Nowadays, the traces of humans are
left all over the social media. Massive
volunteered geographic information
(VGI) contributed by social media users
offers great opportunities to create
new methods of understanding human
activities. The generation and analysis
of the digital footprints on social
media have the potential to uncover the
underlying spatial-temporal patterns
of how people interact with the outer
environment differently.
This study provides an approach to
differentiate the urban traces left by
tourists from diverse origin countries
and local citizens as different user
groups based on the VGI obtained from
a social media platform Flickr. The study area is Vienna, Austria.
Kernel density estimation was used to analyze
the distribution of Flickr photos.
This study is designed as five main stages (shown as Figure 1), which includes original data review, data pre-processing, data analysis, result visualization and result conclusion. The data pre-processing is divided into two parts, which are the processing of Flickr Data and the processing of thematic POIs. In order to achieve the three sub-objectives mentioned above, the data analysis phase is also separated into three parts including obtaining the footprints of different user groups, modeling the city center and creating a tourist profile. As for the visualization, a density map is used to represent the footprints of tourists from different origin countries and also local citizens; A wind rose is used as a representation of tourist profile which depicts the thematic interests of each user groups; A heat map is used to illustrate the temporal trend of the footprints among different user groups. The detailed study approach will be explained in the later section.
In order to solve the research questions, the study approach (see Figure 2) is designed to obtain the
footprints by applying Kernel Density Estimation on the classified Flickr data in order to represent the
urban traces of different user groups.
With a threshold filtering, the areas of interest (AOIs) of each user group can be extracted. Comparing
with
the extracted AOIs with thematic POIs, the characteristics of each user group can be concluded into a
tourist profile. In the meanwhile, the seasonal trend of each groups’ urban traces can be revealed by
the
footprints obtained from temporal-wise classified Flickr data as a temporal aspect of the tourist
profile.
And city center as one type of AOI can be modeled from semantically filtered Flickr data.
Objective 1: To map the urban traces of tourists and local citizens from social media presented by
their
distinctive footprints.
Research Question: Are there differences in footprints between tourists from different origins and
local
citizens? Which are those differences?
As it will be shown in the following footprints results, distinctive footprints are generated for each
user
group. Among all the obtained tourists’ footprints, a similar overall pattern is shared: Despite the
different density value
distribution, it is noticeable that pictures are always concentrated in the southwest part of Innere
Stadt,
Schönbrunn, Belvedere, and the northwest corner of Prater (see Figure 3a). Especially, the area around
Stephansdom is overlapped with the area where more than 90% pictures are located in all footprints;
areas
around Imperial Palace and Heldenplatz (Heros’ Square) are always overlapped with the area of more than
40%
picture density in all footprints as well (including locals’ footprints).
As for the footprints of local citizens (see Figure 3b), they are more dispersed than other footprints. More areas with a relatively higher density of pictures are revealed. The boundary of areas with more than 20% picture density is expanded to the district Liesing as well as the district Kagran. For example, regions around Kaisermühlen and Simmering are both one of the newly revealed hotspots. Also, for local citizens, pictures are more concentrated in the southwest part of the district Innere Stadt. The area of picture density greater than 40% is larger, compared with the area with the same picture density in the footprints of other user groups.
Regarding the footprints of domestic tourists (Figure 9c), it also shares certain similarities with the locals’ footprints apart from the footprints of other tourist groups. Hotspots in the district Kagran, Kaisermühlen can be also noticed. Same with the locals’ footprint, there is a higher concentration of pictures at Schönbrunn zoo while you can barely see it in footprints of other tourist user groups. But for the area at the northwest corner of Prater, either the footprints of domestic users nor local citizens show a higher density of pictures comparing with other user groups.
For the footprints of other tourist groups, the patterns are generally similar. It is worth noticing that pictures are denser (greater than 20% of density) in the area of Belvedere in the footprints of tourists from Germany, the UK as well as Italy than the groups of US and Austria (in the interval of 10% -20% picture density). In addition, it shows a higher concentration of pictures at the northwest corner of Prater in the footprints of tourists from Germany and the UK. On the contrary, the footprint of tourists from the US shows a relatively lower concentration of pictures (Figure 3d, 3e, 3f, 3g ).
Objective 2: To model the city center according to the semantics extracted from VGI of tourists and
local
citizens
Research Question 2a: How differently do tourists and local citizens perceive the city
center?
As the density map depicts (Figure 4), tourists and local citizens do have a rough agreement on the
location
of the
fuzzy concept – city center. They both consider that area around Stephansdom is the city center and all
the
nuclei locations are located in the district Innere Stadt. But as we can see from the result, local
citizens
obviously have a clearer idea of the range of the city center. The area with a higher density of city
center
related pictures is more compacted. Conversely, tourists seem to be more ambiguous about it. All three
nuclei locations share almost the same density of city center-related pictures.
Research Question 2b: Is there a relation between the footprints and perceived city center among
tourists
and local citizens? Is this relation clearer among certain user groups?
The answer is positive.
The area of Stephansdom, where both groups believe the city center is, shows a picture density greater
than
90% in the footprints of both groups. However, the relation is clearer among the tourist user group. The
perceived city center of tourists coincides with the area of higher picture densities in their
footprint.
It can be inferred that the main area of tourist’s urban traces is restricted to where they consider
being
the city center. But locals have a wider range of visiting the city, so in their footprints, the area of
higher picture density is extended.
Objective 3: To model the city center according to the semantics extracted from VGI of tourists and
localTo create a tourists profile categorized by the origin countries of tourists as well as the local
citizens in respect of diverse thematic POIs
Research Question 3a: Thematic Interests: Can we identify a unique tourist profile regarding
different
thematic POIs for different user groups?
A wind rose is used to visually represent the distinctive thematic interests of each user group during
the
whole period of time. Figure 6 provides a general overview of all different user groups which includes
the
group of local citizens, all tourists, domestic tourists, tourists from Germany, UK, US, and Italy. The
axis
represents the ratio of targeted POIs in each category, the higher the ratio is, the more interested the
corresponding user group is to this certain category.
As we can see, none of the user groups show much interest in shopping areas as well as contemporary
sights
and architecture. However, there is still 20% of the shopping areas and contemporary sights are targeted
by
local citizens. The user group of locals has a leading position in each dimension followed by domestic
tourists. And both groups have around 80% targeted POIs for religious sights as well as operas and
theaters.
But locals show a particular interest in museums comparing with other groups. 86% of museums are
targeted by
locals while only 57% are targeted by tourists from German and domestic tourists. As for the four other
user
groups, tourists from Germany has higher interests among historical sights and architectures, museums,
nature and parks; Tourists from Germany and UK are both more attracted to operas and theaters compared
with
other international tourists; Tourists from Italy also has greater interest in religious and
architectures;
Moreover, tourists from the US shows relatively higher interest in dining and drinking places. The
orange
line shows the overall thematic interests of all tourists, which shows that tourists are generally more
interested in museums and less interested in places for shopping, dining and drinking as well as
contemporary sights and architectures.
Research Question 3b:Are there relations between the targeted thematic POIs in the diverse footprints
and specific origin countries? Temporal trend: Is there a seasonal trend among them?
The seasonal changes of each user group’s footprints can be revealed by the heat map below (Figure 7).
The
feature value which represented the attractiveness of each POIs are represented as colors. The
darker the color is, the more attractive a POI is considered. However, it is hard to conclude a general
trend shared by all user groups. But some minor patterns can be noticed.
As we can see from the subplot for the user group of all tourists, there is not much change over seasons
for
all POIs. However, Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera), Albertina and Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square)
are
attracting more pictures in spring and autumn. While for locals, people tend to be more into parks and
museums in autumn than any other season. For domestic tourists, POIs regarding the category “Nature &
Parks”
are less popular in summer and winter. In addition, for tourists from the US, they seem to be more
interested in historical sights and architectures (Heldenplatz and Spanish riding school for example) in
spring and autumn. And the most popular POI -- Stephansdom (St. Stephan’s Cathedral), the feature value
barely changes among all user groups in all the seasons.
First, as it has been widely discussed, the quality of VGI is not assured. The contributors of these
data
are mostly general public instead of experts or scientists. For the geotagged Flickr data, there are
possibilities of false location tagging. The accuracy of the location tag is effected by the localness
of
the Flickr users. Apart from that, even if the users are well aware of the environment, there are still
chances for them to commit errors. Because The motivation of the contributors is also relevant. When
people
uploading pictures on social media platforms like Flickr, what they focus on is the image instead of the
precise location of taking pictures.
Second, More specifically, the representativeness of VGI is limited due to the uncertainties in the
demographics of social media users. Some groups are under-represented. For example, people with less
digital
literacy or with really senior age and young age are less included in the social media dataset.
Additionally, since the data is only acquired from Flickr, only Flickr users are studied in this
research.
Not every tourists is active with social media while travelling, not to mention only Flickr.
Another issue that might introduce bias is the classification of locals and tourists. For users who have
ambiguous origin information, the localness is determined by the classification based on the temporal
feature of their Flickr uploads. It is related with their uploading behavior. But it does not 100
percent
reveals users’ actual activities in Vienna.
Furthermore, whether and how a POI will be photographed is dependent on the type of the place and the
type
of activities people conduct at this spot as well. Like the shopping area mentioned above, people don’t
take
pictures while they are shopping. Some types of POIs will be underestimated due to the lack of uploaded
pictures. But it does not necessarily mean that in reality, people do not visit those places as much as
others. Also, it is sometimes not possible to get access to the Internet at some places. So people
cannot
upload the
related pictures in time. The delay in uploading might lead to a higher chance of false geotagging.
While for some POIs, the location of the uploaded pictures is mostly not exactly where the POI is
located.
POIs like museums, architectures, operas and theaters are always photographed from the outside of it. So
the
concentrated spot of related pictures is dislocated.


