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How To Prove That God Exists By Thinking About Birds
By: Joe Ferrante
Tags: Art, Religion, God, Literature, Philosophy

Borges remixes St. Anselm

Borges, who spent his whole life immersed in books, certainly knew of both the original argument and its refutation. He restates it in a more artistic way: if we can imagine something that is beyond our intellect, but also imagine a thing which fills that void in our understanding, then that thing must be God. Since that property can only be attributed to a superior being, and a superior being must exist to receive that attribution, God exists.

The argument is, much like Anselm’s, also pretty bad. Borges saw a number between one and ten. So…how could it not be any of the numbers between one and ten? He could not figure out which one of these it was, but it clearly was one. Implying that God must need to have seen the number for the birds to exist in objective reality is an unproven assumption. It relies entirely on the word “flock”: it implies a bunch of individual birds making up a bigger group, so one could count up all the birds to get a definite number of them. But that’s just a word game — that’s like saying that if God can count all the atoms in any object, which we cannot see, then God exists.

It simply doesn’t follow. The argument is, perhaps, even more shaky than Anselm’s. It relies on only one property of this hypothetical God, not its inherent greatness: that of omnipotence, or specifically, of seeing.

Borges went almost completely blind in the later years of his life. That is the key to understanding this piece: if the things the writer faintly sees with his failing eyes have a definite form outside of his mind, exist outside, then whatever fully contains that form and defines those things, if it is not him, is God, and a God that must exist. In short, if you’re blind and a flock of birds flies in front of you, God sees them.
Why Is AME Currency Of The Future?
Tags: Amepay, Ame, Platform, Blockchain, Currency

Why Is AME Currency Of The Future? AMEPAY Follow Oct 16 · 2 min read

AME is a digital asset of the future that has a lot of advantages compared with the traditional fiat monetary system. There are plenty of ways to use our cryptocurrency, and the number of use cases is only going to increase as the Amepay platform develops.

AME represents decentralization, scalability, security (anonymity). We believe that our ecosystem is taking the industry to the next level. The main feature of our token and the project itself is its freedom from centralized control.

The key values of our project are:

Openness — all transactions are visible to any user;

Anonymity — this factor benefits both private individuals and businesses. We are deeply convinced that in the modern world, businesses and private individuals have a right to privacy when it comes to their finance.

Decentralization — the most value in this aspect is how it eliminates the possibility of third-party tampering with your transactions. Today it’s impossible to square up with anyone without involving a third party — unless you’re using hard cash. In every other cashless transaction scenario you have to rely on a third party such as a bank, exchanger, dealer, broker, who not only keep back a hefty fee, but also have full access to all your transaction data.

Security — fiat money can be counterfeited. When it comes to cryptocurrency and the AME token, this is impossible — they can’t be copied, hacked or counterfeited.

This is far from the exhaustive list of the value our project and its digital money bring to the market.

Learn more about it on our website!
The Barking Lot
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Shopping, Humor, Comics, Cats, Costco

Written by

Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
Nobility Doesn’t Put Food On The Table, Digital Marketing Does.
By: Abhineeta Raghunath
Tags: SEO, Education, India, Digital Marketing, Healthcare

Being a 23 year old hasn’t stopped Kunal Goel from running First Guide Academy, a premium institute with state-of-the art facilities to train students in competitive academic examinations.

Being a millennial has offered him several privileges- a management degree from a reputed university, the ability to connect instantly with influential people, and quick research skills. After graduating university, when he expressed his desire to ‘do something impactful’, his mentor Mr. Ramoji Gowda pointed out to him that education has the most impact on society. After a brief period of intense research (first on the internet, then on the field), Kunal Goel knew what had to be done and how. This was the beginnings of First Guide Academy over a year ago.

One would imagine that any educational institute would begin with word-of-mouth encouragement and about half a dozen students sent by parents who were willing to trust them. But in a year, First Guide Academy had half a dozen branches and several hundred students all over Bangalore. It boasts of having faculty who have produced single digit rank holders in hard-to-crack examinations like IIT-JEE.

How did First Guide Academy find its students? They got themselves an easy-to-update, auto-SEO enabled website. Anybody who types in “best coaching centre in Bangalore” is likely to find them in their search results. Turns out, a lot of people did.

The biggest advantage was how they were able to drive traffic to their own website, because online listing services that would bring them people, had their competitors fighting for the attention of new students. Educational institutes and gadgets hardly work the same way- there is no ‘product compare’.

Building futures has not prevented Kunal Goel from building a profitable business. It was only natural that I asked him what his ‘expansion plans’ were, and he said-

“We are building an app through which we plan to distribute educational content, and we plan on taking education to smaller towns and villages. Whether it is online through the app, or in physical classrooms, we will take good quality education to places it is yet to reach.”

The smile refuses to leave his face.
Etiquette Between Baseballs’ Catchers and Umpires
By: Cody Box
Tags: Sports, Umpire, Baseball, Catcher, Youth Baseball

MASK TO MASK QUESTIONS

One huge advantage the catcher has over anybody else on the field is his ability to find out exactly where the umpire’s strike-zone is and question certain calls. This goes for when you are at bat or behind the plate.

