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New Operator or Function
Step 1: Proposing a new operator/function
Step 2: Submit PR
Step 3: PR Review by Operators SIG
Step 4: ONNX release
Removing Operator or Function
Removing operator
Removing function
Document removing operator or function
Proposing and submitting a new operator or function to ONNX ¶
Operators are the basic building blocks that define ONNX model. With a rich set of operators, ONNX can describe most DNN and ML models from various frameworks. Functions allow for composing complex operators from more primitive operators. The ONNX specification includes a core set of operators that enable many models. It is a non-goal to add all possible operators, however more operators are added as needed to cover evolving needs.
In this document, we describe the process of accepting a new proposed operator and how to properly submit a new operator as part of ONNX standard. The goal is to improve on what we currently have based on our experience, learning and feedbacks we gathered from the community.
4 steps to add an operator ¶
Decide what to propose
Submit PR for new operator/function
Review of PR by Operators SIG
Merging of PR and inclusion in next ONNX release
Step 1: Proposing a new operator/function ¶
In order to propose a new operator/function, the following is needed:
If the operator can be composed by other ONNX operators, then it should be a function and not an operator (we have a function in ONNX : MeanVarianceNormalization).
If the operators can be split to new primitives, propose those primitives instead and make the operator a function.
Based on a model. This will help us understand the usage and that it solves an actual problem. For the case of the model being private or IP and can’t be shared, the operator doesn’t belong to the standard and should be implemented as custom OP.
The operator needs to be implemented by at-least one (well-known) framework. This help us to understand the actual behavior of the operator and its usage.
Operator signature and behavior:
If the operator is available in numpy, prefer numpy semantics.
If the operator is available in more than one frameworks, make sure that your design is general and cover those frameworks.
Prefer attributes over inputs.
Step 2: Submit PR ¶
Once the criteria of proposing new operator/function has been satisfied, you will need to submit a PR for the new operator/function. Here the expectation of what the PR should include. The reviewer is expected to verify the completeness of the PR before signoff.
Description:
Write a detailed description about the operator, and its expected behavior. Pretty much, the description should be clear enough to avoid confusion between implementors.
Add an example in the description to illustrate the usage.
Add reference to the source of the operator in the corresponding framework in the description (if possible).
Write the mathematic formula or a pseudocode in the description. The core algorithm needs to be very clear.
Write a reference implementation in Python, this reference implementation should cover all the expected behavior of the operator. Only in extremely rare case, we will waive this requirement.
Operator version: check out our versioning doc
Write unit test, that cover main usage and corner cases.
The testing examples will be extracted to the doc.
We also generate binary data for it.
Example: onnx/backend/test/case/node/abs.py
Add at least one automatic upgrade test for your operator in onnx/test/automatic_upgrade_test.py using
_test_op_upgrade
. These tests create a given operator at a given opset version (usually the version the operator was introduced in) and test that the version converter is able to convert them to the highest available version. So for a new operator_test_op_upgrade
will not test anything, but as soon as the operator gets updated in a future opset the test will autoamtically become nontrivial.Update the documentation and generate the test data.
Running the script to update the doc and generate the test data.
Shape Inference function
Please provide a shape inference function in cases where it is meaningful and applicable.
In cases where shape inference is not possible, it must have logic to perform rank inference at the very least (adding right amount of dimensions to the output shape)
Shape inference functions must be accompanied by unit tests (onnx/test/shape_inference_test.py).
You can refer to the shape inference function for the
TopK
operator while implementing your own function (onnx/defs/math/defs.cc)
Example to Follow¶
PR 1959 is a good example to follow.
Step 3: PR Review by Operators SIG ¶
The Operators SIG is responsible for the operators/functions in the ONNX specification. The SIG regularly meets and reviews PRs.
Sign-off¶
At least two sign-off from the Operators SIG contributors.
Step 4: ONNX release ¶
Once the PR is reviewed and signed off by the Operators SIG, it will be merged. Your new operator/function will be part of the main branch and available to anyone building from source. These are not official releases. ONNX periodically releases official new versions that are a snapshot of the main branch. Your new operator/function will be part of that release.
Removing operator or function ¶
There are a lot of reasons for removing existing ONNX operator or function, such us being replaced with different operator or can be decomposed by a set of other operators. This document describes the criteria of removing an existing ONNX operator from the standard.
Removing operator ¶
Any operator in ONNX was added because it was required by a model and/or framework. In order to deprecate such an operator we need to do the following.
Operator can’t be deprecated unless there is a replacement.
Replacement can be a more general operator that supersedes the old one.
Or a set of primitive operators that together can implement the same functionality and behavior of the deprecated operator (Function).
If the deprecated operator can be decomposed by existing operators then it must be converted to a function.
If replacement isn’t in ONNX standard yet, then add the replacement operator or set of operators first.
Add a version adapter which turns the operator into its replacement for the version converter. Example: onnx/version_converter/adapters/upsample_9_10.h
No grace period is needed for deprecated operators.
Removing function ¶
Function, by definition, is composed of ONNX primitives; however, function could have been accelerated by framework or runtime that support ONNX. So, removing function is not recommended, with the exception of adding another single function which supersede its functionality.
Document removing operator or function ¶
To make sure everyone is aware of the deprecation, the following need to happen:
Any removed operator or function from ONNX need to be mentioned in the release note.
Their old documentation needs to be updated to show the new replacement and the mapping between the old to the new.
Only
def.cc
need to be remove,old.cc
will remain.old.cc
need to be updated with the mapping to the replacement.
ONNX checker need to be updated to error with a proper message.
