Overview
I took about two hours to get through the materials and videos from the Time and habit management resources. I started with the videos to get me into the swing of things, then checked out the Fogg method, before working through the readings starting with meditation.
reflections on time and habit techniques
Which timebox and habits techniques did you try?
I have been meditating on and off for many years already, and did meditate this morning. I also swim about 2-3 times a week, and find that very meditative (and satisfying in many other ways). These, along with yoga at Dev Academy, are habits I'd like to keep regular over the coming four months.
I've also run a few sprint based projects, so have experienced using team sprint timeboxing. However I've not been very strong so far on timeboxing my own work and tasks. I have however been taking breaks between and during the work assignments, and allowing those breaks to be non-study/work time
What did you find interesting?
The idea of small steps on a journey of growth is a common theme in many of the articles. This was seen in the Fogg Method talk, where he points out small steps are easy to do, but they can build up our ability and our motivation over time.
In the Wikipedia article on Flow, I enjoyed discovering the Flow model's graph on mental state in terms of challenge level and skill level
I enjoyed the article on starting small, and the dangers of big.
But I think my favourite read was Seven counterintuitive ways to be insanely productive as it resonated with many of my own quirky ways.
What worked for you?
Meditation. Swimming. Yoga.
Small chunks, tasks, tick off via Waffle, and I guess that's what I did over the weekend, I grew my skill level in small chunks, overcoming challenges then having a break
Which will you experiment further with?
Timeboxing and Pomodoro style chunking of focused work, with breaks in between (perhaps 2 pushups followed by an "I'm awesome!")
And I'm trying to close all other browser tabs that aren't what I'm working on. That feels good.


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I wanted some assistance in getting drowsy to motivate myself for sleep, so I enlisted the support of the pink Rite Aid brand diphenhydramine pills.
  I think I took it a fourth night (3 or 4), but by this time I was becoming sensitized to its sleep-inducing effects. I think that each time I took the diphenhydramine it was also with varying amounts of alcohol (3-8 drinks).
I was looking up the feasibility of using one of many nearby bridges to jump off of, and was preoccupied with the thoughts of my self induced demise. Looking up probability of death and planning for the broadcast live of my jump, and a short suicide note had been completed. I also personally scouted a good nearby candidate which un/fortunately did not have any pedestrian walkways.
I had taken it for three or four nights, and within two days of cessation, the thoughts subsided to their pre-diphenhydramine level, which is much more manageable. It was strange to be able to get a glimpse into the darker side of things and still come back. Normally I don't experience such severe suicidal thoughts.
The last time I used diphenhydramine as a sleep aid, I experienced an intensification of existing annoying self directed negative thoughts ('I'm so stupid,' 'God what a piece of shit,' etc...) which prompted me to discontinue it, but was surprised at the different nature of the thoughts this time.
I couldn't find any link between diphenhydramine and enhancing suicidal ideation so I have posted this experience.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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Home
Favorite Fruit
An ordered list
- Apples
- Oranges
- Grapes
Figure 5-6 shows the rendered list. The start value of “6” translates to the letter “F” when rendered
Favorite Fruit
- Apples
- Oranges
- Grapes
Figure 5-6 shows the rendered list. The start value of “6” translates to the letter “F” when rendered
Favorite Fruit
- Apples
- Oranges
- Grapes
Figure 5-6 shows the rendered list. The start value of “6” translates to the letter “F” when rendered
Favorite Fruit
- Apples
- Oranges
- Grapes
Figure 5-6 shows the rendered list. The start value of “6” translates to the letter “F” when rendered
Favorite Fruit
- Apples
- Oranges
- Grapes
Figure 5-6 shows the rendered list. The start value of “6” translates to the letter “F” when rendered
Favorite Fruit
- Apples
- Oranges
- Grapes


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Adapter for the RecyclerView in ItunesItem. responsible for displaying all the ItunesItem


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| hansen {ouch} | R Documentation |
The function hansen
fits an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model to data.
The fitting is done using optim
or subplex
.
hansen(
data,
tree,
regimes,
sqrt.alpha,
sigma,
fit = TRUE,
method = c("Nelder-Mead", "subplex", "BFGS", "L-BFGS-B"),
hessian = FALSE,
...
)
data |
Phenotypic data for extant species, i.e., species at the terminal twigs of the phylogenetic tree.
This can either be a single named numeric vector, a list of |
tree |
A phylogenetic tree, specified as an |
regimes |
A vector of codes, one for each node in the tree, specifying the selective regimes hypothesized to have been operative.
Corresponding to each node, enter the code of the regime hypothesized for the branch segment terminating in that node.
For the root node, because it has no branch segment terminating on it, the regime specification is irrelevant.
If there are |
sqrt.alpha , sigma |
These are used to initialize the optimization algorithm.
The selection strength matrix |
fit |
If |
method |
The method to be used by the optimization algorithm.
See |
hessian |
If |
... |
Additional arguments will be passed as |
The Hansen model for the evolution of a multivariate trait X
along a lineage can be written as a stochastic differential equation (Ito diffusion)
dX=\alpha(\theta(t)-X(t))dt+\sigma dB(t),
where t
is time along the lineage,
\theta(t)
is the optimum trait value, B(t)
is a standard Wiener process (Brownian motion),
and \alpha
and \sigma
are matrices
quantifying, respectively, the strength of selection and random drift.
Without loss of generality, one can assume \sigma
is lower-triangular.
This is because only the infinitesimal variance-covariance matrix
\sigma^2=\sigma\sigma^T
is identifiable, and for any admissible variance-covariance matrix, we can choose \sigma
to be lower-triangular.
Moreover, if we view the basic model as describing evolution on a fitness landscape, then \alpha
will be symmetric.
If we further restrict ourselves to the case of stabilizing selection, \alpha
will be positive definite as well.
We make these assumptions and therefore can assume that the matrix \alpha
has a lower-triangular square root.
The hansen
code uses unconstrained numerical optimization to maximize the likelihood.
To do this, it parameterizes the \alpha
and \sigma^2
matrices in a special way:
each matrix is parameterized by nchar*(nchar+1)/2
parameters, where nchar
is the number of quantitative characters.
Specifically, the parameters initialized by the sqrt.alpha
argument of hansen
are used
to fill the nonzero entries of a lower-triangular matrix (in column-major order),
which is then multiplied by its transpose to give the selection-strength matrix.
The parameters specified in sigma
fill the nonzero entries in the lower triangular \sigma
matrix.
When hansen
is executed, the numerical optimizer maximizes the likelihood over these parameters.
hansen
returns an object of class hansentree
.
Aaron A. King
T.F. Hansen. 1997. Stabilizing selection and the comparative analysis of adaptation. Evolution, 51:1341–1351.
Butler, M.A. and A.A. King. 2004. Phylogenetic comparative analysis: a modeling approach for adaptive evolution. American Naturalist 164:683–695.
Cressler, C. E., Butler, M. A., and King, A. A. 2015. Detecting adaptive evolution in phylogenetic comparative analysis using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. Systematic Biology, 64:953–968.
stats::optim
, subplex::subplex
, bimac
, anolis.ssd
Other phylogenetic comparative models:
brown()
,
ouch-package
,
ouchtree
,
paint()
## Analysis of sexual size dimorphism data
## Save time for CRAN
tree <- with(anolis.ssd,ouchtree(node,ancestor,time/max(time),species))
plot(tree,node.names=TRUE)
h1 <- brown(anolis.ssd['log.SSD'],tree)
h1
plot(h1)
h2 <- hansen(anolis.ssd['log.SSD'],tree,anolis.ssd['OU.1'],sqrt.alpha=1,sigma=1)
h2
plot(h2)
h3 <- hansen(anolis.ssd['log.SSD'],tree,anolis.ssd['OU.7'],sqrt.alpha=1,sigma=1)
h3
plot(h3)
### Darwin's finches.
## Save time for CRAN
### The data were taken from package 'geiger' due to the latter being orphaned.
if (requireNamespace("ape")) {
data(geospiza)
plot(geospiza$phy)
print(geospiza$dat)
### make an ouchtree out of the phy-format tree
ot <- ape2ouch(geospiza$phy)
### merge data with tree info
otd <- as(ot,"data.frame")
otd <- merge(otd,geospiza$dat,by.x="labels",by.y="row.names",all=TRUE)
### row-names are used by 'hansen'
rownames(otd) <- otd$nodes
print(otd)
### this data-frame now contains the data as well as the tree geometry
### now remake the ouch tree
ot <- with(otd,ouchtree(nodes=nodes,ancestors=ancestors,times=times,labels=labels))
plot(ot)
b1 <- brown(tree=ot,data=otd[c("tarsusL","beakD")])
summary(b1)
### evaluate an OU model with a single, global selective regime
otd$regimes <- as.factor("global")
h1 <- hansen(
tree=ot,
data=otd[c("tarsusL","beakD")],
regimes=otd["regimes"],
sqrt.alpha=c(1,0,1),
sigma=c(1,0,1),
maxit=10000
)
summary(h1)
plot(h1)
}


