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A Joint Citation/Trust Flow Metric
Tom Goodman
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Trust Flow and Citation Flow are Majestic's iconic descriptors for sites,
but how do you combine these into a single, descriptive metric?
This is what we're going to try and answer.
This is Majestic's heatmap of the internet.
It shows where every site on the internet falls, based on their Trust and Citation flows.
On the y-axis is Trust Flow, which is how trustworthy a site is, based on it's backlinking sites.
On the x-axis is Citation Flow, which is how linked-to a site is.
Each coloured band contains the same number of sites as eachother.
If we take points at the visual "tip" of each of the coloured band sections - denoted by the arrows - it's clear that it would be possible to plot a curve that runs along the points.
This curve runs along the ridge of the three dimensional model:
Along the z-axis of this model is the total number of sites that fall at that
point, which means that the sites that fall on the ridge are the "average" sites.
By performing non-linear regression on the data points,
it results in a sigmoidal function (an S-shaped curve) as follows:
$$f(c) = 18087660 - \frac{18087660}{(0.0109887c^{1.61008}+1)^{1.86131*10^{-6}}}$$
This takes any given Citation Flow, c, and will return the Trust Flow that lies on the ridge of the model.
As part of our metric, it will be useful to work out the shortest distance from any point on the graph to this curve.
But HOW do we do this?
In order to find the distance from any arbitrary point (x, y) to the curve that we defined before, we will work
out how to find the distance from (x, y) to any given curve. Take the graph of $y=x^{3}$, for example:
After adding an arbitrary point, A$(x_{0}, y_{0})$, it is possible to draw both a vertical and horizontal line
from that point to touch the curve. These points lie at B$(x_{0},f(x_{0}))$ and C$(f^{-1}(y_{0}),y_{0})$ respectively,
and subtend an angle of $90^{\circ}$.
From here, it is possible to draw a further line, between points B and C,
forming the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle, BAC.
The length of the line AB is the difference in the y-values of the two points - $y_{0}-f(x_{0})$, and the length of the line AC is the difference in the x-values of the two points - $(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})$. Furthermore, the length of the hypotenuse, BC, can be found via Pythagoras' Theorem: $$\sqrt{(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})^{2} + (y_{0}-f(x_{0}))^{2}}$$
The required value for the basic approximation is the height of the triangle BAC. Because it is right-angled, the area is equal to $\frac{|AB||AC|}{2}$. The area of any triangle is also equal to $\frac{|BC|h}{2}$. By setting these expressions equal to one another, and rearranging, the resulting expression for height is: $$ h=\frac{|AB||AC|}{|BC|} = \frac{(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})(y_{0}-f(x_{0}))}{\sqrt{(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})^{2} + (y_{0}-f(x_{0}))^{2}}}$$ To take a greater proportion of cases into account, it is worth taking the minimum value of h, $|AB|$ and $|AC|$. For example: $$ h=min\Bigg(\Bigg(\frac{(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})(y_{0}-f(x_{0}))}{\sqrt{(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})^{2} + (y_{0}-f(x_{0}))^{2}}}\Bigg),\ |(f^{-1}(y_{0})-x_{0})|,\ |(y_{0}-f(x_{0}))|\Bigg)$$
The previously derived expression for the approximation can often wildly over or underestimate, given the right circumstance. Take for example, the following attempt to apply the current method:
In this example, the point that h reaches is nowhere near the closest point on the line - there is still a lot of space between them. Consider then, the midpoint of the hypotenuse - From the midpoint, it is possible to apply the same process as from the original point, and then take the sum of both results. For example:
It is clear that the sum of the two calculated values ($h1 + h2$) is a significantly more
accurate estimate of the distance to the curve.
Define a function, h(x,y), that returns the minimum value in the set that contains the
result of the auxiliary function, a(x,y), the vertical distance and the horizontal distance:
$$h(x, y) = min(\ a(x,y),\ |(f^{-1}(y)-x)|,\ |(y-f(x))|)$$
Then define the auxiliary function, a(x,y), that handles the recursive aspect of the approximation:
$$a(x,y) = \Bigg( \frac{(f^{-1}(y)-x)(y-f(x))}{\sqrt{(f^{-1}(y)-x)^{2}+(y-f(x))^{2}}} \Bigg)\ +\ a\Bigg( \frac{x+f^{-1}(y)}{2}, \frac{f(x)+y}{2} \Bigg)$$
By applying the original method to the following curve, it is clear that it will overestimate the distance significantly - in the same way that the previous example originally underestimated it.
The even more troubling flaw with the current method, is that if we continue the approximation and apply the recursive method, the overestimation will only become higher:
The answer to this, is to somehow subtract the heights that occur below the curve from the total, resulting in a close approximation once again. But how is it possible to change the sign of the height based on whether or not the point lies below the curve?
If the point lies below the curve, then intuitively, $y-f(x)$ will be negative. It is now imperative to find a way to change the sign without changing the value of the distance itself. This can be achieved by multiplying the height by -1. The key to working out how to solve this issue, is to exploit the identity that anything divided by itself is equal to 1 ($\frac{a}{a}=1$). There is; however, one more piece to the puzzle.
Currently, this will only return 1, not -1.
How then, is it possible to manipulate $\frac{y-f(x)}{y-f(x)}$ in such a way that it will return -1 if $y-f(x)$ is negative?
The answer to this is by using the modulus function ($|x|$). Because this always returns the positive value, the result of $\frac{y-f(x)}{|y-f(x)|}$ will be 1 if $y-f(x)$ is positive, and -1 if $y-f(x)$ is negative.
Thus, if the product of $\frac{y-f(x)}{|y-f(x)|}$ and the distance is returned each time, the problem
of overestimating is solved. This leaves the auxiliary function:
$$a(x, y) = \Bigg( \frac{y-f(x)}{|y-f(x)|} \Bigg) \Bigg( \frac{(f^{-1}(y)-x)(y-f(x))}{\sqrt{(f^{-1}(y)-x)^{2}+(y-f(x))^{2}}} \Bigg)\ +\ a\Bigg( \frac{x+f^{-1}(y)}{2}, \frac{f(x)+y}{2} \Bigg)$$
There is, however, one final issue with the current implementation - the distance from a point below the curve to the curve itself will always be negative. It is impossible to have a negative distance in this sense, so a small alteration to the function h(x,y) must be made. The result of the auxiliary function must be passed to a modulus function: $$h(x, y) = min(\ |a(x, y)|,\ |(y-f(x))|,\ |(f^{-1}(y)-x)|\ ) $$
Consider the following application of the current approximation:
In this example, the actual value lies to the left of the point $x_{0}, y_{0}$. There is a chance that the approximation would currently create the triangles shown on the above diagram, and miss the actual solution that lies to the left. A solution to this, would be to reflect the curve, f(x), in the line $y=x_{0}$, and then use the approximation again (which is the same as drawing a triangle to the left). To reflect f(x) in $y=x_{0}$, it must first be reflected it in the y-axis, giving $f(-x)$. Then it must be translated right by $2x_{0}$, which leaves the resulting curve as $f(2x_{0}-x)$.
