Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down!
And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there.
I’ll tell you how I became the pariah of a town called #Boulder.
 While it wasn’t so bad in itself and could’ve been much worse, it was moreso the circumstances of my life in which it happened that made it so terrible. This occurred in Boulder, CO in July 2013, immediately after I had moved there from Denver.
A few people have heard parts of this story. Some have heard all of it. But I’m tired of retelling it. I want this in its entireity, in one place. I have dealt with this on my own long enough and I want to get it off my chest. If you helped me during this time, I cannot thank you enough. I am so glad the people at Boulder Fuse and SSD, the Boulder Hackerspace, were trying to help me out.
My life was extremely chaotic at this time. I didn’t feel good. I was depressed and extremely stressed. I’m pretty sure I had some psychosomatic symptoms, where the level of stress and my emotional states were actually causing me physical problems as well. At the time, I thought it was the bedbug poison that surrounded me at home. I did not feel like myself and stopped physical activites like skateboarding because of this wierd feeling of weakness in my nerves/muscles. It was probably self-induced by my state of mind, but I was spending hours of time on Wikipedia looking into ALS, MS, etc, but couldn’t find anything that matched. At one point, I had pins and needles in one leg, though it wasn’t falling asleep. Anyways …
So what’s that like?
Picture yourself, having just moved to a new area an hour away, though you’re 25 hours from home. You’ve been living in Colorado for 4 months now and you’ve made a few good friends in Denver. But, you’ve just moved to Boulder after having a severe case of “the grass is greener.”
Then, three weeks after you arrive, your new roommate, who you barely know, informs you that your new apartment has bedbugs. At the end of June, he leaves for the Rainbow Gathering in Montana, leaving you alone. You could go if you want.
So … there’s certain things that happen to me … and I don’t think they happen to other people …
You’re a fairly quiet person, very introspective. And you haven’t had a chance to make real friends yet. By real friends, I mean the kind of people you feel comfortable asking to help you deal with some serious problems. Problems which would would surely mean these true friends would have to be willing take on some pain in order to help you out. And sometimes you just don’t know how to ask for help.
2013/7/7 View from the roof of the Boulder Hackerspace
I took this picture on the first day I got paid and the day I started new job at JumpCloud. Things were starting to look up, but there was still no light at the end of the tunnel.
TL; DR;
I’m starting to write a bit too much, so I’m going to try to sum up how the situation impacted my life first. Then I’ll go into more details, including what happened. I was psychologyically traumatized by this. As in PTSD. Maybe I wasn’t in a warzone, but 6 to 12 months afterwards, I was constantly reliving these situations. Constantly replaying memories and ruminating, trying to establish what I could have done to limit the impact of these situations. Trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I deserved to go through this.
Bedbugs are like an STD.  Instead of being sexually transmitted, it’s more like ‘reaching-out-for-help-transmitted’ – in my case, I couldn’t ask for help without hurting those people who gave me help!
Basically, I ended up in a situation where I was isolated and had no support network. I even lost my phone right at the worst time and had a hard time contacting my family for about three weeks. I had to deal with this severe problem that I was deathly afraid of talking to anyone about, since I likely couldn’t prevent this infestation from spreading.
Coworkers at Boulder Fuse.
I was working at an extremely cool coworking space in Boulder at the time. Boulder Fuse, a great place, run by great people. I was afraid of getting them infected – and may have, since these bedbugs can hitch a ride on your belongings. So to combat this, I wanted to minimize my time spent at home.
2013/6/22 - the view from my desk at Boulder Fuse
So, I adopted a 48-hour sleep schedule: this would mean I’d spend only half my days at home. On alternating nights, I stayed awake at the Boulder Fuse’s amazing office, fueling passion on my projects with adderal and countless packs of American Spirit.
However, today I’m proud to say that I haven’t smoked a single cigarette in 14 months!
So I only made the trek home when it was necessary. Sometimes, I passed out on the creekbed outside, during the day. When I returned home, I only reluctantly slept in my bed – a pretty amazing mattress my friend had left in his place for me. Instead, I slept outside on the patio!
Wow, your place on Craigslist looks great!! You look pretty cool yourself. We could be great friends. You don’t mind a few bedbugs do you?  Meanwhile, for months you infect all your friends and neighbors that live close by. No biggie, right?
While I didn’t have any furniture, I was also afraid of this problem following me to the next apartment I found myself in. I ultimately found myself homeless immediately after starting a new job. I had plenty of money, but I was so busy, I couldn’t search for an apartment. Not to mention that I didn’t have a car. After my first lease was up, I stored my belongings – which, thankfully, was no more than I could [barely] carry at one time – in my friend’s pickup truck. Rain or shine, it don’t make no matta.
The week I moved out was the EXACT time that I lost my phone!!! I really can’t use enough exclamation points to identify how this is the perfect WORST time for this to happen!
2013/8/2 Shooting Star - taken at the beginning of my homelessness.
For a period of three weeks, I had a really tough time finding a place to stay. Remember, I had only lived in Boulder for a few weeks! I started sleeping at the office. I tried to keep it on the D/L, but my manager at Jumpcloud put an end to this pretty quickly, for insurance reasons. My manager and teammates recommended getting a hotel, just until I could sort things out.
I stayed in a hotel for a few nights at a time. This was especially annoying, as it ate into my savings for a lease on an apartment. The hotel kicked me out after a few nights. And so, instead of searching for an apartment, I found myself, alone, dragging everything I owned in Colorado along with me around Downtown Boulder.  A great first impression for a new work environment, doncha know?!
2013/8/13 - Hot Tub at the Foot of the Mountain Motel
In this picture, my hat’s inside out, showing the Mandelbrot patterns inside. It’s what’s inside that counts, right? I was lucky enough to get a room here. I remember that at this time, all the students’ parents were in Boulder, helping their kids move in. This made it really difficult to find even a hotel room!
Oh, and I was suffering from a bout a Irritable Bowel Syndrome for those few weeks. Another great impression, right?
My manager at Jumpcloud wouldn’t let me keep my stuff at the office – again, for insurance reasons. So, I occasionally found myself storing my possessions openly in the parking garage below our office, while I was at work. I got to the point where staying at the hotel was completely eating up my savings for a place, so I had to do something else.
I found this blanket I could use, which at night I carried with me to the outskirts of Boulder. Rain was my worst enemy and I slept under the open sky. And amazing, I didn’t lose my mind through all of this, which I attribute to my Buddhist beliefs. I told myself that I was camping and that I should appreciate the chance I got to do this because – let’s be honest – I’m not the guy who usually goes camping. I love the outdoors, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t usually prompt myself with the opportunity.
A picture of the exact spot I camped at, above that twisted pine. In Boulder, camping is illegal.
Actually, one of my pipedreams is technology that enable us to work remotely on a mountainside … like techno-hippie hermits …
Anyways, so how was I showering? Luckily, my colleagues had recently suggested we all get a gym membership, so I showered there. How was I changing? I kept extra changes of clothes and underwear in my desk! Additionally, these became particularly useful when, for whatever reason, a toilet exploded on me at work after I took a shit!! So, again…
So … there’s certain things that happen to me … and I don’t think they happen to other people …
Anyways, for at least a week, my schedule was the following:
- 6:00am: Wake up and walk back into Boulder.
