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So much negligence in this city? What was my fault?
By: Md. Shourov Talukder
Tags: Pets, Dogs, Street Dogs, Pets And Animals, Pet Care

So much negligence in this city?

What was my fault?

A story of a street dog.

There are so many creatures in the world. If you think about the most faithful creature in the world, the answer will surely be a dog.

The dog is a very known animal in our environment. Some people like dogs very much, some people don’t.

Whatever, in western countries like the US, Canada, Australia & also in European countries, dogs are treated so well and we can’t deny that how much a dog is loved by the people here.

Today, I am going to tell you about a street dog living outside the developed countries. I won’t mention any countries name, but this single story is very common for most of the dogs in developing countries.

This dog has no name, no shelter. It just walked from here and there in search of food and shelter. Every day this street dog has to fight for survival. It has to burn in the sun, get wet in the rain. Sometimes it becomes sick, but nobody is there to take care of this street dog. One day this dog was so hungry that he could not resist his temptation. It entered into a slum and ate some food from a kitchen. But, unfortunately, it was his last day. the people of this cruel place killed him brutally.

If this dog was alive & could say like a human being, maybe it asks us, “What was my fault? Was it “wanting some food” from this cruel city?”

Whatever, we should show some pity this kind of creature around us. It may not need so much money, it just needed some love for them.

Salute to those people who love dogs.
Why It’s Hard to Leave Our Abusive Partners
By: Emily Jennings
Tags: Spirituality, Psychology, Relationships, Abusive Relationships, Mental Health

Why It’s Hard to Leave Our Abusive Partners

A transcendental look at the subtle nature of relationships

Photo by Mike Lloyd on Unsplash

The cycle of abuse is well known, and in psychology, it offers a predictable surface-level description of abusive relationships. When I say “surface-level,” I refer to the layer of our existence that dwells purely in the physical world where our egos often attach themselves. We are spiritual beings. From what I have learned in soul-searching and meditation, the trappings of abuse go deeper.

When I first read about the cycle of abuse, it gave me some comfort to know that it’s a pattern showing up in lives other than mine, and it offered a helpful simplified solution for me to escape the cycle. But it never truly satisfied me to have my love and relationship reduced to a simple formula when the experience of it never seemed so simple.

It hurt me when friends would say how obvious it was that I was in a cycle of abuse, looking at it from a black-and-white viewpoint. I am an intelligent creature, so why was I so stupid?

As I’ve been meditating and discovering the ‘me’ under the surface-level reality that many of us barely ever transcend, I see the truth. I had an awakening because my abusive husband finally disappeared from my life. Because of this inner journey, I finally understand what was happening in my relationship on a spiritual level.

I will share with you what I’m now certain was the true reason I had such a tough time waking away from my abusive spouse for years.
Connecting Hive (database) with Provider (state management)
Tags: Flutter State Management, Database, Flutter, Hive, Provider

Photo by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay.com

In this Todo-List app example we will be connecting Hive (a fast, secure, NoSQL Database) with Provider (a Flutter favorite for state management). We’ll be storing a todo list in the database as a string list and our app color theme as a string. This app uses the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern.

https://github.com/madebysharing/flutter_hive_provider_example

To give us the option to access our database at start up, we will open our Hive database box in main() by changing main() to be asynchronous and then passing our database box to our Controllers. In this case; ThemeController and TodoListController, which are using Provider for state management. Using Multiprovider in our app allows us to load more than one provider, allowing us to better organize our code.

Looking inside our TodoListController class, we instantiate our database in the constructor and now we can do all our database manipulation from within our controller!

Other details to notice is that our class extends ‘ChangeNotifier’, which allows our Controller to notify other widgets in our app of state changes to our Model by using notifyListeners().
Five Things I Don’t Quite Get
By: Stephen O'Grady
Tags: Briangiles, Blackoutrestrictions, Trades, MLB, Red Sox

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If there are five things that Peter Gammons doesn’t quite get, I figure it’s ok for there to be five things I don’t quite get. Because I know Peter Gammons (no, I don’t), and I know that I am no Peter Gammons.

Why we claimed Brian Giles:



Gammons explains it thus:

The Red Sox did want Brian Giles. With Jacoby Ellsbury struggling, Giles could have led off and played some right feld, with J.D. Drew moving [to] center. And Giles could have been DH insurance should David Ortiz experience further problems with his troublesome left wrist.

