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CONSUMER……??
By: Manisha Gupta
Tags: Temptation, Digital Content, Poetry, Consume, Haiku

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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Lock Her Up, Build that Wall, Or Take Her Out?
By: Christyl Rivers
Tags: Politics, Resistance Poetry, Fear, Democracy, Elections

Do not go gently into that good slaughter, Christyl RIvers

He knows up to three words.

But we should not look at him.

Be wary of myopic, misled herds,

And worlds lost on Stone Walled Whim
What is everything made from?
By: Jon Hawkins
Tags: Contemplation, Philosophy, Theology, Naturalist, Ancient Philosophy

Solution 2 — Anaximander on the Apeiron

Anaximander, student of Thales’ strongly rejected claims on water. He follows the supposition that it is wrong to attribute the arche to one of the 4 elements, given that all are reducible to each other. Given that this would entail that any single element (fire, or air by example) could be the first principle.

Instead, Anaximander attributes this principle to the Apeiron (meaning indefinite, boundless or infinite.)

On this account, there exists a temporally and spatially infinite substance that has and always will exist. It is forever in eternal motion, and when it becomes unbalanced; causes powers (such as hot or cold,) which then leads to the 4 elements. These elements then form the basis for all things that exist.

This means that all things, including you and me; are reducible to the apeiron — and, according to Anaximander; all things that die or decay then revert back to it. This allows for the apeiron to be temporally infinite, and seems intuitively true — given there are beliefs that when we die we give back to nature, to continue the cycle of life.

But is the proposal of the apeiron true?

It seems that Anaximander’s refutation of one of the elements being the arche holds true: given that later philosophers such as Anaximanes proposes that the arche is air. It seems there is no reason to favour the element of air over water : given that water is reducible to air (so is arguably it’s underlying element.)

But is it true that there exists an infinite substance that forms the basis for all elements? It is important to note that it is widely disputed what is meant by the Apeiron, however my explanation of the substance stems from interpretations undergone by Aristotle.

Other scholarly reading’s underpin the apeiron as that which cannot be experienced. If that is the case, then how can we confidently and objectively accept it, or reject it?

What do you think? Is the Apeiron a strong theory, or does something else exist which everything is made from?
Beyond
By: Harmony Birch
Tags: Travel, Poetry, Ignorance, Free Verse, Eden

Beyond

Free verse

Photo by Zbynek Burival on Unsplash

Soft kisses.

Wide smiles.

A sunny meadow full of wildflowers.

Each unique and fragrant.

Sun that only warms and never burns.

It tickles your flesh.

Sweet birdsongs coming from tall protective oaks.

A fluffy, white elephant that shapeshifts into a sailboat across a clear blue sea.

Not once has a thorn pricked your delicate flesh

nor the hard ground bruised your bones.

But somewhere,

beyond the garden,

you can taste salt and storm.

Somewhere you can feel the howling wind

and see a violent sea.

Somewhere there is a promise of more,

of something foreign and dangerous.

And once you leave nothing will ever be the same again.
Royal Marines With LAW Rockets Outfought Argentine Commandos
By: Robert Beckhusen
Tags: Military, WIB History, History, War

Royal Marines With LAW Rockets Outfought Argentine Commandos

A British officer later noted the Argentines didn’t lack for courage

by ROBERT BECKHUSEN

In late May 1982, British troops slogged across the broken, hilly muck of East Falkand with the objective of pinning in place and defeating the Argentine Army — which the British would do two weeks later.

But the campaign leading up to the Argentine defeat was not short on pitched clashes and lengthy, hilltop firefights. What’s also striking about the final weeks of the Falklands War is that the era pit two technologically matched adversaries — in most respects — against each other in an infantry battle.

One brief and obscure firefight occurred at the Top Malo House, an abandoned shepherd’s house occupied by 16 Argentine soldiers of the 1st Assault Section, 602 Commando Company. From the position, the commandos could observe British maneuvers and threaten aircraft with shoulder-fired Blowpipe anti-aircraft missiles.

The task of knocking out the position fell to a group of Royal Marines with the Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre — a “less celebrated” but no-less-tough elite unit compared to the SAS and SBS, according to historians Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins.

The 19 Marines were just about evenly matched with the Argentine commandos, but these were actually uneven odds according to the general military rule that an attacker should outnumber a defender by at least three times the defender’s strength, given the inherent advantages of the defense.

The Marines made up the difference with firepower.
Coindelta lists Paxos Standard Token (PAX)
By: Team Coindelta
Tags: Bitcoin

Coindelta lists Paxos Standard Token (PAX)

Dear Community,

We are delighted to announce the listing of Paxos Standard Token (PAX) on Coindelta!

Deposits and Withdrawals are live now and the trading will start at 06:00 PM IST, 28/11/18.

Coindelta lists PAX

Things to keep in mind:

The withdrawal fee for PAX is 1 Minimum deposit for PAX is 5 Number of blockchain confirmations required is 10 Recovery fee for PAX is 1

What is Paxos Standard Token (PAX)?

