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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana%20TV | Fana TV is an Ethiopian satellite television network owned by Fana Broadcasting Corporate, which is a state-owned company. Launched in September 2017, the network is based in Ethiopia and broadcasts programming in Amharic. It has its studios located at the headquarters of Fana Broadcasting Corporate in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In recent years, the channel stretched its network with number of news correspondents across the nation.
History
In 2014, Fana Broadcasting Corporate conducted worldwide procurement with provision of lot, to complete modern, high-definition television. Telmaco was one of participant to the tender that proposed to offer specialized in system-integrator. In June 2015, Telmaco was awarded after long technical negotiation to LOT-2 design and successfully designed to operate the station.
Test transmission was commenced with HD in July 2017 with only broadcasting music videos. Fana TV began broadcasting regular programmes in September via Eutelsat and Ethiosat. Throughout the transmission, Fana garnered public attention and growing market shares during 2018. Serial dramas and reality shows are prominent from past years and increasing the number of news correspondents across Ethiopia, becoming the current mostly watched television channel in recent years.
Platforms
Fana TV was initially made available through Ethiosat in late 2017. In March 2018, Fana TV signed an agreement with South African Digital Satellite Television (DStv) to make the channel more widely available throughout Africa and local internet provider called Websprix launched the first IPTV in Ethiopia which Fana TV started broadcasting.
Programming
News
Fana 90 (ፋና 90)
Fana Zena (ፋና ዜና)
Fana Kelemat (ፋና ቀለማት)
Alem Shemach (ዓለም ሸማች)
Entertainment
Tibeb Befana (ጥበብ በፋና)
Geordana’s Kichen Show (ጆርዳና ኩሽና ሾው)
Fana Lamrot (ፋና ላምሮት)
Drama/Sitcoms
Tireta (ትርታ)
Min Letazez (ምን ልታዘዝ?)
Zetenegnaw Shi (ዘጠነኛው ሺህ)
Survivor
References
Television channels in Ethiopia
Television channels and stations established in 2017
Satellite television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Huttenlocher | Daniel Peter Huttenlocher is an American computer scientist, academic administrator and corporate director. He is the inaugural dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he was the inaugural dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech at Cornell University, and a director of Amazon. He joined the department of computer science at Cornell in 1988, and he owned 24 patents in computer vision by 2015.
Before Cornell, Huttenlocher had previously worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and was Chief Technology Officer at Intelligent Markets. He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and earned his master's and doctorate (1988) degrees from MIT, the latter under Shimon Ullman.
In February 2019, he was named by MIT to be the head of its new Schwarzman College of Computing starting in August 2019.
Books
The Age of AI. And Our Human Future, with Henry A. Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2021
References
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Cornell University faculty
Cornell Tech faculty
American computer scientists
American corporate directors
Amazon (company) people
American chief technology officers
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Caspi | Guy Caspi is an America-based serial entrepreneur. He was one of the members of Israel Defense Forces’ elite cyber team.
Early life and career
Capsi was born and raised in Rehovot, Israel. He holds BSc, MSc and MBA degrees in mathematics, Machine Learning and Business from various universities in Israel and USA.
Between 2005 and 2011, Capsi served as vice president and chief business officer in the Israel and US branches of Mavenir Systems(previously Comverse technology).
He has served has president and general manager at Comverse Technology (Verint Group).
Deep Instinct
In 2015, Caspi along with Eli David and Nadav Maman, co-founded Deep Instinct, a company that applies artificial intelligence’s deep learning to cybersecurity.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Israeli descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%208%20%28Wuhan%20Metro%29 | Line 8 of the Wuhan Metro was opened on 26 December 2017 as the sixth line in the Wuhan Metro network and the third line (after Line 2 and Line 4) in the system to cross the Yangtze River.
History
Line 8 is 38.197 kilometers in length and is completed in three phases.
The first phase of Line 8, running from Jintan Road station in Hankou to Liyuan station in Wuchang, was opened on 26 December 2017.
The second phase takes a north-south alignment in Wuchang from Liyuan station to Yezhihu station opened on 2 January 2021.
The third phase, an extension lately added to previous Line 8 plans, runs from Yezhihu station to Military Athletes' Village station, intending to serve the athlete village and audiences of 2019 Military World Games. Therefore, the third phase was opened on 6 November 2019, prior to the scheduled open date of the second phase.
Stations
References
Railway lines opened in 2017
2017 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling%20%28film%29 | Bling is a 2016 computer-animated science fiction action film featuring the voices of Taylor Kitsch, Jennette McCurdy, James Woods, Carla Gugino, Tom Green, Jon Heder and Jason Mewes.
Plot
In a future where robots are commonplace, Sam is a lowly theme park mechanic in a robot theme park called RoboWorld in New York. He is in love with his girlfriend and childhood sweetheart Sue Widdington (who works as a reporter for channel six news) and wants to propose to her in a spectacular way with a bling ring on the upcoming Valentine's Day. He lives with 3 robots he built namely Kit, Okra and Wilmer who all want to be popular superheroes. After buying an expensive engagement ring for Sue, Sam and the trio witness the robbery of another expensive ring by famous supervillain Oscar and his robot henchman Victor. Apparently Oscar is madly in love with the mayor Catherine who is Sue's aunt who doesn't love him. He forces her to accept his proposal in her office but when it doesn't work he escapes with the help of Victor. Sam makes another spectacular plan to propose to Sue during the Valentine's Day parade. Oscar makes plans to force Catherine to accept his proposal by creating a giant robot (that has a head that resembles his) made from smaller robots disguised as ATMs that would destroy the city if she doesn't accept his proposal. He remakes the ring he stole into a remote control for all his robots including Victor. After planting the robots as ATMs in RoboWorld, he and Oscar bump into Sam and Sam mistakes Oscar's ring as his and tries to take it not knowing that his own ring is in his pocket. Victor takes the ring and the two supervillains drive off. Sam and his friends chase after them still convinced that Oscar took Sue's ring.
The chase leads into a dangerous confrontation with Victor and ends with the robot henchman endangering a school bus in a Cloud Road and running off with the ring. Sam and friends save the bus and get praised as heroes. They track Victor to Oscar's lair and steal the ring only for them to face Victor and Oscar's robots in a deadly confrontation. During the fight, Sam's friends realize that the ring belongs to Oscar but decides to help Sam escape so that he could propose to Sue. Sam escapes to propose to sue only to find out the ring is Oscar's. He stops and Sue becomes disappointed in him for not being able to propose and walks off. Dejected, Sam walks off sadly. meanwhile, Victor finds Sam's ring and gives it to Oscar and they both head off to the Valentine's Day parade with an army of robots. En route, Victor discovers that Oscar never really cared about him and only became a villain because of Catherine, so he rebels against him only to be fired and kicked out by Oscar. Feeling betrayed, Victor pledges revenge and meets Sam who gives him Oscar's ring sadly. At the Parade, Catherine is interviewed by Sue and Oscar appears and assembles his giant robot and discovers that the ring given to him by Victor is Sam's. Victor appears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriol%20Pamies | Oriol Pamies (born October 17, 1989) is a Spanish entrepreneur, LGBT activist and tourism expert, known for co-founding LGBT social network, Moovz and Queer Destinations.
Early life
Pamies was born in Reus, Catalonia. In 2008, he moved to Barcelona for his studies, which he dropped when he started to pursue his entrepreneurial career.
In 2012, following an invitation from Idan Matalon, Pamies travelled to Israel to explore new business opportunities.
Career
Moovz and LGBT activism
Pamies joined the Israeli start-up Interacting Technology as their VP Business Development becoming one of the founders of Moovz, an LGBT social network. While in Israel he became an active member of the local LGBT and tech community.
In 2016, Pamies partnered with YouTuber Julio Jaramillo and Juana Martinez in a campaign to defend diversity and tolerance. In 2017, Pamies led Moovz to become the official social network of Madrid World Pride 2017 2017.
Pamies has taken part in various conferences, presenting topics related to entrepreneurship, online marketing and activism.
Tourism industry
Through Moovz, Pamies works to position tourist destinations as LGBT friendly. In 2015 and through a partnership with Tel Aviv Municipality, he was behind a project that broadcast through the app the Tel Aviv Pride Parade. In 2016, he advocated and promoted Israel through an interview at the Spanish magazine Shangay. In May 2017, during the annual convention of International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) in St. Petersburg, Florida, he delivered the first keynote in Spanish. In September 2017 in Bogotá, he took part at the International Congress of Social Mobility and Right to the city, organised by the City Hall, where he presented a case study on how the Gay Pride Parade can contribute at the positioning and International promotion of a city as an LGBT friendly destination.
In 2018, he joined the board of directors of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), a non-profit organization with 37 years of history dedicated to promoting LGBTQ+ tourism worldwide. He also created and organized Open Sea Cruise, a 7-day LGBTQ+ event in a cruise ship with over 1200 people from more than 54 countries joined by artists like Icona Pop, Vengaboys, Kazaky, Eleni Foureira, Conchita Wurst, and RuPaul. The cruise was focused on wellness, fitness and pop music parties and visited cities like Ibiza, Barcelona, Toulon and Ajaccio.
In 2019, he founded Queer Destinations, a company focused on the promotion of LGBTQ+ tourism, developing an international tourism certification. The IGLTA and Queer Destinations signed an agreement with the Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco Marqués, to promote the tourist promotion oriented to the LGBTI segment in Mexico. That same year, Pamies also developed and launched an LGBT tourism pilot program in Mexico, initially running the program in Yucatán state.
Publications
In 2019, Pamies published his first book, Ahora Que Ya Lo Sab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei%20Pan-Borneo%20Highway | The Brunei Pan-Borneo Highway is a network of national roads in Brunei that forms the Bruneian section of the larger Pan-Borneo Highway network, with the total length of . Due to its geography, the Brunei Pan-Borneo Highway is divided into two sections that are sandwiched between the three sections of Malaysian Pan-Borneo Highway in Sarawak.
List of interchanges, intersections and towns
Jalan Rasau Bypass
Jalan Seria Bypass
Jalan Lumut Bypass
Jalan Tutong–Seria
Jalan Tutong Bypass
Muara–Tutong Highway
Jalan Jerudong
Jalan Tutong
Jalan Mulaut–Limau Manis
Jalan Bangar–Puni–Ujong Jalan
Jalan Labu
References
Roads and Highways in Brunei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20object | In category theory, an abstract branch of mathematics, and in its applications to logic and theoretical computer science, a list object is an abstract definition of a list, that is, a finite ordered sequence.
Formal definition
Let C be a category with finite products and a terminal object 1.
A list object over an object of C is:
an object ,
a morphism : 1 → , and
a morphism : × →
such that for any object of with maps : 1 → and : × → , there exists a unique : → such that the following diagram commutes:
where〈id, 〉denotes the arrow induced by the universal property of the product when applied to id (the identity on ) and . The notation * (à la Kleene star) is sometimes used to denote lists over .
Equivalent definitions
In a category with a terminal object 1, binary coproducts (denoted by +), and binary products (denoted by ×), a list object over can be defined as the initial algebra of the endofunctor that acts on objects by ↦ 1 + ( × ) and on arrows by ↦ [id1,〈id, 〉].
Examples
In Set, the category of sets, list objects over a set are simply finite lists with elements drawn from . In this case, picks out the empty list and corresponds to appending an element to the head of the list.
In the calculus of inductive constructions or similar type theories with inductive types (or heuristically, even strongly typed functional languages such as Haskell), lists are types defined by two constructors, nil and cons, which correspond to and , respectively. The recursion principle for lists guarantees they have the expected universal property.
Properties
Like all constructions defined by a universal property, lists over an object are unique up to canonical isomorphism.
The object 1 (lists over the terminal object) has the universal property of a natural number object. In any category with lists, one can define the length of a list to be the unique morphism : → 1 which makes the following diagram commute:
References
See also
Natural number object
F-algebra
Initial algebra
Objects (category theory)
Topos theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202018%20%28U.S.%29 | The list of number-one digital songs of 2018 in the United States are based upon the highest-selling downloaded songs ranked in the Digital Song Sales chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a summarized figure.
Chart history
References
External links
Current Digital Songs chart
United States Digital Songs
2018
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimo%20Cort%C3%A9s | Jerónimo Cortés (c. 1560 - c. 1611) was a Spanish mathematician, astronomer, naturalist and Valencian compiler.
Works
Many of Cortés works involved compilations of knowledge and writings of other authors. Some works include:
Tratado del cómputo por la mano (1591)
Compendio de reglas breves (1594)
Lunario perpetuo (1594)
Fisonomía natural y varios secretos de naturaleza (1597).
Aritmética práctica (1604)
Libro y tratado de los animales terrestres y volátiles (1613)
References
Further reading
Vol. I. Vol. II-III. Vol. IV.
Vol. I. Vol. II.
17th-century Spanish mathematicians
17th-century Spanish astronomers
Spanish naturalists
1611 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
16th-century Spanish mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Godfathers%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Godfathers is an Australian comedy drama television series which aired on the Nine Network from 1971 to 1972. This family series was created by Robert Bruning and Michael Laurence, who also had starring roles.
Plot summary
The Godfathers follows the story of widow Maria Varga, who decides to take in boarders into her house to help make ends meet. Her young son Mike is initially opposed to the idea and resents the new boarders until they throw him a surprise birthday party. He adopts the three boarders as his 'godfathers'.
Cast
Anna Volska as Maria Varga
Ashley Grenville as Mike Varga
Robert Bruning as Chris Johnson
Michael Laurence as Peter Fairhall
Eric Oldfield as Gary Peterson
Harold Hopkins as David Milson
Tina Grenville as Elizabeth Dent
Eve Wynne as Mrs. Parsons
Queenie Ashton as Mrs. Frenchman
Diane Craig
Production
Child Welfare Officer Elizabeth Dent was played by Tina Grenville, who was the real life mother of Ashley Grenville, who starred as Mike Varga.
When writing, producing and starring in the series became too much for Michael Laurence, he wrote his character Pete out of the series after 26 episodes but returned for guest appearances. He was replaced by a new godfather Dave, until the series ended at 72 episodes.
The theme song for the series was written and performed by Michael Caulfield.
Spin-off
A spin-off series The People Next Door was created as a replacement series and screened in 1973 for 20 episodes. It featured two characters from The Godfathers, Elizabeth Dent and David Milson. The series began with Elizabeth and her husband Bill Dunstan moving into a new house and taking in Dave as a boarder.
Awards
The Godfathers won the Logie Award for Best Comedy Series at the Logie Awards of 1973.
References
External links
The Godfathers at Classic Australian TV
1971 Australian television series debuts
1972 Australian television series endings
1970s Australian drama television series
1970s Australian comedy television series
Nine Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphrasing%20%28computational%20linguistics%29 | Paraphrase or paraphrasing in computational linguistics is the natural language processing task of detecting and generating paraphrases. Applications of paraphrasing are varied including information retrieval, question answering, text summarization, and plagiarism detection. Paraphrasing is also useful in the evaluation of machine translation, as well as semantic parsing and generation of new samples to expand existing corpora.
Paraphrase generation
Multiple sequence alignment
Barzilay and Lee proposed a method to generate paraphrases through the usage of monolingual parallel corpora, namely news articles covering the same event on the same day. Training consists of using multi-sequence alignment to generate sentence-level paraphrases from an unannotated corpus. This is done by
finding recurring patterns in each individual corpus, i.e. " (injured/wounded) people, seriously" where are variables
finding pairings between such patterns the represent paraphrases, i.e. " (injured/wounded) people, seriously" and " were (wounded/hurt) by , among them were in serious condition"
This is achieved by first clustering similar sentences together using n-gram overlap. Recurring patterns are found within clusters by using multi-sequence alignment. Then the position of argument words is determined by finding areas of high variability within each cluster, aka between words shared by more than 50% of a cluster's sentences. Pairings between patterns are then found by comparing similar variable words between different corpora. Finally, new paraphrases can be generated by choosing a matching cluster for a source sentence, then substituting the source sentence's argument into any number of patterns in the cluster.
Phrase-based Machine Translation
Paraphrase can also be generated through the use of phrase-based translation as proposed by Bannard and Callison-Burch. The chief concept consists of aligning phrases in a pivot language to produce potential paraphrases in the original language. For example, the phrase "under control" in an English sentence is aligned with the phrase "unter kontrolle" in its German counterpart. The phrase "unter kontrolle" is then found in another German sentence with the aligned English phrase being "in check," a paraphrase of "under control."
The probability distribution can be modeled as , the probability phrase is a paraphrase of , which is equivalent to summed over all , a potential phrase translation in the pivot language. Additionally, the sentence is added as a prior to add context to the paraphrase. Thus the optimal paraphrase, can be modeled as:
and can be approximated by simply taking their frequencies. Adding as a prior is modeled by calculating the probability of forming the when is substituted with
Long short-term memory
There has been success in using long short-term memory (LSTM) models to generate paraphrases. In short, the model consists of an encoder and decoder component, both implemented using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20People%20Next%20Door%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The People Next Door is an Australian comedy-drama television series which aired on the Nine Network in 1973. This family series is a spin-off of The Godfathers which ran for 72 episodes in 1971 and 1972 and was also created by Robert Bruning and Michael Laurence. It featured two characters from The Godfathers, Elizabeth Dent and David Milson.
Plot
The People Next Door follows the story of Elizabeth Dunstan (née Dent), who is now married to Bill Dunstan and they have a baby. They move into a new house and take in Dave Milson as a boarder. Michael Laurence from the previous series also makes occasional guest appearances as Pete Fairhall.
The household next door is headed by Daniel J. Penrose, an eccentric author in his 40s, and his three children, 23-year-old Meg, 19-year-old Martin and 11-year-old B.J. Joanna Church is Daniel's publisher and manager. Daniel J. Penrose is a people-hater, forbids his three children to even speak to the new neighbours and does everything he can to scare them off.
Cast
Tina Grenville as Elizabeth Dunstan (née Dent)
Alan Lander as Bill Dunstan
Harold Hopkins as David Milson
Deryck Barnes as Daniel J. Penrose
Tina Bursill as Meg Penrose
John Stanwell as B.J. Penrose
Kevin Wilson as Martin Penrose
Diana Davidson as Joanna Church
Production
The People Next Door was created as a replacement series for The Godfathers. The series was commissioned for 48 episodes and began optimistically but Low ratings caused the network to exercise their option to reduce the number of episodes and production ceased after 20 episodes were made.
References
External links
The People Next Door at Classic Australian TV
1973 Australian television series debuts
1973 Australian television series endings
1970s Australian drama television series
Nine Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20pollution%20forecasting | Air pollution forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the composition of the air pollution in the atmosphere for a given location and time. An algorithm prediction of the pollutant concentrations can be translated into air quality index, same as actual measurements.