Still, I’m unconvinced. Unless they think Ells is struggling, like Bucky, enough that he’d have to go down. Granted, Giles’ .296/.389/.440 line puts Ells’ .269/.331/.373 to shame. And his numbers against certain AL rivals are less than awful: Angels (.394/.512/.758), New York (.275/.333/.488), Tampa (.261/.320/.565). And the last three years 05–07 he’s been a better hitter in the second half than he was in the first (.820 to .817 OPS). And…actually, never mind. I get this now. Why we didn’t claim for Chad Bradford:



This one is more perplexing. As Neyer says:

Speaking of waiver claims, the Rays made a nice one yesterday, picking up Chad Bradford, and I’m surprised that 11 teams — including the Red Sox, the Yankees, the White Sox and the Twins — passed on him. Bradford’s got a 2.45 ERA this season, despite a strikeout rate, 2.9 per nine innings, that’s well below what’s needed to pitch effectively in the majors. In his prime — his first three seasons with the A’s — Bradford struck out 7.2 per nine innings, which is excellent, especially for a guy who never broke 90 with his “fastball.” Bradford’s strikeout rate has plummeted since then, bottoming out this year. So how has he survived? He’s become exceptionally stingy with the long ball, giving up only five homers in his last 190 innings. In contrast, last year Brad Penny had the lowest home run ratio among ERA title qualifiers, and Penny gave up nine homers in 208 innings.
Intimacy
By: Dr. Christine Bradstreet
Tags: Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Wisdom, Mindset, Happiness

Feel the feels.

Intimacy is found in slowing down, not speeding up. Pay attention to the little things. Tune into your senses. Be present in the moment and not wrapped up in the past or the future.

Take note of what you’re seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, and smelling. Feel all the feelings. Amplify those good feelings, so you imprint them on your nervous system.

Take care.

Take care with your actions. The bliss of intimacy also involves vulnerability, and we never want to cause harm.

Take care with your actions, so that the intimacy you’re creating leaves a smile in others. And if it leaves any pain, be sure it’s the pain of fondness, not the pain of hatred.

It hurt that day my kitchen smelled like my grandmother’s, but it was a good hurt. A hurt that flushed out memories of a remarkable woman and a rich life.

Get my new book Happy Ever After and learn how to cultivate true and lasting happiness in your life.

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2020'ye Damga Vurmuş Fotoğraflar
By: Aren Ünal
Tags: Türkçe, 2020, Tarih

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Neural lace — Innerscape comes one step closer!
By: A.C. Flory
Tags: Elon Musk, Innerscape, Brain, Augmented Reality, Science Fiction

Apologies but I’m high fiving myself like an idiot because of an article I just read in futurism.com:

The whole article is interesting as it attempts to predict the near, medium and long term future of communications technology, but it was this paragraph that made me so happy:

This week, we got our first look at Neuralink, a new company cofounded by Musk with a goal of building computers into our brains by way of “neural lace,” a very early-stage technology that lays on your brain and bridges it to a computer. It’s the next step beyond even that blending of the digital and physical worlds, as human and machine become one.

The only thing I’m sceptical about is the time-frame. Tech that you carry and tech that you ‘wear’ is one thing, but tech that invades your brain is something else entirely. I’m sure there will be some maverick individuals who will ignore the risk and give the neural lace a try, but most of us will not jump in quite so quickly. Think desktop computers and the general public. The vast majority of people who use smartphones now either never learned to use computers properly or never felt comfortable with them — i.e. the gain did not negate the pain.

I think the concept of an in-built, brain-machine interface will be around for quite a while before some tech comes along that will make the interface, safe, painless and most of all, easy.

To me, easy is the operative word because, as a species, we always look for the line of least resistance. I just hope I’m still around when it happens as the next few decades are going to be very interesting indeed. :)

cheers

Meeks
There’s More Than One Way to Run a Design Sprint
By: Kai Haley
Tags: Innovation, Design Sprint, UX, Tools, Google

Standing at the whiteboard with a pile of brightly colored sticky notes in my hand, I have a sneaking suspicion I might have bitten off more than I can chew. My blue sky sprint challenge of “Reimagining Display Advertising” sounded so inspiring and exciting two weeks before. I look to the team and say “OK, maybe we need to do a little more narrowing down. Let’s take a 10 minute break.” While the team is getting coffee, I go to our Google Sprint Methods resource and scan through the Define section. I need a method that will help the team get clarity on what the offering should be, after comparing the Future Tweet method to the Experience Definition statement, I’m ready to bring the team back together. “OK folks, we’re going to use the Experience Definition method, and then an Executive Summary. I think this will help us paint a picture of what our solution should be.”

Since 2014, I’ve learned a lot about how to scope a Sprint better — clearly it takes more than three days to transform an entire industry. But I still refer back to that set of 50 methods compiled by Nadya Direkova for the inaugural class of the Google Sprint Master Academy. When I’m faced with leading a Sprint for a new space or a challenge that requires a hybrid type of Sprint, I find myself reaching out to colleagues or searching other repositories online and even creating new methods if needed. I know many other Sprint Masters are doing the same, so we decided to redesign the Design Sprint Kit as an open source repository of methods and recipes to help everyone run better sprints.