Paxos is a Trust company, regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services, with deep experience as an intermediary between fiat and digital assets. Paxos Standard is the first digital asset issued by a financial institution and is fully collateralized by USD.

PAX will always be redeemable one-to-one with USD (1 PAX = $1 USD), providing a stable and common currency for digital transactions.

You can read more about Paxos Standard Token (PAX) here.

Where else can you find PAX?

Following are the platform where you can find PAX

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by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Wednesday, Art

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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The Concept of Unconditional Romantic Love Needs to Die
By: Hollie April
Tags: Relationships, Love, Dating

The Concept of Unconditional Romantic Love Needs to Die

It’s really harmful to our relationships

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

Can any of us ever really promise to love someone forever?

If I ask you if there is something that your significant other could conceivably do that would make you fall out of love with them, I imagine that your head would fill with some truly terrible possibilities, and you’d answer, unequivocally, ‘yes’.

So why is it that, as a society, we like to believe that an untouchable, never-ending love is not only attainable but desirable?

To get past this and build healthier kinds of romantic love, we need to examine the phrases which make it seem like our feelings couldn’t be otherwise and consider whether we truly mean what we say.

What are some of the common phrases that categorize unconditional romantic love?

Example #1: “I’ll always love you, no matter what.”

This one sounds familiar, right? You’ve probably seen a romance film or read a romance novel in which a character throws around a sentiment just like this. It slips out naturally like they couldn’t imagine saying anything else. Phrases like this provide examples of how the concept of unconditional romantic love is peppered throughout our lives. You probably don’t even think about it that often. But if you do take a moment to consider it, it seems a bit strange. If this is taken literally, this person appears to be saying that no amount of hurtful treatment from their partner could cause them to fall out of love, which seems unhealthy.

Example #2: “Till death do us part.”

This is another phrase that is probably very familiar to you. It’s a part of many traditional wedding vows, and it should likely come with an asterisk. Both bride and groom could probably admit that actually, there are a fair few things that could potentially transpire that could very well lead to a parting long before death. But perhaps that wouldn’t seem very romantic. Such is our seeming insistence to continue to pretend that romantic love is unconditional, even given all of the evidence to the contrary (including divorces.)

Example #3: “I can’t imagine life without you.”

Sometimes, someone fits into your life so perfectly that you can’t believe that they were ever not in it. Everything slots into place, and you feel a deep sense of calm, unable to fathom not wanting it to continue. It’s a great feeling. But in order to really value romantic relationships, we need to avoid taking them for granted, and that means being able to imagine life without them.
Introducing the Deep Learning AI Canvas
By: Carlos E. Perez
Tags: Lean Startup, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence

© 2017 Intuition Machine Inc.

One of the big mysteries of Deep Learning is, how do we apply this disruptive new AI technology to improving our businesses? There are plenty of questions that are quite open to be able to answer this question. Which business process shall I apply Deep Learning to? Is it even feasible to apply Deep Learning to my selected context? Will it be worth the effort? Are my expectations of A.I. unrealistic? How exactly will I go about implementing this?

These are just a few of the questions that will pop up. It is indeed a complex subject and we definitely are in dire need of some kind of framework where we can organize our thinking around this. That’s what this canvas is for.

Detailed in ”The Deep Learning Playbook”:

Coming soon to an internet bookseller near you!

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Javascript. 6 tips to improve the performance of the code you write
By: Gerardo Fernández
Tags: JavaScript, Front End Development, Javascript Tips, Javascript Development, Reactjs

Compute only once

Many times we do not pay attention to the times that we force Javascript to reserve memory for the same object or to perform the same heavy calculation:

function calculateSomethingHeavy() {

...

} function foo(bar) {

const result = calculateSomethingHeavy();

// do something with result and bar

} foo(1);

foo(2);

Here for example every time we invoke the foo function we are invoking the calculateSomethingHeavy function although it does not depend on the arguments.

Another simpler example that illustrates this case well is:

function foo(bar) {

const object = { key: 'value'};

// do something with bar

} foo(1);

Here every time we invoke foo we are creating the same object over and over again, with the consequent expenditure of memory.

The solution to this problem is to use “closures” that allow us to remember those values so that we are not forced to recalculate them every time:

function calculateSomethingHeavy() {

...

} function fooCreator() {

const result = calculateSomethingHeavy();

return foo(bar) {

// do something with result and bar

}

} const foo = fooCreator(); foo(1);

foo(2);

Or even use the modulo pattern:
Virtual Clusters for Kubernetes — Benefits and Use Cases
By: Daniel Thiry
Tags: DevOps, Programming, Kubernetes Cluster, Kubernetes, Containers

Virtual Clusters for Kubernetes — Benefits and Use Cases

Virtual Kubernetes clusters could be the next driver for Kubernetes adoption

Photo by Kelvin Ang on Unsplash.

