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Boosting the Data Governance journey with Google Cloud Data Catalog
By: Ricardo Mendes
Tags: Data Governance, Google Cloud Platform, Data Science, Data Catalog, Metadata Management

Boosting the Data Governance journey with Google Cloud Data Catalog

Thoughts on data discovery and metadata management in Google Cloud

Photo by Jesse Bowser on Unsplash

2020 is getting closer, we live the information era, and I believe no one would disagree companies have access to an unprecedented amount of data, thus managing data assets in reliable terms becomes trickier day after day.

By managing data assets, I mean: finding affordable storage solutions, using the most appropriate and up-to-date information for business performance and marketing analysis, granting people the right access levels, and being compliant with new privacy regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA — only to list a few challenges.

Data management related discussions are among top 5 matters at present corporate conversations, and I often see many of them as parts of something bigger, called Data Governance. Although the interest for Data Governance has grown significantly in the past few years, there’s no silver-bullet-solution addressing all of its aspects.

There are principles and best practices to guide companies on this long road. In spite of any high-level guidance one might find, I’ve learned since I started studying about this that identifying suitable tools to tackle each element is something very new for most companies. Having that said, let’s take a look at common Data Governance building blocks:

50 most common words compiled from a bunch Data Governance related documents I’ve read in 2019 (thanks jasondavies.com/wordcloud for the amazing word cloud generator!)

Now, please take a look at Google Cloud Data Catalog’s documentation. Probably you noticed most of the words highlighted in the above picture are pretty much used there. Data catalogs undoubtedly consist of governance foundational tools. This means choosing a reliable cataloging solution might increase the chances to succeed in the whole process.

Let’s go into detail to understand how the product fits into Data Governance context!
Coffee or Tea?
By: Szen Szen
Tags: Flash Fiction, Fiction, Creative Writing, Short Story, Written Tales

Coffee or Tea?

Exchange student meets Diabetic Coma Breakfast

Photo by Brian Suman on Unsplash

Yusif stared at the waitress in her striped diner uniform. She had heavily mascaraed lashes, a gold hoop through the side of her nose, and projected the feeling that she really didn’t mean it when she greeted him and his party with ‘Welcome to Denny’s.’

It was his first week in Calgary. He’d qualified for a scholarship for an exchange program between his university in Palestine and the U of C. The city was friendly and the newness thrilling, but he had yet to find something that qualified as Canadian food.

He’d asked his roommate to accompany him to a traditional Canadian meal, and Jim from Edmonton shrugged and said ‘Let’s go to Denny’s.’

Yusif pored over the menu. There were so many foreign sounding things. French fries for breakfast? Macaroni and cheese with ketchup? That sounded like a terrible combination. He settled for pancakes — the kind he’d seen in pictures before — stacks of flat cakes with sticky syrup pouring over the sides and butter melted over the top. The waitress returned with his mountain of flour, milk, sugar, and a shortcut to a diabetic coma on a plate. He excitedly cut into his stack — his first taste of authentic Canadian food!

The fork dripping with syrup hit his tongue and his eyes squeezed shut. He had never eaten so many different kinds of sugar all together before. When the waitress returned with his drink, he’d forgotten if he’d ordered coffee or tea, and when he tasted it he realized that he couldn’t tell which it was anyway.
Extending Cloudify With Custom Intrinsics
By: Dewayne Filppi
Tags: Tosca, DevOps, Orchestration, Programming, Cloud

Photo by Tekton on Unsplash

Cloudify is highly extensible via its plugin-based architecture. The Cloudify blueprint parser, however, is not extensible. Most of the time, that’s not a problem. You can add functionality by writing custom plugins and workflows. Sometimes, however, extending the blueprint syntax is ideal.

Intrinsic functions in Cloudify, the concept of which flows from the OASIS TOSCA specification, are YAML maps with special reserved keys. For example, the get_input intrinsic function causes blueprint inputs to inserted where it is call, and is typically expressed like:

{ get_input: some_input }

get_input, and other intrinsics also support referencing nested keys in the referenced target. Such nested references are expressed like this:

{ get_input: [ some_input, level1, level2 ] }

Which would fetch someval from this input structure:
How Apartments.com Automated Contextual Linking
By: Jordan Silton
Tags: Machine Learning, Automation, SEO, Technical Seo, Speaking Engagements

Presentation

Contextual links placed inside content are one of the best ways to drive traffic gains for large marketplaces. At Apartments.com, we publish thousands of local guides across the country and found a better way to place and update contextual links both helping renters and search engines.

In this spotlight session from Next10X Boston 2019, we dove into how we identified known entities in existing content, connected them to the right related content, and developed a refresh cycle to ensure links always stay up to date on our site.

We explored a variety of techniques including natural language processing (NLP), an application of AI and machine learning, to hone our internal linking strategy, and we learned a few tricks along the way to scale internal linking that can help your organization too.

Check out the presentation on SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/jsilton/how-apartmentscom-automated-contextual-linking-next10x-boston-2019
Abstractions in Software Are Like Boxes
By: Nikhil Saraf
Tags: Technology, Computer Science, Programming, Software Development, JavaScript

How To Apply Abstractions in Software

Let’s say we have a function to get an address book (phone book):

sample code that gets an address book represented by a map

The function gives us a direct mapping from a person’s name to a number. This seems straightforward and harmless but it is not. It has made the software more complex and hard to maintain!

