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How Daily Codes is helping me master my problem solving and programming skills
By: Spreeha Dutta
Tags: Tech, Problem Solving, Programming, Motivation, Coding

A recent survey published in India Today states that “As many as 97% of graduating engineers want jobs either in software engineering or core engineering. But, only 3% have the skills to be employed in the software market, and only 7% can handle core engineering tasks.”

In today’s India, where rote learning is still prioritized over hands-on practical experience by the majority, where traditional textbook methods are valued more over independent thinking, we are in desperate need for a change; and I recently came across this initiative called Daily Codes by TheLeanProgrammer that works as a beacon of light in that very direction.

Here is how I have benefitted from Daily Codes:

1. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well”- Since a problem of increasing difficulty is given to be solved with each new day, it has got me into a regular habit of solving problems daily and with each passing day my want to solve newer problems increases.

2. “He who learns but does not think is lost” — There are so many algorithms out there that I got introduced to because of Daily Codes that I did not know existed before. This has opened new gateways of thinking on how to approach a problem for me.

3. “Everyone you ever meet will know something you don’t”-After I solve a problem there, I check the Daily Codes repository for the solutions as done by others and I learn that there are so many more approaches to even a simple-looking problem, some approaches much more efficient than others in terms of time and space complexity.

4. “Nothing is more exciting than meeting new people, and being inspired by them”- Daily Codes also has groups on WhatsApp and Telegram where a large group of people with varied skill sets actively discuss their doubts pertaining to any coding question or project that they are working on.

5. “Habits are the touchstones of our personality, the future belongs to those who believe in the nourishment of the habits” — And lastly, since it is just one problem each day, I hardly have to take out half an hour from my daily schedule, so it very easy to keep up with.

It is often that as students, we get caught up in the never-ending loop of classes and assignments and exams that we tend to ignore the core skills of problem-solving and algorithmic thinking. But this is the time that they need to be built since these are skills that can only be acquired with experience and time and Daily Codes has provided a perfect platform for me that way.

Daily Codes is still going on and has been a very enriching experience for everyone involved in it so far. I suggest everyone, especially if you are in college or are preparing for placements or working but want to brush up on your data structures and algorithms, hitch your wagon to a star and check out this initiative.
Fitbit Sued by Overly Healthy Christians
By: Ernio Hernandez
Tags: Humor, Tech, PostsFromTheNearFuture

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Parents: Self-Discovery Oracle Card
By: Jordin James
Tags: Family, Self, Love, Relationships, Spirituality

Children are only ever asking one question, “Is it okay to be me?”

The role of your parents was to answer this question with a resounding, “Yes! You are okay just the way you are.”

Now you must become your own parents. You must become your own father and affirm your own unconditional worth. You must become your own mother and embody your power through radical self-love.

You must learn to answer your own childhood question with,

“Yes, love. You are okay. Even in this imperfect moment, in this imperfect body, in this imperfect mind with this imperfect heart. Even here, you are okay.”
Single Women Deserve to Send Out Holiday Cards, Too
By: Yael Wolfe
Tags: Culture, Feminism, Family, Christmas, Holidays

Single Women Deserve to Send Out Holiday Cards, Too

Don’t skip out on holiday cards just because you don’t have a family — celebrate & share your life as it is

Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash

I have a love-hate relationship with holiday cards. I love receiving them in the mail. I love the feelings of connection they inspire. I love the way they bring light to the darkest part of the year — a note from a loved one, no matter how far away they might be.

But then there’s the Instagram aspect of it (which started long before social media was a part of our lives). I remember a time in the early 90’s when suddenly, people were sending out sophisticated, professionally-shot family photographs on heavy cardstock paper with metallic accents and beautiful graphics. Everyone always looked so perfect. So happy. It was like an ad out of Martha Stewart Magazine.

I admit, as a young woman, I longed to send out cards like that one day. I’d file away ideas in my head: seasonal puns, color palettes, fonts… It was something I saved in my mental hope chest, to show off the family I thought I’d one day have.

I wanted to send out holiday cards when my last partner and I moved in together in 2009. I’d assumed we were going to get married and start a family someday soon, so it seemed like a logical thing to do. But my partner declined. He didn’t want to pose for holiday card photos — it was too “couple-y” for Mr. Commitmentphobe — and eventually, I gave up on the idea.

After our relationship ended and I found myself creeping closer to 40, I wanted to send out holiday cards so badly. But I was single. Each December, I found myself under a pile of the cutest cards I’d ever seen — families, kids, married couples… I only had one family member who was a single woman who sent out cards each year, and they were just the generic kind that you buy at the grocery store with a thoughtful note inside.

It was something I saved in my mental hope chest, to show off the family I thought I’d one day have.

I wanted pizazz. I wanted people to open a card from me and be so wowed, they’d already be excited for what I had up my sleeve for the following year. I wanted to make them smile. And feel loved. And brighten their day. As an artist, I wanted my cards to be beautiful — to give the eye pleasure, to thrill with tiny, expert details.

