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OsmAnd 1.5
October 26, 2013
What's new in this version
- Voice warnings about speed limits and cameras
- More voice prompt capabilities (street names announced)
- High density map icons
- Lots of UI changes
- Bugfixes in distance display, GPX analyzer, waypoint handling, planning widget, OSM uploading, https handling


Creates an instance of ErelaClient.
The nodes to use.
Searches YouTube with the query. Note: As of writing this only youtube worked.
The query to search against.
The user who requested the tracks.
Sends a packet to Discord's API.
The data to send.
Updates the players voice state.
The packet sent by Discord.
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The Erela class.
Erela
{EventEmitter}


Repository entries that are recognized as grids (i.e, can be read by the
netCDF-Java Common Data Model (CDM) grid reader (e.g. netCDF, GRIB, GrADS))
provide an option for creating subsets of the grids that can be downloaded
or stored in the repository. From the menu, select the
:
The Grid Subset form allows you to subset the grid by region, time and variable
and will output the result to a CF compliant netCDF file.
At the bottom of the subset form is a URL that is configured with any of the form setttings. You can use this to programattically access the grid, e.g., usin cURL.
:h2 Options
- Horizontal Stride
Sample every Nth grid point where N is the stride value
- Subset Spatially
Enter the spatial bounds for the subset. Click on the link to pop up a map where you can select the bounds using Shift-Drag. The link removes the selection.
- Time Range
Set the time range for the subset. Default is all times.
- Add Lat/Lon Variables
For the grid to be CF compliant,
the latitude and longitude values at each point must be included
in the file. If the grid is projected, the grid projection definition is
also stored in the file, which is enough for some software packages.
- Select a folder to publish the results to
If you are logged in and have permission to add files to the repository, you can optionally add the file to the repository. Specify the Folder location and a name for the file.
- Select Variables
Select the variables that you wish to include
in the output file.


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| DOSE: T+ 0:00 |
5.0 mg |
oral |
2C-D |
(liquid) |
| T+ 2:15 |
1 bowl |
smoked |
Cannabis |
(plant material) |
| T+ 2:24 |
1 cart. |
inhaled |
Nitrous Oxide |
(gas) |
I measured out fifty-milligrams of 2C-D. It was a fluffy, gleaming-white powder and I dissolved that into ten-milliliters of distilled, sterile water. This was held in a glass vial for ease of use and measurement. The 2C-D almost immediately went into solution and required no heat and just a little shaking for the crystals to dissolve.
Monday, May 3, 2004
5:53 PM: Measuring with a syringe, I draw up one-milliliter of the solution, containing five-milligrams of 2C-D. This experiment is to better understand and experience this molecule’s alleged “smart-drug properties” for a future study I plan on conducting. It has a slightly bitter flavor, but it isn’t bad at all.
6:19 PM: Definitely feeling an alert. Difficult to define. I feel a kind of warmth in the chest, and the knowledge that I have taken something. Not really stimulating, just warm.
6:40 PM: At this point, the effects seem to be fully developed. I guess I am at a plus/minus on the “Shulgin scale.” There is warmth in the chest and a slight increased interest in activities I am doing. But there is nothing that I feel to really consider this state one of
cognitive-enhancement. I felt more from piracetam when I took that, and find d,l-amphetamine to be a much better study aid then this. There are no amphetamine-like feelings with five-milligrams of 2C-D.
7:03 PM: Not much more than before. It’s been well over an hour. From my prior experience with 2C-D, I know this is as far as it is going to go. I would describe this as a “buzz” really more than anything else. I am perhaps at a mild plus-one.
7:19 PM: I just read an essay given to me by an on-line acquaintance. I found the 2C-D
seemed to increase my interest in reading the work, but I can not honestly say it wasn’t also just a placebo result. There is no truly discernible activity beyond the “phenethylamine body-buzz” that is occurring. I do not notice any real
cognitive-enhancement or “smart-drug properties.”
7:34 PM: Much of the same. If there is any cognitive-enhancement, it is simply because I can feel a small amount of a psychedelic in my body and thus I am more alert. But there are no real psychedelic effects at this level. All I feel is just the warm feeling in the chest, and perhaps now some mild stimulation. But not like d,l-amphetamine stimulation. I have no desire to work, or do anything productive. I just feel a little “uppity” as if I’ve had too much coffee.
8:07 PM: Again, much of the same. A nice warm body-buzz, but none of the cognitive-enhancement said to be the hallmark of lower 2C-D dosages. But there is also some slight stimulation now and a tiny bit of nausea. But it is more annoying that anything. And the stimulation is not like d,l-amphetamine produces. I do not feel productive or have any desire to work. It just feels like the comedown of a psychedelic. I am hoping pot helps this. This experiment “finished” and I shall smoke some cannabis to relax.
8:15 PM: Just took a balloon of nitrous oxide and the experience was short, but
very intense. I know the 2C-D enhanced the effects of the gas, however as the nitrous wore off I did not notice anymore residual effects from the 2C-D. The cannabis did not increase any effects either. Five-milligrams of 2C-D is definitely a sub-threshold psychedelic dosage, but I bet it would increase the effects and add a little “flavor” at this level if mixed with another psychedelic.
9:00 PM: I don’t really feel anything left at all anymore, and I am going to go out and visit with friends.
Conclusion:
The main reason I did this experiment was that I want to conduct a study testing 2C-D against a few other molecules in a controlled environment to see if 2C-D shows any unique cognitive-enhancing properties. I felt that I needed to know what a “smart drug” level was like personally to conduct this study. I also needed to experience this molecule at the five-milligram level because I must now find the equipotent dosages of the other psychedelic phenethylamines I plan to use in my experiment for verifying if 2C-D does show cognitive-enhancing properties.
I personally did not find that 2C-D was a “smart-drug” at five-milligrams. But I also did not take any cognitive tests before and during the experiment to really see by scientifically acceptable standards. I simply went by what I felt. I think d,l-amphetamine is a much better tool for concentration because it actually works for me at a five-milligram dosage in keeping me focused, and there is no nausea from d,l-amphetamine. Maybe the “smart drug” properties are different in nature than what d,l-amphetamine does, but I felt nothing either way that could qualify as cognitive-enhancement
I also feel if I had increased the dosage of 2C-D to ten-milligrams, psychedelic effects would begin. And smaller dosages would probably have less “smart drug” properties (if any) than what I took. So, I am not personally comfortable with calling 2C-D a “smart-drug,” but I will wait and see what the results are when I test it with other people.
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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
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◆ generate_board()
| void generate_board |
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Game * |
game | ) |
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Function which generates the board and randomly sets artifacts and treasures.
- Parameters
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| game | structure which contains all variables used in the current game state, this function uses variables holding: board. |
- Note
- Field board included in game structure holds player's ID, value of a treasure and type of artifact.
- Warning
- Randomly choosen values and artifacts have adjusted suitable frequency.
◆ init_placement()
| void init_placement |
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Game * |
game | ) |
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One of the leading functions, it asks the user about amount of amazons and coordinates on which the player places the amazons.
- Parameters
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| game | structure which contains all variables used in the current game state, this function uses variables holding: board, p. |
- Note
- Field board included in game structure holds player's ID, value of a treasure and type of artifact.
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Position p included in game structure holds amazons coordinates.
◆ place_amazon()
| void place_amazon |
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Function places an amazon.
- Parameters
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| game | structure which contains all variables used in the current game state, this function uses variables holding: board. |
| player | current player's ID which is switched by switch_player function. |
◆ present_board_state()
| void present_board_state |
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Game * |
game | ) |
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Function prints generated board.
- Parameters
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| game | structure which contains all variables used in the current game state, this function uses variables holding: board, g_scores. |
- Note
- Field board included in game structure holds player's ID, value of a treasure and type of artifact.
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int g_scores displays held in the structure amount of points collected by the current player.
◆ switch_player()
| void switch_player |
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int * |
current_player | ) |
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Function switches between players.
- Parameters
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| current_player | we use a pointer to get to the value. |
- Note
- Function switch_player is always called by a different function which takes the game structure.


