Malta arrest could yield lead in reporter assassination
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) - Maltese authorities say a man arrested in a money-laundering case claims to have information identifying the mastermind behind the car-bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Tuesday that he signed a letter offering an official pardon to the suspect if evidence emerges leading to the arrest of the mastermind behind the October 2017 assassination.
The suspect, who has not been identified, was arrested last week in a crackdown on money laundering and is being held under police protection.
Three people were arrested in December 2017 on suspicion of carrying out the killing of Caruana Galizia, but the mastermind has yet to be identified.
Caruana Galizia's reporting accused Malta's politicians across the spectrum of corruption and of undermining democratic institutions.
Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Class
RightArrayBinaryTreeA special format to encode the structure of a wavelet tree. The structure is very space efficient because
only one position is stored which encodes where the left and right subtree of a given node exist.
A special format to encode the structure of a wavelet tree. The structure is very space efficient because
only one position is stored which encodes where the left and right subtree of a given node exist.
| Defined in | <seqan/index.h> |
|---|---|
| Signature |
template <typename TChar, typename TSpec>
class RightArrayBinaryTree;
|
Template Parameters
TValue |
The type of the stored characters. |
|---|---|
TSpec |
The wavelet tree structure specialisation. Default: void. |
Interface Function Overview
-
TIterator begin(rightArrayBinaryTree, iterSpec);
The begin (root) of a RightArrayBinaryTree. -
void clear(rightArrayBinaryTree);
Resets a right-array-binary tree. -
void createRightArrayBinaryTree(rightArrayBinaryTree, text);
Computes the right-array-binary tree of a text. -
bool empty(rightArrayBinaryTree);
Checks whether or not a right-array-binary tree contains any elements. -
TIterator end(rightArrayBinaryTree, iterSpec);
The end (rigthmost leaf) of a RightArrayBinaryTree. -
TFibre getFibre(rightArrayBinaryTree, fibreTag);
Returns a specific fibre of a right-array-binary tree. -
TSize length(rightArrayBinaryTree);
Returns the number of nodes in the right-array-binary-tree. -
bool open(rightArrayBinaryTree, fileName [, openMode])
This functions loads a RightArrayBinaryTree from disk. -
bool save(rightArrayBinaryTree, fileName [, openMode])
This functions saves a RightArrayBinaryTree to disk.
Interface Functions Detail
TIterator begin(rightArrayBinaryTree, iterSpec);
The begin (root) of a RightArrayBinaryTree.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The right-array-binary tree. |
|---|---|
iterSpec
|
A specialisation tag. Types: TopDown<>, TopDown<ParentLinks<> >. |
Returns
TIterator |
An iterator to the first item in object. Metafunctions: Metafunction.Iterator |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
void clear(rightArrayBinaryTree);
Resets a right-array-binary tree.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The RightArrayBinaryTree to be cleared. |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
void createRightArrayBinaryTree(rightArrayBinaryTree, text);
Computes the right-array-binary tree of a text.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
A wavelet tree structure. |
|---|---|
text
|
A text. |
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
bool empty(rightArrayBinaryTree);
Checks whether or not a right-array-binary tree contains any elements.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The right-array-binary tree to be queried. |
|---|
Returns
bool |
Returns true if the rank-support-bit string is empty and false otherwise. |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
TIterator end(rightArrayBinaryTree, iterSpec);
The end (rigthmost leaf) of a RightArrayBinaryTree.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The right-array-binary tree. |
|---|---|
iterSpec
|
A specialisation tag. Types: TopDown<>, TopDown<ParentLinks<> >. |
Returns
TIterator |
An iterator to the first item in object. Metafunctions: Metafunction.Iterator |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
TFibre getFibre(rightArrayBinaryTree, fibreTag);
Returns a specific fibre of a right-array-binary tree.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The container holding the fibre. |
|---|---|
fibreTag
|
A tag that identifies the Fibre. Types: RightArrayBinaryTree Fibres. |
Returns
TFibre |
A reference to the Fibre object. |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
TSize length(rightArrayBinaryTree);
Returns the number of nodes in the right-array-binary-tree.
Parameters
tree
|
The right-array-binary-tree to query for its size. |
|---|
Returns
TSize |
The number of nodes in the right-array-binary-tree. |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
bool open(rightArrayBinaryTree, fileName [, openMode])
This functions loads a RightArrayBinaryTree from disk.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The RightArrayBinaryTree. |
|---|---|
fileName
|
C-style character string containing the file name. |
openMode
|
The combination of flags defining how the file should be opened. To open a file read-only, write-only or to read and write use OPEN_RDONLY, OPEN_WRONLY, or OPEN_RDWR. To create or overwrite a file add OPEN_CREATE. To append a file if existing add OPEN_APPEND. To circumvent problems, files are always opened in binary mode. Default: OPEN_RDWR | OPEN_CREATE | OPEN_APPEND. |
Returns
bool |
A bool which is true on success. |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!
bool save(rightArrayBinaryTree, fileName [, openMode])
This functions saves a RightArrayBinaryTree to disk.
Parameters
rightArrayBinaryTree
|
The RightArrayBinaryTree. |
|---|---|
fileName
|
C-style character string containing the file name. |
openMode
|
The combination of flags defining how the file should be opened. To open a file read-only, write-only or to read and write use OPEN_RDONLY, OPEN_WRONLY, or OPEN_RDWR. To create or overwrite a file add OPEN_CREATE. To append a file if existing add OPEN_APPEND. To circumvent problems, files are always opened in binary mode. Default: OPEN_RDWR | OPEN_CREATE | OPEN_APPEND. |
Returns
bool |
A bool which is true on success. |
|---|
Data Races
Thread safety unknown!


TRAINSPOTTING A film review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1996 Scott Renshaw
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle. Screenplay: John Hodge. Director: Danny Boyle. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
Nihilism does not equal art. I want to get that point out of the way, because it appears to be a widely-held belief that critics feel exactly the opposite. People note the praise lavished upon films like NATURAL BORN KILLERS, KIDS and SEVEN and conclude that there is some conspiracy among the film cognoscenti to force bleakness down the collective throat of the viewing public. While I can speak for no critic but myself (I admired SEVEN, but not NBK or KIDS), I believe that the common thread is actually daring. Film-makers dealing with unpleasant subject matter are almost forced to be inventive to keep the audience watching. Others, if they choose, may praise TRAINSPOTTING for its squalor; I prefer to praise it for the invigorating perspectives of a writer and a director with ideas and the ability to convey them.
The ostensible hero of TRAINSPOTTING is Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man in Edinburgh who, as his opening monologue announces, has chosen "not to choose." Instead, he has chosen to remain perpetually high on heroin with his friends Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), unemployed and uncaring. Though he attempts to go straight on occasion, he always returns to his one and only love, even when discouraged by non-using friends like Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). It is only when he is caught shoplifting that Renton is forced to go cold turkey, and to confront every unpleasant reality of his life.
TRAINSPOTTING, a smash hit in Britain, has received a great deal of comparison to A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, both of them tales of amoral youth with a likeable, philosophically inclined first-person narrator. It is a connection director Danny Boyle obviously doesn't discourage, since one scene is set in a nightclub styled after CLOCKWORK's Korova Milkbar, and he is going for a similar kind of social criticism. Though Renton begins the film with a rant against materialism and suburban values, it is always clear that his heroin habit has nothing to do with protest. In one memorable scene, Spud goes to a job interview required by social services if he is to remain eligible for unemployment, and he is forced to do his best to make sure that he doesn't actually get the job. They are unapologetic leeches, but Boyle and writer John Hodge (adapting the novel by Irvine Welsh) also show the hypocrisy of those who criticize Renton, each with his or her own addiction problem: Begbie is a drunkard, Tommy smokes, and Renton's mother takes Valium. No one is clean; it's all a question of degree.
But if there is one thing Boyle does masterfully, it is showing exactly how brutal this particular degree can be. The users' relationship with the drug might be romanticized -- including a scene in which Renton feels himself sinking into the floor -- there is nothing romanticized about the effects of heroin addiction. Boyle's most effective scenes show users literally wallowing in their own filth: Renton as he rumages through a toilet to find the heroin suppositories he just lost, eventually being swallowed by the bowl; and Spud waking up in a strange bed to find a rather disgusting mess. In some of these scenes there is a comic edge, but Boyle counters them with some absolutely chilling moments, including a tragedy for which the only response anyone can think of is to get high again, and a nightmarish detox hallucination by Renton which is guaranteed to have you squirming. With a virtuoso's skill, Boyle is able to take viewers deeply enough into the experience of heroin users that they can see both the horrible toll the drug takes and the sensation which makes it all worthwhile to them.
TRAINSPOTTING's third act, focusing on a heroin deal which interferes in Renton's attempt to live a straight life, is something of an unfortunate side trip, as the film loses much of the urgency it had done such an exceptional job of building. It does give Robert Carlyle's hair-trigger psychotic Begbie a showcase, but the whole episode feels like padding in a much edgier film. There is one thing that sub-plot does quite a good job of demonstrating, however, and that is how truly meaningless drug friends can be to each other; once they're not high, the lads in TRAINSPOTTING are ready to screw each other over in a moment. It also provides a perfect comic coda for Renton's stab at respectability, because it's clear he doesn't have the moral fiber for it. That actually shows what a neat trick Boyle has pulled off: he has made a moral film without moralizing, even though it might not look like one on the surface. Bleak may not always be beautiful, but in TRAINSPOTTING it is necessary to make the point, a point as sharp as a needle in the arm.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 needles and the damage done: 9.
-- Scott Renshaw Stanford University http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~srenshaw
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A Simple Network Scanner written in python for
detecting devices connected to your home network
This tool allows you to gain information about all the connected devices on your local network.
Supported OS: Windows
This tool allows you to know which ports of a local device are open on a local network and which services are running.
Supported OS: Windows
Look at devices connected to your home network
1. Make sure you are connected to your home network
2. The 'scan for hosts' button should automatically detect your network details and print it in the details section.
3. If connected to a network the scan should start and devices connected to the network should appear in the 'Network Device Details' section.
Look at open ports and services running on any ip address
1. Make sure you are connected to your home network
2. The 'scan for hosts' button should automatically detect your network details and print it in the details section.
3. If connected to a network the scan should start and devices connected to the network should appear in the 'Network Device Details' section.


