Environment Wrappers¶
Wrappers for transforming gym.env
observations, rewards, initializations
and other behaviours.
Wrappers¶
Classes wrapping the OpenAI Gym. Some / most of them ar shoplifted from OpenAI/baselines
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
TorchWrapper
(env, verbose=False)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.ObservationWrapper
From numpy to torch.
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
SqueezeRewards
(env, verbose=True)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.RewardWrapper
Return only the sign of the reward at each step.
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
FrameStack
(env, k, verbose=False)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.Wrapper
Stack k last frames.
-
reset
()[source]¶ Resets the state of the environment and returns an initial observation.
- Returns
the initial observation.
- Return type
observation (object)
-
step
(action)[source]¶ Run one timestep of the environment’s dynamics. When end of episode is reached, you are responsible for calling reset() to reset this environment’s state.
Accepts an action and returns a tuple (observation, reward, done, info).
- Parameters
action (object) – an action provided by the agent
- Returns
agent’s observation of the current environment reward (float) : amount of reward returned after previous action done (bool): whether the episode has ended, in which case further step() calls will return undefined results info (dict): contains auxiliary diagnostic information (helpful for debugging, and sometimes learning)
- Return type
observation (object)
-
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
DoneAfterLostLife
(env, verbose=True)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.Wrapper
Reset the game if one life is lost in multiple lifes games. DeepMind trains with this and evaluates without it.
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
TransformObservations
(env, transformations)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.ObservationWrapper
Applies the given transformations on the observations.
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
MaxAndSkipEnv
(env, skip=4, verbose=False)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.Wrapper
Return only every skip-th frame
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.wrappers.
FireResetEnv
(env, verbose=False)[source]¶ Bases:
gym.core.Wrapper
-
reset
(**kwargs)[source]¶ Resets the state of the environment and returns an initial observation.
- Returns
the initial observation.
- Return type
observation (object)
-
step
(ac)[source]¶ Run one timestep of the environment’s dynamics. When end of episode is reached, you are responsible for calling reset() to reset this environment’s state.
Accepts an action and returns a tuple (observation, reward, done, info).
- Parameters
action (object) – an action provided by the agent
- Returns
agent’s observation of the current environment reward (float) : amount of reward returned after previous action done (bool): whether the episode has ended, in which case further step() calls will return undefined results info (dict): contains auxiliary diagnostic information (helpful for debugging, and sometimes learning)
- Return type
observation (object)
-
Observation Transformations¶
Transformations that work with Transform Observation.
Example:
env = TransformObservations(
env,
[
T.Downsample(84, 84),
T.RGB2Y()
T.Normalize()
],
)
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.
Downsample
(height, width, interpolation=1)[source]¶ Bases:
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.AbstractTransformation
Downsamples an RGB image using lcon.
- Parameters
Available interpolations are:
-
area
= 3¶
-
cubic
= 2¶
-
lanczos
= 4¶
-
linear
= 1¶
-
nearest
= 0¶
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.
Normalize
[source]¶ Bases:
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.AbstractTransformation
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.
RGB2Y
[source]¶ Bases:
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.AbstractTransformation
RGB to Luminance transformation.
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.
Standardize
(samples)[source]¶ Bases:
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.AbstractTransformation
Scale to zero mean and unit variance.
-
class
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.
RBFFeaturize
(samples, n_components=100)[source]¶ Bases:
wintermute.env_wrappers.transformations.AbstractTransformation
Extract features using approximate RBF kernels.
Lifted from Denny Britz notebook.


ValoMC is being developed by Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen, Tuomas Lunttila and Tanja Tarvainen at University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
The homepage is maintained by Aleksi Leino.
The MATLAB interface is written by Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen, Tanja Tarvainen.
The C++ simulation code is written by Aki Pulkkinen, Aleksi Leino, Tanja Tarvainen.
If you use ValoMC in your work, please reference it with the following citation:
A.A. Leino, A. Pulkkinen and T. Tarvainen, ValoMC: a Monte Carlo software and MATLAB toolbox for simulating light transport in biological tissue, OSA Continuum 2, 957-972 (2019).
You can report an issue on GitHub.
The ValoMC software (MATLAB and C++ source code for the software) is published under MIT-licence:
ValoMC Copyright (C) 2018 Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen and Tanja Tarvainen. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The software uses Mersenne-Twister random number generation code by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura (mt_rng.hpp):
Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura, All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.


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very disappointed , after reading ratings expected more , maybe all the other quests were smokers


dump-rdf
: Dumping the database to an RDF fileThe dump-rdf
tool uses D2RQ to
dump the contents of the
whole database into a single RDF file. This can be done with or without a
D2RQ mapping file. If a mapping file is specified, then the tool will use it
to translate the database contents to RDF. If no mapping file is specified,
then the tool will use the default mapping of
generate-mapping
for the translation.
dump-rdf [-f format] [-b baseURI] [-o outfile.ttl] [--verbose] [--debug] mapping-file.ttl
The filename of a D2RQ mapping file that contains a database mapping.
If no mapping file is provided, then the database connection must be
specified on the command line using the same connection
parameters as for the generate-mapping
tool,
and a default mapping will be used.
-f format
-b baseURI
-o outfile
--verbose
--debug
dump-rdf -f N-TRIPLE -b http://localhost:2020/ mapping-iswc.ttl > iswc.nt
dump-rdf -u root -f RDF/XML-ABBREV -o iswc-dump.rdf jdbc:mysql:///iswc
This dumps to RDF/XML format and writes the output to a file iswc-dump.rdf
.
dump-rdf -l db_dump.sql -o output.nt


Gaza Strip ceasefire agreed after 32 killed in bombardments
A Gaza Strip ceasefire agreement to end two days of fighting that has left 32 people dead came into effect early on Thursday, according to an Egyptian source and Islamic Jihad.
The "ceasefire agreement comes as a result of Egypt's efforts" and has been endorsed by "Palestinian factions including Islamic Jihad", said a top Egyptian official.
READ | Israel to bar visit by two US congresswomen: Ministry
An Islamic Jihad source also confirmed the agreement to both AFP and Associated Press.
According to the official, the agreement stipulates that Palestinian factions must ensure a return to calm in Gaza and "maintain peace" during demonstrations, while Israel must stop hostilities and "ensure a ceasefire" during demonstrations by Palestinians.
There was no immediate confirmation of the agreement from Israel.
Its officials had said previously that if Islamic Jihad fighters ceased fire, Israel would follow suit.
Attacks
READ | Led by Sanders, Democrats vow to press Israel on Palestinian state
The agreement, which entered into force at 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT), came after the death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip rose to 32.
Palestinian officials said six members of the same family had been killed.
"Six members of the Abu Malhous family, including three children and two women, were killed in an Israeli strike on their family home in Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip," the Palestinian ministry of health said.
Following an Israeli attack on Tuesday that killed a top Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza, the two sides had been exchanging fire, and Israel's military said it recorded more than 350 incoming rockets.
In Israel, air raid sirens wailed and fireballs exploded as air defence missiles intercepted rockets, sending Israelis rushing to bomb shelters.
In Gaza, residents surveyed damage and mourned the dead outside a mortuary and at funerals.
United Nations envoy Nickolay Mladenov arrived in Cairo on Wednesday afternoon, airport officials said, following reports he was to hold talks aimed at halting the fighting.
The UN and Egypt have been instrumental in mediating previous ceasefires between Israel and Gaza-based armed groups.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said Islamic Jihad must stop its rocket attacks or "absorb more and more blows".
Islamic Jihad spokesperson Musab al-Barayem had said the group was not interested in mediation as it retaliated over the killing of one of its commanders.
Israel killed senior Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife Asma early on Tuesday. It said Ata was responsible for rocket fire at Israel as well as other attacks and was planning more violence, with the military calling him a "ticking bomb".
The flare-up raised fears of a new all-out conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, which have fought three wars since 2008.


