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Introduce Inheritance & Object Composition
Tags: Dependency Inversion, Inheritance, Design Patterns, Open Closed Principle, Object Composition

These days for your applications, a decoupled and encapsulated software system is ever more relevant. Reusability, maintenance, care, and sustainability play a major role in our software development projects — they are getting bigger and bigger. People, who try to master these challenges, read Robert C. Martins Clean Code, Clean Coder, or Clean Architecture. Actually, some of them follow his SOLID principles:

S ingle Responsibility Principle

ingle Responsibility Principle O pen-Closed-Principle

pen-Closed-Principle L iskov-Substitution-Principle

iskov-Substitution-Principle I nterface-Segregation -Principle

nterface-Segregation -Principle Dependency-Inversion-Principle

So, why should we care about the so called “Inheritance & Object Composition”? Because they are a big part of one of the aforementioned SOLID principles: the Open-Closed-Principle.

„Software entities … should be open for extension, but closed for modification.“

What’s more, inheritance and object composition decide about whether your software application is going to be monolithic or decoupled. We need to understand these concepts to make our software systems cleaner.
Community update: Eligma’s CEO Dejan Roljič shines in London
Tags: Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Pitching

Just two short days after appearing in Kazan in Russia Dejan was joined on a flight to London by Eligma’s Chief Operating Officer Žiga Toni and General Counsel Luka Planinc. Their destination? The London CryptoCurrency Show.

Event was packed with workshops, seminars, crowdsale presentations and panel summits, dedicated to spreading the awareness regarding crypto and blockchain projects throughout the United Kingdom.

Dejan presented Eligma and its benefits. His pitch then gained a personal note when he presented his view on doing a crowdsale. He explained some of the challenges and emphasized the necessary hard work that goes into it. He advised the spectators to start such a process only if it really makes sense for their product and business.

There were quite a few questions from the crowd about the technology, ELI token and C2C business model. Dejan had this to say: “We had a good discussion with people from the financial industry who were very interested in our token sale and how to get involved with Eligma in general. They see Eligma’s value and would like to take part in some way or another.”

If you are interested as well, you can join our crowdsale that starts April 17th and for which we have locked the ETH exchange rate at 800 $.

You can find more information here:

Web page|Facebook|Telegram|LinkedIn|Twitter|GitHub
The Greatest Gift
By: Dr. Jackie Greenwood
Tags: Family, Gifts, Love, Poetry, Illumination

POETRY

The Greatest Gift

A post-Christmas rhyme

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

The greatest gift

cannot be bought

It must simply come

from a place of thought

It’s not under the tree

wrapped with a bow

But appears, unexpected

with little to show

Give your attention,

both of your ears

and listen to someones

hopes and fears

Or a helping hand

a smile, a touch

It’s the smallest things

that mean so much

And time, the thing

there is so little of

is second only to

the gift of love

Dr. Jackie Greenwood
Leadership Off Limits
By: Jamie Mcintosh
Tags: Relationships, Leadership, Love, Business, Strategy

We all view the world through a unique lens. Politics is in literally everything from our churches to our social organizations to news events and crime to our governments. This is the place to share your view, regardless of your political leanings: all are welcome.

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“‘Mulch Maker’ Pinocchio was in a precarious position as he faced the courtroom.
By: Kyle Freeman
Tags: Fairy Tale, Pinocchio, Webcomics, Art, Mobsters

in Both Sides of the Table
Mileage Matters: Episode 13
By: Drive Capital
Tags: Venture Capital, Amazon, Deliveryservice

Two quick musings this week:

The first discusses Scott Galloway’s outlook on Amazon’s assault on retail shopping. The second questions the balance between getting a product launched and risking early user frustrations.

Listen in below as we openly discuss the best opportunities of the week. We’ll see you next Friday.

Mileage Matters is recorded live at the start of every Drive Capital Partner meeting. We kick off our week with a discussion of the things that caught our attention over the past seven days. We’re going to begin sharing these musings in the form of a short podcast. Our goal is to give entrepreneurs a glimpse into how we think about the markets we cover (and more). We’d love to hear from you, and learn what’s catching your attention these days too. Let us know what you think on Twitter or drop us a line.
Hey Data, were there any Sharknados in 2020?
By: Dawn Moyer
Tags: Sql, Programming, Women In Tech, Data Science, Data

Hey Data, were there any Sharknados in 2020?

advanced SQL techniques Part 1: beautify your data with case statements

Image by maja7777 from Pixabay

Real data is varied and messy. If you are getting your data from a database using SQL, you can clean that data before it ever gets to you. This technique makes analysis directly from the query results easier, and it will reduce the amount of time you have to fuss with it afterward in a python script, for instance. In some cases, using case statements to return flags rather than varchar text will reduce the size of your output considerably.

In short, a case statement is similar to an if, else statement.

