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Basic Color Theory
There are three PRIMARY colors: blue, red, and yellow.
There are also three SECONDARY colors: orange, purple, and green.
Secondary colors are created by mixing two primary colors.
COMPLEMENTARY colors are two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. Each pair of complementary colors is made up of one primary color and one secondary color.
got it!
How To Play
After pressing START, two or more colored squares will appear in a line. Your job is to create your own line of squares in response to that line.
For example, you might see this line of squares:
And you would respond by creating this line of squares:
You do this by combining each square with the one to its right to create a new color square, following five simple rules. Hint: Use color theory!
Rule 1: Two matching colors combine into one copy of the color
Rule 2: Primary colors combine to create appropriate secondary color
Rule 3: Two secondary colors combine into the primary color both need to make their color. For example, purple is made from red and blue, and green is made from yellow and blue, so they both require blue.
Rule 4: A primary and a secondary color combine into the other primary color needed to create that secondary color. For example, to create orange, red needs to be mixed with yellow.
Rule 5: If there are any complementary colors in the line, skip them altogether and move onto the next pair of squares!
Whew, that was a lot to take in! Let's practice a bit on the next screen.
How To Play, continued
Remember that example from the last screen? How do you go from this...
...to this?
Let's work through it step by step. You start with the purple square on the left, and the orange square next to it. Purple and orange are both secondary colors, and they both need red to make them. So the first square in your response is red!
Next you move on to the orange square and the green one next to it. They're both secondary colors too! Which primary color do they both need to make their colors? Yellow! So you add yellow to your line.
Next up is green and blue. Green is secondary, but blue is a primary color. What other color needs to be mixed with blue to make green? Yellow! So another yellow square is added to the line.
The final two squares in the line are blue and red, both primary colors. Mixing them gives us purple, so the last square in our line is purple! And we're done!
Ready to give it a try? You'll be given 45 seconds to complete as many challenges as possible. For each one you get correct, you'll be rewarded with 3 extra seconds, but be careful because if you submit incorrectly you'll lose an extra 5 seconds!
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[OgreKit Lua] |
Methods
| Controller.link |
This is a two stage link.
First the sensors output is linked to the controllers input.
Second the controllers input is linked to the sensors output.
Overload:
This is a one stage link.
The actuators input is linked to the controllers output.


Our platform helps make running a small business easier than ever.
From building a website to managing appointments
and inventory, we’ve got you covered.
Our platform helps make running a small business easier than ever.
From building a website to managing appointments
and inventory, we’ve got you covered.
Our platform helps make running a small business easier than ever.
From building a website to managing appointments
and inventory, we’ve got you covered.
Our platform helps make running a small business easier than ever.
From building a website to managing appointments
and inventory, we’ve got you covered.


Package Upgrades
Here you can view the additional upgrades you can add to our business packages
Whilst several of our business models offer a website as standard (the basic package), several of our models (namely the vending business models) don't. Therefore if you'd like to add a website to your business package or upgrade from the basic package, we have 3 tiers for you to choose from.
Online Presence
Our basic package includes a 1-page template website tailored to your industry. This includes a simple contact form and links to your Facebook and Twitter pages (if required). Simple amendments such as text and images are included. You also get 1 email account included as standard.
The basic package includes:
- A professional 1-page template website
- Professional and reliable hosting with the first year included
- Your own domain name (e.g. www.yourbusiness.co.uk) with the first 2 years included
- An email account (for example info@)
- A standard contact form
- Links to your social media pages (such as Facebook and Twitter)
Cost: £150+VAT
Online Presence (Pro Package)
Whilst our basic package includes a simple but attractive 1-page template to get your business started, for those of you that want a custom, modern and responsive website, our pro package is for you. Not only does the pro package offer a completely bespoke website design of up to 5 pages (designed to your preferences), it also features a fully responsive design!
What does this mean you ask... have you ever visited a website on your mobile or tablet and found everything to be really "zoomed out" or small? Have you ever visited a site on your mobile or tablet and been sent to a "mobile" version of the site that's a pain to navigate or doesn't feature all of the content of the "desktop site"?
Responsive design eliminates both of these issues with a single site that intelligently adapts it's layout and structure to fit perfectly on the screen size it's being viewed on.
We also include setup and integration of Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools so you get in-depth knowledge about your site and how it is performing.
Includes the contents of our basic package, plus:
- A professional, bespoke design of up to 5 pages (instead of a 1-page template)
- A responsive design that adjusts itself based on the screen size of your visitors device (mobile/tablet users have a fantastic experience on your site with no zooming in/out required!)
- Basic Google Maps Integration
- Embedded social media updates (have your Facebook or Twitter updates shown on your site)
- Setup of a Google Analytics account and integaration onto your site
- Setup of a Google Webmaster Tools account and integaration onto your site
Cost: £500+VAT
Online Presence (Ultimate Package)
Our ultimate package contains everything you need to have a complete online presence, with everything included in the basic and pro packages plus a modern and simple to use CMS (content management system) so that you can make your own changes to your website. To ensure you are familar with the CMS system we also include a 1 hour initial training session over the phone to teach you how to make changes and know your way around the system. Ongoing phone/email support is included as standard.
Also included are Facebook and Twitter pages setup by us with periodical updates posted to both profiles.
With this package you also get the added benefit of your site taking advantage of a professional CDN (content delivery network), which can make your site load 2x as fast regardless of where your visitors are in the world!
In addition to these extras, the number of bespoke pages is increased to 10 with the ultimate package.
Includes the contents of our basic & pro packages, plus:
- Full CMS (content management system) integration so you can make your own updates to your site
- A 1 hour over-the-phone training session for the CMS system
- Ongoing phone/email support
- A Facebook page for your business and periodical updates from us
- A Twitter page for your business and periodical updates from us
- A Facebook advertising campaign for £50
- Your site delivered by a professional and industry-leading CDN (content delivery network) - which makes your site lightning-fast for your visitors and protects your site against hackers & malware
Cost: £1,250+VAT
All of our "Online Presence" packages have the following additional costs (approx)
£35 p/a for hosting (first year included)
£9 per 2-years for domain name renewal (first 2 years included)
Vehicle Wrapping
Having your business details, such as your website, services and phone number, on the side of your vehicle can be a great boon to your local exposure. WIth our vehicle wrapping package we will design a vehicle wrapping/vinyl to your company branding and will locate an affordable, local supplier who will be able to carry out the application of your wrapping/vinyl.
Cost: £100
Please note: The cost of having your vehicle wrapped can vary dependent on your vehicle, supplier and your location. The cost shown above is for design and sourcing a local supplier only. The cost to have the vinyl/wrapping applied to your vehicle must be paid by yourself directly to the supplier.
Printing package (Basic, Pro and Ultimate)
Flyers, business cards and vouchers are the staple of any business which needs to advertise to a local audience. With our 3-tier printing packages you can get professionaly designed and printed marketing materials. Our pro and ultimate packages also include attractive roller banners which are ideal to advertise your locations/services in prominent public locations or venues. With all 3 of our packages, the number of prints can be split however you deem neccasary, for example 1,000 prints could be split into 500 business cards and 500 flyers or 750 flyers and 250 business cards or any such combination.
Basic: £250 - 1,000 prints
Pro: £500 - 1,000 prints & pop-up roller banner
Ultimate: £1,000 - 5,000 prints & pop-up roller banner


[§485A-104] References to federal agencies. A reference in this chapter to an agency or department of the United States is also a reference to a successor agency or department. [L 2006, c 229, pt of §1]


