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Bioware Beware
By: Mitchell F Wolfe
Tags: Super Jump Podcast, Gaming, Bioware, VR, Podcast

Bioware Beware

Super Jump Podcast: Season 3, Episode 17

Wyatt and Mitchell get together this week to discuss Dragon Ball, Jason Schreier’s coverage of Anthem’s development, a Power Rangers fighting game, and much more! Is Nintendo’s attempt at VR worth talking about? What are the ramifications of Borderlands 3’s Epic Game Store exclusivity? Is competitive Melee sick as in “Righteous, bruh!” or sick as in “has an illness”?

All of this and more on this week’s episode of the Super Jump Podcast!

If you only want to hear this episode without dealing with a pesky podcatcher, that can be done here:

If you’re like me, however, and you LOVE pesky podcatchers, you’re in luck! The Super Jump Podcast is now available on iTunes and any podcatcher that picks up iTunes podcasts. Just search for “Super Jump” or follow this link to our iTunes feed. If you use another kind of podcatcher and we aren’t yet on its directory, you can still use it to listen to us. All you have to do is manually enter in the following URL:

Our theme and transition music is by Jamatar, who can be found here at his Bandcamp page.

Finally, if you’d like to write in to an episode of the Super Jump Podcast, you can do so at podcast@superjumpmagazine.com. You may be read on the show!

In our third season, we’ve explored a wide variety of gaming topics on the Super Jump Podcast, with the fun, enthusiasm, and positivity that we apply to the magazine itself. We really hope you enjoy the show as we continue into our third season — please take the opportunity to rate us on iTunes too, as it will really give us a boost.

Thanks for listening, and stay super!
Overwhelming turnout at Morpheus Labs’ first official event with Quarkchain & NEM Foundation
By: Morpheus Labs Team
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, ICO, Bitcoin

Friday night, 29th June saw SGInnovate (itself a Singapore Government deep-tech incubator) play host a massive crowd attending the event that was headlined by Morpheus Labs, Quarkchain and NEM Foundation.

The highly successful event was attended by a crowd from diverse backgrounds from blockchain experts, technical software engineers to beginners.

Big News for Morpheus Labs

During the event, Morpheus Labs announced an official partnership with Sure International (a unit of Batelco) as its sole distributor to capture the blockchain market in Middle East. This highly strategic collaboration will pave the way for bigger things to come and represent a significant milestone for Morpheus Labs to deliver world-class blockchain cloud solutions to serve a multitude of international businesses that are located with the islands.

Morpheus Labs also announced that it is making available a private demo for selected partners and customers where they can test drive the platform. Commercial release will be in October. Interoperability which remains the most elusive solution facing the blockchain industry will be a main highlight with Morpheus Labs putting in significant resources behind this strategic initiative.

NEM Foundation takes over the stage

The second presentation saw NEM Foundation share their vision on a blockchain where multi-sig wallets is a standard operating feature, an important but difficult to implement feature in current blockchains. NEM’s code has been written from scratch, something Stephen Chia, NEM Regional Director was quick to point out. Stephen also sees huge potential in blockchain application in all industries and not just in financial industries and the partnership with Morpheus Labs will be key.

Quarkchain talks about sharding

One of the highlights of the night was Quarkchain’s presentation on sharding as a solution to solve the current issue of blockchain scalability attracted a lot of attention. The sharding solution allows transactions of up to 100,000 per second, way significantly more than the current 8 to 10 transactions per second (tps) for Ethereum. High throughput gives hope to blockchain solutions being adopted by financial institutions as well as industries that demand performance, something which remains elusive up to this point. Quarkchain sees Morpheus Labs as the main driver for this adoption in addition to what they have to offer.

“Morpheus Labs greatly simplifies blockchain dapp development and promotes wider applications of blockchain. We would like to work with Morpheus Labs to build next-generation scalable dApps that could serve massive users.” Quarkchain Founder & CEO, Qi Zhou

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Swimmer’s Sonnet
By: Zach J. Payne
Tags: Lov, Survival, Life Lessons, Poetry, Life

Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash

2017. for Kerry Kletter

Aqueous heart, I call the waves to me

and sing the hymns writ large on sandy shores.

O, ocean, tell me how to live, to be;

how do I bring myself to open doors?

For I have drowned, a million times and one

and rise again, my lungs are unfatigued.

And still I dream this life has just begun

perhaps these bones are more than I believed.

My heart upon my cheek in iron ink,

I cannot hide my hand, these eyes betray.

Must I surrender all the walls I think

to stone? — Away, away! Behold the day.

Behold the wonders of this driftwood heart,

beloved by tempests, gnarled work of art.
What Was Life Like B.C?
By: Danita Hall
Tags: Humor, Pandemic, The Haven, Satire

What Was Life Like B.C?

Before Covid

Photo by Samantha Gades on Unsplash

Let us all agree to add B.C to the end of any date that was prior to 2020. Life was very different back then and it feels like it was so long ago, I can hardly remember. Now when we tell our kids stories of things that happened “Back in our day” we will actually be talking about Pre-Covid life.

