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Simultaneous interpreter at the second Intersessional Meeting of the UNCCD COP 13 Bureau (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter at the Fourth World Media Summit Presidium Meeting (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter at China International Big Data Expo “Silicon Valley in Dialogue with Data Valley” (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for the delegation of foreign Journalists’ visit to the National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Area
Simultaneous interpreter for Protection of Minors Online and Governance of Internet Ecology Forum of the Sixth World Internet Conference (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Cyberculture and Youth Forum of the Sixth World Internet Conference (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for the AI Forum of Sixth World Internet Conference (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Sino-European Sustainable Development for Future Community Symposium of 2019 World Young Scientist Summit (2019）
Simultaneous interpreter for Scientific Insights-Sharing from Nobel Laureate in Physics, Sheldon Glashow, on 2019 World Young Scientist Summit (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for 2019 China International Finance Forum (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for 2019 International Anti-Corruption Compliance Summit (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for China-ASEAN Youth Marker Competition (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for the 19th Asia-Pacific Retailers Conference (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for 2nd China-ASEAN Children Art Education International Forum (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for 3rd SEAMEO TVET Cultural Twinning Programme Workshop (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Sino-German Green Development Theme Forum (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for International Symposium on IMO related Conventions (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for IHS Market China Display Conference (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for SAP clients’ HR system business scoping (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for the Opening Ceremony of the Ministerial Workshop on Infrastructure Planning, Construction and Development (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for a one-week export compliance investigation of a telecommunication giant in China (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Gildan Ethic and Compliance Training (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Consumer Services and Healthcare Parallel Session of CIC Forum (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for the Integrated Operating Room Building and Management training session at Jiangsu provincial people’s hospital (2019）
Simultaneous interpreter for CSC Sino-Europe Cardiology Experts Joint Consultation Forum (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for PULSE International Health Care and Big Data Forum (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for International Automotive Congress 2019
Simultaneous interpreter for Belgium Economic Mission Life Science Seminar (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Path to 50% Effective Efficiency for Automotive Combustion Forum of 2019 China SAE Congress & Exhibition
Simultaneous interpreter for Near-Zero Emission Vehicle Forum of 2019 China SAE Congress & Exhibition
Simultaneous interpreter for Autonomous Driving Technology Testing and Evaluation Forum of 2019 China SAE Congress & Exhibition
Simultaneous interpreter for Guiyang High-end Foreign Experts Symposium (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for Danzhai Poverty Alleviation Project and Photo Exhibition Conference (2019)
Simultaneous interpreter for the Opening Ceremony and parallel forum of 2019 Guiyang High-End Manufacturing Forum
Simultaneous interpreter for one-week Nike Ease GC market research (2019）
Simultaneous interpreter for Facebook advertising business meeting (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for a one-week US Export Compliance Investigation in the 4th quarter of 2019 by the SCC team.
Consecutive interpreter for the Meeting between the Vice Chairman of the 12th National Committee of the CPPCC, the Chairman of Song Qinglin Foundation and the Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for 2019 International Aerospace Supply Chain Leadership Summit
Consecutive interpreter for the Opening Ceremony of Ministerial Workshop on Financial Strategies for Developing Countries (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for Ministerial Workshop on Financial Strategies for Developing Countries (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for China’s Gold Market Development Strategy Conference with Shanghai Gold Exchange
Consecutive interpreter for Shanghai 5G Smart City Planning and Practice Ministerial Workshop (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for Shanghai City Planning Master Plan 2017-2035 Ministerial Workshop (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for a 3-week Export Compliance Investigation by the SCC team sent by the US Department of Commerce (2019)
Consecutive interpreter of BHGE supplier conference (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for business cooperation meetings for Barco, a Belgium visualization solution company (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for a two-week export compliance investigation in the second quarter of 2019
Consecutive interpreter for a teleconference related to Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China and EU GDPR compliance (2019)
Consecutive interpreter for one-week export compliance and date extraction meetings (2019)
Simultaneous/consecutive interpreter for Irina Bokova, former director general of UNESCO, during her one-week trip in China (2018)
Simultaneous interpreter at the 1st Sino-Euro International Orthopedics Summit (2018)
Simultaneous interpreter at the 4th International Berry Conference (2018)
Simultaneous interpreter at the Multi-van Pan-Americana Launching Event (2018)
Simultaneous interpreter at the Launching Ceremony of Generations Fund (2018)
Consecutive interpreter for the three-day preparation meetings of the “Superbugs: The Fight for Our Lives” exhibition (2018)
Consecutive interpreter for a two-week export compliance investigation (2018)
Consecutive interpreter for the three-day Sino-US HIV Partner Notification Service Training Program (2018)
Consecutive interpreter at the 3rd Tai’an International Expert Exchange Conference (2018)
Consecutive interpreter at the ITB Berlin convention (2018)
Whispering simultaneous interpreter for the Right Worshipful Mayor of Bath at the Bath spring festival gala (2018)
J.O. Service Group phone conference interpreter (2017-present)
Interpreted at Guiyang International Expert Organizations Project Fair (2016)
Interpreted for the interview of Wireline company CEO by 360kr.com (2016)
Source text - English English subtitle of TV series and movies such as Apostle, The Perfection, Lucifer: season 4, The Great Interior Design Challenge: season 2, The Greatest Events of World War II, etc.
Translation - Chinese Translated those subtitles into Chinese Simplified before the programmes were released.
Chinese to English: Translation of a report in security and protection industry General field: Other
Translation - English 10 Trends of the Security and Protection Industry in 2017
--with challenges and opportunities coexisting
1. The formation of a new ecological chain of the security and protection industry(SPI).
The former closed security and protection system(SPS) is developing to be more open, so is its ecological chain. With the rapid change of technologies in this field, the old ecological chain has fallen into pieces gradually.
Over the past three decades, the ecological chain was simple: designing and manufacturing--engineering integration--software and hardware maintenance. But now it has evolved to be more complicated: user requirement--customization--designing and manufacturing--engineering integration--service, operation and maintenance--innovation and improvement.
However, with security products become more and more homogeneous, the whole industry has started to shift from productivity-orientated to consumer-demand-orientated. In an era of data being the king, SPS has transformed from being IT (information technology)-based to being DT (data technology)-based.
