Troubleshooting
If you find you're having problems getting DataMapper to work for you, please check each of the following items for common problems.
- Be sure to check that your server meets the Server Requirements and that you have correctly followed the Installation Instructions.
- If you have not yet read through all the topics in the General Topics section of the Table of Contents, I recommend you do this now. There might be some small gem of information you haven't seen which will solve your issue. I'd also suggest comparing your code against the examples to ensure you are using DataMapper as it was designed.
- Common Issue: Check to see that you haven't accidentally overridden any Reserved Names. This is common mistake with relationships, and can lead to unusual behavior.
- Common Issue: Double check all of your relationships, taking extra care to make sure that both sides are configured correctly.
- Please read through the FAQs below, to help give you some ideas. A very useful tip for debugging is “How can I see the queries being generated?”.
- Don't forget to search the manual!
Getting Support
Primary support for DMZ is provided through the CodeIgniter Forums. There's a lot of very helpful people there, and I usually respond very quickly!
In the event you've tried the above but you're still having issues, you are welcome to contact me at the below address.
Please do not ask for help with messages that says “I tried doing X, it didn't work. Why?“, where X looks like an example from the manual. Between the manual and the forums, you should at least be able to provide some basic troubleshooting.
Please contact me directly as a last resort as I prefer to respond on the forums directly, as then everyone can learn. You can also send me private messages through the forums.
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FAQs
This is a small list of common issues you may encounter
- DataBases
- Why do I see a bunch of 'SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1' queries?
- Database Error: Unknown Column 'table.*' in 'field list'
- Why isn't MySQL using Transactions?
- Why is DataMapper returning objects that shouldn't be in my results?
- Why can I not save an item with a specific ID? Why do I get errors with non-numeric IDs?
- How can I see the queries being generated?
- General Problems
- Why can't I loop over this result set?
- Why is DataMapper generating the wrong table name?
- Why do I get an error saying {Field} must be a valid object or a string?
- Why do I get a Property or Method Does Not Exist when trying to access a model?
- Why do I see an error that the table 'datamappers' (or similar) does not exist?
- Why isn't DM validating my field?
- What's the best way to add a method I want to use multiple times?
- Why can't I use print_r, var_dump, or json_encode on a DataMapper model?
- How can I post-process fields after they are loaded?
- How can I pre-process fields before they are saved?
- Why am I getting query errors with select_func?
- Relationships
Why do I see a bunch of 'SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1' queries?
The first time a model is used on a request, DataMapper connects to the database server and loads in the columns for its table. These queries often look like this:
SELECT * FROM `users` LIMIT 1
These queries are super-fast. They usually take almost no time to process.
However, if you really want to eliminate them, you can do so, using the production cache. Please read the warning on that page.
Database Error: Unknown Column 'table.*' in 'field list'
If you're getting an error that looks very similar to the one below, it's because you need to update your CodeIgniter MySQL Driver with the latest version from the CodeIgniter SVN.
A Database Error Occurred Error Number: 1054 Unknown column `table.*` in 'field list'
How to update your MySQL Driver:
- Download the latest version of the mysql_driver.php file from the CodeIgniter SVN.
- Upload it to your CodeIgniter system/database/drivers/mysql folder.
That's it! The error should now be gone.
Why isn't MySQL using Transactions?
This is almost always caused by using a MySQL database, and not using the correct table type. Please see the MySQL website for more information on database table types.
Why is DataMapper returning objects that shouldn't be in my results?
CodeIgniter does not (as of this FAQ) support a way to easily group query clauses with parentheses. This can lead to unexpected results when combining a AND with an OR clause, because the AND has precedence. For example:
$job->where('new', TRUE)->or_where('open', TRUE)->where_related($user)->get();
You might expect this to return all new or open jobs by the User $user. However, the query looks similar to this:
SELECT * FROM `jobs` WHERE `new` = 1 OR `open` = 1 AND `user_id` = 5This means that the query will select all jobs that are new OR are both open AND assigned to $user.
However, DMZ does support query grouping. This means you can structure your query like this:
$job->group_start()->where('new', TRUE)->or_where('open', TRUE)->group_end()->where_related($user)->get();
And your query will now look similar to this:
SELECT * FROM `jobs` WHERE (`new` = 1 OR `open` = 1) AND `user_id` = 5
Why do I get errors with non-numeric IDs?
DataMapper only works with automatically generated, numerical IDs.
There is no way around either limitation. If you need to store a unique value that is not serially generated, I recommend storing it in a different field on the table. You still need an ID column, but the other column can still be UNIQUE and indexed.
Note that you can now force an object with an ID to be inserted.
How can I see the queries being generated?
The CodeIgniter Profiler provides a lot of information about what was happening. This is useful for when there was no output.
Enabling the Profiler
// In Controller $this->output->enable_profiler(TRUE);
In the event that the profiler has TOO much information, or you are outputting to a non-HTML format (such as JSON information), use $object->check_last_query(). (More detailed information.)
Getting the Last Generated Query
$object->where('thing', TRUE)->get(); $last_query = $object->check_last_query(FALSE, TRUE);
$last_query would contain something like:
SELECT `objects`.* FROM `objects` WHERE `objects`.`thing` = 1
Why can't I loop over this result set?
1.7.0 and newer:
The recommended method from this version on is to not specify the all array any more. If you are using get_iterated, you cannot specify the array, as it is not populated.
// recommended format. foreach($object as $o) { echo $o->value; }
1.4.1 and earlier:
You must loop over $object->all, not $object directly.
foreach($object->all as $o) {
echo $o->value;
}
(From 1.4.2 on, you can loop over $object directly, and it will loop over the all array automatically.
Why is DataMapper generating the wrong table name?
While datamapper is very good at commonly pluralized english words, sometimes it stumbles on common words such as Address. In these cases, you must manually specify the table name, by adding $table (plural) and sometimes $model (singular) to the model definition.
For an example, see the Country model on the DataMapper Models page.
Many of these problems have been fixed with the updated inflector_helper, which comes with DMZ. If you have installed it, but still have issues, please contact me with the specific words (on the forum or above) and I'll try to update the inflector helper.
Why do I get an error saying {Field} must be a valid object or a string?
This error will occur whenever you have incorrectly configured your relationships. See this FAQ for more information.
Why do I get a Property or Method Does Not Exist when trying to access a model?
The most common reason for this is having the same name for both a Controller and a Model. Because DataMapper models are PHP Objects, they share the PHP namespace with the controllers. This means you cannot have a model named User and a controller also named User. Instead, it is recommended that you use plural names on the controllers.
What's that? You have a model named moose or fruit, or just really like the singular form? Well, you can solve this in several ways:
- Rename your model, such as MyMoose (but then you have to rename your tables, etc.).
- Use CodeIgniter Routing to re-route the url to your pluralized controller. (Recommended where possible)
- Use an .htaccess file to rewrite the url to the pluralized controller. That's beyond the scope of this document.
Why do I see an error that the table 'datamappers' (or similar) does not exist?
You probably instantiated the DataMapper library. You also might have an object whose table name is not generated correctly. See Why is DataMapper generating the wrong table name? above.
Why isn't DM validating my field?
There are two main reasons for this. Both will easily confuse you at first:
- The most common reason for this a field without a 'required' rule. You must include this rule for any field that needs to be non-empty. This is done to prevent PHP errors when validating empty fields. If a field is empty, but not required, then the validation routine skips that field.
- Alternatively, the field probably did not change. If the field is not changed between loading an object and saving it, then the field will not be validated. This prevents running the same validation more than once (such as for encrypted fields).
What's the best way to add a method I want to use multiple times?
See Extending DataMapper.
Why can't I use print_r, var_dump, or json_encode on a DataMapper model?
DataMapper models have two specific reasons why these methods will fail to work.
- Most of the fields are generated dynamically, including all relationships. This mean that these items will not exist until the first time they are called.
