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STEEM — Like Bitcoin only better
By: Dr Arif Akhtar
Tags: How To, Blockchain, Entrepreneurship, Steem, Steemit

Introduction

When it comes to STEEM the boat has NOT sailed!

You may have heard all the recent buzz going on around cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin prices seem to be headed toward the $2000 mark.

Recently another cryptocurrency called ether hit $100 per token.

Even if you don’t know anything about cryptocurrencies you have probably heard of Bitcoin and whether you understand them or not cryptocurrencies are going to revolutionise money.

I personally believe that some of the people making early investment into cryptocurrencies today will be the billionaires of tomorrow.

The problem is it is not easy for the average person to obtain bitcoins — it is impossible to mine cost-effectively without special equipment and cheap electricity.

Buying it directly can also be problematic, not to mention expensive and in some cases risky (particularly in some countries).

As a result if you are wanting to get into cryptocurrencies it can often seem like the boat has already sailed.

Fortunately there is an answer, and the answer is STEEM.
Thirsty for a Revelation
Tags: Poetry, Writing, Jaynepress, Poem, Creative Writing

A poem

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

The gift of water

The gift of thirst

Trace the paths on your palms

your veins

the rivers, streams, maybe

the lakes

The words

footsteps to my heart

to my heaven

quenched

overflowing with life

with growing pains

birthing pains

window panes damp with

a million tiny droplets

humans

cucumbers

sweat

spit

drip drip

take the free gift

the water of life

Saschia Johnson
Hillary Clinton Understands the Urgency of Our Fight
By: Sarah Mcbride
Tags: Politics, Dnc Thursday, Hillary Clinton, Transgender, 2016 Election

Hillary Clinton Understands the Urgency of Our Fight

My remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American. Four years ago, I came out as transgender while serving as student body president in college. At the time, I was scared. I worried that my dreams and my identity were mutually exclusive.

Since then, I have seen that change is possible. I witnessed history while interning in the White House and helping my home state of Delaware pass protections for transgender people. Today, I see this change in the work of the LGBT Caucus and in my own job at the Human Rights Campaign.

But despite our progress, so much work remains. Will we be a nation where there’s only one way to love, one way to look, one way to live? Or will we be a nation where everyone has the freedom to live openly and equally? A nation that’s stronger together? That’s the question in this election.

For me, this struggle for equality became all the more urgent when I learned that my future husband, Andrew, was battling cancer. I met Andy, who was a transgender man, fighting for equality and we fell in love. And even in the face of his terminal illness … this 28 year old … he never wavered in his commitment to our cause and his belief that this country can change. We married in 2014 and just five days after our wedding, he passed away.

Knowing Andy left me profoundly changed. More than anything, his passing taught me that every day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.

Hillary Clinton understands the urgency of our fight. She will work with us to pass the Equality Act, to combat violence against transgender women of color, and to end the HIV and AIDS epidemic once and for all.

Today in America, LGBTQ people are targeted by hate that lives in both laws and hearts. Many still struggle just to get by. But I believe tomorrow can be different. Tomorrow, we can be respected and protected. Especially if Hillary Clinton is our president. And that’s why I’m proud to say that I’m with her.
Steemit Review
By: Casey Botticello
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Productivity, Design, Startup

The most notable thing about Steemit, which makes it stand out from other sites, is that you can see a earnings on every single post. This number is designed to show how much money a post has made based on its visibility and the interaction of the audience on the site. STEEM, the cryptocurrency at the heart of Steemit, is generated by every action taken by every user. You can earn STEEM as a reader by commenting, voting, or interacting with content. However, the amount listed on each post is an indicator of how much money the author will actually receive. In general, writers on the site make roughly 75% of the value that is listed on each post.

The fact that there is so much incentive to being active on the website shows what makes it so popular. Though it might not be an immediate path to millions, successful writers on the site can make quite a bit of STEEM. Additionally, readers can make STEEM by interacting. It is this factor that makes Steemit so unique and comparable to social media. For once, the audience is actually encouraged to interact with your posts. This in and of itself is a nice change from other websites where entire posts can go without recognition at all and be buried all too quickly.
Recreational Vehicle Use Way up in 2020—As Is the Need for RV Internet
Tags: Technology, Travel, Rv, Internet

Travel and fun during our pandemic summer shifted to the ground, as more and more flights were canceled; many people took to their “home” on the road for fun — and work.

By Eric Griffith

SatelliteInternet.com, a site that helps people find exactly what the URL promises, has an article about How to Get Satellite Internet for Your RV. The site recently updated the story with results from a new survey.

The results would be shocking in any year that didn’t have a COVID-19 pandemic shutdown/quarantine, but they seem almost tame when you consider how hard it is even to get out of the house these days. Overall, 41 percent of Americans increased their travel options this year by opting for road trips, camping trips, and buying or renting RVs this summer.

