Postmark —with great success.

There are three reasons you should consider using a transactional email service:

Transparency: Not sure if all the emails your website sends are getting through? Wouldn’t it be nice to know? With Postmark integrated you can see a full log of emails sent along with a status to confirm if each was received or encountered an error. Branding: Emails sent through your web host won’t appear as coming from you. They may have an obscure email address and are often flagged as spam because of their generic nature. Using Postmark, emails can be sent from your actual email address, e.g.: name@myorginization.com. Quantity: Many web hosts place a limit on the number of emails your website can send per hour or day. There is no such limit using a transactional service. So there’s no worry if you suddenly have a lot of contact form submissions, payment notifications, or petition signatories.

We provide Postmark for email to all of our clients with support plans, and it’s proved invaluable for its reliability (always works!) and clarity (“Yes, you did get that password reset email on…”).

Downside? We haven’t found one yet. Postmark maintains a plugin that makes getting set up easy, and they offer a free plan of up to 100 emails per month.
Structuring a NodeJS API in an efficient way
By: Tarun Gupta
Tags: JavaScript, Api Development, Web Development, Technology, Nodejs

When you are going to start making an API you would always want it to make it as efficient as possible whether in terms of performance be it overall performance, routing performance etc.. If you have selected Node.js as the platform for your API, then you have made a pretty good selection.

If you are new to Node.js and JavaScript and you want to start your journey into JavaScript with some tricks up your sleeve, I would recommend you have a look at my these previous posts:

Node.js being asynchronous in nature provides very good performance, if you do not require high CPU consumption in your API. For more details on the above point you should give a read to the following article:

If you require high CPU consumption (for example, suppose your api has database queries that take sometime for execution, then every time the query is being executed the CPU consumption goes up which can be problematic in Node.js as node runs on single thread and single CPU core) then I recommend that you to use any other platform, instead of Node.js, you can use Django or Ruby on Rails in such a case.

In this article we will be discussing the following things:

i) Setup and Install npm and Node.js on your system.

ii) Create package.json to list the details and dependencies of API.

iii) Install dependencies required for API.

iv) Importing the dependencies in API and their corresponding usage.

v) Routing Implementation for all the calls to API.

vi) Some Additional Tips for enhancement of API.
The Most Watched TED Talk of All Time isn’t Educational
By: Isabella Lahoue
Tags: Humor, Media, Marketing, Ted, Education

In its 36 years of existence, TED has hosted dozens of conferences for artists, researchers, and people with “ideas worth spreading” to share a short speech.

The most watched TED talk of all time is not about data science or some groundbreaking business model or productivity hack (although those are at the top of the list).

The video has amassed 59 million views on the TED website and an additional 51 million views on Youtube, for a total of 111M.

In other words, it wins by a landslide.

After this, the second most viewed video has 64M total views and is given by Bill Gates, who already has a large fanbase of an audience that will listen to anything he says.

It’s also worth noting that the topic of Gates talk was, eerily enough, the possibility of a global pandemic.

It didn’t age well.

Yet, it still doesn’t have more views than this:

This is a nine-minute video about replying to spam email. It’s only four years old. It’s essentially stand-up comedy, and other than garnering a laugh or two, the audience’s lives are not enhanced by the content of the talk.

Why is it so popular, then?

James Veitch was a regular nobody before this talk, outside of the comedy world at least. Yet after the success of this talk, TED invited him back twice.

“The agony of trying to unsubscribe,” his second talk, has 43M views total and and “More adventures in replying to spam” has 34M on Youtube alone.

Sometimes, all people want is a laugh. They don’t want to be educated or challenged. They just want to be entertained.

Even on a platform such as TED, whose audience is one that strives to learn add value to their lives, enriching their minds, people still just want to see something funny.

The TED story is a lesson for all of us — a little humor goes a long way. Add some funny to your story and see your fanbase grow. People will come back for more, just as they did for James Veitch.
Exactly Which Enemy Did Bradley Manning Aid?
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: Wikileaks, Bradley Manning, Disinformation

The Army has charged Bradley Manning with 22 counts, among them theft, fraud and most importantly, “aiding and giving intelligence to the enemy,” by way of providing military information to Wikileaks. Manning is suspected, or said to be, the source not only for the leaked diplomatic cables but also for footage of airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has been held at Quantico since July of last year. (His mental health evaluation will supposedly be complete sometime in the next month, with a pre-trial hearing perhaps in May, and a trial mid-July, at his defense’s request.)

