While appearances are dependent on delusion, delusion is also dependent on appearances. It only exists with, and in relation to, appearances; and appearances, we know are empty. Avijja is also dependent on consciousness.
Without consciousness there can be no delusion and consciousness too is void.
And of course avijja must also be dependent on time. Like anything else, it needs a time to ‘be in’; and because time is empty, avijja can only be empty.
Rather than regarding appearances as ultimately inferior, when we dwell in a realisation that everything is empty, appearances may appear to us magical, holy even. They are no longer imbued with the sense of the taint of ignorance.
Such insight does not set up merely a return to ordinary unexamined assumptions though.
In their wondrous insubstantiality and their utter lack of any foundation now all appearances may be seen to express a profound and mystical blessedness and even bliss.
For if all the links in the map of dependent origination are empty, and if time, arising and ceasing are also empty, then fabrication and dependent origination themselves must also be empty.
How, after all, could fabrication be something ultimately real, if its elemental building blocks, its results and the time that it happens in are all void?
Fabrication and dependent origination are conceptual constructs that are immensely helpful at a certain level. But they are in fact only relative truths.
What is extraordinary about them is that they have the capability to take the understanding beyond their own meaning in this remarkable way.
They eventually negate even themselves.
If arising and ceasing are empty, and the fabricated is not really fabricated, then cessation also is not really real.
Moreover, posited in duality with the fabricated, the Unfabricated must be void as well.
Many sutras stress the ‘emptiness of the unconditioned’ and the ‘emptiness of the ultimate’.
Understanding all this in a manner that can be brought into our ways of looking opens up an exquisite and profound beauty.
Through this dualistic conception, the world of appearances - the fabricated - will inevitable be demeaned somehow, even subtly, relative to the Unfabricated.
Then we are no longer constrained to seeing some things as being really the product of the ‘fault’ of ignorance, whilst conceiving of another as ‘pure’.
Everything can now be seen to be ‘pure’, wondrously so.
For nothing, ultimately is the product of anything.
No thing is truly fabricated or truly unfabricated. Then also we are no longer constrained to seeing fabricated things as unreal, while regarding the transcendent Unfabricated, wholly ‘Other’ as real.
All can now be seen to be equally ‘unreal’ or ‘real’, equally miraculous. Beauty and truth are everywhere.
Unfolding these understandings and practising them as meditative views can liberate a tremendous joy.
Realising that fabrication, cessation, the fabricated and the Unfabricated are all empty, a conception of nirvana, the goal of the path, as some kind of cessation of appearances and manifestation is no longer ultimately meaningful.
In the later tradition, a ‘non-abiding nirvana’ - an awakening that is neither a dwelling in cessation nor a being mired in reifying the appearances of samsara - is explicitly regarded as the aim of the path, the enlightenment of a Buddha.
Not elevating a removal of appearances, it more fully embodies a non-dual understanding.
In so doing, it leaves open an infinity of possibilities for the expression and activities of compassion.
Through the insight that understands the emptiness of all things without exception the belief in any ultimately real duality between samsara and nirvana collapses.
If craving and ignorance are void, then ultimately whatever is considered a defilement is not really real.
An unremitting exploration of fabrication and dependent arising opens a vision of the world as nirvana - a world of magical appearances, groundless and thoroughly empty yet mystically appearing.
Sometimes in Dhama teachings there is an emphasis on reaching a state of ‘disenchantment’ with the world and with all the things of the world.
The bringing about of this disenchantment is then regarded by some as the purpose of practice
Experiences of disenchantment can often be merely expression of the presence of aversion in the citta, rather than of any great insight.
The sanskrit word samskrta which we have been translating as ‘fabricated’ or ‘concocted’, with all the subtly negative implications of falsity that those translations carry, can also mean ‘consecrated’, ‘sanctified’, ‘hallowed’. For this is the felt sense we have with a certain depth of insight into fabrication.
Even though ignorance, fabrication and cessation are empty, it is still the case that when we actually engage in a way of looking that sees deeply the emptiness of phenomena appearances will fade. There will be at least some degree of movement towards cessation.
It is said that only the non-dual wisdom awareness of a Buddha is able to fully know the emptiness of appearances without those appearances fading.
Only a Buddha can sustain perceptions while thoroughly cognising the voidness of those perceptions.
For all others, even those who have profound understanding and direct experiences of emptiness and cessation, practice must alternate between times of more fading and times when appearances are more manifest.
At times meditators might skilfully incorporate an intentional modulation of the fading of appearances, so that a practitioner decides where to be on the spectrum of fading at a particular time.
If we understood the emptiness of phenomena deeply through experience and also understood the emptiness of ignorance and of fabricating, then a way of looking may be practised which holds these understandings within it, but lightly.
It may well be that such a way of looking is most accessible directly on emerging from more in-depth contemplation of the emptiness of all things - where there has been a considerable fading, but where now there is a re-forming of the world of appearances.
Through the view of this lens the thoroughly empty nature of appearances is acknowledged to a certain extent, but not focused on too intensely.
Things can then still appear. Yet they appear groundless, magical, less substantial.
The deep understanding of their empty and insubstantial nature also the renders appearances much more malleable, more able to be seen, for instance, as ‘radiant’ in their voidness, or even ‘divine’ - without reifying ‘radiance’, ‘divinity’ or the appearances themselves.
Since a Buddha’s mysterious ultimate gnosis somehow unites a full cognising of both appearances and emptiness, a practice which sustains such a view and the possibilities which it opens would be a skilful imitation of a Buddha’s way of looking.
Practice: Viewing appearances, knowing avijja is void
Choose any object of perception, begin to view it through a lens that understands that it is fabricated. Especially the understanding that it is fabricated by avijja. Begin to include in the way of looking the understanding that this avijja operating right now must be empty also.
Practice: Meditating on the emptiness of fabricating
Either focusing more narrowly on one object or working with a wider field of attention, begin to sustain a view that the object of perception is empty. Begin to gradually include in the way of looking the understanding that ignorance, consciousness and time are all empty. Start to include the implication that follows: there is no real arising or ceasing, no thing that is really fabricated and no real source of fabrication.
Reading Buddhist texts and listening to teachings, one typically meets a range of perspectives defining what is ultimate.
One way of clinging to a view of emptiness would be to conceive of it as a thing, a space, or a real, with inherent existence. Such views, though, we have already discounted in discussing notions of the nature of awareness and of the Unfabricated.
Our use too of the concept of emptiness in a more adjectival way, right from the beginning, ensures that the emptiness of emptiness is in fact relatively obvious. For if emptiness always qualifies some phenomenon or other, then it is always dependent on that phenomenon.
Here then, the ultimate view is described as transcending the concepts ‘empty’ and ‘emptiness’. It is the ‘unspeakable, inconceivable, inexpressible perfection of wisdom.’
Sometimes the ultimate truth of things is declared to be their emptiness of inherent existence. But at other times the ultimate is declared to be beyond all assertions and conceptual designations, including emptiness.
