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irispublishersengineeringscience · 4 years ago

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Iris Publishers - Global Journal of Engineering Sciences (GJES)

Artificial Neural Networks and Hopfield Type Modeling

Authored by Haydar Akca

From the mathematical point of view, an artificial neural network corresponds to a non- linear transformation of some inputs into certain outputs. Many types of neural networks have been proposed and studied in the literature and the Hopfield-type network has be- come an important one due to its potential for applications in various fields of daily life.

A neural network is a network that performs computational tasks such as associative memory, pattern recognition, optimization, model identification, signal processing, etc. on a given pattern via interaction between a number of interconnected units characterized by simple functions. From the mathematical point of view, an artificial neural network corresponds to a nonlinear transformation of some inputs into certain outputs. There are a number of terminologies commonly used for describing neural networks. Neural networks can be characterized by an architecture or topology, node characteristics, and a learning mechanism [1]. The interconnection topology consists of a set of processing elements arranged in a particular fashion. The processing elements are connected by links and have weights associated with them. Each processing elements is associated with:

• A state of activation (state variable)

• An output function (transfer function)

• A propagation rule for transfer of activation between processing elements

• An activation rule, which determines the new state of activation of a processing element from its inputs weight associated with the inputs, and current activation.

Neural networks may also be classified based on the type of input, which is either binary or continuous valued, or whether the networks are trained with or without supervision. There are many different types of network structures, but the main types are feed-forward networks and recurrent networks. Feed-forward networks have unidirectional links, usually from input layers to output layers, and there are no cycles or feedback connections. In recurrent networks, links can form arbitrary topologies and there may be arbitrary feed- back connections. Recurrent neural networks have been very successful in time series prediction. Hopfield networks are a special case of recurrent networks. These networks have feedback connections, have no hidden layers, and the weight matrix is symmetric.

Neural networks are analytic techniques capable of predicting new observations from other observations after executing a process of so-called learning from existing data. Neural network techniques can also be used as a component of analysis designed to build explanatory models. Now there is neural network software that uses sophisticated algorithms directly contributing to the model building process.

In 1943, neuro physiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts [2] wrote a paper on how neurons might work. In order to describe how neurons in the brain might work, they modeled a simple neural network using electrical circuits. As computers be- came more advanced in the 1950’s, it was possible to simulate a hypothetical neural net- work. In 1982, John Hopfield presented a paper [3]. His approach was to create more useful machines by using bidirectional lines. The model proposed by Hopfield, also known as Hopfield’s graded response neural network, is based on an analogue circuit consisting of capacitors, resistors and amplifiers. Previously, the connections between neurons was only one way. At the same years, scientist introduced a “Hybrid network” with multiple layers, each layer using a different problem-solving strategy.

Now, neural networks are used in several applications. The fundamental idea behind the nature of neural networks is that if it works in nature, it must be able to work in computers. The future of neural networks, though, lies in the development of hardware. Research that concentrates on developing neural networks is relatively slow. Due to the limitations of processors, neural networks take weeks to learn. Nowadays trying to create what is called a “silicon compiler”, “organic compiler” to generate a specific type of integrated circuit that is optimized for the application of neural networks. Digital, analog, and optical chips are the different types of chips being developed.

The brain manages to perform extremely complex tasks. The brain is principally com- posed of about 10 billion neurons, each connected to about 10,000 other neurons. Each neuronal cell bodies (soma) are connect with the input and output channels (dendrites and axons). Each neuron receives electrochemical inputs from other neurons at the dendrites. If the sum of these electrical inputs is sufficiently powerful to activate the neuron, it transmits an electrochemical signal along the axon, and passes this signal to the other neurons whose dendrites are attached at any of the axon terminals. These attached neurons may then fire. It is important to note that a neuron fires only if the total signal received at the cell body exceeds a certain level. The neuron either fires or it doesn’t, there aren’t different grades of firing. So, our entire brain is composed of these interconnected electro- chemical transmitting neurons. This is the model on which artificial neural networks are based. Thus for, artificial neural networks haven’t even come close to modeling the complexity of the brain, but they have shown to be good at problems which are easy for a human but difficult for a traditional computer, such as image recognition and predictions based on past knowledge.

Fundamental difference between traditional computers and artificial neural networks is the way in which they function. One of the major advantages of the neural network is its ability to do many things at once. With traditional computers, processing is sequential– one task, then the next, then the next, and so on. While computers function logically with a set of rules and calculations, artificial neural networks can function via Equation, pictures, and concepts. Based upon the way they function, traditional computers have to learn by rules, while artificial neural networks learn by example, by doing something and then learning from it.

Hopfield neural networks have found applications in a broad range of disciplines [3-5] and have been studied both in the continuous and discrete time cases by many researchers. Most neural networks can be classified as either continuous or discrete. In spite of this broad classification, there are many real-world systems and natural processes that behave in a piecewise continuous style interlaced with instantaneous and abrupt changes (impulses). Periodic dynamics of the Hopfield neural networks is one of the realistic and attractive modellings for the researchers. Hopfield networks are a special case of recurrent networks. These networks have feedback connections, have no hidden layers, and the weight matrix is symmetric. These networks are most appropriate when the input can be represented in exact binary form. Signal transmission between the neurons causes time delays. Therefore, the dynamics of Hopfield neural networks with discrete or distributed delays has a fundamental concern. Many neural networks today use less than 100 neurons and only need occasional training. In these situations, software simulation is usually found sufficient. Expected and optimistic development on all current neural network’s technologies will improve in very near future and researchers develop better methods and network architectures.

In the present paper, we briefly summarized historical background as well as developments of the artificial neural networks and present recent formulations of the continuous and discrete counterpart of a class of Hopfield-type neural networks modeling using functional differential equations in the presence of delay, periodicity, impulses and finite distributed delays. Combining some ideas of [4,6-10] and [11], we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence and global exponential stability of a unique periodic solution of the discrete system considered.

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)

An artificial neural network (ANN) is an information processing paradigm that is in- spired by the way biological nervous systems, such as the brain, process information sees more details [12] and references given therein. The key element of this paradigm is the novel structure of the information processing system. It is composed of a large number of highly interconnected processing elements (neurons) working in unison to solve specific problems. ANNs, like people, learn by example. An ANN is configured for a specific application, such as pattern recognition or data classification, through a learning process. Learning in biological systems involves adjustments to the synaptic connections that exist between the neurons. This is true of ANNs as well.

