This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their 'Personally Identifiable Information' (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that use FINDining?
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register for an FINDining account in the following ways:
We will not use the information we collect from you when you register for an FINDining account in the following ways.
How do we protect your information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
Third-party links
We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our app.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law's reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. - See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:
Can change your personal information:
Does our app allow third-party behavioral tracking?
No, it's also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States' consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email
We will notify the users via in-site notification
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.


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| Screen Resolution | Outstanding | Poor |
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Building Drupal Forums at AASHE
09 Nov 2009The idea of building a Campus Sustainability Forum has been kicking around my organization for years. When the organization was choosing a CMS about three years ago, one of the major reasons we went with Drupal was the forum integration.
The goal of the AASHE Campus Sustainability Forums is to provide a central place where those interested in campus sustainability can ask and answer questions, share knowledge and expertise, and contribute to the growing body of knowledge on campus sustainability.
Currently, most information about campus sustainability is exchanged via the Green Schools Listserv. While this listserv is an excellent way of quickly asking questions and getting responses, there was no one location where all of the discussion is archived and easily searched. Our goal in building the Campus Sustainability Forums was to fill this void.
Before we started work on the forums, my co-workers scoured other web forums around the web and came back with a number of features requests from other forums. While the core Forum module met some of these requests, I found myself looking for additional modules to achieve most of the forum functionality. Here's an overview of how I used the core module and contributed modules to build the forums.
Core Forum Module Functionality
Create forum posts and Respond to forum posts via comments Using the core Forum module, users with different permission levels are able to create posts and respond to posts with comments. Forum topics are a node type and all users are able to create forum topics. However, as explained later, only specific roles can automatically publish their topics.
Mark posts as sticky We wanted to be able to highlight more relevant or timely topics by having them stick to the top of topic listing pages. This is easily achieved by marking a post as sticky. In fact, this is one of the few times when I have been able to easily explain to end users what the sticky checkbox means.
Organize posts by taxonomy AASHE has an existing classification for campus sustainability that is used within the site and is based on the Sustainability Tracking And Reporting System (STARS). We were able to easily create a Forum vocabulary with these terms. I used the helpful Taxonomy CSV and Taxonomy XML modules to export and import taxonomies between our development, staging, and live sites. One problem that we ran into was having a forum that could be organized by multiple taxonomies, which was an initial requirement. Although you can assign new taxonomies to forum topic posts, the forum itself can only be organized by one vocabulary. This is a limitation that I wasn’t able to get around.
RSS feed for each forum Since the forum is organized by taxonomy terms, there is an automatic RSS feed for each forum. Having separate RSS Feeds was one of our earliest requirements because someone interested in the Curriculum forum is not necessarily interested in the Waste one. One slight problem we’ve run into is that our users don’t expect the RSS icon to be for a different set of posts when you are on a taxonomy page. We are going to add some help text to further explain this later on.
Anonymous block to encourage users to sign-in When we first tested the forum, we noticed that users were confused about how to sign in from the forums main page. To get around this, I created a block only shown to anonymous users encouraging logging in.
Individual topic areas can be co-branded with partner associations. For example, the ACUPCC sponsors the Climate Forum While there’s no section-sponsor setup out of the box with the forum module, it was relatively easy to use blocks that appear only on particular pages to set up forum sponsors. For example, the ACUPCC sponsors our Climate forum and this sponsorship is recognized in a block. In a future version of the forum, it would be ideal to attach forum sponsors to taxonomy terms as an additional field. This should be possible in Drupal 7.
Adding Contributed Modules
Look and feel can be customized to match main AASHE website Once I started designing the forum, I quickly found that it was challenging to make the look-and-feel of the forum match the AASHE website. However, the Advanced Forum module provides a number of presets themes that make theming a lot easier. I used the Naked theme and was able to create a forum design in a few hours.
Ability for users to sign up for email notification (by email or RSS) of replies While the RSS functionality is taken care of by the core forum module, email subscriptions were more complicated to implement. I ended up using the Notifications module, Token module, Messaging, and Mimemail. Notifications and Messaging made it easy to create templates that are sent out in response to certain events such as a new comment being posted. Users are automatically sent HTML emails (using Mimemail) and can subscribe by taxonomy term, author name, content type, and thread to email notifications. However, we’ve had a bit of difficulty communicating this functionality to our users.
Sponsors recognized in random order on the main forums page To make sure that our forum had an active base of users, we sought out sponsors. In exchange for promoting the forums, sponsor logos are presented in random order on the right side of the page and listed in text alphabetically at the bottom of each forum page. This is all accomplished using Views, Imagecache, Link, FileField and ImageField. I set up a sponsor node type where users can enter the sponsor name, a link to the sponsor website, and upload an image that is resized to 125 pixels wide. The list of sponsor images on the right is a Views block that displays in random order and the text list on the bottom of the page is a different Views block.
AASHE staff logo to accompany staff posts, AASHE member logo accompanies member posts We were able to easily use the User Badges module to create logos to accompany member and staff posts. The goal of this is to draw attention to “official” answers in the forum and to also highlight our members.
When non-members submit posts, they are not published and the AASHE moderators receive an automatic notification. It has been hard to figure out how to best moderate forum posts and avoid having the forum overrun with spam and posts that violate our terms of use. Our current solution is to post any content from members without review but save as draft any posts from non-members. To accomplish this, I set up a rule using the Rules module that emails a notification to our staff moderator when we have a new non-member post or comment and also sets it as a draft. In the future, I am going to write a module that assigns all .edu email addresses a role and that role can automatically post to the forum without review.
The “Real Name” and not the username should show up everywhere for users We don’t ever use usernames on the AASHE website and instead override all names using the RealName module. Without any modifications, the RealName module replaced all of our usernames (set with theme_username) with our profile First + Last name combination.
Users can “quote” one another in forum threads One features that our staff really liked on other forums was the ability to quote other posts. Using the Quote module, we were able to add this button and functionality. However, since Quote doesn’t use theme_username, we had to write a small patch to the module.
Display recent posts categorized by relevant taxonomy term throughout the site We wanted to be able to have relevant posts show up depending on where a user is within our site. For example, if they are looking at a Climate resource, they would see relevant Climate posts in a list block. This was implemented on our development site using Views and arguments. However, it is not implemented on the live site yet.
Deploying
One of the trickiest parts of deploying our forum was that so much of the functionality was tied up in contributed modules and database code. I ended up using the Features module to bundle together the required modules, Views, content types, and imagecache presets from development to staging to live site. Feature alone didn’t capture all of the settings, so I also practiced my live migration by first moving from our development to staging site and writing down all of the little configuration settings and then using that list to move to the live site. Please let me know if you are interested in having a copy of the feature.
How It All Came Together
In the first screenshot, you can see the anonymous user block on the left, as well as a sponsor/description block. On the right, you can see our sponsor view that presents a list of logos and an example of real names being used in the last post listing.
In the second screenshot, you can see an example of member badges, our recent posts view, the subscription option and the ability to quote posts.
So, How Long Did It Take?
I probably spent between 50 and 60 hours building the forums and my co-worker Matt worked 5 to 10 hours.  It also took awhile to figure out how to configure Mimemail with Notifications.


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Bayesian Inference¶
Mini-objectives:
- Review Probability
- Discuss the philosophies
- Bayes Rule again
- Discuss Bayesian inference
Probability review¶
I think it is helpful to keep in mind the major types of probabilities
- Joint - \(P(A, B)\)
- Conditional - \(P(A | B)\)
- Marginal - \(P(A)\)
Check out this nicely written page on the topic
Recall that
- \(P(A \cup B)\) is the probability of A or B
- \(P(A \cap B)\) is the probability of A and B
Try out these problems to get a better feel for things
Conditional probability¶
\(\textrm{conditional} = \textrm{joint} / \textrm{marginal}\)
\(P(B|A) = P(A, B) / P(A)\)
Note
FROM LAST CLASS
- Three types of fair coins are in an urn: HH, HT, and TT
- You pull a coin out of the urn, flip it, and it comes up H
- Q: what is the probability it comes up H if you flip it a second time?
