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The London Computation Club is a meet-up for people interested in one or more of the following:
- Reading books (perhaps one we wouldn’t ordinarily read on our own)
- Learning about computation, programming and programs in general
- Writing code (perhaps of a different sort than we’d do for “work”)
- Hanging out with other inquisitive people
Future meetings (iCal)
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Everyone is welcome to get involved and help decide which chapter to read
next. You can cast your votes in our
Slack channel
or
put a proposal forward.
Members
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Note: Membership is open to all, just make a pull request
adding yourself to the list.
Past meetings
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Books we’re reading
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Books we’ve read
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If you buy these books using the Amazon links, London Computation Club gets a little kickback via the Amazon affiliate programme. We use that kickback to buy copies of the books for our library, to assist members or potential members who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford the book.


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As a Ruby beginner, you must hear the phrase "Ruby is an object-oriented language" way too often. In object-oriented langauge such as Ruby, a class is the blueprint from which objects are created. A class can define the characteristics of an object, or it can define a combination of functions to an object. For example Countries is a class, and the United States is an instance of the class of objects known as Countries. Within the class Countries, various characteristics can be defined, such as population, political system, economic system and so on based.
In Ruby, classes are concepts that perform operations and define relationships when an instance object is created. A class allows programmer to group methods, which describe actions, together conveniently, and allows multiple objects to behave the same way. Every Ruby object is an instance of some class.
To define a class is easy, you start with the keyword class followed by the name of the class. The name of the class is always capitalized. Within a class, one can bundle numerous methods that interact with each other using instance variables. Instance variables are available across methods for a particular instance. Instance Variables are preceded by @ followed by the variable name. Using the example below, I will illustrate how to define a class and its methods.
In this example, I defined a class called Country. Using a method called initialize, it receives two arguments, name and population, and set them to instance variables to be used throughout class Country. Besides initialize, this class has two other methods defined. official_name takes one of the variables and return an official name of the country. Whereas population simply returns a sentence that introduce the country with its official name and its population. By using instance variable, in the case, @name and @population, I was able to pass the information between different methods within class Country.


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Package org.powertac.common.interfaces
Interface Accounting
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- All Known Implementing Classes:
AccountingService
public interface Accounting
Common interface for the PowerTAC accounting service. The accouting service module is responsible for bookeeping, with respect to cash (broker bank accounts) and market positions on behalf of brokers. All activities that could potentially affect cash or market positions must be recorded by making calls on the Accounting API. Summaries of accounts, along with all new transactions, are sent to brokers at the end of each timeslot.Accounting is also a TimeslotPhaseProcessor, running in the last phase of the simulation cycle. All processors that can generate transactions must run in earlier phases.
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Modifier and Type Method Description void
activate(org.joda.time.Instant time, int phase)
Runs the accounting process.BalancingTransaction
addBalancingTransaction(Broker broker, double imbalance, double charge)
Adds a balancing transaction to represent the cost of imbalanceCapacityTransaction
addCapacityTransaction(Broker broker, int peakTimeslot, double threshold, double kWh, double fee)
Adds a capacity transaction to represent charges for contribution to a demand peak.DistributionTransaction
addDistributionTransaction(Broker broker, int nSmall, int nLarge, double transport, double distroCharge)
Adds a distribution transaction to represent charges for customer connections and energy transport.MarketTransaction
addMarketTransaction(Broker broker, Timeslot timeslot, double price, double mWh)
Adds a market transaction that includes both a cash component and a product commitment for a specific timeslot.TariffTransaction
addRegulationTransaction(Tariff tariff, CustomerInfo customer, int customerCount, double kWh, double charge)
Adds a tariff transaction representing a curtailment or balancing action to the current-hour transaction list.TariffTransaction
addTariffTransaction(TariffTransaction.Type txType, Tariff tariff, CustomerInfo customer, int customerCount, double kWh, double charge)
Adds a tariff transaction to the current-hour transaction list.double
getCurrentMarketPosition(Broker broker)
Returns the market position for the current timeslot for a given broker.double
getCurrentNetLoad(Broker broker)
Returns the current net load represented by unprocessed TariffTransactions for a specific Broker.Map<Broker,Map<TariffTransaction.Type,Double>>
getCurrentSupplyDemandByBroker()
Returns a mapping of brokers to total supply and demand among subscribed customers.List<TariffTransaction>
getPendingTariffTransactions()
Returns the list of pending tariff transactions for the current timeslot.void
postBalancingControl(BalancingControlEvent bce)
Updates a broker's cash position resulting from the Balancing Market payment for Demand Response exercise.
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addMarketTransaction
MarketTransaction addMarketTransaction(Broker broker, Timeslot timeslot, double price, double mWh)
Adds a market transaction that includes both a cash component and a product commitment for a specific timeslot.
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addTariffTransaction
TariffTransaction addTariffTransaction(TariffTransaction.Type txType, Tariff tariff, CustomerInfo customer, int customerCount, double kWh, double charge)
Adds a tariff transaction to the current-hour transaction list.
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addRegulationTransaction
TariffTransaction addRegulationTransaction(Tariff tariff, CustomerInfo customer, int customerCount, double kWh, double charge)
Adds a tariff transaction representing a curtailment or balancing action to the current-hour transaction list.
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addDistributionTransaction
DistributionTransaction addDistributionTransaction(Broker broker, int nSmall, int nLarge, double transport, double distroCharge)
Adds a distribution transaction to represent charges for customer connections and energy transport.
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addCapacityTransaction
CapacityTransaction addCapacityTransaction(Broker broker, int peakTimeslot, double threshold, double kWh, double fee)
Adds a capacity transaction to represent charges for contribution to a demand peak. One is generated for each peak event.- Parameters:
broker
-peakTimeslot
- when the peak occurredthreshold
- assessment thresholdkWh
- total net demand among broker's customers during timeslotfee
- assessed capacity fee for this peak event
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addBalancingTransaction
BalancingTransaction addBalancingTransaction(Broker broker, double imbalance, double charge)
Adds a balancing transaction to represent the cost of imbalance
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postBalancingControl
void postBalancingControl(BalancingControlEvent bce)
Updates a broker's cash position resulting from the Balancing Market payment for Demand Response exercise.
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getCurrentNetLoad
double getCurrentNetLoad(Broker broker)
Returns the current net load represented by unprocessed TariffTransactions for a specific Broker. This is needed to run the balancing process.
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getCurrentSupplyDemandByBroker
Map<Broker,Map<TariffTransaction.Type,Double>> getCurrentSupplyDemandByBroker()
Returns a mapping of brokers to total supply and demand among subscribed customers.
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getCurrentMarketPosition
double getCurrentMarketPosition(Broker broker)
Returns the market position for the current timeslot for a given broker. Needed to run the balancing process.
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getPendingTariffTransactions
List<TariffTransaction> getPendingTariffTransactions()
Returns the list of pending tariff transactions for the current timeslot. List will be non-empty only after the customer models have begun reporting tariff transactions, and before the accounting service has run.
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activate
void activate(org.joda.time.Instant time, int phase)
Runs the accounting process. This needs to be here to support some tests
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LUZHIN DEFENCE, THE (director: Marleen Gorris; screenwriters: Peter Berry/based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov; cinematographer: Bernard Lutic; editor: Michael Reichwein; cast: John Turturro (Luzhin), Emily Watson (Natalia), Geraldine James (mother of Natalia, Vera), Stuart Wilson (teacher, Valentinov), Christopher Thompson (Jean De Stassard), Fabio Sartor (Turati), Mark Tandy (Luzhin's father), Kelly Hunter (Luzhin's mother), Alexander Hunting (young Luzhin), Orla Brady (Luzhin's aunt); Runtime: 108; Sony Pictures Classics/Renaissance; 2000-U. K./ France)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
The Luzhin Defence was a dull, middle-brow film about an eccentric Russian-born Grand Master chess champion approaching his biggest match ever and making things more complicated by falling in love for the first time. It is a pretentious arty film set in 1929, which failed to be credible or involving. The story was emotionally flat and the contrived ending was ludicrous (this was not the same ending in the novel). It is hard to find what Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris' (A Question of Silence/Antonia's Line/Mrs. Dalloway) tried to say in this Merchant-Ivory styled literary film. It was a drawn out glossy affair stuffed with empty gestures to the arts, and I could never figure out what John Turturro was trying to do with his role as the chess genius, who is both a social misfit and someone who is mentally unstable, except to ham it up by acting over-the-edge. He plays Alexander Luzhin, the child prodigy, who comes to a lush Northern Italian villa in Lake Como to compete for the World Chess Championship against arch rival Turati (Sartor). There just never seemed to be any point or excitement to this film, as adapted by screenwriter Peter Berry from Vladimir Nabokov's ironic novel. This film is devoid of Nabkov's wit and irony, it reminded me only of a film that was concerned with showing a pretty face, some pretty scenery to look at, and eschewing any controversy. The film was devoid of any Fascist's presence, even though Mussolini had come to power in the early part of the 1920s, so even the period film's background history is distorted.
Luzhin has been addicted to chess since 10, and it is the only thing he likes and can do well. He has immersed himself totally in chess, supposedly at risk to his health. In continual flashbacks we see what his despondent childhood was like, as he is raised in a socially upstart bourgeois household in Russia by overbearing parents who sent him to the best boarding school possible and expected him to climb the social ladder to success. It is disappointing to them that after going through a lot of trouble to get him accepted there, that he's asked to leave because of poor schoolwork. When his father (Tandy) realizes he's good at chess he gets him out of his hair by turning him over to a slimy chess teacher, Valentinov (Wilson), who exploits him for as much winnings as he can and when Luzhin loses an important match he thinks the kid is not of a champion caliber, so he dumps him unceremoniously in a city that's strange to Luzhin. Luzhin is childlike and can't function in society, but to the chagrin of the villainous Valentinov he is now competing for the world chess title. It has been 10 years since the two were together and when Luzhin sees him at the match, there's no feeling of love or anger. Luzhin is obviously a person not possessing all his marbles, therefore whatever happens to him seems misplaced in importance. These flashbacks were an attempt at making crass amateur psychological explanations for Luzhin's emotional unstability due to his wretched upbringing.
 He tells Turati all Luzhin's weaknesses while he pressures, distracts, and even has his chauffeur take Luzhin for a ride to leave him stranded in the countryside, so he can miss a match. These scenes are conventional and added little meaning to Luzhin's personal dilemma.
Vacationing in the fancy resort is the regal Russian émigré Natalia (Emily Watson), a quiet beauty who falls for the seedy looking and socially awkward chess genius.  Her reaction is to break up this unlikely and embarrassing romance as quickly as she could, as she wires her husband in Berlin to come down here and help her in this endeavor. Mother is shocked that she chooses someone as socially unacceptable as this one, over the more socially desirous fellow she had in mind for a suitor.
The maternal romance that develops between the overly dependent Luzhin and the wealthy debutante who likes a simple man, seemed stuck in a vacuous sentimentality. Everything about Luzhin seems heavy-handed and done only for effect and not to develop his character. The comedy and romance attempted had the feel of a Charlie Chaplin venture done with Charlie being played by someone who couldn't stop doing pratfalls. His nervous breakdown and eventual suicide before the big game, seemed not to come about from his own inward treachery but from the treachery of others. Whatever happens to him seemed overwrought and artificial. His over-acting and the way the film tried to make this unfeeling love affair into a real one, had a disingenous feel to it. This film felt heavy at all times, like it was load of manure being dumped on a story that deserved a better fate than this film was able to give it.
REVIEWED ON 7/7/2001 GRADE: C-
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TN fishermen attacked, chased away by SL Navy
“Fishing nets of several boats were also cut.”
by PTIMore than 2,500 Tamil Nadu fishermen were allegedly chased away by the Sri Lankan Navy while they were fishing near Katchatheevu islet, a fishermen association leader said here on Thursday.
The fishermen from this island town had ventured into the sea on Wednesday evening in 497 boats and were fishing off Katchatheevu when the Lankan naval personnel came to the spot and attacked before driving them away, Rameswaram Fishermen Association President P. Sesuraja alleged.
Fishing nets of several boats were also cut, he said adding the fisherfolk were forced to return to the shore without a catch.
He urged Ramanathapuram MP K. Navas Kani to take up the issue of frequent attacks on fishermen from the state with the Centre.
On Tuesday, 2,000 fishermen from here were allegedly chased away by Sri Lankan Navy when they were fishing near Katchatheevu islet.


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UAE(1) Contributed application UAE(1) NAME uae - The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator SYNOPSIS uae [ -h ] [ -f file ] { -s opt=val } PRELIMINARIES This manual page was produced for uae 0.8.12. It is only provided for convenience by the maintainer of the Debian package of uae. Please see /usr/share/doc/uae for a thorough description. The following chapters are simply snippets from the upstream README. Btw, in my experience, the "-h" switch for some reasons does not work for uae 0.8.x. OVERVIEW An emulator is a program which enables you to run software for a machine which has non-native hardware and a non-native operating system, on your computer. UAE allows you to run most of the available Amiga software. It is a software emulation, meaning that no extra or special hardware is needed to do this. The hardware of an Amiga is emulated accurately, so that Amiga software is tricked into thinking it is running on the real thing, with your computer's display, keyboard, harddisk and mouse taking the parts of their emulated counterparts. UAE was developed for Unixoid systems. Meanwhile, it has been ported to the Mac, DOS, the BeBox, NextStep, the XFree86/OS2 environment and the Amigas (it can run itself by now). You should have received several other files along with this document with details on how to install and use the version for your operating system. This section is just what it says: an overview. Please read _all_ of this file, especially if you have problems. UAE has many, many features and equally many configuration options. If you don't know about them, it's likely that UAE doesn't work for you, or doesn't work as good as it could. Please read also the file "FAQ" which contains some Frequently Asked Questions (and even the answers!) You should also look for a document describing the specific port of UAE to the operating system you are using, for example "BeOS/README" or "DOS/README". People have complained that the UAE documentation contains only "weird jargon". Sorry about this. Despite what MessySoft and Tomato tell you, computer programs aren't always easy to use. UAE does require some assis‐ tance from you, and therefore you should at least understand a bit about computers.  INVOKING UAE First, read the system-specific documents for information how to set up UAE. You should have an executable program called "uae". You can simply execute it, but you can also optionally give it one or more of the fol‐ lowing parameters: -h : Print out a help text. -f file : Load a configuration file. -s opt=val : Set the emulator's option "opt" to value "val". Configuration files consist of several lines of the form "opt=val", just as with the "-s" parameter. You can use the following options with the "-s" option, or in a config file. [Here, "=n" means the option takes a number as value. "=bool" means the option takes a value of either "yes" or "no" (or "true", "false", or abbreviations of any of these). There are other classes as well.] General options: accuracy=n [default=2] Set emulator accuracy to n. The default is n = 2, which means the emula‐ tor will try to be as accurate as possible. This no longer does much in this version, and I'll probably remove it. framerate=n [default=1] Sets the frame rate to 1/n. Only every nth screen will be drawn. Using a higher value can speed up the emulator, at the expense of graphics qual‐ ity. autoconfig=bool [default=yes] If this is enabled, all expansion devices provided by the emulation will be automounted. You should only disable this if you have a Kickstart ROM earlier than 1.3 which can't cope with this. Some badly written games and demos might also be incompatible with this. kbd_lang=lang [default=us] Set the keyboard language. Currently, the following values can be used: "us" for U.S. keyboard (default), "se" for swedish, "fr" for french, "it" for italian, "es" for spanish, or "de" for german keyboard. This setting only affects the X11 version. floppy0=file [default=df0.adf] Try to use the specified file as diskfile for drive 0 instead of df0.adf. The options floppy1, floppy2, and floppy3 also exist. kickstart_rom_file=file [default=kick.rom] Use the specified file instead of kick.rom as Kickstart image. joyport0=mode [default=mouse] Specify how to emulate joystick port 0. You can use "mouse", "joy0", or "joy1" to use the corresponding input devices of your machine, or you can select several different keyboard replacements for a joystick: "kbd1" for the numeric pad with '0' as fire button, "kbd2" for the cursor keys with right control as fire button and c is T/F/H/B with Alt as fire button. joyport1=mode [default=joy0] Like joyport0, but for the Amiga's joystick port 1. use_gui=bool [default=yes] Show a user-interface that enables changing these options at run-time. 32bit_blits=bool [default=no] If enabled, the blitter emulation will use 32 bit operations where that seems profitable (note that this will cause bus errors on most RISC machines) immediate_blits=bool [default=no] If enabled, all blits will finish immediately, which can be nice for speed, but may cause incompatibilities. cpu_speed=speed [default=4] This can have a value of "real", "max", or an integer between 1 and 20. "real" will try to give the CPU emulation exactly as many cycles, rela‐ tive to the other chips, as on a real A500. "max" will try to give you the maximum CPU emulation speed achievable on your machine. Numeric val‐ ues specify a fixed relation between CPU and custom chip emulation, where lower values prioritize CPU emulation, while higher values prioritize custom chip emulation. cpu_type=type [default=68000] Controls which CPU is emulated. This can be "68000", "68010", "68020" or "68020/68881". In some cases, you may need to use "68ec020" or "68ec020/68881" to emulate a crippled variant of the 68020 that has only a 24 bit address bus. Some software, including some Kickstart versions, does not work with a normal 68020 that has a 32 bit address bus. Care‐ ful: using an "ec" variant has harmful side effects, and should be dis‐ abled unless absolutely needed (you lose Z3 memory and Picasso emula‐ tion). cpu_compatible=bool [default=no] If enabled, a slower but slightly more accurate variant of the CPU emula‐ tion will be used. This is needed for some types of copy protection, among other things. This is only meaningful for a CPU type of "68000". Emulating external devices (harddisk, CD-ROM, printer, serial port): filesystem=access,volume:path [default=no filesystems mounted] Mount the host's file system at "path" as an Amiga filesystem with volume name "VOLUME:". "access" can be either "ro" (for readonly), or "rw" (for read-write). If you want to mount a CD-ROM, you should use a readonly mount. You can mount multiple file systems. 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Former Iowa Star George Kittle Has A Message For Nebraska
by Andrew HolleranFormer Iowa star George Kittle appeared on SportsCenter following the San Francisco 49ers’ dominant Sunday night win over the Green Bay Packers. The star tight end and Scott Van Pelt discussed his team’s big victory. Then, college football came up.
It’s rivalry week for Iowa, which is set to take on Nebraska at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.
Kittle, who went 3-1 against the Huskers, did not hold back with his comments about the rivalry.
“You know, I’m pretty sure if we win this one it’ll be five straight, and I think Chad Greenway said something about taking over the state of Nebraska. But honestly, I don’t even want the state of Nebraska,” Kittle said. “We’re just going to go in there and win that game and get five in a row and just let it be. That’s all I have to say about it.”
He then added: “I’m looking forward to Iowa going in there and whooping them.”
Iowa has dominated the rivalry as of late, winning five of the last six games. This will be a big one for the Huskers, though, as Scott Frost’s team is looking to become bowl eligible.
Nebraska and Iowa are set to kick off at 2:30 p.m. E.T. on Friday.
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It is frequently stated that the sample mean is a good or even the best point estimator of the according population value. But why is that? In this post we are trying to get an intuition by using simulation inference methods.
Assume you played throwing coins with some one at some dark corner. “Some one” throws the coin 10 times, and wins 8 times (the guy was betting on heads, but that’s only for the sake of the story). With boiling suspicion (and empty pockets) you head home. Did this guy cheat? Was he playing tricks on you? It appears that the coin was unfair, ie., biased. It appears that 80% is a good estimator of the “true” value of the coin (for heads), does it not? But let’s try to see better why this is plausible or even rationale.
Let’s turn the question around, and assume for the moment that 80% is the true parameter, \(\pi=.8\). If we were to draw many samples from this distribution (binomial with parameter \(\pi = .8\)), how would our sample distribtion look like?
Let’s try it.
library(mosaic)
library(tidyverse)
pi = .8
First, we let R draw 10000 samples of size \(n=10\) from the (\(H_0\)) distribution where \(\pi = .8\):
h0_samples <- do(10000) * rflip(n = 10, prob = pi)
Plotting it gives us a “big picture” of typial and rare events:
gf_bar(~heads, data = h0_samples) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = 0:10)
As can be seen, 8 (the sample value) is the most frequent value. In more elaborate terms, 8 is the most probable value if many samples of this size are drawn from the \(H_0\) distribution. We see that our most frequent sample value represents the parameter \(\pi\) well.
Divide all values by 10 (the sample size), and you will get mean values:
h0_samples %>%
mutate(heads_avg = heads / 10) %>%
summarise(heads_avg = mean(heads_avg),
heads = mean(heads))
## heads_avg heads
## 1 0.79954 7.9954
Similarly, say we draw many samples of \(n=30\) from a normal distribution with \(\mu=0\) and \(\sigma=1\), the most frequent mean will be (approximately) \(\mu\):
h0_samples_norm <-
do(10000) * mean(rnorm(n = 30, mean = 0, sd = 1))
gf_histogram(~mean, data = h0_samples_norm)
Intuitively, there is some plausibility in the results: The population mean is the most frequent value, hence it should appear often (most often) if we draw many samples.
Now we argue as follows:
If the data are distributed as given by the \(H_0\), then the most frequent value of the sample distribution will be the most likely value in the population.
But are my data really drawn from this distribution? There are infinitely many others. Why just this one, one may counter. Good point. One could argue that our conclusion is not warranted, because we have no evidence of preferring one distribution in favor of some other. One the other hand, some argue that all we know for sure is our data. And our data favors one certain value. So there is some rationality in choosing this value, because we know no other value for sure (actually we don’t have no other values at all).
We could ofcourse assign some probability on each distribution we deem plausible. Then we would get a distribution of parameters. That’s the Bayesian way. For the sake of simplicity, we will not pursue this path further in this post (although it is a great path).
Coming back to the coin examples; let’s do some more “hard” reasoning. It is well known that the distribution of a fair coin, flipped 10 times, follows this distribution:
\(p(k|\pi, n) = \binom {n}{k} \cdot \pi^k\cdot (1-\pi)^{n-k}\)
Given the fact that \(\pi=.8\) how probable is, say, 8 hits? This probability is called likelihood; this function is called likelihood function. The likelihoods sum up to more than 100%.
The binomial coefficient is the same as chooose(n, k)
, in R.
choose(n = 10, k = 8) * .8^8 * (1-.8)^(10-8)
## [1] 0.3019899
More convenient is this off-the-shelf function.
dbinom(x = 8, size = 10, prob = .8)
## [1] 0.3019899
Let’s compute that for each of the possible 11 hits (0 to 10):
0:10 %>%
dbinom(x = ., size = 10, prob = .8) %>%
as_tibble() %>%
add_column(hits = 0:10) %>%
gf_col(value~hits, data = .) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = 0:10)
Looks similar to our simulation above, doesn’t it? Reassuring. Again, 8 of 10 hits is the most frequent.
Somewhat more stringent, we could compute the maximum of the likelihood function. To get the maximum of a function, one computes the first derivation, and then sets it to zero.
To make computation easier, we can take the logarithm of the likelihood function; taking the logarithm will not change the position of the maximum. But products will become sums by the log function, hence computation will become easier:
\(\ln p(k| \pi, n) = \ln \binom {n} {k} + k \ln \pi + (n-k) \ln (1-\pi)\)
Now we take the first derivation with respect to \(\pi\), regarding the other variables as constants:
\(\frac{d \ln p(k| \pi, n)}{d\pi} = 0 + k \frac{1}{\pi} + (n-k) \frac {1}{1-\pi}(-1)\)
Setting this term to zero:
\(\frac{k}{\pi} + (n-k)\frac{-1}{1-\pi}=0\)
Moving the second term to the rhs:
\(\frac{k}{\pi}=(n-k)\frac{-1}{1-\pi}\)
Multiplying by \(\frac{\pi}{1-\pi}\):
\(k(1-\pi) = (n-k)\pi\)
Multiplying out:
\(k - k\pi = n\pi - k\pi\)
Adding \(k\pi\) yields:
\(k = n\pi\), rearringing:
\(\pi = \frac{k}{n}\)
Hence, the relative number of hits (in the sample) is the best estimator of \(\pi\). In the absence of other information, it appears plausible to take \(k/n\) as the “best guess” for \(\pi\). In other words, \(k/n\) maximizes the probabilty of \(\pi\).


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SOAPDISH A film review by Laurie Mann Copyright 1991 Laurie Mann
SOAPDISH was sneaked here last night. It's a very sharp satire of soap operas. If you need a silly movie and just want to laugh for 90 minutes, you can't do much better than SOAPDISH. I hadn't laughed so much at a movie in a long time.
In SOAPDISH, Sally Field plays an hyperactive, aging ingenue, Whoopi Goldberg reprises her wise woman from Ghost, Robert Downey Jr. plays a young producer torn in about fifteen different directions, and Cathy Moriarty steals the show as Montana, a vixenish actress who plays a nurse. Garry Marshall (normally the director of movies like Pretty Woman) does an amusing turn as "the man from upstairs," the network executive in charge of daytime programming. There are lots of surprises in this movie, and probably most of them don't hold up to much scrutiny, but what-the-hell.  You may need to have been a soap fan at one point in your life to truly appreciate this movie, but I suspect if you liked the soap opera stuff in TOOTSIE, you'll enjoy SOAPDISH.
This movie is also a 7 on the Chuck scale.
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Welcome to Class everyone! No, you don’t need a textbook or pen and paper. Today we’ll just be talking about classes in Ruby. I’d like to just tackle everything by showing you so let’s jump in!
If you’ve checked out my biography then you saw that I play quidditch. The sport is a ton of fun with teams all around the world. So many that it’s really hard to keep track. What if we were able to easily identify every team by it’s name, location, and twitter handle? Well we could easily just create a class called QuidditchTeam (class identifiers must use camel case!) that takes an input of the team name, location, and twitter. Then we can access that information as much as we want whenever we set a new instance of the QuidditchTeam class. Let’s take a look:
We started off with defining the class simply enough. Notice how arguments are not declared in the class definition? That’s because they are declared in the initialize method. Every class needs to have that initialize method where instance variables, signified by the “@” symbol, and argument errors are raised. Instance variables can be used by all of the methods in the class! Easy as pie, right? Then we move on to declaring the methods that will be used by our new quidditch team. These methods are simple enough, they just print out the information we’ve just inputed. So when we create a new QuidditchTeam and call these methods we’re able to see it in a better format!
The code still works for a new team as well:
And just like that you can easily access the information of any quidditch team you’d like. Classes are wonderful way to manipulate information and organize your code in an efficient way.


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The Post recently conducted a survey of about 50 Ohio University students to see how much time each spent on their cell phones. Respondents were asked to use the “Screen Time” feature found in their iPhone’s settings to complete the survey. “Screen Time” is a feature Apple released on Sept. 17, 2018, with the launch of iOS 12, that gives users a comprehensive breakdown of how much time they spend on their phones.
Students who took the survey spent an average of about four hours and 25 minutes on their phones — 50 minutes more than the national average of three hours and 35 minutes per day that eMarketer found US adults spend on their phones.
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Stazy Mazo, a sophomore studying screenwriting and producing, who spends an average of four hours and 55 minutes on her phone everyday, said she was shocked by her results. She spent more time on her phone than she thought she did, and was unhappy to see that she had spent more than 24 hours in one week on Snapchat.
 “And that’s so toxic. I don’t wanna do that. I don’t wanna be like that.”
Since taking the survey, Mazo has put an hour-per-day time limit on Snapchat and Instagram, her top two most-used apps. She has made a conscious effort to spend less time on her phone and found that the results have been positive.
Since she has started making an effort to use her phone less, Mazo spends more time relaxing and reflecting on her day, something she thinks that she doesn’t do enough of when she is distracted by her phone.
Ethan Schmerling, a first-year graduate student studying the effects smartphones have on people’s productivity for his thesis, has found in his research that using one’s phone too much and not spending enough time with oneself can lead to feelings of loneliness.
“I think it’s a part of the way we all live now. For me, I use it a lot for my day-to-day functions, whether I’m going somewhere I need directions to or I just want to check out my daily memes for the day — which I have to do. I think it’s just a part of who everybody is, who we all are.”Cameron Lightsey
“It feels like, with your phone, there’s always something else you could be doing,” Schmerling said. “So, being alone becomes a time where you’re being distracted from yourself.”
It seems that spending less time using a cell phone, and putting more time into one’s self may have a positive impact on a person’s mental state, as well as help them to achieve more of their goals.
“I was, like, in this funk the whole beginning of the semester that I couldn't really figure out how to get myself out of,” Mazo said, “And I don’t know if my phone was a part of it, but I have noticed recently, I’ve been using my phone less and I do feel a lot better. I feel more focused and I feel like I’m making more goals.”
Cameron Lightsey, a senior studying international business and communication, and Emily Barbus, a junior studying journalism, feel differently about their phone usage. Lightsey, who spends an average of four hours and 44 minutes on his cell phone daily, is happy with his phone usage and thinks it is a natural part of today’s society.
“I think it’s a part of the way we all live now,” he said. “For me, I use it a lot for my day-to-day functions, whether I’m going somewhere I need directions to or I just want to check out my daily memes for the day — which I have to do. I think it’s just a part of who everybody is, who we all are.”
Barbus, who spends an average of five hours and seven minutes on her phone per day, although she thinks it is a lot, is happy with her phone usage as well. She also believes that it is a natural part of how people interact.
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“I don’t see it as a negative or positive really, I just see it as like it’s the attachment to my hand. I feel like everyone else does. We have that addiction to it,” she said.
Barbus finds that spending time on her phone is a good way to relieve stress, although it can become distracting when she tries to be productive.
“I am on my phone quite a bit in class, even when I’m not allowed to,” she said. “Which is not a good thing, but I do it, and I know a lot of other people do, too.”
Teachers have struggled with students who are distracted by cell phones and laptops in class for a while, and Professor Keith Markman from the psychology department has witnessed that issue. Whether in his own class or while sitting in the back row of a college’s class for evaluations, Markman has noticed that a large number of students use their cell phone or laptop during class, and what they do on those devices usually doesn’t pertain to the material.
Markman feels that it is becoming harder to retain the attention of students because of how rapidly they are receiving information. He cited YouTube videos as an example, where various pieces of information are shared in a single video without any pause or moment for reflection.
“Whatever attention span, it was limited in the first place, it really starts to break down,” he said. “And so, what happens — and it’s not just me, but other instructors (and) professors — there’s a feeling you can’t just talk for more than five minutes without losing three quarters of the class.”
Markman said that when he started his job 19 years ago, students seemed much more interested in his classes and the information he was teaching, but in recent years students seem less interested.
He has made changes to his classes in an attempt to make them more engaging and better suitable for the faster way he feels students process information. Some of those changes include promoting more interactivity by posting discussion questions on Blackboard for students to answer during class and removing material that he doesn’t think students will find valuable.
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“I’m trying to figure out ways to do this better,” he said.
Markman feels that though it is the responsibility of students to pay attention in class, it is also the responsibility of teachers to make sure class is engaging. However, he does think that with changes in modern technology, people process the information they learn in classes — and in general — differently than they used to.
Markman used to love to read books as a kid, for example, but his 14-year-old son does not. Markman’s son’s attitude towards reading seems to be congruent with many others, given that in June of 2018, The Washington Post found that leisurely reading was at an all-time low.
“People’s attention spans have never been great throughout history,” he said with a chuckle. “I certainly think people’s exposure to YouTube and other fast-moving kinds of media make it difficult for people to do things like slow down and read a book.”
Markman believes there is a lot one can learn from written material that is different from today’s faster paced media like Twitter or Youtube. He said that modern technology has made us has us process information faster, although it is not always as rich in detail like a book or other long form written material.
“It’s like their brain’s been re-wired to move more quickly,” he said.
It is obvious that smartphones has forever changed the way we live, but whether or not these changes are for better or worse comes down to the opinion of each individual after they have analyzed and given some thought about how much time they spend on their phone.
“I don’t think the amount of time spent on our phones is necessarily a bad thing. I think what we consume on our phones could be,” Barbus said. “We’re in an age where our this, our phone, is the way to be in contact with the world, in contact with our friends. It’s almost impossible to be a functioning member of society without it. So, I think, it’s not necessarily a bad thing that we’re on it. We just need to be more mindful of when we use it and how we use it.”
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