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Fareed Zakaria is on a book tour for the re-release of The Post American World and he stopped by the Planet Money podcast recently. The podcast features an interesting conversation between Zakaria and the hosts Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg. I've never really thought Zakaria is a remarkable scholar or thinker but he is certainly one of the more impressive voices in the media (although that doesn't seem to be a difficult task to accomplish given our abysmal media landscape).
A short excerpt about the future for the U.S. I found interesting. This is something people have been saying for a while but as California's position worsens considerably and as the U.S. runs up against challenge after challenge, these words move from mere prognostication to reality -
Think of California as a metaphor. California has the most dazzling private sector in the world, really. If you think about Silicon Valley, plus Hollywood, plus all these things that spawn from it. It's amazing. And yet when the state is collapsing, when the infrastructure is collapsing, when you build more prisons than you do college campuses ... after a while it becomes very difficult to be a viable economy.


Entertainment
New Student Union
The university has recently invested £10m into building a new Student Union, which opened in September 2014. The new Union contains a shop, bar and nightclub with student friendly prices as well as including a number of social, cultural and sporting activities.
Health and Fitness
Those interesting in health, fitness and sports have a number of facilities around the University campus.
The Aquatics Center has a gym, 50m swimming pool, diving pool and health suite. All of these facilities are available through a studentdiscounted membership.
Sugden Sports Centre also offers a student membership, which would grant access to a gym, sports hall, 3G pitches and more.
Shopping
Manchester is well known nationwide for shopping. As well as the Northern Quarter, there is the Arndale Center in the city center with a diverse range of store, most of which offer student discount. The Trafford Centre is much further away and would require transport. However there is much more to do once there; facilities for food, drink and other forms of entertainment are readily available.
Educational
If you are looking for an inexpensive day out, you can save your money whilst learning when visiting one of Manchester’s many free museums. Here are just a few museums with free entry (Donations welcome):
Industry and Science
Creative exploration of how science, innovation and industry created and sustain modern society.
Manchester Museum
Dinosaurs, mummies and live animals including loads of other great stuff from the natural world and different cultures.
National Football
The world’s greatest football collection - over 140,000 items - including the FIFA Collection.
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery is one of the country’s finest art museum.
The Wheel of Manchester is located in Piccadilly Gardens. The 60 meter high wheel will cost around £9.00 for general admission but the experience allows you to sit back, relax and enjoy the stunning views above Manchester.
The Northern Quarter is a vibrant and cultural area that begins just a minute’s walk from Piccadilly Gardens. There are numerous bars, cafes, restaurants and shops make the Northern Quarter a great place to visit day or night.
The Printworks is also located in the city center. There are bars, restaurants and a cinema, which together offer a wide range of entertainment options from seeing the latest film to watching a live music performance. The Printworks now host their own fresher’s fair at the beginning of the academic year where students can register for a Student Card, which offers promotions and discounts throughout The Printworks.
The Chill Factoris an indoor ski slope located next to the Trafford Centre, therefore if you are without transport the easiest option is to get a bus to the Trafford Centre. There is a student discount available for any of the snow sport activities which makes it much more attractive and affordable.


Bezier Curves are a family of parametric curves which are specified using a set of control points. These control points define the bounds of the curve. Results from linear algebra show that the curves must lie in the convex hull defined by these control points. In this project, KAT Systems built an interactive Bezier Curve Drawer using OpenGL and GLUT. The system is also capable of creating surfaces of revolution using the curve generated. These surfaces can be visualized using GEOMVIEW.
The program produces Bezier curves using the de Casteljau's algorithm which involved repeatedly linear interpolating between points. In fact, the curve follows the following recursion:
Given an array of n points ARR[0:n], Bezier(t, Arr[0:n]) = Interpolate(Bezier(t, Arr[0:n-1]), Bezier(t, Arr[1:n]), t)
An iterative version of this recursion has been applied to generate the curve. The BezierDrawer class abstracts away all the rendering components and only focuses on calculating the points and storing them in an array. Typically, any change in the state of the points (deleting, dragging) requires redoing the entire curve. However, when adding a point at the end, the current curve can be used (as mentioned in the recursive equation) and therefore the required time is half of the time required for a complete regeneration.
The mesh class allows us to create a polygonal mesh using the polygons (in the form of series of triangles) created by surface of revolution class. The class also allows us to serialize all the information regarding the polygons (number of vertices, their coordinates, number of faces in he mesh, their colors, etc) into an .OFF file. This class also defines various auxiliary methods like calculateEdgeCount(): which calculates the edge count of mesh, addPoint(): which allows us to add a vertex to the mesh, addPolygon(): allows us to add series of triangles that we created in the surface of revolution class, getVertexListOfPolygon(): which fetches the vertex list of the input polygon, getVertexCoordinates(): which fetches the coordinates of input point, getVertexIndex(): fetches the vertex number of the input point. Finally, the serialize() method allows us to write the details of the polygonal mesh in a file with .OFF format.
This class allows us to create a surface of revolution for a Bezier curve for points sampled at uniform ‘t’ value in the parametric representation of the Bezier Curve. The class allows us to first convert the points into their initial 3D representation (z coordinate = 0) as the Bezier Curve drawn in the previous task had 2D point representation.
The points sampled should be rotated by a fixed angle to cover a complete surface of revolution. Methods getRotateMat() and updateVertices() allows us to find a 3D rotation matrix (with respect to each different angle) and use it to update the coordinates of the sampled points respectively. All the updated coordinate (with respect to each rotation) values are also stored. Finally, all the vertices (and their updated coordinate values) are used in the method makeMesh(), where they are used to make their corresponding polygons and those polygons are added (using addPolygon() method in Mesh class) to the mesh by converting them into a series of triangles.
A set of triangles looks like this:
(x,y)*--* (x+1,y)
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(x,y+1)*--* (x+1,y+1)
The OFF format cannot handle non-planar surfaces. So, while making the surface of revolution, the mesh had to be broken up into a set of triangles in order to create the OFF file.


| 025:018 Khan | : |
They will say: "Glorified be You! It was not for us to take any Auliya' (Protectors, Helpers, etc.) besides You, but You gave them and their fathers comfort till they forgot the warning, and became a lost people (doomed to total loss). |
| 025:018 Maulana | : |
They will say: Glory be to Thee! it was not beseeming for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee, but Thou didst make them and their fathers to enjoy until they forgot the Reminder, and they became a lost people. |
| 025:018 Pickthal | : |
They will say: Be Thou Glorified! it was not for us to choose any protecting friends beside thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers ease till they forgot the warning and became lost folk. |
| 025:018 Rashad | : |
They will say, "Be You glorified, it was not right for us to set up any lords beside You. But You allowed them to enjoy, together with their parents. Consequently, they disregarded the message and thus became wicked people." |
| 025:018 Sarwar | : |
They will reply, "Lord, You alone deserve all glory! We were not supposed to choose any guardian other than you. Since you have been benevolent to these people and their fathers, they forgot Your guidance and, thus, became subject to perdition." |
| 025:018 Shakir | : |
They shall say: Glory be to Thee; it was not beseeming for us that we should take any guardians besides Thee, but Thou didst make them and their fathers to enjoy until they forsook the reminder, and they were a people in perdition, |
| 025:018 Sherali | : |
They will say, 'Holy art Thou ! It was not right for us to take protectors other than Thee; but Thou didst bestow on them and their fathers the good things of this life until they forgot Thy admonition and became a ruined people.' |
| 025:018 Yusufali | : |
They will say: "Glory to Thee! not meet was it for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee: But Thou didst bestow, on them and their fathers, good things (in life), until they forgot the Message: for they were a people (worthless and) lost." |
Concepts/Themes Covered: أركان الإسلام > التوحيد > الكافرون > تخلي المتبوعين عن الأتباع Pillars of Islam> Islamic> The Disbelievers> The Masters' Abandonment of the Followers
This tool uses eight English parallel translations for the Holy Quran imported from Mr. Clay Smith. You can also visit Qurany Concepts for browsing the Quran themes or topics. If you want to search the Holy Quran for keywords, please visit Qurany Keywords.


