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Michael Mara,
Derek Nowrouzezahrai,
David Luebke
- Stochastic Light Culling
(JCGT Paper)
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Yusuke Tokuyoshi,
Takahiro Harada
Session 2: Deformations and Collisions
- Interactive Cage Generation for Mesh Deformation
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Binh Huy Le,
Zhigang Deng
- Parallel Continuous Collision Detection for High-Performance GPU Cluster
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Peng Du,
Elvis S. Liu,
Toyotaro Suzumura
- Global Stiffness Structural Optimization for 3D Printing under Unknown Loads
(JCGT Paper)
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Tuanfeng Y. Wang,
Yuan Liu,
Xuefeng Liu,
Zhouwang Yang,
Dongming Yan,
Ligang Liu
Session 3: Real-Time Rendering
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Kui Wu,
Cem Yuksel
- Responsive Real-Time Grass Rendering for General 3D Scenes
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Klemens Jahrmann,
Michael Wimmer
- Hashed Alpha Testing
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Chris Wyman,
Morgan McGuire
Session 4: Sketch- and Feature-Based Modeling
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James W. Hennessey,
Han Liu,
Holger Winnemoller,
Mira Dontcheva,
Niloy J. Mitra
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Lisa Kellner,
Stefan Maierhofer,
Michael Wimmer
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Michael Krone,
Guido Reina,
Thomas Ertl
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Meng Qi,
Tiow-Seng Tan
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Xiangyun Xiao,
Shuai Zhang,
Xubo Yang
- Efficient Rendering of Volumetric Motion Blur Using Temporally Unstructured Volumes
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Erik Sintorn,
Viktor Kampe,
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Amazon Elastic Container Service Service ServiceRegistry
The
ServiceRegistry
property type specifies details of the service registry.
ServiceRegistry
is a property of the AWS::ECS::Service resource.
Syntax
JSON
{ "ContainerName" :
String
, "ContainerPort" :Integer
, "Port" :Integer
, "RegistryArn" :String
}
YAML
ContainerName:
String
ContainerPort:Integer
Port:Integer
RegistryArn:String
Properties
ContainerName
-
The container name value, already specified in the task definition, to be used for your service discovery service. If the task definition that your service task specifies uses the bridge or host network mode, you must specify a
containerName
andcontainerPort
combination from the task definition. If the task definition that your service task specifies uses the awsvpc network mode and a type SRV DNS record is used, you must specify either acontainerName
andcontainerPort
combination or aport
value, but not both.Required: No
Type: String
Update requires: Replacement
ContainerPort
-
The port value, already specified in the task definition, to be used for your service discovery service. If the task definition your service task specifies uses the bridge or host network mode, you must specify a
containerName
andcontainerPort
combination from the task definition. If the task definition your service task specifies uses the awsvpc network mode and a type SRV DNS record is used, you must specify either acontainerName
andcontainerPort
combination or aport
value, but not both.Required: No
Type: Integer
Update requires: Replacement
Port
-
The port value used if your service discovery service specified an SRV record.
Required: No
Type: Integer
Update requires: Replacement
RegistryArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the service registry. The currently supported service registry is Amazon Route 53 auto naming.
Required: No
Type: String
Update requires: Replacement
See Also
-
ServiceRegistry in the Amazon Elastic Container Service API Reference


I've also learnt more about my values as a person. I’ve learnt that I don’t need to feel in control all the time. I’ve learnt that I don't know much at the moment and I'm ok with that. Instead of viewing failing as a negative thing, I see myself as a vessel ready to be filled with knowledge.  Being able to fail and not know the answer to problems is good for my ego, it gets a chance to relax and be ok with not knowing, while still having good self-esteem and enjoying myself.
Values are important in programming as people’s own values, as well as societal values, will hopefully stop people from using their skills to do or contribute to harmful applications. Values, empathy and self-awareness help people conduct themselves in a team and shared environment, such as a work place. With empathy we can understand where clients and teammates are coming from and what has or could be affecting them that day. Self-awareness allows programmers see how they are seen by others and how their actions can affect others. If you are aware of your own emotions you can take charge of them.
Learning about my values and how they have shaped my life surprised me. I hadn’t thought in-depth about them before and it was interesting to see the parallels in-between what I state my values to be and my life choices and journey so far.
I found the most challenging aspects of the core learning to be writing about myself for others to read. Thinking about how my culture has impacted me was quite difficult for me as I’ve never celebrated having a culture, so I had to think a lot about who I was and what my culture was.
People skills are the most important aspect of a work place. If people don’t get along and personalities clash then the culture of the company suffers, which means that employees won’t be happy and productive. If employees and employers have self-awareness and empathy, employees feel more cared for and understood and are therefore more loyal and productive.
I understand why we have spent time on core and I can imagine that we don’t see the fruit it has borne until we are neck deep in Bootcamp. I think that the core skills that we have learnt are important across all of life, not just study. If we were all a little more empathetic and self-aware, I believe that the world would be a nicer place for people to live in, side-by-side with each other. Learning programming skills, such as JS, is really important too and so far, I believe the balance has been good. There are always kata’s to engage with if we find spare time!


A complete howto would explain how to actually use the IRC client. However, until that howto is written, here is a howto that explains how to do text formatting for IRC.
Text formatting
The text formatting support in Twisted Words is based on the widely used mIRC format which supports bold, underline, reverse video and colored text; nesting these attributes is also supported.
Creating formatted text
The API used for creating formatted text in the IRC client is almost the
same as that used by
Twisted insults
.
Text attributes are built up by accessing and indexing attributes on
a special module-level attribute,
twisted.words.protocols.irc.attributes
,
multiple values can be passed when indexing attributes to mix text with
nested text attributes. The resulting object can then be serialized to
formatted text, with
twisted.words.protocols.irc.assembleFormattedText
,
suitable for use with any of the IRC client messaging functions.
Bold, underline and reverse video attributes
Bold, underline and reverse video attributes are just flags and are the
simplest text attributes to apply. They are accessed by the names
bold
, underline
and reverseVideo
,
respectively, on
twisted.words.protocols.irc.attributes
. For
example, messaging someone the bold and underlined text "Hello world!":
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from twisted.words.protocols.irc import assembleFormattedText, attributes as A # Message "someone" the bold and underlined text "Hello world!" anIRCClient.msg('someone', assembleFormattedText( A.bold[ A.underline['Hello world!']])
The "normal" attribute
At first glance a text attribute called "normal" that does not apply any unusual text attributes may not seem that special but it can be quite useful, both as a container:
And also as a way to temporarily disable text attributes without having to close and respecify all text attributes for a brief piece of text:1 2 3 4 5
A.normal[ 'This is normal text. ', A.bold['This is bold text! '], 'Back to normal', A.underline['This is underlined text!']]
It is worth noting that assembled text will always begin with the control code to disable other attributes for the sake of correctness.1 2
A.normal[ A.reverseVideo['This is reverse, ', A.normal['except for this'], ', text']]
Color attributes
Since colors for both the foreground and background can be specified with
IRC text formatting another level of attribute access is introduced.
Firstly the foreground or background, through the
fg
and bg
attribute names respectively, is
accessed and then the color name is accessed. The available color
attribute names are:
- white
- black
- blue
- green
- lightRed
- red
- magenta
- orange
- yellow
- lightGreen
- cyan
- lightCyan
- lightBlue
- lightMagenta
- gray
- lightGray
It is possible to nest foreground and background colors to alter both for a single piece of text. For example to display black on green text:
1
A.fg.black[A.bg.green['Like a terminal!']]
Parsing formatted text
Most IRC clients format text so it is logical that you may want to parse
this formatted text.
twisted.words.protocols.irc.parseFormattedText
will parse text into structured text attributes. It is worth noting that
while feeding the output of parseFormattedText
back to
assembleFormattedText
will produce the same final result,
the actual structure of the parsed text will differ. Color codes are
mapped from 0 to 15, codes greater than 15 will begin to wrap around.
Removing formatting
In some cases, such as an automaton handling user input from IRC, it is
desirable to have all formatting stripped from text. This can be
accomplished with
twisted.words.protocols.irc.stripFormatting
.


