Hey #dctech, coming to #hacktoberfest at @GA_DC today? We can't wait to see you! One small hiccup though, the lobby of our building is closed this weekend!
Fear not, though because we're still open and ready for you!
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You can still get into the building, you just have to do so through the rear entrance. Head through the ally next to the building until you're at the back of the building.
Here's a map with some arrows:
When you get to the back of the building, you're looking for this door:
We'll have someone waiting at this door this morning to help people in. After that, you can call our Front Lines team at (202) 517-1777 and someone will come get you!
We can't wait to see you today! We've got stickers and prizes and pizza and open pull requests! Happy Hacking!
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👋 Hey @creatorcabins,
My name is Zakk. I'm a teacher, turned software engineer, turned teacher, turned software engineer
And I'd like to apply for the upcoming Creator Residency cohort!
First, a bit about me:
I mean it when I say I've flipped back and forth between teaching and software my whole career
1️⃣ I started my career teaching primary school in Aberdeen, Scotland (where I grew up)
2️⃣ Then, I worked as a software engineer (after discovering that Law is NOT fun) for about four years
3️⃣ I taught at a coding bootcamp for about three years
4️⃣ Now, I'm back to writing code!
Niklas Luhmann developed and used the Slipbox/Zettelkasten method to write 70 books and ~400 scholarly articles over the course of his career
It's a very powerful, simple process for writing that anyone can use to become prolific.
How does it work?
Step 1: Create reference notes.
It all starts with taking notes on what you read and turning these into reference notes.
I do this in @RoamResearch by creating a page for any book or article I read. I add the reference information to the page as metadata and then populate the page with my notes and highlights.
Hey @Azure, I absolutely love your services and that is in no small part because the documentation is just so good. Can I make two really quick suggestions that I think would improve the hell out of the already fantastic documentation?
First, it would be so, so, so great if you broke out commands into multiple lines. Azure CLI commands tend to get really long and each tutorial or page in the documentation tends to have many of them, so this scrolling gets really annoying:
Second, it would be so amazing if these code snippets were textareas or had contenteditable on them. I've never used the values provided by the documentation - I always change them to something else based on what I'm doing. Being able to do so in the docs would be *chefs kiss*
The Neuralink is scary, Black Mirror, science fiction cool. The short- and mid-term aims are clinical and technically really impressive. The long-term aims are nuts. In the launch demo yesterday, Musk said: the future is going to be weird. That's pretty spot on.
This thread is just my current understanding of all of this, which is limited. If something here is inaccurate, please point that out (and provide sources!) so I can learn more. Also, don't take anything in here as fact. I'm an interested technologist, not a neuroscientist.
So there is existing technology that lets us interface with the brain, but it's pretty limited, expensive, and cumbersome. Here's a comparison between the Neuralink and the next most advance brain-computer interface technology, the Utah Array:
Its Crazy to see how much of a forcing function COVID has been for of companies and industries to modernize
Many companies in Hospitality are having to roll out their digital transformation on a way more aggressive schedule *in order for guests to feel safe again*
Things like digital room keys with NFC - you download an app onto your phone which contains your "room key." When you want access to your room, you open the app and hold it up to a sensor by the door handle
Also things like voice activated assistants (ie Alexa). The tech is cool and it will probably improve the customer's experience, but the real reason there's pressure on companies to roll things like this out now is because it reduces the number of touch points in a room
Based on the reading I've done so far, this is my understanding of the types of blockchain networks.
A thread! (A chain?)
There are 3 types of blockchains:
1. Public, 2. Permissioned, and 3. Private
You can even think of them on a scale from open to closed
**Public Blockchain**
This is probably what you think of when you think of blockchain. Anyone can join and participate in the network. Bitcoin is a great example of this, as are most cryptocurrencies.