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Decentralized applications work differently from the centralized applications you’re accustomed to using. Here are a few core concepts you should know as you start using the Origin marketplace:
What is blockchain? Picture a spreadsheet that is duplicated thousands of times across a network of computers. Then imagine that this network is designed to update this spreadsheet regularly and you have a basic understanding of the blockchain. Information shared on the blockchain is constantly updated and verified, then duplicated to many locations. The end result is that everyone using the blockchain trusts that the data is accurate, meaning a lot of people that don't know each other can still interact and transact with each other safely. Decentralized Applications (DApps) running on the blockchain are not controlled by any central entity.  Private keys: Keep them secret. Keep them safe. While anyone can read information from the blockchain, to write to the blockchain you need to own the right private key. A private key is a secret that is randomly generated when you create a wallet. Nobody on earth knows it besides you (and it's too long to merely guess). The decentralized nature of the blockchain means that every individual needs to safeguard their own private key. This is harder than it sounds, and most people never had to do it before. With centralized services such as Google and Facebook, you did not control your data. Those services did, which is why you never had to truly own a private key. Be advised: If you lose all copies of your private key, there is no way to recover it. If someone gets their hands on a copy of your private key, they can steal all of your funds, and there is no way to undo it.  Wallets can be hardware devices (Ledger, Trezor), mobile apps (Coinbase Wallet, imToken, Trust Wallet), or a browser extension like MetaMask. All of these wallets will work with Origin. Here’s a video tutorial on how to set up MetaMask on your desktop browser: While MetaMask is generally the best wallet option for desktop users, we recommend using the Origin Marketplace mobile app Origin Wallet. Origin Marketplace offers the most convenient way to experience true peer-to-peer commerce from your mobile device. Acquiring ETH Before you can purchase anything using Origin, you will need to acquire ETH from an exchange or a friend. There are cryptocurrency exchanges in every region of the world. Coinbase is a popular choice that is currently available in 42 countries, but Google can help you find the best option for where you live. Once you obtain your initial ETH, you’ll want to transfer it to the wallet that you plan to use with the DApp so you can start buying and selling on the Origin marketplace. Getting Started Open Origin Marketplace or ShopOrigin.com to find something to buy or create your first listing today. If you have any questions as you’re getting started, please feel free to respond to this email or you can find our entire team on Discord. |


JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH 1996 A film review by Timothy Voon Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon 1 :-( for too much peach
Cast: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margoyles, Pete Postlethwaite; and the voices of Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Simon Callow, David Thewlis, and Jane Leeves Director: Henry Selick Producers: Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton Screenplay: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, and Steve Bloom based on the book by Roald Dahl
As a great fan of any Roald Dahl work and adaptation to screen, I was greatly disappointed with the results of 'James', when compared to the other recent adaptation of 'Matilda'. Perhaps the stick-like animated figures used for the most part of this movie, was what I found the most annoying and dissatisfying. One would expect Burton and Dahl to go hand in hand, as one has a tendency to paint dark moodiness and quirkiness into his characters and movies, whilst the other had an unhappy childhood which is reflected in the penniless 'Charlie', the disadvantaged 'Matilda' and the orphaned 'James'. However, this union is not to be.
'The Nightmare Before Christmas' effects on 'James' elegantly highlights Dahl's darker side, but somehow mutates that fine connection between fantasy and reality which makes Dahl believable and likeable. The cartoon stick figures have made this movie pure fantasy, and even a child with the greatest imagination will have great difficulty putting 'James' into perspective when compared to 'Charlie' or 'Matilda'. Then again this is one of Dahl's taller tales, I mean - giant, flying rhinoceroses swallowing parents, flying to New York on a giant peach pulled by 100 seagulls, and magical green crocodile tongues - really! I have to admit that when I read the novel as a child, I believed every word and remain to this day fascinated by the story of 'James'. Then again a child's imagination is so much more creative and magical than anything Hollywood could ever offer.
So I was disappointed by the look and portrayal of this story. 45 minutes into the movie I felt like ripping Mr Centipedes legs off, I wanted to divide Earth Worm into quarters, there was an incredible urge to grind Mrs Ladybug beneath my heels, followed by the desire to swat Mr Grasshopper and to 'Mortein' Ms Spider. I couldn't remember so much bickering aboard the crew of the Giant Peach. James looked anorexic and anaemic, and I had an incredible urge to insert a peripheral venous catheter and transfuse the poor lad with blood and parenteral nutrition.
THE SICK BOY AND JAMES by TMT Voon
Unwell, I watched 'James' with a raging fever, I had taken the day off to help the clouded mind recover, Perhaps against my better judgement, I thought 'James' would be the best medicine. So my analysis may appear virally septic, But I really did feel that 'James' would make me feel better, Instead I needed peaceful slumber, For watching this movie sure made me despise it.
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Toolbox
Toolbox is a collection of useful mixins, functions and classes. This file can operate independently of the framework,
you can grab it (_toolbox.scss
) to your project even without using Mate.
preview tollbox.scss on github
# Placeholders
%clearfix
%box-sizing--border
%box-sizing--content
%truncate
%hide-text
%word-wrap
%noselect
%disabled
# Mixins
Media queries breakpoint
@include respond-to($device)
@include respond-to($phone, $tablet--xs)
@include respond-to-custom($target-1, $media-1, $target-2: null, $media-2: null)
One of the most important mixin responsible for media queries and breakpoints for the purpose of RWD.
Available media breakpoints: $mobile
, $phone
, $tablet
, $tablet--xs
, $desktop
, $desktop--xl
$mobile
is responsible for range phone + tablet.
Breakpoints are defined in main settings file
EXAMPLES:
.element {
font-size: 3rem;
@include respond-to($mobile) {
font-size: 1.6rem;
}
@include respond-to-custom(min-width, 750px, max-width, 850px) {
bottom: 25%;
}
@include respond-to($phone, $tablet--xs){
height: auto;
overflow: initial;
}
}
Flex Box
@include display-flex($direction: null, $wrap: null, $justify-content: null, $align-items: null, $align-content: null)
@include flex-item($order: null, $flex-grow: null, $flex-shrink: null, $flex-basis: null, $align-self: null)
EXAMPLES:
.example-flex {
@include display-flex;
> div {
@include flex-item($flex-grow: 1);
}
}
.example-flex-with-params {
@include display-flex(row, wrap, null, stretch);
}
.example-flex-with-one-param {
@include display-flex($wrap: wrap);
}
Transforms
@include transform-custom($args...)
@include rotate($val)
Transitions
@include transition($list: all, $duration: $trans__base--duration, $timing: $trans__base--timing, $delay: $trans__base--delay)
@include transition-custom($args...)
EXAMPLES:
.element {
height: 500px;
padding: 15px;
margin-left: 90px;
top: 50px;
@include transition(margin-left);
&:hover{
margin-left: 180px
}
}
.element {
height: 500px;
padding: 15px;
margin-left: 90px;
top: 50px;
@include transition((height, top));
&:hover{
height: 700px;
top: 55px;
padding: 0;
}
}
.element {
height: 500px;
padding: 15px;
margin-left: 90px;
top: 50px;
@include transition((height, top), .25s, ease, .5s);
&:hover{
height: 700px;
top: 55px;
padding: 0;
}
}
Positioning
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@include centerer($axis: auto)
@include coverer
Others
@include gradient($gradient-color-from, $gradient-color-to, $direction: to bottom, $gradient-from-loc: null, $gradient-to-loc: null, $type: linear)
@include font-size($size, $line-height: null)
@include animation($args...)
@include filter($args...)
- Filters preview@include perspective($size)
@include placeholder($color: $text__color--muted, $font-size: inherit, $font-family: $font__base--regular)
- placeholder for form inputs@include svg-bkg($color)
- background-image with SVG


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It's a pleasure to welcome another eleven instructors to our team:
| Ewan Barr | Thomas Coudrat | Isabell Kiral-Kornek |
| Scott Kolbe | Andrew Lonsdale | Paula Andrea Martinez |
| Tom Remenyi | Jack Simpson | Mike Sumner |
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And an equal pleasure to welcome a twelfth, Mitchell Stanton-Cook, who was left off the original list because of an off-by-one error in a script. Oh, the irony...