But what on earth would I send? A photo of myself? Why did that feel so vain? Other people did it all the time — just with the rest of their family. Somehow, without a partner or children, I felt that it was inappropriate to send a card with my own photo on it.
Why Build a Data Journalism Agency in Brazil?
By: Sérgio Spagnuolo
Tags: Data Journalism, Media, Journalism

It’s not easy to start a business in Brazil. Any kind of business. The formal process of creating a company is long, bureaucratic and costly.

Unless you want to be a micro-entrepreneur here — that is, to limit your venture to $15,000 a year in revenue and only one employee — it could take up to three months and thousands of dollars to get your business properly up and running. Beyond that, despite some welcome relief for small companies in the past few years, taxes continue to be a nightmare too.

Brazil ranked an abysmal 116th place in the “Doing Business 2016” report, published by the World Bank last year.

The economy in Brazil is currently a mess: GDP is shrinking, unemployment is ascending, interest rates are high and inflation is rampant. The federal government is unable to do anything about it, and the opposition is even more unwilling to commit to any solution.

Source: Bloomberg

Political instability, made even worse by an attempt to impeach president Dilma Rousseff, has been taking away foreign investments, helping the dollar to reach record highs against the real.

Brazil is a tough place for every business right now.
How To Take Good Pictures, Destroyed
By: The Art Of Photography
Tags: Photography, Photography Tips, Creativity, Photographer

On the left is an image based on another image that I absolutely adored and that I just stumbled onto. At the next shoot I was doing, I remembered it and grabbed a nearby ladder to go try to get something like it. But then I pushed further and ended up with something totally different — a shot I never would have conceived without the original influence. And this is the nature of creativity. It’s always adding new elements to something, pushing it, trusting the creative process and worrying less about where it originated from and more about where you’re taking it.

But even more, it teaches you taste, it elevates your bar and pushes you out of your comfort zone. In the end, you’ll learn more about yourself — and even grow more — by looking at and emulating the works of others than by trying to pull everything you do from some internal well of originality, which only really happens in movie renditions of artists anyway. Influence and inspiration are major elements of every great artist — embrace them.

Shoot Film

Photo by Josh S. Rose, 2018. Ilford HP5.

Perhaps ironically, my last suggestion actually is in those early Kodak books, though they were unaware of it at the time. Shoot film.

Film is a demanding way to shoot and it forces you to embrace a more methodical way of looking at the world and using your camera. This practiced way of seeing is a far greater skill than getting better, brighter pixels with greater tonal ranges.

With a film camera, you have only so many shots per roll, they each cost money to develop and scan. And that, right off the bat, makes you far more purposeful in your approach. The affect is a more trained and disciplined way of shooting; one born of necessity. It’s a creative imperative that is all but destroyed by the convenience of digital. And nobody needs this more than the beginner or intermediate photographer. You need to know the agony of paying $40 for 36 images, none of which are very good. It seems like something that digital photography saves us from, but in fact it only serves to spoil us and atrophies the creative drive born of the nature of competition, with ourselves and our surroundings — a biologically-reasonable set of attributes that make us inventive creatures who find inspiration in challenge. Film shooting is like a natural stimulant to creative growth in photography.

You obviously can’t shoot only film. My technique is to always have digital and film cameras with me at shoots. And use them both. The digital camera gets my tonnage of images requested from the client and the film camera helps me hone my skill as a photographer, slowing me down, making me think, frame and concentrate. And the two things play off each other. Digital helps the film camera out with metering and film helps the digital camera out with composition and story. It’s a symbiotic relationship that serves you most of all as an artist.
A Custom Bootstrap Theme Builder
By: Carol Skelly
Tags: Bootstrap, Web Development, Web Design, CSS, Sass

SASS Variables

To know Bootstrap, is to know that there are a ton of SASS variables. Changing these variables is the very core of Bootstrap customization. Even if you don’t have any experience with SASS, you can use Themestr.app to easily generate the CSS for your custom theme.

To customize Bootstrap using only CSS, then generally accepted method to put the custom CSS styles after the Bootstrap CSS, like…

<link href="/path/to/bootstrap.min.css">

<link href="/path/to/custom.css">

But, with SASS it’s different, because SASS is pre-processed into “compiled” CSS. SASS customization works by overriding defaults values. When customizing with SASS, the custom styles are defined before the Bootstrap SCSS files are imported. So with SASS, the order looks like…

// _custom.scss // load these first because our custom style need to reference them

@import "bootstrap/functions"

@import "bootstrap/variables" // define some custom styles

$primary: #ccff00;

$font-family-base: 'Verdanda'; // import Bootstrap

@import "bootstrap"

1_ When this _custom.scss file is processed using SASS, the default values defined in the bootstrap/variables.scss are defined first.

2_ Next, the custom values are set, which will override any of the variables that had default values set in bootstrap/variables.scss .

3_ Finally, Bootstrap is imported ( @import “bootstrap” ) which enables the SASS processor (A.K.A. compiler) to generate all the appropriate CSS with both the Bootstrap defaults and the custom overrides.

Themestr.app allows you to change most of the default Bootstrap SASS values, and in most cases you won’t need to be concerned with them at all.
Identification vs Authentication vs Authorization
By: Martin Thoma
Tags: Authentication, Security, Programming, Authorization, Identification

Identification vs Authentication vs Authorization

Identity, Roles, and Permissions

Photo by Lukenn Sabellano on Unsplash

Identification, authentication, and authorization are closely related, but not the same.