The story even cites a recent New York Times article that makes this summer sound like the true heyday of RVing. No shock when 56 percent of respondents said they’d bought or rented their RV this summer, due to COVID-19. Which is hard to do, since RV sales are up 170 percent from last year.

Other interesting stats are listed above. Key among them: 84 percent of people want an internet connection in the RV. That’s not impossible thanks to satellite internet and the two existing US-based services, ViaSat and HughesNet. But as many who’ve used those services (even in a house without wheels) can attest, the days of 1990s dial-up connections are almost preferable. Help might be on the way from low-earth-orbit satellite internet services to come from Amazon (Project Kuiper) and Elon Musk (Starlink), but those might take years to arrive. So even SatelliteInternet.com recommends that RV travelers try mobile hotspots, or turn their phones into mobile hotspots, to get that desperately needed internet fix.

Eighty percent of survey respondents are bringing tech with them in the RV, internet or not.

Airlines are who we should feel sorry for. Just 34 percent say they’d feel safe traveling that way-or even staying in a hotel. Almost half, 47 percent, canceled some kind of airline trip they had planned for the summer of 2020. Then again, it’s hard to feel sorry for airlines.

Here’s the best news of all for people working from home: 59 percent of respondents say they’ve done some telecommuting from the RV. If you can find a spot that can deliver the internet you need, maybe the RV is all the space you’ll need for a work-from-home future.

Here’s a video primer on how satellite internet works via SatelliteInternet.com.
The Ten Words That Changed My Life
By: Christopher Pierznik
Tags: Careers, Happiness, Fatherhood, Life, Work Life Balance

The Ten Words That Changed My Life

Everything improved, both personally and professionally

For the first time in my career, I was failing.

I was a senior analyst reporting directly to the vice president of finance and he was, shall we say, not a fan of mine. He mocked me for being so involved as a father. He found it ridiculous I wanted to see my child before she went to sleep each night and made snarky comments about how real men don’t do work around the house. He didn’t think I was dedicated even though I thought about the job constantly. Every night, after everyone else went to bed, I would disappear into my home office and work beyond midnight.

I was pulling more hours than anyone else I knew.

Every day was enveloped in stress. I had been there six months and there was no hope or relief in sight when I learned I would be getting a new boss, the newly hired senior director, who would be slotted between the VP and I. The first thing I heard about him was that he had started his career at Goldman Sachs.

Great, I thought, another workaholic, money-worshiping bro douchebag to battle.

During our first conversation in his office, he outlined his plans and goals and all of the things he believed we could accomplish. As we traded notes on our backgrounds and experiences, he said something that not only surprised me, but profoundly changed me.

“Dinner at my house is sacred. I never miss it.”

He had a wife and two children, and he made sure he was home for dinner every night. Here was a guy that was my age, but several levels above me, and yet he still made the time for his family. He woke up early and he certainly worked hard, but he never let the job overtake his life, even if it meant leaving money on the table.
A Task-Optimized Neural Network Replicates Human Auditory Behavior, Predicts Brain Responses, and…
By: Vigneswaran C
Tags: Human Brain, Deep Learning

A Task-Optimized Neural Network Replicates Human

Auditory Behavior, Predicts Brain Responses, and

Reveals a Cortical Processing Hierarchy — Read a Paper

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Summary — Used Hierarchical Neural Networks to mimic the auditory model of human brain and reported many interesting observations. Multitasking network for both speech and music recognition is designed, and the behavioral error trends of the network is compared with human volunteers. Task specific branching after shared layers in the network architecture supports the plausible organization of the auditory block.

Experimental Setup

Two auditory-based tasks were chosen for the work, 1. Word recognition: identify the listened word and 2) Music genre prediction: identify the genre of the music played. To add robustness, a reasonable amount of noise is added to the data. Now instead of having two separate task-specific models, a single branched network with initial shared layers had branched out task specific heads.

Network Architecture [Source]

With this trained model optimized to solve both the tasks, the exciting takeaways are,

Task independent branch points

Patterns when varying the selection of layer to branch out for both tasks showed similar behavior. Branch point at layer 3 was optimal.

Performance when varying branch point [Source]

Human vs Network

Proportion correct for different words in human and network [Source]

Human volunteers and trained network were given the same tasks of recognizing different types of words and to recognize genres of musics played with varying noise levels. In case of word detection, clean signals had more accuracy and words of musical tone were easier to recognize. For both the tasks there was a clear positive correlation between humans and network.

Confusion matrices of prediction of music genres in human and network [Source]

Voxel responses

To confirm the behavioral errors encountered in the human subjects has matching voxel responses in the attributed parts of the brain, fMRI scan was used to record the active brain regions during the task. The observations were consistent with the hypothesis and there were clear responses in the plausibly attributed parts of the brain. Noticing that the non-primary auditory cortex had little response to outliers indicate that the apparent hierarchical structure is general enough to filter input based on salience and compute activation, but not a simple neural selectivity part for speech and music.
It’s official
Tags: Social Anxiety, Mental Health, Collaboration, Psykiatrifonden

It’s official

Earlier this year we launched Steps. Steps is an app helping people battle social anxiety using principles from exposure therapy. Now we got a very important product development collaboration with The Danish Mental Health Fund.