- Figure out \(P(A \cap B)\)
- Figure out \(P(A)\)
- plug em in
\(P(X_2 = H \cap X_1 = H)\) is probability that \(X_1 = H\) and \(X_2 = H\)
If you grab HH coin two head flips have probability: 1 but you could also grab HT coin and flip heads twice, probability: \(\frac{1}{2} * \frac{1}{2} = \frac{1}{4}\)
Each of those has probability \(\frac{1}{3}\)
So \(P(X_2 = H \cap X_1 = H) = \frac{1}{3} * (1 + \frac{1}{4}) = \frac{5}{12}\)
Finally \(P{X_1 = H}\) is \(\frac{1}{2}\)
Therefore \(P(X_2 = H | X_1 = H) = \frac{\frac{5}{12}}{\frac{1}{2}} = \frac{5}{6}\)
Don’t believe it? We can show this by simulation...
import random
import pandas as pd
coins = ['HH', 'HT', 'TT']
results = []
for i in range(10000):
coin = random.choice(coins)
results.append([random.choice(coin) for j in [1,2]])
df = pd.DataFrame(results, columns=['first', 'second']) == 'H'
df.groupby('first').mean()
second
first
False 0.168256
True 0.838502
Note
ANOTHER ONE
Given that it is a red card what is the probability that we draw a 4?
A tale of two philosophies¶
- Frequentist - assumes that the probability of an event is result of a long-run frequency of events
- Bayesian - assigns a degree of belief to an event
Note
DISCUSSION
Which one seems like a better choice for:
- Probability of a car accident given a city
- Predicting the result of an election
- Predicting user behavior (e.g. A/B testing)
- Identifying students with low test scores
TO REMEMBER – Are we making conclusions about a population in nature or about an individual?
TO REMEMBER – Neither of these philosophies are better in all cases
“All models are wrong, but some are useful” –George Box
Bayes Theorem¶
\(P(A|B) = \frac{P(B|A)P(A)}{P(B)}\)
\(P(\theta|x) = \frac{P(x|\theta)P(\theta)}{P(x)}\)
The posterior is proportional to the likelihood times the prior distribution
Bayesian inference works by combining information about parameters \(\theta\) contained in the observed data \(x\) as quantified in the likelihood function \(p(x|\theta)\). Classical statistics works by making inference about a single point, while Bayesian inference works on the whole distribution. Parameters through the Bayesian lens are treated as random variables described by distributions.
The Philosophy of Bayesian Inference¶
You are a skilled programmer, but bugs still slip into your code. After a particularly difficult implementation of an algorithm, you decide to test your code on a trivial example. It passes. You test the code on a harder problem. It passes once again. And it passes the next, even more difficult, test too! You are starting to believe that there may be no bugs in this code...
But why?¶
- Numerical Tractability - can make hard problems easier
- Absence of Asymptotics - What really is a large number?
- Ease of Error Propagation - Dealing in uncertainty
- Formal framework for combining information - prior
- Intuitive appeal - interpretation is more intuitive
- Everything is probabilities
Then why isn’t everyone a Bayesian?¶
- Subjective by nature
- Great for complex models, but is the overhead necessary?
- Accessibility - Many of the books out there are difficult reads
- Requires a deeper understanding of your model
- Implementations can quickly get hairy
Is the Bayesian paradigm more naturally aligned with the way we think?¶
- Flip a coin, but I saw how it was going to land
- Code has a bug or not—are you certain?
- A doctor has a belief about a diagnosis based on symptoms and experience
The pieces¶
- prior - \(P(\theta)\) - one’s beliefs about a quantity before presented with evidence
- posterior - \(P(\theta|x)\) - probability of the parameters given the evidence
- likelihood - \(P(x|\theta)\) - probability of the evidence given the parameters
- normalizing constant - \(P(x)\)
Note
EXERCISE
Without looking...
Write Bayes formula and talk about the pieces in terms of parameters and evidence
Don’t forget about the Bayes example in the previous section
Further study¶
There is a lot so try not to get overwhelmed. I feel that these two resources are excellent entry points. The thrid resource is a good place to start if you want to start working with Bayesian models.
- Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers by Cameron Davidson-Pilon
- Entry level intro posted through kdnuggets
Programming in the Bayesian landscape has become easier as a result of the use of probabilistic programming.


Brute Force View Tuning
Complex view selection formulas can slowdown your Domino performance substantially. So keeping them simple is a mandate for high performance applications. One of my favorite approaches here is to have a set of hidden fields in my forms that compute to true or false and then simply use
SELECT vsf_Demo
as selection formula, where " vfs" stands for "View Selection Formula". In large applications that results in a rather nice performance. Downside of the approach: you need to compute these values on each alteration of a document (but that's not too hard). You can use this method even to retrofit existing applications to improve performance. These are the steps:
- Create a FORM with one field for each view that contains the view selection formula
- Change the view selection formula (short of the
SELECT @All
ones) to point to that field - Alter/Create the QuerySave event to: switch to that form, do a computeWithForm, switch back to the original form
- Create a script library with an easy function that takes a document and tells you if the document's selection formulas have been updated
- Add a call to that function to all agents
- Add an agent that runs on "documents created or changed" to catch any case where the two calls above didn't work (e.g. @Formula agents)
- Test, Test, Test
- Enjoy better performance
Option Declare
Use "CoreHandlerLibrary"
Sub Querysave (Source As Notesuidocument, Continue As Variant )
Dim handler As DocumentHandler
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Set doc = Source. Document
Set handler = New DocumentHandler (doc )
'We recompute here, since we will save anyway we don't care for the result
Call handler. docHasChangedAfterUpdate ( )
End Sub
Being lazy and notoriously prone to typos I created some code that does step 1 and 2 for me in one go.