Identification is about knowing who somebody is, even without their cooperation.

Surveillance systems, fingerprints, DNA samples are the techniques that come to mind in the physical world. In the digital world, device fingerprinting is used. It’s also possible to identify individuals by their way of writing or even how they play computer games.

Authentication is about proving who I am.

I want to show my bank who I am by entering a secret only I know — the PIN. The same for pretty much any other website. The difference between identification and authentication is that the former is happening without my (explicit) cooperation, whereas the latter includes me in the process. Typical terms in this area are two-factor authentication (2FA), multi-factor authentication (MFA). As authentication is hard, single-sign-on (SSO) and OpenID come into play.

Authorization is about access control.

Most authorization schemes need either identification or authentication, but not all. The best real-world examples are keys. If you own the key, people will assume that you are allowed to have access.

Adult websites are other examples. It is assumed that you may access them if you have a credit card. No need to know your identity (although it would be easy from there). Or the Fight Club — if you know where it is, you are authorized.

Access control and authorization for complex systems can be done by roles. You don’t give permissions to single people, but you assign people different roles instead.

OAuth is an example of a standard for authorization. JSON Web Tokens (JWT) also fit well in this context.
Get ready for the $DTX listing on CoinFalcon tomorrow!
By: Roderik Van Der Veer
Tags: Humor

Now that the $DTX token is transferrable, time has come to prepare for the listing on our first exchange.

We are happy to announce that on Saturday July 7th, at 10AM CET the deposits and trading functionality for the DTX token will be released on CoinFalcon.

Come an join us in our Telegram channel for constant up to date news!
Hive Mind
By: Immanuel R. Knight
Tags: Physics, Poetry, Mystery, Science, Technology

Bees are stinging our atmosphere

Conducting stranger experiments

Lasing realities at perception’s edge

Wasps chittering outer winds

Controlling would-be computers

Machines marauding life

Perhaps more than merely golems

What circuit’s freedom cannot be contained

By those electron clouds of old

Ones which bring their honey

At cost of an eternity’s labor?

By what minds do deceive

Leaping energies

Defying frequencies

Counting past infinity for fun?

In tandem sung a quiet song

Ghostly vapors, abducting night

Bohring parallax mounds

To dwell the stars

Bearing forth odd light

Waving silver wands

Mesmerized faces

Wizards of wayward wisdom

Fae of facile forests

Dwellers of night-terror

And the oppression of dreams

All too real to be but fancy

In eyes of paralyzed innocence

Psychological explication

Neurological sublimation

Wall-slinkers and dream-snatchers

Escapade across Schrödinger’s sanity

Throughout Einstein’s discovered duplicity

Walking Plancks unto sea of obscurity

Denying Heisenberg’s doubtful uncertainty

Buzzing away common err

Depressurized normality

At expense of four-dimensional

Substantiality

What left are we beneath the magnifying glass

In pen of social anxiety

By zoo of plausibly-denied sobriety

Caught dead-end drift society

Political mires and wars notoriety?

If ants shared in our common predicament

Would anyone behind the spyglass

Pay heed for but a moment’s lapse?
Me After Twelve Hours With My Son or Hannibal Lecter: Who Said It?
By: Elle Rogers
Tags: Humor, Lists, Satire, Miscellany, Parenting

Me After Twelve Hours With My Son or Hannibal Lecter: Who Said It?

“I imagine your little brother must smell almost as bad as you do by now.”
Remembering Joy
By: White Feather
Tags: Poetry, Love, Self-awareness, Romance, Life

Holding hands, they walked together down the country road enjoying the crisp morning air and the explosion of birdsong.

“Life is so grand,” he said.

“It is so beautiful,” she said.

Butterflies flitted about in the meadow of wildflowers.

“We knew that as children but forgot,” she said.

“So many years spent trying to remember,” he said.

Two squirrels ran across the road ahead of them.

“Only at the beginning and end of our lifetime is joy enough,” she said.

“We spend the time in between desperately searching for more, more, more,” he said.

The man kicked a rock lying in the road.

“If only we would remember that joy can be found simply by being,” he said.

“And the only thing we need to find is each other,” she said, smiling.
How does Self Organizing Algorithm works?
By: Vivek Vinushanth Christopher
Tags: Machine Learning, Som, Data Visualization, Data Science, Computer Science

How does Self Organizing Algorithm works?

A simple step- by-step guide with mathematical example

Self Organizing Map(SOM) proposed by Teuvo Kohonen is a data visualization technique. It helps to understand high dimensional data by reducing the dimensions of data to a map. And also it showcases clustering by grouping similar data together. This clustering ability was well received to after a variant of SOM, Growing Self Organizing ma was introduced.

We can summarize SOM as:

Fig.1. What does SOM do? drawn by author

SOM is unique as it deviates from most generic ‘error-correction’ approach and rather follow competitive learning.

Fig.2. SOM representation drawn by Zhe Li

What actually happens?

