Introduction:
Poll aggregation can be thought of as an extension to polling.
Poll aggregators combine multiple polls in a certain way to get a better estimate than a single poll can do.
It's like comparing a single data point to results drawn from multiple data points, such as an average.
Two Categories of Poll Aggregators:
There are two main types of poll aggregators.
The first type are those that look purely at the numbers given from polls with "relatively little additional processing" (PEC).
The second type are aggregators that use the data from polls as well as a variety of predicative variables, such as the state of the economy.
For example, if a certain demographic has been known to vote for a certain party after certain shifts in the economy, some of these aggregators will account for that.
We will refer to aggregators dealing only with polls as "pure aggregators" and predicative aggregators as "predictors".
Goal:
The goal of my project is to determine whether predictors fare better than pure aggregators in the context of the 2016 Presidential Election and why.
I will then try to see if any of the results/explanations can be generalized (senate races, sports competitions, etc.).
I chose to cover the 2016 Presidential Election because it was well covered by the poll aggregators.
Let's compare four well-known poll aggregators. The first two, Huffington Post's Pollster and Real Clear Politics, only use the numbers from various polls. The second two, 538 and NYT's Upshot make predictions based on various variables.
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Methodology: I compared the four polls by looking at their projected margins for the two main party candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the swing states in the electoral college. I did this by taking the absolute value of the projected margin subtracted from the actual margin. I then averaged these differences to calculate the average error margin. The results are shown below.
Summary of Results:
The four aggregators performed in a similar range; all scored within one percentage point of one another.
Overall, the predictors performed better than the pure aggregators although the NYT's Upshot and the Huffington Post's Pollster differed by 0.03 percentage points.
538 did the best by a relatively significant margin; it scored approximately 0.4 percentage points away from the closet competitor, the NYT's Upshot.
When comparing 538 (the best predictor) to Huffington Post's Pollster (the best pure aggregator), it's interesting to note that both predicted the vote share in the same direction in every single state although by slightly different margins.
This could be because they might have used many of the same polls in their analysis, or they both could've made the same systematic error, such as underestimating the silent majority.
Because poll aggregating relies on polls, aggregators have all the problems that polls have in addition to problems created during aggregation.
One type of problem comes from systematic errors, which are problems in the polling methodology.
An example of a systematic error is the voter turnout of a poll's sample.
The poll might have sampled a part of the population that might not actually vote in an election.
From the results of the 2016 Presidential Election electoral college and the four aggregators covered, we see that predictors fared better than pure aggregators.
We can not assume that this will be true in any sort of competition where polling is done because there is not enough data used to cover those areas.
However, we can look at some comparisons to find reasons why some aggregators did better than others.
Aggregator Comparisons:
Let's first compare the two pure aggregators, Huffington Post's Pollster and Real Clear Politics. Although Huffington Post doesn't give a detailed explanation of their methodology, they do some sort of statistical analysis that is more sophisticated than the simple averaging that Real Clear Politics does.
Now let's compare the two predictors, 538 and the NYT's Upshot. Like Real Clear Politics, the NYT's Upshot takes an average of the polls it uses. This can be seen as a feature because, as more polls are taken into account over an election cycle, the average is less likely to change after recent polls. However, this means the Upshot will also be slow to predict developing trends.
538 takes into account many different factors such as 3rd party candidates, national and state polling trends, and demographic and regional information. The result is that 538 changes much more often than the Upshot because it is constantly looking for new trends.
Now let's compare 538, the best predictor, and Huffington Post's Pollster, the best pure aggregator. Huffington Post's smoothing methodology is "not optimal for revealing sudden shifts", such as the effect of a debate (PEC). Beside that, Huffington Post does not reveal much about its methodology aside from a set of strict criteria for polls that it includes. 538 is similar to Huffington Post in standards of polls used. However, as 538 is a predictor, it also brings up many other predicative indicators that Huffington Post's purely mathematical models can't see. One example factor is demographics, and how 538 uses past data to predict how different demographics will vote. Accounting for these has set 538 ahead by a solid margin.
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Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung), Taiwan's greatest chef, will make your mouth water as you see him prepare the food in a large restaurant with dozens of helpers scurrying all around. Listen to the pots sizzle as he drops in his scrumptious delicacies and makes his wondrous dishes. Get ready to watch a master chef prepare great Chinese food and be prepared to get hungry immediately.
Ah, but Mr. Chu, a widower, despite his being a food wizard, finds he is having trouble at home managing his three pretty daughters, Jia-Chien, a self-sufficient airline executive; Jia-Jen, a high school teacher who may never find the right man; and Jia-Ning, the youngest of the three and a confirmed romantic. As if he needed more problems, Mr. Chu is losing his taste buds; a deaf Beethoven.
Sunday family dinner is a ritual to keep the family together but a small torture for the daughters who would rather be elsewhere.
One of the funniest and endearing scenes in the film is that involving the lunch brought by Mr. Chu to a friend's daughter at school. You will "eat it up."
Then there is the widow, Ms. Liang (Ah-Leh Gua) who has returned from America and who has her eye out for Mr. Chu while she checks out her newly divorced daughter, Jin-Rong (Sylvia Chang).
Throw all that into the pot and let Director Ang Lee stir things up and you come up with the most delicious foreign film of the year. For good measure there is a delightful surprise.
Finally, about the title. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN. That is what people need to survive: food and sex. Need we say more?
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13645 of 2019 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-243 Year-2018 Thana- BARUN District- Aurangabad ====================================================== 1. Sonu Choudhary Son of Sohan Choudhary, Resident of Village- Khan Kapasiya, P.S. and District - Aurangabad. 2. Nirmal Kumar Son of Kameshwar Choudhary, Resident of Village- Englishper, P.S. and District - Aurangabad. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Shailesh Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Sanjay Kumar Tiwary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER
2 06-03-2019 Heard both sides.
The petitioners apprehend their arrest in Barun P.S. Case No.243 of 2018 registered under Sections 379, 411, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 4 and 40 of the Bihar Mines and Mineral Control Regulation Act and under Section 15 of the Pollution Act.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are driver and owner of the tractor in question and the driver of the tractor carrying sands on valid permit but the police seized four tractors including the tractor of the petitioner no.2. The permit is annexed as Annexure 2.
