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--- layout: post title: The 10 Most Common Teacher Complaints Against iBooks date: 2012-06-07 15:20:29.000000000 -07:00 type: post parent_id: '0' published: true pd: '' status: publish categories: - Classroom Talk - Guest Posts tags: - Apple - iBooks - ideas for parents and teachers - Teaching with iBooks - teaching with technology - technology author: login: k email: k@k display_name: mcary first_name: '' last_name: '' ---
Guest Post by Kaitlyn Cole
Share The recently announced update to Apple's iBooks app has been lauded as an incredible change for education, reinventing the textbook as we know it, and allowing teachers to become content creators like never before. The upgraded app has its fair share of fans, but there are many teachers who just aren’t buying the hype. Common complaints include the cost of investment, closed software, and even the idea that students are in need of a bigger change than just multimedia books. Read on, and we’ll expand on some of the biggest problems teachers are finding with the new iBooks app.
1. The idea that public schools can afford iPads is laughable: To iBooks many teachers are saying, in much kinder words, "Are you freaking serious? We have to make kids buy their own hand sanitizer. How are we supposed to find room in the budget for iPads?" But seriously, even though the books seem to be a steal at $14.99 or less, the hardware is the killer here. Plenty of schools are laying off teachers because they can’t pay them, so it’s laughable to think they might be able to find million dollar budgets with which they can purchase textbooks. According to CNET, a small school of just 700 students would need a grant of $350,000 just to buy iPads, and in order to fill those iPads with all the necessary books, it would be more like half a million dollars.
2. iPads are entirely too fragile for public schools:
Even if schools can somehow find a way to afford iPads for their students, can we realistically believe that students can handle such a fragile device? Even with Gorilla Glass, iPads and other similar consumer electronics are simply too easy to break, a scary thought when distributing them to the masses of young students. Even under close supervision, there’s always the very real possibility that iPads will get dropped or similarly abused, leading to costly repairs and replacement. One reviewer wonders if schools will have to employ maintenance technicians tasked solely with the purpose of fixing broken down iPads, a need that’s already sparked a growing industry.
3. Students today need more than textbooks: Others say that what students need today can’t be found in a textbook, even if it is digitally fancied up. Critics argue that textbooks are not the center of the learning experience, and that the millions of dollars school districts might spend on iPads and iBooks would be much better spent on creating a more interactive learning environment away from the screen.
4. Unless students own an iPad, books can’t go home:
As many schools can’t afford an iPad for every single student, we’ll likely see school districts purchasing shared iPads that stay at school. That means the iBooks that live in the iPad will also stay at school, posing a problem when students need to use their textbooks for studying or homework away from school. The same multimedia and text content that makes iBooks so great is simply not available for home computers, and unless students also have access to an iPad at home, they’re not going to be able to use that content away from school.
5. iPads can’t hold all the books students need:
It’s safe to assume that most schools will be happy just to afford 16GB iPads for their students, but the reality is that for iBooks to replace textbooks, it’s likely they’ll need to spring for the 32GB model. One teacher points out that with most books coming in at 1 to 2 GB each, a 16 GB will hold eight books and nothing else. That means students may not be able to fit all of the books they need for school on one device, and they won’t be able to take advantage of educational apps on their iPads, either.
6. iPads can get stolen:
So let’s assume that schools can afford iPads for every student to use and take home, fill them with all the iBooks necessary for learning, and even pick up a kid-proof cover that will protect this precious device. iPads are a hot commodity outside of education. People have a fervent desire to own one, sometimes by any means possible, and devices like the iPad are ripe for theft. Twenty-pound textbooks are not at all attractive for thieves, but if word gets out that students walking home from a certain school are likely to have an iPad in their possession, teachers worry that they may be a target for violence and robbery.
7. iBooks are not at all cross-platform:
Apple has to make money, no one is begrudging them that.  That means limited access to books that schools pay for, and an inability to have printed pages when the need for such a thing comes up in the classroom. While teachers are excited for digital textbooks, many feel that iBooks are not the answer, and instead seek a more open platform for information.
8.Paid content is often embedded:
Teachers are quite worried that they may be presented with a challenge that technology-loving parents know all too well: the possibility of purchases made from inside textbooks and apps. Students may not realize that clicking certain links or downloading content can result in a big bill, and it’s not clear what can be done to prevent this from happening.
9. No one really cares about interactive multimedia:
This does sound a little strange in a time when educators are practically foaming at the mouth for social media, iEducation, and even computer gaming in schools, but interactive media isn’t always the answer for learning. Some have pointed out that interactive textbooks are not at all a new thing: who doesn’t remember college textbooks that came with interactive extras on CD-ROMs no one even bothered to open? Teachers say that students don’t need more animations and cool tricks in their books, they need access to active learning opportunities and collaborative education.
10.Students need to find better content, not more content:
With iBooks, teachers argue that Apple is not introducing content that isn’t already out there. News Flash: Teachers have the Internet. It’s not at all difficult to curate interactive learning resources and share them with students, but it is often difficult to find the right content among everything that’s out there. Teachers don’t necessarily have a problem with iBooks offering new resources for learning, but they do worry that this is only contributing to the already overwhelming options for digital learning, while not taking into consideration the need to discover higher-quality educational content.
Kaitlyn Cole is a freelance writer for onlineuniversities. She writes Education, Book, Business related articles.


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| 12 Jan 1954 |
Howard Stern born, Jackson Heights NY. |
| 1976 |
B.A., Communications, Boston University. Magna cum laude. GPA 3.8 |
| 4 Jun 1978 |
Marries social worker Alison Berns. |
| 1993 |
Publishes autobiography, Private Parts. |
| 4 Aug 1994 |
Howard Stern withdraws his Libertarian candidacy for governor of New York, ostensibly to avoid complying with the financial disclosure laws: "I spend 25 hours a week telling you the most intimate details of my life. If you want to know how much money I make, screw you. I am never going to tell you how much money I make." |
| 1995 |
Number 1 worst dress male, in Mr. Blackwell's infamous list. |
| 1996 |
Publishes second autobiography, Miss America. |
| 25 Apr 1996 |
Divine Brown appears on Howard Stern. |
| 28 Apr 1997 |
Howard Stern surfs Rotten.com on his radio show. |
| 2 Sep 1997 |
On his radio show, Howard Stern declares: "I've been picking on the French people for 15 years. I don't like French people. I felt that during World War II, France betrayed us. I believe that what they did was the most cowardly act. That when the Nazis marched into France, the French bent over... When I was over in France recently, Americans are looked at as dirt, as filth. We are the people that liberated them during WWII. They would be Nazis, they would be under the Nazi regime right now. They should only be kissing our asses, singing our praises." |
| 8 May 1999 |
Dana Plato appears on Stern's show denying any recent drug use. The next day, she dies of an overdose. |
| 23 Oct 1999 |
Howard Stern and wife separate. |
| 2000 |
Forbes Power List, #30. |
| 2001 |
Howard Stern and wife divorce. |
| 24 Sep 2002 |
Porn actress Mary Carey submits to an IQ test on the Howard Stern show. Mary flunks, and is forced to clean Howard's toilet bowl with her hair. |
| 12 Dec 2002 |
Porn actress Mary Carey submits to another IQ test on the Howard Stern show. Mary flunks, and is again forced to clean Howard's toilet bowl with her hair. |
| 25 Feb 2004 |
Clear Channel Communications, a huge media conglomerate, takes Howard Stern off all 6 of its radio stations that carry his show (Fort Lauderdale, FL; Orlando, FL; Rochester, NY; San Diego, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; and Louisville, KY) due to alleged indecency. The allegedy indecent incident occured when a caller asked guest Richard Salomon, former boyfriend of Paris Hilton, if he had ever had sex with a famous black woman, using the "N" word. Other questions prompted by Stern regarded tapes of anal sex. |
| 6 Oct 2004 |
Howard announces he is moving his show to Sirius Satellite Radio. |
| 16 Dec 2005 |
The Howard Stern Show signs off from terrestrial radio. |
| 9 Jan 2006 |
Howard's satellite radio show begins. |


