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The user interface issues for expert system shells can be divided between two classes of users and two different levels. The two users are the developer and the end-user of the application. The levels are the external interface and the internal function.
For the developer, the internal function must be adequate before the external interface becomes a factor. To build a configuration application, an easy-to-use backward chaining system is not as good as a hard-to-use forward chaining system. To build a large configuration system, an easy-to-use, low performance forward chaining system is not as good as a hard-to-use, high performance forward chaining system.
The same is true for the end-user. While there is increasing awareness of the need for good external interfaces, it should not be forgotten that the internal function is still the heart of an application. If a doctor wants a diagnostic system to act as an intelligent assistant and instead it acts as an all knowing guru, then it doesn't matter how well the external interface is designed. The system will be a failure. If a system can save a company millions of dollars by more accurately configuring computers, then the system will be used no matter how poor the external interface is.
Given a system meets the needs of both the developer and the end-user, then the external interface becomes an essential ingredient in the satisfaction with the system. The systems developed so far have used a command driven, dialog type user interface. Increasingly windows, menus, and forms are being used to make interfaces easier to understand and work with. This chapter describes how to build the tools necessary for developing good user interfaces.
One of the major difficulties with computer languages in general, and Prolog in particular, is the lack of standards for user interface features. There are emerging standards, but there is still a long way to go. The windowing system described here includes a high-level, object oriented interface for performing common window, menu, and form operations which can be used with any Prolog or computer. The low level implementation will vary from Prolog to Prolog, and computer to computer.
The interface is object oriented in that each window, menu, and form in the system is considered to be a "window-object" which responds to messages requesting various behaviors. For example, a display window would respond to "write" messages, and both a menu and prompt window would respond to a "read" message.
The developer using the system defines window-objects to be used in an application and then uses a single predicate, window, to send messages to them. The system can be easily extended to include new messages, and window-objects. For example, graphics can be included for systems which support it.
The windows module provides for overlapping windows of four basic flavors.
display An output only window. The user may scroll the window up and down using the cursor keys.
menu A pop-up vertical menu.
form A fill in the blanks form.
prompt A one line input window.
The programmer creates the various windows by specifying their attributes with a create message. Other window messages are used to open, close, read, or write the window.
All of the window operations are performed with the predicate window. It can either be specified with two or three arguments depending on whether the message requires an argument list. The arguments are:
the window-object name or description,
the operation to be performed (message),
the arguments for the operation (optional).
For example, the following Prolog goals cause: a value to be selected from a main menu, a value to be written to a display window, and a useless window to be closed:
window(main_menu, read, X).
window(listing, write, 'Hello').
window(useless, close).
A window description is a list of terms. The functors describe the attribute, and the arguments are the value(s). Some of the attributes used to define a window are:
type(T) - type of window (display, prompt, menu, or form),
coord(R1, C1, R2, C2) - the upper left and lower right coordinates of useable window space,
border(Color) - the border color,
contents(Color) - the color of the contents of the window.
The following two attributes are used to initialize menus and forms:
menu(List) - List is a list of menu items.
form(Field_List) - Field_List defines the fields in the form. The field may be either a literal or a variable. The two formats are:
lit(Row:Col, Literal),
var(FieldName, Row:Col, Length, InitialValue).
Some examples of window descriptions are:
[type(display), coord(2, 3, 10, 42), border(white:blue), contents(white:blue)]
[type(menu),
coord(10, 50, 12, 70), border(bright:green),
menu(['first choice',
'second choice',
'third choice',
'fourth choice'])]
[type(form),
coord(15, 34, 22, 76), border(blue),
form([lit(2:2, 'Field One'),
var(one, 2:12, 5, ''),
lit(4:2, 'Field Two'),
var(two, 4:12, 5, 'init')])]
The first argument of each window command refers to a window-object. It may either be the name of a created window, or a window description. If a description is used, the window is created and used only for the duration of the command. This is useful for pop up menus, prompts and forms. Created windows are more permanent.
Some of the messages which can be sent to windows are:
window(W, create, Description) - stores the Description with the name W;
window(W, open) - opens a window by displaying it as the current top window (usually not necessary since most messages open a window first);
window(W, close) - closes the window by removing the viewport from the screen while preserving the contents (for later re-opening);
window(W, erase) - closes the window, and erases the contents as well;
window(W, display, X) - writes the term X to the window.
To use the windows to improve the user interface of a simple expert system shell, the main menu can be made a pop-up menu. The text for questions to the user can appear in one window, and the user can respond using pop-up menus or prompt windows. The advice from the system can appear in another window.
Figure 9.1. Main menu
First, the permanent windows are created during the initialization phase. The descriptions are stored in Prolog's database with the window name for use when the window is referenced. The windows for a simple interface include the main menu, the window for advice, and the window for questions to the user:
window_init:-
window(wmain, create,
[type(menu), coord(14, 25, 21, 40),
border(blue), contents(yellow),
menu(['Load',
'Consult',
'Explain',
'Trace',
'Quit'])]),
window(advice, create, [type(display), coord(1, 1, 10, 78),
border(blue:white), contents(blue:white)]),
window(quest, create, [type(display), coord(13, 10, 13, 70),
border(blue:white), contents(blue:white)]).
The main loop then uses the main menu:
go :-
repeat,
window(wmain, read, X),
do(X),
fail.
The user sees a menu as in figure 9.1. The cursor keys move the highlighting bar, and the enter key selects a menu item. The ask and menuask predicates in the system use the windows to get information from the user. First ask writes the text of the question to the quest window, and then generates a pop-up prompt:
ask(A, V)
:-
window(quest, write, A),
window([type(prompt), coord(16, 10, 16, 70), border(white:blue),
contents(white:blue)],
read, ['', Y]),
asserta(known(A, Y)),
...
The menuask predicate also writes the text of the question to the quest window, but then dynamically builds a pop-up menu, computing the size of the menu from the length of the menu list:
menuask(Attribute,
AskValue, Menu):-
length(Menu, L),
R1 = 16,
R2 is R1 + L - 1,
window(quest, write, Attribute),
window([type(menu), coord(R1, 10, R2, 40), border(white:blue),
contents(white:blue), menu(Menu)],
read, Value),
asserta(known(Attribute, Value)),
...
Figure 9.2 shows how a simple window interface would look with the Birds expert system.
Figure 9.2. Window interface for dialog with Birds system
The window module is constructed in layers. The top layer can be used with any Prolog. The lower layers have the actual implementations of the windows and vary from system to system. The detailed examples will come from a Macintosh based Prolog (AAIS) using a rich user interface toolbox, and a PC based Prolog (Arity) using simple screen primitives.
At the top level, the interface is object oriented. This means messages are sent to the individual windows. One feature of object oriented systems is messages are dispatched at run time based on the class of object. For example, the read message applies to both the prompt windows and the menu windows, but the implementation is different in each case. The implementations are called methods. The window predicate must determine what type of window is receiving the message, and what the correct method to call is:
window(W,
Op, Args):-
get_type(W, T),
find_proc(T, Op, Proc),
P =.. [Proc, W, Args],
call(P), !.
The get_type predicate finds the type of the window, find_proc gets the correct method to call, and univ (=..) is used to call it.
When window is called with a window description as the first argument, it creates a temporary window, sends the message to it, and then deletes it. A two argument version of window is used to capture calls with no arguments.
window([H|T],
Op, Args):-
window(temp_w, create, [H|T]),
window(temp_w, Op, Args),
window(temp_w, delete), !.
window(W, Op) :- window(W, Op, []).
The get_type predicate uses select_parm to find the value for the type attribute of the window. It uses the stored window definition.
get_type(W, X):- select_parm(W, [type(X)]), !.
Window definitions are stored in structures of the form:
wd(W, AttributeList).
Another feature of object oriented systems is inheritance of methods. The objects are arranged in a class hierarchy, and lower level objects only have methods defined for them which are different from the higher level methods. In the window program, type(window) is the highest class, and the other types are subclasses of it. A predicate such as close is only defined for the window superclass and not redefined for the subclasses.
This makes it easy to add new window types to the system. The new types can inherit many of the methods of the existing types.
The classes are represented in Prolog using a subclass predicate:
subclass(window, display).
subclass(window, menu).
subclass(window, form).
subclass(window, prompt).
The methods are associated with classes by a method predicate. Some of the defined methods are:
method(window, open, open_w).
method(window, close, close_w).
method(window, create, create_w).
method(window, display, display_w).
method(window, delete, delete_w).
method(display, write, write_d).
method(display, writeline, writeline_d).
method(menu, read, read_m).
method(form, read, read_f).
method(prompt, read, read_p).
The find_proc predicate is the one that looks for the correct method to call for a given message and a given window type.
find_proc(T, Op, Proc):- find_p(T, Op, Proc), !.
find_proc(T,
Op, Proc):-
error([Op, 'is illegal operation for a window of type', T]).
find_p(T, Op, Proc):- method(T, Op, Proc), !.
find_p(T,
Op, Proc):-
subclass(Super, T),
!, find_p(Super, Op, Proc).
This completes the definition of the high level interface, with the exception of the one utility predicate, select_parm. It is used by get_type to find the value of the type attribute, but is also heavily used by the rest of the system to find attributes of windows, such as coordinates. It has the logic built into it to allow for calculated attributes, such as height, and attribute defaults. It is called with a request list of the desired attributes. For example, to get a window's coordinates, height, and color:
select_parm(W, [coord(R1, C1, R2, C2), height(H), color(C)]).
The select_parm predicate gets the windows attribute list, and calls the fulfill predicate to unify the variables in the request list with the values of the same attributes in the window definition.
select_parm(W,
RequestList):-
wd(W, AttrList),
fulfill(RequestList, AttrList), !.
The fulfill predicate recurses through the request list, calling w_attr each time to get the value for a particular attribute.
fulfill([], _):-!.
fulfill([Req|T],
AttrList):-
w_attr(Req, AttrList),
!, fulfill(T, AttrList).
The w_attr predicate deals with three cases. The first is the simple case that the requested attribute is on the list of defined attributes. The second is for attributes that are calculated from defined attributes. The third sets defaults when the first two fail. Here are some of the w_attr clauses:
w_attr(A,
AttrList):-
member(A, AttrList), !.
% calculated attributes
w_attr(height(H),
AttrList):-
w_attr(coord(R1, _, R2, _), AttrList),
H is R2 - R1 + 1, !.
w_attr(width(W),
AttrList):-
w_attr(coord(_, C1, _, C2), AttrList),
W is C2 - C1 + 1, !.
% default attributes
w_attr(title(''), _).
w_attr(border(white), _).
w_attr(contents(white), _).
w_attr(type(display), _).
In addition to being a powerful language for artificial intelligence applications, Prolog is good at implementing more standard types of programs as well. Since most programs can be specified logically, Prolog is a very efficient tool. While we will not look at all the details in this chapter, a few samples from the low-level implementation should demonstrate this point. An entire overlapping window system with reasonable response time was implemented 100% in Prolog using just low-level screen manipulation predicates.
The first example shows predicates which give the user control over a menu. They follow very closely the logical specification of a menu driver. A main loop, menu_select, captures keystrokes, and then there are a number of rules, m_cur, governing what to do when various keys are hit. Here is the main loop for the Arity Prolog PC implementation:
menu_select(W,
X):-
select_parm(W, [coord(R1, C1, R2, _), width(L), attr(A)]),
tmove(R1, C1), % move the cursor to first item
revideo(L, A), % reverse video first item
repeat,
keyb(_, S), % read the keyboard
m_cur(S, Z, w(W, R1, R2, C1, L, A)), %usually fails
!, Z = X.
Here are four of the menu rules covering the cases where: the down arrow (scan code of 80) is hit (highlight the next selection); the down arrow is hit at the bottom of the menu (scroll the menu); the home key (scan code of 71) is hit (go to the top); and the enter key (scan code of 28) is hit (finally succeed and select the item).
m_cur(80,
_, w(W, R1, R2, C1, L, A)):- % down arrow
tget(R, _),
R < R2,
normvideo(L, A),
RR is R + 1,
tmove(RR, C1),
revideo(L, A),
!, fail.
m_cur(80,
_, w(W, R1, R2, C1, L, A)):- % bottom down arrow
tget(R, _),
R >= R2,
normvideo(L, A),
scroll_window(W, 1),
tmove(R2, C1),
revideo(L, A),
!, fail.
m_cur(71,
_, w(W, R1, R2, C1, L, A)):- % home key
normvideo(L, A),
scroll_window(W, top),
tmove(R1, C1),
revideo(L, A),
!, fail.
m_cur(28,
X, w(W, R1, R2, C1, L, A)):- % enter key
tget(R, _),
select_stat(W, curline, Line), % current line
Nth is Line + R - R1,
getnth(W, Nth, X),
normvideo(L, A), !.
Here is some of the code that deals with overlapping windows. When a window is opened, the viewport, which is the section of the screen it appears in, is initialized. The system maintains a list of active windows, where the list is ordered from the top window to the bottom. In the case covered here, the window to be opened is already on the active list, but not on the top.
make_viewport(W):-
retract(active([H|T])),
save_image(H),
split(W, [H|T], L1, L2),
w_chkover(W, L1, _),
append([W|L1], L2, NL),
assert(active(NL)).
The save_image predicate stores the image of the top window for redisplay if necessary. The split predicate is a list utility which splits the active list at the desired window name. Next, w_chkover decides if the window needs to be redrawn due to overlapping windows on top of it, and then a new active list is constructed with the requested window on top.
The w_chkover predicate recurses through the list of windows on top of the requested window, checking each one for the overlap condition. If any window is overlapping, then the requested window is redrawn. Otherwise nothing needs to be done.
w_chkover(W, [], no).
w_chkover(W,
[H|T], Stat):-
w_nooverlap(W, H),
w_chkover(W, T, Stat).
w_chkover(W,
_, yes):-
restore_image(W), !.
An overlap is detected by simply comparing the coordinates of the two windows.
w_nooverlap(Wa,
Wb):-
select_parm(Wa, [coord(R1a, C1a, R2a, C2a)]),
select_parm(Wb, [coord(R1b, C1b, R2b, C2b)]),
(R1a > R2b + 2;
R2a < R1b - 2;
C1a > C2b + 2;
C2a < C1b - 2), !.
As opposed to the PC implementation which requires coding to the detail level, the Macintosh implementation uses a rich toolbox of primitive building blocks. However, the complexity of the toolbox sometimes makes it more difficult to perform simple operations. For example, the make a new window in the PC version, all that is necessary is to save the window definition:
make_window(W,
Def):-
asserta( wd(W, Def)).
In the Macintosh version, a number of parameters and attributes must be set up to interface with the Macintosh environment. The code to create a new window draws heavily on a number of built-in AAIS Prolog predicates which access the Macintosh toolbox.
make_window(W,
L) :-
define(wd, 2),
include([window, quickdraw, types, memory]),
fulfill([coord(R1, C1, R2, C2), title(T), visible(V),
procid(Pid), behind(B), goaway(G),
refcon(RC)], L),
new_record(rect, R),
new_record(windowptr, WP),
setrect(R, C1, R1, C2, R2),
pname(T, Tp),
newwindow(WP, R, Tp, V, Pid, B, G, RC, WPtr),
asserta( wd(W, [wptr(WPtr)|L]) ).
Notice that the special Macintosh window parameters are easily represented using the window attribute lists of the generic windows. The example above has attributes for goaway, a box the user can click to make a window go away, and refcon for attaching more sophisticated functions to windows. The select_parm predicate has intelligent defaults set for each of these parameters so the user does not have to worry about specifying them.
w_attr(goaway(false), _).
w_attr(refcon(0), _).
The generic window interface we developed recognizes a few fundamental types of window. The Macintosh also has numerous window types. The w_attr predicate is used to calculate values for the Macintosh parameters based on the generic parameters. The user only sees the generic parameters. Internally, the Macintosh parameters are used. Here is how the internal routines get a value for the Macintosh based parameter wproc which controls the type of box the window is drawn in:
w_attr(wproc(documentproc), L) :-
akindof(text, L), !.
w_attr(wproc(dboxproc), L) :-
akindof(dialog, L), !.
w_attr(wproc(plaindbox), L) :-
akindof(graph, L), !.
The akindof predicate checks type against the inheritance specified by the subclass predicate defined earlier.
akindof(ST, L) :-
w_attr(type(T), L),
subsub(ST, T), !.
subsub(X, X).
subsub(Y, X) :-
subclass(C, X),
subsub(Y, C).
As more toolboxes for user interface functions become available, such as Presentation Manager, the low level portions of this window package can be modified to take advantage of them. At the same time the simple object oriented high level interface described earlier can be maintained for easy application development and portability.
9.1 - Implement object oriented windows on the Prolog system you use.
9.2 - Add windowing interfaces to all of the expert system shells developed so far.
9.3 - Add controls as a window type. These are display windows that use a graphical image to represent a number. The easiest graphical control to implement is a thermometer in a text based system (such as the IBM PC in text mode). The controls can also contain digital readouts which is of course even easier to implement.
9.4 - Active images are controls which automatically display the contents of some variable in a system. For example, in the furniture placement system it would be interesting to have four controls which indicate the available space on each of the four walls. They can be elegantly implemented using the attached procedure in the add slot of the frames. Whenever a new value is added, the procedure sends it to the control window. (Note that add is called during update of the slot in this implementation.)
9.5 - In the windowing interface for the various shells, have trace information appear in a separate window.
9.6 - Add graphics windows to the system if your version of Prolog can support it.
9.7 - In the main control loop, recognize certain user actions as a desire to manipulate the windows. For example function keys might allow the user to pop various windows to the top. This would enable the system to keep trace information in one window which is overlapped by the main window. The user could access the other windows by taking the appropriate actions.
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| string [ ( maximumLength ) ] |
var name : string
name := "Nancy"
var licenceNumber : string ( 6 )
licenceNumber := "175AJN"
Strings can be catenated (joined together) using the + operator and separated into substrings. See catenation and substring. String functions are provided to find the length of a string, to find where one string appears inside another, and to make repeated copies of a string all joined together. See length, index, and repeat.
A string type written without a maximum length is limited to holding a maximum of 255 characters.
The maximumLength of a string, if given as a part of the type, must be known at compile time, and must be at least 1 and at most 255. The maximum length of a string is given by upper, for example, upper(licenceNumber) is 6. See also upper.
In the declaration of a string that is a var formal parameter of a procedure or function, the maximumLength can be written as an asterisk (*). Here, the maximum length is taken to be that of the corresponding actual parameter, as in:
The star can also be used when the parameter is an array of strings.
procedure deblank (var s : string (*) ).


