Changes to the computing programme of study – some thoughts
Jul 09, 2013
Originally blogged for Switched on ICT (Rising Stars)
As expected, the new Computing programme of study firmly moves the focus from skills in using software to an understanding of computer science and practical experience in coding. Understanding computation and managing information will be of crucial importance to learners growing up in the third millennium, and the knowledge and understanding that pupils develop at primary school is likely to be far more relevant and ‘transferable’ than skills in using particular bits of software, whether that’s PowerPoint or Scratch.
Although there’ll be a short, statutory consultation before the new National Curriculum can take effect, which won’t be until September 2014 anyhow (or indeed September 2015 for Year 6 English, maths and science), what we saw published on July 8 should be seen as the final version, like it or not. For computing, there’s much to like: in the hands of skilful and creative teachers, this document could easily form the core of a rich, stimulating education in computing and the use of digital technology.
It’s interesting to look at the changes since the draft published in February: whilst there wasn’t the same reaction to the computing draft as we, rightly, saw for history and D&T, a number of us expressed concerns in our responses to the consultation, and, as with history and D&T, at least some of these have been acted on.
The ‘purpose’ statement removes much of the repetition evident in the earlier draft, to the extent that the previous focus on computational thinking, ie on computing as a lens through which to understand the world, is now largely obscured. The Royal Society’s approach to the three aspects of computing as computer science, IT and digital literacy is preserved though: I think it’s helpful to think of these as the foundations, applications and implications of digital technology, and an approach to teaching and planning in which these are integrated may have much to commend it.
‘Abstraction’ replaces ‘communication’ in the first of the CS aims. It’s a hard concept, but a fundamental aspect of computational thinking – in part it’s about seeking to represent the key features of a system; in part it’s not worrying about detail. There’s a sense in which the programme of study is like an abstraction of schools’ schemes of work and teachers’ lesson plans. The other aims are unchanged, and it’s disappointing, but not surprising, that the fifth aim from the BCS/RAEng Working Party,
“Can critically articulate the individual, cultural, and societal impacts of digital technology, and know how to stay safe, exploit opportunities, and manage risks”
has not been restored. That’s not to say that teachers can’t aim to do this too, of course, just that they’re not required to.
The attainment target text too is unchanged, and we’ve recently had it confirmed that assessment is to be without levels, although I don’t dount that many teachers (and others) will seek to preserve and develop this approach to assessment, despite the strong arguments against it from Gove, Oates, Wiliam et al. For me, the most exciting developments here are around badges, particularly Open Badges, as a way of providing a granular credential for achievement. A badge for each of the content statements in the programme of study seems an entirely reasonable way to support progression and report on outcomes to parents, secondary schools and HMI.
Looking at the content of the programme of study itself, at Key Stage 1 there’s an interesting addition: “that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions”, which goes somewhat to giving young children the insight that computers are entirely deterministic devices. We’ve moved too from pupils testing their programs to debugging (ie correcting) them – it’s a step up, but far more motivating to fix something than to just spot it’s wrong. As Richard Sennet writes in The Craftsman,
‘it is by fixing things that we often get to understand how they work’.
There’s a metaphor there for the assessment culture in schools, I think.
The previous KS1 requirement, ‘organise, store, manipulate and retrieve data in a range of digital formats’ now becomes ‘use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content’. I’ve argued that the creativity mentioned in the aims for the NC as a whole and for the computing PoS really must be part of the content at each KS, and so it’s great to see it here now.
There’s also more detail listed for safe and responsible use at KS1: we now have ‘use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; know where to go for help and support when they have concerns about material on the internet’, which are good, sound ‘e-safety’ points, although I suspect that they may have meant ‘web’ rather than ‘internet’ here…
At key stage 2, we again have the inclusion of debugging, see above, in place of the dull sounding ‘generate appropriate inputs and predicted outputs to test programs’, although I maintain that this was an excuse for a little game based learning: we could still get away with that via ‘use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work’, if we felt we needed the curriculum cover.
I’m delighted that they’ve replaced the daft ‘describe how internet search engines find and store data’, with ‘appreciate how results are selected and ranked’, which is a crucial part of critical digital literacy and part of what we had in the BCS/RAEng November KS2 draft. The e-safety message is also expanded, and now includes ‘know a range of ways to report concerns and inappropriate behaviour’, which makes sense.
Whilst I know there’s still plenty of opportunity for creative projects in digital media within the catch all ‘using stuff, on stuff to do stuff’ statement (as Ian Addison’s Y4 pupil put it) with which KS2 contents concludes, I’m disappointed that this isn’t enshrined as an entitlement for all, as it is at all other key stages, but left to having a good teacher, going to a good school or having the kit and motivation to do this at home. It would have done much to address entitlement and inclusion here by restoring the statement:
“work collaboratively to plan, create, test, and evaluate a range of digital products for a given audience.”
I’ve no doubt that good teachers and schools will do this, but shouldn’t that be something for all? I’d be really interested to know why Mr Gove and Ms Truss don’t think this worth including.
Elsewhere in the curriculum, there’s relatively little attention paid to the way digital technology can enhance learning, and still some preference for analogue forms (pencils, not keyboards; sketchbooks not tablets). The aim remains that of passing on core knowledge, and whilst this is important, I’m not certain that this is necessarily the best possible preparation for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Where, I wonder, is talk of developing character, curiosity and confidence?