As anti-terrorism and maintaining stability have become a rigid demand for countries around the world, the value of video data has been gradually discovered. Besides, due to the steady growth of the SPI and other reasons, many new faces have been attracted to this industry from their former ones, which leads to increasingly significant changes in the SPI. The future of this industry is more than a stage for security enterprises.
Be it equipment suppliers, integrators, or installers that are responsible for the evaluation of data and providing more management value to consumers, there is no unified conclusion. Now what the SPI faces is the trickiest question: how to properly and comprehensively structuralize and manage data? It is not something that can be fundamentally pushed forward by a single enterprise. But on the other hand, it can facilitate the formation of a new ecological chain.
2. In order to tackle the problem of unstructured data, videos should be given more value.
In the SPI, 99% of the data is unstructured. The improvement of intelligent security system has been limited for a long time because of the stagnation in the development of traditional algorithms and chip technologies. Therefore, Deep Learning is required to make breakthroughs, so that objects can be studied, scenes segmented, people and vehicles analysed.
On the 2016 China International Exhibition on Public Safety and Security, Deep Learning was seen as the lynchpin for breakthroughs. The advancement in technology enables the SPI to develop more quickly and extend into more fields, and grants video more value.
In terms of “developing more quickly”, companies used to focus on “seeing clearly” (high definition video images and the equipment's capability to work in harsh environments), but now they attach more importance on helping users to “understand what they see”. In other words, the former emphasises the evidence collection after incidents while the latter strengthens the prevention of such incidents. Surmounting the difficulty of unstructured videos, the monitoring system is able to study and judge the situation, and dynamically recognize human faces, which remarkably promotes the real-time alarm rate and reduces the false alarm rate.
In terms of “extending into more fields”, the video monitoring system not only meets the demand for security and protection but also further explores the value of videos by virtue of Deep Learning and the computing capacity of unstructured data, such as making business decisions and improving business operational efficiency.
As a matter of fact, the SPI can draw lessons from the experience in other fields. State-of-art image chip technologies and algorithms have been widely used in areas such as dynamic facial recognition, intelligent transportation system, unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) image processing and remote sensing geographical image processing.
3. Anti-theft alarm, with the transformation accelerating.
In the past few years, although enterprises were constantly emerging in the anti-theft alarm industry, the overall trend seemed to remain relatively moderate. That was partly because the price war among companies resulted in profit squeeze, and partly because company strategies were inadequate. In the future, with anti-theft alarm system hardware being cheaper, the core profit for companies will inevitably come from their alarm service. Thus, it is worth discussing how to bring the system to families, to communities and to operators.
In 2016, Hikvison announced its acquisition of Pyronix, and Dahua Technology decided to cooperate with ADT China. Similar movements of these giants have caused panic in the industry: whether they will duplicate what happened in the video monitoring industry, sweeping the whole anti-theft alarm industry?
4. Will UAV, VR, robots be the new lifebuoy for the SPI?
If asked, what are the three most popular products in the electronic technology circle？Without doubt UAV, VR spectacles, and robots will the answer. They are the blue ocean market which various companies are eager to explore.
Some original equipment manufacturers in Shenzhen, China, have embraced waves of new businesses, ranging from smartphones to video cameras and to robots. These new market demands are their dependence for business. Nonetheless, their products share one thing in common: the excessively surplus supply, with low product quality and in all sorts of related forms. Very few of them can be called as quality and competitive goods.
5. The sluggish smart home market and the SPI.
According to a research report by Statista, the top five countries in the world in terms of the capacity of the smart home market are the US, Japan, Germany, China and the UK. The US has a $9.7125 billion market capacity in this industry, while Japan $1.1289, Germany $925.6 million, China $ 520 million, and the UK 477.5 million respectively.
In China, no company in the area has achieved real success. On one hand, Chinese consumers do not have a strong demand for smart home devices with simple functions. On the other hand, the core business of the consumer market is services, rather than basic hardware supports. For example, if an elder has a fall at home, even if the incident is detected by the camera, his family will still have to inform relevant workers for help. In such an emergent circumstance, time is gold. If the camera is linked directly to the community service and users pay for the service, then the product probably will be better welcomed.
But how to solve the privacy violation issue is a big concern for companies. That is why many companies go beyond the home monitoring into consumer camera products. Sports cameras and live video broadcasting service have been launched to meet young people’s demands and these products are less involved with people’s privacy and service problems while being more suitable for security companies to expand their businesses.
The biggest hindrance for the smart home market is that although the user group consisting of villa households and geeks is large, but average consumers between them are not interested in these products. Only when the average consumers are developed, can the smart home market has a fertile soil to thrive.
6. O2O, the popular business model, who are the winners?
It is reported that China’s O2O (Online to offline) market size has reached 300 billion Yuan in 2015, and is projected to be 380 billion Yuan in 2016. The group-buying service represented by Dianping.com has been deeply Internet-enabled and connected with users’ day to day life. Besides, the food delivery service, such as the one offered by ele.me, has not only helped restaurants to increase their business but also provided solutions, like intra-city delivery, to promote efficiency considerably. In the transportation service industry, companies such as Didi Taxi have successfully reduced the operation cost of taxis, created the Sharing Economy, and improved the transportation efficiency for citizens.
Even so, in the golden age for industries, has the SPI got a share? At present, owing to having the largest amount of consumers, the building intercom and parking lot businesses are closest to O2O among others in the industry. So theoretically, they can be expected to develop service models through their products. But realistically, the brand royalty has not formed among consumers yet, so there is no guarantee for consumption and consumer volumes.
Focus on the essential characteristics of O2O—The next goal for the SPI is to improve the efficiency of the supply chain through integrating resources, utilising and analysing user data thoroughly. Platforms are the future, though the most basic products are not good enough to attract customers now. How to establish new business and industrial chains is still waiting to be explored.
7. Mobile entrance control, infinite business opportunities apart from the hardware.
In 2015, the entrance control business has witnessed a 6.6% growth and is predicted to reach 7.2% in 2016, which is significantly higher than that of the video monitoring market. Behind those figures, there is an important message reflected: the trend is moving from the traditionally mechanical entrance guard system towards the electronic one. New innovative entrance control and recognition technologies are going to propel the industry with wireless access control and facial recognition being the most eye-catching ones.
