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How can you deal with crypto volatility?
Tags: Economics, Trading, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Investing

Crypto is falling, someone says the entire crypto market is crashing day after day: what to do now?

Just keep your fund safe and sound.

Let us explain.

Crypto volatility is a matter of fact

But it’s not something you have to fight. It’s something you have, instead, to take advantage of. The best thing you can do is to take advantage of the pump and dump: your crypto is pumped? Sell it. But how?

That’s where the stable coin comes in.

What is a stable coin?

It’s a cryptocurrency pegged to another stable asset, as the EUR or — back to the dawn of time — gold.

Being pegged to another asset makes this coin lowly volatile: tomorrow’s value will be very close to — or the same as — today’s value. A stable coin is global and exchangeable; resistant to market stress and not tied to a central bank, in any way. Not just a medium of exchange — like every cryptocurrency is — but also a reserve of value.

With a stable coin you can avoid leaving the blockchain and swapping the crypto for a fiat coin.

Imagine: the price of the coin rises due to an increase in the interest, what should you do? Sell your bitcoin for an excellent price; generally, you have 2 possibilities:

You can place your sum on any exchange — but you do know how dangerous it is, and that you basically don’t really own that value. Or you can exit the blockchain (and the crypto ecosystem) and change that value to a fiat coin — it means, pay the capital gain.

A stable coin gives you a third possibility: swapping your crypto for another token.

Noku Stable Coin: a new multi-pegged stability

With Noku Stable Coin, you gain the opportunity to convert your original crypto into another crypto, but a stable one: a coin whose value is pegged to a fiat coin.

So you own a real value without the need of a physical coin, because our stable coin is not in the physical world, but it’s still on the ethereum blockchain. When you swap a crypto for a EURN or CHFN, you have the warranty that the value of your reserve will be always pegged to the physical currency you’ve chosen.

The correspondence is always 1 to 1:

· 1 EUR = 1 EURN

· 1 CHF = 1 CHFN

No volatility, no fluctuation. Only a stable reserve of value.

With Noku Stable Coin you can easily:

1. Pay

2. Save money

3. Trade

Noku Stable Coin is a fast, economic and efficient service.

You can use EURN or CHFN for making a payment in every kind of currency — as long as it’s digital. You can save money, storing your value and keeping it safe against the volatility of bitcoin and ethereum. You can peg digital currency to your trading system, and balance your fiat and crypto in real time.

And you will never need to:

· leave the crypto world

· enter and exit the banking system

· employ an exchange.
FOUNDER TALKS. As part of our fellowship at Roundtrip…
By: Timi Dayo-Kayode
Tags: Africantech, Africanstartups, Africatech

CRAFTING AN INSIGHTFUL CUSTOMER DISCOVERY PROCESS

As part of our fellowship at Roundtrip Afrika, we invite African founders and investors to speak with our fellows weekly. One such speaker was Kennedy Ekezie, founder and CEO of Africave and Creft with a background spanning organizations such as SAP and TikTok.

Kennedy spoke to our founders on how to validate their ideas and he said so many great and insightful things that we decided to share the key takeaways that two of our fellows, Mark and Kevin, with our network. Founders can leverage the following user engagement strategies to interact with potential users as they work on market research and customer discovery.

● Have a problem statement you’re trying to validate:

The core purpose of building a startup is to solve a problem, and the more specific you can get in defining what you are trying to solve, the more efficient the process is for you. This involves reflecting on your experience encountering the challenge you are trying to solve and/or discussing with people who have experienced the challenge (which is discussed in the next point). The user stories and challenges will enable you to find a market niche to appeal to, enabling an overall more effective and targeted solution.

● Start with your network:

If you are creating a solution to a problem you have experienced or know people who experienced, you likely know 5 people right off the top of your head to speak to and to obtain more insights on the problem. Starting with your network enables you to get the ball rolling, and by sheer network-effects, enables scale-up of the customer discovery process to a larger group of people.

● Don’t ask for features to build, ask for problems

In collecting feedback from users, focus on distilling the core problems they are experiencing relating to the product, instead of the solutions they propose. This will enable you to see the vertebrae of the concerns users have and have creative control in coming up with the best solution that addresses the problem. An interesting quote that might hammer this point home is one attributed to Henry Ford that goes “If I were to ask customers what they wanted; they would have said faster horses.”

We hope this is as helpful to any founders in our network as it was to our fellows and we can’t wait to share more nuggets of wisdom from other speakers that we have hosted and will host throughout the course of our fellowship :)
Snipers in the Pre-Dawn
By: Donn K. Harris
Tags: Insomniac, War, Poetry, Danger, Dreamtime

Snipers in the Pre-Dawn

‘Follow the Allegiance’ is an essay about modern group dynamics leading to war; this is a poetic passage from its conclusion.