The first artificial neuron was produced in 1943 by the neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and the logician Walter Pitts [2]. But the technology available at that time did not allow them to do too much. Neural networks process information in a similar way the human brain does. The network is composed of a large number of highly interconnected processing elements (neurons) working in parallel to solve a specific problem. Neural net- works learn by example. Much is still unknown about how the brain trains itself to process information, so theories abound. An artificial neuron is a device with many inputs and one output (Figure 1). The neuron has two modes of operation; the training mode and the using mode. In the training mode, the neuron can be trained to fire (or not), for particular input patterns. In the using mode, when a taught input pattern is detected at the input, its associated output becomes the current output. If the input pattern does not belong in the taught list of input patterns, the firing rule is used to determine whether to fire or not. An important application of neural networks is pattern recognition. Pattern recognition can be implemented by using a feed-forward (Figure 2) neural network that has been trained accordingly. During training, the network is trained to associate outputs with in- put patterns. When the network is used, it identifies the input pattern and tries to output the associated output pattern. The power of neural networks comes to life when a pattern that has no output associated with it, is given as an input. In this case, the network gives the output that corresponds to a taught input pattern that is least different from the given pat- tern. Hopfield-type neural networks are mainly applied either as associative memories or as optimization solvers. In both applications, the stability of the networks is prerequisite. The equilibrium points (stable states) of networks characterize all possible optimal solutions of the optimization problem, and stability of the network’s grantee the convergence to the optimal solutions. Therefore, the stability is fundamental for the network design. As a result of this fact the stability analysis of the Hopfield-type networks has received extensive attention from the many researchers, [4,6-9,11,13] and references given therein. The above neuron does not do anything that conventional computers do not already do. A more sophisticated neuron (Figure 3) is the McCulloch and Pitts model (MCP). The difference from the previous model is that the inputs are ‘weighted’, the effect that each input has at decision making is dependent on the weight of the particular input. The weight of an input is a number which when multiplied with the input gives the weighted input. These weighted inputs are then added together and if they exceed a pre-set threshold value, the neuron fires. In any other case the neuron does not fire. In mathematical terms, the neuron fires if and only if

X1W1 + X22 + X3W3 + ��. > T,

where Wi, i = 1, 2, . . ., are weights, Xi, i = 1, 2, . . ., inputs, and T a threshold. The addition of input weights and of the threshold makes this neuron a very flexible and powerful one. The MCP neuron has the ability to adapt to a particular situation by changing its weights and/or threshold. Various algorithms exist that cause the neuron to ‘adapt’; the most used ones are the Delta rule and the back-error propagation. The former is used in feed-forward networks and the latter in feedback networks.

Neural networks have wide applicability to real world business problems. In fact, they have already been successfully applied in many industries. Since neural networks are best at identifying patterns or trends in data, they are well suited for prediction or forecasting needs including sales forecasting, industrial process control, customer research, data validation, risk management, target marketing.

ANN are also used in the following specific paradigms: recognition of speakers in communications; diagnosis of hepatitis; recovery of telecommunications from faulty software; interpretation of multi-meaning Chinese words; undersea mine detection; texture analysis; three-dimensional object recognition; hand-written word recognition; and facial recognition.

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The Tendency of First-Time College Students in an Online Learning setting to Experience Anxiety

Overview Anxiety is defined as a human emotion consisting of fear that emerges when threats are perceived and can hinder cognitive processes (Sarason, 1998). In an online classroom, anxiety is mostly felt due to the student's internet connection, home setting, and the lack of proper tools and equipment used for learning. The differences in which the students learn and face problems on or offline have also contributed to the student's anxiety (Barr & Tag, 1995). This negative feeling can deter the performance and efficiency of the students which most likely lead to missing a requirement or dropping the course (McLaren, 2004).

Framework and Review of Related Literature

According to St Clair (2015), learning virtually may come off as terrifying especially to the first-timers. Saade and colleagues (2017), mentioned that 21-22 year-old students are more likely to feel some sort of anxiety in online learning. Contributing factors may include technology anxiety, internet anxiety, talking in virtual groups, and online test anxiety. Furthermore, there is higher rates of dropouts during eLearning due to the learners’ lack of time, lack of motivation, poorly designed courses, and incompetent instructors (Uzunboylu and Tuncay, 2010). Students taking up online classes react to usability issues with strong sentiments. Students under time or goal pressures or when technological issues arise are said to experience higher levels of anxiety (Scull, 1999). The switch from a traditional setting to an online one interferes with the students’ schema, which then can be responsible for the cause of anxiety. The brain is a “prediction machine” that is programmed to anticipate threatening stimuli and beneficial responses based on our past knowledge. Without the prior knowledge of online learning, the students tend to feel anxious with the uncertainty it brings. Anxiety blocks the conventional thinking method of the brain that lead the students to experience extreme worrying. College students experience high levels of anxiety, and it reduces their mental processes and storage performance of memory and disrupt their potential reasoning (Darke, 1988). Their perception of threats are exaggerated, causing the feelings of fear and anxiety to emerge. Emotion is a powerful force that can amplify attention and supplement perception under the right circumstances, but can also hinder them in others (Compton, 2003).

Proposed Intervention

The proposed intervention is the Pomeck Intervention. It is a combination of the Pomodoro technique, Flowtime Technique and the Check-in Quiz with a few modifications to counter procrastination, finish tasks in an orderly and timely manner, and reduce stress and anxiety.

Limitation of the Intervention Proposal

The motivation of the students will play an important role for the implementation of this intervention. Pomeck Intervention requires commitment, determination, and motivation. A student who is anxious but is eager to get better grades is different from a student who is anxious and doesn't want to get better grades. This intervention will be most effective on those who is eager to get better grades than those who do not.