Having considered the facts and the nature of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13645 of 2019(2) dt.06-03-2019 2/2 allegation made against the petitioners, the above named petitioners, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, are directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Aurangabad in connection with Barun P.S. Case No.243 of 2018, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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Your Weekend in Combat Sports
by Luke Irwin
As always, programming is listed in EST
Live fights are in BOLD.
Premiere programming is in ITALICS.
MMA programming is in ORANGE.
Boxing programming is in RED.
Kickboxing/Muay Thai/Karate programming is in BLUE.
Wrestling/Jiu Jitsu/Grappling programming is in PURPLE.
Misc./Combination combat sports programming is in GREEN.
Friday November 15
3:00am: Barry Hall vs. Paul Gallen/Andrew Maloney vs. Elton Dharry (ESPN+)
9:30am: 2019 Bill Farrell Memorial International Open (FloWrestling)
2:00pm: FITE in Focus: Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 9 (Fite.tv)
2:00pm: Legend Fighting League Antalya 2019 ($9.99 Fite.tv)
3:00pm: Abdallah Paziwapazi vs. Rocky Fielding/Martin Murray vs. Sladan Janjanin (ESPN+)
3:00pm: Ohio State vs. Pitt (ACC Network)
4:00pm: Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 9 Weigh-Ins (Fite.tv)
5:00pm: Max on Boxing (ESPN2)
5:00pm: 2019 Kickoff Classic (FloWrestling)
5:30pm: UFC Live (ESPN2)
6:30pm: 2019 BJJ Fantastic Submission Only Grand Prix (FloGrappling)
7:00pm: NC State vs. Old Dominion (ACC Network)
7:00pm: AKA: Rite of Passage 10 (FloCombat)
7:00pm: Oklahoma State vs. Drexel (FloWrestling)
8:00pm: Rider vs. Minnesota (FloWrestling)
9:00pm: Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (Showtime)
9:00pm: Bellator 234 (Paramount Network/DAZN)
9:00pm: Legacy Fighting Alliance 78 (UFC Fight Pass)
10:00pm: Devin Vargas vs. Junior Fa/Hemi Ahio vs. Joshua Tufte (UFC Fight Pass)
10:00pm: Rutgers vs. Fresno State (FloWrestling)
10:30pm: Albero Ignacio Palmetta vs. Erik Vega Ortiz/Joseph George vs. Marcos Escudero (Showtime)
Saturday November 16
3:00am: Kenbati Haiyilao vs. Nick Frese/Danal Ngiabphukhiaw vs. Yodtanong Chaepet (DAZN)
4:00am: OneFC: Age of Dragons Prelims (Facebook/YouTube)
7:00am: OneFC: Age of Dragons (ONE App)
9:30am: 2019 Bill Farrell Memorial International Open (FloWrestling)
11:00am: Franklin & Marshall vs. VMI (ESPN+)
12:00pm: Oklahoma vs. Kent State (FloWrestling)
12:00pm: Boro Duals (FloWrestling)
1:00pm: King of Kings Hero’s World Series Lithuania (FightBox.com)
2:30pm: Dominic Boesel vs. Sven Fornling/David Zegarra vs. Stefan Haertel (ESPN+)
3:00pm: Lee McGregor vs. Ukashir Farooq/Kieran Smith vs. Vincenzo Bevilacqua (ESPN+)
3:00pm: Bare Knuckle Boxing 19 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
3:00pm: Davidson vs. VMI (ESPN+)
3:00pm: Enfusion 91 ($14.99 EnfusionLive.com)
5:00pm: UFC Fight Night Prelims (ESPN+)
5:00pm: 2019 Kickoff Classic (FloWrestling)
6:00pm: Montreal Fight League 15 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
6:30pm: Ohio Combat League 4 (FloCombat)
7:00pm: Brawl in the Burgh 2 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
8:00pm: UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare (ESPN+)
8:00pm: Pyramid Fights 14 ($19.99 Fite.tv)
8:30pm: Cage Fury Fighting Championship 79 (UFC Fight Pass)
9:00pm: West Virginia vs. Northern Colorado (FloWrestling)
9:00pm: Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 9 ($29.99 Fite.tv)
10:00pm: Purecombat: Battle For The Brave ($14.99 Fite.tv)
11:00pm: UFC Fight Night Post-Fight Show (ESPN+)
11:30pm: PBC Fight Camp: Ortiz vs. Wilder Part 3 (Fox)
Sunday November 10
12:00am: PBC Countdown: Santa Cruz vs. Flores (Fox)
9:00am: 2019 Wolfpack Wrestling Club Open (FloWrestling)
10:00am: 2019 Daktronics Open (FloWrestling)
10:00am: 2019 Black Knight Invite (FloWrestling)
12:00pm: Ohio State vs. Virginia Tech (BigTen)
1:00pm: Ultimate Challenge MMA 61 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
2:00pm: Purdue vs. North Dakota State (FloWrestling)
2:00pm: Bucknell vs. Iowa State (FloWrestling)
3:00pm: Chattanooga vs. Iowa (FloWrestling)
6:00pm: Northern Iowa vs. Northwestern (FloWrestling)
9:30pm: PBC Countdown: Santa Cruz vs. Flores (Fox Sports 1)
Top-10 Viewing Options: After some fantastic boxing weekends, it’s all European scene this weekend, so a half-decent UFC card is your only big late-night option.
1. UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare:
The UFC in the afternoon just never seems right. Feels like a nighttime event.
2. OneFC: Age of Dragons:
Five absolutely awesome kickboxing bouts. This is a kickboxing-heavy ONE card.
3. 2019 BJJ Fantastic Submission Only Grand Prix:
Ryan, Tex, Leon, and Barbosa are just some of the names in this massive tournament.
5. Abdallah Paziwapazi vs. Rocky Fielding/Martin Murray vs. Sladan Janjanin:
Fielding, Murray, and Terry Flanagan. Lots of British A-siders snatching up some easy wins.
6. Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston:
The story of Sonny Liston is both uplifting and tragic, inspiring, heartbreaking, and controversial. It deserves an expanded look.
7. Lee McGregor vs. Ukashir Farooq/Kieran Smith vs. Vincenzo Bevilacqua:
Hopefully this Mr. Bevilacqua will have a much fairer contest than his father oversaw.
10. Albero Ignacio Palmetta vs. Erik Vega Ortiz/Joseph George vs. Marcos Escudero:
This is more of a quality ShoBox offering than most and what its meant for in its most purest. The top-six fighters on the card have one loss between them. Truly a prospect battleground.
4×5: Every week, UCS’s Luke Irwin will list his Top-5 bouts in each of the four major different combat sports that he’s looking forward to the most, regardless of any conventional criteria, merit, or logic.
KICKBOXING/MUAY THAI
5. Women’s Featherweight Kickboxing Bout: Christina Breuer vs. Jorina Baars (39-0-3) [OneFC: Age of Dragons]
4. Inaugural OneFC Kickboxing Light Heavyweight Championship: Roman Kryklia (44-7) vs. Tarik Khbabez (46-5-1) [OneFC: Age of Dragons]
3. Featherweight Kickboxing Bout: Sasha Moisa (39-8) vs. Yodsanklai Fairtex (202-72-4) [OneFC: Age of Dragons]
2. 73kg Catchweight Kickboxing Bout: Armen Petrosyan (70-19-1) vs. Enriko Kehl (48-15-2) [OneFC: Age of Dragons]
1. OneFC Flyweight Kickboxing Championship: Ilias Ennahaci (c) (30-3-1) vs. Wang Wenfeng (28-5-1) [OneFC: Age of Dragons]
BOXING
5. Super Middleweight Bout: Abdallah Paziwapazi (26-6-1) vs. Rocky Fielding (27-2)
4. Interim WBA World Junior Bantamweight Championship: Andrew Maloney (20-0) vs. Elton Dharry (24-5-1)
3. IBO/Interim WBA World Light Heavyweight Championships: Sven Fornling (c) (15-1) vs. Dominic Boesel (29-1)
2. Welterweight Bout: Artem Lobov (2-0) vs. Jason Knight (0-1) [Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 9]
1. Commonwealth/BBBofC British Bantamweight Championships: Lee McGregor (7-0) vs. Ukashir Farooq (13-0)
MMA
5. Welterweight Bout: James Krause (26-7) vs. Sergio Moraes (14-5-1) [UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare]
4. Lightweight Bout: Charles Oliveira (27-8) vs. Jared Gordon (15-3) [UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare]
3. Heavyweight Bout: Linton Vassell (18-8) vs. Sergei Kharitonov (29-6) [Bellator 234]
2. Light Heavyweight Bout: Mauricio Rua (26-11) vs. Paul Craig (12-4) [UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare]
1. Light Heavyweight Bout: Jan Blachowicz (24-8) vs. Ronaldo Souza (26-7) [UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare]
GRAPPLING/WRESTLING
5. 125lb Bout: #13 Jakob Camacho (NCST) vs. #7 Michael McGree (ODU) [NC State vs. Old Dominion]
4. 141lb Bout: #15 Cole Matthews (PITT) vs. #1 Luke Pletcher (OSU) [Ohio State vs. Pitt]
3. 125lb Bout: #9 Jacob Schwarm (UNI) vs. #3 Sebastian Rivera (NW) [Northern Iowa vs. Northwestern]
2. 157lb Bout: #1 Hayden Hidlay (NCST) vs. #4 Larry Early (ODU) [NC State vs. Old Dominion]
1. Submission-Only Grand Prix [2019 BJJ Fantastic Submission-Only Grand Prix]
Bold, Yet Probably Fruitless Predictions: The proud winner of three George Washingtongs keeps this hot streak a’rollin!
Best Fight of the Weekend: Jan Blachowicz vs. Mauricio Rua
Most Underrated Fight of the Weekend: Artem Lobov vs. Jason Knight
If My Life Depended on One Pick: Rocky Fielding over Abdallah Paziwapazi
Best Card Top-to-Bottom: 2019 BJJ Fantastic Submission Only Grand Prix
Upset of the Week: Ronaldo Souza over Jan Blachowicz
Most Disappointing Fight of the Weekend: Abdallah Paziwapazi vs. Rocky Fielding


