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How to Play the “Turn Your Life into Fun Games” Game
By: Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Tags: Philosophy, Ideas, Self, Gaming, Game Design

I have contemplated why this could be, and have even given interviews on it, but recently I discovered a game mechanic, which could explain why I am so engulfed in turning my life into fun games.

Game mechanics provide “a construct of methods or rules designed for the player to interact with. … A game designer’s main role is to come up with game mechanics that are engaging enough to either entertain a player or give them an impacting and worthwhile experience.” — Game Designing

Note to any game and gamification designers: This core mechanic of games is well-known to you, but I am a non-gamer playing the role-playing game of an anthropologist studying, among other things, these still new and exotic, for me, game design and play cultures.

Thus the discovery of this core mechanic was a eureka moment for me.

“The eureka effect (also known as the Aha! moment or eureka moment) refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept.” — Wikipedia

Here is this game mechanic:
Obstacles to data-driven Healthcare
By: Ella William
Tags: Data Visualization, Healthcare

“Sometimes the illness just sits in the body waiting for the right time to bloom!”, he remarked. Bob was a consultant globe-trotting for 15 days a week and this had finally taken a toll on his health as he sat recuperating in his plush hospital room miles away from his home in New York. Gazing out of the window, he suddenly remembered Jacob — his physician back home — calling him up at work a few days ago and warning him to take sufficient rest to control his stress levels as his heartbeat had started showing some irregularities.

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The Exercise Benefits Of Replacing Music With Mindfulness
By: Ricky Derisz
Tags: Meditation, Fitness, Lifestyle, Mindfulness, Exercise

Music adds to the enjoyment of exercise. I get it. Why would you want to listen to the clunks and oofs and background chitchat that make up the cacophony of sounds in a gym? Why would you want to listen to the repetitive thump of sole on concrete, of inhalation and exhalation, of passing traffic?

To drown out distractions, the allure is to tune into your favorite playlist, plug in the earphones, and get super-focused. Indeed, music is a great tonic for motivation, and there is a time and a place for the welcome boost music provides.

However, I’ve noticed that some of my best training sessions are when I train without music. There are subtle ways I use music not to enhance focus, but to distract myself from my routine.

With mindful training, I ditch the playlist and listen exclusively to my body. The difference in quality between these sessions can be profound. So if you’re used to music fueling your sessions, here’s why it’s worth ditching the earphones.
SCI Daily: Morning pump!
By: Francisco Araneta
Tags: Fintech, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Philippines, Blockchain

August 22, 2018

Bitcoin (BTC) pumped this morning right after crypto derivatives platform Bitmex went on scheduled maintenance, disallowing traders to short BTC and other crypto. Bitmex’s platform offers crypto swaps and futures which allows traders to short crypto and trade on margin. Blogger Bitfinex’d (@bitfinexed) also pointed out that $100 million worth of USDTs entered the market this morning.

Support levels are at $6,200 and $5,800 while resistance levels are at $6,800 and $7,200.

BTC/PHP: 376,030 / 349,460

USD/PHP: 53.65

BTC Market Cap: $117B

Crypto Market Cap: $222B

News:

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced that he has plans to get involved with a blockchain startup, in what is a first for him. In an interview at the ChainXchange conference in Las Vegas, he praised the technology for being independent and valuable, and also compared the Ethereum platform with Apple’s own App Store.

Lumenlab, a Singapore-based digital innovation center, is testing a blockchain-enabled insurance product for gestational diabetes sufferers. Dubbed Vitana, it is a parametric, automated insurance solution that is designed to integrate electronic medical record (EMR) data in order to trigger an automatic payout upon diagnosis, effectiiely removing the need for manual policy claims.

Since the acquisition of BitTorrent by Justin, at least 5 employees have left the peer to peer network platform. Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron cryptocurrency, reportedly has a different direction for the platform which has resulted in disagreement with many of its employees including a few senior level staff. According to LinkedIn, the company is hiring around 30 individuals for various roles.

BitOasis, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Dubai, is working with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to develop a regulatory framework that will benefit both the industry and its investors. The GCC is a union of various Arab states of the Persian gulf that include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the UAE.

Events:

A Stellar Craft & Crypto

Thursday, August 23 at 7PM, The Bottle Shop, BGC

An informal monthly meet-up dedicated to crypto talk, topped off with some delicious craft beers. This means no presentations, no structure, just friendly discussions and networking. So kick back, relax, and enjoy the night, as we get on this 🚀🚀🚀 together.

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以 MySQL 為例的資料庫優化
By: Yueh-Lun Huang, Eren
Tags: Database, MySQL

“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot. “ — J.D.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Tags: Poetry, Thoughts, Art, Creativity

The ship has drowned

And so is the treasure.