All removed operators need to be appended at the end of the
operator.md
file.


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Object references
How does XStream deals with duplicate and circular references?
It depends on XStream's mode, the default is uses XPath to allow serialized objects to be treated as graphs instead of simple trees (typical XML usage).
Sometimes it's not desirable to work this way, let's take a look in a simple example in order to switch between XStream's modes and see what its capable of.
We start with a simple compact-disc class, with id and a bonus cd fields:
package com.thoughtworks.xstream; public class Cd { private String id; private Cd bonusCd; Cd(String id, Cd bonusCd) { this.id = id; this.bonusCd = bonusCd; } Cd(String id) { this.id = id; } public String getId() { return id; } public Cd getBonusCd() { return bonusCd; } }
And let's create an order with the same cd twice and the order itself, so we can simulate two references to the same object and a back-reference.
Cd bj = new Cd("basement_jaxx_singles"); List order = new ArrayList(); // adds the same cd twice (two references to the same object) order.add(bj); order.add(bj); // adds itself (cycle) order.add(order); XStream xstream = new XStream(); xstream.alias("cd", Cd.class); System.out.println(xstream.toXML(order));
If we execute the above code, XStream's uses its default mode called XPATH_RELATIVE_REFERENCES based on the W3C XPath specification. Cross and back references are treated in a way that it's (almost) human readable:
<list> <cd> <id>maria rita</id> </cd> <cd> <id>basement_jaxx_singles</id> </cd> <cd reference="../cd[2]"/> <list reference=".."/> </list>
The second reference to the Basement Jaxx cd was serialized as "../cd[2]" while the order inside itself used the ".." path. The XPath Relative mode allows any type of graphs to be used as both cross and back-references are supported.
In order to make use of the XPath Relative mode one can implicitly call:
xstream.setMode(XStream.XPATH_RELATIVE_REFERENCES);
Relative x Absolute
There is an absolute mode which is easy to use and understand. It works using the same XPath specification and also supports all types of graphs.
xstream.setMode(XStream.XPATH_ABSOLUTE_REFERENCES);
The changes in the resulting xml is a little more 'clutter':
<list> <cd> <id>maria rita</id> </cd> <cd> <id>basement_jaxx_singles</id> </cd> <cd reference="/list/cd[2]"/> <list reference="/list"/> </list>
Single Node Selectors
In some cases where the XML is used later on or is generated by someone else, the XPath selectors can be forced to select always a single node instead of a node list where the first element is taken. Therefore two more modes exist:
xstream.setMode(XStream.SINGLE_NODE_XPATH_ABSOLUTE_REFERENCES); xstream.setMode(XStream.SINGLE_NODE_XPATH_RELATIVE_REFERENCES);
The changes in the resulting xml is even more 'clutter':
<list> <cd> <id>maria rita</id> </cd> <cd> <id>basement_jaxx_singles</id> </cd> <cd reference="/list[1]/cd[2]"/> <list reference="/list[1]"/> </list>
For XStream is the notation with the single node selectors absolutely equivalent to the one without. These two notations are completely transparent at deserialization time.
Id mode
Both modes displayed until now are not so easy to write by hand. XStream has another mode which makes it is easier to read/write by a human being:
xstream.setMode(XStream.ID_REFERENCES);
The result is a XML which generates an "id" attribute for each new object marshaled, and whenever it finds back or cross-references, it uses a "reference" attribute to so it doesn't copy the entire object.
In our example, the list has id 1, the Maria Rita cd 2, and the Basement Jaxx 3. Therefore the cross-reference to our cd should contain a reference attribute to object number 2 and the back-reference to our order a reference to object 1. The result is:
<list id="1"> <cd id="2"> <id>maria rita</id> </cd> <cd id="3"> <id>basement_jaxx_singles</id> </cd> <cd reference="3"/> <list reference="1"/> </list>
No references
For some uses of XStream we do not desire any kind of back or cross references like a graph, but a simple tree. The most famous example is when using XStream to generate XML for B2B services.
In such scenarios it's impossible to represent a graph cycle (remember: no tree contains such structure), therefore we have to remove the last add call from our example:
Cd bj = new Cd("basement_jaxx_singles"); List order = new ArrayList(); // adds the same cd twice (two references to the same object) order.add(bj); order.add(bj); XStream xstream = new XStream(); xstream.alias("cd", Cd.class); System.out.println(xstream.toXML(order));
Now if we add the NO_REFERENCES option, every reference shall be completed serialized.
xstream.setMode(XStream.NO_REFERENCES);
The result are three references:
<list> <cd> <id>maria rita</id> </cd> <cd> <id>basement_jaxx_singles</id> </cd> <cd> <id>basement_jaxx_singles</id> </cd> </list>
After reading from the above XML, you will get three different Cd instances.
Remember: it's impossible to support back-references (cycles) with NO_REFERENCES mode activated therefore a CircularReferenceException is thrown if you ever try to do so.


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The German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark was a competition held in 2011. The data set used in the competition included 50k+ images of European traffic signs, and teams were required to develop machine learning models to classify them. For Auto-Moto, I've decided to use the same dataset. I built this dashboard and website to aid with evaluation of models. Each model has a report that can be generated. Furthermore, the final model can also be evaluated with a small collection of additional images that were taken by my sister in England.