Why Disqus?
You may noticed that a few weeks ago I removed the normal comment system from my blog and added Disqus to it. Mainly I did this because of this tweet. I was getting too much spam on my comments.
So, I was getting a lot of spam. And when I say a lot I’m not talking about a few tens of comments. No! I’m talking about more than 1000 comments a week.  Classic stuff and for many time I didn’t bother to even mark then for spam. I just approve the real comments and ignore the spammers.
But when I opened my comments review page and Google Chrome ask me if I want to translate the page from Russian to English that was my wake up call.
So my first thought was: All my projects use or will use comments in the near future, so why not use a platform that can integrate all them in one place? This way I can do all the management at the same time.
Right now I have a picture project called PicSome on Tumblr, just a small tumblr to post random photos to share with everyone. I have my dailypancake that also needs comments and obviously my personal blog right here. So if I can do all the approval work in one place that is just a time saving feature and I’m all about time saving features.
But that was not the only feature that made me use Disqus. Hell, they have so much to offer that I’m impressed that not everyone is using Disqus.
So let’s check some of the features.
- Real-time commenting system
- Notification system
- Reply system
- Inline media embedding
- Mobile commenting
- Community profiles
- Social integration
- Liking and sharing
- Moderation tools
- Black-lists and white-lists
- import and export comments
- Theme customization
- and many more…
Like I said, Disqus has much to offer. Let’s explain the main features.
Real-time commenting system
This is a great feature. This means that you can actually comment/reply in real time without having to worry about spam or waiting for your comment to be approved so everyone can see it.
Notification System
Pretty self explanatory, I manage the comments so I can turn on and off notifications for my blogs. But the best thing is that you can also turn notifications on a thread, so you can get back and reply to that guy moaning at you. This is a pretty cool feature and it works not only for the Administrator but also for the good people that comment on the post.
Inline Media embedding
Don’t actually find this useful, at least not for what I need Disqus, but in some projects that might come in handy to use. With this feature you can leave a comment, but you can leave not only text but also video, images or songs. So in some cases this can be useful. Tumblr blogs that only share photos can put this to a good use.
**Mobile commenting **
I’m all about responsive webdesign, so this is a must have feature. All my websites are mobile compatible (still have some things to correct though) so, if I’m using a plugin for comments I need it to work on my mobile version.
Community Profiles
This is actually a really neat feature. This means that if someone is actually logged into Discus, they can just use their account to comment and don’t even bother to login into one of their social accounts.
Social Integration
This is probably the best feature. Everyone use at least one social network, Facebook, Twitter, google or any other. What this means is that people can actually use them to login and comment.
With this I can forget about comments approval, just need to make the comments closed to a login, any kind of login (Disqus or social). There’s no way those …penis enlargement guys“ can spam me with this settings now. (evil smile)
Liking and Sharing
This is also a great feature. If I’m writing about something, I’ll appreciate a simple like or if you really liked the content a quick share with your pears. That would actually make my day. Now seriously, this is a precious feature. Everything a blogger wants is to get a little appreciation for the hard work. This is a great way for the reader to say …thank you“.
Moderation tools
I’m not using this one, since I have my comments with some kind of login I think that’s enough, I choose to trust the community to be polite. Although if you need to moderate your comments you can do it, and the best thing is if you have 5 or even 10 blogs you do all the moderation in one place.
Import and Export comments
You are using other comment system and you are worried with what is going to happen to your comments already on that system like wordpress native comments system? Not to worry, you can do that just with a few clicks, is actually pretty easy.
Theme customization
Disqus gives you the option to choose between two templates. Although if you need to make some changes you can do that just by adding some css in your customization options.
I’m currently in the process to adding Disqus to Dailypancake. Still making a CSS file to the website so the comments can be well integrated. After that all of my projects that actually need comments will be using Disqus.
After all this you may say: …Yes, but why didn’t you just protect your wordpress websites against spam with some captcha, or even make a required login for commenting?“
Well that’s a good point, but let my explain why I think that is not the way to go.
The Capcha
The capcha for me is always a buzz kill when I get on a website and feel like commenting. I one of those guys that normally have to try 2 or 3 times before being able to actually post the comment.   And that’s a no go for me.
The required Login for commenting
I can’t say this on a different way: I hate when I go to a wordpress blog and they make me create a account in the website just to leave a comment. That just looks like you are just after real e-mails to sell or spam with newsletters. Since normally wordpress requires a valid e-mail for confirmation.
With all this in mind, I think most of the times: I was just about to thank this guy for the awesome article and now I have to:
- Register
- Go to my e-mail and check my password
- Come back to the website
- Login
- Change my password so I can comment the next time
- Get back to the post
- Write the comment
- Seems like a lot of effort for just a thank you note don’t you think? For me, it is.
In Conclusion:
The best thing about Disqus is: your database will be free from all those spammers and you’ll don’t have to worry about all that cleaning after them. **The bad thing about Disqus is: ** you have to rely on Disqus for all the comments, so if the service goes down for maintenance, or God forbid the service goes down for ever you’ll stay with no comments for a while. My advice here is for you to do backups from Disqus to your wordpress system or whatever system you’re using so if this actually happens you just have to switch from one system to another again, keeping all the comments live.
Let me know about other comment systems. What system do you use on your blog and why. And finally did you think it was a good move to integrate Disqus on my Blog?


