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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20V | The Model V was among the early electromechanical general purpose computers, designed by George Stibitz and built by Bell Telephone Laboratories, operational in 1946.
Only two machines were built: first one was installed at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA), the second (1947) at the US Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL).
Construction
Design was started in 1944. The tape-controlled (Harvard architecture) machine had two (design allowed for a total of six) processors ("computers") that could operate independently, an early form of multiprocessing.
The Model V weighed about .
Significance
Inspired Richard Hamming to investigate the automatic error-correction, which led to invention of Hamming codes
One of the early electromechanical general purpose computers
First American machine and first George Stibitz design to use floating-point arithmetic
Had an early form of multiprocessing
Had a very primitive form of an operating system, albeit in hardware. A separate hardware control unit existed to direct the sequence of computer operations.
Model VI
Built and used internally by Bell Telephone Laboratories, operational in 1949.
Simplified version of the Model V (only one processor, about half the relays) but with several improvements, including one of the earliest use of the microcode.
Bibliography
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Further reading
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External links
Bell Labs
1940s computers
AT&T computers
Computer-related introductions in 1946
Electro-mechanical computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossen%20Petkov | Rossen Kirchev Petkov is a Bulgarian writer and teacher, one of the country's pioneers in the field of digital arts, computer graphics and multimedia. He is the author of dozens of articles about modern media in education and learning, founded a network of students information and career centers in Bulgaria and is chair of the organizational committee of Computer Space forum - an international forum for computer art.
Biography
Rossen Petkov is born in Haskovo. In 1985 he graduated the Todor Velev Math High School, and in 1990 - the Technical University, Sofia.
In 1987, while still a student, he started working on projects, developing algorithms and programs for electronic music and computer graphics. In 1991 – 1992 he is editor and writer of the Graphics with computer magazine, where he has his own column, Computer Arts. In the beginning of the 1990s Petkov founded one of the first computer arts organizations in Bulgaria, the Student Computer Art Society (SCAS), with members among students, artists and experts in the field of modern media and digital arts.
Rossen Petkov is teaching Methods, algorithms and applications in computer graphics at the Technical University - Sofia, New Bulgarian University and others.
At the end of the 1990s Petkov founded students and youth information centers, using the Internet and data bases for search of information that would benefit young people – educational, job, travel, funding for start-up projects, etc. Under his guidance, SCAS joined effort with the governmental Committee for Youth and Sports to found a representative office of the international youth information network Eurodesk.
Bibliography
Petkov R. Musical Creativity and Microcomputers, "Young Constructor" Magazine, ISSN 0204-8469, Sofia, vol. 1, 1988, p. 2-3
Boyanov Y., R. Petkov, Program "Composer1", "Young constructor" magazine, ISSN 0204-8469, Sofia, vol. 4, 1988, pp. I-IV
Boyanov Y., S. Lazarov, R. Petkov, Method and Program for Various Variations, "Computer for You", ISSN 0205-1893, Sofia, vol. 1., 1989,
Petkov R., Program for Three-dimensional Graphics, Computer Graphics Magazine, ISSN 0861-4636, Sofia, issue no. 1, 1992, pp. 14–15
Petkov R., MIDI standard for communication between digital musical institutions, Computer Graphics Magazine, ISSN 0861-4636, Sofia, issue 2, 1992, pp. 14–16
Petkov R., Graphic design, PC & Mac World magazine, ISSN 0737-8939, Sofia, issue no. 7, 1994, pp. 92–94
Petkov, R., Multimedia development and computer arts in Bulgaria, Balkanmedia magazine, V3, Balkanmedia, , C: 1996, p. 25-26
Petkov, R. Trends and Problems in the Development of Multimedia Technologies in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Media-learning (collected papers), Balkanmedia, C: 1996, .- 1 (1996), pp. 354–360
Petkov R., D. Davitt, D. Donedd, Career Development Manual for Consultants, SCAS, C: 2004,
Petkov R. ed., Computer Space festival catalog (CD), SCAS, C: 2004,
Petkov R. ed., EuroNET- Youth Resources in Internet Catalog (CD), 5th e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Research%20Identifier%20Database | Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is a database of educational and research organizations worldwide, created and maintained by Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd., part of the technology company Digital Science. In 2021 public releases of the database were discontinued in favor of Research Organization Registry (ROR) as the leading open organization identifier.
Each organization is assigned a unique GRID ID and there is a corresponding web address and page for each ID in the database. The dataset contains the institution's type, geo-coordinates, official website, and Wikipedia page. Name variations of institutions are included, as well.
The first public release of GRID occurred on 22 September 2015, and it contained entires for institutes. The 30th public release of GRID was on 27 August 2018, and the database contained entries. It is available in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) specification as linked data, and can therefore be linked to other data. Containing relationships, GRID models two types of relationships: a parent-child relationship that defines a subordinate association, and a related relationship that describes other associations
In December 2016, Digital Science released GRID under a Creative Commons CC0 licence — without restriction under copyright or database law.
The database is available for download as a ZIP archive, which includes the entire database in JSON and CSV file formats.
From all the sources which it draws information, including funding datasets, Digital Science claims that GRID covers 92% of institutions.
Data sources
Example
The GRID ID for NASA: → grid.238252.c.
References
External links
Creative Commons-licensed databases
Identifiers
Library cataloging and classification
Open data
Metadata
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Packard | Susan Packard is an American business executive and author who was a cofounder of HGTV, DYI Network and several other Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) network channels.
Packard also worked on the startup teams of HBO and CNBC. She is the author of New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace. In 2019 she authored Fully Human, Three Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness for Work, Leadership, and Life.
Early life and education
Susan Packard was born in Detroit, Michigan. During her secondary school summers, she worked for her father's direct mail business. After receiving her undergraduate degree in advertising from Michigan State University, in 1979 she graduated with a masters in advertising from the same school. She later completed an executive program at the University of Virginia.
In 2019 Packard was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Michigan State .
Business career
Packard's first job out of graduate school was at Burke Marketing Research in Cincinnati.
Packard started out in the cable programming television business with the sales division of HBO in 1980, eventually becoming a regional manager in charge of distributing HBO to cable operators. In 1984, Packard became the director of the HBO Los Angeles market. After this, she worked at NBC to help launch the network's cable properties beginning in 1988. Packagred was on the start-up team of CNBC, where she served as the vice president of affiliate relations and national accounts.
In 1994 at E.W. Scripps Company, Packard helped cofound Home and Garden Television (HGTV), a place where she served as the chief operating officer until 2000. During this time she also cofounded the Scripps Networks, becoming the President of Scripp's New Ventures division in 2000. That year Packard was a co-founder of the Fine Living Network, which debuted in 2002.
Scripps eventually became Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI), where Packard served as executive vice president. In this role she also co-founded the DIY Network. The company grew to a $10 billion market valuation. In her final role before leaving SNI, Packard served as the Scripps Networks President of Brand Outreach. In addition to her business duties, she aligned Scripps corporate citizenship with external organizations, including Mobile Meals and Habitat for Humanity.
Packard was the first woman to serve on the board of Churchill Downs, Inc. She served for two terms, from 2004 to 2010.
Books
In 2015 Packard wrote the book New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace, which applies the concept of “gamesmanship” for the use of women in their careers. The book “cultivates creativity, focus, optimism, teamwork and competitiveness,” according to San Diego Metro. In the book Packard uses personal anecdotes from the breadth of her career as well as stories about other businesspeople who successfully managed various competitive situations. These were taken with interviews that Packard did with c- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20Farming%20Association%20of%20India | Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI) is a pan Indian organisation for organic farmers. It claims to be the biggest network for organic farmers.
The organisation organize various conferences, conventions and events to promote organic farming. The organisation also hosted "Organic World Congress" in 2017. The event was attended by the President of India and several ministers.
References
2002 establishments in Goa
Organic farming organizations
Organic farming in Asia
Organisations based in Goa
Organizations established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%20Cellular | Idea Cellular (commonly referred to as Idea (stylised as !dea) was an Indian mobile network operator based at Mumbai, Maharashtra. Idea was a pan-India integrated GSM operator and had 220.00 million subscribers as of June 2018. Idea Cellular merged with Vodafone and is now known as Vodafone Idea or Vi.
History
Idea Cellular was incorporated as Birla Communications Limited in 1995 after GSM licenses were won in Gujarat and Maharashtra circles. The company name was changed to Idea Cellular and the brand Idea was introduced in 2002 after a series of name changes following mergers and joint ventures with Grasim Industries, AT&T Corporation and Tata Group. Following the exit of AT&T Corporation and Tata Group from the joint venture in 2004 and 2006 respectively, Idea Cellular became a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group. Malaysia based Axiata had bought around 20% stake in the company in 2008 for US$2 billion.
Idea previously bought a 40.8% stake in Spice Communications Ltd, operating as Spice Telecom, for over 2,700 crore.
Merger of Vodafone and Idea (Vi)
The entry of Jio in 2016 had led to various mergers and consolidations in the Indian telecom sector. It was announced in March 2017 that even Idea Cellular and Vodafone India would be merged. The merger got approval from Department Of Telecommunications in July 2018. On August 30, 2018, National Company Law Tribunal gave the final nod to the Vodafone-Idea merger The merger was completed on 31 August 2018, and the newly merged entity was named Vodafone Idea (Vi). The merger created the largest telecom company in India by subscribers and by revenue. Under the terms of the deal, the Vodafone Group holds a 45.2% stake in the combined entity, the Aditya Birla Group holds 26% and the remaining shares will be held by the public.
After merge, Vodafone and Idea became known as Vi. It was a biggest combination between two telecom companies in the world.
On 7 September 2020, Vodafone Idea (Vi) unveiled this new brand identity, Vi, which involved the integration of the company's erstwhile separate brands Vodafone and Idea into one unified brand.
Operations
In the 2010 3G spectrum auction, Idea paid for spectrum in 11 circles. After the launch of MNP in India, Idea further strengthened its customer base because it was the mobile network with most net port-ins.
Radio frequency summary
Idea Cellular owned spectrum in 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500 MHz bands across the country.
Note: The above table contains Vodafone-Idea (merged entity) radio frequency details because they used to share their networks with each other via ICR (intra-circle roaming agreement) in some circles. For example, Idea had started giving its customers in Delhi access to 4G services in May 2018 via the Vodafone network.
References
Further reading
Liquidity and Profitability Tradeoff (a study of Idea Cellular Limited)
External links
Companies based in Mumbai
Telecommunications companies of India
Axiata
Adit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence%20embedding | In natural language processing, a sentence embedding refers to a numeric representation of a sentence in the form of a vector of real numbers which encodes meaningful semantic information.
State of the art embeddings are based on the learned hidden layer representation of dedicated sentence transformer models. BERT pioneered an approach involving the use of a dedicated [CLS] token prepended to the beginning of each sentence inputted into the model; the final hidden state vector of this token encodes information about the sentence and can be fine-tuned for use in sentence classification tasks. In practice however, BERT's sentence embedding with the [CLS] token achieves poor performance, often worse than simply averaging non-contextual word embeddings. SBERT later achieved superior sentence embedding performance by fine tuning BERT's [CLS] token embeddings through the usage of a siamese neural network architecture on the SNLI dataset.
Other approaches are loosely based on the idea of distributional semantics applied to sentences. Skip-Thought trains an encoder-decoder structure for the task of neighboring sentences predictions. Though this has been shown to achieve worse performance than approaches such as InferSent or SBERT.
An alternative direction is to aggregate word embeddings, such as those returned by Word2vec, into sentence embeddings. The most straightforward approach is to simply compute the average of word vectors, known as continuous bag-of-words (CBOW). However, more elaborate solutions based on word vector quantization have also been proposed. One such approach is the vector of locally aggregated word embeddings (VLAWE), which demonstrated performance improvements in downstream text classification tasks.
Applications
In recent years, sentence embedding has seen a growing level of interest due to its applications in natural language queryable knowledge bases through the usage of vector indexing for semantic search. LangChain for instance utilizes sentence transformers for purposes of indexing documents. In particular, an indexing is generated by generating embeddings for chunks of documents and storing (document chunk, embedding) tuples. Then given a query in natural language, the embedding for the query can be generated. A top k similarity search algorithm is then used between the query embedding and the document chunk embeddings to retrieve the most relevant document chunks as context information for question answering tasks. This approach is also known formally as retrieval augmented generation
Though not as predominant as BERTScore, sentence embeddings are commonly used for sentence similarity evaluation which sees common use for the task of optimizing a Large language model's generation parameters is often performed via comparing candidate sentences against reference sentences. By using the cosine-similarity of the sentence embeddings of candidate and reference sentences as the evaluation function, a grid-search algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Question%20%28Steven%20Universe%29 | "The Question" is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Steven Universe. It first aired on July 4, 2018, on Cartoon Network. It was directed by Joe Johnston and Liz Artinian and written and storyboarded by Miki Brewster and Jeff Liu. The episode attracted media attention after it aired because it featured the first same-sex marriage proposal in Western children's animation.
The episode aired as the third episode of a "Stevenbomb", a sequence of five episodes that aired one each day from July 2 to July 6, 2018. In the first episode of the week, "Now We're Only Falling Apart", Ruby and Sapphire's relationship is strained by the revelation that Steven's mother, Rose Quartz, was originally the despot Pink Diamond. In this episode, the two reconcile as Ruby proposes marriage to Sapphire. The wedding itself takes place in the week's fifth episode, "Reunited".
Plot
Steven (Zach Callison) and Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), searching for Ruby (Charlyne Yi), find her eating pizza and reading comic books with Steven's father, Greg (Tom Scharpling). Ruby tells Steven that her current separation from Sapphire is the first time she's really been on her own, free to choose her own path. Steven is distressed that this means Ruby and Sapphire may never fuse back into Garnet, but Greg reminds him that Ruby must make her own decisions about her relationships.
Inspired by a western comic book, Ruby decides to become a lonesome cowboy, "one with the wilderness... not needing nothing from nobody". Amethyst shapeshifts into a horse to help her play the part. Accompanied by Amethyst, Steven, and Greg, Ruby spends the day exploring the open plain, relishing the opportunity to make her own decisions, regardless of how dangerous they are. She sings the song "Ruby Rider", a country song celebrating life on her own.
That night, Steven apologizes to Ruby for pressuring her to return to Sapphire. But Ruby confesses that, as much as she is enjoying the cowboy adventure, she deeply misses Sapphire and is frustrated by her loneliness. Steven convinces Ruby that making her own choices doesn't mean that she and Sapphire need to be separate, but Ruby decides that this time they need to find a way to be together by their own choice, and not for Rose Quartz's sake. Steven, getting an idea, shows Ruby the last page from the western comic, to which she reacts enthusiastically.
When Steven, Amethyst and Ruby return to Steven's house the following morning, Steven sends Sapphire (Erica Luttrell) out to meet Ruby waiting for her on the beach. Sapphire runs down and apologizes to her for doubting their relationship. But Ruby tells her, "Someone else told us we were the answer, but I don't believe that anymore.... At least not until I hear it from you." Kneeling before her, Ruby asks Sapphire to marry her, explaining, "This time, being Garnet will be our decision." Sapphire happily accepts and the two embrace and dance on the beach. The last shot of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrayMatter%20Software | GrayMatter Software is a data science, artificial intelligence, and analytics firm, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in 2006 by Vikas Gupta as a business intelligence consulting firm. Over the years, the company has partnered with SAP, Hitachi Vantara and Qlik for products and services within the airport Industry.
History
GrayMatter Software was founded in 2006 in Bangalore by Vikas Gupta and Charu Gupta. In the beginning, the company worked on the development of open source technologies to reduce the cost of business intelligence and analytics within Indian industries. In 2011, GrayMatter Software collaborated with SAP in the development process on HANA initiative. In late 2012, GrayMatter's pre-built analytic solution, Airport Analytics (AA+), was deployed on the SAP BusinessObjects platform at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Finance Analytics (FA+), Insurance Analytics (IA+) and Manufacturing Analytics (MA+) are other pre-built solutions developed by GrayMatter Software.
In 2014, Tekes, a public funding agency for research funding in Finland, invested 10 million Euros in GrayMatter. Later that year, company opened its global R&D center in Helsinki. In 2017, GrayMatter partnered with Hitachi Vantara. GrayMatter has been featured in NASSCOM, Helsinki Hub, SAP, Airport International, Airport Focus, and Silicon India.
The company's CEO, Vikas Gupta, has been also appointed as Regional Board Director of Airports Council International for Asia-Pacific.
Products
SkateBoard
Skateboard is an end-to-end digital airport platform developed by GrayMatter Software Services Pvt. Ltd. Designed to enhance the airport experience for passengers, the platform offers a diverse range of services, from duty-free shopping and fine dining reservations to premium services like limo bookings and valet parking. Unique to Skateboard is its ability to cater to the specific nuances of airport retail and service formats, which traditional marketplace solutions might not address. The platform integrates AI and data science capabilities, offering features like dynamic pricing, personalized content, and a recommendation engine. Additionally, Skateboard provides real-time operational analytics, ensuring efficient service delivery and customer satisfaction. The platform's multichannel user interface includes a passenger app that offers flight alerts, indoor navigation, contactless payments, and a loyalty program. On the management side, Skateboard aids airport administrators and service providers with tools for inventory management, resource optimization, and third-party integration. With its comprehensive suite of features, Skateboard aims to revolutionize the airport experience for both passengers and service providers.
StoreSense
StoreSense, developed by GrayMatter Software Services, is a data management solution tailored for sectors like Airports, Railway Stations, Malls, and Branded Retail. Its primary function is to capture and analyze sale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colley%20Matrix | The Colley Matrix is a computer-generated sports rating system designed by Dr. Wesley Colley. It is one of more than 40 polls, rankings, and formulas recognized by the NCAA in its list of national champion selectors in college football.
Methodology
In his initial paper at Princeton University, Colley states, "The method is based on very simple statistical principles, and uses only Div. I-A wins and losses as input — margin of victory does not matter. The scheme adjusts effectively for strength of schedule, in a way that is free of bias toward conference, tradition, or region." Colley claims that his method is bias free for estimating the ranking of a team given a particular schedule. The resulting values for each team are identified as a ranking, thus being a realization of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s Rule of Succession.
The formula was adjusted in 2007 to account for games against FCS teams.
National champions
As an NCAA-designated major selector, the NCAA regards the following teams as Colley's national champion selection.
The NCAA records book indicates that the Colley Matrix has been active since 1992, however this appears to be an error and no Colley selections are listed for 1992–1997. The season rankings on Colley's own website begin in 1998.
In four years (2011, 2012, 2016, 2017) the Colley Matrix selected a national champion that did not win the BCS or CFP national championship game. In each of the years, the Colley Matrix was the only NCAA-designated "major selector" to select that champion.
† Years in which Colley Matrix selection did not win BCS or CFP national championship game.
History
The Colley Matrix was one of the computer rankings used during Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system of determining national championship game participants. Added in 2001, the Peter Wolfe and Wes Colley/Atlanta Journal-Constitution computer rankings were used in place of The New York Times and Dunkel rankings. The change was made because the BCS wanted computer rankings that did not depend heavily on margin of victory.
In 2018, the Mountain West Conference moved away from using four polls, one being Colley Matrix, to determine the host site for its conference championship game in football, due to "a shift to place a priority on head-to-head competition."