Exploring the characteristics of mastery at the Sprint Conference

The Google Design Sprint methodology is based on the principle of flexibility. We approach each Sprint by first understanding the goals and deliverables for the product and team, and then we craft our agenda to drive the desired outcomes. The length of time and methods used will differ depending on the challenge statement and goals that the Sprint Master and team agreed upon. Sprint Masters inside Google are working hard to get effective outcomes quickly and often need to compress or flex the Design Sprint process into various lengths of time.

This means our Sprint Masters have to be critical thinkers, they have to build strong facilitation skills, and they need good tools and resources to support them as they take on new challenges. The methods that we use in our Sprints are collected from various sources, a few were developed inside Google or brought in and changed over time, but most of them come from somewhere else. In the spirit of giving credit to the creators of these methods, the open source site will be a compilation of resources from inside and outside of Google for Sprint Masters.

We’re inviting the community to submit methods or recipes (method-sets) that they have used or developed in their work which might be helpful to others.
Write tests. Sit back. Profit.
By: Nicholas Heal
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, User Experience, Product Management, Web Development

A lot of people struggle with the misconception that automated testing is a luxury. That it’s something you only do if you’re Google or Apple, and you are desperate for your brand to be the epitome of quality—that’s only a secondary reason to do it. Not enough people realise that it’s one of the few places where doing something better is also cheaper.

Not writing a test is a loan—we call this kind of thing technical debt for a reason. You do save a tiny bit of time now, but you are going to have to pay it back with interest later on—roughly 20–40% interest by these calculations. And it’s compound interest too. As layers of buggy code pile up the debt grows exponentially. Assuming 20%—year one you’re spending £50,000 for a UI developer, and £10,000 interest on technical debt. By year ten you’re paying more to fix issues that are the result of technical debt than you are to actually deliver any new work (£50,000 for the UI developer, and £51,597.80 fixing bugs). Unfortunately this situation will be all too familiar to many developers, and businesses who have had to work with legacy code.

There may be rare cases where that loan is worth taking, but more often it’s a result of a lack of understanding about the process or a desire to kick the problem down the line for the next person to deal with.

It also blurs the lines around where your costs are. If the UI developer writes unit tests, you have a pretty clear number for what your UI development is costing. Once those issues turn in to bugs the cost spreads across the whole team.
Pieces of Me
By: Breanna Lowman
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Love, Moving, Self Reflection

Pieces of Me

Leaving people and places I love

Photo by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash

The time has come, as it always does

to say goodbye, to say farewell

to spread my wings in flight again

as the sun sets in painted pastels.

I saw you and you saw me

I came alive, overcame fears

you have my heart

this ground my tears.

Stepping away to leave as I do

feelings churn as they are mixed

my heart has been broken

in half, in fourths, in sixths.

A thousand pieces of me

like scattered ashes thrown

adorn near and distant lands

in which my heart has flown.

Will my feet ever find a place to stay

or my heart a place to settle?

How many more goodbyes can I take,

how many times can one heart break?
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Your Blog Posts Don’t Always Need To Be That Long, Okay?
By: Tom Kuegler
Tags: Creativity, Marketing, Social Media, Art, Writing

Photo by Windows on Unsplash

You fire up your laptop. ‘I better get this down before it leaves me,’ you think. An excruciatingly long 7 second loading screen finally reveals a new draft page, and now it’s time for the magic to happen.

“Boom, baby,” you say, out loud.

Your fingers touch the keyboard, caress it for .3 seconds, then immediately start pounding away at every letter key in existence.

“Damn, this is going to be a great one,” you think.

50 words turns into 100 words, which turns into 150 words, and in a matter of 10 minutes you’re already 200 words in.

‘This might be the best blog post I’ve ever written,’ you think.

Your excitement brings you to the 400-word mark, and like a master painter looking back at his creation, you sit and sip your coffee in pride.

Then disaster strikes.

‘Sh*t,’ you realize. ‘I’m done already.’

Like a train suddenly reaching the end of the tracks, you sit there in disappointment, realizing that’s all you really wanted to say in the first place.

Now there’s nowhere to go.

If this has happened to you, don’t worry. I have a two-word solution:

Publish it.

“But it’s too short!” you scream.

No, publish it. Here’s why.
Eaten.
By: Zane Dickens
Tags: Short Story, Monster Hunter, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Centina

Eaten.

A centina about unofficially missing homework.

Photo by Marloes Hilckmann on Unsplash

“Dude, no way Mrs Mitchel buys that.”

“I know.”

“She’s a monster.”

I know real monsters, “She’s worse.”

Everyone turned in their work like falling dominoes. I broke the chain.

“James, where’s yours?”

I shrugged.

Dad said I couldn’t say.



“What happened?”

I promised.

Kids bunched up behind me.

“Can’t say.”

“James,” said Mrs Mitchell, her eye twitching.

“Eaten,” I blurted.

“By your dog?” she laughed, the class joined in while I squirmed.

