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For more details on the Particl project’s development status, visit our Status Report page.Particl Project
Roadmap
The initial integration of Particl into Trezor’s hardware wallet enables the secure holding and cold staking of PART. Carry PART on the go and protect your funds even if your computer is compromised. The initial integration will only enable public balances to be held on Trezor devices.
Create or join an infinite number of markets and seller storefronts on the Particl network, each one being accessible from Particl Desktop. Simply connect to a market by entering its Market ID in the Market Browser.
Allows sellers to set up a personalized environment where they can sell their products. Ideal for established brands and/or communities. A market/storefront’s access code (Market ID) can be published on the seller’s website to prove ownership of a certain market and its content.
May 6, 2019 – The Particl Lightning Network has arrived on testnet! It is now possible to test the Lightning Network on Particl by running the Particl LND application. For more information about it and to know how to test it for yourself, head over to this blog post.
Short for ZeroMQ, this is an automated messaging system that allows messages and notifications to be automatically pushed to Particl Desktop. An example would be if Particl Desktop has an update available, ZMQ will push notification to Particl Desktop and users will see a notice a new version of the Desktop is available.
Bling Lightning is our very own projected custom implementation of the Lightning Network with added support for CT and RingCT privacy transactions. This would allow for anonymous atomic swaps as well as improved privacy within the Lightning Network itself.
Create and manage an infinite number of seller identities through the use of user profiles. Each market and storefront created by a seller can be associated with any identity. Identities under the same user profile cannot be associated and tied together.
Allows sellers to create multiple shops, markets, and listings without creating any sort of association between each of them. Alternatively, Identity Management can be used to link multiple markets or storefronts to the same seller so that he can benefit from the reputation he’s gained selling on Particl.
Reduces the costs associated with listing an item on Particl’s marketplace (estimated fee reduction: 80%+).
Allows sellers to list items at a much lower cost. Ideal for sellers looking to list larger inventories without breaking the bank.
Makes the escrow system’s required security deposits adjustable.
Allows the security deposits required by the escrow system to be adjustable and not be set at 100% of the item’s value all the time. Enables a more customizable environment that can cater to a wider variety of industries.
Makes Particl’s double deposit MAD escrow system an opt-out option for sellers.
Allows sellers to make Particl’s double deposit MAD escrow system entirely optional. Ideal for established sellers with a past reputation who may not need escrow as their customer base already trusts them. Eliminates a major obstacle to adoption for a certain type of vendors and use-cases, and also paves the way for automated digital deliveries.
Notifications indicating to the seller which listing has received a question, comment, or feedback from a user.
The client currently doesn’t indicate which listing has received a question in any practical way. This can get bothersome quickly for sellers with many listed items that are receiving many different questions. This roadmap item fixes that issue by clearly indicating which listing has received a comment.
Improves the behavior of the listing explorer to give users better tools to filter and sort listings as well as get more accurate results out of their searches.
This particular item is a collection of many smaller items related to the browsing and searching of listings on Particl Desktop. It includes better searches, filters, tags, a sorting mechanism, and many other smaller improvements. This item is likely to be implemented in phases at different points in time.
Lets sellers manage inventory quantities and product attributes (i.e. clothing size, color, fabric, etc).
Allows sellers to manage their inventories much more easily. It also allows them to better describe and announce their products by creating/using custom attributes such as product size, duration, colour, etc. These attributes act as filters when browsing the marketplace.
Gives buyers the ability to rate sellers after completing a full transaction flow.
Reputation gives more information to buyers so they can make better-informed shopping decisions. It also keeps sellers in check. The reputation system also ties in closely with Identity Management as sellers could carry their reputation over different markets or storefronts.
Makes listings able to be shared online using an URL.
Allows sellers to be able to promote their listings online by sharing them through different platforms (i.e. Twitter, official website, newsletters, etc).
Fully integrated digital item delivery system that enables sellers to list digital products without having to host the content outside Particl Desktop.
Digital items are a huge use-case for decentralized marketplaces. This roadmap item intends on bringing forward an integrated way for sellers to easily sell digital items on Particl Desktop. Then, by combining this roadmap item with “Optional escrow”, that will eventually allow for automated digital deliveries.
Allows people to top up their Particl account with other cryptocurrencies.
Integrating more payment options allows Particl’s marketplace to reach more crypto communities and give a use-case to many more individuals. It also helps the entire ecosystem as a whole by providing an easy way to spend cryptocurrencies without leaving a trace or paying third-party fees.
Allows businesses, projects, and developers to integrate and build on top of the Particl protocol.
Development SDK allows to further decentralize the development process of the Particl ecosystem and gives businesses the necessary tools to easily integrate some of the components of the Particl network through APIs and developer tools. This is a critical part of making Particl a truly open financial system and will make it easier for projects to leverage some of Particl’s components.
Allows users to cash-out of PART right from the client by using the existing Exchange Module the other way around.
Sellers need to sell PART to pay for business expenses that cannot be paid (yet) using PART. These can include shipping, supply orders, packaging materials, rent, salaries, partners, etc. While it is possible to sell PART on exchanges, integrating that process into Particl Desktop will only make users’ life easier and more convenient.
Provides the ability for sellers to list items under different listing types such as eBay-like auctions, wanted items, penny auctions, etc.
Auctions of physical or digital items is a big use-case for decentralized marketplaces. They are desirable for many types of products including NFTs, collectibles, art, etc. There is currently no decentralized marketplace offering auctions for physical items, yet Particl’s marketplace protocol already contains most of the code required to allow for it.
Adds an invoicing system and/or order data export tool to give users more information about their sales and/or purchases made on Particl.
Invoices allow sellers to better report taxes, store sales/customer information, and track business flow. It also allows buyers to keep track of their purchases. While there is already a few information available for each order that’s initiated, this roadmap item seeks to give users better and more complete tools than what’s currently available.
Analytics to be displayed on the seller’s overview or analytics tab. Gives more information about a seller’s entire set of activities on Particl’s marketplace.
Secure analytics allow sellers to get a better overview of their business and sales data and allows them to make better-informed decisions. Such data can be the number of total sales, number of sales per item, number of sales per category, timelines/charts, trends, etc. These pieces of data should be secure and only available at the client-level, and only to the seller itself.
Lets users with funds locked into an escrow contract to be able to negociate its terms and modify them when both buyer and seller agree on a resolution. Includes partial refunds, reships, cancellation, etc.
Negotiating terms when there is a dispute is a valuable tool. Communications could come in the form of pre-defined messages and issued resolutions could include partial refunds, reships, or cancellation of the escrow entirely. There are many cases where escrow terms might need to be changed. It gives users more confidence in the whole process by making it more flexible.
Adds more shipping options for sellers to better price and localize shipments.
Sellers need more ways to separate their shipping options, especially when offering shipping through different carriers, to different countries, and when providing different shipping methods (express, priority, regular, next day, etc). A shipping management tool could also add the ability for buyers to combine shipping for multiple items sold by the same seller, although that will likely be implemented in phases at different points in time.
Allows buyers to display listing prices in alternative currencies other than PART (i.e. BTC, USD, EUR, etc).
Currently, prices are only displayable in PART which might not be friendly or familiar to a lot of people. This roadmap item allows users to select how they want to see listing prices.
Allows sellers to determine the price of an item based on other currencies (i.e. BTC, USD, EUR, etc).
Currently, listing prices can only be set in PART which might not be friendly or familiar to a lot of people. This roadmap item allows sellers to price their products in different currencies other than PART, for example in USD or BTC. The product payment still settles in PART, but the exact required number of PART coins for a particular order is calculated when the buyer first places his bid.
