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Is it safe to put your laptop in a bike basket?
By: Conner Hunihan
Tags: Citizen Science, Commute, Sensors, Accelerometer, Berkeleyischool

While the average gravitational force registered around 1.5–2 times Earth’s gravity, there were routine spikes of 5 and 6, topping out at the occasional 7 and 8.

Looking a reference table for context, these numbers are alarming. My favorite Gravitron amusement park ride creates a 2.5–3 g environment for riders, roller coasters boast 3.5–6.3, and the Apollo 16 crew apparently were subjected to 7.19 g during reentry.

So…my laptop was subject to more force on my ride than Apollo 16 on reentry?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force

However, there is a difference between point force and sustained force. While a pilot on the Apollo 16 might experience a force of 7.19 g upon reentry, it is the duration of that force acting on the pilot’s body that causes damage. In shorter durations, significantly higher g-forces are bearable. In 1954, Colonel John Stapp experienced 46.2 g for several seconds, and in micro durations of a fraction of a second, accelerations of over 100 g are bearable without significant damage.

A study conducted in 2004 found that many commercially available HDD could sustain over 50 g of point force during operation, with over 350 g, if powered down. SSD drives have no mechanical parts and can sustain ever higher point forces. Intel’s 530 Series of SSD are rated at 1500 g at 0.5 msec.
A Warning to First-Time Remote Workers
By: Max Albert
Tags: Work From Home, Work Life Balance, Software Development, Remote Working, Remote Work

A Warning to First-Time Remote Workers

Why “forced” distributed teams are not indicative of what remote work is usually like

Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash

In the wake of a pandemic, many companies are looking at remote work for answers.

It’s easy to assume remote work will be a “plug and play” solution to this crisis. Remote work keeps employees safe and productive as well.

Unfortunately, my prediction is that many workers will have a miserable first-time experience. It’s not going to be easy to get back to the same productivity that they’re used to.

Jarring cultural changes, faulty VPN, and the backdrop of our remote work will cast a shadow on the success of other distributed work. My fear is that “working from home” is going to get a bad rap.

The truth of the matter is, this is a scary and bizarre time. This is not indicative of what it’s usually like to work from home.
Uber & Uber Eats — Lower Fees & More Availability — Coincards.com
By: Mike Olthoff
Tags: Blockchain, Gift Cards, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Uber & Uber Eats is now available at a lower fee, in the denomination of your choice ($15-$150). Never out of stock and delivered to you automatically after only two confirmations on the blockchain.

Want it even faster? — Pay using the Bitcoin Lightning Network and get your Uber & Uber Eats gift codes instantly!

Exchange your Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, DASH, Dogecoin, Monero, DAI, USDC and more for an Uber/Uber Eats gift card today 🙂
Northern VA! Meet Gus and Christofi!
Tags: Hvac, Internet of Things, Northern Virginia, Home Improvement

This father-son team is your new go-to HVAC team! For the past 8 years Cosmos Heating and Cooling has been operating as a multi-generational family business. Gus and George thrive on unending dedication, commitment to quality, and honest hard work. With a belief in outstanding customer service Gus and George are ready to treat you like a member of the family.

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Maximum Number of Coins You Can Get
By: Omar Faroque
Tags: Rust, Vec, Max Num Of Coins, Leetcode

There are 3n piles of coins of varying size, you and your friends will take piles of coins as follows:

In each step, you will choose any 3 piles of coins (not necessarily consecutive).

3 piles of coins (not necessarily consecutive). Of your choice, Alice will pick the pile with the maximum number of coins.

You will pick the next pile with maximum number of coins.

Your friend Bob will pick the last pile.

Repeat until there are no more piles of coins.

Given an array of integers piles where piles[i] is the number of coins in the ith pile.

Return the maximum number of coins which you can have.

Example 1:

Input: piles = [2,4,1,2,7,8]

Output: 9

Explanation: Choose the triplet (2, 7, 8), Alice Pick the pile with 8 coins, you the pile with 7 coins and Bob the last one.

Choose the triplet (1, 2, 4), Alice Pick the pile with 4 coins, you the pile with 2 coins and Bob the last one.

The maximum number of coins which you can have are: 7 + 2 = 9.

On the other hand if we choose this arrangement (1, 2, 8), (2, 4, 7) you only get 2 + 4 = 6 coins which is not optimal.

Example 2:

Input: piles = [2,4,5]

Output: 4

Example 3:

Input: piles = [9,8,7,6,5,1,2,3,4]

Output: 18

Constraints:

3 <= piles.length <= 10^5

piles.length % 3 == 0

1 <= piles[i] <= 10^4

Solution:

If i want to gain max, i have to take the max each time of my turn. Since Alice will pick the max, i will take second max in each term.

What about my third friend, I will give him the smallest always.

