Final Project
Here is where I will be documenting the process of making my final project. As this is my first full integration project, I wanted to make something simple. What I decided to make was an RGB Macropad, a convenient place with all the keybinds and media keys I need. I will be incorporating laser cutting, 3D printing and microcontrollers into a fully integrated project. The raw files can be aquired below and the rest of this page is my week to week documentation of the process.
Table of contents
List of Materials
Raw Files
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Resources Used
List of Materials
| Parts to purchase | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Arduino Pro Micro | 1 |
| 4x4 Membrane Keypad | 1 |
| WS2812 Neopixel | 6 |
| Frosted Acrylic Sheet | 1 |
| Parts to 3D print | Quantity |
| Center | 1 |
| Mount | 1 |
| Corner Spacer | 4 |
| Feet | 4 |
| Parts to laser cut | Quantity |
| Top Plate | 1 |
| Keypad Support | 1 |
| Front Plate | 1 |
| Back Plate | 1 |
| Bottom Plate | 1 |
| Side Plate | 2 |
Raw Files
[Google Drive folder with the raw files.]Week 1
Ideation
Originally, I wanted to make a mechanical tenkey pad for macros and shortcuts from scratch, soldering my own mechanical switches together in a switch matrix. However, because of the lack of time, I decided to use a 4x4 Matrix Membrane Keypad, which achieves the same purpose. With the main component decided, I went ahead and sketched out a basic case design. I took reference from https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/brian-lough/the-simplest-diy-macro-keypad-d2e428 in order to learn more about the 4x4 matrix keypad.
Sketch
The case consists of 4 acrylic walls, connected at the corners with 3d printed pieces, and sandwiched between 2 acrylic plates. The keypad rests on platforms on the corner pieces and is held down by the top plate. I plan to use M3x25 screws to connect everything together. With this sketch, I started to 3D model the case
3D modelling
Version 1
The differences between the sketch and this first version is the addition of the mount for the microcontroller and that the feet has not been modeled yet. However, after modelling it I realised that I did not have any place to mount the neopixel strips I planned to use.
Version 2
Changes were made to the corner pieces such that now there is a "floating" panel in the middle where the neopixels can stick onto. The keypad will still rest on the top of it. Originally, the turqoise and pink parts (pictured below) were a single body, but I separated them so that there will be no supports during 3D printing.
Another change made was adding more space for the keypad. The keypad is very thin and floppy on its own so I plan to stick it onto a laser cut panel in order to give it more rigitidy and strength. The thickness of the acrylic plate was accounted for in the space between the top plate and the place where it will rest.
3D printing and laser cutting
Machine and settings used for 3D printing
| Machine | Ultimaker 2+ |
| Material | Orange PLA |
| Layer Height | 0.2mm |
| Infill Density and Pattern | 20% Grid |
| Printing speed | 80mm/s |
| Supports | None |
| Build Plate Adhesion | Brim |
Machine and settings used for Lasercutting.
| Machine | Epilog Fusion Pro |
| Material Thickness and Type | 3mm Frosted Acrylic |
| Cut Settings | Speed - 18 |
| Power - 90 | |
| Frequency - 90 | |
| Engrave Settings | None |
Issues
After I got all the parts, I faced 3 issues.
Issue 1: I did not properly measure how wide the neopixel strips were before printing. The current width on the 3D model was 5mm, but the neopixels are 9~10mm wide. With the current model, only half of the width would be secured.
Issue 2: Using the brim was a mistake. Because the parts being printed were totally flat with relatively large surface area, I could have gotten away with printing without the brim. However, I still did, which resulted in lots of time being spent cleaning up the print, as the brim got into all the slots for the acrylic plate.
Issue 3: I did not account for tolerances and shrinkage during the print. As a result, the acrylic plates could not fit into their slots and lots of post processing work had to be done to make sure they fit. Moreover, the holes I modelled to be M3 ended up shrinking as well, requiring me to drill it out again using a 3mm drill.
Even with all these issues, I still sanded all the parts to make it fit in order to see how everything went together.
Week 1 assembly
Next week, I plan to reprint the corner piece with the correct width for the neopixel, print out the mount for the microcontroller, as well as solder the keypad and neopixels to the microcontroller.
Week 2
From the first week, I just kept the laser cut parts as there were no changes done to the design. During this week, I plan to print out the remaining parts such as the arduino mount and the feet, remodel and reprint the corner pieces as well as finish soldering the electronics.
3D Modeling
As stated in week 1, the original mounting place for the neopixel LED strips was too narrow. I extended the extrude downwards by an extra 5mm, and modelled the feet for the macropad. With this, the design is finalised.
3D printing
Machine and settings used for 3D printing
| Machine | Ultimaker 2+ |
| Material | Black PLA |
| Layer Height | 0.2mm |
| Infill Density and Pattern | 20% Grid |
| Print Speed | 80mm/s |
| Supports | None |
| Build Plate Adhesion | None |


