Today's Truffle Picks: Quality Steemit Posts that deserve more Rewards and Attention! (29.01.2019)
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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 Stakebased versus votebased elections an analysis toolkit -- by @lemouth-dev with an estimated worth of 6 SBD and 142 votes
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One of the big discussions held after the steemalliance working group elections concerned the potential inclusion of stakes in the way the votes should be accounted for. While there were also numerous discussions about the fact the elections had been organized on discord and connected to the GinaBot, this is not the topic here. I only want to focus on the relative importance of two options for extracting the vote results accounting either for the number of votes, for the number of stake...
#2 New R Package rosr Create academic R markdown projects for open science and reproducible research -- by @dapeng with an estimated worth of 7 SBD and 113 votes
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Weeks ago, I gave a short training course at one of the top institutes in the world. The course was called R, Open Science and Reproducible Research, abbreviated as ROSS. It was given to the academic researchers who were interested in R and reproducible research. The R markdown family, including rticles, bookdown, xaringan etc., were introduced. The audience were excited in the course. They felt, however, confused after the course by using these packages on their own work. It is not easy ...
#3 SteemMonsters A Worthwhile Game in Every Respect -- by @stortebeker with an estimated worth of 4 SBD and 241 votes
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Seeing that it has been almost seven weeks since I started playing Steem Monsters, and the current fifth season is about to end, I wanted to take a look back and evaluate my experience with the game so far. Since a battle can be played in only a couple of minutes, with a myriad of possible combinations, resulting in very different outcomes, it literally never gets boring. The variety of cards, along with their differences in levels adds to the complexity of the game, while the basics stay j...
#4 Resident Evil 2 Review Horror Reincarnated -- by @trave160 with an estimated worth of 5 SBD and 275 votes
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Publisher Capcom Developer Capcom Platform PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre SurvivalhorrorAction Preface This game took me over 10hrs to complete, you get 20 depending on how much of the areas youve explored 2019 is already off to a phenomenal start, with Capcom getting ahead of themselves with the release of the remake for Resident Evil 2. A game so gripping, terrifying ,and claustrophobic, that it has peaked the standards for other horror games out there Indiehorror notwithstanding even for a r...
#5 Path of Exile Dying, dying, dying again -- by @linnyplant with an estimated worth of 4 SBD and 268 votes
To begin with, I am so in love with the game, I bought a new laptop for it. How nerdy is my wall paper? Anyway, I havent posted in a long while. I have been playing Path of Exile in my free time. It is destroying all other activities at the moment. sigh So why am I still playing? Well, I like to tell people its because Im researching for my novel and that I need to join mattclarkes race. But these days I just tell people I play to hang out in my hideout and find more hideouts so ...
#6 NBA Fantasy Tonight -- by @steemsports with an estimated worth of 5 SBD and 163 votes
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SteemSports Presenternpl77 SteemSports Editorscottybuckets NBA Fantasy 128 We are back with another edition of NBA Fantasy Tonight. It was a solid Sunday in the league that featured some monster performances and some excellent games. The Los Angeles Lakers continue to play without Lebron James but that did not matter last night as they took care of business at home against the Phoenix Suns. They are now 610 without their super star. From a fantasy perspective, this has allowed the Lak...
#7 Led Zeppelin Part 2, The First Album -- by @tim-beck with an estimated worth of 4 SBD and 162 votes
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Image source Page takes charge In Led Zeppelin Part 1, The Making Of I described how the band formed and recorded their first unfunded album in September and October 1969. With a great record deal in place, they were ready to wow the world with their sound. Led Zeppelinthe eponymous name of Led Zeppelins first albumconsisted of a collection of some original material and reworking of blues and folk songs from the era. The album was recorded on a shoestring, taking only 36 hours to rec...
#8 traderbfxbackend Order Books, Settings Module Tickers -- by @imwatsi with an estimated worth of 9 SBD and 119 votes
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Backend code for a trading assistant bot Bitfinex The major highlight of this update is the Settings module, which enables customization. Previously, it wasnt easy to get the bot to handle many markets at the same time. Now, the bot is marketagnostic, and things like candles, order books, tickers, and later on; trading, analysis, alerts, etc, can be done on multiple markets concurrently, thanks to the settings module. I also added other features on the roadmap order books and tickers s...
#9 Twitter Tuesday Reporting Wonderful News! -- by @fitinfun with an estimated worth of 4 SBD and 237 votes
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!twitter tuesday IS CONFUSED! fitinfun.jpg We have so much steem action on Twitter now! I have been tweeting steem for a year and a half, and it has been a cold dead place. This new activity is so exciting to see. Now in the space of just a couple of months, steem has a building presence on Twitter. Im getting about 40 notifications each day from steem alone. This is great news, but a bit hard to sift through with limited wifi and the inability to see media. But keep it up! This is a...
#10 Cooperative Medicine mountainjewels Goldenseal Tincture Review and Product Feature -- by @homesteaderscoop with an estimated worth of 6 SBD and 206 votes
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Howdy yall! Nate again. Its been a while. Im back with a review of one of the many products Ive bought through Homesteaders Coop. The past few weeks Ive been dealing with some respiratory issues that I think are stemming from lack of sleep and exposure to welding fumes at work. These two things have stressed my immune system to the point that, after Ive worked to resolve them, Im left dealing once again with my alltoofamiliar upper respiratory problems. Low endurance, shortness of brea...
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