Upgrade your audio reproduction. Claim your free Ortofon cartridge when buying a Technics SL-1200GR or SL-1210GR direct drive turntable while stocks last. Both our Edinburgh and Falkirk stores can attest to the legacy of the Technics SL-1200G, and the newest incarnations are no exception to their brilliance. Pop in store or get in touch to see what we can arrange.
For any 700 Series purchase you make, you will be applicable for a contribution of up to £400 towards Chord Company factory terminated speaker cable at no extra charge. If you're buying top quality speakers, it is only natural to get the most out of their performance with equally premium cabling. Take advantage of Bowers & Wilkins' clarity and detailed presentation with the most suitable speaker cable on the market.
The French powerhouse Devialet has announced a new pinnacle in sound engineering: Phantom Reactor. This miniature Phantom loudspeaker series promises to bring the same sound performance as the other Phantom speakers, at four times smaller. Our Falkirk store have long been fans of Devialet's Phantom range, so this new addition to the family is incredible news.
Linn have announced they will no longer manufacture any DS models, instead opting to revitalise and prioritise the DSM range. What better way to do this than to introduce a new model? Introducing the Selekt DSM.
Get our Award-winning Chord Co Clearway RCA interconnect (worth £100) for free if you buy a Chord Hugo 2 DAC in any of our stores.
B&W release their 603, 606 and 607 loudspeaker range to replace the 680 speakers, and are predicted to have mastery over the value speaker bracket once more.
Klipsch arrive exclusively at Hi-Fi Corner, including the Forte III and Heresy III models. Our friend Joe took them home for a test; here is his review.
We are very excited to hear that Naim are launching a new top of the range streamer at this years Bristol Hi-Fi show, as well as a replacement to the ND5XS and NDX. I will update this page as I am allowed, but if you are interested in this product contact us to register your interest. We will be offering a generous trade in on your existing Naim streamer, finance options as well home demonstration. We are Edinburgh and Falkirk's exclusive Naim retailer with a full range of products on permanent demonstration.
Fresh from Wilson Special Audio Engineering, the TuneTot desktop mini speakers give all the hi-fi quality hallmarks of a full sized Wilson in a petite cabinet suitable for a huge range of environments.
Here we go again, Chord Electronics defining the performance level for digital audio products. Today Chord Electronics has unveiled the Hugo M Scaler, a highly advanced standalone upscaler capable of redefining sound quality from digital audio. And possibly most importantly, it works with other companies DACs! The world’s most advanced filter: WTA — a lifetime goal of >1,000,000 taps reached!
Many audio fans will be concerned with the news that Arcam was recently acquired by Harman International, and even more concerned that Harman International was acquired by Samsung. So when Arcam announced their new stereo HDA range, we immediately ordered them and powered them up to make sure they didn't burst into flames.
To create the ERA-1 planar magnetic headphones, Quad have developed their own driver to bring a fast, open and responsive reproduction of music. The sonic realism and fidelity is not dissimilar to the qualities present in their ESL's.
To celebrate Ken Ishiwata's Ruby anniversary with Marantz, they have announced two limited edition products; the PM-KI integrated amplifier and the SA-KI SACD/CD player.
Following on from the success of two of the better known Dynavector MC cartridges, The 10X5 has been upgraded to the 10X5 MKII and the Karat 17D3 is now the Karat 17DX.
After eight years without, we are once again one of the UK's exclusive Meridian dealers for their full Hi-Fi and AV range.
We have gotten our hands on a set of the D8000's - one of the most talked about pairs of headphones at the moment. With revolutionary engineering and technology, these are certainly a set to look out for.
Since manufacturing their first phonograph in 1922, and creating instruments from 1887, Yamaha have come a long way within the hi-fi industry. Their knowledge in musical reproduction is reflected in the build and sound quality of their latest flagship speaker, the NS-5000.
Devialet are offering a free Dialog with selected Phantom bundles this Summer - here is how to take advantage of this great deal.
For a limited time period, any purchase of a Naim streamer alongside a Mu-So or a Mu-So QB is applicable for a fantastic discount.
It's that time of year when all of the best audio companies from around the world descend on Munich to show off the absolute best in sound and engineering. This year, Struan will be out testing, searching and quizzing these manufacturers to bring the best selection of products back to Hi-Fi Corner stores.
This Spring, upgrade to any one of the 800 Series Diamond range and Hi-Fi Corner will buy your existing loudspeakers, regardless of their age, condition or brand. Ask here about what your old speakers may be worth when you trade up to 800 Series Diamond.
Technics has released their newest flagship turntable with direct drive, the SL-1000R. Surpassing the legendary SL-1200G, this newer model offers the optimum in pure sound reproduction for serious audiophiles.
At last, our demonstration sets of the P3ESR 40th Anniversary Edition loudspeakers are here. As Scotland's expert retailer for Harbeth loudspeakers, and two of our five Edinburgh-based team members using their speakers at home, we feel more than qualified to review the upgraded, limited edition standmount beauties.
Joining the current line up of the Iota, and award winning Iota Alpha, the Xplorer can be seen here to give you an idea of it’s relative size. Although in comparison to the other two models (which are tiny by loudspeaker standards) it’s still a very small loudspeaker which is going to fit into almost any room, and at a 88dB sensitivity should run easily from a half decent sounding amplifier.
What better time to delve into a new system than the start of a new year? We have three exclusive bundle deals while stocks last.
With two Silver or Gold Phantom speakers in Duo, perfectly synchronised thanks to Dialog - Phantom’s Intelligent Hub - listening takes on a whole new dimension. The widest soundstage and twice the power for an unthinkably immersive experience.
Upgrade to a Linn network music player and receive a complimentary second system of exceptional sound, with love from Linn.
Spendor have outdone themselves again with the new Classic range, incorporating everything we love about Spendor with some new improvements. With meticulously refined crossover networks, enhanced cabinet structures, new elastomer panel damping and new style magnetic grilles, the new Spendor Classic loudspeakers deliver music with the captivating warmth and charm of the 70's originals. Refined and perfected over five decades, Spendor Classic offers the ultimate in pure listening pleasure for serious audiophiles.
The heavily anticipated Chord Poly streaming module for the Mojo is now available. Read our guide on how to get your wireless Poly working with ease.
For a limited time, KEF are offering discounts of over £400 on their new R Series when you trade in your previous loudspeakers with Hi-Fi Corner.
New Bowers & Wilkins 700 Series builds on the audio excellence of previous award-winning loudspeakers to produce the best-performing range in its class.
You could enjoy the comfortable on-ear M400's when you buy a range of KEF model speakers, at no extra charge, for a limited time.
We are happy to announce that our Falkirk branch will be open Monday-Saturday 9:30am-5:30pm, where Paul, Pel, Armin and Gerry will be happy to help you. They are now open on Wednesdays as of August 2017.
Introducing the newly-announced Sky Soundbar, Devialet's first collaboration to date. Optimised for the Sky Q television system, it promises to revolutionise your viewing habits.
Our quest for audio perfection takes us to Wilson Audio's factory in Utah, where we heard the full range of Wilson Audio's finest speakers.
Wanting to make the change to a streaming-based hi-fi system? Save up to £2000 on your future Klimax, Majik or Akurate system with this fantastic Summer offer! With Linn announcing they will be ceasing service of CD players, we can announce The Great CD Player Exchange. See below for details.
So, the box containing your shiny new deck has been safely delivered and you're pretty anxious to enter the gates of audio Heaven. It's quite understandable, you're simply dying to hear your treasured Half Man Half Biscuit album like never before since the Hit Parade was a must listen. But as another combo of the period advised.... Relax, don't do it (although somehow, I don't think they were referring to over-eager turntable set-up).
The introduction of the Chord Hugo 2 has excited hi-fi enthusiasts everywhere. We got to try out this great little headphone amp and DAC, and put together this guide to help you get the most out of your Hugo 2.
For many people, the turntable deck is at the heart of their hi-fi setup. But what about those who want to get into the world of turntables, but don't know where to begin? We have compiled this comprehensive guide into getting the most out of your record deck.
Bowers and Wilkins showcased their new subwoofer range at this year’s Bristol Hi-Fi show. On display was an unbelievable 5.2 surround sound system consisting of the 800 D3, 802 D3, HTM1 D3 and two - yes, two - DB1D subwoofers. To process and power this neat system was the use of the Rotel RSP-1582 processor accompanied by the 6 RB-1590 power amplifiers and connected by Chord's Sarum range of cables. The results were spectacular.
This February was the Bristol Sound and Vision annual Hi-Fi show. Struan and Armin from Hi-Fi Corner met up with the Chord Electronics team during their time there to bring you the latest and greatest from Chord.
Are active speakers really worth investing in? We got our hands on a couple of pairs from one of the most respected manufacturers and took them for a spin. Suffice to say they are now on permanent demonstration in our Edinburgh store, and if you're looking for high quality sound without all the boxes, these should be auditioned. Interested in how these show down against the similarly priced KEF LS50 wireless? Contact one of our product specialists.
The world of hi-fi can be an intimidating, confusing place for a pure beginner if you don’t know what you’re really looking for, or how to start your own set-up. It can all be a bit overwhelming at first. For those of us just delving into the world of high quality sound systems, there is a lot of jargon and basic components you might not be familiar with.
Looking for an all-in-one wireless speaker that sounds ace, beautifully well-built and easy to use? The Naim Mu-so might just have you covered. From the moment you take it out of the box; to hearing it with your own ears, you will be surprised of what this speaker is capable of. This is all aided by a sweet accompanying application that is used to control the Mu-so, you will locate your way around it in no time and if you are seeking a sound as close to a separates system without having all of the boxes and separate speakers, you can't really go wrong.
It's not often we see a brand which defines a category, but that's exactly what we are seeing by Chord Electronics whom now have arguably the best digital to analogue converter range on the planet, and we have them all in our Edinburgh store for your delight. From the £399 Chord Mojo to the £7,950 DAVE and all the models in-between, these hugely impressive Rob Watt's designs have far more processing power than most Wolfson or Burr Brown chip sets.
On Monday I was invited to the Linn factory once again, to see and experience the latest and greatest Klimax level upgrades. After an introduction about new Linn technology from their technical director we moved onto the listening rooms, and sitting in a room with a number of other respected dealers and audiophiles I have never quite seen so many jaws hit the floor as soon as the music started playing.
 Neat Acoustics have recently released one of those speakers that can easily be overlooked by many hi-fi enthusiasts – I, myself overlooked them when they first arrived in the shop. The Iota Alpha is probably one of the smallest, if not the smallest, floorstanding speakers I’ve ever come across.
When Spendor made the announcement about adding another speaker to the well-received D series, my hope was for a large reference floorstanding speaker that happily competed with speakers like B&W’s 804 D3 (£6,750) and, maybe even the Focal Sopra No2 (£9,599). To my happiness, and the happiness of many, the D9 was finally announced. It was meant to surpass every modern tower-speaker that Spendor has ever manufactured.
Listening to the B&W 802 D3 speakers I immediately struck by how they present the music. To my ears they are better than the previous 800 Diamond (or “D2”). The midrange is the first aspect of the 802 D3 that I notice. Its effortlessly reproduces vocals as if the singer(s) were sitting in the listening room with me – very natural sounding to my ears.
There is a reason why Harbeth’s P3ESR speaker has won multiple awards from hi-fi critics around the world. This shoebox size speaker has the amazing ability to sound like a much larger speaker. It also works incredibly well in many rooms as its sealed cabinet design makes this one of the less fussy speakers that Harbeth produces
It is said that the preamplifier is the brains behind any system – I tend to agree with this manner of thinking. However, it is also the one component that can be a fool’s golden nugget. What do I mean by this? Well, I’ve come across some preamplifiers in my time that when you look beyond the fancy casework, it doesn’t seem to be much to it and looks like very little thought and even worse, money went into creating it – but yet they sell for top-dollar, as we say in the states.
When you see the Naim SuperNait 2 in person, its modest exterior design is relatively soft spoken and understated with its two large rotary dials (volume and balance) on the left side of the facia and the single line of input buttons taking up the right side of the facia. However, once the Naim badge in the middle is illuminated in green as the rear power rocker-switch is clicked into the on position, the SuperNait 2 transforms into a whole another beast.
In 1997 Alan Shaw and his team at Harbeth decided to launch a speaker based off the BBC LS5/9 for use in the BBC studios, the Monitor 30 (or “M30”) – fifteen years later, the year of the company’s 35th anniversary, Shaw and his team would launch one of the most well received speakers Harbeth has ever produced, the Monitor 30.1.
If there was a standard for high-end standmount speakers, then Bowers & Wilkins 805 D3 would surely be one that benchmarks were fashioned after. Like the rest of the range the 805 D3 have gone through an entire makeover even if on first glance it looks exceptionally similar to the previous D2 version.
There is no mistake when it you see the new Artera Play (£1,399) and Stereo (£1,499) that they are a product of Quad – especially with the company’s iconic logo on the lower right side of the front facia. From the CNC machined heatsinks to the top glass panel insert, and with the textured aluminium front facia (available in silver or black) this series of Quad kit has to be the most modern looking kit it has produced in recent times.
The thing that always strikes me about PrimaLuna, without singling out any particular product, is how good of performance it offers in relation to how much it cost. If you’ve ever been interested in getting into valve based amplification (and CD players for that matter) – then look no further than PrimaLuna; this company makes owning a tube amplifier as easy as owning a solid-state amp.
Last week a customer called up asking to listen to our set of Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 speakers. I happily arranged the demonstration for him. Truth be told, I often overlook the C7ES-3 speakers, but for good reason and at the same time, to my discredit.
Now if I was asked about a year or so ago, what I thought would be one of Arcam's latest and greatest all around product, I most likely would have talked about their analogue integrated amplifiers. And guess what, I wouldn't have been too far off.
The new B&W 804 D3 speaker is the only “traditional” looking speaker in the new 800 D3 range. At a quick glance, it’s easy to mistake it for the previous D2 version. It is also easy for someone to mistake it as just another tower speaker, but don’t be fooled by its modest exterior. Internally there are technologies incorporated into its design that would make many speaker manufacturers envious.
When I heard that Classé Audio was bringing out a new component in their Sigma range, my hope was that it would be an integrated amplifier. A smile broke out over my face when in May they released to the public that they would be launching a new highly intelligent integrated amplifier called the Sigma 2200i. As a huge fan of the entire Sigma range (and Delta range for the matter), especially the Sigma Amp2, I had high hopes for this new addition.
I read somewhere once that it isn’t necessary to have an overabundance of power unless your speakers require it. However, after spending time with the PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium HP Poweramplifier (£2,998) that school of thought might just be disproven.
When Harbeth decided to update their flagship monitor, the M40.2 (£10,595+), it was the talk of the town among hi-fi enthusiasts. Recently, I've the ultimate pleasure of listening to the M40.2 with an exceptionally good Naim system, which consisted of the NAP 300 (£7,295) and the NAC-N 272 (£3,400). Utilizing the streamer in the 272 made for a clean and tidy system. The Naim had no difficulty in driving the Harbeth speakers and was at ease moving their 300mm bass driver.
Bowers & Wilkins did some very cleaver thinking when they decided how to price the new 800 D3 series speakers in relation to the level of performance they would produce for the end user. Just a quick comparison – if I were to buy a new pair of B&W 803 D3 at £12,500, I could expect them to perform better than the old 802 D2 (£11,500) and moving to a level closer to the 800 D2 (£18,500). So in essence B&W have been able to create speakers, with the advancement of technologies, that now preform miles better than their predecessors without massive price hikes. For this alone, my hat is off to them.
Some people think that the silver-disc is a dying playback format, but yet there are a lot of companies out there producing CD players from entry level to the very high-end. Why? The use of CDs is still very prominent among audiophiles and music enthusiasts – especially with ever increasing price drops for albums on CD compared to its digital-download brethren and analogue (vinyl) cousin. There are a few shops here in Edinburgh where you can pick up a brand new album on CD for £3.00 – absolutely insane when you think how £30.00 will buy you ten albums; prices like this make CD players still very attractive to many people out there
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--- layout: post esbma_id: 1181 title: Iceberg Sneak-Ins date: 2003-04-28 14:00:13 keywords: dev teaser: Good project managers are made entirely out of paranoia, but the truly extraordinary project managers have a streak of courage. ---
This morning one of our users sent the following feature request to the Vault mailing list:
When using Vault, I frequently find myself wanting to do some operation, say a "get latest version", in the Vault client and then go to my working folder via windows explorer to do something to the folder/file/etc. It would be really handy to have an "Open working folder" option on the pop-up menu for Vault folders which would open an explorer window to the current working directory (and save me needing to browse to it)....
(Background: SourceGear Vault is a version control system with a user interface that is essentially identical to Visual SourceSafe.)
Within ten minutes, two more people had piled on the bandwagon by sending "me too" messages to the list. Clearly this was a featurette that our users really wanted.
And I wanted to do it. After all, this is a one-liner, right? As soon as I saw the note, the corresponding line of code popped into my head:
Process.Start(strWorkingFolder);
We are very close to code freeze for our upcoming 1.1 release, so I went to chat with our Project Lead and get his opinion. We both liked the idea, but we also both understood the most important rule about sneak-ins:
Everything looks easier than it really is.
New features are like icebergs. Most of the effort is invisible, hiding below the water, waiting to sink your project. The actual implementation effort is the visible part sticking above the water.
Since we can only see the part above the water, most programmers tend to forget that anything else exists. We think only about the code, ignoring the impact of testing, bug-fixing, tech support, and documentation. In fact, sometimes we can't even properly estimate the size of the visible piece. In my example, all I could think of was one line. :-)
We decided to proceed with this sneak-in and I agreed to implement the whole iceberg.
Bottom line, this feature really was simple, but not that simple. Dealing with the whole iceberg took several hours. In fact, I won't really be done with the whole iceberg until after this feature has passed QA, is being used and shows no problems.
Depending on your environment, the hidden parts of your iceberg might be easier than mine. Many teams don't need the formality of documenting test procedures.
Alternatively, your situation might be a lot worse. For example, my iceberg problems would have been far worse if we were doing localized builds of Vault. If you are building multilingual software, new features don't even look easy. In the worst case, localizing the text on my new menu item for N languages would probably have required coordination with N people, several of whom are probably at some localization shop seven timezones away.
Sneak-Ins: Tips for Project Managers
You are the project manager. You are responsible for the health of your project. The spec is yours. The schedule is yours. It is your job to keep the programmers focused on the stuff that is important. One of those programmers brings you a "sneak-in", a feature request which is not currently in the plan. What do you do?
A truly conservative manager would almost always say "no". In fact, most of the time, that's the right answer. If you want to make your deadline, you can increase your odds dramatically by ruthlessly and callously saying "no", over and over.
But sometimes the right answer is "yes". Good project managers are made entirely out of paranoia, but the truly extraordinary project managers have a streak of courage. They're not satisfied to merely succeed. They do want to ship on time, but they also want their product to be insanely great. Sneak-ins can sometimes make a huge difference in how you and your customers feel about a product. In one of the best product releases in my experience, the sneak-ins outnumbered the spec features. :-)
Remember that the person requesting the sneak-in is showing initiative and concern. They really want their app to be better. Don't take that kind of intrinsic motivation lightly. If the programmer understands the whole iceberg and is willing to take real responsibility, give them plenty of slack. If you don't, they may soon be working for someone smarter than you.
Unfortunately, many sneak-in requests come from people who do not understand the whole iceberg. Perhaps they haven't yet been burned by assuming that something is a simple as it seems. In these cases, saying "no" is probably a good idea, especially as your first response.
But you still need to acknowledge their good intentions. When somebody comes into your office with an idea to make your product better, take the time to listen to their idea. And take the time to teach them about icebergs.
Sneak-Ins: Tips for Programmers
Three pithy rules:


There is a widely used definition of architecture for software-intensive systems in the ANSI/IEEE standard 1471-2000 (IEEE Computer Society, 2000):
The fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.
Architecture is essentially meant to establish the structural foundation, behavioral characteristics, and principles that guide the creation, evolution, and operation of a system in the long run. In that way, architecture provides up-front knowledge about commonly accepted constraints and freedoms in the long-term design of the system and its constituent parts. It identifies:
The architecture, or rather certain parts of the architecture documentation, is also meant to act as a basis to communicate the system knowledge to its stakeholders. The system stakeholders are the people who deal with creation, evolution, and operation of the system. There are many of them; for instance:
Each of these stakeholders looks at the system with her own viewpoint and cares only about her specific interests and concerns. For instance, the owner is interested in functional features and usage convenience, whereas the implementer mainly cares for technology environment, design specifications, and construction process. The stakeholders need to know about the system in the language they understand. The architecture serves this purpose by providing distinct views of the system, each view addressing the specific interest or concern of a specific stakeholder group. As a whole, the architecture may be used to view a broad outline or a detailed feature of the system, depending on who is looking at it and what is being looked at.
As the scale and complexity in a system grows, the need for proper planning in designing, building, and operating it becomes more and more important. Likewise, as stakeholder involvement in the system increases, the need for their shared understanding becomes crucial. Architectural thinking addresses these two key imperatives of managing complex systems. A small, simple, unilateral system, like the wooden birdhouse in Figure 2-1, does not require extensive architectural thinking, but larger and more complex structures do.
The following key characteristics of architectural thinking help us understand and manage a complex system:
This generic notion of architecture is applicable in many engineering practices, especially traditional civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering disciplines. It fits well for building and construction of houses or manufacturing cars. It has also been generally accepted in the world of computers. Hardware architecture, network architecture, and software architecture are predominantly used to define IT systems. But enterprise architecture goes beyond IT systems and pure technology.


