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Two hot topics, two areas of huge potential for businesses. That is how NFTs and the metaverse can be described. While these concepts have generated a lot of media buzz, headlines and interest, they have created just as many questions.
With many businesses still trying to grasp what these things mean and what their role is, I am here to give you the lowdown based on my company's experience in building these types of solutions. Strap in and prepare to navigate the quirky and promising world of NFTs and the metaverse.
Explaining The Terminology
A solid grasp of the two concepts is crucial for taking advantage of their strengths.
• The metaverse. This is a theoretical concept of a digital 3-D world that you enter via a virtual reality headset. In this virtual world, you have a "body" (avatar) that you can customize, a home to fill with the stuff you like and hundreds of spaces to visit. You can interact with other users, do work, play games and basically perform most of the activities that you do in everyday life.
MORE FROMFORBES ADVISOR Best Tax Software Of 2022 Best Tax Software For The Self-Employed Of 2022 Income Tax Calculator: Estimate Your Taxes The metaverse is useful because it greatly reduces our need to travel and use physical resources. In a 3-D world, we can visualize and interact with any object without putting in much effort and time. We can cycle between activities, chats, locations and data with a simple gesture. Instead of switching between apps and a web browser, everything is connected and accessible in this digital world.
• NFTs. These are nonfungible tokens — tokens that are 100% unique. You can think of them as certificates of ownership that exist on the blockchain. They are created when a digital file (commonly an image, video or GIF) is minted. This means that a certificate of ownership and originality is generated via cryptocurrency (usually Ethereum) and sold/granted to the new owner.
Revealed: Halley’s Comet Could Damage NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Telescope Next Year NFTs are useful because digital art and assets are notorious for being easy to steal and copy. While NFTs cannot stop somebody from stealing digital assets, they provide a neutral and unbiased confirmation of the designated owner. If we ever see NFTs integrated into copyright law, they may also serve as evidence against the misuse of digital goods.
NFT Uses In The Metaverse
Because NFTs are generally associated with websites and transactions that occur through web browsers, and because the metaverse is mostly VR-based, there might be some confusion about what their common ground is — and whether there is any in the first place. Thankfully, despite the relative novelty of both concepts, several companies have already found creative and fruitful ways to use both simultaneously.
VR and NFT marketplaces can appeal to many brands in various industries, and Nike is a good example. It's already dipping its toes into the metaverse with its own virtual "Nikeland" and has now acquired a studio (RTFKT) known for making NFTs of products. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before we see the two concepts meet in "Nikeworld."
For example, many museums are currently placing NFT artwork in metaverses such as Сryptovoxels, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. According to The Art Newspaper, Cryptovoxels hosts "art galleries and museums, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the FC Francisco Carolinum Linz, Austria."
This case is more easily illustrated with an example. Decentraland is a virtual territory where plots of land can be sold as NFTs, and everything is represented in 3-D. This "country" has its own cryptocurrency and is slated to enter the metaverse (make the world accessible to VR users) later in 2022.
How To Implement A Metaverse With NFTs
As you may have noticed, the metaverse is still a pretty new concept, and only a handful of companies have already built real solutions in this field that implement NFTs. Thus, if you see a use case for the combination in your business and have the resources to make it happen, you could be one of the first companies in your industry to take advantage of these two trends.
Because most companies do not have any VR developers employed on their payroll full time, we might recommend looking to work with a company that has many years of experience in building immersive apps. Companies might consider going down this road even if they have a few local developers, as they might lack platform-specific knowledge of VR software such as building with Unity and Unreal or implementing movement tracking. Knowledge of blockchain and NFT minting will also be helpful unless you want to take on these technical aspects yourself.
Hopefully, now you know the main ideas behind the two concepts and have a sense of where the market is headed. If you choose to embrace the metaverse and NFTs in your business, it could be a great chance to break away from competitors and paint your business as a future-oriented one.
we are also working on a bot with a very specific intent, just motivate students to do online exercise. Students can pick a feeling preset by system, chatbot then reply a feedback. It’s not difficult to reply based on some conditions. But we would prefer a more human reply, ie with more variety and rich in language. Is it possible to do it ?
