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Diskusi rasa Ramadhan Berbagi
By: Kape Collective
Tags: Charity, Kapecollective, Events, Community, Ramadhan

in Both Sides of the Table
Overview on Stratis Platform
By: Anand Agarwal
Tags: Trading, Stratis, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

image source : stratis website

Hello everyone,

I want to tell you about one of the most powerful tech in blockchain space and that tech named as Stratis. First we need to know what is Stratis?

Stratis is based on a platform of C# programming language and it offers C# and .net end to end blockchain solutions.

As we all know C# is the most used programming language all over the world, Stratis can provide blockchain solutions to the enterprises which are using C# languages, so there is wide scope of Stratis to grow in future.

It offers many blockchain solutions like side chains, smart contracts, a platform for ico’s, privacy for bitcoin, so it is combination of many tech, so it provides multipurpose blockchain solutions.

Stratis also launched an Stratis Academy so that C# developers learn to build things on blockchains, Stratis building a developer community, as there are not many people who know to develop things on blockchains, thats why Stratis Academy is launched.

Talking about its price and marketcap

Right now its marketcap is $435,726,820 USD according to Coinmarketcap and it touched all time high of $21.94 USD/ $ strat, we cant say much about prices in future but yeah looking at its technology and it is based on a platform of programming language its a big Hodl for me.

Invest in tech not in coins.

Cheers.!

Thank you !
More Real
By: Larry G. Maguire
Tags: Success, Psychology, Ambition, Self, Reality

I have come to the tentative conclusion, as I sit here this evening in my quiet illusion, that the more real I am to myself, the more ambitious I am, the greater my need to fulfil, and the faster I need to move to fulfil it.

It’s full on, full speed.

My reality seems wafer thin, and if I slow down or stop, I’ll fall straight in, to what I don’t know. Oblivion perhaps? A deep dark grave buried alive and no way out. Or endlessly falling through a Mandelbrot set.

So I keep moving.

Goal after goal, after goal, after goal, an endless pursuit of what I don’t know. Because whatever I got, what I thought it was, it was not.

The more real I seem to be the harder life gets, the more other people matter and their actions hurt. The more I need shields to deflect.

So I come up with interesting ways to cope.

The less real I am, in contrast, the less I’m scared, the less I’m anxious and worried, the less I’m inclined to break down.

I don’t mind silence, being alone, and ignored. In fact, I invite those things in, never bored.

I’m more and more below the surface, or is it that I’m way above? I can’t tell. Regardless, it’s slower here, I see more, less absurd.

It’s quieter, less frantic.

More real.
The Real-Life Heroes Behind USAID’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Response
By: Usaid Saves Lives
Tags: Humanitarian, World Humanitarian Day, Covid 19, World, Heroes

August 19 marks World Humanitarian Day, a time to honor the brave women and men who risk everything to help others.

Never has the generosity, courage, and sacrifice of aid workers been more evident — or more needed — than it is today. On top of the millions of people who are in need of humanitarian aid due to conflicts or natural disasters, the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The United States is leading the global response efforts to this unprecedented outbreak, providing more than $1.6 billion in health, humanitarian, economic, and development assistance in more than 120 countries. Of this, $558 million is for USAID’s humanitarian assistance programs, carried out by hundreds of real-life heroes working for our partners on the ground.

We wanted to introduce you to a few of them.

The Messengers
Alibaba and Waltonchain: how social media knew first.
By: Phil Mcparlane
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Waltonchain, Alibaba

Today, prominent IoT cryptocurrency Waltonchain ($WTC) announced that Alibaba ($BABA) would be signing a “Strategic Partnership” to use Waltonchain in Smart City development across China. What’s interesting, however, is that:

News of this partnership was leaked on social media many hours before it was officially announced… and before Waltonchain’s value increased by ~40%.

How could this happen?

Well, in the unregulated wild west of cryptocurrency, market moving news does not need to be officially announced when the markets are closed, in fact the markets never close. A coin can simply post a Tweet on their page, which subsequently can move the cryptocurrency’s value — without any repercussions.

How is market moving news leaked online?

The question is not how — there are over 500 million tweets posted each day, it is inevitable that tweets by influential accounts will effect financial markets. Consider accounts such as:

McAfee founder and Crypto influencer: John McAfee

Litecoin founder: Charlie Lee

Ethereum Classic and Cadano founder: Charles Hoskinson

These accounts, amongst others, frequently effect cryptocurrency valuations with their tweets. Instead, the question should be rephrased as:

How can you find market moving news, before it becomes mainstream knowledge?

This is easier than you may imagine given the quantity of social media content posted every second. The problem can be roughly boiled down to:

Reduce the noise. Get rid of the affiliate links, spam, bots etc. Identify what company / crypto a tweet is talking about. This is easier said than done. Did you know, the stock ticker “$GSS” is used by 5 different companies? Grade the tweet by its “market impact”. Alternatively, given all the tweets which have moved markets in the past, can we build an algorithm to predict if a new tweet will move a market at this moment in time? This process need to consider various features e.g. source authenticity, tweet text etc. This can also be referred to as “the holy grail”.

