CITY SLICKERS 2: THE LEGEND OF CURLY'S GOLD A film review by Michael John Legeros Copyright 1994 Michael John Legeros
Directed by Paul Weiland Written by Billy Crystal and Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel Cast Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, and Jack Palance MPAA Rating PG Running Time Approx. 110 minutes
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"There is something wrong with your cow." - Lovitz to Crystal, on Norman The Cow
Blame Francis Ford Coppola. If his GODFATHER II hadn't been so gosh-darned good, the American moviegoing public may have never known the ill-effects of terminal sequelitis (JAWS 2, ARTHUR 2, ROBOCOP 2 ... shudder). Of course, then we wouldn't get to see Jon Lovitz recite Fredo's dialogue in CITY SLICKERS 2: THE LEGEND OF CURLY'S GOLD.
Lovitz replaces Bruno Kirby as obligatory third-wheel to Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern, those cow-pokin' city folk who tamed the not-so-wild-west in the smash 1991 original. One year has passed (in movie time) and Mitch (Crystal) is haunted by the fear that he may have buried Curly (Palance) alive. Remember Curly, the grizzled trail-boss who knew one thing?
Guilt gives way to gold-fever, though, when Mitch find a map to buried treasure inside Curly's old hat. Before you can say "Walter Huston," the boys--Crystal, Stern, and Lovitz, as Mitch's ne'er-do-anything brother--are saddled up and ready for another ride. Whereupon they run into everything from rattlesnakes to Curly's twin brother Duke. (Those are different?)
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE it ain't, but, to use the best excuse in "the business," hey, it's a sequel.
Watching CITY SLICKERS 2 is like, er, watching CITY SLICKERS 1. Once again, Billy Crystal bee-bops around a less-than-thrilled Jack Palance. Once again, a serious theme is weighing on the conscience of the characters. Once again, rousing music meets vibrant vistas. SSDM.
The trouble is that the original wasn't *that* great of a film to begin with. CITY SLICKERS was overlong and--surprise!--so is the sequel.
For about eighty minutes, CURLY'S GOLD is the sequel it should be. The gags are fresh, the situations are new, and Lovitz even nails a couple zingers on the head. But once out west, the film begins to make the same mistakes as the original. Mistake #1: the jokes stop coming. Mistake #2: the men start bonding. The whole thing wraps with great plot twist that's too little, too late.
Though the handsome production values are certainly worth noting, the cast is the selling point and, this time, they're a surprisingly mixed bag.
Freed of his character's middle-aged angst, Crystal is a chatterbox of commentary. He's not quite grating, but close. Lovitz doesn't have more than a handful of lines and the deficency shows. (Heck, he was funnier in 1993 an Oscar presenter!) Neither actor acts as goofy as Stern, the strongest and most believable of the three. Jack Palance doesn't show until the hour mark and, of course, steals every scene he's in.
BOTTOM LINE: Watching CITY SLICKERS II: THE LEGEND OF CURLY'S GOLD is like watching the original: fun for a while, but tedious toward the end.
Grade: C+
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| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| AccountManagement | |
| DataStorage | |
| PersistenceCallback |
The Smartcrypt SDK persists user information across sessions.
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| SmartcryptKeyManagement | |
| Smartkeys | |
| Users |
| Class | Description |
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| SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder | |
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The Key Management component is the starting point for all interactions with the Smartcrypt SDK. The Key Management component makes it easy to login as a Smartcrypt user and to create, retrieve, share, and use Smartkeys. Policies configured on the Smartcrypt manager are automatically enforced, and data stored locally are cryptographically tamper resistant.
MetaClient metaClient = new NativeMetaClient.Builder()
.appName("LoggingIn")
.appVersion("1.0.0")
.server("https://oh1.smartcrypt.com/mds")
.build();
SmartcryptKeyManagement smartcryptKeyManagement = new SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder()
.metaClient(metaClient)
.persistenceCallback(new InMemoryPersistenceCallback())
.build();
AccountManagement accountManagement = smartcryptKeyManagement.getAccountManagement();
// There are 3 types of login methods: managed, implicit, and unmanaged.
//
// Managed login is used for accounts that are managed by Active Directory. The credentials used are the
// same as those of the domain account.
//
// This login variant requires the developer to provide credentials, but does not require any system
// configuration.
//
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"password");
// Implicit login uses the domain account of the computer user who owns the process running MetaClient.
// Typically, this is the user logged-in to Windows, Mac, etc, but may be a different user. On Windows,
// Integrated Windows Authentication is used for a seamless experience. On *nix systems, Kerberos is used,
// and the kinit program, or a similar utility, must be used to configure the account prior to login.
//
// This login variant does not require the developer to provide any credentials, but does require system
// configuration by the system administrator.
//
// Note that to use implicit login, the developer must supply a server URL to the MetaClient builder.
accountManagement.loginImplicitAccount();
/*
// Unmanaged login is used for accounts that are created in Smartcrypt Enterprise Manager. These do not live
// in Active Directory. The credentials are owned by Smartcrypt Enterprise Manager.
//
// This login variant requires the developer to provide credentials, but does not require any system
// configuration.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"password");
MetaClient metaClient = new NativeMetaClient.Builder()
.appName("CreatingAndUpdatingSmartkeys")
.appVersion("1.0.0")
.deviceName(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.deviceUniqueId(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.platform(Platform.LINUX)
.platformVersion("0")
.build();
SmartcryptKeyManagement smartcryptKeyManagement = new SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder()
.metaClient(metaClient)
.persistenceCallback(new InMemoryPersistenceCallback())
.build();
smartcryptKeyManagement.getAccountManagement().loginManagedAccount("<your username>", "<your password>");
Smartkeys smartkeys = smartcryptKeyManagement.getSmartkeys();
//
// To create a new Smartkey, prepare a SmartkeySpec with the information for the new key.
// Keys created using the SDK are always GenericSmartkeys.
//
SmartkeySpec createSmartkeySpec = new SmartkeySpec();
createSmartkeySpec.name = "Sample";
createSmartkeySpec.addAccess.add("john.doe@example.com");
// Key creation is synchronous, but you can be notified of updates to the key by listening to the Observable
Observable<Smartkey> keyObservable = smartkeys.create(createSmartkeySpec);
Smartkey smartkey = keyObservable
.doOnEach(genericSmartkeyNotification -> {
Smartkey key = genericSmartkeyNotification.getValue();
System.out.println("Got revision " + key.getRevision() + " for created Smartkey " + key.getName());
})
.blockingSingle();
//
// To update a key, once again prepare a SmartkeySpec. Most types of keys can be updated in some fashion
//
SmartkeySpec updateSmartkeySpec = new SmartkeySpec();
updateSmartkeySpec.name = "Updated Sample";
updateSmartkeySpec.removeAccess.add("john.doe@example.com");
// Key updates are synchronous, but once again, you can be notified of updates to the key by listening to
// the observable
Observable<Smartkey> updatedKeyObservable = smartkeys.update(smartkey, updateSmartkeySpec);
updatedKeyObservable
.subscribe(key -> System.out.println("Got updated Smartkey " + key.getName()));
MetaClient metaClient = new NativeMetaClient.Builder()
.appName("BackgroundProcessing")
.appVersion("1.0.0")
.deviceName(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.deviceUniqueId(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.platform(Platform.LINUX)
.platformVersion("0")
.build();
SmartcryptKeyManagement smartcryptKeyManagement = new SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder()
.metaClient(metaClient)
.persistenceCallback(new InMemoryPersistenceCallback())
.build();
// Background errors come out as Notifications and can easily be logged or monitored
smartcryptKeyManagement.getDataStorage().getNotifications()
.map(unfiltered -> {
Set<Notification> filtered = new LinkedHashSet<>(unfiltered.size());
for (Notification notification : unfiltered) {
if (notification instanceof SyncProblemNotification) {
filtered.add(notification);
}
}
return filtered;
})
.flatMap(Observable::fromIterable)
.subscribe(problem -> System.out.println(problem.message));
// Background processing can be paused. This may be necessary if your app goes into the a state where the
// process is alive, but the user does not expect it to be running, such as a backgrounded mobile app
smartcryptKeyManagement.pauseBackgroundProcessing();
// Background processing can also be resumed
smartcryptKeyManagement.resumeBackgroundProcessing();
MetaClient metaClient = new NativeMetaClient.Builder()
.appName("PersistingSmartkeys")
.appVersion("1.0.0")
.deviceName(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.deviceUniqueId(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.platform(Platform.LINUX)
.platformVersion("0")
.build();
SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder builder = new SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder()
.metaClient(metaClient);
// Persistence is done as part of sync. Sync happens on a worker thread, so the persistence happens on the
// same worker thread. Persistence is synchronous, and the next sync will wait until persistence has
// completed, but SDK consumers don't need to know that.
SmartcryptKeyManagement smartcryptKeyManagement = builder
.persistenceCallback(new InMemoryPersistenceCallback())
.build();
smartcryptKeyManagement.getAccountManagement().loginManagedAccount("<your username>", "<your password>");
Smartkeys smartkeys = smartcryptKeyManagement.getSmartkeys();
// For this example, any Smartkey will do. We'll just take the first one we get
Smartkey smartkey = smartkeys.listAll()
.blockingFirst()
.iterator().next();
// Smartkey serialization is straightforward. When serializing, the information of the provided Smartkey is
// used.
String serializedRepresentation = smartkeys.serialize(smartkey);
System.out.println("Serialized Smartkey " + smartkey.getName() + ": " + serializedRepresentation);
// Retrieving a Smartkey from its serialized form is also straightforward.
Smartkey deserializedSmartkey = smartkeys.deserialize(serializedRepresentation).blockingFirst();
System.out.println("Smartkey " + deserializedSmartkey.getName());
MetaClient metaClient = new NativeMetaClient.Builder()
.appName("PersistingMetadata")
.appVersion("1.0.0")
.deviceName(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.deviceUniqueId(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.platform(Platform.LINUX)
.platformVersion("0")
.build();
SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder builder = new SmartcryptKeyManagementImpl.Builder()
.metaClient(metaClient);
// Persistence is done as part of sync. Sync happens on a worker thread, so the persistence happens on the
// same worker thread. Persistence is synchronous, and the next sync will wait until persistence has
// completed, but SDK consumers don't need to know that.
SmartcryptKeyManagement smartcryptKeyManagement = builder
.persistenceCallback(new FilePersistenceCallback())
.build();
// Data restore, both threading and timing, is controlled by the developer
DataStorage dataStorage = smartcryptKeyManagement.getDataStorage();
dataStorage.restore();
// Be sure to define this class somewhere
class FilePersistenceCallback implements PersistenceCallback {
private final static String folder = "serializedMetadata";
public boolean onSaveData(Map<String, String> toSave, Set<String> toDelete) {
try {
Files.createDirectory(Paths.get(folder));
for (Map.Entry<String, String> datum : toSave.entrySet()) {
try (BufferedWriter writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(Paths.get(folder, datum.getKey()))) {
writer.write(datum.getValue());
}
}
for (String name : toDelete) {
Files.deleteIfExists(Paths.get(folder, name));
}
return true;
} catch (IOException e) {
return false;
}
}
public Map<String, String> onLoadData() {
try {
return Files.list(Paths.get(folder))
.collect(Collectors.toMap(
path -> path.getFileName().toString(), // Key
fileName -> { // Value
try {
return new String(Files.readAllBytes(fileName));
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return "";
}
}
));
} catch (IOException e) {
return Collections.emptyMap();
}
}
}
// Observables emit a stream of events. This is a push model rather than a pull model.
Observable<Integer> observable = Observable.range(0, 5);
// Observables can be transformed
Observable<String> intsAsStrings = observable.map(Object::toString);
// Use common stream/observable operators
Observable<String> filteredInts = intsAsStrings.filter(number -> !"3".equals(number));
// Observables only process when subscribed to. All of the previous "work" is only setup - none of it has
// run yet. When we subscribe now, the work will happen.
Disposable subscription = filteredInts.subscribe(System.out::println);
// Subscriptions must be disposed when we're done with them, otherwise the stream will continue processing
// when we no longer need it
subscription.dispose();
//
// Observables can also be made blocking, effectively making them a single, synchronous call
//
Integer lastNumberBlocking = Observable.range(0, 4).blockingLast();
System.out.println("With a blocking call: " + lastNumberBlocking);


