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Access to SD cards using SPI0
Connect the picoCIAA to the SDCard as follows:
| picoCIAA | Signal | SDCard |
| P6_11 | SPI0_MOSI | 2 CMD/DI |
| P6_12 | SPI0_SCK | 5 CLK/SCK |
| P6_13 | SPI0_SSEL0 | 1 DAT3/nCS |
| P6_14 | SPI0_MISO | 7 DAT0/DO |
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open file for reading
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open file for writing
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open file for appending
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init SPI interface to SD card.
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open file for read and write operations
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| filename | name of the file |
| fileAccess | picoFileAccess access type (READ, WRITE or APPEND) |
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write null-terminated string to previously open file
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- Returns
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| data | buffer to store data |
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read data from file, open before and close after operation
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- number of bytes read
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write data to previously open file
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Hi all, I am trying to get the image on to my SD card. I am following the guide at https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/blob/bufferedwrite/docs/setup.md
I don't understand
"Locate the directory of your downloaded emoncms image in terminal and write it to an SD card using linux tool dd:"
so I did
brandon@brandon-Aspire-E1-571 ~ $ $ sudo dd bs=4M if=emonSD-13-08-14.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 $: command not found
I am aware that I could easily screw things up fundamentally....
any help much appreciated, i am very new to this but wanting to learn. I am happy enough putting physical things together, but i feel wholly out of my depth with this.
Thanks
Thendon.
Re: struggling with image on SD
OK... i found the extra $
but now i have
I guess this is due to my lack of understanding regarding the
"Locate the directory of your downloaded emoncms image in terminal and write it to an SD card using linux tool dd:"
TIA
Thendon
Re: struggling with image on SD
Hi Thendon,
when specifying the input file (if=) unless the file is in the same directory that you are running the command from, you will need to specify it's path eg /folder/folder/emonSD-13-08-14.img.
Also I notice you have specified the output file (of=) as/dev/mmcblk0p1 you should change that to be just /dev/mmcblk0 without the partition ref (p1) as the image is the full SD card including partitions p1,p2 and p3.
so something like
should work for you
Paul
Re: struggling with image on SD
Thanks fo that Paul.
so, the .img is in the Downloads, which is in the Home, so... I tried
Is there a prior directory in which it is stored? and if so is there an easy way to discover this?
right clicking on the zip .img file allows me to open it in terminal.... does that help?
again, all help very gratefully received.
Thanks
Thendon
Re: struggling with image on SD
OK...
So i got there in the end.
The read only foxed me of a bit. switch on the SD card adaptor set to lock! doh!
then i entered
But now the terminal seems to be hung,
normally I would expect to get the
back, but nothing. Do I need to wait? or start over with unmounting the card?
TIA
Thendon
Re: struggling with image on SD
Patience!
It can take a long time to copy, but eventually the prompt will return, and indicate whether the process was successful or not.
Not sure if it makes much difference, but I always put the block size after the if/of commands. ie
Paul
Re: struggling with image on SD
Thanks Paul,
I tried closing the terminal and it let me know that it was still busy thinking...
I am too excited and wanting to get on with the next bit...
Thendon.
Re: struggling with image on SD
So,
I got this
Good or no good?
Re: struggling with image on SD
definitely "no good" I'm afraid !
It's only copied 20MB the downloaded image is 975MB.
Is the /dev/mmcblk0 correct? That is the correct path for the SD card when in the Pi but as you are using another machine so I can't be sure.
I would also use the command as Paul suggests, but I don't think that's the issue, especially as that is how it is in the guide your following.
How big is the SD card? is it formatted? do you know if it is ok (not faulty)?
Paul
Re: struggling with image on SD
definitely "no good" I'm afraid !
darn!
It's only copied 20MB the downloaded image is 975MB.
Is the /dev/mmcblk0 correct? That is the correct path for the SD card when in the Pi but as you are using another machine so I can't be sure.
I found that by:
I would also use the command as Paul suggests, but I don't think that's the issue, especially as that is how it is in the guide your following.
I will try that.
How big is the SD card? is it formatted? do you know if it is ok (not faulty)?
16GB not sure how to check formatting, I used it to transfer something to check prior to unmounting it
Paul
Thanks
Thendon.
Re: struggling with image on SD
second attempt gives
so i guess i need to format the card.... I have tried searching here but don't appear to be able to find any advise, the process is usually alluded to as though it is common knowledge, alas for me that is not the case.
All help welcome
Thendon
Re: struggling with image on SD
Thendon, can you give some more details about how you are trying to write this image file.
Are you using a laptop/desktop with internal/external card reader/writer to host the source file and SD Card?
What operating system are you using?
What is the format of the SD card prior to issuing the command, ie the preferred format is FAT32?
Paul
Re: struggling with image on SD
Thendon, can you give some more details about how you are trying to write this image file.
Are you using a laptop/desktop with internal/external card reader/writer to host the source file and SD Card?
Laptop, running linux mint internal card reader
What operating system are you using?
What is the format of the SD card prior to issuing the command, ie the preferred format is FAT32?
i don't know, that is the hurdle that I am up against, i don't know how to find out or how to alter it.
Thanks
Thendon
Paul
Re: struggling with image on SD
I had the problem of not enough space on the SD card, in my case a 4 GB one - it was something (I don't think I bothered to find out exactly what) that the manufacturer had put on it. GPartEd dealt with it. My notes say:
__________
(GParted reports 8192 sectors (4.0 MiB) unallocated, starting at block 0)
What I did:
Formatted the card to FAT32 with GParted
Wrote "wheezian" with dd "sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/r/Downloads/2014-06-20-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0" NOTE "mmcblk0" NOT "mmcblk0p1"
FLUSHED THE BUFFERS with sudo sync
__________
I was using the internal card slot in my Asus laptop.
Re: struggling with image on SD
Formatted the card to FAT32 with GParted
How do I go about this?
Re: struggling with image on SD
Thendon,
Get GPartEd partition editor from your Linux repository, if you don't have it already. When you run it, BE VERY CAREFUL and make sure you switch to looking at the SD card, not your machine. It's possible to destroy your Linux with it if you're not sure where you are and what you're looking at. (Hint, start it with the card out, see what devices it can see (top right corner), then insert the card - GParted -> Refresh Devices - the card is the new one!)
GPartEd allows you to format the card (or any connected drive), set and resize partitions etc. It also shows the file system on formatted partitions, which is what Paul wants.
Re: struggling with image on SD
What do you have on the SD card, according to GPartEd?
I can't remember now exactly what I did - I think I unmounted then deleted everything I could, then created one big partition using all the available space.
Re: struggling with image on SD
Hi all,
I tried to install gparted, but it would not, so in terminal I typed
I then tried to run it,and I got:
What gives? is there another way in which I can format it?
TIA
Thendon
Re: struggling with image on SD
Thendon, what version of Ubuntu are you using? is it an old unsupported version?
I believe anything prior to v12.04 has had it's repositories moved to archive.
Paul
Re: struggling with image on SD
Oops - I wrote this and posted without checking what you'd written in the meantime. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, so GPartEd is available to me in the Software Centre. If that doesn't work, this looks promising: http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-gparted-0-16-2-on-ubuntu-13-04-12-10-12... for you if you have an older version - but I can't vouch for it.
I've wiped my 4 GB SD card using GPartEd. You unmount (if they are mounted - they probably will be) all the partitions and delete them. Note GPartEd doesn't actually do anything until you tell it to. Then make a single partition as large as possible as FAT32. With that done, the dd command takes about 10 mins to complete and shows this:
sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/r/Downloads/emonSD-13-08-14.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
945+1 records in
945+1 records out
3965190144 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 736.131 s, 5.4 MB/s
"/home/r/Downloads/emonSD-13-08-14.img" is the image file that I downloaded; "/dev/mmcblk0" is the formatted SD card.
Re: struggling with image on SD
hi thanks for all yourr eplies.
I am running mint 15, not that happy with it to be honest, but i couldn't make Ubuntu boot to this machine.
It always tells me when I ask it to update that it can not download all the necessary files, and although I can find GparteD in the software center it will not download, nor rwill anything else!
the worst part however is that the keyboard stops working on a sparodic basis, sometimes only a minute in, and sometimes it will be fine for days... frustrating to say the least.
At present I am going to buy a couple of formatted and loaded cards from Oem, it saves me the hassle, gets me up and running, and helps support the project -win, win.
I will however persevere as this is a learning process that I have wanted to get to grips with for some time, and I am learning, albeit slowly......
I run a mall Biomass heating company, and I would really like to be able to leave a logging device on each job for the first couple of months so that we can monitor them, it then allows us to see anything that might be perplexing or aggravating a client, and diagnose if it is a plant room issue or client issue.... not only that but potential clients really like to see the one that one of my clients put in place.
I will press on, but until wednesday I am at the coast with family and no internet.
Cheers
Thendon.