Countries and cities are given forecasts by state and local government organizations, as well as private companies like Airly, AirVisual, Aerostate, Ambee, BreezoMeter, PlumeLabs, and DRAXIS that provide air pollution forecasts.
Motivation
Air pollution is one of the world’s biggest problems, and it causes respiratory problems, lung diseases, and cardiovascular issues and can contribute to mental health issues and aggravate existing health conditions. It can cause depletion to planetary health equally. Therefore, reducing and making people aware of these problems caused by air pollution becomes essential.
With the accurate method of forecasting air pollution, it becomes easier to manage and mitigate the risks of air pollution and ensure a safe level of pollutant concentration in the region. It also helps assess risks to the environment and the climate caused by poor air quality standards. Accurate forecasting can also lead to ease in planning day-to-day activities, avoiding locations with high alert areas, and implementing effective pollution control measures.
Techniques
As with weather forecasting, air pollution forecasting involves the central idea of taking a current snapshot of the atmosphere and using computer simulation to predict what happens next. A typical algorithm uses the following components:
An input of current air quality, monitored by local stations and remote sensing.
An input of the forecasted weather during the period of prediction, to predict any pollutant's movement.
A model of pollutant emission. This can include traffic, industry, and pollen. The cycles of pollutant emission range from daily to weekly (for human commute) and yearly (for pollen and coal-burning). Non-periodic sources such as wildfire are also considered when known.
Pollen forecasting not only matters for forecast of PM concentration, but also for allergies. There are a range of ways to do so, some taking into account the predicted weather.
Recent studies have incorporated machine learning techniques such as neural networks, regressions, and random forests to achieve high accuracy in this part.
An input of the local terrain.
An understanding of how pollutants act given certain weather and terrain conditions. This is the job done by chemical transport models and atmospheric dispersion modeling. The concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere is determined by their transport, or mean velocity of movement through the atmosphere, their diffusion, chemical transformation, and ground deposition.
The forecast temporally resolution is usually daily or hourly and the spatial resolution can change from block resolution to dozens of km resolution.
Most forecasts o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraco%20Data%20Environments | Teraco Data Environments is a carrier-, cloud- and vendor-neutral data centre provider founded by Tim Parsonson and Lex van Wyk in 2008. On August 1, 2022, Digital Realty announced that it had completed the purchase of a majority stake in Teraco, previously controlled by Berkshire Partners, Permira and a group of investors.
Overview
As the local telecommunications market began to deregulate, Teraco's founders recognised an opportunity for a truly vendor-neutral data centre offering in South Africa.
The possibility of providing a service that was not tied to any carrier or ISP became not only technically feasible and economically viable, but increasingly desirable to South African enterprises that needed unrestricted choice in how they interconnected their facilities and connected to the internet.
Teraco has brought international best practices in vendor-neutral data centre management to South Africa to give businesses a technically superior, physically safer, and lower-cost environment for their information systems. Teraco manages colocation data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban.
As Africa's leading carrier-neutral colocation provider, Teraco is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa. With its world-class data centre infrastructure and network-dense ecosystems, Teraco forms a vital part of the African internet's backbone and is essential to the modern enterprise's digital transformation strategy. Purpose-built and operated to global best practice by an organisation with an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure, Teraco offers its clients secure, cost-effective, sustainable, scalable, and resilient data centre services.
Its ever-expanding ecosystems move Teraco beyond colocation and establish it as an open marketplace for digital growth and innovation. Discovering new business partners, making strategic interconnection choices, on-ramping to a choice of cloud providers, and reaching new markets globally, Teraco provides a highly secure, flexible, and resilient home for digital organisations across the world.
Teraco is part-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) - offering customers a global data centre platform designed to enable digital business to scale within a highly connected data community across >285 data centres in 50 metros and 26 countries on six continents - and a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira. Teraco is a Level 2 BBBEE contributor (DTI Codes).
Data centres
Teraco built Africa's largest data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2012, the company created NAPAfrica, a fully funded non-profit neutral Internet eXchange Point (IXP). Teraco has additional data centres in Durban and Cape Town.
Peering by NAPAfrica
Xneelo, South Africa's web hosting company, partnered with this company. Telkom peered with NAPAfrica through its Openserve wholesale and network division in 2016. Clients will b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitman%20Richards | Whitman Albin Richards (1932–16 September 2016) was professor of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013.
He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1953, and becoming one of the first four PhD graduates of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1965.
References
1932 births
2016 deaths
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO%20%28cryptocurrency%29 | Neo is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency and application platform used to run smart contracts and decentralized applications. The project, originally named Antshares, was founded in 2014 by Da HongFei and Erik Zhang, and rebranded as Neo in 2017. In 2017 and 2018 the cryptocurrency maintained some success in the Chinese market despite the recently-enacted prohibition on cryptocurrency in that country.
Technical specifications
The Neo network runs on a proof of stake decentralized Byzantine fault tolerant (dBFT) consensus mechanism between a number of centrally approved nodes, and can support up to 10,000 transactions per second. The base asset of the Neo blockchain is the non-divisible Neo token which generates GAS tokens. These GAS tokens, a separate asset on the network, can be used to pay for transaction fees, and are divisible with smallest unit 0.00000001. The inflation rate of GAS is controlled with a decaying half life algorithm that is designed to release 100 million GAS over approximately 22 years.
X.509 Digital Identities allow developers to tie tokens to real world identities which aids in complying with KYC/AML and other regulatory requirements.
History
In 2014, Antshares was founded by Da Hongfei and Erik Zhang. In the following year, it was open-sourced on GitHub and by September 2015, the white paper was released.
A total of 100 million Neo were created in the genesis block. 50 million Neo were sold to early investors through an initial coin offering in 2016 that raised US 4.65 million, with the remaining 50 million Neo locked into a smart contract. Each year, a maximum of 15 million Neo tokens are unlocked which are used by the Neo development team to fund long-term development goals.
Neo was officially rebranded from Antshares in June 2017, with the idea of combining the past and the future.
Neo3 or N3 was first announced by Erik Zhang in 2018 as an upgrade to the previous Neo protocol (now known as Neo Legacy). Certain new features do not have backward compatibility with the Neo Legacy blockchain. N3 was implemented and launched with a new genesis block.
In March 2018, Neo's parent company Onchain distributed 1 Ontology token (ONT) for every 5 NEO held in a user's cryptocurrency wallet. These tokens were intended to be used to vote on system upgrades, identity verification mechanisms, and other governance issues on the Neo platform.
References
External links
Official Website
Blockchains
Cryptocurrency projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo%20Tsujimoto | (born December 15, 1940) is a Japanese businessman who founded the video game companies Irem and Capcom. He has also served as president of Computer Software Copyright Association (ACCS) since 1997, and was president of Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association from 2002 to 2006.
Biography
Tsujimoto was born in Kashihara, Nara, as the third son of a blacksmith. In 1956, after graduating from junior high school from his father's early death, he got a job at a nearby company, and at the same time entered the part-time system of Nara Prefectural Unebi Senior High School. After graduating from the school in March 1960, he got a job at an uncle's food wholesale company. In March 1963, he was transferred to the confectionery wholesale business run by his uncle and became independent, and although the company name was changed to Tsujimoto Shoten, he failed to manage and had a debt of several million yen.
In 1968, the confectionery retailer Tsujimoto Shoten was reopened in Osaka, and when the children lined up at the cotton candy making machine placed in the candy corner, it was not for the product itself, but for the process of making cotton candy. Two years later, Tsujimoto was peddling all over the country for the performance of selling this cotton candy making machine, and on his way home, he was entrusted with the modification of the pachinko machine and sold 1,000 units per model, so he was convinced that game entertainment would grow in the future.
In July 1974, Tsujimoto founded IPM, which became Irem and became its president. He established I.R.M. Corporation on May 30, 1979, and IRM changed its name to Sambi in 1981. The company released "IPM Invaders" and "Capsule Invaders" under license from Taito during the Invaders game epidemic. However, at Irem, Tsujimoto who was the chairman, was forced out because of poor performance due to the retreat of the Invaders boom.
On June 11, 1983, he founded Capcom as a sales company for Sambi and became president and representative director. In July of the same year, the company's first game Little League was released. In 1989, Sambi, which was developed, absorbed and merged with Capcom, which was in charge of sales, and changed the name of the surviving company, Sambi, to Capcom, and Tsujimoto continued to serve as president.
In the 1990s, Tsujimoto established his fourth company "Kenzo Estate" as a winery as a sole proprietorship. He purchased 1,500 hectares of land in Napa, California, USA, which had been idle due to Capcom's business failure, from Capcom for 7 billion yen, and made it privately owned by Tsujimoto. First shipped in 2008, this winery's white wine "Asatsuyu" was selected as one of the "best wines" by a magazine for the wealthy in the United States in 2011.
In 2001, Tsujimoto became Chairman and CEO of Capcom.
Personal life
Tsujimoto's older son, Haruhiro, has served as Capcom's President and COO since 2007. His younger son, Ryozo, is a producer of the Monster Hunter series.
Hono |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20vote%20network | In cryptography, the open vote network (or OV-net) is a secure multi-party computation protocol to compute the boolean-count function: namely, given a set of binary values 0/1 in the input, compute the total count of ones without revealing each individual value. This protocol was proposed by Feng Hao, Peter Ryan, and Piotr Zieliński in 2010. It extends Hao and Zieliński's anonymous veto network protocol by allowing each participant to count the number of veto votes (i.e., input one in a boolean-OR function) while preserving the anonymity of those who have voted. The protocol can be generalized to support a wider range of inputs beyond just the binary values 0 and 1.
Description
All participants agree on a group with a generator of prime order in which the discrete logarithm problem is hard. For example, a Schnorr group can be used. Assume there are participants. Unlike other secure multi-party computation protocols that typically require pairwise secret and authenticated channels between participants in addition to an authenticated public channel, OV-net only requires an authenticated public channel available to every participant. Such a channel may be realized by using digital signatures. The protocol runs in two rounds.
Round 1: each participant selects a random value and publishes the ephemeral public key together with a zero-knowledge proof for the proof of the knowledge of the exponent . Such proofs may be realized by using Schnorr non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs as described in RFC 8235.
After this round, each participant computes:
Round 2: each participant publishes where is either 0 or 1, together with a 1-out-of-2 zero knowledge proof for the proof that is one of . Such 1-out-of-2 proofs may be realized by using Cramer, Gennaro, and Schoenmakers' zero-knowledge proof technique.
After round 2, each participant computes . Note that all values vanish because . The exponent represents the count of ones. As it is usually a small number, the count can be computed by exhaustive search.
Overall, the 2-round efficiency is the theoretically best possible. In terms of the computational load and bandwidth usage, OV-net is also the most efficient among related techniques.
Maximum secrecy
The OV-net protocol guarantees the secrecy of an input bit unless all other input bits are known. The protection of secrecy is the maximum since when all other bits are known, the remaining bit can always be computed by subtracting the values of known input bits from the output of the boolean-count function.
Applications
A straightforward application of OV-net is to build a boardroom voting system, where the election is run by voters themselves. For a single candidate election, each voter sends either "No" or "Yes", which correspond to 0 and 1. Every voter, as well as an observer, can tally the "Yes" votes by themselves without needing any tallying authority.
There are standard methods to extend a single-candidate election to support mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202018 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay is a chart that ranks the best-performing Spanish-language Pop music singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop
2018
2018 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSquad | CyberSquad is a 2017 Hindi web series that premiered 24 August 2017 on video on demand platform ALTBalaji. It revolves around the adventures of four friends who form their own Cyber Squad as they blur the lines between the online and offline worlds.
The series is available for streaming on the ALT Balaji App and its associated websites since its release date.
Plot
The series revolves around four friends, KD (Rohan Shah), Rocky (Omkar Kulkarni), Uzi (Roshan Preet) and Tia (Jovita Jose) who are badass teenagers that help the police capture the most notorious criminals and hackers from their own secret cyber-den. They are young, smart and intelligent who use their high tech skills and arsenal of gizmos to make world a safer place.
Cast
Rohan Shah as Ketan
Siddharth Sharma as Armaan Malhotra
Jovita Jose as Tia
Omkar Kulkarni as Rocky
Roshan Preet as Uzi
Jasmine Avasia as Bianca
B. Santhanu as Bhonsle
Prerna Wanvari as Sanjana
Aarti Dave as Nirupa Desai
Krissann Barretto as Payal
Vivek Tandon as Gabbar
Chaitanya as Little Rocky
Sheetal Tiwari as Anjali
Ambuja Naik as Isha
Minoli Nandwana as Kaniska
Sejal Vishvkarma as Little Sanjana
Shonita Joshi as Sinha Ma'am
Episodes
Episode 1: I Spy
Episode 2: Missing
Episode 3: Money Transfer
Episode 4: Monster Hunt
Episode 5: Wedding Woes Part 1
Episode 6: Wedding Woes Part 2
Episode 7: Do No Harm
Episode 8: Be My Valentine
Episode 9: Hostage Part 1
Episode 10: Hostage Part 2
References
External links
Watch CyberSquad on ALT Balaji website
2017 web series debuts
Hindi-language web series
ALTBalaji original programming
Indian drama web series
Thriller web series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20I%20Want%20for%20Christmas%20Is%20You%20%28film%29 | All I Want For Christmas Is You (also known as Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You) is a 2017 American computer-animated Christmas film based on the song by Mariah Carey and the book by Carey herself. The film stars the voices of Mariah Carey, Breanna Yde, Lacey Chabert and Henry Winkler.
Premise
Based on her iconic Christmas song, this film features Mariah Carey's music and narration in a loving story about little Mariah's Christmas wish for a puppy.
Cast
Background
In early 2015, Carey signed with Epic Records and began work on a Christmas themed animated film, pitching the idea to her friend, Brett Ratner. By April, New Line Cinema bought the rights to Carey's film idea from RatPac Entertainment. Carey was set to start in the film and curate the film's soundtrack.
All I Want for Christmas Is You
In 2015, Carey announced a children's book titled All I Want for Christmas Is You based on her 1994 hit song of the same name. The book told the story of a young girl whose greatest holiday wish is for a new puppy. The book was published by Random House's Doubleday Books for Young Readers and illustrated by Colleen Madden. The book was released on November 10 the same year.
Production
By March 2017, production of the CGI-animated film Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You began. Lacey Chabert, Henry Winkler and Breanna Yde were attached to the film. Carey was executive producer of the film alongside Stella Bulochnikov for Magic Carpet Productions, in partnership with producer Mike Young and Splash Entertainment.
The film is based on Carey's 2015 book of the same name which had sold over 750,000 copies by 2017.
Release
The film was released direct-to-video on November 10, 2017 on Blu-ray, DVD, iTunes and other various digital platforms.
Soundtrack
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was released as the soundtrack alongside the release of the film. It features Christmas covers and classics by Carey and two of the voice cast members, as well as a brand new song by Carey called "Lil Snowman". In Japan, it was released on November 22 of the same year.
Track listing
Credits adapted from Spotify.
See also
List of Christmas films
References
External links
American Christmas films
2017 films
2010s American animated films
Universal Animation Studios animated films
2017 computer-animated films
2010s Christmas films
American children's animated comedy films
2010s English-language films
Animation based on real people
Animated films based on songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetica | Cybernetica may refer to:
Cybernetica (Norwegian company), company developing systems for model predictive control (MPC)
Cybernetica (Estonian company), company developing systems for Internet voting
Cybernetica, Journal of the International Association for Cybernetics (Namur), see Cybernetic art
See also
Principia Cybernetica, international cooperation of scientists in the field of cybernetics and systems science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20in%20Haryana | The rail network in the state of Haryana in India, is covered by five rail divisions under three rail zones: North Western Railway zone (Bikaner railway division and Jaipur railway division), Northern Railway zone (Delhi railway division and Ambala railway division) and North Central Railway zone (Agra railway division).
The Diamond Quadrilateral High-speed rail network Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor pass through Haryana.
History
Haryana railway history
19th Century
On 3 March 1859, Allahabad-Kanpur, the first passenger railway line in North India was opened, which falls under Northern Railway zone.
Train tracks passed through Haryana for the first time in 1864, when a broad gauge track from Kolkata to Delhi was laid. In 1866, through trains started running on the East Indian Railway Company's Howrah-Delhi line.
In 1870, the Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway completed the long Amritsar - Ambala - Jagadhri - Saharanpur - Ghaziabad line connecting Multan (now in Pakistan) with Delhi.
Sarai Rohilla railway station was established in 1872 when the metre gauge railway line from Delhi to Jaipur and Ajmer was being laid. It was a small station just outside Delhi as Delhi was confined to walled city then. All the metre gauge trains starting from (and terminating at) Delhi to Rewari, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat passed through this station. The track from Delhi to Sarai Rohilla was double. The single track from Sarai Rohilla to Rewari was doubled up to Rewari, from where single tracks diverged in five directions. Metre gauge track from Delhi to Rewari and further to Ajmer was laid in 1873 by Rajputana State Railway.
In 1884, the Rajputana-Malwa Railway extended the wide metre gauge Delhi-Rewari section of Delhi–Fazilka line to Bathinda,. When completed, this became the Delhi-Bathinda-Samasatta line, opened by The Southern Punjab Railway Co. in 1897. The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta (now in Pakistan) to Karachi. The Bathinda-Rewari metre gauge line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994.
The Delhi-Panipat-Ambala-Kalka line was opened in 1891. The wide narrow gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway was constructed by Delhi-Panipat-Ambala-Kalka Railway Company and opened for traffic in 1903. In 1905 the line was regauged to wide narrow gauge.
20th Century
In 1900, the Jodhpur–Bikaner line combined with Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway. Part of this railway is in modern Pakistan, leading to connections with Hyderabad of Sindh Province. In 1901–02, the Jodhpur–Bikaner line was extended to Bathinda to connect it with the metre gauge section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the meter gauge of North Western Railway Delhi–Fazilka line via Hanumangarh. It was subsequently converted to broad gauge.
Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in April 1919 from Palwal railway station on his way to Punjab to take part to the Non-Cooperation Movement me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20E.%20Levinson | Stephen E. Levinson (September 27, 1944, New York City) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), leader of the Language Acquisition and Robotics Lab at UIUC, and a full-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC. He works on speech synthesis, acquisition and recognition and the development of anthropomorphic robots.
Early life and education
Stephen E. Levinson was born on September 27, 1944 in New York City.
He earned a B. A. degree in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University in 1966. He earned his M. S. (1972) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island.
Career
Levinson worked as a design engineer at General Dynamics from 1966-1969, after completing his bachelor's degree, and as an instructor in computer science at Yale University from 1974-1976, after completing his Ph.D.
In 1976, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. There he studied speech recognition and understanding.
He was a visiting researcher at the NTT Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan in 1979, and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University in 1984.