- 7:00am: Arrive at the office before anyone else and find some clothes I had stashed in my desk.
- 7:15am: Run to the gym, luckily a few blocks away – because I like to keep it simple.
- 7:30am: Phony 15 minute workout to justify being at the gym to take a shower.
- 7:45am: Quick shower.
- 8:00am: Back to the office to arrive early, which admittedly was a change of pace.
- 9:00am: Work for a while.
- 6:00pm: Get off from work. I liked to stay late. I didn’t have anyone else to hang out with really.
- 7:00pm: I stayed close to the office, so I could return after everyone left. To search for apartments, not catch up on work.
And for the rest of the night, I would desparately search listings on Craigslist, while just as desparately trying to find somewhere to stay with that night. Most of these listings were were out of my price range. Or at least exceeded my current savings at the time – I could afford to live there, but couldn’t afford the security deposit. And this is all occuring at the same time University of Colorado Boulder is returning to school, increasing the amount of competition for places to live.
2013/6/25 - View from the Boulder Fuse patio, which was my office away from the office.
I even had to wear my swim trunks at one point because I hadn’t had a chance do laundry. I used the excuse that I was going tubing with some friends later, which I was. It was one of the few times I got to see friends from Virginia.  I didn’t know them too terribly well.
Admittedly, a lot of this is my fault for not taking care of finding a new place earlier. However, I was seriously overwhelmed by my new job and the moral delimma that bedbugs posed. Fortunately, after about 2 weeks of being homeless, I had found my next place. I wasn’t able to move in just yet, but my new roommate was generous enough to allow me to store my stuff in his garage. I cannot emphasize enough how this simplified my life at the time.
Also, being briefly homeless also cleared my conscience. My stuff had been outside in my friends pickup truck for several days; it’s probably in the clear. And after a few days of camping, there was no possible way that I could transmit them to my new roommate, right? Phew, what a relief. No longer a pariah!
2013/7/30 - The day before I have to move out.
My apartment complex neighbor across the way had Tibetan prayer flags hanging up and it got me thinking. The day before I moved out, I posted this pic following on Facebook, along with the following caption.
Tibetan prayer flags give me this warm fuzzy feeling. To me, they mean that no matter how cold things may seem or how far up you are, someone’s been there before. And that’s a relief right?
Acting Against My Beliefs
I had recently become more enthusiastic about embracing Buddhism. Many of these ideas had come to save me from much of the pain I had experienced in my life, years prior. I had learned that the pain I was experiencing was really a result of the cage my beliefs had constructed around myself. All I had to do was reshape my beliefs and I could escape. Briefly studying aspects of Buddhism had provided me with tools that I had found infinitely valuable, over and over again.
I had even begun to try vegitarianism, except for eggs and fish. And if you know me, this is a huge step for me, not easy at all. While I don’t each much pork or beef, it’s a huge change in my habits. However, being vegitarian is moreso a conclusion of Buddhism than a foundational tenet, as some believe. That is, if you truly act as one with the beliefs of Buddhism, you would be vegetarian because you desire suffering to end for all sentient life. Yet, there are many more important insights about life and its experiences that most would likely accept before finding themselves there.
Yet suddenly, I found myself alone in a situation where I could easily escape, supposedly, if I might just forsake one of Buddhism’s most important conclusions: that all forms of life are sacred. Even those forms of life which you’d rather not have to deal with: parasites and disease bearing life. All I had to do was poison my apartment – although there is no guarantee this would work because bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eliminate.
Additionally, there are the karmic consequences of selfishly acting on my own beliefs. Failing to act would allow this infestation to spread to my neighbors, forcing them to commit the same sins I had forbid myself to commit. It would create the exact same situation for others. And maybe this aspect of the problem seems silly to you – just $#@!’ing deal with the problem already – but to me, this was yet another aspect of the already severe problem I was dealing with!
I spent many nights at home balling my eyes out over this issue. Partially because it opened my eyes to the possibility of similar problems which cannot be defined in black and white.
The Toxicity of Our City
Another aspect of the dilemma is that I’m a “chemophobe.” In other words, I do not want to have to live in a home with neurotoxic chemicals. My roommate brought home bedbug poison and they don’t even list the chemicals in that stuff. If you know that many bugsprays and mosquito repellants contain neurotoxins capable of contributing to Parkinson’s disease by interfering with your body’s dopaminergic systems, you’re going to be pretty wary of unlisted chemicals which are probably neurotoxic or poisonous to humans, too.
After all, life evolved in similar environments and much life has common ancestry. While not necessarily true, what is detrimental to one species or form of life is often toxic to others. Our genes and systems are more similar than we realize. It’s actually epigenetics and the expression of genes which accounts for the diversity of life and NOT the genes themselves!
In other words, various forms of life are built with “lego pieces,” which are mostly the same. It’s how these pieces are snapped together that makes the difference. Some branches in the tree of life contain unique pieces, but we share many of the more important pieces. There are many exceptions and this reasoning can’t be used to determine a specific safety profile or general scientific policy, but it’s still a useful generalization. More on this topic in a separate article.
May 2013
Taking it back a few months, and I’ve just lost the coolest job that I’ve ever had. I worked at Weedmaps, where I happily worked with a team of great people. Best of all, I felt that I was working for a company where I could be myself. While we obviously couldn’t smoke at work, I didn’t have to hide my marijuana usage from other employees. I wasn’t afraid that marijuana usage would be politically used against me. I was contributing to an industry I was passionate about. Everything was perfect.
Well, there was “that one guy” who I thought was being a bit manipulative, divisive and political. However, I’ve learned that this is usually the rule and not the exception. Whenever you’re in an environment where there’s an incentive for people to gain advantage – or avoid losing their job – you’re going to end up with some political players like this.
If it’s just that one guy, then your problems really aren’t that bad. If you deal with these people in the right way, you can come to an understanding, though it may not be easy. Mostly, you need to make sure everyone sees how interactions are playing out between this person and others. Again, more on this topic very soon.
So, I lost this job after a new manager came on board and they switched technologies from Ruby to Java. A few Ruby guys were let go, all at the same time. I saw it coming, but they gave us a great severance package. I didn’t want to leave, but are you really going to argue much when you walk out of the door with like $5,000 and your last paycheck on the way?
A Chance to Work on my Awesome Music Startup Idea!
Just Kidding!
This was the middle of May, right before Startup Week Boulder. At the time, I wanted to use this extra cash as a means of feuling my own startup, Oscillate. I had this idea since October 2011. It would be like a Github for music, where producers could collaborate on new tracks.
Instead, I chose to help someone else work on their startup idea. This was Nei.ghbor.Net. It was for a distributed, meshnet application platform. Meshnet is really amazing technology and could completely circumvent the possibility of NSA surveillance! There are amazingly unique possibilities for this technology.
It’s too bad the Nei.ghbor.Net blog is offline now =/ Otherwise, you could get a better idea of what we were working on. Oh wait – HERE IT IS! – God bless your heart, Internet Archive. Sometimes, it really pays to think ahead. Thankfully, I thought of visiting the site on the Internet Archive in July 2013 … You know, just in case :)
Certainly, this was revolutionary and more important than the music startup I was working on. Plus, I have the mindset that I can do anything and achieve anything, so I’m more likely to follow paths with high-risk and high-reward. We just needed to find the most basic implementation of this technology – the Twitter of MeshNet, if you will.
