Published in The Startup·Sep 9, 2018How 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 Lessons7 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Aug 29, 2018Detect Cryptocurrency Market Trends Using PHP: Exponential Moving AveragesWe’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…PHP5 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Jul 6, 2018Easy facial detection in your Laravel PHP applicationDetect 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…Laravel6 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 1, 20185 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 happyLife5 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Jun 13, 2018Sentiment Analysis Using Laravel and the Google Natural Language APIWrite 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…Tech5 min read
Jun 6, 201851% Attacks and Double Spending in CryptocurrenciesI’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. …Bitcoin6 min read
Jun 1, 2018Consensus Algorithms in CryptocurrenciesConsensus 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…Blockchain5 min read