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I slit chicken throats yesterday. Five of them. The first kill was a bit less humane than ideal because I had cut one vein open, but had a problem getting the knife through the feathers and skin to the second vein. Blood gushed down my hand from the first cut and the chicken made futile, desperate attempts to escape as I tried to re-position its head to finish the job. In less than a minute, it was all over. Yet in that minute, I understood the importance of a clean kill. I knew I had to get it right the next time. My teacher showed me to use the tip of the knife if necessary to pierce the skin before slitting. This helped on the chickens with thicker skinned necks.
Afterwards, another veteran chicken-killer (funny man of the crew) teasingly tried to baptize me in chicken blood. I almost let him. I felt like I had crossed a threshold, and I kind of wished there were some ritual to commemorate it. This same person had made me hold the chickens before flipping them upside down and dropping them into a cone to do the deed. I also appreciated this because it kept in perspective that I was taking a life, not just learning a skill.
These were not our chickens. Our girls are still romping around the reLuxe Ranch eating all the new seedlings we plant and ripping apart the lizards we've been creating habitat for over the last year. I was helping friends "process" meat chickens they raised on pasture and non-GMO feed at their farm. When I came back home, the first thing I did was pick up one of our girls and stroke her feathers. I suppose I wondered if she would notice the difference in me. As I held "Runty" (who showed no signs of alarm even though I still had blood splatters on my face and arms), I contemplated the difference between the chickens I cuddled and the chickens killed. I thought long and hard until the answer came.
Circumstance. That's the only real answer that I couldn't boil down to cosmetic. Our chickens have lovely ruffled feather skirts that make them look like cancan dancers. But, a "meat bird" has it's beauty too if we cared to appreciate it. My girls have been raised with more free range space so they don't show any signs of "hen-pecking" common in confined chickens, which would be true of meat birds in this environment as well. Because I only have 13 to care for, I have come to know their discernable "personality" differences, but our friends have had the same experience with meat birds. Mine lay more eggs, but over time, if bred for egg or meat performance, meat chickens would regenerate into layers and layers into meat chickens. For our chicken that was eaten by Clitis, the neighbor's dog, her circumstances weren't so different than the meat bird.
Ultimately, most chickens' circumstances will be decided by how we see them - as products in factory farms, as pets on small homesteads, or as creatures raised with dignity to be sacrificed for our sustenance. After yesterday, I am ok with blood on my hands from the latter two options.
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For myself, ive found that my biggest strength (and also limitation) lies in my nature to seek out the answer on my own. While this is benificial for me as it allows me to find the knowledge required and answer on my own, which suits my learning style, it also means that I have at times ended up not calling out my issue or asking for help in a timely way, often letting the issue take over my process for longer than needed.
My commitment going forward is to be more mindful of the above state, and be aware of timing on tasks. By doing this i will be more able to call out issues when needed, or ask for assistence, to both make my task easier but also to better manage my time around workloads also
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Lazy DaysAs I write this I am enjoying a summer's evening in my garden, listening to the birds, and this being Cogges, the sound of the A40 in the background too.  I am reminded of a meal out I once had with a friend. We made the mistake of going to the pub that wasn't busy, thinking we might be served more quickly. We waited and waited and our meals finally arrived one hour after we had ordered them. The customer service was appalling. A kind of Fawlty Towers without being funny. In our working lives customer care is big business these days, with companies paying a fortune for consultants to train their staff. This made me think how well Jesus treated people, meeting them at their point of need with love and compassion. As a church we try to follow Jesus' example. Sometimes we get it right, but I am also aware that too often we get it wrong. For when we have got it wrong, please forgive us. To go back to my first thought, Summer is always a good time to take stock of our lives and reflect. There is no better example of life to reflect on than Jesus himself. Cogges Parish | Other articles | Feedback © 2003; Published in Cogges Parish monthly newsletter, July/August 2003 |