As you probably already know, SteemSTEM and Utopian.io are organizing a joint meetup in 2 months from now, in Florence and Pisa in Italy.
One of the main events at this meetup will be a group visit to Virgo Labs. To give you some insight into what that actually is, today’s post includes a short explanation about gravitational waves and why Virgo was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics.
Attendance, @fundition campaign and some statistics
So far, 29 people RSVPed and purchased their flight tickets. Where are they coming from? Mostly Europe, but also a decent number of people are coming from Asia and South America. As some of our members in Asia and Africa have yet to secure visas for the trip, they are not yet included in the statistics.
Moreover, the spread in age is also interesting, with our participant birth-years ranging from 1977 to 2000, with a peak in 1990-1995.
It is not as crazy as the spread of ages at the last SteemSTEM meetup - (our oldest participant was 76 and our youngest one was 18). Since registration is still open, we’re hoping for surprises.
Gravitational waves and Virgo in a nutshell
Gravitational waves are small ripples distorting spacetime and are generated by ‘catastrophic’ events in the universe. By catastrophic, one actually means huge events like the merging of two black holes or two neutron stars. Such an event requires a huge mass of matter that can only be found in these cosmic monsters present in our universe.
Even though these events are colossal in magnitude, we can only try to measure modifications of space in units of 0.0000000000000000001 meters.
Thanks to lasers and interferometry, such tiny changes have been measured at three places on Earth: the two LIGO observatories in the US and the Virgo observatory in Italy. This international experiment yielded the scientists a Nobel Prize in physics in 2017.
Gastrophysics, or the astrophysics behind gravitational waves, in considered innovative state-of-the-art science, and is thus a good reason to organize a crazy meetup of some of the top tech and science brains from this blockchain at one of the places this inspiring research takes place.
Why pick the one in Italy? Various reasons including, but not limited to, the ease of travel for most participants from around the world.
Want to know more about gravitational waves? Our own @lemouth will be happy to answer all your questions in the comments to this post.
Help us get there!
Moving all these people from their home to Italy takes a lot of funding, with some flights from distant locations costing up to 1000 USD. We would like to help our community afford this and this is where YOU come in.
This initiative, in collaboration with fundition, is aimed to help do just that - collect additional funding for the meetup attendees. Every upvote counts and every donation makes a difference.
At the time of writing, we have collected 1243 upvotes on our crowdfunding post, as well as four direct donations from @jakipatryk, @mahdiyari, @electronicsworld and @roj.
Thanks to everyone, we have collected about 25 SBD in donation, and about 285 SBD in upvotes (which can vary until the post is paid out). We are, however, still far from our goal, and more help is needed to fund flights, accommodations and car rentals.
Obviously, this will not go unthanked! As previously announced, you will be able to join our meetup virtually through livestreams, scheduled chats and whatever else we can organize for YOU with the funds we’ll have collected.
Share the message!
Resteem this post, share it on social media and send it to your friends. SteemSTEM and Utopian.io are coming to Italy and you can take part!
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People who know me know that I care about my physical health, and due to that I have taken on numerous fitness challenges in the past to gamify my exercises and to keep myself consistent. But alas most of them have been abandoned midway (if not on exactly the second day).
This time it was different, the challenge started this time with someone at my work mentioning that we should try and do fitness challenges in November as it is a month of many festivals and sweets in India. We each decided to make our own challenges and so I decided to do a total of 1500 push-ups in the month of November. That turns out to be 50 push-ups per day for 30 days.
The key difference this time with the challenge was that I was posting daily updates of my progress on our company’s Slack workspace. This kept me accountable in a way that I couldn’t easily afford to not exercise some day because then my colleagues would ask me as to why there was no update.
For me, the 50 push-ups per day wasn’t the challenging part, I could easily manage that. The challenge was to stick daily to it and thus complete the 1500 in November. I anticipated that despite my best efforts there will be days where I can’t manage to do the day’s 50 (or I just might forget sometimes). Therefore I decided that the least I have to do per day will be 60 push-ups, so as to generate some slack for future me. And I allowed myself to do 50 on a day only if that does not bring down the average till then to 50 or less.
As I anticipated, there were a few hiccups where twice I could not manage to exercise for 2 days in a row. The first time it happened, it also brought down my average till then to quite below 50 and then I had to climb back from there to get on my regular track (cue hero’s journey music).
Finally after everything I managed to complete the last of the 1500 push-ups this Friday (3 days earlier than deadline). I also ended up setting a couple of personal-records along the way.
- For the first time I did 100 push-ups in a single workout.
- For the first time I did 40 push-ups in a single set (previous best was ~25).
I am now thinking of what to challenge myself with in December. If you folks have any ideas or challenges then shoot them my way via email or Twitter @varun_barad.


This tutorial should help you to learn to use HttpUnit to develop and test your web sites. It will take you through the incremental development of a simple servlet-based web application using a test-first approach. That is, first you are encouraged to write and execute a test for the next piece of functionality to be added, verify that the test fails (demonstrating that the functionality is not in place), and then implement the functionality and verify that the test now passes.
The initial tasks will use the ServletRunner
class, thus bypassing the need for a web browser or servlet
engine. Later tasks will require a web browser and a servlet engine, and use WebConversation
.
Our application is an office sport betting pool. An administrator is designated to manage the pool, which includes opening and closing the betting. Entrants select the winner in each of the up to 10 games defined by the administrator and also guess the total score in one of those games, as designated by the administrator. The winner of the pool is the one who got the most winners correct, with any ties going to the person whose predicted total score in the tie-breaker game was closest to the actual final score.
We will identify the following uses of the system:
This application is fairly simple, and hardly robust, but contains more than enough interactions to allow us to explore development and testing with HttpUnit.
Each section of the tutorial will address a specific use of the system, and show how HttpUnit and ServletUnit can be used to write tests which verify that functionality. You should begin each section by copying the initial directory, which includes an ant build script and some classes that you will need to complete it. Running the ant script will compile the code and run the tests. If you are not using ant, compile and run tutorial.TutorialTestSuite. After you implement each test, it should fail until you then add the implementation.
Tasks


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IEEE Day commemorates the first time in history, in 1884, when engineers from all over the world and IEEE members
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When is IEEE Day being held?
IEEE Day is an annual event celebrated on the first Tuesday in October, IEEE Day 2021 will be held on 5 October.
Celebrations can be held between 25 September and 17 October.
Who can participate?
All IEEE members i.e. Senior members, life members, Fellows, YP, students,… can celebrate the day.
I am a member of IEEE at my university, not DTU. Can I participate?