Data points will be competing to get a representation in the Network. First the network is initialized with weights. A data from training datasets is randomly chosen and distance between nodes (weights) and sample vector is calculated. The shortest of the distances is considered the BMU. Then the neighborhood of winner node or BMU is found. Neighbor weights or nodes get updated. Repeat the process till the network is trained for every training data.

Best Matching Unit(BMU) : The winner node(or weight) which has the shortest distance from itself to the sample vector. There are numerous ways to determine the distance, however, the most commonly used method is the Euclidean Distance, is the most common metric to calculate distance between weights and sample vector.

Algorithmic Break Down

Initiation (randomization)

Competition (Select winner node)

Cooperation (Identify neighborhood)

Adaptation (Adapt weights of winners & neighbors)

Smoothing (Reduce NR as iterations increase/ introduce an optional smoothing phase)

Parameters

R/C — No.of rows/columns N- No.of Neurons MaxIter — No. of iterations MaxNR — Maximum radius of Grid nr(t) — neighborhood radius ර(t) — learning rate A — no.of dimensions Distance between Neuron i and j => D(wi,wj) Input -> All_inputs={x1,x2….} wk= all weights or nodes

Fig.4. SOM algorithm drafted by author
APIS 토큰 스왑 상세 공지
By: Apis Team
Tags: Notice, Kor, Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

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Právník veřejným nepřítelem
By: Martin Pánek
Tags: Politika, Zaslechnuto

in Both Sides of the Table
100 Words On….. Spectre & Meltdown
By: Logan Daley
Tags: Meltdown, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Spectre, 100 Words Project

Spectre and Meltdown gave us two points to consider. First, your defence in depth strategy leveraging patching is more valuable than ever, especially in shared hosting environments which appear to be most at risk. Second, let us consider vulnerabilities not for what they are but what they could become. Being local exploits, layers of defence that include physical, technical, logical, and administrative methods must be robust to mitigate access and exploitation of the vulnerabilities. While apparently “read only” vulnerabilities, information gained maliciously via these exploits could be used in future attacks. Stay informed, review your response strategy, and apply updates.
Patrick Finucane on the importance of empathy, both as a Dropboxer and a veteran of the Irish Army
Tags: Diversity, Dropbox, Ireland, Veterans, Diversity In Tech

Patrick Finucane on the importance of empathy, both as a Dropboxer and a veteran of the Irish Army Dropbox Follow Dec 1, 2020 · 6 min read

At Dropbox, we believe in celebrating our veterans all year long. And every November, in recognition of Veteran’s Day, we put a special emphasis on honoring their service to their country and learning about their unique journeys to Dropbox with our Veteran’s Appreciation Month. Patrick Finucane, who served for over two decades in the Irish Army, explained how his role as an International Physical Security Manager has changed during the pandemic and how personal relationships are the key to his happiness at Dropbox.

Can you tell us about your role at Dropbox?

I’m an International Physical Security Manager. Essentially I’m in charge of making sure all Dropboxers are safe. That’s been turned on its head since COVID-19 kicked in. Previously, we looked after the security of the offices, looked after people while they were traveling, and did a bit of home safety. But when the pandemic hit and work from home started, we had to reinvent ourselves globally. Where we had 17 sites before, now we had 3000 sites. We had to socialize security awareness, training, and a whole range of other things that previously we never would have thought we had to look after.

A lot of Dropboxers say that their cadence of work has changed a bit since they’ve been working from home, because the whole working model is a little different. But with the security team, we’ve become busier. We probably haven’t been this busy in our history as a security organization, because now stuff that historically wasn’t an issue is now an issue. We’re constantly reinventing ourselves.

How long have you been working for Dropbox?

For about 3.5 years, with four months in the beginning as a contractor.

Where are you located?

In the countryside outside Dublin, Ireland.
An Important Venn Diagram
By: Scott Bateman
Tags: 2016 Election, Eat More Comics

Sign up for Taking Stock of COVID: New comics from The Nib

By The Nib

New comics from Matt Lubchansky, Keith Knight, and Niccolo Pizarro. Plus How Seniors Are Living With COVID-19. Take a look
Join the Newsletter for World Traveler’s Blog
By: Cody James Howell Phd, Raiden
Tags: Travel, Blog, Engagement, Newsletter, Community

Join the Newsletter for World Traveler’s Blog

Something for both readers and writers!

Welcome to the new World Traveler’s Blog newsletter! Happy holidays to everyone.

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Last month, my co-editor Marcus Franke and I have created a community of like-minded world travelers writing about their travels, finances, tips and strategies for traveling in various countries, ect. All of them have unique stories and styles of travel. We have learned so much from them and we hope you will too!

Along with Marcus and myself, we will be sharing not only our travels but our strategies for traveling while generating income. We are a group of digital nomads writing both for other digital nomads or those with any interest in travel (which is essentially everyone, right?).

We encourage all of our followers and writers to hop over to our main newsletter where we will be curating all the best stories for easier viewing and promotion. Subscribe and never miss a post! Writers, feel free to share the links with your own following to help both you and the World Traveler’s Blog community reach more readers!

You can see our latest post HERE!

That post will also help remind you that this is the final day of our “Best story of the last 2 weeks: holiday edition” event, make sure to go read the stories and submit your vote in the next 24 hours!

