The HDF5Application enables the serialization of a model part with or without MPI using the HDF5 library. The model part is stored in and HDF5 file, which can be used for:
- Viewing a model part with HDFVIEW
- Scientific visualization with tools supporting XDMF. Tools, which are known to work, include ParaView 5.4 and VisIt.
- Checkpointing (under development).
- Re-partitioning (not supported yet).
- HDF5Application
Installing HDF5 (minimum version 1.8)
The HDF5 C libraries are used with the HDF5Application. If Kratos is configured with MPI then the parallel HDF5 library must be installed. Otherwise, the serial HDF5 library is used.
Serial HDF5 Library
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev
Parallel HDF5 Library
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-openmpi-dev
Build Instructions
- Install serial or parallel HDF5 library
- Configure Kratos to build the HDF5Application (following the standard instructions)
- For GNU/Linux: ``` add_app ${KRATOS_APP_DIR}/HDF5Application ```
- For Windows: ``` CALL :add_app KRATOS_APP_DIR%\HDF5Application; ```
- Build Kratos
Installing h5py
This package is needed to use some of the python-files, e.g. xdmf_utils.py
sudo apt-get install python-h5py / python3-h5py
Note
The minimum version for the GCC compiler is 4.9. This is because earlier version don't fully support regular expressions.
There are few available HDF5 processes which can be integrated into work flow via ProjectParameters.json file.
Initialization from hdf5 process
This process can be used to initialize a given model part using existing HDF5 files. Illustrated example reads in VELOCITY and PRESSURE variables from "hdf5_output/example_initialization_file.h5" file to nodal historical data value container, and nodal, elemental and condition non-historical data value containers. This process also can read FLAGS from HDF5 file and populate model part accordingly.
For the list_of_variables
in either nodal_data_value_settings
, element_data_value_settings
, condition_data_value_settings
one can specify ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_FILE
which will read all the variables available in the input hdf5 file and will populate the model part accordingly. This ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_FILE
should be used alone (There can be only this entry in the list if it is used).
{
"kratos_module": "KratosMultiphysics.HDF5Application",
"python_module": "initialization_from_hdf5_process",
"Parameters": {
"model_part_name": "MainModelPart",
"file_settings": {
"file_name": "hdf5_output/example_initialization_file.h5",
"echo_level": 1
},
"nodal_solution_step_data_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_data_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_flag_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"element_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"condition_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
}
}
}
Single mesh temporal input process
This process is used to initialize model part variables at each time step from hdf5 files. You can specify the list of hdf5 files to read from by changing the "file_name" with tags <time>
as shown in following example. If no <time>
tag is present in "file_name", then same file will be read at each time step and the variables specified will be initialized. In this process, mesh is only read from the initial time step file. Results for each container will be read from time series h5 files.
For the list_of_variables
in either nodal_data_value_settings
, element_data_value_settings
, condition_data_value_settings
one can specify ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_FILE
which will read all the variables available in the input hdf5 file and will populate the model part accordingly. This ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_FILE
should be used alone (There can be only this entry in the list if it is used).
{
"kratos_module": "KratosMultiphysics.HDF5Application",
"python_module": "single_mesh_temporal_input_process",
"Parameters": {
"model_part_name": "MainModelPart",
"file_settings": {
"file_name": "hdf5_output/<model_part_name>-<time>.h5",
"time_format": "0.4f",
"echo_level": 1
},
"nodal_solution_step_data_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_data_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_flag_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"element_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"condition_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
}
}
}
Single mesh temporal output process
This process can be used to output data from model parts to HDF5. This will write mesh only in the first time step h5 file. Rest of the time series h5 files will contain only results for each nodal/element/condition containers.
For the list_of_variables
in nodal_solution_step_data_settings
, one can specify ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_VARIABLES_LIST
as the only item (Then this list should only have that entry) so it will write all the variables in the corresponding model's solution step variable list.
{
"kratos_module": "KratosMultiphysics.HDF5Application",
"python_module": "single_mesh_temporal_output_process",
"Parameters": {
"model_part_name": "MainModelPart",
"file_settings": {
"file_name": "hdf5_output/<model_part_name>-<time>.h5",
"time_format": "0.4f",
"max_files_to_keep": "unlimited",
"echo_level": 1
},
"output_time_settings": {
"step_frequency": 1,
"time_frequency": 1.0
},
"nodal_solution_step_data_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_data_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_gauss_point_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_gauss_point_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_flag_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"element_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"condition_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
}
}
}
Multiple mesh temporal output process
This process is used to output model part variable data to HDF5 with mesh written for each time step. This is useful in the case if required to write down deformed mesh in each time step.
For the list_of_variables
in nodal_solution_step_data_settings
, one can specify ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_VARIABLES_LIST
as the only item (Then this list should only have that entry) so it will write all the variables in the corresponding model's solution step variable list.