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from sklearn.utils import check_random_state
from sklearn.utils.extmath import randomized_svd, squared_norm
from math import sqrt
import numpy as np
from matrixops import normalize, tfidf
[docs]def initialize_nmf(X, n_components, init=None, eps=1e-6, random_state=None,
row_normalize=False, n_words_beam=20):
"""Algorithms for NMF initialization.
Computes an initial guess for the non-negative
rank k matrix approximation for X: X = WH
Authors for nndsvd; directly from sklearn.decomposition.nmf:
----------------
Vlad Niculae
Lars Buitinck
Mathieu Blondel<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Tom Dupre la Tour
Chih-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University
Parameters
----------
X : array-like, shape (n_samples, n_features)
The data matrix to be decomposed.
n_components : integer
The number of components desired in the approximation.
init : None | 'random' | 'smart_random' | 'nndsvd' | 'nndsvda' |
'nndsvdar' | 'coherence_pmi'
Method used to initialize the procedure.
Default: 'nndsvdar' if n_components < n_features, otherwise 'random'.
Valid options:
- 'coherence_pmi': beam search to maximize pointwise mutual information
of m words in each topic
- 'random': completely
- 'smart_random': non-negative random matrices, scaled with:
sqrt(X.mean() / n_components)
- 'nndsvd': Nonnegative Double Singular Value Decomposition (NNDSVD)
initialization (better for sparseness)
- 'nndsvda': NNDSVD with zeros filled with the average of X
(better when sparsity is not desired)
- 'nndsvdar': NNDSVD with zeros filled with small random values
(generally faster, less accurate alternative to NNDSVDa
for when sparsity is not desired)
- 'custom': use custom matrices W and H
eps : float
Truncate all values less then this in output to zero.
n_words_beam: int
number of words to use to beam search for in coherence_pmi init
random_state : int seed, RandomState instance, or None (default)
Random number generator seed control, used in 'nndsvdar' and
'random' modes.
Returns
-------
W : array-like, shape (n_samples, n_components)
Initial guesses for solving X ~= WH
H : array-like, shape (n_components, n_features)
Initial guesses for solving X ~= WH
References
----------
C. Boutsidis, E. Gallopoulos: SVD based initialization: A head start for
nonnegative matrix factorization - Pattern Recognition, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/nndsvd
"""
# check_non_negative(X, "NMF initialization")
n_samples, n_features = X.shape
if init is None:
if n_components < n_features:
init = 'nndsvd'
else:
init = 'random'
# Random initialization
if init == 'random':
rng = check_random_state(random_state)
T = rng.rand(n_components, n_features)
W = rng.rand(n_samples, n_components)
# W = normalize(W)
if row_normalize:
T = normalize(T)
return W, T
# Slightly smarter random initialization
if init == 'smart_random':
avg = np.sqrt(X.mean() / n_components)
rng = check_random_state(random_state)
H = avg * rng.randn(n_components, n_features)
W = avg * rng.randn(n_samples, n_components)
# we do not write np.abs(H, out=H) to stay compatible with
# numpy 1.5 and earlier where the 'out' keyword is not
# supported as a kwarg on ufuncs
np.abs(H, H)
np.abs(W, W)
if row_normalize:
H = normalize(H)
return W, H
# NNDSVD initialization
U, S, V = randomized_svd(X, n_components, random_state=random_state)
W, H = np.zeros(U.shape), np.zeros(V.shape)
# The leading singular triplet is non-negative
# so it can be used as is for initialization.
W[:, 0] = np.sqrt(S[0]) * np.abs(U[:, 0])
H[0, :] = np.sqrt(S[0]) * np.abs(V[0, :])
for j in range(1, n_components):
x, y = U[:, j], V[j, :]
# extract positive and negative parts of column vectors
x_p, y_p = np.maximum(x, 0), np.maximum(y, 0)
x_n, y_n = np.abs(np.minimum(x, 0)), np.abs(np.minimum(y, 0))
# and their norms
x_p_nrm, y_p_nrm = _norm(x_p), _norm(y_p)
x_n_nrm, y_n_nrm = _norm(x_n), _norm(y_n)
m_p, m_n = x_p_nrm * y_p_nrm, x_n_nrm * y_n_nrm
# choose update
if m_p > m_n:
u = x_p / x_p_nrm
v = y_p / y_p_nrm
sigma = m_p
else:
u = x_n / x_n_nrm
v = y_n / y_n_nrm
sigma = m_n
lbd = np.sqrt(S[j] * sigma)
W[:, j] = lbd * u
H[j, :] = lbd * v
W[W < eps] = 0
H[H < eps] = 0
if init == "nndsvd":
pass
elif init == "nndsvda":
avg = X.mean()
W[W == 0] = avg
H[H == 0] = avg
elif init == "nndsvdar":
rng = check_random_state(random_state)
avg = X.mean()
W[W == 0] = abs(avg * rng.randn(len(W[W == 0])) / 100)
H[H == 0] = abs(avg * rng.randn(len(H[H == 0])) / 100)
else:
raise ValueError(
'Invalid init parameter: got %r instead of one of %r' % (
init, (None, 'random', 'nndsvd', 'nndsvda', 'nndsvdar')))
if row_normalize:
# W = normalize(W)
H = normalize(H)
return W, H
[docs]def init_coherence_beam_search(X, n_components, n_words_beam=20):
"""Initialize the topics using beam search to maximize coherence defined
by pointwise mutual information"""
X = normalize(tfidf(X))
C = np.dot(X.T, X)
k = n_components
[n, d] = X.shape
P_i = np.log(C.sum(1) + np.spacing(1))
P_ij = np.log(C + np.spacing(1))
xs = X.sum(0)
T = []
for t in range(k):
j = np.argmax(xs)
xs[j] = 0 # dont use this test again
tpc = [j]
for i in range(1, n_words_beam):
best_score = -1 * np.inf
best_word = None
for jj in range(d):
if xs[jj] > 0: # this word is still available
score_jj = 0
for c in tpc:
score_jj += P_ij[jj, c] - P_i[jj] - P_i[c]
if score_jj > best_score:
best_score = score_jj
best_word = jj
tpc.append(best_word)
xs[best_word] = 0 # dont use this word again
T.append(tpc)
J = T
xs = X.sum(0)
T = np.zeros((k, d))
for t in range(k):
tpc = J[t]
for j in tpc:
# wt of word in a topic proportional to its global importance
T[t, j] = xs[j]
T = normalize(T)
W = normalize(np.maximum(np.dot(X, T.T), 0))
return W, T
def _norm(x):
"""Dot product-based Euclidean norm implementation
See: http://fseoane.net/blog/2011/computing-the-vector-norm/
"""
return sqrt(squared_norm(x))