Thumbnailer class
Syntax:
from moar import Thumbnailer
thumbnail = Thumbnailer([engine], [storage],
[filters=extra_filters], [**default_options])
Moar come with support for pluggable engines and storages. By default it use moar.engines.pil.Engine
and moar.storages.filesystem.Storage
.
When you call the thumbnail instance, the current storage class will generates a key that represent a thumbnail made from that image with that specific filters and options. If a thumbnail with that key hasn’t been generated before, it’ll make a new one, store it using the key as an id, and returns it.
The default storage class (moar.storages.filesystem.Storage
) store the generated thumbnails inside a "t"
folder in the same path as the source image (this can be changed). Other storages will operate different, for example, storing the key in a local database and uploading the thumbnail to a remote server.
Filters
You can use the filters
parameter to define a list of custom filters, adding them to those included by default. E.g.:
from image_filters import watermak, enhace
thumbnail = Thumbnailer(filters=[watermak, enhace])
The filters has to have a method named after the current engine (eg: "wand"
or "pil"
) or the’ll be unusable. See the “extending the library” section for more details.
Default Options
These options are the default for all thumbnails. However, they can be overwritten in individual thumbnail
calls.
- upscale
- Upscale is a boolean that controls if the image can be upscaled or not. For example if your source is
"100x100"
and you request a thumbnail of size"200x200"
and upscale isFalse
this will return a thumbnail of size 100x100. If upscale wereTrue
this would result in a thumbnail size"200x200"
(upscaled). The default value isTrue
. - quality
- When the output format is jpeg, quality is a value between 0-100 that controls the thumbnail write quality. Default value is
90
. - progressive
- This controls whether to save jpeg thumbnails as progressive jpegs. Default value is
True
. - orientation
- This controls whether to orientate the resulting thumbnail with respect to the source EXIF tags for orientation. Default value is
True
. - format
- This controls the write format and thumbnail extension. Formats supported by the shipped engines are
"JPEG"
and"PNG"
. Default value is"JPEG"
. - resize
- When setting the new geometry, this controls if the image is deformed to match exactly the given dimensions, regardless of the aspect ratio of the original image. If
resize
isTrue
, theupscale
option is ignored. Default value isFalse
.