{
"kratos_module": "KratosMultiphysics.HDF5Application",
"python_module": "multiple_mesh_temporal_output_process",
"Parameters": {
"model_part_name": "MainModelPart",
"file_settings": {
"file_name": "hdf5_output/<model_part_name>-<time>.h5",
"time_format": "0.4f",
"max_files_to_keep": "unlimited",
"echo_level": 1
},
"output_time_settings": {
"step_frequency": 1,
"time_frequency": 1.0
},
"model_part_output_settings": {
"prefix": "/ModelData"
},
"nodal_solution_step_data_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_data_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_gauss_point_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_gauss_point_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_flag_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"element_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"condition_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
}
}
}
Single mesh xdmf output process for Paraview
This process outputs model part variable data for each time step, additionally it writes down the XDMF file after each time step which is required to visualize HDF5 data in paraview. This process requires h5py
to be installed in the python
version (which is compiled with Kratos Multiphysics
)
For the list_of_variables
in nodal_solution_step_data_settings
, one can specify ALL_VARIABLES_FROM_VARIABLES_LIST
as the only item (Then this list should only have that entry) so it will write all the variables in the corresponding model's solution step variable list.
{
"kratos_module": "KratosMultiphysics.HDF5Application",
"python_module": "single_mesh_xdmf_output_process",
"Parameters": {
"model_part_name": "MainModelPart",
"file_settings": {
"file_name": "hdf5_output/<model_part_name>-<time>.h5",
"time_format": "0.4f",
"max_files_to_keep": "unlimited",
"echo_level": 1
},
"output_time_settings": {
"step_frequency": 1,
"time_frequency": 1.0
},
"model_part_output_settings": {
"prefix": "/ModelData"
},
"nodal_solution_step_data_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_data_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"element_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"condition_data_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"VELOCITY",
"PRESSURE"
]
},
"nodal_flag_value_settings": {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"element_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
},
"condition_flag_value_settings" : {
"list_of_variables": [
"SLIP"
]
}
}
}
User defined I/O process
Users can build their own I/O processes by using components of HDF5 application. Following is such example. This example writes model part, and DISPLACEMENT
values for each time step at finalize_solution_step
{
"kratos_module": "KratosMultiphysics.HDF5Application",
"python_module": "user_defined_io_process",
"Parameters": {
"model_part_name": "MainModelPart",
"process_step": "finalize_solution_step",
"controller_settings": {
"controller_type": "temporal_controller",
"time_frequency": 0.5
},
"io_settings": {
"file_name": "results/<model_part_name>-<time>.h5"
},
"list_of_operations": [
{
"operation_type": "model_part_output"
},
{
"operation_type": "nodal_solution_step_data_output",
"list_of_variables": ["DISPLACEMENT"]
}
]
}
}


Renderers module (refraction_render.renderers
)¶
classes for rendering an image:¶
|
Object used to set a camera angle and position to render a scene. |
|
Object used to set a camera angle and position to render a scene for a user specified horizontal field of view. |
classes for setting up the scene to be rendered:¶
|
Simple wrapper which keeps track of data used to render an image. |
|
This class is used to grab slices of the tarrain alon great circle slices of the earth. |


Smart people may learn music faster
| Source: | Michigan State University |
| Summary: | Why do some people learn music more quickly than others? Intelligence could play a role, according to a new study that investigated the early stages of learning to play piano. |
Why do some people learn music more quickly than others?
Intelligence could play a role, according to a Michigan State University study that investigated the early stages of learning to play piano.
Published in the journal Intelligence, the study may be the first to examine the relationship between intelligence, music aptitude and growth mindset in beginner pianists.
Growth mindset refers to whether students believe they can improve basic abilities, like piano ability.
"The strongest predictor of skill acquisition was intelligence, followed by music aptitude," said Alexander Burgoyne, a doctoral candidate in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. "By contrast, the correlation between growth mindset and piano performance was about as close to zero as possible."
In the study, 161 undergraduates were taught how to play "Happy Birthday" on the piano with the help of a video guide. After practice, the students performed the 25-note song multiple times. Three MSU graduate students judged the performances based on their melodic and rhythmic accuracy.
There were striking differences in the students' skill acquisition trajectories. Some learned quickly, earning perfect marks within six minutes of practice. Others performed poorly at first but improved substantially later. By comparison, some seemed to fade as if they had lost their motivation and others never figured it out, performing poorly throughout the study.
So why did some students fail while others succeeded?
To find out, the researchers gave the students tests of cognitive ability that measured things like problem-solving skills and processing speed, and tests of music aptitude that measured, for example, the ability to differentiate between similar rhythms. They also surveyed their growth mindset.
"The results were surprising, because people have claimed that mindset plays an important role when students are confronted with challenges, like trying to learn a new musical instrument," Burgoyne said. "And yet, it didn't predict skill acquisition."
That said, results will likely differ for those with greater skill.
"Our study examined one of the earliest stages of skill acquisition," Burgoyne said. "Early experiences can be formative, but I would caution against drawing conclusions about skilled musicians based on our study of beginners."
But applied generally, the study's findings may be helpful in education.
It follows a recent review of mindset research that found a weak relationship between growth mindset and academic achievement. Perhaps more concerning, that study found interventions designed to boost achievement by encouraging children to believe they can improve their basic abilities may be fruitless.
That is, when those interventions successfully altered students' mindsets, there wasn't a significant effect on academic achievement.