For users, along with the showing up mobile entrance control, the biggest concern is the safety. Mobile chips replace entrance cards and keys, so how to bolster security will be the most important thing for manufacturers to think about.
To open doors remotely with mobile terminals is certainly going to save many troubles for users, and when such mobile applications gain their recognition, the business will soar to its greatest height.
8. The electronic lock, the saviour for the building intercom.
The growth of property development in China was only 1% in 2015, compared with its rapid development in the past decade. The building intercom business was hugely affected by this change. In order to face the challenges, building intercom companies have continually extended their product lines. The electronic lock market has great potential in China, plus the existing channels which can be used to promote sales, this can be a new goal for building intercom companies.
There are two pivotal challenges facing the electronic lock industry: first, the encryption technique for its software; second, the improvement of quality requirements of lock cylinder against the mechanical unlocking. To endow their electronic locks with the necessary adaptability, companies are required to address the safety problem which consumers care most. Up to now, intelligent locks account for less than 3% of the market share in upscale hotels, villas, apartments and average families. But they will have a bigger market share with the maturity of techniques and decrease of prices, which will open another door for building intercom enterprises.
9. The end-to-end trend facilitates the emergence of giants.
The term “end-to-end” is not completely new in the SPI, and it has become increasingly noticeable with the development of security solutions. Such a trend will inevitably affect three kinds of practitioners in the industry: first, mere distributors, second, mere installers/integrators, and third, small and medium-sized equipment suppliers.
For distributors, the All-In-One model saves users a lot of hassles from picking products and enables them to enjoy the one package service. Albeit costs of distribution channels are reduced, the profit for distributors has been greatly cut.
For mere installers/integrators, the solution consulting service team from equipment providers has played a role which is similar enough to replace them. If they want to survive, the only job left for them would be “plumbers”, which is incomparable to what they used to do.
For small and medium-sized equipment suppliers, their profits have been tremendously squeezed due to the homogeneous competition. The lack of integrated solutions and the product cost-effectiveness has made these companies lose competitiveness and they will be eventually washed out from the market.
Some famous companies help users to solve the safety problem and meet their demands for camera applications. They integrate resources to provide end-to-end total solutions from cameras to data storage and to video streaming service with camera technologies at the core. Giants are springing up in the SPI which is an unavoidable trend after the industrial reshuffle in the past few years.
10. Cyber security, the sore point of the SPI
In the last 2 years, there are an increasing number of discussions about cyber security while the demand for information security solutions is constantly surging. Product security will be a new rigid target in the years to come.
According to a selective inspection conducted in China, 8 out of 10 home cameras in the market has security flaws, which enable hackers to observe, record, and even broadcast users’ daily life.
Many a security manufacturer begins to enhance the security of their products on the levels of technique, designing, and business management. But so far, these measures are not adequate to deal with new security challenges as new problems are emerging ceaselessly. There will be some security companies particularly built with the purpose to tackle cyber security issues in the future. Meanwhile, governments and the industry need to establish safety standards for intelligent hardware so as to regulate the whole industry and promote the information security capacity of products.
English to Chinese: Translation of the media release for a cancer drug company(excerpt) General field: Medical
Source text - English Some people like to think of aptamers as “chemical antibodies.” Yet, aptamers inherently offer several advantages over antibodies. Aptamers are much smaller than antibodies so they can penetrate areas of the body that antibodies can’t. Also, aptamers have very low immunogenicity so patients can tolerate high dosages over longer periods of times. One hurdle that has limited aptamers’ translation into clinical therapy is its low half-life in vivo resulting from rapid enzymatic degradation. The human body is highly efficient at degrading “naked” aptamers due to their nucleic acid composition. Donovan, LLC addresses this hurdle through its proprietary modification of its aptamers, resulting in a longer in vivo half-life and allowing for the aptamer to remain active long enough to reach its desired target.
Donovan, LLC is made up of the world’s leading experts in aptamer development for therapeutic purposes and is currently developing VERAPTUSTM Immune System Triggering Aptamers (“VISTA”) for prostate cancer therapy. The aptamer moieties are designed for targeted drug delivery to PSMA positive prostate cancer cells while also enlisting the patient’s immune system to combat the prostate cancer. Initial experiments demonstrate that the VISTA platform is capable of higher treatment success rates. Upon successful demonstration for prostate cancer therapy in clinical trials, VISTA will be incorporated to target other cancers (e.g. breast cancer).
Translation - Chinese 有人倾向于认为核酸适配体是“化学抗体”。然而，核酸适配体在本质上比抗体优越许多。核酸适配体比抗体分子更小，因此它能穿透抗体不能透过的身体组织。另外，核酸适配体有着非常低的免疫源性，病人能耐受长时间高剂量用药。制约核酸适配体进行临床治疗的一个障碍是由于酶促降解导致其在人体内的半衰期短。因为其核酸成分，“裸露的”核酸适配体在人体内降解极快。湖南多诺文生物科技有限公司通过专利技术对核酸适配体进行改造，延长了其人体内半衰期期，使其能够在人体内长时间保持活性从而到达靶向细胞。
湖南多诺文生物科技有限公司由治疗性核酸适配体研究领域世界顶尖专家组成，目前公司正在开发VERAPTUSTM免疫系统刺激核酸适配体用于前列腺癌症治疗。通过设计，核酸适配体分子可用于运送目标药物达到前列腺特异性膜抗原（PSMA）活跃的前列腺癌细胞，同时刺激患者免疫系统对抗前列腺癌。初步实验表明VISTA平台有着更高的治疗成功率。在治疗前列腺癌成功临床试验的基础上，VISTA将用于其他癌症治疗（例如：乳腺癌）。
English to Chinese: Cryptocurrency website General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Business/Commerce (general)
Source text - English Symmetry
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Whitepaper October 2017
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Introduction
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Dash and Litecoin are disrupting how currencies are dis- tributed and held every day. With cryptocurrencies still in the early stages of adoption, it can be difficult for people to understand how to obtain, hold, and trade these currencies on their own.