Real estate notes from The Oklahoman for Nov. 23, 2019
EDMOND
Renovations planned for Edmond Library building
The Edmond Library building, 10 S Boulevard, will be closed from Dec. 9 through March 31 for $2.126 million in renovations, with limited-service library space open at 1030 S Bryant Ave. in the meantime.
The city-owned library building houses the Edmond Library, which is managed by the Metropolitan Library System. It was built in 1973 and last renovated in 2016, said city spokesman Casey Moore.
Renovations will include significant updates to the HVAC system, roof, ceiling, lighting and flooring, Moore said. The contractor is A.C. Owen Construction.
The temporary library space, “Edmond Express Library at Pelican Bay,” will open Dec. 16 for patrons to pick up holds and return items. Patrons can also visit any of the other Metropolitan Library System facilities in the Oklahoma City metro area.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Manuel Perez Park to be upgraded
Mayor David Holt and other civic leaders will break ground on new improvements at Manuel Perez Park, 21 SE 17, in a ceremony at 10 a.m. Dec. 2 presented by OKC Parks.
Improvements will include a new memorial plaza dedicated to Perez and other Oklahomans who earned the Medal of Honor.
A large new pavilion will be constructed with Hispanic-inspired architecture next to a memorial plaza. A new playground and new covered benches along the park trail, two new futsal courts, a new basketball court, enhancements to the skate park, and a new parking lot will be installed.
Manuel Perez Jr., 1923-1945, was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as a U.S. Army private first class on Feb. 28, 1945, during World War II as a member of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division. He led attacks that destroyed 11 Japanese pillboxes in fighting in the Philippines. He was killed in action a few weeks later.
Decorated home tour scheduled
The Miller Mantels & Trees Tour of decorated homes in the Miller neighborhood will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6.
Tickets are $10 at 23rd Street Antique Mall, 3023 NW 23, or at any stop on the evening of the tour. Stops are the homes of Jason Moore, 1112 N Miller Blvd.; Joe VonFeldt, 2616 W Park Place; Mike Stuart and Bruce Hall, 1221 N Miller Blvd.; Shelli and David Ribaudo, 2700 NW 14; and Kara Bowes, 2616 NW 13.
Mesta Park Holiday Tour set
The Mesta Park Holiday Home Tour will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 7 and 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 8, featuring six homes, a festive refreshment porch, holiday music by neighborhood students and a visit from Santa Claus.
Advance tickets are $12 for adults and come with a free $5 gift card to Parlor OKC. Tickets are available at www.MestaPark.org, Event Brite, and the Mesta Park Facebook page. Tickets also will be available at the door of each home, $15 for adults and $5 for children. Children 3 and under admitted free. Ticket purchases include coffee, hot cider and cookies.
Stops are at the homes of Jimmie and Susan Ownbey, 628 NW 21; Mat and McKenzie Clouse, 900 NW 20; Pete and Whitney Marrs, 1008 NW 18; Lauren Warkentine, 901 NW 16; Tommy and Molly Cooke, 516 NW 16; Floyd Simon, 907 NW 18; and with the refreshment porch, Andy and Jennifer Bowman, 704 NW 18.
Staff reports


GET BRUCE A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1999 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** 1/2
After a dramatic production number of "The Color of the Wind," an Oscar nominee for best song, Academy Awards host Whoopi Goldberg steps back up to the podium. The moment is too solemn for her so she decides to go for one of the lines that she wasn't expected to actually use. "Question I've always wanted to ask," she muses aloud, "what color is my wind?"
If you laughed at that joke or any of the other Oscar jokes in the past decade, you probably have comedy writer Bruce Vilanch to thank. The word in Hollywood is that no Oscar or other celebration can happen these days unless they GET BRUCE, hence the title of Andrew J. Kuehn's hilarious documentary. As fast paced as the best monologue, the movie flies by as laughter fills the theater.
Kuehn has just the right touch with the movie's mixture, helped enormously by Vilanch who even looks and acts as funny as his classic comedy lines.  Dressed in one of his thousands of sarcastic T-shirts ("My Other Body's In The Shop" being one of his favorites) and bright-colored shoes and glasses, he's a guy that would stand out in any crowd, even a Halloween one.
The director takes interviews in which stars like Goldberg, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams ham it up as they reminisce with Vilanch and mixes them with live examples of the routines he has crafted for them. Interspersed with all of this is the telling of Vilanch's life. An obese, Jewish guy, Vilanch says that he suffered at an early age by being moved from New York to New Jersey.
Part of the film concerns the preparation of the material. Vilanch subscribes to 65 newspapers and magazines and is a voracious reader, always trolling for possible material. In town for a day in New Mexico to do a show, he finds the report of a gas leak that caused an explosion the day before. He's immediately on the phone trying to figure out who's the most famous fat person in town. This day he's in luck. He'll be able to roast the mayor herself as being the source of the killer gas.
"Actually everything gets revised 4,000 times," Vilanch says of all the hard work that goes into each production. "There is no writing, only rewriting." He shows us some of the script versions for one telecast with each printed on different colored paper.
Watching Vilanch at work, you get a glimpse of true genius. A prodigious worker and writer, he started as a cub writer for the Chicago Tribune. He reviewed a Bette Midler routine and ended up having dinner with her. He told her she needed more dialog in her shows, and he came to be the one to supply many of her lines.
Soon, he was off to Hollywood where his big break came when he landed the job as the head writer for "The Brady Bunch Comedy Hour." He says he hit bottom when he found himself writing jokes for Donny and Marie Osmond.
These days he creates comedy sketches for everyone. "He's given more great lines to celebrities than any coke dealer," Nathan Lane says with a grin.
Vilanch carefully tailors his approach to each of his star clients. For Robin Williams, he throws ideas at him and then stands back and watches. One of the clips in the documentary shows one such collaboration. After some obscure inspiration, Williams starts fashioning an ad hoc routine that mixes "The Jack Benny Show," "Amos n' Andy" and "The X-Files."
Although normally behind the scenes, Vilanch does surface on occasion as when he won an Emmy. His one-line acceptance speech was hysterically funny and typically Vilanch: "I'm very sorry I didn't have to sleep around to win this award."
GET BRUCE runs a blisteringly fast 1:12. It is not rated but might be an R for language and sexual innuendo. It would be fine for kids 12 and up.
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OpenSource: Free-time (date: 29 May 2022)
I have started a free open-source project called Free-Time on Github. It is currently hosted on myfreetimeinaweek.in. The goal of this project is to create a suite of productivity tools which helps individuals perceive and spend their most valuable asset, their time, in a manner that they feel happier and more satisfied with. The project is built in React Native (using Expo). Even though it is only a website at the moment, this tool has the capacity to become a mobile application if the users want to use it frequently.
Yearbook Y12 IIT Kanpur (May-Jun'16)
Filling in my feeling about my friends and colleagues on the online Yearbook created by our juniors. We will be getting a hard copy of this on the Convocation Day (28th June).


Trade deficit narrows to $11.01 billion in October on lower oil imports
Oil imports fell 31.74 per cent to $9.63 billion in October from $14.11 billion in the year-ago period
by ReutersIndia's trade deficit narrowed to $11.01 billion in October from $18.0 billion a year ago, helped by lower oil imports, the trade ministry said on Friday.
Oil imports fell 31.74 per cent to $9.63 billion in October from $14.11 billion in the year-ago period.
Merchandise exports fell 1.11 per cent to $26.38 billion in October compared with a year earlier, while imports were down 16.31 per cent at $37.39 billion, the data showed.


