Genderful A Furry Fiction Anthology Exploring Gender
Genderful: White and Gold
As furries, we base large swaths of our identity around species. We search for what fits, we let our species choose us, and find ways to be happy as such.
Species isn't the only portion of identity that we explore within this subculture, though; given the relative safety of our community, gender is also something that we frequently explore.
Furry is often a means of wish-fulfillment for us, the players of our characters and the bearers of our avatars, so we often present ourselves as we desire to be seen. Within a fictional furry world, though, there's little reason to expect that similar statistics around gender identity and expression would not also be the case.
How would those in a such a world explore their gender in a day-to-day context? What are the mechanics of hormone replacement therapy - transdermal patches obviously being out of the question - or of gender affirming surgery? What are the social implications of gender transition in a society already differentiated by species?
Genderful is a furry fiction anthology which aims to explore these questions, letting them play out over the course of 5,000-10,000 words. Though the set and setting may be tough and the plot may involve hardships, the characters should be treated with sensitivity and care. White and Gold is the general side of the anthology. Stories will be general audience, and adult stories will be offered in a separate section to allow readers to curate their experience.
See below for details!
The Details
- Theme
Stories should focus on characters struggling or living with a non-cisgender identity. There are no further restrictions on genre. No preference will be given to stories with any character:
- on any stage of their chosen path of transition,
- of any gender identity or gender assigned at birth, or
- of any orientation
We would like a balance of expressions, and will be publishing an anonymous list of what is represented in each submission as they come in!
- Restrictions
Stories which include transphobia, racism, sexism, or discrimination presented in a positive light will not be accepted for Genderful.
If you are in doubt about your submission's content, please do not hesitate to ask.
- Word count
- 5,000-10,000 words - stories above or below will be considered on their merit.
- Rating
- G-X — stories of an erotic or violent nature and stories written for a general audience will be presented in separate sections/books2 to allow readers to curate their experience.
- Payment
- ½ cent per word up to $50 per story.
- Multiple submissions
- Yes, with a maximum of one being chosen for publication.
- Previous publication
- Previously published works not currently under contract allowed.
- Deadline
- TBD
- Submission process
- TBD
Genderful: Black and Silver
As furries, we base large swaths of our identity around species. We search for what fits, we let our species choose us, and find ways to be happy as such.
Species isn't the only portion of identity that we explore within this subculture, though; given the relative safety of our community, gender is also something that we frequently explore.
Furry is often a means of wish-fulfillment for us, the players of our characters and the bearers of our avatars, so we often present ourselves as we desire to be seen. Within a fictional furry world, though, there's little reason to expect that similar statistics around gender identity and expression would not also be the case.
 What are the effects of hormone replacement therapy or of gender affirming surgery on one's sexuality? How does sex and sexuality work in a setting with complex scents and sensitive noses? Dating, already scary, gains a new layer of tension; romance, already complex, gains a new layer of difficulty; and sex, already fraught with gender, becomes even more complicated.
Genderful is a furry fiction anthology which aims to explore these questions, letting them play out over the course of 5,000-10,000 words. Though the set and setting may be tough and the plot may involve hardships, the characters should be treated with sensitivity and care. Black and Silver is the adult side of the anthology. Stories will be adult in nature, and general audience stories will be offered in a separate section to allow readers to curate their experience.
See below for details!
The Details
- Theme
Stories should focus on characters struggling or living with a non-cisgender identity. There are no further restrictions on genre. No preference will be given to stories with any character:
- on any stage of their chosen path of transition,
- of any gender identity or gender assigned at birth, or
- of any orientation
We would like a balance of expressions, and will be publishing an anonymous list of what is represented in each submission as they come in!
- Restrictions
Stories which include transphobia, racism, sexism, or discrimination presented in a positive light will not be accepted for Genderful. Additionally, for adult submissions, the following will also not be accepted:
- Pedophilia or sex with characters under the age of 18 presented in a positive light.
- Rape, torture, dubious consent, forced seduction presented in a positive light.
- Snuff or Necrophilia presented in a positive light
- Bestiality presented in a positive light
If you are in doubt about your submission's content, please do not hesitate to ask.
- Word count
- 5,000-10,000 words - stories above or below will be considered on their merit.
- Rating
- G-X — stories of an erotic or violent nature and stories written for a general audience will be presented in separate sections/books2 to allow readers to curate their experience.
- Payment
- ½ cent per word up to $50 per story.
- Multiple submissions
- Yes, with a maximum of one being chosen for publication.
- Previous publication
- Previously published works not currently under contract allowed.
- Deadline
- TBD
- Submission process
- TBD


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Class used to represent an IPv4 internet address and port number. More...
#include <cl_HostAddress.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| HostAddress (const std::string &address, uint16_t port) | |
| Construct from user provided address string and port number. More... | |
| HostAddress (const sockaddr_in *sainp) | |
| convert from a sockaddr_in* More... | |
| HostAddress (const sockaddr *sap) | |
| convert from a sockaddr* More... | |
| HostAddress (const HostAddress &)=default | |
| copy constructor More... | |
| HostAddress & | operator= (const HostAddress &)=default |
| copy-assign More... | |
| HostAddress (HostAddress &&)=default | |
| move constructor More... | |
| HostAddress & | operator= (HostAddress &&)=default |
| move-assign More... | |
| std::string | getAddr () const |
| Return a string containing the dot-quad formatted address, such as "<IP_ADDRESS>". More... | |
| uint16_t | getPort () const |
| Return the currently stored port number. More... | |
| void | setPort (uint16_t port) |
| Change the stored port number. More... | |
| operator sockaddr * () | |
| Conversion to sockaddr* HostAddress can be used in its place. More... | |
| operator const sockaddr * () const | |
| Conversion to const sockaddr* HostAddress can be used in its place. More... | |
| operator sockaddr_in * () | |
| Conversion to sockaddr_in* HostAddress can be used in its place. More... | |
| operator const sockaddr_in * () const | |
| Conversion to const sockaddr_in* HostAddress can be used in its place. More... | |
| size_t | size () const |
| Return size of address data. More... | |
Class used to represent an IPv4 internet address and port number.