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Spike Lee Got Terrific "Game"
"He Got Game" is the kind of unique movie that gives you a peek into a world that few of us can ever be a part of. It's real focus is on the temptations that bombard Jesus Shuttlesworth (NBA star Ray Allen), who has long endured a life of hardship but is on the verge of entering the promised land. Now, as the country's #1 high school player, he is constantly being hounded by sports agents and college recruiters. Jesus is no longer just another person. He has become a commodity, and the trading environment is fierce and unscrupulous.
The Governor, who is a huge college basketball fan, hopes that Jesus will attend his alma mater, the fictional Big State. The governor offers a deal to Jake (Denzel Washington), Jesus' father, who is serving time in jail. Get him to go to his alma mater and Jake's sentence will be reduced. Jake is released for a week in order to persuade him. But Jesus hates his father, blaming him for the destruction of their family. Jake is not only trying to convince Jesus to go to Big State, but also wants to use his precious time to ask for his son's forgiveness and impart a little advice as only a father can. Much of this movie focuses on Jake's poignant attempt to reconnect with his son and society. He is a simple man and looks for any glimmer of hope. Jake also befriends an abused prostitute (Milla Jovovich). While this chance relationship may clash with the rest of the film, it does allude to the tough choices that we face in light of extraordinary circumstances. He desperately tries to reacquaint himself with his son, but Jesus is immersed in a multitude of distractions.
Yet it's the other distractions that I found to be the most enjoyable part of the film. His high school coach bribes him. The uncle who has raised him buys a brand new Lexus leveraging Jesus' name. The girlfriend admits that high school relationships in general fail, and pointedly asks why she shouldn't get anything for their time together. A local Benz-driving, street hustler tells of the traps and pitfalls that await those who approach fame and fortune too quickly. There is a terrific five-minute scene involving a fast-talking sports agent that wants Jesus to turn professional under his tutelage. The agent shows off his collection of exotic cars and offers to give him a platinum and diamond watch that costs more than a Corvette. And there is also an interesting sequence where Jesus is given a tour of a college complete with parties, a glitzy presentation, and busty students who recruit using their own unique methods.
He Got Game is partly a drama about a father that wants to reunite with his son, but it's also a fascinating look into the competitive recruitment process and about the transformation process that inevitably accompanies impending fame and fortune. The storytelling is insightful and invigorating. In the end, we learn that while we may become a commodity to everyone else, we'll always remain a real person to our parents, and this link to our humanity may be the most important thing to have.
Grade: B+
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Like many rubyists, I have a hard time keeping up with which burrito truck is parked outside my house on any given day. In postgres, I’ve solved this by entering the trucks and the duration they will be staying parked outside in my database:
CREATE TABLE burritotrucks
(
id serial primary key,
truckname text not null,
onsite daterange not null --or tsrange if busy schedule
);
insert into burritotrucks (truckname, onsite)
values ('thumpy tortillas', '[2013-11-15, 2013-11-17]'),
('chompy delight', '[2013-11-15, 2013-11-17]'),
('no dogs allowed', '[2013-11-16, 2013-11-21]'),
('government cheese wagon', '[2013-11-11, 2013-11-14]'),
('tortuga mochilla', '[2013-11-13, 2013-11-18]');
There are a variety of operators to query range types, but for this example, I’ll just be using the contains operator:
select * from burritotrucks where onsite @> now()
Uh oh, it’s not working. Unlike the other range types, date ranges require a little more finesse. Postgres doesn’t quite trust the implicit conversion so we’ll just do a little hand holding:
select * from burritotrucks where onsite @> now()::date
It works! But how do we do this in our application with Sequel? First, we let Sequel know we’re going to be using the range extensions:
Sequel.extension(:pg_range)
DB = Sequel.connect(:adapter=>'postgres', :host=> 'localhost'
, :database=>'frontyard', :user=>'dc')
We query the database:
options = DB[:burritotrucks].all
p options
and we get the data. We can see how beautifuly Sequel handles the range type for us in the printed output and at this point we can get away with using our raw sql to get the data we need:
options = DB.fetch("select * from burritotrucks where onsite @> now()::date").all
p options
This works, but I can imagine many AppDevs becoming ill at the sight of SQL in their app. In order to appease both sides of the aisle, Sequel also has some pretty ruby friendly operators we can use by just adding the core_extensions as well as the range operators extension:
Sequel.extension(:core_extensions, :pg_range, :pg_range_ops)
DB = Sequel.connect(:adapter=>'postgres', :host=> 'localhost'
, :database=>'frontyard', :user=>'dc')
Now we can get much more ruby friendly queries. Note, We still need to cast for our date value but that is pretty trivial:
options = DB[:burritotrucks].where(:onsite.pg_range.contains(Sequel.cast(Date.today, Date))).all
p options
People often ask me why I like Sequel so much and this is another great example why. It doesn’t punish me for knowing SQL. It doesn’t punish postgres for having so many amazing features and data types. It easily lets me know how many burrito trucks I have in my yard which is something you can not put a value on.


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Based on Plone 3.3, this book will help you learn how to create, deploy and maintain any version of Plone. The approach presented within this book continues to be developed within the Plock project.


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Advantages
of Alfresco Repository Architecture
- Open component
architecture - remove what you don't need, replace what you don't like
- Transactional across
all Services
- Secure across all
Services
- Fine-grained
Permissions
- High-level content
management services e.g. transformation, templating, meta-data
extraction
- Accessible from any
environment (e.g. Java, PHP, .NET)
- Accessible to any
client (e.g. FTP, WebDAV)
- Deployable to any
environment - any application server, database and operating system
- Multiple Deployment
choices
- Native File System
Support
- Offline
Synchronization and Briefcase support
- Scale-out via
Clustering
- Risk free: Standards
support e.g. JSR-170
- Built upon best of
breed open source projects
- Stored procedures and
Triggers e.g. Policies, Rules & Actions
- Workflow support
- SOA ready
- Rich content modeling
- Pluggable storage
back-ends
- Hot backup


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My name is Hossam Haddad im 26 years old
I studied Civil Engineering
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I Worked as a site engineer for 14 months
I realized that this is not what i should be doing ^_^
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My dream job is to become a successful software developer
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System Architect Picture "Ordered Species Relation"
Parent Diagram:
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This was my first group project. Trips To Plan uses amadeus and eventful APIs to gather information and google
maps for displaying results.
local_airport
developer_modeTrips-To-Plan
Hangman Project was a lot of fun aside from subjecting myself to the Halloween theme song repeatedly.
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First we will simulate some rank 1 data:
library("flashr")
set.seed(1)
n=100
p=1000
ll = rnorm(n)
ff = rnorm(p)
LF = outer(ll,ff)
Y = LF + rnorm(n*p)
Now add some missing data at 50 percent of entries
Y.miss = Y
for(i in 1:n){ # set half of Y to be missign at random
Y.miss[i,sample(1:p,p/2)]=NA
}
Run flash (with \(K=1\)) on the full data
data = flash_set_data(Y)
f= flash(data,Kmax=1,verbose=TRUE)
## fitting factor/loading 1
## Objective:-144326.525063464
## Objective:-144323.401367746
## Objective:-144323.400734634
## performing nullcheck
## objective from deleting factor:-166508.486064945
## objective from keeping factor:-144323.400734634
## nullcheck complete, objective:-144323.400734634
plot(LF,flash_get_lf(f),main="True LF vs fitted value (full data)",xlab="true LF",ylab="fitted LF")
abline(a=0,b=1,col="red")
And on missing data
data.miss = flash_set_data(Y.miss)
f.miss = flash(data.miss,Kmax=1,verbose=TRUE)
## fitting factor/loading 1
## Objective:-72878.3428854656
## Objective:-72871.94594429
## Objective:-72871.938884675
## performing nullcheck
## objective from deleting factor:-83195.7765049021
## objective from keeping factor:-72871.938884675
## nullcheck complete, objective:-72871.938884675
plot(LF,flash_get_lf(f.miss),main="True LF vs fitted values (missing data)",xlab="true LF",ylab="fitted LF")
abline(a=0,b=1,col="red")
And compute overall RMSE of estimated low-rank structure.
sqrt(mean((LF-flash_get_lf(f))^2))
## [1] 0.1051672
sqrt(mean((LF-flash_get_lf(f.miss))^2))
## [1] 0.1467077
And try setting the var_type slightly differently:
f= flash(data,Kmax=1,var_type = "constant",verbose=TRUE)
## fitting factor/loading 1
## Objective:-144780.750947514
## Objective:-144777.709712187
## Objective:-144777.709278436
## performing nullcheck
## objective from deleting factor:-173720.095559219
## objective from keeping factor:-144777.709278436
## nullcheck complete, objective:-144777.709278436
plot(LF,flash_get_lf(f),main="True LF vs fitted value (full data)",xlab="true LF",ylab="fitted LF")
abline(a=0,b=1,col="red")
sqrt(mean((LF-flash_get_lf(f))^2))
## [1] 0.1050241
f.miss = flash(data.miss,Kmax=1,var_type = "constant",verbose=TRUE)
## fitting factor/loading 1
## Objective:-73346.0085702052
## Objective:-73339.9109021205
## Objective:-73339.9073790477
## performing nullcheck
## objective from deleting factor:-87044.9863407244
## objective from keeping factor:-73339.9073790477
## nullcheck complete, objective:-73339.9073790477
plot(LF,flash_get_lf(f.miss),main="True LF vs fitted values (missing data)",xlab="true LF",ylab="fitted LF")
abline(a=0,b=1,col="red")
sqrt(mean((LF-flash_get_lf(f.miss))^2))
## [1] 0.1467849