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Black people being wrongly judged as knife carriers, warns Police and Crime Commissioner
But the figures show something very different
by Matt JarramNearly 60 percent of knife-related crime in Nottinghamshire is carried out by white people, new figures reveal.
Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping is hoping to break down barriers in the black community over worries 'young black men' are being stigmatised as knife-carriers despite only making up 13 percent.
Mr Tipping spoke out at the God's Vineyard Church in Lenton where he met key figures in the black community and called on churches to play their part in the fight.
He said: "Help us take things forward."
He also unveiled new funding worth up to £350,000 for local groups to apply for, with initiatives to combat youth violence.
He said: "There has been mistrust between the black community and the police but we are changing things.
"People should not stereotype and it is important that young black men are not stigmatised.
"There is a strong desire in the black community for their young people to achieve."
He said he was "really anxious" about the way perceptions had been formed, but the figures show young black men make up a small percentage.
Figures released by Nottinghamshire Police up to September 30 this year paint a picture of the ethnicity of knife crime offenders.
Out of 334 knife crime offences in Nottinghamshire where charges or community resolutions were made:
- 197 were white (59 percent)
- 59 were from black and minority ethnic backgrounds (17.7 percent), 44 of which were black (13 percent).
- 78 had an unknown ethnicity or their ethnicity was not recorded (23.3 percent).
Pastor Clive Foster, senior minister from the Pilgrim Church in The Meadows, said there is a perception that knife crime is carried out by young black men.
He said: "We are perceived as perpetrators but we are victims, but that does not get mentioned.
"What we want to do is help support men and women that are potentially involved and we want to direct them away from it."
Mr Tipping added: "It takes the whole community to raise a child and it is imperative we intervene early to reduce the risks and prevent further tragedies on our streets.
"We need passion, unity and sustained effort to nurture the next generation of young people and ensure we put a stop to violence in all its forms. On the street, online and in the home."
To find out more about how to apply for the funding, visit the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner's website.


Utils Module¶
The utils module includes helper functions. The module currently contains a single function to help users convert numeric indexes to datetime indexes. Additional helper functions could be added at a later date.
Calculate mean, max, min and stdev statistics of continuous data for a given statistical window. |
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Function used to unwrap vectors into 0-360 deg range |
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Convert MATLAB datenum format to Python datetime |
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Convert Excel datenum format to Python datetime |
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Convert DataFrame index from int/float to datetime, rounds datetime to the nearest millisecond |
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mhkit.utils.
get_statistics
(data, freq, period=600, vector_channels=[])[source]¶ Calculate mean, max, min and stdev statistics of continuous data for a given statistical window. Default length of statistical window (period) is based on IEC TS 62600-3:2020 ED1. Also allows calculation of statistics for multiple statistical windows of continuous data and accounts for vector/directional channels.
- Parameters
data (pandas DataFrame) – Data indexed by datetime with columns of data to be analyzed
freq (float/int) – Sample rate of data [Hz]
period (float/int) – Statistical window of interest [sec], default = 600
vector_channels (string or list (optional)) – List of vector/directional channel names formatted in deg (0-360)
- Returns
means,maxs,mins,stdevs (pandas DataFrame) – Calculated statistical values from the data, indexed by the first timestamp
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mhkit.utils.
vector_statistics
(data)[source]¶ Function used to calculate statistics for vector/directional channels based on routine from Campbell data logger and Yamartino algorithm
- Parameters
data (pandas Series, numpy array, list) – Vector channel to calculate statistics on [deg, 0-360]
- Returns
vector_avg (numpy array) – Vector mean statistic
vector_std (numpy array) – Vector standard deviation statistic
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mhkit.utils.
unwrap_vector
(data)[source]¶ Function used to unwrap vectors into 0-360 deg range
- Parameters
data (pandas Series, numpy array, list) – Data points to be unwrapped [deg]
- Returns
data (numpy array) – Data points unwrapped between 0-360 deg
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mhkit.utils.
matlab_to_datetime
(matlab_datenum)[source]¶ Convert MATLAB datenum format to Python datetime
- Parameters
matlab_datenum (numpy array) – MATLAB datenum to be converted
- Returns
time (DateTimeIndex) – Python datetime values
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mhkit.utils.
excel_to_datetime
(excel_num)[source]¶ Convert Excel datenum format to Python datetime
- Parameters
excel_num (numpy array) – Excel datenums to be converted
- Returns
time (DateTimeIndex) – Python datetime values
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mhkit.utils.
index_to_datetime
(index, unit='s', origin='unix')[source]¶ Convert DataFrame index from int/float to datetime, rounds datetime to the nearest millisecond
- Parameters
index (pandas Index) – DataFrame index in int or float
unit (str, optional) – Units of the original index
origin (str) – Reference date used to define the starting time. If origin = ‘unix’, the start time is ‘1970-01-01 00:00:00’ The origin can also be defined using a datetime string in a similar format (i.e. ‘2019-05-17 16:05:45’)
- Returns
pandas Index – DataFrame index in datetime


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| 2 | Bacon, C. M., Ernesto Méndez, V., Gómez, M. E. F., Stuart, D., & Flores, S. R. D. (2008). Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure Farmer Livelihoods? The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua’s Fair Trade Cooperatives. Globalizations, 5(2), 259–274. doi:10.1080/14747730802057688 |
| 3 | Diegues, A. S. (1991). The role of cultural diversity and communal participation in wetland management in Brazil. Landscape and Urban Planning, 20(1-3), 61–66. doi:10.1016/0169-2046(91)90092-z |


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Let's get to the Root of this Country's Problems
5. Gordon in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
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The producers of this half-assed comedy didn’t ask much from Root, other than to replicate his work as Milton in Office Space. But the actor still gave it his all, adding a bit of a lost lizard-like quality to his character’s physicality.
6. Radio Station Guy in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Root only had a few short moments in this comic road movie, but he sure left one hell of an impression as the blind, cornpone impresario of a recording studio in the rural South.
7. Dr. Heppa in Louie
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Another small performance for Root and one that he clearly is having fun with. As the gentlest dentist around, who helps Louis CK get through his anxiety about having his teeth checked out, Dr. Heppa helps get his patient to relax and go to sleep and…well, I won’t spoil it for you if you’ve never seen the dream sequence that follows. Rest assured that you won’t look at bananas the same way.==


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docker-machine scp
読む時間の目安: 2 分Copy files from your local host to a machine, from machine to machine, or from a
machine to your local host using scp
.
The notation is machinename:/path/to/files
for the arguments; in the host
machine’s case, you don’t need to specify the name, just the path.
Example
Consider the following example:
$ cat foo.txt
cat: foo.txt: No such file or directory
$ docker-machine ssh dev pwd
/home/docker
$ docker-machine ssh dev 'echo A file created remotely! >foo.txt'
$ docker-machine scp dev:/home/docker/foo.txt .
foo.txt 100% 28 0.0KB/s 00:00
$ cat foo.txt
A file created remotely!
Just like how scp
has a -r
flag for copying files recursively,
docker-machine
has a -r
flag for this feature.
In the case of transferring files from machine to machine,
they go through the local host’s filesystem first (using scp
’s -3
flag).
When transferring large files or updating directories with lots of files,
you can use the -d
flag, which uses rsync
to transfer deltas instead of
transferring all of the files.
When transferring directories and not just files, avoid rsync surprises by using trailing slashes on both the source and destination. For example:
$ mkdir -p bar
$ touch bar/baz
$ docker-machine scp -r -d bar/ dev:/home/docker/bar/
$ docker-machine ssh dev ls bar
baz
Specifying file paths for remote deployments
When you copy files to a remote server with docker-machine scp
for app
deployment, make sure docker-compose
and the Docker daemon know how to find
them. Avoid using relative paths, but specify absolute paths in
Compose files. It’s best to specify absolute
paths both for the location on the Docker daemon and within the container.
For example, imagine you want to transfer your local directory
/Users/<username>/webapp
to a remote machine and bind mount it into a
container on the remote host.


BLADE 1998 A film review by Timothy Voon Copyright 1998 Timothy Voon 1 :-) out of 4 for a new breed of dark hero
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue. Screenplay: David S. Goyer, based on the character published by Marvel Comics. Director: Stephen Norrington
In an age when sane, clean-cut superheroes like Superman, are becoming redundant, up rises a new generation of wannabe superheroes, that are labelled complex, on virtue of their personality disorders alone - namely BATMAN, SPAWN and now BLADE. I guess today's generation finds a hero with a dark psyche, more fascinating, and an anti-hero more appealing.
In a day and age when vampire movies rarely see the light of day, a vain attempt is made to bring life back into the genre. The creator has decided to make Blade an extra special vamp with more blood on top. His mom was bitten when he was still in her womb, thus giving Blade the special powers of a vampire, yet retaining his humanity. Blade can fly at night, but he can also walk in daylight.
This is pleasant enough, but one doesn't sense the anguish or turmoil of what is like to be a half-breed. Wesley Snipes (BLADE) manages an abandoned look whenever he discusses his inner torment, and convulses adequately enough, whenever he takes a serum to suppress his blood sucking urges; but this is a rather superficial look at a man-vampire who is living in a nightmare. Like that other guy SPAWN (don't bother watching), deep inside WE KNOW there is a lot more going on than just an ability to kick butt, severe heads, dismember limbs and special effects.
Move over BUFFY, your days of coy vampire slaying are over. BLADE's arrived and will give you a better run for your money when it comes to high grade, state-of-the-art, artillery and weapons. Yes, the special effects are good, and there is enough blood, explosions and noise to satisfy the cravings of any violent viewer. A particular scene that misuses the sprinkler system to feed vampires is not for the faint of heart. The ending is also rather coy, where a blood sucking scene is used to imitate love making, before BLADE is then inspired to beat the bad guy, Frost (Stephen Dorf).
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“Nānājanapadaṁ yanti,
Vicarantā asaññatā;
Samādhiñca virādhenti,
Kiṁsu raṭṭhacariyā karissati;
Tasmā vineyya sārambhaṁ,
Jhāyeyya apurakkhato”ti.
… Kumāputtattherassa sahāyako thero ….
Some travel to different countries,
wandering undisciplined.
If they lose their meditation,
what will such rotten conduct achieve?
So you should dispel pride,
practicing absorption undistracted.


