Google adds password breach alerts to Chrome

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The recent Chrome version adds features that are aimed at bolstering password protection and as well as adding a more safe and secure browsing experience.

Chrome will now compare your saved login credentials against a list of login details that are known to have been compromised; if a match is found, it will alert you. If possible, the browser will also redirect you to the form where you can change your credentials.

Check your login credential now to avoid any hacking risk.

A. For Chrome Desktop Version

Open your Chrome Browser, copy the highlighted text below and paste it to the url box as shown in the accompanying image.

1.copy:

chrome://settings/passwords/check

2.paste:

B. For Chrome Mobile Version

Follow the steps below.

1. Go to menu/settings.

2. Select Password.

3. You should be able to see the password check feature.

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[tutorial] Machine Learning Crash Course

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• ML Concepts
• Introduction to ML (3 min)
• Framing (15 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Key ML Terminology
  • Check Your Understanding
• Descending into ML (20 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Linear Regression
  • Training and Loss
  • Check Your Understanding
• Reducing Loss (60 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • An Iterative Approach
  • Gradient Descent
  • Learning Rate
  • Optimizing Learning Rate
  • Stochastic Gradient Descent
  • Playground Exercise
  • Check Your Understanding
• First Steps with TF (65 min)
  • Toolkit
  • Programming Exercises
• Generalization (15 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Peril of Overfitting
• Training and Test Sets (25 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Splitting Data
  • Playground Exercise
• Validation Set (35 min)
  • Check Your Intuition
  • Video Lecture
  • Another Partition
  • Programming Exercise
• Representation (35 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Feature Engineering
  • Qualities of Good Features
  • Cleaning Data
• Feature Crosses (70 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Encoding Nonlinearity
  • Crossing One-Hot Vectors
  • Playground Exercises
  • Programming Exercise
  • Check Your Understanding
• Regularization: Simplicity (40 min)
  • Playground Exercise: Overcrossing?
  • Video Lecture
  • L2 Regularization
  • Lambda
  • Playground Exercise: L2 Regularization
  • Check Your Understanding
• Logistic Regression (20 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Calculating a Probability
  • Loss and Regularization
• Classification (90 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Thresholding
  • True vs. False; Positive vs. Negative
  • Accuracy
  • Precision and Recall
  • Check Your Understanding: Accuracy, Precision, Recall
  • ROC Curve and AUC
  • Check Your Understanding: ROC and AUC
  • Prediction Bias
  • Programming Exercise
• Regularization: Sparsity (20 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • L1 Regularization
  • Playground Exercise
  • Check Your Understanding
• Neural Networks (65 min)
  • Video Lecture
  • Structure
  • Playground Exercises
  • Programming Exercise
• Training Neural Nets (10 min)
  • Video Lecture

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https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ml-intro

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[how-to] Use NLTK Tool Online

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Python NLTK Online for Natural Language Text Processing

There are currently 4 Python NLTK online demos available. On the top left you can do sentiment analysis, which uses text classification to determine sentiment polarity. On the top right, you can see how different word tokenizers work. On the bottom left, you can try stemming text in 17 supported languages. On the bottom right, you can do part of speech tagging with 22 different part of speech taggers, along with the possibility of chunk extraction and named entity recognition. Enter some text and see what happens!

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http://text-processing.com/demo/

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[what-is] Wordsift Web-based Vocabulary Tool?

 

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WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. The creator especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. They want WordSift to be a useful tool, but they also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. They would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!

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https://wordsift.org/

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[what-is] Voyant Text Reading and Analysis Tool?

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Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.

What you can do with Voyant:

Use it to learn how computers-assisted analysis works. Check out our examples that show you how to do real academic tasks with Voyant.

Use it to study texts that you find on the web or texts that you have carefully edited and have on your computer.

Use it to add functionality to your online collections, journals, blogs or web sites so others can see through your texts with analytical tools.

Use it to add interactive evidence to your essays that you publish online. Add interactive panels right into your research essays (if they can be published online) so your readers can recapitulate your results.