This is the problem that Scoop Markets tries to address.

In this instance, our algorithm identified the Waltonchain / Alibaba partnership, 34 hours before it was announced, by analysing thousands of tweets every second.

So what actually happened?

34hrs before the move — 6am, 5th March

Scoop alerts our users to the following image showing a meeting between Alibaba and Waltonchain representatives.

20–34hrs before the move

The rumour starts to spread across social media. People start going LONG on Waltonchain resulting in an increase in social media activity.

4pm, 6th March

Waltonchain confirm the rumour.

Shortly after the tweet

Waltonchain’s valuation increases by 40%.
Allow your disability to make you a better leader
By: Dave Dame
Tags: Leadership Deve, Empowerment, Disability, Leadership

I just celebrated my 48th birthday. This is quite a milestone because being born with Cerebral Palsy the odds were not in my favour to reach this age, let alone a professional career in leading change and leading leaders.

Reflecting back on my career of all the late hours I would put in to prove to others and myself that I could make a huge impact. This helped me deliver products to market, gave me the opportunity to fail and grow and be an amazing individual contributor because I had enough energy to tackle everything that came my way. Now at 48, I do not have the energy I once had. The need to focus my energy on the right thing and not everything. Needing to put my trust in others to accomplish things.

Be Invisibly present

What Cerebral Palsy and age took from me to limit my impact as an individual contributor has enabled me to develop the traits I need to be a better leader.

Focus. To be selective on what I focus on, instead of focusing on everything.

Courage. To trust my team can solve problems without my direct involvement.

Openness. To be open about my weaknesses so they can supplement with their strength. This develops team openness where we can supplement each other’s weakness.

Respect. The respect that no one can do it all and respect people for their weakness as well as their strength.

Commitment. Commitment to each other to achieve things together.

Courage. The courage to either ask for help or to offer help. None of us are smarter or stronger than all of us.

Everyone has a disability, some are just more visible than others.

I would like to leave you with two things:

Create a list of all your weaknesses that your people on your team can compensate for. This serves as a good starting point to release control and allow autonomy to happen. Learn to be invisibly present. Learn to support your team without needing to be a direct presence.

Every keystroke is precious so I will end here.

Lead how you would like to be led.

Dave

www.davedame.com

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There Goes the Neighborhood…and the Fishing
Tags: History, Podcast, News

How long do you have to live somewhere to earn the right to say: “There goes the neighborhood?”

Do you need a multi-year subscription to the local newspaper, or know of at least three community blogs that talk about all the change that’s going on? What’s the rite of passage like?

It used to be that the phrase “there goes the neighborhood” was once reserved for the mostly white upper class. It was usually uttered with a heavy accent of disgust and triggered by the threat of new neighbors, minorities, people of color and immigrants pursuing their own American dreams.

A short video that introduces this larger story. More below.

Now, it’s reversed. San Francisco. Portland. Los Angeles. Brooklyn. Cities like these all share a neighborhood where the gentrifying market forces of real estate, development and business opportunity are kicking out the the poor or middle class. It’s the curse of capitalism — someone has to lose and you don’t think about that when you’re dreaming.

If Stuart Vorpahl had his way, East Hampton would always remain a fishing town. But, we can’t all be winners. His community now blends into the moniker of “the Hamptons” — where the rich go to summer. With family ties that go back to 1639, Stuart has a right to claim the neighborhood has changed.

But when Stuart starts talking about the king of England, it’s tempting to dismiss him as a crackpot stuck in the past. Is he crazy or does he have a point?

The story of Stuart Vorpahl begins here:

Note, this is the first part of a two-part story. The second part will come out later this summer. Who knows, maybe in that time you can earn the right to say: “There goes the neighborhood.”

What is Some Noise? It’s a podcast about the foolish pursuit of life, clarity and context. You can read more about it here.
Imperceptible
By: Dr Pat Aitcheson
Tags: Poetry, Violence, Adaptation

kordi-vahle via pixabay

A certain shade of vulnerability

Dark smudged beneath a weary, teary eye

Faint fingerprinted hip where passion turned angry

A shadowed brow, but not like this

The place where things slid from binary

Into uncertain gradations

When did day surrender, when did light flee?

Night now, but let your eye adapt

And catalogue dim fractions

Pupils stretched wide until all the darks are one

Swallowed ghostly whole entire by dusk

Obscuring every boundary and line

You think you’ll know when

You think you’ll see it

But the shift is imperceptible.
The Love Song of Donald J. Trump
By: Matt Claus
Tags: Politics, Resistance Poetry, Twitter, Poetry, Trump

Photo by Chait Goli from Pexels

Superbia, invidia e avarizia sono

le tre faville c’hanno i cuori accesi.

~Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto VI

Let us go then, me and I,

When the moon is severed in the sky

Like a journalist’s head upon a table.