Nighttime, Thailand. (Photo: Creative Commons stock images)

If we have slept, we are going to wake tomorrow and ………..

put into play what we believe- act on what we see and hear -

make decisions based on the random information we have -

deal with conflict –receive praise and criticism-

be lied to for our own good-

surge with dark rage when a bad memory hits mid-day-

be reminded of things we forgot — forget that which we need to know

give a pocketful of change to the homeless beggar who calls our names as we forage for food

and later in darkness retire to the forests of the night where

— insomniac —

we spend the secret hours pacing and prowling, marching ourselves into a daze that at dawn is the best we can do for sleep.

By mid-day beneath a hot sun it begins again, and we go from office to office, seeking truth or at best proof to support our assumptions, and we will find, to varying degrees ……..

Photo by Alex Plesovskich on Unsplash

ambiguous signs of near-nirvana, an epidemic of aphasia

— but there is no silence —

the secret to grow your stubborn money;

the one-eyed self-proclaimed king, arrested for lunacy, being measured for a strait-jacket;

and finally evidence of the rule book from which the powers are always quoting but didn’t seem to exist…….

…….. yet here it might be, its cover blank, inside the names redacted ……

And so again, we come to the night. First we bathe in a golden twilight and then there is darkness:

Wandering, we find the still-burning candle from the vigil held for martyrs no one knew,

but all remember — their stories grown and deepened, polished into the cold smooth obsidian of myth: the dreamtime id of us as heroes, the other as villains,

and the wars that spring from the brittle duality to which we retreat when threatened,

and which the rare soul can transcend, and even then only in times of safety and abundance:

Sniper in the Grey Dawn (Photo by Lorenzo Lamonica on Unsplash)

………… but acting from abundance can be a lonely pursuit;

Generosity and benevolence go unrecognized, arousing suspicion,

as we would rather remain with the embattled group facing rumors of snipers on rooftops and hillsides,

than to walk alone on safe paths toward a stable future.

Dig deep and we find that no one believes any path is safe, and that the idea of a stable future has long been cast aside, disproven; and so we walk,

together, praying the snipers have an off night,

and that if we sleep, we may wake again tomorrow, and put into play that which we believe, if there’s anything left to believe.
Responsive Web Design คืออะไร
By: Suranart Niamcome
Tags: Media Queries, Highlight, CSS, HTML, Coding

SiamHTML

The collection of articles for front-end developers
Stage Fright
By: Johannes Mudi
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Sky Collection, Stage Fright

Stage Fright

Sky Collection quote prompt №24

Photo by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash

Silent wars raged inside of me unending



Gifting me without restrain, great unease



Thought of appearing giving the creeps



Every chance with a crowd unsettling







Announcing appearance with a racing pulse



Heart searching for a home beyond its four walls



Running the miles, blind to the clogs



Leaving behind trembling limbs in klutzy trails







Again, and again seeking man’s validation



Displaying with royalty a garb of perfection



I cannot err, I’m not of men



The ego in me winning by all means







Sad, I sought refuge in another lie:



It’s just my being, no need to try



Leaving the old wine tucked in old skin



Letting fear flow freely within my veins







It’s time; a brand new me to build



Behind the dock, self-doubting thoughts



For who I am I will be pleased



Yearning always to be at ease







A call for truce, ending the strife



The speedy heart regaining peace



And trembling limbs easing their speed



A chance to take, one at a time

Johannes Mudi
My Amazon Sister, My Friend
By: Kerry Mcavoy
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Family, Kerry Mcavoy, Women

The watercolored memories

Echo in my mind.

Pictures of her, my sister,

Childhood enemy and friend.

She was younger,

yet older.

Fierce and loyal,

My Amazon sister, my friend.

I looked up to her, my hero,

For strength, for love.

Quietly she stood beside me,

My younger sister, a loyal friend.

Through the passing of years

Our roles change again.

She turns to me

Life-battered, in need of a friend.

I see her, my sister,

Present and past.

Like two girls, overlapping,

Both then and now.

I love her now to touch her then.

To protect the girl

Whose big-hearted love

0nce rescued me, her sister and friend.
Guesstimating Where We Are In The NFT Market Life Cycle
By: Devin Finzer
Tags: Featured, Guest Post, Analysis

If Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market growth mirrors crypto market growth, then by November 2021 it will have at least 1 million NFT users.



Read the full post on our blog.
Tyler Yu Named Dean of GGC School of Business
By: Gwinnett Magazine
Tags: Business, Georgia Gwinnett College, Education, Ggc

Following a search, Dr. Tyler T. Yu, professor of economics and accounting, has been named dean of the Georgia Gwinnett College School of Business. He succeeds Dr. Victoria Johnson, who was the first dean hired at the newly established college in 2006, and who will retire June 30. Yu began serving as interim dean several months ago when Johnson transitioned into the role of charter dean.

“As a charter GGC faculty member who served as an associate dean and then interim dean, Dr. Yu not only understands this college’s unique mission and vision, but is already experienced in managing its unique educational and administrative environment,” said Dr. Lois C. Richardson, interim senior vice president of Academic and Student Affairs and provost. “We look forward to his continuing leadership in the School of Business.”