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@Keeley Hoek and I have been having trouble with #999. lean --make
and leanpkg test
both work fine, but lean --recursive --export=mathlib.txt src/
says:
<unknown>:1:1: error: invalid object declaration, environment already has an object named 'tactic.mk_congr_arg_using_dsimp'
We've both checked, and there's just one such definition!
Does anyone know how to diagnose a problem like this?
And it's not generated through meta programming?
Nope, it's perfectly normal definition:
meta def mk_congr_arg_using_dsimp (G W : expr) (u : list name) : tactic expr := do s ← simp_lemmas.mk_default, t ← infer_type G, t' ← s.dsimplify u t {fail_if_unchanged := ff}, definev `_mk_congr_arg_aux t' G, to_expr ```(congr_arg _mk_congr_arg_aux %%W)
I assume you tried changing the name?
... let me try that now. :facepalm:
@Mario Carneiro still fails :(
my next test would be to take a hatchet to sections of mathlib to see what files are necessary to get the error
Have you managed to repro the problem locally?
yes
What's the conclusion?
We have to chop mathlib into tiny little pieces to find out what's wrong
It seems that it was reporting the wrong error. There was a duplicate definition, but not the one that was being reported.
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How China Became the World’s Manufacturing Hub?
A Bit History
China got Independence in 1 October 1949, China was not rich from the beginning. It took time to china to appear on the world economy.
At the time when Japan and Hong Kong giving competition to European countries in technology, The Chinese people struggling with a shortage of food supplies, cheap clothing, inadequate housing. And the service sector was also so poor, all of these things embarrassed china globally.
So, How did China Develop?How did china become manufacturing hub for the world?
In 1978, Chinese Economic reform came into existence by, China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping. He started the idea of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. It allows private businesses, private ownership, and introduced a dual price system in which state-owned enterprises could sell products at a higher market price after a government planned quota was reached .
For the first time after Independence, the country is open to investment through the establishment of special economic zones. Mr. Deng introduced many reforms such as large scale privatization of state owned-enterprises to a large extent, Mr. Deng’s plan has been a success. Over the past four decades, China has achieved the fastest sustained expansion by a major economy in history. China's gross domestic products have risen at the speed of 10X.
And become the world's second-biggest economy, China has lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty.
In today's world, China is the first preference for establishing its manufacturing units, Apple, Microsoft, Canon, Samsung and Sony are some of them.
China's contribution on Global scale :
- 80% of Air Conditioners
- 70% of smartphones
- 60% of footwear
- 74% of solar cells
- 60% of cement
- 50 % of coal production
- 45% of shipbuilding
- 50% of steel production
- 50% of apples are being produced in China.
- 60% of most branded luxury goods items are made in China.
China has a tremendous 25% of global output by value.
Strategy
China has following effective strategies that provide a boost to become a global leader in manufacturing :
- Mass Production
- Competitive Pricing with Reverse Manufacturing
- Education
- Industrial Network Clustering
- Cost Of Power & Availability
- World Class Infrastructure
- Government & Industry Partnership
- Cost-effective Labor
- Experience and Expertise
- Stability
How China Is Becoming Self Dependent In Every Field?
China has manufactured almost everything for the world but still, China is not 100% self-dependent. But the scenario is changing very fast pace. China is moving towards manufacturing each and everything that uses in Chinese products. From microchips to aircraft everything. They are running so many mega projects to achieve their goal.
Can China produce its own high end chip?
Let’s find out: China spends more than 230 billion dollars in a year for importing microchips, even more than it spends on petroleum and it is China’s largest imports.
In 2016, China made more than 1.2 billion smartphones and became the world's largest producer & consumer of mobile phones but the crucial chips on which the phones run all have to be imported but the scenario is changing. China is building the fastest 5G chips and the size of this chip would be half of one square centimeter, It is consists of 1 to 10 billion transistors, The team is working on it very efficiently and soon they will be able to do so.
3-5-2 Plan
In recently December 2019, it took a major decision to remove all foreign computer equipment from there schools, Govt. offices etc. that can hamper billions of manufacturing trade. All computer screens, processors, every foreign hardware and software will be removed within three years under 3-5-2 plan.
In 2020 they will replace 30% hardware
1n 2050, 50% and the remaining 20% in 2022.
China's chip manufacturers looking for breakthroughs in many fields including core chips that support high-speed railway operations and electric vehicles like the insulated gate bipolar transistors IGBT. The new 5G era is coming.
Can China produce its own Aircrafts?
Aviation Industry: China has very busy skies and will be busier, there are currently 3000 aircraft flying more than 1.33 passengers every day. Most of these aircraft are manufactured in Europe or America but it is set for a gradual change. The expansion of China's internal aviation market over the next 20 years will see the number of civil aircraft needed to rise over 6000. This huge market has prompted Chinese engineers to design and build C919. It takes more than one million components to build a c919 and each must be made to the highest standard demanded by the world aviation industry.
After the extensive testing in-flight stimulator (Iron Bird), the c919's flight control system achieves a faultless level performance on its first real test flight, in the future, c919 will be a key part of the Chinese air transport system.
The mid-sized passenger jet will not only benefit travel across the nation and other countries and regions to which it exports but its manufacture will support more than 200 enterprises and 200000 skilled workers in the research and development. It has taken just 30 years for China to transform from an industrial backwater to the world's largest manufacturer.
Can China produce its own Mega Container Ships?
Chinese shipyard is 399 meters long, it will rank with the biggest in the world when fully loaded with containers it can sail for 40 days uninterrupted. This is the first time a container ship of this size with a capacity of 20,000 standard containers has been built in China. For Engineers precision is the greatest challenge in building this giant, they must work in all areas to a margin of error of fewer than 5 millimeters. The heart of the shipyard is this giant dock, the size of seven football fields. The dock is the yard's most valuable resource so efficiency dictates that each vessel should occupy it for the shortest possible time to speed the building process the various section of the ship are put together in modules away from the main dock. The original design of the ship splits it into 399 units for modules that can be assembled separately and simultaneously at various sites around the yard. These are then brought together for final assembly in the dock.
Although broken down into 399 modules each weighs many dozens of tons and moving them around is not easy, One of the largest modules the bridge and superstructure is ready to be hoisted into position, it weighs over 600 tones, it will be lifted by two huge gantry cranes that themselves weigh 1,200 tons in total, the real difficulty is not in the lifting but how to install it on the deck to the nearest millimeter it requires the precise coordination of dozens of skilled workers. In a few months’ time the Ship will plow across the oceans loaded with the treasures and trinkets affordable goods that have benefited people from Atlanta to Zanzibar.
Can China Generate its own Power?
China consumes nearly 6 trillion kilowatt-hours of power per year to provide this by thermal power plants alone it will put huge pressure on the environment and reduction of carbon emission is a key goal under the Paris climate agreement 2016 so the nuclear power is one way to achieve this while keeping the lights on. Though nuclear power has zero carbon emissions it does have other major safety issues, the engineers building China's new nuclear power stations must ensure safety cannot be compromised.
The 10,000 square meter factory in Shanghai is making the latest generation of nuclear power units by the highest safety standards in the world. The factory can build the equipment to fit out six nuclear power plants per year if all are put into operation annual coal consumption will reduce by at least 13.8 million tonnes. At the same time, a wide range of projects is being undertaken to provide diverse energy sources China's manufacturing industry is reliant upon.
Can China produce its own Automobile?
In the last 3 decades, China has become the largest producer and consumer of automobiles in the world, the rapid rise in the huge number of cars has also raised issues of energy consumption and pollution but now the situation is changing.
The factories are producing electric vehicles on a very large scale, making new energy vehicles are changing the traditional concepts of automobile manufacturing high integration and modularization of components has become the trend with its global lead in battery technology this enterprise has shifted the focus of its business to new energy vehicles and become a major supplier of electric busses providing new energy vehicles for more than 200 cities in 48 countries. Besides batteries, other core components of new energy vehicles are becoming a battleground for global producers. New technological breakthroughs have made electric vehicles increasingly effective and practical, this is an opportunity but also a challenge not only in terms of production technology but also in our collective way of thinking.
Can China produce its own manufacturing robots?
During the first stage of development in China's manufacturing industry-low, labor costs and product prices provided China with its competitive edge in the global market now this manufacturing industry is undergoing a major transformation and upgrade. In future manufacturing processes that are dull and repetitive will be handled by robots leaving humans to supervise or engage in more creative work.
There is a center for robotics development in northeast China, where they design robots for a variety of different roles, they will be at the cutting edge of the production lines of the future. The robotics industry in China is expanding by 20% year-on-year. A new production line comes into service its robots building robots, a master robot selects the designated parts on the shelf and transfers the parts to their correct positions on the flow line through automatic guided vehicles AGV then robots arms assemble the parts. A new robotic era is on the way.
Can China create its own GPS system?
Our modern world has become reliant on global positioning satellites for almost every activity whether, for commerce or pleasure land, sea, and air all are equally indebted to the service. China is planning on expanding BeiDou with another 35 satellites over the next 2 decades. The potential of the BeiDou navigation satellite system is continuously increasing, shortly wherever you are no matter day or night you and your smartphone will be under its watchful eye.
Can China make its own high-speed railway system?
The train is a part of a new series of high-speed trains called Fùxīng (复兴) which literally means rejuvenation.
In a few weeks, this new series of high-speed trains will take to the tracks for real as the world's fastest, journey time between Beijing to Shanghai will be cut to 4.5 hours as the rejuvenation series roll-out across the whole network. China will usher in a new high-speed era. in Chongqing city, northeast China, the birthplace of China's heavy industry a brand new factory has been commissioned the first batch of the rejuvenation series is being assembled they are wider, taller and longer than the previous generation of high-speed trains but their energy consumption is 15% lower the trains are manufactured to uniform standards trains of the same time produced by the other factories will all be compatible with each other even their components are compatible which will help reduce running costs.
China has the world's most complex natural environment the new trains will face extreme cold, heat, and sandstorms amongst other challenges.
China has 60% of the world's high-speed track which has carried more than seven billion passengers, with higher efficiency, longer service life, and higher energy efficiency China's high-speed trains are beginning to become the new standard for high-speed train travel.
Can China Compete for the World In Clothing Industry?
Even the most traditional manufacturing industry in China is undergoing its own information revolution, everything looks the same at a distance skilled workers, exclusive fabrics, and traditional machines but the appearance deceive.
Ms. Liu Yili left her job with a world top 500 company to come and work in China for two years ago. She said: Today, we can make personalized products based on data.
Weaving machines were key to the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries, automation reduces the cost of textile production after Henry Ford invented the assembly line, and manufacturing became even more efficient tens of thousands of products can be produced quickly and uniformly, manufacturing cost further dropped but at the same time individuality was lost.
But the situation is changing now each outfit produced in this Chinese factory is tailored to an individual customer.
Data is what drives this every order goes into the computer system from the internet and the system generates it as an independent code, this code will guide workers on the production line. Although the 300 production steps are the same the codes direct the machinists as to the different materials and production methods.
Ms. Liu Lili (Manager of the garment factory) states that: "On a production line, we can produce thousands of different products, for example, Men's wear, Children's wear. We can do all of these on a single production line".
Ten years ago the clothes turned out on this line were mass-produced now they are individually customized and tailored to each client each order will be turned around in a week, inventory stock is a thing of the past. This is bespoke tailoring for the mass market, everything has changed and yet is somehow the same just better, faster and more efficient.
Nutshell
A new way of manufacturing is coming more and more devices are connected to the internet, robots respond directly to incoming orders the emphasis is moving from a pure speed of reaction to speed+quality. This is the new made in China, a future of intelligent manufacturing, this is the future on which China is staking its industrial dream. China has already announced “Made In China 2025” With it, China aims to move away from being the "world factory" (producing cheap, low-quality goods due to lower labor costs) and move to produce higher-value products and services.
- Information Technology : AI, IoT, smart appliances
- Robotics: AI, Machine Learning
- Green Energy & Green Vehicles: Energy efficiency, Electric Vehicles
- Aerospace Equipment
- Ocean Engineering & high tech Ships
- Railway Equipment
- Power Equipment
- New Materials
- Medicine and Medical Devices
- Agricultural Machinery
Key Industries of the "Made In China 2025" :
China has shown the world that How a country can go through a massive transformation and achieve highest goal in terms of materialistic development.