"Many publishing environments need to support multiple languages. In many cases, the requirement to support multiple languages surfaces in later stages of a product development or publishing solution, which can cause major design changes, driving up costs. Internationalization (I18N) is the approach to design systems which can adapt to different locales. Localization (L10N) is the activity to identify, define, and encode locales, based on internationalized software." - Web-Based Publishing
This is a small demo of how i18n support is handled in a JPublish application.
| Hello World in: | French |
| Greek | |
| Romanian | |
| Spanish | |
| German | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | |
| English |


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pymerkle.proof module¶
Provides the main class for proof objects and related functionalities
-
class
pymerkle.proof.
proof
(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶ Bases:
object
Base class for the
proof
objectBasic purpose of this class is to organize the provided proof data in a nicely formatted dictionary, so that they can be handled by the
validations
module.Parameters: - generation (str) – Should be
'SUCCESS'
or'FAILURE'
plus explanation message, according to whether or not a proof path could indeed be generated by the provider Merkle-tree - provider (str) – uuid of the provider Merkle-tree
- hash_type (str) – Hash type of the provider Merkle-tree
- security (bool) – Security mode of the provider Merkle-tree
- encoding (str) – Encoding type of the provider Merkle-tree
- proof_index (int) – Path index where the validation procedure should start from
- proof_path (list of (+1/-1, bytes)) – Path of signed hashes
Note
Required Merkle-tree parameters (
hash_type
,security
andencoding
) are necessary for proof validation (cf. thepymerkle.validations
module)Instead of providing the above arguments corresponding to *args, a
proof
object may also be constructed in the following ways by employing **kwargs in order to load the JSON string of a given proofp
:>>> from pymerkle.proof import proof >>> q = proof(from_json=p.JSONstring()) >>> r = proof(from_dict=json.loads(p.JSONstring()))
Note
Constructing proofs in the above ways is a genuine replication, since the constructed proofs
q
andr
have the same uuuid and timestamps asp
Variables: - header – (dict) Contains the keys uuid, generation, timestamp, creation_moment, provider, hash_type, encoding, security and status (see below)
- header.uuid – (str) uuid of the proof (time-based)
- header.generation – (bool)
True
orFalse
according to whether or not a proof path could indeed be generated by the provider Merkle-tree - header.timestamp – (str) Creation moment (msecs) from the start of time
- header.creation_moment – (str) Creation moment in human readable form
- header.provider – (str) uuid of the provider Merkle-tree
- header.hash_type – (str) Hash type of the provider Merkle-tree
- header.encoding – (str) Encoding type of the provider Merkle-tree
- header.security – (bool) Security mode of the provider Merkle-tree
- header.status – (bool)
True
resp.False
if the proof was found to be valid, resp. invalid after the last validation. If no validation has yet been performed, then it isNone
. - body – (dict) Contains the keys proof_index, proof_path (see below)
- body.proof_index – (int) See the homonymous argument of the constructor
- body.proof_path – (list of (+1/-1, bytes)) See the homonymous argument of the constructor
- generation (str) – Should be
-
class
pymerkle.proof.
proofEncoder
(*, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, allow_nan=True, sort_keys=False, indent=None, separators=None, default=None)[source]¶ Bases:
json.encoder.JSONEncoder
Used implicitly in the JSON serialization of proofs. Extends the built-in JSON encoder for data structures.


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Facial Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning
Emojify is great way to learn about expressions that can help people communicate in a non-traditional way that provides some comfort for people just learning about human expressions, app developers or companies looking to update the chat box options that they currently have in place. We will be performing a deep dive of existing data using machine learning.
Team Members:
Alciluz Gomez
Dan Larson
Phillip Ogborn
Altricia Latimer
Data Story
The data consists of 48x48 pixel grayscale images of faces. The faces have been automatically registered so that the face is more or less centered and occupies about the same amount of space in each image.
The task is to categorize each face based on the emotion shown in the facial expression into one of seven categories (0=Angry, 1=Disgust, 2=Fear, 3=Happy, 4=Sad, 5=Surprise, 6=Neutral). The training set consists of 28,709 examples and the public test set consists of 3,589 examples.