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src/hamiltonian/ChemotaxisConstraint.js
import SoftConstraint from "./SoftConstraint.js"
import CoarseGrid from "../grid/CoarseGrid.js"
import Grid2D from "../grid/Grid2D.js"
import ParameterChecker from "./ParameterChecker.js"
/**
* This class implements a constraint for cells moving up a chemotactic gradient.
* It checks the chemokine gradient in the direction of the attempted copy, and
* rewards copy attempts that go up the gradient. This effect is stronger when the
* gradient is steep. Copy attempts going to a lower chemokine value are punished.
*
* The grid with the chemokine must be supplied, see the {@link constructor}.
*
* @example
* // Build a chemotaxis field
* let CPM = require( "path/to/build" )
* let chemogrid = new CPM.Grid2D( [200,200], [true,true], "Float32" )
* chemogrid.setpix( [100,100], 100 )
*
* // Build a CPM with the constraint
* let C = new CPM.CPM( [200,200], {
* T : 20,
* J : [[0,20],[20,10]],
* V : [0,500],
* LAMBDA_V : [0,5]
* })
* C.add( new CPM.ChemotaxisConstraint( {
* LAMBDA_CH : [0,5000],
* CH_FIELD : chemogrid
* } ) )
*/
class ChemotaxisConstraint extends SoftConstraint {
/** Set the CPM attached to this constraint.
@param {CPM} C - the CPM to attach.*/
set CPM(C){
/** The CPM this constraint acts on.
@type {CPM}*/
this.C = C
this.confChecker()
this.checkField()
}
/** @todo add checks for dimensions, better check for type.*/
checkField(){
if( !( this.field instanceof CoarseGrid || this.field instanceof Grid2D ) ){
throw( "CH_FIELD must be a CoarseGrid or a Grid2D!" )
}
}
/** This method checks that all required parameters are present in the object supplied to
the constructor, and that they are of the right format. It throws an error when this
is not the case.*/
confChecker(){
let checker = new ParameterChecker( this.conf, this.C )
checker.confCheckParameter( "LAMBDA_CH", "KindArray", "NonNegative" )
// Custom check for the chemotactic field
checker.confCheckPresenceOf( "CH_FIELD" )
}
/** The constructor of the ChemotaxisConstraint requires a conf object with a parameter
and a chemotactic field.
@todo what kinds of grids are allowed for the chemotactic field? Do we need to check
somewhere that its properties "match" that of the CPM? (That is, the same resolution and
torus properties)?
@param {object} conf - parameter object for this constraint
@param {PerKindNonNegative} conf.LAMBDA_CH - chemotactic sensitivity per cellkind.
@param {CoarseGrid|Grid2D} conf.CH_FIELD - the chemotactic field where the chemokine lives.
*/
constructor( conf ){
super( conf )
/** @todo is this ever used? */
this.conf = conf
/** The field where the chemokine lives.
@type {CoarseGrid|Grid2D}*/
this.field = conf.CH_FIELD
if( this.field instanceof CoarseGrid ){
this.deltaH = this.deltaHCoarse
}
}
/** Method to compute the Hamiltonian if the chemotactic field is a {@link CoarseGrid}.
This method is used instead of the regular {@link deltaH} whenever this is true.
@param {IndexCoordinate} sourcei - coordinate of the source pixel that tries to copy.
@param {IndexCoordinate} targeti - coordinate of the target pixel the source is trying
to copy into.
@param {CellId} src_type - cellid of the source pixel.
@param {CellId} tgt_type - cellid of the target pixel. This argument is not actually
used by this method, but is supplied for compatibility; the CPM will always call the
deltaH method with all 4 arguments.
@return {number} the change in Hamiltonian for this copy attempt and this constraint.
@private */
/* eslint-disable no-unused-vars*/
deltaHCoarse( sourcei, targeti, src_type, tgt_type ){
let sp = this.C.grid.i2p( sourcei ), tp = this.C.grid.i2p( targeti )
let delta = this.field.pixt( tp ) - this.field.pixt( sp )
let lambdachem = this.conf["LAMBDA_CH"][this.C.cellKind(src_type)]
return -delta*lambdachem
}
/** Method to compute the Hamiltonian for this constraint.
@param {IndexCoordinate} sourcei - coordinate of the source pixel that tries to copy.
@param {IndexCoordinate} targeti - coordinate of the target pixel the source is trying
to copy into.
@param {CellId} src_type - cellid of the source pixel.
@param {CellId} tgt_type - cellid of the target pixel. This argument is not actually
used by this method, but is supplied for compatibility; the CPM will always call the
deltaH method with all 4 arguments.
@return {number} the change in Hamiltonian for this copy attempt and this constraint.*/
/* eslint-disable no-unused-vars*/
deltaH( sourcei, targeti, src_type, tgt_type ){
let delta = this.field.pixt( targeti ) - this.field.pixt( sourcei )
let lambdachem = this.conf["LAMBDA_CH"][this.C.cellKind(src_type)]
return -delta*lambdachem
}
}
export default ChemotaxisConstraint