The Colley Matrix has chosen a different national champion from the Bowl Championship Series or College Football Playoff champion four times:
2011 — Colley Matrix ranked Oklahoma State as first, although the team did not play in the 2012 BCS National Championship Game and finished No. 3 in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll.
2012 — Colley Matrix ranked Notre Dame as first and Alabama second despite the Crimson Tide defeating the Fighting Irish 42–14 in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game.
2016 — Colley Matrix ranked Alabama first and Clemson second despite Clemson beating Alabama 35–31 in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship.
2017 — Colley Matrix ranked UCF first, while U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Esposito | Lauren Esposito is the assistant curator and Schlinger chair of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences. She is the co-founder of the network 500 Queer Scientists.
Early life and education
Esposito was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She kept a collection of insects in egg cartons, and her first grade science project looked at the Mendelian genetics of pigeon colours. Esposito earned her bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Texas at El Paso in 2003. She became interested in scorpions during a National Science Foundation placement at the American Museum of Natural History. She moved to New York for her graduate studies. She completed her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History (Scorpion Systematics Research Lab) in 2011. Her dissertation, "Systematics and Biogeography of the New World Scorpion Genus Centruroides Marx, 1890", considered Buthidae scorpions.
Research and career
In 2011 she joined University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher working on Caribbean scorpions. She studied the biogeography of arachnids. She joined the California Academy of Sciences in 2015, and is one of the world's only women scorpion experts. She continued to study Buthidae scorpions at the California Academy of Sciences. She digitises and collects genetic information from the collected scorpion species. She is also working on arthropods in salt flats in western America. Her current research considers the evolution of scorpion venom and distribution of scorpions in the Caribbean. She has also studied the uses of scorpion venom in the context of cancer research and medication. In 2017 she discovered three new species and two new genera of club-tailed scorpions, detecting the scorpions using ultraviolet lights that excite a fluorescent dye in the scorpion armour. The new species were of the genus Rhopalurus. Whilst surveying the Penang Hill rainforest in Malaysia, Esposito identified a new ghost scorpion. In 2018 she identified that Centruroidinae scorpions hiss by rubbing themselves with comb like structures. She told Slate magazine that her favourite fact about scorpions was that they behave like mammals and bear live young.
In 2014 Esposito was the co-founder of Islands & Seas, a non-profit that supports scientific research and education at its field station in Baja California Sur, Mexico. She leads educational programs in Baja California and at Columbia University. She is the creator of 500 Queer Scientists, a network of LGBTQ+ scientists worldwide. She created 500 Queer Scientists after a survey of American STEM workers identified that over 40% of LGBTQ+ scientists were not 'out' to their colleagues. She has appeared on Science Friday and Public Radio International. In February 2019 she was awarded the Walt Westman Award by the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) as recognition for the 500 Queer Scientists initiative. It is the high |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Artista%20del%20A%C3%B1o%20%28season%201%29 | Season one of El Artista del Año premiered on April 28, 2018, on the América Televisión network.
On July 7, 2018, Pedro Loli was crowned the champion of the season, Micheille Soifer finished second, while Rossana Fernández-Maldonado finished third.
Cast
Contestants
The ten contestants were presented during the first week of the show.
Hosts and judges
Gisela Valcárcel and Jaime "Choca" Mandros were the host and the co-host, respectively. Morella Petrozzi, Lucho Cáceres, Fiorella Rodríguez and Cecilia Bracamonte were the judges. During the third week, musical director Juan Carlos Fernández replaced Bracamonte.
Scoring charts
Red numbers indicate those sentenced for each week
Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week
the contestant eliminated of the week
the contestant saved in the duel
the contestant eliminated and saved with the lifeguard
the contestant withdrew from the competition
the winning contestant
the runner-up contestant
the third-place contestant
Average score chart
This table only counts performances scored on a 40-point scale.
Higher and lower scores
This table has the highest and lowest scores of each contestants performance according to the 40-point scale.
Notes
References
External links
Peruvian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeyondCorp | BeyondCorp is an implementation, by Google, of zero-trust computer security concepts creating a zero trust network. It was created in response to the 2009 Operation Aurora.
An open source implementation inspired by Google's research paper on an access proxy is known as "transcend".
Google documented its Zero Trust journey from 2014 to 2018 through a series of articles in the journal ;login:. Google called their ZT network, BeyondCorp. Google implemented a Zero Trust architecture on a large scale, and relied on user and device credentials, regardless of location. Data was encrypted and protected from managed devices. Unmanaged devices, such as BYOD, were not given access to the BeyondCorp resources.
BeyondCorp utilized a zero trust security model, which is a relatively new security model that it assumes that all devices and users are potentially compromised. This is in contrast to traditional security models, which rely on firewalls and other perimeter defenses to protect sensitive data.
BeyondCorp utilized a Device Inventory Database and Device Identity that uniquely identifies a device through a digital certificate. Any changes to the device are recorded in the Device Inventory Database. The certificate is used to uniquely identify a device; however, additional information is required to grant access privileges to a resource.
The corporate network grants no inherent trust, and all internal apps are accessed via the BeyondCorp system, regardless of whether the user is in a Google office or working remotely. BeyondCorp is related to Zero Trust architecture as it implements a true Zero Trust network, where all access is granted on identity, device, and authentication, based on robust underlying device and identity data sources.
BeyondCorp works by using a number of security policies including authentication, authorization, and access control to ensure that only authorized users can access corporate resources. Authentication verifies the identity of the user, authorization determines whether the user has permission to access the requested resource, and access control policies restrict what the user can do with the resource.
One of the main components in BeyondCorp's implementation is the Trust Inferer. The Trust Inferer is a security component (typically software) that looks at information about a user's device, like a computer or phone, to decide how much it can be trusted to access certain resources like important company documents. The Trust Inferer checks things like the security of the device, whether it has the right software installed, and if it belongs to an authorized user. Based on all this information, the Trust Inferer decides what the device can access and what it can't.
Another important component of BeyondCorp's implementation is the Access Control Engine. Think of this as the brain of the Zero Trust architecture. The Access Control Engine is like a traffic cop standing at an intersection. Its job is to make sure that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Artista%20del%20A%C3%B1o%20%28season%202%29 | Season two of El Artista del Año premiered on July 14, 2018, on the América Televisión network.
Cast
Contestants
On July 11, the first ten participants of the show were presented through a press conference. Although it was predetermined that ten contestants were the same as last season, it was announced that in the second gala would enter two new participants. The first of them was Ebelin Ortiz, while John Kelvin and Mirella Paz met in a duel qualified by the judges to occupy the second pass in the competition, finally the judges decided to give the pass to both, giving a total of thirteen contestants in place of the twelve provided.
During the first five weeks, the married couple Yiddá Eslava and Julián Zucchi participated together, being the first couple participating in the show. From the sixth week they competed individually.
Hosts and judges
Gisela Valcárcel and Jaime "Choca" Mandros returned as hosts, while Morella Petrozzi, Lucho Cáceres, Fiorella Rodríguez and Cecilia Bracamonte returned as judges. During the second and third week, theater director and presenter Santi Lesmes replaced Cáceres.
Scoring charts
Red numbers indicate those sentenced for each week
Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week
the contestant eliminated of the week
the contestant saved in the duel
the contestant eliminated and saved with the lifeguard
the winning contestant
the runner-up contestant
the third-place contestant
Average score chart
This table only counts performances scored on a 40-point scale.
Higher and lower scores
This table has the highest and lowest scores of each contestants performance according to the 40-point scale.
Notes
References
External links
Peruvian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clary%20DE-60 | The Clary DE-60 was an early transistorized digital computer made by Clary Corporation. It was a compact (desk-sized) general-purpose computer intended for both scientific and business applications. It operated on 18-digit binary-coded decimal words used fixed-point arithmetic. Main memory was a 32-word magnetic drum memory. Input and output devices included a console keyboard, printer, paper tape and punched card system. For programming, the system used sequential instructions from the keyboard and plug-boards.
Custom modules for trigonometric and other functions could be installed.
The system was introduced in 1959. By 1961, about 18 systems were operating or on order. Clary Corporation was founded by Hugh L. Clary in 1939. Today the company manufactures products such as uninterruptible power supply systems.
References
External links
Photos:
1950s computers
Transistorized computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenby%20International%20School | The Tenby International School network is a group of international schools in Malaysia which was founded in 1960 and admits children aged 3–18. There are schools in Ipoh, Penang, Setia Alam, Miri, Iskandar Puteri and Selangor. A new campus at Kota Kemuning opened in September 2018.
References
Educational institutions established in 1960
1960 establishments in Malaya
Education in Malaysia
Iskandar Puteri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opam | Opam or OPAM may refer to:
Opam
Emmanuel Opam-Brown Akolbire (born 1960), Ghanaian politician and member of Ghanaian Parliament
OPAM
OCaml Package Manager, for the Caml programming language implementation
Ōita Prefectural Art Museum (OpAm), an art museum and community exhibition venue in Japan
OPAM, a sculpture park by Lucien den Arend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20and%20Elsie%20%28robots%29 | Elmer and Elsie (ELectroMEchanical Robot, Light-Sensitive) were two electronic robots that were built in the late 1940s by neurobiologist and cybernetician William Grey Walter. They were the first robots in history that were programmed to "think" the way biological brains do and meant to have free will. Elmer and Elsie were often labeled as tortoises because of how they were shaped and the manner in which they moved. They were capable of phototaxis which is the movement that occurs in response to light stimulus.
Description
Elmer and Elsie, or the "tortoises" as they were known, were constructed between 1948 and 1949 using war surplus materials and old alarm clocks. They had a single light or touch sensor hooked up to two different paths that ran two different motors acting as two separate neuron brains. The robots had a plastic shell which was phototropic in that it could follow light and act as a bumper sensor. Walter stressed the importance of using purely analogue electronics to simulate brain processes at a time when his contemporaries such as Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener were all turning towards a view of mental processes in terms of digital computation.
The robots were designed to show the interaction between both light-sensitive and touch-sensitive control mechanisms which were basically two nerve cells with visual and tactile inputs. These systems interacted with the motor drive in such a way that the tortoises were actually finding their way around obstacles. They were allowed to randomly wander around the floor in no specific pattern and when they were presented with two light sources equally distanced from their sensor, they'd head towards whichever light they saw as a consistent part of the scanning process.
In one experiment a light was placed on the nose of one of the tortoises. It appeared that the robot was looking at itself in a mirror. Its light began flickering and the robot started shaking as if excited to see itself in the mirror. Walter argued that if this behavior were seen in an animal it "might be accepted as evidence of some degree of self-awareness."
When presented with certain stimuli, even outside of their programmed range of experience, they responded consistently, as if they had a personality. They had their quirks and odd behaviors the way living things do. Using the only two neurons that they exhibited much of the same behaviors and oddities that any biological beings have.
Legacy
Elmer and Elsie inspired later generations of robotics researchers such as Rodney Brooks, Hans Moravec and Mark Tilden. Rodney Brooks' "Intelligence without Representation" is in many ways a modern take on Elmer and Elsie. Modern replicas of the tortoises may be found in the form of BEAM robotics. An original tortoise is on display in London UK in the Science Museum's Making the Modern World gallery. In 1995, one was replicated by Owen Holland, of the University of the West of England, which used s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NitrosBase | NitrosBase is a Russian
high-performance multi-model database system. The database system supports relational, graph and document database models.
History
The developer initially implemented the database as a triplestore, being a Semantic Web pioneer in Russia. Remodelling into a multi-model database was supported by the Skolkovo Innovation Center in 2017.
The database is used in information systems that support the health-care reform in modern Russia.
Characteristics
In NitrosBase, all data are stored in the format of the internal graph model, while data in other models are their views (representations; similar to SQL views). Regardless of the model in which format data were imported, it is possible to query them using the same query language thereby uniformly addressing data imported in different models.
Moreover, it is possible to query data in any model using query language that is native for that model. NitrosBase supports the following languages:
SQL (with elements of object syntax) – for querying data in relational view;
SPARQL and Gremlin-style language Graph-it – for querying data in graph view;
JSONiq and MongoDB Query – for querying data in document view.
Implementation details
The internal graph model is close to RDF* which is used in Blazegraph and Amazon Neptune. That allows it to treat the internal data graph both as RDF graph and as Property Graph, performing queries both in SPARQL and Gremlin-style languages.
Instead of indexes based on B+-trees traditionally used in graph databases, NitrosBase uses a sparse link index of its own devising. Another source of performance gain is storage optimization on the physical level in order to reduce the number of random access operations.
Like memSQL, NitrosBase translates a query into C++ code.
Awards and achievements
Nitrosbase-derived product MS SQL Server Accelerator was awarded first prize at the Silicon Valley Open Doors conference in 2009 and named "startup of the day" of the Microsoft BizSpark program on 3 March 2010.
References
External links
Official website
Graph databases
Document-oriented databases
Relational database management systems
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwash%20Gang | Brainwash Gang is an indie video game developer based in Madrid, Spain. They released the action roguelike Nongünz in May 2017 for personal computer platforms, and are developing Laika: Aged Through Blood and Damnview: Built From Nothing.
Games developed
References
Video game development companies
Companies based in Madrid
Privately held companies of Spain
Spanish companies established in 2015
Video game companies established in 2015
Video game companies of Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20with%20Towers | Circle with Towers is a concrete block 2005/2012 sculpture by American artist Sol LeWitt, installed outside the Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex on the University of Texas at Austin campus in Austin, Texas, United States. Previously, the artwork was installed in Madison Square Park; the university's public art program, Landmarks, purchased the sculpture from the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
References
External links
Concrete sculptures in the United States
Outdoor sculptures in Austin, Texas
University of Texas at Austin campus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20%28song%29 | "Algorithm" is a song by English rock band Muse. It was released as the first track from the band's eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, on 9 November 2018. "Algorithm" is a retro-futuristic and industrial sounding song, in common with the overall theme of Simulation Theory.
Release
The name of the song was first mentioned by lead singer Matt Bellamy while speaking with Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1 Radio on 16 February 2018. According to Bellamy, the song blends classical romantic piano with 1980s synths and computer game music. Q magazine published a preview of Simulation Theory on 23 October, in which they stated that "opener "Algorithm" sounds like it could be from Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy soundtrack, a fusion of dramatic strings and industrial electro."
Writing and recording
Lead singer Bellamy said regarding "Algorithm" that "it’s about an intelligence, be it human or artificial, that realises that it lives in a simulated reality, and it is controlled by its creator. It feels betrayed, finds this situation unfair and tries to escape". In another interview, Bellamy said that "Algorithm" and "The Dark Side" deal with the struggle to get away from a dystopian world and anxieties about technology.
Bellamy has stated that "Algorithm" is his favourite track from Simulation Theory "because it's an interesting combination of retro-synth and futuristic stuff". The song has been compared by various reviewers to "Apocalypse Please" and "Supremacy", and by Muse fans to "Take A Bow" and "The Dark Side".
Music video
A short preview of the "Algorithm" music video was first shown by Bellamy on his smartphone during an interview on Virgin Radio in Milan two days prior to the release. Actor Terry Crews makes a second appearance in a Simulation Theory music video, following on from his role as protagonist of the music video for "Pressure".
Charts
References
External links
"Algorithm" music video on YouTube
2018 singles
2018 songs
Muse (band) songs
Songs written by Matt Bellamy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Pound | Michael P. Pound is a researcher at the University of Nottingham. He is known for his work in the areas of bioimage analysis, computer vision, image recognition, computer security, and for his appearances on the video series Computerphile.
Career
Pound's work focuses on the use of machine learning, deep learning, and bioimage analysis for the purpose of plant phenotyping. His work on the identification of root and leaf tips through image-based phenotyping has been recognized as important in the field of bioimage analysis.
The image analysis tool RootNav was developed by a research team led by Pound. The tool uses image analysis to identify complex root system architectures. It has been made available to the scientific community and has been used by other researchers in the field to facilitate batch processing of high numbers of images in various studies of plant phenotyping.
Media appearances
Pound has made numerous appearances on Brady Haran's video series Computerphile. During these appearances, Pound has discussed aspects of his work including password cracking, brute forcing, kernel convolution and image analysis.
References
External links
Mike Pound - Twitter
Living people
British computer programmers
British computer scientists
People associated with the University of Nottingham
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Alan%20Turing | Alan Turing (1912–1954), a pioneer computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher, is the eponym of all of the things listed below.
Alan Turing Building, Manchester, England
Turing School/house, Varndean School Brighton, England
The Turing School, Eastbourne, England
Alan Turing Centenary Conference, Manchester, England
Alan Turing Institute, London, England
Alan Turing law
Alan Turing Memorial, Manchester, England
Alan Turing sculpture, Eugene, Oregon, United States
Statue of Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, England
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing Year
The Annotated Turing
Church–Turing thesis
Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
Good–Turing frequency estimation
Object-Oriented Turing (programming language)
Super-Turing computation
Turing-acceptable language
Turing Award
Turing (cipher)
Turing College, Kent, England
Turing completeness
Turing computability
Turing degree
Turing Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Turing Gateway to Mathematics, Cambridge, England
The Turing Guide
Turing House School
Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Turing jump
Turing Lecture
Turing machine
Alternating Turing machine
Multi-track Turing machine
Multitape Turing machine
Neural Turing machine
Non-deterministic Turing machine
Post–Turing machine
Probabilistic Turing machine
Quantum Turing machine
Read-only right moving Turing machines
Read-only Turing machine
Symmetric Turing machine
Unambiguous Turing machine
Universal Turing machine
Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine
Turing Machine (band)
Turing (microarchitecture)
Turing OS
Turing pattern
Turing Pharmaceuticals
Turing (programming language)
Turing reduction
Turing Robot, China
Turing scheme
Turing Street - A road in East London
Turing switch
Turing table
Turing tarpit
Turing test
Computer game bot Turing Test
Graphics Turing Test
Reverse Turing test
Subject matter expert Turing test
Visual Turing Test
The Turing Test (novel)
The Turing Test (video game)
The Turing Trust
Turing from 2064: Read Only Memories (video game)
Turing's method
Turing's proof
Turing's Wager
Turing+ (programming language)
Turing.jl (probabilistic programming)
Turingery
Turingismus
Turmite
Turochamp
See also
Bank of England £50 note (in 2021)
Turing baronetcy
Turing (disambiguation)
References
Turing, Alan
Turing, Alan
Things named after Alan Turing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Abbeel | Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of covariant.ai, a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope, an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities nationwide. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning, particularly in deep reinforcement learning. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups.
Early life and education
Abbeel was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1977. He grew up in nearby suburb Brasschaat.
As a high school student at Sint-Michielscollege (Brasschaat), Abbeel played on the club basketball team. He went on to play on the basketball team of KU Leuven University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in electrical engineering in 2000.
Abbeel received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. He specialized in artificial intelligence research, noting that his interest in AI sparked from the realization that AI can help build tools for other disciplines and that intelligence sets humans apart from other species. Originally, Abbeel intended to pursue a master's degree in computer science, but decided to stay for his Ph.D. due to the abundance of AI projects happening at Stanford. He was the first PhD student of AI Professor Andrew Ng, who was a first-year professor at Stanford at the time. After finishing his Ph.D. in 2008, Abbeel became an assistant professor in Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science department.