Here is my rust solution:

Time complexity: For sorting: nlogn and to iterate over less than n/2; So we can say n/2+nlogn more precise. In general we can say nlogn.
Never ask a goth the darkest thing they can think of.
Tags: Philosophy, Comics, Goth, Humor, Life

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Affordable City Flights
By: Pravin Raju
Tags: Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Airdrop

Blockchain marketplace for urban air taxi

Mcfly.aero

McFly is a token and a community connecting:

Manufacturers — Provide aerial vehicles with Blockchain.aero software.

Entrepreneurs — Setup chargers, parking lots and piloting aerial vehicles.

Passengers — Use McFly app to request flights with one click.

Pricing is simple, transparent and fair, based on the grid’s load, transactions are made in McFly-tokens on the Blockchain.aero platform.

1 minute of flight will require 1 McFly-token for the Vehicle to work, plus other devices on the grid will also charge for their services (electricity, lading, maintenance).

Additional costs depend on how Entrepreneurs compete on the grid. Passengers decide how much they are willing to pay to be served first at current load. The more Entrepreneurs in your city — the lower the prices.

Get McFly-tokens now to save more than 90% later — Visit McFLY.aero for more details

The earlier you’re in, the more reward you’ll get. You can also use McFly to pre-tokenize the service your future connected devices will provide to the grid.

Stay tuned

Visit — Blockchain.aero and Mcfly.aero
Market Update: November 7th
By: Avi Felman
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Cryptoam, Bitcoin

Quick Take

Direction: We’re currently in one of the tightest ranges BTC has experienced since the bear market of 2014. BTC volatility has plummeted and we’re at the lowest point ever on the .BVOL index since BitMEX started running calculations back in Feb 2017.

Bitcoin dominance peaked at about 55% this cycle, and has slowly trended down as select alt coins have been popping off. We’ve seen the addition of two alts, ZRX and BAT to Coinbase, both experiencing 30%+ pops due to the listing. I’d expect similarly positioned alts to perform well, as alt coins generally outperform in times of low BTC vol.

Bitcoin volume has declined dramatically since it’s December peaks, and over the past two months BTC has lot a decent amount of volume to alt coins as speculators seek higher returns (see: flight to risk-on assets during stable periods).

Charting BTC in this range offers little insights, so I am just including the chart to indicate the key levels we need to break on high volume to indicate direction. On balance volume shows that there has been significant accumulation though, which is a bullish indicator. I’m leaning towards a bullish retest of 6500 at this time.

Key Support: 6320, 6250

Key Resistance: 6410, 6460

Actions: During this time, I would suggest trading alts — or trying to play both sides of the tight range if you are scalping BTC. Special situation/event driven alpha is the best alpha to chase in times of sideways actions.

Playing actions such as suspected listings, main net launches, news announcements and forks will likely be the best way to trade these markets for the next few weeks until volatility returns. I’ll be picking up XLM and ZEC as potential Coinbase additions, as well as accumulating low cap coins which show promising roadmap results, and have market caps below their ICO raises (there are a lot…)

Fear & Greed

Fear and Greed is back! And we’re decidedly neutral, leaning greedy. This is skewed heavily by the long/short ratio and momentum, as strength, breadth and speculation are all fearful. Seeing as momentum is being skewed by the recent ranging, I would consider this an overall bullish indicator.
Cryptoverview — Your overview for crypto
By: Sascha Becker
Tags: Bittrex, Cryptocurrency, Trading, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Cryptoverview.com is our new project to bring more insights into your cryptocurrency portfolio and enhance the trading experience. It will visualize your assets in a donut graph, display your grows in a time graph, list trending currencies, display your individual assets with indicators, show closed and open orders. There are many more features yet to come.

Cryptoverview is still in a very early stage. If you run into problems or have something to say feel free to drop us a mail over at info@wertarbyte.com.

In order to use Cryptoverview you need to connect your Bittrex account. For more information about that see this tutorial:

Cryptoverview currently only supports Bittrex. More API connections are planned.

The overview graphs

At first you will be greeted by graphs displaying your current state. We offer a donut graph and a timeline chart with BTC and USD toggles at the moment.

Donut Graph

We crunch your portfolio values and display them in a portioned view. Now you can see which currency has which share of your total value.

Donut Graph

Timeline Chart

See your total value over the last days calculated by past buy and sell orders. Hover over a day to see more details on asset splits and its values.
Teachers, how can you improve your review game?
Tags: Staffroom, Education

Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash

If you ask a teacher virtually anywhere in the world to describe their go to structure for a 40 minute lesson, many will say that they begin with a few minutes of review.

But is that actually a good idea?

In Barak Rosenshine’s guide to research based strategies all teachers should know, strategies #1 and #10 suggest that a week’s worth of instruction for a single subject should look like this:

This is definitely better than no review.

Rosenshine provides robust evidence from three types of sources — in support of devoting 30% of instructional time to review. Rosenshine’s principles are a synthesis of decades of research on “how the mind acquires and uses information, the instructional procedures that are used by the most successful teachers, and the procedures invented by researchers to help students learn difficult tasks.”