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Andrew discusses the use of a 'laboratory' style notebook for software development. His suggestions are excellent, but should really be taken further, especially for junior developers.
A developers log book should record a variety of information
- Designs, analysis and problem investigations as discussed in the
previous post
- All work and development related telephone calls, conversations and meetings
- Debug sessions: Helps keep track of what is currently happening and also to help re-create the session later if required
- Settings, break points used etc. (the details required depends on the features of your tool)
- Results
- Configuration settings for tools and other software you use plus notes about any changes (the reason why and the result of the change)
- Time logging. At a minimum time arrived and departed plus blocks of time spent on each project. Don't forget to add in time answering questions, going to meetings etc.
- Useful pieces for information such as names, telephone numbers, documentation references and other snippets
- Notes of builds and test runs including when, which tests and builds, and the result
- References to ticket numbers that are being worked on
- Summary of Revision Control Activity e.g.
- Times of commits, updates (to use Subversion jargon) and merges to the version control system and relevant revision numbers (if using a system such as Subversion that supports a global revision number)
- Note of any tags,branches or baselines you create
What form should the log book take? That depends on what works for the individual and the team. For example
- A paper journal, such as a Moleskine
- A more traditional planner such as a Filofax
- An ordinary loose leaf office binder
- A desk diary
- An electronic notebook such as Jarnal or OneNote
- An online repository, for instance a WiKi (Some WiKi software such as wikiPad support a local mode of operation)
Don't forget include dates and if relevant put the name of the client as well.
So what is the point of all this record keeping?
- Communication: Answer questions promptly and accurately, even years after the event
- Efficiency: Don't need to clutter up the mind with unnecessary information and make it easier to fill out your time sheet
- Historical record keeping: (a.k.a CYOA) Justify your decisions and progress with accurate data
- Task management and planning: Understand your commitments and plans to make sure you only promise what you can deliver. Stay on top of your workload. The lab book can be used in conjunction with task management systems such as GSD. Consider using historical data to make estimates.
- Not forgetting things at 3:00am during an all night bug squash
Such records can also be useful for patent filling if that is something you need to do later. However record keeping to support patent applications is a whole subject on its own.
Updated 2/June/2008: There are some additional notes on 43Folders
Updated 11/Oct/2008: The Power of Writing Things Down
Updated Jan/2013: Visual Note Taking 101
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This is a demo of a combined (grouped) Bar and Line chart where the marginInnerGrouped
setting on the Bar chart has been set to -15
, This gives the appearance of the bars
overlapping each other slightly.
It has dual Y-axes
by utilising the drawing API
Y-axis
object and the colors have been specifically set
to what they are to link the bars and lines together.
The Lines also have slightly larger-than-normal tickmarks for a nicer aesthetic and the whole chart uses slightly larger-than-the-default text.
In terms of responsive
features, there's not much done by the Line chart - though there's a lot done
by the Bar chart - particularly to accommodate the Y-axis
objects. To make it easier to understand
you will do well to "un-minify" it and spread it across multiple lines.
<script src="RGraph.common.core.js"></script> <script src="RGraph.bar.js"></script> <script src="RGraph.line.js"></script> <script src="RGraph.drawing.yaxis.js"></script>Put this where you want the chart to show up:
<div style="padding: 25px; display: inline-block; margin:20px"> <canvas id="cvs" width="650" height="250">[No canvas support]</canvas> </div>This is the code that generates the chart - it should be placed AFTER the
canvas
tag(s):


If we let x and y be complex, the solutions lie in 4 dimensional space (2 for x and 2 for y), and our equation becomes two equations: Real parts are equal and Imaginary parts are equal to each other, so the solution set itself should be 2 dimensional. We can visualize this solution set by taking cross sections of the four dimensional space.
Something really interesting happens if we take spherical cross sections around the origin. That is, we take the 3-dimensional surface of a 4-dimensional sphere around the origin and find its intersection with the solution set. We can solve this explicitly to get:
We can then project this intersection to 3 dimensional space via the stereographic projection map: Use hypersphere of radiusA question we might ask is what knots/links can be obtained by intersecting the solution set of a polynomial equation with the surface of a small 4-dimensional sphere. These knots are the "Compound Cable Knots": (see, for instance, Topology of hypersurface singularities Neumann, Walter D)
Our construction above leaves the unit hypersphere, but provided epsilon is small enough, we may deform our way back to the unit hypersphere without changing topology (i.e. crossing a singular point).


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I have 9+ years of experience in helping organizations design their Business Intelligence platform, using primarily Microsoft BI technologies.
I have worked with many RDBMS like MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
I enjoy working with data visualization tools like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI to create meaningful stories out of data.
I can code in Python and can tweak HTML, CSS and JavaScript from time to time.


Core_CSS - is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps in Material Design Style.
The main approach of the Core_CSS is to give you an opportunity to create Mobile apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript easily and clear.
Core_CSS is completely free and open-source (MIT Licensed).
Core_CSS was designed according to the official Google Material design specification to bring pixel-perfect Material features - from visual design and colors to interactions and effects. And now, Core_CSS will be a great solution to create Mobile apps with native Material look and feel.
Core_CSS comes with a bunch of ready to use UI elements and widgets like modals, popup, action sheet, popover, list views, media lists, tabs, side panels, layout grid, preloader (activity indicator), form elements, etc. The awesome point is that you don't need JavaScript at all for the most of mentioned widgets.
Core_CSS is completely free and open-source (MIT Licensed)


Object.wait()
, for which no call to the corresponding Object.notify()
or
Object.notifyAll()
can be found.
This inspection only reports calls with qualifiers referencing fields of the current class.
Example:
public class Foo {
public Object foo = new Object();
void bar() throws InterruptedException {
this.foo.wait();
}
}


If you have any technical questions regarding this sample application, you can contact Mark Caplin at markcap@hotmail.com


Australian trader’s US sentencing delayed over ‘spoofing’ charge after he agrees to help investigators
An Australian commodities trader has cut years from his US jail sentence for trying to manipulate markets by agreeing to work with investigators.
Zhao was facing 10 years prison but under a plea deal he is set to spend 12 months behind bars in the US.
“The defendant is co-operating with the government’s investigation and the government anticipates needing additional time to evaluate the defendant’s co- operation,” prosecutors told District Court Judge John Tharp Jr in a court filing.
Zhao’s sentencing was scheduled for December 17 in Chicago but has been pencilled in for January 28.
Zhao admitted placing thousands of spoof orders for E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange between 2012 and 2016 “in an effort to deceive other market participants and enrich himself”.
He would cancel the orders before they were executed, with his goal to induce other market participants to trade against his primary order, prosecutors said.
Zhao, who was working for a Sydney trading firm, was charged by US prosecutors in January 2018.
Under the plea deal he entered a guilty plea to one charge of spoofing.
He was one of eight individuals charged by American law enforcement around the globe for alleged deceptive trading practices on US commodities markets.