paste.lint – Check for the validity of WSGI requests and responses
Middleware to check for obedience to the WSGI specification.
Some of the things this checks:
- Signature of the application and start_response (including that
keyword arguments are not used).
- Environment checks:
- Environment is a dictionary (and not a subclass).
- That all the required keys are in the environment: REQUEST_METHOD,
SERVER_NAME, SERVER_PORT, wsgi.version, wsgi.input, wsgi.errors,
wsgi.multithread, wsgi.multiprocess, wsgi.run_once
- That HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE and HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH are not in the
environment (these headers should appear as CONTENT_LENGTH and
CONTENT_TYPE).
- Warns if QUERY_STRING is missing, as the cgi module acts
unpredictably in that case.
- That CGI-style variables (that don’t contain a .) have
(non-unicode) string values
- That wsgi.version is a tuple
- That wsgi.url_scheme is ‘http’ or ‘https’ (@@: is this too
restrictive?)
- Warns if the REQUEST_METHOD is not known (@@: probably too
restrictive).
- That SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO are empty or start with /
- That at least one of SCRIPT_NAME or PATH_INFO are set.
- That CONTENT_LENGTH is a positive integer.
- That SCRIPT_NAME is not ‘/’ (it should be ‘’, and PATH_INFO should
be ‘/’).
- That wsgi.input has the methods read, readline, readlines, and
__iter__
- That wsgi.errors has the methods flush, write, writelines
- The status is a string, contains a space, starts with an integer,
and that integer is in range (> 100).
- That the headers is a list (not a subclass, not another kind of
sequence).
- That the items of the headers are tuples of strings.
- That there is no ‘status’ header (that is used in CGI, but not in
WSGI).
- That the headers don’t contain newlines or colons, end in _ or -, or
contain characters codes below 037.
- That Content-Type is given if there is content (CGI often has a
default content type, but WSGI does not).
- That no Content-Type is given when there is no content (@@: is this
too restrictive?)
- That the exc_info argument to start_response is a tuple or None.
- That all calls to the writer are with strings, and no other methods
on the writer are accessed.
- That wsgi.input is used properly:
- .read() is called with zero or one argument
- That it returns a string
- That readline, readlines, and __iter__ return strings
- That .close() is not called
- No other methods are provided
- That wsgi.errors is used properly:
- .write() and .writelines() is called with a string
- That .close() is not called, and no other methods are provided.
- The response iterator:
- That it is not a string (it should be a list of a single string; a
string will work, but perform horribly).
- That .next() returns a string
- That the iterator is not iterated over until start_response has
been called (that can signal either a server or application
error).
- That .close() is called (doesn’t raise exception, only prints to
sys.stderr, because we only know it isn’t called when the object
is garbage collected).
Module Contents
-
paste.lint.middleware(application, global_conf=None)
When applied between a WSGI server and a WSGI application, this
middleware will check for WSGI compliancy on a number of levels.
This middleware does not modify the request or response in any
way, but will throw an AssertionError if anything seems off
(except for a failure to close the application iterator, which
will be printed to stderr – there’s no way to throw an exception
at that point).
-
exception paste.lint.WSGIWarning
Raised in response to WSGI-spec-related warnings


DocStrings in an __init__ file will be written to the Module Contents section of auto-code documentation generated by Sphinx. In our guide we also list the module contents before the submodule. This is not the default but can be generated with autodoc using the –module-first option. Or, of course, you can also manually edit the rst file for the module.
py_guide.__main__.
main
(args=None)[source]¶As a best practice, main() will be the entry point for this package. We will define a pattern of how we take information passed to main (arguments) and send them to methods to handle them (route). First we will define an argument parser. We put it in it’s own method to keep the main method clean. Next we’ll use a route_arguments() method, which in turn will handle further routing delegation via other methods, as a way to handle command line parameters.
If you want to add an argument
When an argument is parsed it should be routed to a handler action method.
py_guide.__main__.
parser_build
()[source]¶This method builds the argument parser to handle values passed in from the command line. Centralized in this method for readability.
The Argument parser allows standard patterns for parsing. For instance you do not have to program -h, or –help to explain how the command line is used. The argument parser will build this from the arguments, and descriptions provided for those arguments, when building the parser object.
py_guide.__main__.
route_action_list_of_strings
(args)[source]¶If a list of strings is passed as a command line parameter, this method will be triggered by routing, and will handle that argument. At this time we will simply echo back the values passed in, as the point is to show how argument parsing works.
py_guide.logging_trees.
LoggerOfTrees
(allow_log_file=True)[source]¶Bases: logging.Logger
Great Software has Great Logging.
https://www.google.com/search?q=logging
log·ging noun /ˈlôɡiNG,ˈläɡiNG/
the activity or business of felling trees and cutting and preparing the timber.
Originally created to deal with writing log files to directories (and creating that directory etc), I encapsulated the Python standard logging into my logging_trees project. By default this class can create the logging file and add the handler to direct logs to it. The file logger will be set to write all logs to the file. In addition we the logger will take Info level logs and above, and also write them to stdout so that it can be used instead of print statements.
add_handler_file
()[source]¶This method could have been called create log file. It will create a logging “handler” which is the Python term for where to write the log. It’s cool because logging can have more than one handler. Such as by default with this class, there is all a handler to put things to stdout like a print() statement.
add_handler_stdout
(msg_format='%(levelname)s | %(message)s')[source]¶This method could have been called send logs to stdout like a print() statement. It will create a logging “handler” which is the Python term for where to write the log. It’s cool because logging can have more than one handler. Such as by default with this class, there is all a handler to write logs to a file
allow_log_file
¶Property create_log_file is True if we want to write a log file. Originally for containers this flag was add for those cases where we don’t want a file log. Normally we still log to standard out.
log_directory
¶This file will create an instance of a new project with default settings
py_guide.project_factory.
PyProject
(logger=None, project_name='python_project')[source]¶Bases: object
author
¶create_core_files
()[source]¶Creates standard files for all projects following this Python guide. As a pattern this method will call another method to create the file. In that method it will handle the data needed for that file, as well as calling another method to write the file.
create_dist_pypi
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the distribute to PyPi bat files for Windows machines.
create_docs_source
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the Sphinx configuration file in the docs_source directory
create_gitignore
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the GIT Ignore file. This list excludes things in the project that should not be checked into source control.
create_init
(environment=None, directory=None)[source]¶Creates a Python __init__ file. As this file can be used multiple times within packages and sub-packages, we will allow for a directory parameter on where it should be written.
create_jrepl
(environment=None)[source]¶jrepl.bat or jreplace is a batch script that will update another file. On a windows box it can be used to update the project.cfg file with builds.
create_license
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the LICENSE file for the project.
create_main
(environment=None)[source]¶Method creates the __main__ file for the project. As part of our best practices standard the __main__ is important for creating a standard handling of arguments with argparse, a standard way to route those arguments to methods to implement them, and a standard way to create entry points. Entry points enable an installed application to have a Scripts/ directory start command. For instance, when this project is installed, there is a venv/scripts/py_guide command that can be executed.
create_project_config
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the LICENSE file for the project.
create_readme
(environment=None)[source]¶This method will create a README.rst file. We use rst so that it will be displayed in Rich Text when using systems like github.
create_requirements
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the requirements.txt file. This file is used by Python to update a projects virtual environment with the packages needed to run the project. Initialized with core packages that are needed for all projects like pip, setuptools and wheel, and packages needed to follow good practices like documentation, such as sphinx.
create_run_configurations
(environment=None)[source]¶This method creates files that allow for building of the project. Originally conceived to create the PyCharm .idea/runConfigurations xml files. I’m a big fan of PyCharm and recommend that if you are writing Python get the community edition. When you’re good enough to know why it’s worth it, by a pro license.
create_setup
(environment=None)[source]¶Creates the setup.py file for the project used with building the wheel file, deployed via pip
description
¶find_project_base_directory
()[source]¶Determines a directory for creating the new project. First check to see if there is a PycharmProjects directory in use. If so use it. If not then just use the user directory.
log
¶make_directory
(directory_path=None)[source]¶Creates a directory for the project. Handles errors and logging
name
¶This is the name of the project and the root of the directory structure.
project_absolute_path
¶The abspath() of this file. The absolute path will be the full file on path on disk for the operating system you are on.
project_directory
¶project_name
¶remove_directory
()[source]¶Primarily created for when make_directory experiences a FileExistsError, this method will delete an existing project folder. It takes the name we pass (or wnated to create) and finds it in the project directory path. This allows the calling user interface to not have to understand the full path to the directory.
write_file
(file_name=None, template=None, template_data={})[source]¶Wrapper method for successive file creation. Assumes all files want to be written relative to the project root.


