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AI Guild Podcast #4: On Getting Into Data Science with Rachel Berryman
By: Astrid Paramita Mochtarram
Tags: Data Science Bootcamp, Women In Data Science, Podcast, Data Science, Ai Guild

Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash

Rachel Berryman is a data science consultant in Berlin. In her free time, she teaches Data Science and speaks at meetups and events. She is passionate about applying the power of Data Science and Machine Learning to build a better, more equitable world.

In this episode of the AI Guild Podcast, we talk about

getting into data science

data science consulting

data science bootcamps

challenges and learnings in teaching data science

Getting into Data Science

When you just start getting into data science, having another background could be an advantage. Own the skills you already have, and see where that fits in where the field is progressing. In short, your non-data science background is not a hindrance but an asset.

Data science bootcamps can help you get into the field, especially if you have prior experience in the direction. Bear in mind, knowledge from bootcamps needs a while to fit together.

Evolution of the Data Science Field

In the past years, the evolution of the data science field emerged with more differentiated roles, like Data Engineer. With this comes the challenge of hiring the right people for the job. Business Intelligence, data science, and software engineering in data science are blurred in a lot of cases.

Resources

In the podcast, we talk about Rachel and Dânia Meira’s PyCon 2019 Talk “Avoiding ML FOBO”
Why Your Arts Degree Wasn’t a Waste of Time
By: Peta Greenfield
Tags: Humanity, Life Lessons, Relationships, Education, University

I know, I know, you’re also the most cynical mofo out there. I hear you, but listen up. Arts has prepared you for the very worst that people are capable of, but you ended up here because humans fundamentally intrigue you. Why do they do anything? People are just so mysterious…

The stories that make you cry? The ones where people fight for ideals that are about fairness, fraternity, sorority, egalitarianism, liberty. We’re all kind of jealous of the French for getting this one thing right and carrying on smugly ever since.

What are you still doing on social media? Fighting tooth and nail that people remember what is really important about being alive in human form:

supporting each other;

looking out for the vulnerable amongst us;

lifting up those who are struggling;

all with the knowledge that people are not the sum of their context and no one’s birth place or situation should be their destiny.

I’m capable of writing in this way because I was fortunate enough to be born in a country that had support systems in place. A land that rewarded school students for their intellectual potential (shout out to 90s Australia). I went to uni because the fees were small and I could defer the payment of them until I had a real job. My belief in the power of education to change lives is based on my experience. I fought hard for everything growing up and I was LUCKY to live at a time where that hard work was recognised. I want everyone to have those chances. That’s the Arts mindset 101.

You Know How to Deploy Sarcasm
The Diner Waitress
By: Shalini C
Tags: Poetry, Women, Narrative, A Cornered Gurl, Feminism

The Diner Waitress

A Narrative Poem

Photo by Thao Ho on Unsplash

She can be found

by day

chiseling level-words on a sharp razor

serving cold lattes for a living

shimmying to the chance shingle of loose coins

laughing in accidental chemical spills

strip-bared to her crooked, halogen-shined teeth

Echoes of faux soul-searching with a stranger

loom in the bathroom stall

as she navigates her contorting will

pinned to a peeling, threadbare wall

She can be found

by night

dancing to the tunes of rock ballads

swaying her spread-eagled arms

by the friendly moon’s pallid light

sometimes stopping

to count her metallic blessings

filtered in her lap as the promise

of front-row tickets to an implausible fairy-tale ending

where the girl gets to keep her big curls and bigger dreams

sometimes stopping

to stare at her lost inventory of unfurling wings

A fallen angel

making mortal choices, buckled and tumbling.
Who are the SDCoders?
By: Ben Alemu
Tags: Software Development, Android, Website Design, Small Business, iPhone

The modern era:

In this day and age, customers expect their favorite businesses and brands to engage with them digitally. In fact, your online presence is the primary way your business is discovered by new customers.

Photo by KOBU Agency on Unsplash

93% of online experiences begin with a search on a search engine and 47% of people click on one of the first 3 listings outputted as the result of the search (SEJ 2016). Keeping this in mind, you would certainly want your business to appear amongst the top listings in order to garner more attention to your business website!

Prospective customers who click on your website expect responsive and prompt customer support, and absolute clarity on the information and content displayed on your website.

Does your brand seem reputable? Does your company seem knowledgeable? Does your social media remain relevant and interesting? What reviews have past users left on your service? Consumers ask these kinds of questions when comparing you to your competitors.

With ever expanding growth of technological advancements and use of technology, mobile applications have become increasingly popular. Companies use carefully crafted business strategies by making good use of web and mobile applications to build customer loyalty programs and to cast a wider net for potential customers. In addition to a website, a mobile app can help you send alerts to your customers with new discounts or promotions, news about your business and sales. You also can tap into online shopping and ordering features. Social media features, mapping features and live data can also be used to give your sales and marketing team a powerful series of tools to exceed your business goals.