Two planes in 'minor' collision at Frankfurt airport
FRANKFURT: An Air Namibia plane collided with a Korean Air jet after landing at Frankfurt airport on Saturday (Nov 16) evening, officials said, adding that no one was injured.
Both aircraft were damaged in what Air Namibia on Sunday called "a minor accident".
A spokeswoman for Frankfurt airport said the incident happened at around 6pm local time on Saturday (1am Singapore time on Sunday). She said no one was injured and the reasons for the crash remain unclear.
"The left wing of an Air Namibia plane collided with the horizontal stabiliser of Korean Air flight KE905 as it was waiting on the taxiway after landing," Korean Air said in a statement.
The Korean Air plane was carrying 241 passengers and 40 crew at the time, it said.
"We confirm that no passengers and crew were hurt," Air Namibia added in its own statement.
Korea Air said its Seoul-bound return flight was delayed by 21 hours as a result, adding that affected passengers had been offered accommodation.
A replacement aircraft was set to take off on Sunday afternoon.
Air Namibia said it had likewise offered accommodation to 244 passengers due to travel from Frankfurt to Windhoek, as the airline looked for alternative flights.
Germany's Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) has opened an investigation into the cause of the collision.
The damage to the two jets was still being assessed, a BFU spokesman said.


LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1996 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 7.0 Alternative Scale: *** out of ****
United States, 1995 U.S. Release Date: beginning 12/95 (limited) Running Length: 1:45 MPAA Classification: R (Mature themes, profanity) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Cast: Victoria Foyt, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Robin Baitz, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton, Brooke Smith, Roddy McDowall Director: Henry Jaglom Producer: Judith Wolinsky Screenplay: Henry Jaglom and Victoria Foyt Cinematography: Hanania Baer U.S. Distributor: the Rainbow Film Co.
With a style that's a cross between VANYA ON 42ND ST. and a home movie, Henry Jaglom's LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS pulls the viewer in. This intimate look at a dysfunctional family uses a perspective so seemingly-real that it would be easy to mistake parts of this film for a documentary rather than a work of fiction. Hanania Baer's straightforward cinematography contributes to the illusion, as does a script with frank dialogue that often concentrates on minutiae.
The story, which is really just an excuse for monologues on assorted profundities, dialogue about almost anything, and quirky character interaction, is set in East Hampton, Long Island. There, three generations of a "theater family" are spending the final weekend of their last summer at a home that has served as their vacation retreat and acting school for decades. Because of their declining economic fortunes, they can no longer afford the place, so the family matriarch, Helena Mora (Viveca Lindfors), has been forced to put it on the market.
Gathered for this weekend are an odd assortment of people, including pupils of the acting school, friends, and relatives. The "honored visitor" is actress Oona Hart (Victoria Foyt), a Hollywood star who has just hit it big with a blockbuster movie. However, she's less interested in headlining the inevitable sequel than in exploring "meaningful" work, such as taking the lead role in a play written by Helena's grandson, Jake (Jon Robin Baitz).
Screen life mirrors real life in LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS. Helena's career reflects that of Lindfors, the actress who plays her (this was Lindfors' final performance before her death last October). Both have spent long, rewarding careers on screen and on stage, and have little cause to regret their choices. Real-life playwright Baitz plays the author of a production that everyone wants to be a part of. Renowned director Andre Gregory plays a director, and numerous members of New York's acting community take up roles they should be at home in.
At the crux of LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS lies the age-old question of commercial viability versus artistic honesty. Can something that makes money also be artistically pure? Oona is wondering this when she comes to the Hamptons, since her career aspirations are divided between making money and doing "real" acting. This issue is mulled over during a number of the film's seemingly-endless conversations, with all sorts of interesting viewpoints coming to light. There is, of course, no resolution.
The melodrama illustrating the emotional fractures within the family is less successful. In Jake's words, his relatives are "a barrel of theatrical eels poisoning one another over and over." According to him, none of them can do anything without turning it into a performance. He apparently includes himself in that sweeping generalization, since one of the most unpleasant revelations concerns his relationship with his sister. Jaglom occasionally goes overboard trying to get us to care about the characters. The well-honed dialogue and intimate camerawork would have been enough without the soap-opera-like interludes.
As might be expected, the best performance is turned in by Viveca Lindfors, who, like Jean Moreau, could boast screen presence even at an advanced age. She heads a cast that doesn't have many weak participants. When the screenplay grows thin, the wealth of acting ability pushes LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS through the rough spots. Whether tightly-scripted or not, many scenes have an improvised feel.
LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS is tailor-made for those who enjoy talky, somewhat pretentious, dialogue-rich motion pictures. While the character interaction isn't as sharp as in an Eric Rohmer picture, it is deft enough to involve an interested audience. LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS isn't a landmark film, and it doesn't broach any new issues, but the unconventional style makes it worthwhile for those who appreciate offbeat fare.
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R Kelly’s ex changes her tune and brands him the ‘daddy’ of all abusers
by Erin NyrenOne of R.Kelly’s girlfriends has changed her tune, striking a harsh new note about the singer she formerly defended against multiple allegations of sexual abuse in three states.