I love Twitter because it’s like the “atom of web applications.” What I mean by this is that Twitter is like the simplest web application. It is so simple that you could say the product was like an indivisible set of features that composed the simplest thing you could do on the internet – share 140 characters. Because of this, you could never replace Twitter by genericizing or imitating it. It’s already the simplest thing that anything like it could ever be and it has already established market dominance there.
Therefore, it’s secure in its position, so long as Twitter never extended its featureset to become something it’s not. Additionally, the only way for Twitter to be endangered from the outside is to be out-compete it by swaying it’s user base and pulling them to other similar web applications, like Facebook.
Nei.ghbor.Net just needed an app like that – the simplest, most basic application that could run on our platform. If we could define and provide the platform, coupled with the simplest app, then we could put the app together. This was MY reasoning behind the concept for Shout! – the app our team at Hack4CO put together.
Additionally, Shout! (and nearly all Meshnet apps) would be anonymized, a la the Secret app, which didn’t come along until later. That is, it wouldn’t require to use authentication to use the app. That means you can connect with people that you don’t already know, which was a limitation I had found annoying with current web applications.
I can’t take credit for the whole Shout! idea, but it was my idea that it would be the simplest meshnet application. And one of my concepts was for a cross between Twitter and Foursquare.
2013/6/29 - I worked the Frozen Banana Stand at one of Boulder Fuse’s Riverside events.
Look at me ^^ I started a business =)
So, what was Shout!, anyways?
Shout! would show you what’s going on in your neighborhood. It was like an anonymized cross between Twitter and Foursqure, where users could search their local area for other people shouting. That means they could see other users posting shouts within a search window of their local area: within 5 blocks, half a mile or 5 miles from them – even if you did not ‘follow’ that user.
Users could easily see shouts from people at the bar down the street, where a live show was being played by that band they’d never heard. Everyone’s shouts would be posted on a map that people could view to see what was going on in the local area, even if they didn’t follow these people. Obviously there were many problems that we would need to solve, including spam and technical challenges.
And the best part? Shout! was meshnet – none of this data would touch the internet! That’s what was revolutionary. It would be relayed through intermediate devices and it would not touch the internet. However, I didn’t realize just how technically challenging it would be, but I gave up my best opportunity to work on my music startup so far to work on it anyways. After our team attended Boulder Startup Week, I suggested that we couldn’t afford not to move up to Boulder. The grass there was sooo green! But really, in retrospect, this was a huge mistake. I should’ve just tried to find a job in Denver, where rent is half priced, and then worked on my startup until then. But I took the risk and paid the price.
Other great Meshnet applications include: decentralized wikipedias for sharing ideas off-net (this was my friend’s idea) and apps to allow protestors to communicate in the event of, say, Egyptian tele-communication shutdowns. You literally can’t stop it. Mwa haha! Also, unbeknownst to us at the time, a great Meshnet app called FireChat later did just that! FireChat was used in the 2014 protests in Hong Kong!
You will see widespread meshnet. It might be 2020, but it’s coming. Or so says professional über-nerd, Van Jacobson, all the way back in 2007. And he works at Google!
Also, Apple included Meshnet in iOS 7. So the capabilities are coming. But there are some incredibly, incredibly complicated problems to solve. Some of them are practical problems, some of them are very technical – like new routing protocols that just aren’t there yet. Some of the problems are in the business models – today’s apps monetize through advertising and by utilizing Big Data. In meshnet apps, your data never touches central servers – and IMO that’s the best part. But, whats the incentive to make these apps, if monetizing is going to be incredibly complicated?
Phew, my point there was to demonstrate why I thought it would be worthwhile to give up development of my own app.
Sometimes, I forget how amazing it was to briefly work on this project. It’s the fuuutuuurrree, maannnn </heady-techno-hippie>
Sooo… Did Ya Ever Move to Boulder?
At the time, my friend, who was also working on Nei.ghbor.Net, said his brother was moving out of his place in Boulder. I could get a really good deal on it, but I could only live there for two months. A really good deal, as in basically $1000 for two months for a 2BR apartment in a town where you can’t find a 2BR for less than $1300 for one month.  I paid for two apartments in June to cover the one I had in Denver! When I was unemployed and not receiving unemployment – something I have never received by the way.
2013/6/16 My Desk during this time, at Boulder Fuse. Before I had found out about the bedbugs.
Additionally, he said that he’d be moving in with me in a few weeks and that we’d work on the Nei.ghbor.Net startup there. I stressed that we need to put together an MVP quickly to get funding. Otherwise, I’d run out of money. From May to June, I hung out a lot at the Boulder Hackerspace and saw my friend several times there. But it didn’t look like he was going to move in. Running out of money and uncertain of the future of our situation, I started looking at jobs and I found one in time. So, I more or less needed to pull back from Nei.ghbor.Net and start focusing on my new job.
Started Working at Jumpcloud
Got Fired From Jumpcloud
When I got fired from Jumpcloud, it was almost a relief. I had plenty of time to quit, but I’m not a quitter. And to me, losing one opportunity may just be the beginning of something greater. So it actually was pretty relieving.
And at least I had a place to stay. Things had been much worse and I would be OK – I had enough fund to survive for two months. Maybe I lost my job, but it wasn’t so bad. There were plenty of tech jobs in Boulder. And when I worked at Jumpcloud, it seemed like people were throwing jobs offers at me. But, not so much afterwards.
This is not what I was used to, as a talented Rails developer. I didn’t get it, but for the jobs I was interested in – like SendGrid and a few others – I couldn’t get past the phone screen. I’m not sure what the problem was. There were other opportunities, but I am very, very picky when it comes to finding a place to work. I would much rather not work at all in most cases.
Software is something I do because I love it. Working at a business doing software means that I’ll spend all day working on what your business needs, which hopefully is something I love working on. However, when I get home, I’ll likely be too mentally exhausted to work on the software and technologies that I want to. I’ll be restricted in what technologies I can invest the time learning and I probably won’t have the time or energy to take Coursera classes. So, you see, there’s a major economic opportunity cost to having a job!
And so, after all this, I quickly fell into a pretty bad depression. I had forsaken my inner peace long ago by this point and it was really tough for me. I was stressed that I would let my new roommate down by being unable to pay rent and putting him in the awkward position of having to kick me out. This was a guy who was extremely knowledgeable about Buddhism and taught me a ton. I really looked up to him – and he even introduced me to Kendall Musk, Elon Musk’s brother, who is changing the world in his own way. Kendall Musk, who own’s Boulder’s The Kitchen, is working on changing how restaurants source their food, working on making it easier to support the local food economy.
My roommate tried to help me out by offering me a job at the business where he worked. However, I was afraid that it was too far away and, worse, that I would let him down he might look bad. It was a position working with Java, which I don’t have too much experience with. I was just starting to get into Clojure at this point and if I had be smarter, more grounded and more confident, I would have pursued this opportunity and everything probably would have worked out. After all, Clojure was based on Java and it would have been a great opportunity for me. However, I was shortsighted and terribly hurt by this point, feeling almost like an abused dog.
I tried to start working on Oscillate again – remember that amazing music startup I was telling you about? Just one of the best ideas I’ve had and certainly one of the most fun. I went to Denver Startup Week in September 2013 and tried finding investors, but I didn’t have an MVP. The business idea was very difficult to articlulate & validate to people who didn’t have very much music production experience. I networked with a lot of business guys and Ruby developers there.