From building websites to mobile apps to helping you get your business’s name out there, we, The SDCoders, are here to help!
Une initiative audacieuse en faveur de l’harmonie vie-travail
By: Ivana Markovic
Tags: Gestion, Culture, Technologie

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

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Bitcoin ETF — A New Approach For Investing & Exchanging
By: Yoshitha Chowdary
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin Etf, Etf, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

ETF stands for Exchange Traded Fund. Bitcoin ETF is a better approach to exchanging and investing within the crypto world. Advocates of ETFs describe them as tools for driving Bitcoin adoption and an easy route to introduce investors to the complete potential of cryptos.

For cryptocurrency enthusiasts and investors looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the possibility of an ETF that tracks bitcoin is the best opportunity for such type of connection. However, several problems are occurring when trying to launch the first bitcoin ETFs. The reason is that the bitcoin, largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, is still in its early stage. The price of bitcoin could be easily manipulated by bitcoin holders who hold large shares. Additionally, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is doubtful to allow an ETF focused on the new and largely untested cryptocurrency market to make its way to the public.

WORKING MECHANISM OF BITCOIN ETF :

An ETF is an investment device that tracks the performance of a particular asset or group of assets. ETFs allow investors to diversify their investments without actually owning the assets tracked by an ETF. ETF provides flexibility to buying and selling assets for those individuals focusing only on profit and loss.

A bitcoin ETF imitates the price of the most popular digital currency in the world. This new ETF offers the investors with the flexibility of buying into ETF without getting into the complicated process of trading bitcoin itself. Moreover, since the holders of ETF might not be directly invested in bitcoin, they need not worry about the complex storage and security procedures.

ADVANTAGES OF BITCOIN ETFs :

Investors can use the ETFs as an opportunity to use bitcoin as an asset class, which will be publicly traded for the first time. It offers some significant advantages :

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would receive much-needed exposure and validation from the global financial markets: Bitcoin ETFs are seen as an easy way to raise awareness about the growth of blockchain technology, without compelling the investors to get involved with the complex blockchain-based projects. Since the ETFs are traded on exchanges as stocks for a long time now, they have already gained substantial popularity among both institutional and retail investors: ETFs are well-established and are often seen as offering stable liquidity and are easy to buy, sell or short sell. Better regulated status of Bitcoin ETFs might help with legalizing the status of the Bitcoin as an asset: Combined with potential tax advantages, less space for market manipulations, and less volatile trading, the ETFs are seen as potential stabilizers of the Bitcoin as a project.

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17/12/2019
5 Gifts to Get Someone Who Recently (or even not so recently) Came Out
Tags: Gifts, LGBTQ, Queer, Pride, Gift Ideas

Getting gifts for the holidays can always be a hassle and sometimes it’s hard to know what the right thing to get someone should be. Whether you are looking for a gift to show support to a loved one who recently came out or a gift for your LGBTQ loved one who is always looking for more pride merch, this article is perfect for you!

A cute knitted flag animal:

There are many vendors on Etsy who knit and crochet different animals in the patterns of several different pride flags and some even take commissions if they don’t list the flag you are looking for. Two vendors I would recommend are CrochetingAce and CrochetGay.

Donate to an organization that they care about in their name —

This gift may depend on the person as not everyone sees a donation as a gift. But even if this is just part of the gift you give this person, it is a great way to show the LGBTQ person in your life that you love them by supporting good organizations who help our community such as Trevor Project or GLSEN.

A pride flag —

If they person in your life is maybe a little bit too old for pride plushie but still wants to show their pride, you can purchase a pride flag for their corresponding identity! Flags like this can be found on places like Etsy, Amazon, and some other online markets.

A book about LGBTQ history or terminology —

There is a lot for all of us to learn — young or old. So the type of book you purchase may depend on the person. For a younger person who may have recently come out, a book about either of these topics would be helpful for them to learn about their history and about themselves. But these books can be just as helpful to those of us who may have been out for years. It is always good to stay educated about our history and to keep up to date on the terminology used in our large community.

A pronoun pin/pride button —

What better way to show your pride and that you support your queer loved one than with a pride pin that they can display on a backpack or article of clothing? Many artists on Etsy sell a wide variety of styles of pride flag pins and pronoun pins. Some also provide an option for you to insert your own pronouns or flag for those with less common pronouns or identities.

Holiday shopping is always a struggle especially for me because I usually wait until the last minute every year. Hopefully, this list will have helped you either find the perfect gift for the LGBTQ person in your life or at least helped you to come up with some of your own gift ideas! Happy upcoming Holidays everyone!
Twitter US Airline Sentiment Analysis
By: Soheil Hosseini
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Classification, Twitter, Sentiment Analysis

Twitter US Airline Sentiment Analysis

Feedback analysis with Lightgbm classifier.

Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash

The objective here is to analyze how travelers mentioned their feelings on Twitter in February 2015. It would be fascinating for airlines to use this free data to provide better service to their customers. This Dataset can be downloaded from here.

How can we analyze it?

