--- layout: post date: 2006-01-02 time: "09:00:00" authors: ["Greg Wilson"] title: "Software Carpentry Introduction revised and on the web" tags: ["Curriculum"] ---
I have revised the Introduction to the Software Carpentry course. This was the easy one: no diagrams, no code fragments, no glossary entries; the rest will be harder. I'd be very grateful for feedback, comments, and corrections. (And yes, audio will follow, but not today—my nephews are playing Zombies downstairs, and juvenile shouts of, "Eat lead you undead scum!" aren't quite the background I have in mind.


A class for generating text as a single geometry. It is constructed by providing a string of text, and a set of parameters consisting of a loaded font and settings for the geometry's parent [page:ExtrudeGeometry]. See the [page:FontLoader] page for additional details.
[name] is an add-on, and must be imported explicitly. See [link:#manual/introduction/Installation Installation / Addons].
import { TextGeometry } from 'three/addons/geometries/TextGeometry.js';
const loader = new FontLoader();
loader.load( 'fonts/helvetiker_regular.typeface.json', function ( font ) {
const geometry = new TextGeometry( 'Hello three.js!', {
font: font,
size: 80,
height: 5,
curveSegments: 12,
bevelEnabled: true,
bevelThickness: 10,
bevelSize: 8,
bevelOffset: 0,
bevelSegments: 5
} );
} );
[example:webgl_geometry_text geometry / text ]
text — The text that needs to be shown.
parameters — Object that can contains the following parameters.
TextGeometry uses typeface.json generated fonts. Some existing fonts can be found located in /examples/fonts and must be included in the page.
| Font | Weight | Style | File Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| helvetiker | normal | normal | /examples/fonts/helvetiker_regular.typeface.json |
| helvetiker | bold | normal | /examples/fonts/helvetiker_bold.typeface.json |
| optimer | normal | normal | /examples/fonts/optimer_regular.typeface.json |
| optimer | bold | normal | /examples/fonts/optimer_bold.typeface.json |
| gentilis | normal | normal | /examples/fonts/gentilis_regular.typeface.json |
| gentilis | bold | normal | /examples/fonts/gentilis_bold.typeface.json |
| droid sans | normal | normal | /examples/fonts/droid/droid_sans_regular.typeface.json |
| droid sans | bold | normal | /examples/fonts/droid/droid_sans_bold.typeface.json |
| droid serif | normal | normal | /examples/fonts/droid/droid_serif_regular.typeface.json |
| droid serif | bold | normal | /examples/fonts/droid/droid_serif_bold.typeface.json |
See the base [page:ExtrudeGeometry] class for common properties.
An object with a property for each of the constructor parameters. Any modification after instantiation does not change the geometry.
See the base [page:ExtrudeGeometry] class for common methods.
[link:https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/examples/jsm/geometries/TextGeometry.js examples/jsm/geometries/TextGeometry.js]


{% extends 'base.html' %} {% block styles%} {{ super() }} {% endblock %} {% block content %}
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
{{debate.content}}


Availability: ALL
The Enable Breakpoint (+B) or Disable Breakpoint (-B) command enables or disables one or more software breakpoints previously set with the BS (Breakpoint Set) command. If no parameter is given, and there is a software breakpoint set at the current execute location, that breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Usage
{+|-}B [*]
{+|-}B {#number |addr}...
Arguments
Examples
BS main First Second Third
-B *
+B main Third


{% from "radios/macro.html" import govukRadios %} {% from "includes/data-access-level-options.html" import data_access_level_options with context %} {% from "includes/datasource-access-form.html" import data_access_paths_textarea %} {% extends "base.html" %} {% set page_title = "Edit data access level" %} {% block content %}


What is the best-case cost of Shellsort for
an array whose size n
is a power of 2 when using
divide-by-twos increments?
\Theta(n \log n)
\Theta(n^2)
\Theta(n)
\Theta(2^n)
\Theta(\log n)
Think about whether the sorted list is a best-case input or not.
Sorted input is the best case.
How many increments are there for the divide-by-two increment series?
With divide-by-two increments, there are \log n
increments.
\log n
passes over an array of
length n
must cost n \log n
.


When I was a boy the New York Daily Mirror ran on its masthead the injunction from John 8:32: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make ye free." I was never too young to miss the irony of that statement on a Hearst newspaper, but I felt it as an irony that didn't force me to question the ideal the masthead affirmed. I didn't, however, know then that the apostle John and William Hearst were affirming a fundamental tenet of late-nineteenth-century positivism. The great Enlightenment ideal, the commitment to knowledge and rationality as a means to progressive improvement of the human condition, found one of its last important outlets in positivism. Let me red-facedly admit that--despite a lifetime of rebuffs--I have not given up that commitment.
Karl Pearson participated vigorously in it. In his 1892 Grammar of Science, he virtually begins, in a section called "Science and Citizenship," by asserting that the scientific "frame of mind seems to me an essential of good citizenship." 1 If this looks suspiciously like science as the opiate of the masses, it may also be taken as a good-faith commitment to the view that epistemology should be driven by human needs. Put that way, it sounds not like scientific disingenuousness but pragmatist revisionism. Surely, Pearson's explanation has some contemporary resonance: "Every modern citizen," he says, "is thrust into an appalling maze of social and educational problems." And every citizen is "called upon to form a judgment apart, if it possibly may be, from his own feelings and emotions--a judgment in what he conceives to be the interests of society at large" (GS, 10). Here an Arnoldian ideal of disinterest joins with positivist idealizing of knowledge.
The Grammar of Science, the most important summary of scientific epistemology, method, and possibility since John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy of 1830, embraced both the political and epistemological ideals of a new vision for science and society. "The goal of science is clear," Pearson concludes; "it is nothing short of the complete interpretation of the universe" (GS, 18).
Against this scientific imperialism it would be easy now to succumb to the temptation to push once again the argument that scientific thought--ostensibly disinterested and objective--disguises self-interest and ideological complicity. Pearson was a propagandist for strong pre-Vienna Circle positivist theory and at the same time one of the most active and important of eugenicists. The connection makes itself. There can be no mistaking that his major scientific initiatives were ideologically driven by a passion for social reform, and a reform based on a eugenic program of racial improvement.
I want to resist that temptation. I am interested in shaking up what may be a current critical complacency latent in the idea that all knowledge is political. Of course. And then what? In Pearson's case, for example, there is the fact of "statistics." Statistics as a scientific discipline given shape and direction by Pearson is an indispensable tool of modern life. J. B. S. Haldane once remarked that Pearson's "theory of heredity was incorrect in some fundamental respects. So was Columbus's theory of geography. He set out for China, and discovered America." 2 It is partly because of this apparently odd result--the growth of a valuable science from an obviously ideologically driven enterprise--that I want to think about the implications of his work for our own relations to knowledge and science and politics. In addition, Pearson is a particularly interesting subject because his theories raise echoes of contemporary nonpositivist epistemological enterprises, and because his politics are far more complicated--he was both socialist and feminist--than the connection with eugenics first suggests. Pearson is, then, an ideal test case for my tentative exploration of the possibility of recuperating some aspects of the positivist enterprise, including certain elements of the cognitive and something like an imagination of uncontaminated knowledge.