Patio is a Sequel inspired query engine.
To install patio run
npm install comb patio
If you want to use the patio executable for migrations
npm install -g patio
To run the tests
make test
To run just the postgres tests
make test-pg
To run just the mysql tests
make test-mysql
Patio is different because it allows the developers to choose the level of abtraction they are comfortable with.
If you want to use the ORM functionality you can. If you don't you can just use the Database and Datasets as a querying API, and if you need to you can write plain SQL
Model definitions are defined by the tables in the database.
As you add models the definition is automatically defined from the table definition. This is particularly useful when you want to define your model from a schema designed using another tool (i.e. ActiveRecord, Sequel, etc...)
Patio tries to stay out of your way when querying.
When you define a model you still have the freedom to do any type of query you want.
Only want certain columns?
MyModel.select("id", "name", "created").forEach(function(record){
//record only has the id, name, and created columns
});
You want to join with another table?
MyModel.join("otherTable", {id: patio.sql.identifier("myModelId"}).forEach(function(record){
//Record has columns from your join table now!
});
You want to run raw SQL?
MyModel.db.run("select * from my_model where name = 'Bob'").all().chain(function(records){
//all records with a name that equals bob.
});
You want to just query the database and not use a model?
var DB = patio.connect("pg://test:test@<IP_ADDRESS>:5432/test_db");
DB.from("myTable").filter({id: [1,2,3]}).all().function(records){
//records with id IN (1,2,3)
});
All the code for this example can be found here
Create a new database
PostgreSQL
psql -c "CREATE DATABASE reademe_example"
MySQL
mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE readme_example"
Create a migration
mkdir migration
patio migration-file -n createInitialTables ./migration
This will add a migration name createdInitialTables
in your migration directory.
Add the following code to your migration
module.exports = {
//up is called when you migrate your database up
up: function (db) {
//create a table called state;
return db
.createTable("state", function () {
this.primaryKey("id");
this.name(String);
this.population("integer");
this.founded(Date);
this.climate(String);
this.description("text");
})
.chain(function () {
//create another table called capital
return db.createTable("capital", function () {
this.primaryKey("id");
this.population("integer");
this.name(String);
this.founded(Date);
this.foreignKey("stateId", "state", {key: "id", onDelete: "CASCADE"});
});
});
},
//down is called when you migrate your database down
down: function (db) {
//drop the state and capital tables
return db.dropTable("capital", "state");
}
};
Run your migration
patio migrate -v --camelize -u "<DB_CONNECTION_STRING>" -d ./migration
Connect and query!
var patio = require("patio");
//set camelize = true if you want snakecase database columns as camelcase
patio.camelize = true;
patio.connect("pg://postgres@<IP_ADDRESS>:5432/readme_example");
//define a State model with a relationship to capital
var State = patio.addModel("state").oneToOne("capital");
//define a Capital model with a relationship to State
var Capital = patio.addModel("capital").manyToOne("state");
//save a state
State
.save({
name: "Nebraska",
population: 1796619,
founded: new Date(1867, 2, 4),
climate: "continental",
//notice the capital relationship is inline
capital: {
name: "Lincoln",
founded: new Date(1856, 0, 1),
population: 258379
}
})
.chain(function () {
//save a Capital
return Capital.save({
name: "Austin",
founded: new Date(1835, 0, 1),
population: 790390,
//define the state inline
state: {
name: "Texas",
population: 25674681,
founded: new Date(1845, 11, 29)
}
});
})
.chain(function () {
//Query all the states by name
return State.order("name").forEach(function (state) {
//Get the associated capital
return state.capital.chain(function (capital) {
console.log("%s's capital is %s.", state.name, capital.name);
});
});
})
.chain(process.exit, function (err) {
console.log(err)
process.exit(1);
});


vergerpc.data — VERGE RPC service, data objects
VERGE RPC service, data objects.
-
class vergerpc.data.AccountInfo(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by listreceivedbyaccount().
- account – The account of the receiving address.
- amount – Total amount received by the address.
- confirmations – Number of confirmations of the most recent transaction included.
-
class vergerpc.data.AddressInfo(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by listreceivedbyaddress().
- address – Receiving address.
- account – The account of the receiving address.
- amount – Total amount received by the address.
- confirmations – Number of confirmations of the most recent transaction included.
-
class vergerpc.data.AddressValidation(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by validateaddress().
- isvalid – Validatity of address (True or False).
- ismine – True if the address is in the server’s wallet.
- address – VERGE address.
-
class vergerpc.data.MiningInfo(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by getmininginfo().
- blocks – Number of blocks.
- currentblocksize – Size of current block.
- currentblocktx – Number of transactions in current block.
- difficulty – Current generating difficulty.
- errors – Number of errors.
- generate – True if generation enabled, False if not.
- genproclimit – Processor limit for generation.
- hashespersec – Number of hashes per second (if generation enabled).
- pooledtx – Number of pooled transactions.
- testnet – True if connected to testnet, False if on real network.
-
class vergerpc.data.ServerInfo(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by getinfo().
errors – Number of errors.
blocks – Number of blocks.
paytxfee – Amount of transaction fee to pay.
keypoololdest – Oldest key in keypool.
genproclimit – Processor limit for generation.
connections – Number of connections to other clients.
difficulty – Current generating difficulty.
testnet – True if connected to testnet, False if on real network.
version – VERGE client version.
proxy – Proxy configured in client.
hashespersec – Number of hashes per second (if generation enabled).
balance – Total current server balance.
generate – True if generation enabled, False if not.
- unlocked_until – Timestamp (seconds since epoch) after which the wallet
will be/was locked (if wallet encryption is enabled).
-
class vergerpc.data.TransactionInfo(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by listtransactions().
- account – account name.
- address – the address verges were sent to, or received from.
- category – will be generate, send, receive, or move.
- amount – amount of transaction.
- fee – Fee (if any) paid (only for send transactions).
- confirmations – number of confirmations (only for generate/send/receive).
- txid – transaction ID (only for generate/send/receive).
- otheraccount – account funds were moved to or from (only for move).
- message – message associated with transaction (only for send).
- to – message-to associated with transaction (only for send).
-
class vergerpc.data.WorkItem(*args_t, **args_d)
Bases: vergerpc.util.DStruct
Information object returned by getwork().
- midstate – Precomputed hash state after hashing the first half of the data.
- data – Block data.
- hash1 – Formatted hash buffer for second hash.
- target – Little endian hash target.


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This page explains how you can enable your Maven Xcode project to package the Xcode sources and the resolved binary dependencies into a zip archive. This archive could serve as source distribution. When unpackaged, it could be opened and compiled in the Xcode IDE without any further modifications.
The default content of the source archive contains the following files and folders:
If some of the above listed files or folders do not exist they get ignored.
In order to add the source packaging to the normal Maven build you have to add the package-xcodeproj goal to your build configuration. Please add the following executions section to your pom.xml :
... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>com.sap.prd.mobile.ios.mios</groupId> <artifactId>xcode-maven-plugin</artifactId> <extensions>true</extensions> <executions> <execution> <id>package-xcode-project</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>package-xcodeproj</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> ... </plugins> </build> ...
The build will additionally produce a <artifactId>-xcodeproj-with-deps.zip file.
If you want to create the source with dependency archive locally just call the following commands:
mvn initialize mvn xcode:package-xcodeproj
You will find the <artifactId>-xcodeproj-with-deps.zip in the target folder.
Use the additionalArchivePaths list parameter in order to add additional sources to the archive. If the path denotes a folder the folder content with all subfolders will be added. If the path points to a file only the file will be added. The provided paths are relative to the project base directory. If the paths do not exist the entry is ignored.
Example:
... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>com.sap.prd.mobile.ios.mios</groupId> <artifactId>xcode-maven-plugin</artifactId> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <additionalArchivePaths> <param>src/docs</param> <param>target/versions.xml</param> </additionalArchivePaths> </configuration> </plugin> ... </plugins> </build> ...
Use the excludes list parameter in order to exclude some source files or folders from the archive. If the path denotes a folder, the folder content with all subfolders will be excluded. If the path points to a file, only the file will be excluded. The provided paths are relative to the project base directory. If the paths do not exist the entry is ignored.
Example:
... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>com.sap.prd.mobile.ios.mios</groupId> <artifactId>xcode-maven-plugin</artifactId> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <excludes> <param>*.tmp</param> <param>*/tmp/*</param> <param>src/xcode/excludeDir/*</param> <param>src/xcode/doNotPackage.txt</param> </excludes> </configuration> </plugin> ... </plugins> </build> ...