Zap is a lightweight css system designed with modern css practices and scalability considerations. It achieves both simplicity and scalability by providing just enough flexibility for designers but still keeping design and structure rigid to allow front-end developers to build future safe modular css.
CSS styling is easy to do but difficult to do right. There countless number of css systems ranging from Modular Scale sizing ratios, BEM naming convention, SMACSS, the Inverted Triangle concept all the way to full fledged frameworks such as Foundation, Bootstrap or Semantic UI. Without spending a considerable amount of time tinkering with each system, framework or process, it is difficult to decide which would help benefit your project the most whilst keeping in mind each of their limitations.
You don’t need to choose one methodology; combine the concepts of a few methodologies into one that works for you and your team. — Patrick Catanzariti, sitepoint
Zap combines the best features of most the popular existing methodologies and provides both designers and developers with a neatly packaged system to kick start any web project with a systematic approach.
Designing a great product is iterative and an ever-evolving process, the same goes for writing and organizing css. Zap applies this thinking by making css easy to read, identify and update with an appropriate consideration to speed and performance. As designers and developers test and iterate on their front-end, it’s important for our css to be handled in such a way that allows us to easily desconstruct, modify, test, and ship in small pieces. This is why the concept of keeping class components “Modular” and decoupling code is an important programming topic.
So how do you organize your css to be manageable and easily understood? How do you deal with overrides and css specificity? How do you utilize your classes in the best way to reduce bloat and increase performance? Let’s begin our journey with a simple but crucial concept, file organization.


\begin{flushright} Text on line 1 \\ Text on line 2 \\ ... ... \end{flushright}
The flushright environment allows you to create a paragraph consisting of lines that are flushed right to the right-hand margin. Each line must be terminated with a \\.
See also Environments,
Center,
Flushleft
See also \raggedleft
Return to the LaTeX Table of Contents


Stephen Colbert getting taught rugby in New Zealand is hilariously painful
by Sam HaysomStephen Colbert's New Zealand trip may have started with a nice, cheerful ride from the airport with PM Jacinda Ardern, but now the real work begins.
In the segment above, two former New Zealand All Blacks rugby players, Piri Weepu and DJ Forbes, join Sky TV broadcaster Laura McGoldrick to teach the Late Show host how to play their national sport — from the precision of lineouts and kicks to the heavy lifting of tackles and scrums.
The verdict? Colbert may not be a natural rugby player, but he certainly gives 110 percent.


 That may be custody, but I will look at all options."
by Neil ShawA serial shoplifter has been banned from every single shop in England - apart from one Tesco.
Anna Burns, 33, was sentenced for a spate of shop thefts from six different big-name stores.
But after failing to turn up to court on almost a dozen previous occasions Judge Peter Crabtree bailed her to prepare a pre-sentence report.
The judge at Swindon Crown Court told Burns he needed to look at all the options - including prison.
In the meantime the judge ordered Burns not to enter any shop - apart from Tesco Metro in The Parade in Swindon town centre, and an NHS walk-in centre less than 400 feet from the court.
Judge Crabtree told Burns: "The starting point is custody but I’m going to look at all options.
 That may be custody, but I will look at all options."
Burns appeared before the Crown Court at the start of the month when she was due to be sentenced for four shop thefts.
These thefts saw her nicking mascara from Boots, two watches from Argos, clothing worth £72 from Mothercare, and food and drink worth £55.40 from Costa Coffee.
She claimed she was ill and was bailed by Judge Crabtree to go to the NHS walk-in centre less than 400ft from the court building, and return to court at the end of the week.
Burns hobbled to the health centre accompanied by a probation officer.
But she left within minutes after hearing she would have to wait half-an-hour to be seen by a nurse.
She said she wanted to walk home to collect her phone charger then call an ambulance.
On the Friday - the day she was due before the judge - she was a no-show and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Prosecuting, Peter Pride said: "Being frank about it, this matter was listed for sentence on Monday and as your honour knows, Ms Burns arrived late.
"You honour was very clear of the need [for her] to be here on Friday."
John Upton, defending, said his instructing solicitors had not heard from Burns that day.
Warrants were issued the following week when she did not show-up at court.
Last Saturday, November 16, she appeared in the dock at Swindon Magistrates’ Court, where she pleaded guilty to stealing £307-worth of goods from Marks and Spencer’s, and £40-worth from Sainsbury’s.
And yesterday, Judge Crabtree bailed her again, with a requirement she live and sleep at a property on Shepherd Street and co-operate with the probation service in the compilation of a pre-sentence report.
She was ordered not to enter any shop except the NHS Walk-in Centre and Tesco in The Parade.
In a nod to Burns’ poor attendance, the judge said: "Make sure you are here.
''I think you’ve managed to get here once out of about a dozen occasions on time."


krangl is a {K}otlin library for data w{rangl}ing. By implementing a grammar of data manipulation using a modern functional-style API, it allows to filter, transform, aggregate and reshape tabular data.
Methods to read and write tables into/from DataFrames
see also https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/ for other implementations
https://github.com/databricks/spark-csv
https://examples.javacodegeeks.com/core-java/apache/commons/csv-commons/writeread-csv-files-with-apache-commons-csv-example/


It has a fixed size and content scroll by default. But there is also an expandable mode with height increase from content inside


ghdl
Open-source simulator for the VHDL language.
More information: home page
- Analyze a VHDL source file and produce an object file:
ghdl -a filename.vhdl
- Elaborate a design (where `design` is the name of a configuration unit, entity unit or architecture unit):
ghdl -e design
- Run an elaborated design:
ghdl -r design
- Run an elaborated design and dump output to a waveform file:
ghdl -r design --wave=output.ghw
- Check the syntax of a VHDL source file:
ghdl -s filename.vhdl
- Display the help page:
ghdl --help


Work Experience
Avantha Technologies Limited
Software Engineer
Working as full stack developer on HCL Projects.
Techligent Systems
Software Developer
Working as full stack developer on various Synchronisys / Techligent products.
Projects
Re-structure and new functionality added in Timeper's marketing web app for better app performance.
Web application created for timekper app and timekper app manage users Timesheets, Projects, clinets and integrated with Timeper. Worked various module maintain clients data, user settings, recent activies. Used angular, c#, and sql.
Used for Students attendance using face detection & recognition. In this application we can all student's attendance in a same time by only single click.
Industrial Training
Completed 4 week vocational Training for web developing in PHP,
Completed 30Days vocational Training in Ecommerce website.
Completed 3 month Digital marketing as Internshala Student Partner.
Digital marketing as Campus Ambassador.