Use "CoreHandlerLibrary"
Sub Querysave (Source As Notesuidocument, Continue As Variant )
Dim handler As DocumentHandler
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Set doc = Source. Document
Set handler = New DocumentHandler (doc )
'We recompute here, since we will save anyway we don't care for the result
Call handler. docHasChangedAfterUpdate ( )
End Sub
%REM
Class ViewTuner
Description: Creates a form with all view selection formulas and updates all views
%END REM
Public Class ViewTuner
Private ourForm As NotesDOMDocumentNode
Private formName As String
Private fieldNamesUsed List As String
Private resultStream As NotesStream
Private parser As NotesDOMParser
Private s As NotesSession
Public Sub New
formName = "ViewSelectionFormulas"
Set me. s = New NotesSession
End Sub
%REM
Property Set formToUse
Description: Overwrite the formName if necessary
%END REM
Public Property Set formToUse As String
me. formName = formToUse
End Property
%REM
Function getEmptyForm
Description: Get an empty form DOM in DXL
%END REM
Private Function getEmptyForm (formName As String ) As NotesDOMDocumentNode
Dim rawform As NotesStream
Dim s As New NotesSession
Set rawForm = s. Createstream ( )
Set resultStream = s. Createstream ( )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>" )
Class ViewTuner
Description: Creates a form with all view selection formulas and updates all views
%END REM
Public Class ViewTuner
Private ourForm As NotesDOMDocumentNode
Private formName As String
Private fieldNamesUsed List As String
Private resultStream As NotesStream
Private parser As NotesDOMParser
Private s As NotesSession
Public Sub New
formName = "ViewSelectionFormulas"
Set me. s = New NotesSession
End Sub
%REM
Property Set formToUse
Description: Overwrite the formName if necessary
%END REM
Public Property Set formToUse As String
me. formName = formToUse
End Property
%REM
Function getEmptyForm
Description: Get an empty form DOM in DXL
%END REM
Private Function getEmptyForm (formName As String ) As NotesDOMDocumentNode
Dim rawform As NotesStream
Dim s As New NotesSession
Set rawForm = s. Createstream ( )
Set resultStream = s. Createstream ( )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>" )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<form name='(" + formName + ")' alias='" + formName + "'>" )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<richtext>" )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<pardef id='1' hide='web mobile'/>" )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<par def='1'><run></run></par></richtext></subform>" )
rawform. Position = 0
Set parser = s. Createdomparser (rawform, resultStream )
Call parser. Process ( )
Set getEmptyForm = parser. Document
Call rawform. Close ( )
End Function
%REM
Sub addField
Description: Add a field to the form DOM
%END REM
Public Function addField (fieldName As String, fieldFormula As String ) As Boolean
If IsElement ( me. fieldNamesUsed (fieldName ) ) Then
'We have that field already, can't use it again
addField = False
Exit function
End If
Dim tmp As NotesDOMNodeList
Dim insertionpoint As NotesDOMNode
Dim newFieldElement As NotesDOMNode
'Lazy initialization
If me. ourForm Is Nothing Then
Set me. ourForm = me. getEmptyForm ( me. formName )
End If
Set tmp = me. ourForm. Getelementsbytagname ( "run" )
Set insertionpoint = tmp. Getitem ( 1 )
Set newFieldElement = me. getFieldElement (fieldname,fieldFormula )
Call insertionpoint. Appendchild (newFieldElement )
me. fieldNamesUsed (fieldName ) = fieldFormula
End Function
%REM
Function getFieldElement
Description: Generate the XML representing a field with a selection formula
%END REM
Private Function getFieldElement (fieldname As String,fieldFormula As String ) As NotesDOMNode
%REM
We need to create something like this:
<field type='number' kind='computed' name='vsf_DemoView'><formula>@If(Color="Blue";@True;@False)</formula></field>
%END REM
Dim result As NotesDOMElementNode
Dim code As NotesDOMElementNode
Dim formula As NotesDOMElementNode
Dim formulaContent As NotesDOMTextNode
Set result = me. ourForm. Createelementnode ( "field" )
Call result. Setattribute ( "type", "number" )
Call result. Setattribute ( "kind", "computed" )
Call result. Setattribute ( "name", fieldname )
Set code = me. ourForm. Createelementnode ( "code" )
Call code. Setattribute ( "event", "defaultvalue" )
Set formula = me. ourForm. Createelementnode ( "formula" )
Set formulaContent = me. ourForm. Createtextnode (fieldFormula )
Call formula. appendChild (formulaContent )
Call code. Appendchild (formula )
Call result. Appendchild (code )
Set getFieldElement = result
End Function
%REM
Function saveSubformIntoDatabase
Description: Saves the subform into the database specified
%END REM
Function saveSubformIntoDatabase (db As NotesDatabase ) As String
Dim importer As NotesDXLImporter
'Write the changes into the stream
Call me. parser. Serialize ( )
me. resultStream. Position = 0
Set importer = s. Createdxlimporter ( )
importer. Designimportoption = 6
Call importer. Setoutput (db )
Call importer. Setinput ( me. resultStream )
On Error Resume next
Call importer. Process ( )
If Err <> 0 Then
me. resultstream. Position = 0
MsgBox me. resultstream. Readtext ( )
End If
saveSubformIntoDatabase = importer. Log
End Function
End Class
For handling changed documents this agents comes in handy:
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<richtext>" )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<pardef id='1' hide='web mobile'/>" )
Call rawform. Writetext ( "<par def='1'><run></run></par></richtext></subform>" )
rawform. Position = 0
Set parser = s. Createdomparser (rawform, resultStream )
Call parser. Process ( )
Set getEmptyForm = parser. Document
Call rawform. Close ( )
End Function
%REM
Sub addField
Description: Add a field to the form DOM
%END REM
Public Function addField (fieldName As String, fieldFormula As String ) As Boolean
If IsElement ( me. fieldNamesUsed (fieldName ) ) Then
'We have that field already, can't use it again
addField = False
Exit function
End If
Dim tmp As NotesDOMNodeList
Dim insertionpoint As NotesDOMNode
Dim newFieldElement As NotesDOMNode
'Lazy initialization
If me. ourForm Is Nothing Then
Set me. ourForm = me. getEmptyForm ( me. formName )
End If
Set tmp = me. ourForm. Getelementsbytagname ( "run" )
Set insertionpoint = tmp. Getitem ( 1 )
Set newFieldElement = me. getFieldElement (fieldname,fieldFormula )
Call insertionpoint. Appendchild (newFieldElement )
me. fieldNamesUsed (fieldName ) = fieldFormula
End Function
%REM
Function getFieldElement
Description: Generate the XML representing a field with a selection formula
%END REM
Private Function getFieldElement (fieldname As String,fieldFormula As String ) As NotesDOMNode
%REM
We need to create something like this:
<field type='number' kind='computed' name='vsf_DemoView'><formula>@If(Color="Blue";@True;@False)</formula></field>
%END REM
Dim result As NotesDOMElementNode
Dim code As NotesDOMElementNode
Dim formula As NotesDOMElementNode
Dim formulaContent As NotesDOMTextNode
Set result = me. ourForm. Createelementnode ( "field" )
Call result. Setattribute ( "type", "number" )
Call result. Setattribute ( "kind", "computed" )
Call result. Setattribute ( "name", fieldname )
Set code = me. ourForm. Createelementnode ( "code" )
Call code. Setattribute ( "event", "defaultvalue" )
Set formula = me. ourForm. Createelementnode ( "formula" )
Set formulaContent = me. ourForm. Createtextnode (fieldFormula )
Call formula. appendChild (formulaContent )
Call code. Appendchild (formula )
Call result. Appendchild (code )
Set getFieldElement = result
End Function
%REM
Function saveSubformIntoDatabase
Description: Saves the subform into the database specified
%END REM
Function saveSubformIntoDatabase (db As NotesDatabase ) As String
Dim importer As NotesDXLImporter
'Write the changes into the stream
Call me. parser. Serialize ( )
me. resultStream. Position = 0
Set importer = s. Createdxlimporter ( )
importer. Designimportoption = 6
Call importer. Setoutput (db )
Call importer. Setinput ( me. resultStream )
On Error Resume next
Call importer. Process ( )
If Err <> 0 Then
me. resultstream. Position = 0
MsgBox me. resultstream. Readtext ( )
End If
saveSubformIntoDatabase = importer. Log
End Function
End Class
%REM
Created Jan 5, 2010 by Stephan H Wissel/Singapore/IBM
Description: Agent Sample how to update changed view selection formulas
%END REM
Option Public
Option Declare
Use "CoreHandlerLibrary"
Use "AgentSupport"
Sub Initialize ( )
Dim support As New AgentSupport
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim factory As New DH_Factory
Dim dh As DocumentHandler
Set doc = support. docToProcess ( )
Do Until doc Is Nothing
Set dh = factory. getDocumentHandler (Doc )
If dh. docHasChangedAfterUpdate ( ) Then
Call dh. save ( )
End If
Call support. Updateprocesseddoc (doc )
Set doc = support. docToProcess ( )
Loop
End Sub
You need the CoreHandlerLibrary and the AgentSupport As usual YMMVCreated Jan 5, 2010 by Stephan H Wissel/Singapore/IBM
Description: Agent Sample how to update changed view selection formulas
%END REM
Option Public
Option Declare
Use "CoreHandlerLibrary"
Use "AgentSupport"
Sub Initialize ( )
Dim support As New AgentSupport
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim factory As New DH_Factory
Dim dh As DocumentHandler
Set doc = support. docToProcess ( )
Do Until doc Is Nothing
Set dh = factory. getDocumentHandler (Doc )
If dh. docHasChangedAfterUpdate ( ) Then
Call dh. save ( )
End If
Call support. Updateprocesseddoc (doc )
Set doc = support. docToProcess ( )
Loop
End Sub
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 24 November 2011 | Comments (3) | categories: Show-N-Tell Thursday


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Your easygoing approach to life may take a back seat today, with the hardworking essence of this 4-Day. While this may become most evident in the workplace, if you find it tough to focus, take heart. You have built solid foundations with your colleagues. They are more than aware of the fact that although you seem a little flustered or preoccupied, you will not let it affect your job performance. Just take the day at a pace that suits you. Once you get going, Two, you may find time flies by.