Lets users change the language displayed on Particl Desktop (i.e. French, German, Dutch, etc).
More language support makes Particl’s marketplace more likely to be adopted by communities and groups who do not necessarily speak English fluently. Increases Particl’s potential reach with international communities and the “unbanked world”.
Allows sellers to enter EANs, UPCs, ISBNs or ASINs to import product data and classifications from standardized sources.
Better standardization of how sellers communicate vital information about their products. It allows buyers to easily see exactly what they're about to buy and make better-informed decision as UPC information can be cross-verified from multiple sources. It has become a standard feature in many traditional marketplaces and is a functionality that’s now generally expected by large-scale online sellers.
Easier listing management by providing more options to sellers such as automatic relisting, delisting options, etc.
Manually relisting listings can be a tedious task, even with the Product Import feature. This roadmap item allows sellers to automate the relisting of listings so that they don’t have to manually log in every time they expire. It also introduces the ability for a seller to delete listings.
Integrated shipping label printing system.
Manually writing addresses is a time-consuming process, especially for large-scale vendors who process many orders a day. Having a way to automate the printing of shipping labels, from Particl Desktop or through an order exporting function, will save sellers a ton of time.
Enables buyers and sellers alike to easily export their “account” information and import it into another client.
Sellers may want to be able to track sales, process orders, and do other eCommerce related actions while "on the go". They may also want to sell using multiple computers and instances of Particl Desktop. Easily exporting and importing accounts on different devices will provide that ability and allow them to be more efficient and quicker to act for their customers. That roadmap item also applies to “buyer accounts”.
Allows sellers to promote their listings, for a fee, and have them show up in “featured” listing spots.
Sellers may want to invest in their own business by giving their listings more exposure. It is the same mentality behind the concept of paying for advertisements. This new feature will allow sellers to do just that, for a fee.
Allows sellers to create categories for their market or storefront.
Some sellers may be selling items or services that don’t fit within any of the default marketplace categories. This roadmap item adds the ability to create new categories and integrate them into a seller’s market.
Advanced SMSG bot functions and ability to integrate your own bot on Particl Desktop.
Particl Desktop currently has an SMSG bot browser, but its functions are purposely limited for its early version. This roadmap item extends its capabilities by allowing anyone to create and add their own bot to the browser. This item is expected to be closely associated with the SDK toolkit.
Adds webhook functionality to the marketplace for better interactivity with third-party applications.
Webhooks are a user-defined HTTP callback that can trigger calls to an API when a certain event happens. This will allow the marketplace to interact more directly with third-party applications (i.e. when a seller receives a new bid, it could call a marketplace API to flash your living room lights, interact with other eCommerce system that you’re running to reserve the item, send a “new order” notification on Telegram or by email, and etc).
Adds a section where it is possible to delete data (personal and not).
Privacy feature. It is needed for people that wants to only keep some data on their computer. This will also be helpful to clean data for big sellers on marketplace.
Allows users to communicate with each other.
Enables communication between users for various reasons whether it is marketplace-related or not. Communication methods will likely come in different forms and be implemented in phases at different points in time.
Allows national currencies (i.e. USD, EUR, ZAR, etc) to be used to top up Particl accounts.
Users may want to use national currencies rather than cryptocurrencies to top up their Particl accounts. This roadmap item uses the same Exchange Module as the integration of Bitcoin payments on Particl Desktop, but instead connects to a fiat gateway. This is a major requirement for attracting mainstream users.
Access Particl’s marketplace from the web or a mobile application.
Downloading a client may be fine for most Particl users and participants of niche industries, but it’s not a good user experience for people and businesses who use the more traditional online marketplaces to buy and sell online. Making a web/mobile gateway for Particl will dramatically and instantly extend Particl’s reach and potential user base.
Integrate other DSNs such as IPFS to offer options other than SMSG.
SMSG is very private and “scalable enough” for the short to mid-term, but it might reach scalability issues when massive numbers of users start using the marketplace. For this reason, the OMP Library, the underlying protocol of the marketplace, has been designed so that other DSNs can be integrated. The first implementation of an alternative DSN is expected to be the offloading of marketplace images on the IPFS network while SMSG would still be the underlying DSN that powers the marketplace.
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A Particl Open Marketplace feature that allows any user to ask questions to sellers. It also allows buyers to leave feedback and reviews on purchases. This feature is included inside the listing pop-up windows and will help buyers make better informed purchases.
A Particl Open Marketplace tool that allows sellers to easily import their inventory from outside sources. This tool enables the importing of listings via sources like WooCommerce, CSV files, spreadsheets, and etc. This helps with the on-boarding of sellers already selling online on other eCommerce platforms and marketplaces.
Multi-wallets will allow you to set up multiple wallets within the same Particl Desktop client, dramatically increasing your security, privacy, and usability by isolating your data and history used on different profiles. Multi-wallet support was added in Particl Core v<IP_ADDRESS>.
The Particl Open Marketplace has been released on mainnet! The first live version includes full anon privacy (RingCT & CT powered marketplace transactions enabled by default), multi-wallets, and community proposals. It also includes the OMP Library that makes the back-end much stronger and ready to integrate more advanced features.
Particl’s Bitcoin-based implementation of the RingCT privacy protocol has been on testnet since Particl’s inception but is planned on being moved over to mainnet soon in combination with the Marketplace Governance mechanism. Particl’s own custom implementation of RingCT has been properly audited by WSA and academically reviewed by the NJIT Department of Technology and no major issue was found by neither inspections.
Bulletproofs are short non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that require no trusted setup. They are designed to enable efficient Confidential Transactions (CT), and thus RingCT, effectively reducing their transaction size by about ~80%. We estimate the research, development, implementation, and testing to take around 3 to 4 months as a part-time assignment for Tecnovert, our Lead Core Developer & Cryptographer.
The MLSAG and Bulletproofs parts of Particl’s custom implementation of RingCT have been successfully audited by the renowned QuarksLab security firm. The report came back perfect, with no vulnerability or weakness identified in the code. This was the catalyst for RingCT’s move onto mainnet a few days later.
Particl Copay is a secure but simple wallet made for desktop and mobile OS. We plan on integrating cold staking into it, thus allowing users to add multi-signature security parameters to their cold staking or hardware cold staking setup.
The Marketplace Governance system will allow users to self-moderate the content listed on Particl Marketplace. This system is entirely controlled by the community and no Particl team member or staff has any authority over the content of the marketplace.
Particl’s mobile wallet, Particl Copay, is currently only available for Android devices as well as desktops. We plan on releasing an iOS version for it to be published on Apple’s App Store.
Initial support for the Ledger Hardware Wallet is here!
This has not yet been extended to blind
or anon
transactions and therefore currently cannot be used exclusively for all functions of the wallet. Support will continue to be extended in future versions.
NJIT researchers are 5 months into review and will provide the foundation with a report after 6 months on the privacy, cryptography and security recommendations for Particl’s RingCT implementation on the latest Bitcoin codebase.
ALPHA is the long-awaited decentralized marketplace dApp within Particl Desktop. The Market alpha release of the marketplace will be barebones to start as users begin to test and progress through the buying/selling process.
Particl Core 0.16 introduces generic support for Hardware Signing Devices to provide key-signing capabilities.
In order to facilitate deterministic generation of stealth addresses between Particl Core and Signing Devices the method used to generate these addresses had to be changed.