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oral |
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(blotter / tab) |
Im telling this story of my last experience on acid to warn other users (particularly new users) about the effects of this drug.
I was with my future boyfriend and our mutual best friend when i bought 2 tabs of acid off a guy who I had scored off before. He said they were double dipped and more potent. I looked at them and said 'what the hell.' I had only taken acid twice before and each time had only ingested half a tab, so my decision to take two was a BIG mistake. I swallowed them and then we went to this park we always went to and parked to listened to tunes in the car. After about half an hour I was starting to feel the effects and was feeling pretty good.  I screamed and started to cry hysterically. I jumped out of the car screaming and then I noticed a cop across the street giving a guy a ticket and that sent me further into the abyss. My friends put me back in the car and said we were going to go driving to get away from the cop and calm me down.
At this point I was out of my mind. I was fluctuating between hysterical crying and laughing. I could not control my emotions at all. As we were driving, the oncoming cars started to look very menacing. The grills became mouths with very sharp teeth and looked like they would eat me. We pulled over and I found a shard of glass and I refused to put it down believing it was somehow a link to reality. I was sure I was going insane. I was still crying and screaming and my boyfriend had to go to a guitar lesson and left me in the car with our friend. We were in the parking lot and he was talking to me trying to take my mind off my trip. For about 20 minutes it was working, but then his head turned into a big rat and I, again, lost it. For about 7 hours I was in that state of hysterics, sure I was dying or going to become insane.
When I finally did come down I was emotionally exhausted and my voice had blown out. I have never been so frightened before in my life and have not touched it since. I now suffer from a panic disorder. It causes long lasting panic attacks that mimic my trip in many ways. I, and my therapist, belive my acid trip caused this. Well, not caused but uncovered it. I wish every day that I had not taken that drug, as it was so traumatic that I now have this disorder and also other psychological symptoms that I did not have before my experience. I am not stating that LSD caused my problems in any way, just was the traumatic experience that unleashed a preexisting condition. However, my problem could have lied dormant and never surfaced at all if I had not indulged in this drug use.
I strongly urge that this drug not be taken, but if you choose to:
1) take with TRUSTED friends
2) ask people who have used it about what to expect
3) start with a low dosage
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Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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Quick Tip: ID locators are prefixed by
id=
Reference an element by its ID is, by far, the simplest type of locator. Unfortunately, just like its web
counterpart, the "ID" in reference isn't always unique as one would hope. For simpler applications, this
locator usually works well. For more complex applications where an "ID" might be repeated across multiple
elements, a different locator strategy (such as XPATH) might be a better way to go.
For Android applications, the "resource-id" property is also considered as an "ID". One can use either the
id=...
or
res=...
syntax. Here's an example of finding an "ID" of an element via
the Appium inspector:
For the above example, one may express this locator as:
id=com.google.android.calculator:id/digit_5
res=com.google.android.calculator:id/digit_5
In contrast, iOS automation uses the "name" property as the "ID". Note that there isn't an actual property
named "ID" or "id". However, one may use either
id=...
or
name=...
syntax.
Nexial will appropriately resolve it to the correct type of locator.
For the above example, one may express this locator as:
id=Remind me on a day
name=Remind me on a day
Quick Tip: Accessibility ID locators are prefixed by
a11y=
The design purpose of an accessibility ID is to improve usability for users with visual or hearing
impairments. Accessibility tools like screen readers or TTS software utilize these IDs to provide additional
usability support. From the test automation standpoint, the same accessibility ID can be utilized as the
basis for identifying an element. As a convenience, Nexial recognizes a locator by accessibility ID via the
a11y
prefix (there are 11 characters between
a
and
y
of
accessibility
).
On Android, this locator strategy uses
contentDescription
or
content-desc
property:
For the above example, the locator would be
a11y=Dark theme
.
On iOS, the accessibility id, the id, and the name locator strategies are all identical. Behind the scene,
they are implemented the same way.
For the above example, one would specify this locator as
a11y=Back
.
Generally speaking, it is preferred to use the accessibility ID over ID (although on iOS they are the same)
because the accessibility ID is:
- beneficial to both testers and users with visual or hearing impairment.
- generally more readable than plain ID.
Quick Tip: XPATH locators are prefixed by
xpath=
or without any prefixes.
The tried and true XPATH locator is available for mobile automation, as in the case of web or desktop
automation. And as it is in the case of other automation uses, XPATH is both powerful and potentially
troublesome.
With XPATH, one can search for an element via its hierarchy, its attributes, and its text. Whereas the power
lies, so is the danger thereof (
Peter Parker principle).
It is often prudent
NOT to use the XPATH locator provided by the Appium inspector. Instead, one
should put some effort into simplifying it. For example,
The provided/suggested XPATH for the "Connected devices" link is as follows (broken into lines for
readability):
/hierarchy/android.widget.FrameLayout
/android.widget.LinearLayout
/android.widget.FrameLayout
/android.view.ViewGroup
/android.widget.ScrollView
/android.widget.LinearLayout
/android.widget.FrameLayout[2]
/android.widget.LinearLayout
/android.widget.FrameLayout
/androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
/android.widget.LinearLayout[2]
/android.widget.RelativeLayout
/android.widget.TextView[1]
Surely this would work (since Appium provides this). It is also incredibly difficult to decipher and to
maintain. Instead, one could reduce this to something like:
//android.widget.TextView[@text='Connected devices']
//*[@text='Connected devices']
The benefits of optimizing the XPATH are:
- Easier to read, hence easier to maintain
- No longer dependent on the hierarchy or placements of UI elements
- Potentially faster than the long-winded version
To use the XPATH locator in Nexial, simply use the XPATH as is or prefix it with
xpath=
.
Quick Tip: Name locators are prefixed by
name=
Only applicable for iOS automation. Alias to the ID locator. See
ID locator
for more details.
Quick Tip: Resource ID locators are prefixed by
res=
Only applicable for Android automation. Alias to the ID locator. See
ID locator
for more details.
Quick Tip: Predicate locators are prefixed by
predicate=
Only applicable for iOS automation. Also known as
-ios predicate string
. This type
of locator represents a recursive element search using the iOS Predicate (iOS 10.0 and above). The syntax
is similar to the XPATH query but comes with its own set of logical and comparative operators. While this type
of locator is powerful, one would essentially be writing another "mini" query language. Consult the
following links for more details:
Since this only works on iOS and has a dependency on the underlying iOS object model, this form of
identifying elements should not be considered as the first choice. Nonetheless, at times the iOS-specific
technique might be the only viable option.
For this type of locator, prefix it with
predicate=
.
Quick Tip: Class Chain locators are prefixed by
cc=
Only applicable for iOS automation. This type of locator strategy is designed to replace XPATH
(albeit only available on iOS platform) to quickly locate hierarchical elements. It is possible to use class
chain (from this point,
cc
) to search for direct child element using
/
or
search for descendent elements using
**/
syntax. Filter criteria should be enclosed within
back tick (
`...`
) for matching predicate, and enclosed within dollar (