At Steps we have been working informally with The Danish Mental Health Fund (Psykiatrifonden) for several months. With them, we have discussed both our app, as well as the user experiments we are conducting, to find out how knowledge from the world of professional therapy, could be applied in a digital setting. We have enjoyed the high quality information we have received and always got expert advice, some of which we first truly understood the value from, after conducting tests which failed to meet the advise. ;)

“The Danish Mental Health Fund is working to strengthen mental health and prevent mental illness. We are very committed to developing and spreading new solutions that can reach target groups which the established methods and offers do not reach. Therefore, we are pleased to have a collaboration with Steps, due to the great potential of their product.”

- Chief psychologist Michael Danielsen

The Danish Mental Health Fund are not experts in how mental health can be improved by using digital tools, in fact no one are! That is why it is super exciting, that we now formally have established a collaboration to continue developing our digital tools, build on existing clinical knowledge and together evaluate the outcomes from our increased work and understanding of the field.
Learn from Apple’s art of tech explanation
Tags: UX, Apple, Data Visualization, Marketing, Gadgets

Before the introduction of the M1 chip, I was extremely curious about how Apple will communicate such a complex, technical topic to a wide audience — the majority of people are not engineers. We all should learn from Apple’s Team how to communicate difficult topics to people. I think they have done stunning work.

Now, grab the mug of your favorite coffee, and let’s reveal the secrets of a successful tech presentation!

Glanceable Charts

Charts are normally created to present detailed information — lots of points, lines, and numbers. However, you will not find them in Apple’s Keynote charts.

Simplicity of chart design. Source Apple.com

The chart does not have numbers or scales on the X & Y-axis. They would not mean anything to the majority of the keynote viewers. They have just labels — “Performance” and “Power Consumption.”

What’s more, Apple has also added an additional note to each position — “Performance — Higher is better,” “Power Consumption — Lower is better.” Thanks to this, everyone is able to see and compare the presented results.

What’s more, it is worth mentioning that the gradients used to visualize M1 Chip are also used to present it on a chart. This automatically binds the result with the analyzed object and creates a feeling of consistency — delightful micro branding! I am sure that everyone would intuitively know which line presented the Performance of the M1 CPU.

The final result is a clear and meaningful chart where you can compare new Apple’s CPU with others.

Technology Advancement

While the chip itself does not look very attractive, Apple made everything to make it look extremely modern. They added a glow effect with a gradient to create a foundation for the visual brand of this piece of technology.

M1 Chip was also animated in a way that shows that it is a future technology. You surely noticed that Star Wars and Star Trek movies inspired the motion that presents MacBook Pro’s assemble process.
The Coronavirus Outbreak So Far and Why It's So Concerning [Comic]
By: Adrian H. Raudaschl
Tags: Science, Life, Coronavirus, Health, Disease

Please note the following is accurate as of Early February 2020

The Coronavirus outbreak has been dominating headlines for the last few weeks. I am growing concerned with the increasing amount of panic, misinformation and xenophobia being circulated and wanted to do something to help.

The following is a summary of what we know so far about the outbreak and why we should be taking it seriously. I hope the comic format makes the information more accessible and is a good starting point for staying well informed.
Haftanın Patent Raporu #22
By: Patent Effect
Tags: Girişimcilik, Patents, Teknoloji, Türkçe, Patentraporu

017 - Rob McInnes explained technology transfer management

Listen to this episode from Patent Effect Podcast on Spotify. We had a great conversation with Rob McInnes who is…
Haftalık Sosyal Medya Özeti: 8 Temmuz — 14 Temmuz 2019
Tags: Stranger Things, Social Media News Tr, YouTube, Netflix, Instagram

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Faster, cheaper and better transactions - Segwit for Bitbit is here!
By: Satoshi Citadel Industries
Tags: Segwit, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

We are thrilled to announce that we have fully rolled out SegWit-enabled addresses for all Bitbit users.

SegWit or Segregated Witness, was implemented on the Bitcoin network in August, 2017. The technical improvement aimed to scale Bitcoin and improve transaction speed.

As a sample computation, a Non SegWit transaction of 1 input and 2 outputs at around 226 bytes means you would have to pay about 0.00115034 BTC.

If it was a SegWit transaction with 1 input and 2 outputs at around 178 bytes means you would have to pay about 0.00089584 BTC

That’s a savings of $2.769!