Look,

The abyss is jealous

I am still afloat..
Python Is the Most Important Skill in Data Science—But Is It Enough?
By: Rashi Desai
Tags: Machine Learning, Python, Data Science, Technology, Data

Python Is the Most Important Skill in Data Science—But Is It Enough?

5 skills to master beyond Python.

Photo by John Schaidler on Unsplash

In the rapidly expanding technological world of today, when data has exceeded millions of billions of bytes, it is crucial that generated data is analyzed and put to further use. Data is now a new chapter of how businesses work.

I comprehend data science to be a process of combining the tools best suited to get the job done; an extraction process where knowledge from data answers a particular question. Not every technologist is passionate about every other skill, but they will be excited about skills from her area of work.

Python (created by Guido van Rossum, released in 1991) is undisputedly the most sought-after skill in the data science field.

Python’s popularity has soared exponentially. Python can be claimed to being the fastest-growing programming language when it comes to the “new-age” technologies. The exponential rise in Python’s use and popularity can certainly affirm us that Python is here to stay!

Python is now the closest thing we can say to a lingua franca for data science. The question remains:

Is it possible to get an entry-level data science job with Python alone?

Although we have heard the ad nauseam that learning Python is an “absolute must” for beginners and online courses surely give the know-how of basic programming. However, this knowledge only isn’t enough to land an entry-level data science job in 2021. So then, what else do you need to be a good data scientist?

Here are 5 skills to master as an entry-level data scientist.

1. Big data analytics

It all starts with data!

Data Science is a field that comprises everything data; from cleansing, mining, preparation, and analysis, I like to call Data Science a process.

In this age of data and information, no business operates on 15,638 rows of data. Data Scientists are operating on millions of records. Enters — Big Data!

Big Data:

Big = a vast volume

Data = information that is hard to store, process and work with

This large amount of data can be used to analyze insights that can lead to better decision making for an organization. In the real world, it is the Big Data that is worked on. So for your next online course or project or certification, focus on Big Data tools and technologies. Some of the very popular tools for Big Data Analytics are:

Apache Spark Apache Snowflake Apache Storm AWS Hadoop MapReduce

I will be writing an in-depth blog on Top 10 Popular Tools for Big Data Analytics very soon. Be sure to have a lookout in the weeks to come!!
Why Math Matters
By: Atharva Ghatnekar
Tags: Mathematics, Learning Mathematics, Math, Student Perspective, Student Voice

Mathematics and its usefulness by a high school student.

Photo by Reuben Teo on Unsplash

As a high school student fond of math, I often indulge in an argument with my classmates over why I think mathematics, is possibly the most powerful and multidimensional subject a student can learn. Although very subjective, this claim had to be heard by all students; after all, every student should make room for the appreciation of one of the most fundamental subjects known to man.

Mathematics, due to its esoteric nature is perceived as alien and complex by many students. Intending to unravel and present the subject’s unseen elegance, this article shall hopefully find its way to readers who would begin acknowledging the subject’s importance and overcome their intuition of math anxiety.

Until late middle school, I too, used to treat mathematics as ‘just another obligatory subject taught in school’. Possibly, the reason the subject never seemed special, was because I never tried connecting with it. The subject somehow never made me go back home and spend hours on the internet just reading about an exciting topic under it. But I was wrong. It may have taken me a while but I did begin to form a link with the subject. The subject began to look like a necessity more than an obligation. Unwillingly, I began to agree with the fact that mathematics is understood by many, but it only speaks to some. Thus, based on my experience with the subject, I intend to cast light on why actually math matters.
Solitude/ Dyad
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Bridge, Dialectics, Elements, Memories, Poetry

Memories ask if you know the wind forms only vowels?

Do you know why?

The awkwardness, the insistent reality of the consonants etching control over yet more, under yet more. Like bridges that sway, merely suspended in the air, as if they were light, begin to dance into the form they’re put in. But are they lonely up high? Well…they make themselves critical of every breath.
BUILD ANDROID APPLICATION WITH JENKINS PIPELINE
By: Prashant Bhatasana
Tags: DevOps, Jenkins, Automation Testing, Continuous Integration, Android

Most of the organizations in the recent world are using Jenkins as a great tool for automating build processes, continuous integration, and automated deployment. Jenkins helps organizations automate every aspect of the development and save the developers precious time.

In this article, we are talking about how to Build Android Application on Jenkins pipeline.

Following this article, you can also build native as well as hybrid applications also.

If you don’t have setup Android SDK on your machine please follow this article.

If you don’t have setup Jenkins on your machine please follow this article.

After setting up Jenkins we need to configure Android SDK on Jenkins.

Global Properties

Open Jenkins: Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Global properties. Mark “Environment variables” and add:

ANDROID_HOME : <Path of android-SDK directory>

: <Path of android-SDK directory> JAVA_HOME : <Path of java-SDK>

Install the plugin from Manage Jenkins

Go to Jenkins Dashboard > Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Available > search for Build Pipeline > Install.

