Parker Ferguson

Published in Coinmonks

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Creating Generative Art NFTs with Python and Solidity

How to create, host, and deploy thousands of unique NFTs on the Ethereum Blockchain & OpenSea marketplace — Update - DigiHomies proof of concept NFT collection is LIVE! Follow along on Instagram, trade on OpenSea or visit www.digihomiesnft.com to mint your very own. All minting, market purchases and donations (see bio) directly support future content. Thank you! Having experience with blockchain development and NFTs, I recently set out…

Nft

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Creating Generative Art NFTs With Python and Solidity

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“Creating Generative Art NFTs w/ Python & Solidity” — Update

Featured Proof of Concept NFT Minting Dapp is live! Several months ago I authored an end-to-end generative art NFT tutorial that has since been twice published and read by over 75k. Although a proof of concept, overwhelming interest in the project has led me to revisit and finally release the…

Nft

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“Creating Generative Art NFTs with Python and Solidity” — Update

Published in The Startup

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#DataDriven — Getting started with Machine Learning; how anyone can perform NLP Sentiment Analysis on Twitter data

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” — Arthur Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes In my previous article I touched briefly on the importance of data driven decision making, you can…

Data Driven

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Published in Coinmonks

·Dec 26, 2021

How To Create On-chain NFTs with Solidity

Incorporating user content into an NFT at mint — Having been some time since I’ve written anything blockchain or NFT related I figured an update was in order. At the time of writing this my first NFT article, Creating Generative Art NFTs with Python and Solidity, has over 50k views; many of which resulted individuals, companies and dev teams…

Nft Collectibles

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How To Create On-chain NFTs with Solidity

Jan 31, 2021

Can you bypass Robinhood’s buy restrictions via API? Let’s find out…

Author’s note: this piece is not investment advice; it is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only. I’m sure you made the same assumption as me — no modern application would be so disjoint to allow different functionality from UI vs APi, that no major player would restrict functionality by…

Gme

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Published in Better Programming

·Jan 29, 2021

Predict the Rise of GameStop ($GME) in Less Than 20 Lines of Code

Use the power of code and data science to retroactively analyze the soaring stock — Editor’s note: this piece is not investment advice; it is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am sure you are all aware of the recent events with regard to the astronomical rise in GameStop stock prices; no matter where you land on the matter, the reality is that…

Programming

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Predict the Rise of GameStop ($GME) in Less Than 20 Lines of Code

Jan 9, 2021

Business Intelligence Analyst Interview Project — what you can expect (OLTP, Python ETL & OLAP)

Some years ago, as I neared the end of the computer science accreditation I was lucky enough to interview for a BI Analyst position with a leading social media management company based in my home city of Vancouver, Canada — I’m sure you can figure out ‘WHOOO’. The interview was…

Business Intelligence

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Published in The Startup

·Jan 5, 2021

My Experience as a Quality Engineering Manager — 5 takeaways that may give you an edge in 2021.

As with anything we’ll need a bit of context: I am a graduate of what I have found to be two complementary fields of study, Business Administration and Computer Science. I have nearly 7 years of experience in Software development, the most recent of which I spent as a Quality…

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My Experience as a Quality Engineering Manager — 5 takeaways that may give you an edge in 2021