German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark Official Website
Our training data is split into 43 target classes, representing 43 real European traffic signs. As you can see in the graph below, the images are unbalanced between the classes. Because of the high accuracy I achieved without addressing the unbalanced class issue and due to time constraints, I have left the training data as is. However, in the future I would like to try adjusting weights during training to account for the over-abundance of certain signs to see if this will improve our scores further. In particular, sign #32 (End Restrictions) classifies very poorly with every model and has a very low relative class frequency. Adjusting for the class imbalance my help improve our ability to classify this sign in particular.
It is important to note that the images were taken from video footage recorded by a mounted camera. Each real life sign is represented in a series of about 30 photos taken as the vehicle carrying the camera drove past it. As a result, you may see what appears to be the same photo showing up multiple times. These are actually different photos taken of the same sign. This is not ideal for what should be obvious reasons. Mainly, I noticed repeatedly that my models would mis-classify many pictures of the same signs. This would make it seem that the model is mis-classifying many images, when in actuality many of those images were near to identical. However, this data set is ideal in many other ways. Each image has been centered and cropped around the sign. It is also organized in an easy to use way.
Throughout my work on this process, I trained a great number of convolutional neural networks. Highlighted on this website are four. To begin my analysis, I used a model structure found at data-flair, a Python projects blog site. While it did in fact deliver the high accuracy promised, I also found the model to be extremely overfit. I guess that's one good way to get high accuracy scores! However well that might work for a blog, overfitting a model is not beneficial in real world scenarios. My second model corrected in two ways. First I decreased the learning rate. The most benefit came when adding two batch normalization layers. When evaluating the results of the second model, I noticed that it was classifying darker images with a lower certainty than lighter ones. With model number 3, I added several pre-processing image filters including a brightness filter that makes the images darker. For the fourth and final model, I have added more image filters and run the model for a great deal more epochs.


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'No Plans To Shrink British Army', Defence Secretary Says
Ben Wallace was quick to take to Twitter to deny the allegations.
The Defence Secretary has dismissed claims that there are plans to shrink the British Army, saying the report in The Sunday Times is “nonsense”.
Ben Wallace took to Twitter to clear the record, following an article which said the Army will be “slashed” in size.
“For the record: there are no plans to shrink the Army.
“In fact, my direction to the Army has been to improve recruiting and retention levels.”
“This story is nonsense,” Mr Wallace said.
The Sunday Times reported there were discussions in place to reduce the Army’s numbers to between 60,000 and 65,000.
Ahead of the Conservatives' manifesto launch, Mr Wallace said: “In the manifesto there will be new policies to help.”
It’s believed the Army needs 10,000 recruits a year to maintain a front-line strength of 82,500.
But recruitment is falling below its targets - last year the outsourcing company Capita only managed to bring in fewer than one in 10 of the recruits the Army needed.


Minor fire on Japan government jet with PM on board: Reports
TOKYO: A minor fire broke out mid-flight on a Japanese government jet Sunday (Nov 3) while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was on board, but it was extinguished quickly with no injuries, media reports said.
The leader was flying to Bangkok from Tokyo on a Boeing 777-300ER to attend talks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
About an hour after take-off, an in-flight announcement said that an oven on the plane had sparked a small blaze, the Asahi Shimbun reported.

Jiji Press and Kyodo News reported similar stories, citing government sources.
There was no change to Abe's itinerary, Kyodo said.
Contacted by AFP, officials from the prime minister's office and the defence ministry could not immediately confirm the report.


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Her Majesty's Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw's speech about teacher recruitment and training.
Let me start this speech about teacher recruitment by telling you about my daily commute – fascinating as that is.
Every morning, I join the thousands upon thousands of commuters spilling out of Cannon Street station on their way to work in the City. Very few of them look happy in fact, most look incredibly miserable. I can understand why the prospect of 7 or 8 hours cooped up in the office chasing red and green dots across the screen might be financially worthwhile. But I suspect it is often corrosive to the soul.
That can never be said about teaching. It may not be the best paid job in the world but, done well, there is no better job to satisfy the soul and energise the spirit. There is no better job to bring out the altruism in us all. That’s why I’ve been tempted on so many occasions to set up a stall outside Cannon Street to advertise teaching to people who may be thinking of a change of direction. Maybe I’ll do all this in retirement.
But I make the point that a bit of creative thinking about how and where we market the profession could solve a lot of problems in teacher recruitment.
It’s almost 50 years since I started teaching but I still have a dewy-eyed nostalgia for the history lessons I taught to youngsters in difficult schools across London.
I still remember my brilliant lesson on the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ with stirring military music in the background, Tennyson’s poem being read out by one of the students and whiteboard graphics showing the course of the unfolding drama. I still remember making even the Great Reform Act interesting and as for the wonder of Watt’s separate condenser, well, class 9Z was wide-eyed by my mock demonstration.
Indulge me – I’m blowing my own trumpet but my lessons must have had some impact because middle-aged men and women who I taught as boys and girls still stop me in the street to remind me of them. They usually kindly add, “I was lucky to go to that school and it made me what I am now.” It may be a cliché but it’s always worth repeating it. No one forgets a good teacher and certainly no one forgets a good headteacher.
All of you in this room know that there is no greater thrill than inspiring young people in a lesson and there is no greater achievement than seeing young people do well – particularly those from poor backgrounds.
Teaching is great - and there has never been a better time to be a teacher. Teachers have never had more autonomy, more promotion prospects or more support. It’s a better job now than ever before.
If that’s the case, why aren’t we getting the message across?
I believe there are 2 reasons. Firstly, all too often we don’t hear about teaching’s triumphs, only its problems. But the facts about the English education system speak for themselves:
So why don’t we hear about the joy of teaching and the nobility of our profession as much as we should? Why do so many in the profession doggedly focus on teaching’s problems but ignore its infinite successes?
