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Darren Chowles
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The Startup

·Sep 9, 2018

How to Be The Best Version Of Yourself And Win At Life

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis — Often, you hate who you turned out to be. The dreams and aspirations you had as a child a distant memory. The same routine every day. Surrounded by friends or family who don’t appreciate you. Doing what you do only to please others. Maintaining bad habits. Having no motivation. I’ve…

Life Lessons

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How to Be The Best Version Of Yourself And Win At Life
How to Be The Best Version Of Yourself And Win At Life
Life Lessons

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HackerNoon.com

·Aug 29, 2018

Detect Cryptocurrency Market Trends Using PHP: Exponential Moving Averages

We’ll use PHP to calculate the 8-day and 21-day exponential moving averages to determine bullish/bearish crossovers for bitcoin. — What are moving averages? Moving averages allow you to visualise the price action for a financial instrument over a period of time. It’s widely used in technical analysis and referred to as a “lagging” indicator as it’s based on historical prices. The two commonly used averages are simple moving average (SMA) and exponential moving…

PHP

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Detect Cryptocurrency Market Trends Using PHP: Exponential Moving Averages
Detect Cryptocurrency Market Trends Using PHP: Exponential Moving Averages
PHP

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·Jul 6, 2018

Easy facial detection in your Laravel PHP application

Detect faces in images using the Google Cloud Vision API — You’ve probably seen facial detection before. As soon as you upload that family photo to Facebook, you’ll notice the boxes around all detected faces. And with facial recognition, it sometimes even auto-tags the correct friend too. It’s not always 100% accurate, but it’s still some great engineering! Applications for facial detection In this article…

Laravel

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Easy facial detection in your Laravel PHP application
Easy facial detection in your Laravel PHP application
Laravel

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The Startup

·Jul 1, 2018

5 Steps To A Happier Life

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius — Many people stumble through life unhappy. Whether it’s a failing relationship, troubles with your job, or a simple lack of interest in anything. There are several small things you can do to change this. I’ve shared a few steps below that I’ve experienced first-hand. 1. Material things won’t make you happy

Life

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5 Steps To A Happier Life
5 Steps To A Happier Life
Life

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·Jun 13, 2018

Sentiment Analysis Using Laravel and the Google Natural Language API

Write your own sentiment checker in 5 minutes. — Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of text is positive, negative, or neutral. Real world applications for Sentiment Analysis The goal of this article is to get you up and running using the Google Natural Language API with Laravel. You’ll be using this API to perform sentiment analysis on text. Using these…

Tech

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Sentiment Analysis Using Laravel and the Google Natural Language API
Sentiment Analysis Using Laravel and the Google Natural Language API
Tech

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Jun 6, 2018

51% Attacks and Double Spending in Cryptocurrencies

I’ve written about consensus algorithms in cryptocurrencies before. If any of the concepts below seem unfamiliar, I recommend a quick read of that article. What is a 51% attack? A 51% attack occurs when an attacker (or group) controls more than half of the network. 51% attacks are also referred to as majority attacks. …

Bitcoin

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51% Attacks and Double Spending in Cryptocurrencies
51% Attacks and Double Spending in Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin

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Jun 1, 2018

Consensus Algorithms in Cryptocurrencies

Consensus algorithms are paramount to the blockchain. Let’s look at an example to illustrate this. Chuck is a nefarious buyer looking to spend some of his cryptocurrency. We’ll call the currency BadCoin. He finds two merchants that accept BadCoin: Alice and Bob. Chuck goes ahead and purchases a pineapple from…

Blockchain

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Consensus Algorithms in Cryptocurrencies
Consensus Algorithms in Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain

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Darren Chowles

Darren Chowles

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Husband and father of 3. Web developer with a keen interest in security and psychology. Website: chowles.com

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