IRS scam

Sounds very much computer-generated, but I can see that some people may fall for that. Your browser does not support the audio element. The issue at hand is extremely time sensitive. My name is Officer Liz Smith calling you from the Internal Revenue Services in the hotline to my division is 917-231-1777. I repeat. Once again, 917-231-1777. The reason behind our call is to inform you about the lawsuit, which has been filed under your name. So give us a call back as soon as possible. ...

April 11, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Form a California LLC

Interesting read. Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70 https://blog.bookandledger.com/topics/business-formation/form-a-california-llc

April 11, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Neural Network playground

This is a very nice tool to help understand how to set up a neural network. Often times I wonder when to use what features, and how many hidden layers should I use in tensorflow, etc. This website lets us play with these params and visually shows us the output. http://playground.tensorflow.org/

April 4, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Acrylamide

Acrylamide is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11002), and is subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, store, or use it in significant quantities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

March 31, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Priorities

“ It’s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.” — Elisabeth Hasselbeck “ If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.” — Jim Collins, Good to Great “ The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett “ A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.” — Jim Rohn ...

March 29, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Foods dogs can and can't eat

Alcohol - No Almonds - No Apples - Yes (No seeds) Bananas - Yes Bread - Yes (Plain only, no spices and no raisins) Caffeine - No Carrot sticks - Yes Cashews - Yes Cheese - Yes Chocolate - No Cinnamon - No Coconut - Yes Corn - Yes (Not the cod) Cucumber slices - Yes Eggs - Yes (Need to be fully cooked) Fish - Yes (Fully cooked and cooled, No tiny bones) Garlic - No Grapes - No Green beans - Yes Ham - Yes Honey - Yes Ice Cream - No Macadamia nuts - No Milk - No (Many dogs are lactose-intolerant) Onions - No Oranges - Yes (No seeds) Pasta - Yes (Plain and cooked) Peanut butter - Yes Peanuts - Yes Popcorn - Yes (Without salt and butter, just plain) Pork - Yes Potato - Yes (Plain baked only, no raw potatoes or from the garden) Quinoa - Yes Raisins - No Rice - Yes (Cooked white rice is ok) Salmon - Yes Salt - No Shrimp - Yes (Fully cooked, remove the head, tail, and legs) Sugar - No (overweight and teeth issues) Tuna - Yes (For canned tuna, needs to be in water and no spices) Turkey - Yes (No garlic, no bones) Watermelon - Yes (No seeds) Wheat/grains - Yes Yogurt - Yes Zucchini slices - Yes ...

March 27, 2018 · 2 min · birdchan

Questions for any ETL workflow

What happens if your data doesn’t arrive on time? What happens if one of your processing steps fails? What happens if an error takes out one of your processing nodes? How do you monitor? How do you control scheduling?

March 27, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Comparing ALIAS and CNAME Records

There are 4 types of DNS records, namely: A, CNAME, ALIAS, and URL. The A record, maps a name to one or more IP addresses. The URL record, redirects to the target link using http 301. So far so good. The CNAME record, maps a name to another name. The ALIAS record, maps a name to another name. Um… what??? ALIAS and CNAME look quite the same, don’t they? So when to use what? ...

March 16, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

California Earthquake

https://youtu.be/blTx92TuWHA Ref: http://strangesounds.org/2018/03/california-major-earthquake-drought-big-one.html

March 16, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan

Commercials

Since when the commercials became so anime now?

March 13, 2018 · 1 min · birdchan