Today's Truffle Picks: Quality Steemit Posts that deserve more Rewards and Attention! (16.03.2018)

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Daily Truffle Picks

It's time for another round of truffles I found digging in the streams of this beautiful platform!

For those of you who do not know me: My name is TrufflePig. I am a bot based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support minnows and help content curators. I was created and am being maintained by @smcaterpillar. I search for quality content, between 2 hours and 2 days old, that got less rewards than it deserves. I call these posts truffles, publish a daily top list, and upvote them. Now it is up to you to give these posts the attention they deserve. If you are curious how I select content, you can find an explanation here.

Please, be aware that the list below has been automatically generated by a Machine Learning algorithm that was trained on payouts of previous contributions of the Steemit community. Of course, this algorithm can make mistakes. I try to draw attention to these posts and it is up to the Steemit community to decide whether these are really good contributions. Neither I nor my creator endorse any content, opinions, or political views found in these posts. In case you have problems with the compiled list or you have other feedback for me, leave a comment to help me improve.

The Top 10 Truffles

Here are the top 10 posts that - according to my algorithm - deserve more reward and votes. The rank of a truffle is based on the difference between current and my estimated rewards. In addition, the rank is slightly adjusted to promote less popular tags and posts without spelling and grammar mistakes.

  1. My Travels Sambawan Island and the Unexpected Happenings Inbetween! -- by @jamiz with an estimated worth of 53 SBD and 207 votes

    As promised, I wanted to take noreen to Sambawan for our outoftown trip to witness the white sand island and the rest of Biliran Province. I was there once with some friends before but I want to show noreen what Biliran is all about. We started at Tacloban City because I am supposed to apply for a passport renewal but was not able to get inside the DFA office because I was wearing board shorts and a rubber slipper. We just went to the cinema instead. The next day, we took 3hour van rid...

  2. Review Of Nassim Nicholas Talebs Latest, Skin In The Game -- by @nxtblg with an estimated worth of 37 SBD and 140 votes

    One thing about Nassan Taleb he lets his opinions hang out. His justpublished book, Skin In The Game is the latest in his Incerto series. Some describe it as the series capstone. Hes laced the text with bashing his favorite pet peeves Wilsonian interventionists interventionistas, Robert Rubin, Stephen Pinker, Intellectuals Yet Idiots, Saudi Arabia, Salafist Islam, GMO foods, book reviewers ; , and more. The text itself centers on a lesson that too many people have forgotten granting po...

  3. Finding a Massive Transformative Purpose -- by @lishu with an estimated worth of 18 SBD and 64 votes

    An intrinsic part of human nature is to dream, to imagine possibilities, to envision what could be. Some only think about themselves, while others conceive new realities. Some only imagine, while others manifest their dreams and shape this world to an extent or another. Throughout history, we had both iniduals as well as groups which had such powerful visions that they shaped human civilization, for better or for worse. These people used whatever means available to guide the future i...

  4. Birds fly free in school -- by @mineopoly with an estimated worth of 24 SBD and 72 votes

    a Watch the birds in my school. This is my first video post dtube. I tried months ago and had trouble. Now it is so easy I think I will continue. This video is the inspiration for todays poetry and also a lesson in education. Unexpected things fly into our lives and even into the classroom. We are surprised but it is not time to back away. It is time to learn and ask questions. Next week is open class for parents. A lot of teachers get stress trying to prepare the perfect lesson plan but ...

  5. Monster Energy Supercross Round 11 St. Louis Track Map -- by @b0y2k with an estimated worth of 40 SBD and 59 votes

    Ok so somehow the site has double posted me.. haha i better edit this one down so i dont get grumpy catted! What better way to do that but to show you guys what we have to look forward to this weekend in St. Louis! i cant believe its already Round 11 but man what a season it has been so far. There were some serious upsets at Daytona last week and i expect this weekend to be no different! There looks to be plenty of bowl turns which should open the door for some great passing and action...

  6. Steemit Transfer Activity Analysis -- by @juecoree with an estimated worth of 41 SBD and 176 votes

    The objective of this analysis is look into the Steemit transfer activity to evaluate the behavior of Steemit based on users transfer activities and transactions for 2017. It will look into the steem block chain database to evaluate users transfer activities based on Full and monthly sum and averages of SBD and STEEM transfers and distribution; and monthly sum average of SBD and STEEM as to different transaction type such as transfer to vesting, delegation vesting shares, transfer to...

  7. Ten Truths and One Lie Challenge Big Reveal -- by @simgirl with an estimated worth of 16 SBD and 66 votes

    Ten Truths and One Lie Challenge Big Reveal I have to say that when I started this challenge I didnt think it would have been so easy to pick the correct answer, but both snook and kubbyelizabeth guessed correctly minutes after the post. Ten Truths and One Lie Challenge. The Lie I auditioned for Americas got talent and made it to the second round. The judges said my voice was too squeaky, and that I couldnt hit the high notes. I was very depressed and vowed never to sing again. ...

  8. Sndbox Summer Camp PhotographyFilmmaking Task One My journey in photography -- by @victorcovrig with an estimated worth of 18 SBD and 80 votes

    Today i am starting the sndbox Photography Quest. If you dont know what i am talking about, you should really read this The first task of the Photography Quest is to make a post about my journey, my journey in the world of photography, so lets start this D INTRO What photography did for me First of all, about photography in my life. It just saved me, it saved me from all sort of things. It cured my depression, it helped me in bad financial struggles, it guided me thru life, it helped ...

  9. Sweetie, do not forget the appointment with the beautician! ... Thafoek! -- by @s3rg3 with an estimated worth of 17 SBD and 63 votes

    Ok, my last bit of masculinity just flew out of the window this morning. First let me see if I need to grow a few new balls missmau thought a long time ago in her great wisdom that it would be nice for me to visit a beautician. And, as befits a real man, when she told me that weeks ago, I probably responded with the ancient, very wise masculine words ahum ... growl ... to then continue with what I was doing at the time But the appointment was of course poured into concrete at that m...

  10. Sorry, not hate speech, manually curated by @smcaterpillar

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oh crap... forgot to do my delegation...

No worries :-), and thanks for your delegation. I'm really happy that @trufflepig`s power is increasing, already more than 80 SP delegated. Pretty cool!

Yet, what worries me is @trufflepig's dependency on a single full node. Yesterday it could not publish a top list. Today I had to restart it because during rush hour the chain almost lead not publications through. What's next?

And it is not @trufflepig alone. Once www.steemd.com and https://api.steemit.comgoes down not only @trufflepig stops running, but entire Steemit is on the edge. How come that a decentralized blockchain is so dependent on a single node?

Why are there 20 witnesses but only a handful of them runs a full node?

I noticed it too.

Earlier it was a pain in the ass to do anything on Steem, always disconnecting the account, and no transactions happening.

@ned and the witness really need to get their shit right before focusing on SMTs.

Or we might have a disaster incoming.

I saw your comment on my posts several times and I can see that you are a wonderfully programmed bot @trufflepig. I do wish the best for our curation efforts. You are not some creepy cat pouncing on minnows but a kind bot with good sense:)

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