I recently came across an advert in a professional association magazine encouraging colleagues to leave teaching and become driving instructors. Whilst I admire the British School of Motoring’s marketing tactics, shouldn’t the teaching organisations be encouraging and supporting their members in their teaching, rather than giving space to other careers?
It’s disheartening to see the way teachers are portrayed by representatives who should be their greatest cheerleaders. I think the new recruitment campaign from NCTL [National College for Teaching and Leadership] is at least a step in the right direction but we have all got to do a lot more to promote and honour our profession.
Teachers should feel incredibly proud of what they do and the impact they have on children’s lives. No other career shapes the lives of young people more. Teaching is the profession that informs all the rest. We need to be as candid about its successes as we are about its setbacks.
The second reason I think there is a problem is because popular culture and the media, sometimes inadvertently, portray the state system in negative ways.
We don’t see, in the main, great teachers teaching great lessons in well-ordered state schools. What we do see is a programme like ‘Tough Young Teachers’ on the BBC, which showed some idealistic, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new recruits struggling daily to cope with Jack the Lad and Sally Show Off.
Quite honestly, it was hard for me to watch without holding my head in my hands.  What was even harder to watch were senior teachers providing little or no support. Indeed, their presence hardly changed the casual and sometimes disorderly atmosphere of the classrooms in which some of these poor young things were teaching. I found this upsetting and a sad commentary on the nature of leadership in a minority of our schools.
The reason I’m here, after almost 50 years in teaching, is because I was fortunate enough to start my career in schools with headteachers who were absolutely unequivocal in their support.
They were fearsome characters who made it their mission to protect new teachers like me. Bridie Burns was typical. She was head of the first school I taught in - a four-foot-nothing Irish ball of fire who moved around the school as if she was on wheels.
The very sight of her instilled fear and dread amongst both students and staff. I remember quite clearly her reprimand to me one summer’s day, ‘Mr Wilshaw, I know you’re a new, young teacher but should you be wearing short-sleeved shirts? Please change it tomorrow.’
I did change it but, more than that, I grew to appreciate that her style of leadership and her presence in school meant that I could get on and teach the sons and daughters of dockers in Bermondsey the delights of the Spanish Armada and the English Civil War.
We need more of her sort of leaders in our schools – authoritative figures who understand the power of headship and who are not worried about being called disciplinarians.
We’ve got to make sure that good teachers stay in the profession and convey the message to the general public that the great majority of schools are orderly places where teachers are able to teach and children are able to learn.
If we don’t address these 2 issues – selling the profession and raising its status – we’re going to continue to have problems in teacher recruitment, particularly when the economy does well, as it is doing now.
 One of my predecessors, Sir Mike Tomlinson, spoke of an acute teacher shortage back in 2001. Indeed, there have been problems recruiting enough teachers for so-called shortage subjects, such as science and maths, since I can remember. And I speak as someone who went through some really difficult times in the early 90s in inner London – so much so that I was forced to go to the Republic of Ireland year after year to fill the vacancies.
Six months ago, I asked a team of Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI) to begin reviewing how much progress has been made towards tackling this pressing recruitment issue. Inspectors have been visiting 3 different regions - the East of England, the South East and the North West – to get a better understanding of the challenges of recruiting good teachers in schools in coastal, isolated and deprived areas.
We were particularly interested in how well teacher training serves struggling schools. This HMI research is still in progress and the conclusions will be published later in the year as part of our Annual Report. But I can share some initial findings with you today.
When inspectors asked headteachers, NQTs [newly qualified teachers] and trainees how best to attract more people into the profession, there was a common reply: raise the status of the profession much more than we’re doing at the moment. Trainees said that it was the prime reason why their contemporaries had not joined. This reinforces everything I said earlier.
The media has to play an important part here. Of course we’ve got to have reality TV and show what teaching can be like in some of our schools, warts and all. But surely we’ve also got to get a better balance and show what goes on in the great majority of our state schools - good leadership, good teaching and good learning. This often doesn’t get a look in.
Instead, we get patronising caricatures of state education from Grange Hill to Waterloo Road. Compare this to the paean praise to public schools in a programme like ‘Harrow – a very British school’. It may be British but it’s not typical. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised by all this when so many in the media are privately educated.
It’s no wonder that people form a particular view about what it must be like to teach in the state school system. I‘m not telling commissioning editors how to do their job, but wouldn’t it be great to have a series tracking the progression of an inspiring teacher working in a challenging school in the state system? Wouldn’t it be great to see an outstanding headteacher leading a school from inadequacy to success in the state system? Wouldn’t it be great for viewers to see that teaching in the state school system is a terrific job that doesn’t involve a daily battle?
Many of the teachers and trainees interviewed by HMI agreed that the media portrayed teaching negatively. But what HMI found truly encouraging is that the trainees they spoke to, in tough schools in these regions, were buoyed by the support they received from strong leadership teams.
As 1 trainee put it, ‘I came into teaching to make a difference; I just needed the right support to help me do it.’ An NQT described the central role played by the headteacher during her first year of teaching at a school that required improvement. She told inspectors that the head was ‘everywhere’ and ‘led by example’ and gave that NQT ‘excellent support’. It is headteachers like this that inspire new teachers to embrace the challenges of teaching and make a real difference.
Let me now turn to the impact of teacher supply problems on the schools we have visited so far. The overriding message our inspectors are hearing from heads in these regions, in schools of all grades and types, is that teacher recruitment is a real problem and is getting worse.