Life during the B.C. Years

You were allowed to leave your home and enter establishments without a face covering.

There was a place that you could go to and pay money for a ticket, buy snacks, and then enter this dark auditorium style room and watch a movie….with other people….people that were not apart of your family. Maskless.

It was considered rude to eat birthday cake without the Birthday Honoree blowing all over the cake first.

The grocery stores had no directional signs on the floor. You could go up and down any aisle you choose and in any order. Maskless.

Every weekday morning kids would get up and go to a place where there was a teacher there to teach them and other kids were there too. Not online actually in person. Maskless.

Zoom was a platform only businesses used to hold actual meetings. It was not for family game nights.

You could go to a Sports Arena and watch your favorite sports teams play LIVE and not just on the television. You would buy a $20 hot dog and a $10 dollar coke and cheer on your team with thousands of other people around. Maskless.

There was no limit to how many people you could have at your birthday party or your funeral. You could literally invite anyone you wanted to invite. Unless it’s your funeral than you wouldn’t technically be doing the inviting. Maskless.

Oh those were the good old days!

Danita Hall is a human by day and a Humor, Parenting, Lifestyle, Ranting, Poem Writing Blogger by night. Click here to read past blog posts and stay connected on Facebook and Twitter
Into the Heart of the Country by Pauline Holdstock. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/sharing-my-fascination-with-math-and-nature-d4434e1e5edd
By: Tree Langdon
Tags: Earth, Nature, Mindfulnes, Poetry, Self Improvement

A merchant of dreams. ♡ I love to connect the specific to the universal in Poetry, and Fiction, exploring Worldview plots. Was a CGA/CPA in a past life.

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bell
By: Joe Váradi
Tags: Humor, Poetry, Satire, Nursery Rhymes, Social Media

NCiR’ THROWBACK TUESDAYS

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bell

I submit to your sweet spell

by Joe Váradi

Twinkle, twinkle, little bell

I submit to your sweet spell

When you shine your gleaming white

All in the world seems just right

Little green dot your companion

Finer sight than the Grand Canyon

What a classy congregation —

You two are my validation

Antidote to my frustration

Writer’s block annihilation

But when you stay grey and dark

With no punctuation mark

Not a clap to comfort me

Emptiness is all I see

Twinkle, twinkle, little bell

I submit to your sweet spell
Tokenbox Trading Contest Is Over: Winners Shared 1 Million TBX
Tags: Tokenbox, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Trading, Tbxnews

Tokenbox Trading Contest Is Over: Winners Shared 1 Million TBX Tokenbox Follow Jul 1 · 2 min read

For a consecutive month, traders from all over the world have been competing in trading digital assets and increasing their ROI to win 1 million worth of TBX tokens.

Over 100 traders from Germany, Russia, Israel, Singapore and a dozen other countries challenged themselves and tried out their trading skills and strategies at the contest — and only 10 champions managed to show the best performance. The only indicator for obtaining a higher rating was the return gained during the competition period, calculated in USD.

A trader nicknamed “WhiteBear” made it to the top and took the gold with 12,3% ROI, along with the biggest prize of 350,000 TBX. “VikS” stepped on the winners toes and took the silver with nonetheless impressive result +11,9%. He won 200,000 TBX. “Mike1992” rocked and placed third with his +11,6% ROI, taking 100,000 TBX home.

All three chose to deposit prize balances to their Tokenbox accounts. They confessed that they have plans to launch their own portfolios on the platform.

Winners who were ranked from 1 to 10 have already been pre-approved as Tokenbox designated portfolio managers. They are able to create a portfolio for managing investor’s assets on the Tokenbox platform.

The platform has undergone a serious development and now is ready to provide a wide range of options for traders, both professional asset managers and those who would like to train their skills. The update is a major leap frog — stay tuned to learn more about new amazing functions for investment and digital asset management.
Wake Up to Glistening Gold Optimism
By: Lucy The Eggcademic, She Her
Tags: Poetry Prompt, Eggs, Poetry, Food

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MF Chain Joins KOMOREBI ALLIANCE, The New Blockchain Paradigm of Token Augmenting Partnerships
By: Modern Finance Chain
Tags: Komorebi, Ingot, Blockchain, Modern Finance Chain, Mf Chain

MFChain recently partnered with INGOT Coin, GMEX-Group, BolttCoin, SwachhCoin, Black.Insure, PlaceToRent (PTRT), Bineuro, Stella, et al. to form KOMOREBI ALLIANCE, a unified blockchain front or the future single cross-blockchain platform that will allow all their communities to use their utilities simultaneously.

MFChain joined the Alliance to leverage the partnerships in an effective response to the current state of the market — namely its competitiveness that is at all times high but also the obvious inefficiency of the blockchain development.