It has conversion functions that allow it to conver to and from sockaddr and sockaddr_in. Note that SimpleSocks is presently IPv4 only, so this class - especially - would need a rewrite to support IPv6.
| SSocks::HostAddress::HostAddress | ( | const std::string & | address, |
| uint16_t | port | ||
| ) |
Construct from user provided address string and port number.
| address | A dot-quadded address string. THIS CONSTRUCTOR WILL NOT LOOK UP A HOST. The address string should be in the format "<IP_ADDRESS>", NOT "google.com". |
| port | A port number. |
| SSocks::HostAddress::HostAddress | ( | const sockaddr_in * | sainp | ) |
convert from a sockaddr_in*
| SSocks::HostAddress::HostAddress | ( | const sockaddr * | sap | ) |
convert from a sockaddr*
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default |
copy constructor
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default |
move constructor
| std::string SSocks::HostAddress::getAddr | ( | ) | const |
Return a string containing the dot-quad formatted address, such as "<IP_ADDRESS>".
| uint16_t SSocks::HostAddress::getPort | ( | ) | const |
Return the currently stored port number.
| SSocks::HostAddress::operator const sockaddr * | ( | ) | const |
Conversion to const sockaddr* HostAddress can be used in its place.
| SSocks::HostAddress::operator const sockaddr_in * | ( | ) | const |
Conversion to const sockaddr_in* HostAddress can be used in its place.
| SSocks::HostAddress::operator sockaddr * | ( | ) |
Conversion to sockaddr* HostAddress can be used in its place.
| SSocks::HostAddress::operator sockaddr_in * | ( | ) |
Conversion to sockaddr_in* HostAddress can be used in its place.
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default |
copy-assign
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default |
move-assign
| void SSocks::HostAddress::setPort | ( | uint16_t | port | ) |
Change the stored port number.
| size_t SSocks::HostAddress::size | ( | ) | const |
Return size of address data.


These audio samples go with CHiVE: Varying Prosody in Speech Synthesis with a Linguistically Driven Dynamic Hierarchical Conditional Variational Network, Wan, V., Chan, C.-a., Kenter, T., Vit, J., and Clark, R. A., Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), 2019, MOS tests (Section 4.2, Table 2 in the paper).
These audio samples go with CHiVE: Varying Prosody in Speech Synthesis with a Linguistically Driven Dynamic Hierarchical Conditional Variational Network, Wan, V., Chan, C.-a., Kenter, T., Vit, J., and Clark, R. A., Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), 2019, MOS tests (Section 4.2, Table 2 in the paper).


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@main("Get Started") {
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Necessary Field Select one method
Simple Solver
The simple solver is suggested for non expert users. Select Maximum three inputs and one output
Select
Complex Solver
The complex solver is using a multi stage Data Envelopment Analysis.
Please select the inputs and outputs desired
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Number of teams: 20
Number of Players: 528
Uefa Ranking: 4th
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League Value: 4,41 Billion €
Number of teams: 20
Number of Players: 525
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Number of teams: 20
Number of Players: 484
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League Value: 2,38 Billion €
Number of teams: 18
Number of Players: 515
Uefa Ranking: 2nd
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Compose Your Solver
You have choosen to use a multi-stage data analysis. This method is a composition of several "Simple Solvers" or one-stage DEAs.
You can create up to three stages and solve multiple DEAs in each stage. The results from one stage can be used as inputs for DEAs in the following stages
Cooper Law not respected check that Number of Teams ≥ 2 * (Number of Inputs * Number of Outputs)
Inputs for each DEA must be given
Outputs for each DEA must be given
Select a solving method:
Learn more on CCR ,BCC
BCC
CCR
->Perform a 2-Stage-DEA <-
Fill the Stage 1 with 1 DEA with dummy data
Consider Stage 2 and Stage 3 as if they were the 2-Stage-DEA
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| Author: | Captricity |
|---|---|
| Version: | 0.2.2 |
| Date: | 2014/09/03 |
| Homepage: | Mocurly Homepage |
| Download: | PyPI |
| License: | MIT License |
| Change log: | Change log |
| Issue tracker: | Github issues |
Mocurly is a library that mocks the Recurly Python client so that you can easily write tests for applications that use the Recurly Python client.
Mocurly acts as a mock backend for the Recurly client, allowing you to use the Recurly Python client AS IS. This means that all your code that uses the Recurly Python client and targets Recurly objects will all work as you would expect. Best of all: you can use the Recurly Python client to setup the test environment!
For example, suppose you had a simple function in your app that lists all the users in Recurly, and counts them:
import recurly
recurly.API_KEY = 'foo'
recurly.SUBDOMAIN = 'bar'
def count_recurly_accounts():
return len(recurly.Account.all())
With Mocurly, you can test the above code like so:
import recurly
recurly.API_KEY = 'foo'
recurly.SUBDOMAIN = 'bar'
from mocurly import mocurly
from count_module import count_recurly_accounts
@mocurly
def test_count_recurly_accounts():
for i in range(10):
recurly.Account(account_code=str(i)).save()
assert count_recurly_accounts() == 10
Within the decorator context, all calls to Recurly are captured by Mocurly, which keeps the state in memory for the duration of the context. No actual web calls are made, allowing you to test your Recurly code without worrying about existing context or internet connections.
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.


parseOnLoad:true, async: true, auto-require unit test
This page tests that:
parser resolves relative MIDs in widget templates
parser correctly caches constructors with same relative MIDs
See console for test results.


Defines useful constants for Earth.
fms_mod
| Name | Type | Value | Units | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RADIUS | real | 6371.e3 | m | radius of the earth |
| OMEGA | real | 7.292e-5 | 1/s | rotation rate of the planet (earth) |
| GRAV | real | 9.80 | m/s^2 | acceleration due to gravity |
| RDGAS | real | 287.04 | J/kg/deg | gas constant for dry air |
| KAPPA | real | 2./7. | --- | RDGAS / CP_AIR |
| CP_AIR | real | RDGAS/KAPPA | J/kg/deg | specific heat capacity of dry air at constant pressure |
| CP_OCEAN | real | 3989.24495292815 | J/kg/deg | specific heat capacity taken from McDougall (2002) "Potential Enthalpy ..." |
| RHO0 | real | 1.035e3 | kg/m^3 | average density of sea water |
| RHO0R | real | 1.0/RHO0 | m^3/kg | reciprocal of average density of sea water |
| RHO_CP | real | RHO0*CP_OCEAN | J/m^3/deg | (kg/m^3)*(cal/kg/deg C)(joules/cal) = (joules/m^3/deg C) |
| RVGAS | real | 461.50 | J/kg/deg | gas constant for water vapor |
| DENS_H2O | real | 1000. | kg/m^3 | density of liquid water |
| HLV | real | 2.500e6 | J/kg | latent heat of evaporation |
| HLF | real | 3.34e5 | J/kg | latent heat of fusion |
| HLS | real | 2.834e6 | J/kg | latent heat of sublimation |
| TFREEZE | real | 273.16 | degK | temp where fresh water freezes |
| WTMAIR | real | 2.896440E+01 | AMU | molecular weight of air |
| WTMH2O | real | 1.801534E+01 | AMU | molecular weight of water |
| WTMO3 | real | 47.99820E+01 | AMU | molecular weight of ozone |
| DIFFAC | real | 1.660000E+00 | --- | diffusivity factor |
| SECONDS_PER_DAY | real | 8.640000E+04 | seconds | seconds in a day |
| AVOGNO | real | 6.023000E+23 | atoms/mole | Avogadro's number |
| PSTD | real | 1.013250E+06 | dynes/cm^2 | mean sea level pressure |
| PSTD_MKS | real | 101325.0 | Newtons/m^2 | mean sea level pressure |
| REARTH | real | 6.356766E+08 | cm | radius of the earth |
| RADCON | real | ((1.0E+02*GRAV)/(1.0E+04*CP_AIR))*SECONDS_PER_DAY | deg sec/(cm day) | factor used to convert flux divergence to heating rate in degrees per day |
| RADCON_MKS | real | (GRAV/CP_AIR)*SECONDS_PER_DAY | deg sec/(m day) | factor used to convert flux divergence to heating rate in degrees per day |
| O2MIXRAT | real | 2.0953E-01 | --- | mixing ratio of molecular oxygen in air |
| RHOAIR | real | 1.292269 | kg/m^3 | reference atmospheric density |
| ALOGMIN | real | -50.0 | --- | minimum value allowed as argument to log function |
| FREZDK | real | 273.16 | deg K | melting point of water |
| STEFAN | real | 5.6734e-8 | W/m^2/deg^4 | Stefan-Boltzmann constant |
| VONKARM | real | 0.40 | --- | Von Karman constant |
| PI | real | 4.0*ATAN(1.0) | --- | ratio of circle circumference to diameter |
| RADIAN | real | 180.0/PI | --- | degrees per radian |
| C2DBARS | real | 1.e-4 | dbars | converts rho*g*z (in mks) to dbars: 1dbar = 10^4 (kg/m^3)(m/s^2)m |
| KELVIN | real | 273.15 | --- | degrees Kelvin at zero Celsius |
| EPSLN | real | 1.0e-40 | --- | a small number to prevent divide by zero exceptions |
call constants_init
use constants_mod, only: TFREEZE, grav_new => GRAV real, parameter :: grav_inv = 1.0 / grav_new tempc(:,:,:) = tempk(:,:,:) - TFREEZE geopotential(:,:) = height(:,:) * grav_new