No! An enraged ‘officially classified’ Mudlurker ate it!

She straightened the pile.

“I’m waiting.”

“Can’t say — I promised.”

“The truth, James. Now!”

“You can’t handle the truth!”
How to Extract Sentences from a String in Python with NLP
Tags: String, Extract, NLP, Python, Sentence

NLP can do a lot of powerful things these days, and today we are going to apply it to separating any string into its component sentences. Before you start worrying about how long this is going to take, let me assure you: this is going to be incredibly simple. Allow me to show you.

Install the API client we are using with this command:

pip install git+https://github.com/Cloudmersive/Cloudmersive.APIClient.Python.NLP.git

Then our function, segmentation_get_sentences, must be called, which you can set up as follows.

from __future__ import print_function import time import cloudmersive_nlp_api_client from cloudmersive_nlp_api_client.rest import ApiException from pprint import pprint # Configure API key authorization: Apikey configuration = cloudmersive_nlp_api_client.Configuration() configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY' # Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed # configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer' # create an instance of the API class api_instance = cloudmersive_nlp_api_client.SegmentationApi(cloudmersive_nlp_api_client.ApiClient(configuration)) input = cloudmersive_nlp_api_client.SentenceSegmentationRequest() # SentenceSegmentationRequest | Input string try: # Extract sentences from string api_response = api_instance.segmentation_get_sentences(input) pprint(api_response) except ApiException as e: print("Exception when calling SegmentationApi->segmentation_get_sentences: %s

" % e)

Now let’s input a long string with multiple sentences and let the API work its magic. Our return will include an array containing the constituent sentences.
Sono Groan
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Mens Health, Health, Humor, Medicine, Comics

Written by

Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
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Tags: Diary

in In Fitness And In Health
New England’s Pre-Seed and Seed Deals — Part III
By: Matt Snow
Tags: New England, Fundraising, Startup, Venture Capital, Seed Investment

Recently, The Buzz profiled the a number of market maps on the New England Venture/Startup Ecosystem including:

These market maps continue to be very positively received by our subscribers so we’re continuing to deliver. This time we’re back with Part III of the of the top Pre-Seed and Seed Deals series. As a reminder, this is for New England startups founded since 2018. Without further ado, here’s the list:
Why You Should Love a Japanese Breakfast
By: Kaki Okumura
Tags: Food, Breakfast, Lifestyle, Culture, Cooking

Why You Should Love a Japanese Breakfast

It challenges the idea of what breakfast should look like

Illustrations: Kaki Okumura

What is breakfast food?

I was born in the U.S. and spent my formative years there, so, naturally, I developed the sense that a normal breakfast should look something like pancakes, cereal, buttered toast, bacon, or sausages. It’s what was served to me when I went to friends’ houses for sleepovers and it’s what was advertised to me when I watched television. These are breakfast foods: The things that we should be eating in the morning to start our day.

But when my family would return to Japan for the summer, my idea of breakfast was challenged. Instead of the usual toast or cereal that I was used to, my grandmother would prepare rice, fish, pickles, miso soup, and some vegetables for us every morning. As a child, I would stare down at these foods in the morning and silently protest: These are not breakfast foods.

Numerous times I would try to convince my grandmother to let us buy those fluffy white milk breads from the bakery or sweet yogurts from the conbini instead. The best breads in the world, just out of my reach! Not to say she would never serve them to my siblings and me, but when she did, they were always presented to us as a special Western breakfast, not for daily consumption. “It’s just on occasion,” she would drill.

At first, when I didn’t get my way with bread and cereal, I would grumble and eat what was served to me with a look of disapproval. But as I got used to it, I began to see these dishes as very normal for the morning. Steamed ohitashi spinach served with breakfast? Typical. Salted grilled fish and shimeji mushroom miso soup? OK. Rice with natto, topped with egg? Sounds like breakfast to me.

But as I got used to it, I began to see these dishes as very normal for the morning….Rice with natto, topped with egg? Sounds like breakfast to me.

What a typical Japanese breakfast contains

As I ate a Japanese-style breakfast more often, I realized that breakfast really just looked like something I would eat for lunch or dinner, but in smaller portions, using mostly leftovers from the day before. Reheat the rice and vegetables, and cook the fish in a pan for 8–10 minutes. Heat water on the stovetop, make miso soup.
Full of surprises
By: Michael Mcwatters
Tags: Parenting, Autism, Special Needs Parenting, Special Needs

Full of surprises

Colin wrote a book with a message: never underestimate him

I found him at our desk, pieces of letter-sized paper stapled together splayed before him, writing.

“What are you doing, Colin?”

“I’m writing my book.”

“Your book?”

“Yes. Now may you please go away?”

I went away. For about ten minutes. Then I came back. He was still writing. Then he wasn’t; holding his pen thougthfully before him, he pondered his next word. I came up behind him to take a photo and he didn’t even notice me. This was unusual.