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I am the founder and lead organizer of LehighHacks - Lehigh University's premiere hackathon. Our pilot event will be from March 31st - April 1st, 2016. My responsibilities include communicating with corporate partners, organizing and teaching a technical workshop series leading up to LehighHacks, creating and maintaining LehighHacks.com, social media, marketing and pretty much everything else! This event is my child, and I treat it as such. I have worked immensely hard on making LehighHacks the greatest possible event, and I can't wait to see my hard work pay off on March 31st!
I constructed this during my Junior year of high school out of an Arduino microcontroller, an old Erector set, and a WiiMote controller. Using the infrared camera in the WiiMote it tracks the movements of its user and interprets the movements into directives which move the arm.
I entered it in the 2013 Coriell Science Fair where it won first place in Computer Science along with a two year college scholarship. At the 2013 Delaware Valley Science Fair it was awarded second place from the Leonardo DaVinci Society along with first place from the United States Air Force.
My goal for this project was to create vehicle that could eventually serve as a form of autonomous travel. The only parameter was a schematic of the desired travel path from above. First, I created an Android application that used computer vision to solve mazes. After solving the maze, the Android app employed an infrared transmitter to beam the solution data of the maze to an Arduino, which interpreted these directives into movements. The Arduino was equipped with onboard object detection and avoidance software to circumvent objects in the vehicle's path.
I also constructed a small car that served as the role of the autonomous vehicle. The final product was comprised of an Arduino micro-controller, stepper motors, and an infrared receiver. It was 5"x5" and could maneuver through a maze while avoiding all obstacles that were placed in front of it.
Entered in the 2014 Coriell Science Fair where it won first place in Computer Science.
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An NES emulator for everyone.
webNES is an NES emulator in a browser. You can add ROMs via Dropbox and use the emulator while offline. The touch based controls are just as responsive as a native app.
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Brocast is a screen sharing and remote desktop Google Chrome Extension, available in the Chrome Web Store. Brocast live streams your desktop to anyone, simply by sending them your unique session URL. Users can collaborate through annotating the screen remotely controlling the host's computer.
Through the use of WebRTC, Brocast connects users via websockets which travel through our custom Node.js signaling server. What sets Brocast apart is its use of WebRTC, which allows for peer to peer streaming and puts all computation on the client machines.
Download full Spotify playlists to your local machine. Spotify-dl uses the Spotify API to access the track listing of a given playlist, then queries YouTube for the most relevant video of that song. After downloading the video, it extracts the audio and presents it to the user.
Spotify-dl is written entirely in Node.js. It employs Express Server, socket.io, Spotify API and the YouTube Data API v3.
reelr is an open-source dynamic interface for a movie server, optimized for Raspbian and Apache Web Server. Plex - a popular movie server alternative - transcodes data as it streams from server to client. This is all good, but when it comes to slower processors like the Raspberry Pi, Plex can be problematic. reelr is simply a front end that streams movie files as-is; no transcoding involved.
reelr is written completely in Javascript and PHP, utilizing jQuery.
GitPapers is a blog publishing platform for git. Simply, create and initialize a new GitHub repository named gitpapers-blog, write up a post in Markdown format, and push it to your repository.
GitPapers uses a Node.js server running Express to pull posts from GitHub and format the Markdown.
Ever want to see what your friends are up to? Now you can at the simple touch of a button. Caster allows you to live stream the camera feed from your Android device using WebRTC.
Caster uses WebRTC MultiPeerConnect to stream live video to unlimited peers who open the unique link to the live stream. Using a custom Signaling Server to initiate the peer-to-peer connection, Caster also takes advantage of WebSockets in order to transfer data quickly and efficiently.
Some features include a Backwards Generator, Spoonerism Generator, Pig Latin Translator, and more! The Word Manipulator can even speak words and phrases back to you in English. This app is perfect for entertaining friends and yourself, and Facebook and Twitter integration let users share their Pig Latin and backwards phrases with the world!
Word Manipulator was my first application. I wrote it as part of a class in Java Swing, and ported it to Android.


| 005:102 Khan | : |
Before you, a community asked such questions, then on that account they became disbelievers. |
| 005:102 Maulana | : |
A people before you indeed asked such questions, then became disbelievers therein. |
| 005:102 Pickthal | : |
A folk before you asked (for such disclosures) and then disbelieved therein. |
| 005:102 Rashad | : |
Others before you have asked the same questions, then became disbelievers therein. |
| 005:102 Sarwar | : |
People living before you had asked about such things, but then rejected them. |
| 005:102 Shakir | : |
A people before you indeed asked such questions, and then became disbelievers on account of them. |
| 005:102 Sherali | : |
A people before you asked about such things, but then they became disbelievers therein. |
| 005:102 Yusufali | : |
Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith. |
Concepts/Themes Covered:
This tool uses eight English parallel translations for the Holy Quran imported from Mr. Clay Smith. You can also visit Qurany Concepts for browsing the Quran themes or topics. If you want to search the Holy Quran for keywords, please visit Qurany Keywords.


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The Unique Learner Number ( ULN ) service was made available to schools in Wales from January 2012.
This service is for maintained secondary schools creating ULNs (via DEWi ) for all pupils aged 14+ , using learner data submitted in pupil level annual census ( PLASC ) returns.
The PLASC data is submitted to the Learning Records Service ( LRS ) to create ULNs for all pupils that are aged 14+ and in years 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.
We will not be submitting data for learners in year 9. Please refer to the updated ULN timetable for schools.
All secondary schools in Wales that have not already done so must check that their details are correct on the UK Register of Learning Providers and register with the LRS so that they are able to access the LRS organisation portal to resolve ‘exceptions’. Some schools have yet to complete the registration process with the LRS .
Information about ULNs is available from the Learning Records Service .
Pupil Referral Units will not be included in this data upload, although dual registered pupils will be allocated ULNs for their mainstream school.
All secondary schools must let their pupils aged 14+ read the ‘Privacy Notice’ as soon as possible. The privacy notice should have been revised by the local authority to incorporate the intention to issue ULNs and create Personal Learning Records ( PLR ), using this template .
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Please raise any issues or technical problems with your management information software or with DEWi through your usual support channels
Read this page in Welsh Schools in Wales: how to create a ULN ( HTML )
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LRS helpdesk or call 0845 602 2589
UK Provider Register (external link) or call 0845 202 1600
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A Brief History of Private Spaceflight
At the end of the 20th century, spaceflight was considered a “national” endeavor, limited to a few countries such as the United States, Russia, France, China, Japan, and so on. Companies like Boeing, Honeywell, Roscomos, Arianespace, and others provided space offerings that were attached to national programs, not private programs.
But at the dawn of the 21st century, things started to change. Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004. Blue Origin was in stealth mode. Elon Musk was laughed at. Virgin Galactic was viewed as the toy of a billionaire playboy. Bezos, Musk, and Branson, serial entrepreneurs all, saw a future for spaceflight that others had not. They wanted to create new industries.
At that time, VCs weren’t interested in space startups. Investment funds didn’t carry them in their portfolios. By 2014, when Google acquired satellite company Skybox Imaging , that changed. The era of private spaceflight was starting to mature.
But just as many people aren’t aware that the internet started long before the mid-90s, private spaceflight began long before this century.
Commercial satellite launches began in the 1960s, long before humanity landed on the moon. The first amateur satellite, OSCAR I, was launched in 1961 , a scant four years after Sputnik, and the first commercial satellite, Telstar 1, was launched in 1962 .
And then there was OTRAG. OTRAG was a private rocket company founded in 1975 by Lutz Kayser, a German entrepreneur. The intent was to build low-cost rockets an order of magnitude cheaper than existing rockets. Amazingly, Kayser succeeded, but the history is tragic .
Kayser’s activities made the great powers nervous. The USSR and France were not interested in Germany achieving an indigenous long-range rocket activity. American rocket makers were not interested in having a low-cost competitor. A propaganda campaign began, alleging OTRAG was a cover for German and South African nuclear cruise missile development. Crude Soviet-source disinformation was eagerly picked up and given credibility by the American mainstream media. The government of the Congo, [where OTRAG was launching from], was pressured by the Russians to withdraw permission to use the site. OTRAG left the country in April 1979.