“As a cross-blockchain platform by its nature, MFChain’s decision to join the KOMOREBI ALLIANCE was a logical step,” says Craig Neil, CEO at Modern Finance Chain, and adds that, “MFC’s strategy to collaborate with strategically important partners, already established blockchain projects, and traditional businesses enables MFChain to achieve its goals at an unprecedented speed while ensuring the long-term operational and financial stability. KOMOREBI ALLIANCE is the perfect example of such collaboration.”

The Alliance effectively creates a unique ecosystem that offers the community a host of options to ensure liquidity while providing the necessary redundancy in the event where one partner’s platform underperforms or goes down.

“As of now, this does not exist in the Crypto markets, financial markets or in any market. Joining one TGE (token generation event)will provide you with innovative services, eventually, but even at this point the services are limited,” said Ahmed Khawanky, CMO of INGOT Coin.

This new paradigm provides not only the additional hedging against the risk but also gives the new meaning to “Utility” by converging different industries such as health, insurance, financial services, E-commerce, and real estate, and combining the different existing utility functions of the individual partnered Blockchains. Simply put, it augments the efficacy of the offered services.

Hirander Misra, Chairman and CEO of GMEX Group comments, “We are entering an era where the value of the individual Blockchain enabled ecosystems combined through joint ventures will lead to a new paradigm of Token Augmenting Partnerships (TAP) creating a network effect, which will propagate to create a greater value.”

It is, therefore, clear that KOMOREBI ALLIANCE is effectively making a breakthrough in financial markets by presenting a revolutionary gateway towards an all-inclusive environment. And it is our belief, at MFChain, that this innovative approach will not only help the existing crypto community but will also create an easier path for the new adopters of the blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies respectively. Combined, this will act as a drive of the overall adoption rate and ultimately make the cryptocurrency a part of our daily lives, changing the paradigm of the monetary-market system from the ground up.
XSN Mandatory Wallet Update V1.0.22–8 October 2020
By: Stakenet Team
Tags: https://github.com/X9Developers/XSN/releases/tag/v1.0.22, Xsn Articles, Cryptocurrency, Defi, Cold Staking

We have released our latest core wallet version 1.0.22 which is a mandatory wallet update. This update focuses on TPoS and Masternode stability improvements and the much awaited TPoS signature update that will allow staking from a hardware device. This update is mandatory for everyone who has an XSN wallet — Stakers, Masternode Owners, TPoS Merchants, and hodlers.

We ask that everyone updates their wallet to the latest version before 8 October 2020 as the network will no longer accept actions from previous wallet versions after this date. You will not lose access to your funds if you do not update however; if you run a older wallet version then you will not be able to perform any actions such as staking or sending/receiving until you update to the latest version.

If you host your Masternode on the Stakenet cloud, https://cloud.stakenet.io/login through MNaaS then we have already updated all Masternode servers and ask you to update your local wallet (the wallet that holds your Masternode collateral).

If you stake your coins through a TPoS then please ensure you have updated your local wallet and your TPoS server to the latest version. If you use a TPoS Merchant then please ask your merchant to confirm that they have updated your TPoS VPS to the latest wallet version.
Huobi’s HB10 ETF over subscribed in 3 days!
By: Draft On Tech
Tags: Investing, Blockchain, Technology, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

In a first of its kind offering, Huobi launched subscription for its Huobi 10 index tracked fund, the HB10 on June 1. The subscription was open to the general audience and anyone could invest with either BTC or ETH or the Huobi’s native HT token .

The HB10 ETF closely follows the Huobi Index upto tracking error of 0.2% and the initial subscription was expected to be open till June 7th, as per the original schedule.

However Huobi announced later on June 1st that over $10m was subscribed within just an hour of the subscription period. Today, Huobi informed its investors that the subscription period has ended much before the scheduled closing date, and preparations are on to allocate the funds and make it available for trading. In a statement on its main exchange, Huobi posted:

Thanks for everyone’s attention and recognition to the first tracking index product HB10 on Huobi Pro. After the preparation period, trading will be open immediately.

As per the terms of the offer, Huobi would require a preparation period of 5 days following which the ETF would be available for trading against USDT.
A dream that crossed the whole planet
By: Inbest Helper
Tags: Buenos Aires, Inbest, Gift, Hong Kong, Inbest Network

Connections between people are no longer based on geographical coincidences but on shared interests that defy everything, even the most absurd distances.

The search for organizations that share our vision on the future economy and facilitating access to financial services brought us to relate with talent all over the world, from Brazil to China.

Asia is a region where blockchain technology and the development of the new crypto-economy is taking huge leaps forward every day. The bond between Inbest Network and the ecosystems of cities like Hong Kong goes way beyond software development or business partnerships. It is the shared dream of bringing down the walls that keep people apart and empowering each one to have the best tools at their disposal to pursue their goals what brings together the outermost cities of the planet.