If you are already installed this plugin on your Jenkins it will display in the Installed section.

Create an Android build job

Open Jenkins -> New Item. Enter any job name > Choose Pipeline > Click OK.

Pipeline > There 2 options for Jenkinsfile.

Pipeline Script Pipeline Script From SCM

Pipeline Script:

You can write your Pipeline code directly on Jenkins job.

Pipeline Script From SCM:

Pipeline supports fetching the DSL (Domain Specific Language) script from the SCM. Typically called Jenkinsfile and located in the root of the project.

Select “Pipeline script from SCM” from the definition.

Select Git as SCM

Git URL to your repo. Take this URL from Github. It should be the format of git@github.com:{username}/{repo}.git

Credentials: Select the one you created before.

Branches to build: $branch

For both options, you can use this demo pipeline code.

🎊 🎉🤖🎊 🎉 Our Android project pipeline successfully configured.

Click on Build Now.

Now, you can watch the progress in Console Output. Once the job is finished successfully, you will see the APK.

You can also integrate your build with slack using the Slack Notifications plugin.

You can create a Slack trigger to run this job So you don’t need to open Jenkins whenever you create the build, Just execute the slack command and your build is up and running.

Thank you for reading, if you have anything to add please send a response or add a note!
Ethereum’s accidental hard fork/Apple is storing everything / Arya Stark is a Bitcoiner
By: Gaurav Agrawal
Tags: Coinmonks, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Bitcoin moon mission — Source

Ethereum’s accidental hard fork/Apple is storing everything / Arya Stark is a Bitcoiner

UK Treasury to publish draft stablecoin regulations and A series of DeFi Hacks

If you use a Mac, Apple knows every application you run, what time you run it, and where you are when you run it, and the latest update circumvents VPNs so Apple can know your real IP address.

A number of cryptocurrency community members and Ethereum supporters complained about network issues on Wednesday morning. The issue was resolved soon after.

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Humanity: The Final Frontier for Brands and Business
Tags: Gtb Talks, Design, Vml, Jason Gaikowski

Humanity: The Final Frontier for Brands and Business

Jason Gaikowski | Global Lead of Business and Brand Design, VML

Human-centered design isn’t simply a new(-ish) management trend. It’s a timeless method for unlocking new horizons of value for brands and businesses.

GTB welcomed Jason Gaikowski from VML to share how human-centered design transformed a brand and altered the trajectory of an entire industry.
Gradient Search Methods: Steepest descent Part 3
By: Marcello Ricottone
Tags: Optimization, All, Gradient Search Methods

We have looked at the method behind steepest descent and explored two ways of calculating our step size. In this post we will look at the limitations and the best use practices for the method of steepest descent.

Overall the method of steepest descent is a reliable and standard test method. However, the sacrifice is speed. When the functions get more complicated and the evaluations more expensive the method of steepest descent begins to lag behind other methods. This tradeoff is an important one, as the desire to reach a minimum is counteracted by the waiting time.

The method is steepest descent is generally used when a minimum must be found. This search method would not be appropriate for functions which need to be optimized quickly and roughly. This also brings us to our step finding method.

Between the step finding methods we can drastically change the behavior of our search method. It also may require us to take derivatives of our function (which may or may not be applicable at our test points). A standard step size might be useful to minimize derivative evaluations, but at the cost of time. Nevertheless, the method of steepest is a reliable and consistent method.

It is necessary to note that for any applicable function, the method of steepest descent will find a minimum. This guarentee must be noted when evaluating proper search methods, and makes steepest descent necessary for anyone’s optimization quiver.

-Marcello
5 Reasons Why You Should Apply to Join Our Team
By: Ivana Markovic
Tags: Recruiting, PHP, React Native, React, Design

I’m passionate about talent management and culture. My objective is to make Osedea the best workplace for our team.

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A terrifying guide to the broken minds of your grandchildren
By: Argumentative Penguin
Tags: Mental Health, Psychology, Social Media, Future, Life

Filter dysmorphia

CREDIT: Splitshire on Pixabay

The rise of social media has seen an explosion in the number of photographs taken. The word selfie has only been with us since 2002. So pervasive is the world of social media that by 2013 it was the word of the year and added to the OED.

There are plenty of mental health issues that come with taking countless pictures of yourself. Consider that the mirror in its current form has only been with us since the 1830s and you’ll see the problem. Never in the history of humanity have we been so obsessed with ourselves and how we look.

This is changing. We are now able to alter and augment our realities. Filters are becoming ever more sophisticated and commonplace. The initial filters of a decade ago were no more than colour washes or saturation changes. These have given way to a panoply of complex augmented reality filters.

This is going to supercharge Body Dysmorphia Disorder. This can affect both men and women and usually in different ways. Eating disorders in both women and men have co-morbidity with BDD. As do muscle disorders. It is an intense simplification to suggest that many women feel they are too large and many men feel they are too small.