We have already said that ways of looking are anyway unavoidable, and that some kind of conceiving is wrapped up in all perceiving.
One possible way of clinging to a view of emptiness might be through an overly rigid adherence to some particular way of looking.
Without emptiness ways of looking a genuinely radical shift in understanding is not usually possible.
Since a conceptual view of emptiness is almost always necessary to approach the non-conceptual ultimate, some schools refer to it as the ‘approximate’ ultimate.
A conceptual view of emptiness is a key that opens up the freedom of the Middle Way beyond all conceptual designations.
Any conceiving or conceptual position at all is regarded as a kind of ‘proliferation’ and any conceptual view as, effectively, a kind of extremity of view that cannot be the authentic middle way.
Within the later tradition, sometimes the ultimate is defined from the perspective of a Buddha’s gnosis (wisdom awareness). Since that gnosis is regarded as the highest wisdom and the ultimate view, the characteristics, contents, and perceptions of that wisdom awareness are taken to determine what is ultimate.
Such an approach has many significant consequences.
It is said that, along with its characteristic of non-conceptuality, a Buddha’s gnosis embodies a completely non-dual realisation of pure emptiness.
In an inconceivable way, ‘subject’ (wisdom awareness) and ‘object’ (emptiness) are totally undifferentiated.
And yet, as we mentioned earlier, despite its utter non-conceptuality and its immovability from a non-dual condition of emptiness this gnosis mysteriously somehow also cognizes appearances.
There is no freedom from delusion to be achieved by dispelling delusion. But because the nature of delusion is totally pure, it has the nature of enlightenment. All phenomena are in this way primordially in the state of enlightenment.
Realising that ignorance is empty enables us to view a world of empty and magical appearances whose essential nature is not different from nirvana.
Moreover, these appearances are not separate form the mind that knows them; and this mind, or awareness, is empty too.
Realising the empty nature of mind actually opens up a profound sense of its mystical nature.
There is knowing, but it is void of inherent existence, without a real centre and not ultimately of time. Being empty, it is essentially free and its nature is beyond all conception.
A way of looking which views awareness this way, and views appearances as empty, magical, and inseparable from it, may be immensely potent.
Certainly it run the risk that awareness is reified at times by the practitioner.
A Buddha’s gnosis, as much as it is something we aiming to develop, is already here and now. It is only that we do not realise it.
The more profound the insights into emptiness, the more the doors to tantric and imaginal practices are opened, and the more one is able to perceive all things as magical, empty and divine.
No matter how skilful, any way of looking at appearances which we employ is empty is still in fact a relative view.
Since, for us, there is always at least some conceiving whenever there are appearances, no way of looking at appearances should be clung to as literally being a non-conceptual ultimate view.
Nor should any be clung to as being a kind of window revealing finally ‘true’ appearances, things which are definitively, singular, actually ‘what is’. Insight into emptiness enables different ways of looking’; and different ways of looking bring deepening insight into emptiness.
Through all this, a profound freeing up on the whole sense of existence is possible.
While we have considered now a number of ways in which it is possible to cling to voidness as one journeys on the path of insight, it is undoubtedly also possible, and much more common, to cling to reifications of conventional appearances or to reifications of other aspects of relative truth.
Teaching are not proclaiming that language or cultural assumptions are the primary problem. Nor that reasoning and logic are to be dismissed as unhelpful in the pursuit of freedom.
Although eventually the entire net of concepts is eventually to be transcended.
We use reasoning and logic as tools to make evident that our most basic normal assumptions about things cannot possibly be true.
Emptiness teachings are not saying “Don’t think, just experience”, or ultimately, “Just stay at the moment of contact with things as they are”, for fundamental delusion is woven right into our very experience, or ‘basic’ perception, even when there is no thinking.
Stressing that the conventional existence of the thing is not negated by realization of its emptiness might encourage a beginning practitioner to assume, even tacitly, that some objective basis within a thing remains, somehow separate from, untouched and unaffected by, the emptiness of that thing.
Thus it might be assumed that a part of that thing called its ‘conventional existence’ is not empty.
This leaving of something ‘real’ leaves something to cling to, and a basis for dukkha.
The inclination to somehow grant a level of objective truth to conventional reality is understandable, and such a tendency is not always motivated only by ethical concerns.
We humans seem to possess a hard-to-fracture clinging to the intuitive conviction that there really is something that exists in an independent way, and then want to know what “really” is there.
As we probe, ask, and analyse more deeply, we find only dependency, relativity, emptiness. And whatever the linguistic and conceptual framework of our inquiry, eventually even the clear distinction between conventional and ultimate begins to blur. A bow begins..
Rather than attempting to proffer ultimately coherent explanations of the workings of conventional appearances, and reifying them in the process, what is deemed important is the realisation of the ultimate nature of things.
The relative is what appears, the ultimate is its nature. There are appearances, and these appearances are empty.
What makes a perception valid at one level is its agreement with the perceptions of beings at a similar level. In this view it is understood that we share habitual tendencies to perceive in certain ways, and it is merely the stability of these shared perceptual tendencies that renders a perception valid conventionally at any particular level.
A clinging to wanting to determine what is ‘really and unequivocally there’ on a conventional level simply betrays a mistaken premise of fundamental delusion.
Perhaps we may say, with the Buddha, that some questions do not need answers.
What matters is the freedom and love that comes from realisation of the emptiness of all phenomena.
Still, our inquiry into emptiness involves inquiry into appearances; and since cessation is not regarded as the goal, that inquiry may become a kind of open-ended exploration - of ways of looking and the perceptions of their associated appearances.
It is not the assumed objectivity status of its appearances at a conventional level, but the blessing and liberation that any way of looking effects that becomes the primary criterion for judging it.
The adoption of a core approach of exploring different ways of looking has been concordant with a fundamental and vital insight right from the start.
It is in fact the fundamental openness of things that allows us the possibility to play with ways of looking, and to see their effects on the heart and on perception.
In the end, everything is empty. Heart, appearance, way of looking - these too are void, and actually inseparable.
At this level, it is certainly clear that the state of the citta shapes and colours perception. Understanding all this opens a door. In practice we may, to a degree, shape empty perception in the service of freedom and compassion.
There is space here, and space for reverence and devotion. When we see the void - the open and groundless nature of all things, the inseparability of appearances and emptiness - we recognise anyway just how profound is our participation in the magic of appearances.
Whether fabrication, which is empty, is consciously intended in a certain direction or not, the heart bows to the fathomless wonder and beauty of it all.
It can be touched by an inexhaustible amazement, touched again and again by blessedness and relief.
In knowing fully the thorough voidness of this and that, of then and now, of there and here, this heart opens, over and over in joy, in awe and realise.
Free itself, it knows the essential freedom in everything.