WATERWORLD A film review by J. D. Silvester Copyright 1995 J. D. Silvester
Having read the previous reviews of WATERWORLD that have been posted in this newsgroup, I decided to check out the movie for myself. I would like to start by saying that I did not go to the theatre expecting to walk away with an answer to the meaning of life and as such was not as disappointed with the film as other critics have been. If you are the type of person that expects a movie to provide you with all the answers to your personal problems, or you expect to walk away having experienced a "revelation," than save your 8 bucks for another movie! If, however, you are like me and you go to be entertained, then by all means go see WATERWORLD.
WATERWORLD is a "popcorn" movie. What do I mean by a "popcorn" movie? Hmmm ... the easiest explanation would be for you to watch the movie BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. That is a "popcorn" movie! Personally, I go to the theatre for a mind numbing, wholly entertaining experience. I like seeing great action, large explosions, and stunts that make annal retentive boobs go, "Oh man, that's so fake!"
However, for me, WATERWORLD was even more of an experience than I expected. Mostly due to the group of six juveniles seated in the row directly behind me. Thanks to this group of four girls and two boys, I got to learn who wanted to give whom a blowjob, how much alcohol they had consumed the night before, who was dating whom, whose sister had grown up more since they last saw one another, who could produce the loudest belch (to my amazement, a girl won that one, and yes, it was the girl seated directly behind me!), and I had the latest rock and roll release pounded out on the back of my chair by someone's feet. It also amazed me how many stupid questions this group could produce ranging from one girl asking what gills are (I am really unsure of what our youth are being taught in school today), to another girl constantly complaining about how boring the movie was then asking what was happening on the screen and why. Mostly because she couldn't hear the dialogue due to her own mouth constantly flapping!
Theatrical antics aside, WATERWORLD is enjoyable on a purely physical level. Large explosions, good stunts (many of which were performed by Costner himself), and of course Dennis Hopper, one of my favorite screen stars. A movie with Dennis Hopper, no matter how poorly done, always deserves some credit for his appearance in it. I found the name printed on the stern of the oil tanker, deservingly funny, though I almost missed it due to the peanut gallery behind me. It was at this point, one of the larger girls started beating on one of the boys.
If you get a chance to see WATERWORLD, I would suggest though that you sit at the very back of the theatre so that you don't wind up with your very own personal group of hooligans! Though, in my case it made for some interesting entertainment during the previews, most of which I had already seen.
Personally I give WATERWORLD ***1/2 (out of five). It loses a little, because for me there were a few dry spots between the action stunts. I give the girl's belch and 8 out of 10, her delivery was good, but she couldn't maintain it long enough to earn those extra couple of points.
Next time - THE NET, with Sandra Bullock.
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Idi Amin Dada OumeeThe former dictatorial leader of Uganda from 1971-1979, Idi Amin has been called "One of the most batshit loco leaders ever to seize control of a chaotic African nation." (Actually, we call him that, but he's been called much worse.)Other dictators might find their enemies to be targets, threats, or terror: Amin found them tasty: "After his coup of his predecessor, Apollo Milton Obote, Amin rounded up the military leaders that did not support his coup, murdered them, decapitated them and sat their disembodied heads around the presidential dining table, scolding them for not supporting him, and taking bites of their flesh." Wracked by sexual diseases, almost totally illiterate (unable to write and barely able to read), and prone to marrying and divorcing multiple wives, Amin was not what one would call the most stabilizing force for the war-torn Uganda. However, as they were thrown into one small war to the next, the citizens could at least take heart that their leader was so many ants short of a picnic that he'd probably never turn on his own people... until he did. At one point, he gave all Asians in Uganda 90 days to leave, sans their businesses of course. Similar attacks against Christians, his wives' lovers and his own cabinet ensured that nobody came to him asking for advice on matters of the heart. Of course, the most astounding fact about Amin is that after years of torture, military insurgency, mismanagement of Uganda's economy to the point of disaster, and deaths of over 300,000 of his own citizens, he was never incarcerated. He lived for years in exile in Saudi Arabia, where one newspaper reported that he ate "40 oranges a day" to keep up his "sex power". Dada died in 2003, and is survived by four wives and 45 children.
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VENICE (Reuters) - An exceptionally high tide hit Venice again on Friday just three days after the city suffered its worst flooding in more than 50 years, leaving squares, shops and hotels once more inundated.
Mayor Luigi Brugnaro closed access to the submerged St. Mark’s Square and issued an international appeal for funds, warning that the damage caused by this week’s floods could rise to one billion euros.
Local authorities said the high tide peaked at 154 cm (5.05 ft), slightly below expectations and significantly lower than the 187 cm level reached on Tuesday, which was the second highest tide ever recorded in Venice.
But it was still enough to leave 70% of the city under water, fraying the nerves of locals who faced yet another large-scale clean-up operation.
“We have been in this emergency for days and we just can’t put up with it any more,” said Venetian resident Nava Naccara.
The government declared a state of emergency for Venice on Thursday, allocating 20 million euros ($22 million) to address the immediate damage, but Brugnaro predicted the costs would be vastly higher and launched a fund to help pay for repairs.
“Venice was destroyed the other day. We are talking about damage totaling a billion euros,” he said in a video.
Sirens wailed across the city from the early morning hours, warning of the impending high tide. Sea water swiftly filled the crypt beneath St. Mark’s Basilica, built more than a thousand years ago.
Venice, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is spread over 118 islands and once presided over a powerful maritime empire. The city is filled with Gothic architectural masterpieces which house paintings by some of Italy’s most important artists.
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said initial checks suggested the damage to St. Mark’s was not irreparable, but warned that more than 50 churches across the city had been flooded this week.
“Visiting here you see that the disaster is much bigger than you think when you watch the images on television,” he said.
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After Friday’s high waters, forecasters predicted tides of up to 110-120 cm during the weekend. In normal conditions, tides of 80-90cm are generally seen as high but manageable.
The mayor has blamed climate change for the ever-increasing flood waters that the city has had to deal with in recent years, with the mean sea level estimated to be more than 20 cm higher than it was a century ago, and set to raise much further.
Groups of volunteers and students arrived in the city center to help businesses mop up, while schools remained closed, as they have been most of the week.
“When you hear the name Venice, it is always like sunsets and everything pretty but it is a bit crazy now that we are here,” said British tourist Chelsea Smart. “I knew it was going to flood ... but I didn’t expect it to be this high.”
At the city’s internationally renowned bookshop Acqua Alta — the Italian for high water — staff were trying to dry out thousands of water-damaged books and prints, usually kept in boats, bath tubs and plastic bins.
“The only thing we were able to do was to raise the books as much as possible but unfortunately even that wasn’t enough ... about half of the bookshop was completely flooded,” said Oriana, who works in the store.
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Some shops stayed open throughout the high tide, welcoming in hardy customers wading through the waters in boots up to their thighs. Other stores remained shuttered, with some owners saying they had no idea when they could resume trade.
“Our electrics are burnt out,” said Nicola Gastaldon, who runs a city-center bar. “This is an old bar and all the woodwork inside is from the 1920s and earlier which we will have to scrub down with fresh water and then clean up again.”
A flood barrier designed to protect Venice from high tides is not expected to start working until the end of 2021, with the project plagued by the sort of problems that have come to characterize major Italian infrastructure programs — corruption, cost overruns and prolonged delays.