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TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1998 Ted Prigge
Director: David Lynch Writers: David Lynch and Robert Engels Starring: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Moira Kelly, Chris Isaak, Kiefer Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Dana Ashbrook, Kyle MacLachlan, Grace Zubriskie, James Marshall, David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, David Bowie, Miguel Ferrer, Jürgen Prochnow, Frances Bay, Michael J. Anderson, Heather Graham
I saw the pilot for David Lynch's cult classic TV show, "Twin Peaks," a couple of months ago, and the greatest thing about it was the first hour. In it, the entire town discovered that a young high school girl, Laura Palmer, was found murdered. As the hour unfolded, we saw her parents discover (both at the same time, and over the phone), her schoolmates, and we saw the effect it had on the town. It was like the place had to be closed because of it.
The second hour, though, dipped into weirdo surrealism, like it was afraid to deal further with what occured in the first hour. Bobby, Laura's boyfriend, became especially crazy, attacking one guy, landing in jail, and in one of the funniest scenes in anything I've ever seen, threatened a fellow cell mate by woofing at him. Sure, it's funny, but it's nothing else. I've seen other episodes in the series, and none really owed up to the promise the first hour of the pilot had. Most of them just like to shock you with weird scenes, like one where Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), the caffeine-addicted guy on the case, has a dream where he's in a red room with Laura and a dwarf (Michael J. Anderson), who talks backwards-yet-forwards, and says a bunch of things which make no sense whatsoever, but are just humorous to listen to. But do these things hold any higher purpose?
Well, here's the ill-fated pre-quel to the series, which ended midway through its second season, and the film tries to make some sense out of the series, and to reveal the killer of Laura Palmer which we were all wondering throughout the series (note: I'm not sure whether or not they revealed who it was on the series). The reason it's dead-on-arrival is that the identity of the killer can be anyone in the town. It's almost like David Lynch put all the characters names in a hat, picked one, and said, "okay, there's our killer." It could've been the freaking Log Lady, and they could make it work somehow in this film.
The first half hour of the film is almost like a typical episode of the series: a bunch of really weird scenes tossed together, filled with empty symbolism, but lots of surreal laughs. In it, another Special Agent, Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak - yes, the singer), goes to a town sorta near Twin Peaks with another agent, Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland), to investigate the murder of a woman. They talk to hard-to-get-along-with local authorities, question a disgruntled motel owner (Harry Dean Stanton), and then disappear for no reason whatsoever. This seques to a little bit with Dale Cooper, who wonders where they went, and then has a bit where David Bowie walks into the film, and you can see that the film is taking a wild turn because from this point on, nothing makes sense, least of all the reason why Bowie is in it. Or Cooper, for that matter.
Before you can say "Huh?," the film cuts to a "One Year Later" sub-title, we see the "Twin Peaks" sign, hear the haunting music from the show, and meet Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), alive, well, and smiling from ear to ear as she walks to school. Little do we know, she has another side. Over the course of the rest of the film, she sleeps with a bunch of guys, hits on her best female friend Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle in the show, but eerily replaced by Moria Kelly in the film), does drugs, goes to a topless bar, and all sorts of self-destructive acts.
She also finds discomfort at home. Her father, Leland (Ray Wise), begins acting all strange, or maybe he did it before, we don't know. In the first scene he's in, there's a really humorous scene where Laura and he fight over the fact that she sat at the dinner table without (*gasp*) washing her hands. Her mother (Grace Zubriskie, who played Susan's mother on "Seinfeld" for awhile) tries to cease the fight between them, but can't do anything but scream for them to just stop.
Some critic said that this film showed Laura's gradual descent into madness, and to her eventual murder at the end of the film (I will not reveal the killer's identity, but I will say that the identity is so obvious that it's campy). This is not so. We first see her looking all happy, but we then see her doing all the kinds of stuff she does later on too. It seems like she's rebelling against something, and that she has been doing this for awhile. She starts out this way, and the only gradual thing is how insane she becomes throughout the film.
Laura becomes plagued by nightmares, weird dreams, and visions.  She dreams of the red room from the TV show, with the dwarf saying empty sentences. And her death becomes imminent not just because the TV show revolved around her death, but because the film unsubtlely hints at it continuously. Her sins in the film become greater by the minute, and it seems that Lynch thinks that she needs some kind of cleansing, that she was murdered because she was so rebellious and ill-mannered.
Interesting subtexts like these abound, but are just part of the overall weirdness that Lynch gives the film. Along with this idea, there's bounds of things that happen that have no relevance over anything that happens, like Bowie's appearance, the red room, or the entire first half hour. What connects the elements of the film? Why are we shown characters, like Madchen Amick's waitress, who show up for a scene or two, are given a bit of drama, and then are never shown again? What is the meaning of the ring, which seems to be the only thing that connects the beginning and rest of the film? And why is Laura haunted by a demon named Bob?
Some fans of Lynch say that he's a genius at work, and that everything means something. A friend of mine actually thinks that the TV show is "brilliant," but when I asked him why he thought he was brilliant, all he did was stutter. I've come to the conclusion that David Lynch is a genius at creating atmosphere and mood, and maybe even pretty competent at bringing up interesting and complex issues about humanity and what not, but that he has no clue what to do with them. He knows that talking about issues like the underbelly of society requires a delicate touch; he's just afraid to take a wrong step.
This seems to be why he resorts to meaningless surrealistic banter, which is exactly what everything in this film is. Lynch is afraid of digging deep within the story and issues, and instead just tosses empty symbolism at us, maybe hoping that the whole pretentiousness of it all will make us watch again and again to get a message, and also that the humor will win us over. For some of us, it does. I laughed at this film. I laughed at all the weird things that went on, and that seems to be what Lynch wants. Why do you have a dwarf speaking backwards-yet-forwards if you don't want someone to get a laugh out of it?
What Lynch could do is express something, anything out of this. I love surrealism, but only when it works the way it should. Luis Bunuel was able to dig deeper into his films by using surrealism, but Lynch uses it as a cover so he doesn't have to really expose his film for what it is. What is "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" even about? Is it about how self-destructive behavior will eventually result in death?  What is Lynch trying to convery here?
To put it bluntly, this film is a mess. It doesn't know what it wants to do with anything, and it tries to pass off everything in a surrealistic fashion so that no one can see that underneath, it's just confused about what it wants to be doing. Surrealism needs focus to exist, or else it just meanders off and becomes empty, which is what happens with many of Lynch's films. Especially now, Lynch needs to look back at two of his films: "Eraserhead" and "Blue Velvet." "Eraserhead" was a really surreal film, but what it did by creating surrealism is show a character who is completely alienated in society. It was basically a stylish nightmare, but it was great in how it was able to present its protagonist and the misery he feels. "Blue Velvet" was probably his most focused film: a film about how underneath society is something which is hideous, but which is ignored for the safety of society. There, he was able to use the surrealism to his advantage, and create not only an experience, but something with meaning and even humanity.
"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is an experience, in that several scenes show mood, but none of them have the emotional or intellectual context to take them further and make them meaningful. There's a really long scene where Laura and Donna go to a topless bar, and a band plays so loud that subtitles have to appear on the bottom of the screen so we know what everyone's saying. The mood is great and the scene is atmospheric as hell, but when it's over, nothing remains but the though that the scene felt really weird to watch. Nothing else holds over from it.
The one good thing the film does is create a little bit of sympathy for Laura, mostly because she's the protagonist and we know that at the end, she's going to die and there's no way out of it. It gives it a Sophoclean subtext, but this is only used as a cheap gimmick so that we feel bad for her. Sure, she's self-destructive, but she's going to be murdered gruesomely, and there's nothing anyone in this film can do about it.
But why was she killed? And what is this film, or the TV show about? I guess what it's saying is that underneath, everyone's weird. Yeah.
MY RATING (out of 4): **
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Leicester moves 3rd in Premier League with 2-0 win at Palace
by The Associated PressLONDON (AP) — Jamie Vardy scored late to take Leicester third in the Premier League by sealing a 2-0 win at Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Turkish defender Caglar Söyüncü opened the scoring with his first goal in the league in the 57th minute, when he was left free to head in after a deflected corner.
Vardy sealed the result in the 88th after a fine combination with Demarai Gray.
Palace failed to register an effort on target in the first half, and only marginaly improved in the second.
Leicester moved ahead of Chelsea on goal difference, two points behind Manchester City and eight behind league leader Liverpool after 11 games.
Palace dropped to ninth.
Everton was hosting Tottenham in the late game.
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Had 750 Komodo on Cryptopia... Is there any hope to get them back ?
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@MetalHelmet The 1st question would be whether or not shitopia will ever even open again
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Top 10 Sci-fi movies as chosen by Cybernetic Witch Cult
by https://www.facebook.com/metalhammer/The psychedelic space rockers Cybernetic Witch Cult pick the ten essential sci-fi flicks you absolutely must check out
Merging Sabbathian doom with sci-fi themes, Cybernetic Witch Cult channel the likes of Monster Magnet with their trippy stoner-tinged space rock.
The English trio are due to release their third self-released studio album on December 6. Entitled Absurdum ad Nauseam, they delve deeper into the metallic undertones of their previous releases, promising a heavier album that still maintains the proggy 70s vibes the band is known for.
The second single to be taken off Absurdum ad Nauseam is Cromagnonaut out on Spotify now. Check out the video, premiered exclusively with Hammer below.
The video was filmed while the band were on tour in October, with the track posing philosophical questions such as the speed of humanity's evolution and the life-span of planet earth.
The band explain: "Cromagnonaut is examining the human race as being an infant species, and how stone age humans are now essentially piloting spaceships. Might we be evolving too fast for our own good? Can we spread life amongst the stars and preserve the 4.5 billions years worth of evolution before it gets wiped out? ”
The trio continue these topical concerns about our world and our own mortality – and, in particular, climate change – on the rest of their album.
Vocalist/guitarist Alex Wyld comments: "I first took climate change seriously at university in 2010: During my Astrophysics degree I opted for a course called Energy and the Environment, and during our first lecture a student asked the professors 'what are our chances like?'.
"The lecturers gave a solemn look to each other and said 'very bleak with the current state of affairs'. Everyone had a solemn feeling after that lecture and I think the state of things have gotten worse since then.
"It's tragic to see that while there's more general awareness of the crisis now, there's also more (non factual) vocal opposition to climate science and crazy talk of conspiracy theories.
"I do worry for the future, and I think that's partly why this album turned out so much heavier and more serious than our older material.
"But you have to hope that things will improve and that the people who are in power will start to actually make some policy changes to safeguard our civilisation's future."
With their feet firmly "grounded" in Hawkwind-shaped space rock, their finger on the pulse when it comes to current affairs and their head in the clouds (creatively-speaking) we couldn't think of a better band to recommend us some top-notch science fiction films...
(1997)
Starship Troopers
01.
"This has to be the top of the list. Starship Troopers has everything; romance, pulse rifles, brain bugs, Michael Ironside AND Denise Richards.
"If you haven’t seen it it's a two hour military science fiction satire by the director of Robocop.
"It’s loosely based on Robert Heinlein's book but goes way more full throttle with the satirical fascist parody. It’s just fantastic and hilarious.
"We have to do a song about this one."
(1974)
Dark Star
02.
"This film is so good we wrote a song about it. Four guys in a spaceship whose sole purpose is destroying unstable planets that could possibly support life.
"The crew is apathetic and bored of space and they’ve begun to hate each other. Its the most humanly realistic sci-fi on the list.