I wanted to make a stencil using one of the modern typefaces avaliable and make it into something experimental. I chose Futura medium because of
its geometric roots. Since Stencils has some form of geometric shapes, I decided to use Futura as a base. I Know Paul Renner designed the typeface with
the idea of using perfect shapes like circles, triangles, and squares. I was inspired by the typefaces of Bifur and Grus Outline, which gave me the idea
of adding a few lines to play with the negative space that a stencil would have. Like bifur I wanted to have at least one line that stayed attached to the
typeface. The grid for the cuts depends on where the strokes would meet within the typeface. The middle line is to show the eveness of the typeface itself,
just as Futura whose structure is measured evenly into "perfection". These lines would look as an outline just like the idea from the Grus outline typeface.
You can see this with some of the letters I developed.
I developed this website to showcase my typeface the best as I possibly can. I wanted to play with the idea of
image and type, so I have some examples with quotes from Paul Renner and Walter Gropius. Just as Futura being a modern typeface,
I would also develop this website as modern and simple as I possibly can. It showcases my typeface
through all the pages the way it is meant to be, as a display typeface.


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I am uncomfortable talking about my feelings, but she is so beautiful and pure... She is the perfect woman! No... she is a goddess! If only I could tell her of my feelings...
Her flute playing is sublime! She is renowned, even among the musicians of her own race, for her incredible talent. A while back I sent her a gift, a flute made of horn, but I haven't gotten any word back from her...
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ciao
is a RFC 6763 compliant dns-sd
library,
advertising on multicast dns (RFC 6762)
implemented in plain Typescript/JavaScript.
It is used in HAP-NodeJS and is the successor of the bonjour-hap (and bonjour) library, aiming to be more robust, more maintainable and RFC compliant (read Notice).
ciao
features a multicast dns responder to publish service on the local network.
It will eventually gain browsing functionality in the future to also discover services on the local network
(There is currently no schedule when discover functionality will arrive.
A possible querier implementation is limited as explained in RFC 6762 15.1.
as it can't receive unicast responses).
ciao
passes the Bonjour Conformance Test
as defined and required by Apple.
The full documentation can be found here.
Add ciao
as a dependency to your project by running the following command:
npm install --save @homebridge/ciao
const ciao = require("@homebridge/ciao");
const responder = ciao.getResponder();
// create a service defining a web server running on port 3000
const service = responder.createService({
name: 'My Web Server',
type: 'http',
port: 3000, // optional, can also be set via updatePort() before advertising
txt: { // optional
key: "value",
}
})
service.advertise().then(() => {
// stuff you do when the service is published
console.log("Service is published :)");
});
// ....
service.updateTxt({ // replaces current txt
newKey: "newValue",
});
// ....
service.end().then(() => {
// service is now UNANNOUNCED and can be published again
});
// ....
// frees the service objects (and calls end() if still announced).
// The service object cannot be used again afterwards.
service.destroy();
The full documentation can be found here.
This section links to the most important aspects of the documentation as used in the example above.
First of all the getResponder function should be used to get a reference to a Responder object. The function takes some optional options to configure the underlying mdns server.
The createService method of the Responder
object can now be used to create a new CiaoService
supplying the desired configuration
as the first parameter. You might have a look at the
restrictedAddresses
(and disableIpv6) configuration
if you don't want to advertise on all available addresses/network interfaces.
The advertise method can now be called
on the service
object to start advertising the service on the network.
An application should ideally listen to the NAME_CHANGE
event, in oder to persist any changes happening to the service name resulting of the conflict resolution algorithm.
The method updateTxt can be used
to update the contest of the txt exposed by the service.
Any application SHOULD hook up a listener on events like SIGTERM or SIGINT and call the shutdown method of the responder object. This will ensure, that goodbye packets are sent out on all connected network interfaces and all hosts on the network get instantly notified of the shutdown. Otherwise, stale data will remain in the caches of surrounding mdns browsers.
As of RFC 6762 17. Multicast DNS Message Size DNS packets must avoid
IP Fragmentation and ensure that all sent packets are smaller than the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) defined by
the network interface. The MTU defaults to 1500 Bytes on pretty much all network cards for Ethernet and Wi-Fi.
ciao
can't reliable detect modifications made to this default MTU size.
Thus , we rely on a hardcoded value, which is 1440
for the UDP Payload Size (Remember: the MTU defines the amount
of bytes Ethernet or Wi-Fi can transport on the local link. There is additional overhead caused by the IP Header
and the UDP Header. So the amount of bytes we are able to fit into a single UDP packet is smaller).
If you know, that the MTU differs on your machine, you can set the true UDP Payload Size in bytes
using the CIAO_UPS
environment variable.
As described in RFC 6762 15.: "It is possible to have more than one Multicast DNS responder and/or querier implementation coexist on the same machine, but there are some known issues."
The RFC lists three possible issues:
As the RFC also states in 15.4, it is recommended to use
a single mDNS implementation where possible. It is recommended to use the mdns
library where possible, as the library is pretty much a binding for existing mDNS implementations running on your
system (like mDNSResponder
on macOS or avahi
on most linux based systems).
The one downside with the mdns
library is that running it on Windows is not really straight forward.
Generally we experienced with homebridge
that many users run into problems when trying to install mdns
.
Thus bonjour-hap
and then ciao
was created to provide a much easier to set up system.


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BBMap's Sketch tools use a technique called MinHash to rapidly compare large sequences.
The result is similar to BLAST: a list of hits from a query sequence to various reference sequences,
sorted by similarity, but the mechanisms are very different.
Sketch is designed to be extremely fast (potentially thousands of times faster than
BLAST) while having a very low disk and memory footprint, but gives more
approximate results and does not produce alignments.
The sensitivity is typically lower compared to alignment
when seeking remote homology, though default parameters are
adequate to identify the species of a raw PacBio library
(~85% identity to reference), and detect homology between full bacterial genomes
with 76% identity.


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What is the function which takes a : option X
and a proof that a
isn't none
and returns the x such that a = some x
called? I can write it -- but I suspect someone else already thought of it...
I found get
but that seems to involve bools...
it is option.get
you can use a bool as a Prop fyi...
OK thanks!
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new Preprocessor(source, baseDirOrIncludes, preserveLineNumbers)
Constructs a new Preprocessor.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Argument | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
source |
string | Source to process | |
baseDirOrIncludes |
string | Object.<string,string> |
<optional> |
Source base directory used for includes (node.js only) or an object containing all the included sources by filename. Defaults to the current working directory. |
preserveLineNumbers |
boolean | When removing blocks of code, replace the block with blank lines so that line numbers are preserved, as long as #include is not used |
Members
-
<static> DEFINE :RegExp
-
#define EXPRESSION
-
<static> ENDIF :RegExp
-
#endif/#else, #elif EXPRESSION
-
<static> EXPR :RegExp
-
Definition expression
-
<static> IF :RegExp
-
#ifdef/#ifndef SOMEDEFINE, #if EXPRESSION
-
<static> INCLUDE :RegExp
-
#include "path/to/file". Requires node.js' "fs" module.