Virtual Kubernetes clusters (vClusters) have the potential to bring Kubernetes adoption to the next level. They run in a physical Kubernetes cluster and can be used in the same way as normal clusters, but they are still just a virtual construct. For a detailed definition and description of virtual Kubernetes clusters, take a look at this article.

Similarly to virtual machines that revolutionized the use of physical servers, virtual Kubernetes clusters have some benefits compared to physical clusters that make them particularly useful for some scenarios.

In this article, I will describe the benefits of virtual Kubernetes clusters and provide some use cases in which vClusters are more advantageous than other solutions such as many individual clusters or namespace-based multi-tenancy.
How I Got Curated — and How You Can Do It Too
By: Morton Newberry
Tags: Editing, Curation, Blogging, Writing, Blogging Tips

How I Got Curated — and How You Can Do It Too

Hint: I wrote about something I do know.

Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash

While some fellow Medium bloggers claim to maintain a curation rate – the rate of one’s posts that get distributed in topics – of around 75%, it is a different story for many of us.

None of my first twenty, thirty stories got curated. Not distributed in topics was the expected message after a few days of publishing a piece. I thought I was doing something wrong, probably.

Until that one post.

A few months ago, I reached an egocentric milestone on Medium: I wrote my first curated article. After many stories never seeing the light of curation, it was a tremendous joy.

If you have never published an article that got curated before, let me tell you how it goes.

I received an e-mail titled, Your story has been recommended in topics on Medium.

Whoa, I thought.

And when I opened it, it contained the following words: Based on its quality, they selected it to be recommended to readers interested in Books and Writing across our homepage, app, topic pages, and emails.

I was flattered by the based on its quality part but I had another thought in mind:

If I did it once, then I can do it over and over again.

That’s a general principle for success. If you get a client, then you can get more of them. If you make a dollar online, then you already know the path to making a hundred.

If you write an article that got curated on Medium, then you know what you have to do to write another. And another.

In this article, therefore, I will share with you some tips I learned after writing my first curated article. You can regard it as a checklist to improve the quality of your post.
Washington Township’s Angelica Carroll creates award-winning yearbook layout
By: Anthony Mazziotti
Tags: Schools, Photography, Community, Design

Washington Township’s Angelica Carroll creates award-winning yearbook layout

Carroll is one of 30 nationwide winners

The yearbook spread of the WTHS Musket’s 2017–18 Table of Contents was designed by senior Angelica Carroll and earned an honorable mention in the 2018 Jostens Design Contest. Photo courtesy of Washington Township High School, Special to The Sun.

Angelica Carroll’s interesting layout of the table of contents page in the Washington Township High School yearbook was more than eye-catching, it was award-winning. The senior’s creativity and graphic design execution earned her an honorable mention in the 2018 Jostens Design Contest. She was among 30 nationwide winners. Jostens is the company that produces the school’s yearbook.

Carroll’s layout will appear in the school’s 2017–18 Musket yearbook as well as in Jostens’ LookBook,which showcases the best layout spreads and photography among 2018 yearbooks from around the country
Migrate to Gradle Kotlin DSL
By: Amit Shekhar
Tags: Android Development, AndroidDev, Android App Development, Kotlin, Android

Working with the smartest people in the world to change the way we learn. EdTech products: MindOrks | AfterAcademy | CuriousJr | https://amitshekhar.me

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Feature Engineering — Recursive Feature Elimination With Cross-Validation
By: Kaushik Choudhury
Tags: Programming, Machine Learning, Python, Scikit Learn, Data Science

During the survey and data collection step, we do not know which feature/attribute have a strong influence on the output and the ones which do not have that much effect. Due to this, we collect or measure as many logical attributes as possible in this stage.

The machine learning model becomes complex, and also computationally becomes expensive as the number of features in the training dataset increases.

The aim is to develop a trained machine learning model with the minimal required feature and which can predict the data points with acceptable accuracy. We should not oversimplify the model and lose the significant information by pruning important features, and at the same time have a complex model with too many redundant or lesser important features.

Scikit-Learn library provides several methods to simplify the model with the dimensional reduction of the training dataset and minimal impact on the prediction accuracy of the machine learning model.

In this article, I will discuss recursive feature elimination and cross-validated selection to identify the optimal independent variables and reduce the dimension of the training dataset.
Setting Up Email with Zoho, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean
By: Voice Of Reason
Tags: How To, Cloudflare, Email, Digitalocean

Just over a year ago, I (as Co-Founder and CTO of Football411 Online) decided it was time for us to move to our own server so we paid for and spun up a new droplet on DigitalOcean. Prior to the move, I had created a few email accounts on the shared hosting platform and back then I wasn’t worried about losing the addresses because I was like the only one using mine.

Long story short, we no longer had @football411.net emails and for a while, nobody cared. Fast forward to last night and my partner informed me that one of our new editors badly needed an official email address to be setup and I thought: oh crap! Here we go again. I told him I’d sort it out in the morning and so I started looking at my options.

