Although having Python available for you to use right in the browser is convenient, there are some limitations, and Python is a real programming language used for real applications by some very large and impressive corporations. In this Advanced Topic we’ll show you how to use the Python shell along with a simple text editor. In a later advanced topic we will introduce you to something called an Integrated Development Environment or IDE that will make life even better for you when working on a larger Python project.
One of the most important ways you can learn computer science is by simply experimenting or trying things. Unlike chemistry where you can explode things and do real damage, in computer science you really can’t go wrong by just experimenting a bit. In the worst case you might have to reboot your computer, but its pretty hard to do any long lasting damage.
For those of you used to fancy graphical user interfaces the Python shell make look a bit primitive, but don’t be fooled by the lack of fancy interface, you can do a lot of powerful stuff in the shell. On a Mac or with Linux Python is already installed for you. There is a short video link at the end of this topic that explains how to download and install Python on Windows. Here is an example of what the shell looks like once you have it started up.
To run the Python shell you will first need to start up the Terminal application, on the Mac you can find this under Utilities in the Applications folder, on most versions of Linux you can find it under the accessories menu. Once you have a terminal started, you simply type python and press the return key. To shart the shell under windows simply go to the start menu and choose Python (command line) from the menu.
Now that you have the shell started you may wonder what you can do with it? In the shell you can do anything you would do in a Python program. Any of the examples you have seen in this chapter can be typed in directly to the shell. Any Python expression can be entered into the shell and you will see the result printed out for you right underneath. Here are some examples using the functions and expressions introduced in this chapter.
It’s a good idea to get in the habit of using the shell. Very often if you have a question about how something works you can answer the question for yourself by simply trying it in the shell. If you need a really extensable calculator you can simply start up your Python shell and use it to calculate just about anything. Soon you’ll find yourself writing little Python snippets for all kinds of things.
Of course the problem with the Python shell is that you can’t save anything, so you always have to retype whatever you want to do over again. It’s also difficult to do anything more than a few lines long because if you make a typo you end up retying everything. Fortunately there is a solution for that as well. Python alows you to write a program, and save it as a text file with the extension .py and then you can run that program right from the command line.
Here is a simple example of a Python program.
print('Hello World')
print('2 + 3 = ', 2+3)
Let’s assume that you have typed in the lines above in Notepad or TextEdit or some similar editor, if you already know emacs or vi you are a awesome! Now save the file as testprog1.py and then head back to the terminal. Now at the command line of the terminal type python testprog1.py and you will see the following output
bmiller@chronos> python testprog1.py
Hello World
2 + 3 = 5
Anything we do in the following chapters that appears in the editing window in the web page can be done exactly the same in the terminal just like the small example above. This example illustrates one very important difference between entering expressions in the Python shell, and writing a Python program. The Python shell uses what we call a read eval print loop. That is, Python reads an expression from the command line, then evaluates that expression, and finally prints the result. In a python program that you run using the Python interpreter, you have to be explicit about what it is you want to print. That is why in the Python program we use the print function on both lines.
If you are using windows you will need to install Python for yourself. Here is a video that explains how to do it.
We are assuming that you use Python 3.x, as of this writing the latest version is Python 3.2.1. This link will tell you how to update or install Python on Linux, Mac, or Windows. Install Python
This material is directly from How to Think Like A Computer Scientist by Brad Miller, David Ranum. License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License CC BY-SA as well as the GNU FDL 1. Source: http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/Labs/pythonshell.html


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@yabapmatt and I, in partnership with @harpagon, are launching a platform and accompanying website called Steem Engine (https://steem-engine.com) with an initial focus of allowing the creation of custom tokens on the Steem Blockchain.
Smart Contracts on a Steem Sidechain
Steem Engine uses the Steem Smart Contracts software, built by @harpagon, which is a smart contract enabled sidechain platform built on top of the Steem blockchain. Initially we’re launching with a limited set of smart contracts enabled which allow anyone to easily make custom, simple tokens on the Steem blockchain.
It will also “soon” include an internal market, very similar to the existing STEEM/SBD market, to allow all tokens created on the platform to be traded against STEEM. Special thanks to @asgarth for help on the market user interface design and development shown below. Testing on the market has already begun.
We hope that the ability for apps to use Steem for their token sales rather than Ethereum or other similar platforms will drive demand for the STEEM token and allow many apps and dapps to migrate and raise money here before the SMT platform is ready.
Standardizing Tokens on Steem
Currently many Steem projects are setting up their own temporary tokens using various different methods, while waiting for the mythical SMTs. We think it will be very beneficial for both token creators and token holders to have all of that be in one place, working in a standardized way, with a robust toolset.
One of the biggest benefits to token standards like ERC-20 is that any app, wallet, exchange, etc, only has to do one integration and then they can support any token using the standard. We would like to do the same thing for Steem tokens. Once any app, wallet, exchange, etc integrates with Steem Engine, they can instantly work with and support any of the tokens created on the platform.
Currently with Steem Engine, users can easily see what tokens are available, view balances, and make transfers right from the Steem Engine website] as well as the Steem Keychain and very soon the Steem Plus browser extensions.
Steem Engine tokens vs SMTs
We want to clarify that Steem Engine Tokens are different than Smart Media Tokens (SMTs) currently(?) being developed by Steemit, Inc. SMTs will be tokens that are native to the Steem platform and their transactions will be validated by the same software which currently runs the Steem blockchain.
Steem Engine, on the other hand, will have all transactions posted to the Steem blockchain, so that they will all be available on a public, immutable ledger with deterministic, consensus-based transaction ordering and finality, however the validation of the transactions will be done by a separate piece of software (the Steem Smart Contracts software created by @harpagon).
Just as with the Steem software, the Steem Smart Contracts (SSC) software is free and open source and anyone may run their own SSC node and independently verify the transactions and query the current state of the system.
Advantages of Steem Engine vs SMTs
SMTs are planned to have a certain, fixed set of smart contracts implemented which are very similar to the ones currently in place for the native Steem blockchain tokens revolving primarily around content publishing and reward distribution.
On the other hand the Steem Smart Contracts platform, on which Steem Engine is built, will allow arbitrary, custom smart contracts to be published, similar to platforms like Ethereum and EOS.
While it is our ultimate goal to allow anyone to publish their own smart contracts to the platform, in the meantime the software is set up such that only the @steemsc account, controlled jointly by @harpagon, @yabapmatt, and myself, is able to publish new smart contracts.
The point being that it is possible to publish custom smart contracts to the platform to allow token and dapp creators to build things that will not be possible with SMTs. If you would like to create a custom smart contract on the platform, please get in touch with us on the Steem Engine Discord and we’ll work with you to get it up and running!
Roadmap
We can provide more detail in the coming weeks, but right now we’re focused on:
- Improving the Steem Smart Contracts platform
- Launching the DEX for trading tokens against STEEM
- Building tools and interfaces to support common types of token distributions
- Putting in place a legal services division which enables dapps to incorpate and register a Reg. D security token offering in the US which allows up to $5M/yr to be raised, including from a limited number of non-accredited investors, in a fully legal and compliant manner. Some restrictions apply.
We expect major progress on all fronts in February and through the end of March.
We’re ready for you NOW!
We’re executing our soft launch right now! If you run an app it’s time to create your token on the platform! This starts immediately!!
We have a full public launch planned in the next few months, which will include a PR campaign to get the word out inside and beyond the Steem community.
If you have a token for a Steem-based project, or are considering creating a token in the near future, please get in touch with us about launching on the Steem Engine platform. We can coordinate marketing efforts and get the word out together!
Let’s get started tokenizing the internet TODAY through the Steem Engine platform, built on top of Steem, and supported by websites and apps you run.
Happy to answer questions on getting started.
Join us in Discord and be sure to follow the @steem-eng account for future updates!
This page is synchronized from the post: ‘Introducing Steem-Engine.com (smart contracts and token creation on Steem)’