But it’s a simplification that helps.

The interplay between eating disorders/muscle disorders and BDD is complex and outside the scope of this article. It is best explained as a disconnect between objectivity and subjectivity. How a person looks and how they think they look.

You may be able to see where I’m going with BDD and what filters do. They augment reality and change perception. I expect eating disorders, steroid abuse, and body modification to skyrocket. This will be a crisis for our teen population in particular. Teens growing up and able to document a fictional version of themselves will always find reality disappointing.

BDD has co-morbidity with social anxiety. It is hard to be confident and at ease with people if you feel judged all the time. People struggling with objectivity often interpret the behaviour of others as covert criticism. Expect high levels of social avoidance plus rising suicide rates in our teens. I would argue this may have already started and we’re at the first swell of a wave.

Filters aren’t flagged as the danger they pose.
The Beginner’s Guide to Web Development
By: Samuel Martins
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, Python, Learning To Code, Software Engineering

Going a Little Deeper

At this point, you have a choice to either delve into additional front-end skills or learn about back-end web development. If you choose to go deeper into front-end, there are some more intermediate skills that you will want under your belt. I recommend that you look at SASS, responsive design, and a JavaScript framework. SASS is an extension of CSS that makes writing styles more intuitive and modular. With SASS, you can split up your CSS into multiple files for better organization, create variables to store colors and fonts, and use mixins and placeholders for reuse. Even if you utilize just some of the basic features like nesting, you’ll be able to write your styles quicker and with fewer headaches.

Responsive design ensures that your styles will look good on all devices. The core practices of responsive design include using flexible sizing for elements as well as utilizing the media queries to target styles for specific devices and widths. Building your website with responsive CSS is a must these days since mobile traffic is outpacing desktop traffic.

After getting the basics of vanilla JavaScript down, you may want to learn one of the JavaScript frameworks — especially if you are looking to be a full-stack JavaScript developer. Frameworks come with prebuilt structures and components that allow you to build apps quicker than if you started from scratch. Currently, you have three main choices: React, Angular, and Vue. React, which is technically a library, is the most popular framework right now. The truth is, there is no best framework for everything. There’s rarely a single choice that is 100% the best choice for every person in every situation. The framework you chose will depend on either your job or your comfort level.

Don’t worry too much about which framework to choose. It’s more important that you learn and understand the concepts behind them. Once you get a handle on one framework, it will be much easier to learn other ones after that.
Village Face Lift
By: Jenny Jedeikin
Tags: Neighborhoods, Cvs, Comics, Jenny Live, Jenny Jedeikin

Jenny Jedeikin’s work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone, The Advocate, The UK's Oh Comely; read more at jennyjedeikin.com.

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Nextflow 系列 1 (環境建置)
Tags: Gene, Multiprocess, Netflow, Biology, Tools

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Mimi Monday
By: Chelsea Mansour
Tags: Aphc, Horses, Horseback Riding, Sports, Horse Shows

Mimi Monday

It’s ok to not to show

Mimi got to go to a horse show this weekend! Unfortunately that was about all she got to do. Just go there.

I have been monitoring some hind leg puffy-ness that started a few weeks ago. She has not been at all lame or sore.

On Friday, everything was set up and ready to go by about 2PM. I pulled out Mimi and lunged her. She just wasn’t quite right. It had rained and I was making sure she didn’t play on the line.

I was THAT girl. The one who didn’t let her horse play on the lunge line. If only people knew I was trying to protect her from herself.

I decided to ice her, continue using dry standing wraps, and only hand walk her until we got home. I was disappointed but still optimistic. It was Mimi’s first away show. She was still getting all of the essential stuff she needs to experience as a show horse.

Loading, unloading, and spending time being driven around

Watching other horses leave and come back

Meeting and seeing new horses

Sleeping in a strange stall

Walking around at a show

Being in a strange arena

Hearing the announcer

Being in a large group of horses

Hearing different people talking, moving and doing what they do

Trusting that I am with her and not leaving her there

She really is an incredible horse. The timing of the last day left Mimi as the last horse standing in a barn that had been full of 20. She called out only once. I said aloud to her, don’t worry Mimi I’ll take you home I just need to put everything else in the trailer first. Then there Mimi stood, quieter than some of the best World Champions I know, waiting patiently to be loaded last.

I kept remembering an article throughout the weekend. It described a dressage rider who bowed out of the Rio olympics due to her horse not feeling well. Luckily, I have managed to separate my ego and my intentions when it comes to going to shows, but many have not.