1st true cold staking PoS protocol implemented. Enhances privacy for stakers, staking becomes quantum-resistant.
Particl integrates and enables atomic swaps with other supported blockchains.
Particl blockchain launched as pure PoS (no PoW period or pre-mine) with native Segwit support, Confidential Transactions (CT) and decentralized voting. Particl Core (Qt wallet) released.
Particl Stiftung, a Swiss non-profit foundation, is created and registered to support the project financially, legally and strategically.
The first draft of the Particl Marketplace whitepaper is released.


THE CROW A Film Review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1994 Scott Renshaw
Starring: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis. Screenplay: David Schow and John Shirley. Director: Alex Proyas.
I have seen a number of reviewers falling over themselves to praise THE CROW, and I'm not convinced that many of them haven't been unduly influenced by the film's morbid history. As it is now well- known, star Brandon Lee was killed during the filming of THE CROW, and consequently its storyline of a man returning from the dead to bring closure to his life hits close enough to home to create a natural fascination. I, like many, hoped that THE CROW would serve as a fitting epitaph to a budding star, and show that he hadn't died simply to make another schlocky action-fantasy. But sadly, that's basically what THE CROW is--a paper thin story supporting a lot of rain and moody lighting.
Lee stars as Eric Draven, a rock guitarist killed when he enters his fiancee's apartment as she is being raped, and eventually killed herself. One year later, a supernatural crow causes Eric to burst forth from his grave, endowed with superhuman abilities including the ability to take a truckload of bullets and keep on ticking. One by one he hunts down the gang responsible for his death and that of his fiancee, assisted along the way by the cop (Ernie Hudson) who worked the original case. At the top of Eric's list is Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), the city crimelord who ordered the killing, and who proves to be Eric's most dangerous challenge.
All right, let's dispense with the formalities right off the top: THE CROW *looks* great. Director Alex Proyas (an Australian previously best known for music videos) and his production team have captured the grim feel of James O'Barr's graphic novel; the cross- cutting to flashbacks, freeze frames and evocative lighting all have a distinct comic book feel. But there is very little THE CROW does visually that BLADE RUNNER or BATMAN didn't already do, and for the most part do better. Proyas wheels out cliches like the cityscape on fire opening shot, the close-up of the hero's face dripping with rain, and lightning revealing something previously hidden in shadow. While the art direction and cinematography are striking, there is nothing original enough to obscure the glaring weaknesses in the rest of the film.
The trouble begins with the script by David Schow and John Shirley, but the fact is that there's no way of knowing what changes were made as a result of Lee's death. Perhaps the original script didn't begin with Eric and Shelly already dead, giving more poignance to the story and a chance to understand what Eric has lost beyond the snippets shown in flashback. Perhaps it included a scene between Eric and Sarah (Rochelle Davis), the young street kid who is his friend in life, where Eric confronts the fact that he can't have friends in death. As it stands, there is not enough pain in Eric's characterization, not enough opportunity for us to see him responding to the circumstance in which he finds himself.
What is true of Eric's characterization is true of the characterizations right down the line: they're either lazy, or they just don't make sense. Rochelle Davis is the tough-but-victimized urchin with a skateboard; Ernie Hudson plays a gruff-but- compassionate cop. Michael Wincott does fine work as the villain, but the attempt to explain his motivation is one of the lamest in recent memory. And the rest of the villains appear to have been Xeroxed from ROBOCOP.
However, I'm willing to admit that there may be only two relevant questions for most potential viewers of THE CROW: 1) Is it a good action film? 2) Was Brandon Lee headed towards stardom? The answer to #1 is, better than most; THE CROW is well paced, well choreographed and is at least somewhat creative. As for #2, it's hard to say. Unlike most action stars, Lee at least had English as his native language, and given time he might have become a good actor. But in THE CROW, he wasn't yet. And I can't help but think that if he were alive today, most critics wouldn't have bee so forgiving.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 crows: 5.
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Policies are use to prevent users from taking unauthorized actions.
Below is an example of retrieving the UserID from session and comparing it to the userid that is passed to the server. This will verify that both the query is properly formed, and that the user is allowed to make that query.
// api/policies/userIdMatches.js
module.exports = function (req,res,next) {
// Pick userId out of params
var specifiedUserId = req.param('UserId');
// If it was passed in as a query parameter, extract it
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}
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else
res.send('You don\'t have permission to use that userId.', 403);
};


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TourMatMenuModule
is an implementation of the tour UI that uses
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TourMatMenuModule.forRoot()
into your app module
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is imported in your app module


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Winston looked round the shabby little room above Mr Charrington's shop. Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster垫枕（长而厚）a long thick pillow that is placed across the top of a bed under the other pillows. The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece壁炉台 a shelf above a fireplace. In the corner, on the gate-leg table折叠式桌子, the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness.
In the fender壁炉的栅栏 a frame around a fireplace to prevent burning coal or wood from falling out was a battered破旧不堪的 old, used a lot, and not in very good condition tin锡 a chemical element. Tin is a soft silver-white metal that is often mixed with other metals or used to cover them to prevent them from rusting. oilstove煤油炉, a saucepan（带盖，有一长柄或两耳的）深煮锅 a deep round metal pot with a lid and one long handle or two short handles, used for cooking things over heat, and two cups, provided by Mr Charrington. Winston lit the burner（取暖用的）炉子 a large, solid, metal piece of equipment for burning wood or coal, used for heating a room and set a pan of water to boil. He had brought an envelope full of Victory Coffee and some saccharine tablets. The clock's hands said seventeen-twenty: it was nineteen-twenty really. She was coming at nineteen-thirty.
Folly, folly愚蠢；愚笨；愚蠢的想法（或事情、行为）a lack of good judgement; the fact of doing sth stupid; an activity or idea that shows a lack of judgement, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous无正当理由（或目的）的；无谓的 done without any good reason or purpose and often having harmful effects, suicidal自杀性的；有致命危险的；毁灭性的；灾难性的very dangerous and likely to lead to death; likely to cause very serious problems or disaster folly. Of all the crimes that a Party member could commit, this one was the least possible to conceal. Actually the idea had first floated into his head in the form of a vision, of the glass paperweight mirrored by the surface of the gate-leg table. As he had foreseen, Mr Charrington had made no difficulty about letting the room. He was obviously glad of the few dollars that it would bring him. Nor did he seem shocked or become offensively knowing when it was made clear that Winston wanted the room for the purpose of a love-affair. Instead he looked into the middle distance and spoke in generalities, with so delicate an air as to give the impression that he had become partly invisible. Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally. And when they had such a place, it was only common courtesy in anyone else who knew of it to keep his knowledge to himself. He even, seeming almost to fade out of existence as he did so, added that there were two entries to the house, one of them through the back yard, which gave on an alley（建筑群中间或后面的）小街，小巷，胡同a narrow passage behind or between buildings.
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Folly, folly, folly! he thought again. It was inconceivable that they could frequent this place for more than a few weeks without being caught. But the temptation of having a hiding-place that was truly their own, indoors and near at hand, had been too much for both of them. For some time after their visit to the church belfry（尤指教堂的）钟楼，钟塔a tower in which bells hang, especially as part of a church it had been impossible to arrange meetings. Working hours had been drastically increased in anticipation of Hate Week. It was more than a month distant, but the enormous, complex preparations that it entailed were throwing extra work on to everybody. Finally both of them managed to secure a free afternoon on the same day. They had agreed to go back to the clearing in the wood. On the evening beforehand they met briefly in the street. As usual, Winston hardly looked at Julia as they drifted towards one another in the crowd, but from the short glance he gave her it seemed to him that she was paler than usual.