This page describes the process of building installer packages for Windows using the MinGW64 cross-compiler toolchain as bundled with Fedora Linux. The reason for this is that LAMMPS is developed primarily on Linux, so building the Windows executables with a cross-compiler allows using familiar tools and the process can be scripted and automated in the same way.
As of winter 2021/2022 it is also possible to build large parts of LAMMPS natively on Windows using the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compilers when using the CMake build procedure, both from the command line and from within the Visual Studio IDE (which natively supports building with CMake). The selection of packages, that can be enabled and compiled natively is smaller because some of them expect a unix-like build environment or because they have not been fully ported to Windows but compile with the more "forgiving" runtime environment and GCC compilers used by the cross-compiler system.
An alternative for running LAMMPS on Windows machines with native executables is to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10 and then install or compile and run Linux executables in the embedded Ubuntu Linux subsystem with Bash on Windows.
The cross-compilation is currently performed and tested on Fedora Linux 35 with the (many) prerequisite rpm packages installed that are listed below. A simple way to obtain a compatible build environment is to build a singularity image with the description file provided in tools/singularity folder of the LAMMPS source code.
Here is the list of packages which should be installed (and their dependencies):As a next step, a clone or snapshot file of the
lammps-packages git repository from
https://github.com/lammps/lammps-packages is needed.
The scripts and files required to build Windows installer packages are located in the
mingw-cross
folder inside the
lammps-packages directory.
This script performs all the tasks of downloading third party sources, packages and binaries, configuring, compiling, and packaging.
Below is a list of the supported command line options:
Usage: python3 cmake-win-on-linux.py -b <bits> -j <cpus> -p <mpi> -t <thread> -r <rev> -v <yes|no> -g <folder> -a <yes|no> Flags (all flags are optional, defaults listed below): -b : select Windows variant (default value: 64) -b 32 : build for 32-bit Windows -b 64 : build for 64-bit Windows -j : set number of CPUs for parallel make (default value: 8) -j <num> : set to any reasonable number or 1 for serial make -p : select message passing parallel build (default value: no) -p mpi : build an MPI parallel version with MPICH2 v1.4.1p1 -p no : build a serial version using MPI STUBS library -t : select thread support (default value: omp) -t omp : build with threads via OpenMP enabled -t no : build with thread support disabled -y : select python support (default value: no) -y yes : build with python included -y no : build without python -r : select LAMMPS source revision to build (default value: stable) -r stable : download and build the latest stable LAMMPS version -r unstable : download and build the latest patch release LAMMPS version -r master : download and build the latest development snapshot -r patch_<date> : download and build a specific patch release -r <sha256> : download and build a specific snapshot version -v : select output verbosity -v yes : print progress messages and output of make commands -v no : print only progress messages -g : select folder with git checkout of LAMMPS sources -g <folder> : use LAMMPS checkout in <folder> (default value: /home/akohlmey/compile/lammps-packages/mingw-cross/lammps) -a : select admin level installation (default value: yes) -a yes : the created installer requires to be run at admin level and LAMMPS is installed to be accessible by all users -a no : the created installer runs without admin privilege and LAMMPS is installed into the current user's appdata folder -a msix : same as "no" but adjust for creating a simpler MSIX package Example: python3 cmake-win-on-linux.py -r unstable -t omp -p mpi
Please note, that the cmake-win-on-linux.py
script evolves as LAMMPS versions change, so it should be regularly updated
when compiling newer LAMMPS versions.
After changing to a folder where the installer package or packages should be built, the python script is called and then a temporary directory is created - named after the various options selected - where the build is then performed. The script will print out messages about the progress of the build. With the option -v yes also, the screen output of all shell commands will be printed to the screen. At the end of the script run, the final installer package will be written to the current working directory, and the temporary folder and all its contents will be removed.
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"Monkeybone"
Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser) is on top of the world. He's madly in love with beautiful Dr. Julia McElroy (Bridget Fonda) and has a hit animated TV show based on his main character, a mischievous monkey named Monkeybone. A freak accident puts Stu into a deep coma where his nightmare world comes alive and he must fight his way back to the land of the living in "Monkeybone."
The film opens with a short animation, Monkeybone, conceived and created by the reclusive Stu. He hates the attention, especially the merchandise marketing, that the fame his creation has spawned. An unfortunate car accident involving a giant, inflatable Monkeybone doll knocks Stu unconscious with little chance for revival. While his doctor girlfriend, Julie (Bridget Fonda), fights to bring him back before his selfish sister, Kimmy (Megan Mullalley), can pull the plug, the animator finds himself cast into the land of his nightmares.  His celebrity status has come to the attention of Hypnos (Giancarlo Esposito), the god of sleep, and poor Stu soon learns that he can never leave his underworld prison.
Adding insult to injury, his creation, Monkeybone, comes to life in the nightmare world and the malicious monkey escapes to take over Stu's body on earth and garner all the perks of the cartoonist's fame - including Julie. It becomes a battle of wills as Stu fights to escape the nightmare world and get his body back from the willful, troublemaking Monkeybone.
This is the kind of movie that must have looked good on paper - the popular Brendan Fraser starring in a Tim Burtonesque film about the land of nightmares and all the creatures that reside there. Admittedly, the art direction and imagination that went into the creation of Downtown and its bizarre inhabitants is second to none, and is reminiscent, at times, of Burton's "Beetlejuice." The effort is laudable in its visual achievements in creating the frightening demons of Stu's dreams. But, this creative artwork does not have a story to hold it together. There is no real tale, at least not one I care about, to involve the earthbound characters. It's visual eye candy in the nether world and not much more.
Helmer Henry Sellick has ample experience with the creating a fantasy wolds as is very evident in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach." The demon world of the land of nightmares in "Monkeybone" is further proof that he and his team of filmmakers know how to create a dark fantasyland. The same cannot be said for his direction of the live actors in their world. This is where "Monkeybone" falls flat, leaving the actors to mouth their lines while the possessed Stu revels in the havoc he causes amongst the living.
Brendan Fraser has been used to better effect, especially in his last film, "Bedazzled," where he got to do a multitude of characters and some good comedy. In "Monkeybone," he, like the rest of the "human" cast, is left out in the cold, playing second banana to the terrific F/X, stop motion camera work and computer-generated animation. The rest of the cast, a pretty good collection of comedic actors, is wasted in their various character roles.
Bridget Fonda has the unenviable task of being the loyal girlfriend, Julie, and has little to do but look pensive or startled. Whoopi Goldberg, a veteran of this kind of comedy, doesn't do anything with the great potential of her character, Death. Giancarlo Esposito does his best to give some evil mirth to his half-man, half-goat, Hypnos, but, falls to the power of F/X. Chris Kattan gets some mileage as the dead gymnast/organ donor that Stu possesses when he returns to earth to get his own body back. Plan on watching a stomach or a kidney fall out of Stu's temporary bod, only to be snatched up by a greedy gang of organ harvesting doctors. Rose McGowan is cute as the aptly named Kitty, while a blond, goateed Dave Foley could have phoned in his slimy agent character, Herb.
Special F/X, alone, do not make a movie. There has to be a good story to hang terrific techs on and that does not happen with "Monkeybone." I give it a disappointed C+.
