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This is the continuation of Blockchain Inside Out in Simple Words where basic ideas of blockchain technology - transaction pool, block chains, and mining, were explained. I’d recommend everyone not familiar with these terms read that post first. The following article is more complicated, with programming terminology and links to the first article. Ethereum is the second most popular blockchain project in the world and looks like the most interesting from technical point of view. Bitcoin, the [...]

Two years ago I wrote a post called "Brave Decentralized World" mainly focused on the subject of decentralized networks. It was packed with a brief history of Fidonet, Napster, Gnutella, TOR, BitTorrent with its DHT extension, and there I spoke just a bit about the blockchain concept. Nowadays, when half of my friends are playing on cryptocurrency exchange sites, and the other half – preparing for ICOs, surprisingly, only a few of them understand the [...]

Advanced machine learning techniques are at the nexus of informatics in every industry and field of inquiry, and data mining is among the most intensive areas of focus in the broad field of machine learning today. Data mining techniques include algorithms such as classification, decision tree, neural networks, and regression to name a few. In this ByteScout article, we will explore data mining techniques in-depth, and cover the most important methods now at the core [...]

The year 1979 saw Danish computer scientist, ‘Bjarne Stroustrup’ working on a project of C language, that he called ‘C with Classes’. He enriched C language by introducing new features like classes, derived classes, default arguments, and inlining to the C compiler. 14 years later, ‘C with Classes’ was labeled ‘C++’ with the addition of virtual functions, operator overloading, references, etc. Fast forward to 2016, C++ continues to be the go-to language of modern-day programmers [...]

Did you know that new drugs are now designed by machine learning models? ML is pervasive in every industry because leading companies can no longer compete without mining and exploiting these rich and expansive new benefits. ML algorithms can recognize patterns in data that people cannot see, and often cannot even understand. Paypal uses ML to identify potential fraud and estimate risk in customer behavior. Uber uses ML to estimate arrival times based on myriad [...]

New standard methods of JavaScript development are at hand and demand our attention because of their potential for voluminous deployment across millions of important websites today. The new ECMAScript 2017 defines world-changing optimizations that we can deploy to greatly improve performance. JavaScript’s extensibility recently appears boundless. Frameworks such as AngularJS have reshaped JavaScript development with truly dynamic SPAs. Libraries like JQuery are now so prolific and commonly used that JQuery appears alongside JavaScript as a [...]

Developers must be quick to become aware of the most recent revisions and feature enhancements to the JavaScript language in order to hold a competitive advantage and to capture ever-increasing performance from their websites. That is why ByteScout is here to provide you a summary of the most recent and most valuable additions to JavaScript’s  functionality. In this article, we will explore developments listed in the ECMAScript 2017 language specification to discover how to implement [...]

Git Is version control software designed specifically to keep track of the changes made to files over time? In other words, Git is a distributed revision control system which means that every Git directory on every computer is a full-fledged repository with the full history of the project, not just the current state of the files. Github is a well-known web-based code hosting Git repository for version control? It provides distributed revision control with source [...]

Front-end development tools and techniques evolve rapidly, but we must stay on top of them to keep a competitive edge and extract superlative performance from websites and apps. To achieve this goal ByteScout presents emerging front-end tooling trends going into 2018, along with an intro to CSS Preprocessors versus native CSS code. To begin, let’s digest the stats on the tools most used in the field. Although there is no absolute guarantee of the endurance [...]

If you use or create technology in any way, you’ve probably heard all about Blockchain. But what exactly is Blockchain? How does it tie to smart contract platforms and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? Let’s unwrap some Blockchain fundamentals to see how the technology links to formal agreements. Bitcoin and Blockchain technology explained In essence, Blockchain is a digital ledger that records transactions or other data. The ledger is shared across many computers. Everyone within the peer-to-peer [...]