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1 Day To Go: Delphy v1.0 Chinese Version Launch on 1st June, 2018
By: Ada Gao
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Prediction Markets, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Throughout history, renowned thinkers and visionaries have made numerous predictions such as; In 1865, Jules Verne predicted human being’s moon landing in his novel, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ or how Mark Twain in 1898, predicted the birth of the Internet in his works, “People’s life will be connected through communication technology.” Another prominent prediction is that of Nikola Tesla (in 1901), when he predicted the invention of WiFi and mobile phones.

For centuries, society has relied on methods such as polls, trusted experts, superstition to predict the outcomes of future events. However, in current times, Delphy’s decentralized prediction markets will empower ‘You’ the people to make these profound predictions. Delphy’s v1.0 Chinese Version will launch on 1st June, 2018 where users can predict the winner of 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.

Our team is very excited to launch the Chinese version of our decentralized, social mobile Prediction Market platform. Delphy prediction markets, Chinese version platform will go live on 1st June 2018 and will feature numerous prediction markets set-up in anticipation to the much-awaited 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Delphy harnesses the wisdom of the crowd, by testing individuals’ knowledge of political, financial, and sporting events (such as FIFA World Cup) by allowing users to make and invest in predictions. Those who correctly anticipate the outcomes of events are rewarded. By channelling the wisdom of the crowd, Delphy can make accurate, data-driven predictions about future events, and eliminates the need for traditional forecasting methods.

Delphy, prediction markets is empowering ‘You’ the people to predict the future!

Are you ready to predict with us and make the world more predictable?
SEO’da neler yapılmalı, neler yapılmamalı
By: Can Talaylı
Tags: SEO, Turkce, Search Engine Marketing

in In Fitness And In Health
The 18 (Really Good) Stories That Moved Us in 2018
By: Siobhan O'Connor
Tags: Favorites, Stories, 2018, Editors Pick

I almost missed my flight home when the first draft of this piece turned up in my inbox. In a sweeping, brave personal essay, Daum chronicles how her search for political nuance in an obnoxiously polarized era led her to a handful of thinkers — disdained within her progressive social circle — known as the intellectual dark web. At the same time, she was mourning the end of her marriage and the loss of her intellectual sparring partner. The result is a smart, searching look at Daum’s personal and political evolution. It’s something we can all learn from in these fractured times. It will give you chills, if not make you cry, and it’s why we’re going to be working more closely with this important writer starting in January.

— Siobhan O'Connor, vice president, editorial

Rob Delaney’s essay about the illness and death of his son Henry haunts me months after I first read it. Delaney so deftly captures the love a parent has for a child — and the unimaginable, excruciating agony of seeing that child suffer. This is a piece that deserves to be read and remembered. Read it for Henry.

— Katie Drummond, deputy editor

Paul Flannery is a great sportswriter who has long struggled with depression. In his early forties, after things came to a head, he started trail running, and he kept trail running. In doing so, Flannery discovered a community of people who have responded to midlife crises by tackling increasingly intense physical challenges. The result is a deeply felt and eye-opening piece.

— Joe Keohane, features director

Rushkoff was a techno-utopian before it was cool. He’s also ahead of the curve on seeing how the heady high-tech fantasies we’ve embraced since the beginning of the digital age may curdle into nightmares if we’re not careful. In this piece, which justly went viral, he notes how the Silicon Valley billionaires we’ve been counting on to lead us into the promised land are already making preparations to leave us behind.

— Aaron Gell, contributing editor

This is the most fascinating story about data servers I’ve ever read. It is scientifically, psychologically, politically, and emotionally profound.

— Bethany Heck, head of design

The story itself is fascinating and important, and it was an honor to match it with terrific art. Seeing as I’m on the art side of things, I was delighted that Maria Medem’s work added another dimension to the written story; it’s beautifully figurative and visually arresting, and it feels like it might contain a story all unto itself. Of all of the great art we’ve commissioned this year, this has to be my favorite.

— Ryan Hubbard, art director
Integrating Torus with OpenSea: The Largest Marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens
By: Devin Finzer
Tags: Wallets, Featured

Torus is proud to announce our latest DApp integration with OpenSea!



Read the full post on our blog.
How To Not Be Ignorant
By: Tom Kuegler
Tags: Politics, Culture, Self, Human Parts, Race

How To Not Be Ignorant

Curiosity doesn’t just kill the cat..

Photo by Eunice Lituañas on Unsplash

Remember the movie Pocahontas? The two most curious characters in the story are John Smith and Pocahontas. The second John touches down on the “New World” he’s off singing songs and climbing mountains. Pocahontas spends her time jumping off waterfalls and singing about what’s “just around the river bend.”

There’s a wonderful shot in the film where Pocahontas comes to a fork in the river. The left side features calm water, and the right side features heavy rapids. Do I really have to tell you which side she chooses?