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THE LAWNMOWER MAN A review in the public domain by The Phantom<EMAIL_ADDRESS>The Phantom should know by now what to expect when Stephen King's name is on the marquee: perhaps the worst theatrically-released horror or science fiction of the year. Although occasionally a talented filmmaker will successfully adapt a Stephen King short story or novel -- Rob Reiner has done wonders with two of King's stories so far, and Brian DePalma made a name both for himself and for King with his adaptation of CARRIE -- we will more often get anything from the forgettable RUNNING MAN to the terrible GRAVEYARD SHIFT to the absolute nadir of King adaptations, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, directed by the master of horror himself who apparently spared no effort in proving that a good writer does not a talented filmmaker make.
With THE LAWNMOWER MAN, King's name returns once again to the top of the marquee, and it was with some trepidation that the Phantom ventured into the Ziegfeld theater in New York (perhaps the largest and most lavish movie theater on the East Coast) to see what looked as if it might be a cross between a very vague memory of an old Stephen King short story and the result of an Amiga run amok. At the very least, the Phantom reasoned, the film's extensive computer graphics would be shown to best advantage on a screen big enough that it should have its own zip code; the unavoidable downside of having Pierce Brosnan's unshaven face looming fifty feet high above the Phantom for the bulk of the film's 100 minutes didn't occur to him until it was too late to sneak out and still get a refund.
But that unshaven face should have given the Phantom pause, for although computer graphics are sprinkled liberally throughout the film, the majority of screen time is occupied by Mr. Brosnan and his inability to act. He and his thespian disability share the screen every so often with his incredibly cheesy-looking laboratory, which appears for all the world to be nothing more than a parking garage with some neon lights and two of those gizmos that David Letterman had on his show some time back -- the ones that let you rotate yourself through 360 degrees in 3 dimensions. The Phantom kept eager eyes peeled for the Velcro wall or perhaps a large vat filled with shaving cream; after all, although the Phantom has made the acquaintance of a computer or two in his time, he's a novice when it comes to the exciting and ever-so-interesting world of virtual reality and all the props that world apparently requires.
Mr. Brosnan and his stubble, you see, have invented a way to use virtual reality to make people smarter. At least the Phantom believes that was his intention, as no one in the film behaves very intelligently either in or out of virtual reality. There is a fairly bright-looking chimpanzee at the beginning of the film, but he's quickly dispatched, most likely due to the "Don Johnson-look" clause in Mr. Brosnan's contract: no one in THE LAWNMOWER MAN is allowed to have more facial hair than the star of the film.  In fact, after that chimpanzee, it's pretty much all down hill in the intelligence department.
As it happens, THE LAWNMOWER MAN isn't really about virtual reality or the possibility of using computer technology to help people understand better the world around them; instead, it's just another "scientist's good intentions cause catastrophic results when his little refrigerated bottles of colored liquid fall into the wrong hands" flick, with some 3-D video games, evil government agents, and megalomania thrown in both indiscriminately and ineffectively.
And yet THE LAWNMOWER MAN has done fairly well at the box office, which can only mean that not everyone shares the Phantom's belief that it is a fundamentally dishonest and mean-spirited film. In the Phantom's mind, this can only be attributed to the "My Little Pony" effect, except here with computer graphics for the techno-geeks instead of cloyingly cute pink ponies for 8-year-old girls. There is a sizable audience who will see -- and, apparently, enjoy -- anything at all with computer graphics in it, just as there is a sizable number of undiscriminating 8-year-old girls who will gladly coerce their parents into attending MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOTION PICTURE. Of course, the salient difference is that those in the audience for the plastic figurine's adventures are children, whereas those in the audience for the R-rated LAWNMOWER MAN are supposed to be adults, and so should know better by now.
Films produced around computer graphics have had exceedingly poor track records: of TRON, THE LAST STARFIGHTER, and THE LAWNMOWER MAN, one would be hard-pressed to pick the one that's well off the "stupid" scale that we reviewers always keep in mind once the auditorium lights dim. (Just for reference: CITIZEN KANE is a 0 and HUDSON HAWK rings the bell.) In each case, the filmmakers apparently labored under the mistaken belief that computer graphics would keep us mesmerized long enough that we wouldn't notice how very silly or unoriginal the rest of film was. Yet when used sparingly, or with the grace and wit of the artists at Pixar, computer graphics can provide a film with truly breathtaking moments. If asked what they think is the most memorable scene in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, many people mention the show-stopping ballroom scene -- a scene that could have been animated only through the use of carefully designed computer graphics. Likewise, it's neither Schwarzenegger nor the near-ceaseless violence that captured people's imagination and caused audible gasps in the audience for TERMINATOR 2; instead, it was the liquid-metal and optical effects provided courtesy of extensive and ground-breaking computer graphics.
 It is in just this way that THE LAWNMOWER MAN seemed to the Phantom to have quite a bit in common with "My Little Pony" -- in both cases, a cynical attempt was made to capture audience dollars by using poorly and unimaginatively a technique that could be used well and with care. And, alas, in both cases that attempt appears to have paid off handsomely -- something that can do nothing but encourage future attempts to cash in on some people's undiscriminating need to see extended toy commercials or numbingly uninspired computer graphics in the service of an even less inspired film.
The possibilities of virtual reality have best been covered by William Gibson's "cyber-punk" novels; perhaps someday someone will turn his excellent NEUROMANCER or COUNT ZERO into a feature film. In the meantime, we have only the efforts of Brett Leonard and Gimel Everett, who wrote and directed THE LAWNMOWER MAN as if they never had even the slightest intention of exploring the concept of virtual reality. Instead, every time the plot takes us inside the artificial world in which Brosnan and his subject frequently lose themselves, all we get are 3-D video games, a strange and unlikely combination of TRON and FROM BEYOND, and of course some obligatory cybersex, just to earn that R-rating. (FRITZ THE CAT this is not; FELIX THE CAT more closely approximates the level of this film.) And as anyone familiar with the prop-laden world of virtual reality knows, one can only enter said world if one is whirling about like a human gyroscope and covered from head to toe in a rubber suit. The actors do this quite a lot in the film, so phans may wish to arm themselves with Dramamine beforehand.
When not spinning about in Mr. Brosnan's contraptions, the characters become involved in unlikely plot developments concerning "The Shop" -- the only element of the film that is recognizably "from the mind of Stephen King" -- and Brosnan's personal life (his wife walks out of the film early on, and phans would be wise to note her behavior in case they find themselves at a showing of THE LAWNMOWER MAN against the Phantom's best recommendations). We also witness the evolution of the "lawnmower man" from slow-witted gardener to Megalomaniacal genius (at one point Brosnan notes that he'd become smarter than Brosnan himself -- something that perhaps seemed more shocking in the script than it did on the screen, given Brosnan's performance). Along the way he dispatches several people, each of whom dies an updated version of an 80s-style Jasonized death. Some die in computationally expensive ways, which surely pleased the techno-geeks in the audience. One dies after he is chased out of his house by a lawnmower in a scene which perfectly captures the film's level of plausibility. Another staggers around in a daze after hearing "Now The Lawnmower Man is inside your head -- forever!"; after the end titles rolled, the Phantom knew just how he must have felt.
So as not to make this a completely negative review, and to redeem himself for the review's extreme tardiness, the Phantom will note that all of this was done long ago -- and done much better -- by Ken Russell in his extraordinarily loopy (but very enjoyable) 1980 film ALTERED STATES. Russell used a sensory deprivation tank and magic mushrooms instead of rubber suits and gyroscopes, but the idea was the same, and the film -- while not precisely a paragon of logic -- was at least entertaining. (There's also something to be said for watching William Hurt -- in his screen debut -- wake up naked surrounded by baboons in a zoo. Now no matter how pretentious he becomes, we can always remind him of his rather less-than-Shakespearean beginnings. Only Jane Fonda has more to live down....)
Of course, much of the sensory-assaulting special effects will be lost on the small screen, but phans will still be much happier watching this typically over-the-top Russell exercise in alternate realities than they will watching yet another in a depressingly long list of failed films about computers. HAL, where are you now that we really need you?
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Foodology
How Food Affects the Body and the Mind
Foodology is based on the idea that what you eat not only affects your body, but it also plays a significant role in how you feel. Let us help you figure out how your diet is affecting your cognition and your behavior.
About Foodology
Foodology was started by Chef and Psychologist Jung U Choi who was curious about the affects of a person's nutrition on their mood and behavior. It is already generally excepted that other aspects of our daily lives play a large role in our psychology. Sleep for example is a major field of study within psychology and some psychologists even believe that a lack of sleep can lead to psychosis (think about what would happen if you started dreaming while you were awake).
So why is it that more people do not understand the relationship between our food and our minds. Everyone has to eat; it is what keeps us alive and gives us energy to get through the day. Yet, most people are more preoccupied by how food affects the way our bodies look rather than how it affects the way we feel and think. The basic theory behind the idea of foodology is that our brain needs fuel to function and we get that fuel from our food. So what would happen if we weren't getting the correct nutrients for our brains to function properly? We know that our diets can lead to physical illness so is it possible that it could also lead to mental illness? Does food play a more significant role in our psychology and if so, how do we feed our brains? Let's find out together.
Food & Brand Lab
This website is for Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab. I like this website because it is easy to navigate and it seems like it fairly organized despite the amount of content that it contains. I also like that it has a search bar that allows you to search for different articles and pages hosted by the website. I can't really say anything bad about the design of the website, but I personally would perfer it if the navigation links were on the left or right hand margin rather than at the top. Regarding the content of the website, I wish there was a section dedicated to what foods can help with certain brain functions.