To express this vision and materialize it, we have asked Flor de Pampi, an Argentine artist, to create a unique piece of art that synthesizes the link between both cities. On the one hand, Hong Kong, a massive metropolis with a deep history that made it remain autonomous even under the Chinese government and now the financial center of Asia. On the other hand, Buenos Aires, the epitome of Latin American innovation, full of colors and known for its culture that fosters affection over every other form of communication.

The artist drew the piece in her iPad, using digital illustration software. But once it was finished, she used a traditional transfer technique to bring the design to the board. Once the layout was in place, she painted it with acrylic and markers.

The board that Pampi intervened belonged to professional wakeboarder Rapun, and it traveled more than 18.000 kilometers to get to Hong Kong. To carry a small piece of painted wood all over the world represents a considerable effort. Nowadays material objects, and especially those that carry symbolic meaning, have a particular value. In an era where thousands of developers are trying to shift the way finances work by creating completely digital and abstract platforms for value transfer, this piece of nature is the best way we find to demonstrate a genuine interest in another organization, project or individual.

Inbest Network is not only about developing new technology. Innovating means changing the way people live — no matter where they are.
Tensorflow Lite(TFLite) with Golang
By: Dulan Anurada Dissanayake
Tags: Android, iOS, Tflite, Golang, TensorFlow

In this post I’m going to show case the implementation of TFLite inference application using platform independent language Golang and cross-compiling to a shared library. Which then can be consumed by Android, iOS etc…

First thanks to mattn who created the TFLite Go bindings and you can find the repo here. We will start the implementation of a simple Golang application for TFLite inference(You can find the example here). Here I’m using a simple text classifier which will classify to ‘Positive’ or ‘Negative’.

Here is the classifier.go, which has Go functions and are exported for use by C code.

Build() : function will initialize all the object references in go runtime environment and return the memory pointer for future use.

Classify(appPointer unsafe.Pointer, word *C.char) : function will accept the input of appPointer returned in Build() function and word a C string.

//export : is used to export Go functions to be used in C code.

More info about cgo you can find here.
What We Stand For: TV-TWO’s Values
Tags: TV, Blockchain, ICO, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Togetherness

Watching television is a communal activity. It’s a focal point in our daily lives — for many different reasons. Whether we’re sitting at home with our nearest and dearest, or discussing that cool new show with our friends and work colleagues: it’s part of our shared culture. It brings people together. And we all deserve better.

Value Adding

For too long television advertising has operated behind smoke and mirrors. Networks have strong-armed brands into blasting out trite mass-market messages for increasingly outrageous prices ($4.5 million to air a 30 second spot during the Super Bowl!). Digital marketers understand the need to precision target audience online and it’s time TV advertisers benefited in a similar way.

Trust and Transparency

Transparency is the key to creating value; and that’s exactly what the blockchain offers. There’s nothing more honest than an open, decentralised platform. That’s the thinking behind our app and our Token for Television (TTV). We believe that in exchange for access to their data and their full attention, viewers deserve to be compensated by advertisers. And by allowing viewers to pass on earnings to content creators, we’re creating a trust-based ecosystem in which everyone wins.

Willingness To Change

As much as we love TV, the industry itself is ripe for disruption. A lot of broadcast programming has become bland and formulaic; consider the sheer volume of reality shows out there! In a similar way, most good quality shows are only available on a subscription basis — hidden behind Netflix, Hulu, and HBO’s paywalls. Change is needed, and we’re willing to fight for it.

Opportunity For All

We believe in equality of opportunity. We don’t just want a handful of high-rolling investors to take part in our ICO; we want everyone to have a way in. That’s why we chose to run ours as an Interactive Coin Offering; to lower the barriers of entry and ensure a fair and accurate offering.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? Take a look at our whitepaper and decide if TV-TWO could work for you.

Mark your calendars… the TV-TWO ICO starts on Tuesday April 24, 2018, at 1pm GMT. For more info, check out our FAQ section, subscribe to our newsletter, and don’t forget to follow the latest news on Telegram, Twitter (@tvtwocom), Facebook, or Medium. We’re also active on Reddit.
Get ready for the new CREA 2.0
Tags: Blockchain, Algorithms, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Crea is the platform for the creation of hypermedia dapps based on the #blockchain that rewards creatives and curators of digital content. CREA, IPFS, DPOS

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The Desert Island
By: Curious Inkfish
Tags: Bahrain, Middle East, Mosque, Islam, Photography

The cat above was aptly named Attendance after I found him waiting at the finish line of a 5k race in the summer of 2012. The race started at 0530 with temperatures already hovering around 95°F — needless to say there were few people running that morning. Two years later when I returned to Bahrain, I was happy to see the mangy cat still roaming around the Naval Base. I am absolutely sure it was Attendance and not one of the other thousand stray cats roaming around…
Is “lust” bad?
By: Jonathan Poletti
Tags: Religion, Spirituality, Sexuality, Rules, Life

Maybe the idea is that Jesus comes to the earth to deal with the problem of people looking at people.

But if you believe that, it’s not a nice message for women. First of all, it suggests Jesus is only talking to men—only interested in men! Female lust doesn’t even rate a mention.

