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Upskilling in the field of data: Daniel's Story
After working as a Financial Analyst in Japan, Daniel uprooted his life and moved to Amsterdam. Here, he joined Le Wagon's data science bootcamp to deep dive into the topic and learn to code in the tech hub that is Amsterdam. Flash forward a couple of months and he's now working as an Analytics Engineer. Discover his journey!
Lynsey Cook
Daniel Wendel
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"Through and through, Le Wagon was a really positive experience. If you're thinking about taking part in the bootcamp, I would definitely recommend it. It's as simple as that!"
Hi Daniel, can you please introduce yourself?
Hello, my name is Daniel, I'm originally from Germany and I graduated from Le Wagon's data science bootcamp in Amsterdam. Since then, I've begun working as an Analytics Engineer here in Amsterdam.
What were you doing before joining Le Wagon?
Before joining Le Wagon, I graduated from University with a Bachelor's of Business Administration and afterwards, I began working as a Financial Analyst for about eight years. I was working in Japan for a large automotive supplier where I was doing everything that's related to finance analysis.
I then left my position as a Financial Analyst in Japan to come back to Europe, more specifically to Amsterdam, to pursue the data science bootcamp.
What made you decide to do the bootcamp in Amsterdam?
At first, I needed to decide which bootcamp to go with, but it was pretty clear to me that it would be Le Wagon. My wife Anna had actually graduated from Le Wagon's web development bootcamp in Japan and had an amazing experience. I then had a look at the different campuses, but this was during the pandemic, so I decided that I would go back to Europe. After that, it was a mix of a gut feeling and of course the advantages of living in the Netherlands: being in an international environment where the working language is often English and Amsterdam being a tech hub. There are lots of companies that are developing here and it's therefore a great place with many opportunities to find a job afterwards.
What made you decide to do the data science bootcamp?
My previous role was related to data analysis so it was sort of a no brainer for me. I had already been exposed to the topic of data engineering and data wrangling and optimization which really fascinated me. So much so that I decided to deep dive into the topic. Having said that, I knew that in my previous role, there was no potential for me to be able to do so. Thats when I took the decision to change industries and really focus on the topic. Flash forward just a few weeks later and I joined Le Wagon's data science bootcamp specifically to really start from scratch and later deep dive into advanced machine learning models, taking me through the whole learning process.
Can you tell us about your experience at the bootcamp?
The first impression was really welcoming. I had been coming directly from Japan, which had strict Covid regulations at the time, so being on campus here in Amsterdam was really great. It was a pleasure to meet all of these like-minded individuals in person. There were many people who drastically changed their lives to join the bootcamp, whether that be moving to a new country, having just quit their job or just looking for a fresh start. This was a really motivating mindset to be a part of.
I still remember the first day, as it was quite overwhelming, but after a few days you really find your own rhythm. There was never a point within the bootcamp where I felt alone, whether you got support from your buddy of the day or the teaching staff, the support was always there. It was always a super comfortable learning atmosphere. I always knew that it was okay to make mistakes, having this "you learn with mistakes" approach was super motivating. Before I knew it, we were beginning our final projects and by then you truly realize all that you had learned in such a short period of time.
What was your favourite aspect of the bootcamp?
My favourite aspect of the bootcamp was the project presentations on Demo Day. You truly felt everything come together and it was great to see the final product that we created as well as your classmates' hard work. All of the projects had completely different background and content, so it really demonstrated all of the things that we could now do in such a short period of time (2 weeks).
Daniel Presenting on Demo Day
How does the bootcamp format compare to your previous learning environments?
It's definitely way more hands on. I personally am way more of a hands on learner, so it really suited my learning style. You'd start the day with a certain amount of theory and theoretical knowledge, and everything you go through in the morning lecture, you then actually put into practice throughout the day. I much preferred this learning by doing style over purely theoretical courses that I had previously done.
Can you tell us about your experience finding your first job post-bootcamp?
The Career Week was actually one of the main reasons that I chose Le Wagon. Being connected to the local tech industry was really important to me, especially being new to the city. I was really positively surprised by how well structured the career week was for me. I got lots of help preparing my CV, getting a 1:1 to go over my strengths and the different paths, and much more. The week really helped me structure my day. This is really important, especially right after a bootcamp where you were used to a certain degree of structure.
My overall experience finding my first role here in Amsterdam was quite a good one. I, of course, was sending quite a few applications around and really had to motivate myself to do the work after the bootcamp. The Le Wagon community was also really great during this time. My classmates and I would compare our experiences and reassure each other that we were all going through this experience of finding a job together. After about two months, I signed my first contract and began my role as an Analytics Engineer at IntoAnalytics.
Can you tell us more about your role as an Analytics Engineer?
IntoAnalytics is quite a young company. They mainly face questions such as how to bridge from data to insights. First, how to get the data there, so all the data engineering related topics as well as visualization and finally, machine learning. My role within the company is pretty diverse. I'm currently working on the reporting side, due to my previous experience, but I also work quite a bit on the data engineering side.
We have an office here in Amsterdam, but the company is part of a bigger group which is based out of Belgium. My colleagues are living all over the Netherlands, but if we meet up, it's usually in Amsterdam. My team at IntoAnalytics is quite small, but it's really a diverse young team.
I definitely feel as though what I learnt at the bootcamp is applied in my day-to-day job. I wouldn't have felt as confident in my current role before the bootcamp. I know that what I learned at Le Wagon will also really help in the long run as we'll be deep diving into the topic of machine learning.
What advice would you give to someone thinking of doing the data science bootcamp?
Do it. Through and through, Le Wagon was a really positive experience. If you're thinking about taking part in the bootcamp, I would definitely recommend it. It's as simple as that!
Thank you, Daniel!


Getting started with Bitcoin shouldn't be difficult and to help out, we've created a detailed introduction to bitcoin for beginners that will make things easier. Everything you need to know about bitcoin and cryptocurrency is found below. What is bitcoin and how does it work, what are blockchains, Bitcoin miners (and how does Bitcoin mining work), and how do cryptocurrencies work? These are just some of the questions we'll try to answer.
Throughout history, people have used a variety of methods to exchange value between each other. At the beginning, people transacted with commodities with an intrinsic value such as livestock, seeds, gold, and silver. Less valuable commodities were also used, such as cowry shells or beads.
These methods of transactions were gradually replaced by coins and paper money. Later on, commodity-backed money appeared, which consisted of items representing the underlying commodity (for instance: gold certificates).
For the longest time, currencies were privately issued; governments did not claim a formal monopoly over the issue and use of money within their territories- and people were free to transact in the way the deemed proper.
As of the nineteenth century the concept of "legal tender" was introduced and governments, through sheer authority and power, created a monopoly over the issuance of currency.
With the effective abandonment of the "Gold Standard" in 1933 and the complete severance of the link between gold and currency (namely the US dollar) on the 15th of August 1971, the concept of "fiat" money could no longer be redeemed for a commodity. It is money issued by a central authority.