This boy never stops moving. He climbs, runs, jumps, leaving a wake of flipped chairs and furniture stripped of its pillows in his wake. He focuses on iPad games, but not much else. Reading, writing, drawing? Not his bag.

The inspiration

Apparently he’d seen his mom writing earlier and decided he wanted to be a writer, too. So there he was, at our desk, writing his book: I have a story by Colin Keith McWatters. It took over 45 minutes and ultimately clocked in at what is, for him, a whopping eight pages.

The first page of I have a story

It was full of details about his life and his family. Accurate details. Details we’d shared with him maybe once before, years ago — like the story about how his grandmother had induced labor by walking up and down stairs in the hospital. Details he’d apparently memorized and now decided to set to paper.

And then there’s the tone, at times conversational and cheeky: “Do you know what a twin is? If you don’t and you really want to know and you don’t, I have a story buy it from me for $4.00 only.” He was writing for an audience.
we thought
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Storytelling, Creative Writing, Poem, Poet, Poety

down the street, after the gravel rises and then falls

the bicycle creaks and the neighbor’s dog barks

tick-tock, the silent dance of lines on a watch

time is a whiplash, graceful in her poise then

merciless in her truth- we swallow new poisons

with our evening dinner, the mirror shows

a stoic’s mouth and reticent lips

this is a story reading hopeful backward

in the beginning- boom and cackle, laughter song

before we learned the false smile

when we thought mistakes were made in pencil.
Welcome to Our Mission
By: Dr. Christine Bradstreet
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Healing, Advice, Inspiration

Let’s get right down to it.

You feel stuck in life, unsure where to go or what to do next. Maybe you’re flat out afraid.

Enjoying a full and abundant life can feel elusive, but it doesn’t have to. And it doesn’t have to be a mystery.

The media today is full of trendy fads. Financial freedom, diet and exercise, and relationship advice to name a few, but we’re more unhappy and more unhealthy as a society today than ever before.

On top of that, the world is sick emotionally and spiritually.

It’s time to put an end to that.

Welcome to our mission, and I hope you find here just what you need to take your life to the next level.

The mission of Change Your Mind Change Your Life is to offer you short and uplifting articles to help you shift your thought, so you can see real change in your life and health.

The answers you’ve been looking for are inside you. We’re here to help you discover them.

Never forget — progress is always happening, and it’s always possible. If anyone has told you otherwise, stop listening to them! It is never too late to heal your life. ​

Best Regards,

Dr. Christine Bradstreet 🌴

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Introduction on Schnorr Signatures
Tags: Scalability, Bitcoin, Btc, Segwit

The Bitcoin scalability, the process useful to increase the cryptocurrency adoption by thousands of people, is now possible to get, thanks to SegWit innovations.

One of these innovations is shown by a digital signature of Schnorr.

To explain better how it would help the scalability, first of all, it is necessary to understand what a digital signature means.

Bitcoin is a protocol using the asymmetrical cryptography, a system which use a couple of “keys” (strings of numbers): a public key and a private key. The couple of keys is mathematically connected, and to make a payment with BTC by a public key, it is necessary try to own the private key, without obviously reveal it. To make that, it is necessary a digital signature, created by calculating the private key data and the transaction information. Thanks to the digital signature is possible figure out if who is sending BTC from a public key is also the real owner of private key. The Schnorr digital signature is a series of mathematical rules which join digital signature, private key and public key, and above all it allows to add more digital signatures in a single signature (bringing benefits to Bitcoin protocol, especially in his scalability).

Until now it was not possible use this kind of signature, since that it’d required a hard fork, while, with SegWit introduction, it is now possible to use it.

But, why it is too important for Bitcoin?

To make Bitcoin transactions, it is necessary the digitals signatures. These signatures take up space on the Blockchain for their subscription.

When we want to make transactions from multiple addresses to a single one, it is necessary that each transaction has got their own signature.

Every signature, increases the numbers of data held in each transaction, increasing necessary the fees for the transaction itself, because the space which takes that transaction could be occupied by another one.

If those transactions from different addresses to a single one has been made from a only one person, is there any way to make a single one signature?

Yes, there is! With Schnorr it is possible, reducing user fees and transaction’s byte dimension.

According with Core developers, Schnorr would be able to save 17% of data subscribed on blockchain, allowing to make more transactions per second.

That’s not too bad!

Even if the Schnorr implementation is still in their beginning steps and it is uncertain if it will be actuated, the majority of developers agree on his early activation.
What Is Proof Of Stake?
By: Waves Tech
Tags: Mining, Wavesplatform, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Proof Of Stake

In a Proof of Stake system, the odds of a miner creating the next block are proportional to the stake of coins they hold. It’s a far more energy-efficient approach than the Proof of Work approach that bitcoin pioneered.

