DJPEG(1) DJPEG(1) NAME djpeg - decompress a JPEG file to an image file SYNOPSIS djpeg [ options ] [ filename ] DESCRIPTION djpeg decompresses the named JPEG file, or the standard input if no file is named, and produces an image file on the standard output. PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM), BMP, GIF, Targa, or RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit) output format can be selected. (RLE is supported only if the URT library is avail‐ able.) OPTIONS All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale may be writ‐ ten -gray or -gr. Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter. Upper and lower case are equivalent (thus -BMP is the same as -bmp). British spellings are also accepted (e.g., -greyscale), though for brevity these are not mentioned below. The basic switches are: -colors N Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the number of col‐ ors used in the output image, so that it can be displayed on a colormapped display or stored in a colormapped file format. For example, if you have an 8-bit display, you'd need to reduce to 256 or fewer colors. -quantize N Same as -colors. -colors is the recommended name, -quantize is provided only for backwards compatibility. -fast Select recommended processing options for fast, low quality out‐ put. (The default options are chosen for highest quality output.) Currently, this is equivalent to -dct fast -nosmooth -onepass -dither ordered. -grayscale Force gray-scale output even if JPEG file is color. Useful for viewing on monochrome displays; also, djpeg runs noticeably faster in this mode. -scale M/N Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently supported scale factors are M/N with all M from 1 to 16, where N is the source DCT size, which is 8 for baseline JPEG. If the /N part is omitted, then M specifies the DCT scaled size to be applied on the given input. For baseline JPEG this is equivalent to M/8 scaling, since the source DCT size for baseline JPEG is 8. Scaling is handy if the image is larger than your screen; also, djpeg runs much faster when scaling down the output. -bmp Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit colormapped for‐ mat is emitted if -colors or -grayscale is specified, or if the JPEG file is gray-scale; otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted. -gif Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support more than 256 colors, -colors 256 is assumed (unless you specify a smaller number of colors). -os2 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale is specified, or if the JPEG file is gray-scale; otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted. -pnm Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the default for‐ mat). PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is gray-scale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise PPM is emitted. -rle Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.) -targa Select Targa output format. Gray-scale format is emitted if the JPEG file is gray-scale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise, colormapped format is emitted if -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted. Switches for advanced users: -dct int Use integer DCT method (default). -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate). -dct float Use floating-point DCT method. The float method is very slightly more accurate than the int method, but is much slower unless your machine has very fast floating-point hardware. Also note that results of the floating-point method may vary slightly across machines, while the integer methods should give the same results everywhere. The fast integer method is much less accurate than the other two. -dither fs Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization. -dither ordered Use ordered dithering in color quantization. -dither none Do not use dithering in color quantization. By default, Floyd- Steinberg dithering is applied when quantizing colors; this is slow but usually produces the best results. Ordered dither is a compromise between speed and quality; no dithering is fast but usually looks awful. Note that these switches have no effect unless color quantization is being done. Ordered dither is only available in -onepass mode. -map file Quantize to the colors used in the specified image file. This is useful for producing multiple files with identical color maps, or for forcing a predefined set of colors to be used. The file must be a GIF or PPM file. This option overrides -colors and -onepass. -nosmooth Don't use high-quality upsampling. -onepass Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization. The one-pass method is faster and needs less memory, but it produces a lower- quality image. -onepass is ignored unless you also say -colors N. Also, the one-pass method is always used for gray-scale output (the two-pass method is no improvement then). -maxmemory N Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number. For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used. -outfile name Send output image to the named file, not to standard output. -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup. -debug Same as -verbose. EXAMPLES This example decompresses the JPEG file foo.jpg, quantizes it to 256 col‐ ors, and saves the output in 8-bit BMP format in foo.bmp: djpeg -colors 256 -bmp foo.jpg > foo.bmp HINTS To get a quick preview of an image, use the -grayscale and/or -scale switches. -grayscale -scale 1/8 is the fastest case. Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed. -fast turns on the recommended settings. -dct fast and/or -nosmooth gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality. When producing a color-quantized image, -onepass -dither ordered is fast but much lower quality than the default behavior. -dither none may give acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in one-pass mode. If you are fortunate enough to have very fast floating point hardware, -dct float may be even faster than -dct fast. But on most machines -dct float is slower than -dct int; in this case it is not worth using, because its theoretical accuracy advantage is too small to be significant in practice. ENVIRONMENT JPEGMEM If this environment variable is set, its value is the default mem‐ ory limit. The value is specified as described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by an explicit -maxmemory. SEE ALSO cjpeg(1), jpegtran(1), rdjpgcom(1), wrjpgcom(1) ppm(5), pgm(5) Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard", Com‐ munications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44. AUTHOR Independent JPEG Group BUGS To avoid the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), djpeg produces uncompressed GIF files. These are larger than they should be, but are readable by standard GIF decoders. 3 October 2009 DJPEG(1)


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--- title: Reproducible Blogposts author: Martin John Hadley date: '2018-02-14' slug: reproducible-blogposts categories: - meta tags: - meta draft: no description: "In this blogpost I introduce a rating system for the reproducability of blogposts, taking authorship, data and code all into account. All blogposts include a star rating at both the top and bottom of the post with a link to (at least) the .Rmd file responsible for generating the page." editor_options: chunk_output_type: console banner: "img/blog-images/header-images/2018-02-14_reproducible-blogposts.png" ---
Citable Author
Martin John Hadley
(orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-6849)
Citable Data
R packages: WDI
Writing blogposts that meet all four of these requirements is hard:
In an ideal world, datasets are provided with DOI and/or else easily accessible via an API. If we’re really lucky there’ll be a lovely R package that wraps up the API for us; as is the case for the excellent WDI
package that makes the World Bank data available to us. Here’s a nice example of how we can reproducibly obtain and tabulate data using WDI
and DT
:
library("WDI")
library("tidyverse")
library("DT")
WDI(country=c("DE","NZ"), indicator="IT.NET.USER.ZS", start=2000, end=2001) %>%
mutate(IT.NET.USER.ZS = IT.NET.USER.ZS / 100) %>%
datatable(colnames = c("Country Short Code",
"Country",
"Individuals using the Internet (% of population)",
"Year"),
options = list(dom = "t"),
height = '100px') %>%
formatPercentage(columns = 'IT.NET.USER.ZS')
Often times, unfortunately we can’t access data programmatically. Kaggle datasets are a frustrating example of this, there are some really exciting and vibrant datasets published there:
But there is no API for the service, and no direct download link for the data files. This is frustrating as if I write a post using one of these datasets, in order to follow along a reader would have to; manually sign up to Kaggle, download the files, put them in the correct place… and that’s just faff. I’ve also run enough training courses to know this goes wrong very easily, and understandably so.
What can I do about this? Well, I’m going to do two things:
reprex
Twitter has been tremendously useful in my learning of #rstats, and folks in the community are incredibly friendly and helpful. So when I was starting up this blog I asked on Twitter for advice on how to make posts reproducible:
#rstats bloggers, I've a question!
— Martin John Hadley (@martinjhnhadley) January 3, 2018
if you use GitHub pages for your blog & plan for each post / #dataviz to be a reproducible self-contained .RProj do you have a separate repo for each post? Feels like overkill :/
A few folks suggested that I use Gists, which is a great service provided by Github for hosting collections of files and code.
I’ve already used Gists before for asking longer form questions on Twitter. It’s definitely a good stop gap for reproducibility where data files aren’t programmatically available and the license allows me to rehost the data (with citation). So in the future, if I use Kaggle datasets (for example) I will rehost the data on Gist along with the code for analysing the data and a link to the original blogpost.
Lastly, whenever I do host code on Gist I’ll use the excellent reprex
library which helps guarantee reproducible code samples. reprex
is developed by the awesome @jennybryan.
reprex preps #rstats examples for github or stackoverflow and it’s even better now! Pls test.https://t.co/kQ0BfRNiRz pic.twitter.com/z8zCTlaskA
— Jenny Bryan (@JennyBryan) September 14, 2015
I wanted to introduce a way to rate my blogposts in terms of their reproducability, with the following considerations:
I deciced the best way to do that was to design an insert for the top and bottom of all my posts that looks like this:
Citable Author
Martin John Hadley
(orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-6849)
Philippa Matthews
(orcid.org/0000-0002-4036-4269)
It’s been designed so that it supports multiple post authors, multiple datasets and a link to the .Rmd that generated the blogpost you’re reading. The Citable X parts of the insert have a hover text encouraging folks to click on them, which links to a dedicated page explaining the rating system which I’ll keep updated over time.
At the time of writing this blogpost the rating system works as follows:
For the time being I’m going to be manually adding these components to my posts, but I have a placeholder repository where I’ll package together tools I regularly use for the blog into. If you do take a look at the .Rmd files including these ratings, you’ll notice I use the following trick from RMarkdown to allow for neatly indented HTML that remains unprocessed by knitr
:
 This will render as HTML not preformatted text
Unfortunately, manually inserting raw HTML into the top of each blogpost made the post summaries on the blog page next to useless. Thankfully, Yihui has a blogpost on modifying hugo post summaries that was fairly easy to implement. To be explicit, I introduced the following code:

 {{ with .Description }} {{ $.Scratch.Set "summary" (markdownify .) }} {{ else }} {{ $.Scratch.Set "summary" ((delimit (findRE "(
(.|\n)*?
\\s*)+" .Content) "[…] ") | plainify | truncate (default 200 .Site.Params.summary_length) (default " …" .Site.Params.text.truncated ) | replaceRE "&" "&" | safeHTML) }} {{ end }} {{ $.Scratch.Get "summary" }}

… into these two locations, in place of
{{ .Summary }}

# layouts/_default/single.html
# layouts/partial/recent_posts.html
This actually was a blessing in disguise, as I had wanted more flexibility over my post summaries. Now I can not only write completely custom click-bait summaries, I can also include emojis 🐰 and raw HTML by adding this to the YAML of a post:
description: >

Bunny! 🐰

Cat! 🐱

Citable Author
Martin John Hadley
(orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-6849)
Citable Data
R packages: WDI


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Our goal is to understand and implement reinforcement learning when applied to a board game. Reinforcement learning is a type of artificial intelligence where the AI agent learns by interacting with its environment and is not supplied with training data. The AI agent learns by evaluating its current state and choosing an action that will maximize a numerical reward signal.
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Channel register group offsets | |
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| #define | ADCCH_CH0 0x20 |
| ADC channel 0 register group. | |
| #define | ADCCH_CH1 0x28 |
| ADC channel 1 register group. | |
| #define | ADCCH_CH2 0x30 |
| ADC channel 2 register group. | |
| #define | ADCCH_CH3 0x38 |
| ADC channel 3 register group. | |
Channel register offsets | |
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| #define | ADCCH_CTRL 0x00 |
| ADC channel control. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXCTRL 0x01 |
| ADC channel MUX control. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTCTRL 0x02 |
| ADC channel interrupt control. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTFLAG 0x03 |
| ADC channel interrupt flag. | |
| #define | ADCCH_RESL 0x04 |
| ADC channel result low byte. | |
| #define | ADCCH_RESH 0x05 |
| ADC channel result high byte. | |
Bitfields in channel CTRL | |
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| |
| #define | ADCCH_INPUTMODE_START 0 |
| Channel input mode. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INPUTMODE_SIZE 2 |
| Channel input mode. | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_START 2 |
| Channel gain setting. | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_SIZE 3 |
| Channel gain setting. | |
| #define | ADCCH_START_BIT 7 |
| Start conversion on channel. | |
INPUTMODE bitfield values | |
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| |
| #define | ADCCH_INPUTMODE_INTERNAL 0 |
| Internal input signal. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INPUTMODE_SINGLEENDED 1 |
| Single-ended input signal. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INPUTMODE_DIFF 2 |
| Differential input signal. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INPUTMODE_DIFFWGAIN 3 |
| Differential input signal with gain. | |
GAIN bitfield values | |
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| |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_1X 0 |
| Unity gain for differential signal. | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_2X 1 |
| 2x gain for differential signal | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_4X 2 |
| 4x gain for differential signal | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_8X 3 |
| 8x gain for differential signal | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_16X 4 |
| 16x gain for differential signal | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_32X 5 |
| 32x gain for differential signal | |
| #define | ADCCH_GAIN_64X 6 |
| 64x gain for differential signal | |
Bitfields in channel MUXCTRL | |
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| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_START 0 |
| Negative input signal MUX selection. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_SIZE 2 |
| Negative input signal MUX selection. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_START 3 |
| Positive input signal MUX selection. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_SIZE 3 |
| Positive input signal MUX selection. | |
| #define | ADDCH_MUXPOS3_BIT 6 |
| Use pin on secondary port. | |
MUXNEG bitfield values | |
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| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN0 0 |
| ADC0 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN1 1 |
| ADC1 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN2 2 |
| ADC2 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN3 3 |
| ADC3 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN4 4 |
| ADC4 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN5 5 |
| ADC5 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN6 6 |
| ADC6 pin as negative input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN7 7 |
| ADC7 pin as negative input. | |
MUXPOS bitfield values | |
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| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_TEMP 0 |
| Temperature reference as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_BANDGAP 1 |
| Bandgap reference as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_SCALEDVCC 2 |
| VCC/10 as as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_DAC 3 |
| DAC output as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN0 0 |
| ADC0 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN1 1 |
| ADC1 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN2 2 |
| ADC2 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN3 3 |
| ADC3 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN4 4 |
| ADC4 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN5 5 |
| ADC5 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN6 6 |
| ADC6 pin as positive input. | |
| #define | ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN7 7 |
| ADC7 pin as positive input. | |
Bitfields in channel INTCTRL | |
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| #define | ADCCH_INTLVL_START 0 |
| ADC channel interrupt level. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTLVL_SIZE 2 |
| ADC channel interrupt level. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTMODE_START 2 |
| ADC channel interrupt mode. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTMODE_SIZE 2 |
| ADC channel interrupt mode. | |
INTLVL bitfield values | |
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| #define | ADCCH_INTLVL_OFF 0 |
| Interrupt disabled. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTLVL_LO 1 |
| Low level interrupt. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTLVL_MED 2 |
| Medium level interrupt. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTLVL_HI 3 |
| High level interrupt. | |
INTMODE bitfield values | |
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| #define | ADCCH_INTMODE_COMPLETE 0 |
| Interrupt on conversion completion. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTMODE_BELOW 1 |
| Interrupt if conversion result is below comparison value. | |
| #define | ADCCH_INTMODE_ABOVE 3 |
| Interrupt if conversion result is above comparison value. | |
Bitfields in channel INTFLAG | |
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| #define | ADCCH_IF_BIT 0 |
| ADC channel interrupt flag. | |
Channel bit manipulation macros | |
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| #define | ADCCH_BIT(name) (1U << ADCCH_##name##_BIT) |
| Create a mask with bit name set. | |
| #define | ADCCH_BF(name, value) ((value) << ADCCH_##name##_START) |
| Create a mask with bitfield name set to value. | |
| #define | ADCCH_BFMASK(name) (((1U << ADCCH_##name##_SIZE) - 1) << ADCCH_##name##_START) |
| Create a mask of the bitfield name. | |
| #define | ADCCH_BFEXT(name, regval) |
| Extract the value of bitfield name from regval. | |
| #define | ADCCH_BFINS(name, value, regval) |
| Return regval with bitfield name set to value. | |
Channel register access macros | |
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| #define | adcch_read_reg(base, ch, reg) mmio_read8((void *)((uintptr_t)(base) + ADCCH_##ch + ADCCH_##reg)) |
| Read value of register reg of channel ch on ADC with base address base. | |
| #define | adcch_write_reg(base, ch, reg, value) mmio_write8((void *)((uintptr_t)(base) + ADCCH_##ch + ADCCH_##reg), (value)) |
| Write value to register reg of channel ch on ADC with base address base. |
| #define ADCCH_BF | ( | name, | |||
| value | ) | ((value) << ADCCH_##name##_START) |
Create a mask with bitfield name set to value.
Definition at line 373 of file xmega_adc.h.
Referenced by touch_priv_adc_disable_int(), touch_priv_adc_enable_int(), touch_priv_adc_init(), touch_priv_adc_set_surface_x(), and touch_priv_adc_set_surface_y().
| #define ADCCH_BFEXT | ( | name, | |||
| regval | ) |