One charge is “wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet knowing that it is accessible to the enemy.” That seems reasonable, largely. But how about the charge of actually aiding the enemy? Question being: hey, who are our enemies? And then which of them may have benefitted from this material? Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t our enemies, as we give them in total something like $12 billion a year. Al Qaeda? North Korea? They sure seem like enemies. Has Wikileaks done them a solid? Resulting in… what? While military court and military law are quite different from civilian law, still, in this fashion, the U.S. has set itself up to prove it’s been actually harmed — I’m pretty sure the standard isn’t “embarrassed”! — and I’m not quite sure how it can demonstrate that… yet.
This Is War
By: Rita Duponty
Tags: Drugs, Poems, Poetry, Writers Blokke, Addiction

Words do not convey the wounded

state of the the young men and

women who have passed away.

Sucked into a spiral of addiction.

Drowning in the hopelessness

they feel.

Seeking the high that will be their

bottom. A bottom with no

return.

Children robbed of a father,

Parents with no son.

Children never feeling their

mother’s touch.

The Covid Crisis may be front

page news. But the Opioid

Crisis is a raging fire out

of control.

From the big cities to the

rural areas, let the alarm

ring loud!

Needlessly our children

are dying in our own

backyard.

THIS IS WAR.

© Rita Duponty, 2020
It is easier to be a robber these days
By: Iva Beranek
Tags: Masks, Poetry, Identity, Dreams, Poem

Photo by Julio Rionaldo on Unsplash.

with mask on your face

gloves safely tucked

in the pocked

ready to put on your hands

no one suspects

you may do something bad;

masks provide safety

these days

it is easier to hide

behind the mask

where unconverted desires

lay unaddressed.

one may wound without

any sense of remorse

or pride,

though the mask

doesn’t cover the eyes;

the soul still

naked,

exposed,

if it meets

someone’s gaze

it is easier to be a robber these days

for dreams

have already been scarce,

hope rising like a dawn

is washed in a low tide

and if the robber steals

what you carry inside

it is because the mask

fooled you that you

were safe

© Iva Beranek
Master Your Productivity With the Rule of Three
By: Patrick Krukenfellner
Tags: Work, Freelancing, Advice, Productivity, Work Life Balance

The Concept

When it comes to productivity, a common misunderstanding is that it’s about how much work you can perform during the day, but that’s not quite true.

It’s not about how much you work, but how much of the right tasks you perform.

If you read a lot about this topic, you’ll already know this, but I’m mentioning it again, because the rule of three makes good use of this principle.

Instead of writing a complete TODO-list, with all the things you want to get done during the day, you only identify three main goals. No matter what, those are the three things you want to get done.

Now, why does this help you raise your productivity?

1 You can only choose three main goals for the day: This helps you to keep track of the most important things to get done. Now, instead of wasting your time with the less profitable things, you can focus your energy on the tasks that will bring you forward the most for this day.

2 Start with the hardest tasks: Since you know what your main goals are, you can directly start working on one of them. So instead of checking your E-Mails in the morning, when your energy levels are the highest, you can directly begin with one of the more important tasks, and get things done much quicker.

3 It’s simple: There’s not much you have to remember. At the start of the day, or even the day before, you only have to put three things on your list. With that, you have a clear idea of where you want to go with this day.

4 It’s scalable: The concept can not only be applied to your daily goals, but also weekly, monthly, or even yearly. Let’s say your daily goal is to take notes for the first chapter of your book, then the weekly goal could be to finish the first chapter, and finishing the whole book could be something that you want to achieve over a longer period of time.
The Echo #22
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Paradigm is an investment firm focused on blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and cryptonetworks shaping data economy and financial industry since 2013.

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Making An AI That Beats Doctors in Heart Failure Prediction
By: Frederik Bussler
Tags: Health, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Making An AI That Beats Doctors in Heart Failure Prediction

Building a world-class model… in 3 minutes. ❤️

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash

A pervasive myth in AI is that you need a ton of data and resources. While deep neural networks are data-intensive, there are many powerful AI use-cases with small data as well. For instance, an analyst predicted 2020’s insanity with less than 100 rows of data.

