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More and more journals are requesting that you make your proteomics data available when publishing a proteomics manuscript. The most commonly used database for proteomics identifications is the Proteomics Identifications Database (PRIDE).
PeptideShaker's built in PRIDE export function makes it straightforward to convert all the protein identifications in your experiment to the format supported by PRIDE. All you need to do is to add some additional information about your project, i.e., the sample, protocol and instrument used, plus some contact information. The converter takes care of the rest.
The result of the conversion process is a PRIDE XML file. This file can be directly submitted to PRIDE, but we always recommend that you verify the file first using PRIDE Inspector. PRIDE Inspector allows you to see how your data will be presented in PRIDE, and this is your chance to verify that it contains the information you wanted.
For help on how to submit data to PRIDE, please see Submitting your data to PRIDE.
Keep in mind that the current PeptideShaker settings are used when
converting the project.
Make sure that all settings (like the annotation
level and the fragment ion accuracy) is set to the desired values before
starting the conversion!
All files created by the built in PRIDE exporter should be compatible with
PRIDE Inspector (and thus PRIDE), but if you do come across any issues,
please do not hesitate to let us know.
See http://compomics.github.io/projects/peptide-shaker.html
for how to contact us.


What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and deal with your own emotions as well as the emotions of others around you. There are generally thought to be 3 key skills associated with emotional intelligence:
- The ability to recognize your own emotions
- The ability to use those emotions in tasks like thinking or problem solving
- The ability to manage your emotions when necessary for example when you need to cheer someone else up
How is it different to IQ?
IQ or Intelligence Quotient is a measure of your reasoning ability and covers how well you can use information and logic to answer questions or make predictions. It covers areas like memorisation, spatial ability and mathematical comprehension etc. EQ on the other hand is as mentioned above, the ability to recognise and manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others.
Why is it important?
 They are a melting pot of different personalities, skills, strengths, and emotions. All of this is trying to fulfil the purpose of the business.
So EQ is involved in each and every decision and action within the workplace. It’s there when pair programming just as much as coordinating sweeping organisational changes. Therefore people with a high EQ will typically be better placed to better navigate the workplace and all of the intricacies of relationships that make it up.
In contrast, a low EQ can be extremely detrimental in the workplace, leading to aggression, bullying, arrogance and other demotivating workplace behaviours.


As part of a message sent to the Chapel Hill community on Friday,
August 31, under-fire school Chancellor Carol L. Folt issued a
statement attempting to explain the increasingly toxic situation of
the Silent Sam memorial. For those who are unfamiliar with the
conflict that is currently consuming the picturesque college town of
Chapel Hill, Silent Sam was a bronze statue erected on the campus at
Chapel Hill depicting a Confederate soldier. During recent years, the
racial and social tensions surrounding the statue have exploded as the
true symbolism of the statue has been hotly contested by proponents
from each side of the debate. These tensions reached their climax on
Monday, August 21, when protesters at a rally toppled the statue and
completely severed the connection between the statue and the pedestal
upon which it stood. However, although the physical aspect of the
statue may have been forcibly removed
from the grounds of the university, the specter of the statue still
looms around Chapel Hill as the debate over what to do now with the
statue rapidly escalates.
Fast forward to the present, and
the university finds itself in the middle of a monumental crossroads
that will go a long way in dictating the public perception of the
university as an institution. On one hand, supporters who favor the
removal of the statue assert that the presence of Silent Sam only
serves as a continuous reminder for the racism that has plagued our
region throughout history and threatens to still unravel our community
in the present. Rather than try to protect and improve the quality of
life for the students at the university, opposition to the statue
highlights the tremendous amount of money and resources used to
protect a useless chunk of rock as opposed to a living student.
However, on the flip side. supporters of the statue draw attention to
the profound history of the statue and point out how the monument of
Silent Sam is literally intertwined the history and fabric of the
university. Rather than symbolize hatred and racism, some supporters
of the statue highlight the heritage the statue provides and how this
link to the past can allow us to correct the mistakes made for the
future.
Near the bottom of the statement that Chancellor
Folt sent out on Friday, the chancellor unveiled some crucial pieces
of information regarding the future of the statue that could have
major ramifications for the Orange County area. When discussing the
topic of whether or not the statue will be re-erected, Chancellor Folt
wrote that “Silent Sam has a place in our history and on our campus
where its history can be taught, but not at the front door of a public
research university”. This statement seems to suggest that the
intended plan for the statue is to move it from its former location at
McCorkle Place near Franklin Street to a different location on campus
that is less visible and more remote. Before this conversation
continues any farther, it should be acknowledged that Chancellor Folt
is truly in a no-win scenario that forces her to make difficult
decisions that will inevitably anger certain groups. Considering how
heavily charged the atmosphere is both in Chapel Hill and in the
nation in general, whatever decision that the Chancellor settles on
will be met with equal amounts of criticism and praise.
However, the rumored decision of reinstalling the statue
on a different part of campus makes little sense and would be blind
towards the reasons why people feel so emotionally invested in the
statue in the first place. Whether the statue is located on the front
door of campus or in the middle of a dumpster behind the dining hall,
people will still flock to the statue because it embodies certain
beliefs and values that some people are willing to sacrifice
everything for if it means that these values will either be conserved
or eradicated. Protesters and violence will still follow the statue,
regardless of whether or not it is moved. Rather than make a decisive
decision that would at least bring an end to the situation, it appears
that the administration at the university is simply starting the same
cycle to repeat all over again.


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| MacBook Pro | 2006-01-10 | Apple Inc. | ||
| Connection Machine | 1987-01-01 | Thinking Machines | ||
| PowerBook | 1991-01-01 | 2006-01-01 | Apple Inc. | |
| Commodore 64 | 1982-08-01 | 1994-01-01 | Commodore International | |
| Altair 8800 | 1974-12-19 | Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems | ||
| Canon Cat | 1987-01-01 | Canon | ||
| Nokia 770 | Nokia | |||
| NeXTcube | 1988-01-01 | 1993-01-01 | NeXT | |
| IBM 650 | 1953-01-01 | 1962-01-01 | IBM | |
| PlayStation 2 | 2000-03-24 | Sony | ||
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| Nintendo 3DS | 2010-03-23 | Nintendo |


American Psycho * * (out of * * * * )
Directed by Mary Harron. Cast: Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe, Cara Seymour, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Jared Leto, Matt Ross, Guinevere Turner, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Josh Lucas. 2000 - 100 minutes Rated R (for violence, gore, nudity, sex, drug use, and profanity). Reviewed by Dustin Putman, April 15, 2000.
Are you, more or less, setting yourself up for disappointment if you go to see a film adaptation of one of the most powerfully written novels you can recall reading? At the time of its publication (after one publishing company dropped it at the last minute), Bret Easton Ellis' horrific 1991 satire was widely reviled by some critics for being an offensive exercise in misogyny towards women, a "how-to" book on slaughtering someone and getting away with it. They not only missed the boat, but the entire ocean with this conclusion. Having read Ellis' novel the week prior to seeing the controversial film version, what struck me was not only its gracefully flowing and mysteriously alluring writing style, told in first-person by the central character, but also its portrait of a man come unhinged, who "isn't really there," and has no answer for why he commits such heinous crimes except to say that it is close to a masturbatory experience for him. And, of course, the book offered a right-on-target satirical view of the '80s--full of conceited egos, wealth and power, and materialistic excess. In other words, Ellis may have been lightly poking fun, but there was a startling amount of truth in everything he wrote, right down to the minuscule details.