Greek cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine and therefore has many similarities with Italian and Spanish cuisine. However, it is also heavily influenced by Turkish cuisine – they share foods such as baklava, tzatziki, dolmades and yuvarlakia.
Although Greece is a small country, each region in the past had quite different types of food production which throughout the years resulted in a very diverse cuisine. The culture, though, is the same! Food plays an important role in socializing with others, in sharing moments with family and friends over wine, ouzo, rakh, or rakomelo drinks. It is quite common to see on a table lots of mezedes or orektika together (appetizers).
Lots of olive oil, tomato sauce, garlic, onion, a bit of herbs – oregano, black pepper, salt everywhere! And then vegetables, grains, dairy (with the most well-known feta cheese), lots of legumes and pulses (lentils, chickpeas in soups), meat in moderation – particularly common in festive plates, fish and seafood.
There are so many different kinds of pies and you can find them in bakeries but even in restaurants, tavernes or mezedopoleia. Some of the most well-known are different kinds of feta cheese pie and feta (tyropita), spinach pie (spanakopita) and pumpkin pie (kolokuthopita)! The ones made with handmade rolled phyllo sheets are very unique in taste and texture. If the cook is very experience, pites end up being one of the best foods there.
Most of the people that visit Greece try moussaka as the traditional plate. To be honest, it is not the most traditional food, but it is really tasty and it is worth tasting it. It has fried potatoes, zucchini, aubergines, minced beef (of course you can find equally tasty vegetarian alternatives, with mushrooms, lentils etc.) and béchamel sauce.
See the photo and if you want try to make it yourself like this
It be filled with non-sweet stuff but the classic mpougatsa phyllo dough with sweet cream and icing sugar/cinnamon on top is a must-have, particularly if you are in Thessaloniki and return from your night out after 5, 6, 7..p.m.
You can find a good recipe from Akis Petretzikis
This is a biscuit-type sweet that you can find only in Christmas time. It is mostly made of four, semolina, olive oil, orange juice, sugar, ground almonds, cognac and a syrup with lots of honey, cinnamon and cloves. On top we put ground walnuts.


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I've pretty much established at this point that the Sel Mahum draw their fierce power in battle from their delicious Salmon Soup. I cannot allow this. Take salmon from the Sel Mahum Chefs, so that Sel Mahums will know the suffering of life without tasty salmon soup!
Then remove the shoelaces from dazed Sel Mahums because that is just fun. Teach them for tempting me with their tasty soup!
How about it? Scared? Keep your eye on the soup.


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AMISOM meets to strengthen financial management
by Ruth NasejjeThe high-level meeting to discuss mechanisms to strengthen financial management and accountability is being held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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The high-level meeting to discuss mechanisms to strengthen financial management and accountability is being held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Hello there, awesome person! Paagal Aadhmi told he will get me a cake on Easter but he did'nt. Now he assured me to give cake on upcoming Christmas.
What do you think? Will he get me a cake?


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Welcome to the WPI Regular Expression competition! Your goal for this competition is to shortest regex possible to make all test cases pass. Each Tuesday, we will release 3 challenges: one easy, one medium and one hard. Good luck!


Haha sorry :/ I sent him a PM but he hasn't replied.
This also sucks because I was going to release yesterday but I can't if the server is down. My cousin is going to be in town today so I wanted to send it out before he arrives.
What does it take to host it I might be able to if it does not take much my comp could run one with a maxe of like 30-40 ppl on at ones so if you want and you can kinda explain what it takes leat me know if you want me to host server for a bit
Haha, thad is such a newb. :J Don't you have him on msn or something? I made a (hopefully insulting) thread in the modforum on xentales, maybe he sees it.


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Cyber Defense Competition. By Students.
Participation
While our goal will always be to make cybersecurity education available to as many students as possible, we want to make sure this first competition is the best it possibly can be. Unfortunately, this means PGCDC will be an invite-only competition. If you think your school's cybersecurity team has what it takes to participate, feel free to reach out using the contact form— we'll be sure to let you know if a spot opens up!
Venue
PGCDC will be hosted right at the heart of Charleston at Porter-Gaud School in West Ashley.


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Atypical is trying to change the way people learn how to code by changing what is learned and how it is learned. From our own experiences, we believe that one of the best places to go and learn code is a hackathon. We strongly believe that programming is best learned through trying and doing, not through reading books or listening to lectures. And a 24 hour event where you have to create a working project, with help from mentors and workshops, proves to be an effective way to gain valuable programming experience, while also making new friends and having fun. Atypical is launching a hackathon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are catering our hackathon to students, allowing middle school students, high school students, and college students.We are doing this to create a diverse environment, where both coders who have no experience and coders with experience can meet to create amazing technology, with workshops for the beginners, and representatives from local companies presenting internship postions or job oppportunities. Excited? Registration will be available soon. Sign up for email updates!
We are planning to locate this hackathon within walking distance of a
BART station to ensure easy accessibility to students
in San Francisco and around the east bay. The event
will be free, as are most hackathons. The hackathon will start with an
invigorating keynote speech from local leaders in tech. After this, the
hackathon will begin with students creating teams and getting to work, high
school and college aged mentors helping them out, and workshops starting to
help new coders feel less intimidated.Projects will be due 24 hours from this
point. When it comes to hacking, you will be allowed to create a team with as
many as four people. The project you submit must have been made at the
hackathon; no previous projects will be taken into consideration. Your team is
allowed to create a project for any platform. We will even try and obtain
hardware for you to be able to do so. These workshops will include ones held by
Atypical to teach our Intro to Java through Android curriculum, a Node.js
workshop, and many others. Throughout the hackathon, there will be fun
activities, such as a dance contest and a multiperson videogame contest, and
enough food and caffeine to power you through your coding. The hackathon will
end with judging from local tech experts,where you will gain valuable insight
on how to better your project, and a closing ceremony, where the top projects
present their work. This hackathon should be the best opportunity for students
to socialiaze and help build technology for a better future. Ready? Schedule coming soon!
Right now, we have 3 people dedicated to working on this hackathon,
but all of them go to Amador Valley High School. We want to spread
our idea to the rest of the Bay Area, particularily to middle schools,
high schools, and colleges in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and
Walnut Creek. For this reason, we would love if you could become a
campus ambassador for this hackathon. As a campus ambassador, you
would put up posters in your school, and help with advertising the
event to your friends. Besides the fact that this type of position
would look great on a CV or resume, this is an opportunity for you
to join the movement to create a new way to learn how to code.
Sounds like a cool gig, right?
Hackathons are expensive. Entertaining and feeding 500 people is never cheap, especially when people are working through the night, and will need food, water, and caffeine to stay awake. Ishaan Gulrajani, oranizer of the 2013 hackMIT, said in a Medium blog post that it cost them $250,000 to cater for food, travel, and other necessities for their 1000 attendees. The only way that such large coding events are possible is through sponsorships with companies. Atypical Hacks is in need of corporate sponsors. To be able to pay for food, prizes, power strips, and other necessary items, we are looking for roughly $60,000 of funding. By funding this hackathon, your company will be helping power an event that will help a wide range of students get excited about technology and create amazing projects. This is also a great opportunity for your company to debut products, especially for tech companies who create tools that help developers, such as APIs or database solutions. Becuase this event will have college students competing as well, the event will prove to be a great place for companies to fill internship positions for the summer or the fall. No matter how much money your company can provide to sponsor this event, there are definitely benefits seen for any amount.
| Tier | Amount Given | Brings mentors |
|---|---|---|
Bronze |
$1000-$2000 | Yes |
Silver |
$2000-$5000 | Yes |
Gold |
$5000-$10000 | Optional |
Platinum |
$10000+ | Optional |
| Tier | Branding on T-Shirts and Website | Can set up table to advertise product | Resumes Given | On-Site Recruitment | Meal with company name | Activity with company name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bronze |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Silver |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Gold |
Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Platinum |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |


Rounders (1998)
Director: John Dahl Cast: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, John Malkovich, Martin Landau, Michael Rispoli Screenplay: David Levien, Brian Koppelman Producers: Ted Demme, Joel Stillerman Runtime: 115 US Distribution: Miramax Rated R: language, sex, drug use
By Nathaniel R. Atcheson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Rounders, if you haven't heard, is a film about people who play poker for a living. It involves a lot of illegal gambling, and much of it takes place in casinos. As we were driving out of the theater, my friend noted that it was impressive that director John Dahl managed to make a film about gambling interesting to people who live in a gambling town. I've lived in Reno my entire life, and one of the misconceptions most people have is that casinos are everywhere, and that locals know everything there is to know about gambling. Apparently, my friend has this opinion as well.
The fact is, most locals I know spend less than two dollars per year gambling. I, myself, have spent 55 cents over the course of my entire life. Nobody knows anything about gambling. It's a mystery unless you *work* in a casino. That's why gambling is so fascinating to everyone, including Renoites. Sure, we ignore it for the most part, but that doesn't mean we don't find it interesting. As I understand it, most people find gambling immensely interesting. That's probably why Rounders is likely to be a big hit -- it successfully delves into things that most of us have never seen. It also makes gambling seem hugely appealing, a trait no gambling film I've ever watched has had.
Of course, it's more specific than "gambling" -- it takes us deep into the world of professional poker, where people bet their entire life savings on one hand. It tells the story of true card sharks -- the poker professionals who don't rely on luck, but on skill -- knowing what cards everyone has, and knowing how to read body language. The film stars the ultra-popular Matt Damon as Mike McDermott, a law school student who, at the beginning of the film, loses everything he has in one poker game; his opponent is a crazy Russian known as KGB (John Malkovitch).
He vows never to go back to the game. He gets a "real" job driving a truck, and moves in with his girlfriend, Jo (Gretchen Mol). Everything is going great until Mike's best friend, Worm (Edward Norton), is released from jail. Worm is, of course, a pro poker player, not to mention an incredibly pushy guy: he drags Mike back into the poker underworld, and soon Mike has dropped everything, including school and his girlfriend. Then, predictably, Mike is put into a position in which he must vouch for Worm -- it's then up to him to pay for all of Worm's debts.
Okay, so a lot of this sounds pretty familiar. Rounders is a smooth, likable movie, but it is dreadfully predictable (and often strangely contrived). Of course Mike is going to get back into poker. Of course Worm is going to get himself into trouble. Of course Mike's going to end up "vouching for the wrong guy" (who, incidentally, is his best friend). And, of course, there is going to be one final showdown with KGB. I could see the gears turning in David Levien's and Brian Koppelman's script as they force the events to end up just as they began. Interestingly, the predictability didn't bother me as I watched the film. Dahl (The Last Seduction, Unforgettable) does such a sharp job directing that I can't imagine not falling prey to its charming qualities.
It's probably the way he films the scenes, and the way he uses his actors. Dahl doesn't use a lot of camera tricks, but his camera is always moving, panning and circling around the numerous poker tables. The film is ridiculously entertaining, and many of the scenes provide solid belly laughs: my favorite scene has all of the film's main characters (all of whom are poker pros) sitting at a table in the Taj Mahal, waiting for tourists to come up and waste their money. It's such a well-done scene; the reactions of the numerous neophytes losing their cash is particularly good.
The screenplay is good in its details, and provides a lot of strong characters for a magical cast. Damon, unlike many of his peers, is actually a gifted actor -- he handles the emotional ups and downs with ease. (My only concern is that after this film and his last two, Good Will Hunting and The Rainmaker, he's going to be typecast as the know-it-all with an attitude.) Norton, on the other hand, turns in a performance vastly different from all of his previous (does this guy have range or what?). He's a strong screen presence, and great fun to watch. John Malkovitch has a lot of fun with his role, and though his Russian accent isn't perfect, it's interesting to see Malkovitch without that strange voice of his. Supporting performances from Famke Janssen, John Turturro, and particularly Martin Landau (as Mike's professor) are all very good.
I didn't much like the film's end, because none of the subplots end with satisfaction. The girlfriend subplot whimpers to a close, and the relationship between Mike and Worm -- which is the film's central conflict -- also concludes anticlimactically. Overall, though, I didn't mind the flaws: Rounders is an absorbing and amusing picture to sit through. And, as my friend pointed out, it will even interest the 1 million people who live in cities with gambling. John Dahl and his array of actors have managed to take us all somewhere that we haven't been before by explaining the way poker really works. It just makes me want to go out and blow thirty thousand dollars.
*** out of **** (7/10, B)
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Nathaniel R. Atcheson
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We've helped FG track N40 billion in 8 years - CODE
- In the battle of curbing corruption in governance, a CSO organisation has stated that it has helped the federal government track over N40 billion in seven years
- The good governance and accountability initiative, Follow The Money shared this inform while marking its 7th anniversary recently
- According to Follow The Money, they have helped improve the lives of four million Nigerians across 181 communities
Good governance and accountability initiative, Follow The Money, an initiative of Connected Development (CODE) recently marked its 7th anniversary and revealed that in all its years of existence, it has successfully helped the federal government track N40.3 billion across 181 rural communities , in over 25 states in Nigeria.
While speaking about its achievement since its inception in a press briefing, Hamzat Lawal, Chief Executive of CODE reiterated that the pan Africa movement Follow The Money, has helped in improving the lives of over fifteen million Nigerians through advocacy and tracking of government/international spending in key focus areas.
It is now official as arrest of Nigeria’s ex-minister of justice Adoke in Dubai is confirmed
Lawal also stated that the initiative has advocated for the providence of resources to educate millions of children in Nigeria by demanding urgent tackling of the growing number of out-of-school children in the country.
As a result, the federal government has earmarked 5 million dollars and a 5-year roadmap to take a huge number of children off the streets.
Follow The Money which goes beyond the shores of Nigeria and now has presence in six other African countries, including; Zambia, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Gambia and Liberia, focuses on empowering marginalised communities across Africa and has, in giant strides, influenced government policies to accelerate social change.
The movement through its chief executive disclosed that they are now collaborating with anti-graft agency Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to track government-funded projects. Lawal said that the new alliance was cemented during an interactive session held on Wednesday, November 20, with Acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.
Campaign to reduce threats of global warming commences in Nigeria
On making impact and yielding results, the organisation also recognised the commitment of some of its members who adhered to its objective of tracking government-funded projects. Out of nine finalists, three members from Yobe, Akwa Ibom and Osun were selected and presented with medals of honour and cash prize.
While reiterating its commitment to building grassroots communities, Kevwe Oghide, CODE communications lead revealed that the organisation recently bagged a Council of Europe's Democracy Innovation Award in Strasbourg, France. The award recognises Follow The Money as one of the ground-breaking initiatives in the world.
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Lawal recently advised young people in Nigeria to participate fully in the country's democratic governance space and public service delivery.
He made the statement during a town hall meeting organised by Connected Development and Action Aid Nigeria in Abuja, the Nigerian capital recently.
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| [in] | cc | A CompletionCallback to run on asynchronous completion of Open(). This callback will run when response headers for the url are received or error occurred. This callback will only run if Open() returns PP_OK_COMPLETIONPENDING . |
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Seeds of Learning empowers and inspires a diverse population of young children, nurturing lifelong learning as they become successful adults.
Warm, supportive and respectful relationships between adults and children lie at the heart of excellent care and education for children. It is our aspiration to work closely with parents to meet the social, emotional, physical and cognitive needs of each child, thereby instilling a love of learning, secure attachment, self-awareness and self-confidence. We also partner with families so they feel respected, supported and nurtured in their parenting and child rearing efforts. We acknowledge the fact that children, families and staff exist within an environment of individual cultures which are overlapping, differ greatly, and deserve tremendous respect. Authentic and reciprocal relationships with the children, their families and staff are at the heart of our relationship-based educational programs at Seeds of Learning. We believe early care and education centers can and must be a place where children, families and staff alike can feel a sense of belonging. The Seeds of Learning philosophy encompasses high quality early care and education which includes the Incredible Years Dinosaur School, Creative Curriculum curricula offered to all children, and the Incredible Years Parenting class. We encourage participation from our entire Seeds family.
Creative Curriculum was chosen for Seeds because it is based on the latest research on how children learn best and has been shown through experimental and quasi-experimental studies to improve classroom quality and promote the school readiness of preschool children. Creative Curriculum meets all of the standards put forth for effective early childhood curricula by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Equally important, evaluation research provides strong evidence that the Creative Curriculum for Preschool improves classroom quality and promotes positive physical, social and cognitive outcomes for children. The Environmental Rating Scales are designed to assess “process quality” in an early childhood or school age care group. Process quality consists of the various interactions that go on in a classroom between staff and children, staff and parents, among the children themselves, as well as the interactions children have with the many materials and activities in the environment. The established reliability and validity of the Environmental Rating Scale make it particularly useful for research and program evaluation. It should be noted that ECERS (Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale) is used as comprehensive quality measures in the National Child Care Staffing Study (Whitebook, Howes, & Phillips, 1989) and the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study (1995), the major studies of their time. The Incredible Years, our award-winning parent training, teacher training, and child social skills training approaches have been selected by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as an “exemplary” best practice program and as a “Blueprints” program. The Incredible Years Dinosaur School used in the preschool classrooms promotes social, emotional, and academic competence in children as well as increases children’s social skills, children’s understanding of feelings and children’s conflict management skills. Children will experience growth and learning in their social-emotional, physical, language and cognitive development as a result of observations and assessments taken through these programs. Families will feel included and supported in their own child-rearing as they participate in their child’s learning experience at Seeds of Learning. Our History


