Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)by Stan Ross, University of New South Wales School of Law (August 1998) This is a unique and unusual film. What makes the documentary important is the amazing fact that the filmmakers were given the liberty to film everyone related to the cases. This included the accused and their family, the family of the victims, behind-the-scenes conferences with the lawyers and sessions between the lawyers and the judge. It is not unusual today to have filming in court, but I have not come across any documentary that gives detailed interviews with the accused and all the lawyers and allows filming of conferences of clients and their lawyers and those of lawyers and the judge in his chamber. Furthermore the film is brilliant in the way the filmmakers present so many different points of view. This is an original HBO production, that although quite long (150 minutes), has little trouble in maintaining your interest. The documentary concerns two murder trials and was produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. We are graphically shown scenes from the murders of three young boys near a small Arkansas town, who were sexually assaulted and mutilated. I found some of the scenes too vivid and the production is recommended only for a mature audience and not for those with weak stomachs. The documentary is divided between the two trials.  Jesse was supposedly present at the scene of crime and witnessed Damien Echols, aged 18 and Jason Baldwin, aged 16, kill and mutilate the boys. Jesse appears to be mentally incompetent, not understanding what he is being asked, which is evident in that some of the facts of the confession are shown to be incorrect. This casts doubt on the value of his confession, which we are told, was obtained after 10 hours of questioning by the police. It thus seems unbelievable that he is found guilty and sentenced to 40 years. Jesse is the only eyewitness to the crime. At the scene of the crime all the clues, including a large amount of blood lost by the victims, had been washed away. Thus the prosecutions case against Echols and Baldwin is made more difficult because Jesses confession is not admissible at the second trial. The prosecutors rely on the testimony of two girls who overheard Echols saying he had killed the three boys and fibers from one of the victims clothes that were similar to fibers found on clothes in Echols home. Jesse refuses to testify, even though he is offered a lighter sentence in return, and the prosecution has to fall back on hearsay evidence and experts testimony. The fact that neither the prosecution nor the defense call the only eyewitness, Jesse, to testify reveals a glaring weakness in our system of justice. He was the witness nobody wanted to call. Even with what appears to be little evidence the jury brings back capital murder convictions. What seems in the film to convince the jury is the prosecutionss evidence that the Echols and Baldwin dress in black, listen to Metallicas music and are involved in a satanic cult, the Wican religion. The filmmakers show a so-called expert (a mail order doctorate with no exams) giving evidence as to the power of the blood of young children and that this is an important in this form of worship. It appears from a number of the interviews that the whole community is preoccupied with Satan. Thus the reverberations of the Salem witch trials (recently portrayed in the film of The Crucible) are obvious. The court-appointed lawyers in both cases are not shown in the most complimentary light. Even with a lack of evidence and a not too reliable confession, all three of the accused are found guilty. The defense lawyers appear to employ wrong strategies and appear to fail to elucidate certain essential information. They also seem to confuse the issues. Even with the supposedly poor defense one comes away with a feeling that there is reasonable doubt. My rational mind expected the jury to return a not guilty verdict because of the lack of evidence. My gut reaction was that they were guilty, but that is not how juries should make their decisions. The problem is many jurors do follow these gut reactions and do not carefully weigh up the evidence. Thus without substantial evidence the three are found of capital crime. Misskelly received 40 years, Baldwin life imprisonment and Echols the death sentence. I left the documentary with a feeling that perhaps some of the depicted failure of defense counsel could be directed at the filmmakers who edited out essential legal material. My suspicions were confirmed in reading the appellate judgments of the two cases. One glaring omission was that the filmmakers do not show us anything from the penalty hearing in the Echols and Baldwin case. In Echols v State, 936 S.W.2d 509 (Ark. 1996), the Arkansas Supreme Court uses evidence from this hearing to support the view that the jury was correct in its decision. For example Echols psychologist testified on cross-examination that Echols had "an all powerful God-like image of himself." He admits the medical records show Echols said that there are two classes of people - wolves and sheep and wolves eat sheep. Echols also explains that by drinking blood of others he obtains more power and strength. The Court gives us information that makes the prosecutors expert witness on occultism highly qualified, while in the film he is shown to be poorly qualified. This conclusion is drawn from the fact that he has had 26 years of experience in dealing with former occult members, written four books on the subject and has been called as an expert witness in three state courts, one federal court and in courts in two foreign countries. In Misskelly v State, 915 S.W.2d 702 (Ark. 1996) the Court rejects the arguments concerning lack of competence concerning the confession. It appears that only 4 hours had passed between Jesse being advised of his rights and his giving his first statement. The Court also says someone with a 72 IQ can still give a voluntary confession especially since Jesse was almost 18 when he signed the confession. I felt the Court did not adequately deal with the inaccurate facts in the confession and ignored the total time Jesse was questioned. The documentary places the American justice system on trial and again the system appears to fail. Although the trial was moved 100 miles away from where it took place, the pre-trial media coverage must have influenced most, if not all of the jurors. The media, as in the OJ trial, appear to be irresponsible, but the filmmakers should also be held responsible for leaving out important material and by manipulating some of the evidence. They make a strong suggestion that the stepfather of one of the victims may be responsible for the crime because of the knife he gives them which has traces of the stepfathers and this victims blood. Even with this criticism the documentary is an important development in looking at our criminal justice system with its unique coverage of all parties involved in the process. It would also be a very useful teaching tool for teachers of criminal procedure and effective in clinical programs.
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Lowy specialises in fine art antique and reproduction frames. They work with top galleries and museums in New York and across the world. Their clients are often very busy, and once they have aquired a work of art, they simply want a frame that fits their decor, budget and the work of art itself.
This intranet tool allows high-quality capture of frames (through a SLR camera) and virtual compositing of customers’ works of art with Lowy’s frames. Lowy had built a compositing tool with IBM in the 90’s, and this is the tool we built to replace it.
The purpose of the tool is to allow customers to envisualize their beautiful artwork in a selection of frames. This greatly assists the sales team, as they don’t have to rely on customers imagination, they can show prospective customers exactly how their frames would look.
For customers, it reduces the risk, there’s a lot less guesswork involved, and seeing your picasso in a photorealistic context in a few frames will help you narrow down to the best fit.
Once client requirements were understood, this initial wireframe shows workflow order:
Searching for frames relies on good metadata. The metadata is entered and managed through the manage frame screen (wireframe and finished screen are shown).


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In practice, we neglect certain technical details when we state and solve recurrences. A good example of a detail that is often glossed over is the assumption of integer arguments to functions. Normally, the running time T (n) of an algorithm is only defined when n is an integer, since for most algorithms, the size of the input is always an integer. For example, the recurrence describing the worst-case running time of MERGE-SORT is really
Boundary conditions represent another class of details that we typically ignore. Since the running time of an algorithm on a constant-sized input is a constant, the recurrences that arise from the running times of algorithms generally have T(n) = Θ(1) for sufficiently small n. Consequently, for convenience, we shall generally omit statements of the boundary conditions of recurrences and assume that T (n) is constant for small n. For example, we normally state recurrence (4.1) as
without explicitly giving values for small n. The reason is that although changing the value of T (1) changes the solution to the recurrence, the solution typically doesn't change by more than a constant factor, so the order of growth is unchanged.
When we state and solve recurrences, we often omit floors, ceilings, and boundary conditions. We forge ahead without these details and later determine whether or not they matter. They usually don't, but it is important to know when they do. Experience helps, and so do some theorems stating that these details don't affect the asymptotic bounds of many recurrences encountered in the analysis of algorithms (see Theorem 4.1). In this chapter, however, we shall address some of these details to show the fine points of recurrence solution methods.
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Poems, Puzzles, and Stories of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
"The Two Clocks"
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1898
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Lewis Carroll, (1898)
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- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 8.5
- Word Count: 323
- Genre: Informational
- Keywords: time
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Which is better, a clock that is right only once a year, or a clock that is right twice every day?
"The latter," you reply, "unquestionably." Very good, now attend.
I have two clocks: one doesn't go at all, and the other loses a minute a day: which would you prefer? "The losing one," you answer, "without a doubt."
Now observe: the one which loses a minute a day has to lose twelve hours, or seven hundred and twenty minutes before it is right again, consequently it is only right once in two years, whereas the other is evidently right as often as the time it points to comes round, which happens twice a day.
So you've contradicted yourself once.
"Ah, but," you say, "what's the use of its being right twice a day, if I ca'n't tell when the time comes?"
Why, suppose the clock points to eight o'clock, don't you see that the clock is right at eight o'clock? Consequently, when eight o'clock comes round your clock is right.
"Yes, I see that," you reply.
Very good, then you've contradicted yourself twice: now get out of the difficulty as best you can, and don't contradict yourself again if you can help it.
You might go on to ask, "How am I to know when eight o'clock does come? My clock will not tell me." Be patient: you know that when eight o'clock comes your clock is right, very good; then your rule is this: keep your eye fixed on your clock, and the very moment it is right it will be eight o'clock.
"But--," you say.
There, that'll do; the more you argue the further you get from the point, so it will be as well to stop.