In 1990, Levinson was appointed head of Linguistics Research at Bell Labs. He directed research on speech synthesis, speech recognition and the translation of spoken language.
In 1997, Levinson moved to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he leads the Language Acquisition and Robotics Lab.
His areas of teaching and research include speech and language processing, speech synthesis, and language acquisition. Levinson is developing computational models of the brain, mind, and language acquisition using an iCub humanoid robot. The robot is designed to learn through experience, similar to the way in which a human child might learn.
Levinson is the first researcher in North American to work with this type of robot, which was designed in Europe. Skills that researchers hope to teach the robot include juggling, walking, talking, and memory formation.
Levinson has published more than 100 technical papers and holds several patents.
He is a founding editor of the journal Computer Speech and Language, and an editor of the journal Speech Technology.
Among others books, Levinson is the author of Mathematical Models for Speech Technology (2005) and co-author of Autonomous Robotics and Deep Learning (2014) and Autonomous Military Robotics (2014).
Awards and honors
fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1986 for contribution to the theory and application of statistical pattern recognition to automatic speech recognition.
fellow, Acoustical Society of America 1983
member, Association for Computing Machinery
References
1944 births
Living people
21st-century American engineers
University of Illinois facult |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester%20Snow | Chester Snow (June 1, 1881 – January 13, 1970) was an American applied mathematician and physicist, known for his work on formulas for computing capacitance and inductance.
Snow was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. After attending Ogden High School and Utah Agricultural College, Snow matriculated at Harvard University in 1903 and graduated there with an A.B. in 1906. At Brigham Young University he was a professor of physics from 1906 to 1911 and a professor of mathematics from 1911 to 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he was a fellow in physics at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his Ph.D. in 1914. At the University of Idaho mathematics department he was an associate professor from 1914. In 1920 he resigned from the University of Idaho to accept a position as a physicist at the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. In 1924 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Toronto.
Selected publications
"The Magneto-Optical Parameters of Iron and Nickel." Physical Review 2, no. 1 (1913): 29.
"Spectroradiometric analysis of radio signals." National Bureau of Standards (1923).
"Alternating current distribution in cylindrical conductors." US Government Printing Office, 1925.
with M. Katherine Frehafer: "Tables and graphs for facilitating the computation of spectral energy distribution by Planck's formula." Miscellaneous Publications Dealing with Standards Vol. 56 (1925): np.
'Formula for the inductance of a helix made with wire of any section." US Government Printing Office, 1926.
"Effect of eddy currents in a core consisting of circular wires." National Bureau of Standards (1927).
"Mutual inductance and force between two coaxial helical wires." Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards (1939): 239–269.
"Potential problems and capacitance for a conductor bounded by two intersecting spheres." Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards 43, no. 4 (1949): 377.
"Hypergeometric and Legendre functions with applications to integral equations of potential theory." NBS Applied Math. Vol. 19. Washington (DC): US Government Printing Office, 1952.
"Magnetic fields of cylindrical coils and annular coils." NBS Applied Math. Vol. 38. Washington (DC): National Bureau of Standards, US Govt. Printing Office (1953).
"Formulas for computing capacitance and inductance." Vol. 544. US Govt. Printing Office (1954).
References
1881 births
1970 deaths
People from Salt Lake City
20th-century American physicists
20th-century American mathematicians
Harvard University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Utah State University alumni
Brigham Young University faculty
University of Idaho faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Arrow | Apache Arrow is a language-agnostic software framework for developing data analytics applications that process columnar data. It contains a standardized column-oriented memory format that is able to represent flat and hierarchical data for efficient analytic operations on modern CPU and GPU hardware. This reduces or eliminates factors that limit the feasibility of working with large sets of data, such as the cost, volatility, or physical constraints of dynamic random-access memory.
Interoperability
Arrow can be used with Apache Parquet, Apache Spark, NumPy, PySpark, pandas and other data processing libraries.
The project includes native software libraries written in C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Julia, MATLAB, Python, R, Ruby, and Rust. Arrow allows for zero-copy reads and fast data access and interchange without serialization overhead between these languages and systems.
Applications
Arrow has been used in diverse domains, including analytics, genomics, and cloud computing.
Comparison to Apache Parquet and ORC
Apache Parquet and Apache ORC are popular examples of on-disk columnar data formats. Arrow is designed as a complement to these formats for processing data in-memory. The hardware resource engineering trade-offs for in-memory processing vary from those associated with on-disk storage. The Arrow and Parquet projects include libraries that allow for reading and writing data between the two formats.
Governance
Apache Arrow was announced by The Apache Software Foundation on February 17, 2016, with development led by a coalition of developers from other open source data analytics projects. The initial codebase and Java library was seeded by code from Apache Drill.
References
External links
Apache Arrow project web site
Apache Arrow GitHub project source code
Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation projects
Software frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tromp | John Tromp is a Dutch computer scientist. He formerly worked for Dutch Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science. Tromp discovered the number of legal states of the board game Go, and co-authored with Bill Taylor the Tromp-Taylor Rules, which they call "the logical rules of Go".
He is also known for Binary combinatory logic (Binary lambda calculus).
References
External links
John Tromp's homepage at GitHub
John Tromp's entry on the Chess Programming Wiki
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadeh%27s%20rule | In mathematical optimization, Zadeh's rule (also known as the least-entered rule) is an algorithmic refinement of the simplex method for linear optimization.
The rule was proposed around 1980 by Norman Zadeh (son of Lotfi A. Zadeh), and has entered the folklore of convex optimization since then.
Zadeh offered a reward of $1,000 to anyone who can show that the rule admits polynomially many iterations or to prove that there is a family of linear programs on which the pivoting rule requires subexponentially many iterations to find the optimum.
Algorithm
Zadeh's rule belongs to the family of history-based improvement rules which, during a run of the simplex algorithm, retain supplementary data in addition to the current basis of the linear program.
In particular, the rule chooses among all improving variables one which has entered the basis least often, intuitively ensuring that variables that might yield a substantive improvement in the long run but only a small improvement in a single step will be applied after a linear number of steps.
The supplementary data structure in Zadeh's algorithm can therefore be modeled as an occurrence record, mapping all variables to natural numbers, monitoring how often a particular variable has entered the basis. In every iteration, the algorithm then selects an improving variable that is minimal with respect to the retained occurrence record.
Note that the rule does not explicitly specify which particular improving variable should enter the basis in case of a tie.
Superpolynomial lower bound
Zadeh's rule has been shown to have at least super-polynomial time complexity in the worse-case by constructing a family of Markov decision processes on which the policy iteration algorithm requires a super-polynomial number of steps.
Running the simplex algorithm with Zadeh's rule on the induced linear program then yields a super-polynomial lower bound.
The result was presented at the "Efficiency of the Simplex Method: Quo vadis Hirsch conjecture?" IPAM workshop in 2011 by Oliver Friedmann. Zadeh, although not working in academia anymore at that time, attended the Workshop and honored his original proposal.
Exponential lower bound
Friedmann's original result has since been strengthened by the construction of an exponential instance for Zadeh's rule.
Notes
Optimization algorithms and methods
Exchange algorithms
Oriented matroids
Linear programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20African%20American%20Heritage%20Preservation%20Network | The Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network (FAAHPN) is a professional association organized in 2001 by the John Gilmore Riley Center Museum.
FAAHPN serves as an informational and technical assistance resource in response to a growing interest in preserving Florida’s African American culture, that of the African diaspora, and that of other related ethnically diverse historic resources globally.
The Florida Black Heritage Trail Guide is a publication produced by FAAHPN that details a microcosm of African-American landmarks and legacies that exist in various locations throughout Florida.
References
External links
Official Web site
African-American history of Florida
Professional associations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Group%20Studios | Cyber Group Studios is a Paris-based developer, producer and distributor of animated television series and movies for children in France and internationally. The company produces 3D and 2D animation products for television series and movies, web series, and news and documentaries. It also licenses its own and third-party characters.
History
Cyber Group Animation was founded in 2004. The company changed its name to Cyber Group Studios in March 2009.
Cyber Group in 2016 acquired Pictor Media. In January 2017, the company launched Cyber Group Studios USA, a subsidiary located at the Culver Studios in Culver City, California, under president and CEO Richard Goldsmith. In September 2017, the L-GAM investment company bought out the company's minority investors.
On March 1, 2018, Cyber Group hired Thierry Braille, formerly VP and MD at Disney Interactive EMEA, as head of its new interactive division. In November 2018, Cyber Group Studios opened in Roubaix, France an animation studio.
On January 25, 2022, Cyber Group Studios acquired UK-based production company A Productions. On February 8, 2022, Cyber Group Studios acquired Italian animation studio Graphilm Entertainment.
On June 13, 2022, Cyber Group Studios announced they had formed a new joint-venture with Splash Entertainment to form CyberSplash Entertainment.
Animated television series
Some are adaptations, while others are licensed from other countries.
50/50 Heroes
Adam's Bakery
Animalia
Balloopo
The Bellflower Bunnies
Underdogs United
Bambalayé
Blondes
Cloud Bread
Cotoons
Calimero
Crime Time
Dragon Striker
Fish 'n' Chips
Farmkids
Final Fantasy IX (upcoming)
G-Fighters
Gigantosaurus
Grenadine and Peppermint
Guess What?
Insatiable
The Happos Family
Iqbal: Tales of a Fearless Child
The Last Kids on Earth
Leo the Wildlife Ranger
The Long Long Holiday
Mademoiselle Zazie
Manon
Menino and the Children of the World
Mia
Mini Ninjas
Mirette Investigates
My Goldfish Is Evil
Nina Patalo
Orange Moocow
Ozie Boo!
Patch Pillows
The Pirates Next Door (fr)
Pom Pom and Friends
Press Start!
Raju the Rickshaw
Sadie Sparks
Squared Zebra
The Space Commanders
Taffy (fr)
Tales of Tatonka
Zak Jinks (fr)
Zorro: The Chronicles
Zou
Droners
Tom Sawyer
References
2022 mergers and acquisitions
French animation studios
French companies established in 2004
Mass media companies established in 2004
Companies based in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20diamond%20production | This is a list of countries by diamond production, based on data reported by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
2016
This is a list of countries by diamond production in 2016, based on the British Geological Survey Mineral Statistics Summary for 2016.
See also
List of countries by diamond exports
List of diamond mines
References
Production
Diamond |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20image%20prior | Deep image prior is a type of convolutional neural network used to enhance a given image with no prior training data other than the image itself.
A neural network is randomly initialized and used as prior to solve inverse problems such as noise reduction, super-resolution, and inpainting. Image statistics are captured by the structure of a convolutional image generator rather than by any previously learned capabilities.
Method
Background
Inverse problems such as noise reduction, super-resolution, and inpainting can be formulated as the optimization task , where is an image, a corrupted representation of that image, is a task-dependent data term, and R(x) is the regularizer. This forms an energy minimization problem.
Deep neural networks learn a generator/decoder which maps a random code vector to an image .
The image corruption method used to generate is selected for the specific application.
Specifics
In this approach, the prior is replaced with the implicit prior captured by the neural network (where for images that can be produced by a deep neural networks and otherwise). This yields the equation for the minimizer and the result of the optimization process .
The minimizer (typically a gradient descent) starts from a randomly initialized parameters and descends into a local best result to yield the restoration function.
Overfitting
A parameter θ may be used to recover any image, including its noise. However, the network is reluctant to pick up noise because it contains high impedance while useful signal offers low impedance. This results in the θ parameter approaching a good-looking local optimum so long as the number of iterations in the optimization process remains low enough not to overfit data.
Deep Neural Network Model
Typically, the deep neural network model for deep image prior uses a U-Net like model without the skip connections that connect the encoder blocks with the decoder blocks. The authors in their paper mention that "Our findings here (and in other similar comparisons) seem to suggest that having deeper architecture is beneficial, and that having skip-connections that work so well for recognition tasks (such as semantic segmentation) is highly detrimental."
Applications
Denoising
The principle of denoising is to recover an image from a noisy observation , where . The distribution is sometimes known (e.g.: profiling sensor and photon noise) and may optionally be incorporated into the model, though this process works well in blind denoising.
The quadratic energy function is used as the data term, plugging it into the equation for yields the optimization problem .
Super-resolution
Super-resolution is used to generate a higher resolution version of image x. The data term is set to where d(·) is a downsampling operator such as Lanczos that decimates the image by a factor t.
Inpainting
Inpainting is used to reconstruct a missing area in an image . These missing pixels are defined as the binary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSlam%20%281996%29 | CyberSlam (1996) was the first CyberSlam professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event took place on February 17, 1996 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.
10 professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Raven defeated The Sandman to retain the ECW World Heavyweight Championship. Other featured matches on the card were Shane Douglas versus Cactus Jack, 2 Cold Scorpio versus Sabu for the ECW World Television Championship and Francine and the Pitbulls (Pitbull #1 and Pitbull #2) versus Stevie Richards and the Eliminators (Kronus and Saturn) in a dog collar match. The event also featured the ECW return of Brian Pillman who had left from World Championship Wrestling after the SuperBrawl VI pay-per-view six days prior.
Excerpts from CyberSlam aired on episodes #148, #149, and #150 of ECW Hardcore TV on February 200, February 27, and March 5, 1996. The bout between Sabu and 2 Cold Scorpio was included on the 2004 WWE DVD release The Rise and Fall of ECW and the 2009 WWE DVD release Wrestling's Highest Flyers, while the bout between Cactus Jack and Shane Douglas was included on the 2012 WWE DVD and Blu-ray release ECW Unreleased: Vol 1 and the 2013 WWE DVD and Blu-ray release For All Mankind: The Life and Career of Mick Foley.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program Hardcore TV.
On the January 30 episode of Hardcore TV, Raven defeated The Sandman to win the World Heavyweight Championship. After the match, Sandman turned face by refusing Woman's offer to jump to World Championship Wrestling (WCW). At Big Apple Blizzard Blast, Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie offered Sandman to back out of another title match with Raven but Sandman told Richards to warn Raven that he would be coming for the title and then left the ring. Raven would then join the ring and Missy Hyatt came to confront Raven and refused his offer to join him and then Sandman came back and cleared Raven and his group from the ring with a kendo stick. On the February 6 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Raven would defend the title against Sandman in a rematch at CyberSlam.
Shane Douglas returned to ECW at House Party after a failed stint in World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and talked about how one needed to kiss Vince McMahon's ass to stay in the WWF. On the January 30 episode of Hardcore TV, Cactus Jack stated that he would prefer to kiss McMahon's ass over kissing Tod Gordon's ass to stay in ECW, thus signalling that he was leaving ECW for WWF. Later that night, Jack and his tag team partner Mikey Whipwreck defeated Douglas and Tommy Dreamer in a tag team match when Jack smashed a chair into Douglas' face. Dou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSlam%20%281997%29 | CyberSlam (1997) was the second CyberSlam professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event was held on two nights on February 21 and February 22. The first CyberSlam show was held on February 21, 1997 in Lost Battalion Hall, Queens, New York and the second show was held on February 22, 1997 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Eliminators versus Sabu and Rob Van Dam was included on the 2012 WWE DVD and Blu-ray release ECW Unreleased: Vol 1.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program Hardcore TV.
At Crossing the Line Again, Terry Funk defeated Tommy Rich. After his win, Funk declared his intention of challenging Raven for the World Heavyweight Championship. On the February 20 episode of Hardcore TV, Raven mocked Funk and Tommy Dreamer in his promo. It was announced that Funk and Dreamer would be facing Raven and Brian Lee at the CyberSlam tour.
The Sandman defeated D-Von Dudley in a match at Crossing the Line Again. D-Von caned Sandman after the match until his estranged brothers Buh Buh Ray Dudley and Spike Dudley apparently came to make the save until Buh Buh turned heel by attacking Sandman. Spike objected to it but was hit with a 3D, which led to Buh Buh and D-Von forming a tag team The Dudley Boyz. This set up a match between Buh Buh and Spike at CyberSlam.
At Crossing the Line Again, The Eliminators defeated Rob Van Dam and Sabu in the main event to retain the World Tag Team Championship, This would lead to title matches between the two teams at CyberSlam. An additional match for Sabu was announced against Chris Candido for CyberSlam on the February 20 episode of Hardcore TV.
Event
Night 1
The show kicked off with a match between Chris Chetti and Balls Mahoney. Mahoney hit a powerslam and a diving elbow drop from the second rope to win the match.
Next, The Pitbulls (Pitbull #1 and Pitbull #2) took on The Triple Threat members Brian Lee and Chris Candido. Shane Douglas was initially scheduled to compete but pulled a groin muscle due to having fun with Francine. Douglas interfered in the match but was knocked down. Pitbull #1 powerbombed Candido but Lee hit him with a crutch for the win.
Next, Spike Dudley took on Buh Buh Ray Dudley. Axl Rotten shoved off Spike from the top rope into the mid-air where Buh Buh caught him with a Bubba Cutter for the win.
Later, The Sandman and Tommy Dreamer competed against Raven and Stevie Richards in a tag team match. Dissension took place between Raven and Richards when Richards missed a flying forearm smash on Dreamer, who ducked it and accidentally hit it to Raven on the apron, sending him into the railing outside the ring. After Raven recovered, Richards tried to make a tag but Raven droppe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSlam%20%281998%29 | CyberSlam (1998) was the third CyberSlam professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event took place on February 21, 1998 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Nine professional wrestling matches took place at the event. The main event was a tag team match, in which The Triple Threat's Shane Douglas and Bam Bam Bigelow defeated the team of Rob Van Dam and Sabu. On the undercard, The Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney) and The Sandman took on the teams of Spike Dudley and The Gangstanators (Kronus and New Jack) and The Dudleys (Big Dick Dudley, Buh Buh Ray Dudley, and D-Von Dudley) in a Three-Way Dance, Justin Credible took on Tommy Dreamer in a First Blood match and Taz defended the World Television Championship against Brakkus.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program Hardcore TV.
At Hostile City Showdown, The Triple Threat (Shane Douglas, Chris Candido and Lance Storm) competed against Bam Bam Bigelow and Taz in a handicap match, which ended in a no contest when Bigelow turned on Taz while Candido turned on his World Tag Team Championship partner Storm and then Douglas reformed Triple Threat with Bigelow and Candido. In the following weeks, Candido berated Storm in his promos for trying to be in pursuit of his lady Tammy Lynn Sytch, which was the reason of Candido dumping Storm as his tag team partner. A match was made between Candido and Storm at CyberSlam on the February 18 episode of Hardcore TV.
