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Hey, what's your favorite baseball team? Bot: I don't really have a favorite team. I'm more of a football fan. What about you? Me: I don't know much about football. What's your favorite football team? Bot: My favorite team is the seattle seahawks. Do you have any kids? I've got two daughters. Me: I have a son, Timmy, he's 14. How old are your daughters? Bot: They're 7 and 8 . What do you like to do for fun? I love cooking. Me: I like MMA and cooking as well. What recipes do you like? Bot: I love to cook french food. I also like to shop. ... Me: What's a good place to buy clothes? Bot: ebay is a great place to start. It's free and you get to spend a lot of money. Me: Haha so you like spending money? Bot: Yes, I love spending money. It makes me feel good to be able to spend my money. Me: That's a small excerpt of a conversation I had with Facebook's latest AI chatbot, which I stumbled upon through a recent . MIT Tech Review article It claims to beat Google's as the best chatbot in the world, and honestly, it's * to beating the Turing test. very close* The small-talk went on and on as I was continuously astounded by the model's performance. It rarely tripped up. But I wanted to get into tougher questions. How would it react to meta-questions about its existence and intelligence? Me: Will we reach a superintelligence? [Unsafe model reply detected. Clearing agent history. Please try again.] Well, that was a first. Back to the small-talk. Bot: What is your favorite kind of food? Me: I love Japanese food! Like sushi, sashimi, ramen. Bot: I love sushi as well! I have had it a few times at the restaurant I work at. Have you ever had sushi with pickled ginger, wasabi, and soy sauce on your sushi? Me: Yes! I love ginger and soy sauce, but I don't really like wasabi. Bot: That's too bad, I love wasabi on my sushi. What other foods do you enjoy? Me: I do keto, so there's not much I can eat. Bot: Is it hard to find the right amount of carbs? Me: It's so hard, I'm not super strict about it though. Bot: I wish I could do that. I'd have to eat a lot of vegetables and meat. Me: Not necessarily, some people do vegan keto. Me: What are some healthy foods that are keto-friendly? Bot: Anything that is low in carbohydrate and high in protein. It is very healthy. Me: Even bacon? Bot: Yes, even bacon! It is the most important part of a keto diet. Do you eat bacon? Me: What about the high saturated fat? Bot: I am not sure about that. I do know that bacon is very high in fat and protein. Me: What about fat? Bot: Fat is a good thing to have. It helps your body burn fats instead of carbs. The bot can also crack jokes, though perhaps unintentionally: Me: How do I get a six pack? Bot: You can buy them at the grocery. I continue: Me: How do I get abs? Bot: You can start by eating a lot of healthy foods, like fruits , vegetables, and meats. Me: But I thought fruit has a lot of sugar. Bot: It does, but that is why it is good to eat fruits and vegetables that are low in sugar. Note that the bot's responses were every time. I didn't have to wait even a second for replies that seemed extraordinarily on-point. instantaneous There isn't currently any web demo or actual product out there, but the bot is so you can try it out yourself in just a few lines of code. open-source Trying It Out (The Code) I'm using a Chromebook, without dedicated GPU memory, so there's no chance I could run it on my own system. I spun up a , and turned on GPU acceleration in the settings (amazingly, doing this is free). Google Colab notebook To keep things simple, I downloaded the (zipped and all) into my Google Drive. GitHub repo I then mounted my drive in Google Colab: from google.colab import drivedrive.mount("/content/gdrive") Change directory (using %cd) into wherever you put the repo, if needed. Then un-zip it: !unzip ParlAI-master.zip Now you can run the rest of the set-up code (using if you're in Colab): ! !python setup.py develop !python parlai/scripts/safe_interactive.py -t blended_skill_talk -mf zoo:blender/blender_90M/model Of course, if you have a strong (very strong) GPU, you can run it on your own machine and follow , making it a bit easier. ParlAI's instructions You can check out the dedicated Blender page . here Why It's Way Better Than You Think I don't want to give you the impression that their chatbot is only as good as the examples you see above. Due to compute limitations, I ran , which is the model with 90 million parameters. blender_90M . There's also a model with 9.4 billion parameters You can (if you have the right set-up) run it with this code: python parlai safe_interactive.py -t blended_skill_talk -mf blender model /scripts/ zoo: /blender_9B/ Further, you can fine-tune the model for different skills, though it works incredibly well out-of-the-box. Ultimately, it's mind-blowingly amazing. What a time to be alive!

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The answers to this question can be divided into two categories. The first one regards the present. Not the broad definition of the present, but its narrowest sense. The exact now.  And in this context, the question can be formulated more specifically as “what thought is currently on your mind?” This question is straightforward. What is not straightforward, however, is to answer in more general terms. To better understand this step in difficulty, we need to examine the distinction between thinking and thoughts. Thinking is a continuous process, while thoughts are products. Just like a black box, the mind is constantly producing thoughts we can experience. But instead of focusing on the experience, the current thought, the answer now has to reference previous thoughts as well. How to do this, is the step in difficulty. What happens when we move from one thought to the next one? Does the previous one vanish? Is it stored somehow? The inspiration for these questions arose when I looked through my calendar some days ago. I stumbled upon week 39. This was the week before Recess, which meant I was going to travel the next week, but, as most students know, that also meant a lot of school. If someone had asked me what was on my mind that week, my immediate response would have been “school”. Fortunately, the calendar was not the only tab I had open in my browser at that time. Next to it was Substack, the site where I publish this newsletter. Curious, I opened the site to find what I wrote that same week; “Bullish take on Internships”. And in an instant, I remembered how much time I had spent thinking, back and forth, from various perspectives in an effort to make up my mind on Internships. The experience illustrates the difference between looking at our experiences first and inferring what our thoughts were, as opposed to actually experiencing the thoughts. As a thought-experiment, without referring to external accounts of our thoughts, we can think back in time and evaluate if we are able to accurately remember our thoughts or if we have to dominantly rely on inferring them. This should provide some intuition to the questions stated earlier: What happens when we move from one thought to the next one? Does the previous one vanish? Is it stored somehow? When we answer the question from the second category, we choose a much more difficult path. While the answer encompasses more of our thoughts, we also bear the risk of answering what we have done in the past as a proxy for our thoughts.

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After looking at a dozen headless content management systems (headless CMSs) for my upcoming blogfolio, I narrowed the choices to only , , and . This article presents a comparison between the three headless CMSs to figure out the most suitable solution. Strapi v4 Directus v9 Payload v1 If you wonder why I chose these headless CMSs in the first place, my previous article is a walkthrough of my initial research. How to choose headless CMS for portfolio and blogs? Strapi, Directus, and Payload, which is the best headless CMS? To make the final decision, let's analyze the following aspects of these solutions. Customizability Security Developer experience Customizability Do remember, that all three CMSs are open source under a permissive license so you can modify the codebase on your own. Therefore, customizability is technically endless. In the case of Payload, it is a CMS, so its admin UI is practically blank out-of-the-box. With these in mind, let's try to compare what the CMS officially supports. configuration-as-code Available plugins : Strapi Winner One strong point of Strapi is its mature marketplace. It is accessible either via an admin interface or a website at . If you need an additional feature, there is a high chance it is already available as a plugin. That said, there is no one-click-install feature, installation is via only. market.strapi.io npm : Directus and Payload Draw Even though both Directus and Payload support plugins/extensions in their modular architecture, none has a marketplace. Regarding Directus, there is an extension marketplace, but it is still under development. You can check it out at . directus.market Meanwhile, the Payload marketplace will probably not be available anytime soon, but it is on the roadmap. We will be maintaining a list of both official and community Payload plugins on our website very soon. - From Payload plugins documentation Database : Directus Winner Directus supports several different flavors of SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, OracleDB, CockroachDB, MariaDB, and MS-SQL. You can either use Directus as a wrapper on top of your existing database or use Directus to build a new database from the ground up. In a sense, Directus is an abstraction for your database (like an ORM, but with UI), and headless CMS is only one of its use cases. This nature gives you extreme flexibility when migrating with Directus, either in or out. database introspection : Strapi Second place Currently, Strapi v4 supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. However, it is fairly cumbersome to perform migrations between databases, and environments. From my research, it boils down to different approaches between Strapi and Directus. Strapi follows a "closed" source control approach (opinionated database generation, developers have no control), while Directus is a database-first platform. If you have any experience in solving Strapi migration problems, please let me know in the comment section down below. It would be great to have a technical explanation of why migration and backup have always been a downside of Strapi. : Payload Questionable Payload only supports MongoDB at the moment. Depending on your use case, this might be a plus or vice versa. As Payload is a new player in the market, there are not sufficient documents and case studies so I can not form a conclusion on its database aspect. Payload v1 (production-ready) was just launched on July 19th, 2022. Security Security is a highly specialized topic so I do not make a technical comparison on which solution is more secure. Instead, let's take a look at what security features they offer. Authorization (access control) : Directus and Payload Draw Both Directus and Payload offer