Hi, I have a question about chatbot. I've found information how to do it generally but want few features which I'm not sure how to best achieved as I've mostly found a simple ones. EDIT (as my need is clearer ;)) 1) I'd like to create an AI chatbot, not scripted chatbot 2) I'd like it to have an intent detection 3) I'd like it to be able to get some info from conversation and use it to run other scripts 4) I can't use any ready chatbot framework or anything subscription-based and need to create algorithm by myself 5) it needs to support other languages than English 6) even if my questions sounds very basic I'm happy to learn and approach more advanced solutions where necessary
Please at least direct me with this
It will depend on the approach and technologies you used. I have been working for 2 years and a half on a complex chatbot and ended up many times in dead ends having to start over and over because of limitations of each technolgy. I ended up with an AI that consumes partially ML models to make decisions and find proper and complex responses
Przemek Rybicki probably Rasa will be enough for your use case, in my case it was not enough due to the complexity of my project but rasa is a very robust option
Przemek Rybicki you can setup flows to have some automation there, but it will not be 100%automated, machine learning is based on labeled data for training, if your chat doesn't understand what a user is saying how will it improve without human intervention? But you can create flows and pipelines to store those messages your chat cannot understand and do some process that after categorizCion or labeling it will automatically reteain one or more models. But nothing like this will come out of the box you will have to do the work by yourself
I built something like this for a startup. It's a big project. My advice: start with a small usecase (as small as possible, maybe even only one or two intents). Create a dataset (lots of work!). Train an intent classification model (eg. similar to twitter topic classification examples). Voila, you have the core of your project. :)
Published Wed, Jul 20 202210:19 AM EDTUpdated
Nuthawut Somsuk | Istock | Getty Images More than 4 million people have left their jobs each month in the U.S. so far this year — and according to new research, this record-breaking trend isn’t going to quit anytime soon.
About 40% of workers are considering quitting their current jobs in the next 3-to-6 months, a report from McKinsey and Co. published last week, which surveyed more than 13,000 people across the globe, including 6,294 Americans, between February and April, has found.
“This isn’t just a passing trend, or a pandemic-related change to the labor market,” Bonnie Dowling, one of the authors of the report, says of the elevated quit rates. “There’s been a fundamental shift in workers’ mentality, and their willingness to prioritize other things in their life beyond whatever job they hold. … We’re never going back to how things were in 2019.”
Such conversations about “The Great Resignation” often focus on why people quit — low pay, few opportunities for career advancement, an inflexible work schedule — but what we hear less often is what happens after people leave their jobs.
McKinsey and Co. also spoke with more than 2,800 people in six countries — the U.S., Australia, Canada, Singapore, India and the United Kingdom — who left their full-time jobs within the last two years to find out where workers are going.
Nearly half of job-leavers are switching industries
About 48% of people who quit have pursued new opportunities in different industries, the report found.
Dowling points to two factors driving this exodus: pandemic-induced burnout and better odds of securing a higher-paid role in a tight labor market.
“A lot of people realized just how volatile, or unsafe, their industry was during the pandemic, especially those working on the frontlines,” Dowling says.
At the same time, companies are still struggling to attract and retain employees — a pattern that had undoubtedly caused a lot of headaches for HR departments throughout the U.S., but has also opened the door for job-seekers to take advantage of new opportunities that might have been out of reach before the pandemic.
“More employers have opened up their aperture in order to meet the yawning talent gap that they’re facing,” Dowling adds. “They’re prioritizing skills over educational background or previous job experience, which is creating more opportunities across sectors for job-seekers.”
Some industries are losing talent faster than others: More than 60% of workers who quit jobs in the consumer/retail and finance/insurance fields either switched industries or quit the workforce entirely, compared to 54% of workers in health care and education who made such a switch.
Others are quitting to start their own business, or pursue non-traditional employment
Of the people who quit without a new job in hand, close to half (47%) chose to return to the workforce — but only 29% went back to a traditional, full-time job, the report notes. These percentages come from a March McKinsey & Co. survey of 600 U.S. workers who voluntarily left a job without another one lined up.
The remaining 18% of people either found a new role with reduced hours through temporary, gig or part-time work or decided to start their own business.
“People aren’t tolerating toxic bosses and toxic cultures anymore, because they can leave and find other ways to make money without being in a negative situation,” Dowling says. “There are more opportunities for work now than ever before with our increased connectivity.”
More people are choosing to be their own boss: Over the course of the pandemic, new business applications grew by more than 30%, with almost 5.4 million new applications in 2021 alone, the White House said in an April press release.
It’s not just about escaping a toxic work environment, either. Such non-traditional pursuits also fulfill people’s growing desire for flexibility. The freedom to work from anywhere, or choose your own hours, has become the most sought-after benefit during the pandemic — so much so that people value flexibility as much as a 10% pay raise, according to research from the WFH Research Project.