Changes to your Bitbit Account:

1. You will receive a brand new SegWit-enabled bitcoin address. You will see this new address in the app.

2. Your old bitcoin address will no longer be visible inside your account.

3. You can continue to receive funds from external transfers to the old address and it will reflect o your balance but it is highly recommended that you use the Segwit-enabled address for better experience.

4. Your bitcoin balance from the old non Segwit wallet address is safe and carried over.

5. You will see that transaction fees will be much cheaper and confirmation will be faster when you send bitcoin.

We advise mobile users to always update your Bitbit mobile app to the latest version to enjoy new features that we are constantly delivering.

If you have any questions or feedback, please send us an email at hello@bitbit.cash
MOAC Deployment Series: YZ Chain
Tags: Blockchain, Deployment, Moac, Moac Annoucements, Beauty

YZ Chain Main Mode:

Incentives: All user-generated content (UGC) is valued in the YZ chain, and the YZ Chain has the potential to publish tens of thousands of UGC a day.

Incentives: YZ adopts a powerful and flexible token policy to motivate positive behavior from users, rewarding users who contribute more to promote rapid platform development.

YZ Chain profit model:

Investment content producers: All YZ translations are transparent and traceable, ensuring the interests of investers and allowing content producers to use YZ to crowdfund to YZ users, covering the cost for content production and profit through allocation of investors.

Incentives to promote investment and profit: YZs are used to motivate users to promote the platform, encouraging a first come, first serve system, with first time users receiving the most benefits.
Code Smell 04 — String Abusers
By: Maximiliano Contieri
Tags: Code Smells, Object Oriented, Programming, Software Development

Too many parsing, exploding, regex, strcomp, strpos and string manipulation functions.

Photo by Nathaniel Shuman on Unsplash

Problems

Complexity

Readability

Maintainability

Lack of Abstractions

Solutions

1) Work with objects instead.

2) Replace strings with data structures dealing with object relations.

3) Go back to Perl :)

4) Find Bijection problems between real objects and the strings.

Examples

Serializers

Parsers

Sample Code

Wrong

Right

Detection

Automated detection is not easy. A warning can be issued if too many string functions are used.

Relations

Primitive Obsession

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By: Andy Anderson
Tags: Funny, Humor, Comics, Cartoon, Magic

Looking to add some funny to your feed? Follow this page for new cartoons every week.

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RISD School Times- September 26
By: Risd Digital Media
Tags: Education, Grammys, Risd School Times

RISD School Times- September 26

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Students Sound Off On Grammy Career Day

More than 200 Richardson ISD students attended the first ever Grammy Career Day in Richardson on Wednesday, September 20 at the Eisemann Center. Provided at no cost through the Recording Academy Texas Chapter and Grammy Museum, students heard from music industry professionals such as songwriters, musicians, publicists, sound engineers, producers and publishers.

The impact of the day on students was undeniable — learn more.

Staff Spotlight

The National Association for Gifted Children has announced that RISD Director of Advanced Academic Studies Monica Simonds will receive NAGC’s 2017 Gifted Coordinator Award.

The Gifted Coordinator Award is presented annually to an administrator who has made significant contributions to gifted children in their school district, including development of gifted programs, identification protocols, and/or ongoing professional development related to the needs of gifted children, as well as advocacy within the district for gifted education and gifted children.

Congratulations Monica!

See the NAGC press release

Know Your STARS — Amelia Icossipentarhos

Click to learn more about 2017 STARS Teacher of the Year Amelia Icossipentarhos from Westwood JH.

Thursday Night Lights!

District Calendar

Upcoming Meetings, Events & Fundraisers

Reminders

Click to view the 2017–18 Student Academic Calendar, formatted for printing.

Have a Question About RISD?

We’re glad you asked!

From time to time, students, parents, residents or taxpayers have questions about information or issues related to RISD, but aren’t sure who to ask or where to go for information. We’re Glad You Asked is a feature on the RISD website that lets stakeholders ask questions about anything related to RISD, and you’ll receive an emailed response from the appropriate RISD staff member. Some questions & answers may be featured in district publications.

Simply visit risd.org/gladyouasked to use this new feature.

Richardson ISD — www.risd.org

400 S. Greenville Ave. | Richardson, TX 75081 US

Originally published at t.e2ma.net.
Tech Hiring Managers Answer Common Behavioral Interview Questions
By: Rooftop Slushie
Tags: Hiring, Interview, Programming, Career Advice, Startup

2. What Do You Do if You Disagree With Your Boss?

Use data to win arguments. Can you tell a story about using product data to bring objective data to a subjective debate?

Express empathy. Good answers will sound more like: “I think doing it this way is more in-line with our goals, and here’s why,” and less like “I think you’re wrong and that’s a bad idea.”

Highlight that debate and disagreement are healthy and improve teams. Of course, there is a healthy debate and unhealthy debate. Make it really clear that you use disagreements as an opportunity to learn or influence others, not to win arguments.

