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Apr 14, 2020
WAX ON: Why you should have cryptocurrency in your portfolio
Transcript:
William: Hello, Megan is my partner at Magnetic Capital. She’ll be walking us through Magnetic’s framework for how we view and find investment opportunities for crypto. So Megan, share a little bit about what Magnetic does.
Megan: Magnetic’s focus since 2012 has been purely crypto and distributed ledger technology. We’ve watched the market evolve. The changes in technology, the experimentation, the tax, the regulatory, and the market changes. Our background is investors, company builders, and merchants. Using blockchain technology gives us insight that few investors can buy in this asset class. Our investment approach is experience-based and research driven.
William: So what is special about crypto that makes it a compelling investment opportunity?
Megan: The fact that it’s not yet a mature asset class. You can see this from the relatively small market cap of crypto compared to other asset classes. You also see this in the small user base. And we’re still at a very early stage of enterprise adoption. And yet whether you look at the past 10 years, the past 5 years, or even the past 3 years crypto as an asset class has generated the highest return of any asset class globally.
William: So Megan, is it too late to invest?
Megan: No. The crypto market opportunities are indicators for why we believe these are still the early days of crypto. In the last decade the crypto market achieved a return of 90,000x. Today, more developers, companies, and governments are building blockchain solutions than ever before. Over the next half a decade alone we can easily see a 5x market growth. So no you’re not late to the game because you didn’t buy bitcoin at $100
William: Are there specific opportunities you’re looking at?
Megan: Yes of course. Since the crypto market is in its nascent stages, we take a long-term investment horizon approach. And in that approach, we look at five main themes that are real world use cases for blockchain. In the top 5 best use cases there are several sectors that we look at such as payments, cross-border settlement, decentralized finance, stablecoins, cloud wallets, tokenized real-world assets, data collection and transfer, and gaming.
William: How do you invest in these use cases?
Megan: To invest in these use cases we look at the optimal way to participate in any one of these global opportunities that I’ve laid out which is influenced by the blockchain technology value creation stack. We clearly do not use a simple heuristic approach. For instance, as an investment approach we would not just invest in bitcoin and other top 10 protocol networks based on historical value. Most managers have used this investment methodology. It worked a few years ago but it won’t be a successful strategy going forward. This is because the focus is now on practical business applications.
William: So Megan, thank you for coming here today and sharing your insights about investing in crypto.
Megan: It’s my pleasure, thank you William, and thank you for watching.
Disclaimer: The information contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing herein shall be construed to be financial legal or tax advice. The content of this video is solely the opinions of the speaker who is not a licensed financial advisor or registered investment advisor. Trading Forex, cryptocurrencies and CFDs poses considerable risk of loss. The speaker does not guarantee any particular outcome.
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Apr 10, 2020
dAppRadar: “WAX is leading the pack… and gaining ground on EOS”
dAppRadar released it’s Q1 2020 Flash Report: Dapp Ecosystem Trends report today which features exciting highlights about WAX’s activity and wallet adoption, as momentum continues to build on the blockchain. You can read the full report here.
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WAX is the leader in the other protocols race holding 44% of total daily active wallets
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Looking at the other eight blockchains tracked by DappRadar WAX is leading the pack in regards to daily activity. Holding 44% of total daily active wallets and gaining ground on EOS.
As you probably already know, WAX has released a steady stream of major news and updates over the last few months including a partnership with the most prestigious collectible company in the world, the release of the largest worker proposal system in the history of blockchain, a slew of new games launching on the WAX Blockchain, partnerships with leading blockchain toolkit developers, and more.
Muchmore is coming over the next several weeks and months including the launch of Topps NFTs on WAX, more games, and a few surprises.
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Apr 8, 2020
Welcome, Splinterlands! The digital collectible trading card game is now integrated with the WAX Blockchain
Splinterlands, a dApp with one of the most popular NFT marketplaces in the world, has integrated WAX. And to celebrate Splinterlands’ integration with the WAX Blockchain, we’re giving away Splinterlands NFT cards and WAX tokens!
Here’s what you can earn:
- Earn up to 5 WAXP for signing-up with your WAX Cloud Wallet
- Earn up to 200 WAXP and an NFT worth up to $100 by signing-up with your WAX Cloud Wallet AND buying the “Summoner’s Spellbook”
- EXTRA: Earn up to 1000 WAXP if you’re a random lucky player!
* NFT prizes include a rare Gold Foil Legendary Summoner worth $100 USD!
Visit splinterlands.wax.io to learn the full contest details, and start earning!
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Mar 31, 2020
WAX ON: Why are Alt Coins Popping on Calorie-Free Announcements?
Video Transcript:
I’ve noticed a weird phenomenon with some alt coins recently. These alt coins make announcements about “partnerships” with brand name companies, and their token prices shoot up on the news. Now that, in itself, is not strange. But what IS WEIRD, is when you read the details of these partnership deals, there’s nothing material to them.
Let me give you a couple of RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS that followed this pattern. A project called Ultra, focused on the blockchain video gaming sector, announced that it had secured a business development relationship with Ubisoft - Ubisoft being a GIANT video game publisher.
Over several days, including a few days before the announcement - which I assume means some people knew about it - Ultra’s token climbed 30%.
So I took a look at this deal. What I found was not a BIG DEAL. It was, in my opinion, kind of a SILLY deal.
Ultra hadn’t secured an important partnership with one of the world’s biggest video game companies. In fact, it was hard to figure out exactly what the deal even was. I tried to scrape together some of the details, but really, I can’t understand what all the fuss was about. If I have it right, a technology lab subsidiary, inside Ubisoft, is going to produce blocks, be a block producer, on Ultra’s TESTNET.Not a content licensing deal. Ubisoft isn’t adopting the Ultra chain for all future video games. Nope. Ubisoft is going to run a block producer server, on Ultra’s testnet. Yet on this news, Ultra’s price moves 30% higher.
Now, I might chalk this up to a one-off, overexcited response to an announcement. That happens. It even occasionally happens, on Wall street. Where a group of traders misinterpret the significance of an announcement, and push the buy button too fast.
But then, a few weeks later, it happens again. Curiously, with a company, that also happens to be in the blockchain video gaming space. ENJIN. A pretty well regarded Ethereum-based company, that makes software for integrating blockchain and video gaming.
ENJIN reported that it had done a deal with Azure. Azure being the enterprise cloud business unit, of Microsoft. How did the market react? ENJIN’s token shot up 70% on the news. Amazing. Must be a truly transformative deal, right? Nope, not so much. In fact, the deal was not even with Microsoft overall, even though that is how it got picked up in all the news coverage. The deal was with Azure, the enterprise cloud division of Microsoft, the European division.
What was the NATURE of the deal, you might ask, that caused the Enjin token to skyrocket 70%?. Well, the European division of Azure, said it would be issuing, merit badges, NFT merit badges, to people who support the Azure community.
Ok, but who cares? This is not a deal that seems like it’s going to transform ENJIN’s business. Supplying Azure with some NFT’s that they can issue to some members of their software community? Why would the ENJIN price jump 70% on that news?
Now there are many reasons to like ENJIN. But the Azure deal, is not one of them.
So here is my advice. Look underneath the hood, of these brand name company partnership deals, before you rush out and buy the token. Apply some basic scrutiny to the deal terms, see if it furthers the business goals of the blockchain project doing the deal. Ask yourself, is this deal evidence that the blockchain project is getting traction?
That’s my PSA for this week. If you liked what you heard on this video, please hit subscribe, leave a comment, and I will talk to you next time.
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Mar 18, 2020
WAX to Use Chainlink Oracles to Bring Off-Chain Data and Resources to the WAX and EOSIO Ecosystem
WAX is excited to announce its planned integration of Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network to securely and reliably access data and resources from outside the EOSIO ecosystem. WAX will use Chainlink to obtain market data for DeFi products, source real-world events for next-generation NFTs, and communicate cross-chain to other key ecosystems such as Ethereum.