Rapid quitting could continue through 2022 unless companies make ‘meaningful’ changes
Even with a possible recession on the horizon, Dowling expects that people will continue to quit and change jobs at elevated rates in the months ahead.
Much of the trend has been powered by a “drastic” change in social norms around quitting. “For a long time, you didn’t leave a job unless you had another one lined up — that’s what everyone was taught and what people did,” she says. “But that has changed so dramatically over the last 18 months. … Now, people’s attitude is, ‘I’m confident that when I want to work, there will be something for me.’”
Instead of lamenting the ongoing labor shortage, companies need to look at the shifting economic landscape in the U.S. as an opportunity to reshape how we work and build a better model, Dowling says.
“It’s everything from embedding flexibility in our credo to re-assessing how we value our employees and provide them with the resources they need to do their job … all employers have the capacity to make these meaningful changes,” she adds. “But we have to start taking action, as opposed to sitting back and hoping that things are going to return to a ‘pre-pandemic norm’ — because all signs point to the fact that they won’t.”
Correction: McKinsey surveyed 13,382 global workers for its report on quitting and hiring trends. The firm corrected its information after an earlier version of this article had been published.
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上集說完元朗的客家稻鄉滋味，今集就帶大家前往香港「福」地—北角。在很多不論是本地，還是外地來港拍攝的旅遊節目中，主持人們也會對北角春秧街中有電車駛過表示嘖嘖稱奇。這時很多時節目也會忽略兩旁的街市中，除了平常我們也能看見菜、肉、魚檔外，還有甚麼特色呢？那就是不少店舖內的職員也會跟街坊們用着閩南話溝通，這尤如在廣東話遍佈的香港中，再加上一層惟獨福建人能感受到的熟悉感。究竟從何時開始，福建人開始聚居北角一帶呢？
春秧街中的電車，別有一番特色。(圖片來源﹕香港電台)
故事就要由「春秧街」說起，街名是在1933年7月28日命名的[1]，命名是為了表揚一代閩南富賈「糖王」郭春秧。一生大起大跌的他，曾經因經營茶葉、爪哇糖貿易而富可敵國，後來更打算在港設立糖廠，對撼當時壟斷市場的太古糖業。北角至七姊妹一帶的填海發展，相傳他亦有份促成。當他競投到北角的新填海地後，卻因世界經濟大蕭條，外輸貿易萎縮，加上中國國家政策提升入口糖稅，令興建糖廠計劃失敗[2]。近海地皮轉為發展住宅項目，舊稱「四十間」，而後來港英政府正式規劃整理該地區地段，將地皮中的一條街道以這位傳奇富商命名[3]。
「糖王」郭春秧 (圖片來源﹕Geni)
同鄉的成就得到認同，一向喜歡聚居一起，互相照應的福建人，自然慢慢聚集在此同住。再加上福建人於三四十年代盛行前往爪哇、菲律賓等南亞地區謀生，香港，尤其是北角碼頭一帶成了中轉站，丁財兩旺，逐漸商舖繁多，於六七十年代「小福建」逐漸成形。今天的「小福建」隨着現代化的發展，我們可以看見街上的其中一旁已改建成酒店及單幢式樓宇，究竟剩下的福建特色還有多少呢？就讓身為一知半解、父母是福建籍的筆者，跟大家一同走走春秧街，解讀箇中線索吧。