Pycon was wonderful this year. It was held at the Portland convention center which I like, and there were about 40% women at the conference; my perception was that around the same percentage of women were speaking. I credit Guido Van Rossum with requesting that the conference and the community become more inclusive (his goal is 50%). This is an amazing accomplishment in our field; my usual experience is in the low single digits. It has been shown that diverse companies make more money, and I think that the Python community will grow and become more successful because of this goal.
It seemed to me that the women felt comfortable enough to talk about what it is actually like to be a woman in this field. My take: it’s easy to think things have gotten better, and perhaps they have, but the situation is still pretty miserable and we have a long way to go (concerning diversity in general). This situation is holding the whole field back and I’m proud that the Python community is leading the way.
I’ve gone to many Pycons, including giving two keynotes in past years and speaking at Pycons in other countries. But this year I wanted to expand my experience by doing things that I haven’t before.
This included volunteering. I stumbled into bag-stuffing the first day. I did this once years ago, and the process was completely different. I think this is because volunteering is often more self-organized. In this case, it had evolved from people stuffing a bag one at a time to people cycling around holding their bag open and others dropping items into the open bag. It seemed much more efficient to me, and I found it very interesting to see how it had evolved.
I also signed up ahead of time to work at the registration desk and the green room (where speakers get ready to go to their rooms). Apparently the registration software is improved every year, to make it easier for inexperienced people (like me) to quickly become functional. Years ago, when I worked with the now-defunct Software Development conference (which couldn’t adapt to the Internet), one of the big, expensive problems they always had was registration. It was interesting to see how the open-source solution (at least, I think it was open source) had improved things, and will no doubt continue to do so.
In the green room, it turned out that one of the hosts for one of the speaking rooms had not shown up, and the green-room manager handed me a radio and said “you’re it.” (The radios were awkward and unfamiliar and I wish we could have just texted instead, or even better, used some kind of app that maintained status on a big board in the green room).
There are runners that walk people from the green room to the room where they speak. This seems like a simple job, but it’s very useful because speakers can then focus on mentally preparing themselves rather than worrying about (and potentially becoming flustered) finding their room. The runner also talks to the speaker and I think this can be calming. Pycon often has first-time speakers so this is an important role.
The room manager role which I was doing is for three consecutive talks in a single room. I introduced each speaker and then held up signs for 15, 10, 5 minutes and one for stopping. Each sign was held up 5 minutes before the actual time. I didn’t find out how this time-shifting practice had evolved but apparently it works. All three speakers finished with enough time for questions, at which point I ran around with a microphone. Often this is a problem when people start asking their question before the mike arrives, but for each talk I reminded people that this was being recorded and that folks watching on YouTube want to hear the question. I was also watching for the next questioner while the current question was being asked, and bringing the microphone to the new questioner during that time. That might have helped as well, but I think the biggest effect was simply reminding the audience about home viewers.
I enjoyed all three presentations, and also being involved with the production.
In the last year I’ve started to watch, as part of my research, presentations on YouTube, Vimeo, etc. It’s been a huge addition to the way I learn. I also realize what a big effect this must be starting to have on the rest of the world. Anyone with Internet can have the benefits of conference presentations. Pycon has always been a leader in this area (and they get the presentations up very quickly), and I was quite aware this year that I can see any presentation on YouTube. For that reason I decided to try to only do things that were not recorded, and to take advantage of physical presence.
Considering that I hold all open-spaces conferences, and that the first open-spaces (and lightning talks) I ever saw was at Pycon, it surprised me that I wasn’t more attuned to them. I attended three this year: One on freelancing, one on conference organization (where I was able to contribute from my experiences), and one called “Random Storytelling.” I attended this last one because my friend (and book designer) Daniel Will-Harris has invented a technique for creating stories—in fact, he’s in China right now setting up a system to teach it to drama students there. I thought I should look into this in case there were some ideas for him.
It turned out to be telling stories from your life. For me, it felt like I had suddenly stepped out of Pycon and into Burning Man, and I ended up telling a story about the first time I went to Burning Man. The session was a very connecting experience, and a group of us ended up going out to dinner.
The group included Audrey and Daniel Roy Greenfeld (second and third from left, and flanked by the ReadTheDocs guys), who met at Pycon and got married. Audrey created the Cookiecutter project which I spent some time with during sprints and created a basic introduction. Also at that dinner were the guys who do ReadTheDocs.org, which I also sprinted on.
For the first time at Pycon, I held two openspaces sessions, the first about Teal organizations and how we might start them, and the second to gather feedback for a book on Python concurrency, which looks very likely to be my next project.
The book session was extremely helpful. Kevin Quick came, who works at GoDaddy and helped create the Thespian Python actor system. This is in active use at GoDaddy and seems a likely candidate to demonstrate actors in the book.
My intent with the book is to expect Python proficiency but not to assume the reader knows anything about concurrency. This seemed to appeal to the group.
We also talked about print books vs. ebooks. I have been pushing for ebook-only publication, but this conversation set me back. Everyone in the group declared that, although they like ebooks well enough for “regular” books, for a programming book in particular, a print book is essential. One thing that impressed me was the description, which I have heard several times subsequently, of having a mental model of the physical book including where certain topics are located.
Wednesday night I had dinner with Guido Van Rossum and a group from Dropbox, also to discuss the book. Guido was the first person I told when I got the idea, to ask him if he thought it filled a need, and he was quite positive and said that just within Dropbox it would be good to have some way to educate people.
This group also declared they wanted a print version of the book. Both groups also expressed interest when I floated the idea of holding an openspaces conference (like the Winter Tech Forum) around Python concurrency, starting next summer.
After hearing this feedback and spending time during the Sprints with the ReadTheDocs group, I’ve started visualizing a scenario of publishing the book as it’s being developed (much as I did with the original version of Thinking in Java) on ReadTheDocs, then creating a print version for sale. If indeed people really want a print book, this model should produce enough income to pay for the project. If I enjoy it enough to create a seminar, then that would certainly make it worthwhile (I got rather burned out after giving C++ and Java seminars, but Python concurrency might be fun; in addition I’ve learned a lot of tricks over time that make seminars more enjoyable for both me and the participants).
ReadTheDocs provides different download formats (as well as just using it online), including HTML, PDF and Epub. During my time sprinting with them, we discussed the possibility of creating a process to produce a camera-ready PDF that could go directly to a print-on-demand service like LightningSource (which I use; they also make it effortless to switch to a press run and are owned by Ingram, which will handle distribution for you if you want). This process might become a business model to support ReadTheDocs: if you want to go to print, they could have several levels of paid help: basic (turn your docs into camera-ready PDF), self-publish (hand-hold you through the process but you remain the publisher) or ReadTheDocs might even become your publisher, recieving a portion of sales.
Sprinting
Finally, for the first time in all my Pycons I stayed for the sprints. This is one of those life experiences where learning something new can lead to regret that you haven’t been doing it all along, but oh well. And Guido pointed out that this might not be true, because I participated in what might have been the very first sprint after a Pycon in Washington DC, when a group of us went to the Zope Corporation in Virginia and were coached by Jim Fulton — Guido said this is the moment when Jim invented the sprint. But I probably wasn’t ready for it then.
People at the conference seem hesistant to join in, I think because they imagine that to sprint you have to understand the project and be good at something. My own experience disproves this. Indeed, much of the time my strength was my ignorance. I think the initial contact and onboarding experience is very important; if it’s not easy and positive it can turn people away. So if you are clueless about a project, just sit down at a sprint and declare that you’re going through the newbie install process—any project that I know of will be quite happy to have their onboarding checked, because they know it all too well to discover the missing parts.
Apparently the normal pattern is that about a quarter of the conference remains for the sprints (then trickles away over the days). The afternoon of the last day of the conference includes different projects giving tiny descriptions of what they are doing, followed by sprint coaching for new folks.
There is pre-sprint coaching, but you really can just show up and wander around and find some projects. You learn a ton regardless of whether you’re able contribute something, and it’s likely you can help in some way. If a project isn’t working for you, use the same “Law of Two Feet” as we have in open spaces and find another project.
ReadTheDocs
This was my first sprint. I’ve read a lot of documentation hosted on ReadTheDocs.org, but I didn’t know how it worked. I started by following the installation directions for those wanting to build documentation on ReadTheDocs. I learned a lot by doing this and by being able to ask questions of the creators (see the conversation about publishing earlier in this post). The place I helped was discovering a configuration problem that, as it turns out, had been plaguing them and wasting a lot of time, so they were elated to be able to fix it. This is what I mean—anyone can be helpful, even if it’s just by bumbling around and tripping over a problem.
On top of that, I feel like I have enough of a grasp of ReadTheDocs that I can start using it for my own projects.
Invoke
Build tools have always been a kind of hobby horse for me; at one point in the
distant past I was pushing make
to its limits, enough to see that its
creators had given up in despair upon realizing that what they were really
doing is creating a programming language.
Once you know that, you realize that the best solution is to start with an existing programming language, especially one like Python which is really good at manipulating everything. And Python decorators are perfect for annotating things to be tasks/targets.
I’ve made a couple of attempts to create a decorator-based build system but
I’d much rather use something that someone else has spent a lot of time
making. Invoke (Docs
here and the github repository is
here) by Jeff Forcier seems like it
might be that tool. It’s quite thorough but it doesn’t yet do timestamp
dependencies like make
does. Although I couldn’t get close to making those
changes myself, I was able to find a directed-acyclic-graph library that
Jeff might be able to use for the task. As it was Python 2 and Jeff wants to
use Python 2 and 3 libraries, I modified it to produce
Pythondagger23 that works
with both versions. I’m hoping it will be a step towards a more powerful
Invoke
.
Cookiecutter
When I found out what Cookiecutter does I decided it could be very important to me. I made a very introductory overview of the tool so others could quickly understand its value. They decided to use this as their official first introduction.
MicroBit Python
The MicroPython project had BBC MicroBits devices and asked us to create new demonstration examples.
My goal was just to get one working and to program something on the 5 by 5 grid of LEDs on the back, just as a kind of baseline test.
I went down a few wrong paths at first, probably because other parts of the project required creating a full set of build tools and flashing the MicroPython image onto the device. Fortunately I had help from (sorry I forgot your name) who coached me across installing parts of the system until he realized I just wanted to play with the LEDs, at which time he flashed my device from his system and we found that the MU Editor was the thing to get. We didn’t establish whether MU took care of everything necessary to make the connection to the device, or if some driver we had incidentally installed during our explorations was also necessary.
Here’s the code we ended up creating:
from microbit import *
import random
pixX = random.randint(0, 4)
pixY = random.randint(0, 4)
def step(n):
r = n + random.randint(-1, 1)
if r < 0:
return 0
if r > 4:
return 4
return r
while True:
display.clear()
display.set_pixel(pixX, pixY, 6)
pixX = step(pixX)
pixY = step(pixY)
sleep(300)
This makes a dot that wanders around the 5x5 matrix and bumps into walls and corners. We didn’t submit it because it seemed too simple compared to the other examples, but if the project still wants to use it, feel free.
The final night for me was Saturday, and I went to dinner with Barry Warsaw and the MailMan sprinters, so Barry and I were able to catch up. He’s still very happy working with Canonical. We figured out that we had both worked on the Gnu Emacs C++ mode. I created the mode way back when I was working at the University of Washington School of Oceanography with Tom Keffer (who later used our work to start Rogue Wave, supplier of C++ libraries). However, I didn’t do very much with it; just got the basic mode working. Sometime later Barry came along and spent a lot of time making it useful, especially the very tricky reformatting, which I remember taking a shot at but then discovering what a big job it was. This all happened years before we met each other during the (relatively) early days of Python, but he remembers my name at the top of the authors list. It was fun to see how our paths had crossed so long ago without either of us knowing it.