Go to demo:
Basic usage example
How to remember language (coockies)
How to remember language (local storage)
How to set a storage key
How to set a storage prefix
How to use namespaces
How to use $translateStaticFilesLoader
How to use predefined translation tables with loaders
How to use $translateUrlLoader
How to use translate-cloak
How to load partial files
How to use translate-namespace


addThemeModifier UI
¶
addThemeModifier API registers a theme modifier on INK editor for your plugin. Which basically allows your plugin to make theme changes if your theme modifier is selected.
Syntax¶
addThemeModifier(title: String) : Promise<String>
addThemeModifier API returns a unique id that will be helpful to check if your theme modifier is selected.
Note
For more info on how to make theme changes on INK editor, check here.
Example¶
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | import INKAPI from './inkapi.js'
INKAPI.ready(async () => {
const UI = INKAPI.ui;
// creates a theme modifier with title "Dark AMOLED Theme" and saved returned ID in a variable.
const themeModifierId = await UI.addThemeModifier("Dark AMOLED Theme");
UI.on(themeModifierSwitchHandler, "themeSwitch")
function themeModifierSwitchHandler(data){
//check if the selected theme modifier is not your plugin's
if(data !== themeModifierId) return;
// Make theme changes here...
}
});
|
Parameters¶
Name |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
options |
|
Required. Contains the Hex colors for INK editor theme. |
options¶
Field |
Required |
Description |
|---|---|---|
base |
true |
changes theme background color. This field is required while changing theme. |
font |
true |
changes the color of the font used in the INK Editor. This field is required while changing theme. |
primary |
false |
color of link, icon, active state, selection state and hover state. |
border |
false |
color of borders and separators used in left and right sidebars. |
panelIcon |
false |
color of icons on left and right sidebars. |
toggle |
false |
color of boxes related to tasks. |
sidebar |
false |
color of left and right sidebar. |
inputBase |
false |
background color of inputs. |
sidebarHover |
false |
background color in sidebar when hovered. |
inkBrand |
false |
INK brand color (pink) |


MRS. WINTERBOURNE A film review by Ben Hoffman Copyright 1996 Ben Hoffman
As an actor, Richard Benjamin always turned in a good performance. With rare exceptions, his directorial endeavors somehow have fallen flat. Mrs. Winterbourne is an example of the latter. What saves the film is the talent of Shirley MacLaine, who plays the title role. MacLaine is a born actress. When, in the film, she does a momentary movement of her hands and head I suddenly remembered that her original fame was as a dancer. The slight momentary movements were so graceful, so delightful, so filled with Class.
It is the story that turns the film down into little more than just another ordinary movie. The first scene is of a man lying on a bed, a couple of bullet holes in him. The TV is on but nobody is listening. He, Steve DeCunzo (Loren Dean), is dead.. How and why and by whom did DeCunzo meet his Maker? Flashback.
Connie Doyle (Ricki Lake) is a young woman on a train but neither knows nor cares where it is going. Homeless, broke and in the last months of pregnancy she is sorely in need of a miracle. The film's author provides exactly that. Based on the novel, "I Married A Dead Man" by Cornell Woolrich, a series of unlikely events happen unexpectedly. There is a train accident and the penniless Connie ends up in a hospital. She is mistakenly thought, by everyone, to be Mrs. Wellbourne's daughter-in-law (also pregnant) who was on the same train on her way to meet her mother-in-law for the first time.. Both she and her husband, Hugh Winterbourne (Brendan Frazer) are killed in the derailment.
Once we have accepted this series of coincidences, the film moves along nicely even to the point where the dead Hugh has a twin brother, Bill. Connie has to keep the family from discovering who she really is while her "brother-in-law'" Bill appears to be suspicious. Because the actors are so good, because Connie is so charming and Bill so handsome we are in their rooting for them. This mistaken identity bit is a kind of romantic comedy . . . and story of a murder. Well told. And, again, there;s MacLaine.
Directed by Richard Benjamin
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DoubleGreaterOrEqualsTest.testComparableEqualsFailNoMessage: Double 'valueA'(-0.124) is greater than or equal to Double 'valueB'(-0.124). DoubleGreaterOrEqualsTest.testComparableGreaterFailMessage: Double 'valueA'(0.124) is greater than or equal to Double 'valueB'(-0.124). Extra info goes here. DoubleGreaterOrEqualsTest.testComparableEqualsFailMessage: Double 'valueA'(0.125) is greater than or equal to Double 'valueB'(0.125). Extra info goes here. DoubleGreaterOrEqualsTest.testComparableGreaterFailNoMessage: Double 'valueA'(0.125) is greater than or equal to Double 'valueB'(0.124).


Padlopers
Padlopers come from Africa and are very small. The adult speckled padloper turtles reach
only 3.75 centimeters each. The karoo padloper is only slightly
larger, at 4.3 centimeters, with a somewhat domed shell. The Namaqualand
speckled padloper gets his name from the white markings on his shell and grows to around 2.5 to 3 inches.
The Nama padloper is 3 inches long, while the common padloper reaches only 2.5 to 3 inches.


[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> my daughters team laugh a lot
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> my sons AFL team take it super seriously
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> they want to win and win
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> even though it's Under 13s
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> thats the best driver
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> awe
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> xDDDD
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> the driver as the driving them around
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> or the driver as in their motivation?
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> both maybe..
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> lol
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> hehe
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I saw hte price recovery on exrates
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> glad you got that one
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> xDD
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I was BTFD but now price has jumped up again
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> got my buy orders in though
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I've bought some but want more
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> just a tip
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> to get the prices up
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> put buy order higher
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I think at the current price is underpriced so much
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> ppl cant dump if no one will buy lol
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> it is
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> lmao
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> so grab it while it lasts
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I want to buy more, and want to make the absolute most of this opportunity to buy cheap
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> you could prob gut a house atm for a few thousand USD(edited)
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> just dont have all the funds I'd like
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> but I'll do the best I can
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> Just trying to accumulate as much as possible
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I think Equaliser is a fantastic project
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> looking forward to seeing it grow over time
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> it's going to be awesome
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> hell yeah i cant wait xD
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> just need the price to start going up
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> we all can't wait
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> and we in and
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> building homes
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> xDDD
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> Yes, I was wondering how the houses would be built wiht the price of EQL so low.
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> kinda need the price to go up a fair bit in order for it to be the basis of building a house of value
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> indeed
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> but it will happen
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> or we have to say 1 trillion EQL per house
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> lmao
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder>
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> if prospective house buyers know of the new Equaliser scheme then they may start buying now in preparation and whilst the price is cheap
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I would if I was thinking of building a house
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> yeah
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> at the phase we are in we need to bring awareness of what we are doing
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> in Puerto Rico
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> and the community is key to that
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> there is only soo much we can put into marketing
[dscrdeql] <c2k> gm all
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> however word of mouth is the best
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> The project building companies in Australia build display homes so ppl can get an idea of the quality and designs of the houses they could buy
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> mornite c2k
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> the first home we intend to build is a proof of concept
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> to show people
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> if you build a couple of display homes and have them open as a type of head office then ppl can come and see for themselves what they're like
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> sounds good
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> well if any of you guys a crypto PR gurus message me xDDD(edited)
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> haha...no not a PR person...just talk a lot
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I think in this day and age social media is king
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> if you can conquer the social media then you will get the aweness out there
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> things like competitions also helps
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I think the whole rain thing is good to get people hooked a bit, then they'll want more and start buying
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> that's what got me in and then I saw the community and the project and what it meant and stood for and i though that this is something thats great and i want to be part of
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> I think the way you do the levels is smart
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> once again it gets people wanting to move up and ahead
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> gets them in that mindset
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> smart thinking
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> If I was going to develop a discord channel I'd do all that
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> you guys are doing well
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> there are so many shitcoins out there
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> to stand out from them you need to be different and stand for something different and meaningful
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> .....like you're doing
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> keep it up
[dscrdeql] <c2k> get the concept out there like jelly said
[dscrdeql] <c2k> in nyc years ago someone had a concept home near or on the property of a museum ( i think it was the met but cant remember)
[dscrdeql] <c2k> anyway, so many tourists and visitors who came to the museum also saw the concept home
[dscrdeql] <c2k> not sure if they had to pay to show the home or if it was revolutionary and artistic enough that the museum just showed it but maybe thats a thoughts also.
[dscrdeql] <c2k> just thinking out loud
[dscrdeql] <donaldmathers> Rain time already?!
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> ill brb 3 mins
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder>
[dscrdeql] <Jellysmash> What does brb mean?
[dscrdeql] <AndronicusBass-Founder> Be right back
[dscrdeql] <KQweci> Be right back lol
[dscrdeql] <AndronicusBass-Founder> Acronyms are communication breakdown
[dscrdeql] <AndronicusBass-Founder> Damn, The Who made some real classics
[dscrdeql] <AndronicusBass-Founder> Could be a trivia question
[dscrdeql] <Cypher - Founder> cheers my dude we think on a similar wavelength there is a lot more coming to the discord soon which the team is working on
[dscrdeql] <ghost> I do not speak English very well.
But I'll try
1. A fantastic project with great potential.
2. Do a weekly review
Done...
In the plans...
To-do sheet.
And release it every week. So that everyone will see the success of the project.
Twitter and Facebook are rubbish, with bounty hunters. For a penny, they will promote your project. But this is not the main thing.
- The main thing is the articles in serious publications. - - Analytical materials.
Stееmit, Medium.
And methodically do their work.
As soon as there is the first house - you do not learn them price EQLI


<EMAIL_ADDRESS>This week, I was mainly working on adding a pop-up page to the scheduler application that I was involved in developing. I managed to add a pop-up page that shows email templates for each email check-box option.
Computing Group Meeting
I attended the monthly computing group meeting this week. It was insightful especially after he guy that gave a talk shed more light on what the "RAL Space" department of STFC actually does, shed some more light on RAL Space's involvement with Rosetta - Philea Lander.
Try It Out Day
Every member of my team spent the Monday of this week trying out a technology or two that isn't used in our day-to-day job.
I tried a technology known as "JMeter" - for load and performance testing, and also Java OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) - for Image Processing in Java
This week, I was working on some tickets that has to do with fixing some bugs on the Scheduler application.
Supporter Of The Week (SOTW)
It was my turn to support the users of our application. Not a very busy week, but it still involved me having to show quick problem solving skills in order to resolve one issue or the other.