Guitar Tuner courtesy of the folks at
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- eachDisX - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph
-
The number
Integer
of nodes on a row
- eachDisY - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph
-
The number
Integer
of nodes on a column
- edge - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.goals.atomic.FollowEdge
-
the edge that the agent is following
- edgeBehavior - Variable in class com.bham.bd.components.characters.agents.Agent
-
1 or 0, i.e., shoot
or normal
value the agent should know about when it reaches an edge
- EdgeIterator(SparseGraph<node_type, edge_type>, int, ExpandPolicies.ExpandCondition) - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph.EdgeIterator
-
- EdgeList() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph.EdgeList
-
- edgeListVector - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph
-
- EdgeListVector() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph.EdgeListVector
-
- effectsVolume - Variable in class com.bham.bd.audio.AudioManager
-
Loudness of every effect
- end - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.behavior.FreePathCondition
-
destination point a path ends at
- endBuildUp - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.director.Director
-
- endGame() - Method in class com.bham.bd.view.GameSession
-
Handles the event of ending the game
- EndMenu - Class in com.bham.bd.view.menu
-
End Menu
- EndMenu() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.view.menu.EndMenu
-
Constructs an
AnchorPane
layout as the End Menu and initialize End Menu
- enemyCount - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.director.Director
-
- enemySpawnAreas - Variable in class com.bham.bd.components.environment.GameMap
-
An array of circles defining the areas enemies can spawn at or retreat to
- EnemyTestDemo - Class in com.bham.bd.components.characters.agents.enemies
-
- EnemyTestDemo(double, double) - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.components.characters.agents.enemies.EnemyTestDemo
-
Constructs a character instance with directionSet initialized to empty
- EnemyType - Enum in com.bham.bd.components.characters.agents.enemies
-
Enum describing the type of enemy
- EnemyType() - Constructor for enum com.bham.bd.components.characters.agents.enemies.EnemyType
-
Default constructor
- entityImages - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.BaseGameEntity
-
- EntityManager - Class in com.bham.bd.entity
-
Class to manage Entities
- EntityManager() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.EntityManager
-
Constructs EntityManager Object and initialize it
- entityManager - Static variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.EntityManager
-
Create EntityManager to provide Easy Access
- EntityManager.EntityMap - Class in com.bham.bd.entity
-
Private class that provides HashMap with as key-value Entry
- EntityMap() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.EntityManager.EntityMap
-
- entryActions - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.behavior.State
-
List of actions to be performed when the State is entered
- eps - Static variable in class com.bham.bd.utils.GeometryEnhanced
-
epsilon, when a numember is smaller than this, it's zero
- equalJsonObjectName(int, RecordsHandler) - Method in class com.bham.bd.view.model.RecordsHandlerTest
-
to test if user gets the right rank
- equals(Object) - Method in class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.edge.GraphEdge
-
- equals(Object) - Method in class com.bham.bd.utils.messaging.Telegram
-
overloads "=="
Telegrams will be sorted in a priority queue.
- evaluate(GameCharacter, GameCharacter) - Method in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.TargetingPolices.DistanceEvaluator
-
- evaluate(GameCharacter, GameCharacter) - Method in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.TargetingPolices.HealthEvaluator
-
- evaluate(GameCharacter, GameCharacter) - Method in interface com.bham.bd.entity.ai.TargetingPolices.TargetEvaluator
-
- exists - Variable in class com.bham.bd.components.triggers.effects.Dissolve.Particle
-
- exists() - Method in class com.bham.bd.components.triggers.effects.Dissolve.Particle
-
Checks if particle exists
- exists - Variable in class com.bham.bd.components.triggers.effects.HitMarker.Particle
-
- exists() - Method in class com.bham.bd.components.triggers.effects.HitMarker.Particle
-
Checks if particle exists
- exists - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.BaseGameEntity
-
The flag of if it is living in game
- exists() - Method in class com.bham.bd.entity.BaseGameEntity
-
Checks if this entity exists
- existTime - Variable in class com.bham.bd.components.shooting.ExplosiveBullet
-
The exist time limit of the bomb
- exitActions - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.behavior.State
-
List of actions to be performed when the State is exited
- ExpandAll() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies.ExpandPolicies.ExpandAll
-
Deprecated.
- expandCondition - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.astar.TimeSlicedAStar
-
- expandCondition - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.TimeSlicedDijkstras
-
- expandCondition - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.impl.PathPlanner
-
- expandCondition - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.SparseGraph.EdgeIterator
-
- expandNode(TimeSlicedAStar.Node) - Method in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.astar.TimeSlicedAStar
-
- ExpandPolicies - Class in com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies
-
A class contains many sub classes for EdgeIterator in SparseGraph
Sub classes define conditions that an EdgeIterator should follow
when iterating through the adjacency edges of the given node
- ExpandPolicies() - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies.ExpandPolicies
-
- ExpandPolicies.ExpandAll - Class in com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies
-
Deprecated.
- ExpandPolicies.ExpandCondition - Interface in com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies
-
- ExpandPolicies.NoInvalid - Class in com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies
-
a condition class to exclude edges whose destination node has -1 as index
Should be the default condition for EdgeIterator when the game is running
- ExpandPolicies.NoShoot - Class in com.bham.bd.entity.ai.navigation.algorithms.policies
-
a condition class to exclude edges whose destination node has -1 as index
or behavior is GraphEdge.shoot
- Explore - Class in com.bham.bd.entity.ai.goals.composite.big
-
a goal to lead an agent to random location
- Explore(GameCharacter) - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.goals.composite.big.Explore
-
constructor
- explore - Static variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.ai.goals.GoalTypes
-
- ExplosiveBullet - Class in com.bham.bd.components.shooting
-
Represents a bomb bullet for the player
- ExplosiveBullet(double, double, Point2D, Side) - Constructor for class com.bham.bd.components.shooting.ExplosiveBullet
-
Constructs a bullet using default bullet's attributes for speed and damage
- ExtraInfo - Interface in com.bham.bd.entity.graph
-
Bring implemented if an entity in the game is expected to be found by searching algorithm
For example, Trigger class
- extraInfo - Variable in class com.bham.bd.entity.graph.node.NavNode
-
- ExtraInfo - Variable in class com.bham.bd.utils.messaging.Telegram
-
Any Additional information that can be with message


We Interior design and furnish homes, offices and warehouses from in Nairobi area.
We create beautiful, livable spaces that meet our clients’ aesthetic, functional, and economic goals, while respecting the environment.
Aesthetics are an important component of any interior design project but a professional interior designer focuses on much more than appearance.
House of Mode is a full-service residential interior design and build firm, founded by Caroline Kangai in 2015. Through her years of experience, House of Mode has developed a unique style of mixing old with new and giving each project a timeless feel. Seamlessly juxtaposing limestone, marble, earthy woods, textured fabrics and organic colors with materials such as metal and glass is what gives Erica's work a striking and harmonious feel.
House of Mode's philosophy is to create inviting and elegant interiors-- straying from trends that will only disappoint in years to come. Our design approach is to Architecturally space plan every square inch of a room to work both aesthetically and functionally. Each project is tailored specifically to each client, as House of Mode pays special attention to every detail that goes into project. Known for her incredible Kitchens and Bathroom renovations, challenges such as small spaces and children's rooms are welcome and embraced by Caroline Wambui and her staff, as they creatively transform some of the smallest most unusable spaces to multi-functional rooms. House of Mode is committed to using sustainable materials, wherever possible.
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retinanet-cell-detection
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retinanet-cell-detection: RetinaNet for cell detection.
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Public Member Functions | |
| def | __init__ |
| def | __call__ (self, image, labels=None, return_inverter=False) |
Public Attributes | |
| crop_top | |
| crop_bottom | |
| crop_left | |
| crop_right | |
| clip_boxes | |
| box_filter | |
| labels_format | |
| crop | |
Crops off the specified numbers of pixels from the borders of images. This is just a convenience interface for `CropPad`.
| def mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.__init__ | ( | self, | |
| crop_top, | |||
| crop_bottom, | |||
| crop_left, | |||
| crop_right, | |||
clip_boxes = True , |
|||
box_filter = None , |
|||
labels_format = {'class_id': 0 , |
|||
| xmin | |||
| ) |
| def mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.__call__ | ( | self, | |
| image, | |||
labels = None , |
|||
return_inverter = False |
|||
| ) |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.box_filter |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.clip_boxes |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.crop |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.crop_bottom |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.crop_left |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.crop_right |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.crop_top |
| mynet_ssd_dt-aug.data_generator.object_detection_2d_patch_sampling_ops.Crop.labels_format |