You can chalk this up to her being an adrenaline junkie, but I’d more-so chalk it up to curiosity.

Contrast Pocahontas and John Smith with everybody else in the movie. The “settlers” have no desire to be curious. They’re here to do a job, find some gold, and get some glory back home. They know the “savages” aren’t to be trusted. They know there’s gold in the New World. Why be curious when you already know?

Same with the Indians. They’re sure that all the settlers are here to bring death and destruction. While they’re right about 99% of the settlers, they’re wrong about John Smith, who has an inquisitive heart.

After exploring the New World with a curious eye, John comes to understand it in ways the rest of the settlers could never dream of.
How Coronavirus Made me into a Fat Panda
By: Owais Ali
Tags: Humor, Satire, Weight Loss, Corporate Culture, Covid 19

The Gym

Photo by Anush Gorak from Pexels

Imagine how health will be affected because gyms are closed. I feel very bad about this since I can't do much about my health. Of course, it doesn’t matter that I wasn’t going to the gym prior to corona.

I deserve to have the option of going to the gym whenever I want to. A gym membership means I can get fit any minute I want. I’ve already been planning to go to the gym — for the last couple of years. And I can’t say this anymore. Coronavirus has turned my world upside down

The Diet — with Biryani

However, there are other options to get fit as well. Like I can control eating Biryani daily — a dish made up of rice and chicken only. It is not like I am not doing anything for my obsession with Biryani.

Daily, I decide not to order Biryani without a miss. Then I order it again. At least I give not ordering it a thought — every minor step counts.

Green Tea

Of course, how can I forget? there is the all-time famous get-thin-quick scheme called Green Tea. Is it a good option? Maybe. Unlike the gym, it does not require you to sweat like a bottle out of the refrigerator. Wow, super cool then, sounds like a good option.

So, yes I have chosen green tea, too. And one of my life goals is to go to the superstore one day and buy myself a packet of green tea tea-bags. Also, I don’t know which brand is the best and helps in getting fit faster, so it requires the extra effort in searching online or get some reviews from fellas. So it is in my todo list too.

I know you can see now how difficult it is to get involved with the green tea option. Turns out it is just another scammy scheme actually. Glad I helped enlighten you about green tea. You’re welcome.
Differentiation under the Integral Sign w/Examples
By: Nhw, Maths Phd
Tags: Math, Mathematics, Integration, Differentiation, Calculus

Calculus

Differentiation under the Integral Sign w/Examples

“Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick”

Introduction

Most undergraduates will encounter several common integration techniques in their university life. Some of them are substitution, integration by parts and integration by partial fractions. However, there is an integration technique which is also useful to know. It is differentiation under integral sign.

Differentiation under integral sign was popularized by Richard Feynman, who was an American theoretical physicist. He was able to solve most integrals given to him, those that even great mathematicians found difficult.

In this article, we will provide the steps of using the technique and demonstrate it using 4 examples.

General Procedure:

To apply differentiation under integral sign, one needs to

Introduce an additional parameter a or a function into the integral and treat it as f(a), a function of a. Compute df/da and perform integration with respect to x to obtain a differential equation. Solve the differential equation to obtain formula of f(a).

(As a sanity check, f(a) does not involve any integration.) Substitute appropriate value of a into f(a) to compute the required integral.

Common difficulty:

The most common difficulty encountered when using differentiation under Integral sign is step 1, as it depends on experience or creativity. Here, we list a motivation of step 1 to ease readers.

Motivation of step 1: We introduce an additional parameter a or a function is so that after differentiation, we can perform integration.

See examples below for more information.
Cab Forward: a Chrysler Revolution
By: Danillo Almeida
Tags: Style, Past, History, Cars, English

Automotive production has developed over the decades followed by a huge contrast: it’s filled with procedures and standards of all types, and yet it’s susceptible to have all that changed at any time. The station wagon body style, for instance, had its clientele stolen by minivans and those lost it to crossovers just as quickly. More recently, electric propulsion is improving quickly enough to limit internal combustion engines to performance cars soon. In the 1990s, paradigms were shifted in yet another way.

Cab forward design has usually been applied to trucks. For them, it consists of placing the cabin above the front axle to increase the available cargo area and, at the same time, locating it between the axles for a better weight distribution. This solution never went to cars because it’d take a toll on design, considering our beauty standards, and because having the engine up front helps create the wedge-shaped front fascia that reduces aerodynamic drag. However, none of that means the concept couldn’t be used.
Pain
By: Jui Chawan
Tags: Pain, A Cornered Gurl, Heart, Poetry, Micropoetry

Pain

An Anguished Heart

Photo by Yuris Alhumaydy on Unsplash

as the pain recedes,

the heart desires it,

an unconventional habit
How To Build a Simple Bill Splitter in JavaScript
By: Valeria Ragonese
Tags: Beginner Coding, Programming, Js, JavaScript, Projects

The JavaScript

Let’s move onto JavaScript!