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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
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Our aim is straightforward: we want it to be as easy as possible for people to get out and play sport in their local area.


BY EDWIN JAHIEL
NOTTING HILL (U.K., 1999) ** Directed by Roger Michell. Written by Richard Curtis. Produced by Duncan Kenworthy. Photography, Michael Coulter. Music, Trevor Jones. Cast: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, Rhys Ifans, James Dreyfus, Tim McInnerney, Gina McKee, Alec Baldwin (cameo), et al. A Universal release. 124 minutes, PG-13.
For many an experienced critic or viewer, Notting Hill is nothing to shout about. Just a passable movie. For the average non-infantile public it could be pleasant entertainment. I am not putting down the moviegoing masses, but drawing a simple distinction between casual and non-casual publics.
In London's popular but now rather chic, fairly bohemian and pricey Notting Hill neighborhood (colorfulized for American consumption), William Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns and runs a bookstore specializing in travel publications, a small and modest shop that apparently is quite unprofitable. How it escapes bankruptcy is an unelucidated mystery. William also owns a small, highly messy house nearby. To make ends meet he has taken a tenant, Spike (Rhys Ifans), a Welshman of no known profession, and a total slob whose looks, appearance and ways are occasionally amusing but in fact way overdone in the film. The quiet, almost mousy William and the flamboyant Spike are pals, an odd couple whose relationship is underdone.
Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is introduced by a blatant opening montage as the world's most famous movie star. In London to promote her latest film (a space opera), Anna, we vaguely sense, is taking a break from bodyguards, entourage and febrile masses of press-hounds. She more or less goes slumming on her own. When she enters William's store to browse, the owner is boyishly stunned, stupefied and tongue-tied.  An amusing touch, as is that of a book-thief caught by William.
So far, so fair. But predictability sets in, running 20 to 2 vs. verisimilitude. Anna leaves the booksellers'. Shaky William, trying to collect his spirits, goes out for orange juice --when a good stiff whiskey is called for. The moment he takes his paper cup in hand, I bet to myself "now he'll encounter Anna in the street and spill the o.j. on her." That's exactly what happens. She then accepts the apologetic William's offer to come to his house and clean up. Upon leaving, she--unpredictably--gives William a passionate French kiss, thereby stunning him as well as us, the viewers, and initiating a hesitant and improbable love affair.
Next comes a phone call from Anna (the message is garbled by Spike) inviting William to the Ritz Hotel. In another entertaining bit, William unwittingly crashes a press junket at the Ritz, is taken for a reporter from Horse and Hound, "interviews" Anna. The sequences are funny. Yet there comes a point where meeting cute, local color, British eccentricities, mild caricatures of showbiz Americans, and such become formulaic and overdone. Even more blatant is the feeling that Hugh Grant, his writer and his producer --all from Four Weddings and a Funeral-- are cannily but without much inspiration recycling that earlier film.
Anna is the third real love in William's life. The first, his wife, eventually took off with someone who looked like Harrison Ford. Number two was filched by his best friend, who married her. A year and a half before the film's action her legs were paralyzed in a car accident. It is to the house of that couple that William takes Anna to celebrate the birthday of his kooky sister Honey. And it is the husband and the wife in a wheelchair whose love gives the movie its only touching moments.
Meeting the hoi polloi, Anna tries to adjust to them and show her "human" side. The commingling of the celebrity and ordinary yet unusual people was infinitely better done by Frank Capra in You Can't Take it With You.
Anna and William go on a "romantic" walk, scale the walls of a private garden as photography piles on sentimentality. Then, boom! The camera starts moving upwards as it looks down on the lovers in the greenery. A jolt and a technical error after so many sensible, eye-level shots. You become aware that this is a movie, that there is a whole unseen crew manning a huge crane.
What follows is another date, spoiled by the sudden arrival of Anna's current (and fickle) boyfriend Alec Baldwin, who in a mildly funny fashion mistakes William for a waiter.
Eventually Anna joins William in his house, for a night of love that promises much but winds up as a morning-after catastrophe : thanks to Spike's babbling in the pub, a regiment of reporters and paparazzi shows up. A furious Anna leaves. This would be the end of the affair in real life, but since a happy ending is a must, it occurs when the star reappears in London a year later to hype her newest movie during a press conference at the Hotel Savoy. ( Equal Opportunity publicity to balance out the Ritz Hotel). There's a mad, Hollywoodish car ride followed by a peppy but fabricated reunion which, in the usual tacked-on style, culminates in a never-never coda.
While there are a few good moments in the film, its essential structure gets in the way, is needlessly stretched out, and rapidly becomes a dull Nodding Hill. Worse yet there is no passion between the principals at any time, indeed no electricity. Things move hesitantly. So do the script and the protagonists. Julia Roberts plays as if on cruise control, as a presence with little to do except being there. She reminds me of Dorothy Parker's judgment of an actress: "Miss X... ran the gamut of emotions from A to B."
Ms. Roberts's outrageously over-hype and salaries, the flood of publicity and fabricated praise, have gotten tiresome. I am also reminded of ancient Athens when the leader-statesman Aristides "The Just" was again running for high office. The equivalent of one of today's pollsters asked an Athenian commoner why the latter had voted against Aristides. "Do you have something against him?" "No" came the reply "but I'm sick and tired of hearing him referred to as The Just."
Droopy-eyed Hugh Grant, now 39, overkills his role by underplaying it with the spinal cord and the personality of a marshmallow, as an ever diffident, bumbler-fumbler who is also prone to agree with everything. Witness the record number of times he replies, responds or concludes with "Right" -- a word that does not even have an exclamation mark after it. Like everyone else in the cast, with the small exception of the married couple, all roles are sketchy, un-rounded and dimensionless.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our times which are at odds with the romantic comedy genre. It has gone the way of black-and-white westerns. True romance is on the skids in these decades of serial relationships, marriages and divorces, including (and especially) those of Hollywood stars. Ms. Roberts is also a star within this trend. Not that the old Hollywood actors were monogamous saints, but in those days the studios which "owned them" kept down the lid of secrecy, exercised damage control over iffy activities. The latter did not become notorious, while today there's nothing hidden and nothing sacred in the media's Niagara.
The film is neither romantic nor comedic. The comic genre is also at the bottom of the totem pole. It has been eclipsed by TV, especially British series aired on PBS. Think of the successors to Monty Python, with their dominance of wit, farce, fine scripts and great acting: Fawlty Towers, Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister, Mr. Bean, Blackadder, Thin Blue Line (the last three with Rowan Atkinson), As Time Goes By, Keeping Up Appearances, Waiting for God.
Or The Vicar of Dibley in which Emma Chambers is superb as the deliciously dim Alice. In Notting Hill she appears as William's sister Honey, is a grating presence, and proves again that performers are only as good as their texts and direction. Along the same lines,, in the 1997 feature Bean, is far inferior to his TV episodes. The same goes for John Clues, in the 1999 remake of The Out-Of-Towners.