-
<static> PUT :RegExp
-
#put EXPRESSION
-
baseDir :string
-
Source base directory.
-
defines :Array.<string>
-
Runtime defines.
-
errorSourceAhead :number
-
Error reporting source ahead length.
-
includes :Object.<string, string>
-
Included sources by filename.
-
isNode :boolean
-
Whether running inside of node.js or not.
-
preserveLineNumbers :boolean
-
Preserve line numbers when removing blocks of code
-
source :string
-
Source code to pre-process.
Methods
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<static> addSlashes(str) → {string}
-
Adds slashes to an unescaped string.
Parameters:
Name Type Description str
string Unescaped string Returns:
Escaped string- Type
- string
-
<static> evaluate(runtimeDefines, inlineDefines, expr) → {*}
-
Evaluates an expression.
Parameters:
Name Type Argument Description runtimeDefines
object.<string,string> Runtime defines inlineDefines
Array.<string> | string Inline defines (optional for backward compatibility) expr
string <optional>
Expression to evaluate Throws:
If the expression cannot be evaluated- Type
- Error
Returns:
Expression result- Type
- *
-
<static> indent(str, indent) → {string}
-
Indents a multi-line string.
Parameters:
Name Type Description str
string Multi-line string to indent indent
string Indent to use Returns:
Indented string- Type
- string
-
<static> nlToStr(str) → {string}
-
Transforms a string for display in error messages.
Parameters:
Name Type Description str
string String to transform Returns:
- Type
- string
-
<static> stripSlashes(str) → {string}
-
Strips slashes from an escaped string.
Parameters:
Name Type Description str
string Escaped string Returns:
Unescaped string- Type
- string
-
process(defines, verbose) → {string}
-
Preprocesses.
Parameters:
Name Type Argument Description defines
object.<string,string> Defines verbose
function(string) <optional>
Print verbose processing information to the specified function as the first parameter. Defaults to not print debug information. Throws:
If the source cannot be pre-processed- Type
- Error
Returns:
Processed source- Type
- string
-
toString() → {string}
-
Returns a string representation of this object.
Returns:
String representation as of "Preprocessor"- Type
- string


The paper introduces a simple data augmentation protocol that provides a good compositional inductive bias for sequential models.
Synthetic examples are created by taking real sequences and replacing the fragments in sequences which appear in similar environments. This operation is referred to as GECA (Good Enough Compositional Augmentation).
The underlying idea is that if two fragments of training examples occur in some environment, then any environment where the first fragment appears is also a valid environment for the second fragment.
Discover substitutable fragments (ie pairs of fragments that co-occur with a common fragment) and use them to generate new sequences by swapping fragments.
The current work uses very simple criteria to decide if fragments are substitutable - fragments should occur in at least one lexical environment that is exactly the same. A lexical environment is the k-word window around each span of the fragment.
Though the idea can be motivated by work in generative syntax and distributional semantics, it would not hold like a physical law when applied to the real data.
The authors view this tradeoff as a balance between the shortage of training data vs relative frequency of mistake in the proposed data augmentation approach.
The approach is evaluated on the SCAN dataset when the model is trained on the short sequence of English commands. Though the dataset augmentation helps the baseline models, it is not surprising given the nature of the SCAN dataset.
More challenging tasks (for evaluating the proposed approach) are semantic parsing (where the query is represented in the form of λ calculus or SQL and low resource language modeling. While the improvement (in terms of metrics) is sometimes limited, the gains are consistent across different datasets.
Given that the proposed approach is relatively simple and straightforward, it appears to be quite promising.


6 Packages commonly used at Grattan
Some packages we use at Grattan - like the tidyverse
collection of packages - are very popular among R users. Some - like the grattantheme
package - are specific to Grattan Institute. Others - like the readabs
package - are made by Grattan people, useful at Grattan, but also used outside of the Institute. To install a core set of packages we use at Grattan, click here and run the code chunk.
6.1 The tidyverse!
The tidyverse
is central to our work at Grattan. The tidyverse
is a collection of related R packages for importing, wrangling, exploring and visualising data in R. The packages are designed to work well together.
The main packages in the tidyverse
include:
- ggplot2 for making beautiful, customisable graphs
- dplyr for manipulating data frames
- tidyr for tidying your data
- readr for importing data from a broad range of formats
- purrr for functional programming
- stringr for manipulating strings of text
All these packages (and more!) will automatically be loaded for you when you run the command6:
## ── Attaching packages ─────────── tidyverse <IP_ADDRESS>00 ──
## ✓ ggplot2 3.3.0 ✓ purrr 0.3.4
## ✓ tibble 3.0.1 ✓ dplyr 0.8.5
## ✓ tidyr 1.0.2 ✓ stringr 1.4.0
## ✓ readr 1.3.1 ✓ forcats 0.5.0
## ── Conflicts ─────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
## x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
## x dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag()
A range of other packages are installed on your machine as part of the tidyverse.
These include:
- readxl for importing Excel spreadsheets into R
- haven for importing Stata, SAS and SPSS data
- lubridate for working with dates
- rvest for scraping websites
Although these packages are installed as part of the tidyverse
, they aren’t loaded automatically when you run library(tidyverse)
. You’ll need to load them individually, like:
6.1.1 Why do we use the tidyverse?
The tidyverse
makes life easier!
The core tidyverse
packages, like ggplot2
, dplyr
, and tidyr
, are extremely popular. The tidyverse
is probably the most popular ‘dialect’ of R. This means that any problem you encounter with the tidyverse
will have been encountered many times before by other R users, so a solution will only be a Google search away.
The tidyverse
packages are all designed to work well together, with a consistent underlying philosophy and design. This means that coding habits you learn with one tidyverse
package, like dplyr
, are also applicable to other packages, like tidyr
.
They’re designed to work with data frames7, a rectangular data object that will be familiar to spreadsheet users that is very intuitive and convenient for the sort of work we do at Grattan. In particular, the tidyverse
is built around the concept of tidy data, which has a specific meaning in this context that we’ll come to later. The fact that tidyverse
packages are all built around one type of data object makes them easier to work with.
The creator of the tidyverse
, Hadley Wickham, places great value on code that is expressive and comprehensible to humans. This means that code written in the tidyverse
idiom is often able to be understood even if you haven’t encountered the functions before. For example, look at this chunk of code:
Without knowing what my_data
looks like, and even if you haven’t encountered these functions before, this should be reasonably intuitive. We’re taking some data, and then8 only keeping observations that relate to people aged 30 and older, then calculating a new variable, relative_income
. The name of a tidyverse
function - like filter
, group_by
, summarise
, and so on - generally gives you a pretty good idea what the function is going to do with your data, which isn’t always the case with other approaches.
Here’s one way to do the same thing in base R:
The base R code gets the job done, but it’s clunkier, less expressive, and harder to read. A core principle of coding at Grattan is that you should strive to make your work human readable.
Code written with tidyverse
functions is often faster than its base R equivalents. But most of our work at Grattan is with small-to-medium sized datasets (with fewer than a million rows or so), so speed isn’t usually a major concern anyway.9
The most valuable resource we deal with at Grattan is our time. Computers are cheap, people are not. If your code executes quickly, but it takes your colleague many hours to decipher it, the cost of the extra QC time more than outweighs the saving through faster computation. The tidyverse
packages strike a balance between expressive, comprehensible code and computational efficiency that suits the nature of our work at Grattan. This balance is the right one for most of our work, most of the time.
Most R scripts at Grattan should start with library(tidyverse)
. Most of your work will be in data frames, and most of the time the tidyverse
contains the core tools you’ll need to do that work.
6.2 Grattan-specific packages
A range of Grattan people have written packages that come in handy at Grattan.