CASE case_value

WHEN when_value

THEN statement_list

[WHEN when_value THEN statement_list] ...

[ELSE statement_list]

END CASE

I use case statements extensively to evaluate the data to create new, cleaner data elements. For instance, if a day of the week column has ‘Wednesday,’ ‘wed,’ ‘ Wed,’ or ‘Hump Day,’ you can clean that right from the get-go in your query.

case when lower(day_of_week) in (‘wednesday’, ‘wed’, ‘hump day’) then ‘Wedneday’

when lower(day_of_week) in ('friday', 'fri', 'tgif')

then 'Friday'

......

else day_of_week

end

The Data

In a prior post, I detailed how to create a MySQL database in AWS. I loaded up severe weather event details in the US in 2020.

severe weather event data loaded into a MySQL database — screenshot by the author

The Question

Knowing you have access to severe weather event data, your boss asks you:

Were there any Sharknados in 2020?

It’s been a crazy year, and he wants to go on a vacation. He fears the Sharknado and wants to avoid any states recently afflicted.

The question you formulate is: Were there any states with a tornado with reports of a shark?

Your Response

You can use case statements to answer this question. You actually only need the third case statement, but the first two are good practice for validation.

using case statements to evaluate data — screenshot by the author

You can eyeball this list looking for positive Sharknado flags, or you can also use a case statement in the where clause.

Simplify your results:

using a case statement to filter results — screenshot by the author

You can tell your boss there have been no Sharknados in 2020……YET.
EOS Knights holds the 1st EK. Cup!
Tags: Eos, En, Eosio, Eosknights, Game

The 1st EK. Cup — EOS Knights

When does the 1st EK. Cup start?

From Tuesday, April 23rd at 12:00(UTC) — To Friday, April 26th until 12:00(UTC); 3 days

Where will this event be held?:

You will be teleported using the EK. Cup Portal. Please refer the image below

Whom to play with?

With your 10 times stronger Knights ERIC, ORIA and SCARLLET

How to participate?

Every player start equally EK. Cup with the same condition

What is the goal of EK. Cup?

Reach the highest floor and craft ‘The Great Sword Against Death’

Reward to be claimed

50 EOS: the first account who successfully crafts and submit ‘The Great Sword Against Death’

10 EOS: Top 20 accounts who reach the highest floor

MW: Every participant get MW, based on number of floors they climb (1,000 MW is max reward)

Miscellaneous

- There will a level 1 Knight of ERIC, ORIA and SCARLLET be provided at start

- There also will be given 9,000 Dark Magic Water(DMW) at the beginning. DMW can be used for EK. Cup only!

During the event the attack of all Knights will be 10X stronger than usual

- Certain items require 4 materials. 1 out of these 4 materials can be replaced by DMW

- There is no material/item market on the event.

Attention

All materials, items, pets and DMW were used during the cup will be destroyed!
Winning NaNoWriMo 4: Keeping Track
By: Michael Coorlim
Tags: Productivity, NaNoWriMo, Writing, How To, Videos

The NaNoWriMo community on Medium. We share and support each other through November's madness and beyond. We welcome submissions about your experience during NaNoWriMo and how it has impacted you.

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Haiku 353
By: Zoe Day
Tags: Meditation, Joy, Mindfulness, Poetry, Haiku

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How Can You Make a Difference Right Now?
By: Larry Cornett
Tags: Company Culture, Morality, Careers, Protest, Racism

PROTESTS

How Can You Make a Difference Right Now?

Reward the organizations working to create a better future

As a white man, I’ve been struggling to find the right way to be involved and supportive of the current protests in the U.S.

It shouldn’t be about my voice right now. I don’t have anything worthwhile to add. I haven’t experienced the pain that so many others live with every day.

I could simply write another career article. I could pretend that the world isn’t burning. But, it seems tone-deaf to ignore what is going on all over the country, and now the world.

Of course, I’m sad, frustrated, and angry by what is happening to people who are exercising their right to protest peacefully.

As a reminder, the First Amendment to the U.S. Consitution states:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

My business is about taking control of your career and your destiny. It’s about making choices that are aligned with your beliefs.

I choose to align myself with people who believe that everyone deserves an equal opportunity to be successful, happy, and safe. Everyone deserves a chance to pursue the life that they dream of living one day.

No one should face discrimination. No one should be denied opportunities simply because of who they are. No one should live in fear.

I do not want to live in a country that rules by fear.

I do not want to do business with companies that discriminate.

No one should work for employers who deny people opportunities because of their race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious preferences, disabilities, age, etc.

Yet, we know that companies like that do exist. Some of these companies have woven themselves into the fabric of our lives.