Here, I’ll use a 299-row dataset to predict death from heart failure, based on a dozen clinical features.

Background

Almost a third of the deaths are caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). CVDs are often preventable and may arise from excess sugar, tobacco, or alcohol consumption — or even an animal-based diet.

Given that almost 18 million people die from CVDs every year, an accurate early detection model for heart failure could save many lives.

The Data

Medical researchers analyzed 299 Pakistani patients with heart failure, showing that “serum creatinine” and “ejection fraction” are strong predictors of survival. Serum creatinine refers to an enzyme that flows into the blood when muscle tissue is damaged, while ejection fraction refers to the percentage of blood pumped by the left ventricle in a contraction.

Other features, such as anemia, high blood pressure, diabetes, sex, and smoking are also in the dataset.

The top predictive model these researchers made achieved 74% accuracy, beating the human specialist performance of around 59%. Using the no-code AutoML tool Apteo, we can outperform both.

Creating a Model

The data already contains the column we want to predict, DEATH_EVENT (0 being that the patient survived, and 1 meaning that the patient died), alongside 12 other columns, or attributes we can use to predict death.

I uploaded the data to Apteo and hit the “Insights” tab, to then automatically generate a model that predicts death. After a time (or simply the follow-up period in days), we can indeed see that (high) serum creatinine and (low) ejection fraction are the biggest predictors of death.

While the original researchers focused on those two features, including all the other attributes yields an even more accurate model, with 82.3% accuracy. For instance, men are more likely to suffer heart failure, and high sodium content in the blood leads to heart failure as well.
[TGE] Week 13: Blockchain development completed and forthcoming conferences.
By: Tge Graphgrail Ai
Tags: ICO, Weekly Digest, Roadshow, Blockchain, Bitcoin

March 26 — April 1

Development

The previous week was very fruitful for the GraphGrail Ai team. The blockchain of the chat-bot was completed, and a final description of the smart contracts and supporting tests were also carried out. Further focused and detailed activity of the developers on integration of smart contracts with the GraphGrail Ai system (that is, with the chat-bot itself) is planned for the coming week. The work plan includes the installation of a local blockchain and test environment, the launch of a Rinkeby test network for the functioning of the bot-marker. An important feature of this network is that it will have a test token (unlike the GAI), which will be distributed to the markers. But, at the same time, the data will already be recorded in the blockchain, despite the fact that it will be operating in a test network.

More information about the ready-made smart contract of GraphGrail Ai, its functions, detailed mechanism for marking the data can be found in publications in English and in Russian.

Cooperation

Negotiations were held with representatives of the TravelChain project (a decentralized data exchange platform for the tourism market), which is interested in analyzing messages in social networks.

Convenience

GraphGrail Ai conducted work on assigning the GAI Token on etherscan.io. Now the GAI Token will be branded. For conducting verification, etherscan fully checks all information about the company. This means that instead of the address in the list of transactions containing a lot of letters and numbers, the GraphGrail Ai Token name will be immediately displayed.

Marketing

The GraphGrail Ai team will take part in Demo Day, a significant event in the South of Russia, with the aim of presenting the project, and getting new business contacts. The event will be held April 12–13 in Rostov-on-Don in the country club “Grafsky Park”. The conference is aimed at investors and start-ups from different sectors of the economy. The event will be attended by the government of the Rostov region, representatives of leading companies in the region and the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasus Federal District. The planned number of participants is 300 people. The organizer of the event is Southern IT Park.

In addition, the team actively discussed participation in international conferences (Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore), all of which will be discussed in the next newsletter!

Stay tuned to our news and updates! Yours truly, GraphGrail Ai!

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Bound to the Ground
Tags: Capitalism, Nature, Poetry, Travel

These beings of flight

are creatures I envy.



Unless I pay the price,

I am stuck here;

a creature of land,

of dirt and vice.

Being a creature

of dirt and grass,

of mud and ground,

of strain and cost,

drains and exhausts.

Wish I could fly away to not be sound;

to not be confined to the dirt and ground.
Binance Flash Update
Tags: Binance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, News

24-Hour Volume Rankings by Exchange on Coinmarketcap

Binance remained in the Top 2 exchange by 24-Hour Trading Volume

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/

1. Listings

Binance Will List TrueUSD (TUSD) at 2018/05/22 04:00 AM (UTC)

https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003925232

2. Online Activities

Binance Doubles Referral Rewards

（1）Get your link — https://www.binance.com/invite.html

Register and generate referral links and QR Codes.