Aggregation Internals
Aggregations allow data to be effectively summarized. The aggregation system in Penguin has been carefully designed to be type safe and extensible, while supporting efficient operations including parallelization across multiple cores.
We start with the core operation: recall, aggregation operations execute across the rows of a single
column and compute a result. This behavior is represented by the protocol AggregationOperation
.
At a high leve, the update(with:)
method will be called once for each entry in the column being
aggregated. Once the operation has seen all the data in a given column, finish()
is called, which
computes the result.
AggregationOperation
is designed to be fully general, and thus both the Input
and Output
types
are generic, and represented with associatedtype
‘s. This means you can write an
AggregationOperation
that takes String
s and returns Double
’s (e.g. computing the average
length of the strings in given column).
In order to support parallelism, the column may be divided into pieces and a separate instance of
the AggregationOperation
may be initialized. In order to compute a single overall answer, the
merge(with:)
method will be called until only a single instance remains, whose finish()
method
will be called to compute the final result.
Aggregation
and its subclasses (e.g. ArbitraryTypedAggregation
, NumericAggreegation
,
StringAggregation
, …) andAggregationEngine
’s work together with PTable
to efficiently
execute thee aggregation operation.
To learn how to write your own aggregation, check out the Custom Aggregations tutorial.
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AggregationOperation’s represent the per-group operations within a “split-apply-combine” analysis. Types conforming to the
AggregationOperation
protocol can be used as aggregation functions within a “groupBy” operation.Because
See moreAggregationOperation
s can be parallelized across multiple cores or hosts, they must support a “merge” operation, which can be used to aggregate the state within the operations themselves.Declaration
Swift
public protocol AggregationOperation
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Undocumented
See moreDeclaration
Swift
public class AggregationEngine
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Undocumented
Declaration
Swift
public class ArbitraryTypedAggregation : Aggregation
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Undocumented
Declaration
Swift
public class DoubleConvertibleAggregation : Aggregation
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Undocumented
Declaration
Swift
public class NumericAggregation : Aggregation
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Undocumented
Declaration
Swift
public class StringAggregation<Op> : Aggregation where Op : AggregationOperation, Op.Input == String