npm Scripts¶
What?? npm scripts?? how about Gulp, broccoli, grunt, <insert yopur favorite building tool here>???
Well, if you look at our tags, you will see version v0.5. It was build with a brilliant gulp process. So, what happened? Well, it was more than one thing, some of our programmers had problems with gulp running flawlessly on their machines, others where used to grunt, and this made then resistant to try oniros.
Then the whole npm scripts movement started catching our attention, and having started as a sysadmin, ondoheer decided it was easier to mantain and teach plain shell commands than other build tools. He wrote a blog post about our transition here
How to use them¶
We recommend you use them through the Oniros CLI interface, otherwise, if you have used any build tool before, it’s as simple as that. just run:
npm run <scriptname>
and thats all!
Scripts¶
Build All!¶
by running:
$ npm run build:all
you will be excuting all of the necessary scripts to deploy your project, read below to understand what each segment of scripts does.
Css¶
The css of Oniros is divided in three modular parts.
login refers to the wordpress login screen. main refers to the Wordpress theme.
The css scripts build work with the scss files for the main, admin and login areas. They also process the svg files located in the source/sprite folder and adds their shortcodes to the source/css/main/components/_sprite.scss file. Postcss aplies the autoprefixer to all the css files generated by this scripts.
All of the processed files will be processed to the /dist folder, mantaining the structure they had in the /source/ folder.
To run the scripts for main, admin and login together just do:
$ npm run all:build:css
You can also run them independently for each area:
$ npm run main:build:css
$ npm run login:scss:min
$ npm run admin:scss:min
Javascript¶
These npm scripts look to uglify and minimize the scripts that should go in the head and footer of the documment independently. Oniros comes with different files already created, the main files are templates for you to work with, primarily ajax-query.js which is a template to work with ajax, and app.js, where all your general code should reside (meaning code that will work globally for all pages or has guards to prevent it to throw exceptions or break when run on the wrong page). single folder contains the code you will enqueue to run on specific pages.
Right now Oniros comes with a script for each section, you can run them all together by running:
$ npm run all:build:js
or run them independently by running:
$ npm run main:build:js
$ npm run single:build:js
NOTE CREATING NEW SINGLE JS FILES: A new script needs to be created for each specific single file, and added to the all:build:js script if you want it to be included in the general script.
Right now the single folder only contains a script that is supposed to be run on the front page to animate a slick slider instance.
Images¶
Oniros npm scripts allow you to process your images by simply droping them into the right folder.
Image optimizing: optimizes images using imagemin, compressing them without loosing much quality. Any image found in the source/img folder will be processed to it’s respective dist/img copy.
just run:
$ npm run imagemin
svg sprite generation: Oniros is build for the modern web, this script was removed since HTTP/2 hit the markets.
Real favicons: creates a set of favicons using the Real Favicon Generator API. It will look for a favicon.png file in the source/img folder and process it. All of the resulting favicons are already being called from the WP header.php file.
just run:
$ npm run favicon
Serve and Watch¶
While working on localhost or connected remotely, it’s always easier to keep a browserify server running and a system process to keep an eye on our assets files modifications. This way every change we make will be processed on the go.
You can watch for individual groups of files, like scss or js, but we recommend you just watch them all with:
$ npm run watch:all
Other scripts¶
Helper scripst aren’t described here, but if you know how to work with a unix shell, you shouldn’t have a problem understanding them and modifying them to fit your needs.


R/variancecomponentFunctions.R
correlatedBgEffects.Rd
correlatedBgEffects computes a background effect that simulates structured correlation between the phenotypes.
correlatedBgEffects(N, P, pcorr = NULL, corr_mat = NULL, sampleID = "ID_", phenoID = "Trait_", id_samples = NULL, id_phenos = NULL, verbose = FALSE)
| N | Number [integer] of samples to simulate. |
|---|---|
| P | Number [integer] of phenotypes to simulate. |
| pcorr | Initial strength of correlation [double] between neighbouring traits. Decreases by pcorr^(distance); distance from 0 to P-1. See details. |
| corr_mat | [P x P] correlation matrix [double] as covariance component for the multivariate normal distribution. If not provided, pcorr is used to construct the correlation matrix. |
| sampleID | Prefix [string] for naming samples. |
| phenoID | Prefix [string] for naming traits. |
| id_samples | Vector of [NrSamples] sample IDs [string]; if not provided constructed by paste(sampleID, 1:N, sep=""). |
| id_phenos | Vector of [NrTraits] phenotype IDs [string]; if not provided constructed by paste(phenoID, 1:P, sep=""). |
| verbose | [boolean] If TRUE, progress info is printed to standard out. |
Named list with [N x P] matrix of correlated background effects ( correlatedBg) and the correlation matrix (cov_correlated). If corr_mat provided corr_mat == cov_correlated.
correlatedBgEffects can be used to simulate phenotypes with a defined level of correlation between traits. If the corr_mat is not provided, a simple correlation structure based on the distance of the traits will be constructed. Traits of distance d=1 (adjacent columns) will have correlation cor=\(pcorr^1\), traits with d=2 have cor=\(pcorr^2\) up to traits with d=(P-1) cor=\(pcorr^{(P-1)}\) and 0 < pcorr < 1. The correlated background effect correlated is simulated based on this correlation structure C: \(correlated ~ N_{NP}(0,C)\).
rmvnorm
which is used to simulate the
multivariate normal distribution
correlatedBg <- correlatedBgEffects(N=100, P=20, pcorr=0.4)