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--- title: "COVID-19 and R Part II" author: "Drew Tyre" date: '2020-03-14' output: html_document: code_folding: hide draft: no slug: COVID-19_and_R_II tags_include: - R - OPD categories: Research ---
Yesterday I got into the COVID-19 forecasting business. Today I want to see how my predictions held up.
EDIT 2020-03-16: DISCLAIMER: These unofficial results are not peer reviewed, and should be treated as such. My goal is to learn about forecasting in real time, how simple models compare with more complex models, and even how to compare different models.
My least favorite part of data analysis is munging the data into a usable form. Especially #otherpeoplesdata. John Hopkins University is doing a great service making their data under their COVID-19 dashboard open, but they’ve made some interesting choices. I can only assume these choices work well for what they are doing; certainly isn’t making my work easier! From the issues posted on github sounds like the JHU team might be getting overwhelmed. So I’m going to try the data from Our World In Data.
library("tidyverse")
library("lubridate")
owid_url <- "https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/total_cases.csv"
owid_wide <- read_csv(owid_url) # just grab it once
us_confirmed_total <- owid_wide %>%
pivot_longer(-1,
names_to = "country", values_to = "cumulative_cases") %>%
filter(country == "United States") %>%
arrange(date)
p1 <- ggplot(data = us_confirmed_total,
mapping = aes(x = date)) +
geom_line(mapping = aes(y = cumulative_cases)) +
geom_point(mapping = aes(y = cumulative_cases))
p1
Well, fooey. CDC reports over 1600 cases for March 13. The WorldOMeter reports over 2000! However, the JHU data seems to have corrected in the last 12 hours, so I’ll go with that again. I’ll keep looking for new data sources. Another lesson from the past 24 hours – download and then save the data! Because the next time it is downloaded it might break everything …
load("data/jhu_wide_2020-03-14.Rda")
us_confirmed_total <- jhu_wide %>%
rename(province = "Province/State",
country_region = "Country/Region") %>%
pivot_longer(-c(province, country_region, Lat, Long),
names_to = "Date", values_to = "cumulative_cases") %>%
filter(country_region == "US") %>%
mutate(Date = mdy(Date)) %>%
# mutate(Date = lubridate::mdy(Date) - lubridate::days(1)) %>%
arrange(province, Date) %>%
# filter out state rows prior to march 8, and county rows after that.
filter(str_detect(province, ", ") & Date <= "2020-03-9" |
str_detect(province, ", ", negate = TRUE) & Date > "2020-03-9") %>%
group_by(Date) %>% # then group by Date and sum
summarize(cumulative_cases = sum(cumulative_cases)) %>%
ungroup() %>%
mutate(incident_cases = c(0, diff(cumulative_cases)))
p1 <- ggplot(data = filter(us_confirmed_total, Date > "2020-02-28", Date <= "2020-03-11"),
mapping = aes(x = Date)) +
# geom_line(mapping = aes(y = incident_cases)) +
geom_point(mapping = aes(y = incident_cases)) +
scale_y_log10() +
geom_smooth(mapping = aes(y = incident_cases), method = "lm")
us_exp_model <- us_confirmed_total %>%
mutate(log_incident_cases = log10(incident_cases), # transform the data
day = as.numeric(Date - ymd("2020-02-27"))) %>% # get day relative to Feb 27
filter(Date > "2020-02-28", Date <= "2020-03-11") %>%
lm(data = .,
formula = log_incident_cases ~ day)
predicted <- tibble(day = 14:20)
predicted_list <- predict(us_exp_model, newdata = predicted, se.fit = TRUE)
predicted$fit <- predicted_list$fit # this is klutzy, but I want to see the answer!
predicted$se.fit <- predicted_list$se.fit
predicted <- predicted %>%
mutate(Date = ymd("2020-2-27") + day,
pred_var = se.fit^2 + predicted_list$residual.scale^2,
lpl = 10^(fit - sqrt(pred_var)*qt(0.975, df = 11)),
upl = 10^(fit + sqrt(pred_var)*qt(0.975, df = 11)),
fit = 10^fit)
p1 +
geom_line(data = predicted,
mapping = aes(y = fit),
linetype = 2) +
geom_ribbon(data = predicted,
mapping = aes(ymin = lpl, ymax = upl),
alpha = 0.2) +
geom_point(data = filter(us_confirmed_total, Date > "2020-03-11"),
mapping = aes(y = incident_cases))
So not bad! Although if the observations continue to fall below the expected value that would indicate some lack of fit. If you take the time to carefully compare these predictions with yesterday’s predictions you’ll notice some small discrepancies. As I was wrestling with data inconsistencies, I realized that correcting the UTC dates by a whole day was throwing everything off. So everything is now shifted over by one day. The estimated coefficients of the model don’t change very much; the rate of growth is still 0.15 day-1 and the intercept dropped a little bit. Still forecasting 823 - 17714 new cases on March 18. That’s bigger than the range I mentioned in yesterday’s post, but I forgot about the effect of the logarithmic scale on y when I eyeballed it.
So, things to do: run different countries that I care about, like Canada, Germany, Australia etc etc. Find some additional models to try, and develop a good measure of comparison.


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Determines how much distance gets added when traversing each type of terrain: field, road, and forest.
float[] TERRAIN_WEIGHTS = {1, 0.3, 3};
When distances are normalized (scaled to a [0, 1] range), we need to define what should be considered the maximum distance.
int MAX_DISTANCE = 20;
MapCellModel manages state for one map cell.
class MapCellModel {
A few integers keeping track of this cell's map coordinates and terrain type.
int i, j, terrain;
The cell's distance to the nearest hospital. This is updated frequently by MapModel.update_cell_distances
float distance;
Keep track of whether this cell has a town and whether this cell has a hospital.
boolean has_town, has_hospital;
The constructor is straightforward; we just store the values passed in and set default
values for has_town
and has_hospital
.
MapCellModel(int _i, int _j, int _terrain) {
i = _i;
j = _j;
terrain = _terrain;
has_town = false;
has_hospital = false;
}
Adds a town
void add_town() {
has_town = true;
}
Adds a hospital
void add_hospital() {
has_hospital = true;
}
Removes a hospital
void remove_hospital() {
has_hospital = true;
}
Return true when there is no town or hospital here.
boolean is_free() {
return !(has_town || has_hospital);
}
Looks up and returns the terrain difficulty. This method and those preceding it might seem pointless when their work is accomplished in one simple line of code. However, it's important that each part of your program minds its own business, and these methods help achieve that. This becomes especially important when you want to change your program; The more different parts of your code reach into each others' internals, the more likely it is that a change will result in an error somewhere else.
float terrain_difficulty() {
return TERRAIN_WEIGHTS[terrain];
}
Scale distance to a range between 0 and 1. This function relies on some convenient built-in Processing functions.
float normalized_distance() {
return max(0, min(MAX_DISTANCE, map(distance, 0, MAX_DISTANCE, 0, 1)));
}
Defines how MapCellModels should be compared with each other for equality. Here, two MapCellModels are equal if they share i and j. This is used internally by ArrayList when figuring out whether a particular MapCellModel is in an ArrayList.
boolean equals(MapCellModel other) {
return i == other.i && j == other.j;
}
}


List
Target
boolean
Jump search or block search refers to a search algorithm for ordered lists. It works by first checking all items Lkm, where k ∈ N {\displaystyle k\in \mathbb {N} } k\in \mathbb {N} and m is the block size, until an item is found that is larger than the search key. To find the exact position of the search key in the list a linear search is performed on the sublist L[(k-1)m, km].
List
Target
boolean
Linear search or sequential search is a method for finding an element within a list. It sequentially checks each element of the list until a match is found or the whole list has been searched.
List
target
boolean
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Binary search works on sorted arrays. Binary search begins by comparing an element in the middle of the array with the target value. If the target value matches the element, its position in the array is returned. If the target value is less than the element, the search continues in the lower half of the array. If the target value is greater than the element, the search continues in the upper half of the array. By doing this, the algorithm eliminates the half in which the target value cannot lie in each iteration.


Editing News Feeds
How to edit the news feeds displayed on the News Feeds (RSS) module.
- Select Edit > Edit Newsfeeds from the module actions menu.
- Click the Edit button beside the feed to be edited.
- Edit the details as required.
-
Click the Update button.
- Repeat Steps 2-4 to edit additional feeds.
- Click the Return button to return to the page.


Discover Yatai, a Japanese take on street food developed after the war
by Marta BrambillaFukuoka, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, is home to a distinctive style of street food.
A type of mobile open-air food stand known as Yatai has become famous in this city — and incredibly popular too.
Strict rules mean that the stands cannot stay in the same place permanently. They are allowed to trade only between 5pm and 4am.
Food from Yatai is available across Fukuoka but the best place to enjoy them is down by the river in the middle of town, at the southern end of Nakasu island.
When the sun goes down, these streets are filled with people searching for the perfect taste in this magical atmosphere
Shingo Nishimura, a chef who owns a Yatai, says they starting appearing in 1945 after the Second World War, when there were no restaurants left to provide food for the people of the city.
"So that's how Yatai culture was born: to provide food for people, this is how it started," he says.
Yatai provide seats for around eight people and serve typical dishes like tempura, grilled chicken skewers called yakitori and soups of every kind.
Then there's the famous Hakata Ramen, a local dish composed by noodles in a soup based on pork bone.
I myself had a go at cooking Hakata Ramen — and got the thumbs-up.


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An open-source KMC simulation software package for modeling the optoelectronic processes in organic semiconductor materials and devices, such as OPVs, OLEDs, and more.
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This base class contains the basic properties of a lattice site and the functions needed to interact with it. More...
#include <Site.h>
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| virtual | ~Site () |
| Default virtual destructor needed by the base class. More... | |
| Site () | |
| Default constructor that creates an empty Object object. More... | |
| void | clearOccupancy () |
| Clears the occupancy of the site. More... | |
| Object * | getObjectPtr () const |
| Gets the pointer to the Object object that occupies the site. More... | |
| bool | isOccupied () const |
| Checks whether the site is occupied or not. More... | |
| void | setObjectPtr (Object *input_ptr) |
| Sets the pointer to the occupying Object. More... | |
| void | setOccupied () |
| Sets the site to an occupied state. More... | |
This base class contains the basic properties of a lattice site and the functions needed to interact with it.
This base class is designed to be used by the Lattice class to construct a lattice that will be used by a KMC simulation. This class is designed to for sites to have single occupancy, but multiple occupancy could potentially be implemented in a derived class.
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Default virtual destructor needed by the base class.
| KMC_Lattice::Site::Site | ( | ) |
Default constructor that creates an empty Object object.
| void KMC_Lattice::Site::clearOccupancy | ( | ) |
Clears the occupancy of the site.
This function also sets the Object pointer to nullptr.
| Object * KMC_Lattice::Site::getObjectPtr | ( | ) | const |
Gets the pointer to the Object object that occupies the site.
| bool KMC_Lattice::Site::isOccupied | ( | ) | const |
Checks whether the site is occupied or not.
| void KMC_Lattice::Site::setObjectPtr | ( | Object * | input_ptr | ) |
Sets the pointer to the occupying Object.
Also sets the site to an occupied state.
| void KMC_Lattice::Site::setOccupied | ( | ) |
Sets the site to an occupied state.