Time for a little more meat and potatoes with this milk. What really inspired me to start this blog was a post I came across. I must admit the idea of keeping my blog in a single file sounded extremely sexy, so armed with this article I googled my way to this point. All without ever having used org-mode at all or realizing org-mode is like some sort of strange markdown it seems like. And now I am hooked.
So the wtf:
Apparently I had messed up some property or a tag in combination with something funky in jekyll. Which somehow was getting blog posts for today rendered tomorrow. No idea, I opened a talk thing over with the jekyll folks, ran through a bunch of rm -rf, changed stuff, ended up removing all the properties added by the endless/export-to-blog to my sub headings and running the command again, and some how through all of that ::prezto:: it was working.
I think it really started when I noticed that my eagerness to write stuff and post had resulted in multiple posts for today and they were out of order so I hit up the google magic and located an old github issue and it seemed to be fixed. So that was nice however I realized the problem was with the script I had found on previously mentioned blog SO… I did a quick hack and somewhere after that it broke, then it fixed itself. I think it had to do with updating posts that had already been marked by the script with a file name or something I dunno. Long story short… "Too late!" I undid my hack and polished it up a bit and submitted a pull request for great justice.
 I would check the original first to see if merged or perhaps he wrote it in a better way. Though I assume very few people are posting multiple times a day from org-mode using his handy helper, but I'm continuously wrong, so we shall see.
UPDATE: So I think I tracked down what was going on. Originally the script mentioned above was attempting to glean a date off of the scheduled time, and since I'm not sure how to make the script insert a scheduled date and time, I noticed there was a closed field added that had an actual time stamp.
Armed with this, I modified it to check for the presence of that before the scheduled field and use that for the subsequent code. Though I'm certain there must be a way to just insert a real time-stamp into the scheduled field instead of just a date. Will research tomorrow.


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Berlin Wall Reinforced. Under The Watchful Eye of Communist Police, East German Workers Near The Brandenburg Gate Reinforce The Wall Dividing The City, 10/1961.
Item From: Records of the U.S. Information Agency. (1982-1994).
A signature of an era, the Berlin Wall symbolized the descending of the Iron Curtain. Construction on the Wall started on this date in 1961.
Source:http://go.usa.gov/D5n5


Toronto police seize semi-automatic rifle during Friday raid, charge six people
by The Canadian PressToronto police say they have charged six people with a number of weapons offences after allegedly discovering a semi-automatic rifle during a raid last week.
Officers allegedly found a 9-mm semi-automatic rifle while executing a search warrant Friday afternoon on a Toronto home.
Police also allege that in addition to the gun they discovered 24 rounds of ammunition in the home.
Two men, a woman and three teenage boys were all arrested and charged with the weapons offences.
Police say all six people appeared in court Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 17, 2019.


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I am a recent alumni of Loreto Convet Msongari having graduated highschool in the year 2021.I have had a great interest in emerging technology.
Following this interest, I decided to enroll in the Software Development class at Moringa School to further my passion for programming.
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layout: game-page
redirect_from: /game/retreat
title: Retreat
year: 2010
semester: Spring
description: "Your planet is under overwhelming alien attack, leaving no choice but to evacuate the entire population or face certain annihilation.
Take on the role of a rescue craft and save as many lives as possible from destruction at the hands of the merciless alien invaders."
tags: Windows Singleplayer
# tag options: "Windows", "Mac", "Linux",
# "Singleplayer", "Multiplayer",
# "Controller-Compatible", "VR",
# "Game-Jam"
project_members: {
Christoph Sommer: Programming,
Connor Fallon: Design,
Duncan Boehle: Programming,
Paul Kennedy: Programming,
Val Reznitskaya: "Programming, Art"
}
stage_game_path: retreat/
builds: {
Windows: retreat.win32.zip
}
screenshots: [
screenshot1.jpg
]
awards: [
GCS Gold Award
]
top-img-fit: cover
# top-img-fit options:
# "cover" - Cover the entire top area with the image, without squashing/stretching
# "fill" - Fit the FULL image into the top area, squashing/stretching as necessary
---


{% extends "music_base.html" %} {% block title %} {% endblock %} {% block page_content %}
I write and perform my own music as a solo artist, but have played in various bands over the years. My music is heavily influenced by legendary blues guitarists, I'm a guitar nerd at heart and love to hear the instrument played in its purest form. As a one-man-band however, I like to add an electronic twist to give a fresh and original edge to my music, the main goal being listenability!
As well as performing my own music, I am also available for sessions and contracts, for example, I can produce backing tracks for singers, or provide guitar services for recording or performances.