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| Defined in: |
Overview
A small suite of assertions that test responses from Rails applications.
Instance Method Summary collapse
-
#assert_redirected_to(options = {}, message = nil)
Assert that the redirection options passed in match those of the redirect called in the latest action.
-
#assert_response(type, message = nil)
Asserts that the response is one of the following types:
Instance Method Details
#assert_redirected_to(options = {}, message = nil)
Assert that the redirection options passed in match those of the redirect
called in the latest action. This match can be partial, such that
assert_redirected_to(controller: "weblog")
will also
match the redirection of redirect_to(controller: "weblog",
action: "show")
and so on.
# assert that the redirection was to the "index" action on the WeblogController
assert_redirected_to controller: "weblog", action: "index"
# assert that the redirection was to the named route login_url
assert_redirected_to login_url
# assert that the redirection was to the url for @customer
assert_redirected_to @customer
# asserts that the redirection matches the regular expression
assert_redirected_to %r(\Ahttp://example.org)
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#assert_response(type, message = nil)
Asserts that the response is one of the following types:
-
:success
- Status code was in the 200-299 range -
:redirect
- Status code was in the 300-399 range -
:missing
- Status code was 404 -
:error
- Status code was in the 500-599 range
You can also pass an explicit status number like
assert_response(501)
or its symbolic equivalent
assert_response(:not_implemented)
. See
Rack::Utils::SYMBOL_TO_STATUS_CODE
for a full list.
# assert that the response was a redirection
assert_response :redirect
# assert that the response code was status code 401 (unauthorized)
assert_response 401
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How to build a blog in less than 100 lines of code
I’ve been thinking about writing a blog for quite some time. There are a couple of reasons that were motivating me to get started: One point was that I thought I should write down and comment on some of the code that I write, so I could get back to it at a later stage more easily, or just use it as a reference. A further reason was this wonderful conversation I had with Vanessa Sochat (still makes me super happy to read!). And finally, I wanted to get better at writing!
As of right now, I’m painfully slow at writing, and to be honest, I don’t like at all that much. Especially in the scientific context, I’m regularly procrastinating instead of just getting started with a manuscript. However, that is about to change! Well, at least I hope so, as I want to gain more writing practice when working on this blog 😄
Alright, so for writing a blog, you actually need to set-up a blog somewhere. My requirements were simple: I wanted to host it on GitHub pages, have the actual posts written in Markdown, and wanted as little setup/overhead as possible.
My first try was setting up Jekyll on GithHub pages. After deciding on the beautiful Chalk theme, I started following the documentation on how to get things up and running.
Screenshot of the Chalk Jekyll theme by Nielsen Ramon
The documentation is well written, however I was a little intimidated by its length. Install the software, prepare the git repo, understand local site testing, get to know how to add new posts/sites, read through the Chalk documentation to learn about customization. It all felt like a greater commitment than I initially intended. So after forking Chalk, I ended up not working on it for 3+ months.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, the whole blog idea came up once again. Thinking about whether to continue work on the Jekyll based blog, I came to the conclusion that writing a static site generator myself shouldn’t be all that hard. Conceptually, I thought that I would need a template html
file, and a directory for my markdown posts. I also wanted to have a projects
and an about
page. Here, I thought writing these in html
would be preferable, as that would give me more options on the individual styling than with parsed Markdown. Regarding the design, I wanted to closely stick to the wonderful blog by Rasmus Andersson. I especially love his Inter typeface, which I plan to use on more upcoming projects.
The basic file structure of the static site generator
The image above shows the actual file structure. The overarching index.html
, containing the header and footer, as well as the content div’s for the about and projects page are stored in the template
folder. As mentioned earlier, the posts
directory contains the Markdown files. And that’s basically it! Sure, there is a top level assets
folder where the .css
and other static resources live, but all in all there is not much magic to the general setup.
Let’s dive into the code. I write most of my projects in JavaScript (JS) / Node.js (especially everything web related), and also used Node.js for this project. To be honest, I am not religious about coding languages, and highly believe that most of the things I do could be done in Python/Go/YourFavoriteProgrammingLanguage/Rust even faster, more performant or generally better (you could rant about this if there was a comment section). However, working in the web area requires you to know JavaScript at least to some degree. And then again, I’m a lazy person that knows his way around JS pretty well. So in essence, that’s why I eventually end up writing most of my stuff in JS.
For a start, we’ll be looking into the index.js
file that hosts the main logic. In order to be able to read our markdown posts, and the contents of our template
folder, we’ll be requiring the native fs
module, as well as some methods from path
module.
To show an estimated reading time at the beginning of the article, the reading-time
package is used. At the beginning of the markdown posts, meta-data such as the posts title, a short preview of the article for the main page, as well as some keywords are stored in YAML
format. We can read this meta-data using the yaml-front-matter
package.
const fs = require('fs')
const { extname, basename } = require('path')
const { promisify } = require('util')
const readingTime = require('reading-time')
const yamlFront = require('yaml-front-matter')
const helpers = require('./helpers')
const readdir = promisify(fs.readdir)
const readFile = promisify(fs.readFile)
const stats = promisify(fs.stat)
As you may have already guessed from the use of the promisify
method (exported by the native util
package), I’m a huge fan of promises
, and even more so of the async/await
sugar. In order to use the async/await
keyword for asynchronously reading files etc., we’ll wrap the main logic in a self invoking async
function:
;
(async () => {
// the main logic goes here, so we can use the await keyword
})()
Ok so first off, we start by reading the index.html
template file, containing our page header and footer.
The formatter
is created so that we can show a short date string in the post preview of the landing page (e.g. Feb 2020).
We proceed to get a list of all files in the posts
directory, and filter the list by files with the extension .md
(→ markdown).
;
(async () => {
const template = await readFile('./src/template/index.html', 'utf8')
const formatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', {
month: 'short'
})
// read the entire posts directory and filter for markdown files
let posts = await readdir('./src/posts')
posts = posts.filter(post => extname(post) === '.md')
We then proceed to loop through all the posts that were found. For each post,
we create an object with properties for all the meta-info that we parsed from the YAML
front-matter.
In addition, we add properties such as the estimated reading time, as well as year, month and date of creation for later use.
Eventually, we update the array that contained a path string of our current post with the newly created object.
for (let i = 0; i < posts.length; i++) {
// read file content, parse yaml front-matter and markdown content
// and store info in posts array
const string = await readFile(`./src/posts/${posts[i]}`, 'utf8')
const {
birthtime
} = await stats(`./src/posts/${posts[i]}`)
const parsed = yamlFront.loadFront(string)
parsed.date = new Date(birthtime)
parsed.month = formatter.format(parsed.date)
parsed.year = parsed.date.getFullYear()
parsed.readingTime = readingTime(parsed.__content).text
parsed.rendered = helpers.renderAndInsertDate(parsed)
parsed.file = basename(posts[i], '.md')
posts[i] = parsed
}
From then on, it’s a piece of cake. Given our template html
, we start by
creating our landing page. The landing page will have a preview of the latest 15 posts and it’s main contents. The post previews are specified in the YAML
front-matter of each post.
// create the landing page (index.html)
// get a string of the first 15 posts and create previews
const previewString = posts.slice(0, 14).map(helpers.postPreview).join('\n')
await helpers.prepareSite('index.html', template, previewString)
// create about page
const aboutString = await readFile('./src/template/about.html', 'utf8')
await helpers.prepareSite('about/index.html', template, aboutString)
// create projects page
const projectsString = await readFile('./src/template/projects.html', 'utf8')
await helpers.prepareSite('projects/index.html', template, projectsString)
// create legal disclosure page
const legalString = await readFile('./src/template/impressum.html', 'utf8')
await helpers.prepareSite('impressum/index.html', template, legalString)
// create posts directory
for (var i = 0; i < posts.length; i++) {
await helpers.prepareSite(`posts/${posts[i].file}.html`,
template, posts[i].rendered)
}
The last thing to cover is the helpers
module. It exports three methods: postPreview
, renderAndInsertDate
, and prepareSite
. The postPreview
method simply returns an html
string, which contains the date of creation, the hyperlink to the actual post and the posts preview which will be displayed on the landing page. The renderAndInsertDate
is used to render the markdown content of a post (using markdown-it
), and to add a small info snippet again containing the posts date of creation, and the estimated reading time.
At last, the prepareSite
methods simply splits the index.html
template file at the
comment, and injects the content.
module.exports = {
postPreview(post) {
return `

