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How RanchCoin is Changing the Game
Are you ready to take your RANCH assets to the next level and earn passive income through staking? Staking your RANCH on the RanchCoin platform via Dapp Radar is a smart strategy to generate up to 25% APY while supporting the underlying blockchain network. In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know to stake RANCH on RanchCoin, from getting started to monitoring your rewards.
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Maze‐Out: A Serious Game to Enhance Treatment for Eating Disorders. A Randomized Controlled Trial
Maze Out is a serious game co-designed by individuals with eating disorders and clinicians. It is intended as an adjunct to treatment as usual (TAU). In this randomized controlled trial, Maze Out did not significantly improve outcomes in the intention-to-treat analysis. However, complete-case analysis showed improvements in personal recovery and reductions in negative self-image (self-blame and self-neglect) among participants using Maze Out.
You're Actually Voting for THEM? But why?
By David Clinton Putting the “dialog” back in dialog I hate it when public figures suggest that serious issues require a “dialog” or a “conversation”. That’s because real dialog and real conversation involve bi-directional communication, which is something very few public figures seem ready to undertake. Still, it would be nice is there was some practical mechanism through which a conversation could happen.
What Is It About Politicians and Corporate Bribery Scandals?
By David Clinton Another possible case of influence peddling – this time on behalf of Brookfield Asset Management On the surface, this is about a strange venture involving Canadian private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management – whose chair until a few weeks ago was Mark Carney. But it seems to me that this particular event is really just one example of a much larger pattern.
A Look at Canada's Import Tariffs
Quick Hit: Vice President JD Vance expects a framework agreement to resolve TikTok’s ownership by April 5, as the Biden-era law requiring its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban looms. President Donald Trump had previously delayed enforcement of the law, allowing more time for negotiations. The White House is in discussions with multiple potential buyers to establish an American-owned version of the social media platform.
Shaping Government Spending Choices to Reflect Taxpayer Preferences
Quick Hit: USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has unveiled the Trump administration’s plan to tackle surging egg prices, focusing on chicken repopulation and biosecurity measures while rejecting mandatory vaccines for poultry. The move aims to counter the economic impact of mass culling under the Biden administration’s failed policies. Key Details: The USDA’s $1 billion plan includes biosecurity enhancements, rapid chicken repopulation, deregulation, and increased egg imports.
What if Canada's Income Tax Rate Was Zero?
By David Clinton It won’t happening. And perhaps it shouldn’t happen. But we can talk. By reputation, income tax is an immutable fact of life. But perhaps we can push back against that popular assumption. Or, to put it a different way, thinking about how different things can be is actually loads of fun. That’s not to suggest that accurately anticipating the full impact of blowing up central economic pillars is simple. But it’s worth a conversation.
Bad Research Still Costs Good Money
By David Clinton I have my opinions about which academic research is worth funding with public money and which isn’t. I also understand if you couldn’t care less about what I think. But I expect we’ll all share similar feelings about research that’s actually been retracted by the academic journals where it was published. Globally, millions of academic papers are published each year. Many – perhaps most – were funded by universities, charitable organizations, or governments.
Are We Winning the Patient-to-Doctor Ratio War?
By David Clinton The fact that millions of Canadians lack primary healthcare providers is a big deal. The grand promise of universal healthcare rings hollow for families forced to spend six hours waiting in a hospital emergency room for a simple ear infection diagnosis. Just how big a deal is it? Statistics Canada data from 2021 ranks provinces by their ability to provide primary health providers.
How to Use Keycloak for Identity and Access Management
Whether your deployment requires logins from hundreds of thousands of end users or just a few remote admins, there's no escaping the need to properly control access to your infrastructure. And integrating those logins with industry-standard tools like LDAP and Active Directory can cut down the amount of work it'll take to get yourself up and running. Keycloak is an enterprise-ready, open source identity access management (IAM) solution that's scalable, extensible, and robust.