$...$
) for
containing predicates. For example, the following XPATH:
//XCUIElementTypeTable[@name="table"]/XCUIElementTypeCell[@visible="true" and .//XCUIElementTypeTextField[@name="input]]
... would be translated into
cc locator like this:
**/XCUIElementTypeTable[`name == "table"`]/XCUIElementTypeCell[`visible == 1`][$type == "XCUIElementTypeTextField" AND name == "input"$]
\_____________________/\_________________/\__________________/\______________/\________________________________________________________/
find an
"XCUIElementTypeTable" that has an
element... attribute named
"name" with value
equals to "table" followed by an
"XCUIElementTypeCell"
cell... that is visible and it contains under its hierarchy
another element of type "XCUIElementTypeTextField"
which has an attribute called "name" with value equals
to "input".
While not necessarily less verbose than its XPATH counterpart,
cc
locator promised to be more
performant without losing much of the flexibility found in XPATH. Here are a few more examples,
XCUIElementTypeWindow[2]
- selects the second window in the hierarchy.
XCUIElementTypeWindow[label BEGINSWITH “foo”][-1]
- selects the last window whose
label begins with foo
.
**/XCUIElementTypeCell[name BEGINSWITH "C"]/XCUIElementTypeButton[10]
- selects the
10th child button of the first cell in the tree whose name starts with C
and which
has at least ten direct children of type XCUIElementTypeButton
.
One may use Appium inspector to find a suitable
cc
locator for an iOS device.
For more details about the class chain queries, please visit:
This form of locator is not available in mobile automation. However, one can use the
clickByDisplayText(text)
to achieve the same effect.
Note
that this command supports PolyMatcher, a flexible way to qualify the click target via its text. See the
command for more details.
This form of locator is not available in mobile automation. However, one can use the
clickByDisplayText(text)
to achieve the same effect.
Note
that this command supports PolyMatcher, a flexible way to qualify the click target via its text. See the
command for more details.
Quick Tip: Text locators are prefixed by
text=
This is a Nexial-only addition to the world of locators. The central idea here is to simplify automation
by providing a simple way to reference an element that contains a unique string of text within the current
application screen. For example,
text=Enter your first name here
... references an element that contains an attribute named
text
with the value of
Enter your first name here
.
In situations where one needs to automate a form on a mobile app, this type of locator might prove to be
most useful. It is both easy to use and to decipher. This form of locator also supports PolyMatcher, which
provides further expressiveness and flexibility. For example, to reference a component whose text starts
with
Welcome home
, one can use the following text locator:
text=START:Welcome home
For more details on PolyMatcher, visit
assertTextPresent(locator,text)
and click on
"PolyMatcher Enabled" link.
Note that behind the scene, Nexial converts such locator to an XPATH-based locator.
Quick Tip: Nearby locators are prefixed by
nearby=
This is a specialized locator (
only in Nexial!) aimed to simplify the task of creating a locator.
Instead of identifying an element via its attributes such as
content-desc
,
id
, or
accessibility id
, the
nearby
locator allows one to identify an element by its
surrounding. Nexial takes care of translating to the appropriate reference during execution time and thus
saving time during scripting. While this technique does not yield the same benefit in every scenario, it
is often a great time saver and a significant reduction in the cost of maintaining automation artifacts.
Let's consider the following example:
To identity the text box, we would need to inspect its attributes (typically via Appium Inspector). With
the
nearby
locator, we can simply specify it as:
nearby={below:Cellphone}
(reads:
Locate the element that is immediately below the element with text Cellphone
). This
simplified form is both easy to read and maintain.
Here's another example:
The
nearby
locator to identify the "Male" radio button is simply
nearby={left-of:Male}
.
In the above example, the radio buttons do not possess any visible text. Typically, one would need to
construct suitable locators using these buttons' other attributes - likely with the help of Appium
Inspector (or equivalent). With the
nearby
locator, we can use the "visible" surrounding of
the element instead.
Here's the syntax of this
nearby
locator:
nearby={[relative-to]:[visible-text]}{item:[index]}{attribute=value,attribute=value,...}
where,
[relative-to]
|
One of these values:
-
left-of - indicates that the element of interest is to the left of the
visible-text
-
right-of - indicates that the element of interest is to the right of the
visible-text
-
above - indicates that the element of interest is above the
visible-text
-
below - indicates that the element of interest is below the
visible-text
-
container - indicates that the element of interest is the parent/container of
the visible-text , and that it is of the "group" type (such as
android.view.ViewGroup ).
-
scroll-container - indicates that the element of interest is the
parent/container of the visible-text , and that it is of the "scrollable" type
(such as android.widget.ScrollView ).
|
[visible-text]
|
The visible text is used to identify the target element. |
item:...
|
In situations where there are multiple matches, one can specify the element index (as in, the
nth element) via the item keyword. The index must be a positive integer
(0-based), or the special keyword last . Use item:last to signify the last
match item.
Consider the following example:
nearby={right-of:UNCHECKED}{index:1} would reference the left-most checkbox and
nearby={right-of:UNCHECKED}{index:last} would reference the last (right-most) checkbox.
|
attribute=value,...
|
OPTIONAL. One can supply additional attributes of the target element to improve the locator
precision. This is generally not needed. At times when there are many elements nearby the same
text element, one may want to consider adding additional attributes to filter out the conflicting
elements.
|
Not available in mobile automation.
Not available in mobile automation.
Not available in mobile automation.
Quick Tip: Image locators are prefixed by image=
Coming soon, stay tuned!!
Quick Tip: "One Of" locators are prefixed by
one-of=
This is yet another Nexial-only, specialized locator aiming at simplifying platform-specific locator
management. The main design idea is to allow one to specify multiple locators - some for a specific platform,
while some as generalized locators - and allow Nexial to pick the best locator at runtime. With the
one-of
locator (more like
locators), the multiple locators specified are filtered
at execution time to the appropriate ones. This allows for cleaner automation scripts and a simpler way to
maintain platform-specific or even build-specific locators. Here's an example to demonstrate this type of
locator:
one-of={text=Clear all}{android;id=dismiss_text}{ios;id=clear_all_button}
The above read:
First, look for a component whose text is "Clear all".
If that can't be found and the current device is Android, then look for a component with an
ID of "dismiss_text".
However, if the current device is iOS, then look for a component with an
ID of "clear_all_button".
The multiple decision points here are neatly synthesized into a series of
{...}{...}
. This
simplifies the automation effort since we wouldn't need to maintain device-specific scripts or
device-specific locators.
It is noteworthy to state that the order of these "inner" locators is important. Nexial will filter out all
the irrelevant ones (
android
for iOS and
ios
for Android) and "test" the relevant
ones from left to right. It is generally a good idea to order the most likely "inner" locator ahead of the
other ones.
Here's the syntax of this
one-of
locator:
one-of={[android|ios];[locator]}{[locator]}{[locator]}...
where,
[android|ios];
|
android or ios - each specified locator may be prefixed with
android or ios to signify its platform/device dependency. During
execution, Nexial will filter out the irrelevant locator(s) based on this. Note that this must be
suffixed with a semi-colon. For example: {android;id=FirstName}
|
[locator]
|
The device-specific or generalized locator. One may choose from any of the supported locators
such as ID, Accessibility ID, Text, etc.
|