Let us go, through well-deserted offices

In muttering retreat,

Out to my own wretched hotels

And steakhouses with ketchup bottles:

Greed allows us to ignore the firmament

Of our own insidious intent

Like we ignore any overwhelming question. . . .

Oh, do not ask what I’ve debased.

Let us go and grab and taste.

In the White House, I come and go

Talking of a taco bowl.

The orange flesh that rubs its flab against the nation,

The orange breath that rubs its muzzle on the nation

Licked its tongue into the mouth of the Mississippi,

Tasted her long line up her tightening banks,

Let fall upon its buds the sweet grease of her chains,

Slipped by the voters, made a sudden leap,

And seeing the Electoral College, and the hate,

Tweeted thrice around its Tower, and fell asleep.

In the White House, I come and go

Dreaming of Mar-a-Lago.

But of course there was no time

To wonder, “Do I dare?”, and, “Do I dare?”

No time to turn back up the escalator,

With a bald head and one winding weave of hair —

(They will say, “How his hair flaps in the breeze!”)

My MAGA hat, my six-feet-two-inches of insecurities

Deflect attention by criticizing other people’s bodies,

(They will say: “But how he jiggles above his knees!”)

Do I dare

Disturb the Twitterverse?

In 280 characters there is room

For bad and worse that will take a generation to reverse.

For I have tweeted it all, already, tweeted it all:

Have tweeted the evening, morning, afternoons,

I have measured out my life in retweets from buffoons;

I have heard their hunger, most of all,

Starving for themselves, and for gloom.

So how should we consume?

And I have known the lies already, known them all —

The lies that fix you to any rage whatsoever,

And when I am agitated, yawping on a stage,

When I am hacking up ingredients of a brawl,

Does this fiction not assuage?

Lies are empty calories; you could eat them forever.

And how should we consume?

And I have known the harm already, known it all,

From Charlottesville to Pocahontas:

America, you said you want this.

Is it your wanting of something vicious

That makes me grant your wishes?

Are you not drooling in your feeding stall?

And how should we then consume?

And how should I end?
I Found Closure with My Ex-Husband
By: Dawn Downey
Tags: Self Improvement, Relationships, Self-awareness

G pressed for a post-marriage friendship. I pushed back. He was too closely associated with the spineless creature I used to be. To make friends with him, I’d have to make friends with her.

My temples throbbed whenever she wormed her way into my consciousness. How much had she hated herself, to have imposed an eighteen-year sentence of neglect, jealous of the rug G walked on? She was a coward. Escape was the only way to deal with her.

I took up eating and gained twelve pounds.

I took up meditation. Judgments about the coward swarmed through my mind like red ants.

I took up yoga. Week after week after week, I crashed out of tree pose. My teacher said, “Balance is all about your core.” I had no core. My center failed.

I gained three pounds.

In meditation, contemplation was interrupted by interrogation — the questions like field mice that hid under rocks and then darted into the light. Why is the coward still plaguing me? When will she disappear? Will she disappear?

In yoga, my teacher introduced us to handstand. “It’s fun,” she said. “I’ll hold you up. Who wants to try?” I hung back and then berated myself for timidity.

I lost two pounds.

In meditation, the teacher said, “Pay attention to sensations in your body.” Roiling analysis produced the sensation that my hair was on fire. But once, between flash points of pain, a breeze blew through my mind, cooling self-reproach by a degree.

In yoga, my teacher challenged me into new poses. The world went askew when I arched into backbend, the top of my head near the floor, my tender underbelly exposed and unprotected.

I gained nine pounds.

At a meditation retreat, we learned to send kind thoughts through the ether — mental telegraph messages to a stranger, to a friend, and to a foe. I had been estranged from the sad younger me. I’d considered her a coward, simply because she had been unhappy. Stranger, friend, and foe: They were aspects of myself. I sent kind thoughts to each of us.

In yoga, we learned eagle pose. Balanced on one foot, right leg wound around left leg, arms wound around each other, and hands in prayer position, I was twined around myself. An embrace. I squeezed my gut. The center held.
How to make height of collection views dynamic in your iOS apps
By: Payal Gupta
Tags: Tech, Programming, Technology, Swift, Data

Table views and collection views have always been an integral part of iOS app development. We all might have came across various issues related to them. In this article, we’ll discuss one such problem statement related to collection views.

Problem Statement

Let’s assume we’ve a UICollectionView in a UITableViewCell and around 20 UICollectionViewCells that we need to render in it vertically. We can definitely implement that in the blink of an eye with the given data source.

Now comes the actual problem statement — we need the UITableViewCell to adjust its height dynamically according to its content. Also, the UICollectionView must be such that all the cells are displayed in one go, i.e. no scrolling allowed.

Long story short: make everything dynamic…

Fixed and Dynamic Height Collection View

Let’s start coding

A view in iOS calculates its height from its content, given there is no height constraint provided. Same goes for UITableViewCell .