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Frequently Asked Questions
1. How will I get back the money?
Each month, based on the repayment from the borrowers, amount will be accrued in your wallet which you shall be
able to see in your dashboard. You can withdraw your money to your bank account by clicking on the withdraw
button.
2. What is the money being used for?
The money is being used to purchase the solar homelighting system and the rural household is given the
convenience of repayment in monthly instalments.
3. Am i paying the whole amount for the purchase of the product?
No, the rural household shall atleast contribute 50% of the cost of the product at the time of purchase.
4. What is the cost of the product?
The cost of the product is Rs. 5000.
5. Will all households require 50% of the product cost as assistance at the beginning?
No, the requirements of the households may vary from 1% of the product cost to 50% of product cost.
6. Who is conducting due diligence?
The field team of the Lytyfy will conduct the diligence and upload the list of eligible customers on the
portal.
7. Is there a guarantee that my investment will be repaid?
No, there is no guarantee that the amount shall be repaid. However, results in the microfinance industry per se
are very positive and we shall take utmost care to ensure that the social investors shall get their investment
back in due course of time.
8. Am I giving a donation?
No, you are not giving a donation.
9. Why am I getting an interest of 0.60% per month whereas the rural customer is charged 2%
per month?
We are utilising the difference for conducting due diligence, collection of repayments and other processes.
10. What kind of interest rate calculations are we doing, simple or compound?
We are using simple interest for all our calculations.
11. Will i be informed about the monthly progress of my investment?
Yes, at any point of time you can see the performance of your investment in your dash board. The variations in
the expected monthly returns shall also be visible.


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QTextDocumentFragment Class
The QTextDocumentFragment class represents a piece of formatted text from a QTextDocument. More...
| Header: | #include <QTextDocumentFragment> |
| qmake: | QT += gui |
Note: All functions in this class are reentrant.
Public Functions
| QTextDocumentFragment() | |
| QTextDocumentFragment(const QTextDocument *document) | |
| QTextDocumentFragment(const QTextCursor &cursor) | |
| QTextDocumentFragment(const QTextDocumentFragment &other) | |
| ~QTextDocumentFragment() | |
| bool | isEmpty() const |
| QString | toHtml(const QByteArray &encoding = QByteArray()) const |
| QString | toPlainText() const |
| QTextDocumentFragment & | operator=(const QTextDocumentFragment &other) |
Static Public Members
| QTextDocumentFragment | fromHtml(const QString &text) |
| QTextDocumentFragment | fromHtml(const QString &text, const QTextDocument *resourceProvider) |
| QTextDocumentFragment | fromPlainText(const QString &plainText) |
Detailed Description
The QTextDocumentFragment class represents a piece of formatted text from a QTextDocument.
A QTextDocumentFragment is a fragment of rich text, that can be inserted into a QTextDocument. A document fragment can be created from a QTextDocument, from a QTextCursor's selection, or from another document fragment. Document fragments can also be created by the static functions, fromPlainText() and fromHtml().
The contents of a document fragment can be obtained as plain text by using the toPlainText() function, or it can be obtained as HTML with toHtml().
Member Function Documentation
QTextDocumentFragment::QTextDocumentFragment()
Constructs an empty QTextDocumentFragment.
See also isEmpty().
QTextDocumentFragment::QTextDocumentFragment(const QTextDocument *document)
Converts the given document into a QTextDocumentFragment. Note that the QTextDocumentFragment only stores the document contents, not meta information like the document's title.
QTextDocumentFragment::QTextDocumentFragment(const QTextCursor &cursor)
Creates a QTextDocumentFragment from the cursor's selection. If the cursor doesn't have a selection, the created fragment is empty.
See also isEmpty() and QTextCursor::selection().
QTextDocumentFragment::QTextDocumentFragment(const QTextDocumentFragment &other)
Copy constructor. Creates a copy of the other fragment.
QTextDocumentFragment::~QTextDocumentFragment()
Destroys the document fragment.
[static]
QTextDocumentFragment QTextDocumentFragment::fromHtml(const QString &text)
Returns a QTextDocumentFragment based on the arbitrary piece of HTML in the given text. The formatting is preserved as much as possible; for example, "bold" will become a document fragment with the text "bold" with a bold character format.
[static]
QTextDocumentFragment QTextDocumentFragment::fromHtml(const QString &text, const QTextDocument *resourceProvider)
Returns a QTextDocumentFragment based on the arbitrary piece of HTML in the given text. The formatting is preserved as much as possible; for example, "bold" will become a document fragment with the text "bold" with a bold character format.
If the provided HTML contains references to external resources such as imported style sheets, then they will be loaded through the resourceProvider.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.
[static]
QTextDocumentFragment QTextDocumentFragment::fromPlainText(const QString &plainText)
Returns a document fragment that contains the given plainText.
When inserting such a fragment into a QTextDocument the current char format of the QTextCursor used for insertion is used as format for the text.
bool QTextDocumentFragment::isEmpty() const
Returns true
if the fragment is empty; otherwise returns false
.
QString QTextDocumentFragment::toHtml(const QByteArray &encoding = QByteArray()) const
Returns the contents of the document fragment as HTML, using the specified encoding (e.g., "UTF-8", "ISO 8859-1").
This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.
See also toPlainText(), QTextDocument::toHtml(), and QTextCodec.
QString QTextDocumentFragment::toPlainText() const
Returns the document fragment's text as plain text (i.e. with no formatting information).
See also toHtml().
QTextDocumentFragment &QTextDocumentFragment::operator=(const QTextDocumentFragment &other)
Assigns the other fragment to this fragment.


Resizes and pads an image to a target width and height.
tf.compat.v2.image.resize_with_pad
tf.image.resize_with_pad( image, target_height, target_width, method=ResizeMethod.BILINEAR, antialias=False )
Resizes an image to a target width and height by keeping the aspect ratio the same without distortion. If the target dimensions don't match the image dimensions, the image is resized and then padded with zeroes to match requested dimensions.
image
: 4-D Tensor of shape [batch, height, width, channels]
or 3-D Tensor
of shape [height, width, channels]
.target_height
: Target height.target_width
: Target width.method
: Method to use for resizing image. See image.resize()
antialias
: Whether to use anti-aliasing when resizing. See 'image.resize()'.ValueError
: if target_height
or target_width
are zero or negative.Resized and padded image.
If images
was 4-D, a 4-D float Tensor of shape
[batch, new_height, new_width, channels]
.
If images
was 3-D, a 3-D float Tensor of shape
[new_height, new_width, channels]
.


projects
current
- xcl Common Lisp development environment
- terraform-nixos-provider NixOS provider for Terraform
- gdk Go Development Kit which I use for my projects
- goetia auth proxy server
- unregistry Docker registry with static configuration
- clickingest (not yet opensource, I am doing a full rewrite) configurable ClickHouse batcher which ingests client-side metrics
active
- nix-cage project-level sandboxes for development under NixOS
- uarand fake user-agent generator for Go
- revip simple configuration loader for Go with extendable formats, sources and postprocessing support
inactive
- peephole general purpose SOCKS5 proxy
- shortid generates short ID’s in Python
- parse toy parser builder which provides Go DSL inspired by eBNF
- fake fake data generator for Go
- smtpd extendable SMTP server component
- golisp LISP-inspired language and code generation tool for Go programming language
- makedebpkg arch linux
makepkg
adopted to build deb
packages