A first-generation immigrant from Dalian, China, Yu earned his master’s degree in accounting from Kennesaw State University and his doctorate in agricultural economics/economics from Mississippi State University. He also holds a certificate in the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’ Leading in the Academic Enterprise Series, and a certificate of achievement on Academic Assessment from Harvard University.

The Alpharetta resident taught as a tenured full professor at Mercer University in Atlanta from 1990–2006. He joined the Georgia Gwinnett faculty as the college prepared to welcome its first students in 2006.

Yu has published widely in national and international journals on the topics of economics, management and business research, international business, ethics, monetary policy and other related arenas.

At GGC, Yu has taught courses in macroeconomics, international economics and finance, financial and managerial accounting, business statistics, applied quantitative analysis and special topics. He has served on or chaired several college committees.

“I am excited to serve GGC in this new role,” said Yu. “We have built a school with a solid foundation and now is the time to take it to the next level of excellence. I am particularly focused on our goal of achieving AACSB accreditation.”
Deleting Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn Apps From My Phone — Is The Best Decision In My Life
By: Mahmud Ahsan
Tags: Self Improvement, Addiction, Social Media, Lifestyle, Mental Health

The best thing I ever have done is — deleting the Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn apps from my phone. It is almost over a few months, I no longer use these apps on my phone. Let me tell you why…

It became a habit for me to open these apps frequently

It is really a dangerous habit. I was not the only sufferer of this habit. If you visit a restaurant, bus station, or some other places you will see many people are mostly using social media apps on their phones. It likes a drug.

A few months back, I decided, it is enough. Technology should not control me rather I should control how much I want to use the technology. I have to solve this problem. To solve a problem, the first thing is to identify the problem.

My problem is:

During my idle time, or often I want to use social media apps on my Phone I open any of Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn Apps And after using some time, I feel good.

From the book Power of Habit I learned:

Habit is very powerful. If something is set in habit, human or animal do the things automatically.

So it became a habit for me to use those apps on my phone. The form of habit creates in this way, which is called a habit loop:

Cue -> Routine -> Reward

Photo by Tine Ivanič on Unsplash

1. Cue

For me, I feel to open social media apps on my phone, to see what is going on.

2. Routine

When the cue triggers, I open any of the listed social media apps or sometimes sequentially one by one.

3. Reward

I feel good to use those apps.

How I Changed My Habit

According to the book Power of Habit:

if you want to change a habit, you have to keep the old cue and old reward but only need to change the routine.

So what I do now whenever in my idle time if I want to open my phone (Cue triggers). I open either the medium app or the kindle app to read articles or books (new routine). And after reading an article or a few pages of a book, I feel good.

So the cue remains the same, the reward is the same, but I changed my routine by acquiring a new habit which is reading more. And I get the same reward — good feelings, and more knowledge.

Using social media apps too often is bad for mental health. There are lots of studies and reports you will see on the internet. Eradicate a habit is impossible. So the better you can do is to replace it with better habits. Our brain can be reprogrammed if we have a strong determination.
FundersToken Top 6 Blockchain Start-up in Taiwan
By: Fst Network
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Startup, Ethereum, Blockchain Technology

Just this week, FundersToken have built a web wallet module for ETH and ERC20 tokens for our users to easily manage and access to their token.

You can look at our latest UI at our main-net product or our test-net.

Adding more functionality into our already robust modules.

Also, We are happy to announce that FundersToken is selected as the

TOP 6 Blockchain Startup in Taiwan by Fintech News HK.
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Graduating From Overriding My Gut
By: Niklas Göke
Tags: College, Society, Human Prompt, Coaching Corner, Culture

Graduating From Overriding My Gut

I’ll soon finish college, but I’m already done with expectations

Photo by Hanna Postova on Unsplash

“How can they tell how good we are at math if all they do is check for final results?”

That’s what I thought. I didn’t say anything. Of course. My first college exam. I was scared shitless. The C I got was just enough to keep me in that state.

Filling numbers into ten boxes without any pertinence as to how you came up with them was the first thing that felt unfair about college, but far from the last.

There was the practice exam that was harder than the actual one, the professor who asked questions from yet-to-be-taken follow-up classes, and the credits I didn’t get graded because, well, my exchange school grade was too good. College is a bottomless pit of double standards.

Oh the times I yelled “bullshit!” and wanted to quit. But I never did. High school had prepared me too well. Sit still. Do your homework. Trust the system. Don’t ask questions. It’s such a perfectly designed pipeline, and the further you go, the more ridiculous the requests.

Submit this in a week, but we won’t return it to you for months. Answer 100 questions in 100 minutes, but we’ll only take one to tell you what’s wrong.

In my undergrad, I sucked it up because I didn’t know I had options. It took two years of freelance work to show me I did. But I still wasn’t done overriding my gut. I’ll soon finish grad school and boy, am I ready to let go of expectations. Traditional education is just the tip of the iceberg.