- Because the relationships can end up recursive (the first item in the all array is also the containing object), you can sometimes cause print_r to get into an infinite loop.
Instead of these methods, you might want to look at specific fields, one-at-a-time. Also, in the future, I might include a debugging extension.
To replace the json_encode method, please take a look at the json and array extensions.
How can I post-process fields after they are loaded?
How can I pre-process fields before they are saved?
You can post-process fields after a get using Get Rules.
You can pre-process fields before a save using Validation Rules. See Handling Logins for an example of pre-processing.
Why am I getting query errors with select_func?
CodeIgniter has an overly aggressive method for protecting identifiers, and it cannot be disabled. This may break any attempt to include functions in the SELECT statement.
However, with a simple adjustment to the _protect_identifiers method of the DB_driver class, you can get it working again.
See the bottom of this page for a fix.
Why is DataMapper not saving a relationship at all?
The most common cause for this is a mistake in one or both sides of your relationship definition. Make sure that the $has_many or $has_one definition on both objects is correct.
A less common cause for this would be that you enabled the Production Cache, but forgot to disable or clear it after making changes.
Why does my relationship work from one object, but fail from the other?
When configuring a relationship, even a self-relationship, you must define both "sides" of the relationship. This means for a parent/child relationship, you have to specify the parent on the child, and you have to specify the child on the parent.
Here is an example for a complex self-relationship [User (as Boss) has many Employees, and Employees have one Boss]:
// In User $has_one = array( // define the relationship to the bossNow the employees can be access as'boss'=> array( 'class' => 'user', 'other_field' => 'employee' ) ); $has_many = array( // define the relationship to the employees 'employee' => array( 'class' => 'user', 'other_field' =>'boss') );
Why isn't Datamapper saving the same object more than once?
Due to the way DataMapper looks at objects, it is incapable of storing a relationship between the same objects more than once, even when using extra join table columns.
The best solution for this is to use a couple of other features that are unique to DMZ to store the relationship in a dedicated model. A very rudimentary example is provided below, joining Machine and Part, feel free to enhance it:
// ------------------------------ // create this model: // ------------------------------ class MachinePart extends DataMapper { $has_one = array('machine', 'part'); // etc. } // ------------------------------ // create this table: // ------------------------------ machineparts: id, machine_id, part_id, setting_1, setting_2, ... // ------------------------------ // Use it like this in a controller: // ------------------------------ // add a part to a machine $m = new Machine(); ... $p = new Part(); ... $mp = new MachinePart(); $mp->setting_1 = $setting_1_value; $mp->save(array($m, $p)); // get all parts for the machine $m $parts = $m->machinepart; // simple trick to avoid making multiple queries $parts->join_related('part', '*', FALSE); // join all ('*') parts fields, with no prefix $parts->get(); foreach($parts as $part) { echo($part->name); // from the Parts table echo($part->setting_1); // from the MachineParts table echo($part->setting_2); ... } // remove all machine-part relationships $m->machinepart->get()->delete_all(); // remove a specific machine-part relationship, by id $mp = new MachinePart(); $mp->get_by_id($mp_id); $mp->delete(); // also removes relationships
Using this as a base, you can see how to relate, query, and delete a N:M relationship where the objects need to be related multiple times.
Does DataMapper delete related objects automatically?
In short, no. DataMapper automatically deletes the relationship between two objects if you delete one of those objects. However, it does not delete related objects automatically.
If you need to handle this in multiple locations, I recommend creating an extra method on the model (I usually call delete_deep()), and delete the related objects you want removed.


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This is a fork of a fork of Vox's quiz generator tool. It's forked from this repo.
Use this Google Spreadsheet template to write your quiz.
Once you're done editing, publish the spreadsheet to the web. Under the "File" menu, select "Publish to the Web." Click "Start Publishing" and copy the URL to build the quiz.
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Marksman Putin:
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The monsters in Mimir's Forest are powerful, aren't they? If you feel that they are easy, it may be time for you to challenge yourself with a trip to Nornil's Cave.
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This benchmark suite attempts to isolate client performance in rendering large amounts of business data. The server does little more than shovel easily computed data to clients in whatever format they request it, therefore no database is used and no artificial business logic is introduced which might skew the client-side rendering outcomes.
Each test is run (by default) 5 times. The outlier results (highest and lowest) are discarded and the remaining result times are averaged to genereate the displayed results. We do this to ensure that caches in the JVM, web server, browser JavaScript VM and HTTP caches, Flash engine, and servlet engine caches are warmed up such that the first test to run is not punished simply for being first. Tests are run multiple times to ensure that real-world performance (loading an application and then subsequently interacting with it for some long-ish period of time).
Tests are run in iframes in an attempt to isolate them from the hosting browser environment. This is, clearly, not perfect. Variability in performance can be introduced by many browser-level issues, so we recommend that you run these tests with any in-browser debugging aids (particularly Firebug) disabled.
The graphs on the main screen display the current average time across multiple runs for a given test. Since that running average may include outliers (highest and lowest times) that distort the average before the tests finish, the graphs may fluctuate significantly over the course of a test run. To see the raw reported data, click on the "Data" tab to see what the charts are displaying, including the averages on display and any discarded data.
Census 2 is an Open Source project. Please see the "HACKING.txt" file to get started with modifying the code. You can submit bugs, feature requests, and patches at the Google Code project page and get the latest sources.
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by Curtis Edmonds --<EMAIL_ADDRESS>1999 is already turning into the Year of the Bard. Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar, A Midsummer Nights Dream is coming to theaters soon, a Taming of the Shrew update is already there. So I suppose it shouldn't come as a complete surprise to anyone that Jackie Chan has remade The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Well, perhaps that's a bit of a stretch, but the story of twins separated at birth that fuels Twin Dragons is at least as old as Shakespeare's tale. Jackie Chan steps out of his usual Hong Kong cop screen persona to play mismatched twins -- one a successful American pianist and orchestra conductor, the other a Hong Kong mechanic with ambitions to drive race cars. They cross paths in Hong Kong and, predictably, are swiftly mistaken for each other. The mechanic gets crossways with one of the Hong Kong street gangs, who are generous enough to provide any number of henchmen so that our heroes can beat the stuffing out ot them.
Up to now, the Jackie Chan movies (that have been released in the US) have always worked because they've been balanced in two important ways. First, there's been a balance between Chan's formidable rock-'em sock-'em skills and his equally formidable skills as a physical comic. The fun thing about Jackie Chan movies is not that he beats up on the bad guys, but how he beats up the bad guys -- with impeccable comic timing, just as though he were in a Roadrunner cartoon. Secondly, there's always been a balance between the technical deficiencies of Jackie Chan movies -- the poor dubbing, the silly scripts, the overall averageness of the supporting cast -- and the excellence of the stuntwork and the imaginativeness of the One Big Stunt that redeems the movie's flaws.
It's a tough balancing act for Chan, but he's always pulled it off up until now. The few movies that have gotten theatrical release in the States have all been a hoot to watch. Remember the scene where Jackie uses that samurai sword to stop that out-of-control hovercraft in Rumble in the Bronx? Or the giant Kevlar hamster ball in Operation Condor? Or the scene where he wrecks that Pepsi truck in Mr. Nice Guy? (Probably the greatest product-placement scene ever, next to the one in Wayne's World.) But in Twin Dragons...
it...
just...
doesn't...
work.
There. I said it. I didn't want to say it, believe me. I love Jackie Chan movies. I've been a consistent defender of his work against those who would dismiss his film career. Why, I even kept my mouth shut after seeing Rush Hour because I didn't want to rain on Jackie's parade. But even in the most generous light possible, Twin Dragons isn't good.