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THE AVENGERS (1998) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1998 Ted Prigge
Director: Jeremiah Chechik Writer: Don MacPherson Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent, Fiona Shaw, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins, John Wood, Patrick Macnee
People who know me will be surprised to discover that I've never watched a second of this show, and not at all surprised to discover that I'm dying to finally get a glimpse of it. One would think that in theory I could get a neat glimpse into what the show was like by watching a movie based on it, but such is the magic of the Hollywood machine. Unless the show is really a huge mess with a scattered, confusing plot, lots of bad puns, and only a couple cool moments...oh, and some neato fashion.
Okay, it's not that bad. But it's close. "The Avengers" is only made better if you're not a fan of the cult hit TV show from the 60s, where you'd probably be appalled if you saw what has been done with it, unless the show was really this mediocre. Since I have nothing but lots of good word of mouth about how cool the show was, I have no way of knowing how faithful it is. I just know that it made me want to see how cool the original TV show was since Hollywood doesn't exactly have a good track record with bringing TV shows to the big screen.
All I know of the show is what I know from reading and listening to fans, and what I know is this: the Avengers of the title are a pair of secret agents working for the British government with the job of stopping criminal masterminds that plague the country. While the heroines changed (the most popular being Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg), the hero, John Steed (played by Patrick Macnee), was always the same. Steed was a master of suaveness, and with his proper dress, fashionable hat, and umbrella always in hand, he was a master of the dapper...or so I'm told.
The film brings back those two, with amazing actor Ralph Fiennes playing Steed, and also amazing actress Uma Thurman playing Peel, and the film gives us an introduction to them. As like every TV show film adaptation, this film is designed to launch a franchise and a whole slew of sequels a la Batman, and like all of the spin-offs, this feels like more of a trite introduction than an actual good film, which the original "Batman" film was. We get a half-assed case to introduce the characters, and generally give us a good feel about them, but this film exacts the point that many of these films just don't care about their plots.
Here's this one: a billionaire named August de Wynter (Sean Connery, finally playing a spy-like villain) has decided to make England pay for their weather by designing a device that controls it. It's up to Steed and Peel to stop them. It's not the best plot (actually, it sounds disturbingly a lot like the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns blocks out the sun with a machine and tries to get the town of Springfield to pay for it), but it could have at least been easy to follow.
The chief complaint I have with this film is it's not done yet. I swear to god this film has scenes missing, as if some NYU student got a hold of it and cut it up a bit so that it would be less presentable. Not only do simple things, like the explanation for a second Emma Peel and the motive for August's actions, never become clear at all, but this film has gaping plot holes that cause this film to make little to no sense. Why does August's henchman (Eddie Izzard, most likely the next Dr.  Beats me, but it sure annoyed me.
Actually, it's not too horrible. The film choses an interesting path to chose: instead of worrying about plot, it decides to set a certain mood. And for the first half of this film, we get to kind of just hang with Steed and Peel as they get to know eachother and flirt unsubtely. Fiennes is a terrific actor, and he pumps up the charm as high as he can get it, making Steed a wonderfully likable spy. Even an Avengers-fan/friend of mine pointed out that he was after all a great choice for playing Steed. Meanwhile Thurman isn't bad, although not as interesting as Fiennes. She just never finds the exact note for her performance. Still, the first half is fun to watch, and I was rather entertained albeit very clueless to what was going on.
By the end, though, it had begun to resemble one of the worst of the annoying TV show film adaptations, "Batman and Robin," where they had crossed from light camp into total lampooning. Both the end of "The Avengers" and the entirety of "Batman and Robin" rely on bad jokes, witless humor, and annoying and badly-executed action sequences to "carry" them. So what do we get for watching the first hour or so of this film? A boring and blessedly trite attack by Steed and Peel on the fortress of August, with a sword fight (sorta) and a whole lotta water. And following that, a rip off of the ending of a James Bond movie. Ugh.
I have to admit, though, I actually did like some of this movie. I loved Ralph Fiennes performance, and was pretty into Thurman's as well (though I suspect I'll fall in love with Diana Rigg like everyone else who saw the show did). I laughed at several of the jokes (especially August's note to the British Government: "I'll make the weather so cold that you all will have to go to hell to warm up), and appreciated that they at least let actors like the great Jim Broadbent and a hilarious, Tommy Gun yielding Eileen Atkins do some good British humor schtick. But I wouldn't reccomend it.
MY RATING (out of 4): **
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To keep things simple, we assume, as we have for binary search trees and red-black trees, that any "satellite information" associated with a key is stored in the same node as the key. In practice, one might actually store with each key just a pointer to another disk page containing the satellite information for that key. The pseudocode in this chapter implicitly assumes that the satellite information associated with a key, or the pointer to such satellite information, travels with the key whenever the key is moved from node to node. A common variant on a B-tree, known as a B+- tree, stores all the satellite information in the leaves and stores only keys and child pointers in the internal nodes, thus maximizing the branching factor of the internal nodes.
A B-tree T is a rooted tree (whose root is root[T]) having the following properties:
Every node x has the following fields:
n[x], the number of keys currently stored in node x,
the n[x] keys themselves, stored in nondecreasing order, so that key1[x] ≤ key2[x] ≤ ··· ≤ keyn[x][x],
leaf [x], a boolean value that is TRUE if x is a leaf and FALSE if x is an internal node.
Each internal node x also contains n[x]+ 1 pointers c1[x], c2[x], ..., cn[x]+1[x] to its children. Leaf nodes have no children, so their ci fields are undefined.
The keys keyi[x] separate the ranges of keys stored in each subtree: if ki is any key stored in the subtree with root ci [x], then
k1 ≤ key1[x] ≤ k2 ≤ key2[x] ≤··· ≤ keyn[x][x] ≤ kn[x]+1.
All leaves have the same depth, which is the tree's height h.
There are lower and upper bounds on the number of keys a node can contain. These bounds can be expressed in terms of a fixed integer t ≥ 2 called the minimum degree of the B-tree:
Every node other than the root must have at least t - 1 keys. Every internal node other than the root thus has at least t children. If the tree is nonempty, the root must have at least one key.
Every node can contain at most 2t - 1 keys. Therefore, an internal node can have at most 2t children. We say that a node is full if it contains exactly 2t - 1 keys.[1]
The simplest B-tree occurs when t = 2. Every internal node then has either 2, 3, or 4 children, and we have a 2-3-4 tree. In practice, however, much larger values of t are typically used.
The number of disk accesses required for most operations on a B-tree is proportional to the height of the B-tree. We now analyze the worst-case height of a B-tree.
If n ≥ 1, then for any n-key B-tree T of height h and minimum degree t ≥ 2,
Proof If a B-tree has height h, the root contains at least one key and all other nodes contain at least t - 1 keys. Thus, there are at least 2 nodes at depth 1, at least 2t nodes at depth 2, at least 2t2 nodes at depth 3, and so on, until at depth h there are at least 2th-1 nodes. Figure 18.4 illustrates such a tree for h = 3. Thus, the number n of keys satisfies the inequality
By simple algebra, we get th ≤ (n + 1)/2. Taking base-t logarithms of both sides proves the theorem.
Here we see the power of B-trees, as compared to red-black trees. Although the height of the tree grows as O(lg n) in both cases (recall that t is a constant), for B-trees the base of the logarithm can be many times larger. Thus, B-trees save a factor of about lg t over red-black trees in the number of nodes examined for most tree operations. Since examining an arbitrary node in a tree usually requires a disk access, the number of disk accesses is substantially reduced.
[1]Another common variant on a B-tree, known as a B*-tree, requires each internal node to be at least 2/3 full, rather than at least half full, as a B-tree requires.
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30 January 1999
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1 February 1999
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28 January 1999
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18 January 1999
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13 January 1999
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Recent changes to my pages
12 January 1999
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11 January 1999
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10 January 1999
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7 January 1999
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and reorganized the Candidates section (help wanted for better classification)
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23 December 1998
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15 December 1998
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1 December 1998
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24 November 1998
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21 November 1998
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17 November 1998
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Collection of Future links by Joel de Rosnay
to the
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Organizations page.
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Technoprophets
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Fixed Web searches on thinkers page.
15 November 1998
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Z Corporation - manufacturer of 3D printers - to the
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12 November 1998
Added
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly
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Games and Entertainment page.
10 November 1998
Added
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MAPS Forum
(International psychedelic discussion group) to the
mailing lists guide
Updated Web services page,
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More HTML and link fixes all over the site.
28 October 1998
Added a bunch of new links, deleted old ones, redid the ads, added
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25 October 1998
Added Animal liberation mailing list
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Considerable cleanup of the site.
2 October 1998
Added link to Dewey B. Larson
to the thinkers page, and new
link to Patrik Gunkel.
24 September 1998
Added
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to the
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mailing lists guide.
10 September 1998
Added Temple of Inner light - Psychedelic church
and Organizations page
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10 August 1998
Cleaned up the site, updated stale links, added new links to
thinkers,
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Added Russian 3rd Millenium site to
Russian and Future pages.
Added
Jason's Freethinking Polymath pages
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7 May 1998
Added URLs for Patrik Gunkel (author of ideonomy),
C. S. Peirce (American philosopher, pragmatist),
Chris Langton (father of ALife), and
Gregory Bateson (anthropologist, early memeticist)
to the
thinkers page.
3 May 1998
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31 March 1998