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Med Cabinet is for new cannabis consumers, especially those trying to get off of pharmaceuticals, who want to use cannabis as a means to battle medical conditions and ailments.
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This web application was created using neuro-linguistic programming techniques and a neural network model.
The model was trained from vector representation of the text describing the effects, flavors, and description of each strain. Word similarity was used to expand the data by 10 times its original size to facilitate more accurate results.
Using Spacy's en_core_web_md model, we were able to achieve 99% validation accuracy with our data! The model deployed to Heroku was trained with Spacy's small model, to accomodate for size restrictions.
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I would love to work with companies to build applications that – in the spirit of DHH – make a dent in society. I'm passionate about security, performance, and using the right tools for the job. I'm a bookworm, altruist, video-game and tech enthusiast. In my free time, I enjoy building web apps, lifting heavy weights, and spending quality time with family and friends.
View ResumeA beautiful, performant, and responsive E-Commerce Progressive Web App (PWA). Built from the ground up using React, Redux, and ExpressJS. The Stripe API is implemented to process online payments and Google's Firebase is used to store and fetch encrypted data (like user info and shopping items). The alternate versions utilize GraphQL, Apollo, and Context API to take advantage of new technologies, different ways of managing state, and processing server requests.
A responsive full-stack React app featuring Clarifai's machine-learning API to detect faces within an image. It incorporates an encrypted Postgres database on a RESTful express server, along with a Redis database and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for session management and caching; allowing users, among other things, to create and customize their profiles to their whim. Finally, AWS Lambda is utilized to cater to the UI/UX with a ranking system for each image submitted.
A snappy Progressive Web App (PWA) featuring an active-search function (similar to Facebook's) that filters through the list of robofriends according to the name that you type. Redux allows for potential scalability and CircleCI is utilized to streamline the Continuous Integration/Continous Delivery (CI/CD) process only when the app passes all of its tests.
Zero to Mastery | Resources is an open-source repository containing some excellent resources for developers from all walks of life, catering to all levels of experience. I've contributed several resources to the following sections: Javascript, Web Development, Web Design, and General Resources. I've also made sure that the appropriate links for all the sections are routed properly, styles made consistent with overall theme and color palette, and improved UI/UX by augmenting user-interactive elements to be more responsive.
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In July of 2019, I was placed by LaunchCode at Xcira, a company based in Tampa, FL centered around building software for auction companies. During my time at Xcira, I have worked hand in hand with the Project Manager and Product Owner in assisting with communication to the customer, grooming the backlog, leading our Daily Scrum, helping guide both Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospectives, and writing documentation for our new technologies and processes. With this experience, I have become seasoned with the Atlassian suite, including Bitbucket, Confluence, and Jira, and working in an Agile Development Environment.
Since completing LaunchCode's LC101 in St. Louis, MO in 2018, and throughout my time at Xcira, I have continued to learn and grow my programming skills by working on my own projects and taking courses on Udemy. I believe that my past experience with years of public facing jobs, along with my work at Xcira, will set me apart from other developers. I am proud of my written and verbal communication skills, and I excel in using those to help find the best in my team members to increase both our efficacy and efficiency.
View ResumeI created this project using React, Node, Express, and MySQL. I also worked with a face detection API, clarifai. The app is easy to use. Simply find a URL of a picture with a face in it. After registering and signing in, paste the URL in the box and click detect! The API will detect the face (if there is one), and increase your score by 1.
A simple yet creative app created in React. This allows real time search results to filter for Robofriends of a certain name or e-mail address.
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| void | setCurrentImageColor (const drain::image::Image &src) |
| void | setCurrentImages (const drain::image::Image &src) |
| void | unsetCurrentImages () |
| void | getImageStatus (drain::FlexVariableMap &statusMap) const |
| void | updateImageStatus (drain::VariableMap &statusMap) const |
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| static void | getImageInfo (const drain::image::Image *ptr, drain::Variable &entry) |
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| bool | imagePhysical |
| Defines if the next image processing operation uses scaled intentsites instead of raw byte values. | |
| ODIMPathElem::group_t | qualityGroups |
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| drain::image::ImageSampler | imageSampler |
| const drain::image::Image * | currentImage |
| Pointer to the last 2D data (image) processed. | |
| const drain::image::Image * | currentGrayImage |
| Pointer to the last single-channel 2D data (image) processed. | |
| drain::image::Image | grayImage |
| drain::image::Image | colorImage |
| drain::image::Palette | palette |
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Defines which quality data, if any, is used as input weight.
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R's default conflict management system gives the most recently loaded package precedence. This can make it hard to detect conflicts, particularly when they arise because a package update creates ambiguity that did not previously exist. 'conflicted' takes a different approach, making every conflict an error and forcing you to choose which function to use.
| Version: | 1.0.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.1) |
| Imports: | rlang, memoise |
| Suggests: | covr, crayon, dplyr, pkgdown, testthat |
| Published: | 2018-10-02 |
| Author: | Hadley Wickham [aut, cre], RStudio [cph] |
| Maintainer: | Hadley Wickham <hadley at rstudio.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/r-lib/conflicted/issues |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | https://github.com/r-lib/conflicted |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | conflicted results |
| Reference manual: | conflicted.pdf |
| Package source: | conflicted_1.0.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: conflicted_1.0.1.zip, r-release: conflicted_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: conflicted_1.0.1.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: conflicted_1.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel: conflicted_1.0.1.tgz |
| Old sources: | conflicted archive |
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Medha Patkar gets passport office notice; cries foul
Veteran social activist Medha Patkar has received a notice from the Regional Passport Office for allegedly not disclosing criminal cases pending against her while obtaining the travel document.
Miffed over the show-cause notice, the Narmada Bachao Andolan leader, a veteran of many agitations across the country, called it an attempt to target activists.
"This is a deliberate attempt to target activists and challenge their morality," the 64-year-old activist said.
The RPO notice was issued to Patkar on October 18, asking her why her passport should not be impounded for not disclosing criminal cases pending against her while seeking the document, an official said.
She was reissued a passport in March 30, 2017.
Patkar was asked to give explanation within 10 days, but did not respond to the notice, he said.
According to the notice, Patkar has nine cases pending against her in Madhya Pradesh -- five in Khandwa, three in Barwani and one at Alirajpur district.
These cases relate to rioting and obstructing government servants from performing their official duty.
The passport office had sought details about these cases from the director general of Madhya Pradesh Police, the official said.
Reacting to the notice, Patkar said, "Cases mentioned in the notice seem to be those filed during our absolutely non-violent peaceful agitations for justice for the development projects (dams) affected families and for no other offence."
"All the cases against me and others were filed years ago and were deposed off by the district courts of Barwani and Alirajpur," she said, "we received order of acquittal before the date of applying for passport in March 2017.
Only a case at Barwani was not filed before the day of passport application and it was registered in August 2017 for 'mook' (silent) rally under IPC section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) which is pending till date, she said.
"As this case did not exist on the day of application, there was no question of my informing it as pending," Patkar maintained.
"As far as Khandwa cases are concerned, I don't remember having been summoned in any of them nor I was made an accused nor I was ever summoned or arrested," she said.
Speaking about not meeting the RPO office deadline for submitting explanation, she said a response was filed on November 2.
"I was trying to seek copies of documents and orders, which I could not do within last six days after receiving the letter in my hand due to my touring schedule and due to Diwali holidays," said Patkar.


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import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import json
import requests
from shapely.geometry import LineString
from sklearn.cluster import KMeans
import time
import os
from geocoding.config import Config
[docs]def query_api(query, fpath):
"""
Queries Overpass API for *query*.
Args:
query (str): The query to be passed to API
fpath (str): File path to write the API response
Returns:
None
"""
status = 0
overpass_url = 'http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter'
try:
response = requests.get(overpass_url, params={'data': query}).json()
with open(fpath, 'w') as f:
json.dump(response, f)
except ValueError:
print('Overpass api error: Trying again with a greater timeout...')
time.sleep(3)
status = 1
return status
[docs]def parse_streets(fpath):
"""
Parses the API response from *fpath* and converts it to a dataframe.
Args:
fpath (str): File path to read
Returns:
pandas.DataFrame: Contains all streets as well as their geometries
"""
# Helper function
def convert_to_wkt_geometry(row):
lons = [p['lon'] for p in row['geometry']]
lats = [p['lat'] for p in row['geometry']]
if len(lons) < 2 or len(lats) < 2:
return None
return LineString(list(zip(lons, lats)))
with open(fpath, encoding='utf-8') as f:
streets = json.load(f)['elements']
if not streets:
return None
data = [(street['id'], street['geometry']) for street in streets]
cols = ['id', 'geometry']
street_df = pd.DataFrame(data=data, columns=cols)
street_df['geometry'] = street_df.apply(convert_to_wkt_geometry, axis=1)
street_df = street_df.dropna()
return street_df
[docs]def download_cell(cell, fpath):
"""
Downloads *cell* from Overpass API, writes results in *fpath* and then \
parses them into a pandas.DataFrame.
Args:
cell (list): Contains the bounding box coords
fpath (str): Path to write results and then to read from in order to \
parse them
Returns:
pandas.DataFrame: Contains all street elements included in *cell*
"""
west, south, east, north = cell
counter = 0
status = 1
while status and (counter < Config.max_overpass_tries):
counter += 1
query = (
f'[out:json][timeout:{Config.osm_timeout * counter}];'
# f'way["highway"]["highway"!~"^(cycleway|footway)$"]'
f'way["highway"]["highway"!~"^(cycleway)$"]'
# 'way["highway"~"^(motorway|trunk|primary)$"];'
# 'way["highway"]'
f'({south},{west},{north},{east});'
'out geom;')
status = query_api(query, fpath)
if status:
print('Overpass api error: Exiting.')
exit()
return parse_streets(fpath)
[docs]def cluster_points(X):
"""
Clusters points given in *X*.
Args:
X (numpy.ndarray): Contains the points to be clustered
Returns:
numpy.ndarray: The predicted clusters labels
"""
n_clusters = int(Config.clusters_pct * X.shape[0])
kmeans = KMeans(
n_clusters=n_clusters, random_state=Config.seed_no, n_init=20, max_iter=500, n_jobs=Config.n_jobs
).fit(X)
labels = kmeans.predict(X)
return labels
[docs]def get_clusters_bboxes(X, labels):
"""
Extracts a bounding box for each one of the clusters.
Args:
X (numpy.ndarray): Contains the clustered points
labels (numpy.ndarray): Contains the cluster label for each point in \
*X*
Returns:
dict: Contains the cluster labels as keys and the corresponding \
bounding box as values
"""
bboxes = {}
for i in range(len(set(labels))):
cluster_points = np.vstack([p for j, p in enumerate(X) if labels[j] == i])
xmin, ymin = cluster_points.min(axis=0) - Config.osm_buffer
xmax, ymax = cluster_points.max(axis=0) + Config.osm_buffer
bboxes[i] = [xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax]
# print({k: v for k, v in sorted(bboxes.items(), key=lambda item: item[1][0])})
return bboxes


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Definition at line 46 of file CCompiledBsp.h.
Public Member Functions | |
| void | compile (CBsp *bsp) |
| void | getHitLeafs (CVector &point, std::vector< CCompiledBsp * > &bspArray) |
| void | getHitLeafs (CSphere &sohere, std::vector< CCompiledBsp * > &bspArray) |
| void | clear () |
| void | init () |
| Initialize the mesh after all polygon / edge / vertex data has been created. This will calculate polygon & vertex normals, etc, etc. | |
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| CPlane | plane |
| Splitting plane. | |
| CCompiledBsp * | child [2] |
| Front & back children. | |
| CCompiledMesh * | root |
| Base mesh where vertex, edge, etc data is stored. | |
| std::vector< CCompiledVertex > | vertex |
| Vertices that make up the mesh's geometry. | |
| std::vector< CCompiledTexcoord > | texcoord |
| Texture coordinates used by the mesh's geometry. | |
| std::vector< CCompiledEdge > | edge |
| Edges used by the mesh's polygons. | |
| std::vector< CCompiledPolygon > | polygon |
| Polygons that constitute the mesh. | |
| CCompiledMesh * | base |
| Mesh where shared data is stored. | |
| std::vector< int > | polygonIndex |
| Index into polygon array of shared data mesh. | |
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| void | getLeafNodes (CBsp *bsp, std::vector< CBsp * > &bspArray) |
| void | getLeafNodes (std::vector< CCompiledBsp * > &cbspArray) |
| void | replicateHierarchy (CBsp *bsp) |
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Teens and young adults' mental health has been hit harder by Covid-19 than any other age group.
A pandemic is a stressful time for everyone. If you've been suffering with bouts of anxiety or depression, even if you never have before, you aren't alone. The CDC and WHO recommend maintaining healthy daily habits and routines to keep yourself on track during times of confusion.
According to recent data, even people who have never had mental health issues have become unstable during this pandemic.
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public class BitsGame
extends java.lang.Thread
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void |
addScreen(BitsScreen screen)
This method can be used to register a BitsScreen.
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void |
backButtonPressed()
This method will be called by the engine itself,
if the back button on the device is pressed. |
static void |
createIt()
YOU MUST NOT CALL THIS METHOD!
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static void |
destroyIt() |
void |
finish()
Call this method, if you want the app to be closed.
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static BitsGame |
getIt()
This static method return THE one and only instance of BitsGame.
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int |
getScreenOrientation()
This method returns the current apps screen orientation.
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void |
handleTouchInput(MotionEvent motionEvent) |
void |
init() |
boolean |
isRunning()
Is the game-/logic-thread running?
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void |
onPause()
This method will be called by the BitsApp,
if the app is going to be paused. |
void |
onResume()
This method will be called by the BitsApp,
if the app is going to be resumed. |
void |
onStop()
This method will be called by the BitsApp,
if the app is going to be closed. |
void |
rendererReady()
This method will be called by the opengl es renderer if the game thread
asked for a report and the opengl es surface is ready. |
void |
rotateScreenOrientation()
This method sets the screen orientation to the opposing orientation.
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void |
run() |
void |
setClearColor(float red,
float green,
float blue,
float alpha)
This method sets the values for 'mClearColor'.
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void |
setRenderer(BitsOpenGLRenderer renderer)
This method will be called by the engine itself,
if the app is created. |
void |
setScreenOrientation(int orientation)
This method sets the new orientation mode.
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void |
showMessage(java.lang.String message)
Call this method to show a short status message in your app.
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void |
showScreen(int screenID)
If you want to show another registered BitsScreen, you have to
call this method with the corresponding screen id. |
BitsFixedSizeArray<BitsRenderable> |
takeRenderQueue()
This method will be called by the OpenGLRenderer,
if a new render queue is available. |
activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield
public static final BitsGame getIt()
public static final void createIt()
public final void init()
public static final void destroyIt()
public final void finish()
public final void backButtonPressed()
public final void showMessage(java.lang.String message)
message
- - the message you'd like to showpublic final int getScreenOrientation()
public final void setScreenOrientation(int orientation)
orientation
- - the new orientation modepublic final void rotateScreenOrientation()
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public final void onResume()
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in class java.lang.Thread


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8MM
Starring Nicolas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix Directed By Joel Schumacher Running Time: 2 hours 3 minutes
(Columbia Pictures)
8mm, written by Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker, has an interesting idea which is ruined by Hollywood formula to become a bog standard murder mystery. Nicolas Cage plays family man detective Tom Welles, who is asked by upper class toff Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter) to investigate an movie found in her recently deceased husbands safe. The movie happens to be an mythical 'snuff movie', where the girl featured in the film appears to get brutally slashed. All Mrs. Christian wants to know if the girl in the film was killed or not. Welles agrees, and soon gets pulled into the seedy underworld of porn movies, with video clerk Max California (Phoenix) as his guide.
Although the 'snuff' industry hasn't really been examined in mainstream cinema, 8mm still makes a rather plodding thriller which just seems to be a bit sicker than most. The snuff movie within the movie is certainly disturbing, although the jerky camera angles and grainy image takes some of the shock away. 8mm has the problem of not wanting to shock too much, and apart from a few moments, most of the action in the film is nothing you haven't seen from another standard thriller.
The cast help towards the entertainment, apart from an hideous performance by the increasingly lazy Nicolas Cage. While he was fun and breezy in earlier films such as Raising Arizona (1987), ever since Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Cage has lost much of his acting talent and appears to be on autopilot, such as in the terrible Snake Eyes (1998.) Here, in 8mm, he's boring, uninteresting and has a dull monotonous voice. And in this overlong thriller, these virtues do not help keep the suspense up. Only when Cage is onscreen with the excellent Phoenix does the film start moving, as Phoenix is a true talent. His performance is a great break away from the gloom, and he's just purely enjoyable to watch. Catherine Keener is completely wasted as Cage's wife, although she delivers a far better performance than her character deserves. Her character, though, is hugely underwritten, one of the most wasted characters of the year. Also fun is Fargo's Peter Stormare as the wildly over the top snuff film director.
As this film is written by the person behind Seven, 8mm is filled with doom and gloom, and no-one appears to know how to use an light switch.  Lacking the strong characters Seven featured, 8mm ultimately becomes uninvolving plot wise, and relies on the graphic scenes to provide any entertainment. But director Joel Schumacher, the completely wrong guy for the job, puts style over content, and while the direction and look are good, it's just not very disturbing. Schumacher also has no idea how to shock and audience, and though we are meant to be looking at the 'dark belly' of the porn industry, it doesn't exactly leave an haunting impression on the viewers mind, which misses the point. Also, the last 20 minutes are so hackneyed, so cliched, it's amazing to think it's the same film you're watching.
8mm is far from an success, a 'snuffed' opportunity.  Ultimately, 8mm is probably worth renting on home video, unless your desperate to see what the snuff film within the film looks like. And trust me, the rest of the 2 hours are not worth it.
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Message boxes are a mechanism that is used for inter-process or, in the case of pico]OS, inter-task communication. All tasks can post messages to each other, and the receiving task will look into its message box and continues when it got a new message. Note that a message box in the pico]OS can hold chunk of messages, so that no message will be lost while the receiving task is still busy processing the last message.
There are two possible types of message boxes: The simple type can only hold a pointer to a user supplied buffer. The other message box type can hold whole messages with different sizes. A message buffer must be allocated with posMessageAlloc by the sending task, and the receiving task must free this buffer again with posMessageFree.
To select the simple message box type, you have to set the define POSCFG_MSG_MEMORY to 0. When you want to have the full message buffer support, you must set POSCFG_MSG_MEMORY to 1.
Function Documentation
| POSEXTERN void* POSCALL posMessageAlloc |
( |
void |
| ) |
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| POSEXTERN VAR_t POSCALL posMessageAvailable |
( |
void |
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Message box function. Tests if a new message is available in the message box. This function can be used to prevent the task from blocking.
- Returns:
- 1 (=true) when a new message is available. Otherwise zero is returned. A negative value is returned on error.
- Note:
- POSCFG_FEATURE_MSGBOXES must be defined to 1 to have message box support compiled in.
- See also:
- posMessageGet, posMessageWait
| POSEXTERN void POSCALL posMessageFree |
( |
void * |
buf | ) |
|
Message box function. Frees a message buffer again. Usually the receiving task would call this function after it has processed a message to free the message buffer again.
- Parameters:
-
| buf | pointer to the message buffer that is no more used. |
- Note:
- POSCFG_FEATURE_MSGBOXES must be defined to 1 to have message box support compiled in.
POSCFG_MSG_MEMORY must be defined to 1 to have this function compiled in.
- See also:
- posMessageGet, posMessageSend, posMessageAlloc
| POSEXTERN void* POSCALL posMessageGet |
( |
void |
| ) |
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| POSEXTERN VAR_t POSCALL posMessageSend |
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void * |
buf, |
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POSTASK_t |
taskhandle |
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Message box function. Sends a message to a task.
- Parameters:
-
- Returns:
- zero on success. When an error condition exist, a negative value is returned and the message buffer is freed.
- Note:
- POSCFG_FEATURE_MSGBOXES must be defined to 1 to have message box support compiled in.
- See also:
- posMessageAlloc, posMessageGet
| POSEXTERN void* POSCALL posMessageWait |
( |
UINT_t |
timeoutticks | ) |
|
Message box function. Gets a new message from the message box. If no message is available, the task blocks until a new message is received or the timeout has been reached.
- Parameters:
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| timeoutticks | timeout in timer ticks (see HZ define and MS macro). If this parameter is set to zero, the function immediately returns. If this parameter is set to INFINITE, the function will never time out. |
- Returns:
- pointer to the received message. Note that the message memory must be freed again with posMessageFree when POSCFG_MSG_MEMORY is defined to 1. NULL is returned when no message was received within the specified time (=timeout).
Hint: NULL may also be returned when the system has not enough events. In this case, please increase the value for POSCFG_MAX_EVENTS in your poscfg.h .
- Note:
- POSCFG_FEATURE_MSGBOXES must be defined to 1 to have message box support compiled in.
POSCFG_FEATURE_MSGWAIT must be defined to 1 to have this function compiled in.
- See also:
- posMessageFree, posMessageGet, posMessageAvailable, posMessageSend, HZ, MS


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Public Attributes | |
| C_STRUCT aiString | mName |
| C_STRUCT aiMatrix4x4 | mTransformation |
| C_STRUCT aiNode * | mParent |
| unsigned int | mNumChildren |
| C_STRUCT aiNode ** | mChildren |
| unsigned int | mNumMeshes |
| unsigned int * | mMeshes |
| C_STRUCT aiMetadata * | mMetaData |
Each node has name, a parent node (except for the root node), a transformation relative to its parent and possibly several child nodes. Simple file formats don't support hierarchical structures - for these formats the imported scene does consist of only a single root node without children.
Definition at line 78 of file scene.h.
| C_STRUCT aiString aiNode::mName |
The name of the node.
The name might be empty (length of zero) but all nodes which need to be referenced by either bones or animations are named. Multiple nodes may have the same name, except for nodes which are referenced by bones (see aiBone and aiMesh::mBones). Their names *must* be unique.
Cameras and lights reference a specific node by name - if there are multiple nodes with this name, they are assigned to each of them.
There are no limitations with regard to the characters contained in the name string as it is usually taken directly from the source file.
Implementations should be able to handle tokens such as whitespace, tabs, line feeds, quotation marks, ampersands etc.
Sometimes assimp introduces new nodes not present in the source file into the hierarchy (usually out of necessity because sometimes the source hierarchy format is simply not compatible). Their names are surrounded by
<>
<DummyRootNode>
| C_STRUCT aiMatrix4x4 aiNode::mTransformation |
| C_STRUCT aiNode* aiNode::mParent |
| unsigned int aiNode::mNumChildren |
The number of child nodes of this node.
Definition at line 111 of file scene.h.
Referenced by Model::ProcessNode().
| C_STRUCT aiNode** aiNode::mChildren |
The child nodes of this node. NULL if mNumChildren is 0.
Definition at line 114 of file scene.h.
Referenced by Model::ProcessNode().
| unsigned int aiNode::mNumMeshes |
The number of meshes of this node.
Definition at line 117 of file scene.h.
Referenced by Model::ProcessNode().
| unsigned int* aiNode::mMeshes |
The meshes of this node. Each entry is an index into the mesh list of the aiScene.
Definition at line 122 of file scene.h.
Referenced by Model::ProcessNode().
| C_STRUCT aiMetadata* aiNode::mMetaData |
Metadata associated with this node or NULL if there is no metadata. Whether any metadata is generated depends on the source file format. See the importer_notes page for more information on every source file format. Importers that don't document any metadata don't write any.


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How I became a Uniformist
by Fron
on 2016-04-07
by Fron
on 2016-04-07
At Philosophocle, there are many paths. There are stairs angling proudly up the hills and sinusoids winding leisurely through the garden. There are zigzags of wheelchair-accessible alternatives, basement tunnels lined with hot-water pipes, ladders hung from trees designated good for climbing, forbidden rooftops (to be traversed only during power outages, when the electricity to the alarmed door cuts off). People have chosen their paths, like Jacob who always chooses the zigzagging path rather than the stairs even when he’s late for class, to remind himself “there are no shortcuts to life”, or Albert, who dreams of being a squirrel, and is still practicing his tree-climbing so he can make it across campus without touching ground.
As I entered the Ideologies Fair, I wondered: what would be my path?
A huge crowd had gathered around the Creativist booth.
“Be Diferent! Be Divient!” their sign advertised.
On the left of the table were piles of plain white shirts. On the right was a box containing many tiny little wooden boxes. In the middle was a buffet table of decorations, including glitter, glitter glue, metal hooks, plastic eyes, pipe cleaners, bubble-letter tracers, a Random Quote Box, beads, thread, yarn, buttons, paint, spray paint, felt, sew-on-pockets, cardboard, cotton balls, flower petals, acorn caps, last autumn’s leaves, feathers dropped from birds in flight, and coconut shells.
“A lot of people tell you that you can benefit society most by following the standard path,” said a girl behind the table whose nametag read “Trevisia.”
“But we believe that a life with a single unique attribute is more well-lived than an unoriginal but helpful life. Of course, the more unique attributes the better. Creativism is simply creating, ad infinitum.”
“How can we join?” an enthusiastic freshman asked.
“As a warm-up you can design your own T-shirt,” Trevisia gestured to the buffet table. “Please make sure it is sufficiently different from everyone around you! Once you are ready, you will need to go through the Initiation…”
Trevisia was certainly unique. She wore a hat made of bread, two earrings upon which dangled wire letters A through Z, and a tie-dyed shirt filled with hundreds of eyes, from cyclopean to arachnid to plastic. She sported candy-cane striped hair.
I shifted uncomfortably under the stares of all those eyes. I pointed at her shirt and interjected, “What is the meaning of all those eyes?”
“No meaning,” Trevisia said, “But they do have names. This one is Cycloon, this one is Goliuth, this one is Arakaye, this one is eye4eye…”
I soon tuned out, as the fervent creating all around me led me to the question of, how would I decorate my shirt? My first thought was geometric shapes—but I looked at the boy next to me, and he had already drawn out a hyperbolic tessellation, with the animals of the zodiac embedded inside. I thought to make an acronym of my name, but Kakup had already done that (Kapricious and Kool under pressure). I thought to draw a coat of arms representing various aspects of myself, but the girl besides me had drawn not one but ten, arrayed in some genealogical tree of her identity.
Then I had a brilliant idea. The others had creative shirts, but the shirts were narrow in meaning and scope, like one of the many possible paths on campus. I would make a shirt that encompassed all the possible paths at once. I would use every single ingredient. Already I was mentally appropriating them: the glitter glue would be the stars; the coconut shell would be the Earth; the eyes signified all the life forms, terrestrial and extraterrestrial; last autumn’s leaves represented the inevitable decay of all things beautiful. Finding an empty bit of floor, I sat down and got to work.
It was not until thirty minutes later that I stretched out the shirt in front of me to examine my handiwork—with mounting horror. The shirt was not simply ugly, for it was worse than diseased reptile skin, which although ugly, is at least natural. I cannot describe the object I had created, except to say that even now, as I am thinking about it, I find myself scrunching up my face, breaking out in sweat, and grasping my knees to keep my body from shaking, until I remind myself of the existence of luminescent jellyfish.
“That’s beautiful!”  “You would make a great Creativist. Why don’t you show the rest of the people here your creation—?”
Could it be? The Creativists were so starstruck with the act of creation that they would sing praises even when one of their kind created a monstrosity?
“Come back, Froggulon—Frobobbon? What was your name again?”
I hurried away, hiding my face. This was the final straw. The Creativists were not content at decorating shirts with all manner of unnatural appendages, they also had to decorate my name with all manner of unnatural consonants!
So eager was I to exit the Ideologies Fair that I would have barreled right through the exit had not I heard a voice, “Looks like we lost another one to the Creets!”
Eager though I was to escape the ignominy of unsuccessful creation, I would not have it be said that I was a “Creet”! The source of the voice was a girl behind a plain wooden table, in a gray shirt with a large black U in the middle. She had on a name tag with “My name is Not Important.” A boy sitting beside her had the same shirt, but with no name tag.
Noticing my attention, Not Important said, “Welcome, fellow student! May I see your shirt?”
I turned so I was facing the table. “What, this?” It was a shirt that said, PHILOSOPHOCLE: A PINNACLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION in lofty letters, amidst a background of clouds and pinnacles.
“No, the shirt you just made.”
Not Important winced and shielded her eyes. Unnamed stared at the shirt, looking but not seeing.
“My feeling is the same,” I assured Not Important.
Unnamed spoke up, “Such are the fruits of unbridled Creativism.”
After he spoke, I heard a beep. In front of the Creativist booth, someone stared intently at a slip of paper, before throwing it aside, and started warbling opera in a language that no human could understand. Not Important winced again. Unnamed handed me a pair of earplugs, which I gratefully plugged in. Not Important and Unnamed followed suit.
Unnamed offered me a T-shirt and a brochure.
Every day the world around us pressures us to be unique—to talk in a different style of poetry in order to mark ourselves as having high artistic taste, wear clothing with designs no one has ever seen in order to win people’s praise for our fashionability, or to earn a grade that no one else has (like 100%) in order to be included in a “historical figure” box in the next edition of The Squirrel’s Guide to Philosophocle.
We are the Uniformists. We believe it is neither necessary nor virtuous to be unique. Uniqueness leads to egotism, triviality, frivolity, artistic confusion, a belief that the world is conspiring against you, and hallucinations.
Instead, we celebrate our common humanity. In a world where everyone is asking you to be different, we find solace in being the same.
Q: How can I join?
A: Wear a U-shirt and join our daily lunch table!
“You should have been before the Creativists!” I told them after the opera finished. “Then I wouldn’t have wasted so much time making this shirt!”
Not Important and Unnamed looked at each other. “Unfortunately, the Activities and Ideologies Fair has two entrances. What’s ‘before’ to you is ‘after’ to someone else.”
“It would make more sense for one to be the Entrance and another to be the Exit, so everyone is moving the same direction,” I pointed out.
“But it wouldn’t be fair to impose Uniformity on everyone. Uniformity is a choice,” Not Important said.
“But the only reasonable one,” Unnamed added.
“Excusez moi,” Trevisia called from the adjacent table, “We’re running out of shirts. Will you give us some of yours? We’d pay for them, of course.”
“Absolutely not,” Unnamed said, “we can’t allow you to deface our pure shirts!”
Not Important cut in. “Un, Uniformists are supposed to be uniformly kind! I empathize with your lack of shirts, Trevisia, but I am afraid I cannot conscientiously sell our T-shirts if they will be decorated upon. What will students think, if they see U-shirts that have been painted with markers and plastic eyes? It will send a conflicting message about the meaning of ‘U’, and lead to fragmentation of our society.”
I started laughing. The scene was absurd. The Creativists still had glitter, glitter glue, metal hooks, plastic eyes, pipe cleaners, bubble-letter tracers, a Random Quote Box, beads, thread, yarn, buttons, paint, spray paint, felt, sew-on-pockets, cardboard, cotton balls, flower petals, acorn caps, last autumn’s leaves, feathers dropped from birds in flight, and coconut shells, but no shirts!
“It’s like making a bread with sugar and no flour. Or writing a thesis with pen but no paper!”
Unnamed held up a hand. “Do not use unsanctioned metaphors,” she said, “for what if they make it into the next edition of The Squirrel’s Guide to Philosophocle, and become a mark of distinction between the ingroup and outgroup?”
I was immediately chastised. Trevisia was still looking around frantically for shirts; her skills apparently did not involve Creating shirts out of thin air.
“You can have my shirt back!” I said, throwing my Creativist shirt at her.
“But Frokkoli—Frungular?
I ignored her protests and walked smoothly out the door of the Ideologies fair. I had found what I had came for.


B | |
| Binary_session |
This module provides modules to create binary sessions types for statically verifying protocols between
a pair of concurrent processes.
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| Binary_session_lwt |
A lwt based implementation of
Binary_session.Binary_process
that uses a pipe for the communication channel between two processes.
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M | |
| Make [Binary_session_lwt] |
Functor to create a module of type
Binary_session.Binary_process .
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| Make [Binary_session] |
Functor to create a module of type
Binary_session.Binary_process given a message module I of type Binary_session.IO .
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4.7. Tracing Recursive Code¶
4.7.1. Tracing Recursive Code¶
When writing a recursive function, you should think in a top-down manner. Do not worry about how the recursive call solves the sub-problem. Simply accept that it will solve it correctly. Use this result as though you had called some library function, to correctly solve the original problem.
When you have to read or trace a recursive function, then you do need to consider how the function is doing its work. Tracing a few recursive functions is a great way to learn how recursion behaves. But after you become comfortable with tracing, you will rarely need to work through so many details again. You will begin to develop confidence about how recursion works.
You know that information can be passed in (using a function parameter) from one recursive call to another, on ever smaller problems, until a base case is reached in the winding phase. Then, a return value is passed back as the series of recursive calls unwinds. Sometimes people forget about the “unwinding” phase.
During the winding phase, any parameter passed through the recursive call flows forward until the base case is reached. During the unwinding phase, the return value of the function (if there is one) flows backwards to the calling copy of the function. In the following example, a recursive function to compute factorial has information flowing forward during the winding phase, and backward during the unwinding phase.
The recursive function may have information flow for more than one parameter. For example, a recursive function that sums the values in an array recursively may pass the array itself and the index through the recursive call in the winding phase and returns back the summed value so far in the unwinding phase.
<IP_ADDRESS>. A Domino Analogy¶
This recursive model for the domino effect can be used as a template for the solution to all linear recursive functions. Think of tipping over each domino as performing a further step of computation toward the final solution. Remember these rules:
1. Since the first domino has to be tipped over manually, the solution for the base case is computed non-recursively.
2. Before any given domino can be tipped over, all preceding dominos have to be tipped over.
<IP_ADDRESS>. Towers of Hanoi¶
Here is another example of recursion, based on a famous puzzle called “Towers of Hanoi”. The natural algorithm to solve this problem has multiple recursive calls. It cannot be rewritten easily using loops. “Towers of Hanoi” comes from an ancient Vietnamese legend. A group of monks is tasked with moving a tower of 64 disks of different sizes according to certain rules. The legend says that, when the monks will have finished moving all of the disks, the world will end.
The Towers of Hanoi puzzle begins with three poles and \(n\) rings, where all rings start on the leftmost pole (labeled Pole A). The rings each have a different size, and are stacked in order of decreasing size with the largest ring at the bottom, as shown in part (a) of the figure. The problem is to move the rings from the leftmost pole to the middle pole (labeled Pole B) in a series of steps. At each step the top ring on some pole is moved to another pole. What makes this puzzle interesting is the limitation on where rings may be moved: A ring may never be moved on top of a smaller ring.
How can you solve this problem? It is easy if you don’t think too hard about the details. Instead, consider that all rings are to be moved from Pole A to Pole B. It is not possible to do this without first moving the bottom (largest) ring to Pole B. To do that, Pole B must be empty, and only the bottom ring can be on Pole A. The remaining \(n-1\) rings must be stacked up in order on Pole C, as shown in part (b) of the figure. How can you do this? Assume that a function \(X\) is available to solve the problem of moving the top \(n-1\) rings from Pole A to Pole C. Then move the bottom ring from Pole A to Pole B. Finally, again use function \(X\) to move the remaining \(n-1\) rings from Pole C to Pole B. In both cases, “function \(X\)” is simply the Towers of Hanoi function called on a smaller version of the problem.
The secret to success is relying on the Towers of Hanoi algorithm to do the work for you. You need not be concerned about the gory details of how the Towers of Hanoi subproblem will be solved. That will take care of itself provided that two things are done. First, there must be a base case (what to do if there is only one ring) so that the recursive process will not go on forever. Second, the recursive call to Towers of Hanoi can only be used to solve a smaller problem, and then only one of the proper form (one that meets the original definition for the Towers of Hanoi problem, assuming appropriate renaming of the poles).
Here is an implementation for the recursive Towers of Hanoi
algorithm.
Function move(start, goal)
takes the top ring from Pole
start
and moves it to Pole goal
.
If move
were to print the values of its parameters,
then the result of calling TOHr
would be a list of
ring-moving instructions that solves the problem.
// Compute the moves to solve a Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
// Function move does (or prints) the actual move of a disk
// from one pole to another.
// n: The number of disks
// start: The start pole
// goal: The goal pole
// temp: The other pole
static void TOHr(int n, Pole start, Pole goal, Pole temp) {
if (n == 0) { return; } // Base case
TOHr(n-1, start, temp, goal); // Recursive call: n-1 rings
move(start, goal); // Move bottom disk to goal
TOHr(n-1, temp, goal, start); // Recursive call: n-1 rings
}
# Compute the moves to solve a Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
# Function move does (or prints) the actual move of a disk
# from one pole to another.
# n: The number of disks
# start: The start pole
# goal: The goal pole
# temp: The other pole
def TOHr(n, start, goal, temp):
if n == 0: return # Base case
TOHr(n-1, start, temp, goal) # Recursive call: n-1 rings
move(start, goal) # Move bottom disk to goal
TOHr(n-1, temp, goal, start) # Recursive call: n-1 rings
This next slideshow explains the solution to the Towers of Hanoi problem.


Well, it was a nice weekend in sunny May and me and my friend decided we wanted to try shrooms. So my friend ('R') got about an 1/8th of shrooms and a gram of weed. We went to his house at about 6:30pm and smoked a bowl or so of weed. We sat down for a while, and watched TV. About an hour later, we decided to eat some shrooms. At first only R was going to eat them but I said screw it, and ate some. It was a while before the effects hit (maybe 1/2 hour), I don't know if it was the weed or not (I only smoked it for anti-nausea purposes) but I started feeling really slow and screwed up.
We watched TV for a while longer, and went downstairs (where his mom was) to get a couple ice cream floats. We tried talking, didn't work well, and I shook hands with his mom's friend, and I somehow introduced myself. We got our floats and somehow made it back up to the attic. We kept watching TV and eating our floats.
I think we watched ST: Voyager and maybe Stargate but I don't remember.
Well, after watching a trippy episode of Voyager, we ate more shrooms. I think this was around 9pm. We tried smoking more weed, and this worked to an extent because we could still handle the pipe. The only problem was that when I had to dump the ashes of the weed out the window, I had to hold the window open and knock the pipe against the roof. Too bad I couldn't do it by myself. So I got R to help me and it really was a sad sight, two completely baked guys trying to dump out a pipe out a small window....
So anyways, we spent most of the night watching TV on beanbag chairs. Sometimes when I watched TV, I stopped watching the show and I had really depressing thoughts about my future and the path that drugs were leading me down, and just odd thoughts about my life. Also the wall had weird wallpaper with patterns, and if I looked at it weird I could see people, sometimes Indians sitting in front of teepees and stuff like that. When I stood by the window, there was a inflated alien strung from the light. When I looked at it from below, it looked like one of those views when the camera moves around something in the Matrix or whatever.
Well anyway, I didn't really trip out heavily, just felt really messed up the whole night. I watched TV in a intoxicated stupor till 5am then fell asleep. The next day we were kinda depressed and walked around aimlessly.
So basically the moral of the story is I'd like to try maybe a whole 1/8 to myself sometime, but this time I know kinda what's coming so I won't freak out. And also less weed so I can feel *just* the shrooms cause I think sometimes we were twitching and stuff and I do that sometimes just on weed.
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6/1/17
Robobusters was a team started 4 years ago by the School of Science and Engineering. Now, it has come to the time where we say goodbye to the oldest veterans of the team. The class of 2017 has graduated and it has come the time when we honor their legacy by concluding the 2016-2017 seasons and begin the 2017-2018 season.
This past season has been a great learning experience for the team.....


Now
updated 2020 November 12
Day job: situation normal. Master’s Degree: break, and then ONE MORE CLASS.
Hencefarthing is seemingly dead again. Who knows if it will come back, Alex and I are both focusing on other things at the moment. For now, I’ll post everything from here there.
I’m supposedly still setting up this very website, but honestly it may stay in its current state for a long time..
My wife is full time working on her Etsy shop, so check it out here. And now also making calligraphy for weddings!
What I’m reading is updated here. Most of these are borrowed digitally from the library and read on my Kindle Paperwhite.
Most of my time is currently focused on working out and supporting family. It feels like where I belong.
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So there's this video game coming out Tuesday called Grand Theft Auto 5. Don't know if you've heard of it. Anyways, it's all about crime and gangs and some roughneck ne'er-do-wells, so I thought this would be the perfect time to talk about times when we've been... well, less than perfect.
When I was a young'un, I was a frequent visitor to the local swimming pool. I was also a frequent lover of AirHeads candy, which the pool happened to sell. Waiting, watching, stalking the counter like a big cat in the savannah, I waited for the perfect opportunity to strike. While the lifeguards were busy, I snuck through the gate, reached up and took both cherry and "mystery white" AirHeads. I quickly ran out to the sidewalk and reveled in my sweet, delicious victory... for all of ten seconds, before I felt guilty enough to sneak back in and return the .20 worth of candy I had stolen.
While you confess your crimes - hopefully minor, and nothing you can be persecuted for - take a moment to enjoy this week's webcomics, and vote for your favorite after the jump.


packages = [
"sqlite-utils", "pygad"
]
Pygad Example
# was ok with https://pyscript.net/2022.12.1/pyscript.js
# you can try last official release: https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.js and css
# or current unstable master: https://pyscript.net/unstable/pyscript.js and css
from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals, division # if Python2.7
import sqlite_utils
import pygad
import numpy
"""
Given the following function:
y = f(w1:w6) = w1x1 + w2x2 + w3x3 + w4x4 + w5x5 + 6wx6
where (x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6)=(4,-2,3.5,5,-11,-4.7) and y=44
What are the best values for the 6 weights (w1 to w6)? We are going to use the genetic algorithm to optimize this function.
"""
function_inputs = [4,-2,3.5,5,-11,-4.7] # Function inputs.
desired_output = 44 # Function output.
def fitness_func(solution, solution_idx):
# Calculating the fitness value of each solution in the current population.
# The fitness function calulates the sum of products between each input and its corresponding weight.
output = numpy.sum(solution*function_inputs)
fitness = 1.0 / numpy.abs(output - desired_output)
return fitness
fitness_function = fitness_func
num_generations = 100 # Number of generations.
num_parents_mating = 7 # Number of solutions to be selected as parents in the mating pool.
# To prepare the initial population, there are 2 ways:
# 1) Prepare it yourself and pass it to the initial_population parameter. This way is useful when the user wants to start the genetic algorithm with a custom initial population.
# 2) Assign valid integer values to the sol_per_pop and num_genes parameters. If the initial_population parameter exists, then the sol_per_pop and num_genes parameters are useless.
sol_per_pop = 50 # Number of solutions in the population.
num_genes = len(function_inputs)
last_fitness = 0
def callback_generation(ga_instance):
global last_fitness
print("Generation = {generation}".format(generation=ga_instance.generations_completed))
print("Fitness = {fitness}".format(fitness=ga_instance.best_solution()[1]))
print("Change = {change}".format(change=ga_instance.best_solution()[1] - last_fitness))
last_fitness = ga_instance.best_solution()[1]
# Creating an instance of the GA class inside the ga module. Some parameters are initialized within the constructor.
ga_instance = pygad.GA(num_generations=num_generations,
num_parents_mating=num_parents_mating,
fitness_func=fitness_function,
sol_per_pop=sol_per_pop,
num_genes=num_genes,
on_generation=callback_generation)
# Running the GA to optimize the parameters of the function.
ga_instance.run()
# After the generations complete, some plots are showed that summarize the how the outputs/fitenss values evolve over generations.
ga_instance.plot_fitness()
# Returning the details of the best solution.
solution, solution_fitness, solution_idx = ga_instance.best_solution()
print("Parameters of the best solution : {solution}".format(solution=solution))
print("Fitness value of the best solution = {solution_fitness}".format(solution_fitness=solution_fitness))
print("Index of the best solution : {solution_idx}".format(solution_idx=solution_idx))
prediction = numpy.sum(numpy.array(function_inputs)*solution)
print("Predicted output based on the best solution : {prediction}".format(prediction=prediction))
if ga_instance.best_solution_generation != -1:
print("Best fitness value reached after {best_solution_generation} generations.".format(best_solution_generation=ga_instance.best_solution_generation))
# Saving the GA instance.
filename = 'genetic' # The filename to which the instance is saved. The name is without extension.
ga_instance.save(filename=filename)
# Loading the saved GA instance.
loaded_ga_instance = pygad.load(filename=filename)
loaded_ga_instance.plot_fitness()


Interactive Storytelling! Yay! Woo! Fun! So, today, my Deep Dive group--Mia, JooHee, Mateo and myself--presented on Interactive Storytelling.
We talked about interactive videos, interactive games, interactive books, among others. The session was super fun, collaborative and interactive (see what I did there?), and there were lots of examples shown in class about what interactive storytelling really means.
In case anyone from class (or otherwise) wants to explore these examples at their own leisure, I've now posted the resources we used in class here. They're arranged by category! Enjoy!
Interactive Storytelling Videos
NYUAD Capstone Possibilia anderseite
Collaborative Storytelling
The Johnny Cash Project The Exquisite Forest
Your Amazing Twines
Craig Stranded on Noodle Island by Cynthia and Jantima Mia's Adventure by PWee Post Apocalyptic CommTech Experience by Sjur and Leonore Relentless KFC Wasteland by PWee Noodle Competition by Theros and Jantima The Quest for Food by Nick and Pablo
Oh, and last but not the least, here is the presentation in case you're interested! Also, the image above is a picture taken in one of the worlds that Magic Leap developed. That's it for now! Hope you enjoy!


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