Shakespeare's work aside, there just isn't a lot that can be done with the concept of mismatched twins. The best Twin Dragons can do is use the wrinkle that one twin is affected by the muscle movements of the other. We see the mechanic twin's hand twitching when the pianist twin plays, and we see the pianist twin thrash around violently while the mechanic twin is fighting. I grinned a little at that, I'll admit, but the gag just gets worked to death. So is the gag where people faint when one twin, then the other walks by. Not to mention that the twins both have girlfriends, and they keep crossing paths as well.
With all the really lame comedy present in the movie, you would hope that the fight scenes and the stunt scenes would counterbalance things enough to make Twin Dragons entertaining. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen. The fight scenes aren't all that bad, really, and the final fight scene in an auto factory is probably worth a ticket if you have a dollar movie theater handy. But the One Big Stunt that characterizes Chan movies is absent. For whatever reason -- low budget, or that Chan's body isn't quite so resilient anymore -- there isn't the one grand, gooey, destructive stunt scene that's the signature of Jackie's work.
Twin Dragons is a disappointment, but it's not a bad movie. Instead, it's a reminder of just how good the other Jackie Chan movies are. They've all had to keep their balance in an unforgiving critical climate. Twin Dragons loses its balance, true, but it's a narrow high wire at best with heavy winds.
-- Curtis D. Edmonds<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"First, you show up. Then you see what happens." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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fastlinkcheck
checks for broken links in HTML documents. This occurs in parallel so performance is fast. Both external links and internal links are checked. Internal links are checked by verifying local files.
To get started, read the documentation.
pip install fastlinkcheck
After installing fastlinkcheck
, the cli command link_check
is available from the command line. We can see various options with the --help
flag.
link_check --help
We can search the directory _example/broken_links
in this repo recursively for broken links like this:
link_check _example/broken_links
Specifying the --host
parameter allows you detect links that are internal by identifying links with that host name. External links are verified by making a request to the appropriate website. On the other hand, internal links are verified by inspecting the presence and content of local files.
We must be careful when using the --host
argument to only pass the host (and path, if necessary) without the protocol. For example, this is how we specify the hostname if your site's url is http://fastlinkcheck.com/test.html
:
link_check _example/broken_links --host fastlinkcheck.com
We now have one less broken link as there is indeed a file named test.html
in the root of the path we are searching. However, if we add a path to the end of --host
, such as fastlinkcheck.com/mysite
the link would again be listed as broken because _example/broken_links/mysite/test.html
does not exist:
link_check _example/broken_links --host fastlinkcheck.com/mysite
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contains:
cat _example/broken_links/linkcheck.rc
We can use this file to ignore urls and paths with the --config_file
argument. This will filter out references to the broken link /test.js
from our earlier results:
link_check _example/broken_links --host fastlinkcheck.com --config_file _example/broken_links/linkcheck.rc
Finally, if there are no broken links, link_check
will not return anything. The directory _example/no_broken_links/
does not contain any HTML files with broken links:
link_check _example/no_broken_links
You can also use these utilities from python instead of the terminal. Please see these docs for more information.
link_check
in GitHub Actions Here is an example of how you can use this utility in GitHub Actions:
name: Check Links
on: [workflow_dispatch, push]
jobs:
check-links:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/setup-python@v2
- name: check for broken links
run: |
pip install fastlinkcheck
link_check _example
We can a few more lines of code to open an issue instead when a broken link is found, using the gh cli:
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- name: check for broken links
run: |
pip install fastlinkcheck
link_check _example 2> err || true
export GITHUB_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN"
[[ -s err ]] && gh issue create -t "Broken links found" -b "$(< err)" -R "yourusername/yourrepo"
We can extend this even further to only open an issue when another issue with a specific label isn't already open:
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- name: check for broken links
run: |
pip install fastlinkcheck
link_check "docs/_site" --host "docs.fast.ai" 2> err || true
export GITHUB_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN"
if [[ -z $(gh issue list -l "broken-link")) && (-s err) ]]; then
gh issue create -t "Broken links found" -b "$(< err)" -l "broken-link" -R "yourusername/yourrepo"
fi
See the GitHub Actions docs for more information.


 This fish curry has a delicious coconut and mango sauce flavoured with tamarind, ginger and spices.
For the pilau rice, heat the oil in a large saucepan and, once hot, add the onion. Cook until the onions are golden-brown, this will take approximately 10 minutes.
Stir in the cardamom, cinnamon and star anise. Add the rice and stir to coat in the onion spice mix. Add 600ml/21fl oz water and bring to the boil, reduce the heat to low and cover with a lid. Cook for 15 minutes then turn off the heat, leaving the lid on, and leave to steam for another 15 minutes.
For the curry, heat a small frying pan and add the cumin and coriander seeds and cook until they start to pop. Remove from the pan, transfer to a pestle and mortar and pound the seeds to a coarse powder.
In a large pan, heat the sunflower oil. When hot, add the onions and fry for 4-5 minutes, or until deeply golden-brown. Add all the spices (including those from the pestle and mortar), garlic, chilli, ginger, mango and fresh coconut and cook for 2- 3 minutes and then add the coconut milk and bring to the boil.
Add the fish and cook for 2-3 minutes.
To finish, add the tamarind paste and coriander and simmer for 1-2 minutes.
Method for the coriander flatbeads, mix the turmeric, curry powder, coriander, salt, flour and in a bowl adding enough water to create a soft dough.
Knead using floured hands and roll out on a floured surface until thin. Cut into rustic shapes and then pan fry in a hot pan brushed with butter for 4-5 minutes on each side or until golden-brown.
Serve the curry and rice in shallow serving bowls and place the flatbreads on the side.


DUTA to boycott evaluation
by Staff ReporterTo press for its various demands, the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) at its general body meeting on Monday called for an evaluation boycott of the current semester examinations at the university.
In a statement, the union also demanded that all teachers currently employed on ad-hoc basis be allowed to rejoin on January first, failing which, it said that it would go on an indefinite strike starting second week of January.
Among the major concerns raised by them include withdrawal of a recent direction to colleges to appoint guest teachers which, the union believes would put at risk the employment of ad-hoc teachers and was harming the “teaching-learning environment” of the university.
Apart from this, release of the second tranche of posts under OBC expansion of the university, implementation of recommendations of Kale Committee report were the other demands.


SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS (Touchstone) Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison. Screenplay: Michael Browning. Producers: Ivan Reitman, Wallis Nicita, Roger Birnbaum. Director: Ivan Reitman. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (adult themes, profanity, violence) Running Time: 101 minutes. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
All right, let's get this out of the way: Anne Heche is a lesbian. Coverage of SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS has focused so heavily on this point -- and on the corollary question of whether Heche would be "credible" as a heterosexual romantic interest -- that you might suspect the title had been changed officially to SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS WITH LESBIAN ANNE HECHE PLAYING A HETEROSEXUAL. Never mind that audiences didn't seem to have a problem finding heterosexual actor Tom Hanks "credible" as a gay man in PHILADELPHIA. Never mind that presumably no one would have a problem finding a different 28-year-old woman "credible" as the romantic interest of 55-year-old Harrison Ford. And never mind that most Hollywood scripts consider a "credible" romance to be any pairing of actors of the opposite sex, character development be hanged.
SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS is an unsatisfying Hollywood trifle, not because Heche doesn't date men, but because the script is a disaster. Heche plays Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor whisked away to a week-long tropical vacation by her long-time boyfriend Frank (David Schwimmer) so he can pop the question. Unfortunately, work intrudes on paradise, forcing Robin to hop a cargo plane to a photo shoot in Tahiti with rough-around-the-edges pilot Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford). En route the plane is caught in a violent storm, forcing Quinn to make a crash landing which strands the pair on a deserted island.
