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A case study on methods to handle missing data in financial time series. Using some some example data I show that LOCF is decent choice but with its own issues

Dealing with Missing Data in Financial Time Series - Recipes and Pitfalls 

The country was so thinly inhabited, and the track so obscure, that we often had difficulty in finding our way.

NORTHERN CHILE AND PERU

Collider Craftworks seeks to put their tools, experience, and expertise together into the “metaverse," with their first NFT collection, called Cypher.

Collider Craftworks Takes Aim at Creating a True Intersection of Gaming and NFTs with Cypher

Ethermore is a blockchain RPG and emerging fantasy world built on the Ethereum blockchain.

An Intro to Ethermore: A Blockchain RPG Built by the Community

NFTs and the metaverse have already taken the world by storm. So, let's look at how metaverse and NFTs will look across various industries in 2022.

What Will the Metaverse Look Like in 2022

An NFT marketplace is dropping the world’s first religious relics in the form of NFTs on December 1st until December 3rd. 

The World's First Religious Relic NFTs will Drop this December for Charity

The daylight dims, its 3:00 pm, almost afternoon. It feels humid as the moisture in the air has increased. The skin feels all damp and sticky. My little room is getting all hot as I start sweating. It was supposed to be an ordinary afternoon on a summer day. “Lets go outside…” I talked to myself.

The Jinn: My Storyline for my first Game Project in Unity

My old writing teacher, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Earley" target="_blank">Tony Earley</a>, lives in a wonderful little house in Nashville on a leafy green street. He has a little hutch out back where he writes. He’s got a couple of kids, a great wife, a nice life.

Everything is broken

Anybody who has ever tried to find a domain name for their brand-new website knows the pain of actually finding one. After hours of searching for everything you can think of you find that the domain is either taken or some jerk is holding onto the domain to try to sell it for thousands of dollars or more.

PokieCat.com Domain Name Generator

If you somehow stumbled upon this guide instead of the similar ones ranked higher on google search, well, I think you’re going to get your time’s worth.

How to access Spotify without 3rd Party VPNs

<em>Please note that my opinions automatically makes them the ones of all people from my company, France and more generally every resident of the planet Earth.</em>

A Dive into FreeCodeCamp Stargazers

Used properly, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist" target="_blank">whitelisting</a> is a simple and effective security tactic to minimize attack surfaces. If you’re not on the list, you don‘t get in. No exceptions. Smooth as chocolate. If it’s too easy for you to find and spoof a name on the list, use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirection" target="_blank">indirection</a> to make it harder. Sticky as peanut butter. Together they taste great.

Whitelists and Indirection Go Together Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter

The Egg Dropping Puzzle is a mathematical puzzle that has been around the internet for some time now, which is known to be adopted in interviews of major companies like Google, Microsoft, Accenture and even Hewlett Packard.

Dissecting the Famous Egg Dropping Puzzle

In the realm of machine learning and data science, feature engineering stands as a cornerstone of model performance improvement. 

The Beginner's Guide to Feature Engineering

Once I quite made friends with them, visited their homes, played preference, drank vodka, talked of promotions.... But here let me make a digression.

A cultivated and decent man

OE drops involve a creator or project releasing an NFT with no hard supply cap, and they can come in different styles.

Exploring the Boom in Open Edition NFT Drops 📈

Some tout data storage as recession-proof, but with little precedence to learn from, what will a recession look like for colocation?

How Does Economic Recession Affect Colocation?

Cosmic Champs drops its second round of NFTs in preparation for upcoming Beta. 

Exclusive Interview: Cosmic Champs Rockets Toward New NFT Drop & Beta Test

What Does a Stock Market Sell-off Mean? 

Under the glass portcullis of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splatter down and flatten to dark stains on the sidewalk. 


This Side of Paradise: Book II, Chapter V - The Egotist Becomes a Personage

Art101 announced a Vitalik Buterin NFT collection 'Based Vitalik'

Introducing a New NFT Project Based on Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin

Medusa Collection NFTs seek to correct the record concerning this misunderstood mythical character and raise money for alternative education.

Medusa Collection NFTs set its Gaze on Raising Money for TeachRock

When Facebook first introduced the concept of Libra, their first digital currency, it looked promising. They designed the currency to become global and utilized a digital ledger, or blockchain technology,  just like any other cryptocurrency. Interestingly, unlike other cryptocurrencies, Libra would be backed by a ‘basket of currencies’, which would protect it from volatilities; the usual fluctuations that we see in a typical cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin.

Can Facebook's Libra 2.0 Live Up To Its Promise?

At a recent Berkshire Hathaway annual conference, superstar investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger came out and doubled down on their claims that cryptocurrencies, specifically Bitcoin, are “rat poison squared.” They even went so far as to compare cryptocurrencies to animal droppings.

Warren Buffet Calls Bitcoin “Rat Poison Squared” — Don’t Believe Him

First Drop is an early-stage venture studio based in Santa Monica, California, providing strategic guidance, operational support, technology infrastructure, development, and pre-seed capital to propel portfolio companies toward sustainable and scalable growth.

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Dealing with Missing Data in Financial Time Series - Recipes and Pitfalls

NORTHERN CHILE AND PERU

Collider Craftworks Takes Aim at Creating a True Intersection of Gaming and NFTs with Cypher

An Intro to Ethermore: A Blockchain RPG Built by the Community

What Will the Metaverse Look Like in 2022

The World's First Religious Relic NFTs will Drop this December for Charity

The Jinn: My Storyline for my first Game Project in Unity

Everything is broken

PokieCat.com Domain Name Generator

How to access Spotify without 3rd Party VPNs

A Dive into FreeCodeCamp Stargazers

Whitelists and Indirection Go Together Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter

Dissecting the Famous Egg Dropping Puzzle

The Beginner's Guide to Feature Engineering

A cultivated and decent man

Exploring the Boom in Open Edition NFT Drops 📈

How Does Economic Recession Affect Colocation?

Exclusive Interview: Cosmic Champs Rockets Toward New NFT Drop & Beta Test

What Does a Stock Market Sell-off Mean?

This Side of Paradise: Book II, Chapter V - The Egotist Becomes a Personage

Introducing a New NFT Project Based on Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin

Medusa Collection NFTs set its Gaze on Raising Money for TeachRock

Can Facebook's Libra 2.0 Live Up To Its Promise?

Warren Buffet Calls Bitcoin “Rat Poison Squared” — Don’t Believe Him

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