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I'm trained as plant biologist. My study ended up with lots of data analysis, where I dealt with complex data sets and set up a pipeline to dissect the genetic control of different photosynthetic types, which is beneficial to not only understand the early C4 photosynthesis evolution. Data science bootcamp blows my horizon with machine learning, deep learning, and web development. Together with my hoppy, water color painting, I developed this web application to know more about my paitings as well as artworks of interest.


Ben Brook
software engineer @ TrueCar
Work Experience
TrueCar: Software Engineer
January 2017 - Present
Ruby on Rails development w/ some React/Gluestick front-end work.
TrueCar: Software Engineering Intern
June 2016 - December 2016
- Create Spark pipelines for data processing and machine learning to aid price prediction.
- Develop a highly efficient API server in Scala to evaluate predictions and update models.
- Create a front end for the API in React.js.
Mentor Graphics: Software Engineering Intern
March 2015 - September 2015
- Wrote a new error reporting system in C++ that streamlined the process for developers to output and filter error messages and warnings.
- Expanded the coverage of regression tests for products with limited testing.
- Performed performance analyses to find hotspots in code and worked on several potential solutions to increase speed.
Oregon State University Department of Computer Science: Student Researcher
September 2015 - March 2015
- Assisted Dr. Scott Sanner and one of his graduate students in machine learning research.
- Gathered large geospatial datasets for use in piecewise Bayesian models.
- Presented a poster at the 2016 Oregon State Graduate Research Expo
Business Solutions Group: Student Lab Manager
April 2013 - June 2016
- Perform various hardware and software tests on enterprise networking equipment.
- Coordinate new and upcoming projects for a lab of 5-6 students.
- Create bug reports for developers.
Education
Oregon State University: BS Computer Science w/ Computer Systems
January 2013 - September 2016
Projects
BikeBin
- BikeBin is an ongoing project that allows proud bike owners to share their bikes with other passionate enthusiasts.
- Currently under development at github.com/benrbrook/bikebin, with a live version at bikebin.co.
- Built with Meteor, which runs on top of Node.js to allow for both front and back end development in JavaScript.
SF Crime Classification
- Final project for CS 434 Machine Learning.
- We took 12 years of crime data from the City of San Francisco.
- Predicted crime category (assault, robbery, vandalism, etc.) based on time and location.
- Compared the viability of different classifiers (k-NN, random forest, etc.).
- High accuracy (log loss of 3.5) with tuned hyperparameters.
- Created a report viewable here.