Now is the time to make choices that will enable positive change.
Nostaljik Bir Soru: Sosyal Medya Kapatılır mı?
By: Özgür Kurtuluş
Tags: Sosyal Medya, Türkçe, Teknoloji, Tarih, Kişisel Gelişim

in Both Sides of the Table
Bag
By: Tom Thomasson
Tags: Inhaling, Poetry, Limerick, Humor

A Young Lady once in the snow

Happened to be feeling quite low

Til she took a drag

Of some stuff in a bag

She had bought with a buttload of dough
Inclusive Classrooms
By: Arianna Eliopoulos
Tags: Teaching, Transgender, LGBTQ, Middle School, Intersex

This project is a teacher training on creating inclusive classrooms. I touch on the topics of working with intersex, trans, and other non-binary students as well as the female vs male experience in schools. I chose middle school teachers as my target audience because students go through so many changes during this time period, not only physical but cognitive as well. It is important for teachers to be understanding and a support system to their students.

To view the presentation you can follow the link below:

To play the presentation as a whole click the purple “Play” button at the top of the screen.

Be sure on sections 4 and 7 (titled Male vs Female Experiences and Gender in Society respectively) to click through each slide using the arrows at the bottom of the screen (where it says “Slide 1 0f 3”).
Run smoother lessons with our new student app
By: Ef Class Design
Tags: Teaching, Product, English Language, Education, English

We understand how chaotic the classroom can be — the last thing you need is technology adding even more confusion!

That’s why we’ve been working away to simplify the student app. Here’s what we’ve done…

Reduced the number of tabs in the sidebar, so that students are less likely to get lost or distracted

Removed Taught lessons from the Dashboard, so that self-study assignments no longer get lost amongst them (they’ll still be accessible in Study history though)

Introduced a simpler and cleaner design, for a more enjoyable student experience overall

We hope that you enjoy these new changes! As always, we’d love to hear your feedback — please feel free to get in touch with us any time on class@ef.com
Ten Years Of Bitcoin — A Celebratory Competition
Tags: Crypto, Bitcoin, Competition, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Of course many of us here in this space are eternally grateful to Satoshi Nakamoto be him/her a person or group, for they planted an idea in motion that we all know is unstoppable and harnessed correctly the world will benefit from it. At The Golden Horde we’re wanting to celebrate today, the tenth anniversary by simultaneously announcing an exclusive piece of art and also giving the community an opportunity to win the first ever of this piece created, our design aptly named “From The Heavens”. On top, if this wasn’t enough to wet the appetite we’ll be sending the winner a limited edition White Paper Version of the Ledger Nano S which was announced and released by Ledger today.

The way to win this piece and Ledger is simple, we’re looking to expand our network of contacts on Twitter and to get in touch with you lovely lot, we feel our TGH_Society account is a good place for people to reach out to and we’re looking to connect with more crypto minded Twitter users! In order to get a chance to win the design follow these rules:

The competition will close two weeks from now on the 14th November so make sure to spread the competition far and wide and stay up to date with everything The Golden Horde!
Please Write Chelsea Manning a Letter
By: Jackie Thornhill
Tags: Government, Politics, LGBTQ, Pride, Donald Trump

On March 8, Chelsea Manning was sent to jail after she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating Wikileaks.

When served with a subpoena to appear before the grand jury, she issued the following statement: “The grand jury’s questions pertained to disclosures from nine years ago, and took place six years after an in-depth computer forensics case, in which I testified for almost a full day about these events.”

“I stand by my previous testimony. I will not participate in a secret process that I morally object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech.”

District Judge Claude Hilton brushed off a request from Manning’s lawyers that she be sent to home confinement due to medical complications, and she was held in solitary confinement for 28 days in a brutal attempt to break her resolve.

She was eventually released from jail on May 9 when the grand jury that served her with a subpoena expired, then promptly re-incarcerated a week later after defying a subpoena from a new grand jury.

This time around, Manning will face a $500 daily fine beginning on June 15, which will increase to $1,000 a day on July 15. Considering that she is unlikely to budge and Julian Assange is unlikely to be extradited anytime soon, these fines will add up to a significant sum.

In my first post addressing Manning’s imprisonment, I called for the repeal of the Espionage Act — an archaic law primarily used to prosecute whistleblowers who should be rewarded for performing a public service.

In my second post, I pointed out that the precedent set by the Plame affair had a chilling effect on news organizations’ willingness to publish classified information, leaving Manning with far fewer options than Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

In my third post, I argued that by refusing to testify, Manning is denying the Justice Department a key witness in the case against Assange, and doing more to defend the 1st amendment than any journalist in the US today.

I quoted Noam Chomsky, who summed up the whole situation as “efforts to silence a journalist who was producing materials that people in power didn’t want the rascal multitude to know about.”