Do not be shy with the umpires, ask them what you want to know — just do it in a polite manner. More times than not, if you ask an umpire where his zone is at, he will tell you the exact parameters.

Here are a couple ways to ask the umpire about questionable calls :

“Where’d that miss?”

“How much room are you giving me on the outside today?”

And here are a couple of ways to get on the umpires bad side :

“Where was that call earlier?”

“C’mon man.”

Listen to what they say to you. Often times, they will drop little tips to you. “Your pitcher is tipping his curve.” “I’m not going to give you that outside pitch, come in more.”

If you think they got a call wrong you can simply, ask them “where did that miss?” Another way to do this is to hold the pitch where you catch it for a second or two after the call, just to let them know you didn’t like the call. (Holding a pitch for too long can come off as an insult.)

We have been in situations while batting, where the umpire called us out on strikes and when we got back behind the plate, he told us, “I owe you one!”
How to Submit to Human Parts
By: Human Parts
Tags: About Human Parts

Human Parts is Medium’s home for personal essays and perspectives — from the mundane to the extraordinary to everything in between. More than anything, we strive to inspire our readers to close their browsers and start writing themselves.

We’re most interested in stories that make us want to write: experimental nonfiction that plays with form and voice; brave, intimate storytelling that illuminates the broader human condition; and imaginative writing that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

At the moment, we’re particularly interested in stories about the following topics:

Creativity: Making things, breaking things, and finding your voice.

Family: Perspectives on parenting, childhood, and everything in between.

Identity: On the art of self-definition.

Love + Sex: Stories about who we connect with, and why.

Mental Health: Dealing with the mess inside our minds.

Spirituality: Brief encounters with the divine.

More importantly? Surprise us. We can’t say exactly what we’re looking for until we see it.

What aren’t we looking for? We’re currently focused on first-person essays and experimental forms. In other words: We’re not currently looking for reported features or for you to tell someone else’s story. Also: Please don’t send us traditional self-help. Tell us how you live your life, rather than telling us how we should live ours.

Thanks for your interest in contributing — we’re looking forward to reading your work!
Why You Are Failing in Love
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Relationships, Spirituality, Spiritual Secrets, Love, Life Lessons

How Love Becomes Toxic

When we love someone, e.g., our parents, siblings, friends, or spouses, we share an invisible bond of attraction. This positive emotional energy of attraction keeps us connected with each other. As a result, we think right for them and transmit good energies.

Most of us call it “good vibes.”

However, the moment we become emotionally dependent on each other, we start expecting. The love that was meant to free us binds us in the attachment of dependence. To fulfill our expectations, we start dominating and controlling their lives by continually sending them negative energies of expectations.

Verbally, we don’t say anything, but when we think about dominating them or wanting them to behave according to our wish, we send negative energies unknowingly.

Thoughts govern our feelings. What we think, we feel. And anything that we feel has an impact on ourselves and others because thoughts possess vibrational energies. That’s the fundamental law of vibration.

This kind of love is neither empowering our loved ones nor allowing them to love us back. Because the actual meaning of love, i.e., giving, has been replaced by wanting, the positive energy has transformed into negative.

Have you ever felt that sometimes, you don’t feel nice about someone you love, though they haven’t said anything bitter?

It’s because they’re not thinking nice about you. And that negative vibrational energy is hitting you repeatedly, making you feel hollow inside.

This kind of love only brings suffering and sorrow to our life. Even if there’s joy, it’s temporary. Even if there’s respect, it's short-lived.

So, the next time you meet someone, pay attention to how you feel, not what the other person is saying.

“Words can betray but vibes don’t lie.”-Darshak Rana

People can coat their bitter emotions with sweet words of flattery, but the vibrational energy once created (in the form of thought) can’t be suppressed or destroyed until it reaches the one for whom it’s meant for.

That’s why our relationships don’t improve despite laying numerous efforts.
Repurposing traditional resampling techniques for regression tasks
By: Atif Hassan
Tags: Towards Data Science, Data Science, Regression, Undersampling, Oversampling

Imagine a scenario where you have participated in a data science competition involving a regression task and you find that the target variable is skewed. Since none of the participants are able to get a low error on the leaderboard, you realize that the training data is imbalanced and some quick resampling could sort your issue. But wait! This is not a classification task where you have the luxury of choosing from a suite of under and oversampling techniques. This is a regression task and though there are a few resampling algorithms¹ out there, your options are limited. Wouldn’t it be great if we could simply repurpose all classification-task based resampling methods for regression tasks? If your answer is yes, and it should be, then you have come to the right place!

Short Note

If you just want to balance out your regression data and move on, then we have built a python package which is currently up and running. For those who want to understand the working principle behind this idea as well as check out a glimpse of what is achievable through this method, read on.