After several years of the film adaptation rights thrashing around from one studio and director to the next, "American Psycho" has finally surfaced on the big screen with, shock of all shocks, a female director, Mary Harron (1996's "I Shot Andy Warhol"), and a female collaborative screenwriting partner, Guinevere Turner. What we have here, however, is a motion picture that misses the mark in a way that the book critics did nearly a decade ago. While still attempting to be a satire, Harron has whittled down the book's casual product placement; violence; unforgettably self-absorbed, yet nuanced, characters; and its overall depth, to bring audiences a basic Cliffs Notes version of a masterful novel. In doing so, Harron has also altered a story supposed to be about a shallow era into a film that is, ultimately, just shallow.
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a 27-year-old yuppie on Wall Street--overly wealthy; generically handsome (he looks much like the rest of his buff, chiseled colleagues); health conscious; womanizing; and only interested in "hardbodies" and getting reservations at the swankiest restaurants. What Patrick's coworkers and acquaintances don't know, though, is that he works out in his sterile, desolate apartment to the likes of pornos and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and casually murders anyone he feels like it--old friends, bums, prostitutes, working partners, you name it--while spouting off a vocal review on the merits of some of his most beloved singers and bands, including Genesis, Whitney Houston, and Huey Lewis and the News.
Like the novel, "American Psycho" has no actual story, with a plot that moves from Point A to Point B and so on, but is a loose gathering of thoughts and moments set in the life--a rather pathetic one, at that--of Pat Bateman. A modicum of a story does arise after Paul Allen (Jared Leto), Patrick's coworker, is axed to death, and Detective Kimball (Willem Dafoe) shows up at Pat's job to question him about the unknown whereabouts of Paul.
One of the most compelling aspects of the novel was eventually realizing that Bateman is not a vile excuse for a human being, but simply an unstable man who, somewhere down the line of his life, has lost the ability to feel emotion, either for himself or those around him. It was a surprisingly poignant notion by Ellis, subtle, yet effective. The film attempts the same thing, but verges off-course in its conclusion to be something that almost begs you, in an overwrought fashion, to feel sympathy for this man.
Christian Bale has gotten a lot of publicity and early acclaim for his work as Patrick Bateman, and while he is playing a calculating character set on being physically perfect and financially sturdy, his performance remains cold and at a distance, speaking in a monotone voice that wears out its welcome right away. Bale is a fine actor, and he nails the adrenaline rush and childish excitement he gets on inflicting torture to others, but that is just about the only compliment he can be given.
All other characters are minor, as they are all merely players in Patrick's own little world. They are often so inconsequential onscreen, however, that they make no impact. Reese Witherspoon, as Patrick's equally self-absorbed fiancee, Evelyn, is especially wasted in comparison to the stature of the character in the book, with her role whittled down to a mere three brief scenes. Witherspoon is given no chance to create any sense of a character at all, and so she is forced to basically phone in her performance. The same goes for all of Patrick's friends (played by Bill Sage, Justin Theroux, Matt Ross, and Josh Lucas); his drug-addled lover, Courtney (Samantha Mathis); and Detective Kimball (Willem Dafoe).
The only two who come away unscathed, and with their full respect intact, are Chloe Sevigny, as Jean, Patrick's adoring secretary, and Cara Seymour, as Christie, a sad-eyed, ill-fated prostitute who makes the wrong decision when coming back to Patrick's apartment for a second rendezvous. Sevigny especially nails her character, the only likable one in the film, and adds a much-needed complexity to her scenes that is absent from the rest of the picture.
The soundtrack, filled to the brim with nostalgic '80s song, such as Phil Collins' "Sussudio" and Huey Lewis and the News' "Hip to Be Square," aids in capturing an era that, aside from the costumes and hairstyles, fails to be brought to life. Other credit must go to Andrzej Sekula's appropriately sparse cinematography, with an emphasis on space and the color white to stand for the emptiness in Patrick's heart. And the central murder setpiece, arriving approximately an hour into the film, is spectacularly suspenseful, a bravura piece of filmmaking reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's work in 1980's "The Shining." But what difference do these minor things make when the film at hand is an otherwise depressing, vacuous experience?
Thank goodness I read the book before seeing "American Psycho" because, while constantly being disappointed with the hack job director Harron and co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner have done with the source material, at least I could fill in the important blanks that the movie so mercifully leaves out. The novel notwithstanding, "American Psycho," the film, has nothing insightful to say about anything, not even the aforementioned subjects it attempts to satirize, while the dialogue comes off feeling stilted and annoying "written." By the time the twist ending kicks into gear in the final twenty minutes, most audience members will be left confused and feeling empty themselves, as what happens is nearly incomprehensible, with no attempt to bring reason or any answers to the proceedings. Although I don't want to do it, since film adaptations shouldn't fairly be compared to their written counterparts, it must be brought up once more. Having read the novel, it is impossible to watch "American Psycho" and not have your expectations tarnished, as the whole affair is an enormously large missed opportunity. Harron has taken nearly all that was great about Bret Easton Ellis' fine novel, stripped it of its dignity and profundity, and left it for the film-viewing world to behold as a sadly trivial, puerile, and, ultimately pointless, misfire.
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Instructor: José Manuel Calderón Trilla<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Data science encapsulates the interdisciplinary activities required to create data-centric products and applications that address specific scientific, socio-political or business questions. It has drawn tremendous attention from both academia and industry and is making deep inroads in industry, government, health and journalism—just ask Nate Silver!
This course focuses on (i) data management systems, (i) exploratory and statistical data analysis, (ii) data and information visualization, and (iv) the presentation and communication of analysis results. It will be centered around case studies drawing extensively from applications, and will yield a publicly-available final project that will strengthen course participants' data science portfolios.
This course will consist primarily of sets of self-contained lectures and assignments that leverage real-world data science platforms when needed; as such, there is no assigned textbook. Each lecture will come with links to required reading, which should be done before that lecture, and (when appropriate) a list of links to other resources on the web.
There will be a weekly quiz on ELMS relating to the material from that week. Of these weekly quizzes (about 14), you must take 10. Each quiz is pass/fail where anything about 60% is considered a pass. Because only 10 are required, there is no need to worry if you miss a quiz! Just make sure that you take at least 10 of them over the whole semester. If you take more than 10 of the quizzes, we will only count the 10 best scores.
Students enrolled in the course should be comfortable with programming (for those at UMD, having passed CMSC216 will be good enough!) and be reasonably mathematically mature. The course itself will make heavy use of the Python scripting language by way of Jupyter Notebooks, leaning on the Anaconda package manager; we'll give some Python-for-data-science primer lectures early on, so don't worry if you haven't used Python before. Later lectures will delve into statistics and machine learning and may make use of basic calculus and basic linear algebra; light mathematical maturity is preferred at roughly the level of a junior CS student.
There will be one written, take-home (obviously, given COVID-19 and all) midterm examination. There will not be a final examination; rather, in the interest of building students' public portfolios, and in the spirit of "learning by doing", students will create a self-contained online tutorial to be posted publicly. This tutorial can be created individually or in a small group. As described here (subject to change!), the tutorial will be a publicly-accessible website that provides an end-to-end walkthrough of identifying and scraping a specific data source, performing some exploratory analysis, and providing some sort of managerial or operational insight from that data.