On the January 7, 1998 episode of Hardcore TV, Brakkus defeated Paul Diamond and then Lance Wright threw down the WWF flag on Diamond. This brought out Taz, who confronted Team WWF and was warned by Judge Jeff Jones not to enter the ring but he attacked Jones and was about to fight Brakkus until Rob Van Dam and Sabu came in to attack Taz. At House Party, Taz successfully defended the World Television Championship against 2 Cold Scorpio. After the match, Wright and Brakkus attacked Scorpio until Taz made the save and cleared the ring of Brakkus. On the February 18 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Taz would defend the title against Brakkus at CyberSlam.
At Hostile City Showdown, Justin Credible attacked Mikey Whipwreck during a four-way dance and called Tommy Dreamer to come and fight and then Dreamer left the match to brawl with Credible while his partner The Sandman ended up losing the match. On the February 18 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Dreamer would face Credible in a first blood match at CyberSlam.
On the February 18 episode of Hardcore TV, it was announced that Rob Van Dam and Sabu would face the newly reformed Triple Threat members Bam Bam Bigelow and Shane Douglas in a tag team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSlam%20%281999%29 | CyberSlam (1999) was the fourth CyberSlam professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event took place on April 3, 1999 in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Eight professional wrestling matches took place at the event. The main event was an Ultimate Jeopardy match, in which former tag team partners from The Gangstas, New Jack and Mr. Mustafa competed in opposing teams. Jack teamed with The Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney) and Mustafa teamed with The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley). Mustafa and Dudleys won the match. On the undercard, Taz retained the ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Chris Candido and Rob Van Dam retained the ECW World Television Championship against 2 Cold Scorpio.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program Hardcore TV.
At Crossing the Line, Mustafa Saed made his surprise return to ECW on behalf of New Jack to confront The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) until he turned heel on Jack by smashing a guitar on his head and revealed himself to be the mysterious benefactor who wanted to run Public Enemy and New Jack out of ECW. Saed then allied himself with the Dudleys to feud with Jack. At Living Dangerously, Jack defeated Mustafa in a match.
At Living Dangerously, Tommy Dreamer and Shane Douglas defeated The Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible) in a tag team match. After the match, Cyrus the Virus made his ECW debut and distracted Dreamer and Douglas to allow Impact Players to attack them. On the April 2 episode of Hardcore TV, Credible helped Storm in defeating Dreamer in a match.
Event
Preliminary matches
The event kicked off with a match between Jerry Lynn and Yoshihiro Tajiri. Lynn hit a cradle piledriver for the win. After the match, Lance Storm cut a promo in the ring to testify against Tommy Dreamer's claims that Storm took steroids and Storm brought a sample of urine to prove and challenged Dreamer to provide a sample of his urine test and Dreamer showed up to attack Storm with a DDT and poured the urine on Storm.
Next, Nova competed against Rod Price. Skull Von Crush interfered in the match by attacking Nova on behalf of Price and then Nova's tag team partner Chris Chetti also got involved, making it a tag team match. Nova and Chetti nailed a Tidal Wave to Price for the win. After the match, Crush attacked Price with a jumping DDT.
Next, Mosco de la Merced made his ECW debut against Super Crazy. Crazy hit a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and a frog splash to Merced for the win.
In the following match, Taka Michinoku made his return to ECW against Papi Chulo, who made his ECW debut in the match. Michinoku nailed a Michinoku Driver 2-B t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSlam%20%282000%29 | CyberSlam (2000) was the fifth and final CyberSlam professional wrestling event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The event took place on April 22, 2000 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The scheduled main event of CyberSlam saw ECW mainstay Tommy Dreamer defeat Taz to win his first ECW World Heavyweight Championship. Taz, who had signed with the World Wrestling Federation earlier that year, won the championship from Mike Awesome, who had signed with World Championship Wrestling. As Dreamer celebrated his victory, Justin Credible attacked him before challenging him to an impromptu match. Credible defeated Dreamer after Francine turned on him, ending Dreamer's title reign just a few minutes after it had begun.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television program Hardcore TV.
The event featured continuation of several rivalries including the feud between New Jack and Da Baldies (Angel, Tony DeVito and Vic Grimes) which had been going on since late 1999.
On the April 14 episode of ECW on TNN, Yoshihiro Tajiri defeated Super Crazy and Little Guido in a three-way dance to win the World Television Championship. After the win, Cyrus announced that Tajiri would hand over the title to The Network at CyberSlam.
Event
Preliminary matches
In the opening match, Masato Tanaka and 2 Cold Scorpio returned to ECW to compete against each other. Tanaka nailed a Diamond Dust to Scorpio for the win.
Next, Nova and Jazz took on Lance Storm and Dawn Marie in a mixed tag team match. Jason and Chris Chetti got involved in the match and began brawling with each other. Nova attempted to execute a Kryptonite Krunch on Storm but Credible superkicked Nova and then Nova and Storm both fell on the mat and Storm's neck landed badly. Jazz attempted a kneeling reverse piledriver on Marie but Credible caned her and Marie pinned Jazz for the win.
Next, a three-way dance took place between Super Crazy, Kid Kash and Little Guido. Crazy hit a brainbuster to Kash to cause the first elimination of the match. After a back and forth match between Crazy and Guido, Sal E. Graziano got involved who launched Crazy on a table and Guido drove Crazy through the table by diving from Graziano's shoulders onto the table outside the ring. Guido then hit a Maritado for the win.
Next was a tag team match, pitting Danny Doring and Roadkill against The New Dangerous Alliance (Billy Wiles and C. W. Anderson). Roadkill was about to hit an Amish Splash on Wiles but Anderson clocked him with Lou E. Dangerously's cell phone to knock him out. Anderson then hit an Anderson Spinebuster to Doring for the win. After the match, Roadkill ripped off Elektra's coat, revealing her undergarments and Roadkill was about to hit an Amish Splas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCEI-LD | KCEI-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 18, is a low-powered independent television station licensed to Taos, New Mexico, United States. It airs local programming about the history of Taos from the Taos local television organization.
References
CEI-LD
Low-power television stations in New Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos%20Food%20Bank | The Lagos Food Bank Initiative (LFBI) was established to tackle hunger, reduce food wastage and provide emergency food solutions through its network of Food banks across Lagos State. LFBI aims to achieve its goals by creating, supplying, and strengthening new food banks in all the twenty (20) Local Governments Areas in Lagos State. LFBI works with religious organizations, corporate entities, and individuals to achieve their main objectives. LFBI's main targets are seniors aged 50 years and above; children aged 5–16 years; the vulnerable, the destitute; extremely indigent families and widows.
Contributions
The Lagos Food Bank Initiative has carried out nutrition-based programs in slum communities across Lagos State though numerous donations and partnerships from both individual and corporate donors.
On September 2020, the NGO partnered with Candlelight Foundation to feed the less privileged and end hunger during the Covid-19 lockdown and distributed over 55,000 meals in Lagos state.
See also
List of food banks
References
External links
Food banks in Nigeria
Non-profit organizations based in Lagos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Super%20Hero%20Girls%20%28TV%20series%29 | DC Super Hero Girls is an American animated superhero television series created and developed by Lauren Faust and produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment for Cartoon Network. Based on the web series and franchise of the same name, the series premiered on March 8, 2019, with a one-hour special.
The series follows the adventures of teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Bumblebee, Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Zatanna who are students at Metropolis High School.
Premise
The show focuses on six female teenage superheroes with secret identities: Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (voiced by Grey Griffin); Barbara "Babs" Gordon / Batgirl (voiced by Tara Strong); Kara Danvers / Supergirl (voiced by Nicole Sullivan); Zee Zatara / Zatanna (voiced by Kari Wahlgren), Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern (voiced by Myrna Velasco); and Karen Beecher / Bumblebee (voiced by Kimberly Brooks). The six girls meet at Metropolis High School and form a superhero team dubbed the "Super Hero Girls".
The show tells the coming-of-age stories of the Super Hero Girls, dealing with their choices and decisions regarding their superhero identities and their secret identities. The show focuses on physical comedy, emotional storylines, and a large gallery of villains.
Episodes
The new incarnation of DC Super Hero Girls debuted at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con with the theatrical short #TheLateBatsby which screened in theaters before the film Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. The online "Super Shorts" debuted on January 17, 2019, with #SuperSleeper on YouTube. The TV series debuted with the one-hour special #SweetJustice on March 8, 2019.
Production
Lauren Faust was approached by Warner Bros. to create and develop DC Super Hero Girls into a television series, after previously working on Super Best Friends Forever. The television iteration of the web series DC Super Hero Girls was announced in May 2017. Tara Strong and Nicole Sullivan reprise their roles as Batgirl and Supergirl respectively from Super Best Friends Forever, while Grey Griffin, who previously voiced Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) from the DC Nation Shorts, reprises her role as Wonder Woman from the web series. A year later, a poster showing the first look of the main characters was released. The series is animated by the Canadian studio Jam Filled Entertainment and Hasbro's Boulder Media from Ireland.
The writers chose to model each character and their personalities after a teenager archetype, while also drawing inspiration for several characters on their incarnations from the Silver Age of Comic Books. However, for the more modern Jessica Cruz, the writers heavily altered her characterization due to her original backstory contrasting heavily with the series' lighthearted tone.
Several writers for this series had previously worked on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, another show created and developed by Faust. Also, her series is the second collaboration of Tara Strong and John de Lancie, who respectively |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202018 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2018 to date, 20 albums have topped the 25 published charts. The first (and to date most successful) number one of the year was Concrete and Gold, the ninth studio album by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, which spent the first three weeks of the year atop the chart.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2018
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2018 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202018 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2018 to date, six singles have topped the 25 published charts. The first number one of the year was "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen was the most successful single of the year, spending 15 weeks at number one. "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen has spent five weeks of the year to date at number one. "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers spent four weeks of the year at number one, while "Sweet Child o' Mine" was also number one for four weeks.
Bring Me the Horizon spent three weeks at number one with "Mantra", the longest run at number one for any new release in 2018.
Chart history
See also
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2018
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2018 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20access%20%28corrections%29 | Managed access is managing cellular network access from contraband phones within a corrections facility. Managed access differs from cellular jamming technologies, which are outlawed in the United States. A managed access system functions like a femtocell or low-power cell tower which passes calls to cellular carriers; however, only communications from approved devices and emergency calling are allowed. The managed access signal appears as an extension of nearby commercial cellular signals; once a phone connects to the network its identifying information is compared with approved devices and communications are accepted or denied. Managed access networks work with commercial cellular signals including 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE, and WiMAX.
In 2010, the Mississippi Department of Corrections tested the first managed access system at Parchman Mississippi State Penitentiary; during one month the system blocked more than 216,000 texts and 600 phone calls. In 2013, the FCC recommended that prisons be allowed to manage their own network access without having to seek approval from the agency, saying that the process of inspecting the systems is "time-consuming and complex" and "discourages their use". In a 2016 op-ed, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai requested that the reforms proposed in 2013 aimed at loosening regulations on managed access and other solutions used to prevent the use of contraband cell phones should be enacted.
As of 2016, only California, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas had tested managed access systems.
Drawbacks
Managed access systems are unable to stop the use of contraband devices using Wi-Fi to connect to the internet. Deployment of managed access systems requires FCC approval as well as consent from cellular network carriers. The devices can also cause interference outside of the prison if they are not properly implemented.
References
External links
Research on managed access funded by the U.S. Department of Justice
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Seller | John Seller (1632–1697) was an English compiler, publisher, and seller of maps, charts, and geographical books. From 1671 he was hydrographer to the King.
Early life
Seller, son of Henry Seller, a cordwainer, was baptized in London on 29 December 1632. In 1654 he became a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company, and he became a brother of the Clockmakers' Company in 1667. He was a compass maker, and continued this occupation throughout his career.
His trial, and The English Pilot
Seller's subsequent career was affected by being put on trial in 1662, accused of high treason: it is thought he repeated a rumour about a plot involving a cache of arms. Those involved were executed, and although Seller was found guilty and imprisoned, he was later pardoned. In this way his name and occupation became known: the episode may have been a factor in his eventual appointment in March 1671 as hydrographer to the King.
In that year he published the first volume of charts and sailing directions, entitled The English Pilot. It was dedicated to the Duke of York, to whom he had appealed from prison. The trade in maritime maps and charts had until then been dominated by the Dutch, and, in many instances, earlier Dutch plates, from which the original title had been replaced by an English title, were used here. The English Pilot ran through many editions, until the end of the eighteenth century, new maps from time to time taking the place of the old.
Later publications
The Coasting Pilot appeared in 1672, and Atlas maritimus in 1675. Atlas Anglicanus, a projected large-scale atlas of England and Wales, was not completed, although new surveys of six counties were published from 1675 to 1681, and a map of London by John Oliver, who was associated with the project. Atlas caelestis, the first British celestial atlas, appeared in 1680.
Seller wrote textbooks including Practical Navigation (1669), A Pocket Book containing several choice Collections in Arithmetic, Geometry, Surveying, Dialling, &c. (1677); and The Sea-Gunner, shewing the Practical Part of Gunnery as it is used at Sea (1691). He also produced nautical almanacs.
Family
Seller was for many years settled in Wapping; he had also a shop in Exchange Alley, near the Royal Exchange. He and his wife Elizabeth had three daughters and two sons; John Seller, junior, had a shop in Cheapside, where his father's publications were on sale.
He died in May 1697, and was buried at St John's Church, Wapping.
References
Attribution
1632 births
1697 deaths
17th-century English cartographers
English cartographers
English hydrographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2026%29 | Season twenty-six of Dancing with the Stars, titled Dancing with the Stars: Athletes, premiered on April 30, 2018, on the ABC network. The four-week season, the shortest ever, featured a cast of current and former athletes.
On May 21, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson were crowned the champions, while Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman and Sharna Burgess, and former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding and Sasha Farber, were both announced as runners-up during the live finale. It was later revealed that Josh and Sharna had placed second, while Tonya and Sasha had placed third.
Cast
Couples
The professional dancers were announced on April 12, 2018. The eight professionals returning from last season were Lindsay Arnold, Alan Bersten, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Keo Motsepe, Gleb Savchenko, and Emma Slater. The two remaining professional dancers were both in the troupe last season, and had previously been professional dancers on the show: Sasha Farber and Jenna Johnson. The dance troupe for season 26 consisted of Artur Adamski, Brandon Armstrong, Hayley Erbert, and Britt Stewart. Additionally, professional dancer Morgan Larson, who performed on the Dancing with the Stars: Light Up the Night tour, joined the troupe for season 26.
The cast was announced on April 13 on Good Morning America.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. On May 7, season 24 champion Rashad Jennings returned as a guest judge, and on May 14, runner-up David Ross did as well.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
The couples danced the cha-cha-cha, foxtrot, salsa, or Viennese waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
For the first time in the show's history, viewers were able to vote for the couples online so that the results of the vote could be used to determine the first two eliminations that same evening.
Week 2: Team Dance Night
Individual judges' scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Rashad Jennings, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
The couples performed one unlearned dance and a team dance celebrating an iconic decade in sports. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: MVP Night (Semifinals)
Individual judges' scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, David Ross, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
The couples performed one unlearned dance dedicated to the "MVP" in their lives, and participated in paired dance-offs for extra points. For |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorhaphitoma%20bipyramidata | Pseudorhaphitoma bipyramidata is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains , its diameter .
(Original description) The small, rather solid shell is lanceolate. Its colour is a uniform white. The shell contains 8 whorls, including the protoconch. The latter has 2½ whorls, the first two being smooth and helicoid. The next half whorl carries about ten sharp, narrow, arcuate, radiate riblets, quite discordant with the succeeding sculpture. The adult whorl begins abruptly with seven prominent ribs, which descend the whorls vertically and continuously. These are traversed by spaced spiral cords which commence with two on the third whorl and end with seventeen on the body whorl. Between these cords run from two to six rows of densely packed microscopic grains. The aperture is sublinear. The thick and outstanding varix extends a broad lip over the aperture. The sinus is semicircular, cut out of the varix, with a substantial tubercle on the right and another on the left. There are no other teeth within either lip. On the columella is a thick and smooth sheet of callus.
Distribution
This marine genus occurs off Korea, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Queensland, Australia
References
Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls.
External links
bipyramidata
Gastropods described in 1922 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampr | Vampr is a location-based social and professional networking platform which facilitates music discovery, collaboration, and communication between musicians, creatives, industry professionals and fans.
The Los Angeles-based startup was founded in 2015 by Australian musicians Josh Simons and Barry Palmer of Hunters & Collectors. According to The Australian Financial Review, the company received seed funding from Nick Feldman of British band Wang Chung. Apple named the app in its "Best of 2017" list.
In August 2019, the company launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder which saw the company reach their minimum fund-raising target in the first hour. In a follow-on oversubscribed crowdfunding round, the company raised the maximum permitted in a 12-month window at the time, with over 2,000 investors. Vampr would also be the first company in the world to offer investors an NFT as a perk in a Reg CF funding round.
The company later launched Vampr Publishing in 2020, a free music sync representation solution for all users, in addition to Vampr Distribution, a tiered music distribution solution which also comes bundled with the premium Vampr Pro subscription service.
In September 2021, the company announced a milestone of one million users.
In March 2022, with over 7 million professional connections brokered on the platform worldwide, Fast Company inducted Vampr into their Most Innovative Companies list. Later that year Google Play would spotlight Vampr in their Top 150 apps in the United States.
In April 2022, the company launched Vampr Academy, an edtech streaming solution for artists, allowing users to watch video lessons taught by industry experts. In November 2022, the company announced a strategic investment from Downtown Music which coincided with the launch of Vampr Marketing, a promotional advertising solution which enables artists to drive traffic to their music releases on premium websites such as Billboard, Forbes, GQ Magazine and Rolling Stone.
In February 2023, it was announced Vampr had been acquired by the Sydney-headquartered music credits database, Jaxsta.
See also
MySpace
SoundCloud
LinkedIn
References
External links
Computer-related introductions in 2016
Geosocial networking
Mobile social software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Schrager | Peter Schrager (born April 20, 1982) is a sportscaster on Fox Sports and NFL Network. Schrager serves as an analyst on Fox NFL Kickoff as well as a Sideline Reporter on Fox Sports. In addition to his gameday coverage, he is a regular contributor to The Herd with Colin Cowherd and The Dan Patrick Show. Peter also stars alongside Kyle Brandt, Jason McCourty, and Jamie Erdahl on NFL Network's popular weekday morning show Good Morning Football.
Born in Freehold Township, New Jersey, Schrager graduated from Freehold Township High School and Emory University.
In addition to his work with FOX Sports and the NFL Network, Schrager is also the author of two books: Strength of a Champion with O. J. Brigance (2013), and the New York Times Best Seller, Out of the Blue with Victor Cruz (2012). Schrager has also worked as an editorial contributor for Showtime's Inside the NFL, which earned a Sports Emmy in 2013 for Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly.
Schrager hosts an NFL podcast, The Season with Peter Schrager, through iHeartPodcasts.