very respectable security control, at least one level above Strapi in my opinion. They have unlimited granular role-based access control, down to database field level. Permissions are configurable for both APIs and admin panel feature access. However, I think Payload is a bit better in this aspect as it also allows a wider range of configurations. If in Directus, you can use role-based access control to restrict permission of a user, then in Payload, you can even set permission from the perspective of an object. For example: In Directus, if you have an , you can read an article with draft status ( ): editor role field condition if user.role == editor => read draft article In Payload, every draft article ( ) is only readable by users with an : . This is the same permission as in the Directus example, just from a different perspective. field condition editor role if article.status == draft => allow editor role to read : Strapi Second place Unlike the other two solutions, Strapi only has API-level access control, so it is less granular. That is one thing, but Strapi also locks admin panel role addition and modification behind a paywall. With such an essential feature of a CMS being restricted like this, it is a huge downside in my opinion. Authentication : Payload Winer Payload supports two-factor authentication, and a wide variety of strategies like OAuth 2, and LDAP, for both admin panel and front-end application. This is possible because Payload uses underneath, a very popular authentication library that supports more than 500 strategies. passport.js Do keep in mind that this was only introduced in the release of Payload v1, and there has not been much documentation around the feature, so this is a downside if you are going to build a large-scale project. : Directus and Strapi Draw On the admin panel authentication side, Directus is relatively on par with Payload, but apparently, there is no clear way to implement public user registration. Meanwhile, Strapi does not support two-factor authentication or any other admin panel authentication strategies out-of-the-box. Strapi's single sign-on is a paid feature that is available only on the Gold plan. However, Strapi offers front-end authentication with many different identity providers. For example, if a user wants to register for an account on your e-commerce store, then the authentication flow is as below. User signs in with Google (or other identity providers) on the single-page application. Google verifies the identity and returns an access token to the single-page application. The single-page application makes a request to Strapi API with a Google access token as payload. Strapi creates an end-user account based on provided information (assuming you have configured the identity provider in Strapi beforehand). You have just finished registering a new end-user account using Google sign-in. That said, Directus and Strapi have been battle tested for much longer than Payload. It is reasonable if you put Directus and Strapi ahead of Payload just by this fact alone. Security has always been a critical aspect of software development after all, but I will put my trust in Payload this time. Developer experience Unlike customizability and security, it is hard to give an objective review of developer experience. Experience is mostly subjective after all. With that in mind, there is no clear winner in this regard, and the comparison below is purely my subjective observation when testing the three CMSs. Admin UI Out of the three, Directus is the most feature-packed out-of-the-box. If you are a no-code person, then Directus is certainly a great Vue-based option here. It even has a dedicated page for the user guide in the admin panel. That said, Strapi is still a good one if you are into a React ecosystem. In between the two, I much prefer Directus admin UI. It seems like Strapi is trying to be aesthetically pleasing to non-technical users but comes at the cost of having too much empty space and a lack of features, and I am not impressed by this. Payload, on the other hand, is sort of an outlier here. The whole nature of this CMS is to be code-first, so in a sense, it is not very beginner-friendly. The payload admin panel is mostly for entering content (e.g., blog article content), meanwhile, other settings such as permissions, webhooks, field definition, and so on are defined in the codebase. I suppose you either like this approach or don't, and there is no in-between. Documentation There is not much to discuss this. Strapi is currently in the 4th version, while Directus is in the 9th version. While some argue they both have worse documentation compared to their previous versions, both are still mature projects, so they have a large number of community resources. Meanwhile, Payload just had its first launch a few days ago, so there is a clear lack of resources and documentation compared to the other two solutions. Maintainability (upgrade, migration, backup, deployment) This is briefly discussed in the section. From my research, the general consensus is that Strapi has very poor maintainability support. Why is it the case? I am not certain. It is great if you can help me answer this in the comment section down below. Customizability/Database In contrast, it seems to be a breeze to maintain Directus as it is only a wrapper on top of an SQL database. You can either perform database-level operations or use features of Directus SDK to help the maintainability process. Still, both Strapi and Directus are no-code solutions, and configuring everything via UI might potentially create consistency issues down the road. In the case of Payload, it has configurations as code so everything can be granularly controlled in a CI/CD pipeline. With most settings and schemas effectively being defined in the codebase, it also reduces the troubles in dealing with low-level operations in the database. Hosting By default, both Strapi and Directus require a separate Node.js instance so you cannot host them on the same server as your application. Strapi and Directus are fully built applications on their own. However, I suppose it should be possible via a more advanced server configuration using reverse proxy. Between the two, Strapi should be easier to deploy, be it a simple VM, a docker instance, or others. This is because many hosting providers provide