* grattan The grattan
package, created by Hugh Parsonage, contains two broad sets of functions. One set of functions (sometimes known by the nickname “Grattax”) is used for modelling the personal income tax system. Another set of functions (“Grattools”) are useful for a lot of our work, like converting dates to financial years (grattan::date2fy()
) or a version of dplyr::ntile()
that uses weights (grattan::weighted_ntile()
).
grattantheme The
grattantheme
package, by Matt Cowgill and Will Mackey, helps to make your ggplot2 charts Grattan-y. We cover the package extensively in the data visualisation chapter.grattandata The
grattandata
package, by Matt Cowgill and Jonathan Nolan, is used to load microdata from the Grattan microdata repository. We cover this in the reading data chapter.
6.3 Other commonly-used packages
There are other packages we commonly use at Grattan, including some developed by Grattan staff. These include:
absmapsdata This package, by Will Mackey, is very handy for working with spatial data. You’ll want it if you’re going to be making maps.
readabs The
readabs
package, by Matt Cowgill, provides an easy way to download, tidy, and import ABS time series data in R.
There’s no need to install or load the individual
tidyverse
packages - likedplyr
- separately. Just install them all together, and load them with the singlelibrary(tidyverse)
command. That way, you don’t need to remember which functions come fromtidyr
and which fromdplyr
- they’re all justtidyverse
functions.↩The tidyverse works with ‘tibbles’, which are a tidyverse-specific variant of the data frame. Don’t worry about the difference between tibbles and data frames.↩
you can read the pipe,
%>%
, as ‘and then’↩When working with very large datasets, it might be worth gaining speed using other packages, such as
data.table
. Fortunately, using thedtplyr
package you can get most of the speed benefits ofdata.table
and stick to familiardplyr
syntax.↩


vignettes/metropolis_coupling.Rmd
metropolis_coupling.Rmd
MCMC becomes considerably harder when the posterior distribution is 1) highly correlated, and/or 2) highly multimodal. For exampe, if your posterior has Twin Peaks then ordinary Metropolis-Hastings might not be enough. Parallel tempering tends to mitigate these problems and requires nothing more than some extra heated chains.
This vignette demonstrates how parallel tempering can be implemented within drjacoby to solve a deliberately awkward MCMC problem.
For this example we will start by writing the likelihood and prior functions in C++. If this sounds unfamiliar to you, check out the earlier vignette for a simple example. Our basic model will assume that our data are normally distributed with mean alpha^2*beta
. The alpha^2
term here means that both positive and negative values of alpha
map to the same value, thereby creating a multimodal distribution, and the *beta
term ensures that alpha
and beta
are highly correlated. We will also use a third parameter epsilon
to represent some random noise that we want to integrate over. While this is a highly contrived example, it does have the advantage of being horrendously awkward!
For our prior we assume that alpha
is uniform [-10,10], beta
is uniform [0,10], and epsilon
is normally distributed with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
#include <Rcpp.h>
using namespace Rcpp;
// [[Rcpp::export]]
SEXP loglike(Rcpp::NumericVector params, Rcpp::List data, Rcpp::List misc) {
// unpack data
std::vector<double> x = Rcpp::as< std::vector<double> >(data["x"]);
// unpack parameters
double alpha = params["alpha"];
double beta = params["beta"];
double epsilon = params["epsilon"];
// sum log-likelihood over all data
double mean = alpha*alpha*beta + epsilon;
double ret = 0.0;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < x.size(); ++i) {
ret += R::dnorm(x[i], mean, 1.0, true);
}
// return as SEXP
return Rcpp::wrap(ret);
}
// [[Rcpp::export]]
SEXP logprior(Rcpp::NumericVector params, Rcpp::List misc) {
// unpack parameters
double epsilon = params["epsilon"];
// calculate logprior
double ret = -log(20.0) - log(10.0) + R::dnorm(epsilon, 0.0, 1.0, true);
// return as SEXP
return Rcpp::wrap(ret);
}
// [[Rcpp::export]]
SEXP create_xptr(std::string function_name) {
typedef SEXP (*funcPtr_likelihood)(Rcpp::NumericVector params, Rcpp::List data, Rcpp::List misc);
typedef SEXP (*funcPtr_prior)(Rcpp::NumericVector params, Rcpp::List misc);
if (function_name == "loglike"){
return(Rcpp::XPtr<funcPtr_likelihood>(new funcPtr_likelihood(&loglike)));
}
if (function_name == "logprior"){
return(Rcpp::XPtr<funcPtr_prior>(new funcPtr_prior(&logprior)));
}
stop("cpp function %i not found", function_name);
}
As always, we need to define a dataframe of parameters so that drjacoby knows what parameter ranges to expect:
# define parameters dataframe
df_params <- define_params(name = "alpha", min = -10, max = 10, init = 5,
name = "beta", min = 0, max = 10, init = 5,
name = "epsilon", min = -Inf, max = Inf, init = 0)
Finally, we need some data. For simplicity we will use a series of values drawn from a normal distribution with mean 10. These are obviously not drawn from the true model, but will have the advantage of creating a horribly awkward posterior.
First, we will try running the basic MCMC without parallel tempering. The following block of code repeats the same MCMC analysis nine times, each time producing a plot of posterior alpha
against beta
:
plot_list <- list()
for (i in seq_len(9)) {
# run MCMC
mcmc <- run_mcmc(data = data_list,
df_params = df_params,
loglike = "loglike",
logprior = "logprior",
burnin = 1e3,
samples = 1e4,
chains = 1,
silent = TRUE)
# create plot of alpha against beta
plot_list[[i]] <- plot_cor(mcmc, "alpha", "beta") +
ggplot2::ylim(0, 10) + ggplot2::xlim(-10, 10) + ggplot2::theme(legend.position = "none")
}
# plot grid
gridExtra::grid.arrange(grobs = plot_list)
Clearly this MCMC is not mixing well! By looking over all nine plots we can get a rough idea of what the distribution should look like, but no single MCMC run has captured it adequately. You can experiment with increasing the number of samples - you should get better results for more samples, but a very large number of samples are needed before we get good mixing between the left and right sides of the distribution.
Parallel tempering is perfectly designed to solve this kind of problem. To activate parallel tempering we need to specify an additional argument to the run_mcmc()
function - the number of rungs
. Each rung represents a different MCMC chain arranged in a “temperature ladder”, with the hotter chains being more free to explore the parameter space. Every iteration, chains have the option of swapping parameter values between rungs, thereby allowing the freely-moving hot chains to propose values to the more constrained colder chains. When looking at the output, we tend to focus exclusively on the coldest chain which can be interpreted the same way as a single chain from regular MCMC.
In this example we use 20 rungs:
# run MCMC
<- run_mcmc(data = data_list,
mcmc df_params = df_params,
loglike = "loglike",
logprior = "logprior",
burnin = 1e3,
samples = 1e4,
rungs = 20,
chains = 1,
pb_markdown = TRUE)
#> MCMC chain 1
#> burn-in
#>
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#> acceptance rate: 42.5%
#> sampling phase
#>
|
|======================================================================| 100%
#> acceptance rate: 44%
#> chain completed in 4.817843 seconds
#> total MCMC run-time: 4.82 seconds
# create plot of alpha against beta
plot_cor(mcmc, "alpha", "beta") +
::ylim(0, 10) + ggplot2::xlim(-10, 10) + ggplot2::theme(legend.position = "none") ggplot2
You should see a much better characterisation of the posterior distribution. The run time scales approximately linearly with the number of rungs, so there is a computational cost to using this method, but on the other hand our results are far better than we would obtain by simply increasing the number of samples by a factor of 20.
Parallel tempering in drjacoby works by proposing swaps between adjacent rungs in the temperature ladder, which are accepted or rejected according to the standard Metropolis-Hastings ratio. If, for example, a hot rung happens upon a set of parameter values that have high likelihood then there is a good chance these values will be swapped up to the next rung. In this way, information can effectively bubble-sort its way from the prior (the hottest chain) to the posterior (the coldest chain). The average chance of a swap being accepted depends on the two adjacent rungs being similar enough in distribution that values drawn from one have a high likelihood in the other. This, in turn, means that swaps have a higher chance of being accepted when we have a large number of densely packed rungs.