In October 2013, unbeknownst to me, a high profile Ruby developer and the founder of the GroupMe messaging service founded Splice. Splice is pretty much exactly what I wanted Oscillate to be – so that’s a little depressing. And I didn’t hear about it until June 2014 on a Ruby Rogues podcast. Needless to say, I was not pleased. However, some ideas are just fated to be and I didn’t act fast enough. These are the best ideas by the way – ideas so good, there’s no way that someone’s not going to build it.
I should have started on Oscillate in 2012, immediately! However, I just didn’t have the support around me that I needed at that time. And I never really have been able to time everything right – to get the opportunity and resources set to roll at just the right time.
I’m seriously being overlooked here.
There’s more to this story
Including what happened after I had to move out of Boulder. Seriously, it’s a bat-shit insane story – the $#@!’ing craziest thing that EVER happened to me. It’d be funny if it wasn’t true. But I’ll have to include that in another post.


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The composer for IZ*ONE's 'Neko Ni Naritai' ('I Want To Be A Cat') begs for the group to not disband
by honeyciderShintaro Fujiwara, the composer for IZ*ONE's song "Neko Ni Naritai" ("I Want To Be A Cat"), has taken to his personal Twitter to express his feelings on the recent petitions, asking the project group to disband.
In his tweet, he said,"I beg you, please don't let them disband. There are still lots of songs I want to write for them, songs I want them to sing. They still have a long way to go. I'm not able to do anything but, somehow please." (translation from@fujii_itsuki)
He then added a photo of his signed album of 'HEART*IZ' to the Tweet.
She his full post below.


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Dendro in Greek language means tree. The Dendro library is a large scale (262K cores on ORNL's Titan) distributed memory adaptive octree framework. The main goal of Dendro is to perform large scale multiphysics simulations efficeiently in mordern supercomputers. Dendro consists of efficient parallel data structures and algorithms to perform variational ( finite element) methods and finite difference mthods on 2:1 balanced arbitary adaptive octrees which enables the users to perform simulations raning from black holes (binary black hole mergers) to blood flow in human body, where applications ranging from relativity, astrophysics to biomedical engineering.
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Contains utility function for the host related to GPUs.
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A comprehensive walk-through of taking the derivative of the sigmoid function.
One of the most frequently used activation functions in machine learning, or more specifically, neural networks is the sigmoid function. In the backpropagation step in training a neural network, you have to find the derivative of the loss function with respect to each weight in the network. To do this, you have to find the derivative of your activation function. This article aims to clear up any confusion about finding the derivative of the sigmoid function.
To begin, here is the sigmoid function:
$$\sigma(x)=\frac{1}{1+e^{-x}}$$
For a test, take the sigmoid of 5 on your calculator. You should get 0.99330714907.
For the purposes of the derivative, this function can also be written as:
$$\sigma(x)=(1+e^{-x})^{-1}$$
First Impressions
The first thing I noticed about this function, is that it is a composition of functions. The first function being
$$\sigma(x)=(m)^{-1}$$
and the second being
$$m=1+e^{-x}$$
Recall that in Calculus, when there is a composition of functions, the derivative, is the first function with respect to the second multiplied by the second function with respect to the variable, in this case x. Like this:
$$\frac{d\sigma}{dx}=\frac{d\sigma}{dm}\frac{dm}{dx}$$
So, the derivative of the sigmoid with respect to x is the derivative of the sigmoid function with respect to m times the derivative of m with respect to x. You can think of this function composition rule as a kind of intermediate computation that results in the original derivative that you wanted by cross cancelation:
$$\frac{d\sigma}{dx}=\frac{d\sigma}{\xcancel{dm}}\frac{\xcancel{dm}}{dx}=\frac{d\sigma}{dx}$$
Now that we know the sigmoid function is a composition of functions, all we have to do to find the derivative, is:
- Find the derivative of the sigmoid function with respect to m, our intermediate value
- Find the derivative of m with respect to x
- Multiply those values together
1. Derivative of the sigmoid with respect to m
Let’s look back to what the sigmoid function looks like with m as our intermediate value:
$$\sigma(x)=(m)^{-1}$$
To find the derivative of this with respect to m is fairly simple if we can remember the power rule:
$$\frac{d(x^n)}{dx}=n\times x^{n-1}$$
The derivative of x^n is n times the derivative of x to the power of n-1.
 We completed step 1.
2. Find the derivative of m with respect to x
Here’s m:
$$m=1+e^{-x}$$
To find the derivative, we have to find the derivative of each term with respect to x. The first term is easy:
$$\frac{d(1)}{dx}=0$$
The second term is a bit more complicated.
Let’s let
$$y=e^u$$
and
$$u=-x$$
We know that
$$\frac{dy}{du}=e^u \\ \frac{du}{dx}=-1$$
If getting to e^u is not clear, please read this.
Now, using the chain rule once again,
$$\frac{dy}{dx}=\frac{dy}{du}\frac{du}{dx}$$
So, we just multiply those derivatives we just calculated to get the derivative with respect to x:
$$\frac{dy}{dx}=e^u \times (-1)=-e^u=-e^{-x}$$
All in all for step 2,
$$\frac{dm}{dx}=-e^{-x}$$
3. Multiply the derivatives
Recall, that once we found the two intermediate derivatives, we had to multiply them. So, here is a quick summary:
$$\frac{d\sigma}{dx}=\frac{d\sigma}{dm}\frac{dm}{dx}$$
$$\frac{d\sigma}{dm}=-(1+e^{-x})^{-2}$$
$$\frac{dm}{dx}=-e^{-x}$$
Now, if you remember how to multiply :), we can finally finish this!
$$\frac{d\sigma}{dx}=-(1+e^{-x})^{-2} \times -e^{-x}=\frac{e^{-x}}{(1+e^{-x})^2}$$
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The derivative of sigma is the sigma times 1 minus the sigma. Wow. I feel cheated. :)
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HAAR is a MATLAB library which computes the Haar transform of data.
In the simplest case, one is given a vector X whose length N is a power of 2. We now consider consecutive pairs of entries of X, and for I from 0 to (N/2)-1 we define:
S[I] = ( X[2*I] + X[2*I+1] ) / sqrt ( 2 ) D[I] = ( X[2*I] - X[2*I+1] ) / sqrt ( 2 )We now replace X by the vector S concatenated with D. Assuming that (N/2) is greater than 1, we repeat the operation on the (N/2) entries of S, and so on, until we have reached a stage where our resultant S and D each contain one entry.
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[gecode-users] Obtaining information about variablesHi for variable selection
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Mon Jul 20 14:25:01 CEST 2009
Hi,
Sorry, it's me again. I think I know the problem: when you check the members
in the doc you only see the direct members but not the inherited ones. But
there is always a link for showing all members, check here for IntVar:
http://www.gecode.org/doc-latest/reference/classGecode_1_1Int_1_1IntView-mem
bers.html
Cheers
Christian
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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Christian Schulte
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 2:20 PM
To: 'Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist'; 'Kish Shen'
Cc: users at gecode.org
Subject: Re: [gecode-users] Obtaining information about variablesHi for
variable selection
Hi Kish,
I am just back from holidays. Actually, there is no problem. For an IntVar
x, x.degree() returns the number of subscribed propagators (just checked)!