Use it to develop your own tools using their functionality and code.

Voyant’s tagline is “see through your text.” Computer-based text analysis is a helpful supplement to close reading: for example, it can provide quantitative confirmation of patterns that you notice in a text, allow you to quickly locate interesting words or phrases within a large corpus, and help to contextualize trends in word usage. Using a tool like Voyant at the beginning of a project may also help you to find interesting trends in a text that you’d like to research further.

References:

https://voyant-tools.org/docs/#!/guide/about

https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/DS/Resources/Voyant

https://blogs.reed.edu/ed-tech/2017/03/text-analysis-using-voyant-tools/

https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/text-mining/voyant

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Google Scholar Alternatives

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By far, Google Scholar is the most frequently used academic search engine. However, it is not the only one. There are two alternatives to Google Scholar:

1) ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net

2) Semantic Scholar. https://www.semanticscholar.org

3) Microsoft Academic. https://academic.microsoft.com

4) Refseek. https://www.refseek.com

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[how-to] Copy Google Scholar Search Results - Easy, Fast, Automated

 

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STEPS:

1) Install DataMiner Scraper Chrome Extension from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-scraper-easy-web-scr/nndknepjnldbdbepjfgmncbggmopgden .

2) Check that DataMiner icon appears on your Chrome Browser Extension toolbar.

3) Browse Google Scholar Search Page e.g. https://scholar.google.com.my/scholar?q=microblog

4) Start Scraping.

4.1) Visit the Google Scholar site.

4.2) Click DataMiner icon.

4.3) Assuming that this is your first time running DataMiner, search for a Public Recipe for Google Scholar (a recipe is a ready-made formula to scrap from a specific page ie Google Scholar)

4.4) Pick one of the available Recipe.

4.5) Click Run button.

4.6) You will get a result like the following.

Overview

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Compatible with your device

Data Scraper extracts data out of HTML web pages and imports it into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

DataMiner Scraper is a data extraction tool that lets you scrape any HTML web page. You can extract tables and lists from any page and upload them to Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel. With Scraper you can export web pages into XLS, CSV, XLSX or TSV files (.xls .csv .xlsx .tsv) 

You can use Dataminer Scraper for FREE in our starter subscription plan. You will get 500 free page scrape credits per month. This way you can see how Scraper works and what you can export with no risk. Beyond our free plan, we have paid plans for more scraping features. 

Using one of the thousands scraping recipes, you can convert most of the popular websites to csv with just one click. The recipes are user generated and shared for others to use. We have over 50,000 recipes for more than 10,000 top websites in the world. Dataminer Scraper is not your average scraping tool, no other scrape tool has such a collection of recipes!

Use Dataminer Scraper with an SEO tool, CRM recruiter systems to make the most of any page scraping scenario. Scraper works with any recruiter tool, sales leads management tool or email marketing campaign. Screen scraping and data downloading has never been easier. No need to outsource your sourcing, converting and crawling. You can scrape quickly and easily with Dataminer Scraper.

Examples of the type of data our 80,000 users have been able to scrap using Dataminer Scarper:

* Search results from search engines.

* Extract emails and ID from social media profiles.

* Get price and product information from ecommerce sites.

* Get email and addresses and phone numbers from website directories.

* Get social network connections and friends.

* Get contact info from professional social profiles.

* Get sentiment info by analyzing tweets.

* Scrape reviews and ratings 

* Analyze posts for likes, comments, connection and contacts

* Use well formatted csv files to upload data and import into to ecommerce sites.

* Automatically fill forms on registration sites.

WHO LOVES DATAMINER SCRAPER?

Are you a recruiter that spends hours scouring leads sites like Linkedin, Salesforce, and Sales Navigator for potential candidates? A sales rep sourcing leads from Data.com and Salesnavigator? Or an Amazon retail seller fighting to understand your reviews and Amazon competition. How about small a business owner who wants to be free from manually tracking potential competition on yelp, yellow pages, ebay or manta? Are you a social media manager with your head deep in Excel Spreadsheet and Google search results  trying to reconcile social media friends list with linkedin connections or maybe your are a marketing manager struggling with leadgen email marketing campaigns or with importing or exporting email lists.