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The most advanced UNIX technology was being developed at Carnegie-Mellon, where Steve hired some of his best programmers, such as Avie Tevanian. He was also told about object-oriented programming, a breakthrough from Xerox PARC which made software development very fast and efficient. So Steve knew his priorities for the NeXT operating system: it would be a UNIX object-oriented system — on top of which would be added a graphical user interface, to make it user-friendly. These were the very ambitious foundations of NeXTSTEP, so ambitious that it would take several years before they would give birth to a stable operating system.
Second, of course, was hardware. Steve had been


I've worked in the past on a few projects that use Amazon's S3 service to store images and files from Laravel applications. Even though the functionality is pretty much built into the framework, the process of getting started can be a little jarring, especially to those who don't have a whole lot of experience with the AWS suite.
The benefits of using S3 can be pretty huge however, so I thought it was worthwhile to throw together this brief tutorial on how to get started tying your new (or existing) Laravel application's storage to an Amazon S3 bucket.
Don't want to continue reading? Watch the video on it instead! {% youtube BQ0gi9YHuek %}
Creating our project
To showcase the storage functionality, I'm going to build a super barebones image uploader in Laravel.
First thing's first, we're going to need three routes for this. Open up your routes/web.php
file and create two GET requests, and a POST. These will be for the initial landing page, storing an image, and displaying a single image that was uploaded. These three will all use the same controller, ImageController.php
, for the sake of simplicity.
Here's what I have for that:
Route::get('/', 'ImageController@create');
Route::post('/', 'ImageController@store');
Route::get('/{image}', 'ImageController@show');
Then in our console at the project root, we can create that controller using artisan. Additionally, we can also generate the model with its migration using make:model with the --migration
flag. Let's see how that looks.
php artisan make:controller ImageController
php artisan make:model Image --migration
For this demonstration app, we don't exactly need a ton of columns in our database table for the images. I think a filename and a url should suit that purpose just fine.
Opening up the new migration in the database/migrations/
directory, let's modify it so that it looks like the following:
public function up()
{
Schema::create('images', function(Blueprint $table) {
$table->bigIncrements('id');
$table->string('filename');
$table->string('url');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
If we look back at our routes/web.php
file, we can see that we're going to need three methods in our ImageController. create(), store(), and update().
Create is an easy one, we literally just want to return a view that displays an image upload form so that we can add in an image and click a button to submit a form. Store needs a request parameter though, so that we can pull out the image data after that form has been submitted, and store it on our S3 bucket. Finally, update can have an Image parameter so that we can type-hint the return and stream the stored image directly to our user's browser.
Let's start with our form. Using TailwindCSS and a resources/views/images/create.blade.php
file, I've made probably the most basic upload form I could think of.
The markup for this is equally simple, it's a form that posts to the root page, where we've created our route that sends data to the ImageController@store
method.
<div class="max-w-sm mx-auto py-8">
<form action="/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="image" id="image">
<button type="submit">Upload</button>
</form>
</div>
Saving an image locally
As with most everything else, Laravel makes it insanely easy to grab our file after it's uploaded and store it locally. In the store()
method of our ImageController, we can call the file method on the $request object, passing through the name of our file input (image
).
Chaining to that we can use the store method and specify a local path, that will automatically save the image file (with a randomly generated name and correct extension) to our local disk.
It's all wrapped up in a super simple, single line of code:
$path = $request->file('image')->store('images');
Let's return that path back out to the browser for now.
If we then go back to our form in our web browser, select an image to upload, and click the 'Upload' button, we're presented with a relative file path to the stored image.
Going through to our Laravel app's storage/app
directory, we can see that a new /images
directory was created, and our image resides inside of it.
That's great! It works locally! Now it's time to migrate this functionality to Amazon. As I mentioned earlier, Laravel has most of this taken care of out-of-the-box. The only thing that we need to get this tied in is 4 different values in our application's .env
file:
- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
- AWS_BUCKET
Let's see how we can get those.
Setting up an S3 bucket
Head on over to aws.amazon.com and create an account (or sign in with your existing one). After you're in, take a look at the top menu bar and find the 'Services' item. If you click on that, you open up a box with Amazon's massive list of AWS services. Scroll down, and under the Storage section, select 'S3'.
On the following screen, you'll see a list of any S3 buckets that you've created, along with a blue "Create bucket" button. Click that! On the following pages, enter in your bucket name (which has to be unique across the entire AWS platform), and select the region most applicable for your bucket.
The rest of the pages should remain with the default values, and continue clicking the next button until your bucket is successfully created.
Alright, we have our bucket, but now we need credentials in order to access it programmatically. Clicking the 'Services' menu item again, search for IAM. This stands for Identity and Access Management, and it's where we're going to create id/secret pairs for our newly-created bucket.
On the left-hand side of this screen, click the 'Users' item under the Access management group. On the following page, click the blue 'Add user' button.
Fill out a user name for your user, and check the box next to Programmatic access, this let's AWS know that we want to generate a key ID and secret access key for this user.
The next page will probably be the most confusing part of this tutorial, and honestly it's pretty straight forward. Amazon let's you determine permissions on a per-user basis, and users can also be attached to groups if you have large amounts of them to manage.
For our simple demo (and honestly for most of my projects), I prefer going to the "Attach existing policies directly" section, searching for S3
, and checking the box next to AmazonS3FullAccess. This ensures that our user (with the ID/secret attached), has full read/write access to our S3 bucket.
Click through the next few screens, leaving everything unchanged, and your user will be created successfully!
You'll be on a screen that contains your user created, along with its Access key ID and Secret access key. Copy these two values into your application's .env
file under the appropriate headings listed above.
The other two items we'll need in our .env
file we can pull straight from our bucket. The name that you used when you created it, and the region that you chose during the same step.
Now, we just have to tell Laravel to use S3 instead of our local disk.
Connecting S3 to our application
Back in the store()
method of our ImageController, all we have to do is make a single change to the one-liner that stores our files. In the store()
method after 'images', add a comma and the string 's3':
$path = $request->file('image')->store('images', 's3');
This tells Laravel that you want to use the S3 disk service, provisioned already in the services config of our app.
The final piece of this connection, is installing the package that Laravel uses as the bridge between our app and our S3 bucket. You can do that with the following line from your application's root:
composer require league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3
Okay, now let's go back to our application, and try uploading a file.
It works! A path is returned, but if we look at our storage/app/images
directory, there's nothing new. That's because it was sent to our S3 bucket. If we refresh our bucket, there's now a folder called images, and clicking into it, we see our image that we uploaded!
Let's put those models we created earlier to use.
Saving the image to the database
Back in our store()
method in our ImageController, let's create a new image object after we store our image. Remember, we need just two values, a filename and a url. The filename we can get with the basename
PHP method, and the url we can retrieve through the Storage facade's URL helper. Passing through our image's saved path, it conveniently returns back the full URL to our Amazon S3 image object.
This is what that model object creation looks like:
$image = Image::create([
'filename' => basename($path),
'url' => Storage::disk('s3')->url($path)
]);
Now instead of returning the $path like we were previously, let's return the whole $image object.
Let's go back to our app's upload form, pick an image, and hit Upload. This time, we're given back some JSON that contains our image model's ID, filename, and URL.
That image URL is also under a private lockdown right now, by default. If you click it, AWS returns an Access Denied error, and you're unable to view the image directly. Instead, we'll have to go about it a different way.
Back on our ImageController, we have a show()
method, taking in our Image ID. We can use the type-hinted Image object, and thanks to the Storage facade again, we can both retrieve the image from S3 and stream it as a browser response with the appropriate content type. All of that with a single line of code:
return Storage::disk('s3')->response('images/' . $image->filename);
If we go to a path on our app with the Image ID that was just returned to us, Laravel retrieves the image from our S3 bucket, and displays it directly in the browser.
That's all
That's about it for now!
You've successfully learned how to:
- Upload image files and store them locally
- Set up an Amazon S3 bucket and assign credentials
- Convert local disk storage to use an Amazon S3 bucket
- Retrieve images from an S3 bucket with Laravel
If you'd like to learn more about Laravel development, Amazon AWS, or other general web dev topics, feel free to follow me on my YouTube channel or my Twitter.
If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to get in touch!