They relocated to Libya, but the Libyan government seized their rockets in an attempt to create their own rocket program. Fortunately, without Kayser’s experience, they failed, and the dream of private spaceflight failed with it.
If Kayser succeeded, we might have our moon base by now. We might be on Mars already. Instead, we’re still waiting, decades later.
There’s a decent Wikipedia page that sums up the history of private spaceflight , but mostly, the nascent industry sputtered along in fits and starts, usually followed by bankruptcy.
It wasn’t until the 21st century that the private rocket industry exploded.
Now, everything is changing, but what’s going to change? To understand that, we have to know a bit about the evolution of markets.
The Four Phases of Market Evolution
Note: much of the following is derived from the work of Simon Wardley , but I’ve adjusted some of the terminology.
Markets (and new products within them) tend to evolve through four maturity phases. Each has unique characteristics and should be treated differently. This is boring for most, but it’s important. These phases are:
- Novelty Phase: A new market emerges. Unknown how/if consumers will respond.
- Stability Phase: The new market is stabilizing, but not necessarily mature. Still experimenting with different approaches.
- Commodity Phase: Robust competition amongst competitors. Less product differentiation due to market maturity.
- Utility Phase: Market is mature, widespread, very stable, and margins are thin. New markets are built on top of these.
Note: the above descriptions are far too brief. For extended descriptions, I have a brief article which explains them in more detail, including examples.
For private spaceflight, the “novelty phase” was when entrepreneurs started to see potential, but it’s very high-risk, high-reward. As first movers, if they succeed (most did not, of course), they can reap tremendous benefits. This is why Elon Musk regularly tops the lists of the world’s richest people.
As we move from novelty to stability to commodity to utility, we see risk gradually decreasing:
Why does risk decrease? There are various factors, including customers becoming more comfortable with the market and having new ideas how they can utilize the market. But to succeed in this evolution, the products in that market must be reliable. Would you buy a cell phone that only has service 50% of the time? Probably not.
What this means is that as markets mature, their products become more stable:
Now compare this with air travel :
In the industry’s embryonic era, accidents were disturbingly numerous. Ironically, 1929, the year of “The Great Crash,” was also one of the most crash-ridden in aviation history, with 24 fatal accidents reported. In both 1928 and 1929, the overall accident rate was about one per every million miles flown. In today’s system, an accident rate of that magnitude would result in a nearly incomprehensible 7,000 fatal accidents each year.
By 2017, there were no recorded deaths of passengers in commercial passenger jets . In 2019, a National Safety Council’s recent odds-of-dying data reports that you have a 1 in 107 chance of dying in a car crash. Airline passenger? “Too few deaths in 2019 to calculate odds.”
But what about spaceships? Astronaut Chris Hadfield reports that in 1981, you had a 1 in 9 chance of dying in a space shuttle launch. By 1995, the odds of dying had already dropped to 1 in 38. Of course, those are per flight, not per lifetime, but if this trend continues, will we see ourselves in the bizarre position of seeing our odds of dying on a spaceflight lower than our odds of dying in a car crash?
Today, no astronauts have died since the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster . (Note: the last cosmonauts to die in space were in 1971 ). Though in one bizarre incident, an astronaut almost drowned on a July, 2013 spacewalk .
That doesn’t mean spaceflight is suddenly safe, but it’s far safer than it ever has been.
Spaceflight is Entering the Stability Phase
Long viewed as a novelty, spaceflight is entering the stability phase. It’s not there yet, but it’s on the verge and SpaceX is leading the way. While the novelty phase offers higher rewards, its risk level is too high for all but the most informed (and wealthy) investor. However, when the stability phase is entered, the market has begun to solidify, the products are becoming trusted, more investors can understand the market, and the risk has dropped tremendously. Of course, the reward has dropped, too, but that seems a fair trade-off.
However, particularly if we’re viewing things through a capitalist lens, it’s hard to argue that a market is “stabilizing” if there’s only one real supplier. Blue Origin, despite their recent suborbital tourist flights, is struggling. Due to poor performance, investors worry about Virgin Galactic and the new lawsuit against Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic chairman Chamath Palihapitiya over allegedly dumping shares while covering up spaceship defects is not going to help matters.
Roscomos, the state-owned Russian space company has long struggled financially and recently announced steep budget cuts are not going to help. Private Russian spaceflight company Dauria is fighting bankruptcy . French company Arianespace reported a 30% increase in 2021 revenue but their lack of reusable rockets and their promised reusable “Prometheus” engine (to be first launched eight years from when I’m writing) being delayed means they’re falling further and further behind SpaceX. Worse, the impending arrival of Starship means Arianespace is in serious trouble .
So with them not going anywhere, what happens if SpaceX collapses? Elon Musk has already warned his employees about potential bankruptcy if it can’t speed up production (though he later admitted this was unlikely). But I’ve talked to plenty of people about the space industry and most of them are unaware of the numerous successful competitors out there.
Virgin One was spun off from Virgin Galactic and shortly after its first successful launch of seven satellites announced that NASA put them on their short list of satellite launch providers . This doesn’t guarantee they’ll be selected for launches, but the private sector is watching them. They can’t launch very large satellites, but their launches are only $12 to $15 million per launch . They’re a force to watch.
Rocket Lab and Firefly are also looking very competitive :
Rocket Lab’s small Electron rocket goes for about $7 million per launch, Firefly’s medium-sized Alpha rocket goes for $15 million per launch, and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is advertised at $62 million per launch.
There’s also UP Aerospace , United Launch Alliance , SpaceForest (services starting in 2023), and many others starting development. Raphael Roettgen , on the TerraWatch podcost , estimated that there are around 200 launch startups around the world today.
The market is booming and stabilizing. Customers can now choose between a wide varieties of rockets with different payload sizes and price points, but there’s still an enormous amount of risk and it will be a couple of decades before we can approach the commodity stage.
Starship Changes Everything
A few years ago, a friend in Nottingham told me she wanted to spend the weekend in Ireland, so she bought a plane ticket. When she changed her mind, she threw away the ticket. It was only £20. No longer the domain of the wealthy, air travel is for everyone and this is (eventually) coming to space.
Costs
For the space shuttle, the average cost per launch for the last decade was around one billion dollars . For Starship, Musk expects launch prices of less than ten million within two to three years . Eventually, he projects those prices could be less than a million dollars a launch.
In contrast, the Concorde’s inaugural 1973 flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro , roughly 5,700 miles (9173 km), operating at a cost per flight of up to $5.20 per mile , could be looking at just shy of $30,000 for that flight. Adjusted for inflation, that’s almost $190,000 today. However, the $5.20 figure was for a 1972 estimate. In reality, the Concorde was subject to wild cost overruns, so a $190,000 flight cost is certainly low.
That Starship may not be significantly more expensive than a Concorde is mind-boggling. The fact that Starship might actually cheaper than planes for long-haul flights is even more mind-boggling .
But wait, there’s more! The cost of building the Boeing 737 , one of their least expensive aircraft, is just over $100 million. At the high end, Starships could cost around $37 million each , but an optimistic mass production rate could drop that price to $5 million per Starship. This is insane.
Disruption
The lower costs, however, have a knock-on effect for the entire industry. The media tends to think of the cost of the launch, but the insanely high launch costs ripple through the industry. Want to make a lunar lander out of stainless steel? Too bad. Titanium is about 35 times as expensive as stainless steel , but it’s weighs half as much. With costs per kilogram in the thousands , every penny counts.
| Launch Vehicle | Payload cost per kg |
|---|---|
| Vanguard | $1,000,000 |
| Space Shuttle | $54,500 |
| Electron | $19,039 |
| Ariane 5G | $9,167 |
| Long March 3B | $4,412 |
| Proton | $4,320 |
| Falcon 9 | $2,720 |
| Falcon Heavy | $1,400 |
| Starship | $100 |
Yes, Starship costs can potentially cost an order of magnitude less per kilogram. What else does that mean?
It means missions can be run in parallel, not in series.
Think about a string of electric lights. If they’re run in series and one goes out, they’re all out. If they’re run in parallel and one goes out, the rest keep working and you can compensate for the missing bulb.