Data Miner is for you:

* Sales people looking for leads

* Leadgen companies

* Amazon distributers 

* Amazon retail sellers

* Recruiters looking for top candidates

* Job searches looking for the best jobs in jobs databases

* Small business owners trying to manage ratings and reviews. 

* Data science / scientists wanting more clean data

* Marketing professionals analyzing social media sites

* Students learning data science and skrap and mining

* Amazon customers

* People who tried using import.io, email hunter, rapportive

* Growth hackers looking for ways to collect and analyze data

* Social media managers organizing friends list and email contacts

ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF DATAMINER SCRAPER:

* Automated crawling of paginated websites.

* Scrape single page or multi page crawl and scrapeing.

* Automatic navigation to next page.

* Extract emails with RegEx (regular expressions)

* Download image scraping

* Download completed pages complete with images scraping

* International language support with UTF-8

* Form filling using xls data and scraping

HOW DOES ThIS SCRAPER WORK?

Dataminer Scraper uses Xpath, JQuery and CSS Selector to identify the information in the HTML web page. Then it scrapes that information and presents it to you in form of a table which you can save as a CSV or XLS file and open it in spreadsheets. Fill form works similarly but insert the data as well. Scraper is a data converter, extractor, crawler combined in one which can harvest emails or any other text from web pages. It supports UTF-8 so this Scraper scraps Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc with ease. You do not need to have coding, xml, json experience.

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Download Portable Moodle

 

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MoodlEasy (with Moodle Version 2.5 / 2014, Windows only) is intended to make learning Moodle as easy as possible for beginners. It is not intended for actual use online.

It is based on two freely distributed tools: LMS Moodle and USBWebserver.

Setup as easy as: extract the downloaded archive (use 7zip or other file archiver) to " C:\ " drive only !!!

LOGIN and PASSWORD are the same: “admin”.

Also suitable for working offline for teachers and students.

Users can start using Moodle immediately after clicking on executable file via automatically opened browser.

For security, it is recommended to use this outdated version only for learning offline and change passwords both in Moodle and PHPMyAdmin.

Features

Offline version of Moodle for beginners to learn and test

Easy launch with all preinstalled software

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/moodleasy-portable-moodle/

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If you are adventurous, follow this tutorial to create your own portable version.

https://aplicacionesysistemas.com/en/moodle-portable-tutorial/

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Bubbl.us - The EASIEST way to do mind mapping

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The EASIEST way to mind map

Bubbl.us makes it easy to organize your ideas visually in a way that makes sense to you and others. Our editor is designed to help you stay on task and capture your thoughts quickly.

Thousands of people use Bubbl.us daily to take notes, brainstorm new ideas, collaborate, and present more effectively.

The easiest way

Focus on task

One of the most important things while brainstorming is avoiding distractions. Our user interface is designed to help you stay focused on task by keeping the number of visible buttons to a minimum as you work.

Focus on task

Collaborate and share

Bubbl.us lets you share your mind maps easily with people or on social media. Collaborate with friends or colleagues in real time in a classroom or a business meeting and see changes to the mind map immediately.

Why Bubbl.us?

• Browser-based
• No apps to download - works the same on mobile and desktop.
• Save as image & print
• Export your work as JPG, PNG, text, and print it on one or more pages.
• Easy sharing
• Share your work with a link, and work together at the same time.
• One-click presentation
• Enter full-screen presentation mode with a click of a button.
• Distraction-free editing
• User interface is designed to reduce distractions and increase focus.
• Team work
• Create and manage teams with multiple users. more info

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https://bubbl.us/v3/home.php

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Zotero - a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research

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Meet Zotero.

Collect with a click.

Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.

Organize your way.

Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work.

Cite in style.

Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 9,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.

Stay in sync.

Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your notes, files, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.

Collaborate freely.

Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.

Rest easy.

Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you always stay in control of your own data.