The Idea

Seaborn plot of a skewed target variable

The above image is a histogram plot of the target variable from AnalyticVidhya’s Big Mart Sales Prediction challenge. Its skew value is 1.1773 while a true normal distribution has a skew value of 0. Due to the nature of the dataset, the target variable cannot be less than zero which results in a positive skew value.

One can clearly see from the plot that certain bins have a large number of samples compared to others. In order to resample the data using traditional approaches, we require the presence of classes. For regression tasks, one can achieve this by binning the data. So, for example, in this case, we can say that all samples within the range of 0–3000 belong to class 0, 3000–6000 belong to class 1 and so on. This would end up providing us with pseudo, imbalanced classes that we can then use to perform under and/or over-sampling. We can get these pseudo-classes using pandas cut function.

This puts each sample within a class

Once the samples have been assigned to their respective classes, we can pass the entire dataset, including the continuous target variable, to a resampling package, such as imblearn, along with the generated class-based variable.

This results in over-sampled examples with new values in the target variable.

Seaborn plot of the same target variable after applying SMOTE with a custom sampling strategy. The skew value has now reduced to 0.22

An Application

Let’s check out how this repurposing method performs in the real world. We will use the same competition’s data as mentioned above. AnalyticsVidhya also provides a real-world rank to each corresponding submission which helps in understanding our position on the now frozen leaderboard.
Why You Should Wear A Kayak As A Hat
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Fashion, Kayak, Humor, Living The Sporty Life, Trends

Advantages:

You always have shade. You can even share the shade with shorter friends.

You never know when you might happen to walk by an inviting body of water. You’re ready.

“Chick Magnet” (for you single dudes.)

Being on the cutting edge of a new trend. No more “Boring Bobby.”

Fits way better than a canoe.

Provides plenty of personal space when you have to wait in a line (or a queue when you’re in England.)

Makes you appear “sporty.”

Allows you to read your tablet outside during strong sunlight conditions.

Increased neck muscle strength.

You can pretty much laugh at the rain.
Don Pedro y pedómetros
By: Miguel Adrover
Tags: Poesía, Puerto Rico, Poetry, History, Polyglot Poetry

Here Come the Cicadas! At Least for Some of Us

Right now, in the northwest corner of North Carolina, a remarkable event is occurring - one that happens only every 17…
Deep Copy in JavaScript — Things You Have Thought It’s Right
Tags: Ecmascript, Coding, Programming, JavaScript, Web Development

Surprisingly and interestingly, they worked very well. You might ask, “Didn’t you say we can’t copy them?” Right. But don’t you wonder how they could make it work well?

The cloning method in Lodash

The cloning method in Ramda

The thing they have in common is that they both copy an object by looping over it, check the type of each property of an object, and convert it to the right format by wrapping it with another method if needed. In other words, they made their customized method for this.

It’s totally up to you whether or not to install the package and import the module you need.

Jordan Harband, a member of TC39, has commented on the question of why you can’t do a deep copy with Object.assign . He said he’d rather rearchitect the object.

You might want to check the issues related to this topic in GitHub:
These Contact Lenses Could Be The Future Of Augmented Reality
By: Ipg Media Lab
Tags: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality

Written by

Keeping brands ahead of the digital curve. An @IPGMediabrands company.
PIBBLE Live Stream on Friday (Lucky Vote Winners)
By: Bryan High
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Hope everyone is having a great Thursday. Thanks for everyone’s help in Project5, we are really happy with our performance during the event.

Did you vote for PIBBLE in Project5 after February 20th? You have been entered to our lucky draw to possibly win:

Look at all that PIBBLE!

More than 400 people voted for us during that time and 53 people will be selected as winners! That is a pretty good chance to win.

But, how can I know if I win?

Good question. You can check out our livestream on March 8th live at 4pm KST from the PIBBLE office!

So here is the information:

The livestream will be hosted on PIBBLE’s youtube channel. Click on the PIBBLE channel or follow the livestream link (will be sent on all our social media).

I hope that you join us live to see who will win that 5,000,000 PIB jackpot!

As always, follow us on our other social media:

Homepage: https://www.pibble.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/pibbleio_eng

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pibbleio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pibbleio

Need to ask a question? Contact me directly on Telegram

https://t.me/bryanhigh
Looking for SCREW TV?
By: Phil Autelitano
Tags: Roku, Streaming, Television, Pop Culture, Pornography

You can add the all-new and improved SCREW TV channel on Roku here: http://my.roku.com/add/SCREW

To cut down on children accessing adult-related content without permission, Roku recently “ghosted” a bunch of channels from it’s public Channel Store. SCREW TV, which was originally available in the Special Interest category, is now considered an “adult” channel, and like several others, has been removed from the public listings. Totally understandable though, as no one wants kids watching adult content!

That doesn’t mean SCREW is gone, however. In fact, it’s bigger and better than ever. SCREW TV is now updated daily with fresh new content including lots of sexy girls and tits and ass along with more of the whacky, absurd stuff that makes SCREW, well, …SCREW.