Theories and Practices of Cognitive Psychology

Some of the theories and practices of cognitive psychological concepts integrated in this proposal includes the distributed practice of elaborative rehearsal from memory. Distributed practice refers to a distributed rehearsal in different times, quite similar to pomodoro's distributed workload. This ensures better transfer of information from short term memory to the long term memory, which also results to bettter retrieval of information when needed. The better is the information retrieval, the better they perform academically. Better performance results to higher self-esteem, which then lowers anxiety. This low levels of anxiety inversely impacts mental imagery. Pomeck Intervention helps the students overcome deadline anxieties as it forces the students to finish tasks during the pomodoros days before the deadline. The faster the student finishes requirements, the more time the student gets to check, proof read, and edit the output to ensure better quality. This in result helps the student think more positively of the future, since he/she was ready. This readiness also helps lower anxiety.

The Pomeck intervention can be explained by a problem solving approach which is the information processing approach. This approach begins with determining the problem and ends with the problem being solved. Just like in Pomeck intervention, first thing to be done is to identify potential tasks (initial state) then lay down all possible activities, resources and procedures (problem space) and finally, finishing up with a solution (goal state). With this intervention, this enhances student's time management and increases its productivity which then lessens its anxiety in doing all the tasks that are needed to be done especially with an existing deadlines. The more consistent the student manages its time and tasks, the more space for improvements and refine quality of work which then results to a high productivity and low anxiety.

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is6621 · 6 years ago

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Learning in the Digital Age by Scott Wimberly

In just 35 years, education has undergone a massive transformation due, in large part, to technological advances in personal computing. Cost has been a driving factor of this transformation. The personal computer revolution really started affecting education in 1982 with the Commodore 64, the bestselling PC of all time at 17 million units. Putting a PC in 17 million homes would not have impacted education without word processing programs like Word Perfect. Word processing gave students access to tools that digitized their thoughts and introduced spellcheck, word count, and grammar.

Word processing was also a boon to both students and teachers who no longer had to worry about cryptic penmanship that required use of the secret decoder ring.

But seriously, the C64 sold for under $200 and introduced personal computing to the masses along with the digital tools that came with it, like word processing, spreadsheets, internet, file transfer, and chat boards. Those early white-on-blue word processing programs gave way to robust Office suites that further improved the ease with which a student could document their thoughts. Spreadsheets organized numbers, etc. etc. IBM picked up the mantle with the IBM PC then Dell undercut their prices and continued Commodore’s push to lower costs and increase access to personal computing. For the first time, schools themselves could afford to build computer labs and teach their student valuable skills like typing, pong, and Oregon Trail.

Yeah, educators really didn’t know what to do with computers in the beginning. Seriously, they had no idea how to adapt the PC to their teaching past writing papers. Imagine taking an entire course that is nothing but typing. For a whole semester. That happened.

Where do we go from typewriters, floppy discs, and awful screen contrast? Online learning. After a decade or two, educators eventually began to grasp more than word processing and typing, then began to imagine how computers could affect the classroom as a whole. What is the single factor that affects cost per student in a school setting? Class size. How do you ramp up class size without jamming 500 people into an amphitheater where three quarters of them are playing games and talking? Online learning.

In my experience, most attempts at online learning fail miserably at the primary goal: Teaching. What they succeed at is lowering costs. For universities, they amplify revenue by increasing class size per professor. A single professor can teach multiple online classes because there is no lecture to attend and assignments can be more flexible. Each class can be a simple photocopy of the last with minimal effort.

Online classes are now used by companies as well as schools. Companies use online training for compliance training, certifications, harassment training, and even as a primary source of instruction. They pay production departments to create classes that are repeatable and easily distributed while requiring no floor space rather than hire and maintain a large training department. Online learning is a huge cost saving initiative for companies which is driving wider and wider adoption.

Here’s the thing though: Do people really learn from these online classes? Like, really learn. Do they retain the knowledge then apply it in their everyday lives, during the course of business, and does it improve productivity?

That begs the question: How do people learn? There are essentially two schools of thought and they are both fairly similar: the first breaks it down into listening, seeing, and touching learners while the other school organizes it into construction, cognition, community. The first approaches the type of learning that people respond to best while the second attempts to deconstruct how people actually retain knowledge. Then there is Bill Gates. Surprisingly perhaps, Bill Gates has his own theory of how people learn: “If you have a broad framework then you have a place to put everything, so you have the timeline or you have the map, or the branches of science and what's known and what's not known”. Elon Musk actually happens to think along the same lines: “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to”.

So, what does this tell us? How does learning theory intersect with online learning and the “Digital Age”? Well THAT is the $64,000 question and here is the answer: Online learning needs to provide a framework that students can interact with, where they can anchor theories, and gain an understanding of the fundamentals. If we are worried about education then online learning needs to be more than watching a video and answering ten questions. The chances are, your compliance department is not equipped to design training that provides a framework and anchors concepts in fundamental principles. Companies will need to invest in research and training departments, education facilities will need to look past online courses as a revenue amplifier, and educators will need to get innovative in their interactive approaches. Effective online courses require real planning with exquisite execution that is actually far more difficult to effectively pull off than classroom learning because there is no opportunity yet for the online class to adapt to the student. Yet.

What if AI could adapt the class to how you learn based on an inventory of module and techniques? THAT is the next horizon of learning in the digital age.

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Artificial Intelligence in Education Market 2030 - Opportunity Analysis & Growth Insights Report

Global artificial intelligence (AI) in education market size is predicted to expand at a strong rate due to the rising number of online learning platforms across emerging economies. The COVID-19 pandemic played an important role in increasing the demand for digital learning solutions as schools and colleges were temporarily shut during this period.

Global artificial intelligence (AI) in education market share will surpass USD 80 billion in valuation by 2030. With the help of AI, edtech companies are launching innovative solutions to make learning complex subjects simpler for students. For example, Indian edtech startup DcodeAI, in January 2021, launched a brand-new DIY learning platform, which includes computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and data science for children aged 12-18 years.

The aim behind this strategy is to equip primary and secondary level students, who do not have a formal coding background, with AI skills. Such initiatives will further drive the adoption of AI to give an innovative approach to traditional learning systems.

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Machine learning widely used to improve student learning capabilities:

Global AI in education industry size from the machine learning (ML) technology segment will record a notable growth rate by 2030. Machine learning has taken the center-stage in the education sector in recent years.

Educators across the world are increasing their dependence on ML to identify students who are struggling in class and take the necessary steps to improve their performance and retention. Features, such as customization and text-to-speech learning have immensely helped educators overcome language barriers to extend the reach and benefits of education.