"It started as a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it's so much better. Go watch it."
(1985)
Re-animator
03.
"Lovecraft + Jeffrey Combs is a fantastic combination and I think this is the best film of its type.
"We join Herbert West trying to defy death and reanimate recently dead specimens, whilst working in a hospital and corrupting the mind and morales of his normie housemate.
"It's fantastically weird, gory and by the end of the film you feel sorry for Dr West (he's so passionate about his serum)!
"Sequels are great too, as are the other movies with the same cast (From Beyond etc)."
(1986)
Aliens
04.
"If you’re reading this list, you’ve probably already seen Aliens.
"Amazing movie, the extended edition gives you an extra 20mins of Newt backstory which is fun.
"Here's the super cut version of the film featuring only the dialogue of the best character: Hudson."
(1993)
Jurassic Park
05.
"Still holds up to this day in terms of story, acting and visual fx. It's so great, dinosaurs and cloning and chaos theory."
(1974)
Zardoz
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"Sean Connery (in a skimpy red outfit) kills his god in attempt to learn the truth about his existence and stumbles onto an immortal secret ruling class that use his people to grow food to keep their small society alive.
"It's mad, fun and I think it has some kind of a message inside all the madness. It's like a space fantasy version of The Wicker Man."
(1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
07.
"Eerie and dark, a town gets invaded by, well, Body Snatchers (weird pod people). Everyone is suspicious and theres some great moments. Pretty similar to They Live in some respects (which is another great that didn’t make our list)."
(1984)
Dune
08.
"Star Wars for adults. A massive 3 hour fantasy based on Frank Herbert’s novels, directed by the madness of David Lynch.
"Mysterious space travel enabling drugs which give you blue eyes and turn you into massive worms that two rival great families war over to control the universe?
"And the soundtrack is all written by Toto. The spice must flow!
"We’ve got a song about Dune on the new album and some new Dune inspired merch, incase anyone else is mad about sand worms!"
(1982)
The Thing
09.
"John Carpenter's 80s sci-fi horror masterpiece has yet to be topped for sheer claustrophobic paranoia.
"The star of the show is Rob Bottin's work creating the various practical effects for the creature, which still hold up to this day, and blow the Remake/sequel's CGI monster out of the water.
"Somehow this film takes the isolation, suspense and believable characters that made Ridley Scott's Alien so great, and twists it into something entirely more horrifying."
(1986)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
10.
"Undoubtedly the best Star Trek movie.
"The OG Star Trek crew have to go back in time to 1980s Earth (before whales went extinct) to literally save the whales and teleport them back to the future to stop an alien probe destroying the planet.
"So the crew are all trekkie and trying to fit in amongst the 80s with hilarious results. Directed by Leonard Nimoy (which is why its all about saving whales) what a hero RIP."
Cybernetic Witch Cult - Absurbum As Nauseam
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Sam Thredder (Slabdragger) at The Crow's Nest in London, Absurbum As Nauseam is the third studio album from Cornish pysch-rockers Cybernetic Witch Cult. Due for release on 6 December and avilable to pre-order now! View Deal