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Journal Reference:
- Alexander P. Burgoyne, Lauren Julius Harris, David Z. Hambrick. Predicting piano skill acquisition in beginners: The role of general intelligence, music aptitude, and mindset. Intelligence, 2019; 76: 101383 DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.101383
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Guess The Number
The number that i guess is
Ok!
Exit
The number is Correct!
Ok!
Exit
You don't guess number.
Exit
Game Over. You loose.


Supporting Notes Users in Bandwidth Challenged Environment
In a recent meeting with a client the question was raised: "How do I support users in bandwidth challenged environments". Bandwidth challenged as in GSM (no GPRS), Modem dialup, Satellite links and the like. My first instinctive answer was replication of course. Notes was around when 9600 Baud was considered fast and replication was working then. But after reflecting on the question for a while I had to answer: It depends. You have a number of options depending on your use case. In general there are two strategies to look into: a) let data transmission happen outside the user time (a.k.a in the background) b) minimize data transmission. These are the options:
- Replication: This is the clear choice for email and informational databases like document libraries, discussions, team rooms etc. The clear advantage: while you do other things the background replication task makes sure all information reaches your desktop. It also has the clear advantage of data being available off-line. Replication is less suitable for applications where you actually only need a small subset of the whole data (typically in workflow applications) or where data transmission is very expensive. You can tweak replication settings to accommodate that. E.g. in the location "Expensive" you only receive your email (and other) database(s) while in the location Internet all is replicated (The sending of new messages is handled by the router, so it will go out). You also can limit the amount of information replicated. (See your admin help for details)
- Mail routing: In workflow applications when requesting action or approval is is usual to just send an email with a link to the workflow document. For low bandwidth situation that could be changed to send a whole form that includes the action buttons. That form could be made part of the mail design (if it is generic enough) or could be send using "Store form in document". A decision maker would get the entire information in the inbox and can click the button (which would trigger a return mail to the mail-in enabled main application. The mail is stored there as documentation and the main document is updated.
- Forms Bin: This is the "other" end of the Mail routing concept. A central database contains all the forms for all the workflow application used by bandwidth challenged users and the look-up configuration as far as possible. This database gets copied onto the workstation (either when they are in good network condition or via CD-ROM). Users fill out forms there, but the forms don't get stored in the forms bin but get emailed to a mail-in database that is the main application. You could add a non-replicating "personal bin" to keep local copies. This way only documents that are relevant to the user are transmitted. The forms bin replicates (probably receive ony), so updates to the forms, form removals or new forms are properly reflected.
- Feed enablement: To get an overview on what is happening, what action is required pulling a summary through RSS into your favorite reader. While that is a read-only approach it might fit a lot of needs. Since Domino 702 there is a feed wizzard, that can generate feeds without touching your existing application. Of course you can take a peek into IBM's and OpenNTF's templates and have the RSS generated inside your application.
- Sametime enablement: Add a Sametime BOT to your application, so users can use simple commands to retrieve or act on data there. While it is minimalist it is also frugal on the bandwidth. IBM has toolkits for Java and C++, while our business partners Botstation and Instant Tech provide libraries for LotusScript. Works great on mobile devices too.
- MQ Enablement: This is a variation of the Forms Bin approach. Using the Expeditor Framework in the Notes8 client you can use MQ to send the data (with a little work - sample on request) it works on R6/R7 clients too. Advantage here: you application doesn't need to worry about on-line/off-line and the data transmitted is very small. Disadvantage: you need to get used to MQ (an obviously install it)
- Web enablement: Since 4.x it has been possible to render Notes form in the browser. There is a large body of knowledge out there how to do that. Of course you want to be very light for challenged bandwidth, add compression or use XPages which does a lot of optimization for you (you want to use Firefox for its better handling of JavaScript caching)
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 13 November 2008 | Comments (3) | categories: Show-N-Tell Thursday


Builds final Comtrade data set from temporary files
downloaded using download_Comtrade(..., rm.temporaryFiles = FALSE)
.
Options rm.temporaryFiles = FALSE
in download_Comtrade()
are necessary
as temporary files will be deleted as part of
data download by default. See documentation of download_Comtrade()
for more information.
build_Comtrade( directory = system.file("data", package = "comtradeRggregator"), rm.temporaryFiles = FALSE, is.mirrorData = FALSE, partner = NULL )
| directory | Location of temporary file downloads; default is
|
|---|---|
| rm.temporaryFiles | Remove temporary download files stored at
location provided in argument |
| is.mirrorData | Is data set that is to be built mirror data? default
is |
| partner | List of partner countries. Needs to be provided
if
|


| Services |
| BindableControlModel |
specifies the model of a form control which supports binding to an external
value supplier.
|
| BindableDataAwareControlModel |
is a specialization of the ::com::sun::star::form::DataAwareControlModel
which additionally supports binding to external value suppliers.
|
| BindableDatabaseCheckBox |
This service specifies a check box which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseComboBox |
This service specifies a model of a combo box (a list box combined with a text
input field) which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a database field,
and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseDateField |
This service specifies a date input field which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseFormattedField |
This service specifies a formatted input field which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseListBox |
This service specifies a list box model which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseNumericField |
This service specifies a numeric input field which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseRadioButton |
This service specifies a radio button which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseTextField |
This service specifies a text input field which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableDatabaseTimeField |
This service specifies a date input field which is data-aware and thus can be bound to a
database field, and additionally supports binding to arbitrary external values.