1. Renaming of constants.
2. Additional constants.


Bonsai
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- __builtin__.object
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- MockHttpResponse
- MockRequest
class MockHttpResponse(__builtin__.object) |
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Returned from MockService crud methods as the server's response. |
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Methods defined here:
- __init__(self, body=None, status=None, reason=None, headers=None)
- Construct a mock HTTPResponse and set members.
Args:
body: str (optional) The HTTP body of the server's response.
status: int (optional)
reason: str (optional)
headers: dict (optional)
- getheader(self, header_name)
- read(self)
Data descriptors defined here:
- __dict__
- dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
- __weakref__
- list of weak references to the object (if defined)
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class MockRequest(__builtin__.object) |
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Represents a request made to an AtomPub server.
These objects are used to determine if a client request matches a recorded
HTTP request to determine what the mock server's response will be. |
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Methods defined here:
- ConcealSecrets(self, conceal_func)
- Conceal secret data in this request.
- IsMatch(self, other_request)
- Check to see if the other_request is equivalent to this request.
Used to determine if a recording matches an incoming request so that a
recorded response should be sent to the client.
The matching is not exact, only the operation and URL are examined
currently.
Args:
other_request: MockRequest The request which we want to check this
(self) MockRequest against to see if they are equivalent.
- __init__(self, operation, uri, host=None, ssl=False, port=None, data=None, extra_headers=None, url_params=None, escape_params=True, content_type='application/atom+xml')
- Constructor for a MockRequest
Args:
operation: str One of 'GET', 'POST', 'PUT', or 'DELETE' this is the
HTTP operation requested on the resource.
uri: str The URL describing the resource to be modified or feed to be
retrieved. This should include the protocol (http/https) and the host
(aka domain). For example, these are some valud full_uris:
'http://example.com', 'https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin'
host: str (optional) The server name which will be placed at the
beginning of the URL if the uri parameter does not begin with 'http'.
Examples include 'example.com', 'www.google.com', 'www.blogger.com'.
ssl: boolean (optional) If true, the request URL will begin with https
instead of http.
data: ElementTree, filestream, list of parts, or other object which can be
converted to a string. (optional)
Should be set to None when performing a GET or PUT.
If data is a file-like object which can be read, the constructor
will read the entire file into memory. If the data is a list of
parts to be sent, each part will be evaluated and stored.
extra_headers: dict (optional) HTTP headers included in the request.
url_params: dict (optional) Key value pairs which should be added to
the URL as URL parameters in the request. For example uri='/',
url_parameters={'foo':'1','bar':'2'} could become '/?foo=1&bar=2'.
escape_params: boolean (optional) Perform URL escaping on the keys and
values specified in url_params. Defaults to True.
content_type: str (optional) Provides the MIME type of the data being
sent.
Data descriptors defined here:
- __dict__
- dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
- __weakref__
- list of weak references to the object (if defined)
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Coverage Summary for Class: VaticanReportSection (it.polimi.ingsw.model)
| Class | Class, % | Method, % | Line, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| VaticanReportSection | 100% (1/1) | 100% (7/7) | 100% (13/13) |
1 package it.polimi.ingsw.model; 2 3 import it.polimi.ingsw.commons.StateFavorTiles; 4 5 import static it.polimi.ingsw.commons.StateFavorTiles.*; 6 7 public class VaticanReportSection { 8 /** 9 * The number of victory points given if the tile associated with this section is turned up. 10 */ 11 private final int popeFavorTiles; 12 /** 13 * The index of the faith cell where this vatican report section begins. 14 */ 15 private final int startSpace; 16 /** 17 * The index of the faith cell where this vatican report section ends. 18 * When a player hits this cell, a Vatican Report must be activated on this section. 19 */ 20 private final int popeSpace; 21 /** 22 * The state of the favor tile associated with this section. 23 */ 24 private StateFavorTiles state; 25 26 /** 27 * This custom constructor is used only for test purposes. 28 * Original sections are instead loaded parsing them from an external json source. 29 */ 30 public VaticanReportSection(int startSpace, int popeSpace, int popeFavorTiles){ 31 this.startSpace = startSpace; 32 this.popeSpace = popeSpace; 33 this.popeFavorTiles = popeFavorTiles; 34 this.state = FACEDOWN; 35 } 36 37 /** 38 * @param pos the position of player. 39 * @return whether the player is on the pope space of this section. 40 */ 41 public boolean isPopeSpace(int pos){ 42 return pos == this.popeSpace; 43 } 44 45 /** 46 * Gets the victory points given to the player owner of the faith track by this section. 47 * A Vatican Report Section gives victory points only if the associated Favor Tile is turned up. 48 * @return the number of victory points given. 49 */ 50 public int getVictoryPoints() { 51 if (state == FACEUP) 52 return popeFavorTiles; 53 else return 0; 54 } 55 56 public int getPopeSpace() { 57 return popeSpace; 58 } 59 60 public void setValidFavorTiles(StateFavorTiles state){ 61 this.state = state; 62 } 63 64 public StateFavorTiles getState() { 65 return state; 66 } 67 68 public int getStartSpace() { 69 return startSpace; 70 } 71 }


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THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU A film review by Michael Redman Copyright 1996 Michael Redman
** (out of ****)
Remember the scene near the end of "Apocalypse Now" where the boat finally makes it to the village? What they find is a hidden society filled with inhabitants involved in strange rituals and run by the bigger than life God-King Marlon Brando. This film takes that village even further into the Twilight Zone.
Edward Douglas (David Thewlis) is rescued from a life raft after drifting for days in the Java sea when his plane crashed on the way to his assignment as a UN peace negotiator.  -- Montgomery (Val Kilmer). The place is run by Dr. Moreau (Marlon Brando) who is splicing human and various animal DNA in order to create the perfect non-violent being.
Of course things fall apart. Montgomery starts the dominos tumbling by killing a rabbit for dinner, then dead rabbits are found around the island.  Trouble in paradise. Almighty Brando can't keep them under control as they revert more and more to their animal selves.
This is the third film based on the H. G. Wells book and is visually hypnotizing. Each scene on the island is overflowing with mood and movement. Men, animals and everything inbetween crowd the dark and mutable screen. Montgomery's warning to Douglas describes the entire film, "Be careful, there are a lot of unstable phenomena out there."
Like much of "Apocalypse Now", there's far too much going on to catch it all and that's the way it's supposed to be. The over-stimulation crowds your senses, leaving few details, but creating a massive impression of foggy and breathtaking eeriness.
Brando's Moreau is beyond outlandish as he is carried on a litter, dressed in a muumuu, coated with pancake makeup and giving forth the law while swamped and worshipped by his creations. Kilmer is just a bit less bizarre as the drug doctor heading into insanity. His Brando Junior impression is a masterpiece of the grotesque and fantastic.
Yeah, the extravagant make-up, sets and dark and murky feel of the film are grand, but occasionally the story rears its ugly head and that's the downfall of the movie. The religious overtones are extremely heavy handed and the add-on preachy montage at the end is just horrid. Very little happens for a reason. Characterization is minimal and often sacrificed for sensationalism. We have no idea who any of these people are or what lead them to the situation they find themselves in. The animals are easier to care about than the humans.
See this film if you're up for a disturbing visual treat, but don't expect anything beyond that.
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- It is helpful for math skills.
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- Its fun.
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Raw Routing
Raw routing is based on the Express framework for Node.js where the route handlers are called with RouterRequest and RouterResponse objects, which respectively handle the client request and build the response, along with a next completion handler.
Raw routing provides great flexibility and control, but requires you to understand the structure of requests, how to interpret HTTP request headers correctly, how to verify data, and to manually carry out things like JSON parsing.
In this guide, we will show you how to set up Raw routes on your server. We will store a Swift object that is sent via a POST request. We will then return that object when a user sends a GET request.
If you don't have a Kitura server, follow our Create a server guide.
Step 1: Create a file to contain the routes
We are going to create a new file, where we will define the routes for this guide.
Open your Application.swift file:
open Sources/Application/Application.swift
Inside the postInit() function add:
initializeRawRoutes(app: self)
Create a new file, called RawRoutes.swift:
touch Sources/Application/Routes/RawRoutes.swift
Open your RawRoutes.swift file:
open Sources/Application/Routes/RawRoutes.swift
Inside this file, add the framework for our routes code:
func initializeRawRoutes(app: App) {
// Register routes with handlers here
}
extension App {
static var bookStore = [Book]()
}
This code contains two sections. The first is the initializeRawRoutes function. This will be run after the application has been initialized and is where we register routes on our router. The second is the App extension. This is where we define a bookStore which will store an array of objects. We will use the Book model from the routing guide, however you could use any Codable type.
Step 2: Create a POST route
Inside the initializeRawRoutes function add:
app.router.post("/raw") { request, response, next in
next()
}
What we've done is register a POST on our router that will handle any POST requests made on "/raw".
If the values request, response and next are unfamiliar to you, learn more about them in our What is Routing? guide.
The POST route will be used to send information about our books to the server, therefore we need a way of reading this data from the request.
To do this we will use the read(as:) method of the RouterRequest class, as this method can throw we wrap it in a do-catch block:
do {
let book = try request.read(as: Book.self)
} catch {
let _ = response.send(status: .badRequest)
}
We will now save this book to our bookstore and return it to the user with send():
App.bookStore.append(book)
response.send(book)
Your completed POST route should now look as follows:
app.router.post("/raw") { request, response, next in
do {
let book = try request.read(as: Book.self)
App.bookStore.append(book)
response.send(book)
} catch {
let _ = response.send(status: .badRequest)
}
next()
}
Now if we start our Kitura server we can use curl to test our route.
In a terminal enter the following:
curl -X POST \
http://localhost:8080/raw \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{
"id": 0,
"title": "A Game of Thrones",
"price": 14.99,
"genre": "Fantasy"
}'
We should then see the following printed to the terminal:
{"id":0,"title":"A Game of Thrones","price":14.99,"genre":"Fantasy"}
That's it! We've implemented a basic POST route.
Step 3: Create a GET route
We register a GET route in a similar way to the POST route.
Inside the initializeRawRoutes function add:
app.router.get("/raw") { request, response, next in
next()
}
In our GET route, we respond with our bookstore.
response.send(App.bookStore)
The completed GET route, should then look as follows:
app.router.get("/raw") { request, response, next in
response.send(App.bookStore)
next()
}
Now we need to restart our server, once it is running we can post a book using the curl command from step 2.
Then if we navigate to http://localhost:8080/raw, we should see the book we posted:
{
"id": 0,
"title": "A Game of Thrones",
"price": 14.99,
"genre": "Fantasy"
}
That's it! We've now implemented a simple GET route.
Step 4: Create a GET one route
When we register a GET one route, rather than a GET all route, we use an id parameter.
Inside the initializeRawRoutes function add:
app.router.get("/raw/:id") { request, response, next in
next()
}
In this case, the path "/:id" will be for "/123" as well as "/abc". You can then access the id parameter’s value via request.parameters["id"]:
guard let idString = request.parameters["id"],
let id = Int(idString),
id >= 0,
id < App.bookStore.count
else {
let _ = response.send(status: .badRequest)
return next()
}
response.send(App.bookStore[id])
Your completed GET with id route, should then look as follows:
app.router.get("/raw/:id") { request, response, next in
guard let idString = request.parameters["id"],
let id = Int(idString),
id >= 0,
id < App.bookStore.count
else {
let _ = response.send(status: .badRequest)
return next()
}
response.send(App.bookStore[id])
next()
}
Now we need to restart our server and make a POST request using the curl command from step 2.
Use a browser to navigate to http://localhost:8080/raw/0
This will make a GET request to the server and you should see the first book in JSON format:
{
"id": 0,
"title": "A Game of Thrones",
"price": 14.99,
"genre": "Fantasy"
}
In Terminal enter the following to post a second book to the server:
curl -X POST \
http://localhost:8080/raw \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{
"id": 1,
"title": "Harry Potter",
"price": 10.00,
"genre": "Fantasy"
}'
Then open the browser at http://localhost:8080/raw/1
This will make a new GET request to the server and you should see the second book in JSON format:
{
"id": 1,
"title": "Harry Potter",
"price": 10.00,
"genre": "Fantasy"
}
That's it! We've now also implemented a GET one route.
Step 5: Making bookstore thread safe (Optional)
Kitura route handlers are asynchronous. If multiple route threads access the same object at the same time they will crash. To prevent these collisions, we will serialize access to the rawStore.
If you have completed the Codable Routing guide, you will already have the execute function.
Open your Application.swift file:
open Sources/Application/Application.swift
Add Dispatch to the import statements:
import Dispatch
Inside the App class, add a DispatchQueue:
let workerQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "worker")
At the end of the App class, add a helper function for atomically executing code:
func execute(_ block: (() -> Void)) {
workerQueue.sync {
block()
}
}
Back in RawRoutes.swift, we wrap the code in our handlers with this execute function.
Your completed RawRouting.swift should now look as follows:
func initializeRawRoutes(app: App) {
app.router.post("/raw") { request, response, next in
do {
let book = try request.read(as: Book.self)
app.execute {
App.bookStore.append(book)
}
response.send(book)
} catch {
let _ = response.send(status: .badRequest)
}
next()
}
app.router.get("/raw") { request, response, next in
app.execute {
response.send(App.bookStore)
}
next()
}
app.router.get("/raw/:id") { request, response, next in
app.execute {
guard let idString = request.parameters["id"],
let id = Int(idString),
id >= 0,
id < App.bookStore.count
else {
let _ = response.send(status: .badRequest)
return next()
}
response.send(App.bookStore[id])
}
next()
}
}
extension App {
static var bookStore = [Book]()
}
We can continue to make POST and GET requests from our bookstore.
However, if the server is restarted, all the data will be lost and we will have an empty array again.
In the Database Guide we will look to resolve this issue and add persistence.
Next steps
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**bug**: n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of
`*feature* <../F/feature.html>`__. Examples: “There's a bug in the
editor: it writes things out backwards.” “The system crashed because of
a hardware bug.” “Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs” (i.e., Fred
is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).
Historical note: Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better
known for inventing `*COBOL* <../C/COBOL.html>`__) liked to tell a story
in which a technician solved a `*glitch* <../G/glitch.html>`__ in the
Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the
contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated
`*bug* `__ in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident
(though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it
happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and
the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval
Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the
logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the *Annals of the
History of Computing*, Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286.
The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads “1545 Relay
#70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found”. This
wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its
current specific sense — and Hopper herself reports that the term bug
was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
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The ‘original bug’ (the caption date is incorrect)
Indeed, the use of bug to mean an industrial defect was already
established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather
modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 (*Hawkin's
New Catechism of Electricity*, Theo. Audel & Co.) which says: “The term
‘bug’ is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in
the connections or working of electric apparatus.” It further notes that
the term is “said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have
been transferred to all electric apparatus.”
The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term;
that it came from telephone company usage, in which “bugs in a telephone
cable” were blamed for noisy lines. Though this derivation seems to be
mistaken, it may well be a distorted memory of a joke first current
among *telegraph* operators more than a century ago!
Or perhaps not a joke. Historians of the field inform us that the term
“bug” was regularly used in the early days of telegraphy to refer to a
variety of semi-automatic telegraphy keyers that would send a string of
dots if you held them down. In fact, the Vibroplex keyers (which were
among the most common of this type) even had a graphic of a beetle on
them (and still do)! While the ability to send repeated dots
automatically was very useful for professional morse code operators,
these were also significantly trickier to use than the older manual
keyers, and it could take some practice to ensure one didn't introduce
extraneous dots into the code by holding the key down a fraction too
long. In the hands of an inexperienced operator, a Vibroplex “bug” on
the line could mean that a lot of garbled Morse would soon be coming
your way.
Further, the term “bug” has long been used among radio technicians to
describe a device that converts electromagnetic field variations into
acoustic signals. It is used to trace radio interference and look for
dangerous radio emissions. Radio community usage derives from the
roach-like shape of the first versions used by 19th century physicists.
The first versions consisted of a coil of wire (roach body), with the
two wire ends sticking out and bent back to nearly touch forming a spark
gap (roach antennae). The bug is to the radio technician what the
stethoscope is to the stereotypical medical doctor. This sense is almost
certainly ancestral to modern use of “bug” for a covert monitoring
device, but may also have contributed to the use of “bug” for the
effects of radio interference itself.
Actually, use of bug in the general sense of a disruptive event goes
back to Shakespeare! (Henry VI, part III - Act V, Scene II: King Edward:
“So, lie thou there.  In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's
dictionary one meaning of bug is “A frightful object; a walking
spectre”; this is traced to ‘bugbear’, a Welsh term for a variety of
mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been
reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing
games.
In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects. Here is
a plausible conversation that never actually happened: “There is a bug
in this ant farm!” “What do you mean? I don't see any ants in it.”
“That's the bug.”
A careful discussion of the etymological issues can be found in a paper
by Fred R. Shapiro, 1987, “Entomology of the Computer Bug: History and
Folklore”, American Speech 62(4):376-378.
[There has been a widespread myth that the original bug was moved to the
Smithsonian, and an earlier version of this entry so asserted. A
correspondent who thought to check discovered that the bug was not
there. While investigating this in late 1990, your editor discovered
that the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the
Smithsonian to accept it — and that the present curator of their History
of American Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that it would
make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to the Smithsonian in mid-1991,
but due to space and money constraints was not actually exhibited for
years afterwards. Thus, the process of investigating the
original-computer-bug bug fixed it in an entirely unexpected way, by
making the myth true! —ESR]
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(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
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Installing the MongoDB C Driver (libmongoc) and BSON library (libbson)¶
The following guide will step you through the process of downloading, building, and installing the current release of the MongoDB C Driver (libmongoc) and BSON library (libbson).
Supported Platforms¶
The MongoDB C Driver is continuously tested on a variety of platforms including:
Archlinux
Debian 9.2, 10.0
macOS 10.14
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2016
RHEL 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 8.2
Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
Clang 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 6.0
GCC 4.8, 4.9, 5.4, 6.3, 8.2, 8.3
MinGW-W64
Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017
x86, x86_64, ARM (aarch64), Power8 (ppc64le), zSeries (s390x)
Install libmongoc with a Package Manager¶
Several Linux distributions provide packages for libmongoc and its dependencies. One advantage of installing libmongoc with a package manager is that its dependencies (including libbson) will be installed automatically. If you choose to install libmongoc from distribution packages, use the package manager to confirm the version being installed is sufficient for your needs.
The libmongoc package is available on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu.
$ apt-get install libmongoc-1.0-0
On Fedora, a mongo-c-driver package is available in the default repositories and can be installed with:
$ dnf install mongo-c-driver
On recent Red Hat systems, such as CentOS and RHEL 7, a mongo-c-driver package is available in the EPEL repository. To check which version is available, see https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/mongo-c-driver. The package can be installed with:
$ yum install mongo-c-driver
On macOS systems with Homebrew, the mongo-c-driver package can be installed with:
$ brew install mongo-c-driver
Install libbson with a Package Manager¶
The libbson package is available on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu. If you have installed libmongoc, then libbson will have already been installed as a dependency. It is also possible to install libbson without libmongoc.
$ apt-get install libbson-1.0-0
On Fedora, a libbson package is available in the default repositories and can be installed with:
$ dnf install libbson
On recent Red Hat systems, such as CentOS and RHEL 7, a libbson package is available in the EPEL repository. To check which version is available, see https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/libbson. The package can be installed with:
$ yum install libbson
Build environment¶
Build environment on Unix¶
Prerequisites for libmongoc¶
OpenSSL is required for authentication or for TLS connections to MongoDB. Kerberos or LDAP support requires Cyrus SASL.
To install all optional dependencies on RedHat / Fedora:
$ sudo yum install cmake openssl-devel cyrus-sasl-devel
On Debian / Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install cmake libssl-dev libsasl2-dev
On FreeBSD:
$ su -c 'pkg install cmake openssl cyrus-sasl'
Prerequisites for libbson¶
The only prerequisite for building libbson is cmake
. The command lines above can be adjusted to install only cmake
.
Build environment on macOS¶
Install the XCode Command Line Tools:
$ xcode-select --install
The cmake
utility is also required. First install Homebrew according to its instructions, then:
$ brew install cmake
Build environment on Windows with Visual Studio¶
Building on Windows requires Windows Vista or newer and Visual Studio 2010 or newer. Additionally, cmake
is required to generate Visual Studio project files. Installation of these components on Windows is beyond the scope of this document.
Build environment on Windows with MinGW-W64 and MSYS2¶
Install MSYS2 from msys2.github.io. Choose the x86_64 version, not i686.
Open the MingGW shell with c:\msys64\ming64.exe
(not the msys2_shell). Install dependencies:
$ pacman --noconfirm -Syu
$ pacman --noconfirm -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
$ pacman --noconfirm -S mingw-w64-x86_64-extra-cmake-modules make tar
$ pacman --noconfirm -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cyrus-sasl
Configuring the build¶
Before building libmongoc and/or libbson, it is necessary to configure, or prepare, the build. The steps to prepare the build depend on how you obtained the source code and the build platform.
Preparing a build from a release tarball¶
The most recent release of libmongoc and libbson, both of which are included in mongo-c-driver, can be downloaded here. The instructions in this document utilize cmake
’s out-of-source build feature to keep build artifacts separate from source files. While the $
prompt is used throughout, the instructions below will work on Linux, macOS, and Windows (assuming that CMake is in the user’s shell path in all cases). See the subsequent sections for additional platform-specific instructions.
The following snippet will download and extract the driver, and configure it:
$ wget https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/releases/download/1.21.2/mongo-c-driver-1.21.2.tar.gz $ tar xzf mongo-c-driver-1.21.2.tar.gz $ cd mongo-c-driver-1.21.2 $ mkdir cmake-build $ cd cmake-build $ cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF ..
The -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF
option is recommended, see Initialization and cleanup. Another useful cmake
option is -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
for a release optimized build and -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
for a debug build. For a list of all configure options, run cmake -L ..
.
If cmake
completed successfully, you will see a considerable amount of output describing your build configuration. The final line of output should look something like this:
-- Build files have been written to: /home/user/mongo-c-driver-1.21.2/cmake-build
If cmake
concludes with anything different, then it is likely an error occurred.
mongo-c-driver contains a copy of libbson, in case your system does not already have libbson installed. The configuration will detect if libbson is not installed and use the bundled libbson.
Additionally, it is possible to build only libbson by setting the -DENABLE_MONGOC=OFF
option:
$ cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_MONGOC=OFF ..
A build configuration description similar to the one above will be displayed, though with fewer entries. Once the configuration is complete, the selected items can be built and installed with these commands:
Preparing a build from a git repository clone¶
Clone the repository and prepare the build on the current branch or a particular release tag:
$ git clone https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver.git $ cd mongo-c-driver $ git checkout 1.21.2 # To build a particular release $ python build/calc_release_version.py > VERSION_CURRENT $ mkdir cmake-build $ cd cmake-build $ cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF ..
Preparing a build on Windows with Visual Studio¶
On the Windows platform with Visual Studio, it may be necessary to specify the CMake generator to use. This is especially important if multiple versions of Visual Studio are installed on the system or if alternate build tools (e.g., MinGW, MSYS2, Cygwin, etc.) are present on the system. Specifying the generator will ensure that the build configuration is known with certainty, rather than relying on the toolchain that CMake happens to find.
Start by generating Visual Studio project files. The following assumes you are compiling for 64-bit Windows using Visual Studio 2015 Express, which can be freely downloaded from Microsoft. The sample commands utilize cmake
’s out-of-source build feature to keep build artifacts separate from source files.
$ cd mongo-c-driver-1.21.2 $ mkdir cmake-build $ cd cmake-build $ cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" \ "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\mongo-c-driver" \ "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\mongo-c-driver" \ ..
(Run cmake -LH ..
for a list of other options.)
To see a complete list of the CMake generators available on your specific system, use a command like this:
$ cmake --help
Executing a build¶
Building on Unix, macOS, and Windows (MinGW-W64 and MSYS2)¶
$ cmake --build .
$ sudo cmake --build . --target install
(Note that the sudo
command may not be applicable or available depending on the configuration of your system.)
In the above commands, the first relies on the default target which builds all configured components. For fine grained control over what gets built, the following command can be used (for Ninja and Makefile-based build systems) to list all available targets:
$ cmake --build . help
Building on Windows with Visual Studio¶
Once the project files are generated, the project can be opened directly in Visual Studio or compiled from the command line.
Build using the CMake build tool mode:
$ cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo
Visual Studio’s default build type is Debug
, but we recommend a release build with debug info for production use. Now that libmongoc and libbson are compiled, install them. Components will be installed to the path specified by CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
.
$ cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target install
You should now see libmongoc and libbson installed in C:\mongo-c-driver
For Visual Studio 2019 (16.4 and newer), this command can be used to list all available targets:
$ cmake --build . -- /targets
Alternately, you can examine the files matching the glob *.vcxproj
in the cmake-build
directory.
To use the driver libraries in your program, see Using libmongoc in a Microsoft Visual Studio project.
Generating the documentation¶
Install Sphinx, then:
$ cmake -DENABLE_MAN_PAGES=ON -DENABLE_HTML_DOCS=ON ..
$ cmake --build . --target mongoc-doc
To build only the libbson documentation:
$ cmake -DENABLE_MAN_PAGES=ON -DENABLE_HTML_DOCS=ON ..
$ cmake --build . --target bson-doc
The -DENABLE_MAN_PAGES=ON
and -DENABLE_HTML_DOCS=ON
can also be added as options to a normal build from a release tarball or from git so that the documentation is built at the same time as other components.
Uninstalling the installed components¶
There are two ways to uninstall the components that have been installed. The first is to invoke the uninstall program directly. On Linux/Unix:
$ sudo /usr/local/share/mongo-c-driver/uninstall.sh
On Windows:
$ C:\mongo-c-driver\share\mongo-c-driver\uninstall.bat
The second way to uninstall is from within the build directory, assuming that it is in the exact same state as when the install command was invoked:
$ sudo cmake --build . --target uninstall
The second approach simply invokes the uninstall program referenced in the first approach.
Dealing with Build Failures¶
If your attempt to build the C driver fails, please see the README <https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver#how-to-ask-for-help> for instructions on requesting assistance.
Additional Options for Integrators¶
In the event that you are building the BSON library and/or the C driver to embed with other components and you wish to avoid the potential for collision with components installed from a standard build or from a distribution package manager, you can make use of the BSON_OUTPUT_BASENAME
and MONGOC_OUTPUT_BASENAME
options to cmake
.
$ cmake -DBSON_OUTPUT_BASENAME=custom_bson -DMONGOC_OUTPUT_BASENAME=custom_mongoc ..
The above command would produce libraries named libcustom_bson.so
and libcustom_mongoc.so
(or with the extension appropriate for the build platform). Those libraries could be placed in a standard system directory or in an alternate location and could be linked to by specifying something like -lcustom_mongoc -lcustom_bson
on the linker command line (possibly adjusting the specific flags to those required by your linker).


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Recipe 19.2. Building a List from Any Iterable
Credit: Tom Good, Steve Alexander
Problem
You have an iterable object x (it might be
a sequence or any other kind of object on which you can iterate, such
as an iterator, a file, a dict)
and need a list object
y, with the same items as
x and in the same order.
Solution
When you know that iterable object x is
bounded (so that, e.g., a loop for item
in x would surely terminate),
building the list object you require is trivial:
y = list(x)
However, when you know that x is
unbounded, or when you are not sure, then you must ensure termination
before you call list. In particular, if you want
to make a list with no more than n items
from x, then standard library module
itertools' function
islice does exactly what you need:
import itertools
y = list(itertools.islice(x, N))
Discussion
Python's generators, iterators, and sundry other
iterables, are a wondrous thing, as this entire chapter strives to
point out. The powerful and generic concept of
iterable is a great way to represent all sort
of sequences, including unbounded ones, in ways that can potentially
save you huge (and even infinite!) amounts of memory. With the
standard library module itertools, generators you
can code yourself, and, in Python 2.4, generator expressions, you can
perform many manipulations on completely general iterables.
However, once in a while, you need to build a good old-fashioned
full-fledged list object from such a generic
iterable. For example, building a list is the simplest way to sort or
reverse the items in the iterable, and lists have many other useful
methods you may want to apply. As long as you know for sure that the
iterable is bounded (i.e., has a finite number
of items), just call list with the iterable as the
argument, as the "Solution" points
out. In particular, avoid the goofiness of misusing a list
comprehension such as
[i for
i in
x], when
list(x)
is faster, cleaner, and more readable!
Calling list won't help if
you're dealing with an
unbounded iterable. The need to ensure that
some iterable x is bounded also arises in
many other contexts, besides that of calling
list(x):
all "accumulator" functions
(sum(x),
max(x),
etc.) intrinsically need a bounded-iterable argument, and so does a
statement such as for
i in
x (unless you have appropriate
conditional breaks within the
loop's body), a test such as if
i in
x, and so on.
If, as is frequently the case, all you want is to ensure that no more
than n items of iterable
x are taken, then
itertools.islice, as shown in the
"Solution", does just what you
need. The islice function of the standard library
itertools module offers many other possibilities
(essentially equivalent to the various possibilities that slicing
offers on sequences), but out of all of them, the simple
"truncation" functionality (i.e.,
take no more than n items) is by far the
most frequently used. The programming language Haskell, from which
Python took many of the ideas underlying its list comprehensions and
generator expression functionalities, has a built-in
take function to cater to this rather frequent
need, and itertools.islice is most often used as
an equivalent to Haskell's built-in
take.
In some cases, you cannot specify a maximum number of items, but you
are able to specify a generic condition that you
know will eventually be satisfied by the items of iterable
x and can terminate the proceedings.
itertools.takewhile lets you deal with such cases
in a very general way, since it accepts the controlling predicate as
a callable argument. For example:
y = list(itertools.takewhile((11)._ _cmp_ _, x))
binds name y to a new list made up of the
sequence of items in iterable x up to, but
not including, the first one that equals 11. (The
reason we need to code (11)._ _cmp_ _ with
parentheses is a somewhat subtle one: if we wrote 11._ _cmp_
_ without parentheses, Python would
parse 11. as a floating-point literal, and the
entire construct would be syntactically invalid. The parentheses are
included to force the tokenization we mean, with
11 as an integer literal and the period
indicating an access to its attribute, in this case, bound
method _ _cmp_ _.)
For the special and frequent case in which the terminating condition
is the equality of an item to some given value, a useful alternative
is to use the two-arguments variant of the built-in function
iter:
y = list(iter(iter(x).next, 11))
Here, the iter(x) call (which is innocuous if
x is already an iterator) gives us an
object on which we can surely access callable (bound method)
nextwhich is necessary, because
iter in its two-arguments form requires a callable
as its first argument. The second argument is the
sentinel value, meaning the value that
terminates the iteration as soon as an item equal to it appears. For
example, if x were a sequence with items
1, 6, 3, 5, 7, 11, 2, 9, . . , y would now
be the list [1, 6, 3, 5, 7]. (The sentinel
value itself is excluded: from the beginning, included, to the end,
excluded, is the normal Python convention for just about all loops,
implicit or explicit.)
See Also
Library Reference documentation on built-ins
list and iter, and module
itertools.
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Buttons can be used in different ways and so you can use them easy in your angular-app just add the hmButton
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There are different appearances for the buttons you can choose between one of them and style your button as you need it.
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Is temporal discounting all you need?
April 3, 2022
Half baked thoughts on efficient credit assignment, the (un)surprising effectiveness of temporal discounting and the advantage function, and how we might improve in the low data limit with explanations and inverse planning….
Consider the episodic reinforcement learning setting, where you want to maximize undiscounted return from a finite episode \(R_t = \sum_{t=0}^{T} r_t\). Since returns are stochastic, we want to maximize its expectation, which we can do with a policy gradient:
\[\begin{aligned} \nabla_{\theta} V_{0} &=\nabla_{\theta} \mathbb{E}_{\pi}\left[\sum_{t=0}^{T} r_{t}\right] \\ &=\mathbb{E}_{\pi}\left[\sum_{t=0}^{T} \nabla_{\theta} \log \pi\left(\mathbf{a}_{t} \mid \mathbf{h}_{t} ; \theta\right) \mathcal{R}_{t}\right] \end{aligned}\]Here \(R_t\) acts as the credit assigned to action \(a_t\) given state \(h_t\). This return may include causally irrelevant rewards which corrupt the credit assignment signal, creating unwanted variance. We can understand this intuitively with an example. Suppose that your goal is to have a maximally rewarding week. You always have a quiz on Friday, and your success on that quiz depends on how much you study for the quiz. So the causally relevant reward for the action “study” is your score on Friday’s quiz. But if we were to sum your all subsequent rewards for the week, we’d include irrelevant rewards like how much you enjoyed dinner on Thursday.
To learn more efficiently, we want to include only rewards caused by those actions. So how do we figure out which rewards are caused by which actions?
The “model-free” way to do it uses two methods to cancel out irrelevant rewards. First, temporal discounting uses temporal proximity as a proxy for causal relevance. This assumption rings true for reactionary games like Space Invaders. So even when temporal discounting is not inherent to your RL environment, you may want to use a temporally discounted return \(R_t = \sum_{t=0}^{T} \gamma^t r_t\). Secondly, the advantage function \(Q(s,a)-V(s)\) uses the baseline value \(V(s)\) as a counterfactual of sorts - what is the marginal benefit of choosing action \(a\) in response to state \(s\)? Here we use this marginal benefit as a proxy for causal relevance (the idea of a marginal benefit is related to the idea of a counterfactual).
Using these two methods are super effective, especially when aided with a planning component (see: many successes of deep RL). But they do seem to fail under two conditions:
- Long-term credit assignment is required (since \(\gamma^t \rightarrow 0\))
- There are distractor (i.e. causally irrelevant) rewards in between action and reward
The first failure mode may be survivable, but the two failure modes combined seems to be a death trap. This is precisely the failure mode addressed by these two papers, which proposes the use of episodic memory as a “portal” for temprally distant but causally important rewards:Can we use Transformer attention for credit assignment? Suppose that you have a Transformer which predicts \((s,a,r)\) sequences. Then you can use soft attention to assign credit for reward to relevant \((s,a)\) tuples.
- Optimizing agent behavior over long time scales by transporting value
- Synthetic Returns for Long-Term Credit Assignment
So “model-free” credit assignment is pretty good. Can we do better? Maybe by directly trying to explain events in terms of object interactions? Certainly, the ability of humans to explain events seems related to our ability to learn from them. Imagine that you’ve recently adopted a puppy. You come home one day and find your favorite running shoes in tatters. You sigh, buy your puppy a chew toy, and it never happens again. This kind of inference is taken for granted when done by humans, but it’s actually amazing. Imagine what would happen if you trained a naive model-free RL agent to solve the same scenario. It would probably try vacuuming your carpets and a million silly things before even considering your puppy.
Of course, this is an unfair comparison. You did not come home that day totally naive. Instead, you arrived with a rich causal model of the world (e.g. puppies like to bite things, and biting things damages them). Our comparative advantage is our ability to learn general causal models of the world (e.g. puppies bite things), use them as priors to infer actual causal models for novel situations (e.g. my puppy bit my shoe), and use this model to rapidly learn (e.g. I should buy a chew toy). In a way, this ability is like a form of inverse planning…


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| struct | lh_exception |
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Macros | |
| #define | defer_exit(after, release_fun, local) |
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| #define | defer(release_fun, local) |
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| Free an exception. | |
| lh_exception * | lh_exception_alloc_ex (int code, const char *msg, void *data, int _is_alloced) |
| Create an exception. | |
| lh_exception * | lh_exception_alloc_strdup (int code, const char *msg) |
| Create an exception. | |
| lh_exception * | lh_exception_alloc (int code, const char *msg) |
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| void | lh_throw (const lh_exception *e) |
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| void | lh_throw_errno (int eno) |
| void | lh_throw_str (int code, const char *msg) |
| void | lh_throw_strdup (int code, const char *msg) |
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| bool | lh_exception_is_cancel (const lh_exception *exn) |
| void | lh_strerror (char *buf, size_t len, int eno) |
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| lh_value | lh_try (lh_exception **exn, lh_actionfun *action, lh_value arg) |
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| lh_value | lh_try_all (lh_exception **exn, lh_actionfun *action, lh_value arg) |
| lh_value | lh_finally (lh_actionfun *action, lh_value arg, lh_releasefun *faction, lh_value farg) |
Functions for standard exceptions and finally handlers.
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Standard exception type.
Don't use this directly but use the provided functions to allocate and operate on exceptions.
| #define defer | ( | release_fun, | |
| local | |||
| ) |
Install a finally function that is always run.
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| local | An lh_value that is passed to the release function. |
defer
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| ) |
Install a finally function that is always run.
| release_fun | A lh_releasefun that is called on the exit of the scope, either when returning normally, or when aborting, for example when an exception is thrown. |
| local | An lh_value that is passed to the release function. |
defer
always needs a scope with double braces. For example:
| lh_value lh_try | ( | lh_exception ** | exn, |
| lh_actionfun * | action, | ||
| lh_value | arg | ||
| ) |
Convert an exceptional computation to an exceptional value.
If an exception is thrown, exn
will be set to a non-null value


Contribution Guidelines¶
[This text was composed based on 1.2. License section of curl/libcurl project.]
When contributing with code, you agree to put your changes and new code under the same license nghttp2 is already using unless stated and agreed otherwise.
When changing existing source code, you do not alter the copyright of the original file(s). The copyright will still be owned by the original creator(s) or those who have been assigned copyright by the original author(s).
By submitting a patch to the nghttp2 project, you are assumed to have the right to the code and to be allowed by your employer or whatever to hand over that patch/code to us. We will credit you for your changes as far as possible, to give credit but also to keep a trace back to who made what changes. Please always provide us with your full real name when contributing!
Coding style¶
We use clang-format to format source code consistently. The clang-format configuration file .clang-format is located at the root directory. Since clang-format produces slightly different results between versions, we currently use clang-format which comes with clang-3.9.
To detect any violation to the coding style, we recommend to setup git
pre-commit hook to check coding style of the changes you introduced.
The pre-commit file is located at the root directory. Copy it under
.git/hooks and make sure that it is executable. The pre-commit script
uses clang-format-diff.py to detect any style errors. If it is not in
your PATH or it exists under different name (e.g.,
clang-format-diff-3.9 in debian), either add it to PATH variable or
add git option clangformatdiff.binary
to point to the script.
For emacs users, integrating clang-format to emacs is very easy. clang-format.el should come with clang distribution. If it is not found, download it from here. And add these lines to your .emacs file:
;; From
;; https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/Emacs#Use_Google's_C++_style!
(load "/<path/to>/clang-format.el")
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
(function (lambda () (local-set-key (kbd "TAB")
'clang-format-region))))
You can find other editor integration in http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html.