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In the year 2030, SpaceX has mastered interplanetary spaceflight. In this adventure, Elon Musk and his fleet of Falcon Heavy rockets are travelling to a new alien planet. However, the inhabitants of this alien planet are unwelcoming, and have mastered the ability to create black holes around its home planet to deter new visitors.
The SpaceX Rockets game is a two player game. Here, one player (the aliens) puts three black holes in the gravitational field, while the other player (SpaceX) can fire 5 Falcon Heavy rockets and has to get the closest possible to the alien planet.  The final score is a normalized value that captures how close the rockets were to the alien planet. The final score range is [0,100], with 100 representing a rocket that landed on the alien planet, and the decreasing scale from 100 representing how far away the rocket ended up from the alien planet.
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EU urges faster Greece vetting of migrants as arrivals soar
BRUSSELS: The European Commission on Wednesday (Nov 6) urged Greece to speed up the processing of asylum-seekers as a jump in new arrivals in its already overcrowded island camps pushed the situation to "unbearable" levels.
MEPs heard from EU officials that the basis of a controversial 2016 migrant deal with Turkey, to stem arrivals in Europe, remains valid.
But they also heard that the Greek island "hot spots" meant to host migrants while genuine refugees among them were identified, were breaking down as numbers far outstripped capacity.
"In humanitarian terms, the EU-Turkey Statement is a tragedy," Inma Vazquez, a representative for the charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) that works in the camps, told the hearing in the European Parliament.
She said a Greek asylum vetting process, taking months and in some cases years, leads to "severe" mental health issues among "trapped" migrants, including suicide attempts and self-harm - not least among children.
Vazquez demanded an end to the Turkey deal and "an urgent and immediate evacuation of the people from the hotspots".
'CRITICAL'
But the head of the European Commission directorate handing migration issues, Paraskevi Michou, said that, while the situation in the main camps was "critical" and "unbearable", the accord should stand.
The Commission, she said, has asked Greece "to make it better, to have better proceedings - to have assessment of the cases case-by-case, but have a system that works."
She admitted that the part of the deal with Turkey which would enable the EU to send back migrants not deemed to be refugees was not working and that arrivals this year were rising.
But she also drew attention to challenges faced by Turkey, which is hosting four million asylum-seekers, most of them refugees from neighbouring war-torn Syria.
"They do more or less 4,000 apprehensions every week of people who want to transfer from Turkey to Greece. What does it say? It says that the pressure is high," she said.
Greece's minister for citizens' protection, Michalis Chrisochoidis, drove home the point that his administration was overwhelmed.
"We cannot manage so many people when they all arrive at the same time - we cannot do it," he told the MEPs.
Already, he said, there was a backlog of 68,000 asylum requests in Greece, with some applicants saying they have to wait three years for an interview to assess their case.
WORRYING 'RIGHTS ISSUE'
The EU's Asylum Support Office assisting Greece said it had registered or pre-registered 30,000 applicants this year.
The head of the European bloc's agency for fundamental rights, Michael O'Flaherty, confirmed that a trip he made to the Greek hot spots at the end of this month revealed the extent of the overcrowding.
"Overall there are 30, 000 migrants on the Greek islands in facilities with a capacity of 5,000," he told the hearing.
"We believe still that the hotspot concept remains valid - if it works as it was originally designed," he said, adding that "urgent decongesting of the facilities" by transferring migrants to the Greek mainland was needed.
He added: "It's my personal view that the situation of migrants on the Greek islands right now is the single most worrying fundamental rights issue that we're confronting anywhere in the European Union."


Davido's fan talks about A Good Time, says album is full of trash songs
- Davido's fan on Twitter has stated his disappointment about the singer's latest album A Good Time
- The fan noted that the songs on the album were all trash
- However, he still added that he loves the singer and he is a fan.
A fan of singer David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has shared his thoughts about the singer's latest album A Good Time on the popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter.
Despite the fact that Davido's latest album has been gaining positive reactions all over, a fan recently expressed disappointment about the album. The disappointed fan stated that the album is full of trash songs.
Legit.ng had reported that fans had praised Davido's work, saying that he had evolved. However, this fan identified as @realiyanu stated that songs on the album the not please him.
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According to him, after seven good years all Davido could come up with were the songs on the album.
@realiyanu went ahead to compare the songs on the album to singer Rema's music. He noted that he could not find one song on the album that could beat Dumebi. However, @realiyanu still said he loves Davido and he is a fan of the singer.
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When I worked at Target, I was promoted to Food Avenue Team Lead months after getting hired.
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From there, I went to a small company called Gourmet Specialty Foods as a shipper/receiver.
I was then promoted to the Quality Assurance department under their Food Scientist so I could help build their Safe Quality Foods program.
A few months later, he was gone and it was up to me to run the QA Department.
I say that, but it was just me doing all of the QA work.
I eventually heard that the owner of a local pizzeria was planning on retiring and met with him.
We had known each other for decades so he was willing to sit with me.
After work I would go to the pizza shop and learn the ropes until, a few months later, I purchased the shop from him.
It was difficult. I was working nearly 90 hours a week for pay that was on par with my previous position... but I enjoyed it.
Work didn't feel like work. I had employees to take care of and got to call a few customers friends.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of competition in the fast food industry and sales started to decline.
We were operating with the previous week's income (which is a nightmare).
I stopped paying myself to make sure my employees and ingredients were covered.
Then I got a part-time job at Best Buy so I could have income of my own, but it wasn't enough.
My shop was struggling by the time quarantine hit.
The immediate loss of business drove me under and forced me to look towards different pastures.
I've always been into tech hardware and went full-time at Best Buy in Geek Squad.
I quickly learned that making software talk to each other was tricky (considering Best Buy and Apple's software had many problems), but we made it work.
I had been thinking about what to do with myself now that my business had failed and I was working a job with clients that were beyond rude.
My friends told me about General Assembly's Software Engineering Immersive bootcamp, and that it was a great way to jumpstart a career in software development.
I did a lot of research and eventually agreed.
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Facebook quietly releases meme-making app in Canada
Don't let your memes be dreams
by Bradly ShankarFacebook has launched a meme-making app called Whale in Canada aimed at younger users.
Whale lets users edit photos using crop and text tools, emoji, filters, effects and more. These can then be shared as memes on Facebook and sister apps Instagram and WhatsApp.
Currently, the app is only available on the App Store in Canada.
Interestingly, Facebook chose to quietly launch the app under the developer name of ‘NPE Team,’ which refers to its New Product Experimentation division.
NPE’s previous apps, the Bump school-based social networking app and Aux music streaming app, were also youth-oriented and debuted exclusively on the Canadian App Store.
MobileSyrup has reached out to Facebook for confirmation on whether Whale will come to Android. This article will be updated once a response has been received.
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Deploy a firewall. See How To Setup a Basic IP Tables Configuration on Centos 6 | DigitalOcean and open the following ports, for the initial setup and testing phase:
10000-20000 (UDP)
Note: Remember to close any unused ports once you deploy your Asterisk server into production.
Finally, carry out the rudimentary security measures outlined in
Initial Server Setup with CentOS 6 | DigitalOcean
(this particular step was not completed before because the install
& upgrade scripts needed to be deployed as the
root
user).


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VOIP is so cool.
I spent my 'free time' last night arranging a VOIP line forwarded to my cell phone. So, for roughly $3/month + $0.02/min + $0.25/min - you can call my cell phone in canada (or another number, since I've just forwarded my cell to that line) and it is automagically forwarded to my cell here in Spain. Since incoming calls are free in Spain, for about what I'd pay in airtime in Canada, you can call my cell phone from Canada and reach me in Spain.
It actually took me 15 minutes to arrange, the rest of the time was choosing the number (to get a 1-800 number? for $0.03/min extra + $15 setup fee?) and just testing it. I spent more time getting the outgoing calls (via VOIP, again) in Canada going than the whole purchase and forwarding experience, but that had something to do with the PowerPC version of X-Lite vs the Intel version.
(Notwithstanding the bad experience a co-worker had with this company - on the other hand many DIY VOIP'ers have rated it pretty well. Also, I think I only get a 1000 forwarding minutes/month on my Canadian cell, so if I actually let that add up I'd need to give out the original VOIP line. It's actually a cool number in the pattern of 514-X1Y-1ZZ1).
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MobileUI was created thinking of making your hybrid application faster and smaller, since you only install what you are really going to use for UI.
Certainly, you will love using it in Progressive Web Apps and Apache Cordova Apps. You can use only the components you want in your projects created with PhoneGap, Ionic Framework, Onsen UI, Framework7 and others focused on creating web apps.
A rich variety of UI components specially designed for mobile apps. MobileUI provides tabs, side menu, stack navigation and tons of other components such as lists and forms. Some of the existing components are displayed differently on Android and iOS, with automatic styling that will change the appearance of the app based on the platform.
The Installation is straightforward, but first, you need to install Node.js. Then, install Cordova via terminal npm install -g cordova(add sudo if you are in Linux).
After that, just execute the command in your terminal:
npm install -g mobileui
To check if MobileUI is installed or not, open the terminal and type mobileui
Let's create a Simple Example using MobileUI and Cordova:
cordova create apptest cd apptest mobileui install template cordova-blank mobileui install header mobileui preview
Let's check the commands:
cordova create apptest
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Create a cordova project |
cd apptest
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Change the directory to your project |
mobileui install template cordova-blank
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Clears the sample files created by the Cordova |
mobileui install header
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For sample we can take header component |
mobileui preview
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Emulates the app to run in the browser |
After that add the below code in index.html
By default, an HTTP server will run on port 8080, but you can change it by passing the --port
parameter with the desired port, eg --port 8000


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The database schema and API used by Ensembl Genomes have been developed in the context of the Ensembl project.
Full documentation of all database schemas and API code is also available online.
Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes are open projects and we would like to encourage correspondence and discussions on any subject on any aspect of these resources. Please see the Ensembl Contacts page for suitable options for getting in touch with us.