Until recently, Ms Savage had been a loud proclaimer of Kelly’s innocence, saying that it was a gross injustice that he has been behind bars since July.
Savage, 24, has now recounted how the pair first met, what their early relationship was like, and how it allegedly devolved into controlling and invasive behaviour.
She said the 52-year-old rapper flew her and a friend to California, promising that he’d help her realise her dreams of becoming a model and singer.
She says he told her he could help her become like the late R&B artist Aaliyah, who Kelly illegally married in 1994 when she was 15.
“Robert told me so many lies my 19-year-old mind believed everyone of one them,” she now says.
After a few months, Kelly began insisting that she always address him as “master” or “daddy.”
Savage’s accounts are very similar to other girls and women who have claimed Kelly abused them, particularly in the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly.
Savage also wrote that he employed multiple assistants at his home. She says they never spoke to her, but watched her constantly, even as she showered.
Telephone calls to her parents were not allowed to occur in private, and Savage says she was sometimes told what to say.
“‘All this can stop today, you want a career?'” Kelly would allegedly ask her. “‘Or do you want to live a normal life?'”
In the past Savage has said that she lived with Kelly willingly, and that her estranged parents’ claims he’d brainwashed her were false.
Kelly has denied all claims of physical or sexual abuse and domestic violence.
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vignettes/CreatingLearningCurves.Rmd
CreatingLearningCurves.Rmd
This vignette describes how you can use the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) PatientLevelPrediction
package to create learning curves. This vignette assumes you have read and are comfortable with building patient level prediction models as described in the BuildingPredictiveModels
vignette.
Prediction models will show overly-optimistic performance when predicting on the same data as used for training. Therefore, best-practice is to partition our data into a training set and testing set. We then train our prediction model on the training set portion and asses its ability to generalize to unseen data by measuring its performance on the testing set.
Learning curves assess the effect of training set size on model performance by training a sequence of prediction models on successively larger subsets of the training set. A learning curve plot can also help in diagnosing a bias or variance problem as explained below.
Figure 1, shows an example of learning curve plot in which the vertical axis represents the model performance and the horizontal axis the training set size. If training set size is small, the performance on the training set is high, because a model can often be fitted well to a limited number of training examples. At the same time, the performance on the testing set will be poor, because the model trained on such a limited number of training examples will not generalize well to unseen data in the testing set. As the training set size increases, the performance of the model on the training set will decrease. It becomes more difficult for the model to find a good fit through all the training examples. Also, the model will be trained on a more representative portion of training examples, making it generalize better to unseen data. This can be observed by the increasin testing set performance.
The learning curve can help us in diagnosing bias and variance problems with our classifier which will provide guidance on how to further improve our model. We can observe high variance (overfitting) in a prediction model if it performs well on the training set, but poorly on the testing set (Figure 2). Adding additional data is a common approach to counteract high variance. From the learning curve it becomes apparent, that adding additional data may improve performance on the testing set a little further, as the learning curve has not yet plateaued and, thus, the model is not saturated yet. Therefore, adding more data will decrease the gap between training set and testing set, which is the main indicator for a high variance problem.
Furthermore, we can observe high bias (underfitting) if a prediction model performs poorly on the training set as well as on the testing set (Figure 3). The learning curves of training set and testing set have flattened on a low performance with only a small gap in between them. Adding additional data will in this case have little to no impact on the model performance. Choosing another prediction algorithm that can find more complex (for example non-linear) relationships in the data may be an alternative approach to consider in this high bias situation.
Use the PatientLevelPrediction
package to create a plpData
object . Alternatively, you can make use of the data simulator. The following code snippet creates data for 12000 patients.
set.seed(1234)
data(plpDataSimulationProfile)
sampleSize <- 12000
plpData <- simulatePlpData(
plpDataSimulationProfile,
n = sampleSize
)
Specify the population settings (this does additional exclusions such as requiring minimum prior observation or no prior outcome as well as specifying the time-at-risk period to enable labels to be created):
populationSettings <- createStudyPopulationSettings(
binary = TRUE,
firstExposureOnly = FALSE,
washoutPeriod = 0,
removeSubjectsWithPriorOutcome = FALSE,
priorOutcomeLookback = 99999,
requireTimeAtRisk = FALSE,
minTimeAtRisk = 0,
riskWindowStart = 0,
riskWindowEnd = 365,
verbosity = "INFO"
)
Specify the prediction algorithm to be used.
# Use LASSO logistic regression
modelSettings <- setLassoLogisticRegression()
Specify the split settings and a sequence of training set fractions (these over ride the splitSetting trainFraction). Alternatively, instead of trainFractions
, you can provide a sequence of training events (trainEvents
) instead of the training set fractions. This is recommended, because our research has shown that number of events is the important determinant of model performance. Make sure that your training set contains the number of events specified.
splitSettings = createDefaultSplitSetting(
testFraction = 0.2,
type = 'stratified',
splitSeed = 1000
)
trainFractions <- seq(0.1, 0.8, 0.1) # Create eight training set fractions
# alternatively use a sequence of training events by uncommenting the line below.
# trainEvents <- seq(100, 5000, 100)
Create the learning curve object.
learningCurve <- createLearningCurve(
plpData = plpData,
outcomeId = 2,
parallel = T,
cores = 4,
modelSettings = modelSettings,
saveDirectory = getwd(),
analysisId = 'learningCurve',
populationSettings = populationSettings,
splitSettings = splitSettings,
trainFractions = trainFractions,
trainEvents = NULL,
preprocessSettings = createPreprocessSettings(
minFraction = 0.001,
normalize = T
),
executeSettings = createExecuteSettings(
runSplitData = T,
runSampleData = F,
runfeatureEngineering = F,
runPreprocessData = T,
runModelDevelopment = T,
runCovariateSummary = F
)
)
Plot the learning curve object (Figure 4). Specify one of the available metrics: AUROC
, AUPRC
, sBrier
. Moreover, you can specify what metric to put on the abscissa, number of observations
or number of events
. We recommend the latter, because events
are determinant of model performance and allow you to better compare learning curves across different prediction problems and databases.
plotLearningCurve(
learningCurve,
metric = 'AUROC',
abscissa = 'events',
plotTitle = 'Learning Curve',
plotSubtitle = 'AUROC performance'
)
The learning curve object can be created in parallel, which can reduce computation time significantly. Whether to run the code in parallel or not is specified using the parallel
input. Currently this functionality is only available for LASSO logistic regression and gradient boosting machines. Depending on the number of parallel workers it may require a significant amount of memory. We advise to use the parallelized learning curve function for parameter search and exploratory data analysis.
When running in parrallel, R will find the number of available processing cores automatically and register the required parallel backend. Alternatively, you can provide the number of cores you wish to use via the cores
input.
We have added a demo of the learningcurve:
# Show all demos in our package:
demo(package = "PatientLevelPrediction")
# Run the learning curve
demo("LearningCurveDemo", package = "PatientLevelPrediction")
Do note that running this demo can take a considerable amount of time (15 min on Quad core running in parallel)!
A publication titled ‘How little data do we need for patient-level prediction?’ uses the learning curve functionality in this package and can be accessed as preprint in the arXiv archives at https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07361.
Considerable work has been dedicated to provide the PatientLevelPrediction
package.
citation("PatientLevelPrediction")
##
## To cite PatientLevelPrediction in publications use:
##
## Reps JM, Schuemie MJ, Suchard MA, Ryan PB, Rijnbeek P (2018). "Design
## and implementation of a standardized framework to generate and evaluate
## patient-level prediction models using observational healthcare data."
## _Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association_, *25*(8),
## 969-975. <URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocy032>.
##
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
##
## @Article{,
## author = {J. M. Reps and M. J. Schuemie and M. A. Suchard and P. B. Ryan and P. Rijnbeek},
## title = {Design and implementation of a standardized framework to generate and evaluate patient-level prediction models using observational healthcare data},
## journal = {Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association},
## volume = {25},
## number = {8},
## pages = {969-975},
## year = {2018},
## url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocy032},
## }
Please reference this paper if you use the PLP Package in your work:


Man mowed down police officer after fleeing ex wife's home in middle of night
Stephen Gibson sent PC Martin Foye hurtling through the air after he smacked him with his Ranger Rover in a hit and run in Cambuslang last year.
by Samantha Croal, Connor Gordon, https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/authors/samantha-croal/A children's football coach who mowed down a police officer in his powerful Range Rover has walked free from court.
Stephen Gibson sent PC Martin Foye hurtling through the air in October last year.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard the 31 year-old had gone to his estranged wife's home amid claims he was struggling with the break-up.
PC Foye luckily escaped any serious injury following the hit and run in Cambuslang, near the city.
Gibson - who coaches youngsters for Giffnock North - could have faced jail today having admitted to a charge of dangerous driving.
But, Sheriff Andrew Cubie instead ordered him to do 250 hours of unpaid work and banned him from the road for two years.
He told Gibson: "This was a serious offence as the circumstances involves injury to a police officer and damage to cars.
“Why you went to your wife in the early hours of the morning is beyond me.
“It was unwelcome and she phoned the police. She did not play a part in this.
“You panicked and your actions were criminal.”
Gibson, of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, was also hit with a six month restriction of liberty order.
A previous hearing was told how PC Foye and a colleague tried to stop Gibson after he smacked his 4x4 into another car.
But, Gibson yelled at the officers: "I am not stopping. I am going for it."
His lawyer today said Gibson had argued with his estranged wife before leaving her home.
Billy Lavelle, defending, added: “He was struggling with the situation as they were together for 10 years. It was his first relationship.
“He left in his car but thought he would be arrested when the police arrived.
“He wishes to apologise to the police officer.”
Gibson had initially gone to trial last month before prosecutors accepted his guilty plea.


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AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND REVIEWS
Here follows a series of first night reviews from newspapers of the time. Most are of the first performance in Australia as most opened there first. However I have added a few New Zealand reviews to add a bit of variety.
Most of the first night reviews were extremely long often just recapping the plot and describing the songs in depth. You must remember that to most of the readers of the time this would be the very first they would have heard of anything at all about the opera.
Most of the reviews have been edited a little and obvious typographical errors have been corrected and, yes, in the late nineteen century New Zealand and Australia were still using the 'American' spelling of humor and color.
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The Sorcerer (Melbourne 1879) |
The Sorcerer (Auckland 1879) |
H.M.S. Pinafore (Auckland 1879) |
H.M.S. Pinfore (Sydney 1879) |
The Wreck of the Pinafore (NZ 1880-81) |
The Pirates of Penzance (Sydney 1881) |
The Pirates of Penzance (Wellingon 1881) |
Patience (Sydney 1881) |
Patience (Dunedin 1882) |
Iolanthe (Melbourne 1885) |
The Mikado (Sydney 1885) |
The Sorcerer (Savoy 1884 revival) (Melbourne 1886) |
Princess Ida (Melbourne 1887) |
The Mikado (Dunedin 1887) |
Iolanthe (Dunedin 1887) |
The Yeomen of the Guard (Melbourne 1889) |
The Gondoliers (Melbourne 1890) |
The Yeomen of the Guard (Dunedin 1890) |
Princess Ida (Dunedin 1890) |
The Gondoliers (Auckland 1892) |
Ruddigore (Wellington 1895) |
The Rose of Persia (Melbourne 1900) |
The Grand Duke (Wellington 1900) |
Utopia Ltd (Melbourne 1906) |
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An Oscillating Electron Around a Ring of Charge (Part 3)
A Quick Review
It’s been a few weeks since we started this problem, but we are finally in the home stretch! Let’s go over some of the major equations that we ran into over the last couple of posts. First, we derived the electric field from a ring of charge using Coulomb’s law.
\[\begin{equation} E_z = \frac{k Q z} {\left (z^2 + R^2 \right )^{3/2}} \end{equation}\]We then analyzed the oscillatory motion of an electron in this electric field. Recall that we used the assumption that \(R \gg z\) in order to derive an analytic solution.
\[\begin{equation} \ddot{z} + \frac{k Qe }{mR^3}z = 0 \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} z(t) = Asin \left (\sqrt{\frac{k Qe }{mR^3}} t \right ) + Bcos \left (\sqrt{\frac{k Qe }{mR^3}} t \right ) \end{equation}\]The solution above does not take into account any sort of radiation from the accelerating electron. In order to fix that problem, we found an expression for the self force on a charged particle - the recoil force that it feels when it radiates energy.
\[\begin{equation} \vec{F}_{AL} = \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \frac{d\vec{a}}{dt} \end{equation}\]Then, we included the self force in the differential equation for the motion of the electron. We noted that it was one of the few times that the jerk of a particle came into play.
\[\begin{equation} \dddot{z} - \left ( \frac{6 m \pi \epsilon_o c^3}{e^2} \right ) \ddot{z} - \left ( \frac{6 kQ \pi \epsilon_o c^3}{e} \right ) \left ( \frac{z}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} \right ) = 0 \end{equation}\]It seems like we are ready to solve this differential equation. However, there is one last snaffoo that we will run into if we are not careful. Let’s take a look.
Our First Try
Suppose we try to solve the differential equation as it stands right now. It is a third order, non-linear differential equation; thus, it might be easiest to solve it using numerical methods. We can plug our equation into Matlab’s trusty ode45 function and turn the crank.
What on earth is going on? The position of the electron diverges instead of oscillating like we would expect.
The answer lies back in our derivation of the Abraham-Lorentz force. We assumed periodic motion of a point charge when deriving this force. In this specific example, as the electron radiates, the amplitude of its motion is going to shrink. Thus, this differential equation does not describe periodic motion, and the expression for self force that we derived cannot be used as is.
If we want to use our expression for self force, we need some way to force periodic motion on this system. One of the easiest ways to do this is to add a driving force that will ensure that the electron has periodic motion.
The Periodic Driver
Let’s change the problem slightly; we will enforce periodic motion on the electron by adding in a driving force with a frequency \(\omega\) and amplitude \(F_o\).
\[\begin{equation} F_{driving} = F_o cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\]Now, the differential equation describing the motion of the electron becomes:
\[\begin{equation} \vec{F}_{total} = \vec{F}_E + \vec{F}_{AL} + \vec{F}_{driving} \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} m \ddot{z} = - \frac{kQez}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} + \frac{e^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \dddot{z} + F_o cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\]The electron will be forced to oscillate with a frequency of \(\omega\) due to \(F_{driving}\). This is great for us - we can assume a sinusoidal solution with an amplitude of \(z_o\), a frequency of \(\omega\), and a phase delay of \(\delta\).
\[\begin{equation} z(t) = z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) \end{equation}\]Let’s take time derivatives of this solution so that we can plug them back into the differential equation above.
\[\begin{equation} z = z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \dot{z} = -\omega z_o sin(\omega t - \delta) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \ddot{z} = -\omega^2 z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \dddot{z} = \omega^3 z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) = -\omega^2 \dot{z} \end{equation}\]Notice how the third derivative of position can be rewritten in terms of the first derivative of position. Thus, we can rewrite the third order differential equation as a second order differential equation.
\[\begin{equation} m \ddot{z} = - \frac{kQez}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} - \frac{e^2 \omega^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \dot{z} + F_o cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} m \ddot{z} + \frac{kQez}{\left [ z^2 + R^2 \right ]^{3/2}} + \frac{e^2 \omega^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \dot{z} = F_o cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\]At this point we could solve the equation numerically using Matlab or some other program. However, let’s try to get an analytic solution to this problem so that we can really get a sense of its motion. Like we did before, take the limit of \(R \gg z\).
\[\begin{equation} m \ddot{z} + \frac{e^2 \omega^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3} \dot{z} + \frac{kQe}{R^3} z = F_o cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \ddot{z} + \frac{e^2 \omega^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_o m c^3} \dot{z} + \frac{kQe}{mR^3} z = \frac{F_o}{m} cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\]That’s interesting. The coefficient in front of z is exactly the frequency we calculated in the case with no driving force and no radiation reaction. Just to keep our notation clear, we will call this the natural frequency of the system (\(\omega_o^2 = kQe/mR^3\)).  Thus, we can rewrite the differential equation in a compact form.
\[\begin{equation} \ddot{z} + \gamma \dot{z} + \omega_o^2 z = \frac{F_o}{m} cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\]So it is! Let’s go through the solution of this equation. Anybody who has taken an intermediate mechanics course should be very familiar with this solution. First, I will plug in the expressions for \(z\), \(\dot{z}\), and \(\ddot{z}\).
\[\begin{equation} -\omega^2 z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) - \gamma \omega z_o sin(\omega t - \delta) + \omega_o^2 z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) = \frac{F_o}{m} cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o cos(\omega t - \delta) - \gamma \omega z_o sin(\omega t - \delta) = \frac{F_o}{m} cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\]We can simplify this expression further. I refer to this table of trig identities to break up the sine and cosine terms.
\[\begin{equation} \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o \left [ cos(\omega t)cos(\delta) + sin(\omega t)sin(\delta) \right ] - \gamma \omega z_o \left [ sin(\omega t)cos(\delta) - cos(\omega t)sin(\delta) \right ] = \frac{F_o}{m} cos(\omega t) \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} \left [ \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o cos(\delta) + \gamma \omega z_o sin(\delta) - \frac{F_o}{m} \right ] cos(\omega t) + \left [ \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o sin(\delta) - \gamma \omega z_o cos(\delta) \right ] sin(\omega t) = 0 \end{equation}\]In order for the equation above to equal zero, the sine and cosine pieces of the expression must each equal zero separately since they are orthogonal functions. We will start with the sine expression and solve for the phase (\(\delta\)).
\[\begin{align} \left [ \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o sin(\delta) - \gamma \omega z_o cos(\delta) \right ] sin(\omega t) &= 0\\[0.1cm] \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o sin(\delta) - \gamma \omega z_o cos(\delta) &= 0\\[0.1cm] \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) sin(\delta) - \gamma \omega cos(\delta) &= 0\\[0.1cm] \end{align}\] \[\begin{align} \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) sin(\delta) &= \gamma \omega cos(\delta)\\[0.1cm] tan(\delta) &= \frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2}\\[0.1cm] \delta &= tan^{-1} \left ( \frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2} \right ) \end{align}\]We can now analyze the cosine term in the expression to solve for the amplitude \(z_o\).
\[\begin{align} \left [ \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o cos(\delta) + \gamma \omega z_o sin(\delta) - \frac{F_o}{m} \right ] cos(\omega t) &= 0\\[0.1cm] \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o cos(\delta) + \gamma \omega z_o sin(\delta) - \frac{F_o}{m} &= 0 \end{align}\]We can rewrite the sine and cosine functions in terms of tangent in order to eliminate the dependence on \(\delta\). The cosine function becomes:
\[\begin{align} cos(\delta) &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + tan^2(\delta)}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + \left ( \frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2} \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{\frac{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2} + \frac{ \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{ \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{\frac{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}}}\\[0.1cm] &= \sqrt{\frac{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] \end{align}\]And the sine function becomes:
\[\begin{align} sin(\delta) &= \frac{tan(\delta)}{\sqrt{1 + tan^2(\delta)}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{\frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2}}{\sqrt{1 + \left ( \frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2} \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{\frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2}}{\sqrt{\frac{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2} + \frac{ \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{ \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{\frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2}}{\sqrt{\frac{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{\gamma \omega}{\omega_o^2 - \omega^2} \sqrt{\frac{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{\gamma \omega}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] \end{align}\]Let’s plug these expressions for sine and cosine into our original expression.
\[\begin{align} \left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right ) z_o cos(\delta) + \gamma \omega z_o sin(\delta) - \frac{F_o}{m} &= 0\\[0.1cm] \frac{z_o \left (\omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}} + \frac{z_o \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}} - \frac{F_o}{m} &= 0\\[0.1cm] z_o \left [ \frac{\left (\omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}} + \frac{\left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}} \right ] &= \frac{F_o}{m} \end{align}\] \[\begin{equation} z_o \left [ \frac{\left (\omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}} \right ] = \frac{F_o}{m} \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} z_o \sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2} = \frac{F_o}{m} \end{equation}\] \[\begin{equation} z_o = \frac{F_o/m}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}}\\[0.1cm] \end{equation}\]Alright, let’s put everything together and get our final answer!
\[\begin{align} z(t) &= z_o cos(\omega t - \delta)\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{F_o/m}{\sqrt{\left ( \omega_o^2 - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \gamma \omega \right )^2}} cos \left ( \omega t - \delta \right )\\[0.1cm] &= \frac{F_o/m}{\sqrt{\left ( \frac{k Qe }{mR^3} - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \frac{e^2 \omega^3}{6 \pi \epsilon_o m c^3} \right )^2}} cos \left [ \omega t - tan^{-1} \left ( \frac{\frac{e^2 \omega^3}{6 \pi \epsilon_o m c^3}}{\frac{kQe}{mR^3} - \omega^2} \right ) \right ] \end{align}\] \[\begin{equation} z(t) = \frac{F_o/m}{\sqrt{\left ( \frac{k Qe }{mR^3} - \omega^2 \right )^2 + \left ( \frac{e^2 \omega^3}{6 \pi \epsilon_o m c^3} \right )^2}} cos \left [ \omega t - tan^{-1} \left ( \frac{e^2 \omega^3 R^3}{6 \pi \epsilon_o c^3 \left ( kQe - m \omega^2 R^3 \right )} \right ) \right ] \end{equation}\]Conclusions
This has been a pretty intense arc. We started off with an introductory physics problem - finding the electric field due to a ring of charge and the equation of motion for an electron oscillating about its center. Then, we stepped it up by adding the radiation reaction force to the mix. We were careful to enforce periodic motion on the electron so that the answer did not diverge. After all that, we saw that the equation of motion for the electron was exactly that of a damped, driven harmonic oscillator.
Take some time to go through each of the three posts in this arc. They describe a classic way to analyze problems in physics - start off with a simple model and then add layers of complexity to it when they are needed.


Leetcode 96. Unique Binary Search Trees (Python)
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Description
Given n, how many structurally unique BST’s (binary search trees) that store values 1 … n?
Sample I/O
Example 1
Input: 3
Output: 5
Explanation:
Given n = 3, there are a total of 5 unique BST's:
1 3 3 2 1
\ / / / \ \
3 2 1 1 3 2
/ / \ \
2 1 2 3
Methodology
Unlike most people use list as cache, I use dictionary here. The performance for add and get will be exactly same. It is only good for when you want to print the DP result.
So DP dictionary has key, value pair. The key represent the number of left side children or the number of right side children and the value represnt the number of possible subtree. The answer is sum of each root’s posibilities of substree
For example:
n = 1, the root is 1
there is 0 left childen or 0 right children, root is the only node dp[0] = 1 represnt there is 1 possible substree for the root has 0 left children or 0 right children. Here 1 possible subtree is node(None)
so when n = 1, ans is dp[0]xdp[0] = 1
1
n = 2, the root is either 1 or 2
when root is 1 there is 0 left children and 1 right children when root is 2 there is 1 left children and 0 right children dp[1]=1 represent there is 1 possible substree for the root has 1 left children or 1 right children. Here the 1 possible substree is left child node(1) when 2 is the root and right child node(2) when 1 is the root.
so when n =2, the ans is dp[1]xdp[0]+dp[0]xdp[1] = 2
2 1
/ or \
1 2
n = 3, the root is 1,2 or 3
when root is 1 there is 0 left children and 2 right children when root is 2 there is 1 left children and 1 right children when root is 3 there is 2 left children and 0 right children dp[2] = 2 represent there is 2 possible substree for the root has 2 left children or 2 right children.
and based on the above pattern we know that when root has 1 left children or 1 right children, here the 2 possible substree is left children node(1or 2) when root is 3 or right children node (2,3) when root is 1.
so when n = 3, the ans is dp[0]xdp[2] + dp[2]xdp[0] + dp[2]xdp[0] + dp[1]xdp[1] + dp[0]xdp[1]=5
1 3 3 2 1
\ / / / \ \
3 2 1 1 3 2
/ / \ \
2 1 2 3
Code
def numTrees(self, n: int) -> int:
dp = {0:1, 1:1, 2:2}
if n < 3: return dp[n]
for i in range(3, n+1):
num = 0
for j in range(i):
num += dp[j]*dp[i-j-1]
dp[i] = num
return dp[n]
BigO
We iterate all input list, it will cost O(n-2), each value will add up previous value as result, it will cost ((n-2)n/2) It is O(n^2)


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Department: Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Prefix & Course Number: CS 3700
Course Title: Computer Networks
Credit Hours: 4
Prerequisite(s): CS 2050 and CS 1400, with grades of C or better, or permission of instructor
Catalog Course Description:
This course provides a comprehensive overview of computer networking, emphasizing networks based on the Internet. It covers computer network architecture (layers and protocols), internetworking and routing, connection-oriented and connectionless services, client-server and peer-to-peer paradigms, mobile and wireless computing, and network security. This course will require students to write programs using Net-centric programming techniques.
Required Reading and Other Materials will be equivalent to:
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!Guard Weisz: You must recover 30 Cargo Boxes belonging to the trade guild from the felim lizardmen. They can be found at the Fellmere Harvest Grounds between the Ruins of Agony and Windy Hill.


Thank you
This project was made by @LukyVj, with the help of some awesome folks :
A huge thank you to Gradify for the inspiration, and the frustration.
I was frustrated because I couldn't use the JS version of Gradify, so I decided to give a try, and to code my own
Version
This version is the version 1.0.1
License
This project is licensed under ISC


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Loads a byte, word, or doubleword from the source operand into the AL, AX, or EAX register, respectively. The source operand is a memory location, the address of which is read from the DS:EDI or the DS:SI registers (depending on the address-size attribute of the instruction, 32 or 16, respectively). The DS segment may be overridden with a segment override prefix.
At the assembly-code level, two forms of this instruction are allowed: the "explicit-operands" form and the "no-operands" form. The explicit-operands form (specified with the LODS mnemonic) allows the source operand to be specified explicitly. Here, the source operand should be a symbol that indicates the size and location of the source value. The destination operand is then automatically selected to match the size of the source operand (the AL register for byte operands, AX for word operands, and EAX for doubleword operands). This explicit-operands form is provided to allow documentation; however, note that the documentation provided by this form can be misleading. That is, the source operand symbol must specify the correct type (size) of the operand (byte, word, or doubleword), but it does not have to specify the correct location.
The location is always specified by the DS:(E)SI registers, which must be loaded correctly before the load string instruction is executed.
The no-operands form provides "short forms" of the byte, word, and doubleword versions of the LODS instructions. Here also DS:(E)SI is assumed to be the source operand and the AL, AX, or EAX register is assumed to be the destination operand. The size of the source and destination operands is selected with the mnemonic: LODSB (byte loaded into register AL), LODSW (word loaded into AX), or LODSD (doubleword loaded into EAX).
After the byte, word, or doubleword is transferred from the memory location into the AL, AX, or EAX register, the (E)SI register is incremented or decremented automatically according to the setting of the DF flag in the EFLAGS register. (If the DF flag is 0, the (E)SI register is incremented; if the DF flag is 1, the ESI register is decremented.) The (E)SI register is incremented or decremented by 1 for byte operations, by 2 for word operations, or by 4 for doubleword operations.
The LODS, LODSB, LODSW, and LODSD instructions can be preceded by the REP prefix for block loads of ECX bytes, words, or doublewords. More often, however, these instructions are used within a LOOP construct because further processing of the data moved into the register is usually necessary before the next transfer can be made. See "REP/REPE/REPZ/REPNE /REPNZ-Repeat String Operation Prefix" in Chapter 4 for a description of the REP prefix.
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Dilbert: Wally, would you like to be on my TTP project?
Wally: What does "TTP" stand for?
Dilbert: It's short for The TTP Project. I named it myself.
Wally: What does "TTP" stand for?
Dilbert: It's short for The TTP Project. I named it myself.
— Dilbert, May 18, 1994
An acronym in which one of the letters inside the acronym stands for the acronym itself. Because of the way English phrases such things, attempting to fully expand the acronym causes an infinite recursive loop.
Extraordinarily overused in computing culture for their giggle value, but absolutely straight-faced serious examples can be found in the business world and elsewhere.
See also Fun with Acronyms. Occasionally overlaps with Shaped Like Itself.
Examples
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Business
- BWIA — BWIA West Indies Airways (formerly British West Indian Airways)
- SAAB — Saab Automobile Aktiebolaget (Formerly Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget)
- Heil Environmental Industries Limited, founded by Julius P. Heil, makes garbage trucks.
- MOM: MOM's Organic Market (a Washington, DC area health food store chain)
- ThinkGeek sells compressed air under the brand NINJA, which stands for "NINJA Is Not Just Air." They also carry a rear-view mirror for your computer called CHIMP, which stands for "CHIMP Has Invincible Monkey Powers".
- Visa (the card company) stands for "Visa International Service Association". This expansion actually came some time after the original name was devised.
Comic Books
- According to Atari Force, "Atari" stands for the "Atari Technology and Research Institute".
- The Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics had ADAM (ADAM Determines Anonymous' Movements).
- The second Blue Beetle's company, Kord Industries, is sometimes said to be an acronym for Kord Omniversal Research & Development.
Computing
- Allegro ([1]) — "Allegro Low Level Game ROutines", formerly "Atari Low Level Game ROutines" (Allegro is a low-level game programming library that mostly just provides easy access to the hardware)
- AROS — "AROS Research Operating System", formerly "Amiga Research Operating System", a free and Open-Source variation on Amiga OS, renamed in order to avoid legal action from the owners of the Amiga trademark.
- BABOON: BABOON Allows BABOON Objects Over Networks
- Early versions of the common emails one receives claiming that Bill Gates will give one money for forwarding the email to all one's friends as a test of his newly developed email tracking application often contain a blatant clue that the email is a hoax. The text often refers to the alleged email tracking system as the "Beta Email Tracking Application", which (of course) recursively acronyms to "BETA".
- Inverting all the "X is not an Y." examples below is BIABI, which is a Brainfuck Interpreter.
- Cave - Cave automatic virtual environment
- EINE - "EINE Is Not Emacs" and its successor:
- ZWEI - "ZWEI Was EINE Initially"
- A joke from the days of 64k RAM is that Emacs stands for Emacs makes a computer slow. (It originally stood for Editor MACroS.)
- The name of the object-oriented BASIC dialect Gambas stands for Gambas Almost Means BASIC.
- The operating system GNU — "GNU's Not Unix," named as such because it aims to be compatible with Unix without containing any code from it (with the replacement code being 100% free software).
- The GNU project's official kernel, Hurd, contains a mutually recursive acronym: "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons," and "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth." (However, as Hurd isn't yet complete, most people using GNU software combine it with Linux, which doesn't stand for anything.)
- HIPI — HIPI Is a Piet Interpreter
- JACK -- Jack Audio Connection Kit (a sound system for pro-audio/MIDI work under Linux)
- LAME — LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder. Even though it is.note The corresponding MP2 encoder is TwoLAME, originally TooLAME (presumably TOOLame Ain't an MP2 Encoder) - which is fittingly even lamer.
- LISP — LISP Is Stupid Parentheses. This one is actually a joke rather than the programming language's actual name (LISt Processor). All programs in LISP are structured as mathematical phrases, and tend to include phrases-within-phrases-within-phrases ad nauseum, which often leaves a huge number of trailing parentheses at the end.◊ Making sure the right number of closing parentheses are in place is a major headache for LISP programmers.
- MINCE — MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs (Emacs is a text editor)
- Mini — Mini Is Not IOS (Mini is part of Bootmii, a method to execute a low-level bypass of the Wii System Menu and load homebrew.)
- NIL — NIL Isn't Liero
- PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- It originally stood for "Personal Home Page", but they changed it.
- Popular text-based email program PINE — Pine Is Not ELM. (ELM standing for E Lectronic Mail). PINE's Apache-licensed successor, Alpine, subverts this by turning out to officially stand for "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email"
- PNG — PNG's Not GIF (as PNG was conceived as a replacement for static GIF images, though it also stands for Portable Network Graphics.)
- RIF — rif is fun, formerly known as "reddit is fun", an Android app for accessing Reddit.
- RPM — RPM Package Manager. Formerly Redhat Package Manager before it started to be used by OS other then redhat.
- Synthesia, a game to learn how to play piano, was formerly known as Piano Hero. After they got C&D order from Activision, the developer opened a poll for the new name of the game and one of the name requests was as follows: "SINPHONY Is Not Piano Hero Or New York".
- SPARKS — have the biggest collection of acronyms, including "Smart Programmers Are Required (to) Know SPARKS"
- The LaTeX package Tikz — Tikz Ist Kein Zeichnungprogramm (Tikz is not a drawing program).
- UIRA — UIRA Isn't a Recursive Acronym
- Wine —Wine Is Not an Emulator (it isn't; it's a compatibility layer for the Windows API for non-Windows operating systemsnote )
- XBMC — used to stand for "Xbox Media Center", but now that the program has been ported to other platforms, it now stands for "XBMC Media Center".
- Xinu stands for Xinu Is Not Unix.
- XNA — "XNA's Not Acronymed" (an engine made by Microsoft that make use of the .NET framework to make interactive media such as games. it's commonly used by indie developers to make games for the Xbox, although it can also be used on Microsoft Windows and the Windows Phone 7).
- On the top of that, XNA's logo is also an acronym. The orange part of logo is actually written in morse code, "-..-" meaning "X" while "-." means "N" and ".-" means "A".
- XNU stands for "XNU's Not Unix". Ironically, it is used as the kernel for Mac OS, which IS a certified Unix.
- YAML — YAML Ain't a Markup Language. It isn't. SERIOUSLY.
Fanfic
- DREAM, or Dream Reprise Emulating Action Machine from My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic.
Jokes
- A joke for math buffs. What does the "B." in "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" stand for? Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
Literature
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid contains several of these:
- GOD stands for "GOD Over Djinn." The acronym is recursive because it represents not an individual being but an infinite set.
- Lampshade Hanging in the final dialogue, "Six-Part Ricercar":
Author: Like Bach, I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms—Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially—Create Infinite Regress.
Crab: Oh, really? Let's see...Reading Initials Clearly Exhibits "RACRECIR"'s Concealed Auto-Reference. Yes, I guess so... - "Six-Part Ricercar" has another one at its very end:
Tortoise: Reentering Introduction Creates Endlessly Rising Canon, After RICERCAR.
- Chapter 18 of Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas includes a menu of mutually-recursive food acronyms, such as "TOMATOES on MACARONI (and TOMATOES only), exquisitely SPICED".
- In More Information Than You Require, John Hodgman advises memorizing names through mnemonics. For example, the name "John" becomes "John Or Hodgman Name".
- Wyrm features a computer program called TRAP that writes recursive acronyms. Naturally, TRAP stands for TRAP Recursive Acronym Program.
Live-Action TV
- In one episode of Acorn the Nature Nut (a nature show for kids), he received a letter where a kid called their beetle "Black B.B." and the "B.B." stood for "Black B.B."
- The occasional Colbert Report segment Stephen R.A.P.S., which stands for RAPS And Positive Speaking.
- In series four of Doctor Who, "The Sontaran Stratagem" takes the "use letters from within the words" cheat to its logical conclusion with ATMOS, which stands for "ATMOSpheric Omissions System". Yes, we know you don't spell "emissions" like that, but it's written on all the stickers on the car windows... and the final S has to come from System, or Rattigan's whining makes no sense. Considering what the device is supposed to do (disregarding the Sontarans' plans), "Omissions" does make sense, as it does omit the emissions on the vehicle the device is installed on.
- Kamen Rider Blade has the B.O.A.R.D. Organization, which stands for Board Of Archaeological Research Department.
- In one episode of M*A*S*H, Radar defines "AWOL" as "A.W.O.L. without leave".
- In Twin Peaks, Big Bad BOB's name was a recursive acronym standing for "Beware of BOB".
Music
- will.i.am released a single featuring Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger called T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever).
Newspaper Comics
- Dilbert takes this to its logical extreme with the TTP project, where TTP stands for "The TTP Project". It might also be an example of Redundant RAS Syndrome.
Tabletop Games
- Magic: The Gathering features a Planeswalker who was originally known as K.O.T.H until his real name was made known. His name? Koth of the Hammer.
Video Games
- In Second Life, the Raglin Shire sim is home to a pub called the Paw And Whisker.
- In Xenosaga, Robot Girl KOS-MOS's name stands for "Kosmos Obey Strategical Multiple Operation Systems."
- The XBox One X.
- Possibly the Webkinz minigame, the Wheel of WOW, which also has "WOW" written on the center on it.
- The Game Mod ALOT (A Lot Of Textures) for Mass Effect 2.
Web Comics
- T-Rex sees right through William Shakespeare's clever self-insert:
"Or have you forgotten how 'Hamlet' stands for 'H.A.M.L.E.T.'s Actually Me: Lshak Espeare Thrustbottoms'?"
- Nukee's M.I.N.O.S — M.I.N.O.S Issues No Office Supplies.
- Not a Villain's LiFe — LiFe is For everyone.
- In Skin Horse, the scientists involved in Project U.N.I.T.Y. never decided what the acronym actually stood for, but Unity herself has decided it means "Unity's Nice, I Tell You".
Web Original
- Battle For BFDI was retitled to "Battle For BFB" starting in episode 17. Excluding the infinite loops that could be caused by "BFB", the acronym fully expands to "Battle For Battle For Battle for Dream Island".
- In Let's Play Resident Evil 5: The Demo!, the video is done by a group called E.P.I.C., which stands for Epic Pwnage In Color.
- Internet slang phrase: RIP in peace.
Western Animation
- A couple of Codename: Kids Next Door episodes used this, such as "Operation L.I.C.E.: Lice Interrupt Cheese Eating" and Operation Z.E.R.O.: Zero Explanation Reveals Origin.
- In Monsters University, the names of the fraternity of RΩR and the sorority of HSS respectively stand for Roar Omega Roar and Eta Hiss Hiss.
- Steven Universe: Steven has collectable action figures called G.U.Y.S. - Guys Under Your Supervision.
- In The Simpsons Homer creates the musical genre Guitar Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energy.
Real Life
- Liberal activist and former CIA officer Ray McGovern described the foreign policy motives of so-called "neocons" with the acronym OIL: O for oil, I for Israel, and L for logistics (military bases in Iraq).
Jon Stewart: You can't use the word "oil" in an acronym for "oil"! That's against the acronym rules!
- RED Corp., one of the casting agencies that provide the stuntmen for Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, stands for "Red Entertainment Deliver".
- Stephen Colbert on the BRAIN Initiative.
- Many uses of the acronym S.T.O.P. start with the word "Stop". As well as mnemonics (e.g. Stop, Think, Observe, Plan), and protests (e.g. Stop This Outrageous Purge), they include WHO's Stop Transmission Of Polio program.
- Programming language known as PHP, while it originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it nowadays stands for "Php: Hypertext Preprocessor"


Source code for AG_image_tools.drizzle
import numpy
[docs]def masktozero(arr):
"""
Convert all NANs or masked elements of an array to zero, and return a numpy
array (NOT a masked array).
"""
if hasattr(arr,'mask'):
arr[arr.mask] = 0
else:
arr[arr!=arr] = 0
return numpy.array(arr)
[docs]def drizzle(tstomap,ts,mapshape,weights=1,weightmap=None):
"""
Drizzle a timestream onto a map. Returns the map of the weighted average
per pixel of the input timestream.
(note that this works for any 1D array with a same-size mapping to an
image; I've written it with timestreams in mind though)
tstomap - mapping from timestream -> map. len(tstomap) = len(ts)
Both tstomap and ts should be one-dimensional, but they'll be raveled
if you don't do it yourself
weights - needs to have the same dimensions as ts *or* be scalar
(default=1)
mapshape - [nx,ny] simple 2D map specification. Make sure your map
includes all points mapped to
You can specify a weightmap to increase efficiency instead of computing it
"""
newmap = numpy.zeros(mapshape)
# don't need to mask out when adding zero; simplifies indexing to have no masks
ts_to_index = masktozero((ts*weights).ravel())
if len(tstomap.shape) > 1: # tstomap must be flat
tstomap = tstomap.ravel()
tsmapped = numpy.bincount(tstomap,ts_to_index)
# bincount has length = argmax(tstomap), but the x/y index arrays
# go all the way to the full map size. Append zeros to fill
maxind = mapshape[0]*mapshape[1]
if tsmapped.shape[0] < maxind:
tsmapped = numpy.concatenate([tsmapped,
numpy.zeros(maxind-tsmapped.shape[0])])
xinds,yinds = (a.ravel() for a in numpy.indices(mapshape))
newmap[xinds,yinds] = tsmapped
# do the same for weights unless a weightmap is specified
if weightmap is None:
wm = numpy.zeros(mapshape)
if numpy.isscalar(weights):
weights_to_index = numpy.ones(ts_to_index.shape)*weights
else:
weights_to_index = masktozero((weights).ravel())
tsweights = numpy.bincount(tstomap,weights_to_index)
if tsweights.shape[0] < maxind:
tsweights = numpy.concatenate([tsweights,
numpy.zeros(maxind-tsweights.shape[0])])
wm[xinds,yinds] = tsweights
else:
wm = weightmap
return newmap/wm


The constructor.
the paging data.
The paging data.
Gets the object after the one in the response.
the object after the one in the response.
Gets the object before the one in the response.
the object before the one in the response.
Gets the cursors of the response.
the cursors of the response.
Gets the next page of the response.
the next page of the response.
Gets the paging of the response.
the paging of the response.
Gets the previous page of the response.
the previous page of the response.
Generated using TypeDoc
Class to represent the Paging of a paged response.
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A PYROMANIAC'S LOVE STORY A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1995 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 4.5
U.S. Availability: wide release 4/28/95 Running Length: 1:35 MPAA Classification: PG (Mature themes)
Starring: John Leguizamo, Sadie Frost, William Baldwin, Erika Eleniak, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright Director: Joshua Brand Producer: Mark Gordon Screenplay: Morgan Ward Cinematography: John Schwarzman Music: Rachel Portman Released by Hollywood Pictures
Ever had this experience? You're at a party and someone tells a joke. It's not all that funny, but it's worth a laugh. Later, they tell it again. This time, it's not even a little amusing. And they keep at it, all through the night, to the point where this repetition becomes irritating. That's sort of what A PYROMANIAC'S LOVE STORY is like: it's pleasant in the beginning, gradually becomes boring, then eventually degenerates into the kind of excruciating experience that will have you squirming in your theater seat.
The movie starts out as another tale of unrequited love. Sergio (John Leguizamo) is head-over-heels for Hattie (Sadie Frost), but she thinks of him as just a friend. While Sergio is content to stay in the city and work for his pastry chef boss, Mr. Linzer (Armin Mueller-Stahl), Hattie wants to travel and see the world, so naturally Sergio is anxious to save as much money as possible so he can afford to accompany her. But it's not easy to get rich on his salary.
Then one day, the pastry shop burns down, and a man comes to Sergio with an offer--take the blame for the real arsonist, his son Garet (William Baldwin), and make a quick $25,000. Sergio is uncertain until Linzer is arrested for torching the business, then he goes to the cops with his made-up version of events. From there, things go downhill. Hattie expresses nothing but anger and disappointment, and Garet turns out to be anything but grateful.
At the heart of A PYROMANIAC'S LOVE STORY is a series of mix-ups, chief of which is the identity of the actual arsonist. We, the audience, know who it is, but at least four people confess to the crime, which keeps a steady stream of the guilty and innocent flowing in and out of jail. However, buried under all this convoluted dross is a reasonable love story. In fact, the film is supposed to be about the necessity of passion in everyone's life (with fire as an all-too-obvious metaphor). Unfortunately, there's not nearly enough interaction between Sergio and Hattie to allow A PYROMANIAC'S LOVE STORY to succeed. It's too bad, because there is some chemistry here. Leguizamo is a likable actor, and Frost has an element of the same star quality apparent in such box-office draws as Marisa Tomei and Sandra Bullock.
A PYROMANIAC'S LOVE STORY is one of those motion pictures that tries too hard to be offbeat. The result isn't as tedious as DESTINY TURNS ON THE RADIO, but that's not saying much. William Baldwin's over-the-top performance is jarring, especially considering how understated everything else is. But the failure of this movie isn't one man's fault--it's a combination of things, too few of which work. The lesson here is that if you're going to make a comic fable/love story, make sure it's funny, magical, and/or romantic. If it's none of the above, the stillborn result will be something like A PYROMANIAC'S LOVE STORY.
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