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Evolve - The Game of Insanity
Welcome to your very own city! Evolve is a simulation game where there exists a city with certain rules.
Read
the following rules carefully before proceeding:
TLDR
This city has people and they pass messages to each other. Depending on the type of message, the listener
either gets mad or gets less mad. The overall city has an insanity (madness) average - which you have to
keep under some limit and prevent the city from collapsing.
The red/yellow dots you'll see on the
screen are the people.
RULES
When you start the game, the universe starts adding people to the city.
As soon as a person is added, they go about roaming all over the city area - which is bounded by
certain
borders.
While travelling, if a person meets some other person, they stop moving and start taking. Gossip is
the favourite
passtime here.
Any other person travelling close enough to these people talking can also join the conversation.
When people were added to the city, a handful of them were born with a memory - a message passed
down by
the universe.
And when these people with memories talk to others, they tend to share the message with them.
This passing of message goes on as people keep on meeting others.
Every person has a level of insanity related to them. This shows a measure of how mad/angry/panicked
the
individual is.
Averaged on all the people is the city's overall insanity.
When people talk, and pass a message, depending on the type of message, the listener's insanity
either
goes up or goes down.
The universe constantly tries to increase the overall insanity in various ways, it just loves to see
the
city collapse (saddistic huh).
Your aim is to prevent the city from collapsing. You have to reduce the city's insanity and
keep
it
under the max limit for 180 seconds.
Your city succumbed to its own insanity. :(
Congrats! You saved your city!
 Save the world from the probable insanity,
spread the truth.


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The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the availability, the processing and palatability of foods. A healthy diet includes preparation of food and storage methods that preserve nutrients from oxidation, heat or leaching, and that reduce risk of foodborne illness.
A poor diet can cause deficiency diseases such as blindness, anemia, scurvy, preterm birth, stillbirth and cretinism;[2] health-threatening conditions like obesity[3][4] and metabolic syndrome;[5] and such common chronic systemic diseases as cardiovascular disease,[6] diabetes,[7][8] and osteoporosis.[9][10][11] A poor diet can cause the wasting of kwashiorkor in acute cases, and the stunting of marasmus in chronic cases of malnutrition.[2]
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| void | setStatus (bool status) |
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Class that describe the Mac2PhyTxTone CrossLayer message.
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Constructor of the class.
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Copy the message.
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François Perruchas
PhD tutors: Davide Consoli, Nicolò Barbieri
Paris Agreement: hold the increase in global average temp. below 2ºC
⤷ achieving net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by the second half of this century
⟶
We estimate the probability of
⇢ diversification in a GT
⇢ specialization in a GT
with:
- Scjt: 1 if RTA > 1
- ITC: complexity of a technology (Hidalgo, 2007)
- Density: how close is a tech. to country's GT portfolio
- HI: Herfindhal Index
- Size: size of the technology
| Div. Eq. (1) | Div. Eq. (2) | Spec. Eq. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Density | 0.027*** | 0.116*** | 0.141*** |
| (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | |
| Density * GDP | 0.000* | 0.000 | |
| (0.00) | (0.00) | ||
| Tech-Level Variables | |||
| Log Size | 0.005* | 0.007** | 0.010*** |
| (0.00) | (0.00) | (0.00) | |
| Herfindahl Index | -0.019** | -0.050*** | 0.010 |
| (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | |
| ITC | 0.002** | 0.004*** | 0.002** |
| (0.00) | (0.00) | (0.00) | |
| GDP x Log Size | -0.000 | ||
| (0.00) | |||
| GDP x Herfindahl Index | -0.000*** | ||
| (0.00) | |||
| GDP x ITC | 0.000*** | ||
| (0.00) | |||
| Tech Fixed Effects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Time Fixed Effects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Country Fixed Effects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Obs. | 51149 | 70547 | 77065 |
| (1) RTA < 0.1 in the prev. period. (2) RTA < at the beg. of the sample. |
Diversification probabilities
Specialization probabilities
4 stages defined by Vona & Consoli (2015):
Identification of TLC stages: proposed approach
| Ubiquity | |||
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| Patenting activity | low | high | |
| high | Development | Diffusion | |
| low | Emergence | Maturity |
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Ubiquity
RTA for each GT(j) / country (c) / time(t) period
The indicator for each GT is given by the number of countries that exhibit RTA in a particular GT (Petralia et al., 2017; Balland &Rigby, 2017):
UBIQUITYj,t = Σc Mc,j with Mc,j = 1 if RTA > 1
Patenting intensity
We measure variety with the territory knowledge base using patent families and IPC codes (Castaldi, 2015).
UV ⇒ recombination of IPC 1 digit (ex: C)
SRV ⇒ recombination of IPC 4 digits (ex: C01B)
RV ⇒ recombination of IPC 8 digits (ex: C01B 6/10)
Empirical model:
Where:
- GP: N. of green patent families per millions inhabitants in US states over year
- Variety: UV, SRV and RV
- R&D: R&D expenditure
- HC: % of people with bachelor degree or higher
- Controls (HC and R& in neighbour states, Pop. density)
- Τj: state fixed effects
- δjt: time fixed effects
| GP (log) | Tot Pat (log) | |
|---|---|---|
| UV (log) | 1.386*** | -0.931* |
| (0.421) | (0.507) | |
| SRV (log) | 0.286 | 0.193*** |
| (0.184) | (0.0668) | |
| RV (log) | 0.392** | 0.515*** |
| (0.154) | (0.0987) | |
| Controls | YES | YES |
| State FE | YES | YES |
| Time Dummies | YES | YES |
| Random growth | YES | YES |
| Obs. | 1466 | 1470 |
| GP (log) | Emergence | Development | Diffusion | Maturity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UV (log) | 1.386*** | 0.958* | 1.214** | 0.597 | 0.716 |
| (0.421) | (0.523) | (0.590) | (0.786) | (0.473) | |
| SRV (log) | 0.286 | -0.356 | 0.783*** | 0.166 | -0.205 |
| (0.184) | (0.338) | (0.201) | (0.249) | (0.147) | |
| RV (log) | 0.392** | 0.421 | 0.516*** | 0.434* | 0.554*** |
| (0.154) | (0.313) | (0.157) | (0.247) | (0.0848) | |
| Controls | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| State FE | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Time Dummies | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Random growth | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Obs. | 1466 | 1392 | 1371 | 1424 | 1452 |
An approach of Green Technologies
⤷ degree of development
⤷ diffusion: geographical, low/high income countries
⤷ sources: knowledge recombination, skills


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We will be using node.js, and particularly a node library called Express, as our primary server side tools. Node is a JavaScript based server-side technology. NPM is the Node Package Manager. We use NPM to configure the JavaScript libraries that we use in our node scripts. Express is one of the most important JavaScript libraries.
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Debugging Node in Eclipse:
OpenID is a service that we can use to handle user log in to our application. The actual authentication is handled by OpenID, and we use a node library to confirm that the user is actually who we think they are. If we can confirm their identity then we provide them with access to our game. Furthermore, we now have a user name for them, so we can track their progress, keeping it separate from the progress of other users.
Here are some OpenID resources. There are various OpenID Providers who can verify a user's identity. I have been using MyOpenID. Why don't we all standardize on their site for now, and move only if we find good reason to do so.
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Linear Algebra; The How and Why 🤨
This article aims to give the reader an understanding of the linear algebra aspect of mathematics one needs to know to start programming or developing machine/deep learning models and gain an understanding of them. Each section corresponds to a unique linear algebra operation. I hope this paper is easy to read and understand to a person who has just a basic high school level understanding of mathematics.
 Well, a matrix is a “rectangular array of numbers”. In simpler terms, a matrix is a grid where each square holds a value. You might be familiar with matrices in programming (also known as an “array of arrays”). In Java, for example, to create a matrix, you might type this: int[][] mat = new int[2][2]
. This would initialize a “2 by 2” matrix. Here is an example of a “2 by 2” matrix in math:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{2} & {4} \\ {1} & {3}\end{array}\right]$$
Above is a “matrix of numbers”. Why did I call it “2 by 2”? It has 2 rows and 2 columns. So, for example, this matrix would be a “3 by 2” or just 3x2:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {2} \\ {3} & {4} \\ {5} & {6}\end{array}\right]$$
Additionally, the symbol commonly used to represent matrix dimensions is the all-real-numbers symbol: \(\mathbb{R}\). The dimensions of the previous example could be written as \(\mathbb{R}^{3 \times 2}\)
Indexing
Another very common operation needed to be performed on matrices is “indexing”. This is where you can get one value from a matrix. So, if I call the 3x2
matrix above \(A\) , and I wanted to index the first element (1), I would say \(A_{11}\). The reason I do this is because matrix indexing occurs by a subscript where the first number corresponds to the row and the second number corresponds the column of the element in the matrix you want to get (eg. \(Nameofmatrix_{rowcol}\)). Another example: let's suppose I want to index the 6 in the matrix above. It is in the 3rd row and 2nd column, so to index it I would say \(A_{32}\) (Assuming my matrix was called \(A\)).
Vectors
A “vector” is just a matrix but with one column only. You could say it is an n x 1
matrix because it can have as many rows (n) but only one column. When indexing a vector, you only need one number in the subscript and that corresponds to the row of the number you are indexing. So, if we have this vector
$$Y=\left[\begin{array}{l}{1} \\ {2} \\ {3}\end{array}\right]$$
then, \(Y_{1}=1\), \(Y_{2}=2\), and \(Y_{3}=3\).
Just a quick note: all the indexing I have written on is what is called “1-indexing” because the first value in the matrix is referred to with a 1. If you are familiar with programming, then you will most likely be familiar with zero-indexing, where the first value in an array (or matrix) is the 0th element. 1-indexed vectors/matrices are the most common. Another note: matrices and vectors are often named using CAPITOL lettering by convention.
Simple Operations
Now we will start to perform operations on matrices. For each simple operator (add, subtract, multiply, divide) there are two different matrix operations associated. The two matrix operations are known as “scalar” and “element-wise”. The scalar operator takes a number and performs one operation with each element in the matrix. For example,
$$3+\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {2} \\ {3} & {4}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1+3} & {2+3} \\ {3+3} & {4+3}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{ll}{4} & {5} \\ {6} & {7}\end{array}\right]$$
This works the same way for subtraction, multiplication, and division using scalar values. With element wise operations, you take two matrices of the SAME dimensions and perform one operation with each corresponding element in each matrix. For example:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {2} \\ {3} & {4}\end{array}\right] *\left[\begin{array}{ll}{5} & {4} \\ {3} & {2}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1 * 5} & {2 * 4} \\ {3 * 3} & {4 * 2}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{ll}{4} & {8} \\ {9} & {8}\end{array}\right]$$
Here is an example where you can't perform the element-wise operation because the two matrices do NOT have the same dimensions:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{2} & {3} \\ {4} & {5}\end{array}\right]+\left[\begin{array}{lll}{1} & {2} & {3} \\ {4} & {5} & {6}\end{array}\right]=undefined$$
Matrix-Vector Multiplication
When multiplying a matrix by a vector, you take each row of the matrix and multiply each element of that row with the corresponding element in the vector and then add them. You do that for each row in the matrix and you end up with a vector with the number of rows as the original matrix. This is known as the “dot product” and is represented with this symbol: “\(\otimes\)" (or with no symbol like 2x means to multiply 2 with x). It will make more sense once you see this example:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {3} \\ {4} & {0} \\ {2} & {1}\end{array}\right] \otimes\left[\begin{array}{l}{1} \\ {5}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{l}{?} \\ {?} \\ {?}\end{array}\right]$$
To perform the dot product, we first take the first row of the matrix, \(\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {3}\end{array}\right]\), and multiply each element in it with the corresponding element in the vector like this:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {3}\end{array}\right] *\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {5}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{lll}{1 * 1} & {3 * 5}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {15}\end{array}\right]$$
Now you add the values up, \(1+15=16\). This becomes the first value in the resulting matrix.
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {3} \\ {4} & {0} \\ {2} & {1}\end{array}\right] \otimes\left[\begin{array}{l}{1} \\ {5}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}{16} \\ {?} \\ {?}\end{array}\right]$$
You now perform these same steps with the rest of the rows in the matrix. For the sake of brevity, I will put the final operations in the matrix:
$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}{1} & {3} \\ {4} & {0} \\ {2} & {1}\end{array}\right] \otimes\left[\begin{array}{l}{1} \\ {5}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}{16} \\ {(4 * 1+0 * 5)} \\ {(2 * 1+1 * 5)}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}{16} \\ {4} \\ {7}\end{array}\right]$$
And that final matrix is the answer. It's not difficult to understand, just tedious to execute. This is why NO ONE does this by hand, we use computers to do this for us. In python, using the numpy library, you can just say this to perform that entire dot product: numpy.dot(matrix_A, matrix_B)
.
Additionally, because the operations for dot product are so specific, you cannot perform them with just two randomly dimensioned matrices, they have to be specific as well. If the matrix has dimensions \(\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}\) (\(m\) rows, \(n\) columns), then the vector must have the dimensions \(\mathbb{R}^{n\times 1}\) (n dimensional vector). The answer would then be a vector with the dimensions \(\mathbb{R}^{m \times 1}\).
Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
To multiply a matrix by another matrix we need to do the "dot product" of the rows and columns ... what does that mean? Well, in the previous section, we took a matrix and a vector, and for each row in the matrix, we found the dot product of that row with the vector and ended up with a vector as the result. For multiplying matrices, you do that EXACT same thing, but repeat it for each column in the second matrix acting as individual vectors.
This will make more sense in an example. To work out the answer for the 1st row and 1st column of the resulting matrix in this problem, I would find the dot product of the 1st row of the first matrix and the 1st column of the second matrix like so:
$$\left[\begin{array}{lll}\color{blue}{1} & \color{blue}{2} & \color{blue}{3} \\ {4} & {5} & {6}\end{array}\right] \times\left[\begin{array}{cc}\color{blue}{7} & {8} \\ \color{blue}{9} & {10} \\ \color{blue}{11} & {12}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}\color{blue}{58} & {}\\ {} &{}\end{array}\right]$$
$$\begin{aligned}(1,2,3) \otimes(7,9,11) &=1 \times 7+2 \times 9+3 \times 11 \\ &=58 \end{aligned}$$
To work out the answer for the 2nd row and 1st column of the resulting matrix, I would find the dot product of the 2nd row of the first matrix and the 1st column of the second like so:
$$\left[\begin{array}{lll}{1} & {2} &{3} \\ \color{blue}{4} & \color {blue}{5} & \color {blue}{6}\end{array}\right] \times\left[\begin{array}{cc}\color{blue}{7} & {8} \\ \color{blue}{9} & {10} \\ \color{blue}{11} & {12}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c} {58} & {}\\ \color{blue}{139} & {}\end{array}\right]$$
$$\begin{aligned}(4,5,6) \otimes(7,9,11) &=4 \times 7+5 \times 9+6 \times 11 \\ &=139 \end{aligned}$$
We can do the same thing for the 1st row and the 2nd column:
$$\begin{aligned}(1,2,3) \otimes(8,10,12) &=1 \times 8+2 \times 10+3 \times 12 \\ &=64 \end{aligned}$$
And for the 2nd row and 2nd column:
$$\begin{aligned}(4,5,6) \otimes(8,10,12) &=4 \times 8+5 \times 10+6 \times 12 \\ &=154 \end{aligned}$$
And finally, we get:
$$\left[\begin{array}{lll}{1} & {2} & {3} \\ {4} & {5} & {6}\end{array}\right] \times\left[\begin{array}{cc}{7} & {8} \\ {9} & {10} \\ {11} & {12}\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{cc}{58} & {64} \\ {139} & {154}\end{array}\right]$$
The Why
Why is this important to know?
Well, to be honest if you aren't doing something related to mathematics or computer science (machine learning) I would struggle to give you a good reason that you need to know it. But, for machine learning, it is EXTREMELY useful.
When modeling the layers of a neural network in a program on a computer, each layer can be represented by a vector and the weights as a matrix. Then, when it comes time to forward propagate, the next layer of the network is calculated by the dot product of the previous layer (the vector) and the weights. There are actually many cloud computing services that have computers you can access that are specially designed to be able to perform matrix operations quickly which greatly improves the training process for a network.
This is all I got for this one! Please feel free to email me with any questions 👍📬


For each Block Type, you are able to specify a list of Materials which make up that action. The available actions include: climb, placeable, speed and launch.
Each of these can be added to using /carz add (type) (Material). Some may need an extra argument for the amount, such as the strength of the speed block or the amount of height from a launch block.
The contents of each block type are stored in the blocks.yml config file.
Climb blocks provide the ability for a car to climb up certain types of Materials. The climb mechanic will check the block in front of the Minecart for a valid Material, check if there is space above it to climb to, then proceed to elevate the car up the block.
If there are no specified Climb Blocks, EVERY Material is climbable.
Placeable blocks provide the ability to restrict where players are able to physically place Cars.
If there are no specified Placeable Blocks, EVERY Material is placeable.
Speed blocks provide the ability to give the car an extra speed boost when driven over, before gradually returning your car to it's normal speed.
Speed blocks are also able to lower the cars speed when driven on, for example if the car should drive slowly on grass then set the speed block to a value below 1.0.
The value specified is a multiplier of the car's maximum speed, so 10
would be 10x their speed, and 0.1
would be 10% of their speed.
There is validation to prevent numbers below 0 and over 100. Anything exceeding 100 will cause the Car to almost teleport forward which isn't advised. Anything under 0 will seemingly reverse the car, and could be used to restrict the car from entering certain areas. If desired, manual editing of the blocks.yml
file is required.
Value: 10
Value: 0.1
Launch blocks provide the ability to add a y velocity of the car, giving the illusion of launching them into the air.
It's worth noting that values between 0.0 and 2.0 seem to be most effective, anything over 2 will launch too high.


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Widget container is a generic type class that acts like a non-resizeable widget when selecting things in the scene view.


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Seniors Last Day / Senior Checkout is Friday, May 13, 2016
Once finals are completed, all seniors will be directed to the Auxiliary Gym to begin the checkout process. You will not receive a cap or gown at Senior Checkout to participate in the graduation ceremony until all fines have been paid and all obligations met. This includes all academic, athletic, activity fines, detentions and community service completed. Remember, you will NOT be able to check out on May 13 until you have completed your Senior Exit Survey (directions below).
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Cork college considering fines for students' anti-social behaviour during unofficial ‘Christmas Day’ event
Cork Institute of Technology is considering fining students for drink or drug-fuelled anti-social behaviour.
It comes after residents near University College Cork complained about hundreds of students who took to the pubs and streets for an unofficial student Christmas event.
Two incidents of criminal damage are being investigated following the unofficial ‘Christmas Day’ event, when a young man was seen jumping on two cars, while a number of people were fined for being drunk and disorderly.
Speaking to The Echo in Cork, Community Policing Sergeant Stewart Philpott said that some students were arrested for public order, possession of drugs, while other students had their college ID’s taken.
“We will be liaising with the college in the coming days about the event,” Sgt Philpott said.
USI President Lorna Fitzpatrick said programmes such as REACT need to be enforced to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed at student events.
Ms Fitzpatrick said: "It focuses on reducing alcohols consumption, and I suppose, safely consuming alcohol and that is where it ties in with that harm-reduction model.
"One of the main elements of the REACT programme is to understand the current situation and try and introduce in ititiatives and policies within institutions to try and support the aim of the programme which is to reduce alcohol consumption."
Gardaí found out about the unofficial UCC event, which coincides with an official Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) Christmas Day event, on Tuesday.


A program that explains and visualizes various sorting algorithms. Though currently, it only visualizes pigeonhole sort, I plan on adding more sorts. Check it out at my Github.
A task scheduler that uses AI algorithms to find the best schedule for you. A project with Eric Shim, Ben Zeng, and Matthew Li and our submission for ToHacks 2020.
Past Projects
Grade 12 ICS ISP
A game called CovidCraft that teaches how to craft various items and protective gear out of home materials. This game was created with Ben Zeng and Oscar Han. Check it out in more detail here.
Token Renewal Form
A website that collects information and stores it in a SQL Express database.
A game of Monopoly, but with a twist: it's Toronto themed! This game was made as the final project to the Grade 11 ICS course, using Java and HSA. It features a randomized board. Check it out at my Github.
An escape room game featuring 4 puzzles. This game was made as the final project to the Grade 10 ICS course, using Processing. Check it out at my Github.


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Dosage:
0:00 1 ml of 'Emerald Essence' Salvia tincture, Sublingual
0:04 1 ml of 'Emerald Essence' Salvia tincture, Sublingual
0:08 1 ml of 'Emerald Essence' Salvia tincture, Sublingual
Background:
- no drug use for 2 months prior
- on no medication or dietary supplements
- previous experiments /w hallucinogens have shown subject to be relatively tolerant
The reports I read on the web about this Salvia piqued my interest, and I eventually decided to try it out. Smoking things bothers me so I opted for the sublingual absorption method of delivery and purchased a concentrated tincture, despite it being relatively a lot more expensive.
When I first got it I tried a single .75 milliliter sublingual dose and noticed no effects other than a slightly stilled mind - but perhaps I was just tired.
4 days later I decided to experiment again. I took what was listed as a 'Moderate' dose alone in a quiet place.
I first brushed my teeth, gums and tongue - as I heard this helps the mouth absorb the drug. The directions indicated that a 'Moderate' dose is 3-4 dropperfuls (1 dropperful = 0.75 ml) and that this was best staggered over 3 consecutive 4-minute sublingual applications. I put 4 dropperfuls into a shot glass.
+0:00 (8:30pm) - I held a third of the tincture under my tongue.  Keeping it under my tongue made my whole mouth go numb and watery. At least it didn't taste too bad - like slightly bitter raisins.
+0:04 - I swallowed the tincture left in my mouth and held another third under my tongue.
+0:07 - I felt a weird muscle twitch in my leg, which quickly went away. Weird body twitches are characteristic of my mushroom trips, yet at the moment I still felt baseline.
+0:08 - I swallowed the tincture I had in my mouth and put the last third under my tongue. A slight sensation of tightness developed on the top of my head.
+0:15 - Like someone who catches a faint whisper of something approaching in the distance, I stop what I was doing and tried to find a stillness.  This stillness seemed to precipitate all the effects of the drug immediately and my vision tunneled. Mentally I had been dropped somewhere else.
I dimmed the lights, sat down, closed my eyes, and meditated. I was not scared; there were no visuals; no time dilation; no elation; no mental impairment. The experience was indescribably introspective. Memories, feelings, and the internal stage of imagination became more real and more vivid. Everything internal was amplified, everything external was deprioritizes to the periphery of consciousness. Looking around me things seemed simply less there - at one point I was drooling from the taste of the tincture lingering in my mouth and didn't even notice.
I could see how the perception of an out-of-body experience could arise from higher levels of this drug. At one point when meditating I tried to leave my body, and while I didn't have an out-of-body experience, I did have what I can only describe as a body-no-longer-relevant experience. I was something else somewhere else traveling though a non-corporeal psychescape.
After a while I opened my eyes and looked at the notebook sitting on my desk - I had planned to record the effects. Bringing the pen to the paper, I quickly gave up in my struggle to try to find words for this experience. As others have said before: Salvia is simply too weird to adequately describe.
+0:25 - I left to get a Coke to wash the not-exactly-pleasant taste of the tincture out of my mouth. I remember thinking, 'Am I walking straight?' It definitely took more effort coordinating myself in the corporeal world, the disorientation being similar to maybe 3 or 4 hard ciders.
+0:35 - I got back, sat down on my bed, and drank the Coke with some Pringles. No nausea, but the Pringles tasted unusually oily. It was good to get the tincture taste out of my mouth.
At this point I started to experiment more deliberately with the salvia state of mind. First I tried solving some calculus problems and proved to myself I wasn't logically impaired. Second, I listened to some music, noticing it seemed easier to get lost in. Third, I tried for a minute to make objects levitate ... what do you know? ... didn't work. Fourth, I tried to travel to the psychic body of a friend and asked her to message me to say she heard me ... this didn't work either. Not that I had much faith in the last two experiments, but I couldn't find any reason not to try :)
+0:45 - The internal amplification started becoming uncomfortable. It was simply too loud too long and it didn't seem to be subsiding. I tried to fall asleep and despite the caffeine from the coke and it being quite early in the evening, sleep came quickly.
+1:30 - I woke up peacefully, but still feeling slightly off baseline. I quickly fell back asleep.
+6:30 - I awoke with the memory of a strange dream still echoing in my mind. I was baseline and felt peachy, but had too much energy to fall back asleep. That's what you get for going to bed so early.
Afterthoughts:
This is the weirdest drug I've ever taken in my entire life. In my opinion it is neither recreational nor social. If salvia had something to show me, I was not ready for it, because I do not feel like I came away from my experience with much other than a lingering feeling of undirected weirdness.
If I attempt higher doses I'll smoke it despite my disdain for that method of delivery. The effect duration of smoked salvia is much shorter and if I'm to go deep into salvia-country I'd very much prefer a shorter visit to a longer one.
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.


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Curious what you can do to be a succesful PhD Student. tl:dr, don't.


Pack your bags! ! Based on your answers you might love going to New Zealand for a fly, drive, and camp vacation. Explore the incredibly beautiful land where The Lord of the Ringsem> was filmed!
 Based on your answers, you might love going to Washington DC for a tour of the US Capital and historic monuments!
 Based on your answers, you might love going to Disney World and Epcot Center! Kids of all ages have a blast in the enchanted kingdom!
 Based on your answers you might love going to the city of lights, Paris, France. Stroll along the Seine, and visit the many romantic landmarks.
 Based on your answers you might love going to a Wyoming Dude Ranch. The horses are saddled and the steaks are on the grill! At sunset you'll gather around the campfire and talk about the adventures of saddle sores, being pestered by giant mosquitos, and falling off your horse. It'll be great!


Deleting the USB Class Driver
Delete the USB class driver when it is not possible to install the printer driver correctly when using a USB connection. Note that even if you delete the USB class driver, it will be installed again automatically when you connect the printer and your computer with a USB cable.
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Apply uses Grunt for its CSS and JavaScript build system, it's optional, you can use this theme without grunt tools, we included all the dependencies in this project.
npm install
to install dependenciesgrunt build:sass
to build css filegrunt build:dist
to build dist with minified js and cssNote: any commands we tell you to run must be ran from the project's root folder.
Upload the unpacked files on to your server. eg. Apache or IIS
Note: This template is built with Ajax. you need put the files on a server for the lazyload plugins to work
You'll find the following directories and files, grouping common resources and providing both compiled and minified distribution files, as well as raw source files.
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You can apply any provided colors to any blocks, even on the Light, Dark theme.
The css file is generated by Scss files. There are many variables you can config to build the css file. many classes are extended from bootstrap css.
This template uses the Pjax for ajax load the page. you can disable it by remove the relative codes(remove the html/scripts/ajax.js)
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Fusion Inspector
In the school, we will explain the theory of butt fusion of polyethylene pipe and the process used to join it. The information includes the use of inspection checklists and a discussion of the critical factors involved in the fusion welding processes. This includes butt fusion, electro-fusion, socket fusion and sidewall fusion. Students also receive an in-depth explanation on the use and analysis of McElroy DataLogger® records.
Inspectors, project managers, consulting engineers, quality assurance managers, and sales professionals can benefit from this training.
Next Class: April 4th - 5th


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1: static char help[] = "Introductory example that illustrates running PETSc on a subset of processes.\n\n";
3: /*T
4: Concepts: introduction to PETSc;
5: Concepts: process^subset set PETSC_COMM_WORLD 6: Processors: 2
8: Note that this example is not checking the error codes from the MPI calls before and after PETSc is initialized.
9: This is because the PETSc macro CHKERRQ() will not work in those circumstances. You should also check the
10: MPI codes in this situation with your own code.
11: T*/
12: #include <petscsys.h>
14: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 15: {
17: PetscMPIInt rank, size;
19: /* We must call MPI_Init() first, making us, not PETSc, responsible for MPI */
20: MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);if (ierr) return ierr;
22: /* We can now change the communicator universe for PETSc */
23: MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);if (ierr) return ierr;
24: MPI_Comm_split(MPI_COMM_WORLD, rank%2, 0, &PETSC_COMM_WORLD);if (ierr) return ierr;
26: /*
27: Every PETSc routine should begin with the PetscInitialize() routine.
28: argc, argv - These command line arguments are taken to extract the options
29: supplied to PETSc and options supplied to MPI.
30: help - When PETSc executable is invoked with the option -help,
31: it prints the various options that can be applied at
32: runtime. The user can use the "help" variable place
33: additional help messages in this printout.
34: */
35: PetscInitialize(&argc, &argv, (char*) 0, help);if (ierr) return ierr;
37: /*
38: The following MPI calls return the number of processes
39: being used and the rank of this process in the group.
40: */
41: MPI_Comm_size(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,&size);
42: MPI_Comm_rank(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,&rank);
44: /*
45: Here we would like to print only one message that represents
46: all the processes in the group. We use PetscPrintf() with the
47: communicator PETSC_COMM_WORLD. Thus, only one message is
48: printed representng PETSC_COMM_WORLD, i.e., all the processors.
49: */
50: PetscPrintf(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,"Number of processors = %d, rank = %d\n", size, rank);
52: /*
53: Always call PetscFinalize() before exiting a program. This routine
54: - finalizes the PETSc libraries as well as MPI
55: - provides summary and diagnostic information if certain runtime
56: options are chosen (e.g., -log_view). See PetscFinalize()
57: manpage for more information.
58: */
59: PetscFinalize();if (ierr) return ierr;
61: MPI_Comm_free(&PETSC_COMM_WORLD);if (ierr) return ierr;
62: /* Since we initialized MPI, we must call MPI_Finalize() */
63: MPI_Finalize();
64: return ierr;
65: }
68: /*TEST
70: test:
71: nsize: 5
72: args: -options_left no
73: filter: sort -b | grep -v saws_port_auto_selectcd
74: filter_output: sort -b
76: TEST*/


--- layout: post title: Databases on SSD date: 2011-10-12 19:34:47.000000000 +02:00 type: post published: true status: publish categories: - Technology tags: - database - nosql - sql meta: _edit_last: '2' _jetpack_related_posts_cache: a:0:{} author: login: admin email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>display_name: gerbrand first_name: Gerbrand last_name: van Dieijen ---
SSD disk are becoming increasingly popular. As they read faster, you might consider running databases such as Oracle DBMS, MySQL or non-sql databases. However, interestingly, originally databases are optimized for tradition hard drives with spinning disks: most importantly: data is read in small chunks, and sequential reads are faster than random reads. I can't remember everything anymore, but I do remember doing calculations on various reading/writing algorithms during my university days.
For SSD's this model doesn't hold anymore: this blog posting shortly explains why: Why theory fails for SSDs There's no difference, if I understand correctly between random reads and sequential reads. However writes are much slower. Also SSD's have to calculate the physical address for every different read or write access. Meaning if you read a different part of the disk continuously, this will be slower then reading in the same pattern again and again.
Of course the theory doesn't fail, but it just doesn't apply to SSD :-).


Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has long been the industry standard version of the Internet Protocol (IP) for delivering data over the Internet. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next generation Internet layer protocol. Both versions of IP are in use today. Java applications support both IPv4 and IPv6 automatically.
The most significant difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is the address size, which is only 32 bits in IPv6, but 128 bits in IPv6. See the section IPv4 and IPv6 incompatibility in The Java Tutorials for more information.
This document covers the following topics:
IPv6 in Java is transparent and automatic. Porting is not necessary; there is no need to recompile source files.
Consider the Echo Client example described in Reading from and Writing to a Socket in The Java Tutorials. The example connect to an echo server, which receives data from its client and echoes it back. You can run this example in IPv6 mode if the echo client and the echo server are running on IPv6-enabled computers.
You can run any Java applications, client or server, on an IPv6-enabled platform, and that application will automatically become IPv6-enabled.
The Java networking stack first checks whether IPv6 is supported on the underlying OS. If IPv6 is supported, it tries to use the IPv6 stack. More specifically, on dual-stack systems, it creates an IPv6 socket. On separate-stack systems things are much more complicated. The Java runtime creates two sockets, one for IPv4 and one for IPv6 communication. For client-side TCP applications, once the socket is connected, the Internet-protocol family type is fixed, and the extra socket can be closed. For server-side TCP applications, because there is no way to tell from which IP family type the next client request will come, two sockets need to be maintained. For UDP applications, both sockets are needed for the lifetime of the communication.
The Java runtime gets the IP address from a name service.
You don't need to know the following in order to use IPv6 in Java. The following sections explains what happens under various circumstances.
This is also called anylocal or wildcard address. If a socket is bound to an IPv6 anylocal address on a dual-stack machine, it can accept both IPv6 and IPv4 traffic; if it is bound to an IPv4 (IPv4-mapped) anylocal address, it can only accept IPv4 traffic. The Java runtime always tries to bind to IPv6 anylocal address on a dual-stack machine unless a related system property is set to use IPv4 Stack.
When bound to ::
, the method ServerSocket.accept accept connections from both IPv6 or IPv4 hosts. The Java
platform API currently has no way to specify to accept connections
only from IPv6 hosts.
Applications can enumerate the interfaces using NetworkInterface and bind a ServerSocketChannel to each IPv6 address, and then use a selector from the New I/O API to accept connections from these sockets.
However, there is a new socket option that changes the above behavior. Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 has introduced a new IP level socket option, IPV6_V6ONLY. This socket option restricts AF_INET6 sockets to IPv6 communications only. Normally, AF_INET6 sockets may be used for both IPv4 and IPv6 communications. Some applications may want to restrict their use of an AF_INET6 socket to IPv6 communications only. For these applications the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option is defined. When this option is turned on, the socket can be used to send and receive IPv6 packets only. By default, this option is turned off. Note that Java SE does not currently support this socket option, but it may be added in a future release
Packets with the loopback address must never be sent on a link or forwarded by an IPv6 router. There are two separate loopback addresses for IPv4 and IPv6 and they are treated as such.
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are separate address spaces except when it comes to "::".
This address type was intended to be used for hosts and routers to dynamically tunnel IPv6 packets over IPv4 routing infrastructure but has been deprecated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
This is an IPv6 address that is used to represent an IPv4 address. It allows the native program to use the same address data structure and also the same socket when communicating with both IPv4 and IPv6 nodes. Thus, on a dual-stack node with IPv4-mapped address support, an IPv6 application can talk to both IPv4 and IPv6 peer. The OS will do the underlying plumbing required to send or receive an IPv4 datagram and to hand it to an IPv6 destination socket, and it will synthesize an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address when needed.
For Java, it is used for internal representation; it has no functional role. Java will never return an IPv4-mapped address. It understands IPv4-mapped address syntax, both in byte array and text representation. However, it will be converted into an IPv4 address.
On dual stack machines, system properties are provided for setting the preferred protocol stack—IPv4 or IPv6—as well as the preferred address family types—inet4 or inet6.
IPv6 stack is preferred by default, since on a dual-stack machine IPv6 socket can talk to both IPv4 and IPv6 peers.
This setting can be changed through the
java.net.preferIPv4Stack=<true|false>
system
property.
By default, IPv4 addresses are preferred over IPv6 addresses, for example, when querying the name service (for instance, DNS service), IPv4 addresses would be returned ahead of IPv6 addresses. There are two reasons for this choice:
%d.%d.%d.%d
. Using an IPv4 address
minimizes the surprises.This setting can be changed through the system property
java.net.preferIPv6Addresses=<true|false>
For many years, if not forever, there will be a mix of IPv6 and IPv4 nodes on the Internet. Thus compatibility with the large installed base of IPv4 nodes is crucial for the success of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Dual stack, defined in RFC 1933, is one of the main mechanisms for guaranteeing a smooth transition. The other mechanism is IPv6 packet tunneling, which is relevant to the JDK only through the IPv4-compatible address. The former is the most relevant piece to the JDK. A dual stack includes implementations of both versions of the Internet Protocol, IPv4 and IPv6.
A general property of a dual-stack node is that an IPv6 socket can communicate both with an IPv4 and IPv6 peer at the transport layer (TCP or UDP) . At the native level, the IPv6 socket communicates with an IPv4 peer through an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address. However, unless a socket checks for the peers address type, it won't know whether it is talking to an IPv4 or an IPv6 peer. All the internal plumbing and conversion of address types is done by the dual-protocol stack.
Note: IPv4-mapped address has significance only at the implementation of a dual-protocol stack. It is used to fake (for example, appear in the same format as) an IPv6 address to be handed over to an IPv6 socket. At the conceptual level it has no role; its role is limited at the Java API level. Parsing of an IPv4-mapped address is supported, but an IPv4-mapped address is never returned.
| (Nodes) | V4 Only | V4/V6 | V6 Only |
|---|---|---|---|
| V4 Only | x | x | No communication possible |
| V4/V6 | x | x | x |
| V6 Only | No communication possible | x | x |
The top row and left column represent various node types attempting to communicate. An x indicates that these nodes can communicate with each other.
In the following communication scenarios, either host1 or host2 can be a native application:
java.net.preferIPv4Stack (default: false)
If IPv6 is available on the operating system, the underlying native socket will be an IPv6 socket. This allows Java applications to connect to, and accept connections from, both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts.
If an application has a preference to only use IPv4 sockets, then this property can be set to true. The implication is that the application will not be able to communicate with IPv6 hosts.
java.net.preferIPv6Addresses (default: false)
If IPv6 is available on the operating system, the default
preference is to prefer an IPv4-mapped address over an IPv6
address. This is for backward compatibility reasons—for example,
applications that depend on access to an IPv4-only service, or
applications that depend on the %d.%d.%d.%d
representation of an IP
address.
This property can be set to try to change the preferences to use
IPv6 addresses over IPv4 addresses. This allows applications to be
tested and deployed in environments where the application is
expected to connect to IPv6 services.
sun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.<n>=<default|dns,sun|...>
Specifies the name service provider that you can use. By
default, the Java runtime will use the system-configured, name-lookup
mechanism, such as file or Network Information Service (NIS). You can specify your own by
setting this option. <n>
takes the value of a
positive number and it indicates the precedence order: a small
number takes higher precedence over a bigger number. One DNS name service provider is provided through JNDI, which is
called dns,sun
.
sun.net.spi.nameservice.nameservers=<server1_ipaddr,server2_ipaddr
...>
You can specify a comma separated list of IP addresses that point to the DNS servers you want to use.
sun.net.spi.nameservice.domain=<domainname>
This property specifies the default DNS domain name, for example,
eng.example.com
.


How to run BenchmarkDotNet in a Docker container
The BenchmarkDotNet library is great for creating benchmarks that can be run on a local machine in a very simple way. But what if you wanted to run them in a Docker container with a different operating system or using a different version of .Net Core. In this post I would like to show you how to dockerize your benchmarks.
Firstly, a new solution and a project need to be created. To do this, follow the instructions below. I will be using .NET Core CLI, because it works on most systems.
# 1. create new "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.sln" inside the “BenchmarkDotNetInDocker” directory.
dotnet new sln --name BenchmarkDotNetInDocker --output BenchmarkDotNetInDocker
# 2. navigate to the previously created directory.
cd BenchmarkDotNetInDocker
# 3. create a new console project with the name of “BenchmarkDotNetInDocker”.
dotnet new console --name BenchmarkDotNetInDocker
# 4. add the previously created project to the sln file.
dotnet sln add .\BenchmarkDotNetInDocker\BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj
# 5. add the BenchmarkDotNet nuget package to our project.
dotnet add .\BenchmarkDotNetInDocker\BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj package BenchmarkDotNet
# 6. restore nuget packages
dotnet restore
Now our project is ready to add the first benchmark, but before we do it, we need to change the Program.cs
file, as shown below. This code uses the BenchmarkSwitcher
class which allows us to choose a benchmark to run during the execution.
using System;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
namespace BenchmarkDotNetInDocker
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
BenchmarkSwitcher.FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly).Run(args);
}
}
}
Then we need to create a new .cs
file, e. g. MyBenchmark.cs
that will contain the benchmark. As you can see below, the MyBenchmark
class contains the Sum
method which is marked with the [Benchmark]
attribute. And that’s all.
public class MyBenchmark
{
[Benchmark]
public int Sum()
{
int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
result += i;
}
return result;
}
}
Now we can run our project. If you are inside the project directory, just run:
dotnet run -c Release -- --filter *Sum*
If you are in the root directory, where the sln
file is located, you should indicate which project you want to run:
dotnet run -c Release -p .\BenchmarkDotNetInDocker\BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj -- --filter *Sum*
The --filter *Sum*
parameter specifies which benchmarks should be run. In this particular case, we want to run all benchmarks that contain Sum
inside their names.
Having run this command, your benchmark will start. When it finishes, you will see the summary:
[...]
// * Summary *
BenchmarkDotNet=v0.12.0, OS=Windows 10.0.16299.1387 (1709/FallCreatorsUpdate/Redstone3)
Intel Core i7-4770 CPU 3.40GHz (Haswell), 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
Frequency=3312641 Hz, Resolution=301.8739 ns, Timer=TSC
.NET Core SDK=3.0.100
[Host] : .NET Core 3.0.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.46205, CoreFX 4.700.19.46214), X64 RyuJIT
DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.0.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.46205, CoreFX 4.700.19.46214), X64 RyuJIT
| Method | Mean | Error | StdDev |
|------- |---------:|---------:|---------:|
| Sum | 33.10 ns | 0.142 ns | 0.126 ns |
[...]
Please note that the summary includes information about the operating system, in my case, it was Windows 10.0.16299.1387 (1709/FallCreatorsUpdate/Redstone3)
.
Running BenchmarkDotNet in a Docker container
Now we have to add two additional files in the root directory, where the sln
file is located. The first one will be a text document called Dockerfile
and will contain all the commands to assemble a docker image. You can see my Dockerfile
here:
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1
WORKDIR /src
COPY . .
RUN dotnet restore
RUN dotnet build "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker/BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj" -c Release -o /src/bin
RUN dotnet publish "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker/BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj" -c Release -o /src/bin/publish
WORKDIR /src/bin/publish
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.dll"]
The following is a description of Dockerfile
, line by line:
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1
- this line means that an image with .NET Core SDK 3.1 will be used. We should use the SDK version and not a Runtime one because BencharkDotNet generates, builds and runs the benchmarked projects. The full list of available images can be found on Docker Hub.WORKDIR /src
- sets the working direcory to/src
COPY . .
- Copies all files except ignored ones into the container.RUN dotnet restore
- restores the dependencies and tools of the project.RUN dotnet build "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker/BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj" -c Release -o /src/bin
- builds the project in theRelease
mode into the/src/bin
directory.RUN dotnet publish "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker/BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.csproj" -c Release -o /src/bin/publish
- publishs the project in theRelease
mode into the/src/bin/publish
location.WORKDIR /src/bin/publish
- sets the working direcory to/src/bin/publish
where you can find the published application.ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.dll"]
- allows you to configure a container entrypoint. In this case it is thedotnet BenchmarkDotNetInDocker.dll
command.
The second file will be the .dockerignore
file that will allow you to exclude files from the docker image like a .gitignore
file allow you to exclude files from your git repository.
# .dockerignore
Dockerfile
[b|B]in
[O|o]bj
Now we can build our new docker image using the following command. We use the -t
parameter to name the image, in this case benchmarkdotnet
.
docker build -t benchmarkdotnet .
Having created the docker image with our project, we can run it using command:
docker run -it benchmarkdotnet --filter *Sum*
You should see the output log that contains information about the operating system, in this case it is OS=debian 10
, and information about the .NET Core version, here - 3.1.0
:
// * Summary *
BenchmarkDotNet=v0.12.0, OS=debian 10
Intel Core i7-4770 CPU 3.40GHz (Haswell), 1 CPU, 2 logical and 2 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=3.1.100
[Host] : .NET Core 3.1.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.56402, CoreFX 4.700.19.56404), X64 RyuJIT
DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.1.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.56402, CoreFX 4.700.19.56404), X64 RyuJIT
| Method | Mean | Error | StdDev |
|------- |---------:|---------:|---------:|
| Sum | 32.65 ns | 0.154 ns | 0.137 ns |
All parameters following the name of the docker image go directly to our application. In this case the --filter *Sum*
parameter goes to our Program.Main(args)
method and then to the BenchmarkSwitcher
class which I mentioned earlier. Similarly, we can add additional parameters, such as --memory
that enables MemoryDiagnoser
and prints memory statistics.
docker run -it benchmarkdotnet --filter *Sum* --memory
The command above runs our benchmark inside a Docker container and adds additional columns: “Gen 0”, “Gen 1”, “Gen 2”, and “Allocated”.
| Method | Mean | Error | StdDev | Gen 0 | Gen 1 | Gen 2 | Allocated |
|------- |---------:|---------:|---------:|------:|------:|------:|----------:|
| Sum | 34.35 ns | 0.334 ns | 0.296 ns | - | - | - | - |
You can also print all the available benchmarks, using either of the following parameters: --list tree
and --list flat
:
docker run -it benchmarkdotnet --list tree
The following output will be printed when the above command has been finished:
BenchmarkDotNetInDocker
└─Benchmark
└─Sum
Where are the artifacts?
We are currently able to run any benchmark with any set of options. But where are the resulting files? The answer is simple, they are inside the docker container. There are methods of getting them out of the container, but a better approach is to generate them directly into a local directory. For this purpose, we will use the docker volumes. All we have to do is to add the -v local-path:container-path
parameter, as shown below:
docker run -v c:\BenchmarkDotNet.ArtifactsFromDocker:/src/bin/publish/BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts -it benchmarkdotnet --filter *Sum* -m
After excecution finishes, all artifacts should be in the c:\BenchmarkDotNet.ArtifactsFromDocker
directory.
Run benchmarks on different Linux distributions or different .NET Core versions
In Dockerfile above we used the FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1
instruction which gave us Debian 10 with .NET Core 3.1. But what if we wanted to change the operating system or the .NET Core version?
The FROM
instruction has the syntax of: FROM <image>[:<tag>]
. Therefore, in this particular case we used the mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk
image and the 3.1
tag. The tag determined the .NET Core version. So if you want use .NET Core 2.2, just use the 2.2
tag instead. Using different tag suffixes, you can also change the operating system. The following table contains example tags for different operating systems.
| Tag | OS Version | .NET Core Version |
|---|---|---|
| 3.1 or 3.1-buster | Debian 10 | .NET Core 3.1 |
| 3.1-alpine | Alpine 3.10 | .NET Core 3.1 |
| 3.1-bionic | Ubuntu 18.04 | .NET Core 3.1 |
| 2.2 or 2.2-stretch | Debian 9 | .NET Core 2.2 |
| 2.2-alpine | Alpine 3.9 | .NET Core 2.2 |
| 2.2-bionic | Ubuntu 18.04 | .NET Core 2.2 |
| … |
All possible tags can be found on Docker Hub.
Of course, .NET Core can be run on other Linux distributions for which Microsoft does not publish official docker images. But this topic is outside of this article’s scope. If you find it problematic, please let me know in the comments below, and I will consider writing a post with some additional information on the topic.
Additional information
When you run the benchmark project in Docker, you should get a message:
Failed to set up high priority. Make sure you have the right permissions. Message: Permission denied
It means that BenchmarkDotNet requires additional permissions. Fortunately, you can use a “privileged” container.
docker run --privileged -it benchmarkdotnet --filter *Sum*
You can find the full description of this mode in the Docker documentation. It states that:
Docker will enable access to all devices on the host as well as set some configuration in AppArmor or SELinux to allow the container nearly all the same access to the host as processes running outside containers on the host.
Limitations
This method should be used exclusively for development purposes, unless your production environment clearly requires the application to run within docker. You should always carry out final performance tests in the production environment.
Summary
In this article, I have shown how to run BenchmarkDotNet inside a Docker container. With this information you can benchmark your code for different systems and different versions of .NET Core easily.
As I am going to write about profiling applications on Linux using BenchmarkDotNet as soon as I implement the EventPipeProfiler
functionality, this post will come in handy in the nearest future… I hope. And you will be able to profile your benchmark inside a Docker container too. If you are already curious about how the profiling is going to function, you can follow PR dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet#1321.


Gerardo Patriotta, Jean-Pascal Gond and Friederike Schultz
Relates to Orders of worth, Boltanski and Thévenot, and how functional roles maintain their justification and authority under threat in a public sphere.
"How do organizations attempt to maintain the set of institutional arrangements within which they operate? How do they engage with relevant stakeholder groups when their legitimacy comes under threat?"


§1-13 Official languages. English and Hawaiian are the official languages of Hawaii. Whenever there is found to exist any radical and irreconcilable difference between the English and Hawaiian version of any of the laws of the State, the English version shall be held binding. Hawaiian shall not be required for public acts and transactions. [L 1864, p 68; RL 1925, §26; RL 1935, §9; RL 1945, §8; RL 1955, §1-16; HRS §1-13; am L 1979, c 97, §2]
Law Journals and Reviews
"Officially" What? The Legal Rights and Implications of Ōlelo Hawaii. 30 UH L. Rev. 243.
Case Notes
Originally, Hawaiian version prevailed. 1 H. 402; 1 H. 457. Beginning with cc 1859, English version prevailed. 8 H. 478; 41 H. 358, 366.


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Providing Computational Access to Records of American Capital Punishment
Gregory Wiedeman
University Archivist
University at Albany, SUNY
@GregWiedeman
Code4Lib 2019
National Death Penalty Archive
UAlbany collects records from researchers, writers, and activists related to capital punishment in the United States as part of the
National Death Penalty Archive .
Watt Espy Papers
The most complete set of extant records of American executions.
24,036 sides of index cards
A 101,566 pages of reference materials
Copies of Correctional Records
Copies of newspapers and published sources
Written notes
Image of Index card summaries of executions.
The ESPY File
Computational Analysis and the Death Penalty
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gregg v. Georgia , etc. (1976)
Marvin Wolfgang and Marc Riedel Study (1973) and Maxwell v. Bishop
David Baldus-led Georgia Study
McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
Found “racially disproportionate impact”
invalidated statistical analysis for 14th amendment claims
Miller-El v. Dretke (2005)
Utilized statistical analysis for Batson challenge
CLIR-funded digitization project
Provide context to data points
API access to underlying data
The “We”
3 archivists
Mark Wolfe
Melissa McMullen
Me
Graduate Student Assistants
Amanda Partridge
Sheri Sarnoff
Miles Lawlor
Library Systems Staff (partial support)
Department Head
Systems Administrator
Web Developer
Database Administrator
Supporting Open-Source at UAlbany
Systems and University staff had experience with enterprise systems
On-site virtualized data center
CLIR Grant demonstrated the value of the work we could do with more technology
Archivists and Systems staff learned together collaboratively
Archivists took hands-on role with Rails, adapting and configuring systems
Sustainability a work in progress
Dependent on maintainers and open source community
Samvera and Hyrax are Rails applications
“Ramp up” plan for repository implementation and maintenance
Makes connections between 4 difference sources
Small Index Cards
Large Index Cards
Reference Material
Espy File data
Create new Espy Records backed by Data Model
Make the computer do the boring work
Focus on intellectual process of metadata creation
Screenshot of metadata creation tool to link records with redis autocomplete.
Screenshot of metadata creation tool displaying three types of source material.
Metadata Matters
Espy File data demonstrated creators’
priorities, values, and mental framing
that are inappropriate or conflict with
our own
Occupation:
"Armed robber"
"Asylum Escapee"
"Bandit"
"Criminal"
"Cult Leader"
"Gang Member"
"Lunatic"
"Male Nurse"
"Retarded"
"Slave"
"Student"
General Data Improvements
“Crime Committed” changed to “Crime Convicted”
Added Date of Conviction to Date of Execution
ISO dates
First and last name in individual fields
Sex to become gender assigned
Race does not conform to an established standard
Feedback welcome!
“Unconfirmed” cases
“Unconfirmed” cases
Added over 6,000 records
Real number will be smaller after disambiguation
15,254 to 21,325 known executions
Documented and underdocumented
Linked Data Problems
Hard to find vocabularies with sufficient precision
Create one?
Access to expertise, School of Criminal Justice, Advisory Board
Issues with digital archival objects as well
Archives may have a fundamental mission conflict with linked data
Archival description manages objects with minimal metadata by relying on context
Archives don’t aim to create objective/authoritative data
Screenshot of ArcLight, which is used with Hyrax and NCSU's Quicksearch to provide access.
Screenshot of ArcLight showing links to contextual archival description.
Screenshot of ArcLight highlighing links to contextual archival description.
Screenshot of JSON API provided by ArcLight.
Screenshot of document in Hyrax with contextual links provided by ArcLight API.
Providing Computational Access to Records of American Capital Punishment
Gregory Wiedeman
University Archivist
University at Albany, SUNY
@GregWiedeman
Copyright © Gregory Wiedeman 2023


We can't deny the formative power "the fold" has in a design committee, especially for a library website, which must sometimes be built to the expectations of many stakeholders. There can only be so much on the front page above the fold ...
unless you collapse, float, and cycle through large uncompressed images with javascript.
... anything to make the committee go home, amirite?
The convenience of convention,
the power [and ease] of jQuery, the wow-factor and high-level professionality associated with a slick animation leads to intuitive leaps of faith that carousels as design-elements actually work.
For whom?
Today's Web
3.6M new smartphones every day
371k births
56% of American adults has one
31% use phones for the majority of internet access
Of course, preference among all age groups is shifting away from
desktops and laptops toward mobile devices.
For 25% of Americans, their phone is their one and only device.
Access Increases
Bandwidth Decreases
Average size of a web page: 1.25MB
Context: the mean time to load 700KB
... from desktop: 6.9 seconds
... from phone: 10.2 seconds
For certain devices, 3MB triggers Error 413- entity too large
Images responsible for 52-59% of the payload.
Javascript load time comes in second.
All the while, 3G and 4G LTE networks are getting slower.
Patrons on ...
Performance
For every 1 second that a page takes to load there is a 65% bounce rate.
65%!
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Performance
71% of people expect mobile sites to load as fast or faster than desktops.
71%!
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Performance
The percentage of users that will abandon your website if it takes more than 4 seconds to load?
Approximately 1% of visitors click on a feature. ... Of these clicks, 84% were on stories in position 1 with the rest split fairly evenly between the other four (~4% each).
Erik Runyon
It didn't come as too much of a surprise that the slide in first position got the most attention, but I wasn't expecting to see such a large skew. The poor slides in position eight were barely ever seeing the light of day.
Paul Kelly, University of York
Deadly. Accordions and carousels should show a new panel only when users ask for it. Otherwise, it should stand still and let users read the information in peace, without having the rug yanked from under them. As our user said about Siemens' big rotating box: "I didn't have time to read it. It keeps flashing too quickly."
Jakob Nielsen
35% of adults aged 40 years or older in the United States have experienced some form of vestibular dysfunction.
The ".08 second sweet spot"
Low-literacy users, or those for whom English isn't a native language need more time.
The point
is that user-centric libraries must simplify. The summons for a website to be device agnostic demands a simple design. All the conventions that emerged from the fear of the fold--like carousels, complex search widgets, bloated header menus, three or four column cramped designs, font-sizes less than 16px--are detriments, and they'll be increasingly detrimental as desktops are abandoned in favor of smaller devices.
Remember
Performance is a Feature
Users' capacity for cruft is rapidly diminishing.
Banner blindness
Auto-movement feels like an ad
Choose banner or feature text carefully. Empty content
trains repeat-users to look over that element.


lsys package¶
Subpackages¶
Submodules¶
lsys.algo module¶
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lsys.algo.
add_noise
(num, scale=0.5)[source]¶ produces a random value distributed normally between +- num
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lsys.algo.
coords_to_xy
(coords)[source]¶ Parameters: coords (numpy.array) – a 2D array Returns: - x (numpy.array) – a 1D array
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lsys.bezier module¶
This module has functions helpful in the construction of general
bezier curves, as well as fitting cubic bezier curves between
vertices calculated by the :class:lsys.Lsys
In addition, this module contains the code used to determine the symetric weight factor needed to determine the position of control points that form near-circular curves between three points with an arbitrary interior angle, buiding on the work documented here.
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lsys.bezier.
bezier
(points, segs=100)[source]¶ Computes nth order bezier curves through the points provided and returns the curve as a list of points to produce line segments.
The order of the bezier curve is determined by the length of the list of points. The length of the output curve numpy.array is equal to segs + 1, such that segs is equal to the number of line segments between the points of the array.
Parameters: - points (list-like) – 2D array
- segs (integer, optional (default = 100)) – The number of line segments to approximate bezier curve
Returns: - curve (numpy.array) – 2D array of points along the curve.
- Reference
- ———
- https (//gist.github.com/Juanlu001/7284462)
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lsys.bezier.
bezier_xy
(x, y, weight=None, angle=90, segs=100, keep_ends=True)[source]¶ Compute cubic bezier curves between each set of three points using symetric control points offset by the weight.
Parameters: - x (list-like) – a 1D array of x values
- y (list-like) – a 1D array of y values
- weight (float, optional (default = None)) – Weight given to intermediate bezier control points. If None then the weight will be determined by the angle
- angle (float, optional (default = 90)) – the interior angle for the bezier sections to traverse
- segs (integer, optional (default = 100)) – the number of segments for bezier curve approzimation between each set of three points
- keep_ends (bool, optional (default = True)) – include start and end coordinates in output
Returns: - tx (numpy.array) – an array of x values
- ty (numpy.array) – an array of y values
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lsys.bezier.
binomial
(n, k)[source]¶ Parameters: - n (integer) – the order of the binomial to expand
- k (integer) – the zero indexed position of the binomial expansion coefficient to return
Returns: - coefficient (integer) – coefficient for the nth order binomial expansion, kth term
- reference (http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/)
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lsys.bezier.
circular_weight
(angle)[source]¶ This function utilizes the precomputed circular bezier function with a fit to a 10th order curve created by the following code block:
x = numpy.arange(.5, 180, 0.5) y = [] for i in x: y.append(bezier.find_circular_weight(i, tol=1e-12, max_iters=500)) y = numpy.array(y) z = numpy.polyfit(x, y, 10)
Parameters: angle (float) – enter the angle to be traversed in degrees Returns: weight – Weight value for calculating bezier control points that approximate a circular curve. Return type: float
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lsys.bezier.
ctrl_pts
(p0, p1, w)[source]¶ Calculate the position of a new point along vector p0 to p1 with magnitude w.
Parameters: - p0 (1D array) – the starting point
- p1 (1D array) – the end point
- w (float) – the weight factor
Returns: point – a point along vector p0 to p1 with magnitude w
Return type: 1D array
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lsys.bezier.
find_circular_weight
(angle, guess=0.5, tol=1e-09, max_iters=50, r=10, segs=100)[source]¶ Finds weight factor for bezier control points such that the angle QRS will be filled with cubic bezier curve approximating a circle that is tangent at the points Q and S.
Parameters: - angle (float) – the turn angle in degrees. e.g., if turn angle is 30 degrees, then the angle that needs to be spanned by the curve is 150 degrees.
- guess (float, optional (default=0.5)) – the initial value for the bisection search
- tol (float, optional (default=1e-9)) – the tolerance for ceasing bisection search
- max_iters (int, optional (default=50)) – the maximum iterations for bisection search
- r (float, optional (default=10)) – the radius for the circle. the larger this value, the more precise the weight will be since tolerance is absolute.
- segs (int, optional (defualt=100)) – number of points to consider on the circle, and bezier points to compute.
Returns: - weight (float) – the magnitude for scaling control points relative to start and end points.
- error_np (1D numpy.array) – an array of float error values from the curve to circular radius
- error (float) – the max error minus min error
- iterations (integer) – the count of bisection search iterations
References
http://spencermortensen.com/articles/bezier-circle/
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lsys.bezier.
gen_new_guess
(guess, pt0, pt2, ptm, kc, r, a, b, segs)[source]¶ Generator to produce the next guess in the bisection search sequence
lsys.cli module¶
lsys.lsys module¶
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class
lsys.lsys.
Lsys
(axiom=None, rule=None, depth=0, a0=90, da=0, step=1, ds=1, unoise=0, forward=’F’, bar=’|’, right=’+’, left=’-‘, goto=’G’, ignore=”, memory_check=True)[source]¶ Bases:
object
This object combines the basic language and directives necessary to construct a Lindenmayer system, compute the coordinates based on the directives, and plot the resulting figure.
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string
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depth
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coord
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x
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y
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References
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a0
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axiom
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bar
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static
clean_rule
(rule)[source]¶ Clean and validate the rule mapping.
The defaults allow syntax conventions seen in the “Algorithmic Botany”, “Computational Beauty of Nature”, and “Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code”
Parameters: rule (string or dict) – a mapping for expanding characters of the string. If a string is used, the format requires a valid separator between key and value. These include “:”, “=”, “–>”, “->”, “=>”. If multiple rules are provided, they must be separated by “;” or “,”. Returns: rule Return type: dict
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commands
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compute_coords
()[source]¶ Parse the string and convert to data coordinates for rendering.
Parameters: self (lsys.Lsys()) – uses most of the attributes from the class constructor to parse the expanded string and turn it into coordinates for a plotter. Returns: - x_y (numpy.array)
- depths (numpy.array)
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coords
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da
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depth
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depths
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ds
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expand
(axiom, rule, depth, bar=’|’, memory_check=True)[source]¶ String expansion implemting rule on axiom for depth iterations.
Parameters: - axiom (string) – the starting string
- rule (dict) – the rules for expanding the characters of the string
- depth (integer) – the number of times to perform the expansion
- bar (string, optional (default = "|")) – the character to indicate that a calculation should be done by the parser based on the present depth of the string expansion
- memory_check (bool, optional (default = True)) – stop expanding when things get too large
- Returns –
- string (str) – the string expansion for the given depth
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forward
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goto
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ignore
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left
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memory_check
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plot_bezier
(bezier_weight=None, segs=100, as_lc=False, pad=5, square=True, keep_ends=True, ax=None, **kwargs)[source]¶
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right
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rule
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step
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string
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unoise
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vocab
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x
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y
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lsys.validate module¶
lsys.viz module¶
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lsys.viz.
make_colormap
(seq)[source]¶ Return a LinearSegmentedColormap with colors defined as the sequence.
The sequence red to blue can be defined as: make_colormap([‘red’, ‘blue’]) or equivalently make_colormap([(1,0,0), ‘blue’])
For more control over color transitions, floats can be included after pairs of colors to indicate the percentage of the color map that the transition should take place.
make_colormap([‘red’, ‘green’, .25, ‘green’, ‘blue’])
Parameters: seq (list) – a sequence of floats, strings, or RGB-tuples. The floats should be in increasing order and in the interval (0, 1). Returns: cmap Return type: matplotlib.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap Examples
References
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lsys.viz.
plot
(x, y, pad=5, square=False, ax=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Plots ‘x’ vs ‘y’ and optionally computes the limits of the axes based on the input data
Parameters: - x (numpy.array) – 1D numpy array of points
- y (numpy.array) – 1D numpy array of points
- pad (float or int, optional (default = 5)) – the percent spacing between plot data and axes lines. This can be used to zoom the plot. This is only applied if ‘square’ is ‘True’ #TODO: figure out how to make this also pan the plot.
- square (bool, optional (default = False)) – whether to make the output plot a square with equal aspect ratios for the axes.
- ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes, optional (default = None)) – the axes artist for plotting. If None is given, a new figure will be created.
- kwargs (dict, optional) – all remaining keyword arguments are passed into the plot() command
Returns: ax
Return type: matplotlib.axes.Axes
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lsys.viz.
plot_line_collection
(coords, pad=5, square=False, ax=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Plots a 2d array of points as a matplotlib.LineCollection and computes the limits of the axes based on the input data, since this is not handled by matplotlib by default.
Parameters: - coords (numpy.array) – 2D numpy array of points
- pad (float or int, optional (default = 5)) – the percent spacing between plot data and axes lines. This can be used to zoom the plot. #TODO: figure out how to make this also pan the plot.
- square (bool, optional (default = False)) – whether to make the output plot a square with equal aspect ratios for the axes.
- ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes, optional (default = None)) – the axes artist for plotting. If None is given, a new figure will be created.
- kwargs (dict, optional) – all remaining keyword arguments are passed into the
LineCollection
Returns: ax
Return type: matplotlib.axes.Axes