Generate a locus-specific plot with multiple selectable tracks. Users can also generate multiple zoomed in views of the plot at multiple resolutions.
PLOT.locus( finemap_dat, locus_dir, LD_matrix = NULL, LD_reference = NULL, dataset_type = "GWAS", color_r2 = T, method_list = c("ABF", "FINEMAP", "SUSIE", "POLYFUN_SUSIE"), track_order = NULL, track_heights = NULL, plot_full_window = T, dot_summary = F, QTL_prefixes = NULL, mean.PP = T, PP_threshold = 0.95, consensus_threshold = 2, sig_cutoff = 5e-08, gene_track = T, point_size = 1, point_alpha = 0.6, snp_group_lines = c("Lead", "UCS", "Consensus"), xtext = F, show.legend_genes = T, XGR_libnames = NULL, n_top_xgr = 5, Roadmap = F, Roadmap_query = NULL, n_top_roadmap = 7, annot_overlap_threshold = 5, zoom_exceptions_str = "*full window$|zoom_polygon", Nott_epigenome = F, Nott_regulatory_rects = T, Nott_show_placseq = T, Nott_binwidth = 200, Nott_bigwig_dir = NULL, save_plot = T, show_plot = T, genomic_units = "Mb", strip.text.y.angle = 0, max_transcripts = 1, plot.zoom = c("1x"), dpi = 300, height = 12, width = 10, plot_format = "jpg", save_RDS = F, return_list = F, conda_env = "echoR", nThread = 4, verbose = T )
library(echolocatoR) finemap_dat<- echolocatoR::BST1; LD_matrix <- echolocatoR::BST1_LD_matrix; locus_dir <- file.path("~/Desktop","results/GWAS/Nalls23andMe_2019/BST1") locus_plot <- PLOT.locus(finemap_dat, locus_dir=locus_dir, LD_matrix=LD_matrix, Nott_epigenome=T, xtext=F, plot.zoom=c("5x"))#>#> [1] "+ Filling NAs in CS cols with 0" #> [1] "+ Filling NAs in PP cols with 0" #> [1] "+ LD:: LD_matrix detected. Coloring SNPs by LD with lead SNP." #> [1] "++ PLOT:: GWAS full window track" #> [1] "++ PLOT:: GWAS track" #> [1] "++ PLOT:: Merged fine-mapping track" #> [1] "Melting PP and CS from 5 fine-mapping methods"#> Warning: The `.dots` argument of `group_by()` is deprecated as of dplyr 1.0.0.#> [1] "++ PLOT:: Adding Gene model track."#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#>#> [1] "NOTT_2019:: Creating epigenomic histograms plot" #> [1] "NOTT_2019:: Importing bigWig subsets from UCSC..." #> [1] "+ Inferring genomic limits for window: 1x" #> [1] "++ NOTT_2019:: Downloading and merging 12 peaks BED files." #> [1] "++ NOTT_2019:: Converting merged BED files to GRanges." #> [1] "++ NOTT_2019:: 634540 ranges retrieved."#>#> [1] "+ PLOT:: Calculating max histogram height" #> [1] "++ Converting label units to Mb..." #> [1] "NOTT_2019:: Creating PLAC-seq interactome plot" #> [1] "+ NOTT_2019:: Getting interactome data." #> [1] "++ Converting to GRanges." #> [1] "Importing Microglia interactome ..." #> [1] "Importing Neuronal interactome ..." #> [1] "Importing Oligo interactome ..."#>#>#> Error in h(simpleError(msg, call)) : #> error in evaluating the argument 'args' in selecting a method for function 'do.call': GRanges objects don't support [[, as.list(), lapply(), or unlist() at #> the moment #> [1] "+ Adding vertical lines to highlight SNP groups..."#>#> [1] "+ PLOT:: Get window suffix..." #> [1] "+ Constructing zoom polygon..." #> [1] "+ Highlighting zoom origin..." #> [1] "+ Removing subplot margins..." #> [1] "+ Reordering tracks..." #> [1] "+ Ensuring last track shows genomic units..." #> [1] "+ Aligning xlimits for each subplot..." #> [1] "+ Checking track heights..." #> [1] "+ PLOT:: Saving plot ==> ~/Desktop/results/GWAS/Nalls23andMe_2019/BST1/multiview.BST1..5x.jpg"#> Warning: ggrepel: 4 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider increasing max.overlaps#> Warning: ggrepel: 4 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider increasing max.overlaps#> Warning: ggrepel: 7 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider increasing max.overlaps#> Warning: ggrepel: 7 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider increasing max.overlaps


| | References |
| 1 | Gruby, R. L., & Basurto, X. (2014). Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau’s protected area network. Environmental Science & Policy, 36, 48–60. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.08.001 |
| 2 | Maharjan, M. ., Dhakal, T. ., Thapa, S. K., Schreckenberg, K., & Luttrell, C. (2009). Improving the benefits to the poor from community forestry in the Churia region of Nepal. International Forestry Review, 11(2), 254–267. doi:10.1505/ifor.11.2.254 |
| 3 | Debnath, D., & Dasgupta, S. (2006). Livelihood generation and poverty reduction attempts in Joint Forest Management activities in Madhya Pradesh. International Forestry Review, 8(2), 241–250. doi:10.1505/ifor.8.2.241 |


property Twirl: Single;
Twirl controls the power of the twirl transformation. The parameter is rather sensitive, a realistic setting could e.g. be as low as 0.001. It is recommended that one experiments finding a useful range within a given enviroment, as no common range for the parameter can be specified.


First I'd like to say I took valium for anxiety and had to pester my doc to get it. To be blunt this drug is very,very bad long term, I thought at first my anxiety problems were gone. After all all the drug from the doctor are good, right? I was entering a horrible world of addiction of not just valium but many other drugs, you see on valium I am very tranquil and after about 6 months I need it to feel normal, if I forget to take it I feel very stressed till U get more. And when on valium my inhibitions are lower like alcohol, I found that other drugs are easier tolerated on valium like acid, pcp, anything now after years of abusing it about 10 years, I decided to quit, Let me tell you my friends I was as wild as an animal and couldnít think and people thought i was crazy, this valium led to Cocaine, heroin all the drugs I could get my hands on I sold cocaine, and did valium at the same time to control the mood swings.
Finally, after 17 years I was in the mental ward for suicidal thoughts, they gave me what else? Valium. I seen a counselor and was told valium was leading me back to other drugs, I am an addict. Valium only supports that behavior, So I checked in to a high class rehab, lots of local celebrities used this place, They took me off valium cold turkey with only an occasional dose of Phenobarbital.
I would not wish withdrawal from this on my worst enemy.  I didnít sleep for the first week and those people at the clinic didnít have much sympathy for an addict . I was told to return to work, I still hadnít slept for more than one hour, and once I got home things got worse my doctor refused to see me anymore and I felt crazy and wired, and for some reason had a constant metallic taste in my mouth.
 Much to my amazement he ran away from me and I got newfound respect from my now humbled coworkers. I was new to this department and people didnít know this 'white boy' went to a 70% black Detroit school ,and not having any valium made matters worse so now I get lots of respect but donít quite know how to handle my emotions, again thanks to valium.
I was told by a doctor that this withdrawal was worse than heroin and crack combined! And I might feel better in 6 months, to this day I have not taken valium again I feel I lost my reality from age 25 to 42 and now after 6 months of abstinence from valium I feel actually human again but my nervous system is shot. My hands always tremble now but now I love life again. Like a snake shedding my old skin, I am new and real. I now feel like the young lad I should have been.
I gave some away to friends who got in a fight and bludgeoned the other with a pipe, I never faced my fears with valium, it controlled me, in every facet of my humanity. It took away 17 years of my life which I cannot get back. Its been 8 months now and God I wish I could get those years back ,and must face not taking any drug forever as to remain sane. I am an addict and my behavior will always be as an addict.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