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MOTHER A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1996 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: A doubly-divorced man decides to return to living in his mother's house in an experiment to understand his relationships with the women in his life. MOTHER may well be the least of Albert Brooks's generally reliable comedies. This one has a serious message in the end which comes off as a little contrived and superficial. Rating: high +1 (-4 to +4)
There is a very selective appeal to Albert Brooks comedies. They are low-budget, intelligently written pieces in which the humor mostly comes from dialogue. Like Woody Allen, Brooks usually plays an intelligent neurotic and the comedy ordinarily comes from the dialogue as it does in a Woody Allen comedy. Where Brooks differs is that his characters speak in a much more natural manner than Allen's and his humor is more subtle. Also his comedies often take a little longer to settle in. It is hard to judge on a first viewing how funny an Albert Brooks comedy will be the second time around. Usually like a Thanksgiving turkey they are a feast the first time around but are not at their best until the second or third partaking. Then some of his gags take on classic proportions. Bits like forbidding Julie Hagerty to use the words "nest" or "egg" are hilarious and at the same time ring very true.
That said, MOTHER is just a bit substandard for a Brooks-directed comedy. Brooks usually uses as a format the experiment that fails--the good idea gone awry. Of five Brooks comedies, only DEFENDING YOUR LIFE does not fall into this "it seemed like a good idea at the time" pattern. In MODERN ROMANCE the Brooks character decides to break up with a woman and then finds the single life is not all he was expecting. LOST IN AMERICA involved a wealthy advertising executive who drops out, buys a Winnebago, and tries to live on the road. This time around, in what could have almost been a sequel to MODERN ROMANCE, John Henderson (Brooks) is a man who cannot deal with the women in his life. To understand why he returns to the home of his mother (Debbie Reynolds) to live in his old bedroom, decorated just like the old days, in an attempt to discover what he will learn. What he finds is that his mother is hard to live with. Eventually he discovers why his relationship with his mother has been strained. But while the reason satisfies him, it turns out to be a not very satisfying or even interesting contrivance. Most people I know have problems to some degree in dealing with their parents not unlike those in this film, but Brooks's rather pat explanation for his case just does not explain very much of the problem. If the mother-son problems are dispelled a little too easily, at least the script does not place all the blame on the mother. Beatrice Henderson comes off as an intelligent and self- reliant woman who can run her own life just fine, thank you, and who once raised two bright kids, John and his brother (Rob Morrow of QUIZ SHOW).
While I have come to expect a fair amount of a Brooks comedy, somehow here his timing seemed just a bit off. A scene early in the film has John rearranging the one chair that his divorce has left him in a large empty living room. He tries the chair in four places before deciding that it worked best where it was. The joke takes too much screen time for way too little payoff. This is not the sort of perceptive humor we expect from Brooks. Later, when he is in his mother's home, the film tries to milk as much humor as possible from his mother freezing a big chunk of cheese and a salad. These gags are more miss than hit in this film's hit-and-miss humor. On the other hand, there is some perceptive humor in Beatrice's repeated references to writer John's lack of Stephen-King-like success in his writing profession and the greater success of her other son, the sports agent. There are a number of very clever gags including a very impressively managed allusion to the film THE GRADUATE--telling any more would spoil it. Like Woody Allen, Brooks seems to play the same character from film to film. Reynolds is, of course, a veteran actress. She holds her own against Brooks. One minor gripe: in MODERN ROMANCE the character was editing a science fiction film, in this film John is a science fiction writer, but in each film he seems to be very condescending toward science fiction. In his most recent novel they talk about the character "with the big head" and the one "with the big hand." It is hard to imagine he could make a living writing science fiction if he is writing at the level suggested in the film.
Since Brooks directs a comedy only once in about five years, it is a pity that this film is so frequently not up to his usual standard. His comedy about a mother and son learning about each other could have been a lot more memorable than this one was, but there are still more laugh-out-loud gags than most comedies, and there is a bit of a statement here also, so I give MOTHER a high +1 on the -4 to +4 scale.
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Before trying shrooms for the first time, I had been smoking pot actively for a few years and had one month previously tried LSD. Having negative to no effects from the acid I took, I decided to try shrooms. Me and 4 friends took them together, me the only first timer. They all had an 1/8 to themselves and pinched a little from each of theirs to give to me, an equal amount for us all. About 30 minutes prior to eating the shrooms, we had smoked a couple of good bowls of pot. I ate the shrooms straight and returned to my room to play video games.
For the first half hour I had a feeling of anxiety (yet much calmer than on acid) and the computer game seemed to take my mind off it. Then I started to notice my visuals were dragging, like a video camera on a slow shutter speed. After awhile of adventuring in a non-linear path, I started to lose interest in the game and I suddenly noticed that my room was filled with people.
I felt very relaxed and more easy going than normal. I began to close my eyes and witness the closed eyed visuals my friends had told me about. My roommate (also on shrooms) wanted to leave the room, saying he felt trapped (it's a small room). I laughed hysterically at this, my laugh sounding different. I ventured into another room where I sat in a plastic box for some time talking casualy to people, often echoing my own words. Somone started playing Prodigy and I felt as though the whole room would flux and shake with every heavy bass beat. At this point we headed outside.
From this point on I started a new found respect for nature. Trees, plants and people just seemed to glow and move in a whole new way. I felt as though I was in a perfect harmony, respecting everything and everyone's views. Usually I'm a bit of an introvert, but I was meeting everyone I saw and having lucrative conversations. People I had somewhat knew I began to formally introduce myself to. I spent alot of time watching some plants sway in the wind and often became speachless when I tried to describe what I was feeling.
Me and my friend then went and sat in my car, turning on the heat and putting on some Radiohead, about 40 minutes after I started tripping. I knew I couldn't drive, but the combinations of the street lights, my car's windsheild defrosting and 'Everything in its right Place' made for the most intense visuals I had during the night. I dared not blink and became enthralled. My friend remarked that my eyes were watering 'like crazy' and my pupils were very dialated. Me and a group of friends then embarked on an adventure through my college's beautiful campus.
I was qouted as saying 'We live in a magical world of dragons and lore'. My friend and I had many deep talks on several topics, recurring themes being 'Why are we here?' 'What do people normally do?' and 'Isn't this totally awesome?'. Then we stumbled upon an area that was straight out of Narnia. We sparked a bowl, and I had reached possibly the best high of my life. I was perfectly relaxed but at the same time somewhat anxious. The trip began to wear off about 25 minutes later, a total of about 4 hours of straight tripping.
That was my first time really tripping and I enjoyed every second of it. My friends who had already done it said this wasn't so much of a visual trip like their last times. I can't really explain how I felt, I can't even remember the feeling all the way. But if you have the chance to feel what I felt, I would highly advise you consider Mushrooms.
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What's wrong with centralization?
Hashing Usecases
Concluding
hash of this transaction $h_T = h(from \cdot to \cdot amount \cdot T_{previous} \cdot proof)$
$signature = sign(h_T,private\ key)$
we don't include $signature$ in the transaction's hash due to this security concern
When we receive a transaction, we check:
If all the above are satisfied, the transaction is valid
To create a new transaction, we:
Works perfectly, assuming there are no network delays
When a transaction gets published, everybody is aware of it instantaneously
What happens when we introduce network delays?
Participants have different views of the chain
We refer to this phenomenon as $fork$
Assume your latest transaction is $T_{\alpha}$
You now receive two new transactions, $T_{\beta}$ and $T_{\gamma}$, both referencing $T_{\alpha}$ as their previous transaction
You want to submit a new transaction. Do you refer to $T_{\beta}$ or $T_{\gamma}$ as your previous transaction?
Possible Strategies:
Transaction with majority of computational power wins
We eventually converge towards a specific longest chain
$forks \nearrow \quad \implies security \searrow$
Possible solution: adjust difficulty based on how frequent transactions are committed
hash of this transaction $h_T = h(from \cdot to \cdot amount \cdot T_{previous} \cdot proof \cdot \textbf{time})$
$signature = sign(h_T,private\ key)$
Adjusting difficulty $d$ based on $time$
We now get $1$ transaction every $10$ minutes regardless of the number of participants
Instead of having a chain of transactions, we now have a chain of sets of transactions, i.e. a chain of blocks
$h_T = h(from \cdot to \cdot amount), signature = sign(h_T,private\ key)$
$h_B = h(transactions \cdot B_{previous} \cdot proof \cdot time)$
$h_B$ has to satisfy $h_B < \frac{u}{d}$
Transactions are now broadcasted to all participants
If a received transaction is valid, i.e.,
it is added to a (local) pending transactions set
The pending transactions set will eventually become part of a block, depending on difficulty $d$
Once part of a block, these transactions are considered approved
Note that they can become pending again if a fork occurs. We denote such blocks as stale blocks. Further reading
When receiving a new block, the block is considered valid if:
Problem: given each block can hold $\infty$ transactions, an adversary might fill a block with SPAM, i.e transactions with no value. Other participants are forced to save the block.
Possible solution: Block Size Limit
What incentives do I have for being a miner?
$\langle C \rangle = \eta \cdot h \cdot T$
cost model is from this paper
We add a $beneficiary$ property to the block in which the successful miner puts his public key
Alternative rewarding schemes presented here
Transaction Fees
Each transaction contains a fee which the successful miner gets paid, if the transaction is included in a block
Fees do not inflate the currency
Block reward
A block's miner receives a reward for mining a block
Problem: a block reward motivates miners to mine, but does not motivate to add any transactions to the block (empty block mining)
An increase in number of miners yields an increase to the mining difficulty
Eventually we reach a point where mining is not profitable anymore
After that, whoever has the most efficient hardware, i.e. lowest $\eta$ remains profitable
High energy consumption is an unwanted byproduct
Permutate set of pending transactions until condition is satisfied
Possible to increase hashrate again
Solutions until now do not scale good


2019 Volvo XC40 R-Design Review: 4 Things You Need To Know
by Kyle EdwardThe XC40 is a newer vehicle from the Volvo Brand and the smallest SUV in their lineup behind the XC60. But sometimes big things come in small packages, and and the XC40 has so much personality it’s bursting at the seams.
Spacious Interior
My test car was equipped with the R-Design package, Volov's equivalent to a sports-package. This build includes some unique features and great options, such as the Lava carpeting, a special R-Design steering wheel, sport paddle gear selectors, and seats finished in perforated Nappa Leather and Nubuck upholstery.
I especially loved the interior door panels, as they are also done in Lava upholstery, giving the entire interior of the vehicle a warm and fuzzy feel to it.
Even though it's a smaller vehicle, the interior gives off a spacious experience, and that's thanks to the glass roof, low center console, and a minimalistic space-saving design. Elements like large storage compartments in the doors, under the seats and in the trunk all ensure that you have plenty of room to stow your stuff without cluttering the drive. Other highlights include a removable bin in the mid console, a small fold-away hook as part of the glove compartment, and easily-accessible slots for credit and service cards.
Excellent Road Manners
If you're looking for an SUV that won't break the bank like an X2 M35i, but still offers driving fun and quick acceleration, look no further than the XC40’s T5 engine. It boasts 248 horsepower and a substantial 350 pound-feet of torque, which yields a 0-60 time of just 6.3 seconds. Steering is precise and offers respectable road-feel, especially for a vehicle in this segment.
Not everything under the hood is perfect though, as the XC40's engine has a harsh tone to it, especially noticeable when putting the pedal down for rapid acceleration. That's partly due to sub-par cabin insulation, but the engine could also use some refinements to reduce cabin noise.
Thoughtful Exterior Design
The smaller the SUV, the harder it is to incorporate stylish design, as there is physically less surface to work with. Despite that general rule, however, I believe the designers at Volvo did a great job with the XC40. In keeping with the brand's style identity, it features vertical taillights, cute egg shaped mirrors, and Thor's hammer accent LED lights. These accents hold up well even when going up against the style choices of larger vehicles.
Final Thoughts
The 2019 Volvo XC40 incorporates most of the things you would want from a small SUV, including a plethora of active safety features, distance guided cruise control, a functional yet novel interior, cute exterior design, potent T5 powertrain, and all at a reasonable starting price of just over $35,500. However, the XC40 lacks a powerful sound system (even the optional Harman/Kardon system just isn't enough for true music lovers), and sadly it suffers from a rough engine note under moderate to heavy acceleration. Everything considered, it's still a great vehicle and would be at the top of my list-in-class alongside the BMW X2 and Lincoln Corsair.