People are willing to accept the money in exchange for goods and services simply because they trust this central authority. Trust ("fiducia") is crucial for this kind of money. If the public loses its trust in the central authority, the money will lose its value.
With the invention of the World Wide Web and the ongoing proliferation of the Internet, virtual communities appeared — some of which issued their own virtual currencies. In this respect, the digital currency was invented as a means of exchanging value over the Internet.
This new form of digital money is usually controlled by its developers and is used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community.
A currency is a unit used to quantify money. Money itself is, according to its intrinsic nature, abstract purchasing power.
Fiat money is a currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but not backed by a physical commodity. The value of fiat money is derived from the relationship between supply and demand, rather than from the value of the material that the money is made of.
Historically, most currencies were based on physical commodities such as gold or silver, but fiat money is based solely on the faith and credit of the economy. Because fiat money is not linked to physical reserves, it risks becoming worthless due to hyperinflation. If people lose faith in a nation's paper currency, like the U.S. dollar bill, the money will no longer hold any value.
In the process of trying to define "virtual currencies," we run into several problems.
In fact, it is easier to define what they are not, rather than what they are. The problem becomes all the more evident when considering that a "currency" essentially requires a statutory definition. Virtual currencies, however, lack a normative definition. From the "synthesis" of this syllogism, we can easily deduce that virtual currencies are not actually "currencies" because of the legal vacuum surrounding them.
This makes them both extremely attractive and dangerous as they're still in the "legal gray zone". This absence of clear regulation, however, does not mean that they are not being closely monitored by regulatory agencies around the world.
Virtual currencies have traditionally been classified according to their relationship with "real money" and the "real economy", taking into account if and how the money flow between virtual currencies and real currencies works, and how virtual currencies can be used to purchase real goods and services.
(c) virtual currency schemes with a bidirectional flow (virtual currencies can be bought and sold according to exchange rates with real currencies and can also be used to purchase both virtual and real goods and services; e.g. Bitcoins).
However, the virtual currencies that are most interesting to the watchful eye of the regulators are Bitcoin, Etherium, Litecoin, Dogecoin (A satirical meme created with the sole intention of trolling the "crypto investors") and other top-ranking cryptocurrencies on the market.
A cryptocurrency is a form of virtual currency that uses encryption techniques as means of securing the verification of transactions. Cryptocurrencies can be centralized and decentralized, depending on the method of issuance of currency.
Bitcoins are considered to be a "cryptocurrency" specifically because they rely on a mechanism of peer-to-peer cryptography for the validation of transfers. Users can exchange Bitcoins through a mechanism of verification known as "mining" which is based on a public ledger (also known as Blockchain) that records information about the sender, receiver, time and amount of "currency" in the transaction.
When the owner of a Bitcoin transfers it to a recipient, a group of so-called "miners" consults the ledger to verify the owner's claim of ownership, solves a complex cryptographic problem, and annotates the transfer to the recipient by logging the transaction on the ledger (where the recipient will now appear as the new owner).
As an incentive for mining, which involves the "sacrifice" of computer power and therefore huge amounts of electricity, the "miner" that solves the cryptographic problem is awarded newly generated bitcoins. This is also known as the Proof of Work method of verification of transactions.
Bitcoin is, at least in theory, a completely decentralized currency.
The nature of "money" of decentralized cryptocurrency is to be questioned.
(iii) money as a store of value.
Bitcoins (and other decentralized cryptocurrencies) are used for the exchange between a "unit of account" on one hand and (virtual or real) goods and services on the other. The first two functions normally attributed to money can be said to also be functions of decentralized cryptocurrencies.
An argument can be made that the last function, that of a "store of value" can be attributed to Bitcoin and other decentralized cryptocurrencies, and this last feature has raised major concerns because the function of "store of value" may be dangerously close to that of an "investment instrument" (that is thoroughly regulated in almost all legal systems).
The argument that Bitcoin can be considered to have the function of "store of value" is usually deducted from the deflationary monetary policy of the currency and the tendency for decreased market volatility in value over time as the market cap gets bigger and bigger and more users join in every day.
Below we'll try to answer things like how does the Bitcoin market work and what is the purpose of Bitcoin plus other things you probably didn't know about this cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin was invented in 2008 with the publication of a paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," written under the alias of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Satoshi Nakamoto withdrew from the public in the April of 2011, making further development of the currency "open source". The identity of the person or people behind bitcoin is still unknown, although there are many conspiracy theories circulating on the Internet.
However, neither Satoshi Nakamoto nor anyone else exerts control over the bitcoin protocol, which operates on the basis of fully transparent mathematical principles. The invention itself is groundbreaking and is changing the world at an unprecedented rate.
Many experts are calling it "the biggest invention since the Internet". Nakamoto combined several prior inventions such as b-money and HashCash to create a completely decentralized electronic cash system.
The key innovation was to use a distributed computing system (called a "proof-of-work" algorithm) to conduct a global "election" every 10 minutes, allowing the decentralized network to arrive at a consensus about the state of transactions. This elegantly solves the issue of double-spend where a single currency unit can be spent twice.
Historically, the double-spend problem was "solved" by introducing a third trusted party, usually a bank or a clearing house (or PayPal, Payoneer and such) with the sole purpose of verifying and clearing the transactions.
This traditional method raises the costs of the fees involved in transactions and creates numerous problems such as monopoly over the issuance of currency and credit, unequally distributed accumulation of wealth, and the use of centralized systems which are prone to hacker attacks just to name a few.
The bitcoin network was launched in 2009, based on the Bitcoin whitepaper previously published by Nakamoto and has since been a subject of many revisions and improvements as a result of the collaboration of many developers around the world.
"Bitcoin is a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending.
We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power.
The "invention" of fire and cooking meat enabled homo sapiens to stay warm, survive and prosper. It accelerated the growth of our brains and as a consequence the growth of our population and culture. The invention of the wheel enabled us to carry goods and transact value in even longer distances than before.
The invention of the printing press, the compass, electricity, transistors and telegraphs, computers and finally the World Wide Web drastically shifted the course of history forever. Today, we live in an age of great novelty, and the invention of Bitcoin (and the underlying technology behind it – the Blockchain) is most certainly the biggest invention of the 21st century.
For the first time in modern human history, we can send and receive all kinds of information and data and exchange value over great distances without having to rely on any trusted intermediary. For the first time in modern human history, fiat money has been seriously challenged.
How does the Bitcoin protocol actually work?
Explaining the workings of decentralized cryptocurrencies is most effectively achieved through the explanation of the Bitcoin protocol.
The most misunderstood thing about the process of "mining" is the confusion between the incentive and the goal of the process. Most of the people familiar with the cryptocurrency world consider mining as a means of creating new coins and making a profit of it.
That's a reversed and wrong way of looking at it. The real reason for the existence of miners in the Bitcoin protocol is verification and clearing of transactions. The issuance of new currency (new Bitcoins) is, therefore, an incentive/reward for the sacrifice of computing power/electricity.