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Panelist | February 2023
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Nexus Nairobi 2023, Nairobi
Panelist (along with filmmaker Nina E. Schoenefeld) | October 2022
"The Artist Speaks Out Series"
ikonoTV
Panelist | August 2022
"Collective Musing - Arts, Humanities and Space"
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Panelist | April 2022
"Benefits and Impact of Space Exploration on the Indian Society"
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Next Gen: Plenary Session - International Collaboration for Sustainable Space Exploration.
Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX-2021), St Petersburg
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TEDx | February 2021
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Webinar host | February 2021
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Interactive webinar with school students | February 2021
"Exploring the Moon"
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Interactive webinar | February 2021
"The Importance of Analog Astronaut Missions for Future Human Space Exploration"
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Space Generation Advisory Council: Our Giant Leap webinar series
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"Et si les sciences c'était pour moi ?"
L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Girls in Science", at the City of Science & Industry (Paris, France)
Talk show with college students | July 2017
"On Pursuing Scientific Careers for Women"
Handique Girls College (Guwahati, Assam)


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By Brett Taylor | July 29, 2018
I’ve been very fortunate to be in healthcare throughout my career. My introduction to the industry occurred when I took on a job in the O/R at Sutter Health. I ended up getting a position as a Surgical attendant in the O/R department at age 19. This job was all about ensuring the patients were in the operating room at the right time and making sure the O/R was clean. While I ended up on the I.T. side of healthcare, starting out in the O/R has really helped me understand some of the challenges and opportunities in the industry. This post is to show you that teaming up with the people that deliver care can help you improve your world in healthcare I.T.
I want to share the publication below because while I’ve been working in Healthcare Information Technology (H.I.T.) for many years. Most people don’t know how I got so focused on the medical field. If you know my history, I’ve worked in healthcare I.T. for over 30 years and have had some fascinating work. My work includes advanced leadership in the I.T. departments in the areas of development, data science, and infrastructure and operations. I’ve also done product development and consulting for the industry. I love to do work in the area of data analytics in healthcare in which I build software and data models to improve performance in organizations.
The document called Happy Trails to You was created by Sutter Health in the early 1990s. This gives a view of my 13+ years at Sutter. I want you to know that I think that the staff in H.I.T. should get tightly integrated to care delivery. My best times working for healthcare has been when I engaged directly with physicians, R.N.’s, and other care delivery staff. We focused on optimizing their world by reducing the complexity of the E.H.R. and providing them predictions of outcomes. The interaction always allows me to listen to the real problems and opportunities, which is better than me trying to say I know all of the answers to solve healthcare issues. If you work in H.I.T., I recommend you find ways to do the same.
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I’m glad to introduce how I started working in the Healthcare industry. My passion for enabling better care, better health, and lowering cost in the industry is persistent. I expect to spend the rest of my career, helping health systems to improve performance and create better outcomes. If you can work with me, you’ll see a guy that looks a bit older than in the pictures above!