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The day after being released from the hospital I did some coke with some friends and took a few hits from a pipe going around. Within a few minutes I felt incredibly nauseated, but I reckoned the coke did it because I had not smoked very much pot at all.

Another few days later, I smoked a joint with some friends. To my dismay, this made me very sick once more. Being the sleuthful debunker of mysteries that I am, I have concluded that the marijuana did it.
However, I've always smoked pot. I've probably smoked my weight in pot over the last few years. Then I determined that I cross medicated myself with marijuana and Abilify because I was still getting mild side effects of Abilify (Blurred vision, for one).
Cocaine still works, though, but I can't smoke pot, for a good while, I imagine.
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Example systems are listed at the right, and, the sequence of steps
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Automatic generation of a small "hello world" application
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Realistic production-quality systems involve many various and different moving parts.
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As to visual challenges. The toolbar is nicely done. It is big enough to see clearly. I am sure that the photo-real-estate is prime. The designer needs people to be able to see clearly the photos, and at the same time keep them focused that there are places to go and things to see and a toolbar above to help get you to the things you want.
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I would really like to unify order_dual
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with opposite
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They are talking about exactly the same thing, and to do presheafs and sheafs nicely I think we'll want to reflect a lot of the order structure on open sets up in category theoretic language. On the category theory side we'll be talking about (opens X)\op
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@Mario Carneiro, @Reid Barton, @Johannes Hölzl, any ideas about how to proceed?
That sounds difficult... You would have to have preorder
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Why is that?
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You could equip opposite
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there would be two ways to get category (opens X)\op
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or make the category from the preorder, and take the opposite category
... tedious
if you are lucky it might be defeq
Rather bizarrely I was experimenting with this stuff on the way home from AITP yesterday -- I decided that I could try to prove that the categories built in these two ways were equivalent -- it certainly didn't occur to me to try and make them defeq :-)
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Normalizing Flows (NFs) (Rezende & Mohamed, 2015) learn an invertible mapping \(f: X \rightarrow Z\), where \(X\) is our data distribution and \(Z\) is a chosen latent-distribution.
Normalizing Flows are part of the generative model family, which includes Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) (Kingma & Welling, 2013), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) (Goodfellow et al., 2014). Once we learn the mapping \(f\), we generate data by sampling \(z \sim p_Z\) and then applying the inverse transformation, \(f^{-1}(z) = x_{gen}\).
Note: \(p_Z(z)\) is the probability density of sampling \(z\) under the distribution \(Z\).
In this blog to understand normalizing flows better, we will cover the algorithm’s theory and implement a flow model in PyTorch. But first, let us flow through the advantages and disadvantages of normalizing flows.
Note: If you are not interested in the comparison between generative models you can skip to ‘How Normalizing Flows Work’
Why Normalizing Flows
With the amazing results shown by VAEs and GANs, why would you want to use Normalizing flows? We list the advantages below
Note: Most advantages are from the GLOW paper (Kingma & Dhariwal, 2018)
- NFs optimize the exact log-likelihood of the data, log(\(p_X\))
- VAEs optimize the lower bound (ELBO)
- GANs learn to fool a discriminator network
- NFs infer exact latent-variable values \(z\), which are useful for downstream tasks
- The VAE infers a distribution over latent-variable values
- GANs do not have a latent-distribution
- Potential for memory savings, with NFs gradient computations scaling constant to their depth
- Both VAE’s and GAN’s gradient computations scale linearly to their depth
- NFs require only an encoder to be learned
- VAEs require encoder and decoder networks
- GANs require generative and discriminative networks
But remember what mother says, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”.
Some of the downsides of normalizing flows are as follows,
- The requirements of invertibility and efficient Jacobian calculations restrict model architecture
- Less resources/research on NFs compared to other generative models
- The reason for this blog!
- NFs generative results are still behind VAEs and GANs
Now let us get dirty in some theory!
How Normalizing Flows Work
In this section, we understand the heart of Normalizing Flows.
Probability Distribution Change of Variables
Consider a random variable \(X \in \mathbb{R}^d\) (our data distribution) and an invertable transformation \(f: \mathbb{R}^d \mapsto \mathbb{R}^d\)
Then there is a random variable \(Z \in \mathbb{R}^d\) which \(f\) maps \(X\) to.
Furthermore,
\[P(X = x) = P(f(X) = f(x)) = P(Z = z)\tag{0}\]Now consider some interval \(\beta\) over \(X\). Then there exists some interval \(\beta^{\prime}\) over \(Z\) such that,
\[P(X \in \beta) = P(Z \in \beta^{\prime})\tag{1}\] \[\int_{\beta} p_X dx = \int_{\beta^{\prime}} p_Z dz\tag{2}\]For the sake of simplicity, we consider a single region.
\[dx \cdot p_X(x) = dz \cdot p_Z(z) \tag{3}\] \[p_X(x) = \mid\dfrac{dz}{dx}\mid \cdot p_Z(z) \tag{4}\]Note: We apply the absolute value to maintain the equality since by the probability axioms \(p_X\) and \(p_Z\) will always be positive.
\[p_X(x) = \mid\dfrac{df(x)}{dx}\mid \cdot p_Z(f(x)) \tag{5}\] \[p_X(x) = \mid det(\dfrac{df}{dx}) \mid \cdot p_Z(f(x)) \tag{6}\]Note: We use the determinant to generalize to the multivariate case (\(d > 1\))
\[\log(p_X(x)) = \log(\mid det(\dfrac{df}{dx}) \mid) + \log(p_Z(f(x))) \tag{7}\]Tada! To model our random variable \(X\), we need to maximize the right-hand side of equation (7).
Breaking the equation down:
- \(\log(\mid det(\dfrac{df}{dx}) \mid)\) is the amount of stretch/change \(f\) applies to the probability distribution \(p_X\).
- This term is the log determinant of the Jacobian matrix (\(\dfrac{df}{dx}\)). We refer to the determinant of the Jacobian matrix as the Jacobian.
- \(\log(p_Z(f(x)))\) constrains \(f\) to transform \(x\) to the distribution \(p_Z\).
Since there are no constraints on \(Z\) we can choose \(p_Z\)! Usually, we choose \(p_Z\) to be gaussian.
Now I know what your thinking, as a reader of this blog you strive for greatness and say,
‘Brennan, a single function does not satisfy me. I have a hunger for more.’
Applying multiple functions sequentially
Fear not my readers! I will show you how we can sequentially apply multiple functions.
Let \(z_n\) be the result of sequentially applying \(n\) functions to \(x \sim p_X\).
\[z_n = f_n \circ \dots \circ f_1(x) \tag{8}\] \[f = f_n \circ \dots \circ f_1 \tag{9}\]Using the handy dandy chain rule, we can modify equation (7) with equation (8) to get equation (10) as follows.
\[\log(p_X(x)) = \log(\mid det(\dfrac{df}{dx}) \mid) + \log(p_Z(f(x))) \tag{7}\] \[\log(p_X(x)) = \log(\prod_{i=1}^{n} \mid det(\dfrac{dz_i}{dz_{i-1}}) \mid) + \log(p_Z(f(x)))\tag{10}\]Where \(x \triangleq z_0\) for conciseness.