So, what’s the next step for a teacher to improve their approach to review?

It’s possible that devoting even more time to review would help, but this isn’t necessarily feasible for a typical teacher.

What is within reach? Interleaving.

No matter what age or subject you teach, the research on interleaving suggests that optimising for long term retention involves having question types and exercises mixed up in an unpredictable way.

Why does interleaving help retention? Because it requires students to look at an item or task and really think about what they are supposed to do — as opposed to being on autopilot and following the same procedure to solve 10 problems in a row.

How can you improve your approach to review?

Find ways to insert the review items you’ve already planned into unexpected places — like in the middle of a problem set practicing new material — instead of always blocking it off as a separate segment of the lesson.
ZeroBank Pre-ICO is now live with 15% bonus
By: Zerobank - Your Local Currency
Tags: Blockchain

Since ZeroBank’s debut, it has never been this HOT!

We are pleased to announce the closure of our Private Sale with a total of 125,000,000 ZB tokens SOLD which made us officially surpass our SOFTCAP.

And here is the next big news you have been longing for:

No more waiting! ZeroBank PRE-ICO is HERE!

Pre-ICO time: from 12th July 2018, 00:15 AM to 30th July 2018, 23:59 GMT+8 ​

to Minumum contribution: 0.1ETH

Bonus at: 15%

Why should you participate in ZeroBank PRE-ICO?

ZeroBank is the most feasible ICO project in 2018 in the money exchange and remittance market utilizing blockchain, smart contracts and sharing economy

ZeroBank is guided and developed by banking and finance experts, entrepreneurs who have advanced knowledge as well as business experience in the remittance industry.

ZeroBank targets a promising and growing market, especially the tourism industry with 1.3 billion international tourists arrivals worldwide annually.

ZB tokens are more than just one kind of encrypted currency. After the ICO, you will be able to exchange ZB tokens into fiat currency or trade them on reputable cryto-exchange platform such as BINANCE, HOUBI

We are one step closer to a new world of money exchange and remittance! It’s time for you to join our revolution!

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Legal and Ethical Obligations in Cybersecurity
By: Eric Vanderburg
Tags: Edrm, Ethical, Legal, Cybersecurity, Duke Law

I recently presented at the Duke Law EDRM on Cybersecurity and Law Firm Understanding Legal and Ethical Obligations. Some questions were asked that we did not have time to answer so I am answering them here for those who are interested.

How often should a company perform penetration testing?

It is quite common to perform penetration testing annually and vulnerability scanning at regular intervals in between penetration tests. However, depending on the sensitivity of your data, organization size, and risk profile, penetration testing may need to be performed more often. The frequency of testing should be proportional to the risk.

Is there a short list of systems a company should have in place to protect their data? Essentially, what are the four or five core systems that would need to be in place at a minimum?

Some key technical controls include security monitoring, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, antivirus/antispam protection, and data loss prevention. As part of this, a company would want to implement robust authentication methods and strong passwords. A comprehensive protection strategy includes not only technical controls, but also policies, procedures, and training.

What are some of the most common cybersecurity incidents that companies should be prepared for?

Employee theft of IP

Data breach

Ransomware or other malware

Business email compromise

Password compromise

What data should organizations be preserving in case an investigation is necessary?

Retain server, network device, application, and firewall logs for at least 18 months. Ensure that logs are stored in an alternate location so that clearing the log on the server does not eliminate the evidence. Enable logging of file access, database changes, and database access. It is best to have this data in a system that will normalize log fields and synchronize log time codes.
API Management and DevOps
By: Tj Blogumas
Tags: Automated Testing, Api Gateway, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Api Management

API Management and DevOps

Integrate a flawless API DevOps lifecycle with these tips

It is a fairly common application architecture these days to have several APIs running on a platform somewhere helping create flawless integrations between multiple systems. For businesses with a mature API platform, they have a good API management system in place. New applications are able to self-register and obtain their own API key and secrets and start using the APIs right away.

These APIs are often protected with an API gateway that serves as an intermediate between direct access to the full backend API. This provides a great security layer for both the applications and clients utilizing them.

A common problem starts to arise however when backend APIs change that requires the API gateway platform to update as well. There is a disconnect and tight coupling of two separate systems.
Responsibility — a burden. Do we really need to share everything…
Tags: Self Improvement, Faith, Mothers Day, Freedom, Responsibility

Do we need to share everything we do? Has the idea of responsibility become too difficult for us to absorb? Is our life just ours?

There will be many realizations you will have in your life that you can’t defend. Most of them happen when you are a child and have a relatively clean slate. One such thing for me was the nuisance of these ‘days’ that the world insists on celebrating. As a child, I could not base an argument on the commercial and psychological aspect of such futile celebrations, but I just knew that something about them was not right.