I don't propose, with Pearsonian hubris, to manage such a recuperation. At best, I expect to complicate the picture: Pearson's kind of positivism opens onto possibilities that many of us have been embracing and may continue to embrace, both intellectually and politically.
I want, then, to go over some familiar ground about the positivist epistemology that undergirded Pearson's idea of science, and to watch his progress from citizenship to epistemic skepticism, to the possibility of knowing. In doing so, I will be emphasizing aspects of his thought close to current humanist critiques. And I do so because I believe that we have tended to surrender too easily the value of some sort of rational and cognitive consensus to the politically and intellectually conservative. Positivism, certainly in the hands of Pearson, was an enterprise for human betterment. Like all such enterprises, it was therefore dangerous, but no more so perhaps than our own anti-positivistic enterprises. It's worth seeing where we connect with it and why it ended up in places that have led to its dismissal.
Let me then recall that positivism, popularly conceived as dogmatic, realistic, and fact-oriented, shares with the Nietzsche of Pearson's own day a deep-rooted skepticism, and a perspectivist belief in the inevitable human element buried in every "fact." It is initiated as much as a theory of strong disbelief as of strong belief. "The improver of natural knowledge," Huxley famously said, "absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties." 3 The condition of strong belief is a preliminary rejection of virtually everything one has believed. The word "positivism" itself implies something of the Cartesian enterprise--the clearing away of the debris of knowledge, all that is muddy and doubtable, not "clear and distinct," for whatever foundational certainty one might find. 4
But Pearson sought ways to resist the instability he believed in. The movement through negations to aggressively affirmative modes of positivism is a tricky one, based on fine description of the methods of science. Not Cartesian in that he begins with a total commitment to empiricism, Pearson replays Descartes's hunt for what it might be possible and necessary to believe. He sustains at once a fundamental incredulity almost as complete as Descartes's Great Doubt, and uses it to build a confident (if stringently limited) way of knowing. Part of Pearson's program was the absolute dismissal of traditional religion and metaphysics from the sphere of knowledge; the other, "positive," part was the definition of a valid mode of knowing.
Pearson tries to argue both that everything is in principle knowable and that anything that lies outside sense impression is unknowable. This is a particularly difficult maneuver, initiating the positivist strategy of dismissing empirically indeterminable questions as nonsense, yet allowing that maybe, yes, someday, we might know about reality. But we are too ignorant to know whether we can know it. He finds the positive modes of knowledge where we might expect, in science. "Wherever there is the slightest possibility for the human mind to know, there is a legitimate problem of science" (GS, 23). But, finally, to make science valid on his terms and sweep up any metaphysical residue, he rejects all claims that science is about reality.
Pearson's world is familiar to those who know Nietzsche's transformation of knowledge into fiction. Kant's "thing in itself" is as much fiction to Pearson as to Nietzsche; science is a mode of interpreting rather than a representation of the real. Pearson argues that we know only our own consciousnesses, that the world is in effect a construct of our consciousness (where have we heard this before?). Strictly speaking, the scientist discovers nothing: he is an inventor. The laws of nature owe their existence to the creative power of man's intellect: "There is," says Pearson, "more meaning in the statement that man gives laws to Nature than in its converse that Nature gives law to man" (GS, 77). Pearson's kind of positivism probably provided much of the intellectual ground for the paradoxes of Oscar Wilde, who was unusually knowledgeable about science, and a close reader of the naturalists, T. H. Huxley, W. K. Clifford, and John Tyndall. 5 Here, in effect, Pearson says, as Wilde would, that nature imitates art, not vice versa.
Pearson retreats from all large knowledge claims to one fundamental recognition--not so much a cogito as a "sentio": I experience, therefore a certain "routine of perception" (GS, 111, passim) exists. Routine of perception is Pearson's antimetaphysically chilling formula for what others might call reality, the regularity of impressions that allows the mind to invent laws of nature. Scientists simply describe accurately and economically the routine of those perceptions, through which it becomes possible to infer past and future routines of perception. Such empiricist orthodoxy threatens the very stability it seeks and entails further recuperative moves. There are no "laws of nature," only descriptions of routines of perception. This purging of reality and metaphysics leaves positivism hovering over an abyss of nonknowing. (Note that the pragmatist tradition shares intimately with this positivist one the refusal to allow for science or language as "representation," particularly as representation of some "reality" that lies outside of anyone's consciousness.) For Pearson as for the pragmatists, we are all bound by the egocentric predicament.
"Science," Pearson argues, "is in reality a classification and analysis of the contents of the mind: and the scientific method consists in drawing just comparisons and inferences from the stored impresses of past sense impressions, and from the conceptions based on them" (GS, 49). Only by making all knowledge claims pass through the narrow funnel of individual consciousness can Pearson make the world safe from the incursions of metaphysics. He thus moves himself, as so many of his contemporaries moved, inside Pater's "thick wall . . . through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without." 6
Yet Pearson's socialism entailed the belief that all individuals are bound to and subsumed under the community; his epistemology made the same requirement, for both moral and intellectual reasons. How, then, negotiate an empiricist subjectivity that makes it impossible to get beyond the self? Pearson, like many others at the time, including Wilde, Tyndall, and even Nietzsche, adopts a strategy characteristic of strayed foundationalists, the biologistic appeal to evolution.
Pearson replaces foundations with "normality." "The universal validity of science depends," he says, "upon the similarity of the perceptive and reasoning faculties in normal civilized men" (GS, 45); and for "a conception to have scientific validity [it] must be deducible from the perceptions of the normal human being" (GS, 50). Scientific universality "has only meaning insofar as we refer to a certain type of perceptive faculty, namely, that of a normal human being" (GS, 75).
The Foucauldian critique waits in the wings, but I defer it to get clear how Pearson makes his epistemological maneuvers. Minds, he says, are machines, and if they don't act adequately in response to stimulation, "we say that the mind is disordered, the reason wanting, the person mad" (GS, 88-89). Normality is, then, a power of evolutionary survival. In an Erewhonian way, error becomes illness, and Pearson's epistemology reaches out beyond mind to the body that seems to house it. For the mad person, "The fitting exertion would not follow the sense impression, and any such man would have small chance of surviving among men whose perceptive and reasoning faculties were attuned" (GS, 91). Interestingly, in Wilde's notebooks there is an entry under the heading "Survival of Fittest in Thought" that reads: "Nature kills off all those who do not believe in the Uniformity of Nature and the Law of Causation." 7 Thus, with no access to other people's minds, Pearson believes he can, with the concept of normality, validate knowledge claims.