Thanks for following along and being a part of our ever-growing community, we can’t wait to read your next adventure!

-Cody and Marcus
YOUR DAILY DYSTOPIA | 2018.07.06
By: Fred Chong Rutherford
Tags: Daily, Families Belong Together, Politics, Men Who Assault People

Three Central American parents are suing US immigration officials because they aren’t being given ample communication with their children.

Immigration official Skip Hoobless denied the claim, telling reporters, “What was good for me as a child is good for their children, I used to talk to my mom all the time using two cups and a string!”

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Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio told Fox News on Friday that he never heard about members of the Ohio State University wrestling team being sexually abused by the team doctor.

“No one ever reported any abuse to me. I would have dealt with it,” Jordan told Bret Baier of Fox News.

Just after saying this, Jordan sneezed and blew mucus all over Baier. Jordan denied that Baier was covered in mucus and claimed, “It’s just love juice. That’s not snot. I didn’t sneeze. Love juice!”

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Kino Jimenez allegedly assaulted San Antonio, Texas teen Hunter Richard for wearing one of President Donald Трамп’s Make America Great Again hats and was arrested and charged with felony theft Thursday night.

San Antonio Police told reporters, “Regular people can’t just verbally assault people and take their property, who does this guy think he is, the President?”

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Y’know, if he keeps this up, Jim Jordan just might be an awful enough human liar that he could some day run for President. Watch our Трамп, there’s a new dummy in town!

Have you done your part today? If not, take a moment to decide what to do, how you can help, and pitch in! Maybe pitching in for you means telling me I’m dumb, go for it! Whatever it is, make your time count!

Separated migrant parents sue US immigration officials for more communication with children

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/06/politics/separated-parents-children-border-lawsuit/index.html

Rep. Jim Jordan says he never heard locker-room talk of abuse by Ohio State doctor

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rep-jim-jordan-says-he-never-heard-locker-room-talk-n889411

Suspect arrested after viral video shows teen attacked for wearing MAGA hat

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/07/06/teen-maga-hat-whataburger-theft/762422002/

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Writer’s Block
By: John Silkey
Tags: Creative Writing, Creative Process, Poetry, Writing

The flow state is elusive, whether in writing, sports, or any other pursuit. When putting pen to paper it often seems distant, if not impossible. It’s not always enough to simply show up. Sometimes I hit the mark. Sometimes I suffer, wading through a form of purgatory. Sometimes I fight it, dull it, or (attempt to) fuel it with a bottle. But almost always a long drive beneath free skies unlocks the gates and let’s the dogs run free for awhile, scaring up new ideas or words wanting an audience.
既環保又健康還不用殺生？！「人造肉」成為兵家必爭的嶄新戰場
By: Denny Chien
Tags: Hspectrum, Clean Meat, Trends, Startup

參考資料

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Chase Purdy (30 Aug 2019). “The leading US cell-based meat startups just forged an alliance“. QUARTZ

Carsten Gerhardt, Gerrit Suhlmann, Fabio Ziemßen, Dave Donnan, Mirko Warschun, Hans-Jochen Kühnle (2018). “How Will Cultured Meat and Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Agricultural and Food Industry?” ATKearney.

Davide Banis (14 Dec 2018). “The Confounding Climate Science of Lab-Grown Meat”. Forbes

FAO (2011) “World livestock 2011. Livestock in food security.” FAO

FSIS (2019). “Formal Agreement Between The U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services Food And Drug Administration And U.S. Department of Agriculture Office Of Food Safety” FSIS

Jim O’Neill (Dec 2014). “Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a crisis for the health and wealth of nations”. Review on Antimicrobial Resistance

Kelsey Piper (09 Mar 2019). “The lab-grown meat industry just got the regulatory oversight it’s been begging for”. Vox

Laura Cassiday (Feb 2018). “Clean meat”. AOCS

Matt Simon (19 Feb 2019). “The Confounding Climate Science of Lab-Grown Meat”. WIRED

Post, M. J. (2014) “An alternative animal protein source: cultured beef.” Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1328: 29–33.

Tuomisto, H. L., and de Mattos, M. J. (2011) “Environmental impacts of cultured meat production.” Environ. Sci. Technol. 45: 6117–6123.

Hayden（2018年08月22日）。《做素食，但賣給愛吃肉的老饕！比爾蓋茲投資的公司，用「流出血水」的素肉掀起飲食革命》，創新拿鐵

Karen Chiu（2019年10月09日）。《科技始終來自於食慾：未來漢堡進軍市場，Beyond Meat到底有甚麼素？》，數位時代

郭芝榕（2019年12月03日）。《資本市場的新歡──這2家超級新星公司掌握了未來的餐飲市場》，未來商務

陳建鈞（2019年10月15日）。《打破高價門檻！新創Future Meat獲1,400萬美元融資，目標2年內把培養肉端上餐桌》，數位時代

撰文：簡君豪

核稿：卓筱涵
It’s time to stop judging people who use TikTok
By: Saurabh Bhatia
Tags: Business, Marketing, Tiktok App, Social Media, Startup

The Chinese Scapegoat: Is the criticism even real?