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Support to fetch most recent featured pictures, at startup, as collection is continuously updated by the community. Auto-fetching of the existing featured pictures on demand when viewed for the first time.
Support to mark any picture as a personal favourite and automatically arrange them in a separate Starred Pictures collection for fast retrieval.
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FLASHBACK: In 2014, ex-militants accused Onyema, Kuku of using Amnesty funds to set up Air Peace
by TheCableOn Friday, the United States department of justice announced that Allen Onyema, chief executive officer of Air Peace, one of the leading airlines in Nigeria, had been indicted for money laundering.
The US authorities, which have reportedly issued warrant for Onyema’s arrest, said he used several fraudulent letters of credit to American banks and initiated wire transfers to the tune of $44.9 million between 2010 and 2018.
The funds were reportedly transferred from the Nigerian bank accounts of organisations founded by Onyema. They include Foundation for Ethnic Harmony, International Center for Non-Violence and Peace Development, All-Time Peace Media Communications Limited, and Every Child Limited.
The Nigerian businessman has since denied the allegation, saying he is ready to clear his name.
But as far back as 2014, Diepreye Dikibo, spokesman of the ex-Militant Leaders Forum in the Niger Delta, alleged that Onyema and Kingsley Kuku, former adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, used funds meant for the amnesty programme to float Air Peace.
Kuku was the coordinator of the project while Onyema was a consultant.
In a statement, Dikibo alleged that Onyema’s Foundation for Ethnic Harmony was one of the biggest beneficiaries of contracts from presidential amnesty programme.
Below is the full statement from the spokesman of the ex-militant leaders:
Initially, there were rumors that Air Peace, a new Airline whose aircraft have recently been cited at Lagos Airports belong to the First Lady Patience Faka Jonathan. That is all not true. We believe at this moment, that those who churned out the story that the Airlines belonged to the First Lady did so deliberately to hide the truth and to mislead the people.
The truth did not take too long to come out. Business concerns owned by Allen Onyema, a Lagos based businessman, colleague and close confidant of the Special adviser to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme Kingsley Kuku have not been confirmed as responsible for the Airlines and more to that, Allen Onyema has now publicly confirmed that he is the Chairman of the Air Peace Airlines.
Allen Onyeama’s business outfit handled the demobilization and orientation of former Niger Delta militants which cost billions of Naira to run. Allen Onyema has also been responsible for high valued training contracts (running into billions) in the areas of welding training as well as aviation training for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in countries such as South Africa, The United States and Dubai.
Kingsley Kuku, Allen Onyema with House of Reps Committee Members on the Niger Delta visiting Proclad Academy, Dubai (Where Allen Onyema’s business outfit ICNPD) is training Niger Delta youths in Welding for millions of dollars.
Kingsley Kuku, Allen Onyema with House of Reps Committee Members on the Niger Delta visiting Proclad Academy, Dubai (Where Allen Onyema’s business outfit ICNPD) is training Niger Delta youths in Welding for millions of dollars. The appointment of Kingsley Kuku as SA, Niger Delta & Chairman of the Amnesty Programme in January 2011, was a huge blessing for Allen Onyema as it gives him automatic access to a monster chunk of the more sixty billion naira allocated to the amnesty programme yearly.
Two of Allen Onyeama’s NGOs which also double as business outfits are known to be the biggest beneficiary of large value Presidential Amnesty Contracts and we can confirm that none of these outfits has any ties to the First Lady Patience Jonathan.
They include the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) and the International Center for Non-violence & Peace Development (ICNPD).
All the contracts awarded to Allen Onyema and his business run into millions of dollars and are all grossly inflated and over valued in a manner designed to short change the Amnesty Programme and steal the billions of naira yearly allocated to the manage the amnesty program me in the Niger Delta.
Sources close to Kingsley Kuku and Allen Onyeama say that Kingsley Kuku’s fears that the President might not return in 2015 and the need to settle his future spurred Kuku and Onyeama to start the Airlines on time rather than wait for the Presidential election in 2015.
Over time, Ex-militant leaders in the Niger Delta had spoken up about the rot in the Presidential Amnesty Programme but were not listened to.
Rather, a band of lesser known and less credible leaders are being patronized by the Amnesty Programme and paid to issue press releases that threaten mayhem to Nigerians if President Jonathan is not elected in 2015 as though it was their votes that brought him to power in 2011.
As a group of committed leaders of the Niger Delta, we have over time resolved to work with all Nigerians for the success of President Jonathan in carrying out his responsibilities as a son of the Niger Delta, President of Nigeria and a father to all Nigerians. The journey to success in 2015 will be done in collaboration with all well meaning Nigerians because we believe, like many other Nigerians, that President Jonathan means well.
In the times past, we spoke about the false records of militants that the Amnesty Office parades but we were ignored.
We exposed the faulty award of scholarships to so-called Niger Deltans and we were again ignored even when we made it clear that Kingsley Kuku had been awarding scholarships to girlfriends, children of girlfriends and many others who had no business with the Niger Delta and that scholarship award.
Novena University is one of the Universities used by the Presidential amnesty Programme to train program recipients YET the children of the owner of Novena University are also included in Amnesty Programme.
A scion of a former political rival to President Jonathan, Timi Alaibe, Kingsley Kuku was not the first choice for the position of Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme. The first choice candidate had been Dr Felix Tuodolor, an Ijaw intellectual and highly cerebral first President of the Ijaw Youth Council. Felix Tuodolor was upstaged because there was a believe in certain Ijaw and Niger Delta quarters that he will not ‘SHARE’ money for the boys.
Kingsley Kuku it is, who likes to brag that he has the Chief of Army Staff in his pocket and that he settles the President’s wife very regularly. Quite sordid.
In January 2013, It was Allen Onyema who paid tens of thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign support group to enable Onyema and Kingsley Kuku to enjoy a photo-shot with President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives.
Clearly, It would therefore not be difficult to start an airline with such heavy financial support.
Question is, will Kuku and his Air Peace Airlines recruit all the Pilots they say that Amnesty has trained? Or will they allow the poor fellows to go out there themselves and make bread for their families?
Our collected call to the President is that Kingsley Kuku be immediately removed as SA to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme. A reject a thief lording over the collective destiny of the Niger Delta and we call on the President to do the needful as a matter of urgency.
Kingsley Kuku’s loyalty is clearly not to the President but to his pockets and to his former lords.
A word has always been good enough for the wise.
IF our call is not heeded, we will announce a withdrawal of our support for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the 2015 elections. We have suffered enough.


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Esperanza Gomez, 33, was drinking beers with her boyfriend until the early hours of Wednesday morning, November 13, in an apartment on Miami Beach.
According to a police report, another woman arrived at the apartment at around midnight before leaving sometime before 3am.
It’s unclear whether the woman was a friend of Gomez or her boyfriend, or both, but after their guest left Gomez became angry and accused her partner of wanting to have sex with the woman, NBC News reports.
According to the police report, the 33-year-old grabbed her boyfriend by his arms, yelled at him and ‘began to poke him with a knife’.
The man asked Gomez to stop and threatened to call the police if she didn’t.

According to the police report, the man was found to have red marks and redness on his upper chest, though thankfully he had no substantial injuries.
Gomez was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and battery. Her bond was set at $6,500.

Ms Lee, 58, attacked the man as revenge for him cheating on her when they were married. After learning about his infidelity, the woman reportedly used a pair of sharp scissors to cut her ex’s genitals off, leaving him with just one centimetre of flesh.
She then threw his genitals in the toilet before dousing them in acid and flushing them away. The man was later taken to hospital, where he was said to be in stable condition.
If you have been affected by any of the issues in this article and wish to speak to someone in confidence contact the Rape Crisis England and Wales helpline on 0808 802 9999 (12-2:30 and 7-9:30). Alternatively you can contact Victim Support on 08 08 16 89 111.
 You can contact the organisation on its website or on its helpline – 0808 800 5005.
Emily Brown first began delivering important news stories aged just 13, when she launched her career with a paper round. She graduated with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University, and went on to become a freelance writer and blogger. Emily contributed to The Sunday Times Travel Magazine and Student Problems before becoming a journalist at UNILAD, where she works on breaking news as well as longer form features.