All developers who use this function need to be aware of its internal representation as a Map<String, String>. When they think about an address book they will always see it only as a Map, but an address book can be so much more!

What happens when a person gets a second phone number?

Using a Map<String, String> to represent an address book is like giving someone a box with the insides exposed. It does not look clean and they have to take extra care of it.

A messy box representing messy code — Photo by RoseBox رز باکس on Unsplash

In reality, it is much better to model this AddressBook (or phone book) as a class, so it looks like a well packaged box. When you hand it to someone you should package it neatly so it is easy to handle.

A cleanly packaged box is easy to handle — Photo by RoseBox رز باکس on Unsplash

Here is an example of how we can convert the above code into a clean abstraction of an AddressBook class:

sample code demonstrating the principle of Abstraction

This is a lot of code — 20 lines instead of 7 lines (excluding comments). Yet, this is a much better model for an address book. We have created a good abstraction.

Where is our Abstraction? — it’s the “AddressBook” class that we created, of course!

Exactly like our example above about a “Home”, an “AddressBook” is an Abstraction. Our codebase now understands the concept of an “AddressBook”, what it can do, and how we can create a new one. Our code can now use this new “word” that we created in it’s conversations.

We should avoid using a Map<String, String> everywhere and instead use an “AddressBook”.

To add many phone numbers for each person we can update the internal representation in the AddressBook class. We can have a new function on the AddressBook class called getFirst(…). We can add complex logic inside AddressBook to handle a daytime and nighttime numbers. The AddressBook can get data from a database or a file and yet the caller does not need worry about these inner workings. All that the callers care about is that it can perform a get(…) call to fetch data using an individual’s name.
Hope in The Churchyard
By: Keno Ogbo
Tags: Life Lessons, Church, Tiny Life Moments, Mindfulness, Hope

A Tiny Life Moment of finding hope in the dreariness of life

Photo by Aleksandr Ledogorov on Unsplash

The moment

The squirrel was not budging. It positioned itself in the middle of the path and watched me. I was the intruder, the outsider. But I was also the human, so I walked on. It scurried away, and I continued down the path towards the garden of hope, an area set aside for the burial of ashes. Right in the middle was the Hope stone. ‘’God is with us so there is hope,’ it read. On one side, and the other. A simple statement shone into my heart.

The Reflection

Life can be bleak, but even in the middle of a drab tedious day, we can find rays of happiness. Sometimes we just have to move.

I had been sitting forever, waiting to be called along with 14 other people. When it was announced that the courts were running late. We were allowed an hour and a half for lunch. Some people opted to stay, the room was comfortable and warm, secure space in the midst of a pandemic. It was cold outside, some shops were open and the high street would be busy.

I considered my choices and made a decision to move.

Halfway along the High Street, I saw a church with an ancient looking churchyard — lichen covered gravestones dotted in the overgrown grass. I decided to stop by. Here are some pictures of the churchyard.
You Need a Credit Card to Rent a Car: A Money Lie We Won’t Stop Believing
By: Rocco Pendola
Tags: Money, Budget, Personal Finance, Credit Cards, Travel

I need to get this out, or I’m going to explode.

You don’t need a credit card to rent a car.

If you live within your means and practice relatively sound personal finance, it shouldn’t be all that difficult to adhere to standard rental car company debit card policies. Consider the important points Enterprise Rent-A-Car lays out:

You must have a round-trip travel itinerary.

When you pick up your car, Enterprise will place all applicable charges (cost of rental, a deposit) on your debit card, reducing the funds available in your checking account.

A few rental car companies require a credit check and one or two other minor intrusions to use debit over credit. They shouldn’t. But I digress.

And, um, like, guess what also? You don’t need a credit card to secure a hotel room.

As Marriott’s terms indicate, there’s no difference between using a credit or debit card at their properties:

This information takes about 12 seconds to obtain via a simple Google search. However, I bet if you asked 1,000 people — “Do you need a credit card to rent a car or get a hotel room?” — 999.99 of them would say, Yes!

We believe this because we want to. Psychologically, it sits better with us. Same goes for conspiracy theories that claim the pandemic isn’t real. You don’t want to stay at home, keep your distance, wear a mask, skip the holiday gathering, or take out as opposed to dine in, so you make yourself believe the demented hype. This thing ain’t real. It’s a power grab perpetrated by public health professionals, doctors, and researchers who have studied and worked their entire lives to answer this call — then seize control over the populace. Quite a doozy.

But I must digress yet again!?

You’re on the hook for a $400 car rental or a $1,200 hotel room bill. Given how we’re socialized to pay for travel — the sociology of travel! — it comes natural to:

charge it

say you’ll pay it off in full

forget about it

deal with the cumulative balance for the rest of your life.

The idea that if we can’t pay for travel up front — with cash (in the form of debit) — we shouldn’t travel sounds like a foreign concept to many, if not most people. I don’t need to get into all the trouble this way of doing life can cause. I discuss the pitfalls of credit cards here and here.