Career
Upon his arrival at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor, Abbeel founded the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab. Additionally, in 2014, he co-founded Gradescope with other UC Berkeley-affiliated engineers Arjun Singh, Sergey Karayev, Ibrahim Awwal, which was acquired by TurnItIn in 2018. In 2016, Abbeel joined OpenAI, where he has published numerous articles on reinforcement learning, robot learning, and unsupervised learning. Also in 2016, he became co-director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, which consists of post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students interested in machine learning and robotics. He also founded Berkeley Open Arms, which has licenses the IP on the Blue Robot project from Berkeley. In 2017, he became a full-time professor with tenure at UC Berkeley.
In October 2017, Abbeel and three of his students, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang, co-founded Covariant (formerly named Embodied Intelligence). Based in Emeryville, California, Covariant launched in January 2020 and was covered in, among others, New York Times, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and IEEE Spectrum. The company currently has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebee | BeBee is a social network for business collaboration.
Bebee or other variations may also refer to:
Bebee, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wetzel County
Tibicos, aka bébée, a brewing ingredient of bacteria and yeast
"Bébée", an 1874 short story that became the basis of the movie Two Little Wooden Shoes, written by Ouida
"La Bébée" (aka Klatschtanz), the Baby Polka, a 19th-century dance, see Culture of Guernsey
Bebee, a fictional character from the Turkish children's television show Pepee
See also
Beebee (disambiguation)
Beebe (disambiguation)
Bebe (disambiguation)
BB (disambiguation)
Bibi (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20Moon | "Jungle Moon" is the 12th episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Steven Universe. It first aired on Cartoon Network on January 5, 2018 as the second half of a two-part special, immediately following the preceding episode, "Lars of the Stars". It was directed by Joe Johnston and Liz Artinian and written and storyboarded by Miki Brewster and Jeff Liu. The episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Form Animation.
In this episode, Stevonnie, the fusion of protagonist Steven and his best friend Connie, is stranded on the moon of an alien planet. While there, they have a dream involving a memory of the Diamonds, the leaders of the tyrannical Gem Homeworld. The dream gives the viewer their first look at Pink Diamond, who Steven has been told was murdered by his mother Rose Quartz millennia ago.
Plot
As the episode begins, Stevonnie (AJ Michalka) has just won a battle to defend the starship commanded by Steven's friend Lars (Matthew Moy), disabling the enemy's ship; but Stevonnie's spacecraft is damaged. Out of control, it crash-lands on the alien moon below and explodes.
Stevonnie is unharmed, protected by Steven's magic bubble, and begins to explore their surroundings. In the sky above hangs the planet that the moon orbits; its surface is riddled with huge cavities, as if the planet's mass has been eaten away. They find their spacecraft's radio, but it is too damaged to contact Lars. As they begin to panic, they are attacked by an insect-like alien creature; they fight it off and resolve to survive until Lars can find them. They forage for food and encounter strange plant and animal life. They camp in a cave, cook their food over a campfire, and shave with the blade of their sword.
As they contemplate killing a small bird-like creature for food, the creature's parent attacks them. They escape it by fleeing into an ancient, abandoned tower. That night, they make their camp in the tower and go to sleep.
Stevonnie dreams of being in Connie's home, where Connie's mother (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) towers over them, scolding someone on the telephone. As Stevonnie attempts to get her attention, it gradually becomes clear that Connie's mother is reenacting the role of Yellow Diamond in an ancient conversation, directing the Gem colonization of a planet. Stevonnie begins playing the role of Pink Diamond, petulantly interfering with Yellow's work and demanding an army and a planet to colonize of her own. When Pink insists, "I'm just as important as you!", Yellow retorts, "Then why don't you act like it, Pink?" Pink storms off and breaks a window in frustration; her reflection in the glass is the viewer's (and Stevonnie's) first look at Pink Diamond's face.
Stevonnie awakens and, exploring the tower further, realizes that it was the site of the conversation in their dream and, like the similar tower on Earth's moon, the headquarters of Gem colonization of the broken planet above. They find the window that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20papaya%20production | This is a list of countries by papaya production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for papayas in 2020 was 13,894,705 metric tonnes, up by 1.9% from 13,641,294 tonnes in 2019. India was by far the largest producer, accounting for over 43% of global production. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
Production by country
>100,000 tonnes
1,000–100,000 tonnes
<1,000 tonnes
Notes
References
Lists by country
Lists of countries by production
Food and Agriculture Organization
Papaya
Papayas
Fruit production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grist%20%28disambiguation%29 | Grist is grain that is to be ground in a mill.
Grist may also refer to:
Grist (surname)
Grist (computing)
Grist (magazine) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reachability%20analysis | Reachability analysis is a solution to the reachability problem in the particular context of distributed systems. It is used to determine which global states can be reached by a distributed system which consists of a certain number of local entities that communicated by the exchange of messages.
Overview
Reachability analysis was introduced in a paper of 1978 for the analysis and verification of communication protocols. This paper was inspired by a paper by Bartlett et al. of 1968 which presented the alternating bit protocol using finite-state modeling of the protocol entities, and also pointed out that a similar protocol described earlier had a design flaw. This protocol belongs to the Link layer and, under certain assumptions, provides as service the correct data delivery without loss nor duplication, despite the occasional presence of message corruption or loss.
For reachability analysis, the local entities are modeled by their states and transitions. An entity changes state when it sends a message, consumes a received message, or performs an interaction at its local service interface. The global state of a system with n entities is determined by the states (i=1, ... n) of the entities and the state of the communication . In the simplest case, the medium between two entities is modeled by two FIFO queues in opposite directions, which contain the messages in transit (that are sent, but not yet consumed). Reachability analysis considers the possible behavior of the distributed system by analyzing all possible sequences of state transitions of the entities, and the corresponding global states reached.
The result of reachability analysis is a global state transition graph (also called reachability graph) which shows all global states of the distributed system that are reachable from the initial global state, and all possible sequences of send, consume and service interactions performed by the local entities. However, in many cases this transition graph is unbounded and can not be explored completely. The transition graph can be used for checking general design flaws of the protocol (see below), but also for verifying that the sequences of service interactions by the entities correspond to the requirements given by the global service specification of the system.
Protocol properties
Boundedness: The global state transition graph is bounded if the number of messages that may be in transit is bounded and the number states of all entities is bounded. The question whether the number of messages remains bounded in the case of finite state entities is in general not decidable. One usually truncates the exploration of the transition graph when the number of messages in transit reaches a given threshold.
The following are design flaws:
Global deadlock: The system is in a global deadlock if all entities wait for the consumption of a message and no message is in transit. Absence of global deadlocks can be verified by checking that no state i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turochamp | Turochamp is a chess program developed by Alan Turing and David Champernowne in 1948. It was created as part of research by the pair into computer science and machine learning. Turochamp is capable of playing an entire chess game against a human player at a low level of play by calculating all potential moves and all potential player moves in response, as well as some further moves it deems considerable. It then assigns point values to each game state, and selects the move resulting in the highest point value.
Turochamp is the earliest known computer game to enter development, but was never completed by Turing and Champernowne, as its algorithm was too complex to be run by the early computers of the time such as the Automatic Computing Engine. Turing attempted to convert the program into executable code for the 1951 Ferranti Mark 1 computer in Manchester, but was unable to do so. Turing played a match against computer scientist Alick Glennie using the program in the summer of 1952, executing it manually step by step, but by his death in 1954 had still been unable to run the program on an actual computer. Champernowne did not continue the project, and the original program was not preserved.
Despite never being run on a computer, the program is a candidate for the first chess program; several other chess programs were designed or proposed around the same time, including another one which Turing unsuccessfully tried to run on the Ferranti Mark 1. The first successful program in 1951, also developed for the Mark 1, was directly inspired by Turochamp, and was capable only of solving "mate-in-two" problems. A recreation of Turochamp was constructed in 2012 for the Alan Turing Centenary Conference. This version was used in a match with chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who gave a keynote at the conference.
Gameplay
Turochamp simulates a game of chess against the player by accepting the player's moves as input and outputting its move in response. The program's algorithm uses a heuristic to determine the best move to make, calculating all potential moves that it can make, then all of the potential player responses that could be made in turn, as well as further "considerable" moves, such as captures of undefended pieces, recaptures, and the capture of a piece of higher value by one of lower value. The program then assigns a point value to each resulting state, then makes the move with the highest resulting points, employing a minimax algorithm to do so. Points are determined based on several criteria, such as the mobility of each piece, the safety of each piece, the threat of checkmate, the value of the player's piece if taken, and several other factors. Different moves are given different point values; for example taking the queen is given 10 points but a pawn only one point, and placing the king in check is given a point or half of a point based on the layout of the board. According to Champernowne, the algorithm is primarily designed around the decis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentraland | Decentraland is a 3D virtual world browser-based platform. Users may buy virtual plots of land in the platform as NFTs via the MANA cryptocurrency, which uses the Ethereum blockchain. Designers can create and sell clothes and accessories for the avatars to be used in the virtual world.
It was opened to the public in February 2020, and is overseen by the nonprofit Decentraland Foundation. In 2017, the platform raised $26million in its initial coin offering (ICO); by 2022 indy100 reported that it had a $1.2billion market evaluation. While DappRadar found that as few as 38 users performed currency transactions in a single day, Decentraland claimed that 8,000 people per day used the platform in 2022.
Decentraland has received widespread criticism by technology and video game journalists for its technical bugs and mostly empty virtual world.
History
Decentraland was created by Argentinians Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, and has been in development since 2015. When it launched in 2017, parcels of digital land sold for about $20, and mana tokens sold for $0.02. The game's first map, Genesis City, was made up of 90,601 parcels of land. It raised $26 million in its initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017.
In April 2021, during a surge in popularity for NFTs, parcels sold for between $6,000 and $100,000. Because of the relatively small pool of mana, the currency is volatile, spiking to as high as $5.79 after events like Facebook's rebrand to Meta.
In November 2021 a virtual real-estate company purchased a plot of land in Decentraland for $2.43 million.
Users have minted NFTs of avatars with slurs in their names, and at one point the name "Jew" was for sale for $362,000. In November 2021 the community held a vote on whether to add "Hitler" to the banned names list, but there were not enough votes for the decentralized autonomous organization's (DAO) smart contract to execute.
In late 2021 and early 2022, major brands appeared in Decentraland or bought "properties" in it. These include Samsung, Adidas, Atari, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Miller Lite. Sotheby's held its first metaverse auction, and in March 2022, Decentraland hosted Metaverse Fashion Week in which major fashion brands appeared, including Dolce & Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger, Elie Saab, Nicholas Kirkwood, Perry Ellis, Imitation of Christ, and Estée Lauder. Music artists including Deadmau5 and Grimes held concerts in the platform.
In October 2022, indy100 reported that Decentraland had a market valuation of $1.2 billion.
In October 2022 the DappRadar tracking site reported that the Decentraland platform was seeing fewer than 1,000 users performing currency transactions on the site each day, with one particular 24-hour period having only 38 such users. Decentraland later claimed that "active users" were only users that had unique blockchain wallet addresses that interact with its system, and that users that did not have wallet addresses weren't counted. Sam Hamilton, Creative Director at Decent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Security%20Collaborative%20Research%20Alliance | Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance (CSCRA) was a research program initiated and sponsored by the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The objective of the program was “to develop a fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena, including aspects of human attackers, cyber defenders, and end users, so that fundamental laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models can be applied to a broad range of Army domains, applications, and environments.”
Collaborative Technology and Research Alliances is a term for partnerships between Army laboratories and centers, private industry and academia for performing research and technology development intended to benefit the US Army. The partnerships are funded by the US Army.
History
Since approximately 1992, ARL formed a number of partnerships that involved the triad of industry, academia and government. One of them was the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance (CSCRA) which was awarded on September 20, 2013. The program was expected to be completed in September 2022.
Objectives
Recognizing the need to address the growing threat of attacks on its cyber networks, the U.S. Army launched CSCRA. The alliance conducted research to advance the theoretical foundations of cyber science in the context of U.S. Army networks. According to the Army, research into cybersecurity is critical due to “the growing number and sophistication of attacks on military cyber networks coupled with the ever-increasing reliance on cyber systems to conduct the Army’s mission.” The ultimate goal of this research was the rapid development of cyber tools that could be used to dynamically assess cyber risks, detect hostile activities on friendly networks, and support agile maneuvers in cyber space in addressing novel threats.
Objectives of CSCRA included development of the following:
Fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena, including human aspects
Laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models
Concepts applicable to a broad array of Army domains, applications, and environments
Research Thrusts
The CSCRA program was organized around several research thrusts, including the following:
Risk, Detection, Agility
Participants
The research under this program was performed collaboratively by scientists of the US Army Research Laboratory and by scientists and engineers of the following institutions:
Army Research Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Indiana University
University of California at Davis
University of California Riverside
Applied Communication Sciences
Results
Examples of research results developed by the CSCRA program include the following:
Four publicly available datasets generated using a testbed with simulated benign users and a manual attacker. The datasets were created to provide examples of cyber exploitations and aid in the production of reproducible research that addresses cyber security challenge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20Bahadur%3A%20Rise%20of%20the%20Warriors | 3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors () is a Pakistani computer-animated action film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and written by Kamran Khan. It is the last installment in 3 Bahadur trilogy. The film stars the voices by Mehwish Hayat, Fahad Mustafa, Sarwat Gillani, Nimra Bucha and Behroze Sabzwari. It released nationwide on 14 December 2018 by ARY Films.
Cast
Zuhab Khan as Saadi
Arisha Razi as Amna
Bashar Amir Shafi as Kamil
Mehwish Hayat as Erma
Fahad Mustafa as Imran; Amna's father
Sarwat Gillani as Kulsoom; Saadi's mother
Nimra Bucha as Babushka
Behroze Sabzwari as Deenu
Khalid Malik as Kamil's father
Faheem Khan as Gunchu
Mustafa Changezi as Tony
Sarwan Ali Palijo as Kamil bhai
Production
In September 2018, ARY Films announced the production on the third animated film installment in the 3 Bahadur film series was completed, with the voices by Mehwish Hayat, Fahad Mustafa, Sarwat Gillani, Nimra Bucha, and Behroze Sabzwari, with the production done at Waadi Animations. Director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy said in an interview to The News that the film "has some very strong female characters", featuring "a number of very strong women" from the industry, who "will change the way we see the power of women". She added that "the action sequences are stronger", and "special VFX (with effects)" have been introduced.
Writer Kamran Khan told Dawn that "The characters have grown just like their audience and the plot this time is more complex" with "twists and turns" to keep them "involved in the story". He added that they had decided if the second film does well, the franchise will be a trilogy, "if the need to revive 3 Bahadur arises in the future, who knows we might find a way". The director told that they had "special screenings" to ensure "that kids from all over Pakistan" familiarise with 3 Bahadur.
At the trailer launch, Dettol was announced as the title sponsor for the film, with Dettol Warriors also featuring in it. A golden ticket campaign was started by Dettol for the target audience of children.
Soundtrack
Title SongSingers: Asrar and Hadiqa KiyaniMusic by: Baqir Abbas and Hassan Badshah
Release
3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors released on 14 December 2018 by ARY Films.
See also
List of Pakistani animated films
List of Pakistani films of 2018
Nickelodeon (Pakistan)
References
External links
2010s animated superhero films
2018 action films
2018 computer-animated films
2018 films
Alien invasions in films
Films directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Pakistani 3D films
Pakistani action films
Pakistani animated films
Pakistani children's films
Pakistani sequel films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp%20Network%20%28film%29 | Wasp Network is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, based on the book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War by Fernando Morais. It stars Penélope Cruz, Édgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal, Ana de Armas and Wagner Moura. It tells the true story of Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s.
The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 1 September 2019. It was released in France on 31 January 2020 by Memento Films, and was released on 19 June 2020 by Netflix.
Plot
In Havana in the early 1990s, pilot René González leaves his wife Olga and daughter Irma in Cuba to start a new life in the United States. He secretly flies to Miami on a stolen plane (Antonov An-2). González soon joins a group of Cuban exiles and Castro opponents, Brothers to the Rescue, who operate from Florida and act against the Cuban government through military operations and also aim to disintegrate the Cuban tourism industry. They even fly over Cuban airspace to deliver flyers. A Cuban secret organization named la Red Avispa, or the "Wasp Network," is directed by Gerardo Hernández, also known as Manuel Viramontez.
The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) and Brothers to the Rescue not only launch propaganda brochures about Havana, and lead balseros from Cuba to the Florida shores, but also smuggle drugs and weapons. They also conduct terrorist activities in Cuba organised by Luis Posada Carriles. In 1996, two Cessna Skymaster from Brothers to the Rescue are shot down by Cuban MiGs over the Caribbean Sea, killing four aviators.
Juan Pablo Roque is another Cuban pilot who defects by swimming to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and asking for political asylum. He arrives in Miami, and works as an FBI informant in addition to piloting for the Brothers. He buys expensive clothes, a Rolex, and settles down and marries Ana Margarita Martínez. After few years flies back to Havana making it very clear that he was a mole who had infiltrated anti-Castro associations.
After months and many bureaucratic procedures, Olga and her daughter are allowed to leave Cuba and rejoin René in Miami. But before their travel, Viramontez informs Olga that her husband is not a gusano (Spanish for worm) or a traitor to the Castro regime but indeed is a hero and a Cuban intelligence agent who infiltrated the CANF, which she must keep secret for the security of all of them and the Wasp Network.
In El Salvador in 1997, Raúl Cruz León is recruited by anti-Castroists to place C-4 bombs in Havana hotels. An Italian tourist dies and the same day he is caught by the Cuban police. After being caught the organization abandons him to his fate.
Finally, René González, Manuel Viramontez and the entire Wasp Network are captured by the FBI, all face charges of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of a foreign government, and other illegal activities in the United States and face long prison terms if found guilty in the Federal C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalAmp | CalAmp is an Irvine, California-based provider of Internet of things (IoT) software applications, cloud services, data intelligence and telematics products and services. The company's technology includes edge computing devices and SaaS-based applications for remotely tracking and managing vehicles, drivers, cargo and other mobile assets. The company also owns the patents and trademarks for the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System and provides connected car and lot management products.
History
CalAmp was founded as California Amplifier Inc. in Newbury Park, California in 1981, by Jacob Inbar and David Nichols, who worked together at a microwave division of Eaton Corporation. The company originally made amplifiers and other equipment used to transmit microwave signals for satellite video and broadband communications. The company began trading on NASDAQ in 1983.
By 1986, the company had relocated to Camarillo, California, and stopped making amplifiers for the consumer market.
In 1999, the company entered the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) market by acquiring Texas-based Gardiner Group, a satellite dish component provider.
In December 2003, the company acquired communications software company Vytek Corp, for $76.8 million.
In March 2004, the company relocated to Oxnard, California. In August, the company changed its name to CalAmp Corp.
In May 2006, the company acquired Montreal, Canada-based wireless radio company Dataradio, to expand its wireless data communications business for public safety and machine to machine (M2M) applications. It also acquired the mobile resource management line from Carlsbad, California-based location tracking company TechnoCom to offer enterprise asset tracking and fleet management applications.
In 2007, the company acquired the Aercept Vehicle Tracking business from wireless telematics service provider AirIQ.
By 2010, the company was focused on selling IoT hardware and DBS solutions.
In December 2012, the company announced the acquisition of Herndon, Virginia-based fleet management application provider Wireless Matrix Corp for $53 million.
In February 2013, the company announced a stock offering that was intended in part to fund the Wireless Matrix Corp purchase.