SCREW TV is a product of the legendary Screw Magazine — America’s Most Notorious Magazine–founded in 1968. It is adults only and free-to-add on the Roku platform. There’s a lot of free content available on SCREW TV in addition to premium content, including full-length films, available exclusively to Screw Magazine’s digital subscribers. You can subscribe to Screw Magazine at www.screw.wtf to unlock instantly unlock the premium content.

SCREW TV was launched in April 2018 and has quickly grown to become one of the most popular channels on the Roku platform.

You can add it to your existing Roku account here: http://my.roku.com/add/SCREW

Or visit www.screw.wtf/screwtv for more information.
Forgotten
By: Binit Acharya
Tags: Poem, Poetry, Nature, Poetry On Medium, Life

Forgotten

A poem

Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash

I behold the noise in peace

A heart on fire, traveling through seas,

A deep sorrow crosses my mind

I am forgetting whatever I find.

The hills, the mountains,

The beautiful fields

My mind keeps playing memory reels,

But some part is missing

Some part forgotten.

My head hurts but I have no thoughts

I am at peace, and yet at loss

Fulfilled with letters, out of words

Filled with joy, out of smile

I feel so high, out of height.

All the jumps, and all the climbs I made

Forgotten.

I feel thoughts, and I think feelings

I take my shot; I blow through the ceiling

A crack is made, a hole is born

Out of a part... forgotten.
Twitch Developer Tour Roundup
By: Shadi Nayyer
Tags: Events, Developer, Twitch

What an incredible start to our 2019 Twitch Developer Tour!

We traveled to four countries where we met tons of awesome developers and members of the TwitchDev community.

We’d like to thank everyone that came out to join us in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris, and London!

We’d also like to thank all of our partners, including StreamElements, Hypetalk, Wargaming, Bossa Studios, Altoar, Ubisoft, and Jagex. As well as the community meetup organizers that partnered with us in each region — GameIS in Tel Aviv, gamesweekberlin, Indie Game Developer Group Paris, and BAME in Games in London.

For those of you who were not able to join us on tour, you can read more about each event and stay tuned as we are excited to be announcing more cities very soon!

Tel Aviv

Gil Megidish joined us from HypeTalk and Reem Sherman from StreamElements to give insightful talks about how they integrate with Twitch. We had a packed house in Tel Aviv, and enjoyed awesome views from the AWS office and the city’s warm weather!

Berlin

In Berlin Christian Bergmann and Zoltan Sipos joined us from Wargaming, Ricardo Rego from Bossa Studios, and James Van Eden — Altoar. (If you don’t already know Altoar, check out his awesome Extension success story now!)

We had such a great time hosting our Dev event in Berlin with TwitchCon Europe and partnering with gamesweekberlin. We really felt the love from the whole Twitch community, and can’t wait for TwitchCon North America in September.

Paris

In Paris, Sebastien Domergue from Ubisoft spoke about the benefits of integrating with Twitch. We really enjoyed hearing from him as well as others in the region on what they currently do with TwitchDev. Also, check out our super cool event space, inside Mozilla, Paris!

London

We closed out our first leg of the 2019 tour in London at our EU HQ with Neil McLarty from Jagex, Deborah Mensah-Bonsu from Space Ape Games, and Nicki Klein from Amazon Web Services.

We heard three very different talks about different aspects of Twitch and different ways these teams have worked with Twitch and TwitchDev. It was so cool to have everyone in the Twitch office to connect with our speakers, staff, and partners.

We are excited to be coming to a city near you; stay tuned as we announce new tour cities in the near future.

Until then, let us know what you think by connecting with us @TwitchDev on Twitter, in the developer forums, or on our live broadcasts (follow us for notifications when we’re live).

Ready to build interactive experiences on Twitch? Start now!
5 Simple Tips for Beginner Programmers
By: Szymon Adamiak
Tags: Programming, Education, Software Development, Learning To Code, Coding

Go Deeper, Not Broader

You may think a junior developer needs to know lots of languages and technologies. I don’t blame you. These are some of the requirements I found lately on job advertisements:

TypeScript

Angular

React

Gulp

Vue

Node

React Native

That’s crazy. You don’t need to know all of that to find a job. Actually, you can’t know all of that at the beginning of your career.

Job requirements are at best “good to have” and at worst a wishlist.

Typically, the process of creating a job advertisement consists of a senior developer listing everything he knows and muttering that it’s useful. Then the HR manager makes that list a prerequisite.

In a real job, nobody expects a junior developer to have in-depth knowledge of many programming subjects. And if someone does expect that, they shouldn’t be allowed near the recruitment process or be working with juniors.

What you need to know

The most common mistake junior front-end developers make is trying to learn several frameworks at the same time. Trying to bite off more than they can chew leaves them confused and discouraged.

What you need is to have a deep understanding of a few crucial topics. In web front-end development, it is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usually one JavaScript framework. You can easily leave everything else for better times.