But another epistemological step, some antimetaphysical tool for knowing, is required. The crucial instrument Pearson finds, learned of course from Francis Galton, is "correlation." Things remain unknown, but a "sequence" of impressions can be known. We will never find out what causes the impressions, never get behind the screen of consciousness, and yet what we find out will be enough to increase our chances of survival. Statistics, in effect, becomes the basis of an antimetaphysical science in that it allows the invention of laws to describe in the most economical possible way the sequences of events--woops, impressions. If I experience this, I am also likely to experience that. Such language replaces the idea of cause, a word Pearson is willing to use only in a revised sense. Probability contains the idea of "provability," as Pearson himself notes. Taking into account the underdetermination of pure empirical evidence, Pearson finds that statistics provides a convincing description of the world, that is, of the routine. The "clear and distinct" of Descartes gives way to "probability." Science moves from representation of reality to statistical correlation. "Henceforward," he wrote, "the philosophical view of the universe was to be that of a correlated system of variates, approaching but by no means reaching perfect correlation, i. e., absolute causality" (GS, 188). In The Grammar of Science the metaphysics of causality becomes the science of correlation.
All of this is very clever. Yet, res don't lie, but liars re, and we know that Pearson measured things for which he had totally inadequate information; that he posited entities like normal mental acuity, for which he had no justification; that he rejected Mendel's results in a closed-minded and rather unscientific way. Even on the grounds of conventional science, these can be detected as errors. But note in how many different ways the idea of correlation and statistics satisfies epistemological needs. Correlation makes no absolute claims about relationship; it only registers that a relationship can be inferred. The numbers used to establish correlation are comfortably free from the personal, and the trick is only (a) to make sure you are counting the right things, (b) to make sure you are asking the right questions in the right way, and (c) to make sure that the mathematics is correct. Correlative statistics seems to provide an algorithm for action and, as William James would have seen it critically, precludes the one real necessity, the need and responsibility to choose. But James's critique does not preclude the necessity for shareable knowledge. And what I want to emphasize here is Pearson's brilliant effort to construct the shareable, rather than to insist on its adequacy.
When I first read Pearson I didn't know of his connections with eugenics, and I followed the circuits of his argument without trying to resist. Pearson's social goals were allied to his science because he believed that true knowledge was attainable, and that once attained it would carry sufficient weight to guide political and moral action. Current strategies of the critique of science manifest similar attempts to demonstrate a set of facts (the incoherence of the narrative of ideal science, for example) in order to produce social goals. Donna Haraway, for example, imagines a science that would make "a no-nonsense commitment to faithful accounts of a 'real' world, one that can be partially shared and friendly to earth-wide projects of finite freedom, adequate material abundance, modest meaning in suffering, and limited happiness." 8 I'm not trying to equate Haraway and Pearson, but to call attention to a fundamental similarity in their projects: science tries to provide the best possible description of its subject in order to produce a social ideal. This is not the normal way philosophers and scientists themselves talk about science these days, yet the roll call of those who connect the project of science with social goals is impressive--Francis Bacon, John Herschel, Huxley, Pearson, Karl Popper, Bruno Latour, Haraway.
The usual idea that the intrusion of social and personal ambitions into the working of science disrupts the possibility of disinterest and therefore of true knowledge might well, as in Pearson's case, have it backwards. Since there is no escaping the pressure of the subjective in the act of knowing, the moral recognition of the primary need to confirm knowledge with others and to sustain the larger community in conditions of equity and fairness could in fact lead to the sorts of disciplined restraint of the personal that could lend credibility to assertion.
The attempt to make statistics a perfect epistemological machine that allows impersonality in a system otherwise inevitably biased was an important enterprise in its effort--perhaps excessive--to get beyond the personal, to discipline the desires, to penetrate the disguises of ideology. That Pearson developed various statistical strategies through his biometric work has not invalidated those strategies. That the ingenuities of science have been touched by the pressures of money, ambition, and social hierarchy has not diminished the importance of its modes of knowing. Pearson's epistemology, the positivist ecstasy (or effort to stand outside the self) and social critiques of science each tend to set their sights far too high. They each assume that the only way to achieve rational authority in knowledge is to distinguish radically the knower from the act of knowing, and absolutely and austerely to refuse to affirm any knowledge that lacks the authority of valid evidence, however that may be defined. This is veritably a Cartesian standard of doubt, and it exemplifies what Rom Harré has called "the fallacy of 'high redefinition.'" 9
It is not clear to me that although beginning with several assumptions not available to Pearson--that the eugenic project is an evil one, that science has been driven in part at least by strong nonrational forces, and that it has not been an unequivocal force for good--current strategies of negotiating with skepticism and with the impossibility of ideal self-repression are clearly an improvement on Pearson's. Ironically, positivism and its enemies negotiate the same difficulties with the same end: an ideal of valid, shareable, humanly usable knowledge. The excesses of resistance to the inescapability of the partial in the projects of knowledge and good citizenship do not negate the projects. It's not that science and citizenship are oxymoronic, only that our definitions of these terms need modification in the light of ideas like Pearson's and in the light of his failures.
Current strategies for negotiating with skepticism and with the impossibility of self-repression are not self-evidently an improvement on Pearson's. The ideal of disinterest still has work to do in our society. The ideal of modest truth claims, connected to disinterest, has yet more work to do.
For Pearson science, broadly, was rigorous thinking that makes the minimal possible claims based on the fullest possible experience in order to improve the quality of human life. I am not arguing for this epistemology, but for a recognition of our continuing investment in his kind of epistemology, for the importance of attempting to reaffirm the possibility of human connection through rational understanding and knowledge, and our responsibility for it.
George Levine is Kenneth Burke Professor of English at Rutgers University and Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. He is author of Darwin and the Novelists and, most recently, of a book of birding memoirs, Lifebirds . Currently he is at work on a study of the way scientific objectivity develops from and influences the main directions of Western narrative andWestern ethics.
1. Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science (1892; London: J. M. Dent,1937), 11; hereafter abbreviated GS.
2. J. B. S. Haldane, quoted in Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics:Genetics and the Use of Human Heredity (New York: Knopf, 1985), 37.
3. T. H. Huxley, Methods and Results (London: Macmillan and Co.,1893), 40. See also in the same volume, "Descartes' Discourse on Method" where, using Descartes, Huxley in effect announces the credo of the non-Comtist positivists:
there is one guiding rule by which a man may always find this path, and keep himself from straying when he has found it. This golden rule is--give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. . . . The enunciation of this great first commandment of science consecrated Doubt. It removed Doubt from the seat of penance among the grievous sins to which it had long been condemned, and enthroned it in that high place among the primary duties, which is assigned to it by the scientific conscious these latter days [169].
4. Huxley, Methods and Results, 170. For the full quotation, seenote 3.
5. See the introduction to Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portraitof Mind in the Making, ed. Philip E. Smith and Michael S. Helfand (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), passim.
6. Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, ed.Donald L. Hill (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 187.
7. Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, ed. Smith and Helfand, 121.
8. Donna J. Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question inFeminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective," in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 187.