With this partnership, the entire WAX ecosystem getssecure accessto a variety of off-chain resources, such as random number generation, token prices, sports events, IoT data, interoperability with other chains, existing payment systems, enterprise backends, and much more. This helps dApps avoid the major pitfalls with trying to deploy their own oracles, such as excessive delays, extra expenses, and even fatal security flaws.
By building support for WAX, Chainlink becomes accessible to EOSIO-based chains for minimal cost, as all EOSIO chains utilize the same smart contract language and are architected virtually identical to one another. This will Chainlink the standard oracle solution used exclusively by WAX and all other dApps in the EOSIO ecosystem.
WAX Building Next-Generation dApps using Chainlink Oracles
The possibilities for easily integrating off-chain data into dApps on the WAX Blockchain are endless, especially for games. For example you can create a fantasy dApp game that retrieves live professional sports scores, game plays, lineups and more. Or pull crypto and stock market prices to create real-time accurate decentralized exchanges, games, and applications.
That’s because by integrating Chainlink into the WAX Blockchain, a variety of real-world applications become possible thanks to a secure and reliable connection to existing non-blockchain infrastructure and other blockchain ecosystems.
Some initial use cases we’re exploring using both WAX and Chainlink, include:
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Data-Driven NFTs on the WAX Blockchain. Using our existing partnerships, such as with Topps for digital trading cards, we can create NFTs that are subjective to real-world data. For example, a special baseball card that’s only issued if someone breaks the home run record.
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Ethereum NFTs and FTs on the WAX Blockchain.Chainlink provides a bridge for broadcasting events happening on either chain to the other one.
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Native DeFi products on the WAX Blockchain. Building our own and/or using existing Chainlink’s Price Reference Contracts offer a secure, easy to deploy solution for quickly launching DeFi instruments that rely on accurate market data.
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A stablecoin for the -EOSIO ecosystem. This is something already in high demand and very needed for financial stability. Given their extensive experience building secure oracles, which is evident in adoption by other stablecoin/currency projects, Chainlink is the main and only trusted oracle for these applications.
Why Chainlink
Due to the way blockchains form consensus, they can only process computation using data already stored inside the blockchain while still retaining security. Similar to computer networks, blockchains can be far more effective when connected to data and systems outside their immediate network (off-chain).
Connecting off-chain is important, but only if the actual data and delivery of that data is highly secure. What’s the point in having secure underlying smart contracts running on a decentralized blockchain if the connection off-chain is insecure?
An oracle is a digital agent employed by a smart contract to retrieve and/or connect it to data and systems outside its native blockchain (off-chain). Oracles enable this off-chain connectivity for the smart contract by reformatting external connection points (APIs) so that two different software applications are compatible for data exchange. The oracles can then pull data into the smart contract and/or execute actions on external systems based on predefined instructions and endpoints.
Chainlink is unique in that it’s a decentralized oracle network that currently provides decentralization at both the oracle and data source level. By using multiple independent Chainlink nodes, the user can protect against one oracle being a single point of failure. Similarly, using multiple data sources for sourcing market prices, the user can protect against one data source being a single source of truth.
It has a growing pool of 30 independent node operators run by leading blockchain DevOps and security teams, many of which have extensive experience running POS nodes across multiple blockchain networks. Chainlink has a very expansive ecosystem of over 120+ projects, representing multiple different blockchains and large enterprises, as well as encompassing many different use cases, such as finance, insurance, and regulated gaming. It currently has 29 Data Feeds for DeFi (Price Reference Contracts) used by many top Ethereum dApps.
“Having a reliable and secure Layer 2 solution that augments the value of our smart contract ecosystem is paramount to achieving real-world adoption of WAX’s distributed blockchain applications (dApps),” says Lukas Sliwka, Chief Technical Advisor, WAX. “WAX’s dApp developers gain far more functionality when they can integrate with data and systems outside the native blockchain, such as accessing token prices, sports stats, etc. Chainlink will bridge that gap as the standard framework for building provably secure and redundantly reliable oracle networks for WAX and the EOSIO ecosystem, ultimately leading to next-generation dApps that retrieve and respond to real-world data and events.”
About Chainlink
If you’re a developer and want to connect your smart contract to existing data and infrastructure outside the underlying blockchain, reach out to us here! We can help you quickly and securely launch your data-enabled application or Chainlink Price Reference Data Contract on mainnet today. You can also visit the developer documentation or join the technical discussion on Discord. Learn more by visiting the Chainlink website or follow us on Twitter or Reddit.
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that enables smart contracts to securely access off-chain data feeds, web APIs, and traditional bank payments. It is well known for providing highly secure and reliable oracles to large enterprises (Google, Oracle, and SWIFT) and leading smart contract development teams such as Polkadot/Substrate, Synthetix, Loopring, Aave, OpenLaw, Etherisc, Conflux, and many others.
About WAX (Worldwide Asset eXchange)
WAX is an all-in-one blockchain platform enabling developers to easily create, sell and trade digital goods to empower businesses to profit from the next era of digital commerce. For more information, please visitwax.io and follow along on Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram.
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Mar 18, 2020
Update: WAX Labs Proposal Guidelines
Since the launch of the WAX Labs worker proposal system on March 11, we’ve been excited to see the number of projects submitted for funding! Below we’ve provided more specific guidelines for how to make your project more likely to be accepted into WAX Labs.\
The guidelines are not a formula: adhering to them won’t guarantee that a project is accepted (and likewise, not following them won’t guarantee that a project is rejected). The guidelines are simply to provide candidates with the criteria for what makes a project more likely to be accepted into WAX Labs.
Guidelines:
For the benefit of all participants, the WAX Tokens that will be granted must fund projects that have a clear and measurable impact on the WAX ecosystem. For this reason, projects are more likely to be accepted if they are:
- **Valuable to the larger WAX community and ecosystem (not simply a profit-generator for the candidate). **If the project’s primary goal is for the candidate to profit from, and it lacks clear benefits to the rest of the WAX ecosystem, the project will be subject to a higher degree of scrutiny.
- **Requesting a reasonable number of WAX Tokens. **In general, the more tokens that are requested to fund a project, the higher the scrutiny of the project.
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Within the limits of the number of tokens that will be granted per project. You can request up to $100,000 worth of WAX Tokens for your project, or 0.5% of the entire pool, whichever amount is lower at the time of submission. If you have a bigger project in mind, great! We recommend first submitting a smaller, lower cost MVP (minimum viable product) version of your project, to prove that the market and its participants want your larger-scale version of the project. Doing so will increase the likelihood that your large-scale project will be accepted (if the MVP version is a success). Large-scale projects with no previous case study will be subject to a higher degree of scrutiny.
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Adhering to an incremental utility standard. This includes consideration of:
- Measurably useful and/or valuable. Each phase of the project completion must prove utility and community adoption. Projects that have clearly defined goals that can be measured objectively, and after each milestone, are more likely to be accepted.
These guidelines are suggestions to help candidates submit projects that are more likely to be accepted into the WAX Labs worker proposal system. Adhering to none, all, or any of the above guidelines is not a guarantee of acceptance or rejection; they are intended to provide clarity into what factors are considered when the Reviewers accept or reject a project. We look forward to seeing your project submissions, if you have any questions, please join our communities:
Mar 17, 2020
WAX ON: The future of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) in 2020 and beyond
Video Transcript:
I want to talk today about the future of NFTs, non-fungible tokens. Lots of hype about NFTs, ever since Ethereum came out with its ERC-721 standard which really was a major innovation - being able to make every token unique, in some particular way, opened the door for things like dApp video gaming.
I said there has been a lot of hype about NFTs. And hype usually means that what people are expecting to happen - in the near term - is a little less grand than what is really going to happen.  And there’s a very specific reason for that. It’s because we can SEE the tremendous potential of a new technology or (even better) a new business model. But what we can CAN’T see are all these little problems that are going to pop up once we start actually working with the new technology. This is just how capitalism, start up life, entrepreneurship works.