(((regval) >> ADCCH_##name##_START) \ & ((1U << ADCCH_##name##_SIZE) - 1))
Extract the value of bitfield name from regval.
Definition at line 379 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_BFINS | ( | name, | |||
| value, | |||||
| regval | ) |
(((regval) & ~(((1U << ADCCH_##name##_SIZE) - 1) \ << ADCCH_##name##_START)) \ | ADCCH_BF(name, value))
Return regval with bitfield name set to value.
Definition at line 383 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_BFMASK | ( | name | ) | (((1U << ADCCH_##name##_SIZE) - 1) << ADCCH_##name##_START) |
Create a mask of the bitfield name.
Definition at line 376 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_BIT | ( | name | ) | (1U << ADCCH_##name##_BIT) |
Create a mask with bit name set.
Definition at line 370 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_CH0 0x20 |
ADC channel 0 register group.
Definition at line 253 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_CH1 0x28 |
ADC channel 1 register group.
Definition at line 254 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_CH2 0x30 |
ADC channel 2 register group.
Definition at line 255 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_CH3 0x38 |
ADC channel 3 register group.
Definition at line 256 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_CTRL 0x00 |
ADC channel control.
Definition at line 261 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_16X 4 |
16x gain for differential signal
Definition at line 292 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_1X 0 |
Unity gain for differential signal.
Definition at line 288 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_2X 1 |
2x gain for differential signal
Definition at line 289 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_32X 5 |
32x gain for differential signal
Definition at line 293 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_4X 2 |
4x gain for differential signal
Definition at line 290 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_64X 6 |
64x gain for differential signal
Definition at line 294 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_8X 3 |
8x gain for differential signal
Definition at line 291 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_SIZE 3 |
Channel gain setting.
Definition at line 274 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_GAIN_START 2 |
Channel gain setting.
Definition at line 273 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_IF_BIT 0 |
ADC channel interrupt flag.
Definition at line 364 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INPUTMODE_DIFF 2 |
Differential input signal.
Definition at line 282 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INPUTMODE_DIFFWGAIN 3 |
Differential input signal with gain.
Definition at line 283 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INPUTMODE_INTERNAL 0 |
Internal input signal.
Definition at line 280 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INPUTMODE_SINGLEENDED 1 |
Single-ended input signal.
Definition at line 281 of file xmega_adc.h.
Referenced by touch_priv_adc_init().
| #define ADCCH_INPUTMODE_SIZE 2 |
Channel input mode.
Definition at line 272 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INPUTMODE_START 0 |
Channel input mode.
Definition at line 271 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTCTRL 0x02 |
ADC channel interrupt control.
Definition at line 263 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTFLAG 0x03 |
ADC channel interrupt flag.
Definition at line 264 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTLVL_HI 3 |
High level interrupt.
Definition at line 349 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTLVL_LO 1 |
Low level interrupt.
Definition at line 347 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTLVL_MED 2 |
Medium level interrupt.
Definition at line 348 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTLVL_OFF 0 |
Interrupt disabled.
Definition at line 346 of file xmega_adc.h.
Referenced by touch_priv_adc_disable_int().
| #define ADCCH_INTLVL_SIZE 2 |
ADC channel interrupt level.
Definition at line 339 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTLVL_START 0 |
ADC channel interrupt level.
Definition at line 338 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTMODE_ABOVE 3 |
Interrupt if conversion result is above comparison value.
Definition at line 359 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTMODE_BELOW 1 |
Interrupt if conversion result is below comparison value.
Definition at line 357 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTMODE_COMPLETE 0 |
Interrupt on conversion completion.
Definition at line 355 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTMODE_SIZE 2 |
ADC channel interrupt mode.
Definition at line 341 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_INTMODE_START 2 |
ADC channel interrupt mode.
Definition at line 340 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXCTRL 0x01 |
ADC channel MUX control.
Definition at line 262 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN0 0 |
ADC0 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 308 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN1 1 |
ADC1 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 309 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN2 2 |
ADC2 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 310 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN3 3 |
ADC3 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 311 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN4 4 |
ADC4 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 312 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN5 5 |
ADC5 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 313 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN6 6 |
ADC6 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 314 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_PIN7 7 |
ADC7 pin as negative input.
Definition at line 315 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_SIZE 2 |
Negative input signal MUX selection.
Definition at line 300 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXNEG_START 0 |
Negative input signal MUX selection.
Definition at line 299 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_BANDGAP 1 |
Bandgap reference as positive input.
Definition at line 322 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_DAC 3 |
DAC output as positive input.
Definition at line 324 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN0 0 |
ADC0 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 326 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN1 1 |
ADC1 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 327 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN2 2 |
ADC2 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 328 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN3 3 |
ADC3 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 329 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN4 4 |
ADC4 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 330 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN5 5 |
ADC5 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 331 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN6 6 |
ADC6 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 332 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_PIN7 7 |
ADC7 pin as positive input.
Definition at line 333 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_SCALEDVCC 2 |
VCC/10 as as positive input.
Definition at line 323 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_SIZE 3 |
Positive input signal MUX selection.
Definition at line 302 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_START 3 |
Positive input signal MUX selection.
Definition at line 301 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_MUXPOS_TEMP 0 |
Temperature reference as positive input.
Definition at line 321 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define adcch_read_reg | ( | base, | |||
| ch, | |||||
| reg | ) | mmio_read8((void *)((uintptr_t)(base) + ADCCH_##ch + ADCCH_##reg)) |
Read value of register reg of channel ch on ADC with base address base.
Definition at line 395 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_RESH 0x05 |
ADC channel result high byte.
Definition at line 266 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_RESL 0x04 |
ADC channel result low byte.
Definition at line 265 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define ADCCH_START_BIT 7 |
Start conversion on channel.
Definition at line 275 of file xmega_adc.h.
| #define adcch_write_reg | ( | base, | |||
| ch, | |||||
| reg, | |||||
| value | ) | mmio_write8((void *)((uintptr_t)(base) + ADCCH_##ch + ADCCH_##reg), (value)) |
Write value to register reg of channel ch on ADC with base address base.
Definition at line 401 of file xmega_adc.h.
Referenced by touch_priv_adc_disable_int(), touch_priv_adc_enable_int(), touch_priv_adc_init(), touch_priv_adc_set_surface_x(), and touch_priv_adc_set_surface_y().
| #define ADDCH_MUXPOS3_BIT 6 |
Use pin on secondary port.
Definition at line 303 of file xmega_adc.h.