VW Arrives In Las Vegas With Quartet Of SEMA-Bound Concepts
There are three modded Atlases and one tricked-out Jetta GLI.
by Anthony AlanizVolkswagen won’t be missing this year’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The German automaker has four vehicles it's bringing to the show – the Volkswagen Atlas Basecamp and Atlas Adventure concepts, the Volkswagen Atlas Concept by Thule, and the Volkswagen Jetta GLI by H&R Special Springs. None are stock, with each offering something different for show attendees. Not only is the automaker supporting several custom builds at the show, but VW will also have its own booth.
Here's What Else Is Heading To SEMA:
Volkswagen Atlas Adventure Concept
Gallery: Volkswagen Atlas Adventure And Atlas Basecamp And Concepts
The VW Atlas Adventure concept takes the modern-day overland vehicle to the next level with an on-board Dji Mavic drone that has an exterior mounted REVL action video camera system. The modded Atlas features Baja Designs lights, an Overland Equipment fold-over rooftop tent, and Thule awning system. The suspension is raised thanks to H&R’s Adventure Line coil over suspension components while beefy Yokohama tires fill out the wheel wells.
Volkswagen Atlas Concept by Thule
Gallery: Volkswagen Atlas Concept By Thule
This concept by Thule is designed for both city living and weekend adventures. While 20-inch satin black wheels from Vossen highlight the raised suspension, thanks to H&R springs, the real delight comes from the accessories such as the Thule Wingbar Evo roof rack and HideAway 8.5-foot awning. Other goodies include the T2 Pro XT hitch bike rack, Baja Design lights, and a Tepui Autana 4 rooftop tent. Inside, there are several VW accessories.
Volkswagen Jetta GLI by H&R Special Springs
Gallery: Volkswagen Jetta GLI By H&R Special Springs
Not everything at SEMA is a wild, high-horsepower machine itching to dominate at the local test-and-tune. This Volkswagen Jetta GLI gets some love from H&R Special Springs, which adds H&R Street Performance coilovers, H&R Sport sway bars, and H&R TRAK+ wheel spacers. The aftermarket company started with a 2019 Jetta GLI before altering its look with a new stance and graphic package. Just like the Atlas by Thule, you’ll find an assortment of VW accessories inside.
Volkswagen Atlas Basecamp Concept
Volkswagen already debuted the Atlast Basecamp concept earlier, previewing possible accessories for future Atlas owners who may be interested in taking the off-road path less traveled. It will arrive with its trio of stablemates in Vegas for this year’s SEMA. The fifteen52 Traverse MX Concept wheels that debuted on the concept will go into production this fall from fifteen52.
All four will be at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas that happens this week.
Source: Volkswagen
Show press release
VOLKSWAGEN EQUIPS OVERLAND THEMED ATLASES, JETTA GLI FOR SEMA
Nov 4, 2019
Atlas Basecamp Concept returns with additional overland themed builds by Volkswagen Innovation and Engineering Center, California, and Thule®
H&R® Special Springs tuned GLI plays up the sedan’s performance positioning and appeal
Herndon, VA — Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. is pleased to exhibit at this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show® in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to having a booth presence at the exhibition, Volkswagen brand has supported a number of custom builds to be displayed throughout the show.
“SEMA is always a great platform to demonstrate the versatility and appeal of our vehicles,” says Robert Gal, Senior Manager, Performance & Accessories, Volkswagen Sales & Marketing. “The product mix we’ve been able to support this year shows that no matter where your automotive interests lie, there’s a Volkswagen for you.”
The following Volkswagen supported custom builds will be on display from November 5 to November 8 at various locations in and around the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Volkswagen Atlas Basecamp Concept
Using a Volkswagen Atlas SEL Premium as its canvas, the Atlas Basecamp Concept is painted Platinum Gray and Black Uni with matte finish and orange accents. The SEL Premium trim comes standard with a 3.6-liter VR6® engine making 276 HP, and an eight-speed automatic transmission, paired to Volkswagen’s 4Motion® all-wheel drive system with Drive Mode Selection. The fifteen52 Traverse MX Concept wheels, first debuted on the Basecamp Concept last year, are expected go into series production and offered by fifteen52 this fall. The wheels are wrapped in rugged 265/70R17 all-terrain tires.
Additional accessories on the Atlas Basecamp Concept include a custom body kit by Air Design USA, an H&R Adventure Line raising coil over suspension that increases the ride height approximately 1.5 inches, Front Runner® Slimline II roof rack system with bike holders, off-road LED light bars on the front and rear, and protective interior add-ons from Volkswagen Accessories.
Volkswagen Atlas Adventure Concept
Created by Volkswagen Innovation and Engineering Center California, the Atlas Adventure Concept delivers a fresh take on overland themed tuning to the brand’s first midsize SUV. Lifted via H&R Adventure Line raising coil over suspension components, the build’s beefy Yokohama brand tires are accented by Air Design USA fender flares. An onboard Dji Mavic drone with exterior mounted REVL action video camera system will automatically capture, edit and store the vehicle’s journey to share with others. A custom wrap with Elevation Graphics and Baja Designs lighting equipment add to the off-road theme, while an Overland Equipment fold-over rooftop tent and Thule awning system allow the concept to be at home, virtually anywhere it treks to. Protective interior add-ons are provided by Volkswagen Accessories.
Volkswagen Atlas Concept by Thule
Transport accessories manufacturer Thule set out to create a Volkswagen Atlas elegant enough for a metropolitan lifestyle, but perfectly equipped to take on outdoor adventures and support active lifestyles. Raised on H&R springs, the build’s 20” satin black CV10 wheels by Vossen highlight the theme of contrast, echoed by blacked-out trim and gloss black wrapped roof. Thule Wingbar Evo roof rack, HideAway 8.5’ awning and T2 Pro XT hitch bike rack ready the Atlas for adventure, with Baja Design lights and a Tepui Autana 4 rooftop tent included for overnight stays. The Atlas is further enhanced inside and out with a number of official Volkswagen Accessories.
Volkswagen Jetta GLI by H&R Special Springs
Known for its comprehensive suspension offerings, H&R took the already sporty, performance-oriented vibe of the Jetta GLI and enhanced it further. Starting with a 2019 Jetta GLI S with 6-speed manual transmission, the brand fine-tuned the car’s stance via H&R Street Performance Coil Overs, H&R Sport Sway Bars, and H&R TRAK+® wheel spacers. Wheels are 20” Rotiform RSEs in an anthracite finish that perfectly compliment the factory Pure Grey paint of the GLI. Additional flair is delivered by Sticky Jewel graphics and a number of interior Volkswagen Accessories.


The cover picture is taken from Michael Nielsen's book
Neural Networks and Deep Learning.
Gradient descent,
also known as steepest descent, is a first-order optimization algorithm mostly used to
find a local minimum of a given contunious, differentiable function. For convex functions,
the local minimum is also the global minimum. Therefore gradient descent is widely used
to solve the unconstrained optimization problem. One of its versions is also the most commonly
used algorithm to train the neural networks in deep learning.
Gradient descent is a powerful but very simple algorithm. Given a function $C(\vec x)$ having
first order partial derivatives (w.r.t $\vec x$), assuming the function has global minimum, then
gradient descent finds a global minimum with the following iterations:
$$ \vec x_0 := [random ~initialization]\\
\vec x_{t+1} := \vec x_t - \eta\nabla_C(\vec x_t)$$
where $\eta$ controls the step size of each iteration. In some well-designed versions of gradient
descent, $\eta$ may vary at each iteration.
It is quite simple and clear enough for anybody who can work out the gradient to realize
such algorithm. However simple and straightforward, I find myself unconvinced.
How comes it with this form? How does it make sense?
Why does $\vec x$ minus (rather than plus) the term $\eta\nabla_C(\vec x_t)$?
After a few derivations, I gained some insights into it. Recall from calculus that, if we were to make some small changes $\Delta x$ on $\vec x$, the changes on
output $C$ would be
$$\Delta C = \nabla_C \cdot \Delta x.$$
How should we choose the $\Delta x$, such that $\Delta C$ always be negative, knowing we would like the objective
function $C(\vec x)$ to decrease a small amount each iteration to reach a minimum? The eaiest way would
be to choose $\Delta x = -\nabla_C$, such that $\Delta C = - \nabla_C^2$ would be negative.
Now we've known how it comes with the form $\vec x_{t+1} := \vec x_t - \eta\nabla_C(\vec x_t)$. It decreases
$\vec x$ by a small amount of $\eta\nabla_C(\vec x_t)$ each iteration to decrease the objective function $C$
by a small amount, hopefully to reach a minimum after some iterations.
It is therefore makes sense that we could take the form $\vec x_{t+1} := \vec x_t + \eta\nabla_C(\vec x_t)$ to
find a maximum of a objective function.
But I still not be completely convinced. Is the choice of $\Delta x$ the fastest way to decrease the
objective function? Put it another way, given a certain $\eta \lt 0$, is there any other better choice of
$\Delta x$?
Recall that $\Delta C = \nabla_C \cdot \Delta x$, the question is to find a $\Delta x$ to minimize
$\Delta C$. Since $\nabla_C$ and $\Delta x$ are both vectors, we can write $\Delta C$ as
$\Delta C = ||\nabla_C|| \cdot ||\Delta x|| \cdot sin\theta$. It tells the choice of $\Delta x$ which
minimize $\nabla_C \cdot \Delta x$ is $ -\eta \Delta x$.
Although gradient descent is the steepest descent, it is not neccessary the one that convergences fartest.
Instead, it sometimes convergences much slow, wandering about around the nearby minimum.
Some other algorithms that convergence faster like Newton method and quasi Newton method
are two-order optimization algorithms. I plan to investigate and summarize these two methods in the next post.
Since It is mostly my self-understanding, there probably be some mistakes.
Please kindly leave your comments, thank you^.^