在酒店的一旁，街上有不少綠色的臨時檔，主要是售賣乾貨、衣物、玩偶，想當年筆者在童年時也曾在那兒買過一套卡通睡衣，回憶就只是記得它是白色底色，藍色小豬圖案。除了天真，還是天真。而在較熱鬧的另一旁，當然最有名的振南製麵所不能錯過，但這次想跟大家介紹的是閩南食品店，門口店面有一堆堆肉丸、魚肉條，用竹簍盛着的蚵仔、炸門鱔塊。最不能錯過的一定五香肉卷(閩南話：gwei gaang)，腐皮卷着馬蹄、蔥、豬肉餡，滋味非常。一般人只以為福建食物，只有「蚵仔煎」，但在最容易走漏眼的春秧街樓梯口小店，就有福建人最喜歡的零食。新鮮製作的炸蘿蔔糕(閩南話：chai ge)、炸蕃薯糯米團(閩南話：jeng ge)，沒有古靈精怪、太彆扭的拉絲、抹茶、紫薯，但仍是很邪惡，很地道，很好食(閩南話：hor jak)。
五香肉卷睇落好好食(圖片來源﹕http://anniesparadise.blogspot.hk/2015/01/blog-post_8.html)
相信只是一知半解的筆者，更期待的是有地道閩南人一同分享「我在北角的那些日子」。
資料圖片-港識多史
呢兩年間在不同的移英 group 見到眾多師兄的分享，終於都進入倒數階段，以下少少個人經驗分享，希望幫到準備到英國的朋友。先講一下關於買樓的經驗。 1. 不要相信rightmove寫的no chain，尤其話賣左之後可以搬去親戚度住的，多數都係廢話；要搵真．No chain（最好梗係見到已經搬走個隻）。 2. 不要以為英國買樓可以好似香港咁快，分分鐘係半年至九個月左右的時間，所以要好好預備時間同空間。 3. 借mortgage的話其實我係建議用mortgage broker，原因係如果買樓過程有變數的話，一個好的broker可以幫你慳番唔少時間同心血；我自己係直接向lender申請，好處當然係慳左一筆，但如果好似我要買三次先買到的話，就要同lender交手三次，呢個過程絕對痛苦！（我冇broker介紹，反正大把香港人幫香港人，例如網路紅人生命解決者，呢個係極品） 4. offer accepted並不是事情的終結，而係痛苦絕望的開始，要有莫大的決心同耐性去搞，過程都唔知要吐幾多升血；solicitor絕對會係拖後腿的終極boss，唔覆email唔做野要求你的fund proof係細微到極致仲要original copy（綜合自己同朋友經驗）呢D絕對係惡夢，如果個EA同個solicitor有偈傾會令到件事比較Smooth一點（我自己用過幾個solicitor都係吐血，冇介紹） 5. 有人話隔山買樓好L麻煩，我都承應係事實，不過事後回想，即使人在英國，呢D麻煩的事唔會因為人在英國就會消失，所以，我就覺得落地買樓同隔山買樓的吐血程度應該沒有大分別，反正按個人需要去做便好了。
便宜的就Primark (如果妳不介意材質） 平價就Zara, H&M, M&S, Next, Uniqlo, Gap那些 妳愛的TK Maxx 就是過季品牌挖寶（幸運一點可以挖到不錯的） 想一次逛完，去Westfield shopping mall （最大間的在倫敦西邊Shepherds Bush 地鐵站旁，東邊則在Stratford) 這幾家基本上就是大人小孩的服裝都有賣，不用再跑不同家。
Ps. 嫌出門麻煩、怕人擠人，其實英國網路購物很發達，網路上買也可以。他們寄貨很快，退貨通常時間內都是免費（30天之類的，看各家規定）退貨都可以直接去郵局，把商品給他們，然後掃商家給的Return QR CODE 就可喔（這幾天太熱，我都是網路買一買）
小孩的制服不要太晚買，我有次快開學前才買，店內很多都缺貨。（如果你們小孩是讀公立的）
【有線新聞】美國一項研究發現，接種新型肺炎疫苗後，可能會引致暫時月經失調，部分女性血量變多；亦有已停經或長期服用避孕藥的女性有出血情況。
接種新型肺炎疫苗後常見的副作用，包括頭痛、疲勞和肌肉疼痛等。美國華盛頓大學和伊利諾伊大學的學者，研究發現女性接種疫苗後出現暫時月經失調亦相當常見。
研究人員去年4月招募了超過39000名18歲至80歲女性參與研究。她們分別完成接種輝瑞、莫德納、阿斯利康、強生和諾瓦瓦克斯疫苗，且從未感染新型肺炎。
當中四成二人報告接種後經血較平時多，四成四人稱沒有變化，約一成四人經血量變少。
研究還發現在沒月經的女性中，例如已停經或長期服用避孕藥的人，許多人打完針後都有出血的情況。
月經周期改變通常與飲食、睡眠和壓力等引起的荷爾蒙變化有關。參與研究的學者指接種疫苗和大量出血兩者之間的聯繫，可能是由於疫苗引起的免疫反應，特別是傳遞免疫系統指令的細胞因子所引發的炎症 。
學者又指子宮內膜在修復和癒合時，需要適當地出血和凝結，免疫功能或炎症的擾亂將破壞這些過程。
研究人員提醒月經失調與其他副作用一樣，均不會改變疫苗的安全性和有效性，研究結果周五已刊登在《科學進展》雜誌。
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