9. Rom Harré, Varieties of Realism: A Rationale for the NaturalSciences (New York: Blackwell, 1986), 7.
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Sorts rows based on a source model role. More...
| Import Statement: | import SortFilterProxyModel . |
| Inherits: | |
| Inherited By: |
A RoleSorter is a simple Sorter that sorts rows based on a source model role.
In the following example, rows with be sorted by their lastName
role :
SortFilterProxyModel {
sourceModel: contactModel
sorters: RoleSorter { roleName: "lastName" }
}
This property holds whether the sorter is enabled. A disabled sorter will not change the order of the rows.
By default, sorters are enabled.
This property holds the sort priority of this sorter. Sorters with a higher priority are applied first. In case of equal priority, Sorters are ordered by their insertion order.
By default, the priority is 0.
This property holds the role name that the sorter is using to query the source model's data when sorting items.
This property holds the sort order of this sorter.
| Constant | Description |
|---|---|
Qt.AscendingOrder | The items are sorted ascending e.g. starts with 'AAA' ends with 'ZZZ' in Latin-1 locales |
Qt.DescendingOrder | The items are sorted descending e.g. starts with 'ZZZ' ends with 'AAA' in Latin-1 locales |
By default, sorting is in ascending order.


Qt Sensors - ShakeIt QML Example
ShakeIt in QML
Writing a QML application that uses the Shake QML sensorgestures type requires the following steps:
Import the Sensors Declarative module.
import QtSensors 5.0
Add a SensorGesture QML type.
SensorGesture {
In the SensorGesture type, specify which gesture to be used. Note that this can be a comma separated list. Here we are only interested in one gesture recognizer.
gestures : ["QtSensors.shake", "QtSensors.whip", "QtSensors.twist", "QtSensors.cover", "QtSensors.hover", "QtSensors.turnover", "QtSensors.pickup", "QtSensors.slam" , "QtSensors.doubletap"]
Use the 'enabled' property to start the sensor gesture.
enabled: true
Use the onDetected signal to do stuff.
onDetected:{ console.debug(gesture) label.text = gesture if (gesture == "shake") { window.state == "rotated" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "rotated" timer.start() } if (gesture == "whip") { window.state == "whipped" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "whipped" timer.start() } if (gesture == "twistRight") { window.state == "twistedR" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "twistedR" timer.start() } if (gesture == "twistLeft") { window.state == "twistedL" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "twistedL" timer.start() } if (gesture == "cover") { window.state == "covered" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "covered" timer.start() } if (gesture == "hover") { window.state == "hovered" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "hovered" timer.start() } if (gesture == "turnover") { window.state = "default" loopy2a_mono.play(); timer.start() } if (gesture == "pickup") { window.state = "default" phone.play() timer.start() } if (gesture == "slam") { window.state == "slammed" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "slammed" timer.start() } if (gesture == "doubletap") { window.state == "doubletapped" ? window.state = "default" : window.state = "doubletapped" timer.start() } }
There are additional gestures to shake which are supported: whip, twistRight, hover, cover, turnover and pickup.
Files:


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title: Spirit of the age
date: 2017-01-29 10:06
category: spirit-of-the-age
slug: spirit-of-the-age
permalink: /spirit-of-the-age/
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- /category/social-reality-eugenics/
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- /category/secret-keys/thought-control/
excerpt: ""
description: "Reality is not always pleasant. But seeing things as they really are is essential to understanding the grand epic going on right now all around you. It all started in the beginning when God created the heaven and the earth and saw that it was good..."
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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.
In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession.
Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
He was not merely awakened, but detonated out of an uncommonly long and repetitive dream. He could not remember any of the details of the dream now that it was over. But he had the idea that it had entailed much rowing and scraping, and little else; so he did not object to being roused. Even if he had been of a mind to object, he'd have had the good sense to hold his tongue, and keep his annoyance well-hid beneath a simpering merry-vagabond façade. Because what was doing the waking, today, was the most tremendous damned noise he'd ever heard - it was some godlike Force not to be yelled at or complained to, at least not right away.


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Interface IEventSource
An EventSource is a domain object that is capable of generating and applying events. It is an AggregateRoot in the context of event sourcing.
Namespace:Bifrost.Events
Assembly:Bifrost.dll
Syntax
public interface IEventSource
Properties
| Improve this Doc View SourceId
The Id of the Event Source.
Declaration
Guid Id { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.Guid |
UncommittedEvents
A stream of events that have been applied to the EventSource but have not yet been committed to the EventStore.
Declaration
UncommittedEventStream UncommittedEvents { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| UncommittedEventStream |
Version
Gets the version of this EventSource
Declaration
EventSourceVersion Version { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| EventSourceVersion |
Methods
| Improve this Doc View SourceApply(IEvent)
Apply a new event to the EventSource. This will be applied and added to the UncommittedEvents.
Declaration
void Apply(IEvent event)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| IEvent | event | The event that is to be applied |
FastForward(EventSourceVersion)
Fast forward to the specified version of the EventSource
Declaration
void FastForward(EventSourceVersion lastVersion)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EventSourceVersion | lastVersion | Version to fast foward to |
ReApply(CommittedEventStream)
Reapply an event from a stream
Declaration
void ReApply(CommittedEventStream eventStream)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CommittedEventStream | eventStream | Stream that contains the events to reapply |


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there you'll see the command line utilities where you're going to use 'ascp'.
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Methods
The classeval
library contains various measures to estimate the models performance.
The main function to evaluated models performance is the function classeval.classeval.eval()
.
This function automatically determines whether your trained model is based on a two-class or multi-class approach.
Two-class approach
Two-class models are trained on two classes; the class-of-interest versus the rest-class. Such approach is commonly used across image-recognition, network-analysis, sensor data or any other type of data.
The classeval.classeval.eval()
function requires three input parameters. It is also possible to directly use the two-class function classeval.classeval.eval_twoclass()
, the outputs are identical.
- Parameters required
y_true : The true class label
y_proba : Probability of the predicted class label
y_pred : Predicted class label
Multi-class approach
Multi-class models are trained on… Yes, multiple classes. These models are often used in textmining where the number of classes are high as these usually represent various textual catagories.
A disadvantage of multi-class models is a higher model complexity and many generic performance statistics can not be used.
The classeval.classeval.eval()
function requires three input parameters. It is also possible to directly use the classeval.classeval.eval_multiclass()
. Here, the outputs are also identifical.
- Parameters required
y_true : The true class label
y_proba : Probability of the predicted class label
y_score : Model decision function
Optimizing model performance
The classeval
library can also help in tuning the models performance by examining the effect of the threshold.
After learning a model, and predicting new samples with it, each sample will get a probability belowing to the class.
In case of our two-class approach the simple rule account: P(class-of-interest) = 1-P(not class-of-interest)
Evaluation methods
Confusion-matrix
A confusion matrix is a table that is used to describe the performance of a classification model on a set of test data for which the true values are known.