I’m mad at the system. But I’m madder at myself. In the end, it was me. I allowed nodding along to infect my whole life. Even in private. Even when it didn’t matter. There was always a rule to follow, always a reason to second-guess myself.

For three years, I got up every weekday between 6 and 7 AM. No reason, just expectation. I’d sleep when I was done working, not when I was tired. Do laundry when the room was free, not when I needed it. Eat when everyone ate, not when I was hungry.

You know you’re a good dog when you follow the rules without anyone telling you what they are. Thanks for playing. Here’s your diploma.

There’s something to be said for discipline and self-direction. But they’ve only ever served me when following through on my gut.

After three decades of learning to live up to expectations, instinct has become hard to trust. I paid for this lesson in bombed exams, short nights, and extra post-lunch coffees. As I’m kicking off the unscheduled artist life, it’s about time it sinks in.

I may soon finish college, but I hope to graduate from overriding my gut.
“Mami Wata”: December Collection Highlight
By: High Museum Of Art
Tags: Spirituality, Art, Artwork, Culture, Nigeria

This large sculpture was made for Mami Wata, (pidgin English for “Mother of Water”), a charismatic being of great spiritual power celebrated in West and Central Africa and reimagined as deities such as La Sirene (Haitian Vodou) and Yemanjá (Candomblé and Umbanda) in Afro-Atlantic spiritual traditions.

Mami Wata is often associated with water’s sacred, healing power and with love, wealth, and good fortune. This sculpture’s silver high-heeled shoes were restored following the design of a closely related sculpture photographed in a shrine in eastern Nigeria in the 1990s.

Igbo Artist, Nigeria, Mami Wata, ca. 1950

Lauren Tate Baeza, the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art, discusses Mami Wata in the film above.

This is just one of over seventeen thousand artworks in our collection. The High’s your place for digital content!
How to Stop Being a Prisoner of Other People’s Expectations
By: Margaret Pan
Tags: Relationships, Freedom, Advice, Self, Mental Health

How to Stop Being a Prisoner of Other People’s Expectations

Emotional freedom is your most powerful weapon.

Photo by Fuu J on Unsplash

“I want to be free”.

That’s a phrase you’ve probably heard from many of your friends throughout your life — or one that you’ve said to them yourself.

Freedom can take many forms — financial, career-freedom, freedom in one’s personal life — and most of us crave to achieve it, sometimes without even realizing it. However, there’s only one form of freedom that is essential to your happiness and well-being:

Emotional freedom.

Achieving emotional freedom means breaking free from the chains of other people’s expectations and making decisions and choices based on your own needs. It also means letting go of the fear of not being good enough for others.

Think about it. From a very young age, we are taught to comply with what others think we should do, to follow their example, and to behave in a way that society thinks is good, wise, and acceptable — but might have nothing to do with our idea of happiness.

As philosopher, author, and founder of School of Life Alain de Botton explains:

“We give over our days and much of our evenings and weekends to complying with an agenda elaborated for us by people whose concern with our happiness is at best highly abstract. We put on our blue or grey jumper and sit at a desk and study the plotline of Macbeth or the chemical properties of helium — and trust that our boredom and distaste must be substantially wrong. We then become inclined to extend this attitude into our dealings with the wider world. We assume that what we particularly want should never be the important factor.”

You might not realize it right now, but turning your back on what you really want and trying to conform to the expectations of others will eventually lead to emotional distress, endless stress, anxiety, and even depression.

I used to be a prisoner of other people’s expectations, but with time and a lot of self-work turn, I managed to turn things upside down. Here are some things you should keep in mind that might help you in your own attempt to achieve emotional freedom.
Finance Theory — Market Micro Structure — Non-synchronous Trading
By: Yutong Xie
Tags: Algorithms, Microstructure, Trading, Stock Market

What is non-synchronous trading?

Well, let’s try to understand why synchronicity matters. When you are sitting in a car and staring at other running cars wheels, I believe that you have seen for a short period of time a car is moving forward but its wheels seems rotating backwards. Or in the old movies you have seen the film actually going backward. Or you must have seen a gif with a bird flying but its wings barely flapping. Or you must have seen a gif with a chopper in it, but the propeller seems spinning very slowly or not spinning at all.

The reason why we don’t see the propeller moving is that the frequency of its rotation matches the frequency of this gif, i.e. synchronous.

When looking at the stocks, some stocks will be traded by people until 4 pm everyday but some stocks won’t be traded or very thinly traded after 11:00 am. However, trading will resume the next morning. This kind of non-synchronicity among different securities’ trading activities is referred to as non-synchronous trading.

Why does it matter?

One problem is that it creates inflated standard deviations. Suppose that the last price of stock A today is recorded at 3:00 pm and the last price the next day is recorded at 4:00 pm, then from 3:00 pm today to 4:00 pm is 25 hours of trading. There will be, on average, more price actions for these kind of stocks. When we estimate volatilities of stock returns, we will over estimate the volatilities.

Here is a screen shot of a 1999 academic paper by Greg Kadlec and Doug Patterson. Both are from Virginia Tech.