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As the elevator plunged down through the building, I tried to understand the implications of it all. It was horrifying. Enraging.  Those bastards.
 This was out of hand. God, I felt cranked up. Fantastic. The elevator began to slow, everything becoming heavy.
pls move the body away from the door
Move the dead body? No, she meant her own body. I pushed the gurney against the side of the elevator.
door will open / take cover
I pressed myself up against the wall. The elevator came to a rattling stop, and the door popped open. The back wall banged and dented as bullets hit it. I cowered against the wall, hoping nothing flew into my arteries. The door clapped shut again, and the floor seemed to fall out from under me as we went down.  I'd never seen anything like it.
Another message from Karen popped into my set, and I read every word in an glance.
silver haohua van / parking # 17A / 20 meters / pls take me / pls
The elevator came to another shuddering stop, and the doors opened one of the underground decks, a dim concrete cavern filled with rows of cars.  The van was where she said it would be. I stood there for moment, waiting for it to pull out for us, but it just sat there.
u must get me wired / i dont want to get fingerprints on its presence
Wired? Did she mean physically? An article appeared on my set called "How to Establish a Physical Link to Your 2039 Haohua Luxury Chariot." I guess so. I followed the ER guide, looking around every so often to see if anybody was coming. Weird sounds were emerging from the elevators. They seemed to be malfunctioning. I got a wire from my bag and linked Karen's fleshjack to a physical jack by the van's gas cap. A second later the van's rear door unfolded.
get in
I did as she said. Following her orders felt totally natural. It was like I was right back at the tip of the spear. I remembered my time in Turkey and Greece, playing feed games with the platoon all day then getting dropped right into the kinetic, right into the warm bloody center of the war. Run here. Shoot this.   God, it was beautiful while it lasted.
I shoved the gurney into the van and jumped in beside it. The rear door folded down.
pls secure the body. 90 secs left
90 seconds left until what? I flattened a seat and clumsily transferred her body to it and strapped it in. The van leapt backward and began twisting through space, throwing me against a side window.
sry / must go
I got in the other seat and strapped in as the van peeled out. We found the exit ramp and went up. I felt like I was about to break a rib on the arm rest as we went on a never-ending left turn, up and up the spiraling ramp. Finally, the daylight of the ground level burst in view. The whole parking lot was swarmed with flashing cop cars, black armored vehicles and cops in hard gear. The van came to a stop in the middle of it all.
"Fuck," I muttered. The cops were moving in a hurry. It seemed like they hadn't quite formed a proper perimeter around the building, but they were close. "We've got go now. They're going to form a--"
wait
"For what?"
air
All around us, the cops were assembling, pulling their vehicles into place, leveling their pistols and rifles. I watched our few possible avenues of exit close up. The van just sat there. Karen's eyes were closed.
I heard a sound, and my blood ran cold. I hadn't heard that sound in years, but there was no mistaking it. It was a sound that was etched in my brain.
In the Marines we used an app called Harpy to call in air-to-ground strikes.   About 2 seconds after that sound, something would light up, and a moment later the sound of the blast would hit and the ground would shake.
I heard that sound now coming from my set. My god, what kind of access did she have?
get down
A moment later, police perimeter around us became a wall of fire, and the van was hit with a boom that felt like the earth splitting open. I put my head between my knees and let that old feeling flow through me, the shuddering rush of American air power being liberally applied. When I opened my eyes again, the van's safety windows had bowed inward on Karen's side, almost becoming liquid. Everything around the van was engulfed in fire and smoke. Slowly, the windows began to regain their shape. The van took off with a start, rushing blindly through the chaos.
Two minutes later, we were on the interstate, flying down the taxpayer lane, and I was sitting there, trying to remember how to swallow. It was unreal. Just unreal. She had called in a drone strike in the middle of Atlanta. The level of access required to do that was unimaginable. It meant completely basing the DOD systems. It was beyond any exploit collective. It was beyond governmental. It was planetary. It was god-level. I was sitting in van with an infraspace god.