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JXTA Advertisements (pipes, services, etc.).
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A Blonde Leading the Blondes:
CBS' Courting Alex
by Christine Alice Corcos
After watching Close to
Home, I didn't have much hope for CBS' other attorney show,
Courting Alex, which debuted in January as a possible
replacement for Out of Practice, a medicomedy starring
Stockard Channing and Henry Winkler, two gifted actors who do
not, in my humble opinion, get nearly enough tv exposure. And
they certainly don't get it in this tired vehicle, but it's getting
better, so I'm happy to hear that it is coming back on Wednesday
nights.
First, in the interests of full
disclosure, I must admit that actress Jenna Elfman's charm eludes
me. I watched Dharma & Greg in reruns and what I liked
best about the show was not Elfman's wacky Dharma or Thomas Gibson's
uptight attorney Greg, but the supporting cast, the talented
Susan Sullivan and Mitchell Ryan as her upscale in-laws, and
Alan Rachins, an alumnus of L. A. Law, and Mimi Kennedy
as her holdover hippie parents. These old hands did so much with
so little. Otherwise the show began with a slight premise ("opposites
attract" couple marries on a whim and spends time discovering
each other in lieu of filing for divorce) and had nowhere to
go.
Courting Alex is more of the same. This time out, Elfman
plays the "Greg" character. She is the straight-laced
attorney, addicted to work, and unable to commit to a personal
life, whom her father, founding partner Bill Rose (played by
the great Dabney Coleman, doing a riff on his "Nelson Fox"
character in You've Got Mail (1998)) urges to find some
fun, and he hopes, a steady boyfriend. "You think too much.
It makes you a great lawyer, but it's the reason you're missing
out on all this good stuff, like fun, love, romance."
Shall we examine the "great lawyer" part of the equation?
When we first meet Alex, she's headed for a first date with an
ostensibly nice guy. They end up at a pleasant restaurant, to
which she brings a cell phone, and she proceeds to take a business
call while apologizing insincerely to her date. He finally calls
her himself, then bails. We are meant to think her behavior shows
how career-minded she is and how it demonstrates how desperately
she needs a man to show her how to have a good time. Frankly
all it shows me is that she is rude. I wouldn't continue to see
a man who did this to me on a first date, and if I did this to
someone, I'd certainly expect him to walk out. Is she truly a
"great lawyer"? Well, she works at her father's law
firm, and apparently has never worked anywhere else. And do career
women really need men to show them how to "have a good time"?
Is male companionship, charming as it is, quite so necessary
to the enjoyment of civilization?
The premise for the first episode, and as it turns out apparently
the next few outings, is that one of the firm's big clients wants
to develop the land across the street from the law firm's building.
The sticking point is the existence of a tavern right in the
middle of the block. The pub's owner won't sell. Alex has to
convince the owner to sell. Owner has turned over control to
his grandson, who turns out to be a cutie named Scott (Josh Randall
of Scrubs). Alex falls hard for Scott but does not of
course want him to know the extent to which her hormones have
engaged.
Scott tells her she's much too controlled. She insists she isn't.
Suddenly she kisses him, surprising both of them. Apart from
the inappropriateness of the behavior, this act seems so out
of character for Alex that we don't understand it. How are we
to absorb a woman who is both controlling and controlled, yet
willing to chase after a man she has just met, all in a single
day? Are we to believe that she reached the tipping point? Why?
What is it about this particular day that has pushed her over
the edge? Nothing in the script explains why THIS day is THE
day for Alex and THIS man is THE man. Frankly, nothing about
Scott tells us that either. As a character, he is dull and unimpressive,
much more dull and unimpressive than both the fellow Alex kept
ignoring at the restaurant, and Stephen, the lawyer at her firm
her father keeps pushing at her. From what we have seen of them,
these men are actually respectful and kind. Does she avoid nice
guys? Does she want a man who insults her? She would probably
call him "challenging."  Why has
she waited so long and looked so hard?
Stephen, by the way, is another unfortunate fellow Alex uses
as a toy. Scott pursues Alex to her office and to put him off,
she "accepts" Stephen's "offer" of dinner.
A startled Stephen takes her out and tries his best to keep her
amused. He ends the evening with every man's nightmare-hoping
against hope that that awkward goodnight kiss will persuade this
woman he admires to go out with him again even though he knows
in his heart he hasn't got a chance. And once again, she does
what some pretty women do, and really shouldn't-she manipulates
this pleasant but slightly boring guy in order to fend off the
advances of another man she secretly finds attractive. She hasn't
even given the poor schlub an opportunity to charm her. At least
she didn't take along her cell phone. Alex is, on the whole,
really not a very kind or particularly interesting woman. Stephen
is too good for her.
Meanwhile, the problem of the client who wants to buy out the
tavern has not gone away, and Dad still wants Alex to negotiate
a deal, which means more conflict. Scott, having informed her
that he will not sell, thinks the problem is resolved, and calls
her for a date. She dithers, and finally accepts after telling
him that seeing him again would not be a good idea.
I question several premises about any long term relationship
between these two (and any long-term future for this series).
First, if Alex is the high-powered career woman and the fascinating
creature that the writers want us to believe, I cannot accept
that she would find this phenomenally self-absorbed nonentity
attractive for more than a few minutes. If she is not, then they
deserve each other. Second, if he is as interesting and mercurial
as the writers want us to think, and as tied to family as he
says (and only someone who is would come back from an exciting
career as a Montana smoke jumper to take over a family tavern)
then he is not going to find a permanent relationship with a
high powered attorney very satisfying. Even if he finds her physically
attractive, they still need to share some values in order to
make such a commitment work. So far, they don't seem to, so someone
is going to have to change some opinions and beliefs. Who will
that be? Scott, who as we have discovered is a former investment
broker/smoke jumper/tavern owner who doesn't want to sell that
family business? Or Alex, the high powered expensively shod attorney
who hates to lose, doesn't like to cook and who loves her chic
apartment and her nutty friends? I haven't discussed them but
in sitcoms like this one they are obligatory and omnipresent.
I have trouble accepting a real love affair between these two.
In their initial meeting, Scott knows (or suspects) that Alex
is judging him, just as he is judging her, and he clearly resents
it. He obviously believes that he has already figured out how
to balance career and family, even though he is not married.
If he wants to chuck his life as a high income investment type
for something more adventurous and macho, then why not? If he
then decides that it's time to return to the city to take up
his place in the family business because family is more important,
then he is the only judge of what's best. But he also apparently
believes that he is entitled to say whatever he pleases about
a woman he has just met, and an annoyed yet apparently fascinated
Alex quite readily points this out to him. She then reverts to
a typical female stereotype, having apparently forgotten everything
she ever learned about assertiveness from her legal training.
She lets him take the lead in their conversation and in their
courtship, even though their communication should be entirely
professional and they should have no courtship. This kind of
writing dredges up every cliché in the romance lit handbook.
A few times she points out that "this is supposed to be
a negotiation. We are supposed to be negotiating." Right,
Alex.  Is she allowing him to lead her around
by the nose for strategic reasons? I thought for a few minutes
that her tactics were aimed at getting somewhere for negotiating
reasons, but increasingly, the script led in the direction of
romance. She loses her focus as an attorney and becomes more
and more a love starved thirty-something with a ticking biological
clock. Ugly sitcom reality sets in. Finally she rides off with
him in the middle of a workday, but not for business reasons.
Yet her client's interests are directly adverse to his, since
he has said he has no intention of selling and she has no reason
to disbelieve him. And Alex is a good lawyer? Neither she nor
her firm should be involved with this fellow. Does this show
have a legal consultant? If so, do the writers listen to him
or her?
Except for the first episode, which jump starts the Alex-Scott
romance, the number of legal situations in this show are so few
that I am increasingly certain that this show is not about a
lawyer at all. Courting Alex is interested in sending yet another
message to professional career women and their desires to "have
it all." In her first conversation with Scott, Alex discovers
that he used to be a successful stockbrocker and that he quit
to become a firejumper, then returned to New York to take on
the family business (the tavern) at the request of his grandfather.
Here is a very clear message to the ambitious Alex. Scott is
a man to whom career and social position mean very little-at
least, that is what he wants her to think. Family and time together
should be much more important.
He moves quickly to take over what free time she has-in a recent
episode her best male friend, Julian, complains she never has
time for him anymore. Scott moves rapidly to "fix"
that relationship by indicating to Julian that he is not jealous
of the man's bond with Alex just as he "fixes" the
rest of her life. Scott represents the "right man"
for the professional career woman. He is the man who is accepting
of her, because he no longer has to compete with her. He has
already had a comparable career, and has given it up willingly,
so he does not have to demonstrate that he is better than she
is. Scott is also a chef-Alex is a bad cook. He is a success
in the domestic realm as well.
Scott's tavern can apparently run itself-Scott is always available
to whisk Alex away on a date, regardless of the fact that Alex
has appointments with clients, as she is continually pointing
out to him. In a recent episode, he interrupts her busy day to
take her off "for two hours" to relax and to teach
her to be spontaneous. She objects but he prevails. The "two
hours" turn into an all day plane trip; she gets arrested
because she interferes with airport security in order to check
in at work, although he warns her against it. Again, the show
portrays him as right: she should have relaxed and heeded his
direction. When she discovers that her secretary and other attorneys
have taken care of her clients without her she is mortified.
The show plays Alex's insecurities about her career for laughs
(even though, remember, she is supposed to be a "great lawyer"),
but such insecurities are not necessarily funny, and when Alex
objects to Scott's interruptions, she is right to be concerned
at the very least, and he is wrong. If the situation were reversed,
if a woman were interrupting a man at the office, and he allowed
such interruptions, we would see him as weak and ineffectual.
We would not respect a male character who allowed a woman to
make such a fool of him. He would not be amusing, he would be
ridiculous. We would not believe that the characters around him
would not notice. By contrast, Alex doesn't risk losing professional
standing, precisely because her role as an attorney is so obviously
not central to the series. We don't take her seriously as an
attorney, because no one on the series does. The characters call
her an attorney, but we never see her functioning as an attorney-Scott
is always interrupting her. Her father is always telling her
to take time off. Whether she is at the office or away with Scott
doesn't really matter. She's simply playing at being a lawyer.
I object to this series for its trite writing and situations
involving a professional woman, particularly an attorney. Could
we substitute any other profession for that of lawyer and get
as many "laughs"? Physician? Engineer? University professor?
Airline pilot? It's not cute, it's frustrating, that in the early
21st century we still have presented to us a sitcom in which
a professional woman has reached the pinnacle of her career at
the age of 30 or so, and is now placing her search for a man
center stage, apparently because the creators, as well as Elfman
herself, cannot conceive of anything else as more interesting
to explore in this character's life. Does Alex really have nothing
left to aspire to than finding a husband and having children?
How convenient that in the first episode we discover that she
has already taken care of her career-thus it's time to seek a
relationship and produce children, to fulfill her womanly destiny.
I'm filing a 12(b)(6) motion on Courting Alex: failure
to state a storyline in which any kind of amusement, originality,
or insight can be found, and I'm reaching for the bicarbonate,
at least until I can watch Out of Practice once again.
That show has a real ensemble cast, something to say about careers
as well as relationships-and no lawyers.
Posted March 30, 2006
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Magnolia (1999)
review by Scott Hunt. Visit me at Movie Hunt http://netdirect.net/~hunt/index.html
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards, Willim H. Macy, Melora Walters, John C. Reilly, Phillip Baker Hall, Jeremy Blackman
Magnolia left me relling from the theatre, staggering from the relentless assault of an adventurous director reveling in his craft. At nearly three and a half hours, Magnolia will strike some as a brute of a film. It not only demands your attention, but challenges you to grasp the significance of seemingly unrelated storylines and hidden intentions. It is delirious, depressing, heady, pretentious, surreal filmmaking. It's also a movie that will polarize its viewers.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson takes a talented cast, wraps them in a net of interrelated stories and sets them spinning in a symphony of despair whose song doesn't let up until an oddly exhilerating, biblically influenced pseudo-climax. The character's make up a modern day Gomorrah in the soulless way in which they live their lives. There is Frank Mackey (Tom Cruise), a slithery snake charmer of men whose "Search and Destroy" seminars teach how to mentally rape a woman to get into her pants. There is Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), a dying media tycoon yearning to make amends for a lfe of callousness by finding his estranged son. There is game show host Jimmy Gator (Phillip Baker Hall), a self absorbed TV icon who is hiding more than a few secrets from his public. And there is police officer Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly), who cloaks himself in the codification of organized religion and the legal system, perhaps masking a man who needs rules to fuel his decision making process.
Given equal weight are stories involving a coke-addled emotional cripple (Melora Walters), a former TV quiz show champion (William H. Macy). a materialistic, adulterous wife (Julianne Moore), a child (Jeremy Blackman) victimized by a mentally abusive parent, and a caring, empathetic nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Hovering over all these characters is a cloud of death, lies and despair. It is not a pleasant movie.
There is not one bad note in the acting. It is affecting and layered and wonderful. There is a moment where Tom Cruise wordlessly implodes that rivals work he has done in whole films. Then he tops himself with a mesmerizing deathbed scene. Walters plays her character with red-eyed rawness and a fierce self-destructiveness that is anxiety inducing. Robards convincingly portrays a fading whisper of a man, who still hears a lion's roar when he speaks. Director Anderson has apparently given the actors lattitude to emote. The problem is that he stays on them too long. Julianne Moore's character, Linda, quickly escalates to a frenzied pitch of guilt, tears, screaming and remorse and never backs off from it. After a few hours, it turns from interesting to chinese water torture. Quite a few scenes, such as the game show, go on just a bit too long and will be off-putting for those used to a pat 90 minute film where the main theme is reiterated several times just in case you missed it the first go around.
And just what is the theme? Alienation? Hopelessness? Anderson challenges you to draw your own conclusions and he doesn't make it easy. The film starts by showing three, strange and seemingly unrelated events. It's a harbinger of the synchronicity to come. At times, different stories reach reach key moments at the same time. Other times, stories seem to veer off into uncharted territory, regardless of what else is happening. Anderson is audacious enough to even have a group sing in the middle of the film! What's surprising is that it mostly works. If you have doubts about Anderson's intentions, I'll ask you to pay attention to the final frame. Despite all the Sturm und Drang, Magnolia ultimately speaks to man's capacity for hope and attempts at redemption.
Despite Magnolia's needlessly long running time and its propensity for uneven editing as Anderson plays the auteur, showing off fro the masses, I have to admire his guts. This is truly adventurous filmmaking that spits in the face of conventional storytelling.
My rating: A Bulleye. (4 out of 4 stars)
A side note: Helping anchor the film is a perfectly matched soundtrack featuring Aimee Mann. Her lyrics often add depth to a scene thematically while the actual music is both morose and beautiful. When she sings "Save Me" at the end, it enhances the yearning felt by the characters, just as "Wise Up" mirrors the anguish felt by all as they contemplate their lives.
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7 Wonders
Played -
Group - My gaming group
- Player One - 50pts
- Player Two - 49pt
- Player Three - 49pts
- Player Four - 4pts
First win for Player One at 7 Wonders.
Player Two has moved up rank in My gaming group.
Played -
Group - My gaming group
First win for Player One at 7 Wonders.
Player Two has moved up rank in My gaming group.
This game sucked.
Player Two cheated as per usual.