WATCH: Amazing finish at Fairyhouse as 1000/1 horse dead-heats for victory
by Sporting LifeThere was drama at Fairyhouse on Tuesday as Larquebuse, way behind and out of the picture turning for home, got up to dead-heat for first place.
In the 150th Irish Grand National 2020 Mares Maiden Hurdle, it looked like 40/1 outsider Lunch For Adare had done enough to cause a shock.
However, Larquebuse, in the colours of Cheveley Park Stud and ridden by Davy Russell for trainer Gordon Elliott, made an astonishing late rally to join Lunch For Adare right on the line.
The fast-finisher had traded at the maximum odds of 1000/1 in-running on Betfair, but she finished like a train to force a photo, with the judge eventually declaring a dead-heat.
Watch the full race with our video replay and the astonishing closing stages below.


{% load static %}
{# Load the tag library #}
{% load bootstrap3 %}
{# Load CSS and JavaScript #}
{% bootstrap_css %}
{% bootstrap_javascript %}
{# Display django.contrib.messages as Bootstrap alerts #}
{% bootstrap_messages %}
ITC Summary Example
HYPE VERSUS IMPACT
Proof Pillar
The insurance industry of the future will look significantly different in how capital and risk are connected; insurers will need to adapt their operating models to retool for this era
S. Eric Boyum Managing Director @ Aon Risk Solutions
Louis Carbonnier Global Head @ Euler Hermes Digital Agency
Matthew Churchill Head of futures @ Hiscox
Andrew Rear Chief Executive, Digital Partners @ Munich RE
KEY TAKEAWAYS
1
Much of the value being created by InsurTechs is on the back-office parts of the value-chain
2
There is heavy skepticism of the viability of P2P insurance and blockchain technology
3
To be truly impactful, InsurTech's solutions need to be adopted across the value chain and married to the appropriate products
I hear very little with regards to blockchain that makes sense with regards to this audience
–MATTHEW CHURCHILL
P2P insurance is a misunderstanding of both P2P and insurance
–ANDREW REAR
I think the structure of the market will change entirely. The pool of capital at the end remains but the combination of technology and distribution will be completely different in front of it.
–MATTHEW CHURCHILL
HYPE VERSUS IMPACT
Proof Pillar
The insurance industry of the future will look significantly different in how capital and risk are connected; insurers will need to adapt their operating models to retool for this era
S. Eric Boyum Managing Director @ Aon Risk Solutions
Louis Carbonnier Global Head @ Euler Hermes Digital Agency
Matthew Churchill Head of futures @ Hiscox
Andrew Rear Chief Executive, Digital Partners @ Munich RE
KEY TAKEAWAYS
1
Much of the value being created by InsurTechs is on the back-office parts of the value-chain
2
There is heavy skepticism of the viability of P2P insurance and blockchain technology
3
To be truly impactful, InsurTech's solutions need to be adopted across the value chain and married to the appropriate products
I hear very little with regards to blockchain that makes sense with regards to this audience
–MATTHEW CHURCHILL
P2P insurance is a misunderstanding of both P2P and insurance
–ANDREW REAR
I think the structure of the market will change entirely. The pool of capital at the end remains but the combination of technology and distribution will be completely different in front of it.


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--- title: Bar Code Generator | Developer Tools layout: post ---
{% include common-meta %}This is a free online tool to generate Bar code for any text. You can copy/paste your desired text/string in above text field and hit Generate Bar Code button.
It is a visual code that can be read by machines using camera. It is commonly used in mobile phones to read the URL from a printed media like message board or visiting card.
That is easy. Just type the character or a full string in the text box above and hit Generate Bar Code button. You should be able to see the Bar Code Image on right side.
The Bar code generated on this page can be downloaded using Download Bar code button. You can also download it (on most browsers except safari) by doing right click on image and choosing save image menu option.
Yes, the generated Bar code is absolutely free to use for personal or business purposes. You can print it on a paper, visiting card, t-shirt or anywhere you like.
This tool supports following barcodes
The tool understand some known barcode formats. It can guess the format by looking at the length of string. e.g. any 12 digit code would be assumed to be UPC.


The following are guidelines and rules for writing plugins
processCallbacks()
function.
This function will be called with an NDArray pointer each time an
NDArray callback occurs. This function will normally call the
NDPluginDriver::processCallbacks()
base class function, which handles
tasks common to all plugins, including callbacks with information
about the array, etc.writeInt32()
,
writeFloat64()
or writeOctet()
functions if they need to act
immediately on a new value of a parameter. For many parameters it is
normally sufficient to simply have them written to the parameter
library, and not to handle them in the writeXXX() functions. The
parameters are then retrieved from the parameter library with the
getIntParam()
, getDoubleParam()
, or getStringParam()
function calls
when they are needed.writeInt32()
, writeFloat64()
or writeOctet()
functions are
implemented they must call the base class function for parameters
that they do not handle and whose parameter index value is less than
the first parameter of this class, i.e. parameters that belong to a
base class.createParam()
function in their
constructor if they have additional parameters beyond those in the
asynPortDriver or NDPluginDriver base classes.processCallbacks()
function. The reason is that other plugins may be
concurrently operating on the same NDArray, since each is passed the
same pointer. This means also that when getting the attributes for
this plugin that
asynNDArrayDriver::getAttributes(pArray->pAttributeList)
must not be
called with the NDArray passed to processCallbacks()
, because that
will modify the NDArray attribute list, and hence the NDArray that
other plugins are operating on. Plugins such as NDPluginROI and
NDPluginColorConvert create new NDArrays via NDArrayPool::copy()
or
NDArrayPool::convert()
(which copy the attributes to the new array)
and then call getAttributes(pArray->pAttributeList)
with the new
array.this->unlock()
when they
do time-consuming operations. If they do not then they will not be
able to queue new NDArrays callbacks or obtain new parameter values.
Obviously they must not access memory locations that other threads
could modify during this time, so they should only access local
variables, not class variables (which includes the parameter
library).NDPluginDriver::doNDArrayCallbacks()
so that registered clients can
get the values of the new arrays.