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new agenda is intended to help more in scenarios where advanced AI is relatively near and relatively directly descended from contemporary ML techniques, while our agent foundations agenda is more agnostic about when and how advanced AI will be developed.
Where the agent foundations agenda can be said to follow the principle “start with the least well-understood long-term AI safety problems, since those seem likely to require the most work and are the likeliest to seriously alter our understanding of the overall problem space,” the concrete problems agenda follows the principle “start with the long-term AI safety problems that are most applicable to systems today, since those problems are the easiest to connect to existing work by the AI research community.”
Increasing safety by reducing autonomy
- Inductive ambiguity identification: How can we train ML systems to detect and notify us of cases where the classification of test data is highly under-determined from the training data?
- Robust human imitation: How can we design and train ML systems to effectively imitate humans who are engaged in complex and difficult tasks?
- Informed oversight: How can we train a reinforcement learning system to take actions that aid an intelligent overseer, such as a human, in accurately assessing the system’s performance?
Ambiguity identification helps:
We could reduce risk somewhat by building systems that are still reasonably smart and autonomous, but will pause to consult operators in cases where their actions are especially high-risk. Ambiguity identification is one approach to fleshing out which scenarios are “high-risk”
vs. human imitation.
In practice, however, ambiguity identification is probably too mild a restriction on its own, and strict human imitation probably isn’t efficiently implementable. Informed oversight considers more moderate approaches to keeping humans in the loop.
Increasing safety without reducing autonomy
- Generalizable environmental goals: How can we create systems that robustly pursue goals defined in terms of the state of the environment, rather than defined directly in terms of their sensory data?
- Conservative concepts: How can a classifier be trained to develop useful concepts that exclude highly atypical examples and edge cases?
- Impact measures: What sorts of regularizers incentivize a system to pursue its goals with minimal side effects?
- Mild optimization: How can we design systems that pursue their goals “without trying too hard”-stopping when the goal has been pretty well achieved, as opposed to expending further resources searching for ways to achieve the absolute optimum expected score?
- Averting instrumental incentives: How can we design and train systems such that they robustly lack default incentives to manipulate and deceive their operators, compete for scarce resources, etc.?
ambiguity-identifying learners are designed to predict potential ways they might run into edge cases and defer to human operators in those cases, conservative learners are designed to err in a safe direction in edge cases.
Ex. cooking the cat.
Paper
Right kind of objective function (value specification), vs. avoid unintended consequences even with imperfect objective function (error tolerance)
Codify “without doing anything drastic.”
Obstacles: values of humans hard to pin down, and intelligent system wants to ensure continued existence
Solutions must be applicable to advanced AI systems. Ignorance is an unsatisfactory solution.
Extreme guarantees: “after time t, make 0 significant mistakes.”
Improving a system’s capability may make it exploit loopholes and do less well in the sense we care about. (And hide it from the creator)
- Know when past experience provides insufficient evidence to make a decision.
- Ex. distinguish between Soviet and US tanks - Soviet tanks were taken on sunny day.
- Recognize underspecificity and query user
- Cf. robustness to distributional change.
- Bayesian approaches need the right variables (features).
- Non-Bayesian approaches do not identify ambiguities.
- Active learning: maintain plausible hypotheses, query to rule out
- Disagreement coefficient: overall probability of disagreement in local ball
- Active learning usually requires simple hypothesis class, or iid test samples.
- Ex. Soviets respond by making tanks to fool algorithm
- Conformal predictor: give set of plasuible classifications, contain true one about 95% of time.
- KWIK (knows what it knows): query human finitely many times and makes 0 critical errors. Make classification only when all remaining plausible hypotheses agree.
- Only known for simple hypothesis classes
- Directions
- Bayesian
- Extend active learning beyond iid, and more complex hypothesis classes (NN)
- Relax realizability
- More efficient way to represent ambiguity than set of hypotheses
- Robust Human Interaction
- Ambiguity identification can help by limiting autonomy
- Do what a trusted human would do.
- How to define objective?
- Related
- Inverse RL.
- Max entropy criterion to convert to opt problem
- May not scale because human demonstrators may not be optimizing value function (irrational).
- Directions
- Imitate human answers to questions (NLP).
- GAN
- VAE - can only imitate reversible algorithms
- Informed oversight
- do what a trusted human would approve given time to consider (approval directed)
- But a human may have a hard time assessing behavior of even a simpler agent (ex. plagiarism easier to execute than detect)
- Related
- Active learning component
- CIRL
- cf. scalable oversight (when possibly deceptive)
- Making more transparent: sparsity, gradients, influence…
- Transparency by construction
- Make robotics systems more transparent
- Directions
- Output action a and report r to help overseer evaluate. Ex. a is story
- Generalizable environment goals
- How to not incentivize self-fooling sensors?
- Designing more elaborate sensors doesn’t scale.
- Instead learn environment goal
- Related
- Learn utility over world-states. Requires specifying (1) type of world-state, (2) prior over utilities, (3) Value-learning model relating utility functions, state transitions, and observations
- Use reward perceptions as evidence of utility function rather than direct measure.
- Reward hacking
- Ex. (A) make sandwich vs. (B) print photo of one. (B): if move paper, then fails.
- Delusion box
- Take into account past leading up to state
- Avoid large jumps in feature space?
- Conservative concepts
- AI system finds strange, undesirable edge case
- Adversarial examples
- Inverse RL
- Generative adversarial modeling
- Directions
- Dimensionality reduction
- Anomaly detection
- What is a “conservative concept”?
- Impact
- Regularizer penalizing unnecessary large scale side effects but not intended side effects.
- Related
- Impact measure
- Define null policy and state of world
- Divergence between distribution and distribution of null policy. Use model-based RL
- How to separate follow-on and unintended side effects?
- Directions
- Causal counterfactual: follow-on effects are causally downstream of goal
- Query the operator
- Mild
- Related
- Regularization
- How to measure optimization?
- Universal intelligence metrics
- Empowerment metric
- Early stopping is ad-hoc mild optimization
- Satisfice reward rather than maximize. OK if find easy strategies before extreme ones.
- Quantilization: select action randomly from top 1%. Justified by adversarial assumptions.
- How to define measure over actions?
- Directions
- regularizer for intelligence
- design environments with exploitable glitches
- do not self-modify or outsource computation
- Instrumental
- Convergent instrumental objectives
- Difficulty: “shut down if human wants it to shut down”. Then make human not want to shut it down.
- Uncertainty about goal
- But if confidently wrong, would have instrumental incentives
- Related
- Specific designs vs. general solution?
- Directions
- Way of combine objective functions
- No incentive to cause/prevent shift in objective function
- Incentivized to preserve ability to update objective function
- Reasonable beliefs about relation between actions and mechanism that causes objective function shifts.
- Systems that know they are flawed.
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- Actions hard to evaluate. Ex. plagiarize, steganography. Informed insight
- Ambiguous test examples. Ex. train on domestic cats. Wild cats?
- Imitate human behavior. Produce kind of picture a human would draw. GAN. Imitator vs. distinguisher. Does distinguisher have to be smarter than imitator? How to effectively imitate humans in complex/difficult tasks.
- Difficulty specifying goals: make a sandwich. Reward hacking.
- Negative side effect. 99.99999% chance. Avoid plans with high estimated impact, mild optimization, avert instrumental incentives (manipulate operators, compete for scarce resources).
- Edge cases that still satisfy the goal
Inductive ambiguity identification
- Draw many consistent models with data
- KWIK learning. At each step output w/i epsilon, or .
- Problem: realizability, only for simple hyp classes
- Bayesian: Prior Q over mappings. P unknown ture prior. Perform some classification almost as well as if we already knew P. Assumption: \(\forall f, Q(f)\ge \rc k P(f)\).
Other research agenda
- Agent foundations: theoretical foundations, agnostic about specific form, logical induction
- Concrete problems in AI safety: empirically study as ML problems. Ex. RL act safely as explore environment.