|
| BindableIntegerValueRange |
this service specifies a BindableControlModel which reflects
an integer value, out of a range of permitted integer values.
|
| ListEntrySource |
defines a component which provides a list of string entries
|
| ValueBinding |
defines a component which allows access to a single value
|
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THE X FILES aka THE X-FILES; THE X FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE
USA. 1998. Director - Rob Bowman, Screenplay - Chris Carter, Story - Carter & Frank Spotnitz, Producers - Carter & Daniel Sackheim, Photography - Ward Russell, Music - Mark Snow, Visual Effects Supervisor - Mat Beck, Visual Effects - Blue Sky/VIFX (Supervisor - John Nash), Light Matter Inc/Pixel Envy, Todd-AO/Hollywood Visual Images (Supervisor - Pete Kozcera), Federal Building Sequence - Hunter-Gratzner Industries, Miniature Effects Supervisor - Scott Schneider, Special Effects Supervisor - Paul Lombardi, Makeup Effects -Amalgamated Dynamics (Supervisors - Tom Gillis & Alec Woodruff Jr), Prosthetic Makeup Effects - Lance Anderson & Craig Reardon, Additional Makeup Effects - Kurtzman, Nicotero, Berger EFX Group Inc, Production Design - Christopher Nowak, Supervising Art Director - Marc Pischiella. Production Company - Ten Thirteen Productions. David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), Martin Landau (Dr Alvin Kurtzweil), John Neville (Well-Manicured Man), William B. Davis (Cigarette-Smoking Man), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Blythe Danner (Jane Cassidy), Terry O'Quinn (SAC Darius Michaud), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Conrad Strughold), Jeffrey DeMunn (Dr Ben Bronschweig), Lucas Black (Stevie Richardson), Dean Haglund (Langley), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Tom Braidwood (Melvin Frohike)
Plot: FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of the defunct X Files paranormal investigation division are brought before an investigating committee, blamed for negligence when a bomb defusal at a Federal building in Dallas goes wrong. But then Mulder encounters a conspiracy fanatic who provides him with information that leads him to discover that the bomb was really detonated to destroy several bodies infected with a prehistoric alien virus uncovered in Texas. As they investigate, the international cabal working in collaboration with alien invaders to unleash the virus, seek to stop Mulder by infecting Scully with the virus.
In the same way that we can now look back at the frenetic outpouring of alien invasion and atomic monster films of the 1950s with a fascination at just how much they reflect the insecurity of the times, future historians will no doubt similarly look back at the incredible outpouring of paranoia and conspiracy films and tv series at the moment as indicative of something deeply upsetting about the 1990s. For if this body of films and tv series is any reflection of the way society thinks then society is surely rent to the darkest places of the soul by a sense of distrust and paranoia; a loss of identity; a recurrent belief that the government is covering up the truth; the belief that there is something fundamentally rotten at the heart of many respected social institutions; and the recurring surety that some golden past has been inevitably corrupted and that society is falling towards a moral collapse. The widespread prevalence of these sentiments (at least in the American media) and the darkness of their presentation is something that borders on the positively pathological.
Blame it all on Oliver Stone and 1991's `JFK' which really started the whole conspiracy/loss of the American dream thing off. (A substantial number of these films and series start the beginning of the corruption of American society with the Kennedy assassination). But it was `The X Files' in 1993 which tied the conspiracy angle to alien abductions and the great conspiracy junkie conviction that something happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. As a series `The X Files' has conducted, with considerable wit and elegance, a number of fresh and inventive takes on traditional and not-so traditional forms of ghost and monster stories. And beneath the series is this cool, shadowy conspiratorial edginess that touches a bone of 1990s alienation that seems like it just could be real - and indeed has made the series into a cult phenomenon. What does strike one about `The X Files' and others like `Nowhere Man' (1995) and `Dark Skies' (1996) that have sought to imitate it, is the novelty of their storytelling - they are the only series where the hero/heroine lose each week. Indeed despite the proclamation "The truth is out there" over the credits of `The X Files', the format of the series is really dependent on the truth never being uncovered.
Now comes `The X Files' (or else `The X-Files' if you read the end credits) which attempts to spin the series cult popularity out into a cinematic franchise. Whether the movie remains just a one-off experiment or whether it becomes the torch-carrier for the series future, remains to be seen at this point. The film has met with a relatively disappointing box-office performance which has apparently stamped some question over future films.
There are an interesting number of comparisons that can be made between `The X Files' movie and `Star Trek: Generations' in 1994 - both are remarkably similar in the way they were made and the problems they contain. Both were construed as the initial attempts to launch a popular tv series as a cinematic franchise; both were made very close to the end of shooting schedules on the tv series; both were disappointments with their intended fan audiences; and both seem uncomfortable with the widescreen format, looking more like feature-length tv episodes than films that have been designed as big-screen features.