At first, I thought we should just add mail server capability to our DigitalOcean droplet but this tutorial from the good folks at DO told me why that was a sort of not-too-good idea. They were also kind enough to provide alternatives in the same post and bargain-hunter that I am, I quickly found out that we could get 10 email accounts with 5GB storage for free with Zoho.

DigitalOcean also provided a tutorial on how to go about setting up Zoho with a custom domain. In our case, we’d already started using Cloudflare for DNS management so I had to do the configuration on Cloudflare, rather than on DigitalOcean. In a way, it made it easier.

The steps involved are simple:

Signed up for a Zoho Mail Account

Complete the Domain Verification Step

Create Email accounts and Groups

And the most important step so you can actually receive mails. You need to Add MX Records on your domain. To do this, open DNS settings for the appropriate domain on Cloudflare. Add an MX Record as shown in the Screenshot below:

If everything is set up as instructed, you should be able to send mails to the addresses you created. To read your emails, just go to http://mail.zoho.com.
An Introduction to Analyzers in Elasticsearch
By: Brilian Firdaus
Tags: Software Development, Programming, Elasticsearch, AWS, Search

Tokenizer

After the character filtering process, our text proceeds to the tokenization process with a tokenizer. Tokenization splits your text into tokens. For example, we previously transformed “Let’s build an autocomplete” to “let’s,” “build,” “an,” and “autocomplete.” The transformation process of splitting the text into four tokens is done by a tokenizer.

There are too many tokenizers to cover in this article. If you’re interested, you can find the list in the Elasticsearch documentation.

Some of the most commonly used tokenizers are:

Standard tokenizer: Elasticsearch’s default tokenizer. It will split the text by whitespace and punctuation.

Whitespace tokenizer: A tokenizer that splits the text by only whitespace.

Edge N-Gram tokenizer: Really useful for creating an autocomplete. It will split your text by whitespace and characters in your word (e.g. Hello -> “H,” “He,” “Hel,” “Hell,” “Hello.”).

Note that you need to be careful with tokenizers because too many would slow down your insert process.

Token filters

Token filtering is the third and final process in the analysis. This process will transform the tokens depending on the token filter we use. In the token filtering process, we can lowercase, remove stop words, and add synonyms to the terms.

There are also many token filters in Elasticsearch. You can read about them in the documentation.

The most common usage of token filters is a lowercase token filter that will lowercase all your tokens.
What Happens When You Stop Writing
By: Maya Sayvanova
Tags: Inspiration, Creativity, Writing, Creative Writing, Writing Tips

Writing daily is the best thing a writer can do.

This doesn’t mean publishing daily. It doesn’t mean producing masterpieces daily. It just means writing daily.

It’s like a workout. You won’t see a difference on a day-to-day basis, but one day, you’ll wake up fit and energized, and you won’t be sure when that happened.

It’s the same with writing.

The best thing Medium did for me when I first started was getting me to write every day. I didn’t publish everything, and not everything I published was that good.

It didn’t matter. I kept writing. I had things to say.

Vanity is a trade I also posses, of course, so I did and still do care about curation, reads, claps, stats, money earned, etc.

But I mostly cared about writing.

Then, one day, I woke up to an article that went viral. Over 80K views and counting. Over $2000 earned. From one article.

A month later I did something similar with another one, though on a smaller scale — over 10K views and over $500 earned.

Still pretty good.

I also worked on my novel daily. What I wrote wasn’t always good or relevant, and sometimes I ended up deleting it the next day. It didn’t matter. It wasn’t time wasted — it was time invested in learning.

Then I got pregnant, the pandemic happened, and between my stay-home depression and constantly feeling nauseous, the writing stopped.

Mostly, it stopped because all I had to say to this world was “AARRGGHH!”

Now, I’m slowly going back to me, and it feels great.

There’s only one problem: I’ll have to deal with the ramifications of not writing a word for so long.

Here’s what those are, in case this ever happens to you.
The One Podcast You Should Definitely Be Listening To
By: David Weisgerber
Tags: Pop Culture, The Rewatchables, Recommendations, Podcast, Bill Simmons

The One Podcast You Should Definitely Be Listening To

The Rewatchables Has Been On Fire

“Now look fellas, let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some sort of half ass autopsy on a fish. And I am not going to stand here and see that thing cut open, and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock!” — Mayor Vaughn, Jaws

After a brief hiatus, my most recommended podcast is back.

Photo from https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jaws-one-outtake-robert-shaws-death-was-more-graphic-1033303

For the uninitiated, The Rewatchables podcast on The Ringer Podcast Network (from Bill Simmons and friends) breaks down only the best, most fun and rewatchable movies that everyone has seen 1,000 times.

I am not typically a jealous person but I am legitimately jealous of everyone involved in the selection of movies for this pod.

The podcasts were released sporadically over the last year or so but they have announced a new 20 episode “season” released weekly that started May 24. So far, every episode has been pure 🔥.

All questionable movie selections have been tossed out and they are throwing 100mph every single week.

Each episode breaks down the movie with all the love and adoration you would expect plus a few dissenting, hipster, hot-takes.