References
1982 births
Living people
Fox Sports 1 people
Freehold Township High School alumni
People from Freehold Township, New Jersey
Emory University alumni
Jewish American sportspeople
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Network%20Development%20Plan | The Regional Network Development Plan (RNDP) is a long-term plan for the provision of bus and train services to the regional areas of the state of Victoria, Australia. Produced four years after the Network Development Plan – Metropolitan Rail (NDPMR), which examined in detail the future expansion of the metropolitan Melbourne rail network, the RNDP was produced by the state government's Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources and sets forth short-, medium- and long-term priorities for the 5, 10 and 15 years after 2016 respectively.
The RNDP was widely criticised for its lack of concrete planning by regional commentators. Many of the plan's short-term proposals were funded in the 2016–17 Victorian Budget, and further regional public transport upgrades continued with the announcement of the Regional Rail Revival program in 2017.
Background
Public Transport Victoria (PTV), a new statutory body replacing the former Director of Public Transport and Metlink as the coordinating authority of Victoria's public transport, was formed in December 2011 with the aim of improving services by better planning and stronger intermodal organisation. In March 2013, PTV released the NDPMR in partial fulfilment of these objectives, saying that it would be followed by similar plans for other modes of public transport by the end of that year. However, a report by the Victorian Auditor-General released in August 2014 found that the preparation of plans for "on-road public transport" (including the tram network and bus network) and regional services was "progressing slowly".
Meanwhile, patronage on V/Line rail services had doubled in the previous decade, in part due to population growth and the increasing costs of car travel, but also as a result of the introduction of new VLocity trains which had substantially improved the comfort and reliability of commuter journeys to and from Melbourne. This unprecedented growth in demand for regional public transport resulted in capacity constraints becoming apparent on much of the V/Line network, limiting the provision of new services.
After public transport became a major issue at the 2014 Victorian election, the new Labor government led by Premier Daniel Andrews announced the commencement of public consultation for a Regional Network Development Plan in May 2015.
Consultation and development
Public consultation meetings with the aim of establishing public transport priorities across the state began in June 2015. At the same time, an online forum was set up to facilitate comments on the state of transport services in regional Victoria.
The consultation process was led by a Regional Transport Advisory Group, co-chaired by Jaclyn Symes, a member of the Victorian Parliament's Legislative Council, and Richard Elkington, a member of the Gippsland Regional Development Committee. The group also included representative of planning and development bodies in the Wimmera region, Warrnambool, Bendigo, Wodonga, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20China%20V%20Chart%20top%2010%20albums%20of%202017 | The following is a list of the best-selling albums of 2017 on the Billboard China V Chart. The chart ranks in two different categories, mainland albums and imported albums using data from Chinese video-sharing site YinYueTai (YYT).
Criteria
Chart entry criteria
There is no time limit imposed for (domestic) albums released within mainland China. For the album still sells on the Yin Yue Shopping Mall, the album is eligible to be ranked in the weekly album chart. The classification of albums into mainland and foreign albums depend on the country/location the album was released and not the language.
Structure
The chart cycle for real time chart is updated hourly while the weekly and yearly album charts are updated every month and year respectively.
The real time chart shows only ranking without the number of sales.
The weekly chart shows only the top50 ranking albums in the month and the number of sales for only the top5 albums.
The yearly chart shows only the top50 ranking albums in the year and its number of sales. The chart will be published at the subsequent year on 1 January.
Loop holes
Pre-order sales for a specific album will only be counted on the release date.
If a single album is divided into multiple editions, the sales will be counted separately.
Top 10 albums of 2017
Annual sales percentage
Mainland (Domestic) albums
Imported albums
References
Footnote
YinYueTai
2017 in Chinese music
China albums top 10
Chinese music industry
Billboard charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wizard%27s%20Tale | A Wizard's Tale (also known as Ahí Viene Cascarrabias in Mexico and Here Comes the Grump internationally) is a 2018 computer-animated adventure comedy film based on the DePatie–Freleng animated series, Here Comes the Grump, which originally ran from 1969 to 1970 on NBC.
Produced by Ánima Estudios, Prime Focus World, and GFM Animation, the film features the voices of Toby Kebbell, Lily Collins, and Ian McShane. The Spanish version stars the voices of Camila Sodi and Mauricio Barrientos "El Diablito".
It was first released in Italy on 1 March 2018. The film was later released on July 26 in Mexico and was a commercial failure.
The film was released by Blue Fox Entertainment in the United States in limited format and VOD on 14 September the same year, released as A Wizard's Tale.
Plot
In an alternate dimension, there exists a kingdom called Groovingham, where a young wizard called The Grin lives. The Grin casts a spell to make people happy, but the magic deprives the subjects of their morality, resulting in instant pandemonium. Outraged, the king orders his royals guards to arrest The Grin. Though the authorities corner him on a cliff, The Grin escapes with his fiancée, Mary, in his blimp-like vehicle.
The Grin goes into hiding and adopts a baby dragon he named Dingo. Mary promises to return to The Grin, but the authorities capture her, and the king has her banished to Earth. Unaware that Mary was exiled, the Grin becomes an embittered pariah called the Grump.
On Earth, Mary owns an amusement park that resembles Groovingham and has a grandson named Terry Dexter. During Terry's youth, his grandmother reads him her bestselling story called "Here Comes the Grump", which summarizes the events before her banishment. Years later, Mary passes away, and Terry became the new owner of her amusement park.
One night Terry finds a hidden handle piece of his grandmother's blimp. After reattaching the handle to the blimp, it sends him to Groovingham, much to his astonishment. Meanwhile, the Grump, who was captured at some point for his purported crime, escapes from prison alongside his diminutive henchmen called the Grumpies and enacts vengeance upon the king. However, he instantly realizes the king had died after spotting a statue built in his memorial. While feeling cheated out of revenge, the Grin discovers a poster of Princess Dawn's coronation and takes action against her instead. Interrupting the coronation, the Grump casts his "gloom spell" upon everyone, putting them into a state of depression. Princess Dawn manages to escape the gloom by being hidden in a chamber beneath her bed by her servants while her pet, Bip, leaves Groovingham to seek help from an outsider.
As Terry tries to pilot the blimp back to his homeworld, the handle piece is taken by Bip, prompting Terry to chase him into Groovingham. Emerging from hiding, Dawn begs Terry to help save her kingdom. Terry reluctantly agrees so that he can return home. When his minions inform the Grump t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block-matching%20and%203D%20filtering | Block-matching and 3D filtering (BM3D) is a 3-D block-matching algorithm used primarily for noise reduction in images. It is one of the expansions of the non-local means methodology. There are two cascades in BM3D: a hard-thresholding and a Wiener filter stage, both involving the following parts: grouping, collaborative filtering, and aggregation. This algorithm depends on an augmented representation in the transformation site.
Method
Grouping
Image fragments are grouped together based on similarity, but unlike standard k-means clustering and such cluster analysis methods, the image fragments are not necessarily disjoint. This block-matching algorithm is less computationally demanding and is useful later on in the aggregation step. Fragments do however have the same size.
A fragment is grouped if its dissimilarity with a reference fragment falls below a specified threshold.
This grouping technique is called block-matching, it is typically used to group similar groups across different frames of a digital video, BM3D on the other hand may group macroblocks within a single frame.
All image fragments in a group are then stacked to form 3D cylinder-like shapes.
Collaborative filtering
Filtering is done on every fragments group. A dimensional linear transform is applied, followed by a transform-domain shrinkage such as Wiener filtering, then the linear transform is inverted to reproduce all (filtered) fragments.
Aggregation
The image is transformed back into its two-dimensional form. All overlapping image fragments are weight-averaged to ensure that they are filtered for noise yet retain their distinct signal.
Extensions
Color images
RGB images can be processed much like grayscale ones. A luminance-chrominance transformation should be applied to the RGB image. The grouping is then completed on the luminance channel which contains most of the useful information and a higher SNR. This approach works because the noise in the chrominance channels is strongly correlated to that of the luminance channel, and it saves approximately one-third of the computing time because grouping takes up approximately half of the required computing time.
Deblurring
The BM3D algorithm has been extended (IDD-BM3D) to perform decoupled deblurring and denoising using the Nash equilibrium balance of the two objective functions.
Convolutional neural network
An approach that integrates a convolutional neural network has been proposed and shows better results (albeit with a slower runtime). MATLAB code has been released for research purpose.
Implementations
Reference implementation in MATLAB and Python released under an open-source proprietary license: BM3D
Well documented C-based implementation released under the GPLv3: bm3d
CUDA and C++ based implementation released under the GPLv3: bm3d-gpu
References
Image noise reduction techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IncludeOS | IncludeOS is a minimal, open source, unikernel operating system for cloud services and IoT. IncludeOS allows users to run C++ applications in the cloud without any operating system. IncludeOS adds operating system functionality to an application allowing oneself to create a 'virtual machine' for an application.
IncludeOS applications boot in tens of milliseconds and require only a few megabytes of disk and memory.
Architecture
The minimalist architecture of IncludeOS means that it does not have any virtual memory space. In turn, therefore, there is no concept of system calls nor user space.
References
External links
IncludeOS on GitHub
IncludeOS blog
Alfred Bratterud: Deconstructing the OS: The devil’s In the side effects, CppCon 2017 presentation
C++ Weekly – Ep 31 – IncludeOS
Computing platforms
Free software operating systems
Software using the Apache license
Software companies of Norway
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20Kids%20%28Polish%20series%201%29 | The Voice Kids is a Polish reality talent show that premiered on January 1, 2018 on the TVP 2 television network. The Voice Kids is part of the international syndication The Voice based on the reality singing competition launched in the Netherlands as The Voice Kids, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. The coaches are Tomson & Baron, Edyta Górniak and Dawid Kwiatkowski. The season was won by then 13-year-old Roksana Węgiel from Jasło. This marked Edyta Górniak's first and only win as a coach.
Coaches
Teams
Colour key
Blind auditions
Color key
Episode 1 (1 January)
The coaches performed "Wake Up" at the start of the show.
Episode 2 (1 January)
Episode 3 (6 January)
Episode 4 (6 January)
Episode 5 (13 January)
Episode 6 (13 January)
Episode 7 (20 January)
Episode 8 (20 January)
Episode 9 (27 January)
Episode 10 (27 January)
The Battle Rounds
Color key
Episode 11: Team Tomson & Baron (3 February)
The Tomson & Baron's group performed "Krąg Życia" at the start of the show.
Sing offs
Episode 12: Team Edyta Górniak (10 February)
The Edyta's group performed "Earth Song" at the start of the show.
Sing offs
Episode 13: Team Dawid Kwiatkowski (17 February)
The Dawid's group performed "Nie mów nie" at the start of the show.
Sing offs
Episode 14 Finale (24 February)
Color key
Round 1
The Final 9 and coaches performed "Wake Up" at the start of the show.
Round 2
Each contestant performed a cover song and their original song.
Elimination chart
Artist's info
Result details
Teams
Color key
Artist's info
Results details
Ratings
References
Kids series 1
2018 Polish television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multichannel%20Speaking%20Automaton | Multichannel Speaking Automaton (MUSA) was an early prototype of Speech Synthesis machine started in 1975.
Description
It consisted of a stand-alone computer hardware and a specialized software that implemented a diphone-synthesis technology. It was one of the first real-time TTS systems. It was able to read Italian in intellegibile robotic voice and also to sing managing up to 8 synthesis channels in parallel thanks to Linear predictive coding technology. In 1978 it was released, after the building of a working prototype, a 45" rpm audio disk containing some trial content of such synthesis, including the song "Fra Martino Campanaro" in "a cappella" (multiple voices) style, attached to some commercial reviews. The experiment was conducted by CSELT, Turin, Italy and was led by Giulio Modena.
See also
Eloquens (software)
Notes
References
External links
Applications of artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
History of human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Might | Matthew Might (born 24 July 1981) is a computer scientist, biologist, educator, and public health administrator. Might serves as the director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
Education and career
Might received his bachelor's degree in 2001 and PhD in 2007 from Georgia Tech, both in computer science. In 2008, he joined the faculty at the University of Utah, where he worked as a professor of computer science and pharmaceutical chemistry until 2017, when he moved to Birmingham, Alabama. He was a visiting professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School.
Might is a White House strategist for the Precision Medicine Initiative, and is an advisor for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. In 2017, he was given a Rare Impact Award by the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Might is the Chief Scientific Officer of the NGLY1 Foundation.
Research
Might's early work focused on cybersecurity. In recent years, he has transitioned to personalized medicine and bioinformatics.
Might wrote a blog post that went viral after his son, Bertrand, was diagnosed with NGLY1 deficiency, a rare disease that was previously unknown. This widespread publicity allowed him to locate several other patients and generate data on the characteristics of the disease.
Might used an artificial intelligence system he was developing called mediKanren to find out that Bertrand had Pseudomonas, during a time when he was in critical condition.
Personal life
Might was married to Cristina Casanova in 2003 and they had three children. His father was the president and CEO of Cable One, the cable-television division of the former Washington Post Company. His wife is the daughter of Manuel Casanova.
References
External links
Matt Might - Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham Google Scholar Profile
Might giving a TEDX talk on his move in precision medicine
Living people
Georgia Tech alumni
University of Utah faculty
University of Alabama faculty
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUN%20%28disambiguation%29 | AUN or Aun may refer to:
Aun, a mythical Swedish king
Aun (surname), an Estonian-language surname
ASEAN University Network, an Asian university association
Auburn Municipal Airport (California) (FAA LID code: AUN), a public airport in California
A-un, the Japanese transliteration of the word "om"
See also
Avun, a village in Azerbaijan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone%20Wireless | Ozone Wireless, or Ozone, was a Barbadian mobile network operator and telecommunications company founded in 2011. Ozone was one of three major mobile operators in the country.
Network
Network information
The IMSI - Network Code of Ozone is 342-800 and the MSISDN Network Codes are: 695 (international: +1 246 695), 696 (international: +1 246 696) and 697 (international: +1 246 697).
Through colocation agreements, and organic growth the company started with an LTE network to provide service across the island of Barbados. The company has deployed a 4G LTE network, providing peak data rates of up to 50 Mbit/s.
Services
Ozone, offers its customers: post and pre-paid subscription packages, SMS / MMS, international wifi only roaming, voicemail, mobile hotspots.
Smartphones
As of 2018 Ozone Wireless offers the following smartphones for use on its network.
Apple iPhone (several models)
Huawei Y5 II
Samsung J7 NEO
Samsung S7 Edge
Samsung S8
See also
List of planned LTE networks
List of mobile network operators of the Americas
References
External links
Official site
Barbadian brands
Telecommunications companies established in 2011
Internet service providers of Barbados
Mobile phone companies of the Caribbean
Telecommunications companies of Barbados |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo%20Rey%20De%20La%20Salle%20East%20Bay%20High%20School | Cristo Rey De La Salle East Bay High School is a work of the San Francisco New Orleans District of the De La Salle Brothers. Opened in 2018, it is a member of the national Cristo Rey Network of work-study schools for underserved Hispanic Asian American and African American students. The new school occupies the former premises of St. Elizabeth High School in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California, where the majority of the households are currently Hispanic. The purpose of the school is to provide an affordable, college prep education to needy students in the depressed area of inner-city Oakland, the underserved families of the East Bay. The athletic program of Cristo Rey participates in the CIF North Coast Section as a non-league affiliate.
References
Further reading
Kearney, G. R. More Than a Dream: The Cristo Rey Story: How One School's Vision Is Changing the World. Chicago, Ill: Loyola Press, 2008.
External links
Cristo Rey Network
Cristo Rey Network
Catholic secondary schools in California
Lasallian schools in the United States
Educational institutions established in 2018
Poverty-related organizations
2018 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Winners is an Australian children's television anthology series conceived and produced for the ACTF by its founding director, Patricia Edgar. It first screened on Network 10 in 1985 as part of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's newly implemented C classified drama quota. It featured eight self-contained telemovies and stories. Patricia Edgar was confident that Winners would be a landmark in the development of quality children's television and that it would go on to set the standard nationally and internationally for future children's productions. More Winners is the second season of the series, first screened on ABC in 1990. It featured six self-contained telemovies and stories.
At the forefront of the creators' minds when making the shows was the importance of Australian children having access to a rich and diverse choice of programs that reflected their own society and were appropriate to their particular stage of development. The different episodes dealt with themes of aspirations, friendship, competition, conflict, jealousy, family, lifestyles, independence, decision making, and personal growth. The series had a general theme of young people winning over their circumstances, accepting challenges, gaining confidence, making their own decisions, coming to terms with life, and growing up.
Winners broke new ground for television and for the classroom. Each telemovie was accompanied by a novel, written by the scriptwriter, along with teaching materials to assist classroom teachers. The series was screened in 82 countries around the world and won awards that drew attention to the Australian children's production industry.
Background
In the 1980s, Australian adolescents were a much-neglected television audience. Despite their television viewing increasing at the time, there were few programs that catered to their particular needs and interests, such as relationships, problems, and joys.
Patricia Edgar, director of the ACTF, in association with the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation, commissioned a major research project to develop a format, characters, and series concept for a serial aimed specifically at Australian teenagers.
Researchers conducted preliminary work in 1983 on case studies and recent survey data with assistance from the Institute of Family Studies. The foundation wanted to provide a realistic representation of Australian life in the telemovies and to move away from stereotypes. The writers then undertook extensive interviews with police social workers, youth workers, government departments, educators, parents, and naturally, many young people in the projected age range. Don Edgar, foundation director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, briefed writers on the nature of real Australian families and what actually went on in Australian homes in the mid-1980s.
Winners attracted not only Australia's best writers, producers, and directors at the time, but also one of the nation's leading business identi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Family | Monster Family (also known as Happy Family) is a 2017 computer-animated monster comedy film directed and produced by Holger Tappe, and co-written by David Safier. It is based on David Safier's 2011 novel Happy Family. The film stars Emily Watson, Nick Frost, Jessica Brown Findlay, Celia Imrie, Catherine Tate, and Jason Isaacs.
The film was both a critical and financial failure: it was unanimously panned by critics, who criticized its voice acting, animation, writing and humor. It was also a box office bomb, only grossing $26.4 million against a $30 million budget.
A sequel titled Monster Family 2 was released in 2021.
Plot
In Transylvania, Count Dracula laments about his loneliness with his three bat servants. He receives a phone call from Emma Wishbone who has mistakenly called him instead of a monster costume store. She talks to him briefly before accidentally dropping her cell phone down a storm drain. Emma is depressed as family tensions build up - her own bookstore is in dire financial straits, her son Max is a victim of bullying due to his awkward and stereotypical mannerisms, her daughter Fay is a narcissistic teenager, and her husband Frank is overworked and sleep-deprived, neglecting her. Dracula decides to make Emma his new bride and persuades Baba Yaga to curse her and turn her into a real vampire so she will stay with him.