To explore this, we start by re-running the above MCMC with a small number of rungs and a small number of samples to highlight the problem. We can use the plot_mc_acceptance()
function to plot the acceptance rate between rungs:
# run MCMC
mcmc <- run_mcmc(data = data_list,
df_params = df_params,
loglike = "loglike",
logprior = "logprior",
burnin = 1e3,
samples = 1e3,
rungs = 10,
chains = 1,
silent = TRUE)
# plot coupling acceptance rates
plot_mc_acceptance(mcmc, x_axis_type = 2)
The 10 vertical grey bars in the above plot show the positions of our 10 rungs in the thermodynamic interval [0,1], and the red dots between them show the proportion of swaps that were accepted between rungs (this information is available via mcmc$diagnostics$mc_accept
). Notice that the acceptance rate between the hottest and second-hottest rung is close to zero, meaning very little of the information in the hottest rung made it up the ladder to the colder rungs. We can see the problems this causes when we plot the posterior draws:
plot_cor(mcmc, "alpha", "beta") +
ggplot2::ylim(0, 10) + ggplot2::xlim(-10, 10) + ggplot2::theme(legend.position = "none")
Although we have some mixing between the left and right sides of the distribution, overall sampling is still very patchy.
One way of improving mixing between rungs is simply to increase the number of rungs so the distance between distributions is smaller:
# run MCMC
mcmc <- run_mcmc(data = data_list,
df_params = df_params,
loglike = "loglike",
logprior = "logprior",
burnin = 1e3,
samples = 1e3,
rungs = 50,
chains = 1,
silent = TRUE)
# plot coupling acceptance rates
plot_mc_acceptance(mcmc, x_axis_type = 2)
# create plot of alpha against beta
plot_cor(mcmc, "alpha", "beta") +
ggplot2::ylim(0, 10) + ggplot2::xlim(-10, 10) + ggplot2::theme(legend.position = "none")
This mitigates the problem to some extent, as we now have acceptance rates going “deeper” towards the prior, however the hottest rung is still not passing information up the ladder. This strategy also comes at a high computational cost, as we are effectively running the MCMC algorithm 50 times. A more efficient method is usually to change the distribution of rungs so they are more concentrated at low thermodynamic powers (i.e. near the prior end of the spectrum). This can be achieved through the parameter alpha
, which represents a power that the temperature ladder is raised to. Higher values of alpha
therefore lead to rungs being more concentrated at the prior end of the spectrum. The previous two MCMCs had alpha
set to 1.0 by default, leading to evenly distributed rungs between [0,1]. Now we repeat the MCMC with just 20 rungs and alpha = 5.0
:
# run MCMC
mcmc <- run_mcmc(data = data_list,
df_params = df_params,
loglike = "loglike",
logprior = "logprior",
burnin = 1e3,
samples = 1e3,
rungs = 20,
chains = 1,
alpha = 5.0,
silent = TRUE)
# plot coupling acceptance rates
# we could also use the option x_axis_type = 1 if we wanted to see these
# points spread out evenly, rather than at their true position in the
# thermodynamic interval
plot_mc_acceptance(mcmc, x_axis_type = 2)
# create plot of alpha against beta
plot_cor(mcmc, parameter1 = "alpha", "beta") +
ggplot2::ylim(0, 10) + ggplot2::xlim(-10, 10) + ggplot2::theme(legend.position = "none")
We find that with just 20 rungs we now have decent acceptance rates all the way through the temperature ladder. If we really wanted to fine-tune the mixing we could use the beta_manual
argument inside run_mcmc()
to define the temperature ladder exactly as a vector of values between 0 and 1. Note, this ladder is always raised to the power alpha
, so we should set alpha=1.0
if we don’t want any additional transformation applied.
In summary, the correct number of rungs to use in parallel tempered MCMC is whatever number provides decent acceptance rates all the way through our temperature ladder. When this is the case we can be condifent that the prior is “talking to” the posterior, making it extremely unlikely (but not impossible) that the MCMC is still missing large parts of the posterior distribution.


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Every month, we hold an open Leadership Council meeting at the Chi Hack Night to discuss new ideas and ways to make the hack night better. Anyone is welcome to join!
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Meeting notes from previous Leadership Councils:
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Since I’ve discovered Markdown, I’ve wanted to write everything in it (bar my thesis!). The code is so simple and make it so much easier to format text without having to revert to using a mouse, just to emphasise a specific piece of text. I switched to writing my notes in Evernote in Markdown, even though Evernote currently doesn’t support markdown in the (potentially vain) hope that they’ll implement it in the future.
So coming to edit some Markdown notes on my iPad today and I come across one flaw. Don’t get me wrong, I love Markdown and my Markdown app of choice (Writing Kit) is fantastic, with Dropbox auto sync (every 10 key strokes) and built in web browser, it’s still missing something.
That something happens to be syntax highlighting. I didn’t realise how much I miss it until hitting it up on the iPad and missing the feeling I get when I see the different colour code such as when I open documents in Multimarkdown Editor on the mac.
So I’ve now been a Mac owner for the past year and half, if not a little more and it’s caused me to be laughed at, ridiculed and insulted.  My choice was to go Mac. And I wanted to mention one reason why I went this way.
Engineering.
I’m an engineer - again, my specialism suggests to other general engineers that I’m not.
So when I discovered Markdown, I quickly became a fan. The ease of creating content and not having to worry to much regarding the style of the content until after the writing was finished reminded me of LaTeX but allowed a much easier syntax to be used and it was also cross platform and compatible with Mac, Windows and iPad.

So I’ve written before on my use of Spideroak. The service has proved to be a fantastic help and runs nicely in the background but I’ve hit a few snags using the program itself.
Going in to change the details of what’s being saved to the Spideroak servers, I find that the client gives me a lot of the “spinning beachball of death”
Ok, I don’t have to change the saved folders very often but like today where I decided to remove a .
So I ran into various issues this morning in trying to submit a journal to the Springerlink journal, Fire Technology.
As recommended by the journal, I was trying to submit my paper in LaTeX form. After all, I spent the time learning it for my thesis, might as well write the paper in it as well right?
So I’ve been trying some new writing tools for the thesis. Possibly a bit late in the game now but I’m still writing other things for various reasons, for example the UKAPUnewsletter editor and I’ve written a few magazine articles for the UK weekly computer magazine Micro Mart and not to mention I’m still writing academic papers.
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Intro Moneywiz is an iPad and iPhone app from Silverwiz . It’s a personal finance app designed to be powerful but yet easy to use. Since I’ve got my iPad (and Mac), I’ve played with various personal finance apps but never found one I liked until now.
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What is prototype in JavaScript?
Like most object-oriented languages, objects are the basic structure used to store data. The object can contain any number of properties (which contain values that characterize the object), and methods (which perform actions that can modify the object and its properties).
A prototype is way to create new objects. These new objects can be new versions of objects already defined by Javascripts, or they can be entirely new prototypes defined by the user. To see how to create a new prototype, and modify its properties and methods, see the sections below.
How to create prototypes?
Creating a prototype is as simple as defining a new function (called the object-constructor function). This simply involves typing the ‘function’ keyword, your function name, and populating the function with your properties and methods.
To actually create an object from this prototype, simply use the ‘new’ keyword.
Here are examples to clearly illustrate this:
function coder(name, skill, experience) {
this.name = name;
this.skill = skill;
this.experience = experience;
}
var firstCoder = new coder(“Erin”, “ruby”, “1 year”)
var secondCoder = new coder(“Sahil”, “JavaScript”, “2 year”)
How to add properties?