What is Bitcoin mining actually doing? Some of the nodes on the Bitcoin network are specialized nodes called miners. They run a "mining rig" which is a specialized computer-hardware system designed to mine Bitcoins.
The miner node is actively "listening" for valid new transactions, collects them into a pool of unconfirmed transactions and aggregates these transactions into new blocks.
Now that a candidate block has been constructed, it is time for the miner's hardware to "mine" the block, which means to find a solution to the proof-of-work algorithm that makes the block valid. As a reward, the first miner to find the solution to the proof-of-work mathematical riddle gets to keep these new Bitcoins created out of thin air in the process.
After the miner has successfully mined the block, he immediately starts propagating it across the network of nodes in the peer-to-peer Bitcoin protocol for further validation, as each node performs a series of tasks for validating it before propagating it to its peers.
The independent validations also ensure that miners who act honestly get their blocks incorporated in the blockchain, thus earning the reward. Those miners who act dishonestly have their blocks rejected and not only lose the reward, but also waste the effort expended to find a proof-of-work solution, thus incurring the cost of electricity without compensation. Because the block reward will decrease over the long term, miners will someday instead pay for their hardware and electricity costs by collecting transaction fees.
The sender of money may voluntarily pay a small transaction fee which will be kept by whoever finds the next block. Paying this fee will encourage miners to include the transaction in a block more quickly.
This is how Bitcoin mining works. How much can you make mining Bitcoin? On paper the possibilities are endless.
A blockchain is a continuously growing list of records called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. Each block typically contains a hash pointer as a link to a previous block, a timestamp and transaction data. By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data.
A blockchain can serve as an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks.
Different cryptocurrencies run on different protocols (or "rules") and therefore different blockchains. So why is the blockchain so special?
Well, basically the blockchain allows for irrefutable record keeping of any sort of information. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority. Every block contains within itself the hash of the previous block called "parent block" therefore creating a chain of blocks- hence the name.
The real beauty of the invention are the countless use cases for it: from decentralized cloud storage to digital voting platforms, digital identity protection, decentralized notary, a blockchain-based land registry, all the way to various business uses like using blockchain to track shipping cargo, decentralized communication platforms, and others. A truly revolutionary invention.
You don't need to know all of this when you're just getting started with Bitcoin but it does help out to know more, wouldn't you say?
Ownership of Bitcoin is established through digital keys, Bitcoin addresses, and digital signatures.
When we think about digital keys in terms of the Bitcoin protocol we're thinking about the Private and Public key. The Private key is usually picked at random (generated from a source of entropy) and is known only to the owner of the funds (the wallet).
The private and public keys come in pairs, namely, the public key is generated using an elliptic curve multiplication (a one-way cryptographic function) and the Bitcoin address is furthermore created out of the public key using a one-way hash function.
Now before you ask yourself why should you care about all this technical jargon, let me clarify it beforehand. The Bitcoin address is what appears most commonly in a transaction as the "recipient" of the funds. If we were to compare a bitcoin transaction to a paper check, the Bitcoin address is the beneficiary, which is what we write on the line after "Pay to the order of".
On a paper check, that beneficiary can sometimes be the name of a bank account holder, but can also include corporations, institutions, or even cash. Because paper checks do not need to specify an account, but rather use an abstract name as the recipient of funds, they are very flexible payment instruments. Bitcoin transactions use a similar abstraction, the Bitcoin address, to achieve the same flexibility.
Getting started with Bitcoin requires a wallet. First things first. The term "wallet" is kind of misleading because it creates the illusion that your Bitcoins are stored in your wallet. That's wrong. Your Bitcoins are stored as "Unspent Transaction Outputs – UTXO" on the Blockchain.
The private and public key pair that is used to access those funds is stored in the wallet. So technically, the "wallet" is a keychain storing the keys that enable you to access your funds locked on the blockchain. Users sign transactions with their keys, thereby proving they own the transaction outputs (the coins).
In effect, there is no such thing as a stored balance of a Bitcoin address or account; there are only scattered UTXO, locked to specific owners. The concept of a user's Bitcoin balance is a derived construct created by the wallet application. The wallet calculates the user's balance by scanning the Blockchain and aggregating all UTXO belonging to that user.
а) How to use a wallet?
If you do a little googling, you'll find that there are dozens of crypto businesses that offer wallet software. There are many types of wallets: ones that store one or multiple cryptocurrencies, desktop wallets, mobile wallets, hardware wallets and so on.
Which type of wallet you chose to use depends on your needs and preferences. Once you've chosen either a software-based wallet or a web-based wallet, it all comes down to a simple registration process.
b) How do I send and receive cryptocurrency?
How to open a bitcoin wallet? Creating a wallet means you have already created an address which represents your "ID". You can use your address to receive cryptocurrency. Just copy and share your address and wait for the funds to arrive. Simple as that.
If you want to send cryptocurrency, just copy and paste the recipient's address into the destination bar and click send.
The safest way to buy Bitcoin (especially if you're a beginner) is to use a good wallet and buy Bitcoin from known sources. Do this when you are only getting started with Bitcoin and stay safe. When you're dealing with money, security is of ultimate importance, and even more so when you're dealing with decentralized cryptocurrencies.
There are two sides to a coin, and cryptocurrencies are no different. By removing the third trusted party from the equation, all the responsibility falls on your shoulders. In order to send a transaction, you have to sign it with your private key — and the key is called private for a reason.
If anyone, through any means gets your private key, he basically has ownership over your funds and can send transactions. If you lose your private key or the password to your wallet as many people have done (an estimated over $30 billion of Bitcoins have been lost up to this point), they are lost forever – yes, this is a scary number especially if you're just getting started with Bitcoin.
There is no central authority you can contact and work it out- they are gone for good! Just like that! History! So be careful with your funds- and spend extra time securing them. Cold storage may be the place you can start.
What is the best Bitcoin wallet? Learn which is the best Bitcoin wallet for your particular needs and also find out tips and tricks on using it. We've compiled a list of 10 top Bitcoin wallets.
6. Okay, I have my wallet, now where can I buy cryptocurrencies?
There are two methods of buying cryptocurrencies, online and offline (or tet-a-tet). In order to buy cryptocurrencies online, once you have your wallet to store them, you can find someone on the Internet to sell them directly to you, or you can sign up on an exchange site like Coinbase (probably best place to buy and sell Bitcoins), Kraken, Cex.io etc. and buy cryptocurrencies using fiat.
The most anonymous method of getting cryptocurrencies is buying them tet-a-tet for cash. There are various sites and pages where you can arrange a meeting with someone that is willing to sell you cryptocurrency for cash.
For starters, you can try LocalBitcoins or try the old "friend of a friend" method and ask around for help!
To sum it all up… getting started with Bitcoin can be difficult at first glance but once you know more about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, things get easier.
The author of this text only hopes to have provided a concise, in-depth and yet simple guide down the rabbit hole that is the cryptocurrency world and to help anyone whose thinking of getting started with Bitcoin and/or are interested in learning how to make money with cryptocurrency.