JavaScript can grow to be very messy, particularly when you’re a beginner coder. Try to be as tidy as possible.

Let’s take a look at the code step by step:

let total = parseInt(document.querySelector('#total').value);

let people = parseInt(document.querySelector('#people').value);

let tipPercent = document.querySelector('#tipPercent')

Inside the first function: “splitting”, I used querySelectors to select the input fields for the total amount of money to pay, how many people are going to pay, and the one for the tip, which is visible only when you click on “Add a tip” inside the form.

document.querySelector('#addTip').addEventListener('click', (e) => {

e.preventDefault();

showTipInput();

})

Here, we have an event listener attached to “Add a tip”.

When the words are clicked, the function showTipButtons() is called and an input field will appear (more below).

Now, a couple of things to pay attention to:

Here, we are calling the method .preventDefault() , which is always a good thing to add inside a form. Why? Because inside forms, a button’s default behavior is refreshing the form. We don’t want this. So always remember to add it. Currently, on JavaScript, we cannot attach event listeners to text nodes. So, in reality, “Add a tip”, although it may look like normal text, is a button. CSS magic, that’s all. That’s also why I added the .preventDefault() method.

Here it is, the above-mentioned function.

This simply toggles the visibility of the input fields for the tip. By default, they are hidden.

Inside the same function, I added a conditional statement:

If the input field for the tipPercent is not empty, take the value entered by the user and save it in a constant.

How do you figure out a percentage?

In case you’re a bit rusty like I was, here’s the formula:

Multiply the number (the total of the bill, in our case) by the percent, and divide the answer by 100.

We also need to divide the above result by the persons paying the bill.

I will make the result appear inside the innerHTML of the querySelector(‘#perPerson’) , which is zero by default.

To avoid an annoying amount of digits after the decimal point, I added .toFixed(2) to limit this number to, well, 2.

The else part is for when no tip is added. In which case the math is easy. Grab the total and divide it by the people.

I selected the big SPLIT button and added an event listener, with, again, the method .preventDefault() .

Below, I call the splitting function, explained earlier.

Here, we have the “reset” button. I added an event listener to the button, with, of course, a preventDefault() method.

What happens when you click on a reset button?

Well, all the input fields become empty. JavaScript has a very handy method, .reset() , that does exactly this.

I attached the method to the form, and, at the same time, every result previously shown in the final result #perPerson will return to the default value zero.

And that’s it, you’ve built a basic bill splitter.
What It’s Like to Be Married, Monogamous, and Bisexual
Tags: Self, Relationships, LGBTQ, Sexuality, Marriage

I continued to struggle until, one day, I had a long talk with myself in the bathroom mirror after work. My boss had gone on a homophobic tirade, accusing gay people of ruining our community. It wasn’t the first time he’d said horrible things like this, but this incident really hit home for me. One of my colleagues, a known transphobic and racist member of the office, jumped right in, agreeing with him on every point. Watching them argue their point was my nightmare. I pretended I was busy with work and hoped no one asked my opinion.

By the time I got home, I felt sick. I went straight to the bathroom and cried in the shower. I was a wreck, struggling to hold together the remaining pieces of a belief that I was heterosexual, “normal” just like everybody else. Then came a moment of acceptance, a calming realization.

There’s a certain relief that comes with recognizing oneself, despite the fear of realizing everything you once believed about yourself was wrong.

There was no use fighting what I already knew: I’m bisexual.

I repeated it in the mirror multiple times, finding strength in the words. There’s a certain relief that comes with recognizing oneself, despite the fear of realizing everything you once believed about yourself is wrong. It was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

I told my husband first. I was scared it would ruin our marriage. I thought he’d feel hurt or betrayed. I feared that he’d stop loving me, pack up, and leave. Instead, he was overjoyed to discover we shared another interest. Next, I told our closest friends. Though I knew they all supported the LGBT+ community, I was scared. I didn’t want to ruin our friendship, and I didn’t want to make anyone feel awkward or uncomfortable. After all, it’s easy to support the movement from afar, and much harder to do so up close.

My worries were baseless. They accepted and supported me without question.
[DEX] What are the advantages of a future decentralized exchange?
Tags: Exchange, Bitcoin

First, ensure anonymity

Whereas traditional centralized exchanges do business with personal accounts on the central server, DEX protects personal information because transactions are made based on personal wallets.

So you don’t need to enter your personal information on the exchange!

Second, a decentralized server.

DEX is not a way to trade data through a central server, but a exchange that supports transactions between individuals through P2P without middleman.

That’s why it’s safe from hacking!

Third, there is no transaction fee!

There is no charge for DEX without a central broker.