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Section 2 touched on creating 2D images from functions. For this as a method unto itself, look at Functional Images from Conal Elliott. More commonly, though, this method is used as a way of creating "solid textures" which are used in conjunctions with 3D models. See Ken Perlin's seminal paper, An image synthesizer, for a starting point on this. Beyond this, there are countless references on how shaders are used in 3D graphics - both in realtime applications such as games (for which OpenGL's shaders are used extensively), and in computer-generated imagery for movies (such as RenderMan Shading Language).
I mentioned that the distance functions in section 3 were a sort of extension of this - particularly, of what we can do with functions that map points in space to something (color, or a distance bound, for instance). Another application of this same principle can be found in the Hypertexture approach of Perlin and Hoffert - in which a function maps points in 3D space to density at that point, rather than minimum-distance.
Íñigo Quílez is one of the leading figures on sphere tracing over the past 10 years or so, and has done extensive work in implementing, explaining, and popularizing them. His website is full of articles on the mathematics and implementation (start at Raymarching Distance Fields) and his Shadertoy profile is full of excellent examples (and this web application's sphere tracer is based on one such example).
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- From Morgan McGuire: Numerical Methods for Ray Tracing Implicitly Defined Surfaces
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- The Book of Shaders
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Ernesto Valverde's side host Celta Vigo before the international break with the chance to get back to winning ways.
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1 Hearing of this, Apries sent Amasis to dissuade them. When Amasis came up with the Egyptians, he exhorted them to desist; but as he spoke an Egyptian came behind him and put a helmet on his head, saying it was the token of royalty.
2 And Amasis showed that this was not displeasing to him, for after being made king by the rebel Egyptians he prepared to march against Apries.
3 When Apries heard of it, he sent against Amasis an esteemed Egyptian named Patarbemis, one of his own court, instructing him to take the rebel alive and bring him into his presence. When Patarbemis came and summoned Amasis, Amasis (who was on horseback) rose up and farted, telling the messenger to take that back to Apries.
4 But when in spite of this Patarbemis insisted that Amasis obey the king's summons and go to him, Amasis answered that he had long been preparing to do just that, and Apries would find him above reproach, for he would present himself, and bring others.
5 Hearing this, Patarbemis could not mistake Amasis; he saw his preparations and hastened to depart, the more quickly to make known to the king what was going on. When Apries saw him return without Amasis, he did not stop to reflect, but in his rage and fury had Patarbemis' ears and nose cut off.
6 The rest of the Egyptians, who were until now Apries' friends, seeing this outrage done to the man who was most prominent among them, changed sides without delay and offered themselves to Amasis.


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Python is an object oriented programming language.
Almost everything in Python is an object, with its properties and methods.
A Class is like an object constructor, or a "blueprint" for creating objects.
| Syntax | Definition | Examples |
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| objects |
Objects are things in memory that we can refer
to by name. * We can create objects in memory * We can use variable names to refer to objects * Objects have a type - and this type tells us what characteristics and behaviors the object can have. Objects can also contain methods. Methods in objects are functions that belong to the object: NameOfObject.FunctionCall(); Also all variables in methods for a class are instance-level variables (used for each object). |
>>> n = 300 (You've just created an integer object in memory,
and assigned the name n so that it refers to that object.) >>> def my_function(): ... print("Hello!") (If we run this code , it creates a function object in memory, and sets the name my_function to refer to that object.) |
| isinstance(object, type) | Returns True if the specified object is of the specified type, otherwise False. |
class myObj: name = "John" y = myObj() x = isinstance(y, myObj) print(x) --> True |
| type(object, bases, dict) | Returns the type of the specified object. | a = ('abc', 'std'); print(type(a)) --> class 'tuple' |
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class className: x = 5 |
Creates a class named className, with a property named x. >>> MyClass = className() Will create a new object based on the className class, but now it also tells Python that from here forward the name MyClass will refer to that object. All classes have a function called __init__(), which is always executed when the class is being initiated, to create an object. Use the __init__() function to assign values to object properties , or other operations that are necessary to do when the object is being created: >>> __init__(self, name) will require name variable when calling the class. Class definitions cannot be empty, but if you for some reason have a class definition with no content, put in the pass statement to avoid getting an error. |
Note: The self parameter is a reference to the current instance of the class, and is used to access variables that belong to the class. It does not have to be named self , you can call it whatever you like, but it has to be the first parameter of any function in the class. |
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class Student(Person): Python Inheritance When you add the __init__() function, the child class will no longer inherit the parent's __init__() function. class Student(Person): def __init__(self, fname, lname): super().__init__(fname, lname) |
Python also has a super() function that will make the child class
inherit all the methods and properties from its parent. By using the super() function, you do not have to use the name of the parent element, it will automatically inherit the methods and properties from its parent. |
To keep the inheritance of the parent's __init__() function, add a call
to the parent's __init__() function: class Student(Person): def __init__(self, fname, lname): Person.__init__(self, fname, lname) |
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Authors: Ricardo Gonçalves (tome.wave@gmail.com).
| add/2 | Adds an entry {Id, Counter} to the VV, performing the maximum between both counters, if the entry already exists. |
| delete_key/2 | Returns the VV without the entry with a given key. |
| filter/2 | It applies some boolean function F to all entries in the VV, removing those that return False when F is used. |
| get/2 | Returns the counter associated with an id K. |
| ids/1 | Returns all the keys (ids) from a VV. |
| join/2 | Merges or joins two VVs, taking the maximum counter if an entry is present in both VVs. |
| min/1 | Returns the minimum counters from all the entries in the VV. |
| min_key/1 | Returns the key with the minimum counter associated. |
| new/0 | Initializes a new empty version vector. |
| reset_with_same_ids/1 | Returns the VV with the same entries, but with counters at zero. |
Adds an entry {Id, Counter} to the VV, performing the maximum between both counters, if the entry already exists.
Returns the VV without the entry with a given key.
It applies some boolean function F to all entries in the VV, removing those that return False when F is used.
Returns the counter associated with an id K. If the key is not present in the VV, it returns 0.
Returns all the keys (ids) from a VV.
Merges or joins two VVs, taking the maximum counter if an entry is present in both VVs.
Returns the minimum counters from all the entries in the VV.
Returns the key with the minimum counter associated.
new() -> vv()
Initializes a new empty version vector.
Returns the VV with the same entries, but with counters at zero.
Generated by EDoc, Oct 29 2015, 16:20:19.