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Contiki 2.5
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Files | |
| file | abc.c [code] |
Anonymous best-effort local area Broad Cast (abc) | |
| file | abc.h [code] |
Header file for the Rime module Anonymous BroadCast (abc) | |
| file | announcement.c [code] |
Implementation of the announcement primitive. | |
| file | announcement.h [code] |
Header file for the announcement primitive. | |
| file | broadcast-announcement.c [code] |
An example announcement back-end, based on the broadcast primitive. | |
| file | broadcast-announcement.h [code] |
Neighbor discovery header file. | |
| file | broadcast.c [code] |
Identified best-effort local area broadcast (broadcast) | |
| file | broadcast.h [code] |
Header file for identified best-effort local area broadcast. | |
| file | chameleon-bitopt.c [code] |
A Chameleon module that produces bit-optimized headers. | |
| file | chameleon-bitopt.h [code] |
A Chameleon module that produces bit-optimized headers. | |
| file | chameleon-raw.c [code] |
A Chameleon module that produces non-optimized headers. | |
| file | chameleon-raw.h [code] |
A Chameleon module that produces non-optimized headers. | |
| file | chameleon.c [code] |
Chameleon, Rime's header processing module. | |
| file | chameleon.h [code] |
Header file for Chameleon, Rime's header processing module. | |
| file | channel.c [code] |
Rime's channel abstraction. | |
| file | channel.h [code] |
Header file for Rime's channel abstraction. | |
| file | collect-link-estimate.c [code] |
Implementation of Collect link estimate based on ETX. | |
| file | collect-link-estimate.h [code] |
Header file for the Collect link estimate. | |
| file | collect-neighbor.c [code] |
Radio neighborhood management. | |
| file | collect-neighbor.h [code] |
Header file for the Contiki radio neighborhood management. | |
| file | collect.c [code] |
Tree-based hop-by-hop reliable data collection. | |
| file | collect.h [code] |
Header file for hop-by-hop reliable data collection. | |
| file | ipolite.c [code] |
Ipolite Anonymous best effort local area BroadCast (ipolite) | |
| file | ipolite.h [code] |
Header file for Ipolite best effort local Broadcast (ipolite) | |
| file | mesh.c [code] |
A mesh routing protocol. | |
| file | mesh.h [code] |
Header file for the Rime mesh routing protocol. | |
| file | multihop.c [code] |
Multihop forwarding. | |
| file | multihop.h [code] |
Multihop forwarding header file. | |
| file | neighbor-discovery.c [code] |
Neighbor discovery. | |
| file | neighbor-discovery.h [code] |
Neighbor discovery header file. | |
| file | netflood.c [code] |
Best-effort network flooding (netflood) | |
| file | netflood.h [code] |
Header file for the best-effort network flooding (netflood) | |
| file | polite-announcement.c [code] |
An example announcement back-end, based on the polite primitive. | |
| file | polite-announcement.h [code] |
Neighbor discovery header file. | |
| file | polite.c [code] |
Polite Anonymous best effort local area BroadCast (polite) | |
| file | polite.h [code] |
Header file for Polite Anonymous best effort local Broadcast (polite) | |
| file | rime-udp.c [code] |
A MAC protocol using UDP over IPv6. | |
| file | rime-udp.h [code] |
A MAC protocol using UDP over IPv6. | |
| file | rime.c [code] |
Rime initialization and common code. | |
| file | rimeaddr.c [code] |
Functions for manipulating Rime addresses. | |
| file | rimeaddr.h [code] |
Header file for the Rime address representation. | |
| file | rimestats.c [code] |
A brief description of what this file is. | |
| file | rimestats.h [code] |
Header file for Rime statistics. | |
| file | rmh.c [code] |
Multihop forwarding. | |
| file | rmh.h [code] |
Multihop forwarding header file. | |
| file | route-discovery.c [code] |
Route discovery protocol. | |
| file | route-discovery.h [code] |
Header file for the Rime mesh routing protocol. | |
| file | route.c [code] |
Rime route table. | |
| file | route.h [code] |
Header file for the Rime route table. | |
| file | rucb.c [code] |
Reliable unicast bulk transfer. | |
| file | rucb.h [code] |
Header file for the reliable unicast bulk transfer module. | |
| file | rudolph0.c [code] |
Rudolph0: a simple block data flooding protocol. | |
| file | rudolph0.h [code] |
Header file for the single-hop reliable bulk data transfer module. | |
| file | rudolph1.c [code] |
Rudolph1: a simple block data flooding protocol. | |
| file | rudolph1.h [code] |
Header file for the multi-hop reliable bulk data transfer mechanism. | |
| file | rudolph2.c [code] |
Rudolph2: a simple block data flooding protocol. | |
| file | rudolph2.h [code] |
Header file for the single-hop reliable bulk data transfer module. | |
| file | runicast.c [code] |
Reliable unicast. | |
| file | runicast.h [code] |
Reliable unicast header file. | |
| file | stbroadcast.c [code] |
Implementation of the Rime module Stubborn Anonymous BroadCast (stbroadcast) | |
| file | stbroadcast.h [code] |
Header file for the Rime module Stubborn Anonymous BroadCast (stbroadcast) | |
| file | stunicast.c [code] |
Stubborn unicast. | |
| file | stunicast.h [code] |
Stubborn unicast header file. | |
| file | timesynch.c [code] |
A simple time synchronization mechanism. | |
| file | timesynch.h [code] |
Header file for a simple time synchronization mechanism. | |
| file | trickle.c [code] |
Trickle (reliable single source flooding) for Rime. | |
| file | trickle.h [code] |
Header file for Trickle (reliable single source flooding) for Rime. | |
| file | unicast.c [code] |
Single-hop unicast. | |
| file | unicast.h [code] |
Header file for Rime's single-hop unicast. |


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Bullet Collision Detection & Physics Library
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#include <btSoftBodyInternals.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| void | Process (const btDbvtNode *leaf) |
| void | DoNode (btSoftBody::Node &n) const |
| Public Member Functions inherited from btDbvt::ICollide | |
| DBVT_VIRTUAL void | Process (const btDbvtNode *, const btDbvtNode *) |
| DBVT_VIRTUAL void | Process (const btDbvtNode *) |
| DBVT_VIRTUAL void | Process (const btDbvtNode *n, btScalar) |
| DBVT_VIRTUAL bool | Descent (const btDbvtNode *) |
| DBVT_VIRTUAL bool | AllLeaves (const btDbvtNode *) |
Public Attributes | |
| btSoftBody * | psb |
| const btCollisionObjectWrapper * | m_colObj1Wrap |
| btRigidBody * | m_rigidBody |
| btScalar | dynmargin |
| btScalar | stamargin |
Definition at line 860 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
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inline |
Definition at line 867 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
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inline |
Definition at line 862 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
| btScalar btSoftColliders::CollideSDF_RS::dynmargin |
Definition at line 905 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
| const btCollisionObjectWrapper* btSoftColliders::CollideSDF_RS::m_colObj1Wrap |
Definition at line 903 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
| btRigidBody* btSoftColliders::CollideSDF_RS::m_rigidBody |
Definition at line 904 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
| btSoftBody* btSoftColliders::CollideSDF_RS::psb |
Definition at line 902 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.
| btScalar btSoftColliders::CollideSDF_RS::stamargin |
Definition at line 906 of file btSoftBodyInternals.h.


What is Measure G?
Measure G is a special addition to the Oakland Unified School District's budget which amounts to about $20 million each year.
Where does the money come from?
Each year since July 2009, $195 is collected from owners of each parcel of land in Oakland. There is no expiration date set for this special tax. Low income households may
apply for an exemption from the tax.
How can the money be spent?
Funds may be used for these purposes at any Oakland public school that is
not a charter:
- to attract and retain highly qualified teachers
- maintain courses that help students qualify for college
- maintain up-to-date textbooks and instructional materials
- keep class sizes small
- continue after school academic programs
- maintain school libraries
- provide programs, including art and music programs, that enhance student achievement.
What accountability measures are in place?
An
Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee produces a report each year on the previous year's spending and an audit is performed annually. Meetings are generally held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm at MetWest High School (314 E 10th St, Oakland, CA 94606) on the second floor across from the KDOL studio. Check the calendar because sometimes meetings are cancelled and there is a summer recess.
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We are a family of four living on a council estate in Swindon. We meet up with other believers on the estate and socialise, pray , share our lives with each other . We do this because we want to seek those within our comunity as christ leads use to do it. We have a toddler group called "little Lights" Also i have started a group called "Who let the Dads out " which also runs monthly !
We choose to do these things because we love Jesus , his love was not just for us it was for anyone who realises their need for him.