Missions in space today are long series of single points of failure once launched. Consider a simple (ha!) robotic rover to Mars. It’s been devilishly hard to land on Mars, so we have to:
- Design the rover
- Order the parts for the rover
- Ensure all tolerances are perfect for the rover
- Assemble the rover
- Test, test, test, and retest the rover
- Return to step 2 if the parts aren’t up to snuff
- Return to step 1 if the design isn’t up to snuff
- Do all of this in a near-sterile environment so we don’t contaminate Mars
- Move the rover to the rocket
- Have a perfect launch
- Wait six to nine months while the rocket heads to Mars
- Enter the Martian atmosphere at just the perfect angle
- Survive the descent to the surface
- Scream in agony as the dust storm covers the solar panels and kills the mission
I skipped a few steps in there, but prior to launch, costs are astronomically high to due having to be perfect, absolutely perfect, because once you launch, any failure at any single point renders all of the previous work moot.
With Starship, you could build multiple rovers, with much less costly materials (weight no longer being the major consideration), lower tolerances for many of the components, and fly all of them to Mars on multiple launch for less than the cost of a single rover today. A couple of flights fail? Fine, you still have a fleet of rovers on Mars. And no, you can’t reduce all of the tolerances, but by building a fleet, the individual costs can be lowered as you gain more experience in procurement and assembly.
Heck, the Perseverance rover to Mars will have a projected final mission cost of almost three billion dollars . Musk’s long-term goal is to make a passenger ticket to Mars as low as $100,000 .
Starship changes everything.
What the Future Holds
Just as the internet has proven to be a hugely disruptive force for industry and society, so will the new space industry.
New Industries
As we improve our rocket technologies, many of the new industries are already on the horizon. Space tourism on rockets and even the ISS have already happened. But space hotels are being actively planned :
Real-time satellite imaging is widely available, high-speed, low-latency internet is starting, and Japanese company Astroscale is already planning to remove space debris and provide on site inspection and maintenance of satellites. (Dealing with the ever-increasing threat of space junk is a serious problem ).
Mining in Space
Of course, no story would be complete without discussing mining. If you are at all interested in space, you’ve long heard that the world’s first trillionaires will be space miners. The early space mining companies are gone because they, like OTRAG, were early adopters who adopted too early. They generally anticipated that the first space mining would involve mining extremely valuable ... water.
Yes, water. They were going to sell it to spacecraft using various means of water propulsion (seriously, the idea is picking up steam). However, the industry they wanted to support wasn’t ready to be born, so the space mining companies drowned (forgive me). But water is going to be a seriously valuable resource in space. I describe this briefly in one of my public presentations (if the video doesn’t start at the correct spot, jump to 50:13):
Side note: I’m also a public speaker, so if you want to have me give a talk about this, let me know!
But what else might we mine? We are facing a near-term global lithium shortage, so that would be awesome. But where do we find it? Lithium dissolves easily in water and is found in salt flat brines like those of Chile, or pegamites, a type of rock that forms in water-rich magmas. It’s estimated that the moon may have the same relative amount of lithium as Earth, but without water, it wouldn’t be concentrated enough to efficiently mine. Mars? Maybe, but we’re not sure. Ceres has been speculated as a source of minable lithium, but we can’t send our mining robots on a hunch. We need to go prospecting to find what we need and currently, that’s too expensive—until Starship is fully operational.
The same goes for Rhodium and the other platinum-group metals. Without a low-cost ability to to prospect space, we can’t send out mining equipment, much less miners.
But let’s say we find a near-Earth asteroid with the metals we want. The cost, per load, of those materials needs to be lower than the cost of building our prospectors, launching, searching, building our mining robots, launching them, mining the metals, refining the metals on site, and then returning them to Earth. As it stands now, we can’t meet those costs and even with Starship, getting them back to Earth is difficult. We can’t use parachutes. Simply crashing them on our planet will destroy much of it in the atmosphere and needlessly endanger lives, so they need to be brought back in a rocket. It’s simply not economically feasible.
More accurately, asteroid mining isn’t economically feasible until we have an established industry in space. At which point, all of that changes because we can build, launch, and return in space. That’s much less expensive and we can use those materials to build out space-industry in a more cost-effective manner.
Sadly, that’s decades away. But asteroid mining might still be viable.
The moon is regularly hit with asteroids and probably about 20% of those are metallic. Building stations on the moon and using the materials there might be worthwhile...and we’re already looking at lunar stations. Thus, we can do asteroid mining, so long as we’re doing it on the moon.
The south pole of the moon is a potential site for setting up our stations . It appears to have abundant water and if we send out plenty of robotic prospectors, finding a location near silicon and platinum deposits would give us the ability to mine the materials to make solar panels to power our lunar outposts. But we won’t know until we start prospecting.
Disruptive Uses?
We’ve already discussed Starlink , a mega-constellation of satellites to bring high-speed, low-latency internet connections to the entire planet. There are considerable challenges involved, including efforts to reduce their visibility and not ruin ground-based astronomy. The long-term goal is to have over 30,000 satellites operational, so effort is being put into ensuring defunct satellites de-orbit as quickly as possible to mitigate the problem with space debris .
But it’s possible that Musk may be planning to become a trillionaire by creating space-based solar power generating stations . These generate nice, clean solar power in space and beam it back to Earth. Before you think this is just science fiction, China is already planning on doing this , but unlike SpaceX, they don’t have access to Starship. That being said, the the long-term benefits outweigh the costs of launching via China’s Long March 5 rocket. China is pushing forward.
Musk’s path may be less clear because if successful, he threatens the fossil-fuel industry and they will do everything they can to stop him (unless he creates a partnership with them, which I doubt). They will be lobbying like made, citing environmental concerns of the launches (oh, the irony), trying to find regulatory means of stopping him, and pointing out to politicians all the jobs their districts stand to lose if these stations are operational. This seems strange, but we’ve already seen this with Tesla Motors. This will be OTRAG all over again: political and market forces working hand-in-hand to block innovation.
There will be other disruptive markets to emerge from this industry sometimes being referred to as NewSpace , but like Black Swan events , we can’t predict them in advance, and they will have enormous impacts on markets.
Note: space elevators will not be the disruptive force . Not only are they probably decades away, but an ascent to space will likely take weeks.
Investing
Like OTRAG, early space mining companies died because they were too soon. Early investors in this “novelty” stage of the market lost a lot of money. Now that we’re entering the stability phase, investing presents less risk, though less reward.
Before NewSpace started entering the stability phase, there were few, if any, VCs or financial services company offering services. Today, there are many of them. Today, investment giant Morgan Stanley is even offering space investing . However, space investing today is mainly in the hands of the wealthy. Sadly, this is probably a good thing because as if often pointed out by investors, unless you put in 10,000 hours or more in deep study of NewSpace, you won’t have the expertise to evaluate investments.
NewSpace can’t do the early internet thing of “throw money at the wall and hope it sticks.” The amounts of money involved means you have to have an extremely high chance of a payoff. These companies aren’t investing in new technologies so much as they’re investing in markets with solid business plans. This sets this industry apart from the early days of the tulipmania Internet Bubble.
Of course, other companies are now getting involved. The highly-regarded International Space University (ISU), has a Master’s Programs in Space Studies and offers a wide variety of professional courses in different aspects of the space industry.
Be Patient
We’re at the NewSpace equivalent of the internet in the mid-90s. It’s booming tremendously, but due to the extremely high costs and high risks, it’s being approached in a healthier manner than the internet boom. However, we won’t see internet speeds of advancement. For much of the internet, it was a matter of building ISPs and connecting people and letting the industry blossom. For NewSpace, the entire industry needs to be boostrapped, including the core infrastructure.
It’s not going to impact us directly today–no one is buying a cheap flight to an orbital hotel–but it’s coming and despite the naysayers, it’s not stopping. And even if SpaceX unexpectedly goes bankrupt (it won’t), it will still keep coming. I don’t know if I’ll live long enough for a vacation in space, but my daughter will. So will your children. So will many of you who read this.
The long-awaited promise of a future in space is finally arriving.