It’s a big advantage because there’s no fee for receiving a few percent of the transaction amount from an existing exchange!

(Without Gas fee)

Fourth, you have direct control over your assets!!!

It’s the most important advantage!!

Because of this advantage, we have to use DEX, and for future exchanges, DEX will become the mainstream.

A traditional exchange (CEX) only records data that doesn’t come into my wallet even if I trade in crypto asset. It’s just a book deal.

So if the exchange is hacked,

My Crpto assets are in exchange wallets that I can’t control, and the damage comes to me

And

If the exchange arbitrarily restricts the withdrawal of my assets……

(This is a frequent and frequent measure)

How do I get my crypto assets?

that doesn’t tell you exactly how long to wait.
🔐 Secure your wallet with a PIN code
By: Jean Amiouny
Tags: Fintech, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Product Updates, Bitcoin

🔐 Secure your wallet with a PIN code

Set up a PIN code in the Settings tab > PIN Code.

You’ll be prompted to enter the PIN every time you open the app. After three failed attempts you’ll be immediately logged out.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be making more improvements to this experience (like adding fingerprint authentication) and rolling out more security features. Make sure you’re on the latest version and follow this blog to stay up to date!

Links for download (v1.2.483)

Google Play Store

Apple App Store

https://shakepay.co
How to Internationalize Your Angular App (i18n)?
By: Dlt Labs
Tags: Programming, Technology, JavaScript, Business, Dltlabs

How to Use Angular’s i18n Module?

To begin with, we first install the i18n module. we do this with this command: -npm install i18n — save

Next, we configure a file for i8n. We can do this in angular.json. In configurations, we define many things like output path, i18n file, i18n locale, etc.

We then mark all the static messages in our templates with the i18n module for translation. Let’s assume we have the message below. To wrap it with the i18n module, we use the code below

In the case of HTML files, we execute this as:

Now, for translations, we can also define id or message along with the i18n attribute. This should be unique for unique messages. If we do not assign an id by default, a unique id is assigned instead.

Make sure that the id for different messages is different. When we translate, only the first message assigned to an id is extracted.

In the case of attributes translation, an attribute in the form of i18n-x is added. Here ‘x’ defines the attribute. In other words, it is the attribute that we want to translate. For example, if I want to translate a title, I can place it as shown below:

When we have implemented this in our application, we need to create a translation source file. To extract the messages marked with i18n, we execute the command ng xi18n .

This command will create a message.xlf file, which will have all messages that mention i18n. We can change the name, format of our file, and location of the extracted file.

For example, if we want to create our file in the src/locale folder, we can run the ng xi18n –output-path src/locale command to do so.

We can run the command below to specify the format of our file:

ng xi18n –format=xlf

>> Now that we have all our messages in one file (which we want to translate), the next step is to generate a translation file for any language we want.

For this, we need to copy our message.xlf file and rename it in a way that makes it easy to identify the language it is created for since we can have multiple translation files. For example, message.ja.xlf for Japanese.

Now here comes the role of the translator, which would translate our messages. The goal is to replace the original message with the translated message. This file is written in the following format:

Now, implementation is complete. To run our application with translated text, we compile our application with the translated file (For this, we need to specify the path in angular.json, in our configuration).

In case if we have missed any translation, our project is compiled along with warnings.
BREAKING: Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19
By: Chris Ponce
Tags: President, Trump, Informative, Melania Trump, Covid 19

President Trump announced via Twitter on October 1st, that he and the First Lady have tested positive for Covid-19. The tweet stated “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!”

This news breaks after top Trump advisor, Hope Hicks, tested positive for Covid-19 on October 1st after being in close contact with the President as well as many Trump administration officials. Hicks was seen traveling with President Trump on Air Force One to and from the first presidential debate and was spotted in contact with Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, and Jared Kushner while walking towards Marine One, President Trump’s helicopter.

The Office of First Lady Melania Trump announced the breaking news via Twitter. “As too many Americans have done this year, @potus & I are quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19. We are feeling good & I have postponed all upcoming engagements. Please be sure you are staying safe & we will all get through this together”.

Dr. Sean Conley issued a memo to reporters at approximately 1 a.m. ET stating “The President and First Lady are both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence. The White House medical team and I will maintain a vigilant watch, and I appreciate the support provided by some of our country’s greatest medical professionals and institutions,”. The memo also addressed how the President will fulfill his role, explaining that, “Rest assured I expect the President to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering, and I will keep you updated on any further developments,” Dr. Conley wrote.