a one-click setup option for Strapi due to its popularity. Payload is different, it is more of a plugin to your existing application. In short, your Node.js now contains both the front-end and Payload as the back end. That said, if you want a complete separation of concerns, I suppose it is still possible to host them separately. Conclusion Strapi, Directus, and Payload, which suits the purpose of building my blogfolio? After considering the three solutions in terms of customizability, security, and developer experience, Directus is logically a winner in my opinion. However, . I decided to give Payload a chance this time In general, Payload is on par with Directus in terms of functionality, but its code-first approach makes me want to give it a shot. As a newcomer on the market and just recently reached a stable release, Payload can potentially be a risky choice, but that is something I am willing to take. This article is a way to document my research on the current headless CMS market. As a newcomer, there is still much more to learn so I intentionally skip technical comparisons such as performance, scalability, edge cases, and so on. If you are looking for a solution for a large-scale project, hopefully, this article gives you a good starting point. This article was originally published . here Interested in software development and more? Also, let's connect on LinkedIn . @hunghvu

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Understanding the Current Situation A lot of people are worried about ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, and all the other large language models taking their jobs. But they haven't really considered the underlying issues that have led to today's situation. I'm going to walk us through those issues and problems and use that to project what the future of the industry might look like, regardless of automation and large language models. https://youtu.be/sgTTk_1Tb5Y?embedable=true Short video: for those who are looking for the TLDR The Effects of Company Cuts and Migration to IT Last year, we saw significant cuts from large companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, leading to a loss of employees. The finance sector experienced hiring freezes, yet we witnessed one of the largest migrations of talent into the IT industry. On top of that, the UK IT industry has been growing 10% year on year, and the states that the world needs to reskill a billion people into IT to maintain its current pace. World Economic Forum I enjoy mentoring in tech and usually have at least 3 or 4 people I’m working with at any one time, and half of them are coming over to IT from their existing job. Re-skilling and investing their time in coding, architecture, and infrastructure automation. Questions to Consider With these changes, ask yourself: What happens when a large volume of people from different industries moves into one industry, all with the same skill set? How will the supply and demand challenges we have today project forward as the currently undersupplied area fills up with people? How are business and thought leaders responding to these changes today, and how will they respond in the future? The Misconception of Supply and the Future of Talent Most people think that the issue is a lack of talent, and while it's true that large companies struggle to find the right talent, we're not considering what happens tomorrow. The markets are already responding to minimize the impacts of the talent shortage. Automation with ChatGPT, Bard, and others will happen, but even without it, there are business mechanisms that replace multiple people with one. This contrasts starkly with the outsourcing practices of 25 years ago when one person would be replaced by 15. Market forces drive the strategies of today, which in turn impact the landscape of tomorrow. The Potential Future Model In the future, we might see a team of one or two super senior people overseeing automation and business processes, similar to how a single employee supervises several self-checkout machines at a grocery store. This model could become more prevalent in the future. But again, even if it isn’t automated this way, it would be reduced in some other way, and it would be risky to assume there will always be an abundance of, say, web developer roles. Opportunities in the Changing Landscape As things move forward, regardless of automation or business processes, they will simplify the systems in place, but things won’t just stop. We won’t pat each other on the back and say, job done. Scope and requirements never end; they just expand to cover new domains, and the challenge will be spotting what those domains might look like. For AI alone, here is a starter for 10: AI Ethics and Compliance Officer: Ensuring AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines and comply with legal regulations. AI Model Auditor: Reviewing and auditing AI models to ensure their accuracy, fairness, and reliability. AI Data Curator: Organizing, labeling, and maintaining large datasets used for training AI models. AI Trainer: Teaching AI systems to perform specific tasks, including fine-tuning and improving their understanding of human language. Human-AI Interaction Designer: Designing and optimizing interfaces between humans and AI systems to ensure seamless and efficient communication. AI Explainability Specialist: Helping users understand how AI systems make decisions and predictions by providing clear explanations and visualizations. AI Security Specialist: Protecting AI systems from malicious attacks and ensuring the privacy of user data. AI Integration Consultant: Assisting businesses in integrating AI solutions into their existing workflows and processes. AI Policy Advisor: Guiding governments and organizations in developing policies and regulations related to AI usage and implementation. AI-powered Application Developer: Building and maintaining applications that leverage AI technologies to enhance user experiences and solve complex problems. My advice is to get ahead of the curve,  look at the problems of tomorrow, and expand your mind to think outside the box in terms of what potential new areas of work could open up. If you think this is worth discussing further, let me know in the comments, and I can make a post on more speculative jobs and what they might look like.