The rotating cast of hosts discuss categories for best quote, most rewatchable scene, what aged the best/worst, half assed internet research and who won the movie, along with a handful of other convoluted categories.

The first batch of episodes were generally awesome movies with only a few questionable choices [cough Miami Vice cough]. But since they have come back for the most recent season, they have rolled out the following winning streak 🙌

*Jaws and Jurassic Park are Top 5 All-Time Movies [for me] joining Goodfellas, Back to the Future and the recently added Father of the Bride. Apologies to Pitch Perfect for getting bumped out of my top 5 after rewatching Father of the Bride a few weeks ago.

I promise, this isn’t just me. It was on Vulture’s best podcasts of 2018 (so far). They had the following to say:

The Rewatchables (The Ringer) Few things are more pleasurable than a group of smart, funny, and deeply nostalgic people going long on a piece of culture they really love. For The Rewatchables, the piece of culture is the movies that you can watch over and over and over again: Point Break, The Big Lebowski, You’ve Got Mail. Yes, great podcasts that go deep on beloved films are a dime a dozen — think The Canon, The Next Picture Show, How Did This Get Made (sorta) — but The Rewatchables pops off the Apple Podcast charts due to the sheer charisma and chemistry of its rotating cast of panelists.

In world that only delivers horrifying news stories, gloom, doom and cynicism, take an hour a week and retreat into the comfort of an old favorite movie.

The rest of the world’s nonsense will be waiting for you when you’re done.
What is Google knowledge panel and how do I get a Google knowledge panel?
By: Ravi Digital
Tags: Google Knowledge Panel, Google Knowledge Graph, Ravi Digital, Search Engine Optimizati, Digital Marketing

Google first introduced the knowledge panel in May 16, 2012, as a way to significantly enhance the value of information returned by Google searches, and it has graced the top of Google’s search results.

What is Google knowledge panel and how do I get?

The knowledge panel pulls the data like in key facts, pictures, reviews, and even social profiles related to your search query. It’s essentially Google’s way of trying to get you to the information you’re looking for faster, with less clicks and less reading. Because the knowledge panel is so visible in Google’s search results, it will be a great branding opportunity for an organization.

But how does Google decide when a search query deserves a knowledge panel? Where does Google get the information for its knowledge panels?

Information from the Knowledge Graph is presented as a box, which Google has referred to as the “knowledge panel”, to the right (top on mobile) of search results. According to Google, this information is retrieved from many sources, including the CIA World Factbook, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. In October 2016, Google announced that the Knowledge Graph held over 70 billion facts.

How Many Types of knowledge panel?

There are two main types of knowledge panel.

Brand — Brand panels contain general entity information including social profiles, product descriptions, and the entity’s creation date, among others. Local panels contain locally focused details including locations, building addresses, Yelp pages and reviews. Local — In local You’ll notice it shows photos, contact info, reviews and a “People also searched for” section.

Example of Brand Knowledge Panel

Example of Local Knowledge Panel

It’s generally easier to prompt Google to display a local panel for your business rather than a brand panel. In fact, if you have a verified company Google+ (non-operational April 2, 2019) page and your website is old enough, you may already see a local knowledge panel when you search for your company name.

Unlike the local knowledge panel, the brand knowledge panel includes a logo, a Wikipedia summary, key organizational information, and interestingly enough, no reviews.

Data Source used by Google for Knowledge Panel, Here are 4 databases we’ve identified that Google relies on to populate the Knowledge Panel:

Wikipedia — Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Google frequently scrapes Wikipedia entries when building the Knowledge Panel. Structured Data — Schema markup on a website that gives Google instructions on what the date and text on a page mean. Freebase — Freebase is an online database. It is not as large as Wikipedia, but it is still a large source of structured data. Freebase entered read-only mode in early 2015, so the database is no longer editable. Wikidata — Wikidata is a structured database that is maintained by Wikimedia, the same company that runs Wikipedia.

How do I get a brand Knowledge Panel?

I recommend following these steps to get your brand Knowledge Panel.
B@B Business Consultants receive funding for CBDC, and Energy research from the Berkeley Haas Blockchain Initiative
By: Blockchain At Berkeley
Tags: Blockchain At Berkeley, Bitcoin, Energy, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

In June 2018, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business announced its participation in the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), a new program founded by Ripple, a blockchain industry leader. As a leading partner in the UBRI, Berkeley Haas was awarded a multi-year, multi-million-dollar grant to support research in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments. The grant is housed in the Institute for Business and Social Impact (IBSI) at Berkeley Haas.

In January of 2019, the first group of UC Berkeley students to be awarded research grants from the new Berkeley Haas Blockchain Initiative was announced. The group included Blockchain@Berkeley’s, Bosun Adebaki, Kate Tomlinson, and Sarah Reynolds.

