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For My Dad, I Automated Bulk WhatsApp Messaging using Python - Here's How

By Divesh
So, this Whatsapp just irritates my dad.

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The 4-Hour a Month Crypto Investor: How to Make Money When You’re Short on Time

By Misha
*This article contains some referral links

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Protecting the Japanese Elderly from Scams Using AI

By Silkdrive
If I believed all emails that end up in my spam folder, I would be a billionaire: a Nigerian prince promising to reward me in tenfold if I just help him out with a small amount now.

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"The Abandonment of Clean Algos is the Suicide of Mainstream Social Media" - Minds CEO Bill Ottman

By David Smooke
Bill Ottman is the co-creator and CEO of Minds, a free and open source social network with crypto rewards. They continue to make waves as an alternative to the incumbent social network business model of surveillance capitalism. Bill has also been a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast. Today, he kindly took the time to answer some questions for Hacker Noon.

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How to Remove Gender Bias in Machine Learning Models: NLP and Word Embeddings

By Jay Gupta
Most word embeddings used are glaringly sexist, let us look at some ways to de-bias such embeddings.

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Check Out Your Competitors’ Page Views and Benchmark Against Them - A How-To Guide

By SimilarWeb
A high number of page views isn’t necessarily an indicator of high user engagement or potential revenue from your website or app. But, that doesn’t mean page views are insignificant. Monitoring and working with this key metric may even be more valuable than you think. The trick is to look at it in the right context.

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11 Ways Your Competitors Can Hit You With Negative SEO Attacks And How To Bolster Your Defenses

By Murrough Foley
Negative SEO is nothing new. As long as there have been ways to improve your position in the organic results, there have been malicious actors who target their competition with negative search engine optimisation techniques.

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How To Rename Your Git Repositories From "Master" to "Main"

By Tobias
Until recently, almost every Git repository had a default branch named "master". But thankfully, as part of a movement to make the tech industry more inclusive and open, many software teams and open source projects are moving away from this unhealthy naming.

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Main Security Concepts and the Importance of Data Privacy

By Clo from This Too Shall Grow
Trigger warning: authoritarianism, state surveillance, the Holocaust. If you want to avoid these topics, please jump to the last paragraph of this introduction, starting with ‘Enough about the depressing stuff.’

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How To Become Better At Marketing - Pioneering Principles to Post-Modern Strategies

By Mark
This article consists of 5 sections:

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Building A Test Runner in Jest - A How-To Guide

By Ruairidh Wynne-McHardy
I use Jest nearly every day when working, and it's a fantastic tool. It lets me ship my code with confidence, knowing that I have produced something which works as intended.

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Could Fintech Play A Role In Undermining Systemic Racism Or Will It Exacerbate It?

By Tom Matsuda
Fintech is often proclaimed as the great leveller. The WEF proclaimed it as financially key in uplifting Muslim businesswomen and fintech lending algorithms have been found to discriminate less than traditional in-person lenders.

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Here's How I Built An ETH Wallet On A Cheap NFC sticker

By Branislav Đalić
Story of how I tried to become a cyborg, but with a geeky twist

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The Rise and Fall of a Tribal Cryptocurrency

By Mina Down
MazaCoin is a cryptocurrency that tried to bring together two very different communities: cryptocurrency maximalists and a North American indigenous tribe looking to assert its sovereignty.

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Leveraging Google's Pinject to Write Loosely Coupled Python Code

By Ganesh Iyer
Dependency Injection(DI) is a set of software design principles that enable engineers to develop loosely coupled code. This stack overflow post is the best ELI5 description of DI:

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Revealing The Secrets of Top Software Engineers

By Will Goto
One of the largest misconceptions about succeeding as a software engineer is that people think if they simply work hard, they will become successful and will receive the recognition they deserve. They couldn’t be further from the truth.

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How Javascript Was Created and Why The History Behind It Is Important

By Manik
Having a humble beginning of starting as a language that was intended to handle browser validations to a full-blown programming language that powers a lot of desktop applications as well, JavaScript has traveled a long journey.

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The Impact of AI Transformers on the Customer Experience

By Federico Cesconi
I have spent the last few weeks understanding the impact of a great revolution in the world of Artificial Intelligence and NLP on the customer experience. Not from a purely technical point of view, but trying to estimate the competitive advantage that this new approach can generate. We are facing yet another disruptive innovation, and it can bring significant advantages, let's try to find out which ones.

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How to Optimize Videos for Youtube's Machine Learning Algorithms

By Keshawkunal
Machine Learning still comes under the domain of unchartered territories, and we are constantly learning the applications of this modern-day technology. It has enabled computer systems to learn progressively and analyze patterns in data to adjust their actions automatically.

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XinFin Hybrid Blockchain vs EOS.IO: The Battle of XDPoS vs DPoS

By XinFin_Hybrid_Blockchain
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) has been rising as one of the sexiest techniques for replacing Proof-of-Work (PoW) currently used in mainstream blockchain technologies such as Ethereum and Bitcoin. The objectives of PoS-based blockchains such as EOS.IO and XinFin Hybrid Blockchain are not only to eliminate the PoW-related electricity consumption but also to provide a scalable solution to tackle the transaction processing performance problem in Ethereum and Bitcoin. The latter can only process around 10–15 transactions per second, which is not comparable to Visa and MasterCard.

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The Sectors Most at Risk from Remote Work and How to Secure Them

By Isaac Kohen
Making the transition to a work from home arrangement has been a heavy lift for a lot of organizations.

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Try These Steps for Increasing Privacy and Security on Windows 10

By Elina Watson
Note: Some versions of Windows 10 may not show all the following settings.

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These are the Top 5 Browsers for Privacy and Security

By Apu Chakraborty
Anonymity on the internet has been in a steady state of decline. In the interest of reversing that trend, this is a list of the top five browsers for privacy and security. While it should be noted that nothing published on the internet is perfectly private or secure, these are the browsers that will do the most to get you close.

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How We Got the First 100 Customers for Our Tech Startup

By Daniel Ndukwu
It’s been said that getting your first ten customers is hard but getting your first 100 customers is the hardest. It’s also the milestone that many startups never get to because of the competition, their skillsets, and so many other factors.

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