The function is callable by func:classeval.confmatrix.eval and the plot can be created with func:classeval.confmatrix.plot
- Applicable
Two-class approach
multi-class approach
ROC/AUC
The Area Under The Curve (AUC) and Receiver Operating Characteristics curve (ROC) are one of the most important evaluation metrics for checking any classification model’s performance. The goal of the AUC-ROC is to determine the probability curve and degree or measure of separability by using various thresholds settings. It describes how much the model is capable of distinguishing between the classes. The higher the AUC, the better the model is at predicting whereas a AUC of 0.5 represents random results.
In case of a multi-class approach, the AUC is computed using the One-vs-Rest scheme (OvR) and One-vs-One scheme (OvO) schemes.
The multi-class One-vs-One scheme compares every unique pairwise combination of classes. Macro average, and a prevalence-weighted average.
This function is callable via: classeval.classeval.AUC_multiclass()
The function is callable by func:classeval.ROC.eval and the plot can be created with func:classeval.ROC.plot
- Applicable
Two-class approach
multi-class approach
A perfect score would result in an AUC score=1 and ROC curve like this:
CAP analysis
The CAP Curve analyse how to effectively identify all data points of a given class using minimum number of tries. This function computes Cumulitive Accuracy Profile (CAP) to measure the performance of a classifier. It ranks the predicted class probabilities (high to low), together with the true values. With that, it computes the cumsum which is the final line. A perfect model is one which will detect all class 1.0 data points in the same number of tries as there are class 1.0 data points.
This function is callable with: classeval.classeval.CAP()
- Applicable
Two-class approach
- A perfect score would result in an CAP score=100 and CAP. Note that if the value is more than 90%, it’s a good practice to test for over fitting.
More than 90%: Too Good to be True
80% — 90%: Very Good Model
70% — 80%: Good Model
60% — 70%: Poor Model
Less than 60%: Rubbish Model
Average Precision (AP)
A better metric in an imbalanced situation is the AUC PR (Area Under the Curve Precision Recall), or also called AP (Average Precision). If the precision decreases when we increase the recall, it shows that we have to choose a prediction thresold adapted to our needs. If our goal is to have a high recall, we should set a low prediction thresold that will allow us to detect most of the observations of the positive class, but with a low precision. On the contrary, if we want to be really confident about our predictions but don’t mind about not finding all the positive observations, we should set a high thresold that will get us a high precision and a low recall. In order to know if our model performs better than another classifier, we can simply use the AP metric. To assess the quality of our model, we can compare it to a simple decision baseline.
Let’s take a random classifier as a baseline here that would predict half of the time 1 and half of the time 0 for the label. Such a classifier would have a precision of 4.3%, which corresponds to the proportion of positive observations. For every recall value the precision would stay the same, and this would lead us to an AP of 0.043. The AP of our model is approximately 0.35, which is more than 8 times higher than the AP of the random method. This means that our model has a good predictive power.
This function is callable with: classeval.classeval.AP()
- Applicable
Two-class approach
Imbalanced classes
F1-score
The F1 score (also F-score or F-measure) is a measure of a test’s accuracy. It considers both the precision p and the recall r of the test to compute the score: p is the number of correct positive results divided by the number of all positive results returned by the classifier, and r is the number of correct positive results divided by the number of all relevant samples (all samples that should have been identified as positive).
- Applicable
Two-class approach
Kappa
In essence, the kappa statistic is a measure of how closely the instances classified by the machine learning classifier matched the data labeled as ground truth, controlling for the accuracy of a random classifier as measured by the expected accuracy. In some other cases we might face a problem with imbalanced classes. E.g. we have two classes, say A and B, and A shows up on 5% of the time. Accuracy can be misleading, so we go for measures such as precision and recall. There are ways to combine the two, such as the F-measure, but the F-measure does not have a very good intuitive explanation, other than it being the harmonic mean of precision and recall. Cohen’s kappa statistic is a very good measure that can handle very well both multi-class and imbalanced class problems.
- Applicable
Two-class approach
Imbalanced classes
As an example, suppose we have the following results as depicted in the confusion matrix:
normal
defect
normal
22
9
defect
7
13
Ground truth: normal (29), defect (22)
Machine Learning Classifier: normal (31), defect (20)
Total: (51)
Observed Accuracy: ((22 + 13) / 51) = 0.69
Expected Accuracy: ((29 * 31 / 51) + (22 * 20 / 51)) / 51 = 0.51
Kappa: (0.69 - 0.51) / (1 - 0.51) = 0.37
Kappa values below 0 are possible, Cohen notes they are unlikely in practice.
MCC
MCC is extremely good metric for the **imbalanced* classification.*
- Score Ranges between [−1,1], where:
1 : Perfect prediction
0 : Random prediction
−1: Total disagreement between predicted scores and true labels values.
- Applicable
Two-class approach
Imbalanced classes
Cross validation
The classeval
library provides an easy way of plotting multiple evaluations of crosses using the function classeval.classeval.plot_cross()
.
This function requires a dict that contains the evaluations from the two-class approach.
# Import library
import classeval as clf
# Load example dataset
X, y = clf.load_example('breast')
# Create empty dict to store the results
out = {}
# 10-fold crossvalidation
for i in range(0,10):
# Random train/test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_true = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2)
# Train model and make predictions on test set
model = gb.fit(X_train, y_train)
y_proba = model.predict_proba(X_test)[:,1]
y_pred = model.predict(X_test)
# Evaluate model and store in each evalution
name = 'cross '+str(i)
out[name] = clf.eval(y_true, y_proba, y_pred=y_pred, pos_label='malignant')
# After running the cross-validation, the ROC/AUC can be plotted as following:
clf.plot_cross(out, title='crossvalidation')
ROC/AUC 10-fold crossvalidation


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constants group ReferenceFlags |
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- Usage Restrictions
- not published
- Description
- defines flags for references.
The values can be combined.
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COLUMN_RELATIVE
const long COLUMN_RELATIVE = 1;
- Description
- selects a relative column reference.
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COLUMN_DELETED
const long COLUMN_DELETED = 2;
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- marks a deleted column reference.
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ROW_RELATIVE
const long ROW_RELATIVE = 4;
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- selects a relative row reference.
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ROW_DELETED
const long ROW_DELETED = 8;
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- marks a deleted row reference.
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SHEET_RELATIVE
const long SHEET_RELATIVE = 16;
- Description
- selects a relative sheet reference.
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SHEET_DELETED
const long SHEET_DELETED = 32;
- Description
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--- title: Minimill date: 2016-08-01 start: 2015 end: 2016 link: https://minimill.co featured_image: teams/minimill.png role: Founder, Web Developer ---
At the beginning of my senior year at Columbia, I founded Minimill, a design agency for branding and web with Jeff Hilnbrand. We worked with Albert Wenger to publish a website for his new book, with the Fin on their first site, with Redspread on their site, and with other companies like KPCB, Delta Airlines, and Autodesk.
Our philosophy at Minimill was that good web development is critical for web design. All of our web projects paried design with development, taking our client's ideas all the way to static web content. I worked on high-performance static websites, using a streamlined project template, SCSS, and vanilla JavaScript.