Statue of clay golem depicting Prague Golem.
Author: Michal Ma
Source: Wikipedia
Science does not dehumanize man, it de-homunculizes him -B F Skinner, 1971
Key words: Eliminative materialism, homuncularize, [page:Ententional Ententional]
In our daily life we homuncularize on a regular basis - without thinking. We imagine multiple outcomes. We anthropomorphize the inanimate.
Even careful theorists do it... p80
Eliminative materialism: the position that any ententional phenomenon must be eliminated from science and replaced by mechanistic methods.
Eliminative materialism tends to sacrifices completeness for consistency - missing out on all the ententional aspects. p81
Key words: Daniel Dennet, Homunculi, Élan vital, Hydra, Hercules, Marvin Minskey/Society of Mind, Eliminative materialism, Fractionation, reducible/decomposable[Reduction], DNA
Daniel Dennet: An effort to deny ententional processes and reference to teleological phenomena in one location only serves to displace these functional roles to other places
Example: homuculi become little men becomes élan vital
A similarity is drawn to Hercules cutting off the head of the Hydra only to have two new heads appear.
Eliminative materialism posits that homuncli will go away with further research and/or being proved to be fictional to begin with.
Fractionation is a common strategy to reduce complex phenomena into simpler component features
Reducible systems - only depend on ability to identify graininess in complex phenomena / capacity to study properties of subdivisions / as distinct from collective phenomenon that they compose.
Decomposable systems - additionally requires subdivisions to exhibit properties they exhibit in the whole / even if entirely isolated and independent of it.
A clock is both reducible and decomposable to its parts, whereas a living organism may be analytically reducible, but it is not decomposable.
While ententional phenomena are dependent on physical substrate relationships, they are not decomposable to them, only to lower-order ententional phenomena.
This is because although ententional phenomena are necessarily physical, their proper parts are not physical parts.
Key words: Golem, Robot, Homunculus, Zombie, Frankenstein, Logic, Containment, Alan Turing, Turing machineTuring machine, Gregory Bateson, Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness theorems
Homunculus: an avatar of cryptic ententional properties smuggled into our theories
Golem as the avatar of its opposite: apparently mindlike processes that are nonetheless devoid of their own ententional properties.
If a homunculus is a little man in my head, then the golem is a hollow-headed man, a zombie.
A golem is often proposed as a reductio ad absurdum of a thoroughly eliminative materialism view.
Vast majority of our moment-to-moment behaviors - including belies, desires and purposes - are not associated with consciousness - and is thus zombie/golem-like
Besides being a soulless being, following commands with mechanical dispassion, the golem lacks discernment.
The golems of today are not artificial living beings, but rather bureaucracies, legal systems, and computers. In their design as well as their role as unerringly literal slaves, digital computers are the epitome of a creation that embodies truth maintenance made animate.
Computers are logic embodied in mechanism. The development of logic was the result of reflection on the organization of human reasoning processes. It is not itself thought, however, nor does it capture the essence of thought, namely, its quality of being about something. Logic is only the skeleton of thought: syntax without semantics.
The golem nature of logic comes from its fixity and closure. Logic is ultimately a structure out of time. It works to assure valid inference because there are no choices or alternatives. So the very fabric of valid deductive inference is by necessity preformed.
The golem nature of logic comes from its fixity and closure. Logic is ultimately a structure out of time. It works to assure valid inference because there are no choices or alternatives. So the very fabric of valid deductive inference is by necessity preformed.
This logico-mathematical-machine equivalence was formalized in reverse when Alan Turing showed how, in principle, every valid mathematical operation that could be precisely defined and carried out in a finite number of steps could also be modeled by the actions of a machine.
To simplify a bit, the problem lies in the very assumption that syntax and semantics, logic and representation, are independent of one another. A golem is syntax without semantics and logic without representation. There is no one at home in the golem because there is no representation possible no meaning, no significance, no value, just physical mechanism, one thing after another with terrible inflexible consistency.
We might suspect, then, that whenever we encounter a golem, there is a hidden homunculus, a man behind the curtain, or a rabbi and his magical incantations pulling the nearly invisible strings.
Key words: Behaviorism, B F Skinner, Cognitive science, Cognition, Computation, Software, Jerry Fodor
60's Behaviorism movement almost killed psychology. Thoughts and experiences: taboo. But was first systematic approach to slaying the homunculus fallacy by replacing notions with observations
70's Cognitive science - mixes psychology, philosophy, computation et al - treats mental processes as vast array of computer algorithms. But finds no place for consciousness - heck, consciousness might not even exist.
Thus, if scientists could map every possible human thought or action to an equivalent computer circuit or algorithm, wouldn't this be good enough?
Key words: Computer theory of mind, Algorithm, Gary Kasparov, Deep Blue, Software, Irving Good, Jerry Fodor
Computational theory of mind: the manipulation of tokens completely describes thinking.
Alogrithm: a set of instructions to generate a process that achieves a particular consequence.
But don't specify all the details. Just like words on this page - there needs to be an interpreter.
Consider Gary Kasparov playing chess against the computer Big Blue. Big Blue is but a collection of homuculi - human thoughts stored in a box. It resembles the unconscious more than the conscious.
Is the human mind ultimately just a computer? ...
But, if so, how did it learn? How can 'simple' become more 'complex'? How did it evolve?
And when and how does cognition come into the process?
Note that cognition has to be intrinsic/come from with - not extrinsic/come from the outside.
Computer bugs provide a clue. The process of maintaining/surviving as yet unknown errors may provide some clues.
Computers made of meat (us) are messy and imprecise. Just what the doctor ordered.