Bitcoin solved a problem that many experts believed did not have a solution. Since data can be copied so easily, how can money be sent directly from one person to another online without worrying that the sender used the same funds more than once? This apparent dealbreaker, known as the Double Spend Problem, is why traditional payment systems have a trusted intermediary like a bank to keep accounts for everyone.

Proof of Work

Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, realised that one way to do away with a single, trusted authority was to share accounts publicly with everyone. Users submit transactions to the network, and the nodes or ‘miners’ that maintain the shared ledger all compete to be the one to add recent transactions to the next block. This competition is computationally hard, and a huge amount of collective processing power underpins the bitcoin network — along with significant hardware and energy costs.

The competition is organised so that an answer is found roughly every ten minutes. When a miner finds the answer, a new block of transactions is created and linked (‘chained’) to the previous block to create a continuous record. The winning miner is sent a tranche of new bitcoins, plus all the fees from the transactions in that block, as a reward for their work in processing transactions and keeping the network secure. Meanwhile, the entire network checks the blockchain to make sure all of the transactions in the blocks make sense and add up. Once a transaction has been included in the blockchain and a number of new blocks have been added on top of it (typically three to six), it is considered legitimate and fully confirmed — part of the permanent and tamper-proof record.

What this means is that it would take a huge amount of processing power to submit a fraudulent transaction, because the rogue miner would be competing against the rest of the network to add it to a new block. They would then have to add not just that block, but several other blocks in a row on top of it, to ensure the bad transaction was fully confirmed without the next miner and the rest of the network discarding it. In practice, it is far more lucrative for a miner to work with the rest of the network and receive the rewards than to waste time and energy trying to submit a transaction that everyone else will simply ignore.
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Keto in Paris?
By: Mary Lucus-Flannery
Tags: Keto, Ketosis, Health, Diet Fail, Reboot Diet

The last two months in Ketoland have been, well — truthfully — they have been bullshit. My keto story has been subtitled: “Mary is not consistent and full of excuses.”

My adherence to the keto plan has been abysmal at best.

The irony is that after playing with keto for over a year off and on — now suddenly everyone and their uncle is into it and trying it. I am supposed to be the expert but really I feel like I’m the failure story.

Ketosis hasn’t failed. I have failed to stick with the program.

Here’s how it goes: I will do two or three solid days of compliance — carbs under 20, a little hungry but pushing my IF. And then I make an excuse and eat carbs. Not usually hella carbs, but enough to knock me out of ketosis.

Sometimes I say to myslef that I am CHOOSING to do a carb reload. That’s bullshit. I am just choosing to be a slacker. Carb reloading isn’t really legit until you are keto adapted — and I’m not right now.

I need to get serious. I need to do a full month in full ketosis — no carb reloading bullshit (not because carb reloading is bullshit but because I am not doing it the legit way). At least. A FULL. Month.

Sigh.

One of the excuses I have been leaning on to avoid getting serious is a trip I have planned.

7 days in Paris and 5 in England.

It’s my first time in Paris. I want to eat Paris things: bread, croissants, chocolat, baguettes, crepes. CARBS.

So, today is day one of Mary’s Big Travel Adventure. I am not going to try to achieve ketosis on this trip. BUT I am going be sane and not eat every carb in France. I will eat bread and chocolate in normal serving sizes and then — on 12 days — I am going back headfirst into Ketoland without all the bullshit excuses.

Deal?

Anyone want to hold me accountable? Because frankly — I could use an accountability partner.
Quote Of The Day
By: Davide Metrangolo
Tags: Blog, Senza Categoria, Quoteoftheday

It’s the writer’s version of human nature to write about what you know (and about what you’re known for). But when you’re doing it on a daily basis, there’s only so much you can write without getting repetitive. And that can get boring. Both for the writer and the reader.
Goal-Oriented vs Process-Oriented Thinking in Programming
By: Shalitha Suranga
Tags: Technology, Productivity, Software Engineering, Programming, Business

Goal-Oriented vs Process-Oriented Thinking in Programming

Do you think you are following the right approach?

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

In software engineering, we apply computer science knowledge to solve real-world business problems. Software development has a generic life-cycle known as the SDLC that helps stakeholders to plan the progress of their software products. Also, the steps of this generic life-cycle can be arranged into different structures. We identify these things as software development models. For example, agile, waterfall, incremental, and spiral are well-known models for software development. The agile approach is vastly used because it helps teams to manage their work more efficiently. Also, it helps teams to maintain good customer satisfaction.