Louisville Youth Group (LYG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping and supporting young people by providing resources and a safe social atmosphere for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, questioning, asexual, intersex, and allied youth under the age of 21.
 We work toward this goal by helping and supporting young people – gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, questioning, asexual, intersex, and allied youth under the age of 21 – through resources and connections with mentors.
LYG is governed by a volunteer board of directors. Meet the Board Executive Committee.
- President Chris Miller, IT Professional
- Vice President Kevin Lawhorn, Business Owner
- Treasurer John Gray, Supply Chain Consultant, UPS
- Secretary Caitlin Simpson, Minister
Board Membership
- Tricia Henninger Industrial Engineer, UPS
- Brian McLean Psychologist
- Michael Legg Dir. – Professional Training Comany, Actors Theater
- Mathew Zamorano Retail Manager
Programs and Activities
Founded in 1990 by a group of engaged community members, LYG has served over 5,000 youth and young adults, age 14 to 21, in its history.
Today, more than 200 LGBTQIA+ and Allied young people each year participate in programs that provide social support, positive role models and health education.
Weekly Meetings
Fridays, 7:30p to 10:30p Each week, LYG brings together LGBTQIA+ youth in a safe, fun and social setting. Themes and topics include: game night, suicide prevention, dance parties, and health education (just to name a few!)
Trans/Ally Night – 2nd and 4th Wednesday from 6:00p to 9:00p
Other programs include:
Youth Leadership Council
The YLC is an opportunity for youth to gain vital leadership skills and help determine the activities of LYG. Council members lead sessions, plan events, and advise the LYG Board of Directors.
Leadership Camp
Always a youth favorite, LYG Camp is a fun weekend to socialize, learn leadership skills, and get out in nature. Activities include campfires, night hikes, challenge course, lots of eating, and lively conversation.
GSTA Outreach
Youth and educators learn how to start and grow a Gay-Straight-Trans Alliance. Participants also learn a student’s legal right to a safe learning environment.
Prom
Many LGBTQIA+ youth feel unsafe taking their date to Prom. LYG’s Prom is a fun and safe experience for ALL youth, regardless of sexuality or gender identity.
Mentors
Volunteer Mentors are a vital part of Louisville Youth Group. In all activities with youth, mentors are needed to:
Maintain a safe space for youth
We work very hard to ensure LYG is a space free of harassment, discrimination, intimidation or bullying at all times.
Build trust through confidentiality
Mentors build trust and a sense of safety within Louisville Youth Group by keeping all personal information within the group.
Mentor first
While many mentors have professional training as therapists or educators, when at LYG, their role is to be a trustworthy adult guide.
Lift up our youth
Put downs, harsh destructive criticism and biting sarcasm run the risk of belittling people. While at LYG, we ask that mentors communicate from an asset based and “put-up” framework. Accentuating the positives in our participants will help build their sense of self and create a place of mutual respect.
Promote positive discussion
Mentors encourage intentional, meaningful, and respectful dialogue. They help shift conversations that help young people seek to understand before seeking to be understood.
Keep an eye out for needs
Within our safe and trusting environment, young people sometimes share information on serious personal or family problems. Mentors are trained to look for and respond appropriately to urgent and ongoing needs of youth.
Interested in applying to become an LYG Mentor? We are looking for engaged, caring adults who our youth can count on! Learn more<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Help us make it better
LYG is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a safe place for LGBTQIA+ and Allied youth to socialize, learn and grow.
With your support, we have been making it better since 1990. We invite you to consider an investment in LYG. Your contributions may be tax deductible.
Mail a check to: Louisville Youth Group, Inc. PO Box 406764 Louisville, KY 40204 Tax ID: 61-1340329
Contact Us
Want to know more about LYG? Ready to get involved? Contact us with any questions!
Louisville Youth Group P.O. Box 406764 Louisville, KY 40204<PHONE_NUMBER>Anna Giangrande, Director of Programming and Operations anna@louisvilleyouthgroup.org


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Volunteer Fire Captain Michael Carlson spent 32 days fighting fires in Northern California this past summer and fall. 👨🚒 The USF alumnus (@usflaw ‘96) has a day job as vice president and general counsel at Caymus Vineyards.
Volunteer Fire Captain Michael Carlson spent 32 days fighting fires in Northern California this past summer and fall. 👨🚒 The USF alumnus (@usflaw ‘96) has a day job as vice president and general counsel at Caymus Vineyards.


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UK anti-terrorist police arrest man after Turkey deports suspects
LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a 26-year-old man at Heathrow Airport who had arrived from Turkey on Thursday, on suspicion of terrorism offences related to Syria.
“He was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts,” London’s Metropolitan police said in a statement. “The arrest is Syria-related.”
Turkish authorities have begun to send Islamic State detainees back to their home countries with the country’s interior ministry earlier saying it was deporting one British and seven German fighters on Thursday.
Ankara says it has hundreds more jihadists in detention, and has accused European countries of being loath to take back citizens who traveled to join Islamist militants fighting in Middle East wars, mainly in Syria and Iraq.
Some 10,000 Islamic State detainees and tens of thousands of family members remain in camps and prisons in northeastern Syria guarded by the Syrian Kurdish allies of the United States.
Washington is also pushing European countries to take their citizens back.


| Opcode/Instruction | Op/En | 64/32-bit Mode | CPUID Feature Flag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 0F 3A 40 /r ib DPPS xmm1, xmm2/m128, imm8 | RMI | V/V | SSE4_1 | Selectively multiply packed SP floating-point values from xmm1 with packed SP floating-point values from xmm2, add and selectively store the packed SP floating-point values or zero values to xmm1. |
| VEX.128.66.0F3A.WIG 40 /r ib VDPPS xmm1,xmm2, xmm3/m128, imm8 | RVMI | V/V | AVX | Multiply packed SP floating point values from xmm1 with packed SP floating point values from xmm2/mem selectively add and store to xmm1. |
| VEX.256.66.0F3A.WIG 40 /r ib VDPPS ymm1, ymm2, ymm3/m256, imm8 | RVMI | V/V | AVX | Multiply packed single-precision floating-point values from ymm2 with packed SP floating point values from ymm3/mem, selectively add pairs of elements and store to ymm1. |
| Op/En | Operand 1 | Operand 2 | Operand 3 | Operand 4 |
| RMI | ModRM:reg (r, w) | ModRM:r/m (r) | imm8 | NA |
| RVMI | ModRM:reg (w) | VEX.vvvv (r) | ModRM:r/m (r) | imm8 |
Conditionally multiplies the packed single precision floating-point values in the destination operand (first operand) with the packed single-precision floats in the source (second operand) depending on a mask extracted from the high 4 bits of the immediate byte (third operand). If a condition mask bit in Imm8[7:4] is zero, the corresponding multiplication is replaced by a value of 0.0 in the manner described by Section 12.8.4 of Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 1.
The four resulting single-precision values are summed into an intermediate result. The intermediate result is conditionally broadcasted to the destination using a broadcast mask specified by bits [3:0] of the immediate byte.
If a broadcast mask bit is “1”, the intermediate result is copied to the corresponding dword element in the destination operand. If a broadcast mask bit is zero, the corresponding element in the destination is set to zero.
DPPS follows the NaN forwarding rules stated in the Software Developer’s Manual, vol. 1, table 4-7. These rules do not cover horizontal prioritization of NaNs. Horizontal propagation of NaNs to the destination and the positioning of those NaNs in the destination is implementation dependent. NaNs on the input sources or computationally generated NaNs will have at least one NaN propagated to the destination.
128-bit Legacy SSE version: The second source can be an XMM register or an 128-bit memory location. The destination is not distinct from the first source XMM register and the upper bits (MAXVL-1:128) of the corresponding YMM register destination are unmodified.
VEX.128 encoded version: the first source operand is an XMM register or 128-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. The upper bits (MAXVL-1:128) of the corresponding YMM register destination are zeroed.
VEX.256 encoded version: The first source operand is a YMM register. The second source operand can be a YMM register or a 256-bit memory location. The destination operand is a YMM register.
IF (imm8[4] = 1) THEN Temp1[31:0]←DEST[31:0] * SRC[31:0]; // update SIMD exception flags ELSE Temp1[31:0]←+0.0; FI; IF (imm8[5] = 1) THEN Temp1[63:32]←DEST[63:32] * SRC[63:32]; // update SIMD exception flags ELSE Temp1[63:32]←+0.0; FI; IF (imm8[6] = 1) THEN Temp1[95:64]←DEST[95:64] * SRC[95:64]; // update SIMD exception flags ELSE Temp1[95:64]←+0.0; FI; IF (imm8[7] = 1) THEN Temp1[127:96]←DEST[127:96] * SRC[127:96]; // update SIMD exception flags ELSE Temp1[127:96]←+0.0; FI; Temp2[31:0]←Temp1[31:0] + Temp1[63:32]; // update SIMD exception flags /* if unmasked exception reported, execute exception handler*/ Temp3[31:0]←Temp1[95:64] + Temp1[127:96]; // update SIMD exception flags /* if unmasked exception reported, execute exception handler*/ Temp4[31:0]←Temp2[31:0] + Temp3[31:0]; // update SIMD exception flags /* if unmasked exception reported, execute exception handler*/ IF (imm8[0] = 1) THEN DEST[31:0]←Temp4[31:0]; ELSE DEST[31:0]←+0.0; FI; IF (imm8[1] = 1) THEN DEST[63:32]←Temp4[31:0]; ELSE DEST[63:32]←+0.0; FI; IF (imm8[2] = 1) THEN DEST[95:64]←Temp4[31:0]; ELSE DEST[95:64]←+0.0; FI; IF (imm8[3] = 1) THEN DEST[127:96]←Temp4[31:0]; ELSE DEST[127:96]←+0.0; FI;
DEST[127:0]←DP_Primitive(SRC1[127:0], SRC2[127:0]); DEST[MAXVL-1:128] (Unmodified)
DEST[127:0]←DP_Primitive(SRC1[127:0], SRC2[127:0]); DEST[MAXVL-1:128] ← 0
DEST[127:0]←DP_Primitive(SRC1[127:0], SRC2[127:0]); DEST[255:128]←DP_Primitive(SRC1[255:128], SRC2[255:128]);
None
(V)DPPS: __m128 _mm_dp_ps ( __m128 a, __m128 b, const int mask);
VDPPS: __m256 _mm256_dp_ps ( __m256 a, __m256 b, const int mask);
Overflow, Underflow, Invalid, Precision, Denormal
Exceptions are determined separately for each add and multiply operation, in the order of their execution. Unmasked exceptions will leave the destination operands unchanged.
See Exceptions Type 2.