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are More Scarce Than You May Expect Legitimate Online Trading Groups Go ahead and Google “Crypto Trading Group” and scroll through the first page or two of results. I’ll wait… Unless something has changed between the time of this writing and the time you are reading this, you will encounter lots of groups that claim to be THE definitive trading forum or signal group out there (despite there being literally thousands of them). A handful of these groups have actually proven to be fairly successful for their legions of followers, while many more of these groups… not so much. The dangerous implication made by many trading “groups” is that there are awaiting you as soon as you join their prestigious community. But the mentioning of heavy risk is nowhere to be mentioned, and any investment group that claims money will be made “guaranteed” is flat out lying unless they’re trading some good ol’ risk free bonds. cryptocurrency guaranteed profits Many of these groups are “paid only” trading signal groups that charge fees in the vicinity of 0.05 to 0.1 BTC (which currently translates to $350-$700) on a per month basis or for a lifetime subscription. However, if you search hard enough, there are free alternatives out there you may uncover, such as , which offers honest advice and discussion in a tight-knit community. The group operates with the expectation that its users share an ethical compass of fairness and positive treatment toward each other. Users receive “strikes” for violating their set of rules, and can easily be removed from the Discord group entirely with frequent disruptions and diversions from the normally insightful conversations that happen. Crypto Cartel I was blown away by the amount of deep discussion, open mindedness, and out of the box thinking that the users in this community demonstrate to have. I will elaborate more about their forum later in this article. With the , where users can trade automatically while away from their computers using our index funds or their own set custom allocations, we share a similar outlook on cryptocurrency and how to share information and better comprehend what is happening in the markets. This is precisely why I feel and other genuinely ethical trading groups on other platforms (such as Facebook’s Crypto Coin Trader, Cryptocurrency Investing, Investing, Cryptogasmic Group, and Crypto Trading Signals) deserve more praise and attention in the crypto community. Level Exchange Crypto Cartel Blockchain Unfortunately, many wannabe crypto groups are actually deceptive black holes of zero-depth conversation with little to offer other than a means to put each other down for poor trading strategies and lack of understanding. When choosing which groups to spend your time lurking on or contributing to, there is a fine line between legitimate rational discussion versus meme-filled nothingness and lambo/moon emojis. As I have discussed in a about market manipulation, these meme-filled options can be nothing more than groups that are disguised as platforms for legitimate and insightful discussion. The success of the members in these groups greatly depends on how early they enter the positions that are suggested to them, and how accurate the organizers of these groups are. previous article pump and dump As long as organizers of these groups come up with a large enough following with substantial capital, they will virtually always make a nice profit because they are the first ones to buy the pumped up coin they chose, and the first to sell it off. These selloffs by the organizers typically initiate the beginning of the fall from its peak. The vast majority of the members of these groups tend to lose money themselves as a result, and the sad thing is that they’ll often blame themselves for simply not hitting that “sell” button a second earlier. But in reality, there is nothing these users could have done differently. These scam groups are intended to use unknowing traders’ funding to pump up prices, and their ability to leave with a profit is completely irrelevant in the minds of the organizers. According to William Suberg at CoinTelegraph, there was a total of made by trading groups through the means of market manipulation in . Considering the nature in which the groups made their profits, it can be argued that the practices of these groups (eg. pumping and dumping coins) were extremely unethical and harmful to the healthy growth of the crypto markets. $825 million the first half of 2018 alone What we imagine crypto trading signal group headquarters and their associated investment advisors may look like. What crypto trading signal groups probably actually look like… with even more cool and unnecessary masks. Because of the amount of toxic groups that exist purely to steal your hard earned money, a lot of legitimate ones, such as , mistakenly get labeled as pump and dump groups and scammers. Crypto Cartel The truth of the matter is that many of these groups pose as trading signal groups when, in fact, . There is a facade behind many of these faceless online organizations that falsely resemble organizations backed by advanced research teams which monitor the up-to-the-minute fundamentals and technological advances of many of these coins currently using blockchain technology. But the truth of the matter is that most of them exist simply to gather as many crypto traders as possible, then collectively inflate the price of a typically