Kingi's Newsletter
Kingi's Newsletter #20
Today's newsletter is about meshing data sources, scraping technologies & natural language processing experiments.
Kingi Gilbert
Producer. Ex-Saatchi & Saatchi, ex-Video Game Producer. Director Ignite Studios. Studied Entrepreneurship Acceleration @ Wharton, and Advertising & Marketing @ A.U.T.
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What is a Stablecoin? Why are they an Important Part of Crypto?
From the Wild West of decentralized finance comes a financial instrument called the 'stablecoin', there are more than 60 now on the market.
Kingi's Newsletter
Kingi's Newsletter #19
In today's newsletter I look at international travel options under COVID-19, crypo-currency adoption, and what jobs our kids and grand-kids might need in the future.
Kingi's Newsletter
Kia ora! Welcome V.I.P
He Mihi Maioha, The Economist -Long COVID Research, The Intercept - Biden's Afghanistan Q's from 2009, My Blog - Decentralised Finance Rapid Growth.
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Rapid Growth of Decentralised Finance DeFi
Checked my portfolio this morning and Ethereum jumped in value. According to Coinbase, this is because the universe of crypto-based lending, saving, and trading apps known as Decentralised Finance or DeFi has been growing tremendously.
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Tracking Ethereum & NFT's
Really impressed with the business and collectibles innovation around Non Fungible Tokens (NFT's). NFTs are exploding on the crypto market.
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Digital Colonialism: People Using Technology
The rise and proliferation of neocolonial surveillance corporations, two reports advance ideas of a digitally-powered form of 'surveillance capitalism' and the economic exploitation of society through corporate and state mass surveillance. The primary author is Michael Kwet from the Yale Law School [https://law.yale.edu/mike-kwet]. He
OSINT Open Source Intelligence
Just learning about the evolution of open source intelligence (OSINT) and it's usefulness for maintaining information sovereignty for intelligence operations. Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies - USA [https://www.csis.org/analysis/modernizing-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance-find-era-security-competition] . In summary, information advantage is a critical requirement for intelligence organisations. The goal
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Popstars & Video Games
Was really taken back by the creativity in this video of a supersized Ariana Grande flying through a creatively designed level in Fortnite. The merging of pop-culture and video-game culture. Here is the video: 1. The merging of two larger audiences to cross-promote products. 2. Game development and music video
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Exalting the Metaverse
I've been tracking the trend of the keyword 'metaverse' since social media business owner Mark Zuckerberg mentioned it in his company's investor call and when news outlets started promulgating the concept around 27 July 2020. Google Trends Due to Google Trends being a proportionally
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Sentiment Analysis: Explorations in Artificial Intelligence
News can be good or bad, but it is seldom neutral. I was interested how certain news agencies reported on a variety of topics, are they positive, neutral or negative?
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Water Crisis & Water Tanks
As part of our shift to avert the Auckland water crisis, have taken two affirmative steps. 1. Installed water tanks. 2. Purchased the domain watercrisis.nz and started ideation on connection points/planning document.