Then how are these lusting men to be punished? Adultery is a crime in Jewish law! — a capital crime. You die for it! (cf. Lev 20:10; Deut 22:22)

Is Jesus calling on the lusting adulterers to be executed?

Christians aren’t told to follow the old Jewish law (cf. Heb 8:13, etc.), so maybe it’s all right to hold off on the mass slaughter. But . . . how about we pause, and get some actual information.

“Lust” is translating the Greek word, epithumia, which just means ‘desire’. It’s not a term with any sexual context, and doesn’t mean your inner mental world of sexual thoughts.

It’s just saying you want something. Jesus ‘lusts’ in Luke 22:15 — to eat Passover! In 1 Timothy 3:1, Paul says a church leader has to “lust” for that position. They have to really want it.

Jason Staples, whose treatment of this verse was a blast of facts I’d never heard in church, notes these terms are familiar to Jewish readers. Epithumia is often translating the Hebrew word for ‘covet’.

It turns out that Jesus isn’t saying anything new at all in Matthew 5:27–28. Instead, he directly cites one of the Ten Commands to remind his audience that the Law not only prohibits adultery, it prohibits coveting with the same severity. This is not an intensification of the Law; it’s a reminder of what the Law already says.

We can look at the Old Testament and find the points of reference.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. (Exo 20:17)

Clearly, ‘coveting’ is not ‘lusting’ in the sense of sexual thoughts and intentions. It’s an intention to grab stuff from another man.
Learn about Lightning Network. lightning Network Installation guides…
By: Gaurav Agrawal
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Lightning Network, Blockchain, Decentralization, Bitcoin

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The Lightning Network is a decentralized system for instant, high-volume micropayments that removes the risk of delegating custody of funds to trusted third parties.

The Lightning Network is one of the first implementations of a multi-party Smart Contract (programmable money) using bitcoin’s built-in scripting. The Lightning Network is leading technological development in multiparty financial computations with bitcoin [1]. It’ll enable instant payments even for small transactions and will improve Bitcoin’s Scalability and hence will help in bitcoin adoption.

Installation Guides

The Lightning Network: How to install and (hopefully) make money

By Ronald Mannak

How to run a Lightning Network node on Windows

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Setup Bitcoin Lightning Server on Google Cloud (GUIDE)

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Bitcoin — Setup your own ⚡lightning ⚡ node on mainnet!

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Payment Channels in Bitcoin

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Distinguishing mutual and unilateral channel closing in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Amount-independent payment routing in Lightning Networks

By Joost Jager

Specific fee routing for multi-path payments in Lightning Networks

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The Lightning Network ⚡ will revolutionize a revolution or why HODLing is not the solution but…

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Beginnings
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Self, Humanity, Begining, Poetry, Creation

In the bright conjure of the morn,

it is a wonderment to my pupil where people wander,

undoing societal structures simply by standing still,

displaying the unsolicited.

In the beginning, hope prevails duty, justice is the shiver underneath,

breath begins dilation, whilst endings enter the forlorn mind.

In the spaces in between, chivalry begins as a duty,

fascination between sex and preparation in the unduly world,

it is the calling of the lone wanderer, the geese flying high in currents above.

Higher than the mighty,

men allocate rations of mentions, whilst women capture the imagination,

prepared and conditioned, unprepared and caught in stature,

lonesome and needy, progression provides the utmost imagery

into the world of the troubled kind, into the mind of the shadow,

kindness begins as dew settles on grass, blades shifting underneath the weight of such.
Room Database Android Example [Beginners]
By: Velmurugan Murugesan
Tags: Android Jetpack, Android Room Using Kotlin, Android App Development, Kotlin, Room Database

Room Database is a part of the Android Architecture components which provides an abstraction layer over SQLite which allows for more robust database access while still providing the full power of SQLite.

Room is a persistence library, part of the Android Jetpack

Why use Room Database?

Compile-time verification of SQL queries. each @Query and @Entity is checked at the compile time.

Using Annotations to reduce the boilerplate code.

Easily integrated with other Architecture components like LiveData, RxJava.

What is the difference between room and sqlite database ?

In case of SQLite, There is no compile time verification of raw SQLite queries. But in Room there is SQL validation at compile time.

As your schema changes, you need to update the affected SQL queries manually. Room solves this problem.

You need to use lots of boilerplate code to convert between SQL queries and Java data objects. But, Room maps our database objects to Java Object without boilerplate code.

Room is built to work with LiveData and RxJava for data observation, while SQLite does not.

Room architecture looks like the following:

There Are Basically 3 Major Components In Room.

1. @Entity

Entity Representation of table and columns become very easy. you have to annotate “@Entity” to a class and name of the class becomes table name and, data members becomes the name of the columns. “@Entity” class represent an entity in a table.