We have to decompose each development goal into smaller tasks to get better manageability of our works. The software development goals mainly refer to releases that deliver a set of features to the users of an application or a service. The completion of each smaller task will make the success of your master goal. These smaller tasks require programming and it mainly has two different thinking strategies about the goal.
Why you should read “Graphic Design Visionaries”
By: Daniele Catalanotto
Tags: Graphic Design, Design, Book Review

The list of big names you have to know

This book by Caroline Roberts lists 75 graphic designers who made a difference. This book will give you a good basis of references for your own work. It’s like a graphic design history course with super short chapters. Each designer has a small one page portrait, a timeline and a few images of his work. If you are starting in the graphic design world or if you want to enlarge your culture then take this book as a basis for further explorations. It’s not complete but it’s a really good selection to start with.
What is the Difference Between k-Nearest Neighbors and k-Means Clustering?
By: Vishal Rasadiya
Tags: Machine Learning, K Means, Knn, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning

Let’s try to group the dataset into k=2 groups using k-means. The algorithm will initiate 2 centroids for 2 clusters. In each iteration of the training phase, centroids will move in such a way that the sum of the squared distance between data points and the cluster’s centroid is at the minimum. That’s it. The model is ready.

Image from Author

We have to check if having two clusters in our dataset makes any sense or not. I would say the cluster in the left shows affordable houses and the cluster in the right shows expensive houses.

Wait a minute !!

The interpretation I made is OK, but I am not satisfied with it. Let’s set k=4 for the same dataset.

Image from Author

Now we have four groups, you can call them cluster 1: ‘near & large’, cluster 2: ‘far & large’, cluster 3: ‘far & small’, cluster 4: ‘near & small’. You can try to extract some meaning from these clusters. I think houses in cluster 1 are super expensive and noisy while cluster 2 shows affordable and calm houses. cluster 3 shows cheap and calm houses and the houses in cluster 4 are affordable but noisy.

You can try to cluster them into different values of k and see if it makes any logic.

The Elbow method can be used to choose the value of k. However, this method only suggests the range of the k and you have to choose the value of k according to your dataset.

We have a new house with an area of 165 m² and a distance from the city center 6 km. Now model can calculate the distance of the new test point from all four centroids of four clusters and predict in which cluster the new house fits well.
7 Surprising Ways to Be More Creative Than Yesterday
By: Kelly Eden
Tags: Creativity, Self Improvement, Psychology, Productivity, Writing

1. Think inside the box

(I rolled a 2, let’s have some examples for this one.)

You work for Lego and want to create a new design for release in Spring. To force your brain to be more creative — and stop it reverting to the designs you are used to creating and seeing — you could limit your block color palette. What could you create using only yellow, orange and red blocks?

Would it set off a new safari-themed set? A flock of birds? The pyramids of Eygpt? Mars Colony?

What would you think up?

This is inside the box thinking — thinking with limits.

But, wait a minute, Kelly — we’re meant to “think outside the box” to be creative, aren’t we? I can see your dilemma and I remember being told this too. In one university class, I was told to let my mind wander until I had a whiteboard full of random ideas. We often brainstormed. “No idea is a bad idea!” they said.

You’ve probably tried this kind of free-association brainstorming at some point — just letting your mind go any which way, and then writing down every idea that pops into your heads.

The problem is we use mental shortcuts when we’re making decisions or thinking up solutions— these shortcuts make life easier for us in general. Imagine having to problem-solve over every single decision we face in a day! “Will I open the door with my left hand, or my right, or perhaps I should use my elbow to avoid germs?” Mental shortcuts mean we can make choices and take action more quickly.

When we want to be creative and think up new ideas or approaches, these short cuts get in the way. Jacob Goldenberg, co-author of Inside the Box, suggests there’s a better way to be creative.

In an interview with Creativida, Goldenberg discussed how thinking outside-the-box, unrestrained brainstorming, and “wild thinking” are ineffective strategies when we’re trying to be creative.

“None of this is supported empirically,” says Goldenberg, “in fact, most of these views lead to the opposite results: using these approaches you will most likely end up with fewer ideas and they will be less creative, and with lower value.”

He says, instead, we need to limit our choices and work within parameters. Hence limiting our color palette with the Lego example!
Love On The Line
By: Emily Wilcox
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Romance, Poetry, Poem, Writing

Love On The Line

A poem about digital romance

Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

To fall in love with a person,

That I do not actually know?

Man, that is such a me move,

That is just how I go.

To become so firmly attached,

To a soul set through a small screen.

How can it be this easy?

What, exactly, might it mean?

Sure, you’ll say I don’t know him.

And in the flesh, you’re right, I don’t.

But what can the touch of an elbow say,

That his words on my phone just won’t?

I might not have felt his fingertips,

Winding their way through mine.

But I’ve seen the magic born from them,

With each word, each sentence, each line.

So yeah, I’m in love with an abstract,

Boy comprised wholly of text.

But I’m a writer, you see, and his words touch my soul,

So really, what else can you expect?
This Turned Out to Be One of “Those” Kind of Weeks but Still, I Write
By: Carla D. Wilson Laskey
Tags: Writing Life, Feelings, Life, Writing, Writing Tips

This Turned Out to Be One of “Those” Kind of Weeks but Still, I Write

How Something Starts Is Not Always How It Ends

Photo by whoislimos on Unsplash

“What just happened”?