$$h(x, y) =min(l(x,y), r(x,y))$$ $$g(x) = f(2x_{0}-x)\ where\ x_{0}\ is\ the\ x-value\ of\ the\ arbitrary\ point.$$ $$l(x,y) = min(\ |a_{1}(x, y)|,\ |(y-g(x))|,\ |(g^{-1}(y)-x)|\ )$$ $$r(x,y) = min(\ |a_{2}(x, y)|,\ |(y-f(x))|,\ |(f^{-1}(y)-x)|\ ) $$ $$a_{1}(x, y) = \Bigg( \frac{y-g(x)}{|y-g(x)|} \Bigg) \Bigg( \frac{(g^{-1}(y)-x)(y-g(x))}{\sqrt{(g^{-1}(y)-x)^{2}+(y-g(x))^{2}}} \Bigg)\ +\ a\Bigg( \frac{x+g^{-1}(y)}{2}, \frac{g(x)+y}{2} \Bigg)$$ $$a_{2}(x, y) = \Bigg( \frac{y-f(x)}{|y-f(x)|} \Bigg) \Bigg( \frac{(f^{-1}(y)-x)(y-f(x))}{\sqrt{(f^{-1}(y)-x)^{2}+(y-f(x))^{2}}} \Bigg)\ +\ a\Bigg( \frac{x+f^{-1}(y)}{2}, \frac{f(x)+y}{2} \Bigg)$$
If you didn't read the maths section - given a site with citation, $c_{0}$, and trust, $t_{0}$, the following equation may be used to work out it's distance from the "main sequence" of sites. $f(c)$ and $f^{-1}(c)$ depend on the citation of the given site, and can be found on the next slide. $$h(c, t) =min(l(c,t), r(c,t))$$ $$g(c) = f(2c_{0}-c)$$ $$l(c,t) = min(\ |a_{1}(c, t)|,\ |(t-g(c))|,\ |(g^{-1}(t)-c)|\ )$$ $$r(c,t) = min(\ |a_{2}(c, t)|,\ |(t-f(c))|,\ |(f^{-1}(t)-c)|\ ) $$ $$a_{1}(c, t) = \Bigg( \frac{t-g(c)}{|t-g(c)|} \Bigg) \Bigg( \frac{(g^{-1}(t)-c)(t-g(c))}{\sqrt{(g^{-1}(t)-c)^{2}+(t-g(c))^{2}}} \Bigg)\ +\ a\Bigg( \frac{c+g^{-1}(t)}{2}, \frac{g(c)+t}{2} \Bigg)$$ $$a_{2}(c, t) = \Bigg( \frac{t-f(c)}{|t-f(c)|} \Bigg) \Bigg( \frac{(f^{-1}(t)-c)(t-f(c))}{\sqrt{(f^{-1}(t)-c)^{2}+(t-f(c))^{2}}} \Bigg)\ +\ a\Bigg( \frac{c+f^{-1}(t)}{2}, \frac{f(c)+t}{2} \Bigg)$$
(This could be condensed by passing functions, but for the purpose of explanation it's generally better to be verbose and clear)
Because the inverse of the sigmoidal function uses numbers too big for computers (), we can instead model sections of the graph with simpler functions:
The first section (c = 1-19) of the graph can be modelled with quadratic regression. $$f(c) = 3.959819 + 2.228665c - 0.07230238c^{2}$$ $$f^{-1}(c) = 15.4121 + 1.38308033*10^{-6} \sqrt{|1.52804125862547*10^{14} - 7.230238*10^{12} y|}$$
The second section (c = 20-69) of the graph can be modelled with linear regression. $$f(c) = 1.000339c + 13.1116$$ $$f^{-1}(t) = -0.999661(13.1116-t)$$
The third section (c = 70-100) of the graph can be modelled with linear regression. $$f(c) = 0.6077348c + 39.09392$$ $$f^{-1}(t) = -1.64545(39.09392-t)$$
To calculate our joint metric, we want to take into account the distance from our site's location (c,t) to the curve. Let dist(c,t) be our function that calculates the distance from any arbitrary point to the "Main Sequence" of sites on the internet.
Currently, the lower the distance the better, but we want to have a higher score for a shorter distance, so we take the distance from our site (c,t) away from the maximum possible distance - dist(100,0).
The 'best' sites will be at (100,100), so we should also take the Euclidean distance (straight-line distance) from our site (c,t) to (100,100) into account too. Once again, we want the difference between this and the distance from the furthest point, (0,0). $$ \sqrt{(0+100)^{2}+(0+100)^{2}} - \sqrt{(x+100)^{2} + (y+100)^{2}}$$
We will call these two values distDiff and maxDistDiff respectivsely, and our final metric will be:
distDiff * maxDistDiff


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"I’m going to read from this script, first so I don’t forget anything, and second, because we want to give the same introduction to every tester, which helps us get more reliable feedback. This is a test of a new website, Connect UNAVCO, which is designed to connect geodesy-related topics like people and research. Our goal is to allow the discovery of research and connections that may otherwise be challenging to find. Your participation will illuminate the strength of our connections and whether discovery is intuitive. Thank you for helping us out."
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My lady found it particularly suited to her taste, she is more fond of tryps but not inclined to take the standard powerhouse materials very often. It was just enough to open the folds of reality and put things into perspective for her. Sensuous and open, the high priestess in good form. She mentioned afterwards that she looks forward to making this a regular supplement in her diet.
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On October 6, 2015, John Heywood was betting 25p per spin on the legendary slot Mega Moolah and hit the biggest jackpot in history, worth over €17,879,645. Heywood was a 26-year-old soldier who had fought in Afghanistan and reportedly used his winnings to help his sick father.
On October 6, 2015, John Heywood was betting 25p per spin on the legendary slot Mega Moolah and hit the biggest jackpot in history, worth over €17,879,645. Heywood was a 26-year-old soldier who had fought in Afghanistan and reportedly used his winnings to help his sick father.
When you play slots for years you pick up a lot of tips and strategy along the way. Luckily for you, we’ve distilled that experience down into a short list of easy-to-follow guidelines. It starts with picking the game that gives you the best chance of accomplishing your goals.
