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2024

Parallel Smart Contracts for Speed

Threading in Solidity to Optimize Execution Some incomplete thoughts on parallel execution (Link)

2023

Comparing Crosschain Decentralized Exchanges GMX, Sushi, Osmosis and their Ability to Convert Web Visitors (Link)

What are Liquid Staking Tokens?

And Ethereum Staking Narratives (Link)

What is RAG in Generative AI?

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation? (Link)

Blog Profile: WeMeta

Web3 is the Metaverse. (Link)

2022

Unlocking Metaverse Liquidity

Introducing Pool Party NFT (Link)

‘Does Radio Ring a Bell?’: How the Metaverse Will Change Society

The metaverse is the latest technological evolution to be scoffed at – but it will change everything. This article is part of “Metaverse Week.” (Link)

WeMeta Launches The World’s First Metaverse Analytics Engine

Introducing WeMeta 1.0 (Friend link)

2021

WeMeta announces $1.1m funding round to help users buy, sell & build in the Metaverse

(Friend link)

Come Build the Metaverse

We’re hiring. (Friend link)

Zillow for the Metaverse

Reintroducing the WeMeta NFT Land Aggregator (Friend link)

Introducing Metaverse Leaderboards

Track the Top Trending Communities, Worlds, Lands, and Owners of the Metaverse (Friend link)

Account Relationships on the NEAR Blockchain

High Level Dapp and Account Specific Transaction Flow (Friend link)

Query the NEAR Blockchain with Python

Connecting to NEAR Indexer for Explorer with psycopg2 (Friend link)

Introducing SmartRPA

Neighbor to Neighbor Real Estate Transactions (Friend link)

2020

Prophet any Stock in Seconds

Free on Google Colab (Friend link)

Intro to Prophet (R)

Getting started with Facebook Prophet’s R API (real data + code) (Friend link)

OpenCV CUDA for Videos

(On Jetson Nano.) No camera required. (Friend link)

Intro to OpenCV CUDA

From single image to Dask Delayed (Friend link)

PyCUDA on Jetson Nano

Set up and get started (+ test code) (Friend link)

Selenium Webdriver on Jetson Nano

(Python) Set up Chromium Chromedriver and get started. (+ sample code) (Friend link)

Cross-Validating Prophet at Scale

Parallelizing Time Series Cross-Validation and Hyperparameter Optimization with Dask (Applied Example w/ Code) (Friend link)

Beginner’s Guide to Logistic Regression with cuML

What is Logistic Regression? And how to implement it in Python with RAPIDS cuML (Friend link)

Intro to K-Means Clustering with cuML

What is K-Means? And how to implement it in Python with RAPIDS cuML (Friend link)

Beginner’s Guide to KNN with cuML

What is K-Nearest Neighbors? And how to implement it in Python with RAPIDS cuML (Friend link)

BlazingSQL Docs Example Notebooks

Run GPU code from our Docs in seconds through BlazingSQL Notebooks (Friend link)

Distributed SQL with Dask

Scale your Python data science across multiple GPUs with BlazingSQL (w/ code + data) (Friend link)

Distributed Linear Regression with cuML

How to scale GPU machine learning with Dask (w/ code + data) (Friend link)

Beginner’s Guide to BlazingSQL

Everything you need to know when starting out with BlazingSQL (Walk-thru Example w/ Code) (Friend link)

Querying MinIO with BlazingSQL

Build your own GPU-accelerated database in seconds (Friend link)

Data Visualization with BlazingSQL

Exploring NYC with Matplotlib, Datashader, HoloViews and cuxfilter (Friend link)

Modern Warfare: Season 3

Warzone Quads, new weapons, multiplayer maps and more (Friend link)

Call of Duty®: Warzone

Free-to-play, cross-platform, 150 players, epic? (Friend link)

BlazingSQL Logs

Evaluate query performance and execution with .log() (Friend link)

Modern Warfare: Season 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s 2nd season brings back MW2 fan favorites with new & exciting ways for players to compete (Friend link)

ETL 215M rows of Taxi Data with BlazingSQL

Preprocess > 30GB of NYC Yellow Cab data for Datashader visualization with a single Tesla T4 GPU (Friend link)

GPU Memory Pools and Performance with BlazingSQL

Reduce overhead & further improve your GPU accelerated data science (Friend link)

How to add a Hangout video call in Google Calendar

Add a Google Hangout meeting link to your meeting / event (Friend link)

2019

Modern Warfare: Season 1

They literally copied Fortnite, just more expensive. But hey, Season One is live! (Friend link)

Which GPUs work with RAPIDS?