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One of the most famous case studies teaching lack of foresight when it comes to disruptive technologies involves the infamous demise of the camera and film company Kodak.
Despite the fact that the first digital camera was invented in Kodak’s own R&D department by Steve Sasson in 1975, and when the first consumer product hit the market in 1981, Kodak’s own Head of Market Intelligence handed in a fairly accurate report predicting the adoption-rate of digital cameras, Kodak’s management failed to see digital cameras as disruptive technology for two decades ending up with the company filing for bankruptcy in 2012.
Nokia, a Finnish company which started out in the pulp mill industry back in 1865, in 1960 Nokia first ventured into the telecommunication markets going from military, government and enterprise markets slowly towards consumer markets with car-phones and personal computers, until 1987 when they rolled out the first product that can truly be described as a mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900.
While we won’t go into the inner workings of Nokia’s corporate culture & structure, we will establish that it is that same culture which was the main reason for their failure in adopting the innovation of smartphones. The smartphone innovation was foreseen by Nokia’s Management as early as 2005, and it was also viewed as an important shift in the market. The problem arose when the top and middle management had to do something at risk of losing their status due to shifting organizational structures.
So it wasn’t any lack of foresight as in Kodak’s case. It was lack of initiative and fear of internal struggles that brought Nokia to let innovation pass it by.
Nokia’s fall from grace teaches us that knowledge isn’t enough, you gotta have the guts to do something about it.
Lack of foresight to recognize disruptive technologies and lack of initiative to move with innovation and not against it can lead even the largest entities to financial decay. While similar cases such as Blockbuster vs. Netflix, exist and will continue to exist. The case of the Blockchain vs. Bank or Crypto vs. FIAT is not the same. Faithfully a wide range of financial institutions have recognized the disruptive technology that is the blockchain and began to develop and adopt it, even partially. So there are no worries about the blockchain bankrupting the entire banking system.
The foundations of the blockchain have been conceptualized as early as 1990 and refined by Haber and associates up until 1992.
It wasn’t until 2008 when the subject suddenly re-surfaced by an anonymous alias only known as Satoshi Nakamoto who soon after, released the first version of Bitcoin on SourceForge in 2009
The rest, as they say, is history. One of rapid growth in both capital, sustainability, use cases and number of players.
You can learn more of the fork-history of cryptocurrencies visually on Map of Coins
By solving the double-spending problem in an effective and autonomous manner and not requiring intermediaries to validate the transfer of assets or currency, the blockchain has given us the potential to significantly lower the costs of transactions of all kinds - logistic, financial, legal and more. with game-changing consequences to costs of transferring goods, services, assets, and currency across the globe.
The blockchain also offers the possibility of contracts that are autonomously enforceable called Smart Contracts, these contracts manage the transfer of funds and the conditions of ownership without requiring intermediaries such as courts of law.
Using the IPFS protocol on top of a blockchain solves the short life-span of online web pages enabling the longevity if information through a method of storing & sharing rich media websites. In other words, this gives the potential for a decentralized and uncensorable web including file sharing.
Blockchain’s popularity is on the rise, from consumer-facing money-management and trading solutions, to enterprise compliance & regulation solutions, ready to use blockchain infastructures and even attempting to solve the major ownership problem of DNA samples, Great, but how much money does this a niche startup industry actually bring?
Well, so far the blockchain startups have gained a rapid growth in VC funds headed its way, expanding at a median rate of 150% per year since 2012 when it collected 25,000 dollars in VC funding, to 2018 when it collected $1.3B, so far.
Putting startup projects aside, large enterprise corporations are far from being left out in the dust. JP Morgan is working on numerous projects along with Quorom which it launched earlier this year.
IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and Amazon have all launched several blockchain solutions covering a range of market verticals and use cases.
Read more on blockchain adoption rate at Forbes.
When thinking of the possibilities of this solution outside the standard use-case of a private currency, this solution to the double-spending problem solves major issues in business, such as logistics management, contract management, copyright management; as well as government such as identity management, asset management, government budget management, public transport and more. all of these have their own set of use cases, for example, identity management can be used for cross-service identity management and individual identification and even allow for online voting, with minimal concerns to identity theft.
Let’s take a look at some of the ways the blockchain is being utilized today and might be utilized in the coming future
In what may well be a state-wide embarrassment Russia should soon launch it’s CryptoRuble come 2019 on its own governmental blockchain infrastructure.
For good and bad the Chinese is making headway with blockchain technology with ICBC patenting its own blockchain platform and the Chinese government is piloting it’s Social Credit and Govenrnance system aimed to launch by 2020 with blockchain expected to be the underlying technology. Read More in the original research paper by Dr. Rogier Creemers.
South Africa’s Central Bank had a succesful experiment with blockchain technology
The UK has recently published a white paper hinting towards adopting a blockchain solution for border customs and tariff control. Read More on TechCrunch
UBS, an American investment banking company, has been an early riser to the disruptive FinTech, and had begun developing blockchain solutions as early as 2015. We highly recommend reviewing their whitepaper on how to utilize blockchain technology as a trust and regulatory mean.
The government of Malta, which is hyper-aware of blockchains potential, has started collaborating with Omnitude to create the first governmental public transport system backed by blockchain technology. On top of being the first to enact the first laws regulating blockchain technology and cryptocurrency transactions.
Supply chain management (SCM) software is being used by medium and large enterprises for cataloging the transfer of goods from the point-of-manufacturing to point-of-sell, this is a major market vertical worth $12.2B with rapid yearly growth (~12.7% in 2017). all major retail and wholesale providers use such solutions and may soon transfer to a more efficient blockchain based solution such as provenance, skuchain, Blockverify and most notably SAP.
Ride-Sharing has gained a lot of traction in recent years, and already it might be facing disruption with blockchain technology.
DiDi might not have been the first, but by dominating the Chinese market has become the biggest ride-sharing app valuated at $55B. They have recently put out a press release that they’ll be integrating blockchain technology as part of their product
Other companies such as DASCEE or ArcadeCity are also attempting
Read More on how blockchain can benefit the ride-sharing industry.
Online voting is another one of the problems blockchain aims to solve with services such as Agora or Voatz who’ve already piloted their solution in West Virginia’s state election.
More robust solutions aim to fix the democratic process itself through digital means. Projects such as Liquid Democracy target domestic (US) as well as foreign government bodies to use their new model for a liquid democracy.
In the healthcare industry the blockchain is helping candidates take control of their samples’ proprietary value through the blockchain, with other applications already seen on the horizon.
Cloud storage is maintained today with central servers spread across the world giving that give rise to problems such as end-user proximity to the servers, costs of establishing data centers and more. Projects such as STORJ aim to solve these problems using the blockchain.
Read More on Forbes.
Solving the problems of copyright records and management has been a huge hurdle for artists and government alike. Using Smart Contracts as well as retaining ownership of a media file to the original artist using blockchain aims to abolish this problem.
Read More in Alexander Savelyev’s study.