The film seems uneasily caught between trying to offer up the series' cultists what they expect of it and trying to reiterate the gist of the series all over anew for any audience members that may have wandered in not having seen the series - and as a result has really ended up pleasing neither crowd. Indeed a good part of its approach and a substantial portion of its predicted earnings was gambled on attracting new fans in the theatres. But a good reason for the film's lack of expected box-office take may well be that its advertizing campaign was gambled entirely on selling the film to the fan audience rather than seeking to attract new audiences. All the advance that new audiences were given was simply a poster which told nothing about the film. Details of the plot were kept under a screen of absolute secrecy until the film's release. The stills available seemed the dullest imaginable - only a variety of shots of Mulder and Scully walking down corridors and in bare fields. One suspects that such an approach ended up being counter-productive - that it created a film that nobody knew anything about except those guaranteed to be drawn by the series brand name. In all likelihood the film's lack of real success has been this critical miscalculation in its promotional campaign and its failure to draw anybody new in.
The story only really seems like a reshuffling of the basic plot developments and cliches of the last three seasons of the series. Stop me if you have heard this before:- not one but two different people involved on the inside of the big conspiracy and/or claiming connection to Mulder's father accost him in back alleys to provide cryptic information (that points him in the direction the plot needs to go); the FBI seek to close down the X Files; the FBI conduct Internal Affairs investigations where blame is placed on Mulder and Scully as part of a coverup; Mulder and/or Scully are on the verge of giving up altogether in the face of the overwhelming attempt to silence them until a fresh piece of alien evidence and conspiratorial activity sets them on the trail anew; Scully is infected with a disease to which there is no known medical cure; Scully is abducted; Mulder must trek all the way to an alien base hidden under the polar ice caps; alien DNA is uncovered in the remains of cavemen; innocent boys are infected by the Black Oil and the incident quickly covered up; the cabal meets in shadowed rooms and in cryptic terms plot massive coverups and how to silence Mulder; mysterious viral experiments are being conducted on the unwitting populace and so on.
The problem with `The X Files' as a tv series is that it started superbly with inventive one-off stories and its spooky, shadowy glimpses into the dark places operating behind the government. But while with the most recent two seasons the series has been riding at an absolute artistic peak and conducting some of the best one-off stories so far (`Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man', `Home', `Postmodern Prometheus', `Bad Blood' to name but a handful), the series has tended to fall down when it comes to its continuing elaboration of its own mythology and backstory. Unlike `Babylon 5' which has a similarly complicated and elaborate series of unfolding revelations, you get the feeling `The X Files' is building a rather rickety structure as it is going along rather than adhering to a coherent preplanned grand schema. The backstory has now become so complicated it is near impossible to keep track of all the subplots involving black oil, alien wars, clones, shape-changing assassains, alien abductions and implants, who is who's father and sibling, and all the conspiracies within the conspiracies. In last season's two-parter `Patient X/The Red and the Black' it became impossible to work out whose side which group of aliens were on and who the traitor Krycek was really working for.
The same problem spills over here. The film is stuck with a sprawlingly complicated plot which tries to encompass everything but more than anything ends up showing the increasing cracks in the scenario's believability. It seems filled with an absurd number of holes, implausibilities and unanswered questions - Why does Terry O'Quinn agent-in-charge allow himself to be blown up along with the bomb inside the Federal building (one is unable to work out why, even assuming he was involved in the conspiracy, it was necessary for him to sacrifice his life) ? The cabal's plan to take Scully away from Mulder is built on such a series of complicated coincidences as to seem preposterous - that Mulder and Scully will find the sealed area hidden under a children's playground, that they will manage to choose the correct direction in the middle of nowhere to follow a series of departed trucks, that they will then discover the domes in the cornfield, will enter and then Scully (as opposed to Mulder who is equally unprotected) will be stung by the virus-carrying bees, whereupon the cabal will be waiting outside Mulder's apartment (as opposed to her own) posing as fake ambulance men, having tapped his 911 call in order to abduct her when she collapses. And the revelation that what the conspiring cabal has been so ruthlessly fighting for all these years is really to sit back so an alien virus can enslave the entire human race seems laughable.
The film is disappointingly lacking in many of the things that made the series memorable. There is none of the ingenious plotting development or explanations of just how the paranormal might exist, and the sense of laconic humour between the two characters that drives the series is conspicuously lacking for the most part. And the things it seems to think the series depended on - the dark, paranoid claustrophobic visual look and the tight, constricted plotting - really don't work up on the screen. The dark, shadowy look that works so well on the small screen seems cramped translated to the big screen. And the tight plotting designed for a 50 minute tv hour keeps the film turning so tightly that one is too busy following what is meant to be going on to become involved. What it really needs to work as a film is to be opened up for the big screen - surely the one thing it was hoping to offer that the series couldn't - but it never does. Director Rob Bowman, a veteran from the series, offers up a few shots of wide open desert, snowy wastes and big domes but there seems sadly almost no difference between the look of a two million dollar tv episode and a 60 million dollar film. There's an impressive special effect of a UFO rising at the climax but visual effects supervisor Mat Beck, also a veteran of the series, seems to have conducted it as though he were working it for a limited tv budget and its appearance seems more cursory than awe-filled.