Recent launches in this area will amplify the adoption of machine learning in the education industry. For example, in November 2021, the University of Adelaide launched the Center for Augmented Reasoning, a 4-year program that will provide scholarships to support its PhD students and facilitate AI commercialization as well.

Professional services will gain traction:

Professional service solutions will capture a sizeable share of global AI in education industry by 2030. The education sector is witnessing large-scale digitization due to the advent of online learning platforms. The COVID-19 pandemic was instrumental in boosting the demand for professional services.

It was important to thoroughly train teachers across schools and colleges to facilitate a smooth interaction between AI technologies and students. Professional services are vital in such cases because they provide maintenance, consulting, integration and deployment services.

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Venture capitalists increase investments in AI and edtech:

As the awareness regarding the benefits of using innovative technologies like AI is growing at a robust pace among clients, their demand has skyrocketed in recent years. Venture capitalists have also realized the true potential of AI technologies and are heavily investing in the same.

For instance, as per some reports, edtech companies in the U.S. had raised more than USD 2.2 billion in private equity and venture capital over a span of 130 deals in 2020 alone. This was an increase of almost 30% from the USD 1.7 billion investments recorded in 2019. The scenario will encourage more investors to invest in AI solutions to improve the performance of the education sector.

Pearson PLC, Blackboard Inc., Amazon Web Services, Inc., Century Tech Limited, CheckiO, Cerevrum Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and IBM Corporation., among many others, are the leading developers of AI technologies in the education sector.

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The 30 Most Popular Online Courses of 2021

This yr may additionally were a nightmare in maximum ways, however 2021 has been a banner 12 months for online schooling. Besides millions of students round the sector being compelled to examine remotely, huge numbers of adults have observed themselves stuck at domestic with time on their palms. No wonder online courses have been so famous this yr.

Class Central, a clearinghouse for facts on online courses, noticed site visitors double because the pandemic began. Which lessons are these kinds of new students flocking to?

Class Central simply released a roundup of the most famous publications of the 12 months. As you’d assume, the complete list of one hundred consists of plenty of Covid-19 related publications on subjects like touch tracing and moving instructions on line (as well as perennial favorites like check prep and English as a second language). But it also contained some gem stones well proper to marketers and different specialists looking to amplify their capabilities and enhance their lives in 2022:

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7 of the Best Website Builders for 2019

After strolling out of my Computer Science I final during my freshman year of college, I knew I’d never code anything in my life again. My computer science class was incredibly interesting when we learned about the theory of programming languages. But when we had to put theory into practice, the only programing I was doing was texting my friend to email me the code of whatever project I was working on (sorry Professor Harms!).

If you have the same sentiment toward programming as me, but you need to build a website for your business or your personal portfolio, don’t fret. There are affordable, intuitive website builders that can help you develop a robust website without any coding knowledge. And we’ve rounded up the seven of the best ones for 2019 below.

Best Website Builders

WordPress

Wix

Squarespace

Weebly

Google Sites

Shopify

HubSpot's Content Management System

1. WordPress

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G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (1,670 reviews)

Pricing:

Personal - $5 per month

Premium - $8 per month

Business - $25 per month

eCommerce - $45 per month

Powering over 30% of the websites on the internet, WordPress is arguably the most popular website builder out there. Whether you want to develop a website for your business or your own personal projects, you can use WordPress’ intuitive editor to build an entire website and blog.

With WordPress, you can also easily add images to your website with their drag-and-drop editor and embed audio, video, and documents in your website. If you want visibility into your website’s analytics and SEO data, WordPress has these features built into their platform.

Additionally, WordPress offers hundreds of themes that you can leverage to build a beautiful website without much coding knowledge, as well as an online store builder.

2. Wix

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G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (947 reviews)

Pricing:

Combo - $11 per month

Unlimited - $14 per month

Pro - $19 per month

VIP - $29 per month

Wix is one of the most versatile website builders on the market. The website builder offers the ability to build a website specifically for stores, musicians, events, and restaurants.

If your business doesn’t operate under one of the previously mentioned categories, don’t worry, Wix is still a viable option. Their code-free editor is robust and intuitive, providing over 500 website templates, over 100 fonts, scroll effects, an app market, and a drag-and-drop functionality, letting you build a website for nearly any type of organization.

If you’d rather have full control over your website’s functionality, you can build custom web applications on your website with Wix’s Code APIs and JavaScript. Wix also offers Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI), which uses a questionnaire you fill out and artificial intelligence to design a personalized professional website for you.

3. Squarespace

G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (753 reviews)

Pricing:

Personal Website - $12 per month

Business Website - $18 per month

Basic Online Store - $26 per month

Advanced Online Store - $40 per month

With award-winning, fully customizable website templates designed by their own team of web designers, Squarespace gives you the ability to craft some of the most visually aesthetic websites that a website builder can possibly develop.

Squarespace also offers some robust marketing tools, like email campaigns, SEO features, blogging, social integration, analytics, lead capture features, a map of your store location, calendars, and an online store builder.

Additionally, Squarespace offers dozens of integrations to amplify your design and marketing efforts, like Getty Images, Unsplash, Eventbrite, Disqus, PayPal, OpenTable, Google Maps, Google AMP, and more.

4. Weebly

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G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (374 reviews)

Pricing:

Free - $0 per month

Connect - $5 per month

Pro - $12 per month

Business - $25 per month

Performance - $38 per month

Weebly is an intuitive website builder that offers over 50 website themes and a drag-and-drop editor. With custom fonts, an image editor, video backgrounds, and animation effects like parallax and reveal, you can truly build a visually pleasing website. If you’d rather customize your entire website, Wix gives you the option to employ your own custom HTML/CSS & JavaScript.

Wix also lets you store your contacts in a contact database, write blog posts, create and send emails, share content on your social profiles, analyze your SEO, and examine your website analytics. If you have an online store, you can even create Facebook ads inside of their platform.

Additionally, Weebly will host your website on their servers for free, transfer your domain from another website builder, keep your website safe by offering SSL security and DDoS protection, and provides 24/7 email & chat support.

5. Google Sites

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G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (247 reviews)

Pricing: Free

in June 2017, Google gave every business with a Google My Business account access to a free, intuitive single-page website builder. The tool is fully customizable, automatically updates with the account user's GMB listing information, and works with AdWords Express.