He also said, “Some of you may recall when Mussolini’s fascist government put Antonio Gramsci in jail. The prosecutor said, ‘We have to silence this voice for 20 years. Can’t let it speak.’ That’s Assange.”
Black Hole Blues
By: Mahmoud Awad
Tags: Music, Science, Space, Dreams, Poetry

Black Hole Blues

A Nonet

In the nest of my mind’s eye, nothing

could be heard over the silent

cacophany of my dreams,

the blue-black observer

whispering to me:

and the silence

will set you

free.
¿Cómo viajar de EE.UU. a Perú?
By: Guvery Oficial
Tags: Viajar, Vuelos Internacionales, Guvery, Estados Unidos, Peru

COVID-19 Travel Advisory

Exceptions to the travel advisory are permitted for essential workers and are limited based on the duration of time in…
Orange Vibes for a Bright Future: How We Redesigned Norway’s #1 App
By: Bakken
Tags: Work, Apps, Redesign, Design, Case Study

Cash isn’t king anymore. Since 2015, flea markets, pop up cafes and restaurants have swapped out cash money for Vipps as their standard form of payment. And splitting the restaurant bill with friends has never been easier. With over three million active users, Vipps holds a steady position in many people’s — and small business’ — pockets.

After the Norwegian bank DNB launched Vipps, “to vipps” someone quickly became a widely used term, and verb. Vipps comes from the Norwegian interjection vips, a word describing an action as happening instantly. You can both vipps your friends money for last night’s pizza and vipps your electricity bill with just a few taps.

In 2017, Vipps became its own tech company and is now more than one hundred employees. As a part of this process, Vipps needed a new visual identity. Especially since the colour palette was still heavily associated with DNB’s green branding. After Vipps and Scandinavian Design Group had worked out the strategy, and created a solid new brand for the company, we could start experimenting with a new look and feel of the app.

Envisioning transition

But before we started working on the actual design, we had to look at the bigger picture. We couldn’t simply build the new design on top of the existing one, as its last big update was several years ago. Together with the team from Vipps, we had to start at the bottom and work our way up. Laying down the groundwork first made it possible for us to build a whole new, sustainable design system for Vipps, one based on functionality and the needed components for it to scale and grow in the future.
The Playlist, One Month In
By: The Big Back Catalog
Tags: Music, Rock, Playlist, Spotify

Just in case you needed the reminder, one central purpose of this blog is to build an eccentric and somewhat unpredictable playlist of great songs from days and years gone by.

It’s been a month since we began, 17 posts celebrating 17 songs from four different decades, a playlist that clocks in at 69 minutes.

Follow the playlist below on Spotify, where we’ll add new songs with each new post.
Data Science for Beginners — Breaking it down for the newbies.
By: Margaret Karaba
Tags: Machine Learning, Chaptr Global, Data Science, Data Analysis, Data

Data science has been termed the “sexiest” job of the 21st century. As increasing amounts of data become more accessible, it’s no brainer that in Kenya alone, 59% of organizations are projected to increase the number of positions requiring data science skills.

Fun Fact : According to IBM, the demand for data scientists is expected to increase by 28% by 2020.

So what is this buzz word “Data Science ?” Simply put data science is the study of data. It involves developing methods of recording, storing, and analyzing data to effectively extract useful information that is interpreted for decision-making purposes.

Some historical context

The term data science has existed for the better part of the last 30 years. In the 1960s the term data science was originally used by Peter Naur as a substitute for “computer science”. Years later, the term was used to define the survey of data processing methods used in different applications. In 2001, data science was introduced as an independent discipline.

Why should anyone become a Data Scientist?

Pretty good question.

On Glassdoor Data science ranked as the number 1 best job in America in 2018 for the third year in a row. In Africa, it is one of the top 5 best-paying jobs, and one of the highest paying jobs in the IT industry in India. Needless to say, data scientists are well compensated. Cha-ching $$

Furthermore, the exponentially growing need for data specialists increases by the day and doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. It is, therefore, a rational career move if you are looking for some financial security and stability in the next decade or two.

If switching to a high paying career is your trajectory then Data Science is a field to be watching out for.
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Music, Cool, Song

This is a great video if you like Stop Motion photography. Nice song, too.

Watching this video, I am impressed with the way they depict her days. The phrase “she fights for her life as she puts on her coat… as she fights for her life on the train” just seems to haunt me… a good example of how we are all living our “normal” lives but all dealing with complex issues…. work, life, love…

Oh, and the “fish” (sock) that taps her on the nose in perfect rhythm to the music is absolutely perfect.

After seeing this, I bought a copy of the song iTunes

.