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Class: Sass::Selector::Pseudo
- Inherits:
-
Simple
- Object
- Simple
- Sass::Selector::Pseudo
- Defined in:
- /usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb
Overview
A pseudoclass (e.g. :visited
) or pseudoelement (e.g. ::first-line
) selector. It can have arguments (e.g. :nth-child(2n+1)
).
Constant Summary
Instance Attribute Summary (collapse)
-
- (Array<String, Sass::Script::Tree::Node>?) arg
readonly
The argument to the selector, or
nil
if no argument was given. -
- (Array<String, Sass::Script::Tree::Node>) name
readonly
The name of the selector.
-
- (Symbol) syntactic_type
readonly
Like #type, but returns the type of selector this looks like, rather than the type it is semantically.
Attributes inherited from Simple
Instance Method Summary (collapse)
-
- (Pseudo) initialize(type, name, arg)
constructor
A new instance of Pseudo.
- - specificity
- - to_a
-
- (Symbol) type
The type of the selector.
-
- unify(sels)
Returns
nil
if this is a pseudoelement selector andsels
contains a pseudoelement selector different than this one.
Methods inherited from Simple
#eql?, #equality_key, #hash, #inspect, #to_s, #unify_namespaces
Constructor Details
- (Pseudo) initialize(type, name, arg)
Returns a new instance of Pseudo
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 393
def initialize(type, name, arg)
@syntactic_type = type
@name = name
@arg = arg
end
|
Instance Attribute Details
- (Array<String, Sass::Script::Tree::Node>?) arg (readonly)
The argument to the selector, or nil
if no argument was given.
This may include SassScript nodes that will be run during resolution. Note that this should not include SassScript nodes after resolution has taken place.
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 387
def arg
@arg
end
|
- (Array<String, Sass::Script::Tree::Node>) name (readonly)
The name of the selector.
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 377
def name
@name
end
|
- (Symbol) syntactic_type (readonly)
Like #type, but returns the type of selector this looks like, rather than the type it is semantically. This only differs from type for selectors in ACTUALLY_ELEMENTS.
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 372
def syntactic_type
@syntactic_type
end
|
Instance Method Details
- specificity
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 427
def specificity
type == :class ? SPECIFICITY_BASE : 1
end
|
- to_a
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 408
def to_a
res = [syntactic_type == :class ? ":" : "::"] + @name
(res << "(").concat(Sass::Util.strip_string_array(@arg)) << ")" if @arg
res
end
|
- (Symbol) type
The type of the selector. :class
if this is a pseudoclass selector, :element
if it’s a pseudoelement.
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 403
def type
ACTUALLY_ELEMENTS.include?(name.first) ? :element : syntactic_type
end
|
- unify(sels)
Returns nil
if this is a pseudoelement selector and sels
contains a pseudoelement selector different than this one.
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# File '/usr/local/google-old/home/code/sass-site/.sass/lib/sass/selector.rb', line 418
def unify(sels)
return if type == :element && sels.any? do |sel|
sel.is_a?(Pseudo) && sel.type == :element &&
(sel.name != name || sel.arg != arg)
end
super
end
|


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The ilSetRead function changes the reading file functions used by DevIL.
ILvoid ilSetRead(
fOpenRProc Open, fCloseRProc Close, fEofProc Eof, fGetcProc Getc, fReadProc Read, fSeekRProc Seek, fTellRProc Tell);
ilSetRead was primarily designed to allow languages other than C/C++ access to DevIL's file-reading functions, since other languages do not use stdio.h's FILE* struct. This function can also double usefully in instances where filetypes other than FILE* are used, such as Windows file handles and C++ istreams. Simply provide an alternative to each of the functions needed by DevIL. The "special" datatype ILHANDLE is passed to these functions when used, so any internal datatype used by the differing language (or file handle) can be used.
None
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THE FULL MONTY
RATING: ***1/2 (out of ****)
Fox Searchlight / 1:30 / 1997 / R (language, nudity) Cast: Robert Carlyle; Tom Wilkinson; Mark Addy; Steve Huison; Paul Barber; Hugo Speer; William Snape; Lesley Sharp; Emily Woof Director: Peter Cattaneo Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy
The male dancers in the much-hyped "The Full Monty" are more hamburger than beefcake, but the unanticipated surprise is that a group of Average Joes -- some shrimpy, some overweight, some, well, just plain average -- hesitantly getting down to tunes by Tom Jones, Sister Sledge and Gary Glitter yields some of the best laughs of the season. What "The Birdcage" did for drag performers, The Full Monty does for strippers. A lot.
Robert Carlyle, whose turn as "Trainspotting"'s violent psychopath Begbie earned him rave reviews last summer, has the lead role of Gaz, an ex-steelworker in Sheffield, England suffering from problems both monetary and family-related -- trips to the unemployment agency are frequent, the amount of time his ex-wife allows him to spend with his son (William Snape) is not. The same goes for his best friend Dave (Mark Addy), an overweight security guard who is upset over his current inability to perform sexually, and his ex-foreman Gerald (Tom Wilkinson), who is too afraid to tell his big-spender wife about his recently-acquired pink slip.
Three more unlikely subjects join Gaz's troupe: Horse (Paul Barber), a middle-aged black man who can do the funky chicken with the best of them; Lomper (Steve Huison), a timid, suicidal security guard; and Guy (Hugo Speer), who makes up for an amazing lack of coordination by having quite a full monty himself, if you take my meaning. Together, the half-dozen males attempt to cast their daily difficulties and physical inadequacies (or surplus thereof, in Guy's place) aside and begin a rehearsing schedule that includes choreography, practice, breakaway pants and tiny red leather G-strings.
"The Full Monty" is very similar to last summer's Demi Moore vehicle "Striptease" in setup -- her character, like the ones here, turn exhibitionist to get themselves out of dire financial and familial circumstances, and they, like she, react to their situation with more than a little trepidation. In execution, however, you can't find two more different films. The latter movie was ineffective because it used Moore's well-toned and -oiled bod to promote better living through stripping. "Monty," however, fully realizes that its basic story is plenty rich in comedic value, and mines the predicament for all it's worth. Moore's "Striptease" daughter (played by her real-life kid) was on hand to obviously condone her actions. A child also plays a part in "Monty," but he is allowed be an active component of the humor and has no ulterior motives. There are themes here (concerning determination and self-confidence), but "The Full Monty" never attains the level of naked preachiness that "Striptease" tapped into regularly.
The actors are uniformly good, and thankfully so. If the performances weren't as game or farcical, the movie could have easily sank. Carlyle, in particular, carries Gaz to memorable lengths. In one early scene, he does an impromptu strip to "You Sexy Thing" to demonstrate to his cohorts how easy it all is. Haplessly swinging his jacket around his head and unintentionally pelting the chortling onlookers with pocket change, he creates a character that is both self-effacing and reckless. Everyone else appears to be having a jolly good time too, whether pelvic thrusting their way through the unemployment line or getting moves for their routine by studying "Flashdance."