Tailored for small businesses, Google Sites can automatically generate your company’s information on your website with information from your Google My Business profile. You can also customize your website’s text, photos, and design themes. Additionally, Google Sites are mobile responsive, can use custom domains, and can display your Google Maps location.

6. Shopify

G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (2,386 reviews)

Pricing:

Basic Shopify - $29 per month

Shopify - $79 per month

Advanced Shopify - $299 per month

Powering over 500,000 businesses that have generated more than $40 billion in sales, Shopify is the leading online store builder for retailers. And for good reason, too. Shopify’s eCommerce functionality is second-to-none, offering advanced inventory management, store management, and selling and shipping solutions.

Shopify also provides over 70 website themes, customizable templates, a blogging platform, and access to your website’s HTML and CSS, which allows you to intuitively build a robust website for your online store. Additionally, Shopify enables you to build your brand by offering SEO tools, social media integration, the ability to sell your products on Facebook, analytics reports, and an integration with Google Analytics.

If you need help building your store, Shopify can connect you with a retail expert to photograph your inventory, market your store, set up your website, and even help you create 3D models of your products.

7. HubSpot's Content Management System

G2Crowd Rating: 4.5/5.0 (1,503 reviews)

Pricing: Contact Sales

WIth HubSpot's content management system, or CMS, you can create blog posts, landing pages, website pages, and emails in one platform, and then manage, optimize, and track your content’s performance in the same exact place.

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The Chinese Communist Party’s Latest Propaganda Target: Young Minds

Chinese President Xi Jinping would like young children and college students not just to obey, but to appreciate the Communist Party. At an April 19 meeting arranged by the Politburo to mark the 100th anniversary of the university student-led anti-imperialist Might Fourth Movement, he reported, “We want to … strengthen political steerage for youthful people, guide them to voluntarily insist on the Party’s management, to hear to the Get together and observe the Celebration.”

Political indoctrination has extended been a demanded ingredient of the curriculum at all concentrations of training in China. Less than Xi, even so, new methods are currently being taken to tighten the Communist Party’s ideological management in excess of universities, educational institutions, lecturers, and pupils.

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The Party’s method for influencing learners relies upon in huge part on their academics and professors. In a speech at a Beijing seminar attended by academics from throughout the nation in March, Xi called on educators to instill patriotism in the country’s youth and reject “wrong strategies and ideology.” He also emphasized that instructors them selves “should have stringent self-discipline, be dependable in class and out of class, on the internet and offline, must consciously have ahead the key melody and actively express optimistic vitality.”

In latest months, a amount of teachers have faced dismissal, detention, and other penalties after falling small of these expectations. On March 25, the Money Instances reported that well known constitutional law professor Xu Zhangrun experienced been barred from educating at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing. He experienced written numerous essays that sharply and eloquently criticized the prime leadership’s conclusions, often drawing on ancient Chinese philosophy, literature, and political principle to make his arguments. Xu was subsequently stripped of his other positions and teaching tasks. On April 8, scholar Yu Jianrong, identified for his investigation on China’s peasants, experienced his Sina Weibo microblogging account, which had 7.2 million followers, silenced this sort of that he could no more time submit reviews, only read through others’ messages.

In two other circumstances, educators have faced jail time for sharing information and facts about the persecuted Falun Gong spiritual group in their non-public capacities. In January, Zeng Hao, a enterprise professor at Tianhe College or university in Guangdong Province, was sentenced to 3.5 a long time in jail after publishing pictures relevant to Falun Gong on Tencent’s QQ messaging system. On April 15, Amnesty Intercontinental issued an urgent motion for substantial faculty chemistry trainer Chen Yan, who is predicted to confront trial for handing out a calendar with data about Falun Gong to someone on a Beijing avenue.

In early March, the Washington-centered Uyghur Human Rights Job published a report outlining the aspects of 386 Uyghur students, students, and other intellectuals who have been swept into detention amid a enormous re-training hard work concentrating on Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

Surveillance Inside of and Exterior The Classroom

In an April 8 short article, Radio Absolutely free Asia famous amplified endeavours to watch Chinese university learners. Reporters uncovered on line documents showing how institutions like Wuhan College of Science and Engineering are frequently recruiting college students to act as informants on their classmates and teachers, generally distributing reviews to authorities every two months. One particular former professor explained the recruitment started in earnest in 2014, soon following surveillance cameras began currently being commonly mounted on campuses in 2013.

More just lately, surveillance cameras linked to facial recognition computer software and brainwave-detecting headbands have appeared in elementary and secondary schools, provoking nervousness and anger amongst some pupils. While the checking is ostensibly for the purpose of tracking students’ focus and analyze habits, it could also be made use of to detect ideological transgressions by instructors or pupils.

Universities, federal government businesses, and non-public firms are ever more hoping to gain obtain to students’ social media accounts and other on-line information. Officers at universities in Beijing and Anhui province have reportedly questioned students to sign-up the facts of their personal and general public accounts on Tencent’s WeChat and QQ platforms. In February the corporation China Youth Credit rating Administration (CY Credit), doing the job with the Communist Youth League, launched an application identified as “Unictown,” which aims to provide as the foundation for a specialized social credit procedure for China’s youth. The application is meant to monitor young adults’ behavior and incentivize pursuits that are deemed constructive or socially valuable. The South China Early morning Submit stories that the firm has currently gathered knowledge from 70 million individuals, is developing a database of 90 million youth league volunteers, and aspires in a handful of years to deal with all 460 million Chinese aged 18 to 45.

Curriculum Controls and Direct Indoctrination

The Unictown app is not the only new celebration-connected cellular software concentrating on China’s youth. When the “Study Xi, Improve China” application was released in January by the Party’s propaganda department, a corresponding version for youthful people also sprung up on the web page, cellular application, and social media accounts of the party’s media mouthpiece, the People’s Every day. According to the South China Morning Publish, the application demands “schoolchildren to analyze texts similar to Xi’s political ideology.”

In Xinjiang, youthful Muslim minority small children are more specifically exposed to indoctrination. Those whose moms and dads have been detained for “re-education” are themselves placed in point out-run orphanages, where they are reportedly necessary to discuss Chinese, consume pork, and study slogans like “I’m Chinese I appreciate my place.” In some instances youngsters are currently being used to tell on their dad and mom. An April 4 multimedia report by the New York Moments on situations in the historic metropolis of Kashgar included a chilling account of kindergarteners being interrogated. As 1 interviewee described it, “My daughter had a classmate who stated, ‘My mother teaches me Quran.’ The up coming working day, they are gone.”