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A Time I was Blocked On A Simple Problem
A time I got very stuck and very frustrated on a simple problem was when I was trying to apply styling to my blog page. I had a specific idea in mind and I knew the steps I had to take to implement the styling. Once I had finished inputting all the CSS styling I clicked over to my webpage to check that it looked as I had planned only to find that nothing had changed. I spent aaages trying to figure out what the problem was; I changed the classes around, I deleted old classes that I thought were overriding the new ones I’d put in. In the end I decided I’d spent too long trying to fix it so I would just upload the page as is and move onto my next task. When I uploaded the page and published the link to the study group Slack chat, I asked if anyone could possibly offer a second pair of eyes on my code to see if they could figure out what was going on. To my embarrassment, as well as relief, someone was able to point out that I had simply misspelled a crucial piece of the code so that it wasn’t being recognised in other parts of the web page. Once I fixed the typo, everything fell into place.
A Time I Solved A Problem In An Elegant Way
While doing the FIzzBuzz challenge I was a little stumped. I had a rough idea of what kind of javascript code I was going to have to use to get the desired results of the tests but I needed a springboard to get me on the right path. I googled (yep - elegantly googled!) some sample code for how to solve the problem and ended up finding a great resource that explained a simple way of solving the problem as well as more complicated variations of coming to the same solution. The resource, a series of blogs on the website Medium, ended up being a good source for further reading as well.
Problem Solving Techniques
- Pseudocode
- Something
- Rubber Ducky Method
- Reading Error Messages
- Console Logging
- Googling
- Asking Peers For Help
- Asking Coaches For Help
- Improving My Process With Reflection
I find this useful but also kind of confusing because I have to think about the code in two languages - english and code. This is obviously very useful because it’s strengthening my understanding of what I’m actually doing.
A good technique. The only drawback is I find that I sometimes leave a messy trail behind me of forgotten broken code!
Haven’t tried this yet. Seems crazy but people seem to love it!
Error messages are helpful but don’t always make sense to me. At least it’s obvious that something is broken and I can just copy paste the error into google.
Very handy technique to output code directly to the console and see if the code is working correctly.
My best method for problem solving so far.
This is probably right up there with google! Both the facilitators and others in the study group have helped me out of a tricky spot more than once.
Asking coaches is great, I get my hand held up to a solution so it sort of feels like I’ve done it myself, and I get some extra info and a wee pep talk to let me know I’m doing ok.
Reflecting has been helpful because it helps me to remember the parts that I’ve found tricky so I can revisit them easily later.


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- If you have not already, be sure you have accessed the Global Settings interface, configured the software settings how you want them, and saved the settings. You will continue to see the Global Settings dialog display if you have not properly saved your settings.
- Before you can begin adding videos, you will need to setup at least one Category. Use the Categories > Add New Category function to display the dialog window where you can add your first category.
- Add some Reasons. The software uses Reasons for various purposes, and you will want to setup at least a few Reasons that users can select from when they flag or feature a video (otherwise they won't be able to do this). Use the Settings > Reasons > Add New Reason to add reasons.
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A Bayesian network, also called Bayes network, belief network, Bayes(ian) model or probabilistic directed acyclic graphical model is a probabilistic graphical model (a type of statistical model) that represents a set of random variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG). [From Wikipedia]
Bayesian inference is an approach to answer probability queries about the underlying probability distribution.
The junction tree algorithm (also known as 'Clique Tree' or 'Join Tree') is a method to extract marginalization. In essence, it entails performing belief propagation on a modified graph called a junction tree. [From Wikipedia]
This site is supposed to help you understand the junction tree algorithms in terms of Hugin propagation and Shafer-Shenoy propagation.
This site is for tutorial purpose, not for the real-world application.
If you require any further information, feel free to contact me<EMAIL_ADDRESS>For the sake of simplicity, the name of a variable must be a single letter in uppercase, which means there are 26 variables at most. All of the variables are binary-valued, and all value is in lowercase.
For example: A = {a, -a}, T = {t, -t}.
To answer the query, we need to generate the junction tree.
The first step of generating a junction tree is moralizing the original DAG.
To transform a DAG to the moral graph, add edges between all pairs of nodes that have a common child, and remove all directions.
In this step, we need to transform the moralized graph to the triangulated graph. To do so, we need perform maximum cardinality search(MCS) algorithm to determin the ordering. After obtaining the ordering, make the ordering perfect by adding edges to the moral graph. The new graph with perfect ordering is the triangulated graph.
MCS algorithm and the concept of perfect ordering can be found online. You can also read the source code of all alorithms.
A junction tree is constructed from a triangulated graph. The process contains three steps.
The weight of an edge of a spanning tree is the number of common nodes shared between the cliques.
If a clique includes all variables in a CPT, then that CPT is assigned to the clique. For example, CPT of A is P(C|B,A), and a clique consists of variable A,B,C,D, then CPT of A is assigned to the clique. Because {C,B,A}⊆{A,B,C,D}.
After the junction tree is obtained, we can start to propagate messages to get marginals. In this tutorial, two propagation algorithms are mentioned - Hugin and Shenoy-Shafer.
In Hugin propagation. For each edge, there is a seperator whose domain is the intersection of the two cliques. There is a root node, and it involves two phases - inward and outward. After the propagation is done, all cliques and seperators become marginals. For example, Φ(C,D) => P(C, D)
In Shenoy-Shafer propagation, For each edge, there are two seperators for each direction. There is no root node. After propagation is done, all cliques become marginals.
Drag the variables into the query set or evidence set. For the sake of simplicity, you can't specify any value.
Variables spawned in step 1:


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15 People Who Thought They Were Ready to Become Parents but Realized It Was a Huge Mistake
Though children are incredibly cute, they can do things that can make their parents question whether they should laugh or cry. From a kid’s perspective, it’s absolutely OK to paint their dad’s face or burst into tears because they weren’t allowed to sample wood chips. There are even a lot of embarrassing situations that happen to children because of smartphones — check the GIF image at the end of this compilation.

15. Someone got vandalized.
I had to work overnight last night and while taking a nap today I was vandalized. I have a picture and have detained 2 suspects, but one is keeping silent. The only one who can speak, blamed it on the 4-legged suspect who has no hands to pull off such a stunt. Thanks to my neighbor for pointing out that I had marker all over my face when I took the 4-legged suspect for a walk before I realized that I was vandalized.
14. “My daughter finally realized that we don’t take her to Paris every weekend.”
13. “I won’t let him eat wood chips.”
12. Waiting for mom near the fitting rooms:
11. “My daughter was having a tantrum, and hid her face under a pillow. The results were Devine!”
10. “My 7-year-old daughter couldn’t find her shoes today.”
9. “Apparently 3-year-old me had never heard of a bed.”
8. My 2-year-old: “I want to play with those toys, mom.”
7. “My darling daughter did this once with my laptop.”
6.  Your future is not in the arts.”
5. “Told my daughter she could have a chocolate donut, but that she had to give me half. I need to be more specific next time.”
4. “We’re in a tunnel that runs through a massive shark enclosure, and this is the first thing he gets excited about.”
3. “My friend’s daughter ’made her own stickers.’”
2. “Took my daughter shopping. She had to have this hat. Compromised with just taking a picture!”
1. “We went to the beach to find shark teeth, so when my daughter yelled, ’I found teeth!’ this was the last thing I was expecting.”
Bonus: A kid glued to his phone walks off with the wrong parents.
Do your kids often surprise you? Did you play tricks on your parents when you were a child?
Preview photo credit Buff_52 / Reddit