Let’s be clear. There’s nothing wrong with deferring payment. Or paying for something over time. I do it frequently. However, I used to do it and pay interest. Now, I only do it if it’s a fee- and interest-free proposition.

If you plan ahead, you can pay these purchases in reverse. Save a little bit each week or month. Time it so you’ll transfer the money from your savings to your checking and pay “cash” when it’s time to rent a car and/or stay in a hotel.

Turning something that’s absolutely not true into a given (even if it’s only a “given” in your head) can trigger a world of hurt, whether it’s disregarding and mocking public health measures or living beyond your means. Different types of hurt in scope and scale, but meaningful hurt nevertheless.
Farming dApp Crypto Rancho launches on GoChain MainNet + AirDrop!
Tags: Go20, Airdrop, Gochain, Dapp, Blockchain

At GoChain we’re always supportive of any project that drives blockchain adoption, today we’re excited to join a new gaming community! We’d like to introduce our community to Crypto Rancho — a decentralized farming game LIVE on the GoChain network!

Getting Started + Airdrop for New Players

In Crypto Rancho, players can farm, fight and trade their way to the top while earning tokens for their efforts. In the farming direction, players can choose between 22 crops and 5 animals, manufacture resources and craft new items and outfits. All items can be traded in the Crypto Rancho market, where they can add orders to buy or sell goods similar to a real stock market. In the battle section, players can compete in force with other players for bets using the over 400 items available to improve their character and fighting characteristics. Items have the ability to increase player strength, agility, spite and more to improve their chances of winning and to claim rewards. Crypto Rancho offers 500 unique in-game items and is currently available on all browser-capable devices.

For a limited time, Crypto Rancho is doing a community airdop for all new players. To claim your complimentary tokens, use Telegram and go to https://t.me/cryptorancho_airdrop_bot, follow the on-screen instructions to claim 100 CRT and 1 GO token to get you started on Crypto Rancho!
ML06: Intro to Multi-class Classification
By: Vaibhav Malhotra
Tags: Classification, Multiclass Classification

This is a continuation of Mathematics behind Machine Learning Series.

In the last post, we saw how elegantly the maximum margin principle formulates to solve a binary classification task.

B ut for multiclass, the notion of maximum margin is harder to formulate. So the question of how can we reuse the 2-class formulation for k classes.

One-vs-Rest (OvR): for each class k train an SVM that is expert in classifying k (one) versus non-k (the rest) meaning we have to create a binary classifier for each class k, which is an expert in separating that class(k) from all the other classes.

One-vs-One (OvO): for each pair of classes (k, k’), train an SVM that is expert in classifying k versus k’.

In either case, make multiclass predictions by combining individual binary predictions.

One-vs-Rest

Let’s take an example of a 3 class classifier, for OvR we need 3 SVMs each of which is an expert in separating 1 class from the other 2. Let see a visual example below:

OvR SVM with linear kernel

We can 3 SVMs one for blue, one for orange, and one for green class. Each SVM is trained on binary data, meaning that it’s task is to separate its class from all the other classes. The heatmap below shows the heatmap for individual SVM.
Changing the Status Quo
By: Flannery Wilson
Tags: Philoosphy, Postmodernism, Theory, Higher Education, Professor

Although I appreciate the value of a traditional liberal arts education, I resisted critiquing the status quo for a long time because I was worried about pissing people off.

I don’t worry much about that anymore.

Right now, we are witnessing the death of an idea. But it’s the beginning of a new idea, transformed into something we can be passionate about again. With our students and in our own work. These two things go together.

These issues have shaped not only my own career, but the careers of a great majority of you. If 75 percent of faculty are really adjuncts, then I know you’re reading his right now.

This journal is a culmination, so to speak, of everything that has come before it. The aim of this journal is to breathe life into new ideas.

I can’t do this alone. Join me. I need your help. Together we can change the status quo and leave the B.S. behind. It’s time to take our careers — and our lives — into our own hands.

Let’s shine light onto the obscurity and shake the jargon out of our mouths and pens.

— F.W.
Every time I see a wishing star
By: Kathy Jacobs
Tags: Poetry, Chalkboard, Wish, One Line Poetry Prompt

My wish list is the same: Peace Health Love Laughter A forever love For the world And all who live upon it

Share your own one-line poem on the theme as a response to this post, or write a stand-alone piece if you prefer. Tag your piece “One Line” and, if you have a stand-alone poem, be sure to leave a link in the response section below.

FYI: Responding to this or any Chalkboard prompt adds you to the prompt notification list.
LinkerCoin co-founder Jeunggon Mun speeched at Bitcoin Russia 2018.
By: Exnomy X Linkercoin
Tags: Linkercoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

LinkerCoin co-founder Jeunggon Mun speeched at Bitcoin Russia 2018.

リンカコイン・ムンジョンゴン代表´ビットコインロシア2018´で講演

The LinkerCoin foundation announced that Jeunggon Mun who was invited as a special guest at Bitcoin Russia 2018 Global Blockchain&Fintech Forum that was hosted in Moscow in 21th of February, gave a lecture on ‘Centralized and Decentralized Exchange(Dex)’ on blockchain technology.