Final grades will be calculated as:
This course is aimed at junior- and senior-level Computer Science majors, but should be accessible to any student of life with some degree of mathematical and statistical maturity, reasonable experience with programming, and an interest in the topic area. If in doubt, e-mail me<EMAIL_ADDRESS>We are going to use Discord as a replacement for the physical space that we don't have access to during COVID. This means that it's appropriate to use Discord for office hours and or short high-bandwidth discussions that would usually take place before/after class. Note that Discord is not appropriate for things like asking for accommodation or other such issues/concerns, please email José<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with [CMSC320]
in the email subject line.for those things.
Discord, while useful, can be very 'stream of conscious' and does not allows for threading when several students have the same concern. Therefore for course-related questions, please use Piazza.
As mentioned above: for private correspondence or special situations (e.g., excused absences, DDS accomodations, etc), please email José<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with [CMSC320]
in the email subject line.
| Human | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Anubhav | 2PM-4PM Monday, 10AM-12PM Wednesday; Piazza on 12PM-2PM Friday | Online |
| José Manuel Calderón Trilla | By appointment; please email José<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with [CMSC320] in the email subject line. |
Zoom |
| Kishan Kolur | 10AM-12PM Tuesday; Piazza on 11AM-1PM Thursday | Online |
| Jerry Peng | 11AM-1PM Wednesday, 1PM-3PM Friday; Piazza on Monday 1PM-3PM | Online |
| Noor Singh | 3PM-5PM on Wednesday and Thursday; Piazza on Sunday 12PM-2PM | Online |
| Yow-Ting Shiue | 10AM-12PM on Monday and Friday; Piazza on Wednesday 7PM-9PM | Online |
| Qingyang Tan | 2PM-4PM on Wednesday; Piazza on Wednesday 10AM-12PM | Online |
| Julian Vanecek | 4PM-6PM Friday and Sun; Piazza on Tuesday 7PM-9PM | Online |
| Amulya Velamakanni | 3PM-5PM on Thursday; Piazza on 4PM-6PM Saturday | Online |
| Laura Zheng | 1PM-3PM on Wednesday; Piazza on Monday evenings | Online |
Policies relevant to Undergraduate Courses are found here: http://ugst.umd.edu/courserelatedpolicies.html. Topics that are addressed in these various policies include academic integrity, student and instructor conduct, accessibility and accommodations, attendance and excused absences, grades and appeals, copyright and intellectual property.
Course evaluations are important and the department and faculty take student feedback seriously. Near the end of the semester, students can go to http://www.courseevalum.umd.edu to complete their evaluations.
| # | Date | Topic | Reading | Slides | Lecturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/25 | Introduction | What the Fox Knows. | pdf, pptx |
Calderón Trilla | Sign up on Piazza! |
| 2 | 01/27 | What is Data & Lightning Python Overview | Anaconda's Test Drive. | pdf, pptx |
Calderón Trilla | |
| 3 | 02/1 | Scraping Data (with Python) I | "What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address bar?" | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 4 | 02/3 | Scraping Data (with Python) II | Think about data link | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 4 | 02/8 | Scraping Data (with Python) III | Think about data (extended edition!) link | pdf, notebook |
Calderón Trilla | Example APIs: WMATA API, NOAA API, Library Docs: Requests, JSON, Beautiful Soup |
| 5 | 02/10 | NumPy & SciPy, & Best Practices | Introduction to pandas. | pdf, simple web-scrapping notebook, numpy notebook |
Calderón Trilla | Pandas tutorials: link |
| 6 | 02/15 | Data Wrangling I: Pandas & Tidy Data | Hadley Wickham. "Tidy Data." | pdf, Notebook from class |
Calderón Trilla | Hould's Tidy Data for Python |
| 7 | 02/17 | Data Wrangling II: Tidy data & SQL | Derman & Wilmott's "Financial Modelers' Manifesto." | pdf, web2pandas Notebook |
Calderón Trilla | SQLite: link; pandasql library: link |
| 8 | 02/22 | Graphs | Introduction to GraphQL: link | pdf, sqlite in python example |
Calderón Trilla | NetworkX: link |
| 9 | 02/24 | Graphs, & Summary Statistics and Transformations | Backstrom & Kleinberg. "Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook," CSCW-14. arXiv link. | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 10 | 03/01 | Summary Statistics and Transformations | pdf, .ipynb | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 11 | 03/03 | Missing Data I | Pandas tutorial on working with missing data. | Calderón Trilla | Scikit-learn's imputation functionality: link | |
| 12 | 03/08 | Missing Data II, & Data Wrangling Wrap-Up: Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Entity Resolution | Data Cleaning: Problems and Current Approaches (Note: this is a reference piece; please don't read the whole thing!) | Calderón Trilla | Wikipdia article on outliers | |
| 13 | 03/10 | Missing Data III: Syntax & Semantics | NLTK Book. | pdf, .ipynb |
Calderón Trilla | Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): link; Criticisms of the Turing Test: link |
| 14 | 03/15 | Spring Break 1 | — | — | Nobody | Enjoy! |
| 15 | 03/17 | Spring Break 2 | — | — | Nobody | Enjoy! |
| 16 | 03/22 | Natural Language I | NLTK Book. | pdf, pptx | Calderón Trilla | Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): link; Criticisms of the Turing Test: link, Previous Semester's exam link |
| 17 | 03/24 | Natural Language II | Continued from last class ... | pdf, pptx | Calderón Trilla | Continued from last class ... |
| 18 | 03/29 | Midterm Review & TBD | — | Midterm review: pdf | Calderón Trilla | New material from this lecture will not be included on the midterm. |
| 19 | 03/31 | Midterm | — | — | Calderón Trilla | |
| 20 | 04/05 | Looking toward the rest of the semester | Final Tutorial Instructions+Rubric | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 21 | 04/07 | Introduction to Machine Learning | Hal Daumé III. A Course in Machine Learning. | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 22 | 04/12 | Introduction to Machine Learning II | Russell & Norvig's Chapter 18 lecture slides: | Calderón Trilla | Scikit-learn's basic decision tree functionality: link; Bart Selman's CS4700: link | |
| 23 | 04/14 | Introduction to Machine Learning III | — | notebook | Calderón Trilla | |
| 24 | 04/19 | Decision Trees, Overfitting, k-NN | Calderón Trilla | xkcd on overfitting: link; Polynomial features/Interaction terms in Scikit: link | ||
| 25 | 04/21 | ML IV: Feature Engineering, k-NN, Random Forests | Nguyen & Holmes. "Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction," PLoS Computational Biology. | Calderón Trilla | Wikipedia article on the confusion matrix: link | |
| 26 | 04/26 | ML V: Polynomials, k-means, SVM | Best Practices for Recommender Systems (from Microsoft). | Calderón Trilla | ||
| 27 | 04/28 | Scaling It Up | Dean & Ghemawat. "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters," CACM. | Calderón Trilla | Wikipedia on SGD: link Using AWK and R to parse 25tb: link | Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster link|
| 28 | 05/03 | Industrial Speaker | Nichole Schimanski | |||
| 29 | 05/05 | Industrial Speaker | Chas Emerick | |||
| 29 | 05/10 | Data Science Ethics | The Atlantic. "Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment" Apple's brief overview of differential privacy: ; Barocas, Hardt, & Narayanan. Fairness in Machine Learning. | Calderón Trilla | What is GDPR? (link), A SIGCOMM paper that passed IRB review but is widely seen as unethical: link | |
| Final | 05/17 | Final Exam Date | Final versions of tutorials must be posted by 4:00PM, the exam time. | Instructions & rubric: link |
In addition to the tutorial to be posted publicly at the end of the semester, there will be four "mini-projects" assigned over the course of the semester (plus one simple setup assignment that will walk you through using git, Docker, and Jupyter). The best way to learn is by doing, so these will largely be applied assignments that provide hands-on experience with the basic skills a data scientist needs in industry.