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Great looks, better organized files, like Vista; Crashes too much!


Dharma Rain is progressing on their plans to move to a new home right now, and it’s shaking me up more than I’d have expected.
I first got into Buddhism (via Buddhism for Dummies, which I still maintain is a great intro book) when I was teaching full-time and felt like a failure who had too much work and not enough…something. Expertise, maybe. Desire to teach. Or even just time. It comes back to anxiety about time over and over, but that’s another entry.
My real dedication to Zen in particular came during another tough job. Two months in to that one I knew I needed to make a change to get through all of the…angst is a word that the nineties ruined but maybe that’s it? All of the stress and pent-up, “oh god this is a lot,” perhaps? I knew I needed a change and I was in Portland and an internet friend recommended Dharma Rain and off I went. I took an intro class and then I settled in to a routine of attending Wednesday nights; somehow Zen night made a lot more sense than Sunday service did. I loved the dharma talks on Sundays but the discussion classes on Wednesday—and the fact that it was at night—fit me more.
There were times when I “went to Zen” every single week, and times when there were months (once, maybe even a year) in between visits. Always smiles though, always “we wondered” or just “welcome back,” instead of admonishments or guilt trips that marred the Catholicism of my youth. I mention this a lot whenever I explain my involvement to folks who don’t know about Zen but are curious—the sense of “hey! good to see you!” comes through at Dharma Rain. It motivates folks to return, too, I imagine.
After all, everything is impermanent, we all have our own paths, and sometimes that path takes us in another direction.
I’m finding it difficult to read the moving milestones without feeling lost. I left Portland in 2011; it was in fall of 2012 when we moved to Macomb with about $100 to spare that I finally stopped contributing my (paltry) $15/month to the center. Dharma Rain, this practice, meditation, thinking about the precepts, working towards mindfulness, not working but just embracing mindfulness…it all makes me a better me. Place matters to me. We lose this place soon.
I don’t talk about Buddhism much; certainly not publicly, not in a way that can be traced to my name and my face and my life. During a beginner’s retreat, the co-abbot at Dharma Rain asked me about my Catholic family and how they felt about my taking the precepts to become a Buddhist. “I don’t know!” I said, chuckling a bit. “I never told them!”
The entire class of people roared at that. For the most part, that lack of knowledge still lingers. I’m 36 now and I couldn’t tell you why it’s still something I can’t bring up with them, but it is.
Anyway, I don’t talk about it much. Part of it is that it is something that feels sacred to me in a world where many of my friends don’t embrace that sort of thing. I spent years in punk rock, too; I had my own break with my upbringing more than 15 years ago, now. I have many more friends that think going to church is odd than friends that go to church. Portland “gets” Buddhism more than it gets Christianity, but still it’s true that not everyone understands.
I also don’t talk about it much because it is one area of my life where I stay quiet a lot. In the many Wednesday classes I’ve attended, I’ve probably raised my hand to answer something only once, maybe twice. I don’t have anyone in my life that I know from the Zen Center that has become a friend outside of the Zen Center. Practicing—really committing to—Zen meditation has a profound effect on my happiness and, especially, the happiness of the people in my life. I think that the quiet that it gives me sometimes—and the space between anger and lashing out—saved my relationship more than once.
And yet I find it hard, quite often, to call myself a Buddhist.
The Zen Center is being sold and the Dharma House is being sold and the new building plans are moving slowly in comparison and the lack of home on the horizon is evident and the final (ever) service in the zendo is scheduled for June and when I type that and when I think about that and when I feel about that it hits me in the stomach, and then I begin to almost cry (and most of this sentence shows awareness I never had before learning about awareness at Dharma Rain).
Because something is lost that will not come back in the same way. Because everything is impermanent, even decades old sanghas. Because life is marked by “unsatisfactoriness”, yet knowing that still does not make it easy.
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make-array
dimensions &key element-type
initial-element
initial-contents
adjustable
fill-pointer
displaced-to
displaced-index-offset
⇒ new-array
dimensions—a designator for a list of valid array dimensions.
element-type—a type specifier. The default is t.
initial-element—an object.
initial-contents—an object.
adjustable—a generalized boolean. The default is nil.
fill-pointer—a valid fill pointer for the array to be created, or t or nil. The default is nil.
displaced-to—an array or nil. The default is nil. This option must not be supplied if either initial-element or initial-contents is supplied.
displaced-index-offset—a valid array row-major index for displaced-to. The default is 0. This option must not be supplied unless a non-nil displaced-to is supplied.
new-array—an array.
Creates and returns an array constructed of the most specialized type that can accommodate elements of type given by element-type. If dimensions is nil then a zero-dimensional array is created.
Dimensions represents the dimensionality of the new array.
element-type indicates the type of the elements intended to be stored in the new-array. The new-array can actually store any objects of the type which results from upgrading element-type; see Array Upgrading.
If initial-element is supplied, it is used to initialize each element of new-array. If initial-element is supplied, it must be of the type given by element-type. initial-element cannot be supplied if either the :initial-contents option is supplied or displaced-to is non-nil. If initial-element is not supplied,
the consequences of later reading an uninitialized element of new-array are undefined
unless either initial-contents is supplied or displaced-to is non-nil.
initial-contents is used to initialize the contents of array. For example:
(make-array '(4 2 3) :initial-contents '(((a b c) (1 2 3)) ((d e f) (3 1 2)) ((g h i) (2 3 1)) ((j k l) (0 0 0))))
initial-contents is composed of a nested structure of sequences. The numbers of levels in the structure must equal the rank of array. Each leaf of the nested structure must be of the type given by element-type. If array is zero-dimensional, then initial-contents specifies the single element. Otherwise, initial-contents must be a sequence whose length is equal to the first dimension; each element must be a nested structure for an array whose dimensions are the remaining dimensions, and so on. Initial-contents cannot be supplied if either initial-element is supplied or displaced-to is non-nil. If initial-contents is not supplied,
the consequences of later reading an uninitialized element of new-array are undefined
unless either initial-element is supplied or displaced-to is non-nil.
If adjustable is non-nil, the array is expressly adjustable (and so actually adjustable); otherwise, the array is not expressly adjustable (and it is implementation-dependent whether the array is actually adjustable).
If fill-pointer is non-nil, the array must be one-dimensional; that is, the array must be a vector. If fill-pointer is t, the length of the vector is used to initialize the fill pointer. If fill-pointer is an integer, it becomes the initial fill pointer for the vector.
If displaced-to is non-nil, make-array will create a displaced array and displaced-to is the target of that displaced array. In that case, the consequences are undefined if the actual array element type of displaced-to is not type equivalent to the actual array element type of the array being created. If displaced-to is nil, the array is not a displaced array.
The displaced-index-offset is made to be the index offset of the array. When an array A is given as the :displaced-to argument to make-array when creating array B, then array B is said to be displaced to array A. The total number of elements in an array, called the total size of the array, is calculated as the product of all the dimensions. It is required that the total size of A be no smaller than the sum of the total size of B plus the offset n supplied by the displaced-index-offset. The effect of displacing is that array B does not have any elements of its own, but instead maps accesses to itself into accesses to array A. The mapping treats both arrays as if they were one-dimensional by taking the elements in row-major order, and then maps an access to element k of array B to an access to element k+n of array A.
If make-array is called with adjustable, fill-pointer, and displaced-to each nil, then the result is a simple array.
If make-array is called with one or more of adjustable, fill-pointer, or displaced-to being true, whether the resulting array is a simple array is implementation-dependent.
When an array A is given as the :displaced-to argument to make-array when creating array B, then array B is said to be displaced to array A. The total number of elements in an array, called the total size of the array, is calculated as the product of all the dimensions. The consequences are unspecified if the total size of A is smaller than the sum of the total size of B plus the offset n supplied by the displaced-index-offset. The effect of displacing is that array B does not have any elements of its own, but instead maps accesses to itself into accesses to array A. The mapping treats both arrays as if they were one-dimensional by taking the elements in row-major order, and then maps an access to element k of array B to an access to element k+n of array A.
(make-array 5) ;; Creates a one-dimensional array of five elements. (make-array '(3 4) :element-type '(mod 16)) ;; Creates a ;;two-dimensional array, 3 by 4, with four-bit elements. (make-array 5 :element-type 'single-float) ;; Creates an array of single-floats.
(make-array nil :initial-element nil) ⇒ #0ANIL (make-array 4 :initial-element nil) ⇒ #(NIL NIL NIL NIL) (make-array '(2 4) :element-type '(unsigned-byte 2) :initial-contents '((0 1 2 3) (3 2 1 0))) ⇒ #2A((0 1 2 3) (3 2 1 0)) (make-array 6 :element-type 'character :initial-element #\a :fill-pointer 3) ⇒ "aaa"
The following is an example of making a displaced array.
(setq a (make-array '(4 3))) ⇒ #<ARRAY 4x3 simple 32546632> (dotimes (i 4) (dotimes (j 3) (setf (aref a i j) (list i 'x j '= (* i j))))) ⇒ NIL (setq b (make-array 8 :displaced-to a :displaced-index-offset 2)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 8 indirect 32550757> (dotimes (i 8) (print (list i (aref b i)))) |> (0 (0 X 2 = 0)) |> (1 (1 X 0 = 0)) |> (2 (1 X 1 = 1)) |> (3 (1 X 2 = 2)) |> (4 (2 X 0 = 0)) |> (5 (2 X 1 = 2)) |> (6 (2 X 2 = 4)) |> (7 (3 X 0 = 0)) ⇒ NIL
The last example depends on the fact that arrays are, in effect, stored in row-major order.
(setq a1 (make-array 50)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 50 simple 32562043> (setq b1 (make-array 20 :displaced-to a1 :displaced-index-offset 10)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 20 indirect 32563346> (length b1) ⇒ 20 (setq a2 (make-array 50 :fill-pointer 10)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 50 fill-pointer 10 46100216> (setq b2 (make-array 20 :displaced-to a2 :displaced-index-offset 10)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 20 indirect 46104010> (length a2) ⇒ 10 (length b2) ⇒ 20 (setq a3 (make-array 50 :fill-pointer 10)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 50 fill-pointer 10 46105663> (setq b3 (make-array 20 :displaced-to a3 :displaced-index-offset 10 :fill-pointer 5)) ⇒ #<ARRAY 20 indirect, fill-pointer 5 46107432> (length a3) ⇒ 10 (length b3) ⇒ 5
adjustable-array-p, aref, arrayp, array-element-type, array-rank-limit, array-dimension-limit, fill-pointer, upgraded-array-element-type
There is no specified way to create an array for which adjustable-array-p definitely returns false. There is no specified way to create an array that is not a simple array.
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Maggie's Hackathon is a 12-hour HackDay that aims to change the lives of cancer patients. Twenty of Britain's best developers and entrepreneurs will have a chance to hack innovative concepts together with Bloomberg developers and product designers and revolutionize the lives of cancer patients!
The inspiration for Maggie's Hack was ignited through a project ignited byMaggie's Centres, in which they envisioned
Startups, apps, prototypes will be created, and presented in front of CEOs, investors, serial entrepreneurs and evangelists - all with the objective of becoming the 2015 HackTrain champion! With TrainHackers from UK, Russia, Romania, France, Poland, Czech Republic together with many other European countries, this hackathon will certainly promise a unique experience!
Maggie Keswick Jencks lived with advanced cancer for two years. During that time she used her knowledge and experience to create a blueprint for a new type of care. Maggie’s Centres are built around her belief that people should not “lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”.