Class C GradCAM: GradCAM of mean C of logits with respect to indicated layer L.
How to interpret it: The highlighted regions are "important" in the sense that
increasing the activation values of layer L in the highlighted regions
will increase the models confidence in its segmentation of C.
Class C Neg GradCAM: Negative GradCAM of mean of C logits with respect to indicated layer L.
How to interpret it: The highlighted regions are "important" in the sense that
increasing the activation values of layer L in the highlighted regions
will increase the models confidence in its segmentation of C.


Warning! To apply a JDL Model on a GitHub project, you must authorize JHipster Online to access your GitHub account.
The JHipster Bot will access your project's GitHub/GitLab repository and create a new branch with Continuous Integration configuration. You can then decide if you want to merge this branch into your master branch.


Maybe this has been fully wrapped up by now, but I have some test data which may be useful confirmation for some people thinking of using "all" their PV power.
I have a normal grid & PV system, where I have fitted 3 conventional utility meters, for (1) Power used by house, (2) Power imported from Grid, (3) Power generated by PVs. All three give 1000 pulse/kWh and I have built a (PIC based - sorry) system to read the pulses & display everything in the house.
Wanting to build an addition to use all my "spare" PV power to heat water, I was worried whether Grid meter might not see my "chopped" power going to the immersion heater, but may see "full power" of the applied heater. I see there was some discussion here earlier in the year.
With a bread-boarded zero crossing cct driving a Triac in "integral cycle" mode, I put power through to a 1400W room heater in various multiples of full cycles ( 0, 4, 8, 16, 24 out of every 24 cycles) Results are as follows : fully confirms that the Grid meter sees what I want it to see, and only imports the necessary power to make up my "reduced" load.
It was a dull day, but the arithmetic pans out.
cycles/24 0 4 8 16 24
Heater kW(assumed) 0 0 .23 0.47 0.93 1.40
PV generated 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.13
House using 0.37 0.63 0.87 1.36 1.85
Grid supplying 0.24 0.50 0.74 1.23 1.72
Hope this is useful
Re: utility meter response to triac control
I like your objective of using "all" of your surplus PV power to heat water.
Always good to hear that someone else has independently made the same observations.


Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
"The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
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- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 4.5
- Word Count: 1,087
- Genre: Fantasy
- Keywords: adversity
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NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Little God Nqa.
He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.’
Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sandflat and shouted, ‘Go away!’
He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Middle God Nquing.
He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast, saying, ‘ Make me different from all other animals; make me, also, wonderfully popular by five this afternoon.’
Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted, ‘Go away!’
He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on a sandbank in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Big God Nqong.
He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon.’
Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted, ‘Yes, I will!’
Nqong called Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—always hungry, dusty in the sunshine, and showed him Kangaroo. Nqong said, ‘Dingo! Wake up, Dingo! Do you see that gentleman dancing on an ashpit? He wants to be popular and very truly run after. Dingo, make him SO!’
Up jumped Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—and said, ‘What, that cat-rabbit?’
Off ran Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—always hungry, grinning like a coal-scuttle,—ran after Kangaroo.

This, O Beloved of mine, ends the first part of the tale!
He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran through the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through the blue gums; he ran through the spinifex; he ran till his front legs ached.
He had to!
Still ran Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—always hungry, grinning like a rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,—ran after Kangaroo.
He had to!
Still ran Kangaroo—Old Man Kangaroo. He ran through the ti-trees; he ran through the mulga; he ran through the long grass; he ran through the short grass; he ran through the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; he ran till his hind legs ached.
He had to!
Still ran Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—hungrier and hungrier, grinning like a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they came to the Wollgong River.
Now, there wasn’t any bridge, and there wasn’t any ferry-boat, and Kangaroo didn’t know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and hopped.
He had to!
He hopped through the Flinders; he hopped through the Cinders; he hopped through the deserts in the middle of Australia. He hopped like a Kangaroo.
First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer. He hadn’t any time for rest or refreshment, and he wanted them very much.
Still ran Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo—very much bewildered, very much hungry, and wondering what in the world or out of it made Old Man Kangaroo hop.
For he hopped like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan; or a new rubber ball on a nursery floor.
He had to!

He had to!
Still ran Dingo—Tired-Dog Dingo—hungrier and hungrier, very much bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man Kangaroo stop.
Then came Nqong from his bath in the salt-pans, and said, ‘It’s five o’clock.’
Down sat Dingo—Poor Dog Dingo—always hungry, dusky in the sunshine; hung out his tongue and howled.
Down sat Kangaroo—Old Man Kangaroo—stuck out his tail like a milking-stool behind him, and said, ‘Thank goodness that’s finished!’
Then said Nqong, who is always a gentleman, ‘Why aren’t you grateful to Yellow-Dog Dingo? Why don’t you thank him for all he has done for you?’
Then said Kangaroo—Tired Old Kangaroo—He’s chased me out of the homes of my childhood; he’s chased me out of my regular meal-times; he’s altered my shape so I’ll never get it back; and he’s played Old Scratch with my legs.’
Then said Nqong, ‘Perhaps I’m mistaken, but didn’t you ask me to make you different from all other animals, as well as to make you very truly sought after? And now it is five o’clock.’
‘Yes,’ said Kangaroo. ‘I wish that I hadn’t. I thought you would do it by charms and incantations, but this is a practical joke.’
‘Joke!’ said Nqong from his bath in the blue gums. ‘Say that again and I’ll whistle up Dingo and run your hind legs off.’
‘No,’ said the Kangaroo. ‘I must apologise. Legs are legs, and you needn’t alter ‘em so far as I am concerned. I only meant to explain to Your Lordliness that I’ve had nothing to eat since morning, and I’m very empty indeed.’
‘Yes,’ said Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo,—’I am just in the same situation. I’ve made him different from all other animals; but what may I have for my tea?’
Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, ‘Come and ask me about it tomorrow, because I’m going to wash.’
So they were left in the middle of Australia, Old Man Kangaroo and Yellow-Dog Dingo, and each said, ‘That’s your fault.’