Posting solutions publicly online without the staff's express consent is a direct violation of our academic integrity policy. Late assignments will not be accepted.
| # | Description | Date Released | Date Due | Project Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Setting Things Up | January 27 | Febuary 3 | link |
| 1 | Solar Power | Feb 11 | March 4 | link |
| 2 | Moneyball | March 6 | March 26 | link |
| 3 | Gap Minder | April 9 | April 28 | link |
| 4 | Baltimore Crime | May 3 | May 11 | link |
In the spirit of "learning by doing," students created a self-contained online tutorial to be posted publicly. Tutorials could be created individually or in a small group. The intention was to create a publicly-accessible website that provides an end-to-end walkthrough of identifying and scraping a specific data source, performing some exploratory analysis, and providing some sort of managerial or operational insight from that data. Below is a list of (most of) the tutorials created in the Spring 2021 version of CMSC320.
| Project Title | URL |
|---|
Missing an exam for reasons such as illness, religious observance, participation in required university activities, or family or personal emergency (such as a serious automobile accident or close relative’s funeral) will be excused so long as the absence is requested in writing at least 2 days in advance and the student includes documentation that shows the absence qualifies as excused; a self-signed note is not sufficient as exams are Major Scheduled Grading Events. For this class, such events are the final project assessment and midterms, which will be due on the dates listed in the schedule above. The final exam is scheduled according to the University Registrar.
For medical absences, you must furnish documentation from the health care professional who treated you. This documentation must verify dates of treatment and indicate the timeframe that the student was unable to meet academic responsibilities. In addition, it must contain the name and phone number of the medical service provider to be used if verification is needed. No diagnostic information will ever be requested. Note that simply being seen by a health care professional does not constitute an excused absence; it must be clear that you were unable to perform your academic duties.
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The policies for excused absences do not apply to project assignments. Projects will be assigned with sufficient time to be completed by students who have a reasonable understanding of the necessary material and begin promptly. In cases of extremely serious documented illness of lengthy duration or other protracted, severe emergency situations, the instructor may consider extensions on project assignments, depending upon the specific circumstances.
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Structures
The following structures are available globally.
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Non-numeric index type of BSTree.
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Swift
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Min (default) or max heap. A heap is a tree-based data structure that can be used to efficiently implement a priority queue. It gives O(1) read (peek) access to the min or max value, and can be updated via a pop or push in O(log(n)) time. Removing an arbitrary element takes O(n) time.
See morevar pq = Heap<Int>(isMin: false, startingValues: [5, -1, 3, 42, 68, 99, 72]) // Max heap pq.isEmpty // false pq.count // 7 let max = pq.pop() // max = 99, removes 99 from the heap let currentMax = pq.peek() // currentMax = 72, leaves heap the same pq.push(100) // Adds 100 to the heap pq.peek() // 100 pq.contains(3) // true pq.push(3) // Adds another 3 pq.remove(3) // Removes one of the 3's from the heap pq.push(-1) // Adds another -1 pq.removeAll(-1) // Removes both -1's pq.clear() // Removes all values pq.isEmpty // true
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Standard queue (FIFO) - items are added at one end of the queue, and removed from the other. add() and remove() are O(1) (amortized for remove()). Queue conforms to the Collection and ExpressibleByArrayLiteral protocols.
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Recipe 16.7. Merging and Splitting TokensCredit: Peter Cogolo ProblemYou need to tokenize an input language whose tokens are almost the same as Python's, with a few exceptions that need token merging and splitting. SolutionStandard library module tokenize is very handy; we need to wrap it with a generator to do the post-processing for a little splitting and merging of tokens. The merging requires the ability to "peek ahead" in an iterator. We can get that ability by wrapping any iterator into a small dedicated iterator class: class peek_ahead(object): sentinel = object( ) def _ _init_ _(self, it): self._nit = iter(it).next self.preview = None self._step( ) def _ _iter_ _(self): return self def next(self): result = self._step( ) if result is self.sentinel: raise StopIteration else: return result def _step(self): result = self.preview try: self.preview = self._nit( ) except StopIteration: self.preview = self.sentinel return result Armed with this tool, we can easily split and merge tokens. Say, for example, by the rules of the language we're lexing, that we must consider each of ':=' and ':+' to be a single token, but a floating-point token that is a '.' with digits on both sides, such as '31.17', must be given as a sequence of three tokens, '31', '.', '17' in this case. Here's how (using Python 2.4 code with comments on how to change it if you're stuck with version 2.3): import tokenize, cStringIO # in 2.3, also do 'from sets import Set as set' mergers = {':' : set('=+'), } def tokens_of(x): it = peek_ahead(toktuple[1] for toktuple in tokenize.generate_tokens(cStringIO.StringIO(x).readline) ) # in 2.3, you need to add brackets [ ] around the arg to peek_ahead for tok in it: if it.preview in mergers.get(tok, ( )): # merge with next token, as required yield tok+it.next( ) elif tok[:1].isdigit( ) and '.' in tok: # split if digits on BOTH sides of the '.' before, after = tok.split('.', 1) if after: # both sides -> yield as 3 separate tokens yield before yield '.' yield after else: # nope -> yield as one token yield tok else: # not a merge or split case, just yield the token yield tok DiscussionHere's an example of use of this recipe's code: >>> x = 'p{z:=23, w:+7}: m :+ 23.4' >>> print ' / '.join(tokens_of(x)) p / { / z / := / 23 / , / w / :+ / 7 / } / : / m / :+ / 23 / . / 4 / In this recipe, I yield tokens only as substrings of the string I'm lexing, rather than the whole tuple yielded by tokenize.generate_tokens, including such items as token position within the overall string (by line and column). If your needs are more sophisticated than mine, you should simply peek_ahead on whole token tuples (while I'm simplifying things by picking up just the substring, item 1, out of each token tuple, by passing to peek_ahead a generator expression), and compute start and end positions appropriately when splitting or merging. For example, if you're merging two adjacent tokens, the overall token has the same start position as the first, and the same end position as the second, of the two tokens you're merging. The peek_ahead iterator wrapper class can often be useful in many kinds of lexing and parsing tasks, exactly because such tasks are well suited to operating on streams (which are well represented by iterators) but often require a level of peek-ahead and/or push-back ability. You can often get by with just one level; if you need more than one level, consider having your wrapper hold a container of peeked-ahead or pushed-back tokens. Python 2.4's collections.deque container implements a double-ended queue, which is particularly well suited for such tasks. For a more powerful look-ahead iterator wrapper, see Recipe 19.18. See AlsoLibrary Reference and Python in a Nutshell sections on the Python Standard Library modules tokenize and cStringIO; Recipe 19.18 for a more powerful look-ahead iterator wrapper. |


PBS’ ‘Frontline’ supports 5 local investigations
NEW YORK (AP) - PBS’ documentary series “Frontline” has selected five news organizations to collaborate with in a first-time partnership designed to boost local journalism.
The $4 million project, funded by the Knight Foundation and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, supports local reporting teams financially and with expertise from people at “Frontline.”