We are pleased to inform you that MoraXtreme 5.0 is expected to be held with the participation of teams registered islandwide.
MoraXtream 5.0, the 12 hour coding competition will provide a better platform to display your programming knowledge and skills in a more enthusiastic manner.
Online Competition
IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members—advised and proctored by an IEEE member, and often supported by an IEEE Student Branch—compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems.
You can now register your team in the IEEEXtreme website linked below
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Kenya's Politicians.
The following is a list of some of the funniest Kenya's politicians. Use the box filter below and type a name to filter the politician of your choice.
This would work best if we had a lot of data in the json.
Names And Age of Funny Politicians Near my Place:
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Filtering data, information, Lists, Libraries and other Web Parts with FilterZen always involves using the FilterZen Filter Web Part. It is the sole mechanism to define filters and connect them to your data.
That however does not necessarily imply that you can use FilterZen "only on Web Part Pages". Technically and strictly speaking, it does — but more pages in SharePoint are Web Part Pages than you might know. In addition to the Web Part Pages you create yourself from the Create page (or by clicking New in a Document Library with the Web Part Page document template), all of the following types of SharePoint pages are actually Web Part Pages, so you can can customize their appearance and behavior by adding Web Parts to then:
In all these places, you can use FilterZen to filter the information displayed. After you have installed the FilterZen solution package and activated the site collection feature, you can add the FilterZen Filter Web Part to any Web Part Page in the accustomed way. After having switched to page Edit Mode from the Site Actions menu and having clicked the Add Web Part button in the Web Part Zone of your choice, you will find it in the Add Web Parts dialog:
(If the Web Part is not available in the Add Web Parts dialog, (re)activate the FilterZen Filter Web Part Feature under Site Collection Features, as described in the last section of the Solution Installation & Feature Activation chapter.
Add a FilterZen Filter Web Part to the Web Part Page that contains the List View or Data View web part that you want to filter. (A List View Web Part is automatically created by SharePoint every time you add a list or document library to a Web Part zone using the Add Web Parts dialog or other page editing tools such as SharePoint Designer.)
The Web Part points out to you that it is not 'connected'. By 'connecting' the Web Part, you tell it which Web Parts should receive the filters you will set up shortly. Connect it to to the List View or Data View Web Parts on your Web Part Page that you want to filter by using the Edit / Connections Web Part menu:
After connecting the FilterZen Filter Web Part to at least one other Web Part, its appearance changes to display relevant contextual status information and potentially helpful hints about your filters and its connections — again, only in Edit mode by default, keeping the Filter Web Part invisible to your visitors.
Once you have the FilterZen Filter Web Part connected to other Web Parts and have set up and enabled at least one filter for it, it will send them filters, each composed of a filter name and a filter value, whenever the Web Part Page is rendered, by determining the filter names and values from the context and logic provided by your individual filters. When connecting to List View or Data View Web Parts, the filter name ultimately corresponds to a Column name.
In this walk-through, we will filter a Tasks List View to only display tasks assigned to the current user that are due 'tomorrow'. To start, choose Modify in the edit Web Part menu. In the Web Part tool pane, in the All Filters section, select the type of filter you want to add to the Filter Web Part — to implement the filtering requirement outlined above, we will need both a Date Filter and a User Filter — and click the Add this new filter icon. So start by selecting Date Filter and clicking the '+' icon:
This will bring up the embedded Date Filter editor right in the Web Part tool pane. Below, we have already set up the filter as this example requires it. This setup will filter the Due Date column (with the internal name DueDate) to only yield values representing 'tomorrow':
By saving the DueDate filter and then applying the Web Part modifications, the connected Web Part will be filtered accordingly already. Repeat the same steps as above, but this time select the User Filter type before clicking the '+' icon, to create the required user filter. The following set up will filter the Assigned To column (with the internal name AssignedTo) by the current user:
The only settings that are relevant to this very example are the Column / filter name setting at the top, and the default filter value setting just below. You may ignore the other User Filter settings (hidden from the above screenshot) for now, they are explained in the User Filters chapter.
Once all filters and Web Part modifications have been saved, your connected Web Parts will again be filtered as specified.


This site serves as a simple converter to make Beat Saber party mode leaderboard data more human readable.
After upload, you should be able to download a .CSV to open in excel or whatever spreadsheet program you prefer.
If you're not sure where to find your LocalLeaderboards.dat, it can be found in the following locations:
PC: %appdata%\..\LocalLow\Hyperbolic Magnetism\Beat Saber\
Quest: sdcard/Android/data/com.beatgames.beatsaber/files


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I am a front end developer, who likes to work with creative and challenging projects that change people's lives, providing the best experiences. As a programmer I always try to work with the best practices for an optimized and functional code, I like to try out new technologies and tools that can improve development.
In free time I dedicate reading, hobbies and research on emerging technologies, design strategies and concepts, and everything else that can be applied to web development.


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vignettes/a04_custom_land_units_input.Rmd
a04_custom_land_units_input.Rmd
ALUES comes with two datasets for input land units. These are the land units of Marinduque, Philippines; and, Lao Cai, Vietnam. Likely users will have their own region of interest. As such, this article will illustrate how to prepare the data.
For any region of interest, users must specify the properties of the land units into three categories:
Note that both terrain and soil factors must be specified as one dataframe, not separate. Suppose there are 5 units under study, the three characteristics can be specified as discussed in the succeeding sections.
Suppose for terrain, the factors targetted were: Flood and SlopeD; and, suppose for soil we have CFragm and SoilDpt. The dataframe can be prepared as follows:
terrain_input <- data.frame(
Flood = c(1, 2, 2, 2, 3),
SlopeD = c(3, 4, 5, 1, 2),
CFragm = c(10, 30, 50, 60, 40),
SoilDpt = c(45, 60, 90, 70, 30)
)
So that, if this input is assessed for avocado, then the suitability score for these land units computed as follows:
## Loading required package: Rcpp
AVOCADOTerrain
## code s3_a s2_a s1_a s1_b s2_b s3_b wts
## 1 Slope1 6.0 4.0 2 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 2 Slope2 16.0 8.0 4 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 3 Slope3 30.0 16.0 8 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 4 Flood 1.5 1.2 1 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 5 Drainage 3.0 2.0 1 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
AVOCADOSoil
## code s3_a s2_a s1_a s1_b s2_b s3_b wts
## 1 CFragm 55.0 33.0 15.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 2 SoilDpt 50.0 75.0 100.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 3 CaCO3 10.0 4.0 1.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 4 CECc 16.0 16.0 16.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 5 BS 19.9 20.0 35.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 6 SumBCs 1.5 1.6 2.8 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 7 pHH2O 4.3 4.6 5.0 6.5 7.5 8.3 <NA>
## 8 OC 0.7 0.8 1.2 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 9 ECedS 5.0 4.0 3.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
## 10 ESP 20.0 15.0 10.0 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
avocado_suit <- suit("avocado", terrain=terrain_input)
head(avocado_suit[["terrain"]][["Suitability Score"]])
## Flood
## 1 0.4285714
## 2 0.0000000
## 3 0.0000000
## 4 0.0000000
## 5 0.0000000
head(avocado_suit[["terrain"]][["Suitability Class"]])
## Flood
## 1 S3
## 2 N
## 3 N
## 4 N
## 5 N
head(avocado_suit[["soil"]][["Suitability Score"]])
## CFragm SoilDpt
## 1 0.8666667 0.36
## 2 0.6000000 0.48
## 3 0.3333333 0.72
## 4 0.2000000 0.56
## 5 0.4666667 0.24
head(avocado_suit[["soil"]][["Suitability Class"]])
## CFragm SoilDpt
## 1 S1 S3
## 2 S2 S3
## 3 S3 S2
## 4 N S2
## 5 S3 N
For water characteristics, suppose the average rainfall for the first month (WmAv1) is 90, for second month (WmAv2) is 110, third month (WmAv3) is 150, and fourth month (WmAv4) is 160. This can be specified as follows:
water_input <- data.frame(
WmAv1 = c()
)


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Sep 2015 – Present
Role: UI Developer
Responsibilities:
•Extensive use of Rally tool for bugs tracking and implementing Agile Methodologies in a systematic manner, using technologies like jQuery, Ajax.
• Used JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, CSS3, and XML as presentation layer technologies.
• Used bootstrap framework for responsiveness of website.
• Designed user interface for Algo legacy portal for admin and users to interact with system using jQuery, JSON, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
• Enhanced user experience by designing new web features using MVC Framework Angular JS.
• Worked with Sencha for touch related framework application.
• Implemented session retrieval feature using HTML5 session storage/local storage.
• Built the UI part of address verification service where users can select or ignore recommended address.
• Worked with QA team for testing.
• Worked with Jenkins for code analysis after code push.
• Used Restful web services.
• Used jQuery to make RESTAPI calls documented of REST APIs for retrieval and collection of data.
• Worked with Mobile development application.
• Used Node.js for efficient JavaScript and Grunt for JavaScript Task Runner.
• Used AMD code to define code modules for JavaScript specifications.
• Worked on the website from start to finish to give it a new look using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Responsible for creating the screens with table-less designs meeting W3C standards.
• Designed dynamic and browser compatible pages using HTML5/HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript.
• Developed CSS styles to maintain the uniformity of all the screens throughout the application and positioning of screen objects.
• Worked with ReactJS JavaScript libraries.
• Developed AngularJS unit test cases using Jasmine and Karma.
• Worked on MongoDB’s CRUD operations to manipulate data.
• Developed page layouts, navigation, animation buttons and icons.
• Used GIT for version controlling in designing.
• Worked in Agile environment, used JIRA for project status tracking.
• Followed industry best practices and web standards.
• Provided assistance to testing team to create test cases and test scenarios.
• Involved in creating background data access layer using spring.
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Indy's Dank Programming Notes
(only the important stuff)
What is HTML?
html stands for hypertext markup language, which is a standardized system for font, color, graphic, and other effects on web pages.
HTML is made up of
  -text content
  -markup (aesthetic)
  -references to (images, media, etc.)
  -links
HTML basics
What is a tag?
A tag tells the computer how to format and display the information in the way you want it to.
Tags start with an opening tag and end with a closing tag, telling the computer what exactly should be formatted in what way. For example, I have formatted these notes with header tags to make the title and headers bigger and bold.
I can also add images using tags, like this: #freeguwop
An image tag is an example of a tag that doesn't need a closing tag because it's not modifying a pre-existing element. Rather, it is adding a new one.
What is an attribute?
An attribute modifies elements in HTML to suit a specific purpose. A link is a type of a attribute.