In addition to indoctrinating students on Communist Party ideology, the authorities are clamping down on access to alternative concepts, together with those involved with democratic governance. Around the previous 12 months, China’s Instruction Ministry has done countrywide audits of constitutional regulation textbooks, and guides by reform-minded professors have reportedly been removed from online booksellers. A sequence of international educational publishers have appear beneath pressure to take away certain articles or blog posts from collections available in China, and at minimum some have complied.

World-wide Reach

The Communist Party’s watchful gaze also follows Chinese pupils who review abroad, regardless of whether as a result of scholar informants, consulate-linked Chinese Student and Scholar Associations, or checking of WeChat accounts. A single 2018 survey by Cheryl Yu, then a graduate student at the University of Washington, found that amongst 72 Chinese respondents from at minimum 31 American universities, 58 p.c ended up aware of possible Chinese government surveillance in the United States. Yu also found that 80 per cent of the students noted self-censoring (regardless of whether or not they shown consciousness of formal surveillance) by selecting not to show up at university occasions on politically sensitive subject areas, go over this sort of topics with huge teams of fellow Chinese, or even confess to a willingness to find out about the issues.

Students who overstep the party’s redlines when abroad possibility serious reprisals. On April 10, Mirror Media revealed an emotional account by Li Jiabao from Shandong Province, who had criticized China’s authoritarian system in a dwell-stream broadcast although learning in Taiwan. Before long afterward, he found that his QQ, WeChat, Taobao, and Alipay accounts were being all deleted. As he counted down the days ahead of he had to return to China, he claimed owning nightmares.

Effect and Ramifications

New activism by Marxist college students from elite universities on behalf of exploited Chinese workers hints at the ways in which ideological indoctrination could backfire for the Social gathering, whose true governance is usually in conflict with its loftier rules. Many other youthful folks may perhaps reject or disregard the stilted propaganda completely, and even superior school learners have balked at the onerous surveillance currently being imposed on them, in at least a person situation dismantling their classroom cameras.

Yet, the Chinese authorities’ initiatives to condition students’ minds have evidently experienced some success. Younger Chinese finding out abroad are typically unwilling to discover forbidden subjects, and domestic graduates who are used as censors require crash programs on functions like the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, suggesting that they have massive blind spots in their awareness of the planet and their country.

China’s youth, in other terms, are escalating up in a a lot more manipulated information environment than their parents’ era or their foreign counterparts. There is a very true hazard that this era will be fewer open up-minded, more nationalistic, additional supportive of authoritarian rule, and extra isolated from a prevalent established of specifics and norms that previously facilitated peaceful international exchanges.

To mitigate these an consequence, overseas academic establishments ought to re-take a look at the conditions of their partnerships with Chinese universities, safeguard the educational liberty and protection of their Chinese learners, and discover alternate channels for engaging pupils in China with the complete spectrum of suggestions needed for a 21st-century education and learning.

Sarah Cook dinner is a senior investigation analyst for East Asia at Liberty Property and director of its China Media Bulletin.

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7 of the Best Website Builders for 2019

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7 of the Best Website Builders for 2019

Best Website Builders

WordPress

Wix

Squarespace

Weebly

Google Sites

Shopify

HubSpot’s Content Management System

1. WordPress

Image Credit: WordPress

G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (1,670 reviews)

Pricing:

Personal – $5 per month

Premium – $8 per month

Business – $25 per month

eCommerce – $45 per month

Additionally, WordPress offers hundreds of themes that you can leverage to build a beautiful website without much coding knowledge, as well as an online store builder.

2. Wix

Image Credit: Wix

G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (947 reviews)

Pricing:

Combo – $11 per month

Unlimited – $14 per month

Pro – $19 per month

VIP – $29 per month

Wix is one of the most versatile website builders on the market. The website builder offers the ability to build a website specifically for stores, musicians, events, and restaurants.

3. Squarespace

G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (753 reviews)

Pricing:

Personal Website – $12 per month

Business Website – $18 per month

Basic Online Store – $26 per month

Advanced Online Store – $40 per month

4. Weebly

Image Credit: Weebly

G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (374 reviews)

Pricing:

Free – $0 per month

Connect – $5 per month

Pro – $12 per month

Business – $25 per month

Performance – $38 per month

5. Google Sites

Image Credit: Google My Business

G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (247 reviews)

Pricing: Free

in June 2017, Google gave every business with a Google My Business account access to a free, intuitive single-page website builder. The tool is fully customizable, automatically updates with the account user’s GMB listing information, and works with AdWords Express.

6. Shopify

G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (2,386 reviews)

Pricing:

Basic Shopify – $29 per month

Shopify – $79 per month

Advanced Shopify – $299 per month

7. HubSpot’s Content Management System

G2Crowd Rating: 4.5/5.0 (1,503 reviews)

Pricing: Contact Sales

WIth HubSpot’s content management system, or CMS, you can create blog posts, landing pages, website pages, and emails in one platform, and then manage, optimize, and track your content’s performance in the same exact place.

HubSpot’s CMS also automatically optimizes your content for mobile and search engines by leveraging responsive design and a built-in SSL. Additionally, you can personalize your content for each website visitor based on location, source, device, language, or any other detail stored in your HubSpot CRM, from demographic information to your contacts’ interactions with your brand.

You can either buy HubSpot’s CMS as a standalone product, or as an add-on to HubSpot’s all-in-one marketing software.

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7 of the Best Website Builders for 2019

Best Website Builders

WordPress

Wix

Squarespace

Weebly

Google Sites

Shopify

HubSpot's Content Management System

1. WordPress

Image Credit: WordPress

G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (1,670 reviews)

Pricing:

Personal - $5 per month

Premium - $8 per month

Business - $25 per month

eCommerce - $45 per month

Additionally, WordPress offers hundreds of themes that you can leverage to build a beautiful website without much coding knowledge, as well as an online store builder.