Hopefully, the theoretical and technical aspects of cryptocurrencies covered in this introduction will be enough to spark an interest in this subject and offer a starting point to a deeper understanding of what cryptocurrencies are all about.
Bitcoin Rating: 5.0 - Review by Stefan Stankovic.
I am still not sure if Bitcoin can be hacked somehow. Is that even possible? You said that we need to take care of our private key but how could someone get a hold of that? It's scary to hear that over $30 billion of bitcoins have been lost – that's a huge number.
I'm a total newbie to this so I apologize if these are dumb questions, Stefan.
The number is huge and (from what we know right now) bitcoin can't be hacked per se but you need to protect your private key. With it anyone can have access to your bicoins.
It's amazing how much we've evolved in so little time. If we look at how much things have changed in the last 100 years or even the last 30 years; well, it's impressive. Thanks for the meaty article on bitcoin. It's helped me better understand what this is. I'm just sad I didn't invest in it a few years back – I would be making a killing now :(.
You're welcome, Gaby. Glad it helped you.
Never heard of "Fiat money". I thought you mistakenly said "fiat" instead of "flat" or something else but then I realized this is actually the term. Had no idea that Bitcoin was introduced by an unknown figure. And it's weird that we still don't know who it really was. The whole thing must have been invented by a genius or maybe even by a group of geniuses. I would be curious to know who he was or who they were. Maybe one day. Excellent article, by the way.
Glad to hear you learned new things from this. We'll probably never know who it was unless they decide to share.
Milton Friedman was so right. Now that we already have the e-cash the role of the government will go down in the years to come. Considering what kind of people are in many of our governments, maybe this is a good thing.
All these terms are making my head spin but I'm not giving up. I just need a good cup of coffee and I'll have to read this again and again until I actually get what's going on with Bitcoins. A friend of mine told me about them back in 2011 and I kick myself for not trying to learn what they are back then. I know it's a bit late now but better late than never.
Repetition is how we learn so that's a good idea. And don't kick yourself too hard, a lot of people didn't take Bitcoin too seriously but it's never too late just like you said :).
We meet "tete a tete" and I give you cash. I presume you issue / deposit Bitcoins or whatever currency we agree on in my virtual wallet. That I understand but what happens with that cash? If you, the cash recipient, take the cash to the bank and it exceeds a certain dollar amount, the bank will ask for the origin of the cash (i.e., "I sold my car for cash", etc.) Is it more likely that the recipient just keeps my cash vs depositing it?
Does anyone know where can I buy Bitcoin with debit card instantly? Also I would like to know some online stores that accept bitcoin.
Besides being safe is Coinbase the fastest way to buy Bitcoin? I just want to buy some and get it over with as I don't really know much about this but I would hate to postpone this even more than I did. If I would have bought when someone suggested I do, I would now have a lot of money :(.
Getting started with Bitcoin can be challenging for beginners but once you get over your fear of buying some Bitcoins and actually do it, you'll see there's nothing to it really. It gets a lot easier after you buy your first Bitcoins. Coinbase is probably not the fastest but the combination of speed and safety they offer is probably the best and that's why it's a good idea to go with them.
Can you earn free bitcoins by completing tasks on websites? Would like to know how to get a lot of bitcoins for free or by doing simple work. Thank you for any replies.
You could try Bitcoinget as they let you earn free bitcoins by completing tasks on websites but there's a lot of work involved to really earn something meaningful. But it's a good way of getting started with Bitcoin.
I'm just starting to learn more about cryptocurrency in general and Bitcoin in particular and this was a very informative read. I feel I'm getting started with Bitcoin and crypto in the right way. Thank you!
How to deposit money into bitcoin wallet – we're working on a guide.
I wonder what happens when all Bitcoins are mined.
A: no more new Bitcoins will ever be created. Bitcoins should increase in value as their available number left to mine goes down.
Ok. And when will the last Bitcoin be mined? Are we far from that moment?
Q: when will the last Bitcoin be mined?
A: 2025 but this is an educated guess so take it with a grain of salt.
What is the safest way to buy Bitcoin? I'm new to all of this and would like to know where to start so I don't get scammed.
There are a lot of places outlined in this article, but one of the easiest way to buy bitcoins is probably by making an account with Coinbase. Also make sure to watch the video at the end of this post, it will help.
Try localbitcoins.com. It's the best way to get Bitcoins.
Would like to know how much will bitcoin be worth in 10 years? Does anyone know this or do you have a prediction for this?
And do you have a personal prediction?
My personal prediction is $300.000 in 10 years.
Thank you for creating this article on how to get started with bitcoin for beginners. I found it useful, sir.
I want to know how to make money with cryptocurrency and what's the best cryptocurrency to invest in? Also do you have a list of cryptocurrencies by market cap?
which cryptocurrency is safe to buy bitcoin, bitcoin cash or Blockchain-Assets?
What is the current price of Bitcoin? How much is a single Bitcoin worth (and I mean really worth since the price keeps going up and down)?
You can find the current price of Bitcoin on our home page https://unblock.net at the top. And the worth of a Bitcoin is always dictated by the market. If the market says 1 btc is worth $9000 now then that's what its worth. But I think a Bitcoin will almost always be worth more than its current price.
Do you know where to buy bitcoin with paypal?
I want to know more about the future of bitcoin. Which type of cryptocurrency will be safe to buy bitcoin. So there is many assumptions related to bitcoins. Try to solve these questions.
Check out Stefan's predictions for 2019: Which Altcoins Will be Hot in 2019?
How Many Bitcoins are Left: What Happens When All the Bitcoins are Mined?


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Mets denied permission to interview Brewers' David Stearns for front office job: report
Danny Abriano
November 17, 2020, 9:46 AM ·1 min read
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The Mets were denied permission to interview Milwaukee Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns for a job in their front office, reports Jon Morosi of MLB.com.
Stearns, 35, is a native New Yorker and graduate of Harvard who began his career in baseball with the Mets.
That the Brewers declined to allow Stearns to interview is not a surprise, since any team is permitted to decline such requests if the potential job they would be interviewing for is not a promotion.
SNY's Andy Martino reported on Nov. 11 that some of the Mets' potential candidates already have president-level titles with their current clubs, making it difficult for the Mets to obtain permission to interview them.
To date, the only known candidate the Mets have interviewed is former Miami Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill, whose interview was first reported by Martino.
Alderson said on Nov. 10 that the process of making the key front office hires shouldn't take a "long time."
"Wouldn't want to put a time limit on it, but we understand it's important to get people in place," he said. "In the meantime, I got a small but very capable group remaining. We talk every morning for an hour or so. I've already been in touch with agents for free agents."
Stephen Curry's real first name is Wardell. But you might not want to call him that
Stephen Curry was addressed by his real first name, Wardell, on Wednesday night. The look on the NBA superstar's face was GIF gold.
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Here are the Bears' top options to fix their QB problem in free agency
A look at the free-agent quarterbacks the Chicago Bears can target this offseason.