As you can see, most large stocks last trading time will be after 3:45 pm, but 20% of the small stocks do not trade and only about 40% of them trades until after 3:45 pm. You may wanna argue that this data is too old — pre decimalization, but this kind of phenomena is still important after year 2000.

Another problem is that it will create spurious correlation that is not tradable. If stock A stop trading at 3:00 pm, and if stock B that is highly positively correlated with stock A increases its price from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, then stock A’s price should be very likely to increase tomorrow because that information is not incorporated in price. The problem is that it can be observed in the data, but it is not tradable, because nobody is willing to trade stock A after 3:00 pm. So even if there is observed correlation, it is possible that part of this correlation is not tradable.

What to do?

You will have to live with it. If you want to avoid it in the algorithm, you should focus on large company stocks or liquid ETFs. If the stocks you want to trade has some non-synchronicity issue, then in your back test, try to use the 12:00 price or 10:00 price. Quite some cross-sectional trading rules won’t work if you take the mid day price in the algorithm.
Arizona Capitol Times: Quaker group seeks drug-law reform, treatment to reduce prison populations
By: Creosote Partners
Tags: Sentencing, Arizona, Drug Addiction

Quaker group seeks drug-law reform, treatment to reduce prison populations

More than one-fifth of Arizona prisoners are serving time for drug offenses, according to a new report from a justice…
Mirrors of Life Part 2. A AAMBC Review - The AAMBC Journal
By: Aambc Review Community
Tags: Book Review, Black Books, Book Recommendations, Books, Black Writers

Greetings! We received “Mirrors of Life/Part 2: The Fight for Political Power” by Neal Owen in late September. We were excited to read this book as we knew it definitely mirrored life as we know it currently. We have heard that the first book in this series was excellent as well and couldn’t wait to see for ourselves.

In this book, Derrick Williams, started at the bottom and worked his way up to the top financially through education and wise investments. Under his mother's careful guidance, he has been groomed to uplift the Black community in hopes that they will have better financial status in their own communities and more political pull as well. While things seem to be going well for Derrick and his businesses, he has made a formidable enemy who despises him because he is rich but mainly because he is Black. This person is named Erich Hornsby, who has made it his life mission to start a Fourth Reich, including white supremacy ruling the government.

We enjoyed this book as it was an easy read and kept us interested from the beginning. The different characters were clearly defined so that there was no confusion. The storyline flowed smoothly and kept our attention. We gave it 5 stars. We especially liked how this book “mirrored” the times we’re living in now.
Tixeet // Live Music Crowdfunded
By: Giulio Gola
Tags: Music, Live Music, Blockchain, Ticketing, Dapps

Crowdfund concerts, festivals and tours by pre-selling tickets

Tixeet aims at growing and sustaining the local live music scenes by providing a simple and costless framework for venues and artists to set up and crowdfund their live music events by pre-selling tickets.
Federated Learning Aggregate Method (1)
By: Yuan Ko
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Federated Learning, Programming, Privacy

Federated Learning Aggregate Method (1)

FedSGD v.s. FedAVG

FedSGD v.s. FedAVG

FedSGD It is the baseline of the federated learning.

A randomly selected client that has n training data samples in federated learning ≈ A randomly selected sample in traditional deep learning.

There are two approach:

client compute the gradient and send to server. client compute the gradient, update the model and send back to server.

If we update the model multiple time before we send the model back to the server for aggregation, this method is called FedAVG.

model average v.s. gradient average

Gradient guaranteed the convergence, while model average can’t.

Gradient information has heavy communication since it have to communicate every iteration on client, while the model average has light communication cost.

In extreme case, in which model parameters are update in each model update carried out the locally at the participants and the participant all start with the same initial model weight, the model average is the same as the gradient average.

Isn't it a naive method to average the model weight?

Yes, it is. It will have poorer performance. Therefore, there some method layer-wise aggregation such as FedMA, PFNM. You can find the paper here.

and here

I will find times to write some detial about it.

Want to know more about federated learning?

Architecture of three Federated learning

Federated Learning Aggregate Method (2)(Working on it)

reference

https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-163/fa19/slides/federated-learning.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.05629.pdf

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8940936
Flipping Like Pancakes
By: Violet Detorres
Tags: Trump Administration, Indictments, Mueller, Impeachment, Resistance Poetry

Then came Manafort, who followed in kind

Now he wears an ankle bracelet, that’s got to take the cake

Mueller is the chef, the recipe has been defined
New Q & A Series on YouTube: Submit Your Questions!
Tags: Social Media, Blockchain, User Experience, Eos, Dapps

Our marketing team is starting a new Q&A series on YouTube and will be starting very soon. You can submit your questions directly into the comments and we will be creating weekly videos to answer them.

Here’s the intro for this new series:

We look forward to your questions, stay tuned for the first Q&A video which will be released soon.

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The whole human
By: Dick Millet
Tags: Philosophy, Life Lessons, Future Of Work, Adulting

Remember that last line of Heinlein’s above? Specialization is for insects.