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Suppose the chain starts at $i$. Then it is intuitively plausible that once it returns to $i$, it "starts all over again" as though it were starting at $i$ at time 0. This hand-wavy statement can be turned into mathematics, but in this course we'll just accept it without doing the math.
Start the chain at $i$, that is, with the initial distribution $P(X_0 = i) = 1$. Define an $i$-block to be the chain till the step before it returns to $i$:
Here $W_i$ is the hitting time of $i$ as defined in the previous section:
$$ W_i = \inf \{n \ge 1: X_n = i \} $$Notice that in an $i$-block, the chain is only at $i$ once, at time 0.
Notice also that the length of the $i$-block is $W_i$. You can see this by counting indices in the definition of the $i$-block. But the $i$-block doesn't end at time $W_i$; it ends one step earlier. Its length is $W_i$ because it includes time 0, whereas $W_i$ starts counting time at 1. Informally, the $i$-block includes the $i$ at the start of the block but not the $i$ directly following the block, whereas $W_i$ doesn't include time 0 but does include the moment when $i$ appears at the end of the block.
This will become clear when you look at the graph below, in which $i = 3$. The blue dots are the $i$-block. There are 8 dots in it, corresponding to times 0 through 7. The red dot immediately after the $i$-block shows the return to $i$. It's at time 8.
We have been careful not to include $X_{W_i}$ in the $i$-block. At time $W_i$ the chain returns to $i$, and we will think of that as the start of the next $i$-block. Because the chain "starts over" at $i$, we can imagine the entire chain as identically distributed $i$-blocks strung together one after another. Therefore there are close relations between long run properties of the chain and short run properties on an $i$-block. Let's look at one of these relations.
Let $X_0 = i$ and let $N(j)$ be the number of times the chain is at $j$ in the $i$-block. We will call $N(j)$ the number of visits to $j$ in an $i$-block.
As we have already observed, $N(i) = 1$ with probability 1. By partitioning the $i$-block according to visits to the different states, the length of the $i$-block can be written as a sum:
$$ \text{length of } i\text{-block} = W_i = 1 + \sum_{j \ne i} N(j) $$You can check this in the graph above where $i=3$. The graph shows a path for which $N(3) = 1$, $N(4) = 3 = N(5)$, $N(6) = 1$, and $N(j) = 0$ for all other states $j$. The sum of all these occupation times is 8, which is also the value of $W_i$.
So $$ \frac{1}{\pi(i)} = E(W_i \mid X_0 = i) = 1 + \sum_{j \ne i} E(N(j) \mid X_0 = i) $$
Fix a state $j$. The expected number of visits to $j$ in an $i$-block is
$$ E(N(j) \mid X_0 = i) = \frac{\pi(j)}{\pi(i)} $$A formal proof requires a little care; we won't go through it. Rather, we will show why the formula is consistent with our previous calculations and with intuition.
because $\pi$ is a probability distribution and hence sums to 1.
In the example of the Ehrenfest model we worked with in the previous section, the stationary distribution is binomial $(N, 1/2)$. Suppose the chain starts at $X_n = 0$, that is, with Container 1 empty. Then for every $k$, the expected number of times Container 1 has $k$ particles before it is once again empty is
$$ \frac{\binom{N}{k}(1/2)^N}{\binom{N}{0}(1/2)^N} = \binom{N}{k} $$Consider any chain that has a stationary distribution that is uniform. You have seen in exercises that chains with doubly stochastic transition matrices fall into this category. Suppose such a chain starts at state $i$. Then for any other state $j$, the expected number of times the chain visits $j$ before returning to $i$ is 1.


Congress parliamentary strategy group meets
by PTIThe Congress parliamentary strategy group, which includes Ghulam Nabi Azad, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and K C Venugopal, met on Monday at party chief Sonia Gandhi's residence.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of the Maharashtra political situation, with the Congress likely to raise the issue of Devendra Fadnavis' swearing-in along with Ajit Pawar in both houses of Parliament.
Government formation in Maharashtra has come under the Supreme Court's scrutiny with the Centre being asked to produce before the court on Monday morning the letters of the Governor inviting Devendra Fadnavis as well as the communication of the BJP leader staking his claim.
After Fadnavis returned as the chief minister on Saturday, the Shiv Sena claimed that the Sena-NCP-Congress combine has a support of 165 MLAs and can comfortably prove its majority in the Assembly.
The BJP has claimed that Fadnavis had the support of 170 MLAs. The majority mark in a House of 288 is 145.