There are a number of key factors that can guide your decision as far as which game to play. The first step is identifying your priorities and then finding the games that are in line with them.
Do you want the absolute best value for your money?
By looking at a game’s RTP, which we explained above, you can find the titles that offer the best statistical value.
Do you want the chance to win big jackpots?
Usually, progressive jackpot games have a lower RTP because you can win massive prizes. Make sure to account for that in your bankroll management if you’re hunting big jackpots.
Do you want to be entertained?
It’s fine if entertainment is your main priority. Make sure to pick a game with great graphics plus a theme and story that appeals to you.
Are there any special promotions with different games?
Are there any special promotions with different games? Online casinos promote different games at different times so it’s worth staying up to date with the latest promotions and giveaways associated with different games.
A lot of people assume that there’s no strategy in slots. They’re only partly right. While the advanced gameplay strategy is limited, there are lots of decisions that will affect your chances of winning and having a positive experience playing.
In terms of value, the biggest decision you get to make is which game to play. If you want the statistically best chances of winning, always pick the games with the highest Return to Player percentage. These games have the lowest house edge and give you the best chance of coming out in the black.
Casinos give away free spins so promote new games, reward you for playing or as part of a larger loyalty scheme. Make sure to research your options and take advantage of them when they’re available.
The key is to understand your goals and what you’re comfortable with. If you like to take risks and gamble, making big bets in relation to your bankroll can mean huge wins. It can also mean having to reload sooner. If you like slots for entertainment consider betting small compared to your bankroll to make sure you get your money’s worth.
The odds of hitting the winning combination stay the same. That means by keeping an eye on which jackpots haven’t been won lately, you can get a lot more value out of your spins.
A lot of online casinos juice up their welcome bonuses with free spins which are great for slots players.
If you have a favorite game, don’t worry, lots of different gambling sites use the same software developers and offer the same games.
Top 10 Online CasinosSome slots players stick to one game and we think it’s a mistake. It’s okay to focus on a small number of games but you should make sure you’re covering all your bases.
If you’re only playing one game you might be missing out on jackpots, multipliers, bonus rounds, free spins and other promotions that are only available in other games.
It’s way more fun when you’re racking up winning combos on every spin and accessing the bonus games regularly.
That’s why we recommend lowering the value of each coin and maxing out the number of paylines you’re playing on each spin.
Most casinos have loyalty programs but not all of them sign you up automatically. Make sure you’re registered, then make sure you’re keeping track of which games offer the best rewards.
Loyalty programs are one of the best ways to swing the odds in your favour.
Slots were around long before computers or the internet and while there are a lot of similarities between online and offline, there are some important strategies that only apply to brick and mortar casinos.
The idea of a “hot” machine, one that’s due for a win and therefore more likely to pay out, has been around for a long time.
The truth is you’re way better off choosing a machine based on its actual odds since they’re not supposed to change regardless of how often they’ve been won.
Live casino jackpots aren’t usually as big as the biggest prizes found online but they can still reach into the millions of dollars.
Make sure to keep an eye out for the machines that advertise big progressive jackpots and take a shot at winning life-changing money.
Slots are an easy way to get comps for free restaurant meals, nights in the hotel, or entry into special events like tournaments and giveaways.
Make sure to sign up for the rewards program and enter your card every time you start playing.
Lots of casinos host slots tournaments and they’re a blast.
We’ll explain the ins and outs of tournaments, including the different kinds, a little later on but for now, if you have an opportunity to play in one we highly recommend it.
The best way to play is for fun because you’re always a winner.
Whether you’re meeting a group of friends at the casino to hang out and play or you just need a break.
Play within your limits.
You should never feel stressed out over losing money or regret your decision to play. Only play with money that you can afford to spend.
Much like poker tournaments, slots tournaments are a way to compete against lots of other players all at once and potentially win huge prizes. They’re available online and in brick and mortar casinos. There are different variations but far and away the two most common are single-level and multi-level tournaments.
In a single-level tournament, everything happens within one set amount of time.
Everyone starts with the same number of credits and generally maxes out the coin denomination and number of paylines. The strategy is to win big or go down in flames.
To win a slot tournament you have to get lucky but you also have to risk disaster to do it.
At the end of each level a certain percentage of the field is eliminated.
For example, the tournament could start with 500 people and the top 10% of winners advance to the next round. Now 50 players compete in a new level and the top 10% advances to the final round where the last five players compete for the biggest prizes.
Usually, multi-level tournaments have bigger fields, more play and bigger prizes.
Tournaments are really exciting to play, especially live. Imagine a room with hundreds of people trying to get in as many spins as possible. Tournaments often come down to the wire with people cheering on the final players and they always come with great cash and prizes. The best part is they’re really easy to understand.
Each player gets their own machine and starts with the same number of credits.
There’s a time limit, during which everyone tries to play as many spins as they can and win as many coins as possible.
When the time runs out, players are ranked according to how many coins they won.
There are variations of this structure that reward different things like how many spins each player was able to make and how many bonus rounds they finished successfully. Whatever the case, the prizes are agreed upon beforehand and usually pay out 10-15% of the total field.
Within most games are mini-games, also called bonus games or bonus rounds. You trigger them by hitting three special symbols like Bonus or Scatter. Different games work in different ways but the one really common bonus is a set of free spins. The game will auto-spin 20 times, for example, and you get to keep all the winnings. In other games, a second screen will appear and let you spin a wheel or play a new game to win special prizes.
In this bonus round, you’re presented with a choice of icons to click.
When clicked, each icon will reveal a coin amount, multiplier, or other special bonus.
In this game, however, you have to click on two or more and hope that they match.
If your choices match, you win the amount shown or the prize that corresponds to the symbol.
The best games in history usually have the biggest prizes and the most entertaining bonus rounds. Nowadays new games feature tons of exciting and innovative mini-games but sometimes you can’t beat the classics.
The grand-daddy of all online progressive jackpots, Mega Moolah has awarded some of the biggest prizes in the history of online gambling.
That includes the €17,879,645 jackpot won by 26-year-old John Heywood in 2015 that we mentioned earlier.
In this game, you get to spin for one of four jackpots, including the massive Mega Jackpot.
Greek mythology-based classic Zeus has a deceptively simple bonus round but it’s helped make this title a legend both in real casinos and on the internet.
Players can win up to 100 free spins in the bonus round which almost always means big cash prizes and an exciting gamble as the spins play out.
Bonus rounds are a highlight for people who love slots and we always recommend games that deliver the very best. Make sure to spend the time exploring new titles and old ones you might have missed for the most exciting bonus games.