（2）Invite friends

Invite your friends to register through the referral link or QR codes and get rewards once they complete a trade.

（3）Get Rewards

Receive up to 40% commission in real-time.

Each user’s commission rate will then be adjusted each day based on their BNB holdings.

CLOAK Competition — 5,000 CLOAK Giveaway

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How To Build Your First Serverless API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
By: Andrew Bestbier
Tags: AWS, Serverless, JavaScript, Programming, Amazon Web Services

How To Build Your First Serverless API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

An in-depth tutorial

Hi there. My name’s Andrew and I’m a JavaScript developer based in London.

In this piece I’ll be guiding you through the process of building a Serverless API on AWS.

I have written up a more complex follow up article here that would be an excellent next step once you have read this one.
Manchester United Waiting for Sancho’s Price to Drop
By: Sfiso Jiyane
Tags: Manchester United, Sports, Soccer, Transfer Talk, Jadon Sancho

The queue to sign Borussia Dortmund star Jadon Sancho is long. Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid are all reportedly eyeing the England international. Manchester United, though, are prepared to wait.

Manchester United are waiting for Jadon Sancho’s price to drop before making a move for the Borussia Dortmund star, according to the Daily Mail.

Sancho has been tipped to join Premier League giants United at the end of the season, though Liverpool, Chelsea, former club Manchester City and Real Madrid are also believed to be interested.

However, United are hoping to drive down the £100million (€110m) price tag.

Manchester United Chairman Ed Woodward is known for talking his time when dealing with transfers in order to tumble players price tags.

Although Manchester United play hard ball to sign the Dortmund sensation youngster, it is reported that Jadon Sancho is waiting on UEFA’s decision on man city before making a move.

If 5th place is awarded a UCL spot, United will be ready to sign the young star.

Manchester United are aware that Champions League football could be an important factor in signing Jadon Sancho, but sources say it isn’t a deal breaker.
111 Days of Andrew Cuomo
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Social Isolation, Covid 19, Relationships, News

So, while I will miss seeing him sit on stage with his faithful sidekicks’ top aide, Melissa DeRosa, Robert Mujica, Budget Director, and Dr. Zucker Health Commissioner and having him scold the journalist Bernadette for her outlandish questions. I have moved on to the final stage of a breakup which is redirected hope. I am not angry and or in denial or even in need of holding on to this one way zoom like correspondence. He helped me and the State of New York through a time of despair when no one else could. He changed policy that had been ignored for way too long and he made me laugh and cry for three months.

It is now time to put my mask on and go outside and prepare for phase II of life after COVID. I am still woozy on how to navigate it, and I will need to resort to other news to fill me in on statistics and changes. But I will never forget what one man did for me as I lay frightened alone on my couch in a time when no one else could calm me. So, here’s to you, Andrew. To your daughters, your brother, your mother, and your cohorts, and thanks for being there for me all these past months. I will miss you, but it is time for all of us as a city, and a nation to move on.

He usually ends his briefings saying, “I’ve got to get to work.”

And I have to get to work as well. Learning to adjust and modify my life without my daily fix of Cuomo sermons. I think I’m ready. Plus I’m kind of tired of all his yelling. Carpe momentum New York. After all, we are New York Tough.
Kiali Mid-Sprint Bonus — Response Flags
By: Jay Shaughnessy
Tags: Kiali, Istio, Service Mesh, Kubernetes, Openshift

A nice little feature is included in sprint 20 for the Kiali project. Kiali is a project for observing your Istio service mesh on OpenShift or Kubernetes. Kiali is observability for Istio, and we try hard to give you the very best graph visualization of your service topology. The graph helps you confirm that your mesh is behaving well, or to quickly identify areas that may need attention. For example, using the common bookinfo example, we can see below that requests from productpage to the details service are having issues:

Bookinfo Namespace Graph

The red edge indicates failures and the summary panel on the right reflects failures as well. Currently the summary is for the entire bookinfo namespace because we have not selected any graph element. Let’s focus on the problem edge by zooming in and clicking it:

Select the Problem Edge

Now the side panel summarizes the edge from the productpage app to the details service. We pause the graph and see that for the current time period we’re making about 1 request per second and that about 17% of the requests are failing. We can also see that the details service is decorated with an Istio virtual service (the “fork” badge on the node label shows this). But we still don’t know exactly why the requests are failing. To find out we can turn to the new Response Flags tab in the side panel. You’ll notice that there are now two tabs in the edge summary panel: Traffic and Response Codes. The default Traffic tab provides the familiar table and bar chart summary of the request traffic. Now let’s click on the new Response Codes tab:

Response Codes Tab

This new table provides the actual response codes reported for the current time period, broken down by any provided response flags. By hovering we can get a description of the code. We can now see that the failures are being generated by fault injection (FI) due to the virtual service. There are several response flags to help understand your traffic, here are a just a few that can be very useful:

DC (downstream connection failure)

FI (fault injection)

UO (overflow/open circuit breaker)

UT (upstream request timeout)

From here we can do more cool stuff, all inside Kiali, like navigate to the service detail, edit the virtual service yaml and change the FI rate, or get lots of more detailed charts about historical performance, etc. We push a new docker release at the end of every sprint, and update the latest tag on every merge to master, so keep an eye out for this new feature.
Create Scaffold with Laravel 5.7 — Authentication (Part 1)
By: Alfredo Barron
Tags: Laravel, Authentication, Vuejs, Coding, Scaffolding

Table of Contents

Install Laravel Application

First step open your terminal and typing the next command:

laravel new laravel-scaffold

Install Laravel Authentication

Enter to folder project an run the next command:

cd laravel-scaffold

php artisan make:auth

Create DB

Run the next commands:

mysql -u{user} -p{password}

mysql> create database laravel-scaffold;

Configure DB

Edit .env file

nano .env

Into .env file fill the data base vars

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

DB_PORT=3306

DB_DATABASE=laravel-scaffold

DB_USERNAME=user

DB_PASSWORD=password

Create tables

Run the next command:

php artisan migrate

Generate User Table Seed

Create UsersTableSeeder.php with the next command:

php artisan make:seeder UsersTableSeeder

Into UsersTableSeeder.php file write the next code:

<?php



use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;



class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder

{

/**

* Run the database seeds.

*

* @return void

*/

public function run()

{

factory(App\User::class, 50)->create();

}

}

Add UsersTableSeeder.php seeder to DatabaseSeeder.php

<?php use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

{

/**

* Seed the application's database.

*

*

*/

public function run()

{

$this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);

}

} class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder/*** Seed the application's database. @return void*/public function run()

Run seed

php artisan db:seed

Install Vuejs Frontend

Run the next command:

npm install

Add Browsersync Reloading into webpack.mix.js file

mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')

.sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css')

.browserSync('laravel-scaffold.test');

Finally Compiling Assets (Laravel Mix) with the next commans:

npm run dev

// or

npm run watch

Now we have the next screen when enter the http://localhost:3000 route in browser

http://localhost:3000/login

http://localhost:3000/register

http://localhost:3000/password/reset
The Lessons I Learned When I Created My One-Man Micro Startup from Literally Nothing
By: Jameel Randeree
Tags: Startup Life, Productivity, Startup Lessons, Business Strategy, Startup

The Lessons I Learned When I Created My One-Man Micro Startup from Literally Nothing

This is a mini-success story of a micro-startup written by a man with little experience!

Photo by Avi Richards on Unsplash

I started a business from scratch in a small town that was still discovering social media and found success quickly, in just a few months.

My new hobby turned business was so niche and outrageous for small-town folk, yet my services turned out to be insanely high in demand. However, I did run into a fair share of challenges along my entrepreneurial journey.

Here’s my story of how I started a business from scratch, with zero funding, and turned it into a decent company within a year.
STAR*** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project — Page 7
By: Jonathon Howard
Tags: Robert Heinlein, Prose, Sci-Fi, Poetry, Heinlein

The planet

Punched, blown

Out,

Dispersed.

The atmosphere

Down. Near

Zero

Burned away.

Burned off.

The sky?

Junk.