Copyright 2018 Kurento. Licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
Kurento Utils for Node.js and Browsers
The Kurento Utils project contains a set of reusable components that have been found useful during the development of the WebRTC applications with Kurento.
Installation instructions
Be sure to have installed Node.js and Bower in your system:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install -g bower
To install the library, it's recommended to do that from the NPM repository:
npm install kurento-utils
Alternatively, you can download the code using git and install manually its dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/Kurento/kurento-utils
cd kurento-utils
npm install
Screen and window sharing depends on the privative module kurento-browser-extensions
. To enable its support, you'll need to install
the package dependency manually or use a getScreenConstraints
function yourself on runtime. If it's not available, when trying to share the screen or a window content it will throw an exception.
Browser
To build the browser version of the library you'll only need to exec the grunt task runner and they will be generated on the dist
folder. Alternatively, if you don't have it globally installed, you can run a local copy by executing:
node_modules/.bin/grunt
Acknowledges
About Kurento
Kurento is an open source software project providing a platform suitable for creating modular applications with advanced real-time communication capabilities. For knowing more about Kurento, please visit the Kurento project website: https://www.kurento.org.
Kurento is part of FIWARE. For further information on the relationship of FIWARE and Kurento check the Kurento FIWARE Catalog Entry. Kurento is also part of the NUBOMEDIA research initiative.
Documentation
The Kurento project provides detailed documentation including tutorials, installation and development guides. The Open API specification, also known as Kurento Protocol, is available on apiary.io.
Useful Links
Usage:
Issues:
News:
Source
All source code belonging to the Kurento project can be found in the Kurento GitHub organization page.
Licensing and distribution
Copyright 2018 Kurento
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.


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Plugin Information |
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View Parallels Desktop Cloud on the plugin site for more information. |
Allows Jenkins to start slaves on Parallels Desktop virtual machines on demand and suspend them during idle time,for high-density usage of resources.
If you develop cross-platform software that targets OS X and iOS, then you probably know you can't run OS X virtual machines on regular PC hardware. For continuous integration, you have to use Mac computers in your setup. With this plugin you can run all your builds on a single "homogeneous" setup and worry less about the infrastructure.
Guest OS support:
- OS X 10.6 and above
- Windows 2000 SP3 and above
- CentOS 5, Debian 7, Ubuntu 10.04 and above
Requirements:
- Jenkins LTS, 1.651.1 or later. Previous versions may work, but are not tested
- Parallels Desktop 11 Pro or Business edition
Configuration
First you must configure a host machine on which Parallels Desktop is installed. Enable "Remote Login" in OS X "Sharing" settings to allow incoming SSH connections.
Then make sure that you have Java 1.7.0 or greater on your virtual machines. Otherwise Jenkins will be unable to start slaves on them. Also virtual machines network configuration should allow access from Jenkins master node: generally bridged type should used for VM's network devices.
Cloud Configuration
- Go to Manage Jenkins->Configure System.
- Scroll down to the "Cloud" Section and click "Add a new cloud".
- Then configure the connection to the host with Parallels Desktop (substitute host name and other parameters as appropriate).
Slave Configuration
- In the same "Cloud" section, under "Virtual Machines" click "Add".
- In Virtual Machine ID you can either specify the VM name or UUID (which you can find from Terminal by entering "prlctl list -a").
- Fill in the rest of config as you would for the regular slave, but skip "Host", since it will be configured dynamically.
- Specify Labels that you will bind "cloud" jobs to.
Usage
Now in any of the build jobs you can set Labels to one of those you configured in your VMs during the Slave Configuration step.
When your job is scheduled and there are not enough executors to perform the build, the plugin will find a suitable virtual machine, start it, and use it to build the job. Then after approximately 1 minute of inactivity the VM will be stopped.


About Me
I am Jay Patel and I am pursuing the 3rd Year of B.Tech-Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization of Big Data And Analytics(with IBM). According to me, there is nothing greater than finding opportunities for smart people to do awesome things, it's a fantastic process that I feel lucky to participate in.
Contact Information
Love to Explore new Technologies and Deep Dive into it and Especially Amour to travel with My Friends and Family, and I also Amore playing games. I love networking with new people and learn new things.
- Email-ID<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- Website : jaypatel15406.github.io
- Degree : Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
- Specialization : Big Data & Analytics
- City : Ahmedabad
- Age : 18
- Birthday : 15th April 2001
High-Energy aspirant Of Google Code-in 2018 and Mentor of Google Code-in 2019 For TensorFlow. Also, have Beginner Level Experience of Building Voice Applications like Amazon Alexa Skills and Actions on Google (Google Assistant). And became a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Champ (2x) {Quest Leader}.
Skills
The Skills Showcase how Expert you are in that Field. I Love to Code!! Would you also Love to Code? (Then Don't Forget to Share!) My Daily Playing Area's major Skills are Stated Below. And I also like one Quote For Coders:- "Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think"
Resume
This was just an Brief Overview of My Resume!!! According me, This was not just a Resume but the Darwinism of Passion throughout the years of Assiduous work on the way to becoming a Student Developer
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering
Institute of Computer Technology, Ganpat University, Ahmedabad, GJ
2018 - Present
Pursuing Third Year Of B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization Of Big Data and Analytics (with IBM). And also Recipient Of Multiple Scholarships Stated Below:
- Recipient of Intel Edge AI Scholarship Scholarship(On Udacity)
- Recipient of Intro to Deep Learning with PyTorch From Facebook Scholarship(On Udacity)
* Current CGPA:- 8.31
Mentorship & Leadership Experience
Google Code-in 2019 Mentor for TensorFlow
2019/11 - 2020/01
The Aspirant of Google Code-in 2018. I Explored a lot and taken a Deep Dive into New Technologies during this Phase. I have also Learnt many things from Mentors. After a Year in 2019 Google Code-in is gonna Celebrate it's 10 Year Journey. And on this Occasion, TensorFlow was Selected as a Mentoring Organization for Google Code-in 2019 and I am happy to say that I have Selected as a Mentor. I have met Many Enthusiastic Student While My Mentorship Phase and learn Many New Things with Networking and Learning.
Internship Lead of Share For Care Project
UDGAM Charitable Trust (NGO), Gandhinagar, GJ
Group Volunteer of the "Share For Care" Project. This Project is Developed for Underprivileged Student Children who cannot Afford Study Materials for Education. By Committing small support to protect children's right to education, you can help lift a child and shaping their Future. We aim to create a waste collection drive from shop, coaching classes, societies so that useful material can be distributed to poor children. Overall, this Internship helped us to improve our Communication Skills and we learned how to interact with Strangers and also to Focus on Your Strength (on a Positive) Part.
Projects
Face Detection and Face Recognition
Status:- 1st Version Completed
Face Detection and Face Recognition Project is Created Using Python Programming Language, OpenCV, NumPy and Matplotlib Libraries on Anaconda (Spyder) {Software}. This Software Detects a Face in a Normal Human Pics as well as in Group Pics. And it Can be Detects Face with Live Webcam also with Particular ID.
Automatic Mapping of Sheets
Status:- 3rd Version Completed
Automatic Mapping of Sheets Project is Created Using C# Language, ASP.NET Framework on Microsoft Visual Code (Version 2019) {Software}. According to the Format of NPTEL/ MOOC Examination, they Sent all the Result Mapped with the Email-Id of the Student and Institute to use Enrolment Numbers to Map it with Result. So, we aim to directly map both Data and store it in The Database.
For More Information and Live Testing of Project please Visit:- Automatic Mapping of Sheets Project
Accomplishment
Python For Data Science
- Verified By IBM
2019 - Present
I am appeared Successfully in Python For Data Science on Cognitiveclass.ai and Got a Badge of Python For Data Science (1 Star) Verified By IBM.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Champ (2X)
- By Google
I Have Participated in #30DaysonGCP Challenge By Google Cloud Developers. I have Completed All the Quests Within the Time Limit and became Quest Leader. And the Challenge Areas are Stated Below:
- Data Engineering
- Cloud Computing Using Kubernetes
Certifications
Computer Science 101
- By Stanford University
2019/07
Responsive Web Design
- By FreeCodeCamp
2019/02
The Fundamental of Digital Marketing
- By Google
2019/07
Transform Big Data Into Intelligent Action with Advanced Analytics (MVA)
- By Microsoft
2018/09
Affiliations
Influencer, Crowdsource By Google
2019 - Present
Member, GDG(Google Developers Group) Cloud Ahmedabad
2018 - Present
Member, Facebook Developers Circle Ahmedabad
2019 - Present
Member, Amazon Alexa Skill Developer Community
2018 - Present
Member, Google Assistant Skill Developer Community
2018 - Present
Event's Corner
The Event was one of the Special way to Grow & Learn together. And Every Event was Incomplete without Pictures. So, This was Magnificent Wall of Images.