The failing of the film is many of the failings of the tv series writ large. Like the big issue that circulated the fandom before the film's release - would the underlying sexual tension between the two characters be fulfilled ? - The Big Kiss here is all tantalizing tease which at the last moment deftly ducks away from delivery of anything. What we likewise have is a film that gives the appearance of answering all the big questions that lie behind the series - that in its advertizing campaign "Fight the Future" and the lead up of plot strands from the previous season promises the grand concept of an alien war - but equally dances away from actually delivering anything. It teases but instead in the end all it resorts back to is the series' status quo - the conspiracy's current plan is thwarted but all evidence that might be used to prove anything is eliminated; Mulder and Scully are reinstated but no further ahead in proving anything than they were at the very start of the series; and the real truth still remains out there ever elusive.
(Amusing piece of trivia:- one wonders if any `Star Wars' fans picked up the in-joke aimed at them in the last scene. Featured is the title credit `Foum Tatouine, Tunisia'. Tunisia, of course, was the location where George Lucas shot all the Tattooine scenes for `Star Wars').
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Purpose: The transcriber is suitable for rendering Sindarin in the mode for general use, or the Mode of Beleriand, and Quenya in the Classical mode. The Mode Selector provides information, options, and instructions for comparing Tengwar modes, fonts, and the supported languages.
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WITNESS LIST State Affairs Committee April 22, 2003-2:00P HB 341 For: Lovelace, Joe (NAMI Texas, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) On: Bays, Richard (Texas Department of Health) Registering, but not testifying: For: Black, Mary (Self) Dougherty, Megan (Self) Forde, Katherine (Self) Henderson, Candace (Self) Hobbs, Ellen (Self) Marrero, Elizabeth (Self and National Association of Social Workers) McLaughlin, Kae (Texas Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) Morales, Becky (Self) Osborn, Kyre (Self) Spurgeon, Jennifer (Self) Strauss, Shelly (Self) Tierney, Danielle (Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region) Woollren, Lora (Self) Against: Wilson, Evelyn Jo (Self) HB 419 For: Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Against: Wall, Matt (Texas Hospital Association) Registering, but not testifying: For: Smith, Tom "Smitty" (Public Citizen) Whalen, Ken (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Press Association) Against: Thomason, David (Texas Association of Homes and Services for the Aging) HB 1136 For: Atkinson, Steve (Self and Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby of Texas) Bethune, Larry (Self and University Baptist Church) Buls, Paula (Self) Cameron, Lisa (Self) D. L. G. Und Senkel, Patrick J. (Self) Ellis, Randall (Self and Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas) Graney, Daniel (Self and Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio) Harting, Tracy (Self) Hartwell, Cody (Self) Heyer, Rebecca (Self) Kelly, Tara (Self) Kennedy, Kathy (Self and Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio) Kriese, Tracy (Self) Parsons, Reverend Robert (Self and Parents, Family, Friends of Lesbian & Gays - Austin (PFLAG - Austin)) Riddering, Hannah (Self and Texas National Organization for Women) Rigby, Reverend Jim (Self) Rundin, John (Self and American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU)) Van de Putte, Christie Lee L. (Self) Zack, Frank (Self) Registering, but not testifying: Approx. 150 persons (witness forms on file in committee office) 1 person (witness form on file in committee office) HB 1591 For: Nelson, Steve (Associated General Contractors - Texas Bldg. 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Shopping app SaleStock by Soraya is making its mark. It’s currently ranked number 10 shopping app in Indonesia’s Play Store — nose-to-nose with ecommerce incumbents like OLX, Lazada, Tokopedia, and Bukalapak. And I had the privilege to do a UX exercise of their app a few months ago.
The Business Objective of this UX exercise is to improve Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). CLV can be calculated as:
CLV = (annual profit from the customer x customer lifetime period) \ acquisition cost per customer
So this is what we need to do:
- Increase Profit
- Increase Customer Lifetime Period
- Decrease Acquisition Cost
1. Increasing Profit
Increasing profit means increasing the conversion rate. One way to do this is to make sure there are as little friction as possible during the browsing process.
As mentioned by Asha, with thousand of clothes offered by Sale Stock, it is hard to find clothes that she actually want to buy. Granted, users can actually filter sizes using the search bar, as mentioned by the costumer rep. that answered Asha’s complaint
But this method is clearly not obvious enough for Asha and not for me either. If someone like me who’s been scrutinizing the app for one whole day can’t find it by myself, how can we expect first time user to be able to filter sizes using the search bar?
It’s the same case with color. Users can only filter color using search bar. Oddly this isn’t mentioned by the customer rep to Asha. Color is one of the main consideration for women to buy clothes. There can even be occasions where women want to buy clothes because they have nothing in red.
So the design decision to remove the color and size filter and instead use the search bar is hurting the customer.
Besides, the search itself lack one crucial functionality: Search Refinement.
Say if Asha wants to buy a blue skirt, she can’t search for “biru” then refine the search result to include only “Bawahan” in the result . Nor can Asha go to the “Bawahan” category page and search “biru” in that page. The search result still shows other categories . Even if she search for “Rok Biru”, the result still includes dresses instead of skirts only
Recommendation: Better Browsing & Searching Experience
Fit and Color are important considerations to costumers, and they need to be able to find what clothes that they want to buy in Sale Stock app.
My recommendation is to add Size, Color and Material filter for these categories: (Why add Material too? I’ll explain in the later section):
- Baju Muslim
- Dress
- Bawahan
- Atasan
- Jumpsuit
- Couple .