The core developer of LinkerCoin project Mun introduced cryptocurrency and technical features of Dex as well as LinkerCoin project. This project includes Linker system that allows fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies mutually tradable and would link independent cryptocurrencies. Mun also informed current situation of Korean cryptocurrency market and introduced global cryptocurrency exchange Bitnaru and CoinX of LinkerCoin foundation.

Summit level of speakers participated in Bitcoin Russia 2018 hosted by HOQU known as decentralized affiliate marketing platform. The forum contained discussion on blockchain, Fintech technology, mining and ICO as well as global legal regulation and trends.

Over 1300 businessmen and experts participated in this forum globally. Special guests who drew attention include Sirin Labs, Xriba as well as Jeunggon Mun from LinkerCoin foundation. Other business-associated summit experts exchanged their opinions on blockchain and current ICO trend.

Meanwhile, LinkerCoin accomplished a partnership with HOQU and currently advising for the forum hoster. Besides that, LinkerCoin partnered with global blockchain business Aeron, UTRUST, MITTO and SkyCoin internationally. Natiaonlly, LinkerCoin concluded MOU with Chosun university and partnership with UNIST.

リンカコイン(Linker Coin)は自社ムンジョンゴン代表が先月21日、ロシア・モスクワで開かれた´ビットコインロシア2018、グローバルブロックチェーン＆ピンテックフォーラム´でスペシャルゲストとして招かれて´暗号通貨取引所と脱中央取引所(DEX;Decentralized Exchange)´をテーマとしてブロックチェーンの技術について講演した。

リンカコインプロジェクトの中核開発者であるムンジョンゴン代表は同フォーラムで、暗号通貨と脱中央取引所の技術的特徴とリンカコインプロジェクトを紹介した。”リンカコインは暗号通貨、実際の通貨を相互取引できるようにする連結(Linker)システムであり、独自の暗号通貨を連結する計画”と明らかにした。ムン代表はこれとともに韓国暗号通貨市場と取引所現況を知らせて、リンカコイン財団のグローバル暗号貨幣取引所ビットナル(Bitnaru)とコインエックス(CoinX)に関しても紹介した。

分散型連携マーケティングプラットフォームホクォ(HOQU)の主催で開かれた´ビットコインロシア2018´には世界トップクラスの講演者らが大挙参加した。ブロックチェーンとピンテック技術や採掘とICOについての紹介は勿論、世界各国の法律規制や動向が具体的に議論された。

今回のフォーラムは全世界から約1300人に達する関連企業人や専門家らが参加した。 注目を集めたスペシャル・ゲストたちはリンカコイン財団のムンジョンゴン代表をはじめ、シリン・ラブス(Sirin Labs)、エックスリバー(Xriba)などが演説に乗り出した。また、世界各国の専門家で構成された講演者らが参加してブロックチェーンおよびICO最新動向について意見を交わした。
Which JavaScript frameworks should you learn?
By: Samer Buna
Tags: Technology, Coding, JavaScript, Learning, Programming

Let me first define what I think a coding framework is because the word is debatable. I think a framework is a library that defines structures about every aspect or layer that can make the task of creating applications easier. By layers, I mean things like databases, models, controllers, views, presenters, networks, etc..

Frameworks try to solve most of the big and known problems that are usually encountered by their applications. They have built-in design decisions that you do not need to worry about. They also have carefully-crafted guidelines.

Good frameworks also have smart defaults and follow the convention over configuration concept. The leader of this is the Ruby on Rails framework, which is one of my favorites. In JavaScript land, the leading JavaScript frameworks out there are Angular and Ember.
Spotify Dataset หาสไตล์เพลงสุดปังปุริเย่ ด้วย Data analytics *
Tags: Botnoi Classroom, Botnoi

This publication consists of articles related to Data science and AI written from Botnoi’s data scientists and students.

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Analyzing Top Baby Names in the US (1910–2012) — A Data Visualization
By: Avneet Ghuman
Tags: Data Analytics, Tableau, Data, Data Science, Data Visualization

This data visualization and analytics assignments was made with the purpose of analyzing Top Baby Name trends in the United States from 1910–2012. As small and minute as the dataset appeared to be, we came across so many vital trends that really told us a lot about American culture, demographics, and the social transformation that had occurred within the last century. It’s really amazing to see how culture can be traced through baby name records- which is a testament to the power of analytics, data science and how interconnected our worlds really are.

My professor was kind enough to give my team a 100 on this project and encouraged us to market this project on our personal social media pages. So, with that said, below is a Tableau Data Visualization of the Top Baby Names in the US from 1910 to 2012.

Enjoy!
Rescued at Sea: Caring for Refugees and Migrants in Libya
By: International Med. Corps
Tags: Libya, Refugees, From The Field

By Abdelkarim Saleh, Distribution Officer, International Medical Corps Libya

We are always on alert for a call from the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR. They notify us when a boat with refugees has been rescued and our task is to deploy immediately to assist survivors.