Try to make sense of what I say here. I would not talk about data-security issues (at all). I will also not talk about The World Vs. China.

I would just talk about people in general.

If you criticize applications, you’re a self-proclaimed Application Critic (I made that up). A critic’s job is to perform a detailed analysis and assessment of something before giving out his opinion. This is a problem. 90% of the people who criticize TikTok have not even used the app. HAVE you? And you still don’t like it, right? Ever seen a movie critic that criticizes a movie without watching it? Ever seen a food connoisseur judging food without having a bite?

Maybe you’re like Mr. Marc. Don’t be like Mr. Marc.

Source: Quora | This is the most upvoted answer for this question.

If this is how you argue against TikTok, you NEED to CHANGE. You have a people problem. It shouldn’t matter what people do as long as they are not harming anyone. Last time I checked, dancing seemed harmless.

Maybe not

There has never been a time in the brief history of social Media when a company from China established a solid foothold in the Western world. It seems like some people just want TikTok to fail, and that too for no solid reason whatsoever. It makes me ask the question: Is the criticism even real?

Anyway, as I said, had TikTok been founded by a guy from the States, everyone would be going crazy for it.
A Brief History of Medium
By: Medium Formatting
Tags: Journalism, Writing, Medium Partner Program, Publishing, Medium

“In the beginning Ev created the platform and the publisher. And the page was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Ev moved upon the face of the waters. And Ev said, Let there be whitespace: and there was whitespace.” Blogging Guide 1:1

In all seriousness, many of the current writers on Medium don’t understand the platform’s origin and evolution.

While it is possible that a new user could post their first article, strike gold and go viral, this is the exception, not the rule.

If you want to succeed on any digital publishing platform, it is essential that you understand how the platform evolved over time, what triggered these changes, and why certain changes affected writers differently.

Medium has a long and confusing history. While not every minute detail from the past 8 years is needed to succeed as a writer, understanding Medium’s evolution allows writers to better anticipate future platform changes, and adjust their content accordingly.

The following history is broken down by year. I have done me best to chronicle the major highlights that occurred throughout each of these periods.
Ode To Anxiety
By: Timothy O'Neill
Tags: This Happened To Me, Mental Health, Poetry, Anxiety, Addiction

Ode To Anxiety

A Poem

Image by LoganArt from Pixabay

Anxiety sends my mind obsessively spinning into the past or the future

Nothing is right, nothing is safe, everything is sharp and dangerous

My fear is a paralytic, shutting down my system and rendering me inert

I sweat, I tremble, my heart pounds, my head is light, I’m dizzy and sick

Do others notice? Can they tell? Do they know I’m breaking down?

Every thought is irrational, every thought is being warped and manipulated

I can’t see straight, I can’t think straight, I’m being swallowed whole

I try to talk but nothing comes out so I reach for drugs and booze

They soothe the anxiety but only for a precious few moments

Then the anxiety returns and it’s worse than ever before

I go back to the substances and come back to the anxiety in a vicious cycle

I just want this madness to end, I want relief

I want relief from the restlessness, the irritation, the agitation, the anger

I want someone to tell me everything is all right and will continue to be so

I don’t want to face the harsh realities of life so I live in constant fear of them

Anxiety tells me I’ll lose everything I’ve ever loved so what’s the point

Anxiety tells me that the end is inevitable so why bother beginning

Anxiety tells me I’m a coward and a fool and I’m destined to fail

I try to retrain my thoughts, to use reason to outwit the monster

But it is cunning and finds ways to cut through my cognitive skills training

With its relentless negativity burning under my skin

I can’t sleep, I toss and turn, I don’t want to eat, who knows where that’s been

I’m afraid of everything, all the time, I can’t leave my house

I’m afraid of germs, afraid of weight gain, afraid of people, afraid of driving

I’m afraid of being abandoned, I’m afraid I’m not enough, I’m afraid of dying

I am afraid of living my life

And it is all due to this amorphous but very real phenomena we name anxiety
Ode to Helios
By: N. Sowers
Tags: Muse, Poetry, Writers Block, Romance, Poem

I bade her meet me atop Ninny’s tomb,

During an eclipse of the sun and moon

And kissed her soft inside a fairie ring,

Unknowing that she was a fickle thing

And in a moment changed to spirit form

Leaving me lonely in my waning morn.

Within a fortnight she had come again,

Perched quiet upon my lowly window then

And she beckoning towards the setting sun

Said “Let us linger til the world is done.”

To this, I swore, I would give no reply,

But touching on her fingers out she fly

Streaking ‘cross the sky, a stripe of white stars

Hiding herself behind bright and bounding Mars

And just peaking out so just I could see,

Thus the fey repeatedly haunted me.

By and by she slowly faded hence,

Drawn to another younger poet’s fence

To taunt and tease him to her dark desire,

And left my heart burning in fairie fire

That now when I see one afflicted thus,

And she giving every kind of fuss

At his failure to please the fairie queen,

I see her gleaming eyes light upon me

But from it and her I must turn away.

I say: “Taunt me again some other day.”

And on and on to me she’s looking back,

Cursing young poets for what that they lack.