Central Bank Digital Currency

Bosun Adebaki is a Business Consultant at Blockchain@Berkeley and an MBA student at Berkeley Haas

A Business Consultant for Blockchain@Berkeley and a second year MBA at Haas, Bosun will be carrying out research into the Merits of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

For a number of years, central banks have been examining the extent to which digital currencies may be used to increase competitiveness and enhance efficiency (see cases such as M-Pesa). Whilst the development of central bank use cases has increased pace in recent years, there is a lack of detailed analysis into the viability of CBDC, with particular focus on the challenges of the 2.5bn underbanked.

Bosun’s research will seek to understand and explain CBDC use cases, particularly those that focus on increasing economic inclusion for the financially underserved. It will consider the relative success of CBDC pilot studies carried out by a number of central banks across the globe, and will seek to provide clarity on the impact that CBDCs may have on existing monetary systems.
What To Know Before Playing Octopath Traveler
By: Kaylee Kuah
Tags: Rpg, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Gaming, Features

When you start Octopath Traveler, you’ll have the opportunity to choose a main protagonist. Right from the start, you can choose to begin the game with any of the 8 main characters. However, the character you choose initially will always be the core member of your party — as you explore Orsterra, you’ll come across the other 7 characters, and you’ll be able to add them to your party as well. But you’ll be able to rotate them in and out as you please.

Although each character is fundamentally different in terms of background and story, they can all be roughly broken down into two major archetypes: mage or warrior.

For the record, Alfyn, Cyrus, Ophilia and Primrose are mages. H’aanit, Olberic, Therion and Tressa are warriors. There’s a bit of a grey area here (Alfyn and Tressa straddle the line between mage and warrior), but this is a good rule of thumb to apply when thinking about who you’ll want to start with.

As you might expect, mages are essentially glass cannon type builds and warriors are a little more harder with higher HP, greater defence, and access to stronger armor and weapons.
Bitpie builds stablecoin bridge between Ethereum and CKB
By: Nervos Network
Tags: Ethereum, Bitpie, Stable Coin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Bitpie, a leading multi-blockchain wallet, revealed it has built a cross-chain pegged stablecoin bridge between Ethereum and CKB, the Layer 1 of Nervos Network. The integration brings stablecoins, one of the most important infrastructures for DeFi, payments, and other applications, to CKB for the first time.

Stablecoins are made to minimize the volatility often associated with cryptocurrencies. They are pegged to a “stable” asset, such as fiat money, a cryptocurrency, or an exchange-traded commodity. With the new bridge, Bitpie is providing a one-to-one cross-chain transfer service of stablecoin assets on Ethereum to Nervos CKB.

The integration also marks the first use of Nervos’ Simple User Defined Token (sUDT), a simple token standard with minimal interface and logic and compatible with all lock scripts. User Defined Tokens (UDT) on CKB are similar to ERC 20 tokens on Ethereum.

Bitpie is devoted to providing secure crypto-asset management and various blockchain applications and financial services. Bitpie serves millions of users worldwide and has stored more than US$10 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in the past six years without a single security breach.

According to Bitpie, the goal of this project is to enrich the diversity of assets in the Nervos ecosystem while bringing more stablecoin holders on board.

We look forward to seeing how the community uses the stablecoin bridge for their own #DeFi projects in the Nervos ecosystem.

For more updates from Bitpie, follow the project on Twitter.
Oh hey, December!
By: Uchechi Onuoha
Tags: 2017, College, Model, Life

If someone asks me how my year went, I will most likely tilt towards “disappointing” and you won’t blame me. Towards the end of 2016, I was very excited about the coming year. However, it seems the year fell short of my expectations.

I started my Masters degree programme in October 2016. Classes were going okay, I was making friends and it felt good. But towards the end of the first semester, I had a rough time and was almost convinced God did not like me very much. This went on till it was time for the semester’s exam and I was sure I was going to flunk it. However, when the results for the semester were released afterwards, I performed beautifully. I was overjoyed.

I started 2017 with at least 4 brands that wanted to work with me as a model — 2 hair companies and 2 fashion brands. I had done my calculations and boy, I was going to have a good year. And then they started dropping off one after the other. One of the hair companies never got back to me, the other wanted me at hours I could not spare (because of the dynamics of school at the time). One of the boutiques went AWOL the morning we were to meet and the other stopped communication.

I remember being very frustrated because they were tied to school in a way; they came at times when I simply could not be absent from school. One of the fashion brands abruptly cancelled our meeting on the Saturday morning before Easter and I sat on the bed tired of everything. I told God the certificate I was losing these for had to make up for it in the end. Saying I was sad is putting it mildly.

Fast forward to August and the compulsory 3-month internship started. I got a place and fell in love with the people almost immediately. But somehow, I started doing badly. I eventually had 2 weeks of total meltdown. I couldn’t function both on a mental and physical level. I was merely floating through the days. I even cried at the tiniest thing. And like that was not enough, malaria waltzed in.

It may seem like I have the right to say my year was disappointing, right? But I don’t. Because while things didn’t go as planned, a lot of good things happened too. I started and finished my Masters degree with a lovely result, I met new and wonderful people (and someone special, in particular). I am alive and well. My family is doing very well. That’s a lot of good things.