If your object already exists, you can easily add properties to that object. Simply type in the object name, followed by the dot operator, followed by the name of some new property you want to add, and set it equal to whatever value that property should have.
Here is an example to illustrate:
secondCoder.gender = “male”
It adds the property “gender” to the secondCoder only, not other objects. For example, firstCoder does not have the property “gender”.
How to add methods?
If your object already exists, you can easily add methods to that object. Simply type in the object name, followed by the dot operator, followed by the name of some new method you want to add, and set it equal to whatever function that method should perform.
Here is an example to illustrate:
firstCoder.introduction = function () {
return this.name + "has " + this.experience + “ experience in ” + this.skill + “.”;
};
*note: If you want to modify the prototypes themselves, you should use the ‘prototype’ property to add new properties or methods. If you do this, any objects created from this modified prototype will inherit these new properties or methods.
coder.prototype.gender = “male”
coder.prototype.introduction = function () {
return this.name + "has " + this.experience + “ experience in ” + this.skill + “.”;
};


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You've been planning this trip for months. A chance to take your family to Disney World for the first time! You can't wait to see the joy and excitement wash over their smiling faces. You feel yourself getting excited too...and a little nervous. Will you remember to bring everything you might need? What if you forget something or if one of the children gets sick? Will you be able to make sure each child gets to hop on the ride that they're dreaming of?
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RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (HONG FAAN KUI) A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1996 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): **
RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (HONG FAAN KUI) is WEST SIDE STORY on steroids. Actually the story is nothing more than a thin veneer and a poor one at that over a movie to show off the martial arts talents of Jackie Chan. Now, when you have someone as athletically gifted as Chan, viewing his skills in even a ridiculous film is not such a bad idea.   That he could shine through this miserable show is certainly a tribute to his considerable skills which are not overrated. I have been told that he has been in much better movies which is certainly plausible, but this is the only movie of his that I have ever seen.
As soon as I got in the theater, I sensed the movie was going to be different; certainly the clientele was different. The audience was mainly teenagers in the baggy clothes that are popular these days. They thought talking to the screen in loud voices was cool. Before the feature started I saw trailers for movies of the type I did not know existed. Very low budget action films that I had never heard of as well as what used to be called black exploitation movies. One dad brought his eight year old son with him which, given the level of violence plus the late hour, I thought was totally inappropriate.
Jackie Chan plays Ah Keung who has come to visit his Uncle Bill (Bill Tung). Bill is in the process of selling his grocery store in the Bronx to Elaine (Anita Mui). Keung agrees to stay and help Elaine out which is good since some bad guys lead by Tony (Marc Akerstream) start tearing up her store. Keung manages to fall in love with Tony's girlfriend Nancy (Francoise Yip). Tony's gang steals diamonds from another set of bad guys who in turn get chased and killed by an even worse set of characters. And so on and so forth, ad nauseam.
The silly script by Edgar Tang and Fibe Ma is full of lines that make little sense or are extremely trite, but hey, remember you are here to see Chan's action, nothing more and nothing less, and action there is aplenty.  Through all of this adversity, he shows one amazing move after another. He has the grace of a ballet dancer, and he can fight thirty people single-handedly and come out the winner. He can jump from one building to the next in a chase as well as leap off bridges onto speeding boats. There is nothing this guy can't do. Steven Seagal is a pussycat next to him.
Actually the best part of the film is Chan's demeanor. He looks like a friend of mine named Kerman, but Chan smiles more than any two people. He looks so sweet and innocent that he might melt if it rains, and yet he has more resilience than Superman.
Okay, granted that this is an action flick, but why does the dialog have to be so bad, and why couldn't the director (Stanley Tong) find at least one other interesting actor or actress to work with Chan? Elaine is supposed to be an entrepreneur, but her negotiating stance in buying the store is, "Your price is too high. Can't you come down?" Tough negotiator huh? Chan is full of simple wisdom like, "Don't let the situation change you. Change it," and "if you got the guts, drop the gun," but mainly he shuts up, smiles, and fights.
The sets are imaginative with the bad guys carrying baseball bats but driving something like a golf cart with flashing neon lights. They use off road motorcycles to destroy stores by riding through them. One of the best scenes has an entire building pulled down by the "badest" of the bad guys. The cinematography (Jingle Ma) uses dramatic colors with bold uses of bright purples, pinks, reds, and blues. Blood is in most scenes, and the gore content is extremely high. In one scene, we have a guy completely chopped up by a large wood shredder and then delivered to his friends in large plastic bags. The show is full of pain, and Chan gets more than just about anybody, but he keeps on smiling.
RUMBLE IN THE BRONX runs too long at just 1:35. There is no nudity or sex, but there is some dope smoking and bad language. It is correctly rated R for the massive amount of violence. Granted the picture is kind of campy, but it is also very bloody. This show will probably be okay for most teenagers, but the idea of taking kids under 13 to it is just plain stupid. I really liked watching Chan's abilities, but after the first thirty minutes, his welcome wore out. I would have liked the show better as a half hour documentary on stunts. As it is, I can not recommend it, but I am giving it ** for an amazing piece of work by Chan.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show.  Totally unbearable.
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Conway's Game of Life is a small "machine" or cell automata, that develops according to some simple rules. Each cell on the grid may be active or inactive. Between generations, the following might happen:
The example implementation uses a lot of derivations, both for associations and attributes. There is also a qualified association in there. There is surprisingly little code. The game is modelled as one "game" with two associations to "cell". One of these associations (coord) is qualified on x, y. The cells have derived associations to their neighbouring cells and a derived attribute for number of active neighbours. The representation, board, is a reverse derived string (BLOB) attribute on game. The derivation is two way, changing it changes the cells. If you want to learn more about the Game of Life, there is plenty of information on the Internet, like Paul's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany. Derive associations To see an example of one of the derived associations in this example open the
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| 017:097 Khan | : |
And he whom Allah guides, he is led aright; but he whom He sends astray for such you will find no Auliya' (helpers and protectors, etc.), besides Him, and We shall gather them together on the Day of Resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf, their abode will be Hell; whenever it abates, We shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire. |
| 017:097 Maulana | : |
And he whom Allah guides, he is on the right way; and he whom He leaves in error for them thou wilt find no guardians besides Him.  Their abode is hell.  And whomever He sends astray, you will never find for them any lords and masters beside Him. We will summon them on the Day of Resurrection forcibly; blind, dumb, and deaf. Their destination is Hell; whenever it cools down, we will increase their fire. |
| 017:097 Sarwar | : |
Whomever God has guided has the proper guidance. You will never find any guardian besides God for the one whom He has caused to go astray.  Hell will be their dwelling.   Their abode shall be Hell; every time it abates, WE shall increase for them the flame. |
| 017:097 Yusufali | : |
It is he whom Allah guides, that is on true Guidance; but he whom He leaves astray - for such wilt thou find no protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather, them together, prone on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf: their abode will be Hell: every time it shows abatement, We shall increase from them the fierceness of the Fire. |
Concepts/Themes Covered: أركان الإسلام > التوحيد > توحيد الله تعالي > الوعد والوعيد Pillars of Islam> Islamic> Oneness of Allah> Promise and Threat أركان الإسلام > التوحيد > الكافرون > صفات الكفار Pillars of Islam> Islamic> The Disbelievers> The Characteristics of the Disbelievers الإيمان > الإيمان بالله > الهداية إلى الإيمان Faith> Belief In Allah> Guiding to Faith الإيمان > الغيب > النار > أصحاب النار Faith> The Unseen World> Hell-Fire>Hell Fellows الإيمان > الغيب > النار > صفات النار Faith> The Unseen World> Hell-Fire>Hell Characteristics الإيمان > اليوم الآخر > الحشر Faith> The Hereafter> The Day of Resurrection
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