Naturally, Quinn and Robin are polar opposites who share an almost instant antagonism. Naturally, they grow closer as they struggle together. It's one of filmdom's most enduring set-ups, but there's one rather important thing missing from this version: the faintest understanding of Robin's motivation for getting involved with Quinn. Screenwriter Michael Browning presents Robin and Frank's relationship as nearly-ideal during their screen time together, with Frank practically a fantasy figure out of the women's magazine Robin works for -- he's romantic, spontaneous and willing to commit. That leaves Robin's reasons for leaping into Quinn's arms fairly suspect; though Quinn assures her late in the film that their connection isn't just "something that happens when two people are alone on an island together," that's really the only explanation which doesn't make Robin's behavior extremely off-putting. Even the token attempt to make Frank part of the problem is ill-conceived, tossing him into a drunken, grief-stricken tryst with a voluptuous dancer (Jacqueline Obradors) after he believed Robin to be dead. It's not chemistry that's missing in the relationship between Robin and Quinn -- it's sympathy.
In a valiant attempt to distract the audience from focusing on the characters' deficiencies, Browning and director Ivan Reitman amp up the action quotient by pitting our protagonists against pirates. Yes, that's right, pirates. It's the kind of sub-plot which sends the mind reeling into hypothetical meetings where studio executives offer "helpful" suggestions: "You know, it's great that they're stuck on this island together so they can fall in love, but we're not sure about the whole lesbian thing, so how about if pirates chased them, and shot at them, and then at the end there was a big explosion?" For a film desperately in need of more character development, SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS wastes valuable minutes on a ridiculous forced conflict which contributes nothing to the story but one gag from Heche: "You mean 'arrrghh' pirates?"
SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS actually contains a few amusing gags, with both Heche and Ford -- long under-appreciated for his comic timing -- scoring some comic hits. They just have almost nothing to work with, squirming around with absurd situations and stick-figure characters. The film's few simple pleasures, including the lovely Kauai scenery, are lost in the search for some reason to root for these people ending up together. The fact that there's nothing "credible" about the pairing of Robin and Quinn has nothing to do with Anne Heche's choice of real-life romantic partners.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 tropical punches: 4.
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Dupree Nature Preserve
Authored by: Kathleen Kilcoyne
Data collected from NAIP, Open Street Map, Kentucky from Above, and Boyd Shearer.
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| Edition 2019-20 Edition 2020-21 |
If the demo isn't visible or won't run, this probably is due to new Java applet security restrictions or to the fact that some browsers simply have stopped supporting Java (Firefox 64-bit). You may open the Java configuration control panel and add our server to the exception list, and/or try opening the demo in another browser (for example 32-bit FF). More detailed instructions can be found here. As a last resort, you may download Netlogo 4.1.3, download the source of the demo, and run it in you local copy of Netlogo. © Gerard Vreeswijk, 2014.
Basic idea: let two players execute fictitious play on a 3x3 stage game. Row player is yellow, column player is green.
For an interesting graphic effect this basic setup is extended as follows. Instead of two players there are many player couples yellow/green (row/col), all connected by a grey line to indicate they are a couple.
In fictitious play it is impossible to start with zero initial empirical frequencies, on the pain of dividing by zero. Therefore each player receives at the outset an a-priori distribution of absolute frequencies of opponent actions. If for example initial-frequency-step = 10 and max-initial-frequency = 100, then row players will be created with empirical frequnecty distributions of [f1, f2, f3], where f1, f2, and f3 are multiples of 10 and have 100 as their highest value. In this case, that would give 11^3 = 1331 different initial absolute frequency profiles, and that many different row players will be created. Similarly for column players. Coupling does not take notice of initial frequencies.
For display purposes, absolute frequency profiles are normalised to relative frequency profiles and displayed in a 2-dimensional simplex. That's the triangle where you are looking at.
A player's place in the trangle indicates the observed empirical frequencies of its opponent (the play which it is coupled with). For example, a player in the top of the triangle may have observed empirical frequencies [3 7 212]. A player in the lower left corner of the triangle may have observed empirical frequencies [331 4 6]. A player in the lower right corner may have observed empirical frequencies [2 721 9].
Inspect profiles is a first activity you can do.
To read off profile distributions yourself, initialise randomly (hit "random"), then hit "inspect-profiles". Then click on various player profiles (yellow/green dots). If you do not see yellow dots, this is because they are initially hidden under the green dots. Do you understand what is printed in the output pane?
Let the model run for a short time (hit "go", then quickly hit "go" again). You see that row profiles (yellow dots) become visible. Click on them to see their (by now changed) profile.
Matrix input is symmetrical, so values of column player must be read top down. Left-under is action 1 ("Top" for row player, "Left" for col player), right under is action 2 ("Middle" for row; "Center" for col).
These indicate the average weight of each action. For example, "mean-row-0" displays the average probability with which the yellow players (row) choose action 0. The graphs display these averages. Red: row-0; blue: row-1; what remains is row-2. Green: col-0; brown: col-1; what remains is col-2.
Persistence of memory denotes a factor with which empirical frequencies are multiplied every round. For normal fictitious play this facor is 1.0.
No trace after X rounds ensures that animation is not cluttered by traces in later rounds. Plot is a so-called ternary plot.
This section could explain how to use the model, including a description of each of the items in the interface tab.
Hit "random" then "go". Do you see how different couples converges? Sometimes they converge to the same observed play. Sometimes they do not.
Hit "chaos 1" then "go". The profiles do not seem to converge but instead move around in a chaotic pattern.
Hit "Shapley" then "go". The dynamics is cyclic, thanks to the payoffs in Shapley's game. (Hit "print-game-matrix" if necessary.)
When Shapley runs and persistance of memory is varied, interesting things happen. Try! Can you explain?
Gerard Vreeswijk (c) 2014.


Default PxSerializer implementation. More...
#include <PxSerializer.h>
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| PxSerializerDefaultAdapter (const char *name) | |
| virtual const char * | getConcreteTypeName () const |
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| virtual void | requiresObjects (PxBase &obj, PxProcessPxBaseCallback &c) const |
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| virtual bool | isSubordinate () const |
| Whether the object is subordinate. More... | |
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| virtual void | exportExtraData (PxBase &obj, PxSerializationContext &s) const |
| Exports object's extra data to stream. More... | |
| virtual void | exportData (PxBase &obj, PxSerializationContext &s) const |
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| virtual void | registerReferences (PxBase &obj, PxSerializationContext &s) const |
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| Create object at a given address, resolve references and import extra data. More... | |
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Default PxSerializer implementation.
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Create object at a given address, resolve references and import extra data.
| address | Location at which object is created. Address is increased by the size of the created object. |
| context | Context for reading external data and resolving references. |
Implements PxSerializer.
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Exports object's data to stream.
Implements PxSerializer.
References PxAllocatorCallback::allocate(), PxAllocatorCallback::deallocate(), PxGetFoundation(), PxMemCopy(), and PxSerializationContext::writeData().
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Exports object's extra data to stream.
Implements PxSerializer.
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Returns size needed to create the class instance.
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Returns string name of dynamic type.
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Whether the object is subordinate.
A class is subordinate, if it can only be instantiated in the context of another class.
Implements PxSerializer.
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Register references that the object maintains to other objects.
Implements PxSerializer.
References PX_ASSERT, PX_SERIAL_REF_KIND_PXBASE, and PxSerializationContext::registerReference().
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Adds required objects to the collection.
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pins.Rmd
A pin, a tool to help you track datasets without worrying too much of where the actual dataset lives. Ideally, pins
should be able to pin absolutely anything; however, to be able to handle multiple boards, pins need to be scoped to handle only selected data types. The most common object to pun is a data.frame
and variations like tibble
. Currently, the pins
package can attempt to pin the following types of datasets:


--- date: 2016-06-23 tags: - RNN author: jamworld layout: post title: RNN to C code? excerpt: Is that possible for us to build a problem to transfer rnn into c code? categories: - RNN - ttic - study ---
Is there an possibility for us to build an general program to transfer the RNN network into an c code? This one should be easy, but the code we get may contain no meaningful results. We may get something that only compares the numerical variables and all the program is still like an black box. However, I believe it may be possible for us to go one step further.
Is understanding RNN the same procedure as software reverse engineering?
So rnn is like magic it can train over programs, which means rnn can learn any algorithm we can write in any Turing complete language. And, It's that possible for us to reverse this procedure to produce the math expression for the algorithm? May be the first step I can do is to find out that, is there an program that can transfer the c code into the math expression? Or we can't do it easily with an universal C program but we can do it with the c program we learned from the rnn?


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def create_jose():
data = {
'name': 'Jose Angel Sanchez Castillejos',
'email'<EMAIL_ADDRESS>'location': (38.6270, 90.1994),
'current_job': 'Data Engineer @Pinterest'
}
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Creating tools that allow stakeholders to easily access data
Migrating all our data into snowflake
Maintaining and updating chron jobs with airflow
Learning how to deal with people when creating projects from zero
Building data pipelines
Consuming real time data with Kafka
Creating long term architecture in AWS
Moving old jobs to Airflow
Implementing CI/CD
And helping Data Scientist to achieve great things
Creating data visualization tools to help the risk team
Using OpenCV to automate document analysis
Implementing Unittest to some code that was missing this
Using Jenkins as our CI/CD tool
Here, I recruited my engineering team
Deployed national security software across the Mexico-US Border
Retrained OPENAlpr to be extremely accurate to license plates in the border
I used the Coco dataset and the YOLO algorithm to map people in convenience stores
Get in touch, write me at jsanchezcastillejos(at)gmail(dot)com


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US Court Orders Arrest Of Air Peace’s Allen Onyema
by John AndahA court in the United States has issued a warrant of arrest against the Chairman of Air Peace Airlines, Allen Onyema.
A copy of the warrant published by Premium Times showed that the warrant was issued on November 20.
The US Justice Department had on Friday accused Onyema of “moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes.”
Also, according to a statement from the US Justice Department, Onyema’s Chief of Administration and Finance, Ejiroghene Eghagha, has been charged with bank fraud and committing aggravated identity theft in connection with the scheme.
But in a brief statement on Saturday, Onyema denied all the allegations, saying that all the money transfer for the purchase of aircraft passed through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The US authorities said they had also seized funds in, at least, three bank accounts they said were traced to the two Air Peace chiefs.


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java.lang.Object org.newdawn.slick.particles.Particle
public class Particle
A single particle within a system
| Field Summary | |
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protected Color |
color
The colour of the particle |
protected static SGL |
GL
The renderer to use for all GL operations |
protected Image |
image
The image for this particle |
static int |
INHERIT_POINTS
Indicates the particle should inherit it's use of points |
protected float |
life
The life left in the particle |
protected boolean |
oriented
True if this particle's quad should be oritented based on it's direction |
protected float |
originalLife
The original life of this particle |
protected float |
scaleY
The currently scalar applied on the y axis |
protected float |
size
The current size in pixels of the particle |
protected int |
type
The type identifier of this particle |
static int |
USE_POINTS
Indicates the particle should explicitly use points |
static int |
USE_QUADS
Indicates the particle should explicitly not use points |
protected int |
usePoints
How this particle should be rendered |
protected float |
velx
The x component of the direction vector of the particle |
protected float |
vely
The y component of the direction vector of the particle |
protected float |
x
The x coordinate of the particle |
protected float |
y
The y coordinate of the particle |
| Constructor Summary | |
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Particle(ParticleSystem engine)
Create a new particle belonging to given engine |
| Method Summary | |
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void |
adjustColor(float r,
float g,
float b,
float a)
Adjust (add) the color of the particle |
void |
adjustColor(int r,
int g,
int b,
int a)
Adjust (add) the color of the particle |
void |
adjustLife(float delta)
Adjust the life othe particle |
void |
adjustPosition(float dx,
float dy)
Adjust (add) the position of this particle |
void |
adjustSize(float delta)
Adjust the size of the particle |
void |
adjustVelocity(float dx,
float dy)
Adjust (add) the direction of this particle |
Color |
getColor()
Get the color of this particle |
ParticleEmitter |
getEmitter()
Get the emitter that owns this particle |
float |
getLife()
Get the life remaining in the particle in milliseconds |
float |
getOriginalLife()
Get the original life of this particle |
float |
getScaleY()
Get the current scalar applied on the y axis |
float |
getSize()
Get the size of this particle |
int |
getType()
Get the type of this particle |
float |
getX()
Get the x offset of this particle |
float |
getY()
Get the y offset of this particle |
void |
init(ParticleEmitter emitter,
float life)
Initialise the state of the particle as it's reused |
boolean |
inUse()
Check if this particle is currently in use (i.e. |
boolean |
isOriented()
Check if this particle is being oriented based on it's velocity |
void |
kill()
Kill the particle, stop it rendering and send it back to the engine for use. |
void |
move(float x,
float y)
Move this particle a fixed amount |
void |
render()
Render this particle |
void |
setColor(float r,
float g,
float b,
float a)
Set the color of the particle |
void |
setImage(Image image)
Set the image used to render this particle |
void |
setLife(float life)
Set the life of the particle |
void |
setOriented(boolean oriented)
Indicate if this particle should be oriented based on it's velocity |
void |
setPosition(float x,
float y)
Set the position of this particle |
void |
setScaleY(float scaleY)
Set the current scalar applied on the y axis |
void |
setSize(float size)
Set the size of the particle |
void |
setSpeed(float speed)
Set the current speed of this particle |
void |
setType(int type)
Set the type of this particle |
void |
setUsePoint(int usePoints)
Indicate how this particle should be renered |
void |
setVelocity(float velx,
float vely)
Set the velocity of the particle |
void |
setVelocity(float dirx,
float diry,
float speed)
Set the velocity of the particle |
java.lang.String |
toString()
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void |
update(int delta)
Update the state of this particle |
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
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clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait |
| Field Detail |
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protected static SGL GL
public static final int INHERIT_POINTS
public static final int USE_POINTS
public static final int USE_QUADS
protected float x
protected float y
protected float velx
protected float vely
protected float size
protected Color color
protected float life
protected float originalLife
protected Image image
protected int type
protected int usePoints
protected boolean oriented
protected float scaleY
| Constructor Detail |
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public Particle(ParticleSystem engine)
engine
- The engine the new particle belongs to| Method Detail |
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public void move(float x, float y)
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image
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public float getLife()
public boolean inUse()
public void render()
public void update(int delta)
delta
- The time since the last updatepublic void init(ParticleEmitter emitter, float life)
emitter
- The emitter controlling this particlelife
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type
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usePoints
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size
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delta
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life
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delta
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public void setColor(float r, float g, float b, float a)
r
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- The green component of the colorb
- The blue component of the colora
- The alpha component of the colorpublic void setPosition(float x, float y)
x
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dirx
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speed
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velx
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- The y component of the new velocitypublic void adjustPosition(float dx, float dy)
dx
- The amount to adjust the x component bydy
- The amount to adjust the y component bypublic void adjustColor(float r, float g, float b, float a)
r
- The amount to adjust the red component byg
- The amount to adjust the green component byb
- The amount to adjust the blue component bya
- The amount to adjust the alpha component bypublic void adjustColor(int r, int g, int b, int a)
r
- The amount to adjust the red component byg
- The amount to adjust the green component byb
- The amount to adjust the blue component bya
- The amount to adjust the alpha component bypublic void adjustVelocity(float dx, float dy)
dx
- The amount to adjust the x component bydy
- The amount to adjust the y component bypublic ParticleEmitter getEmitter()
public java.lang.String toString()
toString
in class java.lang.Object
Object.toString()
public boolean isOriented()
public void setOriented(boolean oriented)
oriented
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public void setScaleY(float scaleY)
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Hello everyone
I bought this RTC module
http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/raspberry-pi-real-time-clock
I can not boot the steps to compile and make working the clock, I'm trying to follow the guidance of the link, but I can not.
Kindly who can help me.
Happy New Year to all
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
"I'm trying to follow the guidance of the link, but I can not."
Why not? What does not work? Do you see errors - what are they?
[Edit]
I downloaded the code. There are two files in the zip download: "rtc-pi" and "rtc-pi.c".
"rtc-pi" is already compiled, therefore you copy the file to your SD card then do as the instructions tell you from here:
And make it executable using
chmod +x rtc-pi
Setting the Date and Time
To set the data and time on the module use
sudo ./rtc-pi CCYYMMDDhhmmss
And to read the date and time from the module and set the Raspberry Pi clock
sudo ./rtc-pi
You should set this command to run when the Raspberry Pi boots up. There are many ways to do this, so we will leave it up to you to decide which method is best for you.
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
hello Robert thanks for the reply
in fact the one you quoted is what you want to do, but while not giving the time errors if reboot the raspberry, it is not correct, then I wondered what mistake.
I copied the file rtc-pi.c in sd card in the "boot" partition and wondered if it was correct.
Since I have to change a few lines of the file rtc-pi.c seen that use the raspberry B + I also have to recompile the file, giving the command "" cc media / boot / rtc-pi.c "" but does not do anything.
So I follow the instructions but definitely something wrong, thanks again for the help
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
"" cc media / boot / rtc-pi.c ""
You should not have spaces in there!
Try changing to the directory where rtc-pi.c is located. First, find where it is:
whereis rtc-pi.c
then cd to there.
Then try:
cc rtc-pi.c
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
hello Robert thanks for the reply
On that partition I increased the space.
My main doubt is that each command does not give me any error but nothing works.
I wanted to be sure of the procedure and where to run
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Do you have ANY response to ANY command?
what does this do?
ls
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
This is the screen.
The file rtc-pii, I created but I can not find it.
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
I see now where you are! In the 'boot' volume was the wrong place. Putty is looking (for me) at "/home/pi" inside "2.9 GB Volume" where you have bin, boot, dev, etc, home, lib... and you need to move the file rtc-pi.c into the directory /home/pi
Then you can see it using Putty.
Now the instructions will work. If you see the error: "Cannot open output file a.out: Read-only file system.... "
do rpi-rw (NOT rpi -rw)
when you have finished, do rpi-ro to make the file system read-only again.
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
I do not understand I seem to do everything correctly, but if I turn off and turn on the raspberry the date is not updated.
ps: the screen in local emoncms, you can not see the time that used to record the data?
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Are you doing
rtc-pi
automatically when the RPi starts up?
Do a Google search (in Italian) for "execute command at startup Raspberry Pi"
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Thanks again for the answer
No, I think that once installed rtc would send automatic time, while I understand it I have to start all times the file "rtc-pi" with an automatic.
Then the command "chmod + x rtc-pi" what is it?
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Mmmmmmh, not the best product or instructions I've seen,
Isn't very reassuring to start with. Moving on to
Have you tried removing the battery to reset it ?
Are you using the corrected connections?
This isn't clear if it will actually "show" the time and date or just set the Pi's time and date to match the rtc's behind the scene's, if you are not getting any confirmation try running the command " date " then changing the rtc's time & date to something obviously different, run " sudo ./rtc-pi " and then " date " again to see if you are getting a change.
You will need to create a method of automating this command to run at start up or remember to manually run it every so often, it won't run at start up unless you set it up to do so.
In an earlier post you said
If that is due to the "Changes for Raspberry Pi V2 boards" section at the end of the page, as it also says
did you also fit the pull-up resistor?
Paul
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
I fear that it is complicated to my knowledge, anyway .... I will continue to do the tests.
I will try to disconnect the battery to reset the module, and in a second time I will get the resistance.
I'll try to find a way to start automatically when you start the file rtc-pi, eventually will change the connections as you suggested, I will check using the model raspberry B + so I edited the file as the guide advised.
I will keep you updated on the tests done, if you have other suggestions, in particular on how to start the file automatically, kindly inform me.
Thank you all for your cooperation.
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Adding the command to /etc/rc.local will run it at start up, use this line to insert it into the file before "exit 0"
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Not to complicate matters, but since adding an RTC to my Pi is one of the things I've been considering, I did some searching and found a few articles that mention removing fake-hwclock, and starting the add-on RTC by modifying /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh instead of adding a line to /etc/rc.local.
In addition to removing the fake-hwclock itself, the fake-hwclock cron jobs need to be removed too. (covered in the article linked to in step 3, below)
www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=85683
Excerpt form the article at the link above:
SO .... here's what to do. I've only tried this using a ds1307 based RTC module, but it should work (with appropriate changes) for RTCs based on other I2C clock chips.
Step 1: Follow the instructions on the Adafruit site https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-a-real-time-clock-to-raspberry-pi?view... to get your I2C RTC connected and tested, but DO NOT make the suggested changes to /etc/rc.local
Step 2:Make the changes to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh as described here http://www.elevendroids.com/2012/12/setting-up-hardware-rtc-in-raspbian/
Step 3: Ignore the first part of http://blog.remibergsma.com/2013/05/08/ ... pberry-pi/ but do follow the instructions on removing the fake-hwclock.
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Thanks paul feel for the first suggestion that seems to me the simplest .
I just want to ask you which folder should be the file rtc -pi
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Well a step forward has been made ...
I removed the battery
starting with "startx" the graphic terminal and typing "./rtc-pi" shows me the correct time.
Except that if you restart the raspberry gives me an error of which I include photos, maybe put in the syntax file "rc.local" is wrong
This is my text in the file "rc.local"
*********************************************
#! / bin / sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure That the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# Value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# Bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
# Print the IP address
_IP = $ (Hostname -I) || true
if ["$ _IP"]; then
printf "My IP address is% s \ n" "$ _IP"
fi
#riga inserted to start rtc-pi startup 02/02/15-sergio
sudo ./rtc-pi
sudo sh -c "sed -i '/ ^ exit 0 / i \ sudo ./rtc-pi\n' /etc/rc.local"
exit 0
********************************************
The line of code highlighted "sudo ./rtc-pi" has included him automatically, I just inserted
that which thou hast attached
I enclose also has pictures of the screen with error
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
serbat, My fault for not specifying the location. and the command I suggested was intended to do the edit for you not to be put in the rc.local itself, sorry I should of been clearer. If you edit /etc/rc.local so the last lines are
This should get you running at least.
The location of rtc-pi isn't great and using an init script is preferable to using rc.local. But this was the simplest way for now.
Hi Bill - I also looked into this when tackling the read-only sd card issues and found a wide variety of info, this article is a good example of a compilation of facts and is quite common, there is also a lot of good info out there but it's not always clear which is which.
Using init scripts is the preferred method for any daemon, However I wouldn't recommend editing the fake-hwclock's init script to suit as A) if you have fully removed fake-hwclock correctly it shouldn't exist and B) any edits you do make could easily be overwritten if there is an update to fake-hwclock.
I too prefer the idea of an I²C connected rtc and the type I favor can work with fake-hwclock, The rtc is added as a ntp server and the Pi is none the wiser to the fact ntp is contacting the connected rtc rather than a remote server. So the fake-hwclock is still used in the moments prior to establishing the correct time during boot up and will continue to operate long after the battery has expired on the rtc.
Some rtc's can also perform minor ongoing corrections and/or be corrected by ntp so they need to be kept running. I did buy a couple to play with but haven't done anything with them yet.
Regards serbats device I do not know exactly how it works so advice is vague and less specific, will it work in a read only file-system? does it use "ntp standard commands" and fit in with raspbian's existing ntp system? or does it just fetch the time at start up? there are many possibilities.
Paul
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Hello Paul,
Using init scripts is the preferred method for any daemon, However I wouldn't recommend editing the fake-hwclock's init script
The script the article talks about editing is /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, as opposed to /etc/init.d/fake-hwclock
As you mentioned, if /etc/init.d/fake-hwclock is removed properly, (purged) it wont exist.
Regards,
Bill
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
thanks Paul
Now everything is working.
Thanks again ...
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Excellent news serbat :-)
Hi Bill - I had indeed missed the fact it was the hwclock init rather than the fake-hwclock init but (IMHO) it still isn't good practice as an update to hwclock could easily overwrite the changes, it would be better to write an additional one as it's not too difficult.
Paul
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
it would be better to write an additional one as it's not too difficult.
If nothing else, a renamed copy of the original file would be a reasonable starting point to write one's own, wouldn't it?
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
You could definitely go that route, however I haven't compared the init scripts to see how much that helps. There is also a basic template included in raspbian /etc/init.d/skeleton.
Re: Help ... I can not set RTC - module with DS1302
Problems with RPi2
Have use the DS1302 module and software with good success on RPi B ver 2 and also RPi B+. Now that I have a new RPi 2, I cannot get the unit to update my time.
Setting time to the module seems OK, no errors indicated.
In reading time /rtc $ sudo ./rtc-pi
I get the message"Unable to change the system time. Did you run the program as administrator? The operation returned the message "Invalid Argument"".
The module works fine on the B+ and RPi B ver 2.
I re-compiled the .c program on the RPi2 as I did on the original unit thinking that was the problem..No change.
Am I overlooking something?


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To start, first download the assignment: calculator.zip.
In this assignment, you will use Function Reactive Programming (FRP), with the Signal[A] class that you have seen in the lectures, to implement a spreadsheet-like calculator. In this calculator, cells can depend on the value of other cells, and are recomputed automatically when the latter change.
The User Interface (UI) for the programs in this assignment are Web-based, i.e., they run in an HTML page in your Web browser. To compile your code to runnable JavaScript, we use Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler. We have all set it up for you in the assignment template, but this will change the way you run the program.
As you probably know, Tweets (messages on Twitter) are limited to 140 characters. When typing a Tweet, it is very helpful to receive instantaneous visual feedback on the number of characters you have left.
The traditional way of implementing this visual feedback is to set up an onchange event handler (a callback) on the text area. In the event handler, we imperatively ask for the text, compute the length, then write back the computed remaining characters.
In FRP, we use Signals to abstract away the mutable nature of the UI (both inputs and outputs) while working on the logic that binds output to input, which is functional.
Your first task is to implement the function tweetRemainingCharsCount in TweetLength.scala. This function takes a Signal[String] of the text of a Tweet being typed, and returns a Signal[Int] with the corresponding number of characters that are left.
Note that the Tweet length is not text.length, as this would not properly handle supplementary characters. Use the provided function tweetLength to correctly compute the length of a given text.
(Actually, even this is a simplification from reality. The complete specification, which we do not implement in this assignment, can be found here.)
Note that the remaining number of characters could very well be negative, if the Tweet text currently contains more than MaxTweetLength characters.
Now that you have implemented the first function, you can start running the Web UI. To do so, you need to compile the UI to JavaScript from sbt (you cannot do this from your IDE).
In sbt, run:
1> webUI/fastOptJS
If your code compiles, this will produce the JavaScript necessary to run the HTML page in the browser. You can now open the file web-ui/index.html in your favorite browser, and enter text in the first text area.
If you implemented tweetRemainingCharsCount correctly, the remaining number of characters should automatically update.
For better visual feedback, we also want to display the remaining character count in colors indicating how "safe" we are:
(these are HTML colors).
Implement the function colorForRemainingCharsCount, which uses the signal of remaining char count to compute the signal of color.
You can now re-run webUI/fastOptJS and refresh your browser. You should see the number of remaining characters changing color accordingly.
The second part of the assignment is similar, for a different application: find the real root(s) of a 2nd degree polynomial of the form ax² + bx + c, where a is a non-zero value.
We explicitly ask for the intermediary discriminant, which we call Δ:
1Δ = b² - 4ac
which you should compute in the function computeDelta, from the signals for the coefficients a, b and c. Note that in this case, your output signal depends on several input signals.
Then, use Δ to compute the set of roots of the polynomial in computeSolutions. Recall that there can be 0 (when Δ is negative), 1 or 2 roots to such a polynomial, and that can be computed with the formula:
1(-b ± √Δ) / 2a
After compiling with webUI/fastOptJS and refreshing your brower, you can play with the root solver.
Now that you are warmed up manipulating Signals, it is time to proceed with the original goal of this assignment: the spreadsheet-like calculator.
To simplify things a bit, we use a list of named variables, rather than a 2-dimensional table of cells. In the Web UI, there is a fixed list of 10 variables, but your code should be able to handle an arbitrary number of variables.
The main function is the following:
12def computeValues(namedExpressions: Map[String, Signal[Expr]]): Map[String, Signal[Double]]
This function takes as input a map from variable name to expressions of their values. Since the expression is derived from the text entered by the user, it is a Signal. The Expr abstract data type is defined as follows:
1234567sealed abstract class Exprfinal case class Literal(v: Double) extends Exprfinal case class Ref(name: String) extends Exprfinal case class Plus(a: Expr, b: Expr) extends Exprfinal case class Minus(a: Expr, b: Expr) extends Exprfinal case class Times(a: Expr, b: Expr) extends Exprfinal case class Divide(a: Expr, b: Expr) extends Expr
The Ref(name) case class represents a reference to another variable in the map namedExpressions. The other kinds of expressions have the obvious meaning.
The function should return another map from the same set of variable names to their actual values, computed from their expressions.
Implement the function computeValues, and its helper eval, while keeping the following things in mind:
Such errors should be handled by returning Double.NaN, the Not-a-Number value.
It is not asked that, when given an expression for a = b + 1, you compute the resulting value signal for a in terms of the value signal for b. It is OK to compute it from the expression signal for b.
Once all of this is done, you can, once again, compile to JavaScript with webUI/fastOptJS and refresh your browser. You can now play with the simplified spreadsheet. Observe that, when you type in some expression, the values recomputed as a result are highlighted for 1.5s.
Notice that, as you modify dependencies between variables in the expressions, the dependencies between signals adapt dynamically.


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Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Ph.D.
New Line Cinema Director: Alex Proyas Writer: Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs Cast: William Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Richard O'Brien, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Richardson
"I can do anything I want just so long as I concentrate," brags John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) in Australian director Alex Proyas's movie, the director's lunge to duplicate Fritz Lang's fame. The director does not quite share his hero's worthy attribute: focused though he may be on providing a classic tale of the woes of conformity and the benefits of individuality, he succeeds principally in creating visual grandeur. Perhaps that's more than enough, as Proyas's targeted audience is probably the 17-25 year old set who dig the sophisticated comic books which have emerged during the past two decades.
Proyas's devotees, mavens of the sci-fi-horror genre, have looked forward to the release of this film, having adored his best known work, "The Crow" (1994), which became known far beyond the intended audience because of a tragedy which took place on the set. In that film Brandon Lee, in the role of Eric Draven--who, with the help of a crow seeks vengeance after he and his fiancee are murdered--was accidentally killed just before the conclusion from a gunshot wound, digital magic allowing him to complete the job after his demise. Like "The Crow," "Dark City has a visual style courtesy of cinematographer Dariusz Wolski which owes much to the study of comic books, called graph novels by their fans. Using extreme motions to evoke the most startling effects, Wolski would swoop high above his city and then suddenly dip, exploiting shadows, and creating an expressionistic embellishment of edifices. This mobility has an effect that would greatly please Charlie Chaplin, whose "Modern Times" (1936) attacks the impersonality of the machine age and Fritz Lang, whose "Metropolis" (1926) fantasizes a futuristic city and its mechanized society with an upper-class young man's abandonment of a life of luxury to join oppressed workers in a revolt.
Few would argue that Proyas's plots take precedence over his visual perceptions. This time around, though, Proyas transcends the simple story of vengeance which drives "The Crow" and reaches for a more transcendent motif: humankind's struggle for individuality against the pressures of conformity. Ayn Rand would be proud of him. His principal character, John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), finds himself in a seedy hotel, awakening to find a dead prostitute in his room, and soon discovers he is wanted for a series of brutal killings of women in the same profession. He remembers nothing, however, unaware of his guilt or innocence in the slayings. He might as well be a reborn babe, springing to existence yet thrust immediately into the throes of mid-life crisis. He may or may not be married to the lovely Emma (Jennifer Connelly) but is told that he has become estranged from her because of her alleged affairs with other men. Murdoch is pursued by an obsessed police inspector, Frank Bumstead (William Hurt), and by a far more dangerous trackers known as The Strangers. These Magritte-style, conjunctivitis-afflicted refugees from a Charles Addams strip came from another world where they are dying of conformity and seek to enter the bodies of earthlinks whom they are studying with the help of Dr. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland).
Anyone over the age of twenty-five is likely to be confused by the plot logistics, which involve the imprinting of memories (via injections straight into the forehead) and by the strange manner of speaking of the weird Dr. Shreber, who seems to utter three words at a time, pause, and then continue his perplexing train of thought. His vocal pattern mimics the jaggedness of the story line, though we do learn that he is in effect a double agent, pretending to help The Strangers while actually helping Murdoch to drive them out of the city. The Strangers relentlessly pursue John because he is the one human being who shares their ability to do Tuning: to alter the environment (allowing doors to appear out of nowhere in brick walls, shoving tall buildings together at will, even changing the architecture from contemporary to art deco and redesigning room, creating palatial splendor from a workman's hovel.
As The Strangers fly blithely through the air, bald heads gleaming, eyes turning redder while they are enveloped in a sickly-green light, we may appreciate the special effects (created in a Sydney, Australia studio) as we watch a city which seems to emerge from the 1940s turn into a cold, impersonal, machine-like organism. But we've been there before. We've seen albino-style bogeyman in the cheaply-made 1950s sci-fi thrillers, and our vampire pictures have processed ghouls who like The Strangers shun light, humanity, and bright colors. Sewell does well, however, as the terminally scared prey who must use his frightful powers against the Strangers, though the 6'3" William Hurt seems embarrassed by his role as an inspector with a penchant for detail, in no way the sort of characterization he has enjoyed in three-dimensional plots such as "The Big Chill" and in the more compelling sci-fi adventure, "Altered States."
Even the slogan used to rouse the heroes to action has been used before, by New York's Mayor Giuliani, who pledged successfully to "take back our city."
Rated R. Running Time: 103 minutes. (C) 1998 Harvey Karten
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FILM TITLE: 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD DIRECTOR: FRANCOIS GIRARD COUNTRY: CANADA 1993 CINEMATOGRAPHY: ALAIN DOSTIE MUSIC: CLASSICAL MUSIC CAST: Colm Feore as Glenn Gould SUPER FEATURES: Beautiful look inside the mind of a genius.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking inside the mind of a master musician, or at least composer, is a difficult thing. The basic problem, which was seen through many other reviews of this film, is that the consensus becomes one of idiocy, stubbornness, and a maladjusted person.
Glenn Gould may have been all that, but his style and interpretation of many classical pieces, is still one of the great achievements in music in this century. It is said that there is a fine line between madness and genius, and the way this film is represented, there is also a fine line between the directing and the truth. As a film, it certainly may not be liked.... the focus is the MUSIC, not the film. And many critics will not appreciate this. But aside from that, what this film does is what many film makers can not do. Not only appreciate the music itself, but also appreciate what it takes for a person to create what he does. It takes depth, and understanding. It takes a lot of intuition, where film might expect to find understanding and reasoning. Glenn Gould is not about reason. Glenn Gould is about intuition. And this film is no less an exercise than the original inspiration... certainly a compliment.
In thirty two little pieces, mostly in what we might consider a black and white MTV style, the life and thoughts of Glenn Gould are sort of displayed and shown. There are no attempts to mediate, or define, just a sort of interview with people that knew him, and just a few other moments, of acting and directing license. It creates a collage where the music is the center of the activity, instead of one man, something that Glenn states himself.
It is easy to see why this film was a darling of many film centers and film festivals. Amidst a more cultured audience, this is a very nice tribute to a great musician this century. In the wider world, where only Beethoven is the definition of classical music, the appreciation of this piece of work is totaly lost. One must not only know the music, but also be familiar with different styles of interpreting it. Glenn Gould is about creating new visions off the old, staid piece of music tat we have heard so much.
And, I am glad to say, that the film does the same.
Although, not specially done with audiences and film in mind, this is quite an achievement, in creative thinking. Putting together one of these is almost like throwing things up in the air and picking them up one at a time. The final dimention was one of a chronological styled ( very loose ) story. But it could just as well have been done in any other way.
Highly recommended film, if you not only love the music, but also the musicianship behind it all.
4.5 GIBLOONS out of 5
Reviewed by Pedro Sena. Moderator of Centipede's THE FILM. Copyright (c) Pedro Sena 1995. All Rights Reserved.
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Kubernetes is an open source orchestrator for deploying containerized applications that was originally developed by Google.
Kubernetes embraces the principles of immutable infrastructure. Once a container is deployed the contents (i.e., the application) are not updated by logging into the container and making changes. Instead a new version is deployed.
Everything in Kubernetes is declaratively configured. The developer or operator specifies the desired state of the system through deployment descriptors and configuration files, and Kubernetes is responsible for making this happen - you don’t need to provide imperative, step-by-step instructions. These principles of immutable infrastructure and declarative configuration have a number of benefits, first it is easier to prevent configuration drift, or “snowflake” application instances. Second, declarative deployment configuration can be stored within version control, alongside the code; Kubernetes can be largely self-healing, as if the system experiences failure like an underlying compute node failure, the system can rebuild and rebalance the applications according to the state specified in the declarative configuration.


Cryptocurrency Research
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About
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What is Digital Currency?
2.1
Let’s Get the terms Right
2.2
Advancing a clear definition
2.2.1
Taxonomy of Digital Currency
2.2.2
Digital currency before Bitcoin
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How does Cryptocurrency Funtion?
3.0.1
Achieving ‘distributed consensus’
3.0.2
What was Bitcoin’s Blockchain?
3.0.3
Digital Signatures
3.0.4
Merkle Trees
3.0.5
Proof-of-Work concept
3.0.6
Alternative mechanisms to achieve distributed consensus: Proof-of-stake
3.0.7
Proof-of-Stake versus Proof-of-Work Summarised
3.0.8
A Bitcoin transaction
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How do I obtain Cryptocurrency?
4.1
Exchanges
4.2
Bitcoin ATMs
4.3
Bitcoin Meetups
4.4
Mining for Bitcoin
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Alternative Cryptocurrencies
5.1
Altcoins from 2008 - 2012
5.2
Which Altcoin Currently Predominate?
5.2.1
Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin
5.2.2
Ripple and Stellar
5.2.3
‘Second Generation’ Cryptocurrencies
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Second Generation Cryptocurrencies
6.1
What are Smart Contracts
6.2
What are Decentralised Applications
6.3
DApp development: the current picture
6.3.1
How many tokens are associated with Ethereum?
6.3.2
Analysis of Top Ten Ethereum Tokens
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Upcoming Trends: Noval methods of Wealth accumulation
7.1
Premining
7.2
Intial Coin Offerings
7.3
Proof-of-Stake: The New Dividend?
7.4
Airdrops
References
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Cryptocurrency Research
Chapter 7
Upcoming Trends: Noval methods of Wealth accumulation
7.1
Premining
7.2
Intial Coin Offerings
7.3
Proof-of-Stake: The New Dividend?
7.4
Airdrops


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