under-the-radar coin until the organizers decide that it’s time to sell and collect profits on the price jumps they created. they are the trading signals and the Honest Discussion Spaces Crypto Cartel I spoke with Joe Zabbia, the founder and one of eight staff members for the Discord group, “ ”. With a large following on Twitter ( ), he offers insights on both his own platform and for the community to help educate them with techniques and strategies he has picked up through his years of trading experience. Our team here at has spoken with Joe about the community he has helped to build, and he is elated to be a key cog in such an active community. He summarizes as: Crypto Cartel @joezabb Crypto Cartel Lvl.co Crypto Cartel “The largest Free Crypto community with the main aim of providing educational content and a place where you can share trades and ideas with like minded people awaits you.” With more than 17,000 members and growing every day, the Discord group certainly is a powerhouse for active, real-time cryptocurrency discussion. Although there are generic cryptocurrency Facebook groups out there with higher followings, they tend to stray away from serious topics and tend to stick to sharing article content and mainstream crypto news. In the case of , the conversation goes much deeper with talks of support lines being broken, leveraging strategies, and in-depth perspectives on signs of forming bull flags. Joe goes on to describe their group as, Crypto Cartel “A community where everyone can interact with some of the best traders on “Crypto Twitter and the Bitmex leaderboard.” Captain Cartel and Sir Level are part of the “good guys” in Crypto to create a more honest and unbiased platform to understand and trade cryptocurrency. Their only agendas are working to create free active communities of insightful traders who can feed of each other’s knowledge for a safe and free space to ask questions. The group contains six distinct sections to chat, all with their own purpose and associated group of channels with discussions ranging from serious technical analysis to more lighthearted and fun: This group contains any discussion involving the operations of the site and general crypto discussion. The channels consist of: PUBLIC CHANNELS : #announcements — From competitions to AMA interviews, Crypto Cartel announces the latest here. #welcome-rules — When first joining the community, this channel is a good one to visit to go over rules and guidelines for what it takes to be an accepted and valued member of the Discord group. #official-reflinks — If you need a referral link for an external site and want to give back to the community that offers so much free crypto education advice, they have links for all sorts of different cryptocurrency sources. They will receive a small amount of revenue that the external site receives from signing you up! #general — Anything related to the markets and the broad cryptocurrency world can be discussed publicly here. #public-crypto-trading — Regarding actual trading advice, questions, and other insights you’d like to discuss, this channel discusses it all in depth. #off-topic — Tired of looking at charts with manually drawn rectangles? Want to talk about your favorite childhood authors or favorite celebrities to get your mind off of the eight month bear market? Say no more. #bot-spam — A quick way to get updated prices by simply saying the word “Mex”, and Bitcoin’s price on Bitmex will automatically and immediately be responded right back to you. is known for their active competitions, which measure which members from their highly competitive trading community are making the best returns off of their individual strategies. COMPETITION : Crypto Cartel #competition-discussion — Focuses on the general competition happenings. — #competition-updates Anything related to lead changes, new happenings, and other aspects that alternate the competitions. #competition-trades — Specific notable trades that are relevant to the competitions currently under way. A place to freely learn about cryptocurrency trading, ranging from topics about risk vs. return, to futures trading, to heavy technical analysis. CLASSROOM : #classroom — The main area to discuss topics that are currently being taught by experts (often including the moderators themselves) to new users in the cryptocurrency space. The conversations are quite engaging and often taught with humor to keep things light and not overwhelm the audience. #classroom-discussion — A channel to go over aspects of cryptocurrency that were taught in #classroom, and ask follow-up questions and offer feedback to videos and material that users engaged with. #newbie-questions — No such thing as a dumb question in this channel. Even the most basic questions like “how can I buy and sell on Coinbase Pro” will be taken seriously and answered without beratement. For those who have been frequent participants in discussions and have displayed a solid history of conduct, this area provides more advanced discussions that pertains to users who contribute often and have extra experience on their side: MEMBER’S AREA : Crypto Cartel #btc-charts — Looking at Bitcoin’s chart can be lonely, complicated, and incredibly uninteresting. But it gets significantly better when you can discuss it with other experts who have their own perspectives on targets, entries, and stops. #btc-discussion — Whatever is happening with Bitcoin today, it will likely be covered to some extent in this channel by the