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I played Project Cars on the Vive last night. The visual immersion was cool, but what really made it was how each car felt to drive. It was a physical experience– I could feel each turn in my chest– and it gave the cars a weight that I’d never experienced in a game before. The weight distribution of the mid-engine BMW M1 (badass) felt different than the front-ish FR-S (also awesome) and the very front biased AMG SLS (oh god how do I control this thing).
The graphical fidelity just wasn’t super great, since even on my 980ti I had to turn settings down quite a bit. But the physical immersion was incredible and I’m about to fire it up again.


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Hello! I'm Patricia, creator of Granutla
I’m a super health-conscious Venezuelan gal living in the U.S. Food is my number one love — after my 2 boys of course! Ever since I was child, I’ve been tinkering with food. One day, in one of those fortunate food experiments, I came up with a blend, sampled it to some of my friends and family and Voila!, Granutla was born.
Granutla is an all-natural homemade granola. There are no chemical additives, nor preservatives, only fresh grain, fruits and nuts prepared the best way for you. Nature at its best!
Thanks for stopping by. And if you just want to say hello, that’s great too!


The smart way to raise love money
This site offers a set of simple guidelines to help entrepreneurs intelligently raise seed money from family and friends to accelerate their company. It addresses questions like: how do you ask for money without feeling awkward? What kind of terms do you offer? How do you present your deal?
Just scroll down to get started. Or maybe you want a little more background information first?
Make it fun
Make it visual
Keep it short & simple
Be very precise
Call for immediate action
With the help of my friends from THNK, I've broken down the process of writing an email-based fundraising offer into simple steps. We're assuming that your friends are all over the world, and that you can't put together a physical event for your fundraiser.
If you can organize a real world event, then definitely do it! Here are some things to think about if you're going to do that. The guidelines below will still help you, just turn your email into an invitation.
Remember, this site is a work in progress, and it's certainly not perfect. Feel free to leave a comment below if you think you can help improve it!
Write something short and inviting. "Now's the time!" is a good starting point. Remember you're writing to people you know well: they will open your email, so don't get too commercial yet.
Keep it short, but we need a little context. Make it clear that you're asking for financial support, to jumpstart your project. Make it clear that you are very professional about it. Explain why you're doing what you're doing. What's your vision? Keep it short!.
This is serious. It should be like an investor presentation. Short and to the point. What does your company do? How long have you been working on it? What have you done already? Who is in your team? Who are your partners? What are your key assets? What are your next milestones? Can we test your product?
Twitter-style, one sentence answers are the best. Bulletpoints are cool too.
So you need money, huh? Everybody needs money! State the exact amount you want to raise. What exactly is it going to be funding? Can we monitor the progress? Be as precise as possible.
This is the gist of it. Make an offer they can't refuse. Give options (3 to 5 options is good). People should be able to help you whatever their financial situation is. Don't commit to giving equity for small amounts.
This part must be graphic, and call to action. Make a column for each option, and in a box clearly state the amount and the advantages. Make each box a link to a page that seals the deal.
Note: the easiest way to transfer money is through Paypal. Set up an account for your fundraiser and go. Ideally, the option boxes should prefill the amount on the Paypal page.
Yes, you need money. But maybe there's other things that can help: an introduction to a potential mentor, investor, or client; Advice on a specific topic; A free office; Think of simple things that can help. Things people can do by just writing an email, or sitting down with you for coffee. Focus on actionable items.
When someone gets to this point, the least you can do is say thank you for taking to time to read through your proposal. Let them know you're happy to give more information if they want. Remind them that if they help you, your success will be their success too!
If you're an entrepreneur this word most likely has a special meaning to you. If you've met success, it revives a nostalgic memory of dreadfully painful yet somehow legendary moments. If you haven't met success yet, then it is a synonym for months, maybe even years of hard, unpaid labour.
Bootstrapping is what you have to do until your beloved project reaches the level where the rest of the world becomes interested, until that magic moment when investors start calling you instead of you calling them.
If you've been bootstrapping for a while, been through a couple of incubators, met a bunch of angels and VCs, then you know too well that no one in the world will invest in your project until you've raised Love Money. Well who's this Love Money girl and why should you raise her?
Having raised Love Money means that you've been able to convince your friends and family (the people who know you best) that what you're doing is damn serious and that you have the skills and determination to see it through. It also means that you've been smart enough to figure out a way to build a MVP and maybe even generate revenue (hint: try this one, it really helps) before knocking on every investor's door, which is the only way that you're not going to be wasting their and most importantly your time.
The problem with raising Love Money is the following: if you have to do it, it's likely that money is something you don't have a lot of. It may very well be the case that you're not good at all at making money. Entrepreneurs are visionaries, and visions don't sell too well on the market these days! Yet at the heart of every successful venture, there is a powerful vision.
And here's the thing: if you don't have a lot of money, then money is probably associated to a lot of negative ideas in your head. It's probably a great source of stress. You might even see it as the one thing that stands between you and success.

This site is about attitude. I'm currently enrolled at THNK, the Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership, and one of my classmates, Hajo, showed me something I couldn't figure out alone: I think about money too seriously. I have a negative attitude towards it, and that attitude yields negative results. If I start thinking that money is easy, and fun, it will create a positive outcome.
Concretely, Hajo told me to ask him for money. He believes in my project and he wants to help. If it's money I need he'll give me money. And he doesn't care about the returns. We're not talking millions of dollars here, but rather a few hundred, and he knows that what comes around goes around. Besides, when my company goes public, in a few years, he'll have a VIP invitation to the celebration party.
Hajo asked me to start a Love Money fundraiser, and assured me he'd be the first to contribute. I'm infinitely grateful for that: it got me thinking positively. How do you set up a Love Money fundraiser? How do you go about asking your friends and family for money, without making it awkward? I decided I'd figure it out for myself, beta test it with my THNK classmates and the THNK faculty, gather feedback, and share it with the world.
Think about it: you're working like a horse to build a successful company. The people who help you today will be proud to say they invested in you. They'll be rich too. You're the one giving them a gift, really. Make an irresistible offer! Be funny! Be BOLD!
I'm Edward Silhol, a visual artist and entrepreneur from France. I co-founded a web company called Stample, where a great team works to revolutionize the way people create knowledge from digital information. It's going to open to the public this year, and you're going to love it!
I believe in personal growth. I believe people must pursue their dreams, however big they are. I can never get enough learning and creating. I love life. I love surfing.
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In the media
Television & Documentaries
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“Swarm Intelligence with Simon Garnier + Corrie Moreau”, by Massive and Pioneer Works: https://vimeo.com/300794922
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“What self-driving cars can learn from brainless slime mold”, by Verge Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40f7_93NIgA
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“Lens of Time: Slime Lapse”, by Spine Films: https://www.biographic.com/lens-of-time-slime-lapse/
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“The Road Best Traveled: A Tale of Ants, Slime Mold and the New Jersey Turnpike”, by Luke Groskin for Science Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJ_6vju_U0
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“Robot swarms: will they bomb us or save us?”, by Mae Ryan for The Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXpjX49N7Zo
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“Scientists Use Tiny Robots to Understand Ants”, by Seth Wharton for Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post/scientists-use-tiny-robots-to-understand-ants-video/
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“Robot ants: mini-machines mimic insect colony”, by Victoria Gill for BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/21956795
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“Collective Minds - The Intelligence of Swarms”, by Jakob Kneser for Arte, produced by A&Obuero: Video not available online.
Radio
- Les Années Lumières (Radio Canada)
- La Croisée (Radio Canada)
- Phare Ouest (Radio Canada)
Magazines & Newspapers
- Striking Down the Queen Won’t Save You From the Swarm (The New York Times)
- The Remarkable Self-Organization of Ants (Quanta Magazine)
- Do robot ants dream of electric crumbs? (The Los Angeles Times)
- Robot Ants Could Make Us More Efficient (National Geographic)
- Un ejército de robots en miniatura para estudiar cómo se orientan las hormigas (El Mundo)
- Robot Ants Mimic a Real Colony (Discovery News)
- Sugar Cube-Sized Robotic Ants Mimic Real Foraging Behavior (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Robotic Ants Solve Riddles Without Math (Science News)
- Robotic Ants Provide Path to Real Ant Brains (NBC News - FutureTech blog)
- Robotic ants successfully mimic real colony behavior (ScienceDaily)
- Scientists build robotic ant colony to find out how real ants choose directions (The Verge)
- Robots Mimic Ant Colony Behavior (Mashable)
- What Does It Take to Fool a Snake? Send in the Robot (The Wall Street Journal)
- Scientists say shoppers could learn a lot from migrating geese (The Times)
- Secret of Annoying Crowds Revealed (Science News)
- Going with the Flow: Learning from Fish Could Prevent Crowd Panic (Der Spiegel)
- Swarm Smarts (Scientific American)


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17 Months After Chiefs Exit, Masilela Makes Comeback
by Soccer LadumaTsepo Masilela returns to top-flight after signing a deal with an Absa Premiership club.
After spending some time training with AmaZulu, Masilela has been offered a deal by the KwaZulu-Natal club, having impressed the team’s head coach Jozef Vukusic in training.
Read: Ex-Chippa Coach Back In The PSL
Masilela, 34, has been without a club since he parted ways with Chiefs at the end of the 2017/18 season.
The left-back becomes the second high-profile signing for Usuthu after the club signed another former Chiefs defender in Mario Booysen over two weeks ago.
AmaZulu are 10th on the log with three wins from their 10 matches.