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‘Tomorrow afternoon. I can't come.'
‘Why not?'
‘Oh, the usual reason. It's started early this time.'
For a moment he was violently angry. During the month that he had known her the nature of his desire for her had changed. At the beginning there had been little true sensuality in it. Their first love-making had been simply an act of the will. But after the second time it was different. The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to. When she said that she could not come, he had the feeling that she was cheating him. But just at this moment the crowd pressed them together and their hands accidentally met. She gave the tips of his fingers a quick squeeze that seemed to invite not desire but affection. It struck him that when one lived with a woman this particular disappointment must be a normal, recurring event; and a deep tenderness, such as he had not felt for her before, suddenly took hold of him. He wished that they were a married couple of ten years' standing. He wished that he were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing now but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and buying odds and ends for the household. He wished above all that they had some place where they could be alone together without feeling the obligation to make love every time they met. It was not actually at that moment, but at some time on the following day, that the idea of renting Mr Charrington's room had occurred to him. When he suggested it to Julia she had agreed with unexpected readiness.  It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed he thought again of the cellars of the Ministry of Love. It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.
At this moment there was a quick step on the stairs. Julia burst猛冲；突然出现to go or move somewhere suddenly with great force; to come from somewhere suddenly into the room. She was carrying a tool-bag of coarse brown canvas, such as he had sometimes seen her carrying to and fro at the Ministry. He started forward to take her in his arms, but she disengaged herself rather hurriedly, partly because she was still holding the tool-bag.
‘Half a second,' she said. ‘Just let me show you what I've brought.  I thought you would. You can chuck（随便或贸然地）扔，抛 to throw sth carelessly or without much thought it away again, because we shan't be needing it. Look here.'
She fell on her knees, threw open the bag, and tumbled out some spanners扳手；扳子；扳钳a metal tool with a specially shaped end for holding and turning nuts and bolts (= small metal rings and pins that hold things together) and a screwdriver螺丝刀；改锥a tool with a narrow blade that is specially shaped at the end, used for turning screws that filled the top part of it. Underneath were a number of neat paper packets. The first packet that she passed to Winston had a strange and yet vaguely familiar feeling. It was filled with some kind of heavy, sand-like stuff which yielded wherever you touched it.
‘It isn't sugar?' he said.
‘Real sugar. Not saccharine, sugar.  And here's a tin of milk—but look! This is the one I'm really proud of. I had to wrap a bit of sacking round it, because——'
But she did not need to tell him why she had wrapped it up. The smell was already filling the room, a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhood, but which one did occasionally meet with even now, blowing down a passage-way before a door slammed, or diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again.
‘It's coffee,' he murmured, ‘real coffee.'
‘It's Inner Party coffee. There's a whole kilo here,' she said.
‘How did you manage to get hold of all these things?'
‘It's all Inner Party stuff. There's nothing those swine don't have, nothing. But of course waiters and servants and people pinch偷摸；行窃to steal sth, especially sth small and not very valuable things, and—look, I got a little packet of tea as well.'
Winston had squatted down beside her. He tore open a corner of the packet.
‘It's real tea. Not blackberry leaves.'
‘There's been a lot of tea about lately. They've captured India, or something,' she said vaguely. ‘But listen, dear.  Go and sit on the other side of the bed. Don't go too near the window. And don't turn round till I tell you.'
Winston gazed abstractedly through the muslin curtain. Down in the yard the red-armed woman was still marching to and fro between the washtub and the line. She took two more pegs out of her mouth and sang with deep feeling:
They sye that time ‘eals all things, They sye you can always forget; But the smiles an' the tears acrorss the years They twist my ‘eart-strings yet!
She knew the whole drivelling song by heart, it seemed. Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy. One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish. It struck him as a curious fact that he had never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. It would even have seemed slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself. Perhaps it was only when people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about.
‘You can turn round now,' said Julia.
He turned round, and for a second almost failed to recognize her. What he had actually expected was to see her naked. But she was not naked. The transformation that had happened was much more surprising than that. She had painted her face.
She must have slipped into some shop in the proletarian quarters and bought herself a complete set of make-up materials. Her lips were deeply reddened, her cheeks rouged, her nose powdered; there was even a touch of something under the eyes to make them brighter. It was not very skilfully done, but Winston's standards in such matters were not high. He had never before seen or imagined a woman of the Party with cosmetics化妆品；美容品 a substance that you put on your face or body to make it more attractive on her face. The improvement in her appearance was startling. With just a few dabs of colour in the right places she had become not only very much prettier, but, above all, far more feminine. Her short hair and boyish overalls merely added to the effect. As he took her in his arms a wave of synthetic violets flooded his nostrils鼻孔 either of the two openings at the end of the nose that you breathe through.  It was the very same scent that she had used; but at the moment it did not seem to matter.
‘Scent too!' he said.
‘Yes, dear, scent too.  I'm going to get hold of a real woman's frock连衣裙；女装a dress from somewhere and wear it instead of these bloody trousers. I'll wear silk stockings and high-heeled shoes! In this room I'm going to be a woman, not a Party comrade.'
They flung their clothes off and climbed into the huge mahogany红木；桃花心木the hard reddish-brown wood of a tropical tree, used for making furniture bed.  Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meagre少量且劣质的small in quantity and poor in quality body, with the varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discoloured patch over his ankle. There were no sheets, but the blanket they lay on was threadbare穿旧的；磨薄的；破旧的old and thin because it has been used a lot and smooth, and the size and springiness of the bed astonished both of them. ‘It's sure to be full of bugs, but who cares?' said Julia. One never saw a double bed nowadays, except in the homes of the proles. Winston had occasionally slept in one in his boyhood: Julia had never been in one before, so far as she could remember.
Presently they fell asleep for a little while. When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine. He did not stir, because Julia was sleeping with her head in the crook臂弯；肘弯 the place where your arm bends at the elbow of his arm. Most of her make-up had transferred itself to his own face or the bolster垫枕, but a light stain of rouge still brought out the beauty of her cheekbone. A yellow ray from the sinking sun fell across the foot of the bed and lighted up the fireplace, where the water in the pan was boiling fast. Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street. He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary? Julia woke up, rubbed her eyes, and raised herself on her elbow to look at the oil-stove.
‘Half that water's boiled away,' she said. ‘I'll get up and make some coffee in another moment. We've got an hour. What time do they cut the lights off at your flats?'
‘Twenty-three thirty.'
‘It's twenty-three at the hostel宿舍，招待所（提供廉价食宿服务）a building that provides cheap accommodation and meals to students, workers or travellers. But you have to get in earlier than that, because—Hi!
She suddenly twisted herself over in the bed, seized a shoe from the floor, and sent it hurtling into the corner with a boyish jerk of her arm, exactly as he had seen her fling the dictionary at Goldstein, that morning during the Two Minutes Hate.
‘What was it?' he said in surprise.
‘A rat. I saw him stick his beastly nose out of the wainscoting. There's a hole down there. I gave him a good fright, anyway.'
‘Rats!' murmured Winston. ‘In this room!'
‘They're all over the place,' said Julia indifferently as she lay down again. ‘We've even got them in the kitchen at the hostel. Some parts of London are swarming with them. Did you know they attack children? Yes, they do. In some of these streets a woman daren't leave a baby alone for two minutes. It's the great huge brown ones that do it.
‘Dearest! You've gone quite pale. What's the matter? Do they make you feel sick?'
‘Of all horrors in the world—a rat!'
She pressed herself against him and wound her limbs round him, as though to reassure him with the warmth of her body. He did not reopen his eyes immediately. For several moments he had had the feeling of being back in a nightmare which had recurred from time to time throughout his life. It was always very much the same. He was standing in front of a wall of darkness, and on the other side of it there was something unendurable, something too dreadful to be faced. In the dream his deepest feeling was always one of self-deception, because he did in fact know what was behind the wall of darkness. With a deadly effort, like wrenching a piece out of his own brain, he could even have dragged the thing into the open. He always woke up without discovering what it was: but somehow it was connected with what Julia had been saying when he cut her short.
‘I'm sorry,' he said, ‘it's nothing. I don't like rats, that's all.'
‘Don't worry, dear, we're not going to have the filthy brutes in here. I'll stuff the hole with a bit of sacking before we go. And next time we come here I'll bring some plaster and bung it up properly.'
Already the black instant of panic was half-forgotten. Feeling slightly ashamed of himself, he sat up against the bedhead. Julia got out of bed, pulled on her overalls, and made the coffee. The smell that rose from the saucepan（带盖，有一长柄或两耳的）深煮锅a deep round metal pot with a lid and one long handle or two short handles, used for cooking things over heat was so powerful and exciting that they shut the window lest anybody outside should notice it and become inquisitive. What was even better than the taste of the coffee was the silky texture given to it by the sugar, a thing Winston had almost forgotten after years of saccharine. With one hand in her pocket and a piece of bread and jam in the other, Julia wandered about the room, glancing indifferently at the bookcase, pointing out the best way of repairing the gate-leg table, plumping herself down in the ragged arm-chair to see if it was comfortable, and examining the absurd twelve-hour clock with a sort of tolerant amusement. She brought the glass paperweight over to the bed to have a look at it in a better light. He took it out of her hand, fascinated, as always, by the soft, rain watery appearance of the glass.
‘What is it, do you think?' said Julia.
‘I don't think it's anything—I mean, I don't think it was ever put to any use. That's what I like about it. It's a little chunk of history that they've forgotten to alter. It's a message from a hundred years ago, if one knew how to read it.'
‘And that picture over there'—she nodded at the engraving on the opposite wall—'would that be a hundred years old?'
‘More. Two hundred, I dare say. One can't tell. It's impossible to discover the age of anything nowadays.'
She went over to look at it. ‘Here's where that brute stuck his nose out,' she said, kicking the wainscoting immediately below the picture. ‘What is this place? I've seen it before somewhere.'
‘It's a church, or at least it used to be. St Clement Danes its name was.' The fragment of rhyme that Mr Charrington had taught him came back into his head, and he added half-nostalgically: ‘Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's!'
To his astonishment she capped the line:
'You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin's, When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey——'
‘I can't remember how it goes on after that. But anyway I remember it ends up, ‘Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!‘‘
It was like the two halves of a countersign. But there must be another line after ‘the bells of Old Bailey'. Perhaps it could be dug out of Mr Charrington's memory, if he were suitably prompted.
‘Who taught you that?' he said.
‘My grandfather. He used to say it to me when I was a little girl. He was vaporized when I was eight—at any rate, he disappeared. I wonder what a lemon was,' she added inconsequently. ‘I've seen oranges. They're a kind of round yellow fruit with a thick skin.'
‘I can remember lemons,' said Winston. ‘They were quite common in the fifties. They were so sour that it set your teeth on edge even to smell them.'
‘I bet that picture's got bugs behind it,' said Julia. ‘I'll take it down and give it a good clean some day. I suppose it's almost time we were leaving. I must start washing this paint off. What a bore!
Winston did not get up for a few minutes more. The room was darkening. He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself. There was such a depth of it, and yet it was almost as transparent as air. It was as though the surface of the glass had been the arch of the sky, enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete. He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gate-leg table, and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself. The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.


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ocean - Realistic water shader for Three.js
This project propose an implementation of a three.js shader to provide a realistic plane water effect. It can be used to render water in some situations like complete ocean or small surface of water in real time.
Demos
Dependencies
- Three.js r70 to render the scene : https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/
- JQuery 1.10.2 as a helper : https://github.com/jquery/jquery
- Terrain-generator for procedural terrain generation : https://github.com/jbouny/terrain-generator
Sources
Slayvin - http://slayvin.net Use of the flat mirror implementation for three.js as a base : https://code.google.com/p/mirror-three-js/source/browse/FlatMirror.js
Stemkoski - http://www.adelphi.edu/~stemkoski Use of the adaptation of the flat mirror implementation to provide a water effect
Jonas Wagner - http://29a.ch/ The real rendering come from here : http://29a.ch/slides/2012/webglwater, an explanation on how to render water. With some adaptation of its shader, results are here.


Managing Extension URL Providers
How to manage the URL behaviors of module providers that have been installed on this site. Module providers are a type of extension that allows Administrators to extend the URL behaviors for a specific module. The DNN Social URL Extension Provider that creates friendly URL's for Evoq Social features is used in the below example. This provider is not included with your DNN installation, however it can be downloaded from Codeplex at http://dnnurlproviders.codeplex.com.
- Navigate to Admin > Site Settings.
- Select the Advanced URL Settings tab.
- Expand the Extension URL Providers section to view a list of any extension URL providers that are installed on this site.
- In the Enabled column:
- Mark the check box beside a module provider to enable it.
- Unmark the check box beside a module provider to disable it.
- In the Action column, click the Edit button to load any provider-specific Settings page that the provider developer has included. Here you can edit these settings as required.
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class Cluster |
Description
A cluster is basically like a set genes in a digraph of genes where adjacent genes are grouped together. One Gene is known to be adjacent to another gene if its query points to the subject or query of another or its subject points to the query or subject of another. ...
Being that a Cluster is a Set, there is no duplication
Author: Leo Przybylski<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Method add
Adds an Gene
instance to the Cluster
Parameters
Method union
Unions this Cluster
instance with another Cluster
instance.
The result is a completely new Cluster
.
Parameters
Returns
A new Cluster
instance containing all Gene
instances from both Cluster
instances.
If a union is not possible,
nothing is returned
Method contains
Traverses the Cluster
for a given Gene
Parameters
Returns
1
if $tocompare
is contained in the Cluster
; 0
otherwise.
Method indexOf
Traverses the Cluster
looking for the array index of the Gene
Parameters
Returns
index
integer location of $tocompare
within the Cluster
array of Gene
instances; -1
otherwise.
Method remove
Locates and removes an Gene
from the Cluster
.
This probably only happens when an Gene
has been found to be invalid.
Parameters
Method containsId
Parameters
Returns
1
if $tocompare
is contained in the Cluster
; 0
otherwise.
Getter graph
Returns
A reference to an array instance containing Gene
instances for this Cluster
Getter genes
Returns
A reference to an array instance containing Gene
instances for this Cluster
Getter ids
Returns
A reference to an array instance containing Gene
instances for this Cluster
Getter size
Returns
The number of Gene
instances that are part of this Cluster
Method hasAdjacentGene
Compares this Cluster
to another to see if the two might have genes that are adjacent to each other
Parameters
Returns
1
if tocompare
shares at least 1 adjacent gene with this Cluster
instance or 0
if it doesn't.
Method hasGeneAdjacentTo
Compares Gene
instances in this Cluster
to another to see if the the other is adjacent to any Gene
instances in this cluster.
Parameters
Returns
1
if tocompare
shares at least 1 adjacent gene with this Cluster
instance or 0
if it doesn't.
Method compareCardinality
Compares the cardinality (the number of Gene
instances) of this Cluster
instance to another Cluster
instance.
Parameters
Returns
-1
if thisCluster
is smaller in cardinality thantocompare
0
if thisCluster
is shares the same cardinality astocompare
1
if thisCluster
is larger in cardinality thantocompare
Getter geneByHit
Gets an Gene
from the graph by the subject id.
It will iterate through the genes until it finds one with the subject id it's looking for.
Parameters
Returns
An Gene
instance


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Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
over 2 hours
Serves
Serves 6
Gammon and coriander seeds have a time-honoured partnership, and have long been used to preserve meat. Our visit to a cider barn in Somerset inspired us to add some additional flavours. Using both cider and apple juice, and adding a bite of red chilli to the flavour of the coriander seeds adds a real sparkle to this dish.
Soak the gammon in plenty of cold water in the fridge for at least two hours, or overnight. Drain well.
Place the gammon along with all the other gammon ingredients in a casserole dish. The liquid should cover the meat; if not, add a little water to just cover. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer gently, partly covered with a lid, for 1¼ hours. Turn the gammon carefully in the liquid every 20 minutes or so.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Remove the gammon from its cooking stock, transfer to a small roasting tin. Reserve the cooking liquid for making the sauce.
Cut the rind from the gammon, leaving a thin layer of fat, and discard the rind.
For the glaze, put a ladleful of cooking liquid into a large clean pan. Add the sugar and chilli powder and cook until a glaze-like consistency. Pour this over the gammon and roast for 15 minutes, until browned and caramelised. Set aside in a warm place while you make the sauce
For the sauce, boil the cooking liquid in a pan, uncovered, over a high heat until it has reduced to about 500ml/17fl oz; this could take about 10 minutes of boiling.
Strain the liquid through a sieve into a clean pan, rubbing any pieces of apple through the sieve too so that the flesh is in the sauce; leave behind only the skins. Taste the sauce and adjust seasoning to taste. If you want it sweeter, add a pinch of demerara sugar; you almost certainly won’t need any salt.
Reheat the remaining strained sauce gently until it reaches a simmer. Blend the cornflour in a little cold water to a smooth paste, and stir into the sauce, stirring continuously. A creamy consistency is better than a very thick sauce, but if you prefer yours thicker, add a little more blended cornflour. To serve, place gammon slices on individual plates and pour over the sauce. Serve with spiced red cabbage and green chilli mash.


- Convolutional networks we have seen receive a single input (e.g., each image) and produce a single output.
Recurrent Neural Networks
- For some problems, sequential information is available,i.e., several inputs from which a single output has to be produced a single output (e.g., weather forecast).
- Problem: Weather forecast.
Recurrent Neural Networks
- Problem: Time series prediction.
Recurrent Neural Networks
- In other problems, a single input is avalaible and an output that is itself a sequence is needed.
- Problem: Music generation according to genre.
Recurrent Neural Networks
- RNNs can also receive a single input (e.g., each image) and produce a single output.
Recurrent Neuron Computation
\[
{\bf{s}}_{(t)} = f_W \left ( {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right)
\]
- \( {\bf{x}}_{(t)}\): Input.
- \( {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}, {\bf{s}}_{(t)}\): States
at times \(t-1 \) and \( t \).
- \( f_W \): Current state of the neuron depends on the previous state and the input through a function parameterized by \( W \) .
Simple Recurrent Neurons
Memory cells
- The cell output is also a function of the current inputs and the previous state.
- For simple cells the output is equal to cell's state.
- For more complex cells the output of the cell and the cell's state do not coincide.
Recurrent neuron as memory cell
\[
{\bf{s}}_{(t)} = f_W \left ( {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right)
\]
- \( {\bf{x}}_{(t)}\): Input.
- \( {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}, {\bf{s}}_{(t)}\): States
at times \(t-1 \) and \( t \).
- \( f_W \): Current state of the neuron depends on the previous state and the input through a function parameterized by \( W \) .
A. Geron. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow. Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems. O'Reilly. 2017.
Recurrent Neuron Computation
\[
{\bf{s}}_{(t)} = \phi \left ( W_{s,s} \, {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}
+ W_{x,s} \, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right)
\]
\[
{\bf{y}}_{(t)} = {\bf{s}}_{(t)} W_{s,y}
\]
- \( {\bf{x}}_{(t)}\): Input.
- \( {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}, {\bf{s}}_{(t)}\): States
at times \(t-1 \) and \( t \).
- \({\bf{W}}_{s,s}\),\({\bf{W}}_{x,s}\), \({\bf{w}}_{s,y}\): Weights for the state, the input, and the output, respectively.
- \(\phi() \): Activation function.
Recurrent Neuron Computation
\[
{\bf{s}}_{(t)} = \phi \left ( W_{s,s} \, {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}
+ W_{x,s} \, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right)
\]
\[
{\bf{y}}_{(t)} = {\bf{s}}_{(t)} W_{s,y}
\]
- \({\bf{W}}_{s,s}\),\({\bf{W}}_{x,s}\), \({\bf{w}}_{s,y}\) are shared along all time steps .
- Some simple RNN cells do not use \( W_{s,y} \) and assume that \( {\bf{y}}_{(t)} = {\bf{s}}_{(t)} \)
RNN problem
- \(t=1: \; \; \; {\bf{s}}_{(t)} = \phi \left ( W_{s,s} \, {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}
+ W_{x,s} \, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right) \) .
RNN problem
- \(t=2: \; \; \; {\bf{s}}_{(t)} = \phi \left ( W_{s,s} \, {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}
+ W_{x,s} \, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right) \) .
RNN problem
- \(t=3: \; \; \; {\bf{s}}_{(t)} = \phi \left ( W_{s,s} \, {\bf{s}}_{(t-1)}
+ W_{x,s} \, {\bf{x}}_{(t)} \right) \) .
RNN Variants
- Produce an output at each time step and have recurrent connections between hidden units.
- Produce an output at each time step and have recurrent connections only from the output at one time step to the hidden units at the next time step.
- Recurrent connections between hidden units, that read an entire sequence and then produce a single output.
One input to one output
- Example of application: Next character prediction.
Recurrent connections between hidden neurons
Connection between hidden neurons
\begin{align}
{\bf{a}}^{(t)} &= {\bf{b}} + {\bf{W}}{\bf{h}}^{(t-1)} + {\bf{U}}{\bf{x}}^{(t)} \\
{\bf{h}}^{(t)} &= tanh({\bf{a}}^{(t)}) \\
{\bf{o}}^{(t)} &= {\bf{c}} \; {\bf{V}}{\bf{h}}^{(t)} \\
\hat{{\bf{y}}}^{(t)} &= softmax ({\bf{o}}^{(t)})
\end{align}
Connection between hidden neurons
Loss function
\begin{align}
& \mathcal{L} (\{ {\bf{x}}^{(1)},\dots,{\bf{x}}^{(\tau)}\},\{{\bf{y}}^{(1)},\dots,{\bf{y}}^{(\tau)} \} \\
=& \sum_t \mathcal{L}^{(t)} \\
=& \sum_t \log p_{rnn} \left( {\bf{y}}^{(t)} \mid \{{\bf{x}}^{(1)},\dots,{\bf{x}}^{(\tau)} \} \right)
\end{align}
Connection from output to hidden neurons
Many inputs to only one output
Many inputs to only one output
- Example of application: Time Series Classification.
Recurrent Layers
Characteristics
- A layer of recurrent functions is formed by joining \(n_{neurons} \;\) recurrent neurons.
- The neurons that multiply the input features by the weight matrix, as usual, and apply the activation function afterwards.
- All neurons in the layer will receive as input the original input \(x_t\) plus the concatenation of the outputs of the neurons in the previous layer.
Recurrent layers
Output recurrent layer
-
\[
\begin{align}
{\bf{S}}_{(t)} &= \phi \left( {\bf{X}}_{(t)} \cdot {\bf{W}}_{(x,s)} + {\bf{S}}_{(t-1)} \cdot {\bf{W}}_{(s,s)} + {\bf{b}}_s \right)
\end{align}
\]
- \( {\bf{S}}_{(t)} \): is an \( m \times n_{neurons} \; \) matrix where \(m\) is the size of the minibatch and \(n_{neurons} \; \) is the number of neurons in the layer.
- \( {\bf{X}}_{(t)} \): is an \( m \times n_{inputs} \) matrix where \(n_{inputs}\) is the number of input features.
- \( {\bf{W}}_{(x,t)} \): is an \(n_{inputs} \times n_{neurons} \; \) with the weights for the input features for the current time step.
- \( {\bf{W}}_{(s,s)} \): is an \(n_{neurons} \times n_{neurons} \; \) with the connection weights between the neurons in the previous and current time steps.
A. Geron. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow. Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems. O'Reilly. 2017.
Deep RNNs
Deep learning with RNNs
- A recurrent neural network can be made deep in many ways.
- Adding depthness from the input to the hidden state.
- From the previous hidden state to the next hidden state.
- From the hidden state to the output.
- Depthness can increase the capacity of the model needed in these different parts.
Deep RNNs
Deep learning with RNNs
- The hidden recurrent state can be broken down into groups organized hierarchically.
- Deeper computation (e.g., an MLP) can be introduced in the input-to-hidden, hidden-to-hidden, and hidden-to-ouput parts.
- Significant benefit can be obtained from decomposing the state of an RNN into multiple ways.
- Adding depth may hurt learning by making optimization difficult.
RNNs with context information
Ways of adding context
- A single vector \(x\) can be used as input context to condition sequence prediction.
- Can be added as an extra input at each time step or;
- As the initial state \(h^{(0)}\).
- Or be used as both of these previous possibilities.
- Context is used for tasks such as image captioning.
Encoder-Decoder
Characteristics
- Similar to the sequence model.
- It has an initial encoding stage with no output signal to predict.
- In the encoding stage, the input sequence is consumed to produce a hidden state.
- It the decoding stage, an output signal is produced, one timestep at a time, conditioned on the hidden state from the encoding stage .
RNNs. Sequence to sequence (encoder-decoder) models
- Example of application: Text transcription.
Bidirectional RNN
Characteristics
- Two layers of hidden nodes are connected to input and output.
- The first has recurrent connections from the last time.
- The second has recurrent connections from the future.
- It requires a fixed point in the future and the past.


Coetzee, Harding, Stone join Mauritius Open field
Cape Town - European Tour champions George Coetzee, Justin Harding and Brandon Stone have added their names to an already strong field for the Mauritius Open at the Heritage Golf Club from December 5-8.
The trio of South Africans join a field including Major winner Paul Lawrie, Ryder Cup stars Nicolas Colsaerts, Thomas Pieters and Edoardo Molinari, former Asian Tour Order of Merit winner Shubhankar Sharma, and top amateurs Matthias Schmid and Pierre Pellegrin.
Coetzee returns to the Indian Ocean island as a four-time European Tour champion and the winner of the inaugural Mauritius Open at Heritage Golf Club in 2015.
The South African is seeking to win a European Tour event twice for the second time in his career after he won the Tshwane Open in 2015 and 2018. He also recently claimed his 10th Sunshine Tour title when he won the Origins of Golf Final at the beginning of November.
"I feel like I'm in a good space now and playing pretty well. I'm looking forward to the summer season and hopefully my golf will be good. It's an exciting time for me," he said.
Harding, currently ranked 23rd on the Race to Dubai, made his breakthrough on the European Tour this year with his victory in the Qatar Masters, which was his fifth victory in 12 months wherein he also won on the Asian Tour and Sunshine Tour and broke into the top 50 on the world ranking for the first time in his career.
Stone heads to Mauritius as a three-time European Tour champion, including his Rolex Series victory in the 2018 Scottish Open.
Korean professional Taehee Lee will be among those leading the Asian Tour challenge in this tournament as the highest ranked player on the Asian Tour's Habitat for Humanity Standings in fourth place.
The €1-million tournament is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year as a leading tri-sanctioned tournament between the European Tour, Asian Tour and Sunshine Tour.
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I’m a Web Developer working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails and other technologies. I used to be a newspaper editor and reporter and later a designer for a large company of dailies in Austin, TX.
Being a journalist taught me about where everyone is getting their news and doing pretty much everything else from these days: their phones and laptops. Currently I’m working at Eaze Co. developing a full-stack web app powered by the MERN stack.
"WDI Learns" welcomes you and gives you 4 units to choose from, the same ones you're likely to learn at the Web Development Immersive course at General Assembly. Give it your best shot and test yourself, get a score back, and try again! Or try another quiz!
I built this app using the MERN (MongoDB, Express, Node.js, React) stack and used JSON web token authentication and Bootstrap for styling.
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Built with Ruby on Rails and styled with Bootstrap, "Urban WDI" is a full-CRUD, full-stack dictionary-type web application with words/definitions provided by users. The app looks to supply straightforward descriptions to JavaScript's and Ruby on Rails' numerous terms. Users are encouraged to responsibly add new words and definitions to build a database the JS/Rails community can benefit from.
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Everyone's favorite connect-the-dots game! This Connect Four game was built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
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Built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB and a third-party API, this was a group project aimed at people who are clueless about what to do on a late night on a weekend, which is basically all of us. By accessing the Yelp! Fusion API, this app enables users to search for nightlife options available near them. Bars & Restaurants can then be added by users to an itinerary which can then be shared with friends. So when you next ask yourself, "Where the party app?", boot up this site. Then you will know!
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Built with JavaScript, React and Bootstrap this web app fetches data from the Pokemon API and shows you the silhouette of a Pokemon (much like in the pre/post-commercial bit of the popular cartoon series) for your guessing pleasure. Guess correctly and the Pokemon will reveal itself to you!
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The 1973 "Game of the Year" is a code-breaking game for a single player and was built with JavaScript, React and Bootsrap for styling
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FaceReko
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Controls
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FaceReko
A 2 layer RFID card and facial recognition security system based on AWS Rekognition.


Configurable easy-to-use Meme Generator
Create new memes easily with the help of House Cat! Upload new templates from the dashboard online or use hundreds of existing ones!
Play games!
Challenge your friends to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors or spend the night laughing at Cards Against Humanity together!
... and much more!
"Thesaurize" messages, ask the Magic 8-Ball for advice, roll dice and create polls!


A "handler" is an internal Apache representation of the action to be performed when a file is called. Generally, files have implicit handlers, based on the file type. Normally, all files are simply served by the server, but certain file typed are "handled" separately. For example, you may use a type of "application/x-httpd-cgi" to invoke CGI scripts.
Apache 1.1 adds the additional ability to use handlers explicitly. Either based on filename extensions or on location, these handlers are unrelated to file type. This is advantageous both because it is a more elegant solution, but it also allows for both a type and a handler to be associated with a file.
Handlers can either be built into the server or to a module, or they can be added with the Action directive. The built-in handlers in the standard distribution are as follows:
AddHandler maps the filename extension extension to the
handler handler-name. For example, to activate CGI scripts
with the file extension ".cgi
", you might use:
AddHandler cgi-script cgi
Once that has been put into your srm.conf or httpd.conf file, any
file ending with ".cgi
" will be treated as a CGI
program.
When placed into an .htaccess
file or a
<Directory>
or <Location>
section,
this directive forces all matching files to be parsed through the
handler given by handler-name. For example, if you had a
directory you wanted to be parsed entirely as imagemap rule files,
regardless of extension, you might put the following into an
.htaccess
file in that directory:
SetHandler imap-file
Another example: if you wanted to have the server display a status
report whenever a URL of http://servername/status
was
called, you might put the following into access.conf:
<Location /status> SetHandler server-status </Location>
In order to implement the handler features, an addition has been
made to the Apache API that you may wish to
make use of. Specifically, a new record has been added to the
request_rec
structure:
char *handler
If you wish to have your module engage a handler, you need only to
set r->handler
to the name of the handler at any time
prior to the invoke_handler
stage of the
request. Handlers are implemented as they were before, albeit using
the handler name instead of a content type. While it is not
necessary, the naming convention for handlers is to use a
dash-separated word, with no slashes, so as to not invade the media
type name-space.


Description
2DCombo contains canned tests of most of primitive geometry and MGraphics objects as well as attributes, matrices and the rendering pipeline.
Concept
2DCombo demonstrates programming using the 2D Graphics classes. It shows how to create and draw objects such as curves, rectangles, and loops, and how to use attibutes, matrics and the rendering pipeline.
Task
Select the type of graphic you want to display from the menu.
Special Notes
On Windows 95, there are some differences from Windows NT. In particular, text and images do not support rotation or perform other transforms. Also, text does not scale but images will, to some extent. All operations work correctly on NT.


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This is a blog! (I am trying to be, and infact am humourous xD)
This isn't for those who prefer just prowling across the internet, pretending to find interesting stuffs to do, though you are sure you won't be doing, but still! This is a place for people in search of wisdom, that never asked you to stay, but still you never wish to leave. A kind of wisdom hustled from the variegated flower that blooms as feelings in one's garden of impulse, that beats eggs and makes sandwiches. Here we stack up those flowers from the people who will their forbidden ones to the world.  And to the ripeners, infact your being paid, you don't have to pay even heed, just read, and find your way, else make up a symbiosis and go dwelling!
Urgh... Why am I such a gasbag? Why would a flower beat pulses and eggs, and make sandwiches?  Hey people, it's nothing of that sort. Just find around really some random stuff, maybe some from the heart, deep while some just lame. Let's not dump them into a small pit. But let them take a perilous journey through the tunnels, that unite as the words get naked, bringing out it's essence. You might find a lots of Why's and How's in this blog, for which I found the answers nowhere. I'll be to indebted if any were to solve those unaccomplished quests. Read and take pleasure. Share yours and get them featured here.  And eat more impulsed sandwiches.
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Gabbard Defends FNC Appearances: 'I Am Here to Speak to Every Single American' | Breitbart
by Pam KeyOn Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) defended her Fox News appearances.
Co-host Joy Behar said, “You’re on state TV all the time.  It’s a propaganda network — 16 times with Tucker Carlson. I never see you with Chris Wallace or that other guy. What’s his name? Bret Baier. They are middle of the road.
Gabbard said, “You raised a second issue about why I go on Fox News.  I am here to speak to every single American in this country about the unifying leadership that I want to bring as president, not just speak to those who agree with me, but to speak to those who may disagree.”
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Product Designer
Spring, 2018
Product Management, Design Thinking
Click 'n Cook is a travel-friendly cooking utensil set that I designed for a client who had trouble keeping Kosher while traveling. During this ten week project, my team worked closely with Orthodox Jewish families, students, and Rabbis in the Chicago area to design a product that could help making Kosher traveling less stressful. In my role on this project, I learned rapid prototyping and sketching, conducted phone interviews and home visits, analyzed survey data, and managed tasks for my team.
Designated drawers and sinks make separating meat and dairy kitchenware to keep Kosher at home very methodical. The uncertainty of the organization and cleanliness of rental kitchens makes traveling Kosher much more difficult.
We observed kosher kitchens on Northwestern University's campus, visited homes and interviewed various Chicagoland area Orthodox Jewish families, conducted phone interviews with rabbis and other individuals involved with Jewish organizations in Chicago, and surveyed more than 200 congregants of various synagogues in the Chicagoland area
Portability: The product must be lightweight, fit in carry-on luggage with ease, and pass all TSA travel regulations.
Ease of use: The handle-head joint must be intuitive and should not interfere with use. Utensils should be color coded.
Kitchen safety: The product must be built with kitchen safe materials as to not contaminate the user’s meal with toxins.
Adherence to Kashrut: All materials used must be nonporous, and maintain structural integrity under boiling water or high heat.
The final design features a color coded universal handle which attaches to various utensil heads with a magnetic snap-in joint. This universal handle allows for a more compact fit in suitcases, while its lightweight kitchen-safe material minimizes added baggage weight without compromising on function.


Tools for randomization inference.
| Version: |
0.1-16 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 2.2.0), SparseM |
| Imports: |
grDevices, abind, xtable, svd, stats, graphics, methods, survival |
| Suggests: |
testthat, roxygen2, MASS, RSVGTipsDevice |
| Enhances: |
optmatch |
| Published: |
2018-06-19 |
| Author: |
Jake Bowers, Mark Fredrickson, and Ben Hansen |
| Maintainer: |
Jake Bowers <jwbowers at illinois.edu> |
| License: |
GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: |
https://crAn.r-project.org/package=RItools |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Citation: |
RItools citation info |
| Materials: |
README NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
RItools results |


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5.14. System Connector
The System connector provides information and metrics about the currently running Presto cluster. It makes this available via normal SQL queries.
Configuration
The System connector doesn’t need to be configured: it is automatically
available via a catalog named system
.
Using the System Connector
List the available system schemas:
SHOW SCHEMAS FROM system;
List the tables in one of the schemas:
SHOW TABLES FROM system.runtime;
Query one of the tables:
SELECT * FROM system.runtime.nodes;
Kill a running query:
CALL system.runtime.kill_query('20151207_215727_00146_tx3nr');
System Connector Tables
metadata.catalogs
The catalogs table contains the list of available catalogs.
metadata.schema_properties
The schema properties table contains the list of available properties that can be set when creating a new schema.
metadata.table_properties
The table properties table contains the list of available properties that can be set when creating a new table.
runtime.nodes
The nodes table contains the list of visible nodes in the Presto cluster along with their status.
runtime.queries
The queries table contains information about currently and recently running queries on the Presto cluster. From this table you can find out the original query text (SQL), the identity of the user who ran the query and performance information about the query including how long the query was queued and analyzed.
runtime.tasks
The tasks table contains information about the tasks involved in a Presto query including where they were executed and and how many rows and bytes each task processed.
runtime.transactions
The transactions table contains the list of currently open transactions and related metadata. This includes information such as the create time, idle time, initialization parameters, and accessed catalogs.
System Connector Procedures
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runtime.
kill_query
(id) Kill the query with the specified
id
.