The recent news of the health of the First Family has shocked the Nation and left the future of the presidential debates, campaigns, election, and of the Country in uncertainty.
Boosting growth and creating jobs through digital transformation in the Mashreq
By: World Bank
Tags: Internet, Technology, IoT, Broadband, Data

The force of digitalization is driving the global economy, creating distinct groups of leaders and laggards. Through institutional reform that leverages the advantages of digitalization, the Mashreq can become a vital hub in international data networks. Furthermore, digital transformation can assuage pressing challenges. It can deliver higher transparency, accelerate lackluster productivity and increase economic opportunities for all, especially the youth of this region. A recently-launched report, Mashreq 2.0, charts the roadmap for the region to capitalize on this rapidly emerging opportunity, and assesses the prospect of a digitally integrated regional market.

Outside the dominant paradigms that portray the region in popular media, the Mashreq is the epicenter of the world’s fastest growing data transit market. Data traffic growth within the region will increase at a precipitous 42% compounded annual growth rate from 2016 to 2021. Influenced by historically intertwined geographic and cultural ties, MENA-Europe data exchange grows at over 50% per year.

The Mashreq’s potential in the digital economy is also evidenced by the many unicorns that have been incubated in the Arab region. Hallmark cases include Maktoub and Souk.com, born in Jordan’s capital, Amman. These digital platforms indicate an evolution in consumer behavior, embracing digital consumption. Another example is Magnitt, an Iraqi startup now hosted in Dubai, which is a marketplace for investors that links 5,500 startup firms with investors across the region.

These examples signal a bright future for the region, but crucially, broadband internet infrastructure is not yet equipped with the capacity to realize this potential. While mobile phones are ubiquitous in the Mashreq, broadband internet paints a different picture.
キツネと種
Tags: Japanese, Stories, 日本語, 日本, Japan

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Rainy Day Drive
By: John Gillen
Tags: Literally Literary, Rain, Poetry, Life, God

In the silent hours spent looking out the passenger seat window at the wet lit dark of sideways time, the cogitations that have passed through the minds of ten billion non-believers have rendered plain the immutable proof of the eternal spirit called Almighty Living God.

As rubber throws droplets to the wind.
Outputs with Terraform Modules
By: Joseph D. Marhee
Tags: Terraform, Automation, System Administration, DevOps, Configuration Management

Typically, when you create a plan like:

resource "kind" "name" {

key = "value"

}

in Terraform, you can access attributes to be printed at the end of the application using the output block:

output {

value = "${join(", ", kind.*.key)}"

}

However, when you nest a plan like this inside of a module outputs won’t surface at the root level when applying the module, so you’ll need to create an additional level of outputs to surface this data back to your terminal on a per-module basis.

For example, let’s take a module like:

module "my_module" {

source = "./modules/my_module"

ami = "${var.ami}"

instance_type = "${var.instance_type}"

node_count = "${var.node_count}"

}

and then in modules/my_module/main.tf you have a manifest like:

resource "aws_instance" "dev" {

ami = "${var.ami}"

instance_type = "${var.instance_type}"

count = "${var.node_count}"

}

where you’re creating some number of aws_instance dev nodes, count , and now you want to define the output from the plans inside this module in, for example, modules/my_module/output.tf :

output "instances" {

description = "AWS Instances created in lab"

value = "${join("\t

", aws_instance.omni_box.*.public_dns)}"

}

However, because you ran this as part of a module (and not the root project, ./output.tf ,) this output would not make it back to the console once applied, so you use this output block as its own resource, and basically define attributes accessible through your module name, and use instances , in this example (what I named this output), as the attribute for that module I want to return in the root-level output.tf file, like so:

output "instance-dns" {

value = "${module.my_module.instances}"

}

and you can create new attributes to reference under your module’s namespace by creating new outputs in the module, and then referencing it the same way, i.e. module.my_module.some_output_name .

Check out some more of the cool things you can do with output formats in Terraform:

https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/outputs.html
John Clements Supports Assumption Alumnae Association’s “Swinging@50”
By: Shiela Manalo
Tags: John Clements, Assumption Alumnae Assoc, Golf, Jc Events, Networking Events

Written by Gretchen O. Recto

Most of you might already know that Carol Dominguez, president and CEO of John Clements Consultants, begins her day at the golf course. For several years now, since she has come late to the game, Carol works at making up for lost time in the golf course at 6:30 am almost every day of every week. The persistence she had shown in mastering the sport is beginning to pay off as she now is able to confidently join golf tournaments.

One such tournament was Assumption Alumnae Association’s fundraiser, “Swinging@50”, held on September 4, 2017 at the renowned Sta. Elena Golf and Country Club. The tournament’s beneficiaries included the Mother Rosa Memorial Foundation, AEDev (Assumption Education and Development Fund), AMA (Auxiliary Missionaries of the Assumption Philippines), the Marie Eugenie Institute, and the Assumption mission schools in the provinces.