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The below graphs show the 731 responses to the original survey.
The first two questions bin a response and are the independent variables for the statistical analysis later. The next six questions concern how up-to-date people feel to the NBA. The next five gauge social connections to the NBA environment on /r/nba. The last six questions concern engagement with NBA basketball.
Given how people participate in other online communities (lighter shade does not, darker does) and talks basketball in daily life (blue does not talk, green does), how does that affect how people interact and feel current with the NBA?
Statistical bullshit: Although the questions were designed to elicit responses on three scales (current with NBA, interaction in /r/nba, feeling a part of the NBA community), factor analysis yielded five unique scales (from no inflection point in the Scree test, so utilizing the Kaiser criterion yielded five components with eigenvalues above 1.0). None of the scales met the threshold for Chronbach's α of 0.7 (0.68, 0.67, 0.54, 0.51, 0.51), probably because this was my first time trying to write consistent questions for a survey.
Since the survey was a between-subjects design (a person can only answer questions from a unique combination of independent variables), a two-way ANOVA was performed for all five scales. Two of the scales (below) yielded statistically significant differences between groups. Red error bars show standard error. Significance with p < 0.05 are shown in red.
People have favorite teams, but they also like to root for other teams. Which teams have fans who are jumping on the bandwagon, and which people are jumping ship?
Mouseover (or tap on mobile) the team logos (ordered by each axis) to highlight the corresponding line. The left axis describes the number of people who have that team as their favorite, and the right axis has the number of people rooting for that team this year. The higher the slope of the line, the more the bandwagon effect.


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W component.
X axis component.
Y axis component.
Z axis component.
Constructs a new quaternion.
| w | w component. |
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| y | y component. |
| z | z component. |
Overload:
Constructs a new copy.
| quat | The Quaternion to copy. |
Returns the inverse of the quaternion
Normalizes the quaternion
Returns the dot product.
| quat | The other quaternion. |
Returns the squared length.
Quaternion string meta method.
Quaternion subtraction meta method.
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I heard about the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship from @beep, who had really nice things to say:
I deeply respect the work done by the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship AND the people working on it. Here’s @kissane’s take: http://t.co/tRCOCQU9lC
— Ethan Marcote (@beep) August 13, 2014
Right away it seemed like a perfect opportunity to put myself in a position where I am completely immersed in technology problems —precisely what I had been looking for— while exploring a new domain: journalism.
August 13, 2014 @ 10:41amThrough careful analysis and a thorough feasability assessment (discussing the idea with my awesome encouraging wife), I decided to apply.
I wrote a quick draft answering every application question and sat on it for a bit. After reviewing my resume and adding more detail about what I had accomplished in the past, I sent it in.
Immediately after submitting I tried to put it out of my mind because it seemed too far-fetched.
August 14, 2014 @ 12:13pmI am relaxing on vacation with my family in Brazil when I get an email from Erika Ownens from OpenNews with the subject line "Knight-Mozilla Fellowship update - we want to chat with you".
WHAT? It continues "Congratulations, you are a semifinalist for the 2015 Fellowship!". WHAAA?!!!
That was a huge surprise. I did a little happy dance, then exchanged some emails with Erika to set up a Skype call.
September 5, 2014 @ 6:12pmI was fully on vacation mode. My brain had been speaking Portuguese for 10 days. To put it simply, interviewing with Erika and Dan Sinker (OpenNews' Director) was not my most eloquent moment.
I felt it was not a good first impression and it did not do justice to neither my experience nor my enthusiasm for the fellowship.
Confident that I was out of the run at that point, I bothered my wife with moping and sadness for a few days. I felt defeated.
September 11, 2014 @ 10:00amThe next time I hear from OpenNews, it was to tell me I'm a finalist and that NPR wants to talk to me. This seemed simultaneously fantastic and absurd; I needed a moment to fully absorb the news. It also felt so fast! So far this Fellowship business was all emotional highs and lows!
The next several days are spent stalking Brian Boyer on the Internet reading everything I could possibly find about the NPR Visuals team, with whom the fellowship partners with, wherein I find basically everything I could hope to hear.
The way they work and how they position themselves is so on point that I wish I could start the next day, but more importantly, I'm giddy about their expression of what they are about and how aligned with my values and strenghts those sentiments are.
I become more excited than it is healthy for someone who cannot tell anyone about this. Ugh.
September 19, 2014 @ 4:48pmAs a manager, I spend a significant amount of time interviewing people, so I come to this round prepared with a long list of prioritized questions, hoping to get at least some of them answered. I definitely didn't want a repeat of my first interview, effective as it was.
It turns out Brian Boyer —who leads the NPR Visuals team— has the warmest most welcoming interview style which makes it all flow like a big old chat. It could have easily happened on a pub over hard cider. During the call I get answers to everything I was curious about, and hopefully convince everyone I'm their woman.
I knew some relevant things about NPR that I learned from smart people I know and admire, but it was great to get more insight about what the Visuals team is all about. The excitment mounts!
September 24, 2014 @ 1:30pmA delightful email from Dan Sinker informs me I've been selected as the 2015 Knight-Mozilla fellow with NPR. Booyah!!!
After almost two months of secrecy I'm just about to burst. If you know me at all you know I am quite loquacious on Twitter. So this happens:
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— Livia Labate (@livlab) October 2, 2014
October 2, 2014 @ 4:49pm
I took a day off from work and went to DC to meet the NPR Visuals team. I learned a little bit about them over lunch, asked one million questions, and got a tour of the AWESOME NPR newsroom. I can't wait.
October 14, 2014 @ 11:30amWhile in London to attend the Mozilla Festival I had the pleasure of finally meeting the OpenNews team in person: Dan Sinker, Erika Ownens, Ryan Pitts, and Erin Kissane. They worked furiously behind-the-scenes producing and coordinating the various types of communications used to officially announce the fellowship to the world!
I also met my fellow Fellows for the first time! Juan will work with La Nacion in Buenos Aires, Julia with CIR in Emeryville, CA, Linda with The Guardian in London, and Tara & Francis on The Coral Project (NYT/WaPo partnership) based in New York City.
The cat was finally out of the bag. I shouted from the #mountaintops:
I'm thrilled to share I am the 2015 Knight-@Mozilla Fellow working with @nprviz. Thank you @opennews, let's do this! http://t.co/lV8PqCxOkQ
— Livia Labate (@livlab) October 22, 2014
Then we're off to celebrate.
October 22, 2014 @ 7:00pmThis is the story thus far. Stay tuned for more and keep in touch.
Here's our MozFest debut, in images:
The 2014 cohort of knight-mozilla fellowships receiving a warm #MozFest welcome! @opennews pic.twitter.com/0InKxRfntt
— Kurt Allyster Lee (@kurtalee) October 26, 2014
Yay! 2015 #opennews fellows! #MozFest2014 pic.twitter.com/590VeWs3p4
— Aron Pilhofer (@pilhofer) October 26, 2014
@hyper_linda another shot of you all looking excited/terrified :) pic.twitter.com/bMrottySzo
— Imran Ghory (@imranghory) October 27, 2014
How do you like my queen-style wave?
And here's a great visual story of MozFest.
October 24-26, 2014