For now, we’ll keep a single collectionView inside our tableViewCell with its leading, top, trailing and bottom constraints set to 0.

View Hierarchy

Since we haven’t provided any height constraint to the collectionView and neither do we know the its contentSize beforehand, then how will the tableViewCell calculate its height?

Solution

Dynamically calculating the collectionView’s height as per its contentSize is simply a 3 step process.

1. Subclass UICollectionView and override its layoutSubviews() and intrinsicContentSize , i.e.

Code Snippet — 1

The above code will invalidate the intrinsicContentSize and will use the actual contentSize of collectionView . The above code takes into consideration the custom layout as well.

2. Now, set DynamicHeightCollectionView as the collectionView’s class in storyboard .

3. One last thing, for the changes to take effect: you need to call layoutIfNeeded() on collectionView , after reloading collectionView’s data, i.e.

func configure(with arr: [String]) {

self.arr = arr

self.collectionView.reloadData()

self.collectionView.layoutIfNeeded() //Here..!!!

}

And there you have it!

Sample Project

You can download the sample project from here.

Further reading

Don’t forget to read my other articles:

Feel free to leave comments in case you have any questions.
We’re Doing Exciting New Things in Southeast Asia. Join us!
Tags: Hackathons, Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Technology

At Grab, our mission is to drive Southeast Asia forward.

From day one, we’ve been committed to making a difference to the lives of our users in the region. Over the years, we haven’t just built a successful ride-sharing platform, but also created great opportunities for our driving and delivery partners to earn a better livelihood.

We are actively helping people and businesses across the region prosper, and we’re proud of that.

Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are at the core of what we do. As a company built on an on-demand service model, we’re always looking to understand our users and partners better, and to deliver consistently better services to them. This is how we ensure users spend less time in traffic, and that our drivers are matched with the kind of jobs they prefer.

Behind the scenes, we have some of the brightest AI scientists helping us achieve these milestones. They are the ones who power our vision. We rely on their talent and ingenuity every day to push the boundaries of what we can and cannot do.

And we want to do much more.

That’s why we created the Grab AI for S.E.A. challenge.

The petabytes of data we’ve accumulated over the past seven years, coupled with the awesome power of AI present us with a huge opportunity to solve a wide range of urban problems across Southeast Asia — from solving traffic congestion problems to ensuring the safety of passengers and drivers, as well as finding new applications for technologies like Computer Vision.

We want to identify talented technologists with the skill and creativity to solve complex problems using AI. If this sounds like you, we want to work with you. At the end of this challenge, you could be one of up to 50 top participants to receive a full-time job opportunity with Grab!

All you have to do is build a solution to one of our three challenges, and make your submission by Monday, 17 June 2019.

Learn more about the challenges here: https://aiforsea.com/challenges

We are looking for exceptional Data and AI talents across Southeast Asia, who can join our mission to create impactful solutions and drive better outcomes in the region.

If you’ve got a couple of Data and AI tricks up your sleeve, then we want you to join our GrabFamily and help us shape our upcoming initiatives to drive Southeast Asia forward. We can’t wait to see what brilliant ideas you come up with!
Changing Business, and Business Process in France, at Amazon
By: Jeff Yablon
Tags: France, Amazon, Business Process, Aereo

Once upon a time I spent a bunch of time in Europe — mostly, in France. And until I learned a few hard lessons I was astonished by how different things are on the other side of the pond.

France has made strides to adapt to reign in the rest of the world the Americanized world, and I’ll say here as I believed when I was over there that some of France’s ideas are good. And although it’s been a while, I’ve complimented France on some of the ways they’ve approached the Internet; this was a brilliant solution to music piracy, and France enacted an interesting approach to cross-border taxation issues a few years back.

And Amazon just bitch-slapped France, but good.

Bezos and Co., who’ve shown repeatedly how much better they are at this business process/business change thing than just about anyone, have responded to French laws prohibiting businesses like Amazon Amazon from offering both discounts and free shipping by offering shipping at the painful price of one cent.

Wow, that one was hard, huh?

“The Internet” has no laws, and we’re entering a phase where we’re seeing repeatedly that — surprise! — companies being attacked by countries and states trying to impose their wills on multinational profit-making entities are smarter than governments and the people that work for them. How much smarter? Subsequent to The US Supreme Court very stupidly ruling Aereo’s entire business model illegal, it took all of two weeks for Aereo to fight back in a truly simple way; if Aereo is to be treated like a cable company, then they have the right to be treated like a cable company.

The lesson is that in a world moving at Internet Speed, nothing stands still. That’s the nature of business change, and the best way to cope is by setting up intelligent business process.

Simple, right?
CoinShares Monthly Update: July 2018
Tags: Bitcoin, Etf, Etp, Ethereum

Disclaimer

Please note that this Blog Post is provided on the basis that the recipient accepts the following conditions relating to the provision of the same (including on behalf of their respective organisation).

This Blog Post does not contain or purport to be, financial promotion(s) of any kind. This Blog Post does not contain reference to any of the investment products or services currently offered by members of the CoinShares Group.