What’s most important is I have smiled and laughed more than I have cried. I have also learnt that I am stronger than I think.

As we enter into the last month of the year, I am excited for how the year will end and what is to come in the new year.

Happy New Month, guys.
Nakit Tek Gerçeğin & Nakit Akış Tablosu Her Şeyin
By: Kemal Martı
Tags: Girişimcilik, Mikro Business, Nakit Akışı

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Something Magical Is Coming
Tags: Trading, Crypt, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Magic

We have all witnessed the powerful capability of the 4 horsemen: Pump, Shark Bid, Up Price and Fomo Price signals on Sfomo application. Yet users have not taken the most advantage of these 4 signals.

With the mighty power of blockchain technology, the number “4” will definitely not the final number.

We’ll see you all on October 18th 2018.

Sfomo official Youtube Channel: https://goo.gl/W2j4bV

Sfomo official Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/SfomoGlobal

Sfomo official Telegram Account: http://t.me/SfomoGlobal
Digital o morir — Empieza tu negocio en línea
By: Daniel Salazar
Tags: Negocios, Emprendimiento, Digital Marketing

Founder of Mobkii. My hobbies are tech, sports and music.

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Kubernetes Liveness Probe for Scratch Image with Istio mTLS Enabled
By: Tim Jones
Tags: Go, Docker, Istio, Kubernetes, Scratch

Scratch Base Image: Another Complication

Something that an organization might want to do is to optimize some or all of their deployed Docker images to be as small as possible. This can reduce the amount of time it takes for Kubernetes to pull the image when scheduling a pod, which can improve startup time. Enter the Scratch base image.

The Scratch base image is essentially just a file system and nothing else, and it’s tiny. This is an enticing option if our service is written in something like Go, where the actionable artifact is a binary that does not require anything else to run.

Note: Alpine is also very small, and is an option if you want/need a fully functional OS in your container. Here is a pretty civil Reddit discussion about scratch vs Alpine, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The limiting factor that we will focus on in the scratch image is the lack of a shell executable for Kubernetes to interact with. Since there is no shell, there is no way to configure the command liveness probe.

Kubernetes HTTP and Command Liveness Blocked

Now What?

The command liveness probe requires an executable to run inside the container, so let’s give it one!

Scratch and Sniff

EarthBound Scratch and Sniff Cards. Not everything is about the cloud, you know.

Because we’re adding the ability to “sniff” the health of our application in the scratch image. Also because I can’t help myself. Anyway, on to the code.

The health check application (sniff.go):

The Dockerfile:

Notice the sniff file is renamed to health for syntactic consistency, since we’re performing a “health check”.

This results in a small Docker image with a single Go binary called “health”. We can now use this as a base image for a microservice. (Assume a microservice with a /health endpoint that returns a 200 status code when healthy, and some other status code when not)

The Composite Dockerfile:

The Command Liveness Probe:

In your local Docker you could do:

docker exec -it your_container /health

This would result in Docker calling the health binary in your container, which will call your microservice /health endpoint, and return the appropriate OS Exit code.

The Happy Final State

Kubernetes Command Liveness Through Go Binary

Now we’ve got a Go microservice running in a tiny Docker container, whose communications are managed securely by the Istio service mesh with mTLS, and for which Kubernetes is able to reliably check liveness and readiness.

This was fun. Thanks for reading!
An A to Z Guide to Personal Branding [Infographic]
By: Convince
Tags: Authenticity, Thought Leadership, Brand Strategy, Personal Branding, Digital Marketing

Image via Unsplash

by Barry Feldman

Bruce Springsteen doesn’t send me email often.

Okay, he never has. But if he did, I promise you I’d open it. What’s on your mind, Boss? I have to know.

Why would I be so receptive to email from Bruce? I like him. I trust him. His name means something to me — something special (to put it mildly).

You probably know the name Jay Baer. If he’s a master songwriter, he’s kept that from me. However, thanks to his books, blog, videos, podcasts, speeches, and so forth, I’m a fan. Jay does send me email. You better believe I open it — with high expectations. I expect Jay’s going to share useful lessons about social media, content marketing, and customer service.

I recognize Bruce Springsteen as a master storyteller about the human condition, whose stories are set to music. I recognize Jay to be a master storyteller about marketing, sales, and service.

Would I Open Your Email?

If your email lands in my crowded inbox, I may or may not open it. Chances are I’ll open it if I recognize you as someone I trust — someone who can deliver some sort of value into my life. So there’s the crux of what I’m trying to tell you today: You want recognition from those with whom you can have mutually beneficial relationships.

In 1997, Tom Peters wrote for FastCompany, “It’s a brand new world.” He continued, “We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.”

“Personal branding,” as a term, was born.

Tom explained, “When everybody has email and anybody can send you email, how do you decide whose messages you’re going to read and respond to first — and whose you’re going to send to the trash unread? The answer: personal branding.”