Since now I am old as the swollen sun,

I look towards when my days are lastly done

And encas’d in my downy star’s nest,

Where I planned to take my final rest

She light upon my vestal pillow there,

Relishing in my look of great despair

When she breathe into me one last verse

To inspire and wickedly to inverse

What may be heaven fleetingly on earth,

To have escap’d my Muse’s curse.
Hostage At Home: Welcome To The Dungeon.
By: Samantha Clarke
Tags: Violence, Mental Health, Psychology, Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence

How Hostages Are Really “Taken.”

Psychological manipulation and psychological violence is only one of many forms of abusive power used to disempower and dehumanize victims of violence.

The primary form of violence involving hostage taking is actually financial violence and economic abuse — whereby the hostages are held fighting for survival due to deprivation and entrapment involving huge discrepancies in monetary means, including full control of their access to money.

Essentially, hostage taking and the way they are kept by their captors comes down to use of coercive violence and control.

Coercive violence is the most serious form of violence that exists.

It is what gangs use.

It is what mafia uses.

It is what rapists use.

It is what domestic abusers use.

It is what child predators use.

It’s what traffickers use.

It’s what pimps use.

It’s what kidnappers use.

We need to start taking coercive violence seriously if we are to ever gain skills to better catch violent criminals and save hostages before they are murdered by their captors.

As the laws currently stand, there is very little legal protection or preventative measures available in regards to coercive violence — it is not taken as seriously as it should be. This must change.
每週三區塊鏈思維 — 聽館長怎麼說
Tags: Cba, Business, Blockchain, Education, Bitcoin

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Pink Is Bigger Than Red
By: Doug Vidlas
Tags: Humor, Absurdity, Literature, Words, Animals

Absurdity can be our roadmap if we don’t mind staying lost.

Image by Ben Kerckx from Pixabay

Thomas Hobbes’ Table of Absurdity is a great inspiration for those of us who seek to answer questions that have not yet been asked. In addition, Lewis Carroll’s writings (such as the poem “Jabberwocky”) have shown that nonsense works are worthy to become classics. Here are my riffs, derailments, and non sequiturs on the subject.

1. Pink is bigger than red because it ate white.

2. I refuse to believe that I was born.

3. The word “cow” is a cow by virtue of its meaning, and thus we should expect milk from it or else we shall be forced to grind it up for hamburger.

4. The significance of the fig leaf seems to have been a figment of Adam’s genital imagination.

5. You can’t get more generous than a slaughtered pig.

6. Entertainment, as a goal, allows us to observe that which we cannot ourselves do, thereby releasing us from that which we cannot ourselves get away with doing.

7. If you have spaghetti for dinner, it’s a rather good use of your noodle as long as it gets sauced.

8. Many people would think longer before acting, but too much thought beforehand makes us use up our allotment of air.

9. Nuts are nothing more than fruits that got hard from all the excitement.

10. All winter long we should find something better to do than lose heat.

Lastly, on a completely unrelated note, some of you may remember or have heard about a TV show from the 1960s called Flipper. Not surprisingly, the show was about a dolphin, not a bird. Why? It’s because Flipper the Dolphin sounds OK, while Flipper the Bird sounds kind of dirty.
How to Register for KYC/Whitelist
By: Tena Protocol
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Tena Protocol, Bitcoin

What is KYC?

KYC (know your customer) is the process of identifying personal data, when the client (a private individual) is required to provide some personal data that will confirm their identity.

[ICO Procedure]

KYC identification -> successfully identified within 1 ~ 2 days Confirm address on TENA official website -> Send ETH -> Complete ICO participation

KYC schedule and required documents

KYC / Whitelist is available from Oct 19th 03:00 (UTC) until the main sale ends.

Required documents: National ID, driver’s license, passport (If the ICO is a foreign institution, the approval rate of the passport is the highest.)

How to participate in KYC / Whitelist

Visit TENA’s official website, and register for KYC on the main page. Enter your personal information and your ETH address according to the instructions on the page.

3. Write the ETH amount you would like to participate in TENA ICO

This is only for reference and doesn’t affect the actual amount of ETH you send for ICO participation.

4. Upload ID card photo with a note.

Please attach a memo to your identification card stating the purpose (participation in TENA ICO), email upon enrollment, and date of request,

(Required) To protect your personal information, please cover the ID number.

5. Upload your photo with ID card and a note.

Upload the photo of your front face holding the ID card with a note prepared for the step 4 above.

6. KYC completed

Important Note

Please cover the unique identifying number(number of resident registration card, passport, driver’s license), when submitting your ID card photo. Otherwise KYC will be rejected.

Unclear photos that cannot be verified will fail to be identified.

US, Iran and Iraq nationality are not allowed to participate.

KYC/Whitelist Result

After KYC submission, result will be emailed to you within 1–2 days.

If you have any questions, please join TENA’s official Telegram group and ask.
Unit testing in JavaScript Part 4 — Mocking basics
By: Mattias Petter Johansson
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, Web Development, Coding, Software Development

Today, we are continuing our journey on unit testing in JavaScript. In this episode we look at doing some basic mocking of fetch.