Step back and understand everyone’s point-of-view. Perhaps there’s a good reason for the disagreement that you can learn from. Maybe there are other factors worth considering. This will help take some of the emotion out of the conversation and bring you back to a rational place.

— Dios, engineering manager at Facebook

This is a time to show how you are able to resolve conflicts at work and drive consensus with someone who is a power figure.

To answer this question, you should first set the context on:

What you disagreed on with your manager’s position. How you didn’t confront them immediately but rather took a small pilot test to verify your hypothesis. How you used data to convince them that your idea’s worth exploring.

For example, the manager says to focus on sales and acquisition of new customers when you want to woo existing customers as well. You notice an attrition of customers after the first few days, so you try an experiment to engage the existing customer base through product feature emails.

You observe that these customers have much higher retention and revenue in the long run. Ultimately, this allows you to convince your manager that the strategy should focus on both acquisition as well as engagement.

— A, product leader at Amazon
Slush Pile
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Humor, Comics, Cartoon, Cats, Work Life Balance

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Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
Want to learn effectively? Familiarize yourself with the “Pomodoro Technique”
By: Karolina Biernat
Tags: Self Improvement, Work, Productivity, Techniques, Learning

Have you ever done a task and then realised that you’d spent way too much time on it and you blamed social media for your tragic demise? If yes, I have some good information for you — in the late 1908s, Francesco Cirillo created a simple technique that helps people be more efficient, focused and, as it is said on his website, “work smarter, not harder.”

While at the university in Rome, Cirillo got interested in challenging himself to time his tasks in order to overcome the inability to focus on them properly. After giving it a try several times, he noticed that his focus had improved. At first, he divided his tasks into 10-minute blocks, however, after noticing the positive effects, he increased the number of minutes to 25 that were followed by 5 or 10-minute breaks to let his mind wander freely and rest. To measure the time, he used a kitchen timer shaped as a tomato, which later gave the name of his technique (ENG tomato — ITA pomodoro).

What does the Pomodoro Technique consist of?

It all comes down to a few simple steps.

Choose ONE task you need to focus on. You learn to prioritize your tasks here, which is an additional advantage of this technique Set your or the Tomato Timer for 25 minutes Do your task (ONLY that task). Give it your 100% attention. Do it until the time is up Take a 5-minute break Repeat the steps 2, 3 and 4 three more times After those four repetitions take a longer break (20/30minutes)

In today’s era of social media, it’s getting harder and harder to focus on things that have to be done without checking our phones every few minutes. The thing is, taking phones to our hands has become more of a habit than a neccessity.

How many times have you checked your phone to see what time it was and ended up doing everything but checking the time?

I thought so.

It’s high time you stopped doing so if you want to get things done and avoid going to sleep angry or disappointed with yourself. Besides, such feelings are likely to affect your sleep quality and can therefore make you both groggy and counterproductive next day. Who wants that, right?

Find yourself a pomodoro and learn to focus.

P.S. — There’s a free eBook written by Staffan Nötteberg called The Pomodoro Technique Illustrated which can help you with your productivity even more.
I’m Thrilled to be Alive
By: Sherry Mcguinn
Tags: Breast Cancer, True Story, Life, Gratitude, Healing

How can we be inching up to 2020? It hardly seems possible. How has your year been? Filled with mostly good things, I hope. Although, as I write this, I realize how unlikely that is. We’re all going through something.

This time of year, I become introspective to the point of obsession, which, for me, is business-as-usual as I’ve suffered from OCD my whole life. I’ve never sought help for it, as I choose to battle it on my own. Am I winning this ongoing assault? Not always. Hardly ever, actually. It’s something I’ve grown to live with, like a stray cat you’d love to take in, but can’t as you already have three. But you still feed it. You still nurture it.

But I didn’t come here to bitch. I wanted to share my thoughts after watching a documentary called “Heal,” on Netflix. That’s my new jam now while I peddle away on my stationary bike. No more “ropeless jump rope” for a while as I screwed up my knees. (Shameless plug: See below.)

The film was all about the mind/body connection and how, literally, the way we think, can make us sick. Now that’s nothing really new under the sun, but I was struck by some of the people interviewed who were able to beat Stage 4 cancers, chronic disease, and even unexplained skin eruptions by changing their mindsets and embracing alternative therapies like Reiki, meditation, visualization, etc.

The inherent message is that Big Pharma is not only ineffectual but doing more harm than good. Personally, I believe we need to meet somewhere in the middle — a melding of the conventional with the alternative.

For the skeptic, and I possess a healthy dose even though I believe in the ancient Indian practice of Ayurvedic health and wellness, I take herbal supplements and try to use natural products whenever possible — there’s a lot of goofiness here.

Here’s the takeaway that got my brain churning: We are all connected to the earth and to each other. Why else do people ask for prayers on Facebook? Sometimes miraculously they work and other times…

And even though I’m not religious, I am spiritual and it’s hard to turn down a plea from someone who is suffering or is connected to someone in need of prayers.