- Documentation
- Bird's-eye View
- Sounds
Bird's-eye view of a PuzzleScript file
A puzzlescript file is divided into 8 sections:
Sounds
Here's where you hook up sounds to in-game actions.
There are sound buttons above the console, that produce sound seeds that you can use in this section.
These numbers are saved representations of the sounds, and you use them in the sound sections.
A sound section could look like the following:
Player Move Up 142315
Player Move Down 142313
Player Move Right 142311
Crate Move 412312
Player CantMove Up 41234
Crate CantMove 41234
Crate Create 41234123
CloseMessage 1241234
Sfx0 213424
Sfx3 213424
here are the possible sound events declarations
- Cancel 123413
- Played when the a rule triggers the CANCEL command.
- Crate Action 123414
- Triggers when a crate is subject to the 'action' during a movement phase.
- Crate Create 123414
- Triggers when a crate is created.
- EndGame 123413
- When you finish the game, and end up back at the title screen.
- EndLevel 123413
- When you finish a level.
- Player CantMove 4123412
- Triggers when that object unsuccessfully moves, in any direction.
- Player CantMove Down Left 4123412
- Triggers when that object unsuccessfully moves, either down or left.
- CloseMessage 123434
- makes a sound when the player closes a message window
- Crate Destroy 123414
- Triggers when a crate is destroyed.
- Player Move 4123412
- Triggers when that object successfully moves, in any direction.
- Player Move Down Left 4123412
- Triggers when that object successfully moves either down or left.
- Player Move Horizontal 4123412
- Triggers when that object successfully moves horizontally. Vertical is also valid here.
- Restart 123413
- Played when the player presses the restart button (R).
- SFX0 123434
- Can be anything form SFX0 to SFX10. These are custom sound events that can be triggered from rules.
- ShowMessage 123434
- makes a sound when a message appears
- StartGame 123413
- When you start a new game from the title screen.
- Startlevel 123413
- Played at the start of each level.
- TitleScreen 123414
- Triggers when the title-screen is loaded.
- Undo 123413
- Played when the player presses the undo button (Z).
move and
cantmove can be supplied with directions, so that certain sounds play if you move in particular directions.


http://localhost:8080:
logout
Get authorization code
client_id =
Get access token by authorization code (logout before testing it)
code =
client_id =
client_secret =
Get access token by refresh token (logout before testing it)
refresh_token =
client_id =
client_secret =


Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
Published Date: 2017 | Edition: 6
|Status: Available | Count: 4
Computer Networks: A Top - Down Approach
Published Date: 2017 | Edition: 1
|Status: Unavailable | Count: 0
Computer Networks
Published Date: 2013 | Edition: 5
|Status: Aavailable | Count: 3


Aptus
A UX prototype to mitigate culture shock.
Over a billion people travel abroad every year. You’d think the world is everyone’s oyster, but culture shock is still real, and challenges of adapting to a new culture, in a new location, very much exist. A major part of culture shock comes from the mind. Our constant need for emotional gratification, and the desire to fit in, can force us into interpreting cultural differences as alienating factors that make us feel like outsiders.
A large part of dealing with culture shock is about mitigating the frustration that comes out of the inability to fit in. So any solution designed to make this phase easier, has to give the subject an incentive to distract themselves from frustration by looking at cultural roadblocks as little adversaries to overcome on their way to a goal, and not as personal shortcomings.
Aptus is a minimal UX prototype that was designed after a user study on solutions to problems that arise from culture shock.
Design
Gamification and Gratification are the two overarching principles behind the design of the application. Gamification is achieved through tiered challenges, courses, and a points/credit system. Gratification is achieved through both gamification and social elements like sharing and collective goals.
Courses and challenges
The app is designed in a way such that users can add their own courses and structured challenges to which other users, aware of those challenges, can contribute. For instance, a British user could create a new public course to educate users incrementally about British culture. Other British users can propose to add their knowledge to this course, which the creator of the course can review and add.
The homepage that shows a list of "courses" the user has subscribed to.
Tiered cultural challenges
Cultural challenges can be tiered into various levels of prevalence and difficulty. Someone new to a culture barely ever faces a lot of challenges right on their first few days. It’s an incremental process where new challenges unravel themselves slowly over the course of months, or even years.
Tier 1 challenges, or immediate challenges, are challenges that subjects might face as soon as they disembark on the new land. For instance, learning how to trade in local currency, getting used to crossing-the-road norms, queue conventions, and so on, could be immediate challenges.
Tier 2 challenges could take the complexity a notch up. For instance, getting used to vending machines in food outlets could be a tier 2 challenge. Adapting to the banking system in the new culture could be a tier 2 challenge as well.
Each course page has a list of challenges required to complete the course.
Goals and gratification
Ideally, the application would progressively, in terms of difficulty, teach users about cultural facets such that their experience of being onboarded into the new culture becomes almost seamless and, in cases, even interesting. For every new challenge overcome, or knowledge acquired, there will be a system of instant gratification in the form of in-game points, or credits with which new levels can be unlocked
Each challenge consists of, well, a real-life challenge that gives you points on completion.
Contextual awareness
The application is also, ideally, geographically and chronologically aware. It also knows what the user’s interests are. To sum up these characteristics in a single example, if the user is a musician traveling to a new city, the application would intelligently figure out that she/he would be interested in the local music scene, and would educate her/him about local music culture and music events happening in and around the area at that time. This would be tiered appropriately, of course.
Search for courses based on keywords, locations, et al.
Catharsis through sharing
Sharing is always endearing. Load off my chest, and that kind of thing. Users will be able to share their accomplishments and achievements within the app. Feeling isolated is a contributing factor to culture shock, so the ability to share mistakes and experiences, and to revel in them, makes it all the more cathartic.
Self-explanatory.


When you connect the Digital Chroma to a computer via either USB or a network, it normally presents itself as a device named "Chroma1" (possibly displayed in upper case). If you ever need to connect multiple Digital Chromas to the same computer, or use them on the same network, you can use calibration 41 and the parameter slider to change the final digit to anything from 1 to 9. When STORE is pressed to exit calibration mode, the Chroma will disconnect (from both USB and the network) and then reconnect a second or so later under the new name.
This setting also controls the name of the external drive folder that is accessed by the LOAD ONE through SAVE ALL switches.


Susanne Bødker
"In the third wave, the use context and application types are broadened, and intermixed, relative to the focus of the second wave on work. Technology spreads from the workplace to our homes and everyday lives and culture."


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var fabOptionIcon: Drawable?
The drawable to show as the FabOption's icon. Default value is null (no icon shown).
Usage of this property is preferred over the inherited set/getImageXXX methods.