I’m a member of International Medical Corps’ sea rescue team, based in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. We work with UNHCR and the Libyan Coast Guard to provide medical care and other relief to refugees and migrants who have been rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy. The journey is both longer and far more perilous than the Eastern Mediterranean crossing between Turkey and Greece that so many chose before authorities last year began blocking refugee flows from Greece to countries further north in Europe. During the first five and one-half months of 2017, more than 1,700 refugees have died attempting the Libya-Italy crossing.

The rhythm of sea rescues varies significantly. Sometimes we only respond to one in a month, but there are other periods when we can be involved in 10 sea rescues in a signal month. It all depends on the weather and sea conditions — which is why the summer months are the busiest.

The port becomes chaotic and crowded when a boat carrying migrants is rescued by the coast guard. There are men, women, and children of all ages and nationalities. Some are crying. Others are stoic. All look exhausted — the ordeal of the long, dangerous and desperate attempt to reach Europe etched into their faces.

For us, it is emotionally taxing work. There are times we feel happy to help deliver them from danger, but there are other occasions when we can feel the total despair for those who lost loved ones on the attempted crossing. No matter what I confront, I always feel I have to give as much as I can for as long as I can to help these survivors who have risked so much.

Our role at International Medical Corps is to provide health care and distribute clothes and other basic relief supplies to those who have been rescued. We provide hygiene materials, blankets, and refreshments, while our medical team administer check-ups as soon as refugees come ashore, then treat people as needed. We transport any of those serious injured to the nearest hospital for higher-level care. Many need psychological support to help them process what they have gone through — both in their homeland that led them to flee and what they experienced during the oft-harrowing journeys that brought them here.
Symfony / Doctrine — update a record using models
Tags: Symfony, PHP

The Doctrine manual is really, really confusing in places. If you want to do something as simple as updating a record, the examples suggest that you use Doctrine_Query::create() . This doesn’t make a lot of sense, because we only want to manipulate the model, we shouldn’t have to even look at a query. Assuming you have the primary id of the record in question, you can do the following to easily modify a record:

[sourcecode language=”php”]

$myobj = new Doctrine::getTable(‘modelname’)->find($request->getParameter(‘my_id’));

$myobj->property = ‘New Value’;

$myobj->save();

[/sourcecode]

This is really straightforward, but if you don’t include the find() inline with the getTable() call, you’ll get an obscure “Unknown method saveTableProxy” error, which there seems to be no documentation for anywhere on the internet. It only took a couple of hours of trial and error to get this figured out.

In general, I’d still recommend Doctrine as an ORM, but the lack of consistent and clear documentation, with dreadfully obscure object methods, make for a very steep learning curve.
How to pick your first programming language
Tags: Programming, Beginner, Coding, Programming Languages

Picking the proper language for you: My case

I started learning to code 6 years ago with C. Until the next month where I (well, my class) moved to C++. Then PHP. And Javascript. All in 3 months.

And when I said I started learning, I mean we barely knew how to program after 3 months.

Why? Because when we learn the basics of one language, we moved to the next one. Just learning to do the same things (variables, creating classes and functions, conditionals) over and over, in the shiny new language.

That was a waste of time.

But then, I went to study (to the equivalent of Technical college: Two years) and I did the very same.

I have learnt Javascript, PHP and Java, but then I found articles/Youtube videos recommending to learn a new language, because the ones I was learning were dying.

And so I did. But then, a new, flashy language came. Or maybe a new Framework.

So I forget all I have learnt for the last month, to learn the new thing. I keep doing that for almost a year: Python, Javascript, Java, Angular, Ionic, C#, Unity…

Maybe you are looking at what employers are looking for in job applications, and you feel scared by the number of requirements, as I did.

I wanted to learn every language to have a chance to send a resume. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. I was doing the same again: Learning the bare basics over and over again, but with different languages.

I was fluent in doing basic things in many languages.
Cheat-sheet for Google Colab
By: Tanu N Prabhu
Tags: Documentation, Data Science, Programming, Markdown, HTML

Lists

As we all know there are two types of lists:

Ordered List Unordered List

As the name suggests an ordered list has an order (1, 2, 3,… or other). But an unordered list has no order, as shown below.

Ordered and Unordered list in Markdown

In markdown for the ordered list, you can straightaway just type numbers like 1, 2, 3, and so on . But for the unordered list, you can start with a * and this intern creates a bullet list.

Image Credits to Author (Tanu Nanda Prabhu)

HTML

We can use the HTML tags to play with the lists as shown below:

Ordered list

In the ordered list there are normal list, type 1, A, a, I, i types as shown below:

Normal list

Use the ol tag and for the list contents use the li tag as shown below:

Image Credits to Author (Tanu Nanda Prabhu)

Type = “1”

Just add type = "1" inside the ol tag this will create an ordered list of 1, 2, 3, and so on. The list items will be numbered with numbers (default).

Image Credits to Author (Tanu Nanda Prabhu)

Type = “A”

Just add type = "A" inside the ol tag this will create an ordered list of A, B, C, and so on. The list items will be numbered with uppercase letters.

Image Credits to Author (Tanu Nanda Prabhu)

Type = “a”

Just add type = "a" inside the ol tag this will create an ordered list of a, b, c, and so on. The list items will be numbered with lowercase letters.