Oh, looks like you can also get the Her Morning Elegance Video

in iTunes as well.
A lie for a lie
By: Wandering Soul
Tags: Wisdom, Destiny, Love, Lies, Poetry

A story I recite

Uncommonly common to my fright

First of my kind

Two unrelated destinies

Meant to cross

Situations so arise, making them wise

Conveying a message, a message for all

Standing at the cross roads

He and She

Some unrelated ties of another life

They meet again to discharge the debts of their past

Successful and arrogant

Debonair and imposing

Whimsical humor, mercurial temperament

He had many goods, many vices he possessed

Independent and strong

She would accept no wrong

Attractive and astute

At a precarious junction

She was stuck in a tricky situation

Both were awestruck

Blinded by her ingenuous eyes

Heavy with the burden of the past

She was blinded by his innumerable virtues

He showered love, to the object in front

Embraced her, offered her with emotional succor

Unwary of the devils within

And so emerged a new surge of emotions

Virtuous and pure

Platonic attachment extending to the soul

As time passed by, multiple events began to unfold

The journey became arduous, survival seemed tough

He gave her no space, he believed in absolute dominance

She, on the contrary, couldn’t be controlled

Intense clash of egos leading to the imminent dissonance

Love lost its sheen, it ceased to be clean

Bittersweet sensations, feigned emotions

Multiple pretensions at multiple depths

Severing several ties, corroding several bonds

Vehemence of his reactions was out of spite

Incongruity of her demeanor she didn’t wish to hide

Both couldn’t condone, had they both a heart of stone

They tried to stitch, brick by brick

No longer free to re-join

Like two sides of a coin

They continued the façade

They had to coexist, they had to last

For as they grew they had tied

Multiple threads of their discrete lives

Games they play, silently they lay

Her face puts up a fake smile

Isn’t it a pity, Play the fool or be witty

In a whirlpool of stuck emotions

Mandated by the bonds they once sowed

Along the path they daily walk

Hugs so wry, Smiles so dry

“I love you” he lies

“Love you too” she rep’lies

Together they strive, together they thrive

Together they live, A lie for a lie
What are the things you’re trying to do?
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship

…m increasingly convinced that figuring out how to get in the right room is the proper way to think. If I am trying to do something, I ask myself, the question same question Chris Sacca did: “how do I get in the room with five people that are world class at this?”
His Name Is Harry
By: Joel Eisenberg
Tags: Novel, Fantasy, Entertainment, Harry Potter, Movies

His Name Is Harry

He is the boy who lived.

In 1997, the world forever changed with the following sentence: Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

The words opened the first novel of J.K. Rowling’s tale of boy wizard Harry Potter, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” released in the U.S. as “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

“Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (referencing the original title as it was the first published) spawned a seven-book novel series — which has since become the biggest-selling book series in history — and numerous spinoff product. Worldwide, the series novels have sold over 500 million copies, the eight films based on the “Potter” novels alone (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final film, was divided into two parts) have globally grossed over $7.7 billion, and the “Potterverse” franchise in total is worth an estimated $25 billion.

Not bad for a former researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International who conceived the idea for the series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London. From Wikipedia: The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series.

For more information on the creation of “Harry Potter” and the “Potterverse,” please visit the series’ Wikipedia page here:

Perhaps Rowling’s greatest legacy is she is credited with turning countless millions of children and adults back to reading books. A secondary legacy, but no less impressive, is that her novels’ cinematic adaptations were so successful, the studios have — during the films’ releases and since — realized that intellectual property (IP) based on books can be an ongoing mass media bonanza, as opposed to one-off successes.

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Novel and Film Franchise

(Note: The stories of the films follow the books closely, so I will include the official studio synopsis for each of the films herein. The first book was published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, followed by Scholastic in the U.S., before the remainder of the series was published concurrently by both. In all instances below, I include covers for early versions from each publisher.)

1. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in the U.S.)
How To Develop A Healthy Relationship With Fear
By: Zaid K. Dahhaj
Tags: Mental Health, Creativity, Self Improvement, Fear, Self-awareness

For the majority of people, fear is the master that dictates how they act within the world. This is normal and natural but it comes from a weak perspective.

The question that we should ask ourselves is, “Are we in the drivers seat of fear or is fear in the drivers seat of us?” This will determine whether we develop a healthy relationship with fear.

Why do we feel fear?

Obviously, a major component of fear is physiological and we feel it because it serves an evolutionary adaptation. Fear is a signal for us to either fight, freeze, or run and this has served us well in our ability to survive as a species.

At the most fundamental level, we feel fear because we are programmed to feel it although we don’t have to let it control us in our modern environment.

What are the most common fears?

Here are some common fears that are ever present in our modern environment:

Social Fear

Social fear is a major fear because we evolved to be a part of the group for our very own survival.

Past & Future Fear

Fear in regards to time is a major source of suffering for most people. Many people fear the repetition of the past as well as the countless possibilities of the future.

Health Fear

Many people fear the state of their health and what possibilities might arise within that context.

Financial Fear

Fears about money and finances is a major fear that manifests within our society today.

These are just a few of the major fears that the majority of people succumb to. It is definitely not a comprehensive list so be on the lookout for more of these widespread fears.

Below, we’ll discuss how fear holds the majority of people back from moving into higher level of personal growth and achievement.
Microservice, Apaan tuh ?
By: Rizal Yogi Pratama
Tags: DevOps, Software Development, Microservice Architecture, Software Engineering, Web Development

Codelabs is a division of digital experts. We created an application to help the people. And we’re from Indonesia Computer University.