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instance_died_unexpectedly: Function returning True if instance has
unexpectedly died.
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prior_error: Errors occurred before (for example during creation of an
instance). In case prior_error is not None handle will always return
corresponding error message without even trying to connect to the
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start_response: A function with semantics defined in PEP-333.
url_map: An appinfo.URLMap instance containing the configuration for the
handler matching this request.
match: A re.MatchObject containing the result of the matched URL pattern.
request_id: A unique string id associated with the request.
request_type: The type of the request. See instance.*_REQUEST module
constants.
Yields:
A sequence of strings containing the body of the HTTP response.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
- code/googleappengine-read-only/python/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/http_proxy.py


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The creator of C and key developer of unix
Ritchie is best known as the creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the Unix operating system, and co-author of the book The C Programming Language; he was the 'R' in K&R (a common reference to the book's authors Kernighan and Ritchie). Ritchie worked together with Ken Thompson, who is credited with writing the original version of Unix; one of Ritchie's most important contributions to Unix was its porting to different machines and platforms. They were so influential on Research Unix that Doug McIlroy later wrote, "The names of Ritchie and Thompson may safely be assumed to be attached to almost everything not otherwise attributed


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TESTS
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Test 3 Interactive
Test 4 Interactive
Test 5 JSON
Test 6 Generative Art
CODING EXERCISES
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Coding Exercise 02 Distance
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All the methods and equations presented thus far have assumed that all
parameters are either known or measured with infinite precision. In
reality, however, the analytical equipment used to measure isotopic
compositions, elemental concentrations and radioactive half-lives is
not perfect. It is crucially important that we quantify the resulting
analytical uncertainty before we can reliably interpret the resulting
ages.
For example, suppose that the extinction of the dinosaurs has been dated at 65 Ma in one field location, and a meteorite impact has been dated at 64 Ma elsewhere. These two numbers are effectively meaningless in the absence of an estimate of precision. Taken at face value, the dates imply that the meteorite impact took place 1 million years after the mass extinction, which rules out a causal relationship between the two events. If, however, the analytical uncertainty is significantly greater than 1 Myr (e.g. 64 ± 2 Ma and 65 ± 2 Ma), then such of a causal relationship remains very plausible.
Suppose that our geochronological age (t) is calculated as a function (f) of some measurements (X and Y ):
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Suppose that we have performed a large number (n) of replicate measurements of X and Y :
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It is useful to define the following summary statistics:
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is a useful definition for the ‘most representative’ value of X and Y , which can be plugged into Equation 10.1 to calculate the ‘most representative’ age.
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with σX and σY the ‘standard deviations’, is used to quantify the amount of dispersion around the mean.
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quantifies the degree of correlation between variables X and Y .
X, Y , σX2, σY 2 and cov(X,Y ) can all be estimated from the input data (X,Y ). These values can then be used to infer σt2, the variance of the calculated age t, a process that is known as ‘error propagation’. To this end, recall the definition of the variance (Equation 10.4):
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We can estimate (ti −t) by differentiating Equation 10.1:
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Plugging Equation 10.7 into 10.6, we obtain:
| σt2 | = ∑ i=1n2 | (10.8) |
| = σX22 + σ Y 22 + 2 cov(X,Y ) | (10.9) |
This is the general equation for the propagation of uncertainty with two variables, which is most easily extended to more than two variables by reformulating Equation 10.9 into a matrix form:
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where the innermost matrix is known as the variance-covariance matrix and the outermost matrix (and its transpose) as the Jacobian matrix. Let us now apply this equation to some simple functions.
| t = aX + bY ⇒ = a, = b | (10.11) | |
| ⇒ σt2 = a2σ X2 + b2σ Y 2 + 2ab cov(X,Y ) | (10.12) |
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| t = aXY ⇒ = aY, = aX | (10.14) | |
| ⇒ σt2 = (aY )2σ X2 + (aX)2σ Y 2 + 2a2XY cov(X,Y ) | (10.15) | |
| ⇒2 = 2 + 2 + 2 | (10.16) |
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Recall the definition of the arithmetic mean (Equation 10.3):
Applying the equation for the error propagation of a sum (Equation 10.12):
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where we assume that all n measurements were done independently, so that cov(Xi,Xj) = 0 ∀ i, j. The standard deviation of the mean is known as the standard error:
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This means that the standard error of the mean monotonically decreases with the square root of sample size. In other words, we can arbitrarily increase the precision of our analytical data by acquiring more data. However, it is important to note that the same is generaly not the case for the accuracy of those data. The difference between precision and accuracy is best explained by a darts board analogy:
Whereas the analytical precision can be computed from the data using the error propagation formulas introduced above, the only way to get a grip on the accuracy is by analysing another sample of independently determined age. Such test samples are also known as ‘secondary standards’.


script.aculo.us Autocompleter functional test file
Autocompleter ac1 (updated panel is relative, so no overlapping should occur):
Autocompleter ac2 w/ parameters:
Autocompleter ac3 (nested in position:relative div, selects "selectme" class):
Autocompleter ac4 (autoselects option if single option is returned):


CAFE AU LAIT A film review by Ben Hoffman Copyright 1995 Ben Hoffman
The young (26-year-old) French Mathieu Kassovitz, in his directorial debut, has made a delightful comedy about two men in love with the same woman and she with them. Kassovitz also wrote the screen play and dialogue.
In the opening scene, we see Felix, who is a bike messenger, only twenty years old, flying through Paris at top speed on his bike. He is on his way to the beautiful eighteen-year-old West Indian, Lola, who has the beautiful skin color that matches cafe au lait.
The other man in love with Lola is Jamal, also twenty, a Muslim. He comes from a family of high ranking diplomats and has real class.
When the two men arrive, Lola surprises them with a bit of news: she is pregnant, is determined to have the baby but does not know which of her two lovers is the father. How the problems are resolved and how well Kassovitz handles the movie makes up the film.
Very entertaining. In French with English subtitles.
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Take Away That Stone
One of the saddest parts about growing old is having to look back at childhood dreams that I was never able to see come true. Many of the goals and ambitions that I dreamt about when I was in my twenties seem a lifetime away. How many of us wanted to be a professional....Read more
From Beginning To End- Only Grace
“God is good, God is great. Thank you for the food. Amen.” This is what grace meant to me. A scripted prayer to halfheartedly give thanks for the fried chicken and broccoli that I was about to eat for dinner. As a young boy, and then into my early teens, I attended a s....Read more
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Vectors.length(v);
The function call
"Vectors.length(v)
" returns the
Euclidean length "sqrt(v*v)
" of
vector v. The function call is equivalent to Vectors.norm(v). The
advantage of length(v) over norm(v)"is that function length(..) is
implemented in one statement and therefore the function is usually
automatically inlined. Further symbolic processing is therefore
possible, which is not the case with function norm(..).
v = {2, -4, -2, -1}; length(v); // = 5
function length extends Modelica.Icons.Function; input Complex v[:] "Vector"; output Real result "Length of vector v"; end length;


wait()
being called unconditionally within a synchronized context.
Normally, wait()
is used to block a thread until some condition is true. If
wait()
is called unconditionally, it often indicates that the condition was
checked before a lock was acquired. In that case a data race may occur, with the condition
becoming true between the time it was checked and the time the lock was acquired.
While constructs found by this inspection are not necessarily incorrect, they are certainly worth examining.
Example:
class Bar {
void foo() throws InterruptedException {
synchronized (this) {
wait(); // warning
}
}
}


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Inherits User.
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| void | deleteBranch (string branchName) |
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Base constructor for the manager class.
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Function to delete a branch.
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Function to merge two branches.
- Parameters
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| secondBranch | - string of the second branch's name (the one to be merged) |
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
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- C:/Users/Afonso Sá/source/repos/AEDAPROJ1/AEDAPROJ1/User.cpp


“cbf” after the palette’s name indicates given palette is “colourblind friendly”, i.e. colours are distinguishable even by a colour-blind person. All single hue palettes are colourblind friendly.
Paul Tol’s palettes have been designed to be colourblind friendly as well as printer friendly. More information about them can be found at www.sron.nl/~pault.
ColorBrewer palettes have been designed by Cynthia Brewer for use in maps. More information about them, including interactive demo, can be found at colorbrewer2.org.
Soralized palette have been designed by Ethan Schoonover for use with terminal and GUI applications. As such, it has not been optimised for use in graphs or maps, but the library includes them nonetheless. More information about Solarized can be found at ethanschoonover.com/solarized.


It gurgled, then it swept away. What it was I could not say. I saw it in a looking-glass, just after a mesmeric pass. The medium's hands passed down my spine, moving in a plumb straight line. I glanced into the mirror then and counted slowly up to ten. The thing appeared atop my head. Its talons tore. It slashed. I bled. Then it gurgled and swept away. I'm going to sell it on eBay if I can find out where it went. The medium, by the way, is bent. Bent and crooked, a charlatan. He said he'd summon the Grunty Man.  I must apply a poultice now, then turn the medium into a cow by casting a fiendish spell on him, a spell so fiendish and so grim that he'll regret he messed with me.


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A publish packet received from the broker.A publish packet is received from the broker when a client publishes to a topic that the {local client} is subscribed to. More...
#include <mqtt.h>
Data Fields | |
| uint8_t | dup_flag |
| The DUP flag. DUP flag is 0 if its the first attempt to send this publish packet. A DUP flag of 1 means that this might be a re-delivery of the packet. | |
| uint8_t | qos_level |
| The quality of service level. More... | |
| uint8_t | retain_flag |
| The retain flag of this publish message. | |
| uint16_t | topic_name_size |
| Size of the topic name (number of characters). | |
| const void * | topic_name |
| The topic name. More... | |
| uint16_t | packet_id |
| The publish message's packet ID. | |
| const void * | application_message |
| The publish message's application message. | |
| size_t | application_message_size |
| The size of the application message in bytes. | |
Related Functions | |
(Note that these are not member functions.) | |
| ssize_t | mqtt_unpack_publish_response (struct mqtt_response *mqtt_response, const uint8_t *buf) |
Deserialize a publish response from buf . More... | |
A publish packet received from the broker.
A publish packet is received from the broker when a client publishes to a topic that the {local client} is subscribed to.
| uint8_t mqtt_response_publish::qos_level |
The quality of service level.
| const void* mqtt_response_publish::topic_name |
The topic name.