In April 2015, CalAmp bought telematics startup Crashboxx, a provider of a vehicle risk management system for insurance companies and fleet operators.
By 2016, the company had phased out its DBS business and shifted its focus to SaaS-based telematics products and services. In February, CalAmp announced it was acquiring stolen vehicle recovery company LoJack Corporation, for $134 million, and the deal closed in March. In April, the company announced it was moving its headquarters from Oxnard to Irvine, California. In September, the company introduced the LoJack LotSmart automotive dealer inventory management solution and LoJack SureDrive connected car app.
In March 2016, CalAmp acquired the LoJack company for $134 million.
In January 2019, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilauea%20Sugar%20Plantation%20Railway | The Kilauea Sugar Plantation Railway or Kilauea Track Line was, from 1881–1944, a long narrow gauge railway network with a gauge of for transporting sugarcane and sugar at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in Kilauea on Kaua'i of Hawaii.
History
The Kilauea Sugar Plantation imported in 1881 a steam locomotive and the material needed for constructing the track. John Fowler & Co., based in Leeds, England, delivered a complete package of 4,248 railway sleepers, rails, bends and switches, hardware and other products, as well as several tons of coal, in addition to the Fowler narrow gauge steam locomotive with works No 4085. It arrived in Honolulu on 27 August 1881 aboard The City of Glasgow from Glasgow, Scotland, and was subsequently shipped from there to Kauai.
On 24 September 1881, the track construction work began when Princess Lydia Pākī, later Queen Lili'uokalani hit the first spike in one of the railway sleepers. C.V. Houseman managed the track laying work. At the end of November 1881, a route had already been laid and put into operation.
In 1882, the plantation acquired by the Hohenzollern Locomotive Works another locomotive, which was built in Düsseldorf with the factory number 284 and Kilauea was called. The plant also acquired in 1894 and 1902 the locomotives Pilaa and Kahili from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Pennsylvania. The network consisted in 1910 of permanent track and portable track, 200 sugarcane transport cars, six sugar transport cars and four locomotives. The locomotives could each haul up to ten cars loaded with sugar cane.
Route
The track was the first laid on the territory of Hawaii. The long mainline began at the northern end of Aalona Street in Kilauea and led southwards over Kolo Road onto Pukalani Square. It crossed the Kuhio Highway and headed then southwards along Kuawa Road, crossed Waiuli Dam and crossed the Puukumu Stream for a total of .
The second, also long line led from the sugar mill to Kahili Landing, where the packaged, ground sugar was loaded onto the steamers anchored at Mo'ko'lea Point using a wire rope winch. It started halfway on Kilauea Road, then northwards and eastwards to Makanaano Square and ended at Kahili Landing above Mo'ko'lea Point. There the ships anchored to be loaded with 125 pounds (57 kg) sugar bags each. The operations at Kahili Landing and on the railway line leading there were abandoned in 1928, whereupon the sugar was transported from the sugar mill to Ahukini Landing for shipment.
A third line started at the Lili'uokalni Street crossed the Kilauea River on a wooden trestle bridge and ended in the ahupua'a of Lepeuli. Remnants of the former Kilauea Sugar Plantation railway and the Ko'olau ditch can be seen in Lepeuli.
The sugar cane transport was carried out with five steam locomotives. Each of the locomotives could haul up to ten cars loaded with sugar cane. The railway operation was ramped-down in late 1939, because truck transport proved to be more advantageous. By th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTVU | MTVU (formerly stylized as MtvU and mtvU) is an American digital cable TV channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group, a unit of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. The channel was first known as VH1 Uno from 2000 to 2004 before changing names when Viacom expanded MTVU programming beyond more than 750 college and university campuses across the United States, as part of internally originated cable systems that are a part of on-campus housing or college closed-circuit television systems to digital cable in all homes. Music videos played on the channel primarily consist of indie rock, pop punk and hip-hop along with limited original programming. MTVU also launched a short-lived campus guide and social media network called Campusdailyguide.com in 2008.
In 2018, the MTV Networks on Campus group was sold by Viacom to Cheddar to launch CheddarU, but the digital cable channel remained to the public through digital cable.
History
MTV Networks' proposal for a channel targeting college students, tentatively called MTV University, became public in February 2002. According to The New York Times, the channel was seeking to compete with Burly Bear Network, which was available to 450 campuses and had been attracting nearly a million viewers a week, along with College Television Network (CTN) and the most recent entrant at the time, Zilo.
Seven months later, after CTN experienced financial difficulties and as National Lampoon had just acquired the defunct Burly Bear, MTV Networks acquired CTN for $15 million.
MTVU also formerly owned RateMyProfessors.com and in 2006 acquired content management software platform for college newspapers College Publisher Network (later College Media Network) parent company Youth Media & Marketing Network (Y2M) in 2006 before selling it in 2010 to Access Network, who sold it to Uloop in 2014.
In February 2008, MTV Networks discontinued VH1 Uno, a sparsely viewed Spanish language music video channel, and replaced it with MTVU, to expand the channel into traditional cable distribution.
In May 2018, Cheddar TV acquired Viacom's MTV Networks on Campus; outlets associated with that service were converted to carry CheddarU, a new secondary feed which stream content from the flagship financial-news streaming service and segments from Cheddar Big News to 9 million students on more than 600 campuses; universities which previously screened MTV Networks on Campus will continue to receive CheddarU at no cost in exchange for access to the campus (the cable version of MTVU has continued under an automated form). CheddarU is part of the ChedNet division of Cheddar, a division focusing on bringing the service to public screens such as gyms, bars, airports, hotel and other public venues.
Over time, MTVU has lost cable carriage throughout time with the growth of the Internet, and has generally been depreciated by ViacomCBS in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable and streaming providers, with Spectrum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20pear%20production | These tables show pear production by country data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for pears in 2020 was 23,109,219 metric tonnes, down by 4.8% from 24,279,481 tonnes in 2019. China was by far the largest producer, accounting for more than twice the rest of the world combined (approximately 70%).
Latest data
* indicates "Agriculture in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
Past production
* indicates "Agriculture in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
Notes
References
Pear production
Pears
Food and Agriculture Organization
Pears
Pears
Pears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapr | Shapr is a professional networking app, which uses an algorithm to suggest professionals with matching interests and similar professional goals. Shapr is headquartered in Paris, France.
Shapr was started in 2015 by Ludovic Huraux, Jonathan Rogez, Cyril Ferey, Vincent Bobin and Thomas Bouttefort. The app's initial launch was funded through a 2015 seed round of $3 million. The team announced an additional raise of $4 million in 2016. In June 2017, Shapr announced a Series A raise of $9.5 million.
Work
Shapr uses LinkedIn to build a user profile with basic data including the user's photo and job title. Users then add up to ten interests. From there, Shapr's smart algorithm curates a daily batch of 10-20 profiles of relevant and active users nearby who share similar interests and goals. When users share interests, these are displayed in orange while viewing a user's profile. Users can swipe right or click "Meet" on profiles when they hope to connect. Users can then pick a ready-to-go conversation starter to say hello and set up a time to continue the conversation offline.
Reception
The Economist's 1843 Magazine called the app "the Shapr of things to come" and says the app is built around the idea that "networks are more effective when built around a handful of worthwhile relationships, not thousands of interactions". The Wall Street Journal says the app "could dispel the fear of rejection that discourages some users from reaching out on LinkedIn." Inc. magazine shared "what is different about Shapr is that it's repositioning networking as a mindset and an essential professional skill to master, rather than a means to an end."
Wired points out that in order for the app to succeed, people need to believe that "connecting with people outside of your normal interest groups is the key to professional success."
References
French social networking websites
Professional networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTX%20Markets | XTX Markets is an algorithmic trading company. It was founded in January 2015 by Alexander Gerko, who is currently co-CEO alongside Hans Buehler. The company employs 190 people globally and uses algorithms to trade the difference in market prices across a variety of venues.
History
The company is based in London, United Kingdom and was founded by Alexander Gerko in 2015, as a spin-off of GSA Capital.
In 2016, XTX Markets was the ninth-largest liquidity provider in the foreign exchange market by volume; with a 3.87% market share. It was the first time a company that is not a bank placed in the top ten of the Euromoney survey. It is part of a trend of non-bank traders taking market share from banks.
In 2017, the company became a non-clearing member of the London Stock Exchange.
In 2018, it was the third-largest liquidity provider in the global foreign exchange market by volume; with a 7.36% market share. The company had 11.5% market share in European equity markets. Other activities included taking a stake in Aquis Exchange, setting up a foreign exchange 'pricing engine' in Singapore in conjunction with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and announcing it would be opening an 'EU hub' in Paris.
In 2019, XTX became the largest foreign exchange spot liquidity provider globally.
In 2022, the company reported profits of £1.1 billion, a 64 per cent increase on the previous year. It recorded a 68 per cent increase in revenues from £1.5 billion to £2.5 billion.
Operations
XTX is a quantitative-driven electronic liquidity provider which partners with counterparties, exchanges and e-trading venues globally to provide liquidity in the equity, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodity markets. The company is majority owned by Gerko, who holds 75 per cent of business.
In 2018, XTX decided to opt into the systematic internaliser regime for European equities.
In November 2019, XTX became the largest systematic internaliser by volume for European equities.
XTX has since been the largest Systematic Internaliser for three years running.
In 2019, the company grew its market share in the United States and expanded into providing liquidity in US Treasuries.
In March 2021, the company began offering a single dealer platform for US equities.
XTX Markets also launched a venture capital arm, XTX Ventures, a fund investing solely in early-stage companies with machine learning as a core technology.
Philanthropy
In March 2020, XTX donated over £20 million to charities fighting the effects of COVID-19 including NHS Charities Together, City Harvest and the AP-HP hospital.
XTX released a statement in March 2022 regarding its support for the Ukrainian people and all those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This included details around £23.4 million of commitments to charities providing humanitarian relief to Ukraine.
In June 2022, XTX announced the launch of its £15 million Academic Sanctuaries Fund with the goal of helping deliver more and better ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20647 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 647 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Clumber Park to Harby . The route is in length and is fully open and signed in both directions.
History
The eastern end of the route is a railway path along the trackbed of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway. It crosses the River Trent on the Fledborough Viaduct. Opened in 1897, it consists of 59 arches spread either side of four metal girder spans which cross the river itself. Nine million bricks were used in its construction.
Route
NCN 647 is the core section of a Worksop to Lincoln cycleway. Worksop is along NCN Route 6 from the eastern trailhead and Lincoln from the western end and can be accessed via NCN Route 64.
From its junction with NCN 6 it runs west through Gold Medal Wood before joining quite roads to pass through several North Nottinghamshire villages to reach the town of Tuxford, shortly after which it joins the railway path all the way to the junction with NCN 64.
Related NCN routes
Route 647 meets the following routes:
6 at Clumber Park
64 at Harby
References
External links
Route 647 on the Sustrans web site
Route 647 on OSM
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20co-segmentation | In computer vision, object co-segmentation is a special case of image segmentation, which is defined as jointly segmenting semantically similar objects in multiple images or video frames.
Challenges
It is often challenging to extract segmentation masks of a target/object from a noisy collection of images or video frames, which involves object discovery coupled with segmentation. A noisy collection implies that the object/target is present sporadically in a set of images or the object/target disappears intermittently throughout the video of interest. Early methods typically involve mid-level representations such as object proposals.
Dynamic Markov networks-based methods
A joint object discover and co-segmentation method based on coupled dynamic Markov networks has been proposed recently, which claims significant improvements in robustness against irrelevant/noisy video frames.
Unlike previous efforts which conveniently assumes the consistent presence of the target objects throughout the input video, this coupled dual dynamic Markov network based algorithm simultaneously carries out both the detection and segmentation tasks with two respective Markov networks jointly updated via belief propagation.
Specifically, the Markov network responsible for segmentation is initialized with superpixels and provides information for its Markov counterpart responsible for the object detection task. Conversely, the Markov network responsible for detection builds the object proposal graph with inputs including the spatio-temporal segmentation tubes.
Graph cut-based methods
Graph cut optimization is a popular tool in computer vision, especially in earlier image segmentation applications. As an extension of regular graph cuts, multi-level hypergraph cut is proposed to account for more complex high order correspondences among video groups beyond typical pairwise correlations.
With such hypergraph extension, multiple modalities of correspondences, including low-level appearance, saliency, coherent motion and high level features such as object regions, could be seamlessly incorporated in the hyperedge computation. In addition, as a core advantage over co-occurrence based approach, hypergraph implicitly retains more complex correspondences among its vertices, with the hyperedge weights conveniently computed by eigenvalue decomposition of Laplacian matrices.
CNN/LSTM-based methods
In action localization applications, object co-segmentation is also implemented as the segment-tube spatio-temporal detector. Inspired by the recent spatio-temporal action localization efforts with tubelets (sequences of bounding boxes), Le et al. present a new spatio-temporal action localization detector Segment-tube, which consists of sequences of per-frame segmentation masks. This Segment-tube detector can temporally pinpoint the starting/ending frame of each action category in the presence of preceding/subsequent interference actions in untrimmed videos. Simultaneously, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash%20Parr | Dashiell "Dash" Robert Parr is a fictional character who appears in Pixar's computer-animated superhero film The Incredibles (2004) and its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018). The character is voiced by Spencer Fox in the first film and Huckleberry Milner in the second film. Restless, relentless and curious, Dash sports a hearty sense of adventure and a boundless supply of energy. Born with the remarkable power of superhuman speed, he longs to be free to use his powers at his leisure, and chafes against the admonishment by his parents, in particular his mother, that his powers must be kept a secret.
Development
When designing the Parrs, Brad Bird wanted each of their superpowers to be related to their personality. Observing that 10-year-old boys are prone to hyperactivity, he conceived Dash as "the average 10-year-old boy that can move twice as fast as anybody else".
The filmmakers cast rising eleven-year-old Spencer Fox who made his feature film debut in the 2004 film The Incredibles to voice the diminutive and mischievous son of Bob and Helen Parr. Brad Bird wanted to give Dash a realistic out-of-breath voice in certain scenes such as the jungle scene so he made Fox run four laps around the Pixar studio until he got tired. Due to Fox's voice maturing he was replaced by 10-year-old newcomer Huckleberry Milner in the sequel.
Producer John Walker said of Dash in the sequel, "Dash got a taste of life as a crime fighter in the first film. Returning to regular life doesn't really interest him—he loved fighting crime with his family and, even better, showing off just how fast he can be."
Powers and abilities
Dash possesses the superhuman capacity to move at great speeds. This power enables him to run faster than any conventional human beings are able to, and even to run over water without submerging. It also enables him to punch at superhuman speed. In one scene in the first film, Elastigirl shapeshifts into a raft, and Dash is able to use his ability to kick in a super-fast manner to function as its outboard motor. Dash's increased speed also gives him superhuman reflexes. Edna Mode designed his super suit to be resistant to the air friction, wear, and heat generated when Dash runs at superhuman speed.
Personality
Dash, as described by Helen, is a "highly competitive boy, and a bit of a showoff". Dash believes that he shouldn't be ashamed of his abilities or need to hide them, believing it makes him special. Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend described the character thus: "He's completely in love with his superpowers, the way any kid would be if he knew he could run at the speed of sound. He's crazy for adventure, drunk with the idea of being a hero and for him The Incredibles is one fantastic game where he's finally allowed to run as fast as he can".
Appearances
In the 2004 film The Incredibles, Dash complains that his mother, Helen, will not allow him to play school sports, because she thinks that he would use his super-speed and blow the family's civ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refill%20%28scheme%29 | Refill is a global campaign that connects people to places they can eat, drink and shop with less plastic. Using a free location based app, Refill provides a network of points offering the public free tap water in the UK. The network comprises high street retailers, cafes, restaurants, other businesses, museums, and local authorities. The campaign aims to prevent waste created by single-use plastic water bottles, as well as increasing the availability of quality drinking water.
Details
The idea for Refill came from Natalie Fee, who set up the community interest company City to Sea in order to launch Refill in Bristol in 2015. City to Sea continues to organise it.
People can either use a dedicated smartphone app to find Refill points, or look for signs outside participating organisations.
As of March 2018 there were 5700 Refill points and it continues to be developed. All establishments of Neal's Yard Remedies, Costa Coffee, Premier Inn, Starbucks and Pret a Manger are participating.
Towns and cities in which Refill schemes operate
Bath
Birmingham
Brighton and Hove
Bristol
Cambridge
Leamington Spa
Llantwit Major
London
See also
Reuse of bottles
References
External links
BBC explanation of the scheme (video) "App shows water refill stations to tackle plastic waste"
Conservation in the United Kingdom
Reuse
Waste management concepts
Bottled water
Plastic recycling
Packaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyvos | Kyvos is a business intelligence acceleration platform for cloud and big data platforms developed by an American privately held company named Kyvos Insights. The company, headquartered in Los Gatos, California, was founded by Praveen Kankariya, CEO of Impetus Technologies. The software provides OLAP-based multidimensional analysis on big data and cloud platforms and was launched officially in June 2015. In December the same year, the company was listed among the 10 Coolest Big Data Startups of 2015 by CRN Magazine.
Technology
The software uses OLAP technology to enable business intelligence on the cloud and big data platforms. In a report published by Forrester Research in 2016, where they evaluated several native Hadoop business intelligence (BI) platforms on 22 parameters, Kyvos was referred to as a platform that gave new life to OLAP by bringing it to Hadoop. As per the report, Kyvos enables analysis on Hadoop based on OLAP schemas, aggregations, and predefined drill-down paths. It pre-calculates aggregates at multiple levels of dimensional hierarchies to improve query response times as compared to SQL-on-Hadoop platforms. Users can analyze data through the Kyvos visualization tool or by using other BI platforms.
Kyvos was originally built for Hadoop and later on added support for Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Initially, it supported only MDX queries and integrated with data visualization tools such as Excel and Tableau. In 2017, Kyvos 4.0 added support for SQL connectivity extending integration to other BI tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Power BI and Qlik.
In late 2018, Version 5 of the software was built specifically for the cloud with elastic OLAP to provide a cloud native way to scale up and down for changing data workloads.
With its 2020.2 release, Kyvos added support for Snowflake data warehouse. The product was also made available on Microsoft Azure marketplace and Amazon Web Services marketplace.
In January 2021, MicroStrategy launched a new gateway connector for Kyvos with its latest version MicroStrategy 2021.
In April 2021, Kyvos announced the general availability of Kyvos Free, a full-featured free version of their platform on the cloud.
Major releases
First release in June 2015.
Kyvos 2.0 released in June 2016 with support for Amazon Web Services and additional BI tools.
Kyvos 4.0 released in August 2017 with support for SQL queries, enhanced performance, and support for concurrent users.
Kyvos 5 released in November 2018 with elastic OLAP for native cloud support and data profiling features.
Kyvos 2020.2 released in May 2020 with support for Snowflake cloud data warehouse and general availability on Azure and AWS marketplace.
Kyvos 2020.3 released in June 2020 with a built-in Smart Recommendation Engine for building Smart Aggregates, scheduled elasticity for Kyvos query engines, and BigQuery support on GCP.