And it’s exactly what I experienced in my early days at the idealab incubator - idealab was the first consumer internet incubator in the 1990’s. And at idealab, we thought e-commerce was amazing. What an improvement over mail order catalogs or trying to find that ONE BOOK at your neighborhood book store.  This was the early days of consumer internet. You could literally try to own a whole consumer category. But what happened was once we built all these ecommerce businesses we were like “Ok where is everybody?” Then we realized “Oh we need internet marketing.” Whatever that is, because of course, no one has ever done it. SO…how do you do that? So we figured out how to do internet marketing. And companies like Double Click got invented and made billions of dollars helping businesses do online advertising, and then of course got acquired by Google.
So we figured out internet advertising, and we got people to show up to our e-commerce sites using these new advertising inventions and then we encountered another problem. “How come people aren’t buying much?” Well, that’s when we found out about the payments problem. Payments was a huge problem. Which is what led my partners and me to be the first institutional investors in PayPal. We needed an innovation like PayPal to make online shopping work, work for consumers, who demand convenience. And by the way, at the time, credit card companies wanted NOTHING to do with these questionable internet companies. In fact, even if you could get a merchant credit card account for your e-commerce company, you got charged 10%, 12%, 14% of the transaction in credit card fees.
My point here is that as good as a new technology appears to be like e-commerce, there is always some hidden friction in bringing that technology to its full potential.
So about NFTs, these non-fungible tokens. As I look out here at the beginning of 2020 at the hype around NFTs, there are things people believe are right around the corner that I think are going to take longer.
So let me run through a few of what I think those are:
The CONSENSUS view out there is that big video game companies are going to start rushing in to incorporate NFTs into their hit video games. That is not going to happen for a few years. You want to know why? Because those big video game companies learned a lot of the lessons back when they were small companies about adopting new technology and all the friction that comes with it. So they’re cautious. They’re going to move slow. As I’ve mentioned before, small, indie game developers will be the first ones to experiment with, and even succeed with, NFTS.
Another consensus view right now about NFTs, is that people are just going to start trading them like crazy. Nope, not going to happen. At least not yet.  We know this business. We also understand WHY people trade virtual items. At a minimum, the trading PROCESS has to be simple. The single biggest contribution to making that happen, is what we recently did with the WAX Cloud Wallet. We’ve made it very simple to set up a blockchain account and trade NFTs. There are now almost 500,000 customer accounts on the WAX Blockchain in the past maybe three months because of the WAX Cloud Wallet. But until large numbers of people move away from wallets like Scatter and MetaMask, NFT trading will be limited. It’s just an emergent behavior. You can’t just design some nice looking NFTs and expect people are going to magically start trading them. People need a reason to do things. And your job, if you’re a video game dApp designer, is to figure out what will cause people to start trading. And that is still a work in progress. Which is why I think massive trading right now is not going to happen.
Let me mention one final consensus view about NFTs that’s wrong. That’s leasing them. Yep. Leasing your NFTs. This has recently been getting a lot of hype. But it’s not going to happen, in any material way, probably ever. Why do I have such a strong opinion about this? Because its been tried. Many times. For decades. Generally by people who don’t understand video gamers. There is no evidence that video gamers want to lease skins or NFTs. Just one possible problem that I see with the NFT leasing market, is the fact that people own video game skins to show off. It’s a way to say “Hey look at this expensive skin that I own, aren’t I impressive?” But if anyone can inspect the blockchain and see that you don’t own it, that you’re just a poser renting it, then you destroy the whole reason you wanted the skin in the first place. This is just one issue that I see, by the way. There’s many others.
Here is my advice on this one, this leasing NFT concept.
Let me finish here by saying that I have a few non-consensus views about the future of NFTs. And in another upcoming video, I’m going to share those with you. That’s it for now. If you liked what you heard on this video, please hit subscribe, make a comment, and I’ll talk to you next time.
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Mar 3, 2020
WAX Introduces the Biggest Worker Proposal Fund in the History of Blockchain
Update 3/18/2020: Proposal Guidelines
More than 75 million WAX Tokens, worth millions of dollars, are available for developers who grow the WAX Blockchain through decentralization and innovation** over many years.**
Introducing WAX Labs, a worker proposal system designed to grow the WAX Blockchain through decentralization and innovation. There are** presently more than** 75 million WAX tokens worth millions of dollars in theWAX Labs** fund, which is allocated towards compensating developers who build upon the WAX Blockchain **over many years, making WAX Labs the largest community-owned worker proposal system in the entire blockchain ecosystem.
With such a well funded worker proposal system, WAX hopes to build the most extensive network of blockchain developers in the world.
**Candidates can submit their projects for consideration, and WAX Token holders can vote on them, here
About the WAX Labs worker proposal system:
WAX Labs incentivizes developers to build new projects on WAX, work on community needs, patches, and upgrades. In exchange for their time and effort contributing to the development of WAX, these developers will be eligible to receive WAX Tokens from the WAX Labs fund, which will provide support for WAX development efforts for many years to come.
Projects that will have a clear positive and measurable impact on the WAX ecosystem are eligible to be funded. If you request more funds for your project than the Reviewers and voters feel is appropriate for the project’s anticipated value to the WAX ecosystem, the project may not be approved (but is eligible for resubmission). Projects will not be approved if they are functions of another role in the WAX ecosystem that also earns WAX Tokens (ie: WAX Guild functions).
Through WAX Labs, the WAX Community benefits from a decentralized structure by reducing the reliance on a single source for new additions. This system is beneficial for everyone including:
- The developers who are compensated for their efforts
- The community for having access to additional resources
- The WAX organization, which can leverage the creativity of the community to advance projects
WAX Token holders: please be advised that voting for WAX Labs projects does not affect your vote strength or stake weight.
How to submit a project to WAX Labs:
- To submit a project for consideration, visit the WAX Labs portal here. Complete a candidate profile, then submit your project.
- Reviewers, selected by a committee which is selected by the WAX Guilds, will assess your project. If the Reviewers approve your project, it will be put forth to the WAX Community who has 30 days to vote on whether to accept or reject it.
- For your project to be accepted, 35% of the entire amount of WAX Tokens that are staked must be voted towards your project (ie: if there are 1 million total WAX Tokens staked, then 350,000 of those must be voted towards your project).
- If your project is accepted, you will receive payments of WAX Tokens in order to fund your project in accordance with the schedule you requested during the submission process.
Please note that WAX Labs will establish its own governance rules in order to ensure both project quality and project completion, including making payments based on achieving project milestones.
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Mar 2, 2020
WAX and Topps Unveil Historic Blockchain Trading Card Partnership
WAX and The Topps Company, the most prestigious global producer of trading cards for MLB, Star Wars, WWE and Garbage Pail Kids, today unveiled a historic partnership to bring their vast licensing portfolio to the WAX Blockchain.
Utilizing WAX’s blockchain technology, fans around the world can now discover, collect and trade officially-licensed digital Topps collectibles. Collectibles can be seamlessly sold, or traded instantly and securely, with anyone across the world. With blockchain collectibles, collectors can enjoy the fun of trading and sharing digital cards with others around the world through a secure and efficient medium. The digital cards are authenticated and tracked using WAX Blockchain technology to ensure providence and security.
The first Topps blockchain trading cards will launch in Spring 2020 and will be available for purchase online using a credit card and the WAX Cloud Wallet, the most user-friendly blockchain wallet today. To get on the waitlist (and enter to win cards!), visit topps.wax.io.
“Over the years, collectors of Topps trading cards have enjoyed the thrill of ripping open a pack of cards. This partnership allows us to bring that memorable collectible experience to an even wider audience. Our Garbage Pail Kids blockchain product will highlight recent advancements in technology and continues Topps’ history of developing innovative products,” said Tobin Lent, Vice President, General Manager of Topps Digital.
Topps trading cards have regularly sold in secondary markets for hundreds of thousands of dollars, so it’s critical that WAX Blockchain technology guarantee Topps cards are authentic and that trades are secured.
By interacting with Garbage Pail Kids cards on the WAX Blockchain, anyone can see the details of the cards’ information and trading history. This enables everyone involved to make informed purchases, sales, and trades, with anyone else in the world - instantly.
The blockchain records every aspect of every card’s transaction and stores it forever. These blockchain records can’t be changed by anyone, and can be seen by everyone. Therefore, since the blockchain removes all uncertainty, there’s no need to take a chance with a buyer or seller or blindly trust another trader.
