Polkadot News 2023

2023-12-24 Polkadot 2023 Roundup https://medium.com/polkadot-network/polkadot-2023-roundup-7fe77d88f022 2023-12-11 Polkadot Community Call | December 2023 2023-11-06 Gavin Wood - Is Polkadot’s OpenGov Democratic? 2023-10-25 Unlocking DOT Opportunities: Staking, Crowdloans, and More https://polkadot.network/blog/unlocking-dot-opportunities-staking-crowdloans-and-more 2023-10-06 Five New Parachains, Staking Growth & Technical Upgrades as Expansion Continues https://polkadot.network/blog/five-new-parachains-staking-growth-technical-upgrades-as-polkadot-expansion-continues/ 2023-09-28 Fungible Assets on Asset Hub https://polkadot.network/blog/fungible-assets-on-asset-hub/ 2023-09-27 How Polkadot’s Blockspace Empowers Developers https://polkadot.network/blog/how-polkadots-blockspace-empowers-developers 2023-09-20 Elevating Polkadot’s Performance and Scale with Asynchronous Backing https://polkadot.network/blog/elevating-polkadots-performance-and-scale-with-asynchronous-backing Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood on: Change, #web3, & the World Economy 2023-09-14 Polkadot Consensus Part 1: Enhanced Economic Security via NPoS https://polkadot.network/blog/polkadot-consensus-part-1-enhanced-economic-security-via-npos 2023-08-11 Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Forging Web3’s Future Innovators https://polkadot.network/blog/polkadot-blockchain-academy-forging-web3s-future-innovators 2023-08-01 Parachain Dispatch: August 2023 https://polkadot.network/blog/parachain-dispatch-august-2023 2023-07-19 Polkadot 1.0: Pioneering Blockspace Composability and Scalability https://polkadot.network/blog/polkadot-1-0-pioneering-blockspace-composability-and-scalability 2023-07-14 Introduction to Smoldot & Light Clients 2023-06-30 Gavin Wood Sees Polkadot as a Global Supercomputer | Polkadot Decoded 2023

Gavin Wood

About Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot and Kusama. Articles Polkadot 2023 Roundup (December 2023) YouTube Gavin Wood - Is Polkadot’s OpenGov Democratic? (November 2023) Gavin Wood Sees Polkadot as a Global Supercomputer | Polkadot Decoded 2023 (June 2023) Why This Ethereum Co-Founder Quit? (August 2022) Gavin Wood reveals philosophical errors creating Ethereum, Purpose of Kusama chain, & upbringing (July 2022) Polkadot Founder on Uniting All Crypto Networks for a Web 3.0 Future (September 2021) Gavin Wood & Jehan Chu: “The Common Ground of Ethereum and Polkadot” (May 2019) Web3 Foundation - The Next Evolution of the Internet - Dr. Gavin Wood (October 2017) Gavin Wood on $60M hack of The DAO (March 2017)

List of AI Courses & Learning Resources

Books Deep Learning with Python The Elements of Statistical Learning Courses Class Central Artificial Intelligence Courses ChatGPT Courses Elements of AI Midjourney Courses Coursera AI for Everyone IBM Applied AI Professional Certificate Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification DataCamp AI Fundamentals Introduction to ChatGPT DeepLearning ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers edX Learning From Data (Introductory Machine Learning) Elements of AI Fast.ai Future Learn Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence Google Cloud Skills Boost Generative AI learning path Attention Mechanism Create Image Captioning Models Encoder-Decoder Architecture Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI Introduction to Generative AI Introduction to Generative AI Studio Introduction to Image Generation Introduction to Large Language Models Introduction to Responsible AI Transformer Models and BERT Model Harvard Artificial Intelligence Courses Machine Learning Mastery Microsoft AI for Begineers Oxford AI Online Courses PyTorch Reed AI Online Courses Stanford Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence Programs TensorFlow Udacity Intro to Artificial Intelligence (Free) Udemy Artificial Intelligence A-Z™ 2023: Build an AI with ChatGPT4 Artificial Intelligence (ARS): Build the Most Powerful AI Artificial Intelligence Masterclass Artificial Intelligence: Reinforcement Learning in Python The Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (Unity 2022) Unity Artificial Intelligence for Beginners Learning Resources Google AI Build How to use ChatGPT to create an app Newsletters Lore - weekly newsletter with the latest Generative AI news, insights and featured tools Twitter Accounts AI Daily - teaches about AI Borriss - developer & writer of practical AI Javi Lopez - AI educator Lex Fridman - host of Lex Fridman Podcast, research scientist at MIT Linus - AI educator & designer Steve Mills - exploring creative uses of Generative AI YouTube Channels Artificial Intelligence - All in One Connor Shorten DeepLearningAI Jeremy Howard Kaggle Lex Fridman sentdex The Artificial Intelligence Channel Two Minute Papers Yannic Kilcher- YouTube Videos Excel AI - data analysis made easy Google Bard: A beginner’s guide to Google’s AI chatbot How to Build a FULL App With ChatGPT in 20 minutes! How to Use Midjourney, AI Art and ChatGPT to Create an Amazing Website Midjourney Prompt Tips for Beginners and Veterans Stable diffusion prompt tutorial