The question remains as valid today as it did in 1997, but 20 years later, you can apply the same sort of deliberation to your blog, online program, any social media channel, or any form of communication. If you want an audience to know your name and attach meaning to it, you have work to do.

Personal Branding by the Letters

There are quite a few pieces of the personal branding puzzle, both digital and traditional. Many broach topics you’ll study and practice for any kind of brand. Others apply strictly to you and the things you do as an individual.

Suffice to say, the topic is worthy of a thorough guide. I’m proud to tell you I’m co-authoring The Road to Recognition: The A-to-Z Guide to Personal Branding for Accelerating Your Professional Success in the Age of Digital Media. My co-author’s Seth Price, and the book features a foreword by Jay Baer and insightful contributions from numerous accomplished personal branders, marketing and sales professionals.

Stay tuned for a forthcoming release date. Check out the launch site here. And have a look at the infographic we’ve designed to give you an A-to-Z preview.

Courtesy of: The Road to Recognition

Originally published at www.convinceandconvert.com.
These Are 5 Weird Ways I Survive Depression
By: Toni Tails
Tags: Health, Mental Health, Psychology, Self, Humor

Hi there. I’m Toni, and I’m a Depressed Person. Yep. I said it, and I don’t regret it — mostly because depression leads to apathy — but we’ll discuss that another time.

I’ve suffered from depression most of my life. Since I feel like shit about half the time, I’ve learned to do some strange things to push myself out of it. Otherwise, I’d never get anything done!
How to Make a Ton of Money Without Really Trying
By: Sarah Cy
Tags: Life Lessons, Busines, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Creativity

How to Make a Ton of Money Without Really Trying

3 of the Strangest Products That Have Made it Big

Believe it or not, these are true stories

Million-dollar ideas are literally floating around everywhere, waiting for clever folks to pick them up and run with them.

For instance, the following three entrepreneurs capitalized on rocks, wood, and paper to make lots of cash— even millions of dollars.

(Sounds like a riddle, but it isn’t. These are all totally true stories)

Rock, Paper…Bridges?

The following are actual business ideas that literally made their inventors tons of money and garnered massive attention. No kidding:

1. Pet Rocks

The Pet Rock was a collectible created by Gary Dahl in 1975.

Dahl literally picked up smooth stones (from a Mexican beach) put them in customized cardboard boxes with straw and breathing holes, and marketed them as “pets,” complete with a 20-page manual on “The Care and Training of Your Pet Rock.”

He made over $4 million in about six months.

2. A 128-page book that contains no words (and is not a journal)*

The title of this book by “Dr. Alan Francis,” first published in 1989?

“Everything Men Know About Women.”

For a book that doesn’t say anything (at least not in words), this tome has been a perennial bestseller. It has even spawned a few knock-offs of its own.

3. The Brooklyn Bridge*

In 1983, Paul Hartunian observed workmen repairing the Brooklyn Bridge, and came up with a (dubiously) brilliant idea:

He bought the rotting leftover wood for $500, then cut it into one-inch square pieces, with an official Brooklyn Bridge certificate he designed himself.

Using a press release reading:

“New Jersey Man Sells Brooklyn Bridge for $14.95.”

Hartunian was on the radio, in the magazines, on CNN, the Johnny Carson Show, and just about every major newspaper in the country.
5 Warning Signs That You May Not Be Ready to Be in Business
By: Roshan Singh
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Investment, Self Improvement, Business, Advice

Do you want free time?

Don’t begin a business if you want more free time. That’s right. If you launch a business, you believe, oh, now I can resign from my job, the nine to five days a week, now I’m gonna be an entrepreneur, I’m gonna be an enterprise owner, that currently I’m gonna have freedom. You are hoping. You might retain freedom after struggling so many years, maybe a decade, then you will have some freedom.

The first five, ten years, you ain’t getting shit, okay. First of all, you are getting paid last. You give money to everybody else before you pay yourself. So if you believe you’re gonna get wealthy fast doing this, no. When you’re operating your own business, there’s no nine to five.

If you are a business holder or an entrepreneur. And you approve of me, comment below. There’s no nine to five. It is on your sense 24/7. When you take time off, you’re not off.

You know what I’m discussing. You’re worrying about your business, how to get additional customers, your team, your workers, cash flow difficulties you have and you’re not gonna earn extra time ’cause in the introduction, if you don’t give birth to those specific skills, the knowledge curve is deep.

It seizes a few years just to bring up a sense, get a feeling, and try to discover what works in your business, to break the code, right, being productive. And from there to accumulate, there’s still a long journey. Skip the nine to five. Skip five days a week.

It’s seven days, 24/7. That’s the stamina of an entrepreneur. And if you don’t like it and if that’s not in your blood and you want it so horrible, you’re not gonna accomplish what it assumes, you’re not gonna make those casualties ’cause it’s too damn difficult.
QaCast S1E4 — Berna Gökçe. QaCast ilk sezon dördüncü bölümünde…
By: Sinan Erdinç
Tags: Testing, Türkçe, QA, Podcast, Test Automation

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