What was the error you got?
The only thing that's missing is regret_min and regret_max which will be
available for IntVar (and BoolVar) in the next release.
Christian
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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:18 AM
To: Kish Shen
Cc: users at gecode.org
Subject: Re: [gecode-users] Obtaining information about variablesHi for
variable selection
Hi,
The degree-information for variables is only available through the
view-interfaces [1]. Similarly for regret-information.
As a simple example, given that you have an IntVar x, and you want to
access the degree-information, you could do the following:
IntVar x;
// ...
Int::IntView xv(x);
if (xv.degree() > some_degree) {
Cheers,
Mikael
[1]
Integer views:
http://www.gecode.org/doc-latest/reference/group__TaskActorIntView.html
Set views:
http://www.gecode.org/doc-latest/reference/group__TaskActorSetView.html
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Kish Shen<kisshen at cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to obtain the information used in the branch() variable
> selection. I am currently most interested in the degree (number of
> propagator depending on a variable) for the IntVars, because there I
> can't find any easy way to obtain this information, but I assume Gecode
> keeps this information internally.
>
> The reason I am interested in this information is for the interface to
> Gecode I am developing for ECLiPSe. I now have a basic working version
> where Gecode is used to perform the propagation of the constraints,
> while ECLiPSe does the search, which include variable and value
> selections. I need the degree information for variable selection, and
> because the selection is done in ECLiPSe, I cannot use branch().
>
> Thanks in advance for any help and information!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kish
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[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> @Draeth where is the interview?
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> in south Florida
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> How scripted will it be?
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> it's a recorded interview, documentary style
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> nothing will get published that we don't want to
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> This is the moonshot. I would be down. I'm not sure if I want to make myself a target but If we can pull this off it could be great.
A few years back, we wrote a series of articles about an operation called Vision Media TV (and a variety of other rapidly changing names, including WJMK, United Media, World Progress Report, and Great America HD, among many others). The basic...
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> It's I am curious as to what happened with fishy. Not that is anyone's business. I just hope that it's for personal reasons and not external pressure. Information matrix looks pretty legit https://informationmatrixtv.com/
Combining Laurence Fishburne's reputation with educational documentary-style content, Information Matrix continues to keep audiences engaged, inspired, and informed, with stories that resonate with viewers on the latest developments throughout the world.
A producer may offer to produce a show about your business or organization in exchange for fees...
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> Good find @Strob, this is why i'm holding off on donations
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> i want to make absolutely SURE before i even start trying to fundraise that stuff like this is brought up
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> even if it only get's aired on rural stations at 3am it is still an enormous opportunity to get the message out.
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> But I support the skepticism
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> we could just put that money into producing our own video
The pitches suggest health companies will be introduced by celebrities and millions might see the shows. But the experience doesn't always deliver.
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> Yeah, after watching a few videos it seems a little low budget production-wise for what they are charging. I watch PBS, but I'm old
[dscrd-prt] <BooYaCa$harrr> Targeted advertising would be more effective for our audience
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> "Morland said that the decision to go on the show came down to a simple cost-benefit analysis. It was less about being featured on a public television segment, and more about the value of having a highly produced company video."
[dscrd-prt] <Strob> To advertise on a tv show you need precise reports about when and where it was aired and how many people watched it.
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> I have an old email from CoinTelegraph from when i asked about advertising my store, they charge $6k for a youtube commercial production video
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> It's hard to predict what angle they would take or what we would get as a finished product. Would be better to build around a message than an interview in my opinion. But honestly I have no idea what such a production would cost. I have a couple friends I can ask about it.
[dscrd-prt] <ComputerGenie > you need precise reports about when and where it was aired and how many people watched it.
I agree that without demo info, it's kinda pointless
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> you guys think it would be better to have places like cointelegraph and coindesk produce videos for us and post em on their sites?
[dscrd-prt] <ComputerGenie > The farmers in Des Moines give 0 feks about crypto and even less feks about it at 4am
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> @ComputerGenie 👴👴👴 true, but could it be worth the money to have a high quality production video made?
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> and if it is, maybe i can talk to them about the costs
[dscrd-prt] <ComputerGenie > but could it be worth the money to have a high quality production video made?
I guess that depends on the quality, the cost, and the usage rights
Information Matrix TV reviews the Real Cost of Augmented Reality with Host Laurence Fishburne.
[dscrd-prt] <Strob> Did you see the only comment? lol!
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> lolll
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> interesting that just about all of their videos have 0 comments
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> I think framing Pirate as one of the only possible alternatives to the banking system, in a future cashless society, would be a pretty compelling user story. I would think even with fancy graphics, dialog, and music you could make it for well under $20k
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> good point
[dscrd-prt] <ComputerGenie > Host Laurence Fishburne = what? 20-25 seconds?
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[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> it's not so much about him hosting, it's more about having a doc style video broadcasted
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> but in light of the things that were dug up, it's sounding like a resounding "no, don't do this"
[dscrd-prt] <Strob> Maybe it would be better to try to find a YouTuber we could pay to help promote Pirate. One with a large and crypto aware audience... If that's possible. At least with youtube we have a good idea about how many people saw the video.
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> i'm thinking crypto news sites
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> TONS of people look at cointelegraph, coindesk, etc
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> @ComputerGenie 👴👴👴 you could be the star in our new pirate documentary
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[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> i'll buy that camera and film it
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> Something different is what's called for. "Computergenie, a day in the life of a modern pirate"
[dscrd-prt] <ComputerGenie > will put on clean underwear and everything
[dscrd-prt] <actionslacks> Thanks for picking up the baton @Draeth there is much to think about.
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> @actionslacks np. I'm just glad that we have a very involved community that can dig stuff up on the fly
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> !arrrtip @actionslacks 100
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> !arrrtip @Strob 100
[dscrd-prt] <Strob> thanks Draeth,!
[dscrd-prt] <Draeth> no, thank you! I greatly appreciate your efforts in digging up this information
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MicroPython on microcontrollers¶
MicroPython is designed to be capable of running on microcontrollers. These have hardware limitations which may be unfamiliar to programmers more familiar with conventional computers. In particular the amount of RAM and nonvolatile “disk” (flash memory) storage is limited. This tutorial offers ways to make the most of the limited resources. Because MicroPython runs on controllers based on a variety of architectures, the methods presented are generic: in some cases it will be necessary to obtain detailed information from platform specific documentation.
Flash memory¶
On the Pyboard the simple way to address the limited capacity is to fit a micro SD card. In some cases this is impractical, either because the device does not have an SD card slot or for reasons of cost or power consumption; hence the on-chip flash must be used. The firmware including the MicroPython subsystem is stored in the onboard flash. The remaining capacity is available for use. For reasons connected with the physical architecture of the flash memory part of this capacity may be inaccessible as a filesystem. In such cases this space may be employed by incorporating user modules into a firmware build which is then flashed to the device.
There are two ways to achieve this: frozen modules and frozen bytecode. Frozen modules store the Python source with the firmware. Frozen bytecode uses the cross compiler to convert the source to bytecode which is then stored with the firmware. In either case the module may be accessed with an import statement:
import mymodule
The procedure for producing frozen modules and bytecode is platform dependent; instructions for building the firmware can be found in the README files in the relevant part of the source tree.