I have uploaded the data saved in the local directory in Python:

tweets = pd.read_csv('Tweets.csv')

Let’s look at features included in dataset:

tweets.head()

What we are looking for here is the column named “airline_sentiment” and how we can predict it based on travelers’ tweets. This is called Sentiment Analysis.

To have better pictures of observations and features, we can run the following command, and it will provide us with each feature’s character.

tweets.info()

Let’s visualize the number of expressed feelings as negative, neutral, and positive.

plt.figure(figsize=(3,5))

sns.countplot(tweets['airline_sentiment'], order =tweets.airline_sentiment.value_counts().index,palette= 'plasma')

plt.show()

Majorities are negative, and it would be great/free feedback to airlines to provide appropriate responses. We can also show sentiments for each airline.

g = sns.FacetGrid(tweets, col=”airline”, col_wrap=3, height=5, aspect =0.7) g = g.map(sns.countplot, “airline_sentiment”,order =tweets.airline_sentiment.value_counts().index, palette=’plasma’) plt.show()

To do sentiment analysis, we need to import a few libraries. Since this is a classification problem, I use LGBMClassifier.

from lightgbm import LGBMClassifier

We need to convert these tweets (texts) to a matrix of token counts.

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer

The next step is to normalize the count matrix using tf-idf representation.

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfTransformer

I used the pipeline function to do all steps together.

twitter_sentiment = Pipeline([('CVec', CountVectorizer(CountVectorizer(stop_words='english'))),

('Tfidf', TfidfTransformer()),

('norm', Normalizer()),

('tSVD', TruncatedSVD(n_components=100)),

('lgb', LGBMClassifier(n_jobs=-1))])

In the end, CROSS_VALIDATE is used with ROC_AUC metrics.

%%time

cv_pred = cross_validate(twitter_sentiment,

tweets[‘text’],

tweets[‘airline_sentiment’],

cv=5,

scoring=(‘roc_auc_ovr’))

The results we have measured using ROC_AUS are as follows.

The complete code can be accessed through this link.
Hydro Update: 12/7/18
By: Andy Chorlian
Tags: Tech, Hydro, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum

The Hydro team provides updates on Hydrogen’s blockchain and decentralization efforts, including the Hydro API and Hydro smart contracts.

Happy first week of December! It has been another productive week of work at Hydrogen. We are working hard to have Snowflake out and functional by the end of the year. Here are a few things we worked through this week:

Noah finalized all of the features in the Snowflake Dashboard. I encourage all to test it out on Rinkeby! You can mint an EIN, create a Hydro Id and much more! Also, if you are a developer, we would love to chat about building a dApp on Snowflake through the dashboard. He also spent some time this week upgrading all our smart contracts to Solidity v0.5! I am not envious of him, but it was definitely something we had to get around to at some point. This week I mostly have been working with a KYC provider to set up our first Snowflake KYC application. Sadly, I can’t speak to that much right now, but keep an eye out going forward for more announcements on this! Lastly, I have been working with some of the DAs (shout out Jonah!!) to make the projecthydro.org website not hideous. It is slowly coming along (check out the dope team member cards). For those with front end/React.js experience, we would love to have you contribute to the site. The repo can be found here!

That is all for this week. Thanks for reading and a very happy Hanukkah to all those who are celebrating!

We’d love to hear from you! Please get in touch via Discord, Reddit, or Telegram.
Are You Against Gay Marriage Because: The Bible?
By: Scott Bateman
Tags: Marriage Equality, LGBT, Eat More Comics

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

By The Nib

New comics from Matt Lubchansky, Keith Knight, and Niccolo Pizarro. Plus How Seniors Are Living With COVID-19. Take a look
Blue Palace, Hyperboloid, and Charming Brick Villas of Cherkasy
By: Slava Shestopalov
Tags: Cherkasy, Photography, Architecture, Ukraine, History

Masterpieces of Horodecki

The city’s most valuable buildings are credited to the talent of Władysław Horodecki (1863–1930), an architect of Polish origin, often called “Ukrainian Gaudi.” He contributed greatly to the architecture of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and designed several buildings in Cherkasy.

Hotel “Slovianskyi”

Our first stop is the hotel “Slovianskyi,” colloquially known as the “Blue Palace.” It was built at the end of the 19th century and belonged to a famous entrepreneur, Skoryna. Old postcards show alternating red-brown, blue, and grey paint on the walls and roof, but after a major overhaul in the 1990s, the building became blue-and-white.
This is All Kristin’s Fault
By: Julia E Hubbel
Tags: Joy, Holidays, Christmas, Classical Music, Life

This is All Kristin’s Fault

Photo by Maria Lupan on Unsplash

A little something with your morning coffee.

I just got a note from Medium peep Kristin Milton which inspired me to share these two things. First, this, my absolute favorite flashmob of Ode to Joy, which Kristin says she is listening to this morning. My favorite: the little girl in red who climbed a light pole, and conducts from on high, and the two exuberant toddlers also conducting, which is precisely what I did at the same age when I first heard this piece conducted by the great Bruno Walter:

And then there’s this. I offer it up because I dearly love Handel, and while I am not a religious person, I love passionate music, and there are few pieces more passionate than this:

However you choose to mark the holidays, whichever holidays you choose to honor, I hope good music finds you, uplifts you, and reminds you of a time when we can again gather to play, gather to listen and celebrate being together.