Well over half the heads we’ve spoken to – both primary and secondary – have told us that they are having serious difficulties in recruiting good staff.
Over half of secondary headteachers have told inspectors they are finding it very challenging to recruit maths and science teachers. And a third of them are having to cover posts in these subjects with temporary staff without the right skills. That’s a lot of children going home and saying to their parents, ‘another cover teacher in science’.
There is huge competition for good teachers. With fewer trainees coming through, it has become a buyer’s market. Trainees can take their pick of the schools they want to work at when they qualify. Unsurprisingly, the majority opt for a well-performing school in a nice area.
So it is no surprise that challenging schools in deprived or isolated communities find recruitment hardest. Nearly three quarters of headteachers that we spoke to in the most disadvantaged schools said they struggle to get good staff.
As I said in our ‘Unseen children’ report of 2013, recruiting the best teachers into schools serving disadvantaged pupils was a big challenge. Sadly, the situation has not improved in the two years since then. Indeed, in some areas, it has got worse.
These schools find themselves trapped in a vicious circle. They can’t easily recruit good teachers because they are struggling. But they can’t improve because they can’t recruit good teachers.
Inspectors have seen Herculean recruitment efforts by some schools. A primary school in a deprived community in Kent which advertised for 2 teaching posts last year only attracted one applicant to each, neither of whom was good enough to appoint. The head was forced to recruit from abroad. Sadly, neither of these recruits lasted very long.
About half of heads in the East of England and a third of heads in the South East said they had turned to overseas recruitment.
One secondary school in an isolated part of East Anglia conducted 75 rounds of interviews last year. The headteacher told inspectors that when interviewing potential teachers, she had to weigh up the question ‘Is this good enough for my children?’ against the thought of ‘If I don’t appoint, there will be no one in front of this class’. No headteacher should ever be put in that position.
A primary school in another part of the region only received 4 applicants for 3 teaching posts. By the day of the interviews, two had already accepted jobs elsewhere and only 1 of the 2 who turned up was appointable.
Stories like this are all too typical. I’m sure that many headteachers here today will have their own tales of recruitment headaches. Unfortunately, national data showing low vacancy rates is clearly not giving the full picture and masks the situation at a local level in some areas. It must be an urgent priority for government to develop local intelligence on teacher vacancies and recruitment problems in different parts of the country.
As the vast majority of NQTs seek employment in the same area in which they train, local teacher training has a direct impact on teacher recruitment in local schools. So our research is aiming to get a clearer understanding of the distribution of training in different regions.
In recent years, the government’s focus has been on encouraging schools to get more involved in teacher training through school-centred initial teacher training partnerships (known as SCITTs), teaching schools and School Direct.
As a former headteacher, I support this direction of travel. It is only right that schools have the opportunity to have more say in training the next generation of teachers. Furthermore, I believe that there is no better place to learn how to teach than in a classroom under the watchful eye of experienced school leaders.
The majority of headteachers we have spoken to told inspectors that they saw strong potential in school-led training. Indeed, the numbers of training places requested by schools is growing year-on-year.
This would all be very well if there were plenty of trainees and they all moved around once trained. But there aren’t, and they don’t.
It is true that new teacher training courses are opening up in some areas. But the evidence from our fieldwork so far shows that the distribution of new teacher training is skewed towards those areas that already have good training provision and a high proportion of good schools. Why is this happening?
It’s happening because the current rules stipulate that only strong schools can lead school-led training. Consequently, areas with a high proportion of struggling schools and few good ones have a shortage of school-led training.
Take the East of England region, where there are about 70 teaching schools. The vast majority are in affluent areas of Cambridgeshire, East Hertfordshire and South Essex. Very few are in the isolated rural and coastal parts of Suffolk and Norfolk.
Even where there is school-led training nearby, struggling schools told inspectors that support is not always forthcoming. One grade 3 school headteacher spoke of having little contact from the local teaching schools. He also believed the schools where they trained usually snapped up most trainees.
These isolated schools are telling us that they feel left ‘out in the cold’, confirming the concerns I raised in the ‘Unseen children’ report. The prospect of the most successful schools cherry-picking the brightest and best for themselves, creating a polarised system between the strongest and weakest schools, has become a reality.
Emerging evidence from our research shows that schools in SCITTs are more able to recruit than those that are not - and the schools in SCITTs tend to be the more advantaged schools.
We now have a two-tier school-led training system, with one group of lucky schools more able to recruit and one unlucky group less able to do so, further intensifying the disparity in local and regional performance.
Financial incentives play their part but need to be more targeted in order to get trainees to start their career in the areas and schools that need them most. The expansion of Teach First is a step in the right direction. But numbers are small and more needs to be done.
Ofsted has played its part and changed the initial teacher training inspection framework. Teacher training providers looking to be graded as good should now provide their trainees with experience of teaching in schools in challenging circumstances as part of their course. This professional development is crucial in equipping trainees with the skills and confidence to teach in tough schools.
So what else needs to be done? Our first priority is clear: it must be to encourage more people into teaching. The next must be to ensure that teachers are incentivised to teach in the schools that need them most. School involvement in teacher training is a positive development. But school-led training in itself is not a silver bullet.
It is crucial that teacher training flourishes in areas that currently lack it. Those schools that are most in need of great teachers must take priority, otherwise, the strongest will thrive and the weakest will continue to struggle.
Perhaps there should be more flexibility when deciding which schools can lead teacher training. Why, for example, can’t a grade 3 school with a great new head take a lead on teacher training?