Data for Garbage Pail Kids cards on the blockchain includes:
- Detailed product specifications for each card including the date it was created, its rarity, images of the card, proof of its authenticity, and more. With this information, collectors know exactly which cards they are trading - no guesswork, no need to trust or verify other traders.
- Comprehensive ownership records that show who traded the card and when. Since everyone can see its full ownership history, no one can ever fake ownership of a card.
- Complete trade and sale history including how much money was paid for the cards and when. No one can ever fake previous sale prices or dates.
“Topps is bringing their collectibles to the forefront of digital innovation and is determined to leverage the opportunities that the blockchain can provide. I believe the WAX Blockchain will have an important and positive impact on Topps future business models and the way they engage their fanbase. We are very pleased to welcome Topps in the WAX family of dApps.” said Evan Vandenberg, Director at WAX.
Resources
- To join the waitlist, visit topps.wax.io
- To stay abreast of WAX developments, partnerships and other announcements, sign up for the WAX newsletter.
- To develop your dApp for the WAX Blockchain, visit developer.wax.io
About WAX (Worldwide Asset eXchange)
WAX is an all-in-one blockchain platform enabling developers to easily create, sell and trade digital goods to empower businesses to profit from the next era of digital commerce. For more information, please visitwax.io and follow along on Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram.
Worldwide Asset eXchange™, WAX is a trademark and the sole property of Worldwide Asset eXchange.
About The Topps Company, Inc.
Founded in 1938, Topps is the leading creator and marketer of sports and related cards, entertainment products, and distinctive confectionery. Topps entertainment products include the NFL, MLB, UFC, MLS, WWE and other trading cards, sticker album collections, and collectible games. The Company’s confectionery brands include Bazooka® bubble gum, Ring Pop®, Push Pop®, Baby Bottle Pop® and Juicy Drop ® Pop lollipops. For additional information, visit Sports Cards and Entertainment Cards at Topps.com and follow us on facebook at facebook.com/Topps, on twitter @Toppscards, and now on Instagram @ToppsSports.
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Feb 4, 2020
One of the most popular dApps on the Ethereum blockchain, 0xWarriors, is coming to WAX
One of the most popular dApps on Ethereum is coming to the WAX Blockchain. 0xGames, an open-economy game development company, is integrating the WAX Blockchain into both their arena RPG game 0xWarriors and race manager game 0xRacers in February, 2020.
The partnership is expected to promote cross-chain interaction for gamers and crypto enthusiasts alike. 0xRacers and 0xWarriors already boast the support of several chains, such as Ethereum, NEO, TRON, and EOS, increasing overall interplay in the player base.
Players can buy, sell, and trade in-game items for 0xWarriors and 0xRacers using WAX Tokens. These NFTs can be of various rarity values and, when equipped, allow gamers to customize their playing experience and to curate collections. For example, a player can pick a legendary-tier WAX helmet along with other equipable tokens and crush their enemies on the Combat Arenas. Should a warrior need to swap their WAX item to another one - it can be easily done on the in-game market supporting NFT trade.
Read the full announcement on CoinTelegraph here.
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Jan 27, 2020
WAX and AIKON partner to bring more enterprise viability to the WAX Blockchain
WAX and AIKON are excited to announce a partnership that will bring AIKON’s ORE ID blockchain identity service to the WAX Blockchain, making it easy for developers and companies to get their customers using WAX. AIKON will make their ORE ID API library, which is geared toward streamlining enterprise adoption of blockchain solutions, accessible to developers who build on WAX.
By partnering with AIKON, the WAX community benefits from increased cross-chain compatibility, and it becomes easier for both small dApps and enterprise-level applications to move onto WAX. AIKON’s ORE ID provides numerous enterprise solutions including a completely seamless blockchain on-ramp experience for existing centralized apps, a single API library that supports multiple chains and data privacy conscious identities.
- ORE ID Enterprise provides one of the easiest ways for enterprise customers to transition their existing users to the blockchain and can be adapted to any onboarding experience.
- ORE ID libraries will support a multitude of chains including WAX, EOS, Ethereum, TRON and more, allowing developers to launch their dapps on multiple chains easily with one API.
- ORE ID as an identity solution was built with privacy and security in mind and provides tools to manage GDPR and CCPA compliance.
With these solutions, dApps from other blockchains such as Ethereum and TRON can easily port their application over to the WAX Blockchain. And enterprises interested in adopting digital assets can leverage WAX’s powerful asset exchange tools by migrating their users to the WAX chain.
AIKON has long been inspired by the team at WAX and the scale they’ve been able to accomplish. “Everyone on our team loves WAX - especially their focus on usability and mass adoption,” said Marc Blinder, CEO of AIKON. “ORE ID brings that same emphasis on usability for centralized companies that want to make the move to blockchain or dApps that want a single sign-on solution for multiple chains.”
“WAX is really excited for AIKON to join the platform,” says Evan Vandenberg, Director of Business Development for WAX. “AIKON’s outstanding team has shown significant progress in onboarding enterprise-level customers, outside of the blockchain space, to utilize blockchain technology such as Moonlighting.com. I’m very excited that the AIKON team can bring their impressive tech offerings to the WAX development community. “
Together, AIKON and WAX hope to provide that tipping point that large enterprises have been waiting for in their consideration to adopt a blockchain strategy.
About AIKON:
ORE ID was built from the ground up to leverage blockchain and manage access rights to a user’s data. We knew from the beginning that protecting a user would be critical to the mainstream adoption of blockchain technologies, and data privacy compliance is one of the most obvious, and in the current technological climate, paramount use cases that can really deliver value and security to the masses.
Visit the WAX Developer Hive for all our developer resources, and join our communities to stay up to date on WAX developments:
Jan 13, 2020
NEW: WAX and LiquidApps Collaborate to Offer High-Powered Tools to Developers
WAX and LiquidApps are excited to announce a collaboration that will make WAX a remarkably scalable and interoperable blockchain for decentralized applications. WAX will integrate LiquidApp’s DAPP Network, providing developers who build on WAX with the most efficient and cost-effective tools and environments.
The DAPP Network makes the development of dApps more affordable, efficient and scalable through a range of products for developers, service providers and users committed to scaling the blockchain. The DAPP Network brings a of services to developers building on the blockchain including:
- LiquidLink allows dApp developers to connect their dApp to assets, actions, and applications on Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOSIO chains, and more.
- LiquidOracles keep SLAs and data verification on-chain, which protects dApp developers from the risks of malicious or accidental failure.
- vRAM is an alternative storage solution for developers building EOS dApps that is RAM-compatible, decentralized, and enables storing & retrieving of potentially unlimited amounts of data affordably and efficiently.
- Zeus SDK provides developers with a set of libraries, code samples and documentation for building and scaling dApps, while optimizing the utility of LiquidApp’s products.
These solutions boost WAX’s scalability and cross-chain compatibility with EOSIO chains as well as other blockchains like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and others. It’s like having a Rosetta Stone for the major blockchains.
LiquidApps is excited by WAX’s rapid adoption by users and partners, and the WAX Blockchain’s scalability potential. “We have been following WAX developments closely and we are thrilled to see WAX enable the DAPP Network to enhance their growing ecosystem,” says Beni Hakak, CEO LiquidApps. “The services running on the DAPP Network can help WAX developers by offering them more cost-efficient resources, more flexibility, and more trustless functionality when building their dApps, keeping WAX at the tip of the spear of blockchain innovation. This move sets the stage for networks of interoperable, integrated blockchains to emerge.“
By bringing the best toolsets and products for developers wanting to build on WAX, we’re creating an easier and more cost-effective environment for dApps to operate in.
Visit the WAX Developer Hive for all our developer resources, and join our communities to stay up to date on WAX developments:
NEW: The WAX Testnet is now live
Jan 6, 2020
Yet another resource for developers to build on WAX is now live - the WAX Testnet. With the WAX Testnet, anyone can explore building on the WAX Blockchain for free. It’s “perfect for testing dApps, node setup, or just exploring the features of WAX,” says WAX sw/eden, the WAX Guild that built the WAX Testnet.