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Update: this blog post was expanded into a paper with more explanations and additional experiments.
In this post, I’d like to illustrate how auxiliary tasks can be beneficial for machine learning. I’ll first define this notion, provide examples and show how these tasks are usually incorporated in the mathematical formulation of deep learning problems. I’ll then propose an alternative approach and present first experimental results for this approach.
In machine learning, auxiliary tasks are tasks we try to accomplish with the sole objective of better performing one or several primary tasks. This situation, referred to here as auxiliary learning, contrasts with multitask learning1, for which we are genuinely interested in accomplishing well all tasks, and single task learning, for which only one task is considered.
| Tasks performed during training | Tasks considered when assessing performance | |
|---|---|---|
| Single task learning | One task | |
| Multitask learning | Several tasks | |
| Auxiliary learning | One or several primary tasks, one or several auxiliary tasks | Primary tasks |
Let’s look at a striking example (Caruana et al., 1996) based on the Medis Pneumonia Database. This database contains 14,199 cases of patients diagnosed with pneumonia and hospitalized. It includes:
Rich Caruana and his colleagues’ primary task was to identify patients that were more likely to survive and should then not be hospitalized. In this context, the lab results, available only after hospitalization, couldn’t be used as inputs. However, it was still possible to take advantage of them. Rich Caruana and his colleagues tried, as an auxiliary task, to predict the lab results based on the basic measurements. They thus reduced the error rate for their primary task by 5-10%.
Auxiliary learning has often been successfully applied in other settings, such as in the examples below:
| Domain | Primary task | Auxiliary tasks | Source |
| Deep learning | Training a deep neural network | Reconstructing corrupted versions of the neural network’s inputs and the activations of its hidden layers to learn useful features | (Vincent et al., 2008) |
| Computer vision | Identifying facial landmarks on face pictures | Estimating head pose and predicting facial attributes (“wearing glasses”, “smiling” and “gender”) | (Zhang et al., 2014) |
| Computer vision | Detecting objects in indoor scenes | Predicting scene labels and evaluating depth and surface orientation at pixel level | (Mordan et al., 2018) |
| Sequence modelling | Training a recurrent neural network on very long sequences | Reconstructing or predicting short segments of the sequences | (Trinh et al., 2018) |
| Natural language processing | Performing a natural language processing task | Predicting words based on their neighborhood to learn efficient word representations | (Mikolov et al., 2013) |
| Reinforcement learning | Playing a video game | Modifying the image perceived by the agent and predicting short-term rewards | (Jaderberg et al., 2016) |
| Reinforcement learning | Playing a video game | Predicting the future state based on the current state and the current action | (Burda et al., 2018) |
For the sake of clarity, let’s consider only the case of a single primary task and a single auxiliary task (generalizing to an arbitrary number of primary and auxiliary tasks is straightforward). Let’s suppose further that these tasks correspond to the minimization of a primary loss and an auxiliary loss .
In the context of deep learning, the standard approach2 is to use a single neural network for both tasks, with shared layers followed by task-specific layers, and to apply a gradient descent-based method to minimize the weighted sum of the two losses .
The corresponding gradient is .
The underlying intuition is that minimizing will lead to more meaningful representations in the shared layers and that these representations will be leveraged by the layers specific to the primary task.
In the standard multitask approach, is a constant value3. Its purpose is to balance the primary task and the auxiliary task. corresponds to single task learning whereas increasing gives more and more influence to the auxiliary task.
The approach described above has provided very good empirical results. However, an auxiliary task may be unhelpful or even harmful for the primary task. The latter case, which is called negative transfer, is a central challenge of auxiliary learning.
Moreover, using a weighted average of and suggests we’d be willing to tolerate a higher value of if it helped sufficiently decrease . On the contrary, reducing the auxiliary loss is only looked for to the extent this contributes to reducing the primary loss.
To mitigate negative transfer and better reflect the fundamental asymmetry between the primary loss and the auxiliary loss, I suggest substituting with:
where is:
Otherwise said, is the projection of on the half-space of vectors whose cosine similarity with is positive. If a critical point of hasn’t been reached yet (i.e. if ), this ensures that will decrease if the learning rate if small enough.
This approach, referred below as projection, is analogous to two methods, unweighted cosine and weighted cosine, recently proposed for the same purpose (Du et al., 2018). Yunshu Du, Wojciech Czarnecki and their colleagues also suggest to adjust :
| Method | Adjusted auxiliary loss gradient |
| Unweighted cosine | |
| Weighted cosine | |
| Projection |
If and form an acute angle, both projection and unweighted cosine leave unchanged whereas weighted cosine reduces its norm with the cosine similarity of these vectors. In particular, weighted cosine strongly shrinks when it becomes almost orthogonal to .
If and form an obtuse angle, both unweighted cosine and weighted cosine just ignore . In contrast, projection only negates the component of which is collinear to .
Even if projection and unweighted/weighted cosine are similar, their motivations are different:
(Du et al., 2018) explicitly tries to favor auxiliary tasks similar to the primary task. For example, weighted cosine completely ignores the auxiliary task when and are orthogonal.
In my intuition, an auxiliary task’s purpose is to bring a new perspective. It should nudge us towards interesting regions of the parameter space we wouldn’t have explored with only the primary task in focus. Therefore we can try to negate the component of which seems clearly harmful to our objective but we shouldn’t necessarily discard auxiliary tasks dissimilar to the primary task4.
Let’s now look at some experiments. They were performed with Tensorflow and you can find the corresponding notebooks and additional results on GitHub.
We start with a minimalistic example to illustrate how substituting with gives priority to the primary task while still allowing progress on the auxiliary task.
In the euclidean plane , we try to find a point that, above all, minimizes the square distance to the unit circle and, only if it doesn’t increase this distance, also minimizes the square distance to point (2, 0).
Otherwise said, and .
This is a slight departure from the principle of auxiliary learning described above. Here we want to accomplish both the primary task and the auxiliary task even if the primary task is the absolute priority (performing the primary task alone would be too easy).
The solution of this problem is of course and we try to reach it by using a gradient descent-based algorithm starting from point with .
We can see the corresponding trajectories with the Adam algorithm (learning rate: 0.01, ) on Figure 4 and observe that:
With multitask, the point converges to a location close to but different from (1, 0) because of the distraction the auxiliary task creates.
With projection, the point follows as expected the same trajectory as with multitask before reaching the disk of radius 1 and center (1, 0), i.e. as long as and form an acute angle. Afterwards, the point slightly deviates from the multitask trajectory to reach (1, 0).
The trajectory for unweighted cosine is also the same before reaching the disk of radius 1 and center (1, 0). Afterwards, the point abruptly changes course in the direction of the unit disk as the auxiliary task is ignored. When the point arrives at the unit disk, it starts oscillating around its edge. It’s then intermittently influenced by the auxiliary task and follows the unit circle until reaching (1, 0).
With weighted cosine, the point follows a more direct trajectory towards the unit circle. It then arrives close to the intersection between the unit circle and the circle of radius 1 and center (1, 0), i.e. a location where and are orthogonal. It stagnates there for a while because the auxiliary task is mostly ignored then converges to (1, 0) by following the unit circle.
With this example, projection, unweighted cosine and weighted cosine allow to find the correct solution but the convergence is notably quicker with projection (this is also the case for other starting points).
Figure 5 shows the trajectories with the vanilla gradient descent algorithm (learning rate: 0.01) and tells a different story. With unweighted cosine and weighted cosine, the point now stops on the unit circle far from (1, 0). This is because, in the absence of momentum, it eventually stays on the side of the unit circle where and form an obtuse angle. The auxiliary task is then never taken into consideration anymore. A similar behavior can be seen with other starting points.
In summary, the proposed method works as intended with these toy examples: it helps accomplish both the primary task and the auxiliary task while giving precedence to the former.
The following experiments are based on the CelebA (or large-scale CelebFaces attributes) dataset (Liu et al., 2015) and inspired by (Zhang et al., 2014). The CelebA dataset contains many face images annotated with 40 binary attributes such as Attractive, Young, Eyeglasses or Black Hair, and the locations of 5 facial landmarks : left eye, right eye, left mouth corner, right mouth corner and nose.
The primary task for these experiments is to determine whether a face is attractive (or at least attractive in the annotators’ eyes) and the auxiliary task is to locate the facial landmarks. The corresponding losses are the cross entropy error function and the average quadratic error.
The pictures were downsampled to and converted to gray-scale to make the tasks more challenging and reduce computation time. 10000 of them were included in the training set, the validation set and the test set. I used the neural network depicted on Figure 7 as in (Zhang et al., 2014) and trained it with the Adam algorithm and early stopping.
Figure 8 shows the testing AUC for the primary task with single task, multitask and projection and various values of :
We can compare these results with those for unweighted cosine and weighted cosine on Figure 9. The unweighted cosine curve and the weighted cosine curve are very close to respectively the projection curve and the single task curve for . However, their testing AUC drops for . We can note that the weighted cosine curve falls between the single task curve and the unweighted cosine curve, which comes as no surprise.
The last series of experiments follows (Chen et al., 2018) and uses a synthetic dataset to control the adequacy of the auxiliary task.
Let:
The primary task and the auxiliary task consist in approximating respectively and with the quadratic loss function where can be equal to:
For the input data (i.e. ), the training set, the validation set and the test set include respectively 1000, 1000 and 10000 vectors whose elements are generated IID from . Moreover and as opposed to the previous series of experiments, the training sets are distinct for the primary task and the auxiliary task. If these sets were the same, the auxiliary task wouldn’t add any value when .
As (Chen et al., 2018), I used the vanilla neural network depicted on Figure 10, which I trained with the Adam algorithm and early stopping.
Figure 11 shows the results for single task, multitask and projection for various values of . The outcomes for multitask and projection are almost identical and fully consistent with the 3 situations for the auxiliary task (same task, similar task and unrelated task):
In contrast to the previous series of experiments, Figure 11 suggests projection has no added value compared to multitask. This difference may result from the fact that the primary task and the auxiliary task don’t share here the same input data. As a consequence, at each optimization step, is less related to and might then be too noisy to help properly adjust it. Therefore I tried substituting with an exponential moving average of for adjusting . With a smoothing constant , is then given at each optimization step by:
with and for .
Figure 12 shows the same results as Figure 11 for 3 values of . With and even more with , projection yields clearly better results compared to multitask for all 3 situations5. Figure 13 zooms in on the case , for which unweighted cosine and weighted cosine provide better results than multitask and projection only when the primary task and the auxiliary task are unrelated.
Leveraging auxiliary tasks is an elegant way to improve learning, especially in the case of supervised learning with too few labelled examples or reinforcement learning with sparse rewards. However, auxiliary tasks may sometimes hurt the performance on the primary task.
In this blog post, I proposed a simple and intuitive method to mitigate such risk of negative transfer. I tested it in a few basic scenarios, in which it brought moderate but statistically significant gains over the standard multitask approach. This is a promising start but more diverse and elaborate experimental settings would be necessary to draw general conclusions on this method’s relevance or compare it with its alternatives.
Many thanks to the authors of the inspiring articles listed below and the developers of the great tools used for this post: Tensorflow, the SciPy ecosystem, Seaborn, Google Colab, PlotNeuralNet and Jekyll. Many thanks as well to Sebastian Ruder for his valuable feedback.
The terminology for auxiliary learning is somewhat unclear in the academic litterature. Auxiliary learning may or may not be included in multitask learning depending on the papers. In this post, I restrict multitask learning to the situations where all tasks are taken into account to assess the model’s performance. Consequently multitask learning is here disjoint from auxiliary learning. ↩
Sebastian Ruder presents this approach as well as other approaches in his very good overview of multitask learning. ↩
varies in certain methods not presented here. Transfer learning can be seen as a specific case for which in a first stage and in a second stage. ↩
As an extreme example, an auxiliary task identical to the primary task and yielding the same gradients would be unhelpful provided that the learning rate is appropriately tuned. ↩
It may be surprising that multitask isn’t the best training mode when the primary task and the auxiliary task are the same. In fact, the situation isn’t fully symmetrical because the primary task helps train the corresponding task-specific last layer which isn’t affected by the auxiliary task. ↩