These pieces remind me that we can all lift our hearts and voices in joy, rather than hate and discord. To that then….

These are my two Odes to Your Joy this traditional holiday, for all the holidays of the deep winter, to lead us to longer days, warmer lights, and better tomorrows for us all.
First sunlight
By: Robert Mann
Tags: Poem, Poetry, Haiku, Verse

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

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The Literature of Racism
By: David W. Berner
Tags: George Floyd, America, Literature, Raceinamerica, Race

The nine most essential writings on racism in America

Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash

It is a sad, scary, demoralizing, dehumanizing, and troubling time in America. Yet again, the country is forced to look at itself and see its history of racism in the dark light of the current ugliness. Understanding it is difficult, yet in another way it is not. America’s past is littered with the markers of prejudice and hatred. And it has never been more clearly addressed than in art, and especially through literature.

Below you’ll find what might be the nine best and most honest writings on racism in the United States by some of our greatest authors and thinkers. There are other works with strong, clear, and important messages, but these are the elite stories of America’s most appalling personality flaw.
The Worst Weekend of My Life
Tags: Kenya, Illumination, Experience, Family, Illness

The Worst Weekend of My Life

Thank goodness for friends

Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash

Back in the early 1980’s I moved to Kenya with my husband, who had agreed to a two year contract to work as part of a team of engineers building a dam north of Nairobi. I was seven months pregnant with my first child and my initial concern was ensuring the flight dates came through in time, as I was fast approaching a stage in pregnancy when I would be forbidden to fly.

We got there in time to organize the birth, but our house was not yet ready. We stayed with another European couple until after my child was born and moved to our newly built prefab house when she was 10 days old.

Life began to settle down as much as raising a small child allowed. At the weekends, we tried to explore the country, and enjoyed the wonders of the landscape and wild life.

One particular weekend, when my daughter was about 8 months old, my husband agreed to travel to Nairobi with some of the other guys to play a rugby match. It was a bit of a scratch team, most of them had been rugby players at university , but were not currently part of regular training. Their opponents were to be Mean Machine, the University of Nairobi’s prestigious team. Chances of success against them were slim.

So I wouldn’t be left alone with the baby, some friends agreed to pick me up and drive to the foothills of Kilimanjaro on a sight seeing trip. Everything seemed to slot into place and we set off, a picnic packed in the car. I sat in the back with my little girl. Gradually as drove along the red dirt roads, I began to feel unwell. I was shivering and had the worst headache I have ever had in my life. I spoke to the driver and said I was very sorry, but I didn’t feel well and needed to go back home. At much the same time, my daughter began to vomit and was looking very ill.

We got back to the house and I immediately went to bed, taking the baby with me and a pile of towels and a bowl. We were both vomiting by this stage. No sign of my husband who should have been home by that time.

My friends said they would drop by in an hour or so to check we were ok. When they did, they were concerned about me and the baby, and suggested they took me to the hospital. The headache was so severe by this time that I agreed immediately. Still no sign of my husband. This was before the days of mobile phones so we had no way of contacting him.

It was an hour’s drive to the hospital. I was seen quickly and diagnosed as suffering from malaria, my baby with gastroenteritis. I happened to mention to a nurse that my husband hadn’t come home from the rugby match. She asked me his name. Then she told me that he had been brought in by ambulance that afternoon. He had been stretchered off the field after been taken down by a burly member of Mean Machine, and was found to have a fractured vertebra in his back.

Thanks to the support of our friends, who popped in with meals and kind words, we all recovered.

That was definitely the worst and most memorable weekend of my life.
Three Different Things: June 10, 2019
By: Sean O'Brien
Tags: Identity, Makers, Data Visualization

Early Hours

For things just getting started.
The Breath of The Snow
By: Victoria Ponte
Tags: Poetry, Snow, Winter, Poetry On Medium, Blue Insights

The Breath of The Snow

The snow lies down across the land

Blanketing the ground

As it melts

It slowly exhales

Releasing oxygen

From its invisible molecules
5 Insights you probably didn’t know about Europe’s best Football Leagues!
By: Maximilian Zachow
Tags: Soccer, Data Visualization, Sports Analytics, Data Science, Data Analysis

“France has a farmer League, there is nothing else besides PSG.”

“Bundesliga is so much worse than Italy or Spain.”

“The greatest Clubs play in Premier League.”

Every football fan has heard or brought out one of these opinions at least once in their lives. And there are many reasons to believe that they hold true if you look at each country’s clubs performances in the Champions League or if you compare how many different Teams have won a Domestic League Title in the past 10 Seasons. However, there is much more to say about Europe’s top 5 football Leagues of Spain, Italy, France, Germany and England.