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10 March 1998
Added
Transhuman technology page
to AI links
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to my mailing lists guide.
Added
World Transhumanist Association
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2 March 1998
Updated my resume
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Replaced Chomsky with Natasha Vita More (after having listened to both),
fixed links to Vernadsky and Sri Aurobindo, added link to an interesting account
of the life of
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Added HEDG - Hyper-Economy Development Group
to the Organizations page
23 February 1998
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17 February 1998
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The Dust List to the humor page
11 February 1998
Added Extropy Online
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The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
to the index of periodicals
1 February 1998
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21 January 1998
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19 January 1998
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6 January 1998
Added an essay The Society of Mind
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hyper-economy.
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massage books
4 January 1998
Added links to
Karl Marx
and
Vladimir Lenin to the Thinkers page.
To the Kooks and Villains section, of course ;-)
Added Seth Russell's
AI Conjecture and
AI links
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Cato Institute
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28 December 1997
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22 December 1997
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16 December 1997
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Added AIVR corporation to
AI/VR and fun pages
14 December 1997
Integrated the site with MetaSearch and ClickTrade in various ways.
If the site can make enough money with ads to cover its own promotion,
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12 December 1997
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METASEARCH
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11 December 1997
Updated stukach page with recent developments.
Added a couple of nice references at the end of the
hypereconomy essay
9 December 1997
Added ClickTrade and
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Added MIT Extropians page to
appropriate pages.
Added Stukach page to
Russian resources
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29 November 1997
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Transhumanist Art Center
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World Future society page
28 November 1997
Added a few things to the humor page.
Included
Adamantine Press into the
World Future society page
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26 November 1997
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various methods of achieving higher visibility of my pages,
with a zero cost; hope they are not too annoying).
20 November 1997
Added Hayek List
to the maling lists page
16 November 1997
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Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific
Biography to the thinkers page
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future links and
periodicals.
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Markets and computation: Agoric Open Systems by Mark S. Miller and
K. Eric Drexler to the essays page.
Included more canddates into Thinkers page. It needs major redesign...
10 November 1997
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5 November 1997
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1 November 1997
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Rate of Human problems
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to the Intelligent humor page
30 October 1997
Added participation page
Added Phil Goetz
to the Bostropians page
26 October 1997
Added Kooks museum to appropriate pages.
TrafficX Exchange
to the Web services page
Added European IQ test
to the Education page
17 October 1997
In the last few days, updated links all over the site.
Some extra additions to Thinkers page,
and a number of new buttons for backlinks and notification.
Also, shrank most of the site graphics, to load pages faster and decrease
the load on the server. Please tell me if anything is broken.
10 October 1997
Added
Humorous computer quotes from some famous software people
to the humor page
5 October 1997
Added
Animated backgrounds page - hope it will become popular
28 September 1997
Added College admission essay
to the humor page
Added the first draft of a new essay, on
technology and human architecture,
to the essays page.
18 September 1997
Put online a
draft proposal for the Thinkers site development
to solicit people's comments.
7 September 1997
Added
Boston Mycological club
to the Boston page;
Added several "candidates" to the Thinkers page
Updated my Essays page
15 August 1997
Added Novelty Theory mailing list
to the mailing lists guide.
13 August 1997
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The Vision Center for Futures Creation
to the World Future Society page.
Added CRIT mediator and
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27 July 1997
Added
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to the mailing lists guide
Fixed my humor essay - text was broken.
Added Martial Arts TV Network
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21 July 1997
Added
Alan Turing
to the thinkers page.
16 July 1997
Added books to the massage page, updated
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Added a dosen book subpages to the thinkers page.
26 June 1997
Added a brief text on Aerial robotics
to my Essays page .
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GENIUS-L
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25 June 1997
Added MERL
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
to the organizations page.
Added Signposts Timeline
- predictions of human future for the next 600 years
to the World Future Society page.
20 June 1997
Updated Metadata information in most pages.
Added Snapshots The Cartoon
to the humor page.
17 June 1997
Added
Han Huang
to the list of bostropians
Added Friedrich Hayek
to Thinkers page
Put Paleopsychology Manifesto online.
Updated the Semantic Web proposal
15 June 1997
Added
Information Society Project Office of the European Commission.
to the organizations page.
Added my vCard
to my personal page
Updated my resume, it's now in HTML.
Added info on
The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
to appropriate pages.
12 June 1997
Added AI Intelligence
to AI page
Updated Essays, AI and
events pages.
Started writing the Semantic Web proposal
10 June 1997
Added
to the World Future Society page.
Updated my personal page,
resume, and some essays.
9 June 1997
Added Science Fiction Worlds of Jeffrey A. Carver
to the Hot links page
Restructured and expanded the main page
Updated Institute of Memetic Engineering page.
Added Global Brain mailing list and
Boston-raves mailing list
to the mailing lists page
Added some candidates to Great Thinkers and visionaries page.
22 May 1997
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9 May 1997
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World Future Society page.
9 May 1997
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history) and
PSYCHE list
to the mailing lists page
Added Scenarios, Inc
to the
World Future society page.
23 April 1997
This is my first day on the 2-month sabbatical from my work.
Hopefully I will have time to improve my website.
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League for Programming Freedom to the
organizations page.
18 April 1997
Added
EFFector Online
to references and periodicals page.
Added
Contemporary Renaissance Futures to the
World Future society page.
15 March 1997
Added several book links to the thinkers page.
9 March 1997
A list of my co-authors on the upcoming book from American
Library Association is now available at
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/refs/ALAbook.html
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to the thinkers page.
Added reference to
Augmented Reality page
where it belongs.
Added
to the Organizations page.
7 March 1997
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my essays page
22 February 1997
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to my essays page
18 February 1997
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Updated essay on Automated Collaborative Filtering
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15 February 1997
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these are the things that inspire me and shape me as a human being.
"An algorithm must be seen to be believed"
"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
"I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age."
"how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
"Heres to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
Theyre not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.
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NPA advocate killed in court shooting accident was looking forward to spending time with family
by Kaveel SinghIn her final days, slain senior State advocate Addelaid Ann Ferreira-Watt took to social media and expressed her desire to head back home, spend time with family and even possibly retire.
Ferreira-Watt, who was fierce in the courtroom and a familiar name in the South African art community, was killed in a freak shooting in the Umzimkhulu Magistrate's Court on Monday.
READ | Shattered and heartbroken: Tributes pour in for top state advocate Ferreira-Watt
A firearm, thought to be a shotgun used for evidence in a house robbery, somehow went off, injuring the 51-year-old on her hip. She died later in hospital.
The police said they were investigating a case of culpable homicide.
In one of her final Facebook posts on November 12, just days before her death, she was down and seemingly unhappy about travelling to work. Her tone was that of frustration.
"Dispirited here in the valley of Ixopo and Umzimkhulu. Difficult to get things going. Think it's time to hang up my boots."
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READ | Prominent NPA advocate dies after court shooting accident
Between her many musings and sharing of art pieces, Ferreira-Watt posted again, this time a day before her death.
In this Facebook post, she lamented her return to the area.
"Back to Ixopo and Umzimkhulu to go on with a farm murder case."
But she was looking forward to the year-end. She described herself as a real homebody. "Love it. Beautiful week for everyone," she said.
Tributes poured in for the well-loved prosecutor on Tuesday from the art world, legal fraternity and general public.
Her final Facebook post - of a young girl holding a red balloon that floats away as she lets it go - was filled with mourners expressing their shock at the loss of such a valuable advocate.
"[She was] always encouraging us and making us feel our best. She managed to enter the hearts of our homes and touched each of our lives in a very specific way," said Sonja Nel of Sonja Nel Paintings.
"We salute you our dear friend. Our hearts are very sore and heavy today as we are saying our goodbyes. Words are too few to express our loss. May you rest in peace."
Adriaan Boshoff Junior commented on her final Facebook post that Ferreira-Watt was a "wonderful friend over the years and will be dearly missed by myself and the South African art community".
"She was a passionate and fiery soul. Her enthusiastic light will burn in our hearts forever. Condolences to her daughter, family and friends."
'Pending criminal investigation'
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Kholiswa Mdhuli, who confirmed the circumstances surrounding her death on Monday evening, said in a statement that Ferreira-Watt had served approximately 27 years as a senior State advocate.
"There is a pending criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the discharge of the firearm in court.
"At this stage, due to the investigations proceeding in the matter, we are unable to provide further details about the incident."
Mdhuli said the NPA staff in KZN were mourning the passing of their friend and colleague.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker, who was also scant on details, said the case was still being investigated.
He said investigations were at a "sensitive stage".