${post.title}
↪

${post.preview}
<info datetime="">
${post.month} ${post.year} ${post.readingTime ? '— ' + post.readingTime : ''}
</info>

`
},
renderAndInsertDate(post) {
const html = md.render(post.__content)
// add date, and estimated reading time
const snippet = `<info datetime="${post.date.toISOString()}">
${post.date.toLocaleString('en-EN', {
year: 'numeric',
month: 'long',
day: 'numeric'
})} ${post.readingTime ? '— ' + post.readingTime : ''}
</info>`
return html.split('
')[0] + '
' + snippet + html.split('
')[1]
},
async prepareSite(name, template, content) {
const first = template.split('')[1]
await writeFile(name, `${first}\n${content}\n${second}`, 'utf8')
}
}


Web Applications and User Interface Design
Shaheer Khan
List of the most common Cat Breeds in US
- The Exotic
- The Ragdoll
- The British Shorthair
- The Persian
- The Maine Coon
- The American Shorthair
- The Scottish Fold
- The Sphynx
- The Abyssinian
- The Devon Rex
Status of Wild Cats
Status and Population Trends for Wild Cats
| Species | 2008 | 2015 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaguar | Near Threatened | Near Threatened | Near Threatened | Decreasing |
| Tiger | Endangered | Endangered | Endangered | Decreasing |
| Snow Leopard | Endangered | Endangered | Vulnerable | Decreasing |


--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: Manipulating the SiteMapDataSource for ASP.NET 2.0 Menus author: display_name: Tomas Restrepo login: tomasr email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: http://winterdom.com/ author_login: tomasr author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>author_url: http://winterdom.com/ wordpress_id: 11 wordpress_url: http://winterdom.com/2006/05/manipulatingthesitemapdatasourceforaspnet20menus date: '2006-05-15 17:38:56 +0000' date_gmt: '2006-05-15 17:38:56 +0000' categories: - ".NET" - ASP.NET tags: [] comments: - id: 13 author: Jason author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2006-06-21 15:06:03 +0000' date_gmt: '2006-06-21 15:06:03 +0000' content: | Why not just set the "StaticDisplayLevels" property on your menu control to "2"? That's what I do to show the top 2 levels as one level across my horizontal menu. - id: 14 author: Tomas Restrepo author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>author_url: http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/ date: '2006-06-21 16:35:47 +0000' date_gmt: '2006-06-21 16:35:47 +0000' content: | Jason, Maybe I hosed up, but from my tests, StaticDisplayLevels doesn't force all items to display at the "same level", it just forces the menu to render those levels in the static (i.e. always visible) part of the menu. I might be wrong, though. ---
I've been spending some time with ASP.NET 2.0 lately. There are many interesting and very useful new features (Master Pages for example being one of my favourites). Some features however require some more effort to make them work as you'd like (as everything, I guess). Two of those are the Menu and the SiteMapDataSource controls.
Basically, what I was trying to achieve was a very basic top-level, horizontal navigation bar for the site I was working on. The first hurdle was getting the Menu control to generate even remotely useful HTML code, as by default it will generates a mess of nested HTML tables somewhat awkward to style using CSS. Fortunately, I had read ScottGu's entry on the CSS control adapters toolkit, so I downloaded and took a look at the code and was able to use that to instead generate
With that out of the way, I was running into a little bit of a snag. SiteMaps can only have a single root, which was ok by me and suited the site just fine. The problem was that I wanted the navigation bar to include both the top-level node in the SiteMap (i.e. "Home") as well as all the entries in the second level of the SiteMap (i.e. the real content pages). Having the SiteMapDataSource control driving the menu ignore the root of the SiteMap was not an option, and leaving it as is didn't fit the bill, either.
I could've just used an external XML data source instead, but the SiteMap really worked for my purposes (and was used to drive a SiteMapPath control as well), and well, I'm a sucker for punishement and wanted to check out if I could beat this thing into submition. As it turns out, I could :-)
What I did probably can be called an ugly hack: I created a SiteMapDataSource-derived control that overrides the GetHierarchicalView() method. In it, I grab the SiteMap, clone the root, remove the children and then create a new SiteMapNodeCollection that contains both the cloned root as well as the original second-level items, then return a new SiteMapHierarchicalDataSourceView created from that. Strangely enough it works. Here's what the code looks like (sort of):
public class CustomSiteMapDataSource : SiteMapDataSource
{
protected override HierarchicalDataSourceView GetHierarchicalView(string viewPath)
{
SiteMapNode root = Provider.RootNode;
SiteMapNode newRoot = root.Clone();
newRoot.ChildNodes = new SiteMapNodeCollection();
SiteMapNodeCollection collection = new SiteMapNodeCollection();
collection.Add(newRoot);
collection.AddRange(root.ChildNodes);
return new SiteMapHierarchicalDataSourceView(collection);
}
}
I then just had the Menu control get it's data from a CustomSiteMapDataSource object instead of a normal SiteMapDataSource. Note the code above doesn't have any decent error checking and most certainly will always return just the two top levels of the menu, but it worked for my purposes.


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See also: And, Or, Not. |
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num=%11110000111100001111000011110000 ; Define a bit pattern which is easy to recognize
bitmask=Rnd(-2147483648,2147483647) ; Define a RANDOM Xor 32bit wide bitmask ; This line prints the binary and decimal numbers before the Xor Print "Binary number is: "+Bin$(num)+" ("+num+")" ; This line prints the binary and decimal numbers of the Xor bitmask Print "Xor bitmask is: "+Bin$(bitmask)+" ("+bitmask+")" Print "------------------------------------------------------------------" ; This line Xor's the number with the bitmask xres=num Xor bitmask ; This line prints the binary and decimal numbers after the Xor Print "Xor result is: "+Bin$(xres)+" ("+xres+")" Print "------------------------------------------------------------------" ; This line Xor's the Xor result with the bitmask again xres=xres Xor bitmask ; This line prints the binary and decimal numbers after the second Xor. NOTE: This number is identical to the original number Print "Result Xor'ed again: "+Bin$(xres)+" ("+xres+")" WaitMouse ; Wait for the mouse before ending. |


Thanks for creating a
Sample SendGrid Java Application
. The code and documentation are available
here
.