@Entity(tableName = "user")

data class Users(@PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)var userId: Int? = null,val userName: String, var location: String, val email: String)

2. @Dao — Data Access Object

An Interface where we put all our SQL queries. We don’t require to write whole queries now; we need to make a method and annotate with specific annotations like

@Insert — Used to insert record into Room database.

@Delete — Used to delete record from Room database.

@Update — Used to update record in Room Database.

@Query — Used to enter the Query like (SELECT FROM*)”

@Dao

interface UserDao {



@Insert

fun insertUser(users: Users)



@Query("Select * from user")

fun gelAllUsers(): List<Users>



@Update

fun updateUser(users: Users)



@Delete

fun deleteUser(users: Users)



}

3. @Database

This is an abstract class that extends RoomDatabase, this is where you define the entities (tables)and the version number of your database. It contains the database holder and serves as the main access point for the underlying connection.

@Database(entities = [Users::class], version = 1, exportSchema = false)

@TypeConverters(Converters::class)

abstract class AppDatabase : RoomDatabase() {



abstract fun userDao() : UserDao

}

Done with explanation. Lets start the implementation part.
Are We Destined Towards Obesity?
Tags: Personal Growth, Self, World, Life Lessons, Self Improvement

Three Factors Influencing Obesity

Recent events following COVID-19 outbreak left millions of people in a state of panic, for which the only reasonable solution was apparently overstocking on toilet papers and dry grains.

Deep reflection on this human behavior led me to conduct extensive study on our tendency towards hoarding. This, further, led me to the belief that in some cases our hoarding habits may be one of the causes for rise in obesity in the modern age.

Way back to the time of hunters, gatherers, and foragers; nomadic lifestyle was the norm.

“Foragers moved house every month, every week, and sometimes even every day, toting whatever they had on their back.” — Sapiens

When these foragers ran into a marvelous garden of ripe mango and cherry fruits — they hoarded as much as was physically possible, knowing that they may never have run into such a lush garden again.

“Upper Paleolithic humans, much like arctic jays and squirrels, began to cache food systematically so as to serve as a buffer against uncertainty.” — Sapiens

Although there isn’t enough data available without confounding variables to support this claim, our tendency to accumulate translated to the habit of over-consumption of clothes, drugs, entertainment, as well as, food.

The human collective has access to far more material today than ever before. Without enough coaching available around discipline and avoidance of instant gratifying behaviors, binging and hoarding has become a global pandemic.

In the previous era, food wasn’t as readily accessible as they are today. Due to globalization, we are even able to access foods that are out of season. The very simple answer explaining obesity is that we have TOO MUCH food available and simply don’t know how to handle this abundance with self regulation and control.

“…Almost everyone is heavier today than their counterparts of 40 years earlier.” — Psychology Today

“The root of obesity etiology is imbalance between dietary energy intake and energy expenditure. Human evolution has favored a preference for energy-dense and fatty foods, as a consequence of exposure to ancestral famine”

As we are moving towards the era of technological advancement, rise in laziness and lack of physical activity is precursor to weight gain. Many foods that are sold today are very high in fats and energy density, tipping the balance of energy input and output — leading to higher fat storage.
Fading Memories
Tags: The Friday Fix, Short Story, Love, Microfiction, Death

Fading Memories

Theme: Forget & Remember

Image by Caroline Attwood on Unsplash

Some days you struggle to hold on to them, their wings skillfully evading your reach, your fingers grasping at air and brown eyes the same color of yours that sometimes hide beneath unruly hair, a warm body you call home, and a faint smile that begs to never be forgotten.
How Friday the 13th Became a Teenager
By: Peggy Gillespie Hazelwood
Tags: Christmas, Humor, Friday The 13th, Short Story, Satire

Once upon a time, Friday the 12th was bored. And pissed off. It was November. And cold. After all, he was 12. It was practically his job to be bored.

The darkening sky came earlier and earlier in Friday’s village until one day it was pitch black outside a little after five p.m.

Friday hadn’t even taken a shower yet that day and decided to hell with it. Why bother now?

Soon, Friday was spending his days sleeping later and later until he wasn’t even waking up until after it was already dark.

Friday’s mother finally put her foot down.

“Friday, get up,” she screamed from the bottom of the stairs one day at the ungodly hour of 2 p.m. “It’s going to be dark soon and you have to stop sleeping your life away.”

Friday had stopped going to school and playing video games and doing anything he used to do. Now Friday mainly stayed awake a few of the dark hours at the end of the day like a sickly patient whose life was so out of whack that he wasn’t sure what day of the week it was. He was content to sit on the couch with his mother and watched whatever idiot show his father tuned the TV to.

But today after hearing his mother, Friday stretched and yawned and even though he seriously contemplated going back to sleep, he realized he was wide awake.

“WTF,” he murmured to his dog Bowtie.

Bowtie was curled at Friday’s feet and knew it wasn’t time to get up, not even close. But his master did something out of character. He flung his legs over the side of the bed and stood. Bowtie hopped on the floor too and looked up at the boy.

Friday glanced at the calendar. He had taken to X’ing out the day as it passed, and the next date glared back at him.