No people in this one and nothing dying. Just a blasted planet. Was it too close to it’s own sun? Did it’s atmosphere get caught up by a interstellar object travelling across it’s orbit? Did something terrible happen there long ago? Who knows… rock and stone never reveal their secrets.
What “Her” teaches us about AI and human relationships
By: Mehul Jain
Tags: AI, Machine Learning, Data Science

“Her “ movie poster

Artificial Intelligence is the manifestation of human curiosity to discover the secrets of the human brain and its complex functioning.

The story takes place in a distinct reality where a software company releases an operating system (OS) that is artificially intelligent and is meant to be the perfect personal assistant. The film revolves around the relationship between the protagonist and his AI operating system /assistant.

As the film progresses we see their relationship becoming complex and euphoric. Throughout the course of the film, we see the AI adapting and evolving according to the emotions of the protagonist. This striking similarity to human relationships captures the true essence of an artificially intelligent system. A true AI should be able to communicate with humans in an intimate and personal way, understanding their needs and wants. What seems extremely fascinating is how each experience shared by the protagonist becomes a source of information for the AI, which it uses to learn more about the protagonist and interact with him. We see how the AI helps in propelling the protagonist towards a more meaningful and purposeful life. The film thus captures the immense potential that AI has in improving our lives and making them more meaningful.

Apart from presenting a beautiful picture of the future of AI, the movie teaches us an important lesson about the human need for connection and profound relationships. It tells us how every person longs for a meaningful connection and a blissful exchange of emotions. The protagonist of the story who is anti-social and depressed at the beginning of the story re-discovers himself through his interactions with the AI and restores his relationship with his close friends and colleagues. The movie shows us how an understanding and unbiased listener can catalyze the development of an individual. It teaches us about tolerance, patience, and love. Throughout the story, we see the AI motivating and inspiring the protagonist to bring out his lost joy and curiosity about the world. We see a symbiotic relationship is established between the OS and the protagonist.

Finally, “her ” teaches us about the infinite and everlasting potential of a human being just waiting to be re-discovered from among the hidden layers of chaotic and unfortunate life experiences, giving us hope to pursue and persevere.
BOHS — The melting pot for education
By: Choyun Lee
Tags: China, Study Abroad, Science, Education, News

Photo courtesy of Thomas Dewey

During the summer, the BOHS science department welcomed students from China for the New Oriental Global Study Tour, an exchange program dedicated to introducing Chinese students into American education and culture. Exchange students, ranging from seventh to twelfth grade, were led through stations which featured science-related activities as well as bonding with BOHS students for five weeks, from July 5 to Aug. 8.

“It’s not about the education, but the social interactions between the students,” Wade Cormier, chemistry teacher and program coordinator, said. “[The exchange students] enjoyed the activities, and Brea students [also] loved it.”

This is the second year BOHS has hosted the Chinese students. The program offers activities involving demonstrations based on biology, chemistry, and physics. Hands-on-learning activities, such as building rockets, cooking s’mores, and chemical lab reactions occurred during the weekdays while the Chinese students visited tourist destinations like Disneyland and Universal Studios during the weekends. Cormier noted that the program inspired him to “broaden the educational system for foreign students.”

Chinese students stayed for two weeks at BOHS, with a new group arriving every week. Each group rotated from 50 students every week to 90 students the next, with a total of 200 students participating in the exchange program. Despite a language barrier, the students from both countries thoroughly enjoyed the chance to mingle throughout the five week long program.

“Quite a lot of them knew a fair amount of English, and some had their translators as well. They liked the social aspect, [and] realized that the learning atmosphere was more relaxed [compared to their own schools].” Cormier said.

Thomas Dewey, physics teacher, noted the exchange students’ determination and enthusiasm throughout the program.

“I learned a lot from [the exchange students]. I would give them challenges, and when some were struggling, they would help each other. I was really impressed with their ability to go forward and make things happen without giving up.”

Not only did the Chinese students enjoy their time in America, but BOHS volunteers also had the chance to make new friends and learn about the different cultures of their counterparts. According to Cormier, BOHS students found the exchange students “very warm, inviting, and open to discussion.”

“I enjoyed the program and was so pleased to be a part of it,” Jinha Kim, junior, said. “It was a great experience to get to know and work with foreigners who may be unaware of our culture and customs. Communicating with [the exchange students] taught me that even though the Earth is huge, people across the world share common interests and goals.”