getECfromGEM Use the model.eccodes to populates the model.ec.eccodes field. EC numbers that are not formatted as four numbers separated by periods, possibly with trailing wildcards. Examples: <IP_ADDRESS> or 1.2.3.- while invalid EC numbers are 1.2.3 or 1_2_3_4. Multiple EC numbers are separated by ; for instance <IP_ADDRESS>;<IP_ADDRESS> not <IP_ADDRESS>|<IP_ADDRESS>. Input: model an ecModel in GECKO 3 format (with ecModel.ec structure) ecRxns logical of length model.ec.rxns that specifies for which reactions the existing model.ec.eccodes entry should be kept and not modified by this function (optional, by default all model.ec.eccodes entries are populated by this function) Output: model ecModel with populated model.ec.eccodes invalidEC incorrectly formatted EC numbers invalidECpos position of invalidEC in model.eccodes Usage: [model, invalidEC, invalidECpos] = getECfromGEM(model, ecRxns)
0001 function [model, invalidEC, invalidECpos] = getECfromGEM(model, ecRxns) 0002 % getECfromGEM 0003 % Use the model.eccodes to populates the model.ec.eccodes field. EC 0004 % numbers that are not formatted as four numbers separated by periods, 0005 % possibly with trailing wildcards. Examples: <IP_ADDRESS> or 1.2.3.- while 0006 % invalid EC numbers are 1.2.3 or 1_2_3_4. Multiple EC numbers are 0007 % separated by ; for instance <IP_ADDRESS>;<IP_ADDRESS> not <IP_ADDRESS>|<IP_ADDRESS>. 0008 % 0009 % Input: 0010 % model an ecModel in GECKO 3 format (with ecModel.ec structure) 0011 % ecRxns logical of length model.ec.rxns that specifies for 0012 % which reactions the existing model.ec.eccodes entry 0013 % should be kept and not modified by this function 0014 % (optional, by default all model.ec.eccodes entries 0015 % are populated by this function) 0016 % 0017 % Output: 0018 % model ecModel with populated model.ec.eccodes 0019 % invalidEC incorrectly formatted EC numbers 0020 % invalidECpos position of invalidEC in model.eccodes 0021 % 0022 % Usage: 0023 % [model, invalidEC, invalidECpos] = getECfromGEM(model, ecRxns) 0024 0025 if ~isfield(model,'eccodes') 0026 error('The model has no model.eccodes field.') 0027 end 0028 0029 %Need to remove the prefix of GECKO light rxn names in the ec structure 0030 if ~model.ec.geckoLight 0031 rxnNames = model.ec.rxns; 0032 else 0033 rxnNames = extractAfter(model.ec.rxns, 4); 0034 end 0035 0036 [~,rxnIdxs] = ismember(rxnNames,model.rxns); 0037 0038 % Check if eccodes are valid 0039 eccodes = model.eccodes; 0040 invalidEC = regexprep(eccodes,'(\d\.(\w|-)+\.(\w|-)+\.(\w|-)+)(;\w+\.(\w|-)+\.(\w|-)+\.(\w|-)+)*(.*)','$3'); 0041 invalidEC = ~cellfun(@isempty,invalidEC); 0042 invalidECpos = find(invalidEC); 0043 if any(invalidECpos) 0044 invalidEC = model.eccodes(invalidEC); 0045 if nargout<2 0046 fprintf('Skipped incorrectly formatted EC numbers, rerun getECfromGEM with all outputs to get a list.\n') 0047 else 0048 fprintf('Skipped incorrectly formatted EC numbers.\n') 0049 end 0050 eccodes(invalidECpos)={''}; 0051 else 0052 invalidEC = []; 0053 end 0054 if nargin<2 || all(ecRxns) 0055 model.ec.eccodes = eccodes(rxnIdxs); 0056 else 0057 if ~isfield(model.ec,'eccodes') 0058 model.ec.eccodes(1:numel(model.ec.rxns),1) = {''}; 0059 end 0060 model.ec.eccodes(ecRxns) = eccodes(rxnIdxs(ecRxns)); 0061 end 0062 end


Demo Application
The package includes Demo Application source code and VGDRM binaries for UWP. This page describes how to install, compile, configure and run the Reference Application .
Installing and Running Demo Application
To install and run the demo application:
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Open solution
Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, open the solution file
VGConnectUWPSolution\VGConnectUWPSolution.sln
. Ensure proper platform selected (Win32 or ARM). -
Build solution
Build and deploy the solution file.
-
Delpoy Application
To install the application, follow Microsoft instructions.
IMPORTANT! Ensure that the computer has a valid Microsoft Developer License installed. -
Launch Application
Find the newly deployed application VGConnectUWPApplication, and then launch it.
- On the bottom is a list of assets in groups such as Live, VOD, etc. Click any asset to select it and view its details. You can edit the fields if you wish, and then click Watch to play that asset.
- Click on any asset to select it. Click it again to return to the playing video.
- The LOG window ( button) displays (and lets you copy) logs produced by the application. Click the button again to hide the log window.
- Click the More button to select additional functionalities.
- Select All API Calls to open the list of APIs (you may want to open the log window to see API call results).
More about Demo Application
Platform Configurations
In Windows, since the application loads proprietary DLLs (security) that only work in 32 bits, the application has been built and packaged only in win 32-bit and ARM platform configurations and not in win 64-bit.
The DRM DLL, however, is supplied in both 32- and 64-bit versions because it runs inside the PMP process. This process must be 64 bits when running under a Windows 64-bit OS.
LocalState Folder on Windows 10
After deploying the package, this folder is found under %appdata%\..\Local\Packages\VideoGuardDRM_m900y9vwakk0y\
LocalState Folder on Windows 10 Phone
After deploying the package, this folder is found under C:\Data\Users\DefApps\APPDATA\Local\Packages\VideoGuardDRM_m900y9vwakk0y\
LocalState Folder on XBOX One
After deploying the package, this folder is found under U:\Users\DefaultAccount\AppData\Local\Packages\VideoGuardDRM_m900y9vwakk0y\
Playing Alternate Content
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Locate the application’s
LocalState
folder. -
Copy the
catalog.json
file to theLocalState\Settings
folder. -
Modify the content of
catalog.json
to load a different json file, built according to the sample given in the file.
Set Alternate Settings
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Locate the
LocalState
folder of the application. -
Copy the
appSettings.json
file to theLocalState\Settings
- Modify the desired settings according to the sample provided in the file.
Deploy Demo Application to Win10 device
The deployment process is very simple and straightforward:
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Run Create Package wizard:
Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, open the solution file
VGConnectUWPSolution\VGConnectUWPSolution.sln
. Right click on the application projectVGConnectUWPApplication
and choose StoreCreate App Packages ... from the menu. -
Create App Packages
Choose No option on the next dialog to specify that you want to build local deployment package. Click the Next button to go to with the next configuration dialog.
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Select and Configure Packages
- Specify the output package location or use the default one.
- Choose x86 Architecture and Release Configuration.
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Package Creation Complete
Open output location from the opened dialog. And copy the application package folder
VGConnectUWPApplication_<IP_ADDRESS>_Test
to disk-on-key. -
Install Application on the device
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Connect disk-on-key to the device and locate
VGConnectUWPApplication_<IP_ADDRESS>_Test/Add-AppDevPackage.ps1
installation script file. - Open context menu (by right mouse click) and select Run With PowerShell to initiate deployment process.
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Connect disk-on-key to the device and locate
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Launch Application
Find the newly deployed application VGConnectUWPApplication, and then launch it.


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Our only away win in the league (so far?) came there, and now The Yeltz stormed into the quarter-finals of the B'ham Senior Cup with an exciting win on penalties against Tamworth.
We twice came from behind to force extra-time with goals from Crisp and Piearce - the latter in injury time - and won 3-2 on penalties with goals from Kevin, Pie-arce and Crisp (Snapper missed his). We're away to Paget in the quarters.


Useful geoscience information links
| International Professional Organisations | |
|---|---|
| International Council for Science (ICSU) | www.icsu.org |
| International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) | www.iugs.org |
| International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) | www.iamg.org |
| International and National Standards Bodies and Data Sharing Collaborations | |
| OneGeology | www.onegeology.org |
| Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) | www.opengeospatial.org |
| ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU-CODATA) | www.codata.org |
| ICSU World Data System | www.icsu-wds.org |
| Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW) | www.ccgm.org |
| International Geoscience Programme (ICGP) | www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/earth-sciences/international-geoscience-programme/ |
| IUGS International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) | www.stratigraphy.org |
| GEO Group on Earth Observations | www.earthobservations.org |
| IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth Program (DDE) | IUGS_Deep_Time_Digital_Earth_Launched.pdf |
| Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) | inspire.ec.europa.eu/ |
| Australia/NZ Government Geoscience Information Committee | www.geoscience.gov.au |
| AuScope (Australia) | www.auscope.org.au |
| Geoscience Information in Africa (GIRAF) | www.giraf-network.org |
| US Geoscience Information Network (USGIN) | usgin.org |
| US National Geologic Map Database Project (NGMDB) | ngmdb.usgs.gov/Info |
| Digital Mapping Techniques (DMT) workshops | ngmdb.usgs.gov/Info/dmt |
| National and Provincial Geological Surveys | |
| Global directory of geological surveys (maintained by the Geological Survey of Japan) | www.gsj.jp/information/gsj-link/dir/index.html |
| EuroGeoSurveys | www.eurogeosurveys.org |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Applied geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC) | www.sopac.org |
| Association of American State Geologists (AAGS) | www.stategeologists.org |
| Geoscience Information Consortium (GIC) | www.g-i-c.org |