John Clements proudly supported this cause with a hole sponsorship and set up a putting booth, where golfers were given a chance to sink holes for prizes from the company. John Clements joined more than 30 hole sponsors and major hole sponsors such as Starbucks, Mercedes Benz, Hydration Nation, Ambassador Bienvenido Tan, Jr., and Pico de Loro in helping make the tournament a success. Generous friends of the Assumption from restaurants, hotels, apparel, and retail stores contributed gift certificates and raffle prizes for the players to enjoy.

The Assumption nuns’ prayers were surely answered, for with the constant threat of the wet season, the tournament day turned out to be blessed with much sunshine, camaraderie, and goodwill at the pristine greens of Sta. Elena. Tully Moss, John Clements’ partner, turned up to play too!

A big and rousing thank you to all of you at John Clements Consultants!
5 reasons why Whaleburg should be the next game player in crypto-mining
Tags: Bitcoin Mining, Ethereum Mining, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ico Review

1. A sector that needs to evolve

There are two types of miners. Some want to mine only one coin because they believe in the project and they want to support it. Other miners just want to mine a portfolio of various coins. However, all miners have in common to invest significant amounts in their hardware and consequently to care about their profits.

Currently, the life of a cryptocurrency miner is not easy and he is faced with three major problems:

The lack of transparency: miners can’t follow the rewards earned from a mined block to their wallets. This prevents them from knowing exactly what are the costs of the fees of the mining pool.

miners can’t follow the rewards earned from a mined block to their wallets. This prevents them from knowing exactly what are the costs of the fees of the mining pool. The difficulty of choosing the coin to be mined: there are websites such as whattomine.com and coinwarz.com which determine which is the most profitable coin to be mined according to the hardware configuration. However, they don’t provide very accurate information in relation to the specific hardware configurations of a miner which makes the analysis of profitability complicated. In addition, each time a minor changes its configuration, it must go through a tedious analysis period to determine which coin is best suited to its (new) configuration.

there are websites such as whattomine.com and coinwarz.com which determine which is the most profitable coin to be mined according to the hardware configuration. However, they don’t provide very accurate information in relation to the specific hardware configurations of a miner which makes the analysis of profitability complicated. In addition, each time a minor changes its configuration, it must go through a tedious analysis period to determine which coin is best suited to its (new) configuration. Difficulty tracking the state of hardware: Miners can’t track the status and metrics of their hardware such as GPU / CPU temperature and fan speed. As a result, it’s difficult for them to know when they exceed the limits of their hardware which doesn’t help to prolong the life of the hardware.

Presently, no solution in the market can solve all these problems at once. Some big mining companies have developed their own software but they keep it for their own use without sharing it. Small miners don’t have the financial or technical means to develop this kind of solution.

After an in-depth study of the mining market, Whalesburg understood exactly what is missing from the cryptocurrency mining ecosystem: an all-in-one software suite that solves all the problems previously cited. And as the best products are born out of necessity, Whalesburg decided to build this solution that is missing from the mining market.
The Lowest Number to Decide
By: Presley Thomas
Tags: Poetry

Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash

is not one, but also not two, sometimes three, depending on

who asks? Your lover counts as two, your mother is usually one

but sometimes three, if it’s her birthday, or she has a homecooked

meal as an offering — set on your doorstep, waving at you six feet away, masked. A heart etched in the tin foil.

A glyph, your tombstone, if the virus takes you. Your lover will bring flowers,

and your mother will bring a casserole to be eaten by the cemetery

raccoons. Maybe, one day, your lover and your mother will meet. Maybe

she will decide the world is big enough. That your love for him doesn’t

have to change hers — that it can include both of you and, hopefully, you’ll

be alive to see it.
ICO Alert Crypto Minute: June 10, 2018
By: Kyle Protho
Tags: Blockchain, Crypto Minute, Eos, Cryptocurrency, Thailand

EOS Network Enters Voting Phase After Appointed Block Producers Agree to Launch Mainnet

The appointed block producers of the EOS network have voted to launch the EOS blockchain. According to Cryptoslate, the vote to launch the main network (mainnet) was nearly unanimous. Next, EOS token holders are responsible for staking their tokens as votes into democratically-elected block producers. Once 15 percent of all EOS tokens are staked as votes for block producers, the EOS chain is considered valid and all normal functions of the EOS mainnet are activated.

Thailand’s SEC Announces New Framework for Cryptocurrency and ICOs

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed details of its new regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings. The SEC permits seven cryptocurrencies for ICOs as trading pairs: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Ripple, and Stellar. In addition, ICO issuers, digital exchanges, brokers, and dealers involved cryptocurrencies must register with the SEC within 90 days of the ICO start date or the effective date of this new regulatory framework. Thailand’s Finance Ministry’s is responsible for approving those registrations. Finally, cryptocurrency exchanges must pay an annual fee equivalent to 0.002% of the total trading volume (or at least USD 15,600), while brokerage firms must pay 0.001% of the total trading volume (or at least USD 7,800). According to Bitcoin.com, the new framework will come into effect in the beginning of July 2018.