This approach will benefit you in the short run (it’s easier to find a job when you’re good at something) and in the long term (if you understand core concepts deeply, you’ll learn new things more rapidly in the future). And employers know that.
Come Holiday Season, Criminals Have a Sense of Humor Too!
By: The Maverick Files
Tags: Humor, True Crime, Crime, Funny, Holidays

Come Holiday Season, Criminals Have a Sense of Humor Too!

Outrageously funny crimes to tickle you this festive season

Charles Biro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

True crime can be intriguing for the thrill and mystery surrounding not just the crime but what goes behind the criminal’s psychology or motivation to commit one.

And just like any other act or profession, there are “successful” criminals and there are also criminals who are absolute fails. It isn’t always the serial killers that catch my eye, but equally the ones who had the right intention but absolutely mucked up their execution!

And what better time to take a look at some of these funny crimes than the holiday season — rather spend your Christmas with a laugh than blood and gore, eh?

Socially responsible with a face mask, or watermelon?

In May 2020, when the pandemic had hit most of the world, including the US, a Virginia man called Justin Rogers had a unique idea for shoplifting.

Justin Rogers, 20, posted a TikTok video on May 5 that appeared to show him and another man buying two watermelons and using scooped out versions for face masks and going out grocery shopping. The melons covered their entire faces, barring two eye holes.

Photo: Louisa Police Department

Unfortunately for him, later that night a convenience store’s surveillance footage also showed the same two men shoplifting alcohol wearing watermelon masks — and so it wasn’t hard for the police to do the math.

Police used social media to get to the criminals and had them arrested on May 15 — that couldn’t have been hard after the earlier flaunting of the genius watermelon masks!
OpenFinance Network Refines Investor Passport in Preparation for Live Trading
Tags: Financial Markets, Blockchain Technology, Bitcoin, Accreditation, Tokenization

OFN users will soon have the ability to buy and trade security tokens on its fully-compliant platform, starting with the SPiCE VC (SPX) token. This new technology marks the start of a new era for the financial markets.

Before Trading.

The OFN Investor Passport is your first stop for participating on the live OFN trading platform. A standardization of the AML/KYC and accreditation process for securities transactions, the Investor Passport serves as a single sign on button with two factor authentication (2FA), allowing you to access all of OFN’s partner services. Completing your Investor Passport is quick and simple:

Sign Up. Visit www.openfinance.io/trade.html to begin. Click the “Register Now” button to sign up. Verify Your Identity. OFN is open to everyone — US accredited, US non-accredited and international investors can trade on OFN. Provide Financial Details. Providing your banking and other financial information allows streamlined use of the platform, ensuring you can make fast investment decisions.

Be Ready, Sign Up.

The approval process is quick. Upon completing your Investor Passport, OFN will send you a confirmation email welcoming you to the platform once you are approved.

Live trading begins soon. Complete your Investor Passport today to ensure you’re ready!

For more information on the OFN, visit www.openfinance.io or stay updated with OpenFinance Network’s communications:

Telegram — t.me/openfinancenetwork

Twitter — twitter.com/OpenFinanceIO
Change
By: Alok Tyagi
Tags: Personal, Organization Development

This is an exciting time for people working in the technology field. Technology landscape is constantly changing and not a period goes by when we don’t hear about innovation happening all around us. In fact, we experience most of the innovation as consumer sooner these days. So one has to keep investing in personal growth and keep probing — how prepared are you when such new technology opportunity knocks at your door step?

If your answer is yes — then pat yourself on the back and keep doing what you are doing keeping up with the learning and preparedness to ride the change curve. You may find yourself as someone who get sought after in the industry to lead/participate and shape the future. Good chances are you may also be creating some of these opportunities.

However, if the answer is no — you may want to start thinking what you should do to be prepared. We all know change happen regardless and time don’t wait for anyone. Sometime the challenge is how to get started and one struggle thinking through what need to be done. My advise is to find friends who are successfully keeping up with the change to understand what they do to remain prepared. You should spend more time with them and learn a lot through hand holding; seeing how others are approaching the change can be the inertia one need to get started. It is the effect of having a good peer network that supports and draws you out. Just make sure you approach it with a positive attitude and be committed to put in the hard work it requires. Also, pay attention to what need unlearning as well as at times past behavior/practices need to be let go before learning/relearning new approaches. So cherish the past, learn from the past but don’t let the past hold us back.

Finally as the saying goes — luck is when preparation meet opportunity. So invest in yourself and be prepared to make the most of the opportunity knocking on our door step. You sure don’t want to miss the excitement that is shaping in front of us to put our fingerprints on it!
Lullaby
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Rain, Poetry, Lullaby, Haiku, Thunderstorm

Sign up for American Haiku Steamship To Writing History

By American Haiku

Writing takes practice. American Haiku is a great way to put your words from your fingers to your piece of paper. Don't quit, you can do it. Take a look
Announcing ctr.run: on-demand Docker builds
By: Fernando Mayo
Tags: Buildkit, Continuous Integration, Automation, Docker, Software Development

ctr.run works as a “virtual” docker image registry, where container image repositories map to git repositories. Container image repository names are built by prepending ctr.run/ to the git repository URL, and by using a git reference (a branch, a tag, or a commit hash) as the image tag:

ctr.run/<git repository URL>[/path]:(branch|tag|commit hash)

In the example above, running:

$ docker run ctr.run/github.com/undefinedlabs/hello-world:master

will build the latest commit of the master branch of the https://github.com/undefinedlabs/hello-world repository at the time of the command execution, and then serve the resulting image.