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Monroe Township granted $15,000 to work toward sustainability and green infrastructure.
By: Anthony Mazziotti
Tags: Sustainability, Local, Water, Community

Monroe Township granted $15,000 to work toward sustainability and green infrastructure.

Sustainable Monroe Township will work hand-in-hand with Rutgers University and the Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association to improve impervious cover.

It was announced at last Monday’s council meeting that Sustainable Monroe Township was granted $10,000 in federal funding and $5,000 from Rutgers University to work with the Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association. Patrick McDevitt from Sustainable Monroe Township was enthusiastic when talking about the opportunity.

“We saw Rutgers working all over the state so I made some inquiries,” McDevitt explained. “Luckily I was able to hook up with Fred Akers [from Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association] and he was able to access some funding to get Rutgers down here to do a project in Monroe.”

Akers went on to explain the specifics of the grant. Akers was able to come up with $10,000 in federal funding that will go to his organization first. He was then able to contact Chris Obropta from Rutgers who matched with $5,000 to have a total of $15,000 for the project.

There are three parts to the project. The first part is an impervious cover assessment, a land operation that uses geographic information systems and mapping to measure how much impervious cover there is. The impervious cover is any surface in the landscape that cannot effectively absorb rainfall.

The second part of the project is the impervious cover reduction plan. The idea is to plan a way to reduce the impervious cover. Akers described it devising a plan to get water into the ground instead of it running off.

The final step includes green infrastructure projects. Akers gave an example of the final step: “If we get the water into the ground by implementing some green infrastructure, whether it be a rain garden, stormwater basin enhancement, or some other measure, Chris Obropta will calculate the value of that in terms of sediment removal and water into the ground. Chris will be able to put a value on it and cost out the project.”

McDevitt was excited to bring this opportunity to the Monroe Township Council.

“It’s going to be a benefit for stormwater management and green infrastructure,” he said. “In addition, implementing these practices will benefit our aquifer and reduce stormwater runoff. On the residential side, we plan to do some education on rain barrels, rain gardens, and better watering practices that will help as well.”

In other news:
MOAC Chain Project Weekly Report. 39
Tags: Blockchain, Moac Weekly Updates, Moac, News

in Both Sides of the Table
Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating), Overview
By: Raouf Zoghbi
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Bagging, Towards Data Science, Bootstrap

4. Advantage of Bagging

Random forest is one of the most popular bagging algorithms. Bagging offers the advantage of allowing many weak learners to combine efforts to outdo a single strong learner.

Bagging methods mainly focus on reducing the variance. If the base models trained on different samples have high variance (overfitting), then the aggregated result would even it out thereby reducing the variance. Therefore, this technique is chosen when the base models have high variance and low bias which is generally the case with models having high degrees of freedom for complex data (Ex: Deep Decision Trees).

The big advantage of bagging is that it can be parallelised (trained in parallel). As the different models are fitted independently from each other, intensive parallelisation techniques can be used if required.

Models with complex architecture or large data require more training time. bagging is parallelised , the time taken to train each of the base models is equivalent to training any one of them, making bagging a good choice of ensemble method.
acceptance
By: Molly Skeen
Tags: Poetry, Magnet Poetry

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Thoughts
By: Alice Floris
Tags: Poetry, Thinking, Micropoetry, Psychology

Thoughts are like the weather: they come and go. They are not good or bad, exciting or boring. But they can give extreme highs and lows, can make or break you.

A thought is shaped by the head in which it occurs, and so the same thought will create a different reality depending on the individual.

So if you don’t like a particular thought, just let it go. It can only exist if you pay further attention to it.

If you like this, please take a look at my earlier work:
Ilgasis savaitgalis ligoninėje
By: Toma Liutikė
Tags: Baby, Newborn, Maternity, Motherhood, Hospital

Journalist, lector, editor. Owner of online stylish books and magazines store Kūnas Mags & Books Let’s get lost in pages! 🔜

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This is how we overcome ethics washing
By: Nathan Kinch
Tags: Behavior Design, Ethics In Tech, Ethical Design, Responsible Innovation, Responsible Technology

I’ve called out Responsible Innovation before. For the most part, it’s little more than ethics washing.

But why?

Well, we’ve got broken systems (misalignment of incentives is a great example of this. Wanna nerd out on this sort of stuff, check out our deep dive report. Free to download. No ‘pay with data’.). That’s on thing. Another is that people lack the skills and experiences to do the ethical actions they say they will. It’s hard. Harder than it should be.

The latter is something we can tackle through tiny steps and collective action.

So, let me keep this concise. To overcome ethics washing, we need to make ethical action easier to do. We need to enhance the ability that individuals and organisations have to behaviourally commit to their ethical intent.

We do this by enhancing ability.