Image Credits to Author (Tanu Nanda Prabhu)

Type = “I”

Just add type = "I" inside the ol tag this will create an ordered list of I, II, III, and so on. The list items will be numbered with uppercase roman numbers.

Image Credits to Author (Tanu Nanda Prabhu)

Type = “i”

Just add type = "i" inside the ol tag this will create an ordered list of i, ii, iii, and so on. The list items will be numbered with lowercase roman numbers.
June Earnings Newsletter
By: Medium Formatting
Tags: Blogging Tips, Newsletter, Earnings, Medium Partner Program, Medium

June Earnings Newsletter

Blogging Guide Monthly Newsletter Volume 12 — Published July 10, 2020

Hello everyone!

This is the 12th monthly newsletter from our Medium publication, Blogging Guide.

It crazy to think that this newsletter and its data collection features have been running for an entire year! Thank you for reading and for your support!

This newsletter is intended to help Medium writers by providing up-to-date Medium writer earning data, useful Medium guides with the latest tips and tricks, and a selection of articles (both from myself and other Medium Writers).

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This group was created so that Medium writers could share their articles and discuss making money as a writer on Medium. This group is run by Medium Blogging Guide, Casey Botticello, and Linda Williams.

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In addition to insightful subscriber-only posts, you will receive access to several of my custom digital products ($250+ value), for free, and gain access to my private Slack channel for bloggers!

Now, onto the interesting stuff!

Medium Partner Program Monthly Earnings Data

I have been keeping track of Medium Partner Program monthly earnings data, through a post that is updated monthly as a resource to writers.

This article is updated monthly and can be found here:

Here are some other stats Medium included on their Partner Program as of June 2020:
「再寫韓國」讀後感 - 地獄朝鮮的真實樣貌
Tags: Reading, 地獄朝鮮, Medium, 陳慶德, 再寫韓國

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What is love?
By: Ana Martins
Tags: Self, Aninjusticeprompt, Love, Mindfulness, Life

But what does love mean?

I’ve always found the perfect explanation for the concept of the word love in its Portuguese form — amor.

In Latin the word for death is mors and the prefix a- can be referred to negation or separation. That means that love — amor — involves denying death, giving life.

Strong roots with a beautiful meaning in every way and that can apply to all types of love, especially to self-love.

It doesn’t mean losing your life for someone (including yourself). That’s not the point. Denying death is giving life but not necessarily to be drained of your life. Quite the opposite. It’s multiplication.

Love can be euphoric and sorrowful, it can imply a storm of emotions but above all, it’s also there in the silent quietness. It’s more than a feeling and more than a group of emotions. Something that always starts inside.

It’s a relationship, an act of faith, a movement of trust.

Why Philautia?

You need to fully love yourself before you can reflect that love onto what or whomever you want. Taking care of yourself is the only way you give proper care to another person. Philautia is selfless, not selfish.

This projection also works the other way around. What annoys you the most in other people is usually what you can’t stand about yourself. Getting comfortable with your flaws is crucial to having more tolerance and acceptance. Going through the process of mindfulness is vital for love.

Accept your darkness as a part of you.

Own it and work on it if you think it needs working, but love it.

Giving yourself life is the only way you can fully love and love is worthy of being reflected on the outside.
Cat Or Fuckboy?
By: Carlos Greaves
Tags: Cats, Humor, Dating, Satire, Fuckboys

Image c/o Pikrepo, licensed under Creative Commons Zero license

Wants to know if you’re up.

2. Hates going out in public with you.

3. Is cuddling with you one minute, then the next minute they’re hissing at you for something that apparently rubbed them the wrong way.

4. Occasionally throws up all over the floor of your apartment at 3 in the morning.

5. Demands to see you and then leaves the second their needs are satisfied.

6. Refuses to interact with your friends and instead spends the entire time staring at the wall.

7. Hides things from you that, by the time you discover them, it will be too late.

8. Eats a diet almost entirely consisting of low-quality meats.

9. Keeps putting their feet on the coffee table despite you repeatedly telling them not to do that.

10. Has you completely convinced that they secretly love you but just don’t have the emotional bandwidth to properly express their feelings.

11. Kills animals for sport and expects you to be impressed by that.

12. Completely loses their temper if you even so much as suggest that they change part of their routine in order to accommodate you.

13. Sometimes makes you wonder if they’re just in it for the food.

14. Tries to follow you into the bathroom every time you go to take a shower but you politely, yet firmly tell them no because you know that once they’re in there they’re probably going to try to do something weird.

15. Is a fully-grown adult that should know better.
Cycle Detection of A Linked List in JavaScript
By: Gulgina Arkin
Tags: Linked Lists, JavaScript, Programming, Floyd Algorithm, Algorithms

Given head , the head of a linked list, determine if the linked list has a cycle in it.

There is a cycle in a linked list if there is some node in the list that can be reached again by continuously following the next pointer. Internally, pos is used to denote the index of the node that tail's next pointer is connected to. Note that pos is not passed as a parameter.

Return true if there is a cycle in the linked list. Otherwise, return false .