All RAPIDS compatible GPUs & prerequisites (Friend link)

Variables in Python

Understand & set Pythonic variables (Friend link)

Numbers & Numeric Operations

Types of numbers in Python and how to use them (Friend link)

Beginner’s Guide to Linear Regression in Google Colab with cuML

Break down of simple & multiple linear regression and how to easily implement both in Python with RAPIDS AI’s cuML (Friend link)

Operation Dark Divide (Call of Duty®)

Black Ops 4’s final operation and everything cool is in Blackjack’s shop.. Microtransactions — yay! (Friend link)

Data Driven Lending in the Age of AI

Why and how Oracle is digitizing the home loan process (Friend link)

What is BlazingSQL?

Nearing 100x faster than Apache Spark, BlazingSQL is backed by Samsung and NVIDIA — but what is it? (+ the GPU DataFrame) (Friend link)

New Uniform Residential Loan Application Delayed

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac delay implementation of first changes to mortgage application in past 20 years (Friend link)

How to Install RAPIDS in Google Colab

Easy 3 step setup of RAPIDS AI suite on Tesla T4 or P100 instance (w/ pictures) (Friend link)

What is RAPIDS AI?

NVIDIA’s new GPU acceleration of Data Science promises to rock the world — but what is it? (Quick & Easy Overview) (Friend link)

How to Add a Story to a Medium Publication

Easy step-by-step with pictures (Friend link)

Intro to Facebook Prophet

Walk-thru Example & Repo — Everything you need to know when starting out with Facebook’s time series forecasting tool (Friend link)

Operation Apocalypse Z (Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4)

The undead are rising in the latest Operation, as Zombies spread across all modes of Black Ops 4 (Friend link)

Facebook Unveils Calibra

“A New Digital Wallet for a New Digital Currency” (Friend link)

The Math of Prophet

Breaking down the Equation behind Facebook’s open-source Time Series Forecasting procedure (Friend link)

Top 12 Most Affordable Metros for Newlyweds

#9 Minne…#6 Hartford, CT #5 Orlan… (plus the 2 least affordable) (Friend link)

Days of Summer event (Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4)

No, it’s not a music festival, I’m not cool enough to go to those.. (Friend link)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — October 2019; Official

Prepare to go dark. Modern Warfare® is back, and ready to deploy October 25 (Friend link)

“Housing Is a Strong Financial Investment, probably”

Key Findings from the 2019 SCE Housing Survey (Friend link)

Top Reasons Americans are Moving

Nobody moves anymore. Seriously. Except those who do. So why do they move? (#10 Desire for a shorter commute: 5%) (Friend link)

The search for “the one”

Looking for a new home? Here’s how long it may take. (Friend link)

Renters’ 10 Most-Requested Amenities

Hardwood flooring, 9. Garage parking, 8. Bal… (Friend link)

Mortgage Rates Drop for Fourth Straight Week

30-year fixed avg rate down 0.01% on week, down 0.50% on year (Friend link)

Couple Fined $600,000 for Trying (and failing) to Move 180-year-old Tree

The oak tree was protected under a conservation easement. Obviously, this was in California. (Friend link)

FHA Commissioner: New Rules Coming to Ease Condo Policies

Law | Residential | Residential Income (Friend link)

$1k Monthly Mortgage? Yes. Here’s where it’s Possible.

Top 10 Places You can call Home for $1,000 per Month (Friend link)

“That’s Who We R” Gets Nod of Approval through 2022

NAR renews commitment to advert aimed at distinguishing REALTORS® from other real estate agents (Friend link)

Object-oriented Programming in Python

OOP from the ground up with Examples from Pikachu and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) (Friend link)

Jury Awards California Couple $2 Billion, and that’s no Roundup

Verdict comes as Bayer faces exposure to 13,000+ claims tying it’s weedkiller, Roundup, to cancer (Friend link)

How to Combine PDFs on Mac

2 ways to easily combine PDFs on your Mac (Friend link)

Exxon Sues Cuban Companies for $280m Over Seized Property

Lower prices in Cali if they win? New taxes pending, lol! (Friend link)

LinkedOut — Automate LinkedIn

Avoid LinkedIn’s Notorious “Incoming” Season by Posting Your Updates with Selenium 2.0 (Friend link)

Black Ops 4 UPDATE leaves you dripping wet.

Hydro Busts, micro-transactions out the wazoo & Zombies gets screwed (again) — a Brief Overview of Operation Spectre Rising (Friend link)

Set up Selenium & GeckoDriver (Mac)

3-step how to install & start using Selenium WebDriver Python bindings w/ example (Friend link)

2017

Offsite, the Vanguard of Construction

The modular past, prefabricated present, and Promethean future of development (LinkedIn | Full version)