Entertainment doesn’t always have to come along with having the best Teams or Players. Or why else would you regularly enjoy your local team’s Sunday League matches? It is entertaining to see many goals, to witness change in leads from Half Time to Full Time or to visit matches of traditional Clubs with huge fan bases.

For that reason, we put together a dataset using match data from football-data.co.uk from the last 10 Seasons since 2009/10 of La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga and Premier League. Each row in that final dataset represents a Team that has played at least one season in the first division of its country in the past 10 years. Each Team has thirteen attributes that include describtions of its performance in Home Games over the past 10 Seasons.

Using those attributes we created a network with graphext to calculate similarities and clusters of connected teams (see figure above). Now each Node in the Graph represents a Row/Team of the original dataset. Teams that have similar performances are connected to each other. Teams with many connections among each other form uniquely colored clusters. The closer two teams are to each other the more similar they are.

Okay, but where can I find my favorite team now?
電競中的種族歧視問題
Tags: Esport, Racist, Dota 2, 電競101, League of Legends

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New Year’s Resolutions?
By: Debesh Choudhury
Tags: Life, Numberonetip, Work, New Year Resolution, Entertainment

New Year’s Resolutions?

Just forget it and do whatever you like

Does it matter if we have any new year’s resolutions? These are mostly unreal and fake. We do our duties and enjoy life so neatly throughout the year. In fact, every day is new. Every week is new. The years are new only in the numbers. Play with the numbers, and enjoy your life.

Sing, dance, work, cook, eat, write, etc., every day

If you really want to do something worth it, love what you do. Don’t do only what you love. We need to do odd jobs as well — what we don’t like to do.

Photo by freestocks.org from Pexels

Join me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Cheers, Debesh Choudhury.
Matched Set
By: Elaine Hamilton
Tags: Harmonious, Poetry, One Line, Christmas, Love

A One-line Poem For December 23, 2020

Photo by fotografierende on Unsplash

Red and green

the colors of cheer

Silver and gold

to celebrate the year

You and me

a harmonious pair

like hot cocoa with marshmallows

nothing else will compare
Edie’s Three
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Carpe Diem, Top 3, Procrastination, Hate, Life Lessons

Don’t Seize the Moment. Let the Moment Seize You

By: Kenn Franklin

Carpe Diem. It’s a saying I’ve tried to live by for most of my life. But this piece I’ve just read has touched me to my core, and made me feel all of the things! What if we really have it all backwards? What if instead of relentlessly chasing and grabbing and rushing, we just need to breathe life in and experience it. Let it flow through us, fill us with all of the moments and memories.

You will sometimes see something, or read something, that will change you. Change the way you look at life and the way you choose to walk your path. This has been one of them for me. Thank you, Kenn, your words have literally filled my chest with physical warmth. I feel lighter just from reading them.

How to Stop Procrastinating Your Life Away

By: Zita Fontaine

Another piece that struck me where it counts today. I’ve written something similar myself, but sometimes we need to hear it (or read it) from someone else for it to really sink in.

How many times have you told yourself that something is just temporary so you’ll just stick it out for now, because it doesn’t really matter? I know I do this on a regular basis. I recognize that I do this, and yet I continue on this same unfulfilling path. Why?

We truly need to start living for the moment that we’re in, instead of ‘saving the happy’ for when the temporary ends and ‘real-life’ begins. This is real life. We may not be exactly where we want to be, but regardless of that, we need to embrace the NOW as we work towards the LATER.

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Indiscriminate Fury

By: Jessica Ball

Sometimes you just come across a piece of work that’s both impeccably written and gets its point across perfectly. I read a lot of amazing pieces on Medium every single day, and it’s sometimes really difficult to pick out favourites. But this one was a no-brainer.

In a world in which women have relentlessly fought for equality, when has it become okay for the tables to turn? What makes it acceptable for an entire gender to be lumped into one big bucket based on the actions of a few?

We need to end the hateful way we speak to, and about, one another. I can understand being wary if you’ve been hurt; it can be hard to trust. But you cannot blame one person for the sins of another.
SCI Daily Crypto Digest: Flight to Quality
By: Jervis C. Tinimbang
Tags: Fintech, Philippines, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

March 19, 2018

Image from Coindesk.com

Risk aversion persisted as an overall bearish market and more news of regulations on ICOs and exchanges over the past week, keep investors from buying. While selling has been broad based, a flight to quality is being seen in the market, as bitcoin increased its percentage share in the market cap despite the downturn. The five biggest cryptocurrencies comprise around 77% of the market cap with Bitcoin accounting for about 45% of total market cap. Bitcoin dipped to as low as $7,325 over the weekend before rebounding, and is currently trading at around $8,200 as of this writing.

Support is at $5,900 while resistance is at $8,600.

*BTCPHP: 448,510 / 416,650

*USDPHP: 51.982

*BTC market cap: $138B

*Crypto market cap: $311B

News:

*The US Congress’ 2018 Joint Economic Report included an entire section dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The annual economic report is an assessment of the nation’s economic status and recommendations for the upcoming year. The report noted the cryptocurrencies’ rise to prominence last year as well as recommendations to lawmakers and the public to become more familiar with cryptocurrencies and blockchain due to its “wide range of applications in the future.”

*Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is betting on bitcoin, likening it to gold and as a “hedge of sorts against the whole world going falling apart.” While Thiel is bullish on bitcoin, he’s skeptical on the altcoins, saying “I’m not sure I would encourage people to run out right now and buy these cryptocurrencies,”. Thiel’s Founders Fund is invested in bitcoin, buying about $15–20 million worth last January.

*The US SEC Enforcement Division Co-Director, Stephanie Avakian, said that they are working on dozens of cases in the cryptocurrency space. Speaking at a conference in Washington, Avakian remarked that they are active and that they would expect to see more and more cases. The commission has brought more than a half-dozen cryptocurrency-related actions against companies since September 2017, according to Bloomberg Law’s ICO Developments Tracker.

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Zorax Crypto Daily Forecasts for 01.09.2019. Full Report.
Tags: Zorax, Cix100, Blockchain, Cryptoindex, Bitcoin

CryptoIndex is a tool for exposure to the crypto market and serves as a smart benchmark for all cryptocurrencies. The AI-based Cryptoindex algorithm is continuously analyzing more than 2000 coins applying over 200 factors, processing more than 1 million signals per second to provide a highly sophisticated index of the top 100 coins.

Dear community! We are glad to share with you a new list of Zorax predictions for 01.09.19. Let’s take a look👇

Of course, let’s explain how does it work for newcomers:

At the top, you can see “prediction” and “last prediction accuracy”

Our algorithm performs as an indicator of probable price movement.

The prediction accuracy rate for the previous period.

➡Cryptoindex.com methodology.

Today’s prediction stats

Total Coins

99/100

Predictions Term

1 day

Last Predictions Rate

68%

💵 Total cryptocurrency capitalization:

$248 806 405 767 (↓0,02%)

🗓 Trading volume per day:

$40 358 104 634 (↓0,26%)

Top 5 gainers 24h (USD)

Top 5 losers 24h (USD)

Top Buy Tomorrow

Top Sale Tomorrow

Bundles for the last 24 hours

Only AI and Marketplace bundles show a negative mood for the last 24 hours.

Prediction List

For today Zorax shows most coins for selling.

Only a few coins show neutral prospects, such coins as — Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash, Lisk, Steem, aelf, Golem, Po.et, Odyssey.

For buying — Ethereum, XRP, EOS, NEO, Maker, OmiseGO, HyperCash, Crypto.com, Enjin Coin, Loopring, Bancor, IoT Chain, Aragon, Moeda Loyalty Points, UTRUST, Neblio.

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Inspire Writing in Children
By: Danita Hall
Tags: Children, Self Improvement, Children Writing, Education, Writing Tips

Inspire Writing in Children

Tools to make writing fun

Photo by Les Anderson on Unsplash

Notebooks, Diaries, Journals, Colored Pens, Pencils, and Fancy Cardstock were all the things I enjoyed as a tween (an individual that wishes they were a teenager already so they can do all the FUN things). I’m not sure what sparked my initial love for writing, but perhaps it was all the imaginative places that reading many chapter books a day would take me.

Being a child seemed a little simpler back then. There were no fancy smartphones, no waiting for your friends to join the Roblox game, no Minecraft, No Playstation 5, no SnapChat and shall I go on? So we had to make our own fun. From going outside and playing in the dirt, playing dress up, playing school or reading books, we had to know how to entertain ourselves without technology.

However, now that everything is at their fingertips it's difficult to get children to do something of some substance. Writing is a creative outlet for many and if you teach a child all the ways writing can be fun, you may instill something in them that will flourish later.

Create Alternate Book Endings- Once they have finished their favorite or latest book, have them jot down a different ending that would change the story. You can also add different variations like create a funny ending, a sad ending, a cliffhanger or a cool sequel.

Create a Comic Strip- This is always a hit, there are free templates all over the web so I print them and have them create a comic strip of their day or their favorite holiday or any prompt.

Create a Magazine- My favorite, there are also a lot of websites that will help with templates but just using your imagination and Microsoft word or Loose Leaf paper also does the trick.

Bullet Journals- This is a good way to spark creativity and see how their brain works. Are they really organized? Do they tend to use a lot of different colors? Often, creating your own product will get you more excited about writing.

I have used these ideas both at home and in the classroom as an Educator, and these things will turn what children view as a daunting task into something they can be excited about.

Danita Hall is a human by day and a Humor, Parenting, Lifestyle, Ranting, Poem Writing Blogger by night. Click here to read past blog posts and stay connected on Facebook and Twitter
How To Eat A Banana
By: Paul Götze
Tags: Humor, Comics, Everyday Life, Illustration, Food

My way. I do not intend to do it like that, it just happens all the time.