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Research Associate
Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE)
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests Applications of Biomedical and Neuroimaging modalities in understanding the cognitive basis of linguistics.
Project Officer
Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Tam graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a BA (Hons) Highest Distinction in Psychology in 2018 and has since been doing research on neurophysiological basis of deception. She also has strong interests in signal processing, time-series analysis, and statistics. While working as a project officer, she is also a collaborator of an active open-source Python Toolbox (NeuroKit) for neurophysiological signal processing.
Research Associate
Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE)
Nanyang Technological University
Research interests: neurobiological basis of learning, second language acquisition and bilingualism Research expertise: Neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging (MRI)
Research Associate
Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE)
Nanyang Technological University
I am Meena.
Project Officer
Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Zen Juen graduated from University of Edinburgh with a Master of Arts (Honours) in Psychology with First Class Honours in 2019. Her research interests lie in Clinical Neuropsychology, specifically regarding the interplay of memory, decision-making, and emotional dysfunction in mental and neurological disorders.
Research Assistant
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Nanyang Technological University
Jia Li graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Highest Distinction) in 2019, and has since been conducting research on the neurobiological basis of obsessive-compulsive disorder and neural networks for reading in children. Her main interests are in neuroscience
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Forms are Spectre’s approach for handling user-submitted forms. Forms are resropsible for:
To define a form, create a class extending Form and define form fields as regular class fields:
class MyForm : Form {
StrField name := StrField("name", "Your name", [Required()])
TextareaField bio := TextareaField("bio", "About yourself")
BoolField hasSuperpowers := BoolField("has_superpowers", "Has superpowers")
}
New form is considered unbound and can be displayed only. To populate form with data, call bind() method with Map or QueryMap of data. Submitted data will be converted and validated, form will became bound and either valid (all validation passed) or invalid:
// creating unbound form:
myForm := MyForm()
// rendering unbound form (initial):
return TemplateRes("page.html", ["form": myForm.asTable])
// binding form against data:
if (myForm.bind(["name": "Ilya", "bio": "Have layed for 33 years"])) {
// form is now bound valid
processForm(myForm.cleanedData)
return ResRedirect("...")
} else {
// validation has failed, form is bound invalid
// rendering back with all the error messages
return TemplateRes("page.html", ["form": myForm.asTable])
}
After successful bind(), all form data is converted to corresponded Fantom types and is accessible through Form.cleanedData (referenced by fields’ names, not slot names) or Form.<field_slot>.cleanedData:
myForm.cleanedData["name"] // "Ilya"
myForm.name.cleanedData // "Ilya"
myForm.cleanedData["has_superpowers"] // false
myForm.hasSuperpowers.cleanedData // false
If form is either invalid or unbound, accessing Form.cleanedData will raise Err. To check if form is valid or not, check Form.bind() return value or use Form.isValid().
Field is a part of Form representing single value requested from user.
It is also possible to use single Field on its own. Field have same bound/unbound valid/invalid states as Form, including cleanedData, errors and so on.
Form can be rendered with either asTable() or asDl() method. It will return SafeStr html snippet with fields’ labels, widgets in their current state and error messages, wrapped with

 (

 correspondingly). It won’t contain the
 tag, you should write it by yourself:
>>> myForm.asTable

Your name

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="Ilya"/>

About yourself

<textarea name="bio" id="bio">Have layed for 33 years</textarea>

<input type="checkbox" name="has_superpowers" id="has_superpowers" />
Has superpowers

Individual fields can be rendered on more detailed level:
>>> myForm.name.renderWidget
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="Ilya"/>
>>> myForm.name.renderLabel
Your name
>>> myForm.name.renderErrors

Specify a value

Form validation consist of three steps:
All errors occured on these steps are stored in Field.errors (1, 2) and Form.errors (3) slots. If there is at least one error, form become invalid and its cleanedData won’t be accessible.
Field validators can be passed to field’s constructor:
nameField := StrField("name", "Your name", [Required(), MinLength(10), MaxLength(25)])
There are a bunch of field validators built-in with Spectre: Required, MinLength, MaxLength, MinValue, MaxValue, MatchesRegex and MatchesFunc.
All errors found during individual field’s validation are stored in Field.errors slot.
When fields validation isn’t enough, or you have conditions involving more than one field, you redefine Form.validate() method (3) and store results of your validation in Form.errors slot as plain Str or SafeStr.:
class MyForm : Form {
StrField name := StrField("name", "Your name")
TextareaField bio := TextareaField("bio", "About yourself")
BoolField hasSuperpowers := BoolField("has_superpowers", "Has superpowers")
override Void validate() {
if ((cleanedData["name"] as Str)?.size > (cleanedData["bio"] as Str)?.size)
errors.add("Bio is supposed to be more detailed than name")
}
}
Form.validate() method will only be invoked if form has no field-specific errors (1, 2).
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to Str object.
<input type="password"> field which will be converted to Str object.
<textarea> field which will be converted to Str object.
<input type="hidden"> field which will be converted to Str object.
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to Int object.
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to Decimal object.
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to Float object. See DecimalField.
<input type="checkbox"> field which will be converted to Bool object.
<select> field which will be converted to one of provided choices.
SelectField rendered as a set of radiobuttons.
Multiselect field which will be converted to a list of provided choices. Will be rendered as a set of checkboxes.
Multiselect field which will be converted to a list of provided choices. Will be rendered as a <select multiple="multiple">. See MultiCheckboxField.
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to a Date.
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to a Time.
<input type="text"> field which will be converted to a DateTime.
Date field rendered as three <select> lists: day, month, year. This is also an example of a single field having more than one widget.
By default, all Form slots which extend Field are included to form. If you need to exclude some fields from form rendering/processing, or enumerate which to include, override Str[]? Form.exclude and Form.include slots.
If you need to generate fields list dynamically, override Form.fields() method. It should return list of spectre::Field instances that form will contain:
class DynForm : Form {
... // usual fields’ definitions
override once spectre::Field[] fields() {
dynFields := ...
return super.fields.dup.addAll(dynFields)
}
}
Form.fields() will be called several times during form processing, so you should specify once modifier on it or ensure otherways that it returns same field instances each time it is called.