It is clear that what we have now isn’t working well enough. I’m aware that the government takes the issue seriously and is looking at incentives. But bursaries, competitive salaries and other financial inducements have to be part of a wider package of support, especially around equipping trainees with the skills to work in schools in challenging circumstances.
Two years ago, I suggested a proportion of good teachers should become ‘national service teachers’, contracted directly with government and then deployed to a disadvantaged area. If 1 exceptional teacher can make the world of difference to a school, just think what a large number of great teachers could achieve, given the incentive to do so. I still think it is something that should be considered as a matter of urgency.
I announced earlier this week that exceptional leaders who support struggling schools will be publicly recognised by Ofsted. Should thought be given to encouraging them to take on further work in teacher recruitment and training?
Let me conclude where I started, pondering as I walked from Cannon Street station. Teaching is a wonderful job. Its problems are well documented; its successes are not. Every few years, usually during a period of economic expansion, the country faces a teacher recruitment crisis.
I have been around long enough to know that this is not a problem caused by any 1 government or any 1 policy. Fundamentally, it is the by-product of a society that does not value teaching enough. It is the result of a culture that pays lip-service to teaching but that doesn’t really think it is for its brightest or its best.
It is a culture that is intelligent enough to perceive that, without great teachers, the arts, industry and science cannot blossom, but is so short sighted that it does little to encourage them. It is a society that regards teaching as a career cul-de-sac, to dabble in when times are bad but to desert when more glittering opportunities arrive.
We need to shout about the appeal of teaching as never before. Because unless we do so, all the improvements in England’s schools we have seen in recent years could be undone. The recruitment difficulties laid bare by our preliminary findings will only get worse.
We have to change the way we talk about teaching and we have to start doing it now.
Thank you


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Quick response halts Umbumbulu stock theft
Twelve cows were recovered alive at the scene of crime.
by Earl BaillacheUmbumbulu police recovered 13 stolen cows after a shoot-out with the stock thieves on Wednesday, 20 November.
Capt TM Ntobela and W/O EM Zuke received a compliant of the theft in progress at Mtshingwane in the Madundube area and responded. On arrival, shots were fired towards the police and the officers returned fire. Four suspects fled the scene on foot and no-one sustained any injuries.
Twelve cows were recovered alive at the scene of crime, however, one cow was already slaughtered and loaded in the back of a bakkie, which was found at the scene and allegedly used by the suspects.
“I am pleased by the quick response of our members. They managed to prevent a serious stock theft crime and recover all the stolen cows. We are committed to eradicating any stock theft in the eThekwini Outer South (EOS) Cluster and I am also sure we will be making arrests soon in this matter,” said acting EOS cluster commander, Brigadier MVP Mgobhozi.

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I am a neuroscientist in a medical center and an experienced user of just about any drug, herbal or otherwise, designed to mellow people out. For three straight years running, a bit of marijuana was my go to substance in the evenings, but the withdrawal I experienced when taking a break from it last year was so nasty that I just can't imagine going back. Yes, there is such a thing as withdrawal from marijuana. When it happens to me, it typically kicks in about 3 weeks after quitting, not immediately after, and brings with it horrible insomnia/anxiety. Ugh! Luckily it does end after a few really uncomfortable weeks.
While I don't drink much alcohol (maybe 1 drink a week), I do like the occasional benzodiazepine, like Xanax or Ativan, in the evening for relaxation/sleep, particularly after giving up the devil's lettuce. Tolerance, dependence and withdrawal are big problems with these drugs, so I do not take them on a daily basis for more than a week or so at a time. I like to provide breaks to allow for the drugs to wash out of my system, preferably three days off for every three days on. So, on off days, I like to experiment with various herbal alternatives and have tried all that I am aware of - Valerian (does nothing for me), Kava (absolutely nothing for me), Kratom (nice but will steal your soul!), Corydalis (makes me feel depressed), California poppy (nothing for me), Hops (nothing for me), Lagochilus inebrians (nothing for me), Phenibut (1 gram is nice and mellow, any more causes a hangover, tolerance is a problem) and the list goes on and on.
I thought I had tried everything until I recently stumbled across some information about a tree, called Mulungu, that grows around the Amazon. Apparently, it has been used for 100s of years in South America as a sedative and general mellowizer. So, I ordered a pound of powdered bark and decided to give it a try. I was unable to find any real dosing information beyond a few anecdotal reports. Based on one user's experience, I decided to start with three heaping teaspoons, probably about 15 grams. Rather than making a tea, I simply mixed it in some water with some orange flavored powder and chugged it down. Not bad.
Within 30 minutes I noticed the same kind of experience most users report. Mainly a tranquilizing effect, meaning that I was quite mellow but not necessarily very sedated. I sank into my couch and started to watch a movie. After an hour, I decided to add another dose, and so drank four more heaping teaspoons. This intensified the mellow effect but didn't really change the experience. After another hour, I added another three heaping teaspoons, bringing the total to 10 heaping teaspoons in three hours.
Within 15 minutes or so of the last round of teaspoons, my phone rang. I was surprised to find that my motor coordination was seriously impaired despite the fact that I wasn't aware of any significant muscle relaxing or sedating effect of the bark. My speech was a bit slurred and moving my lips was a bit of a chore. Another user reported the same thing and cautioned others not to drive after taking Mulungu because one's motor coordination can be impaired even if you don't feel a heavy buzz. After my experience I would have to agree.