Update for Realme 5 Pro in Europe brings Nightscape for the selfie cam
by PeterThe Realme 5 Pro is receiving a camera-focused update. Version RMX1971EX_11_A.13 is currently rolling out in Europe after arriving in India last week. Here’s what’s new.
The selfie camera gains Nightscape mode. The rear camera should also perform better in the dark thanks to some additional tweaking (it already had Nightscape). The image clarity in general should be improved and if you’ve experienced a reddish tint in some of your photos, that should be fixed now too.
Playing Arena of Valor should result in fewer dropped frames with this update, which also reduces power usage while watching video.
This update will move your Realme 5 Pro up to the November 2019 security patch. The software is still based on Color OS 6.0, though, the plan is to skip 6.1 and jump straight to v7.0.
You should be getting a notification for the over-the-air update soon. If can’t wait, you can follow the Source link where you’ll find a manual download and instructions on how to install the update.


China maker Huaqin lands notebook orders from Acer, Asustek, says report
by Steve Shen, DIGITIMES, TaipeiChina-based handset maker Hauqin Telecom Technology has ventured into the notebook ODM business by securing orders for entry-level and mid-range notebooks from Acer and Asustek Computer, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News report.
This is the first time that Taiwan-based notebook vendors have released orders to a China-based ODM, having previously relied solely on Taiwan-based manufacturing partners, including Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics.
Established since 2005, Hauqin is currently one of the top-two handset ODMs in China, and the company's ODM handset shipments are expected to reach 90 million units in 2019, up from 84 million units shipped a year earlier, noted the report.
With assistance from Intel, Huaqin began to tap into the notebook ODM business in 2016 and also received investment funds from the US chipmaker at the end of 2017. It shipped 1.5 million ODM notebooks in 2018 with the volume to increase to 4.2 million units in 2019, said the report.


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<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>My HTML Page</title>
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tags.
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.
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tags we put fairly obligatory information like the charset or character set of the text, the title of the page and a link to the stylesheet for your page. if you import fonts from Google Fonts or use Javascript files in your page, you would also link to them in this section.
IMPORTANT: Nothing in the
section will be rendered on the actual HTML page. this is just information for how the page will be rendered and accessed by browsers and databases.
the actual content of your webpage lives between the

tags. here are some standard HTML elements you can use to organize your content within the body:

is used to enclose paragraphs.my link
is used to create links to other web pages.

is used do do different sizes of heading text. for example, the largest heading size would be

and the smallest is

.
embeds images in the page. the alt attribute is for text to be used if the image can't be loaded or for people using Accessibility Services to listen to the website. Width and height are self-explanatory. the src or source attribute is the only
required one; the rest are optional.some elements are a bit more complicated--for example, the <video>
and <audio>
elements.
here is a typical use of the <video>
element:
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
You probably recognize some of the attributes from the image tag, like src and width/height. however, things are structured a bit differently with video. for example, you can use the autoplay attribute to make the video start playing automatically. additionally, the source URLs are nested inside the video element in <source>
tags and paired with unique types. this is so that your browser picks the right video format for your computer. If all else fails, it will display the text instead.
the <audio>
element works similarly.
<audio controls>
<source src="horse.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
<source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
the controls attribute means that transport controls (play, pause, etc) will be displayed on the page. controls can be used with the video element as well, just as autoplay can be used with audio. other attributes you can use include loop, muted and preload.
if you wrote your whole website in just HTML, it would work just fine but it would look really ugly-- without custom CSS, websites are usually just rendered in Times New Roman on a white background, left-aligned. instead, we can write a style sheet to make our website look however we want it to!
here's the standard syntax for stylesheets:
body {
background-color: blue;
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
p {
font-size: 12px;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: yellow;
}
a:hover {
background-color: red;
}
this would display our website with a blue background and using the font Helvetica. our main

text would be 12 pixels high and our links would be yellow and have no underline--when we hover over them with the mouse, they would get a red highlight.
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YoBit Pump in 22 hrs: https://t.co/RIbW7OhKzM
We will buy one random coin for 1 btc every 1-2 mins 10 times (total buy amount - 10 btc).
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snowdamn10-Oct-18 04:04 PM
if December 2017 was highest ATHs ever for cryptos, will need to call suicide hotline
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 04:05 PM
Muh dremz
Can’t put the cat back in the bag
snowdamn10-Oct-18 04:06 PM
imma find the cat and take it with me
they're posting cute cat memes in #safespace and we're hanging them in #talk-trading
LOL
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 04:17 PM
I was banned from #safespace(edited)
Much like no z->t transactions in ARRR
No hollow in safe space
SHossain10-Oct-18 04:23 PM
create your own safespace @Hollowman9000
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 04:23 PM
I’m already here
SHossain10-Oct-18 04:24 PM
that is true too
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 04:25 PM
Can’t ignore the reason for the season though, it was @ComputerGenie 👴👴👴
bpkdasbaum10-Oct-18 04:25 PM
what i don't understand though. Who is selling his bags at ~17-19? Unless you bought right at 14/15 and made some little profit from that. Seems kinda meh.
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 04:27 PM
ICO whales? Who knows
Every bottom needs dumpers
I dumped my waves for fiat needs
Probably asking the same question over there
Meh
KMD>Waves
actionslacks10-Oct-18 04:31 PM
Holy shit, where did that volume come from?
ComputerGenie 👴👴👴10-Oct-18 04:34 PM
setting aside recent events, is 45k really a "lot" of volume?
snowdamn10-Oct-18 04:36 PM
@bpkdasbaum profits in fiat terms
small but still
wait, 9x might not be that small
was it more?
 Hard to count that low.