\[\log(p_X(x)) = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \log(\mid det(\dfrac{dz_i}{dz_{i-1}}) \mid) + \log(p_Z(f(x))) \tag{11}\]We want the Jacobian term to be easy to compute since we will need to compute it \(n\) times.
To efficiently compute the Jacobian, the functions \(f_i\) (corresponding to \(z_i\)) are chosen to have a lower or upper triangular Jacobian matrix. Since the determinant of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal, which is easy to compute.
Now that you understand the general theory of Normalizing flows, lets flow through some PyTorch code.
The Family of Flows
For this post we will be focusing on, real-valued non-volume preserving flows (R-NVP) (Dinh et al., 2016).
Though there are many other flow functions out and about such as NICE (Dinh et al., 2014), and GLOW (Kingma & Dhariwal, 2018). For keeners wanting to learn more, I will show you to the ‘More Resources’ section at the bottom of this post which includes blog posts with more flows which may interest you.
R-NVP Flows
We consider a single R-NVP function \(f: \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d\), with input \(\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d\) and output \(\mathbf{z} \in \mathbb{R}^d\).
To quickly recap, in order to optimize our function \(f\) to model our data distribution \(p_X\), we want to know the forward pass \(f\), and the Jacobian \(\mid det(\dfrac{df}{dx}) \mid\).
We then will want to know the inverse of our function \(f^{-1}\) so we can transform a sampled latent-value \(z \sim p_Z\) to our data distribution \(p_X\), generating new samples!
Forward Pass
\[f(\mathbf{x}) = \mathbf{z}\tag{12}\]The forward pass is a combination of copying values while stretching and shifting the others. First we choose some arbitrary value \(k\) which satisfies \(0 < k < d\) to split our input.
R-NVPs forward pass is then the following
\[\mathbf{z}_{1:k} = \mathbf{x}_{1:k} \tag{13}\] \[\mathbf{z}_{k+1:d} = \mathbf{x}_{k+1:d} \odot \exp(\sigma(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})) + \mu(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})\tag{14}\]Where \(\sigma, \mu: \mathbb{R}^k \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{d-k}\) and are any arbitrary functions. Hence, we will choose \(\sigma\) and \(\mu\) to both be deep neural networks. Below is PyTorch code of a simple implementation.
Log Jacobian
The Jacobian matrix \(\dfrac{df}{d\mathbf{x}}\) of this function will be
\[\begin{bmatrix}I_d & 0 \\ \frac{d z_{k+1:d}}{d \mathbf{x}_{1:k}} & \text{diag}(\exp[\sigma(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})]) \end{bmatrix} \tag{15}\]The log determinant of such a Jacobian Matrix will be
\[\log(\det(\dfrac{df}{d\mathbf{x}})) = \log(\prod_{i=1}^{d-k} \mid\exp[\sigma_i(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})]\mid) \tag{16}\] \[\log(\mid\det(\dfrac{df}{d\mathbf{x}})\mid) = \sum_{i=1}^{d-k} \log(\exp[\sigma_i(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})]) \tag{17}\] \[\log(\mid\det(\dfrac{df}{d\mathbf{x}})\mid) = \sum_{i=1}^{d-k} \sigma_i(\mathbf{x}_{1:k}) \tag{18}\]Inverse
\[f^{-1}(\mathbf{z}) = \mathbf{x}\tag{19}\]One of the benefits of R-NVPs compared to other flows is the ease of inverting \(f\) into \(f^{-1}\), which we formulate below using the forward pass of equation (14)
\[\mathbf{x}_{1:k} = \mathbf{z}_{1:k} \tag{20}\] \[\mathbf{x}_{k+1:d} = (\mathbf{z}_{k+1:d} - \mu(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})) \odot \exp(-\sigma(\mathbf{x}_{1:k})) \tag{21}\] \[\Leftrightarrow \mathbf{x}_{k+1:d} = (\mathbf{z}_{k+1:d} - \mu(\mathbf{z}_{1:k})) \odot \exp(-\sigma(\mathbf{z}_{1:k})) \tag{22}\]Summary
And voilà, the recipe for R-NVP is complete!
To summarize we now know how to compute \(f(\mathbf{x})\), \(\log(\mid\det(\dfrac{df}{d\mathbf{x}})\mid)\), and \(f^{-1}(\mathbf{z})\).
Below is the full jupyter notebook with PyTorch code for model optimization and data generation.
Note: In the notebook the multilayer R-NVP flips the input before a forward/inverse pass for a more expressive model.
Optimizing Model
\[\log(p_X(x)) = \log(\mid det(\dfrac{df}{dx}) \mid) + \log(p_Z(f(x)))\] \[\log(p_X(x)) = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \log(\mid det(\dfrac{dz_i}{dz_{i-1}}) \mid) + \log(p_Z(f(x)))\]Generating Data from Model
\[z \sim p_Z\] \[x_{gen} = f^{-1}(z)\]Conclusion
In summary, we learned how to model a data distribution to a chosen latent-distribution using an invertible function \(f\). We used the change of variables formula to discover that to model our data we must maximize the Jacobian of \(f\) while also constraining \(f\) to our latent-distribution. We then extended this notion to sequentially applying multiple functions \(f_n \circ \dots \circ f_1(x)\). Lastly, we learned about the theory and implementation of the R-NVP flow.
Thanks for reading!
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References
- Rezende, D. J., & Mohamed, S. (2015). Variational inference with normalizing flows. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1505.05770.
- Kingma, D. P., & Welling, M. (2013). Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes.
- Goodfellow, I., Pouget-Abadie, J., Mirza, M., Xu, B., Warde-Farley, D., Ozair, S., Courville, A., & Bengio, Y. (2014). Generative Adversarial Nets. In Z. Ghahramani, M. Welling, C. Cortes, N. D. Lawrence, & K. Q. Weinberger (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (pp. 2672–2680). Curran Associates, Inc. http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-nets.pdf
- Kingma, D. P., & Dhariwal, P. (2018). Glow: Generative flow with invertible 1x1 convolutions. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 10215–10224.
- Dinh, L., Sohl-Dickstein, J., & Bengio, S. (2016). Density estimation using real nvp. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1605.08803.
- Dinh, L., Krueger, D., & Bengio, Y. (2014). Nice: Non-linear independent components estimation. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1410.8516.
More Resources
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Indepth analysis of more recent flows: https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2018/10/13/flow-based-deep-generative-models.html
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More flows and their equations: http://akosiorek.github.io/ml/2018/04/03/norm_flows.html
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Tensorflow Normalizing Flow Tutorial: https://blog.evjang.com/2018/01/nf1.html
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Video resource on the change of variables formulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeD3RJpeb-w


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Rails application that returns parking regulations and sends reminder based on user GPS. Worked on team of five over the course of SIX days. I was the team design lead and built all of the views for the project. I also worked quite a bit with Javascript in the Front End.
A Rails applications that mimics Stack Overflow where users can post questions, answers, and comments on anything related to Mac & Cheese! Emphasis on back-end, front-end, TDD, as well as implementing secure polymorphic associations. Built with: Ruby, FactoryGirl, Rspec, Bootstrap, Rails backend
A clone of the game 2048 built from scratch with javascript. Use the arrow keys to shift the tiles left, right, up and down. When two tiles of the same value collide they will merge and form a tile of double value. Can you get a tile to reach 256?!?
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Time: HH:MM(:SS)
Date and time must be general type or excel date and time types


Numbers 25:2
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.