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Overview
A Game Jam aims to:
- Provide access to innovative new gaming technologies that allow you to create the ultimate browser based game.
- Bring together people who love making and hacking games as much as you do.
- Inspire you to dream up a cool new game and help you build a prototype that demonstrates your idea.
- Prepare you to enter your best work possible into the Game On competition.
Sound like fun? This guide will help! It's a community document, so please share your ideas to help improve it.
Facts and figures
- 10 - 50 participants
- 24 - 48 hours
- At a school, office, computer lab or any open hacking space
Before
Engage your participants beforehand
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Have conversations with participants before the event:
- What kinds of games are they interested in making and doing?
- What do they need to make that happen?
- How can your event serve them?
- Know who you're doing this for. Participants at successful game jams know what they are making and for whom. You can use the Game On contest as a great end goal!
- Think about what skills you need in the room. Invite people from other areas who can help in valuable ways. (Design, CS, ECE, etc)
Craft a good design challenge:
- A design challenge is a question that you set out to address together.
- Write in simple, clear language and include the target users in what you're building.
- For example:
- What games can we make that teach youth an important web skill?
- What game mechanics can we design for mobile interfaces?
- These are just ideas to get started. You can always keep it open-ended or go with a general gaming theme or category (i.e. mobile, hackable, learning) If you'd like help crafting a game jam challenge, please get in touch with us!
Find a space and a date
- Find a comfortable, flexible space. Ideal is an open space where you can move the chairs and sit together in a circle.
- Think about wifi and power, good lighting, and snacks.
- Pick a date. Give yourself enough time and make sure the date works for your participants.
Spread the word
- Read our guidelines on planning safe events.
- Write a short description and create a page for your event. (Facebook event pages are great)
- Invite key participants. Identify important skillsets for the event. Talk to local communities, forums, universities to find the right participants. You can also contact the Mozilla team for advice.
During
Event Logistics
- Have the group sit in a circle or clusters near each other. This creates a sense of cooperation and helps everyone see each other.
- Do a quick go-round. Introduce yourself and the event and then ask the participants to introduce themselves.
- Give a brief overview. What will you make today?
- Discuss the concept of a "minimum viable prototype." You're aiming to produce something that works, even if it's very rough around the edges, by the end of the event. Prototypes include:
- A napkin sketch
- A blog post
- A little bit of code
- Break into small groups
- In small teams, start brainstorming about the challenge and write down as many solution as possible. Rough notes and sketches are fine!
- Regroup and present the best ideas, collecting feedback.
- Create a shared repository such as an etherpad, a wiki, or a wall of paper, to collect all the ideas.
Start Building
- Go back into teams and focus on the ideas that got the most traction.
- Start drafting the prototypes on paper. This helps formulate ideas and exposes any holes.
- Consider design elements to simplify and improve the user's experience.
Playtesting Round
- Periodically playtest each others projects. You can do quick play rounds with the whole group or invite people to walk around and share what they're working on.
- Identify skill-sets and needs, such as "Group 1 needs a developer" or "Group 2 needs a designer," so participants can help each other where needed.
- If a group gets stuck, encourage them to keep going to the best of their ability or rethink the idea to fit what they can build.
Sprint to Finish
- Keep refining your prototype or using other techniques and tools to get closer to a workable solution.
- Teams sprint to finish their "minimum viable prototype."
- Each team prepares a short demo or presentation of their project.
- Celebrate what you made. Back in a large circle, have participants present their prototypes.
- Encourage participants to think about what they want to do next with their project. Hopefully this will be the beginning of their submission for Game On!
- If you like, please share your prototypes with the world!. You can publish the links and other materials to a blog or the social network of your choice.
- Please tag your work with #mozgames.
After
Wrap Up
- Ask everyone how it went. Encourage feedback about the event and the projects. What did they learn? What did they like? If they have suggestions for making it better, be sure to take notes.
- Talk about continuing to hack together. You may want to keep building these prototypes or try new ones. Talk about what you would like to do next, such as organize another game jam.
Set a date.
If there's interest, pick a date for the next time!
Let us know how it went
- Please share your experience about hosting the event and the prototypes, including links to the things you made.
- We'll send an email reminder after the event to collect your feedback.
Support
If you need help at any time before, during or after your event, please contact us. We have a team of volunteers and staff members dedicated to helping organizers like you.


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an expert in secret communication and in everything that has to do with it.
My favorite area is cryptology (altgr. Kryptós = "hidden, secret" and lógos = "word, teaching").
So it is "the doctrine of secrecy". Cryptography is far superior to steganography as well as game languages. Why? Because it is a mathematical discipline! Only mathematics can be used to check the strength of a procedure or to prove its security without any gaps. In addition, it has clear rules that are easy to implement for computers. So you do not have to do everything by hand. Pretty handy, is not it? |
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InstagramOct 2, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Shei
InstagramSept 28, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Heart
InstagramSept 27, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Shi
YouTube InstagramJune 5, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Wo
YouTube InstagramApr 20, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Qian
YouTube InstagramApr 20, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
WiFi
YouTube InstagramApr 20, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Steve Jobs
YouTube InstagramApr 13, 2017
Ink on canvas, 250 x 176 cm (8.2 x 5.8 ft).
Self-Portrait
YouTube InstagramApr 12, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Hand
YouTube InstagramApr 12, 2017
Ink on canvas, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
WWF
YouTube InstagramApr 9, 2017
Ink on paper, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Nicole Chan
YouTube InstagramApr 8, 2017
Ink on paper, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Pointer
YouTube InstagramApr 8, 2017
Ink on paper, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Shirky's Eye
YouTube InstagramApr 8, 2017
Ink on paper, ea. measures 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft). Four pieces stitched together in Photoshop.
Apple
YouTube InstagramApr 7, 2017
Ink on paper, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Black to White
YouTube InstagramApr 7, 2017
Ink on paper, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).
Circle
YouTube InstagramApr 7, 2017
Ink on paper, 176 x 176 cm (5.8 x 5.8 ft).


We’d like to express our sincere appreciation for those who donated money towards our attendance at the 2018 FTC World Competition! FIRST has been incredibly meaningful and enlightening to all members of RM’d and Dangerous, allowing us to both develop our passions and connect with the surrounding community. Without your help, none of this would be possible. Thank you all so much for your continued support for our team!


From September 2017, I started to work on my Senior Capstone Project with four other UCI students for NeoGenomics, a cancer diagnostic company in Orange County. Our team is responsible for implementing a Framework for Doctor Scheduling.
During Spring 2017, our team of five students in the HCI project class decided to choose Canvas, a Learning Management System currently using by UCI, as our target for the class project. We conducted usability research to identify usability issues of current Canvas web system, developed design solutions to fix those issues, and finally evaluated the usability of redesign solutions.
During 2017 Spring, I was a part of a team project analyzing organizational process
and technology-in-use in the gamer community at UCI eSports Arena. Our focuses were on the communication and interactions that take place between gamers during the game, and how the environment and hardware facilities have shaped their interactions.
During 2017 Winter, I conducted a case study at Chinese Baptist Church of Central Orange County to study the relationship between the organization and the information system they use. I performed on-site observations and focused on the effects that the bilingual service have brought to church events.


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Charles Babbage’s mechanical computers made with gears and shafts. 1820~1830s.
Vannevar Bush's differential analysers made with wheel and disc mechanisms. 1928–1931.
Claude Shannon's “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits.” 1937.
Researchers at the Bell Telephone Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey,1947.
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, 1957.
Bell labs, NYC
Alan Turing and Claude Shannon