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Symmetry of Walsh Functions
by Steven H. Cullinane
Walsh functions have an inherent symmetry that is best seen by
regarding the non-constant Walsh functions as hyperplanes in finite geometry.
Such symmetry is exhibited by the 15 affine hyperplanes of the 4-space over
the 2-element field.
For definitions of Walsh functions, see
The first sixteen Walsh functions and
Mathworld -- Walsh Function.
For an excellent introduction to Walsh functions, by Benjamin Jacoby
(pdf format),
click here.
The above illustration shows that
the first 16 Walsh functions
(from Jacoby's article)
are isomorphic to the 16 parts of the figure
in the following research note:
A related picture may be found on page 573
of A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram
(Wolfram Media, 2002):
This is a larger set of Walsh functions,
based on an 8x8 square.
Note that the 16 pictures
in the upper left quadrant
are essentially the same as
the 16 pictures in my 1986 note.
For more on symmetry properties in finite geometry, see
Diamond Theory.
For another picture showing the equivalence of nonconstant Walsh
functions with the 15 affine hyperplanes that account for 4x4 symmetry
in diamond theory, see the 15 "stencils" in Fig.
VIII-8 of Shift Register Sequences, by Solomon W. Golomb,
Holden-Day, 1967 (Revised edition published by Aegean Park Press, 1982).
For a picture showing a set of Walsh functions
arranged in various visually striking ways, see
Mathworld -- Walsh Function.
For a bibliography of the theory of Walsh functions, click
here.
For a bibliography of the applications of Walsh functions, click
here.
For some philosophical remarks
related to Walsh functions, see
Time Fold.
Update of February 9, 2012 --
Yodogawa defines his concept of "symmetropy."
An author in Tokyo wrote on applying Walsh function symmetry in 1982.
Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Yodogawa, Eiji
Primary Title: Symmetropy, an entropy-like measure of visual symmetry
Journal Name: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Cover Date: 1982-05-01
Publisher: Springer New York
Issn: 1943-3921
Subject: Behavioral Science
Start Page: 230
End Page: 240
Volume: 32
Issue: 3
Url: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03206227
Doi: 10.3758/BF03206227
Page last maintained Sept. 14, 2004, then Feb. 9, 2012. Page created August 31, 2001.


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Citing stitchr
¶
The manuscript describing and validating stitchr
is available here:
James M Heather, Matthew J Spindler, Marta Herrero Alonso, Yifang Ivana Shui, David G Millar, David S Johnson, Mark Cobbold, Aaron N Hata, Stitchr
: stitching coding TCR nucleotide sequences from V/J/CDR3 information, Nucleic Acids Research, 2022;, gkac190, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac190.
This can be printed in the command line by running stitchr --cite
.
The corresponding analyses and related datasets are available here (which used v1.0.0 stitchr
scripts).
Licensing information¶
stitchr
and its related scripts and documentation is provided under an MIT license.
Note that I am not affiliated with IMGT, I’m just making use of the data they make publicly available to researchers. As stated on their website and in their publications, IMGT’s policy regarding sharing of their data is that:
“… IMGT® software and data are provided to the academic users and NPO’s (Not for Profit Organization(s)) under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any other use of IMGT® material, from the private sector, needs a financial arrangement with CNRS.”
Please TCR responsibly.


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The Twonky (1953) 84m
Curio from the 50s will be of interest to aficionados of SF fantasy. Teacher Hans Conried is given a television set by his wife to entertain him while she is out of town. As he and friend Billy Lynn rightly guess, it is a television in appearance only - it may actually be technology from another time. Part of the intrigue of Arch Oboler's film is that for most of it we are unsure of the purpose of the 'twonky', as it is christened. Is it benign or harmful? The silly appearance of the twonky (not to mention its name), the comical aspect of several of the characters, and the whimsical, twittering woodwind score establish the film as a comedy from the opening scenes (Lynn's foggy football coach would be right at home behind the bar in CHEERS). but the same script, verbatim, could have been turned into a more sinister film if handled by a different director.
At first, THE TWONKY is a satirical swipe at television, the 'new' entertainment medium which became a significant threat to cinema in the 50s: Conried flicks through a TV guide that contains only pap; the twonky/television controls his life; he becomes housebound; his tastes are directed from 'high' art to the mediocre; and thoughts of individual expression are discouraged. And not only is television regarded as a poor substitute for cinema, it is also inferred to be an unworthy successor of radio. Read between the lines: Writer-director Oboler was a prominent radio producer before switching to film, and it was he who changed the twonky (as it appeared in Henry Kuttner's short story ten years earlier) from a radiogram to a television set. Oboler develops the Kuttner story satisfactorily, although the pace flags in places, and the anti-television theme loses its way. The final scenes, however, are among the most enjoyable. Special effects are unfortunately primitive, but given their simple requirements you'd think the studio would have ponied up some extra cash to make them a little better. Ironically, THE TWONKY has a made-for-TV feel to it. With a little cropping it would have made an ideal hour-long episode for Rod Serling's TWILIGHT ZONE, and the domestic setting, comings-and-goings of peripheral characters, and gag ending follow standard sitcom conventions. Dismissed with their usual smirking by the Medved Brothers in the Golden Turkey books - maybe they were running short of material.
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Three dead in Oklahoma Walmart store shooting: US media
According to TNN television, Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford said the shooting took place outside the store and the suspect is one of those killed
by AFP | PTIThree people were killed in a shooting early Monday at a Walmart store in Duncan, Oklahoma, local media reported citing the state's highway patrol and local police.
According to TNN television, Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford said the shooting took place outside the store and the suspect is one of those killed.
Schools in the area had been placed on lockdown temporarily before being given an "all clear" by local police, according to a Facebook statement from Duncan Public Schools.


To Do¶
Just some recommendations to make this whole thing better!
Todo
Implement remaining interactive components in Slack’s Block Kit.
There are still some interactive components that are a bit more complex than the standard ones provided here.
Todo
Use __setattr__
instead of __init__
for type validation.
Type validation is done during __init__
, and therefore will only validate attributes once
the object is created. Changing it to __setattr__
will validate types on every update to
the object.
Todo
Finish implementing more concrete type validation.
Type validation is inconsistent. Right now there is validation in a couple different places, but it’s not complete and won’t make creating more block types any easier. Finish that to make attribute validation easier.
Todo
Implement more utils for faster block generation.
Current block utilities are shaky at best. Create more and make all of them more consistent.
Todo
More documentation!
More documentation on how everything works wouldn’t hurt!


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A table for quick comparison
This table compares Chainer with other popular deep learning frameworks.
We hope it helps you to choose an appropriate framework for the demand.
Note
This chart may be out-dated, since the developers of Chainer do not perfectly follow the latest development status of each framework.
Please report us if you find an out-dated cell.
Requests for new comparison axes are also welcome.
| |
|
Chainer |
Theano-based |
Torch7 |
Caffe |
| Specs |
Scripting |
Python |
Python |
LuaJIT |
Python |
| Net definition language |
Python |
Python |
LuaJIT |
Protocol Buffers |
| Define-by-Run scheme |
Y |
|
|
|
| CPU Array backend |
NumPy |
NumPy |
Tensor |
|
| GPU Array backend |
CuPy |
CudaNdarray |
CudaTensor |
|
| NNs |
Reverse-mode AD |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Basic RNN support |
Y |
Y |
Y (nnx ) |
#2033 |
| Variable-length loops |
Y |
Y (scan ) |
|
|
| Stateful RNNs |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
| Per-batch architectures |
Y |
|
|
|
| Perf |
CUDA support |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| cuDNN support |
Y |
Y |
Y (cudnn.torch ) |
Y |
| FFT-based convolution |
|
Y |
Y (fbcunn ) |
#544 |
| CPU/GPU generic coding |
Y |
|
Y |
|
| Multi GPU (data parallel) |
Y |
Y |
Y (fbcunn ) |
Y |
| Multi GPU (model parallel) |
Y |
Y |
Y (fbcunn ) |
|
| Misc |
Type checking |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N/A |
| Model serialization |
Y |
Y (pickle ) |
Y |
Y |
| Caffe reference model |
Y |
|
Y (loadcaffe ) |
Y |


Former High Sheriff ‘swept away for half a mile’ by floodwater
Annie Hall’s body was recovered from flooded farmland in the early hours of November 8.
The former High Sheriff of Derbyshire was swept away for half a mile after driving into floodwater, an inquest has heard.
Annie Hall’s body was recovered from flooded farmland close to the River Derwent in Darley Dale, near Matlock, in the early hours of November 8.
Chesterfield Coroner’s Court heard how the car Mrs Hall and her husband had been driving in became “partially submerged” and both had exited the vehicle after the engine seized at around 1am.
A post-mortem examination confirmed her cause of death as drowning and that she sustained no head injuries.
Mrs Hall, who lived in Ashford-in-the-Water near Bakewell, served as the county’s High Sheriff – a ceremonial role representing the sovereign – in 2017 and has been described as a “great leader”.
Her death came after parts of the Midlands and northern England were battered by a month’s worth of rain in one day.
“Unfortunately, the car became partially submerged, the engine seized and they left the vehicle on foot.
“She subsequently went into more floodwater and we believe she got swept away by the current.”
Mr Bateman continued: “Her body was recovered from flooded farmland approximately half a mile from where she was last seen.
“The doctor confirmed her death at the scene.”
After her death, Mrs Hall’s family released a statement which said: “It is with great sadness that we, the family of Annie Hall, report her sudden passing.
“We are in great shock and grieving.”
Senior Coroner for Derby and Derbyshire, Dr Robert Hunter, adjourned the inquest until a date to be fixed.