If we do not put the health of our horses first, why do we even show in the first place?
Apa itu GitHub ?
By: Alterra Academy Writer
Tags: Alterra Academy, Software Development, Github, Developer, Open Source

GitHub is now free for teams

We're happy to announce we're making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub…
寫給年經3: 關於我不是菁英的5個理由. 菁英改變糟糕習慣，平凡與糟糕習慣共存。
Tags: Work, Books, Self Improvement, Writing, Education

太麻煩、沒有資源、沒有時間......，面對問題、面對想法，我的第一個想法永遠都是找個我不想行動的理由。

這就是我跟菁英的第一個差距。想法可以荒謬、行動可以無釐頭，但是第一個想法如果是不行動的藉口，一個改變自己的想法就失去了實踐的可能

“ When asking what, you’re learning.

When asking why, you’re solving.

When asking how, your’re doing. “
Relationships & An Artist
By: Laura Manipura
Tags: Writing Prompts, Relationships, Artist, Poetry, Writer

An

Artist creates

Ruthless and raw

Trusting her process.

Inventing

Something from nothing, Sorting through the chaos

To create meaning.

An

Artist

Rends her hair in her dismay

That life in a garret

Isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Silently considering returning to the country.
Top 23 Records of 2019
Tags: Music, Lists, End Of Year, Top Albums, Ecm

By David Bernabo

Records happened in 2019. There are records that I thought I would have gotten into — Thom Yorke, Bill Callahan, the first Big Thief record of the year — but I didn’t, yet. The records below made me happy, though.

01. Sam Ashley & Werner Durand I’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good (Unseen Worlds)

02. Caroline Shaw Orange (Nonesuch)

03. Kit Downes Dreamlife of Debris (ECM)

04. Jim O’Rourke To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye (Sonoris)

05. Wilco Ode To Joy (dBpm)

06. Kali Malone The Sacrificial Code (iDEAL)

07. Richard Dawson 2020 (Domino)

08. Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Lost Wisdom pt. 2 (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

09. (Sandy) Alex G House Of Sugar (Domino)

10. galen tipton fake meat (Orange Milk Records)

11. Trvss Absence (self-release)

12. Big Thief Two Hands (4AD)

13. Oren Ambarchi Simian Angel (Editions Mego)

14. “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Peter Gordon Trust in Rock (Unseen Worlds)

15. Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer)

16. Motohiko Hamase Reminiscence (Studio Mule) (reissue)

17. Lorin Benedict & Ron Heglin Duos and Solos (Artifact Recordings)

18. Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke with special guest U-zhaan Hence (Editions Mego)

19. Marco Ambrosini / Ensemble Supersonus Resonances (ECM)

20. James Blake Assume Form (Polydor)

21. Pedro The Lion Phoenix (Polyvinyl)

22. Philip Perkins Yeah Machine (Artifact Recordings)

23. Kayo Makino & Tori Kudo Ein Traum Für Dich (Black Truffle Records)
Vincent Price’s Daughter
By: Davy Carren
Tags: Fame, Poetry, Fiction, Movies, Life

I remember when they brought you home

all snotty and cross

swaddled in pink vomit of roses

a kid

self-serving definitions handled

soon’s casket on call

where the bashful make shyness a routine

where hiding’s a drug

when there’s nobody for no one nowhere

I remember when they took you away

all superimposed gentleness

and a famous disregard for fame

a wannabe heroine addicted to spearmint gum

shooting dukes down the alley

wary and worn and whittled to a pie tin’s crinkly edge

or shouting, “Be discreet, you asshole!”

yes

that too

I don’t remember when I stopped trying to care

all the weddings and graveyards gone by

windows left open to plummet out of

pictures lost in suffering’s sucker punch

pictures of you and me and you and me and you

and you and you and you

“And what, pray tell, are you doing in this place tonight?”

“I come here on early Saturdays sometimes.”

“You do? I’ve never seen you here before.”

“It’s not as often as I’d like.”

“That makes two of us.”

“This music really makes one well up, doesn’t it?”

“It’ll do that to you with the aid of a martini or three, if you’re not careful.”

“Whatever do you know about martinis?”

“Olives and alcohol.”

“That’s about it, I guess.”

“So, are we going to dance or just sit here gawking at each other?”

“Yes. Let’s.”

Wine-heavy in the giddiest of ways

tell-tale in the paunchy gut of love’s posture

a drip of mustache to slip over a staunch disregard for convention

you’ve made too many rights to mistake what’s left for what’s been

restaurant French and all

for an Elizabeth Taylor salad before a compote of Farley Granger

settle down and stay seated on my aisle-side

so you can betray me

and mean it this time

you’re in my dreams anyway
Generic investor pitch presentation flow
By: Jan Schultink
Tags: Investor Presentation, Story

This is a blog about all things presentation design. SlideMagic is a new presentation design app that makes creating business presentations easy. Check it out at www.slidemagic.com

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Implementing Theming in DoorDash’s Design Language System
By: Kathryn Gonzalez
Tags: React, Frontend, Design, Design Systems, CSS

At the beginning of 2020, DoorDash’s Design Infrastructure team introduced a Theming feature to our Prism design language system, an internal library that makes frontend development projects more efficient while ensuring consistent design across all of our products. Theming provided an API for engineers to define how Prism components would appear on the screen. With the introduction of this new feature, any team building a product for the web could easily bring the Prism design language system into their project and take advantage of the large number of pre-built components, typography elements, and visual color definitions.