Akira Synopsis
Set in a dystopian, cyberpunk-themed 2019, Akira tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda(金田 正太郎), a leader of a local biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible powers after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening the entire military complex amidst chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of neo-Tokyo. While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the manga, the plot differs considerably and prunes much of the last half of Akira.
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We hold adoption events every Saturday and Sunday at Petco in Manhattan, KS
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An account of how two !kun (called |xue and ||namme) go into the house of a |nani. They sit down at the |nani's fire to warm themselves because it has been raining. A |nani child sees them and wakes his father and tells him that two !kun are warming themselves at the fire. The !kun men run away and the |nani father chases them and aims at them with his bow and arrow. The |nani throws an axe at the retreating men but misses them and |xue shoots and kills him instead.
Comments
1) p.9311: Tamme heard this from his father (||namme) who heard it from his father (Nakua), 2) Although the title says '|xe', presumably it refers to '|xue' who does appear later in the story to shoot the |nani, 3) p.9312v: the Ovaherero do not come into contact with the |nani because the |nani's country is too far off; the |nani do come into contact with the Makoba and go on or in their boats (it isn't clear for what purpose), 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4
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Tamme (XII) (and possibly additions by !nanni)
Date
11 February 1880 (given on or about)
Categories
Relations with others, Custom and daily life
Keywords
Tamme (his father's name is ||namme) , Tamme (his experience with the |nani) , Tamme (his description of the |nani) , |nani (their appearance) , |nani (a description of them) , |nani (are tall and black) , |nani (have guns which resemble them) , |nani (resemble the Ovaherero) , |nani (Tamme does not understand their language) , |nani (their speech, or language) , |nani (and two !kun called |xue and ||namme) , |nani (one is killed by |xue) , |nani (one tries to catch and kill the two !kun) , |xue (|xe) , |xue (kills the |nani) , |xue (and ||namme, and the |nani) , !kun (their relations with the |nani) , !kun (their relations with others) , names (of peoples in !kun country) , names (of Tamme's relations) , names (the Ovaherero) , names (the |nani) , language (spoken by the |nani) , language (understood by Tamme) , peoples (of Damaraland) , peoples (found in !kun country) , peoples (the Ovaherero) , peoples (the |nani)
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9310v-9312v, 9312-9314