Digital assets and related technologies can be extremely complicated. The digital sector has spawned concepts and nomenclature much of which is novel and can be difficult for even technically savvy individuals to thoroughly comprehend. The sector also evolves rapidly.

With increasing media attention on digital assets and related technologies, many of the concepts associated therewith (and the terms used to encapsulate them) are more likely to be encountered outside of the digital space. Although a term may become relatively well-known and in a relatively short timeframe, there is a danger that misunderstandings and misconceptions can take root relating to precisely what the concept behind the given term is.

The purpose of this Blog Post is to provide objective, educational and interesting commentary. This Blog Post is not directed at any particular person or group of persons. Although produced with reasonable care and skill, no representation should be taken as having been given that this Blog Post is an exhaustive analysis of all of the considerations which its subject matter may give rise to. This Blog Post fairly represents the opinions and sentiments of its author at the date of publishing but it should be noted that such opinions and sentiments may be revised from time to time, for example in light of experience and further developments, and the blog post may not necessarily be updated to reflect the same.

Nothing within this Blog Post constitutes investment, legal, tax or other advice. This Blog Post should not be used as the basis for any investment decision(s) which a reader thereof may be considering. Any potential investor in digital assets, even if experienced and affluent, is strongly recommended to seek independent financial advice upon the merits of the same in the context of their own unique circumstances.

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À venir : Un nouveau design !. Nous allons très prochainement déployer…
By: Gauthier Lebbe
Tags: Ecole, News, Innovation, Education, Presentations

Inbound Marketing Manager @ Wooclap, interested in and excited about applying EdTech to the educational needs of today’s students

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Learning to Pay Attention to My Body After Years of Modesty Culture
By: Cara Strickland
Tags: Religion, Lifestyle, Women, Body, Dance

During the summer between fifth and sixth grade, my mom took me shopping for a one-piece bathing suit. I was headed for church camp and the tasteful two-piece I was so proud of was not allowed. There were other things I needed for camp — shorts that went past my fingertips when my arms rested at their sides, shirts with sleeves (forget about those popular spaghetti straps). I packed all of this, along with my Bible, and made the drive into the woods.

With all of this focus on keeping my body under wraps, it’s no surprise, in hindsight, that this camp experience was also the setting for one of my most embarrassing physical moments. It was hot, and we were required to drink glasses and glasses of water at meals — a fine goal — but some of the campers were getting up to mischief during our big-kid nap-time and counselors had stopped letting us go to the bathroom. These variables combined, in a dramatic way: I wet my pants in front of everyone just before the all-camp swim, pee running down my legs and down the incline as we waited in line to get into the water. I left camp feeling devastated, rejected, alone.

That summer is the first time I remember that theme — keep your body hidden, don’t talk about the unmentionable parts, remember physical things are dirty — playing on repeat throughout my life. But it didn’t stop there. As my breasts developed, my first period arrived, and my desire to wear the same clothes as my friends grew, the refrain rose in pitch.

The result: I learned to ignore my body.
Election Integrity in 2020
By: Eric Allen
Tags: Politics, America, Presidental Election, 2020, Elections

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

Elections matter. We’ve all heard the phrase “Elections have consequences” and that is very true. In the United States of America, we are blessed with a form of government that allows the people to choose who will lead our nation and have a voice in the lawmaking process.

This election cycle has been quite crazy, to say the least. I personally am not aware of a presidential election that has had as many lawsuits spread across as many states as this election. Allegations of voter fraud and unintentional error have been raised in several states including Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and others.

There are some that say the President should just concede the election. He should take the loss and move on. Their candidate won. They have no apparent interest in the allegations of fraud or error.

But is that how we really want our country to run? That the current President and half of the country that voted for him should just move on with their lives with so many questions about the integrity of our election system left with no clear answers? Would they be saying the same if the shoe was on the other foot?

It’s curious for a party that was so concerned with “Russian interference” in 2016 to now be completely carefree and have zero concern about any of the issues that have been raised in 2020.
NBA Off Season Hot Takes
By: Lon Shapiro
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Free Agency, NBA, Boston Celtics, Kawhi Leonard

*If a broken clock can be right twice a day, I’m not sure what it says about my predictions coming true once a year. But here they are anyway.

Toronto had the best chance of winning the title, besides the Warriors (Oct. 6, 2018):

Why Toronto, not Boston would win the East (Oct. 18, 2018):

Anthony Davis going to the Lakers (March 18, 2017):

Donald Trump sitting in the White House (May 24, 2016)
Community Airdrop (2nd Airdrop Event)
Tags: Bezantium, Bznt, Bezant, Blockchain, Binance

Hello from Bezant!

We are thrilled to share with you another Community Airdrop Event. The below are the details of this event.

1. Total Airdrop Reward : 1,000,000 BEP-2 BZNT-464 Token

2. Duration : August 12th (Monday) 18:00 [KST, UTC+9] — August 19th (Monday) 18:00 [KST, UTC+9]

3. Event Details

a. This event is to encourage community activity in Bezant’s Channels.