Where the Lakers rank among the biggest payrolls in the NBA
LeBron James is one of the highest-paid players in the NBA, but the Lakers are outside of the league's five highest payrolls.

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I seem to remember that there was a bbcode I could put in to give the first page of an article a name for the ToC.... don't remember how to do it. If I put a page break in as the first thing, it still has another for the main article. How is this done?


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Another fascinating addition from the hyper-adventurous BMOP
Daniel Coombs
Gil Rose and his Boston Modern Orchestra Project is, arguably, the source for new and lesser known modern music, especially that of American composers. Their catalogue includes Grammy-winning releases and a vast array of very interesting works that are, indeed, typically premieres or lesser known. This release of music by Martin Boykan is another great find!
I am only casually acquainted with Boykan and his music. I have heard some of his chamber music before and recall finding it attractive. Boykan is a very experienced and well trained teacher and composer, having at one point in his long career studied with Piston, Copland and Hindemith (that's a nice list.) His music sounds a bit more German and formal than the overtly emotional style of Copland, for example, but is very well written and quite interesting.
The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was written for the present performers, premiered in 2008. It is written in a fairly standard three movement sonata-allegro form but is filled with an energy and attractiveness. The opening movement, "Andante," does have some similarities to Schoenberg or Berg (I agree with the booklet notes by Andrew Mead) and is filled with long, high, technical passages that give the soloist, Curtis Macomber, plenty to do. The middle, "L'istesso tempo," moves gradually and mysteriously but is characterized by some wonderful effects such as some col legno in the lower strings and the use of an extended percussion battery, including vibraphone and suspended cymbals. The closing "Allegro giocoso" is everything we expect in giocoso; written as a buoyant march and ending in a rising, dramatic burst from the violin and a descending crash from the orchestra. Curtis Macomber and the BMOP play with verve and this Concerto leaves a strong impression.
Boykan's Symphony for Orchestra, which predates the Concerto by nearly twenty years (1989), is a fascinating work. In many ways, Boykan also admits, this work is a fairly traditional four-movement symphony but with a harmonic vocabulary that speaks to Berg or Schoenberg; much more so than in the Concerto. The confluence of a structural form – including the use of a solo vocalist – that is fairly traditional but with a swirling, nebulous harmonic center is a bit unusual and is somewhat reminiscent of Mahler. For me, the first two movements of this Symphony are interesting and do hold the interest, but it is the second half that provide the most payoff. The fairly brief "Adagio" opens with broad chord that pronounces, subsides and then provides the material to long line, poignant melodies. The mood is generally sad or at least ponderous and it reminded me, peripherally, of the Adagio in the Mahler ninth.
The most fascinating aspect of this piece is the closing "Keats Sonnet", which is essentially a song/lied for baritone and orchestra. In this case, the Keats sonnet is his "To Sleep", one of his most existential and restless musings on the metaphor of death as sleep. The tone is appropriately troubling but beautiful. The movement conjured up moments of Berg's Seven Early Songs to me and soloist Sanford Sylvan performs, once again, brilliantly! (Sylvan is an active performer of contemporary vocal and operatic literature and may be known best for his many involvements in the music of John Adams.)
Martin Boykan is, clearly, a gifted and interesting composer and this recording gives us a great introduction to his music. His is the sort of music that may not be an immediate "hit" to all listeners but it is compelling and engaging and all should be able to listen to with great interest. Kudos, again, to BMOP for bringing more intriguing works to our attention.


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Royal Doulton's Blue Children series, (sometimes referred to as The Babes in the Woods series, especially in the US, though these should not be confused with Royal Doulton's Babes in the Wood design of c.1900) is a category of collectable in a genre that has come to be known as Royal Doulton Series Ware; items depicting scenes linked by a common theme.
Blue children is among the most collectable of the Royal Doulton Series Ware. Documentation on the line is scarce, and no one seems to know quite what makes it so popular, perhaps it is the calming effect of the distinctive flow blue palette, or the emotive nature of the subjects, wistful children (and occasionally adults) in situations that seem to evoke the innocence and gentility of a bygone era. One forgets, when gazing at the paintings, that the Victorian and Edwardian ages were actually harsh times for many marginalised British children.
The series has been continually popular since it debuted in the 1890s. According to recognised Doulton expert Louise Irvine, it had been discontinued by 1930, so the limited production run would help to account for its limited availability ergo its collectability, scarcity being one of the criteria which increase a collectable's value. There were 24 known Blue Children scenes, though in an online article c. 2008, antiques aficionado Christopher Prudlove mentions that a collector of his acquaintance believed he had discovered another.[i] To our knowledge this has not been confirmed.
The pictures depict children, women with children, and in three cases women alone: 'Woman Playing a Guitar, 'Woman with Muff in Snowstorm', and 'Woman by Seashore'.
Like many collectables, Royal Doulton's Blue Children have been somewhat affected by the economic downturn which began in 2007, and people who bought in an inflated market may have some cause for worry. Good pieces are holding their value. For example, a 13 inch plate sold for £130 at auction in 2005, comparable items are fetching similar prices on eBay in 2011[ii]. At Tuckerbox Auctions in Binalong, NSW Australia in 2010, a 9 inch Blue Children plate sold for AUD300[iii]. In general, retail prices are increasing modestly; prices for rarer items can run into the thousands.
Irvine, Louise. Royal Doulton Series Ware Vol 3, Doulton in the Nursery, London: Richard Dennis, 1986.
Prudlove, Christopher. Royal Doulton Blue Children pottery is rare and sought after. Published online c. 2008 at: http://writeantiques.com/royal-doulton-blue-children-pottery-is-rare-and-sought-after/ Sourced 27 February 2011.
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Turin's Talents and Short Film Market held the inaugural edition of training and pitching program A Long Way Home this week, showcasing five feature-length projects based on or inspired by a previously released short movie. The program wrapped on Wednesday, with the TorinoFilmLab Award going to "Inbetween Worlds," directed by Diana Cam Van Nguyen. The Experience Sardinia Award, in collaboration with Sardinia Film Commission Foundation, was won by "A Touch of Harmony," directed by Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler.
Talent development programs manager Massimiliano Nardulli told Variety the initiative was an "evolution" of a previous industry event called Oltrecorto. "We wished to include a training opportunity, […] and help the projects so that they are here in their best shape before the pitching session," he said.
"[A Long Way Home is a place] where someone who has a project can meet one mentor, who helps them along the way, and a creative producer who can give advice and guidance […] For us, the most interesting part of the job was to put together these teams of three," he added.
"[We wondered:] How can they work together without knowing each other? How can we motivate them? That was the challenge we took on, and it worked out. We tried to avoid forming teams with people from the same countries, whenever possible, which brought in great diversity in terms of backgrounds and experiences."
The participating teams had 10 minutes to pitch their projects. Following their pitches, they had the chance to attend several one-on-one meetings with industry professionals.