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The Islamic Resistance Movement Presents a "Cease-Fire"
01 Apr 2015##Yeah Right.
With all eyes on Lausanne and a potential nuclear agreement with Iran, the world’s attention has shifted away from another potential agreement that was making headlines just 3 weeks ago: a Hamas-proposed multi-year cease-fire with Israel.
Last summer, the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, not only engaged in a war with Israel (alongside Islamic Jihad and Fatah), but continued in its campaign to deceive and dupe the world in a way that was successful beyond their wildest dreams. News media from around the world unquestioningly reproduced the Islamic Resistance Movement’s lies about civilian casualties, disproportionate use of force by Israel, and refused to discuss the widespread use of human shields.
The main reason for this was spelled out clearly by Matti Friedman of Tablet who blew the lid off the AP and international news media’s obsessive and slanted focus on Israel. While explaining why in 2009 the media ignored Olmert’s peace overtures to the Palestinians, Friedman explained “[the media’s] narrative was that the Palestinians were moderate and the Israelis recalcitrant and increasingly extreme.” The media and international community have been so convinced that the Two-State Solution is the only possible and just answer, that anything that contradicts it must be either maligned or altered.
It is this preoccupation with forcing a Two-State Solution that has led members of the media to report the Islamic Resistance Movement’s “moderate overtures” without the slightest hint of journalistic questioning. Every few months a journalist will jump on a statement made anonymously (and only in English, of course) by a “senior Hamas official” indicating that the Islamic Resistance Movement has moderated and will accept a Two-State Solution. There is no skepticism offered because the journalists involved need it to be true.
That is why a letter from the Islamic Resistance Movement to Tony Blair, envoy of the so-called Quartet, was being trumpeted so loudly (despite denials from the group that such a letter even exists). In addition the letter (which I have reproduced with comment below) Hamas has outlined the three conditions of its tahidi’a or quieting (as outlined by The Times of Israel:
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All forms of military conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will cease.
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Israel will commit to removing the blockade on Gaza, including: opening all crossings around Gaza; permitting unfettered import and export from Gaza; allowing the construction of a sea and airport.
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The tahidi’a will last between three and five years starting from the moment the agreement is signed, but the two sides will finalize the exact length of the ceasefire.
The media is excited by this “clear moderation” saying this proves the Islamic Resistance Movement has changed and is willing to live with Israel as long as the blockade is lifted.
This is utter nonsense as each of these three conditions are unacceptable to Israel as they would be to any country in Israel’s position. Behind the pretty language, this is what the conditions really are:
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Israel cannot take action against any terrorist group in Gaza, even in self-defense.
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Israel will allow the Islamic Resistance Movement to build a sea and airport with which it can then import more weapons and war materiel without oversight.
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The Islamic Resistance Movement will then be able to resume hostilities against Israel after an agreed upon timeframe when it is even better equipped to do so.
###Deconstructing Hamas’s “Moderate” Letter
The letter itself is titled “The Current Crisis & Hamas Vision.” Let’s go line by line (this could take a while, but it’s necessary) and expose it for what it really is:
The situation in Palestine is obviously in its worst phase throughout the history of Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Really? We’re supposed to believe not only that this is the worst it’s ever been but that the Palestinians are actually struggling for freedom and not Israel’s destruction? We’re off to a great start!
As a national liberation movement,
Stop right there. Let us be clear, the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas, is by no means a “national liberation movement.”  The Movement’s own charter makes any form of nationalism subservient to Islam.
Look at Article 12 of the the Islamic Resistance Movement’s Charter “Hamas in Palestine, Its Views on Homeland and Nationalism”:
Hamas regards Nationalism (Wataniyya) as part and parcel of the religious faith. Nothing is loftier or deeper in Nationalism than waging Jihad against the enemy and confronting him when he sets foot on the land of the Muslims… the nationality of Hamas also carries… the all important divine factors which lend to it its spirit and life; so much so that it connects with the origin of the spirit and the source of life and raises in the skies of the Homeland the Banner of the Lord, thus inexorably connecting earth with Heaven.
Or from Article 13:
the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith
Or from Article 25:
Hamas is a movement of Jihad
Nationalism is just a western word the Islamic Resistance Movement has appropriated and it is clear that nationalism is subservient to Islam. Hamas’s ultimate allegiance is to Islam (or their interpretation of it) and not to any separate nationalism.
The letter continues:
Hamas urges all parties concerned, particularly the Middle East Quartet to undertake their responsibilities towards the dangers generated by the unprecedented political deadlock on Palestinians. Theses dangers include the Israeli continuous Judaization of Jerusalem, attacks against Al-Aqsa Mosque, settlements construction, ceaseless aggressions at, and suffocating blockade of, the Gaza Strip among others.
Noticeably absent from the list of parties with responsibilities is of course the Islamic Resistance Movement itself. Surely only Fatah is responsible for the intra-Palestinian deadlock. And they wouldn’t be Hamas if they didn’t add in a list of imaginary crimes Israel is committing.
The repercussions of the anger and despair in the Palestinian territories may lead to an explosion that might not only affect one party of the conflict but it may also extend to other parts of the region.
According to the Islamic Resistance Movement’s narrative that has been largely accepted by Western governments, if Palestinians don’t get their way, they are perfectly justified in engaging in violence. This view of Palestinians as children with no control over their own decisions is disgusting, patronizing, and racist.
But the really important part of this is the reference to “other parts of the region.” This is a veiled threat to Egypt, which has enacted a much stricter blockade of Gaza than Israel and is fighting Hamas-aligned ISIS terrorists in Sinai. Hamas wants to avoid more violence with Egypt and knows this is mutual, so it is offering Egypt a way to avoid it by calling on it to pressure Israel to accept this deal.
The letter continues:
We would like to stress the following points:
1- Hamas is a national liberation movement that conducts its activities only within Palestine’s borders.
We already showed that the Islamic Resistance Movement is not a national liberation organization, but this first point is meant to convince Egypt again that is is only interested in destroying Israel and will leave Sisi alone if he leaves them alone. This would be more convincing if there wasn’t concrete evidence of Hamas activity in Sinai as recently as last month. But I guess The Islamic Resistance Movement is hoping Egypt is just as gullible as the western audience of this letter.
2- Having an Islamic background and moderate ideology, Hamas believes in positive dialogue between difference civilizations with no recourse to violence or oppression.
Anyone with even a minimal knowledge of the Islamic Resistance Movement, its ideology, and its actions will know it is in no way moderate. The only cross-civilizational discourse it knows is violence.
3- Hamas has nothing to do with any sectarian, ethnic or political conflict in the region.
This is the same group that violently took control of Gaza and has persecuted, tortured, and jailed all its opponents there.
4- (unpictured)…Palestinian struggle is struggle against the Israeli occupation not against Judaism per se.
The first part of this line isn’t pictured, but the Islamic Resistance Movement is trying to distance itself from its anti-Semitic and genocidal charter. Sure, it isn’t against Judaism “per se” only against anyone who practices Judaism and wants to stay alive.
The Hamas Charter is clear about how it views the Jews.  This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim).
From Article 13:
“And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed. Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah [himself] is the Guidance. And if you should follow their desires after the knowledge which has come unto thee, then you would have from Allah no protecting friend nor helper.” Sura 2 (the Cow), verse 120 There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.
From Article 28:
Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims.
From Article 32:
[Hamas] joins its efforts to all those who are active on the Palestinian scene, but more steps need to be taken by the Arab and Islamic peoples and Islamic associations throughout the Arab and Islamic world in order to make possible the next round with the Jews, the merchants of war.
If any other “national liberation movement” contained such anti-Semitism or racism against another people, it would be shunned completely. But since Hamas is talking nicer in English (though not Arabic, of course) people are willing to ignore it.
I wonder if the KKK would be accepted if they started talking nicer about black people while not denouncing their violent, racist past…
Ok, back to the letter:
5- We seek to restore unalienated rights of the Palestinian people, believing if the political way achieves such objective, it would be the best.
That’s interesting, especially since Article 13 of the Hamas Charter states “There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. The initiatives, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.” This has not been updated, altered, or abrogated. You’d think that if the Islamic Resistance Movement was changing this policy they’d update their founding document and tell their people in Arabic. But these “changes” never show up in Arabic because they are for naive external consumption only.
6- Believing in democracy and peaceful transition of power, Hamas cherishes respect for human rights in general and rights of women in particular.
The Islamic Resistance Movement only believes in democracy (a word not mentioned once in their charter) as a means toward establishing their Caliphate. They weren’t so peaceful in 2007 when they broke their national unity government and violently seized control of Gaza. Gaza has one of the worst human and women’s rights records in the world, and was responsible not only for using children as human shields, but also the deaths of at least 160 children who died digging tunnels for Hamas. This is the type of respect Hamas has for human rights.
7- Over the last months, Hamas has taken all necessary measures and made concessions needed for reconciliation. It also did its best to help consensus government succeed as the movement accepted to have the government formed of professional ministers and Palestinian national competencies regardless of political affiliation. It also agreed to rule out any steps or personalities that may disrupt the Government’s work or being internationally unaccepted.
This is pure fantasy. The Islamic Resistance Movement agreed to a national unity government but never relinquished control of Gaza, forcing Palestinians wishing to enter or exit to go through 3 border crossings: 1 Israeli, 1 PA, and 1 Hamas (all Egyptian crossings are closed). What’s more, after signing an agreement with Abbas, Hamas began planning his overthrow and was only thwarted by Israel. Anyone thinking Hamas will keep its word need look no further than how it held up its agreement with the PA.
Being a major Palestinian faction, Hamas believes it’s necessary to act immediately in order to end the crisis. Consequently, Hamas’s vision is offered as follows:
1- Hamas will not oppose a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and with keeping the right of return for the Palestinians.
Listen to that lukewarm approval. The Islamic Resistance Movement is so gracious not to oppose a Palestinian state in the 1949 armistice lines as long as it can also flood Israel with millions of Palestinians. That’s because once Israel has a Palestinian majority as well, both states can be merged and Israel will be no more (any Jews who haven’t emigrated at that point will likely be killed).
2- Hamas is eager to install and continue the calm and complete searching the remaining issue including the airport and seaport through indirect negotiations.
Israel is surely comforted that the Islamic Resistance Movement is willing to stop attacking long enough to open weapons importing facilities by air and sea.
3- Hamas is committed to the national reconciliation document signed by the Palestinian factions in 2006, which determined the common national position regarding all issues.
If this is the case, then the Islamic Resistance Movement would not have planned a coup in the West Bank and would have turned over Gaza to the PA.
4- Hamas is committed to the agreements of the Palestinian-Palestinian reconciliation.
See above.
5- Hamas is eager to have good relations with the international community as the movement is ready to talk to the international community over all the issues that may serve the international stability and peace.
This might be the only honest part of this letter. Of course the Islamic Resistance Movement wants good relations with the world! This whole letter is a propaganda ploy to make Hamas look moderate without actually having to moderate its positions on anything. Hamas is certainly willing to talk about how it will help “international stability and peace,” but in Arabic it will make it clear that peace and stability will only come once Israel is destroyed and all the Jews are dead.
6- Hamas demands to end the blockade on the Gaza Strip immediately.
All the Islamic Resistance Movement needs to do to make this happen is to disarm and hand Gaza back over to the PA. No Israeli government, left or right, will allow Hamas to import weapons at will and without proper oversight.
7- Hamas demands to open all Gaza crossings and speed up reconstruction and development.
This point tries to make it seem like the blockade is preventing reconstruction in Gaza. Nothing could be further from the truth. According to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories, since October 2014:
So far, as a part of the reconstruction mechanism, over 62,000 tons of construction supplies have entered the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing. In addition, 43,000 Gaza residents have purchased materials for the reconstruction of their homes, a process which is ongoing. Furthermore, 50 trucks and 15 buses have been transferred into the Gaza Strip.
What’s more, this was even happening during the war last summer. The Islamic Resistance Movement even cynically fired on the Kerem Shalom crossing while Israel was transferring in humanitarian aid.
Despite the “safeguards” put in place to ensure concrete goes to Gazans rebuilding their homes and not to the Islamic Resistance Movement rebuilding terror tunnels, most concrete is being sold on the black market where it ends up being used by Hamas.
Israel sends in building materials and then Hamas takes it for use in terrorism. The Islamic Resistance Movement is the reason reconstruction and development in Gaza is nonexistent… other than the terror infrastructure that is, which is being rebuilt at lightning speed.
8- Hamas demands to work together with all parties concerned in order to bolster the national consensus government and help it succeed. This can take place through: –A- Implementing all of what has been agreed upon in this regard. –B- Adopting what Ziad Abu Amr and Ziad al-Zaza agreed upon relation to Gaza staff integration. –C- Adopting what Ziad Abu Amri and Ziad al-Zaza agreed upon in relation to Gaza Crossings. –D- Activating the issue of public freedoms and releasing political detainees. –E- Activating the national consensus government to undertake responsibilities toward the Gaza Strip and Gaza chronic problems.
What the Islamic Resistance Movement is really demanding here is that the PA and other Palestinian groups accept its dictates. If Hamas were interested in actually advancing a “national consensus government” it wouldn’t be secretly planning coups, stealing reconstruction material, intimidating, imprisoning, and torturing political opponents, or preventing children from leaving Gaza on field trips.
The Islamic Resistance Movement is solely responsible for the current situation and if it wanted to change it peacefully for the better it could do so. However, it is clear from Hamas’s actions and it’s words in Arabic that it is completely uninterested.
Sincerely, The Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Here is another thing that is often overlooked. Hamas (meaning “zeal” in Arabic and “violence” in Hebrew) is an acronym for “The Islamic Resistance Movement.” It isn’t “The Palestinian Resistance Movement,” or “The National Resistance Movement,” because neither of those ideas drives them. Hamas’s commitment to Israel’s destruction comes from its interpretation of Islam and from nowhere else. However, since it has a fun sounding acronym, people are able to pretend that it is something other than a radical Jihadi organization.
No one would ever say that Islamic Jihad or the Islamic State are just national organizations. Clearly they identify themselves as Islamists (despite the protestations of President Obama) and it would be folly to pretend they are anything else.
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of many global Islamist organizations and just happens to be based in Gaza. It would be much more difficult for Hamas to claim to be a “National Liberation Organization” if it was called by its real name.
That is why, wherever possible, the Judean People’s Front urges you to show the world they are Jihadi Islamists by using their true name:
###The Islamic Resistance Movement.