According to me, There was only one thought "For the Community, By the Community"
- All Events
- Crowdsource By Google Events
- GDG Cloud Ahmedabad Events
Exploration Corner
Hey Devs, Welcome to Exploration Corner. Especially this was one of My Favourite Corners. This Corner includes Some Glimpse of My Voice Skill Development Projects, Blogs, and also Blogs which i refer.
Techno Programmer Quiz (Actions on Google)
Trigger Google Assistant By :
"Hey Google, Talk To Techno Programmer Quiz"
Cricket World Fact (Amazon Alexa Fact Skill)
Trigger Amazon Alexa By :
“Alexa, open cricket world fact”
Crowdsource By Google (Blogs)
Want to Explore ML ? & And Do you know that we can Contribute Open Source Without Code too.
"Lets Make the Internet Better Place Together!"
Google Cloud Community Day Ahmedabad, 2019 (Blog)
This Blogs gives you Light Over Various Cloud Technologies & This also includes my over all Experience of Google Cloud Community Day Ahmedabad, 2019
Open Source Contribution with "Crowdsource By Google", (Blog)
Don't know how to Code and Want to Contribute to Open Source !!! Then this Blog can Surely Help you. Learn how you can Contribute with "Crowdsource By Google"
Journey of Becoming Google Cloud Quest Leader 2019 with GDG Cloud Ahmedabad (Blog)
This Blog Briefly Elaborate my Journey of Becoming "GCP Champ (2 Times)" or also known as "GCP Quest Leader (2 Times)" with "GDG Cloud Ahmedabad"
Developer Quotes
Ginni Rometty
President & CEO of IBM
Big Data will Spell the Death of Customer Segmentation and Force the Marketer to understand each customer as individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust.
Pichai Sundararajan (A.K.A Sundar Pichai)
CEO of Alphabet and Google
As a Leader, It is important to not just see your own success, but focus on the success of others.
Larry Page
Co-Founder of Alphabet,
Co-Founder of Google,
Co-Creater of PageRank
We chose it because we deal with huge amount of data.
Besides, it sounds really cool.
Satya Nadella
CEO of Microsoft
Everything is to be connected to Cloud and Data...
All of this will be Mediated by Software.
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Data is Precious thing and will last longer than the Systems themselves.


vignettes/bootstrap-cluster.Rmd
bootstrap-cluster.Rmd
Performing a bootstrap analysis with qtl2pleio
requires first sampling a (bivariate) phenotype from the inferred bivariate normal distribution, then a two-dimensional QTL scan over the defined scan region. Often, one wants to include more than 100 markers in a scan region. Each two-dimensional scan can take tens of minutes with a single core. Thus, performing a bootstrap analysis with, say, 1000 bootstrap samples is prohibitively time-consuming on most computers. For this reason, we used a high-throughput computing cluster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where qtl2pleio
was developed). The UW-Madison Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC) is available to all UW-Madison researchers. While we recognize that qtl2pleio
users may not have access to the CHTC, we anticipate that some will have access to computing clusters. Hopefully this vignette can be adapted to your needs.
We placed on github a repository that contains the results from our bootstrap analysis of the Recla data.
Here is the repository’s url: https://github.com/fboehm/qtl2pleio-manuscript-chtc/
Within this repo are three subdirectories. We’ll examine in detail the “Recla-bootstrap” subdirectory.
Within this directory, we created four subdirectories:
The Github repository also contains a fifth subdirectory, squid
and a sixth subdirectory results
, that are included for completeness. In practice, files in squid
were in a distinct directory. We describe it below.
Rscript
The Rscript
subdirectory contains a file, boot-Recla-10-22.R
that contains R code for our bootstrap analysis.
fn <- file.path("https://raw.githubusercontent.com", "fboehm/qtl2pleio-manuscript/master/chtc",
"Recla-bootstrap/Rscript/boot-Recla-10-22.R")
foo <- readLines(fn)
Here we display the contents of our boot-Recla-10-22.R
file.
##
pleio_peak_index <- 788
##
library(qtl2pleio)
library(stringr)
library(dplyr)
library(readr)
args <- R.utils::commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE, asValues = TRUE)
# translate command line args
print(args)
print(args$argname)
(proc_num <- as.numeric(args$argname))
(run_num <- as.numeric(args$run_num))
(nboot_per_job <- args$nboot_per_job) # think 1 boot per job
(nsnp <- as.integer(args$nsnp))
(s1 <- as.integer(args$s1))
###############
library(qtl2)
recla <- readRDS("data/recla.rds")
# make sex a covariate for use in pvl_scan
recla[[6]][ , 1, drop = FALSE] -> sex
sex <- sex == "female"
# insert pseudomarkers
insert_pseudomarkers(recla, step = 0.1) -> pseudomap
## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
pp <- readRDS("data/recla-aprobs-chr8.rds")
## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
kinship <- readRDS("data/recla-kinship.rds")
## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
recla$pheno -> ph
log(ph) -> lph
apply(FUN = broman::winsorize, X = lph, MARGIN = 2) -> wlph
## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
phe <- wlph[, c(10, 22)]
gm <- pseudomap$`8`
k <- kinship[[8]]
## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
library(qtl2pleio)
###############
# simulate a phenotype
X1 <- pp[ , , pleio_peak_index]
cbind(X1, unlist(sex)) -> Xpre
## remove subjects with missing values of phenotype
is.na(phe[ , 1]) | is.na(phe[ , 2]) -> missing_indic
phe_nona <- phe[!missing_indic, ]
Xpre_nona <- Xpre[!missing_indic, ]
k_nona <- k[!missing_indic, !missing_indic]
##
gemma2::stagger_mats(Xpre_nona, Xpre_nona) -> X
set.seed(proc_num)
calc_covs(pheno = phe_nona, kinship = k_nona) -> cc_out
(cc_out$Vg -> Vg)
(cc_out$Ve -> Ve)
# calculate Sigma
calc_Sigma(Vg = Vg, Ve = Ve, K = k_nona) -> Sigma
solve(Sigma) -> Sigma_inv
# calc Bhat
B <- calc_Bhat(X = X, Sigma_inv = Sigma_inv, Y = phe_nona)
# Start loop
lrt <- numeric()
for (i in 1:nboot_per_job){
sim1(X = X, B = B, Vg = Vg, Ve = Ve, kinship = k_nona) -> foo
matrix(foo, ncol = 2, byrow = FALSE) -> Ysim
rownames(Ysim) <- rownames(phe_nona)
colnames(Ysim) <- c("t1", "t2")
scan_pvl(probs = pp[!missing_indic, , ], pheno = Ysim, covariates = sex[!missing_indic, , drop = FALSE], kinship = k_nona, start_snp1 = s1, n_snp = nsnp) -> loglik
# in above call, s1 & nsnp come from command line args
calc_lrt_tib(loglik) -> lrt[i]
}
fn_out <- paste0("recla-boot-run", run_num, "_", proc_num, ".txt")
write.table(lrt, fn_out)
q("no")
data
The data subdirectory contains three rds files, one for each of the three input components.
shell_scripts
We examine only the file that is needed for the Recla analysis, boot-Recla-10-22.sh
.
Here is the contents of the file.