In general terms the steps are as follows:
Clone the MicroPython repository.
Acquire the (platform specific) toolchain to build the firmware.
Build the cross compiler.
Place the modules to be frozen in a specified directory (dependent on whether the module is to be frozen as source or as bytecode).
Build the firmware. A specific command may be required to build frozen code of either type - see the platform documentation.
Flash the firmware to the device.
RAM¶
When reducing RAM usage there are two phases to consider: compilation and execution. In addition to memory consumption, there is also an issue known as heap fragmentation. In general terms it is best to minimise the repeated creation and destruction of objects. The reason for this is covered in the section covering the heap.
Compilation phase¶
When a module is imported, MicroPython compiles the code to bytecode which is then executed by the MicroPython virtual machine (VM). The bytecode is stored in RAM. The compiler itself requires RAM, but this becomes available for use when the compilation has completed.
If a number of modules have already been imported the situation can arise where there is insufficient RAM to run the compiler. In this case the import statement will produce a memory exception.
If a module instantiates global objects on import it will consume RAM at the time of import, which is then unavailable for the compiler to use on subsequent imports. In general it is best to avoid code which runs on import; a better approach is to have initialisation code which is run by the application after all modules have been imported. This maximises the RAM available to the compiler.
If RAM is still insufficient to compile all modules one solution is to precompile modules. MicroPython has a cross compiler capable of compiling Python modules to bytecode (see the README in the mpy-cross directory). The resulting bytecode file has a .mpy extension; it may be copied to the filesystem and imported in the usual way. Alternatively some or all modules may be implemented as frozen bytecode: on most platforms this saves even more RAM as the bytecode is run directly from flash rather than being stored in RAM.
Execution phase¶
There are a number of coding techniques for reducing RAM usage.
Constants
MicroPython provides a const
keyword which may be used as follows:
from micropython import const
ROWS = const(33)
_COLS = const(0x10)
a = ROWS
b = _COLS
In both instances where the constant is assigned to a variable the compiler
will avoid coding a lookup to the name of the constant by substituting its
literal value. This saves bytecode and hence RAM. However the ROWS
value
will occupy at least two machine words, one each for the key and value in the
globals dictionary. The presence in the dictionary is necessary because another
module might import or use it. This RAM can be saved by prepending the name
with an underscore as in _COLS
: this symbol is not visible outside the
module so will not occupy RAM.
The argument to const()
may be anything which, at compile time, evaluates
to a constant e.g. 0x100
, 1 << 8
or (True, "string", b"bytes")
(see section below for details). It can even include other const
symbols that have already been defined, e.g. 1 << BIT
.
Constant data structures
Where there is a substantial volume of constant data and the platform supports
execution from Flash, RAM may be saved as follows. The data should be located in
Python modules and frozen as bytecode. The data must be defined as bytes
objects. The compiler ‘knows’ that bytes
objects are immutable and ensures
that the objects remain in flash memory rather than being copied to RAM. The
struct
module can assist in converting between bytes
types and other
Python built-in types.
When considering the implications of frozen bytecode, note that in Python strings, floats, bytes, integers, complex numbers and tuples are immutable. Accordingly these will be frozen into flash (for tuples, only if all their elements are immutable). Thus, in the line
mystring = "The quick brown fox"
the actual string “The quick brown fox” will reside in flash. At runtime a
reference to the string is assigned to the variable mystring
. The reference
occupies a single machine word. In principle a long integer could be used to
store constant data:
bar = 0xDEADBEEF0000DEADBEEF
As in the string example, at runtime a reference to the arbitrarily large
integer is assigned to the variable bar
. That reference occupies a
single machine word.
Tuples of constant objects are themselves constant. Such constant tuples are optimised by the compiler so they do not need to be created at runtime each time they are used. For example:
foo = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 100000, ("string", b"bytes", False, True))
This entire tuple will exist as a single object (potentially in flash if the code is frozen) and referenced each time it is needed.
Needless object creation
There are a number of situations where objects may unwittingly be created and destroyed. This can reduce the usability of RAM through fragmentation. The following sections discuss instances of this.
String concatenation
Consider the following code fragments which aim to produce constant strings:
var = "foo" + "bar"
var1 = "foo" "bar"
var2 = """\
foo\
bar"""
Each produces the same outcome, however the first needlessly creates two string objects at runtime, allocates more RAM for concatenation before producing the third. The others perform the concatenation at compile time which is more efficient, reducing fragmentation.
Where strings must be dynamically created before being fed to a stream such as a file it will save RAM if this is done in a piecemeal fashion. Rather than creating a large string object, create a substring and feed it to the stream before dealing with the next.
The best way to create dynamic strings is by means of the string format()
method:
var = "Temperature {:5.2f} Pressure {:06d}\n".format(temp, press)
Buffers
When accessing devices such as instances of UART, I2C and SPI interfaces, using pre-allocated buffers avoids the creation of needless objects. Consider these two loops:
while True:
var = spi.read(100)
# process data
buf = bytearray(100)
while True:
spi.readinto(buf)
# process data in buf
The first creates a buffer on each pass whereas the second re-uses a pre-allocated buffer; this is both faster and more efficient in terms of memory fragmentation.
Bytes are smaller than ints
On most platforms an integer consumes four bytes. Consider the three calls to the
function foo()
:
def foo(bar):
for x in bar:
print(x)
foo([1, 2, 0xff])
foo((1, 2, 0xff))
foo(b'\1\2\xff')
In the first call a list
of integers is created in RAM each time the code is
executed. The second call creates a constant tuple
object (a tuple
containing
only constant objects) as part of the compilation phase, so it is only created
once and is more efficient than the list
. The third call efficiently
creates a bytes
object consuming the minimum amount of RAM. If the module
were frozen as bytecode, both the tuple
and bytes
object would reside in flash.
Strings Versus Bytes
Python3 introduced Unicode support. This introduced a distinction between a
string and an array of bytes. MicroPython ensures that Unicode strings take no
additional space so long as all characters in the string are ASCII (i.e. have
a value < 126). If values in the full 8-bit range are required bytes
and
bytearray
objects can be used to ensure that no additional space will be
required. Note that most string methods (e.g. str.strip()
) apply also to bytes
instances so the process of eliminating Unicode can be painless.
s = 'the quick brown fox' # A string instance
b = b'the quick brown fox' # A bytes instance
Where it is necessary to convert between strings and bytes the str.encode()
and the bytes.decode()
methods can be used. Note that both strings and bytes
are immutable. Any operation which takes as input such an object and produces
another implies at least one RAM allocation to produce the result. In the
second line below a new bytes object is allocated. This would also occur if foo
were a string.
foo = b' empty whitespace'
foo = foo.lstrip()
Runtime compiler execution
The Python funcitons eval
and exec
invoke the compiler at runtime, which
requires significant amounts of RAM. Note that the pickle
library from
micropython-lib
employs exec
. It may be more RAM efficient to use the
json
library for object serialisation.
Storing strings in flash
Python strings are immutable hence have the potential to be stored in read only memory. The compiler can place in flash strings defined in Python code. As with frozen modules it is necessary to have a copy of the source tree on the PC and the toolchain to build the firmware. The procedure will work even if the modules have not been fully debugged, so long as they can be imported and run.