The tag latest always points to the tip of the master branch. ctr.run will always check for updates in the git repository, but don’t worry, because it will also use the cache automatically, avoiding rebuilds if nothing changed.

If you want to build a subdirectory of your git repository, just append it to the end of the image name:

$ docker run ctr.run/github.com/docker-library/redis/5.0:master

This will build https://github.com/docker-library/redis/tree/master/5.0. Pretty straightforward, right?

Because ctr.run acts as a regular docker image registry, you can use it on any platform that runs container images, for example, in Kubernetes. Just use the ctr.run/... image name in your pod spec and that’s it!

If your git repositories are private, just log into ctr.run with your GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab credentials, and use the provided username and password to authenticate your docker client. This way, when you pull an image using those credentials, your git credentials will be used to access the source code to be built. No need for separate authorization mechanisms.

Under the hood, ctr.run uses BuildKit, an amazing open source project that enables efficient container image builds by providing concurrent dependency resolution and automatic instruction caching. You should check it out!
UPNG 2019 Intake Data Visualization
By: Neo Malesa
Tags: Higher Education, Data Visualization, Upng, Papua New Guinea

UPNG 2019 Intake Data Visualization

An independent analysis using DHERST published list

This is an analysis of UPNG’s 2019 school-leaver selection using data visualization to show results.

A week ago I did an analysis of nationwide selections. Here, I’ve decided to focus on UPNG.
A Poem is a Feeling
By: Rusty Alderson
Tags: Feelings, Sublime, Bliss, Poetry, Imagination

A poem is a feeling

sentiments stimulating the soul

noetic apprehensions nettling imagination

waiting in the womb of sublime stimulation

until gently landing on receptive sensibilities

and properly primed perception

often no more than a happy accident

but always seeming like more

than the sum of its parts
Broken
By: Rev. Sheri Heller
Tags: Women, Sad, Loneliness, Poetry, Poem

She patiently waits for elusive things

Like an abandoned bird with broken wings

But no one comes and the hole surrounds her

Seeping in like an unmet hunger

Vacant hole dark and bare

Desolate waif girl sits and stares

The hole gets bigger, deeper, darker

Where is mother?

Where is father?

Daddy’s by his own black hole and

Mommy’s stare is frightfully dull

Just a hollow gaze devoid of soul

The longing now a numbing lull

Life’s defeat takes its toll

Morphing into deep despair

That’s in the hole that’s everywhere

Waif girl becomes a waif woman

Who sits and stares amid the ruin

That fills the hole that runs so deep

With sex and drugs and abysmal sleep

Now all that’s left is a past of scorn

Left broken down, spent and torn

The violent truth is what she bears

And the lost hope of bitter tears
Controversial Things I Believe
By: Ryan Hussey
Tags: Religion, Life Lessons, Social Media

You can find more of Ryan’s work in Human Parts, The Coffeelicious, Absurdist, and The Bigger Picture. You can follow him on Twitter here or check out his website here. He’d love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for reading!
To Pamela
By: Sydney Duke Richey
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Love Letters, Erotica, Lost Love, Cookbooks

for years the cookbook

sat on a shelf

resting alongside

photo albums and books

I had opened it

a time or two

(or three…)

the erotic artwork

on its pages was

beautifully drawn

and left little

to the imagination

“Aphrodisiac Cookery”

the title had caught my eye

as it lay on a table

crowded with books

25¢ each

a broken tricycle

a food dehydrator

tarps with clothes piled high

it was an uninteresting yard sale

one that could have easily been a

“drive-by”

except for the two card tables

two card tables

with books stacked high

25¢ each

even before opening it

I knew I would have paid

a dollar or more for

a book with the title

“Aphrodisiac Cookery”

and now all these years later

after finding the inscription

this book is priceless

to me

many times I had thought of

putting it in the Goodwill box

I know now I never will

I know now I never will
What is Waves’ DEX?
By: Waves Tech
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Bitcoin, Fintech, Blockchain

It’s a decentralised exchange, built into the Waves blockchain. The DEX allows users to trade their tokens — including WAVES, BTC and any other assets issued on the Waves platform — completely trustlessly and without having to move their funds to a centralised exchange.

What makes it fast?

Orders are paired on a centralised basis by Matcher nodes. These execute a trade but have no access to funds. The trade is then settled on the blockchain for maximum security.

All orders are sent to a centralised server…

…which matches incoming orders at high speed…

…but actual transfer of funds happens on the blockchain.

Why a decentralised exchange?

Centralised exchanges can be hacked, robbed and DDoS’d — and often are (MtGox, Cryptsy, Bitfinex, Poloniex…)

It is not logical or safe to store decentralised assets on a centralised platform!