Example 1: Input: head = [3,2,0,-4], pos = 1

Output: true

Explanation: There is a cycle in the linked list, where the tail connects to the 1st node (0-indexed).

Example 1

Example 2: Input: head = [1,2], pos = 0

Output: true

Explanation: There is a cycle in the linked list, where the tail connects to the 0th node.

Example 2

Example 3: Input: head = [1], pos = -1

Output: false

Explanation: There is no cycle in the linked list.

Example 3

Constraints:

The number of the nodes in the list is in the range [0, 104] .

. -105 <= Node.val <= 105

pos is -1 or a valid index in the linked-list.

Solution 1: Hashing

Traverse the given linked list and store nodes in Set() object to avoid duplicated value If the duplication occurs, the linked list is a loop, the function returns true After traversed, if no duplicated node is found, the function returns false

Time complexity: O(n). Only one traversal of the linked list is needed.

Space complexity: O(n). n is the space required to store nodes in the Set().

Solution 2: Floyd’s Tortoise and Hare Algorithm

Traverse the given list with two pointers Slow pointer moves by one and fast pointer by two If two pointers meet, returns true , if not returns false

Time complexity: O(n). Only one traversal of the linked list is needed.

Space complexity: O(1). No space is needed, it’s constant.
Ta dose crypto du jeudi 5 avril — La Banque centrale de Russie explore la Blockchain pour réduire sa dépendance à SWIFT
Tags: Russie, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

"I Don't Want This Billion Dollars" Says MT Gox Former CEO Mark Karpeles

The goxing never ends. Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of once the biggest and only crypto-exchange, is going around to…
How an Autistic Child Changed the Way I Saw the World
By: Samantha Blake
Tags: Children, Life Lessons, Education, Teaching, Autism

I never thought I could love a child so much who wasn’t actually mine. But he was the one that changed me. He was the one who showed me that hope, perseverance, and moments of magic — however small — can change everything.

More than anything else, he showed me first-hand that you should never underestimate something or someone just because you don’t understand.

At that time, I was working individually with autistic children as a behavior therapist. At the autism center where I worked, parents would drop off their children for sessions, typically one-on-one with a therapist or speech pathologist, but sometimes we also worked in group sessions.

I was involved in the preschool program but still had my own individual clients. This meant I was there to support him through any behaviors (such as tantrums or peer aggression) he had during the session, while still integrating him into the social activities that his peers were participating in.

The preschool program was small — only about five kids in the room, all on the autism spectrum, and each with their own therapist to assist them during class. The teacher ran each activity, integrating things typically learned in preschool, while also focusing on motor skills and sensory stimulation.

And we, the therapists, were there to assist with behaviors and any modifications each child needed to help them best learn.
BTC and USD Dilemma
By: Mitchell Stulken
Tags: Money, Investing, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Paying attention to USD (US Dollar) price or even how much USD you have made with an investment is not what you want to do.

Ya, I know. This does not seem right. Don’t I want to make more cash?

Yes you do, but not how you think. Especially when investing in alt coins (mainly any coin other than Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Litecoin.)

When you purchase an alt coin, you buy it with Bitcoin. I know you can use other coins as well but for this example I am using Bitcoin.

Then when you sell your alt coin, you sell it back to Bitcoin NOT USD. To cash out into USD, you have to convert it to Bitcoin first.

This is important to remember.

An example. I invested in Power Ledger and in a couple days I had made $50 on this investment. At the same time I had actually lost Bitcoin.

So if I had sold at that exact moment I would have actually gotten less Bitcoin back than what I used to purchase Power Ledger with.

If I did sell, taking less Bitcoin, I would have had to convert that Bitcoin to USD right away to make my $50. If I did not convert it to cash, I would lose money on this investment because of losing Bitcoin.

This happens when Bitcoin moves higher than your alt coin.

Think about it like this. If you have a coin that is worth $0.01, and it doubles to $0.02, but Bitcoin also doubles, then you have not gained anything.

If it has grown percentage wise more than Bitcoin, then the difference in percentages is your earnings.

Your choice when investing.

Do you want to focus on USD or accumulating more Bitcoin?

I personally am trying to accumulate Bitcoin. I see Bitcoin continuing to rise in price, so the more I have the better. But this is up to you individually.

Many other people simply make an increase in USD and then cash out.

But if you are like me and trying to accumulate Bitcoin, STOP paying attention to the USD price. Don’t look at it when buying or selling.

Only pay attention to Bitcoin, or whatever coin you are using to purchase alt coins with.

And now…..
Meditation
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Letters, Peace, Newsletter, Meditation

Meditation is the most common term that we hear today in spirituality to experience mental peace. Many families and professionals nowadays are able to bring peace and stillness to their minds and relationships through the power of meditation.

“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”– Anonymous

Yet, there are millions of individuals who do not realize the importance of meditation. Because they have not fully understood the concept of meditation. Some people believe it as going into a trance, while some think of it as a tool to be used only by Sadhus and Saints.

But, meditation is none of it.

Meditation is an easy technique of mastering the thought patterns of the mind and keeping them under control.