“Frontline” said Thursday that it will work with PBS in New Mexico on an investigation into contamination of groundwater. It will also work with Rocky Mountain PBS on the topic of youth suicide and with the Tampa Bay Times on local environmental hazards. The other collaborations are with Milwaukee PBS and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on struggling dairy farms and Oklahoma Watch about online schools.
The projects will be released locally, and the “Frontline” digital and broadcasts platforms will expand them to a national audience.
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org.codemonkey.simplejavamail
Class EmailAddressValidationCriteria
java.lang.Object
org.codemonkey.simplejavamail.EmailAddressValidationCriteria
public class EmailAddressValidationCriteria
- extends java.lang.Object
Defines a set of restriction flags for email address validation. To remain completely true to RFC 2822, all flags should be set to
true
.
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- Benny Bottema
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EmailAddressValidationCriteria(boolean, boolean)
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
allowDomainLiterals
private final boolean allowDomainLiterals
allowQuotedIdentifiers
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EmailAddressValidationCriteria
public EmailAddressValidationCriteria(boolean allowDomainLiterals,
boolean allowQuotedIdentifiers)
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allowDomainLiterals
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- This flag states whether domain literals are allowed in the email address, e.g.:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or
john.doe@[23:33:A2:22:16:1F] or
me@[my computer]
The RFC says these are valid email addresses, but most people don't like allowing them. If you don't want to allow them,
and only want to allow valid domain names (RFC 1035, x.y.z.com, etc),
change this constant to false.
Its default value is true to remain RFC 2822 compliant, but you should set it depending on what you need for your
application.
allowQuotedIdentifiers
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- This flag states whether quoted identifiers are allowed (using quotes and angle brackets around the raw address) are
allowed, e.g.:
"John Smith"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>The RFC says this is a valid mailbox. If you don't want to allow this, because for example, you only want users to enter
in a raw address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- no quotes or angle brackets), then change this constant to
false.
Its default value is true to remain RFC 2822 compliant, but you should set it depending on what you need for your
application.
isAllowDomainLiterals
public final boolean isAllowDomainLiterals()
isAllowQuotedIdentifiers
public final boolean isAllowQuotedIdentifiers()
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Reinvorgating a classic brand to support your health
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Strategy / Design / Product Management
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) felt like they were losing touch with their customer base and launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the brand.
Specifically, the client wanted to engage and connect with individuals, employers and brokers through new communication.
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- Saw 3% uptick in engagement
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS
RATING: *** (out of ****)
20th Century Fox / 1:51 / 1998 / R (langauge, violence, muted sex) Cast: Ethan Hawke; Gwyneth Paltrow; Anne Bancroft; Robert De Niro; Chris Cooper; Hank Azaria; Josh Mostel; Jeremy James Kissner; Raquel Beaudene Director: Alfonso Cuaron Screenplay: Mitch Glazer
Studio expectations must not have been high for "Great Expectations" -- the film's release date was pushed from late December to late January at what appeared to be the last minute, therefore putting any Academy Awards chances it has off until this time in 1999. It's actually a smart move, because while this updated take on the Charles Dickens tale isn't quite Oscar fodder, it *is* strong enough to be distinguished from the cinematic dumping ground that usually makes up the first five or six weeks of any given year. "Great Expectations" also demonstrates how to modernize a classic story right, especially after the excruciatingly wretched excesses of Baz Luhrmann's "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet."
"Great Expectations" opens somewhere in 1970s Florida (the original story is set in 19th-century England), as eight-year-old Finn (Jeremy James Kissner) meets a trio of people who will have a profound effect on his life in the future. There's icy, 11-year-old Estella (Raquel Beaudene), a pseudo-playmate of Finn's; Ms. Dinsmoor (Anne Bancroft), Estella's auntie who's quite off-kilter over a past romance that never took off; and a mysterious prisoner (Robert De Niro) whom Finn saves the life of. Finn, who lives with his sister's affable boyfriend (Lone Star's Chris Cooper), fancies himself an aspiring artist, and proves his prowess by whipping up an unusual portrait of Estella using only Ms. Dinsmoor's lipstick, eyebrow pencil and the wallpaper from her dilapidating mansion.
Flash forward into the '90s (after a brief stop in the '80s), and Finn (now played by Ethan Hawke), despondent over a strange hot-and-cold relationship with the elusive Estella (Gwyneth Paltrow), receives quite a bit of money from an unknown benefactor; it's enough cash to send him to New York to focus on a career in art. There, Finn seems to gain everything he could ever want -- wealth, prestige and a high place in the glamorous art world. When Estella resurfaces -- albeit with an aloof fiancé (Hank Azaria) -- Finn also sees the chance to renew their mutual attraction. But she's not the only ghost from Finn's past that's going to be paying him a visit.
Comparisons with the afore-mentioned "Romeo + Juliet" seem inevitable since these films are the only ones in recent memory to plop classic drama into a current setting. "Great Expectations" is a much better venture, though, because it treats its source with even-handed respect, where "Romeo" was never quite sure whether to be a spoof, a homage or both. The movie is a visual banquet thanks to Emmanuel Lubezki's sexy cinematography; notably, he captures a revisited fountain kiss between the two leads with a luscious, erotic charge that's steamier than the film's (surprisingly muted) love scenes. The eclectic rock soundtrack compliments the on-screen action beautifully, especially new songs by Tori Amos, Mono and Duncan Sheik.
Acting credits are first-rate, often hiding the screenplay's occasional slip-ups. Hawke is sincere and solid as a leading man (something we also learned from "Gattaca"), and his Finn is quite a likeable guy. Paltrow's Estella, on the other hand, is rather underdeveloped. While the actress is at her icily seductive best, we're not told very much about her character, and as a result, it's often hard to understand why Finn would appreciate her beyond a physical level (but, oh, *what* a physical level); sometimes, we root for Finn although we don't quite understand why she's fueling his fire. Robert De Niro is nice and sophisticated in the benevolent kind of role he rarely gets to play; on the other end of the acting spectrum is Bancroft, a macabre, throaty delight who mambos and sucks down cigarettes with an eerie enthusiasm that would make Norma Desmond jealous.
Alfonso Cuaron's visually elegant direction helps to distract from the dry moments that pop up more frequently around the movie's climax. Another problem is predictability; you can guess your way through the plot even if you aren't familiar with the story. Despite its script flaws, though, "Great Expectations" is undeniably romantic without being corny or gloppy. And frankly, it's nice to see a film that embraces softened sensuality other than explicit sexuality. Perhaps that renovated release date, awfully close to Valentine's Day, will end up helping "Great Expectations"' seemingly average box office chances after all.
© 1998 Jamie Peck E-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Visit the Reel Deal Online: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~jpeck1/
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Mobile applications based on GPS such as Google Maps have proven to be very useful in guiding us to our destination. However, it is still easy to get lost indoors, where GPS satellite signals are not accurately trackable for navigation applications. Thus introduced the concept of using augmented reality with the aim of creating a navigation system that can help people orient themselves and navigate within large buildings.
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RETURN TO ME (MGM) Starring: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Bonnie Hunt, James Belushi, David Alan Grier, Joely Richardson. Screenplay: Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake. Producer: Jennie Lew Tugend. Director: Bonnie Hunt. MPAA Rating: PG (profanity, adult themes) Running Time: 113 minutes. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
Long have I sung the praises of Bonnie Hunt, one of cinema's most effortlessly entertaining comic actresses. For years Hunt has brought a spark of devilish intelligence to roles that would vanish in other hands; she's the living embodiment of the cliche that there are no small parts, only small actors. It also always seems to be the case that her small parts have been in bad films (with the occasional notable exception like JERRY MAGUIRE), a phenomenon that has baffled me to no end. I ask the gods of cinema: Why can't someone who brings so much to her every role find scripts that do her talents justice? Too often, I have been left unanswered.