Draggable refers to the ability to drag and move targets.
Resizable indicates whether the target's width and height can be increased or decreased.
Scalable indicates whether the target's x and y can be scale of transform.
Rotatable indicates whether the target can be rotated.
Warpable indicates whether the target can be warped.
Pinchable indicates whether the target can be pinched with
draggable, resizable, scalable, rotatable.
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Groupable indicates Whether the targets can be moved in group with draggable, resizable, scalable, rotatable.
Snappable indicates whether to snap to the guideline.


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Lisp is generally considered a 3rd Generation Language (3GL), as it is
a general purpose, text based language comparable to Smalltalk, Ada, C/C++,
Fortran, etc.
 For example, assembly languages are considered to be 2GL, in that they allow mnemonic programming at the machine level. By this description, C can be thought of as a 2GL for register architectures, and Lisp, Forth and Postscript can be considered a 2GL for stack architectures. Recall that Lisp decouples the representation of program structure from the reading of textual programs. Thus, although the ANSI Common Lisp language specification includes a specification of the standard syntax for reading text based programs, it also includes mechanisms for manipulating programs as data, and compiling such in-memory definitions without the use of text source files. While other 3GL are limited to the traditional text-editor-separate-compiler environment, Lisp, Smalltalk, and other 4GLs use these capabilities to provide sophisticated Computer Aided Software (CASE) environments. The macro and metaobject protocol facilities support the creation of new, application-specific languages embedded in Lisp. In addition, the dynamic capabilities of Lisp allow the environment to be customized, modified or reprogrammed in Lisp as it is running. A 5GL is sometimes considered to be a 4GL with a knowledge-based system built in. The ANSI Common Lisp standard does not define any knowledge-based system extensions, but many are freely available for Lisp. Because these work by extending the language, rather than replacing it, it is difficult to classify such extended Lisps as 3GL, 4GL or 5GL. |


This is a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".
Fizz value :
Buzz value :
Generate default results
Clear results
Your results:


Yes
No
What skills do you have that can help us at Habitat for Humanity? (check all that apply):
Carpentry
Plumbing
Financing


The base pizza is a small cheese for 100NTD.
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Apr 26, 2018
I’ve been reading a collection of Paris Review interviews recently. These are great deep dives into various writer’s lives and their writing process. I finished Truman Capote’s brilliant ‘In Cold Blood’ a couple of months back and found this quote quite illuminating as to why I found it such an engrossing, powerful read.
INTERVIEWER
What do you mean exactly by “control”?
CAPOTE
I mean maintaining a stylistic and emotional upper hand over your material. Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence— especially if it occurs toward the end—or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of ear, Virginia Woolf never wrote a bad sentence. I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.
 It’s sometimes easy to forget that doing this in literature is a hugely difficult task, sometimes it’s nice to get reminders like this - great books are hard work.
Feb 25, 2018
The Kindle Fire 7 is not a particularly impressive device. Buying one straight from the source means you’re pretty much stuck in the claws of the mighty Amazon buy stream. If you go for the cheap option, you get a lockscreen displaying garish full screen ads, and once you unlock you’re given a ton of options for watching, reading and listening to Amazon content. The smallest member of the Fire family often goes on sale here in the uk for £30 and despite all the bloatware and the dire screen, it’s still very much worth picking up - here’s why.
The Kindle Fire makes a great tablet for textbooks and light reading. Sure, it doesn’t have the easy on the eyes e-ink display of its more admired namesake but it can display PDFs - in full colour! Of course to use it this way, as a dedicated reading device you’ll want to make a few fundamental changes to how the device runs. First, the Google Play Store has to be installed. The Amazon App store is a sad place, devoid of the vibrant third party app ecosystem that both iOS and Android devices normally enjoy. Getting the play store is an easy task, just downloading some apks, and editing some system settings. Here is a good tutorial. Once this is done you can start downloading your own apps. I use Moon reader Pro for ebooks and documents and it works great, I store my books in Google Drive, and download them onto the device from there.
Next, you’ll want to remove home screen that Amazon thinks you’ll enjoy using, it’s a mess and looks horrible. To do this download Nova Launcher, I had to download a separeate app called Launcher Hijack. Once this is downloaded you simply open it and select Nova. Now, every time you press home you’ll be shown your Nova Configured Home Screen instead.
For basic reading, with the WiFi turned off, the battery lasts an age. If you have an ebook collection, or have collected various pdfs over the years, you won’t find a cheaper way to read them on the go.
Jan 29, 2017
I recently took the plunge and installed Linux on my main machine. I recently got a preowned Thinkpad X1 Carbon third generation. It has a super high res screen and is built like a tank. Like the new MacBook pro it has a screen instead of function buttons, these change between two main layouts and are basically unusable. With no drag functionality it just sits there awkwardly, I avoid it and it mostly stays out of my way. I don’t see this impasse ending anytime soon.
Installing Linux, in my case I went with the idiot-proof Ubuntu was a breeze, I used the standard USB installation from the main website.  Instead of trying out Ubuntu for a short period of time, or dual booting, I decided to completely wipe my machine, with no hard data on there this seemed fine. Right?
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a gorgeous high resolution display, the first time I used it after my old Macbook Air was a revelation, it’s impossible not to notice, unless of course you are Ubuntu. On booting for the first time, the scale was completely screwed which meant everything was tiny, which is great if you want to fit in 16 terminals to one window, but not particularly useful if you want to read any text. I scaled everything up using the inbuilt settings and went along my way, installing sublime and chrome, as well as all my dev command line tools. It turns out that Chrome doesn’t play nice when it comes to scaling and upon opening it, you are presented with a HUGE UI, bookmarks take up half the screen and the whole thing looks awful. Fortunately with the help of Gnome Tweak Tool and some digging in Chrome’s config file I was able to sort this out.
I installed Ubuntu a very long time ago on my parents laptop as a way to get some extra life out of a dying machine, and I was shocked to see, on booting it now that it pretty much looks the same. This had to change. One trip to reddit.com/r/unixporn later and I found out that heavy customization is not for me. Instead I installed the Paper Theme with Paper Icons and I was good to go.
I’m a couple of weeks into using Ubuntu and so far I haven’t had any hiccups, installing from the command line isn’t the stress I’d thought it be, it’s just like having pip install actual programs. Most of my apps work fine, and having a proper terminal is great for any sort of dev work. I’ve even started to making the slow but steady transition to VIM. I had started to use VIM quite a bit for editing on remote servers at work, seeing as it is available pretty much everywhere so made sense to get decent at it. ‘:vimtutor’ and sensible.vim are a good start. Sensible.vim also introduces you to pathogen, an easy way to install new vim plugins.
The main takeaway from all this isn’t that Ubuntu is a user friendly, easy to setup OS, which it totally is by the way. But it’s the entire process, when it came to files and programs I use heavily was almost seamless. So much of my personal data now exists on the cloud. Of course, that’s not always a good thing but it does mean that getting a new PC is no longer burdened by huge set up times. I use google docs, most of my music exists on spotify now (which certainly has its own problems). I have a desktop, but that only really contains high res photos and my ever aging mp3 collection. Everything else seems to be pretty transient. Apart from heavy duty photo/video editing programs and games, linux has most bases covered. Config files for programs like Sublime can be switched easily too.
For dev work, writing and browsing I’m finding Ubuntu perfectly capable, it’s even handled the touchscreen and bastard-son-fake-function-row on this thing absolutely fine. I’m not a Linux convert now, and to be honest picking an OS side has never interested me, but I’m enjoying Ubuntu, and installing it has told me a ton about my own computer habits and what I actually find important in a personal machine - it turns out, Ubuntu has all of that.