How to Use LangChain and GPT to Analyze Multiple Documents
Over the past year or so, the developer universe has exploded with ingenious new tools, applications, and processes for working with large language models and generative AI. One particularly versatile example is the LangChain project. The overall goal involves providing easy integrations with various LLM models. But the LangChain ecosystem is also host to a growing number of (sometimes experimental) projects pushing the limits of the humble LLM.
LETTER: Vote for Dettermann, a triple-crown winner
Tom Determann is a triple crown winner for the Iowa House of Representatives. To be a triple crown winner you must win three races. Tom set out a number of years ago to become a Clinton City Council person. He won and served 3 years. After that he ran for Clinton County Supervisors and won twice. He became chairman of the supervisors. Then Tom decided to run for the Iowa House of Representatives and won. He now is serving his first term for the citizens of Clinton, Camanche and a portion of the county.
David Clinton: It’s time to change the channel on the CBC
Commentary 8 October 2024 NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh with host Rosemary Barton during a CBC townhall event in Toronto, October 3, 2019. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press. Last week saw reports that Ottawa is set to make major announcements regarding the future of the CBC in an attempt to “modernize” the public broadcaster. Senior government officials were reported as saying that alongside major legislative and regulatory changes, a new CEO is expected to be named.
Joseph Quesnel: To truly help Indigenous communities prosper, we must put the economic horse before the political cart
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has surprised a lot of people by placing a real emphasis on his party’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. Not only has he recruited high-profile Indigenous politicians like Ellis Ross and Chief Billy Morin to be candidates, but he’s even addressed the annual meeting of the Assembly of First Nations.
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Sergeant First Class David J. Clinton (Ret.), US Army, passed away after a prolonged battle with rheumatoid arthritis on July 13, 2024 in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He was born David Jewett on January 31, 1944, in Yakima, Washington to Rachel Johnson. David was adopted by James and Gertrude Clinton in 1955. David spent the majority of his adolescence in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he graduated from high school.
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Author of courses and books on data analytics, generative AI, cloud computing, and server virtualization
Rethinking Public Education
By Michael Zwaagstra If you didn’t already know, higher government spending on schools doesn’t necessarily produce better results. Just look at what’s happening in Alberta. According to Statistics Canada, from 2012/13 to 2021/22 (the latest year of available data), per-student spending in Alberta increased by 2.1 per cent from $13,146 to $13,421. After adjusting for inflation, this amounted to a 17.2 per cent spending reduction. This stands in sharp contrast to most other provinces.
How to Use GPT to Analyze Large Datasets
Absorbing and then summarizing very large quantities of content in just a few seconds truly is a big deal. As an example, a while back I received a link to the recording of an important 90 minute business video conference that I'd missed a few hours before. The reason I'd missed the live version was because I had no time (I was, if you must know, rushing to finish my Manning book, The Complete Obsolete Guide to Generative AI – from which this article is excerpted).
The Online News Act Disaster That Wasn't
I’ve drifted into a comfortable Sunday/Wednesday publishing schedule of late here at The Audit. But something just this side of “timely” came up, so here I am again for a one-off, mid-mid-week post. When the Liberal’s Online News Act (Bill C-18) became law back in June 2023, I was among many who predicted catastrophic consequences.
What’s behind the explosive growth in Canadian university costs?
By David Clinton for Inside Policy Dramatic increases in high-end employment costs have been a significant driver of rising university costs. We’ve probably all seen reports describing out-of-control higher education costs in the United States. An education that in the 1970s could be financed with some savings and a part-time job at the local Burger King will now cost you the equivalent of a down payment on a multi-family investment property.
How to Secure Your Container Deployments with Chainguard
You don't need to convince me that containers are absolutely the best thing to come out of the virtualization revolution. I use containers of one flavor or another just about every day. But the beauty of template-it-once-and-deploy-it-everywhere comes with a cost: what if a single layer within that template contains a security vulnerability? And if there was a vulnerability tucked away down there, how would you even know?
How Do Open Source Software Lifecycles Work?