2. Wix

Image Credit: Wix

G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (947 reviews)

Pricing:

Combo - $11 per month

Unlimited - $14 per month

Pro - $19 per month

VIP - $29 per month

Wix is one of the most versatile website builders on the market. The website builder offers the ability to build a website specifically for stores, musicians, events, and restaurants.

3. Squarespace

G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (753 reviews)

Pricing:

Personal Website - $12 per month

Business Website - $18 per month

Basic Online Store - $26 per month

Advanced Online Store - $40 per month

4. Weebly

Image Credit: Weebly

G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (374 reviews)

Pricing:

Free - $0 per month

Connect - $5 per month

Pro - $12 per month

Business - $25 per month

Performance - $38 per month

5. Google Sites

Image Credit: Google My Business

G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (247 reviews)

Pricing: Free

6. Shopify

G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (2,386 reviews)

Pricing:

Basic Shopify - $29 per month

Shopify - $79 per month

Advanced Shopify - $299 per month

7. HubSpot's Content Management System

G2Crowd Rating: 4.5/5.0 (1,503 reviews)

Pricing: Contact Sales

You can either buy HubSpot’s CMS as a standalone product, or as an add-on to HubSpot's all-in-one marketing software.

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Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad

“Welcome to your first day of school!” That was how bubbly Apple employees, decked out in the green-and-yellow outfits that matched the colors of Lane Tech College Prep in Chicago, welcomed arrivals to the company’s highly-anticipated education event this morning.

Attendees were given a schedule of “classes” and directed to the cafeteria for orientation. Among the 1000 present were former vice president Al Gore, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and 300 educators from around the world.

An announcement over the PA system reminded everyone that the general assembly session was mandatory—and to not chew gum as no one is above detention. Bells signaled transitioned time between hands-on workshops led by educators.

That Apple chose this selective magnet school as the site for its latest product showcase—rather than, say, the San Francisco Moscone Center or its Cupertino headquarters—reflects the company’s renewed focus on the education market.

“We believe that our place at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts makes it possible to create and amplify our creativity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. “This is something only Apple can do.” Throughout the speeches, presentations and product showcases, company employees and Apple touted how their tools can offer “creative” learning experiences that no others can do.

Apple CEO Tim Cook

It was hardly Apple’s first day at school; the company’s education efforts trace back four decades. But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. According to Futuresource, a UK market research firm, devices running the Chrome operating system accounted for close to 60 percent of all sales of mobile devices in the U.S. K-12 education market in 2017. Apple’s share made up roughly less than 20 percent—a number that trails Microsoft’s as well.

What will it take for Apple to reclaim its pole position? Indeed, the company proved rumors right by unveiling a new iPad. But Apple has never lacked for flashy gadgets. Rather, the most important updates may be upgrades to collaboration and management tools that could make those devices much easier to deploy and use.

Here’s what we saw.

First, the ‘Education’ iPad

The big announcement that caught everyone’s eye—and splattered across all the headlines—was the new 9.7-inch iPad, unveiled by Apple’s vice president, Greg Joswiak. The device retails at $329, but education purchasers can get it for $299. Among the upgrades is a 10-hour battery life, an 8-megapixel camera and increased processing power with the A10 fusion chip. Such features, he claimed, made the device more powerful than any laptop or Chromebook. That’s a not-so-subtle dig at Apple’s competitors—and the first time that the company called out Chromebooks at a keynote event.

The new iPad is also compatible with the Apple Pencil, the stylus that previously only worked with the iPad Pro. However, the Pencil must still be purchased separately—$99 for public and $89 for schools. Other add-ons showcased at the event were a new Logitech keyboard case which retails for $99 and Logitech’s own stylus, Crayon, which retails for $49.

Add all the costs up, and schools are looking at close to $500 for the new iPad with the keyboard and stylus. That cost is still steeper than Chromebooks, which start at $179. (And not to mention, Google announced yesterday its first “education tablet made for Chrome OS” that comes with a built-in stylus. The cost: $329.)

There were rumors leading up to the event that Apple would reduce the price of its iPads to as low as $259. That didn’t happen. Still, Brendan Kelly, an Apple Distinguished Educator who teaches at Wilson Elementary School in West Allis, Wisc. thinks the extra cost is worth it.

“The ability to create on an iPad is second to none,” Kelly said in an interview. “You’re not going to record what’s in front of you with a Chromebook. With an iPad, you can move everywhere. I don’t see anything that comes close.”

Dissecting a frog on Apple’s new iPad

Accompanying Updates and Upgrades

In addition to the iPad, the company unveiled a slew of upgrades and apps to work in concert with the tablet. These included:

Smart Annotation for iWorks: New features in iWorks tap into the new functionalities with the Apple Pencil. The iWorks suite, which includes Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, will soon have Smart Annotation, a feature that allows users to mark up documents and allow for teachers or peers to share feedback.

iBook Creator: The popular iBook creator, which was previously only available on Macs, is now available for iPads. Students can create ibooks and use built-in collaboration features that allow them to work in groups.

Everybody Can Create: Building off of the company’s “Everybody Can Code” initiative that aims to introduce students to computer science, Apple announced a new curriculum, “Everyone Can Create.” Available this fall, this program will focus on four strands: music, video, photography, and drawing. The curriculum is not meant to be a standalone class, but rather weave these creative elements into existing classes to engage students.

Teacher Learning Center: The company also announced the launch of free, self-paced courses provide teachers guidance in implementing devices and curriculum into their instruction.

More Storage: To make sure students have enough digital space for their new creations, Apple also announced that education Apple ID account holders will enjoy an increase in their iCloud storage from 5 GB to 200 GB.

Augmented Reality Features: After the main event, attendees got to explore apps that harness augmented reality to dissect frogs and explore landscapes created on empty table tops using the iPad. Ordinary classroom walls turned into works of arts which students could examine up close to see each brush stroke.

The (Possible) Game Changer: Data in a Smoother Workflow

While the ability to create multimedia projects and experiences with iPads has been a major strength of Apple, managing how students use these devices as part of the classroom workflow has not alway been easy. The company’s strongest case to woo back educators may lie in two updates that aim to resolve these issues.

Sample screenshot of Apple Schoolwork

The first, Schoolwork, appears to be Apple’s response to Google Classroom. Launching in June, Schoolwork allows a teacher to send out documents and open specific apps on their students’ iPads. It also gives them visibility into what each student is working on to make sure they are on task or to provide support. The tool integrates with Apple’s remote device management app, Classroom, and School Manager, which helps manage and deploy devices.