When archived, the script tag in this page should discover what ports are hosting locally reachable services on the archive server.


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11-year-old shot, killed at birthday party in Cleveland
by WEWS StaffCLEVELAND, Ohio – An 11-year-old boy was shot and killed while attending a birthday party in Cleveland on Saturday.
Authorities say the shooting occurred at a residence in the city’s Hough neighborhood around 9:30 p.m.
EMS transported the child, later identified as Tyshaun Taylor, to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The resident of the apartment told police that she had allowed her 16-year-old son to host a birthday party. She said she had left to go to a nearby store when the shooting happened.
No arrests have been made at this time.
The shooting remains under investigation.
This story was originally published by Camryn Justice and Homa Bash at WEWS.


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xpcc
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Serial peripheral interface (SPI3). More...
#include <driver/spi/stm32/spi_master_3.hpp>
Public Types | |
| enum | DataMode : uint32_t { DataMode::Mode0, DataMode::Mode1, DataMode::Mode2, DataMode::Mode3 } |
| Spi Data Mode, Mode0 is the most common mode. More... | |
| enum | DataOrder : uint32_t { MsbFirst, LsbFirst } |
| Spi Data Order, MsbFirst is the most common mode. | |
| Public Types inherited from xpcc::Spi | |
| enum | DataMode : uint8_t { DataMode::Mode0, DataMode::Mode1, DataMode::Mode2, DataMode::Mode3 } |
| Spi Data Mode, Mode0 is the most common mode. More... | |
| enum | DataOrder : uint8_t { MsbFirst, LsbFirst } |
| Spi Data Order, MsbFirst is the most common mode. | |
| using | ConfigurationHandler = void(*)() |
| The signature of the configuration function. | |
Static Public Member Functions | |
| template<class SystemClock , uint32_t baudrate, uint16_t tolerance = xpcc::Tolerance::FivePercent> | |
| static void | initialize () |
| static void | setDataMode (DataMode mode) |
| static void | setDataOrder (DataOrder order) |
| static uint8_t | acquire (void *ctx, ConfigurationHandler handler=nullptr) |
| static uint8_t | release (void *ctx) |
| static uint8_t | transferBlocking (uint8_t data) |
| static void | transferBlocking (uint8_t *tx, uint8_t *rx, std::size_t length) |
| static xpcc::ResumableResult< uint8_t > | transfer (uint8_t data) |
| static xpcc::ResumableResult< void > | transfer (uint8_t *tx, uint8_t *rx, std::size_t length) |
| Static Public Member Functions inherited from xpcc::SpiMaster | |
| template<class SystemClock , uint32_t baudrate, uint16_t tolerance = Tolerance::FivePercent> | |
| static void | initialize () |
| Initializes the hardware and sets the baudrate. More... | |
| static void | setDataMode (DataMode mode) |
| Sets a new data mode. | |
| static void | setDataOrder (DataOrder order) |
| Sets a new data order. | |
| static uint8_t | acquire (void *ctx, ConfigurationHandler handler=nullptr) |
| Request access to the spi master within a context. More... | |
| static uint8_t | release (void *ctx) |
| Release access to the spi master within a context. More... | |
| static uint8_t | transferBlocking (uint8_t data) |
| Swap a single byte and wait for completion. More... | |
| static void | transferBlocking (uint8_t *tx, uint8_t *rx, std::size_t length) |
| Set the data buffers and length with options and starts a transfer. More... | |
| static xpcc::ResumableResult< uint8_t > | transfer (uint8_t data) |
| Swap a single byte and wait for completion non-blocking!. More... | |
| static xpcc::ResumableResult< void > | transfer (uint8_t *tx, uint8_t *rx, std::size_t length) |
| Set the data buffers and length with options and starts a non-blocking transfer. More... | |
| Static Public Member Functions inherited from xpcc::Peripheral | |
| template<uint32_t available, uint32_t requested, uint16_t tolerance> | |
| static void | assertBaudrateInTolerance () |
| Since baudrates are usually generated by prescaling a system clock, only several distinct values can be generated. More... | |
Static Public Attributes | |
| static const TypeId::SpiMaster3Nss | Nss |
| static const TypeId::SpiMaster3Sck | Sck |
| static const TypeId::SpiMaster3Miso | Miso |
| static const TypeId::SpiMaster3Mosi | Mosi |
Simple unbuffered implementation.
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Jose Mourinho appointed Tottenham Hotspur manager months after losing Man United job
- Jose Mourinho becomes new Tottenham Hotspur manager as he takes over from Mauricio Pochettino
- The Portuguese born tactician has been without a job since December 2018
- Spurs announced the sack of their Argentine Pochettino after a poor run of results
Former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has been appointed new Tottenham Hotspur manager until the summer of 2023.
The Portuguese tactician takes over from Argentine handler Mauricio Pochettino, who was shown the exit doors earlier this week.
Mourinho has been without a job after being fired by the Red Devils almost a year ago after too many issues with players and the club chiefs.
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The Lilywhites, however, announced through their official website that the former Inter Milan boss will be their next manager for the next three seasons.
Super Eagles star Chukwueze gets huge recognition as he is compared to Liverpool's Mane
"We are delighted to announce the appointment of Jose Mourinho as Head Coach on a contract that runs until the end of the 2022/23 season," the statement from Spurs' official website read.
Earlier this month, Mourinho was quoted to have told his close allies that he prefers to join Spurs instead of staging a return to Real Madrid.
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The two parties were said to have been in talks in the last few days but negotiations got intensified when it was sure Pochettino would be shown the exit doors.
Speaking on the new appointment, Spurs chief Daniel Levy described the Portuguese as a “tactician” who had the potential to do great things with the London club.
“In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football. He has a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician.
Iwobi opens up on what Everton manager did to improve his game against West Ham
"He has won honours at every club he has coached. We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room.” Levy said as quoted by the Spurs website.
Mourinho has won three Premier League titles during his reigns as Chelsea boss. He has also won two Champions League trophies with Porto and Inter Milan among several other titles.
Mourinho’s first assignment will be an away trip to a struggling West Ham United in a Premier League London derby.
Legit.ng earlier reported that Premier League giants Tottenham have fired their manager Mauricio Pochettino after a poor run of form with Spurs sitting 14th place on the League standings.
The north Londoners have won three out of their last twelve games, and they have also failed to get a win in their last five matches in the Premier League.
Pochettino's sacking at Tottenham brings to an end his five-and-a-half-years stay with Spurs where he has failed to win the League title or the Champions League.
Out of favour Super Eagles striker set to join Turkish champions in January on 1 condition
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Event Arguments used when a Driver connection is established inside Doctrine\DBAL\Connection.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for adding table columns are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\*Platform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for changing table columns are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\*Platform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for creating tables are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\*Platform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for removing table columns are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\*Platform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for renaming table columns are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\*Platform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when the portable column definition is generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\AbstractSchemaManager.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for creating table columns are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\AbstractPlatform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when SQL queries for creating tables are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\AbstractPlatform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when the SQL query for dropping tables are generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Platform\AbstractPlatform.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Base class for schema related events.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
Event Arguments used when the portable index definition is generated inside Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\AbstractSchemaManager.
This class contains no event data. It is used by events that do not pass state information to an event handler when an event is raised. The single empty EventArgs instance can be obtained through \Doctrine\DBAL\Event\getEmptyInstance.
MySQL Session Init Event Subscriber which allows to set the Client Encoding of the Connection.
Should be used when Oracle Server default environment does not match the Doctrine requirements.
The following environment variables are required for the Doctrine default date format:
NLS_TIME_FORMAT="HH24:MI:SS" NLS_DATE_FORMAT="YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS" NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT="YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS" NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT="YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS TZH:TZM"