Since I know very little about religions, I figure I can cover all the bases by sending up prayers to God, Buddha and the Universe. Certainly, one of those should take. One can only hope.

Many of the documentaries I’ve watched have discussed the effect that “cleansing foods” have on our bodies. Especially those that are plant-based. Having had breast cancer, I am gobsmacked by the fact that my doctors seldom discuss food and its impact on disease. Even my beloved oncologist who once told me that I can have one glass of wine on Friday and one on Saturday. I’ve since learned that Western medical schools devote approximately four hours to nutrition! Chew on that for a bit.

And Doctor M., I’m sorry but I’ve found it difficult to stick to that particular “regimen.” Still love you, though.
Project ORBアップデート（1月4日/2017）
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Welcome to Yonder and Home
By: Andrew Donaldson
Tags: Family History, Faith, Travel, Family, Food

Welcome to Yonder and Home

So let’s tell those stories, of food, folks, and faith, to the people who matter most in the places where we find them.

Photo by Andrew Donaldson, All Rights Reserved

I come from a place they call Up Yonder.

I’m but one of many. My ancestors have been on our mountain since before America was America, while others were still in the old country. When the family gathers, it is at the top of that mountain that most of us are connected to, either by blood, marriage, friendship, or just habit.

“Going Up Yonder” meant fellowship, family, and food. Lots of food. Lots of family. Several hundred usually, for a large gathering. Just on my mother’s side, which is native to Up Yonder, I’m the 19th (and youngest) grandchild, born to the 9th of 10 children, and father to the 58th, 61st, 64th, and 65th great-grandchildren. You get the idea; there is a mess of us Up Yonder.

Up Yonder meant many things: Family reunions, get-togethers for various things, camping out to get away, a meeting point for a day’s adventure elsewhere. There have been weddings, memorial services, and more birthdays and anniversaries than anyone cares to count. When eminent domain turned the river below our mountain into a lake and took the homes of friends and family, they went Up Yonder to build again. Eventually a permanent shelter was built on top of the mountain at the gathering place, and later expanded. Though flung to the far corners of the world, friends and family know they always have a place to come home to Up Yonder, wherever else they might roam.

The dictionary says “yonder” is an archaic term, used to describe something off in the distance, or in a certain direction, or of an area not otherwise specified. To we who call it home while seeking new horizons, there is nothing more immediate in thoughts, in dreams, in memories. It’s an anchoring realness, no matter how far yonder from the fire and food up on the hill you go. You measure all the adventures and experiences you might have across the street and around the world against that place, making you appreciate it and leave you longing for more. More adventures, more experiences, and more time Up Yonder to tell the stories of it all to those who matter most.

Hearing of my desire to write about such things, one particular individual snarked “you must only want it to be read by friends and family.” It was meant as a putdown. I’ll take it as a deal. For us, friends and family who appreciate such things, yonder isn’t some far-off thing. It’s the starting point, and the journey, and the destination, and everything in between from hither to yon.

So let’s tell those stories, of food, folks, and faith, to the people who matter most in the places where we find them.

Welcome to Yonder & Home.
Books
By: Abhishek Verma
Tags: Poetry, Haiku, Love, Books, Poetry On Medium

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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Exploring Descriptive Statistics Using Pandas and Seaborn
By: Indhumathy Chelliah
Tags: Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Python3, Data Science

Measure of Central Tendency

Measure of central tendency is used to describe the middle/center value of the data.

Mean, Median, Mode are measures of central tendency.

1. Mean

Mean is the average value of the dataset.

of the dataset. Mean is calculated by adding all values in the dataset divided by the number of values in the dataset.

We can calculate the mean for only numerical variables

Formula to calculate mean

Calculating the mean of the “Age” column in our dataset.

Age

Mathematical Calculation

Mean calculation [Image by author]

Calculating Mean for a particular variable (“Age”) using Python.

df["Age"].mean()

Output: 28.333333333333332

Calculating the mean for all the columns in the dataframe.

df.mean()

Mean value for all columns

Calculated mean only for numerical datatype. “Gender” column in the dataset is excluded.

2. Median

The Median is the middle number in the dataset.

in the dataset. Median is the best measure when we have outliers.

Find the median of the “Age” column in our dataset.

Mathematical Calculation

Find the median

If we have an even number of data, find the average of the middle two items.

Example:

Age → 4,12,24,8,16,20

Sort → 4,8,12,16,20,24

Pick the middles ones → 12,16

Find the average → 28/2 =14

Calculating the median for a particular variable (“Age”) using Python.

df["Age"].median()

Output: 28

Calculating the median for all the columns in the dataframe.

df.median()

The median value for all columns

Calculated median only for the numerical datatype. The “Gender” column in the dataset is excluded.

3. Mode

The mode is used to find the common number in the dataset.