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| int | image_width |
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| var | scene3d |
| var | scene3d_left |
| var | scene3d_right |
| bool | force_width |
| bool | show_fps |
| int | output_type |
| bool | is_running |
| string | output_url |
| var | viewfinder |
| real | scaleDots |
| bool | show_blobs |
| bool | show_markers |
| bool | force_image |
| bool | avr_mode |
| bool | disable_menu |
| bool | markers_visible |
| var | mvp_matrix |
This component is included inside user applications and displays AR scene by implementing the QML interface to the QMLAR library. See README.md for more examples.
Usage:
Coordinates are in millimeters System (QML): x right, y down, origin: top-left
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| x_mm | The clicked point x coordinate (right) on the activity in mm |
| y_mm | The clicked point y coordinate (down) on the activity in mm |
Emitted only of markers are visible now.
| void ARComponent::load_scene3d | ( | ) |
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| void ARComponent::load_viewfinder | ( | ) |
(internal) create viewfinder component
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A component containing a 3D scene (with .createObject() method)
| var ARComponent::arSceneObject |
The resulting object created by arSceneComponent.createObject() call Useful for modifying scene properties at runtime.
| var ARComponent::arSceneParameters |
Parameters to the arSceneComponent passed on creation Default value: ({})
| bool ARComponent::avr_mode |
Enable Augmented Virtual Reality (AVR) mode, showing 2 cameras, for left and right eye Default value: false
| int ARComponent::camera_id |
ID of the camera to use. Set to -1 to use the default value. Usually the builtin webcam is 0 and the USB cam is 1. Default value is -1.
| bool ARComponent::disable_menu |
Disables the ability to enter the hidden menu by pressing at the center of the screen Default value: false
| bool ARComponent::force_image |
Force using QImage+Timer instead of Viewfinder (debug option) Default value: false
| bool ARComponent::force_width |
Set to true to resize the component based on width property preserving aspect ration. Valid only before startup, further changes have no effect. If false, no size adjustments will be made. Default value: true
| string ARComponent::image_filename |
Path to image to open in AR.INIT_IMAGE mode Default value: assets/sample.png
| int ARComponent::image_width |
Set the image width for image processing pipeline (CPU-based). Must be set before creation, otherwise has no effect. Default value: 640
| int ARComponent::init_type |
Set the image source, one of AR.INIT_CAMERA – use camera backend. AR.INIT_IMAGE – use fixed image (from FS) backend. Default value is AR.INIT_CAMERA.
| bool ARComponent::is_running |
Start/pause computation
| bool ARComponent::markers_visible |
An output which shows whether or not markers are visible right now
| var ARComponent::mvp_matrix |
Returns 4x4 ModelViewProjection matrix used for rendering
| int ARComponent::output_type |
What to show on the component? AR.OUTPUT_MARKERS – display dots and markers from the detector. AR.OUTPUT_CAMERA – display raw camera image. Has no effect on Android if camera is used, because it uses Viewfinder to output image. Default value: AR.OUTPUT_CAMERA
| string ARComponent::output_url |
(internal) QQuickImageProvider url, used if viewfinder is unavailable. This image is updated using a Timer
| real ARComponent::scaleDots |
(internal) The scaling coefficient for ARBlobs
| var ARComponent::scene3d |
(internal) The AR3DScene.qml object, containing camera and render settings
| var ARComponent::scene3d_left |
(internal) The AR3DScene.qml object, containing LEFT camera and render settings. Used only in AVR mode
| var ARComponent::scene3d_right |
(internal) The AR3DScene.qml object, containing RIGHT camera and render settings. Used only in AVR mode
| bool ARComponent::show_blobs |
Display detected blobs? Default value: false
| bool ARComponent::show_fps |
Show FPS/Latency/Framedrop status at the top of the component? Default value: true
| bool ARComponent::show_markers |
Display detected markers? Default value: false
| var ARComponent::viewfinder |
(internal) The viewfinder object for Android