This is how I felt at the end of hump day. Up until then. My week was going rather well.

I was on target to meet my new weekly writing goal for the week having published 3 of 5 stories. I had completed the days' assignment for the mastery writing course in which I am participating. I was already working on draft number 4. I was on a roll and feeling good, positive, and accomplished.

And just like that. One phone call changed it all.

In less than 60 seconds my good week turned not so good anymore. Even as I write about it today. I can still feel a little twinge of anxiety in the pit of my stomach. It developed during the unexpected phone call.
Threads Of Faith
By: Randy Shingler
Tags: Mindfulness, Nature, Self-awareness, Heart, Spirit

Treading on tranquil threads of faith

Faith deep within my heart and spirit

Guiding me in changing mists of life,

Helping me discern right and wrong

Through incertitude we daily face.

Heart imprinted by compassionate pangs

Seeing needs of others beyond myself,

Feeling empathy for those less fortunate

Trying to get help for them when I can

But having to care for my own needs too.

Having my spirit roaming where it will

Faith it will lead me where I should go

In freedom with confidence, sublime,

Being devoid of most cares or worries

While I venture into new unknowns.

Comforting freedom in ways I live

Embracing faith with heart and spirit

Trying to do what I feel just and right

By treading on tranquil threads of faith.
『週額５０に仮想通貨で』０１２ーブロックチェーン分野は、最も重要な合意形成とは？
Tags: Bitcoin, 日本語, Eos, Ethereum

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Introducing Wake
By: Bakken
Tags: Startup, Product, Work, Design

Why we made Wake

A bit over a year ago, our good friend Chris Kalani came to us with an idea he wanted to explore. From his years working at Facebook as a product designer he had learned a great deal about the importance of tools that enable designers to share their work early and often. These tools helped the growing teams stay in sync and turned out to be essential to the company and fundamental to the big idea that access to more information helps us do our jobs better.

At Bakken & Bæck we had made the same realization. We couldn’t find anything that would allow us to quickly share visual work as a team, and we needed a better tool to keep us all in sync. Our design process was fragmented across different tools and channels. We were storing files in Dropbox, and giving feedback on email, Skype or Slack.

These tools are great for text-based communication, but they were not designed for the type of visual work we do. We needed a solution to keep everyone in the loop built specifically for designers.

Together with Chris we started building a prototype for a tool that would improve our own design workflow.

After using Wake for six months we realized that this was a tool that could solve communication challenges for all teams, not just ourselves. We invited a group of teams to try an early beta, and have been working closely with these teams iterating on their feedback.

Our mission with Wake is to create an opportunity for you to completely change the way you work and share ideas. It’s a way for both you and your team to benefit from all the thought and work that goes into the things you create. By encouraging teams to share more often throughout their entire process, we want to create a foundation for transparency that will lead to better designed products for us all.

Wake is now at a stage where it’s ready to be shared with the rest of the world. But we’re only getting started.
Build an ETL Pipeline using SSIS
By: Shawn Shi
Tags: Data Engineering, Data Science, Visual Studio, Sql Server, Etl

Data Engineering — How to Build an ETL Pipeline Using SSIS

Discussing how to build an ETL pipeline for database migration using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in Visual Studio 2019.

Image Credit to Goh Rhy Yan

SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) provides an convenient and unified way to read data from different sources (extract), perform aggregations and transformation (transform), and then integrate data (load) for data warehousing and analytics purpose. When you need to process large amount of data (GBs or TBs), SSIS becomes the ideal approach for such workload.

One example usage is to migrate one database to another database with different schema on a different server. There are many other ways to do it, such as:

Console Application

PowerShell

SQL Server command line tool — SqlPackage.exe

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)— Generate Scripts with data

The downside of the above approaches can be error prone in terms of error handling, user friendly, or not being able to handle large amount of data. For example, Generate Scripts in SSMS will not work when the database size is larger than a few Gigabytes.

In this article, I will discuss how this can be done using Visual Studio 2019. You can also just clone the GitHub project and use it as your SSIS starter project. Here is the GitHub link.

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2019 already installed. Note Visual Studio 2017 works slightly different regarding SSIS and this article may not work exactly for Visual Studio 2017.

SQL Server already installed

Preparation Part 1 — Install SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio

Microsoft has documentation on the installation process as well, but all you need is to launch Visual Studio Installer and install “Data storage and processing” toolsets in the Other Toolsets section.

Visual Studio Installer (Screenshot by Author)

Check Data storage and processing (Screenshot by Author)

Preparation Part 2 — Install the SSIS Visual Studio Extension

Download the extension from Visual Studio Marketplace and follow the intuitive instruction to install.