The event will be done on a “first-come first-serve” basis; all the reward distributions will be distributed at once.

Participants should participate through the mission below.

Participants can choose one or more of the three missions listed below

b. How to Participate (only the activities that are done within the event period will count)

Mission 1. Join the Official Bezant Telegram Channel : 200 BZNT(members who leave during the event will not be counted)

Mission 2. Follow Bezant Official Twitter account, and ‘retweet with comment’ the following three posts from the official Bezant Twitter Account : 300 BZNT

Mission 3. Participate in a Bezant Trivia based on the medium posts : 500 BZNT (must solve ALL of the 5 questions correctly)

4. How to Register? (You must register to win airdrop rewards!)

a. Click on the “Community Airdrop” menu on Bezant’s website

b. Fill in the Google form

Mission

Join Telegram Mission : input telegram ID and date joined Twitter Post Retweet Mission : Twitter ID, Links to the retweets Bezant Trivia Mission : Fill in the answer to the questions.

Binance DEX wallet address

c. Submit the Google form

Leave blank on the missions that you haven’t participated.

Once you submit, you can input the information from the additional missions that you have participated in. (However, you cannot use the same Binance DEX wallet address that you have previously used)

5. Airdrop Date : August 23rd (Friday), 18:00 (KST, UTC+9)

6. Notice

The Airdrop event can be ended earlier than the prescribed date.

Airdrop Distribution time can be subject to delay based on the network congestion.

Follow our official channels for the latest updates
What Are Holes in Arrays?
By: John Au-Yeung
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Programming, Technology, Web Development

What Are Holes in Arrays?

Did you know arrays can skip values?

Photo by Artem Maltsev on Unsplash

One special feature of JavaScript arrays is that not every slot in the array has to be filled with values. This means that we can skip values as follows:

let arr = [];

arr[1] = 1;

arr[10] = 10;

We don’t have to worry about setting values for other slots of the array.

There’s also an alternative syntax for doing the above, by writing:

[, 1, , 2];

What we have above are called holes of an array, where we have nothing between the commas. An array with holes is called a sparse array.

In this piece, we’ll look at how holes in arrays are handled in JavaScript.
Generics & Abstract Classes in TypeScript
By: Mathew Phillip Wheatley
Tags: Refactoring, Typescript, JavaScript, Generics, Abstract Class

Photo by Photo Boards on Unsplash

As I continue the Udemy course TypeScript: The Complete Developers Guide I’ve been introduced to several new to me concepts. Generics & abstract classes are two tools a developer can use to make their code more reusable and maintainable. More senior developers who are accustomed to strong type languages such as C, Go, Java and Swift are likely already familiar with these concepts.

Generics

As discussed in Typescript Type Declaration when declaring functions the input and output types should be annotated but what if you don’t know what type your input or output will be? Initially it may sound like this is a case that never or rarely happens but has you start to abstract it will come up more often than you might expect. Consider the simple function in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Simple pass through function

In the above case the input and output are specified as type any which defeats the whole purpose of TypeScript as it will never find a type error if anything is allowed. Instead we could use generic syntax as denoted by <> to pass in a generic type when the function is called.

Figure 2: Simple pass through function with generics

Now the generic type T is passed as a string when it is called in Figure 2. It is noted that you don’t have to name your generic T , it can be named anything much like a variable. Multiple generics can be passed into a function or class as well, for a function passed generics <T, K> would have access to both of them.

Abstract Class

Now generics seem cool but they really shine when used with abstract classes. An abstract class is a class that itself is never intended to be instantiated, instead they are used to pass properties to sub classes via inheritance.

Figure 3: Abstract Class Car Inherited by Class Sedan

In Figure 3 it can be seen that the class Car is abstract as denoted by the keyword abstract . TypeScript will now throw an error if an instance of this class is instantiated but still allows class Sedan to inherit its properties, in this case the method engineSound via the keyword extends . To use generics with classes you use the same generic syntax as seen previously.

Figure 4: Abstract Classes with Generics

In Figure 4 the class Car now includes a generic T which is used to specify the arguments and return type of method passThrough . You can see that when the sub-class Sedan passes a type of string into the generic therefore requiring the arguments and return types of method passThrough to be string . You can see that when the myCar.passThrough is called with a number an error is raised as denoted by the red underline where as no error is raised when called with a string.

Conclusion

Simple examples were showcased above but you can imagine how generics and abstract classes would allow one to further refactor code for reusability. It is noted that generics are also very useful with using composite classes but composition is beyond the scope of this article.
Stuck in the Middle With You
By: Keira Fulton-Lees
Tags: Autism, Anxiety, Mental Health, Poetry, Neuroscience

While Depression may send You boozing in the bars. Anxiety is the one that sends you running for the razors.