Real-life slot machines were originally 100% mechanical, the outcomes decided by complicated machines. Then came electrical circuits and eventually computer chips. That was when virtual random-number generators were first used in gambling.
The random number generator is a computer algorithm that constantly produces complicated runs of numbers that are used to decide the outcomes slots and other casino games. While they’ve been proven to fall short of true randomness in a mathematical sense, they’ve been accepted to be more than adequate for online gambling.
Online casino software has the RNG built into every single game and it’s always running. The RNG creates numbers between 1 and 10 digits long, hundreds of times every second. Each of the numbers corresponds in a certain way to a symbol and possible position on a reel. When the player hits the spin button, the game chooses the numbers created that millisecond to decide the game’s outcome.
The computer algorithm is constantly spinning, producing numbers every millisecond.
The player triggers the spin button on a slot machine, for example.
The numbers chosen correspond to a certain game outcome which decides whether you win or lose.
RNGs have been in use in slot machines for decades and they’ve improved rapidly alongside computer technology in recent years. Nowadays they perform better and are more secure than ever before.
We’ve already covered a lot of ground but another important distinction to make is between the main kinds of slots you’ll run into both online and in brick and mortar casinos.
In the past, Penny Slots often referred to games that were more basic compared to the fancier machines that cost more money to play.
In the world of online games, however, you can play tons of the best titles for whatever stakes you want, even as low as a penny.
If Penny Slots make you think of an old-fashioned coin-operated machine, Video Slots should make you think of sleek animated graphics and exciting stories and characters.
Nowadays slots have evolved far beyond the days of cherries and gold bars. In many cases, they’re a lot more like video games.
All the online slots casinos we recommend offer huge catalogues of games that include both traditional games and modern video versions. That means you can try them all to decide which ones you like the best.
In most online casinos you still have the option of playing more traditional-style games. These are simpler and let you focus on the spin and hitting more straightforward combos. It’s a huge contrast compared to the fast-paced animations and stories we outlined in the last section. In the end, it all comes down to personal taste.
These games are easy to understand and a lot more relaxing to play than some other more modern titles. They include:
Modern video slots are big on the visual experience as well as more complicated stories, gameplay and bonus rounds. They include:
We recommend switching it up and trying different games and styles. Sometimes you might be in the mood for more fast-paced action while other times you might want something more relaxed that takes less of your concentration. There’s a lot to choose from so don’t be afraid to try a new title.
When most people think of rigged slot machines they usually worry that a casino might be manipulating the game in their favour to win more of your money. In reality, the opposite is far more common. History is full of examples of players cheating the casino out of millions by hacking or compromising the slot machine’s ability to function properly.
If you’ve seen the movie Oceans 11 you might be familiar with this story, even if you didn’t know where it originally came from.
Harris was a computer programmer that worked for the Nevada Gaming Control Board. His job was to find bugs in slot machine software and fix them. Instead, he rigged them to pay out jackpots when a certain number of coins were inserted in certain sequence.
His story has also been featured on numerous TV shows including Breaking Vegas and Vegas Cheaters Exposed.
This famous slot cheat reportedly cheated Las Vegas casinos out of more than $15 million in the 1980s.
Nikrasch was a master locksmith and successfully developed ways to manually trigger jackpots. He was caught and the story goes that he traded some of his secrets in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Carmichael famously developed a thin piece of metal that could be inserted into the coin slot to set off a win.
As technology improved, Carmichael developed his tool into a light-emitting wand that was able to hack more modern machines. He was in and out of prison until becoming permanently banned from all casinos in the early 2000s.
He still works in the gaming industry, however, helping casinos catch cheaters.
Hacking a mechanical slot machine from the 1980s is one thing but cracking the advanced security used by today’s online casinos is entirely another. And let’s be honest, none of us would even be able to hack a slot machine from the 1980s. There are a few key reasons you have zero chance of successfully cheating:
Long before anyone had even heard of a computer, let alone the internet, people loved gambling on slot machines. Even though they’ve become way more advanced, people loved old-school slots for the same reason people love online slots now: They’re exciting, easy to play, and offer the chance to win big.
Arguing that online or offline slots are better is a lot like arguing that a dog is a better pet than a cat. The truth is, they can both be great and you don’t have to choose one over the other.
That said, there are differences that may appeal more to different people. Let’s look more closely at the most important pros and cons.
People love to play these games online for lots of reasons but these are the biggest:
There’s a certain allure to live machines but that’s not the only reason people love them:
Tens of millions of people visit Las Vegas every year and for those of them that love slots, it’s heaven. These are the biggest reasons why:
Sin City might as well be called Spin City because every casino is jam-packed with the world’s best slot machines and other games.
You could spend a week in Vegas and not even come close to playing them all. Check out the modern machines on the strip or venture downtown for the old-school experience.
It’s fun to check out lots of casinos but when you gamble, it’s best to stick to properties that share the same rewards program.
Sign up for a VIP card and stick it in the machine every time you play. You’ll get free hotel nights, buffet tickets and lots more just for playing the games you love. You can also earn your way into special slots tournaments.
There’s a time and a place for both online and offline slots but the best part is, you don’t have to choose between them. There are tons of great reasons to play both.
A close relative to the slot machine, video poker is another game that’s easy to play, lots of fun and offers a chance at big jackpots. It’s also another example of a game that successfully made the jump from brick and mortar casinos into our favorite online gambling sites.
Video poker machines feature games like Jacks or Better, Double Bonus Poker and Deuces Wild, to name just a few. The most common games play like a five-card draw.
You win based on how big a poker hand you make according to a pay-table posted above the game. Each hand the player receives five cards and then has the option to trade zero to five cards for new ones.
We’ll get to the ways video poker is similar to slots but there are a few key differences, most importantly it usually requires more skill and strategy. Make sure you understand the rules of the game you’re playing and don’t treat it like a slot machine.
There’s a lot of crossover between slots and video poker and if you like one, chances are you’re going to like the other two. Some of the biggest similarities include:
A private gaming experience where you can relax and play your own game.
An exciting gambling game that offers the chance for big wins with relatively small risk.
The ability to play at both live and online casinos.
There are so many games out there it can be overwhelming, but don’t worry. We’ve tasked our experts with recommending a few choice titles based on other games you’ve probably already seen.
If you like jackpots, hopefully, you’ve heard of Mega Moolah.
It awarded the biggest jackpot in history when the UK’s John Heywood won £13,209,300 betting just 25p per spin. With a super-fun safari theme and tons of prizes, there’s a reason this is an all-time great game.
This classic game features a really fun North Pole theme and, best of all, a jackpot that regularly gets into the multiple millions of dollars.