We give people access to models and methods. We help them put those models and methods into practice. We measure the effectiveness of the models and methods in action. We socialise the whole process and learn better and faster, together.

If you wanna get started on the early steps of this, check out our 10x Workshop Series.
Skyrim’s Best Stories are the Ones We Tell Ourselves
By: Eric Pierce
Tags: Culture, Pop Culture, Video Games, Creativity, Gaming

I like the idea of Skyrim better than the actual thing.

Don’t get me wrong – I love Skyrim. I’ve bought it no less than four times:

For the Xbox 360 at launch.

A few years later on PC, so I could enhance and extend the game with mods.

When it launched on the Xbox One with mod support. No more messing with mod loader programs!

Lastly, for the Switch. Skyrim on the go? Come on…

But whenever I spend too much time actually playing the game, I come away nonplussed. For all it’s jaw-dropping vistas, frenzied combat, myriad of activities, and bombastic soundtrack, there is an empty vapidity to the proceedings that becomes glaring the more time you spend playing.

I so desperately want to believe the lie but I can clearly see the man behind the curtain. Only that would imply some level of freethinking — he’s more like a clumsy automaton restricted to a set of instructions that smokes and sputters when you try to go beyond those precise strictures.

The only way to retain suspension of disbelief is to either dutifully follow the trail of quest crumbs or ignore the story prompts altogether.

The cardboard nature of the world isn’t helped by the inherently stupid way open world RPGs maintain a weird tension between the so-called urgency of their quests and embracing the go anywhere spirit that is the point of the entire enterprise. A world in jeopardy that waits indefinitely while you chase the horizon doesn’t just break immersion — it shatters it.

These games try to have it both ways, but the end result is jarring and mars the beautiful illusion. The only way to retain suspension of disbelief is to either dutifully follow the trail of quest crumbs or ignore the story prompts altogether.

The Elder Scrolls franchise has never been known for it’s riveting stories. Players come for the open world experience, where you can seemingly go and do anything. The canned story is tolerated at best, ignored at worst.

Skyrim is at its best as a vessel into which you pour your own stories.
Cool People — 2. Roger Zuraw, Musician. A man with a lot…
By: Louise Peacock
Tags: Music, Friendship, Photography, This Happened To Me

This story starts back in 2003, in Toronto.

I used to attend an afternoon open stage put on by our local Songwriters association. This was a fun event and gave us songwriter types a chance to get up and show off our songwriting talents and get feedback from our peers. The event was held at a really nice club called Hughs’ Room which had a bang up stage and a great sound system.

There were a lot of interesting people who attended that event, one of them was a songwriter called Roger Zuraw. Roger and I became friends and used to sit and chat while we waited for our turn up on stage.

After some months, for some reason (I forget what it was or we never really found out), the organizers decided that they were going to cancel the event, with no notice, leaving a bunch of us standing about on the sidewalk with our guitars, and no place to sing. Just a handwritten notice on the door saying the event was cancelled indefinitely.

Not to be thwarted, Roger suggested that he and I should hold our own open stage and that he knew just the place we could do it: A tiny cafe called the Cafe May only a few doors down from our usual place at Hughs’ Room.

I was reluctant, but Roger dragged me down there anyway. He marched in and asked the proprietor, a sweet little Japanese lady called Keiko, if she would allow us to hold the event in her cafe. He figured it would bring her a small amount of business (musicians are usually broke, but they still need coffee). Surprisingly, Keiko agreed and so began what we laughingly called The Outrageous Open Stage.

Roger and I talked the event up and pretty soon, we had a stream of “regulars” who came into the Cafe May on Saturday afternoons, with a guitar or whatever portable instrument they played, or in some cases, they would play the old upright piano at the back of the room. And so the music began again.

What a wonderful assortment of musicians, singers and poets came our way. My partner, Bruce was our sound man (without whom we would have been lost) and made sure we were correctly set up on stage.
Willow Talk
By: Janaka Stagnaro
Tags: Life Lessons, Spiritual, Spiritual Tree, Trees, Short Story

SHORT STORY/LIFE LESSON

Willow Talk

A reminder from the willow tree

Image by Peggy Choucair from Pixabay

This is the story of Willow and how Willow came to be. This is the story told to me by Willow for my son and all children. And even for adults, too, if they can get out of their heads, if only for a moment. . . .

A long time ago, at the beginning of the new cycle of Grandmother Earth, the spirit of Willow approached this planet. Already there grew many tree people upon the Earth. They, too, were spirit but had taken form.

There grew the great Sequoia, so tall and majestic, who could see over the whole world as a reminder of the need to see the whole picture before judging another. There grew, all gnarled and twisted, Grandfather Oak, who although looked old, reminded all of the strength in age. So, too, grew the Birch people, white and pure, as a reminder of the untarnished Great Spirit.

In addition, there grew Pine and Eucalyptus and Cedar and Banyon and many, many more. So many, in fact, that even the Creator had difficulty counting them all. And each possessing their own message.