Our design language system, which we call Prism, is one of the most powerful tools that our frontend engineers utilize in their projects. Prism’s centralized web, iOS, Android, and Figma libraries contain definitions for the lowest-level elements of our design ecosystem…

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Vacant
By: Jonathan Greene
Tags: Mental Health, Emotions, Self, Poetry, Life

Vacant

A Poem

Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

The inside of me is vacant

like an abandoned house

once cared for, but now

without fixtures to hold it

I am running on empty

An unfilled tank of emotion

that won’t get this car to start

so I remain without battery

They try to plug me in

but I am broken inside,

unable to get the charge

that used to be so easy

My mind is unoccupied,

my heart unfilled,

my life unfurled,

and here I sit,

vacant
NarrowBand IoT for Vehicle Rental System…
By: Sabesan Sathananthan
Tags: Vehicles, Nb Iot, Internet of Things, IoT, Power

Nowadays, most people would like to travel around the world. If a person wants to travel around the world or explore different countries, then that person needs a vehicle. If the person is not very rich, then the person would rent a vehicle to explore the place. There are so many vehicle rental companies all over the world. In this article, I would like to suggest a convenient method that could prove useful to vehicle rental companies. This is my 24th article in Medium.

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Nowadays people are talking about 5G, but many of them don’t really know much about NarrowBand IoT. First of all, let’s discuss what NarrowBand IoT is. What are the advantages of NarrowBand IoT? Millions of devices will be connected via the Internet of Things. This is a massive challenge for the communication network. While today, a few hundred smartphones may register in a radio cell. In the future, there will be a few thousand devices or sensors for a typical mobile network as we know them. The burden on the network would be far to high, and energy consumption would increase dramatically. The solution to this problem is the so-called NarrowBand IoT and a narrow banded machine sensor network. This network operates with 3gpp radio waves that cover vast areas. At the same time, they are able to travel through thick concrete walls and reach the remote corner of a building deep in the ground. The sensors transmit only small data packages once a day per week or even a month, and they consume little energy.

For example, within the machine sensor network, vending machines will be able to report independently, and in-time, when they need a refill or have to be fixed. Street lamps can be switched on or dimmed if necessary. Parking spaces will indicate when they’re available or occupied. NarrowBand IoT offers a vast arena of opportunities for different industrial sectors to use the internet of things. A prime example is the Smart City, where many NarrowBand IoT solutions communicate with each other to make the city more comfortable and safer.

For this proposed system we can use Quectel BC95 and a GPS module to track vehicles. Quectel supplies Quectel BC95. Rending company owners can buy and attach it with your vehicles. There are many service providing companies that now support NB-IoT. Rendering company should develop an M2M platform and they can have a server to keep the tracking history. Attached below is the architecture of the overall system.

Overall architecture

Conclusion

NB-IoT is not only useful for the vehicle rental system but also people implement in a lot of systems. We can replace GPRS by NB-IoT. Comment your suggestions.
Free repairs
By: Hiut Denim Co
Tags: Inspiration, Ideas, Photography, Creativity, Words

The above was an excerpt from Hiut Denim Co. — YearBook 3. We only printed 2000. They have all sold out. But you can get a free digital version of YearBook 1 when you sign up for our newsletter here.
The Political Stories That Will Dominate 2021
By: Tom Stevenson
Tags: USA, Elections, Politics, Election 2020, UK

The Political Stories That Will Dominate 2021

6 stories that could define the new year

Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash

2020 has been a year few of us saw coming. A novel virus rampaging across the planet, destroying lives and economies in its wake. This wasn’t on my list of what might happen on January 1, 2020!

Yet, here we are approaching the end of a year few of us have ever seen before. With this year drawing to a close, what happens in the new year is of the utmost importance.

From a political perspective, there are lots of stories to contend with. What will a Joe Biden administration look like? Have we seen the end of Donald Trump as a political force? And what are the implications for a post-Covid world?

All of these questions will be in focus next year. No one can predict what will happen, but we can make an educated guess. Some issues are more obvious than others, while some may seem inconsequential but could have big implications going forward.

2021 promises to be a very different year to the one we’ve just experienced and yet it could be similar. Whatever happens, these are the issues that will dominate the headlines as we move into the new year and beyond.
Podcast Episode #9: Data Science in the Library with Stephanie Labou
By: Camille Dunning
Tags: Data Vizualisation, Library Usage, Data Science, Podcast, Podcasting

This article recaps the main takeaways of our podcast episode with Stephanie Labou. Make sure to listen to the full podcast below or on Podbean. Follow us to stay tuned for more episodes!