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Pillowy and deep-fried pastry
Canadian bacon, ham or smoked salmon
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Chicken, Pork, Egg, Soup
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SHMultiply
SHMultiply - Multiply two functions and determine the resulting spherical harmonic coefficients.
SYNOPSIS
SUBROUTINE SHMultiply ( SHOUT, SH1, LMAX1, SH2, LMAX2, PRECOMP, NORM, CSPHASE ) REAL*8 SHOUT(2, LMAX1+LMAX2+1, LMAX1+LMAX2+1), SH1(2, LMAX1+1, LMAX1+1), SH2(2, LMAX2+1, LMAX2+1) INTEGER LMAX1, LMAX2 INTEGER, OPTIONAL PRECOMP, NORM, CSPHASE
DESCRIPTION
SHMultiply will take two sets of spherical harmonic coefficients, multiply them in the space domain, and expand the resulting field in spherical harmonics using SHExpandGLQ. The spherical harmonic bandwidth of the resulting field is LMAX1+LMAX2, where LMAX1 and LMAX2 are the bandwidths of the input fields. If the optional parameter PRECOMP is set, then the Legendre functions will be precomputed on the Gauss- Legendre quadrature nodes (these are thus calculated only once, as opposed to three times). The employed spherical harmonic normalization and Condon-Shortley phase convention can be set by the optional arguments NORM and CSPHASE; if not set, the default is to use geodesy 4-pi normalized harmonics that exclude the Condon-Shortley phase of (-1)^m.
ARGUMENTS
SHOUT (output) REAL*8, DIMENSION (2, LMAX1+LMAX2+1, LMAX1+LMAX2+1) The real spherical harmonic coefficients of the space domain mulitplication of SH1 and SH2. SH1 (input) REAL*8, DIMENSION (2, LMAX1+1, LMAX1+1) The spherical harmonic coefficients of the first function. LMAX1 (input) INTEGER The spherical harmonic bandwidth of SH1. SH2 (input) REAL*8, DIMENSION (2, LMAX2+1, LMAX2+1) The spherical harmonic coefficients of the second function. LMAX2 (input) INTEGER The spherical harmonic bandwidth of SH2. PRECOMP (input) INTEGER If 1, the Legendre functions will be precomputed on the Gauss-Legendre quadrature nodes. If 0, they will not be precomputed. NORM (input) INTEGER, OPTIONAL 1 (default) = Geodesy 4-pi normalized harmonics; 2 = Schmidt semi-normalized harmonics; 3 = unnormalized harmonics; 4 = orthonormal harmonics. CSPHASE (input) INTEGER, OPTIONAL 1 (default) = do not apply the Condon-Shortley phase factor to the associated Legendre functions; -1 = append the Condon-Shortley phase factor of (-1)^m to the associated Legendre functions.
NOTES
This routine makes use of the Gauss-Legendre quadrature routines MakeGridGLQ and SHExpandGLQ. While these could be substituted by MakeGridDH and SHExpandDH, the routines would be twice as slow.
SEE ALSO
shexpandglq(1), makegridglq(1), precompute(1) <http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~wieczor/SHTOOLS/SHTOOLS.html>
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restart-case
restartable-form {!clause} ⇒ {result}*
clause ::=( case-name lambda-list [[:interactive interactive-expression | :report report-expression | :test test-expression]] {declaration}* {form}*)
restartable-form—a form.
case-name—a symbol or nil.
lambda-list—an ordinary lambda list.
interactive-expression—a symbol or a lambda expression.
report-expression—a string, a symbol, or a lambda expression.
test-expression—a symbol or a lambda expression.
declaration—a declare expression; not evaluated.
form—a form.
results—the values resulting from the evaluation of restartable-form, or the values returned by the last form executed in a chosen clause, or nil.
restart-case evaluates restartable-form in a dynamic environment where the clauses have special meanings as points to which control may be transferred. If restartable-form finishes executing and returns any values, all values returned are returned by restart-case and processing has completed. While restartable-form is executing, any code may transfer control to one of the clauses (see invoke-restart). If a transfer occurs, the forms in the body of that clause is evaluated and any values returned by the last such form are returned by restart-case. In this case, the dynamic state is unwound appropriately (so that the restarts established around the restartable-form are no longer active) prior to execution of the clause.
If there are no forms in a selected clause, restart-case returns nil.
If case-name is a symbol, it names this restart.
It is possible to have more than one clause use the same case-name. In this case, the first clause with that name is found by find-restart. The other clauses are accessible using compute-restarts.
Each arglist is an ordinary lambda list to be bound during the execution of its corresponding forms. These parameters are used by the restart-case clause to receive any necessary data from a call to invoke-restart.
By default, invoke-restart-interactively passes no arguments and all arguments must be optional in order to accomodate interactive restarting. However, the arguments need not be optional if the :interactive keyword has been used to inform invoke-restart-interactively about how to compute a proper argument list.
Keyword options have the following meaning.
The value supplied by :interactive value must be a suitable argument to function. (function value) is evaluated in the current lexical environment. It should return a function of no arguments which returns arguments to be used by invoke-restart-interactively when it is invoked. invoke-restart-interactively is called in the dynamic environment available prior to any restart attempt, and uses query I/O for user interaction.
If a restart is invoked interactively but no :interactive option was supplied, the argument list used in the invocation is the empty list.
If the value supplied by :report value is a lambda expression or a symbol, it must be acceptable to function. (function value) is evaluated in the current lexical environment. It should return a function of one argument, a stream, which prints on the stream a description of the restart. This function is called whenever the restart is printed while *print-escape* is nil.
If value is a string, it is a shorthand for
(lambda (stream) (write-string value stream))
If a named restart is asked to report but no report information has been supplied, the name of the restart is used in generating default report text.
When *print-escape* is nil, the printer uses the report information for a restart. For example, a debugger might announce the action of typing a "continue" command by:
(format t "~&~S -- ~A~
which might then display as something like:
:CONTINUE -- Return to command level
The consequences are unspecified if an unnamed restart is specified but no :report option is provided.
The value supplied by :test value must be a suitable argument to function. (function value) is evaluated in the current lexical environment. It should return a function of one argument, the condition, that returns true if the restart is to be considered visible.
The default for this option is equivalent to (lambda (c) (declare (ignore c)) t).
If the restartable-form is a list whose car is any of the symbols signal, error, cerror, or warn (or is a macro form which macroexpands into such a list), then with-condition-restarts is used implicitly to associate the indicated restarts with the condition to be signaled.
(restart-case (handler-bind ((error #'(lambda (c) (declare (ignore condition)) (invoke-restart 'my-restart 7)))) (error "Foo.")) (my-restart (&optional v) v)) ⇒ 7 (define-condition food-error (error) ()) ⇒ FOOD-ERROR (define-condition bad-tasting-sundae (food-error) ((ice-cream :initarg :ice-cream :reader bad-tasting-sundae-ice-cream) (sauce :initarg :sauce :reader bad-tasting-sundae-sauce) (topping :initarg :topping :reader bad-tasting-sundae-topping)) (:report (lambda (condition stream) (format stream "Bad tasting sundae with ~S, ~S, and ~S" (bad-tasting-sundae-ice-cream condition) (bad-tasting-sundae-sauce condition) (bad-tasting-sundae-topping condition))))) ⇒ BAD-TASTING-SUNDAE (defun all-start-with-same-letter (symbol1 symbol2 symbol3) (let ((first-letter (char (symbol-name symbol1) 0))) (and (eql first-letter (char (symbol-name symbol2) 0)) (eql first-letter (char (symbol-name symbol3) 0))))) ⇒ ALL-START-WITH-SAME-LETTER (defun read-new-value () (format t "Enter a new value: ") (multiple-value-list (eval (read)))) ⇒ READ-NEW-VALUE
(defun verify-or-fix-perfect-sundae (ice-cream sauce topping) (do () ((all-start-with-same-letter ice-cream sauce topping)) (restart-case (error 'bad-tasting-sundae :ice-cream ice-cream :sauce sauce :topping topping) (use-new-ice-cream (new-ice-cream) :report "Use a new ice cream." :interactive read-new-value (setq ice-cream new-ice-cream)) (use-new-sauce (new-sauce) :report "Use a new sauce." :interactive read-new-value (setq sauce new-sauce)) (use-new-topping (new-topping) :report "Use a new topping." :interactive read-new-value (setq topping new-topping)))) (values ice-cream sauce topping)) ⇒ VERIFY-OR-FIX-PERFECT-SUNDAE (verify-or-fix-perfect-sundae 'vanilla 'caramel 'cherry) |> Error: Bad tasting sundae with VANILLA, CARAMEL, and CHERRY. |> To continue, type :CONTINUE followed by an option number: |> 1: Use a new ice cream. |> 2: Use a new sauce. |> 3: Use a new topping. |> 4: Return to Lisp Toplevel. |> Debug> |>>:continue 1<<| |> Use a new ice cream. |> Enter a new ice cream: |>>'chocolate<<| ⇒ CHOCOLATE, CARAMEL, CHERRY
restart-bind, with-simple-restart .
(restart-case expression (name1 arglist1 ...options1... . body1) (name2 arglist2 ...options2... . body2))
is essentially equivalent to
(block #1=#:g0001 (let ((#2=#:g0002 nil)) (tagbody (restart-bind ((name1 #'(lambda (&rest temp) (setq #2# temp) (go #3=#:g0003)) ...slightly-transformed-options1...) (name2 #'(lambda (&rest temp) (setq #2# temp) (go #4=#:g0004)) ...slightly-transformed-options2...)) (return-from #1# expression)) #3# (return-from #1# (apply #'(lambda arglist1 . body1) #2#)) #4# (return-from #1# (apply #'(lambda arglist2 . body2) #2#)))))
Unnamed restarts are generally only useful interactively and an interactive option which has no description is of little value. Implementations are encouraged to warn if an unnamed restart is used and no report information is provided at compilation time. At runtime, this error might be noticed when entering the debugger. Since signaling an error would probably cause recursive entry into the debugger (causing yet another recursive error, etc.) it is suggested that the debugger print some indication of such problems when they occur but not actually signal errors.
(restart-case (signal fred) (a ...) (b ...)) ≡ (restart-case (with-condition-restarts fred (list (find-restart 'a) (find-restart 'b)) (signal fred)) (a ...) (b ...))
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This process writes the maximum results along a line to generate a graph.
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Initialize the list of maximum values.
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Look for the maximum value.
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POL2081 seminar: Statistical inference
Week 4: Cross tabulations and statistical inference
Toady
- Statistical inference
- Cross tabulation
- Vassilopoulou & Wagner paper
Vasilopoulou, S., & Wagner, M. (2017). Fear, anger and enthusiasm about the European Union: Effects of emotional reactions on public preferences towards European integration.
In groups of 3-4 people, choose one of the three hypotheses from the paper to work on
- H1: Anxious citizens are more likely to favour renegotiation than angry citizens (1a), and angry citizens are more likely to favour leaving the EU than anxious citizens (1b), while enthusiastic citizens are less likely to favour renegotiation or leaving the EU than anxious or angry citizens (1c).