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The function prior_a determines the parameter a of the laplace distribution that is used in empirical Bayes thresholding approach. Estimation is based on the avarage of the forecast error.
prior_a(..., wt = "modwt", interval = c(0.1, 5), tol = 0.01)
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| wt | A string "modwt" (maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform) or "dwt" (discrete wavelet transform). |
| interval | A vector containing the end-points of the interval to be searched for the minimum. See: |
| tol | The desired accuracy. See: |
A one-dimension double vector indicating the a
prior.
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However, what defines a “good” test is not always obvious, and there are a lot of common pitfalls that can easily shoot your test suite in the foot.
If you already know everything about testing but are fed up with trying to debug why a specific test failed, you can skip the intro and jump straight to Debugging Unit Tests.
There are three main types of tests, each with their associated pros and cons:
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Pros:
Cons:
These are generally also isolated tests, though sometimes they may interact with other services running locally. The key difference between functional tests and unit tests, however, is that functional tests are written from the perspective of the user (who knows nothing about the code) and only knows what they put in and what they get back. Essentially this is a higher-level testing of “does the result match the spec?”.
Pros:
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This layer of testing involves testing all of the components that your codebase interacts with or relies on in conjunction. This is equivalent to “live” testing, but in a repeatable manner.
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A few simple guidelines:
Limiting our focus just to unit tests, there are a number of things you can do to make your unit tests as useful, maintainable, and unburdensome as possible.
Use a single, consistent set of test data. Grow it over time, but do everything you can not to fragment it. It quickly becomes unmaintainable and perniciously out-of-sync with reality.
Make your test data as accurate to reality as possible. Supply all the attributes of an object, provide objects in all the various states you may want to test.
If you do the first suggestion above first it makes the second one far less painful. Write once, use everywhere.
To make your life even easier, if your codebase doesn’t have a built-in ORM-like function to manage your test data you can consider building (or borrowing) one yourself. Being able to do simple retrieval queries on your test data is incredibly valuable.
Mocking is the practice of providing stand-ins for objects or pieces of code you don’t need to test. While convenient, they should be used with extreme caution.
Why? Because overuse of mocks can rapidly land you in a situation where you’re not testing any real code. All you’ve done is verified that your mocking framework returns what you tell it to. This problem can be very tricky to recognize, since you may be mocking things in setUp methods, other modules, etc.
A good rule of thumb is to mock as close to the source as possible. If you have a function call that calls an external API in a view , mock out the external API, not the whole function. If you mock the whole function you’ve suddenly lost test coverage for an entire chunk of code inside your codebase. Cut the ties cleanly right where your system ends and the external world begins.
Similarly, don’t mock return values when you could construct a real return value of the correct type with the correct attributes. You’re just adding another point of potential failure by exercising your mocking framework instead of real code. Following the suggestions for testing above will make this a lot less burdensome.
Think long and hard about what you really want to verify in your unit test. In particular, think about what custom logic your code executes.
A common pitfall is to take a known test object, pass it through your code, and then verify the properties of that object on the output. This is all well and good, except if you’re verifying properties that were untouched by your code. What you want to check are the pieces that were changed, added, or removed. Don’t check the object’s id attribute unless you have reason to suspect it’s not the object you started with. But if you added a new attribute to it, be damn sure you verify that came out right.
It’s also very common to avoid testing things you really care about because it’s more difficult. Verifying that the proper messages were displayed to the user after an action, testing for form errors, making sure exception handling is tested... these types of things aren’t always easy, but they’re extremely necessary.
To that end, Horizon includes several custom assertions to make these tasks easier. assertNoFormErrors(), assertMessageCount(), and assertNoMessages() all exist for exactly these purposes. Moreover, they provide useful output when things go wrong so you’re not left scratching your head wondering why your view test didn’t redirect as expected when you posted a form.
Use assertNoFormErrors() immediately after your client.post call for tests that handle form views. This will immediately fail if your form POST failed due to a validation error and tell you what the error was.
 Since the core error handlers attach user-facing error messages (and since the core logging is silenced during test runs) these methods give you the dual benefit of verifying the output you expect while clearly showing you the problematic error message if they fail.
Use Python’s pdb module liberally. Many people don’t realize it works just as well in a test case as it does in a live view. Simply inserting import pdb; pdb.set_trace() anywhere in your codebase will drop the interpreter into an interactive shell so you can explore your test environment and see which of your assumptions about the code isn’t, in fact, flawlessly correct.
If the error is in the Selenium test suite, you’re likely getting very little information about the error. To increase the information provided to you, edit horizon/test/settings.py to set DEBUG = True and set the logging level to ‘DEBUG’ for the default ‘test’ logger. Also, add a logger config for Django:
},
'loggers': {
+ 'django': {
+ 'handlers': ['test'],
+ 'propagate': False,
+ },
'django.db.backends': {
There are a number of typical (and non-obvious) ways to break the unit tests. Some common things to look for:
Horizon uses mox as its mocking framework of choice, and while it offers many nice features, its output when a test fails can be quite mysterious.
This occurs when you stubbed out a piece of code, and it was subsequently called in a way that you didn’t specify it would be. There are two reasons this tends to come up:
This one is the opposite of the unexpected method call. This one means you told mox to expect a call and it didn’t happen. This is almost always the result of an error in the conditions of the test. Using the assertNoFormErrors() and assertMessageCount() will make it readily apparent what the problem is in the majority of cases. If not, then use pdb and start interrupting the code flow to see where things are getting off track.