The Challenges
1. Designing With Technical Constraints
When I joined the project, the company had already chosen a CMS platform. The platform’s designs, however, didn’t provide an optimal user experience. The company’s engineering team wasn’t available for this project, and without their support I was challenged to think creatively as to how to design given the constraints.
2. Rethinking Content
The 100-page IFU on which the eIFU was to be based didn’t present content clearly. Avail’s product operates in a very complex ecosystem — there are multiple user groups and subgroups and each group has access to different features and devices. To create a great experience for different users, I was challenged to completely rethink how to present content.
Uncovering Unmet User Needs
With these challenges in mind, I started reviewing information on the product and it soon became clear to me that the eIFU has the potential to serve pressing yet unmet user needs. When I asked the team about the UX issues with the current product, I learned that the team is getting a large volume of inquiries from frustrated users who were confused about the UX. A medical company like Avail can’t immediately update designs due to regulations, and I noted that the eIFU can not only serve as an electronic version of the IFU but also help resolve the usability issues that users are encountering until UX designs are updated.
Armed with this insight, I set out to first reorganize content and, second, develop wireframes. In reorganizing content, I started by writing down the list of content each user group needs and the list of questions each group is likely to have, and then refined the lists with the PM. At the same time, I started conducting a thorough review of the IFU content and asked clarifying questions to develop a nuanced understanding of the content. Finally, I developed wireframes, which we iterated multiple times per user feedback.
Designing with Technical Constraints
CSS Re-Writing
Noting that we couldn’t make any structural changes since the engineering team was unavailable, I made use of CSS rewriting to revamp designs.
Example 1: Topic Navigation
Users aren’t used to using the “Prev” and “Next” buttons on the bottom to navigate through topics. Further, A single column list of text links as buttons aren’t commonplace.
To revamp the designs, I tweaked CSS to present selections in a way that’s familiar to users.
In the final design, I added visual elements like icons and colors to create a more cohesive experience.
Iterations
We learned useful insights from sharing prototypes with users.
First, while we initially planned to offer content for Avail’s engineers, who provide technical help on-site, too, in the eIFU, we learned it’s better not to since Avail positions itself as a white-glove service provider and it’s best to take care of internal needs in a non client-facing place.
Original eIFU homepage
Final live eIFU homepage, where I deleted content for engineers (in addition, I edited CSS to apply Avail’s brand style and designed custom icons and the cover photo)
Second, we gathered useful feedback on the tone. Folks found the “I want help with…” tone (vs. simply stating the task) to be friendly and helpful, so we went with that tone.
Testing tone with users
Third, we learned valuable insights on whether to use gridview vs. listview in presenting selections. While I initially leaned towards listview, I soon learned that folks prefer gridview — they thought it looked nicer visually and liked not having to scroll down to review selections. UX research uncovers that listview works better when users are in search mode (and rely primarily on reading the text to make selections) and gridview works better when in browse mode (and rely on images to make selections). While our users are in search mode, I felt that user testers made a valid point — listview, in our case, forces users to scroll down to view selections and we went with gridview.
Testing gridview vs. listview with users
What I’ve Learned
Going in, I wasn’t aware that technical skills would be necessary on this project.
However, my familiarity with basic front-end programming turned out to be an asset in making the project a success. In a resource-strapped startup environment, unexpected situations like this can arise anytime, and I’m excited to further hone my technical skills. Further, the project confirmed the importance of having humility. As my initial preference for listview was quickly proved to be faulty, I often learn from users and the clients, who have spent more time studying the problem we're solving. So far, I've enjoyed being challenged and I'm looking forward to future opportunities to learn from others


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This is my gallery app. It was created using Django It keeps me connected to my past photos in my life. There is nothing that brings history to reality more than a captured.


You may not be great in all things…
But many things cannot be superior without
YOU
Stay special.
Show how great you are.
Create yourself
Your style
Destroy the fashion frameworks…
Be perfect …
The 21st century is a period of modern technology, scientific discoveries and absolutely spectacular fashion. Nowadays, we have already had really beneficial social networks thanks to which we can independently communicate with each other around the world mostly for free. Also, we have totally innovative apps, which are believed to be the best resources to show our life in all it beautiful and breathtaking colours. However, what application do we have to be more aware about contemporary fashion? Exactly this question has started to be the hugest inspiration for us to create the world first professional fashion network. Thanks to which a lot of people worldwide will have an opportunity to open not only modern styles and find out about new collections of their favorite brands, but also will have a chance to change themselves cardinally in all aspects.


Puss in Boots
Puss in Boots is a character in the fairy tale of the same name by French writer Charles Perrault, who served as a prototype for many films and cartoons.


Devcon3 | 2017 Conference Overview
For those of you who have experienced Devcon in the past and are looking forward to this year’s event, it should be the best one to date! This year, the Ethereum Foundation(organizer) has dedicated convention center space that accommodates close to double the capacity as last year as well as a second hall to allow for more presentations and formats.
The Foundation is pleased to continue to provide the main developers conference in the Ethereum space for a community that stands out for its shared vision, drive, enthusiasm, and involvement in both community driven open source projects as well as rapidly growing ones taking shape in many other sectors including business, trade, industry, government, education and more.
It is our hope more Ethereum community members will be able to join in Devcon, especially aspiring developers and others who may contribute to the growing and valuable pipeline for innovation and implementation.
As a developers conference, Devcon3 programming is designed to help inform, educate, update and address interests of the Ethereum R&D community, including those who are in learning about the technology to become developers or wish to know more about Ethereum development and projects supported by the Foundation as well Ethereum innovation and development being undertaken in the greater ecosystem. While the program is technical by nature, all who wish to attend are welcome!
Devcon3 I Date & Location
date: November 1-4, 2017
location: Cancún ICC (International Convention Center)
Boulevard Kukulcán KM. 9 1er Piso, Zona Hotelera, 77500 Cancún, Quintana
Roo, Mexico.（www.cancunicc.com/en/home/）
Devcon3 | agenda & presentations
Ethereum Foundation is pleased to feature presentations on research and development it supports throughout the agenda, along with Ethereum community presentations from around the world. The agenda will be evolving with additions made until the program is finalized. As in past years, the exact times and duration of presentations listed will be adjusted to create conducive groupings and flow.
Please click the following link to check the detail agenda: https://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon3/agenda/