Dedicate your lifetime to one field field of endeavor and you might just find yourself in the same predicament twenty years (or ten, or five) into your career as the horse drawn carriage manufacturer found himself in when Henry Ford rolled the first Model T off the line. The same can be said for the steam engine mechanic or the Java programmer. You have the greatest computer ever designed between your ears. Exercise every single quadrant of it. For your whole life.

As Thomas Wolfe wrote in 1940, You can’t go home again. Why? Because home isn’t the same anymore. And neither are you. The same is true for all the other good olde days. Besides the fact that they were never as good as you remember them, everything else has changed in the interim anyway. Like time, all movement must be forward.

Have you had a conversation with a Millennial lately? Ask them what they want to do for a living. Not many will say “sit in a cubicle at a giant corporation for the next 30 years.” Why? Because they are shitty, soul sucking jobs that leave you wondering where the hell your life went while you were looking forward to the pension they terminated ten years ago. Teaching your kid that success is achieved in that manner is teaching them to live the life you lived. Is that what you really want for them?

Why is adulting so hard? Because the world your parents lived in is gone. We can only teach you what we know, and frequently that knowledge no longer applies to the world you’re living in. Every generation has to learn a new paradigm to be successful. Even the concept of success changes as time passes.

Want to be a whole human? Never let up on learning.

Thank you for reading.
An Aussie Wallaby Encounter My Mother and I Will Never Forget
By: Erin M. Singh
Tags: Tourism, Travel, This Happened To Me, Photography Tips, Australia

An Aussie Wallaby Encounter My Mother and I Will Never Forget

Australia’s new mascot perhaps? Because you don’t get too many photos like this!

Australian female wallaby raisting its paw to greet in return. Image credit: Erin M. Singh

Many years ago, my mum and I decided to take a drive through a small Queensland semi-rural town in Australia.

We pulled over to the side of the road to view some Wallabies on the outside fence of someone’s property.

With luck, the owner of the property arrived as we were getting out of our car and we told him we were taking photos of the wallabies. It was very kind of him to invite us on to his property so we could take better photos.

So we accepted his invitation and silently clicked photo after photo. I needed to get closer to the wallabies and as wallabies are very timid we tentatively took one step at a time.

Not wanting to startle the wallabies, my mother instinctively said in a low voice ‘hello’ and raised her hand up in greeting at the same time.

To our disbelief, one of the Wallabies slowly raises its paw to greet my mother in return.

I knew it was my moment to capture this Wallaby on camera. How often do you see wild animals raise a paw to greet you in return? This was mine and my mum’s first encounter with a Wallaby displaying hospitality.

While snapping some photos of this adorable Wallaby with my then Canon 400 DSLR with a 75–300mm lens, I quietly said under my breath ‘Oh my GOD! Oh my GOD! Oh my GOD.’

My mum couldn’t believe it either and said to me ‘shhh’ out of fear that my excitement would scare it and the other wallabies away.

Settings I used on my Canon 400 DSLR to take this amazing photo were:
Am I Muslim Enough?
By: Sarah K
Tags: Social Media, Relationships, Women, Religion, Bullying

Kafir was a nickname given to me by the Muslim community of Tumblr circa 2009. Someone had found my Tumblr and forwarded it to the Muslim community. I didn’t have much on my Tumblr. I reblogged a lot of cat pictures, talked about my day, and posted pictures of myself. One of these pictures happened to be from a banquet I attended with my best friend. Teal dress. Knee high length. Sleeveless. I was also pretty “blessed” in certain areas. This picture went viral and the haram police came. I had already considered myself agnostic long before this. I was receiving death threats for months it seemed. A lot of “you’re not a real Muslim” “your mother is probably so ashamed” “Allah hates you” — everything.

None of this is new to me.

My parents never had time to sit down and teach me stories from the Quran, or even teach me how to pray. They were too busy trying to make sure my siblings and I had food on our plates. My brothers never had the time either, they all worked full time and went to school full time.

I never doubted my place in Islam when I was younger. I was loved and I was taught how to love. Islam was that to me. My mother would tell me that taking care of plants and animals is part of Islam, and if I help her water the plants then Allah will be so proud of me. She said if I’m nice to my brothers and stay quiet while they study, Allah would help them pass their classes.

At night, my mother told me stories of birds. I saw God in that.

I asked her about heaven and she told me I would have my own Pikachu and as many cats as I wanted to. That’s all I needed to hear.

And that’s the last time I imagined heaven.
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This one formula will make you insanely rich
By: Christian Soschner
Tags: Life Lessons, Rich, Success, Habits, Money Management

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This one formula will make you insanely rich

Thought of the day #7

Back in the 80s, learning new things was a huge challenge. I was always curious about life. I wanted to find out how to world works. Two main questions follow me since I was 7.

Why are some people healthy and others not? Why are some people rich and others are poor?

Growing up in the countryside, the answers of the 80s were not very satisfying to me.