After importing the modules, execute:
micropython.qstr_info(1)
Then copy and paste all the Q(xxx) lines into a text editor. Check for and remove lines which are obviously invalid. Open the file qstrdefsport.h which will be found in ports/stm32 (or the equivalent directory for the architecture in use). Copy and paste the corrected lines at the end of the file. Save the file, rebuild and flash the firmware. The outcome can be checked by importing the modules and again issuing:
micropython.qstr_info(1)
The Q(xxx) lines should be gone.
The heap¶
When a running program instantiates an object the necessary RAM is allocated
from a fixed size pool known as the heap. When the object goes out of scope (in
other words becomes inaccessible to code) the redundant object is known as
“garbage”. A process known as “garbage collection” (GC) reclaims that memory,
returning it to the free heap. This process runs automatically, however it can
be invoked directly by issuing gc.collect()
.
The discourse on this is somewhat involved. For a ‘quick fix’ issue the following periodically:
gc.collect()
gc.threshold(gc.mem_free() // 4 + gc.mem_alloc())
Fragmentation¶
Say a program creates an object foo
, then an object bar
. Subsequently
foo
goes out of scope but bar
remains. The RAM used by foo
will be
reclaimed by GC. However if bar
was allocated to a higher address, the
RAM reclaimed from foo
will only be of use for objects no bigger than
foo
. In a complex or long running program the heap can become fragmented:
despite there being a substantial amount of RAM available, there is insufficient
contiguous space to allocate a particular object, and the program fails with a
memory error.
The techniques outlined above aim to minimise this. Where large permanent buffers or other objects are required it is best to instantiate these early in the process of program execution before fragmentation can occur. Further improvements may be made by monitoring the state of the heap and by controlling GC; these are outlined below.
Reporting¶
A number of library functions are available to report on memory allocation and
to control GC. These are to be found in the gc
and micropython
modules.
The following example may be pasted at the REPL (ctrl e
to enter paste mode,
ctrl d
to run it).
import gc
import micropython
gc.collect()
micropython.mem_info()
print('-----------------------------')
print('Initial free: {} allocated: {}'.format(gc.mem_free(), gc.mem_alloc()))
def func():
a = bytearray(10000)
gc.collect()
print('Func definition: {} allocated: {}'.format(gc.mem_free(), gc.mem_alloc()))
func()
print('Func run free: {} allocated: {}'.format(gc.mem_free(), gc.mem_alloc()))
gc.collect()
print('Garbage collect free: {} allocated: {}'.format(gc.mem_free(), gc.mem_alloc()))
print('-----------------------------')
micropython.mem_info(1)
Methods employed above:
gc.collect()
Force a garbage collection. See footnote.micropython.mem_info()
Print a summary of RAM utilisation.gc.mem_free()
Return the free heap size in bytes.gc.mem_alloc()
Return the number of bytes currently allocated.micropython.mem_info(1)
Print a table of heap utilisation (detailed below).
The numbers produced are dependent on the platform, but it can be seen that
declaring the function uses a small amount of RAM in the form of bytecode
emitted by the compiler (the RAM used by the compiler has been reclaimed).
Running the function uses over 10KiB, but on return a
is garbage because it
is out of scope and cannot be referenced. The final gc.collect()
recovers
that memory.
The final output produced by micropython.mem_info(1)
will vary in detail but
may be interpreted as follows:
Symbol |
Meaning |
|---|---|
. |
free block |
h |
head block |
= |
tail block |
m |
marked head block |
T |
tuple |
L |
list |
D |
dict |
F |
float |
B |
byte code |
M |
module |
S |
string or bytes |
A |
bytearray |
Each letter represents a single block of memory, a block being 16 bytes. So each line of the heap dump represents 0x400 bytes or 1KiB of RAM.
Control of garbage collection¶
A GC can be demanded at any time by issuing gc.collect()
. It is advantageous
to do this at intervals, firstly to pre-empt fragmentation and secondly for
performance. A GC can take several milliseconds but is quicker when there is
little work to do (about 1ms on the Pyboard). An explicit call can minimise that
delay while ensuring it occurs at points in the program when it is acceptable.
Automatic GC is provoked under the following circumstances. When an attempt at allocation fails, a GC is performed and the allocation re-tried. Only if this fails is an exception raised. Secondly an automatic GC will be triggered if the amount of free RAM falls below a threshold. This threshold can be adapted as execution progresses:
gc.collect()
gc.threshold(gc.mem_free() // 4 + gc.mem_alloc())
This will provoke a GC when more than 25% of the currently free heap becomes occupied.
In general modules should instantiate data objects at runtime using constructors
or other initialisation functions. The reason is that if this occurs on
initialisation the compiler may be starved of RAM when subsequent modules are
imported. If modules do instantiate data on import then gc.collect()
issued
after the import will ameliorate the problem.
String operations¶
MicroPython handles strings in an efficient manner and understanding this can
help in designing applications to run on microcontrollers. When a module
is compiled, strings which occur multiple times are stored once only, a process
known as string interning. In MicroPython an interned string is known as a qstr
.
In a module imported normally that single instance will be located in RAM, but
as described above, in modules frozen as bytecode it will be located in flash.
String comparisons are also performed efficiently using hashing rather than character by character. The penalty for using strings rather than integers may hence be small both in terms of performance and RAM usage - a fact which may come as a surprise to C programmers.
Postscript¶
MicroPython passes, returns and (by default) copies objects by reference. A reference occupies a single machine word so these processes are efficient in RAM usage and speed.
Where variables are required whose size is neither a byte nor a machine word
there are standard libraries which can assist in storing these efficiently and
in performing conversions. See the array
, struct
and uctypes
modules.
Footnote: gc.collect() return value¶
On Unix and Windows platforms the gc.collect()
method returns an integer
which signifies the number of distinct memory regions that were reclaimed in the
collection (more precisely, the number of heads that were turned into frees). For
efficiency reasons bare metal ports do not return this value.


Status
Runtime
Gravity between particles:
Downward gravity:
van der Waals strength:
Electrostatic strength:
Cooling:
Cooling on walls:
Heating:
Heating on walls:
Wall Width (pixels):
Wall Force Constant:
Closed Top:
Setup
Width:
Height:
Generate at bottom:
Particle Type 1:
Number
Mass
Charge
Radius
Polarizability
Maximum initial velocity
Colour
Border Colour
Particle Type 2:
Number
Mass
Charge
Radius
Polarizability
Maximum initial velocity
Colour
Border Colour
Particle Type 3:
Number
Mass
Charge
Radius
Polarizability
Maximum initial velocity
Colour
Border Colour
Advanced Runtime
Time Step per cycle:
Cycles per frame:
Description
A little HTML 5 experiment with some 2D physics, using Verlet integration to track the motions of particles.
In this version, particles can be influenced by three forces - gravity, electrostatic forces, and simulated van der Waals forces (as simulated by the Lennard-Jones potential). This latter force allows particles to repel each other at close range (the force is inversely proportional to the twelfth power of the distance between the centres of particles) and attract each other (force is proportional to the sixth power). Electrostatic interactions obey the inverse square law; you can also set the particles up to attract each other by gravity. There is also a downwards gravitational attraction. The particles also bounce off the walls, as if the walls were covered in perfectly bouncy springs.