Hunt, however, now appears to have taken a proactive approach to this dilemma -- if no one's going to offer her good scripts, she'll just have to write and direct them herself. She also shows herself so tuned into to her fellow supporting performers that she almost buries the leads. In RETURN TO ME, Hunt tells the story of Bob Rueland (David Duchovny), a Chicago construction designer blissfully married to zoologist Elizabeth Rueland (Joely Richardson). But their happy marriage is cut short by a car accident that claims Elizabeth's life, leaving Bob despondent and introverted. The accident also provides a second chance for Grace Briggs (Minnie Driver), a woman with a congenital heart defect. She receives a donor heart from Elizabeth, and survives to begin a new life. One year later, Bob and Grace find their paths crossing, though neither party knows the connection that may be drawing them together.
The premise almost sounds like one of those semi-supernatural romantic comedies where a beloved spouse is somehow transformed into a member of the same sex, or a daughter's boyfriend, or a houseplant. Such business actually plays no part in RETURN TO ME, which downplays the otherworldly element in Bob and Grace's relationship. In fact, Hunt downplays the relationship itself, taking her time bringing the two together, then playing up the reactions of their friends and family when they finally do come together. Duchovny is surprisingly effective as a romantic lead, and Driver is growing more luminous by the day, but their romance doesn't always feel like the central point of the film. Where many romantic comedies set up the protagonists in a vacuum, RETURN TO ME comes dangerously close to making the protagonists themselves the vacuum.
If that's the case, it's only because there's so much wonderful business going on on the periphery. The sensational supporting ensemble begins with Hunt herself, who delights once again as Grace's best friend Megan, a married mother of five. She's nearly matched by James Belushi as her bearish, irresponsible husband, whose propensity for swearing in front of the children is good for laughs that should feel cheap, but somehow don't. There's also an Irish/Italian/Polish chorus of matchmakers in Grace's grandfather (Carroll O'Connor), her great-uncle (Robert Loggia) and their card-playing buddies, who debate the great dead singers between hands of poker. Hunt and co-writer Don Lake craft rich, funny situations so appealing that you wish every writer took half as much care developing supporting characters.
Of course, many writers take more care developing main characters. With a bit of hindsight, RETURN TO ME feels more hollow than it should given all the laughs it generates. Hunt doesn't even seem entirely comfortable with how to build to her big payoff, following up a reunion between Bob and Grace with a coda that really should have preceded it. Still, I'm not sure I can recall the last time I responded to a scene as shamelessly romantic as Bob's timid request to hold Grace's hand. I certainly don't recall the last time a writer seemed so willing to share the wealth with the punch lines. RETURN TO ME is a bit ragged, a bit sloppy, a bit overly concerned with the people surrounding its heart-linked lovers. It is, however, undeniably charming in its way. I'd expect nothing less from Bonnie Hunt, whose own undeniable charm has gone into a love story for underappreciated comic supporting performers everywhere.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 see Hunts: 7.
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Analyze This * 1/2 (out of * * * * )
Directed by Harold Ramis. Cast: Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Joe Viterelli, Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palminteri, Bill Macy, Leo Rossi, Kyle Sabihy, Rebecca Schull, Molly Shannon, Max Casella, Pat Cooper, Richard Castellano, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Elizabeth Bracco. 1999 - 106 minutes.  Reviewed March 6, 1999.
Reading the cast and director for the new mobster comedy, "Analyze This," I asked myself, "how could this miss?" Robert De Niro ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull"), Billy Crystal ("City Slickers"), Lisa Kudrow ("The Opposite of Sex"), and Director Harold Ramis ("National Lampoon's Vacation"). These are usually reliable filmmakers (well, okay, Crystal has been in a sizable slump lately), and tellingly, the first half-hour of "Analyze This" was very funny. Unfortunately, as the running time ticked away, I began to think that the first thirty minutes had, unbeknownst to me, been rewound and were being replayed another two-and-a-half times. The film has obtained a clever premise, but does not have any idea what to do with it as it progressively becomes more and more repetitive until I finally stopped enjoying or caring about what was happening on the screen.
Middle-aged psychoanalyst Ben Sobel's (Billy Crystal) life is finally going very well. Although he has never gotten along with his own uncaring parents, especially his father, who is also a psychiatrist, Ben has an easy-going teenage son (Kyle Sabihy) and is about to travel down to Miami to get married to his TV news reporter girlfriend, Laura (Lisa Kudrow). In little but a flash, however, Ben suddenly sees his plans ruined when he accidentally hits the car of the mob and subsequently gets paid a visit from famed mafia guy Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro), who desperately wants counseling, even though he himself won't even admit to having anxiety attacks. Ben tries to help Paul, mostly so he will get him off his back, but the plot gets more complicated when Paul follows Ben to his wedding, which ends with a man dropping eight stories to his death. It seems to Ben that no matter what he does, Paul Vitti will not go away, and the more they become involved, the more Ben's potentially happy life gets into danger.
"Analyze This" has a few laughs sprinkled throughout (mostly in the first half), but I always had the nagging thought that what director Ramis and writers Peter Tolan, Ramis, and Kenneth Lonergan had done was thought of one joke (Robert De Niro lightly spoofing his serious past mafia roles, while terrorizing and becoming buddies with comic Billy Crystal) and then tiresomely recycled it for the duration of the 106-minute running time. Admittedly, De Niro is very funny here (and I can't remember the last time you could use that adjective to describe him), and Crystal is in top-form, but the whole movie is weighed down directly on their shoulders with nothing else to support them, including a substantial plotline.
Since "Analyze This" bills not one, not two, but three writers, you'd think that they would have been able to work together to fix the noticably large flaws, but they must have all been on auto-pilot. One of the most disappointing and wasted opportunities in the film is the way the movie deals with the supporting characters, all of which have next to nothing to do and aren't even given multi-dimensional characters to attempt to develop. Coming off of her Oscar-caliber work in two of last year's best films, "Clockwatchers" and "The Opposite of Sex," Lisa Kudrow's throwaway "girlfriend" role is an incredible step down. Sure, Kudrow's fellow "Friend" Jennifer Aniston did the same thing two weeks ago in "Office Space," but at least we got to spend a little time with Aniston. Kudrow, meanwhile, mostly just stands around, no doubt wondering why she agreed to appear in this film in the first place. Chazz Palminteri, as rival gangster Primo, fares even worse, in a role that plays more like an afterthought than an actual character. Finally, Molly Shannon (rising film star and cast member on "Saturday Night Live") has a rousingly hilarious one-scene cameo right at the beginning as one of Crystal's patients and then completely disappears. Too bad, considering that the supporting actors surely have proven that they have the abilities to support De Niro and Crystal.
Once "Analyze This" approached its second wedding scene leaving Kudrow's Laura standing alone at the altar once again, I had become thoroughly annoyed by where the story had gone, and had mostly lost respect for the character we were supposed to sympathize with the most, Ben. Afterwards, the climactic scene with Ben posing as a fellow mob boss in place of the depressed Paul, became a real laugh-free dead-zone, losing its last remaining comic punches. "Analyze This" proves that talent can certainly help any film out, but when the written material isn't up to their level, what we are virtually left with is a vacuum of thin air.