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A quite common task in data analysis is to change a dataset from wide to long format.
For example, this is a dataset in wide format:
Is is called wide, as, well, it is wide – several columns side by side.
For example, assume, we have measured a number of predictors (here: predictor_1, predictor_2, predictor_3), and an outcome measure (here: outcome). In this case, each variable is dichotomous (either yes or no).
For plotting, eg. using ggplot2, we have to convert this format to long format. Long datasets look like this:
So, non really surprising, the dataset is now longer than in wide format. Hence the name…
It was converted in a certain way. Look at the two figures (and the color scheme). The 4 columns are now 3: All of the predictors are now paired in two colums: key and value. In the key column we find the names of the former columns as entries; in the value column we find the entries of those columns as entries (check the colors).
We easily see that the variable outcome was not paired. Before and after the convertion, it happily resides in its own, whole column. We often want a non-paired column, as we need it for eg., facetting.
Let’s visualize this transformation. First, we look at the transformation of the values:
Second, let’s look at the transformation of the keys (column headers), and the outcome variable, which will not be paires (remains in its own, complete, tidy column):
So let’s see the tidyr
and dplyr
code:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
data(Wage, package = "ISLR")
Wage %>%
mutate(wage_f = ntile(wage, 2)) %>% # bin it
mutate(wage_f = factor(wage_f, labels = c("low_wage","high_wage"))) %>%
select(health, race, wage_f) %>%
gather(key = predictor, value = pred_value, -wage_f) %>%
ggplot(aes(x = pred_value, fill = predictor)) + geom_bar() + facet_wrap(~wage_f) +
coord_flip()
## Warning: attributes are not identical across measure variables; they will
## be dropped
The plot itself is not particular useful as it is, but at times you will want such a type of plot. And many R functions built on the long format.