The game actually features four different jackpots that can be accessed in a special bonus round that lets you spin the bonus wheel to see which prize you’ll win.
If you’ve been around slots for a long time you’ve definitely heard the name Mega Moolah.
If you’re new to the game, we can’t risk you missing out on this one. In 2017 the jackpot was hit 12 times, the most ever, with an average prize of over $5.7 million USD.
If you’ve never played it, this game is too good to pass up. It combines a fun and original theme with some of the biggest progressive jackpots around.
At the time of writing this article, the Jackpot Giant grand prize is worth an astounding USD$12.1 million! Make sure to add it to your list of games to try.
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EXTBlockTarget Class Reference
| Inherits from | NSObject |
| Declared in | EXTBlockTarget.h |
Overview
- A target that has one action implemented with a block. This is meant to
- replace the use of selectors with Cocoa’s target-action mechanism, but can
- also be used with other, similar interfaces.
- This object should be created as needed to implement actions for those
- interfaces which use a target-action mechanism, such as \c NSControl or \c
- UIControl. Because targets are not retained, however, instances of this class
- must be separately retained for the lifetime of the eventing object. The
- easiest way to do this is through the associated objects facility:
- @code
id target = [EXTBlockTarget blockTargetWithSelector:@selector(tapped) action:^{ NSLog(@“button tapped!”); }];
[control addTarget:target action:@selector(tapped) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
objc_setAssociatedObject(control, @selector(tapped), target, OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC);
- @endcode
- The #blockTargetFor:selector:action: initializer provides a convenience
- implementation of the above behavior.
- This class can also be used with other interfaces that expect a target and
- a selector taking zero or one object arguments, like \c performSelector:
- variants (though only those that do not use a return value).
- @code
id target = [EXTBlockTarget blockTargetWithSelector:@selector(afterOne) action:^{ NSLog(@“One second has passed”); }];
[target performSelector:@selector(afterOne) withObject:nil afterDelay:1];
- @endcode
Tasks
-
+ blockTargetWithSelector:action:
Returns an autoreleased target initialized with #initWithSelector:action:.
-
+ blockTargetFor:selector:action:
- Initializes a target with #initWithSelector:action: and then ties the
- lifecycle of the resultant object to that of \a control by using associated
- objects.
- The returned object will be retained as long as \a control is still alive.
- @code
-
– initWithSelector:action:
Initializes this target object to implement \a actionName using \a block. \a
block must not return any value, and must only take zero, one, or two
arguments of object type. \a actionName must match \a block in the number of
arguments.
Class Methods
blockTargetFor:selector:action:
- Initializes a target with #initWithSelector:action: and then ties the
- lifecycle of the resultant object to that of \a control by using associated
- objects.
- The returned object will be retained as long as \a control is still alive.
- @code
+ (id)blockTargetFor:(id)control selector:(SEL)actionName action:(id)block
Discussion
- Initializes a target with #initWithSelector:action: and then ties the
- lifecycle of the resultant object to that of \a control by using associated
- objects.
- The returned object will be retained as long as \a control is still alive.
- @code
[control
addTarget:[EXTBlockTarget blockTargetFor:control selector:@selector(tapped) action:^{ NSLog(@“button tapped!”); }]
action:@selector(tapped)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside
];
- @endcode
Declared In
EXTBlockTarget.h
blockTargetWithSelector:action:
Returns an autoreleased target initialized with #initWithSelector:action:.
+ (id)blockTargetWithSelector:(SEL)actionName action:(id)block
Discussion
Returns an autoreleased target initialized with #initWithSelector:action:.
Declared In
EXTBlockTarget.h
Instance Methods
initWithSelector:action:
Initializes this target object to implement \a actionName using \a block. \a
block must not return any value, and must only take zero, one, or two
arguments of object type. \a actionName must match \a block in the number of
arguments.
- (id)initWithSelector:(SEL)actionName action:(id)block
Discussion
Initializes this target object to implement \a actionName using \a block. \a
block must not return any value, and must only take zero, one, or two
arguments of object type. \a actionName must match \a block in the number of
arguments.
Declared In
EXTBlockTarget.h


Noah Olsen
Data Science MS Candidate, The George Washington University
Noah Olsen is a graduate student at The George Washington University studying Data Science. His interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing and network analysis, analyzing NLP and neural networks can better inform the analysis and discovery of complex networks. He has worked in the communications and advertising industries. In his free time he enjoys running, skiing, and cooking.
Several prior models have looked at trying to classify text based off political ideology. That being said, for the most part these models have focused on longer pieces of text like news articles to try and detect political bias in the news media (Doumit & Minai, 2011), or documents that are almost always political in nature like congressional floor speeches (Iyers, Enns, Boyd-Graber, & Resnik, 2014) rather than short form content like tweets that will be used in this paper’s model.
Doumit & Minai 2011 collected articles from over 30 worldwide news organizations and used Latent Dirichlet Allocation to extract a set of topics for each news outlet and proceeded to apply a sentiment analysis model. While the study did not identify a clear answer for whether or not there is an overwhelming bias in the media, the authors note the importance of key terms and phrases in their model.
Iyers, Enns, Boyd-Graber, & Resnik (2014) used the Convote dataset from Thomas et al. (2006) containing congressional floor speeches from 2005, labeled according to the political party of the speech’s author. They then trained a recurrent neural network (RNN) after filtering the speeches for a set of explicitly political key phrases the authors took from Yano et al. (2010). This was due to the authors’ belief that that not all words in sentences in political speeches are inherently political, and that by filtering for a smaller set of key topics they could improve the accuracy of their neural network. Their approach was novel as similar attempts at these sorts of tasks had relied on logistic regression using the bag-of-words technique along with word2vec which the authors’ model outperformed significantly. Compared to their logistic regression benchmark which achieved 64.7% accuracy on their classification task, their best model which used a recurrent neural network with word2vec word embeddings to achieve over 70% accuracy. The authors of this paper note the importance of word embeddings in their success and will also be extremely important in the model we present below.
Not many models have been developed to identify the political ideology have been trained off of Twitter data, but those that have almost exclusively focus on a set of linguistic features to help make these determinations rather than relying on recurrent neural networks. In Djemili et al. (2014) the authors trained such a model whereby they applied a set of linguistic rules to a dataset of tweets they scraped containing tweets from French politicians resulting in a corpus of just over 34,000 tweets. It is important to note that while this corpus was in French, the methods and conclusions of the paper are applicable across languages. The model classified tweets as ideological or not ideological rather than ascribing them to a particular political ideology like is done in many of the models described up to this point.