- Copyright 1999 by Dustin Putman
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It just stays in an endless loop, and i though my > statement would end the loop. Any suggestions are welcomes, thank you all in advance for trying to help!
int main()
{
double initialInv, intRate, amtDesired, years, endAmt, begAmt, increase;
cout << "To find out how many years it will take to achieve the investment\nreturn you desire, please input the amount you are investing, the\n";
cout << "yearly interest rate (as an interger), and the amount you wish to achieve.\n";
cin >> initialInv >> intRate >> amtDesired;
years = 1;
cout << left << setw(10) << "Years" << left << setw(18) << "Initial Amount" << left << setw(9) << "End Amount";
endAmt = 0;
if(!cin.good()) // user gave bad input
{
cin.ignore(1000); // dump the bad input
cin.clear(); // reset cin to be in a good state
}
while (endAmt < amtDesired)
{
intRate = intRate / 100;
increase = initialInv * intRate;
endAmt = increase + initialInv;
begAmt = initialInv;
initialInv = endAmt;
years++;
cout << left << setw(10) << years << left << setw(18) << fixed << setprecision(2) << begAmt;
cout << left << setw(9) << fixed << setprecision(2) << endAmt;
}


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Time Publishes Flawed Article on D-Wave "Quantum Computer"
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Time's most recent cover article was about a quantum computer produced by startup D-Wave. However, this article is deeply flawed and represents severe problems that pervade science journalism
- Time's writer has no expertise in the relevant subject matters. Quantum computing involves very complex issues in computer science and physics. Time assigned the story to their book critic who has a degree in literature.
- Time's story gives equal weight to the claims made in D-Wave's advertising, and to the relevant published research done by independent computer scientists and physicists. The academic research gives strong reasons to doubt the plausibility of many of D-Wave's claims.
- The story has a multitude of outright errors and misleading statements.
D-Wave has developed a special purpose quantum computer. The computer you are reading this on is a general purpose computer -- it can do any mathematical calculation that you want. On the other hand D-Wave's computer is optimized to solve only one problem, discrete combinatorial optimization, which has applications in engineering. D-Wave's computer can do one thing that your computer cannot, use quantum mechanical effects to aid the solving of this problem. There is however one problem that did not get enough play in Time's story, independent researchers have not been able to verify that D-Wave's quantum computer is any better at solving this problem than a classical computer, or even that quantum computers in general are better at this problem.
The issues with the Time article start with the first paragraph.
For years astronomers have believed that the coldest place in the universe is a massive gas cloud 5,000 light-years from Earth called the Boomerang Nebula. ...
But as it turns out, the scientists have been off by about 5,000 light-years. The coldest place in the universe is actually in a small city directly east of Vancouver called Burnaby.
Two issues here
- The Boomerang is the the coldest known natural object, artificial experiments have long gone below this level
- The internals of the D-Wave computer are NOT the coldest man-made object
Now lets look at the last paragraph of the article preview
The reason D-Wave has so few customers is that it makes a new type of computer called a quantum computer that's so radical and strange, people are still trying to figure out what it's for and how to use it. .... it has the potential to solve problems that would take conventional computers centuries, with revolutionary consequences for fields ranging from cryptography to nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals to artificial intelligence.
I'm tempted to tone down the flameage on this one because the issues in this paragraph are corrected later in the article. However, this is the last paragraph that is below the fold. So, this will be as far as many readers read. And this paragraph is incorrect when taken by itself. As I noted above, the D-Wave is a special purpose computer. Its not useful at running Shor's algorithm, or Grover's algorithm -- the two quantum algorithms with relevance to cryptography. It can just solve the discrete combinatorial optimization problem, which has much more limited use.
.... But D-Wave's customers buy them anyway, for around $10 million a pop, because if they're the real deal they could be the biggest leap forward since the invention of the microprocessor.
Same issue here. Classical computers do a lot more than just solve one math problem.
The discussion of the history of quantum mechanics is pretty good. There is one sentence that I would take exception to
Einstein ultimately found quantum mechanics so monstrously counterintuitive that he rejected it as either wrong or profoundly incomplete. As he famously put it, "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world."
Einstein didn't reject quantum mechanics, he argued for the ensemble interpretation which attempts to explain quantum effects in terms of statistical aggregates of particles.
The supercooled niobium chip at the heart of the D-Wave Two has 512 qubits and therefore could in theory perform 2512 operations simultaneously.
Bzzt!! Quantum computers don't do 2512 operations simultaneously. The quantum computer does an operation that pretty much amounts to randomly guessing at the right answer. The qubits then undergo what is known as entanglement. At this point you can imagine 2512 parallel universes with their own parallel qubits. These "virtual" qubits interact, and eventually they decohenere into a state where only one set of qubits is observed. At first glance it looks like you just have quantum bogosort -- most of the possible guesses are incorrect. But in fact, during the period of time when the "virtual" qubits are entangled and interacting, and when the problem being solved follows certain patterns it is possible to "stack the deck" and increase the probability that the correct answer will be the one observed.
One of the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, published last month, revealed that the NSA has an $80 million quantum-computing project suggestively code-named Penetrating Hard Targets. Here's why: much of the encryption used online is based on the fact that it can take conventional computers years to find the factors of a number that is the product of two large primes. A quantum computer could do it so fast that it would render a lot of encryption obsolete overnight. You can see why the NSA would take an interest.
Correct but confusing. Contrary to the impression that you would get so far in the article, the D-Wave computer cannot solve these cryptographic problems.
The article then goes into a two-page speel about how great the inventors of the D-Wave computer how, and how great the technique they invented is. -- All without any mention of the objection from the academic community.
For example, you can't as yet perform the kind of cryptographic wizardry the NSA was interested in, because an adiabatic quantum computer won't run the right algorithm. It's a special-purpose tool. "You take your general-purpose chip," Rose says, "and you do a bunch of inefficient stuff that generates megawatts of heat and takes forever, and you can get the answer out of it. But this thing, with a picowatt and a microsecond, does the same thing. So it's just doing something very specific, very fast, very efficiently."
Finally on page five out of eight.
This is great if you have a really hard discrete combinatorial optimization problem to solve. Not everybody does. But once you start looking for optimization problems, or at least problems that can be twisted around to look like optimization problems, you find them all over the place: in software design, tumor treatments, logistical planning, the stock market, airline schedules, the search for Earth-like planets in other solar systems, and in particular in machine learning.
No mention of how no one has been able to prove that quantum computers can actually solve the discrete combinatorial optimization problem in a way thats appreciably more effective than classical computers.
The article then continues on about how great the D-wave people are, and how big name companies have bought their stuff for another page.
On the last page of the article Time gets to D-Wave's critics, but portrays them as a bunch of ivory tower eggheads that are a bit too removed from real life -- instead of a sizeable portion of those who are capable of evaluating D-Wave's claims.
Another challenge rose and company face is that there is a small but nonzero number of academic physicists and computer scientists who think that they are partly or completely full of sh-t. Ever since D-Wave's first demo in 2007, snide humor, polite skepticism, impolite skepticism and outright debunkings have been lobbed at the company from any number of ivory towers. "There are many who in Round 1 of this started trash-talking D-Wave before they'd ever met the company," Jurvetson says.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Any blog post or news story about D-Wave instantly grows a shaggy beard of vehement comments, both pro- and anti-.
