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Director Ranke had started to realise the dangers of Pervitin: at his Military Medical Academy in Munich, students were overdosing so often that a room had to be set aside for these "Pervitin corpses"—students who went out cold and needed to rest before they came back. The exam results of students who had admitted to using methamphetamine were very poor in comparison to their sober classmates. Worried, he had cancelled another Pervitin experiment scheduled for 1939, but it was too late; the Wehrmacht was already on its way to invade Poland with Pervitin in their pockets.
On the 1st of September, 1939, a great storm took place. Not only were the Nazis storming Poland, crossing rivers and crushing Polish defenders on their way, but norepinephrine and dopamine were storming their brains all through the ordeal. With little direction, or even a proper dosage outlined, the army gulped down the sugar-coated pep pills. By consuming methamphetamine, war became a task to be completed—even if that task meant killing. It switched off inhibitions and doubled energy, powering Nazi soldiers through night marches and tank drives. During their advance through the River Vistula, the 3rd Panzer Division reported back:
Everyone fresh and cheerful, excellent discipline. Slight euphoria and increased thirst for action. Mental encouragement, very stimulated. No accidents. Long-lasting effect. After taking four tablets, double vision and seeing colours. The feeling of hunger subsides. One particularly beneficial aspect is the appearance of a vigorous urge to work. The effect is so clear that it cannot be based on imagination.
The invasion of Poland proved a great success for Pervitin. Stimulants would revolutionise warfare, Nazi commanders realised. On the western front, Germany was going to storm through Belgium and into France. Powered by Pervitin, they charged head-on into the entrenched and fortified Belgians with maddening speed, shocking the Belgian defenders into retreat. After three days of nonstop fighting, the German forces had already reached the French border. Despite having powered through a suicide mission with no sleep, Nazi soldiers kept going. Dive bombers and artillery gave the infantry cover as they trudged on into French territory. By the time French military reinforcements arrived, the Germans had already crossed the Meuse River. 60,000 German soldiers, 22,000 vehicles, and 850 tanks had crossed the border, to the shock of the French. They were no match for the insane speed of the methamphetamine-fueled Wehrmacht.


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| 2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more | |
| 3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with | |
| 4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. | |
| 5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 | |
| 6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with | |
| 7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
| 8 | * | |
| 9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| 10 | * | |
| 11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
| 12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
| 13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
| 14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
| 15 | * limitations under the License. | |
| 16 | */ | |
| 17 | package org.apache.commons.collections4.set; | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | import java.util.Comparator; | |
| 20 | import java.util.Set; | |
| 21 | import java.util.SortedSet; | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | /** | |
| 24 | * Decorates another SortedSet to provide additional behaviour. | |
| 25 | *
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| 26 | * Methods are forwarded directly to the decorated set. | |
| 27 | * | |
| 28 | * @param <E> the type of the elements in the sorted set | |
| 29 | * @since 3.0 | |
| 30 | * @version $Id: AbstractSortedSetDecorator.java 1686855 2015-06-22 13:00:27Z tn $ | |
| 31 | */ | |
| 32 | public abstract class AbstractSortedSetDecorator<E> | |
| 33 | extends AbstractSetDecorator<E> | |
| 34 | implements SortedSet<E> { | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | /** Serialization version */ | |
| 37 | private static final long serialVersionUID = -3462240946294214398L; | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | /** | |
| 40 | * Constructor only used in deserialization, do not use otherwise. | |
| 41 | * @since 3.1 | |
| 42 | */ | |
| 43 | protected AbstractSortedSetDecorator() { | |
| 44 | super(); | |
| 45 | } | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | /** | |
| 48 | * Constructor that wraps (not copies). | |
| 49 | * | |
| 50 | * @param set the set to decorate, must not be null | |
| 51 | * @throws NullPointerException if set is null | |
| 52 | */ | |
| 53 | protected AbstractSortedSetDecorator(final Set<E> set) { | |
| 54 | super(set); | |
| 55 | } | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | /** | |
| 58 | * Gets the set being decorated. | |
| 59 | * | |
| 60 | * @return the decorated set | |
| 61 | */ | |
| 62 | @Override | |
| 63 | protected SortedSet<E> decorated() { | |
| 64 |
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return (SortedSet<E>) super.decorated(); |
| 65 | } | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | //----------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 68 | public SortedSet<E> subSet(final E fromElement, final E toElement) { | |
| 69 |
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1. subSet : mutated return of Object value for org/apache/commons/collections4/set/AbstractSortedSetDecorator::subSet to ( if (x != null) null else throw new RuntimeException ) → NO_COVERAGE |
return decorated().subSet(fromElement, toElement); |
| 70 | } | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | public SortedSet<E> headSet(final E toElement) { | |
| 73 |
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return decorated().headSet(toElement); |
| 74 | } | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | public SortedSet<E> tailSet(final E fromElement) { | |
| 77 |
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return decorated().tailSet(fromElement); |
| 78 | } | |
| 79 | ||
| 80 | public E first() { | |
| 81 |
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return decorated().first(); |
| 82 | } | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | public E last() { | |
| 85 |
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return decorated().last(); |
| 86 | } | |
| 87 | ||
| 88 | public Comparator<? super E> comparator() { | |
| 89 |
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return decorated().comparator(); |
| 90 | } | |
| 91 | ||
| 92 | } | |
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WITNESS LIST Appropriations Committee (Subcommittee on Education) January 31, 2001-8:00A Budget For: McDonald, Carol (self) On: Avant, Robert (TX Food and Fibers Commission) Bailey, Guy (U.T. San Antonio) Baker, W.A. (U.T. Tyler) Brown, Don (Higher Education Coordinating Board) Brunjes, Jim (Texas Tech University System) Burt, Lawrence (U.T. Austin) Castillo, Max (University of Houston Downtown) Cobb, Sharon (Texas Higher Eucation Coordinating Board) Diebel, Phil (Universiy of North Texas) Dunn, Dana (University of Texas at Arlington) Exland-Olsen, Sheldon (U.T. Austin) Faulkner, Larry (U.T. Austin) Franklin, G.C. (U.T. Austin) Garcia, Juliet (U.T. Brownsville) Haynes, Karen (University of Houston Victoria) Hudson, Don (Texas Association of Community Colleges) Hurley, Alfred (University of North Texas System) Jenifer, Franklyn (Uniersity of Texas at Dallas) Juarez, Melisa (self) Larson, David (U.T. San Antonio) Mabry, Rodney (U.T. Tyler) Miller, Kathy (U.T. Permian Basin) Montford, John (Texas Tech University) Natalicio, Diana (University of Texas El Paso) Nevarez, Miguel (University of Texas Pan American) Pohl, Norval (University of North Texas) Rector, Robert (Texas Tomorrow Fund) Romo, Richardo (University of Texas San Antonio) Ruth, Andrew (Texas Tomorrow Fund) Sanchez, Zulay (Texas Tomorrow Fund) Schmidly, David (Texas Tech University) Smith, Arthur (University of Houston System) Sorber, Charles (University of Texas Permian Basin) Staples, William (University of Houston Clear Lake) Stuart, Ann (Texas Woman's University) Witt, Robert (U.T. Arlington)


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Use your shotgun to wound the bear and scare it away.

You are now bear food. Sorry. Sucks to be you.
You have wounded the bear, and it is now retreating.

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Week 4
4.8 Technical Blog
Jan 25 2016
Hashes vs. Arrays
The topic of discussion today is to compare hashes and arrays. What are they, what are some of the differences between them, and some of the situations where you would choose one over the other.
Arrays and hashes can become easy to mix up because they do have some similar features. Like arrays, hashes can be created with empty values. Hashes are very similar in function as well. Hashes are basically arrays except that index keys are not limited to integers. Where a value in an array is tied to a specific integer key, which is referred to as an index, the key in a hash can be other objects including integers.
The key difference between arrays and hashes is that the keys can be objects other than integers. Looking at an example is the best way to describe when to use one or the other. A simple example would be an inventory at a store. If the store simply wanted to know what items were in its inventory then they could keep the items stored in an array. They could go to that array and search the list for an item or they could go through it and see what items were currently in the inventory etc. If, however, the store wanted to have other information assoctiated with the items in the inventory it may be better to use a hash. Let's say the store wanted to include the amount of each item with the item itself. Could they still use an array? Well, yes they could. They could use a multi-dimensional array where each individual array was an item name and how many they had. You can see how this can quickly get out of hand. You could very quickly end up with multi-dimensional arrays that can exponentially grow in size and complexity. It may be more prudent to use a hash in that instance. The key itself could be the item and that key can point to a value which could be the number of items, or it could the bar code associated with the items
Make no mistake hashes can also grow in complexity extremely quickly. You could have a hash of hashes. Or you could have a hash of arrays of hashes. The list goes on and on. Returning to the previous example, say you wanted to include both the number of items the item name associated with any given bar code of a product in the store. You can do that with a hash. You could use the barcode as a key, and that key would have a value that was an array that included the item name and how many were in inventory.
inventory = {
17272: [iPhone 6, 30]
18272: [Samsung Galaxy 4, 30]
18723: [iMac, 10]
}
If you wanted to do that in an array it might look something like this;
inventory = [[17272, [iPhone 6, 30]], [18272, [Samsung Galaxy 4, 30]], [18723, [iMac, 10]]]
You can see how the hash code itself is more compact and, in my opinion, a little cleaner
and easier to read. This is just one example of when it may be appropriate to
use an array over a hash. You can do a lot of the same things with hashes that you
can do with arrays and in the end it may come down to what you are more comfortable using. Being
well versed in both, however, will allow you to be more versatile with your code.
I hope that you learned a little about the difference between hashes and arrays. It can be difficult to choose which one to use sometimes because they are similar not only in style, but their application.


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Classes
August 10th, 2015
Hola. For this week's tech blog I'm going to reflect on what Classes are and their syntax in the Ruby language. Just a reminder, I learned most of what I'm trying to teach these past two weeks, so hopefully I'm getting this right!
One important thing we've all heard when beginning to learn Ruby is that EVERYTHING IS AN OBJECT!! In the case of Classes, that is no different! With Object Oriented Programming, assigning certain behaviors and properties to Classes have their benefit!
Let's start off by showing you the syntax for creating a Class. I'm going to be going over one we completed this week for Dev.
In the example above we start off by calling the keyword "class" and then the name of the class, "Die". Note that the first letter of the class name is capitalized. Whenever Ruby creates a new object, it looks for a method named "initialize" and executes what is within the method and sets certain characteristics throughout the entire Class. In the example above, I created a new variable called @labels and set it to the labels in the argument of the initialize method. Seems kind of weird huh? I initially thought so too till I learned the reasoning behind it. The reason why we are setting the argument of the method, "@labels" equal to "labels" is that if you set these characteristics within the "initialize" method, you are setting certain characteristics that you can utilize throughout the whole class! If you happen to have multiple methods within a class, you can easily refer to these variables outside of the "initialize" method!
In the example above, you can see that I put in a conditional within initialize if the @labels.length == 0 to raise an argument Error. Outside of the initialize method, I also created a method called "sides". Within "sides", it returns the length of "@labels". The purpose of building this class was to have the class accept an array of strings, and with a random roll, returns one of the strings in the array.
Above we can see we created another method called "roll" and within it, assigned the results of a random string based on the number of "@labels" to "random_string".
After the Class is now functional, we "create" this class by calling "Die.new" and passing in an array of strings. When calling "die.roll", we take the Object's characteristics and act on the behavior of the method "roll", which produces a random string from the argument given. If you call "die.sides", it will show you how many elements there are in the argument given. Pretty neat huh? The ability to Create a Class and be able to act on different behaviors inside AND outside of the class gives us a lot of pretty cool options within an Object Oriented Programming language!


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Update 2004-12-26 - working with Benjamin Nowack on creating a merged set of terms, incorporating his Project Management vocabulary
Update 2004-07-24 - added DOAP profile (see Description of a Project)
Update 2004-05-07 - looks like I'm going to be needing this myself, so am in the process of revising - latest schema
This document specifies a vocabulary for describing projects independently of the project domain (e.g. software product development, fundraising, painting the garage). The intended architecture is primarily goal-oriented, that a project will consist of goals which may be broken down into subgoals and may be satisfied by completing a set of associated tasks. The vocabulary is constructed using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). It may be used in conjunction with other RDF vocabularies such as FOAF or as an RSS 1.0 module. The schema is provided in RDF/XML (other syntaxes to follow). Its ontological definition is in the OWL DL sublanguage.
This is a work-in-progress, a practical application is being developed for evaluation of the vocabulary.
Please post comments here or mail me.
OWL Ontology - should be usable now, most terms are relatively stable though additional constraints (corresponding to the prose description below) are likely to be added.
text blocks in italics have just been copy & pasted from elsewhere, here for temporary reference while figuring out the definitions
Project management and issue tracking
A Project Management System
GoalList
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Session
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role
hasReport
The PRJ Project Vocabulary is intended for use with RDF tools for describing projects. The terms have been chosen such that they are general enough to represent elements of virtually any project. Projects are described as instances of RDF graphs.
The project vocabulary is primarily goal-oriented: a project will be described as a set of goals which correspond to elements of the project. These goals identify the purpose of each element, the way in which each goal is to be achieved will be described in terms of tasks. Individual goals and tasks may be broken into subgoals and subtasks, and each of these will be represented by a node (instance of a class) within the graph. The relationships between the goals and tasks will be represented by arcs (properties) between the nodes.
Each goal or task may be be further described using other terms from the vocabulary. The vocabulary lends itself to a methodology involving hierarchical decomposition, though it should be noted that the model supports interdependencies that fall outside of a strict hierarchy (the model is a graph, not a tree).
Within the hierarchical view, completion of the project as a whole can be seen as the root goal.
The goals described by this vocabulary may either be 'hard' in the sense that it is can easily be stated whether or not the goal has been achieved, or 'soft' where such a call is difficult or impossible to make (if the project was to climb a mountain, then a soft goal might be to do it safely). Soft goals are often things that can be measured (e.g. number of climbing injuries). Within the vocabulary a goal will be considered 'hard' if it is represented by an instance of the Goal class, rather than explicitly represented by an instance of the SoftGoal class.
Similarly there are two sets of properties that correspond to
hard and soft dependencies : dependsOn/isADependencyOf
are used where the relationship is 'hard', in other words a well-defined dependency
- if A dependsOn B
then it is impossible to achieve A without first
achieving B. The 'soft' dependency relationships are represented using helps/isHelpedBy
and hurts/isHurtBy. These
terms are loosely defined, and whereas it may be possible to use the 'hard'
relationships to make decisions based on classical logic, the 'soft' relationships
may be of use where heuristics are applied.
Although many of the concepts have been lifted from the world of software project management, it should be emphasized that this is only one possible domain of application. It is anticipated that in the context of software project management this vocabulary will primarily be used in the early stages of requirements analysis.
In the context of software requirements specification, 'hard' goals correspond to functional requirements, 'soft' goals correspond to non-functional requirements, aspects such as usability, reliability, interoperability and scalability.
The XML namespace for this vocabulary is http://purl.org/stuff/project/ and the recommended prefix is prj.
In RDF/XML documents the following declaration should be used :
xmlns:prj="http://purl.org/stuff/project/"
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve
(WordNet noun Goal, sense 1.)
A goal is a condition or state of affairs in the world that the stakeholders
would like to achieve. How the goal is to be achieved is not specified, allowing
alternatives to be considered.
A goal can be either a business goal or a system goal. A business goal express
goals regarding the business or state of the business affairs the individual
or organisation wishes to achieve. System goal expresses goals the target system
should achieve, which, generally, describe the functional requirements of the
target information system.
A softgoal is a condition or state of affairs in the world that the actor would like to achieve, but unlike in the concept of (hard) goal, there are no clear-cut criteria for whether the condition is achieved, and it is up to subjective judgement and interpretation of the developer to judge whether a particular state of affairs in fact achieves sufficiently the stated softgoal.
Each softgoal has a type, such as "minimizing memory utilization", and a topic, such as "system". The type qualifies the topic. Together they express a goal that needs to be achieved during the design process (i.e. "minimizing memory utilization in the system").
When NFR softgoals are refined to the extend that specific design techniques or options can be identified, these are expressed as "operationalizations" (soft) goals. They are shown as clouds with thick solid borders graphically). Softgoals may have additional impact on each other beyond those established through refinements. These "side effects" are called correlations and are shown as dotted line links. Arguments in support of (or to object to) goals or their contributions are "claims" softgoals and are shown as clouds with dotted line borders.
- a block of work containing Goals and Tasks
(WordNet noun Module, sense 4.)
- an activity (=Action) a specific piece of work
(WordNet noun Task, sense 2.)
 When a task is specified
as a sub-component of a (higher-level) task, this restricts the higher-level
task to that particular course of action.
Tasks can also be seen as the solutions in the target system, which will satisfice
the softgoals (called operationalizations in NFR). These solutions provide operations,
processes, data representations, structuring, constraints and agents in the
target system to meet the needs stated in the goals and softgoals.
The sub-components of a task can be goal, task, resource, and softgoal.
(a bag of tasks)
(WordNet noun list, sense 1.)
- a specialization of Module to identify a complete unit
(WordNet noun project, sense 1.)
An actor is an active entity that carries out actions to achieve goals
by exercising its know-how. Graphically, an actor may optionally have a boundary,
with intentional elements inside.
(WordNet noun agent, sense 6.)
//entity
- a (time and/or agent and/or task ) delimited set of actions applied to a
module
(WordNet noun list, sense 3.)
(extension of isDefinedBy)
branchTag
The name of the Project/Goal
sbclass of rdf:label
(WordNet noun version, sense 2.)
(likely objects : Defect, Documentation, Patch, Feature, Enhancement...)
(Unassigned, Open, Resolved... - Live/Test?)
A Task Means_Ends Structure connects a task with the means (tasks) to achieve
it directly, which is a short hand form of one Task Decomposition Structure
and the related Goal Means_Ends Structure. See Figure2 as an example.
A Resource Means_Ends Structure connects a resource with the means (tasks) to
make it available, which is a short hand form of one <softgoal Contribution
Structure>.See Figure 3 as an example.
GRL DECOMPOSITON statement provides the ability to define what other elements need to be achieved or available in order for a task to perform.
A Task Decomposition Structure shows the essential components of a task, which include subtasks that must be performed, subgoals that must be achieved, resources that must be accessible, and softgoals that must be satisfied.
(Person, software tool...)
(Developer, Observer, QA...)
GRL (Goal-oriented Requirement Language) is a language for supporting goal-oriented modelling and reasoning of requirements, especially for dealing with non-functional requirements (NFRs). It is expressed in textual, graphic or XML notations. The mapping between GRL and PRJ takes place at the abstract model level.
There are three main categories of concepts: intentional elements, intentional relationships, and actors. Intentional elements of GRL map onto RDF classes in the PRJ schema, intentional relationships onto properties.
Intentional Elements
goal
maps directly onto prj:Goal
task
maps directly onto prj:Task
softgoal
maps directly onto prj:SoftGoal
belief
use http://purl.org/ibis#Argument
resource
use rdf:Resource
Intentional Relationships
The relationships of the GRL ontology map to properties in the PRJ vocabulary, although PRJ descriptions are less fine-grained than those of GRL. However, in many cases a one-to-one mapping will be achievable by taking into consideration the type of the subject and object of the statement/relationship.
means-ends
use prj:dependsOn
decomposition
use prj:dependsOn
contribution
use one or more of prj:dependsOn;
correlation
(side effects) as contribution
dependency
use prj:dependsOn with subject rdf:type prj:Agent and object rdf:type prj:Agent
Actors
map indirectly to prj:Agent; prj:agentType; prj:role; their possession of intentional elements expressed using prj:owns
The Project vocabulary described here only aims to provide a core set of terms. It is anticipated that both domain-specific (e.g. for software projects) and more generally applicable vocabularies will be used alongside the Project vocabulary. The following are likely candidates for general use.
Some of the terms in PV may map directly to (qualified) DC (elements/terms), and where appropriate equivalence relationships will be expressed in this schema. I'm not yet sure whether subclass/subproperty relationships will be appropriate. With a bit of luck a friendly DC'er might help me out...
@@TODO UPDATE There is significant crossover between this vocabulary and the work being done on calendaring at the W3C. The main schema referred to is hybrid (Michael Arick/Libby Miller), which draws on earlier work such as iCal. Because of its roots this schema is already pretty complex, so I decided to ignore it until I'd got this schema roughed out. A mapping is very desirable for information sharing, but I think it'll be easier to do this at a loosely-coupled equivalence level rather than using hybrid terms directly (or subclassing) for this schema. With a bit of luck a friendly calendarer might help me out...
...
W6 offers an easy way of augmenting the Project vocabulary by relating entities
based on simple descriptive relationships : who
, what
,
why
, when
, where
and how
.
This documentation and associated RDF Schema will be placed in the public domain under a Creative Commons license, with the usual software liability disclaimers. Reproduction as a whole or in part is permitted without restriction. The author would be grateful if the namespace advisory note is taken into consideration for any derivative work.
DOAP - Edd Dumbill, description of a (software) project (in RDF) notes (with outher related links)
Project members in RDF blogroll
MetaL - An XML based Meta-Programming language
Project Management XML Schema (PMXML) huge!
Bugzilla
Scarab
werkz
Maven
2004-05-07 : considerable revision of schema, minor additions to docs
2003-09-30 : added # to namespace
2003-06-12 : added SoftGoal; GoalList; hurts; isHurtBy; hasAvailability. owner modified to owns. general tidying up and descriptions added
2003-04-10 : added Environment; hasReport; branchTag; name; logo.
2003-02-10 : submittedDate added
2003-02-05 : added license note & namespace description
2003-01-30 : Initial public draft.


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So, Trutap has launched a load more IM transports, putting the app well on the path to being the best connected mobile IM service in the world. Not that we can take much credit for this (beyond the front-end and MIDlet which we created) - the server team at TTHQ have done a stirling job here.
But we've been busy beavers nonetheless. All will be revealed in the coming weeks :)


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Signaling via IL-2 and IL-4 in JAK3-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency lymphocytes: JAK3 -dependent and independent pathways.
Abstract
Both IL-2 and IL-4 bind to receptors containing the common gamma chain and JAK3. Although JAK3 is required for proper lymphoid development, the precise roles of this kinase in IL-2 and IL-4 signaling in lymphocytes have not been defined. Here, we have studied IL-2 and IL-4 signaling in B cell lines lacking JAK3. Although IL-2 -induced phosphorylation of IL-2R beta, JAK1, and STAT5 all required the presence of JAK3, IL-4 -mediated phosphorylation of JAK1, STAT6, and insulin receptor substrates 1 and 2 did not. However, IL-4 -induced effects were clearly improved following JAK3 expression. These data indicate that IL-4 signaling occurs in the absence of of JAK3, but is comparatively inefficient. These findings may help in understanding the pathogenesis of the immunodeficiency that occurs with mutations of JAK3 and may suggest a mechanism for the pleiotropic effects of IL-4.


The password is {{ passphrase }}. But it would appear that all the correct elements are invisible...
What's going on inside that <form>?
<form>


For this project my partner and I wanted to build a blog for Film Noir movie reviews. We wanted the design of this project to portray the black and white essence and simplicity of these films.
This project uses HTML and CSS
For this project our goal was to recreate the Wikipedia home page as closely as possible using what we have learned in week one of Epicodus.
This project uses HTML, CSS, and bootstrap
Another Epicodus in-class project, my partner and I practiced using floats and columns to to display before, during, and after progress of a sample home rennovation.
This project uses HTML and CSS
This project was completed on the first day of class to display knowledge of implementing images, links, lists, and use of spans within our code. It was later published on gh-pages when learning about branching.
This project uses HTML and CSS
This project is a mockup website for a fictitious coffee company named JavaGrounds. The website features several different pages with various information such as menu, hours, and locations.
This project uses HTML and CSS


Hi, I'm an Education Research Developer at The Education Program in Anatomy at McMaster University.
I'm interested in mobile app and web development, specifically in the fields of virtual reality, stereoscopy, education and educational research.
Copyright © Josh P. Mitchell 2021
Virtual Reality Bell Ringer (aka VRBR) uses Google’s Cardboard VR headset to deliver stereoscopic 3D bell ringer practise questions to undergraduate Anatomy & Physiology students.
It is available on Android and iOS.
The anatomical dissection images are originally from A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy by David L. Bassett, MD. These stereo images (originally published in 1952) were digitized by Massachusetts General Hospital and made available for educational purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. As such, this app is also available under the same license.
The full license can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
The dissection images were modified to include 3D pins, which guide attention to specific aspects of the anatomy.
MacAnatomy is the online portal to the Education Program in Anatomy at McMaster University.
From June 2016 - Sept 2017, I completely redesigned MacAnatomy from the ground up, moving it from Joomla to Wordpress. I also created several custom WordPress plugins to manage the extensive specimen library the anatomy lab curates.
The new site went live in September 2017.
Project ARTEMIS is an undergraduate engineering Capstone project: building an autonomous foam projectile firing turret that can hit a moving target.
The turret will identify the target and retrieves its x,y,z coordinates. This will be fed into a trajectory prediction algorithm that will predict where the target will be at some point in the future, allowing it to be intercepted by a foam projectile.
This project will be a collaboration between Software and Mechatronics Engineering students at McMaster Univeristy. Complete April 2019.


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Hi, My name is Matthew Verardo. I am an up and coming photographer, web designer and graphic designer. If you are looking for stock photos or a custom website, I am able to set that up and maintain your online presence. If you have something you want to sell or need stock or custom photos I am able to take those personaly so you do not have to pay extra.
I am a Confederation College student and am looking to start create a new venture on my own. I have a portfolio showing off some of my early works and my contact information is posted at the bottom of the page. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at your conivence. Thanks


distri
a Linux distribution to research fast package management
distri is a proof-of-concept implementation of the simplest¹ linux distribution I can think of that is still useful². Interestingly enough, in some cases the simple solution has inherent advantages, which I explore and contrast in the articles released at https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/tags/distri/
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simple: while all the typical building blocks for a Linux distribution are present (a package builder, installer, tooling for creating patches, preparing package download mirrors, etc.), they all leave out many features. For example, the package format intentionally leaves out triggers and hooks, but can parallelize installation as a result.
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useful: I have successfully booted and used distri images on qemu, Google Cloud, a Dell XPS 13 notebook. This includes booting from an encrypted root file system and running Google Chrome on Xorg to watch Netflix, which I consider a proxy for having a useful system.
Note that due to its research project status, it is NOT RECOMMENDED to use distri in ANY CAPACITY except for research. Specifically, do not expect any support.
distri is published in the hope that other, more established distributions, will find some parts of it interesting and decide to integrate those.
For more details, please see my blog article “introducing distri”. You can subscribe to all distri-related posts by subscribing to https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/tags/distri/feed.xml.
For discussion and feedback, please subscribe to the distri mailing list so that everyone can participate!
The latest release is distri supersilverhaze (2020-05-16).
© 2018 Michael Stapelberg and contributors


There are currently three visualizations of the data:
- Arc Diagram Visualization using protovis
- Most readable of all visualizations so far
- Red lines indicate OR dependencies (any one of the red lines) and blue lines indicated AND dependencies (all of the courses)
- Vis.js Version
- Zoom out to see all nodes
- Dotted lines indicate OR dependencies (any one of the dotted lines) and solid lines indicated AND dependencies (all of the courses)
- Sigma.js Version
- Red lines indicate OR dependencies (any one of the red lines) and blue lines indicated AND dependencies (all of the courses)


KSh 600
Alarm Clock Silent Sweep Snooze Night Light Bedside Bedroom Music Ring
Do you deliver your products?
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Can a customer return items ?
How do i order a product?
supply and installation
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If Statement
B elow we cover the if statement and how to work with it
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# IF - ELIF - ELSE
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
age = int(input("Enter your age: ")) # first example
# ...
if age < 18: # ...
print("No beer for you!\n") # ...
name = "Mich" # second example
# ...
if name is "Captain": # ...
print("Hey there Captain") # ...
elif name is "Mich": # ...
print("Hey there Mich") # ...
else: # ...
print("Your name is not registered yet!") # ...
a = 2 # short Hand If ... Else
b = 330 # ...
print("A") if a > b else print("B") # ...
Assert Statement
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Assert : is generally used during debugging code session. It lets you test if a condition in your code returns True, if not, the program will raise an AssertionError
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ASSERT
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
x = int(input("Enter a number greater than 10: ")) # example assert statement
assert x > 10, "Invalid input" # ...
print("Entered value is: {}\n".format(x)) # ...
Exercises
- Exercise 1.
- Write a Python program that take as input three scores and behave as follow:
- display a failure message if one of the scores is less than 35
- calculate the average of the scores and return the
corresponding grade
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Exercise_01
# Write a Python program that take as input three scores and does the following:
# - display a failure message if one of the scores is less than 35
# - calculate the average of the scores and return the corresponding grade
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
grades = [int(g) for g in (input('''Enter your maths, physics and chemistry score
splitted by , : ''')).split(',')]
score = 0
for x in grades:
if(x < 35):
print("You have failed the exam")
score = 0
break
else:
score += x
if (score == 0):
pass
else:
score = score/(len(grades))
if (score <= 59):
print("Average is: {}\nYour grade is C".format(score))
elif (score <= 69):
print("Average is: {}\nYour grade is B".format(score))
else:
print("Average is: {}\nYour grade is A".format(score))


years, days, minutes, seconds
of coding, teamwork, challenges, & enjoyment!
Software Engineer intern (summer 2012/2013)
- SVN, Eclipse, ssh client
- fast-paced team environment
- 94% in GAIQ
Web development (july 2012-current)
- client-side: HTML5, CSS3, JS+JQuery
- server-side: Mysqli+SQL, cPanel, phpMyAdmin, Litespeed
Computer Science (2011-current)
- HD's for subjects involving C, C++, Java
- HD in subject involving HTML5, CSS3, XML, DTD+XML Schema
- Bash, client/server, parent/children, pipelining, Oracle SQL, JDBC+Swing
Network Admin assistant (2008)
- Customer service
- Worked in a team to upgrade intranet infrastructure
- Fixing hardware. Replacing missing components from systems


Evaluations¶
An evaluation object represents a collection of Synapse Entities that will be processed in a particular way. This could mean scoring Entries in a challenge or executing a processing pipeline.
Imports:
from synapseclient import Evaluation, Submission, SubmissionStatus
Evaluations can be retrieved by ID:
evaluation = syn.getEvaluation(1901877)
Like entities, evaluations are access controlled via ACLs. The synapseclient.Synapse.getPermissions()
and
synapseclient.Synapse.setPermissions()
methods work for evaluations:
access = syn.getPermissions(evaluation, user_id)
The synapseclient.Synapse.submit()
method returns a Submission object:
entity = syn.get(synapse_id)
submission = syn.submit(evaluation, entity, name='My Data', team='My Team')
The Submission object can then be used to check the status of the submission:
status = syn.getSubmissionStatus(submission)
- The status of a submission may be:
INVALID the submitted entity is in the wrong format
SCORED in the context of a challenge or competition
OPEN indicating processing has not completed
CLOSED indicating processing has completed
Submission status objects can be updated, usually by changing the status and score fields, and stored back to
Synapse using synapseclient.Synapse.store()
:
status.score = 0.99
status.status = 'SCORED'
status = syn.store(status)
See:
Evaluation¶
- class synapseclient.evaluation.Evaluation(**kwargs)¶
An Evaluation Submission queue, allowing submissions, retrieval and scoring.
- Parameters
name – Name of the evaluation
description – A short description of the evaluation
contentSource – Synapse Project associated with the evaluation
submissionReceiptMessage – Message to display to users upon submission
submissionInstructionsMessage – Message to display to users detailing acceptable formatting for submissions.
To create an Evaluation and store it in Synapse:
evaluation = syn.store(Evaluation( name="Q1 Final", description="Predict progression of MMSE scores for final scoring", contentSource="syn2290704"))
The contentSource field links the evaluation to its
synapseclient.entity.Project
. (Or, really, any synapse ID, but sticking to projects is a good idea.)Evaluations can be retrieved from Synapse by ID:
evaluation = syn.getEvaluation(1901877)
…by the Synapse ID of the content source (associated entity):
evaluation = syn.getEvaluationByContentSource('syn12345')
…or by the name of the evaluation:
evaluation = syn.getEvaluationByName('Foo Challenge Question 1')
- __init__(**kwargs)¶
Submission¶
- class synapseclient.evaluation.Submission(**kwargs)¶
Builds an Synapse submission object.
- Parameters
name – Name of submission
entityId – Synapse ID of the Entity to submit
evaluationId – ID of the Evaluation to which the Entity is to be submitted
versionNumber – Version number of the submitted Entity
submitterAlias – A pseudonym or team name for a challenge entry
- __init__(**kwargs)¶
Submission Status¶
- class synapseclient.evaluation.SubmissionStatus(id, etag, **kwargs)¶
Builds an Synapse submission status object. https://rest-docs.synapse.org/rest/org/sagebionetworks/evaluation/model/SubmissionStatus.html
- Parameters
id – Unique immutable Synapse Id of the Submission
status – Status can be one of https://rest-docs.synapse.org/rest/org/sagebionetworks/evaluation/model/SubmissionStatusEnum.html.
submissionAnnotations – synapseclient.Annotations to store annotations of submission
canCancel – Can this submission be cancelled?
cancelRequested – Has user requested to cancel this submission?
- __init__(id, etag, **kwargs)¶


Preparation time
30 mins to 1 hour
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
Serves
Makes 24–30 sausage rolls
This is a great twist on the classic British sausage roll, using beef sausages with horseradish and mushrooms. Like a cheat’s Wellington!
Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over a medium heat. Add the garlic, salt and mushrooms and cook until all the moisture from the mushrooms has evaporated. Transfer to a bowl and leave to cool completely.
Stir the horseradish purée into the mushrooms. Add the beef sausage meat and mix until well combined using your hands.
Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
Lightly dust a work surface with flour. Roll out the pastry to 25x35cm/10x14in, then cut it into three equal rectangles lengthways. Roll out each rectangle a little more, to create more width.
Divide the beef mixture into three equal parts. Spread one part down one side of a pastry rectangle in a long, thin sausage shape. Brush the long edge with a little beaten egg and roll the pastry up over the sausage meat to seal. Repeat with the remaining sausage meat and pastry.
Cut each long piece into eight to ten sausage rolls and place on the prepared baking tray. Brush each pastry with a little more beaten egg, then bake for 15–20 minutes.
Leave to cool for 10 minutes before eating as they will be very hot.


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Wendy Williams questions why Kanye West lets North have nose ring but not makeup
Wendy Williams has questioned Kanye West’s decision to ban his daughter North from wearing makeup despite letting her have a nose ring.
Kim Kardashian recently revealed her hubby’s rule when it came to lipgloss and eyeliner, and confessed that it has caused fights among the famous family.
However, it seems Wendy is still trying to get her head around the fact that the six-year-old is still allowed a nose piercing.
When chatting on her show’s Hot Topics segment, the 55-year-old raised her woes.
She said: ‘He doesn’t want his daughter wearing makeup, but she can wear a full-on nose ring? So, where are we going with this?’
The comments came after North’s mum spoke to E! News about her current parenting drama.
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She told the publication: ‘North is trying to get in on the makeup, but she’s being blocked heavily because her dad has stopped all makeup for her until she is a teenager.’
The beauty mogul added: ‘It’s a big discussion, a big fight in the household right now but it is what’s best.
‘I think as a parent you just learn and figure it out as you go and we realised we didn’t really want her to wear makeup at a young age but she sees her mom putting on lipstick and lip gloss.’
However, it seems jewelry is a hit with the Gold Digger rapper, as North has been spotted on numerous occasions wearing a septum piercing.
Which, we should point out has been confirmed fake by Kim K herself.
This isn’t the only remark Kanye has made about his little one, as he also opened up on her wardrobe choices when chatting on Apple Music’s Beats 1.
Here he spoke about his regrets of trying to dress up North like a pop star when she was younger.
‘I was literally out there making [North] try to out dress Rihanna,’ the 42-year-old said.
‘I don’t think North should wear a crop top after I had her wear a slip dress when she was two years old. I think and feel differently now that I am a Christian.’
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Cheap safe looks like a book
by Mark FrauenfelderIf you have a lot of books at home, a cheap book safe like this is a good way to hide small things. The inside storage area is 2" x 5.625" x 9" and the book looks like a dictionary. (Crooks already know to scan bookshelves for The New English Dictionary, so you should put a jacket from another book on it.)
It has a lock and two keys to discourage snooping if someone pulls the book off the shelf.


When prompted, accept to share your audio and video stream.
This test checks that distinct mediastream tracks have distinct ids.


Strophe.js -> disconnect on page unload
Strophe.js -> disconnect on page unload
UPDATE: I deleted my outdated repos, Strophe.js has been updated to support this out of the box now. The below code still shows how to properly apply this functionality and has been updated to support the default Strophe lib.
There are a few discussions online regarding this procedure and most of them are misleading, incorrect, or wrong. To reliably kill a jabber connection using Strophe.js you’ll need to force a synchronous (blocking) connection and run through the disconnect steps. A couple important things to note here that most discussions seem to skip over. Strophe doesn’t natively support synchronous connections. Another thing I see is people saying you should set the sync flag before calling the flush method. My testing basically came to the conclusion we should flush the connection with an async call, but should switch to a synchro call immediately before issuing the disconnect. If you enable synchro before running flush your browser session will become unresponsive… for a while.
~~Step 1: patch Strophe to support synchronous connections~~
~~github diff~~
Step 2: setup your onunload handler
jQuery
$(window).bind('unload', function(){
StropheConnection.flush();
StropheConnection.options.sync = true;
StropheConnection.disconnect();
});
Vanilla JS
window.onunload = function() {
StropheConnection.flush();
StropheConnection.options.sync = true;
StropheConnection.disconnect();
};


Sounds of the Wolf & Moose Study
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| DOSE: |
repeated |
oral |
MDMA |
(pill / tablet) |
Okay, will try to keep this as impartial as possible.
I'm fairly new to the whole clubbing/ecstasy culture, having only dabbled the last couple of years, following the end of a long-term relationship (make of that what you will, psychiatrists!) and the appearance of several new friends who are quite into the whole gay scene, and all that goes with it. I will largely skim the various misdeeds committed on pills, except to say that good –if sometimes immoral – fun has been had by all. But not without consequences, as you shall see.
While the jury’s still out on whether it actually does cause brain-damage, my absolute conviction is that it does – IF abused. My personal eye-opener came a few months back, when for the first time my mate bought a stash of 30 good quality pills with the intention of selling most of them or storing them away for future use (yep, y’all know what’s coming next…)
We managed to have them sitting on his shelf for all of about 2 days before he came over all ‘Milky-Bars Are On Meeee!’, and we dug into them willy-nilly, handing them out to whoever, whenever. I’m not suggesting everyone is as weak-willed as us, but the whole point is they’re pretty fookin’ good, so it didn’t take long for a couple to be dispatched down the mouth of a curious housemate on her birthday. Eight hours and two-and-a-half pills later, and everyone’s having a great time. Housemate’s had a cracking birthday.
I roll into work fairly off my face, and spend a long time attempting to understand what’s going on with my computer screen and trying to look like I’m working diligently (actually, I did do quite a lot of work, though how that came to pass is anyone’s guess!) Me and Mike (the aforementioned ‘Milky-Bar Kid!) grab an hour’s kip at lunchtime, and in the evening meet our friends for further indulgence in the comfort of my house, having made the usual bullshit promises along the lines of ‘I’m taking no more than three this evening’.
After a time, while everyone’s getting cosy and lovely-dovey, I have to admit that, while I’m getting all the physical tingliness (my feet feel a bit ‘special’) and the jitteriness (the pills were cut with a bit of speed), there’s none of the emotional warmth that usually accompanies it and is, of course, the whole point. Not that I’m dissing the merits of tingly feet.
So – and this is the stoopid bit – instead of saying ‘okay, that’s me done!’, I take another one. And another one. And keep taking them throughout the evening till I must have done upwards of six – not that much by some folks standards, but a ridiculous amount for me, previously a three-a-nite girl, and clearly Not Healthy. Apparently there’s a saturation point after a relatively small amount of MDMA where your brain simply can’t release any more serotonin, so I was wasting time and pills, not to mention subjecting myself to the possibility of some really bad, gurny photos if some fool has a camera to hand – and Some Fool usually does.
My brain, probably not helped by the lack of sleep, clearly hadn’t restocked since the previous evening and there I was still clouting it with disco-biscuits like there was no tomorrow! What a twonk. But therein lies the ‘addiction’ – when I'm in the same social circle as regular drug-users, the desire to be ‘where they are’ over-rides my commonsense. Hence many nights that should have been a ‘quiet drink’ with your buddies turn into a veritable munt-fest once someone utters the magic words ‘Anyone fancy a half?’.
Anyway, as the Pillage intensified for everyone else, I remained quite disassociated. One of the highlights of the evening was seeing a group of matchstick men doing a little jig on the back of my hand. One of them was waving maracas like there was no tomorrow but, like the tingly feet, it was a poor substitute for that Ecstasy high. I appreciated his efforts, though, and his luminous green ribcage was nothing if not fascinating. At this point it’s worth pointing out that it was still a pleasant evening, but this is more a testimony to having good, understanding mates than anything.
We all wake up the next morning feeling not-too-ropey on the whole, and more pills are consumed that evening, though only two for me before I finally admit it’s a lost cause, and get stoned instead – what a waster!
Different people experience different comedowns from pills. Mike gets all weepy, another friend, Fi, feels utterly unable to move for 24hrs afterwards and thereafter is ‘right as nine-pence’, and I generally start feeling a bit physically run-down on the Monday evening, assuming I dropped on the Friday. That usually goes thru the Tuesday too if I’ve over-indulged.
As is the balance of things, that particularly ‘over-indulgent’ weekend brought a hitherto unimaginable level of ‘run-down’-ness. In fact, run-down is wrong, ‘Mentalism’ is a far more apt word – and it isn’t even a fookin’ word, THAT’S how mentalised I was feeling! It started off with the usual bouts of mild nausea on the Monday evening, interspersed with a pressing need to sleep. Me and Milky Bar Kid were treated to some powerful-strong bouts of sleep paralysis as we lay in bed that evening – not to mention his absolute conviction that zombies were about to burst into the room and make a meal of our innards.
 Not that I was properly asleep in the first place. This sounds quite random and amusing, but it was pretty eerie at the time, and must have happened at least once for every pill I’d taken over the weekend (if *that* isn’t karmic justice, I don’t know what is!!). And when I did finally get some sleep, my dreams were odd, vivid and unsettling.
Things became even more confusing the next day when, sitting at my work desk I decided that the office wasn’t quite ‘the office’ anymore but had somehow subtly changed in a weird, perspective-altering manner. A bit like when you go looking for a flat to rent, end up living there for a year or two and realize that the way you see it at the end of that time is completely different to your initial perception of it in some way you can’t explain very well. And I’m not explaining very well here.
The upshot of all this is that I spent the rest of the week wondering why I appeared to be living in a parallel universe, physically unable to keep my eyes open for more than ten minutes at a time between the hours of 2-30-6.30pm (catnaps on the toilet floor? Classy! And a real winner with your department Head, for sure!!) and nearly keeling over every time I went to make anyone a coffee (dizzy spells – another joy of the Comedown!) Also attempted a jog mid-week which resulted in some sudden and interesting banking and veering about, like an Easyjet piloted by David Blunkett after a bottle of JD or two, only less competent. Good thing there wasn’t much traffic near where I was running.
Add to this a haphazard volley of vacuous words popping into my brain every couple of minutes..
‘HAYSTACKS!’
‘APRONS!’
‘PLUTO!’
‘ROCKET-LAUNCHERS!’
and you can imagine that I didn’t get much work done. I also feared for my sanity, was convinced the whole Pill thing was All Over for me, and thought I’d never return to Good Planet Earf.
Luckily this is not the case.  Cos, much as we’d like to kid ourselves otherwise, abuse is exactly what 12 pills over one weekend is, even if it is near the bottom end of the scale, and indeed the norm for some people. Another friend was boshing upward of ten every single weekend for a year or two. After mistaking the same bloke for a shelf three times in one evening, he decided enough was enough, and quit them almost completely.
So, to sum up all that rambling in one neat cliché of a sentence:
EVERYTHING IN MODERATION!!
For misusing E can indeed mash your brainmeats – if not permanently then for a long, unhappy week at least, as the above demonstrates.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


IBPS RRB admit card 2019 released at ibps.in for Scale 1, 2, 3 interview
IBPS RRB admit card 2019: Here are steps to release Officer scale I, II and III interview admit card
by BS Web TeamInstitute of Banking Personnel Selection has released IBPS Officer scale I, II and III interview admit card. Candidates appearing in the interview can download their call letter online at ibps.in on or before November 29 (for scale-1 officers) and November 30, 2019 (for both scale-2 and 3 officers).
Steps to download IBPS RRB admit card 2019
1.Visit the official website - ibps.in
2.On the home page, click on the link that reads, ‘ Click here to download call letter for CRP RRBs scale-I, Scale-II and Scale-III officers’
3.On the webpage, click on the links available to download the admit card for Scale 1, 2 and 3 officers separately
4.A new page will appear on the display screen
5.Log in
6.The admit card will appear on the display screen. Download it and also take a print out for future reference.
About IBPS
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is responsible for the recruitment and placement of young graduates in public sector banks (PSBs) in India, other than the State Bank of India. It also provides standardised systems for assessment and result processing services to organisations.


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Known terrorists left out of firearms database
World Net Daily | Submitted by: UncleGum
"While nine out of 10 gun purchases are now subject to instant FBI criminal checks to filter out convicted felons, fugitives and a handful of others, the State Department's list of known foreign terrorists -- used by airport security personnel and border patrols -- is not included in the database used by dealers to check a buyer's eligibility, reports CBS News. Even the names of suspected al-Qaida cell members in the U.S. would not show up in a background check by a gun store." And strangely, the NRA is opposed to adding known terrorists to the prohibited persons list.
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Arizona might ignore next orange alert
AZ Central | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"As the nation lurches from orange to yellow on the terror alert scale for the fourth time, Arizona officials are considering not following the federal moves in the future. 'It creates incredible problems: overtime, financial, functional,' said Frank Navarrete, the state's homeland security director. ... Navarrete said the yo-yo nature of the alerts may diminish their effectiveness. 'We have to be mindful of the fact that if we continue to do this and nothing happens, that it loses impact with the citizenry,' he said. 'It becomes a "Here we go again" mentality.'"
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US government just Enron's sock puppet
Common Dreams | Submitted by: Ann Onymous
"Enron ... regularly and aggressively called on staff from Treasury, the State Department, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the World Bank to meet with foreign officials to favorably resolve its problems and disputes with their governments.
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Enron even reportedly pushed administration officials to threaten foreign governments with sanctions if their disputes could not be settled advantageously.
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Enron was also a major donor to the election campaign of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, while at least 15 high-ranking administration officials owned stock in the energy company in 2001."
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Air Force Academy policy: rape reports not confidential
Denver Post | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"The Air Force Academy's new sexual-assault response strategy erodes confidentiality for victims, a move that experts say could continue to discourage victims from reporting crimes and pursuing prosecution of attackers. A May 27 academy memo, obtained by The Denver Post, states: 'Reports of sexual assaults are not confidential.'
This contradicts congressional efforts to extend more privacy to military victims to help them through the trauma." [So much for that.]
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Mussolini's last note found in Milan
Guardian | Submitted by: UncleGum
"The last note written by Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, just hours before he was shot by partisans, has come to light among the personal possessions of the widow of a resistance fighter, it was revealed yesterday. ...
The message, folded four times and kept in a blue envelope, reads: 'The 52nd Garibaldi Brigade captured me today, Friday April 27, in the piazza of Dongo. I was treated correctly during and after my capture. Mussolini.'"
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Elementary school teacher attacks special ed student
New York Post | Submitted by: wingnut
"A Bronx public school teacher allegedly choked a 12-year-old special-education student and flung him to a classroom floor just because the boy went to his desk for a pencil and paper... At that point, the teacher suddenly grabbed the student, who was described as emotionally disturbed, and began to throttle him, flinging him back and forth so violently he struck the floor and began to bleed from a head cut, sources said."
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Thousands of cluster bomblets sprinkled over Iraqi cities
Guardian | Submitted by: wingnut
"The shocking extent of unexploded cluster bombs dropped by American and British planes, which litter Iraq eight weeks after the conflict, is revealed in detail for the first time today. ... The map reveals that hundreds, or possibly thousands, of the bombs -- which produce hundreds of 'bomblets' scattered out over a large area -- failed to detonate. ... 'This shows an appalling level of contamination,' said Richard Lloyd, director of Landmine Action, who is travelling to Iraq this weekend to assess the extent of the danger. 'It also confirms that American and British forces attacked built up areas in cities with cluster bombs. ... It has to be highly questionable whether the use of such weapons in built-up areas is legal under international law.'"
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Klan member beaten by two women during KKK rally
Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"Eight people were arrested Saturday at a 'white power' rally that drew about 200 people to a park in west suburban Berwyn. ... Two women were charged with battery for beating a man.  Well, even though he got beaten up by girls, he's still got white pride.
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Florida repeals 2-year-old 'Scarlet Letter' law
South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"Gov. Jeb Bush signed a bill Friday repealing the 'Scarlet Letter' law that required mothers who put a child up for adoption to publish their sexual histories when necessary to locate the father. ...
The law required a mother to publish her name, age and physical description, along with descriptions of any men who could have fathered the child in newspapers in every city where the child could have been conceived.
Its intent was to prevent biological fathers from challenging adoptions after the fact and disrupting newly formed family bonds by claiming they never knew about the birth and never had a chance to claim custody."
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Woman misses a spot tidying up after killing boyfriend
goedwardsville.com | Submitted by: Tim Howard
After shooting her boyfriend in the back and the head, Suzanne Johnson set out to make her apartment spic and span. So she rented a carpet cleaner, bought some paint and a new garbage can, laundered the decedent's clothes, and so on. Unfortunately, the downstairs neighbor called police after noticing that "blood was seeping down through her bedroom ceiling from Johnson's apartment above." You always miss something.
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S&M perves descend on Denver in July
Denver Post | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"For three days in mid-July, up to 1,000 people from across the country will gather at the Holiday Inn-Denver International Airport to learn, practice and enjoy bondage, dominance and sadomasochistic sex. The national leather event July 11-13, called Thunder in the Mountains, will offer speakers on alternative sex techniques, demonstrations, dungeon play parties, Ouchy the Clown, and a Saturday morning guided meditation service." [Guided by whom? Ouchy?]
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Ben Franklin's kite experiment just bullshit
Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"It was one of the most famous experiments in science: Benjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American inventor and statesman, risked his life flying a kite directly under a thundercloud to prove that lightning was a form of electricity. ... But according to a new book about the historical evidence, the experiment took place only in Franklin's imagination."
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Fraudulent medal for Rhode Island Vietnam vet
Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"Bruce Cotta is known as this state's most decorated Vietnam veteran, but the military is wondering if he has one medal too many. ... In 2000, Cotta sought to upgrade the Bronze Star to the Distinguished Service Cross, but the Army said no. Soon after, however, Rep. Patrick Kennedy's office received a letter that appeared to be from the Army stating Cotta was indeed eligible for the upgrade. A certificate and a medal were also included in the package. Kennedy presented Cotta with the honor that August. The Army began investigating after questions from a researcher earlier this year and now says the letter and certificate were forgeries."
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War machine in Iraq greased with panty liners, baby powder
Newsday | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy
"What do U.S. soldiers use to cope with the grit and heat of Iraq? Why, cottony women's underthings, diaper ointments, pantyhose, and moist wipes with the aroma of baby powder. ... Women's panty liners -- an absorbent patch with an adhesive back -- are perfect for mopping a sweat-basted brow that bakes under a helmet. ... For those long marches, pantyhose are just the thing to replace the chaffing of socks and boots with the swish of nylon."
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Pete Buttigieg: Trump Should Have Never Started Trade War with China
Mayor Pete Buttigieg argued at the Democrat debate in Atlanta on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should have never started holding China accountable with economic tariffs that sparked a trade war.
by Charlie Spiering“We shouldn’t have to pay farmers to take the edge off a trade war that should not have started in the first place,” Pete Buttigieg said during the fifth Democrat debate.
The South Bend mayor commented in response to a question from MSNBC debate moderator Rachel Maddow, who asked him if he would keep President Trump’s subsidies in place if elected president.
“I don’t think this president cares one bit about farmers,” Buttigieg claimed. “He keeps asking them to take one for the team … they’re not going to benefit from business as usual from the president.”
A November survey from Iowa State University showed that farmers largely view the trade disruption from Trump’s fight with China as short-term pain for long-term gain.
Buttigieg went on to discuss how to help farmers combat climate change by building “climate-neutral farms” before he was interrupted.
Maddow pressed Buttigieg to say whether or not he would still support Trump’s subsidies for farms.
“Yes,” he replied. “But we won’t need them because we’re going to fix the trade war.”


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Glossary¶
A-G¶
- APSOC
- All Programmable System on Chip
- BSP
- A board support package (BSP) is a collection of low-level libraries and drivers. The Xilinx software development Kit (SDK) uses a BSP to form the lowest layer of your application software stack. Software applications must link against or run on top of a given software platform using the APIs that it provides. Therefore, before you can create and use software applications in SDK, you must create a board support package
- FPGA
- Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are semiconductor devices that are based around a matrix of configurable logic blocks (CLBs) connected via programmable interconnects. FPGAs can be reprogrammed to desired application or functionality requirements after manufacturing. This feature distinguishes FPGAs from Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), which are custom manufactured for specific design tasks.
H-R¶
- Hardware Platform
- An SDK project
- HDF
- Hardware Definition File (.hdf). This file is created by Vivado and contains information about a processor system in an FPGA overlay. The HDF specifies the peripherals that exist in the system, and the memory map. This is used by the BSP to build software libraries to support the available peripherals.
- I2C
- See IIC
- IIC
- Inter-Integrated Circuit; multi-master, multi-slave, single-ended, serial computer bus protocol
- IOPs
- Input/Output Processors
- Jupyter (Notebooks)
- Jupyter is an open source project consisting of an interactive, web application that allows users to create and share notebook documents that contain live code and the full range of rich media supported by modern browsers. These include text, images, videos, LaTeX-styled equations, and interactive widgets. The Jupyter framework is used as a front-end to over 40 different programming languages. It originated from the interactive data science and scientific computing communities. Its uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modelling, machine learning and much more.
- MicroBlaze
- MicroBlaze is a soft microprocessor core designed for Xilinx FPGAs. As a soft-core processor, MicroBlaze is implemented entirely in the general-purpose memory and logic fabric of an FPGA.
- Pmod Interface
- The Pmod or Peripheral Module interface is used to connect low frequency, low I/O pin count peripheral modules to host controller boards.accessory boards to add functionality to the platform. e.g. ADC, DAC, I/O interfaces, sensors etc.
- (Micro) SD
- Secure Digital (Memory Card standard)
- readthedocs.org
- readthedocs.org is a popular website that hosts the documentation for open source projects at no cost. readthedocs.org uses Sphinx document generation tools to automatically generate both the website and PDF versions of project documentation from a GitHub repository when new updates are pushed to that site.
- REPL
- A read–eval–print loop (REPL), also known as an interactive toplevel or language shell, is a simple, interactive computer programming environment that takes single user inputs (i.e. single expressions), evaluates them, and returns the result to the user; a program written in a REPL environment is executed piecewise. The term is most usually used to refer to programming interfaces similar to the classic Lisp machine interactive environment. Common examples include command line shells and similar environments for programming languages, and is particularly characteristic of scripting languages wikipedia
- reST
- Restructured text is a markup language used extensively with the Sphinx document generator
S-Z¶
- SDK
- Xilinx SDK - Software Development Kit. Software development environment including cross-compiles for ARM, and MicroBlaze processors. Also includes debug, and profiling tools. Required to build software for a MicroBlaze processor inside an IOP.
- SOC
- System On Chip
- Sphinx
- A document generator written in Python and used extensively to document Python and other coding projects
- SPI
- Serial Peripheral Interface; synchronous serial communication interface specification
- UART
- Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter; Serial communication protocol
- Vivado
- Vivado Design Suite is a suite of computer-aided design tools provided by Xilinx for creating FPGA designs. It is used to design and implement the overlays used in Pynq.
- XADC
- An XADC is a hard IP block that consists of dual 12-bit, 1 Mega sample per second (MSPS), analog-to-digital converters and on-chip sensors which are integrated into Xilinx 7 series FPGA devices
- Zynq®
- Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC (APSoC) devices integrate the software programmability of an ARM®-based processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA, enabling key analytics and hardware acceleration while integrating CPU, DSP, ASSP, and mixed signal functionality on a single device. Zynq-7000 AP SoCs infuse customizable intelligence into today’s embedded systems to suit your unique application requirements
- Zynq PL
- Programmable Logic - FPGA fabric
- Zynq PS
- Processing System - SOC processing subsystem built around dual-core, ARM Cortex-A9 processor


Louisiana's Democrat Governor Wants More Control on Gun Shows
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) wants more control on gun shows in the the form of expanded background checks.
by AWR HawkinsBaton Rouge’s The Advocate reports Edwards wants to expand background checks to cover “all commercial sales.” This would outlaw the private purchase of firearm at a gun show.
Edward’s support of expanding background checks to gun shows is very popular among Democrats at the federal level, too. And those Democrats often defend the push by cloaking it in a desire to make us safer; to keep criminals from acquiring guns. However, numerous studies have shown that criminals do not get their guns at gun shows.
For example, on August 30, 2015, Breitbart News reported an University of Chicago Crime Lab study on Cook County jail inmates which showed inmates who had used guns acquired those firearms on the street rather that outlets like guns shows and the Internet.
And on January 15, 2019, Breitbart News reported a Department of Justice study showing less than one percent of prisoners who used a gun in crime acquired that gun via a gun show.
On the other hand, nearly every high profile public attacker of recent memory acquired his guns via a background check.
Here is a list of some of the high profile attackers who acquired their guns via a background check:
- Garlic Festival attacker (July 28, 2019)
- Virginia Beach attacker (May 31, 2019)
- Poway Synagogue attacker (April 27, 2019)
- Tree of Life Synagogue attacker (October 27, 2018)
- Parkland high school attacker (February 14, 2018)
- Texas church attacker (November 5, 2017)
- Las Vegas attacker (October 1, 2017)
- the Alexandria attacker (June 14, 2017))
- Orlando attacker (June 12, 2016)
- the UCLA gunman (June 1, 2016))
- the San Bernardino attackers (December 2, 2015)
- the Colorado Springs attacker (October 31, 2015)
- the Umpqua Community College attacker (October 1, 2015)
- Alison Parker’s attacker (August 26, 2015)
- the Lafayette movie theater attacker (July 23, 2015)
- the Chattanooga attacker (July 16, 2015)
- the alleged Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal attacker (Jun 17, 2015)
- the Muhammad Carton Contest attackers (May 3, 2014)
- the Las Vegas cop killers (June 9, 2015)
- the Santa Barbara attacker (May 23, 2014)
- the Fort Hood attacker (April 2, 2014)
- the Arapahoe High School attacker (December 13, 2013)
- the D.C. Navy Yard attacker (September 16, 2013)
- the Aurora movie theater attacker (July 20, 2012)
- Gabby Giffords’ attacker (January 8, 2011)
- the Fort Hood attacker (November 5, 2009)
- the Virginia Tech attacker (April 16, 2007)
The DOJ study showed fewer than one percent of prisoners got their guns via a gun show also showed the vast majority of criminals, 36 percent, stole their guns.
So we have high profile attacker after high profile attacker getting his guns via a background check and 36 percent of incarcerated criminals admitting to stealing the guns they used in a crime. At the same time, less than one percent of incarcerated criminals got their guns at a gun show. In the midst of this, Gov. Edwards’ solution is to require background checks at gun shows?
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.


30. Designing ChatOps Commands¶
30.1. Small Sharp Tools¶
- Commands should do one thing well. Multiple modes or actions indicate poor design.
- Perform complex workflows by composing multiple commands into
pipelines.
- Complex commands are inscrutable black boxes.
- Complex pipelines are explicit and readable.
- Define aliases and use them to run common pipelines.
30.2. Naming¶
- Bundle and command names should be descriptive but short as possible:
cp
,mv
,tr
. - Short bundle names minimize the pain of manually disambiguating
command name conflicts.
s3:cp
notaws-s3:cp
. - Good bundle names avoid doing too much. Prefer
s3
overaws
.
30.3. Designing Command Interfaces¶
A well designed command reads like prose and can be diagrammed like a sentence.
- noun verb noun → bundle command arg(s)
- The tree caught the kite → tree:catch kite
Follow existing Unix CLI conventions when possible. Especially when building a command which is similar to an existing Unix command.
s3:cp src dest
nots3:cp --source=src --dest=dest
.Prefer arguments over options.
- Arguments require less typing and naturally support multiple values.
- Options require more typing and are clunky to use when multiple values must be given.
Arguments should refer to targets of the same or closely related types.
When using options set sane default values to the maximum extent possible. Target the most common use cases.
- Options should be used to indicate when the command should depart
from default behaviors. For example, a ‘s3:ls` command might have
a
--acls
option to indicate when it should display bucket entries’ S3 ACLs.
- Options should be used to indicate when the command should depart
from default behaviors. For example, a ‘s3:ls` command might have
a
Obey the DWIM (Do What I Mean) principle as much as possible. If you have a
pagerduty:page
command that takes a username and send a message, don’t require quotes around the message — simply concatenate all of the arguments after the name since you can reasonably infer the intent.Note
Bad:
pagerduty:page --user=djohnson --message="has the db restore finished?"
Better:
pagerduty:page djohnson "has the db restore finished?"
Best:
pagerduty:page djohnson has the db restore finished?
30.4. Pipeline Friendly Output¶
- Design tools with the expectation that they’ll be combined with other tools and as part of scripts.
- Avoid reusing field names to refer to different types of data
whenever possible.
- Nested collections are the only exception. The collection field name provides enough context to avoid confusion.
- Bias toward returning data verbosely and filtering what the user is presented with at the template level. This allows maximum flexibility to work with the returned data in ways that the author did not expect.
- Templates should focus on providing the simplest possible output that returns the most commonly needed data.
- Only accumulate output when you absolutely must. Prefer stateless commands over stateful streaming commands.


In a computer program or an algorithm, sequence involves simple steps which are to be executed one after the other. The steps are executed in the same order in which they are written.
Write a set of instructions to add two numbers and display the answer.
BEGIN Add2Numbers get firstNumber get secondNumber total = firstNumber + secondNumber Display "the sum of your 2 numbers is "; total END Add2Numbers
var Add2Numbers = function () { var firstNumber = $("#firstNumberInput").val(); firstNumber = parseInt(firstNumber); var secondNumber = $("#secondNumberInput").val(); secondNumber = parseInt(secondNumber); var total = firstNumber + secondNumber; console.log("the sum of your 2 numbers is " + total); };
Open this document in Chrome and open the developer tools Windows: F12 or Ctrl-shift+I, Mac: Cmd + Opt + I.
Click the run button.
Observe the console output.
Modify program.js
to multiply both numbers.


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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.alpha(double alpha)
Parameter in exponent of weighting function; default 0.75
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.batchSize(int batchSize)
Specifies minibatch size for training process.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.epochs(int numEpochs)
Sets the number of iteration over training corpus during training
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.iterate(DocumentIterator iterator) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.iterate(SentenceIterator iterator) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.iterate(SequenceIterator<VocabWord> iterator) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.iterations(int iterations)
Ierations and epochs are the same in GloVe implementation.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.layerSize(int layerSize) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.learningRate(double learningRate) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.lookupTable(WeightLookupTable<VocabWord> lookupTable) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.maxMemory(int gbytes)
This method allows you to specify maximum memory available for CoOccurrence map builder.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.minLearningRate(double minLearningRate) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.minWordFrequency(int minWordFrequency)
Sets minimum word frequency during vocabulary mastering.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.modelUtils(ModelUtils<VocabWord> modelUtils)
Sets ModelUtils that gonna be used as provider for utility methods: similarity(), wordsNearest(), accuracy(), etc
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.negativeSample(double negative)
Deprecated.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.resetModel(boolean reallyReset) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.sampling(double sampling)
Deprecated.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.seed(long randomSeed) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.setVectorsListeners(Collection<VectorsListener<VocabWord>> vectorsListeners)
This method sets VectorsListeners for this SequenceVectors model
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.shuffle(boolean reallyShuffle)
Parameter specifying, if cooccurrences list should be shuffled between training epochs
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.stopWords(Collection<VocabWord> stopList) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.stopWords(List<String> stopList) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.symmetric(boolean reallySymmetric)
Parameters specifying, if cooccurrences list should be build into both directions from any current word.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.tokenizerFactory(TokenizerFactory tokenizerFactory)
Sets TokenizerFactory to be used for training
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.trainElementsRepresentation(boolean trainElements) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.trainSequencesRepresentation(boolean trainSequences)
Deprecated.
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.unknownElement(VocabWord element)
This method allows you to specify SequenceElement that will be used as UNK element, if UNK is used
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.useAdaGrad(boolean reallyUse) |
Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.useExistingWordVectors(WordVectors vec)
This method has no effect for GloVe
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.useUnknown(boolean reallyUse)
This method allows you to specify, if UNK word should be used internally
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Glove.Builder |
Glove.Builder.useVariableWindow(int... windows)
This method has no effect for ParagraphVectors
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Due to many recent events, which I’m sure I’ll disclose later, I’ve been in an interesting situation of a good bit of leverage. While leverage can of course be taken advantage of and misused, it also plays a very fair role in business. When hiring a new college graduate in most cases you take the offer you are given, some are able to negotiate for a higher salary, but most are quite unsuccessful. This is because they don’t have any leverage. If you ended up walking away from the job offer they would simply hire another college graduate. While yes you may have a lot of potential, it’s only that potential and not proven.
Additionally within a corporation, the company will often do just enough to keep an employee there. If a company does a great job, an employee gets a pat on the back. If an employee is indispensable (though no company will ever admit to this), they may get a noticeable reward, but it still doesn’t usually cover the value the individual is actually providing.
This responsibility to get what you are truly worth usually lies with the employee. The hard part of this, is knowing when and how to use your leverage. First you must actually have leverage, this commonly in potential revenue you would bring in, or internal knowledge that you may have. Though I’m sure others have varying experiences, mine have been to make your dissatisfaction with a situation known, but in a light manner. Meanwhile make it visible that you’re open to other opportunities as they may come along, this can be via twitter, blog post, or water cooler talk. The final thing, and hopefully this is an easier one, is make it clear that you have the leverage, the sale should be a big one, or the internal knowledge should be costly should they lose it.
The most unfortunate part of all of this is that, in my experiences the leverage is typically needed to get a fair deal. And the single point of requiring leverage no longer makes it fair, but at least knowing this ensures you’re not left out in the cold.