Visit the WAX Developer Hive Quickstart for the WAX Testnet to learn how to create Testnet accounts and deploy your smart contracts to the WAX Testnet, and visit the WAX Blockchain Environments section for WAX versions, URLs, and development environment information. You can also access WAX sw/eden’s resources for the WAX Testnet and create an account here.
Developers can benefit from using the WAX Testnet in a few ways:
- Free testing environment: The WAX Testnet provides devs with free test WAX Tokens, which means you can see how your dApp will work on WAX without having to pay for resources
- Migration made easy: If you have a dApp running on another blockchain, you can test the migration using the WAX Testnet before deploying on the WAX Blockchain mainnet
- Experiment with WAX services (coming soon): Integrate and test WAX features such as the WAX Cloud Wallet, WAX Decentralized Random Number Generator, and Simple Assets NFT smart contracts
Visit the WAX Developer Hive for all our developer resources, and join our communities to stay up to date on WAX developments:
Jan 3, 2020
NEW: Customers can automatically login to WAX dApps with this new WAX Developer Portal quickstart
We’ve added a feature to WAX Cloud Wallet that allows dApp customers to automatically log in to their favorite WAX dApps, making it even faster and easier to start using applications that run on the WAX Blockchain.
With the WaxJS quickstart, developers can run a simple, secure check that will let customers automatically sign into the dApp any time they access it.
Before you can start signing transactions from your dApp, a customer must be logged in. WaxJS includes an isAutoLoginAvailable function that:
- Securely checks for WAX Cloud Wallet credentials
- Checks to see if your dApp is whitelisted
If both conditions are true, a customer’s userAccount and public keys are set in your WaxJS object, and you don’t need to call the login() function. You’ll also have access to wax.userAccount and wax.pubKeys.
Customers save clicks and time, so they can start using your dApp in just seconds.
Want to see how it works? See the autologin feature in action here.
Visit the WAX Developer Hive for all our developer resources, and join our communities to stay up to date on WAX developments:


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Extrasolar puts you at the heart of an interactive sci-fi thriller that plays
out over the Internet via email, websites, videos, pdf files, and more.
As a volunteer for the eXoplanetary Research Institute (XRI), you’ll
be directing your rover to explore the planet Epsilon Prime.
The time delay you set is real. Sending a signal to another
planet and back again isn’t an instantaneous process...
...but for today we’ll speed things up. It’s now several hours
later and the rover has sent back your new photo for analysis.
The science team will analyze your photo and send back their findings, likely
following up with new tasks and things for you to discover!
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XRI is currently receiving an overwhelming number of applications, and rover driver positions are very limited. You will be notified by email if you are selected.
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech (text)
I've never been much of a career planner. I just try to do work that interests or fascinates me for as long as I can. Once it starts to get boring or I start getting wanderlust, I look around for opportunities to seize or work on creating my own.
 That Steve Jobs quote, from a commencement address that I listen to more regularly than I ever would have thought, reminds me to not worry about it and to trust that great things are afoot.


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In the 1990s teenagers called everything and everyone sad – but in the early 2000s this favourite word of disapproval was overtaken by random. In this second decade of the twenty-first century, even those well out of their teens can be heard using it. According to the OED, the ‘without method or conscious decision’ sense of the adjective random dates back to the seventeenth century, while the extended informal meaning (‘odd, unusual, or unexpected’) arose in the 1970s in US computing circles.


- Hormones are chemical messengers
- The body’s wireless communication system
- Turns cell functions on and off
- Regulates Gene Expression
- Hormones are responsible for
- Signalling to cells to Prepare, Grow and Die (Apoptosis)
- Regulating and signalling with the Immune system
- Helping to regulate Metabolism
- Mood
- Regulating the reproductive cycle
- Occur during our 20s and 30s
- Gradually and subtly decline
- May be responsible for the lack of disease during these years of our lives
- Hormone levels decrease as we age
- Our biological age is closely tied to the health and activity of your endocrine system
- One theory is that hormones are nature’s way of keeping people around long enough to reproduce, and then ‘cut us off’ as we are no longer useful to the tribe
- Sex Hormone Decline in men
- Hormonal decline starts in men in the early 30s
- Eventually leads to Testosterone Insufficiency, or Andropause
- Other names include Hypogonadism, Male Menopause, Androgen Deficiency Syndrome of Aging Males
- By the age of 80, testosterone levels are only 1/5th of the level in his/her 30s
- Today, low hormone states happen more commonly
- up to 40% of men over 45 have low levels of testosterone
- Also occurs in those with high levels of body fat
- Fat contains an enzyme called ‘aromatase’, which converts testosterone into estradiol - this is known as metabolic andropause
- This decreases the level of testosterone available in the body and causes the same symptoms
- Fatigue
- Reduced stamina
- Loss of strength
- Reduced libido
- Reduced erectile function
- Reduced sense of well-being
- Changes in sleep patterns
- Reduced cognition or Brain Fog
- Increased body fat
- Increased insulin resistance & diabetes risk
- Loss of bone and increased fracture risk
- Depression
- Infertility
- [Your ADAM Score]
- Testosterone and the Heart
- Heart muscle has the most testosterone receptors
- In the Heart, Testosterone
- Strengthens the heart muscle
- Lowers LDL and total cholesterol
- May improve some arrhythmias & angina
- May prevent blood clots
- Abdominal fat
- Cholesterol
- Triglycerides
- Blood pressure
- Estrogen
- Lipoprotein (a)
- Fibrinogen
- Insulin levels
- Coronary artery elasticity
- Human growth hormone (HGH), weakening the heart muscle
- May be a better marker for predicting heart disease than
- Blood pressure
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Smoking
- Body mass index (BMI)
- Is related to thickening of the artery wall
- Testosterone and Prostate Cancer
- Affects 1 out of 8
- 1 in 20 will die
- Second most fatal cancer in men
- No correlation between testosterone & PSA
- Highest free testosterone associated with lower risk (18-26%) in most studies
- Not much evidence Testosterone causes cancer but may cause it to grow faster
- Testosterone and the Brain
- Low testosterone can cause symptoms affection mood
- Loss of ability to concentrate
- Moodiness and emotionality
- Touchiness and irritability
- Great timidity
- Feeling weak
- Inner unrest
- Memory failure
- Reduced intellectual agility
- Passive attitudes
- General tiredness
- Reduced interest in surroundings
- Low testosterone can cause symptoms that seem like depression and replacing testosterone can alleviate these symptoms
- Alzheimer’s
- Low testosterone may contribute to memory impairment
- Found in men with Alzheimer’s disease
- May increase brain vulnerability to Alzheimer’s
- Testing for Low Testosterone
- get the VM men’s health hormone screening panel
- Free and Total Testosterone
- Estradiol
- DHEA-S
- Dihydrotestosterone (DHT)
- PSA
- Other
- CBC
- Chemistry panel
- Thyroid profile
- HGH
- Optional
- Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG)
- Leuteinizing Hormone (LH)
- Prolactin
- How to increase your testosterone level
- Try to avoid medications that increase estrogen
- Avoid drugs that may increase Estrogen
- NSAIDs, Acetaminophen
- Statins
- Some heart and blood pressure medications
- Some anti-depressants
- Some drugs compete for receptors or alter metabolism
- Thiazide diuretics
- Some chemotherapy drugs
- Nutritional Supplementation
- Zinc
- Vitamin C
- Chrysin
- Saw palmetto
- Nettle
- Not DHEA or Androstenedione
- Prescription
- Balance other hormones
- Arimidex
- Getting Testosterone Replacement Therapy
- Make sure you don't have any contraindications
- Prostate cancer
- Male breast cancer
- Hct > 55%
- Conditions to be cautious
- Enlarged Prostate
- Sleep apnea
- Peripheral edema
- Erythrocytosis
- Side effects of Testosterone Therapy
- Most common immediate side effects
- Acne
- Application site reaction
- Headache
- Hypertension
- Abnormal liver function tests
- Non-cancerous prostate disorder
- Increased Hgb & Hct
- Male pattern baldness and gynecomastia
- Diminished sperm production
- Reduction in size of testicles
- Insulin-dependent diabetics may need less insulin
- Concurrent use with corticosteroids may enhance edema formation
- Prostate Hypertrophy
- Geriatric patients may be at increased risk
- Edema
- In patients with pre-existing cardiac, renal, or liver disease
- Risk of making hidden prostate cancer grow
- Monitoring while you are taking Testosterone Replacement Therapy
- Maintain within normal physiologic range
- Free and total testosterone
- Estradiol, DHT, liver function, CBC
- PSA
- Symptoms
- Physical changes
- Prostate
- Benefits of Testosterone Replacement Therapy
- Abdominal obesity
- Muscle wasting
- Osteoporosis
- Inflammatory-related syndromes
- A range of cardiovascular diseases
- Alzheimer’s dementia
- Depression
- Cognitive decline
- Sexual dysfunction
- Type II diabetes


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The purpose of this document is to provide me with a go to area to go to when I need to clarify who I am. My ideals, my ideas, my dreams, what keeps me going. It will all be stored here. This is for me to find who I am and get working towards a better me
My future picture entails most of all being independent. Independent from the needs and wants of the world. I want to have fine tuned my life to the degree that I do not need the newest technology. Everything works as I need it to. I have enough food to eat every day. I want to have a stable job that I enjoy.