CSE 8803 DLT: Deep Learning for Text Data
Logistics
- Lecture time: Monday & Wednesday 3:00PM–4:15PM
- Location: CoC Room 52
- Instructor: Chao Zhang
- Teaching Assistant: TBD
- Piazza: TBD
- Piazza will be the main place for course discussions and announcements. If you have questions, please ask it on Piazza first because 1) other students may have the same question; 2) you will get help faster compared to sending emails.
- Office Hours:
- Instructor Office Hour: TBD
- TA Office Hour: TBD
Overview
This course will introduce state-of-the-art machine learning techniques for mainstay problems in text data analysis, with particular emphasis on deep learning methods that have achieved enormous success recently. Students will learn about trending problems in this field, key methods for solving these problems, and their advantages and disadvantages. The course will provide useful techniques for students who want to solve practical problems involving text data, and better prepare those who want to do edge-cutting research in text mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, and text-rich interdisciplinary research. The learning objective is that by the end of this course, the students are able to formulate their text analysis problems at hand, choose appropriate statistical models for the problems, and even come up with innovative solutions for solving open research problems in this field.
In the task space, we will cover a range of text data analysis tasks, including:
- Text classification (sentiment analysis, document classification)
- Sequence labeling (POS tagging, NER, event extraction)
- Knowledge graph construction and reasoning
- Text generation (text summarization, image captioning)
- A number of other trending topics in this area.
In the methodology space, we will introduce state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for these problems, including:
- Deep representation learning (Word2Vec, Transformer, BERT)
- Sequence labeling models (CRF, LSTM-CRF)
- Deep transfer/multi-task learning
- Neural symbolic methods
- Deep generative models (GAN, VAE, and their variants)
Prerequisites for this course: (1) the students should be have basic knowledge in machine learning and taken a relevant course before (e.g., CX4240, CSE6740, CS4641); (2) the students should have solid programming skills—both the assignments and the course project can be programming demanding.
Content
- Background knowledge
- Course overview and logistics
- Text data analysis: tasks and applications
- ML/DL review
- Text representation learning
- Bag-of-words, n-gram, TF-IDF
- Dimension reduction, matrix factorization, topic models
- Word2vec, Glove
- Transformer and BERT
- Deep text classification
- Traditional text classifiers: naive Bayes, logistic regression, SVM
- Deep classifiers: CNN, RNN and their variants
- Attention models
- Learning with less labeled data
- Transfer learning and fine-tuning
- Multitask learning
- Semi-supervised learning
- Weakly supervised learning
- Sequence labeling and structured prediction
- Motivating tasks: POS tagging, NER, event extraction
- Conditional random fields for sequence labeling
- Deep latent variable models for sequence labeling
- Text generation
- Motivating tasks: summarization, image captioning, translation
- Deep language models
- VAE and GAN for text generation
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Knowledge graph construction
- Knowledger graph reasoning
- Combining logic and neural models
- Other tending topics in text data analysis
- Multimodal analytics of text and other data
- Adversarial learning and model robustness
- Question answering and dialogue systems
- Project presentations
Schedule
| Date | Topic | Assignment | Due | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/19/19 | Course Overview | Sign up for Piazza | ||
| 8/21/19 | Text Analysis Basics | |||
| 8/26/19 | Machine Learning Review | |||
| 8/28/19 | Bag-of-words, N-Grams, TF-IDF | |||
| 9/2/19 | No Class (Labor Day) | |||
| 9/4/19 | Dimension Reduction and Topic Models | Proposal Due | ||
| 9/9/19 | Word Embedding, Word2Vec, Glove | HW1 Out | ||
| 9/11/19 | Transformer and BERT | |||
| 9/16/19 | Traditional Text Classifiers | |||
| 9/18/19 | Deep Text Classification | |||
| 9/23/19 | Attention Models | HW1 Due | ||
| 9/25/19 | Transfer Learning and Fine-Tuning | HW2 Out | ||
| 9/30/19 | Multitask Learning | |||
| 10/2/19 | Semi-Supervised Learning | |||
| 10/7/19 | Weakly Supervised Learning | |||
| 10/9/19 | Sequence Labeling Tasks | HW2 Due | ||
| 10/14/19 | No Class (Fall Recess) | |||
| 10/16/19 | Conditional Random Fields | HW3 Out | Mid Report Due | |
| 10/21/19 | Deep Models for Sequence Labeling | |||
| 10/23/19 | Text Generation Tasks | |||
| 10/28/19 | Deep Language Models | |||
| 10/30/19 | GAN and VAE for Text Generation | HW3 Out | ||
| 11/4/19 | Knowledge Graph Construction | |||
| 11/6/19 | Knowledge Graph Reasoning | |||
| 11/11/19 | Neural Symbolic Methods | |||
| 11/13/19 | Other Trending Topics | HW3 Due | ||
| 11/18/19 | Project Presentations | |||
| 11/20/19 | Project Presentations | |||
| 11/25/19 | Project Presentations | |||
| 11/27/19 | No Class | |||
| 12/2/19 | No Class | Final Report Due | ||
| 12/4/19 | Reading Day |
Grading
- Homeworks (45%)
- There will be three assignments. Each one is designed for testing your understanding of the taught algorithms. It could be either programming or written analysis.
- All assignments follow the "no-late" policy. Assignments received after the due time will receive zero credit.
- All students are expected to follow the Georgia Tech Academic Honor Code.
- Project (50%)
- You are expected to complete a project on machine learning for text data. Your project needs to be clear about 1) the problem you are attempting to solve; 2) a survey of existing literature for the problem and the technical method you propose to solve the problem; 3) the results and conclusion you attain.
- Each project needs to be completed in a team of 2-3 people. Team members need to clearly claim their contributions in the project report.
- You will need to submit the following:
- Project proposal (10%): formulation of the problem and expected outcome
- Mid-term report (10%): literature survey and technical roadmap
- Presentation (15%): group-wise in-class project presentation
- Final report (15%): a complete and final project report
- Class participation (5%)
- Your class participation score will be graded based on attendance and in-class quizzes.
- Participation in class discussions (including asking relevant questions in class, volunteering to answer questions on Piazza) will be considered when determining your final grade. It will be especially useful when you are right on the edge of two letter grades.
Resources
- Speech and Language Processing, by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin
- Deep Learning for NLP
- Deep Learning, by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
- Dive into Deep Learning, by Aston Zhang, Zack C. Lipton, Mu Li, and Alex Smola
Other resources, such as deep learning toolboxes and datasets, will be provided throughout the course.