The initial dataset was obtained by scraping the most recent 3,200 tweets from 563 accounts belonging to members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. The number of accounts is greater than the total number of Senators and Representatives because some them have more than one account. The initial scrape resulted in 1.44 million tweets written between February 10th 2009 and March 3rd 2020. A graphical representation of how these tweets are distributed over time can be seen in the graph below.
The process described in the methodology section will involve scoring each tweet according to the political ideology of its author. Looking at the distribution of tweets by political party we get the graph below showing slightly more tweets from democrats than republicans, but the data set is still fairly balanced.
The ideologies scores for each member of Congress were taken from govtrack. Their scores are set on a scale of 0 to 1 with 0 being extremely liberal and 1 being extremely conservative. The average ideology score for each party can be seen in the graph below.
More importantly for this project than the ideology distribution of the people writing the tweets, is the content of the tweets themeselves. One the pecularities of using twitter as a dataset is the length of of tweets, which for our purposes we will refer to as documents. The average number of characters per tweet was just under 170 characters, the left side of the distribution looks like you'd probably expect with a long tail. However, the right side of the distribution lacks this same tail due to Twitter limiting the number of characters per tweet to 280, resulting in hard stop on the right side of the distribution.
One of the conditions we will need to hold in order for a model like the one we are trying to construct to work is the fact that Democrats and Republicans are talking about significantly different topics to differentiate between the two. As such, gaining an understanding of what each group is talking about is important step in establishing the viability of the model. When looking at the top 30 words overall regardless of party, the results are fairly standard for what you might expect members of Congress to be talking about. The vast majority of the words have to do with government or political issues
While looking at the same plot broken down by party does show small differences, at first glance it doesn't create the stark contrast that you might expect. This is likely because at the end of the day, both Republicans and Democrats are talking about the same issues just from very different perspectives. That being said, there are small differences that can be observed, for example it appears Republicans use the word "democrat"
Another way to look at this problem, is to look at the top words for each party in terms of the term frequency–inverse document frequency (TFIDF) which can be seen as a measure of the most unique words for a document, or in this case a group of documents.
Now we really start to see the difference between the two classes, with Democrats talking about issues like "#goptaxshutdown", "#trumpshutdown", and "#gunviolence" while Republicans are discussing issues like "#taxreform", "#obamacare", and "unemployment". Is it also very interesting to see that the graph looking at the top words for each party doesn't have a single Twitter hashtag (#) but the top words in terms of TF–IDF for each party are almost hashtags, showing their potential value and importance in an eventual model. For our model though rather than simply labeling text to a certain party, we will split the data into five equal bins, which results in the TF–IDF plot below.
This strategy has several advantages discussed in the methodology section of the site but the groups have the average scores shown in the plot below.
The goal of this model to accurately assess whether strings of text are partisan.
As described in the data section, I am training the model on over a million tweets from members
of Congress and assigning each tweet a partisan score based on a partisan score of the tweet's author.
To solve this problem, we will be treating it as a text classification problem, with each tweet assigned to one
of 5 bins according to its partisan score I described above. These bins were be labeled "Very Liberal", "Moderately Liberal",
"Modarately Conservative", and "Very Conservative". More information on these bins can be found in the data section. The model
itself is a recurrent neural network where the input are pretrained GloVe word vectors, specifically their
Twitter model trained on 2B tweets resulting in 27B tokens. I decided
to use these vectors instead of something like TF-IDF vectors because of the breadth of tokens as well as the fact the vectors
were trained directly on Twitter data, the same source as the data for my model. To train the classifier, I decided to use Gated
Recurrent Units (GRUs) which tend to perform better than Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) units for shorter pieces of text like tweets.
As will be discussed in the Results section, the version of the model that attempted to classify tweets into the 5 categories mentioned above
performed quite poorly due primarily to the fact that while the model was very effective at categorizing very liberal and very conservative
tweets, it really struggled with more moderate content. As a result the final model consolidated the categories down to three with the labels
"Liberal", "Moderate", and "Conservative". For more details on the performance of the model please see the results section.
Several prior models have looked at trying to classify text based off political ideology. That being said, for the most part these models have focused on longer pieces of text like news articles to try and detect political bias in the news media (Doumit & Minai, 2011), or documents that are almost always political in nature like congressional floor speeches (Iyers, Enns, Boyd-Graber, & Resnik, 2014) rather than short form content like tweets that will be used in this paper’s model.
Doumit & Minai 2011 collected articles from over 30 worldwide news organizations and used Latent Dirichlet Allocation to extract a set of topics for each news outlet and proceeded to apply a sentiment analysis model. While the study did not identify a clear answer for whether or not there is an overwhelming bias in the media, authors note the importance of key terms and phrases in their model.
Iyers, Enns, Boyd-Graber, & Resnik (2014) used the Convote dataset from Thomas et al. (2006) containing congressional floor speeches from 2005 labeled according to the political party of the speech’s author to train a recurrent neural network (RNN) after filtering the speeches for a set of explicitly political key phrases the authors took from Yano et al. (2010). This was due to the authors’ belief that that not all words in sentences in political speeches are inherently political, and that by filtering for a smaller set of key topics they could improve the accuracy of their neural network. Their approach was novel as similar attempts at these sorts of tasks had relied on logistic regression using the bag-of-words technique along with word2vec which the authors’ model outperformed significantly. Compared to their logistic regression benchmark which achieved 64.7% accuracy on their classification task, their best model which used a recurrent neural network with word2vec word embeddings to achieve over 70% accuracy. The authors of this paper note the importance of word embeddings in their success and will also be extremely important in the model we present below.
As discussed in the methodology section, we ended up running two models, while the specifications for the model stayed the same, the big change was the number of categories used for categorization. The first model produced the confusion matrix by classificaiton category below.
The model performed very well at the extremes with the "Very Liberal" and "Very Conservative" groups, with an accuracy of almost 70% for the "Very Liberal" group. However, when trying to analyze more moderate content, the model really struggled accurately classifying only about 30% of tweets.
To try and fix this problem, I tried consolidating the "Very Liberal" and "Moderately Liberal" groups into a single "Liberal" bin, and the "Very Conservative" and "Moderately Conservative" categories into a single "Conservative" bin, and then kept the "Moderate" bin as is. This drastically improved the accuracy model, resulting in the confusion matrix below. While the model still struggled with accurately categorizing the "Moderate" category, it's improved performance with the "Liberal" and "Conservative" groups raised the overall accuracy of the model to about 70%. More work needs to be done, as will be discussed in the in the Future Work section, trying to accurately categorize the more neutral content in the "Moderate Category".