Throughout my short time on this earth, I feel I have collected the knowlege I need to help myself focus and set my sights on a point in the future. My key is to minimize my distractions as much as possible so I am able to get the maximum ammount of work done so I can achieve my goals. This means decluttering my life to essentials. Not buying extemporaneous items. Getting rid of items that do not bring me joy. I will achive this. I will achive this soon. Everything I do will refelct a more minimalist sensibility. There are certain things I cannot change, but I will change my life in other small ways adding up to the big change.


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This component includes two inputs, data and dist, and
it has one output, which is the result of shifting data by
dist places. Both data and output have the same number of
bits in them. The component supports the following shift types:
- Logical Left: All bits in data are shifted up dist places,
with the bottom dist places filled with 0's. For example,
11001011 logically shifted left twice is 00101100. (The top two ones are lost.)
- Logical Right: All bits in data are shifted down dist
places, with the upper dist places filled with 0's. For example,
11001011 logically shifted right twice is 00110010. (The bottom two ones are
lost.)
- Arithmetic Right: All bits in data are shifted down dist
places, with the upper dist places filled with repetitions of
whatever the uppermost bit in data. For example, 11001011
arithmetically shifted right twice is 11110010.
- Roll Left: All bits in data are shifted up dist
places, with the top dist places wrapped around into the bottom.
For example, 11001011 rolled left twice is 00101111.
- Roll Right: All bits in data are shifted down dist
places, with the bottom dist places wrapped around into the top.
For example, 11001011 rolled right twice is 11110010.
Note that if dist contains any floating or error inputs, then
the output is composed entirely of error values, since there is no way to
guess how far to shift the input.
Pins
- West edge, north end (input, bit width matches the Data Bits attribute)
- The value to be shifted.
- West edge, south end (input, bit width is computed as below)
- The number of bits by which to shift the data input.
This input should have as many bits as is the minimum number to indicate
any shift distance from 0 up to one less than Data Bits; that is, it should
be the ceiling of the base-2 logarithm of Data Bits. For example, if Data Bits
were 8, this input would require 3 bits; but if it were 9, it would require
4 bits.
- East edge (output, bit width matches the Data Bits attribute)
- The result of shifting the input value by the input distance.
Attribute
When the component is selected or being added,
Alt-0 through Alt-9 alter its Data Bits
attribute.
- Data Bits
- The bit width of the data input and of the output.
- Shift Type
- One of the five possible shift types as outlined above (Logical Left,
Logical Right, Arithmetic Right, Roll Left, Roll Right).
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The Tories have created a bogus website called labourmanifesto.co.uk and are using it to attack Jeremy Corbyn
The fake website is appearing at the top of many people's Google search results
by Marcus HughesThe Conservative Party have bought a website called "labourmanifesto.co.uk" and are using it to attack the opponent party on the day of their manifesto launch.
The website, which some commentators suggest may appear to be an official Labour Party domain, has appeared at the top of some people's Google search results as a paid advertisement.
But the content of the site contains criticisms and smears on Labour policies related to Brexit and tax reform.
The website opens on a single page with an unflattering image of Jeremy Corbyn captioned "Labour's 2019 Manifesto".
Below that it reads: "A website by the Conservative Party" followed by "no plan for Brexit", "higher taxes" and "two more referendums".
The whois.net website shows that the domain name labourmanifesto.co.uk was bought on Monday this week.
The Labour Party launched its General Election manifesto on Thursday morning.
The document includes plans for a windfall tax on oil firms, a pledge to make the UK carbon neutral by 2030, and promises to scrap tuition fees and introduce a "real living wage" of at least £10 an hour.
A WalesOnline reporter entered the search term "labour" into the Google search engine shortly after the official launch of the Labour Party manifesto.
The top result, appearing as an advertisement, listed the Conservative-run site along with the line "£2,400 More Tax, Every Year".
Commentators writing on Twitter have suggested the website may be misleading potential voters.
It comes after the Conservative Party were widely citicised for changing the name of their communication HQ Twiitter handle to "factcheck UK" during Tuesday's televised debate .
WalesOnline have contacted the Conservative Party for a response.
More to follow.


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As the head of the spy organization of the same name that, Leviathan destroyed all the covert super-spy organizations and evil secret societies in the DC Universe in one fell swoop. The six-issue miniseries, from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, followed a group of the DC Universe’s greatest detectives, as they tried to figure out who Leviathan was in a single night, before the rest of their plan could be put into effect.
Bendis maintained that Leviathan wasn’t a new character, but someone who existed in DC Comics canon. And as revealed by Event Leviathan #6, that someone was a relatively unknown superhero with a long origin in DC Comics history: Manhunter.
Like 1940s comics characters who never reached the popularity of a Justice League member, Manhunter has been through waves of reinvention. He began as a non-costumed crime fighter, but was revived several times as a red-clad and masked vigilante detective — and as an army of robots called the Manhunters who preceded the Green Lantern Corps. as a failed attempt to police the galaxy.
Now, he’s one of Superman’s canniest foes. We’ll just have to wait and see how long this incarnation sticks!
What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? I’ll tell you. Welcome to Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor, me, enjoyed over the past seven days. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” Let’s get started!
Event Leviathan #6
Mark Shaw, the 1980s incarnation Manhunter, turned out to be Leviathan. He was a human man empowered for costumed crime-fighting by the remnants of the ancient robot Manhunter army. Now he’s gone all mastermind-y trying to remake the world in a better image, etc. etc.. You know how this villain stuff goes.
Far Sector #1
N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s Far Sector finally kicked off this week and it’s got a great hook, great worldbuilding, and absolutely gorgeous art. If you like science-fiction mysteries, you should get in on the ground floor with this one.
The Batman’s Grave #2
I’m still waiting for the real plot of The Batman’s Grave to show itself, but also loving how Ellis writes Bruce and Alfred.
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy #3
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy is a comic about women defending their girlfriends (and I don’t mean friends who are girls), and I’m really into this Ivy-makes-armor-out-of-bark look.
Superman #17
I’d fall for those big blue puppy dog eyes, too, Lois.
Wonder Woman #82
Hey! It’s the Wonder-Woman of China! I’m so glad someone out there is remembering that the Justice League of China exists and is great.
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #58
If you read one comic this week, make it the finale of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, if only for the scene with Galactus. It’s a beautiful metaphor about dealing with loss and necessary change, for how to navigate the ever shifting status quo of Marvel and DC comics characters, and also is the book’s creators speaking directly to its many kid-aged fans who have to say goodbye. It almost made me cry.
Related
X-Men #2
Meanwhile, in X-Men #2, two sentient islands did some very personal business and now the mutants’ utopia is, uh, bigger.
Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda #3
I’m a simple woman: A comic makes me laugh out loud, I put it in the roundup.