Note: I originally wrote this story in March or April 2015 and then emailed the story to my brother and sister, who haven’t quite commented on it. This is the earliest account of the story after I remembered it in the last few days of February 2015, but it’s not complete. I left a lot of stuff out because it was so dark, which is why I was so concerned with the events.
Also, please note that I’m not claiming this to be true. In fact, I would love for my version of events to be compared against that of others who were involved because I’m very, very confused about this whole ordeal. That should be fairly simple, but it seems that no one wants to talk about what happened, even though so many people have indicated they know. The following is the original text from the email.
So I used this story as an answer on my YCombinator
application. I’d
love to publish this story but I’m not sure Tatiana would really like
that. There’s a ton of hilarious details I left out to keep things
brief. She introduced me to Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Jennifer
Lawrence (i think) as well as the guy from Hunger Games. And possibly
George Lucas, but I didn’t recognize him if it was.
Please tell us about the time you, dcunit3d, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.
So I’m going to tell you a story. It’s one that I could literally spend hours talking about, but I’ve tried to keep it brief. It’s pretty much the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me. I actually might write a book about it, though I’d need to obfuscate the details. I hacked the system in several different ways, but also got hacked myself. It’s totally worth your time to read, I promise.
I also hacked my own brain and repressed my own memories, providing myself with a key to unlock them later. Total CIA-Manakin-style. Seriously, it’s hilarious – I’ll get to that part in a minute. I only remembered all of this about a month ago. I’ve been wanting to blog about it, but since it involves a celebrity, I’d rather not post it publicly.
So it’s May 31st 2013 in Denver. I’d just gotten off the bus from Boulder and I was getting ready for Hack 4 Colorado. I really wanted to go to Denver Comic Con, which was also going on at that time, but I felt that I should go to Hack4CO for the networking and to give back. It was a Friday afternoon and I had been up all night at this point, working on getting things ready for our teams entry to the hackathon.
I was chilling at Leela, my usual spot in Denver – they serve lattés 24 hours a day. I’m about to order a mocha, when this girl comes up from behind me and says “I’d like to buy you coffee,” – in a British accent, no less. Score! I was speechless, trying to figure out what bizarro universe I had fallen into, where girls are so forward.
So we’re sitting outside and it’s me, her and her friend. When I ask them where they’re from, they replied, “Toronto,” which seems a bit weird because of their Brittish accents. She tells me that she speaks 4 languages and I’m amazed. I immediately fall in love with her and we start talking about Duolingo and French. Then, she switches to a Russian sounding accent, to which I say “Wow, you’re pretty good at that.”
Then, she and Jordan drop the accents altogether and she tells me her real name, Tatiana Maslany, which I promptly start making fun of, lightly of course. I also made fun of Canada, which she was really defensive about. She quizzed me on Canadian provinces and I named like 10 out of 13. Finally, she tells me she’s an actress. Probably the most successful blind date ever – we ended up spending like 6 hours together that weekend.
She mentioned that she never wanted to be famous and I acted like I didn’t believe her. Tatiana and Jordan almost left at this point. I was really just trying to test to see if she was serious about not wanting fame – and she was. So then I started talking about how I struggled with jamskaters who wanted fame, were willing to do anything to get it and how that nearly ruined my life. I told her I was almost barely famous as a jamskater and how I struggled with it. I gave her lots of life advice, most of which she probably already knew. I also mentioned Dale Carnegie’s book, as well as 48 Laws of Power. I explained why she should inoculate herself against many of the tactics in 48 Laws of Power.
Here’s one place I hacked the system and utilized my business smarts. I determined that, as an actress, she has an image that she has to maintain. She probably has to tell people the same things repeatedly to build that image. And while she likely enjoys her work, she talks about it all the time – boring. But because she probably loves what she does, we should talk about other people’s movies and etc, which seemed to work really well.
She started telling me about her show, Orphan Black, which is about clones. And I jokingly tell her, “Yeh, I’m part of a top secret experiment and there’s clones of me everywhere.”
Tatiana tells me they’re at the Denver Comic Con to get ready for the San Diego Comic Con, where the Orphan Black cast is doing a panel. She asked me to come up with some questions so she could practice. After one generic question, I came up with a really good one: “Which one of the clones would be best prepared for the Zombie Apocolypse?”
We continued talking about all the things: linguistics, philosophy, post-structuralism, movies, etc. We talked about the Singularity and it’s implications for society. I told her about mass NSA surveillance about a week before the Snowden story broke. We talked about using 3D filming techniques in 2D films. She told me about scenes coming up in “The Wolf of Wall Street” and asked several questions about quaaludes, lol.
We also talked about jamskating and how the rollerskating industry was dying. And we talked about the show Parks’n’Rec, which is ironic because 3 months later, Tatiana shot not one, but two episodes of Parks’n’Rec that featured rollerskating – s6e5 & s6e6.
At one point, we were talking about improv comedy and impersonations.  She tried to convince me otherwise, but I wasn’t buying it. Anyways, I suddenly had a burst of inspiration and exclaimed “OMG i have a brilliant idea for an app!!” She asked me what it was, but I wouldn’t tell her. I had just thought of the idea for Voxxel, but I would forget it for nearly two years bc I didn’t write it down.
Eventually, around 7:00, I had to leave to get to the hackathon. Walking to the Hack4CO venue, I was pretty bummed out about falling in love with this amazing girl that I had no chance with, especially since she had a serious BF anyways. So I decided to forget about everything. That way I wouldn’t have to deal with losing her, lulz. I decided it wouldn’t be too hard because I had been without sleep for so long anyways.
While I was at the hackathon, I got a phone call from a friend from Leela’s asking me to come back down. It sounded kind of urgent, like i would totally miss out on something amazing. I wanted to stay, but a few minutes later, my team decided we should work from Leela.
While we were working at Leela, I kept meeting these amazing girls that seemed to be so interested in me. The whole time, I’m thinking “Wow – what am I doing right here?” As I discovered two years later, it was Tatiana acting as each of her clones and I had no idea that it was the same girl.
Around 3:00am, I’m working alone on our team’s project.  This girl with dreadlocks comes up and asks me if I want to smoke a joint with her. I’m still thinking “Damn! She’s cute! That’s two in one day. What am I doing right here?!” but I tell her no, since I’m working and need to focus on that. She comes back in 2 minutes and asks again and I’m like “OK, I can’t tell this girl no twice. Besides she seems like she could be amazing.”
So she asks me to roll the joint. I smell the weed and realize it’s Blue Dream – by far my favorite strain and something I’d mentioned to Tatiana. While I’m doing that, we’re discussing biotechnology and all of these amazing sciency things that I love to talk about. We also talked about the time my college roommates and I built an igloo – just to hotbox it. Pretty much immediately, I fall in love with Cosima – who is actually Tatiana – as she could hang with me on Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Medicene and all these amazing topics! Of course, I botched the joint completely, lulz.
This is where I had the system hacked against me. I started talking about how I fell in love with this amazing girl Tatiana Maslany. Cosima (Tatiana) asked me why and I said “She’s so smart. She speaks like four languages and her mom’s a translator and we talked about all these amazing things … Oh yeh and she’s an actress, so I have no chance with her,” and started telling her how I was planning on forgetting everything. She didn’t believe it would be possible. I convinced her that it was, but that if I ever watched her show, Orphan Black, that I would remember. It would be like the key that unlocked my memories.
Tatiana had told me the show would be streaming in early 2015 on Amazon. And based on this fact and knowing that I never watch TV, I told Cosima that I would I would probably remember in February or March 2015 – which was amazingly accurate. Accurate within a month. It’s amazing how I projected how my life would be in early 2015 (and a little depressing).
I asked Cosima where she was from and she said “Toronto, but I go to school in Minnesota.” I thought it was a strange coincidence, but just a coincidence. But since she was from somewhere so far away, I thought I could tell her whatever and it didn’t matter, since I would never see her again … so I talked about all the things, like all the problems in my life. Like the fact that I have social anxiety around girls because I had been single for 6 years and … allll the things. To be fair, Cosima wasn’t exactly leading me on and even tried to stop me.
 And then Cosima said she knew the girl I was talking about and that she would be at Leela the next day. Sure enough, Tatiana showed up and we spent some time drawing and stuff.
I was so thoroughly convinced that Cosima was a different person that, for months, I had hoped to run into that dready bioinformatics chick in Denver again (I forgot she was from Toronto). But of course, I never did. And I suppressed the memories of Tatiana, which was one of the hardest things I’ve done. I even deleted tweets and text messages, so I wouldn’t remember if I accidentally viewed them.
The hardest part was when I saw Tatiana for the last time. It was on Sunday, I think. She asked me if I would go to San Diego Comic Con with her in July 2013 and I had to turn her down. I told her I would run out of money at that point.
And I never realized that I had met the other clones either. I thought they were all different people.   I told Alison, the suburban housewife clone, that she reminded me of my sister-in-law – before I’d seen the show of course lol, though there are still some similarities.
When watching her show, I didn’t remember anything until the last episode of the first season, which she had told me about. Even then, there was only a vague familiarity about her characters. It wasn’t until midway through the second season that I started to completely remember everything. And finally, I figured out that all the other girls were actually Tatiana too.
So I basically fell in love with the same girl multiple times in a single weekend without realizing it. And now I feel like it’s a race against time to chase her down before she gets married. Basically, my life has turned into the plot for a romantic comedy movie – or the Great Gatsby. lol jk
But even if it’s not going to happen – and it’s probably not – just remembering that this happened is probably the best thing to happen to me since meeting her two years ago. Two years that were particularly bad, starting a few weeks after we met. So it’s become a kind of raison d’etre. Even if we don’t end up together, it’s so amazing that this happened, that it gives me hope that maybe something like it could happen again, which provides me a reason for bettering myself. I’ve seriously been laughing about this for like a month now.
None of this would have happened if Tatiana weren’t such an amazing person. As someone with high-functioning autism and anxiety, I’m often not the most social person. She looked past all that and took the time to get to know me, discovering the amazing person that I am on the inside. Regardless of whether she felt the same way I do, she spent considerable effort being kind and boosting my confidence. I’m surprised that she never broke character as Cosima. If I had known it was Tatiana and still said the same things, I’d expect her to have walked off.
By the way, I met several famous people that weekend. I met the entire cast of Orphan Black, as well as the co-creators. I also met Emma Stone, who talked with Tat and I for a bit. I may have also met George Lucas … without realizing who I was talking to. LMAO. If it really was George Lucas, we talked about the Disney/Star Wars deal and why Lucas didn’t actually ruin episodes 1, 2 and 3.
Seriously though, if you ever want to hack the system with celebrities, don’t recognize them – they love it when people don’t know who they are.  Plus, they’re actors, they’re good at picking up on acting – you’re not going to beat them at their own game. Many celebrities don’t like solely being known for their work and their characters, since fans who recognize them for that are less likely to recognize them for people they actually are. And that’s why I’m never watching TV again.
That’s It … Not Really Though
There’s so much other stuff within this story that’s unbelievable. This already sounds unbelievable, yes. However, I’ve left out some parts that add several more layers to this experience. There’s a lot of stuff I left out. It’s so strange that something so emotionally impactful was unavailable to my mind until twenty months later. Sometimes, I suspect that I really might have had an authentic religious experience. I can’t explain it…
I’m not sure how it would be possible, but I think I got ghosted. As in, “Ghost in the Shell,” where someone has false memories implanted or incepted in them … somehow. Sounds crazy, right? I’ve been dealing with this ever since I remembered it in early 2015, with absolutely no way to verify. One point to emphacize is the number of strongly anachronistic content! Most of this consists of things that would be easy to predict in late 2014, but difficult to predict in spring or summer 2013! Furthermore, there are many strong anachronisms.
This isn’t some random set of delusions. It’s easy to distinguish random information from non-random information – see some of [Claude Shannon’s work in crypto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) as an example. This adds a very interesting dimension to things. Why would delusional memories include information about topics I know nothing about? Why would they seem to nudge me in a specific direction or lead me by the nose? Someone has been toying with me like a ship in a bottle and I thought it was very cute at first because OMG did you read that story above?! Who would question that?
There are many family and friends who asked me about this stuff before who won’t talk about it now. They indicated knowledge of specific people in this stories before I remembered. There are hundreds of people who’ve indicated knowledge of details, topics and even specific phrases/quotes. It’s very strange. I’m sure I’m actually incorrect about most of those, but out of hundreds of people …. c’mon give me a break!
Since I “remembered,” people have also indicated a strong aversion to talking about it. I’m very good at reading people and some of these people are afraid to talk about it. They won’t affirm it, but they don’t actively deny it either. They act like it’s non-sense and not important. And there are many people who have indicated knowledge of it, who won’t talk about it directly.
 I compartmentalized the fact that I had thrown this drive away so that I wouldn’t slip up and mention it to anyone. Keep in mind that I’m not 100% sure that any of this even happened, though I would love for someone to verify. That sounds strange, I know, but just hear me out.