Growing interest from investors about cryptocurrencies is making the possibility of investing in a fund that trades cryptocurrencies extremely appealing. With the ability to invest at a variety of levels, securely store funds, and have input into how a cryptocurrency investment fund is managed, Symmetry Fund (SYMM) is offering investors the opportunity to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency market without the complexities of personally trading it themselves.
As in investor in SYMM, you will enter a managed fund that allows you to take part in the moves of the cryptocurrency exchange without the effort and significant capital investment that would otherwise be re- quired when trading individually.
Offering a diversified portfolio with market cap above $1B, SYMM has a minimum average volume of $100M
in each cryptocurrency it trades including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Lite Coin and Ripple.
SYMM is specifically designed for trading cryptocurrencies and investing in early stage Initial Coin Offer- ings (ICOs). The fund offers many of the same advantages and protections of a managed mutual fund while providing its investors exposure to the cryptocurrency market.
About Symmetry Fund (SYMM)
Part of the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, SYMM is an ERC20-compliant smart contract. The fund pays monthly dividends in ETH.
A single share in the investment fund represents one SYMM token. The investment fund trades and in- vests in ICOs for cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Dash and Litecoin. Shareholders will have the ability to trade their tokens with peers based on market rates. This will allow shareholders to cash-out as the fund value increases over time, in conjunction with receiving a monthly ETH dividend.
To ensure the whole fund isn’t exposed at any time, SYMM will always hold a percentage of funds in a prudent reserve. Further risk mitigation will also be provided by applying weighted currency and signal risks to each currency in the SYMM investment portfolio (BTC, ETH, XRP, DASH and LTC). When not in a trade, SYMM’s funds will be kept in fiat currencies (USD/EUR) so that the funds are not exposed to the vol- atility of blockchain assets. Keeping the fund’s exposure to blockchain assets to a minimum reduces the impact that large fluctuations in the value of cryptocurrencies may have on SYMM’s capital value.
To monitor the current reserves of the fund and the fund’s value, a self-certification system is included so shareholders can monitor their investment at any time. The fund’s self-certification will occur daily while monthly external audits will be conducted by the Big Four accounting firms. Performing daily self- certification of funds in conjunction with monthly external audits will ensure transparency and trust be- tween SYMM fund managers and shareholders.
Ensuring that investors will have input in the direction of SYMM is also an important part of the fund’s methodology and objectives. Shareholders will be able to vote on any decisions that affect the future di- rection of SYMM. Shareholder votes will occur on changes and developments such as proportion of the funds invested in ICOs and deciding which pairs will be traded.
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Symmetry Fund (SYMM) ICO
An unlimited amount of SYMM tokens will be released in the SYMM Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The ICO will be open for a period of 121 days at the exchange rate of 0.1 ETH per SYMM. One SYMM token will repre- sent a single share in the fund. From the ICO, most of the funds raised will be used for trading purposes. A small percentage of funds raised (up to 10%) will be held by the fund for prudent reserves and administra- tion. Holding back these funds forms part of SYMM’s risk mitigation measures.
An unlimited number of SYMM tokens will be available for purchase at a rate of 0.1 ETH per SYMM during the ICO. By sending Ethereum to the ICO smart contract address, investors will be able to purchase SYMM tokens. After sending the ETH to the address, the investor’s account will be credited with the corresponding amount of SYMM shares. There is no limit on the amount of times investors can purchase SYMM tokens throughout the ICO.
There are no discounts available on pre-ICO, pre-sale or during public sale. The price for 1 SYMM remains the same - @0.1 ETH.
There will be at least two rounds of the ICO:
1. Round One starts on December 10th, 2017, and continues until February 10th, 2018.
2. Round Two starts on February 11th, 2018, and continues until April 10th, 2018.
There will be 2 classes of shares:
Round One – the same management fee, only Class A shares available.
Class A
For any investments over 0.1 ETH, SYMM shares will have 7.5% management fee. (Class A)
Round Two – different management fee for shares Class A and Class B. Class A
For investments over 100 ETH, SYMM shares will have 7.5% management fee. (Class A)
Class B
For investments under 100 ETH, SYMM shares will have 15% management fee. (Class B)
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Moving from ICO to the Trading Phase
The rounds of ICO will close manually at the end of the relevant period of the ICO round. The ICO can be closed by a nominated administrator account. After closure of the ICO, the funds will be withdrawn from the contract and exchanged to fiat currencies.
To ensure that SYMM does not have an adverse impact in the markets that it will trade in, withdrawals from the ICO phase will be completed over a period of days or weeks. The withdrawals will be completed on a range of different exchanges to further mitigate potential market impacts. As the funds are being with- drawn from the contracts and exchanged to fiat currencies, the fund’s balances will be published and an- nounced on the blockchain. Trading will commence as soon as initial withdrawals have been made from the contracts. SYMM has a long-term vision and interest in the stability of cryptocurrencies and will not par- take in any activities that could jeopardize the longevity and future growth of cryptocurrencies. The starting value of the SYMM fund will be the USD-equivalent of the exchange rates of Ethereum withdrawn from the fund when the ICO closes.
The fund will move into the trading phase when the ICO has been successfully completed. In the trading phase, SYMM will be transferred between investors, dividend payments will occur and contract audits will take place utilizing the token contract.
The SYMM ICO opens on December 10th, 2017, and closes on April 10th, 2018. You will need Ethereum to in- vest in SYMM Tokens.
Summary of the SYMM ICO
☑ One SYMM share is equal to one ERC-20 compliant token.
☑ The initial duration of the ICO is 121 days from December 10th, 2017, to April 10th, 2018.
☑ During the ICO, 1 SYMM share will cost 0.1 ETH.
☑ The ICO Soft Cap is 3,000 ETH.
☑ There is no Hard Cap for the ICO.
☑ Trades in BTC, LTC, DASH, ETH and XRP will be conducted using 70% of the fund’s capital.
☑ 20% of the fund will invest in high potential ICOs. SYMM will secure a deep discount (up to 50%) on ICOs that have not yet been released for public sale.
☑ 10% of the fund will be held by the fund in a reserve to ensure that the whole fund is never exposed at any point in time.
