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The Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) is a computational technique inspired by the natural behavior of frogs and their hunting patterns. Developed by Eusuff and Lansey in 2003, SFLA is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm that has gained popularity for its ability to efficiently solve complex problems across various domains. This article provides an overview of the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm and explores its practical use cases. Understanding the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm: The core concept behind the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm lies in simulating the social behavior and foraging strategy of frogs. In nature, frogs exhibit a hierarchical structure where a dominant male occupies the highest position. Frogs in lower positions follow the movement of the dominant male, while occasionally exploring alternative positions. The algorithm operates on a population of virtual frogs representing potential solutions to a given problem. These frogs are randomly generated and rep...

Web3 games have come a long way from being tedious and repetitive to engaging, immersive and addictive. Traditional Web3 games are built in a manner where the blockchain technology is first put into consideration and be used as a backbone of the game. Current Web3 games are built on a totally different breath and magnitude. Instead of focusing on Web3, successful games focused on the gameplay and used Web3 as a tool and secondary kingpin. Most people know metaverse as a Web3 game but few actually realise metaverse has existed decades without blockchain. In fact, the metaverse can be so much more than just pure gaming and entertainment. Below are the 10 key factors that show how Web3 revolutionised the gaming industry. True Ownership of Assets Web3 technology allows players to have true ownership of in-game assets through non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or blockchain-based tokens. This means that players can buy, sell, and trade their virtual items outside of the game environment, giving the...

Man/machine relationship Autopilot is using AI for awhile now Human is the best system We have a heart and we can process things in split seconds Big data ISIS is the first digital terrorist There are people who voted against technology has no idea how much benefits it brought Instead of getting the pope more views, people are obsessed with social media The future of design To design human DNA Military To train many soldiers is difficult but easy with machine Machine can make decision in a split second for those shoot-don't-shoot situation Social media Everyone hates each other in there but pretend to like one another It has become so rubbish that an eleven year old is giving dating advice It promotes depression as everyone trying to be the best Advertising Profiling sure helps to locate the target group better but also can be dangerous as terrorist could misuse it Advertisement can affect the politics so it is often controlled Instead of censoring, most faults lie with individual ...

The same goes to testimonials, unofficial reports and private news. Stars no longer worth a thousand words (Tsang & Prendergast, 2009) and reviewers are often being incentivised by direct benefits or intangible values such as fame and popularity. When the reviewing options are getting easier, more people flippantly give their reviews resulting in rendering the review system useless (Shoham et al., 2017). We no longer find reviews of 5.0/5.0 as trustworthy brands, especially after so many bad experiences with high review companies. Having a high review could mean the company expressly paid for reviewer service. A popular business could garner millions of reviews and we could be sure that most of these people are real. Being a real person does not mean they give real reviews (Zhang & Ghorbani, 2020). There are many triggering factors that encourage false reviews such as herd mentality and conflict avoidance as modern people have more fear of offending people (Tjosvold & Sun, ...

  Setting up an IPFS node in your private server will reduce the loading time when you call the file. Download the installation file. Feel free to browse  https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs  for the latest distribution. wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.20.0/go-ipfs_v0.20.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz Uncompress it. tar -xvzf go-ipfs_v0.20.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz Run the installation ./go-ipfs/install.sh Initialise the IPFS with lowpower profile ipfs init --profile=lowpower Edit the port to avoid conflict nano ~/.ipfs/config  "API": "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/9191",  "Gateway": "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/9090"  Run the server nohup ipfs daemon & Run the following commands to allow cors ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin '["http://wildd.ddns.net:9191", "http://localhost:3000", "http://127.0.0.1:5001", "https://webui.ipfs.io"]' ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Methods '[...

  Brand positioning Brands are created through refinement. Michael Jackson represents Coca cola to be a young and energetic brand. Needs analysis - objectives, reasons, actions Have to be unique either by product, design or value chain such as raw material and production manner Give up on ideas that don't work and focus on what works Brand segmentation - market analysis, clear target audience. Confirm target consumer, confirm core capabilities Be an expert in a specific area. E.g. drink cooling tea when you are heaty and list out all scenarios Good product quadrant. Characteristics - produce what products, what features, how fanciful. Audience - target audience, characteristics of your consumer group. Benefits - problems solved, direct benefits to consumers. Value - how our product elevates the value of our consumer, features and emotional value, positioned at what level Characteristics of brand - packaging, theme and logo, advertisement requirements, pricing difference, promotiona...