--- title: Welcome to mahoudata keywords: fastai sidebar: home_sidebar summary: "Library for recommending Mahou-San Miguel beers" ---
This file provides a brief introduction to the usage of mahoudata library. Development has been carried out by using nbdev
Git clone: https://github.com/pelayoarbues/mahoudata.git
For using the library in other projects:
pip install -e .
from mahoudata.core import *
from pandas_profiling import ProfileReport
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("./data/dataset-datathon.csv")
The following cell generates a Exploratory Data Analysis report in the reports
folder
profile = ProfileReport(df, title='Pandas Profiling Report', html={'style':{'full_width':True}})
profile.to_file(output_file="./reports/raw_data_profile.html") #Check reports folder
# Uncomment the following line for an interactive visualization
#profile.to_notebook_iframe() ## Explore using data profiling
According to profile there are 60% duplicates. Get rid of them.
df_clean = df.drop_duplicates(
subset = df.columns.difference(['vajilla'])
)
First step is to create a context. At the moment it only defines the column names of numeric variables. Further options for the program might be added here.
context = {'numeric_cols' : ['lupulo_afrutado_citrico',
'lupulo_floral_herbal','amargor', 'color',
'maltoso', 'licoroso', 'afrutado', 'especias','acidez']
}
Next step is to select the type of recommender we want to run.
For the moment, only numeric
type has been partially developed. The numeric
strategy computes cosine distances among numeric vectors.
f = RecommenderStrategyFactory(context)
strategy = f.createStrategy('numeric')
Then we can use the model_builder
function to prepare data for the recommender algorithm:
datamodel = strategy.model_builder(df_clean)
For executing the recommender algorithm we can run:
recommender_df = strategy.exec_strategy(datamodel)
If we explore recommender_df we can see that at this stage, it is a squared symmetric matrix.
recommender_df
RecommenderHelper.get_top_recommendations(recommender_df, beerID=1, topk=6, sort_asc=True)
Improve RecommenderHelper.get_top_recommendations by parsing the dataframe as a dictionarys


Smaller, city-centre Ikea stores not in cards for Island
Ikea Canada’s plan to transform its business model is not going to include opening a store in Victoria.
An Ikea Canada spokeswoman confirmed the company’s “global transformation” project that includes opening smaller, city-centre locations would not be on the cards for the Island.
“Our current focus for the city centre approach is on the Toronto market. At this time, there are no additional markets identified,” said Ikea’s Kristin Newbigging.
Last year, Ikea announced a multi-year process to transform its business model around the world to accommodate the “changing way our customers live and shop” due to urbanization and new technology.
Ikea plans to look at new store formats, enhance in-store experiences, invest in its digital experience and improve its distribution networks.
The plan also calls for significant cuts in jobs across Ikea Canada, which has 14 stores, an online store, five pick-up and order points and 17 collection points, including Victoria and Nanaimo.
Ikea once had a store in downtown Victoria, but it closed in the late 1980s.


What is Containerization?
Containerization is a strategy of bringing Virtualization to the OS-level. Though Virtualization is an abstraction to the hardware, containerization brings abstraction of OS. Containerization is more efficient because there is no guest OS to utilize a host’s OS and do not have to share relevant libraries and resources, unlike virtual machines. Containers works on bare-metal systems, cloud instances, and virtual machines, across Linux, Windows, and Mac. Containerization is a lightweight alternative to full machine virtualization that involves encapsulating an application in a container with its OS. Containerization boots up in a fraction of seconds; this is because Container shares host OS and holds only those application which is related to binaries and libraries.
In the above diagram, as you see, there is one host OS shared by all containers. Containers only contain applications specific to libraries that are isolated from other containers leading to no wastage of resources. This makes the container deployments faster and more reliable.
There are noticeable differences between these two terms, which are as follows:
1. The advantage of multiple copies: one of the major points that differentiate these two processes is containers’ temporary behavior. Many copies of a container can exist at the same time in a system like orchestration. If any containers failed, one can remove that and replace it, and there will be no change or impact on service. Older versions can exist at the same time with the new versions. Removal and replacement of the new versions can be done easily if any operation gets failed.
2. Scaling related workloadsThere is a vast difference between the scalability of a containerized workload and a virtual workload. The containers contain only those services which are basic in nature and which their functions require, but among those services, one can be a web server like Nginx and virtualization workload system, like cabernets, having the capability of judging that when there is a need of scaling out the number of containers based on the sequence of traffic follows and can copy the images of the container on its own and also remove them from the system.
3. Foundation for running an application:the Linux containers format is the foundation for containerization format. So, containerization can only run the Linux application as it will support only the Linux environment.
4. Using microservices architecture:Google firstly uses the architecture “microservices” and then by Netflix. One can operate these systems without excluding any single application. In the form of functions, they perform small workloads that may be contacted through API, and they perform different functions. These functions can be seen in traditional applications, although many applications can perform the same functions on repeat.


Preparation time
30 mins to 1 hour
Cooking time
over 2 hours
Serves
Makes 2 pies
Paul Hollywood's delicious pies have a rich golden pastry and are made in the traditional way.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours then rub the butter in with your fingertips.
Mix together the boiling water, salt and lard in small saucepan. Heat and stir together until the lard melts.
Pour the lard and water mixture on top of the flour mixture, stirring with a spoon until everything comes together.
Tip the dough onto a floured surface and bring together into a ball.
 Divide the pastry in two, then remove a quarter from each half for the lids of the pies.
With the remaining three-quarters of the pastry, place on a flat surface and place a jam jar on top of the pastry in the middle. Sculpt the still warm pastry around the dolly, try and make sure the pastry is an even thickness. Make sure the bottom is not too thick and that there are no holes in the pastry.
Chill the pie bases in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
Roll out the reserved quarter of pastry into a circle to match the size of the pie top. Make a hole in the centre of each one and chill in the fridge.
Take the pastry cases out of the fridge and carefully pour boiling water from a kettle into each jam jar to soften the pastry and release it from the mould. If it softens too much and begins to sag you may need to chill again for 10 minutes or so. Trim the top of the pie shells to make sure they are even.
Keeping them separate, season the chicken and bacon well with salt, pepper and fresh thyme.
Now pack the filling into the pie, start with bacon, then chicken, then a layer of roughly chopped apricots. Repeat until the filling is all used up.
Place on the lid and crimp around the sides, sealing thoroughly.
Brush the lids of the pies with egg wash. Place on a baking tray and cook for 50-60 minutes, or until the pastry is nice and crisp all the way around.
While the pies are baking, dissolve a chicken stock cube in 150ml/5fl oz of hot water.
Soak two leaves of gelatine in cold water for five minutes. When soft, squeeze out the excess water and whisk into the warm stock.
When the pies are cooked, place them on a cooling rack and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
Carefully pour the stock into the slit on the pie lid, to fill in any spaces inside the pie with (what will be) chicken stock jelly. This must be done when the pie is hot, if done when cold the jelly will just sit on the top and not soak into every nook and cranny.
Leave to set overnight before eating.