Her new-age friend Cheyenne gives Emma some tickets to a costume party, and Emma makes costumes for Emma's family: She as a vampire, Frank as Frankenstein's monster, Fay as a mummy, and Max as a werewolf. Due to a mix-up at the party, they are thrown out by security, causing Emma to have a breakdown. Baba Yaga takes advantage of the situation and curses her, but as her entire family were unhappy, they are all cursed and transform into the monsters they dressed up as.
Emma chases Baba Yaga who escapes, but not before they learn that her amulet needs to be recharged at the London Eye which happens to have been built on a site of ancient power. Meanwhile, Max scares his bully, enjoying his transformation and Fay is rejected by her school crush. Frank has lost his intelligence, but still shows love for Emma.
At the airport Fay hypnotizes a check-in clerk to allow them to fly, but during the flight Emma is overwhelmed by vampiric bloodlust, and only a timely intervention from Dracula halts this and he absconds with the confused and blood-hungry Emma aboard his personal jet leaving her family on the passenger plane.
Dracula tries to persuade Emma to stay with him, and although tempted she decides to be loyal to her family - causing Dracula to eject her from his plane where she lands next to the London Eye just as her family arrive. Meanwhile, Dracula decides that if he cannot have Emma, nobody can. He instructs his hunchback servant Renfield to prepare a snowflake machine to destroy the world in retaliation.
Baba Yaga charges her amulet but is accosted by the Wishbones, however she sends them to Egypt. Cheyenne tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting%20%28compilers%29 | In computer programming, self-hosting is the use of a program as part of the toolchain or operating system that produces new versions of that same program—for example, a compiler that can compile its own source code. Self-hosting software is commonplace on personal computers and larger systems. Other programs that are typically self-hosting include kernels, assemblers, command-line interpreters and revision control software.
Operating systems
An operating system is self-hosted when the toolchain to build the operating system runs on that same operating system. For example, Windows can be built on a computer running Windows.
Before a system can become self-hosted, another system is needed to develop it until it reaches a stage where self-hosting is possible. When developing for a new computer or operating system, a system to run the development software is needed, but development software used to write and build the operating system is also necessary. This is called a bootstrapping problem or, more generically, a chicken or the egg dilemma.
A solution to this problem is the cross compiler (or cross assembler when working with assembly language). A cross compiler allows source code on one platform to be compiled for a different machine or operating system, making it possible to create an operating system for a machine for which a self-hosting compiler does not yet exist. Once written, software can be deployed to the target system using means such as an EPROM, floppy diskette, flash memory (such as a USB thumb drive), or JTAG device. This is similar to the method used to write software for gaming consoles or for handheld devices like cellular phones or tablets, which do not host their own development tools.
Once the system is mature enough to compile its own code, the cross-development dependency ends. At this point, an operating system is said to be self-hosted.
Compilers
Software development using compiler or interpreters can also be self hosted when the compiler is capable of compiling itself.
Since self-hosted compilers suffer from the same bootstrap problems as operating systems, a compiler for a new programming language needs to be written in an existing language. So the developer may use something like assembly language, C/C++, or even a scripting language like Python or Lua to build the first version of the compiler. Once the language is mature enough, development of the compiler can shift to the compiler's native language, allowing the compiler to build itself.
History
The first self-hosting compiler (excluding assemblers) was written for Lisp by Hart and Levin at MIT in 1962. They wrote a Lisp compiler in Lisp, testing it inside an existing Lisp Interpreter. Once they had improved the compiler to the point where it could compile its own source code, it was self-hosting.
This technique is usually only practicable when an interpreter already exists for the very same language that is to be compiled; though possible, it is extrem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20Coco%20%282017%20film%29 | Coco is a 2017 American computer-animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Lee Unkrich and was based on an original idea by Unkrich with the screenplay written by Adrian Molina (who also co-directed) and Matthew Aldrich. The film follows Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a 12-year-old boy, who is accidentally transported to the land of the dead. There he seeks the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather to return him to his family among the living. The film's voice cast also stars Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor, Ana Ofelia Murguía, and Edward James Olmos.
The film premiered at the Morelia International Film Festival on October 20, 2017. It was theatrically released in Mexico the following week, before being released in over 3,900 theatres in the United States and Canada on November 27. Coco grossed $814.3 million worldwide. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews.
Coco has received various awards and nominations. At the 90th Academy Awards, it won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. The film garnered two nominations at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, winning for Best Animated Feature Film. Coco also won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for both Best Animated Feature and Best Song. The film led the 45th Annie Awards with thirteen nominations, and won a record-breaking eleven awards. It was named one of the ten best films of 2017 by the National Board of Review. Various critic circles have also picked Coco as the best animated feature film of the year.
Accolades
Notes
References
External links
Lists of accolades by film
Pixar awards and nominations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Flyers%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | High Flyers is an Australian children's television series which first screened on the Seven Network in 1999. The series ran for two seasons and was aimed at children and teenagers. It was produced by Southern Star Entertainment.
Premise
High Flyers follows the adventures and triumphs of a group of children as they discover and develop their talents in an extraordinary children's circus. Luke and Phoebe move to the country but the first impressions of their new home aren't encouraging until they discover the town has its own circus, managed by Caz.
Cast
Main
Clayton Watson as Luke
Emily Browning as Phoebe
Jane Hall as Caz
Robert Grubb as Mr. Bull
Andrew Clarke
Anthony Hammer
Jade Butler as Julianna "Jules" Price
Brandon Burns as Bert
Supporting
Bartholomew Nash as Trevor
Algin Abella as Kyet Nguyen
Katy Brinson as Sarah
Denise Briskin as Taya
Christopher Brown as Steve
Zane Elvis De Courcy as Mitchell "Mitch" Price
Serge De Nardo as Pablo
Carmelina Di Guglielmo as Rosa
Hannah Greenwood as Dallas
Talia Krape as Carmen Price
Scott Mackenzie as Simmo
Nikolai Nikolaeff as Nick
Alex Menglet as Alexi
Bonnie Piesse as Donna
Rhona Rees as Charlie
References
External links
High Flyers at the Australian Television Information Archive
High Flyers at Australian Screen Online
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's television series
1999 Australian television series debuts
2000 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20O.%20Wobbrock | Jacob O. Wobbrock is a Professor in the University of Washington Information School and, by courtesy, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is Director of the ACE Lab, Associate Director and founding Co-Director Emeritus of the CREATE research center, and a founding member of the DUB Group and the MHCI+D degree program.
Wobbrock conducts research and teaches in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with a focus on input and interaction techniques, human performance measurement and modeling, HCI research and design methods, mobile computing, and accessible computing. He frequently publishes on interaction techniques, text entry methods and their evaluation, gesture recognition and design, statistical methods and tools, mobile user interfaces, and accessible user interfaces, among other topics.
Wobbrock has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and received 29 paper awards, including seven best papers and eight honorable mentions from ACM's CHI conference. In 2021, he was named an ACM Fellow "for contributions to human-computer interaction and accessible computing." In 2019, he was inducted into the CHI Academy. For his work on accessible computing, he received the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award and the 2019 SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award, a 10-year lasting impact award. He also received a 10-year impact award from ICMI 2022 for his work on the $P gesture recognizer. He is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and seven other National Science Foundation grants. In both 2018 and 2021, he was #1 of 100 on AMiner's Most Influential Scholars in HCI list, and was runner-up in 2020. (AMiner is an automatic citation-ranking system from Tsinghua University.) From 2012 to 2022, he served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. His advisees have gone on to positions at Harvard, Cornell, Colorado, Washington, Brown, Simon Fraser, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others.
As an entrepreneur, Wobbrock was the venture-backed co-founder and CEO of AnswerDash from 2012 to 2015. AnswerDash was acquired by CloudEngage in June 2020.
Education
Wobbrock grew up in Lake Oswego, Oregon and graduated with academic honors from Lake Oswego High School. He attended Stanford University, where he received his B.S. with Honors in Symbolic Systems (1998) and his M.S. in Computer Science (2000). In both degrees, he had a formal specialization in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). After working in Silicon Valley startups for a few years, he attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his Ph.D. (2006). At graduation, he was honored with CMU's School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Research
Wobbrock's research seeks to scientifically understand people's experiences of computers and information, and to improve those experiences by inventing ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20Theater%20%28Washington%2C%20D.C.%29 | The Apollo Theater was a movie theater located at 624 H Street NE in Washington, D.C. which played silent movies. It was built in 1913 and was part of the Crandall network of movie theaters popular at the time. It was demolished in 1955. The lot is today occupied by a residential building named the "Apollo" in its honor.
History
Heyday
The parcel of land in the middle of the 600 block of H Street NE was 150 feet deep and 225 feet wide. It was originally owned by the Kidder Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and leased to the Apollo Amusement Company. On April 2, 1913, a building permit is issued to the Apollo Amusement Company to build a theater on the land at 624 H Street NE. The architect is A. Clark Jones and the builder W. B. Avery. The Apollo open-air picture garden and the Theater were built on this lot.
In 1922, the Apollo Theater underwent a major remodel (including a balcony) which increased the seating capacity. In early October of that same year, Harry Crandall purchased the parcel of land from Kidder Lodge for $65,000. He had already purchased all the stocks of the Apollo from the Apollo Amusement Company two years earlier. The buildings along with the improvements were valued at $200,000 at the time.
Harry Crandall already owned several movie theaters at the time and his investments were closely watched by the newspapers at the time. This deal was seen as a major investment in the neighborhood at the time and was seen as an encouragement to invest on H Street.
On June 29, 1930, Warner Bros. Theaters of Washington announced a plan to demolish the old Apollo Theater to replace it with a bigger movie theater. This theater would be able to accommodate 2,500 with a balcony and air conditioning. It would be a bigger structure and therefore the land adjacent to the theater was purchased. The major reason for this new structure was that the Apollo could only play silent movies. The new theater would be able to play "3 Dimensional Films" on a wide screen. The old theater would be demolished as soon as the final plans would be drawn up by the New-york firm Rapp & Rapp. It is not believed this plan ever materialized.
Decline
On December 29, 1949, Stanley Company of America (formally Stanley-Crandall Company of America) sold the land and buildings at 624 H Street NE to Ourisman Chevrolet, Inc. Ourisman Chevrolet had been a neighbor since the early 1920s across the street at 625 H Street NE. On May 31, 1925, they had purchased the land adjacent to the theater (610-616 H Street). In June 1926, they had moved their sales to across the street at 610 H Street NE. The purchase of the Apollo Theater was to allow further growth.
The theater was demolished in 1955. It was replaced by a five-story service center used by Ourisman. The location became a Buick dealership taken over by Bob White in September 1966. The dealership moved from 624 H Street NE to 2461 Wisconsin Avenue NW later that year while the service center remained at that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSTree | libostree (previously OSTree) is a system for versioning updates of Linux-based operating systems. It can be considered as "Git for operating system binaries". It operates in userspace, and will work on top of any Linux file system. At its core is a Git-like content-addressed object store with branches (or "refs") to track meaningful file system trees within the store.
Features
OSTree is closely inspired by Git. It operates on commits which refer to filesystem trees. To refer to different commits while maintaining a user-readable name, OSTree provides "references" (analogous to branches in Git), such asexampleos/buildmain/x86_64-runtime.
Files provided by commits are by default immutable, done by mounting the filesystem itself as read-only. OSTree allows for two mutable directories for storing user data: /etc and /var. It provides a mechanism to allow filesystem trees to add configuration files to /etc while also allowing system administrators to edit those files in a persistent manner.
OSTree provides bootloader management for hardware deployments. This enables atomic updates, as OSTree can create deployments and atomically insert them into the boot partition. It also allows for systemwide rollback by selecting old deployments during startup.
Usage
libostree is used by various Linux operating systems and tools:
endless OS through eos-updater.
Flatpak, used to store applications and runtimes and to provide deduplication.
Fedora's immutable spins (Silverblue, Kinoite, and Sericea) through rpm-ostree
Atomic Host
The GNOME continuous project for continuous delivery of GNOME components.
Torizon OS embedded Linux uses libostree with the Uptane Frameworks for OS Updates.
References
External links
Computer libraries
Linux software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkage%20Fields%20%28image%20restoration%29 | Shrinkage fields is a random field-based machine learning technique that aims to perform high quality image restoration (denoising and deblurring) using low computational overhead.
Method
The restored image is predicted from a corrupted observation after training on a set of sample images .
A shrinkage (mapping) function is directly modeled as a linear combination of radial basis function kernels, where is the shared precision parameter, denotes the (equidistant) kernel positions, and M is the number of Gaussian kernels.
Because the shrinkage function is directly modeled, the optimization procedure is reduced to a single quadratic minimization per iteration, denoted as the prediction of a shrinkage field where denotes the discrete Fourier transform and is the 2D convolution with point spread function filter, is an optical transfer function defined as the discrete Fourier transform of , and is the complex conjugate of .
is learned as for each iteration with the initial case , this forms a cascade of Gaussian conditional random fields (or cascade of shrinkage fields (CSF)). Loss-minimization is used to learn the model parameters .
The learning objective function is defined as , where is a differentiable loss function which is greedily minimized using training data and .
Performance
Preliminary tests by the author suggest that RTF5 obtains slightly better denoising performance than , followed by , , , and BM3D.
BM3D denoising speed falls between that of and , RTF being an order of magnitude slower.
Advantages
Results are comparable to those obtained by BM3D (reference in state of the art denoising since its inception in 2007)
Minimal runtime compared to other high-performance methods (potentially applicable within embedded devices)
Parallelizable (e.g.: possible GPU implementation)
Predictability: runtime where is the number of pixels
Fast training even with CPU
Implementations
A reference implementation has been written in MATLAB and released under the BSD 2-Clause license: shrinkage-fields
See also
Random field
Discrete Fourier transform
Convolution
Noise reduction
Deblurring
References
Image noise reduction techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinca%20%28software%29 | In computing, Vinca is a free and open-source remote desktop software helper both for supported user and for remote administrator.
A support service can publish the utility to be downloaded and executed by people who need to be assisted (such as customers). Vinca cares about searching and installing VNC requirements to launch immediately a connection to a public IP or name.
Vinca relies on x11vnc to call the final reverse connection, after checking and diagnosing network and destination availability. Supports any Unix operating system with x11vnc (version 0.6 or newer) and has been distributed with extra repositories for Debian (since version 3.1 sarge) and Ubuntu (since version 4.10 warty).
See also
Comparison of remote desktop software
TeamViewer
Remote Desktop Services
Remote desktop software
Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
References
External links
Official website
Remote desktop
Virtual Network Computing
Free network-related software
Remote desktop software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Neapolitan | Richard Eugene Neapolitan was an American scientist. Neapolitan is most well-known for his role in establishing the use of probability theory in artificial intelligence and in the development of the field Bayesian networks.
Biography
Neapolitan grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Westchester, Illinois, which is a western suburb of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Neapolitan notes that he was unable to obtain an academic position after obtaining his Ph.D., owing to a glut of mathematicians and a recession in the 1970s, and so he worked as a model and in various computer science related positions. The latter experience enabled him to obtain a faculty position in the Computer Science Department of Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in 1980. He served the majority of his academic career at NEIU, including becoming Chair of Computer Science in 2002.
Research
In the 1980s, researchers from cognitive science (e.g., Judea Pearl), computer science (e.g., Peter C. Cheeseman and Lotfi Zadeh), decision analysis (e.g., Ross Shachter), medicine (e.g., David Heckerman and Gregory Cooper), mathematics and statistics (e.g., Neapolitan, Tod Levitt, and David Spiegelhalter) and philosophy (e.g., Henry Kyburg) met at the newly formed Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence to discuss how to best perform uncertain inference in artificial intelligence. Neapolitan presented an exposition on the use of the classical approach to probability versus the Bayesian approach in artificial intelligence at the 1988 Workshop. A more extensive philosophical treatise on the difference between the two approaches and the application of probability to artificial intelligence appeared in his 1989 text Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems: Theory and Algorithms.
Closely related to the issue of representing uncertainty in artificial intelligence, researchers at the Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence developed and discussed graphical models that could represent large joint probability distributions. Neapolitan formulated these efforts into a coherent field in the text Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems: Theory and Algorithms. The text defines a causal (Bayesian) network, and proves a theorem showing that a directed acyclic graph and a discrete probability distribution together constitute a Bayesian network if and only if is equal to the product of its conditional distributions in . The text also includes methods for doing inference in Bayesian networks, and a discussion of influence diagrams, which are Bayesian networks augmented with decision nodes and a value node. Many AI applications have since been developed using Bayesian networks and influence diagrams.
Neapolitan's "Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems" and Judea Pearl's "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" have been widely recognized as formalizing the field of Bayesian networks, as seen in the works of Eug |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Shortland%20Street%20characters%20%282017%29 | Shortland Street is a New Zealand television soap opera. It was first broadcast on 25 May 1992 and currently airs on television network TVNZ 2. The following is a list of characters that appeared on the show in 2017 by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the show's executive producer Maxine Fleming. The 25th season of Shortland Street began airing on 16 January 2017 and concluded on 18 December 2017.
Mason Coutts
Mason Coutts, played by Colin Moy, made his first appearance in January 2017. Mason is Moy's second role on the show, having played Brett Valentine in 2004.
Mason is introduced as a new candidate for the role being Mayor of Ferndale. It later emerges that he is the father of troubled teen Jasper Coutts (Lachlan Forlong). He then meets Sass Connelly (Lucy Lovegrove) and the pair start a relationship much to the dislike of her half brother, Harry Warner (Reid Walker). Mason later moves Jasper to Ferndale High after being expelled from his previous school, St. Barts. Sass starts to assist with Mason's campaign for Mayor with her attending events alongside him frequently. Their relationship becomes physical and the two sleep together. After having sex, Sass falls asleep. While she is asleep Mason makes a suspicious phonecall on a separate phone. Later on, Mason wins the campaign to become the Mayor of Ferndale and during celebrations it is revealed that Mason was arranging the murder and burial of corrupt Detective Brent Cochrane underneath the foundation of a new building. Soon after, the pair marry, much to the dismay of Sass's family. Their relationship takes a turn when Sass starts to annoy Mason's long time love affair who acts as his assistant. Sass becomes upset when Mason dismisses her, but he re-assures her that everything is OK. Eventually, it is revealed that Mason is the criminal mastermind behind the death of Glenn Rickman (Will Wallace) and covering up the murder of Hayden Crowhurst (Aaron Jackson). Due to Mason's shady personality, TK Samuels (Benjamin Mitchell) starts to become suspicious of Mason. On the day of a volcanic eruption in Ferndale, Mason and Sass have a violent fight at their house. Sass hides from Mason, but he waits for her to come out. Sass later sees her brother Frank Warner (Luke Patrick) laying on the floor and thinks he may be dead. Angry, Sass grabs a knife and stabs him. Sass's friend Hawks Logan (Teone Kahu) turns up and comforts Sass. Mason begs Sass for help, but Sass refuses. Shortly afterwards, Frank wakes up and it is revealed he is not dead and Mason is treated for his injuries in Hospital. Mason is later sent to prison for his corrupt activity. In prison, he sends a gunman to shoot Frank and Sass's other brother Finn Connelly (Lukas Whiting) whilst Mason is on a boat with Jasper and Sass trapped after he escapes prison. They argue on board and Mason goes to throw Sass abroad but is interrupted by Jasper and gets injured. He suffers from his injuries and dies in Mason's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL%20character%20set | In computing FOCAL character set refers to a group of 8-bit single byte character sets introduced by Hewlett-Packard since 1979. It was used in several RPN calculators supporting the FOCAL programming language, like the HP-41C/CV/CX as well as the later HP-42S, which was introduced in 1988 and produced up to 1995. As such, it is also used by SwissMicros' DM41/L, both introduced in 2015, and is implicitly supported by the DM42, introduced in 2017 (although the later calculator utilizes Free42, which is based on Unicode internally).