☑ 50% of monthly trading profits will be paid in dividends to investors each month. Dividends will be paid in ETH.
☑ 50% of monthly trading profits will be held for compounding growth.
☑ To reduce risk and ensure stability of the fund’s value, SYMM funds will be held in USD and EUR.
☑ Risk mitigation strategies will be established.
☑ Management fees will not be charged if there are no profits.
☑ Based on Symmetry scenarios and fund projection, the estimated annual ROI for SYMM investors is expected to be more than 50%.
☑ All shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on major fund decisions, further fostering trust and transparency between the fund and its shareholders.
☑ All trades that SYMM execute will be detailed on the relevant exchanges.
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☑ Funds held by SYMM will be subject to external auditing each month.
☑ Accounts balances and SYMM fund value will be reported to shareholders daily.
☑ Until SYMM is listed on major exchanges, all shareholders will have the ability to sell their investment for instant liquidity.
New coins are usually listed on exchanges and secure sufficient liquidity in 1 to 3 months. Investors will have a buyback option during this period, or until SYMM is listed on one of the biggest exchanges.
The Trading Phase
After the ICO successfully closes and funds are withdrawn from the ICO, the trading phase will commence. The trading phase will continue indefinitely with changes in trading activities such as pairs traded and fund allocation to be voted on by shareholders.
At the commencement of the trading phase, the capital value of SYMM will come from 90% of the capital raised in the ICO. This capital will be converted into fiat currencies and quoted in USD.
Operating and management costs will be covered with the remaining 10% of the funds raised in the ICO. Over the course of trading, operation and management costs will be returned to investors. A management fee will not be charged to SYMM investors until this 10% operation and management allocation is paid back.
SYMM’s capital will be split into 3 components:
10% 20%
PORTFOLIO
70%
20%
10%
Cryptocurrency trading
ICO investments
70%
Fund reserve
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Risk Management in Trading
Risk will be proactively managed by SYMM. A key strategy SYMM will employ to mitigate risk is storing SYMM’s capital in fiat currencies when not engaged in a trade. SYMM funds will only be held in cryptocur- rencies throughout the duration of trades. Holding funds in fiat currencies means the value of the fund will experience consistent growth without being constantly exposed to the, often volatile, fluctuations of crypto- currencies.
A percentage of the actively traded funds will be allocated against each cryptocurrency when trading. Alloca- tion of funds across traded cryptocurrencies will be determined based on stability and risk in that cryptocur- rency.
Specific signal risks for each cryptocurrency will also be used to determine fund allocation and balance risk. This is similar to the way mutual funds balance risk in non-cryptocurrency funds. Additional risk-mitigation strategies that will be implemented include:
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Diversifying investments be- tween exchanges
Additional risk-mitigation strategies
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Capping leverage at 5x (normally none) for high-certainty trades
With significant capital investment expected for SYMM, this could mean the fund’s value is sufficient to influence market direction. To mitigate the risk of SYMM’s funds influencing marketing direction, the fund will spread its trad- ing across multiple exchanges. This will prevent market demand from reducing or increasing beyond its natural levels as a result of SYMM’s trading activities.
To keep funds under the tolerated risk level, margin may be used so that less funds are exposed at the time of trade. With a trading strategy designed for a few select actions each day, this methodical and conservative ap- proach will support the long-term growth of the fund’s value and investor returns.
At launch of the trading phase, SYMM will be trading a selection of pairs that it believes to hold significant data on. Analyzing this data, in conjunction with the fund’s conservative approach will allow reliable, low-risk trades to be executed. Over time, expansion to different cryptocurrencies may occur based on fund growth and risk analysis. Expansion of the fund to other cryptocurrencies and markets will be put to a shareholder vote. Shareholder votes will be performed via smart contract on the blockchain.
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Dividends
When SYMM makes a monthly profit, dividends will be paid to shareholders in ETH via a smart contract on the 3rd day of the month. Dividends will be immediately available to SYMM investors when the payment is sent to the dividend contract. Investors can then withdraw funds at a time of their choosing.
Profits are determined by subtracting the amount the fund was worth at the end of the previous month from what the fund is worth at the start of the current month, less management fees if applicable.
No management fees will be charged when there is no profit. Management fees are (i) 7.5% of profit for Class A and Class B shares bought during the first round of ICO, and (ii) 7.5% of profit for Class A shares and 15% of profit for Class B shares bought during the second round of ICO. Management fees will not com- mence until the 10% of operating costs subtracted from the ICO is repaid to investors.
Example
If SYMM makes $100,000 profit this month, SYMM would deduct the Class A and Class B fee accordingly.
Let’s assume $60,000 is subject to 7.5% fee of $4,500 and $40,000 is subject to 15% fee of $6,000.
$60,000 - $4,500 = $55,500 Class A profit. $40,000 - $6,000 = $34,000 Class B profit $55,500 + $34,000 = $89,500 total fund profit $89,500/2 = $44,750
$44,750 to be compounded
From the total amount of monthly profit, 50% will be held in the fund for compounding growth, while the other 50% will be distributed to investors. This will provide shareholder value in the form of regular div- idend payments and compounding growth of your investment.
The percentage of profit to be held and compounded is subject to shareholder voting every 3 months.
It will be possible for shareholders to trade SYMM with other investors in the Ethereum network. SYMM investors will be free to trade their shares on an exchange of their choice. This allows investors to sell all or part of their SYMM shares for instant liquidity.
Shareholder Voting
Giving all shareholders the opportunity to vote on major decisions in the SYMM fund is a cornerstone of the trust and transparency measures that will be established in the fund. Matters that may be subject to a shareholder vote include trading patterns, capital raising for further investments, or exit route options for investors. Voting will take place on the blockchain with each SYMM share counting as a single vote. The majority of SYMM shareholders will need to take part in a vote for decisions to be carried out. With all votes cast and stored on the blockchain, the outcomes of each vote will be visible to shareholders at any time.
Class A and Class B shares have equal voting rights.
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Technology
As a technology company, SYMM offers individuals the opportunity to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency market without the complexities of managing their own trades and associated technology.