Here is a rundown of the five pitched projects:
"Inbetween Worlds" – Helmed by Czech-Vietnamese artist and animator Diana Cam Van Nguyen and based on "Love, Dad," this animated documentary project tells the story of a young Vietnamese woman who lives in Prague, Mai. Her parents would like her to marry a son of their close friends in Vietnam. If Mai agrees to marry Duc, he would be given permanent residency in the Czech Republic and she would receive €30,000 for the marriage. Karolína Davidová is attached as the producer for Prague-based 13ka and Bratislava-based nutprodukcia. Israel's Ella Kohn served as the workshop's creative producer.
"Harmony" (Courtesy of Nocturnes Productions)
"A Touch of Harmony" – Based on their short "Harmony," Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler's "A Touch of Harmony" follows Lalou, a young shepherd, who goes to a strange hotel lost in the heart of the mountains. Here, he secretly finds Harmony, a sexual android who fascinates him. Before embarking on this fiction feature project, the directing duo worked on docs such as "Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed" and "Italia, Fire and Ashes." The picture is being produced by France's Nocturnes Productions. Debora Nischler, of Italy's Albolina Film, served as the creative producer.
"Rough" – Based on her 2019 short "Balance," Hungarian filmmaker Hanna Csata's drama project revolves around Karola, who dreams of becoming a successful electronic musician, and she has not yet achieved her goal. Karola is faced with a choice: to advance in her career or to spend time with her boyfriend. Barcelona-based Marc Guanyabens i Pous served as the team's creative producer.
"Almost Heroes" – Bogdan Drumea's project is based on his 2015 short "The Hoods." In it, Dragoș is returning from abroad to visit Vlad, his younger brother who is celebrating his 18th birthday. Not wanting to stay long, Dragoș will embark with Vlad on a journey of rediscovery. The pitching team described it as "an urban drama with strong coming-of-age elements," and "a generational portrait of young Romanians born after 1990." Romania's Matchbox Film is producing, with Hungary's Erika Kapronczai attached as the creative producer.
"Fiume" – Based on her 2021 short of the same name, Turin and Berlin-based writer-director Asiyat Gamzatova's drama project follows Nina, who returns to the village where she grew up. She finds her brother waiting for her, as well as the old family house they inherited. In a journey through present and past, Nina will have to find her inner peace and heal from wounds she didn't know she had. Haris Tsampas, of Greece's Nomad Productions, served as the creative producer.
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Summary Bolt Diesel XT is a premium hatchback by Tata Motors. It comes at an ex-showroom price of INR 7,23,000. Tata Bolt Diesel XT is powered by a 1248 cc DOHC diesel engine which generates a maximum power of 74 bhp @ 4000 rpm and gives out a maximum torque of 190 Nm @ 1750-3000 rpm. The car goes to a top speed of up to 155 kmph and has a ground clearance of 165 mm. It has a boot space of 210 litres and runs on a 44 litres fuel tank. Tata Bolt Diesel XT is a segment rival to the likes of Maruti Suzuki Swift and Hyundai Grand i10.
Tata Motors Limited has unveiled a brand new hatchback, Tata Bolt at an event in New Delhi on February 3, 2014 which was also on-display at the Auto Expo 2014 and is now available in India with a starting price tag of INR 4.44 lakhs for the base model of petrol and INR 5.49 lakhs for the base model of diesel. Although, built on the enhanced version of company's X1 platform, it has some great new features and design elements which are worth mentioning. It is a sporty and dynamic hatchback that will surely redefine the passenger car market with its new design esthetics (DESIGNEXT), a segment-defining drive experience (DRIVENEXT) and high-tech infotainment system (CONNECTNEXT). Let's see what this new model has got to offer to its customers.
Tata Bolt has got some remarkable exterior features which makes it a formidable competitor and includes new body panels, well sculpted body colored front bumper with large air dam and fog lights with bezels, a new Tata signature front grille with the new Humanity Line which flows directly into its stylish dynamic projector headlamps with chrome accents, stylish 15-inch alloy wheels, thick character line at its sides, body colored ORVMs with integrated turn indicators, a sporty antenna at the front top, body colored outside door handles, rear black C-pillars, a rear automatic wiper, a floating rear roof spoiler and distinctive LED tail lamps.
Tata Bolt has also got one of the most beautiful, elegant and premium looking interior with an all-new driver-oriented all black-theme with premium chrome embellishment, an elegant cockpit, its instrument cluster and the central AC vents which are connected in a single wing-shaped graphics, plush and comfy seats, an all-new HARMAN infotainment and audio acoustics system, MapmyIndia navigation and location based services, an integrated HVAC with enhanced HMI for controls and experience touchscreen access, a ZF powered updated steering unit having an EPS wheel with brushless motor, Active Return function, speed sensitivity and self-centred, a 5-inch touchscreen supporting a superb multimedia experience, an advanced Bluetooth technology, smart voice recognition, advanced smartphone integration, phone enabled navigation, social media integration, a touch phone controlled interface, power windows with one-touch function, a chromed gear shift lever.
This superbly designed hatchback has a length of 3825mm, a width of 1695mm and a height of 1562mm as its dimensions and has a large wheelbase of 2470mm for a comfortable and stable ride. It has a fuel tank capacity of 44-liters along with a front and rear wheel track of 1450mm and 1440mm respectively.
Powering the diesel hatch is a DOHC, 4 Cylinder, Turbocharged, Intercooled engine which kicks out a peak power of 72.8 Bhp at 4000 rpm and a peak torque of 190 Nm at 1750-3000 rpm. On the other side, the petrol variant comes equipped with a Revotron 1.2T, 4cylinder, SOHC, Turbocharged, MPFI engine with selectable driving modes which generates a maximum power of 87.4 Bhp at 5000 rpm and a maximum torque of 140 Nm made at 1500-4000 rpm. Both the engines are mated to a 5-speed manual transmission. The car has three driving modes - Eco, Sport and City.
The braking system comprises of disc and drum brakes at the front and rear respectively. The Independent; Lower wishbone, McPherson Strut with anti-roll bar and coil spring suspensions are there at the front while Semi-independent, Twist beam with coil spring and shock absorber suspensions are placed at the back.
The safety features comprises of anti-lock braking system (ABS), electronic brake force distribution (EBD), airbags for driver as well as front passenger, seat belt reminder, clutch lock system, parking sensors, anti-theft alarm, engine immobilizer, remote central locking, speed sensitive door autolock and anti-theft alarm.
Tata Bolt is available for INR 4.44 lakhs for the base model of petrol and INR 5.49 lakhs for the base model of diesel. It is available in 5 shades - Venetian Red, Pristine White, Platinum Silver, Dune Beige and Sky Grey.


Disturbed by the long process of acquiring land for agricultural purposes, farmers under the aegis of Ifako-Akute Farmer's Cooperative Multipurpose Society have called on government to address the challenges faced in acquiring land for various agriculture practices.
Speaking at their end of year party in Lagos, the President of Ifako-Akute Cooperative Multipurpose Society, Abayomi Odusami disclosed that due to failure of some state governments to assent to their request for land, for its over 200 members who are into Fishery, Crop plantation, Poultry, Piggery, amongst others, the society has deviced a means of getting land from private owners in Ibadan, Ijebu, Papalanto, Owode and other areas, at high rates.