Yup.
The critics argue that D-Wave is insufficiently transparent,
Then D-Wave should release more information about how their computer works. Reproducibility of your results is an important part of science.
that its adiabatic approach is unpromising, that its machines are no faster than classical computers
Then they should release evidence that quantum computers can solve the discrete combinatorial optimization problem faster than a classical computer.
Lets check what actual physicists say about this dispute then.
Last month a team including Matthias Troyer, an internationally respected professor of computational physics at ETH Zurich, attempted to clarify things with a report based on an extensive series of tests pitting Google's D-Wave Two against classical computers solving randomly chosen problems. Verdict? To quote from the study: "We find no evidence of quantum speedup when the entire data set is considered and obtain inconclusive results when comparing subsets of instances on an instance-by-instance basis." This has, not surprisingly, generally been interpreted as a conspicuous failure for D-Wave.
But this analysis would not be complete without looking at more of D-Wave's advertising, would it?
But where quantum computing is concerned, there always seems to be room for disagreement.
No. Where journalists are involved there always seems to be room for disagreement.
The attitude in D-Wave's C-suite toward all this back-and-forth is, unsurprisingly, dismissive. "The people that really understand what we're doing aren't skeptical," says Brownell.  "Unfortunately," he says, "like all discourse on the Internet, it tends to be driven by a small number of people that are both vocal and not necessarily the most informed."
Thats some real peer reviewed research Time has there. A D-Wave employee saying that "The people that really understand what we're doing aren't skeptical" really proves that their computer works.
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First look inside the festive Après Ski Bar in Bristol city centre
The pop up attraction also includes a roller disco and street food, with more to come
by Robin MurrayBristol has become very festive in recent weeks, with the German market launching in Broadmead and Christmas lights going up all over the city.
In addition, the Après Ski Bar has opened in Millennium Square, as part of multi-use attraction The Square.
Back for its fourth year, the Christmas pop up also features a roller disco run by BUMP and numerous street food vendors, with more to come including screenings on We The Curious' big screen and an immersive light installation.
The roller disco is a replacement for the ice rink which has not gone ahead this year for environmental reasons.
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Visitors can choose from warming beverages such as mulled cider and wine, a selection of craft ales or cocktails, including a blood orange negroni and rhubarb ginger collins, which can all be enjoyed while wrapped in blankets supplied by the venue.
Food on offer includes Pepe Nero, who are serving mouth-watering pizzas including vegan and gluten-free options and kitchen takeover kings Le Boeuf & Lobster, who are rustling up indulgent mac & cheese, burgers and more.
Jon Ojo, Operations Manager of Pure Spaces, the team behind the attraction, said: "We are delighted to be working with We The Curious again to create Winter at the Square.
"After the success of the Bristol Beach Club and last year's Apres Bar, we're coming back bigger and better for the people of Bristol over the festive period.
"Our good friends Bump Roller Disco are back on the square to offer a more sustainable alternative to the ice rink of previous years and we have lots of great surprises in store!"
The Square will run through until January 5.
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New for 2019, the free immersive and interactive art installation, Submergence by Squidsoup, will be joining the Apres Ski Bar, taking centre stage in Millennium Square on December 12.
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The Negotiator (1998)
a review by Christian Pyle
Police hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) wows the press and annoys his fellow cops with his daring maneuvers to take out hostage-takers. One night Danny's partner Nate (Paul Guilfoyle) tells him that cops in their precinct are stealing money from the disability fund. Nate is soon murdered, and Danny is accused of both his friend's murder and the theft of the departmental funds. Faced with certain conviction, Danny takes his only suspect, internal affairs inspector Niebaum (J. T. Walsh in his last role), and three others hostage. Danny knows that Niebaum's co-conspirators will be nervous that the inspector will talk, so they will reveal themselves and try to kill both Danny and Niebaum. Since he can't trust anyone in his precinct, Danny demands that the hostage team bring in a negotiator from another precinct, Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey).
"The Negotiator" is character-driven, so its success rides on the able shoulders of its lead actors. Jackson and Spacey complement each other well: Jackson -- angry, on edge, striking out at everyone around him; Spacey -- calm, crafty, perceptive. Their scenes together are tense and suspenseful. Danny stalks around with a gun, spewing threats and coming ever closer to killing a hostage. Chris approaches the situation like a chess match, and he tries various gambits to gain control of the board. The conflict of negotiators is built around talk, of course, and Jackson and Spacey are two of the best talkers in Hollywood.
The cast is filled out by a familiar group of character actors. As the major suspects to be the mastermind that framed Danny: David Morse (the father in "Contact"), Ron Rifkin (the DA in "LA Confidential"), and John Spencer (the FBI director in "The Rock"). Paul Giamatti offers some welcome comic relief as a petty crook among Danny's hostages. Regina Taylor (from TV's "I'll Fly Away") plays Danny's wife.
The down side? Even though Danny is supposed to be an unpredictable risk-taker, we also know early on that he is a) innocent and b) a good cop. This undercuts a lot of the suspense; despite the movie's elaborate attempts to make us believe that Danny will kill his hostages, we know he's too decent a person to cross that line.
"The Negotiator" won't make anyone's Ten Best list, but it is solid genre fare with a strong cast.
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by BernamaNARATHIWAT (Nov 19): Three traffic policemen manning a roadblock in Resak here today were injured in a bomb explosion.
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iOSKonbiniAutomation - Page Object Model for XCUITest made easy
iOSKonbiniAutomation is result of working on multiple projects with XCUITest. I’ve seen multiple approaches and this is amalgamation of the bits that I liked the most. There is fair bit of inspiration by work of Andrey Kozlov This project brings page object model (or POM in short) approach to your projects. It also provides capability to build app transitions graph to be able to have automatic navigations from one screen to another. You also get assortment of ways to select your elements thanks to convenience functions added as extensions to XCUIElement and XCUIElementQuery via iOSBenrinaAutomationHelpers
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I’m working on demo application which will show how to use this framework easily.
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[gecode-users] Breaking symmetries with LDSB in Matrix model.
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Thank you sir,
I have an other question in the same context :
A/ So, if i have understand, i can do the same thing with reflection of columns in Matrix model as follow:
Symmetries s;
BoolVarArgs a; for (int i = 0 ; i < (opt.cols/2-1); i++) { a << p.col(i); } for (int i = (opt.col-1) ; i >= opt.col/2 ; i--) { a << p.col(i); } s << VariableSequenceSymmetry(a, opt.cols*opt.rows);
if this part of code is correct so his effect is aquivalent to this function of Gecode: columns_reflect(): to specify that a matrix's columns can be reflected.
B/ an other question please about combination of symmetries:
suppose th probleme have the symmetric groupe Gn = Dn*Z2 /
- Dn: Consist on n rotation of rows of the Matrix ( the second form of symmetry described in my first question (first email)) and n permutations of specified rows or specified columns of the Matrix (the first form of symmetry described in my first email).
- Z2 = {id, rev}= {+1, -1}. id = +1, rev = -1./ rev represent the possibility of reflection of columns of the Matrix. ( it is the form of symmetry described in this email in A.
So my question is: How to do this combinaition ? how to post the combinaition of this 3 forms of symmetries in the branch function, i must post eatch one independently or in the same time. it means in general, hox post this forms of combinaition: example:
Combination 1 = Sym a + Sym b.
Combination 2 = Sym a * Sym b.
I hope that my question was clear.
Thank you.
Best regards.
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