Runaways #27
Runaways gets a runner-up prize for Best Scene This Week, in a bit where all the characters try on new costumes from a giant closet. Kris Anka nails these faces, especially Nico’s girlfriend, Karolina (top right).
ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt #1
I thought that some of you might like to know that ElfQuest is back with a new story and it’s about Skywise being very gay.
 If I had a dime for every time that happened to me...


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In the page books, the books are organized in two lists: books I have read and those I have not. However a page is still generated for each book. This is not a filter on the pages being generated: it is only a filter on the links being generated.
If the yaml matter has a boolean field (for instance: filter or, more evocatively, publish), I can specify it in _config to select what pages have to be generated.
I can use the filter_condition field in config.yml. The field takes as argument a string with ruby expression which should evaluate to a Boolean value. The filter_condition is used as an additional selector on top of the filter condition.
See the documentation for more details.
If your data is structured in a hierarhcy, specify the path to access your data in the data field.
See the file _data/hierarchy.yml for a working example. The pages generated are the following:


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Towards a Performance-as-a-service Cloud.
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The autonomic operating system research project: achievements and
future directions.
In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation
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Asanović, and John D. Kubiatowicz.
Tessellation: refactoring the OS around explicit resource containers
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Marco D. Santambrogio.
A bird's Eye View of FPGA-based Evolvable Hardware.
In Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), 2011 NASA/ESA
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It is halfway through the year and now might be a good time for some reflection and an update.
2020 has in many ways been an interesting year. There is a global pandemic happening, a massive movement and discussion regarding race and police brutality in America, all amidst economic turmoil and a rapidly approaching a presidential election.
This is a difficult moment in time for people.
Something that has helped me during this time has been to ask myself “what is and isn’t within my control?” Asking myself this question daily has enabled me to live my life with some forward momentum during a time of uncertainty, understanding that there are certain aspects of my personal and professional life that I simply don’t have any control over.
Reading
I recently finished the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport and can’t recommend it enough. I am about to embark on his 30-day digital declutter. More to come about that at a later time. This year I have also read Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker, Everything Is Fcked* by Mark Manson, and Extreme Ownership by Jacko Willink.
Thinking
A recurring topic that I have been pondering has been how to maximize my time outside of work for more learning and or leisure. This idea lead me to a couple of new things. One is my 30-day digital declutter, two reading Ultralearning by Scott H. Young, and three attempting to teach myself how to fly fish. Turns out, fly fishing is much harder than I originally anticipated, it requires a lot of patience, something I could work on.
Here is a photo of me fly fishing at Chatfield State Park this past weekend while car camping with friends.
Cycling
I am track to make 2020 my biggest year in terms of mileage. The one positive out of the pandemic has been the amount of cycling Abby and I have done together. I also just completed a 10-week racing league on zwift in which I came 4th in the league. I just missed the podium but learned a ton about zwift racing and want to do it more competitively in the future.
Here is a photo of me cycling a couple of weeks ago in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which we are about to do. And yet our plans for the future descend from the past.” — Seneca


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Speaking at a conference in the UK today, Andrew Eland (of Google) said:
Think of the things scientists won't build because they're not exposed to computing in school.
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The first dataset we will be exploring is the bnames2
dataset, which consists of the
top 1000 male and female baby names in the US, from 1880 to 2008. It consists of 258,000 records (1000 x 2 x 129) with five ariables: year
, name
, soundex
, sex
and prop
.
Let us begin by reading the dataset into our R session. Note that read.csv
can work directly on the zipped file, so there is no reason to unzip it prior to reading.
# tf <- 'bnames2.csv.bz2')
# downloader::download("http://stat405.had.co.nz/data/bnames2.csv.bz2", tf)
bnames2 <- read.csv("bnames2.csv.bz2")
| year | name | prop | sex | soundex |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | John | 0.08 | boy | J500 |
| 1880 | William | 0.08 | boy | W450 |
| 1880 | James | 0.05 | boy | J520 |
| 1880 | Charles | 0.05 | boy | C642 |
| 1880 | George | 0.04 | boy | G620 |
| 1880 | Frank | 0.03 | boy | F652 |
There are several interesting questions one might ask with this sort of data. Let us start with a simple question of tracking the popularity of a specific name over time. It is usual for people to try and track their own name. However, given that my name is nowhere to be found in this dataset, I am going to use Greg
, since I knew beforehand that he was going to be in the audience (Sorry Greg!)
greg <- subset(bnames2, name == "Greg")
It is easier to explore data visually. So let us plot the trend using ggplot2
. This is going to be a light-weight introduction to this wonderful package, of which we are going to see more in later sessions.
The code below is self-explanatory. We are using the qplot
function (which stands for quickplot), and asking it to give us a line
plot of year
vs. prop
, both of which can be found in the dataset greg
.
library(ggplot2)
qplot(x = year, y = prop, data = greg, geom = 'line')
We see (quite unexpectedly I think!) that Greg as a name peaked in popularity sometime in 1965 and has since been on the decline.
Let us take another name at random, say "Michelle"
michelle <- subset(bnames2, name == "Michelle")
qplot(x = year, y = prop, data = michelle, geom = 'line')
Mmm.. this looks like a big mess. Why do we see this awful sawtooth like pattern? Can you come up with a reason?
Let us plot the same data using point
instead of line
.
qplot(x = year, y = prop, data = michelle, geom = 'point')
It seems like there are two clusters of data. Well, it is not surprising since Michelle is a name used for both boys and girls. So, if we were to create a line
plot, we should make sure to tell qplot
to group the variables by sex
.
qplot(x = year, y = prop, data = michelle, geom = 'line', group = sex)
Note that we could also tell qplot
to color the lines based on sex
by passing color = sex
in the call. We don't have to set the group
argument, since qplot
will automatically do it for us. Magical right!
Exercise 1
Repeat the same exercises we did for name
with the variable soundex
. In other words, use the soundex
variable to extract all names that sound like yours and plot their popularity. Make sure to think about the geom
you would like to use!
Solution 1
greg_soundex = greg$soundex[1]
greg_like <- subset(bnames2, soundex == greg_soundex)
qplot(x = year, y = prop, data = greg_like, geom = 'point')
If we had to track the popularity of a specific soundex
, we need to summarize
the data by aggregating the values of prop
across all names with the same soundex. Once again, while base R has all the tooling to accomplish this directly, I am a big fan of doing this with the plyr
package, which provides a remarkably consistent set of verbs to manipulate data.
It is good to think of data manipulation in terms of verbs. Those of you who have used SQL
or pandas
might be familiar with these already. Here are some basic verbs that we will be exploring
Another important verb that is often used in conjunction with the above five is group
. Rather than explaining the theory behind each of these verbs and their usage, let us get our hands dirty with interesting questions posed by data and using it to discover these verbs! I will make sure to give you a concise summary at the end of this session.
Exercise 2
Explore the following
Suppose, we want to explore trends in the total number of people with a specific name across all the years. The bnames2
dataset only has proportions. So, to be able to address this question, we need total number of births by year.
Fortunately, that data is available too. Let us read in the births
dataset and plot the trends in total number of births
across sex
by year
.
births <- read.csv("http://stat405.had.co.nz/data/births.csv")
qplot(year, births, data = births, color = sex, geom = 'line')
What explains the peaks?
Going back to the question we were trying to address, we need a way to join
the births
data with bnames2
so that we can compute total numbers. Base R has the merge
function to achieve this. But, I am partial to the join
function in plyr
, and so we shall use that.
bnames2_b <- join(bnames2, births, by = c("sex", "year"))
| year | name | prop | sex | soundex | births |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | John | 0.08 | boy | J500 | 118405 |
| 1880 | William | 0.08 | boy | W450 | 118405 |
| 1880 | James | 0.05 | boy | J520 | 118405 |
| 1880 | Charles | 0.05 | boy | C642 | 118405 |
| 1880 | George | 0.04 | boy | G620 | 118405 |
| 1880 | Frank | 0.03 | boy | F652 | 118405 |
There are several ways to join
data, especially around the handling of rows/columns that are not present in one of the two datasets being merged. Here is a set of simple venn-diagrams to illustrate the possibilities. The join
function supports most of these using the type
and match
argument. You can read up the documentation using ?join
for more details.