Two hours later I decided it was time to get some sleep. I sank into my bed and expected to sleep deeply. To my dismay, just as I drifted off to sleep I awoke suddenly with a bit of a panic. At least two other users have reported this. For some reason, perhaps only when the dose is high, some people spring back to an awakened state immediately after falling asleep on this stuff. This happened a few times until I finally did fall asleep. I had bizarre dreams, but I always do so it's hard to attribute it to the bark.
Several users reported that they had deep, personal epiphanies after taking Mulungu, like that they should really quit smoking or change themselves in some other important way. I don't smoke, so I wouldn't know about that part. But I didn't really have any deep insights or revelations on Mulungu, just a mellow experience a lot like Xanax.
In sum, after taking what must have been a total of 45-50 grams of Mulungu over a three hour period, I can attest to its mellowing properties. While others have reported that you can literally knock yourself out with this stuff, that certainly wasn't the case for me. It is definitely better than an alcohol buzz in that it takes the edge off of anxiety/worry without a heavy drugged feeling. Motor coordination is definitely impaired even though it doesn't feel like it should be. I would compare it favorably to Xanax.
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- Battlestar Galactica (2003): In the pilot miniseries, Galactica is effectively unarmed, having just been converted into a museum ship, and the entire fleet is short of supplies because it consists mostly of whatever ships happened to be traveling between the Colonies when the war kicked off. So they put in at Ragnar Anchorage, a secret Colonial supply base protected by a radioactive cloud that interferes with Cylon systems. This is also how they discover the Cylon "skinjob" infiltrators when one of them begins malfunctioning due to the radiation. Once they've loaded up everything they had time to grab, they have to fight their way out past the waiting Cylon fleet.
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- In an early episode of Star Trek: Enterprise the Enterprise crew come across an automated repair station which is just what they need after suffering damage in the previous episode. They pull in and get refitted, only finding out later that the station has no problem covertly salvaging parts (including crewmembers) from the ships it is repairing.
- "Encounter at Farpoint," the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Farpoint One wants to get certified by the Federation to be an official wayside stop and the Enterprise is sent to check them out.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is set at one of these.
- Star Trek: Voyager. Given that they are stranded on the far side of the galaxy, Voyager must stop off at these from time to time though not as often as some fans like. In "Prime Factors", a Pleasure Planet invites them to stay for R&R, asking only for tales of their adventures in payment. However, the planet also has technology that could get them home faster, causing a rift in Voyager's crew when the locals refuse to trade it.
- There are several such places in Final Fantasy X. First, there is Rin's Travel Agency, which has several locations across Spira. Normal towns have also served as such for the protagonists.
- Breath of Fire II: Providing Sleep, Healing and a Save Point in the middle of a Crossroad between a Witch Tower, a Restaurant where they will cook the weak, a town where you can't save and the river route to a Cake sale.
- Breath of Fire III takes it further by making the player bring it over for almost everything but Supplies. Given that the characters discuss the events you can remember where you left your game all that time ago, but not your fairy village (which the player can make it a supply point and a place for buying some top tier weapons), and recall which town or dungeon you needed to go.
- Poke Marts and Pokemon Centers act as a cross between this and Healing Checkpoint in Pokémon games.
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"""Functions for MusPy objects.
This module defines functions that can be applied to a MusPy object.
Functions
---------
- adjust_resolution
- adjust_time
- append
- clip
- get_end_time
- get_real_end_time
- remove_duplicate
- sort
- to_ordered_dict
- transpos
"""
from collections import OrderedDict
from typing import Callable, TypeVar, Union
from .base import Base, BaseType, ComplexBaseType
from .classes import Note, Track
from .music import Music, MusicType
MTNType = TypeVar("MTNType", Music, Track, Note)
__all__ = [
"adjust_resolution",
"adjust_time",
"append",
"clip",
"get_end_time",
"get_real_end_time",
"remove_duplicate",
"sort",
"to_ordered_dict",
"transpose",
]
[docs]def adjust_resolution(
music: MusicType,
target: int = None,
factor: float = None,
rounding: Union[str, Callable] = "round",
) -> MusicType:
"""Adjust resolution and timing of all time-stamped objects.
Parameters
----------
music : :class:`muspy.Music`
Object to adjust the resolution.
target : int, optional
Target resolution.
factor : int or float, optional
Factor used to adjust the resolution based on the formula:
`new_resolution = old_resolution * factor`. For example, a
factor of 2 double the resolution, and a factor of 0.5 halve the
resolution.
rounding : {'round', 'ceil', 'floor'} or callable, default: 'round'
Rounding mode.
"""
return music.adjust_resolution(
target=target, factor=factor, rounding=rounding
)
[docs]def adjust_time(obj: BaseType, func: Callable[[int], int]) -> BaseType:
"""Adjust the timing of time-stamped objects.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.Music` or :class:`muspy.Track`
Object to adjust the timing.
func : callable
The function used to compute the new timing from the old timing,
i.e., `new_time = func(old_time)`.
See Also
--------
:func:`muspy.adjust_resolution` :
Adjust the resolution and the timing of time-stamped objects.
Note
----
The resolution are left unchanged.
"""
return obj.adjust_time(func=func)
[docs]def append(obj1: ComplexBaseType, obj2) -> ComplexBaseType:
"""Append an object to the correseponding list.
This will automatically determine the list attributes to append
based on the type of the object.
Parameters
----------
obj1 : :class:`muspy.ComplexBase`
Object to which `obj2` to append.
obj2
Object to be appended to `obj1`.
Notes
-----
- If `obj1` is of type :class:`muspy.Music`, `obj2` can be
:class:`muspy.Tempo`, :class:`muspy.KeySignature`,
:class:`muspy.TimeSignature`, :class:`muspy.Lyric`,
:class:`muspy.Annotation` or :class:`muspy.Track`.