WITNESS LIST Judiciary Committee March 21, 2005-2:00P HB 646 On: Marshall, Edward (Office of Attorney General) HB 1062 For: Herman, Guy (Self) HB 1186 For: Karisch, Glenn M. (Self and Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas) HB 1191 For: Karisch, Glenn M. (Self and Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas) HB 1238 For: Brown, W.K. Bo (Self) O'Donnell, Robert T. (Self) On: Shafer, Kathy (Office of the Attorney General- Child Support Division) HB 1404 For: Herman, Guy (Self and Statutory Probate Courts of Texas) McIveen, Kenneth (Self) Wilson, Dr. Dianne (County & District Clerk Assoc of TX) Against: Karisch, Glenn (Self) HB 1470 For: Woodfin, Sheri (County & DC Asso.) HB 1472 For: Herman, Guy (Self) On: Karisch, Glenn M. (Self and Texas Academy of Probate Lawyers) HB 1501 For: Herman, Guy (Self) Karisch, Glenn M. (Self and Texas Academy of Probate Lawyers) HB 1622 For: McGregor, Bob (Self and 66th District Court) HB 1884 For: Freeman, Martha Doty (Self) Hamlin, Jim (Self and Dallas County Commissioners Court) Jones, Amanda (Harris County Commissioners Court) Lemon, Clyde W. (The Honorable Charles Bacarisse- Harris County District Clerk) Wilson, Dr. Dianne (County & District Clerk Assoc of TX) Woodfin, Sheri (County & DC Asso) Against: Lee, Donald (Texas Conference of Urban Counties) On: LaPlante, Chris (Texas State Library & Archives Commission) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Reilly, Frank (Nueces County Commissioners Court) HB 2200 For: Drummond, Deborah (Self) Fuller, Glenda (Texas Court Reporter's Association) Lund, Kristin (Self) On: Smith, Terry W. (Department of Assistive & Rehabilitative Services (DARS)) Registering, but not testifying: On: Neal, Glenn (Dept. of Assistive & Rehabilitative Services) HB 2750 For: Fields, Steven A. (Self and Texas Guardianship Association) On: Karisch, Glenn M. (Self and Texas Academy of Probate Lawyers) Registering, but not testifying: For: Herman, Guy (Self) HB 2795 On: Andersow, Kew (Office of Governor) HCR 88 On: Johnson, Phil (Council of Chief Justices, Cts of Appeals)


"What is Emotional Intelligence?"
Emotional Intelligence (or EQ) is one's ability to understand and manage one's own or others emotions. It affects how we think and the actions we take. In my opinion, different to how IQ can be considered more rationally grounded and objective, EQ is subjective. How we feel about something will differ from person to person, regardless of the facts of the matter. To understand EQ is to understand not only how you feel about something but also how others feel. After this understanding comes a logical decision made taking those feelings into account.
"How is EQ different to IQ?"
IQ (Intelligence Quotient) is a score given based on tests that represent one's intelligence. It often reflects one's ability to problem solve and is often used to better measure one's competency. While IQ could be considered the basis for one's logic in decision making, EQ would be the basis for making decisions based on emotional understanding. As I have said in the previous question, I believe IQ to be grounded in ration and objectivity, whereas EQ is grounded in emotion and subjectivity. While the two take different approaches, ultimately when used together will a person make the best decisions.
"Why is it important?"
EQ allows us to better understand ourselves and how to interact with others. Without it we would be liable to make decisions that could harm ourselves or others without knowing how or why. Often times our response to a situation will come from our emotions and without our understanding why. This can lead to rash decisions that we wouldn't make normally. If we understand why we react the way we do and why others react the way they do we can turn an emotional response into a more rational one.
Finally, I would like to give some of my thoughts on EQ.
In my experience, one of the best ways to understand EQ and IQ is to look at how we consume media. Movies, for example, can be viewed through a subjective lens and an objective lens. At the end of a movie you will have an initial feeling about what you have seen.
"Did you enjoy it? Was it fun? Are you left wanting more? Were you bored?
These initial reactions are our emotional response.
When we ask ourselves why we liked or disliked it, we have to come up with explanations for our feelings.
These explanations are our rational response.
When discussing the movie with others, often times arguments form when people disagree on their views of the movie.
Most of the time we butt heads over our emotional response.
We try to explain why we felt the way we did, but end up disregarding ration that does not favour our emotions.
In these situations there is often never a clear resolution, only further hunkering down on our emotions and causing conflicts with each other.
Understanding your own and others emotional response to something allows you to separate those from the rational.
Ultimately, doing so will let you understand it's okay to think things like "I didn't like that but I can see why my friend did."
Working on our EQ helps us prevent conflict from escalating and teaches us to take a step back and understand things first.
Understanding that it's okay for people to have different emotional responses is very healthy.


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Former Deputy President, Mantu’s Brother Has Been Killed!
by Faderera FaladeA brother to Ibrahim Mantu, former Deputy Senate President, Alhaji Hashimu Mantu, has been gruesomely killed after he was kidnapped by some gunmen and taken to an unknown destination.
According to a family source, some people from the community formed a search party immediately he was kidnapped, for his rescue but lost track of the abductors.
The source further disclosed that the abductors did not demand ransom, but that his lifeless body was discovered the next day about 4 pm in a bush close to the community.


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