OS Class Reference
#import <OS.h>
List of all members.
Detailed Description
Definition at line 5 of file OS.h.
Member Function Documentation
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Initializes the class with a numeric identifier identifying the record in the database. Intended to be used by objects that load themselves from the database only.
Reimplemented from BDO.
Definition at line 10 of file OS.m.
Member Data Documentation
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- (NSString *) tag [protected] |
Definition at line 6 of file OS.h.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
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class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Crowdfunding for healthcare in Australia: who and why? ## Wiser Healthcare meeting ### Kelsey Chalmers (Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney) ### March 2019 --- background-image: url("https://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*455/border+wall+gofundme.jpg") background-size: 80% background-position: 50% 50% class: center, inverse # What is crowdfunding? ??? - Research is at very early stage. Planning and background. - Very interested in feedback, and also if *anyone is interested in getting involved* - Briefly: crowdfunding is now a well-known internet phenomenon, - Anyone can create a page -- set a donation goal -- tell a story about what the money will be used for -- share on social media -- doners can comment on and share the pages as well -- - Used for all sorts of donations - including -- political campaigns -- new interventions -- research programs -- and of course health care costs - GoFundMe is the most popular crowdfunding page in the world - Most of the donations on GoFundMe go towards health care costs --- background-image: url("https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRDAcRaxCoR_uskA-hVBBTNKKaSzqEk0TTkOjZAra17QdhnSLVjyA") background-size: 55% background-position: 50% 70% class: center, inverse # Crowdfunding for healthcare costs ??? - So these GoFundMe pages have been around for 10 or so years - More researchers are starting to investigate these pages - Most of the research has been done in the US, where these pages are really popular. It's not surprising considering the high cost of health care and the number of uninsured people. - People who post GoFundMe campaigns in the US don't have to *justify* why they are seeking the funds, because everyone is so familiar with stories of medical bankruptcy. --- class: centre # Why investigate crowdfunding? > [Crowdfunding is a] "symptom and cause of, rather than a solution to, health system injustices... It is important to address the ethical and practical effects of crowdfunding for campaigners, recipients, donors' and health systems." .footnote[ Snyder, J., et al. (2016). "Fund my treatment!: A call for ethics-focused social science research into the use of crowdfunding for medical care." Social Science & Medicine 169: 27-30. ] ??? - John Snyder has published a number of recent pieces on crowdfunding, starting with this call to action viewpoint piece in 2016. --> --- background-image: url("https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/7ddfb0e2-e650-4dc9-aaa5-549b7ab54808/bju14408-fig-0001-m.jpg") background-size: 60% background-position: 50% 50% #Crowdfunding for healthcare costs Figure: Word clouds for crowdfunding campaigns for prostate cancer and breast cancer. .footnote[ Loeb, S., et al. (2018). "Crowdfunding for prostate cancer and breast cancer." BJU International 122(5): 723-725. ] ??? - So what do we know about crowdfunding so far? - Some research in this area has had a quantitative approach: investigating conditions for particular diseases or in particular locations. - This is one piece from the US where they investigated breast and prostate cancer pages. - Other recent work has also focussed on pages for organ transplantation, and orthopaedic surgery. - These investigations look at the 'success' rates of these campaigns, and what about these pages (such as the number of social media shares or set goal) make them more likely to raise money. --- background-image: url("https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/937583/jld180035t2.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=yRbDxctku9zpzaaq3Gx~MhwvCpYCPqkr9B2lg9-21xCer75uEJTiKPZSjLdZcu6wiSmHNqCr0mvlzD9b4fqoReSH0mD9QNAK-CqSH3u0LCQi5ucEGpuR78cV-oMftkSivpFFBtCnRSTO21EBmWBYS9raWgjDQd3Q-GWnW7Is3nSPcStj1ptTIwmc5V9cI~GZAr3m6-q0PWS2neYS7RkIJ21Z09z3qNzyTJOLt6LYiwB6QoWA6XzqmsRG~WlTjglKf6y5Af34xtHtoYWQoohjAGz4BtOrnrxdObo63MbwyRPADnWJ9Ovv~KumSAcoZ9kwE34DXhLcrNKdbhnn6midDQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA") background-size: 90% background-position: 50% 50% #Crowdfunding for unproven or low-value treatments .footnote[ Vox, F., et al. (2018). "Medical Crowdfunding for Scientifically Unsupported or Potentially Dangerous Treatments." JAMA 320(16): 1705-1706. ] ??? - Some new research has asked whether these funds are going towards unproven or low-value treatments. - There was a piece in JAMA last year where the authors searched GoFundMe for five unsupported treatments. - They found 1000 campaigns, seeking $27 million in total. <!-- --- --> <!-- #Crowdfunding for unproven or low-value treatments --> <!-- 220 campaigns on GoFundMe for unproven homeopathy cancer treatments --> <!-- - 83 (38%) used alternative treatments as complementary to traditional treatment. --> <!-- - 69 (31%) could not pursue traditional treatment for financial or medical reasons. --> <!-- - 63 (29%) chose to forgo traditional treatment because of a fear of its effects or skepticism about activity. --> <!-- .footnote[ --> <!-- Snyder, J. and T. Caulfield (2019). "Digital Oncology Patients' crowdfunding campaigns for alternative cancer treatments." Lancet Oncology 20(1): 28-29. --> <!-- ] --> <!-- ??? --> <!-- - A really recent study published in Lancet Oncology looked for campaigns from cancer patients that were looking to fund homeopathy. --> <!-- --- --> <!-- #Crowdfunding for unproven or low-value treatments --> <!-- 63 (29%) campaigns made unsubstantiated, positive claims about the activity of these treatments. --> <!-- > "Thus far, he's been immersed in cancer-fighting foods, supplements, herbs, etc. we believe this is why the tumour growth has slowed, and not spread" --> <!-- >"Homeopathic/naturopathic medicine has been proven to have outstanding healing results and a lot of patients are still able to live their lives because of it.". --> <!-- .footnote[ --> <!-- Snyder, J. and T. Caulfield (2019). "Digital Oncology Patients' crowdfunding campaigns for alternative cancer treatments." Lancet Oncology 20(1): 28-29. --> <!-- ] --> <!-- ??? --> <!-- - These researchers looked at how these campaigners had described the evidence of these treatments. --> <!-- - Only two (1%) campaigns acknowledged the uncertain activity of these treatments. --> <!-- --- --> <!-- background-image: url("https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/heaa/0/heaa.ahead-of-print/1363459319829194/20190219/images/large/10.1177_1363459319829194-fig1.jpeg") --> <!-- background-size: 80% --> <!-- background-position: 50% 60% --> <!-- # Crowdfunding for unproven stem cell treatments --> <!-- .footnote[ --> <!-- Tanner, C., Munsie, M., Sipp, D., Turner, L., & Wheatland, C. (2019). The politics of evidence in online illness narratives: An analysis of crowdfunding for purported stem cell treatments. Health. --> <!-- ] --> <!-- ??? --> <!-- - Claire Tanner and Megan Munsie from the University of Melbourne have been looking at stem cell treatments for quite a while, --> <!-- - really recently they've published their analysis of GoFundMe pages for unproven stem cell treatments --> <!-- - most of these pages came from the United States --> <!-- --- --> <!-- # Crowdfunding for unproven stem cell treatments --> <!-- > "[T]hese sites are uniquely contributing to a blurring of boundaries between legitimate medical care and exploitative clinical practices." --> <!-- > The politics of evidence is not a question of quality, but 'who has the power to control the definition of evidence, who defines the kinds of materials that count as evidence, who determines what methods best produce the best form of evidence, whose criteria and standards are used to evaluate quality evidence.'" --> <!-- .footnote[ --> <!-- Tanner, C., Munsie, M., Sipp, D., Turner, L., & Wheatland, C. (2019). The politics of evidence in online illness narratives: An analysis of crowdfunding for purported stem cell treatments. Health. --> <!-- ] --> --- class: centre, inverse # Research questions ## The who and why of crowdfunding in Australia ??? - So within the literature, there has been investigations on the positives and mostly negatives of crowdfunding, and mostly looking in the United States - But online crowdfunding is also not too uncommon in Australia, and our health care system is quite different to America. - So we want to know... -- .bold[Who] is crowdfunding their health expenses in Australia? - What are the conditions? - Age groups and other demographics? -- .bold[Why] are they crowdfunding their health expenses in Australia? - System issues? (Medicare coverage, private health insurance, out-of-pocket costs) - What are the costs? (treatments, travel, loss of income) --- # Crowdfunding in Australia - $89,000 / $100,000 goal > "On the 17th of December our beautiful mum... was very unexpectedly diagnosed with a stage 4 Glioblastoma brain tumour. This tumour is extremely aggressive and because of a complication during her initial surgery surgeons are reluctant to perform another operation to completely remove the tumour. The average person survives roughly 12 months with this type of brain tumour. > We are not ready to say goodbye in 12 months and will fight this to the end. We are currently looking at alternative therapy and surgery but the cost is going to be astronomical and unfortunately mum doesn't have health insurance or income protection so this is where we need some help. We will need $100,000 for her therapy and surgeries." <!-- --- --> <!-- # Crowdfunding in Australia --> <!-- - $5,845 / $35,000 goal --> <!-- > "...But this week R had to go to hospital for urgent surgery because she was at risk of organ failure and issues were compounding. She was told to have surgery quickly, or risk taking decades off her life expectancy." --> <!-- > "So she took $30,000 out of her superannuation to pay for the surgery and is currently in recovery. But $30K in super now would be worth $200,000 when she retires from a lifetime of helping other people and the world." --> --- # Crowdfunding in Australia - $65,645 / $60,000 goal > "J's cancer story starts in March, 2018 ... they had found a tumour in her colon." > "J is looking at all options of treatment including alternative therapies to complement western medicine and is currently pursuing diet, exercise, meditation, yoga, acupuncture and chinese medicine." > "The stress of dealing with the financial impact of cancer and trial treatments (which are not covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme aka PBS) plus chemo medication & all the daily living expenses is extremely challenging for J and her family. Immediately after her diagnosis J had to stop working and the cancer and it's side effects do not allow her to work at all." > "Our aim is to relieve this immense pressure on the family so the family can afford daily living costs and J can be free to try whatever treatment she needs to heal." --- # Current stage Discussions with researchers who have recently published on crowdfunding - Berliner, L. S. and N. J. Kenworthy (2017). "Producing a worthy illness: Personal crowdfunding amidst financial crisis." Social Science & Medicine 187: 233-242. - Tanner, C., Munsie, M., et al. (2019). The politics of evidence in online illness narratives: An analysis of crowdfunding for purported stem cell treatments. Health. ??? - Like I said earlier, this is at an early stage. - One nice thing about this being an 'emerging' research interest and problem is that people are really interested in discussing their ideas. - Lauren Berliner from University of Washington Bothell - social scientist and internet research. Visiting Australia later this year, still really interested in this space. - Claire & Megan are from University of Melbourne, Centre for Stem Cell Systems. They've published a lot on stem cell treatments, medical tourism, and the issues around evidence... this was their first piece on crowdfunding (looked at global campaigns and not just Australian) -- Planning research outline and methods ??? - We're looking at getting on overview or sample of GoFundMe pages, but this is complicated because they are organised according to what's currently 'trending' - And for the data analysis it'll likely be a mixed methods approach to answer the two questions on the *who* and *why* -- Draft proposal for ethics application ??? - Planning: feedback and getting involved in the project...? - Ethics application: advice from the ethics office is to submit an application and request a waiver of consent. <!-- --- --> <!-- # Proposed methods --> <!-- Data sample & collection --> <!-- -- --> <!-- - 'Random' sample...? --> <!-- - Extract trending campaigns from https://au.gofundme.com/discover/medical-fundraiser --> <!-- - Check other popular websites --> <!-- -- --> <!-- Data analysis: mixed methods approach --> <!-- - Descriptive statistics of patient demographics --> <!-- - Content analysis on the *why* of crowdfunding --> --- class: inverse # Potential impact of project -- System issues: - Crowdfunding (or other alternative funding sources) + public-private healthcare system = *more private patients??* - Inequities in crowdfunding: *who deserves donations?* -- Out-of-pocket stress: - Potential data source and more information on out-of-pocket costs -- Low-value or unproven treatments: - If *appropriate* care funded by Medicare, what is GoFundMe funding? --- background-image: url("https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S1470204518309501-fx1_lrg.jpg") background-size: 100% background-position: 50% 50% ??? Thank you & feedback... <!-- --- --> <!-- # Crowdfunding: the good versus the bad --> <!-- ## Negatives: --> <!-- Fake campaigns (fraud) --> <!-- Loss of patient privacy --> <!-- Inequity --> <!-- .bold[Funding for unproven interventions] --> <!-- -- --> <!-- ## Positives: --> <!-- Alternate/new funds for research --> <!-- Funding for individual patients that are 'left behind' in the current system -->


Comscore, SimilarWeb now measurement partners for Malaysian Digital Association to quantify digital advertising value
by BY CLAIRE ROBERTSKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 — The Malaysian Digital Association (MDA) has announced the re-appointment of Comscore as their measurement partner for audience currency.
It has also appointed SimilarWeb as their measurement partner for market insight.
Comscore is a leader in the measurement of digital cross platform data while SimilarWeb provides detailed insights on consumers’ digital footprints to grow a company’s digital market share.
In a media release, MDA said it hoped to help the industry gain a deeper understanding of its audience and market to uncover new opportunities between vendors.
Its president Serm Teck Choon said:
“The MDA realises that it is the right time to not only expand the endorsement beyond audience currency but also to include market insight.”
MDA’s endorsement of audience analytics began ten years ago as part of its Audit and Research Council.
Seeing a gap in the market where powerful data was not being utilised, MDA took the leap into the data century.
MDA Audit and Research Council co-chair Yee Wing-Tak said it was important to have data that as insightful and addressable in the complex world of digital marketing.
“Every decision has to be measurable and accountable for us to move our digital ambition forward.
“We are at a stage where we are increasingly hungry for more data measurement sources and for this, we are pleased to have on-board, our measurement partners — Comscore and SimilarWeb.”
Comscore senior vice president, Asia Pacific Kedar Gavane said the company was thrilled to be reappointed as the digital audience currency for the Malaysian market.
SimilarWeb Certified Partner general manager SEA Carroll Kee said they were honoured and excited to work alongside the MDA in the endeavour.