Throughout my years I have heard conflicting arguments over the acceptability of such festivities and how they were ‘important’ for a society or a group of people. It’s a tragedy at times the kind of things we give importance to. It always felt irresponsible, this erratic, hollow display of feelings and emotions. The only point in my mind was that why would you want to make a motherless child or a mother who is childless, feel more ostracized than they already do? Why is mother’s day, father’s day important? Is there no responsibility the society has towards each other? Are our needs and wants this misplaced? Here is where I would lose my audience.

Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash

Wanting to live responsibly requires mindfulness, not a surrender. Don’t expose the world to things you wouldn’t want to be exposed to on your worst day — may it be words, actions or sounds. Why pollute the thought process of a bystander just to practice some weak definition of freedom you picked up from somewhere?

For some reason, responsibility has been confused with a burden or lack of freedom. Responsibility is a virtue whose practice only strengthens bonds. It gives birth to love, respect and tolerance for each other. The more people are starting to become irresponsible, reckless and immature in their desire to act ‘freely’, the unhappier and dissatisfied they are becoming with the fragment of the world. Rightly so — they are a part of the problem. Responsibility is about empathy, and you can’t do that if you aren’t prepared to step out of the ‘self’. Not all wrongs and not all harms are visible to the naked eye. The outcomes of some choices have to be pre-empted and avoided even if there is a remote chance that they will cause an innocent person distress.

Life is about simplicity. When the requirements to stay alive are basic, the quality of things on which you thrive improves.

Ethos if life: Live such that no action brings any harm to the society — Nabeel A. Qadeer

Responsibility starts with the kindness you show to yourself first. Often those who are unkind to the world are the ones who don’t value themselves in the right way.

To value one’s self is to live a life of faith. Everything else is seasonal, it will come and go.
Support macOS Catalyst in Your iOS App: Use Pods That Are Not Compiled For macOS
By: Fernando Moya De Rivas
Tags: Programming, Cocoapods, iOS, Macos, Catalyst

Introduction

Are you trying to use Catalyst and port your App to macOS but having trouble compiling CocoaPods dependencies? Are you wondering if it’s worth changing your project configuration by adding new targets and duplicating schemes? If so, keep reading because this is meant for you.

In this article, I’ll tell you how you can easily fix this issue by adding a script to your Podfile that will configure your Pods project so that it can be used with Catalyst.

We’ll start by understanding the problem, I’ll let you know how you can manually fix it and, finally, I’ll share the script as well as some other approaches you can take.

Note that you’ll still need to use:

#if !targetEnvironment(macCatalyst)

// code to be excluded at compilation time from your macOS app

#endif

In those files where you import the pod.
¿Temporada, exposición, proyección? Crea tus eventos y ofrece múltiples funciones
By: Daniela Rivas
Tags: Events, Tickets, Boletia Team, Múltiples Funciones, Cartelera

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Being Present
By: Paul Mulliner
Tags: Mindfulness, Philosophy, Meditation, Spirituality, Consciousness

photo by Jayden Brand on Unsplash

Being Present

Finding now

Our thoughts don’t experience our life.

Experiencing occurs within a conscious space in all of us, an inexpressible field of consciousness existing throughout the Universe.

When we focus our attention inwardly, even for a few moments, we can consciously realize the presence of this cosmic spatial-intelligence and bring its clarity and wisdom into our life.

We can begin to soften the boundaries around our separate sense of self, dissolve our ego slightly and realize the intelligent awareness of the one conscious space in all of us everywhere.

And we can access a stream of intuitive insights that help us live in sync with the field-intelligence that orchestrates the Universe.

We can realize this conscious experiencing-space as a seamless field existing through the boundary of our human body and everywhere around us, inside everyone else.

There’s no difference between the conscious awareness inside each one of us and the conscious awareness inside other people and this realization profoundly alters our experience of living in the world.

The inner awareness-space we find inside ourselves is cosmic consciousness itself, the quiet presence of conscious awareness, prior to all thinking.

As we gently hold a focus of attention in the inner stillness of conscious awareness, we find the usual stream of thoughts about the past, the future, the world, what’s happening on our screens, or what other other people are doing, begins to dissolve away.

We’ve found the endlessly transient now moment, continuously coming into existence within us.

As we sense our own continuous becoming, and know ourselves as a flow-process transforming cosmic energy into all life everywhere, we get closer to understanding the actuality of our world.

The visible Universe is coming into being in a flow of continuous emergence, as cosmic intelligence vibrationally transforms itself into the clusters of energy fluctuations which appear to us as the flowers, trees and human beings of our world.

We’re the living expressions of a field-consciousness in the Universe that’s transforming itself into and experiencing all life everywhere.

We’re a cosmic intelligence mysteriously transforming itself into the precisely orchestrated biochemistry of our bodies, allowing us to live life as a human being.

In a streaming flow of emergence, from the non-visible to the visible, cosmic energy and intelligence are being transformed into the interwoven orchestration of living-cell biochemistry, becoming observable as our own human body.

Cosmic consciousness is becoming more awake to itself, experiencing life within trillions of living beings throughout the Universe.