ComputerGenie 👴👴👴10-Oct-18 05:11 PM
better them buying than me
Japesmith10-Oct-18 05:13 PM
Cryptox.pl !
Kitchen Table10-Oct-18 05:13 PM
Nearly 95% of all KMD trading at the time was on Bittrex and they disabled deposit/withdraws the moment they were informed so that left the hacker to find another avenue to dump it.
It was cryptox. I forgot the name of the exchange, but no one worked on the weekends so it was the only exchange for the hacker to use because of that.
ryman11210-Oct-18 05:51 PM
I fell asleep in #safespace it was amazing kittens and puppies and rainbows.  Triggered!
1
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 05:53 PM
7 colors? There isn’t a color for each gender?
Bigot
ryman11210-Oct-18 05:54 PM
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 05:54 PM
I identify as mailbox fluid, I also sometimes identify as an attack helicopter
The @Blockstream team is excited to announce the #LiquidNetwork is now live with 23 members! Liquid enables fast, secure, and confidential transactions, along with digital asset issuance on the world's first production #Bitcoin #sidechain.  https://t.co/hWkU...
We are excited to announce that the Liquid Network is now live. As the world’s first production Bitcoin sidechain, the Liquid Network provides fast, secure, ...
but but, credit cards!
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 08:00 PM
“EOF teacher (code 1)”
Wat is
Komodod running an asset chain
Several times I’ve gotten this error
Probably useless info there
Komodod keeps shutting itself down after awhile
blubbi10-Oct-18 08:19 PM
no thanks dude
Hollowman900010-Oct-18 08:24 PM
Never knew there were so many bitcoin forks
Had some dust left on yobit
Too little to sell
Yobit dice it is
Cryptoon10-Oct-18 08:31 PM
Ill have to check how much dex is going for lately but I think I can offer 5k pirate for your dex @blubbi
Not behind a computer atm, but if interested remind me tomorrow and we can talk
tolken10-Oct-18 09:23 PM
Mmm, DEX.
polycryptoblog10-Oct-18 09:25 PM
I read that in Homer Simpson voice
1
siu - Chainmakers10-Oct-18 09:32 PM
Seriously, how they even call liquid a btc sidechain? What op code is being used? How is it related to btc?


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From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
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 When |xue dies he resembles the |ou (and has horns). As |xue lies there dead his wives see him and come and pick him up and carry him to the house. The elder (or 'greater') wife makes a fire to cook the kid, and puts his body on the fire. |xue calls out, objecting to being put on the fire. The second wife takes |xue to her house and covers him with a kaross. He bites it and becomes a kid again.  He becomes an ant and bites his second wife. His wife crushes his ant's head and throws |xue down on the ground.
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1) p.9298v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); |xue was a !kun, 2) p.9303v: a race of people called the |ka kue who are like the |nani; they kill the Makoba as well as !kun; they use bows but not guns and come from the same country as the Shimbari and the |nani, 3) p.9306v: the !kun name for 'thinking-strings', 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4
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Chapter 7 Comparisons
** Under Construction **
This chapter will compare the effectiveness of the methods developped in the previous two chapters, and compare them to more basic approaches to identifying students at-risk.
For example, we know that some CEGEPs have implemented a policy whereby they identify students as being at risk based on their mid-term assessments: if the student receives a certain number of “at-risk” or “failing” results, they are automatically sent an email referring them to academic support services.
Based on this, we can ask the following research questions : - how effective is this approach at identifying students who drop-out? - how does this approach compare to our models from the previous chapters?
We begin with a basic logistic regression with demographic variables, and as well as the number of each type of results of mid-term assessment, for students in their last term at the college. With these predictors, we try to predict if students are about to graduate, or simply not register again.
| Estimate | Std. Error | z value | Pr(>|z|) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| num_pass | 0.5877 | 0.02321 | 25.32 | 1.747e-141 |
| num_at_risk | 1.455 | 0.03664 | 39.7 | 0 |
| num_failing | 2.193 | 0.04653 | 47.15 | 0 |
| num_courses | -0.7442 | 0.02373 | -31.36 | 6.315e-216 |
| SexeM | 0.2111 | 0.0386 | 5.469 | 4.537e-08 |
| birth_placeQuebec | -0.5914 | 0.04815 | -12.28 | 1.108e-34 |
| LangueMaternelleAU | -0.193 | 0.05173 | -3.731 | 0.0001907 |
| LangueMaternelleFR | 0.3504 | 0.04914 | 7.13 | 1.006e-12 |
| (Intercept) | 0.5654 | 0.0694 | 8.147 | 3.741e-16 |
(Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1 )
| Null deviance: | 24452 on 18370 degrees of freedom |
| Residual deviance: | 17188 on 18362 degrees of freedom |


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Test queries in the Xpath test bed:
Works in Firefox and Chrome.
| CSS | Xpath | ? |
|---|---|---|
h1 |
//h1 |
? |
div p |
//div//p |
? |
ul > li |
//ul/li |
? |
ul > li > a |
//ul/li/a |
|
div > * |
//div/* |
|
| —- | —- | – |
:root |
/ |
? |
:root > body |
/body |
{: .xp}
| CSS | Xpath | ? |
|---|---|---|
#id |
//*[@id="id"] |
? |
.class |
//*[@class="class"] …kinda |
|
input[type="submit"] |
//input[@type="submit"] |
|
a#abc[for="xyz"] |
//a[@id="abc"][@for="xyz"] |
? |
a[rel] |
//a[@rel] |
|
| —- | —- | – |
a[href^='/'] |
//a[starts-with(@href, '/')] |
? |
a[href$='pdf'] |
//a[ends-with(@href, '.pdf')] |
|
a[href*='://'] |
//a[contains(@href, '://')] |
|
a[rel~='help'] |
//a[contains(@rel, 'help')] …kinda |
{: .xp}
| CSS | Xpath | ? |
|---|---|---|
ul > li:first-child |
//ul/li[1] |
? |
ul > li:nth-child(2) |
//ul/li[2] |
|
ul > li:last-child |
//ul/li[last()] |
|
li#id:first-child |
//li[@id="id"][1] |
|
a:first-child |
//a[1] |
|
a:last-child |
//a[last()] |
{: .xp}
| CSS | Xpath | ? |
|---|---|---|
h1 ~ ul |
//h1/following-sibling::ul |
? |
h1 + ul |
//h1/following-sibling::ul[1] |
|
h1 ~ #id |
//h1/following-sibling::[@id="id"] |
{: .xp}
| CSS | Xpath | ? |
|---|---|---|
$('ul > li').parent() |
//ul/li/.. |
? |
$('li').closest('section') |
//li/ancestor-or-self::section |
|
$('a').attr('href') |
//a/@href |
? |
$('span').text() |
//span/text() |
{: .xp}
| CSS | Xpath | ? |
|---|---|---|
h1:not([id]) |
//h1[not(@id)] |
? |
| Text match | //button[text()="Submit"] |
? |
| Text match (substring) | //button[contains(text(),"Go")] |
|
| Arithmetic | //product[@price > 2.50] |
|
| Has children | //ul[*] |
|
| Has children (specific) | //ul[li] |
|
| Or logic | //a[@name or @href] |
? |
| Union (joins results) | //a | //div |
? |
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Xpath doesn’t have the “check if part of space-separated list” operator, so this is the workaround (source).
//
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| /
| a[@id='link']
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| Prefix | Example | What |
|---|---|---|
// |
//hr[@class='edge'] |
Anywhere |
./ |
./a |
Relative |
/ |
/html/body/div |
Root |
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Begin your expression with any of these.
| Axis | Example | What |
|---|---|---|
/ |
//ul/li/a |
Child |
// |
//[@id="list"]//a |
Descendant |
{: .-headers}
Separate your steps with /
. Use two (//
) if you don’t want to select direct children.
A step may have an element name (div
) and predicates ([...]
). Both are optional. They can also be these other things:
Restricts a nodeset only if some condition is true. They can be chained.
Use comparison and logic operators to make conditionals.
You can use nodes inside predicates.
//a[1] # first
//a[last()] # last
//ol/li[2] # second