Kyvos 2020.4 released in Octo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20trams%20in%20Melbourne | The Melbourne tram network began in 1884 with the construction of the Fairfield Horse Tramway. However, the purpose of the line was to increase land prices in the area, and it soon closed during the depression in 1890. The first genuine attempt to construct a tramway network was the construction of the Richmond cable tram line by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company in 1885. Over the next few years, 16 more cable tram lines were constructed, as well as numerous other horse tramways. The depression of the early 1890s slowed further expansion of the cable network. The first electric tram line was the Box Hill and Doncaster tramway which opened in 1889. This was a pioneering line in what was then the countryside and thus didn't receive much patronage. It closed in 1896. The next attempt at an electric tramway was Victorian Railways' St Kilda to Brighton line, which opened in 1906. Later that year, the North Melbourne Electric Tramway & Lighting Company opened lines to Essendon and Maribyrnong. Many local councils formed their own tramway trusts and built tramways within their own constituency. The most successful of these was the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust.
Consolidation of all of the systems occurred with the forming of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board in 1920, who eventually took control of all lines except for the two Victorian Railways lines. The MMTB continued the expansion of the electric tramways and began the process of electrifying the cable network, which began in earnest by the mid-1920s. Though many more lines were planned, the Great Depression and World War II slowed the process of construction. The electrification of the cable network was effectively completed by 1956 with the opening of the Bourke Street lines. However, by this time, the increasing popularity of the motor vehicle and the anti-tram Bolte government prevented any expansion in the following years, and overall patronage began to decline. The VR closed its two lines and the MMTB also closed many of its shorter, more marginal routes. The decades following the late 1970s saw the expansion of tram lines to outer suburbs such as Bundoora, Vermont South, Airport West, and Box Hill. Establishment of a state-run corporation to operate Melbourne's tram network occurred in 1983. In 1997, the tram network was split into two and later privatized. Since 2004, Yarra Trams has been the sole operator of the Melbourne Tram Network.
This timeline lists all of the openings, extensions and closures of all lines, as well as other significant events of the Melbourne Tram Network.
1880s
1884
20 December: Fairfield Horse tramway opens between Fairfield Park and Fairfield station.
1885
11 November: The Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company (MTOC) opens the Richmond cable tram line between Hawthorn Bridge and Spencer Street (Bourke Street).
1886
2 October: North Fitzroy cable tram line opens between Barkly Street, Fitzroy North and Collins Street via Brunswick Street.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwick | Bonwick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alfred Bonwick (1883–1949), British politician
James Bonwick (1817–1906), English-born Australian writer
Jeff Bonwick, American computer scientist
Paul Bonwick (born 1964), Canadian politician
Simon Bonwick (born 1969), British chef
See also
Bonwick Island, an island of British Columbia, Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBS%20Radio%20Network | FBS Radio Network is a Philippine broadcasting company. Its corporate office is located at Unit 908, Paragon Plaza, EDSA cor. Reliance St., Mandaluyong.
History
Leonida "Nida" Laki-Vera and her husband Luis Vera began their broadcast business as the Freedom Broadcasting System (FBS) in the 1970s. FBS launched its first station DWBL. A year later, FBS established its FM station DWLL, which is later on known as Mellow Touch. Radio personalities such as Butch Gonzales, Rudolph Rivera, and newscaster Ernie Fresnido worked for DWBL and Mellow Touch throughout the late 70s.
As time passed by towards the 1990s, the couple transferred the ownership of FBS to their children, namely Luis Jr. ("Luigi") and Lena. To coincide their business, the network dropped its legal name and became FBS Radio Network. Under the new owners, FBS expanded the Mellow Touch network in key provincial cities.
In 2004, FBS sold its two respective stations DWKT (Dagupan) and DYLL (Cebu) to Ultrasonic Broadcasting System. In return, UBSI sold its AM station DWSS to FBS.
FBS Radio Stations
AM stations
FM stations
Former stations
References
Philippine radio networks
Companies based in Mandaluyong
Privately held companies of the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accedian | Accedian is a Canadian company that develops network communication and application monitoring software and hardware. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Accedian is majority owned by Bridge Growth Partners.
History
Accedian was founded by Patrick Ostiguy and 4 partners in 2004. The company originally developed service assurance hardware and software for telecommunications service providers, including mobile network operators. The first product was a backhaul networks interface device, which links cell towers to central offices. Accedian has since made network function virtualization and virtualized customer-premises equipment (V-CPE) products.
In March 2017, Accedian announced a US$100M investment by Bridge Growth Partners in return for a major equity stake.
In February 2018, Accedian announced that it had acquired Performance Vision of Paris, France for an undisclosed amount. Performance Vision developed network performance management and application performance management solutions. In 2020, Dion Joannou was CEO of Accedian.
In June 2023, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Accedian.
Awards and recognition
In October 2011, Accedian was named on the Deloitte Fast 50 list of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in Canada.
In 2014, Accedian was named the fastest growing technology company in Canada with first place in the Deloitte Fast 50 list. Accedian placed second in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 list for North America.
In February 2018, research firm Gartner named Accedian as a Magic Quadrant leader in the network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) category.
In 2021, Patrick Ostiguy was still executive chairman of Accedian Networks Inc.
References
Companies based in Montreal
System administration
Network management
Companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniss%20%C4%8Calovskis | Deniss Čalovskis (born 1985 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian computer hacker. He is the creator of the Gozi virus. Calovskis is a certified Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Hacker
In February 2015, Deniss Čalovskis was extradited to the U.S. from Latvia to face 67 years in prison.
In September 2015, Čalovskis pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit computer intrusions. On January 5, 2016, he sentenced to time served after spending over 20 months in Latvian and American jails.
The Gozi virus was prevalent between 2005 and 2012, infecting between 17,000 and 40,000 computers including some at NASA. Financial losses from the virus stand "at a minimum, millions of dollars", according to the indictment.
In August 2014, Čalovskis began working at the Latvian Medical Association. Čalovskis started several social nonprofit projects for the local community in Latvia.
References
1985 births
Living people
People from Riga
Computer criminals
Hackers
Latvian criminals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Dataset%20Search | Google Dataset Search is a search engine from Google that helps researchers locate online data that is freely available for use. The company launched the service on September 5, 2018, and stated that the product was targeted at scientists and data journalists. The service was out of beta as of January 23, 2020.
Google Dataset Search complements Google Scholar, the company's search engine for academic studies and reports.
Features
Dataset Search can filter results based on the desired type of data (for example, focusing on images or text). It is also available in mobile.
Technology
Dataset Search is heavily reliant on dataset providers' use of metadata in accordance with the standards defined by the schema.org consortium. According to the Google AI blog,
Versions
Dataset Search was initially released in beta on September 5, 2018. It moved out of beta on January 23, 2020.
References
External links
Dataset Search
Dataset Search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Could%20It%20Be...%20Satan%3F | "Could It Be... Satan?" is the fourth episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 3, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Tim Minear, and directed by Sheree Folkson.
Plot
At this point, the action flashes back several years to reveal Michael Langdon's past and the story behind Outpost 3.
Students at the Hawthorne School for Exceptional Young Men study magic with their instructor, Behold Chablis. Baldwin Pennypacker, John Henry Moore, and Ariel Augustus, the Grand Chancellor, await Chablis with a video featuring a young warlock named Michael Langdon. Langdon is brought to the school and the instructors evaluate his power level.
Ariel explains that they wish Langdon to challenge Supreme Witch Cordelia for Supremacy. Cordelia is summoned from Miss Robicheaux's Academy in New Orleans and travels to Hawthorne. While the women scoff at the idea of a male Supreme, Ariel insists that Cordelia administer the Seven Wonders to test Langdon. Cordelia refuses, saying that it would surely condemn the boy to death. The conversation turns toward a past failure of Cordelia's, when she abandoned coven member Queenie after her disappearance in Los Angeles. Cordelia responds that she found Queenie's ghost in the Hotel Cortez, but was unable to rescue her, as she could not penetrate the demonic portal surrounding the hotel. Langdon travels to Los Angeles and successfully emerges from the hotel with Queenie. He then travels to Hell to rescue Madison. As Cordelia and the trio make plans to leave the Hawthorne School and return to New Orleans, Langdon greets them with Queenie and Madison. Upon seeing the returned witches, Cordelia faints.
Reception
"Could It Be... Satan?" was watched by 2.02 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.0 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, with Emma Roberts’ performance being highlighted. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Could It Be... Satan?" holds an 88% approval rating, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 7.50/10. The critical consensus reads, "Cast chemistry and just the right amount of self-effacing humor drive "Could it Be... Satan?" as worlds collide and fan dreams come true."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4/5, saying, "Coven was not my favorite series of American Horror Story, but it was one of the show's better ones and from the first bitchy comment flying out of Madison Montgomery's mouth, I am reminded why Coven is a fan favorite. The appearance of the witches immediately injects life into the series, and even when the show follows a group of warlocks that we've never known, there's immediate tension and chemistry between the group that betters anything we got with the mismatched group of survivors pre-Halloween."
Kat Rosenfield from Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a B+. She was not impressed by the warlocks in general except b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20Wonder%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Boy Wonder" is the fifth episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 10, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by John J. Gray, and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.
Plot
After passing out, Cordelia Goode experiences a nightmarish vision of a hellish and desolate world. Upon awakening, she agrees to administer the Seven Wonders for Michael Langdon so that he may rise to Supreme.
Returning to New Orleans, Myrtle Snow chides Cordelia for allowing a man to take the position of Supreme, claiming that men make terrible leaders. Cordelia confesses to Myrtle that her powers are beginning to fade, the sign that her reign as Supreme is coming to an end. Cordelia welcomes new student Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt and her father.
At the Hawthorne School, Ariel, Behold, John Henry and Baldwin cast a protection spell for Langdon in preparation for the Seven Wonders. Langdon shows Moore a glimpse of his true form. Miriam Mead kills Moore before he can warn anyone. Langdon successfully passes six of the Seven Wonders. For the seventh, Langdon must descend into Hell and return with fellow witch Misty Day. Langdon passes the seventh challenge and Cordelia proclaims Langdon the next Supreme.
Misty tells Cordelia that the evil within Hell appeared to speak to Langdon, which Cordelia assumes was negotiation for Misty's release. Misty describes Langdon as wearing "the perfume of death." Cordelia realizes that she now has proof of Langdon's capacity for evil and rejoices that she now has all of her original sisters returned so that they may fight against Langdon in the upcoming apocalypse. Cordelia pulls Madison aside and instructs her to gather information about Langdon. Behold, eavesdropping on the conversation, says that he will be joining Madison as he now has concerns of his own about Langdon. Cordelia asks Madison to travel to the place "where it all began": the Murder House.
Reception
"Boy Wonder" was watched by 2.12 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.0 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode has been critically acclaimed. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Boy Wonder" holds a 100% approval rating, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 8.50/10. The critical consensus reads, "Classic characters returning, along with a peek back at Murder House and a Roanoke Easter egg, make "Boy Wonder" an episode of heightened returns—not to mention fantastical gore and camp."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a positive review, saying, "One of the best aspects about the addition of Coven to the Apocalypse grouping is the politics involved in the witch world. There are wheels within wheels, and plots within plots." He added, "The scheming, as laid out in John J. Gray's script, is impressive indeed. Myrtle (the wonderful Frances Conroy) and Madison (Emma Roberts) pepper the script with fun, bitchy bon mots and asides. Michael and Arie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsource%20%28app%29 | Crowdsource is a crowdsourcing platform developed by Google intended to improve a host of Google services through the user-facing training of different algorithms.
Crowdsource was released for the Android operating system on the Google Play store on August 29, 2016, and is also available on the web. Crowdsource includes a variety of short tasks users can complete to improve many of Google's different services. Such tasks include image label verification, sentiment evaluation, and translation validation. By completing these tasks, users provide Google with data to improve services such as Google Maps, Google Translate, and Android. As users complete tasks, they earn achievements including stats, badges, and certificates, which track their progress.
Crowdsource was released quietly on the Google Play store, with no marketing from Google. It received mixed reviews on release, with many reviews stating that its lack of monetary rewards is unusual, as similar platforms, such as Google Opinion Rewards, often reward users with Play credits.
Features
Crowdsource includes different types of tasks, and these each provide Google with different information that it can give as training data to its machine learning algorithms. In the app's description on Google Play, Google refers to these tasks as "microtasks" which should take "no more than 5-10 seconds" to complete.
Tasks
Upon launch, the Crowdsource Android application presented users with 5 different tasks: image transcription, handwriting recognition, translation, translation validation, and map translation validation. The most recent version of the app includes 11 tasks: Image Label Verification, Sentiment Evaluation, Audio Validation, Smart Camera, Glide Type, Handwriting Recognition, Reading Charts, Trust in Charts, Translation, Translation Validation, and Image Capture.
Translation and translation validation
Translation related tasks (translation and translation validation) are only shown to users who have selected more than one language they are fluent in. While Maps Translation validation is no longer a task in the Crowdsource Android and web apps, users can still complete translation and translation validation tasks. Translation presents the user with one of the languages they listed themselves as fluent in, and asks them to translate it into another language they are fluent in. Translation validation presents users with a list of translations submitted by other users, and asks them to categorize them as correct or incorrect. Both of these tasks help improve Google's translating capabilities, most notably in Google Translate, and any other Google app with translated content, including Google Maps.
Image Label Verification
Image Label Verification allows users to select a word from a list of topics, such as "Cars, and then presents the user with a picture, asking the question "Does this image contain cars?". Users can select "Yes", "No", or "Skip" if they are unsure. The data gained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-PAn | Crypto-PAn (Cryptography-based Prefix-preserving Anonymization) is a cryptographic algorithm for anonymizing IP addresses while preserving their subnet structure. That is, the algorithm encrypts any string of bits to a new string , while ensuring that for any pair of bit-strings which share a common prefix of length , their images also share a common prefix of length . A mapping with this property is called prefix-preserving. In this way, Crypto-PAn is a kind of format-preserving encryption.
The mathematical outline of Crypto-PAn was developed by Jinliang Fan, Jun Xu, Mostafa H. Ammar (all of Georgia Tech) and Sue B. Moon. It was inspired by the IP address anonymization done by Greg Minshall's TCPdpriv program circa 1996.
Algorithm
Intuitively, Crypto-PAn encrypts a bit-string of length by descending a binary tree of depth , one step for each bit in the string. Each of the binary tree's non-leaf nodes has been given a value of "0" or "1", according to some pseudo-random function seeded by the encryption key. At each step of the descent, the algorithm computes the th bit of the output by XORing the th bit of the input with the value of the current node.
The reference implementation takes a 256-bit key. The first 128 bits of the key material are used to initialize an AES-128 cipher in ECB mode. The second 128 bits of the key material are encrypted with the cipher to produce a 128-bit padding block .
Given a 32-bit IPv4 address , the reference implementation performs the following operation for each bit of the input: Compose a 128-bit input block . Encrypt with the cipher to produce a 128-bit output block . Finally, XOR the th bit of that output block with the th bit of , and append the result — — onto the output bitstring. Once all 32 bits of the output bitstring have been computed, the result is returned as the anonymized output which corresponds to the original input .
The reference implementation does not implement deanonymization; that is, it does not provide a function such that . However, decryption can be implemented almost identically to encryption, just making sure to compose each input block using the plaintext bits of decrypted so far, rather than using the ciphertext bits: .
The reference implementation does not implement encryption of bitstrings of lengths other than 32; for example, it does not support the anonymization of 128-bit IPv6 addresses. In practice, the 32-bit Crypto-PAn algorithm can be used in "ECB mode" itself, so that a 128-bit string might be anonymized as . This approach preserves the prefix structure of the 128-bit string, but does leak information about the lower-order chunks; for example, an anonymized IPv6 address consisting of the same 32-bit ciphertext repeated four times is likely the special address ::, which thus reveals the encryption of the 32-bit plaintext 0000:0000:0000:0000.
In principle, the reference implementation's approach (building 128-bit input blocks ) can be extended up to 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Peters%20%28software%20engineer%29 | Tim Peters is an American software developer who is known for creating the Timsort hybrid sorting algorithm and for his major contributions to the Python programming language and its original CPython implementation. A pre-1.0 CPython user, he was among the group of early adopters who contributed to the detailed design of the language in its early stages.
He later created the Timsort algorithm (based on earlier work on the use of "galloping" search) which was used in Python from versions 2.3 to 3.11, as well as in other widely used computing platforms, including the V8 JavaScript engine powering the Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers, as well as Node.js. He has also contributed the doctest and timeit modules to the Python standard library.
Peters also wrote the Zen of Python, intended as a statement of Python's design philosophy, which was incorporated into the official Python literature as Python Enhancement Proposal 20 and in the Python interpreter as an easter egg. He contributed the chapter on algorithms to the Python Cookbook. From 2001 to 2014 he was active as a member of the Python Software Foundation's board of directors. Peters was an influential contributor to Python mailing lists. He is also a highly ranked contributor to Stack Overflow, mostly for answers relating to Python.
Peters' past employers include Kendall Square Research.
Tim Peters was granted the Python Software Foundation's Distinguished Service Award for 2017.
See also
History of Python
References/Notes and references
External links
PyCon 2006 interview with Tim Peters
Stack Overflow user page
PythonLabs.com
Python (programming language) people
Computer programmers
Free software programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Doctor%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Doctor Doctor (known as The Heart Guy outside of Australasia), an Australian drama television series, premiered on Nine Network on 6 August 2018.
This season marks the final appearance of Steve Bisley as the character of Jim Knight is killed off in the first episode.
Cast
Main
Rodger Corser as Hugh Knight
Nicole da Silva as Charlie Knight (née Pereira)
Ryan Johnson as Matt Knight
Tina Bursill as Meryl Knight
Hayley McElhinney as Penny Cartwright
Chloe Bayliss as Hayley Mills Knight
Matt Castley as Ajax Cross Knight
Belinda Bromilow as Betty Bell
Brittany Clark as Mia Halston
Charles Wu as Ken Liu
Special guest
Steve Bisley as Jim Knight (episode 1)
Recurring and guest
Annie Byron as Vivian (3 episodes)
Lester Morris as Gordon (2 episodes)
Uli Latukefu as Darren (3 episodes)
Vince Colosimo as Carlito (3 episodes)
Annabel Wolfe as Ivy Win (3 episodes)
Genevieve Hegney as Harriet (2 episodes)
Ellis Watts (3 episodes)
Winta McGrath as Floyd (2 episodes)
Miranda Tapsell as April (2 episodes)
Episodes
Reception
Ratings
Award nominations
Logie Awards (2019)
Nominated: Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television – Rodger Corser
Nominated: Logie Award for Most Popular Actor – Rodger Corser
Nominated: Logie Award for Most Popular Drama Program – Doctor Doctor
Nominated: Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series – Doctor Doctor
Screen Producers Australia (2019)
Nominated: SPA Award for Drama Series Production of the Year – Doctor Doctor
TV Tonight Awards (2019)
Nominated: TV Tonight Award for Best Australian Drama – Doctor Doctor
Home media
International release
References
2018 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20herpetofauna%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
Amphibian
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Amphibians are tetrapod animals from the class Amphibia comprising toads, frogs, salamanders, newts and caecilians. They have an amphibious lifestyle, where the larvae are aquatic. Skin is generally soft and with glands. They show three type of respiration through moist skin, buccal cavity and lungs. Caecilians are limbless amphibians, whereas other amphibians have short limbs. Amphibians lay cluster of eggs as egg masses closer to a water body and show an external fertilization.
About 20 species of amphibians are found in Czech Republic. The low numbers is due to cold climate, where both amphibians and reptiles are poikilothermic animals they cannot survive in very cold environments. This is a list of amphibians and reptiles found in Czech Republic.