DevOps Explainers

APIs 9 types of API testing Explaining 9 types of API testing. The method to download the high-resolution PDF is available at the end. 🔹 Smoke Testing This is done after API development is complete. Simply validate if the APIs are working and nothing breaks. 🔹 Functional Testing This creates a test plan… pic.twitter.com/SIsERpQVX9 — Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) October 26, 2023 API vs SDK API Vs SDK! API (Application Programming Interface) and SDK (Software Development Kit) are essential tools in the software development world, but they serve distinct purposes: API: An API is a set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications and services… pic.twitter.com/cclxtknqRu ...

December 16, 2023 2 min

DevOps Best Practices

Microservices 9 best practices for developing Microservices A picture is worth a thousand words: 9 best practices for developing microservices. When we develop microservices, we need to follow the following best practices: 1. Use separate data storage for each microservice 2. Keep code at a similar level of maturity 3. Separate build… pic.twitter.com/Qjdmlf2kdY — Bytebytego (@bytebytego) October 29, 2023 What tech stack is commonly used for Microservices ? What tech stack is commonly used for microservices? Below you will find a diagram showing the microservice tech stack, both for the development phase and for production. ▶️ 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🔹 Define API - This establishes a contract between frontend and backend. We… pic.twitter.com/Gnwhwxlxy7 ...

December 16, 2023 1 min

DevOps Cheatsheets

Cloud Computing A handy cheat sheet for the most popular cloud services (2023 edition). The method to download the high-resolution PDF is available at the end. What’s included? - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud - Cloud servers - Databases - Message queues and streaming… pic.twitter.com/CX1pl6ueET — Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) December 15, 2023

December 16, 2023 1 min

News: Arturia Collection X

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Blockchain Links

My Favourite YouTube Channels Altcoin Daily - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, NFTs, altcoins, metaverse, mining, trading, investing, technology, Web3, & everything crypto related Andreas Antonopoulos - Andreas is one of the most trusted and entertaining educators in the bitcoin industry Cardano Foundation - Cardano Foundation is a blockchain and cryptocurrency organisation based in Zug, Switzerland Charles Hoskinson - co-founder of Ethereum & Cardano blockchain platforms Coin Bureau - go-to informational portal to the Cryptocurrency galaxy DataDash - one-stop shop for all things related to cryptocurrencies and financial markets Lark Davis - Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and stock investor MMCrypto - learn everything regarding Cryptocurrency and Blockchain related topics Orange Pill - Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert have been creating bitcoin content since 2011 Polkadot - Polkadot is the blockspace ecosystem for boundless innovation Real Vision - arms you with the knowledge, the tools, and the network to succeed on your financial journey The Moon - Bitcoin news and Bitcoin price

Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets

Hardware Wallets BC Vault ELLIPAL Titan Ledger Ledger Nano S Plus Ledger Nano X Ledger Stax NGRAVE ZERO SafePal SafePal Cypher SafePal S1 SafePal S1 Pro SafePal X1 Trezor Trezor Model One Trezor Model T Trezor Safe 3 YouTube 2023-06-29 Top 5 BEST Hardware Wallets: Which Are The SAFEST?! 2022-01-24 How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

Bitcoin

About Launched in 2009, Bitcoin is the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Unlike fiat currency, Bitcoin is created, distributed, traded, and stored using a decentralized ledger system known as a blockchain. YouTube Theory of Bitcoin | Introduction (June 2023) Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ0pwNHAaRfnkaC0752VJdvApWumHvcCV Introduction to Bitcoin: what is bitcoin and why does it matter? (September 2016) Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1si5ZWLgy0&list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj