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Karl RoveIt's hard to imagine how Karl Rove's appearance could fit his role any more perfectly than it does.Portly, balding, malicious, simpering, he looks like a cross between Sesame Street's Mr. Hooper and the Third Reich's Heinrich Himmler. And he acts like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and Henry Kissinger. Whom he also looks like. And not in a good way.  Wait, I forgot a word there. What was it? Oh, I remember! Allegedly. Rove is an old-school political operator who would have been right at home working on Huey Long's campaign. Of course, Long did a lot of good things for his constituents, to offset the sleaze and corruption. Rove's protege, George W Bush, has a ways to go in that regard. Rove was a "Young Republican" back when being a Young Republican wasn't cool (a historical era ranging from 1959 through the present). As a student at the prestigious University of Utah, Rove (who still had hair at the time) teamed up with a young Lee Atwater to seize control of the College Republicans political club in the early 1970s. By all accounts, the race for the coveted chairmanship of the meaningless College Republicans organization was a portent of things to come. According to the Washington Post, the two men executed a balls-to-the-wall campaign to put Rove in the catbird's seat, and once there, he wasted no time getting his group involved in dirty tricks on behalf of Richard M Nixon's 1972 campaign. You may remember that campaign, it was the beginning of Watergate. Oxymoronically, Rove dropped out of college to become executive director of the College Republicans, all the while practicing dirty tricks on behalf of the candidates of his choice. According the Post, these tricks included identity theft, petty larceny and campaign fraud. Rove characterized these felonies and misdemeanors as a "youthful prank." A political visionary, Rove recognized early on that he had the opportunity to leech onto not one, but two failed, third-rate presidents in the form of what is comically referred to as the "Bush Dynasty." Rove worked as an assistant to George Bush Sr. in the Republican National Committee during what is arguably the lowest point in the history of the Republican Party, the aftermath of the Nixon presidency.  He helped George Jr. embarrass himself in a 1978 congressional bid, then bailed out of Bush Sr.'s first and failed presidential bid in 1979. He maintained a close buddyship with the future president Junior, however. In a high point of Time Magazine's history of powerful journalistic coverage, a 2001 report revealed that George W. Bush's pet name for Rove is "Turd Blossom." No, really. Rove helped Bush Jr. transform himself from rich-dilletante wastrel into rich-dilletante-wastrel-with-power in 1994, acting as his political adviser in Dubya's successful run for Texas governor. According to ABC News, more than half of the campaign's nearly $1 million budget went to Rove. Considering the challenge of making Bush look good, the sum was probably not out of line.  An early adopter of direct mail and targeted computer lists, Rove is widely credited with making the Texas GOP the cash cow is today. He also specialized in converting conservative Democrats who were already Republicans in every meaningful sense into Republicans in name as well, including arch-conservative and failed presidential candidate Phil Gramm, who suspiciously resembles a much thinner version of Rove himself. Brought in to shepherd Junior to his rightful place as chief executive of the last superpower, Rove was largely responsible for creating the veneer of "compassionate conservatism" that led George Jr. to his triumphant loss in the 2000 presidential election. First, Rove and his little buddy had to beat off a surprise primary challenge from charismatic war hero John McCain, whose sacrifices in a military prison camp in Vietnam looked all the more impressive against Bush's no-show National Guard travesty. Rove conducted a whisper-campaign to spread sleaze, pushing ridiculous allegations, such as that McCain was a stoolie while imprisoned in Vietnam.  Obviously, McCain should have been drinking and snorting coke throughout the '70s, rather than serving his country, enduring torture and adopting children. Bush trampled the challenger handily, and moved on to the general election, where he faced Vice President Al Gore. Despite running against the stiffest Democratic candidate since Adlai Stevenson, Dubya couldn't quite clear the hurdle in the nationwide popular vote, which he lost by a margin five times larger than Nixon lost to Kennedy in 1960. But the pesky little electoral college thing sank Gore, thanks to Jeb and Florida. As early as Labor Day, Rove was doing the usual political dance and predicting it would be a close race. And how close it was! As mentioned above, Gore won the popular vote by a small but convincing margin. However, the electoral college — which actually dictates who will become president — was right down to the wire. The outcome of the election rode on the election results in Florida, which Gov. Jeb Bush had promised to "deliver" for his brother. You all remember Florida. We won't beat it to death again here. Karl Rove's role in Florida was "damage control," and there was a lot of damage to control. Rove's basic public strategy consisted of "we won, so leave us alone."  "We won" was the message of the day. Privately, of course, the Bush team was far from certain that they had, in fact, won. Jeb Bush promised to stay out of the recount debate, and instead entrusted it to his political appointees, who lived for no other reason than to curry favor. Rove didn't like the looks of this, so he stacked the deck in every conceivable way. Among the tactics he employed: Loading Republican operatives from Washington, D.C., onto a bus and sending them to Florida, where they played the part of "angry mob" shouting and intimidating the hapless bureaucrats who had been lumped with the unenviable job of evaluating the ballots. Ah, those youthful pranks! In the end, Bush came out on top, of course, catapulting Rove into a position of power that few Mr. Hooper-lookalikes have ever achieved. Although the White House repeatedly insisted that Rove had no policy-making role, the advice of his "White House Office of Strategic Initiatives" was sought on virtually every major decision that Bush administration faced. After September 11, Rove found himself feeling cranky, according to investigative reporter Bob Woodward. Rove was pissed off because he wasn't being allowed to sit in on National Security Council and war cabinet meetings. Bush and Dick Cheney were afraid the politico's presence would send the wrong message. Bear in mind, it wasn't that Rove wasn't being consulted. He was consulted about every single thing that happened in the White House and every decision that emerged from the Oval Office. He just wasn't being allowed to sit at the meetings himself. He had to get his updates after the fact from Bush, Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. Despite his enormous power, Rove was mostly spared any real scrutiny by the mainstream media, which preferred to write with grudging admiration about his alleged political skills and chuckle over the "Turd Blossom" thing. By the time the Iraq invasion rolled around, Rove was back to sitting in the meetings. His thoughtful evaluation (told to Woodward) of the ramifications of invading a sovereign country and deposing its leader? "The victor is always right." Until late 2003, anyway, when an ugly little incident revealed just how dark the dark side of Karl Rove could be, in a burgeoning scandal that could have serious consequences for the Bush White House. A former U.S. ambassador by the name of Joseph Wilson was one of the biggest political liabilities the White House faced in 2003. Wilson had been dispatched to Niger early in 2002 to investigate whether Iraq was trying to buy uranium there. Turns out, they weren't. He reported this information back to the White House, which promptly ignored it. Bush cited the uranium story in his 2003 State of the Union address, Cheney cited it repeatedly, and the State Department cited it in several of its endless justifications for why the U.S. just had to invade Iraq. When the war was "over" and still no Weapons of Mass Destruction had been found, Wilson pointed out to the media that he had TOLD the White House that there was no uranium purchase. He wrote about his fact-finding trip in the New York Times as well. This did not please the White House. It was bad for politics, bad for poll numbers. And when the poll numbers are threatened, Karl Rove gets cranky. Homicidally cranky, apparently. Did I say apparently? I meant allegedly. In July 2003, arch-conservative Robert Novak reported that Wilson's wife was a CIA agent, blowing her cover and endangering her life, not to mention national security. (Inexplicably, no one has gone after Novak over this issue.) Wilson and his wife didn't take this lying down. They came out swinging. Wilson accused Rove of being the source for the leak that endangered his wife's life and destroyed her career. "Rove is someone who at a minimum would have condoned it and certainly did nothing to knock it down for over a week after the article appeared. The outing of my wife was obviously a political or communications move. The head of the political operation is Karl Rove," Wilson told reporters. In late September, the Justice Department launched a full criminal investigation into the leak, which is an aggravated felony punishable by up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine (which actually seems a little low for treasonous activity and political intimidation designed to silence political opposition and whistleblowing). The White House has refused to speculate on the source of the leak. Not only has it refused it speculate, it's actually refused to care. Despite widespread outrage, the White House declined to launch an internal investigation of the leak, with a Bush flak saying that it was "ridiculous" to suggest Rove was involved, and that "there has been absolutely nothing brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement." I guess they don't get CNN on the cable system there. Needless to say, the prospect of the Bush Justice Department investigating a Bush political operative doesn't thrill Democrats, who have already called for an independent counsel investigation. Fortunately for Republicans, the party leadership cleverly disabused the nation about the worth of special prosecutors and impeachment proceedings a few years ago, when they hounded Bill Clinton into a constitutional crisis over blow jobs. Considering the mounting list of actual scandals the Bushies are racking up, that strategy is proving to be prescient. Most Americans are about as thrilled at the prospect of a special prosecutor as they are at the prospect of a root canal. In the meantime, just remember: don't cross Karl Rove. Whoops! We just did... dammit!
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What is it?
Open standard for representing semantic web content
Each HTML element tells the browser something about the information that sits between its opening and closing tags.
Jon Duckett
Paragraph
Heading 1
Heading 2
- Unordered list
- Ordered list
Anchor or link
See CSS Zen Garden for some great examples.
A scripting language built web browsers
commonly used to create interactive effects
http vs https
The casual feel of http://www.powershop.co.nz
to the more formal approach of http://www.police.govt.nz
Examples: https://www.govt.nz/about/our-style-guide https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-uk
This is a heading
- An ordered list
- An unordered list
Julius Serrano - Accessibility Expert
What you see is (kind of) what you get
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Categorising content
The boxes which can be made to appear in various regions of a Drupal website are called Blocks. (drupal.org)
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Prince Andrew interview slammed by PR guru: 'I've never seen anything so disastrous'
PR and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said the Duke of York's BBC interview about his dead paedophile friend was 'how not to do PR' and 'like watching a man in quicksand'
by Luke PowellA public relations expert has branded the Duke of York's interview over his links with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as "like watching a man in quicksand".
PR and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight was a lesson on "how not to do" public relations.
The duke's long-awaited appearance on the show saw him tell presenter Emily Maitlis that he had no regrets about his friendship with Epstein, but admitted it was wrong to visit the convicted sex offender for a final time.
Speaking about the interview, Mr Borkowski said: "I have never seen anything so disastrous. For any students of PR, that is how not to do it.
"It was like watching a man in quicksand and unfortunately, I don't think anyone would have thrown him a line to get him out."
Mr Borkowski said he would not have advised Andrew to do the interview, adding that his comments on the show will "haunt him" in the future.
"I feel sorry for a lot of charities that got on well him," Mr Borkowski said. "He [Andrew] has done remarkable work for charity, but whether or not he can be an ambassador again after that...
"This really does park the bus across his ability to do the work many people have benefited from."
Mr Borkowski said his advice to the duke would be to "keep a low profile", switch off his phone and not look at the papers, adding: "It's going to be a very ugly day tomorrow".
During the interview on Saturday, the duke faced questions about Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.
She is one of 16 women who says she was abused by the disgraced financier, and Mrs Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, alleges the royal had sex with her when she was under age.
The duke denied he slept with Mrs Giuffre on three separate occasions when quizzed by Maitlis, saying one encounter did not happen as he had taken his daughter Princess Beatrice to Pizza Express in Woking for a party, and they spent the rest of the day together.
When asked by if he regretted the "whole friendship with Epstein", the duke replied: "Now, still not and the reason being is that the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful."


Documentation / Testing / ElasticSearch
Elastic
To test against ElasticSearch we can set the elastic version
property like
the example below which will then start Elastic as a docker container automatically.
ebean:
test:
# useDocker: false
# shutdown: stop # stop | remove
platform: h2 # h2, postgres, mysql, oracle, sqlserver, sqlite
ddlMode: dropCreate # none | dropCreate | create | migration | createOnly | migrationDropCreate
dbName: myapp
docstore:
url: http://<IP_ADDRESS>:9201
active: true
generateMapping: true
dropCreate: true
elastic:
version: 5.6.0
port: 9201
In terms of logging we can see:
21:57:06.587 INFO io.ebean.docker.commands.Commands - Start container ut_elastic with port:9201
Properties
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ebean.docstore.active | Set to true to enable docstore use |
| ebean.docstore.url | URL that ElasticSearch is expected to be using |
| ebean.docstore.generateMapping | When true generate the index mapping |
| ebean.docstore.dropCreate | When true drop the indexes and recreate them |
For more details on the ElasticSearch.


radproc.raw.create_idraster_and_process_radolan_data¶
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radproc.raw.
create_idraster_and_process_radolan_data
(inFolder, HDFFile, clipFeature=None, complevel=9)¶ Convert all RADOLAN binary data in directory tree into an HDF5 file with monthly DataFrames for a given study area.
First, an ID raster is generated and - if you specified a Shapefile or Feature-Class as clipFeature - clipped to your study area. The national ID Raster (idras_ger) and the clipped one (idras) are saved in directory of HDF5 file.
Afterwards, all RADOLAN binary files in a directory tree are imported, clipped to study area, converted into monthly pandas DataFrames and stored in an HDF5 file.
The names for the HDF5 datasets are derived from the names of the input folders (year and month). The directory tree containing the raw binary RADOLAN data is expected to have the following format:
<inFolder>/<year>/<month>/<binaries with RADOLAN data>
–> <inFolder>/YYYY/MM
–> <inFolder>/2008/5 or <inFolder>/2008/05
–> e.g. C:/Data/RW/2008/5
In this example, the output dataset will have the path 2008/5 within the HDF5 file. The necessary format is automatically generated by the functions
radproc.raw.unzip_RW_binaries()
andradproc.raw.unzip_YW_binaries()
.If necessary, a textfile containing all directories which could not be processed due to data format errors is created in directory of HDF5 file.
Parameters: - inFolder : string
- Path to the directory tree containing RADOLAN binary files. The directory tree is expected to have the following structure: <inFolder>/YYYY/MM –> C:/Data/RADOLAN/2008/5
- HDFFile : string
- Path and name of the HDF5 file. If the specified HDF5 file already exists, the new dataset will be appended; if the HDF5 file doesn’t exist, it will be created.
- clipFeature : string (optional, default: None)
- Path to the clip feature defining the extent of the study area. File type may be Shapefile or Feature Class. The clip Feature does not need to be provided in the RADOLAN projection. See below for further details. Default: None (Data are not clipped to any study area)
- complevel : interger (optional, default: 9)
- defines the level of compression for the output HDF5 file. complevel may range from 0 to 9, where 9 is the highest compression possible. Using a high compression level reduces data size significantly, but writing data to HDF5 takes more time and data import from HDF5 is slighly slower.
Returns: No return value Function creates datasets for every month in HDF5 file specified in parameter HDFFile. Additionally, two ID Rasters are created in the directory of the HDF5 file.
In case any binary files could not be read in due to processing errors, these are skipped and the respective intervals are filled with NoData (NaN) values. A textfile with the names and error messages for the respective monthly input data folder is written and stored in inFolder for information. For example, issues due to obviously corrupt file formats are known for the RADOLAN RW dataset in July and August 2005 and May 2007.
See also
See File system description for further details on data processing. If you already have an ID Array available, use
radproc.raw.process_radolan_data()
instead.Note
The RADOLAN data are provided in a custom stereographic projection defined by the DWD and both ID rasters will automatically be generated in this projection by this function. As there is no transformation method available yet, it is not possible to directly perform any geoprocessing tasks with RADOLAN and geodata with other spatial references. Nevertheless, ArcGIS is able to perform a correct on-the-fly transformation to display the data together. The clip function implemented in radproc uses this as a work-around solution to “push” the clip feature into the RADOLAN projection. Hence, the clipping works with geodata in different projections, but the locations of the cells might be slightly inaccurate.
Format description and examples: After the import, individual DataFrames can be loaded into memory from the generated HDF5 file using
radproc.core.load_month()
or several DataFrames within the same year can be loaded together usingradproc.core.load_months_from_hdf5()
Every row of the output DataFrames equals a precipitation raster of the investigation area at the specific date. Every column equals a time series of the precipitation at a specific raster cell.
Data can be accessed and sliced with the following Syntax:
df.loc[row_index, column_name]
with row index as string in date format ‘YYYY-MM-dd hh:mm’ and column names as integer values
Examples:
>>> dataHDF5 = r'C:\Data\HDF5\RW.h5' >>> df = radproc.load_month(HDFFile=dataHDF5, year=2008, month=5) >>> df.loc['2008-05-01 00:50',414773] #--> returns single float value of specified date and cell >>> df.loc['2008-05-01 00:50', :] #--> returns entire row (= raster) of specified date as one-dimensional DataFrame >>> df.loc['2008-05-01', :] #--> returns DataFrame with all rows of specified day (because time of day is omitted) >>> df.loc[, 414773] #--> returns time series of the specified cell as Series


VMKit: JVM and .Net runtimes for LLVM
The VMKit project is an implementation of a JVM and CLI virtual machine (.Net is an implementation of the CLI). It translates Java bytecode and MSIL in the LLVM IR and uses the LLVM framework for optimizations and compilation. For garbage collection, it uses MMTk. You can get and build the source today.
Features
VMKit provides the following features:
End-User Features:
- Runs any Java and .Net applications on MacOSX and Unix-based systems.
- Precise garbage collection.
- Just-in-Time and Ahead-of-Time compilation.
- Portable on many architectures (x86, x64, ppc32, ppc64, arm).
Developer Features:
- Relatively small code base (~ 20k loc per VM)
- Infrastructure for running multiple VM/applications in a single process
- Infrastructure for virtual machine research and development
Why?
The development of VMKit was started out of a need to factorize virtual machine development. The JVM and CLI virtual machine have many similarities, but are too high-level to be the basis of a "universal" virtual machine. The LLVM IR on the opposite is low-level enough to be able to execute these VMs. VMKit is a proof of concept implementation towards that direction.
Paper on the design of VMKit:
The PhD thesis that initiated VMKit:
An introduction to VMKit can be found in the following video lectures:
- Presentation of VMKit/MMTk at the 2009 LLVM Developer's Meeting
- Presentation of VMKit at the 2008 LLVM Developer's Meeting
Current Status
VMKit is still in its early development stages. If you are looking to experiment virtual machine technologies, VMKit is probably a great solution for you. If you want to use it as a drop in JVM or .Net, it is not yet ready.
VMKit currently has a decent implementation of the JVM. It executes large projects (e.g. OSGi Felix, Tomcat, Eclipse) and the DaCapo benchmarks. The CLI implementation is still in its early stages, but can execute simple applications.
The JVM has been tested on Linux/x64, Linux/x86, Linux/ppc32, MacOSX/x64, MacOSX/x86, MacOSX/ppc32. The JVM may work on ppc64. Support for Windows has not been investigated
Get it and get involved!
Start by getting the code, building it, and playing with it. This will show you the sorts of things we can do today.
Once you've done that, please consider getting involved in the VMKit community. Currently, VMKit is tightly integrated into the LLVM community. You can sign up for the LLVM mailing list to ask and learn about how the project works.


PHOTO:A Zimbabwean Civil Servant will not afford this
by Philip MangwiroPHOTO: A Zimbabwean Civil Servant will not afford this
Following the removal of subsidies on maize, Zimbabweans have found themselves in the doldrums as the price of Mealie meal, the country’s staple food has shot up beyond the reach of many.
In a bid to make ends meet and forgo bread which is now a luxury, Citizens had resorted to mealie meal dishes 3 times a day namely porridge in the morning, sadza in the afternoon and evening. The latest price hike has left many in low spirits. If you are in the civil service, A quarter of your salary buys 50kg of mealie meal and that is before rent and school fees.
In Other News…Flamboyant businessman Frank Buyanga’s child custody battle with ex-girlfriend, Chantelle Muteswa, has escalated to alarming levels as Buyanga appears to issue a subtle threat to the first family.
Buyanga’s company African Medallion Group (AMG) issued a subtle threat to the First Family warning that the company would hold the family responsible if anything happens to Buyanga. This comes as the First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa was alleged to have waded into the custody fight on Chantelle’s side.
According to online publication, Zimlive, the first lady demanded Buyanga’s arrest. She allegedly advised Chantelle to approach the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and to report all the magistrates and judges who had ruled in favour of Buyanga.
In a strongly worded letter, AMG claimed that Buyanga’s lawyer in the custody case was abducted by alleged state agents.
Below is the full letter from AMG,Read More
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| find_pandoc {rmarkdown} | R Documentation |
pandoc
executableSearches for the pandoc
executable in a few places and use the
highest version found, unless a specific version is requested.
find_pandoc(cache = TRUE, dir = NULL, version = NULL)
cache |
Whether to search for |
dir |
A character vector of potential directory paths under which
|
version |
The version of Pandoc to look for (e.g., |
A list containing the directory and version of Pandoc (if found).
Usually you do not need to install Pandoc if you use the RStudio IDE,
because the IDE has bundled a version of Pandoc. If you have installed a
version of Pandoc by yourself and want to use this version instead, you may
use the dir
argument of this function.
rmarkdown::find_pandoc() rmarkdown::find_pandoc(dir = '~/Downloads/Pandoc') rmarkdown::find_pandoc(version = '2.7.3')


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Kiprotich
Bett (ObadiaH)
Nairobi,KENYA
Hi there!My name is Kiprotich Bett. I am a software Developer and an Enterpreneuer. I pursued a course in Information Technology and graduated, currently doing Post-graduate degree in Moringa School. Virtually I like making music and bieng creative by making digital art as a hobby.But physically my hobby is to explore good food.Check me out.


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DailyCode 33
Today I continued to work with headers (and layout). How can I make the header simple, functional and interesting? And still leave room for the nav up there? Which should come first: header or nav? I realized that type only takes you so far when it comes to making an interesting layout. Type works really well with negative space in creating an open, clean layout but it can get boring quick. I haven't incorporated color yet. I'd like to continue to work with form. I think that approach will yield great results. I started reading the CSS Shapes specification module. Turns out there's a whole lot going on there with plenty of new developments. Shapes can be made with some pure CSS, ranging from simple squares and circles to complex shapes like stars and arrows. I wonder if there are better ways to create shapes to use on web pages?


Project 1 is now posted on CMS! Log in there to find your teammates and project instructions.
Check out Professor Mimno's project showcase. The project this year is similar enough to Prof. Mimno's from past years that these examples ought to be useful.
You can find a bunch of D3 examples here and access D3's online API reference. D3 also has a number of pre-generated color scales.
Source for our second dataset today.


Defining standard and nonstandard spaces where data will be resampled¶
The command line interface of ASLPPrep allows resampling the preprocessed data
onto other output spaces.
That is achieved using the --output-spaces
argument, where standard and
nonstandard spaces can be inserted.
Important
ASLPrep will reduce the amount of output spaces to just spaces listed in --output-spaces
,
even if other options require resampling the preprocessed data into intermediary spaces.
TemplateFlow¶
TemplateFlow is a software library and a repository of neuroimaging templates that allows end-user applications such as fMRIPrep,*QSIPrep* as well as ASLPrep, to flexibly query and pull template and atlas information. In other words, TemplateFlow enables ASLPPrep to access a wide range of templates (and also custom templates, see below). Therefore, TemplateFlow is central to define ASLPPrep’s interface regarding template and atlas prior-knowledge. For more general information about TemplateFlow, visit TemplateFlow.org.
Standard spaces¶
When using ASLPrep in a workflow that will investigate effects that span across
analytical groupings, neuroimagers typically resample their data on to a standard,
stereotactic coordinate system.
The most extended standard space for functaional data analysis is generally referred to MNI.
For instance, to instruct ASLPrep to use the MNI template brain distributed with
FSL as coordinate reference the option will read as follows: --output-spaces MNI152NLin6Asym
.
By default, ASLPrep uses MNI152NLin2009cAsym
as spatial-standardization reference.
Valid template identifiers (MNI152NLin6Asym
, MNI152NLin2009cAsym
, etc.) come from
the TemplateFlow repository.
Therefore, ASLPrep will run nonlinear registration processes against the template
T1w image corresponding to all the standard spaces supplied with the argument
--output-spaces
.
By default, ASLPrep will resample the preprocessed data on those spaces (labeling the
corresponding outputs with the space-<template-identifier> BIDS entity) but keeping
the original resolution of the BOLD data to produce smaller files, more consistent with
the original data gridding.
However, many users will be interested in utilizing a coarse gridding (typically 2mm isotropic)
of the target template.
Such a behavior can be achieved applying modifiers to the template identifier, separated by
a :
character.
For instance, --output-spaces MNI152NLin6Asym:res-2 MNI152NLin2009cAsym
will generate
preprocessed BOLD 4D files on two standard spaces (MNI152NLin6Asym
,
and MNI152NLin2009cAsym
) with the template’s 2mm isotropic resolution for
the data on MNI152NLin6Asym
space and the original BOLD resolution
(say, e.g., 2x2x2.5 [mm]) for the case of MNI152NLin2009cAsym
.
This is equivalent to saying
--output-spaces MNI152NLin6Asym:res-2 MNI152NLin2009cAsym:res-native
.
Other possible modifiers are, for instance, the cohort
selector.
For instance, --output-spaces MNIPediatricAsym:res-1:cohort-2
selects
the resolution 1
of cohort-2
which, for the MNIPediatricAsym
template, corresponds to the prepuberty phase
(4.5–8.5 years old).
Space modifiers such as res
are combinatorial:
--output-spaces MNIPediatricAsym:cohort-1:cohort-2:res-native:res-1
will
generate conversions for the following combinations:
cohort
1
and “native” resolution (meaning, the original BOLD resolution),cohort
1
and resolution1
of the template,cohort
2
and “native” resolution (meaning, the original BOLD resolution), andcohort
2
and resolution1
of the template.
Please mind that the selected resolutions specified must exist within TemplateFlow.
When specifying surface spaces (e.g., fsaverage
), the legacy identifiers from
FreeSurfer will be supported (e.g., fsaverage5
) although the use of the density
modifier would be preferred (i.e., fsaverage:den-10k
for fsaverage5
).
Custom standard spaces¶
To make your custom templates visible by ASLPrep, and usable via
the --output-spaces
argument, please store your template under
TemplateFlow’s home directory.
The default TemplateFlow’s home directory is $HOME/.cache/templateflow
and that can path can be arbitrarily changed by setting
the $TEMPLATEFLOW_HOME
environment variable.
A minimal example of the necessary files for a template called
MyCustom
(and therefore callable via, e.g., --output-spaces MyCustom
)
follows:
$TEMPLATEFLOW_HOME/
tpl-MyCustom/
template_description.json
tpl-MyCustom_res-1_T1w.nii.gz
tpl-MyCustom_res-1_desc-brain_mask.nii.gz
tpl-MyCustom_res-2_T1w.nii.gz
tpl-MyCustom_res-2_desc-brain_mask.nii.gz
For further information about how custom templates must be organized and corresponding naming, please check the TemplateFlow tutorials.
Nonstandard spaces¶
Additionally, --output-spaces
accepts identifiers of spatial references
that do not generate standardized coordinate spaces:
T1w
oranat
: data are resampled into the individual’s anatomical reference generated with the T1w and T2w images available within the BIDS structure.
fsnative
: similarly to theanat
space for volumetric references, including thefsnative
space will instruct fMRIPrep to sample the original BOLD data onto FreeSurfer’s reconstructed surfaces for this individual.
func
,bold
,run
,boldref
orsbref
can be used to generate BOLD data in their original grid, after slice-timing, head-motion, and susceptibility-distortion corrections. These keywords are experimental.
Modifiers are not allowed when providing nonstandard spaces.
Preprocessing blocks depending on standard templates¶
Some modules of the pipeline (e.g. the generation ofHCP compatible grayordinates
files, or the fieldmap-less distortion correction) operate in specific template spaces.
When selecting those modules to be included (using any of the following flags:
--cifti-outputs
, --use-syn-sdc
) will modify the list of
output spaces to include the space identifiers they require, should the
identifier not be found within the --output-spaces
list already.
In other words, running ASLPrep with --output-spaces MNI152NLin6Asym:res-2
--use-syn-sdc
will expand the list of output spaces to be
MNI152NLin6Asym:res-2 MNI152NLin2009cAsym
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The first thing to know is that I have been thinking about this business of taking notes for a long time and in a lot of contexts. In a post on both my website and on Medium, I make an argument for taking notes by hand that essentially follows two paths: the first is the well-established research that has increasingly made it clear that when you take notes by hand you actually process more and get more out of notetaking. The second is the fact that not all of us are verbal thinkers and taking notes by hand opens up possibilities for taking notes in non-verbal ways: drawing, illustrating, even, sometimes, doodling.
By the way, here’s the most recent research on why taking notes by hand is better than typing notes: “The Pen Is Mightier than the Keyboard”
So now, with some luck, I have convinced you that taking notes by hand is not only required for this course but also the way you should proceed for all courses. How should this work? It is really quite easy.
Start by grabbing yourself any notepad with a paper you like – yeah, paper matters, so if you like yellow paper or wide-ruled paper or whatever – then get it, because you’re more likely to use something you like. If you can’t find a notepad you like, then grab yourself a decent portfolio with a clip on it and use that – I use one that I found on Amazon because I sometimes use engineering paper when I am working on certain projects or A4 when I am working with European colleagues. (It’s a wide world, full of interesting people: make sure you travel.)
With that notepad or portfolio in your bag, you go from class to class, meeting to meeting, event to event, and you take notes. Each page has a decent header that will make it easier to organize later. Mine look like this:
2017-07-28: ENGL 115: 1
This tells me the date, the course/meeting/event, and the page numer. That’s it. I can organize a day’s worth of notes, weeks worth of notes, with this simple header at the top of each page.
With a portfolio, you can simply use the pocket that most have as the place to stash the day’s notes. With a notepad, you’ll need to grab yourself some sort of folder – whatever you like, whatever holds up to how you work.
At the end of each day, and this is important, at the end of each day you take out your small stack of notes and you file them into a folder for each course, reviewing your notes as you do so. I am not saying you you have to read over notes completely – though it really wouldn’t take that much time and it would be a huge boon to your learning – but glancing over your notes from each class would prompt you to note to yourself what were the big takeaways for the day and also remind those of you who are forgetful what you need to do for the next class: so having your task list nearby and ready to be amended is a very good idea.
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| Nprepare_data | Functions used to prepare the data for GMM and DNN training |
| Nsigproc | Signal processing functionality |


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Like Eric Burke (via) I read Martin Fowler's RubyPeople page and was similarly miffed by the criticism of Python's friendliness (and based on hearsay at that).
Eric makes a very good point: Ruby people aren't as nice as bunny rabbits. The obvious corollary is that raising bunny rabbits is better for the spirit than programming Ruby.
Eric's other conclusion is that everyone thinks they themselves are friendly.
But to be fair, some communities aren't that friendly. I'm sure most Perl people are nice -- all the one's I've met are -- but some of their forums (mailing lists, newsgroups, etc) can be a bit on the mean side. And they recognize this. That's really something in the nature of the specific communities and forums, not necessarily the individuals. (And sometimes it's just a reflection of the medium -- large IRC channels seem to breed meanness.)
Or another instance -- PHP isn't very monolithic as a community, but it seems like internally to many PHP projects there can be a lot of strife, moreso than I see in other languages. I don't know any language with as many forked projects as PHP, and each of those is usually the result of some social breakdown. Something is going on there.
And at times people on comp.lang.python have had bits of soul-searching about it becoming less friendly. I think that really has happened -- the group isn't as friendly as it once was. The best explanation I've seen is donors' fatigue. The community changes as it becomes bigger and older, the weight of past decisions becomes heavier, and as the original core community moves on. How many 'bots are left in comp.lang.python these days?
Now I'm not saying comp.lang.python is a mean-spirited place. But Python has calcified in certain ways that Ruby has not. Just like a child is more flexible than an adult, the Ruby community is more flexible than the Python community. I think there's more open space in Ruby than Python, there's more openness to some new ideas, there's more acceptance of the opinion of outsiders. The barriers to contribution are smaller. Backward compatibility? Not as big a deal with Ruby. Add new syntax? Suggestions along those lines won't be dismissed for Python, but all new syntax is met with extreme suspicion; all the moreso if you aren't aware of past conversations on the matter. And there are lots of past conversions on just about any new syntax you'll think of -- which makes it hard to jump in and contribute ideas on that level. So I suspect you'll get a more friendly reaction from Rubyists on syntax. But then, the cutting edge of Python hasn't been the core language for a long time (by design).
So I don't think it's wrong to think about these things and compare. I think it's also worth recognizing slip, and trying to rectify it (though I'm not pointing out anything useful on that regard here; just noting that such criticism could usefully exist)
Not directly related, but I am somehow reminded of Andy Lester's (lightning) talk titled Geek Culture Considered Harmful [1].
It's not just age, I think: it's the fact that the stakes are higher. Every change to Python affects a lot more code that people depend on than changes to Ruby. Another result of Python being older is that people have begun to recognize (some of) the bad ideas, and can be a bit terse in their responses to the N+1th proposal something shot down N times already. A third factor (and, in my experience with #python, the primary reason large IRC channels breed meanness) is the conflict between people who want to understand the new guy's motivations and desires, try to guide him to a workable solution, and refuse to help him shoot himself in the foot, and the people who see no problem in helping them aim straight down and blast away, so to speak. In a larger community, there's less room or time for persuasion and argument in either direction.
So, yes, as a community grows it becomes less tolerant of certain things. The alternative, so far as I can tell, is for the community to fragment and waste time pursuing each faction's agenda (See Scheme for a good example). The important thing for contributors is to avoid burning out; if you've had a certain conversation a hundred times, the hundred and first can tempt one to short-temperedness quickly :) On the other hand, if being more friendly means accomodating people with screamingly bad ideas, like willy-nilly syntax changes, or ruby's "safe" (I searched Google for 'ruby safe' to see if it is really as bad as I remembered; all I found were security advisories, so I'm guessing "yes"), then I am in favor of unfriendliness.
Noone even answers my questions anymore on that mailing list :-(
# anonymous
Sorry to hear that anonymous! I've had questionms not answered myself - but most of the time, they have been, fast and in helpful manner, even if sometime the fatherly tone smarts my ego...
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SHALL WE DANCE? A film review by Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: A Japanese Salaryman leads a double life, first learning ballroom dancing then in competition dancing. The story is simple with few unexpected plot twists and while it has some bittersweet moments there is insufficient material here to sustain a feature film. For a Japanese audience there may be more here than meets an American eye. Rating: low +1 (-4 to +4), 5 (0 to 10) New York Critics: 17 positive, 2 negative, 1 mixed
In the strict rules of Japanese society, public signs of affection are considered to be in bad taste. Things that Americans would find innocuous, like a husband putting his arm around his wife, are considered to be breaches of decency. And while there are Japanese who get involved with ballroom dancing, we learn in this film that it is considered as tawdry in Japan, as going to strip clubs would be in the United States. Paradoxically, the society that shuns the touching of a partner on the ballroom floor is the same society that jams so many people into a subway car that literally nobody else can be shoved through the doorway. But that touching is considered non-voluntary. Ballroom dancing has connotations of rebellion in Japan that we just do not see in our country.
Shohei Sugiyama (played by Koji Yakusho) is a successful 40- something business executive with a staff of people working for him. He has a wife and daughter and has recently bought a house in suburbia. In Japanese society, this is not just success, it is affluence. Yet Shohei is dissatisfied with his pat little accounting job and his simple, programmed life-style. One night, returning home, he gazes up from his subway car and sees a beautiful woman, Mai Kishikawa (Tamiyo Kusakari) gazing out the window of a ballroom dance studio. After seeing her there multiple times he decides to go up and look in on the dance studio. He enrolls as a student in secret. As anxious as he is to meet and even dance with Mai, he is unwilling to pay 6000 yen per lesson from her. So, unable to afford private lessons from Mai he enrolls in a public class with two other men to be taught by an older woman. There at least he can see Mai and perhaps occasionally dance with her. Shohei becomes friends with the two other men in his class as well as with a Japanese dancer with his own fiery Latin style.  She suspects the worst and determines to find out what mischief her husband is up to.
Masayuki Suo wrote and directed the film that tells its story and gives us a few chuckles and a few bittersweet moments along the way. The real problem is that what happens is rarely unexpected and never surprising. Indeed the dramatic last sequence of the film is not just cliched, it seems almost inevitable. Mai's secret that she contemplates so wistfully at the window each night seems far too trivial to warrant so much attention, and as the core of the film seems too meager. This almost might have made a decent hour- long story, but there really is not enough here to make a satisfying feature film. Perhaps some of the reason is that there are very likely cultural differences that make this story resonate better in Japan than it does in the United States. Certainly there is humor in this film that requires some knowledge of Japanese culture to appreciate. In one scene one of the characters takes a strip of dried squid and dances it on the top of a restaurant table. Some of the humor was lost on most of our audience who probably did not recognize what it was that was dancing. Certainly the Japanese would see the touching while dancing as being daring. While Tokyo may have rock and roll dancers in the park--dressed like 1950s bikers from THE WILD ONE- -even they do not touch each other when they dance. It is difficult to see this film as a Japanese would and that might make all the difference between the simple story we see and one that is considerably richer. Similarly it is difficult to judge the quality of the acting. While we might recognize the difference between really bad acting and decent acting, it is unlikely we would recognize really great acting if we saw it.
What does come across is an innocuous and enjoyable comedy with a touch of human drama and a bit of melodrama. The story of the dancer with the secret past will remind some of STRICTLY BALLROOM, but this film is nowhere near as amusing as that film was. I rate this one a low 1 on the -4 to +4 scale.
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Speed, Performance, and Human Perception
Notes from Ilya Grigorik’s talk at O’Reilly Fluent conference 2014
My notes on Ilya Grigorik’s talk (@igrigorik) Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubJzEi3HuA
What follows are my notes from watching Ilya’s presentation:
“Performance” means many different things to different people full-stack perf is complicated is there such a thing as “fast enough”? context matters: — 10fps matters in games, 10fps matters much less in e-commerce Devs often forget about the wetware running their ui’s (human brain) Joked about it using some sort of IE6
Task Oriented Reaction Times:
Intent > Action > Response
Delay > User Reaction
| 1-100ms | Instant |
| 100-300ms | slight perceptible delay |
| 300-1000ms | Task focus, perceptible delay 1s+ mental context switch |
| 10s+ | I’ll come back later… |
Visual and audio processing have different perceptive resolutions:
Visual
- 24fps (~40ms) — minimum stutter-free FPS
- 60fps (~16ms) — silky smooth experience
Auditory
- 1ms+ jitter — Audible sound discontinuity
Perceived perf equation:
Perceived performance =
f(Expected Performance, UX, Actual Performance)
The UX is the glue between expectations and silicon
Performance is not just milliseconds, frames, and megabytes. It’s also how these milliseconds, frames, and megabytes translate to HOW THE USER PERCEIVES THE APPLICATION.
Who’s responsible for perf of UX layer? Everyone.
Hacker news case study:
- Hacker news is fast due to its simplicity, renders reliably in under 500ms.
 Takes a few seconds to realize the page is loaded and text is too small, then zoom in, then swiper to read the headlines.

- Fulfills technical aspects, but fails on completing task in a performant manner.
Finally, as a community, we have moved past the onload time.
- What are the primary use tasks for your application?
- What is the time to task completion? What is the expected time to task completion?
- Determine primary core tasks you want user to achieve. Measure the time it takes for them to be available, and how long it takes to complete them.
Blogger case study:
There is a “too fast”
- Creating a new blog was almost instant, it returned almost immediately.
- Users expected important things to take a little bit of time. task was a big commitment.
- Users thought experience was broken because it returned too fast. had low user satisfaction.
- Simple fix: add a spinner on a page that does absolutely nothing, and user satisfaction went up.
- The user/wetware expectation was different from the ui result, so satisfaction is low.
phpMyAdmin case study:
- Because the db queries take different, inconsistent amounts of time, the feedback was inconsistent.
- You must give users feedback, and also feedback to inform their expectations.
- If something will take a long time, let them know.
- Give feedback in metrics, units that are very clear to intended users, IE: seconds, minutes instead of gigabytes for consumers.
Experience Formula:
Perceived Performance =
f(Expected Performance, UX, Actual Performance)
Experience =
f(Perceived Performance, Task Completion)
- What is the task the user is trying to achieve?
- What does the wetwear between our ears expect?
- What is the technical performance of the components required to fulfill the task? Megabytes, milliseconds, frames?
- How can we design the app to best connect perceived and actual performance? Did it succeed in helping me complete the task?
Main Takeaways:
- Developers: learn about the wetwear (user brain). Think about the user tasks. Performance is when these two meet in the middle.
- Designers: learn about the technical and wetwear (user brain) constraints, design for task completion.


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What is the Ruby group_by method and how does it work?
Inputs: A collection
Outputs: A hash
The groups_by method will take a collection such as an array as an input, and transform it into a hash, which is an array with defined indices or keys.
The process that transforms the collection input into a hash is contained in a block. The process is some sort of method, but if a method has not been assigned, it will default to a one-entry hash where the key is nil, and the values are the original collection.
[1,2,3,4,5].group_by{}
=> {nil=>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}
When the block contains a method or process, the keys will be the result of the process instead of nil, and the value for each key will be an array. The array will contain the elements from the input collection that corresponds to the key. If multiple elements from the input collection have the same result, there will be multiple values in the hash for that result key.
In this example, we want to calculate the frequencies of each integer in my_array using the group_by method.
my_array = [1,2,2,3,4,4,4,5,6,6]
my_array.group_by{|i| my_array.count(i)}
=> {1=>[1, 3, 5], 2=>[2, 2, 6, 6], 3=>[4, 4, 4]}
The output shows the frequency of each integer from the array as the key values of the hash, and the array associated with each key lists each integer that corresponds to that frequency.
=> {1=>[1, 3, 5], 2=>[2, 2, 6, 6], 3=>[4, 4, 4]}
group_by is a powerful method that can be used for filtering data and understanding patterns.
Hope this helps!


Authors: Raj Mittra and Yuda Zhou
Source: FERMAT, Volume 9, Article 2, May_Jun, 2015
Abstract: In this paper we present an alternative approach to addressing the problem of scattering reduction for radar targets, which have recently been dealt with by using the Transformation Optics (TO) algorithm which calls for the use of Metamaterials (MTMs) that are inherently narrowband, dispersive and highly sensitive to polarization as well as to the incident angle. The present design utilizes realistic lossy materials that can be conveniently fabricated in the laboratory, and are wideband as well as relatively insensitive to polarization and incident angle of the incoming wave. A modified interpretation of the TO algorithm is presented and is employed to design of RCS-reducing absorbers for arbitrarily shaped targets, and not just for canonical shapes, e.g., cylinders, for which cloaks have been designed by using the TO. The paper also briefly examines the topic of performance enhancement of absorbers by using graphene materials and embedded Frequency Structure Surfaces (FSSs).
We begin by presenting the design procedure for planar absorbers, and then examine how well those designs perform for general-shaped objects. Finally, we discuss how the planar design can be modified by tailoring the material parameters of the coating for specific object shapes. A number of test cases are included as examples to illustrate the application of the proposed design methodology, which is a modification of the classical TO paradigm.
Index Terms: Transformation Optics (TO), cloaking, RCS reduction, RFI, microwave absorber, EMI.
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Design of Absorptive Coatings for Arbitrarily Shaped Targets for Reduction of Radar Cross Section (RCS) using an Alternative to the Transformation Optics (TO) Algorithm


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class. This class
provides access to Handle
instances, which are the primary means of
interacting with database connections.
The Handle
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instance. This connection will be used for all database operations by the handle,
and will be closed when the handle is closed.
JDBI tries to use common Java practices, and standard interfaces as much as possible.
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such as select id, name from profiles where age > :age
is valid. When
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should do the right thing.
JDBI supports externalizing SQL via named queries. The default named query resolver
looks for files on the classpath. The exact lookup rules for this locator can be
found on the javadocs for ClasspathStatementLocator
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ShortStuffCentral.com presents a review by staff member Jon Turner. For more reviews of Short films and Flash animation, check out www.shortstuffcentral.com, the Internet's home for Short Films.
Po Mo Knock Knock
Like so many great films, Po Mo Knock Knock is not what it appears on first viewing. Ok, so it's no Fight Club, or even Sixth Sense for that matter, but for the message that it cleverly delivers in under three minutes, it's well worth your time to check out. The entire black and white, experimental film consists of gloomy, artiste characters trying to communicate with each other through knock knock jokes. It is a post-modern idea, if you will; hence the title, Po Mo Knock Knock. The first time it plays through, the film appears dry, unintelligible, and random. But once you catch on and become part of the inside joke, it proves to be a non-stop punch line.
Although, as a whole, it is definitely a comedy, the only actual joke in the film is one brief sight gag. The Pollyanna comedy troupe wants you to experience it all as one long, surreal gag. David Ball plays the character of Knock Knock, while his counterpart, played by the late Bill Stiles is called Who's There? The men's struggle to communicate in a post-modern style parodies the general failure of such experimental films to convey their meanings.
The only problem with the film is that you just might not get it. I certainly did not on my first viewing, but I found it quirky enough to want to delve further into the filmmaker's psyche. With plenty of supplemental material on the DVD, I was able to do just that and came to really appreciate the intricacies of the extended joke.
Included with the film on this DVD compilation are four more tracks that illuminate the film's various meanings and serve up some great entertainment. The Pollyanna troupe obviously has tremendous fun with their work as you can see in their 5 minute featurette, `Po Mo Love Doc,' during which they stay in character, and their `Matrix Special Edition' commentary track. I find this bonus track to actually be funnier than the film itself. The troupe completely ignores their film playing in the background as they elaborate on their fascination with the Wachowski's Matrix and tell hilarious stories about their obsession. Also included is one more commentary track by director Greg Pak and another one with the whole troupe actually discussing their own film.
It may take you a few viewings to fully appreciate the work that went into Po Mo Knock Knock as well as the hilarity of the resulting film. But at only 3 minutes running time, the joke never tires and the experience is well worth it.
**** Director Greg Pak
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This undergoing project is my first time to lead the front end development for a real product. I learn a lot from this project, not only about coding & UI design, but also about being professional and self-motivated.
The project involves Angular.JS, WebRTC, canvas manipulation, image processing on client side, version control, etc. As the client comes up with more product requirements, more challenges will come in the future. And the most important thing I learn from this project is:
"Never say 'I will try', say 'I will!'" -- by my supervisor
Follow up:
I finished a major function of this web app: the motion detection about the video stream. The motion detection is done on browser side using javascript. The major algorithim I use is the so-called SSIM (structural similarity) calculation. Basically it is used for measuring the similarity between two images by comparing the pixel values. This algorithim involves running several matrix manipulation over several successive video frames in a high rate.
Performance was the biggest challenge for me when tried to solve this problem. Afte trial and error, I used several tricks to ensure it runs on the browser without jittering effect. For example, I used typed array to store the pixel values gained from the canvas element (getImageData). As we known, each pixel has 4 values for R, G, B, and alpha, and they are stored in UInt8 type. Instead of using Uint8ClampedArray to store them, I use Int32Array with some bit calculation(e.g. bit shifting) to reduce the number of for loops.
Below is an brief illustration on how I make it (Allow the web camera if you want to test it). If a motion is detected, it will be highlighted for 2 seconds. The sensitity can be modified based on the speed of the car.
Use VanillaJS to get the web camera and stream it to the HTML5 video element.
Use drawImage function to render the video to the canvas above.
Use the getImageData to get the pixel value of the current frame. Calculate the grey scale image to reduce scale of data.
Use convolution to detect the edge, and feed the processed data to the algorithim loop so as to detect a motion.
In the most updated version (version 9), I was able to run a steady motion detection function on both left and right cameras 10 frames per second, including processing speed, GPS, liDar signals from various sessions at the same time.
I also implemented two image processing web applications using canvas and convolution.


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JavaScript is a programming language commonly used in web development. It was originally developed by Netscape as a means to add dynamic and interactive elements to websitesCSS
CSS. Stands for "Cascading Style Sheet." Cascading style sheets are used to format the layout of Web pages. They can be used to define text styles, table sizes, and other aspects of Web pages that previously could only be defined in a page's HTML.


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I decided to try some heroin, to feel its peek and then never to use it again. I gave it a lot of thought and, as I know a lot of people who experimented with it and never got into problems, came to the conclusion that I'm safe. Besides, I consider myself too old (26) to get addicted.
I was with two friends, D who was also a first-timer and S who is, as he admits it, psychically addicted. We went into a large park because someone proposed that it would be nice to take it in nature. We entered some bushes and divided the quantity which was less than a teaspoon into three parts. S said that what each of us was about to take is the least amount buyable, but that it would be all right for D and me to snort, cause we were new. He injected his stuff.
It made him instantly relaxed and talkative and D and me waited for our reaction. After 15 minutes I started to feel anxious as we were near an excursion. I didn't know what to expect and I insisted to move away from people. After 15 minutes more, we were sitting on a bench. I felt warmth and had a vague pleasant feeling, S couldn't stop talking and D claimed he doesn't feel anything.
I was disappointed that this is all I'm going to get. After half an hour the pleasantness faded and I started feeling sick. S told me that this is normal. Soon I felt worse and puked. From then on, I puked every 20 minutes. Since I vomited all the food I ate that day, I lost energy, felt sick, tired and cold. The evening was getting near, it was getting colder but I couldn't move to warm up. I was feeling as lousy as it gets. My friends decided to take me home… I was carrying a plastic bag with me cause there was no telling when I'm gonna puke again. I put on sunglasses and a hat and hoped we won't run into anyone familiar in public transport.
Back home, I told mother I have a food poisoning, took a shower and went to sleep. I woke up warm, rested and refreshed and she made me some great soup. Eleven hours passed since I took the heroin. And then I puked again all that nice soup. And again.
I panicked, it was full 12 hours since I snorted that minuscule amount and I was still sick. I called on the phone everybody I knew who had experience with heroin and asked them is it possible that I'm addicted or my liver is damaged or something, but they assured me that this was known to happen, that it's just bad luck. Tomorrow I was finally all right.
From what I've learned since, most users feel sick at the beginning. It takes time to get familiar with heroin and fully appreciate its effects, but I don't intend to try it any more.
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