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EVVEMI is an online platform that connects clients and hairstyle artists.
Time: June - August, 2018
My role: UX/UI Designer
Team members: Evan Silberhorn (Head of Product), Sylvia Baba (UI/UX Desginer), Darshini Shah (UI/UX Designer), Abhinav Gupta (Engineer), Chenghui Deng (Engineer)
Highlights: Collaborated with engineering team in agile development to convery complex UI/UX concepts for product initial launch
Tools: Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, Photoshop, Zeplin, Confluence, JIRA
I joined EVVEMI team in June, 2018 as a UI/UX designer.
81% of women agree their self-confidence, identity, health and well-being are tied to their hair. However, finding a perfect match for hair stylists is never an easy task. Reviews on merchadising platforms and recommendations from friends usually are not quite helpful, as everyone's hair is so unique, and is related to one's race, culture, life style, and more.
Evvemi is set to be a data-driven platform that provides greater precision and transparency for personalized, healthy beauty devices.
I conducted door-to-door research with Sylvia Baba by visiting, interviewing, and collecting surveys of over 20 salons and stylists to know their needs, pain points, attitudes, behaviors. By analyzing and prioritizing all the quantitative and qualitative of the research studies, we narrowed our problems down to one: scheduling.
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Tk_ManageGeometry - arrange to handle geometry requests for a window
#include <tk.h>
Tk_ManageGeometry(tkwin, mgrPtr, clientData)
Tk_ManageGeometry arranges for a particular geometry manager, described by the mgrPtr argument, to control the geometry of a particular slave window, given by tkwin. If tkwin was previously managed by some other geometry manager, the previous manager loses control in favor of the new one. If mgrPtr is NULL, geometry management is cancelled for tkwin.
The structure pointed to by mgrPtr contains information about the geometry manager:
typedef struct { char *name; Tk_GeomRequestProc *requestProc; Tk_GeomLostSlaveProc *lostSlaveProc; } Tk_GeomMgr;
The name field is the textual name for the geometry manager, such as pack or place; this value will be returned by the command winfo manager.
requestProc is a procedure in the geometry manager that will be invoked whenever Tk_GeometryRequest is called by the slave to change its desired geometry. requestProc should have arguments and results that match the type Tk_GeomRequestProc:
typedef void Tk_GeomRequestProc( ClientData clientData, Tk_Window tkwin);
The parameters to requestProc will be identical to the corresponding parameters passed to Tk_ManageGeometry. clientData usually points to a data structure containing application-specific information about how to manage tkwin's geometry.
The lostSlaveProc field of mgrPtr points to another procedure in the geometry manager. Tk will invoke lostSlaveProc if some other manager calls Tk_ManageGeometry to claim tkwin away from the current geometry manager. lostSlaveProc is not invoked if Tk_ManageGeometry is called with a NULL value for mgrPtr (presumably the current geometry manager has made this call, so it already knows that the window is no longer managed), nor is it called if mgrPtr is the same as the window's current geometry manager. lostSlaveProc should have arguments and results that match the following prototype:
typedef void Tk_GeomLostSlaveProc( ClientData clientData, Tk_Window tkwin);
The parameters to lostSlaveProc will be identical to the corresponding parameters passed to Tk_ManageGeometry.
callback, geometry, managed, request, unmanaged
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Operations is an interesting word. Outside of the field of IT it means something completely different than everywhere else in the business world. According to Wikipedia:
Business operations encompasses three fundamental management imperatives that collectively aim to maximize value harvested from business assets
Generate recurring income
Increase the value of the business assets
Secure the income and value of the business
IT operations traditionally does nothing in that regard. Instead IT operations has become about cock blocking and being greybeareded gatekeepers who always say “No” regardless of the question. We shunt the responsibility off to the development staff and then, in some sick game of ‘fuck you’, we do all we can to prevent the code from going live. This is unsustainable; counter-productive; and in a random twist of fate, self destructive.
Some wise wisdom right here.


WITNESS LIST Transportation Committee April 6, 1999-3:00P HB 1620 For: Bernstein, Steven (Self) Cuny, John (Self) Hyde, Glen (Self) Johnson, Glen (Self) Quinn, Marion Lee (Self) Registering, but not testifying: On: Fulton, Dave (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 1672 For: Kirkland, Pam (City of Richardson) Registering, but not testifying: For: McCarley, James (Dallas Regional Mobility Coalition) Suhm, Vic (North Central Texas Council of Governments) Zacharias, Larry (City of Richardson) HB 1680 For: Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas) Nichols, Robert (Texas Transportation Commission) Sims, Randy (Self) Against: Stewart, Michael (Texas Aggregates and Concrete Association) Webb, Bill (Texas Motor Transportation Association) Registering, but not testifying: For: Joiner, Gary (Texas Farm Bureau) Lee, Donald (Conference of Urban Counties) Against: Dingmore, Lindsey (Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association) Hinkle, Dan (Burlington Resources) Hughes, Wayne (Self) On: Wilson, Robert (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 2100 For: Mike, Mahaffey (Port of Corpus Christi Authority) Against: Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas) Cartwright, Debbie (Self and San Patricio County Appraisal District) Vermillion, Kathryn (Self and Gregory Portland ISD) Registering, but not testifying: For: Berlanga, Hugo (Port of Corpus Christi) Dodge, William (Self) Maldonado, Rick (Texas Ports Association) Truan, Jr., Carlos (Port of Corpus Christi) Against: Low, Peter (San Patricio County Appraisal District) On: Wadick, Ashley (Texas General Land Office) HB 2248 Against: Gabois, Glen (Self and Texas Citizen Action) Registering, but not testifying: On: Massey, Margot (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 2423 For: Arrington, Sam (Self and United Transportation Union) Holmes, Raymond (Self and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Against: Barton, Bill (Texas Railroad Association) Kearns, Dennis (Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway) Registering, but not testifying: For: Briggs, Terry (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) English, C.M. (Self) Hinojosa, Walter (Texas AFL-CIO) Keith, Tom (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Willis, D.L. "Dally" (Texas Political and Legislative Committee of Communications Workers of America) Against: Calhoun, Frank (Texas Railroad Association and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company) Olsen, Ron (Union Pacific Railroad) HB 2462 Registering, but not testifying: For: Joiner, Gary (Texas Farm Bureau) On: Hunt, Darrell (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 2463 Registering, but not testifying: For: Hiebert, Jerry (North Texas Tollway Authority) McCarley, James (Dallas Regional Mobility Coaltition) On: Wilson, Robert (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 2541 Registering, but not testifying: On: Lopez, Carlos (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 2598 Against: Redmond, Lee (Coalition of Texans with Disabilities) On: Wilson, Robert (Texas Department of Transportation) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Sokolow, Judith (Advocacy, Inc.) HB 2810 Against: Barton, Bill (Texas Railroad Association) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Arrington, Sam (Self and United Transportation Union) Briggs, Terry (Self and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Calhoun, Frank (Texas Railroad Association and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company) English, C.M. (Self) Hinojosa, Walter (Texas AFL-CIO) Holmes, Raymond (Self and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Kearns, Dennis (Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway) Olson, Ron (Union Pacific Railroad) On: Martin, Jerry (Texas Railroad Commission) HB 2922 For: Lawhorn, James (The City of West Police Department) Willsey, Russell (The City of West) Against: Arrington, Sam (Self and United Transportation Union) Olson, Ron (Union Pacific Railroad) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Barton, Bill (Texas Railroad Association) Briggs, Terry (Self and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Calhoun, Frank (Texas Railroad Association and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company) English, C.M. (Self) Hinojosa, Walter (Texas AFL-CIO) Holmes, Raymond (Self and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Kearns, Dennis (Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway) HB 3060 For: Findeisen, Les (Texas Motor Transportation Association) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Isbell, Tom (Tax Assessor-Collector Association of Texas) Tidwell, Sandy (The Tax Assesor-Collectors Association) Wheeler, Max (Self and Tax Assessor-Collector Association of Texas) On: Hunt, Darrell (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 3061 On: Smith, Lawrance (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 3061 Amendment (Alexander/#1) For: Rash, Jeanette (Texas Towing and Storage Association) HB 3351 For: Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas) Registering, but not testifying: For: Sims, Randy (Self) Against: Russell, Sam (Self and Texas Manufactured Housing Association) On: Smith, Lawrance (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 3366 Registering, but not testifying: For: Rash, Jeanette (Texas Towing and Storage Association) HB 3433 Registering, but not testifying: On: Lopez, Carlos (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 3502 Registering, but not testifying: Against: Tidwell, Sandy (The Tax Assessor-Collectors Association) On: Hunt, Darrell (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 3521 For: Bettencourt, Paul (Harris County Tax Assessor Collector) Registering, but not testifying: For: DeVore, Jim (Self) McClure, Donald (Self) Stafford, Janice (Self) On: Hunt, Darrell (Texas Department of Transportation) HB 3716 Registering, but not testifying: On: De La Rosa, Agustin (Self) Heald, Charles (Texas Department of Transportation)


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If you've read my previous two workflow posts (Completions and Snippets), you've noticed a recurring theme. There are things we repeat needlessly when programming. One of the cardinal sins in programming is repetition. A central tenant of this craft is writing D.R.Y. (don't repeat yourself) code. For this post, let's focus on the terminal. If you use the terminal a lot, you've more than likely typed things like cd ..
a million times. You probably have some directories you navigate to a lot. Fortunately, the terminal supports aliases. Aliases are shortened versions of terminal inputs. For example, suppose I want to navigate three folders down from my home directory.
I go to this directory on a daily basis. It's laborious to type all that out, even with auto-complete. It doesn't make much sense to set that location as the default working directory either, because I often go to other directories. I'll set up an alias!
Typing sip
is equivalent to pushd ~/Desktop/Projects/HappyHourHunter
. With only three keystrokes I can navigate from anywhere to HappyHourHunter! To create an alias, you'll need to go to your home directory and open a (hidden) file .bash_profile
. Pick your favorite text editor and edit it. I use Vim.
Scroll down to where is says # Useful aliases
. This is where you can assign your alias.
You can see my sip
alias, among others that expedite navigation. I have gimp
in case I want to open an image with Gimp instead of the default image editor. I even have an alias, al
, for creating new aliases! They've greatly streamlined the use of the terminal. Over time I've learned to love the terminal.
 It's all about abstraction and eliminating repetition. For my next post I'll depart from the D.R.Y. mantra and show you how to make your Sublime Text look pretty!