Now that we have all the data required to carry out the exploration exercise we started, let us power through.
greg <- subset(bnames2_b, name == 'Greg')
greg <- mutate(greg, tot = prop * births)
qplot(year, births, data = greg, geom = 'line')
Ah. This looks better. So Greg's name is picking up popularity in absolute terms!
Exercise 3
What is the most popular name in the US across all these years (1880 - 2008)? Any guesses? Enter your guesses on Etherpad.
Solution 3
We can answer this question if we can compute the total number of people with a specific name summed up across all the years. For a specific name, we can use the summarize
function to compute this summary.
greg_tot <- summarize(greg, tot = sum(prop * births))
How do we do this for all names. In terms of pseudocode, here is what we would do.
Let us implement this in code.
# Split
pieces <- split(bnames2_b, bnames2_b$name)
# Apply
results <- vector("list", length(pieces))
for (i in seq_along(pieces)){
results[[i]] <- summarize(pieces[[i]],
name = name[1],
tot = sum(prop * births)
)
}
# Combine
result <- do.call("rbind", results)
To answer the question, we need to arrange
the data in descending order of the variable tot
.
most_pop_name <- arrange(result, desc(tot))[1,"name"]
Ready to see the final answer!
And the winner is ... James


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Like a fine wine, it’s safe to say George Clooney got better with age.
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Sylvester Stallone seamlessly shakes hands with the Italian Stallion — Rocky Balboa of the “Rocky” franchise.
And what better way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Friends” than by putting Jennifer Aniston and company face-to-face with their characters from a quarter century ago.
Some photos even collapsed the age gap entirely. By popular fan request, here are Heath Ledger, above, and Joaquin Phoenix, below, immaculately superimposed with their respective Jokers from, well, basically yesterday.
A creative mind since childhood, Gelinck told Unilad that he’d been posting photos for 10 years. However, he’s only gone viral recently (thanks in part to celebs sharing his creations), racking up more than 200,000 followers on Instagram.


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skillsusa_related_technical_math.txt
science_fair.txt
pvsa.txt
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Years: 2019
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Years: 2017, 2018
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Years: 2017
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Years: 2017
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THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT Written and Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez With Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard R 87 min
You've been dining for weeks on haute cuisine with designer ingredients and frou-frou presentations; suddenly you find yourself munching a roadhouse cheeseburger, and nothing ever tasted so good. This, in essence, is the appeal of the indie thriller phenomenon "The Blair Witch Project". To a public sated with the billion-dollar effects of modern cinema tech, there's something irresistible about this bare-bones little horror story, shot on 16mm and high-8 video, without any special effects, on a budget you could carry in your pocket in coins. "Blair" is a faux documentary (the hip word is "mockumentary"; I offer "crockumentary"). It purports to be footage shot by a trio of student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard) that was discovered a year after they disappeared in the Maryland woods while shooting a documentary about a legendary child-killing witch. Heather, Josh, and Mike start off in high spirits, recording each other in the car and the motel room. They interview locals and explore sites connected to the folklore. Then they head into the woods with backpacks, a map, and a compass in search of an old graveyard. The seem to have plenty of film and an endless appetite for shooting it. But soon they're hopelessly lost, and this is where the creepiness creeps in. Fear comes at them from two angles -- the growing terror of being lost in the woods, and the encroaching horror of the witch lore. They begin to hear things -- real, or hysterical suggestion? They begin to find things -- ominous ritualistic-looking bundles of sticks and piles of stones. Something's out there...is it supernatural, or psychotic? Tempers flare, nerves crack. Things get very, very bad. Then they get worse. Point-of-view is the inspiration that makes this movie click. Everything we see is recorded by the young documentarians on their 16mm b&w production camera and the color camcorder brought by Heather to document her documentary. We're there with them -- there's no omniscient crew, no other reality behind the camera. It's all subjective, hand-held, grainy and jerky. On the upside this provides immediacy; on the downside, it can make you a little nauseous, and you welcome moments when the screen goes black and there's only audio from the DAT recorder. "Blair" is a welcome antidote to gore, gadgets, explosions, and computerized excess. But despite the internet-orchestrated hype, it's not the scariest thing you've ever seen. It lives and dies on credibility, and having committed themselves to the first-person camera, the filmmakers find themselves in the awkward position of having to keep the camera rolling when circumstances make it almost impossible to believe.
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Cooking time
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Serves 6
To make the chicken, mix together one tablespoon of oil, the ginger, garlic, salt and black and white peppers, and rub the mixture into the chicken pieces.
Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Heat the remaining oil in a wok and fry the onion for two minutes.
Add the marinated chicken pieces and gently stir-fry for 10 minutes.
Add the chillies and 200ml (7fl oz) boiling water, cover and simmer for 10 minutes, until chicken is cooked.
Stir in the lemon juice and sprinkle over the coriander leaves.
To make the potato and cauliflower, heat the oil in a frying pan and add onions, chillies, garlic and potatoes. Fry for seven minutes or until the onion is deep yellow and translucent.
Add the cauliflower and fry for a further three minutes until brown.
Add the turmeric, cumin, coriander, and salt and garam masala. Stir and fry for five minutes.
Add butter and mix, then add five tablespoons of cold water, cover and simmer for five minutes. Stir in ginger.
Serve with the chicken.


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(or "In dash, ... is not supported." when using dash
)
#!/bin/sh
while IFS= read -r n
do
sum=$((sum+n))
done < <(program)
The easiest fix is to switch to a shell that does support process substitution, by changing the shebang to #!/bin/bash
or ksh
.
#!/bin/bash
while IFS= read -r n
do
sum=$((sum+n))
done < <(program)
Alternatively, process substitution can often be replaced with temporary files:
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tmp="$(mktemp)"
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do
sum=$((sum+n))
done < "$tmp"
rm "$tmp"
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Research
My research interests include:
- Absorbing boundary conditions
- Numerical methods for PDEs
- Wave propagation and applications to imaging
- Underwater acoustics
- Numerical methods for PDEs
- Inverse problems
Publications
Journal Papers
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S. Papadimitropoulos,D. Givoli, The Double Absorbing Boundary method for the Helmholtz equation, Applied Numerical Mathematics (2021).
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S. Papadimitropoulos, D. Rabinovich, D. Givoli, The Double Absorbing Boundary method incorporated in
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S. Papadimitropoulos, C. Tsogka, D.A. Mitsoudis, Imaging in three-dimensional waveguides with partial aperture data, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, p.2050018, 2020.
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C. Tsogka, D. A. Mitsoudis, S. Papadimitropoulos, Imaging extended reflectors in a terminating waveguide, SIAM Journal on Imaging Science, 11(2), 1680–1716, 2018.
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C. Tsogka, D. A. Mitsoudis, S. Papadimitropoulos, Partial-aperture array imaging in acoustic waveguides, Inverse Problems, Vol. 32, p. 125011 (31pp), 2016.
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C. Tsogka, D. A. Mitsoudis, S. Papadimitropoulos, Selective imaging of extended reflectors in two-dimensional waveguides,
SIAM Journal on Imaging Science, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 2714-2739, 2013.
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Conference Papers
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S. Papadimitropoulos, C. Tsogka, D. A. Mitsoudis, Imaging in three-dimensional terminating waveguides with partialaperture data, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Vienna, Austria, August 25-30, 2019.
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C. Tsogka, D.A. Mitsoudis, S. Papadimitropoulos, Imaging extended reflectors in a terminating waveguide, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Glagow, United Kingdom, June 11 - 15, 2018.
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C. Tsogka, D.A. Mitsoudis, S. Papadimitropoulos, Imaging extended reflectors in two-dimensional waveguides, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Barcelona, Spain, June 20 - 25, 2014.
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C. Tsogka, D.A. Mitsoudis, S. Papadimitropoulos, Imaging extended reflectors in a two-dimensional waveguide, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Tunis, Tunisia, June 3-7, 2013.
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