Poland Financial Regulator Says Use, Trade, and Business in Cryptocurrencies Allowed

Poland’s financial regulator, the Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), declared that cryptocurrency transactions are legal in the country. According to Blockt, the KNF clarified that no specific law prohibits the use, trade, or business of cryptocurrencies. However, the country’s government is looking into options for taxing cryptocurrencies, which are currently categorized as “property.” Details of the country’s new regulatory and tax framework will, which comes into effect on July 13, will aim to bring cryptocurrencies under the purview of their anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism (CTF) laws.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Addresses Cryptocurrency Issues in Annual Q&A Session with Russian Citizens

In his 2018 Q&A session with Russian citizens, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated cryptocurrencies has its place in the world, and that his government should carefully consider when and how to participate its development. According to Bitcoin.com, Putin went on to claim that neither Russia, nor any other country could have a national cryptocurrency. “If we talk about cryptocurrency — this is something that goes beyond national borders,” Putin said.
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Should We Be Using Lisp For Data-Science?
By: Emmett Boudreau
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Programming, Common Lisp, Lisp

General Ease Of Use

Where Lisp really falls on its face is how hard it is to use as your primary language. To be clear — this is certainly not the fault of Lisp. It is important to remember that Lisp was released as open-source software at a time when the internet didn’t exist and most people didn’t have a computer in their home. With that in mind, using packages is nowhere near as seamless as it is in Python or Julia. In Lisp, packages need to be loaded directly from files in order to be used, which is certainly not great for any sort of deployment, notebook, or data analysis.

There are some more modern options that counter-act this like QuickLisp. QuickLisp allows you to have a very light package manager ran alongside your Lisp installation. This is of course so long as you are using a compiler that supports QuickLisp, like the Steel Bank compiler.

Lisp also doesn’t have many packages pertaining to the Data Science field, despite its age. There is certainly a lot of science and a lot of great things you could potentially do with Lisp, even with the packages that are there now. However, compared to the enormous monster that is Python’s ecosystem, there is just no question.

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There is one fantastic thing about Lisp that is often overlooked and could really be a great reason to use the language for machine-learning:

The language is simple.

While the language’s syntax might seem a little complex and confusing at first glance, the language itself is actually incredibly simple. The language can be re-written in most languages with ease in usually under 1,000 lines of code, which is quite impressive. Simplicity is magic when it comes to meta-code and automation, and Lisp certainly hits the mark in that regard. Lisp has long been venerable for its simple, yet precise syntax that can easily be manipulated and used to meta-program automatically.
Azure Eyes Can See. Azure Eyes Look in Black and White / A…
By: Tom Zimberoff
Tags: Eyes, Film, Movies, Memoir, Photography

I spent hours and hours photographing Newman at work on the set with director Sydney Pollack and the other actors, shooting thousands of “candids” as unobtrusively as possible during scenes and between takes. But posing? Well, that’s something else altogether.

In my experience, many actors are uncomfortable in front of a “stills” camera because they are not necessarily called on to do any acting. They have to be themselves, which is not what they signed up for. Nor is it always easy for me to help them feel secure. Paul Newman was one of those guys who hated posing for stills but knew it came with the job description. However, the box-office clout of an A-list movie star affords one enough leverage to extricate oneself from the folderol of publicizing a movie. In this case, Paul negotiated a deal with producer Ron Schwary to get a little extra time away from the set. In exchange for three days off Paul agreed to sit for me; not for an hour, not for half an hour, but for exactly twenty minutes.

He wasn’t petulant. Nor was he the kind of guy who’d turn a deal into an ordeal. He showed up for our photoshoot right on time and took direction like the professional he was. We didn’t engage in much small talk because I wanted to make the best use of our time on camera. It was mostly (from Paul), “How’s this? And (from me), “Turn you head to the left” and “I really enjoyed Butch Cassidy.” I needn’t have worried about Strother Martin’s menacing retort to Paul in “Cool Hand Luke:” What we have here is a failure to communicate. He was downright friendly. But when our twenty minutes were up, the man took off. I’m sure he would rather have been home with his wife, actress Joanne Woodward (he telephoned her almost every day, collect, from the set) or on a racetrack shifting heel-and-toe through a chicane, into the straightaway, hellbent for speed in a Porsche. He was an accomplished racecar driver. He was also a dedicated philanthropist whose causes were fed by organic pasta sauce, snack foods, and salad dressing: sales of the Newman’s Own® brand. Or, rather, they fed his causes. Regardless, whatever he did on his three days off, I never found out. It was a worthwhile tradeoff for the producers to get some marketable headshots. And it was worthwhile for me.
The Tax Bill Includes Language Designed to Undermine Abortion Rights
By: Aclu National
Tags: Womens Rights, Reproductive Rights, Washington Markup, Reproductive Health, Abortion

The Tax Bill Includes Language Designed to Undermine Abortion Rights

The tax bill should not be a place for ideologically driven attacks on women’s reproductive rights.