Models using Recurrent Neural Networks and word embeddings like the one we have presented in this paper are extremely effective at classifying political tweets at the margins achieving over 90% accuracy in some cases, however when it comes to classifying more moderate content to the model struggled mightily achieving no better than random accuracy. One reason for this is because of the size of the corpus used for the model, manually scoring the ideology of each tweet was impossible. The result of this was scores for tweets that accurately reflected the general political orientation of their authors but failed to detect the nuance of individual tweets. Given that members of Congress don’t only tweet about topics that are political in nature, some tweets were labeled partisan according to their author but in reality, were fairly neutral. In future work I would like to train the model on a dataset that was annotated at the individual tweet level or borrow methods from papers like Yano et al. (2010) where tweets were labeled for specific topics there were inherently political using a set of key words. This will allow on the model to pick up on more of the nuance of political discourse than it currently does.
Additionally, as I mentioned in the introduction one of this model’s potential applications is to be included in future bot detection and foreign interference initiatives where the manipulation of political decisions and beliefs is a core objective. Incorporating models like the one presented in this paper will allow for bot detection algorithms to more accurately differentiate complex bot networks with political social engineering objectives from smaller more harmless networks.


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Top of the morning to you. :shamrock:
I’d love to talk to anyone interested in mathlib here in Dublin.
Hi, I am in Dublin also, but my knowledge or Mathematical Logic and Lean is just pretty basic. I played a little bit with Lean some months ago translating basic Propositional and First Order Logic to Lean.
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That's marvellous, I'm not on my own here in Dublin. I guess with the :locked: :down: geographic location doesn't really matter but even still, I'd love to hear if you are involved in any Lean / Mathlib work.
For my part, I am extremely interested in the Mathlib project, so I try to contribute bits and pieces to that when I have time.
Hi Oliver, thank for your message.
Sadly I am not involved in Mathlib, I wish, but my knowledge is too basic. I am just learning some basic Type Theory and Lambda Calculus.
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How to evolve Milcery in Pokémon Sword and Shield
Source: iMore
Pokémon has introduced a variety of unique evolution mechanics throughout the years, but the process required to evolve a Milcery in Pokémon Sword and Shield just might take the cake when it comes to convulution. Unlike many of its Poké-pals, this creamy creature needs much more than an evolution stone or simple experience gain. If you're an aspiring Pokémon Master on a mission to 'catch 'em all', here's what you need to know to catch and evolve a Milcery into an Alcremie.
Where to find Milcery
Milcery is one of the 94 new Generation 8 Pokémon and is available to catch in both Sword and Shield. However, if you're not sure where to look, this Pokémon can be very easy to miss. Thankfully, we know the best locations for tracking down this illusive critter.
Source: iMore
The easiest and most consistent way to catch Milcery is at Route 4. You won't see this particular Pokémon stomping through the tall grass, but there is a chance to encounter one via the Exclamation Mark icons on this route. Slowly creeping your way towards these instances helps keep other wild Pokémon from charging at you.
Source: iMore
There is also an opportunity to catch Milcery in the Wild Area. The liklihood of these encounters is far less consistent, however. During 'Heavy Fog' weather instances you have a 32% chance of finding higher level versions of this Pokémon at Bridge Field and Giant's Mirror.
How to evolve a Milcery into an Alcremie
Once you've captured your very own Cream Pokémon, there are some very specific steps required to complete the evolution process. You need to obtain a Sweet item, give the Sweet item to Milcery, and then perform the secret dance with Milcery in your party.
Where to obtain the Sweet items
There are a variety of 'Sweet' items that can be earned by participating in the Battle Cafe's daily challenges. Defeating the Battle Cafe Master will reward you with a random assortment of items once per day. This doesn't guarantee a Sweet item, so it may take a few attempts to get yourself one.
Source: iMore
There are the three Battle Cafe locations throughout the Galar region, but the easiest and earliest one to get to is in Motostoke. The other two are in Hammerlocke and Wyndon.
Using the Sweet item and secret dance to evolve Milcery
After you've collected a Sweet item and given it to your Milcery from your Bag, (this works the same way as Berries or held items) you can peform the final and most important step of the evolution process: the secret dance.
Source: iMore
To perform this rather over-the-top dance manuever, simply spin your left joystick rapidly for several rotations until you see your character begin to bust a move. After a few dramatic spins the animation will end with a flashy finale pose.
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Need some information on catching and evolving other Pokémon? Do you have an Alcremie and want to share? Feel free to ask away in the comments below!


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Retrospective: Hara-Kiri (or Seppuku - 1962) Director: Masaki Kobayashi Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto Photography: Yoshio Miyajima (Shichiku GrandScope) Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai (Hanshiro Tsugumo) Rentaro Mikuni (Kageyu Saito) Tetsura Tamba (Kikokuri Omodaka) Time: 135 Mins.
Rating: Watch it or die Alternate Rating: **** or A+
This film, based on a novel by Yauhiko Takiguchi, starts with a striking visual: the ancestoral shrine of the Iyi Clan is shown in a close shot. The camera pulls slowly backwards and the narration begins in a dead voice, "Date, 13th of May, 1630. Weather, fair. The heat of the day rises hourly... No incident of note." Of course, we find out this is not the case. The movie starts in the earlier part of the Tokugawa Era where peace reigned and the samurai class has disposed mainly of its martial status. The sword is used no more in battle, and many of its rituals are made light. Hara-kiri, or seppuku, is not an exception. It has turned into a farce where one does not even touch one's self with a dagger; one can just reach for the weapon and the honorable second would swiftly be-head the dishonored. It is in this social atmosphere we find our protagonist, Hanshiro Tsugumo. He enters the screen with a heavy presence, dressed in black. He requests to the chamberlain of the Iyi family to let him use their ground to commit seppuku, for he cannot bear living as a destitute ronin (literally meaning, "wave-rider" - a former samurai without a master). The chamberlain listens to his request, and proceeds to tell a story of a different ronin with the same request, with a gruesome outcome. The chamberlain tests Tsugumo's resolve and honor again and again, for he does not want the same situation to repeat itself in his clan grounds. Tsugumo gives a simple answer, telling him that he has nothing in life to hold on to and he is resolved to commit seppuku.
This movie was Kobayashi's first, yet I feel this movie is one of his strongest. He worked with screenplay writer Shinobu Hashimoto, who also wrote 'Seven Samurai', and other famous 'chambara'(or sword play) films. It is directed with a firm hand. Every shot is well crafted and his grasp of mise en scene is well represented in many scenes, especially, the confrontations between the protagonist and the chamberlain. The cinematography is incredibly detailed and clear in black and white. The contrasts of the linear elements to human movement in frame are incredible (note: the same cinematographer worked with Kobayashi in "Kwaidan" also). In every way, the technical aspects of this film reinforce the story in a quiet yet powerful way. This film shows Kobayashi's full understanding of the medium and how to incorporate his techniques without it becoming burdensome.