Stuck in the Middle With You

On the Spectrum With Pervasive, Debilitating Anxiety

Anxiety, neurologically runs amok

The Amygdala is pervasively stuck

Frozen in places, caught by surprise

Ever so fearful, manifested generalized

Triggered responses of fight, fight, or freeze

The brain never signals the responses to cease

The wish of the Autistic is to calm the calamity

My prayer – a rare few moments of tranquility

I’m stuck in the middle with you

And I’m wondering what it is I should do

It’s so hard to keep a smile on my face

Losing control, I’m all over the place

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

And I’m wondering what it is I should do

I am helpless in debilitating fright

I’m stuck in the middle with you
당신이 클로저를 쓰면 안 되는 이유
Tags: Clojure, JavaScript

in Both Sides of the Table
Plotly Front to Back: Scatter Charts and Bubble Charts
By: Dario Radečić
Tags: Programming, Machine Learning, Python, Data Science, Data Visualization

Scatter Charts

Now, the basic idea behind the scatter plot is to visualize the relationship between a set of variables. By relationship, we mean the dependence between variables — or movement — what happens to the second variable if the first one moves by some amount — or correlation to say it in the simplest way.

Scatter plots are utterly simple to make with Plotly — well almost anything is (except maps, those can be a pain in the bottom, but more on that in a couple of articles) — as we need to define well known data and layout options.

Just like with the line plots, we’ll use go.Scatter() for our data, but we’ll need to specify mode='markers' for everything to work properly.

Here’s how you’d go about visualizing attributes hp (horsepower) on the x-axis, and mpg (miles per gallon) on the y-axis:

fig = go.Figure(

data=[

go.Scatter(

x=df[‘hp’],

y=df[‘mpg’],

mode=’markers’,

)

],

layout=go.Layout(

title=dict(

text=’Horsepower vs. MPG’,

font=dict(size=20)

),

hovermode=’closest’

)

) pyo.plot(fig)

Not too many lines of code, but let’s see what it results in:

I know what you’re thinking about right now:

Basic dots are too boring

Color is awful

Markers are way too small

Well, let’s fix those issues:

fig = go.Figure(

data=[

go.Scatter(

x=df[‘hp’],

y=df[‘mpg’],

mode=’markers’,

marker=dict(

size=16,

symbol=’x-dot’,

color=’#d35400'

)

)

],

layout=go.Layout(

title=dict(

text=’Horsepower vs. MPG’,

font=dict(size=20)

),

hovermode=’closest’

)

) pyo.plot(fig)

Every issue we had previously can be fixed by tweaking the marker params, via the marker argument. Here’s how our chart looks now:

Still, not the prettiest, but will do for now. Let’s now explore the bigger brother of scatter charts — bubble charts — to see how easy it is to display additional information and set the sizing to be dynamic.
Fashion Weekly Round-Up: 2/6–2/12
Tags: Fashion, Women In Tech, Women, Ecommerce, Online Shopping

Your weekly summary of the latest in fashion, covering a combination of industry news, tips for your daily routine, and the top trends to look out for.

Round-up brought to you by your friends at Arthur, a membership for women that helps them assemble the right wardrobe for their professional lives. Members enjoy perks like 10% back in credit on all purchases, plus free shipping & returns on all orders.
The 15-Minute City in a New York Minute
By: Charley Cohen
Tags: Neighborhoods, Urban Planning, Cities, GIS, Transit

These maps inspired me to look at if and where the 15-Minute City concept could be done in New York City. For this, I used data found in the Neighborhood Data Portal collected by the Pratt Center for Community Development (whose data has been tremendously valuable, and I cannot thank them enough for sharing this tool with the public) to find certain points of interest in the city. Then, using QGIS and the TravelTime plug-in, I mapped out those points amongst the two layers created with the plug-in: a 15-minute radius by walking and a 15-minute radius by public transit (I used travel time data from November 18th, 2020 at 12PM) to see how far one could go in 15 minutes and how many points they could reach. The points of interest analyzed are:

Day Care Centers and Public Schools (K-12)

MTA Subway Stations

Hospitals

Large Supermarkets (4,000 sq. feet or larger)

These maps show some interesting data (and raise some issues that this project could better address, which I will discuss at the end), but areas that are more affluent tend to have more crucial services. There are areas with less services but have extensive transit options, but it is essential that New York address economic and racial inequality if it wants to create 15-Minute neighborhoods.
Beyond Jupyter notebooks
By: Greg Jan
Tags: Machine Learning, Github, Git, Data Science, Anaconda

Anaconda

Anaconda is the de-facto open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for data science. In short conda remove you from the overhead (think maintenance!) of managing your packages and environment.

Why would you care? Because it is critical that when running a data science project that your results are reproducible. First for yourself: meaning that you must have a set environment that will not change once you have finalized your work. Secondly for others: any one should be able to pick up your work and reproduce your results.

How to install it? Here you can download Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual. If you are concerned by the heavy size (500MB) the alternative is MiniConda (https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html).