For our ninth podcast episode, we are joined by the UCSD Library’s Data Science Librarian, Stephanie Labou. We begin by discussing with Stephanie about her practices as a Data Science Librarian, a seemingly unique job. She assists students with data acquisition and analysis while co-managing Geisel Libary’s Data and GIS Lab. She also engages in teaching through workshops in basic coding, data architecture, and software tools. Throughout this episode, we gather insights from Labou about the Library as a valuable resource for Data Scientists, and tips on producing practical Data Science projects. In the end, she helps students navigate through deciding on using public or private datasets.
Dumb & Dumber
By: Peter C. Cook
Tags: Education Reform, Louisiana, Politics, Congress, Education

In fact, this data helped inform the state’s recent decision to overhaul its teacher training requirements after it became clear that many programs were leaving their graduates unprepared for the classroom. Beginning in 2018, students entering education programs at state colleges and universities will complete a year-long residency in the classroom of a mentor teacher and will complete a new competency-based course-of-study that focuses on the skills and knowledge they need to successfully transition to teaching.

But the need to overhaul teacher preparation is not unique to Louisiana — far too many education schools across the country are churning out aspiring teachers who lack the skills they need to be successful. Of course, state policymakers can’t address the problem without first identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their existing programs, but few states have taken it upon themselves to establish a formal system for evaluating them.

In 2013, the National Council on Teacher Quality released a sobering report on the state of teacher training programs.

The rule that Cassidy and Kennedy voted to repeal last week was the Obama Administration’s attempt to nudge states in that direction by tying teacher prep evaluations to funding: Only training programs that were judged to be effective would be eligible for federal student aid and certain grants. Although Republicans derided the rule as “bureaucratic micromanagement,” “fiscally responsible” seems like a more apt description — that is, unless our esteemed senators can explain why taxpayer dollars should be used to prop-up ineffective teacher training programs.

Title I: No Strings Attached

If the repeal of the teacher prep rule wasn’t bad enough, Cassidy and Kennedy also joined their fellow Republican senators in voting to repeal accountability regulations tied to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

ESSA, the long-awaited update to the George W. Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act, dictates how federal K-12 education funding is allocated through its various title programs, including the enormous Title I program ($14.4 billion in 2015), which provides funding to schools and districts that serve low-income families. The law also provides an overview of what states must do in order to receive these funds, such annual testing and reporting requirements, a process for addressing persistently failing schools, etc.
How To Get A Phone Notification Whenever A Script or Command Is Done Running In Your PC
Tags: Cybersecurity, Programming, Code, Technology, Marketing

W e can do everything using scripts, these are fantastic problem solvers. But as in life, nothing is perfect. Whenever you run a script, you have to wait for the given task to finish. If the command is short and simple, you won’t have to wait much for the results. On the other hand, if these scripts take long, that is a problem. Most time, if you are busy doing something also, you will miss out whenever a task finishes, making you waste valuable time waiting for something that had been done for a long time already.

Intro

I want to show you how to get notifications on your phone or computer screen, letting you know that your command just finished. This is a convenient way to save time, in case you need to run more scripts. No one wants to compile a program and wait for it to be done by just looking at the terminal.

Requirements

Telegram Account

Python 3

Git

Ntfy

Installing Requirements

Python

Let’s start by installing python 3. Windows and Mac OS users can go to python.org and follow the instructions there. For Linux just run:
A home for your Stellar content
By: Kyle Mccollom
Tags: Blockchain, Stellar Lumens, Distributed Ledgers, Stellar

There are some great posts about Stellar on Medium without a publication home:

And we’d like to give great content like the above articles a home in the Lumenauts Medium publication. This will help content creators reach an audience interested in Stellar and help that audience find relevant content.

All articles that are included in the Lumenauts Medium publication will also receive distribution through the Lumenauts Letter — a weekly newsletter containing the most interesting Stellar-related content from each week.

Reach out on Twitter or via email (hello at lumenauts dot com) if you’d like to submit your Medium post to this publication.
Realism
By: Danna Reich Colman
Tags: Poetry, Love Poem, Long Distance Love, Poem

wanting to linger

in the scent of you

desiring to taste

the perfection of you

hoping to move

in rhyme with you

needing to breathe

in time with you

longing to feel

the reality of you
‘팝체인’이 선사할 3가지 선물
Tags: Popchain, Popbox, Bitcoin, Korean, Blockchain

in Both Sides of the Table
We’re not who we think we are
By: Paul Mulliner
Tags: Spirituality, Meditation, Personal Development, Mindfulness, Poetry

The one conscious space looks through all of us.

And sees itself.

Appearing as all life.

As we reach into the inner silence

of this conscious space

with our attention,

it dissolves us into itself.