Calculating mode for a particular variable (“Age”) using a mathematical calculation

Calculating the mode for a particular variable (“Age”) using Python.

df["Age"].mode()

Mode

Calculating the mode for all the columns in the dataframe.

df.mode()

Mode
Color theory can be boring
By: Jan Schultink
Tags: Colors, Presentation Design, PowerPoint

Nature or artists usually do not stick to color theory to create an interesting color scheme. Jazz bands really start to swing when the drummer goes slightly off beat. If you restrict yourself to complementary colors, your choices are limited and the look of your presentation resembles those of many others who use the same approach.







Instead, get inspired by art (try Art Authority) or a or a colorful sea creature, or a photograph (check out Steve McCurry’s blog) and upload the image to a color extraction tool such as Adobe Kuler. It will make you work more original, plus it adds a little personal secret to your presentation, your favorite painter or that memorable place that is hidden in the slides somewhere.
Lyons House, Robin Boyd, Sydney
By: Dan Hill
Tags: Sydney, Australia, Architecture, Modernism, Housing

The way Dr Lyons talked about the brief was fascinating. While he may have had a concern for aesthetics — he would hardly have been talking to Boyd if he hadn’t — he essentially left all that to Boyd, offering no preference at all. What he was more interested in, he said, was the way the building would perform. The functional element to the architecture. “As a machine”, he said.

It’s slightly ironic to hear the “machine” quote, given how associated that is with Le Corbusier and its typical interpretation in a certain kind of modernism. Ironic given how intimate, warm and organic this house feels, at least from within. Interesting too, in terms of our contemporary focus on behaviour and performance in design.

Backtracking slightly, it’s worth pausing to tell the story of how he ended up with Boyd. Dr Lyons recalls advice he was given at the time: ‘In Sydney it’s Harry Seidler. In Melbourne you talk to Robin Boyd.’ Being in Sydney, and of a clearly pragmatic nature, he decided to speak to the former first, and regales us with a great tale revealing Seidler’s character. Invited to the great architect’s office in downtown Sydney, Dr Lyons enters the vast office that Seidler had to himself, a giant space, largely empty save for a desk at the far end, with Seidler sitting behind it. Lyons pads towards the architect, which seems to take an eternity, and settles down to listen. Seidler quickly lays things on the line, stating that he doesn’t want to see or hear from the client at all, after the initial commission — the architecture itself would be entirely up to him. (Oh Harry.) Those who have seen Mad Men recently may be able to visualise the office and the attitude all too well.
Top 10 : Innovations for the future of the ocean
Tags: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Design Thinking, Oceans, Environment

Project X by WWF

Tackling environmental problems at an industry level, WWF are helping to bring cutting-edge business solutions to market, by offering their skills and expertise to minimise the risk for those starting out. Their bold ambition is to “radically transform 10 industries in 10 years”, starting with livestock and feed, so watch this space.

Parley for the oceans x adidas

Parley have teamed up with sports powerhouse Adidas to create a 3D printed shoe made from plastic ocean waste, literally “spinning the problem into a solution”. The partnership is part of a bigger mission to rethink the use of materials and design to bring about lasting change to ocean health.

Plastic bank

This is an ambitious project which aims not just to remove plastic from our waterways but to turn it into a social currency which can lift people out of poverty. Plastic bank pay people above market rates for waste plastic, which is then turned into raw plastic pellets which can be sold to industry and used as ‘social plastic’.They are even going as far as providing communities with 3D printers which can turn the recycled plastic pellets into useful objects.

Ocean data alliance use of Artificial Intelligence

One of the arguable ironies of our ‘advancement at any cost’ attitude, is that technologies like AI might prove invaluable in the battle against natural disaster. The Ocean Data Alliance (a public-private partnership for ocean monitoring) are hoping to harness the power of AI to more quickly and efficiently identify and deal with issues such as illegal fishing or outbreaks of disease.

Provenance

Provenance, a platform that enables greater transparency in supply chains, have successfully trialled the use of mobile, blockchain technology and smart tagging to track tuna from the ocean in Indonesia to your plate! This pilot can now provide a blueprint to expand the system, which verifies sustainability claims at every stage of the supply chain, to other goods and foods in SE Asia.