Software projects follow identifiable milestones as they move towards a successful completion. If you want to give your project the best chances of success, it's important to understand what those milestones mean and how they're defined. This article comes from my Complete LPI Open Source Essentials Exam Study Guide Udemy course and book. You can also view the video version. What are Software Releases?
How to Ensure Open Source License Compliance in Your Business
If you're using open source code in your operations, you'll want to manage things properly or potentially face legal issues, financial penalties, and damage to your reputation. You don't need a law degree to avoid problems, but you should definitely familiarize yourself with some basic principles. This article comes from my Complete LPI Open Source Essentials Exam Study Guide Udemy course and book.
How Do Open Source Licenses Work? Permissive and Protective Software Licenses Explained
If you're going to use or work with open source resources, you'll need to understand the fine print on various classes of an open source license. Otherwise, how can you be sure you're not infringing on someone else's rights? This article will introduce you to the big players and concepts in the open source license universe. This article comes from my Complete LPI Open Source Essentials Exam Study Guide Udemy course and book.
Software Deployment Models - Explained for Beginners
To effectively plan – or even talk about – application development intelligently, you usually have to understand which of the many program architectures you're referring to. In other words, software code can be deployed in many more ways than just the "standard" web app. So let's see what we've got. There's client/server computing, thin and fat clients, microservices, and various flavors of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Let's explore these one at a time.
Learn to Control GPT in the OpenAI Playground
ChatGPT is the interface most people use to work with OpenAI's large language model. But for someone who needs the versatility and power of programmatic access, there's no replacement for OpenAI's API. The API is the interface you can use to connect programming code running on your own PC with OpenAI's GPT servers. Of course, when using the API you can include plain language prompts where you ask GPT for answers and generated content.
Why You Might Want to Move Your Workloads Out of the Cloud
Is a public cloud like AWS or Microsoft's Azure the right place to host every deployment workload at every stage of its life? To be honest, I once thought that that was true – at least 95% of the time. But things have changed. Even though new services are being added to AWS, for example, nearly every week, we've had loads of time to figure out how things generally work. So it makes sense to listen when admins and industry leaders share their experiences.
freeCodeCamp's Top Open Source Contributors of 2023
2023 has been an amazing year for the freeCodeCamp community. I'm so grateful for the many kind volunteers who have helped us advance our mission of creating open learning resources.
How to Perform CRUD Operations - JavaScript and SQL Example
For the most part, interactive website architectures will involve generating or dispensing data of one sort or another. You can certainly use HTML forms to collect user input. But the kind of web form that's described here will only take you so far. What we really need is a way to reliably store and manipulate our data within the application environment. In this article, I'm going to show you how to connect a back end database to your data collection process.
What is Node.js? Server-Side JavaScript Development Basics
Node.js is a powerful runtime environment for executing JavaScript code outside of a web browser. It brings the JavaScript language to the server-side, enabling developers to build scalable, high-performance, and event-driven applications. Let's discover how Node.js code works, and how that code can be integrated within your JavaScript and then executed. This article comes from my Complete LPI Web Development Essentials Study Guide course.
How to Manipulate HTML and CSS Using JavaScript
In JavaScript, the HTML DOM (Document Object Model) represents the structure and content of an HTML document as a tree-like structure. In it, each element, attribute, and text node in the HTML document is represented as a node in the DOM tree. In this article you're going to learn how you can use that structure to more effectively control the way your HTML elements behave. You'll also learn how to use it to add dynamic interactivity to your users' experience.
How to Start Learning JavaScript
Just in case you haven't yet been properly introduced, JavaScript is a powerful programming language that provides significant value in web development.
How to Use CSS Selectors
You can apply CSS to elements like paragraphs and ordered lists, which you can learn more about by reading this article. But you're not just restricted to those two approaches. As we'll see in this tutorial, you can also control content behavior using custom or ID styles, pseudo classes, and inheritance. This happens through the use of selectors. CSS selectors target HTML elements based on their tag names, attributes, classes, IDs, or their position in the document structure.