An additional feature in Schoolwork is that teachers can assign students to a specific activity within a third-party app that is integrated with Schoolwork. That means, for example, that a teacher can direct kids to do a specific assignment within Tynker, a coding app that is one of 15 education apps currently synced with Schoolwork. These apps can also feed data back to teachers to show students’ progress.

Giving teachers a single place to see how students are performing across different third-party apps is an enticing prospect. Other edtech companies have recently rolled out solutions to aggregate data from multiple programs, including Yet Analytics and Clever’s Goals, but the ability to assign a specific activity and receive data back is unique to Apple’s Schoolwork (for now).

For other education app creators to sync with Schoolwork, Apple is inviting developers to check out ClassKit, a set of APIs that they can use to connect with Schoolwork. Mindful of the aftermath of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica incident, Apple vice president Susan Prescott underscored on stage that any data passed is private, and that the company has made available guidance for developers to meet these privacy requirements.

Additionally, Apple launched the Shared iPad feature which brings it up to speed with Google Chromebooks and Microsoft devices. Recognizing that not all schools have 1:1 programs, this feature allows different students to pick up any iPad and login to their unique profile and access their individual apps and files.

Final Thoughts

Apple’s vision of pushing education towards more creative thinking skills, enabled by technology, is certainly lofty. The idea behind fostering creativity in students through projects and genuine engagement with the world resonates with many educators. Unfortunately these ideals are not always aligned with the realities of an education system that still emphasizes standardized testing and compliance to rigorous academic standards.

Then there’s the simple issue of cost. Even with all of these new features announced today, the iPad’s price tag still remains high relative to its competitors—and cost cannot be ignored in districts where budgets have been slashed. This is especially true for a device without a built-in keyboard, in a world where typing remains a critical skill. It reinforces the existing notion that iPads are good as a tactile device more suitable for students too young to type—and just a nice-to-have for older ones.

While the new iPad took the spotlight, the operational improvements enabled by Schoolwork could have the most significant impact on teachers as it reduces the barriers to implementing the devices in classrooms, and allows them to assign targeted activities for students. Of course, that can be used to reinforce having students do independent work on their devices—and that may not be Apple’s ultimate vision. But it could make a compelling case for bringing iPads back to the classroom.

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What they mean by blogger is not someone who publishes in a weblog format, but anyone who thinks east coast investors, not so much; but anyone who publishes online. Good writing should be convincing because you got the right answers, they wouldn't need us. And that could be bad for VCs. Is the mathematician a small man because he's discontented? Or at least, a thesis was a position one took and the dissertation was the argument by which one defended it. A physicist friend recently told me half his department was on Prozac. What makes the answer appear is letting your thoughts drift a bit—and thus drift off the wrong path you'd been pursuing last night and onto the right one adjacent to it.1 Follow the threads that attract your attention. Wise and smart are both ways of saying someone knows what to do by a boss.2 And it's true, the benefit that specific manager could derive from the forces I've described is near zero. Instead of matching beige cubicles they have an assortment of furniture they bought used.3 At YC, the culture was the product.

And a lot of their time on their own projects? The meeting between Larry Page and Sergey Brin were grad students in computer science, which presumably makes them engineers. Are you crazy? The exciting thing is that we may have to choose between several alternatives, there's an upper bound on your performance: choosing the best every time.4 Well, there are next to none among the most valuable features.5 See what you can extract from a frivolous question?6 That one succeeded.7

Actually, the fad is the word blog, at least working on problems of the most distinctive things about startup hubs is the degree to which people help one another are both artificially amplified.8 Meetings are like an opiate with a network effect. For example, back at Harvard in the mid 90s a fellow grad student of my friends Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Ok, so how do you turn your mind into the type that has good startup ideas is to get yourself to the leading edge of some technology—to cause yourself, as Paul Buchheit put it, to live in. Ticketstumbler made it to profitability on Y Combinator's $15,000 investment and they hope not to need more.9 And newspapers and magazines are literally dying for a solution. Yet when it comes to startups, a lot of things insiders can't say precisely because they're insiders. But now you can read this, I should be working.

This essay is derived from a guest lecture in Sam Altman's startup class at Stanford. They switch because it's a better browser.10 So stop looking for the trick. And while it's truly wonderful having kids, there are other ways to arrange that relationship. What if it's too hard? One Canadian startup we funded spent about 6 months working on moving to the US. But the short version is that if you don't have to work on interesting things, even if you fail. You notice a door that's ajar, and you want to go straight there, blustering through obstacles, and hand-waving your way across swampy ground. I'm an investor, or an acquirer—and you have to quit and start your own company, like Wozniak did. Boston investors who saw them first but acted too slowly. But you don't need investors' money.11

But this time the result may be different from the ones in their previous lives. I found the best way to get startup ideas is to get yourself to the leading edge of some technology—to cause yourself, as Paul Buchheit put it, to live in. In fact there is no such thing. The other problem with pretend work is that it often looks better than real work. In this world, wisdom seemed paramount. In most places, if you start a startup. Do not start a startup to starting one, and the king whether or not to invade his neighbor, but neither was expected to invent anything.

For example, why should there be a connection between humor and misfortune?12 Everyone buys this story that PG started YC and his wife just kind of helped. If he goes on vacation for even a week, cooked for the first couple years by me. Because of Y Combinator's position at the extreme end of the process.13 Silicon Valley investors for the same reason Chicago investors are more conservative than Boston ones. That is one of the most powerful of those was the existence of channels.14 What I mean is, if you start a startup in college. We did the first thing we thought of. There were no fixed office hours. For example, newspaper editors assigned stories to reporters, then edited what they wrote.15

Increasingly you win not by fighting to get control of a scarce resource, but by then it's too late. And that could be bad for VCs. One of the advantages of moving. Sometimes you start with a promising question and get nowhere. From the outside that seems like what startups do.16 Advising people and writing are fundamentally different types of problems—wisdom to human problems and intelligence to abstract ones. When I'm writing or hacking I spend as much time just thinking as I do actually typing.17 So why were we afraid? The idea of mixing it up with linkbait journalists or Twitter trolls would seem to her not merely frightening, but disgusting.

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