Can I profit from running my own Matcher?

Absolutely! Just install the Waves software and enable matching functionality. The Matcher earns fees from the services it provides, so you can substantially increase your mining revenues.

How can I use DEX?

Simply download the Waves client from our official website, www.WavesPlatform.com, or use our webwallet, available at Waveswallet.io. You can deposit your bitcoins into the wallet and start trading using the Exchange tab.

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Custos x Despesas — Saiba a diferença
Tags: Custos, Financas, Despesas

in In Fitness And In Health
ITC Progress Update 2018/6/2–2018/6/8
By: Iot Chain
Tags: Itc, Blockchain, Weekly Updates, Iot Chain

in In Fitness And In Health
JavaScript’s Array Reduce Method
By: Cindy Kei
Tags: JavaScript, Arrays, Web Development, Software Development, Coding

Reducer() Function

The reducer() function is a callback function that takes four arguments and, importantly, only returns one single value after the final iteration. It has the following syntax:

function reducer(accumulator, currentValue, currentIndex, array) { // some code here }

The reducer is executed on each array element and returns a value. This return value is then passed to the accumulator as an argument at the next iteration. On the last iteration of the reduce() function, the value of the accumulator is equal to the single value returned by the reduce() function.

Remember that in the reduce() method, the initial value is an optional argument. If it is provided, the initialValue becomes the value of the accumulator on the first iteration of the reducer function. The table below from JavaScript Tutorial’s website is a great illustration of what happens depending on whether an initialValue is passed or not:
Making Michael Vick a Co-captain of the pro-Bowl Adds Another Layer of Violence to The NFL
By: Marilyn Regan
Tags: Domestic Violence, NFL, Dogs, Football, Animal Welfare

“The link between animal abuse and interpersonal violence is becoming so well established that many U.S. communities now cross-train social-service and animal-control agencies in how to recognize signs of animal abuse as possible indicators of other abusive behaviors.” ~ Charles Siebert, NY Times Magazine

The NFL has a problem with violence. Football itself is one of the most violent professional sports to the point that courts are hesitant to find for plaintiffs, who are also players, because of the ‘inherently violent nature of the game.’

True, it has moments of stunning athleticism, but the ugliness of violence eclipses it.

Players are aggressive on the field with a tenacity reminiscent of the gladiatorial games. There is even a list of violent spectator confrontations. But the aggression continues after the fourth quarter. David Evans in Psychology Today quotes Jon Shuppe of NBC News as stating that in 2018 there were 87 arrests for domestic abuse involving 80 NFL players over the previous 14 years.

Domestic violence and animal abuse go hand-in-hand. It’s all a part of the big, ugly picture. You have to look more carefully to see it. We shouldn’t be surprised then about the violence against man’s best friend by Michael Vick as he was surrounded by it growing up.

Sadly, the link was created long ago.

This goes beyond abuse. It was serial torture.
Editors’ Top Picks
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: September, Editors Picks, Favourite Poems, Featured Works, Scrittura

Editors’ Top Picks

Welcome to a refreshed page in Scrittura

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

I am thrilled to let you know that we are repurposing our “Featured Works” tab and page on Scrittura, but one that will only be updated once a month. The other editors, Eli Snow and Zay Pareltheon, and I have decided we’d like to celebrate some of the smashing submissions we’ve received over the last month. September was stellar at Scrittura! I’m sure you’ll all agree; some amazing writers joined us, and I love where this publication is going. The three of us want to be part of your literary journeys, and show off (more, yes, more!) the fantastic quality of writing that is coming our way.

Starting today (05 October 2020), and the fifth of the month hereafter, we’ll be posting our favourite pieces of the month. This is an entirely subjective process, and it surely doesn’t mean that there isn’t a wealth of more good words on Scrittura. Truly, I have been overwhelmed by the wealth of quality pieces that you are submitting to us. You all get rounds of applause in my books (and in real life). I would’ve put up fifteen pieces, or more, but…but we hope that the small number we’ve chosen gives you just a little more incentive to put your best words forward. Please join us in our salute to these stunning reads! So, without further ado, and in no particular order, just some of September’s finest!

J.D. & The Scrittura Team

Eli’s Top Picks

Zay’s Top Picks

J.D.’s Top Picks

(Yes, I cheated…I wanted to pick one more than three… :-))

Much love and good writing to you all!