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Class that represents SDLXX object that initializes the network API. More...
#include <SDLXX_net.h>
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| SDLXX_net () | |
| Construct the SDLXX_net object that initializes the network API. More... | |
| ~SDLXX_net () | |
| Destroy the SDLXX_net object cleaning up the network API. More... | |
Static Public Member Functions | |
| static sdlxx::core::Version | getCompiledSdlVersion () |
| Get the SDL_net version the library was compiled against. More... | |
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| Get the SDL_net version the library was linked against. More... | |
| static bool | wasInit () |
| Query the initialization status of a network API. More... | |
Class that represents SDLXX object that initializes the network API.
| sdlxx::net::SDLXX_net::SDLXX_net | ( | ) |
Construct the SDLXX_net object that initializes the network API.
This must be called before using other network-related functions.
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Destroy the SDLXX_net object cleaning up the network API.
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Get the SDL_net version the library was compiled against.
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Get the SDL_net version the library was linked against.
If you are linking to SDL_net dynamically, then it is possible that the current version will be different than the version you compiled against.
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Query the initialization status of a network API.


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An implementation of the Repository app that assumes it is running within App Engine. Since App Engine is a remote service, we have to check to see if it’s running or not, and upload it when it’s not running.
The name of this datastore, which we call AppDB since Neptune jobs basically use it as an interface to AppScale’s database agnostic layer.
The host (IP, colon, port) that the Repo app is hosted at.
Sees if the Repo application is running at the @host we’ve set for it.
# File ../Neptune/lib/datastores/datastore_repo_on_app_engine.rb, line 54 def is_app_running?() result = do_http_get_for_get("/any-path", "any-type") if result NeptuneManager.log("App appears to be running") return true else NeptuneManager.log("App isn't running") return false end end
Creates a new connection to the Repo running on Google App Engine. Deployments take a non-trivial amount of time and can often be avoided, so see if our app is running on App Engine before trying to re-upload it.
# File ../Neptune/lib/datastores/datastore_repo_on_app_engine.rb, line 30 def initialize(credentials) if credentials.class != Hash raise BadConfigurationException.new("Credentials was not a Hash") end if<EMAIL_ADDRESS>raise BadConfigurationException.new("No @appid was provided") end if<EMAIL_ADDRESS>raise BadConfigurationException.new("No @appcfg_cookies was provided") end appid = credentials['@appid'] @host = "#{appid}.appspot.com" if !is_app_running?() app_location = "/root/appscale/AppServer/demos/therepo/" TaskEngineGoogleAppEngine.upload_app(credentials, app_location) end end


| 016:069 Khan | : |
"Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think. |
| 016:069 Maulana | : |
Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of thy Lord submissively. There comes forth from their bellies a beverage of many hues, in which there is healing for men. Therein is surely a sign for a people who reflect. |
| 016:069 Pickthal | : |
Then eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of thy Lord, made smooth (for thee). There cometh forth from their bellies a drink divers of hues, wherein is healing for mankind. Lo! herein is indeed a portent for people who reflect. |
| 016:069 Rashad | : |
Then eat from all the fruits, following the design of your Lord, precisely. From their bellies comes a drink of different colors, wherein there is healing for the people. This should be (sufficient) proof for people who reflect. |
| 016:069 Sarwar | : |
then eat of every fruit and follow the path of your Lord submissively." From out of their bellies comes a drink of different color in which there is a cure for the human being. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the people of understanding. |
| 016:069 Shakir | : |
Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of your Lord submissively. There comes forth from within it a beverage of many colours, in which there is healing for men; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect. |
| 016:069 Sherali | : |
'Then eat all manner of fruits, and follow the ways taught to thee by thy Lord and which have been made easy for thee.' There comes from their bellies a drink of varying hues. Therein is a healing for mankind. Surely, in that is Sign for a people who reflect. |
| 016:069 Yusufali | : |
Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought. |
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Part 3: Image Filtering
WhiteboxTools offers numerous tools for filtering image data in the spatial domain. Most of these filters can be grouped into some of the more common types based on their functionality:
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Low-pass filters: These filters emphasize low-frequency, longer-range signals in the image and de-emphasize high-frequency, short-scale variations. They work to smooth the image and to reduce apparent noise. Examples of common low-pass filters include MeanFilter, GaussianFilter, and MedianFilter.
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Edge-preserving low-pass filters: Like other low-pass filters, this class of filters also aims to smooth images by emphasizing longer-range variation in the image. However, these filters also work to preserve the crispness of edges in the original image. Common examples include BilateralFilter, and EdgePreservingMeanFilter.
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High-pass filters: The opposite of a low-pass filter, these filters emphasize short-scale variation and de-emphasize longer-range signals. These tools are typically used to sharpen an image. The UnsharpMasking tool is a good example (despite its contrary name).
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Band-pass filters: These filters are used to isolate the variation in an image that lies between a lower and upper bound of specified ranges. The DiffOfGaussianFilter is a good example of this type of filter.
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Edge-detection filters: These filters are used to isolate the edge features within an image. Common examples include the SobelFilter and RobertsCrossFilter
Readings: Mather and Koch (2011), Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images, pp 203-220
Image Smoothing and Noise Reduction
You may recall from the previous section that PCA is sometimes used to remove noise from multi-spectral image datasets. Low-pass and edge-preserving low-pass filters similarly are used for reducing the occurrence of noise within images, although, unlike PCA, these operations are carried out on a single band (or the individual RGB components). Many satellite images contains substantial speckle, i.e. white noise. Speckle refers to a high-frequency, short-spatial scale variation among neighouring pixels. To enhance the image and to improve its information content, it is necessary to remove this speckle. This is sometimes useful prior to image classification and other mapping applications where it can be good to reduce the within-patch variaibility (e.g. tonal variation, or texture, within agricultural fields) and to maximize the between-patch tonal distictions (e.g. the differences between adjoining agricultural fields).
Apply a 5 × 5 mean filter to the natural_colour_hsi.tif
image created in Part 1 using WhiteboxTools' MeanFilter tool. To do so, we'll need to split this RGB composite image apart into its individual components, using the SplitColourComposite and then add them back together after the filtering operation:
from WBT.whitebox_tools import WhiteboxTools
wbt = WhiteboxTools()
wbt.work_dir = "/path/to/data/" # Update this
wbt.verbose = False
print("Break the image apart into its RGB components...")
# This will create three images: split_component_r.tif, split_component_g.tif, split_component_b.tif
# See help documentation for more details
wbt.split_colour_composite(
i="natural_colour_hsi.tif",
output="split_component.tif"
)
print("Filtering the component images...")
filter_size = 5
# Mean filter
wbt.mean_filter(
i="split_component_r.tif",
output="temp1.tif",
filterx=filter_size,
filtery=filter_size
)
wbt.mean_filter(
i="split_component_g.tif",
output="temp2.tif",
filterx=filter_size,
filtery=filter_size
)
wbt.mean_filter(
i="split_component_b.tif",
output="temp3.tif",
filterx=filter_size,
filtery=filter_size
)
print("Create a new composite...")
wbt.create_colour_composite(
red="temp1.tif",
green="temp2.tif",
blue="temp3.tif",
output="nat_clr_5x5mean.tif",
enhance=False
)
print("All done!")
Once the script has sucessfully run, open the resulting nat_clr_5x5mean.tif
image using the data visualization software and compare it to the original natural_colour_hsi.tif
image.
3.1. Describe the impact of the mean filter on the image? How does the filter impact the variation of tone (texture) with the larger land-cover patches (e.g. fields)? How does it impact the edges between patches as well as other linear features, such as roads? (5 mark)
One of the key characteristics of all spatial filters used in image processing is the kernel size, i.e. the size of the roving window. Modify the script so that it applies a 7 × 7 mean filter and compare the output to that of the 5 × 5 (be sure to change the output file name when you modify the script or you will overwrite the first filtered image).
3.2. What was the impact of increasing the filter size? (1 mark)
Modify the script again, this time change the filter tool to perform a 7 × 7 MedianFilter (be sure to look at the help documentation description of tool parameters; use sig_digits=0
) and a 7 × 7 EdgePreservingMeanFilter (use parameters threshold=40
and filter=7
).
3.3. How do the median and edge-preserving mean filters compare, with respect to their ability to smooth patches while preserving edges and linear features, to the earlier 7 × 7 mean filter? (4 marks)
Edge Detection
Spatial convolution filters can be used for many common image processing tasks other than noise reduction. One common task is edge-dection, which is often used during automated mapping operations. Apply a 3 × 3 Sobel edge-detection filter to the natural_colour_hsi.tif
image using the following script:
from WBT.whitebox_tools import WhiteboxTools
wbt = WhiteboxTools()
wbt.work_dir = "/path/to/data/" # Update this
wbt.verbose = False
wbt.sobel_filter(
i="natural_colour_hsi.tif",
output="sobel.tif",
variant="3x3",
clip=1.0
)
Notice, that unlike the previous filters, there is no need to split the input colour composite image apart before applying the Sobel filter. This tool will work well with the RGB composite input image. When the script has successfully completed, display the resulting image using your data visualization software.
Include a screenshot of the Sobel image with your Lab report (1 mark).
3.4. How well does the filter work to highlight edges between adjacent land-use patches and linear features? (2 mark)
Modify the Sobel script to run using the EdgePreservingMeanFilter colour composite image created in the previous lab part as the input image.
3.5. To what extent does the use of a previously filtered image improve the detection of edge and linear features in the image? (2 mark)
Typically, one would threshold the Sobel image (i.e. find all pixels greater than a threshold value) and then apply a line thinning method to further refine the mapped edges. But let's leave that for another day!