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Mary's take on the classic Mediterranean tricolore salad but with cucumber instead of mozzarella and added chicken.
Each serving provides 382kcal, 27g protein, 12g carbohydrate (of which 10g sugars), 24g fat (of which 4g saturates), 6g fibre and 0.6g salt.
To make the dressing, put the pesto, mayonnaise and lemon juice in a large bowl, season with salt and pepper and mix to combine. Add the chicken and stir again. If possible, leave it to marinate for several hours or overnight.
Place the avocado slices in a separate bowl, pour over the lemon juice and toss so the avocado is completely coated.
Cut the cucumber in half lengthways, use a teaspoon to remove and discard the seeds and then peel using a potato peeler. Cut into crescent-shaped slices and arrange these in layers with the avocado slices, tomato halves and pesto chicken. Season with salt and pepper. (If assembling ahead, do not add salt until just before serving.)
Scatter over the toasted pine nuts, micro salad and basil leaves to finish.


Xi Beam is a cost governance and security compliance service that works with both public clouds and Nutanix Private Cloud. This lab introduces Beam’s cost governance capabilities specifically for Nutanix.
What is Cost Governance? It is a set of rules by which you measure your cloud consumption and implement cost control policies. Specifically for the Nutanix Private Cloud, Beam provides the following cost governance capabilities:
In this lab you will mimic a customer use case of identifying the true cost of running workloads on Nutanix Private Cloud across various users. By the end of the lab, you will learn:
Beam is a SaaS service and does not require any on-premises installation for cost governance. To begin the lab, you will log into the Beam portal using pre-created credentials.
In your browser, open https://beam.nutanix.com/ and click Sign in with My Nutanix.
Click Login with your Company ID to login with a custom Identity Provider.
Enter<EMAIL_ADDRESS>as your Company email address and click Continue.
Enter nutanix6-ad as your Unique ID and click Continue.
Log in using the following credentials:
- Username - Your Lab VPN Username in clusterassignments
- Password - techX2020!
Note
Additional pre-requisites already configured for this lab include:
- The Nutanix cluster being used must already be licensed in the Nutanix Salesforce database.
- Pulse must be enabled within Prism for your cluster, allowing Beam to receive configuration and utilization details of VMs running on the cluster.
If this is your first time accessing the Beam lab, you may see two popup messages explaining how Beam calculates the cost data for Nutanix products. Review and dismiss the messages to proceed to the Beam Cost Governance portal.
In order to start using Beam, you will need to configure a customer’s Nutanix account with Beam by entering a license key associated with their purchase.
Note
For the lab environment, the license key has already been entered.
From the toolbar at the top of the portal, select Configure > Nutanix Account.
Observe the configured license key.
The next step is to ensure Beam has accurate license cost data for all Nutanix products.
From the toolbar at the top of the portal, select Configure > Nutanix Cost Configuration.
Once you’ve entered the license key, Beam populates the customer’s entire Nutanix purchase history from their Salesforce account. Beam automatically populates product costs based on assumed market price for all Nutanix products - hardware and software. The actual cost paid by customers may vary slightly depending on the final pricing from Nutanix resellers, which is unavailable to Beam.
Select Configure Cost to view how a customer can customize their exact costs for each purchase.
Click X to close Cost Configurations.
Beam uses a built-in total cost of ownership (TCO) model for Nutanix that provides out-of-the-box visibility into the true cost of running the Nutanix private cloud. These costs are eventually used to calculate granular VM level costs. It is important to configure the TCO model accurately so that you have more accurate VM costs.
The TCO model includes several cost heads that are automatically populated depending on the number of Nutanix nodes and some industry standards that are built into the model. The out-of-the-box TCO calculations provide a good faith level of accuracy and can be further fine-tuned to customer specifics. Learn how to configure the TCO model:
In Configure > Nutanix Cost Configuration, select the Cluster tab, and search for cluster ID ending in 4d3b.
Click on Edit TCO next to that cluster.
Note
If you do not see the Edit TCO option, click on Define Cluster Cost Allocation and ensure that Total Cost of Ownership is selected as the cost model.
Navigate through the various cost heads to familiarize yourself with them:
Hardware
Includes all Nutanix appliance costs which are automatically pulled from customer’s purchase history in salesforce. These costs are amortized on a monthly basis assuming a hardware life of 60 months.
Any third-party hardware costs are added automatically as well. Average cost per third-party appliance is assumed to be $12,000. Memory costs for the whole cluster can be added manually if you know the monthly cost per GB of RAM.
Software
Includes all Nutanix software license costs which are automatically pulled from customer’s purchase history in salesforce. Costs associated with any Nutanix nodes running vSphere are also automatically calculated assuming a vSphere license cost of $210/processor and 2 processors per node.
Any additional software costs, such as a third-party application performance monitoring software cost can be added manually. All software costs are amortized on a monthly basis.
Facilities
Includes power and cooling costs, and datacenter space costs for the datacenter used to run the Nutanix Private Cloud.
The power and cooling costs are automatically calculated depending only on the number of Nutanix nodes. Amount of power consumed per node and a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio are built into the model. The TCO model assumes cost of power to be $0.1/kWh based on US standard. This cost can be configured depending on customer geography. Monthly power and cooling costs = Number of nodes * power consumed per node in kWh * cost per kWh * (number of hours in a month)*PUE.
The datacenter space costs are also automatically calculated depending only on the number of Nutanix nodes. It is assumed that each node needs 2 rack units, there are 42 rack units per rack, and the average cost per rack is $1,400/month. Monthly datacenter space cost = {(Number of nodes * 2 rack units)/42 rack units per rack}*($1,400)
Telecom
Includes Ethernet/top-of-rack switch costs that are automatically calculated depending only on number of nodes. The TCO model assumes each node uses 2 ports on a switch, there are 48 ports per TOR switch, and the cost of each TOR switch is $1,250 amortized on a per-month basis. Monthly telecom costs = {(Number of nodes*2 ports)/48 ports per switch}*($1,250)
Services
This cost head includes any Nutanix or third-party services that you may have paid for. These costs are entered manually by the user and amortized to a monthly basis by TCO model.
People
This cost head includes the cost incurred on IT Admin salaries for the administrative staff employed to maintain your Nutanix Private Cloud. The TCO model assumes a salary of $150,000 for internal admins and $80,000 for external admins based on US standards. You can specify what % of your Nutanix nodes are outsourced to external admins and what is maintained by internal admins. Salary amounts can be configured too.
The power of the TCO model lies in being able to centralize all costs associated with a private cloud into one unified view and providing a good approximation of a customer’s private cloud costs without any configuration. At the same time, the TCO model is highly customizable and can also be configured separately for each cluster.
Close the TCO view.
The next step is to allocate the cluster level costs to individual VMs running on the cluster. It is mandatory to have Prism Pulse enabled so that Beam has the data on VM state and resources allocated to each VM on that cluster.
The total cluster level costs (calculated using the TCO model) are allocated to each VM depending on the number of hours that the VM is up and running and the capacity allocated to that VM relative to the overall capacity on the cluster. The CBL model is used to calculate cost per vCPU, cost per GB of storage and cost per GB of RAM. Those per unit costs are multiplied by the number of vCPUs, storage and memory allocated to each VM to get total VM costs. These costs are calculated out-of-the-box without needing any customer configuration.
Click Go Back to access the Beam Dashboard.
Select Analyze > VM Costing and search for Cluster ID ending in 4d3b.
Click View Details to see the detailed TCO based cost breakdown for this cluster.
Note that the cost of each individual VM running in this cluster has been automatically calculated. If the TCO model has been accurately configured, these costs represent the true cost of running that VM in the Nutanix Private Cloud.
This concludes the walkthrough of Beam’s cost metering capabilities for Nutanix Private Cloud.
Note
It takes a few hours for VM costing data to show up after a Nutanix account is configured in Beam. The TCO model is baked into the product and VM costs will be calculated out-of-the-box using the default values of the TCO model. The model can be fine-tuned depending on customer need.
Now that we know what individual VMs cost to run on Nutanix, we can create cost views that aggregate consumption across various VMs and clusters. This is done by leveraging Prism’s Categories as tags. Depending upon how Prism Categories are defined, these cost centers can help to track spending across various users, teams, applications, geographies, etc.
Navigate to the Global Organization view from the main menu and go to the Chargeback tab. You may notice some cost centers previously created by other users.
Select Create then Cost Center.
Provide a name for the cost center and click on Define Cost Center.
Note
In order to avoid conflicting work with another user, please start the name of your Cost Center with your initials. Example: XY-BeamLab
Fill out the following fields:
- Cloud - Nutanix
- Parent Account - Nutanix Cost Demo Account
- Sub Accounts - Search for the Cluster ID ending in 4d3b
- Key Set - nx:App
- Value Set - Select any available VDI### value
Note
The ### will be a three-digit number. You may select any number between 001 to 080. This is being done to provide a unique key-value pair for each lab attendee because each key-value pair can only be in a unique cost center to avoid double counting of VM costs in different cost centers.
Select Save Filter to save the key-value pair used as a filter. You can add multiple key-value pairs to a cost center definition.
Note
Each Key-Value pair can only be added to a unique Cost Center. If you get an error message when you define your Key-Value pair, it is likely because another user already added that Key-Value pair to their Cost Center. Please select a different Key-Value pair.
Select Save Definition to save the definition of the cost center, and Save Cost Center to exit the view and go back to the Chargeback screen.
You have now created a cost center which will aggregate costs from all Nutanix VMs carrying the tag key App and tag value VDI###. You may add further Prism Categories as filters to the cost center definition. For example you could add a Region Category as tag key and Europe or Asia as tag values as long as those are defined in Prism. This would allow you to create Cost Centers to track VM spending across different regions.
(Optional) The cost center definition can be made to be truly multi-cloud. If your customer wants to extend their cost center definition to also include public cloud resource costs, that can be done in the same way by adding public cloud accounts and tag-key pairs to the same cost center definition. This is a very powerful capability of Beam immensely helping customers that use both public and private clouds by providing a unified view of all cloud resource costs in the same cost center.
Some customers may want to have several cost centers reporting to a common parent entity. For example, you may want to track the costs separately for different dev and prod teams all reporting to the same Engineering department. You can do this in Beam by defining a Business Unit which is nothing but a combination of multiple cost centers. Each Cost Center can only belong to one Business Unit.
Not all VMs may be tagged with Category values that you specify in cost centers. Often times you will find that there will be spending that did not fit a cost center definition. These costs can be captured through Chargeback.
Navigate to the Chargeback > Unallocated spend view.
Search for the cluster ID ending in 4d3b.
Click on View Details to see the details of spend on this cluster that did not get allocated to any cost center.
If you find any unallocated spend from some VMs, you can select Allocate and choose the cost center(s) that you want to allocate that spend to.
You can also split the spend across multiple cost centers. Select the cost center you had created, XY-BeamLab, and allocate 100% of the spend of this VM to that cost center. You only need to do this once. Any future spending by the same VM will be automatically allocated to that cost center.
This feature is extremely helpful to identify shadow spending outside of a customer’s cost center and business unit structure, and allows a financial admin to more accurately map cloud consumption to appropriate owners so that customers can be aware of who is responsible for spending in their cloud.
In this exercise you will define a budget for a cost center and set up a related alert.
Navigate to the Budget tab and click on Create a Budget.
Select Business Unit/Cost Center based Budget and click Next.
Alternatively, Beam also allows you to create a custom resource group using a combination of accounts, services, and tags, and then set up budget alerts on the custom resource group.
Select the Cost Center you created in the previous exercise.
Select Manual Allocation.
This will allow you to customize values for the budget at an yearly, quarterly or monthly level.
Enter the annual budget to be $100,000. It will be allocated equally to each month.
Finally, beside Quarterly Budget Alerts, click Create.
Set a Threshold value of 85% and click Save.
Add your email address under Alert Notifications and click Save.
You have now created a budget alert to be notified when spending in your cost center goes above a certain threshold relative to your configured quarterly budget.
This completes the Private Cloud Cost Governance lab. You may log out of your Beam account.