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Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet.
Overview
Walmart Example - You do not have to be a FAANG
Cloud Journey
Cloud Journey
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The Future Waits for Nobody — My Capital One Journey to the AWS CloudSGN, A Major Utility Provider in Europe, Is Modernizing IT Using the Cloud
Cloud-Based Agility in Responding to Disasters
Never Let the Future Disturb You
Don’t Fly Solo on Your Migration
Tenets Provide Essential Guidance on Your Cloud Journey
Driving Change and Managing Innovation
Benefits of Automating Compliance
Recommended talks
Evolving Architecture Patterns in the CloudHow to Get from Zero to Hundreds of Cloud Engineers
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Suggested HW: Choose one of the cloud adoption frameworks - apply it to your organization
Suggested HW: Design a new digital product composed completely of free software and cloud services


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Hi, My name is Conner.
Prior to gSchool, I was a Computer/Network technician. I did a lot of administration for systems, networks, and some general help desk for large businesses. I did feel like this work was enjoyable, but I also felt limited in terms of personal growth, so I decided to move onto coding!
I've been interested in computers since I was a kid. When I was 8 years old, I found my first computer sitting next to the trash outside of someones house. It was broken originally. Luckily, when I opened it up I found a cable that came loose on the inside. I plugged it into the only place it would fit to see if it worked. It did. This sparked my interest in problem solving and computers in general.