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Milk Bar’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 18 cookies
- 2 hours
- Christina Tosi
- Sweet
1 pound
unsalted butter, melted and just warm to the touch3/4 cup
packed light brown sugar1/2 cup
granulated sugar1
large egg2 tsp.
pure vanilla extract1 3/4 cups
all-purpose flour2 tbsp.
nonfat milk powder (crucial!)1 1/4 tsp.
salt flakes1/2 tsp.
baking powder1/4 tsp.
baking soda2 cups
chopped dark chocolate pieces
1 pound
unsalted butter, melted and just warm to the touch3/4 cup
packed light brown sugar1/2 cup
granulated sugar
In a large bowl, mix together the melted butter and sugars with a wooden spoon until mixture is combined and homogenous. (follow advice below)
1
large egg2 tsp.
pure vanilla extractAdd the egg and vanilla, stirring until combined.
1 3/4 cups
all-purpose flour2 tbsp.
nonfat milk powder (crucial!)1 1/4 tsp.
salt flakes1/2 tsp.
baking powder1/4 tsp.
baking soda
Mix in the flour, milk powder, salt, baking powder, and baking soda until just combined – don’t overmix!
2 cups
chopped dark chocolate pieces
Fold in the chocolate pieces or chocolate chips. The dough might seem a bit wet but it baked up nicely.
Put in fridge for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prep baking sheets with parchment paper.
Dole out the cookie batter using a 2 ¾ ounce ice cream scoop, or use your hands.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden brown. Cool completely on the pan (if you can wait that long to chow on them).
Butter + Sugar Mixing Advice:
“In order to achieve the improbable crispy-on-the-outside, fudgy-and-slightly-underbaked-in-the-center defining texture of a Milk Bar cookie—defying science and gravity—a serious creaming process is required. I will go so far as to say it is the most important step in making a Milk Bar cookie. Mixing the cookie dough is the first thing any of our cooks learn how to do. Everyone thinks they know how to mix a cookie, but I disagree. The basics are as follows:
Use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. Make sure both the bowl and paddle are at room temperature (not hot out of the dishwasher or dishwater).
Use room-temperature butter (65° to 70°F). Butter that’s too warm will make butter soup; butter that’s too cold will take twice as long to cream properly.
Beat the butter and sugar(s) together on medium-high for 2 to 3 minutes. (If the recipe calls for glucose, add it with the butter and sugar.) This dissolves the sugar while incorporating small pockets of air into the mixture. The air pockets develop as the sugar granules cut into the butter. This creaming process seals the hardbody bond between your butter and sugar.
Use either cold or room-temperature eggs; room-temperature ones will incorporate more quickly.
Add the eggs one by one, waiting for each one to be incorporated before adding the next. Then paddle on high for 7 to 8 minutes. The eggs help to strengthen and emulsify the bond.
If the recipe calls for vanilla extract, add it with the eggs.
If the butter ever begins to separate or turn into soup on you, throw everything into the fridge for 5 minutes, let the butter firm up, and try again.
You can think of this process in terms of how a croissant bakes. Butter is made up of fat, milk solids, and water. As a croissant bakes, the water content in the butter steams the delicate layers of the croissant apart, creating air pockets and a flaky dough. Without the bond between the butter and the flour, there would be no structure to hold the dough around the air pockets.
So works the bond between butter and sugar in the creaming process. The eggs are the insurance for the butter-sugar bond. In the oven, the butter-sugar bond rises and crisps up, rendering the outside of your cookie delicately crunchy in texture. But if creaming is not executed properly, unbound sugars bake into a dense, sandy cookie, where excess butter without a bond and without a home seeps out onto your pan instead of baking into your cookie.
Signs things are going right:
The butter mixture is a very pale yellow (with a hint of brown if brown sugar is in the mix).
The mixture has doubled in size and looks like a cloud: puffy and voluminous, with soft peaks.
The mixture is slightly shiny and homogenous, with just a little grit from the sugar crystals.
Take this process seriously. Magic doesn’t just bake itself in an oven. You can certainly make delicious cookies even without a mixer, melting the butter and mixing the dough with a wooden spoon. But not these cookies.”


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I recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Oregon State University. For the last couple years, I worked as a journalist at the Lincoln Journal Star, the Omaha World-Herald and The Oregonian. Now, I'm interested in technology and software development.
I designed and built a graphical web crawler application with two classmates for a Software Projects course. The user enters a starting URL, as well as the number of links they wish to crawl, and hits submit. The application then returns a tree-like visualization of the crawl path.
The crawler was built using Python, and the front-end visualization was built using D3.js. The application was built on top of the Google App Engine.
This site was an experiment in working with Parallax.js and ScrollReveal.js. The site, built on the Google App Engine, also makes heavy use of Bootstrap. The project was adapted from the Pooper App, a fake app that has a really sleek web design. I wanted to see how it worked, so I created this site for a fake business, BBB LLC, and filled the sections with business jargon.
For a mobile and cloud computing class, I created this simple workout tracker application to test out the Google Datastore NoSQL database. The user is able to add a workout routine, view their routines and edit individual routines easily.
The application was built with Bootstrap, HTML, CSS and Python, on top of the Google App Engine.
This twitter bot represents the bus stop near my apartment in Portland, and tweets when the 15 and 20 bus lines are arriving. The bot was built with Python and the Tweepy library, using an API ran by my transit agency, TriMet. The bot runs on Heroku.
I created a state-level election map, as well as a how to guide, using Leaflet.js. I love data and maps, so Leaflet.js was a very interesting library to learn about. The assignment called for the library to be intended for mobile use, so I tried hard to manipulate the Leaflet.js library into some mobile friendly. As a result, the user must tap and hold onto a state in order to see the election data.
Using prototyping tool Balsamiq, a group of classmates and I created a wireframe for a check-splitting app to be used by both diners and restaurants. The version of the app used by diners would allow them to split their bill with other diners as they wish, as well as add a tip, with a few taps. We focused on making the application quick, easy to use and usable.
For a databases course, I designed a SQL relational database for biographical presidential data. For the project, I created an ER diagram, a schema, a list of table creation queries and a simple application built with AJAX, node.js and HTML to allow a user to add data to the database.
After reading up on Angular.js, I decided to create a tutorial app, authored by Thinkful.com, to get the hang of the syntax. This inbox application draws email messages from a JSON file, and allows the user to read and delete the messages.