I am discussing today, a two-step meditation technique that I have been following to extract my mental peace.
Beaxy credit and debit card buys of Bitcoin now powered by Simplex
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency News, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Beaxy credit and debit card buys of Bitcoin now powered by Simplex nmesis Follow Apr 21 · 2 min read

You can now use your everyday payment methods on Beaxy to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum! With some of the lowest fees in the industry, Simplex powers convenience enabling you to shop with your credit and debit cards for top tier cryptocurrencies. Beaxy is excited to announce the arrival of this long awaited feature, as they become one of only a handful of exchanges to offer this capability.

Nick Murphy, Beaxy’s Co-President, had the following to say about the partnership, “Credit and debit card purchases powered by Simplex provide users a new and efficient way to add money to the crypto market. This convenience drives access and adoption of cryptocurrencies for larger groups of potential users around the world. The more bridges we can build between legacy systems and the crypto market, the better. It reflects our commitment to building an exchange built on revolutionary technology, driven by convenience, and backed by peace of mind.”

Buying Bitcoin with credit and debit cards is a part of Beaxy’s broader effort to change the way you trade crypto. Through the company’s partnership with Simplex, a leading global payment processor, they are able to provide fast and easy credit to crypto transactions. Simplex is an EU-licensed financial institution, providing the fiat infrastructure for the crypto industry. Simplex processes crypto-to-credit card payments with a 100% guarantee.

“We are excited to enable our leading on-ramp solution on Beaxy, making the payment process safer and easier than ever before” — said the Simplex Team.

When you’re buying Bitcoin with your card on Beaxy, Simplex makes it easy. With 3 clicks you’re ‘autofilling’ credit or debit card information into Simplex’s easy to use interface; your newly bought cryptocurrency is being sent to your account within minutes after you click “Pay Now”. Open an account today at www.beaxy.com and fund it with your credit or debit card.

Inquiries can be directed to info@beaxy.com
Weekly Roundup: State aid, blessing bags, Lines on the Pines
By: Melissa Riker
Tags: Money, New Jersey, Events, Education, Charity

Weekly Roundup: State aid, blessing bags, Lines on the Pines

Catch up on what happened this week in Medford.

School districts in Lenape region band together to fight cuts to state aid

Six of the Lenape Regional High School District’s eight sending districts have joined together with officials from the high school district to plan a course of action to reverse what officials describe as “drastic” cuts in state aid funding.

According to officials at a community forum at Shawnee High School last week, cuts will negatively impact the K-8 districts in Evesham, Medford, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland, along with the Lenape Regional High School District itself.

All together, officials say these local districts stand to lose a combined total of about $24 million by the 2024–2025 school year.

The full story can be found here.

Cranberry Pines School girl scouts give back with ‘blessing bags’

Fourth-grader Lillian Monacella, fourth-grader Emma Taylor, fifth-grader Lilli Beach, fifth grader Audrey Beckwith, first-grader Nina Tartaglia and first-grader Stella Friedman are pictured with the blessing bags they assembled on Feb. 22. The blessing bags will be donated to The Unforgotten Haven charity, which will then be distributed to the homeless.

Be strong. Be brave. Be a dreamer.

Those are all phrases written by Girl Scouts of Troop 20118 that were placed into “blessing bags” to be given to the homeless.

These fifth-grade Girl Scouts of Cranberry Pines School have been working together with The Unforgotten Haven to provide essential items to be distributed by the charity at its weekly homeless outreach visits to Philadelphia.

Troop 20118 also worked with Girl Scouts in grades kindergarten through fourth grade to guide them in assembling blessing bags on Feb. 22. Together, they assembled a total of approximately 150 bags.

The full story can be found here.

Lines on the Pines: The annual celebration of the Pine Barrens is back for its 14th year

“How could we bring like-minded people together to celebrate and maintain the cultural richness of the New Jersey Pine Barrens?”

This was the question posed by Linda Stanton that started the annual “Lines on the Pines” 14 years ago.

The event was originally formed as a way to bring local authors of the Pine Barrens together to discuss history and folktales of the area.

Over the years, “Lines on the Pines” has evolved into an event that features not only authors, but crafters, photographers, musicians, historians and more, with the common goal of celebrating the unique culture of the Pine Barrens.

This year’s event will be held on Sunday, March 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Stockton University’s Campus Center, located at 101 Vera King Farris Drive in Galloway.

The full story can be found here.
Spilled Milk Senryu
By: James Khan
Tags: Poetry, Creative Writing, Milk Carton Haiku, Haiku, Humour

Inspired by Joe Váradi and Harper Thorpe’s shortened haiku form of MILK CARTON HAIKU here are the upturned remains of spilled milk philosophy.

Beginning with the 4–5–4 syllable structure for the first two verse the form then deprecates by one syllable per line much like the volume of the upended receptacle as the milk ruins your laminate flooring.

Spilled Milk Senryu

when lightning strikes

the tall steeple falls-

church with no point

yesterday’s suit

an expensive skin-

today’s laundry

drunken art

limping Lautrec-

much Tolouse

cactus

gives water-

takes blood

bees

sting hard-

once
Giao dịch ký quỹ — Tiền về túi, xe về nhà — Danh sách TOP 20 cuối cùng
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Vietnam

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