This project explored the process of utilizing a mobile interface to check out goods online. I analyzed Old Navy's checkout process and found that it failed to take advantage of mobile design principles. I then redesigned it to create the optimal checkout experience.
Pictured to the left: The redesigned Old Navy checkout focuses on the bare minimum of features necessary to completing the purchase. The existing Old Navy mobile interface is packed with advertisements and distractions, making for an overwhelming design overall. I focused on not only eliminating these unnecessary elements, but also implementing features that make for a smoother mobile checkout in order to secure the most possible sales.
This was a project for Advanced Principles of Interactivity, a course at DePaul University, and is not affiliated with Old Navy.


Name : Nishadi Jayasinghe
Register Number : 14/AS/CI/057
SUBJECT CODE
SUBJECT NAME
IS 41243
Introduction to Distributed Systems
IS 41244
Information Systems Strategies, Management
& Acquisition
IS 41245
Business Process Management
IS 41246
Enterprise Resource Planning


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WEBSITE - CURRICULUM - BLOG - FOTO
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WEBSITE - CURRICULUM - BLOG - FOTO


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Now something completely different.


Speak from the first person or from personal experience, no names can be named except your own or a character in the film itself
No expletives, hate speech, or sexually explicit content
Can be any form that meets the above guidelines: narrative, poem, dance, etc.
All ages (parents must give consent for children under 18)
All submissions that meet the rules and guidelines above will be published online
Feel free to record a response on your smartphone and submit it


SemVer for PicoLisp
27 Feb 2017You can get it on GitHub.
This library can validate and compare Major.Minor.Patch versions (ex: "1.0.0"
).
It ignores pre-release, build, metadata, and special extensions (ex: .alpha.1
).
Requirements
- PicoLisp 32-bit or 64-bit v16.12+
Usage
- Include
semver.l
in your application:(load "semver.l")
- Use one of the 5 public functions listed below
| Function | Description | Returns | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
semver-format |
Formats a version string into a list of integers | List of integers | (1 4 2) |
semver-cmp |
Compares two lists of integers | List containing NIL, 0 or T | (NIL 0 T) |
semver-compare |
Compares two version strings | NIL, 0, or T | NIL |
semver-compare-slow |
Compares two version strings using the spaceship <=> |
NIL, 0, or T | T |
semver-sort |
Sorts a list of version strings | List of integers or strings | ((1 3 0) (1 4 0) (1 6 0)) or ("1.3.0" "1.4.0" "1.6.0") |
Version comparison is always from left to right.
A brief explanation of the result obtained from semver-compare
:
if left < right then return NIL # left is older
if left = right then return 0 # left and right are the same
if left > right then return T # left is newer
Examples
1. Compare two version strings
(load "semver.l")
(semver-compare "1.4.0" "1.5.0")
-> NIL
(semver-compare "1.5.0" "1.5.0")
-> 0
(semver-compare "1.6.0" "1.5.0")
-> T
2. Format a version string into a list of integers
(load "semver.l")
(semver-format "1.4.0")
-> (1 4 0)
3. Compare two lists of integers
- The
(car)
corresponds to themajor
- The
(cadr)
corresponds to theminor
- The
(caddr)
corresponds to thepatch
(load "semver.l")
(semver-cmp (2 3 2) (1 4 2))
-> (T NIL 0)
(semver-cmp (1 5 0) (1 4 2))
-> (0 T NIL)
(semver-cmp (2 3 2) (1 4 2))
-> (T NIL 0)
4. Sort a list of version strings
(load "semver.l")
(semver-sort '("1.4.0" "1.6.0" "1.3.0"))
-> ((1 3 0) (1 4 0) (1 6 0))
(semver-sort '("1.4.0" "1.6.0" "1.3.0") T)
-> ("1.3.0" "1.4.0" "1.6.0")