- H2: The attitudes of angry and enthusiastic citizens towards the EU are less conditional on utilitarian considerations concerning EU integration than those of anxious citizens (2a), and the attitudes of angry and enthusiastic citizens towards the EU are more conditional on affect-based considerations concerning EU integration than those of anxious citizens (2b).
- H3: Angry and enthusiastic citizens’ opinion on European integration is likely to be more uniform across policy areas than that of anxious citizens.
Group work 1 - In groups, discuss the following about your hypothesis:
- What does the hypothesis claim in your own words?
- What is the dependent variable, independent variable, and unit of analysis?
- How do they define the concepts of the dependent and independent variable?
- How do they measure these concepts?
- Do you think this is a good hypothesis?
Group work 2 - In groups, discuss the following about your hypothesis:
- How do they test the hypothesis?
- How do they statistical significance?
- What is their conclusion?
- Do you find the overall argument convincing?
Questions?
Key concepts
- Cross tabulationn
- Statistical inference
- p-value
- Confidence interval
- Chi-square
Next seminar: Bivariate Analysis
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Frank Detorri's (Bill Murray) a single dad who lives on beer and junk food with no apparent understanding of sanitation or hygiene, much to the dismay of his preteen daughter Shane (Elena Franklin). When he uses the '10 second rule' to retrieve a hard boiled egg from a chimp's cage at the zoo and downs it, he introduces a lethal bacteria into his system. Inside his skin, the City of Frank is in turmoil thanks to the vote-pandering of Mayor Phlegmming (voice of William Shatner), so it's up to one Frank PD white blood cell (voice of Chris Rock) to save the day in Peter and Bobby Farrelly's "Osmosis Jones."
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With the ideas illustrated so far, we can implement any iterative process by specifying a register machine that has a register corresponding to each state variable of the process. The machine repeatedly executes a controller loop, changing the contents of the registers, until some termination condition is satisfied. At each point in the controller sequence, the state of the machine (representing the state of the iterative process) is completely determined by the contents of the registers (the values of the state variables).
Implementing recursive processes, however, requires an additional mechanism. Consider the following recursive method for computing factorials, which we first examined in section \ref{sec:recursion-and-iteration}:
As we see from the function, computing $n!$ requires computing $(n-1)!$. Our GCD machine, modeled on the function
In the case of factorial (or any recursive process) the answer to the new factorial subproblem is not the answer to the original problem. The value obtained for $(n-1)!$ must be multiplied by $n$ to get the final answer. If we try to imitate the GCD design, and solve the factorial subproblem by decrementing the n register and rerunning the factorial machine, we will no longer have available the old value of n by which to multiply the result. We thus need a second factorial machine to work on the subproblem. This second factorial computation itself has a factorial subproblem, which requires a third factorial machine, and so on. Since each factorial machine contains another factorial machine within it, the total machine contains an infinite nest of similar machines and hence cannot be constructed from a fixed, finite number of parts.
Nevertheless, we can implement the factorial process as a register machine if we can arrange to use the same components for each nested instance of the machine. Specifically, the machine that computes $n!$ should use the same components to work on the subproblem of computing $(n-1)!$, on the subproblem for $(n-2)!$, and so on. This is plausible because, although the factorial process dictates that an unbounded number of copies of the same machine are needed to perform a computation, only one of these copies needs to be active at any given time. When the machine encounters a recursive subproblem, it can suspend work on the main problem, reuse the same physical parts to work on the subproblem, then continue the suspended computation.
In the subproblem, the contents of the registers will be different than they were in the main problem. (In this case the n register is decremented.) In order to be able to continue the suspended computation, the machine must save the contents of any registers that will be needed after the subproblem is solved so that these can be restored to continue the suspended computation. In the case of factorial, we will save the old value of n, to be restored when we are finished computing the factorial of the decremented n register.[1]
Since there is no a priori limit on the depth of nested
recursive calls, we may need to save an arbitrary number of register
values. These values must be restored in the reverse of the order in
which they were saved, since in a nest of recursions the last
subproblem to be entered is the first to be finished. This dictates
the use of a stack, or last in, first out
data structure, to
save register values. We can extend the register-machine language to
include a stack by adding two kinds of instructions: Values are placed
on the stack using a save instruction and restored from the
stack using a restore instruction. After a sequence of values
has been saved on the stack, a sequence of restores will
retrieve these values in reverse order.[2]
With the aid of the stack, we can reuse a single copy of the factorial
machine's data paths for each factorial subproblem. There is a
similar design issue in reusing the controller sequence that operates
the data paths. To reexecute the factorial computation, the
controller cannot simply loop back to the beginning, as with
an iterative process, because after solving the $(n-1)!$ subproblem
the machine must still multiply the result by $n$. The controller
must suspend its computation of $n!$, solve the $(n-1)!$ subproblem,
then continue its computation of $n!$. This view of the factorial
computation suggests the use of the subroutine mechanism described in
section \ref{sec:subroutines}, which has the controller use a
continue register to transfer to the part of the sequence that
solves a subproblem and then continue where it left off on the main
problem. We can thus make a factorial subroutine that returns to the
entry point stored in the continue register. Around each subroutine
call, register, since each level
of the factorial computation will use
the same continue register. That is, the factorial subroutine
must put a new value in continue when it calls itself for a
subproblem, but it will need the old value in order to return to the
place that called it to solve a subproblem.
Figure \ref{fig:fact-machine} shows the data paths and controller for a machine that implements the recursive factorial function. The machine has a stack and three registers, called n, val, and continue. To simplify the data-path diagram, we have not named the register-assignment buttons, only the stack-operation buttons (sc and sn to save registers, rc and rn to restore registers). To operate the machine, we put in register n the number whose factorial we wish to compute and start the machine. When the machine reaches fact-done, the computation is finished and the answer will be found in the val register. In the controller sequence, n and continue are saved before each recursive call and restored upon return from the call. Returning from a call is accomplished by branching to the location stored in continue. Continue is initialized when the machine starts so that the last return will go to fact-done. The val register, which holds the result of the factorial computation, is not saved before the recursive call, because the old contents of val is not useful after the subroutine returns. Only the new value, which is the value produced by the subcomputation, is needed.
Although in principle the factorial computation requires an infinite machine, the machine in Figure \ref{fig:fact-machine} is actually finite except for the stack, which is potentially unbounded. Any particular physical implementation of a stack, however, will be of finite size, and this will limit the depth of recursive calls that can be handled by the machine. This implementation of factorial illustrates the general strategy for realizing recursive algorithms as ordinary register machines augmented by stacks. When a recursive subproblem is encountered, we save on the stack the registers whose current values will be required after the subproblem is solved, solve the recursive subproblem, then restore the saved registers and continue execution on the main problem. The continue register must always be saved. Whether there are other registers that need to be saved depends on the particular machine, since not all recursive computations need the original values of registers that are modified during solution of the subproblem (see exercise \ref{ex:design-reg-machines}).
Let us examine a more complex recursive process, the tree-recursive computation of the Fibonacci numbers, which we introduced in section \ref{sec:tree-recursion}:
Just as with factorial, we can implement the recursive Fibonacci
computation as a register machine with registers n, val,
and continue. The machine is more complex than the one for
factorial, because there are two places in the controller sequence
where we need to perform recursive calls—once to compute Fib$(n-1)$
and once to compute Fib$(n-2)$. To set up for each of these calls, we
save the registers whose values will be needed later, set the n
register to the number whose Fib we need to compute recursively ($n-1$
or $n-2$), and assign to continue the entry point in the main sequence
to which to return (afterfib-n-1 or afterfib-n-2,
respectively). We then go to fib-loop. When we return from the
recursive call, the answer is in val.
Figure \ref{fig:fib-machine} shows the controller sequence for this
machine.
\caption{A recursive factorial machine.}
\label{fig:fact-machine}
\end{figure}
controller( list( assign("continue", label("fib-done")), "fib-loop", test(list(op("<"), reg("n"), constant(2))), branch(label("immediate-answer")), // set up to compute Fib(n-1) save("continue"), assign("continue", label("afterfib-n-1")), save("n"), // save old value of n // clobber n to n - 1 assign("n", list(op("-"), reg("n"), constant(1))), go_to(label("fib-loop")), // perform recursive call "afterfib-n-1", // upon return, "val" contains Fib(n-1) restore("n"), restore("continue"), // set up to compute Fib(n-2) assign("n", list(op("-"), reg("n"), constant(2))), save("continue"), assign("continue", label("afterfib-n-2")), save("val"), // save Fib(n-1) go_to(label("fib-loop")), "afterfib-n-2", // upon return, "val" contains Fib(n-2) assign("n", reg("val")), // "n" now contains Fib(n-2) restore("val"), // "val" now contains Fib(n-1) restore("continue"), assign("val", // Fib(n-1) + Fib(n-2) list(op("+"), reg("val"), reg("n"))), go_to(reg("continue")), // return to caller, answer is in "val" "immediate-answer", assign("val", reg("n")), // base case: Fib(n) = n go_to(reg("continue")), "fib-done"));\caption{Controller for a machine to compute Fibonacci numbers.} \label{fig:fib-machine} \end{figure}


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