Beck shuts down Scientologist claims as singer explains he's 'focused on work'
Beck has shut down claims he’s a Scientologist despite identifying as one back in 2005.
The singer opened up about his faith recently, when chatting to Saturday’s The Sydney Morning Herald.
And while his father David Campbell practices the religion, it turns out the Loser hitmaker does not.
Talking to the publication, he explained: ‘I think there’s a misconception that I am a Scientologist. I’m not a Scientologist.
‘My father has been a Scientologist for a long time, but I’ve pretty much just focused on my music and my work for most of my life, and tended to do my own thing.’
The 49-year-old added: ‘I think it’s just something people ran with.’
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A quick update on my commitment to shoot film with my M6 prior to springing for an M9. Well, I finally got the kinks worked out of my development process and tools, so I am ready to go. Remember the first two rolls I sent through? Almost decade old TMZ and TRI-X? I found the answer of what was going wrong - it wasn't me. The tank I was using had developed a crack that was invisible for the most part but not invisible to the film. I did the latest roll with a larger different tank and no more giant fog and "opened the camera back" look.
 I ordered some fresh stuff in both medium format and 35mm. I figured if I am going to fire up the wet process there was no reason to just shoot with the M series. I will give my medium format film stuff some exercise as well. This is actually fun. The images included with the post are two frames from the beginning of that last roll that didn't have any obvious faults. Again 7 or 8 year old TRI-X that I had never processed.  I wonder why I chucked this roll to the side way back when? Most likely I got busy with commercial stuff and didn't have a slot for the the film type/developer for it and forgot about it.
For anybody that is remotely curious the developer that I have been using is Pyrocat HD in glycol. I have a bit of experience with it in the past and now that it comes premixed in glycol it should keep extremely well - the glycol doesn't do anything but preserve the stock solutions better than water but that is important if I am not going to be doing high volume work. The liquid kit cost about $30 and makes 50 liters of working solution. For my uses that is about 100 rolls of film. I could probably double that if I change my process a bit but 500 ml is about the practical limit for a single roll of film in my setup. So I guess the price is about 30Â¢ a roll - not too extravagant.
The fresh films that I ordered are Kodak TRI-X 400 (TX), TRI-X 320 (TXP), TMAX 100 (TMX), TMAX 400 (TMY), and Efke R100. For the uninitiated, the TX and TXP are completely different films - both wonderful - but Kodak should have probably named them something completely different. The only thing they have in common is spectral response. The TMX is one of my go to films, the TMY is the new version that I have never tried so I am going to calibrate it and see what I think - just in case TRI-X goes away or maybe I will be surprised and find that I love it for some reason. The R100 is to see if this is actually the same really old style stuff that gives me results like Veripan - I tried some of it a long time ago and it had a really nice scale so we will see.
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1.0 g |
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It was a Sunday night, and I had just returned from my ridiculously stress free winter breaker, eager to see the simple retards I had befriended at my university. We celebrated our reunion with some of my preferred chemicals, those found in the flowering cannabis plant. We loaded a g-bong in an upper dorm room, and kicked it up a notch.
Well, after a one gram or so hit, I coughed painfully. I coughed and teared until my face felt clammy and oddly flushed. My throat felt tender and sore. Yet I could feel the high within 30 seconds. I quickly entered the jubilant, absurd, clownish, yet clever (to me) phase that I normally assume.
Fifteen minutes later, I began experiencing social interaction as if I was not a participator, but rather a psychic observer.  I saw insecurities and darker issues that these friends had yet to divulge to me.
 I looked in the mirror and saw myself not as I would like to imagine, but as the first impression my body and social attitude would relate. I was a hungry, selfish, fool of a reptilian man. I hated the fact that I was identified with drugs, especially the mary jane nugs I most often savor.
I later went further in my superfucked up analysis. I started thinking about who I really was, as an entity and a spirt, rather than a body with desires and a means to attain them. I wanted to find out the motives of my want. I am not just an organism, or at least I pray that humans are not just another step on the evolutionary ladder towards the final dominant life form on Earth. Our vice is violence and violence will precipitate another evolutionary shift. It won’t be the final one the first time, but eventually a species of human culturally and genetically disposed towards peace will emerge. Perhaps it is that species that will be able to answer the question “What is the meaning of life?' I found the strongest aspects of my g bong trip lasted for a good 60 minutes followed by a draining but satisfying comedown and more feasting and television.
This is all I will submit for the evening, as my present stoning (one of many since this incident) ends. I still have these thoughts of higher forms of life and the futility of our present human lives, and still the doubts and guilt of my stoner status. But my conclusion always is the same, I smoke weed more than drinking or and prefer it to trying, because weed grants a pleasant time faster and with less work. I’ve associated the chemical with the successful pursuit of food, water, warmth, violence, control, and believe it or not, women, and so I continue to smoke. Now I will smoke because it produces an intellectual profundity and clarity that I will never be brave enough to enter as my sober self.
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When people understand the basic principles of neuroplasticity, they change the way their brain is wired and allow their brains the ability to grow. Neuroplasticity is around the growth of the brain. When we have what we call a ‘fixed mindset’, we simply give up so to speak and don’t try to open our minds. When you apply the principles of neuroplasticity, we have the ability to modify our brains connections so that we can rewire it to think in a different way. We are essentially expanding our minds and changing the way we think. One principle of neuroplasticity is going over something new which you’ve learnt repeatedly. The more you practice something, the stronger the connections will be in your brain, ensuring that you retain that information for the future.
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To engage with the principal of repetition, I would like to repeat tutorials and go over principals relating either to Javascript, CSS or HTML so that I can solidly retain that information. Transference can be applied when I’ve learnt something in Javascript and can use it to develop my skills in another area relating to what I’ve just learnt. Intensity is also important because you’re taking what you’re learning more seriously when things are done in a timely fashion. Using and improving it means that once I’ve learnt something, I improve on it and get better on what I’ve learnt. I believe that I will benefit from these principals immensely and if I apply them, I will definitely improve in the way I learn and work.
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A growth mindset is wiring your brain to solve difficult problems, learn new things and essentially to think growth. It is very relevant because we as a society have wired ourselves to have to be rewarded in order to submit and work for something. We are addicted to instant gratification and like to be praised for our accomplishments. A growth mindset will increase your intelligence, how much you learn and how you allow your mind to expand. You move out of a fixed mindset and turn your brain into a brain which wants to learn and try new things. This is a growth mindset. A mindset where you utilize your brains capabilities and set it into growth mode.
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I have learned a great deal about how I can change habits. I feel like this was a refreshing experience and it feels like I’m not utilising my brain capabilities fully. I am still young and I want to learn these skills so that I can have a properly functioning brain.
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A growth mindset believes in expanding itself. It believes in the not yet seen. In the possibilities, not the now. I want to imagine myself as a coder and use that as my key motivator to push me to better myself and grow. I want to retain all the information as I’m studying. A growth mindset will be a healthy, ‘I can’ mindset. A growth mindset does not limit itself, it believes in itself, it is a healthy and stable place which takes growth and change. Yes, your brain may feel sore from learning but If you change your old ways of thinking, you can learn something new and also about yourself. This mindset of change and positivity is what I want to integrate into my learning journey.
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| DOSE: |
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smoked |
5-MeO-DMT |
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[Erowid Note: 25 mgs of 5-MeO-DMT is considered an extremely high dose, see 5-MEO-DMT Dose Chart]
I have never smoked drugs before, so I need some instruction from my sitters. I am told to inhale slowly and steadily, and to take two breaths, and to lay down on the bed I was sitting on when I feel like it.
I have been resistant to mind-expanding drugs in the past, and I have had some benefit from inhaling nitrous oxide to trigger the primary drug, so I prepare a pair of nitrous chargers, should the effect of the 5-MeO be too mild or slow in coming on. My sitters, experienced with this substance, are amused at my concerns, but perfectly agreeable to my preparations.
I inhale the substance as Sitter #1 holds a lighter under the pipe, and draw long and slow, as suggested, perhaps over 10-15 seconds. I was concerned that it would be hot or smoky, but it feels relatively clean and cool. I am not sure whether to hold my breath afterward, so I hold it for five seconds or so, then start to ask my sitters whether that was enough. My attempt to speak proves more challenging than I expect, and my vision begins to blur.
I know that I am higher than I had ever been. Very, very intense.