Embedded in the ETH blockchain, SYMM is an ERC20-compliant token. It is embedded in the ETH blockchain as a smart contract. Other financial functions of SYMM will also be supported by contracts on the blockchain including management of the ICO, dividend payments, transparency measures, and voting.
There are several smart contracts that will operate throughout different phases in the SYMM fund from the ICO phase to the trading phase. These contracts deal with different parts of the fund. For example, when an investor purchases SYMM shares in exchange for tokens in the ICO phase, the contracts will execute the action of providing SYMM shares in exchange for tokens.
If the ICO phase does not meet its minimum investment requirement, the smart contracts can be used to wind down the ICO and return funds to investors. If, however, the ICO is successful, a smart contract will be used to commence trading by withdrawing ETH from the blockchain.
During the trading phase, the contracts contain the ability for investors to:
Participate in shareholder votes.
At any moment in time, check the fund’s reserves and market value;
Trade by transferring SYMM shares between peers or other exchanges;
Collect dividend payments;
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Trust and Risk Mitigation
Trust and risk concerns are natural for investors to have when new offerings hit the market. With cryp- tocurrencies and blockchain, however, increased trust and risk concerns can arise as a result of the addi- tional anonymity and privacy provided by blockchain technologies.
SYMM understands investors may have trust and risk concerns so the fund is addressing these concerns by establishing risk mitigation measures. This will ensure that risk is managed by the fund while delivering transparency and value to shareholders.
The SYMM fund is for shareholders and it invites any suggestions for further transparency measures that will continue to foster trust and strong relationships with our shareholders.
SYMM will establish key strategies to reduce risk, ensure transparency and deliver value for shareholders. These strategies include:
☑ At the ICO stage, funds will be returned to investors if the soft cap of 3,000 ETH is not reached. This will be done through contracts on the blockchain.
☑ Establishing measures to prevent devaluation of ETH.
☑ Reducing the risk and volatility that funds exposed to cryptocurrencies often experience by storing
trading funds in fiat currencies when the funds are not engaged in a trade.
☑ Fiat currencies will be stored in bank accounts. If needed, currency amounts may be kept in exchanges for short periods to ensure funds are readily available for trading.
☑ SYMM will only operate on exchanges such as Kraken, Poloniex and Bitstamp. These are exchanges that are regulated or have proof of reserves.
☑ SYMM will not operate on exchanges that are unregulated or do not have proof of reserves.
☑ Market impact by SYMM will be reduced by trading across exchanges.
☑ When a high certainty trade is entered by SYMM, up to 5x leverage may be used. Leverage will only be used where appropriate and the risk and market impact has been analyzed and deemed suitable for
the fund and its investors.
☑ There will be a maximum percentage of the fund that can be exposed at any one time. This will be
determined through establishing a risk weighting system for each currency. The risk weighting will determine the maximum amount of the fund’s capital that can be exposed to each currency at any one time.
☑ SYMM is built on the experience of industry professionals. The use of artificial intelligence in the fund will be used only to add more value to the analysis already performed by our fund managers.
☑ With the establishment of a prudent reserve fund, this means that the entirety of SYMM’s capital is never exposed at any point.
☑ Trades will be executed in regular market hours to reduce the risk of losses due to lack of liquidity in the market.
☑ An asset management company will be established in the Cayman Islands. It will be operational by March 2018.
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The graphic below details how information flow at SYMM will be structured.
EU Bank
Monthly Statements
Ploniex API Kraken API
Independent Auditor
Audited by one of the Big Four
E-mail to SYMM investor
Figure 2: SYMM's information flow
Monthly Trading Statements
Available on the website for public
Other measures that will be taken by SYMM to support and strengthen transparency include:
☑ Sharing the public details of SYMM and its founders to ensure investors have all the information they need to make a sound investment decision.
☑ Providing the personal details of SYMM’s founders to allow stakeholders to contact them with any questions or concerns.
☑ When cryptocurrency accounts are being used for holding balances for trades or deposit to exchang- es, the details of these accounts will be published on the blockchain for investors to view at any time.
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☑ Where an exchange permits, read-only API keys for account balances will be provided for investors so
they can view the fund’s balances directly. When a read-only API key cannot be provided by an ex- change, account balances will be published on the blockchain and SYMM website so investors can view transaction details and balances at any time.
☑ Investors will be provided with an externally audited bank account each month. This will give investors the ability to cross reference the audited documents with the balances that are published on the block-
chain throughout the month.
SYMM is focused on ensuring transparency, mitigating risk and delivering value to shareholders. The fund will revisit and review its risk mitigation strategies on a regular basis and can answer any questions that investors may have. Questions and queries can be answered through direct contact with the fund’s manag- ers or by directing investors to the appropriate documents and blockchain entries where information is stored.
The Future of SYMM
Other base currencies and trading pairs will be launched by SYMM as the fund becomes more established and the trading phase of this initial ICO has matured. The aim of SYMM is to be able to provide a variety of risk levels for investors so there is a solution for every investor interested in having exposure to cryptocur- rencies.
As we launch new investment opportunities, and expand the fund, SYMM will investigate how it can provide current investors with special offers and benefits for new offerings.
Disclaimer
The information set forth below may not be exhaustive and does not imply any elements of a contractual relationship. While we make every effort to ensure that any material in this white paper is accurate and up to date, such material in no way constitutes the provision of professional advice. Symmetry Fund does not guarantee, and accepts no legal liability whatsoever arising from or connected to, the accuracy, reliability, currency, or completeness of any material contained in this white paper. Investors and potential SYMM tokenholders should seek appropriate independent professional advice prior to relying on, or entering into any commitment or transaction based on, material published in this white paper, which material is purely published for reference purposes alone.
Symmetry Fund does not provide any opinion on any advice to purchase, sell, or otherwise transact with SYMM tokens and the fact of presentation of this white paper shall not form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract or investment decision.
No person is bound to enter into any contract or binding legal commitment in relation to the sale and purchase of SYMM tokens, and no cryptocurrency or other form of payment is to be accepted on the basis of this white paper.
Important
You are not eligible and you are not to purchase any SYMM tokens if you are a citizen or resident (tax or otherwise) of Singapore, or other Singapore Person. “Singapore Person” is generally defined as a natural person, residing in the Singapore or any entity organized or incorporated under the laws of Singapore.