Also add category-specific filters for these categories:
- Tas
- Jam Tangan
- Aksesoris
- Sepatu
The filter should also work for refining search results
Metric of Success: Better Browsing & Searching Experience
The Business Objective of this recommendation is to increase profit.
The Goal is to help the user find what they want to buy.
So, the Metric to measure this recommendation would be:
- How many items from filter result added to cart
- How many items from search result added to cart
2. Increasing Customer Retention & Decrease Customer Acquisition Cost
Both of these business objective are the side of the same coins. . Increasing Customer Retention rate means making sure existing customers don’t leave . And one way to decrease the cost of customer acquisition, is to make sure the customers acquired don’t leave . In short: how can we make customers not leave?
Recommendation 1: Advanced Costumer Service In-App Chat
In the Google Play feedback section I noticed that the costumer reps would recommend users to report order-related complaints via Facebook Massage and ask her to remember her Order ID. Why didn’t the customer reps recommend using the in-app chat?
The Chat that SaleStock uses is Zipom, and in Zipom there’s an API to get the email and phone number of the user currently chatting.
SaleStock should be able to develop a tool for Customer Service that can fetch all or latest orders from the customer chatting (from the database using their email and phone number)
The customer have already put enough faith on SaleStock to buy something. Any error after their payment is the responsibility of SaleStock. The worst SaleStock can do is to ask her to remember (or copy-paste) their Order ID and put it in Facebook Messenger chat. That’s just rubbing salt on their wound.
Instead SaleStock can make a more delightful chat experience, where the CS can predict which order the customer is referring to. Like magic
Metric of Success 1: Advanced Costumer Service In-App Chat
The Business Objective of this recommendation is to Retain Customer.
The Goal is to make the user feel errors and complaints are easy and fast to resolve.
The Goal is to make the user feel that Soraya cares about them.
The Goal is to make the user feel that Soraya is honest.
So, the Metric would be results from survey at the end of chat and overall Net Promoter Score survey
Recommendation 2: Fitting Tools & Personalisation
As mentioned before, fit/size is very important when buying clothing
To make sure customer have the greatest satisfaction and does not leave after their first purchase (and come back again), SaleStock should make it easy for customer to find the clothes that fits.
The current “Cek Ukuran Baju Yuk Sis!” section can help the customer to get their measurement. But the customer still needs to write down their measurement in a piece of paper, then cross reference their measurement with SaleStock’s measurement table. Not to mention, they have to remember their size. So, I recommend SaleStock to have a fitting tool that not only help customer to measure their body, but also save them.
By saving the customer’s measurement, SaleStock can personalised the homepage to only show the customer’s measurement as default. For repeat customers, this will streamline their buying experience and erase any doubt that the item they added to cart will fit their measurement
Metric 2: Fitting Tools & Personalisation
The Business Objective of this recommendation is to retain customer.
The Goal is to make it easy for customer to find the clothes that fits.
So, the Metric would be the number of fit-related returns for users that has saved their measurement in the app.
UX Beyond the App
Aside from designing a better User Experience (UX) inside the SaleStock app and website, SaleStock can also design a better experience outside the app and website by making returns painless
Case Study: Amazon
If you have ever had to return a product you have purchased online you know it is not always easy. You have to print a return label, go to the post office and wait days for the funds to appear in your account. On top of which there is always the nagging concern that they won’t refund your money.
In contrast I recently had a different experience returning a purchase. On letting the company know I wanted to return an item they told me** the money would be immediately returned to my account.** No waiting for them to receive the return and check it over.
Next they asked me when I would like the package collected. I didn’t have to pack it, label it or even take it to the post office. Somebody turned up at my door with a box ready to go. I dropped the item in the box and he took it away.
— Paul Boag
Other Concerns
That concludes my UX recommendations for SaleStock. But there’s something that’s been making customers leave, and no amount of UX design work will help them stay. It’s the quality of the items:
Actually, there’s one way UX design can help, remember the material filter earlier on?. Fortunately in the case of Merry, her fans recommend her to try buying other items that’s made of Crepe, Twistcone and Chosibo.
A disappointed customer giving SaleStock a second chance is quite rare, so Merry must be treated with absolute care. But with the current app, Merry can’t filter the items for Crepe/Twistcone/Chosibo only. Sure, she can use the search bar (with it’s shortcomings), but is it the right way to treat someone that’s giving a second chance? of course not.
That’s why I recommend to add a material filter earlier
I don’t work for or am affiliated with SaleStock. I’a a UX Designer trying to learn my trades☺


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I'm in Boston, no idea if there are any other lean users in the area!
I live in Somerville. MA. USA and work in Cambridge. MA. USA. Obviously I’m not leaving my home anytime soon, but when the CoronaVirus thing lets up I’d by happy to meet up with Boston area Lean users.
I'm in Somerville as well! I used to try to do a daily lean exercise (I'm very new) but I'm currently in deadline mode. I'm thinking of trying to go through https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/topology after, mid May.
Mexico City, Mexico / UNAM
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It is possible (though rare) for closing a file to fail.
The close() method of
PrintWriter does not throw an exception.