This has been tested on Internet Explorer 11, Firefox 26, Chrome 31. I have got this working on Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 8 machine, but not on my Windows 7 machine. It occasionally gets slow on Firefox - with some effort I have been able to stop it doing this most of the time, but not always.
Note the at the simulation is not always "numerically stable" - sometimes the calculations get wild, the error snowball at each step and particles fly out of the arena. There are various things you can do to avoid this, these will be explained with the parameters.
Various parameters can be tweaked. The time step per cycle and cycles per frame control how fast the simulation runs. Lower values of the time step make the simulation more accurate, and less prone to numerical instability - try turning this down if the simulation explodes. Cycles per frame affects how often the display updates.
You can adjust the overall strength of the various forces - stronger forces make numerical instability more likely. Also, you can add "heating" and "cooling", which can apply in general, or just to particles that are bouncing off the walls. "Cooling" removes a little bit of the velocity from each particle during each cycle - this gradually removes energy from the simulation, allowing structures to form. This generally should be kept low (e.g. 0.001 is considered "high"), although cooling on the walls can be higher - 0.5 is a good value. Heating makes a random tweak to the velocity on each cycle, simulating the addition of random thermal motion to each particle. Heating often requires higher values than cooling - 1.0 is a good value - it's often worth setting this after the simulation has come to rest. Another way to cool the simulation is to allow "evaporation" - turn "closed top" off, and high-energy particles will be able to fly out of the arena, reducing the amount of energy in the simulation.
When you change a runtime parameter, click away to another parameter, or press enter, and the change will take effect immediately.
Setup - the current version allows for three types of particle - those with a little programming knowledge and cunning should be able to add more. The number of particles per type is important, as the simulation slows down if there are too many. Try running in Google Chrome if you find it painfully slow. If there are far too many particles, the simulation might not start - try making the arena larger. It's generally good to balance the charge on the particles if you don't want the simulation to explode (either that, or use a lot of cooling and see the effect). "Polarizability" affects the strength of the van der Waals forces - the higher, the stronger.
You can also tell the setup to generate particles at the bottom of the arena - this is useful if you're trying to start a simulation without too much energy in it.
The overall code base allows for more advanced features - such as particles connected by springs. However, this is the basic version, and does not include these.
Peter Corbett, 2013-2014


Modes of Interview
You will be interviewing candidates using three modes, namely – campus, audio or video interviews. It is important to prepare the environment appropriately and adequately keeping in mind the mode of the interview, privacy, minimum number of distractions and comfort, not just yours but also the candidate’s.  So Dress well.
Click each mode to learn more.
Click each mode to learn more.
CAMPUS INTERVIEW
AUDIO INTERVIEW
VIDEO INTERVIEW
Examples: On Campus, In Auditoriums
Presentation:
Presentation:
- Dress in comfortable Formals or Business Casuals.
- Maintain a calm and confident demeanor.
- Wear clean, polished, formal shoes.
- Ensure fresh breath and body odor.
- Avoid smoking or chewing gum. It can be a big put-off for the candidate.
- Wear the Smile!
- Ensure that your desk is clutter free.
- Assign a comfortable place for candidates.
- Ensure that environment is noise-free.
- Keep a list of all candidates handy.
- Turn off your mobiles. It can be very distracting.
Examples: Telephonic, Skype Audio
Presentation:
Presentation:
- Although not a face-to-face interview, it is a good practice to dress professionally
for confidence and clarity. - Smile! It projects a positive tone in your voice and image.
- Check quality of audio systems, speakers or the telephone depending the mode used.
- Be in a quiet place alone. Avoid noisy open areas.
- Turn off the radio, television or any other background noise.
- Maintain a clutter free area.
- Keep a pen and paper handy to take notes.
Examples: Video conferencing, Skype, Google Hangouts, FaceTime
Presentation:
Presentation:
- Dress in comfortable Formals or Business Casuals.
- Maintain a calm and confident demeanor.
- Avoid smoking or chewing gum. It can be a big put-off for the candidate.
- Wear the Smile! Helps connect with the candidate.
- Get familiar with the platform or mode you are using.
- Ensure that your desk is clutter free.
- Reach at least 10 minutes ahead of time and test all equipment.
- Keep only relevant paper work with you for reference.
- Ensure that environment is noise-free.


12 March 2013 - The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of a new confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
The patient, a 39-year-old male, developed symptoms on 24 February 2013. He was hospitalized on 28 February 2013 and died on 2 March 2013. Preliminary investigation indicated that the patient had no contact with previously reported cases of nCoV infection. Other potential exposures are under investigation.
To date, WHO has been informed of a global total of 15 confirmed cases of human infection with nCoV, including nine deaths.
Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States (MS) to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns. WHO is currently working with international experts and countries where cases have been reported to assess the situation and review recommendations for surveillance and monitoring.
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jorian17-Oct-19 03:26 PM
it doesn't matter that it's build on eth
what matters is that apparently there's an investor investing in the kind of stuff that KMD has the tech for
i mean: has the better tech for
LocoMB17-Oct-19 03:32 PM
yes, and then the Q becomes: when will said investor become aware of this embarassing circumstance??(edited)
KTnoc17-Oct-19 03:49 PM
market it ?
🛡bstr15617-Oct-19 04:10 PM
It is mind-boggling, the degree to which the reinvention of the wheel is repeated and funded in this space.
🛡bstr15617-Oct-19 04:17 PM
And it is frustrating to see dismal designs get massive funding, and use that money to stay relevant, based on what I think is an underlying idea that money will solve the problems. EOS is an example.
Question is how long can they keep that bubble inflated?(edited)
Even supposed big enterprise partnerships, which on the surface appear to be about adoption, I suspect are quietly about speculation & PR. When global circumstances and tech advancements finally drive enterprises towards adopting public DLT for real uses, then is the best chance of bubbles popping as the world discovers which platforms are BS and which are viable.(edited)
Until then, it's "pie in the sky"
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I think one of the best things a decent project can focus on right now is interoperability. In this way platforms can extend their reach and better provide those niche characteristics they're most valued for, and be relevant in the future.(edited)
And never forget that every good project is someone else's "shitcoin".
actionslacks17-Oct-19 05:22 PM
The professional bs artists are in their element with the state of normie crypto awareness. The lies are so pervasive and well supported that you could tell an investor whatever you want and thousands of other shills will follow right along. Real implementation is being hampered mostly by govt thugs going around bashing the kneecaps of anyone trying to do anything without the blessing of the banker overlords.
Any recent rektage will pale in comparison to whats coming when these slapped together projects face real usage.
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Neko17-Oct-19 05:31 PM
komodo now reminds me of monero in 2016, good tech and community but ignored by the markets, at the time it took a major dnm adopting it for it to finally fly, I reckon komodo will need some significative adoption news
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Privatoshi17-Oct-19 06:37 PM
I've killed it on Synthetix
I bought at 6 cents, sold at 24 cents
Then I've swing traded it 4-8 times a month since
Its a popular DeFi project, which is what is popular with Eth, at the moment
I think the Andreesen Horowitz bit, was bullshit.
But, if you make a grid of the top 50 CMC, and who isn't on Binance, that makes a really short list.
My bet, SNX, Binance Listing.
Binance Info gave it an A+, several months ago.
I'm sure more than a few in SNX Community, hold more than 500 BNB, to vote.


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