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[telegram] <Markkas> Zilla airdrop snapshot only on Aug 15?
[telegram] <Markkas> Zilla airdrop snapshot only on Aug 15?
[telegram] <Markkas> Zilla airdrop snapshot only on Aug 15?
[telegram] <koanado> You have an invite link? (re @icantgiveyou: zilla airdrop going on in chainzilla discord)
[telegram] <koanado> You have an invite link? (re @icantgiveyou: zilla airdrop going on in chainzilla discord)
[telegram] <koanado> You have an invite link? (re @icantgiveyou: zilla airdrop going on in chainzilla discord)
[telegram] <koanado> You have an invite link? (re @icantgiveyou: zilla airdrop going on in chainzilla discord)
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[telegram] <Regnar> PTYX airdrops sometimes multiple times a day, its a race though to post your address and win a spot (re @koanado: Ok. Ty)
[telegram] <tese22> What address??
[telegram] <Matt> Kmd adress
[telegram] <Matt> Plz post a schedule with times when airdrops happen
[telegram] <Matt> Anyone idea?
[telegram] <tese22> Thx! (re @Matt: Kmd adress)
[telegram] <Matt> No prob..
[telegram] <Matt> And here.. creating new verus adress also fails..
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[telegram] <PTYTrader> It's on the graphic. Above (re @Matt: Kmd adress)
[telegram] <PTYTrader> which wallet version is that?
[telegram] <Matt> v0.3.10
[telegram] <Matt> But i also have agama 0.2.41 on same machine
[telegram] <Matt> Not running at same time.. mayne they interfere?


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Besides limiting chunk usage, it is possible to limit Polipo's memory
usage by bounding the number of objects it keeps in memory at any given
time. This is done with objectHighMark
and
publicObjectLowMark
.
The value objectHighMark
is the absolute maximum of objects
held in memory (including resources and server addresses). When the
number of in-memory objects that haven't been superseded yet falls
below publicObjectLowMark
, Polipo will stop writing out objects
to disk (superseded objects are discarded as soon as possible).
On 32-bit architectures, every object costs 108 bytes of memory, plus storage for every globally unique header that is not handled specially (hopefully negligible), plus an overhead of one word (4 bytes) for every chunk of data in the object.
You may also want to change objectHashTableSize
. This is the
size of the hash table used for holding objects; it should be a power
of two and defaults to eight times objectHighMark
. Increasing
this value will reduce the number of objects being written out to disk
due to hash table collisions. Every hash table entry costs one word.


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{% from 'macros.html' import about, menubar %}
Each line corresponds to a single analysis. Fields are tab-delimited. The first line must correspond to field names. The required fields are: a sample identifier (Sample), and the working-gas delta values d45, d46, d47. For each analysis you may also (optionally) specify a unique analysis identifier (UID) and/or an identifier for the analytical session (Session). Independently known oxygen-17 anomalies may be provided as D17O (in ‰ relative to VSMOW, with the λ value specified above), and are assumed to be zero otherwise. Working-gas deltas d48 and d49 may also be specified (treated as NaN otherwise). Other optional fields are d13Cwg_VPDB, d18Owg_VSMOW (see “Working Gas Composition Settings” above), Nominal_d13C_VPDB, and Nominal_d18O_VPDB (see “Carbon-13 Standardization”, “Oxygen-18 Standardization”, “Working Gas Composition” settings above).


Basic workflow¶
This page explains the basic workflow with enb
with a simple example.
You can find the lastest version of this example at the
templates/basic_workflow
folder of the project.
The basic workflow when using enb
can be summarized in three key steps:
1 - Data curation¶
The first step is to gather and curate your data samples. It should be possible to obtain individual results for each data sample. For instance, if you work in image processing, each sample could be one of your test images, if you work with genetic sequences, each file could be one sequence, etc.
Note
It is best practice to separate data samples from test parameters (e.g., arguments to the algorithm(s) used to process each of your samples.
In this basic example, each sample is the source of a Wikipedia article:
data/wiki/:
a_turing.txt
c_shannon.txt
d_knuth.txt
k_popper.txt
m_curie.txt
n_chomsky.txt
r_franklin.txt
s_beauvoir.txt
scientific_method.txt
One can gather all such input samples with a single line:
sample_paths = glob.glob("./data/wiki/*.txt")
2 - Result column definition¶
The second step consists in defining the function(s) that produce the desired results.
The easiest way is to extend the enb.atable.ATable
class, like for example
class WikiAnalysis(enb.atable.ATable):
@enb.atable.column_function("line_count")
def set_line_count(self, file_path, row):
with open(file_path, "r") as input_file:
row["line_count"] = sum(1 for line in input_file)
In general, this can be done in two simple steps:
Define a method
f
with interfacef(self, file_path, row)
. Thefile_path
argument is the path to one test sample (e.g.,./data/wiki/s_beauvoir.txt
. Therow
argument is a dict-like instance, into which the desired result (for this input sample) is to be stored.Decorate the method with
@enb.atable.column_function(column_name)
, wherecolumn_name
is a unique name that identifies the result produced by the method.
Once data are available and our enb.atable.ATable
subclass is defined,
a pandas.DataFrame
instance containing results can be obtained as follows:
table = WikiAnalysis(csv_support_path="persistence_basic_workflow.csv")
result_df = table.get_df(target_indices=sample_paths)
Note
The csv_support_path
argument is the file used to store the raw results.
This avoids re-running the @enb.atable.column_function
-decorated functions more than once.
3 - Data reporting¶
Produced results are made available as pandas.DataFrame
instances.
The enb
library provides a few automatic tools to analyze and report
one or more data columns. You can find gallery of plotting and analysis tools available in enb
in the Analyzer gallery.
The most basic automatic analyzer is enb.aanalysis.ScalarDistributionAnalyzer
.
It produces an histogram of the values of a given data column, and shows average and
standard deviation on top.
In our example, to see the distribution of line counts over the test samples,
the following code can be used:
scalar_analyzer = enb.aanalysis.ScalarDistributionAnalyzer()
scalar_analyzer.analyze_df(
full_df=result_df,
target_columns=["line_count"],
output_plot_dir="plots",
output_csv_file="analysis/line_count_analysis.csv")
You can download here the resulting figure.
Note
full_df
is thepandas.DataFrame
instance produced byenb.atable.ATable
.output_csv_file
generates a CSV file with basic statistics (min, max, average, std) for the target columns.
It’s good to know…¶
You can add as many columns as desired (even after running the experiments). Consider the second method for the
WikiAnalysis
class<EMAIL_ADDRESS>enb.atable.ColumnProperties(name="word_count", label="Word count", plot_min=0)) def set_line_count(self, file_path, row): with open(file_path, "r") as input_file: row[_column_name] = len(input_file.read().split())
Note
The
enb.atable.column_function
decorator acceptsenb.atable.ColumnProperties
instances. These column properties describe not only the unique name for the data column, but also other information useful for reporting the obtained results.The _column_name global is defined whenever a
column_function
-decorated method is called, containing the unique column name being computed. The use of this global is totally optional, but enables less error-prone column renaming.
You can analyze the distribution of one column, while grouping based on another. For instance, if the
status
column is defined in theWikiAnalysis
class of our example,@enb.atable.column_function(enb.atable.ColumnProperties("status")) def set_dead_person(self, file_path, row): with open(file_path, "r") as input_file: row[_column_name] = "dead" if "death_place" in input_file.read() else "alive"
then one can make a grouped analysis with the following code snippet:
scalar_analyzer.analyze_df( full_df=result_df, target_columns=["word_count"], group_by="status", output_plot_dir="plots", output_csv_file="analysis/word_count_analysis.csv")
You can download the resulting plot.