Note: System dashboards are read-only. If
you want to make your own version of a system dashboard, clone the system dashboard, and make changes to
the clone. If you have a dashboard with the same URL as a system dashboard, we save the dashboard
with "-clone" added to the URL and "(Cloned)" added to the name.
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| /quiz start | Starts the next quiz assigned to you. |
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Algebra in which we consider a set S and two commutative operations + and × , with the rules that:
each of the operations has an identity element in S, and these elements are not the same;
each operation is distributive over the other;
each element has an inverse in S under each of the operations.
Note that the operations + and × are not quite the same as for the ordinary numbers.
This kind of algebra is widely used in logic and set theory.


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| FileReader | TODO Replace for CLDC!! |
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| LineReader | Line Reader for a Reader. |
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| LongDouble | Double implementation on an integer. |
| MergeSort | Merge Sort. |
| MultipleSchemaExposer | |
| ObjectObjectPair | Helper class: Pair of two objects |
| OrderOptions | Helper Class to save the options of an order by expression (ascending, etc.) |
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| QuickSort | Quick sort. |
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Chapter 28 Reddit
In 2005 Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded the social news site Reddit on an admittedly dishonest growth hacking strategy. They used hundreds of fake user accounts in those early days to populate their website. The high-quality content contained in those first articles set an important tone for the site, however, and kept Reddit from appearing to be a virtual ghost town. It made no sense to launch an empty site based on reading and sharing content. Self-population was both brilliant and very necessary. Early explorers saw what looked like a thriving amount of activity and were less intimidated about becoming involved themselves. Reddit works around a community of registered users who can submit content in the form of direct links or text posts. Other registered users vote on the submissions, moving them up and down in rankings on the site. There is a strong emphasis on both quality and accuracy. As of April 21, 2014, Reddit boasts 114.9 million unique visitors per month from 190 countries. They account for 5.38 billion monthly page views and were responsible for 56 billion page views in all of 2013. The site has excellent “stickiness,” with an average visit lasting more than 15 minutes. Maintaining and growing user engagement is fundamental to growth hacking, and Reddit does an exceptionally good job in this area. People stay because they’re interested, which further enhances the Reddit reputation and generates spontaneous word of mouth. The news that users see when they go to Reddit is based on their personal preferences as generated through their history of voting stories up and down. The longer you use Reddit, the better the site understands what you want to read and gives you more tailored content as well as allowing you to see those stories best liked by the Reddit community as a whole. In October 2006, Condé Nast purchased Reddit, which then passed to its parent company, Advanced Publications, in 2011. In 2008, “subreddits” were incorporated into the user experience, which are entries organized by interest.
They are very like threads in discussion boards and became an instant hit, drawing even more users to the site. One of the most popular of the subreddits is “Ask Me Anything” or “AMAs” for short. Some of the past AMA participants include President Barack Obama, Madonna, Bill Gates, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Larry King, Bill Nye, Al Gore, Roger Ebert, and Michael Bolton. President Obama’s AMA brought so many visitors to Reddit in August 2012, many parts of the site crashed. Built on a simple growth hack — make the site look active and popular — Reddit is now considered something of a growth hacker’s paradise. Using subreddits to test product fit and to judge the size of a market has become a standard tactic among growth hackers trying out their strategies. Once a “product market fit” has been discovered, Reddit can then be used for product promotion through an engine like an AMA. This is, however, a double-edged sword. The Reddit community, which began on a lie, now values absolute transparency. If a self-promoter of any kind starts an AMA and refuses to answer hard questions, they are likely to be savaged by the Reddit community.


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class
pyqtgraph.flowchart.
Flowchart
(terminals=None, name=None, filePath=None, library=None)[source]¶ -
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chartGraphicsItem
()[source]¶ Return the graphicsItem which displays the internals of this flowchart. (graphicsItem() still returns the external-view item)
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internalTerminal
(term)[source]¶ If the terminal belongs to the external Node, return the corresponding internal terminal
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nodeOutputChanged
(startNode)[source]¶ Triggered when a node’s output values have changed. (NOT called during process()) Propagates new data forward through network.
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process
(**args)[source]¶ Process data through the flowchart, returning the output.
Keyword arguments must be the names of input terminals. The return value is a dict with one key per output terminal.
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iBioSim has been developed for the modeling, analysis, and design of genetic circuits. While iBioSim primarily targets models of genetic circuits, models representing metabolic networks, cell-signaling pathways, and other biological and chemical systems can also be analyzed. iBioSim also includes modeling and visualization support for multi-cellular and spatial models as well. It is capable of importing and exporting models specified using the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML).Finally, it is one of the first tools to also support the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL), an emerging standard for information exchange in synthetic biology.
IMPORTANT: this documentation is still under development. Older documentation and tutorials are found here:
To cite iBioSim, please use the latest paper:
Watanabe, Leandro, Tramy Nguyen, Michael Zhang, Zach Zundel, Zhen Zhang, Curtis Madsen, Nicholas Roehner, and Chris Myers. 2018. "IBioSim 3: A Tool for Model-Based Genetic Circuit Design." ACS Synthetic Biology 8 (7): 1560–1563. doi:10.1021/acssynbio.8b00078.
Before installing iBioSim, please make sure that the following software is installed on your system.
To install, download the zip file for your operating system and unzip it where you want the application to reside.
To run iBioSim, execute iBioSim in the top directory.
For Windows users:
If the application font appears very small, you need to follow the next steps:
For Linux users:
Dependencies are resolved at runtime when iBioSim is opened
for the first time.
In order
to compile the dependencies, you need the following:
Before beginning to use iBioSim, go to your preferences and change your name, email, and URI to something unique.
To create a new project, select New → Project from the File menu as shown below.  After you do this, click the new button and a new project directory will be created. To open a project, select Open Project from the File menu. You will then be prompted to browse to a project directory to open, and clicking open will open the project. You may also open a project by selecting one of your ten most recently opened projects by selecting the project name shown in the Open Recent menu within the File menu.
This is the main screen of iBioSim. The top bar comprises of functions such as saving and exporting, while the bottom bar holds parts available for use.
To import a registry part from an online repository, double click on a part to view its details, click on (import registry part) then choose and filter the desired repository such as synBioHub.
Here is a short video on how to do that.
You can share your design by uploading it to an online repository such as synBioHub.
First, go to File → upload → Design, as showen below
Second, choose the online repository, make sure you are logged in to synBioHub.
If you need additional help, you can watch this tutorial video on how to upload to SynBioHub.
iBioSim allows you to export to other file formats such as GenBank or FASTA.
To do that, simply go to Files → export → Design, and then you can choose the desired formats.
iBioSim also allows you to import from other file formats saved on your computer.
Similar to exporting process, go to Files → import → Design/Model, then your desired format.
Here is a tutorial video on how to create an example of a full design in iBioSim.
The iBioSim tool is being developed by Chris Myers research group at the University of Utah. This project has involved many students including Nathan Barker, Scott Glass, Kevin Jones, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Curtis Madsen, Nam Nguyen, Tramy Nguyen, Tyler Patterson, Nicholas Roehner, Jason Stevens, Leandro Watanabe, and Zhen Zhang.
To cite iBioSim, please use the latest paper:
Watanabe, Leandro, Tramy Nguyen, Michael Zhang, Zach Zundel, Zhen Zhang, Curtis Madsen, Nicholas Roehner, and Chris Myers. 2018. "IBioSim 3: A Tool for Model-Based Genetic Circuit Design." ACS Synthetic Biology 8 (7): 1560–1563. doi:10.1021/acssynbio.8b00078.
IBIOSIM is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
For more information about the Apache license go to apache.org/licenses/.