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Dress4Now is an integrated online fashion shopping application that optimizes the online clothing shopping experience.
Time: March - May, 2018
My role: UX Researcher, UX/UI Designer
Instructors: Catherine Batacan, William Tyner
Highlights: six user interviews, 10 usability testing (four for low-fi, six for how-fi)
Research methods: In-person Interviews, Card Sorting, Comparative Analysis, Affinity Diagram, Prototyping, Wireframing, Usability Testing
Tools: Sketch, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Trello
Remember the last time you spent a day in a department store, grabbing clothes and roughly counting the number before an assistant to get into the fitting room? Young female friends around me always complain they didn't have time to go shopping and their wardrobes always lack a piece of clothing. But the truth is that they're easily attracted by online promotions to open up a fashion app browsing for a whole night.
According to a report by Shopify in 2018, revenue and revenue per user (ARPU) of digital clothing merchants are projected to grow both worldwide and domestically in five years. The U.S. ecommerce fashion industry is expected to grow 8.8 percent while 8.7 percent in Europe and 14.1 percent in China.
The reduced digital barrier provided us with a more convenient way to shop. However, as ecommerce reshaped how customers interact with the items in fashion industry and created a totally different experience, problems emerge. The increasing return and exchange rates indicate the space to optimize user experience with online fashion retailers.
I targeted my users as young femalel professionals aged 18 to 35 as they make up for the majority of online fashion shopping customers. To address the problem, I randomly chatted with my friends falling into this category and roughly came to the first-stage statement as below.
Young female professionals need a way to get more details of the clothes online because it will help them get a perfect fit.
Young female professionals need a way to get an organized list of online clothing products and customized recommendations because it will save their time.
We believe that by creating a function that allows customers to virtually try clothes on for young female professionals, we will achieve offering the best fit for them.
We will know this to be true when we see higher conversion rates and lower return rates.
I conducted six interviews in total. Three of them were my friends and three were female consumers I interviewed at department stores.
I used affinity diagram to analyze all the insights and findings from my user interviews. Overall there are three main painpoints users have with online clothing shopping.
With the research findings in mind, I conducted the competitive analysis by listing the featues of competitors. Bascially there are three types of competitors based on my research.
Although they do not focus on fashion retail, they almost have everything users in need of and the habit of shopping in other departments sometimes triggered users to search for clothing items. They're professional in creating an easy path for people to shop, but not customized enough for clothing shopping.
They typically extend their offline shopping experience to the online platform. While they're expert for its large collection, their digital platforms actually lack some dedicated efforts with UI/UX designs.
They usually offer a lot of deals and create an online community. They have their own websites and mobile platforms that are well-built. But the limitation is that users have to switch if they don't want to shop in a specific brand.
Based on my research and analysis, I created two personas and revised the problem statement and hypothesis.
Young female professionals need a way to get more details of the products on online fashion platforms because it will help them have a better knowledge of the quality of products and make reasonable purchase decisions to get perfect fits.
We believe that by creating a function that allows customers to get access to the details of the clothing products for young female professionals, we will achieve offering the best fit for them.
We will know this to be true when we see higher conversion rates and lower return rates.
I brainstormed many approaches to solve the problem, and prioritized them using the "effort-impact" matrix. Starting from the "low-effort, high-impact" quadrant, I also tried to tackle some of the "high-effort, high-impact" ones.
Creating a user flow enabled me to think logically and integrate all the elements I already had into a happy path. It was much harder than I expected to draft the first flow, partly because of the tedious sign-up steps and the navigation across different brands.
After seleveral times of revision, I finally came to the one below. It's close to a normal online shopping path, but I added three main features innovated to optimize the path.
After some card sorting experiments with potential users, I landed on the site map to lay out the information my product would contain. There was no big surprise from the card sorting results as they all expected in line with a normal fashion retailer platform.
An effective way to progress was to sketch out the scenarios of how a potential user would interact with my product and what the main screens would be. (Please excuse my bad drawing!)
I conducted my first round of usability testing with four users and two tasks with the four main screens at the very first stage.
Overall the usability testing turned out well, but people expected the UI to be more intuitive and more features added to create an end-to-end path.
With the insights from first usability testing, I expanded the four screens to more for a more comprehensive low-fi. I linked screens and buttons to show the interaction.
I continued the usability testing all the way along the process from low-fi to high-fi. Once the main functions were ready, I began to test ignoring the unfinished UI. I found this approach was more effective and flexible than testing after everything is done as it took me less effort to revise.
I've done six usability testings in total, with three tasks . All were offline so that I was able to ask their feedbacks promptly and recorded the whole process.
Thanks to the testing, I realized some barriers that I failed to see as an insider, like the floating home button, the placement of "try on in store" function and some detailed UI elements.
For the final prototype, I've made three main revisions after the usability testings.
The sign up stage was one of the most challenging parts as I tried to get more preferences from users without bothering them. I revised the UI design to prioritize the hierachy of each page by moving the "back and step" button to the top and making the font weight smaller. To keep users more engaged, I also added pop-up windows in later steps before they check out.
With so many color patterns experimenting with accessibility and branding, I finally decided to keep the main pages black and white as most online fashion retailers do. The biggest challenge is that the information of clothing items is too colorful, thus having my own color is likely to make it too overwhelming.
"Virtual try on", "Cutomized Size Guide" and "Try on in store" are the three main featues I created for this product. In stead of putting "Try on in store" before the procedure of checkout, I moved it up to the main product page based on the user feedbacks. I also revised the placement of these features bu slightly reorganized the content structure from Zara's original design.
As I've gone through the whole process of a UX design in this project, the biggest takeaway for me is to get foot in each stage of the entire UX design, especially some of the procedures I was not familiar with before.
Different from previous projects I've done which already have existing products and problems, the project required me to come up with my own problem statement at the beginning, which was the biggest challenge for me. As I was so perplexed at the beginning, I forced myself to get out of home, observe and ask people as much as possible every time when I was stuck in the process.
This method was also significant in usability testing. It was easy to be unsatisifed with your design but had no idea what did'nt go well. Asking people for feedbacks, either randomly or officially, would help.
During this project, I've read Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug and applied some of the methods discussed in the book. It comprehensively talks about almost everything in web design in a casual way.
Due to the time limit I just tackled the top pain points but didn't have enough time and efforts to solve other problems. The next step is going back to my research findings, trying to ideate solutions for other pain points and validate them along with my current prototype.
After that I will consult with engineers about how to realize those features, and how much efforts would be involved. Based on my research, the "try-on" feature would involve facial recognition system based on machine learning, and the "customized size guide" would require more data to make it precise.
Meanwhile, as I'm really interested in fashion industry, I'm also keeping track of the design trends in this industry, including the recent online product updates from fashion retailers, and other applications aiming to optimize fashion shopping experience like Amazon Fashion and Stitch Fix.


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ColorBrewer: An online tool for selecting color schemes for maps. The Cartographic Journal 40(1): 27-37.
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About the SymTermes
The fourth edition of Symposium of Termitology (SymTermes) will be held from November 8th to 10th, 2017, at the Federal University of Vicosa, in Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The event is aimed for both to undergraduate and graduate students, and also for professionals and companies. The main objective is to promote scientific disclosure and debate enabling the information exchange between the different areas of termites’ research.
Previous events
I Symposium
Year: 2011Location: State University of Goias, Anapolis, Goiás, Brazil
Number of participants: 112
Keynote speaker: Judith Korb (University of Freiburg)
II Symposium:
Year: 2013Location: Federal University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil
Number of participants: 98
Keynote speakers: Michael S. Engel (University of Kansas); Yves Roisin (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
III Symposium:
Year: 2015Location: Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
Number of participants: 113
Keynote speakers: David Bignell (University of London); Ed Vargo (Texas A&M University); Yves Roisin (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
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Viçosa
Viçosa is naturally hospitable. Focusing its activities on the Federal University of Viçosa, UFV, the city receives people from various parts of Brazil and the world either for a quick stay to take part in academic-scientific events or for a longer period to expand one’s academic background and acquire further knowledge.
Despite being small, Viçosa is a cosmopolitan city. Living in Viçosa means being constantly part of an exchange program. The variety of people living here confers to the city a high cultural diversity. With a permanent population of over 76 thousand inhabitants and a floating population estimated in 15 thousand people, Viçosa offers highly distinct lifestyles, depending on what you intend to experience here.
Read more in: PPG Entomologia.City information
Area: 279 km2
Altitude: 648 m
Latitude: 20º 45′ 14″ S
Longitude: 42º 52′ 53″ W
Coordinates UTM (m): 7.703.630 N 720.570 E
Population: Approx. 76.000 hab.
Localization: Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Zip code: 36570-000
DDI: +55
DDD: 31.
Climate
The climate in Viçosa is tropical of altitude and the mean annual temperature of 18.5 °C, varying between 8.2 °C and 28.5 °C. However, the climate has sudden oscillations.
During the SymTermes, it's expected temperatures between 25 and 30°C during the day with commonly rains during the night.
Distance from the main cities
Belo Horizonte: 225 km
Brasília: 980 km
Juiz de Fora: 180 km
Rio de Janeiro: 385 km
São Paulo: 650 km
Vitória: 410 km