Character set
The character set is derived from ASCII, but with the control code range and some high bit characters replaced by various special characters.
When Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP-42S in 1988, the FOCAL character set was revised to include more characters, including a number of characters already provided by the HP 82240A infrared thermo printer, which had been introduced in 1986, as part of its extended variant of the 1985 revision of the HP Roman-8 character set, although at completely different code points.
There is no code point definition for the euro sign in this character set.
Translation from HP-42S character set to the modified HP Roman-8 (supported by HP 82240A etc.) character set:
See also
Hewlett-Packard calculator character sets
Notes
References
Further reading
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavobacterium%20branchiicola | Flavobacterium branchiicola is a bacterium from the genus of Flavobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Flavobacterium branchiicola at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
branchiicola
Bacteria described in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s%20Fairy%20Tale%20Weddings | Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings is a documentary television series featuring couples and their Disney-themed weddings, airing on Disney's Freeform network and the Disney+ streaming service. The series was removed from Disney+ on May 26, 2023.
Synopsis
The show provides a behind-the-scenes look at the weddings and engagements of couples that take place at Disney destinations including Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and at Aulani in Hawaii. It is coordinated by Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings.
Release
A Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings 90–minute special was announced on March 29, 2017. The special was broadcast via Freeform on May 7, 2017. The special was hosted by Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell from The Bachelor. On October 17, 2017, Freeform announced the production of a seven-episode series for Summer 2018 to be hosted by Allison Holker and Stephen "tWitch" Boss. In November 2017, Freeform added a December 11, 2017 hour-long special, Disney's Fair Tale Weddings: Holiday Magic as part of its 25 Days of Christmas event. The series premiered on June 11, 2018. The first season concluded on July 16, 2018.
The second season premiered on Disney+ on February 14, 2020.
Episodes
Specials (2017)
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2020)
References
External links
Official website
2010s American documentary television series
2017 American television series debuts
2020 American television series endings
Disney+ original programming
Documentaries about weddings
English-language television shows
Freeform (TV channel) original programming
Television series by Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Wedding television shows
Television shows filmed in Alaska
Television shows filmed in the Bahamas
Television shows filmed in California
Television shows filmed in Florida
Television shows filmed in France
Television shows filmed in Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Shortland%20Street%20characters%20%282018%29 | Shortland Street is a television soap opera from New Zealand, first broadcast on the 25st of May, 1992. It currently airs on television network TVNZ 2.
The 26th season of Shortland Street began airing on 15 January 2018. The following is a list of characters that appeared on the show in 2018 by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the show's executive producer Maxine Fleming.
Dion Tai
Dion Tai, played by Sonny Tupu, made his first appearance on 23 January 2018.
Dion arrives at the hospital as a famous rugby league star for a charity photo shoot. Upon running into the star-struck Jack (Reuben Milner), Dion openly discriminates against him for his sexuality, and flirts with Sass Warner (Lucy Lovegrove). However, upon running into Jack again, it emerges that Dion himself is secretly gay, and attracted to Jack. The two begin a casual relationship, with Dion too afraid to come out due to his high-profile rugby league career. However, when Jack gives him an ultimatum, Dion comes out on national television and the two enter a loving committed relationship. Shortly into the relationship, Dion begins to have health problems and is diagnosed with terminal melanoma. He retires from sport and despite initial hesitation, allows Jack to nurse him; eventually dying in his arms. Alongside his cancer treatment, Dion consumes brownies laced with medicinal marijuana. Weeks after his death, Damo, who was dieting, consumes them, and experiences severe hallucinations.
Zoe Carlson
Zoe Carlson, played by Holly Shervey, made her first screen appearance on 9 April 2018.
She initially stays with Vinnie and Nicole in a rented room in their house, but when she overstays her welcome, the couple try to get rid of her. Zoe leaves bad reviews of the rental, and it turns out that she is the younger sister of Kate Nathan. Dawn sets Zoe up to be Curtis' love interest, but Dawn has no idea that Zoe is Curtis' step-aunt.
Zoe is hired as a PA after Leanne was recovering from a broken wrist and Sass Warner moves to Italy to take care of Hawks. While working, she develops feelings for Chris Warner. Chris attempts to fire Zoe for her poor performance, but she emotionally blackmails Chris by falsely claiming to have cancer. Chris is hesitant to believe her, but Zoe manages to convince him by saying her cancer is Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a far more treatable form. Chris' son Finn, however, warns his father to fire her regardless, but Chris has begun to have feelings for Zoe. After taking care of a terminal patient by reading to her, Zoe's guilt finally overwhelms her after the patient passes away. On the 7th of May, when she tries to show signs of her illness after feeling threatened by Chris hiring an accountant that can double as a PA, Damo forces Zoe to confess the truth of her illness to Kate after Chris covers up for her.
When Chris and Zoe announce their relationship publically, Zoe finds out she is pregnant while Chris is away in Shanghai as Zhilan, Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzor%20Urdia | Anzor Urdia (, ; March 12, 1939 - September 29, 2011) was a renowned Georgian theater and film actor. He performed in a number of films, among them was the main role in the iconic Soviet film Data Tutashkhia.
Biography
Urdia was born in Uman, Ukraine in 1939 where his father Varlam Urdia served as military fighter pilot during the World War II. Urdia and his family moved back to Georgia after his father was killed in Ukraine on October 30, 1945. In Georgia, Urdia studied acting at the prestigious Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University and very soon after graduating he became a successful theater actor in number of theaters in the Soviet Union. Urdia's numerous performances on the theater stage led him to starring and supporting roles in well known Georgian films which included Data Tutashkhia, Kvarkvare, Kukaracha and Pirveli Mertskhali. In a well known Soviet film series which was based on Chabua Amirejibi's book Data Tutashkhia Urdia played the role of a drunken homeless vagrant called Bardghunia. He earned the critical acclaim for his portrayal of Kharabadze in the 1990 film adaptation of Nodar Dumbadze's novel Tetri Bairaghebi (White Flags). In 1980, during the height of his career in both film and theater, Urdia was appointed as the head of administration of the famous Marjanishvili Theatre where he worked for more than ten years. Urdia was married to the Georgian mathematician Nana Gigineishvili with whom he had two children, Varlam Urdia (born 1965) and Mariam Urdia (born in 1982). In 1997, Urdia had a leading role as Stalin in an Austrian production of the historical documentary film. After suffering illness for many years, Urdia passed away on September 29, 2011 and was interred at the Tbilisi Vake Cemetery.
Filmography
Actor
"Chair" (Skami) - Georgia, 2004
"Love and Potatoes" (Sikvaruli da Kartopili) - Georgia, 2003
"Antimoz from Iberia" (Antimoz iz Iverii) - Georgia, 2001
"Fallen Angel" (Pavshi Angel) - Georgia, 1991
"I am Godfather to Pele" (Me, Peles Natlia) - Georgia, 1991
"War is for Everyone - Stalin's Son" (Omi yvelastvis Omia - Stalinis shvili) - Georgian SSR, 1990
"White Flags" (Tetri Bairaghebi) - Georgian SSR, 1990
"Turandot" - Russian SFSR, 1989
"Santa Claus" (Tovlis babua) - Georgian SSR, 1986
"Without Any Risk" (Bez Osobogo Riska) - Georgian SSR/Russian SFSR, 1983
"Kukaracha" - Georgian SSR, 1982
"The Marines have No Questions", (Y Motrosov Netu Voprosov''') Russian SFSR, 1980
"Tbilisi-Paris and Back" (Tiflis-Pariz i Obratno) - Georgian SSR, 1980
"the Break" (Pereviv) - Russian SFSR, 1978
"Kings and Cabbage" (Korili i Kapusta) - Russian SFSR, 1978
"Kvarkvare" - Georgian SSR, 1978
"The Price of Life" (Tsena Zhizni) - Russian SFSR, 1977
"Data Tutashkhia" - Georgian SSR, 1977
"First Swallow" (Mertskhali'') - Georgian SSR, 1975
See also
Varlam Urdia, Anzors father and Soviet fighter pilot during the World War II.
Marjanishvili Theatre
Cinema of Georgia
References
External links
Anzor Urdia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20Road%20Network | The Major Road Network (MRN) is a classification of local authority roads in England. It incorporates the National Highways-controlled Strategic Road Network (SRN) and the more major local authority controlled A roads. This network accounts for around 4 per cent of the nation's road length but 43 per cent of the traffic flows. It is designed to allow central government funding to be more effectively targeted towards the more economically critical road infrastructure. The system was proposed by the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund in October 2017 and adopted by the government in its 2017 Transport Investment Strategy. The MRN scheme was implemented in late 2018 and local authorities were required to submit proposals for £3.5 billion of funding for new schemes to be constructed 2020-25.
2016 Rees Jeffreys Road Fund report
The creation of the Major Road Network was proposed in the October 2016 Rees Jeffreys Road Fund report A Major Road Network for England written by David Quarmby and Phil Carey. The authors stated that the existing Highways England (now National Highways) Strategic Road Network (SRN), which accounts for 2 per cent of England's roads but 33 per cent of its traffic did not sufficiently safeguard the economically-critical parts of the road network. The remaining 98 per cent of the network is currently under the control of 153 separate local authorities. Quarmby and Carey proposed a new classification of roads combining the SRN with of the most important local authority A roads. This expanded network would account for 43 per cent of the nation's traffic and 4 per cent of its road length.
Quarmby and Carey proposed that A roads with average daily traffic flows in excess of 20,000 vehicles be included into the MRN along with roads with average daily traffic flows in excess of 10,000 where more than 5 per cent of traffic was heavy goods vehicles or more than 15 per cent were light goods vehicles. Additional roads were added to link all towns with a population in excess of 50,000 persons to the network, remove isolated sections of road and reflect predicted growth to 2040.
The MRN would be separated into four tiers:
Tier 1 – limited-access roads devoted to movement between major urban areas and subject to the highest speeds
Tier 1A – limited-access roads in urban areas with heavier traffic flows, more frequent junctions and require more oversight by a regional authority or city
Tier 2 – multiple-access roads, usually rural A roads which link secondary urban areas but may have frontages and local access uses
Tier 3 – multiple-access major roads in urban areas, often with a mix of user types and conflicting movements
Quarmby and Carey did not propose transferring responsibility for the MRN from the current maintainers and operators to an enlarged Highways England but suggested that Highways England surpluses resulting from the reallocation of Vehicle Excise Duty receipts to the organisation could be forwarded to local authorities t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD%20%28disambiguation%29 | A DVD (digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a data storage medium.
DVD may also refer to:
Medicine
Developmental verbal dyspraxia, a condition in children involving problems saying sounds, syllables and words
Dissociated vertical deviation, an eye condition associated with a squint
Other
D v D, a Court of Appeal of England and Wales case regarding residence in the UK
or miscellaneous right, in France, right-wing candidates who are not members of any large party
Driver vigilance device, a railroad safety device that operates in the case of incapacitation of the engineer
See also
The DVD (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analitik | Analitik () is a programming language, developed in 1968 at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in the USSR. It is a development on the ALMIR-65 language, keeping compatibility with it.
Distinctive features of the language are abstract data types, calculations in arbitrary algebras, and analytic transformations.
It was implemented on MIR-2 machines.
Later, a version of Analitik-74 was developed, implemented on MIR-3 machines.
At the moment, the language exists as a computer algebra system, Analitik-2010, which is being developed jointly by the Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Poltava National Technical University.
References
Programming languages created in 1968
Programming languages
Computing in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20in%20Madrid | The city of Madrid has been increasing in the last years its network of bicycle paths. In 2016, there were 195 km of cycling routes. The former city council had been planning to build 400 km more for the year 2024 despite a very vocal opposition to the construction of segregated infrastructure by a significant part of the local cycling community. However now with the new right wing mayor elected in 2019 the city is set to be the only capital in the world where bicycle lanes are being removed again.
Cycling by-laws
Madrid's cycling law was approved by the council of Madrid 5 October 2018. This law introduced several changes in all the city of Madrid, some of them modifying the previous status of the bicycle. The most important changes were:
Bicyclists must ride in the middle of the lane. Before, bicyclists may ride in the middle of the lane.
Bicyclists are allowed to travel in the opposite direction of the other traffic in living streets.
Bicyclists may use whichever lane on the road they want, although the rightest one is preferred.
Bicyclists are not allowed to use bus lanes, unless there are explicit signs to do so. By the way, cyclists must ride on the left side of the bus lane. Note that in Madrid, taxis and motorcycles are allowed to drive on all bus lanes, except motorcycles on the la Castellana bus lane.
Two bicycles may ride parallel in the same lane, unless this behaviour places in danger another cyclists or in bus lanes authorized to cyclists.
It is not mandatory that cyclists ride through bicycle ways, unless it exists a mandatory cycleway sign.
It is forbidden to ride on the pavement, on pedestrian streets and on pedestrian zones.
Turn on red is allowed to bicycles if there is a traffic sign allowing that.
Infrastructure
In Spain's Spanish, all kind of bicycle infrastructure segregated from cars are called informally carril bici, which means bicycle lane. The Madrid's sustainable mobility law defines 8 types of bicycle ways.
Nevertheless, other argue that there are up to 16 types of bikeways in Madrid.
Shared lanes
Car-shared lanes are lanes marked with shared-lane markings or sharrows. In Spanish there are called ciclocarril. This kind of infrastructure is marked with the drawing of a bicycle on the pavement and two "corporal" arrows (chevrons) that spans all the width of the lane. This is by far the most usual kind of infrastructure that can be found in Madrid and defining of the character or cycling in the city. This lane has a speed limit of 30 km/h (20 mph) and is marked on the road, except in one lane streets, because in Madrid street with only one lane in a direction are de facto limited to 30 km/h(18 mph).
Sidewalk cycle-path
This is a bicycle path at the same level of the sidewalk. In Spanish is called acera-bici. This means that the segregation between pedestrians and cyclists doesn't exist or there is a difference of less than 3 cm(1.18 in) between the height of the cycleway and the pavement. In this kin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face%20Off%3A%20Game%20Face | Face Off: Game Face is an American reality television game show on the Syfy cable network in which make-up artists compete against one another to create character make-ups such as those found in sci-fi and horror films. Face Off: Game Face is a spin-off of Syfy's Face Off and is similar in format to Food Network's Chopped. Each episode features four Face Off all-stars who compete head-to-head through three rounds with one artist being eliminated after each challenge until a final winner is chosen and receives . The challenges are reminiscent of the Foundation Challenges - short, makeup focused challenges - that preceded the main challenges in Face Off which were phased out in the later seasons. The show's host, actress McKenzie Westmore is joined by Academy Award-winning makeup artist Ve Neill and Rick Baker as the series judges with a third guest judge that rotates each episode. Special effects makeup artist Glenn Hetrick, and Emmy Award-winning makeup artist Eryn Krueger Mekash have served as guest judges.
Season 1 contestants
Progress
References
External links
Face Off (TV series)
2010s American reality television series
2017 American television series debuts
Syfy original programming
2017 American television series endings
American television spin-offs
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lucas%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter Lucas (13 January 1935 in Vienna, Austria – 2 February 2015 in California, United States) was an Austrian computer scientist and university professor.
Life
Peter Lucas graduated in 1953 and then studied telecommunications at the Vienna University of Technology. He completed his studies in 1959 with a diploma thesis on the topic of programming electronic calculating machines. Then he was a member of Heinz Zemanek's group and was responsible for the system programming of Mailüfterl, the first fully transistorized computer in continental Europe.
In 1961, he moved with the Mailüfterl Group from the Technical University to the IBM company, working at the IBM Laboratory Vienna, where he worked on the formal description of programming languages. Together with Hans Bekić, Kurt Walk, and Heinz Zemanek, he was responsible for the formal definition of the IBM programming language PL/I using the Vienna Definition Language (VDL), an important part of the formal method VDM. In addition, he worked together with Hans Bekić on a compiler for ALGOL 60. During this time, he gave lectures and lectures at the Vienna University of Technology and the Johannes Kepler University Linz, covering theoretical foundations of programming and the formal definition of programming languages.
In 1978, he joined the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York, United States, where he worked on experimental compiler projects. In 1979, he moved to IBM in San Jose, California, later the IBM Almaden Research Center. In 1988, he worked in John Backus' group on the definition and implementation of the functional programming language FL.
In October 1993, he was appointed as a full professor in software technology at the Graz University of Technology, retiring to an emeritus position in July 2001. From 1994, he was chairman of Formal Methods Europe (FME) and corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Peter Lucas died on 2 February 2015 at the age of 80.
Awards
1968: IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for the formal specification of PL/I
1969: Association for Computing Machinery: ACM Best Paper (together with Kurt Walk)
1987: Honorary Doctorate at the Johannes Kepler University Linz
References
External links
Peter Lucas at DBLP Bibliography Server
1935 births
2015 deaths
Scientists from Vienna
TU Wien alumni
Austrian computer scientists
Formal methods people
Programming language researchers
Austrian expatriates in the United States
IBM Research computer scientists
Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology
Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica%20Inc.%20%281968%E2%80%931986%29 | Mathematica Inc. was a multi-faceted American software company and consulting group founded by Princeton University professors in 1968. The computer had three primary divisions: Mathematica Policy Research, which did consulting work, mostly "to develop mathematical models for marketing decision making"; Mathematica Products Group, best known for developing RAMIS; and MathTech, the company's technical and economic consulting group. The company was also a leading developer of state lottery systems.