Furthermore because of current regulatory uncertainty and before additional information is publicly released by the Platform on the matter, green card holders of the United States or citizens or residents (tax or otherwise) of the United States of America, Singapore are not eligible to register as SYMM investors. That limits the ability of U.S. and Sin- gapore to utilize SYMM tokens and participate in the future development of the Platform as well as in the distribution of proceeds.
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☑SYMM每股相当于一个代币，遵守ERC-20标准。
☑第一轮ICO周期为121天，从2017年12月10日至2018年4月10日。
☑在ICO阶段，购买每1股SYMM股份需要0.1比特币。
☑ICO的软上线为3000以太币。
☑ICO不设硬上线。
☑比特币(BTC)、莱特币(LTC)、达世币(DASH)、以太币(ETH)和瑞波币(XRP）交易将占70%的资金。
☑20%资金投资高潜力ICOs。SYMM可保障投资者享受未公开发售ICOs最高可达50%的折扣。
☑10%的资金将用于储备金，保证任何时候基金不会全部面临风险。
☑每月交易利润的50%作为红利以以太币形式派发给投资者。
☑每月交易利润余下50%用于再投资。
☑为降低风险和确保基金价值稳定性，SYMM资金将以美元或欧元持有。
☑制定降低风险战略。
☑不盈利不收取管理费。
☑根据对称基金（Symmetry）的基本情况和基金预估，投资者年回报率预计可达50%以上。
☑所有股东有权投票参与重大基金决策，进一步提升基金与股东之间的信任与透明度。
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新加坡公民或居民（纳税人等）或新加坡人，不符合购买SYMM代币条件，请勿购买。“新加坡人”一般指自然人，指居住在新加坡的人或受新加坡法律监管下的任何组织或公司。
另外，鉴于目前监管不确定性，在平台就此发布新信息前，美国绿卡持有者或美国、新加坡公民或居民（纳税人等）不符合注册为SYMM投资者条件。这限制了美国人和新加坡人不能使用SYMM代币、参与平台未来发展和收益分配。
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Chinese to English: software engineering General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: IT (Information Technology)
Source text - Chinese EE转专业成为硅谷软件工程师，我走过的那些弯路
2017.11.29
作者：Rong
小M，BitTiger学员，目前在湾区的一家公司做软件工程师。EE本科、EE研究生，EE实习背景，无CS背景，没有学过CS知识。在BitTiger学习后，拿到了硅谷公司的SDE offer和东部某银行的SDE offer。
我最近刚拿到三个offer，在这里跟大家分享如何从完全零基础一步一步成为硅谷软件工程师。我之前一点CS基础都没有，原本想要找EE方面工作，但由于领域的限制，最后不得不转CS。
Translation - English My experience Switching from an EE major to a Silicon Valley software engineer
Nov. 29, 2017
Author: Rong
M was a BitTiger student. Currently he is working as a software engineer in a company in the San Francisco Bay Area. His undergraduate degree, master degree, and internship were all within the scope of EE. He had no experience in CS. However, after studying with BitTiger, he has got two SDE offers, one from a company in Silicon Valley and the other from an Asia-based bank.
Recently, I’ve got three offer so I’d like to share my experience of teaching myself to be a soft engineer from scratch. Since I had zero CS knowledge, initially I intended to find a job related to EE. But eventually I decided to change my career path to CS because there were too many limitations to work as an EE postgraduate.
What have caused me to change my professional direction? What opportunities have I missed before that?
1. Miss the biggest autumn recruitment before the graduation.
I did not start to look for jobs until March, when graduation was only two months away. I allowed it to slip away the golden opportunity of autumn recruitment the year before, thinking ample opportunities were yet to come. I regretted it.
2. The hardware knowledge gained and internship didn’t benefit me much in terms of personal development.
The knowledge I acquired at university proved of little practical use during the interviews, so I had to teach myself some hardware knowledge in order to get a job. Later on, I worked on FPGA testing in a hardware company as a trainee. Frankly speaking, deep in my heart I was reluctant to do the job. Because what I did had nothing to do with the core technology of the company (most local hardware companies wouldn’t open their core technologies to foreigners) and there were few opportunities for me to write code. It is true that hardware requires code writing as well but at that time most of my job was to deal with the tests left behind by my advisor. What is worse, the advisor didn’t teach me any practical knowledge that I couldn’t get access to at university. So my only option was to study it myself. Then the transportation upset me the most as I had to spend almost 5 hours on it everyday. Pus I had to prepare for interviews for full-time hardware jobs.
The hardware market was very sluggish as most companies did not want new graduates. As I did not have a lot of selling points in terms of hardware, I didn’t even get a rejection letter after sending out hundreds of CVs. Feeling exhausted though, I found it hard to give up EE, the major I had spent 6 years working on. It was not the payment I cared the most about, but whether I could learn something from doing the job. My internship provided me neither.
3. Make the decision
Based on my internship and job-hunting experiences, I started to consider changing my career direction. Few people then had made a successful switch to CS from EE, while most focused on finding an EE job or going back to China. It was a hard decision to make. I didn’t know where to start and it was painful to give up my major. Still the biggest concern was that I might fail. What if I couldn’t make it? After a long time of hesitance, I decided to take up the challenge. No matter which way I chose, I had to learn new things anyway. One advantage of studying CS was that I had lots of resources to rely on, such as open resources online and experiences shared by others. Besides, if I could nail down a job, the salary would be so much higher than the ones I could find before, which could help me to get by financially. As a result, I quit the job in November and flew back to California on December 1st. After that, job-hunting and studying became my daily routine.
How to study and prepare for a CS career.
Back then, I was completely a novice, knowing nothing about terms such as tree and hash table, let alone DP or Union Found. It was too embarrassing for me to ask such simple questions, so I tried to find out answers myself. Sometimes, for a small question that needed only 1 minute of asking, I’d rather spend hours to dig out the answer. It was very ineffective but that’s my way of learning.
1. Seek advice from people who have changed their working fields before.
Don’t blindly follow suit. Make your own decisions but seniors can give you some suggestions about how to prepare and carry out your plan.