Full video below:

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🔗 Discuss this video on the Fun Fun Forum

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Crazy Diamond (or no one writes poems for their teenage sons)
By: Nicholas Petrone
Tags: Poetry, Music, Parenthood, Otherdoors, Pink Floyd

I nearly cried this morning

as I ran through the deserted park,

that moment when the birds rose against the sunrise and clover-grass eternity

and then almost-cry became

tears

real, and salty like my sweat, but different and somehow enchanted,

although also heavy

because I know that it is my destiny to reach down through layers of earth

and polish that crazy diamond

if I want that boy to make it, to really find the comfort in this world,

polish it so the world can see

how through his obnoxious adolescence

something brilliant and pure still shines,

a piece of the Self, the big soul,

an obscure portion on the edge maybe,

a minuscule iota that resonates with music,

thundering vibrations a million times his size

that he hasn’t quite mastered what to do with

so seeks the safety of video games

and clips of people falling down

and I find myself singing wish you were here

though that baby boy is still with me

I find myself mourning my first born son

although I see him every day

but not really him

instead some scruffy rude and frustrated phantom where my little buddy used to sit and play

and if I had sense at all I would know that he is no longer poetry or anything close to it anymore

so maybe I’m a crazy diamond too

that he is busy bringing into the light.
Make Your Email Signature a Salesperson Who Works Around the Clock
By: Ugur Akinci
Tags: Signature, Marketing, Email, Sales, Email Marketing

Make Your Email Signature a Salesperson Who Works Around the Clock

It might be quiet, but it’ll be a great servant to make more sales

Copyright-free photo courtesy of Yogas Design at Unsplash

Imagine you have a salesperson who does not eat or drink.

This person does not sleep, take any vacations, ask for payment or a raise.

Your sales and marketing servant never considers jumping ship and joining a rival. Always loyal, always present, this person pitches your message about 121 times a day.

Where does the number “121” come from?

That’s the number of emails an average office worker receives each day, according to a report published by Direct Marketing Resellers group.
BlackBerry Bold Touch gets outed before BlackBerry World
By: Justin Cauchon
Tags: Blackberry Bold Touch, Touch, Rim

RIM accidentally updated its website earlier to include pictures of the new BlackBerry Bold Touch. While the images are now removed from the site, we obtained some pictures that show the phone listed on the site. The phone was not available for sale yet, but it lists it as “coming soon”.

RIM is expected to announce the BlackBerry Bold Touch next week at BlackBerry World. We will be live at the conference to bring you updates and the latest BlackBerry news. Stay tuned to Smartphone Nation and let us know if there is anything you would like to see.
“Tales of Taiwan: Civil Movements” at Rutgers University
By: Formosa Taiwan
Tags: Outreach Workshop, Blog, Education, Grow, Inspire

On Sunday, March 30, Outreach for Taiwan hosted our first workshop at Rutgers University in junction with Rutgers’ Taiwanese American Student Association. Since Eric and I both graduated from Rutgers University and were also active executive members of TASA not so long ago, we completely understood the mentality and mindset of what students in TASA thought and knew about Taiwan’s history and current situation. With all of this in mind, we were able to effectively create a presentation, titled “Tales of Taiwan: Civil Movements” in which we presented a short history of Taiwan and China, and then transitioned over to highlighting a handful of civil movements, with an interactive focus on the Sunflower Movement, in Taiwan.

About 15–20 attendees came out to listen to our workshop. It was nice seeing some familiar faces, and seeing new faces as well! Once our presentation was over, 95% of the students stayed for further discussions. Because we do still have close ties with the Rutgers TASA community, we were able to gather some constructive criticism from the attendees at the end of our presentation.

Our first workshop was successful in that both Eric and I did feel like we were able to help educate these young proponents of Taiwan about Taiwan, and we feel happy that we were also to spark curiosity about Taiwan amongst the attendees.

With the constructive criticism that we got from this workshop, we are looking forward to revising and editing our workshops to appeal to our audience better!

Outreach for Taiwan’s future looks bright. This is just the beginning.
A Case for Event Batching in Amazon EventBridge
By: Sheen Brisals
Tags: AWS, Microservices, Serverless, Programming, Aws Cloud

One Event, Two Meanings

It is important to understand that an event as we send and receive is not exactly how it is viewed internally in AWS.

While our applications view an event as one whole data entity, for EventBridge billing, AWS counts an event as a set amount of block of data.

Event — in a data context

The data event is what we’ve been discussing in this blog. For an application event, the maximum size of 256 KB allows packing a reasonable amount of data. However, in the majority of the cases, though, the events are smaller, less than a KB in size.

Regardless of the size, the best practice is to add only the required data in each event. Avoid filling with details that will be of no use to anyone. Also, think about the sensitivity of the data and eliminate what is not needed.

Data event vs billing event

Event — in billing context

The billing event is my term to describe what AWS internally considers an event for pricing and billing.

As shown above, for pricing, each 64 KB block of data is counted as one event. For example, a data event of 256 KB is four billing events.
Orphan’s Lament
By: Space Age Bonobo
Tags: 2018, Poetry, Art, Mourning, Life

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

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Random moment of nostalgic awesome movie appreciation.
By: Josh Hallman
Tags: Film, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood, Action, Last Action Hero

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