#!/bin/bash
# untar your R installation
tar -xzf R13.tar.gz
tar -xzf SLIBS.tar.gz
# make sure the script will use your R installation
export PATH=$(pwd)/R/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/SS:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# run R, with the name of your R script
R CMD BATCH '--args argname='$1' nsnp='$2' s1='$3' nboot_per_job='$4' run_num='$5'' Rscript/boot-Recla-10-22.R 'boot400_run'$5'-'$1'.Rout'
We need to unzip the R installation, which we’ve named R13.tar.gz, and SLIBS file on the remote computer where the actual computing will occur. Following that, and needed adjustments to the paths, we execute R. Note that we have, in this file, specified the variable values by numbers, like $1
for argname
. The values assigned to each of these is specified in the “submit” file.
submit_files
The HTCondor “submit” file provides instructions for controlling the interaction with the high-throughput resources. Below is the text in the submit file boot-Recla-10-22.sub
# hello-chtc.sub
# My very first HTCondor submit file
s1=650
# start scan at this SNP index value
nsnp=350
# length of scan in number of SNPs
# which run in the experimental design?
run_num=561
#
nboot_per_job=1
# for almost all jobs), the desired name of the HTCondor log file,
# and the desired name of the standard error file.
# Wherever you see $(Cluster), HTCondor will insert the queue number
# assigned to this set of jobs at the time of submission.
universe = vanilla
log = boot-$(Process)-run$(run_num).log
error = boot-$(Process)-run$(run_num).err
#
# Specify your executable (single binary or a script that runs several
# commands), arguments, and a files for HTCondor to store standard
# output (or "screen output").
# $(Process) will be a integer number for each job, starting with "0"
# and increasing for the relevant number of jobs.
executable = ../shell_scripts/boot-Recla-10-22.sh
arguments = $(Process) $(nsnp) $(s1) $(nboot_per_job) $(run_num)
output = boot-$(Process)-run$(run_num).out
#
# Specify that HTCondor should transfer files to and from the
# computer where each job runs. The last of these lines *would* be
when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT
transfer_input_files = ../data,../Rscript,../shell_scripts,http://proxy.chtc.wisc.edu/SQUID/fjboehm/R13.tar.gz,http://proxy.chtc.wisc.edu/SQUID/SLIBS.tar.gz
#
# Tell HTCondor what amount of compute resources
# each job will need on the computer where it runs.
request_cpus = 1
request_memory = 3GB
request_disk = 1GB
#
requirements = (OpSysMajorVer == 6) || (OpSysMajorVer == 7)
# which computer grids to use:
+WantFlocking = true
+WantGlideIn = true
# Tell HTCondor to run instances of our job:
queue 1000
The ordering of the arguments on in the line that starts with arguments =
dictates the numbers that are assigned to each argument. These numbers are used in the shell script, above.
SQUID
The UW-Madison CHTC provides for each user disk space on a web proxy. More information about SQUID
can be found here: http://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/file-avail-squid.shtml
In practice, we placed files containing founder allele dosages (for chromosomes of interest) and our (compressed) R installation on SQUID
.
We followed the usual procedure for submitting R jobs with the CHTC. To submit the file boot-Recla-10-22.sub
, we first changed into its directory. We then typed
By using this command from within the submit_files
subdirectory, we ensure that our outputted files are returned to the submit_files
subdirectory. We then manually moved the outputted results files to the results
subdirectory.
We found that up to ten percent of jobs would initially fail and require re-submission. There are a variety of reasons that may explain the need for re-submission. Because of this need, we include in the git repository the file boot-Recla-10-22-fix.sub
, which gives the code that we used for resubmission. The file bad-jobs-run561
gives the ids of the jobs that failed the initial runs.
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Nearly all top 10 alternative cryptocurrencies have hit their respective 6-month lows after bitcoin's rapid price slide on Tuesday.
costa243927-Sep-19 08:16 AM
It is true that all the alts have gone down, but komodo has gone from 40 to 70 in coinmarketcap even with everything it is doing.
If I have a bad project, I would like to raise the price to get rid of it. If I have a good project, I would like it to be cheap to accumulate. maybe whales think like that
jl777c27-Sep-19 08:29 AM
how many new projects have arrived?
and if 30 new projects arrive is rank 40 vs rank 70 directly comparable?
also 40 has only been at the high end after big price increases, KMD has been 50 to 60 rank on a long term basis, even with hundreds of new projects arriving
Cryptoon27-Sep-19 08:34 AM
I went through the top 50 mcap a month ago
many projects that went from 10million mcap to 500 million on obscure exchagnes etc
Patrick Friggens27-Sep-19 08:35 AM
@richardt It's the frickin Clownworld. Fricking clownworld we are living in right now. The more jl777 and the team innovates, more kmd dump. Quantum resistance, dump kmd. Antara composer, dump kmd. nSPV, dump kmd. Honk honk, dump kmd. https://youtu.be/oWQntzptRfE
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jl777c27-Sep-19 08:38 AM
@Cryptoon creating an arbitrary marketcap using fake volumes on inflated supply coins... it is not so hard
i think there are some coins that are run by small exchanges, who then have the CEX that sets the price of the coin, which determines the marketcap. and it is mostly just entries in their own DB
so while CMC is indeed the top 100 list and has many projects that are real, it also has some projects that are not so real. look at the coins list, it has much less clutter. there we are around 40, but there are several new projects like theta, hypercash, etc.
also, altcoin prices at BTC dominance of 70% doesnt leave a lot of room for all the other coins
we need to wait until the BTC dominance is below 50% to see how well KMD is doing in the market
atomicDEX is a multi-coin wallet and crypto-portfolio with cross-chain atomic DEX.
this will be huge
same as binance coin
and its just one feature ofkomodo
Bernz - Selling LABS27-Sep-19 12:49 PM
Remember when Nano/Raiblocks went ballistic because it provided a solution to a big problem in the market at the time being quicker transactions, I foresee KMD being similar but in regards to when every CEX gets heavily KYC'd/regulated
I need 5 Btc urgently. I will sell 1000 Supernet assets for that (50 usd each). If you want to profit from future Komodo ecosystem revenues, that's a great deal. They're totally unobtainable in bulk. I bought more than I ever need years ago. DM me
LeshAft927-Sep-19 02:42 PM
Search for "komodo supernet" and their twitter all points to komodoplatform.com what is supernet assets?
Bernz - Selling LABS27-Sep-19 02:43 PM
How so? KMD provides a decentralized solution to trading in an industry currently dominated by centralization. We're here because we know decentralization is the right choice
This is v of superNET eco system map. Based on the inicial ANN of superNET(UNITY) asset https:bitcointalk.orgindex.php?topic=, SuperNet ecosystem Before Tech...
SUPERNET
Total Coin Supply: 816,000
The SuperNET asset chain is both backed by financial assets that the Komodo team actively manages, and can also produce revenues for asset coin holders. The name SuperNET derives from the former name of the Komodo team; we no longer focus on this name. The following website shows a detailed and real-time analysis of the SuperNET financial holdings: SuperNET Portfolio Analysis
Any revenues generated by assets held in the SuperNET portfolio are distributed to the holders of the SuperNET asset coins. For instance, SuperNET holds a considerable number of DEX. During a payout from dex fees, the appropriate amount of revenue shares that would be transferred into the SuperNET portfolio are instead directly rerouted to the holders of the SuperNET asset coins.
https://dexstats.info/assetinfo.php Assets from issuer Jl777 BOTS Total Coin Supply: 1,000,000 Currently, the BOTS asset chain derives its value from the fact that it collects 15% of all dex fees on BarterDEX. This feature is simply a part of the original concept of the BOTS ...
The 254052 DEX held by SN is worth at least 5million KMD (valued conservatively at 20kmd each)
CRYPTO is also worth a fair bit I think? (get revenues from notarizations I believe)
HODL/MSHARK/MGW are also asset holding funds I believe
polycryptoblog27-Sep-19 03:08 PM
they are james' assets, not the team's. Also MGW is not a holding fund, it just gets 5% dex revs
Cryptoon27-Sep-19 03:19 PM
@polycryptoblog just the text I grabbed from the webworker website
Caglio27-Sep-19 04:16 PM
@mrtzmp3 kmd moon?
LocoMB27-Sep-19 06:14 PM
is syscoin still a thing? goes to check cmc
... jeez .. I can't make anything out of the gobbledigook there- I remember syscoin was aiming to become a blockchain marketplace- what happened to that?(edited)
I think its totally possible we are back in a bear market though
Oszy27-Sep-19 08:48 PM
if btc decides to jump up to 8.5k we'll see a fallback to 666-680
bots are bots..