Odusami warned that such scenario was a bad omen for the agriculture sector, which is supposed to produce more than enough for the citizenry and for government to save in the national food bank.
Head of Marketing Committee of the Society, Jimmy Malomo informed that government needs to give farmers the necessary back up from the point of production of produce to the stage where the produce are sold.
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A Ruby based wrapper for the TreeTagger by Helmut Schmid.
Check it out if you are interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and/or Human Language Technology (HLT).
This library provides comprehensive bindings for the TreeTagger, a statistical language independed POS tagging and chunking software.
TreeTagger is language agnostic, it will never guess what language you're going to use.
Before you install the treetagger-ruby package please ensure you have downloaded and installed the TreeTagger itself.
The TreeTagger is a copyrighted software by Helmut Schmid and IMS, please read the license agreament before you download the TreeTagger package and language models.
After the installation of the TreeTagger set the environment variable TREETAGGER_BINARY to the location where the binary tree-tagger resides. Usually this binary is located under the bin directory in the main installation directory of the TreeTagger.
Also you have to set the variable TREETAGGER_MODEL to the location of the appropriate language model you have acquired in the training step.
It is convinient to work with a default language model, but you can change it every time during the instantiation of a new tagger instance.
If you want to do a system wide installation, do this as root (possibly using sudo).
Alternatively use your Gemfile for dependency management.
$ # Instantiate a tagger instance with default values.
$ # Process an array of tokens.
$ # Flush the pipeline.
$ # Get the processed data.
Basically you have to provide a tokenized sequence with possibly some additional information on lexical classes of tokens and on their probabilities. Every token has to be on a separate line. Due to technical limitations SGML tags (i.e. sequences with heading < and trailing >) cannot be valid tokens since they are used internally for delimiting meaningful content from flush tokens. It implies the use of the -sgml option which cannot be changes by user. It is a limitation of this library. If you do need to process tags, fall back and use the TreeTagger as a standalone programm possibly employing temp files to store your input and output. This behaviour will be also implemented in futher versions of treetagger-ruby.
token (\tab tag \space probability \space lemma)+.
You input may look like the following sentence: Die ART 0.99 neuen ADJA neu Hunde NN NP stehen VVFIN 0.99 stehen an den Mauern NN Mauer .
This wrapper accepts the input as String or Array.
If you want to use strings, you are responsible for the proper delimiters inside the string: "Die\tART 0.99\nneuen\tADJA neu\nHunde\tNN NP\nstehen\t VVFIN 0.99 stehen\nan\nden\nMauern\tNN Mauer\n.\n" Now treetagger-ruby does not check your markup for correctness and will possibly report a TreeTagger::ExternalError if the TreeTagger process die due to input errors.
Using arrays is more convinient since they can be built programmatically.
['token', ['token', ['POS', prob, 'lemma'], ['POS', 'prob', 'lemma']]].
It is internally converted in the sequence token\ntoken\tPOS lemma\t POS lemma\ntoken\n, i.e. in the enriched version alternatives are tab separated and entries a blank separated.
Note that probabilities may be strings or integers.
The lexicon lookup is not implemented for now, that's the latter three forms of input arrays are not supported yet.
For now you'll get an array with strings elements. However the precise string structure depends on the command line arguments you've provided during the tagger instantiation.
See documentation in the TreeTagger::Tagger class for details on particular methods.
This three kinds of errors all subclass TreeTagger::Error, which in turn is a subclass of StandardError. For an end user this means that it is possible to intercept all errors from treetagger-ruby with a simple rescue clause.
Please have a look at the CHANGELOG file for details on implemented and planned features.
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Hove ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Hennef (Sieg) im Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Lage
Der Ort liegt in einer Höhe von 200 bis 235 Metern über N.N. auf den Hängen des Westerwaldes, aber noch im Naturpark Bergisches Land. Östlich von Hove liegt der Weiler Scheurenmühle, südlich der ehemalige Basaltsteinbruch Eulenberg, südwestlich Knippgierscheid, westlich der Weiler Büllesfeld und nördlich der Burghof.

Geschichte
1910 gab es in Hove die Haushalte Knecht Heinrich Amfahr, Ackerer Franz Bernartz, Straßenarbeiter Josef Büllesfeld, Straßenarbeiter Anton Hausseur, Witwe Arnold Schumacher, die Ackerer Franz, Johann Josef und Karl Jodokus Schumacher sowie Ackerer Peter Stockhausen.

Bis zum 1. August 1969 gehörte Hove zur Gemeinde Uckerath, im Rahmen der kommunalen Neugliederung des Raumes Bonn wurde Uckerath, damit auch der Ort Hove, der damals neuen amtsfreien Gemeinde "Hennef (Sieg)" zugeordnet.

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Stadtteil von Hennef (Sieg)
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HTC's Vive Virtual Reality
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What Living In The Virtual World Is Really Like
Nicolas Stecher
Nicolas Stecher was lent HTC's much anticipated Vive VR System for a month. This is what he learned about the future of the real world while living in a virtual one.
Holding a torch in my left hand, I sneak — slowly, measuring my every step — down a dungeon corridor. The flame plays against the stones, lighting up my path as I inch toward certain doom. I'm in a murky labyrinth dubbed the Dragon's Keep: a deserted fortress at the edge of the ocean, haunted by the living dead. That would explain my stomach, which is currently wound as tight as a military knot. At a corner of the long hallway I stop, bend down on my knees, and peak around the stones to see what lies ahead.
A cavernous room opens up to the night sky; the full moon hides behind slate grey clouds. Something doesn't seem right, but all is quiet. I stand back up and gingerly move forward. I now can see that at the end of room is a bridge, crossing a chasm I cannot make out from my position. Walking up to the edge I peer down; my mind swims with vertigo as I stare into an abyss and reflexively step back, temporarily overcome.
Suddenly the sound of an avalanche fills my eardrums, and I see across the bridge two giant forms smashing through the ground, waking from their graves. Holy shit! I hear myself say out loud. With shoulders heaving and red eyes ablaze, they roar at the sky and rush toward me, battle axes raised high; I'm not entirely sure if I don't wet my Calvin Kleins, if even just a little bit. I literally scream a Viking scream, raise the broad sword I have in my right hand, and rush towards them, adrenaline pumping through my veins, bloodlust filling my trepidatious heart.
Behold: Virtual Reality in all its glory. Life as you know it will never be the same again.
Mobile phones. The internet. The iPhone. CRISPR. Self-driving cars. There are inventions in my lifetime that have changed the very trajectory of the human species, and you better damn well believe VR will joining that hallowed Mount Rushmore of Technological Revolution.
It is no less than wizardry, something I was lucky enough to experience firsthand when HTC lent me their hyper-anticipated Vive VR system. Since its market share has been shrinking with the rise of Samsung, the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer collaborated with gaming company Valve to refocus its R&D capital on the VR space — a segment predicted to be worth upwards of $120 billion by 2020.