In early 1982, the company's stock was split 3-for-2. Mathematica Products Group was soon spun off and purchased by Martin Marietta Corporation, in May 1983. The division was then renamed Mathematica & Oxford Software. Marietta sold Mathematica & Oxford Software to On-Line Software International in 1986; On-Line was in turn sold to Computer Associates, in 1991. Mathematica Policy Research and MathTech meanwhile were spun off, and in 1986 both independently became employee-owned companies. Mathematica Policy Research was eventually renamed to Mathematica Inc.; it is the only former unit still carrying the Mathematica name.
Early day participants
Oskar Morgenstern, economist; one of the company's founders (1969)
Tibor Fabian, Mathematica's Hungarian-born president (1980s)
William Baumol and William Bowen: economists, early day participants
Divisions
Mathematica Policy Research – the only former unit still carrying the Mathematica name.
Mathematica Products Group – best known for developing RAMIS
MathTech, the company's technical and economic consulting group – "research projects and computer systems other than Ramis."
A quarter of a century after Mathematica's founding, it "was largely owned by a group of professors in Mathematics and Economics at Princeton University ... as this group aged, they opted to cash out by selling." The result was a 3-way split: two units became employee-owned companies and another was sold several times.
Mathematica Products Group
In 1982, Mathematica Products Group's RAMIS was described as "nonprocedural" and "bordering on artificial intelligence." This unit of Mathematica was purchased by Martin Marietta Corporation in 1983 and renamed to Mathematica & Oxford Software. Marietta sold Mathematica & Oxford Software in 1986 to On-Line Software International, who merged the subsidiary into their own main operations; On-Line was in turn sold to Computer Associates, in 1991.
The RAMIS product sold well, initially on mainframes, subsequently on PCs.
Mathematica Policy Research
The Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) unit's strength was in "social experiments and surveys." In 1983 MPR reported "a major survey assignment for the American Medical Association."
In 1986, it became a separate, employee-owned company.
MathTech
Like MPR, in 1986 MathTech became an employee-owned company. Known today as Mathtech, Inc., it was described by The New York Times as "a Washington-area educational consulting firm
References
Defunc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulpura | The Wulpura were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Their language, Kuku Waldja, has been listed as a dialect of Kuku Yalanji, but there does not appear to be any data available.
Country
According to Norman Tindale, the Wulpara controlled about of territory. They lived in the rainforested main range that lies west of Mount Romeo and Boolbun, and around the headwaters of the Daintree River on the Mount Windsor tableland.
People
According to one informant, the Wulpura were a people of relatively diminutive stature, on an average about 5 feet tall and weighing around 100 pounds. They engaged in an annual walkabout that would take them from South Mossman, via Julatten, and the Carbine River as far as the Daintree River, and before returning to their point of departure.
Alternative names
Koko-baldja.(language name)
Kokowaldja
Waldja
Walpoll
Wolpa. (toponym)
Woora. (toponym for a site on the South Mossman River)
Wulpurara, Wulbur-ara
Wulurara
Source:
Citations
Sources
Aboriginal peoples of Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataism | Dataism is a term that has been used to describe the mindset or philosophy created by the emerging significance of big data. It was first used by David Brooks in The New York Times in 2013. The term has been expanded to describe what historian Yuval Noah Harari, in his book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow from 2015, calls an emerging ideology or even a new form of religion, in which "information flow" is the "supreme value".
History
"If you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I'd say it is Data-ism", wrote David Brooks in The New York Times in February 2013. Brooks argued that in a world of increasing complexity, relying on data could reduce cognitive biases and "illuminate patterns of behavior we haven't yet noticed".
In 2015, Steve Lohr's book Data-ism looked at how Big Data is transforming society, using the term to describe the Big Data revolution.
In his 2016 book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari argues that all competing political or social structures can be seen as data processing systems: "Dataism declares that the universe consists of data flows, and the value of any phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing" and "we may interpret the entire human species as a single data processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips." According to Harari, a Dataist should want to "maximise dataflow by connecting to more and more media". Harari predicts that the logical conclusion of this process is that, eventually, humans will give algorithms the authority to make the most important decisions in their lives, such as whom to marry and which career to pursue. Harari argues that Aaron Swartz could be called the "first martyr" of Dataism.
Criticism
Commenting on Harari's characterisation of Dataism, security analyst Daniel Miessler believes that Dataism does not present the challenge to the ideology of liberal humanism that Harari claims, because humans will simultaneously be able to believe in their own importance and that of data.
Harari himself raises some criticisms, such as the problem of consciousness, which Dataism is unlikely to illuminate. Humans may also find out that organisms are not algorithms, he suggests. Dataism implies that all data is public, even personal data, to make the system work as a whole, which is a factor that's already showing resistance today.
Other analysts, such as Terry Ortleib, have looked at the extent to which Dataism poses a dystopian threat to humanity.
The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal showed how political leaders manipulated Facebook's users' data to build specific psychological profiles that went on to manipulate the network. A team of data analysts reproduced the AI technology developed by Cambridge Analytica around Facebook's data and was able to define the following rules: 10 likes enables a machine to know a person like a coworker, 70 likes like a friend would, 150 likes like a parent would, 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206.1 | The Nokia 6.1, also known as the Nokia 6 (2018) and the second-generation Nokia 6, is a Nokia-branded mid-range smartphone running the Android operating system. It was launched on 25 February 2018 in China as the successor to the first-generation Nokia 6.
Specifications
Hardware
The second-generation Nokia 6 is powered by the Snapdragon 630 microprocessor, an upgrade from the Snapdragon 430 present in its predecessor. Depending on the version, it either comes with 32 GB storage and 3 GB of LPDDR4 RAM or 64 GB storage and 4 GB of RAM.
The display panel is the same 5.5" 1080p IPS LCD as the original, although the front bezels have been slimmed down and the capacitive navigation buttons and home button have been replaced with on-screen keys.
The camera setup is also the same combination of 16 MP rear and 8 MP selfie found in its predecessor, and retains the "Bothie" feature, which uses both cameras and splits the screen in half to capture an image or does picture in picture mode, showing the inwards camera in a small rectangle on top of the outwards camera, or vice versa.
One of the main changes is the replacement of the micro-USB port in favor of the reversible USB-C, as well as the shift of the fingerprint sensor to the rear of the device. It keeps the 3.5 mm headphone jack. The Nokia 6.1 also supports Nokia OZO audio.
Software
The phone was launched in China running Android 7.1.1 Nougat and was upgradable to Android 8.0 Oreo, Android 9 Pie followed by Android 10. All other versions, including the international one, which launched later, ship with Android 8.1 Oreo, upgradeable to Android 9 Pie since the end of October 2018 and Android 10 since 10 January 2020. It is part of the Android One program, which means the device gets 2 years of Android OS updates and 3 years of security updates and is therefore upgradeable up to Android 10.
Reception
The Nokia 6.1 mostly received positive reviews. Holly Brockwell of TechRadar praised the phone’s software, design and screen while criticising the battery, camera and audio.
References
External links
6.1
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork%20%28blockchain%29 | In blockchain, a fork is defined variously as:
"What happens when a blockchain diverges into two potential paths forward"
"A change in protocol", or
A situation that "occurs when two or more blocks have the same block height"
Forks are related to the fact that different parties need to use common rules to maintain the history of the blockchain. When parties are not in agreement, alternative chains may emerge. While most forks are short-lived some are permanent. Short-lived forks are due to the difficulty of reaching fast consensus in a distributed system. Whereas permanent forks (in the sense of protocol changes) have been used to add new features to a blockchain, they can also be used to reverse the effects of hacking such as the case with Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, or avert catastrophic bugs on a blockchain as was the case with the bitcoin fork on 6 August 2010.
The concept of blockchain technology was first introduced in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto” in a white paper describing the design of a decentralized digital currency called Bitcoin.
Blockchain forks have been widely discussed in the context of the bitcoin scalability problem.
Types of forks
Forks can be classified as accidental or intentional. Accidental fork happens when two or more miners find a block at nearly the same time. The fork is resolved when subsequent block(s) are added and one of the chains becomes longer than the alternative(s). The network abandons the blocks that are not in the longest chain (they are called orphaned blocks).
Intentional forks that modify the rules of a blockchain can be classified as follows:
Hard fork
A hard fork is a change to the blockchain protocol that is not backward compatible and requires all users to upgrade their software in order to continue participating in the network. In a hard fork, the network splits into two separate versions: one that follows the new rules and one that follows the old rules.
For example, Ethereum was hard forked in 2016 to "make whole" the investors in The DAO, which had been hacked by exploiting a vulnerability in its code. In this case, the fork resulted in a split creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic chains. In 2014 the Nxt community was asked to consider a hard fork that would have led to a rollback of the blockchain records to mitigate the effects of a theft of 50 million NXT from a major cryptocurrency exchange. The hard fork proposal was rejected, and some of the funds were recovered after negotiations and ransom payment. Alternatively, to prevent a permanent split, a majority of nodes using the new software may return to the old rules, as was the case of bitcoin split on 12 March 2013.
A more recent hard-fork example is of Bitcoin in 2017, which resulted in a split creating Bitcoin Cash. The network split was mainly due to a disagreement in how to increase the transactions per second to accommodate for demand.
Soft fork
A soft fork is a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetch%20%28Infamous%29 | Abigail "Fetch" Walker is a character from the Infamous video game series developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. She first appears in 2014's Infamous Second Son as a supporting character, before appearing in the standalone prequel Infamous First Light released later that same year. Voiced by Laura Bailey, she is the third playable protagonist in the Infamous series, following Cole MacGrath and Delsin Rowe. She received mostly positive reviews from critics, with some expressing an opinion that her character is an improvement over Delsin.
Development
The Infamous First Lights director Nate Fox said protagonist Fetch's "conflicted history and overall attitude made her the perfect fit for a standalone game." Sucker Punch felt that Fetch's powers were different enough from Second Sons Delsin's powers to warrant a separate game. Even though Fetch's different powers alone provided gameplay variety, during development, the studio ensured that they felt "fluid" and "very different". Another focus was to make the overall tone darker than Second Son, such as by putting Fetch in harsh situations where she is forced to be herself and fight her way out.
The development team worked extensively with Fetch's voice actress Laura Bailey throughout the creation of the game, often asking for her input in specific situations. Fox stated: "When it came time to put in dialogue or talk about motivations, we called Laura Bailey or texted her. She would tell me what would be Fetch's view so it was accurate to the character, but also accurate to a woman's experience." After the release of Second Son, Sucker Punch felt "compelled" to make a game about Fetch; Fox stated: "We made a game about Fetch because we liked Fetch." Players who pre-ordered the game received a bonus costume for protagonist Fetch called "D.U.P. Fetch".
Fictional biography
Abigail "Fetch" Walker, a young Conduit in the custody of the Department of Unified Protection (D.U.P.) within the confines of a private prison at Curdun Cay, is ordered to give a demonstration of her powers to D.U.P. Director Brooke Augustine by battling holographic foes created by fellow Conduit Eugene Sims. Once that is done, Abigail is asked to retell the events that led up to her arrest.
Abigail was one of the first of the new Conduits to emerge after The Beast's rampage across the countryside seven years ago, gaining the ability to absorb neon and convert it into energy to be expelled from her body. Despite their best efforts, Abigail's parents were left with few options after she accidentally injured one of her classmates. Brent, Abigail's older brother, ran away with her; the two turned to drug use to cope, but Brent eventually got clean, even hiding Abigail's stash to help her get clean as well. Brent also required Abigail to use her powers sparingly in order to avoid suspicion. He soon fell into a life of crime, hoping to save enough money to purchase a boat so the siblings c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKAN | DKAN may refer to:
DKAN, an open data platform created by Andrew Hoppin
D. Kan., an abbreviation for the United States District Court for the District of Kansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax%20News | Fax News is an Albanian news television station first launched on October 6, 2017. The station is available on the national digital radio-television network. It is also offered as part of a package plan by ISP provider Abcom, part of the Tring terrestrial platform and can be also streamed online.
See also
Television in Albania
Vizion Plus
Tring
TV Klan
ABC News
Tip TV
Tring Sport
Communication in Albania
Notes and references
Television networks in Albania
Mass media in Tirana
2017 establishments in Albania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20Broadcasting%20Network | The Major Broadcasting Network was an important part of the Australian broadcasting scene from 1938 until the 1970s.
History and background
In 1938, David Worrall, manager of 3DB Melbourne, launched the Major Broadcasting Network. Up until its closure in the 1970s, MBS was Australia's second most important radio network, after the Macquarie Radio Network. At inception, the Major Network was made up of stations in all mainland state capital cities, i.e. 2UE, 3DB, 4BK, 5AD, 6PR. They were soon to be joined by 7HT.
The Sydney outlet was later changed to 2CH and then 2UW before 2UE yet again became the Sydney outlet in September 1950.
In 1973, an important date because it was the 50th anniversary of broadcasting in Australia, the network then consisted of the following stations: 2UE, 2KO, 3DB, 3LK, 4BK, 4AK, 5AD, 5PI, 5MU, 5SE, 6PR, 6CI, 6TZ, 7HT and 7EX.
From formation and until the introduction of television in Australia, Major stations broadcast a popular range of live variety programs particularly quizzes and dramas including soap operas, mainly produced in studios at either 3DB Melbourne or the various Sydney outlets. Because of the high quality of these programs, most Major stations continually had high ratings in the various surveys.
As discussed, the main person behind the formation of the Major Network was David Worrall, manager of 3DB, a most important figure in broadcasting history. The establishment of the Major Network actually occurred after two earlier attempts by David Worrall to form a network both with 3DB as the key station and with 2UE as the Sydney station. Early in 1933, a loose grouping, but the first Australian attempt to form a commercial network, was attempted - it was known as the Federal Network. Then, later in 1933 the Associated Broadcasters of Australia was formed but, again, did not last long.
From 1941 and well into the 1950s, the main producer of live radio programs in Australia was the Colgate-Palmolive Radio Unit which achieved its prestigious status by luring big name stars away from the various stations and the main radio networks. Initially, the many dozens of programs produced by Colgate-Palmolive were heard on the Macquarie Radio Network but, after some years, David Worrall was able to lure Colgate-Palmolive over to the Major Network. Of course, this saw a great increase in listener numbers for the network.
See also
3DB
2UE
Macquarie Radio Network
References
External links
Defunct Australian radio networks
Companies based in Melbourne
Mass media companies established in 1938
1938 establishments in Australia
Australian companies established in 1938 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202018%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2018 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2018 (Australia)
2018 in music
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2018
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance%20%281799%20ship%29 | Chance was built in India c.1799. No other data is available on this ship.
The French frigate captured several ships in early 1799 in the Bay of Bengal. Among them were Chance, Johnson, master, and Earl Mornington, Cook, master. The French put the crews of the captured ships on one of the captured vessels, and then sent that vessel to Madras as a cartel. Chance was taken in Balasore Roads, and sent to Île de France.
On 25 April 1799 , , and recaptured Chance as she lay at anchor under the guns of the battery at Connonier Point (Pointe aux Cannoniers), Île de France. She was carrying a cargo of rice.
As she was sailing towards England, Chance was lost near Saint Mary's Bay, Madagascar in May 1799.
Notes
Citations
References
1790s ships
British ships built in India
Age of Sail merchant ships of England
Captured ships
Maritime incidents in 1799
Shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikah%20Saray%C4%B1%20%28Tram%20%C4%B0zmir%29 | Nikah Sarayı is a light-rail station on the Karşıyaka Tram line of the Tram İzmir network. The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. Nikah Sarayı is located within the Karşıyaka Waterfront Park (), on the south side of Cemal Gürsel Boulevard, near the Karşıyaka Matrimonial Office () from which the station gets its name. Nikah Sarayı station was opened on 11 April 2017, along with the entire tram line.
References
Railway stations opened in 2017
2017 establishments in Turkey
Karşıyaka District
Tram transport in İzmir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunuslar%20%28Tram%20%C4%B0zmir%29 | Yunuslar is a light-rail station on the Karşıyaka Tram line of the Tram İzmir network. The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. Yunuslar is located within the Karşıyaka Waterfront Park (), on the south side of Cemal Gürsel Boulevard, near the Yunuslar Monument from which the station gets its name. Yunuslar station was opened on 11 April 2017, along with the entire tram line.
Connections
ESHOT operates city bus service on Girne Boulevard.
References
Railway stations opened in 2017
2017 establishments in Turkey
Karşıyaka District
Tram transport in İzmir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayet%20Evi%20%28Tram%20%C4%B0zmir%29 | Vilayet Evi is a light-rail station on the Karşıyaka Tram line of the Tram İzmir network. The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. Vilayet Evi is located on Şehit Cengiz Topel Avenue in Atakent, Karşıyaka. The station was opened on 11 April 2017, along with the entire tram line.
References
External links
Tram İzmir - official website
Railway stations opened in 2017
2017 establishments in Turkey
Karşıyaka District
Tram transport in İzmir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyCBC | PyCBC is an open source software package primarily written in the Python programming language which is designed for use in gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave data analysis. PyCBC contains modules for signal processing, FFT, matched filtering, gravitational waveform generation, among other tasks common in gravitational-wave data analysis.
The software is developed by the gravitational-wave community alongside LIGO and Virgo scientists to analyze gravitational-wave data, search for gravitational-waves, and to measure the properties of astrophysical sources. It has been used to analyze gravitational-wave data from the LIGO and Virgo observatories to detect gravitational-waves from the mergers of neutron stars and black holes and determine their statistical significance. PyCBC based analyses can integrate with the Open Science Grid for large scale computing resources. Software based on PyCBC has been used to rapidly analyze gravitational-wave data for astronomical follow-up.
See also
List of numerical analysis software
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
European Gravitational Observatory
References
External links
GitHub repository
Physics software
Astronomy software
Free and open-source software
Astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk%20Ya%C5%9Far%20%28Tram%20%C4%B0zmir%29 | Selçuk Yaşar is a light-rail station on the Karşıyaka Tram line of the Tram İzmir network. The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. Selçuk Yaşar is located on Selçuk Yaşar Street in Atakent, Karşıyaka. The station was opened on 11 April 2017, along with the entire tram line.
References
External links
Tram İzmir - official website
Railway stations opened in 2017
2017 establishments in Turkey
Karşıyaka District
Tram transport in İzmir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atakent%20%28Tram%20%C4%B0zmir%29 | Selçuk Yaşar is a light-rail station on the Karşıyaka Tram line of the Tram İzmir network. The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. Selçuk Yaşar is located on Selçuk Yaşar Street in Atakent, Karşıyaka. The station was opened on 11 April 2017, along with the entire tram line.
Connections
ESHOT operates city bus service on Caher Dudayev Boulevard.
References
External links
Tram İzmir - official website
Railway stations opened in 2017
2017 establishments in Turkey
Karşıyaka District
Tram transport in İzmir |
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