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class to add heading.
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Before Change
//: Whether this variable is a boolean
self.is_bool = is_bool
if is_bool:
if not have_same_dimensions(unit, 1):
raise ValueError("Boolean variables can only be dimensionless")
//: Whether the variable is a scalar
self.scalar = scalar
//: Whether the variable is constant during a run
self.constant = constant
After Change
self.device = device
//: The expression defining the subexpression
self.expr = expr.strip()
if scalar:
from brian2.parsing.sympytools import str_to_sympy
// We check here if the corresponding sympy expression contains a


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Index
A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W Y
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C
- calculateEvaluation() - Method in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearnSet
-
calculates percentage of positive evaluations
- card - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.card.CardStatus
-
The card to which the Object belongs.
- Card - Class in de.aicard.domains.card
-
Provides a 2 sided Card(front and back) for CardList and CardStatus
- Card(CardContent, CardContent) - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.card.Card
-
card constructor
- cardBack - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.card.Card
- CardContent - Class in de.aicard.domains.card
-
CardContent is one Side of a card
- CardContent(String, String, String) - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.card.CardContent
-
CardContent constructor
- CardContentTest - Class in de.aicard.domains.card
-
Class to test the functionalities of the CardContent-Child-Classes
- CardContentTest() - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.card.CardContentTest
- cardFront - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.card.Card
- cardKnowledgeLevel - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.card.CardStatus
-
Provides information on how well the user has already learned the card content.
- CardKnowledgeLevel - Enum in de.aicard.domains.enums
-
knowledgelevel of cards
- CardKnowledgeLevel() - Constructor for enum de.aicard.domains.enums.CardKnowledgeLevel
- cardKnown() - Method in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearningSession
-
Method called if the Card was known by the User.
- cardList - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearnSet
- CardList - Class in de.aicard.domains.learnset
-
Provides CardList with Cards and a Pointer to the current ListIndex this class is deprecated because listindex is not used
- CardList() - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.learnset.CardList
-
Constructs a CardList containing only an empty ArrayList.
- CardList(List<Card>) - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.learnset.CardList
-
Constructor which constructs a CardList on the basis of an existing ArrayList of Cards.
- cardListRepository - Variable in class de.aicard.services.CardService
- cardListRepository - Variable in class de.aicard.services.LearnSetService
- CardListRepository - Interface in de.aicard.storages
- CardListTest - Class in de.aicard.domains.learnset
-
Test class for all the functions of CardList
- CardListTest() - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.learnset.CardListTest
- cardRepository - Variable in class de.aicard.services.CardService
- CardRepository - Interface in de.aicard.storages
- cardService - Variable in class de.aicard.controller.AddCardControlerTest
- cardService - Variable in class de.aicard.controller.AddCardController
- cardService - Variable in class de.aicard.controller.LearnSetController
- cardService - Variable in class de.aicard.controller.LearnSetControllerTest
- CardService - Class in de.aicard.services
-
handles finding, creating, deleting, and saving cards
- CardService(CardRepository, CardStatusRepository, LearningSessionRepository, LearnSetAboRepository, CardListRepository, LearnSetRepository) - Constructor for class de.aicard.services.CardService
- cardStatus - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearnSetAbo
-
The member-variable ardStatus is an ArrayList of CardStatus.
- CardStatus - Class in de.aicard.domains.card
-
Provides current CardStatus of a Card Shows and edits CardKnowledgeLevel of any Account who has the Card in a LearnSetAbo
- CardStatus(Card) - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.card.CardStatus
-
Constructor of an CardStatus object.
- cardStatusList - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearningSession
-
The List of Cards the Account is learning in this session, combined with the Account-specific information of the Cards, saved in an ArrayList of CardStatus.
- cardStatusRepository - Variable in class de.aicard.services.CardService
- CardStatusRepository - Interface in de.aicard.storages
- CardStatusTest - Class in de.aicard.domains.card
-
Provides test of functionalities of the CardStatus class
- CardStatusTest() - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.card.CardStatusTest
- CardTest - Class in de.aicard.domains.card
-
Class for testing all functionality of the CardClass
- CardTest() - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.card.CardTest
- cardUnknown() - Method in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearningSession
-
Method called if the Card was not known by the User.
- CIVIL_ENGINEERING - de.aicard.domains.enums.Faculty
- Comment - Class in de.aicard.domains.Social
-
The class message is used to store informations about a message which are : the message its self - the sender - the time it was sent - the number of likes and the people who liked this message as a list
- Comment(String, Account, Recommended) - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.Social.Comment
-
Constructor of a Message.
- CommentController - Class in de.aicard.controller
-
adds a comment to the corresponding LearnSet
- CommentController(LearnSetService, AccountService) - Constructor for class de.aicard.controller.CommentController
- CommentControllerTest - Class in de.aicard.controller
-
Tests get requests to CommentController
- CommentControllerTest() - Constructor for class de.aicard.controller.CommentControllerTest
- commentList - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearnSet
- CommentTest - Class in de.aicard.domains.Social
-
Test class for the functions of Message
- CommentTest() - Constructor for class de.aicard.domains.Social.CommentTest
- CommentTest() - Method in class de.aicard.domains.Social.CommentTest
- configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder) - Method in class de.aicard.security.WebSecurityConfiguration
- configure(HttpSecurity) - Method in class de.aicard.security.WebSecurityConfiguration
-
configuration for access rights for pages
- createAccount(Account) - Method in class de.aicard.services.AccountService
-
creates account after checking if input is satisfactory
- createCardStatusListForSession(int) - Method in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearnSetAbo
-
Creates an ArrayList of CardStatus with a specific Number of Cards.
- createLearningSession(int) - Method in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearnSetAbo
-
Creates a LearningSession with a specific number of Cards.
- createLearnSet(LearnSet, Account) - Method in class de.aicard.services.LearnSetService
-
creates new own learn and creates new learnsetabo for it
- createNewOwnLearnSet(String, String, Faculty, Visibility) - Method in class de.aicard.domains.account.Account
-
Create a new LearnSetAbo with a new LearnSet puts the new LearnSetAbo in learnSetAbos
- currentCard - Variable in class de.aicard.domains.learnset.LearningSession
-
The Card that is currently shown.
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Before Change
// N.B. `OptionsFingerprinter.fingerprint()` can return `None`,
// so we always cast to bytes here.
six.binary_type(
fingerprinter.fingerprint(option_type, option_value)
)
)
return hasher.hexdigest()
After Change
hasher = sha1()
pairs = options.get_fingerprintable_for_scope(scope, **kwargs)
for (option_type, option_value) in pairs:
fingerprint = fingerprinter.fingerprint(option_type, option_value)
if fingerprint is None:
// This isn"t necessarily a good value to be using here, but it preserves behavior from
// before the commit which added it. I suspect that using the empty string would be
// reasonable too, but haven"t done any archaeology to check.
fingerprint = "None"
hasher.update(fingerprint.encode("utf-8"))
return hasher.hexdigest()
def __init__(self, build_graph=None):