Each one of us is an unlimited cosmic intelligence, transforming itself into the living form of a human being for the duration of a human life.
CWB initiates fiat hedge and BTC shorts
Tags: Bitcoin

The Account Manager can now hedge funds in fiat and also short bitcoin where possible.

What does this mean?

So far all trading has been against bitcoin. When alts go down then the bot sells to bitcoin. But what if bitcoin is going down too?

Now, the bot can sell to USD or USDT if the exchange allows it. It can also short bitcoin where possible. This means it can earn money off bitcoin going down.

What do I need to do?

Nothing. The feature is switched on automatically for you. There is an option to switch it off if you want.
Why You Should Invest in Emerging Markets
By: Ibillionaire Capital
Tags: Emerging Markets, Economics, Business, Finance, Investing

Why You Should Invest in Emerging Markets

Looking for an opportunity that offers the potential for big rewards with high risk?

Since the early 2000s, Emerging Markets have been a hot investment trend. Could it be a smart choice to jump on the band wagon and allocate some of your funds to Emerging Markets, too?

Emerging Markets can roughly be classified as an economy that is between “developing” and “developed”, where the political growing pains of the region have settled and the country is beginning to focus more and more on economic growth. Roughly 85% of the world’s population lives in emerging and developing markets, so it is an important area of the globe with a huge amount of potential and therefore a key demographic not to overlook.

The opportunity for huge gains is one of the main draws for investing in emerging markets, yet it is important to understand the risks involved if you are investing your hard-earned cash.

With quick economic expansion comes large amounts of volatility. This unpredictability is something to be very wary of, and as a result can mean that investors in Emerging Markets can suffer from sharp swings in portfolio values. Yet with growing levels of consumption and increasing standards of wealth, this phase of a country’s life is ripe with potential, and a country can very quickly experience huge amounts of rapid growth in a short period of time. Hence, as an investor, the gains can be massive!

If you’re willing to sacrifice less security for more of the action, the iBillionaire Emerging Markets Strategy could be a great choice for you. These fast-growing economies can produce stocks that can offer some of the highest returns, and with a little bit of research and understanding, investing in Emerging Markets can provide access to potentially large sums of future wealth.

The Emerging Markets Strategy from iBillionaire is an exciting opportunity for an investor to get exposure to the stocks of companies located in China, Brazil, Taiwan, South Africa, and many other emerging markets. The Strategy offers investments in a combination of countries and in corporations that have a range of market cap sizes, therefore minimizing a little of the risks associated with investing in this area.
Better UX better code with angular reactive forms
By: Yurii Kuznietsov
Tags: Angular, JavaScript, Front End Development, Angular Reactive Form

Angular guid

Better UX better code with angular reactive forms

Reactive forms

We all fill forms for a different reasons. It is hard imagine our life without form. You want to register on this site fill form, you want to attend the concert fill form e.t.c.

Angular has some very handy tools which we could use when we are creating forms.

Let’s create a simple registration form with two inputs and one submit button.

Simple form

At line 5 we define a name of the form (userlogin) and submit action handler (onClickSubmit). ‘onClickSubmit’ is a method which defined in component which takes a form value. In this method we can verify passed data and show error if they not valid. Also every input has an attribute ‘ngModel’, it is very important without it our form will work not properly.

FormsModule must be declared in ‘imports’ section in our ‘AppModule’.

FormsModule on line 17

We don’t want to send on server empty data, we must check them.

Method ‘onClickSubmit’

Verify data in inputs is not a good solution. Instead of doing it lets see what we could use in ‘ReactiveFormsModule’. In this model we will find a couple of handy tools.

First we need to add this module in ‘import’ section in ‘AppModule’.

ReactiveFormsModule on line 18

After that we need to create another form.

Another form

Every field has own formControlName. All fields in this form must be filled instead of check every property, let’s disable submit button if form not valid.

Sometimes we need to check the data on several conditions. In the constructor of Angular ‘FormControl’ we can pass an array of validators.

Validators are set up

If the user has filled the input with incorrect data we must say about it.

Label with messages

Every input has a label which will be shown if user filled input with incorrect data. FormGroup ‘userInfo’ has an array of the controls. Property ‘touched’ tell us when user interacted with input if we don’t use this property in ‘if’ condition user will see this message before he did something. Property ‘invalid’ tell us when data is not valid.

Result

If you need to take a close look on project here is the link.
Snippy
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Humor, Comics, Quarantine, Hair, Quarantinelife

Written by

Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
Updates from Ubcoin Market development
By: Ubcoin. Cryptocurrency Reimagined
Tags: Ubcoin, Ubcoin Product, Ethereum, Ubc, Bitcoin

🔥 We continue to update you on how the Ubcoin Market looks like and how it will function.

❤️ Here are some screenshots from it: the main screen, an item screen, the top-up screen.