//ol/li[position()=2] # same as above
//ol/li[position()>1] # :not(:first-child)
Use []
with a number, or last()
or position()
.
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//section[.//h1[@id='hi']]
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if it has an

descendant with id='hi'
.
name() # //[starts-with(name(), 'h')]
text() # //button[text()="Submit"]
# //button/text()
lang(str)
namespace-uri()
contains() # font[contains(@class,"head")]
starts-with() # font[starts-with(@class,"head")]
ends-with() # font[ends-with(@class,"head")]
concat(x,y)
substring(str, start, len)
substring-before("01/02", "/") #=> 01
substring-after("01/02", "/") #=> 02
translate()
normalize-space()
string-length()
//ul/li # ul > li
//ul/child::li # ul > li (same)
//ul/following-sibling::li # ul ~ li
//ul/descendant-or-self::li # ul li
//ul/ancestor-or-self::li # $('ul').closest('li')
Steps of an expression are separated by /
, usually used to pick child nodes. That’s not always true: you can specify a different “axis” with ::
.
//
| ul
| /child::
| li
|{: .-css-breakdown}
child::
is the default axis. This makes //a/b/c
work.
# both the same
# this works because `child::li` is truthy, so the predicate succeeds
//ul[li]
//ul[child::li]
//
is short for the descendant-or-self::
axis.
| Axis | Abbrev | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ancestor |
||
ancestor-or-self |
||
| — | — | — |
attribute |
@ |
@href is short for attribute::href |
child |
div is short for child::div |
|
descendant |
||
descendant-or-self |
// |
// is short for /descendant-or-self::node()/ |
namespace |
||
| — | — | — |
self |
. |
. is short for self::node() |
parent |
.. |
.. is short for parent::node() |
| — | — | — |
following |
||
following-sibling |
||
preceding |
||
preceding-sibling |
{: .-headers}
There are other axes you can use.
Use |
to join two expressions.
//* # all elements
count(//*) # count all elements
(//h1)[1]/text() # text of the first h1 heading
//li[span] # find a
 with an  inside it
# ...expands to //li[child::span]
//ul/li/.. # use .. to select a parent
Finds a

that directly contains h1#section-name
Finds a

that contains h1#section-name
. (Same as above, but uses descendant-or-self instead of child)
Works like jQuery’s $().closest('.box')
.
Finds <item>
and check its attributes
{: .-one-column}


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EMail for Crystal
Simple email sending library for the Crystal programming language.
You can:
- construct an email with a plain text message, a HTML message and/or some attachment files.
- include resources(e.g. images) used in the HTML message.
- set multiple recipients to the email.
- use multibyte characters(only UTF-8) in the email.
- send the email by using local or remote SMTP server.
- use TLS connection by
STARTTLS
command. - use SMTP-AUTH by
AUTH PLAIN
orAUTH LOGIN
when using TLS. - send multiple emails concurrently by using multiple smtp connections.
You can not:
- use ESMTP features except those mentioned above.
Installation
First, add the dependency to your shard.yml
:
dependencies:
email:
github: arcage/crystal-email
Then, run shards install
Usage
To send a minimal email message:
require "email"
# Create email message
email = EMail::Message.new
email.from<EMAIL_ADDRESS>email.to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>email.subject "Subject of the mail"
email.message <<-EOM
Message body of the mail.
--
Your Signature
EOM
# Set SMTP client configuration
config = EMail::Client::Config.new("your.mx.example.com", 25)
# Create SMTP client object
client = EMail::Client.new(config)
client.start do
# In this block, default receiver is client
send(email)
end
This code will output log entries to STDOUT
as follows:
2018/01/25 20:35:09 [crystal-email/12347] INFO [EMail_Client] Start TCP session to your.mx.example.com:25
2018/01/25 20:35:10 [crystal-email/12347] INFO [EMail_Client] Successfully sent a message from<EMAIL_ADDRESS>to 1 recipient(s)
2018/01/25 20:35:10 [crystal-email/12347] INFO [EMail_Client] Close TCP session to your.mx.example.com:25
Client configs
You can set some connection settings to EMail::Client::Config
object.
That can make SMTP connection to use TLS / SMTP AUTH, or output more detailed log message.
See EMail::Client::Config for more details.
Email message
You can set more email headers to EMail::Message
object.
And, you can also send emails including attachment files, HTML message, and/or resource files related message body(e.g. image file for HTML message).
See EMail::Message for more details.
Concurrent sending
By using EMail::ConcurrentSender
object, you can concurrently send multiple messages by multiple connections.
rcpt_list =<EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS># Set SMTP client configuration
config = EMail::Client::Config.new("your.mx.example.com", 25)
# Create concurrent sender object
sender = EMail::ConcurrentSender.new(config)
# Sending emails with concurrently 3 connections.
sender.number_of_connections = 3
# Sending max 10 emails by 1 connection.
sender.messages_per_connection = 10
# Start email sending.
sender.start do
# In this block, default receiver is sender
rcpts_list.each do |rcpt_to|
# Create email message
mail = EMail::Message.new
mail.from<EMAIL_ADDRESS>mail.to rcpt_to
mail.subject "Concurrent email sending"
mail.message "message to #{rcpt_to}"
# Enqueue the email to sender
enqueue mail
end
end
See EMail::ConcurrentSender for more details.
Contributors
- arcage ʕ·ᴥ·ʔAKJ - creator, maintainer


One of the most common flowering shrubs are low lying, extremely dense Bougainvillea shrubs. Many are fooled by the clever adaptations this plant show to attract pollinators for cross pollination. What may seem like bright pink petals from far away are actually modified leaves called bracts.
Bracts by definition are modified leaves which are typically small with a flower or flower cluster on its axil. However as it is in nature, bracts aren't actually limited to this definition.
It raised its head and waved it around a bit, in a surveying manner before bringing it down and dragging its body forward.
They are leaflike as in poinsettias, scalelike as on pinecone gingers and bromeliads, or even petal-like as on dogwoods. They can be brightly colored like those on Bougainvillea or green like those on sunflowers.
In terms of function, bracts are very diverse ranging from protecting young flowers, attracting potential pollinators, as well as entrapping insects in case of the passion flower.
In Bougainvillea , close observation of the flower reveals that the bright pink petals are in fact lined with veins, a clear giveaway of their actual origins. Bougainvillea has white flowers hidden within these large bracts that are so small that without the bracts the plant would have a hard time finding pollinators.
In Mawlynnong, a small village in Meghalaya I came across a plant showing a similar adaptation having white flowers with yellow bracts. Further digging revealed that it was Pachystachys lutea also known as lollipop plant or golden shrimp plant. In this the bracts form a cone from which the white flowers peep out. The bract cone can grow about 5 inches long.