JimD27-Sep-19 08:49 PM
Ya, Im not convinced BTC isn't gonna get wrecked by futures traders
Oszy27-Sep-19 08:50 PM
it never does what you expect so there is that
JimD27-Sep-19 09:00 PM
If it it did Id be rich
Markus27-Sep-19 09:02 PM
i have a feeling that the big drop in btc price was manipulated, the day before the begin of the drop the hashrate dropped by 30%, look now hashrate is up +60% from where it dropped to and reached a new all time high
Bitcoin just broke down to a 44% correction. I just made the move. What about you? Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AltcoinDailyio Planting Bitcoin ...
Theres your guy
might need to change his channel to bitcoin daily though
grewalsatinder27-Sep-19 09:24 PM
wasn't hashrate came down as some entity was going to upgrade their hardware to latest mining hardware?
don't remember where I read it
but if that was the case, I think 30% going down and 60% going up later does seems like that happened
"It doesn't line up with my opinion so Im gonna reeeeee and throw a temper tantrum!" @Markus
`Oh wait, that's not how opinions work`
richardt28-Sep-19 01:35 AM
"LocoMBToday at 11:14 AM
is syscoin still a thing? goes to check cmc
... jeez .. I can't make anything out of the gobbledigook there- I remember syscoin was aiming to become a blockchain marketplace- what happened to that?"
Pretty much what happens to every project making bold statements and never delivering to the scale at which it aims to deliver(edited)


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My first blog. Just getting the hang of it and posting some random thoughts.
Quick Background
My first blog. Just getting the hang of it and posting some random thoughts. Well technically speaking it’s not my first blog. I have tried starting a blog many times before, say around 5 times or so; and boy I have failed, miserably. Every single time I used to sit down, try to search for a platform for days, finalize on a theme for another couple of days and by the time I had everything setup and a couple of blogs posted, I found myself out of energy and will to write anymore. Maybe I was running after the idea of writing a blog to earn a lot of money. I guess it was too naive of me to assume that money would just start pouring from day one. Maybe I was running after recognition, I guess it was too naive of me to assume that I would start generating huge traffic from first hour. Enough whining, I started blogs in past with different goals. Didn’t work out, no issues. New goal.
What’s the plan
Unlike last time, and before that, and so on I do have a stable day job, no monetization needed from blog. Recognition, umm.. not sure if I really want that anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I do like making new friends and connections, but that is not the sole motivation anymore. So why start a blog? Well I am software developer by day and freelancer during night, so I hardly get to write at all!!! Recently I also started reading books, (yeah wasn’t doing that till now) and I like it. So I thought why not start writing again, whatever I can, whenever I can. I have read that writing improves your ( pardon my lack of word ) writing skills. So that’s my motivation here, to improve my skills, sounds fair ?
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Won’t bore you anymore. This time I am not going to fail. Sincere motivation :), at least one post per week is what I am targeting for.
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Overview
The email configuration of your user pool. The email configuration type sets your preferred sending method, Amazon Web Services Region, and sender for messages from your user pool.
Constant Summary
Instance Attribute Summary
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#configuration_set ⇒ String
rw
The set of configuration rules that can be applied to emails sent using Amazon Simple Email Service.
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#email_sending_account ⇒ String
rw
Specifies whether Amazon Cognito uses its built-in functionality to send your users email messages, or uses your Amazon Simple Email Service email configuration.
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#from ⇒ String
rw
Either the sender’s email address or the sender’s name with their email address.
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#reply_to_email_address ⇒ String
rw
The destination to which the receiver of the email should reply.
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#source_arn ⇒ String
rw
The ARN of a verified email address or an address from a verified domain in Amazon SES.
Instance Method Summary
::Aws::Structure
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| #to_hash | Alias for Structure#to_h. |
Instance Attribute Details
#configuration_set ⇒ String
(rw)
The set of configuration rules that can be applied to emails sent using Amazon Simple Email Service. A configuration set is applied to an email by including a reference to the configuration set in the headers of the email. Once applied, all of the rules in that configuration set are applied to the email. Configuration sets can be used to apply the following types of rules to emails:
Event publishing
: Amazon Simple Email Service can track the number of send, delivery, open, click, bounce, and complaint events for each email sent. Use event publishing to send information about these events to other Amazon Web Services services such as and Amazon CloudWatch
IP pool management
: When leasing dedicated IP addresses with Amazon Simple Email Service, you can create groups of IP addresses, called dedicated IP pools. You can then associate the dedicated IP pools with configuration sets.
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/lib/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/types.rb', line 4206
class EmailConfigurationType < Struct.new( :source_arn, :reply_to_email_address, :email_sending_account, :from, :configuration_set) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure end
#email_sending_account ⇒ String
(rw)
Specifies whether Amazon Cognito uses its built-in functionality to send your users email messages, or uses your Amazon Simple Email Service email configuration. Specify one of the following values:
COGNITO_DEFAULT
: When Amazon Cognito emails your users, it uses its built-in email functionality. When you use the default option, Amazon Cognito allows only a limited number of emails each day for your user pool. For typical production environments, the default email limit is less than the required delivery volume. To achieve a higher delivery volume, specify DEVELOPER to use your Amazon SES email configuration.
To look up the email delivery limit for the default option, see Limits in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.
The default FROM address is<EMAIL_ADDRESS>. To
customize the FROM address, provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
of an Amazon SES verified email address for the SourceArn
parameter.
DEVELOPER
: When Amazon Cognito emails your users, it uses your Amazon SES configuration. Amazon Cognito calls Amazon SES on your behalf to send email from your verified email address. When you use this option, the email delivery limits are the same limits that apply to your Amazon SES verified email address in your Amazon Web Services account.
If you use this option, provide the ARN of an Amazon SES verified
email address for the SourceArn
parameter.
Before Amazon Cognito can email your users, it requires additional permissions to call Amazon SES on your behalf. When you update your user pool with this option, Amazon Cognito creates a service-linked role, which is a type of role in your Amazon Web Services account. This role contains the permissions that allow you to access Amazon SES and send email messages from your email address. For more information about the service-linked role that Amazon Cognito creates, see Using Service-Linked Roles for Amazon Cognito in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/lib/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/types.rb', line 4206
class EmailConfigurationType < Struct.new( :source_arn, :reply_to_email_address, :email_sending_account, :from, :configuration_set) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure end
#from ⇒ String
(rw)
Either the sender’s email address or the sender’s name with their
email address. For example<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or Test User
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>. This address appears before the body of the
email.
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/lib/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/types.rb', line 4206
class EmailConfigurationType < Struct.new( :source_arn, :reply_to_email_address, :email_sending_account, :from, :configuration_set) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure end
#reply_to_email_address ⇒ String
(rw)
The destination to which the receiver of the email should reply.
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/lib/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/types.rb', line 4206
class EmailConfigurationType < Struct.new( :source_arn, :reply_to_email_address, :email_sending_account, :from, :configuration_set) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure end
#source_arn ⇒ String
(rw)
The ARN of a verified email address or an address from a verified
domain in Amazon SES. You can set a SourceArn
email from a
verified domain only with an API request. You can set a verified
email address, but not an address in a verified domain, in the
Amazon Cognito console. Amazon Cognito uses the email address that
you provide in one of the following ways, depending on the value
that you specify for the EmailSendingAccount
parameter:
If you specify
COGNITO_DEFAULT
, Amazon Cognito uses this address as the custom FROM address when it emails your users using its built-in email account.If you specify
DEVELOPER
, Amazon Cognito emails your users with this address by calling Amazon SES on your behalf.
The Region value of the SourceArn
parameter must indicate a
supported Amazon Web Services Region of your user pool. Typically,
the Region in the SourceArn
and the user pool Region are the same.
For more information, see Amazon ::Aws::SES
email configuration
regions in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.
# File 'gems/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/lib/aws-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/types.rb', line 4206
class EmailConfigurationType < Struct.new( :source_arn, :reply_to_email_address, :email_sending_account, :from, :configuration_set) SENSITIVE = [] include Aws::Structure end