Order: Caudata - Salamanders and allies
Family: Salamandridae - True salamanders & Newts
Order: Anura - Frogs and toads
Family: Bombinatoridae - Fire-bellied toads
Family: Bufonidae - Tree toads
Family: Hylidae - Tree frogs
Family: Pelobatidae - Spadefoot toads
Family: Ranidae - True frogs
Reptile
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Reptiles are tetrapod animals from the class Reptilia comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. Reptiles are vertebrates, creatures that either have four limbs or, like snakes, are descended from four-limbed ancestors. Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not have an aquatic larval stage. Most reptiles are oviparous, although several species of squamates are viviparous, as were some extinct aquatic clades — the fetus develops within the mother, contained in a placenta rather than an eggshell. As amniotes, reptile eggs are surrounded by membranes for protection and transport, which adapt them to reproduction on dry land.
There are about 16 species of reptiles found in Czech republic. The only venomous snake is the European adder.
Order: Testudines - Turtles
Family: Emydidae - Terrapins
Order: Squamata - Scaled reptiles
Family: Anguidae
Family: Lacertidae - True lizards
Suborder: Serpentes - Snakes
Family: Colubridae - Colubrids
Family: Viperidae - Vipers
References
External links
Herpetofauna
Herpetofauna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Margasak | Peter Margasak is a music critic, journalist, and artistic director of the annual Frequency Festival in Chicago, an event that grew out of his longstanding work programming the weekly Frequency Series for experimental, improvised, and contemporary classical music. Margasak wrote for the Chicago Reader for 25 years.
Career
Margasak writes about disparate musical times and communities within the broad field of late-20th and 21st-century music. His contributions to The New York Times include a piece about Algerian "pop rai" artist Khaled Brahim and another on the avant-garde artists of the Theatre of Eternal Music and their battles for proprietorship of drone music; a Pitchfork feature on the year 1979 in Chicago touches on both power pop and the racial dimensions of anti-disco sentiment during "the Rise of House Music"; he has written about trip hop for Rolling Stone and reviewed new work by jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts for NPR's All Things Considered. Margasak is a regular contributor to DownBeat, Chamber Music America, and The Quietus, and he is the lead contemporary classical music reviewer for Bandcamp Daily. Among many other publications, he frequently wrote for the Chicago Tribune in the 1990s.
Margasak is best known for his work writing for the Chicago Reader from 1993 to 2018. Before he started working for the Chicago Reader, Margasak published the zine Butt Rag, which he started as a sophomore in college. A total of nine issues of Butt Rag were published, and one of them attracted the attention of three Chicago Reader employees, including the then-editor-in-chief Michael Lenehan. After they saw Butt Rag, they decided to offer Margasak a job at the Reader, in the hopes of bringing some of the zine's snarky writing to the Readers pages.
In 2017, Dare Mighty Things declared Margasak one of "37 Influential Media People Shaping The Future Of Chicago".
In September 2018, Margasak announced he would be leaving the Chicago Reader to attend the American Academy in Rome as part of its Visiting Artists & Scholars Program.
Frequency Series and Festival
In 2013, Margasak founded and began curating the Frequency Series, a weekly series dedicated to showcasing new musicians at the Chicago venue Constellation. He said his goal in starting the series was "to connect the dots between the strong experimental, improvised and contemporary classical scenes in Chicago". Frequency quickly gained traction, and was included in Chicago magazine's "Best of 2014".
In 2016, he launched The Frequency Festival, a week-long version of the series featuring new musicians from the Chicago area; the festival comprises daily performances, culminating with a two-show day on Sunday. His work grew into an acclaimed event with international draw, leading to partnerships and co-presentations with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Renaissance Society, though it maintains its "home base" at Constellation.
Margasak relocated to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Morgan%20%28Home%20and%20Away%29 | Justin Morgan is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Home and Away, played by James Stewart. The actor was contacted by his agent and the head of drama at Seven Network about the role. After hearing their pitch, Stewart auditioned and won the part. He began filming in December 2015, and made his first appearance during the episode broadcast on 7 June 2016. Justin was introduced to the show along with his three siblings; Tori Morgan (Penny McNamee), Brody Morgan (Jackson Heywood) and Mason Morgan (Orpheus Pledger). The family received immediate comparisons to the show's popular Braxton brothers.
Justin is portrayed as an impulsive, aggressive, "all-round typical Aussie bloke". He takes his role as head of the family seriously and is very protective of his siblings. The character's early storylines saw him clash with Martin Ashford (George Mason) and help save the life of Summer Bay stalwart Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher). The Morgans are soon revealed to be in witness protection, following the murders of their parents by a drugs syndicate, who start targeting the siblings. The storyline saw the family held hostage, threatened, and involved in a plane crash. Justin is later shot at and stabbed by corrupt police officer Ranae Turner (Sacha Horler).
During the witness protection storyline, Justin is reunited with his daughter Ava Gilbert (Grace Thomas), and he develops a relationship with Phoebe Nicholson (Isabella Giovinazzo), to whom he later becomes engaged. Following Giovinazzo's decision to leave the show, the couple break up when Phoebe leaves to pursue her music career in the United States. The character is then involved in an on/off relationship with Scarlett Snow (Tania Nolan). Later storylines have seen Justin begin a relationship with Willow Harris (Sarah Roberts), endure Ava's kidnapping, and targeted in a revenge campaign by Ebony Harding (Cariba Heine). For his portrayal of Justin, Stewart has received nominations for Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards and Most Popular Actor at the Logie Awards. The character was branded "the Morgan trouble magnet" by a critic for Soaplife.
Casting
On 5 December 2015, Jonathon Moran from The Daily Telegraph reported that James Stewart had joined the cast of Home and Away as Justin Morgan, alongside actors Jackson Heywood and Orpheus Pledger who play his brothers Brody and Mason Morgan respectively. All three began filming their first scenes during the following week, ahead of their on-screen debut in 2016. Stewart was contacted by his agent and Julie McGauran, the head of drama at Seven Network, about a role in the show. After hearing the pitch, Stewart accepted the audition. Home and Away marks Stewart's second television appearance since he took time away from acting to be a stay-at-home dad. He commented, "I got to the end of three years of raising my daughter and just thought, 'Oh, I need to work. I've got to get her through school.'" New Zealand actor Benedict Wal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Oddsockeaters | The Oddsockeaters () is a 2016 Czech computer-animated musical fantasy adventure film. It is an adaptation of a novel of the same name. The film was nominated for Czech Lion Award for the Best Sound and Stage Design.
Synopsis
The fates of the main protagonists of the Oddsockeaters and their biggest opponent, the weirdo and the abandoned Professor, are connected by the story of the main character, the young Oddsockeater Hihlík, who will have great adventures in the film. The days of his grandfather Lamor, who had raised him, are over, and Hihlík must overcome his fear, climb out the window and go looking for Uncle Padre, about whom he had no idea yet. He draws his courage from what his grandfather instilled in him - love for his family, a good upbringing and a tenor. He does not abandon his ideals and principles even in the new robbery home of his mafia uncle and two sly cousins. Even though they lead him into dangerous situations. When, in the end, with a heavy heart, he breaks the two basic scavengers of the rules "Never take a couple" and "Stay people, but stay away from them," then only because he believes he has exhausted all means to reach his desired goal. - family.
In the area of the animated adventurous gangster story of two hostile lichen-eating gangs, a clash of two generations and two morals, a human-like world is depicted.
Voice cast
Technology
Prior to the actual implementation, the development of Oddsockeater figures was necessary, with a physiognomy completely different from vertebrates. It was necessary to develop and test especially their movement and lipsynch - the connection of the mouth and nose, which will determine and significantly affect the facial expressions of their face.
The technology used to make the film is CGI, computer-generated-imagery. The choice of computer animation was a logical outcome. In one of the two main plot levels, the film deals with the question of the existence of the sock eaters as a species. And it is this kind of animation that allows realistic processing to maintain a delicate balance between believability and fiction and make great use of it for the physical character of sock eaters, which are not made of flesh and bones - they feed on socks. Sock eaters consist of textile materials. CGI programs allowed figures to stretch, translucent, tangle.
Preparatory work took place in the years 2012–2013, the shooting itself 2014–2016. Galina Miklínová, as the author of the original illustration of Oddsockeaters as an "animal species", wanted to preserve her artistic intention - to distinguish herself with authentic drawings from ordinary production using 3D technology, and all modeled objects covered with the produced textures were hand-drawn.
Film premiere on October 20, 2016.
References
External links
2016 films
2010s Czech-language films
Czech adventure films
Czech animated adventure films
Czech animated fantasy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20and%20blockchain | A blockchain is a shared database that records transactions between two parties in an immutable ledger. Blockchain documents and confirms pseudonymous ownership of all transactions in a verifiable and sustainable way. After a transaction is validated and cryptographically verified by other participants or nodes in the network, it is made into a "block" on the blockchain. A block contains information about the time the transaction occurred, previous transactions, and details about the transaction. Once recorded as a block, transactions are ordered chronologically and cannot be altered. This technology rose to popularity after the creation of Bitcoin, the first application of blockchain technology, which has since catalyzed other cryptocurrencies and applications.
Due to its nature of decentralization, transactions and data are not verified and owned by one single entity as they are in typical systems. Rather, the validity of transactions are confirmed by the form of majority-rule in which nodes or computers that have access to the network, if the network comes to a consensus of the new transaction then it is added. Blockchain technology secures and authenticates transactions and data through cryptography. With the rise and widespread adoption of technology, data breaches have become frequent. User information and data are often stored, mishandled, and misused, causing a threat to personal privacy. Advocates argue for the widespread adoption of blockchain technology because of its ability to increase user privacy, data protection, and data ownership.
Blockchain and privacy protection
Private and public keys
A key aspect of privacy in blockchains is the use of private and public keys. Blockchain systems use asymmetric cryptography to secure transactions between users. In these systems, each user has a public and private key. These keys are random strings of numbers and are cryptographically related. It is mathematically impossible for a user to guess another user's private key from their public key. This provides an increase in security and protects users from hackers. Public keys can be shared with other users in the network because they give away no personal data. Each user has an address that is derived from the public key using a hash function. These addresses are used to send and receive assets on the blockchain, such as cryptocurrency. Because blockchain networks are shared to all participants, users can view past transactions and activity that has occurred on the blockchain.
Senders and receivers of past transactions are represented and signified by their addresses; users' identities are not revealed. Public addresses do not reveal personal information or identification; rather, they act as pseudonymous identities. It is suggested by Joshi, Archana (2018) that users do not use a public address more than once; this tactic avoids the possibility of a malicious user tracing a particular address' past transactions in an attempt to reveal inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipper | Quipper may refer to:
someone who makes quips
Quipper (company), an education technology company
Quipper (programming language), used in quantum programming
Quipper (Dungeons & Dragons), a monster in Dungeons & Dragons
See also
Kuiper (disambiguation)
Kipper (disambiguation)
Quip (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20and%20Tag | Bus and Tag is an "IBM standard for a computer peripheral interface", and was commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as line printers, disk storage, magnetic tape drives and IBM 3270 display controllers. The technology uses two sets of thick, multi-connector copper cables, one set, carrying data, called the bus, and the other set, carrying control information, called the tag.
Bus and Tag cables are "daisy chained"; and one interface can attach up to eight peripheral control units. The last control unit in the chain must have a terminator plug. Each control unit can attach a maximum number of devices, "sixteen is a typical number." There is an architectural limit of 256 devices per channel, and initially a limitation of , later extended to , between the mainframe and the control unit. Bus and Tag channels handle data rates up to 4.5 MB per second. Only one device can transfer data at a time.
Bus and Tag architecture was also used by other computer manufacturers to attach IBM peripherals to their systems. It was later published by the US National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as FIPS PUB 60-2, I/O Channel Interface.
Bus and Tag was introduced with System/360 in 1964, and was also used with System/370. With the introduction of serial, fiber optic ESCON in the 1990s Bus and Tag channels were re-christened "parallel channels", and were gradually superseded. "Parallel channels are not available on the newest mainframes and are slowly being displaced on older systems." Equipment is available to allow connection of older devices using Bus and Tag to mainframe FICON or ESCON channels.
Evolution
Originally the System/360 had two types of channel; the byte multiplexor channel and the selector channel. Since that time there have been several extension to the channel architecture.
In 1970, IBM announced the 2880 block multiplexor channel for the 360/85 and 360/195, in support of the IBM 2305 fixed head disk. This channel supports disconnected command chaining, which allows a high speed device to free the channel when performing a requested operation, without terminating the channel program. This channel also has an optional two-byte interface feature (bus extension feature), which allows a second bus cable in order to operate at 3.0 MB/S. In the same year, IBM announced the System/370, which included block multiplexor channels.
As DASD became faster, the original channel protocols could not support the required transfer rates and the two-byte interface was too expensive. As a solution, IBM offered data streaming initially supporting 3.0 MB/s and eventually supporting 4.5 MB/s.
Example
The following schematic shows a complex system with two CPUs and multiple peripherals connected using bus and tag cabling.
Notes
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External links
OEMI
IBM System/360 mainframe line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ika-5%20Utos%20episodes | Ika-5 Utos (Lit: Fifth Commandment / English: Revenge) is a 2018 Philippine drama television series starring Jean Garcia, Valerie Concepcion and Gelli de Belen. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Afternoon Prime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from September 10, 2018 to February 8, 2019, replacing Contessa.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
The series ended, but its the 18th-week run, and with 116 episodes. It was replaced by Inagaw na Bituin.
Series overview
Episodes
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
January 2019
February 2019
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armen%20Berjikly | Armen Berjikly is an Armenian-American entrepreneur and technologist, known as the founder and chief executive officer of both artificial intelligence company Kanjoya, and social network Experience Project. Berjikly's professional focus is on improving the relationship between technology and human emotions.
Early life and education
Berjikly was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Northern California to attend Stanford University in 1997. He graduated with honors in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science with an emphasis on Human Computer Interaction, and in 2002 with a Masters degree in Management Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on high tech entrepreneurship.
At Stanford, Berjikly was named a Mayfield Fellow, elected to Tau Beta Pi, and earned academic distinctions including the President's Award for Academic Excellence, and the Terman Engineering Scholastic Award.
Berjikly's extracurriculars included writing for the Stanford Daily, and serving as a teaching assistant for Stanford's CS106 and CS107 introductory computer science sequence. However, it was Berjikly's academic research in the then-nascent field of human computer interaction that would most influence his career and personal interests.
Academic Research
First working under advisor and natural language processing (NLP) pioneer, Computer Science Professor Terry Winograd, and then directly with HCI authority and Communications Professor Clifford Nass, Berjikly contributed to the corpus around Nass' theory of The Media Equation, particularly with respect to how humans interface with interactive voice response (IVR) systems.
In a foundational experiment on error handling in IVR systems (what to do when the computer does not understand the speaker), Berjikly and Nass tested different strategies for handling errors, hoping to observe any potential impacts to user behavior and impressions from each respective strategy. The results demonstrated that participants strongly preferred IVRs that criticized themselves when making errors (e.g., "Sorry, I didn't understand"), and they strongly disliked systems that blamed the user (e.g., "Please speak more clearly.")
Further, participants were significantly less willing to buy books from systems that blamed the user versus self-blaming systems. In short, they concluded, a company would anger its users and sell fewer products with a user-blaming IVR. One surprising finding was that while users disliked the user-blaming system, they found it to be significantly more competent and believed it made fewer errors than the self-blaming system, despite the reality that the two versions made the same mistakes at the same points in the interaction.
On this point, Berjikly and Nass concluded that
"Modesty undermines your perceived intelligence so much that even insulting the person you are working with makes you seem more competent to that person than criticizing yourself."
Early career, thesis, and Experien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primax%20Broadcasting%20Network | Primax Broadcasting Network is a broadcast radio network in the Philippines. Its main office is located at 10th Floor, Jacinta Bldg. II, EDSA, Makati. The network is owned by the Yabut family (original owners of Nation Broadcasting Corporation prior to 1998).
MemoRieS FM is Primax's FM network of stations in Baguio and Cebu. Both are affiliated with RMN.
Primax Radio Stations
References
Mass media companies of the Philippines
Companies based in Makati
Mass media in Metro Manila
Mass media companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in the Philippines
Privately held companies of the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Channel%205 | This is a timeline of the history of British television network Channel 5.
1980s
1987
Two separate government studies identify spare frequency space on the UHF band, prompting political debate about the viability of a fifth UK terrestrial TV channel.
1988
A government white paper on broadcasting includes provisions for a fifth channel after Booz Allen Consultants recommends it as an option. Booz Allen claims the extra channel would reduce the current ITV monopoly and also reduce advertising costs.
1989
March – The Independent Broadcasting Authority recommends that the headquarters of a fifth channel should be situated outside London, preferably at a location north of Birmingham.
1990s
1990
The terms of a licence for a fifth channel are set out in the Broadcasting Act 1990. It would need to be a general entertainment channel with a remit for some public service broadcasting. Additionally, it is estimated that the channel's coverage would reach only 74% of the UK, and a video retuning operation would need to be undertaken.
1991
No events.
1992
14 April – The Independent Television Commission (ITC) issues an invitation to apply for the Channel 5 licence.
3 July – Columbia TriStar and Canwest, two backers of the four strong Channel 5 Holdings Ltd consortium, withdraw their support for the project, leaving Thames Television, which is proposing a network of city-TV stations, and Canadian businessman Moses Znaimer to take the project forward. As Channel 5 Holdings are the only current bidders for the Channel 5 licence there are concerns for the future of the process ahead of the deadline, but Channel 5 Holdings says it intends to put forward its bid as planned.
7 July – Date of the initial deadline for applications to run the Channel 5 service. One application to run the channel is submitted by Channel 5 Holdings Ltd.
December – The ITC rejects the Channel 5 Holdings Ltd bid amid concerns about its business plan and investor commitment. and subsequently considers not awarding the licence at all.
1993
July – The ITC publishes the findings of a technical review.
October – More than 70 parties respond to the publication of the technical review, including some expressing interest in running Channel 5 should the licence be readvertised.
1994
February – The ITC announces that it plans to readvertise the Channel 5 broadcasting licence, but it also has to seek confirmation that the frequencies it planned to allocate to the channel are still available.
14 July – Stephen Dorrell, the Secretary of State for Heritage announces that Channel 35, one of the two frequencies planned for use by a fifth channel, will not be available. The ITC expresses concern over this, but still views Channel 5 as a viable option since 60% of the UK will still be covered by the remaining frequency.
15 September – The ITC announces its decision to re-advertise the Channel 5 licence.
1 November – A second attempt to license the fifth terrestrial channel be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Android%20smartphones | This is a list of devices that run on the Android operating system.
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List of Android TV devices
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoradiology | Paleoradiology (ancient radiology) is the study of archaeological remains through the use of radiographic techniques, such as X-ray, CT (computer tomography) and micro-CT scans. It is predominately used by archaeologists and anthropologists to examine mummified remains due to its non-invasive nature. Paleoradiologists can discover post-mortem damage to the body, or any artefacts buried with them, while still keeping the remains intact. Radiological images can also contribute evidence about the person's life, such as their age and cause of death. The first recorded use of paleoradiology (although not by that name) was in 1896, just a year after the Rōntgen radiograph was first produced. Although this method of viewing ancient remains is advantageous due to its non-invasive manner, many radiologists lack expertise in archeology and very few radiologists can identify ancient diseases which may be present.