Setting up Typescript unit testing in Visual Studio with Chutzpah.
The next set of tasks on my todo list have to do with winnowing the user's log list. I want to add keyword search, filter by specific week, and probably some kind of pagination or demand loading too. I'm still debating what and how much to do on the server side, but either way I will need to add even more Javascript logic to the front end to support these features.
Before moving forward on the design and creating even more untested Javascript code though I decided to spend some time today getting JS testing setup. It turned out to be a lot more complicated than when I setup for example CoffeeScript testing in the past. I did eventually get something working, but I ran into quite a few snags along the way.
I found a tool called Chutzpah that provides integration with Visual Studio in the form of two addons: a test runner, and a context menu. The tutorials I could find were all old, and the project's docs seemed to be outdated in places too, but I can confirm it does work with VS2015 SP2.
The first problem I had getting Chutzpah working was entirely Visual Studio's fault. To keep my main project clean I would have liked to put the JS testing code in the separate testing subproject I already made for my C# tests. For whatever reason though VS does not allow creation of arbitrary file types in a project. Instead I am limited to the file types VS thinks are relevant to my project. In the case of my testing project I am limited to only C# file types and a few config file types.
I actually got quite a ways down the road creating everything manually in the
file system, but I was still going to have a problem tying my Typescript build
into my testing project. Since it felt like I was fighting my way upstream I
instead decided to move everything into a test
subdirectory of my main
project's scripts
directory. VS was much more accomodating in the context of
an Asp.net project too.
My next problem had to do with lack of relevant examples. As far as I can tell no one has ever successfully setup Chutzpah in a Asp.net Core project. All I found were stand-alone Javascript examples and a few unresolved questions regarding Asp.net > v4 setup. Without something like RequireJS, and with your dependencies living so far from your code, it wasn't clear how to get everything hooked up.
The flaws and omissions in the official documentation didn't help either. To start note that you do not need to install Chutzpah Nuget package, or PhantomJS, or Jasmine (the testing framework I chose). the addons takes care of all the essential setup.
One very important piece of information that was missing from the
documentation was where to put the chutzpah.json
configuration file. I assumed
it would be placed in the same folder as my source files, just like in all the
samples, and then it would be registered using the run tests context menu. In
fact in order for Chutzpah to do anything you need to have the chutzpah.json
file in the root of the project (were your project.json file is).
The first place I was mislead by the docs was concerning the need for and construction of an HTML file as a test harness. When using VS at least there is no need for any harness file.
Next was the guidance on building Typescript files for testing. The method referenced in the docs and used in the samples is to create a batch file to compile your sources. Again, with a working VS Typescript setup this is totally unnecessary.
Once I got all that sorted I had two failures in quick succession: first test
discovery ran on my entire project (finding dozens of tests in my wwwroot/lib
folder), then (after discarding a bunch of things that hadn't worked) test
discovery found nothing at all.
I spent a lot of time reading, and thinking, and tweaking my configs, but in the
end what helped me sort out my problems was a somewhat-hidden debug setting. If
in VS you check the Chutzpah options (Tools > Options > Chutzpah) there is an
Enable Tracing
setting, and at the bottom of the dialog you'll see the
description: "Saves a trace of the Chutzpah execution to
"%temp%\chutzpah.log". After enabling tracing and checking the log I could see
exactly where my config was broken.
While fixing my config I:
- pathed to the wrong root directory
- caused an exception in Chutzpah path resolution code
- included all my tests twice
Through all that the only hint that anything was wrong was the trace log. IMO trace output should be enabled by default, and should output to the VS output window.
Here is my final working config:
{
"Framework": "jasmine",
"Compile": {
"Extensions": [".ts"],
"ExtensionsWithNoOutput": [".d.ts"],
"Mode": "External",
"UseSourceMaps": true
},
"References": [
{
"Includes": [ "*/scripts/*.ts",
"*/wwwroot/lib/knockout/build/knockout-raw.js",
"*/wwwroot/lib/knockout.mapping/knockout.mapping-2.4.1.debug.js",
"*/wwwroot/lib/moment/moment.js" ],
"Excludes": [ "*/scripts/*/*.d.ts" ]
}
],
"Tests": [
{ "Includes": [ "*/scripts/test/*.ts" ],
"Excludes": ["*/scripts/test/*.d.ts", "*/wwwroot/*"] }
]
}
Things to note:
- paths start with
*/
, without this none of my paths resolved - compile.Mode is set to
External
, because VS builds my code - my libraries are manually included, because I don't like the comment method
Now I can write my tests in Typescript and they all show up in the Test Explorer. Thankfully the tests also run much quicker than the C# tests.
Edit - Note about suspending
After writing all that I just finished coding some new tests and found none of my tests populated in the Test Explorer. Closing and re-starting VS fixed the problem thankfully. My guess is that the Node server Chutzpah runs in the background didn't survive closing the lid on my laptop.
This is inconvenient for me because I almost never restart my laptop. I've had my current session going for days, suspending and resuming dozens of times. Windows stability sure has come a long way!


A B C D G N P R S
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A
- addCommand(Commands.CommandInfo) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands
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Adds a command to the list using a
CommandInfo
instance. - addCommands(List<Commands.CommandInfo>) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands
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Adds the provided commands to the list using the provided List of
CommandInfo
instances. - addCommands(Commands.CommandInfo...) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands
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Adds the provided commands to the list using the provided
CommandInfo
instances.
B
- build() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J.Builder
- Builder() - Constructor for class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J.Builder
C
- CommandInfo(String, String, String) - Constructor for class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands.CommandInfo
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Constructor to set the CommandInfo instance, which will be used in the addCommand options.
- Commands - Class in net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Class used for posting Command information (name, description and category) to the Discordservices API.
- Commands.CommandInfo - Class in net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Class used for the
addCommand(...)
methods.
D
- DServices4J - Class in net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Main class used for the Java Wrapper.
- DServices4J.Builder - Class in net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Builder class for easier setup of the
DServices4J
class.
G
- getCategory() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands.CommandInfo
- getCommands() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J
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Gets an instance of the
Command
class, which is used to submit the commands a bot has to the Discordservices API. - getDescription() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands.CommandInfo
- getName() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands.CommandInfo
- getNews() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J
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Gets an instance of the
News
class, which is used to post announcements about your bot. - getStats() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J
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Gets an instance of the
Stats
class, which is used to submit statistics like server and shard count to the Discordservices API.
N
- net.discordservices.dservices4j - package net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Installation
- net.discordservices.dservices4j.exceptions - package net.discordservices.dservices4j.exceptions
- News - Class in net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Class used to post News to the bot page on Discordservices.
P
- postCommands() - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands
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Posts the previously set commands to the Discordservices API.
- postNews(String, String) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.News
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Posts news to the bot page.
- postNews(String, String, boolean) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.News
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Posts news to the bot page.
- postStats(long) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Stats
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Performs a POST request towards the Stats endpoint.
- postStats(long, long) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Stats
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Performs a POST request towards the Stats endpoint.
R
- RatelimitedException - Exception in net.discordservices.dservices4j.exceptions
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Indicates that the bot/application got rate limited by the Discordservices API.
- RatelimitedException(String, String) - Constructor for exception net.discordservices.dservices4j.exceptions.RatelimitedException
S
- setCommands(List<Commands.CommandInfo>) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands
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Sets the provided commands for the list using the provided List of
CommandInfo
instances. - setCommands(Commands.CommandInfo...) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.Commands
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Sets the provided commands for the list using the provided
CommandInfo
instances. - setId(long) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J.Builder
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Sets the ID of your bot that will be used for the different endpoints.
- setId(String) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J.Builder
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Sets the ID of your bot that will be used for the different endpoints.
- setToken(String) - Method in class net.discordservices.dservices4j.DServices4J.Builder
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Sets the API token (This is NOT your Bot token!)
- Stats - Class in net.discordservices.dservices4j
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Class used to post Bot statistics (Server and shard count) to the Discordservices API.
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