Find more illustrations on paulgoetze.com.
Newsletter 21: I wrote Cam a note that said, “Cam, you’re a rat.”
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Spiralbound, Comics

Hello everyone! That reminds of me of a story: Once when I was waiting for the subway, an announcement came on over the loudspeaker. Usually in these moments, subway officials will say something like, “a train is being held a few stations away,” but this time a man just said, after a few beats, “Hello, everybody.” And that was it. Hello, everybody. Anyway, hello and welcome again to the Spiralbound newsletter, in which we link to the stories we published this past week. See if anything catches your eye!
HGT Trading competition on KKcoin
By: Quentin Bignon
Tags: Gold, Trading, Hellogold, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

HGT will be listed on KKcoin starting Tuesday 12th June 2018!

To celebrate this new listing, HelloGold Foundation and KKcoin have worked together to bring all HGT traders an exciting competition.

We have committed a maximum of 1,000,000 HGT as reward for this new Trading Competition, so make sure you join in and try your best to fill your HGT bags!
10.28 Presidential Social Intelligence Battleground Tracker — 7 Day Out Numbers
By: Adam Meldrum
Tags: Social Listening, Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Race, Donald Trump

“Support Index Gap” Summary Points

Simply, each state’s measurement design is built to a 50/50 scale for Trump and Biden (no undecided/third party candidates).

(Biden 52% v. Trump 48% would represent a postive 4% “Support Index Gap” for Biden.)

— This approach is meant to show trends more than exact ballot position. It is not designed to compete with polling, but complement it with more real-time context.

— It measures the gap in support vs. the candidates based on the online conversation (which is subject to big swings) and is not balanced to turnout models.

— However, since we looks at so much volume, (tens of thousands of posts a day) in each state on a daily basis, it helps normalizes the data.

— We have observed many instances where these numbers tighten and expand in both positive and negative moments for each candidate.

— There are random outliers, like Iowa, where the support index is clearly out of whack from what the ballot will likely be. Does that overwhelming trend prove an outlier in level in actual support? We will see.

— In this approach it will also be very valuable to look back on the trendlines once we know the final results to see where things were wrong/right, or the data was more predictive than we noticed at the time.

— This is the first time we are measuring a Presidential Election in this manner — we will learn more looking back after the dust settles. For instance, perhaps we will be able identify a slant (or margin of error) in our data that we can apply in the future.

— Ultimately, campaigns are more about turnout than convincing/persuading undecided voters on the margins. If Trump is successful in surgically finding new voters in key states it will certainly counteract macro national trends from an electoral college perspective — if Biden, it will extrapolate those trends. We won’t know until the polls close.
A Special Birthday Message To Our Co-Founder - Esther Agbarakwe
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Climate Change, Wash, Women

As you look back on yesterday, may your memories be warm ones. As you celebrate today, may your heart be filled with happiness and joy. As you look ahead to tomorrow, may your deepest hopes and dreams come true for you!

Wishing you happiness to welcome each morning, Wishing you laughter To make your heart sing. Wishing you friendship, sharing and caring, And all of the joy the birthday can bring!

Wishing you a cool drive through an awesome birthday. We wish you lasting friendship, true love, and precious memories.

May the angels watch over you and bring you peace on your special day and every day. May you have those in your arms whom you love in your heart.

We wish you to celebrate all the wonderful things that make you so special, not just on your special day, but on every day of the year! May your birthday bring a smile to your face, happiness to your heart and many blessings to your life.

May the brightest wishes on your day shine every path of yours in good and bad times. May your big day be as special as you are special to us. May you sail through all the obstacles and challenges to success.

Have a magical birthday with love and be happy everyday!

by ICCDI AFRICA
馬尼拉夢幻：Megumi Acorda
Tags: Love Songs, Dream Pop, Philippines, 音樂, 中文

有沒有一首情歌，光前奏就讓你融化？



意外點開一張Dream Pop專輯，名稱就叫做「意外」。（← 不是那部奧斯卡電影）。最意外的是來自菲律賓馬尼拉，全英文創作，好聽慘了。



喜歡Cigarettes After Sex、Alvvays絕對會中，淒美迷離的女聲。四首都是苦情的單戀歌曲，愛不到對方，傷到心坎裡的那種。

她叫做Megumi Acorda，原本在獨立樂團The Strange Creatures擔任鍵盤手，而今自己單飛的作品反而更加精彩。

〈Unexpectedly〉這首歌在講，原本已經放棄感情的人，卻意外愛上一個人，突然間，對方變得很重要。

unexpectedly

we’re meant to lose the most precious things we have

so i kept myself miles away from things like love

but unexpectedly

you mean so much to me

you’re always on my mind

you’re always on my mind

you never talk but your eyes give you away

(oh please) keep me in mind for another time and another place

’cause unexpectedly

you mean so much to me

you’re always on my mind

you’re always on my mind

if unexpectedly

you find your way to me

i’ll take your hand in mine

i’ll take your hand in mine

整張迷你專輯都在講同一個主題：單戀。

這首歌〈I’ll Get By〉也不例外，描寫對方像是一場捕捉不到的夢。她說，我會過得去，但沒有你的人生一點也不好。

i’ll get by

shall i come with you?

you’re a sweet, elusive dream

and the more i run

the farther you would seem

i’ll survive, but it wouldn’t be a beautiful life without you

i’ll get by, but it wouldn’t be a beautiful life

shall i dance with you

to the rhythm of uncertainties?

all the things we said

and the things we didn’t will stay with me

i’ll survive, but it wouldn’t be a beautiful life without you

i’ll get by, but it wouldn’t be a beautiful life

without you

without you

it wouldn’t be a beautiful life

it wouldn’t be a beautiful life

shall i love you?