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https://www.zotero.org/

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Free Online Tool to Split PDF Files

 

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Split PDF Files Online - split PDF documents online.

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Advantage:

1. Option to upload or download from Google Drive and Dropbox storage.

2. Can select specific pages and combine page options to be separated and made into a new pdf document.

3. The page numbers that have been selected to be separated will be added to the file name of the new pdf document.

4. Advanced service options such as add page numbers, watermarks, rotate positions, install passwords etc.

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https://www.ilovepdf.com/split_pdf

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Quick way to highlight texts on web pages and search for their existences on YouTube platform

 

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Search the selected text directly on Youtube. With the button or context menu.

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https://tinyurl.com/2tvspu6w

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Scholarcy - Summarizes research papers, creates interactive flashcards, highlights key points, links to open-access versions of each citation

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Summarizes research papers, creates interactive flashcards, highlights key points, links to open-access versions of each citation

Scholarcy™ is the solution to that pile of papers on your virtual desk - research made easy!

This Extension gives you the key points of any research paper, report, or book chapter.  It creates a referenced summary, and generates a background reading list for those new to a field. 

Need to see how a paper builds on previous research? Our new 'Comparative Analysis' engine highlights this for you.

Scholarcy can save up to 70% of the time needed to get the key information from a paper to help you with your research and literature review.

Our unique Robo-Highlighter™ automatically highlights important contributions made by the paper.

Scholarcy locates open-access PDFs for each reference from Google Scholar, arXiv and elsewhere, and can also be configured to extract figures and tables.

And finally you can save this all to your Scholarcy Library, or export to your favourite tools for networked thought.

To provide this service, our Extension needs to read and process the contents of the current web page, if it is open and publicly accessible. It cannot read content that is behind a login/paywall.

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https://tinyurl.com/f6e3ybcs

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Lazy Scholar Chrome Extension - Automatic check for full text, details, and metrics of scientific articles, plus comments, citations, fast sharing and more.

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Lazy Scholar Chrome Extension - A Quick Way To Gather Academic Paper Information

Automatic check for full text, details, and metrics of scientific articles, plus comments, citations, fast sharing and more.

Lazy Scholar automatically searches for a freely available full text the instant you open a scientific paper. In use, it finds one 36-41% of the time*. NEW: Lazy Scholar can deep link with your institution to find full texts even when you're off campus. In addition, it attempts to extract helpful information about the paper if relevant such as quick links to the population, intervention, outcomes, measurements, funding statement, outline, references, abbreviations, and supplemental documents. Further, it checks for comments on the paper in PubPeer, provides various citation metrics on the paper and journal, and one-click citation styles, including a preformed powerpoint style.




Features in further detail:

-Infobar automatically appears when a paper is opened & tells you if a free full text is available, and provides various metrics & comments, along with fast citations.

-This can be turned off and you can click the browser button for these.

-Type "LS" in the address bar and quickly query Google Scholar, PubMed, or Web of Science.

-Search your paper history with natural language.

-Get new PubMed listing recommendations - Lazy Scholar learns your research preferences automatically based on what papers you open.

-Citation count (GScholar's, Web of Science, and Altmetric.com score).

-PubPeer comment count

-Journal ranking

-Attempts to find a contact email address for the paper you are searching

-Auto generated sharing links (Twitter, email, Mendeley, Endnote, RefWorks, etc)

-Fast copying of citation to clipboard (over 900 citation styles, including a short citation for PowerPoint slides).

-Paper details listed in PubMed search results if available.

-Highlight text on a page, right click, "Search Google Scholar" for fast searching.

-Automatically checks Beall's list of predatory journals and notifies of a match

-Quick link to hypothes.is annotation layer

-Recommended citations from citepeer.io

-Optional check for preregistration through ClinicalTrials.gov, ISRCTN registry, ANZCTR registry, OSF.io, AsPredicted.org, and PROSPERO

-Option to block non-scholarly websites for 1 hour to reduce online distractions :)

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https://tinyurl.com/y9a3hkcp

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