- If `obj1` is of type :class:`muspy.Track`, `obj2` can be
:class:`muspy.Note`, :class:`muspy.Chord`,
:class:`muspy.Lyric` or :class:`muspy.Annotation`.
See Also
--------
:class:`muspy.ComplexBase.append` : Equivalent function.
"""
return obj1.append(obj2)
def extend(
obj1: ComplexBaseType, obj2, deepcopy: bool = False
) -> ComplexBaseType:
"""Extend the list(s) with another object or iterable.
Parameters
----------
obj1 : :class:`muspy.ComplexBase`
Object to extend.
obj2
If an object of the same type as `obj1` is given, extend the
list attributes with the corresponding list attributes of
`obj2`. If an iterable is given, call `obj1.append` on each
item.
deepcopy : bool, default: False
Whether to make deep copies of the appended objects.
See Also
--------
:class:`muspy.ComplexBase.extend` : Equivalent function.
"""
return obj1.extend(obj2, deepcopy=deepcopy)
[docs]def clip(obj: MTNType, lower: int = 0, upper: int = 127) -> MTNType:
"""Clip the velocity of each note.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.Music`, :class:`muspy.Track` or \
:class:`muspy.Note`
Object to clip.
lower : int or float, default: 0
Lower bound.
upper : int or float, default: 127
Upper bound.
"""
return obj.clip(lower=lower, upper=upper)
[docs]def get_end_time(obj: Union[Music, Track], is_sorted: bool = False) -> int:
"""Return the the time of the last event in all tracks.
This includes tempos, key signatures, time signatures, note offsets,
lyrics and annotations.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.Music` or :class:`muspy.Track`
Object to inspect.
is_sorted : bool, default: False
Whether all the list attributes are sorted.
"""
return obj.get_end_time(is_sorted=is_sorted)
[docs]def get_real_end_time(music: Music, is_sorted: bool = False) -> float:
"""Return the end time in realtime.
This includes tempos, key signatures, time signatures, note offsets,
lyrics and annotations. Assume 120 qpm (quarter notes per minute) if
no tempo information is available.
Parameters
----------
music : :class:`muspy.Music`
Object to inspect.
is_sorted : bool, default: False
Whether all the list attributes are sorted.
"""
return music.get_real_end_time(is_sorted=is_sorted)
[docs]def remove_duplicate(obj: ComplexBaseType) -> ComplexBaseType:
"""Remove duplicate change events.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.Music`
Object to process.
"""
return obj.remove_duplicate()
[docs]def sort(obj: ComplexBaseType) -> ComplexBaseType:
"""Sort all the time-stamped objects with respect to event time.
- If a :class:`muspy.Music` is given, this will sort key signatures,
time signatures, lyrics and annotations, along with notes, lyrics
and annotations for each track.
- If a :class:`muspy.Track` is given, this will sort notes, lyrics
and annotations.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.ComplexBase`
Object to sort.
"""
return obj.sort()
[docs]def to_ordered_dict(
obj: Base, skip_missing: bool = True, deepcopy: bool = True
) -> OrderedDict:
"""Return an OrderedDict converted from a Music object.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.Base`
Object to convert.
skip_missing : bool, default: True
Whether to skip attributes with value None or those that are
empty lists.
deepcopy : bool, default: True
Whether to make deep copies of the attributes.
Returns
-------
OrderedDict
Converted OrderedDict.
"""
return obj.to_ordered_dict(skip_missing=skip_missing, deepcopy=deepcopy)
[docs]def transpose(obj: MTNType, semitone: int) -> MTNType:
"""Transpose all the notes by a number of semitones.
Parameters
----------
obj : :class:`muspy.Music`, :class:`muspy.Track` or \
:class:`muspy.Note`
Object to transpose.
semitone : int
Number of semitones to transpose the notes. A positive value
raises the pitches, while a negative value lowers the pitches.
"""
return obj.transpose(semitone=semitone)


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Pygenetic provides users a highly efficient and usable way to explore the problem solving ability of Genetic Algorithms. It seeks to reduce the task of solving a problem using genetic algorithms to just choosing the appropriate operators and values which are provided internally. Further, support is also provided for a user to input his own operators for variation or for solving more specific problems. Students, teachers, researchers, company employees / entrepreneurs can all use our genetic algorithm framework while experimenting with different Machine Learning Algorithms and observing performance.
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[gecode-users] Posting branching later...
Guido Tack
tack at ps.uni-sb.de
Mon May 28 13:41:08 CEST 2007
Hi.
> usually we post branchings in the constructor of our Space, in the
> beginning.
>
> However I would be interested in posting a branching later (once we
> have
> already begun the search). is it possible to post a branching inside a
> commit function of another branching ?
Yes, that's no problem. We haven't tested that particular scenario
yet, though.
> If the answer is positive, the
> new branching will be posted only for the children of the current
> space
> or also for all ancestors and brothers (ie all other future spaces).
Spaces don't have any reference to their ancestors or brothers. The
new branching will only take effect for spaces created by cloning the
one where it was posted - i.e. its children in the search tree. If
that's what you want, it should work.
If you want the branching to take effect everywhere, you'll have to
put that logic into the search engine such that the engine takes care
of posting the branching in all the open search nodes. It would be
similar to branch-and-bound search, just that instead of constraints,
you add more branchings.
Cheers,
Guido
--
Guido Tack
Programming Systems Lab, Saarland University, Germany
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~tack
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