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Bloomberg calls for Trump defeat, takes new step towards 2020 run
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 — Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg called yesterday for President Donald Trump's defeat in 2020 as he took a new formal step towards joining the Democratic presidential race.
“Officially filed in Arkansas to be on the ballot for the Democratic primary,” tweeted the former New York mayor along with a photograph of himself submitting the paperwork — four days after doing the same in Alabama.
Both states have early deadlines to register for the primaries.
“We must defeat Trump. He has failed us at every turn,” the 77-year-old added.
Bloomberg's personal appearance to sign his ballot papers in Little Rock is a strong public signal that the centrist tycoon will officially leap into the already-crowded Democratic primary field.
“Mike wanted to go and do the filing himself" in Arkansas, Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter told the New York Times.
“If he runs, he's going to go to states that Democrats never go to in the primary campaign. We're starting that today in Arkansas.”
Bloomberg, who like Trump is a septuagenarian white New York billionaire, said back in March that he wouldn't run, but more recently has been toying with the idea of throwing his hat in the ring, according to an adviser.
He has changed his political affiliation on multiple occasions, including switching from Democrat to Republican when he successfully ran for mayor of New York in 2001. He became an independent six years later.
Bloomberg is believed to be concerned that the Democratic Party has shifted too far left in recent years, and that a progressive nominee like senators Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would lead to Trump's re-election.
Experts say a Bloomberg candidacy could hurt the current frontrunner Joe Biden, the former vice president who is the leading centrist in the race.
Trump last week predicted that Bloomberg would “hurt Biden” if he ran, saying “there's nobody I'd rather run against than Little Michael.” — AFP


SIX-STRING SAMURAI (United States) A review by Mark R. Leeper in bullet-list form from the Toronto Internation Film Festival
CAPSULE: In a post-holocaust world, a guy who dresses like Buddy Holly and fights like Sanjuro struggles his way to "Lost Vegas" where he will be "the King." No new ideas, no plot, just a string of fights and music. Rating: 1 (0 to 10), -2 (-4 to +4)
- Directed by Lance Mungia. Starring Jeffery Falcon. Written (if that is the right word) by Mungia and Falcon. - The director claims to be a fan of Akira Kurosawa, and imitates the fight scenes in some of his films fairly well. But he has missed a very important aspect of Kurasowa'a work. If you walk out of a Kurasowa film for ten minutes the plot will have advanced and you will need to do something to catch up. The plot of this film does not advance. If you walk out of SIX-STRING SAMURAI for ten minutes, you will have missed no plot complications beyond whom the title character is fighting and you will enriched your life by ten minutes. I recommend at least eight such absences during the course of the film. - Alternate history in which the USSR defeated the US in a 1957 atomic war. - Music is supplied by The Red Elvises who rely on doing rock versions of classical Slavic music. - Yet another film in which the props all seem to come from a particularly impoverished junkyard. Costumes seem to be from Good Will. - Words don't fit characters' lips, as if incompetently redubbed in the studio. - If there was a nuclear war in 1957, where do the Eisenhower dollars come from that one set of baddies are flipping?
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Hi, I'm RaTilicus this is my website for the 7 Days To Die Server I am hosting.
The server is hosted on the same url as this 7d2d.ratilicus.com on port 25000.
Server/Site Notes:
Note: The server is currently running with Anti-Cheat off. Since Alpha 11 release, my linux 32bit client of 7d2d doesn't start.
The 64bit client does work (currently), but it does not seem to support the Anti-Cheat, so I have to have it disabled, for now.
Logins and passwords are offered to all players who enter the server in the welcome message.
There are a couple benefits to logging in such as:
Logged in player can create personalized markers (Marker with their user name) that other users cannot remove
Logged in player can create hidden markers (start the title of the marker with a '*' to make it hidden).
Logged in player can teleport to a chosen location at specified height.
There are other planned features that will only be available to logged in players only.
If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to contact me at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Map Legend
green triangles = players
white triangles = animals: deer, pigs, rabbits
dark gray triangles = dead/killed animals, players, zombies
orange triangles = zombies
red triangles = dangerous zombies: cop zombies, dogs
yellow squares = player made markers
- click on marker to view details
- click anywhere on map to create a marker
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1 I looked up again, and I saw four chariots coming toward me. They were coming between two mountains that were made of bronze.
2 The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second chariot was pulled by black horses,
3 the third chariot was pulled by white horses, and the fourth chariot was pulled by spotted gray horses.
4 I asked the angel who had been speaking to me, "Sir, what do those chariots mean?"
5 The angel replied, "These chariots and their horses represent the four winds going out from heaven; they have come from standing in the presence of the Lord who controls the entire earth. They will go across the sky in four directions.
6 The chariot pulled by black horses will go north, the one pulled by white horses will go west, and the one pulled by spotted gray horses will go south."
7 When those powerful horses left, they were eager to go throughout the world. As they were leaving, the angel said to them, "Go throughout the world and see what is happening!" So they left to do that.
8 Then the angel called to me and said, "Look, the chariots that have gone north will mollify the Spirit of Yahweh by punishing the people in that region."
9 Then Yahweh gave me another message.
10 He said, "Today Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah will be bringing some silver and gold from the people who were exiled in Babylon. As soon as they arrive, go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
11 Take some of that silver and gold from them and make a crown. Then put it on the head of Jehozadak's son Joshua, the high priest.
12 Tell him that I, the Commander of the angel armies, say that the man who is called the Branch will come. He will leave the place where he is now, and he will supervise those who build my temple.
13 He is the one who will tell those who will build my temple what to do. He will wear royal clothing and he will sit on his throne and rule. He will also be a priest sitting sitting on his throne, and there will be peace between the two roles.
14 You must place a crown in my temple to remind people of what Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Josiah son of Zephaniah did for them."
15 People who are living far away will come and help to build Yahweh's temple. When that happens, you people will know that Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, have sent me to you people. That will happen if all of you faithfully obey Yahweh, your God.


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Lottery will determine state’s six new medical licenses
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Rhode Island’s medical marijuana regulators have unveiled how they plan to issue licenses for six new dispensaries in the state and new rules that would not allow the new operations to grow their own cannabis at first.
The regulations released Thursday say the new licenses will be awarded through a random lottery.
The proposed regulations also would not allow the new dispensaries to grow until they are open and a market study is completed.
The state budget approved in June provides for the opening of six new dispensaries in different parts of the state. The state’s three existing dispensaries are in Providence, Warwick and Portsmouth.
The Department of Business Regulation will take public comment on the proposed rules until Dec. 21 and expects to finalize the rules early next year.


Takes the name of the font and searches for it on google font platform.
Font Page: https://fonts.google.com/
This fonts links looks like this , these links can go to lots of places like Youtube, Facebook, Instagram or really anywhere you can think of on the internet.
A testamonial can be a powerful think they can say things like - "Wow these guys were pretty good but not to good..." the cool thing is you can pick which ones you want to use.
A dude walked down the road and saw Seven Deadly Cats. After seeing them he was like "nah" and went the other way.
It's important to not get lost in the moment and move to fast in your life. In short just take a breath.
The metal lightpost in london dont taste good.
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One day my wife asked me to help her backup about 30Gb of photos from her android phone. At first we had tried to copy files over MTP (in Win10). This idea quickly showed its incapacity. You see, Win10 wants to be nice and tries to calculate ETA. But 30Gb is a lot of files and over MTP it takes one request per file to get its size. So, we waited half an hour while Win10 was preparing to start the transfer and I had aborted this madness.
Here is a sane approach to do the job.
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Now that newer Android versions (newer than 12 I believe) don’t allow apps to access files of other apps, I had to revisit my backup solution.
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script, but I also do adb root
to give the
script full access to any files. The script is pretty smart and it works kind of
like rsync, downloading only newer files. It fits perfect the use case.


Five in a Row, Again
问题描述 :
Each AI competitor has to compete with every other participator once. The winner of each game is awarded with credits while the loser gets nothing. No one gets credits in a tied game.
Every competitor has an experience point, which is crucial to the game. In each game, the competitor with higher experience point wins, except for tied games, in which two competitors have the same experience point.
Those AIs are so clever that they will learn from every game. That is to say, no matter win or lose, AIs’ experience point may increase after each game.
Alex, the team leader, has the privilege to arrange the game order. He wants to maximum his credit. Please help him solve the problem.
输入:
Each test case starts with a line consist of an integer N, indicating the number of competitors. Each of the following N lines consists of N integers Eij, indicating the experience point the i-th competitor will increase after the game with the j-th competitor. Then, each of the following N lines consists of N integers Wij, indicating the credit the i-th competitor will gain if wins the game with the j-th competitor.
The last line of each test case consists of N integers Si, indicating the initial experience point of each competitor.
By the way, Alex is the first player.
Technical Specification
1. 1 ≤ T ≤ 11
2. 1 ≤ N ≤ 13
3. 0 ≤ Wij ≤ 10
4. 0 ≤ Eij, Si ≤ 1000
输出:
Each test case starts with a line consist of an integer N, indicating the number of competitors. Each of the following N lines consists of N integers Eij, indicating the experience point the i-th competitor will increase after the game with the j-th competitor. Then, each of the following N lines consists of N integers Wij, indicating the credit the i-th competitor will gain if wins the game with the j-th competitor.
The last line of each test case consists of N integers Si, indicating the initial experience point of each competitor.
By the way, Alex is the first player.
Technical Specification
1. 1 ≤ T ≤ 11
2. 1 ≤ N ≤ 13
3. 0 ≤ Wij ≤ 10
4. 0 ≤ Eij, Si ≤ 1000
样例输入:
2 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 10 5
样例输出:
0 1
hdu 2291 Five in a Row, Again
好几天了，这个题做完了一只没有总结，今天总结一下
原题传送门：http://acm.hdu.edu.cn/showproblem.php?pid=2291
这个题我用的是状态压缩的dp，方法很笨，但是能ac，呵呵
先看看我查这个题解题报告时觉得不错的一个资料，其中给出了五种解法：
原文出自http://hi.baidu.com/spellbreaker/blog/item/5fd2f02ece315b301f308995.html
#include <iostream> #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> using namespace std; int dp[1024 * 8][140]; int w[20][20]; int e[20][20]; int s[20]; int n; int dfs(int fs,int x) { if(dp[fs][x] != -1) return dp[fs][x]; dp[fs][x] = 0; for(int i = 0;i < n-1;i++) if( (fs & (1 << i)) == 0) { int ss = (fs | (1 << i)); if(x > s[i+1]) dp[fs][x] = max(dp[fs][x],dfs(ss,x+w[0][i+1]) + e[0][i+1]); else dp[fs][x] = max(dp[fs][x],dfs(ss,x+w[0][i+1])); } return dp[fs][x]; } int main() { int t; cin >> t; while(t--) { cin >> n; for(int i = 0;i < n;i++) for(int j = 0;j < n;j++) cin >> w[i][j]; for(int i = 0;i < n;i++) for(int j = 0;j < n;j++) cin >> e[i][j]; for(int i = 0;i < n;i++) cin >> s[i]; memset(dp,-1,sizeof(dp)); dfs(0,s[0]); int ma = 0; /*for(int i = 0;i < 150;i++) { cout << (1<<(n-1))-1 << " " << dp[(1<<(n-1))-1][i] << "\n"; ma = max(ma,dp[0][i]); }*/ cout << dp[0][s[0]] << "\n"; } return 0; }
解题转自：http://blog.csdn.net/wukonwukon/article/details/6720501
<EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS>很好，注释很详细啊
如果两个序列的最后字符不匹配（即X [M-1]！= Y [N-1]）
L（X [0 .. M-1]，Y [0 .. N-1]）= MAX（L（X [0 .. M-2]，Y [0 .. N-1]），L（X [0 .. M-1]，Y [0 .. N-1]）
这里写错了吧。
还是有些难度的！
已更正。
第二个方法挺不错。NewHead代表新的头节点，通过递归找到最后一个节点之后，就把这个节点赋给NewHead，然后一直返回返回，中途这个值是没有变化的，一边返回一边把相应的指针方向颠倒，最后结束时返回新的头节点到主函数。
居然看懂了
第一个数表示数列的个数，5表示之后有5个数
int L[m+1][n+1];这样定义出错，这个在gcc上可以编译通过 在VS上不行 应该改为new 或者vector
居然是机试，还和13年重复。题目不难
很好的模板
有的，已更新
思考人生吗
可是看了很多算法书什么的都是说的(start-end)/2哎。。。
很好的思路，可以借鉴


Succession Planning
Sketch 3, Wireframing, Pen & Paper, User Flow
Overview
This project blossomed out of the prompt -- "Make something better." I chose to redesign Frontier’s Check In process because this was the last time I remembered I was truly frustrated at the design of an interface. Upon research, I discovered that Frontier does not have a responsive mobile web version of their website nor do they have a mobile application. For the purposes of this redesign, I chose to tackle the redesign in the scope of mobile web.
Mobile web is not always considered the most important medium for a product, and it often gets overlooked in favor of desktop or native apps. However, in this case, I would argue that mobile web is very important, for a few reasons:
Travelers will largely not bother to download an app to check-in for a flight, unless they travel almost entirely on a single airline.
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Travelers will often be without laptops or short on time, so they will use a mobile device for some significant portion of check-ins.
Checking in to a flight can and should be a quick and easy process.
Challenge
When I approached this project, my challenge was to design a flight check-in process and make it understandable, simple, and as far away as being frustrating. I also only had a couple days to do this with no real brief.
Approach
Define the Problem
Before I do anything, I always try to define the core problem that makes a product or process frustrating. I do this by approaching the problem through the user's eyes. This helps to bring out user pain points.
First, I analyzed the existing flow of how people check into their flights.
There were a number of things that I found to be problematic in the current flow.
1. The reminder email brings the user to a redundant page that outlines the check in options that are available. It adds an extra click. The page has yet another “Check In” button. Wasn’t clicking the “Check In” button from the email already signify that the user wanted to check in online?
2. When you click "Check In" a 2nd time, it directed the user to a magnified unresponsive homepage. I've included what it looks like below. My first reaction was confusion. I didn't know where I was directed to.
Only after I scrolled down, I realized it directed me to an anchored tab where I then would have to fill out the form and have to keep dragging to navigate anywhere. This poses a huge problem, because it will take the user at least 3 taps and 5 drags just to access the reservation.
Second, I took out the redundancies and streamlined the process.
Sketch
I typically do some rough sketches of wireframes to get some ideas on paper.
High Fidelity Mockup
This is my 3rd iteration of the homepage. I started out with what I had in the sketch. The navigation buttons were long rectangular buttons. However, I changed that to size of the buttons to help combat the "fat finger" error. I also changed the background from a more nature theme to one that I think elicits the majesty of flying. I liked this picture particularly because of the subtle, cooler colors that won't distract the user.
After clicking "Check In" from their email, it should direct the user to this page. I've included all the flight information presented in a way that's easy to read and digest. The plane departure and arrival icons can signal to the user where to quickly see when they will be departing or arriving. In the first iteration, I had previously placed the boarding time on the bottom. However, when I really thought about what was necessary, I thought it was more appropriate to have flight status there instead. The Flight Status will be in green, yellow, or red to easily communicate how delayed the flight is.
Complete Check In- I used a stepper control here, because its great for making small adjustments without having to waste any additional clicks. The vast number of travellers typically check around 0-2 bags, so a stepper would make sense. Interacting with drop down menus often requires more effeort than necessary. First, tap the control, scroll, find and select the option, and then exit. The stepper is simple and the function is clear.
With the seating, I wanted to do something different than what currently exists in airline check in processes. I personally hate having to remember if I got the window seat or if I'm stuck in a middle seat. This saves the traveller a click into the seat map, and helps make the check in process faster and easier.
Loading Animation- I started to envision how the flow would be if a user didn't come from a reminder email. The look up process for a reservation typically takes longer, so I wanted to do something interactive and fun while the user waited. It also helps give the user visual feedback that it is doing something in the background. So, I thought this would be the perfect time to pick up Framer! I'm happy to say this is my first animation on Framer and I'm looking forward to doing more.
If you want to see my iterations, they can be found HERE.


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Default Colored Gauge
CSS Themed Ranges, Image Overlay, Gradient Background, Updating to Random Values on 3s Timer
Declarative, Gradient Ranges, Gradient Background, No Indicator Boxes
Declarative, (Ugly) Colored Ranges, No Numbers, No Indicator Boxes


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Finance Approve
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Specs
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Front engined, rear wheel drive, 6 speed manual ? |
(? = incomplete data or unverified info, N/A = info Not Available)
Beyond the specs:
I have very little info on this car, and I know I already have enough Aston Martins, but it looks like it belongs in this section. I will try to find info so that this part can be completed..
~Oracle


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Introduction
RubyJS is fast but does not compete on performance.
Benchmarks: when benchmarking methods against their counterparts in other libraries keep in mind that the methods have individual feature sets.
Fast parts
R( ) vs constructors
The R( ) typecasting method is optimized heavily for each possible native object or primitive.
Benchmark for RubyJS R method. To avoid the overhead of the R( ) method use the constructor directly: new R.Array([1,2,3])
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Typecasting method arguments
RubyJS methods accept primitives, objects, RubyJS and duck-typed objects. However for performance reasons methods use primitives internally. The typecasting/boxing of arguments is lightweight in that it does not typecast arguments if we don't have to. Passing primitives is the most performant option.
{% highlight javascript %} flt = R(1.2345) flt.round(1) // recommended flt.round(new Number(1)) flt.round(R(1)) flt.round({to_int: -> R(1)}) {% endhighlight %}Iterators
Iterators like Array#each, #map, #inject, etc are fast by using for/while loops. Vastly outperforming ES5 style iterators. Following benchmarks compares iteration speed for #each with small arrays and large arrays. Keep in mind that underscore/lodash _.each has additional functionality not covered by #each.
The slow parts
RubyJS tries to be as close to Ruby as possible. However applying certain techniques will unfortunately be slow.
Math operations
Math operators for Numerics were added for completenes' sake. They typically don't make sense, as for every operation an extra object is created. Use natives wherever possible.
{% highlight javascript %} num = R(1) num.plus(3).plus(5) // slow, 2 extra objects created num + 3 + 5 // faster {% endhighlight %}Block arguments
{% highlight javascript %} points = R([ [4,-3], [5, 2] ]) points.each(function (a) {} ) // fast: a: [4, -3] | a: [5, 2] points.each(function (a,b) {} ) // slow: a: 4, b:-3 | a: 5, b: 2 {% endhighlight %}
Sorting
In the alpha release sorting is particularly slow. Complying with Rubyspec requires to typecast elements of an array. Further optimization with sorting is on the way.


TRACEROUTE(1) Traceroute For Linux TRACEROUTE(1) NAME traceroute - print the route packets trace to network host SYNOPSIS traceroute [-46dFITUnreAV] [-f first_ttl] [-g gate,...] [-i device] [-m max_ttl] [-p port] [-s src_addr] [-q nqueries] [-N squeries] [-t tos] [-l flow_label] [-w waittime] [-z sendwait] [-UL] [-P proto] [--sport=port] [-M method] [-O mod_options] [--mtu] [--back] host [packet_len] traceroute6 [options] tcptraceroute [options] lft [options] DESCRIPTION traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host. traceroute6 is equivalent to traceroute -6 tcptraceroute is equivalent to traceroute -T lft , the Layer Four Traceroute, performs a TCP traceroute, like tracer‐ oute -T , but attempts to provide compatibility with the original such implementation, also called "lft". The only required parameter is the name or IP address of the destination host . The optional packet_len`gth is the total size of the probing packet (default 60 bytes for IPv4 and 80 for IPv6). The specified size can be ignored in some situations or increased up to a minimal value. This program attempts to trace the route an IP packet would follow to some internet host by launching probe packets with a small ttl (time to live) then listening for an ICMP "time exceeded" reply from a gateway. We start our probes with a ttl of one and increase by one until we get an ICMP "port unreachable" (or TCP reset), which means we got to the "host", or hit a max (which defaults to 30 hops). Three probes (by default) are sent at each ttl setting and a line is printed showing the ttl, address of the gateway and round trip time of each probe. The address can be fol‐ lowed by additional information when requested. If the probe answers come from different gateways, the address of each responding system will be printed. If there is no response within a 5.0 seconds (default), an "*" (asterisk) is printed for that probe. After the trip time, some additional annotation can be printed: !H, !N, or !P (host, network or protocol unreachable), !S (source route failed), !F (fragmentation needed), !X (communication administratively prohib‐ ited), !V (host precedence violation), !C (precedence cutoff in effect), or !<num> (ICMP unreachable code <num>). If almost all the probes result in some kind of unreachable, traceroute will give up and exit. We don't want the destination host to process the UDP probe packets, so the destination port is set to an unlikely value (you can change it with the -p flag). There is no such a problem for ICMP or TCP tracerouting (for TCP we use half-open technique, which prevents our probes to be seen by applications on the destination host). In the modern network environment the traditional traceroute methods can not be always applicable, because of widespread use of firewalls. Such firewalls filter the "unlikely" UDP ports, or even ICMP echoes. To solve this, some additional tracerouting methods are implemented (including tcp), see LIST OF AVAILABLE METHODS below. Such methods try to use par‐ ticular protocol and source/destination port, in order to bypass fire‐ walls (to be seen by firewalls just as a start of allowed type of a net‐ work session). OPTIONS --help Print help info and exit. -4, -6 Explicitly force IPv4 or IPv6 tracerouting. By default, the pro‐ gram will try to resolve the name given, and choose the appropri‐ ate protocol automatically. If resolving a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, traceroute will use IPv4. -I Use ICMP ECHO for probes -T Use TCP SYN for probes -d Enable socket level debugging (when the Linux kernel supports it) -F Do not fragment probe packets. (For IPv4 it also sets DF bit, which tells intermediate routers not to fragment remotely as well). Varying the size of the probing packet by the packet_len command line parameter, you can manually obtain information about the MTU of individual network hops. The --mtu option (see below) tries to do this automatically. Note, that non-fragmented features (like -F or --mtu) work prop‐ erly since the Linux kernel 2.6.22 only. Before that version, IPv6 was always fragmented, IPv4 could use the once the discovered final mtu only (from the route cache), which can be less than the actual mtu of a device. -f first_ttl Specifies with what TTL to start. Defaults to 1. -g gateway Tells traceroute to add an IP source routing option to the outgo‐ ing packet that tells the network to route the packet through the specified gateway (most routers have disabled source routing for security reasons). In general, several gateway's is allowed (comma separated). For IPv6, the form of num,addr,addr... is allowed, where num is a route header type (default is type 2). Note the type 0 route header is now deprecated (rfc5095). -i interface Specifies the interface through which traceroute should send pack‐ ets. By default, the interface is selected according to the rout‐ ing table. -m max_ttl Specifies the maximum number of hops (max time-to-live value) traceroute will probe. The default is 30. -N squeries Specifies the number of probe packets sent out simultaneously. Sending several probes concurrently can speed up traceroute con‐ siderably. The default value is 16. Note that some routers and hosts can use ICMP rate throttling. In such a situation specifying too large number can lead to loss of some responses. -n Do not try to map IP addresses to host names when displaying them. -p port For UDP tracing, specifies the destination port base traceroute will use (the destination port number will be incremented by each probe). For ICMP tracing, specifies the initial ICMP sequence value (incremented by each probe too). For TCP specifies just the (constant) destination port to connect. When using the tcptraceroute wrapper, -p specifies the source port. -t tos For IPv4, set the Type of Service (TOS) and Precedence value. Use‐ ful values are 16 (low delay) and 8 (high throughput). Note that in order to use some TOS precedence values, you have to be super user. For IPv6, set the Traffic Control value. -w waittime Set the time (in seconds) to wait for a response to a probe (default 5.0 sec). -q nqueries Sets the number of probe packets per hop. The default is 3. -r Bypass the normal routing tables and send directly to a host on an attached network. If the host is not on a directly-attached net‐ work, an error is returned. This option can be used to ping a local host through an interface that has no route through it. -s source_addr Chooses an alternative source address. Note that you must select the address of one of the interfaces. By default, the address of the outgoing interface is used. -z sendwait Minimal time interval between probes (default 0). If the value is more than 10, then it specifies a number in milliseconds, else it is a number of seconds (float point values allowed too). Useful when some routers use rate-limit for ICMP messages. -e Show ICMP extensions (rfc4884). The general form is CLASS/TYPE: followed by a hexadecimal dump. The MPLS (rfc4950) is shown parsed, in a form: MPLS:L=label,E=exp_use,S=stack_bottom,T=TTL (more objects separated by / ). -A Perform AS path lookups in routing registries and print results directly after the corresponding addresses. -V Print the version and exit. There is a couple of additional options, intended for an advanced usage (another trace methods etc.): --sport=port Chooses the source port to use. Implies -N 1. Normally source ports (if applicable) are chosen by the system. --fwmark=mark Set the firewall mark for outgoing packets (since the Linux kernel 2.6.25). -M method Use specified method for traceroute operations. Default tradi‐ tional udp method has name default, icmp (-I) and tcp (-T) have names icmp and tcp respectively. Method-specific options can be passed by -O . Most methods have their simple shortcuts, (-I means -M icmp, etc). -O option Specifies some method-specific option. Several options are sepa‐ rated by comma (or use several -O on cmdline). Each method may have its own specific options, or many not have them at all. To print information about available options, use -O help. -U Use UDP to particular destination port for tracerouting (instead of increasing the port per each probe). Default port is 53 (dns). -UL Use UDPLITE for tracerouting (default port is 53). -P protocol Use raw packet of specified protocol for tracerouting. Default protocol is 253 (rfc3692). --mtu Discover MTU along the path being traced. Implies -F -N 1. New mtu is printed once in a form of F=NUM at the first probe of a hop which requires such mtu to be reached. (Actually, the correspond "frag needed" icmp message normally is sent by the previous hop). Note, that some routers might cache once the seen information on a fragmentation. Thus you can receive the final mtu from a closer hop. Try to specify an unusual tos by -t , this can help for one attempt (then it can be cached there as well). See -F option for more info. --back Print the number of backward hops when it seems different with the forward direction. This number is guessed in assumption that remote hops send reply packets with initial ttl set to either 64, or 128 or 255 (which seems a common practice). It is printed as a negate value in a form of '-NUM' . LIST OF AVAILABLE METHODS In general, a particular traceroute method may have to be chosen by -M name, but most of the methods have their simple cmdline switches (you can see them after the method name, if present). default The traditional, ancient method of tracerouting. Used by default. Probe packets are udp datagrams with so-called "unlikely" destination ports. The "unlikely" port of the first probe is 33434, then for each next probe it is incremented by one. Since the ports are expected to be unused, the destination host normally returns "icmp unreach port" as a final response. (Nobody knows what happens when some application listens for such ports, though). This method is allowed for unprivileged users. icmp -I Most usual method for now, which uses icmp echo packets for probes. If you can ping(8) the destination host, icmp tracerouting is applicable as well. This method may be allowed for unprivileged users since the kernel 3.0 (IPv4 only), which supports new dgram icmp (or "ping") sockets. To allow such sockets, sysadmin should provide net/ipv4/ping_group_range sysctl range to match any group of the user. Options: raw Use only raw sockets (the traditional way). This way is tried first by default (for compatibility reasons), then new dgram icmp sockets as fallback. dgram Use only dgram icmp sockets. tcp -T Well-known modern method, intended to bypass firewalls. Uses the constant destination port (default is 80, http). If some filters are present in the network path, then most probably any "unlikely" udp ports (as for default method) or even icmp echoes (as for icmp) are filtered, and whole tracerouting will just stop at such a fire‐ wall. To bypass a network filter, we have to use only allowed proto‐ col/port combinations. If we trace for some, say, mailserver, then more likely -T -p 25 can reach it, even when -I can not. This method uses well-known "half-open technique", which prevents appli‐ cations on the destination host from seeing our probes at all. Normally, a tcp syn is sent. For non-listened ports we receive tcp reset, and all is done. For active listening ports we receive tcp syn+ack, but answer by tcp reset (instead of expected tcp ack), this way the remote tcp session is dropped even without the application ever taking notice. There is a couple of options for tcp method: syn,ack,fin,rst,psh,urg,ece,cwr Sets specified tcp flags for probe packet, in any combination. flags=num Sets the flags field in the tcp header exactly to num. ecn Send syn packet with tcp flags ECE and CWR (for Explicit Conges‐ tion Notification, rfc3168). sack,timestamps,window_scaling Use the corresponding tcp header option in the outgoing probe packet. sysctl Use current sysctl (/proc/sys/net/*) setting for the tcp header options above and ecn. Always set by default, if nothing else specified. mss=num Use value of num for maxseg tcp header option (when syn). info Print tcp flags of final tcp replies when the target host is reached. Allows to determine whether an application listens the port and other useful things. Default options is syn,sysctl. tcpconn An initial implementation of tcp method, simple using connect(2) call, which does full tcp session opening. Not recommended for normal use, because a destination application is always affected (and can be con‐ fused). udp -U Use udp datagram with constant destination port (default 53, dns). Intended to bypass firewall as well. Note, that unlike in tcp method, the correspond application on the desti‐ nation host always receive our probes (with random data), and most can easily be confused by them. Most cases it will not respond to our packets though, so we will never see the final hop in the trace. (Fortunately, it seems that at least dns servers replies with something angry). This method is allowed for unprivileged users. udplite -UL Use udplite datagram for probes (with constant destination port, default 53). This method is allowed for unprivileged users. Options: coverage=num Set udplite send coverage to num. raw -P proto Send raw packet of protocol proto. No protocol-specific headers are used, just IP header only. Implies -N 1. Options: protocol=proto Use IP protocol proto (default 253). NOTES To speed up work, normally several probes are sent simultaneously. On the other hand, it creates a "storm of packages", especially in the reply direction. Routers can throttle the rate of icmp responses, and some of replies can be lost. To avoid this, decrease the number of simultaneous probes, or even set it to 1 (like in initial traceroute implementation), i.e. -N 1 The final (target) host can drop some of the simultaneous probes, and might even answer only the latest ones. It can lead to extra "looks like expired" hops near the final hop. We use a smart algorithm to auto-detect such a situation, but if it cannot help in your case, just use -N 1 too. For even greater stability you can slow down the program's work by -z option, for example use -z 0.5 for half-second pause between probes. If some hops report nothing for every method, the last chance to obtain something is to use ping -R command (IPv4, and for nearest 8 hops only). SEE ALSO ping(8), ping6(8), tcpdump(8), netstat(8) Traceroute 11 October 2006 TRACEROUTE(1)


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Yesterday I decided to move Stubbie away from RIAforge. It has nothing to do with RIAForge, I just decided to use Git and as a result move it to Github. Since Github basically provides all the tools, there was no need to keep anything on RIAForge. I moved the blog posts over to this blog and you can find them under the stubbie category. Over the coming days I aim to add some content to the Wiki.
I also added a few new features:
- a mach-ii plugin - so that stubs are recreated if needed on each request
- ColdSpring integration for autowiring the objects in your test stubs (which can also make use of the Mach-ii ColdSpring plugin to that end)
- Due to the Mach-ii CS integration I added a remote Facade for use with MXUnit (in order to access the application scope)
It's all a little experimental at this stage and I'd be interested in your experience with the code, feedback, etc... Feel free to drop me a note or raise tickets over @ Github with your feedback or bugs or suggestions. Alternatively, just leave a comment here.


Outreach & Scicomm
Not updated. Last update: Nov 2013
Exhibit item for Lawrence Hall of Science Museum> Worked on contents to convey the concept of protein folding visually to museum-goers.
8 Sept, Solano Stroll 2013, Berkeley, California> Scicomm with Peppytides at the Berkeley Lab booth during Solano Stroll 2013, where general public experienced hands-on with Peppytides and learnt about how proteins look like at the nano-scale.
6 April, 2013, Mills College, Oakland, California (Upward Bound Nanoscience Workshop)>
Students had a hands-on session with Peppytides and learned about folding of alpha helix and beta sheets, the two secondary structures of proteins.
QuezyLab |
Peppytides |
Molecular Foundry |
Berkeley Lab |
CS@VT |
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CCT@LSU


Books
A list of books I've read.
* indicates textbooks that are read end-to-end where possible.
Books on my to read list, that I hope to get to at some point:
2023
- *Networks: An Introduction | Mark Newman
- June 2023 | The Power of Habit | Charles Duhigg
2022
- *Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction | Sutton and Barto
2021
- April 2021 | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster | Bill Gates
- May 2021 | The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson
- May 2021 | The Japanese Economy | Takatoshi Ito and Takeo Hoshi
- July 2021 | The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham
- *Introduction to Linear Optimization | Bertsimas and Tsitsiklis
2020
- August 2020 | Prisoners of Geography | Tim Marshall
- August 2020 | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator | Edwin Lefevre
- September 2020 | Educated | Tara Westover
- September 2020 | Alibaba - The House That Jack Ma Built | Duncan Clark
- October 2020 | Algorithmic Trading | Ernest Chan
2019
- February 2019 | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari
- July 2019 | Structures | J. E. Gordon
- July 2019 | A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
- July 2019 | Clean Architecture | Robert C. Martin
- August 2019 | The Future of Capitalism | Paul Collier
2018
- February 2018 | The Looming Tower | Lawrence Wright
- February 2018 | Elon Musk | Ashlee Vance
- May 2018 | Merchants of Doubt | Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
- July 2018 | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight
- September 2018 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari
- December 2018 | Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari
- December 2018 | Artemis | Andy Weir
2017
- January 2017 | The Greatest Salesman in the World | Og Mandino
- January 2017 | The Four Legendary Kingdoms | Matthew Reilly
- January 2017 | Art and Fear | David Bayles and Ted Orland
- February 2017 | The Hard Thing about Hard Things | Ben Horowitz
- February 2017 | Einstein - His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson
- March 2017 | Only The Paranoid Survive | Andrew S. Grove
- April 2017 | Case Interview Secrets | Victor Cheng
- April 2017 | Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love | Jon Kolko
- November 2017 | Rework | Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- November 2017 | Origin | Dan Brown
- October 2017 | Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
- October 2017 | Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen
- December 2017 | Delivering Happiness | Tony Hsieh
- December 2017 | Move Fast and Break Things | Jonathan Taplin


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UAV Coverage Path Planner
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Utility for computational geometry. More...
#include <cgutil.hpp>
#include <array>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <boost/range/adaptor/indexed.hpp>
#include <boost/range/adaptor/reversed.hpp>
#include <std_msgs/Float64.h>
#include <geometry_msgs/Point32.h>
#include <geometry_msgs/Polygon.h>
#include "cpp_uav/Torres16.h"
Go to the source code of this file.
Classes | |
| struct | Direction |
| Storage for line sweep direction. More... | |
Functions | |
| bool | isClockWise (const PointVector &path) |
| Checks if given path is clockwise (the first turn made to the left) or not. More... | |
| Direction | identifyOptimalSweepDir (const PointVector &polygon) |
| Calculates line sweep direction for given polygon. More... | |
| PointVector | reshapePath (const PointVector &path, double padding) |
| Reshape given path. More... | |
| bool | computeConvexCoverage (const PointVector &polygon, double footprintWidth, double horizontalOverwrap, const Direction &sweepDirection, PointVector &path) |
| Compute coverage path for convex polygon. More... | |
| bool | computeConvexCoverage (const PointVector &polygon, double footprintWidth, double horizontalOverwrap, PointVector &path) |
| Compute coverage path for convex polygon. More... | |
| double | calculatePathLength (const PointVector &path) |
| Calculates length of path. More... | |
| PointVector | computeCCWPath (PointVector path) |
| Return counter clock wise-ed path of given path. More... | |
| PointVector | computeOppositePath (const PointVector &path) |
| Return opposite path of given path. More... | |
| PointVector | identifyOptimalAlternative (const PointVector &polygon, const PointVector &path, const geometry_msgs::Point &start, const geometry_msgs::Point &end) |
| Identify optimal path from 4 coverage alternatives. More... | |
| PointVector | identifyOptimalAlternative (const PointVector &polygon, const PointVector &path, const geometry_msgs::Point &start) |
| Identify optimal path from 4 coverage alternatives. More... | |
| bool | findSecondOptimalPath (const PointVector &polygon, double footprintWidth, double horizontalOverwrap, PointVector &path) |
| Find second optimal path. More... | |
| bool | isAdjacent (const PointVector &polygon1, const PointVector &polygon2) |
| Check if given two polygons are adjacent. More... | |
| PointVector | computeMultiplePolygonCoverage (std::vector< PointVector > subPolygons, double footprintWidth, double horizontalOverwrap, int adjacencyCriteria=1) |
| Compute coverage path for multiple convex polygons. More... | |
Utility for computational geometry.
Header file for torres_etal_2016.cpp.
Definition in file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| double calculatePathLength | ( | const PointVector & | path | ) |
Calculates length of path.
| path |
Definition at line 380 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| PointVector computeCCWPath | ( | PointVector | path | ) |
Return counter clock wise-ed path of given path.
| path | Clockwise path |
Definition at line 400 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| bool computeConvexCoverage | ( | const PointVector & | polygon, |
| double | footprintWidth, | ||
| double | horizontalOverwrap, | ||
| const Direction & | sweepDirection, | ||
| PointVector & | path | ||
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Compute coverage path for convex polygon.
| polygon | Coverage path is calculated on this region |
| footprintWidth | Width of the area taken by one sweep |
| horizontalOverwrap | Horizontal overwrap of each sweep |
| sweepDirection | |
| path | Path of coverage path |
Definition at line 260 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| bool computeConvexCoverage | ( | const PointVector & | polygon, |
| double | footprintWidth, | ||
| double | horizontalOverwrap, | ||
| PointVector & | path | ||
| ) |
Compute coverage path for convex polygon.
| polygon | Coverage path is calculated on this region |
| footprintWidth | Width of the area taken by one sweep |
| horizontalOverwrap | Horizontal overwrap of each sweep |
| path | Path of coverage path |
Definition at line 368 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| PointVector computeMultiplePolygonCoverage | ( | std::vector< PointVector > | subPolygons, |
| double | footprintWidth, | ||
| double | horizontalOverwrap, | ||
| int | adjacencyCriteria = 1 |
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Compute coverage path for multiple convex polygons.
| subPolygons | |
| footprintWidth | |
| horizontalOverwrap | |
| adjacencyCriteria | Ignore paths which have less adjacent polygons than this number |
See section 6.2 of torres et al. 2016 for the detail
Definition at line 634 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| PointVector computeOppositePath | ( | const PointVector & | path | ) |
Return opposite path of given path.
| path |
Definition at line 425 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| bool findSecondOptimalPath | ( | const PointVector & | polygon, |
| double | footprintWidth, | ||
| double | horizontalOverwrap, | ||
| PointVector & | path | ||
| ) |
Find second optimal path.
| polygon | |
| footprintWidth | |
| horizontalOverwrap | |
| path |
Definition at line 547 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| PointVector identifyOptimalAlternative | ( | const PointVector & | polygon, |
| const PointVector & | path, | ||
| const geometry_msgs::Point & | start, | ||
| const geometry_msgs::Point & | end | ||
| ) |
Identify optimal path from 4 coverage alternatives.
| polygon | |
| path | |
| start | Start point |
| end | End point |
The naming of the following variable follows torres et al. 2016
Definition at line 447 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| PointVector identifyOptimalAlternative | ( | const PointVector & | polygon, |
| const PointVector & | path, | ||
| const geometry_msgs::Point & | start | ||
| ) |
Identify optimal path from 4 coverage alternatives.
| polygon | |
| path | |
| start | Start point |
The naming of the following variable follows torres et al. 2016
Definition at line 533 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| Direction identifyOptimalSweepDir | ( | const PointVector & | polygon | ) |
Calculates line sweep direction for given polygon.
| polygon | Line sweep direction is calculated on this region |
Definition at line 65 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| bool isAdjacent | ( | const PointVector & | polygon1, |
| const PointVector & | polygon2 | ||
| ) |
Check if given two polygons are adjacent.
| polygon1 | |
| polygon2 |
Definition at line 609 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
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Checks if given path is clockwise (the first turn made to the left) or not.
| path |
the definition of "clockwise" is based on Fig.8 in Torres et al. 2016
Definition at line 55 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.
| PointVector reshapePath | ( | const PointVector & | path, |
| double | padding | ||
| ) |
Reshape given path.
| path | The sweep lines of path should be horizontal about x axis |
| padding |
Reshape given path so that generated path becomes the sequence of "C" shapes and add padding
Definition at line 134 of file torres_etal_2016.hpp.


TABLE OF CONTENT
A. GS1 Related Social Issues 1. Unique initiative to promote small family norm B. GS2 Related Polity 1. New system for rating bureaucrats open to bias: Anand Sharma 2. Kerala, Haryana top sanitation survey C. GS3 Related Economy 1. Logistics Data Bank project to expand to South India Agriculture 1. Food for action: on food security in India Science & Technology 1. ISRO to develop full-fledged Earth observation satellite 2. The hybrid route D. GS4 Related E. Concepts-in-News: Related Concepts to Revise/Learn F. Bills/Acts/Schemes/Orgs in News G. UPSC Prelims Practice Questions H. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
A. GS1 Related
1. Unique initiative to promote small family norm
- The Rajasthan government’s Medical and Health Department has decided to organise “Saas-Bahu Sammelans” in over 16,200 villages of 14 districts.
- Why: to promote the small family norm with emphasis on development of local communities.
- And to achieve the family planning targets.
Step against high fertility rate
- The 14 districts of the State have reported a high fertility rate in the past.
A. GS2 Related
1. New system for rating bureaucrats open to bias: Anand Sharma
Parliamentary Committee observations:
- According to the committee, the government’s new system of rating officers on the basis of a 360-degree approach is susceptible to bias, manipulation and lacks fairness.
360 degree approach:
- The 360-degree approach is a new multi–source feedback system for performance appraisal of bureaucrats.
- It relies on feedback of juniors and other colleagues for an all-round view, other than appraisal reports written by senior officers.
Counter arguments:
- Feedback in this process is obtained informally, making the process susceptible to being manipulated.
- The report notes that the 360-degree approach does not have any statutory backing, or supported by any Act.
Data from Government survey commissioned on Sanitation
- According to the survey, almost all rural households in Kerala and Haryana had access to a toilet.
- Bihar and Uttar Pradesh has least access to toilets when compared to other states.
- The survey is released by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
- The survey was carried out by the Quality Council of India (QCI).
Other best performers
- Northeastern States of Sikkim, Manipur and Nagaland were top performers with 95% rural households covered by toilets.
- The Himalayan States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand with over 90% toilet coverage of the rural houses.
Worst performers
- In Bihar, only 30% of the rural households had access to toilets while Uttar Pradesh was marginally better at 37%.
- Jharkhand, too scored the same as Uttar Pradesh.
A. GS3 Related
1. Logistics Data Bank project to expand to South India
Context:
- The Logistics Data Bank (LDB) project, unveiled in July 2016 to make India’s logistics sector more efficient through the use of Information Technology, will soon expand to country’s southern region
What is The Logistics Data Bank (LDB) project?
- The logistics Data Bank Service would bring efficiency in the current Logistics & Supply Chain through use of information technology that would be helpful for tracking and viewing the movement of containers across the port to the ICD and end users.
- Every container is attached to a Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID) tag and then tracked through RFID readers — aids importers and exporters in tracking their goods in transit.
- This has, in turn, cut the overall lead time of container movement as well as reduced transaction costs that consignees and shippers incur.
- It is billed as a major ‘ease of doing business’ initiative aimed at boosting India’s foreign trade and ensuring greater transparency.
- The project covers “the entire movement (of containers) through rail or road till the Inland Container Depot and Container Freight Station
Context:
- National Food Security Act, 2013, has met with prolonged political indifference
- Supreme Court directed Centre to ensure that States implement key aspects of the progressive law
Key Aspects:
- Directives in the Swaraj Abhiyan case underscore that several State governments have not met key requirements in the legislation.
- Sections 14, 15 and 16, require the setting up of a grievance redress mechanism and a State Food Commission with responsibility to monitor the implementation of the law
- Article 256, which casts a responsibility on the States and the Union to ensure compliance with laws made by Parliament, also provides the remedy, as it can be invoked by the Centre to set things right.
- NFSA, which is vital for social security through the Public Distribution System and child welfare schemes, has suffered due to a lack of political will.
Way forward
- Food security through the principle of universal access, though not every citizen would need it
- An in-built mechanisms to allow for the entry of new households that suddenly find themselves in financial distress, while others can exit it based on changed circumstances.
- Full-fledged, independent machinery in the form of a Food Commission, and district-level grievance redress, besides social audits. All these are provided for under the Act, but have been ignored
- Modernisation of the PDS, could incorporate dynamic features to the supply of subsidised food to those who need it, and eliminate deficiencies and fraud.
Category: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. ISRO to develop full-fledged Earth observation satellite
‘Hyspex’ imaging:
- A new set of future satellites called hyperspectral imaging satellites is set to add teeth to the way India is gleaned from about 600 km in space.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it plans to launch a full-fledged niche Earth observation (EO) satellite — called the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite or HySIS — using a critical chip it has developed.
- ISRO is endeavouring to enter the domain of operational hyperspectral imaging from earth orbit with a satellite that can see in 55 spectral or colour bands from 630 km above ground.
- Application: It can be used for a range of activities from monitoring the environment, crops, looking for oil and minerals all the way up to military surveillance — all of which need images that show a high level of differentiation of the object or scene.
- ‘Hyspex’ imaging is said to enable distinct identification of objects, materials or processes on Earth by reading the spectrum for each pixel of a scene from space.
- Previous attempts: About a decade ago, ISRO added another EO niche with microwave or radar imaging satellites RISAT-1 and 2 that could ‘see’ through clouds and the dark — an important feature useful for the military and security agencies.
Context:
- The automobile sector in India and the future of electric mobility in India
India’s performance in Automobile Sector:
- India went through a radical transformation from a minor manufacturer of automobiles to the fastest growing auto-hub within a short span
- Progressive policy has led to India emerging as the fifth largest automobile manufacturing country in the world
- How: by adopting a consistent, well thought out Automotive Mission Plan 2006-2016 (AMP)
Contribution to Employment Generation:
- The auto industry provides direct and indirect employment to 32 million people with an annual turnover of nearly Rs 6,00,000 crore
How India’s policy in this sector is different from that of China?
- India’s has achieved success without the adoption of coercive policies for localisation of production as is done in China
- India’s success is attributed to positive engagement maintained with global giants, for establishing competitive manufacturing base in India
World is now going for non-fossil fuel vehicles
- The world is still largely dependent on fossil fuels for transportation
- But there is now an increased momentum towards alternate energy sources
India’s take on non-fossil fuel vehicles
- Besides the environment, India also has strategic and economic interest in shifting away from fossil fuels
- Challenge: The challenge ahead is not only on how to encourage electric automobiles but also to take the industry forward without losing India’s current competitive advantage
Different types of Electric vehicles
- Pure electric vehicles (BEVs) that use energy stored in batteries obtained from the grid
- Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs)
Global experience in Electric mobility sector
- Global experience indicates that most countries have adopted a technology-neutral approach
- And supported the full range of electric vehicle technologies till such time that they attained market acceptability
The way forward
- The government should push more aggressively for the BEV option for of two-wheelers and three-wheelers
- And support the full range of electric technologies for other vehicle segments with a clear roadmap for the evolution towards FCVs
- Hopefully, to reduce fossil fuel consumption, lower pollution and encourage electric mobility, a more holistic approach will be adopted by the government
B. GS4 Related
Nothing here for Today!!!
E. Concepts-in-News: Related Concepts to Revise/Learn
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F. Bills/Acts/Schemes/Orgs in News
Nothing here for Today!!!
G. Practice Questions for UPSC Prelims Exam
Question 1. Choose the correct statement with reference to Kani maranjandu which was in news recently.
- It is a tree dwelling crab species.
- It is a terrestrial crab species.
- The species is named after Kani tribe in Kerala.
- Both a and c
Question 2. Consider the following statement with reference to Uttarayan Festival which
was in news recently
- It is an International Kite festival held at Ahmadabad.
- The idea of flying kites to celebrate Uttrayan was introduced by Muslims from Persia.
- Both a and b
- Neither a nor b
Question 3. What do you mean by Masala Bond?
- Masala bonds are bonds issued outside India but denominated in Indian Rupees.
- Masala bonds are bonds issued outside India but denominated in US dollars.
- Masala bonds are bonds issued outside India but denominated in UK dollars.
- None of the above.
Question 4. Consider the statements about Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development(OECD) :
- 1. It is a UN agency.
- 2. It is headquartered in New York.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- None
Question 5. Sometimes Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS ) in news. What are they ?
- Resolving NPA crisis in banking sector.
- Tax avoidance strategy.
- Free movement of skilled professionals across countries.
- Free movement of goods across countries.
G. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
GS Paper II
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- “Traditional bureaucratic structure and culture have hampered the process of socio-economic development in India.” Comment.
GS Paper III
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- “An incremental, technology-neutral approach to the adoption of electric vehicles is the way forward for Automobile Sector in India” Comment.


Instructions
- add ui-router to the project
- setup app to have the following URL state:
/
(default state) loads the instructions
/bricks/red
loads the red bricks template
/bricks/blue
loads the blue bricks template
/bricks/green
loads the green bricks template
/cart
loads the cart template
- add the following links to the nav:
- Home (
/
) with ID homeLink
- Red (
/bricks/red
) with ID redBrickLink
- Blue (
/bricks/blue
) with ID blueBrickLink
- Green (
/bricks/green
) with ID greenBrickLink
- Cart (
/cart
) with ID cartLink
- add a nested state to each brick that loads the cart template (e.g.
/bricks/red/cart
)


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Program: Certificate in Data Science & Analytics
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Program: Master of Chemical Engineering
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Program: Bachelor of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
A Python Flask app to explore the nature of human trafficking globally for the year 2018 using D3.js, Leaflet.js, Plotly.js, Amchart.js and AnyChart.js to create visualizations
Skills:Analyzed United States Department of Agriculture Census data to explore how agricultural commodities prices in North Carolina have changed between 2012 to 2017 and what factors drive the change
Skills:A webpage to display mars information scraped from various sources, using Splinter, BeautifulSoup and MongoDB database
Skills:An interactive scatter plot, to explore the correlation between demographics and health risk factors in U.S. using D3.js
Skills:An interactive dashboard to explore the Bacteria Biodiversity of microbes that colonize human navels, using Plotly.js to create visualizations
Skills:Analysis of New York Citi's Bike Program which is responsible for overseeing the largest bike sharing program for 200,000+ data points in the United States through visualization in Tableau
Skills:Employed Zillow's housing data to analyze United States’ housing market since the housing market collapsed in 2008 to identify how the market has or has not rebounded between then and 2019. Also developed a regression model to predict the future price.
Skills:Visualizing the last seven days of US earthquake date using USGS GeoJSON and Leaflet to create the map
Skills:Built a web app that detects objects by allowing users upload pictures, upload videos or take videos. The web app scrapes data pertaining to the detected objects from Walmart's website and allows users to filter and sort the data
Skills:Evaluated the performance of using different GAN architectures such as FCN-RNN and C-RNN GANs to produce melodious musical frequencies
Skills:Built an end to end machine learning pipeline to predict household prices in California using the Kaggle dataset. Some of the models used include: Random Forest, SVM, XGBoost. The XGboost model outperformed the others with a MSE of 51,009.51
Skills:Designed a Resilient and Reliable AWS VPC application with public and private subnets, multi-availability zone, multi-region database, configured it in multiple geographically separate AWS regions and hosted it on an AWS S3 bucket
Skills:Scraped Monster to determine the demand for general skills and technologies such as Python and R most relevant to data science [Extraction]. Performed various transformations using python and Regex [Transform]. Loaded the data to both a NOSQL and a MySQL database [Load]
Skills:Built a model that correctly identifies weed types from a variety of weed and crop RGB images with CNNs using the V2 Plant Seedlings Dataset available on Kaggle. My aim was to maximize the accuracy and I achieved an accuracy of 81%
Skills:Built a music recommendation system with collaborative filtering technique for implicit feedback dataset using the Alternating Least Square algorithm.
Skills:Developed a model to predict bike rental count hourly or daily based on the environmental and seasonal variables using years 2011 and 2012 historical logs from Capital Bikeshare system, Washington D.C., USA. Applied GridsearchCV and RandomSearch with XGBoost to achieve a final RMSE of 59.304
Skills:Simulated synthesis gas to dimethylether rection over a Cu-ZnO-Al2O3 Catalyst using the PSRK properties method on ASPEN. Also carried out process optimization, investment analysis and sensitivity analysis
Skills:Designed a P.I feedback control system with the goal of maintaining the dissolved oxygen content at 50% of the air-based oxygen saturation concentration for fermentors in NC State University BTEC intermediate upstream suite
Skills:Examined the electronic absorption spectrum of trans-diazobenzene by performing a geometry optimization in NCSU's HPC cluster. Used the CIS(D) method - a 2nd order perturbation method that uses CIS as its reference - and the 6-31G* basis set. Also compared the result to the values from Fliegl et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 9821 (2003)
Skills:Performed M.D simulation of water-methanol mixture to determine physical properties like self-diffusion coefficient, density and shear viscosity for a system consisting of 216 molecules of water and 216 molecules of methanol. Also compared the derived values to known experimentally derived values.
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