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Cretan Dreams
All my life I’ve said I would get married in Crete. I would lie in bed with my best friend talking about my wedding to an amazing man in a small church in the middle of nowhere. Today, my dreams came true. Crete was everything I thought it would be and more. We were walking through the historical streets and visiting monasteries and spectacular beaches and it got me thinking… I did not need a wedding to fulfill the dream, I had my dream right beside me. This post is dedicated to the highlights of our 8 day trip and the places you should not miss!
Basic Tips:
- Rent a car as the island is huge and you will see nothing without one. (We rented with SK rentals and everything went smoothly).
- April is the best time to visit with nice sunny weather (20-24 degrees) and less tourists
- Split your days between the three major cities: Chania, Rethymnon and Heraklion
Chania
Tip: We spent 2 nights here. Chania is a pretty city with narrow streets, waterfront cafes and restaurants and not forgetting the Venetian port and lighthouse. Crete has history being occupied by the Venetians and Ottoman empire so you will see strong influences on architecture everywhere.
Apart from the walk around Chania be sure to check out a really nice cafe called Carte postale. There are guaranteed panoramic views of the city!
Just a short walk from the cafe you will find a nice park with the graves of Eleftherios Venizelos and his son Sophocles. There is information in the parks about these men, you will enjoy the walk and read.
Day 2 was spent on looking for the oldest olive tree in the world! It is said to be around 3000 years old. You will find this tree at Ano vouves.
We also spent some time looking for Balos lagoon! A tip here: the views are worth it but the drive to Balos is horrendous! the roads are really bumpy, you will be driving at 10km/hour for at least an hour. Maybe get a jeep? Also, be prepared to walk to the lagoon after you arrive by car to the parking lot.
On the way to Rethymnon, we stopped at a cute village of springs called Argyroupoli. It had fresh spring water flowing through the village it’s definitely worth a stop.
Rethymnon
Tip: We spent 2 nights here. It is the third largest city and the best one in my opinion. It is full of history with every street leading you to a story. Rethymnon was taken over by the Ottoman empire so you will see a large Turkish influence here in terms of architecture and culture.
Day 2 was spent at the famous Arcadi monastery and Preveli monastery that played a key role in the Cretan revolution and world war II respectively. Lots of reading to do but I promise you wont get bored. The fight for freedom was inspiring, the Arcadi monastery is recognised by UNESCO as a freedom monument.
Preveli monastery has a history with helping wounded allied soldiers escape from the German soldiers during World War II through the lake. When we visited we were amused to see they kept an animal sanctuary with llamas, peacocks and ducks etc. It is a functioning monastery, even a priest had a chat with us. For lunch nearby, I recommend you find “Panaroma taverna”, it has a view of Libya. The food is really good too!
Heraklion
Heraklion is the capital city of Crete. We did not stay here as we wanted to be away from the city so we chose Hersonissos. It is a beach town with lovely spa resorts! Some party tourists choose Malia for the crazy nights, but obviously its all quiet in April. Tip: We spent 3 nights here.
Spinalonga island
Day 2 was spent in Spinalonga! The last active leper colony in Europe was based here. Also there is a famous book called “the island” by Victoria Hislop and I highly recommend it. I was so excited to see the island and the story come alive. To get there, drive towards Plaka, there are boats (5 min ride) that will take you across and back for 10 euros. The entrance will cost 8 euros and do note there are no guides unless you are in a tour group. So for those, like me who like details, read up before!
Knossos
For all the history lovers, Knossos is a must! The palace was built during the Minoan civilization and is linked with the legend of Minotaur and the labyrinth. Tip here: get your tickets online as the queue is long! Also do consider a guide as it is worth hearing the stories and history told to you! You will appreciate the highlights of the palace better such as the meaning behind the frescoes, throne room and the ways of the Minoan people.
In Summary…
I am happy to answer any questions if you have any! Eventually, Sar and I loved Crete and will not rule out a return ;)


--- layout: post esbma_id: 1724 title: Kudos to the Clever date: 2007-10-11 00:14:45 ---
I walked into my office this morning to discover a large package sitting on my chair. The box was from "Pinnacle Displays", which I vaguely remembered to be a company that sells some sort of trade show display stuff. I get junk mail from companies like that on a regular basis, so I assumed this would be more of the same. Still, this box was way too big and heavy to be regular junk mail. Anyway, I was pre-coffee, so I set it on the floor of my office and decided to open it later.
By lunch I had tripped over this enormous box several times, each time remarking to myself that the sender had paid way too much for whatever swag was inside.
Late this afternoon I finally decided to open the box and see what the heck they had sent me.
It was a bag of Evo dog food.
The accompanying letter from Pinnacle's Steve Peterson explained. I'll spare you the details and just say this: Steve wanted me to place a link to his website at the bottom of my article Going to a Trade Show. The bag of food for Sophie was the attention-getter/bribe.
If you visit that article now, you will see that I have acceded to his request, but I struggled with the decision. I've turned down lots of people asking to advertise on my blog. How did Steve Peterson get the link he wanted by sending me a $30 bag of kibble? I've refused cash offers worth hundreds of times more.
I guess I was just terribly impressed by how well Steve executed this stunt. He perused my blog. He saw my story about Absurd Customer Service, so he knew that I buy Evo. Then he not only found a place to buy it (which probably wasn't easy), but he even got the right size bite for Sophie (a German Shepherd).
But that wasn't enough. The whole gimmick would have backfired if his cover letter sounded smarmy, but the tone was perfect. This kind of thing is just so very hard to do well, and Steve nailed it.
Bottom line: I don't like it when people ask me for links or ad placements here, so I really wanted to be annoyed at this guy, but the feeling just wasn't there. The simple truth is that he didn't tick me off. Knowing how little patience I have for anybody trying to sell me something, I couldn't help but admire his accomplishment.
So, I offer a tip of my hat to Steve Peterson of Pinnacle Displays.
Note that Sophie had no concerns at all about this whole situation. She doesn't care in the slightest about her credibility. She'll do just about anything for food. In fact, I know from experience that she will happily trade her dignity for half an ounce of store brand mozzarella.
So she was very quick to volunteer to wear the graphics of her new sponsor:
:-)


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