💎 UBC tokens are currently traded on three exchanges: COSS, LATOKEN and IDEX. There are more exchanges to come soon.

https://exchange.coss.io/exchange/ubc-eth

https://wallet.latoken.com/market/Crypto/ETH/UBC-ETH

https://idex.market/eth/ubc

🎉 The Ubcoin Marketplace app is planned to be available on stores in mid-September 2018.
Chapter 2: Inquisition
By: Raahul Singh
Tags: Inferential Statistics, Astronomy, Eda, Gsoc 2020, Gsoc

Statistical Hypothesis Testing

A statistical hypothesis, sometimes called confirmatory data analysis, is a hypothesis that is testable on the basis of observing a process that is modeled via a set of random variables. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference. Commonly, two statistical data sets are compared, or a data set obtained by sampling is compared against a synthetic data set from an idealized model. An alternative hypothesis is proposed for the statistical-relationship between the two data-sets, and is compared to an idealized null hypothesis that proposes no relationship between these two data-sets. This comparison is deemed statistically significant if the relationship between the data-sets would be an unlikely realization of the null hypothesis according to a threshold probability — the significance level. Hypothesis tests are used when determining what outcomes of a study would lead to a rejection of the null hypothesis for a pre-specified level of significance.

The Null Hypothesis

In inferential statistics, the null hypothesis is a general statement or default position that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena or no association among groups.

In other words nothing interesting is going on. The data on complexity has no relationship with the data on Flaring Activity.

Our primary work here is to find evidence against the Null Hypothesis.

The Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, the alternative hypothesis is a position that states something is happening, a new theory is preferred instead of an old one (null hypothesis).

For our present study, the alternative hypothesis states that there indeed is a positive correlation between AR complexity and Flaring Activity.

It is this hypothesis that gets proved if we can successfully disregard the Null Hypothesis

I take a statistical approach to determine if the complexity indeed does correlate to Solar Flare Activity.

p-Value

In statistical hypothesis testing, the p-value or probability value is the best probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is correct. A very small p-value means that the observed outcome is possible but not very likely under the null hypothesis, even under the best explanation which is possible under that hypothesis.

A smaller p-value would indicate that the Alternative Hypothesis is more likely than the Null Hypothesis. A small p-value is necessary but not sufficient to disregard the Null Hypothesis.

The task at hand, thus, is to find the correlation between the AR complexity and the Flaring Activity, should any exist, and to find the p-value for the correlation.
Age ain’t nothing but a follower count.
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Fields of Fallow
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Darkness, Light, Dead Poets Live, Poetry, Life

Shadows of stillness in the aftermath of dedicated branches,

grey forms of willows shedding light into salvation,

foundations dried as concrete where blue lakes become,

blades of grass have shriveled underneath lightning superb,

it is this constellation that dander skies hide from humanity,

it is this dark metaphor that consumes.

Reflections of trumpeters, orchestrating finer sounds,

stillness in fields of lavender as jasmine fills molecular structures,

being is the comfort that leaves a trajectory of past tense,

thereby filling empty cups, golden hues, similar flesh.

Temptation remains to lie in open fields where souls will meet,

strangers become lovers, darkness remains in shadows of formulations,

when light enters crevices of imperfection,

thereby, allowing us room to crave touch,

while torches burn the last remnants of dried turnips

and beauty remains in parched fields of disarmament.
Mixin Network Monthly Report — April 2020
By: Liang Jingxuan
Tags: Mixin

04–01–2020 ~ 04–30–2020

Mixin Main Network

•The Network has a total of 1,315 assets

•The height of the Mixin MainNet arrived at 19,711,668

•Mixin’s top 100 assets, excluding BOX and XIN, are worth $78.63 million

•MainNet node replacement has been completed, 32 nodes expire and exit, now there are 25 nodes in stable operation.

Current Assets Statistics

The above data were collected at around 23 p.m. on April 30, 2020（UTC/GMT+08:00）.

Mixin Dapps

Mixin Messenger

•Support Home bot super entrance

•Support circles

•Support chat record multi — select delete, recall and forward

•New Settings interface

FoxONE

•Mass refactoring, optimization and upgrading, support a variety of advanced functions, and open large group of paid services

•Small wallet play a big role, integration of more functions

•ATM optimization, the opportunity to buy cheaper currency than market prices

•Member treasure box revision, add surprise treasure box

ExinONE

•ExinEarn online invite rewards

•ExinEarn online recommendation section

•ExinLocal launches the order details and evaluation function

•ExinLocal opens the first transaction reward 0.0001 BTC activity, and has the opportunity to draw the grand prize

Poolin

•Support debit and credit function

•Support transfer function

•Support fingerprint/face unlock and gesture password

Others

•04–21–2020

Very comprehensive third-party Mixin provides the browser https://blockchair.com/mixin, you can easily view the current main node number, search transfer record, daily dig reward information.
Guide for developing computer engineering college projects
By: Skillhive Team
Tags: Tech, Software Development, Beginner, Programming, Web Development

Since it is already October and we believe many of the final year graduation students in India would have started to work on their term end / final year projects.