Techniques
CT
CT scans are most commonly used in paleoradiological studies because they can create images of soft tissue, organs and body cavities of mummified remains without performing an invasive and damaging autopsy. This enables archaeologists and anthropologists to digitally unwrap the remains and reveal what they contain. CT scanners create these images by taking multiple radiographic planes (or cuts) of the body at different angles which records the layers of different structures in the remains. This differs from typical radiographic scans (X-rays) where all the structural layers are documented in one image, which can create shadows and therefore limit their accuracy.
There are several main viewing techniques used in CT imaging.
Axial Imaging: images that are taken from transverse planes, cutting across the body. This provides information about the chest, abdomen and pelvic area of the body, as well as the cranium.
Sagittal Imaging: images taken from the left or right sides of the body. This gives a greater indication of the length of fractures found on the remains. Together with axial imaging it can create a greater depth of visual understanding of the interior of the body.
Coronal Imaging: images are taken from the back to the front of the body. This can provide a more accurate indication of the presence of organs in the chest cavity (e.g. the heart).
After these different views of the remains have been obtained, it is possible to create a three-dimensional reconstruction of the body. This brings into focus details which may have been missed on the axial imagining. Algorithm manipulation is used to create the rotational 3D images. In paleoradiology, the 3D images provide a greater understanding of the remains themselves. For example, in 2002, a study of nine Egyptian mummies found that by using the 3D reconstructions they could see the preservation of soft tissues, such as the penis on one male body and braided hair on female remains. The 3D modelling also illustrated discrepancies between the remains, as some had their internal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terah%20Lyons | Terah Lyons is known for her expertise in the field of artificial intelligence and technology policy. Lyons was the executive director of the Partnership on AI and was a policy advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in President Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Education and early career
Lyons was raised in Fort Collins, Colorado. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Harvard University in 2014 in Social Studies with a focus on Network Theory and Complex Systems. During her time at Harvard, she received the Thouron Award in 2012 to study for a summer at the University of Cambridge. While at Harvard, she worked as a research analyst for David Gergen at the Kennedy School of Government Center for Public Policy. Her senior thesis was entitled "Social Networks and Shibboleths: Gender Diversity and Stratification in Structures of Elite Corporate Leadership." Following her time at Harvard, she became a Fellow with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Public service career
Lyons joined President Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy, which was run by the President's Science Advisor John Holdren, in 2015. In 2016, she began working for the United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith. During her tenure as a civil servant, her portfolio centered on machine intelligence, including AI, robotics, and intelligent transportation systems.
Lyons co-directed The White House Future of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, which engaged stakeholders—industry, academia, government employees, the international community, and the public at large—to develop a domestic policy strategy on machine intelligence. That work culminated in a report called Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, which detailed opportunities, considerations, and challenges in the field of AI. Highlights from the report include policy recommendations to ensure that the power of AI is channeled to advance social good and improve government operations, recommendations for regulations on AI technologies such as automated vehicles, and recommendations to develop a diverse workforce equipped to tap into the potential and tackle the challenges that will come with the AI revolution. The report was the culmination of five public workshops and a request for public comment that received 161 responses.
Lyons also helped draft the December 2016 report Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy, which detailed the ways in which artificial intelligence will transform the American economy in the coming years and decades. The report outlined five key primary economic efforts that should be a priority for policymakers, including preparing for changes in skills demanded by the job market and the shifting of the job market as some jobs disappear while new opportunities are created.
The Partnership on AI
In 2017, Lyons was recruited to lead the Partnership on AI, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Bradley%20%28mathematician%20and%20rower%29 | Elizabeth Bradley (born April 9, 1961) is an American applied mathematician and computer scientist, and a former Olympic rower. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she specializes in nonlinear systems and nonlinear time series analysis.
Rowing
Bradley competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics, with rowers Jennifer Corbet, Cynthia Eckert, and Sarah Gengler, and coxswain Kim Santiago. Their boat placed fifth out of the ten boats competing in the event.
She also competed in the 1986 World Rowing Championships, placing fourth in women's eights, and in the 1987 World Rowing Championships, placing fourth in women's pairs.
Education and academic career
Bradley was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1983, a master's degree in computer science in 1986, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1992. Her dissertation, Taming Chaotic Circuits, was jointly supervised by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman.
She joined the University of Colorado computer science department as an assistant professor in 1993, chaired the department from 2003 to 2006, and was promoted to full professor in 2004. She has also visited Harvard University, and was a Radcliffe fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2006–2007 as well as a Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering in 1995.
She was named a CRA-W Distinguished Professor by the Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research in 2008, and was named a President's Teaching Scholar by the University of Colorado in 2017.
References
External links
Home page
1961 births
Living people
American female rowers
Olympic rowers for the United States
Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rowers from New York City
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Dynamical systems theorists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Radcliffe fellows
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
MIT School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Blues | Prime Blues is the fourth widely available studio album by American musician and computer scientist Jim Allchin. The release date of the album was September 21, 2018 by Sandy Key Music. The album contains 14 new contemporary blues songs. The front grill cover of the amplifier shown on the album artwork highlights all the prime numbers through one million.
Reception
Prime Blues reached the No. 1 Top Blues Album on the Roots Music Report which tracks American Roots Music radio airplay in 2018. It entered the RMR charts on October 6, 2018, charting in at No. 35. Since Oct 13, 2018, Prime Blues has remained in the top 10 Blues Albums according to RMR and as of January 12, 2019 was the No. 2 Blues album and No. 1 Contemporary Blues album. As of May 20, 2019, Prime Blues has been on the Roots Music Report chart for 33 weeks. Even though released in September 2018, Prime Blues finished as the 16th most played Contemporary Blues album for 2018 according to RMR.
Prime Blues was a Silver Medal Winner in the Global Music Awards in 2018.
"Two Bad Dreams" from the Prime Blues won second place in the International Songwriting Competition in the Blues category from over 19,000 entries.
"Give It Up" the first track from Prime Blues was a finalist in the 2018 UK Songwriting Contest in the Jazz/Blues category.
Prime Blues was first reviewed September 6, 2018 by Rick Bowen and published in the NorthWest Music Scene magazine.
Album reviews especially noted Allchin's songwriting, musicianship, and guitar technique.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
Jim Allchin – guitar, vocals, arrangements
Bob Britt – rhythm guitar
Kenny Greenberg – rhythm guitar
Tom Hambridge – drums, percussion
Kevin McKendree – keyboard
Rob McNelley – rhythm guitar
Glenn Worf – bass
Guest musicians
Bobby Rush – vocal and harmonica on "Two Bad Dreams"
Mycle Wastman – background vocals
Mike Zito – vocal on "Enough Is Enough"
The Memphis Horns – horns
Production
Tom Hambridge – produced
Ernesto Olvera-Lapier – tracking and mixing engineer engineering
Zach Allen – engineering (Bobby Rush vocal and Harmonica solo) engineering
Sean Badum (Studio D) – assistant engineer
Jason Mott (Studio E) – assistant engineer
Evan Nickels – project assistant
Tommy MacDonald – project assistant
John Heithaus – project executive
The Switchyard – mixing and mastering
References
2018 albums
Jim Allchin albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ei%C5%BEens%20%C4%80rin%C5%A1 | Eižens Ārinš (16 May 1911 – 13 February 1987) was a mathematician and computer scientist. He was one of those who contributed to the return of Emanuel Grinberg to the University of Latvia.
Education and career
Ārinš was born on 16 May 1911 in Krasnojarsk, Siberia, where his father was in exile. In 1920 the family returned to Riga. He graduated from the University of Latvia in 1941 during the German occupation of Latvia. After Second World War, Ārinš had to graduate again because the Soviet authorities refused to recognise his degree. He graduated again in 1946 from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Latvian State University. While lecturing in the university, he worked during 5 years at the Institute of Physics of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
He continued his education at postgraduate level at the Moscow State University. He prepared his PhD thesis on partially continuous functions on products of topological spaces under the supervision of Russian topologist Lyudmila Keldysh. After defending his PhD in 1954, he returned to Latvia SSR where he was appointed as a docent at the university in 1955. From 1956 to 1960 he worked at the Institute of Physics of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
In 1978 Soviet KGB attempted to recruit Eižens Āriņš to become a secret agent.
Contributions
He was a mathematician with a diverse spectrum of interests. He wrote papers in the descriptive theory of functions, theoretical computer science, and cybernetics.
In addition to his research in mathematics, Ārīņš is remembered as the founder in 1959 of the Center of Computing at the State University of Latvia, one of the first institutions in the Soviet Union dedicated to computer science. He led the center, currently known as the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Latvia, since his inception until 1978. In 1964 he received the honorary title of the Merit Scientist and Technical Worker of the Latvian SSR. Ārinš died on 13 February 1987.
Recognition
In 1998, the Latvian Academy of Sciences established the Eižens Ārinš Prize in computer science and its applications and has been awarded since 2000.
References
1911 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Latvian mathematicians
Latvian computer scientists
University of Latvia alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalan%20Puchong%E2%80%93Dengkil | Jalan Puchong–Dengkil or Jalan Puchong–Cyberjaya (Selangor state route B15) is a major road in Puchong and Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
External links
www.BandarPuchong.com Bandar Puchong Community Online
Roads in Selangor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20engineering | Protocol engineering is the application of systematic methods to the development of communication protocols. It uses many of the principles of software engineering, but it is specific to the development of distributed systems.
History
When the first experimental and commercial computer networks were developed in the 1970s, the concept of protocols was not yet well developed. These were the first distributed systems. In the context of the newly adopted layered protocol architecture (see OSI model), the definition of the protocol of a specific layer should be such that any entity implementing that specification in one computer would be compatible with any other computer containing an entity implementing the same specification, and their interactions should be such that the desired communication service would be obtained. On the other hand, the protocol specification should be abstract enough to allow different choices for the implementation on different computers.
It was recognized that a precise specification of the expected service provided by the given layer was important. It is important for the verification of the protocol, which should demonstrate that the communication service is provided if both protocol entities implement the protocol specification correctly. This principle was later followed during the standardization of the OSI protocol stack, in particular for the transport layer.
It was also recognized that some kind of formalized protocol specification would be useful for the verification of the protocol and for developing implementations, as well as test cases for checking the conformance of an implementation against the specification. While initially mainly finite-state machine were used as (simplified) models of a protocol entity, in the 1980s three formal specification languages were standardized, two by ISO and one by ITU. The latter, called SDL, was later used in industry and has been merged with UML state machines.
Principles
The following are the most important principles for the development of protocols:
Layered architecture: A protocol layer at the level n consists of two (or more) entities that have a service interface through which the service of the layer is provided to the users of the protocol, and which uses the service provided by a local entity of level (n-1).
The service specification of a layer describes, in an abstract and global view, the behavior of the layer as visible at the service interfaces of the layer.
The protocol specification defines the requirements that should be satisfied by each entity implementation.
Protocol verification consists of showing that two (or more) entities satisfying the protocol specification will provide at their service interfaces the specified service of that layer.
The (verified) protocol specification is used mainly for the following two activities:
The development of an entity implementation. Note that the abstract properties of the service interface are defi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N70%20highway | National Route 70 (N70) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It partially spurs the Asian Highway 26 (AH26) from Palo to Ormoc in Leyte, Philippines.
Route description
N70 starts at its intersection with Maharlika Highway in Palo, at the vicinity of the Palo Cathedral. It then enters the towns of Santa Fe, Alangalang, Jaro, Tunga, Carigara, Capoocan, and Kananga. It enters the city of Ormoc, where the Asian Highway 26 (AH26) concurrency leaves the highway for the Ormoc Port. It then turns east to follow the western coast of Leyte and traverses the town of Albuera and the city of Baybay before ending at Maharlika Highway in Mahaplag.
Asian Highway Network
This route partially spurs the Asian Highway 26, running from Palo to Ormoc and continues as a sea ferry to Cebu City.
History
The direct predecessors of N70 are Highway 2 from Palo to Baybay and Highway 1 from Baybay to Mahaplag.
Upon the ratification of the Asian Highway Network by the Philippines in 2007, the highway's segment from Palo to Ormoc was later made part of the Pan-Philippine Highway, particularly its spur in Visayas. The highway network connecting Palo and Mahaplag via the western coast of Leyte was later designated by the Department of Public Works and Highways as N70. The route is signposted from Palo to Ormoc but since the non-AH26 section of the route does not have its own route markers, it is not signposted from Ormoc to Mahaplag.
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Leyte (province) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley%20Vale%20Timber%20Tramway | The Langley Vale Timber Tramway was a -long narrow gauge railway network with mainly wooden rails with a gauge of . It was used from 1897 to 1933 for transporting logs to a sawmill at Lansdowne in the Manning River Valley, north of Taree, New South Wales.
Route
The track started at the sawmill and ran upwards with grades of up to 12,5 % (1 : 8) over rough trestles with a length of up to 50 m (50 yards), over Cross's Mountain, across Razorback, down a declivity, and up another rise, which forms the western wall of Hannam Vale, being about 365 m (1200 ft) above the starting point. The uphill journey needed normally less than 3–4 hours.
In the Lansdowne State Forest, as well as in Langley's private holdings tall timbers were harvested, including blackbutt, tallowwood, grey gum, flooded gum, bloodwood, white mahogany, turpentine and brush box but no ironbark.
Operation
The railway and the sawmill were owned and managed by William Edwin Langley (born 3 February 1860 in Shoalhaven; died 11 Nov 1946 in Taree). He joined his father's business (subsequently Langley Bros.) after serving his time as a joiner in 1879. His new sawmill was inaugurated on 3 July 1902. In April 1931 he became president of the Timber Merchants Association.
Locomotive
From 1912 the 18-ton Climax Class A locomotive with serial number x38 of 1912 was used. It was sold in November 1933 to Smith & Ellis Ltd. in Langley Vale. In 1942 it was regauged to and used at Circular Head Amalgamated Timber Co. in Smithton, Tasmania. There it was dismantled in 1971 and scrapped.
Ships
The Langley brothers owned and operated also several ships. These moored at either the mill wharf or at sleeper yard from the mill wharf. The Gwendoline was a topsail schooner built in 1897 at Coopernook, NSW. She was 84 tons, 86 feet long, 23.1 feet wide and had a 7.2 foot draft. The Gwendoline was owned by the Langley Brothers Company and made frequent trips between Sydney and the Tweed from 1897 to 1903.
Gilbert Mowatt built in 1904 the steam ship Cooloon for Alfred Langley and Robert H Langley who were trading as Langley Brothers & Co. at the site of their mill at Rockville near Lansdowne. She was made from colonial hardwood and tastefully fitted throughout her saloon in mahogany and pine panelling painted with country scenes by the ladies of the Manning. It was named after the township of Cooloon on the Tweed River.
The steamer Duroby belonged also to the Langley Brothers.
Cultural heritage protection
The track of the Langley Vale Tramway runs through forest compartments No 193, 194 and 195 mainly along Rock Creek. The route is shown on the Harvest Plan Operational Maps. The remains of the trestles, embankments and cuttings are protected as cultural heritage. The objective of the relevant prescriptions is to preserve all substantial remnants of earthworks and infrastructure, especially cuttings where encountered.
Historic structures in the tramway corridor may not be disturbed. Trees are not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luoyang%20Subway | Luoyang Subway () is a metro network serving urban and suburban districts of Luoyang. It is the second metro system in Henan Province, as well as the first metro system in a city that is not a provincial capital in central and western China.
Lines
Line 1
Line 1 is a west–east line from Hongshan station to Yangwan station. It began construction in June 2017. It was opened on 28 March 2021. Line 1 is in length with 19 stations.
Line 2
Line 2 is a north–south line from Erqiao Road station to Balitang station. It began construction in December 2017. It connects both Luoyang railway station and Luoyang Longmen railway station. The first phase of Line 2 is in length with 15 stations. The line opened on December 26, 2021.
History
The first phase of the system, including Line 1 and the first phase of Line 2, was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in August 2016.
Construction of Line 1 started on 28 June 2017, and Line 2 on 26 December 2017.
Network map
References
Rapid transit in China
Rail transport in Henan
Railway lines opened in 2021
2021 establishments in China
Luoyang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join-based%20tree%20algorithms | In computer science, join-based tree algorithms are a class of algorithms for self-balancing binary search trees. This framework aims at designing highly-parallelized algorithms for various balanced binary search trees. The algorithmic framework is based on a single operation join. Under this framework, the join operation captures all balancing criteria of different balancing schemes, and all other functions join have generic implementation across different balancing schemes. The join-based algorithms can be applied to at least four balancing schemes: AVL trees, red–black trees, weight-balanced trees and treaps.
The join operation takes as input two binary balanced trees and of the same balancing scheme, and a key , and outputs a new balanced binary tree whose in-order traversal is the in-order traversal of , then then the in-order traversal of . In particular, if the trees are search trees, which means that the in-order of the trees maintain a total ordering on keys, it must satisfy the condition that all keys in are smaller than and all keys in are greater than .
History
The join operation was first defined by Tarjan on red–black trees, which runs in worst-case logarithmic time. Later Sleator and Tarjan described a join algorithm for splay trees which runs in amortized logarithmic time. Later Adams extended join to weight-balanced trees and used it for fast set–set functions including union, intersection and set difference. In 1998, Blelloch and Reid-Miller extended join on treaps, and proved the bound of the set functions to be for two trees of size and , which is optimal in the comparison model. They also brought up parallelism in Adams' algorithm by using a divide-and-conquer scheme. In 2016, Blelloch et al. formally proposed the join-based algorithms, and formalized the join algorithm for four different balancing schemes: AVL trees, red–black trees, weight-balanced trees and treaps. In the same work they proved that Adams' algorithms on union, intersection and difference are work-optimal on all the four balancing schemes.
Join algorithms
The function join considers rebalancing the tree, and thus depends on the input balancing scheme. If the two trees are balanced, join simply creates a new node with left subtree , root and right subtree . Suppose that is heavier (this "heavier" depends on the balancing scheme) than (the other case is symmetric). Join follows the right spine of until a node which is balanced with . At this point a new node with left child , root and right child is created to replace c. The new node may invalidate the balancing invariant. This can be fixed with rotations.
The following is the join algorithms on different balancing schemes.
The join algorithm for AVL trees:
function joinRightAVL(TL, k, TR)
(l, k', c) := expose(TL)
if h(c) ≤ h(TR) + 1
T' := Node(c, k, TR)
if h(T') ≤ h(l) + 1
return Node(l, k', T')
else
return rotateLeft(Node( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20map | In computer science, the augmented map is an abstract data type (ADT) based on ordered maps, which associates each ordered map an augmented value. For an ordered map with key type , comparison function on and value type , the augmented value is defined based on two functions: a base function and a combine function , where is the type of the augmented value. The base function converts a single entry in to an augmented value, and the combine function combines multiple augmented values. The combine function is required to be associative and have an identity (i.e., forms a monoid). We extend the definition of the associative function as follows:
Then the augmented value of an ordered map is defined as follows:
Accordingly, an augmented map can be formally defined as a seven-tuple . For example, an augmented map with integral keys and values, on which the augmented value is defined as the sum of all values in the map, is defined as:
As an abstract data type, the augmented map is often used to model problems and serves as an abstraction with a useful interface. It is designed for supporting fast range sums, which means to quickly return the augmented value of all entries in a certain key range.