God’s will or Pure luck

I did not buy into that. Both are out of my control. There must be something that I can control and change. That makes me change things.

Now 40 years later, I have found the holy grail to the question.

Why are some people rich and others not?

It is not God’s will. Neither is it luck. People who know how to control their impulses are the ones who get rich in the end. They live their whole life by this one formula. By doing so, they amass tremendous wealth.

The best of them end up in the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, or Warren Buffett. They all practice this one rule or habit daily.

So what is this sophisticated yet simple formula?

Income > Expenses

What? That’s it? But, you mentioned Jeff Bezos. He built Amazon. And…

Yes, of course, creating businesses is mandatory to become the wealthiest person on the planet. But, I am pretty sure he always applied this one rule.

And honestly speaking, most of us do not need to be the wealthiest person on the planet to being happy.

Financial independence…

…is what most people strive for. Doing what you love every day, without having to worry about

Where to get the money from to pay the bills.

The sweet thing is, you can start your journey to financial independence right away, just applying the formula.

Cut back on your expenses right now, and you start your journey to financial independence.

It is the first step.
Drawing Neurons From Sound And Music In Real Time
By: Victor Saenger
Tags: Music, Data Science, Visualization, Programming, Neuroscience

Drawing Neurons From Sound And Music In Real Time

Inspired by Neuroscience, we can start to answer the question: What does music look like?

I know that I am not the only one that, when listening to music, likes to imagine shapes and colors as well as growing and ever-evolving visual patterns. Up until recently, I did not know that music visualization¹ ² was a common thing in creative coding projects. As an attempt to reconcile my neuroscientific and academic background with my current data processing environment, I created an audio and music visualizer that uses the information within audio streams to create a neural forest, all in real time. Here is how it looks after a fragment of “Claire de Lune” from Debussy:

Pay attention to growing speed and patterns and how these follow the music.

NOTE: I am not going do describe detailed mathematics here. If you are interested in knowing more about the algorithm and how it works feel free to contact me! Source code can be found at the end of the text.

The sound Neuron forest in detail

Looking at an original drawing by 1906 Nobel Prize winner Santiago Ramón y Cajal, we can see that a pyramidal neuron looks like this:

Taken from here and part of the collection in Instituto Cajal del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.

The soma in the center (the body of the neuron) has an axon (the wider branch) and a dendritic tree (rest of the smaller branches)³. Through a process called neurogenesis⁴, these specialized cells grow from simple immature somas to intricate mature neurons⁵ like the one we see here, with branches randomly spreading out of the middle soma.

If we could simulate this growing then, it seems that a good idea to do so is by means of random walkers⁶, where in very general terms and without going into mathematical details, the position p of every growing branch b at the step t+1 is randomly chosen. True random walks will generate very intricate dendritic webs (there is no directionality gradient) so it would be wise to change direction based on a probabilistic approach, where all new positions in branching patterns are only changed if that given threshold is passed. Very importantly, we can see from Cajal’s original drawing that the farther away a dendrite or axon goes from the central soma, the thinner it gets and the more intricate branching patters emerge. We can also replicate this again with a probabilistic take, where after a certain axon/dendrite width is passed, we generate a new branch (or walker in mathematical terms). If you are interested into the mathematics of random walks, which are applied in the code, there are many sources that go into more details⁶ ⁷.
Streamlit: Build Your First STREAMLIT Machine Learning Web App for your Data Science Projects
Tags: Streamlit, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Scientist

Moving your machine learning code from your Jupyter Notebook to deploy for stakeholders to access is a crucial task of every machine learning engineer. In today’s tutorial, we will start to learn how we will deploy our machine learning code from our Jupiter notebook by building an interactive web app that can be accessible by our team managers and every stakeholder.

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What Do You Love/Hate About Summer?
By: Lucy King
Tags: Creativity, Writing Prompts, Inspiration, Summer, Writing

What Do You Love/Hate About Summer?

A writer’s prompt: Summertime is the time for sharing stories!

Photo by Swabdesign_official on Unsplash

In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams

Every year I look forward to summer. As the mercury shoots up, the world pauses to take a deep breath. The pace of life slows and laziness gains an air of respectability.

It’s no coincidence this is a “feel good” time of year. Research has proven that summer is good for our health.

Vitamin D is more abundant in our bodies during summer. Besides bone health, vitamin D produces serotonin and dopamine, the brain’s “happy chemicals” that are often low when someone has depression.

We drink more water and have a healthier diet rich in fresh fruits during the summer months. Warm weather has a positive impact on our circulatory system too.

Is it any wonder we are happy and carefree during summer?

Summertime means different things to different people.

For me, it’s a season filled with positive vibes. I’m not on vacation, yet I’m relaxed and connected to the cosmos in many ways.

Each day I wake up and go for a stroll along the river. Dusting cobwebs from my mind, I breathe in the early morning heat. With my trusty parasol in hand, a folding fan and water bottle I keep my cool throughout the day.