Today’s date.

Friday the 13th.

And Friday realized that it was December. “How did that happen?” he said, rubbing the sleep out of one eye.

Bowtie just looked at the boy.

“Are you up? I hope you’re up. Come down here, Friday,” his mother bellowed up the stairs.

Friday made a pitstop in the restroom then trudged down the stairs.

At the dining room table, Friday saw his friends Weekend and Tomorrow. Since his hermit stage had begun, he hadn’t seen either of them. It had been weeks.

The boys were seated across from each other wearing little party hats. When they saw Friday, they blew on little horns and yelled, “Happy birthday, Friday!”

Friday’s mother hugged her son and said, “Have a seat, honey. Did you forget? Today’s your birthday!”

Yes, Friday had in fact forgotten it was his birthday. He realized it was strange to have to be reminded of it, but not every year had a Friday the 13th in December. But this one did.

So that day, Friday turned 13 and celebrated his milestone birthday with his buddies, who later dragged him out in the real world to buy a real Christmas tree at Friday’s mother’s request. She said she needed the scent of pine to fill the house.

They all needed it, in fact.

And as soon as Friday left with his friends she high tailed it upstairs where she opened all the windows to get rid of the teenage funk that lingered in the air.
IntoTheBlock Signals Now Available in Spanish-language portal Cripto247
By: Alfredo Terrero
Tags: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Intotheblock

Cripto247 users can now access IntoTheBlock’s analytics in the site’s price pages

Cripto247 is one of the leading crypto informational sites in the Spanish-speaking world. The portal offers not only news but also a suite of informational products such as market trends, crypto-asset prices and analysis, educational tools and interviews of important industry personalities among many others.

Today, Cripto247 takes another step to provide their retail audience with more tools to understand the behavior of crypto assets by adding IntoTheBlock’s crypto intelligent signals on its crypto-asset price pages. When users navigate to these price pages (“Cotizaciones”), and can click on See More for any asset, a new window opens with a dashboard of IntoTheBlock’s analytics for said crypto-asset.

The IntoTheBlock dashboard is divided in two sections: The Token Summary displays, as the name implies, a quick view of a crypto asset showing several of IntoTheBlock’s indicators, which together provide a holistic view of a crypto asset’s behavior. The Actionable Signals section contains momentum signals based on IntoTheBlock’s underlying indicators. For those users interested in more detailed analysis, the “Dive Deeper” and “See More Signals” buttons redirects them to the IntoTheBlock Platform with access to a portfolio of over 60 intelligent signals about traditional crypto assets and more than 50 DeFi signals.

At IntoTheBlock, we are excited to make our analytics available to the growing Spanish-speaking crypto community through this partnership with Cripto247. We look forward to hearing about your experience with Cripto247 and IntoTheBlock.
Mapping the Global EdTech Venture Capital Space: Insights From 2015–2020
By: Kenza Bouhaj
Tags: Edtech, Data, Venture Capital, Investment, Education

VCs in the EdTech space: Mapping the growth and composition

Over the past 10 years, EdTech deals have exploded in number and value, reaching around ~300 transactions and more than USD 10B in 2020 alone.

In parallel, the number of VCs that have invested in EdTech companies has dramatically increased over the years. Figure 1 shows the evolution of the number of VCs that have performed at least one transaction in the EdTech space between 2010 and 2020. The strong growth is especially pronounced in the first half of the decade, where the number of VCs increased from ~100 in 2010 to ~750 in 2015, a 140% growth year-over-year on average. The year 2018 was a record year for EdTech, when the number of VCs that invested in the sector exceeded 800. Since then, there has been a decreasing trend, but we might expect the pace to pick up again after the COVID-19 crisis. Note that the dollar value of EdTech transactions increased rapidly. In this article published by GSV Ventures, Mujtaba Wani & Nafez Dakkak show that the value of EdTech transactions increased from USD 0.5 Billions in 2010 to an expected USD 12 Billions in 2020, at a 36% CAGR.

Figure 1

Next, a natural question to ask is whether there are any VCs that focus solely on education and EdTech, and whose strategy is to invest in these sectors alone. This is important, because it signals to others around the world that the sector is large and healthy enough to warrant an exclusive treatment from the guardians of capital movements. Figure 2 maps the number of education-focused VCs that have invested in edtech startups, 2010–2020. While the number of transactions completed by Education-focused VCs is small compared to the total number of transactions, it exhibits a similar trend to the one in figure 1. In the past 5 years, approximately 50 transactions have been completed by education-focused VCs.

Figure 2

So who are these companies?

Figure 3 breaks down the most active VCs in the EdTech space (defined as VCs that have made more than 8 investments in 2015–2020), both those that are education-focused and those with a general investment strategy.

On this list, we find the usual suspects (Learn Capital, Rethink Education, Owl Ventures, Reach Capital, GSV Ventures), a Chinese corporate-linked VC (TAL Education Group) and some angel investors (Deborah Quazzo, also Managing Partner of GSV Ventures).