That's a bullish forecast for what is actually a very nascent technology. But once you experience the Vive system for yourself, you just might find that estimate conservative.
A Brief History Of Virtual Time
VR has been in the collective consciousness since the early '90s, with movies like The Lawnmower Man offering a very early (and somewhat absurd) peek into the possible applications of virtual reality. But the technology just wasn't there, as failed attempts into VR died on the vine (anyone remember Nintendo's 3D Virtual Boy or Sega VR? Yeah, neither do we). There was also the Nintendo Power Glove, and Sony's first venture into VR: 1997's Glasstron headset for MechWarrior 2.
But home applications simply lacked the colossal processing power necessary to make it work. Until now.
With Oculus Rift generating a ton of press the last couple years (which only grew when Facebook purchased the startup for $2 billion), and Sony VR throwing its well-funded hat into the virtual ring, no one saw the Vive coming until it was unveiled in March 2015 during HTC's Mobile World Congress keynote address. Anticipation ran high, but when demos hit CES 2016 in January, the hype became way more real. Vive garnered 22 awards at the world's most important consumer electronics showcase, including "Best of CES." In April it hit the market.
First off, you'll need a powerful Windows PC to run the Vive, with at least an Intel Core i5-4590 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a Nvidia GTX 970 GPU (or AMD R9 equivalent). Second, you'll need the $799 HTC Vive system. Third, you need to clear out open space to set it up — the bigger, the better (up to 15' x 15').
The actual Vive system consists of a black goggle headset, two ice-scraper-like wands (i.e. hand controllers), and a couple base stations. These stations are set up in the corner of your "playing area," and as they scan lasers across the field they track your movements and communicate with the headset's 37 dimple sensors. The entire setup process, in which you define the playing area by running a wand around its circumference, takes about 20-30 minutes. This only has to be done once.
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Jesus, where to start? In Surgeon Simulator: Meet the Medic you materialize in an operation room, with what appears to be a bullet-ridden criminal on a gurney. It's your turn to perform a heart transplant. So you have to select a tool to open up the chest cavity (the saw works well, but the machete is much quicker), remove the lungs, and then take out a butterfly knife and sever all the aortas to detach the heart. Then you open up the fridge and select a replacement before he flatlines. Yeah it's morbid, a little gross, but humorously entertaining.
There's Tilt Brush, a wildly colorful Google-created app that allows you to paint, like Adobe Illustrator but in 3D. Besides vivid colors there are glittering sparkles, whirling smoke and rainbow brushes, and you can rotate and fly over work. Blu lets you meander deep below the ocean, watching gigantic whales and glowing jellyfish swim past as your eyes grow wide and jaw drops agape.
Then there are games like Vanishing Realms, which we described in the intro. Games like this take most advantage of the profoundly immersive nature of VR, transporting you to a time and place once merely reserved for the imagination. You are there walking through a valley, watching moths fly around a flickering lantern as you stare at the details of the foliage. You are there, heart beating wildly, as you engage wraiths crawling from the darkness. The two available chapters end with the acquisition of a scaled egg, and a giant dragon bursting from the mist and flying directly overhead, complete with requisite screech.
But then the game just ended, abruptly, with a poetic couplet basically telling you to chill out, more chapters are upcoming (to be downloaded at availability). That in and of itself is a perfect metaphor for VR in general: captivating, profoundly immersive, imaginative and fun as hell, but also incomplete. In its nascent stages. We're just scraping the surface here, folks.
Currently there are over 300 titles available, with more launching each week (as well as updates for current games). The breadth and imagination of the offerings is stunning, and will surely grow. Most are instantly engaging, and the 360-degree vision and visceral immersion make them sublime and next-level almost by default — even something as mundane as a balloon inflator fills you with a giddy sense of awe as they fill up and float into the sky (you control the color, and how big they inflate).
Some games do become repetitive, mostly due to the limited graphics and often cyclical nature of the interface. So as the initial mind-blowing VR aspect dissipates, or cools off, so too does the game's attraction. But even repetitive games such as Cloudland MiniGolf — where you play the same courses over and over again — challenge you to improve your swing in the real world. Did it work? Well, I certainly improved my score game after game, but I need to visit my local Funland to verify the IRL results.
Most men will spend precisely 0.001 seconds in VR before contemplating the multitudinous possible applications to porn. But honestly, that is painfully banal when you begin to think in a bigger picture. Wait till you enter The Lab's "Solar System" to see the planets orbiting around our Sun, or scan the hyper-detailed skeletal system in "Human Medical Scan." Your brain will rush with blood, only beginning to comprehend the nearly infinite ways that VR will profoundly affect our lives — not just in games, mind you, but in academics, job training, entertainment, travel and more.
These are serious considerations, with the possibility of fundamentally altering the world we're living in (or virtually living in). How long, after all, before you will be able to stroll down Paris' famed Champs-Élysées, or meander the empty halls of the Uffizi Gallery to stare at Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"? All without ever leaving your living room — or without the threat of terrorist attacks, muggings, flight delays, passengers eating tuna salad next to you, etc. Not that long, we're guessing. Why read a dusty textbook about the Gettysburg Address, when you can have a classroom of students strap on goggles and hear it come out of Trusty Abe's own month, standing on the field of the Soldiers' National Cemetery?
Prepare yourself: virtual reality is here, and life as you know it will never be the same again.
Did you read the above? VR is a gamechanger, and the sooner you get in on it the better.
HTC Vive is far superior to Oculus Rift even if just because of their wands, which means no traditional controllers are used. Since you sit and don't actually physically move in the landscape with the latter, the system really removes you from the "reality" aspect of VR.
No nauseousness. Despite problems with early versions of VR, Vive has almost no latency and feels startlingly real.
Minuses
Expensive. It's not just the $799 price tag, but the top of the line PC and graphics card required. (Currently less than 1% of the world's computers can handle Vive, so chances are you'll have to upgrade). Also, you will need lots and lots of outlets. Best invest in a power strip.
The Vive headset is heavy and bulky. While comfortable, expect the foam cushions to soak up a good amount of sweat after anything more than an hour of playtime.
Has to be tethered to your PC, which creates a tentacle of heavy wires that can entangle you in the Meat Space, which will trip up your virtual experience.
Resolution is not up to par with consoles or PC. This doesn't matter in more playful games like Tennis and Mini-Golf that ape the Wii's fun blocky mania. But it does hurt in adventure games where standards are higher. But be careful what you wish for: Lord save your psyche when graphics match Resident Evil 7. You could seriously cause psychological damage to the faint at heart.
Mockery. While you pick up the planet of Jupiter and stare deep into its swirling gaseous eye, you will feel like a modern day Columbus investigating new quadrants of the solar system. To anyone else in the room, however, you look like a slack-jawed simpleton dazzled by an invisible daisy. Expect your significant others to make lots of humiliating videos while you venture forth unaware.
The HTC Vive is available at Amazon.com for $1,089.99.
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