And we realize the one conscious space in all of us,

the stillness and silence of now.
Derivatives
By: Adrià Serra
Tags: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Calculus

CALCULUS DERIVATIVES

Derivatives

The most important element of calculus

All the elements that we introduced in the last posts, as functions, continuity, and least upper bounds are the essence of calculus, but the real powerful concepts are derivatives and integrals. In this case, we will introduce derivatives, that will allow us to define derivatives.

Differentiable function

From secant line to derivative

The accurate definition of the tangent line starts with the definition of the secant line, a secant line is a line that intersects the curve at a minimum of two distinct points.

Now we can use limits to move this secant line to the tangent line, we will use the following definition:

Tangent line first approach definition, self-generated.

If h≠0, then the two distinct points (a, f(a)) and (a+h, f(a+h)), determine a straight line whose slope is determined by the definition.

As h approaches to 0, the slope of the tangent line should be:

Tangent line definition, self-generated.

A function is differentiable at a if the tangent line exists, in this case the limit is denoted by f’(a) and is called the derivative of f at a. A function f is differentiable if f is differentiable at a for every a in the domain of f.

Examples of derivatives

The derivative of a constant function

The easiest function to derive is the constant function f(x) = c:

Derivative of a constant function, self-generated.

Thus f’(a)=0, that means that the slope of the function is always 0.

The derivative of a linear function

The derivative of a linear function f(x) = cx+d:

Derivative of a linear function, self-generated.

Thus f’(a)=c, that means that the slope of the function is always c.

The derivative of a quadratic function

The derivative of a linear function f(x) = x²:

Derivative of a cuadraticfunction, self-generated.

Thus f’(a)=2a, that means that the slope of the function depends on a.

Non-differentiable functions

Now we check chat happens when we try to differentiate a no differentiable function, as we introduced in previous posts about limits, we will use the right-hand and left-hand limits to check if f’ exists.

The function that we will use is f(x) = |x|, first, le’ts evaluate the value at x=0.

The derivative of f(x), self-generated

Now we can see that the side limits of this function do not match at 0 and the limit at 0 does not exist:

The derivative of f(x) is not continuous, self-generated.

So, the derivative of f(x) is not continuous, and the function is not differentiable at x=0.

Differentiability implies continuity

This is an example of the application of a very important theorem:

If f is differentiable at a then f is continuous at a.

Conclusion

In this post, we started playing with derivatives, they allow us to know the gradient of functions. The gradient is the value that deep learning uses to change the functions in each epoch, trying to find a local minimum for the problem that it tries to solve.

Next post will show how to calculate the derivative of any function.
Medium’s Ancillary Benefits
By: William, Dollar Bill
Tags: Life Lessons, Culture, Freelancing, Writing, Médium

Medium’s Ancillary Benefits

Getting to know successful authors/writers

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After getting released from a year behind bars in a federal prison, the world at large came to discover that I’d spent significant amounts of time in the exclusive company of both PAUL MANAFORT and JEFFREY EPSTEIN while locked up.

With that — and a friend who knew some people of influence — I got a rush of media attention that introduced me to a few real live authors and editors. And by “real live,” I mean people who’ve had numerous books published or are currently editors employed by mainstream major league websites and newspapers.

But predictably, that rush ended (through no fault of my own), and I am back in the realm of the obscure, struggling to find an audience. Enter Medium, which is no easy row to hoe for an alt writer like me.

With respect to this platform, I do what I do against the grain. I paddle against the current. But it turns out I’m not alone in my eccentricity. I’ve actually found some like-minded individuals and readers who exhibit at least some appreciation for my work. That in and of itself is a reward that money can’t buy.

I’ve also discovered some writers who I find either extremely talented, successful, and/or entertaining. And a few have reached out to say they think I have some talent for what I’m doing here.

Yesterday, I hit the jackpot — connecting with a writer who a) has a 20 year-old book with royalties that still support him…b) an appreciation for my work…c) is in my age group (old)…and finally, offered to recommend me to his literary agent! How’s that for a quadruple blessing?

Googling his agent (who he confessed doesn’t do much but alert him to his royalty checks), I discovered she is not somebody who would want to represent me given her areas of interest. But hey! It’s the thought! A successful author (let alone writer) offered to help me out.

And that’s what I call a major ancillary benefit of writing on Medium. It didn’t happen on that occasion. But it could in the future. The moral to this story is: You never know where a break will come. You just keep plugging away and hope for the best.

If you sit on your ass and do nothing, you won’t get that break. You simply just have to keep working — and then pray it will happen. What else can you do? Give up? I’ll give up when I die (maybe). Until then? I continue on my intrepid path — obscurity be damned!

More about the struggle:
Life is Love
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Life Lessons, Positive Thinking, Motivation, Love, Poetry

I am a warrior of life, striving to be a better person every day. Finding my voice on writing.

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