How to Work with CSS Style Sheets - the Basics for Beginners
Using HTML tags like <head>, <body>, and so on can help you organize your web page content nicely, but only up to a point. HTML-only pages can be pleasant and easy to read – which is hugely important – but, after a while, they all do tend to look the same. Cascading style sheets, known universally as CSS, aren't really sheets, and it can take some work to figure out what "cascading" means. But the markup standard adds real power to your web development work.
How to Use Playbooks to Execute an Incident Recovery Plan
A playbook is the official, formal written record that describes policies and processes that will reliably produce a working deployment of an organization's resource stack. When it comes to generating predictable results, the playbook is the plan. I'll describe all the key elements of a good playbook in just a moment. But it's important to emphasize that a playbook on its own is more or less useless unless your team is able to read it and convert it into real-world results.
Amazon EC2 - Understanding and Addressing the Security Problem
Hi there. Great to have you here. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to start off with some bad news. Before you can really improve the security of your Amazon EC2 instances, you'll need to get a handle on all the stuff that can go wrong. And I'll give you a bit of a "hall of shame" rundown in just a minute. What's the Problem? But first, by way of introduction, I want to tell you a really scary story.
How to Build an Accurate Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
Are you responsible for the safety and reliability of IT infrastructure and applications? You'll absolutely need regular and accurate assessments. Effective risk assessments are about establishing how far your organization's IT stack can be stretched before it breaks.
PyTorch: The Ultimate Tool for Computer Vision Experts
In this article, we will be introducing PyTorch, a popular open-source deep learning library for Python. We will discuss why PyTorch is well-suited for computer vision tasks and how it can be used to easily build and train deep learning models for a variety of applications, including object detection, image classification, and segmentation.
Understanding VPC Architecture - How to Secure AWS EC2 Instances
AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) are the organizing structure of most AWS network operations. Without a clear understanding of how they work, it'll be hard to get security and efficiency quite right. But before talking about VPCs directly, I'm going to take a minute or two to refresh your memories on the basics of TCP/IP networking architecture and NAT addressing. But feel free to skip the next bit if you're already dug in on all that.
How ChatGPT Handles Linux Bash Scripting
We've been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence and natural language processing – and in particular about the latest version of OpenAI's GPT – for weeks. The recent release of GPT 3.5, and specifically the very new ChatGPT tool, is definitely a huge leap forward. You may have read about people asking the AI to draw up real estate contracts and wills, and even generate programming code. This article approaches the tool from a slightly different perspective.
Ditch the Subscription — Here's How to Build Your Own VPN in Five Minutes | HackerNoon
You may already understand how important a good VPN can be for maintaining the security and privacy of your mobile communications. Whether you need to use your phone for banking over a public airport or coffee shop WiFi connection, or you’re worried about the wrong people listening in on your online interactions, the tunneled encryption a good VPN gives you can be invaluable. The trick, however, is finding a VPN that really is “good” – and one that’s both convenient and affordable.
What Is Digital Privacy? A Beginner's Guide to Protecting Your Data
For all the many benefits we enjoy from technology – and particularly the technologies that make up the public internet – there are plenty of costs, too. Figuring out how you want to balance the benefits against the costs can take some careful thinking.
Brilliance behind the sequences of GPU rendering
In this blogpost we take a look at the three best GPU rendering softwares: Redshift, Octane, and Vray, and compare their functionalities for users to keep in mind when choosing their tools on Paperspace Core a day ago • 8 min read By David Clinton In this article, we will discuss the magic behind the scenes of GPU rendering and the top 3 GPU rendering engines known as GPU renders. The information in this article is intended to help you make an informed career decision on which renders to learn.
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Why programmers love Linux packaging
In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Today, I'll talk about what makes packaging for Linux ideal for programmers. Programmers love to program. That probably seems like an obvious statement, but it's important to understand that developing software involves a lot more than just writing code.
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