By Brian Tashman, Political Researcher and Strategist, American Civil Liberties Union

NOVEMBER 14, 2017 | 4:45 PM

The House is expected to vote this week on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and tucked in the legislation is language intended to advance an anti-choice agenda.

The House bill includes a provision that an “unborn child” can be designated as a beneficiary for 529 college saving accounts, defining “unborn child” as a “child in utero” at “any stage of development.”

This isn’t about making college savings plans more accessible — people can already start these savings accounts in their own names before they have children and transfer them to their kids later. This is about laying the foundation for attacks on a woman’s constitutionally protected right to abortion.

The reason this provision has been included is to incorporate language into federal law aimed at undermining Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. It’s part of a larger strategy by opponents of abortion rights to chip away at the decision by establishing “fetal personhood.” In fact, opponents of abortion rights have already publicly applauded the provision as an important step in their agenda.

Those who want to overturn Roe have been pushing to establish fetal personhood for years, through legislation at both the state and federal levels. Voters have consistently rejected on state ballot referendums personhood measures that would ban abortion, but anti-choice activists are also attempting to insert language that reinforces the notion of fetal personhood into law wherever they can.

So this approach is nothing new. What is new is that lawmakers in Congress are now attempting to use a tax bill to advance this assault on women’s constitutional rights.

This may be because supporters of “personhood” measures have prominent champions in Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who both have cosponsored personhood bills. At the same time, the Trump administration has tried to undermine reproductive choice every chance it gets, from reinstituting the global gag rule to trying to hold pregnant women in immigration detention facilities hostage if they seek to obtain abortion care.

It’s perhaps not surprising that anti-choice proponents would use any vehicle — including the tax bill — to subvert the constitutional rights. But this attack is wrong, and the provision must be removed.
It’s Okay to Have a Drink When You’re Stressed. (But Read This First.)
By: Felix Gussone
Tags: Stress, Alcohol, Life

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. “Everyone telling you, ‘Be of good cheer,’” sings Andy Williams in his 1963 holiday tune. But this holiday season, it might take a little more than a nostalgic song to get into the holiday spirit. For some people, that might be a mug of eggnog or a glass or two of wine. There’s a widespread assumption that alcohol cheers you up and reduces stress. And while it’s true that alcohol is an anesthetic and can blunt the brain and body’s response to stressful events, the relationship between alcohol and stress relief is complex. Writer Markham Heid details the science behind why sipping a hot toddy under the Christmas tree can feel like relief — and why it’s healthier for the brain to drink in small doses. Read his full piece below.
Moms Have a Superpower: Finding Things
By: Mary Devries
Tags: Humor, Parenting, Organization, Life, Self Improvement

The real mom superpower is the ability to find things. It usually manifests a bit like this. A family member cannot find an important item. They insist that they have looked absolutely everywhere. Mom, not wanting to stop whatever it is she is currently doing, suggests places to look. FM asserts that said locations have been thoroughly searched. Mom gets up, looks in the most obvious location first with FM standing over her whining, “I already looked there.” Mom finds object.

I thought my role as the finder of all things would disappear when my children left home. I was wrong.

My youngest called me from college in a panic just before spring break last year. “I’ve lost my Dexcom receiver. I can’t find it anywhere. I think I lost it during a fire drill. So I have no way to check my blood sugars during my exam tomorrow. Should I use the emergency credit card you gave me and order a new one for $600?”

She has type 1 diabetes and wears a monitor which sends regular blood sugar readings to the receiver and her phone. Normally the phone is a fine back up but she isn’t allowed to use it during an exam.

“I guess you’ll have to use the Accuchek finger prick monitor that of course you know exactly where it is because this is a potentially life threatening safety issue.”

“I can’t find that either.”

Cue mom banging her head against the wall.

Mom pulls herself together. “Okay, so in the morning walk to CVS and buy a new Accuchek before the exam. I’ll be there the day after tomorrow to pick you up for spring break. Do not order a new receiver. It won’t arrive before I get there and maybe I’ll be able to find it.”

Does the child follow my excellent advice and buy the cheap device to monitor her levels during the exam? No she does not. Instead she eats pizza right before so she will spike high (long term damage) versus going low (life threatening) during the exam. Classic college problem solving at its best.

When I arrive to pick her up, I search for the missing items. I find the Dexcom receiver the first place I look, under her bed caught on the railing. Next step, Accuchek. The child has searched everywhere for it. I decide to begin exactly where the item belongs, in the bag of diabetic supplies she carries everywhere. Surprise! There it is, not even tucked away in a pocket or anything.

Mom for the win and it only took me five minutes.