Aspen Blue Matt Gleason Kevin E. Pittack Jr. Paroma Sen Josh Lonsdale Isaac Dennett Mohan Boone Sasha Rin Sydney Duke Richey Sydney J. Shipp Mimi Bordeaux Jay Sizemore Amy Jasek Aaron Quist Vera Hadzic Eli Snow Zay Pareltheon Dr. Jackie Greenwood Victoria Ponte Vicky Prokopi Dermott Hayes Joseph Lieungh Ray Lobo Debbie Miller Carolyn Riker Charlotte Allan Gurpreet Dhariwal Janaka Stagnaro Muralikrishnan B Dana Sanford Suntonu Bhadra Wendell McQuary Dewain Belgard Suzanne V. Tanner Joseph Coco emma poe Johanna Geary Joanna Vang Chris Macalino Jenny Justice AK (Aaska Aejaz) Viraji Ogodapola Ann Marie Steele Kim Cullen Franko French Tammy Breitweiser Simran Kankas Lisa Wathen Tre L. Loadholt Alan Asnen Ashley Capes Sarah E Sturgis C.J. Obikile Margaret Bett Samantha Lazar Janet M Early Jay Sizemore The Conscious Wordsmith Jessica Lee McMillan
The Best Places to Refresh Your Work Wardrobe
Tags: Women Clothing, Style, Business Casual, Work, Fashion

With fall coming in hot, its time to get the work wardrobe up and running. There are always the office favorites like Club Monaco and Madewell, but to keep things interesting, here are some new brands and retailers to mix up your look.

Using the simplicity of a line as its creative foundation, La Ligne offers essential office staples like silk button-downs and cashmere pullovers. Their versatility and sophistication makes them easy to re-wear all year round and for any occasion.

The Line is an e-commerce site that is always updating its options to suit the season. Their bottoms in particular offer a wide variety of appropriate and tasteful pants for work, from simple black slacks to flare jeans to dress up your casual friday ensemble.
As a Writer, I Fell in Love With Trello
By: Shajedul Karim
Tags: Writing Tips, Trello

As a Writer, I Fell in Love With Trello

Here’s why you need to feel the same

Photo by Cenk Batuhan Özaltun on Unsplash

“Honey, what do we have for dinner tonight?”

“I didn’t see you cooking anything today.”

“Holy sh*t, let me check. Oopsie.”

By the way, Honey is my parrot’s name, who can talk.

I check my fridge and I see my head there — empty, as my teacher says. I scurried out through my big wooden door. My stomach is burning. I am starving. The nearest restaurant is 13 minutes away. And my friend John had taken my cycle today.

With my stomach boiling, I run to the restaurant. Finally, I am here, and let out a sigh of relief. It’s 2:27 a.m. now.

I can see the huge food display case with three rows with different types of fast food. It’s almost empty. It’s already late. I can see three burgers at the top left of the first row, two big grilled chickens in the top right of the same row; centre is empty — mutton biryani in the centre of the second row, vegetable pizza at the right of that row; the left side is empty— taco in the left of the last row, a cup of custard in the centre of that row, the right side is empty.

A few things that happen:
Announcement #45 — Your favorite defi tokens are coming on Bitbns
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Announcement #45 — Your favorite defi tokens are coming on Bitbns Bitbns Follow Nov 21 · 2 min read

Dear Users,

It’s been sometime since new tokens have gone live on Bitbns.

Now we are going on a token listing-spree in which we will list 7 new cryptocurrencies on our exchange within the next 15 days.

Here’s the complete list:

BAT: Basic Attention Token, or BAT, is the token that powers a new blockchain-based digital advertising platform designed to fairly reward users for their attention, while providing advertisers with a better return on their ad spend.

SNX: Synthetix is a derivatives liquidity protocol on Ethereum that enables the issuance and trading of synthetic assets.

UNI: Uniswap is a popular decentralized trading protocol, known for its role in facilitating automated trading of decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens.

YFI: Yearn finance is an aggregator service for decentralized finance (DeFi) investors, using automation to allow them to maximize profits from yield farming.

YFII: DFI MONEY, also known as YFII, is a fork of popular decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator platform yearn finance (YFI).

YFV: The YFValue protocol aims to bring fairness, true value, and innovation to yield farming.

BANCOR: Bancor is an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables automated, decentralized exchange on Ethereum and across blockchains.

WBTC: Wrapped Bitcoin is a tokenized version of Bitcoin (BTC) that runs on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain.

We are bringing these tokens in INR market to strengthen bitbns INR market ecosystem. BNS investors will get multiple benefits from these listings.

Fixed Income Plans: Users will be able to enjoy upto 20% per annum fixed returns on these tokens.

Market price volatility will not affect your returns if you are investing 1000 UNI then you will get x% in form of UNI during your FIP maturity. Learn about FIP here: https://youtu.be/puvygqheJzY.

Deposit fee refund: We will refund 100% transaction fee that user’s pay whole transferring these coins to BitBns for the first time.

You just have to fill this form after transferring tokens: bit.ly/337fhGB.

Pay via BNS: You get to trade them at super low fees. Users have got over 32 million INR as fee refund by paying via BNS. Check fee refund slab at bitbns.com/fees.

Margin trade them. Few of those tokens would be added in margin trading with leverage.

Use stop limit with trail or bracket orders to ensure you have a superb trading experience .

Have more questions? Join our Bitbns Telegram community.

Till Then

Onwards and upwards

Team Bitbns
Stay ahead in the business race with online marketing services
By: Sajiv Kumar
Tags: Online Marketing Agency, Online Marketing Company, Synapseinteractive, Online Promotion Experts, Online Marketing Services

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