The field element can be used instead of an explicit component. In this case, the actual component will be inferred from an entity attribute type.
field


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Percy Liang's papers
Posted: 2016-05-04 , Modified: 2016-05-04
Tags: nlp
Posted: 2016-05-04 , Modified: 2016-05-04
Tags: nlp
Goal: Map natural language into logical forms (which can be executed).
We must use logic and statistics/machine learning. Early systems were very rule-based (hand-crafted); we want to use ML to learn without hand-crated rules.
The field is called statistical semantic parsing.
Two ideas:
Recent developments:
There are linguistic, statistical (generalization), and computational challenges.
Example: What is the largest prime less than 10? becomes \(\max(\text{primes}\cap (-\iy,10))\).
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that satisfies blah” is \(\la x. blah(x)\)—lift functions to truth values.Note the grammar can be coarse, and application-specific.
Chart parsing? Builds derivations in fixed order, causing parser to waste resources.
Use a simple grammar to generate logical forms paired with canonical utterances. Then use crowdsourcing to paraphrase them into natural utterances, and train (natural utterances, logical forms).
(This means we don’t have to start with data to train on!)
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Nowadays, office environment is more and more complex for office workers and students. Battery life is the most fundamental condition of productivity. Recently, Chuwi has launched a versatile 2-in-1 tablet UBook Pro on Indiegogo. Equipped with Core m3-8100Y processor, a 3:2 ratio 12.3-inch screen and other features, it’s backed by more than 450 users from all over the world, and the number is still growing.
Chuwi have also revealed the latest battery life test of UBook Pro. Let’s take a look at the performance of this popular model in terms of battery life. UBook Pro battery life test configuration ：50% screen brightness，WiFi connected，default balance mode.
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The first test is simulation of office work, based on web browsing and document office. Since the main users of UBook Pro is office workers and students, the segment is the most referential scene. From the measured results of video, 30 minutes of web browsing consumes 7% of the battery and 30 min document editing cosumes 5% . It’s absolutely a great battery life performance.
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The first test is online music playback. UBook Pro only consumes 13% of the power when playing music for 45 minutes. The next test is 4K video playback. As we all know, decoding 4K video consumes a lot of system resources. UBook Pro is powered by low-power Intel processor and equipped with UHD Graphics 615 GPU. It decodes 4K video efficiently and smoothly. UBook Pro consumes only 20% of the power when playing for 45 minutes, Which enables nearly 4 hours of 4K video playback for every single charge.
In the gaming test, Core m3-8100Y processor is really powerful. It provides very smooth experience in playing League of Legends. The display is quite exquisite. The power consumption is still relatively low, only 22% for one round (about half an hour).
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After the above intensive tests, UBook Pro still had 33% of battery left. According to the power consumption ratio calculated in the bar chart, UBook Pro can last 10 hours of office software usage or web browsing for 7 hours for every single charge. Obviously the 38wh battery can be powerful enough for daily work with UBook Pro. Besides, UBook Pro also supports PD quick charging, which can quickly restore full power without worrying about low battery.
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Quick notes about binary CMap format (bcmap)
The format is designed to package some information from the CMap files located at external/cmap. Please notice for size optimization reasons, the original information blocks can be changed (split or joined) and items in the blocks can be swapped.
The data stored in binary format in network byte order (big-endian).
Data primitives
The following primitives used during encoding of the file:
- byte (B) – a byte, bits are numbered from 0 (less significant) to 7 (most significant)
- bytes block (B[n]) – a sequence of n bytes
- unsigned number (UN) – the number is encoded as sequence of bytes, bit 7 is flag to continue decoding the byte, bits 6-0 store number information, e.g. bytes 0x818407 will represent 16903 (0x4207). Limited to the 32 bit.
- signed number (SN) – the number is encoded as sequence of bytes, as UN, however shall be transformed before encoding: if n < 0, the n shall be encoded as (-2n-1) using UN encoding, other n shall be encoded as (2n) using UN encoding. So the lowest bit of the number indicates the sign of the initial number
- unsigned fixed number (UB[n]) – similar to the UN, but it represents an unsigned number that is stored in B[n]
- signed fixed number (SB[n]) – similar to the SN, but it represents a signed number that is stored in B[n]
- string (S) – the string is encoded as sequence of bytes. First comes length is characters encoded as UN, when UTF16 characters encoded as UN.
File structure
The first byte is a header:
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- start as B[dataSize]
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- if sequence = 0, startDelta as UB[dataSize], start = end + startDelta + 1
- if sequence = 1, start = end + 1
- endDelta as UN[dataSize], end = start + endDelta
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- code as B[dataSize]
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- if sequence = 0, charDelta as UN[ucs2Size], char = charDelta + charDelta + 1
- if sequence = 1, char = char + 1
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SPEED A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1994 James Berardinelli
Rating (0 to 10): 8.8
Date Released: 6/10/94 Running Length: 1:55 Rated: R (Language, violence)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton Director: Jan De Bont Producer: Mark Gordon Screenplay: Graham Yost Cinematography: Andrzej Bartkowiak Music: Mark Mancina Released by 20th Century Fox
Place your foot on the accelerator. Press down. Watch the needle on the speedometer creep above fifty. Now you're trapped.  It might not be tough to maintain that speed on the freeway in the middle of the night, but this is rush hour. So what do you do when the traffic comes to a screeching halt up ahead, without an off-ramp in sight?
It's an ingenious premise that first-time director Jan De Bont has turned into a tremendously well-executed motion picture. A mad bomber (Dennis Hopper) is out to get $3.7 million, and he'll stop at nothing to get it--and to obtain a small measure of revenge on Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves), a cop who foiled one of his plots. So he rigs up a bomb on a bus that becomes armed when the vehicle goes over fifty, and is primed to explode when it drops below that speed. And it's Jack's job to save all the people on board--including himself.
Good action movies are rare. Great action movies come along once every few years.  Normally, I like to write reviews immediately after seeing a movie. On this occasion, I had to wait until the next morning--SPEED wore me out.
This is a film that cries out for audience participation, whether it be the silent majority's digging of fingers into armrests or the vocal minority's cheers and catcalls. SPEED is by no means an intellectual challenge, but it's probably the most fun you can have in any theater at this time.
With a single exception (that of the bus "flying" through the air), the stunts and special effects are flawlessly incorporated. And there are a lot of them. A whole lot. You could almost call this film PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES, although for entirely different reasons than those behind the naming of the Steve Martin/John Candy flick.
SPEED is clearly divided into three acts, each no less draining than the others. The first and last (which involve an elevator and a train, respectively) bookend the longer and better sequence on the bus. The film may clock in at nearly two hours, but the time, like the various vehicles, races. There is, quite literally, never a dull moment.
Of course, there are plot contrivances. How could there not be? But these are subtle and convincingly woven into the fabric of the story. While watching SPEED, you may notice one or two (for an example, consider how a bus traveling at fifty-two can slam into a car and have its speed not drop below the red line), but you won't care much.
The low-level but persistent humor is used to blot the tension. Most of the one-liners aren't as good as those in DIE HARD, but a few are worth a chuckle, and they serve their purpose. This is not, after all, supposed to be a comedy.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but Keanu Reeves does an excellent job. The actor has the perfect demeanor for Jack Traven, the cocky cop who tries hard not to get emotionally involved--and inevitably fails. Reeves' attitude and physical appearance are ideal, and even those who visibly winced during his scenes in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING are likely to accept him here.
Sandra Bullock (probably best known from DEMOLITION MAN), as the passenger who takes the wheel from the incapacitated driver, possesses enough charisma and spunk not to get outshone by her co-stars. Dennis Hopper turns in one of his patented performances as a psychotic killer.
There are reasons why the preview audiences have been raving about SPEED, and a purpose to moving the opening date from August to June. This movie is a winner, and the closest you can get to an amusement park ride in a theater. Perhaps the same warning that's used for roller coasters should be applied here. You know, the one about high blood pressure and heart problems.
Oh, and one more thing. Don't make SPEED the first film in a double bill. No matter what the second movie is, it will suffer by comparison. If you still have the stamina left to see it, that is.
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Doctoral studies, Aachen Institute for Advanced
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| 04/2014 - 03/2016 |
M.Sc. in Applied Geoscience, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
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Structural geologic modeling as an inference problem:
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Structural geologic modeling as an inference problem:
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Aachen, Germany (Sep, 2015).
European 3D GeoModeller User Meeting 2015 talk:
Automation with pygomodeller and uncertainty studies, Orleans, France (Nov, 2015.)
EGU 2016 PICO:
Integration of Geophysical Data into Structural Geological Modelling through Bayesian Networks, Vienna, Austria (Apr, 2016).
Posters
Analysis of information correlation in geological models. Workshop on Information Theory and the Earth Sciences (04/2016). Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Poster Presenter: Miguel de la Varga.