Transition of power to be decided 'when the time comes': Mahathir
SEPANG: The transition of power will be decided "when the time comes," Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday (Nov 19).
"We do not know yet whether the situation in the country now is ready for a transition in administration or not. When the time comes we will decide,” he told reporters.
Dr Mahathir was asked to comment on remarks made by former deputy president of PKR Syed Husin Ali.
The latter had said that the ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition's failure to win in the Tanjung Piai by-election at the weekend was a referendum on Dr Mahathir's leadership, news portal Malaysiakini reported.
In September, Syed Husin had also criticised Dr Mahathir for not laying out a clear plan on the power transition.
When asked on reports that several PH members of parliament have blamed him for the defeat in Tanjung Piai, Dr Mahathir said: "Maybe I was wrong; how would I know?”
READ: Pakatan Harapan must make 'drastic changes' to stay in power: Malaysian Home Affairs Minister
Barisan Nasional recaptured the Tanjung Piai seat after its candidate Dr Wee Jeck Seng won the six-cornered fight with 25,466 votes, beating out his closest rival, PH's Karmaine Sardini, with a 15,086-vote advantage.
Dr Mahathir, who is also PH chairman, said on Monday that a "detailed, serious and honest post-mortem" would be held at all levels of the party.


Research Questions
Load testing has been conducted in a virtualized environment by many companies for some time now. Although testing in this manner has not lead to any substantail failures, the quetions remains as to whether or not load testing in a virtualized enviroment will produce an accurate model for the expected results when running in a physical environment. To test this, we pose three main questions:
- Does load testing in a virtual environment yield different results than a physical environment?
- Do different virtual environments perform differently with respect to load testing?
- Do different hardware configurations affect the performance of the environments?
Methods
In order to determine any run time differences in a virtualized environment and a physical environment, direct testing of the environment performance counters should be sufficient. Applications built specifically to load test the infrastructure of a system exist and are freely available. The primary application to be used for load testing will be Dell DVD Store (DS2). Time permitting, the RUBiS platform will also be used to provide some variety in software testing. Also, included in this testing will be two types of virtualization software, Virtual Box and VMware. Time permitting, I would like to test in other virtualization software platforms, but these will be the primary test beds. Because different virtualization platforms handle the virtual environment in different ways, these are the most important components of the testing.
The testing will be conducted in five phases:
- Data collection from the physical environment (multiple runs)
- Data averaging of the physical environment
- Data collection from the virtual environment (multiple runs)
- Virtual Box data collection
- VMware data collection
- Data averaging of the virtual environment
- Virtual Box data averaging
- VMware data averaging
- Data comparison and analysis
Performance counter logs can be of terabyte sizes and difficult to analyze. To handle this, I will wrote custom scripts to average and graph the data for easy analysis. Once the performance reports have been generated, I will compare the results for each respective environment. To speed up the process of data collection and to stream line to process, I have written a series of shell scripts that are used to automate the the process of cleaning the database, starting a system monitor and collecting its data, starting ds2, and backing up the data. These scripts are driven by cron jobs. Tests are scheduled to run for a 75 minute period, a new test executes every 90 minutes.
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Test Execution
The test executes in four steps:
- Cleaning up
- Stoping and restarting the MySQL Server to close any connections to it
- Clearing the database data added during the last run and restoring it to its initial state
- Stop the Tomcat Server to close any connections to it
- Removing all Tomcat logs
- Restarting the Tomcat Server
- Start the monitor, monitor connects to:
- Tomcat Server
- MySQL Server
- Driver
- Start the Driver
- Collect the data from the monitor
The automation scripts are running around the clock on a central machine, which will then login to the other machines using SSH. From there they will execute the commands needed to perform the tasks for each respective machine. Once the test has finished, SFTP is used to transfer the files back to the central machine. Everyday at 6 pm a backup is made and sent to a remote machine for redundant data storage. The data organization scheme uses following hierarchy:
- Config File
- Platform (operating system_hypervisor)
- Test number
- ExecutionLog.txt
- WebData.csv
- WebDataRaw.csv
- MySQLData.csv
- MySQLDataRaw.csv
- DriverData.csv
- DriverDataRaw.csv
Hardware
Currently we have 28 machines at our disposal for the purpose of this research, 17 of them are Dell Optiplex 780s (15 pictured). To reduce the number of variables in the testing, we have decided to restrict the testing to only these machines as they make up the majority of the available hardware. By restriciting to only these machines, we remove all hardware variables. Each 780 is equipt with 4 gigabytes of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo. With the exception of the graphics cards being removed and RAM being added, these machines have not been modified in anyway. They are not overclocked, undervolted, or by any other means altered.
Every machine is dual booting Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Windows 7 Professional. With the exception of the tools needed to run DS2, and the addition of the XFCE Desktop Environment added to Ubuntu, neither system has undergone modification. The entire cluster is running on its own priviate network. Each stack of machines is capable of facilitating a test environment, which can then be driven using the central machine. Testing is limited to two stacks right now, as the router we have for the time being is insufficient to handle the demands of running running three test environments(operating system/hypervisor) similtaneously. Efforts are being made to secure a more powerful router so that testing may be expanded to handle more environments at once.
Software
The relevant software versions running on the machines is as follows:
Windows 7 Professional
- MySQL Server 5.7
- MySQL J Connector 3.1.14
- Tomcat 6
- Python 3.6
- Psutil 5.2.2
- Java Runtime Engine 8
- Bitvise SSH Server
Ubuntu Server 16.04
- MySQL Server 5.7
- MySQL J Connector 3.1.14
- Tomacat 6
- Python 3.5
- Psutil 3.4.2
- Open Java Runtime Engine 8
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mystic/examples/test_rosenbrock.py
r117 r118 5 5 6 6 This is a very popular function for testing minimization algorithm. 7 The following provides tests for both bounded and unbounded minimization 8 of the Rosenbrock function with Differential Evolution. 7 9 8 10 For direct searches, Nelder-Mead does very well on this problem. 9 10 Run optimize.py in scipy.optimize to see a comparison of Nelder-Mead and a few other solvers 11 For a direct comparison between DE and steepest-descent solvers, run 12 test_rosenbrock*.py (or optimize.py in scipy.optimize). 11 13 """ 12 14 13 from mystic.differential_evolution import DifferentialEvolutionSolver 15 from mystic.differential_evolution import DifferentialEvolutionSolver, diffev 14 16 from mystic.termination import ChangeOverGeneration, VTR 15 17 from mystic.models import rosen 16 from mystic.scipy_optimize import NelderMeadSimplexSolver as fmin17 from mystic.termination import CandidateRelativeTolerance as CRT18 18 from mystic import Sow 19 19 … … 21 21 random.seed(123) 22 22 23 ND = 624 NP = 6023 ND = 3 24 NP = 30 25 25 MAX_GENERATIONS = 99999 26 26 … … 59 59 ssow= Sow() 60 60 61 #xinit = [random.random() for j in range(ND)]62 xinit = [0.8,1.2,0.7] *263 #xinit = [0.8,1.2,1.7]*2#... better when using "bad" range64 min = [-0.999, -0.999, 0.999] *2#XXX: behaves badly when large range65 max = [200.001, 100.001, inf] *2#... for >=1 x0 out of bounds; (up xtol)66 # min = [-0.999, -0.999, -0.999] *267 # max = [200.001, 100.001, inf] *268 # min = [-0.999, -0.999, 0.999] *269 # max = [2.001, 1.001, 1.001] *261 # xinit = [random.random() for j in range(ND)] 62 xinit = [0.8,1.2,0.7] 63 # xinit = [0.8,1.2,1.7] #... better when using "bad" range 64 min = [-0.999, -0.999, 0.999] #XXX: behaves badly when large range 65 max = [200.001, 100.001, inf] #... for >=1 x0 out of bounds; (up xtol) 66 # min = [-0.999, -0.999, -0.999] 67 # max = [200.001, 100.001, inf] 68 # min = [-0.999, -0.999, 0.999] #XXX: tight range and non-randomness 69 # max = [2.001, 1.001, 1.001] #...: is _bad_ for DE solvers 70 70 71 solver = fmin(len(xinit)) 71 #print diffev(rosen,xinit,NP,retall=0,full_output=0) 72 solver = DifferentialEvolutionSolver(len(xinit), NP) 72 73 solver.SetInitialPoints(xinit) 73 74 solver.SetStrictRanges(min,max) 74 solver.Solve(rosen, CRT(), EvaluationMonitor = esow, StepMonitor = ssow) 75 solver.SetEvaluationLimits(maxiter=MAX_GENERATIONS) 76 solver.Solve(rosen, VTR(0.0001), EvaluationMonitor=esow, StepMonitor=ssow,\ 77 CrossProbability=0.5, ScalingFactor=0.6) 75 78 sol = solver.Solution() 76 79 print sol … … 84 87 #print len(esow.x) 85 88 #print len(ssow.x) 86 print "\nstep x:\n", ssow.x[1:10][0]87 print "\nstep y:\n", ssow.y[1:10][0]89 #print "\nstep x:\n", ssow.x[1:10][0] 90 #print "\nstep y:\n", ssow.y[1:10][0] 88 91 89 92
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