鬼魂〈Ghost〉則是有一點事後菸的路線，帶著緩飆Slowcore的聲響。

ghost

there is so much i can do

none can take me back to you

lately why is nothing as exciting

i could use a second helping

of the things my soul fed on before

dancing in my head last night

dreams of different ways to die

if a ghost is what i am to many

no one knows me like you know me

i exist to nobody but you

i exist for nobody but you
Benjamin Boyce Podcast
By: Bj Campbell
Tags: Media Criticism, Politics, Guns, Culture War, Random

I did a podcast. It was pretty fun. In keeping with Medium’s terms of service, I’ll note I was not compensated for it.

I’d characterize it as:

15% gun stuff

30% media criticism

30% culture war analysis

15% “culture war goes hot” stuff

10% a certain future topic, “the student loan sham.”
The Sort of Christian Who Wears Blue Nail Polish
By: Courtney Christine
Tags: Relationships, Christianity, Life, Religion, Women

I used to belong to the Do Not Do group. Legalism was the brand of Christianity I lived and breathed. I had a lot of expectations for others and held myself to the same standards. It was important for me to be perfect. I followed all the rules. When I realized I’d broken one, I worked myself sick trying to change. I wanted to be loved. I thought this was how you get love.

By some people’s standards, I was the model Christian.

It’s taken me a long time to finally be at peace with the idea that being a good person is more important than being a good Christian.

It’s also taken me a long time to recognize my privilege.

Following all the rules is easy for someone who is white, English-speaking, heterosexual, able-bodied, financially stable, of average intelligence, and married with two healthy children. It wasn’t hard for me to blend in with the Christian crowd and follow all their rules, because the crowd looked/acted/thought like me.

Suddenly I knew what it felt like to follow all the rules and still have everything crash and burn around you.

All of that imploded when I got divorced. Suddenly I was not in the happy majority of happily married heteros. No longer could I make judgments about others’ relationship fallouts or their non-traditional partner choices, because suddenly I knew what it felt like to follow all the rules and still have everything crash and burn around you.

Losing my marriage felt like losing my identity. At least, the identity I had pieced together, based on my handy dandy Do Not Do list.

It also happened to be a great place to start accepting others as they are, to stop trying to cram them into a set of expectations I had for them. It was a great time to finally accept who I was and let some of my expectations for myself crash and burn up, too.
Say You Will
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Poetry, Life, Love, History, Women

Say You Will

Then You Won’t

Courtesy of Clutch Magazine.

Denial is thick in the

Air, sputtering goals to

Kick in opposite directions

Piecing time in watches that

Have lost their tick.

Why is she so loud?

What is the big deal?

Wasn’t that over 400 years ago?

Shut up!

Never a question too taboo,

You secure the content with

A willing mind, digging into

The crates of history while

NOW

Waits for you to show it

Up too.

Blood boiling at 0 degrees,

Anger on the stove,

Dead weight in the oven,

If we pull it out, the backs of

Our ancestors will reveal themselves--

Whipped ‘til keloid skin

Gifts itself in mocked acceptance.

The doers of the world

Gave you an ultimatum,

Showed you a free bus pass, then

Made you pay for Uber instead.

"That’s the breaks” in a world

Of will

And won’t.
“My whole life was being lived around making sure nobody else found out.”
By: Ministry Of Defence
Tags: LGBTQ, Army, Defence, Transgender, Military

“My whole life was being lived around making sure nobody else found out.”

WO2 Deborah Penny has served in the British Army for 34 years, and even has a portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, but it wasn’t until 2010 that she felt like she was serving as herself. Read her unique story here:

WO2 Deborah Penny

Deborah wanted to transition to live as a woman since she was young, but in her early career — more than 30 years ago — society viewed transgender people as ‘gay or mentally ill’. She says that without social media or computers, it was hard to know that there were others out there like her, or to find support.

Deborah felt for a long time that she was trying to lead multiple lives, none of them genuine. Despite this, she achieved many things in her career: completing a Commando course in 1986 and doing military exercises in many countries across more than a quarter of the Globe.

When she was doing a high pressure job as a Bomb Disposal Operator, her mental health began to suffer with the added pressure of putting on different faces for different parts of her life. She decided to take the brave step and transition.

The ban on transgender personnel in the military was lifted in 1999, one year before the ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel was lifted.

After 18 years in the British Army, Deborah Penny approached a doctor: