| Information | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Christopher Michael Chandler |
| Matrikelnummer |<PHONE_NUMBER>47 |
| Erstfach | Linguistik B.A, 6. Semester |
| Zweitfach | Romanische Philologie Franzoesisch B.A, 9. Semester |
| Titel | From T’es Qui to Qui Es-Tu: A Naïve Bayesian Approach to Assessing Literate and Oral Discourse in Nonstandard French Language Data |
| Kurs | Schriftliche Hausarbeit für die Bachelorprüfung der Fakultät für Philologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Gemeinsame Prüfungsordnung für das Bachelor/Master-Studium im Rahmen des 2-Fach-Modells an der RUB vom 03. November 2016) |
The layout of this program was partly inspired by a computational linguistics project called " Erkenner von Unicode-Emojis und ASCII-Emoticons sowie entsprechender Neubildungen" that I did with a partner in the summer semester of 2020 (Chandler & Cultraro, 2020). The goal of that project and its program was to recognize emoticons, both old and new, and emojis within a given text. The inspiration, and to a certain extent the contribution, for this program is therefore limited to the dynamic menu system, file structure and control structure that is used within this program.
As this is a linguistic project, there are files pertaining to prototypical sentences and texts that are representative of the conceptual literacy and conceptual orality (Cook, 2012; Goudailler, 2002; Müller, 1975). The three primary corpora that are the focus of the linguistic analysis: eBay petites annonces (Gerstenberg & Hewett, 2019) CMR-wikiconflits (Poudat et al., 2015) and 88milsms (Panckhurst et al., 2014), which will be referred to as eBay, Wikiconflits or Wikipedia, and SMS respectively.
Please refer to the references for information on how to obtain the specific corpora used within this project.
Chandler, C., & Cultraro, G. (2020) Erkenner von Unicode-Emojis und ASCII-Emoticons sowie entsprechender Neubildungen [Gray literature].
Cook, J. (2012). Les marques lexicales du français familier dans la traduction polonaise des dialogues romanesques. Traduire, 226, 93–107. https://doi.org/10.4000/traduire.162
Gerstenberg, A., & Hewett, F. (2019). A collection of online auction listings from 2005 to 2018 (anonymised) [Data set]. La-bank: Resources for Research and Teaching. https://www.uni-potsdam.de/langage/la-bank/ebay.php
Goudailler, J.-P. (2002). De l’argot traditionnel au français contemporain des cités. La linguistique, 38(1), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.3917/ling.381.0005
Müller, B. (1975). Das Französische der Gegenwart: Varietäten, Strukturen, Tendenzen. Winter.
Panckhurst, R., Détrie, C., Lopez, C., Moïse, C., Roche, M., & Verine, B. (2014). 88milSMS. A corpus of authentic text messages in French (ISLRN 024-713-187-947-8; cmr-88milsms-tei-v1) [Data set]. ISLRN . https://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-88milsms/cmr-88milsms-tei-v1
Poudat, C., Grabar, N., Kun, J., & Paloque-Berges, C. (2015). TEI-CMC version of Wikipedia discussions associated to the article “Quotient intellectuel” (cmr-wikiconflits-qi_discu-tei-v1) [Data set].
Kamen, 23.08.2021
Christopher Chandler
I hereby declare that the work submitted is my own and
that all passages and ideas that are not mine have been fully and properly acknowledged.
I am aware that I will fail the entire course should I include passages and
ideas from other sources and present them as if they were my own.
Kamen, 23.08.2021
Christopher Chandler
Teki is a naïve Bayes classifier that is used to classify French sentences according to conceptual literacy and orality.
The name 'Teki' pronounced as /Tɛki/ comes from a phonetic transcription of the informal phrase t'es qui? - you are who?. It is reminiscent of Stromae's 2013 song - Papoutai - Papa ou t'es - lit. Father, you are where? This word order is a form of topicalization that is actually quite common in French even if it is not necessarily exclusive to the language itself. Topicalization is one of the features that can be used to identifiy conceptual orality in a message. Thus, the name was chosen to reflect the process of researching conceptual and medial literacy and orality and how they are realized within the French language.
By introducing other parameters that are language-independent such as, but not limited to, sentence length, abbreviations, average word length, contractions, etc., it was possible to identify conceptual literacy and orality even within a textual medium. This program was designed with the goal of accessing the nature of non-standard French data gathered from eBay, Wikipedia, and SMS.
Since no training data could be found that was adequate for the scope of this project, training data had to be created. Using the aforementioned parameters, classification sets were created to automatically create training data pertaining to conceptual literacy and orality. After having done so, Teki was trained on this data so that it could probabilistically assign a feature to an unknown sentence based on sentences it had previously seen.
The program works using the tags LIT and ORAL: LIT refers to the conceptually literacy and ORAL refers to conceptual orality.
For more information on this topic and the development of this program, please consult the program documentation located in the app_program_documentation folder.
Copyright (c) 2021 Christopher Chandler
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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SOFTWARE.
This program was created and designed with 3.9.6 in mind and is therefore the recommended version. It is possible to run the program using any version above 3.6, but program stability cannot be guaranteed. You can download the latest python version at the official website.
This program makes use of the following standard libraries:
csv
datetime
json
logging
os
re
shutil
statistics
sys
timeit
tkinter
In addition to these modules, the following pip packages must be present for the program to run properly:
Note: Before the installation, please also ensure that there is enough disk space so that the extra modules can be installed.
Once python has been opened, please open the command prompt. This is done by entering "cmd" into the path line of the folder in which the program is located.
After opening the command prompt, one of the following options has to be entered within the command propmpt:
There are three ways to install the libraries and modules:
pip install module_name
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip3.9 install -r requirements.txt
Note: This is only necessary if there are multiple python versions installed on the computer.
In addition to those, the following for spaCy must also be installed separately:
python -m spacy download fr_core_news_sm
If problems arise during the installation of any of the modules or libraries, please consult the respective module repositories
To start Teki, run the file teki_main_app.py. by typing python teki_main_app.py in the command prompt.
By doing so, it will also import the secondary python file app_auxiliary_functions.py - located in app_program_resources -,which contains secondary functions that are necessary for the program to run properly.
Alternatively, the teki_main_app.py can be run by using IDLE that was download with Python.
When starting the program, a check is performed to ensure that the directory app_program_resources and its files are all present. These files should not be changed in any way. If the user decides to add databases, corpora, texts, etc. to this program, then they should be placed in app_user_resources in their respective folders.
The current time is 19:06:43.
Please wait while libraries, modules, and corpora are being imported...
This should only take between 5 - 30 seconds depending on your system resources...
Note: The ideal startup time should be no more than 10 seconds. Starting the program for the first time will generally take longer than normal.
If the files have been moved or corrupted, then the following prompt will be displayed to the user:
An error has occurred probably because files, libraries; or directories are missing:
Default doc exists: True
Default train exist: True
Files Missing:
app_program_resoudrces\app_corpora\app_train\results\bayes\ebayfr-e05p_101_200.csv
Please enter the number of your response:
0 yes
1 no
Would you like to continue with the program?
If functions have been renamed or are missing from app_auxiliary_functions.py, the following prompt will appear
The following error has occurred:
cannot import name 'evaluagtion' from 'app_program_resources.app_auxiliary_functions
(app_program_resources\app_auxiliary_functions.py)
Would you like to proceed despite this error?
Please enter the number of your response:
0 yes
1 no
Note: This error should not occur as long as the app_auxiliary_functions.py and its functions have not been altered in any way.
In either case, the user can continue using the program despite the program not having access to all files or functions. However, program stability cannot be guaranteed. Please consult teki_error.log, which is located in the main directory if program instability does arise.
If the modules, files and libraries have been successfully loaded, the user should be greeted with the following:
The current time is 19:06:43.
Please wait while libraries, modules, and corpora are being imported...
This should only take between 5 - 30 seconds depending on your system resources...
All libraries were loaded 10 seconds.The program can now start.
You are currently using the app_common_default_docs files:
Default text file: 'app_program_resources/app_corpora/app_dev/training/wikiconflits_0_53.xml'
Default training file: 'app_program_resources/default_files/databases/default_database.csv'
If you wish to proceed with other files, please load them from respective directories.
~ Teki - French Discourse Analyzer ~
#### Main Menu ####
Please enter the desired menu number:
This is a dynamic menu to which the user can return. Should an error arise in the program, the user will automatically be redirected to this menu. The default files are loaded in automatically, but can be changed by the user.
When first starting the program, the program will run using the following default file:
Default text file: 'app_program_resources/app_corpora/app_dev/training/wikiconflits_0_53.xml'
If the user would like to change this, then it is necessary to choose a new file. The program comes with corpora and it is designed to be used with these corpora. Simply click on the .xml file that should be loaded into the program. The subdirectories containing the .xml files can be found in the app_program_resources under app_corpora.
The user will be presented with a file dialog to select the desired file:
The user can select a desired .txt file from app_program_resources/default_files/muller_corpora.
Alternatively, a user can also input any .txt file regardless of its location.
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Note:
The file must have .txt or .xml ending.
Also, it may only contain text and tags (if .xml) or only text (if .txt).
Other file formats such as .pdf, .doc, .xml, etc. are not supported, and loading them into the program could lead to the program unexpectedly crashing.
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After having selected a file, the file will be loaded into memory and the user will be returned to the main menu.
Default training file: 'app_program_resources/default_files/databases/default_database.csv'
All database, i.e., training files must be saved in a .csv format and have the following structure:
| Token | POS | Dependency | Sentence Id | Corpus Id | Feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENSEMBLE | NOUN | ROOT | SEN:0 | e05p-001 | LIT |
As with loading a .txt or .xml file, if the user does not wish to use the default database, a different database can also be selected dynamically. Default databases can be found under app_program_resources/default_files/databases.
If the user has trained and saved databases, then they should be saved under app_user_resources/user_databases . If no custom databases currently exist, simply create an empty .csv file, place it in the appropriate folder and then load it. The results of the training will be saved to selected file.
After having selected a file, the file will be loaded into memory, and the user will be returned to the main menu.
Note:
These are referred to as training files because they are used to train Teki. At the same time, they are also database file because they contain the training data.
Using this function, it is possible to generate training data for Teki, extract sentences from a specific corpus or read the files that have been loaded into the system. Training data can either be gathered using .txt or .xml files. From where the training data is gathered will depend entirely on the files that the user has loaded into memory. If no files have been loaded into memory by the user, then the the default files will automatically be used. Once the training data has been generated, it will be either saved to the default database file or to the database file that was previously selected by the user.
After having loaded the desired files or progressing with the default files, the user is greeted with the following submenu:
Content Analysis
How would you like to proceed with the file?
Please enter the desired menu number:
This displays the content of the .xml or .txt file to the user. After which the user is brought back to the submenu.
There are three main corpora available within the program:
1 eBay
2 SMS
3 Wikipedia
From which corpus are you extracting the information?
Once a corpus has been chosen, the user will have option of inputting a range of tags to be extracted from the corpus.
There are 100 documents. Please enter a selection range from 0 - 100.
A range should be specified with a single space between both numbers: start stop.
Please enter a valid range:
The speed and efficacy of this process is highly dependent on the system resources of the user, the python version installed and the range as specified by the user. The longer the range, the more time it will take for the program to parse and analyze everything correctly and efficiently. It is therefore recommend that the max range should be no more than 100.
Example Range
| start | stop |
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| 0 | 10 |
It is possible to enter a range that spans the entire corpus, but this is not advised as it could lead to program instability.
Note:
The program could theoretically work with any .xml file. The program has been designed to work with these three corpora. Working knowledge of Python would allow for one to easily alter the .xml parsing process within the program.
To do so, please refer to function xml_analysis within the python code. However, it should be noted that these three corpora provide at least ca. 100,000 sentences and offer a wide arrange of possibilities with respect to linguistic analysis. Therefore, they should suffice for the average user.
The text has been parsed into approx. 55 sentences. How would you like to proceed?
There are two main ways in which this function can be used:
If this is activated, then the choices of assigning features manually or automatically are deactivated.
There is an experimental function that allows for the creation of a system file and a gold file. This is done by setting the parameter system_evaluation to True . This must be done from within the program.
Note: This is an experimental function that might not deliver the best results.
The system is being evaluated. Please press enter to start the evaluation...
If system_evaluation is implemented, then a system and gold file will be saved under app_user_resources/system_evaluation. These can then be used to evaluate the classification system. The system file is based on language-independent criteria while the second file is created using French-based criteria.
The language-independent criteria can then be evaluated using the following function Evaluate using system and gold files.
This function was not developed further as it did not provide reliable results as too many of the sentences in the gold file were being classified as unknown.
For information on why this is, please consult the program documentation.
Processing the sentences means that spaCy will analyze them to retrieve linguistic relevant information. If the user wishes to train or build up their own database, then they must proceed with this option.
Once a range has been entered, the sentences will then be parsed, analyzed and assigned a unique identifier. Afterwards, the following option selection will appear:
The sentences have been successfully processed.
Please press enter to continue...
1 automatically
2 manually
Would you like to have the features assigned automatically or manually?
In both cases, a unique identifier will be assigned to each sentence so that it can be found in the corpus, should the user wish to manually inspect the database. This identifier is also available to the system and necessary so that it it can correctly read in the databases later.
If the user already knows the features or wants to specify the features that should be assigned to the respective sentences, the user may do so here by using the following features.
1 LIT
2 ORAL
Please enter the number of the desired feature:
The feature will then be applied to every sentence within the corpus as previously selected by the user. Therefore, this feature should only be used if the user knows that all sentences are of the same kind, i.e. all sentence should receive the same feature.
This is the preferred method as the program uses the classification criteria to gauge the most appropriate feature and assign it to each sentence respectively. The feature LIT or ORAL will the n be assigned my by the program itself.
For more information on the scoring system and how this works, please consult the documentation.
Once the corpus range has been analyzed by spaCy and then assigned its respective feature according to conceptual orality or literacy, the results are saved to the database file that was selected by the user. The user is then returned to the main menu.
If the user is simply interested in retrieving the sentences from the corpus, then the user should proceed with this option. The results will automatically be saved in a file under app_user_resources/sentence_results. The user will then be returned to the main menu, where the user can safely exit the program.
This will bring the user back to the main menu.
The sentences will neither be saved nor processed.
Please press return to return to the main menu...
This process is largely similar to that of the .xml process as described above. The only real difference here is that the user must specific a unique identifier that is to be assigned to this text. Note that this identifier is not the same as the feature, but rather an indicator so that the user and the program can identify from corpus the sentence came from.
Create a unique text identifier with characters from (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) for this text:
The user is returned to the main menu.
Once a database has been selected, it possible for a document to be classified by the naïve Bayes formula:
The database contains sentences with the following features:
LIT: 30
ORAL: 24
If the user wishes to simply analyze just one sentence, then use this function. The user will then be prompted to enter a French sentence.
After having successfully entering a sentence, the program will return an answer based on the training data available to it. LIT indicates conceptual literacy, with ORAL being conceptual orality.
The answer provided by Teki will depend on the training data provided. The more reliable the training data, the more reliable the answer will be.
The user will be returned to the submenu and will have the option of entering a sentence again.
Note:
It is possible to enter something that is not a French sentence. However, these answers are to be ignored because they simply rely on default values when the program does not know which exact response it should give.
This will pull up the analyze contents menu and it follows the same process. The user should consult the chapter if the user has not already done so.
Note:
Due to the problem of underflow, a document as a whole cannot be properly analyzed. That is why the document will only be analyzed on a sentence by sentence level. The program will return the most appropriate feature per sentence, not necessary per document.
After the analysis, the files will be saved in app_user_resources/naive_bayes_results. The user can choose to exit the program or continue with other sentences/documents.
This will return the user back to the main menu.
Should unforeseen errors arise within the program, they will be saved within teki_error.log. Errors can occur due to :
⚠ Note: this function will erase your error report and the data of which cannot be recovered. ⚠
The user may build upon the default database provided with the program. However, if this database becomes corrupt or becomes imbalanced due to improper training, the user may reset the database using this function.
⚠ Note: this function will erase all of your progress and the results of which cannot be recovered. ⚠
This function requires reference files, i.e., system files and gold files in order for it to work. The gold files must be created by hand as the program is currently incapable of generating them.
Which files would you like to evaluate:
This evaluator takes in two files: a system file and gold file.
The system file are the sentences that were produced by the program. This is not the same as the database files created by the system.
The format of both files should be as follows:
| Sentence | Sentence Number | Corpus ID | Feat |
|---|---|---|---|
| A noter que le film n' est pas encore sorti en dvd en France ! |
SEN:4 | e05p-005-4 | ORAL |
Once both files are present, the user will be prompted to first select the system file and then gold file. The program will compare the two files and return the following values:
Accuracy
Error Rate
Precision
Recall
F-Score
This function can be used to evaluate to the reliability of the naive Bayes and the classification sets.
The cross validation works the same way as evaluate using system and gold files, but it only requires one file to work.
Before a file has been selected, the user must first place:
sentence,number,id,feat
at the top of this file for it to be read properly. Once having done so, the results of the cross validation will be shown within the program.
This brings the user back to the main menu.
This function provides the user with this readme file. The user can therefore access the program information from the menu.
The user can force exit the program by killing the script, but this could lead to file corruption. Therefore, using this function is the preferred way of exiting program because the results from the other functions are only saved to the respective files once the user has properly exited the program.


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"Employer" includes every person having control or custody of any employment, place of employment, or of any employee, but shall not include the United States or the State or any political subdivision thereof. [L 1939, c 237, pt of §1; RL 1945, §4101; am L 1955, c 19, §1(a); RL 1955, §88-1; am L 1959, c 264, §1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §38; HRS §371-1]
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Kvadrat launches roller blind that can reduce a building's energy consumption
by Amy FrearsonDanish textile brand Kvadrat has worked with designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec on a roller blind that does more than just screen a window.
Kvadrat Shade is a range of window coverings that come in a variety of tones and textures, very much in the spirit of the company's fabrics. But they also offer acoustic benefits and can provide thermal insulation, helping to reduce a building's energy consumption.
The company has even created a calculator, so that customers can find out how much money they can save on their heating bills.
"We're entering a new industry with the ambition to transform that industry," explained Kvadrat CEO Anders Byriel at a launch event. "We're coming in with a very deep knowledge about textiles, but we've also got a lot of technology."
The product was a collaboration with Dutch company Coulisse, a specialist in high-performance window-covering solutions, and also draws on the expertise of Verosol, an expert in solar-shading fabrics that is owned by Kvadrat.
By applying a metallised textile to the underside of the blind, they allow it to function as a thermal insulator. It prevents heat entering in warmer summer months and stops heat escaping in the winter.
"We actually have a product that offers an alternative to an outside solar-shade product, which moves the options in architecture quite a lot," added Kvadrat Shade managing director Christian Baum Blaakær.
Paris-based Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec had the task of making this high-tech product look as clean and simple as possible. The pair have previously worked with Kvadrat on many projects, including the Clouds acoustic screen and the Ready Made Curtain.
Erwan Bouroullec described the process as "a hell of a job". He explained: "Most of the offers that you see are technically driven; they solve the issue, but they forget the human, they bring no taste."
"We developed a roller blind concept that has a strong visual identity across every element, and reflects Kvadrat's expertise in colours, materials and technical performance," Bouroullec added.
"Unlike typical alternatives, the Kvadrat Shade solutions opens intriguing possibilities to elevate interiors by playing with tones, transparencies and textures. You can combine anything and get a great result."
The designs are produced from polyester, without any PVC, to make them more easily recyclable. Customers can choose between a variety of controls – as well as the traditional cord, there is also the option for slender sticks or remote controls.
Kvadrat believe the product range features a good solution for every type of window and situation. The team said they have already arranged for the product to be installed on several major new buildings.
Other recent launches from Kvadrat include shelving designed by Layer for the company's recycled textile brand Really and curtains designed by Margrethe Odgaard that took cues from wainscoting.


Germany detains three Islamic State suspects over attack plan
BERLIN, Nov 12 — German police detained three people in the western city of Offenbach today on suspicion of planning a bomb attack on behalf of the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said.
The three suspects wanted to kill as many “infidels” as possible in the planned attack in the Rhine-Main region, Frankfurt prosecutor Nadja Niesen said in a statement.
The main suspect is a 24-year-old German of Macedonian origin who wanted to manufacture explosives and had tried to buy a weapon online. His two accomplices are Turkish nationals aged 22 and 21.
The three suspects are believed to have told people in the past that they identified themselves as IS supporters, Niesen said.
Substances that could be used to make explosives and equipment were found at the main suspect’s home, she said. The authorities also secured written documents and electronic data.
The main suspect is due to be brought before the investigating judge at a court in Frankfurt later today. The judge will decide whether to issue an arrest warrant and order pre-trial detention. — Reuters


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Box Office: Poor opening for ‘Pagalpanti’
by BizAsia CorrespondentThe comedy caper ‘Pagalpanti’ has opened up to a poor response at the box office in India.
The film starring Anil Kapoor, John Abraham and Pulkit Samrat, had a lower opening than last week’s film ‘Marjaavaan’, according to Box Office India. ‘Pagalpanti’ has taken a start in the range of 15%. However, it is expected to pick up in evening shows and over the weekend.
‘Pagalpanti’ will also face opposition from Disney animation ‘Frozen 2’, which has had a better opening. The family audience may take away numbers from ‘Pagalpanti’.
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Effekseer For Cocos2d-x
Overview
Effekseer is a tool that makes it easy to create beautiful particle effects. This library allows you to play particle effects created with Effekseer on Cocos2d-x. This document describes cooperation between Effekseer and Cocos2d-x. The library consists of multiple source code files, and you can install it by adding the source code file to the project of Cocos2d-x.
The corresponding environment is as follows.
| Windows | OK |
| Mac OS X | OK |
| Linux | Unknown |
| iOS | OK |
| Android | OK |
| WindowsPhone | Unknown |
Important
Cocos2d-x Effekseer branch is required to use it with Cocos2d-x v4 and MacOSX
Cocos2d-x Effekseer branchInstallation method (Version4)
Please copy Players/Cocos2d-x_v4 to the project of Cocos 2d-x.
Add codes int CMakeLists.txt as follows.
add_subdirectory(Cocos2d-x_v4) target_link_libraries(${APP_NAME} EffekseerForCocos2d-x)
How to use
In Samples/ directory in Cocos2d-x is a sample to play the particle effects of Effekseer. Since this document only explains basic usage, please see the sample for detailed usage.
These samples, for this library is not included, please copy the library of files in each sample of Classes/Effekseer directory. copyEffekseerFiles.txt file exists in the directory to copy to as the marker of the directory to which the library is copied.
About files that can be played
Only files saved by Effekseer's standard output can be played. The saved file contains the relative path from Effekseer's project to the image. For that reason, you need to place the image while keeping the relative path from the file saved in standard output to the image.
Basic playback
Play effects files saved with Effekseer's standard output with Cocos2d-x. For more information, please look at the source code that is stored in the Samples/Simple/.
Include EffekseerForCocos2d-x.h(Version4) or Effekseer.h(Version3).
#if COCOS2D_VERSION >= 0x00040000 #include "EffekseerForCocos2d-x.h" #else #include "Effekseer/Effekseer.h" #endif
Add efk::EffectManager* to the member variable of the class that inherits cocos2d::Scene or cocos2d::Layer.
class HelloWorld : public cocos2d::Scene /* Layer */ { efk::EffectManager* manager = nullptr; ...
Create an instance of efk::EffectManager*.
manager = efk::EffectManager::create(Director::getInstance()->getVisibleSize());
Load the effect file.
auto effect = efk::Effect::create("Laser01.efk");
Generate the emitter, set the parameters and add it to the scene.
auto emitter = efk::EffectEmitter::create(manager); emitter->setEffect(effect); emitter->setPlayOnEnter(true); emitter->setPosition(Vec2(300, 300)); emitter->setScale(20); this->addChild(emitter, 0); // No need (because it uses autorelease after 1.41) //effect->release();
Update the manager every frame. The effect will be rendered in the posture it was in when the manager was updated.
manager->update();
Inherit visit and add a process to actually draw the effect.
void HelloWorld::visit( cocos2d::Renderer *renderer, const cocos2d::Mat4& parentTransform, uint32_t parentFlags) { manager->begin(renderer, _globalZOrder); cocos2d::Scene::visit(renderer, parentTransform, parentFlags); manager->end(renderer, _globalZOrder); }
Discard the manager at the end.
HelloWorld::~HelloWorld() { manager->release(); }
3D
Please read a sample in Samples/3D/.
You need to add a camera in cocos2d-x's Scene
auto s = Director::getInstance()->getWinSize(); camera = Camera::createPerspective(60, (GLfloat)s.width / s.height, 1, 1000); camera->setPosition3D(Vec3(100, 100, 100)); camera->lookAt(Vec3(0, 0, 0), Vec3(0, 1, 0)); camera->setCameraFlag(cocos2d::CameraFlag::USER1);
In addition to update the manager, you need to set camera parameters into the manager.
manager->update(); manager->setCameraMatrix(camera->getViewMatrix()); manager->setProjectionMatrix(camera->getProjectionMatrix());
Network
You can edit the playing effect in an application (game etc.) via the network from the outside when application is running.
Create an instance of server and execute makeNetworkServerEnabled with the port to be connected from Effekseer as the argument of this function.
networkSever = efk::NetworkServer::create(); networkSever->makeNetworkServerEnabled(60000);
In addition to update the manager, you need to update the server. Then you can edit the effect from Effekseer. In order to edit the effect from another computer, it is necessary to open the port with the setting of the firewall.
manager->update(); networkSever->update();
License
When using Effekseer, you need to add the following text to help etc.
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2011 Effekseer Project Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Change log
1.52m or later
Release notes1.52k (20/08/16)
Fixed a bug where a distortion is not supported on Android.
Changed to show a warning when non-squared images are loaded.
Updated Effekseer to 1.52k
1.52j (20/08/02)
Updated Effekseer to 1.52j
1.52i (20/07/30)
Updated Effekseer to 1.52i
1.52h (20/07/09)
Updated Effekseer to 1.52h
Fixed a bug that alpha channel is wrong
1.52g (20/06/09)
Updated Effekseer to 1.52g
1.52b (20/05/02)
Fixed a bug where particles are not shown with Line of SpawnMethod
1.52a (20/04/28)
Fixed a bug that a behavior of rotated billboard is something wrong when an angle is about 90 degree
1.52 (20/04/25)
Various bug fixes, including crashes.
1.50 (20/03/18)
Supported cocos2d-x v4
Fixed many bugs
1.43c (19/09/16)
fixed a bug which causes crash if PlayOnEnter is false, and call play after next frame
fixed a bug that parameters are not applied which are assigned before playing
1.43b (19/08/03)
Fixed OpenGL blend bug
Fixed Samples
1.43 (19/03/02)
Added network functions
1.42 (19/02/08)
Added image caching function
Added documentation
Fixed bug that the behavior of the ribbon and track generated with the 0th frame is wrong
Fixed bug that SSE buffer overrun crashes
Fixed bug that crashes on Android when specifying easing of color
1.41 (18/11/10)
Fixed a bug causes crach when setRemoveOnStop is used. Fixed memory leak in samples.
This release makes Effect and EffectEmitter released automatically. So you need to edit codes about release
1.40 (18/09/12) More functions added. Speed up with Android and iOS. Supported 3D.
1.30 (17/11/03) released.


Module: Aws::IoTRoboRunner::Types
Instance Attribute Summary
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#cartesian_coordinates ⇒ Types::CartesianCoordinates
rw
Cartesian coordinates.
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#degrees ⇒ Float
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Degrees, limited on [0, 360).
Instance Attribute Details
#cartesian_coordinates ⇒ Types::CartesianCoordinates (rw)
Cartesian coordinates.
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-iotroborunner/lib/aws-sdk-iotroborunner/types.rb', line 840
class PositionCoordinates < Struct.new( :cartesian_coordinates, :unknown) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure include Aws::Structure::Union class CartesianCoordinates < PositionCoordinates; end class Unknown < PositionCoordinates; end end
#degrees ⇒ Float
(rw)
Degrees, limited on [0, 360)
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-iotroborunner/lib/aws-sdk-iotroborunner/types.rb', line 819
class Orientation < Struct.new( :degrees, :unknown) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure include Aws::Structure::Union class Degrees < Orientation; end class Unknown < Orientation; end end


bakery-cli-app
Bakery Ordering CLI App built in Ruby and a powerful Ruby library for interactive cli app using tty-prompt
Output
Installation
- Clone repository and go to project directory
- Install dependencies via
bundle install
- Run app
ruby bin/cli.rb
Specs
This app is covered with unit test using minitest
. Run bundle exec rake test
to check test cases under /test
directory
Documentation
This app is well documented using yardoc. To view documentation locally follow yardoc installation guide and run documentation server via yard server
and go to http://localhost:8808


Namespace hasher
History Manager for rich-media applications.
Defined in: hasher.js.
String that should always be added to the end of Hash value.
- default value: '';
- will be automatically removed from `hasher.getHash()`
- avoid conflicts with elements that contain ID equal to hash value;
Signal dispatched when hash value changes. - pass current hash as 1st parameter to listeners and previous hash value as 2nd parameter.
Signal dispatched when hasher is initialized. - pass current hash as first parameter to listeners.
String that should always be added to the beginning of Hash value.
- default value: '/';
- will be automatically removed from `hasher.getHash()`
- avoid conflicts with elements that contain ID equal to hash value;
String used to split hash paths; used by hasher.getHashAsArray()
to split paths.
- default value: '/';
Removes all event listeners, stops hasher and destroy hasher object. - IMPORTANT: hasher won't work after calling this method, hasher Object will be deleted.
- Returns:
- {string} Hash value without '#', `hasher.appendHash` and `hasher.prependHash`.
Start listening/dispatching changes in the hash/history.
- hasher won't dispatch CHANGE events by manually typing a new value or pressing the back/forward buttons before calling this method.
- Returns:
- {boolean} If hasher is listening to changes on the browser history and/or hash value.
Set Hash value without keeping previous hash on the history record.
Similar to calling window.location.replace("#/hash")
but will also work on IE6-7.
hasher.replaceHash('lorem', 'ipsum', 'dolor') -> '#/lorem/ipsum/dolor'
- Parameters:
- {...string} path
- Hash value without '#'. Hasher will join path segments using `hasher.separator` and prepend/append hash value with `hasher.appendHash` and `hasher.prependHash`
Set Hash value, generating a new history record.
hasher.setHash('lorem', 'ipsum', 'dolor') -> '#/lorem/ipsum/dolor'
- Parameters:
- {...string} path
- Hash value without '#'. Hasher will join path segments using `hasher.separator` and prepend/append hash value with `hasher.appendHash` and `hasher.prependHash`
Stop listening/dispatching changes in the hash/history.
- hasher won't dispatch CHANGE events by manually typing a new value or pressing the back/forward buttons after calling this method, unless you call hasher.init() again.
- hasher will still dispatch changes made programatically by calling hasher.setHash();


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A structure for storing metadata of a spatially referenced SciDB array. More...
#include <scidb_structs.h>
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| SciDBSpatialArray () | |
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| SciDBSpatialArray (SciDBArray &parent, SciDBSpatialReference *sr=NULL) | |
| A constructor using a SciDBArray and a SciDBSpatialReference. More... | |
| virtual | ~SciDBSpatialArray () |
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| SciDBDimension * | getYDim () |
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| SciDBDimension * | getXDim () |
| Getter for the x dimension. More... | |
| int | getXDimIdx () |
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| int | getYDimIdx () |
| Public Member Functions inherited from scidb4gdal::SciDBArray | |
| virtual string | toString () |
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| virtual string | getFormatString () |
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| Public Member Functions inherited from scidb4gdal::SciDBSpatialReference | |
| bool | isSpatial () |
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| int | _x_idx |
| int | _y_idx |
| Public Attributes inherited from scidb4gdal::SciDBArray | |
| string | name |
| vector< SciDBAttribute > | attrs |
| vector< SciDBDimension > | dims |
| DomainMD | md |
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| string | srtext |
| string | proj4text |
| string | xdim |
| string | ydim |
| string | auth_name |
| uint32_t | auth_srid |
| AffineTransform | affineTransform |
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| void | initSpatialDims () |
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| void | deriveDimensionIndexes () |
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A structure for storing metadata of a spatially referenced SciDB array.
The SciDBSpatial array extends the SciDBArray with a SciDBSpatialReference, meaning that some dimensions will be assigned to refer to a West-East dimension and a North-South dimension.
If no SpatialReference is sepcified, then the SpatialArray will be a simple cartesian reference system.
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Basic constructor.
A basic constructor with a simple cartesian reference system that will initialize the two spatial dimensions.
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A constructor using a SciDBArray and a SciDBSpatialReference.
This constructor will merge a SciDBArray with a SciDBSpatialReference in order to create a SciDBSpatialArray.
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Derives the positions of the spatial dimensions.
This function loops through the dimension list and searches for the assigned names of the x and y dimension. If there is no differing dimension name statement, then the default names for the X and Y dimension are used.As default it uses x as the first parameter in the dimensions (index 0) and y as the second index (1).
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This function returns the position of the x dimension in the list of dimensions of the array (scidb4gdal::SciDBArray::dims).
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Returns a pointer to the SciDBDimension that represents the y dimension.
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This function returns the position of the y dimension in the list of dimensions of the array (scidb4gdal::SciDBArray::dims).
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initializes the two spatial dimensions
The function is usually called from the constructor in order to create the two representation of spatial dimensions (x and y). The function also adds those SciDBDimensions to the dimension list and stores their positions in that list to access them later.
| int scidb4gdal::SciDBSpatialArray::_x_idx |
The position index of the designated x dimension (West-East) in the dimension list
| int scidb4gdal::SciDBSpatialArray::_y_idx |
the position of the designated y dimension (North-South) in the dimension list


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Have you felt fatigued during the past month? It does not matter if the fatigue is physical (muscular) or mental. If you recently experienced something unusual (for example an accident or short illness) you should try to disregard it when assessing your fatigue.
Do you find it difficult to start things? Do you experience resistance or a lack of initiative when you have to start something, no matter whether it is a new task or part of your everyday activities?
 Do you become mentally fatigued from things such as reading, watching TV or taking part in a conversation with several people? Do you have to take breaks or change to another activity?
How long do you need to recover after you have worked “until you drop” or are no longer able to concentrate on what you are doing?
Do you find it difficult to gather your thoughts and concentrate?
Do you forget things more often than before, do you need to make notes or do you have to search for things at home or at work?
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Do you find it difficult to cope with stress that is, doing several things at the same time while under time pressure?
Do you find that you cry more easily than previously? Do you often burst into tears when, for example, you watch a sad film or talk with your family members? If you recently experienced something unusual (for example an accident or short illness) you should try to disregard it in your assessment.
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Distributed Computing Blogs
While developing small apps I realized that shipping code to a server is very hard…You need to set up your server with an OS, copy your file securely etc…It probably takes longer to ship code to a server than a case of wine from France. This is mostly due to the heterogenous nature of web apps, which have databases, background workers, web front end…etc… Before Docker, you had to build a virtual machine with its own kernel and OS with your app to have your app running on a server.
Common distributed computing scenarios
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Black Dog (1998)
Director: Kevin Hooks Cast: Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Brenda Strong Screenplay: William Mickelberry, Dan Vining, Scott Sturgeon Producers: Raffaella De Laurentiis, Mark W. Koch Runtime: US Distribution: Universal Rated PG-13: violence, language
By Nathaniel R. Atcheson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>If you've seen the trailers for Black Dog, you probably know why I wasn't expecting a very good film. The picture wasn't screened for critics, and that's never a good sign--if the studio doesn't believe in the quality of the film, why even bother making it in the first place? In any event, the film has a silly title, and the hook is that it's a loud action film with trucks and Patrick Swayze. Need I say more?
Well, in fact, I do, because here we have a surprising anomaly: the film isn't too bad. Oh sure, it's just an action film, and it's pretty mindless, and suffers greatly from wretched excess. However, it's well-crafted and exciting, thanks to director Kevin Hooks, and it has a surprisingly clever script and some decent acting. It's not that hard to make a good action film, but seeing as how the formula is repeatedly botched (Hard Rain, The Peacemaker, and Firestorm all come to mind), it's nice to see one that has no pretensions about what it is (a mindless action flick about trucks).
Swayze plays Jack Crews, a man who's just been released from a prison sentence which he served for vehicular manslaughter. When we meet him, he's working on the underside of a car, and he's summoned by his boss (Graham Beckel).
Jack takes the job because he and his wife are broke, and he doesn't want to lose the house for which he's spent so much of his life saving. He finds out really quick that he's hauling a truckload of illegal weapons, and that Meat Loaf wants to hijack the truck. Simultaneously, a couple of FBI agents (Charles Dutton and Stephen Tobolowski) are trailing the weapons and know all about Jack's financial situation.
I'm not sure who thought up this film, but it's been written by three people. I don't know why it needed three people to write it, but, as action film scripts go, this is a pretty good one. Swayze has a certain amount of grit and realism as Jack, and there's enough character in there that we can actually root for him and care about his family. The supporting performances are colorful, particularly from Randy Travis (who just seems to be along for the ride), and Dutton and Tobolowski, who have some pretty clever scenes as the constantly-arguing officials.
Easily the best elements of Black Dog are the action sequences, which are genuinely exciting and well-directed by Kevin Hooks. One scene in particular--which features four big rigs fighting their way down a mountain pass--is terrific and unrelenting in its approach. Mix in George S. Clinton's pounding score and you have a film that will not fail to keep you interested.
Oh sure, it suffers from extreme excess (literally everything in this film explodes at some point), and implausibility (the deal Jack strikes up with the agents is very convenient) and a few cliches (the bad guy who has to die twice). But it's a fun movie. It held my attention all the way through the last unneeded action sequence (which, happily, ends in a violent death). Black Dog isn't the cream of the action film crop, but it's refreshing to see a dumb movie that recognizes its own stupidity and flaunts it as shamelessly as this.
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Glossary of Puppet Vocabulary
An accurate, shared vocabulary goes a long way to ensure the success of a project. To that end, this glossary defines the most common terms Puppet users rely on.
attribute
Attributes are used to specify the state desired for a given configuration resource. Each resource type has a slightly different set of possible attributes, and each attribute has its own set of possible values. For example, a package resource (like vim
) would have an ensure
attribute, whose value could be present
, latest
, absent
, or a version number:
package {'vim':
ensure => present,
provider => apt,
}
The value of an attribute is specified with the =>
operator; attribute/value pairs are separated by commas.
agent
(or agent node)
Puppet is usually deployed in a simple client-server arrangement, and the Puppet client daemon is known as the "agent." By association, a computer running puppet agent is usually referred to as an "agent node" (or simply "agent," or simply "node").
Puppet agent regularly pulls configuration catalogs from a puppet master server and applies them to the local system.
catalog
A catalog is a compilation of all the resources that will be applied to a given system and the relationships between those resources.
Catalogs are compiled from manifests by a puppet master server and served to agent nodes. Unlike the manifests they were compiled from, they don't contain any conditional logic or functions. They are unambiguous, are only relevant to one specific node, and are machine-generated rather than written by hand.
class
A collection of related resources, which, once defined, can be declared as a single unit. For example, a class could contain all of the elements (files, settings, modules, scripts, etc) needed to configure Apache on a host. Classes can also declare other classes.
Classes are singletons, and can only be applied once in a given configuration, although the include
keyword allows you to declare a class multiple times while still only evaluating it once.
Note:
Being singletons, Puppet classes are not analogous to classes in object-oriented programming languages. OO classes are like templates that can be instantiated multiple times; Puppet's equivalent to this concept is defined types.
classify
(or node classification)
To assign classes to a node, as well as provide any data the classes require. Writing a class makes a set of configurations available; classifying a node determines what its actual configuration will be.
Nodes can be classified with node definitions in the site manifest, with an ENC, or with both.
declare
To direct Puppet to include a given class or resource in a given configuration. To declare resources, use the lowercase file {'/tmp/bar':}
syntax. To declare classes, use the include
keyword or the class {'foo':}
syntax. (Note that Puppet will automatically declare any classes it receives from an external node classifier.)
You can configure a resource or class when you declare it by including attribute/value pairs.
Contrast with "define."
define
To specify the contents and behavior of a class or a defined resource type. Defining a class or type doesn't automatically include it in a configuration; it simply makes it available to be declared.
define (noun)
(or definition)
An older term for a defined resource type.
define (keyword)
The language keyword used to create a defined type.
defined resource type
(or defined type)
See "type (defined)."
ENC
environment
An arbitrary segment of your Puppet site, which can be served a different set of modules. For example, environments can be used to set up scratch nodes for testing before roll-out, or to divide a site by types of hardware.
expression
The Puppet language supports several types of expressions for comparison and evaluation purposes. Amongst others, Puppet supports boolean expressions, comparision expressions, and arithmetic expressions.
external node classifier
(or ENC)
An executable script, which, when called by the puppet master, returns information about which classes to apply to a node.
ENCs provide an alternate method to using the main site manifest (site.pp
) to classify nodes. An ENC can be written in any language, and can use information from any pre-existing data source (such as an LDAP db) when classifying nodes.
An ENC is called with the name of the node to be classified as an argument, and should return a YAML document describing the node.
fact
A piece of information about a node, such as its operating system, hostname, or IP address.
Facts are read from the system by Facter, and are made available to Puppet as global variables.
Facter can also be extended with custom facts, which can expose site-specific details of your systems to your Puppet manifests.
Facter
Facter is Puppet's system inventory tool. Facter reads facts about a node (such as its hostname, IP address, operating system, etc.) and makes them available to Puppet.
Facter includes a large number of built-in facts; you can view their names and values for the local system by running facter
at the command line.
In agent/master Puppet arrangements, agent nodes send their facts to the master.
filebucket
A repository in which Puppet stores file backups when it has to replace files. A filebucket can be either local (and owned by the node being mangaed) or site-global (and owned by the puppet master). Typically, a single filebucket is defined for a whole network and is used as the default backup location.
function
A statement in a manifest which returns a value or makes a change to the catalog.
Since they run during compilation, functions happen on the puppet master in an agent/master arrangement. The only agent-specific information they have access to are the facts the agent submitted.
Common functions include template
, notice
, and include
.
global scope
See scope.
host
Any computer (physical or virtual) attached to a network.
In the Puppet docs, this usually means an instance of an operating system with the Puppet agent installed. See also "Agent Node".
host (resource type)
An entry in a system's hosts
file, used for name resolution.
idempotent
Able to be applied multiple times with the same outcome. Puppet resources are idempotent, since they describe a desired final state rather than a series of steps to follow.
(The only major exception is the exec
type; exec resources must still be idempotent, but it's up to the user to design each exec resource correctly.)
inheritance (class)
A Puppet class can be derived from one other class with the inherits
keyword. The derived class will declare all of the same resources, but can override some of their attributes and add new resources.
Note: Most users should avoid inheritance most of the time. Unlike object-oriented programming languages, inheritance isn't terribly important in Puppet; it is only useful for overriding attributes, which can be done equally well by using a single class with a few parameters.
inheritance (node)
Node statements can be derived from other node statements with the inherits
keyword. This works identically to the way class inheritance works.
Note:
Node inheritance should almost always be avoided. Many new users attempt to use node inheritance to look up variables that have a common default value and a rare specific value on certain nodes; it is not suited to this task, and often yields the opposite of the expected result. If you have a lot of conditional per-node data, we recommend using the Heira tool or assigning variables with an ENC instead.
master
In a standard Puppet client-server deployment, the server is known as the master. The puppet master serves configuration catalogs on demand to the puppet agent service that runs on the clients.
The puppet master uses an HTTP server to provide catalogs. It can run as a standalone daemon process with a built-in web server, or it can be managed by a production-grade web server that supports the rack API. The built-in web server is meant for testing, and is not suitable for use with more than ten nodes.
manifest
A file containing code written in the Puppet language, and named with the .pp
file extension. The Puppet code in a manifest can:
- Declare resources and classes
- Set variables
- Evaluate functions
- Define classes, defined types, and nodes
Most manifests are contained in modules. Every manifest in a module should define a single class or defined type.
The puppet master service reads a single "site manifest," usually located at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
. This manifest usually defines nodes, so that each managed agent node will receive a unique catalog.
metaparameter
A resource attribute that can be specified for any type of resource. Metaparameters are part of Puppet's framework rather than part of a specific type, and usually affect the way resources relate to each other.
module
A collection of classes, resource types, files, and templates, organized around a particular purpose. For example, a module could be used to completely configure an Apache instance or to set-up a Rails application. There are many pre-built modules available for download in the Puppet Forge.
namevar
(or name)
The attribute that represents a resource's unique identity on the target system. For example: two different files cannot have the same path
, and two different services cannot have the same name
.
Every resource type has a designated namevar; usually it is simply name
, but some types, like file
or exec
, have their own (e.g. path
and command
). If the namevar is something other than name
, it will be called out in the type reference.
If you do not specify a value for a resource's namevar when you declare it, it will default to that resource's title.
node (definition)
(or node statement)
A collection of classes, resources, and variables in a manifest, which will only be applied to a certain agent node. Node definitions begin with the node
keyword, and can match a node by full name or by regular expression.
When a managed node retrieves or compiles its catalog, it will receive the contents of a single matching node statement, as well as any classes or resources declared outside any node statement. The classes in every other node statement will be hidden from that node.
node scope
The local variable scope created by a node definition. Variables declared in this scope will override top-scope variables. (Note that ENCs assign variables at top scope, and do not introduce node scopes.)
noop
Noop mode (short for "No Operations" mode) lets you simulate your configuration without making any actual changes. Basically, noop allows you to do a dry run with all logging working normally, but with no effect on any hosts. To run in noop mode, execute puppet agent
or puppet apply
with the --noop
option.
notify
A notification relationship, set with the notify
metaparameter or the wavy chaining arrow. (~>
)
notification
A type of relationship that both declares an order for resources and causes refresh events to be sent.
ordering
Which resources should be managed before which others.
By default, the order of a manifest is not the order in which resources are managed. You must declare a relationship if a resource depends on other resources. See ["Relationships and Ordering"][langpuppetrelationships] in the Puppet language reference for more details.
parameter
Generally speaking, a parameter is a chunk of information that a class or resource can accept.
pattern
A colloquial term, describing a collection of related manifests meant to solve an issue or manage a particular configuration item. (For example, an Apache pattern.) See also module.
plusignment operator
The +>
operator, which allows you to add values to resource attributes using the ('plusignment') syntax. Useful when you want to override resource attributes without having to respecify already declared values.
provider
Providers implement resource types on a specific type of system, using the system's own tools. The division between types and providers allows a single resource type package
to manage packages on many different systems (using, for example, yum
on Red Hat systems, dpkg
and apt
on Debian-based systems, and ports
on BSD systems).
Typically, providers are simple Ruby wrappers around shell commands, so they are usually short and easy to create.
plugin
A custom type, function, or fact that extends Puppet's capabilities and is distributed via a module.
realize
To specify that a virtual resource should actually be applied to the current system. Once a virtual resource has been declared, there are two methods for realizing it:
- Use the "spaceship" syntax
<||>
- Use the
realize
function
A virtually declared resource will be present in the catalog, but will not be applied to a system until it is realized.
refresh
A resource gets refreshed when a resource it subscribes to (or which notifies it) is changed.
Different resource types do different things when they get refreshed. (Services restart; mount points unmount and remount; execs usually do nothing, but will fire if the refreshonly
attribute is set.)
relationship
A rule stating that one resource should be managed before another.
resource
A unit of configuration, whose state can be managed by Puppet. Every resource has a type (such as file
, service
, or user
), a title, and one or more attributes with specified values (for example, an ensure
attribute with a value of present
).
Resources can be large or small, simple or complex, and they do not always directly map to simple details on the client -- they might sometimes involve spreading information across multiple files, or even involve modifying devices. For example, a service
resource only models a single service, but may involve executing an init script, running an external command to check its status, and modifying the system's run level configuration.
resource declaration
A fragment of Puppet code that details the desired state of a resource and instructs Puppet to manage it. This term helps to differentiate between the literal resource on disk and the specification for how to manage that resource. However, most often, these are just referred to as "resources."
scope
The area of code where a variable has a given value.
Class definitions and type definitions create local scopes. Variables declared in a local scope are available by their short name (e.g. $my_variable
) inside the scope, but are hidden from other scopes unless you refer to them by their fully qualified name (e.g. $my_class::my_variable
).
Variables outside any definition (or set by an ENC) exist at a special "top scope;" they are available everywhere by their short names (e.g. $my_variable
), but can be overridden in a local scope if that scope has a variable of the same name.
Node definitions create a special "node scope." Variables in this scope are also available everywhere by their short names, and can override top-scope variables.
Note:
Previously, Puppet used dynamic scope, which would search for short-named variables through a long chain of parent scopes. This was deprecated in version 2.7 and will be removed in the next version.
site
An entire IT ecosystem being managed by Puppet. That is, a site includes all puppet master servers, all agent nodes, and all independent masterless Puppet nodes within an organization.
site manifest
The main "point of entry" manifest used by the puppet master when compiling a catalog. The location of this manifest is set with the manifest
setting in puppet.conf. Its default value is usually /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
or /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp
.
The site manifest usually contains node definitions. When an ENC is being used, the site manifest may be nearly empty, depending on whether the ENC was designed to have complete or partial node information.
site module
A common idiom in which one or more modules contain classes specific to a given Puppet site. These classes usually describe complete configurations for a specific system or a given group of systems. For example, the site::db_slave
class might describe the entire configuration of a database server, and a new database server could be configured simply by applying that class to it.
subclass
A class that inherits from another class. See inheritance.
subscribe
A notification relationship, set with the subscribe
metaparameter or the wavy chaining arrow. (~>
)
See ["Relationships and Ordering"][langpuppetrelationships] in the Puppet language reference for more details.
template
A partial document which is filled in with data from variables. Puppet can use Ruby ERB templates to generate configuration files tailored to an individual system.
title
The unique identifier (in a given Puppet catalog) of a resource or class.
- In a class, the title is simply the name of the class.
- In a resource declaration, the title is the part after the first curly brace and before the colon; in the example below, the title is
/etc/passwd
:
file { '/etc/passwd':
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
}
- In native resource types, the name or namevar will use the title as its default value if you don't explicitly specify a name.
- In a defined resource type or a class, the title is available for use throughout the definition as the
$title
variable.
Unlike the name or namevar, a resource's title need not map to any actual attribute of the target system; it is only a referent. This means you can give a resource a single title even if its name has to vary across different kinds of system, like a configuration file whose location differs on Solaris.
top scope
See scope.
type
A kind of resource that Puppet is able to manage; for example, file
, cron
, and service
are all resource types. A type specifies the set of attributes that a resource of that type may use, and models the behavior of that kind of resource on the target system. You can declare many resources of a given type.
type (defined)
(or defined resource type; sometimes called a define or definition)
A resource type implemented as a group of other resources, written in the Puppet language and saved in a manifest. (For example, a defined type could use a combination of file
and exec
resources to set up and populate a Git repository.) Once a type is defined, new resources of that type can be declared just like any native or custom resource.
Since defined types are written in the Puppet language instead of as Ruby plugins, they are analogous to macros in other languages. Contrast with native types.
type (native)
A resource type written in Ruby. Puppet ships with a large set of built-in native types, and custom native types can be distributed as plugins in modules. See the type reference for a complete list of built-in types.
Native types have lower-level access to the target system than defined types, and can directly use the system's own tools to make changes. Most native types have one or more providers, so that they can implement the same resources on different kinds of systems.
variable
A named placeholder in a manifest that represents a value. Variables in Puppet are similar to variables in other programming languages, and are indicated with a dollar sign (e.g. $operatingsystem
) and assigned with the equals sign (e.g. $myvariable = "something"
). Once assigned, variables cannot be reassigned within the same scope; however, other local scopes can assign their own value to any variable name.
Facts from agent nodes are represented as variables within Puppet manifests, and are automatically pre-assigned before compilation begins.
variable scoping
See scope above.
virtual resource
A resource that is declared in the catalog but will not be applied to a system unless it is explicitly realized.


Errors are wierd...
Was the error a muffed catch at first that would have completed a double play? If Yes, then no RBI
Did the error help the run to score? If Yes, then no RBI. (Note: if runner from third would have scored anyway then answer is No.)


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References¶
DuBay (ed.): The Classic Readability Studies; Impact Information, Costa Mesa (2006)
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McLaughlin, G. H.: SMOG Grading - A New Readability Formula. Journal of Reading, May, 1969.
Accessed 2018-04-22 from
Geoffrey Marnell: Measuring Readability
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Grefenstette, G. and Tapanainen, P.: What is a word, what is a sentence? problems of tokenization (1994)
Accessed 2018-04-20 from
Kiss & Strunk: Unsupervised Multilingual Sentence Boundary Detection
Computational Linguistics, Volume 32 Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 485-525
(This is the basis of the Punkt system)
Accessed 2018-04-22 from
Also found at:
A version that appears to be older is at a site of one of the authors:
Jordan Boyd-Graber post on the nltk-users Google group
Accessed 2018-04-20 from
Hettinger, Raymond post of Python Bloom filter code to the ActiveState Python Cookbook
Accessed 2018-04-22 from
But unfortunately, Hettinger’s helpful discussion of the code (at the first URI) has not been transferred to GitHub. I have included it in
util/Bloom_filter_Hettinger.py
in the source distribution and the GitHub repo of this package.Burton H. Bloom: Space/Time Trade-offs in Hash Coding with Allowable Errors, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 13 No. 7, July, 1970, pp. 422-426.
Retrieved 2018-04-22 from
Kirsch and Mitzenmacher: Less Hashing, Same Performance: Building a Better Bloom Filter (2006).
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An earlier (much shorter) version is:
Humphries, Glenn: Syllabification: The Division of Words into Syllables.
Accessed long ago from
http://glenn.humphries.com/Notebook/toc.htm (page no longer available)
Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto: A Syllabification Algorithm for Spanish, in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 5th International Conference, CICLing 2004 Seoul, Korea, February 15-21, 2004 Proceedings, published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 2945 (Springer), pp. 412-415.
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Law, Gwillim: Error in the Fernandez Huerta Readability Formula. LINGUIST List 22.2332.
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Barrio Cantalejo, Inés Mª: Legibilidad y salud: los métodos de medición de la legibilidad y su aplicación al diseño de folletos educativos sobre salud. (Doctoral Thesis, 2007)
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I see lots of people on the Web claiming that AOL is stupid for wanting to buy Red Hat.
I think AOL knows exactly what they're doing. They have a 130B market cap and they are Microsoft's number one enemy. Microsoft wishes they had the kind of revenue stream that AOL has.
AOL lives under the radar of many geeks. I usually recommend them when normal people ask me how to get on the Internet. But I've never even used AOL, and most people like me haven't. We just don't pay much attention to them. We don't think of AOL as a software company and we don't think of MSFT as an ISP.
I wonder if normal people have that distinction in their mind?


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echo "evil script code" | tee script.sh
You will be able to create a file called script.sh in your home directory and add your script code to the file. Once the file is created, use the 'tee -a' option for all subsequent commands as the '-a' allows you to append to the file rather than overwrite the file.
In this example, ping is a world writable executable located within the $PATH
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The Landing Page MVP
There is no good reason why an MVP should take more than one month. If that happens, it means that the scope of the minimum viable product wasn't small enough.
You want to build the smallest feature set in order to start learning from your target market. It doesn't have to be feature complete. It doesn't even have to offer a feature. It doesn't even need to be a web-based MVP.
Lean Canvas
If you haven't already, write the first draft of your Lean Canvas. It's a good exercise to define the problem, solution, customer segments, unique value proposition, cost structure and revenue streams.
Keep in mind that each post-it in your Lean Canvas is a hypothesis. It's what you consider as the problem, not necessarily what the market considers as the problem.
The goal here is to identify your riskiest hypothesis.
Customer Segments
Ask yourself: Who is your ideal client?
If the answer is vague, try again. Do they have a particular profession? What do they like to do? How old are they? Are they married/single? How many customers does your business model have?
I like to use this form to define your target market:
- As a loyal customer to my local coffee shop, I'd like to get rewards for being loyal to my shop.
- As a local small business owner, I want to offer my repeat customers rewards so that they continue to shop at my store.
Problem
Now that you've defined the customer segments hypotheses, you can think about the problem. What problem do they have? What's their pain?
Once you have defined problem and customer segments, you can create your landing page MVP.
The Landing Page MVP
Sometimes an MVP can be as simple as a landing page. If that's the case, you can use one of these services:
You don't need a programmer or software boutique for this. You can build a landing page yourself and drive people to it.
Problem Description
The most important part of the landing page is the problem description. You want the people in your target market to read the problem description and relate to it.
You will find these types of people in your target market:
- They don't know they have a problem. They are fine doing things as they're currently doing them.
- They do know they have a problem. They read your problem description and they can relate to it.
- They do know they have a problem and they have already attempted to solve it. They may have hacked a solution that is not ideal.
- They do know they have a problem and they have a budget for a solution. This is your sweet spot.
- They do know they have a problem and they are already paying someone to provide a solution.
Solution
After you clearly define the problem, you want to show a teaser for a solution. Usually this will show one (or many) screenshots and a title for the solution.
At this point, you don't really need to have the solution up and running. It can be a prototype, a Photoshop file, a teaser video or even just some notes in a notepad.
You want to entice people to take a leap of faith.
Call to Action
At this point, the leap of faith is that the users will give you their email address to receive updates on your solution and ideally a product launch.
You can use this information to follow up on them, to put them in a drip email marketing sequence, or to get more information from them.
If they decided to give you their email address, it's more likely that they will be willing to participate in a short call or survey.
Magnet *
* This part is optional. You will probably get more email addresses if you offer a freebie. For example: If you are working on a book, you can offer a sample chapter in exchange for their email address.
Sometimes people will be more willing to share their email details if you offer them something tangible in return.
Traffic
This type of MVP is useless if you don't drive people to it. How do you drive people to a landing page? The same way that you drive people to any web page.
These are only a few ways to drive people to your landing page:
Networking
You can go to events and network with people. When you meet new people, you can give them your card or just mention the name of your project, the problem and the unique value proposition.
If the people you meet are within your target market, it's very likely that they will go to your site and sign up.
This approach takes time and is quite old school.
You can post your website to Facebook so that all your friends can see.
This way you will get traffic from friends, family and followers. Depending on the amount of likes (and Facebook's algorithm) you will get a lot of traffic or not so much.
If there are groups that are related to this problem, you can join these groups and see what people are saying. You can build a relationship with members and later invite them to your landing page.
This way you will get traffic from people who are not friends nor family.
If you have some budget, you can use Facebook Ads to target people in your demographic. You can go back to the demographic definition and setup a Facebook Ads campaign to target these people.
Google Ad Words
What is your target market searching for in Google? Are they looking for a way to "listen to WNYC online"? Or "offer rewards to my customers"? Or "record a business podcast"?
Google Ad Words is a great way to find people who are already looking for a solution to the problem you described. You can show them an ad and take them to your own landing page.
Online Forums
Some problems already have forums of people talking about them. People usually search for solutions. If they can't find it, they ask other people for advice.
You could participate in forums and learn from the people that are asking questions that are related to your problem. Then you can drive these people to your landing page.
Pivot or Persevere
After you ran your landing page for a few weeks, you can measure the results. How many emails did you collect? What was the conversion rate? Out of all the visitors, how many of them gave you their email address? That ratio is your conversion rate.
With that information you will be able to continue with the same problem description, or you will be forced to pivot into another problem or solution.


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@import uk.gov.hmrc.cataloguefrontend.healthindicators.{IndicatorsWithTeams, RepoType}
@import uk.gov.hmrc.cataloguefrontend.connector.Team
@import views.html.helper.select
@(indicatorsWithTeams: Seq[IndicatorsWithTeams]
, repoTypes : Seq[RepoType]
, teams : Seq[Team]
, form : Form[_]
)(implicit
messages : Messages
, request : RequestHeader
)
@standard_layout("Service Health Indicators", "health-indicators") {
Health Indicator Leaderboard
| Repository | Owning Teams | Repository Type | @indicatorsWithTeams.zipWithIndex.map { case (indicator, i) => |
|---|---|---|---|
| @indicator.repoName |
|
@indicator.repoType | @indicator.overallScore |


Fits an Ising model to a binary dataset using L1 regularized logistic regression and extended BIC. Also includes a fast lasso logistic regression function for high-dimensional problems. Uses the 'libLBFGS' optimization library by Naoaki Okazaki.
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.1.0) |
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 0.12.8), data.table (≥ 1.9.6) |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp, RcppEigen (≥ <IP_ADDRESS>) |
| Suggests: | igraph, IsingSampler |
| Published: | 2016-11-25 |
| Author: | Pratik Ramprasad [aut, cre], Jorge Nocedal [ctb, cph], Naoaki Okazaki [ctb, cph] |
| Maintainer: | Pratik Ramprasad <pratik.ramprasad at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| CRAN checks: | rIsing results |
| Reference manual: | rIsing.pdf |
| Package source: | rIsing_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: rIsing_0.1.0.zip, r-release: rIsing_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: rIsing_0.1.0.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: rIsing_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel: rIsing_0.1.0.tgz |
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rIsing to link to this page.


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Here’s Taking You Inside Karan Johar’s Party For Katy Perry
by Vedanshi PathakPop singer Katy Perry is currently in Mumbai as she will be performing at the D.Y Patil Stadium on Saturday. The Hot N Cold singer has managed to keep the paparazzi on their toes ever since she landed in the city. Last night, Dharma Productions’ spearhead Karan Johar hosted a starry bash for the singer to welcome her in Mumbai and make her meet b town stars.
A lot of celebs came in for the Party, from Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt, Arjun Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan to Kiara Advani, Shahid Kapoor, Malaika Arora, Karisma Kapoor, Kajol,Jacqueline Fernandez and others. With so many popular names in attendance, the party surely was a massive hit. Posing for group pictures, selfies or catching up for a conversation, B-towners were seen gelling well with the pop sensation. We have got all the inside pictures and videos from the party lined up for you, so don’t wait any more time and check out what your favorite stars did last night while partying with Katy Perry...


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San Francisco Food Trucks
We'll find the five closest food trucks to you in San
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Definition at line 1094 of file gmock-matchers.h.
Referenced by CaseInsensitiveCStringEquals(), and CaseInsensitiveStringEquals().


Accessible Color Picker
This is a Color Picker usable by people with visual or motor disabilities.
Create Color Picker


compiletime/0
compiletime/0 – Runs the goal only at compile time
FORMS
:- compiletime, Goal1, Goal2 ...
DESCRIPTION
compiletime/0 is intended for use in compile-time commands within files. It will prevent
any side-effects caused by
Goal1, Goal2, ...
from occurring when the .obp version of the file is loaded. compiletime/0 always succeeds.


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