The list of General VCs is just as interesting to look at, and is useful to identify which VCs are more likely to look at the EdTech sector. We find some prominent VCs (e.g., Accel, IDG Capital), well-known accelerators (e.g., Y Combinator, Techstars), impact investors (Omidyar Network) and conglomerates (Tencent Holdings). The prominence of the names on this list, and the relatively large number of investments they made in EdTech in the past 5 years, are definitely a testament to the sector’s growth and quality. It is also notable to see a number of Chinese companies among the top 10 investors on both lists.
NFL W13 Betting Predictions & Simulations
By: John Culver
Tags: Nfl Betting, NFL, Sports Betting, Lean Startup, Handicapping

The ISW employs its proprietary power rating system each NFL season beginning with preseason power ratings that are adjusted weekly according to team performance against the spread (ATS) as well as margin of victory throughout the season. Starting in Week 10, The ISW commenced an experimental multivariate power ratings approach.

New Power Ratings Methodology incorporates the following season-long team data: yards per point margin (YPPM), net yards per play (NYPP), average scoring margin (ASM), winning %, average performance against the spread (ATS), yards per pass attempt (YPPA), points per play (PPPLY), and pythagorean winning % (PYTH). We run a weekly correlation calculation to determine the weights of each variable as correlated to pythagorean winning %, which we believe is the purest descriptive statistic of a team’s relative strength.
PARTICIPARE ROMANEASCA LA FORUMUL INTERNATIONAL UMANITAR DIN AZERBAIJAN
By: International Relations
Tags: Eastern Europe, Diplomacy, News, Islam, Diplomatie

IRICE is dedicated to promote the international relations of Romania and to develop the economic, cultural and diplomatic relations with nations of the world.

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XSN Comparison Chart
By: Stakenet Team
Tags: Blockchain Technology, Xsn, Cryptocurrency, Technical Documentation, Lightning Network

Stakenet (XSN) revolutionizes the way cryptocurrencies are held, spent and staked.

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Fintech projects become extraterritorial
Tags: Finance, Cryptocurrency, English, Plasmapay, Bitcoin

How can one choose a country for registration of a start-up company? Ilya Maksimenka CEO of PlasmaBank, believes that it is better not to become attached to one state:

“We set ourselves an even more ambitious task — to connect the two hemispheres. And for accomplishing this goal we needed a physical presence in the West and in the East, so that “your mother would be shown here and there”. As a result, we received a global company, represented in all countries of the fintech green corridor. And today — at the stage of just establishing of the fintech market and the formation of a mature regulator — such an extraterritorial approach is seen as the wisest for fintech start-ups. “The legal nuances of a particular country can prevent further global expansion.

What is the advantage of European countries? In the EU it’s easier to go through bank registration, which will take two years in Russia. Most fintech startups are registered in the UK because of the very well developed law system of this country. Also, quite a few companies are born in the Swiss “crypto-sandbox”, but it is local and expensive.

The EU seeks a common market under the PSD2 directive, but up to now every country has its own economic laws. For example, Estonia seems very attractive because of the possibility to obtain an electronic residence, and you don’t even need to come to the country to obtain a license.

In Asia, Singapore has become the most loyal country to international companies. In China, Korea and Japan, you need to have a local office, employ locals, and have a lot of communication with officials. East is a delicate matter. And if you want the authorities to be loyal to a new company, you do need to communicate informally, entertain them, take them to the restaurants, give gifts.

Almost in every state in both the European and Asian region you need to have a branch of your company, so it is better to have a representative or partner in each country of presence.
How an Altcoin Named Beldex is Fueling the Crypto Fever?
By: Beldex Exchange
Tags: Initial Coin Offering, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, ICO, Cryptocurrency Investment

What’s a beldex coin?

Beldex is a privacy-enabled coin, giving power and control to its holders to perform public and private transactions. The transactions can range from traceable publically available and traceable transactions to untraceable private transactions.

Beldex Wallet

You can store your coins in the wallet, which is protected by safety features such as two-factor authentication and 6 digit manual pin. But the best is yet to come, an innovation that will change the way we look at cryptocurrency an AI-driven exchange. Here are the key features of the same.

About the ICO

BDX coins gives total control to users, empowering them with the choice of making transaction that are traceable and untraceable.With a lot of ICOs around choosing the right one becomes the hardest part in getting stable returns. The most trusted way to choose an ICO for investment is it’s utility aspect. When you choose a coin for investment, it should act as a fuel in the crypto space. The ICO will last till August 15th 2018. The prices of one BDX right now is $0.23 and it’ll be $0.25 from August 1st.

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ETN vs. ETF: Which Is the Investor’s Dream?
By: Peace Art
Tags: Thailand, News, Cryptocurrency, Etf, Bitcoin

ETN vs. ETF: Which Is the Investor's Dream?

There has been a big push for investors to be able to buy Bitcoin without actually having to buy the digital currency…