[gecode-users] Set propagators and modification event delta
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Wed Aug 20 09:58:51 CEST 2014
Hi, I will have to leave this to Guido... Cheers Christian
--
Christian Schulte, Professor of Computer Science, KTH, www.gecode.org/~schulte/
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf Of Gustavo Gutierrez
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:33 PM
To: gecode list
Subject: [gecode-users] Set propagators and modification event delta
Dear all,
I am trying to write a propagator and I really would like to take advantage of the modification event information offered by the geocode kernel in the respective argument to the propagate method. To that end, I am looking at set propagators as an example. In concrete I am looking at the code of the intersection propagator in inter.hpp.
That implementation calls testSetEventLB defined in common.hpp. My question is concrete: does this function returns true when the modification event passed as parameter signals a modification of the lower bound?. My intuition from its definition and the internal functions it uses tell me so but I would like to corroborate it with you.
There are other testSetEvent* that take a different number of arguments (all of them being modification events). For example, testSetEventLB with two arguments. Does this one returns true if any of the two events imply modification to the lower bounds?
Best regards,
--
Gustavo Gutierrez
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The PCAM has its origin in the Minnesota Complexity Assessment Method, which was developed to bring a broad range of aspects of health into patient assessments, including physical health, mental health, social support, social needs, health literacy and engagement with services. The MCAM was derived from INTERMED which integrated biopsychosocial aspects of the relationship between the patient and the healthcare system which, taken together, reflect case complexity, and was used in secondary care [2-5]. The purpose of MCAM was to provide a practical but systematic vocabulary and action-based assessment which could be applied to a primary care setting. The MCAM has also been used to help improve interdisciplinary team work in educational settings [6].
Can I use PCAM?
Yes. PCAM is copyrighted, and the developer team are committed to it being freely available for use. PCAM is best implemented with the support of training for clinicians, and consideration of how systems support the integration of the tool.We do ask you contact the team to inform and involve us where possible, as we strive to develop and support learning partnerships about how PCAM is used, improved and further our understanding of how it impacts patient outcomes.
@Copyright UB School of Nursing. Developed by Mohammad Shahid Fazal Sheikh.


|
June 2011
|
Fresh pigeon peas all year
Nothing beats a pelau made from fresh pigeon peas, many a cook will declare – or a hearty stew or curry. In fact, a survey conducted by Albada Beekham, a former postgraduate student at The UWI, has indicated an overwhelming preference by consumers for the fresh version, which is not surprising to any pigeon pea connoisseur. But when the season is over, they have to resort to the dried version or even tinned pigeon peas. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” might be an apt phrase to describe the longing for this staple legume. The earliest breeding efforts on the pigeon peas crop in the Caribbean started in 1934 at the Imperial College for Tropical Agriculture (ICTA) in Trinidad, the forerunner to the St Augustine Campus. Research continued under ICTA’s successor, the Regional Research Centre (RRC), which was part of the Faculty of Agriculture in the fifties. This work, along with similar breeding efforts in Puerto Rico led to the development of the traditional varieties that are now consumed. However these varieties, planted by farmers and others in their backyard gardens, cannot meet the demand for fresh pigeon peas throughout the year. They are confined to flowering and production during the three-month span when day lengths are shorter – minimum day lengths between 12 to 14 hours are required for the initiation of flowering. These varieties also take from 180-280 days to mature, thus the customary June planting of pigeon peas is put into perspective. The crop is also low yielding due to its extended period of vegetative growth during the flowering period. Now research being done at The UWI has shifted the pigeon peas paradigm. You might now have access to fresh peas all year round, thanks to expansion of the breeding work that began more than 75 years ago.
The first generation or batch of improved varieties released in the early 1980s, included UW 17, UW 26 and UW 10. These created considerable interest since they were the first short-duration, year-round varieties in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, the shorter pod size, unfavourable seed quality attributes and the poor yields during the off-season made farmers reluctant to adopt them. The pods of the early varieties were shorter, narrower (making it harder to shell), had less seeds and were smaller in size (lower hundred seed weight). The seeds also had a lower starch content and higher levels of phenolics, leading to the greater nuisance of fingers being stained from shelling. Further improvements saw the development of a second generation or batch of pigeon pea varieties – UW 223, UW 263, and UW 282 – in the early part of the past decade (2000s). The new varieties produced pigeon peas in less than four months, as compared to the long wait of six months or more for the traditional varieties. They can be planted throughout the year and are expected to yield pigeon peas in 3-4 months. These combined higher off-season yields with better pod and seed quality characteristics, longer and wider pods with lower levels of phenolics and larger number of seeds per pod, as well as starchy, less fibrous seeds. Although the seed size was superior to the early varieties it was still falling short of that of the popular traditional varieties by 20% to as much as 60%. From a genetic perspective could the seed size be increased to an acceptable level among these new varieties, or is it an elusive dream? Building on the previous work of Albada Beekham on physical and biochemical quality traits and M.S.A. Fakir on yield, I undertook further research on the link or genetic relationship between seed size, other important pod quality features and yield. Findings indicate that seed size can be further improved without negatively affecting yield or seed number per pod, which is fantastic, because it appears that you can have year-round production and have the pod and seed qualities of the traditional varieties. Early results indicate that seed size can be improved by as much as 40% over the second generation varieties previously developed. If the study can be replicated over time and different parts of Trinidad the farmers and consumers can have their favourite pigeon peas dish, all year through. Albertha Joseph-Alexander has a BSc. in Botany and Biochemistry and an MSc in Crop Protection from The UWI. She is completing an MPhil in Plant Science. The research is entitled Morphophysiological characteristics associated with nitrogen fixation and yield in pigeonpeas. By Albertha Joseph-Alexander |


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You can even show it zoomed to your desired location, with relevant data already selected, and custom data added. See the code here.


{% extends 'member/my-member-dashboard.html' %} {% load bootstrap_tags %} {% block head_title %}Edit file{% endblock %} {% block dashboard_main %}
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openfam::fam::fam_map
Map a data item in FAM to the process virtual address space.
Synopsis
void *fam_map(Fam_Descriptor *descriptor);
Description
This method maps a data item in FAM to the PE's virtual address space.
Input Arguments
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| descriptor | Descriptor associated with the data item or region in FAM. |
Return Values
A pointer in the PE's virtual address space that can be used to
directly manipulate contents of FAM. Throws Fam_Exception
on error.
Fam Error Numbers
| Error | Description |
|---|---|
| FAM_ERR_INVALID | API called with incorrect parameters. |
| FAM_ERR_UNIMPL | Calling unimplemented functions/APIs. |
| FAM_ERR_NOPERM | Caller does not have access rights |
| FAM_ERR_LIBFABRIC | Libfabric error occurred. |
| FAM_ERR_NOTFOUND | Item not found in the region. |
| FAM_ERR_RPC_CLIENT_NOTFOUND | RPC service not available. |
| FAM_ERR_METADATA | Metadata service error. |
| FAM_ERR_MEMORY | Memory service error. |
| FAM_ERR_RESOURCE | Resource not available. |
Notes
Note that if multiple PEs simultaneously access a data item in FAM when at least one has mapped it, they are responsible for enforcing concurrency control and for ensuring that processor caches are managed appropriately. The implementation may limit the FAM size (hence the size of data items) that can be mapped into the processor address space at one time.
fam_map()
and fam_unmap()
are currently only supported in the scale-up (shared memory) configuration of the OpenFAM reference implementation.
Example
#include <string.h> #include <fam/fam.h> #include <fam/fam_exception.h> using namespace std; using namespace openfam; int main(void) { fam *myFam = new fam(); // ... Initialization code here try { // look up the descriptor to a previously allocated data item // (an integer array with at least 10 elements) Fam_Descriptor *descriptor = myFam->fam_lookup("myItem", "myRegion"); // map it into our local address space int *fam_array = (int *) myFam->fam_map(descriptor); // now we can directly manipulate the data in FAM for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++){ printf("%d\n", fam_array[i]); // print it fam_array[i]++; // increment it } // unmap it myFam->fam_unmap(fam_array, descriptor); // we are done... } catch (Fam_Exception &e) { printf("fam API failed: %d: %s\n", e.fam_error(), e.fam_error_msg()); } // ... Finalization code follows }