--- title: Proposal for classifying the utilization of OSG layout: sub-page date: 2022-1-7 excerpt: | For this proposal, we are concerned only about wall time measures due to the combined gWMS and HTCondor systems. The proposed classification thus may be understood largely as a walk through the "state machine" of how these two systems work together. ---
by Fabio Andrijauskas, Igor Sfiligoi and Frank Wüerthwein - University of California San Diego, as of January 7, 2022
Open Science Grid (OSG) has a complex system to access all the available resources. Figure 1 shows a vision of HTCondor and glidein Workflow Managment System (GlideinWMS) how they provide access to the computer structure [1].
Figure 1 shows the main idea is that when demand for more resources is sensed by the Virtual Organization Frontend, Condor job execution daemons (aka glidein pilots) are submitted to the grid by the Glidein Factory (GF):
“This is known as “gliding in” to the grid. When they begin running, they “phone home” and join the glideinWMS Condor pool. Then they are available to run user jobs through the normal Condor mechanisms. Once demand for resources decreases to the point where some nodes have no work to do, the Condor job execution daemons on those idle nodes exit and the resources that were allocated to glideinWMS at the grid site are released for use by others” [2].
Even with this well-made structure, it is a fact of life that the resources are not always perfectly utilized. In order to improve utilization of the available resource, we first must have a clear understanding of how to classify the activity of those resources.
For this proposal, we are concerned only about wall time measures due to the combined gWMS and HTCondor systems. The proposed classification thus may be understood largely as a walk through the "state machine" of how these two systems work together.
Note that we will be considering CPU and GPU resources separately for ease of understanding. We thus define the unit of “time” as “cpu core hours” for CPUs and “gpu chip hours” for GPUs.
Moreover, to account for the fine-grained partitioning inside pilot jobs, we also define a notion of “canonical unit”. At this point in time, we propose to define it as “1 CPU core + 2 GB of RAM” for CPU resources and “1 GPU chip” for GPU resources. It can then be used to compute “canonical time” in the same units as normal time. The detailed use of this unit is discussed below.
We postulate that the time of resources available to OSG can be partitioned among the following 8 categories, with the first 6 belonging to the pilot infrastructure:
Validation fail: Any time spent by a pilot that failed the initial validation (so the collector was never aware of it).
Decision problem: Any time spent by a pilot that starts and registers with the collector but does not get any match before the pilot end of life (EOF).
Pilot misconfiguration badput: Any time spent by a pilot running jobs that fail in the beginning due to a runtime problem not imputable to user errors (e.g. black hole).
While the definition is necessarily somewhat ambiguous, the intention is to capture any resource hardware or configuration problems that should have been caught by validation.
Pilot goodput: Any time spent by a pilot running jobs that complete.
Note that we do not check the exit code of the job and do not attempt in any way to interpret the outcome from the user point of view. Any job that starts and finishes on its own is considered successful, with the limited exception of the “pilot misconfiguration badput” definition.
Pilot preemption badput: Any time spent by jobs that start running but do not finish because the pilot terminates (end of life).
Pilot overhead: For any pilot that starts at least one job, any canonical time spent not running any jobs is counted as pilot overhead. Any difference between “total time” and “canonical time” will instead be proportionally accounted to any jobs running at that time, if any.
Further clarification and some examples regarding the accounting using canonical time is presented below in a dedicated paragraph.
Note that any time spent before the first job is ran is accounted to either (1) or (2), if the pilot never runs a single job, and here else.
Pilot goodput: Any time spent by a pilot running jobs that complete.
Note that we do not check the exit code of the job and do not attempt in any way to interpret the outcome from the user point of view. Any job that starts and finishes on its own is considered successful, with the limited exception of the “pilot misconfiguration badput” definition.
Pilot preemption badput: Any time spent by jobs that start running but do not finish because the pilot terminates (end of life).
There are two additional classifications of time available to OSG and not directly related to pilot infrastructure:
Provisioning bottleneck: Any time a resource provider, aka site, is sitting idle because we did not send enough pilots, even though we had user jobs waiting for resources.
Insufficient demand: Any time a resource provider, aka site, is sitting idle because we did not send enough pilots because there are no jobs waiting that can run on that resource.
Figure 2 shows a simplified pilot's lifetime and when each type of measure happens.
OSG jobs come with fine-grained requirements, while the pilots offer a fixed total number of CPU cores, GPUs, and memory, and there is no optimal way to maximize the use of all the resources while keeping job priorities in consideration. OSG thus allows for certain resources to be idle, if some of the other equally important resources are fully utilized. For example, it is just as acceptable to “use all the CPU cores and only a fraction the memory” as it is to “use all the memory and only a subset of the CPU cores”.
The “canonical unit” and “canonical time” definitions provide a measure of what is the smallest unit that is considered “true overhead”. We thus account “Pilot overhead” only in multiples of “canonical units”. For example, given the CPU definition of canonical unit of “1 CPU core and 2 GB of memory”, an hour when we have 3 CPU cores and 3 GB of memory unused would count as “1 CPU core hour” (memory limited), the same period of 3 CPU cores and 1 GB of memory unused would count as “0 CPU core hours” (memory limited), and the same period of 2 CPU cores and 6 GB of memory unused would count as “2 CPU core hours” (CPU core limited).
The use of “canonical time” in “Pilot overhead” brings however an accounting problem; I.e. What to do with the remainder of the time that remains unaccounted for. Using the first example above, when we have 3 CPU cores and 3 GB of memory unused, we have a remainder of “2 CPU core hours”.
In order to fully account for all the resources, we thus account that remainder proportionally between any jobs that were running at that point in time. For example, if we had a remainder of 2 CPU cores (and any amount of memory) and there were two jobs running during the considered time period, say 1h for example simplicity, one which completed and one that never did due to the pilot getting preempted sometime in the future, we would account 1 CPU core hour to each of “Pilot goodput” and “Pilot preemption badput”. As a further clarification, any time the pilot does not run any jobs at all, all the time is accounted to “Pilot overhead”, even if it is not a multiple of “canonical time”.
Note that for GPU accounting “canonical time” is currently defined the same as “time”, i.e. “GPU chip hours”, so there is never any leftover there.
This document only provides the partitioned definitions of how the resources are being used. It does not aim to provide any guidance regarding how to classify the resource usage using the existing monitoring tools.
As an example, it is currently unknown how to properly measure (a) and (b) but one could speculate that one could approximate it by means of measuring period with no pilots waiting in the sites’ queues. Such clarifications and guidance are of course necessary but will be subject to a separate future document.


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After reading the first chapter of the book written by Chad Meng Tan I'm definitely going to read the rest of the book. I showed me more that mindfulness is something that is starting to be valued in companies even as large as google. To have an engineer brake it down and take it out of the fluffy hippy realm is awesome and really resonates with me and is where "Mindfulness" needs to go in order for it to be picked up by the mainstream. It's also awesome that Meng shows how easy it is, 2mins a day everyday. Simple easy and no room for excuses. It's also interesting that he highlights that it's not about being numb to your emotions but learning to feel and be aware of them, to then react in a appropriate manner. And it only takes 100mins for the mindfulness practice to start to have a measurable effect.
I'm very happy to find somewhere that teaches mindfulness and gets you to read and try some of these things. I found the 2mins mindfulness practice that Meng recommends helps me to stop recenter and refocus. Learning code development is a big mountain to climb and it's very easy to feel overwhelmed, to learn how to stop catch yourself before you go too far down the rabbit hole is an amazing skill for you to be able to have.