FRAGE 11:
Since errors on closing a file are rare, would it be OK
to have closeFiles() throw its IOExceptions?


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Iteratively grows feature weighted random forests and finds high-order feature interactions in a stable fashion.
| Version: | 2.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.1.2) |
| Imports: | AUC, Matrix, data.table, dplyr, Rcpp, methods, foreach, doParallel, RColorBrewer |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | MASS, rgl |
| Published: | 2017-07-26 |
| Author: | Sumanta Basu and Karl Kumbier (based on source codes from the R packages FSInteract by Hyun Jik Kim and Rajen D. Shah, randomForest by Andy Liaw and Matthew Wiener, and the original Fortran codes by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler) |
| Maintainer: | Karl Kumbier <kkumbier at berkeley.edu> |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| URL: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08457 |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | C++11 |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | iRF results |
| Reference manual: | iRF.pdf |
| Package source: | iRF_2.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: iRF_2.0.0.zip, r-release: iRF_2.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: iRF_2.0.0.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: iRF_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel: iRF_2.0.0.tgz |
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title: "Phlorida, a Rails3 portfolio website application"
category:
status: published
tags: [rails, twitter bootstrap, TDD, devise, cancan, ancestry, imagegallery, paperclip, bootswatch]
---
What
Phlorida is a normal rails3 application that comes packaged with some gems that
may speed up your website development.
Why
Most of the time we (we intended as we, web developers) have to deal with the same
kind of web application: a website where the customer has an admin area behind a
secure authentication system, in which he can adds some pages, edit title and
content, or add some items (products, projects, fruits,
vegetables...whatever) in some categories. Maybe he wants to choose which page
should be the homepage, or which items should have a photogallery, and which
photos put in the photogallery. Well, Phlorida comes with a solution for this
kind of website.
How
I've started Phlorida because i wanted an admin namespace in this
web
application
written by Daniel
Kehoe.Then I've added somes other features that i think i will reuse
in my future projects. Here a short overview:
- Authentication System through Devise
- Role Management with CanCan
- Categories organized in a tree structure using Ancestry as
suggested in Episode
262 of Ryan Bates Railscasts
- Twitter bootstrap with Bootstrap
sass gems
- Bootswatch themes with this gem
- A Pages controller, with an homepage method, and the possibility to
edit the page content with a wysiwyg html5 editor
- A galleryable polymorphic association, in order to simply upload
photos in a photogallery with
paperclip , and show this photogallery in the front-end
using Twitter
bootstrap Carousel
Installation:
Clone the Phlorida repo in a local folder. Move into it and create a .rvmrc file and a
gemset.
{% highlight bash %}
rvm --rvmrc --create 1.9.3@yourapp
rvm gemset create yourapp
{% endhighlight bash %}
Run "bundle install" and check that everithing goes ok. Now, Phlorida comes with
some data, like a user administrator and some pages, in order to run the
application as soon as possible. You can remove or edit this data later. Let's
create the database and add this data.
{% highlight ruby %}
rake db:schema:load
rake db:seed
{% endhighlight ruby %}
Run the server and open the browser.Done!
Customization
Phlorida is, after all, a rails app with some gems and 4 resources. These are
some small changements thought to run the app as soon as installed, that can
easily be removed or edited:
- I've mantained the registrable behaviour in Devise in order to allow the
user to edit his profile but i've removed the possibility to sign up.
I've adopted this solution
- I've choosed the twitter bootswatch "Readable" theme. You can pick
up another theme changing the word "readable" in the
assets/stylesheets/application.css.scss file, with one of the availables
themes
- I've put a "Login" link on the front end, but there is also a /login
route available in case you would remove the link.
- In the application controller I've added a method to dynamically
fetch the items needed for the menu. If you are not thinking to add
pages or categories in the future, it's a good solution to write your
pages and categories links statically in the _navigation partial, you
will spare two queries.
- If you want to add some css classes, use the base.css file, that I
leave empty.
Something didn't work as described
Don't write a comment on this blog post but open an issue on github. Thanks.


The <input>
attribute Tin HTML add features or behavior to an
<input> element. Attribute examples include size, value, maxlength,
required, and many more. It is one of the
most powerful and complex in all of HTML due to the sheer number of combinations of input types and
attributes.


Trends, properties, criticisms, and immediate uses of large-scale models.
Tutorial on a workflow involving AMT and GDrive that caters to the collection of human responses for 1000s of images/documents/videos or other media. Code
Through the sociopolitical lens of Sivaji: The Boss (2007). Slides
Quiz hosted by Vinay Aggarwal and me during Adobe Internship 2021.
Comparing CLIP training and properties with previous class of supervised models.
Does collaboration aid in creativity? An initial view of the academic landscape.
I worked on generating coordinated image-text pairs at Adobe Research (Bengaluru) in the summer of 2019. Our work has been accepted at IUI 2020 as a full paper. Preprint coming soon!I love how lucidly people express their thoughts via technical writing and visualizations. Some of my favourite works are listed here. Please check the Posts section for my writeups. I intend to write more often in future.
Are Mobile Phones changing Social Networks?
Paper Review of a longitudinal study of core networks in Kerala by Palackal et al. (2011)


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