CITIZEN RUTH A film review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1997 Scott Renshaw
(Miramax) Starring: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Kay Place, Kurtwood Smith, Kelly Preston. Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. Producers: Cary Woods and Cathy Konrad. Director: Alexander Payne.  Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
CITIZEN RUTH is not coming soon to a theater near you. If you live in one of the half-dozen or so cities where Miramax gave the film a trial run, you missed it months ago; if you don't live in one of those cities, you never even got the chance to miss it. No one markets unconventional or controversial films better than Miramax, but even they couldn't get more than a handful of people into theaters to see CITIZEN RUTH. This time, they were dealing with the Grand Poobah of unconventional, controversial subjects. You see, CITIZEN RUTH is about abortion. No, wait, it gets worse -- CITIZEN RUTH is a _comedy_ about abortion. It sets out to offend nearly everyone, and succeeds. It's got an unrepentant loser as its protagonist, and she's the most likeable character in the film. In short, CITIZEN RUTH has absolutely everything working against it except a blisteringly funny script, assured direction and a remarkably brave lead performance by Laura Dern.
Dern plays Ruth Stoops, a young woman with no home, no job and a penchant for sniffing anything that comes in a can or a tube.  The judge (David Graf) threatens Ruth with a felony charge for endangerment of her fetus, but suggests that he might reconsider if she were to get an abortion. That suggestion outrages local right-to-life leaders Norm (Kurtwood Smith) and Gail Stoney (Mary Kay Place), who take Ruth into their home and try to turn her case into a media event. Of course the other side isn't about to sit still for such tactics, eventually snaring Ruth away from the Stoneys to make their own political statement. Stuck in the middle is Ruth herself, who seems to have more control over procuring her next high than over the fate of her pregnancy.
If you were inclined to keep a tally, you'd probably find that Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor don't split their mockery evenly down the middle. They take some savage shots at the Baby Savers' tactics, including a hilarious scene at a "clinic" where Ruth receives "counseling" about her "choice." Norm, meanwhile, is portrayed as an ineffectual horn-dog who ogles Ruth in a bathroom and uses his job as a hardware store clerk to proselytize. That doesn't mean the pro-choice advocates get off easy. They are portrayed as just as obsessed with "messages" and public relations, and just as star-struck by their national leader. It's also hard not to chuckle at the terribly earnest paean one lesbian couple sings to the "moon mother."
There is only one place where the film-makers' sympathies obviously lie, and that is with Ruth. You may have a hard time sharing that sympathy, however, because Laura Dern isn't interested in making you like Ruth.  It is a gutsy and brilliant performance, one on which the success of CITIZEN RUTH as a social satire depends. If Ruth Stoops is turned into one of the sanctified poor, the film collapses under the weight of its sincerity. Instead, she is made completely oblivious to anything but her own immediate needs. She is a walking worst-case scenario, which makes it easy for both sides to use her as an example. It also makes it impossible for either side to control her, making for some of the funniest film moments of the year.
Payne's most extraordinary accomplishment may be satirizing both sides of a serious issue while never understating the seriousness of the issue itself. In fact, CITIZEN RUTH is really about how this particular battle has taken on a life of its own apart from the people affected by it. There is a scene at a protest early in the film where a clinic employee chides protesters' behavior with a reminder that they "know the drill." It is a telling moment. At some point, Ruth Stoops' case becomes just another drill, another "war story" like the one a protester tells as he gathers with colleagues as though in a social club. Near the climax of the film Ruth tries to escape from both sides, and is shocked to discover that she can walk away virtually unnoticed; everyone is too busy shouting to pay attention to a single troubled woman.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 mother's days: 9
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Social Contract
What is it?
The Social Contract is a simple, yet highly effective manner to enable team autonomy and self accountability for engagements. It looks to codify the behaviors and expectations of the team. It also provides a mechanism for the team to radiate and share its desired behaviours with management and other stakeholders.
To effectively use this practice you should look to create the following outcomes:
- Public display of the social contract
- Nobody is above the contract
- The team agreed holds each other accountable to the contract. Having every team member physically sign the contract can provide a good starting point for this.
- Revisit the social contract often and update it as necessary. Retrospectives provide excellent opportunities to revisit and update a Team’s Social Contract.
Why use a Social Contract?
- Quick means to clearly determine team dynamics and expectations
- Promote autonomy and self governing of team behavior
- The contract keeps the team consciously aware of how they work together
Related Practices
- Collaborative Face Drawing1 is a great ice breaker or after lunch activity. Your Social Contract can be a nicely decorated with the faces of the team to show their commitment to the contract.
- Working Agreements2 are a form of social contract often used to help establish behavioral standards between peers on a team. This is a great alternative if you do not have stakeholders or sponsors buying in to a Social Contract.
Who do you need?
- Facilitator
- The Team
- Stakeholders/Sponsors
Suggested Time
- ~10 min
Difficulty
- Facilitator: Easy
- Participants: Easy
Facilitation Materials Needed
- Wall space which will hold sticky notes.
- Whiteboard markers
- Stickies (preferably a wide variety)
Process Phase
Beginning of engagement and revisited at any time.


StickyGet¶
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StickyGet
(name, *keys)¶
Get the settings with named key that was stored in the scriptcontext sticky.
| param name: | Provide a name where all the settings will sit under. This is to separate settings from scripts. |
|---|---|
| param keys: | name of the variable to retrieve. Multiple keys are supported. |
| returns: | Value : If one key is provided. Value List : If keys provided, list of values for corresponding key. Value is returned None if not found. Value Dictionary : If keys not specified, a dictionary of all settings is returned. |
| rtype: | Object |