Interface
In addition to the interface for a standard ordered map, the augmented map should also support functions for range sums. In particular:
aug_left: returns the augmented value of all entries in with keys no more than .
aug_right: returns the augmented value of all entries in with keys no less than .
aug_range: returns the augmented value of all entries in with keys in range .
aug_val: returns the augmented value of all entries in .
Some functions, although are not defined based on augmented values, can make use of augmented values to accelerate their algorithms. Usually, they would require some certain representation of augmented maps, and certain conditions for input parameters.
aug_filter: returns all entries in satisfying the indicator . It is only applicable when . In this case, the aug_filter function is equivalent to filter, where and . When the augmented map is implemented using augmented trees, this function can be implemented asymptotically more efficient than the naive implementation.
aug_project: returns . Here , . It requires to be a monoid and . This function is useful when the augmented values
are themselves maps or other large data structures. It allows projecting the augmented values down onto another type by (e.g. project augmented values with complicated structures to values like their sizes) then summing them by , and is much more efficient when applicable.
Implementation
Augmented trees
The augmented map can be supported efficiently by augmented trees, where each tree node is augmented by the augmented value of all entries in its subtree. Because of the associativity of the combine function , the augmented value of a certain tree is fixed, and is independent of the shape of the tree, regardless of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Marathi | Sony Marathi is an Indian pay television channel that broadcasts programming in Marathi. It was launched on 19 August 2018 and is owned and operated by Culver Max Entertainment.
Current broadcast
Mon-Sat
Mon-Fri
Sat-Sun
Former broadcast
Drama series
Dubbed series
Non-fiction shows
References
External links
Official website
Watch Sony Marathi Live on SonyLIV
Television stations in Mumbai
Marathi-language television channels
Sony Pictures Networks India
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Mass media in Maharashtra
Culver Max Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesense | Kinesense is computer vision and video analytics company based in Dublin, Ireland. The company is one of largest suppliers of computer vision products to the UK police, who use the technology to search CCTV content in the course of criminal investigations.
History
Kinesense was founded in Dublin in 2009 and received early investment from the Irish government's venture capital fund Enterprise Ireland.
Technology
Kinesense technology is a combination of motion detection and deep learning algorithms that have been adapted for CCTV analysis. The company also develops blockchain technology for chain of evidence The company has also worked with the London Zoo to monitor animal exhibits.
Awards
2010 Innovation Award from Dublin Institute of Technology
2010 IBM SmartCamp Finalists
2014 Won FP7 Research and Development Funding for P-React
2016 Won H2020 Research and Development Funding for dRedBox with IBM
2019 Won DTIF Research and Development Funding for the VISP project along with Overcast and Trinity College Dublin
References
External links
Kinesense Company Website
Information technology companies of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg%20Digital | Kongsberg Digital AS is a company in the Kongsberg Group. It was established in 2016, to provide software and digital solutions such as artificial intelligence, maritime simulation and automation to companies within the merchant navy, the petroleum industry and renewable energy and utilities industry and to gather the information technology competence from its parent company in one place.
450 employees at Kongsberg Digital came from other business areas within the Kongsberg Group.
Kongsberg Digital created a digital platform which gained much attention and become the company's most popular product.
Among other things, the company is working on developing its digital platform, an open ecosystem and digital twins.
References
2016 establishments in Norway
Digital
Computer companies of Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEVER%20score | The CLEVER (Cross Lipschitz Extreme Value for nEtwork Robustness) score is a way of measuring the robustness of an artificial neural network towards adversarial attacks.
It was developed by a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in IBM Research and first presented at the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations. It was mentioned and reviewed by Ian Goodfellow as well. It was adopted into a educational game Fool The Bank by Narendra Nath Joshi, Abhishek Bhandwaldar and Casey Dugan
References
Deep learning
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy%20management%20system | The pharmacy management system, also known as the pharmacy information system, is a system that stores data and enables functionality that organizes and maintains the medication use process within pharmacies.
These systems may be an independent technology for the pharmacy's use only, or in a hospital setting, pharmacies may be integrated within an inpatient hospital computer physician order entry (CPOE) system.
Necessary actions for a basic, functioning pharmacy management system include a user interface, data entry and retention, and security limits to protect patient health information. Pharmacy computer software is usually purchased ready-made or provided by a drug wholesaler as part of their service. Various pharmacy software operating systems are common place throughout the many practice settings.
Purpose
The pharmacy management system serves many purposes, including the safe and effective dispensing of pharmaceutical drugs. During the dispensing process, the system will prompt the pharmacist to verify the medication they have is for the correct patient and has the correct quantity, dosage, and information on the prescription label. Advanced pharmacy management systems offer clinical decision support and may be configured to alert the pharmacist to perform clinical interventions, such as an opportunity to offer verbal counseling if the patient's prescription requires additional education in the pharmacy.
Pharmacy management systems should also serve the pharmacist throughout the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process, a cycle developed by the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP). The process details the steps pharmacists take to practice tangible, proven care to their patients.
Pharmacist patient care process
The JCPP's pharmacist patient care process consists of five steps: collect, assess, plan, implement, and follow-up. Ideally, the pharmacy management system assists with each of these practices. The pharmacy system should Collect data at intake and continue to store and organize information as the pharmacist learns more about the patient's medications, their history, goals, and other factors that may affect their health. The technology within the pharmacy information system should allow the pharmacists to Assess the collected information to form a Plan and Implement creative strategies that address the patient's issues. After implementing a plan, the pharmacist should routinely Follow-Up with the patient and make adjustments as needed to further progress.
Vendors
Outpatient software vendors
Outpatient pharmacies typically are retail pharmacies that offer patient care services outside of hospitals and treatment facilities. Outpatient pharmacies, also known as community pharmacies or independent pharmacies, offer care in the form of medication therapy management (MTM), patient education, and clinical services.
Rx30
Developed in Florida in 1980, Rx30 is a multi-platform software that offers automated pharmacy processes, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhemar%20Bultheel | Adhemar François Bultheel (born 1948) is a Belgian mathematician and computer scientist, the former president of the Belgian Mathematical Society. He is a prolific book reviewer for the Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society and for the European Mathematical Society. His research concerns approximation theory.
Education and career
Bultheel was born in Zwijndrecht, Belgium on December 14, 1948. He earned a licenciate in mathematics in 1970 and another in industrial mathematics in 1971, both from KU Leuven. He remained at KU Leuven for a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a PhD in mathematics in 1979. His dissertation, Recursive Rational Approximation, was jointly supervised by Patrick M. Dewilde and Hugo Van de Vel.
Except for a year of military service, he was employed at KU Leuven for his entire career, retiring as a professor emeritus of computer science in 2009. He was president of the Belgian Mathematical Society for 2002–2005.
Books
Bultheel is the author of:
Laurent Series and their Padé Approximations (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications 27, Birkhäuser, 1987)
Linear Algebra, Rational Approximation and Orthogonal Polynomials (with Marc van Barel, Studies in Computational Mathematics 6, North-Holland, 1997)
Orthogonal Rational Functions (with Pablo González-Vera, Erik Hendriksen, and Olav Njåstad, Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics 5, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
''Inleiding tot de numerieke wiskunde (Acco, 2006)
References
External links
Home page
1948 births
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Belgian mathematicians
KU Leuven alumni
Academic staff of KU Leuven |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bultheel | Bultheel is a Huguenot surname, meaning a sieve for sifting flour. It is the surname of:
Adhemar Bultheel (born 1948), Belgian mathematician and computer scientist
Jan Bultheel, Belgian animated film director
Michaël Bultheel (born 1986), Belgian hurdle runner
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum-entropy%20random%20graph%20model | Maximum-entropy random graph models are random graph models used to study complex networks subject to the principle of maximum entropy under a set of structural constraints, which may be global, distributional, or local.
Overview
Any random graph model (at a fixed set of parameter values) results in a probability distribution on graphs, and those that are maximum entropy within the considered class of distributions have the special property of being maximally unbiased null models for network inference (e.g. biological network inference). Each model defines a family of probability distributions on the set of graphs of size (for each for some finite ), parameterized by a collection of constraints on observables defined for each graph (such as fixed expected average degree, degree distribution of a particular form, or specific degree sequence), enforced in the graph distribution alongside entropy maximization by the method of Lagrange multipliers. Note that in this context "maximum entropy" refers not to the entropy of a single graph, but rather the entropy of the whole probabilistic ensemble of random graphs.
Several commonly studied random network models are in fact maximum entropy, for example the ER graphs and (which each have one global constraint on the number of edges), as well as the configuration model (CM). and soft configuration model (SCM) (which each have local constraints, one for each nodewise degree-value). In the two pairs of models mentioned above, an important distinction is in whether the constraint is sharp (i.e. satisfied by every element of the set of size- graphs with nonzero probability in the ensemble), or soft (i.e. satisfied on average across the whole ensemble). The former (sharp) case corresponds to a microcanonical ensemble, the condition of maximum entropy yielding all graphs satisfying as equiprobable; the latter (soft) case is canonical, producing an exponential random graph model (ERGM).
Canonical ensemble of graphs (general framework)
Suppose we are building a random graph model consisting of a probability distribution on the set of simple graphs with vertices. The Gibbs entropy of this ensemble will be given by
We would like the ensemble-averaged values of observables (such as average degree, average clustering, or average shortest path length) to be tunable, so we impose "soft" constraints on the graph distribution:
where label the constraints. Application of the method of Lagrange multipliers to determine the distribution that maximizes while satisfying , and the normalization condition results in the following:
where is a normalizing constant (the partition function) and are parameters (Lagrange multipliers) coupled to the correspondingly indexed graph observables, which may be tuned to yield graph samples with desired values of those properties, on average; the result is an exponential family and canonical ensemble; specifically yielding an ERGM.
The Erdő |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20clustering%20algorithms | Automatic clustering algorithms are algorithms that can perform clustering without prior knowledge of data sets. In contrast with other cluster analysis techniques, automatic clustering algorithms can determine the optimal number of clusters even in the presence of noise and outlier points.
Centroid-based
Given a set of n objects, centroid-based algorithms create k partitions based on a dissimilarity function, such that k≤n. A major problem in applying this type of algorithm is determining the appropriate number of clusters for unlabeled data. Therefore, most research in clustering analysis has been focused on the automation of the process.
Automated selection of k in a K-means clustering algorithm, one of the most used centroid-based clustering algorithms, is still a major problem in machine learning. The most accepted solution to this problem is the elbow method. It consists of running k-means clustering to the data set with a range of values, calculating the sum of squared errors for each, and plotting them in a line chart. If the chart looks like an arm, the best value of k will be on the "elbow".
Another method that modifies the k-means algorithm for automatically choosing the optimal number of clusters is the G-means algorithm. It was developed from the hypothesis that a subset of the data follows a Gaussian distribution. Thus, k is increased until each k-means center's data is Gaussian. This algorithm only requires the standard statistical significance level as a parameter and does not set limits for the covariance of the data.
Connectivity-based (hierarchical clustering)
Connectivity-based clustering or hierarchical clustering is based on the idea that objects have more similarities to other nearby objects than to those further away. Therefore, the generated clusters from this type of algorithm will be the result of the distance between the analyzed objects.
Hierarchical models can either be divisive, where partitions are built from the entire data set available, or agglomerating, where each partition begins with a single object and additional objects are added to the set. Although hierarchical clustering has the advantage of allowing any valid metric to be used as the defined distance, it is sensitive to noise and fluctuations in the data set and is more difficult to automate.
Methods have been developed to improve and automate existing hierarchical clustering algorithms such as an automated version of single linkage hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). This computerized method bases its success on a self-consistent outlier reduction approach followed by the building of a descriptive function which permits defining natural clusters. Discarded objects can also be assigned to these clusters. Essentially, one needs not to resort to external parameters to identify natural clusters. Information gathered from HCA, automated and reliable, can be resumed in a dendrogram with the number of natural clusters and the corresponding separation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20largest%20trading%20partners%20of%20Bangladesh | This is a list of the largest trading partners of Bangladesh based on data from The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC).
See also
Economy of Bangladesh
List of the largest trading partners of the United States
List of the largest trading partners of China
List of the largest trading partners of Russia
List of the largest trading partners of Germany
List of the largest trading partners of the European Union
References
Business in Bangladesh
Economy of Bangladesh-related lists
Trading partners of Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Iranian%20provinces%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Iranian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2021 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Iran
Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ethiopian%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Ethiopian regions and the chartered cities of Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
References
Ethiopia
Human Development Index
Ethiopia, Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20autonomous%20communities%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Spain's 17 autonomous communities and the 2 autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla by their Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Spain
Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Fan%20%28engineer%29 | Li Fan is a computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer at Circle. She has previously held positions at Lime, Pinterest, Google and Baidu. She is an expert on visual computation.
Early life
Fan was interested in art as a child but was encouraged to focused on math. She studied computer science at Fudan University. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1996, when she moved to University of Wisconsin–Madison for her graduate studies. Here she developed techniques for scalable web caching. She studied the potential of web prefetching between low-bandwidth clients and proxies.
Career
Fan joined Cisco Systems as a software engineer. She joined Google in 2002. At Google she worked at google+, managing the infrastructure of ad spam and page ranking. In 2012 she was appointed Vice President of engineering at Baidu. At Baidu, Fan launched the cross-function data processing group. Fan was responsible for product design at China's largest search engine and led 1,000 people. She worked on big data analytics. In 2014 she returned to Google and became Head of Image Search.
In 2016 Fan joined Pinterest as Head of Engineering. She built an artificial intelligence team to work on visual machine perception. She led a team of 400 engineers and developed their discovery engine.
Fan joined the scooter company LimeBike in 2018. She was named as one of the most important engineers in the world by Business Insider and one of the most creative people by Fast Company.
In 2021, Fan joined Circle as CTO.
Award
2018 Forbes' America's Top 50 Women In Tech
References
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Chinese computer programmers
Chinese computer businesspeople
Living people
Fudan University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Computer%20Software | Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd. (operating as Advanced) is a British private company founded by Vin Murria in 2008 with its headquarters in Birmingham, West Midlands. It provides information technology services including hosting and cloud based systems to the NHS and many other organisations. Through various acquisitions, in 2016 it became the third largest software provider in the UK market while employing over 2,400 people with a customer base of more than 20,000 organisations. Later in the year it would go on to rebrand itself to "Advanced" while opening it's central headquarters in Birmingham's Mailbox.
History
Advanced was founded by Vin Murria in 2008. Originally listed on the Alternative Investment Market in 2008 with a cash value of £3 million, it was bought by Vista Equity Partners in 2014 for £765 million. From the 18% stake Murria held in Advanced she took £140.2m from the sale making her one of the wealthiest women in the UK. Murria was awarded an OBE for services to the UK digital economy and advancing women in the software sector in the 2018 New Year Honours.
At the time of sale, Vista brought in a new leadership team including chief executive officer Gordon Wilson, and chief financial officer Andrew Hicks.
In August 2019, Vista sold a 50% stake in Advanced to BC Partners for £2 billion including debt.
Health and Care Cyber Incident
In August 2022, Advanced experienced a cybersecurity incident caused by LockBit 3.0 ransomware. Adastra, Caresys, Odyssey, Carenotes, Crosscare, Staffplan and eFinancials products were all affected, with varying downtime and recovery. As of October 2022, some systems are still unavailable.
Perpetrators of the attack were able to extract information relating to 16 Staffplan and Caresys customers.
Locations
Advanced's head office is located in Mailbox, Birmingham with other office locations in Newcastle, Ashford, Dublin, York and Willerby. The US head office is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Advanced also have offices in Bangalore, Karnataka and Baroda, Gujarat, India which is where the primary development function is located.
Acquisitions
List of Software
Advanced Time and Attendance (formerly Mitrefinch TMS/HR Manager)
Advanced Pay (formerly Mitrefinch Flexipay)
Advanced Device & Access Manager (formerly MF Secure - successor to Mitrefinch Access Control)
Cloud School (formerly Progresso)
Facility CMIS Administration
Scheduler
Facility ePortal
CMIS
CMIS Go
FM Easy
OpenAccounts
Advanced HR (formerly Cloud HR)
OpenPeople
OpenWMS
Odyssey
Exchequer
ProAchieve
ProMonitor
ProSolution
TALENT Ticketing Solutions
Integra
Business Cloud Essentials
Advanced Financials (formerly Cloud Financials)
Staffplan
Caresys
Carenotes
Adastra
Crosscare
V1 Document Management
Advanced Data Automation (formerly Cloud trade)
References
Private providers of NHS services
Software companies of England
Companies based in Slough |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Coronial%20Information%20System | The National Coronial Information System (NCIS) is a national database of coronial information on every death reported by a Coroner in Australia from July 2000 (Queensland from July 2001) and New Zealand from July 2007. It assists coroners, their staff, public sector agencies, researchers and other agencies in obtaining coronial data to inform death and injury prevention activities.
History
The NCIS was the first national database for coronial information in the world. It was established in Australia following recognition by coroners that their mandate for public health and safety could be improved if they could share coronial data across borders to identify previous similar deaths. Prior to the establishment of the NCIS there was no systematic national data storage system for Australia’s eight coronial jurisdictions and the NCIS is considered an invaluable tool to facilitate public health knowledge and research, hence strengthening the coroner's role
In September 1997, the Australian Coroners' Society endorsed a business plan for the development and management of the NCIS by a consortium called the Monash University National Centre for Coronial Information (MUNCCI). The consortium was made up of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (a statutory agency of the Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation, which also hosts the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University), Monash University’s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and the Monash University Accident Research Centre.
The NCIS was launched in 2000, as the National Coroners information System, with the objective to securely share case information beyond state and territory borders for the purpose of coronial investigation and death prevention.
The NCIS was managed by MUNCCI until 2004. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine subsequently managed the system from 2004–2012. Since 2012, the NCIS has been part of the Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation through the Service, Strategy and Reform Division
Data
The NCIS collects demographic, contextual and circumstantial information on every reportable death in Australia and New Zealand, as well as legal, medical and scientific reports such as the coroner's finding, post mortem report, toxicology report and police summary of death reports. Supplementary data is provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the New Zealand Ministry of Health. All deaths occurring in Australia and New Zealand are coded in accordance with the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Classification of Death – Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes.
Services
The NCIS provides information to agencies responsible for developing community health and safety strategies to reduce the incidence of preventable death and injury in Australia and New Zealand.
The NCIS database is available by application only to approved users, including death investigators (coroners, coronial death investigators, forensic pathologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Contender%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of The Contender was recorded in Los Angeles, California and premiered on Epix on August 24, 2018. The series was on its fourth network, with the first season being broadcast on NBC, the second and third seasons on ESPN, and the fourth season on Versus.
Contestants
The following 16 fighters, hailing from around the globe, were selected to take part in the fifth Contender Tournament which took place in the Middleweight division.
Crew
Fight results
|}
on the undercard of the final, the following contenders were brought back to face each other:
Tyrone Brunson def Devaun Lee via UD (59-55 x 3)
Ievgen Khytrov def Malcolm McAllister via KO4
Gerald Sherrell def Morgan Fitch via SD (58-56, 58-56, 56-58)
Marcos Hernandez def Quatavious Cash via UD (58-56 x 3)
References
2018 American television seasons
5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Colombian%20departments%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Colombian departments and the capital district of Bogota by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Colombia
Colombia |
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