Finless foods

Using cutting-edge cell culture techniques, Finless foods plan to cultivate fish ‘fillets’ in brewery conditions, taking the strain off our oceans and helping to meet our insatiable appetite for fish. In this way it is hoped that biotechnology can make the fishing industry sustainable and affordable to everyone.
ACTION, NUMBER, SILENCE, WORK (PART TWO) :: RAYMOND DE BORJA :: FIELD NOTES
By: Adrian Silbernagel
Tags: Poetry, Work, Art, Creative Process, Praxis

In his essay “Poiesis and Praxis,” Giorgio Agamben writes about how “the distinction between these three kinds of doing — poiesis, praxis, and work — has been progressively obscured.” In Greek thought, man’s ‘doing’ is any of Poiesis — “to pro-duce” in the sense of bringing into being, from non-being to being; Praxis — “to do” in the sense of acting out, expressing the will; and Work — physical work necessary for life’s needs. He later on goes to discuss a reversal in the status of work, and how work “climbs to the rank of central value […] in every human activity. He reminds us that in Greek thought work occupies “the lowest rank in the hierarchy of active life, whereas in both the classical liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith, and also the writings of Karl Marx, work attains something of a central value — in Locke and Smith, where work is, respectively, origin of property, and source of wealth; and in Marx, where work is the expression of man’s very humanity.

In the realm of art, the disentangling of the categories of poiesis, praxis, and work, is important work. Agamben observes how in most contemporary art practice, art is interpreted as a mode of praxis, where praxis is “the expression of a will and a creative force.” This manner of interpretation is found even in the radical thinking of Nietzsche (art’s identification with the will to power), in Artaud (the theatrical liberation of the will), in the Situationists (overcoming of art).

Why is there a necessity to think again of art as poiesis, of art in relation to “producing”, in the sense of bringing something to being? And how is it possible for such need to be real, without nostalgia for a metaphysical past? Alain Badiou offers us a possible response. In Badiou, the event of art is “a new possibility of formalization, the becoming form of something that is not form.” “Because I think the political situation today is very obscure,” Alain Badiou says. “The specific responsibility of artistic creation is to help humanity find the new subjective paradigm.”

I think the poems in Modus Operandi are aware of the necessity of disentangling the categories of poiesis, praxis, and work. But at the same time also deeply aware of how inevitably entangled these categories have become and are, of how the poem’s powerlessness to effect change is both harrowing fact and potential. The poems recognize that “The unbeknownst/ is a border /is a passage only/the small know about.”
SwiftUI: How to Assign @State Property in an Initializer
By: Mahmud Ahsan
Tags: Programming, Swift, Swiftui, iOS App Development, iOS

In SwiftUI, normally you define @State property in a View which is technically called a property wrapper. It is designed to store the states of a single View. Normally, the common pattern you use like this:

So if the title will change, the body will recompute again to show the updated data. It is automatic.

But sometimes, what you may want to do, you want to pass a value in the initializer and assign the value to the state.

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But you see, the problem is, if you want to do that, there will be an error shown.

This is because:

SwiftUI doesn’t allow to access and work with the @State properties outside the closure assigned within the body property.

You can avoid this error if you assign a value during the declaration of the title property.

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But the problem is, still the expected behavior is not working. If you run this program you see the title is an empty string.

So how to solve this problem?

If you want to access the underlying structure of a @State property you can do that by prefixing the property’s name with an underscore. e.g. _title

Now if you want to change the state, you have to do it in the following way:

As title is an State<String> structure, the only way to give an initial value from is: _title = State<String>(initialValue: title) within the init method.

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Optimize your website or blog with free Google SEO tools
By: Raghuraman Kesavan
Tags: SEO, Google Search Console, Page Speed, Google Analytics

In this post, I will talk about Google tools which will help you to optimize your blog or website.

1. PageSpeed Insights

PageSpeed Insights helps you to analyze the content of the web pages and it throws some suggestion to improve its speed and performance. It will really help the beginners to improve their site and its performance however page speed doesn’t make an impact on page ranking algorithm.

Enter your URL in the search box and click analyze. you will get google calculated mark for your site and possible optimization steps.

2. Google Search console

Google Search Console most important tool earlier it is known as webmaster tools. It will really help us to run the websites/blogs smoothly without any issues. First, we need to enroll our website then, we can able to find much information about our website in the search console. It will help us to identify

Crawling issues.

Broken links.

How many pages indexed.

Search Analytics details which include click, impression.

Other than that, you can test robots.txt file and it will help you to understand how Google regards elements available in your website.

Search console image contains all the available feature in the Google search console. In the search appearance, we have Structured data, Rich cards, Data Highlighter and HTML improvement details available.

3. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free web analytics tools offered by Google and this service is launched by Google way back in 2005. This tool will monitor and report the website traffic and we can also have real time user traffic to your website. It is the most successful web analytics tool available in the market. Premium version of Google Analytics available for enterprise projects. Google analytics got an attractive dashboard with plenty of details available.

4. Google Adwords Keyword Planner

Google Adwords Keyword Planner is another important tool which will help you to expand or build new search network campaign. This service offered at free of cost by Google and It will help you to get right keywords and ideas about the keywords. We can also get historical and predictive data through this tool.

5. Google Trends

Google Trends is a great tool which compares traffic for different search items, which includes geographic and historical search related data. We can also get popular search terms on the internet so that we can plan or modify our website based on those search terms. There are few other Google tools available.

These tools will really help you to understand, How to increase views to your website.

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