"The Full Monty" is so intent on delivering a crowd-pleasing strip finale that its promised agenda brings around some of its few flaws -- several dramatic developments that center around the "will-they-or-won't-they?" issue feel unnecessary even if they do (no pun intended) flesh out some of the personality of the cast members. And for those of you with no ear for thick foreign brogue (think "Trainspotting"), most of the dialogue and references will likely stump. A few subplots venture into problematic areas; one in particular not only feels modish but also underdeveloped and unnecessary.
Despite those errors, however, "The Full Monty" is still an exhilarating comedic blast. It has its head and heart in the right place and succeeds in making you either laugh, smile or nod in agreement with every joke or sight gag. It even ends on just the right note -- even though some of the female audience will reasonably be a tad disappointed. Gaz and company may have quite a few shortcomings, but The Full Monty sure doesn't.
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Morocco: Rapper gets one-year jail for insulting police
Defence lawyer says 31-year-old artist was prosecuted because of a song he co-wrote about youth struggles.
A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced rapper Mohamed Mounir, known as Gnawi, to one year in jail for insulting police on social media.
A defence lawyer said he believed his 31-year-old client was prosecuted because of a song he co-wrote about the hardships of young people in Morocco, unemployment and corruption.
The song, Aach al Chaab - which translates to "long live the people" - has been viewed more than 15 million times on YouTube since it was released last month.
The five-minute video rages against the authorities and criticises the country's widening economic gap, a message aimed at the disillusioned younger generation.
One passage of the song reflects on the Hirak protest movement in Morocco's impoverished Rif mountain region.
Another section profiles a mother whose sons died attempting to migrate to Europe, while another paints a picture of a young generation ruined by hashish and hard drugs.
Most shockingly to many Moroccans, the song also directly criticises Morocco's king and his adviser, a criminal offence.
"I am an artist. My job is to defend my rights and the rights of the people. It was not the first time that I had been humiliated by the police," Gnawi told the court.
"Since I was born, I have been humiliated," he said.
Morocco, a kingdom long known for its stability in the Arab world, adopted constitutional reforms in response to the 2011 Arab Spring protests against corruption and abuse of power and in favour of expanding free speech.
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class PeopleController < ApplicationController respond_to :html, :xml, :json def index @people = Person.all respond_with(@people) end end
When a request comes in, for example for an XML response, three steps happen:
1) the responder searches for a template at people/index.xml; 2) if the template is not available, it will invoke #to_xml on the given resource; 3) if the responder does not respond_to :to_xml, call #to_format on it.
The default Rails responder holds semantics for each HTTP verb. Depending on the content type, verb and the resource status, it will behave differently.
Using Rails default responder, a POST request for creating an object could be written as:
def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) flash[:notice] = 'User was successfully created.' if @user.save respond_with(@user) end
Which is exactly the same as:
def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) respond_to do |format| if @user.save flash[:notice] = 'User was successfully created.' format.html { redirect_to(@user) } format.xml { render :xml => @user, :status => :created, :location => @user } else format.html { render :action => "new" } format.xml { render :xml => @user.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end end
The same happens for PUT and DELETE requests.
You can supply nested resources as you do in form_for and polymorphic_url. Consider the project has many tasks example. The create action for TasksController would be like:
def create @project = Project.find(params[:project_id]) @task = @project.comments.build(params[:task]) flash[:notice] = 'Task was successfully created.' if @task.save respond_with(@project, @task) end
Giving several resources ensures that the responder will redirect to project_task_url instead of task_url.
Namespaced and singleton resources require a symbol to be given, as in polymorphic urls. If a project has one manager which has many tasks, it should be invoked as:
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Note that if you give an array, it will be treated as a collection, so the following is not equivalent:
respond_with [@project, :manager, @task]
respond_with also allows you to pass options that are forwarded to the underlying render call. Those options are only applied for success scenarios. For instance, you can do the following in the create method above:
def create @project = Project.find(params[:project_id]) @task = @project.comments.build(params[:task]) flash[:notice] = 'Task was successfully created.' if @task.save respond_with(@project, @task, :status => 201) end
This will return status 201 if the task was saved successfully. If not, it will simply ignore the given options and return status 422 and the resource errors. To customize the failure scenario, you can pass a a block to respond_with:
def create @project = Project.find(params[:project_id]) @task = @project.comments.build(params[:task]) respond_with(@project, @task, :status => 201) do |format| if @task.save flash[:notice] = 'Task was successfully created.' else format.html { render "some_special_template" } end end end
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to_js simply tries to render a template. If no template is found, raises the error.
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This is the common behavior for formats associated with APIs, such as :xml and :json.
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Display is just a shortcut to render a resource with the current format.
display @user, :status => :ok
For XML requests it’s equivalent to:
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Options sent by the user are also used:
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Check whether the resource has errors.
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Methylation status is represented with an 11-color gradient using the following convention:
The score in this track reports the number of sequencing reads obtained for each CpG, which is often called 'coverage'. The score is capped at 1000, so any CpGs that were covered by more than 1000 sequencing reads have a score of 1000. The BED files available for download contain two extra columns: one with the uncapped coverage (number of reads at that site) and one with the percentage of those reads that show methylation. High reproducibility was obtained, with correlation coefficients greater than 0.9 between biological replicates, when only considering CpGs represented by at least 10 sequencing reads (10X coverage, score=10). Therefore, the default view for this track is set to 10X coverage, or a score of 10.
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DNA methylation at CpG sites was assayed with a modified version of Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (Meissner et al., 2008). RRBS was performed on cell lines grown by many ENCODE production groups. The production group that grew the cells and isolated genomic DNA is indicated in the "obtainedBy" field of the metadata. When a cell type was provided by more than one lab, the data from only one lab are available for immediate display. However, the data for every cell type from every lab is available from the Downloads page. RRBS was also performed on genomic DNA from tissue samples provided by BioChain. The replicates for the BioChain tissues are technical replicates (rather than biological replicates) beginning at the bisulfite treatment step. RRBS was carried out by the Myers production group at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.
Genomic DNA was isolated from biological replicates of each cell line using the QIAGEN DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer. DNA concentrations for each genomic DNA preparation were determined using fluorescent DNA binding dye and a fluorometer (Invitrogen Quant-iT dsDNA High Sensitivity Kit and Qubit Fluorometer). Typically, 1 µg of DNA is used to make an RRBS library; however, there has been success in making libraries with 200 ng genomic DNA from rare or precious samples.
RRBS library construction started with MspI digestion of genomic DNA, which cut at every CCGG regardless of methylation status. Klenow exo- DNA Polymerase was then used to fill in the recessed end of the genomic DNA and add an adenosine as a 3' overhang. Next, a methylated version of the Illumina paired-end adapters was ligated onto the DNA. Adapter-ligated genomic DNA fragments between 105 and 185 base pairs were selected using agarose gel electrophoresis and a Qiagen Qiaquick Gel Extraction Kit. The selected adapter-ligated fragments were treated with sodium bisulfite using the Zymo Research EZ DNA Methylation Gold Kit, which converts unmethylated cytosines to uracils and leaves methylated cytosines unchanged. Bisulfite treated DNA was amplified in a final PCR reaction which was optimized to uniformly amplify diverse fragment sizes and sequence contexts in the same reaction. During this final PCR reaction, uracils were copied as thymines resulting in a thymine in the PCR products wherever an unmethylated cytosine existed in the genomic DNA. The sample was then ready for sequencing on the Illumina sequencing platform. These libraries were sequenced with an Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx according to the manufacturer's recommendations. The full RRBS protocol can be found here.