So we planned to launch a series of videos wherein we’ll be trying to help you prepare a sample application using an imaginary case study. The series will focus on dos and don’ts and try to touch base on how real-world software development works. This series will be covering only the basics and would not cover all the application security-related topics. While creating applications for real-world usage you will have to take into account, security related concerns as well.

These videos and the associated project should be used as a reference and learning instrument. We hope this series will give you a jump start in analyzing the requirements and understanding how to convert requirements into a working solution. Please note that the final application will not be a full-fledged working application. It will only contain essentials to demonstrate basics.

We will update links for each of the following topics once they are published.

Feel free to leave your views in the comment section. Happy Learning!
World Gone Made
By: Jason B. Hobbs Lcsw
Tags: Spirituality, Christian, Religion, Politics, Community

It started with a grammatical error.

My wife’s friend was graciously posting an interview she had conducted with my wife and me about our recently released book on anxiety. As of late, Cassia had been writing toward self-care during difficult times. Accurately she intended to write the phrase “world gone mad” … except what I read as I reviewed the post was “world gone made”.

Admittedly, I am not an editor. I know this. One thing that I have learned through the process of submitting a manuscript and working through the editing process with someone else is how many times small errors can sneak into an writer’s work, especially mine.

So when I read “world gone made”, I saw the sort of error that I have made countless times, unintentional, small, but an error nonetheless.

But, seeing as how this is primarily my wife’s friend and not mine, I sent Cassia an email thanking her for the post and gingerly mentioning the mistake, which she “corrected”.

But then I kept going back to “world gone made”.

And the turn of phrase, “world gone made”, kept speaking to me of the way in which many of us feel the disconnection and confusion of our present. Yet while we are the curators of this world in which we find ourselves, we are simultaneously victims of what this world inflicts on us.
L(u)st.
By: Vurzie Kim
Tags: Poems, Poetry, Pomprompt

Photo by Vurzie.

When you rest your eyes on the beautiful clothing of her cleavage,

One could tell your mind wants to travel places with hers.

You place your palms on her thighs

Spilling words from your heart

Taking her round the clouds — wishing

Wishing she was yours,

Knowing it is a sin to covet your neighbour’s own.

You stop.

But your eyes still gazing on hers

The brightness from her eyes, shines like the twilight in a new dawn. It soothes your soul.

You want her. You want her so bad

Your consciousness plays dead

You take your hands back and forth

Back and forth you go. On her back.

She turns away, drops her coat.

She holds your hands gently and placed hers on your lips.

Slowly, your hands in hers. Parading every part of her body. Soft. She's so soft. You want to, you don't want to. In a fix, kind of. You stop.

She smiles seductively at you, tossed her hair and whispers in your ear;

time. waits. for. no. one.

You bury your lips in her neck.

Eyes shut.

You get lost in the pleasure of her skin and broke the law, again.
There’s No Right or Wrong Way to Be Nonbinary
By: Danny Jackson H.
Tags: Gender, Nonbinary, LGBTQ, Transgender, Queer

There’s No Right or Wrong Way to Be Nonbinary

You just be you

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

The other night, one of my dearest friends came out to me as nonbinary*. He was assigned male at birth and still prefers to use he/him pronouns. He’s also more than six feet tall and a bit of a burly person.

If you didn’t know him at all, you might be surprised to learn that he’s not hyper-masculine. I, however, have been his friend for more than nine years now, and this reveal didn’t honestly surprise me all that much.

He has been dating my best friend for years and years, and they have been engaged for months now. My friend has never expressed sexual or romantic interest in anyone besides women. As such, he still identifies as straight, even though he’s nonbinary.

When we were in high school, my other friends (and I, admittedly) made fun of him for being a little feminine. We were all a little bit of an asshole in high school. That’s my only excuse.

Some of my male friends made fun of him for being “gay,” despite dating my best female friend. He was in color guard, if only to be closer to my best friend. He wasn’t as interested in sports as his other male friends.

I regret making fun of him, and I’ve told him as much, especially since coming out as nonbinary myself.

Most of the time, when you think of a nonbinary person, you probably think of an assigned-female-at-birth person who is thin, white, and perfectly androgynous, with short hair and vaguely masculine clothing choices.

Yet, my friend is just as nonbinary as that person, and he appears quite masculine.

He wants to experiment with wearing feminine clothes, makeup, painted nails, and longer hair, but he still appears definitely male when you first meet him. And he’s still nonbinary.

Long story short, there’s more than one way to be nonbinary. I am myself, and I present mostly feminine. That’s mainly because of my gigantic breasts that make it nearly impossible to pass as male, but still. I have long hair and wear mostly women’s clothing. I prefer they/them pronouns, though I’ll tolerate she/her.

I’m still nonbinary.

You can be big and burly and still be nonbinary. You can be small and dainty and still be nonbinary. You can use whatever pronouns you feel are right and still be nonbinary.

