The total value of all cryptocurrencies combined crossed the mythic figure of $1 Trillion in the first week of January this year. Slowly, but not quite steadily, they are becoming a potent force.

Despite their meteoric rise, digital currencies have loopholes. By virtue of existing solely in the cloud, they bring along a host of issues. How do we know which digital currency to trust?

Even though the market’s confidence says a lot about a currency’s validity, how a currency solves a few technical challenges speaks much more to its validity than a market ever could.

In 2018, Bitcoin Gold…

1. The 10 Second Rule

A resume isn’t read. It is ‘glanced over’. A recruiter or an investor will typically spend only 10 seconds per CV. A rule of thumb is that less than 10 years of experience equals 1 page resume.

A resume is not an essay or a letter. It is neither a detailed report of what you did or a summary of your duties. A resume is a collection of peaks. Each peak is one of these four.

1. Impact — e.g. sold 100K disposable sanitary pads
2. Improvement — e.g. made the code run 10x faster or occupy 1/10th the space
3. Novelty —…

Why start now?

Bitcoin was invented in 2008. It has seen its ups and downs as a traded currency and of late it has survived major socio-political events and emerged stronger. At first, it seems like most of us latecomers have missed the ‘gold-rush (sic)’ there are valid signals pointing to an even brighter future.

1) Crypto-Pundits

Most of the crypto-pundits believe BTC will reach $1M at some point. Even those who are not hardcore believers think that $100K is not too far away.

2) Banks

Financial institutions who were again crypto, in particular BTC, in the past have come out in support of it.

In this article, we will look at how to tokenize never-before-seen words. Python’s tensorflow tokeniser can easily convert known words into tokens but what happens when you throw it words that it hasn’t seen before?

Tensorflow tokenizer is a very powerful tool. As shown in the article below it is very easy to get started with it.

The tokenizer can be used to convert a set of training data (sentences) into a dictionary where each unique word gets a different ID, so to say. Let’s look at how to create a dictionary out of words.

In Tensorflow, this dictionary is…

Tensorflow tokenizer lets you convert the words in a sentence into numbers. Each word gets an ID and thus lets you perform a wide variety of NLP tasks from sentiment analysis to sentence similarity.

Let’s say we have the following sentence

One plus one is two

The tokenizer will give an id to every word.

Overview

Google’s vision comes from the foot soldiers because it is inherently engineer driven. The role of a PM, therefore, is to make sure the engineering machine is well oiled. A product manager at Google provides its engineers with any non-engineering support that they might need. That ranges all the way from design to customer feedback. One of the PM’s crucial roles is to base their function on analysis and strategy.

Google’s vision comes from the foot soldiers because it is inherently engineer driven.

Culture @ Google

To understand the kind of people they hire, one needs to know the culture they have. Google…

Your inner voice is expressionless. It occurs purely as electrical signals in the brain, otherwise known as thoughts. These thoughts are akin to clay — shapeless and without integrity.

Your inner voice is expressionless.

Clay becomes a recognizable object when appropriate force is applied to it. A thought becomes reality in a similar fashion through the medium of writing. In fact, whether it is writing, painting, or dancing, the origin of a particular piece of art occurs as a thought.

It occurs purely as electrical signals in the brain

All of us possess some amount of evolutionary creativity. Then, why…

Introduction

ECMAScript is a standard that web browsers follow while interpreting Javascript. Experts from across the world gather and decide on the changes that should make the language better. The 6th edition of such a conference happened in June 2015. The standard that came out of it was initially known as ECMAScript 6 (ES6) and was later renamed to ECMAScript 2015. Since then the standard is named as ECMAScript [Year No.] . This year’s standard is known as ECMAScript 2020