A significant portion of the first term has been spent on extensive research. The area of bots and digital assistants is relatively new when we consider the tools available to the public to build these. The project itself has a very specific aim when we consider the way the user interacts with the product as well as which platforms it will be best to implement on. As a result the team has done a lot of research to make the most informed decision to produce the best end product we can.
There have been several key areas to look into for the project ranging from the architecture, backend, bots, digital assistants to the front end design and UX and how these would be informed.
The final decision after having looked at all of the vast number possible options we had to choose from - was to go with the following technologies:
Node was chosen for the API and the Bot as it best with in with the work of Diana Darie who was had already been developing for hte project and had done most of her work in node, more over it would be the best choice overall in terms of consistency and adaptability across the tasks.
Amazon Alexa provided the best solution for a Digital Assistant due to the plentiful documentation and the versatility meaning in the feature it would be improved upon and would have more features - seemed like the most stand out choice amongst all of the digital assistants.
Chat bots are computer programs that mimic conversation with people using artificial intelligence. They can transform the way you interact with the internet from a series of self-initiated tasks to a quasi-conversation.
Skype's bots are available to anyone on a Skype platform. Bots are normally added on as a contact and then the user may speak to the bot via the usual text interface. Skype as a company has been heavily investing in the bot platform and as a result has very robust documentation and a lot of problems or queries are much easier to find for Skype Bot as compared to some of it's competitors.
Skype bots can be used on any platform that runs a Skype client. These include the following:
Scroll through the list of available bots to find the one you want. When you've selected one, select Add bot (or Get Started).
Some bots will be certified by Skype to show its authenticity, you can normally tell is authentic by because of three things.
You can block or remove a bot the same way you would a regular Skype contact. Get help with blocking or removing a contact. If you want to report feedback on a specific bot, contact the bot developer directly. You'll find the name of the developer in the 'created by' section of the bot's profile.
You can also have group chats with bots for those that have that feature enabled.
Most Skype bots can be found in the Skype Directory however there also also certain bots that cannot be found here and must instead be added via their link - the link just directs you to a webpage which will let you add the specified bot as contact to your account.
Since using Skype for our bot seemed very promising, we decided to see if there were any bots which would be performing a similar task so we would have a better idea of how to inform our own designs.
To this end I had decided to look at the SkyScanner bot on Skype. SkyScanner does flight and hotel room bookings and as a result would be similar to our gym booking system - both concentrating on booking certain places for the customer at a time that is available. Below you can see how the interaction with the bot unfolded.
When a user first enters the bot interface, they will be met with a welcome message and a few prompts to get them started. Here we have the option to see an example of booking a flight to help the user get to know how to use the system. For first time users they are prompted whether they wish to set certain places as default locations to provide a more smooth user journey for subsequent journeys.
After this, we have then decided to actually book a flight. For this we are prompted for our destination, where we intentionally made a typo in the response to see if the bot could deal with that. In the end it had managed to understand we meant New York and after further prompts for date and starting location as well as other options gave us some options to pick from (presented in the form of cards). It took around 10 seconds for the bot to query our search and return the results and each result had the option to book, see the cheapest options and set a price alert. If you were to click "book" it would then redirect you to the SkyScanner website to complete the bookings from the options shown there. If you were to click "show cheapest options", it would show the cheapest 5 flights in the bot itself in the form of more cards where you had the option to book, again redirecting you if you were to click "book".
The current bot that SkyScanner provides is fairly rigid in the requests it can take and certainly has room for adding a range of other features - currently it only follows one stream for a user journey and as a result it is quite restrictive in what it achieves. However learning from this app, we can integrate more options into our app and hence have more user streams so that more functionality can be achieved. The strengths of this bot are that Skype's buttons make it much easier to navigate and the prompts for common answers make the user journey much more fluidas is something we would look to incorporate.
Facebook's bot is a chatbot existing within Facebook's messenger app. Facebook's messenger has over 900 million users a month and is one of the biggest chatting platforms available at the moment.
Facebook messenger can be downloaded on any mobile devices and is also available on desktops. No compability problems with Android, Microsoft or IOS the user just needs to have the app downloaded on his device or book a class with his laptop.
In order to set up a facebook bot, the client has to have a facebook page. Now, in order for people to find your bot, Facebook has set up many different ways to link users to the bot:
3 things that can be done using the FB bot:
Only way to communicate with the bot is with texting (compared to siri which can type).
Need a FB account to access to the page. This is important for the user journey because it means Nuffield Health would need to incorporate the Facebook login in its system.
The user opens messenger. Opens a chat with the bot and then starts conversation asking something similar to: "book a gym class for --/--/-- at around --:---" The bot then responds with information about session around that time and sends information back to user within a box with options book or other gym class or cancel. The user selects one of the boxes and until he books a gym class. The conversation with the bot can now end.
Overall, the FB bot seems like a good match for the platform. Note: it would be worth investigating the existing login for Nuffield customers as introducing a Facebook Login might not be possible with the system.
The slack bot is a bot by slack which works within the platform.
There exists a large number of platforms that can used to develop Slack bots. The two main ones are Slack bot's framework and Beep bot. There are both widely use and very simple to use.
A digital assistant, also called a virtual assistant, is an application program that can understand natural language and complete electronic tasks for the end user. Such tasks, which might have been performed by a personal assistant or secretary in previous decades, include taking dictation, reading text or email messages aloud, looking up phone numbers, anticipating requests, placing calls and reminding the end user about appointments. Popular digital assistants currently include Apple's Siri, Google Now and Cortana, the digital assistant built into Windows Phone 8.1. Today's digital assistants are programmed with artificial intelligence, machine learning and voice recognition technology. As the end user interacts with his digital assistant, the AI programming uses sophisticated algorithms to learn from data input and become better at predicting the end user's needs. Tomorrow's digital assistants will be built with more advanced cognitive computing technologies which will allow a digital assistant to understand and carry out multi-step requests and perform more complex tasks such as making a plane reservation.
This personal assistant is part of Apple's IOS and works on AppleWatch, Iphones, Macs and Apple TV devices.
The UI is simple and clean. This is one of the most attracting part of this tool.
The digital assistant supports only certain types of Apps. Apps that do not belong to this list: (Ride Booking, Messaging, Photo Search, Payments, Workouts) cannot be integrated with the software so far.
Not applicable. Overall, it is impossible to use Siri as our digital assistant for the platform because it simply will not work with our application (wrong type)
Cortana is a digital agent- the more you use Cortana, the more personalized your experience will be. You can either click on Cortana in your taskbar in Windows 10 or activate it by saying “Hey Cortana” on either a laptop/ desktop or mobile device. Cortana is given a different personality in different regions and is not available in all countries where Windows 10 is supported. Cortana can only be used on select platforms and devices natively and needs to be installed as an app for use on certain devices. As an app Cortana does function slightly more slowly as it does not have as much low-level access as digital assistants on their native devices however it works satisfactorily. The main cause for this is developer restrictions on IOS and Android devices. If you make a request via speech or text that Cortana cannot answer or thinks you want to search - it will open up your default web browser and search the query using Bing (respects your default web browser but not your default search engine).
The List Skill API has a bi-directional interface that ensures lists are updated across all channels. That means the API notifies developers when a customer tells Alexa to add something to their list or makes a change to an existing item. Alexa understands the user’s speech request, converts it to a To-do, and sends you a notification with the new item that was added to the list. The List Skill API also updates the lists for Alexa when users make changes to their lists online or in your mobile application. We could apply this to the gym booking request, user adds book a gym class to his/her To-do list or user adds he/she has to attend the gym on a specific day and then Alexa sends a notification to the user’s phone. On the day of gym class, when user asks Alexa what’s on my To-do list, Alexa would remind him/her of going to the gym today. Alexa List Skill API is available now but in limited participation beta.
By using Alexa skills, we can engage voice interaction for getting a reminder from Alexa on the day of the gym class. Alexa has a skill which is called Calendar Reader, if we could sync the user calendar with Alexa, we would be able to get updates on the events in our case the gym class everyday, by asking Alexa what events are happening today? Tell me more about this event Alexa. Of course this is only possible when we build a bot which is able to add the gym class to user’s calendar immediately after user has booked the class.
This feature, which allows customers to easily link their accounts with an existing account or service. Account linking allows our skill to securely authenticate a user with popular websites and services like Twitter, Facebook, and many others. Once the user has granted your skill access to the external account, the skill can perform operations with that account on behalf of the user. In our use case, user can log in to his/her Facebook, Skype, Slack account to be able to send messages to the chat bot for booking a gym class or being informed on the gym classes available. The main problem is how are we going to do the authentication so that the user can easily use his/her accounts on different services. The below graph depicts authentication flow:
Microsoft bot framework is a framework used to build intelligent and interactive chat bots. It builds bots which are compatible with for websites and all other messaging apps such as Slack, Facebook, Skype etc… It contains an open source Bot Builder SDK which let’s you build sophisticated bots. This Bot Builder comes with a “Cognitive Service” which enables your bot to see, hear, and behave more in a human way. Furthermore, it is possible connect to all the different bot platforms in a single line of code.
The platform also comes with a great testing tool called the emulator. This emulator makes it very easy to build bots and makes debugging fairly simple. Here is a picture of the emulator:
Emulator by Microsoft Bot framework
Noticing the cool features Microsoft Bot Framework has and also what it has compared to Chatfuel.
Features and points that are not so great about the tool.
This framework provides developers with the ability to make chatbots for their messengers. It is one of the main competitors of the Microsoft Bot Framework. Similarly, it let’s you built bots that are compatible across all messaging platforms such as Slack or FB messenger.
Chatfuel has many great features incorporated within its platform. One of them is the drag and drop feature it has to build your bot. This makes the visualization and understanding of the bot simpler. Technically, it is possible to make and deploy an entire chat boy from scratch in 7 minutes. Another interesting feature is the “test chatbot” button incorporated within the platform. This is great to constantly check if your bot works. Here is an image of what the platform looks like:
Online Platform
Noticing the cool features Chatfuel has and also what it has compared to Microsoft Bot Framework.
Features and points that are not so great about the tool.


New Version Installed
Your version of Snap Links has just been updated, here is what is new:
- v3.1.5
- Release primarily satisfies Mozillas new add-on requirements.
- v3.1.4
- Fixed a coloring issue of the label on some websites
- v3.1.3
- Added ability to open new tabs always at the end of tab bar
- v3.1.2b1
- Added ability to control which modifier keys and which mouse button is used for activation
- Fixed issues with chrome
- Fixed an issue with radio button selection
- Fixed an issue with checkboxes
- Added support for FireFox Containers
- Added support for Child/Parent tabs (Tab Tree View)
- Updated Options/Config to include expanded functionality
- v3.1.1
- A few configuration options now available
- Enable/Disable switching focus to new tab.
- Show/Hide the number of selected links.
- A few configuration options now available
A personal note
Snap Links is something I work on in my free time.
If you are interested in contributing to this community extension, please see the Contributing document.
I would like to thank people who have contributed to Snap Links with code, support and documentation among other things.
In no particular order, they are:
- @Phyxion
- @FatOrangutan
- @AstrodogX
- @yfdyh000


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