There’s no right or wrong way to be nonbinary, or to express your desired gender in general. You just be who you are, and fuck anyone who doesn’t agree with it.

*he/him pronouns
CFDs vs FOREX
Tags: Trading, Forex Trading, Broker, Forex, Exchange

Bringing financial inclusion to Latin America by accelerating the digital adoption of blockchain technology.

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Who do you want to hear from?
By: Rick Liebling
Tags: Science Fiction

Hi, hope you had a nice weekend.

We’ve added a lot of new followers recently and I wanted to take the pulse of the community. The Adjacent Possible frequently features Q&As with authors, academics and other types of creators. Please leave a comment giving me an idea of what types of science fiction and science fiction-adjacent people you’d like to hear from. Understand I might not be able to connect with specific people, so if you are hoping to hear from a specific person, also put in their area of expertise so I can see who else I might be able to get.

Thanks!
Magical Mishaps
By: Emei Burell
Tags: Fantasy, Comics, Art, Magic, Comedy

Here’s a comic from a year ago almost! I never had the time to finish it but I’m still really fond of the characters in it so it feels like they deserve to see the light of day!
MONTHLY UPDATE — August 2018
Tags: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Fintech, Blockchain Technology, Ripple

this article is also available in: Spanish (Español)

CEO Announcement

As we all know, blockchain technology is becoming the new standard for governments, enterprises and societies to promote transparency, inclusion, efficiency and therefore economic growth among many other benefits. The use cases have been rising at a remarkable pace worldwide, from fintech to fast moving consumer goods, but every sector will eventually migrate to this innovation.

During the past few months we have been intensively working on creating an agile and high-performance organization with a world class reputation. We have selected our internal and external strategic pillars with Brand Marketing, Innovation and Experience being are our external pillars. We want Alteum to be a leader, by having strong credentials and credibility which eventually will lead us to become the blockchain organization of choice in Latin America. But we can’t do this without leveraging on our internal pillars: Culture, Processes and Talent, which we truly believe is what will differentiate us. No strategy will thrive without the right people.

Interest in our region for blockchain technologies is picking up faster than we could have predicted in the private and public sector, challenging us to react rapidly to these demands. For this reason, we have decided to update our roadmap and enhance it with additional products and services which provide new sources of revenue, giving us a better advantage over the coming blockchain organizations. This roadmap will be published the 20th of September including a detailed explanation of the reasons behind it.

We at Alteum, would like to thank all of our investors, community and collaborators. Without any of your continued support this company wouldn’t be possible, we look forward to continuing this journey with us, let us together push the world forward.

Victor F. Navarro

Founder & CEO

Alteum
INR Withdrawals Update: January 7, 2018
By: Team Koinex
Tags: Team, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Payments

INR Withdrawals Update: January 7, 2018

The truth behind the unexpected delay

At the outset, we thank you for your continued love and support of Koinex, India’s first and largest multi-cryptocurrency exchange. Undoubtedly, the past year was a landmark one for cryptocurrencies for the way it has captivated the imagination of the global populace. On the other hand, regulators world-over, have struggled to understand the underlying blockchain technology and develop an appropriate response to it; and India is no exception. These misgivings have resultantly affected the financial services community, who find it difficult to make up their mind about supporting cryptocurrencies, eventually causing organisations like Koinex and its users to bear the brunt.

Discovery and recovery

In the past few days, many of our users have faced difficulties with INR withdrawals on Koinex. A tussle between our payment service partner and their bank has caused an indefinite delay in the settlement of a large portion of deposits to Koinex in the past 2 weeks. This created a bottleneck in the cash flow of user funds, thus hamstringing INR withdrawals on the platform. In these circumstances, we were constrained to temporarily suspend INR withdrawals, until the differences between the payment service provider and their bank are resolved. While we have taken firm action, we are also in constant touch with the payment service provider and are providing our complete cooperation to help resolve the matter at the earliest.

More importantly, we want to inform you that your money is safe. The affected deposits are safely held with the payment service provider’s bank in a nodal account (nodal account is a custodial account where users’ money is safely deposited). INR Withdrawals will resume as soon as the settlement to Koinex is completed. We expect a resolution within this week. It is also clarified that trading activities continue to remain unaffected.

Next steps

We are working on a robust and more reliable solution to bring back INR deposits and withdrawals, ensuring the seamless trading experience that Koinex is known for. These integrations, partnerships and solutions take some time to build, however, we would like to inform you that this is the top priority right now. We regret the turn of events and the inconvenience caused to you. We are committed to improving user experience. We are working with relevant stakeholders to minimise the effect of third-party actions on critical services like deposits and withdrawals.

We thank you, once again, for your continued love, trust, patience and support.
[Listing] NPER listing on Coinrail
Tags: Listing, Blockchain, Announcement, Nper, Bitcoin

NPER is a project that solves the problem and stereotypes in Intellectual Property industry. It will protect the right of the creators, and provide a new business model.

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