Not only is the technical outstanding, but the acting is superb also. If it sounds like I am gushing about this film, well, I am! Tatsuya Nakadai is, perhaps, the most well recognized tragic hero in japanese film. While Toshiro Mifune is the Hero in Japanese film, one can state that Tatsuya Nakadai is the Anti-Hero. His gaunt, hollow face is easily recognized in films such as "Goyo-Kin", "Sword of Doom", and others. His acting ability is quite good and he is exceptionally good in this film. Tetsuro Tamba also gives a very good performance as the best swordsman of the Iyi clan.
This film, although is incredible, does have some flaws. Although quite well executed and comprised, it is a bit long. Some of the dialogue seem out of place and could have used a bit more editing. May be it is my American short attention span, but I can think of at least 10 minutes that could have been left out. Other than that, the film ranks with or surpasses the best of Akira Kurosawa.
This film is also one of my personal favorites.
The movie overall is not an action movie. If you are a fan of "Lone Wolf and Cub" and expect hundreds of people dying and spurting blood, rent something else. This movie, rather, is a social commentary on what is considered important in Japanese culture. Is human life more worthwhile than an intangible thing called honor? It is a question that will haunt you by the end of the film and leave you with a sense of devastation. You will not be able to agree that "no incident of note" has occured.
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This year the PyDay will be held in Chengchi University after PyCon.
PyDay is a newbie activities held by the PyCon TW and the top univerisities in Taiwan. All the PyDay’s speakers are mostly from the PyCon keynote speakers and would share their experience throuhout sessions.
2015 NCCU PyDay, invited 4 experts from MIT, Google as kenote speaker and talked about data analysis. Arnaud Bergeron has presented the fundamental of Theano, Steven Johnson introduce a new technical-computing language(Julia), Robert Bradshaw’s talk on Cython, Andy Terrel share the experience on Gallery.
This year Taiwan university and Chengchi university cooperate with PyCon TW and invite the Paul Hildebrandt and Steve Dower. Mr. Hildebrandt is senior engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) and Mr. Dower works in Microsoft as a software engineer. They will face to face with audience.
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background
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contentStrategy
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The Content Strategy of the camera.
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enabled
Boolean
indicates whether this component is enabled or not.
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enabledInHierarchy
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entity
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The entity this component is attached to. A component is always attached to an entity.
hashCode
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id
String
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name
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save the render context this camera belongs to, if null, main render context will be used.
size
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transform
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viewportInfo
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Destroy this FObject, and release all its own references to other resources.
After destory, this FObject is not usable any more. You can use Fire.isValid(obj) (or obj.isValid if obj is non-nil) to check whether the object is destroyed before accessing it.
Returns:
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dgw::drawcanvas - simple drawing tool to sketch some text, lines, rectangles ovals on the fly.
package require Tk
package require snit
package require dgw::drawcanvas
The widget dgw::drawcanvas provides a simple drawing surface to place, lines, rextangles, ovales and text in different in a fast manner on a canvas. It is based on code in the Tclers Wiki:
dgw::drawcanvas pathName ?-option value ...?
Creates and configures the dgw::drawcanvas widget using the Tk window id pathName and the given options.
As the dgw::drawcanvas is an extension of the standard Tk canvas widget it supports all method and options of this widget. The following option(s) are added by the dgw::drawcanvas widget:
-colors colorList
List of colors which can be used to fill ovals and rectangles. Those colors are a set of pastel like colors.
Each dgw::drawcanvas widget supports all usual methods of the Tk canvas widget and it adds the follwing method(s):
pathName eraseAll ?ask?
Deletes all items in the widget, if ask is true (default), then the user will get a message box to agree on deleting all items.
pathName saveCanvas ?fileName?
Saves the content of the canvas either as ps or if the ghostscript interpreter is available as well as pdf file using the given filename. If the filename is not given the user will be asked for one.
In the example below we create a Markdown markup aware text editor.
package require dgw::drawcanvas
dgw::drawcanvas .dc
pack .dc -side top -fill both -expand true
Installation is easy you can install and use the dgw::drawcanvas package if you have a working install of:
For installation you copy the complete dgw folder into a path of your auto_path list of Tcl or you append the auto_path list with the parent dir of the dgw directory. Alternatively you can install the package as a Tcl module by creating a file dgw/drawcanvas-0.1.tm in your Tcl module path. The latter in many cases can be achieved by using the --install option of drawcanvas.tcl. Try "tclsh drawcanvas.tcl --install" for this purpose.
Example code for this package can be executed by running this file using the following command line:
$ wish drawcanvas.tcl --demo
The example code used for this demo can be seen in the terminal by using the following command line:
$ tclsh drawcanvas.tcl --code
The script contains embedded the documentation in Markdown format. To extract the documentation you should use the following command line:
$ tclsh drawcanvas.tcl --markdown
This will extract the embedded manual pages in standard Markdown format. You can as well use this markdown output directly to create html pages for the documentation by using the --html flag.
$ tclsh drawcanvas.tcl --html
If the tcllib Markdown package is installed, this will directly create a HTML page drawcanvas.html
which contains the formatted documentation.
Github-Markdown can be extracted by using the --man switch:
$ tclsh drawcanvas.tcl --man
The output of this command can be used to feed a Markdown processor for conversion into a html, docx or pdf document. If you have pandoc installed for instance, you could execute the following commands:
tclsh ../drawcanvas.tcl --man > drawcanvas.md
pandoc -i drawcanvas.md -s -o drawcanvas.html
pandoc -i drawcanvas.md -s -o drawcanvas.tex
pdflatex drawcanvas.tex
The dgw::dgw::drawcanvas widget was written by Detlef Groth, Schwielowsee, Germany.
Copyright (c) 2020 Dr. Detlef Groth, E-mail: detlef(at)dgroth(dot)de
dgw::drawcanvas package, version 0.1.
Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Dr. Detlef Groth, E-mail: detlef(at)dgroth(dot)de
This library is free software; you can use, modify, and redistribute it for any purpose, provided that existing copyright notices are retained in all copies and that this notice is included verbatim in any distributions.
This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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This project was developed as a Database management project by
Kaustubh, Projjal, Sayan, Sourav and Aditya.
This website provides user and restaurant sign up.
The user can see various menus provided by the restaurants and order anything.
Once a restaurant signs up, they have the option to update their own menu.
Customer orders shows up on the dashboard, and can be ticked off once delivered.
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