The exhalation has an unpleasant flavor I hadn't noticed on the inhale, but nothing to be concerned about. My sitters encourage me to take the second draw from the pipe, and I am still able to perceive it and follow their instructions, so I inhale again, long and slow. I probably close my eyes, because the visual blurring is quite confusing. About two thirds of the way through that inhalation, I become concerned that perhaps I am ingesting too much, and that restraint might be called for.
At least, that must be what happens.
As I said, I was already extremely affected by the drug before the second inhalation, and I stopped smoking because I was nervous. I am nervous because very, very big things are happening very, very fast.
Ho. Ly. Shit.
I love rollercoasters, and skydiving, and intense, terrifying rushes. That's good, because the intensity and terror of this rush is much greater than any I have ever experienced. It is so much greater than my experience or expectation that I attempt to verbalize my concern that things are going awry. My sitters reassure me that everything is OK, this is normal, and that I have nothing to worry about. I do not hear or understand their words, and I am not sure my words came out. I am not sure they spoke at all. Such a concept is incomprehensible, since neither they, nor I, actually exist in any meaningful sense. Nevertheless, I somehow absorb their reassurances, and I back down from the rising panic and accept the experience, trying to go with the flow.
I am one with the universe, experiencing simultaneous rapid expansion and contraction. There are no visuals or sounds, no tastes or smells or touch, because there is no body to experience these senses. There is no Me to experience my body. There is a sense of hugeness and velocity, and an eternity of time in which absolutely nothing is happening -- but it's happening at panic inducing speed.
Things are happening too quickly for my taste, so I (?) attempt to get a grip on myself, to slow things down and assess the situation. This attempt to reduce velocity is completely worthless. I have absolutely no control over this experience or my(?)self. Again I attempt to express unease verbally, and I am unsure of my success, but again I receive reassurance from the part of my(?)self that is sitter #2. I can't hear or understand her words, but I know that she/I(?) is calm and confident, and that helps me to stay on the side of the line that is fright and thrill, and not on the other side, on which lies panic and terror and madness.
I try to relax into it. The experience is unrelenting. Time goes on, and on, and on, and I cannot make it stop. I slowly come to the realization that it is entirely possible that this will never, ever stop, and this state may well be something I(?) just have to get used to. I do not remember what my life before the eternal now was like, but I do know that the intense nowness is not something I am prepared for. If this is how things are going to be, I am going to have to make serious changes to my lifestyle. But adjust I must, because if this is how things are going to be, then this is how things are going to be. I may as well accept it.
The world as I knew it is gone forever, and eternal rocketing universality is all I can expect for the backward and forward in time that is everything.
There is no thought. There is no time. There is no world. There is only All.
Nothing changes. Ever.
And then there are hints of the World returning. I(!) reach out with my(!) hands and pull Sitter #2 to my body, pressing my(!) face into her neck, willing myself to slide my soul into her body, since I know she is in the World, where I would like to be again. She is a lifeline, a beacon, a landmark for me to find my way back. My gratitude for her being there as my guide is overwhelming. As my sense of Me returns, I feel embarrassed at my attempts to become one with her and piggyback on her attachment to reality, and I relax my death/life grip, though I still hold her tightly, grateful at her physicality, and her reassurance, and her support.
I imprint on her like a duckling fresh from an egg.
I am back. There are conversations. 'How do you feel?' I am enormously relieved to be back in the world, perceiving sounds, and sights, and holding a wonderful human who has rescued me from the Eternal. I open my mouth to explain what I have experienced, but there are no words.
'It was Big.' I know they can hear the capital B. 'And Fast. It was Big and Fast.' My heart is beating, I am breathing, and these are good, excellent things, demonstrating that I am Here.
'Would you like that nitrous now?' Sitter 1 asks with a laugh.
This is hysterically funny. But no, not funny at all. No. No, I do not. My mind has been rattled around inside my head quite ferociously, and what I need now is to let all the marbles find their way back to their slots.
Reality is totally incredibly awesome, and I am grateful and relieved that I get to go back.
We converse, discussing the experience. I have no words to describe what happened, but they've done it before, and we share a memory without words.
I am told that the entire experience lasted about five minutes. On the one hand, I was attempting to communicate more or less nonstop, and I had only said two or three things ('I am frightened.'), so the time was brief. On the other hand, it was Forever. If they told me it was fifteen seconds or four hours, I would have to take their word for it. (If they said two weeks, I'd need explanations for how my physical needs had been taken care of.)
I thanked my hosts profusely for the enormous experience, and assured them that while I was deeply terrified, this was in no way unpleasant.
I am thankful that the situation was set up such that there was nothing to worry about, and when I got to the line between terror and panic, I could stay on the side that made the experience -- I am hesitant to say 'pleasant,' but something like that. I could have crossed that line into panic and The Bad Place, but their reassurances and caretaking made sure that didn't happen.
Recovery was easy. My body felt fine. I was able to sit up, drink water, talk. I took it easy for a few minutes before attempting to sit up, and relaxed on the bed for an hour or more. Talked about the experience for a while, though I had no context for what had happened. Got a good night's sleep.
From time to time over the next couple of days, I would recall that sense of rushing enormitude, and I'd become anxious that I was going to leave the world again, but only a little.
It's going to take me a while to absorb the experience. I am extraordinarily glad I did it, and I wholeheartedly do _NOT_ recommend this drug to those looking for a fun experience. I am not easily frightened, nor taken to despair. Those who are should avoid this. Doing it without competent and soothing sitters would be Bad.
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I recently a small prescription of Ultram from my doctor for my migraine headaches. Being an experienced and responsible drug user for several years now (Marijuana, Salvia, Opiates, Sedatives, Amphetamines, Hallucinogens, etc) I couldn't resist checking out it's recreational uses. The prescription was somewhat small though, only 30 pills, and for this reason I decided I wouldn't use more than 5 just for fun, because I would more than likely need the rest for when I when I get my migraines.
Upon receiving the bottle from my neighborhood pharmacy I eagerly popped three (150mg total) on the way home. Within 20 minutes I felt the effects. My body gets sluggish. I feel very relaxed and decide to just chill out and watch an old movie (Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas, about the life of Vincent Van Gogh, very interesting, I highly recommed it.) After about an hour I felt it quite strongly. The feeling is almost identical to that of a 20-30mg dose of hydrocodone. Very euphoric and relaxed body high. I was incredibly comfortable and had no desire to do anything but keep sitting and watching my movie, but unfortunately I had to go to work.
I arrived at my job approximately 2 hours after taking the pills. I think I was probably just getting over the peak of the high at this time, my body felt great and, even though I would have rather stayed home watching television, I was in an incredibly great mood. The comedown was very gradual and not bad at all. I remained in an excellent mood the entire 4 hours I was at work and I had no problems whatsoever communicating with people or doing my job, the ultram simply made me feel really good while I was doing it. The body high itself lasted a good three to four hours before fading completely.
By the time I arrived home I was completely sober, but I was still in a great mood and was very relaxed. After thinking about it a while, I came to the conclusion that anything less than 150mg wouldn't be very effective recreationally. Since I was only allowing myself 100mg more and I was still feeling relaxed and happy from my initial dose five hours earlier, I decided to take them after eating some dinner.
Now, as I stated earlier, the high from ultram is almost identical to hydrocodone (the active drug in vicodin). Something I happen to find very interesting about hydrocodone is how well it mixes with marijuana. Smoking while on hydrocodone changes the high significantly, you are even more euphoric, the body high is stronger, and there is a strong sense of psychedelia.
So, to make a long story even longer, 30 minutes after taking the 100mg I decided to smoke a bowl and see what would happen. I was definitely feeling the ultram quite strongly (again a strong body high, even a slight numbness in my limbs) when I took my first puff. I slowly puffed away at the bowl for about 15-20 minutes, taking 5 to 6 hits over that time. Once I was plenty baked and feeling extremely relaxed, I decided to lay down on my bed and just chill.
What followed was one of the best feeling body highs I have ever experienced. It wasn't necessarily the strongest body high, but I think it was definitely the most comfortable. I felt incredible, it wasn't intense at all, it was just amazingly relaxing. I stayed on my bed daydreaming for about two hours and just enjoying how good I felt. Eventually I dozed off to sleep and took a short nap. When I woke up it was about three hours after taking the 100mg (8 hours after the initial 150mg for those of you who aren't keeping track.) The body high was much milder now, it was slowly fading, but I was still somewhat euphoric and still in an incredibly happy mood.
I highly recommend trying ultram to all you responsible users out there, especially if you enjoy any type of opiate, as the effects are very similar. Furthermore, it is quite easy to get because it isn't yet scheduled, so doctors prescribe it more readily. Much easier to get a prescription for it than any kind of opiate. I'd also like to mention that I have since used it to treat a migraine. 50mg took care of it in about 20 minutes or so and left me with a very very mild euphoria that lasted about an hour and a half. So anyone looking for a good pain killer to treat migraines might want to look into it as well.
Peace all.
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