To analyze the sequence data, a reference genome was created that contained only the 36 base pairs adjacent to every MspI site and in which every C was changed to a T. A converted sequence read file was then created by changing each C in the original sequence reads to a T. The converted sequence reads were aligned to the converted reference genome and only reads that mapped uniquely to the reference genome were kept. Once the reads were aligned, the percent methylation was calculated for each CpG using the original sequence reads. The percent methylation and number of reads were reported for each CpG.
This is Release 3 (July 2012) of this track which adds the MCF-7 cell line with shRNA knockdowns obtained from the Crawford Lab at Duke University.
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The producers of this mildly amusing, off-beat romantic comedy obviously thought that if they paired popular Matthew Perry from TV's "Friends" with Neve Campbell from TV's "Party of Five" and "Scream," adding Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt for substance, they'd have a hit - wrong! Matthew Perry plays an ambitious, idealistic, if clumsy young architect who has just been chosen by businessman Dylan McDermott to compete for the design of a multi-million dollar Chicago cultural center.  Predictably, Perry falls for Campbell, who also thinks he's gay, particularly when he's honored as Gay Professional of the Year. What will he do? Will he continue to lie to hold on to the job opportunity of a lifetime and a warm but frustrating friendship with the girl he loves or come out of the closet and admit he's secretly straight? You guess. I'll give you a hint, though. Screenwriter Rodney Vaccaro's own bizarre experience inspired the story. While he was working as creative director of a large advertising agency, he fell in love with his boss's mistress. A series of what he describes as "sexual errors" led to Vaccaro eventually marrying her and co-writing this script with Aline Brosh McKenna. But, despite superficial similarities, this is no "The Apartment" or even "In and Out," perhaps because of Damon Santostefano's light-hearted direction which makes it feel like a TV sit-com.
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The Gregorc Mindset Test
I have to preface this post with a bit of a warning. My opinions on this particular subject go against the grain. I also don't really even touch on the subject of this week's cultural challenge to look back at my experience of phase zero so far and consider strategies to overcome my personal hurdles. I honestly couldn't get any mental traction on this assignment and I didn't know why until today. It finally came to me walking the dog in the wee hours of this morning. The Gregorc test had for some reason created a mental roadblock for me. So I spent a few hours letting the roadblock purge into the following. I don't have any qualms with this test being part of our curiculum or with anyone who finds value in the Gregorc test.
In others words, yeah, well, its just like, my opinion, man.
My first experience with the Gregorc test, albiet an indirect one, was about 30 years ago. That was back in 1984, the year Dr. Gregorc published his findings on mind styles. And those who were in direct contact with psychological science publications almost certainly began refering others around them, collegues, patients, family, etc to this study. I say I indirectly experienced this study back then because, through the awesome, cosmic pipeline of cause and effect, I wound up being asked to refer to the study here, thirty years later. Do you know what else thirty years of cause and effect has brought to me at this very moment? No? Well, here's a list for you.
- Anti retroviral treatment for AIDS
- SRAM flash memory
- Stents
- ATMs
- Bar codes and scanners
- Bio fuels
- Genetically modified plants
- RFID and applications (e.g., EZ Pass)
- Digital photography/videography
- Graphic user interface (GUI)
- Social networking via the Internet
- Large scale wind turbines
- Photovoltaic Solar Energy
- Microfinance
- Media file compression (jpeg, mpeg, mp3)
- Online shopping/ecommerce/auctions (e.g., eBay)
- GPS systems
- Liquid crystal display (LCD)
- Light emitting diodes
- Open source software and services (e.g., Linux, Wikipedia)
- Non-invasive laser/robotic surgery (laparoscopy)
- Office software (spreadsheets, word processors)
- Fiber optics
- Microprocessors
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- DNA testing and sequencing/Human genome mapping
- Mobile phones
- PC/laptop computers
- Internet, broadband, WWW (browser and html)
I've colored some of these items grey. Those are the items I personally can't draw a considerable connection between it and my mind style. However, everything else, seems like it could have significant impact on how my mind would compare against a thirty year old from 1984. In other words, I think Gregorc's data may be a tad dated in today's age.
My Own Mind
So whats my mind style? My "Gregorc" is concrete random, meaning I am independent, generous, optomistic, enthusiastic, and couragous. My weaknesses are I'm moody, short tempered, self-involved, impulsive, and impatient.
Wait. I'm sorry. That's my astrology style. I'm an Aries. The part of the Gregorc mind styles that bothers me the most is the vagueness found in its descriptions. If you've already found your mind style, look at the table and consider the terminology.
Then, take a look at the other three. Do you feel like they somewhat describe you as well? Can you find any terms or descriptions that are not appealling in some way? Better yet, do you notice any statements that conflicting? Heres a great example. The CS, AS, and AR mindsets all have a hard time working with groups. CS and AR minds even have multiple attributes related to difficulty working with people. However, the CR mind, the mind that learns best when "given the opportunity to work through the problems by themselves", does not have a single difficulty listed related to working with others. But at least those are slightly more specific than the selection of "likes" below:
- Getting Facts - Concrete sequential mind
- Applying logic in solving or finding solutions to problems - Abstract sequential mind
- Using their intuition - Concrete random mind
- Establishing healthy relationships with others - Abstract random mind
- "I hate getting facts." - A non-concrete sequential thinker
- "I really don't enjoy applying logic of finding solutions to problems." - A non-abstract sequential thinker
- "I don't trust my intuition and I avoid using it." - a non-concrete random thinker
- "I refuse to establish healthy relationships with others." - a non-abstract random thinker
Those are the thoughts of a mad man. And not the handsome John Hamm style of mad man. No, to not be one particular style of mind seems to mean you're absolutely insane. At very least, not agreeing in some part of any table would mean you don't like anything rational. I don't find anything 'concrete' about any of the attributes used within the entire program.
But allow me to resolve this! I don't find the test pointless! For success in life, its imparitive to sometimes step outside your own mind and look at it. Go ahead, look at it. What does it want? What does it need? How did that get in there? Eww. Maybe you should rinse that out. Regardless of Dr. Gregorc's extremely dated data or his thorough exploitation of his pocket thesaurus, he still invokes a practice that doesn't get enough attention. Taking time to consider what works for me, or you, on a single sample size study. Whether or not we get our inspiration from a psychobabble questionaire or an observation of picses rising with Jupiter in aries, we can't know what we don't consider. And as Rupaul once taught me on her short stint of a talk show, "You can't love anyone else until you love yourself."
Now that's concrete science.