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How to escape the space bias
28 Mar 2021
Every empire has a bias either towards space or towards time. This bias is highly influenced by the most dominant medium, as Innis explains in “The Bias of Communication”.
Time-biased media includes clay or stones. They are durable yet tend to reach limited audiences. Space-biased media are more volatile. They include paper, electronic and digital communication. This form of media is capable of conveying information to many people over long distances, but has short exposure times.
For an empire to last, a balance has to be reached between the spatial and temporal biases. If such a balance is not achieved, a society is doomed to eventually fall apart. Whether this will happen to our modern society depends on our ability to escape the space bias.
The time bias
In ancient Egypt, passing on information from generation to generation was based on carving messages and images into stone and building pyramids. This clearly qualifies as a bias towards time.
Eventually, after the invention of the printed press, a monopoly of time was followed by a monopoly of space.
This monopoly of communication based on the eye in terms of printing and photography caused the development of a competitive type of communication based on the ear. The printed press gave way in effectiveness to the radio and television. This enabled politicians to directly speak to the people. Both the radio and television proved to be far more effective for appealing to a large number of people. Also, illiteracy was no longer a serious barrier.
The problem of the internet
After Innis’s death, a new form of medium has gained popularity and changed our media landscape even further: the internet. The internet made information accessible from anywhere in the world at any time. Without the need to transport any hardware, like books, at all. It became easier than ever before to communicate so quickly and efficiently with anyone in the world.
Unlike traditional media like TV and radio which only enabled one-directional broadcasting of information, where a few producers send out their information to many passive consumers without any feedback. The internet offers a new way of exchanging information, and clearly qualifies as a space-biased medium.
The internet both centralizes and decentralizes, destroys old communities and creates new ones. The internet also helps people to transcend both space and time. However, the latter only through instantaneity, not durability.
Nowadays, most of the information that is consumed, is generated within the last week or even within the last twenty-four hours. Consuming information on the news and social media constructs a bias. Since most citizens of the internet never get to see or hear anything else.
Just having access to information from anywhere in the world at any time, is no guarantee to know. Only people who are technologically literate enough can find what they need at any given point in time on the internet. However, if the information on the internet ceases to be accessible, the knowledge is irreversibly lost.
Read more books than you think you need to
The imbalance between time and space can be restored by studying history, Innis explains.
“Almost all kinds of useful knowledge would be learned through reading of history”, wrote Benjamin Franklin in the 1700s. Though, history can mean much more than the usual definition of it. History can contain everything that is meaningful and worthwhile like philosophy, mathematics, religion, law, chemistry, biology, physics and foreign languages.
Reading is important because it develops our thoughts, gives us endless knowledge and lessons while keeping our minds active, and above all empowers us to empathize with other people.
Barbara Tuchman described books as “the carriers of civilization”. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, and thought and speculation come to a standstill. Books are humanity in print. Previous generations already invented the wheel. Why would we invent it again? We walk on the knowledge of others.
Escape the space bias
Lin Yutang once said: “The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood. From this prison there is no escape”.
Thus, escape the space bias by reading books, but not just any book. David Perell expanded on “Rules for reading”, in which he explained: “Time is like a filter for quality. Read books that have stood the test of time. Have a bias towards old, weird books”.
Just don’t read all the books that everyone else is reading. Consume both information from a lot of different sources which were written anywhere between now and centuries ago, to escape the space bias. Otherwise you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Reading old, weird books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past. The book might carry you to a different country or a different century, and explain to you what other people already figured out centuries ago.
Though you might forget the vast majority of what you read, books that you read profoundly change your thinking.
Above all, humanity must stay adaptable enough to react to the ever fast changing media landscape. As Charles Darwin once said: “It is not the strongest of species that survive; nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the most adaptable to change”.
Humanity must maintain the balance between time and space.


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Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer roughly the size of a deck of cards. It’s equipped with an ARM processor that runs Linux. USB ports let you attach a keyboard and mouse. Video is supported via HDMI and RCA. Storage is handled by SD cards. There’s an Ethernet port.
You can buy a Raspberry Pi for $35.00.
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Susan Granger's review of "RETURN TO PARADISE" (Polygram Pictures)
This intensely involving drama presents a stunning moral dilemma. The story begins with three twenty-something American men cavorting carelessly in sun-drenched Malaysia, enjoying the rum, girls, and cheap hash. Originally strangers who met while touring Asia, they've spent a month in paradise, free from responsibilities and inhibitions. When their vacation ends, two head back to Manhattan while the third decides to remain inPenang as a "Save the Orangutans" volunteer. Skip ahead two years - and a lawyer (Anne Heche) tracks the New Yorkers down. One (Vince Vaughn) is working as a limousine driver, while the other (David Conrad) is a structural engineer, engaged to be married. She tells them that their buddy (Jo= aquin Phoenix) has been in jail for the past two years after their discarded and forgotten hash was discovered in a trash barrel. Under Malaysian law, the stash was large enough to qualify him as a drug dealer, a crime for which there is a mandatory death sentence. All three are culpable buthe will be executed in eight days unless the pair return to Malaysia, confess their responsibility, and volunteer to join him in serving out a stiff prison term. Meanwhile, the media threatens to break the story, further jeopardizing an already precarious situation. The crisis-of-consciencetheme is superbly developed by writers Bruce Robinson & Wesley Strick and realized by director Joseph Ruben. Anne Heche is the hot-wire here. Her waifish sensuality sparkles yet she never loses her downright determined edge. She is a stunning actress. Vince Vaughn and David Conrad wrestle with cynicism and decency, while Joaquin Phoenix delicately etches the sensitive idealist. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Return to Paradise" is a powerful, compelling 9, provoking the question: What would you do in similar circumstances?
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