So when the spirit of Willow came to Grandmother Earth and saw the great nation of the tree people, she asked Great Spirit why she should take form, if so many existed already.

And Great Spirit said to Willow: “There is never too many to express my Infinite Being. Each of the Tree Nation are needed to express My Being, and you Willow are no different.

“You will be a reminder that though the Life Force that pushes through your being pushes upward in your growth, to kiss Grandfather Sun, that same force will also pull you down to touch Grandmother Earth, that none should forget her.”

And Willow asked: “But who would forget her–she who is the maker of all that is form? Are there some among the Tree Nation who have forgotten her?”

“No,” Great Spirit replied, “none of the Tree Nation have forgotten her. Nor will the Four-Leggeds who will come later. Nor the Winged Ones. Nor those who will swim or crawl. Yet there comes those who will walk on two legs. Who will forget. Who will think they are separate–separate from the Earth; separate from all things; even separate from each other.

“You will be a reminder for any of those Two-Leggeds who will stop under your shade and who will be still for a moment, of the wisdom to walk in humility in honor of the Grandmother of all things. To live in compassion towards all beings of the Earth.

“You will teach that none can grow into the future without giving gratitude and honor for the roots of the past.”

And Willow became pleased at these words of Great Spirit, of her role upon the Earth. She happily took form in a seed. And the Life Force–the intention of Great Spirit–pulsed strong in the seed. Until it changed into a sapling. Then up and up Willow grew, drawn by her love for Grandfather Sun.

Yet before Willow grew too high, she remembered her beginnings, and in love and thanksgiving reached down and touched Grandmother Earth.

As she does to this day.
People
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Life Lessons, People, Personal Growth, Relationships, Journal

People

Daily Blog #113

It’s a cliché (another one) but as usual happens to be true, surround yourself with great people and great things can happen; or how I read the other somewhere, “don’t expect to achieve great things with average people”.

The people around us play such an intrinsic part into how we personally develop, than no matter how much we think we are keeping ourselves except from it, it will matter either way.

It is about been aware of it, about the value you get and the one you want to obtain, be clear and been able to just say no.

No to those who want suck your attention, energy and time.

Look for those that you can learn from, than can challenge your thinking and ultimately help you become the person you want to become.

Choose wisely and intentionally.
5 Key Differences Between Data Scientists and Data Engineers
By: Soner Yıldırım
Tags: Programming, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Engineering

5 Key Differences Between Data Scientists and Data Engineers

Distinguish the two building blocks of data science

Photo by Fabian Kühne on Unsplash

Data science is an interdisciplinary field that still continues its evolution. The ultimate goal is clear which is creating value out of data. The value can be in various forms such as improved business operations, predictive maintenance, and so on.

Although big tech companies have different positions that are distinctively separated, most companies have vague definitions of what is expected from a data scientist. More importantly, some companies cannot afford to have separate data scientist and data engineer positions which, as a result, generates a position called full-stack data scientists.

In this article, I will try to distinguish the role of data scientists and data engineers. The following key differences will be focused on what they typically do as well as what is expected from them.

Before I start, I would like to share my personal opinion on these two positions. It is hard to compare them according to the difficulty level because the required skills are very different. I think the demand for data engineers is higher than the demand for data scientists. It will make more sense as we go through the differences listed below.
Why is God a Good Good Father?
By: Janis Cox
Tags: God, Father, Religion, Christianity, Art

Today I listened, during my quiet time with God, to Chris Tomlin sing, “Good Good Father”.

It’s a great reminder of this verse from Luke 11:13,

“If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature],

know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit

to those who ask and continue to ask Him!” (AMP)

The words in the song (I paraphrased them)

God is perfect in all of His ways,

We will never be alone,

We are loved by God,

When we search, He answers us,

He provides what we need.

He’s a good good Father.

A parallel verse in Matthew 7:11 mentions good gifts — spiritual gifts.

But Luke focuses on the best gift — that of the Holy Spirit.

Yesterday’s benediction in our church service ended with “and the power of the Holy Spirit”. Those words help us to remember to call upon the Holy Spirit, God’s gift to us.

Sending us out under the Power of the Holy Spirit… there were many tears in the congregation (we are a mainline denomination).

Are you calling on Holy Spirit power?

If not, why not?

Bible Art by Janis Cox

The above Bible art was finished today on the same page as Luke:1 (all about prayer). I added Luke 11:13 to the bottom of the page.

What did I learn today?

Don’t do this life alone.

Rely on the Holy Spirit power.

Pray and pray again. Be consistent in prayer.

God is a good good Father.

I can trust God.

Photo from YouVersion (daily Scriptures).

Prayer for you and me

Lord, we know today we will face trials — big or small. We ask You to protect us with the power of Your Holy Spirit. Remind us to keep talking to You, our good good Father. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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