How to set up an environment? Once starting a project simply run the following command:

conda create --name <name environment> python=<python version>

Then activate your environment:

source activate <name environment>

Now that your environment is activated any python code will be running using the packages installed in there. For any additional packages just search through https://anaconda.org/anaconda/repo.

What about pip then? pip is the package installer for Python. It can be used in combination with conda and any installation will be made on your active conda environment. However it is recommended to use in priority conda for package installation.

Bonus: here is a nice cheat sheet if you are like me and always forget the main commands for Anaconda https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/4.6.0/_downloads/52a95608c49671267e40c689e0bc00ca/conda-cheatsheet.pdf
Trip
By: Lexus Ndiwe
Tags: Microfiction, Pentina, Drama, Accident, Injury

“Hello, anyone there?”

The echoes rise from the well’s pit, like a bottomless laugh erupts from a stomach.

Tipsy, Matt looks down at his twisted leg. Above him, the fireworks tease and dance, free in the sky’s mouth.

In his pocket, an unlit sparkler.

For Matt, 2021 begins most unexpectedly.
Woman’s Club of Medford welcomes speaker from Alzheimer’s Association
By: Melissa Riker
Tags: Health, New Jersey, Alzheimers, Disease

Woman’s Club of Medford welcomes speaker from Alzheimer’s Association

Effie Murphy will be speaking on Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

The Woman’s Club of Medford will be holding their general meeting on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. at Medford Memorial Community Center, located at 21 S. Main St. in Medford.

The speaker for the evening will be Effie Murphy from the Alzheimer’s Association. As women are more susceptible to this disease, it is important to have as much knowledge and preparation as possible.

Refreshments will be served.
How to Trick Yourself into Getting More Done Without Burnout
By: Dan Erickson
Tags: Life Lessons

Does it ever feel like you’re getting nowhere? You know there are things you need to complete, but nothing is getting done? It happens to the best of us. However, there’s a simple way to jumpstart your productivity and trick yourself into getting more done.

I’ve discovered the happy medium between sitting on my butt doing nothing and working too hard and then suffering from burnout. And in the process of finding middle ground, I’ve also learned to be more productive.

The Trick Is Simple Moderation

It was a rough winter. We got pounded with snow throughout February and early March. That made me complacent. I just wanted to sit around and watch TV. Then I realized that I was falling behind on things I needed to complete.

Rather than kicking myself in the butt and trying to catch up in a day, I’ve decided to take the route of moderation. I know it works. I’ve done it before. Here’s how to get started:

Acknowledge that you’ve slacked off: That’s right. You have to admit your failure. Once you’ve acknowledged that you’ve let some things fall behind, you’re much more likely to have the desire to restart. Make a mental (or written) list of what needs to be done: Now you can make a note of what needs to be accomplished. Don’t freak out. If you’ve let things go too far it might seem overwhelming. However, the next two steps can work wonders. Start with little stuff: Don’t go all out. Start with minor things. Clean out that drawer. Sweep the garage. Write that proposal. You don’t have to paint the house and write a book tomorrow. Work for short spurts of time: This is key for me. I’m currently in the process of preparing to sell my house. Rather than working for hours on end, I choose to work 20–30 minutes at a time. I’m always surprised at how much I accomplish using this method. Work a little. Take a break. Repeat. Continue: Don’t stop. Something interesting happens when you work in moderation. You build momentum. Then you might find yourself working for longer durations and thinking little of it.

In the End, You Get More Done

We all know people who get excited to complete a task. They jump in with both feet running. They work super hard for a short period of time. Then they burnout. The job gets left half done.

In my own experience, I’ve discovered the trick to getting more done. It’s simple.

Do a little at a time.

Enjoy the process.

Watch the results.

In the end, you’ll surprise yourself. You might even ask yourself, “How did I do that.” What often feels overwhelming isn’t so bad if you just get started and work in moderation.

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A Short Story
By: Murli R
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Sri Aurobindo, Poetry, Poems On Medium, Poem

He said, “Go and fetch the key

Which opens the door to immortality.”

I searched through the numberless

Cosmic mysteries and found my effort amiss.

I ran back to my Parent divine

And told Him that there existed none

Which opened the door to immortality.

He looked at me and said, “Be

An occasion of my will and try still.”

I searched again beyond the cosmic tangle

And found only a replica of the original key,

Which only opened the heavenly gates to greater ecstasy,

But would not unlock the unseen terrestrial gate.

Dismayed and overwrought, I submitted myself to His feet.

He looked at me again and said, “Plunge within

the hard maze of life and look for the sign.”

I looked within my hard crest and found

An ever-Day buried within my darkness and night.

I saw a shapeless malice wandering filled

of ill-will in its all-negating breast.

I breathed death as if I were the only life there,

Then dawned within me a key to a vaster

Bliss and a deathless Light. Self-awakened,

I opened the last hidden gate

To the glory of a life immortal and divine.

I saw Him within my revealed Sun

Seated on His supracosmic pedestal,

And He said, “Now you have fulfilled my will.”