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[Gecode] Discarding propagators
Christian Schulte
schulte at imit.kth.se
Tue Mar 29 17:27:15 CEST 2005
As I tried to point out earlier is that you confuse two issues here: one is
how to structure your code (such as by inheritance, etc). The other one is
creation of propagators. You just can't do that and it is just not useful. I
don't see how parametrization pertains to that issue. You can still, if you
wish inherit from Propagator, add a static method and do what you want
without creating a new propagator (that's the only problem here).
Look to other examples of propagators (such as the domain consistent version
of distinct which uses also the naïve version of it). Here the delegation is
by calling the propagate method which has been overriden by inheritance. But
not by creating a new propagator!
Also, creating propagators is costly as it requires quite some book keeping.
Christian
--
Christian Schulte, http://www.imit.kth.se/~schulte/
-----Original Message-----
From: Gustavo Gutierrez [mailto:ggutierrez at atlas.puj.edu.co]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:09 PM
To: schulte at imit.kth.se
Cc: 'Technical discussions about Gecode'
Subject: RE: [Gecode] Discarding propagators
Hi,
Christian Schulte said:
> Hi,
>
> the problem is to call the propagate method directly: this is not
> possible! The only interaction that is allowed for a propagator is
> creation!
>
Actually, what I am doing at propagate method is just a by-pass (i.e it
returns whatever the method implementing the consistency will return). So
the propagate method is never called directly.
> What is not entirely clear to me why do you want to have temporay
> propagators.
Temporary propagators intend to separate the behaviour of a propagator. This
is a design decision. Different algorithms (in terms of complexity) may
enforce the same consistency technique. In this context, the idea of using a
propagator as an auxiliar tool to build up a more sophisticated,
parametrized consistency technique makes sense.
>From a design view, one could write propagators that can be *parametrized*
with other propagators. For instance, a propagator implementing some
consistency technique that uses other low level consistency technique. The
way in which the other (low level) consistency is used depends entirely on
the new propagator.
The propagator I am implementing uses the returned value from a low level
propagator to decide whether to prune domains or not. A failure of the low
level propagator does not imply that the propagator must fail. Here is when
temporary propagators come into play. The temporary propagator is created
only for checking purposes and depending on its output some actions are
taken. For instance, another low level propagator may be invoked. That is
why i need temporary propagators.
>As far as I understand, you are just using some propagation method,
>that's it. Why not use a method that can be used without creating a
> propagator first?
That is another choice. To implement functions enforcing consistency
techniques and to make this functions friends of propagator objects. I think
this could work but in my opinion it is not as clear as the temporary
propagator approach and it does not allow parametrization either.
Thanks in advance,
Gustavo Gutierrez
>
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Schulte, http://www.imit.kth.se/~schulte/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gecode-bounces at ps.uni-sb.de [mailto:gecode-bounces at ps.uni-sb.de]
> On Behalf Of Gustavo Gutierrez
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:00 PM
> To: gecode at ps.uni-sb.de
> Subject: [Gecode] Discarding propagators
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Few weeks ago i posted a message with subject "design question".
> There, i was trying to implement a propagator that uses other
> propagators to verify some kind of consistency and then decide to
> prune or not domain values. That is, the user-imposed propagator calls
> auxiliar propagators, and using the outcome of such propagators, takes
> certain actions.
>
> In order to do that without fall in space failures i use a copy of
> variables and create a new propagator, then call the propagate method
> directly. This new propagator needs to be disabled after the
> consistency proof (i.e. it will not exist as long as ordinary
> propagators imposed by user). In order to
> "simulate" propagator disabling i added a new method that contains a flag.
> When the flag becomes true the propagate method returns ES_SUBSUMMED. My
> hope is that the auxiliar propagator will be removed (in a safe way) from
> the propagation queue at some time after this.
>
> I was able of implementing the "main" propagator following this
> approach. My problem is that it works fine in some examples, but for
> others it raises a segfault. Very likely, I have a misassumption
> regarding the role and functioning of the propagation queue. I would
> apprecciate any comments and/or suggestions on this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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The MatBottomSheet
service can be used to open Material Design panels to the bottom of the screen.
These panels are intended primarily as an interaction on mobile devices where they can be used as an
alternative to dialogs and menus.
You can open a bottom sheet by calling the open
method with a component to be loaded and an
optional config object. The open
method will return an instance of MatBottomSheetRef
:
const bottomSheetRef = bottomSheet.open(SocialShareComponent, {
ariaLabel: 'Share on social media'
});
The MatBottomSheetRef
is a reference to the currently-opened bottom sheet and can be used to close
it or to subscribe to events. Note that only one bottom sheet can be open at a time. Any component
contained inside of a bottom sheet can inject the MatBottomSheetRef
as well.
bottomSheetRef.afterDismissed().subscribe(() => {
console.log('Bottom sheet has been dismissed.');
});
bottomSheetRef.dismiss();
If you want to pass in some data to the bottom sheet, you can do so using the data
property:
const bottomSheetRef = bottomSheet.open(HobbitSheet, {
data: { names: ['Frodo', 'Bilbo'] },
});
Afterwards you can access the injected data using the MAT_BOTTOM_SHEET_DATA
injection token:
import {Component, Inject} from '@angular/core';
import {MAT_BOTTOM_SHEET_DATA} from '@angular/material/bottom-sheet';
@Component({
selector: 'hobbit-sheet',
template: 'passed in {{ data.names }}',
})
export class HobbitSheet {
constructor(@Inject(MAT_BOTTOM_SHEET_DATA) public data: any) { }
}
entryComponents
Similarly to MatDialog
, MatBottomSheet
instantiates components at run-time. In order for it to
work, the Angular compiler needs extra information to create the necessary ComponentFactory
for
your bottom sheet content component.
Any components that are included inside of a bottom sheet have to be added to the entryComponents
inside your NgModule
.
@NgModule({
imports: [
// ...
MatBottomSheetModule
],
declarations: [
AppComponent,
ExampleBottomSheetComponent
],
entryComponents: [
ExampleBottomSheetComponent
],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}
Default bottom sheet options can be specified by providing an instance of MatBottomSheetConfig
for MAT_BOTTOM_SHEET_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
in your application's root module.
@NgModule({
providers: [
{provide: MAT_BOTTOM_SHEET_DEFAULT_OPTIONS, useValue: {hasBackdrop: false}}
]
})
By default, the bottom sheet has role="dialog"
on the root element and can be labelled using the
ariaLabel
property on the MatBottomSheetConfig
.
When a bottom sheet is opened, it will move focus to the first focusable element that it can find. In order to prevent users from tabbing into elements in the background, the Material bottom sheet uses a focus trap to contain focus within itself. Once a bottom sheet is closed, it will return focus to the element that was focused before it was opened.
By default, the first tabbable element within the bottom sheet will receive focus upon open.
This can be configured by setting the cdkFocusInitial
attribute on another focusable element.
By default pressing the escape key will close the bottom sheet. While this behavior can
be turned off via the disableClose
option, users should generally avoid doing so
as it breaks the expected interaction pattern for screen-reader users.


There's this great quote from one of Zhu's songsCocaine Model that has long influenced me:
When I was seven, my father said, "Fashion fades, but beauty is eternal. Elegance is illumination. Blue is a language. Love and obsession is separated by a thin line, and that line is infatuation."
Let's broadly characterize human beauty as either normative or personal. Normative beauty attempts to please the norm (of which there may be several), while personal beauty attempts to please the self (of which there may be a few, but certainly not many). Normative beauty and personal beauty don't have to be disjoint, and both can be influenced environmentally. But personal beauty, when realized, is always elegant to the self; unfortunately, the same cannot be said for normative beautyFor example, consider the disparity between what is beautiful to the eye and what is beautiful to the touch..
Understanding how an individual differentiates things like this has a tremendous influence on their relationships. Whereas obsession decays into a desire to appease an individual's perceived needs, love is characterized by an understanding of their needs. These states are distinct, but may be subtle; perhaps that subtly is infatuation.