In summer I swim regularly in the evenings. After a few token laps, I float gazing up at the moon and stars and tensions slip away. Walking home in flip-flops, it is hard to believe it’s been a regular working day.

Like a cicada, I have discarded my crusty shell and feel at peace with world.

How about you? What do you love/hate about summer?

(Use as many or as few words as you like)

Create your own article or post in the comment section.

Enjoy!

==UPDATE==

Here are some brilliant responses to the prompt so far!

(Tag me and I’ll add your story).

A few of my favourite writers:

Selma, Adam, Diabetic Cyborg, P.G. Barnett, Bridget Webber, Guérin Asante, Bill Myers, Jack Heimbigner, Jesse Wilson, Elle Beau, Vivian Ennis, Dennett, Elle Fredine, Ann Litts, Dana Sanford, Kyrie Gray, Francine Fallara, Elle Rogers, yesim1istanbul, Bebe Nicholson, ⭐ Ryan Justin, Bonnie Barton, Mark Starlin, Heath ዟ, Kris Gage, Jon Scott, Carol Lennox, Stephen Anthony, sleuth1, Celine Lai, Kevin Horton, Agnes Louis, Erik Brown, Hank Eng, Michelle Monet, Linda Smith, Dennett, Jessica Lovejoy, kurt gasbarra, Pierre Trudel, Marta Mozolewska, Louise Foerster, Roz Warren, Justcallmejillybean, Sigourney Humus, Sam Ripples, Shaan Sood, Ida Adams, Vaishali Paliwal, Jagrit Singh, Alan Asnen, HANAはな, Shannon Page, Kathy Jacobs, Jenny Justice, Sylvia Wohlfarth, Sunshine Zombiegirl, Lisa Tomey, Lisa Martens, Miss Wren, Gillian Sisley, Trails of Magic, Elise, Sinem Günel.
Data Science Repo Scaffolding for the Next Generation
By: John Aven
Tags: Data, Machine Learning, Data Science, Evolving Data Science, AI

Data Science Repo Scaffolding for the Next Generation

#3 in the Evolving Data Science Series

Welcome back to the Evolving Data Science series. If you haven’t already read the previous entries, please find them below and read them at your leisure. There is no ‘ordering’ in this series. Today we want to talk about how you as a company, as agents of change, can scale up your data science processes and reach a new scale.

Code Repo Variance

Some of the inherent complexity found in data science comes from the number of different steps that can be taken in any given solution. This generally results in code repositories that vary to a great degree. These code repositories can even vary across a team on a solution-by-solution resolution. Each scientist has their own preference in terms of what they consider a good structure and that changes over time. This can lead to chaos!

While this approach may be fine for smaller teams with a low velocity, this is the essence of technical debt. A simple solution is not always the best; the effort to move away from this approach is often more difficult than the effort it saved upfront for an appropriate and properly scoped/designed solution. Fortunately, this is not the case when it comes to data science; it is straight-forward to move from an ad hoc approach to a repository layout and then to a properly defined scaffolding.

Next-Gen Approach

You may be saying to yourself, or you will after you do some reading, that there is already a solution for this and it’s called ‘cookie cutter.’ Well, you aren’t wrong. In fact, it is a solution, but it is a solution for data science solutions of today and yesterday. It is not designed to help you move to the next generation of data science solutions or the next generation of ML Engineering.

The data science team here at Hashmap has worked on a fresh approach that will help you evolve your data science practice and operate at a scale you previously only wished you could.

We are ready to speak to you, are you ready to evolve? If so, then please contact us and arrange a time to speak about how we can help your organization meet the needs of tomorrow today.

This is part of the Evolving Data Science series.
The Reason I Value Friendship Over Romantic Relationships
By: Phoebe Kirke
Tags: Death, Understanding, Love, Friendship, Vulnerability

The Reason I Value Friendship Over Romantic Relationships

It was a hand that reached out to me that made me understand.

Photo by Hian Oliveira on Unsplash

When my father passed away six years ago, my best friend Lucy held my hand and helped me get through the days and months after he passed. To this day, I am so thankful that it was my lifelong friend having my back during this challenging time.

I remember how she looked at me without judgment, pity, or false compassion at the funeral service. She was right there next to me, the strongest I’ve ever seen her. She knew that I wasn’t and needed her to be. She was there, unwavering, loving. And when it was time to walk to my father’s grave, it was Lucy who held out her hand and said: “Phoebe, we have to walk now.”

It was the most demanding walk of my life. But, I had my angel Lucy walking it with me. Every single step hurt. It was hard to breathe; every single breath I took felt like it was my last. I survived this walk to my father’s grave because I didn’t have to walk alone.

It’s been six years since, and every time I think back to this moment, I have tears in my eyes. I owe Lucy so much, and I am grateful that we are still best friends — I’d like to think it was this moment that made us what we are today. I love Lucy, and always will. At my weakest, she was strong.

I wish everybody on this planet has a Lucy, someone who can make the world a little better and bearable by only looking back and whispering to you, “we have to walk now.”

I think it would make the world a better place.