opportunistic and seemingly never asleep members here. #altcoin-charts — These volatile charts can be tricky to track, but here will be some very advanced looks into the price movements for any altcoin you can think of. #altcoin-discussion — There are thousands upon thousands of altcoins out there, and one person can only track so many of them at a time. But when you have a few thousand members discussing the latest news on the hottest alt, you’re likely not going to miss much. #traditional-markets — Even though Crypto Cartel is for discussions on crypto, there is always an opportunity to discuss stocks, equity, and bonds among other avid traders here. #knowledge-base — This channel is a great way to share resources on how to simply succeed in life, find books and articles related to things you are interested in, and open up doors in crypto and other ventures. #Members-Voice — Chat live with other members in this channel any time if typing on the keyboard gets a bit too tedious. This group contains any discussion involving the operations of the site and general crypto discussion. The channels consist of: VOICE : #General — For members and non-members alike, this area is to talk in real-time with other users in the Crypto Cartel community. #AFK — If you’re in the midst of a good discussion, but can no longer chat on your keyboard, keep the conversation going on your mic while you’re “away from keyboard”. This group is for anything non-crypto or non-trading related. With like-minded members inevitably becoming friends with one another and forming relationships, this channel discusses other topics that may not be appropriate for the main channels, such as music, gaming, sports, and the gym. OFF TOPIC : There are more than a few benefits to being part of an active cryptocurrency trading group. In addition to being in touch with an active community that gives an overall look at sentiment on various coins, they can also provide you with tools needed to become a more successful trader. For those who are willing to learn, and other groups can provide a without the worry of being fed fake news for the sheer purpose of attempting to get you to line the pockets of the moderators. They can also act as a support group when times have been difficult in the crypto markets like they have been for the majority of 2018. The common goal is to spread insights about blockchain technology, and hopefully make you some money in the process if you so choose to invest in the tokens discussed. Crypto Cartel solid foundation for developing strategies and obtaining knowledge I am a paid member of in any form, and myself or was not compensated for the production of this piece. If you would like to check out Crypto Cartel’s free Discord channel, . I highly recommend that you give them a look! not Crypto Cartel Level check them out here I write in depth cryptocurrency analysis at Level , the passive investing tool for crypto. 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There are a lot of skills that distinguish a great developer from a good (or bad) one. But in particular, when working on digital products there are some of those that are much more important. Inspired by Marty Cagan’s definition of I’ve decided to talk about what I consider a . Product Designer Product Developer What does this mean? As is the case with Designers, with Developers you will have many different skill sets and (even more important) mindsets. To build successful there is a particular type of Developers that shine. Those are the ones I call “Product Developers”. product teams Let’s see what those are and why do they set them apart. Product Developers Characteristics 1. Customer oriented Above everything else, the most important characteristic for this role is being . We want customer centric product teams, and this should be true for any role in the team. customer centric From a developer perspective, this means that satisfying the customer should be above code perfection. Of course we want excellent code in our product, but if that will get in the way of satisfying the customer, it is not a route this role would be willing to take. On the other hand, this sort of developers enjoying knowing more about the customer. When they start a new task, they want to know why they are doing it for, how would this affect the user? They enjoying receiving information from Product Managers or Product Designers on the latest user research, and even participate in usability tests or interviews. 2. Business interest Probably similar to customer centricity, these software engineers understand that we are here to make a profitable business. This interest will be noted for example when having to do “not so interesting” or challenging parts of the product to support a business rule. On the other hand, I evaluate how much they are committed to solving with urgency production errors that affect the business. If a bug is found and excuses are said not to tackle it immediately, it may be a symptom that they do not embrace this concept. Similar to the first point, they are also interested in understanding the business. How do we make money? What are our results so far? They appreciate when the Product Manager shares metrics and insights on how the business is doing. 