2. Spend a week on doing some career research.
Find out the differences between front and back end developer jobs. What kind of technology stacks are involved? I eventually chose to be a backend developer.
• Front end: the job content is relatively easier but there are a multitude of technology stacks which are constantly updating. The interview will be tech-orientated and interviewers may test your skills such as JS.
• Back end: it is relatively harder but the updates of stacks are slower. The interviews will focus on algorithms (there seems to be some shortcuts to learn them) and the payment will be higher in the long run.
On the basis of advice given and my own research, here is my preliminary study plan:
1. learn a suitable programming language
• Java is favored by most companies. If time allows, JavaScript and Python are also good choices.
• Resources: all YouTube clips and the Tutorial Point which is very useful.
2. Understand fundamentals of data structures, such as array, tree, list, map, stack, queue, etc.
3. Practice coding on Leetcode.
4. Check what are missed out and learn some commonly used stacks in line with job descriptions.
5. Prepare the resume and some projects.
6. Send out the resume to companies whilst learning.
Do not focus too much on how many questions you solve but make sure that you cover every knowledge aspect you need to know. For example, when you’re practicing the use of Array and Tree, do not forget other aspects like Stack. For students who haven’t majored in CS, the basic knowledge must be included when you are making the study plan at the early stage.
The job-hunting process can be time-consuming, and even if you’ve sent out lots of CVs, it doesn’t necessarily mean there will be interviews. As a new grad, if you adopt the shotgun approach, your chance of getting an interview is slim. Even when there’s an employee of the company recommending you, the process from getting in touch with the HR to the final interview will give you enough time to prepare. So there’s no need to worry or rush. Trust yourself that you’ll get ready. Once you’re ready, seize every opportunity to ask for a recommendation. Chance favors the prepared mind. If you are not well-prepared, you would probably spoil the opportunities.
After the planning, I found it difficult to teach myself Java. Due to an unrealistic expectation for a quick success, I followed whatever seasoned practitioners told me to do. And the result was that I had no clue what I was learning. I got frustrated by the questions on Leetcode because I hadn’t studied coding before. What made things worse, I didn’t know how to use data structures and I found the algorithm answers undecipherable, which pushed me into serious self-doubt. I even thought about giving up.
People always say that everything starts hard before it gets easy. More or less, everyone goes through what I experienced. When I was working on the first 100 questions, I felt like an idiot. It was mere rote memorization of the answers. Sometimes, I didn’t even understand them. But this was exactly the time when perseverance mattered the most. I had solved 300 questions in total, but there were many people who had finished 400. And during the process, there were several stages and I had found my own way of formulating solutions. Eventually, I could tell the right approach and the optimal solution the second I saw the question. My brain got faster than it once was.
• The first 100 questions-This is the hardest and most frustrating period of time because your brain is trying to formulate codes and a logic way to thinking.
• 100-200 questions- for some less challenging questions, you probably can write the framework, but your code writing is unsatisfactory and your way of thinking is not logic enough.
• 200-300 questions- you can think independently with no reliance on the answers. Although there may be some bugs, your algorithm is correct in most cases.
• 300-400 questions- you are adept at writing codes and enjoy doing it. You can optimize your own algorithms and codes.
Two stages of developing skills through solving questions
1.The beginner stage
• Every week, the questions BitTiger demonstrates during classes and leaves for homework are frequently tested ones. Work on these questions. Meanwhile, you can also find more questions on the internet which are prone to be tested as well.
• For the questions that you don’t know how to solve, there’s no need to waste too much time on them. Check answers if you can’t figure them out in 10 minutes.
• For questions that you don’t even understand. Type in all the codes provided by answers. Sometimes you’ll figure out after typing them in. If there is still something vague, ask someone for help.
• Unless you have a solid knowledge of CS or Mathematics, don’t bother with the optimal solution at this stage.
2.The intermediate-advanced stage
• Solve questions with different tags in accordance with your skill levels, such as from easy to medium and then to hard.
• If there’s an interview, focus on the questions frequently tested.
• Try to fully comprehend the solutions instead of memorizing them.
• Ensure the optimal solution. Take some time to think about the time and space complexities after solving the question.
Several tips about how to learn
1. learn to grow under pressure
• Know yourself. No one is perfect or able to absorb all knowledge overnight. Keep working hard and making progress.
• If you’re lost in the answer, try the solution with Test Case. Try it several times until you finally get it.
• Don’t depend on others. Think independently. At the beginning, repetitive question-solving is the only way to learn. For beginners, quantity breeds quality. Keep practicing.
• Think about how to learn, another master degree? an institute? or teaching yourself? I chose to learn with BitTiger because, as my friends recommended, it offers systematical training.
• Learn how to deal with pressure and anxiety. To do some exercise can reduce the level of anxiety and improve your study performance.
• Remember: avoid unnecessary social activities. When I first came to California, I found myself surrounded by so many geniuses. I thought it might be conducive to my career if I hung out more with them. But it turned out to be a waste of time as I was not ready then.
• Know your priorities. At that time, my priority was to survive and get offers so it was worthwhile to sacrifice some social activities.
2. Fill the CS knowledge gap
Try to gain some CS knowledge at spare time. Make the most of online training resources and strike a balance between acquiring new knowledge and practicing skills.
• Only solving question is not enough because algorism is not everything. As a matter of fact, during my interviews, the algorithms were a piece of cake. Instead, the interviewer asked me various technical questions about projects, such as Kafaka and Spark.
• Divide your time smartly. For example, you can practice your question-solving skills 6-8 hours a day, 7 days a week. But every night, you should spend 2-3 hours on projects. Make sure that you fully understand the point of each step of projects as much knowledge involved could be questions during an interview, such as what’s the difference between NoSQL and MySQL.
• Before sending out your CV, look at job descriptions and try to bone up popular technology stacks related to front end and back end like JS, RESRful, API, Django, Spark, Kafka, database, etc. It is unrealistic to expect yourself to be an expert in a short time, but you must know something about them just in case they pop up during interviews.
• Find some suitable projects to do on platforms or websites such as GitHub, BitTiger, Coursera, Udemy and Udacity. My personal choice is BitTiger and I have been doing projects on BitTigher since the beginning.
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