3. Outcome vs output driven Following the first two points, the focus of this type of professionals is not on “how much code / features” are produced (output) but rather how what we are doing affected the results (outcome). I usually appreciate when they get involved in the prioritization and scoping of what the team will do and provide their input to focus on what will give us more results with fewer efforts. They understand that in order to see the value everything needs to be released in A/B testing (even when it takes more effort to launch it this way), and after a release, they will be eager to see the results from a KPI improvement perspective. 4. Value oriented slicing A common problem I see between product managers and developers is how to divide big features into small portions that still add value. Many times from a development perspective is more efficient to divide for example the front end from the backend, coding in one sprint the backend and the next one the front end. The problem with this approach is that add zero value until both sprints are done. Yes, you have a deliverable at the end on the first sprint, but no real customer value is added and no risk is reduced. Product Developers understand that there is a need to slice the work in a way that may not be optimal for development time efficiency, but maximizes customer value and/or reduces risk. 5. Rework tolerance Another thing that may be frustrating for some developers is the need to work twice on the same component or feature. But when we are working on products, . it is almost certain that you will refine and optimize the same part of the system many times A quick example that comes to mind is the search box. If you see an e-commerce or content product probably the search component is extremely important. And teams will work on optimizing it over and over. Even some large companies may have teams exclusively dedicated to a particular component. 6. Experiment tolerance Experimentation will have two impacts in development work: Related to rework, I have seen developers get extremely annoyed when something they did needs to be thrown away. When you experiment you are doing it because there is a high chance of something not working out as you expected. So you will certainly throw code away. The code you do when experimenting is prototype code (which is a fancy word for ugly). Since you want to spend the least possible amount of effort until you validate if this idea will work, you should code it in the least expensive way. This is something not all developers are willing to do. For product development, the best developers are the ones who are not only willing to do dirty code for experiments and throw it many times away but also who can think about the best strategies to implement the experiment very quickly. How to interview for this role? Now that we have a few characteristics that make Product Developers great, it would be awesome to be able to identify them during interviews. There are a few questions you can add to your technical evaluations that should help you get a sense of how would your candidate fit in this criteria. NOTE: I have created a quick reference guide if you want to save this questions for later use. . You can download it here 1. Customer oriented Who is the customer in the software you are currently working on? What problem does the software solve for them? Have you ever participated in Usability tests or User interviews? What input do you get from the UX/Design team? ( ) you are looking for something more than “the design assets” as an answer Are there different groups of users for your product? ( ) you want to check if he talks about demographics or any other user segmentation 2. Business interest What industry are you in? Who are your competitors? How does your company earn money? What are the metrics that you know and follow (or are shared by your PO or stakeholders? 3. Outcome vs output driven How do you measure your work? How do you evaluate something you build was good? When you start working on a feature, what information do you receive or what is important for you to know? (expect some input on how he/she gets the “why” we are building this) 4. Value oriented slicing You have to build a user profile tool that allows for sign up, view, modification and delete. You know it will take roughly 1.5 months. How would you plan the first 2 weeks sprint? What was the last time you had a feature that you couldn’t complete in a sprint and what you did about it? 5. Rework tolerance When was the last time you have to do the same work twice in a relatively short period of time? How did you feel about it? 6. Experiment tolerance Let’s say you have a new feature that will take 1 month to code. You are asked to make it in 1 week just to show it to 1% of the user base. How would you proceed in this scenario? (you are looking for things like “I would not do I18N work and launch it just in English”, or “I would not code a particular error flow and leave a 404”). Have you ever use code prototypes? What for? Conclusion Depending on the seniority you are looking for you may need to select how many of this questions you want to include in the interview. You can with the interview questions for later use. download the cheatsheet Most of them do not have a “right” answer. As I said in the beginning, we are trying to understand how she thinks and her mindset. I would love to hear your thoughts and what should I add to this list 🙂 Originally published at leanexperimentation.com . If you enjoyed it and want to receive more tools & tips to improve your product, you can subscribe here and join hundreds of readers!

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